Some things I doodled around with while driving West this past month…
For Democracy…
For a democratic republic to function properly, the morals of the people—those who vote and make the decisions for the country—must be grounded in faith and integrity, not necessarily to be on the same page and united.
The strength of a democratic republic is its ability to release pressure from simmering discontent, no matter how drastic the opposing sides become. Once corruption and falsehoods infect the body politic, then the republic breaks down. It is the people’s fault when this fails for inattentiveness and sloth have replaced the necessary elements of human honor that is required to be self-governing.
For Vanity…
House Speaker Mike Johnson is in a pickle. He has been raked over the coals—justifiably—about his flip-flop concerning meaningful action on the Southern border while giving neocons $61 billion to stuff into their pockets.
I don’t know what kind of pressure Johnson faced in ignoring a majority of Republicans in Congress, but much of the blame should be heaped upon rebelling conservatives. Because of their unrealistic demands and complete lack of strategic understanding, they have become as one dimensional as the Democrats. They fail to understand the necessity to hang on until the calvary arrives. If the calvary doesn’t arrive then we’re all cooked and it makes no difference what they want—no one will get anything except the failure of the Republic.
Continuing to hound him at this point in time only exacerbates the situation and keeps people from fully embracing the Republican Party. No one, as far as I have seen, has done anything to attract voters. No one, save Donald Trump, has provided a reason to vote Republican.
The only thing Johnson should have done was to pass only what is necessary for the government to limp along until November. Someone should have told him that.
The biggest blame goes to traitorous congressmen who were elected by their constituents as Republicans to serve a two-year term and represent their interests in the Imperial City; then they unexpectedly resign for some noble cause that only they seem to understand? Or is it their dislike of conservative Republicans and Donald Trump?
Ken Buck of Colorado and Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin are traitors to the so-to-speak cause. While neither have stated their real reasoning for leaving before their term expires, they have certainly turned their backs on those who believed enough in them to elect them.
You can kind of understand why former Speaker Kevin McCarthy left. He was humiliated by being thrown out by a few members who used Democrats to dispatch him. Still, if McCarthy had any kind of integrity, he would have seen it out. Everything he has stated about being a Republican team member is obviously not something he really meant.
When asked why Buck walked away, Buck stated, "I think it's the next three people that leave that they're going to be worried about." Is that a threat? What an impotent simp.
It would be the hope that any representative walking before November is finished in the political game. That might be fine with those who skedaddle—they’re landing somewhere cushy within the Imperial City—but they do permanent damage to the country.
The Democrats already are looking at the Supreme Court ruling concerning the Colorado ballot case; if Democrats retake the House through the silent Republican abdication, then real chaos will ensue. A House Democrat majority would pass legislation declaring Trump an insurrectionist. The Supreme Court ruled that would be the only necessary justification for states to remove Trump from the ballot. (See Section 3 of the 14th Amendment)
The House now stands with 218 Republicans and 212 Democrats; there are five vacancies. Besides Buck and Gallagher, Republican Bill Johnson of Ohio left in January. Two Democrats are gone, Brian Higgins of New York and Donald Payne, Jr. from New Jersey, who just passed. George Santos was ousted for being a scum ball—but aren’t they all?—and replaced by a Democrat in a special election.
Mike Johnson is dancing on the head of a pin surrounded by razor wire.
Speculation is that Indiana Representative Greg Pence, the older brother to the former V.P., is about to walk. Like his kid brother, he doesn’t like Trump. Hardcore Trump supporters see the former preachy VP Pence as a traitor for refusing to delay the counting of the electoral votes in 2020 until more evidence of election fraud could emerge (how long they wanted the pause is unsure); if the elder Pence takes that to heart, then he could strike out in defense of his brother.
Vanity. There is no other description for these people than their own petty self-interests.
Regardless the outcome, the November election will not solve problems. It gives an opportunity to erase Biden’s policies, but the nation has been broken.
The only hope, of course, is that the bureaucracy and top management in executive branch departments are severely expurgated after a Trump victory.
Thoughts on a pandemic…
Somebody knows something I do not.
Have you ever wondered why the United States government mandated covid shots for as many citizens as it could capture while opening the border to countless millions and not even require a covid test, let alone a shot? And no screening for infectious diseases?
If we were going to have a natural pandemic, with a real live nature-created virus, we would have had it before 2019. In the progressing years since the last major pandemic in 1918, the world has become a smaller place. With the advent of commercial air travel, any natural virus would have spread like a wildfire by now and yet until a manmade virus was let loose upon the world, we have had no measurable pandemics. Why?
I’m taking a look at Victoria Nuland and the Ukrainian mess in the next piece coming soon…