Journal Journal: Just to Be Clear: I am an Idiot
damn_registrars correctly points out that the NIH is not the NHS. My TLA was AFU, and I suck. That is all.
damn_registrars correctly points out that the NIH is not the NHS. My TLA was AFU, and I suck. That is all.
The constitution is the procedural manual for the government, "We the People" are the authority, government exists to serve as the voice of "We the People". And it is serving very well under the circumstances. It is a perfect reflection of our own apathy. And you remain in denial of that juicy little fact.
I would argue that Congress and the Executive branches have been swamped by the organizational effects of the last century into a vast, un-elected bureaucratic mass. You can attach pejorative labels if needful; I'm only after the simple, plain, non-partisan, observable point. The SCOTUS teeters on the brink.
Fustakrakitch mostly seems to troll on here. I get that. And maybe with enough yeomanwork and squinting, I can even track "very well under the circumstances". But just chalking it up to "apathy" is zooming out into the stratosphere.
Stay beautiful, Fusty.
Republican incompetence sets the stage for a Sunday government shutdown
Set aside the details of which chamber of Congress is working on which bill for a minute--we'll get to them next. The single basic fact everyone needs to understand is that the federal government will shut down this weekend when the deadline to fund it is missed, and House Republicans are the reason for that.
Those Republicans were really going to get around to doing their fundamental job Real Soon Now. They just totally got distracted by watching Barbie all Summer. Couldn't concentrate. Honest.
Less cheekily, if they left me in charge, I'd put down a simple rule: if Congress doesn't do it's basic job on time, then none of the dickheads and dickheadettes responsible can run for their current seat when next next up.
If these losers can't do the basics, our system should force us to find some officials who will.
Draconian? Sure, but if you want Grace, then talk to the Almighty.
And now, back to the carefully orchestrated farce that is our politics.
Everyone knows the DNC and activist groups will trigger their ballot fraud operations in 2024, the problem for them is they can only lift so much through the fraud itself.
Yes, it is possible for the metropolitan counties of Philadelphia (PA), Wayne (MI), Clark (NV), Fulton (GA), Racine (WI) and Maricopa/Pinal (AZ) to each generate between 300,000 and 500,000 fraudulent ballots. However, when contrast against the anticipated scale of the state loss, that might not be enough.
The democrats need a candidate who can lose at a much smaller statewide margin so that ballot fraud (absentee collection) in the corrupt counties can reach their goals. Biden is not that candidate.
That sets up the dynamic where Biden support within the group who will be responsible for covering his deficits has become tenuous. Remember, Eric Holder and the Chicago network organized the original ballot operation and tested it in California in 2018. The two weeks after election day 2018 showed 21 GOP win seats on the day of election, flip through the use of the post-election ballot counting. That midterm test in CA was then rolled out nationally in 2020.
The counties that must be relied upon to sway the election are nervous about the scale of lift they will be required to provide. Within that tenuous situation, the ever ego-driven Obama network cannot accept that level of risk. Hence, Obama strategically retreats.
At the same time, the DC intelligence apparatus that needs to pretend the election is legit and support the fraud, is applying pressure on Biden to exit.
The message from Main Justice, the DOJ-CRD and the DHS embeds is that too much fraud would be problematic to achieve.
Team Biden is fully aware of this dynamic, they need to close the gap--not defeat Trump--but close the election gap to a distance that can be successfully closed by the ballot harvesting and manipulation operations. That's the focus and impetus behind all of the Biden campaign operations; close the gap.
That breathless prose is quite the allegation: "The message from Main Justice, the DOJ-CRD and the DHS embeds is that too much fraud would be problematic to achieve." One is genuniely curious what traffic (if any) to which "Sundance" is privy that could be paraphrased to say that.
The thrust of the post, if you read it all, is that the DNC is worried that Trump may overwhelm the various rigging measures that were intended to keep Zombie Joe in office. (Not that I wish ill on the fellow, but I doubt that he lives another 14 months.)
I'm not actually sure any of this matters. Even if the Eminence Orange wins the primary (solid possibility), there are any number of other legal/medical shoes to drop. Stipulate that the Citrus Caesar wins the election and is inagurated again: what is the likelihood that the GOPatsies would lift finger #1 to bolster election integrity and curb mail-in ballots (an idea too stuck in foopid for even the French)? Low, I'd say. The Deep State doesn't give a French frigate's fo'c's'le for election integrity, and the peasantry having a say.
This meeting with the FBI in the Fall of 2020 eventually led to the majority of the impeachment articles, alleging that [Texas AG Ken] Paxton misused his office to benefit a specific individual who had, several years earlier, donated to one of Paxton's campaigns.
During the cross-examination by Mitch Little, an attorney for Paxton, Vassar made the shocking revelation that he and the other employees had gone to the FBI without a shred of evidence.
"Mr. Vassar, please, I want to get this straight -- you went to the FBI on September 30 with your compatriots, and reported the elected attorney general of this state for a crime without any evidence?" Little asked. "Yes?"
"Thatâ(TM)s right," Vassar admitted. "We took no evidence."
He attempted to clarify, saying, "We had no evidence that we could point to, but we had reasonable conclusions we could draw."
In code terms, if the government is the operating system, and the law is a programming language, then the legal system is the exception handling machinery.
"Lawfare", then, is an inversion where normal operations are moved to the exception handler.
With all of the resource leakage, the Republic kinda seems to be grinding to a halt.
One rumor that I heard on this Paxton flap is that it's R-on-R:
Paxton's crime was easily defeating George P. Bush, which triggered all of the corrupt GOPe appointees, bureaucrats and politicians.
Which just goes to show that neither end of the Deep State steamer is worth preserving, no matter how stridently fustakrakitch refuses to wield the Article V axe to change matters.
Every time a Republican won the presidency this century, Democrats tried to stop the certification.
Yet none of them faced criminal charges over what is obviously First Amendment protected activity.
In defense of Fanni Willis, her charges are no more garbage than the rest of the piffle on offer from the Democrats.
Schlichter seems equally unimpressed:
Some people ask me my legal opinion of these frame jobs masquerading as criminal cases. Well, I have no legal opinion of them because these have nothing to do with the law. When not invented out of whole cloth, they consist of inapplicable statutes stretched tighter than Nancy Pelosi's lifted and Botoxed face to try to encompass perfectly legal activities by people whose real crime is opposing the ruling class. And the accused aggravated their crimes by having succeeded for a time.
Do you think these laws only go one way? Do you think this precedent canâ(TM)t be used right back against you and yours?
Interestingly, we've been looking at the Saul/David transition in ancient Israel in Sunday School. Violence begets violence, and it is a hard thing to see every branch of government twisted, weaponized, and used to push people in completely unhealthy directions. Pray for peace.
On March 17, Hunter [Biden] accidentally admits it was his 'laptop from Hell.. The next day, DA Alvin Bragg indicts President Trump.
June 8, an FBI document is released showing that the Ukrainians paid the Biden crime family millions and millions of dollars. The next day, the Mar-a-Lago raid, and the Mar-a-Lago indictment.
Last week, Hunter Bidenâ(TM)s sweetheart plea deal fell through, when the judge realized that there was blanket immunity. The following day, a superseding indictment [was brought] against Donald Trump.
July 31, Devon Archer goes to testify in front of the House. That was only after they failed to put him in jail prior to the fact. What happens the next day? The January 6 indictment that weâ(TM)re here for today.
This is not a coincidence. This is election interference at its finest, against the leading candidate right now for president, for either party.
Will no one rid us of these turbulent conspiracy theories?
Factorials were someone's attempt to make math LOOK exciting.