Sic Semper Tyrannis

Cuomo should be recalled, and then prosecuted ...

"Unlike California, which is petitioning to recall Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom for his coronavirus lockdowns and mismanagement, New York does not have a recall procedure.

Pataki once sought a New York amendment for just that in 2002, but then Democrat Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver swatted it down.

Gov. Cuomo is facing fire after his aide Melissa DeRosa admitted to Democrats this week the administration withheld nursing home deaths data from media and lawmakers fearing a Trump administration Justice Department investigation. Cuomo is one of five Democrat governors who issued a mandate to nursing homes at the start of the coronavirus pandemic to take in COVID-19 positive patients.

About 40% of New Yorkers supported a recall of Gov. Cuomo even before the DeRosa admission, according to the Post.

"Crime is through the roof," Pataki told the Post, adding, "You have mentally ill people on the street harassing you and this is Sixth Avenue and midtown in the middle of the day. There is a tremendous concern that things are not as they should be and it's not because of COVID.""  Newsmax

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So change da law awready, Change da law!

Get this monster rotten with self-centered egotism out of Albany before he can steal, wreck or kill anything else.

This creep sat on his ass and performed for the camera everyday while old people were dying like flies in the death cells he had condemned them to even as he complained about the lack of support from Trump.

This is also the character who ignored and under used the Navy hospital ship ties up at the pier in New York and the large field hospital the Army Corps of engineers built for the people of New York City.

Women across the country thought him attractive?  Perhaps we should reconsider the 19th Amendment.  pl 

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/andrewcuomo-nursinghomes-deaths-georgepataki/2021/02/14/id/1009958/

Without us ...

"Officials in Jerusalem believe the Jan. 31 declaration by Secretary of State Anthony Blinken that Iran was just months, and possibly weeks, away from obtaining sufficient fissile material for a bomb were exaggerated and deliberate. According to Israeli diplomatic and security sources, Blinken knows that the figure he mentioned was imprecise and relates only to fissile material and not to Iran’s ability to manufacture a nuclear warhead and install it on a delivery vehicle. They believe Blinken’s declaration was intended to provide a convincing rationale for a speedy return to negotiations with Iran and perhaps even a nuclear agreement, as if to say that the new administration was saving the world and rolling back Iran’s ambitious nuclear program.

Netanyahu’s people were underwhelmed by Blinken’s forecast, to put it mildly. Israeli security officials are more concerned by the gaps in perception with the Americans. “Generally speaking, the Americans want to get out of the Middle East as fast as possible,” an Israeli security source told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity. “They do not view a nuclear-threshold Iran as a threat or danger; they have the capabilities of a world power and a different timetable than ours. For us, Iran as a threshold state is very dangerous and a nuclear-capable Iran is an existential threat, whereas America can handle both options. It has different capabilities, its distance from Iran is far greater and its triggers are completely different.”"  al monitor

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Well, well.  Here is one issue or set of issues on which I agree with the Biden Administration.   Blinken, Malley, Bill Burns et all are a seasoned crew who have a long and bitter experience of the nasty, bullying way the Israelis treat the US.  Natanyahu once said "Don't worry about the Americans, they are easy to push around."  This is one case in which the Borg (US foreign policy establishment) has it right.  The Israelis need to be reminded that they are the tail and not the dog.  

If they want to fight Iran, let them, but without us.  No target intelligence, no air to air refueling, no supplemental funding for this, no assistance to get them access to  Iraqi airfields, no SAR anywhere.  Nothing.  If they want to fight Iran, let them, but without us!  Woof!  pl

https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2021/02/israel-us-iran-joe-biden-benjamin-netanyahu-anthony-blinken.html

" ... she reminded reporters that Air Force One is a 'private plane.'"

"President Biden is expected to travel to Delaware this weekend, in what will be his first out-of-town trip since taking office, despite warnings from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention to avoid travel.

The CDC’s guidance this week said that "travel increases your chance of spreading and getting COVID-19," and recommended "that you do not travel at this time.""  foxnews

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-flying-to-delaware-despite-cdc-warnings-to-avoid-travel

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I suppose Psaki meant that although Air Force One (usually a Boeing-747) is public property, it (or some other aircraft) is exclusively for the USE of the president.

It is 111 miles (179 kilometers) from DC to Wilmington, Delaware.

They took that plane up there for the weekend so that Joe could return to the shelter of the bunker/basement?  

I understand that the stress involved in trying to satisfy all those special interest groups while pumped up on Ritalin and Adderall must be appalling but, c'mon man, take a smaller plane.  C'mon man!

I include below a link to a piece enumerating Joe's EOs to date.  One of my faves is the one in which he tell the Central American governments that the US no longer wants their help in restraining waves of migrants seeking to escape their "countries."  In return for whatever it is that he and his band of illegal immigration enthusiasts think will result he has also stated that we will increase the amount of money we give them every year for "development."

The pressure on the southern border is now steadily building up.  Detention facilities built during the Golden Age of Obama are being re-opened.  The decline in illegal border crossings in the era of the Orange Devil has been reversed.  People from all over the world now understand that Joe has opened the border for them.  A favorite tactic for Line Crossers is to cross with a child, give the child a note to relatives now in the states in the knowledge that HHS will turn the child over to the "relative."  This establishes an Anchor Point useful as leverage against US immigration laws.

The re-opened detention facilities should IMO be called Bidonian Tiger Cages.  pl

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-look-at-each-of-president-biden-e2-80-99s-executive-orders/ar-BB1dqCbi?ocid=uxbndlbing

 

Jackson Lee wants your guns.

"The publicly-accessible list would contain serial numbers, owner names and gun locations. Obtaining a license would require gun owners to undergo a psychological evaluation, which would include interviewing family members or associates to determine mental and emotional states.

Applicants must also be at least 21, take 24 hours of training and pay $800 per firearm for “liability insurance.” Critics said the additional fees and requirements would restrict low-income Americans from owning guns.

Under Lee’s legislation, possessing an unregistered firearm would boast a minimum $75,000 fine and 15 year sentence. Additionally, lending a firearm without letting the attorney general know would cost $50,000 and ten years in jail."  OANN

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In my wandering about Capitol Hill after I left the active employ of the US Government I visited a lot of members of Congress for the purpose of developing a set of contacts that would be valuable to me as a private consultant.

One of those was Shelia Jackson Lee, Democrat of Texas.  She represents a district that is mainly in the old city of Houston.  It is wrapped around the skyscraper laden financial heart of the the "oil patch."  The inhabitants are mostly poor and minorities.  The Houston metro area has the financial district at its heart, then it is encircled by Jackson Lee's district and then outside that ring are the new, high rise dominated, mostly white areas like the Galeria to the south and places like the old, small City of Humble north of Houston.  "Houston" is really more like  a region than it is like a city.  In going from one place to another the distance seemed to me to always be about 20 miles and to involve an hour of travel by car.

My visit to Jackson Lee was a revelation.  There are a lot of members who rule their office staffs like Roman emperors.  Her place was exceptional in the degree of abject worship and fear that prevailed among her nearly all Black staff.  She wanted to know what I could do for her, what my clients, both American and foreign could do for her.  She was extremely ill informed about the world and uninterested in listening long enough to learn anything.  I never returned.

Her bill would disarm the American people, especially people of limited means.  She wants your guns.  pl 

https://www.oann.com/texas-rep-lee-under-fire-for-restrictive-gun-control-policies/

Bidonian oddities

Jen Psaki who seems an effective press secretary, was asked a few days ago if the Biden Administration supported the existence of the US Space Force.   Her response indicated that she thought the question was a joke and that she did not know of the existence of the latest addition to the armed forces of the United States. The creation of the Space Force has been widely covered in the press.  The head of the space Force has a seat in the Joint Chiefs of Staff committee and the SF is now a full member of the Intelligence Community.   A day later she announced to the WH press corps that the Biden Administration does indeed support the US Space Force.  General Raymond, the Chief of Space Operations has since offered to go over to WH to brief on the existence and missions of the SF.  It seems passing odd to me that an intelligent person like Psaki who obviously follows the news in detail would not have know of the Space Force.

 

2.  President Biden actually said yesterday  that "the great            majority of FBI agents are good people" or words to that                effect.  This was on a day when two FBI were killed and three wounded in line of duty during an attempted  search of  a dwelling.  With these words Biden endorsed the political positions of the Left rather than supporting the efforts of law enforcement in the US.  Incredible! pl

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Force

"BIDEN PLAGIARIZES AGAIN AFTER BLOOMBERG POINTS OUT VIRUS PLAN IS BASICALLY TRUMP’S" Blomberg/Zerohedge/SF

(We'll catch'em wit' spaghetti on their forks)

"Biden – who has a history of plagiarism – was essentially lying, especially when one considers the mammoth effort involved in distribution efforts which would make major changes costly and risk setbacks to the program. Bloomberg adds that “some aspects of the program don’t offer much wiggle room to begin with, while the trickiest part are yet to come.”

Bloomberg does toss Biden a bone, however, reporting that Trump ‘undercut’ Biden’s efforts to shape the program by delaying the transition while disputing the results of the election. Trump’s team, however, says they had over 300 transition briefings with health officials – which Biden officials claim contained little useful information until just days before the inauguration.

Meanwhile, officials from the Operation Warp Speed – the joint effort between the Trump administration’s Departments of Health and Human Services and DoD, say the partisan sniping from Biden’s team is hurting morale among career staff who are handling the vaccine rollout.

“The transition is happening less well than I, and my team, had been hoping,” said Moncef Slaoui, chief scientific adviser to Operation Warp Speed. “The team doesn’t understand why the Operation is being criticized as it is. It is so unfair and unjustified.”

“If it wasn’t for this Operation, we may not have as many vaccines as we will now.”

Also pushing back against the Biden team’s besmirchments is Anthony Fauci, the highest-paid employee in the federal government and ongoing COVID-19 advisor to the Office of the President.

“We certainly are not starting from scratch,” Fauci said earlier this month. “It’s taking what’s gone on, but amplifying it in a big way,” he added. Even Biden said that “credit is absolutely due” to the Trump administration for launching the vaccine program."  SF

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He is a demented liar and plagiarist pumped up on Aderall and Ritalin, head of an Irish crime family reminiscent of the one in the movie, "State of Grace,"  What should you expect of the guy?

THIS!!!

I hope I am still around for his post presidential impeachment and trial.    pl

https://southfront.org/biden-plagiarizes-again-after-bloomberg-points-out-virus-plan-is-basically-trumps/

Sam Grant will ride again?

"The white supremacist insurrectionists of the 1870s focused on just one region — the South — while the Trumpian insurrectionists have no geographic restrictions. This explains why, in the immediate aftermath of the Jan. 6 riot, the FBI found it necessary to warn of potential attacks and insurrectionist activity on state capitols and federal buildings across the country. And the Trumpian insurrectionists, at least thus far, don’t yet come with the full-throated, unequivocal support of a major political party (though that may change if non-Trumpian Republicans continue to lose ground).

But if you squint, it’s not too difficult to see how the insurrections of the 1870s and of the 2020s share a clear lineage. In many ways, the “Lost Cause” has now metamorphosed into the “Trump Lost Cause.”

“As I heard someone say, what we saw was that the Red Shirts of South Carolina have been replaced with the Red Hats of MAGA,” Janney said. Both are clearly aimed at upending the outcomes of democratic elections, willing to use violence to cow legislators — or worse. And both aim at thwarting multi-racial coalitions in the pursuit of ethnonationalist rule, a through-line of attempting to restore white rule that connects 1861 and 1876 to 2016 and 2020. As such, Grant’s experience in battling white insurrectionists presents a pair of primary lessons for the new Biden administration.

The first lesson, experts say, is relatively clear. As Trumpian insurrectionists continue popping up across the country — propelled by “the Big Lie” that Trump’s re-election was stolen—and as Republican legislators saber-rattle about potential violence if they don’t get their way, the administration has to use the full range of tools at its disposal. “There are so many more federal laws that can be used now,” Pitcavage said. “Conspiracy laws that didn’t exist [in the 1870s], laws about federal property that didn’t exist back then, laws about paramilitary training designed to foment civil disorder—there are any number of laws on the books now that theoretically could be used.”"  msn.com

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The Left is now speaking clearly about what it, as a collective, has in mind for you Conservatives.

Pelosi, AOC, Jake Tapper, the Washington Post, the academy generally, etc., etc., ad nauseam  are resolved to project a vision of white supremacist insurrection that they believe will convince enough citizens and most importantly the military that Conservative Organizations and Conservative Opinion must be suppressed and proscribed.

They forget that the excesses of the Grant run occupation of the South led directly to a "Bourbon" restoration that ruled the South for a hundred years and which was focused on African-Americans as the supposed cause of the economic and demographic misery of the South's condition.  Do they think that a new Occupation Regime can be imposed on 75 million people?  If so, they are massively and probably irredeemably deluded.

As I have written here before, the US military is a badly flawed instrument for the imposition of a leftist occupation of the US.  Careerist generals and admirals in the Regular forces may be be willing to swear allegiance to wokism but their people, both officers and enlisted, in the main are of the despised Smelly and Deplorable classes.  Would the flag grandees not understand that they probably cannot simply order Regular Amy and USMC units to fight and oppress their own people?

And then there is the National Guard.  These are citizen-soldiers.  Good luck on using them to suppress the citizens of their states.

The FBI, the ATF, federal marshals?  A few hundred policemen.  Good luck to the left.   pl 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/what-ulysses-grant-can-teach-joe-biden-about-putting-down-violent-insurrections/ar-BB1deGWw?ocid=uxbndlbing

Job Killer Joe

"As the plumbers and pipefitters union noted: “The Biden administration has now put thousands of union workers out of work. For the average American family, it means energy costs will go up and communities will no longer see the local investments that come with pipeline construction.”

Some estimates said the pipeline would employ 11,000 American workers in 2021 and create more than $1.6 billion in wages.

The same day, Biden imposed a 60-day moratorium on oil and gas leases on federal lands. The American Petroleum Institute calculates that, if made permanent, Biden’s ban will cost nearly 1 million jobs over the next two years and cut the nation’s economic output a total of $700 billion by 2030. Oh, and it will make the U.S. more dependent on oil imports.

As ABC News reported, Biden’s “moratorium on new oil and natural gas leases and drilling permits is prompting widespread concerns in New Mexico, where spending on education and other public programs hinges on the industry’s success.”

Carlsbad, New Mexico, Mayor Dale Janway told the Associated Press that “Eliminating drilling on public lands will cost thousands of New Mexicans their jobs and destroy what’s left of our state’s economy.”

Biden also pledged to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord, which according to some estimates, could slash another 3.1 million jobs by 2040.

With these moves, Joe “Unity” Biden is not only destroying jobs but has managed to upset our Canadian allies, a major union, as well as officials in reliably blue states such as New Mexico – all to appease “climate crisis” environmental extremists.

But Biden isn’t done destroying jobs. He’s also pushing a job-killing national $15 minimum wage, starting with an executive order that lays the groundwork for a $15 minimum wage for federal workers.

A Congressional Budget Office report found that a federal $15 minimum wage could destroy as many as 3.7 million jobs. It further reported that “Raising the minimum wage would probably reduce employment, capital, and efficiency, in CBO’s assessment” and that, “over time, those reductions would lower the nation’s output and income.”"

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Well, OK.  Someone told Joe about the  "whatsis act."  You know the one.  C'mon man give me a break.  

I would like to know what they are pumping him up with lately.  His speaking performance has markedly improved.  I hope there is nothing deleterious to his long term health in the "cocktail."  pl

https://issuesinsights.com/2021/01/26/meet-joe-biden-the-job-slayer/

Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith gets probation after making a false statement in the FISA surveillance warrant process

By Robert Willmann

The pretense and bogus public face that an even-handed application of law exists in the federal legal system showed itself again today as former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith received 12 months probation and a $100 special assessment after pleading guilty to making a false statement during the process for the third renewal of a surveillance warrant on Carter Page, PhD.  The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) allows the most intrusive surveillance of a person and his or her communications, and can also include physical searches and the production of business records and other tangible things.  Clinesmith pleaded guilty on 19 August 2020, and court records and a transcript of the plea hearing were made available here on SST [1]. 

This is the only criminal case filed so far by Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham, who was directed by Attorney General William Barr on 18 May 2019 to conduct a preliminary review, which turned into a criminal investigation, about matters related to the 2016 presidential campaign and governmental conduct.   Part of what Durham is to look into is the FBI's "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation, which was officially opened in 2016 and which allegedly was about the Trump campaign and the Russian government.  Clinesmith's criminal conduct happened as part of that FBI activity.  Barr made Durham a "special counsel" under Justice Department procedures on 1 December 2020 that would give Durham some degree of independence as the Biden administration moved in.

The written order of conviction and sentencing is not yet in the court clerk's file, with the only notation being on the clerk's docket sheet about the sentencing on 29 January 2021.  One other bit of activity occurred in the case, when Carter Page filed a request under the Crime Victims' Rights Act to be acknowledged as a crime victim under that law, since he was subject to surveillance based on unlawful applications for orders from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) [2].  He also filed a supplement to that request saying that with the current posture of the case, it would not be workable to establish a dollar amount of restitution he should receive [3].  He was the target of four consecutive surveillance warrants, an original one which was then renewed three times.  Each one was for 90 days, which means the surveillance of him went on for an entire year.  

"Kerry admits zero emissions in US wouldn’t make difference in climate change" NY Post

"President Biden’s climate czar, John Kerry, admitted Wednesday that the US reducing its emissions to zero wouldn’t make much of a difference in the global climate change fight — before pushing domestic manufacturing of electric cars and solar panels in favor of energy production.

Kerry’s remarks were made ahead of Biden’s signing of a host of executive actions on Wednesday pushing his $2 trillion Green New Deal-inspired climate agenda.

“He knows Paris alone is not enough,” Kerry told reporters at a White House press briefing, referring to Biden re-entering the US in the Paris Climate Agreement in one of his first acts as president.

“Not when almost 90 percent of all of the planet’s global emissions come from outside of US borders. We could go to zero tomorrow and the problem isn’t solved,” Kerry conceded.

The former secretary of state, now Biden’s climate envoy, acknowledged that it would be difficult to bring the world’s top polluters to the table, including China, which produces 30 percent of the world’s carbon emissions."  nypost

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I confess to being in deep spiritual sympathy with the "swift boaters" of yore.  John Kerry is a liar who bought his way out of Vietnam and then came home to lie before the senate about things he never witnessed, things written by another liar.

When Kerry was "heroically" fishing some Vietnamese fisherman out of a river.  I and my comrades were busy burying 400 enemy soldiers at a place called Song Be.  They had died when their valorous effort to overrun the town and kill us and our non-communist Vietnamese allies failed.  Prisoners who survived their attack told me that they had lost even more than that.  So, for me, John Kerry is a POS whose only real accomplishment in life was in seducing and marrying John Heinz' widow Teresa and all that lovely money.

So now we have him in this new role, and guess what, he is still full of crap.  pl

https://nypost.com/2021/01/27/kerry-zero-emissions-wont-make-difference-in-climate-change/

"The Unitary Executive" is NOW!

From his actions and apparent attitude in the first days of his administration it appears that President Joe (the Union guy) intends to rule by decree (executive orders)  What are we up to now 24 or 25?  The Dems have effective but small majorities in both chambers of Congress, but thus far there have been ample evidences that Joe (and the junta) prefer to rule directly, bypassing the Congress altogether.  

That seems odd.  EOs are really fragile things.  They lose force with the passage of administrations unless they are renewed or modified by new presidents.

The "authority" of vice-presidents is an example.  The vice-president of the United States has no constitutional functions other than to await the incapacitation of the president and to act as the presiding officer of the US Senate.  All else is really froth and the politics of the moment.  There actually is no constitutional reason for the VP to live in Washington.  Perhaps it would be better if the VP did not.

Presidential EOs are subject to contest in the federal courts.  In the shock and awe of the last two weeks that process has only just begun.  The prospect is visible in the action of a federal judge in Texas blocking Señor José's ukase on a "pause" in deportations of illegal aliens for 100 days.  This judge is federal but he is also a Texan, and he acted at the request of the sovereign state of Texas.  Can other suits based on the constitutional  "standing" of the states be far behind?

Statehood for the District of Columbia?  Basic changes in the conduct of elections?  Star Chamber proceedings against dissidents like the man in Florida arrested in a Cheka-like action of the FBI against his political speech?

Uncle Joe should be very, very careful about provoking desperate resistance.  pl

"Joe Biden's call for unity is a sham" The Telegraph

"In his inaugural speech last week, Joe Biden promised to unite his country. But read his words closely, and examine his first actions as president, and you will see confusion, contradiction and dogma that is likely to lead only to further division.

Of course, absolute unity is impossible to achieve in any political system. Autocratic regimes intimidate and bully their citizens into conformity with the ideologies of their leaders, and try to present an image of a united people to the outside world. But the whole point of liberal democracy is that it is supposed to tolerate difference and disagreement.

For liberal democracies are built on the premise that human values and interests are unavoidably and perpetually in conflict with one another. The solution to these conflicts is not to grant total victory to one side or another, but to accept a system of government and civil society that allows pluralism to flourish within a common culture and single legal framework."  Nick Timothy

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No comment is necessary.  pl

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/01/24/left-cannot-overcome-division-remains-obsessed-identity-politics/

Betrayal Of Leadership, Failure To Take Care Of Those Serving Under Them. by J.

The Joint Chiefs, including their Senior Enlisted failed in their leadership obligation to take care of those troops serving under them tasked with the Biden Administration's Inauguration. 

Retired Army Lt. Col. Allen West comments pretty much sums it up.

https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1352881251913371651

 

J.

The Dems want Obedience, not Unity

Watching the behavior of the Democrat/Marxist/Anarchist coalition over the last couple of weeks,  I am drawn to the conclusion that they think their seizure of power through elections and street theater is permanent or at least something as durable as the long, long reign of the Bloody Shirt Republicans after the Civil War.  In that time all you had to do to beat the Democrats was talk about "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion and you were "in."  

The Democrat led alliance is now seeking to proscribe the opposition root and branch, beginning with the man 75 to 80 million citizens voted to re-elect and extending down through the ranks of probable or possible successors to the Orange One.

Banning from social media, actions to eject members from legislatures at the national and state levels, prosecutions for supposed incitement of violence.  These are among the tools contemplated.  People who work for the leftist media like Margaret Sullivan of the Washington Post openly advocate pressuring advertisers to threaten Murdoch over commentators like Carlson and Hannity.  The Democrat coalition supports bans on hiring their opponents at universities and in the business world as well.

"Re-education and de-programming" are advocated in the MSM as solutions for re-capturing control of the Smelly masses.  

It is now probable that Kamala Harris will preside over the senate trial of former president Donald Trump.  The US Constitution requires that the Chief Justice of SCOTUS preside over the trial of a SITTING president because of the obvious conflict of interest involved in a trial in which conviction results in the accession to power of the vice-president, but Trump is not a sitting president so she evidently is free to run her possible opponent in 2024 out of public life.

How long will the Smellies endure all this?  Well, pilgrims the tyranny of Communism lasted a long time in the USSR.  pl

Joe! Joe! Save us Joe. You said you would save us ...

"Biden addressed his administration’s response efforts during a press briefing on two executive orders meant to provide food assistance to low-income families and protect workers’ rights during the pandemic. Days after the US surpassed 400,000 deaths related to COVID-19, the president warned the country had little ability in the near term to prevent spiking case totals.

"If we fail to act, there will be a wave of evictions and foreclosures in the coming months as this pandemic rages on because there’s nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months," Biden said."  foxnews

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Hey!  Wait a minute!   Didn't you run on this?  Weren't you going to halt the pandemic through good government and compassion?  

What?  What?  Trump did it?  He made all those people die through neglect and some as yet undetected crime?

But what about all those millions of doses of vaccines out there in freezers?  Ah, Trump screwed that up.  Poor Cuomo!  Poor Newsom!  What could they do?  pl 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-nothing-we-can-do-to-change-coronavirus-pandemic-trajectory-in-coming-months

We're Back Baby! Bomb'n Biden says "Come on Man" We're Off to War....... by Fred

Happy Friday America! It's been less than 48 hours and already our brave redacted Commander in Chief has, finished with using 25,000 troops he says he can't trust to ethnicly cleanse the Capital of all Americans, sent troops back to Syria. Come on man, we gotta take on the Roooshans, just like we've been telling you for years. For (check's list) Freedom in the Middle East. 

WH Harrison caught cold et voila! John Tyler was president!

 

"The inauguration of William Henry Harrison as the ninth President of the United States was held on Thursday, March 4, 1841, at the East Portico of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. This was the 14th inauguration and marked the commencement of the only four-year term of both William Henry Harrison as President and John Tyler as Vice President. The presidential oath of office was administered to Harrison by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney.^[1] Harrison died 31 days into his term, the first U.S. president to die in office and has the shortest presidential term in American history. Tyler then succeeded to the presidency, creating precedence which would be followed seven more times before it was officially regulated through the Twenty-fifth Amendment in 1967." wiki

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Ah, the now famous 25th Amendment!  

Harrison, the first president of that name, was a military hero having been the commander at the Battle of Tippecanoe, fought in Indiana against a Shawnee run confederation led by Tecumseh.

According to rumor, legend or perhaps actual history Harrison caught cold during a two hour inaugural speech.  This turned to croup, then pneumonia and off he went, on his way "home."

This took VP Tyler somewhat by surprise, but he rose to the occasion.  He seems to have been a gentlemanly type whose wife entertained well.  He, like John Quincy Adams, held office after his term as president.  Tyler was a senator in the Confederate congress as well as a member of the Confederate House of Representatives.  

What I remember best about Harrison is that in his short time in office he ordered that the US cannon factory make four light model field guns for the training of the cadets at VMI, my alma mater.  They are named "Matthew, Mark, Luke and John"  That is cast in the metal.  This was supposedly Harrison's idea.

Today I watched President Biden sit and sign a series of papers in the President's Room at the US Capitol just after his inauguration.   Joe sat there as VP Harris handed him paper after paper as though she were an administrative assistant of some kind.  Never saw the like before.  She clearly is staking out her right to act as president in waiting.  SWMBO watched that and commented on the coming struggle between Jill and Kamala over Joe's person.  pl

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inauguration_of_William_Henry_Harrison

Battle of Tippecanoe - Wikipedia

The Great Purge Approaches

"A show trial is a public trial in which the judicial authorities have already determined the guilt, and/or innocence, of the defendant. The actual trial has as its only goal the presentation of both the accusation and the verdict to the public so they will serve as both an impressive example and a warning to other would-be dissidents or transgressors.^[2] Show trials tend to be retributive rather than corrective and they are also conducted for propagandistic purposes.^[3] The term was first recorded in 1928."  wiki on show trial

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"National Guard troops deployed in Washington, D.C. for the Biden inaugural in the wake of the storming of the Capitol last week have been authorized to use lethal force, according to a report by U.S. News that cited a Defense Department official. The D.C. National Guard had issued a statement Wednesday that troops under its command had been authorized to carry weapons."  gateway pundit

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"Is there something in the character of politics that makes it illogical, a “blood sport”? Is that why it is called an “arena”? Perhaps a brief look at early American history might give a clue.

From the beginning, Americans were fiercely independent, passionate, but deeply divided. Only about one-third supported the revolution; the majority were either neutral or remained loyal to the British (“Tories”). A fierce internal terrorist campaign raged throughout the war between these two groups of Americans. So intense was the divide that a British Chaplin was moved to write that,

'These Americans, so soft, pacific and benevolent by nature, are here transformed into monsters, implacably bloody and ravenous; party rage has kindled the spirit of hatred between them, they attack and rob each other by turns, destroy dwelling houses, or establish themselves therein by driving out those who had before dispossessed others.' [Note the word “rage.”]  "political hysteria"

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It appears to me that Schumer has in mind to try former President Trump in the senate with John Roberts presiding.  IMO this is unconstitutional.  As Alan Dershowitz said on the TeeVee today, the prospect of such a procedure should be horrifying to all.  Why?  If the congress can try a private citizen and bar him/her from holding federal office, then whichever party controls the congress can simply bar significant opposition figures from office by re-defining the meaning of statutes, imputing motive where there is none and through guilt by association.   This all begins to smell like Stalin's show trials in the 30s in which he killed off his Old Bolshevik comrades and the leadership of the Red Army.  Trump will always remain vulnerable to the civil courts.  The Dems fear that Florida or federal courts in Florida will not extradite him?  They should live with that in the interest of maintaining the Union.

We now have most of downtown Washington, DC transformed into a Green Zone on the Baghdad model.  25,000 federalized National Guard troops plus various kinds of cops occupy that zone.  25,000?  How about 1,000?  How about 2.000?  What do they expect, an attack on the Biden inauguration platform from the other end of the Mall?  The bridges from Virginia are closed by order of his majesty Ralph Northam.   We live here under Ralph's imperial decrees in a vast outdoor prison.  The ability of the imperial authorities to wall us up, each in our own crummy little domain bodes ill for the future.

Not for the first time am I disgusted by the susceptibility of those I thought my countrymen to waves of hysteria.   German and then Communist spying in WW1,  Prohibition, internment of Japanese descended citizens of the US in WW2,  McCarthyism, the 2K fantasy in which people waited for the end of civilized life, 9/11, after which the whole country went into a profound funk and stumbled about terrified of the NEXT ATTACK.   And now, we have the Left's desire to destroy opposition, the opposition of 75 million citizens and to do it through mass mobilization of political hysteria.

This will never be the same country again.  We have lost the talent needed to maintain a federal republic.  pl

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/biden-inaugural-national-guard-troops-authorized-use-lethal-force-d-c-turns-police-state/

https://www.iwp.edu/articles/2019/07/29/political-hysteria-american-as-cherry-pie/

Show trial - Wikipedia

Silence the racist conservatives! All of them! All 75 million!

"Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., on Newsmax TV responded Thursday to CNN host Jake Tapper's questioning his commitment to democracy over his comments about the riot at the Capitol last week.

Mast, on the House floor on Wednesday, questioned whether anyone had interviewed the rioters themselves about why they stormed the Capitol. During CNN's coverage Wednesday, Tapper questioned Mast's ''commitment'' to the United States.

''I served this country, I fought for this country,'' Mast, a veteran who lost both his legs while on duty in Afghanistan, told Thursday's ''American Agenda.'' ''I love this place more than anything. And it brings me to tears to think about some of the sacrifices I've seen for this country.''  newsmax

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“I said, if you see them anywhere, if you see them in a restaurant, if you see them in a department store, even at a gasoline station, just tell them, you’re not welcome here or anywhere,” she recalled. 

“Of course it frightened a lot of people,” she added. 

But, the exact quote was a bit more in depth: “Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere. We’ve got to get the children connected to their parents,” Waters said at the Wilshire Federal Building in June."  gregjarrett.com quoting Maxine Waters

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"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that Congress is looking into media literacy initiatives, including a commission to help "rein in" misinformation in the wake of last week’s deadly breach of the U.S. Capitol – and one critic slammed AOC’s suggestion as "wholly un-American."

During a lengthy live stream on Instagram on Tuesday night, the leader of the so-called "Squad" discussed the aftermath of the Capitol riot, how she feared for her life during the chaos and what needs to be done going forward."  foxnews

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"As with the “War on Terror,” short-term victories seem certain, and enticing; Big Tech made it harder for Trump to disrupt the inauguration, which is great. But in the longer term, we may radicalize people who were previously neutral, and thereby empower even worse foes than the ones we vanquished. The other day I heard from a never-Trump friend, a Biden voter, who is convinced that eventually, after we all get comfortable with what Big Tech has done, it will come for conservatives like him. If that happens, he — and others like him — are not going to ally with their censors, public or private.

But those of us who opposed Trump should also be cautious about such alliances. The right-wing fringe is about to discover what it feels like to be on the receiving end of the anti-terror surveillance state it supported so enthusiastically. Perhaps we could learn from their example and ask what sort of society we want to live in before we start authorizing sweeping new powers."  Meghan McCardle

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Pilgrims, students at Harvard University are petitioning to have the degrees of alumni who supported Trump revoked.  Bless their little hearts!   

AOC was afraid?  That poor little thang was afraid?  The obvious response should be to re-educate the press, bloggers, etc.  so that people don't say or write things that make her unhappy or afraid.

And this fellow Mast, how dare he talk back to Jake Tapper?  We all know the depth of the sufferings that Tapper has endured for his country.

Meghan McCardle - She says that she and her friends thought that people who judged the invasion of Iraq to be foolish were "naifs." But now she sees that the big bad wolf of censorship may bite her.  Better late than never.  pl 

https://thegreggjarrett.com/maxine-waters-says-she-threatens-trump-supporters-all-the-time/?utm_source=socialflow

AOC’s suggestion of commission to 'rein in' media slammed as ‘wholly un-American’ | Fox News

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-we-should-be-frightened-by-tech-companies-censoring-of-conservatives/2021/01/12/e9da7ce2-5512-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/brian-mast-jake-tapper-military-veteran/2021/01/14/id/1005662/

You may not want to know this ...

All those of us who took up military service under the US flag took an oath which most of us have engraved on our souls.  

In the context of last week's attack on the US Capitol, the question of the status of; active duty soldiers, reservists, former military and military retirees has come up in the press.

Many of us think that our oath is sacramental, i.e., spiritual in meaning and that it is indelible and eternal.  You may feel that to be true but that belief is not legally true.

In the course of my 30 year enlisted and officer service and then 8 years as a DoD SES I had occasion to discuss the oath with many JAG officers and General Counsels.  This came up repeatedly because of  a need to determine what the continuing obligations of people were.

In fact, the oath is contractual rather than sacramental.

If you are "discharged" or "dismissed" (officers) from the service you are no longer bound by your oath.  Your service has legally ended.  OTOH if you are "retired" from the military whether officer or enlisted  you remain a member of the military and are still bound by your oath.  pl

"Finding Your Roots" - The Nancy Pelosi reveal

"Pelosi comes from a strong family tradition of public service. Her late father, Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., served as Mayor of Baltimore for 12 years, after representing the city for five terms in Congress. Her brother, Thomas D’Alesandro III, also served as Mayor of Baltimore. She graduated from Trinity College in Washington, D.C. She and her husband, Paul Pelosi, a native of San Francisco, have five grown children and nine grandchildren."  pbs

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Being married to a genealogist, I find it obligatory to observe Professor Henry Louis Gates'  weekly TeeVee extravaganza on the subject of the ancestry of various famous, or semi-famous folk.  The show is a classier version of the oldie "This is your life" which ran for many years during my "ute."  ("My Cousin Vinnie" reference).  During the proceedings in that show, one's cousins, 3rd grade teachers and former bosses were brought out from behind the curtain after attempts to guess the identity by remembering their voice.  It was truly fun for the feeble minded.  Gates' show mainly involves construction of a "book of life" on the basis of records research and DNA wizardry.

Last night's principal guest was Nancy d'Alesandro Pelosi.  Wow!  I have never met her and have never paid much attention to her as a personality, but all you had to do was watch her "mug" for the camera and "sculpt" her answers to create her desired narrative to understand that this woman is carrying a lot of psychological baggage and has done so for a very long time.

Her  paternal grandparents were immigrants from a mountain village in Abbruzzo.  Her father, Thomas d'Alesandro, was born in Baltimore (photo above).  He comes across in the Nancy construct as a political version of the De Niro character in "Raging Bull," no beatings but lots of bullying and domination by "the Don."  

This guy was determined to keep his family "in line," especially Nancy and her mother, another Nancy.  Any effort on the part of the mother to establish a separate identity was squelched by the father.  The mother created a cosmetics business that had nation wide custom.  The father made his wife close it.  The mother bought investment real estate.  The father made her sell it.  These women, the two Nancys, were his, his possessions, and they were not allowed to have anything like a life of their own.

Speaker Nancy "excuses" his behavior by saying that Italian American men were like that in that era.  At the same time she extravagantly praises her mother.  Gates takes note of the expression of a greater depth of feeling for the mother.  The excessive praise is a hint of the kind of daughter-mother rivalry for the affection of the "Raging Bull" that characterizes the neo-freudian Electra Complex.  

I am not a psychiatrist but I made a living for many years by perceiving and manipulating the weaknesses and vulnerabilities of others, both men and women.  Pelosi exhibits the characteristics of someone wounded by her father's personality. 

Speaker Nancy escaped the pain of her parental relationships by  marrying a nice Italian-American fellow from San Francisco and migrating to the west coast where after having given life to five daughters she turned to politics.  Her husband is still living but invisible.

Trump seems to be for her an avatar of her father.  He is a domineering man who recalls for her the frustrations of her childhood and adolescence.  The childish, mocking acts of revolt, the tearing up of a copy of his state of the Union Address for all the world to see, the tunnel-vision focus on revenge before all else, these are all symptoms of an irrational obsession.

This is IMO profoundly unfair.  Trump is  a boor.  He is a boastful braggart about women.  He is crude in the mainstream tradition of New York City bullies, but there is no evidence that he ever did anything to hold the women in his family back from personal or business success.  Actually, the women who worked in his corporate headquarters praise him highly.

But, you cannot tell that to anyone suffering the kind of psychological scars that Speaker Nancy bears.  pl

https://www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your-roots/about/meet-our-guests/nancy-pelosi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electra_complex

No floor action yet in Congress on an impeachment (updated)

By Robert Willmann

Four impeachment resolutions were filed on 11 January 2021 in the House of Representatives against President Donald Trump :  H.Res. 34 by Maxine Waters with 8 cosponsors, H.Res. 26 by Sheila Jackson Lee with 33 cosponsors, H.Res. 32 by Ilhan Omar with 84 cosponsors, and H.Res. 24 by David Cicilline with 160 cosponsors.  H.Res. 24 seems to be the one getting the most attention [1]. 

The proposed resolution to ask Vice President Mike Pence to start the 25th Amendment's procedure to declare a president incapable of executing the duties of the office has zero cosponsors, and is H.Res. 21, introduced by Jamie Raskin.  An attempt to get unanimous consent to take the resolution to the floor failed.  I think there will not be any floor debate on that one (See update below).

So far today, 12 January, the House has done nothing on any of the resolutions.  This morning it was in session for almost four minutes about electing members to standing committees, and then recessed subject to the call of the Chair [2].

The "Blue Dog Coalition" of 18 Democrats in the House are not Trump supporters but will probably not be in automatic agreement with everything Speaker Nancy Pelosi might want, which may narrow the Democratic majority on some issues [3].  

Careful investigation of the events of 6 January at and around the White House and Capitol building is essential, along with the public release of all videos and images that can be obtained.

UPDATE, 5:27 p.m. central time:  The House is going ahead with a floor debate about H.Res. 21 to suggest to Vice Pres. Pence that he start the process of the 25th Amendment.  It can be seen at the "live" House website at the link below and at c-span.org.

[1]  House Resolution 24, filed on 11 January 2021.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/24/all-info

https://www.congress.gov/117/bills/hres24/BILLS-117hres24ih.pdf

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/24/text?format=txt

[2]  https://clerk.house.gov/

https://live.house.gov

[3]  https://bluedogcaucus-costa.house.gov

 

News Updates From Inside The Forbidden City

The heeling is heading our way. Over the last few days I took a little time off from the 'net. Caught a re-run of Rumpole of the Bailey. "The Golden Thread" that runs through English common law. Good stuff, not taught in school nowadays. Too bad, really. Then I tried to catch up on all the goings on, and boy did somebody kick over the chamber pot ant hill. I'm barely keeping up.

"Not since Abraham Lincoln was smuggled into Washington has anyone assumed the presidency of a more divided and angry nation than Joe Biden. He brings with him a satchel full of scandals and an agenda of mumbled promises. His pledge to be the great healer rings hollow. His recent dishonest comments concerning Trump’s advocacy of violence at the Capitol only proves the point." "The elites have no idea how angry millions of Americans are." Quotes from above article in "free Republic" (see the link). Boy, there are  some irritated people out there. 

"Dear idiots, you’re like the wife with her arm in a sling and both eyes blackened telling her husband “Please don’t say anything to Joe. He’ll be mad.” Says woman and immigrant to America, now a citizen.  "The 2020 election was a fraud — and Congress including the Republicans — are cool with that." To quote another blogger.

Meanwhile inside the Nation's Capital ..... it is, to quote Rumpole, a question of rloyalty. 

The Democrat plan for Trump

(Air Pelosi)

"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a "60 Minutes" interview that aired Sunday night that one of the motivating factors for some in the new effort to impeach President Trump and remove him from office is to eliminate any chance he has of being elected again."  foxnews

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Well, pilgrims, IMO the elimination of a re-run with Trump is the ONLY motivation for the farce intended by the giddy but still apprehensive Donkeyland crew.

To accomplish this they need to impeach Trump while he is still in office because impeachment in the US is about REMOVAL of incumbents.  The Donkeys claim that they could then wait 90 days to have their captive senate try Trump on the charge of "incitement of insurrection."  IMO such a trial would be unconstitutional but with John Roberts as Chief Justice, who knows whether SCOTUS would allow that?   They would need a few Never Trump Republicans to have enough votes in the senate but with people like Romney on board, who knows?

And then!  Wait for it!  The piece de resistance would be a second vote in the senate to bar Trump from FEDERAL office for life.  Aahhh!  So good!  So good!  An aged marine once said "if it feels really, really good, it is probably a bad idea."  Yes.  

IMO Trump needs to resign NOW to put himself beyond the reach of  congress.  He could still be indicted and tried in a Title 3 court, but the odds are a lot better there.

He is a resident of Florida.  Congress does not have the power to bar him from state office.  Governor might be a good retirement job when DeSantis moves on to a national role.  John Quincy Adams was a congressman for many years AFTER being president.  pl

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-60-minutes-trump-impeachment

IMO former officials cannot be impeached.

"Conviction immediately removes the defendant from office. Following conviction, the Senate may vote to further punish the individual by barring him or her from holding future federal office, elected or appointed. As the threshold for disqualification is not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution, the Senate has taken the position that disqualification votes only require a simple majority rather than a two-thirds supermajority. The Senate has used disqualification sparingly, as only three individuals have been disqualified from holding future office.

Conviction does not extend to further punishment, for example, loss of pension. After conviction by the Senate, "the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law" in the regular federal or state courts. However, the Former Presidents Act of 1958, which provides a pension, and other benefits, does not extend to presidents who were removed from office following an impeachment conviction. Because of an amendment to that law made in 2013, a former president who has been removed from office due to impeachment and conviction is still guaranteed lifetime Secret Service protection. "  wiki

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IMO impeachment from federal office exists for the purpose of removal from office.  A former official cannot be "removed from office."  IMO the Belknap case will be treated as freakish.  pl

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States

Remember - John Brennan voted Communist at least once.

"Former CIA Director John Brennan Calls for Mao-Like Public Humiliation Sessions for Trump Supporters Before They Are Accepted Back into Society"  timebomb

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Yes.  John Brennan voted for Gus Hall, the head of the CPUSA when he was a young man.  Hall was a perennial candidate for president in those days.

And after that Brennan applied for employment at CIA, and unbelievably they accepted him after a full security screen.  This would have included intensive investigations as well as counter-intelligence and lifestyle polygraphs.   

I remember this guy when he had just joined CIA and was working  in Saudi Arabia.  He was a frighteningly stupid and nasty man even then.

This reminds me of the great spook Gina Haspel (a favorite of Brennan at CIA) who began government employment as the post librarian at Ft. Devens, Massachusetts, a Camp Swampy like place where I started my army life.  

I was in college during the "Great Leap Forward" under Mao.  We laughed sadly at the thought of those poor benighted souls suffering through that.

pl

https://www.timebomb2000.com/xf/index.php?threads/former-cia-director-john-brennan-calls-for-mao-like-public-humiliation-sessions-for-trump-supporters-before-they-are-accepted-back-into-society.592774/

"A one opinion society" Stuart Varney

"Biden: "No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn't have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol. We all know that's true, and it is unacceptable. Totally unacceptable.""  foxnews

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Varney commented today on his show that the US is moving rapidly toward an environment in which deviant opinions and the expression of such will be punished by ostracism, loss of employment and ultimately  - what?

75 million dissidents voted for Trump.  Their party actually grew stronger down ballot, much stronger.  These Smelly dissidents are heavily armed.  Gun sales are way up.  Ammunition is hard to come by because of heavy buying.

President Joe and his "consort"  think that the attitudes of the Smellies are "totally unacceptable?"  

He should be very careful about condemning the mind set of the Smellies, very careful.   The Dems think that they can extrapolate from the hooligans who broke into the capitol to the general attitudes of the Smelly Deplorables?

Be very careful President Joe.  pl

https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-harris-gaslighting-capitol-hill-rioters-black-lives-matter

President Trump should go. He should go now!

IMO President Trump did a lot of good things in his term until he was torpedoed by COVID-19 and the tangled skein of threads involved in the November 3rd election.  This electoral circus will be puzzled over for a long time.  I take note that Ossoff won in Georgia by just enough to avoid a re-count.  

Nevertheless, The president's actions since November 3 have grown more and more erratic and have now culminated in what can only be called an incitement of mob violence directed at the Congress.

People ask why the Capitol Police and other federal authorities were not better prepared to defend the Capitol complex against attack.  Well, pilgrims, nobody expected the president of the US to whip up crowd anger and then to send the mob to the Capitol.

I wrote some days ago that Trump's rage and pain were serious factors to consider in a moment of political crisis.   These things and his "one man show" mentality" overwhelmed him yesterday and in acting out his personal agony he did serious damage to the country.  He is done.  Stick a fork in him, maybe over-done.   

The Democrat leadership will not want to pursue him although his actions yesterday might make him criminally liable.  The squaddies will howl for his blood, but Schumer, Pelosi, etc. are not going to want to do anything that rash.

IMO he should leave the scene.  A retreat to Mar a Lago is what should happen.  He can let the clock run out there.  He can resign and let Pence deal with the mess, but he should go.

The populist revolt that he led is not dead.  It is not anything like dead.  The 75 million citizens who voted for him are still here.  They still want the same things, but he should depart and let a new leadership of the Deplorable Smellies emerge.  pl

Mostly Peaceful Protests in D.C.

Commentary by Fred.

The nation's capital witnessed a massive and mostly peaceful protest today. During this mostly peaceful event tens of thousands of law abiding concerned citizens gathered to discuss their greviences, to air them before the press and government officials. The national leadership was all gathered in the city to attend to pressing matters of state. What better time for a rally and protest and a march for peace than when all our leaders are there to hear and see. 

When using electronic voting machines you do not vote. Election workers do not count the votes.

By Robert Willmann

Everybody knows that a valid election has three parts:  qualified, eligible voters are listed; an eligible voter expresses a legal vote on a ballot; and the votes are counted accurately.  For a small organization or club, this is easy.  All the candidates and voters are in one room and everybody knows everyone else.  Each member writes the name of their choice on a piece of paper and folds it over, the votes are put in a box, and then the votes are opened and counted in front of everybody.  Everything is done in the same room.  A local, state, or national election has the same parts, but with many more voters, and voting and counting locations.  It is spread out over a much bigger area.  Many things are a system, including your cardiovascular system [1].  But since an election as a system is created by people, it is amateurish and simple compared to the sophisticated cardiovascular system.  Despite its simplicity, there is little or no "transparency", today's trendy term.  Because of human nature and the money and authority available through a government, an enormous incentive is created to rig and cheat in an election. 

Documents attached to various lawsuits, other information, and the blocking of public examination of ballots and electronic voting and counting machines are showing huge problems and fraud in the November 2020 general election in an amount that can affect the result.  But those with the authority to do the most the fastest are so far doing nothing, from the federal Department That Calls Itself Justice (DOJ), to local District Attorneys. 

The Attorney General and the U.S. Attorneys in the 94 federal districts have a lightening bolt in their hands.  Federal grand jury subpoenas are nationwide in scope.  A grand jury does not just issue formal criminal charges, it can also investigate, under the age-old rationale that "the public is entitled to every man's evidence".  Unlike the FBI, which is required by policy to have a factual "predicate" before it can open an investigation, a grand jury is in no way limited.  The U.S. Supreme Court in 1992 made clear that "the grand jury can investigate merely on suspicion that the law is being violated, or even because it wants assurance that it is not" [2]--

"The grand jury’s functional independence from the Judicial Branch is evident both in the scope of its power to investigate criminal wrongdoing and in the manner in which that power is exercised.  Unlike [a] [c]ourt, whose jurisdiction is predicated upon a specific case or controversy, the grand jury can investigate merely on suspicion that the law is being violated, or even because it wants assurance that it is not.  It need not identify the offender it suspects, or even the precise nature of the offense it is investigating.  The grand jury requires no authorization from its constituting court to initiate an investigation, nor does the prosecutor require leave of court to seek a grand jury indictment.  And in its day-to-day functioning, the grand jury generally operates without the interference of a presiding judge.  It swears in its own witnesses, and deliberates in total secrecy" [citations in this passage are omitted].

From 4 November 2020, the day after the election, until he left office on 23 December, Attorney General William Barr did nothing about electoral problems.  The DOJ could have started grand juries in multiple suspect states when anamolies began to appear the week of the election, but did zero.  When President Trump nominated Barr on 7 December 2018, I was very surprised, because of some of Barr's prior legal positions and associations.  But that is another story.

A Re-naming Bee

(Lt Col collar insignia, CSA)

"There are 10 major U.S. military bases named in honor of Confederate military leaders, all in former Confederate States:

• Camp Beauregard (1917), near Pineville, Louisiana, a Louisiana National Guard installation named for Louisiana native and Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard^[3]
• Fort Benning (1917), near Columbus, Georgia, named after Henry L. Benning, a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army^[4][5]
• Fort Bragg (1918), in North Carolina, named for Confederate General Braxton Bragg
• Fort Gordon (1917), near Grovetown, Georgia, named in honor of John Brown Gordon, who was a major general in the Confederate army
• Fort A.P. Hill (1941), near Bowling Green, Virginia, named for Virginia native and Confederate Lieutenant General A. P. Hill^[6]
• Fort Hood (1942), in Killeen, Texas, named after Confederate General John Bell Hood, who is best known for commanding the Texas Brigade during the American Civil War
• Fort Lee (1917), in Prince George County, Virginia, named for Confederate General Robert E. Lee^[7]
• Fort Pickett (1942), near Blackstone, Virginia, a Virginia National Guard installation named for Confederate General George Pickett
• Fort Polk (1941), near Leesville, Louisiana, named in honor of the Right Reverend Leonidas Polk, an Episcopal Bishop and Confederate General
• Fort Rucker (1942), in Dale County, Alabama, named for Edmund Rucker, a colonel appointed acting brigadier general in November 1864, but whose promotion went unconfirmed by the Confederate Congress (disbanded March 18, 1865)

Other installations are:

• Camp Maxey, near Paris, Texas, a Texas National Guard installation named after Confederate Brigadier General Samuel B. Maxey
• Camp Pendleton, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, a Virginia National Guard installation named after Confederate Brigadier General William N. Pendleton"  wiki

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The National Defense Authorization Act, passed over Trump's veto requires the re-naming of these posts.

These posts were all named for Confederate soldiers in the WW1 period in the hope of attracting Southern support for the war.

The two named for Episcopal clergymen seem droll in the light of current denunciation.  Parson Pendleton was the rector of the Episcopal Church in Lexington, Virginia.  In confederate service he was RE Lee's chief of artillery, having been a gunner before he left the US Army long before.  He is buried in the town cemetery at Lexington next to his son Lt. Col. Alexander (Sandy) Pendleton, CSA, KIA at Fisher's Hill in 1864.  

So, these posts are now available for "cleansing" through re-naming.  They can be named for Union soldiers or politicians, noble causes and events, etc.  Offer your suggestions.  pl 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._Army_installations_named_for_Confederate_soldiers

The Republicans prepare for "Opposition" status (and Trump with them)

Consider all this to be an analytic opinion.

1.  The roll out of the Republican insurgent operation for objection to the Electoral College vote on the 6th is indicative of where the party is going.  

Mitch McConnell and the party apparatchiks in congress may think that they will be able to do business with Biden/Harris and their handlers but the the 74 million citizens who voted against the Democrats do not agree.

In this context the 5 January runoffs in Georgia are largely irrelevant.  The Republicans and those who vote with them will be in Opposition no matter who runs the US Senate.

The objecting members of congress know that they cannot succeed in obtaining supporting majorities in both houses of congress in support of their objections.  When pressed they said this on the Sunday morning TeeVee newsies today.  No.  What they are doing is establishing a baseline of political opposition to the results of the 2020 election.  Along this baseline they will insist that Biden/Harris are not legitimately elected and are in fact usurpers against whom any means of resistance is justified.  This closely mirrors Democrat propaganda and tactics throughout the Trump presidency.

People who think that resistance by the Smellies (Deplorables) to Democrat/Marxist rule will disappear as a result of Trump's defeat are deceiving themselves.  It will not.  In this move we see consolidation of Smelly resistance.

2.  When the 6 January rebellion in the congress fails, Trump will be faced by a personal need to maintain himself as party (and Smelly) leader.  One possible course of action would be to start a war against a country so demonized by the media and his own administration that the most recent verbal threats by that country can be said to be a causus belli.   The most obvious target would be Iran, closely followed in order of probability by Syria.

The president/CinC has broad and legal effective powers to wage war against an imminent national threat on a short term basis as opposed to limitations on those powers under the War Powers Act.  He/she has the ability to wage war for 30 days before congress can effectively stop a war.  

Under the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986, the military chain of command runs from POTUS to SECDEF to the Combatant Commanders.  Under the same law, the JCS (including the Chairman) and the whole Joint Staff in the Pentagon are merely advisers and planners operating in support of POTUS and SECDEF.  Trump now has the SECDEF he wants and nothing stands between him and the ability to legally launch an air and naval war in the ME.  The small US forces in Iraq and Syria would be greatly endangered by such a move, but ...  In the context of possible action against Iran, the withdrawal of the Nimitz battle group from the Gulf should not be seen as necessarily being a signal of declining US-Iranian tensions.  Perhaps the withdrawal has been long scheduled but elbow room in the Arabian Sea would be needed in a shooting war.

Biden/Harris would be left to deal with the situation.  Trump might face civil or criminal action in the aftermath, but a long, drawn out legal battle with all the opportunity this would present for publicity might suit him well.

Would the Combatant Commanders refuse legal orders to attack?  I doubt that would happen.  pl

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldwater%E2%80%93Nichols_Act

"11 Senate Republicans say they will object to Electoral College results Wednesday" The Hill

"Eleven Senate Republicans on Saturday announced that they will object to the Electoral College results Wednesday, when Congress convenes in a joint session to formally count the vote. 

GOP Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas), Ron Johnson (Wis.), James Lankford (Okla.), Steve Daines (Mont.), John Kennedy (La.), Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.) and Mike Braun (Ind.) and Sens.-elect Cynthia Lummis (Wyo.), Roger Marshall (Kan.), Bill Hagerty (Tenn.) and Tommy Tuberville (Ala.) said in a joint statement that they will object to the election results until there is a 10-day audit. 

"Congress should immediately appoint an Electoral Commission, with full investigatory and fact-finding authority, to conduct an emergency 10-day audit of the election returns in the disputed states," they said. "Once completed, individual states would evaluate the Commission’s findings and could convene a special legislative session to certify a change in their vote, if needed.

"Accordingly, we intend to vote on Jan. 6 to reject the electors from disputed states as not 'regularly given' and 'lawfully certified' (the statutory requisite), unless and until that emergency 10-day audit is completed," they added. 

The group's announcement means that at least a dozen GOP senators will object on Wednesday."  The Hill

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Well, well.  Lookee here Sayrah!  pl

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/senate-gop-election-fraud-electoral-college/2021/01/02/id/1003985/

Bill Barr Did Not See Fraud Because He Refused To Look by Larry C Johnson

I was wrong in putting any faith in Bill Barr. I thought Bill Barr was an honorable man. He is not. He has done a good job of masquerading as a stand up, honest guy, but when it came to saving the Republic and upholding the Constitution, he ran away.

During Barr’s final press conference on Monday, he doubled down on his prior statement:

“To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.”

Barr insists he has not seen sufficient fraud? Is he blind? Is he now illiterate? A blind cave fish can see the evidence.

So let me help you out Mr. Barr. THERE IS AMPLE EVIDENCE OF FRAUD AND YOU ONLY NEED TO LOOK IN THREE STATES–GEORGIA, PENNSYLVANIA AND ARIZONA.

• Presently, Biden lays claim to 306 electors, while Trump lags with 232.
• Georgia, Pennsylvania and Arizona account for 47 electoral votes. If those votes are properly assigned to Donald Trump and taken away from Joe Biden, Trump wins 279 to Biden’s 259.
• The total of 103,896 votes separate Trump and Biden in these three states.

There is indisputable, tangible evidence of a massive fraud that, once exposed, ensures Donald Trump’s re-election. The plot was simple.

• Millions of illegal ballots were pre-printed and shipped directly to counting centers in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona (also happened in Wisconsin, Michigan and Nevada).
• These ballots were presented as “mail in ballots” but were never actually mailed and never handled by living voter.
• These fraudulent ballots were fed into the Dominion voting machines and recorded votes for Joe Biden. Most of the pre-printed ballots excluded down ballot candidates, which is why the Republicans won more than 12 additional seats in the U.S. Congress.

Trump signs the pork-laden spending and covid-19 bill. Maybe a vote to come on more money and section 230.

By Robert Willmann

President Trump has signed the estimated $2.3 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021.  Its 5,593 double-spaced pages are stuffed with pork to grease domestic and foreign hands in order to get it passed for the piddling $600 for some people in the U.S., and possibly more for some illegal immigrants.  Referred to as House Resolution 133, the copy still sits at the House Committee on Rules.  Divided up into Divisions A-FF, it may be the longest law ever passed by Congress.  Divisions 'M' and 'N' are for "corona virus response and relief"--

https://rules.house.gov/sites/democrats.rules.house.gov/files/BILLS-116HR133SA-RCP-116-68.pdf

Trump is signing H.R. 133 in exchange for promises, instead of getting the promises passed by Congress first, and then signing all the bills at once.  But this was probably done because the government would run out of other people's money on Monday night, 28 December, and some sort of partial government shutdown would then happen [1]. 

When the Internet was getting underway for the general public with slow dialup connections over a telephone line using a modem, some computer technology companies planned for the future and got Congress -- under the name of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 -- to give them legal liability protection like a common carrier and almost as good as a telephone company.  If someone uses a telephone to slander and defame someone, or to plan or carry out crime, the telephone company cannot be sued in a civil lawsuit, nor can it be charged with a crime as a party or co-conspirator, including for such things as robbery and murder.  It is a "common carrier", and acts as a neutral carrier of communications between people, although a phone company does have to abide by laws concerning such things as wiretapping.  The phone companies used to keep your call records private (the "subscriber information"), unless a court order was obtained.  However, after the George W. Bush administration started the illegal domestic surveillance program, it also secretly got the phone companies (except for Qwest) to agree to hand over your calling information in clear violation of the law restricting disclosure without a court order.  Lawsuits were filed because a phone company was liable for $1,000 for each disclosure.  With millions of customers, that added up to billions of dollars, but Congress kneeled down and gave the phone companies retroactive immunity for their misconduct.  Then section 215 of the USA Patriot Act amended the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to allow easier collection of call-detail records, and the FISA court, operating in secret, was told by the government that everybody's phone metadata was "relevant", and the "judges" went along with it.  This misuse of the statute became well known to the public in 2013.  But the computer tech companies quietly got their own protection starting in 1996 [2].

"And now for something completely different ..."

Congressman Ted Budd, Republican of North Carolina, is not a favorite of Nancy the Ice Cream Lady. He is one of the 120 Republican members of the House who signed an amicus brief in support of Texas' lawsuit against Pennsylvania et al.  Nancy is pondering the possibility of a majority vote refusing to seat these people for - what?  Misbehavior?  Now, that would be a "different thing."  The teeth, hair and eyeballs would fly over that attempt.

BUT!  Wait for it pilgrims!  Congressman Budd, a farmer from out there in the boondocks, has another "different" moment in mind.  He and some others in both chambers are going to challenge the legitimacy of some of the state procedures for choosing electors.  And - they are going to do it on constitutional grounds.  Wow!  pl

https://www.oann.com/rep-budd-what-im-doing-jan-6-is-totally-constitutional/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Budd

Stolen, a holiday post by Fred

You are probably thinking this is a post about the election, what with that "I voted" sticker in the photo. But if you take another look you'll see something you can really sink your fangs into. MMM mmmmm. Yummy. Speaking of Fang,

Brooding in the Marble City beside the Great Swamp

The cognoscenti are whispering, whispering of a failure of will and steadiness in the SCOTUS in the matter of the Texas constitutional lawsuit against several states for a failure to provide equal rights to Texans and the citizens of six other states in election process.

According to listeners in the halls of SCOTUS actual screaming could be heard in debate among the justices over whether or not to hear the case.  This is unheard of within the most exclusive club in the world.  Mutual dislikes and contempts are carefully concealed within that charmed circle. An alternative version of the story has them screaming at each others' screens.

On this occasion, Roberts and the liberals made common cause to prevent acceptance of this case under "original jurisdiction" in this case arguing against Thomas and Alito.  Kavanaugh and Barrett were supposedly admonished by Roberts to abstain from argument on the basis of their lack of experience.  With Kavanaugh this would be easy.  IMO he is a broken man, torn to bits and mortally wounded psychologically.  

1.  Roberts actually said (or screamed) that he feared leftist mobs in the streets if the court heard the case.

2.  This establishes a context for SCOTUS decisions in which fear of the mob will decide rather than the concept of the constitution as a compact of the 50 states, a compact created by state ratifications and which cannot be changed except through ratification of changes by the states.

3.  In other words, SCOTUS is no longer an honest broker and referee among the states.

4.  What is left - force majeure?

BTW, in the chart above, North Carolina and Rhode Island had previously voted NOT to ratify but re-voted after Virginia's ratification meant that they would be excluded from the new country if they did not.  

pl

The Fall of the Republic - part1

"Correspondence between Hunter Biden and CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming from 2017 shows President-elect Joe Biden's son extending "best wishes from the entire Biden family," and urging the chairman to "quickly" send a $10 million wire to "properly fund and operate" the Biden joint venture with the now-bankrupt Chinese energy company.

The $10 million transfer to the joint venture was never completed.

Fox News obtained an email Hunter Biden sent on June 18, 2017, to Zhao Run Long at CEFC, asking that they please "translate my letter to Chairman Ye, please extend my warmest best wishes and that I hope to see the Chairman soon.""

Biden went on to note that Bobulinski had "sent a request to Dong Gongwen [Gongwen Dong] and Director Zang for the funding of the $10 MM USD wire."

"I would appreciate if you will send that quickly so we can properly fund and operate Sinohawk," Biden wrote.

"I am sure you have been well briefed by our dear friend Director Zang on the political and economic connections we have established in countries where you are interested in expanding during the coming months and years," he continued. "I look forward to our next meeting."

"Fox News also obtained the response from Ye as part of an email, dated Sept. 6, 2017, from Biden business associate James Gilliar to Bobulinski. That email forwarded Ye's letter responding to Biden. The letter is dated July 10, 2017.

Ye stated that he had arranged for Zang and Dong to "expedite the charter capital input to SinoHawk."

"I am glad to hear from you! Time flies and it has been months since we met in the US. It seems that we were always on a rush when we were together," Ye wrote to Biden, adding that "the consensus we made last time has been materialized in a timely manner." 

Ye also recommended Biden "arrange your people to coordinate with Director Zang and Gongwen Dong for specific work." 

"I will continue to pay attention and give my support," Ye stated. "I have arranged Director Zang and Gongwen Dong to expedite the charter capital input to SinoHawk." 

"I look forward to meeting you in the near future and discussing our joint undertaking. If there is anything I could do please do not hesitate to write to me," Ye wrote. "Please accept my best regards to you and your family.""  foxnews

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Well, pilgrims, the Ron Johnson hearing today was fun.  The best part for me was former Director Krebs' (election security guy for DHS) repeated statements that the election was secure, "the most secure in history."  Pilgrims, the distinction betwixt "secure" and "honest" seems to have escaped him as he ignored questions about actual evidence of fraud, a swampie to the end.

And then, there is Chairman Joe.  He knows that nothing will be easier than to kill off prosecution of his creepy son, or to "suggest" to the Delaware federal prosecutor that a minor indictment would be appropriate, something resulting in a suspended sentence.

I have watched Tucker debrief Bobulinski twice about that payment.  The way Bobulinski tells it  (with documentation) the Bidens were loaned $5 million by MEFC to pay their side of the capitalization and then actually pocketed the other $5  million as a direct payment to La Familia from FEMC (Oh Danny Boy!) from - equal opportunity!  That was too much for the Bobster (former naval Lt., man of world finance, patriot, self-abnegator, etc.) Besides, where was his share?

Pistols at dawn?  Good!  Tucker can act as his second.  Where are my cased flintlock smoothbores?  They are somewhere around here, the English 18th Century ones in the fitted blue velvet case.  pl

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-letter-chinese-cefc-chairman-wire-request

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-says-im-confident-hunter-did-nothing-wrong-amid-federal-probe-into-tax-affairs

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-election-hearing-clash-johnson-peters

Electoral College members meet in the states

By Robert Willmann

Congress set a date for presidential electors to meet as "the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December next following their appointment at such place in each State as the legislature of such State shall direct", which is today.  The Electors meet in their separate states and are to vote for president and vice president [1].  But that is not the end of it.  Parts of the U.S. Constitution apply to the Electoral College, and Congress has set out a procedure in Chapter 1 of Title 3 of the U.S. Code [2].  Ultimately, the U.S. Congress is to approve what the Electoral College does.  The photograph above is Congress counting electorial votes in 1917 [3].

Some states may have a live video of the meeting of the electors but might not keep it for later viewing.

Evidence of significant voting fraud exists, with the focus on Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada, but courts have so far refused to allow the preservation and a forensic examination of electronic voting and counting machines in those states.

The Trump administration continues to challenge aspects of the election, as it is indeed not over at this point, even at the conclusion of the meetings of electors.  Today, White House advisor Stephen Miller appeared on the Fox and Friends television program to say that the problem of voting fraud will continue to be contested, and the interview starts at 23 minutes, 41 seconds into the video until 31 min., 20 sec.--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSRa7ZpUHlM

A quest for the truth is not stopping.

[1]  https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2012/11/the-electoral-college-what-is-it-and-how-does-it-function/

[2] Title 3, U.S. Code, Chapter 1.  Presidential elections and vacancies.

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title3/chapter1&edition=prelim

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/3/chapter-1

[3]  http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/npcc.27677/

 

‘You will own nothing, and you will be happy’: Warnings of ‘Orwellian’ Great Reset

"A terrifying coalition of big business and big tech are so confident and brazen they are promising the public “you will own nothing, and you will be happy” in an advertising campaign for a global reset, according to Sky News host Rowan Dean. “What they should have added is ‘we the very rich will own everything and be even happier’," he said. The Great Reset is a proposal set out by the World Economic Forum for a new globalised fiscal system which would allow the world to effectively tackle the so-called climate crisis. Mr Dean said the plan intends to use the “tools of oppression” implemented during the pandemic, such as lockdowns and forced business closures as well as other measures destroying private property rights, to combat the coronavirus to achieve climate outcomes. “I've spoken before about the insidious phrase Build Back Better which sounds like common sense but is in fact just one of several slogans for the Great reset, another being the Orwellian phrase the fourth industrial revolution”. “This is as serious and as dangerous a threat to our prosperity and freedom as we have faced in decades." Mr Dean warned viewers to think again if they believed this was just “crazy old Rowan with his conspiracy theories”. “This garbage is already deeply embedded into our state and federal governments.”"  skynew

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"Nothing is too good for the troops" is an old US Army expression "and that is what they will get - nothing!"  But will the "troops" accept that?  Will the "troops" accept that the Orwellian pigs should live in the departed master's farmhouse?  Will they?  The motto is supposed to be "two legs bad, four legs good," but only the pigs can live in the dachas of the nomenklatura?

The depth and scope of the pigs' intentions in such statements from Davos and other sanctimonious centers of "learning" is evident.  

Biden is a potential hazard for such plans.  His evident dementia and crime familia record might bring the whole scheme low.  He, therefore, must be treated as an expendable "card" in the piggy game.  A Special Counsel to investigate The Bidens? (someday to have a warship named for them like "The Sullivans?")  Sure, why not?

If "The Bidens" go down, Kamala will be there, standing by to carry on.  A Special Counsel to investigate the "greatest election fraud machinery in American history" might bring her down as well.

No! No! That can't be.  That would not follow the arc of history.  pl

https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6215927832001

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell

"House Conservatives Urge President Trump To Name A Special Counsel To Investigate Election Fraud" OAN

"Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Texas) is leading an effort with nearly three dozen House GOP lawmakers, urging President Trump to name a special counsel to investigate election fraud. The lawmakers noted they believe the Justice Department isn’t taking the allegations seriously."  OAN

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IMO this should be done.  A Special Counsel should be named to make it as difficult as possible for the Harris/Biden Administration to cancel all investigation of the obvious fraud at both the wholesale and retail levels (Dershowitz reference).  If this is not done, consolidation of power on the Left will lead to a sham republic.  IMO this Special Counsel should be appointed from outside the government.  If Barr has to be fired to accomplish a direct appointment by the president, so be it.   pl 

https://www.oann.com/house-conservatives-urge-president-trump-to-name-a-special-counsel-to-investigate-election-fraud/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_prosecutor

Thanks Pelosi, You and your Friends Are To Blame for Growing Hunger. by J

In my years I have seen hunger and devastation around the globe, and it's not a pretty picture.  We as Americans take so much of what we have for granted.  Most have never had to witness a fellow human being starving to death, which is not a pretty picture. 

President Trump tried to initially give his fellow Americans $10,000 -to $15,000 a piece for starters to help get them through the tribulations that he saw coming.  Pelosi the Speaker of the House and her Communist Cohorts and Deep State plants in the Congress didn't like that.  It would have taken away precious dollars out of their personal slush-funds, private contractor buddies, and black projects funds.  Fifteen grand is not even a mere pocket change for the amount of Taxpayer money that the Congress funnels out of sight/out of mind away from the prying eyes of the  American public every year.

Because of Pelosi's road-blocks, there are long, and I do mean LONG LINES at the Food Pantries and Soup Kitchens, hoping there will be something there that will get them through the hunger they are experiencing.

Pelosi and her $25 grand refrigerators and $15 dollar ice cream that she is having to 'endure' when ever she spouts that we're all in this together mantra, hasn't got a clue, nor does she care about the horror she is causing her fellow Americans. 

The poor are always the one getting the shaft, because of factors beyond their control, like the devastation of the lockdowns heaped upon them by fat-cat Pelosi and her Commie Deep State buddies, and not to forget Fauci, NY Governor, CA Governor, LA Mayor, and NYC Mayor's who have pressed and pressed for lock-downs.  J

https://www.theorganicprepper.com/americans-stealing-food-to-survive/

The U.S. Supreme Court looks the other way, ignores illegality, and denies leave to file the Texas election lawsuit

By Robert Willmann

Kneeling down before documented voting fraud and conduct violating the U.S. Constitution's requirement that state legislatures alone create election laws and rules, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Texas "leave to file" its election lawsuit against electoral behavior in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin.  In a pathetic excuse containing no factual or legal detail, the court said permission to file was:  "... denied for lack of standing under Article III of the Constitution. Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections"--

https://turcopolier.typepad.com/files/tex_electcase_order_denying_leave_to_file.pdf

A side issue that Congress can remedy is the Supreme Court's own unconstitutional rule that says you have to ask for leave to file a lawsuit in that court which has original, exclusive jurisdiction over cases between states in the U.S.  The courts exist to hear and decide disputes that start with the filing of a document describing the problem.  If you have a lawsuit about an automobile wreck, or breach of contract, or a divorce, or anything else, filing the case is a "ministerial act" by the court clerk.  The court then processes the case under the rules of procedure and evidence.  If a lawsuit presents no real dispute, there are procedures for a court to address that issue, and some cases are concluded fairly quickly without a trial.

In a brief statement by Judge Sam Alito in the order, joined by Judge Clarence Thomas, this issue is mentioned:  "In my view, we do not have discretion to deny the filing of a bill of complaint in a case that falls within our original jurisdiction. ...  I would therefore grant the motion to file the bill of complaint but would not grant other relief, and I express no view on any other issue".

Their statement is vague to the extent that it does not specify what other relief they would not grant, because if they would not grant any relief requested by Texas and the other states trying to join the case, then there is no reason for them to say that they "express no view on any other issue".  They might be referring to not granting a stay order or temporary injunction.  Or they might be talking about the issue of voting fraud.

As we would say in San Antonio, using a little Spanish, "There are two kinds of judges in this world.  Con huevos and sin huevos".  At this point, the only judge in this country who is (metaphorically) con huevos is Patricia McCullough of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

UPDATE, 12 December 2020:  I realized last night that I did not mention the local description of judges was partly in Spanish, and so I have clarified it.  San Antonio, Texas has a Spanish and Mexican heritage, and so all sorts of expressions are a mixture of English and Spanish. 

Also, the Supreme Court's own rule that they can deny a state "leave to file" a lawsuit there when they are the court with  jurisdiction is unconstitutional because it violates the guarantee of "due process of law" in the constitution.  The idea of due process includes at the very least a meaningful procedure consisting of various steps -- a process.  If the Supreme Court can close the door and refuse to take any action in a case, there is no process at all.

 

Congressmen and federal judges ...

Do not have security clearances.

They are members of separate branches of government and the Executive Branch gives security clearances.

Federal judges and congressmen have access based on their constitutional office and need to know.

That is why Eric Swalwell was never background checked by the FBI.  pl

Missouri, 17 other states file supporting Texas suit to delay presidential elector appointment" foxnews

"Missouri led a group of 17 states that Wednesday afternoon filed a brief with the Supreme Court supporting the Texas lawsuit aimed at delaying the appointment of presidential electors from Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. 

The brief mirrors the argument of the Texas suit in saying that the states acted unconstitutionally when either their judiciaries or executive branches changed their elections laws. The Texas suit, and the states that support it, say that only state legislatures may set laws regarding how states appoint their presidential electors. 

"The integrity of our elections is of critical importance to maintaining our republic, both today and in future elections,” Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt said in a statement. “The stakes of protecting our Constitution, defending our liberty and ensuring that all votes are counted fairly couldn’t be higher. With this brief, we are joining the fight."

The Trump campaign also filed a brief asking to join on the Texas suit on Wednesday.

"The illegal suspension or violation of state law thus calls directly into question the certification of the results of the elections in Defendant States for Vice President Joe Biden, Proposed Plaintiff in Intervention’s opponent in the election," its brief said. "President Trump’s interest in the outcome of this litigation could therefore not be more acute."

The brief filed by Missouri and the other states, which is officially a motion for leave to file a bill of complaint, also warns that the changes enacted by the state executives and judicial branches opened the states' elections up to potential fraud."  foxnews

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It appears to me that the Democrats in all their varied glory have become subversive of the Constitution except in so far as it supports the creation of a sham republic like the Soviet Union.  We will now see if SCOTUS will save us from that.  pl 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/missouri-16-other-states-file-brief-supporting-texas-suit-to-delay-presidential-elector-appointment

Texas sues 4 states in the U.S. Supreme Court for election law changes and voting misconduct

By Robert Willmann

After 25 years of not being itself (with a few exceptions), that began with George W. Bush as governor in 1995, Texas has gone back to its roots and is standing up independently by filing a lawsuit against Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin over their unconstitutional election law changes and the voting misconduct those states allowed to happen.

This must have caught a lot of people by surprise, since legal actions rarely start in the U.S. Supreme Court.  But it answers the question:  when a state in the U.S. has a dispute with another state, where is the lawsuit filed?  Article 3, section 2 of the Constitution says, "The judicial Power shall extend ... to Controversies between two or more States ...."  And:  "In all cases affecting Ambassadors, other Public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction".  Congress made the authority to hear the cases (the "jurisdiction") exclusive to the Supreme Court, so that no other court would be involved [1].

Supreme Court Rule 17 describes the procedure to be used, which the court can tailor to each case and make it up as they go along:  "The form of pleadings and motions prescribed by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is followed.  In other respects, those Rules and the Federal Rules of Evidence may be taken as guides" [2].

Update: Judge Alito orders a reply by December 8 on the Pennsylvania state court lawsuit and a stay order about certifying the election

By Robert Willmann

A request was made to the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to issue a stay order and to agree to hear the state court lawsuit from Pennsylvania about whether that state's 2019 mail-in voting law violates the Pennsylvania constitution, and therefore Article 1, section 4, and Article 2, section 1 of the U.S. Constitution on elections.  A docket sheet has been created in the Supreme Court Clerk's office, and an order appeared today by Judge Samuel Alito that the defendants are to file a response by 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, 8 December 2020.  The document making the request asked for a stay order and an injunction that the State of Pennsylvania, Governor Tom Wolf, and Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar be blocked from "taking any further action to perfect the certification of the results of the November 3, 2020, General Election (the 'Election') in Pennsylvania for the offices of President and Vice President of the United States of America or certifying the remaining results of the Election for U.S. Senators and Representatives".  And, if actions were taken to do a certification of the election, an order is sought "to restore the status quo ante, compelling Respondents to nullify any such actions already taken, until further order of this Court"--

https://turcopolier.typepad.com/files/penn_kellycase_supcourt_request_injunction_and_review.pdf

A 213-page appendix was filed with the request that contains papers from the Pennsylvania state court proceedings which were included in the article here from earlier today, plus sections of the U.S. and Pennsylvania constitutions.  Also included are the Pennsylvania voting law, Act 77, from 2019; a Pennsylvania law from 27 March 2020 that amended Act 77 and other election law; and sections from Title 3 of the U.S. Code--

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20A98/162573/20201203162757140_final%20appendix%20with%20TOC.pdf

The lawsuit as originally filed in the state court named the Pennsylvania General Assembly (the legislature) as a defendant, but the legislature did not join the appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that resulted in the dismissal of the case.  It will be interesting to see what position the Pennsylvania legislature will take in the U.S. Supreme Court, if it still considers itself a party to the case.

The powerful lawsuit in state court on the Pennsylvania voting process

By Robert Willmann

As the Trump Campaign unsuccessfully appealed a lawsuit over election problems in Pennsylvania to the federal Third Circuit Court of Appeals, an intriguing case filed in Pennsylvania state court by eight individuals represented by a Pittsburgh lawyer, Greg Teufel, produced a preliminary (temporary) emergency order blocking any remaining action "to perfect the certification of the results of the 2020 General Election", for the offices of president and vice president, until the completion of an evidentiary hearing that was scheduled for 27 November 2020 [1].

This state lawsuit presents a good, clean point that the 2019 law expanding absentee voting in Pennsylvania into mail-in voting for all voters violates the Pennsylvania constitution, which limits the scope of absentee voting in its Article 1, section 14.

The case is filed in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, which is a hybrid intermediate court of appeals that is "primarily responsible for matters involving state and local governments and regulatory agencies.  It also acts as a trial court when lawsuits are filed by or against the Commonwealth," the name for the state [2].

The eight people bringing the case as plaintiffs are:  a sitting Republican Congressman in the House of Representatives, Mike Kelly, who was re-elected; Sean Parnell, who ran for Congress in this election but has been behind in a close race against an incumbent; Wanda Logan, who ran for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives; and five others as private citizens.  The defendants are the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (the state), the General Assembly (the legislature), Governor Thomas Wolf, and Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar.

Mike Kelly was elected to the U.S. House in 2010 and started in January 2011.  Sean Parnell fought in Afghanistan for over a year as an Army Ranger in the 10th Mountain Division, was wounded in 2006, and after completing the deployment, was medically discharged with the rank of captain.

The "Resistance" now wants unity in the USA.

All those who have followed the course of US political life for the last five years know that the Democratic Party's adherents have done everything they could imagine to impede; first the election of Donald Trump as president, and then to impede his function as president.  The list of projects undertaken by them is so long and so easily listed that I will not bother to do so.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_protests_against_Donald_Trump#During_Trump's_presidency

 

Now, in the aftermath of an election in which their party has suffered massive "down ballot" defeat, Joe Biden and his supporters are calling for unity and "healing" across the country.

 

Well, good luck to you.  There will not be unity in the country for a long time and you brought it on yourselves.

 

You are "hoist your own petard" and "turning in the wind" and will stay there.  You should pray that the unwashed Deplorables do not take up arms against you in the coming period.  pl