Current Day Publius

7/22/22

The impartial House Select committee doing a deep dive into the absolute truth surrounding the nearly successful overthrow of our government has found a new vein to stick; erased text messages off Secret Service Agents’ phones. The dogged ferocity of their inquiry will no doubt reveal tawdry elements that can be directly attributed to the former President, and soon-to-be resident of a federal prison. Is this yet another smoking gun from which fatal shots can be fired?

I submit that if the technology exists to capture these lost missives, and let’s hope it does for the wealth of facts it will provide about the nefarious actions of the former President, perhaps there are other “missing” items that may re-appear. It may be possible to determine if there were any additional items of interest in the Mueller investigation of “Russiagate”? The committee may have provided us with the means to look at the phones of the lawyers who conducted the probe and subsequently deleted everything off their government supplied phones….so conveniently.

Is it possible this technology could be applied to emails that were supposedly deleted, once again, from government supplied and taxpayer paid for computers? (The computers that were attached to a private server kept out of government control, despite the presence of top-secret communications.) There we may uncover the content of say, 30,000 emails that went into the atmosphere for “personal reasons”.

It’s a great day for sunshining some dark corners in our country’s history and we have the august House Select Committee investigating the greatest threat to our democracy (and second only to climate change) to thank for it.

7/15/22

Monkypox!!!! OMG. We’re all going to die! Quick, lockdown non-essential businesses (that would exclude bath houses) reinstate remote learning, curtail meetings, cease and desist all sexual activity and by all means, mandate wearing diapers! It’s the patriotic thing to do to flatten the curve of this very contagious disease.

7/11/22

What if you could allocate your federal tax dollars to those things you want to support? We’ve seen surveys that ask this and similar questions but what about an actual “spend my money here”?

As I write, there are 15 departments including Defense, Education, Energy etc. Under these headings are more departments (ex. Department of the Army within Defense), agencies, services, groups, bureaus, commissions etc. I researched the total number of different entities that make up the federal government at https://www.usa.gov/agencies.  There you will find an alphabetically organized list of the various organizations that make up the federal government but no total number. Then I went to https://www.opm.gov/about-us/open-government/Data/Apps/Agencies/ where again, there are tons of detail but no simple way to grasp the total breadth of the federal government.

Having no way to practically detail the underlying vastness of the administrative state, we’re left with the list of the major departments and perhaps some of the more distinctive agencies/sub-departments on which to decide where to spend our money.

I envision a ballot that lists the Department/Agency, a 30 word or less definition of their purpose and a box provided for the percentage of your tax dollars that you wish to allocate to that group. (It automatically adds up the total percentage points for those who attended public schools and directs the voter to correct their allocation if it exceeds 100. Hopefully they’ll give the effort 110%!) I’ve seen a similar process used with the United Way which allows the donor to direct their donation to specific organizations. Why can’t that work for we taxpayers too?

6/19/22

President Biden gave an interview with the Associated Press. In it, they talk about the prospects of the mid-term elections amidst the ongoing “optimism” of the President. What I found very elucidating is the references to those around the President. I think it answers the question, who is really running the country? It’s woke white women!

It was the white suburban upper class women who detested the misogynist, tweeting Donald Trump that installed the “hiden Biden” as President. Their votes put him over the top. It was Jen O’Malley who ran his campaign and is now his deputy chief of staff along with Emmy Ruiz, a long-time political consultant. Anita Dunn, penned as a “veteran strategist”, is also now returning to the Whitehouse. To understand the actions of this President, you must understand the issues these women and their constituents find important. These are add-ons to Doctor Jill who never leaves Joe alone for fear he does his best Joe.

The woke white women of the USA don’t fret about gas prices. They don’t fill up their cars. They see the prices of food going up but more on their impact of dining out and prepared foods. They don’t cook. It’s the climate that garners their attention. Its spreading the gospel of “my body, my choice” when it comes to abortion…. but not inoculation. They still wear masks as a virtue signal but eschew them when they are out “with the girls”. Its always for the children, even though they didn’t raise them preferring to put them in day care as infants, then after school programs, and of course, sending them off to the obligatory summer camps because after all, how could one pursue their career carrying the load of being a mother? Only the best colleges will do…for their egos.

They have lots of gay friends. Heck, they dabbled in lesbianism in college themselves. Too many young black men are in prison so they support bail reform, non-enforcement of criminality and the extension of mercy to those “forced” into a life of crime. Crime that never finds its way to their neighborhood. They feel its good for kids to be exposed to “other lifestyles” but not religion. They don’t go to church nor do they talk about God. Its diversity and equity, climate change and women’s rights all day and night and you see it in how this administration’s policies are formed.

So, I have finally figured out who is running the country and it’s woke white women and their like-minded, country club, day drinking, fellow birthing people.

6/17/22

Senator Chris Murphy is sweating bullets these days. His path to the Whitehouse is paved with getting guns away from law-abiding citizens. His latest mass shooting grandstanding got him back on the airways but is stalling in flight. Oh, the angst he and his staff must be feeling over the possibility that the “framework” being spewed may not result in something he can tout as his big accomplishment and reason for making him POTUS.

Career politicians are like that. Like a pit bull on a bone, they cling to issues they think will make them more powerful. He pops up every time his single issue (guns) finds its way to mass media. Don’t be fooled by this very ambitious man. He has no concern for you or me. He knows his proposals on guns do nothing to thwart the people intent on doing harm. His oath to uphold the Constitution is a lie and this effort to once again infringe on the second amendment, shows his true colors. Don’t be fooled again.

6/14/22

My esteemed one issue career politician, Senator Chris Murphy, is hoping to ride the “gun issue” to the Whitehouse. He pops up nearly every time there is a crime that involves a gun. He has added to his list of exploited shootings like Sandy Hook School, to further his political career. He has nothing else to show for his years as a congressman or Senator other than spouting off how only complete disarmament of law-abiding gun owners will save the world.

The latest is the “bi partisan” proposal that has yet to be detailed in an actual law. The Republicans that supposedly are in favor of this straw poll include 3 who are not running for re-election, and two who vote with Democrats occasionally, one of which voted to impeach President Trump. (Let’s find some who will agree with us and claim that it’s bi-partisan aka 1/6 committee.) This proposal includes “common sense” items like increased attention to mental health, hardening schools, federal background checks and federal incentives for states to have/expand “red flag” laws. (20 states already have these laws.) A good place to start would be to enforce gun laws we already have in place.

In order to really assess the proposal, we would need to see the text. I bet that won’t be until we’re ready for a vote sans debate. Red flag laws, are currently in place in nearly half the country, including states where mass shootings have taken place. (So much for looking at history to help guide real reform.) What they do is help decrease the number of suicides by firearm. They also lead to a number of revenge accusations. Domestic situations are the most common situation where a person uses the appearance of abuse or slight to throttle the accused. Where is the balance?

No one wants someone who has clearly exhibited the possibility of harming him/herself or others to have a firearm of any kind. I would include other instrument that could cause harm as well like knives. Determining who is a threat of this kind is the real issue. It must uphold the right to due process, which is at the base of our freedoms. Some random accusation should not result in the willy-nilly disarming of a person. Instead, there must me a quick (24 hours?) and thorough formal adjudication of any taking of firearms. The person claiming the threat must provide evidence and a judge and other experts, including mental health and law enforcement, must provide testimony. There must also be a quick means for the accused to appeal a negative ruling and penalties for someone bringing false charges to the court.

As for background checks, once again the government has shown how inept is it at administering just about anything. The current FBI database for people for whom there is some kind of black mark is rife with holes. How you get on such a list (think no-fly, terrorist) and more importantly, how you get off is unknown. Once again, transparency is paramount with the rules for being added and a clear and quick process for getting off critical.

Beware of a government action headed by a zealot with only his career as his priority. As President Reagan said, the scariest words in the English language are, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”

6-7-22

The amount of inaccurate (being charitable) information about the environment is overwhelming. The ignorance of what it takes to power the world is astounding. While China builds a new coal plant every day on average, the US is plowing its way to power outages. No mention of the mining for metals needed for batteries. No mention of what happens to spent batteries. No mention of what happens when we are primarily reliant on wind and solar and neither are present. Still, it grinds forward in the face of the facts that the world is not ready for non-fossil fuel power. No, there is more to this movement.

Marxists know that total control over a population is more than throttling speech and close monitoring to squelch any dissension. Indeed, the right of assembly must also be denied, unless of course it’s in the name of social justice, or any other leftist policy. The recent accounting by a journalist taking a 4-day cross country trip in an electric vehicle gives us insight into the Marxists use of the “green” movement. The journalist wrote about the 3 hours recharges that were necessary to continue her trip. The inconvenience of that made her pine for a fossil fueled car. One that would go farther and refuel in minutes versus hours.

Should fossil fueled vehicles get outlawed, the Marxists will have effectively, limited your mobility. They will push “public transportation”. The money will pour into bus and train systems that already have proven to be less attractive to we citizens for whatever reasons. The urban bent by Democrats only feeds the monster. Once you have no car that can go further than 500 miles without a 3 or more-hour layover, you are essentially stuck. Pushed onto “public” transportation, you are now easily watched. You need a ticket to go any distance. That ticket has a record. You can be stopped from getting a ticket if identification is required and you are on a “no travel” list. See how that works?

The Marxists are co-opting a large swath of the population to their own detriment. Electric vehicles, stoves and all else require electricity. Counting on the wind and the sun solely for electricity is a farce and everyone but the most ardent, know it. When will we start calling it out for what it is; another naked power grab over our lives?

6/3/22

Think it can’t happen here? Russians and Chinese thought that too. They welcomed Stalin and Mao as benevolent leaders only to find out they were both psychopaths with no regard for human life and hell bent on total control. Estimates of those who died in the cause of making Russia a superpower range from a low of 20,000,000 to 60,000,000. Besides murdering his closest rivals, he set in place collectives that led to an estimated 1,000,000 Russians starving to death. Mao did him better with his “Great Leap Forward” and “Cultural Revolution”. Mao was responsible for an estimated 40,000,000 to 80,000,000 Chinese deaths. Both populaces were first disarmed and sold on the patriotic duty to follow their leaders despite what they saw with their own eyes; the people around them being killed and the collapse of any semblance of a normal life.

Everyday we are seeing more vitriol railed against our very own citizens. White people are now all racists. Gun owners are terrorists and Trump supporters are insurrectionists. This vile language is ginning up a tried-and-true Marxist effort to subvert the Republic we enjoy. By stoking the flames of internal dissension, they hope to cause a revolution and not just at the ballot box but in reality. You see, armed violence is always the way totalitarian efforts go.

The Marxists on the left keep poking those they despise in hopes that then, any violent act can be used to take draconian steps to rein in the population and exert control. A false flag event is certainly not out of the question and in fact may have occurred on 1/6/2020. Conspiracy theory? Maybe….maybe not. We may never know the real truth behind efforts to undermine President Trump’s presidency but we do know there was some real skullduggery. The boasts on how a cabal of social media, mass media and federal agencies were able to “install” Joe Biden in the Whitehouse should alert every citizen to what is possible. (https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/)

So, beware of the government that says they are the end all for everything in your life like protecting you and your family. History is strewn with the corpses of those who blindly allowed themselves to be fooled and it all started with disarming the population.

6/2/22

Today we see another $5,800,000,000 of taxpayer money going to people welching on their debt. I’m trying to find out just who authorized these payments.  I have yet to find an appropriation by Congress that specifically authorizes this expenditure of federal money.

We are at “war” with Russia. Several politicians including the President have stated that. We have spent $56,000,000,000 on the “war” in Ukraine so far and while the money/materiel were part of actual laws written, passed by Congress and signed by the President, there has been no debate nor the Constitutionally required declaration of war by Congress.

Obama was arrogant enough to say when he was thwarted by the inconvenient Constitution, to state, I have a pen referring to “executive orders” that sidestepped actual legislation. He is not alone as increasingly; our federal government is run by an Executive branch that is consolidating its power in the Congressional action void.

The founders knew that having three branches kept any one from being too powerful. That was premised on each of the branches exerting themselves in the face of one or the other trying to exceed their mandate. Our recent Congresses are only too happy to have the executive branch take the lead and heat should the action flop or gladly crowing about their support should the action prove “popular”.

So, I contact my Senators and Congressman regularly to learn what they have done on this or that. I get form letters if I even get a response. I’m blessed to have a liar about his military service and a very ambitious, single issue, never-worked-outside-of-politics for my two Senators. My 74-year-old Congressman has been in Congress for 23 years. Do any of them take accountability for the errors that occurred during their time in Congress? Not a word on the debt that they piled on and now, acquiesce to from executive orders. Not a word on how the country was put through a 2-year railroading of a sitting President. Not a word on why stuff like energy production is halted by a pen on day one of this administration etc.

Given the cost of this institution and the lack of productivity, one needs to ask, why have a Congress?

5/28/22

The trial of Clinton Lawyer and/or patriotic citizen Michael Sussman went to the jury on Friday 5/27. Unlike the trial of Martha Stewart where she was convicted of lying for an insider trading of stock and few if any investors were affected, the Sussman allegations and subsequent actions taken as a result of them, cost every American money and thwarted the actions of the entire trump administration for years. That is, money for the two plus years of investigation and impeachment, and wasted energy of an entire federal government that could have done even more than it did expanding the economy and keeping us safe here and around the world.

The left is hiding behind the mantra of everyone already knew he was working for Clinton and therefore he did not have to tell the FBI. This canard obfuscates the real story here. The Democrats, led by Hillary Clinton, would do anything and everything to win an election including sending the entire country down a rabbit hole for years and causing a bifurcation of the populace. This scorched earth strategy continues unabated now with the Marxists in firm control of the federal government.

The attempt to define truth was a naked attempt to actually memorialize the very act of lying. Instituting a “Ministry of Truth” would relegate dissent to a garbage bin kept locked up in our prison system. Indeed, while Martha Stewart did prison time for her crimes (she was convicted of conspiracy, perjury, making a false statement and obstruction of justice), Mr. Susman will likely get acquitted or even if convicted, get off with probation, community service and perhaps a fine. Getting a jury that has members who gave money to the Clinton campaign, to see that this was more than lying about who you were working for, was always going to be difficult. Instead, the effort was to bring to light the dastardly things these politicians will do to gain and hold power.

“You can keep your doctor if you want” was just the tip of the Democrat spear to fool you into thinking they actual care for you. The more this administration speaks, the more you realize that lies really matter.