There are several stories going on lately that have caught my attention and
I wanted to share with my dear readers. Enjoy looking down the rabbit hole with me!
Federal Debt Ceiling
Most Americans oppose raising the federal debt ceiling without accompanying cuts to federal spending, or even with spending cuts according to a new RMG Research poll.
Of the 1000 registered voters surveyed, 45% said congress should raise the debt ceiling only with corresponding spending cuts. 16% said congress should refuse to raise the ceiling at all. 24% said that the debt ceiling should be raised without spending cuts, and 15% were “not sure”.
The U.S. national debt stands at $31.5 trillion which is approximately 120%
of the nation’s GDP. Profligate spending
by both parties cannot continue or economic collapse will ensue.
Informed Patriotism
Only 16% of Gen Zers are “proud” to live in the United States.
That finding comes from a recent Morning Consult poll, which assessed generational attitudes about the United States. The poll shows that there has been roughly a 20-percentage-point drop of pride in country every generation since the Baby Boomers, 73% of whom express pride in the country.
Baby Boomers: 73
Gen X: 54
Millennials: 36
Gen Z: 16
Many on social media noted with exasperation that those who say they have no
pride in country are in no hurry to move somewhere else. What do we expect when we teach ONLY
revisionist history about how the United States is founded on slavery, oppression,
and still embraces racism and other “-isms” today? We are reaping what our "education system" has sown as parents have negligently stood by and let it happen.
Further Biden Incompetence in the Judiciary
Biden’s nomination of Charnelle Bjelkengren for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington sat before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week.
Having served in multiple high-level judicial roles, including as an administrative law judge, a superior court judge, and as an assistant attorney general for Washington State, one would assume that Bjelkengren would have a solid grasp of the U.S. Constitution.
In the hearing, Senator John Kennedy R-LA asked Biden’s nominee a few softball questions that a person of her background should have easily been able to answer. Starting off, Sen. Kennedy called on Bjelkengren to describe what Article V of the U.S. Constitution does.
“Article V is not coming to mind at the moment,” Bjelkengren replied.
As virtually anyone who took middle or high school civics class would know, Article V describes the procedures to make amendments to the Constitution. How someone of Bjelkengren’s legal background could not answer such a shockingly easy question is concerning, to say the least.
Kennedy continued. “How about Article II?” Kennedy asked.
With a blank stare and awkward smile, Bjelkengren responded, “Neither is Article II.”
The confirmation hearing probably should have been stopped at this point, as an experienced judge who doesn’t know that Article II of the Constitution describes the Executive Branch of government should not be allowed to sit in a powerful federal judgeship that could have massive implications on future policies concerning Executive Branch decisions.
I think her incompetence is typical of many of Biden’s appointees and staff.
Unfit Democrats Removed from House Committees
New House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made clear on Wednesday, that Democrat congressmen Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell were removed from the intelligence committee because their presence in a sensitive position posed a particular hazard to the American people. Schiff lied repeatedly in the run-up to the first impeachment of Donald Trump that he had incontrovertible evidence of Trump’s collusion with Russia. He did not. Swalwell was found to have been sleeping with Chinese spy Fang Fang while sitting on the intelligence committee, and even had a Chinese intern working for him that was recommended by her.
Ilhan Omar was also removed from the House Foreign Affairs committee for her numerous anti-Semitic remarks over the years. Of course the anti-Muslim and race cards were played in her defense.
Schiff went on the Chinese spy-ware platform of Tik-Tok to denounce his removal from the intelligence committee. It reads like a bad SNL skit actually.
Many House Democrats Refuse to Denounce Socialism
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning socialism on Thursday, with nearly all Republicans and half of the Democrats supporting it. However, only somewhat amazingly, 86 Democrats voted against it.
H. Con. Res. 9, a resolution “Denouncing the horrors of socialism,” passed 328 to 86, with 14 Democrats voting present, and six members (three Republicans and three Democrats) not voting.
Rep Maria Elvira Salazar, R-FL, who is the daughter of Cuban exiles, was the sponsor of the resolution. “As the representative of the city of Miami, and daughter of Cuban exiles, I say that this resolution hits close to home for us all,” she added. “We know that socialism only brings misery, oppression, and exile, wherever it is tried.”
The resolution states “That Congress denounces socialism in all its forms, and opposes the implementation of socialist policies in the United States of America.”
The resolution also attributes the deaths of “over 100,000,000 people worldwide” to socialism, including 10 million people sent to the gulags in the Soviet Union; between 15 million and 55 million starving in the wake of the famine caused by the Great Leap Forward in China; 1 million people dead in the killing fields of Cambodia; and up to 3.5 million people starving to death in North Korea. It also notes that socialism devastated the once-thriving economies of Cuba and Venezuela.
Many prominent Democrats voted against the resolution, including Reps. Julian Castro and Al Green of Texas, Jerry Connolly of Virginia, Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, Pramila Jayapal of Washington, Summer Lee of Pennsylvania, Jerry Nadler and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Jamie Raskin of Maryland, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
I guess my only surprise is that only 86 of the House Democrats voted against it. I guess most of the others still wanted to maintain plausible deniability.
Chinese Surveillance Balloon
Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Patrick Ryder said Thursday, according to Reuters, “The United States government has detected and is tracking a high-altitude surveillance balloon that is over the continental United States right now. The balloon is currently traveling at an altitude well above commercial air traffic and does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground.”
Joe Biden agreed with supposed advice from military leaders not to shoot down the balloon. The leaders had cautioned that the debris could be a safety threat. China says they are looking into it but respect the United States' air space.
In a letter sent Thursday to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Republican Senator Steve Daines of Montana wrote, “The fact that this balloon was occupying Montana airspace creates significant concern that Malmstrom Air Force Base and the United States’ intercontinental ballistic missile fields are the target of this intelligence gathering mission.”
I wonder if we do decide to shoot it down if the “Big Guy” will still get his 10% from China with Hunter’s business deals?
Sleep well, and keep voting Democrat if you like what you read here.
5 comments:
“Swalwell was found to have been sleeping with Chinese spy Fang Fang while sitting on the intelligence committee.”
This lie is taken of faith by Trump’s true believers.
ZERO evidence offered on this, not that the far Right cares about evidence. Note the evidence-free accusative tones throughout the screed. Like the "10% to the Big guy". Zero proof it happened, yet they deny the documented fact Biden refused to partner with Hunter.
Let’s compare the worst thing Swallwell or Biden said or endorsed to this:
Trump shared this hateful, blood-thirsty, radical cult rhetoric from a deranged man calling himself “1776” on “Truth Social”:
“People my age and old will physically fight for him this time, What we got to lose ? I’ll donate the rest of my time here on this planet to do it. And I know many many others who feel the same. They got my 6 and we Are Locked and LOADED.”
How many deluded hateful Trump fanatics would shoot their fellow Americans for opposing Trump? How many fascist terrorists are waiting for the signal. Trump is a stochastic terrorist. “But democrats...” No, Democrats are not like this monster.
Just don’t compare them to Nazis, and ignore the fact that both Hitler and Trump incited violent coups to overturn elections to seize power. Imagine the evil heart behind someone who praises thugs for terrorizing Congress and beating cops bloody. “You’re very special. We love you.”
It's so sad that Darrell and his fellow true believers still trust and believe that horrible man. In fact they would vote for him again. That's how much they respect democracy and decency, I'm afraid.
The posturing, pontificating, treacherous, self-righteous House Republicans wouldn’t define socialism, but demanded answers to their leading questions. They implied socialism is communism, following their Fuhrers’ ranting about Democrats being communists. It’s clearly a set up for their plan to dismantle or privatize socialist Social Security and Medicare and frame Democrats as commies. It was a trap, and not very clever.
The clever one was Rep. Waters in her responses to their badgering.
Key excerpts:
Waters: “The American public is going to wonder why Republicans are wasting our time today with this divisive resolution instead of focusing on the real threats to our economy and democracy. What is this all about? Is it about saying you want to cut Social Security? You want to cut Medicare? You don’t care about the debt ceiling? Please.”
Reschenthaler: “You can’t condemn socialism? In your opening remarks, you were talking about Putin, Kim Jong Un and Xi. You know what they all have in common, right?”
Waters: “Trump,” she said flatly to a few laughs in the room.
Reschenthaler: “Trump? North Korea, China and Russia?”
Waters: “He loves Kim Jong Un, who is condemned in the resolution. Regarding North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Trump said Kim ‘wrote me beautiful letters, and they’re great letters and we fell in love.’ You sure you want to hear the rest of this?”
Reschenthaler: “Do you denounce that?”
Waters: “But Trump loves him. That’s your leader.”
That's Darrell's trusted leader too.
Never mind our Constitutional provision for the general welfare is also "socialism" to them. Anything they hate is "Socialist woke CRT". They will deny their meanings and invent their own definitions for all of them.
Anything to dupe voters into giving them power to pursue their corrupt intentions to dismantle our representative democracy while filling their wallets.
This is what made an uneducated ignoramus like Boebert a millionaire. Hate and lies bring in the cash.
-Dave
Given the poor decisions made by our government in the last 50 years in all aspects the government is responsible for it's not surprising the popularity among our citizens has dropped.
Although I doubt gen z's are educated enough in history to come to the same conclusion. Their dislike is a following of woke leftness and its despise of government.
Dave is funny. He chastises the right for calling the left socialists or communists, yet, for years he has been calling the right fascists and comparing them directly to Nazis and Hitler.
So we see here an example of the hate driven divide in our country, which is hurting our country.
"Dave" who's writing style and rhetoric exactly resembles the banned Dave Dubya who refuses to abide by my wishes to stay off my site. I'll play along for the moment.
First, it is well reported by credible sources that Swalwell was having a romantic relationship with Fang Fang and placed a Chinese intern in his office at her prompting. He broke off the relationship when the FBI briefed him of the risk. https://nypost.com/2020/12/11/chinese-honey-trap-could-hold-thousands-of-operatives/
10% to the big guy was text taken from Hunter's laptop, which the Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) said was fake Russian propaganda prior to the campaign. After the fact they have now acknowledged that there is great substance to the validity of the data on it. YOUR documented evidence that Biden refused to partner with Hunter is the words of the suspect himself who has proven repeatedly a penchant for lying.
Nice deflection, "Dave" on the Trump nonsense once again.
Maxine Waters is a another corrupt politician paying her family members hundreds of thousands of dollars to "help" her campaign etc. She was "all about socializing" the big oil companies not long ago. She is a capitalist for her own well-being but a socialist for us. She is the very definition of a hateful leftist.
Mr. Dubya, please get help with your obsession with me and what I say and find somewhere and someone else to troll.
Jerry, I could not have said it better myself, sir.
TRUMP, it's all Dave has got.
JTF, ain't that the truth!
The country is far worse off under this leftist regime but our buddy Dave keeps deflecting by saying, "Yeah, well what about Trump?" He has been out of office for two years now, Mr. Dubya. It would be funny if the consequences of the left's policies weren't so horribly damaging for America, especially for the poorest among us, as we all pay $7K more per household under the Democrats reckless fiscal and inflationary policies.
$31.4 Trillion in debt and the left refuses to cut spending or even talk about doing so. As I have long said, Biden is unfit to be president and should be impeached for numerous high crimes and misdemeanors, including the Afghanistan surrender that resulted in the needless deaths of our military personnel and innocent Afghan allies and friends. The problem is that he isn't really in charge right now anyway so little would change.
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