Radical in Charge of Ethics at IRS

Timothy Birdnow

You can't make this stuff up!

Obama-Era IRS Scandal Figure Now Heads Agency’s Ethics Division

Yes, the person who brought you the targeting of conservatives by the IRS is now running their ethics division!

FTA:

We won big, our guy is in power, and yet we STILL get the radicals in charge in our bloated bureaucracy. Why wasn't this chick shown the door when DOJE was busy cutting the IRS budget?

The Left is like Athlete's Foot; you have a devil of a time getting rid of them.

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Jean-Pierre Quits the Democratic Party

https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-era-white-house-reporters-express-disbelief-karine-jean-pierres-sudden-party-switch

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Judge Blocks Terrorist Family Deportation

Timothy Birdnow

Did anyone doubt it for a minute?

Biden Appointed Judge Blocks Deportation of Bouler Attacker's Family

Bear in mind these are all Egyptian citizens; not one of them is an American.

Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the man who doused Jews attending a peace rally, with an accelerant (probably gasoline) and tossed a molotov cocktail at them, incinerating them because they were Jews. Soliman was here illegally, having overstayed his Visa. That means his wife and children were here illegally as well, no doubt.

So how can a Federal judge issue an injunction to prevent DHS from evicting them from the country? It's not a CRIMINAL charge but an immigration enforcement issue.

FTA:

This isn't punishing these people for the crimes of their father/husband, it's kicking illegal aliens out of the country.

I refer you to this:


This judge is stepping WAY over the line here. The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed the almost absolute power of the Executive Branch to enforce immigration laws, and have stated in the past that courts have no jurisdiction over the President in this regard. This judge is just making his own law.

In U.S. v Texas the Supreme Court ruled that the courts could not override any immigration priorites set by the President and DHS. At the time this favored the Biden Administration and Allejandro Myorkas, who "deprioritized" deporting anyone. Now that the shoe is on the other foot we are supposed to forget Texas.

I think the Solimon family should be moved into a house next door to judge Gallagher. Then when their makeshift bombs explode he's the one who loses his home.

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S&P Near Record High

Timothy Birdnow

I thought Trump and the tariffs were going to wreck the economy.

S&P 500 nears new record high, live market trading.

I hope he keeps wrecking it' I'm getting rich off all this bad economic news.

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S&P Near Record High

Timothy Birdnow

I thought Trump and the tariffs were going to wreck the economy.

S&P 500 nears new record high, live market trading.

I hope he keeps wrecking it' I'm getting rich off all this bad economic news.

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S&P Near Record High

Timothy Birdnow

I thought Trump and the tariffs were going to wreck the economy.

S&P 500 nears new record high, live market trading.

I hope he keeps wrecking it' I'm getting rich off all this bad economic news.

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Competetive Edge

Timothy Birdnow

There was an old joke about the guy who walks into a bar and says "I can lick any girl in here". (Get your mind out of the gutter; in those days that meant beat in a fight.) Well...

Fearless Imane Khalif XY Gender Test

Turns out this female boxer is really a dude. Oh, and she's an Olympic CHAMPION.

So now we have men beating up on women for fun and profit. What kind of society has this become?

I am mindful of the movie Scary Movie in which "Miss Mann" talks about getting the competitive edge, while "her" scrotum slips out of her gym shorts. It's kinda like that.

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And the Dead Shall Rise ffrom their Graves

Timothy Birdnow

Well, why not? I mean they are all registered voters after all...

Thousands of Dead People Got Student Aid, Trump Admin Finds

Now where do you suppose all that aid went? I have a sneaking suspicion it found it's way into the coffers of the DNC or to Democratic candidates.

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Libs: If it Ain't Broke Fix It!

Timothy Birdnow

It's always about the POWER to do it, not what they are doing.

NYS lawmakers want to ban nonstick cookware over chemical that feds say isn’t dangerous

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Sharia Takes Britain

Timothy Birdnow

Sharia takes Britain!

Blasphemy Law: Man Convicted for Burning Qur’an During London Protest

Under British law it is not a crime to burn a Koran or a Bible, but if you burn a Koran you will be charged with crimes like inciting violence or disorderly conduct. Nothing happens to you if you burn a Bible.

THAT is Sharia; law favoring the Muslims. Britain is fast becoming a caliphate, and King Charles may well be her last monarch. He's presiding over the fall of Britain.

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"Pride Month" to Become "Family Month"

Timothy Birdnow

Now they're getting it!

GOP Resolution Declares June "Family Month" Instead Of Pride Month

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Woke American Birthday Party

Timothy Birdnow

A woke Biden appointee and former Obamaite who said "Mexico is my country" is running the planning for America's 250th birthday celebration.

Heavy sigh!

Rosie Rios is currently chairing the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission.

Rios said Mexico is her country. She is the daughter of a Mexican immigrant. I could't ascertain if her mother was legal or not.

when asked which Founding Father she most admired she praised Harriett Tubman and Susan B. Anthony! Neither of them were Founding Fathers. Tubman was an abolitionist born in 1822 while Anthony was a suffragette born in 1820. You would think she at least could have said "Betsy Ross" or some other woman from the Revolution.

In other words she's a dimwit. I doubt she knows these two women were not contemporaries of the Founding Fathers.

This will be the most woke celebration ever.

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Irrationality at Reason

Timothy Birdnow

More proof libertarians just don't get it. Neither do some of the so-called "constitutionalists" who have conveniently forgotten that the Constitution has been used as toiletry for decades now and is now being employed as a weapon to preserve the power of those who befouled it.

The president treats legal constraints as inconveniences that can be overridden by executive fiat

Most of these "legal constraints" of which he bemoans were put in place not that long ago and are tools to stymie any effort to truly reform Washington.

FTA:

I Suppose author Jacob Sullum can be forgiven for not knowing that the very next day an appalate court overturned this ruling. So if it was a case of Trump treating "legal constraints as inconveniences that can be overridden by executive fiat" then apparently an independent court is doing the same.

The fact is Congress granted this authority to the President and it's been used by almost every President since Carter. There are no constraints written into the law. IF Congress doesn't like it they can pass a law overturning it, but they won't.

Trump HAS to move with great dispatch. He has two years of guaranteed momentum. If the GOP loses the midterms there will be no legal remedies for anything and Trump knows that. He has to act decisively and now. And this is exactly what the public voted for when they elected a man convicted of a felony to be President.

The article continues:


Now we have as many as 30 MILLION illegal aliens scattered all around the country and this dimwit thinks we should deport under the Immigration and Nationality Act, which would reqauire a lenthy hearing and appeal from each and every one of these thirty million. Even if the number is half that (and I don't believe it for a second) we're talking about fifteen MILLION trials. This guy is writing for a magazine called Reason; he should be capable of doing basic math.

And the longer these people stay the more damage they do. They are suckling off the government and stealing taxpayer dollars at a time when we can't afford it. They are stealing jobs from Americans who want to work. They have already inflated the housing prices. And we know there are terrorists here too; we just saw one terrorist attack in Colorado by an illegal alien.

You are going to find it extremely hard to deport these people the longer they stay; look at the "Dreamers" who were only supposed to be here temporarily.

And Trump was elected to a large extent by promising to kick these people out of the country. The public wants this.

Again, time is of the essence, and the longer it takes to get going the more the opposition will organize to resist. Just look at that judge who helped a criminal illegal alien escape ICE! That will metastasize if we dilly-dalley.

To continue:


So this fellow would rather follow form, ignoring the fact that most of the illegal aliens here are precisely that and the Biden Administration broke the law letting them in. He reminds me of the quartermaster in the movie Zulu Dawn; yelling at desperate soldiers trying to get bullets and carefully, slowing meting them out while British soldiers were falling to the onslaught of Zulu warriors.

I tire of these Ashley Wilkes types who are happy to lose as long as they can tell themselves they are the bigger person, and haven't sullied their pointless honor by getting down and dirty in the political mud. We've been cursed by those types for generations now. There are many on the Right who were happy being losers and having their own little fiefdoms. Trump came along and showed how to win - and they don't want to win. Better to lose with good form!

There are times for being slow and deliberate; this isn't one of them. We need to move. We have for decades been trapped like flies in amber, with the rising tide of radicalism pushing ever forward and people who do not understand that this is in fact a war for our very survival, that our nation is at stake, argue for slavish obeisance to the law and a slow, phegmatic approach which doesn't catch up to where we once were before the Left ran roughshod. It's a loser's game.

Uh, Trump and DHS were not trying to deport criminals alone. He wants to kick out so many of the radicals who are here, and especially in the universities. This author has to know he isn't going to get anyone out using the byzantine procedures in place. Everything in America is aimed at making it easy to get in, hard to get out. It's like a prison - there's a one-way door. It's been under construction since Ted Kennedy reformed our immigration laws back in the sixties.

Here the author's heart is revealed and his Nevertrump pathology is on display:


But who is disregarding the law? Trump has faced more judicial challenges than any President in history; it's a planned play by the Democrats. They are calling in all their favors from judges who have had it easy until now. The LAW isn't being followed; it's being used as a weapon to stop Trump from enacting the agenda he was elected to enact. Trump has won most of these challenges on appeal, but that sucks up time and costs American taxpayers money. The Democrats are afraid to oppose him too vigorously; it only makes him more popular. So they are using their pet judges.

I would add Joe Biden appointed most of them. Biden appointed 252 judges to the Federal Bench. Obama appointed the largest share of currently active federal judges at 38%, or 334 judges, while George W. Bush named 20%. Clinton appointed 11%. The fact is enemies of MAGA infest most of our courts.

And this author thinks using the system is going to work. Fat chance. Especially since Trump is trying to restore the old system and break the new, and all of these judges are there because they came out of Babylon.

Mr. Sullum concludes with a quote from John Marshall (the guy who granted himself the power of judicial review despite it not being anywehre in the Constitution) saying it is the province of judges to say what the law is. That's fine but they aren't doing that; they are rewriting the law to say what THEY want it to say. We have Trump precisely because of judicial activism.

Trump DOES care, contrary to what Sullum says. He cares enough to fight against the creeping usurpation of power by courts. Trump is doing nothing that previous Presidents hadn't already done. The difference is that his enemies will use any and all means, fair and foul, to stop the restoration of the Republic.

I would think a publicatin named Reason would feature more than cartoonish logic and mischaracterizations.

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A Fungus Amongus: Chinese Bioterrorists in Michigan

Timothy Birdnow

Two Chinese nationals have been charged with smuggling a weapon of bioterrorism into the country in a scheme to damage America's food supply.

From ABC Go:

Once again we have blue state universities hiring people with divided loyalty at a minimum. Why are so many Chinese here at our major research centers? Doesn't anyone think that is a bad idea?

Meanwhile in John McCain country the Democrat governor (who stole her position) Katie Hobbs has just vetoed a bill to stop the Chicoms from buying up land around military facilities (or anywhere else in the state.)

These Chinese bioterrorists would have done better to set up in Arizona, it seems.

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Sekulo Wrong on the Pardon

Timothy Birdnow

I caught the Sekulo show on Salem News yesterday and one of Jay's kis was hosting (Jordan, I think, but I may be wrong). Anyway he was arguing against pursuing the Biden pardons. I was astonished because, while he may well be right, he fails to grasp the most basic fundamentals of why we should pursue this.

Sekulo argued entirely from a legal perspective and based it entirely on the lack of qualifiers in the Conwstitution. He said "the constitution doesn't limit the powers of the President to pardon" and that may well be true, but EVERY power in the Constitution has been limited after the courts got involved to clarify them.

I would have liked to ask Mr. Sekulo about many other things that are quite plain on the face of them in the Constition that are routinely ignored. For example, the Tenth Amendment states quite plainly that all powers NOT EXPRESSLY GRANTEED to the Federal government devolve to the "states and the People". In other words there has to be a law restricting the states or the People and that must comport with the enumerated powers. Yet the Feds overstep this all the time and nobody ever complains. In fact the right of Judicial review itself is not expressly granted in the Constitution yet we allowed the Supreme Court to usurp this power in Marbury V. Madison. There are multiople other examples; the Department of Education completely usurps the state's right to control education within their boundaries. Another example was the deal made by Thomas Jefferson to purchase the Louisiana territory. At the time many accused Jefferson of usurping power as that was not in the Constitution. Subsequent Presidents did likewise, from James "Mr. Constitution" Madison annexing the Republic of West Florida (against their will), the annexation of Texas and California, the Gadsden Purchase, and the purchase of Alaska, just to name a few. Nowhere does the Constituion authorize such expansion and by Presidential order.

Many states were cobbled up by Congrss without any sort of legal basis; they just did it. Virginia, once the larges and most populous state, was cut down to where it is today. It once stretched to the Mississippi and by their own reckoning even beyond.

And of course Lincoln had no legal right to force the South to stay in the Union. Nowhere is that power enumerated in the Constitution. Lincoln got around that by calling it an insurrection (sound familiar) but it was state governments that were seceding, not pocketts of civilians who grabbed conttrol of certain areas. Those states would never have joined the Union if it had no means of escape - like joining the Mafia, I suppose.

These days nobody makes a Tenth Amendment argument because if we actually started applying that amendment the whole system we've build would collapse.

So Sekulo called for following the Constitution when we haven't followed it for years.

I get it; I want it followed too. But we are in an asymmetric war and we will lose if we do not play by the rules they have set. They use the Constitution as a weapon.

And as I said there are restrictions placed on almostt everything by Congress and the Courts. Free speech? Congress set rules making some speech illegal. Right to bear arms? We have multiple restrictions on THAT one despite the clause being crystal clear. You can't own a bazooka, or a tank, or a mortar, for instance. You can't even own a machine gun. How is that 'shall not be enfringed'? Freedom of assembly is very often disregarded. The government says people can assemble, but only in certain places, many times. You can't assemble outside of a Supreme Court Justice's home. (You can't make anything remottely like a threat to one either, abrogating free speech. While that is reasonable it is not what the Constitution says.)

There has been no restrictions placed on the power of pardon because there was never a need for one before Biden. Even Obama, who made some terrible pardons, didn't pardon himself or Eric Holder or Hillary Clinton. Biden took it to a whole new level of corruption. Maybe it's time to take another look at the inviolate power.

Furthermore, what constitutes a pardon? Can a President pardon a person for a crime for which they have not yet been charged? That has been traditionally accepted, but should it be?

Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitutionsays:

"The president has the power to pardon any person who has committed a federal crime, except in cases of impeachment"

Note the word "committed"; to me that suggests the President cannot pardon someone pre-emptively because they have not been shown to have committed a crime. What, pray tell, can stop a President from pardoning someone in perpetuity? That would essentially be creating an Oprichnina, like Ivan the Terrible had, a nation within a nation that could not be held legally accountable. And there is no reason why a President couldn't pardon all of someone's offspring and kin, giving them an inherited pardon and thus allowing the family to do as they pleased.

At some point the Supreme Court will intervene in the pardon process; and I suspect they would do so if Trump were to pardon his own family or himself.

Many argue the President cannot pardon himself, but why not? If we make the power absolute, as current interpretation does, that means he has every right to do so.

English common law, from which our pardon powers are derived, has always limited the practice. It must not be pleadable in court. So pardoning, say, Hunter Biden, would be an illegal pardon based on English law as Hunter had not exhausted his legal remedy yet.

Of course we do thing differently than did the British but our law was based on British and the Founders certainly understood this when they wrote it into the Constituion. They just figured they didn't have to spell it out.

They made that mistake frequently.

At any rate I think there is probably a pretty good legal case to be made for overturning Biden's pardons, although saying it was done by autopen won't fly.

But Sekulo's argument completely falls apart when he stars admonishing us to "move on". Karl Rover was always preaching that to us and it was why we kept failing. The Left never moves on, they always keep it on a back burner when they don't get what they want and eventually they get it. Rove's theory was that people get bored easily. True enough. So he would simply concede an argument, which was astoundingly stupid; it made it appear our side was ashamed of itself and lying.

I would point out to Mr. Sekulo, too, that we can walk and chew gum at the same time. He admonishes us to drop it "because we have bigger fish to fry" but what bigger fish? Seems to me the abuse of power by many of the people Biden pardoned is as big a fish as you are likely to see. We need to stir the public, and keep this in their minds, even if we fail to overturn these pardons. The public will forget and the media knows this, which is why they won't discuss it. We need to make the media discuss it against their will. The only way to do that is by going after this.

Among other things Trump promised was transparency and justice. IF we fail to at least make a good-faith attempt at this we will show ourselvesas liars to the average citizen. They will conclude it's "business as usual" with new management, nothing more.

The Left has advanced so very far because, with control of the schools and with control of the media, they can attack at times and places of their own choosing. Trump has flipped the script on them, forcing them for the first time in my life to actually fight a defensive war. They are struggling to succeed because they have no experience doing this. But give them time, let them have breathing room, and they will lay a devil's snare for Trump and MAGA.

So we need to come at them from all fronts. Sekulo doesn't seem to get that; he'sstill in defensive mode. I suppose that was inevitable; the American Center for Law and Justice has a mission to respond to attacks by the Left. It is purely defensive in nature. That is good work and necessary,but now we need to be on the offensive. As Sun Tzu said, seize that which your enemy holds dear. It makes them make mistakes in anger and despair.

So if Trump can depardon these people the Left will go bonkers; it's as if he's erasing the last fouryears, years where they thought they were about to win and to win completely.

And it shows that nobody is above the law. This will stop others from the skullduggery these people committed, and it shows the American People that the Trump Administration is working for justice. As Pope Paul VI famously stated "if you want peace work for justice". We have not had justice for along time in America. There are two sets of rules, two sets of laws, and if you are in the Ruling Class you can get things like pardons when you break the law. This will show that in Trump's America, at least, that is not the case. That will win a lot of votes - and voters.

I love Sekulo but he's just wrong here; we need to have this fight.

I get it; the Left will use this against us some day. But they don't care about our moderation; remember how they just eliminated the filibuster when it suited them? We had discussed doing that when the GOP had control but didn't so they wouldn't do itwhen they were in power. But they took power and launched the nukes anyway. You cannot expect reasonableness from the Democrats.

This is a war Mr. Sekulo. There are going to be casualties. And the aggressor sets the rules of engagement.For the last 100 years the Left has been the aggessor.

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U.S.S. Milk

Timothy Birdnow

Yikes! Maybe Hegseth wasn't the man for the job after all.


Hegseth orders Navy to rename ship honoring gay rights activist Harvey Milk…
Navy mulls new names for other ships named for civil rights leaders…

Oh, that really inspires soldiers and strikes fear in the hearts of the enemy! I suppose with a name like Milk and gay acttivism involved our enemies won't want to get too close after all....

Seriously, no navy ships should be named for civilians, especially civilian activists. I would equally oppose a ship named after, say, Andrew Breitbart, or Phyllis Schlafley. Great people but they don't deserve a ship and putting their names on one would be a dishonor to the Americans who have fought and died for this country.

UPDATE

Apparently Mr. Hegseth had a change of heart and subsequently stripped the ship of it's sodomistic moniker.

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Jake the Fake

Jake the Fake

Timothy Birdnow
6/4/2025

He taps on the door, and then wraps a bit more
but the cheeky fake jake is becoming a bore
he told us a fib all while being too glib
someone should show him the door!

A lying buffoon with a jaunty balloon
his party lapped up with a fork and a spoon
Now the party is over,he's a day old leftover
his time in the sun over soon!

Where will he go now that bookings are slow? To

Harvard or to Timuktu?
Will he keep up the blather or just quit like Dan

Rather?
I suspect he has nary a clue.

Hasta lavista Jake you old snake. We knew all along

you were just a big fake.

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Original Sin

Original Sin

by Timothy Birdnow

Written in honor of Jake Tapper

Being a lib who wished to sound glib
he told all the world a tiny gray fib
he didn't think it would hurt to get down in the dirt
But it curled and he had to ad-lib.

Before long it had gone round the world though twas wrong
And he knew but continued the song
the lie grew leap and bound from his muttered soft sound
but he knew it a lie all along

He staked his reputation and showed great irritation
when someone would challenge his bold invocation
but a lie cannot last and will soon be in the past
he would not get a standing ovation

how he wriggles like a fish on a hook, taking heat for his book
and he burbles retorts like the babbling brook
he had slaughtered the calf while he tried not to laugh
now the world gives him barely a look

What a shnook!

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Rand Paul, Libertarianism, and the Foolishness of Shooting One's own Foot

Timothy Birdnow

Americans are FINALLY waking up!

CNN ChiefData Analyust AStonished to See Democrats Historic Key Advantage Completely Disappear in New Poll

Democrats have always been the "party of the Middle Class" in polls, enjoy leads of over 20% for a long time. Now it's neck-and-neck.

If the GOP handles this properly they can flip this entirely. They need to pass the Big Beautiful Bill, for instance.

I caught Rand Paul, one of the B cubed's detractors, on Sean Hannity yesterday. I like Paul, I really do, but he's more liberttarian than Conservative and he makes idiotic libertarian arguments. His argument against BBB was that it spent too much. I agree. But right now the political calculus is such that you can't just say "I'm voting on principle" becuase then you will lose, get nothing, and that means a major tax increase for the Middle Class. There will be no tax releif. And then every few months we'll have to go back and fight this battle over and over with the Democrats and the RINO wing and come next election the GOP will likely lose the House. Then the real fun begins; investigations, stunts, impeachments...

To accomplish any good you first have to win elections. While I think the best way to accomplish that is to be bold and lead, not follow along behind polls, I do think there is no reason to saw off your proboscis to spite your anterior head. There is a principled stance and just plain stupidity. Paul is teetering on the latter.

This is not the hill to die on. The B cubed does a lot of good, keeping the old tax cuts and adding a few more, much needed cuts. It spends too much, no question. But we need to get this through; so much is at stake here. Drilling. Border security, etc. If Congress doesn't pass this the public will rightly see them as useless.

But that is vintage libertarian. Libertarians have a number of beliefs I find quite odd. They reject border security, for instance, because they say it's not government's business who comes or goes or gets hired or whatnot. In a world governed by angels that may be true and we could avoid having a border at all, but this is not a world governed by Angels; it's a world where a lot of bad people mean us great harm.
You cannot have a country or maintain a culture if you have no control of who shows up.

History is replete with examples of cultures dying solely because a more numerous society decided to simply settle and take over. Our own nation was built that way, I might add. (Granted, the Native Americans were a fierce lot who practiced ritual torture and raped innocent women they stole and who were constantly at war, which is why they fell so easily to the white settlers. Oh, and they didn't really develop the land or build much.) The Japanese took Japan away from it's aboriginal inhabitants, the caucasian Ainu, who now number just a few hundred. India was conquered and reconquered. The Arabs exploded out of the Arabian Peninusla and now dominate most of North Africa and the Middle East, erasing the traditional cultures of the conquered lands in the process. The Spanish conquered multiple civilizations in the Americas and we call that area "Latin America" to this day. The German tribes conquered Britain - the Angles, Saxons, Normans, and Danes drove the aboriginal Britains (a Celtic People) out of their homeland and into the highlands of Wales. Border defense is a kind of law enforcement designed to keep out people who would simply squat here and drive us out.

Libertarians also tend to support legalization of narcotics. While that sounds "fair" it leads to broken lives. Just ask China how that turned out after the Chinese were forced to accept the opium trade.

And they support "Free Trade" but what is free trade? What does that even mean? Trade passes borders and there is nothing in this life that is truly free. The fact is what we call "free trade" isn't free at all; almost all countries have barriers and restrictions. The U.S. became enamoured of this idea during the Reagan era and Clinton pushed forward with a series of trade agreements (whose purpose was to knit the world together economically to ultimately promote world government, much like the European Common Market led to the unification of Europe). Of course, we lost most of our manufacturing industry (and mining, and other good-paying blue collar jobs) because Third World countries can pay much less and offer no benefits or have health and safety standards. And with tariffs imposed by these countries as well as Value Added Taxes (VAT) American goods were kept out of many nations while they flooded our markets. Good for consumers since these products were cheap (and made by slave labor, or at least serf labor) but they KILLED American's ability to make a living. The vaunted "service jobs" so highly touted by the champions of this turned out to be losers, and there weren't many of them. A guy making forty bucks an hour isn't going to be asking people "want fries with that" for minimum wage.

And of course with open borders even these service jobs didn't materialize as companies could hire immigrant labor for cheaper.

Much of the hoopla surrounding free trade comes from Milton Friedman. While I admire Freeman immensely he was wrong about some things. From Adam Smith onward, almost every free market guy advocated using tariffs when other nations did so to us. But Friedman argued tariffswere never a good idea, that we were better off taking it in the shorts than in reciprocating. He's been proven spectacularly wrong. (BTW Adam Smith was fine with recioprocal tariffs, and said so on numerous occasions.)

Free trade and "libertarian" style open borders have become a suicide pact between fifty former states turned provinces under the imperial government.

And all of this could be seen in Rand Paul's commentary while speaking with Hannity. Sad but true.

Paul doesn't seem to understand that right now we need economic growth to grow our way out of the mountain of debt. He is holding out for fiscal discipline in a place without any, and he doesn't seem to understand that we can cut spending when the receipts start coming in during a huge economic boom. That boom is coming; Trump has all the ingrediants he needs except Paul and friends are going to torpedo the whole things to save a few dollars.

The phrase "penny wise and pound foolish" was coined for just such an occasion.

All Paul can be is a spoiler, handing victory to the Democrats. He's not going to win anything. There will be no major budget cuts because he stood his ground. Right now all he's doing is greasing the rails for the people who hate what he's selling.

Quite foolish.

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