Random thoughts #36

My NextDoor account was suspended because I posted a link to the Accidental Speaker. Seems that NextDoor does not like musing on national politics. I thought that the readers needed a break from postings on lost dogs and lousy plumbers. My bad. But how do they explain their embrace of Black Lives Matter?

If Bill Clinton was the first black president then Joe Biden said that he was the first black woman to serve with a black president. Does that mean he is a black cross dressing, transwoman passing for white? Who knew.

Biden and his surrogates have only one warning against Trump – that he is a “threat to democracy.” But what about the FBI and the Steele dossier? What about the Russian conspiracy hoax? What about the 51 intelligence gnomes lying about Hunter’s laptop? What about lawfare and the “Justice” department actions against Trump and his allies? What about the expansion of the administrative state? What about ignoring the rulings from the Supreme Court? Aren’t all these “threats to democracy Joe?”

Isn’t it interesting that the democrats are losing their minds over the Supreme Court ruling of limited immunity for the president? Consider that Biden said that the decision was a “treat to democracy”. Can’t they find another pet phase? Biden said that there are now “virtually no limits on what the president can do.” He apparently does not realize the irony of his statement. He should now be happy for if Trump is elected, won’t Biden be shielded from retribution since all of his acts were conducted in his official capacity as president? Biden ended his lament with “May God help preserve our democracy.” Indeed.

By the way Joe (and all the folks on the left) we do not have a democracy to preserve. We have a representative republic. We elect politicians to represent our interests. The senate is surely not a democracy with two senators from each state, regardless of population. Neither is the House of Representatives. The average population per member is 760,000. But Delaware has one representative and 960,000 residents. Why don’t those “threat to democracy” folk demand that we jettison both the senate and the house and have a national vote on every bill? These wailers also want the Supreme Court expanded but I have heard no one wanting the House of Representatives to be expanded to “better represent democracy.” And by the way, haven’t they learned their lessons with regard to the Supreme Court? I guess they haven’t heard that what goes around comes around.

What ever happened to “We will build the wall and Mexico will pay for it”?

Someone wrote that this may be the first election where the majority of people voting for one candidate are doing so because they detest the other candidate. I guess they forgot about Hillary Clinton. BTW, has anyone associated with the Clintons turned up dead lately?

Trump needs to pick a VP who will be an outstanding two term president. If Biden had picked another black woman, say Val Demmings, there would not be all the gnashing of teeth about succession. I still fault Reagan for naming George Bush rather than Jack Kemp as his running mate. Kemp was a solid conservative with strong support in the black community. A President Kemp would have carried on Reagan’s legacy and paved the way for a stronger less partisan America. Instead we got George Bush.

Biden is on a string of loses. First there was the disastrous debate. Now everyone wants him to abdicate – except his family and Biden himself. Second, the courts keep stopping his tuition debt pandering. Third, Chevron has been repealed, limiting the administrative state. Fourth, the courts have ruled against regulatory overreach by the FTC and the SEC. Fifth, Biden’s pause on liquid natural gas exports has been overturned. Six, Biden’s rewrite of Title IX which changes the definition of sex to include gender identities has been blocked. Thank goodness for the republican AGs for their suits targeting regulatory overreach. Of course our “representatives” in congress have been doing nothing but sitting on their thumbs.

Previous, I listed some of the Biden initiatives. Here they are again:

1. Climate change: no new pipelines, restrictions on drilling, encouraging financial institutions not to lend to gas and oil producers, cited climate change as an essential element of national security and foreign policy. Shutting down liquid natural gas exports.
2. Embracing “green new deal”
3. End of energy independence
4. Equity plans for all federal agencies 
5. Inflation
6. Weaponization of the Department of “Justice”
7. Open borders: ended funding for the border wall, rescind the “Stay in Mexico” policy
8. $1.9 trillion Covid “relief” bill: Only 9% allocated to public health issues
9. $2.2 trillion “infrastructure” bill
10. Support of Critical Race Theory
11. Rewriting Title IX to include transgenders
12. Support for the teaching of gender identity to K-3 students
13. Ending ban on transgenders in military
14. Woke military
15. Raised minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 an hour
16. Established a White House gender policy council
17. Stops withdrawal from World Health Organization
18. Restart Iran nuclear agreement
19. Pauses student loan repayments
20. Extending the foreclosure moratorium
21. Rejoins Paris climate accord
22. Rescinds Trump’s 1776 Commission that was established as a counter to the New York Times 1619 Project
23. Including noncitizens in the Census
24. “Build Back Better” progressive wish list
25. Soft on crime
26. Attempts at rescinding the Second Amendment
27. Federal takeover of elections
28. Commission to study the packing of the Supreme Court
29. Universal pre-K, free community college, expansion of child tax credit
30. Increased regulatory burdens at a cost of $100 billion annually

Did I leave out anything?

As Gil Scott-Heron said in “Winter in America”, “four more years of that?”