“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”
- Emile Zola
Got a feeling a whole bunch of that's gonna go down.
You are not wrong Corkey. Love "Truth Laxative". It's not going to be pretty and it's going to be painful. But it is necessary. We will come out on the other side of this as though we are reborn. Our governments, all of them but especially the federal, will be put back into the cages in which they belong and serve We the People as our Founders intended. It will be the beginning of our next period of greatness. Just keep that target in mind as we go through the painful process of getting there. Happy Independence Day.
I hope you are right. The people I see on my social media feeds, supposedly intelligent people, think the Chevron ruling has given Biden the power to assassinate Trump. There are countless memes being posted by them actually encouraging him to do it, saying he has immunity. TDS is alive and well, sadly. I imagine this is really the Deep State that has created them and started the dissemination of such nonsense. Most likely, the Deep State is **tting its pants in fear.
I just listened to a segment from Cenk Uger and Ana Kasparian from Young Turks who are like WWE Heel Announcers as they only see what they want to see and have been lying by omission about Biden for past 4 years. I cannot stand them personally but it looks like Cenk is doing a Face Turn as the announcer who will save us from Donald Trump.
I had to do a quick study on the real Young Turks from over 100 years ago. Over 1,000,000 died by slaughter and death marches. Their land and property was given to the Muslim population. Women and children were converted to Islam. For one to be involved with the Young Turks of today is saying "they are in bed with the devil". What an evil and monstrous group and they have about 5M mentally ill followers on their YouTube. https://www.britannica.com/event/Armenian-Genocide/Genocide
Corley…..Why? Sometimes we need to be awakened from our slumber…….and the laxative of truth is a GOOD thing . “sOmebody’s gonna hafta clean up that mess” and thanks be to God that He is helping us do just that!!
“What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.”
The only true check on government is fear of its people.
And it reminds me of Luke 19:40. After the people in Jerusalem greet Jesus in wild exuberance as the King of Kings and the authorities demand that he silence them, he says that if the people weren’t proclaiming that truth, ‘the stones would cry out!’
Funny. You guys sound like an advertisement "Try new TRUTH LAXITIVE, Triple Strength, Classy and Clean ! And don't forget its POWERFUL. Replace your morning coffee with TRUTH LAXITIVE today!"
I have sporadic trouble with the like button. It goes away, then it comes back. Maybe it's the traffic levels on the substack server? It happens on a lot of different substacks.
I'm certainly not anybody's idea of a techmeister. So for now, I'm left with keystrokes -so many!- as opposed to a single click. Maybe life within substack has changed for the better for me? Preparing me for something to come in some other arena? Maybe enhanced my gratitude in a small way for so many points of ease? What do I know? Except that there is a reason...
Happy Independence Day! Glad we have freedom loving lawyers like Jeff restoring our liberty. The unelected deep state 3-letter agencies are the modern day redcoats, we must dump them like tea into the harbor.
The Supreme Court came through with the Chevron ruling. That was better than swiping the cannons out of Fort Ticonderoga during the Revolution. Let’s put the Chevron ruling to good use, just like Washington & Knox put those cannons to good use.
That was better than I hope for. The three dissenters were all those stupid WOKE appointees, one of whom was actually willing to say she didn't know what a "woman" is.
The last four years have been a total disaster: worst Supreme Court appointees, worst President and Vice-President, worst Congress, worse breakdown of our borders, uncontrolled illegal alien invasion, worse inflation, worse foreign policy, worse medical dictatorship (first and worst), breakdown of any legitimate mainstream media news sources, and the beat goes on. This is what happens when the oligarchic, sociopath cabal steals an election in the worse, most fraudulent way possible. And half of the voting population thinks that Biden won!
I dunno... those cannons seemed mighty important! Maybe the two are on par with each other!
And, I can't believe that I never knew about those cannons until two years ago while homeschooling our kiddo. And I grew up with a quite solid, private school Christian education. I can only imagine what kids nowadays are not learning or learning and forgetting!
Talking point against whoever is the democrat nominee (assuming they will oust Biden):
They all knew about Biden’s mental state the whole time, and that level of malicious corruption cannot be tolerated. In other words, “____ enabled it and covered it up, putting our country in grave danger by having such a feeble leader.”
It was obvious in 2019 and 2020 during the DNC Primary that Biden would be "installed" as the candidate. We saw this as democratic candidates suddenly began to drop out of the race left and right when Biden remarkably won the South Carolina primary. A few stayed, like Liz Warren, to create the illusion of a contest.
I'm still mystified by the DNCs selection of Harris as Biden's running mate, despite promising that the only criterion would be that the nomination go to a 'woman of color'. Maybe they were thinking that it would be Michelle Obama and she said "no way" and they were stuck with Harris because Susan Rice was not their pick to run the country as the first female black president. Michelle was still in play for 2024 which is where we are now.
Biden is as 'swampy' as they come, has the required baggage, and was/is selected because he was/is the perfect puppet. They knew he had cognitive issues then but he was the perfect figurehead. I don't think they anticipated how rapid and obvious his cognitive decline would be.
My head still spins when I think of Biden's first day in office, sitting at the Resolute Desk, signing fifteen executive orders which demonstrated his administration's intentions to disregard popular will, the separation of powers, and to do what ever it wanted to advance the agenda of Biden's handlers. Another faint echo from Dealey Plaza.
Puppet is the key word. So we either have a feeble dementia patient running the free world, or some cabal who no one elected and we don’t know who these people are.
I’m pretty sure the point to camel toes is that she is so unelectable, unliked, and basically an imbecile, they put her in to prevent bringing Joey down before their time frame. She would be a disaster. But no more of a disaster than the deep state ruining the country, which is what we have now. And I’m still waiting for the 25th to be invoked. Where’s any republicants with balls. Oh wait, we don’t have any. Unless you count MTG.
She’s just loud. The only ones with balls that I know of are Rand Paul and Thomas Massie . But he is in a state of bereavement, and people are beginning to ask if the DS had her killed.
I’m as disappointed as you in the cowardice of so many Republican representatives, but invoking the 25th is out of their hands. Only the VP acting with a majority of the Cabinet can declare the President unfit under the 25th Amendment.
"Uniparty", lest we forget. That's why they manage to change sides every generation but ultimately, as P.J. O'Rourke often pointed out (and Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy before him), it's the same people with the same interests.
Which is why we need to trim the federal government down to the barest minimum nub so they have the least amount of power possible (with the added benefit that those kinds of people won’t be as attracted to government positions if there is less power).
"My head still spins when I think of Biden's first day in office, sitting at the Resolute Desk, signing fifteen executive orders...". That was ominous. My heart sank when I saw that, even though I knew when Trump did NOTHING to fight the steal. If he had just done what Powell, Flynn and Byrne told him he'd have been president in January 2021.
I may be wrong , but I still think there is a power struggle between the Newsom faction & the Obama faction. Having Harris on the ticket was a nod to the Newsom faction, but Obama won't let her take over because she's beholden to Newsom. Obama wants someone he can control & use for his 4th term & Newsom ain't it. I think they'll stick with Biden (they probably have millions of ballots ready with Biden's name), then after the installation, he'll be removed & Obama will get rid of Harris with a judgeship & put in who he has selected - the Gerald Ford plan.... Newsom's plan is to be appointed VP & get rid of Harris with a judgeship or something equally safe for her & take over - a slightly different Gerald Ford plan.
Mind-blowingly astute and a highly believable scenario. I never thought of the DNC in factionalized terms but a schism between the Barry Wing and the Gavin Wing would seem to explain certain things.
As a Californian who has watched what Newsom has done to our state with great dismay and disgust, no matter what he does or says he still comes across as such an arrogant, obnoxious doofus, exceptionally mindless and stupid. But he is obviously being pushed by certain parts of the Dem party and he is beloved by the special interest groups as he continually throws taxpayer money to them. We can't forget his Pelosi connection (relative by marriage, not a blood relative), so she is without a doubt pushing for him behind the scenes and she would retain a lot of control through having him in higher national office. I'm not sure who else is pro-Newsom, but the other day Larry Elder played a clip of a Dem governor who was (secretly?) caught on mike talking about how supposedly a lot of the Dem governors (and perhaps others) cringe when they see Newsom coming their way. "Here comes that *!$% again", they will say. So there may not be as many Newsom supporters as you might think. I think the Dems who like him feel he is handsome (yuk!) and young, and therefore a good contrast to Biden and other older politicians. Newsom is as dumb as Biden, and he will not get wiser with age, I can tell you that with certainty.
I saw a couple of videos from that day with Biden signing all those executive orders. The video claimed they were all blank, but I couldn't really tell for sure from the video. If I had to bet, I'd bet Biden didn't know what the heck he was signing. It was all theater to him. Part of his role. He sold his soul (to whatever degree he has a soul) to the devils behind him so he could play president. He desperately wanted his place in history, but I suspect he didn't realize exactly what he place in history was going to be. No good, that's for sure. Fifty years from now Biden will be seen in such a negative light, one of the worst if not THE worst in American history.
An attorney friend of mine hated Harris. He told a story on his blog about a man (perhaps black - I don't remember the details) being beaten to death by sheriffs in Bakersfield, CA during Harris' tenure as AG. My friend had read up on this story and sent several letters to Harris' office requesting that she look into this matter, and was rebuffed each time. He found her absolutely irresponsible and repugnant.
WIKI: "She began her career in the office of the district attorney (DA) of Alameda County, before being recruited to the San Francisco DA's Office and later the City Attorney of San Francisco's office. In 2003, she was elected DA of San Francisco. She was elected AG of California in 2010 and re-elected in 2014."
One question: how do you "begin your career" in the DA's office? Aren't there stepping stones in a legal career? Maybe she was an aide or the coffee girl or something.
From Yahoo 2 years ago:
“Nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed,” said Harris during her recent appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers. But as an attorney general, her record is much more complicated. Harris oversaw roughly 1,956 misdemeanor and felony convictions for “marijuana possession, cultivation, or sale,” according to Reuters. However, defense attorneys and prosecutors in Harris’ office told Mercury News that most of the people convicted during this period did not serve jail time. And convictions for marijuana did go down under Harris’ tenure as district attorney."
A comment below this article: "Her job as a prosecutor was to prosecute and uphold the laws on the books at the time. Did she or didn’t she do that?"
As a teenager and into my adulthood, I was a pot smoker. I'll just put that out there for honesty's sake. I don't consider being a stoner a mortal sin. I rarely partake any more; I'm around it regularly but since I stopped imbibing on a regular basis, at 62 I find I prefer the clarity of mind I experience by abstaining. I've always thought marijuana laws were stupid and hypocritical, considering the toll alcoholism takes on society. Yes, I wanted weed to be legal, and yes, I think putting people in the slammer with hardened criminals for having a joint in their pocket is asinine, detrimental and historically racist.
The laws were conceived in the 30s to incarcerate black people, and should have been rescinded during the 60s social movements, but instead they were strengthened and used against white "radicals" who wanted peace and love. Reagan stepped it into high gear with his "war on drugs", and I remember the 80s and 90s when helicopters were used to find people's pot gardens, "Pigs on the Wing".
While I'm glad it's no longer being used as an excuse to harass and arrest people in my state, I still find it weird to see someone smoking a joint walking by my house in broad daylight.
It's lost its cool factor for me; now that anyone can do it, now that it's not taboo, it's no fun anymore. Moreover, I often see it as a sign that someone just doesn't have their shit together - that they rely on weed as an escape rather than dealing with life head-on. I don't know how much of that is my dad's angry voice echoing around in my teenage mind, or maybe just my own life experience.
But Kamala's hypocrisy on the subject is disturbing - I just can't find a way to take her seriously, even when she isn't cackling..
I've read similar stories about Kamala's heroic tenure as DA. Didn't Tulsi lay into Kamala about her less-than stellar performance in this role during the DNC debates?
I generally agree with your stance on weed. I was in the music business in a former life and I struggled to deal with pot smokers and coke heads. The latter I simply couldn't trust. The former I couldn't engage in a conversation with or rely on them when time was a factor. That said, I have a friend who smokes to deal with service-related PTSD. He swears by it as an alternative to the array of pharmaceuticals the VA had him on so I'm not in any position to judge.
I went to recording engineering school (a 9-month certificate course) in Hollywood in 1981, and the number of coked-out assholes (musicians, engineers and producers alike) I encountered put me off of wanting to work in "the industry".
Most of my friends smoked "to party" - I didn't have any close friends of the "wake and bake" variety. The world was too fascinating a place to be stoned all day long - I had things to do. Besides, I'm a lightweight, at least compared to most. A hit or two and I'm fine for hours. I couldn't see the point of sitting around sinking bongload after bongload - It just makes one cough a lot and beyond a certain point, you just don't get any higher.
I don't like to judge either, but addiction, whether physical or mental, just looks like weakness to me. Conscious, medicinal use is fine. I can attest personally to the pain-relieving value of high CBD concentrates - they're great for backaches, for example.
Harris is the person responsible for tying DEA'S hands when they were pursuing pill mills and bad docs and serial pill hunters, by making it such that law enforcement could not access the "CURES" system in California to compile data
Harris achieved a lot of her California success through her relationship with the extremely powerful Willie Brown (while he was married). When they want to be snarky, people in this state refer to her as "Heels up Harris" for a very obvious reason.
I was aware of Harris for a long time, and to be honest, I never once thought of her as black. Never entered my mind, she doesn't look black at all. We have a lot of Hispanics and people from India here (a lot of Sikhs) among many other groups, and had I even thought about it, I would have thought her to be a mix of perhaps white and something else. People are so mixed race in this state it's not something anyone really ever ponders....except for the race obsessed Democrats and other lefties.
“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”
- Emile Zola
Got a feeling a whole bunch of that's gonna go down.
Me too. It’s like America is finally getting a triple dose of Truth Laxative Ryan. And it’s not gonna be pretty.
That was awesome. Truth laxative *
You already won....lolol!
I wish I were wrong. 😥😢
You are not wrong Corkey. Love "Truth Laxative". It's not going to be pretty and it's going to be painful. But it is necessary. We will come out on the other side of this as though we are reborn. Our governments, all of them but especially the federal, will be put back into the cages in which they belong and serve We the People as our Founders intended. It will be the beginning of our next period of greatness. Just keep that target in mind as we go through the painful process of getting there. Happy Independence Day.
Yes, OK. But remember the issue isn't only local/national - it is Global.
Leonora, exactly.
We’re ruled by an unelected global mafia.
I hope you are right. The people I see on my social media feeds, supposedly intelligent people, think the Chevron ruling has given Biden the power to assassinate Trump. There are countless memes being posted by them actually encouraging him to do it, saying he has immunity. TDS is alive and well, sadly. I imagine this is really the Deep State that has created them and started the dissemination of such nonsense. Most likely, the Deep State is **tting its pants in fear.
The media is not mentioning the same thing....so I give your prediction much higher odds than whatever they predict.
I just listened to a segment from Cenk Uger and Ana Kasparian from Young Turks who are like WWE Heel Announcers as they only see what they want to see and have been lying by omission about Biden for past 4 years. I cannot stand them personally but it looks like Cenk is doing a Face Turn as the announcer who will save us from Donald Trump.
But please understand I despise all these MSM journalists like Cenk. Total liars most of the time and totally unreliable
Any person that would name a tv show of garbage after those that committed the early Armenian genocide, deserve genocide themselves.
I had to do a quick study on the real Young Turks from over 100 years ago. Over 1,000,000 died by slaughter and death marches. Their land and property was given to the Muslim population. Women and children were converted to Islam. For one to be involved with the Young Turks of today is saying "they are in bed with the devil". What an evil and monstrous group and they have about 5M mentally ill followers on their YouTube. https://www.britannica.com/event/Armenian-Genocide/Genocide
They're still on the air? LOL.
He’s going to save us from ‘Donald Trump’????
Such idiots. Ignorant idiots. That's all I can say.
Young Turks are pond scum.
Corley…..Why? Sometimes we need to be awakened from our slumber…….and the laxative of truth is a GOOD thing . “sOmebody’s gonna hafta clean up that mess” and thanks be to God that He is helping us do just that!!
We are indeed lost without God. Matthew 24
Thanks be to God!
Look at these lawsuits popping up. The screw has turned!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/missouri-attorney-general-andrew-bailey-sues-new-york/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/former-cbs-anchor-files-5m-lawsuit-against-network/
And may WE THE PEOPLE who LOVE LIBERTY NEVER, NEVER, NEVER fall asleep at the "Switch of Truth, Justice and Liberty" again!! Selah!!
Amen!
We the people? Never do you folks mention Rights of God, Reparations to Sacred Heart of Jesus. And Mother of God? - ha.
Many people on these groups support abortion, homosexual marriage etc. The We you speak of isn't as solid as you think
There's a smell in the air . And it's headed to the Gates .........
Hopefully to the Bill Gates, gate.
HEY, Carlos!! --don't mention that piece of human garbage today - I was starting to EXULT in FREEDOM & LIBERTY!!
Bingo !!
Colon prep?
Good appropriate name for a US foreign policy official. Colin Prep
Oh jeez that made me chuckle.
COLONOSCOPY PREP is EXACTLY what this entire thing smacks
of! 😆
lolol
Good one "truth laxative." I hope you're correct!
Thomas Jefferson did write:
“What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.”
The only true check on government is fear of its people.
Love that quote! Knowing the truth cannot be defeated has sustained me in many times when despair was tempting to overwhelm.
And it reminds me of Luke 19:40. After the people in Jerusalem greet Jesus in wild exuberance as the King of Kings and the authorities demand that he silence them, he says that if the people weren’t proclaiming that truth, ‘the stones would cry out!’
Amen
AMEN
I like this much more classy and clean way of saying the proverbial 💩 is about the hit the fan.
Classy and clean😂
Funny. You guys sound like an advertisement "Try new TRUTH LAXITIVE, Triple Strength, Classy and Clean ! And don't forget its POWERFUL. Replace your morning coffee with TRUTH LAXITIVE today!"
😂🤣😂
Might be a brainwashing detox cure!
LOLOLOL
😆😆 I mean, I try to behave but this has indeed been a colossal poop-show/colonoscopy prep, right? How well behaved MUST we be and for how longggggg?
Laughter is the best way right now along with faith.
but POWERFUL
Did you mean, “butt-powerful”? (ok gross. kidding…)
GROSS!..;]
Omg I needed all of this today! 🤣
I sure hope so....and that the fan blades are pointed towards them all.
They'll continue at attempting to "bury us".....
While never realizing they are planting the hardier better seeds!
Yeah baby!
😂
LIKE
From your lips to God's ears Ryan.
Hopefully, before they start drafting our sons.
and daughters. They are also now required
Has the Senate passed that amendment? I am aware that that proposal has made it through the House, but that is the last I heard.
TRUTH FIREWORKS - SOUNDS UTTERLY DELIGHTFUL!!!
Like!
Like - still on the fritz with the button. Can't be that they're watching me. Nah...
Mine's been off for over a month. I believe alot of the one word comments are actually people who's "like" button has been "killed". We're not alone.
No indeed. Big Brother is watching. Without a doubt.
I have sporadic trouble with the like button. It goes away, then it comes back. Maybe it's the traffic levels on the substack server? It happens on a lot of different substacks.
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I'm certainly not anybody's idea of a techmeister. So for now, I'm left with keystrokes -so many!- as opposed to a single click. Maybe life within substack has changed for the better for me? Preparing me for something to come in some other arena? Maybe enhanced my gratitude in a small way for so many points of ease? What do I know? Except that there is a reason...
It hasn't worked at all,, anywhere, in weeks for me.
Didn't work that way for the Rockefeller American Medical Association lies of the last Century.
Sorry, to blow a bubble.
Also see 2 Epoch Times articles from a few minutes ago undoing Supreme Court trys.
Like it was a co ordinated Fed Gov effort.
You're not blowing a bubble. But I do believe in hope and being steadfast in seeking truth
Sorry Jeff, just more Smoke and Mirrors.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/federal-agency-tells-doctors-to-provide-emergency-abortions-after-supreme-court-decision-5679467
Sorry Jeff, Just Smoke and Mirrors.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/supreme-court-rejects-challenge-to-power-of-federal-agency-to-set-workplace-rules-5679382
Pretty well says it all...and as it should be.
✝️✝️✝️
It was for freedom that Christ set us free. —Galatians 5:1
✝️✝️✝️
'Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. '
2 Corinthians 3:17
Amen!
Amen!! Perfect as always!! 🙏
I had just written a post with this verse!
Happy Independence Day! Glad we have freedom loving lawyers like Jeff restoring our liberty. The unelected deep state 3-letter agencies are the modern day redcoats, we must dump them like tea into the harbor.
The Supreme Court came through with the Chevron ruling. That was better than swiping the cannons out of Fort Ticonderoga during the Revolution. Let’s put the Chevron ruling to good use, just like Washington & Knox put those cannons to good use.
That was better than I hope for. The three dissenters were all those stupid WOKE appointees, one of whom was actually willing to say she didn't know what a "woman" is.
The last four years have been a total disaster: worst Supreme Court appointees, worst President and Vice-President, worst Congress, worse breakdown of our borders, uncontrolled illegal alien invasion, worse inflation, worse foreign policy, worse medical dictatorship (first and worst), breakdown of any legitimate mainstream media news sources, and the beat goes on. This is what happens when the oligarchic, sociopath cabal steals an election in the worse, most fraudulent way possible. And half of the voting population thinks that Biden won!
2016-2020: low inflation, check; $1:70 gas prices, check; no involvement in foreign wars, check; Putin, Xi, Kim Jung Un, Ayatollah staying in their corners, check; US energy independence, check; low unemployment, check; upward mobility for minority workers, check; great economy, check; slashed burdensome regulations, check; stop taxpayers from carrying NATO, check; lower tax rates, check; southern border under control, check; hitting terrorists hard, check; enforce fairer trade with China, check; confirm solid judiciary and SCOTUS selections, check; …..
Shared this on my FB feed in its entirety.
FG, wasn’t she also the outright imbecile who said it looked to her like the 1A might stop government doing whatever it wanted?
Ye freaking gods....
Grew up with General Knox Trail in my town.
I dunno... those cannons seemed mighty important! Maybe the two are on par with each other!
And, I can't believe that I never knew about those cannons until two years ago while homeschooling our kiddo. And I grew up with a quite solid, private school Christian education. I can only imagine what kids nowadays are not learning or learning and forgetting!
They’re learning DEI and what an awful country this is.
We need to ‘make hay, while the sun is shining!’ There’s so much to do.
agree
Meanwhile, the Daily Telegraph (U.K.) continues to beat the "Michelle '24" drum:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/04/could-michelle-obama-be-the-next-us-president/
Talking point against whoever is the democrat nominee (assuming they will oust Biden):
They all knew about Biden’s mental state the whole time, and that level of malicious corruption cannot be tolerated. In other words, “____ enabled it and covered it up, putting our country in grave danger by having such a feeble leader.”
Spot on.
It was obvious in 2019 and 2020 during the DNC Primary that Biden would be "installed" as the candidate. We saw this as democratic candidates suddenly began to drop out of the race left and right when Biden remarkably won the South Carolina primary. A few stayed, like Liz Warren, to create the illusion of a contest.
I'm still mystified by the DNCs selection of Harris as Biden's running mate, despite promising that the only criterion would be that the nomination go to a 'woman of color'. Maybe they were thinking that it would be Michelle Obama and she said "no way" and they were stuck with Harris because Susan Rice was not their pick to run the country as the first female black president. Michelle was still in play for 2024 which is where we are now.
Biden is as 'swampy' as they come, has the required baggage, and was/is selected because he was/is the perfect puppet. They knew he had cognitive issues then but he was the perfect figurehead. I don't think they anticipated how rapid and obvious his cognitive decline would be.
My head still spins when I think of Biden's first day in office, sitting at the Resolute Desk, signing fifteen executive orders which demonstrated his administration's intentions to disregard popular will, the separation of powers, and to do what ever it wanted to advance the agenda of Biden's handlers. Another faint echo from Dealey Plaza.
Puppet is the key word. So we either have a feeble dementia patient running the free world, or some cabal who no one elected and we don’t know who these people are.
Umm, reality check, the last four years HAVE been "some cabal" running the show already. Joe has NEVER been making any decisions
BINGO -which has been the case for decades--the cabal consists of all the ACRONYM agencies working in concert!!
amen
Exactly
I’m pretty sure the point to camel toes is that she is so unelectable, unliked, and basically an imbecile, they put her in to prevent bringing Joey down before their time frame. She would be a disaster. But no more of a disaster than the deep state ruining the country, which is what we have now. And I’m still waiting for the 25th to be invoked. Where’s any republicants with balls. Oh wait, we don’t have any. Unless you count MTG.
She’s just loud. The only ones with balls that I know of are Rand Paul and Thomas Massie . But he is in a state of bereavement, and people are beginning to ask if the DS had her killed.
I just listened to Tucker's extended June 7 interview with Thomas Massie last night, and was amazed by the man.
They almost certainly offed her as a warning to him.
I’m as disappointed as you in the cowardice of so many Republican representatives, but invoking the 25th is out of their hands. Only the VP acting with a majority of the Cabinet can declare the President unfit under the 25th Amendment.
"Uniparty", lest we forget. That's why they manage to change sides every generation but ultimately, as P.J. O'Rourke often pointed out (and Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy before him), it's the same people with the same interests.
Which is why we need to trim the federal government down to the barest minimum nub so they have the least amount of power possible (with the added benefit that those kinds of people won’t be as attracted to government positions if there is less power).
YES--THEIR interests..NOT those of WE THE PEOPLE!
"My head still spins when I think of Biden's first day in office, sitting at the Resolute Desk, signing fifteen executive orders...". That was ominous. My heart sank when I saw that, even though I knew when Trump did NOTHING to fight the steal. If he had just done what Powell, Flynn and Byrne told him he'd have been president in January 2021.
I may be wrong , but I still think there is a power struggle between the Newsom faction & the Obama faction. Having Harris on the ticket was a nod to the Newsom faction, but Obama won't let her take over because she's beholden to Newsom. Obama wants someone he can control & use for his 4th term & Newsom ain't it. I think they'll stick with Biden (they probably have millions of ballots ready with Biden's name), then after the installation, he'll be removed & Obama will get rid of Harris with a judgeship & put in who he has selected - the Gerald Ford plan.... Newsom's plan is to be appointed VP & get rid of Harris with a judgeship or something equally safe for her & take over - a slightly different Gerald Ford plan.
Mind-blowingly astute and a highly believable scenario. I never thought of the DNC in factionalized terms but a schism between the Barry Wing and the Gavin Wing would seem to explain certain things.
As a Californian who has watched what Newsom has done to our state with great dismay and disgust, no matter what he does or says he still comes across as such an arrogant, obnoxious doofus, exceptionally mindless and stupid. But he is obviously being pushed by certain parts of the Dem party and he is beloved by the special interest groups as he continually throws taxpayer money to them. We can't forget his Pelosi connection (relative by marriage, not a blood relative), so she is without a doubt pushing for him behind the scenes and she would retain a lot of control through having him in higher national office. I'm not sure who else is pro-Newsom, but the other day Larry Elder played a clip of a Dem governor who was (secretly?) caught on mike talking about how supposedly a lot of the Dem governors (and perhaps others) cringe when they see Newsom coming their way. "Here comes that *!$% again", they will say. So there may not be as many Newsom supporters as you might think. I think the Dems who like him feel he is handsome (yuk!) and young, and therefore a good contrast to Biden and other older politicians. Newsom is as dumb as Biden, and he will not get wiser with age, I can tell you that with certainty.
Ok so if it's another Biden-Harris ticket. . . . And Biden bites it. . . CAN they install anyone other than the VP? I thought she HAD to take it.
I saw a couple of videos from that day with Biden signing all those executive orders. The video claimed they were all blank, but I couldn't really tell for sure from the video. If I had to bet, I'd bet Biden didn't know what the heck he was signing. It was all theater to him. Part of his role. He sold his soul (to whatever degree he has a soul) to the devils behind him so he could play president. He desperately wanted his place in history, but I suspect he didn't realize exactly what he place in history was going to be. No good, that's for sure. Fifty years from now Biden will be seen in such a negative light, one of the worst if not THE worst in American history.
Re: Harris...
An attorney friend of mine hated Harris. He told a story on his blog about a man (perhaps black - I don't remember the details) being beaten to death by sheriffs in Bakersfield, CA during Harris' tenure as AG. My friend had read up on this story and sent several letters to Harris' office requesting that she look into this matter, and was rebuffed each time. He found her absolutely irresponsible and repugnant.
WIKI: "She began her career in the office of the district attorney (DA) of Alameda County, before being recruited to the San Francisco DA's Office and later the City Attorney of San Francisco's office. In 2003, she was elected DA of San Francisco. She was elected AG of California in 2010 and re-elected in 2014."
One question: how do you "begin your career" in the DA's office? Aren't there stepping stones in a legal career? Maybe she was an aide or the coffee girl or something.
From Yahoo 2 years ago:
“Nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed,” said Harris during her recent appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers. But as an attorney general, her record is much more complicated. Harris oversaw roughly 1,956 misdemeanor and felony convictions for “marijuana possession, cultivation, or sale,” according to Reuters. However, defense attorneys and prosecutors in Harris’ office told Mercury News that most of the people convicted during this period did not serve jail time. And convictions for marijuana did go down under Harris’ tenure as district attorney."
A comment below this article: "Her job as a prosecutor was to prosecute and uphold the laws on the books at the time. Did she or didn’t she do that?"
As a teenager and into my adulthood, I was a pot smoker. I'll just put that out there for honesty's sake. I don't consider being a stoner a mortal sin. I rarely partake any more; I'm around it regularly but since I stopped imbibing on a regular basis, at 62 I find I prefer the clarity of mind I experience by abstaining. I've always thought marijuana laws were stupid and hypocritical, considering the toll alcoholism takes on society. Yes, I wanted weed to be legal, and yes, I think putting people in the slammer with hardened criminals for having a joint in their pocket is asinine, detrimental and historically racist.
The laws were conceived in the 30s to incarcerate black people, and should have been rescinded during the 60s social movements, but instead they were strengthened and used against white "radicals" who wanted peace and love. Reagan stepped it into high gear with his "war on drugs", and I remember the 80s and 90s when helicopters were used to find people's pot gardens, "Pigs on the Wing".
While I'm glad it's no longer being used as an excuse to harass and arrest people in my state, I still find it weird to see someone smoking a joint walking by my house in broad daylight.
It's lost its cool factor for me; now that anyone can do it, now that it's not taboo, it's no fun anymore. Moreover, I often see it as a sign that someone just doesn't have their shit together - that they rely on weed as an escape rather than dealing with life head-on. I don't know how much of that is my dad's angry voice echoing around in my teenage mind, or maybe just my own life experience.
But Kamala's hypocrisy on the subject is disturbing - I just can't find a way to take her seriously, even when she isn't cackling..
I've read similar stories about Kamala's heroic tenure as DA. Didn't Tulsi lay into Kamala about her less-than stellar performance in this role during the DNC debates?
I generally agree with your stance on weed. I was in the music business in a former life and I struggled to deal with pot smokers and coke heads. The latter I simply couldn't trust. The former I couldn't engage in a conversation with or rely on them when time was a factor. That said, I have a friend who smokes to deal with service-related PTSD. He swears by it as an alternative to the array of pharmaceuticals the VA had him on so I'm not in any position to judge.
I went to recording engineering school (a 9-month certificate course) in Hollywood in 1981, and the number of coked-out assholes (musicians, engineers and producers alike) I encountered put me off of wanting to work in "the industry".
Most of my friends smoked "to party" - I didn't have any close friends of the "wake and bake" variety. The world was too fascinating a place to be stoned all day long - I had things to do. Besides, I'm a lightweight, at least compared to most. A hit or two and I'm fine for hours. I couldn't see the point of sitting around sinking bongload after bongload - It just makes one cough a lot and beyond a certain point, you just don't get any higher.
I don't like to judge either, but addiction, whether physical or mental, just looks like weakness to me. Conscious, medicinal use is fine. I can attest personally to the pain-relieving value of high CBD concentrates - they're great for backaches, for example.
Harris is the person responsible for tying DEA'S hands when they were pursuing pill mills and bad docs and serial pill hunters, by making it such that law enforcement could not access the "CURES" system in California to compile data
Wow, I did not know that about Harris...
Harris achieved a lot of her California success through her relationship with the extremely powerful Willie Brown (while he was married). When they want to be snarky, people in this state refer to her as "Heels up Harris" for a very obvious reason.
I was aware of Harris for a long time, and to be honest, I never once thought of her as black. Never entered my mind, she doesn't look black at all. We have a lot of Hispanics and people from India here (a lot of Sikhs) among many other groups, and had I even thought about it, I would have thought her to be a mix of perhaps white and something else. People are so mixed race in this state it's not something anyone really ever ponders....except for the race obsessed Democrats and other lefties.