Yesterday, Thune said that everything is on the table to ratify Trumps appointments. That included recess appointments. I will admit, I'll believe it when I see it. The uniparty is strong in keeping themselves in power.
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If you stick with just what he (OGR) said there is no argument. There is a huge difference! That does not mean the concept of Uniparty or RINO is not valid, it just means there is a world of difference. If there were no difference “Republican In Name Only” would have no meaning. Corruption of all sorts is the key. Rooting it out when found is the only answer. Trump and his picks right now are the closest we’ve come to a start. Will they be effective? It will be a miracle if they are. The inertia and seduction of power is a lot to overcome. But I prefer the hope he represents to the cynicism of throwing up our hands in the face of such a gift as this unlikely champion’s victory. Think of the odds he has overcome. From defeating 16 candidates in the 2016 primaries to the 3yr long rolling coup he survived, to impeachments, stolen election, prosecution, surviving to win another primary, assassination attempts - to winning against a lock-step collusion of deep-state & media. Seems like Divine Intervention considering those odds. Lets hope he’s up to it. He knows the forces he’s up against better than he did his first rodeo. His picks are showing that as glaringly as Biden’s picks showed the hand of the other side. And that itself proves a huge difference!
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Speaking of corruption…
The two biggest scandals of my earlier life were Watergate and the Clinton/Lewenski scandal.
It is absolutely breathtaking what has occurred since. Off the top of my head here are those that had potential to cause single-terms in office, if not outright rejection by the people; that is, if we had not sunk to progressively lower and lower standards. The list is not comprehensive but it is impressive.
Fast & Furious: where death for a US agent occurred after the government, in a mad search of gun-dealer violations, became the biggest violator and armed Cartels members with guns. And where the Attorney General was found in contempt of Congress for withholding information.
The IRS scandal: where the most feared & powerful institution in the U.S. was turned lose on Conservative non-profits in the most blatant weaponization of an agency to date.
Obama’s authorization to spy on the opposition Presidential Candidate with full knowledge that the basis for authorization was false.
The coordinated efforts of the Intelligence Community, knowing the background of the political opposition research report known as the Steele Dossier, paid for by the Clinton Campaign, remained largely silent initially and ultimately piled on in a three-year effort to hamstring a President of the United States.
No less that three Heads of U.S. Intelligence Agencies lying under oath to Congress about a variety of legitimate “Oversight” issues, including spying on Americans.
There were numerous Policy Scandals we are familiar with, most of which map directly back to cultivating political power by gaining votes. From the border, to inflation-causing stimulus, to Student Loans, or currying to a variety of WOKE constituencies or driving wedges with Identity Politics through DEI-over-Meritocracy style initiatives. These are scandals in themselves but too numerous to mention beyond the very worst, unless your loved one was one of 13 dead in the botched Afghan withdrawal. The Cabinet Make-up of the current Administration is a grand snapshot representing such scandalous pandering.
One policy-scandal that deserves mention and defies limits on breadth and scope is our government’s collusion with a willing media and our Social Media Platforms. That is the scandal of censorship. Whether about Covid: alternate and available treatment, the necessity of lockdowns, the efficacy of mandates, the truth about its origins, the retaliation against “expert” dissidents whose oppression qualifies them for the moniker “Medical Freedom Fighters”, this was particularly breathtaking. That censorship covered election fraud and amounted to a carefully curated PsyOp Campaign against Americans themselves and extended well beyond Covid.
Enter the Laptop-from-Hell Cover-up: The same laptop in possession of the FBI for a full ten months. The veracity throughout the cover-up was known but this was so big that three scandals grew from this alone.
One was the Aspen institute and Government Agency collusion with Main Stream press as they gathered in Aspen, then war-gamed how the release of the information would be spun by the networks to the public.
A second was the 51 Intelligence Official signatories to a Russia-Disinformation PsyOp in time to produce a sound-byte opportunity for the Presidential debate.
The most glaring intel in the laptop, though not the most disgusting, was the Pay-to-play influence-peddling that dated back to Biden’s Vice Presidency and continued into his Presidency. This involved his entire family, where at least 24 shell-companies funneled at least 20 million to members of the First-Families accounts.
Besides the Secret Service finding Cocaine in the White House or Congressional Staffers filming themselves engaging in gay-sex in Capital buildings, more substantive and systematic scandals became a gaslighting competition.
Such as the widespread collusion between party and press to cover-up cognitive decline of the Commander in Chief.
Followed by in internal Party Coup once that decline threatened Democrat’s retention of political power.
That was followed by a back-room selection of a new candidate without any voter selection.
But before that, there was the legal-warfare of five indictments of the political opposition.
The previous Weaponization of government agencies like the IRS can be considered dry-runs I suppose. After all, the DOJ was getting good enough to go after parents and Catholics at School Board meetings or protesters outside Abortion Clinics. Why not the political opposition?
And let us not forget the very significant effort to remove that opposition from the ballot within States, depriving voters of their vote, all while reciting odes to Democracy.
My finger is getting tired but I assure you I could type more. When people say “corruption, scandal, anything-goes political infighting, it’s always been this way”… they delude themselves! Yes! There has been and always will be corruption. But there used to be Marquess of Queensberry Rules, even in politics. Violators must be prosecuted because we’re talking about much worse than an ensuing brawl if violations and violators are not held to account. We are talking about a system of government that slips off its perch as a “necessary evil”, to a wholly corrupt Evil.
We better hope there is a difference between what we’ve had and what we got now. Doesn’t hurt to be skeptical but it doesn’t hurt to hope this has Electiin result happened for a reason either.
The two biggest scandals of my earlier life were Watergate and the Clinton/Lewenski scandal.
It is absolutely breathtaking what has occurred since. Off the top of my head here are those that had potential to cause single-terms in office, if not outright rejection by the people; that is, if we had not sunk to progressively lower and lower standards. The list is not comprehensive but it is impressive.
Fast & Furious: where death for a US agent occurred after the government, in a mad search of gun-dealer violations, became the biggest violator and armed Cartels members with guns. And where the Attorney General was found in contempt of Congress for withholding information.
The IRS scandal: where the most feared & powerful institution in the U.S. was turned lose on Conservative non-profits in the most blatant weaponization of an agency to date.
Obama’s authorization to spy on the opposition Presidential Candidate with full knowledge that the basis for authorization was false.
The coordinated efforts of the Intelligence Community, knowing the background of the political opposition research report known as the Steele Dossier, paid for by the Clinton Campaign, remained largely silent initially and ultimately piled on in a three-year effort to hamstring a President of the United States.
No less that three Heads of U.S. Intelligence Agencies lying under oath to Congress about a variety of legitimate “Oversight” issues, including spying on Americans.
There were numerous Policy Scandals we are familiar with, most of which map directly back to cultivating political power by gaining votes. From the border, to inflation-causing stimulus, to Student Loans, or currying to a variety of WOKE constituencies or driving wedges with Identity Politics through DEI-over-Meritocracy style initiatives. These are scandals in themselves but too numerous to mention beyond the very worst, unless your loved one was one of 13 dead in the botched Afghan withdrawal. The Cabinet Make-up of the current Administration is a grand snapshot representing such scandalous pandering.
One policy-scandal that deserves mention and defies limits on breadth and scope is our government’s collusion with a willing media and our Social Media Platforms. That is the scandal of censorship. Whether about Covid: alternate and available treatment, the necessity of lockdowns, the efficacy of mandates, the truth about its origins, the retaliation against “expert” dissidents whose oppression qualifies them for the moniker “Medical Freedom Fighters”, this was particularly breathtaking. That censorship covered election fraud and amounted to a carefully curated PsyOp Campaign against Americans themselves and extended well beyond Covid.
Enter the Laptop-from-Hell Cover-up: The same laptop in possession of the FBI for a full ten months. The veracity throughout the cover-up was known but this was so big that three scandals grew from this alone.
One was the Aspen institute and Government Agency collusion with Main Stream press as they gathered in Aspen, then war-gamed how the release of the information would be spun by the networks to the public.
A second was the 51 Intelligence Official signatories to a Russia-Disinformation PsyOp in time to produce a sound-byte opportunity for the Presidential debate.
The most glaring intel in the laptop, though not the most disgusting, was the Pay-to-play influence-peddling that dated back to Biden’s Vice Presidency and continued into his Presidency. This involved his entire family, where at least 24 shell-companies funneled at least 20 million to members of the First-Families accounts.
Besides the Secret Service finding Cocaine in the White House or Congressional Staffers filming themselves engaging in gay-sex in Capital buildings, more substantive and systematic scandals became a gaslighting competition.
Such as the widespread collusion between party and press to cover-up cognitive decline of the Commander in Chief.
Followed by in internal Party Coup once that decline threatened Democrat’s retention of political power.
That was followed by a back-room selection of a new candidate without any voter selection.
But before that, there was the legal-warfare of five indictments of the political opposition.
The previous Weaponization of government agencies like the IRS can be considered dry-runs I suppose. After all, the DOJ was getting good enough to go after parents and Catholics at School Board meetings or protesters outside Abortion Clinics. Why not the political opposition?
And let us not forget the very significant effort to remove that opposition from the ballot within States, depriving voters of their vote, all while reciting odes to Democracy.
My finger is getting tired but I assure you I could type more. When people say “corruption, scandal, anything-goes political infighting, it’s always been this way”… they delude themselves! Yes! There has been and always will be corruption. But there used to be Marquess of Queensberry Rules, even in politics. Violators must be prosecuted because we’re talking about much worse than an ensuing brawl if violations and violators are not held to account. We are talking about a system of government that slips off its perch as a “necessary evil”, to a wholly corrupt Evil.
We better hope there is a difference between what we’ve had and what we got now. Doesn’t hurt to be skeptical but it doesn’t hurt to hope this has Electiin result happened for a reason either.
What hasn’t been tried to date, is laying out the many chains of corruption line by line for the public. Whether it’s illegal immigration, climate change mitigation, funding foreign conflicts and addressing the collateral damage, public health policy, crime, pretty much anything else that’s a hot button issue, is actually a grift.
The Trump Administration needs to hold single issue press conferences where they deliver cold, hard facts. They should be held at regular intervals, say monthly or quarterly. Show charts that name groups and individuals who profit all along the chain. Take no questions. Instead, issue the reports and challenge the media to refute them.
Also, set up a public facing website that shows everyone both the executive summary for each issue and links to the raw data. Again, challenge citizen sleuths to prove or refute them. Offer substantial rewards for people who expose the corruption, and provide them free legal representation if their evidence is true and accurate.
Yes people need to be held to account, but first you must stop the bleeding. When a “public service” is proven to in fact be a for profit enterprise that elected officials, bureaucrats and connected people and organizations are taking advantage of, the money has to stop flowing immediately. The IRS should be in charge of clawing as much back as possible while the cases are still in litigation. People and organizations proven to be guilty must have all assets frozen and all activities suspended. Dry up the money and the leeches will move on.
This has to happen or eventually we’ll be bled dry. What else at this point do we have to lose?
The Trump Administration needs to hold single issue press conferences where they deliver cold, hard facts. They should be held at regular intervals, say monthly or quarterly. Show charts that name groups and individuals who profit all along the chain. Take no questions. Instead, issue the reports and challenge the media to refute them.
Also, set up a public facing website that shows everyone both the executive summary for each issue and links to the raw data. Again, challenge citizen sleuths to prove or refute them. Offer substantial rewards for people who expose the corruption, and provide them free legal representation if their evidence is true and accurate.
Yes people need to be held to account, but first you must stop the bleeding. When a “public service” is proven to in fact be a for profit enterprise that elected officials, bureaucrats and connected people and organizations are taking advantage of, the money has to stop flowing immediately. The IRS should be in charge of clawing as much back as possible while the cases are still in litigation. People and organizations proven to be guilty must have all assets frozen and all activities suspended. Dry up the money and the leeches will move on.
This has to happen or eventually we’ll be bled dry. What else at this point do we have to lose?
A most excellent description of the political landscape. Thank you….. However, I contend that the Russian Dossier is by far the most significant breach of law as the conspiracy was not only intended to undermine the integrity of our electoral system as it involved elected members of congress from both parties, members of persons untrusted with the leadership of our intelligence agencies along in cooperation with the corrupt political party members and affiliates. Watergate was insignificant in comparison. Comey should be doing life in a federal prison. Hillary always maintains at least six degrees of separation between herself and those she uses as instruments to carry out her strategic attacks. Although I’ve often described her as a Marxist, I know that in actuality, she is a tyrannical souls who utilizes Marxists, Marxist Ideologues, and Soviet Style Marxist Strategies in an attempt to achieve her goals. She didn’t spend years as the Protege of Saul Alinsky for nothing…..
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Well, the last time Trump was president the Uniparty fought against him every step of the way to try and stop him. And you best believe they will do it again. And Thune does NOT have a “very strong 2A record”. The GOA ranks him a “B”, which means he is a compromiser.
Check out his ratings on the Freedom Index. He has a horrible rating. His lifetime score is a 56%. Some of the years he has below 30%!! That is horrible. Like I said before, McTurtle organized this “secret ballot” vote for the three choices for majority leader as quickly as he did to rush in another swamp dweller. And that’s exactly what happened. The swamp is gonna protect their own. And don’t forget that MarkWayne Mullin is buddies with Thune. So of course he was pushing for him to be the leader. Because Mullin only cares about himself.
Look at how much Trump got done his first term even with all the opposition from his own party. Just think of what he could accomplish with all of their support. But he won’t ever get it. The establishment won’t give up that power.
I already said I was wrong. And I have never been happier. God worked a miracle. I think I lost faith for a while. Then I started studying up on forgiveness and the biggest of all is Christ dying for us all while we were sinners. I kept saying to people that God ain’t gonna help us because we don’t deserve it. Well, do we ever deserve it? No. Do we ever deserve forgiveness? No. We sure didn’t deserve Christ dying for us. Thankfully we have a patient God that loves us. I do tend to be negative about a lot of things Terry. It’s a flaw of mine. I ask that yall pray for me to help me do better in the future.
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John Thune on gun control (source: On The Issues):
I don't know the circumstances of the "NO" vote I highlighted in red. But that looks like a pretty strong pro gun stance to me. Looks stronger than Trump, too. Thune didn't have the ATF ban anything like Trump did with bump stocks and then say, "...we'll worry about due process later."
Look... I don't wanna marry the guy, but at least right now, he's saying he wants to work with Trump. Time will tell if that's BS or not.
I don't know the circumstances of the "NO" vote I highlighted in red. But that looks like a pretty strong pro gun stance to me. Looks stronger than Trump, too. Thune didn't have the ATF ban anything like Trump did with bump stocks and then say, "...we'll worry about due process later."
Look... I don't wanna marry the guy, but at least right now, he's saying he wants to work with Trump. Time will tell if that's BS or not.
And the so calledconservative FM channel 96.9, The Eagle for talk radio news persons insist upon using the word "migrant" even when the article they are reading is about illegals. Dammit!, Get it right or don't say anything. The more they tone down the rhetoric, the more mainstream it becomes and the more normal then the acceptance follows.
NO! Illegal is illegal!
How does a city hire an illegal for a police officer? I can just see them on the witness stand in court.
Officer, have you ever committed a crime? Aren't you in fact an illegal alien and came to this country illegally?
How are we supposed to believe you then when you testify, under oath, and you are a criminal and a liar?
I agree wholeheartedly the Watergate pales in comparison and for all the reasons you mention. That was my larger point even if I failed to make it with clarity.
And I agree that Comey should be in jail; in fact there should be a lot of people in jail right now! I’d venture to say that you could replace as many of the J6ers who ever served time or are in jail still with those who ‘should be’ held accountable and you still wouldn’t have all who belong there. From Covid, to censorship, to those involved with the collusion between the White House/media/Intel Agencies/State prosecutions and the election interference, to cover-up of the Laptop quagmire, all the way to a host of subjects within the House Oversight Committee investigations, you have a lot of people who deserve prison.
Corruption is a cancer! Accountability is the only safeguard if we are to preserve our Republic.
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