9/27/2020 The Richness of Political Hypocrisy

Politics in the U.S. is a study in hypocrisy. I'm seeing it in extreme and widespread measure in President Trump's nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett for Senate confirmation as a Supreme Court Justice. For the better part of the last week there has been an outpouring of love and admiration at the news of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg's passing. Justice Ginsberg was just the second female justice on the court. (Sonia Sotomeyer and Elena Kagan, respectively, are the third and fourth). The respect, love, admiration, and signs of those feelings were everywhere. Why? Well, as a woman, to rise to the highest level in the legal world in our country is an amazing accomplishment. It's an honor and a privilege for any judge to be nominated to that high office. And Justice Ginsberg wore the robes of a Supreme Court Justice with every bit of the dignity befitting that office. She is a role model for every young woman in our country that if you set out to do great things, to be a great person, and to make a great difference, you can. She epitomized greatness.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg

 

Judge Amy Coney Barrett

Now we come to Judge Amy Coney Barrett. If conformed by the Senate, she'll be just the fifth female Supreme Court Justice. At 49, she's at the pinnacle of the legal profession in just being nominated for the position. I have great admiration and respect for her for what she's achieved and for reaching this pinnacle. I give credit to President Trump for sticking with her by making the nomination. Judge Barbara Logoa, a Hispanic judge from Florida might have been a more clever pick for the politics of the situation in the election season. But Trump went with who he thought was his best choice, those other considerations aside. And Judge Barrett is a brave woman, a "lot of balls" I told a friend last night. She knows what's coming from a bunch of vile, evil scumbags who are so blinded in their partisanship that attacking motherhood, adoption, children, and a woman of great achievement is all good to them. Someone of weaker constitution, no pun intended, wouldn't knowingly enter this briar patch.

 Last night Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley tweeted "Barrett is dangerous & unfit to serve on the highest court." Senator Richard Blumenthal (Danang Dick) said "Judge Barrett’s views would harm real lives—real people—in real ways, from children with pre-existing conditions to women who just want to be able to decide when & how to have a family." Senator Kirsten Gillibrand tweeted that "Alongside her dangerous, ultra-conservative record, she’s not fit to serve on the Supreme Court." Senator Sheldon Whitehouse portrays Judge Barrett as some kind of puppet with strings being pulled by unseen, evil forces: "It doesn’t matter who the Supreme Court nominee is; it matters who’s behind this pick. And the answer is special interests out to capture our courts."

Someone named Vanessa Grigoriadis Tweeted: "I guess one of the things I don't understand about Amy Comey Barrett is how a potential Supreme Court justice can also be a loving, present mom to seven kids? Is this like the Kardashians stuffing nannies in the closet and pretending they've drawn their own baths for their kids, when she portrays herself as a home-centered Catholic who puts family over career, isn't she telling a lie? The tweets and comments get worse.

Someone named Becca T explains via tweet: "They aren't attacking her for adopting. They want to make sure it was a good adoption. A lot are not. That is not an attack on her children. That is questioning Barrett's character. If a liberal had adopted kids from Haiti, the GOP would be doing the same." Someone named Zoë wants us to know the maybe Barrett's really a racist: "All these conservative clowns are out here talking about how there’s no way Amy Barrett could be racist because she adopted two black kids. Ooooh boy, do I got news for y’all..."

Christine D fills us in on Judge Barrett's motivation for adoption: "If your main reason 4 adopting a black kid is solely done to "prove" that you're not a racist, or in order to spruce up your image/ career. Then you're a racist. Amy Barrett didn't adopt those children to help them. She adopted them so she could improve her chances 4 nomination."

Dangerous. Unfit. Harm real lives real ways: pre-existing conditions an reproductive choice. Dangerous. Not fit. Puppet. Unseen evil forces. Special interests. Like the Kardashians. Stuffing nannies in the closet. Pretending. Portrays herself. Telling a lie. Questioning Barrett's character. Racist... ooooh boy, do I got news for y'all. Reason for adopting to prove you're not a racist. To spruce up your image/career. A racist. Didn't adopt to help them. Adopted to help chances for nomination.

I've got a question for all the scumbags who said all these and other nasty, vile, uncalled for things about Judge Barrett: Were you wearing your Justice Ginsberg lace collar tribute while you said these things?

Yes! Girls can aspire. But only if they agree with us.

 

9/20/2020 Proposed Constitutional Amendment re SCOTUS Justices, Nominees, and the Confirmation Process

 

U.S. Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C.

I propose a Constitutional Amendment permanently setting the Supreme Court at nine (9) Justices (maximum) as a fixed number. The amendment would also eliminate lifetime appointments and instead set a 25 year maximum tenure on the SCOTUS, and further, establish a minimum age of 35 (same as POTUS), a maximum age for new appointees (65 or 70) and a maximum age for Justices sitting on the bench of 80 that requires all Justices to retire before their 81st birthday, exempting all sitting SCOTUS Justices from the 25 and 80 old year limits. The amendment would REQUIRE the Senate to take up every single nominee formally submitted by POTUS for a vacancy, establish a formal methodology for appointment submission (NOT Twitter), allow the Senate, based on the recommendation of the Judiciary Committee if so supported by the Majority Leader to petition the President one time to withdraw a nominee not supported by the Committee. If the President is firm, the nomination would stand, despite the objection. This would have thwarted the Merrick Garland situation altogether. Either POTUS or the nominee may withdraw nominee for consideration at any time prior to the Senate vote. Lastly, the amendment would set a timeline from nomination to confirmation (either 45, 60, or 90 days), after which, if the full Senate hadn't voted yet, the appointment would be automatically confirmed.

 

• Sets the SCOTUS at 9 members permanently.
• Eliminates lifetime SCOTUS appointments.
• Establishes a 25 year maximum SCOTUS tenure.
• Minimum age of SCOTUS Justices of 35 years old.
• Maximum age for SCOTUS nominees (either 65 or 70 years old).
• Maximum age for active SCOTUS Justice set at 80 years old (mandatory retirement before their 81st birthday).
• Current SCOTUS Justices exempt from all new age and tenure limitations.
• Established formal nomination process by POTUS to the Senate.
  
• Requires a full Senate vote on ALL POTUS' nominees to SCOTUS.
• Allows the Senate to petition POTUS one (1) time per nominee to withdraw the nominee before the full Senate vote.
• Either POTUS or the nominee may withdraw the nominee from consideration at any time prior to the Senate vote.
  
• Set a hard timeline for confirmation (45, 60, or 90 days, probably 60).
• If Senate does not act within the (45, 60, or 90 day) timeline, the nominee's confirmation becomes automatic.
  

So it is written. Let it be done.

9/19/2020 Top Five Reasons Trump Should Not Wait to Replace RBG

 

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

 

I have nothing bad to say of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. I don't care for some of the vitriol in today's political lexicon, and surely some of it is already coming her way. Let her rest in peace. Really. 

Some on the left on social media are threatening riots if the President nominates a replacement before the election. Surprise! When it comes to whether or not President Trump should name a replacement, I say that he should. Here are my Top-5 reasons why he should:

5) It's his job to do so according to the U.S. Constitution. He's President for 4 years. Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell have both taken confirmation actions in the Senate that their opponents didn't like. That's on the Senate. When one party has the Senate and the White House, confirmations happen as a matter of course.

4) The Trump-Russia coup d'état. The same Democrats (with Deep State Republican help) who will scream bloody murder over the 'injustice' of the President fulfilling his Constitutional duty to name Supreme Court Justices bastardized law enforcement, intelligence, diplomatic, and the military to screw a political opponent.

3) The Schiff/Nadler/Pelosi Impeachment. Another scam perpetrated by Democrats and the Deep State. Payback is a bitch.

2) The 2020 Election WILL be contested in the Supreme Court at some point. Almost nothing can convince me otherwise. State Supreme Courts are already setting the stage, allowing ballot collection AFTER Election Day and disallowing challenging of ballots due to signature problems. The steal is in.

And, the #1 reason Trump should name a replacement.

1) Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Perhaps the most vile and disgusting political dirty trick of the Trump presidency, the Kavanaugh smear left me seething. And along with #'s 3 and 4, above, they've set the precedent that anything goes. They'll stop at nothing and do anything. If their doing all that coloring OUTSIDE the lines was OK, then a President coloring INSIDE the lines has to be OK, too.

He's got to do it. He's the President. It's his right to do it. It's within his authority to do it. It's his job to do it. Do it! And call out the riot squads.

9/17/2020 Barr, Wray, and Durham - Good Guys or Bad Guys?

 I've seen more than enough criticism of U.S. Attorney General William Barr, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and U.S. Attorney John Durham, especially very recently, Because I think it's entirely possible that there will be incredible, sensational developments in the coming days to two weeks, and because Barr and Wray have both made public remarks, I thought I'd commit to hazard my guesses as to what's going on with each here. None of them talks to me or seeks my advice, so much of what I think is admittedly speculative.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr

AG Barr is often lambasted by the left as "doing Trump's personal bidding", etc. Get the fuck out of here! I have listened to Barr very carefully, in both formal situations like giving testimony to the Senate and the House, although his most recent visit to the House, with Democratic members making derogatory statements and then "reclaiming their time" before he could respond was but pure tomfoolery and an epic embarrassment to themselves, the citizens they represent, and to the institution to which they were elected. And also, in informal settings like television interviews.

My read is he's an honest guy who knows right from wrong. He's had to go carefully into investigations into FISA abuse/crimes, the Russian Collusion investigation, and ultimately the Mueller Special Counsel investigation. Why has he had to go gently? Two reasons. First, the crimes are so incredible in magnitude that is they were all laid fully bared and all the conspirators and their roles fully reported and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, I suspect the institutions to which the criminals involved were attached might actually be destroyed under the weight of it all. I am referring to the FBI, DOJ, Departments of State, Treasury, Defense, and the entirety of the intelligence community. Even if some of them had real suspicions that there was illegal cooperation between Trump campaigners and the Russians, there came a point where they knew it wasn't. What did they do? They pressed ahead for political reasons and tried their hardest to entrap people.

Barr is going to balance what's best for the nation without completely destroying the aforementioned institutions. He's going to let U.S. Attorneys Durham, Bash, and Jensen do their work and prosecute crimes they find. They have found some. If you're a lefty and you're still deluding yourself that Trump Russia collusion was real, and that Brennan, Clapper, and Comey, et al, were the good guys, well, I got news for you. You're fucking wrong. Either you're blinded by your own bias, or you're too lazy to look for information beyond the liberal propaganda outlets. If you're playing Barr the bad guy and Brennan, Clapper, Comey and the rest of them as the white hats, you're going to hate the coming weeks and months.

Barr = Good guy.

FBI Director Christopher Wray

I'm a bit on the fence about Wray. My hunch is he's in the unenviable position of managing the FBI through this mess. We know about some of the criminality that took place in the Cater Page FISA Warrant fiasco. How deep and wide is that channel? Imagine hundreds, maybe thousands of shoddy or corrupt warrants. Imagine the real bad guys that could get off if that whole house of cards is knocked down upon itself.

Regardless, based on what I've heard and read from Wray, if I were Trump and if I win re-election, I'd fire his ass on Nov. 4th. Summarily and without hesitation. Even in his remarks today, I have no problem criticizing white supremacists, and in calling a spade a spade as it pertains to white supremacist scumbags. But his reluctance to give Black Lives Matter and Antifa terrorism the same treatment is completely unacceptable. He needs to be gone yesterday, but understanding how politics work, I expect it on Nov. 4th. Not a moment too soon.

Wray = Swamp Rat = Bad guy.

U.S. Attorney John Durham

U.S. Attorney John Durham is going to send some Obama officials to jail. The trials may last a while, but there will be indictments, soon. I have been EXTREMELY frustrated waiting in this guy. I mean bad. But he's methodical and he's determined. He's going to do it right and that will take however long it takes. Let's not forget, none of the subjects of his CRIMINAL investigation are very cooperative. At least, I'd assume at first they weren't. There are rumors of some 'flipping' and coming clean about the crimes of the coup d'état. We shall see. But the interviews have involved lawyers and lawyers are frequently inclined to employ delaying tactics as a part of protecting their clients. So it has been slow going. But it is coming. It is coming. Don't fucking kid yourself. It's coming.

And while I'm talking about the fruits of the Durham probe coming, and they're coming SOON people. SOON. Listen up: we're going to hear Democrats crying foul, that this probe is "election interference", bullshit like that. Don't listen to it. Two reasons: first off, "election interference" didn't stop Brennan, Clapper, and Comey and their coup d'état co-conspirators from going after then candidate Trump, but more importantly, second, unless Durham indicts Biden or Harris, then it's not election interference. The American people have a right to know what was done to candidate, President-Elect, and then to President Trump in the campaign, transition, and in his first term, respectively. That's not election interference unless you know your whole goddamned party was and is so fucking corrupt that it'll blow the election. And likely, they were and are. And you can't stop it. Don't like it? Sit the fuck down. Shut the fuck up. Buckle your fucking seat belt. Your heroes earned this shit.

Durham = Good guy.

9/15/2020 The "60 Day Rule": Is the Durham Probe Election Interference?

US Atty John Durham is Reviewing Spying, FISA Abuse, and Mueller

We're inside of 50 days from the election and the Department of Justice has a rule that it won't take actions that would affect the election within 60 days of Election Day. Yet Attorney General Barr when asked about the probes by US Attorneys currently underway, indicated the 60 day rule wouldn't prevent the DOJ from taking action. How does Barr square that circle?

US Atty John Bash is Reviewing the Unmasking of General Flynn and Others by Obama Admin Officials

Well, I could drone on and on, but the answer is really quite simple: If the report of wrongdoings or arrests and indictments for crimes doesn't name either Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Joe Biden or Kamala Harris for wrongdoing or commission of a crime, then it's not action that will affect the election.

US Atty Jeff Jensen is Reviewing Whether the Flynn Case Was Corrupted

What about Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Strzok, Page, McCabe, Ohr, and all the rest? Well, if they're not part of the Trump Administration or named as proposed members of the Biden Administration, which they're not, and they're the subject of these probes, it has nothing do do with the election. That's the answer.

You don't like it? Your favorite talking head on MSNBC, CNN, or in the Washington Post or New York Times is expounding on the incredible impropriety of it all? Well those hacks need to "expound sand". In my opinion the DOJ/FBI/CIA cabal tried to undermine the 2016 election and to overthrow the President in 2017, 2018, and into 2019. The Mueller probe, along with ballot harvesting in California directly affected the 2018 mid-terms, giving the House to the Democrats and paving the way to impeachment. And now these pieces of crap are going to cry about Barr, Durham, Jensen, and Bash affecting the 2020 by exposing the malfeasance and misdeeds of a bunch of crooks who aren't on the ballot in 2020 at all?

Too bad. It's too damned bad.

9/13/2020 Five Things Black Lives Matter Could Do To Have My Support

First off, I support black lives matter. What I am talking about is the Black Lives Matter Organization here. I simply can't support that organization for a variety of reasons. But with some changes, I could easily come on board. These five (5) things changing could bring me on board as a BLM supporter:

1) Disavow and create clear separation from destruction, violence, arson, and looting. Make the protests peaceful. Easy. That also means cutting ties with Antifa, who thrive on the things listed in this section. Stop harassing innocent people eating a meal or driving down the street and treating them like an enemy. Condemn the execution of police simply for being police in unequivocal and unambiguous language. Condemn crowds chanting death to police, etc., and disgusting demonstrations of evilness like the one at the hospital where the sheriffs who were shot in Compton were being treated.

Disgusting Sign On Overpass at BLM Rally in WA.

2) Become un-aligned with either of our political parties and disconnect from other political movements, other than black lives mattering. In aligning with Democrats, progressives, and the entire laundry list of the leftist's agenda, it creates a "conservatives and Republicans not welcomed here" situation. Become a non-partisan (Not bi-partisan, which connotes Republicans and Democrats. Yuck!) group fully focused on improving black lives, including and especially as it pertains to interactions with the police. Pushing Marxism and calling all capitalism oppressive, etc., isn't likely to widen BLM's base of support. Not with me it ain't.

3) Develop education and training for the community in how to avoid confrontations with police, and when there is confrontation, how to comport one's self to help ensure that the confrontation doesn't become violent. This is essentially "the talk" we hear and read about black parents having with their kids being expanded to the whole of the community. In every one of the high profile cases BLM has taken interest in that I can think of in 2020, I feel 100% confident, regardless and separate from whether or not the cops were right, wrong, liable, etc., that had the victims comported themselves differently, they's still be alive. This includes, but is not limited to: not committing crimes, not resisting arrest, cooperating with police, not being so high on drugs and or alcohol so as to not have any self control at all. Don't threaten cops with a weapon and don't initiate physical violence with the cops. Don't attempt to steal the cop's weapons and don't attempt to use those weapons while fleeing. Don't be associating with career criminals / drug dealers.

4) Take an interest in all killings of black people: police, black on black murders, drug related killings, gang related executions, etc. Yes, 9-10 unarmed black men were shot by police. I am NOT advocating ignoring those, and even going so far as saying that's the centerpiece of BLM's mission. But there are way too many other black people dying violent deaths. To conservatives like myself, it seems disingenuous that the many are treated as completely irrelevant, and the few a monumental catastrophe.

5) Strive for real unity, which we will never achieve if white people are being blamed for every kind of issue and grievance just for the "crime" of being white. I will never join in with BLM protesters as long as behaviors like I saw in Pittsburgh last week. I think it was Pittsburgh. People eating in sidewalk restaurants shouldn't be harassed, screamed at, yelled out through bullhorns in their ear, bullied into raising a fist in solidarity, nor have their food and drink sampled by disgusting pieces of shit protesting under the banner of BLM. And speaking of unity, kneeling for the National Anthem, stomping on the flag, calling our country, OUR COUNTRY, not mine, not theirs, OURS, a racist country, none of that is helping to bring me on board.

 

9/12/2020 Puppeteers Ventriloquists and Sock Puppets

We have a right to know who's in Joe Biden's ear giving him answers to town hall questions. We have a right to know who's typing answers to town hall questions into that teleprompter. We have a right to know who it is who's really the one running for President.

 

"Say again? No, no, no. I still can't hear you."

It's the talented puppeteer who makes the puppet dance, it's the talented puppeteer who deserves applause.

"I'm a real good dancer!"

 

It's the ventriloquist who makes a puppet sing, it's the ventriloquist who deserves our praise and raves. 

 

"I can talk real good!"

The puppet is just a thing that sits on a shelf as the puppeteer and ventriloquist go about the off-stage business of living life. It's time for us all to know who's the puppeteer making Joe dance and sing. Or are you voting for a sock puppet?

Whose Hand Works the Sock Puppet?