April 23, 2026
RNC Chair Gruters "You are the Weakest LInk: Goodnye!"
Timothy Birdnow
Does this surprise you? A late night surge in votes to approve the Virginia measure to gerrymander the state pushed it over the top. It had been trailing up until the very end.
Everyone is aware of the extremely misleading wording of the amendment (which only authorizes this one-time change, that returns to the old map once the Democrats consolidate their power) which spoke of "fairness" and "fixing" the actions of other states.
Fortunately a judge has struck this new map down. nut they will produce another and still gerrymander, albeit maybe a bit less obviously so.
This needed to fail.
I wonder if we can call another election and vote on it again?
At any rate the GOP failed to fund the fight against this while spending well over three times the amount they spent here to finance John Cornyn's efforts to win the Republican primary.
So why does this keep happening?
Party chairman Joe Gruters appears to be the weakest link. According to Wikipedia:
Gruters lost his first two elections and worked behind the scenes on several more losing campaigns.[5] He joined Vern Buchanan’s original successful 2006 campaign for Congress.[6] Gruters subsequently was chairman of the Republican Party of Sarasota for ten years, longer than any of his predecessors.[7]
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Yes, he was there in Florida for the GOP takeover but was that his policies or rather the rise of Ron DeSantis and others who made Gruters look good when in fact he is a mediocrity?
I don't know but clearly he dropped the ball in the last few weeks and that was inexcusable. This guy needs to be treated like the weakest link "goodbye!"
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Kick Arlington and Alexandria Out of Virginia?
Timothy Birdnow
While I admire the spirit of this it would be a disaster, in all probability.
Deep blue Arlington and Alexandria both had belonged to the District of Columbia after Virginia ceded the territories when Washington was first created, and remained so until 1847 when Congress returned them to Virginia as a concession to protect slavery. The issue has never been fully resolved, and the President could call for the return of these areas to the District of Columbia, thus disenfranchising the inhabitants there and taking the blues parts out of Virginia, flipping the state red.
It sounds like a great plan except there is a catch; this will certainly drive a credible call for statehood for D.C. Who could argue against that, with two major cities being incorporated into the nation's capital? We would be hard-pressed to stoop statehood and the public would think that only fair.
We do not want to create another left-wing Democrat state.
As I say, bravo for the spirit but this would probably backfire on us in a Yuge way.
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Va. Power Grab Shot Down
Timothy Birdnow
That didn't take long.
Virginia court blocks implementation of Democrat-drawn congressional map called 'blatant power grab'
No doubt this ruling will be overturned by some pet Democrat court, and have to move up the appeals ladder swiftly. I expect this to go to SCOTUS in short order and who knows which way they will jump?
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Negative Mass
Timothy Birdnow
Vedddy Eeeenterestink!
Scientists have discovered something long theorized - evidence of negative mass in a liquid in a Bose-Einstein Condensate.
A Bose-Einstein Condensate is formed when a gas is cooled to near absolute zero and the bosons (particles with integer spin) go into a collective state and behave as a single entity.
The researchers found that they could produce negative mass in some of the BEC's.
Negative mass was one of those things that Einstein dismissed as a mathematical artifact (much as he did a solution for his E=mcsquared which had a positive number for an electron, something rectified by Paul Dirac and the discovery of the positron in 1932.)
Negative mass would see a reversal of everything we know about matter; it would drop UPWARD and not down. It would move in reverse when you shoved it from behind. Fascinating stuff.
If we could find a way to make it and do so cheaply we would have tools making all sorts of things possible; antigravity to propel spacecraft, etc.
Of course producing minute amounts of the stuff in a Bose Einstein Condensate is a world of difference from making the stuff commercially (just as making antimatter is possible but we can't do it in any quantity). We are a LONG way from antigrav spaceships.
Below is the abstract:
A negative effective mass can be realized in quantum systems by engineering the dispersion relation. A powerful method is provided by spin-orbit coupling, which is currently at the center of intense research efforts. Here we measure an expanding spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate whose dispersion features a region of negative effective mass. We observe a range of dynamical phenomena, including the breaking of parity and of Galilean covariance, dynamical instabilities, and self-trapping. The experimental findings are reproduced by a single-band Gross-Pitaevskii simulation, demonstrating that the emerging features—shock waves, soliton trains, self-trapping, etc.—originate from a modified dispersion. Our work also sheds new light on related phenomena in optical lattices, where the underlying periodic structure often complicates their interpretation.
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Michael Mann Gets Major Award
So what do you get for a major award? Hopefully a leg lamp like in A Christmas Story; that's about Mann's speed.
Timothy Birdnow
Look at this; Michael "Hockey Stick" Mann, the guy who fudged data to promote climate change alarmism and who spent much of the rest of the time since suing people for no good reason and losing, was just elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in a disgusting display of political theater trumping real accomplishment.
After honoring that sleazeball Mann the university has the audacity to proclaim:
"We celebrate the achievement of each new member and the collective breadth and depth of their excellence—this is a fitting commemoration of the nation’s 250th anniversary,” says Academy President Laurie Patton. "The founding of the nation and the Academy are rooted in the inextricable links between a vibrant democracy, the free pursuit of knowledge, and the expansion of the public good.”
Execrable more like it. Mann has done very little decent science in his day, jumping on board the Climate Change gravy train early on. He was the father of the "hockey stick graph" which simply eliminated the Roman and Medieval Warming Periods and he did that by a sneaky trick "Mike's Nature trick" in which he switched from proxy data (which was dubious at best as he only used three trees from Yamal in Siberia to show warming) to temperature station data without telling anyone that was what he was doing. He did this to "hide the decline" as Phil Jones, head of the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia, said in one of the Climategate e-mails. The reality is the proxy data showed a temperature decline (actually a decline in the rate of growth, but you get the point) and Mann couldn't have that so he switched to the very poor-quality station data to make it appear to be warming. In other words, he lied.
And this guy gets a great honor like this!
He should have been fired for this. Academic dishonesty is grounds for termination, tenure or not.
This is how Leftism works. They protect their own, and then reward them for services rendered. Now Mann will spend his old age with a bunch of honors and medals and statues and plaques. The only good thing about it is he won't be able to persuade his conscience. Hopefully he'll always know he was a fraud.
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9th Circuit Blocks California's Nude Face Law
Timothy Birdnow
And this was the notoriously liberal 9th Circuit too!
Bill Melugin
BREAKING: The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an injunction blocking enforcement of California’s new law that requires ICE agents to unmask and wear visible ID, arguing it violates the Supremacy Clause because it "attempts to directly regulate the United States in its performance of governmental functions.”
California is enjoined from enforcing the law, pending appeal. Big win for the Trump administration & U.S. DOJ.
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How The Dems Stole Pennsylvania in 2020
Timothy Birdnow
Hat tip: Diane Kimura
Janet Atkins
April 20 at 5:04 PM
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USPS whistleblowers expose that around 280,000 completed ballots for the 2020 election were shipped across state lines from Bethpage, NY to Lancaster, PA to steal the 2020 election.
Trump was ahead in PA by 700k votes with 70% already counted before they stopped the count. Fraudulent ballots were then injected into the count and the 2020 election was stolen.
Coincidentally, the 280k fraudulent ballots from Lancaster and the 630k fraudulent ballots found by data expert Phil Waldron in Philadelphia equals the amount needed for Biden to overcome Trump's lead in PA.
These fraudulent ballots were found to be printed in China and coming into the U.S. through the Mexico border and flown in by aircraft. An enormous national security threat to the U.S. and foreign involvement in our elections.
The 2020 election was stolen using a combination of fraudulent mail-in ballots and compromised election equipment with engineered backdoors and remote internet access.
https://t.me/TheIntelSCIF/1668
Executive Order 13848 of September 12, 2018
Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election
https://www.federalregister.gov/.../imposing-certain...
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Rats and Sinking Ships
Timothy Birdnow
Bet this guy got the money for this from the war relief aid sent to Ukraine by the West.
Ukraine Billionaire Spends $554 Million for World’s Most Expensive Apartment in Monte Carlo
The corruption in the Ukraine is legendary, and the kleptocracy is setting themselves up for the day when the war ends (badly for the Ukrainians).
He purchased this property just before the start of the Russian invasion, and after speaking with his bestie Paul Manafort
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April 22, 2026
The Biden Spy Den
Timothy Birdnow
I said this was the tip of the iceberg.
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Republicans Fumble for TD in Va.
Timothy Birdnow
How the GOP [ink=https://thenationalpulse.com/2026/04/21/revealed-rnc-blew-va-referendum-due-to-lavish-cornyn-spending-and-misplaced-priorities/]fumbled the ball in the Virginia gerrymandering vote.
They were outspent by a whopping amount - $62.3 million vs. $20 million to barely scratch out an 81,188 vote gap. The GOP spent less to win this than they did to save John Cornyn from a primary challenge. Two to four million more would probably have won the election for the GOP. Now Democrats pick up four more seats and completely own the state, a state that went 49% for Donald Trump just last year.
As of now the Republican National Committee is sitting on a warchest of $109 million and couldn't be bothered to spend it on saving a critical state.
They gave $91 million to John Cornyn.
I've long argued the Establishment doesn't want to gain ground; they prefer a neck-and-neck Congress where the voters cannot afford to lose a single seat. That means RINO Republicans can keep the "radical" MAGA types from running away with the show. They have a cozy little relationship with the Democrats, are making money and enjoying the fruits of being in Congress, and don't want to actually win and have to do anything useful. Also, many of them are fellow travelers with the Democrats in terms of what they believe. So they want to keep Congress razor thin so that they don't have to worry about being primaried. The aforementioned John Cornyn is a prime example of that. The fought bitterly to keep him in place and shut out Ken Paxton, who is a Middle American - type MAGA guy and who will be a solid vote for Conservatism.
Now it's up to the liberal Virginia Supreme Court, which has twice before refused to act against this travesty. And until the state supreme court acts it cannot be appealed to Federal Court, and then it will go through the notoriously liberal district of Northern Virginia.
I want to know, too, about voter integrity in this election. Who voted and how many times? If there was ever a chance for vote fraud this would be the time for Democrats to utilize it.
Until we get a Republican Party that actually wants to win we are never going to make any headway. We aren't losing America because we are being outplayed so much as because our leadership doesn't want to take the field.
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Potok for Alcatraz
Timothy Birdnow
Here's one of the things the Southern Poverty Law Center did.
You may remember the Left used this to juice up the violent Antifa and BLM riots, and they falsely claimed Trump called fascists "good people" when he did no such thing (he said there were good people on both sides of the issue that had sparked the rally, which was the removal of statues of Confederate heroes). It was used to paint Trump as a neo-Nazi.
And Mark Potok and the SPLC gave money to the organizers of the Unite the Right rally. They wanted violence.
I need to remind everyone that it is not illegal to be a Nazi or Fascist or Klansman, provided you do not break the law, and money is free speech so the SPLC has a legal right to fund them, but as a 501c3 charity organization they are required by law to disclose to whom they are giving the money. They did not do so.
They couldn't; it would show they were staging events to "prove" there was rising hate among American Conservatives and not only help Democrats win elections but swell the coffers of the corrupt and leftists radical SPLC.
While I appreciate what Red State is doing here even they get it wrong, buying into the false narrative by claiming one white supremacist at the rally (James Alex Fields Jr.) "deliberately drove into a crowd of counter protesters". That is not necessarily correct; that driver was SURROUNDED by counter protesters who threatened him. See this clip (Notice the crowd is predominantly white and female, btw.) It was oergaos less the fault of the alleged "white supremacist" (who called him or her that?) then of the rioting "counter protesters". But the narrative was written by the media and even now everyone sticks to it. Yes, the driver was charged and convicted (there was no way he was getting a fair trial), but that doesn't change what happened and we need to stop letting the Left write the narrative.
When someone dies as a result of a felony it is murder. The SCLP murdered that woman as much as, if not more than, the driver of the car.
So hopefully some of the top brass will be perp-walked and spend a lot of time behind bars.
The SPLC will be disbanded, only to change their names and operate in the same way as before; that's how these leftist groups do things. (It's what ACORN did) The SPLC will no doubt do likewise.
Like the Devil the Left has many names. When one becomes tarnished they just switch to a new one.
The only way to stop the Left from this sort of thing is to incarcerate and punish it's leadership (and many of it's rank and file too). Just breaking the organization does nothing to get rid of the people who are plotting to do evil.
I hope Mark Potok winds up being the first person in a refurbished Alcatraz...
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The Bible - Now a "living Document" to Liberals
Timothy Birdnow
Unhappy with what the Bible says on moral issues the United Church of Christ wants to add a "third testament" to update what it sees as outdated beliefs from the Old and New Testaments.
If I understand correctly the United Church of Christ is quite loosey-goosey about matters of morals and welcomes all sorts of people the New Testament refers to as sinners. The New Testament specifically says that if a brother in Christ is in an open state of sin and refuses to repent he ultimately must be cut off from the rest of the church. This is an attempt to circumvent that.
Years ago a black southern church wanted to put the letters of Martin Luther King from prison into the New Testament but that idea fizzled. That was the only movement of which I'm aware to alter scripture (with the exception of the Inspirationalists in Amana, Iowa, that is) and it failed.
Why? For one thing the Book of Revelations warns that if anyone alters Scripture in any way his name will be removed from the Book of Life and all the plagues in the final book portending doom will be added unto him. A pretty harsh thing to risk.
At any rate this is classically liberal; just change that which doesn't suit you.
Watch for this sort of thing to metastasize over time.
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SPLC Charged with Funding White Supremacists
Timothy Birdnow
This is long overdue. SPLC is a hate group and always has been - and has ruined so many reputations by calling others "haters".
Gateway Pundit dishes:
The Justice Department on Tuesday indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on 11 counts, including wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering.
The SPLC was indicted for secretly funneling more than $3 million in funds to members of white supremacist and extremist groups, the DOJ said.
A grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama returned an 11-count indictment against the SPLC.
The case was assigned to Judge Emily Marks, a Trump appointee.
So, agent provocateurs eh? They were funneling money to the people they claim to be in business to stop in order to justify their own existence. Then when something would happen they would say "see!" and their own fundraising would explode.
That's just evil, plain and simple.
Thanks God Todd Blanche is now at the helm at DOJ! These charges would never have been brought under Pam Bondi, who seemed to do very little in her tenure of office.
The SPLC was paying leaders of the Ku Klux Klan, a largely extinct organization, and other such hate groups through shell corporations.
They had labeled Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA as a "hate group" but somehow TPUSA didn't get any funding from them.
Mark Potok, the Grand Cyclops of the SPLC, has designated many conservative groups over the years, including the Family Research Council, the Center for Immigration Studies, Christ the King Reformed Church, The H.L. Mencken Club, The Legion of St. Ambrose, VDARE, Oathkeepers, Infowars, Natural News, The Constitution Party, the Eagle Forum (Phyllis Schlafley's old outifit), Faith Baptist Church, Watchman Bible Study Group, The American College of Pediatricians, Campus Ministries USA, D James Kennedy Ministries, ACT! for America, David Horowitz' Freedom Center, Jihad Watch, Most Holy Family Monastery, The Fatima Crusader/International Fatima Rosary Crusade,The Thomas Moore Law Center, Tea Party Nation, and a host of others, including the Sisters of Charity.
All of these groups have been targeted and in some cases destroyed by Potok and his hateful group. And now it's coming to light that he and his ilk have been funding real hate groups.
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Biden and Pro-Abortion Lobby Colluded to Oppress Pro-Life Groups
Timothy Birdnow
We knew about it but here is the proof.
This is the stuff of tyrants, not American Presidents.
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April 21, 2026
Zelensky Restores Russian Oil Pipeline to Hungary Now that Orban is Gone
Timothy Birdnow
He waited until Orban was gone before restoring the pipeline to Hungary.
JUST IN - Zelensky says the damaged Druzhba pipeline carrying Russian oil to Eastern European countries will be restored to operation by the end of April — Reuters
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Climate Extreme Temps have Declined
Timothy Birdnow
Guess what? Contrary to the claims by the climate alarmists and their brain-damaged models temperature extremes have actually declinedsince 18j99.
Here is the abstract from this new paper by Nobel-Prize-winning climatologist John Christy:
Knowledge of temperature extremes, and their potential changes within a climate system of increasing greenhouse gases, is of vital interest for humans and the infrastructure which supports them. To produce a better understanding of how daily extreme temperatures have changed over time in the conterminous US (CONUS), the United States Historical Climate Network (USHCN) database was extended back to 1899 and forward to 2025. The original 1,218 stations, selected in the 1980s by NOAA as capable of addressing climate concerns, have since been neglected - almost half of the stations have closed since 2000. Incomplete station records were supplemented with nearby stations with high correlation and removeable biases to provide time series for 1,211 of the stations with at least 92% of data present. Extreme temperature metrics for summer daily maximum temperatures and winter daily minimum temperatures were calculated. The general result is that metrics for extreme summer heat, e.g., hottest values, number of heatwave days, etc., show modest negative trends since 1899. Extreme cold temperature metrics also indicate a decline in their occurrences especially since the 1990s. In sum, instances of both hot and cold extreme metrics have declined since 1899. To demonstrate an application of this dataset we examined the claims of one source regarding changing temperature extremes, The National Climate Assessment 5.
We've been told that one of the fingerprints for carbon dioxide-driven warming is greater extremes in temperature and yet this data says no way Jose.
Of course, as Dr. Christy points out, the temperature stations have been neglected and "data smoothed" and this is why the entire thing is in doubt; we can't trust the datasets coming out of NOAA and NASA. So will the alarmists now criticize the data they've used to predict catastrophe' for all these years, or admit their theory has problems?
No, they will try to simply ignore this and pretend it's not happening.
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The Phoniness of Peer Review
Timothy Birdnow
This from Christ Martz, Senior meteorologist at Millersville University:
Peer-review is not a part of real science. Period.
The peer-review system, as it exists in its current form, has only existed since the 1970s (maybe 1960s in some cases). It is a relatively modern academic gatekeeping process, not an ancient pillar of science. Issac Newton, Galileo, Charles Darwin, and even Einstein's work (specifically, his four Annus Mirabilis papers in 1905) were all written or published without "peer-review.”
Science advances with evidence, replication, and falsifiability. "Peer-reviewers” typically do none of the above things when reading over a paper submitted to an academic journal. Reviewers are just anonymous "experts” that stamp approval for any papers they happen to agree with and reject ones that challenge their own biases.
But as I have previously said, any of my online critics that demand I publish a paper in a journal can pay me to do it themselves. I am not an academic. I am not a federal employee. I work in the private sector. It is not reasonable to expect me to drop thousands of dollars on a paper to cover paywalled data access fees and a journal's submission and/or publication fee(s). Either put your own money where your mouth is, or shut up about it and drop the stamp-collecting credentialism.
I don't need a M.S. or Ph.D. to analyze data or assess claims made by scientists and find errors in them. For hundreds of years, valid science happened outside of peer-reviewed journals because they simply didn't exist, at least in modern form. I also do not believe in using taxpayer dollars to conduct scientific research via NSF grants, etc.
Just because something has been "peer-reviewed” does not mean it is accurate.
And just because something hasn't been subject to academic circle jerks doesn't mean it isn't valid.
Your peers agreeing with your ideas does not make your theory valid.
"Peer-review” approval not the arbiter of truth.
It's gatekeeping because people are biased, scientists included.
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60 Minutes Admits Iran has Weaponized Uranium
Timothy Birdnow
The mainstream media knows the truth.
60 Minutes
@60MinutesIt’s believed Iran has enough highly enriched uranium to make at least 10 nuclear bombs. What would it take for the U.S. to secure it? Sunday, 60 Minutes reports on a past covert mission code-named Project Sapphire that could be a blueprint for a similar operation in Iran.
So how can it be they are demanding Trump end military action? How do you just dismiss ten nuclear bombs in the hands of people who fund terrorism around the globe and do so openly and unapologetically?
On Facebook an idiot recently said "who are we to tell Iran they can't have nuclear bombs. Why shouldn't they?" I replied that they can't have nuclear bombs for the same reason you don't give ten year old boys glocks to play with. Their pattern of behavior tells us they cannot be trusted with them. The fact is France or Britain or South Africa (who used to have them probably) or even Pakistan and India have shown themselves to be trustworthy in not using them. (I wish Pakistan didn't have them but they do.) But Iran? Iranians believe in the 12th Imam and can't wait for Armageddon. It's a doomsday cult running the country and they are eager to precipitate the final war. You can't let people like that possess these sorts of weapons any more than you can let a rapist hang out in women's locker rooms.
Duh.
This is the most venial of reasons to oppose the Administration in their fight to disarm Iran - politics. This is the sort of thing that will lead them into the depths of Antenorra, the place of traitors to kin and country in Dante's Inferno.
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Zelensky Wants to Erase Ukraine with Immigrants
Timothy Birdnow
This is complete madness.
So Zelensky is just going to hand his country over to a bunch of Third World Muslims.
The head of the Presidential Office, the cartoonishly named Kyrylo Budanov (too bad his name wasn't Boris) announced the new scheme to import "migrants" to deal with the Ukrainian labor shortage. If anyone thinks these "migrants" will return home he is kidding himself. This is the Islamification of Ukraine.
The article states:
Kuleba said Ukraine has to focus on people "who need this country and are ready to rebuild it.” These people exist, he said, although they are in the minority, then indicating that the only solution is to bring in migrants.
These migrant newcomers will also need adequate housing, wages and a working environment to make them choose Ukraine. However, it is questionable how a country whose economy and state administration are in ruins as a result of war could handle mass immigration from the Third World. Unlike how migration was marketed, many of the migrants who came to Western Europe have ended up draining state coffers through social welfare, education, housing, and integration. In Germany, for instance, foreigners cost the government nearly €50 billion in 2023.
They mention immigration from Asia, which means Muslims in Progspeak. These will be from Syria and Iraq and probably places like Turkmenistan.
The only good thing is it will be hard to recruit economic immigrants; the Portuguese tried and failed miserably because their economy is a basket case and the Muslim immigrants only wanted to live in a rich place where they could feed off the fat of the land.
This is just national suicide.
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Congress Should Declare War on Iran
Timothy Birdnow
We are about to run up against the War Powers Act. The WPA (which was an acronym from the Great Depression meaning Works Progress Administration, often sneeringly referred to as "We Piddle Around") sets time limits for the President to take foreign military action before seeking a resolution from Congress. Trump is approaching that deadline and if Congress fails to act he will be forced to end the war with Iran.
That is what the Iranian regime is counting on.
What I would like to know is, why doesn't Congress act? The Congress declares war, and John Thune and Mike "Tiny" Johnson could and should promote a war declaration now, not when the ciris hits. So why isn't they?
Johnson could maybe get one through and guys like Thomas Massie would be hard pressed to vote against it given the entire argument he and his anti-war ilk have made is based on Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. A war declaration would eliminate his entire argument. He would be forced to argue against it based on other considerations, such as degree of difficulty. But that would be a harder sell, much harder. Trump has already shown we can do it, we just need the time.
Another consideration is the Senate. While the Constitution says you only need a simple majority in the Senate the reality is, with the "zombie filibuster" the Democrats could veto it without a Supermajority (and getting a simple majority might prove difficult). Naturally John Thune won't change the rules for it to pass. If he would just require a talking filibuster he might be able to get it but Thune refuses to do so. He has to go.
At any rate somebody needs to introduce War Declaration bills and now. Make these jerks vote on it.
Iran has been wise in not hitting us with a big terrorist attack, I might add. It's in their interest to do so and they have sleepers here, but it would put great pressure on these war dove types to support the President and Iran appears aware of that. Also, with the DHS funding issue in play, it would humiliate the Democrats and likely prevent them from winning in November. Iran is playing the long game and rightly so.
That's why they are stalling so much.
The Founding Fathers built a series of checks and balances into our government to address conditions of the day and they worked beautifully and still serve us. However, they could not forsee America becoming the World's lone superpower and the need for speed. Back then communications were slow and state governments were very important and we had a great ocean between us and our nearest enemies and so they sought to slow down and gum up the works in the Federal government precisely to make the states strong and the People stronger. It was wise, but unfortunately what they put in place is now strangling decisive action and long term commitment. Our political system punishes careful, long term strategizing. We are the hare in the tortoise and the hare. We have the power to move quickly but just as quickly stop and graze. Iran is playing the tortoise now and we are about to be stopped in finishing them off by our own rules.
For the record I am not a war hawk and I oppose any action by the U.S. in places like the Ukraine or other such spots. But there are some things that cannot be tolerated, that require military action. Iran has been asking for it for a long, long time and Trump is trying to affect real change. He could just kick the can down the road again but that would be foolish. But it would be politically expedient.
I don't want to make fundamental changes that empower our government, on the contrary I want our government restricted as much as possible. But the War Powers Act is probably unconstitutional and I don't know why Trump hasn't made an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court over it by now. And I don't know why his allies haven't introduced a declaration of war; at least it would force Congress to vote yea or nay and show where everybody stands.
If Trump is not allowed to finish the job we will always have to be looking over our shoulders. Iran will wait patiently and pay us back, make no mistake about it. When someone threatens you you can either run, hide, or beat the crap out of them. Iran is threatening us and has for a long time. We've hidden mostly. That has been a failed strategy. Now we only have the option of beating the crap out of them. Running is impossible and now hiding is too.
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