March 17, 2026
Judge Issues Injunction against HHS Vax Schedule
Timothy Birdnow
The Judiciary is completely out of control.
This is a case that had no business being heard at all; it falls well outside of the purview of the court system. This is a political matter and the authority to put out a vaccine schedule lies with the Executive branch. There should be no right at all for judicial review.
I suppose it's good we are finding out about all these activist judges; they have had to tip their hands during this administration. Otherwise they would have pretended to be judges rather than activists and then would have done far more damage because people would think them unbiased rather than partisan hacks.
Let me ask a simple question; if all Kennedy was doing was revising the schedule of RECOMMENDED vaccinations how is that a matter for the court? It's not like he's saying kids can't have the extra vaccinations if their parents want them, just that this is a list of vaccines that Health and Human Services recommends. So why did the American Academy of Pediatrics file suit in the first place? They could still recommend those vaccinations themselves and there is nothing Kennedy could do to prevent that.
It's because this outfit wants to COMPEL these vaccinations using the force of law, or at least the prestige of the CDC.
That is why this court should have dismissed this case when it was filed. If nothing else the American Academy of Pediatrics lacked standing; they cannot show that they were injured by this schedule change. They might disagree with the decision and are entirely free to say so, bt how were they actually injured by this? That is the very definition of lacking standing. Given how often courts deny Conservative cases for lack of standing (like vote fraud cases where voters are said to lack standing) you would think they would be cognizant of the double standard.
I would add the American Medical Association and the March of Dines and the Autism Foundation as well as other groups already said they were going to disregard the advisory from HHS and the CDC, so why was this case adjudicated at all?
This judge also has stopped Kennedy from appointing a number of people to an advisory board for vaccinations, so it is again a case of the judiciary legislating from the bench. This judge has no authority over who Kennedy appoints to an advisory board.
In addition this clown of a judge has overturned other recommendations by the Kennedy camp, such as not giving newborns hepatitis vaccinations.
Where was this creepy cracker judge when Joe Biden was implementing Covid vaccination mandates aka forcing people to take an untested drug which could permanently ruin their health or even kill them? This was entirely against the will of some people yet this judge didn't utter a peep. For that matter, Biden increased the vaccination schedule's for children too and we heard nothing about how he had no legal right to do it. But try to scale it back and suddenly it's Lexington and Concord time.
Oh, did I mention that the judge in question is U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy, a Biden appointee and a guy who has imposed his will on the Administration over the rule of law in times past? Murphy was recommended by Fauxcahontas herself - Elizabeth Warren - for this post. He was approved by the Senate in a straight party lie vote.
Murphy is a judge in Massachusetts yet he is issuing a nationwide injunction in violation of the U.S. Supreme Court.
This is the jackass who issued an injunction stopping the Trump administration from deporting illegal aliens to third party countries. He was slapped down by the Supreme Court in a rather harshly worded ruling.
Sadly there is no way to punish openly partisan jerks like this. We desperately need a mechanism to recall judges who overstep their authority.
I have little doubt the Administration will win on appeal eventually - though it will probably wind up at the Supreme Court.
What the Trump Administration should do is obey the ruling ONLY IN Massachusetts and publish separate guidelines for this judge's jurisdiction only until the appeal goes through. They should tell him to go to hell when he tries to cite them with contempt. SCOTUS was quite clear on these national injunctions.
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Rosie Comes to the GOP: The Deranged "Trump Staged It" Crowd
Timothy Birdnow
I always knew this guy was a big poseur.
From the article:
Now, however, as Trump has made numerous decisions in his second term that have run afoul of his MAGA supporters, an increasing number of them have also begun to cast doubt on the official narrative surrounding his assassination attempt. One of the most prominent names so far has been far-right pundit and influencer, Milo Yiannopoulos.
"I hate myself for thinking it but dude that s——t wasn't real," Yiannopoulos wrote in a recent post to X, responding to another similarly skeptical user. "There was no assassination attempt. It didn't happen. I'm sorry it just didn't."
"As we learn more about the scam filled life of Donald Trump, why isn't there a serious investigation into the staged 'assassination' attempt in Butler, PA," another X anti-Trump Republican X user wrote in a post. "THAT was the moment when Trump stole the 2024 election. Get after it investigative journalists! America deserves the truth!"
"I’ve never re-watched this clip until now," Hannah Cox, a self-described libertarian-conservative and president of BASEDPolitics, wrote in response to another user sharing a clip of the attempt from a news broadcast. "Look at the people behind him and their reactions. No one on earth would sit there like that after a public shooting broke out. Compare this to the crowd and people around Charlie Kirk when he’s shot."
I've always believed Milo Yiannopoulos was a man more out for his own aggrandizement than a true patriot. And since his fifteen minutes of fame are up he's desperate to get back in the limelight - even if it means threatening to destroy the coalition that has given us the means to save the Republic.
Like him or hate him Trump is our best hope, nay, our only hope.
But I'd like these geniuses, especially that Hannah Montana chick, to explain how this was a staged shooting when a guy behind Trump was hit and killed right there on stage. You can't possibly argue HE was faking it.
Guys like Yawnie are ultimately moles, burrowed into the fabric of the Conservative movement with evil intent. I don't know if he is consciously trying to wreck the movement or if he is just so vain and self-seeking that he is willing to wreck it for his own benefit, but either way he's a parasite hoping to make his mark at the expense of his movement, his party, and his country.
This is why we have so much trouble holding a coalition together; people like this gain prominence (largely because they are great self-promoters) and they sow the seeds of discord and doubt and acrimony. Men of true virtue are pushed out by such. Dante had several places for such in his Inferno, among them the pit of the flatterers who gained an easy life at the expense of those who would have done good. One also could look to Antenorra, the lowest pit of Hell for some.
At any rate the guy's fame is over and he needs to exit the stage. Of course this article was written almost entirely to sow discord and start infighting where there is little happening now.
Sadly a number of Conservatives - especially the paleos who want us to pretend the outside world does not exist and the Neocon RINO wing who want to go back to the "free trade" which made them rich and the interventionist policies which made the munitions industry rich and empowered the diplomat class - hate Trump for what he is doing, and that largely because they know what he is doing can and is working. Success proves the utter bankruptcy of the last fifty years of poicy and shows that these oh-so-wise leaders never did intend to help America so much as themselves.
These people are as deranged as Rosie O'Donnell and the other people who believe Bush staged 911
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Giant Somali Drug Bust
Timothy Birdnow
The Somali corruption just keeps getting worse and worse.
You know the authorities HAD to be aware this was happening.
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March 16, 2026
How the GOP Made it Worse to be White
Timothy Birdnow
How the GOP's efforts to promote color blindness in hiring and school admissions cost only white people when it all came down to ending racial discrimination.
The reforms made to establish "color blindness" merely switched the favored racial status from Black/Latino to Asian while maintaining the Black/Latino favoritism.
The article points to Harvard admissions, which simply took more Asians and fewer whites even though the university itself admits that under a fair assessment the whites would be the lion's share of admissions.
The GOP is a feckless, hapless bunch, ever stepping on their own Johnsons. Sadly there is nobody advocating for the white community any more, even as the whites are slipping out of power in an America increasingly colorized.
Will the new majority, once they have it, be as kind as the supposedly racist white people? I rather doubt it.
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The Oily Silk Road
Timothy Birdnow
This guy's not wrong.
Most Americans know very little about central Asia and the Caucasus and that is a shame because it is of growing importance.
The U.S. has long had ties to two nations in the region - Armenia and Georgia. We have long sought to build oil and gas pipelines to get central Asian oil and gas to Europe while bypassing both Russia and Iran. The Russian invasion of Georgia back in 2008 was intended to prevent the cozy relationship between Georgia and the U.S./NATO and to stop Georgia from building pipelines. The first thing the Russians did was bomb the Mozdok-Tbilisi natural gas pipeline at the outset of the war.
Azerbaijan is a pro-western republic, even though it is primarily Shia Muslim. The U.S. has had limited diplomatic relations with Azerbaijan and that since the 1992 Freedom Support Act restricts aid to Azerbaijan. That outdated law needs some serious reform but we are still stuck in this Clinton-era mindset.
At any rate Israel is a close ally of Azerbaijan and supported them in their recent war with Armenia (you'd think they'd be allies since both suffered attempts at genocide against them but the Armenians and Israelis appear to genuinely dislike each-other.)
The Chicoms know all this and will pivot away from Iran if it suits them - and right now it does. This oily silk road between the fields in Asia and Europe is a critical energy corridor and the Chinese are going to need it. While there is an alliance between Russia and China there has never been any love lost between the two and China no more wants to be dependent on Russia than do the Europeans. So the Chinese need this trade route - not just for oil but for other things the Euroweenies want.
We should get our foot in the door now in the region. It is a much neglected but important area that is of critical importance to the flow of oil and gas, and it illustrates how to reform the Islamic world, particularly how Iran should and could be run.
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Alexandria on the Tigris
Timothy Birdnow
Amazing; a city founded by Alexander the Great has just been discovered.
Alexander on the Tigris was long thought a legend but archaeologists have recently unearthed the long lost city
The city was founded in the fourth century B.C. on the Tigris river in what is now Iraq. The Tigris river's channel changed, leaving the city high and dry (literally) and it withered. By the third century A.D. it was pretty much gone.
The city is extraordinarily well preserved. It was two and a half square miles in area - huge as ancient cities went.
At any rate we live in exciting times.
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The Convenient Illness of Jair Bolsonaro
Timothy Birdnow
Pnuemlnia, or was he being poisoned?
This article falsely claims Bolsonaro is serving time in prison for a coup attempt. This is a lie; he's a political prisoner who is serving time in prison for protesting a stolen election just as President Trump did. The only thing is the Bolshevik who took power was able to make this accusation against Bolsonaro and had the power to make it stick in Brazil.
This is a reprint of an Ass Press, er Associated Press story.
I wish Donald Trump would take steps to get Bolsonaro out. I'm sure there is some leverage he can apply to force Brazil's hand.
At any rate his death would be most convenient for the ruling Bolsheviks. I wouldn't be at all surprised if he isn't being poisoned.
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The Agony of "The Feet"
Timothy Birdnow
I didn't know Michelle Obama was in the Buckeye state!
This information comes from the Bigfoot Society, proving that people have waaayy too much free time on their hands.
Don't know about Bigfoot but certainly Moosechelle has been elusive these days.
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Don't Let the Door Hit You...
Timothy Birdnow
Check it out; Marco Rubio is streamlining the process to renounce your citizenship.
In an effort to squeeze very penny he could out of American expats Barack Obama increased the fee to renounce citizenship from $450 to $2350 in order to force former Americans to pay a ridiculously high Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). Obama raised taxes on expatriated folks to prevent the rich from offshoring their bank accounts and thus deprive him of money he could swindle the productive out of to buy votes.
So Rubio is trying to streamline the renunciation process (it now takes multiple reviews and permission) and wants to lower the cost back to $450.
Renouncing your citizenship should not cost you a penny, frankly. Getting it back should be what is difficult.
At any rate this will make it more attractive to the Hollywood screwballs and others who think America sucks, and hopefully we can waive a fond farewell to the people who hate half of their fellow citizens. If you don't want to be a citizen then get out.
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Iran Blinking on Strait of Hormuz
Timothy Birdnow
I've said it all along; if the Strait of Hormuz is closed to shipping the Iranians will be hurt worse than anyone else. Closure does as much a disservice to Iran as it does to the United States - maybe more so. Iran's chief export moves primarily through that strait.
Yes, the airstrikes on Kharg Island and Trump's unwillingness to back down have given the Iranians pause, but I suspect they are starting to realize this closure hurts them more than it helps them. And in the process it infuriates their Arab neighbors based in the Gulf of Arabia.
Actually there is no good reason NOT to burn out the island, which is the nerve center for Iran's oil industry. We can ship the crude elsewhere for refining.
The idea of building a canal to bypass the Strait of Hormuz has been kicked around for decades. For instance, Dubai thought to do it back in 2008 but the cost is prohibitive and it would only have value in times of war. There would be no profit for such a canal in peacetime.
The canal would need to stretch `112 miles and travel over the Hajar mountains, moving ships with locks. Since oil tankers are ridiculously heavy and large the task would be daunting - and very expensive.
Another option is building a pipeline and offloading the ships in the Gulf. Abu Dhabi has the Habshan Fujaira pipeline to move oil from the Gulf to the Indian Ocean, but it's like trying to feed an elephant with an eyedropper. A much larger pipeline is needed. But of course you have the same problem; it's economically impractical during peacetime.
So it looks like the Strait of Hormuz is going to be the lifeline of energy into the forseeable future. It's too bad because this gives Iran enormous power if they choose to exercise it. Of course, as I say, it is a double edged simitar for Iran as closing the strait hurts them as much or more than it hurts anyone else.
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Man Crucifies Pastor
Timothy Birdnow
So where is Pope Leo in this? He's mouthing off about the Iran War yet he has never condemned Islamic abuses of Christians, nor has he ever condemned crimes such as this and he still hasn't as far as I can tell.
This guy clearly doesn't grasp what the death penalty entails, apparently. He will move on FROM his life, not with it...
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Pope Leo the Chicken Hearted
Timothy Birdnow
Dope Leo the Chicken Hearted:
When Pope Urban II called for the first Crusade he didn't do so for land or conquest or treasure but for the fact that the Turks massacred over 1400 pilgrims on the road to Jerusalem, peaceful people whose only crime was being Christian and not Muslim. Urban and his successors had finally had to face the fact that Islam cannot be satiated, you cannot make peace with them. Islam can only be restrained and Urban understood that. So he called for a Crusade, which would entail Christian kings and princes and other nobility (plus plenty of commoners) to go to Jerusalem to make a pilgrimage despite what the Turks wanted, and to do so with enough arms to secure the road to the Holy City.
Yet here we are with the post-modernist thinking that Man is inherently good and this little dustup between the U.S. and Iran is just an unfortunate spat that should be resolved over tea and cookies because we just don't understand each-other. That is Leo's thinking and he also thinks about Christ's admonition to not fight enemies but love them. That is true in a personal context but God Himself said that our leaders were given the power of the sword to punish evildoers and that is especially true of a terrorist nation like Iran, who did great evil leading up to this and would do far worse evil if allowed to do as it pleases.
Love thy enemies is a personal thing it does not apply to international relations.
That doesn't mean we let our foreign policy be simply in our own interests and screw everyone else. But it does mean that there are times for war and this was one of them; it meets Augustine of Hippo's Just War theory. Iran was behind the unprovoked attacks on Israel, and President Trump gave them ample warning. They refused to heed that and indeed stated plainly they were going to pursue an atomic bomb - and that they already had 11 such devices. Given that they are "12ers" who want to start Armageddon and would likely use those weapons when they were ready it was obvious that President Trump was averting a greater evil by launching tis war, a war many Iranian People have celebrated around the globe and even inside Iran.
So Leo's liberal knee jerk reaction is wholly unwarranted, yet he made it anyway because that is what liberals do; they never look at things like this with any context or nuance, only with a faux Christian simplicity that boils everything down to "war is bad" as though we didn't already know that. Naturally if this war was something the Left wanted Leo would suddenly find nuance and context.
If this weren't a just war no war is. The Iranian mullahs have been waging war against the United States and Israel since 1979, and they have murdered countless innocents in their quest to wipe out the "crusader" state of Israel. They don't do it like soldiers either but creep around and stab people in the backs, using the dirtiest and most treacherous style of warfare imaginable. They have killed many innocents and plan to kill a great many more. Their own people hate them and feel oppressed, and in fact they just murdered 40,000 of their own for daring to protest the regime. How can you find some sort of moral parity here? Yet Leo seems to do so with ease.
No sir; when Leo meets his Maker he will be asked to justify his statements here, and God will ask him why he let the innocent suffer under the heel of not just Islam but of the Iranian apocalyptic horror. WE as Christians, are duty bound to render aid to the Iranian People rather than excuse and give comfort to the oppressors in dark robes and long beards. God will demand Leo give an accounting. Leo could help to end the Iranian nightmare if he chooses, but he refuses to so choose because he is a Progressive Christian and the whole world is but Barney the Dinosaur to him. His is the most gutless, myopic, and cowardly form of Christianity one could imagine.
We are in a largely leaderless world and this Pope contributes to the spiritual and moral vacuum that has infected the Western World. His is the palsied hand that steers the ship into the rocks.
It's time for people like Pope Leo to grow up. The Apostle Paul admonished the church of Corinth, the one he helped get their starts, chastising them for:
I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,
1Corinthians 3:2
A mature Christianity would understand how this is supposed to work but Leo is still drinking milk, absorbing nothing but the first baby steps of the Christian faith. You have to understand the difference between love and stupidity.
Dope Leo is the latter, I fear.
Leo made this imbecilic claim
??????"Today many of our brothers and sisters in the world are suffering because of violent conflicts, caused by the absurd claim that problems and disagreements can be resolved through war, when instead we must engage in unceasing dialog for peace," he said during his homily.
Did the Second World War fail to resolve problems in Europe? While it left a power vacuum that the Soviets filled (causing a host of problems itself) the war definitely ended the scourge of Naziism and the murdering of innocents, particularly Jews. Wars very often do indeed solve problems. The United States was born of a war that solved our British problem, and so too did the War of 1812. The Mexican War certainly solved our problems with Mexico. The Civil War ended slavery in the U.S. and led to the enfranchisement of black people across a continent. I don't see any communists in Granada. Rome solved it's Carthage problem by wiping the whole city out. Greece solved her Persia problem by winning the war against Xerxes. I could go on but the point is made; wars can and do solve problems all the time. But Leo is just a liberal who buys into these shibboleths. Anyone who actually believes this "war solves nothing" slogan is a dope.
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Crazy Crockett's Con Copper Killed
Timothy Birdnow
One of Texas Democrat Congresswoman's bodyguards was killed in a Mexican standoff with police after he barricaded himself in a car on the parking lot of a local hospital. The man - Mike King - was wanted for impersonating a police officer, and for driving his replica undercover cop car with stolen plates.
CBS News says Mike King is one of several aliases used by the decedent, who apparently was involved in things requiring aliases.
This is the kind of guy Crazy Crockett would employ for security.
I find it interesting that Jasmine Crockett feels the need for security at all; she advocates defunding the police and open borders after all. So why does she get security when others do not?
<r. King No His Real Name ran a company called Off Duty Police Services which was an employment agency for moonlighting cops. He frequently used multiple aliases.
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March 15, 2026
Chicom Funding Anti-Energy Lawsuits
Timothy Birdnow
Of course they are.
FTA:
The Pelican Institute For Public Policy published a report outlining the institutional barriers preventing Louisiana from developing its energy industry. Earthjustice, an environmental law organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, receives millions of dollars in funding from a non-profit organization with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) connections, according to the Pelican Institute.
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And they aren't the only ones. This sort of lobbying by a foreign power is illegal, I'm pretty sure. If not it should be.
George Soros also has a big hand in this, naturally, and so does Michael Bloomberg, former "republican" mayor of New York City and notorious busybody.
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Trump Restarts California Oil - Newsom Vows to Resist
Timothy Birdnow
President Trump is using an old Cold War law to force California to restart oil and gas drilling at offshore sites.
Naturally, Gavin Newsom vows to resist at all cost. Just because gas is over five bucks a gallon in California doesn't mean he isn't going to stop anyone from obtaining more energy.
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Big Bucks so Catholic Charities could Facilitate the Invasion of Illegals
Timothy Birdnow
I am a Catholic but this makes me want the Church to lose it's tax exempt status:
Green Beret Nap Time
@GBNT1952
Remember when Southwest Key, Catholic Charities USA, and Endeavors, all non profit organizations, received about $5.6 billion of tax payer money under Biden from 2021-2024 to help facilitate illegal immigration?
Their CEOs made millions of dollars in salaries and most of their executives made $600-700k salaries annually each, all funded by you and yours so they could relocate illegal aliens all over the country.
Lots of people got rich off of our money to ensure the establishment never loses again.
Now our legislature is refusing to pass the SAVE Act… I wonder why?
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Top NGO recipients of your tax dollars:
Catholic Charities USA - $1.4B
Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service - $180M+
Endeavors - $1.18B
Southwest Key - $3B
USCRI - $1.1B
Some grew their budgets 10x in just 2 years.
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Stationary News Cycle
Timothy Birdnow
Andrew Clark
@AndrewHClark
In 72 hours we went from:
Trump never expected the possibility of Hormuz closing,
To:
Trump was briefed Hormuz could close but riskily did it anyway,
To:
Trump bombed Kharg Island but it likely won’t force Iran to open the Strait
To:
Iran opened the Strait
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Kilmead Tries to Get Trump to Spill Secrets
Timothy Birdnow
"Yeah, but, Brian, I can’t answer a question like that. And you shouldn’t ask it. You shouldn’t even be asking it. It’s one of so many different things. It’s not high on the list, but it’s one of so many different things. And I can change my mind in seconds, but, you know, for you to ask the question, who would answer a question like that? You’re asking me a question. Kharg Island. Who would ask a question like that, and what fool would answer it? Let’s say I was gonna do it or I wasn’t gonna do it, what would I tell you? ‘Oh, yes, Brian, I’m thinking about doing it. Let me let you know what time and when it will take place.’ It’s not, you know, it’s sort of a foolish question. A little surprising for you because you’re a smart man,”
Donald J. Trump when asked by Fox host Brian Kilmead if he was thinking of taking Kharg Island.
I've long said Kilmead is an intellectual lightweight and it shows with stupid questions like that. OF COURSE Trump can't tell him his war strategy. Who does Kilmead think Trump is? George W. Bush?
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All the Soros of the World
Timothy Birdnow
How did the anti-war kooks get out so fast after we attacked Iran? You know who was at the center of that.
Soros has been funneling big bucks to these radical groups - like ANSWER and the old Clinton-era Moron.ogr, er, Moveon.org.
It's worth a read.
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March 13, 2026
About the Public Trust
Timothy Birdnow
Carlos Velazquez forwards this paper discussing the crucial role of trust in a democratic republic like ours and how it is being eroded in the modern age - and how that is an existential threat to the belief of the citizenry in the governing structure of our nation.
The author is absolutely correct, but he doesn't go far enough.
At the outset of 2019 the Democrats were in a demoralized state; everything they had thrown against Trump had failed and they were desperate to regain power. The only way they could, as they saw it, was to change the rules.
They did this by using the pandemic, which they blew up way beyond the degree of seriousness it deserved in order to justify those rule changes. They closed their own states, thus damaging the economy in the process, then blamed Trump. But the real goal was to get the rule changes in place.
The rejection of mail in voting WAS a bipartisan issue for a long time; after the election of 2000 the bipartisan Carter Baker Commission warned mail in voting was ripe for fraud. The Democrats basically took their report and used it as a blueprint on how to steal the election of 2020, and with a complicit media they pulled off a true coup against the Trump Administration, then pursued Mr. Trump and anyone who challenged the election results with the full force of law. The FBI was spying on people who suggested the election was stolen. Places like New York or Atlanta brought charges against Trump aids (like Rudy Giulliani) in kangaroo courts to suppress evidence of fraud.
I could go on but the point is that this was always intended to steal elections just as letting in millions of illegal aliens served that purpose.
As the authors says, this had led to an erosion in trust, and trust is what makes a democratic republic function. As John Adams stressed "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other". Yet so many Americans have highly immoral and irreligious peoples into office because those individuals offered largesse from the treasury and promised immoral and irreligious things.
So there have been enough Democrats, and they have become ruthless and Macchiavellian enough to purposely try to hide what they were doing, which is rig the game in their own favor. The more ruthless the politician the more they have been rewarded, and so the moderate Democrats are now all gone. Power is all that it has come to matter in politics.
They have been building a Tammany Hall style machine, a Bill Daley machine, in Washington and while much of that is illegal they have hidden it in plain enough sight; they know the media is in the tank for them and will run interference. (One can fairly hear Emperor Palpatine in the form of James Carville shrieking in joy as he murdered Master Windu "Unlimited Power!" from Star Wars III.)
But of course this is an end-game thing; it has destroyed the public trust in the fairness of elections, and in time that could rent the whole republic asunder.
So now the Republicans want to require voter i.d., a very modest proposal that all other countries on Earth require and the Democrats are fighting this tooth-and-nail. They argue minorities are too stupid to be able to get an i.d. card! I suspect everyone knows this is a canard, which is why the blacks and latinos aren't angry like they would be at Republicans if they were to make such an argument, but it is a testament to how far this nation's moral and spiritual center has imploded.
We desperately need the SAVE America act.
When the Founders established this country it took days for information to travel across a state, much less the country, and so elections were left to the individual states. The Founders could never have anticipated the rise of electronic communications and mechanized travel and how that would give an empire to the media. That empire has outpaced the checks and balances put in place by the Founders. Political parties can subvert the vote through carefully coordinated efforts that are only possible with modern technology. The only way to restore balance is to prevent them from cheating at the local and state levels by putting in minimal standards.
(Vote Fraud has always been an issue. There were reports of massive cheating in the election of 1864 for instance. And the election of 1960 was clearly stolen by Kennedy. But it has never been so easy to do and easy to hide as now.)
The fact is the Federal government has long imposed minimal rules and standards on states.
We used to have a national speed limit, for instance. We have a national drinking age. We have a national tax. We have national food and drug safety standards. We have standards in how we deal with minorities. We have standards that deal with the treatment of the handicapped. We have air pollution standards. We have limitations on who can be medical doctors, or airline pilots. Yet we have zero standards with how we handle our most important civic function.
It's insane, but it's a conscious policy. And as our moral center has disappeared it seems many Americans just don't care.
In the end if we do not restore public confidence in our electoral system we will continue the division in this country until we come to civil war. It's the inevitable outcome of a system where power is all that matters and different sides are willing to do whatever it takes to acquire it. Setting voting standards to restore public trust is absolutely vital to keeping America from tearing herself apart.
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