MAKE A NOTE:

 545 vs. 300,000,000 People

-By Charlie Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.. ( The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.)

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House?( John Boehner. He is the leader of the majority party. He and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. ) If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to. [The House has passed a budget but the Senate has not approved a budget in over three years. The President's proposed budgets have gotten almost unanimous rejections in the Senate in that time. ]

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.

If the Army & Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it's because they want them in Iraq and Afghanistan ..

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power.

Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible. They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses. Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees... We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.

BOTTOM LINE = Donald J Trump was owned by neither political party. He worked directly for We the People. Sadly, because of your butthurt, you all chose dementia.

I HAVE HAD MY FILL OF TODAY

 

DEMOCRATS ARE LIVING IN A FANTASY WORLD WHILE BURINING THE REAL ONE DOWN

For example

 As the Taliban prepared to retake Afghanistan, American military leaders pushed wokeness on the troops and the American embassy in Kabul trotted out the rainbow flag. As the Taliban conquered, the Biden team was producing a campy video with a gender-bending social media influencer.

These actions speak loudly about where the administration’s priorities lie. Instead of delivering basic competence, Democrats have stoked the culture wars and ushered in crisis after crisis, from rising crime to rapid inflation to an overwhelmed southern border to the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.

There is ordinary incompetence here — Biden was a buffoon even in his prime — but adding extreme social leftism to the usual political greed and stupidity has been catastrophic, from the military to education to border security. The adherents of this ideology are not deterred by policy failures and political setbacks, allowing radical leftism to become the dominant ideology in the Democrat Party and among the institutions that support it.

A Reality-Denying Make-Believe World

This ideology is a substitute religion to which they are determined to forcibly convert the rest of us. It’s also a childish, narcissistic, self-indulgent ideology that results in incompetence and destruction.

For example, California has begun housing men in women’s prisons, and the inmates are reportedly “being prepared with free condoms and guidance on how to obtain an abortion in prison.” One woman concluded the government had “given the okay for them to rape us, cause you have a plan to take care of the aftermath.”

This is leftism in action. The problems of male prisoners who claim to be women could have been addressed without giving male sexual predators access to women’s prisons. But transgender ideology proclaims “trans women are women,” so fully intact men are being put in women’s prisons.

Ideology is obscuring reality, and leftist ideologues are acting according to the logic of a self-constructed fantasy world. In their world, critical race theory is part of military readiness, men can give birth and women can have penises, and lowering education standards and re-segregating public schools is anti-racist.

Godless Answers to Religious Questions

This is the decadent fulfillment of the leftist project of radically reordering the world. Since the French Revolution, leftists have sought the revolutionary remaking of man and society. They believe what is primarily wrong with the world is not, as Christianity teaches, human sin nature, but disordered social arrangements from which we can liberate ourselves. They view themselves as the prophetic vanguard of human liberation.

Marxism made obvious the ersatz religious nature of this perspective. Adherents believed not because they were convinced by the details of Karl Marx’s economic analysis, but because Marxism provided a godless answer to religious questions — what is wrong with the world and what is to be done about it? Acolytes thrilled to communism’s promise of apocalyptic class struggle (with its concomitant revenge against the oppressor) followed by an idyllic paradise.

This vision proved false, and murdered tens of millions before collapsing. But the fall of the Soviet Union did not end leftist dreams. Marx’s promise of liberation from economic inequality has been supplemented by other analyses of oppression and liberation. American leftists are now far more concrned with race, sex, and gender than with poverty and economic inequality.

The Commodification of Human Relationships

The liberation they seek goes far beyond freedom from material deprivation. Their struggle is against the given, finite nature of human existence itself, and the obligations it places upon us. They seek freedom from tradition, place, commitment, family, and even physical embodiment. Hence, the American left now easily coexists with woke capitalism, preaching a gospel of personal liberation via the self-creation of indulgence and consumption.

Woke leftism does not dream of the proletariat seizing the means of production. It endorses big government out of vague humanitarianism, as a means of support for marginal members and as liberation from relational responsibility. It seeks to commodify, professionalize, and subsidize work that used to be primarily done by families, churches, and communities. It aims for a society in which everyone is taken care of, but no one is personally responsible for anyone in particular.

The adherents of this petty and narcissistic creed can claim power and wield it, but they cannot achieve the ends they seek. For example, radical medical school students can intimidate professors into denying the reality of biological sex, but this will only produce bad medicine; it will not alter the sexual dimorphism of the human species.

Even as they lost Afghanistan to the Taliban, the Biden administration announced plans to revisit the contraceptive mandate. It seems that, whatever else happens, Democrats are determined to win the war on nuns who don’t want to pay for birth control.

BOTTOM LINE = This dynamic extends across our government and elite institutions, as woke advances only deepen our decadence. In the end, the woke creed will fail, but it might bring our nation down with it.

I KNOW A FEW THINGS BECAUSE I HAVE SEEN A FEW THINGS

 Sunday, August 22, 2021 11:01 AM

Nevertheless, I am still enchanted with life. My only real sadness today is that the youth of America will not be growing up in Norman Rockwell's America or listening to Motown when America was indeed that "shining light upon the hill".

Elections have consequences

 Councilman Vincent Cavaleri

When the weak lead, people die. As the humanitarian catastrophe continues to unfold in Afghanistan, the bumbling and incompetent Biden is nowhere to be found. Last reports have him hiding in Camp David, sitting at a table by himself, while the Taliban goes house to house searching and slaughtering innocent Americans and Afghan’s. They have surrounded the airport with heavily armed Taliban soldiers; and are screening and photographing anyone asking for access to the airport. At this point, they are running the show. I watched several Afghan citizens attempting to access a barrier set up by the 82nd Airborne division by climbing to the top of the wall. These people and their families have been labeled and targeted for death by the Taliban for helping America, so their only hope is to save their children. As my eyes filled with tears, I watched parents passing their children to American soldiers in the hopes of getting them out of country and to America without them. Many mothers and fathers didn’t make it to the airport and were beaten to death in the streets just outside Karzai airport. Some were whipped to death, others pummeled by the Taliban mob. People were waving their passports to American soldiers in the hopes of being allowed access on to the airport. We all watched in horror as an America C-17 transport plane was forced to start rolling on the tarmac with hundreds of people running alongside. The cargo plane was carrying roughly 800 people out of country and would have been overrun without the Airforce pilot making this life saving decision to get the aircraft into the air. Thankfully, 800 souls were transported to safety. As some would be passengers clung to parts of the C-17 outer shell, the plane lifted into the air. Video shows these poor people falling to their death as the cargo plane ascended into the sky. For them, the mere thought of being taken by the Taliban was enough for this act of desperation. I could not help but be reminded of my fellow American citizens in the World Trade Center opting for this desperate act as well on September 11, 2001. Amnesty International has been reporting on the brutality since July and this will undoubtably get much worse with the vacuum the United States has created. Make no mistake, we own every bit of this, with Biden and company having the lions share. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, NSA director Jake Sullivan, Secretary of State Blinken and of course the cackling vice president Kamala Harris make up the cast of newly appointed buffoons in charge of this humanitarian mess. Their unique skillset of having no clue on foreign policy is one thing they all have in common. As this chaotic scene continues to unfold heads should roll immediately. The folks listed above are Biden’s chief advisors and they not only dropped the ball, but single handily manufactured another global humanitarian crisis. If they can do this to the American border, then Afghanistan is a piece of cake. Would this have happened on Trump’s watch? I assure you no, they simply waited for the incompetent weaklings to take charge. Despite repeated intelligence warnings, these nincompoops thought they were smarter than everyone else. They assumed they had months to draw down and evacuate in the face of the Taliban advancement across the country. At the very least, American citizens should have been fully evacuated months ago. Unfortunately, we must sit and watch this travesty unfold as the body count will undoubtably rise. It’s hard to imagine things getting much worse, but I assure you they will. As I listen to Biden’s current press conference it is abundantly clear he still believes he has the situation in hand. He and those around him will continue to place American lives in jeopardy and make the world a more dangerous place. To hear him double down on his botched response is unconscionable.

ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES...

Taliban, dressed as U.S. military, mocking our iconic WWII photo.

PSA

 

SHARING FROM A U.S. ARMY COMBAT VETERAN OF AFGHANISTAN

 "To everyone who has reached out to me over the last few days to offer their support—thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

This has been more difficult on me than I had imagined it to be. I’m so angry and heartbroken. I feel betrayed, not by President Joe Biden's decision to leave, but by his callous refusal to do the right thing in the process.

We did a lot of good things over there which I’m incredibly proud of. My brothers and sisters in arms would load up our cargo pockets with the contents of your care packages and try to win the hearts and minds of the very youth who’ve now grown to watch both countries abandon them.

I knew that every roadside bomb we found meant that someone else got to live. I have a special bond with a band of brothers that can only be forged through the fires of war. For they were who I was fighting for, and they were fighting for me. It’s as simple as that.

Many of us will wake up each day with lingering effects of this, our longest war, and will face the gut-wrenching reality of the overall failure.

Yes, we kept the bad guys off of our turf for nearly twenty years, but that’s not guaranteed anymore. Worse, we’ve emboldened them and then allowed them to gain access to billions of dollars worth of weapons, vehicles, aircraft, and other armaments of war.

I don’t think our country is even remotely aware of, much less prepared for, the ramifications of this."

MEMO #20210816.1

Happy Monday!

• P-46 has stated that he inherited the Afghanistan cluster fiasco from P-45.
• The Afghan President has fled his country to parts unknown.  Supposedly to save bloodshed however anyone with half a functioning cerebral cortex knows it's to save his own arse.
  
• P-46 has fled to Camp David.
• P-46 has once again, outed our intelligence assets in a foreign country.
• P-46 has abandoned the Afghans who helped us to certain death.
  
• P-46 has abandoned American missionaries and other miscellaneous and assorted civilians to certain death.
  
• The beheading fest will commence shortly.
• Evil does exist and it flourishes in DC.
• BOTTOM LINE = elections have consequences.

SOMEBODY PLEASE SPLAIN THIS TO ME:

 Biden shut down the Keystone Pipeline and is now asking OPEC to increase production.

THREE CONTRACTORS

Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House.

* One is from Chicago, another is from Kentucky, and the third is from New Orleans.

All three go with a White House official to examine the fence.

 

* The New Orleans contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then works some figures with a pencil.

 

"Well," he says, "I figure the job will run about $9,000. That's $4,000 for materials, $4,000 for my crew and $1,000 profit for me."

 

* The Kentucky contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says, "I can do this job for $7,000. That's $3,000 for materials, $3,000 for my crew and $1,000 profit for me."

 

* The Chicago contractor doesn't measure or figure, but leans over to the White House official and whispers, "$27,000."  The official, incredulous, says:

"You didn't even measure like the other guys. How did you come up with such a high figure?”  The Chicago contractor whispers back:

"$10,000 for me, $10,000 for you, and we hire the guy from Kentucky to fix the fence."

 

* "Done!" replies the government official.

And that is how the Government Stimulus plan works.

 

BOTTOM LINE = Four boxes keep us free:

1.  The soap box,

2.  The ballot box,

3.  The jury box,

4.  The ammo box.

ENJOY YOUR DAY

 From Sunday, August 15, 2021 11:19 PM

• Afghan president Ashraf Ghani has fled to Tajikistan and is in hiding.

• Our president has fled to Camp David and is in hiding.

• The Taliban have captured our $700,000,000 embassy in Kabul.

• Al Qaeda and other terrorists are being released wholesale from prisons while our southern border remains wide open.

• Women, minorities, and our allies are being hunted down, raped, tortured, and murdered.

• China, Russia, Pakistan, and Iran have been empowered.

• Taiwan, South Korea, eastern European countries, and other allied nations are less than confident of us.

• Elections have consequences.

BOTTOM LINE = One positive note though...No mean tweets.

Enjoy your day.

GET IT?

 

GET IT?

 Imagine a

HOW ABOUT THIS

IMO

Friday, August 13, 2021 11:32 PM

* Folks have a right to question the validity of any vaccine.

* Folks have a right to choose medically what they believe is right for them.

* You want it, by all means get it!!

BOTTOM LINE = But if you're OK with denying folks access to necessities because they chose differently than you then you are the problem and we don't need that kind of mancow feces anywhere. 

HOW ABOUT THIS

 If you want to cover YOUR face for the rest of your life, go ahead.  Just leave the rest of us alone.

BOTTOM LINE = that's how FREEDOM works.

NEWSFLASH!

 Friday, August 6, 2021 6:51 AM

For everyone who has supported the murder of humans while they are still in the womb and are now railing that I and others need to wear a mask to "save lives": YOUR WORDS ARE A JOKE AND YOU ARE A SERIOUSLY TWISTED INDIVIDUAL.

HOW ABOUT THIS...

 Let's relocate the Sturgis 2022 Rally to Martha's Vineyard to avoid criticism.

HOW ABOUT THIS...

*Total fuel consumption of U.S. airlines is approximately 19 billion gallons annually.

*Total fuel consumption for mining Ore for construction of electric car batteries is approximately 21 billion gallons annually.

*The 21 billion gallons of fuel burned can only produce enough Ore to build 250,000 electric car batteries.

*The lifespan of an electric battery is 10 years and is not renewable.

*By 2050 these batteries will fill landfills with 50 million pounds of waste that does not break down.

BOTTOM LINE = I wonder if people would still believe in electric power cars, vehicles or equipment if they knew how massive the carbon emissions footprint really was?

INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW

 If the "vax" works, why "masking" AGAIN?