Trump Should Let the People Decide

 

We all know how President Trump loves poking Democrats whenever he has an opportunity. Some of us know he enjoys the same sport against certain Republicans. Further, it should be known that there is a group which President Trump trusts implicitly, the American People as a whole. These are the ones who placed him in the White House with hope that he would perform as advertised and not as his checkered past might indicate. Thus far, they have not been let down. That is why President Trump needs to trust this same group to end the witch trials going on in the United States Senate under the guise of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings where Advise and Consent has become Deride and Accuse. The drama, or caricature of a drama, has been playing out in the Senate chambers and across the front pages of numerous newspapers. In many instances, what has been written bore little in common with what was actually occurring. Topping this bill were the headlines touting the bravery of “Senator Booker Releases Secret Kavanaugh Emails In Defiance Of Senate Rules” when in reality those Emails were cleared for public release numerous hours before his defiant claims, but why let a few small facts get in the way of aggrandizing a potential 2020 Presidential nominee making hay while the sun shines. Every word uttered by a Democrat Senator was repeated breathlessly as if coming from Socrates or the Oracle at Delphi. The Republican Senators were either ignored or deemed inconsequential, which if by that they meant not critical enough, they got that one correct. But they had nothing to add to the broadsides launched by their Democrat colleagues. So, now the entire fight appears to be coming down to how a small number of wayward Republican and vulnerable Democrat Senators will vote on the Kavanaugh confirmation. What is a President with questionable influence to do?

 

Well, there is something President Trump could do which would have the Democrats and media, but we repeat ourselves, up in arms and crying foul. All President Trump needs do is ask Senator Graham to table the nomination until January and announce that he will meet the Democrat demand that he wait for the midterm election results before having Kavanaugh confirmed. He can state unequivocally that this election will be about the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh and other people whom he will nominate to judgeships in the future and their right to a fair and impartial hearing based on the facts and not last minute grandstanding and accusations which could have been aired early in the proceedings and been properly vetted instead of all the shrill partisanship we have seen in the past two weeks. President Trump can state that he will allow the people to decide and that he will stand by their decision. This would give President Trump two large pluses for his side. The first is that this would call the Democrats’ bluff and make the election all about Kavanaugh, something the Democrats actually fear despite grandstanding on the demand that the confirmation should be held after the midterm elections. Second, it takes the focal point of the election off of the President and places it instead on the Senate confirmation hearings which would permit both sides to use whatever snippets they believe best depict their side or most color the opposition in a bad light in their campaigns and takes away from what did President Trump Tweet today as the central point. Let’s face it, if you were President Trump and you were looking at a choice between him or Kavanaugh in campaigns about who would you trust, Kavanaugh wins hands down compared to Trump. Besides, it would show that the President trusts the people over the Swamp, as it has properly been labeled plus it would not only take the wind out of the Democrat’s sail, it would expose them further as rejectionist as we can be as sure as we are that the sun will rise tomorrow that there will be the same Democrats out in the media crying that Trump is trying to divert the election from himself onto Kavanaugh and how this is totally unfair as it denies the Democrats of their vote on this important position immediately, as the constitution demands.

 

Remember that these are the same people claiming that the Constitution would favor a longer deliberation even if it took the nomination to beyond the election granting the people a chance to vote on the nomination. Have the vote before the midterms and the Democrats claim that President Trump is rushing the vote due to the coming Blue Wave and push the vote till after the election and President Trump is trying to make the election all about Kavanaugh while ignoring all the other enormous issues which need to be discussed. Talk about damned if you do and damned if you don’t; this is the perfect example of just such a situation. Calling the Democrats’ bluff is the surest means for exposing their duplicity and will be evidence that all they desire is to be seen opposing everything Trump. President Trump would be well served to make a habit out of granting the Democrats exactly what they demand whenever it is guaranteed to have them then take the opposite side and demand that the President not do as they had demanded. There will be numerous times this will present itself as one of the many options and this is one which will also assist with draining the Swamp. This is actually the greatest; some might say sole, saving grace and accomplishment of President Trump’s election thusfar. Trump has opened can after can and jar after jar and emptied the contents of worms and other unseemly things throughout government, the media and the numerous arms and appendages of the government and revealed to anyone paying the slightest attention exactly how rotted to the core the entirety of the Federal Government has become and how the people need to awaken and take back their control and put Washington on a strict diet until the power is back with the States and individual cities, counties and other local governances. This is something citizens of all stripes and parties should be able to agree upon, that the centralization of power in Washington D.C. is an abomination which threatens the freedoms and liberties which Americans have fought, bled and died to protect and are now slipping away with only the slightest amount of time remaining to start to reverse this deadly trend. Some call it the Swamp while others the Deep State, either way it is entrenched and its roots have grown deep.

 

Deep State

 

This should be a people issue where it is favoring empowering each and every person and taking power away from what can only be classified as oligarchs ruling over their individual fiefdoms which has become what the individual Departments and even individual subcommittees which are assigned specific jobs which somehow never reach any conclusion other than their requiring additional funding the next year. This is how the Federal Government has mutated, as it was never intended to act and behave in this manner. The design under that document that many leftists declare old and no longer usable in this modern times, the Constitution, was constructed with care by some of the most progressive and intellectual political minds of the era in concert with, and here is where the critics hit the nail on the head, some rich, established, privileged, unelected, white men whose main objective was to empower the people and, if anything, handicap the central Federal Government such that it would remain a secondary power to the local governments when it came to the lives of the people within the borders of the United States. This concept has been given short shrift as elected officials continued to take power from the states and local governments and move it to Washington D.C. where the bureaucrats eventually got a taste for power and politicians grew lazy allowing the individual agencies to flesh out the applications and consequences of their ideas by passing legislation which assigned the application to render the desired, or undesired, results from a vague concept to various named agencies and too often added, “and any agency which finds applicable use,” to the legislation. This is what spawned a very aggressive growth industry, which found itself capable of taking a single piece of poorly defined legislation and generating hundreds if not thousands of regulations of which many were beyond even the wildest of applications never dreamed of by the Congressional legislators. This gave rise to special departmental groups within departments who were tasked with applying these regulations and who, some many years later, are still in the process of setting up the application and if only they would get a twenty percent increase in funding they might be able to next year only ask for fifteen percent increase with little if any progress to show for it. Here is a PDF file on Government Waste for your perusing pleasure. We could give additional links, but those should do quite well and we feel assured that most of you already have a decent idea of the problem.

 

What is difficult is the solution, something that Congress is want to take the necessary steps towards slimming down the various out of control agencies, which is all of them. The problem is these government projects become income streams to the State and local government through which campaign donors, relatives, friends and people of influence are provided with their payback or investment for their support. This is one of the reasons the same road is repaved every two years taking exactly two years to complete and the connecting roads where the potholes abound are basically ignored or patched on rare occasions after a car fell into a pothole which thought it was a sinkhole. That is simply the most obvious example that most of us have witnessed. Another item is they are always building new bridges or highways and seldom repairing the older ones allowing them to collapse such that a new bridge or roadway is required. There is a reason for this as well. Where you will always see signs dedicating the Senator or Governor What’s-his-face Bridge but never this Bridge Repaired by signs because people get upset when you mess with traffic to repair the bridge but are pleased when the new bridge or roadway is completed and can finally be utilized. Ending spending means people will lose their cozy little jobs somewhere down the line and this is never good for reelection. Reelection counts on additional spending for things which have already passed their use-by-date just because it employs, by then, a few hundred people, and that is worth ten times more votes than saving tax monies. When have you heard somebody campaign with a specific agenda of cutting twenty-five percent of the budget and getting elected? If such a person exists, we are willing to bet they did not deliver or even make a valiant attempt at fulfilling that promise. That is because as soon as they got to their newly elected position, they were taken aside and told how things work.

 

We bet many people would love to know why the government continues to throw good money after bad time and time again. Well, it is easy to find the reasoning. Imagine you had a job, say Congressperson or Senator, and you could invest your money, even up to ten thousand dollars you do not have on trust, into any stocks you desired. I know, so what? Now imagine that you knew that in six weeks Company X was going to receive a ten-billion dollar government contract. Now, you take this knowledge and buy as much of Company X stock as you are able and then one week later after the contract has been voted upon, passed and the public been told via the news, this was big news, the company that before this contract was worth maybe one-hundred-thousand dollars will now greatly expand. Their stock price quadrupled and now you sell your stock and take home a tidy profit. Now let us assume you can do this for a number of years. One would expect at some point you would be charged with insider trading. Well, that is where you would be wrong because the House and Senate saw their way to making the elected figures and the top people in their staff all immune to insider trading laws. That is how a Congresscritter is elected and goes to Washington with maybe a quarter of a million dollars (if that) and after two years is worth fifty million dollars despite their salary being a paltry $174,000. This is the reason that they spend millions of dollars to get elected to Washington D.C. and also why the swamp will be so difficult to drain, the Representatives, Senators, senior staff and friends use these offices as money making ventures at the peoples’ expense.

 

Hopefully, if you are an American, you are fairly upset with this lucrative set up used by your elected representatives to line their own and close by people’s pockets with your money. Well, the first step is to organize a nationwide project to change the way things are done. You first target will be that exemption from insider trading and the appointment of somebody to enforce insider trading laws against elected representatives and their close associates, staff and friends. This might be called the Insider Outing Group which would want 503 C3 tax-exempt non-profit status. Then you need to get 220 Representatives and 61 Senators to sign a pledge to end the insider trading exemption for all involved and currently covered and their dedication to making this stick permanently. Further, you might start petitions in every state to pass legislation calling to amend the Constitution making such acts by all elected representatives and those around them both illegal with Federal prison time and an impeachable offence. Once their money train has dried up, then and only then, they might be persuaded to act honorably and finally actually cut spending and not just cut the rate of increase of spending. That is another slight of hand used by politicians. They take what the budget as planned with a certain increase, often thirty percent, and then cut the increase in half making it fifteen percent and then claim they cut spending fifteen percent. This way they claim a fifteen percent cut in spending while actually increasing spending by fifteen percent. The really deceitful would claim they cut spending in half in that situation because as long as they can convince themselves what they say is true, that is half the battle, as they know the people will rarely check and call them on these lies. The only way to strip Washington D.C. of their free-spending addiction will be to take the personal profit production out of the equation and then one would still need to force discipline on the elected representatives or replace them regularly. There is some truth in the saying that, “elected representatives and diapers need regular changing and for the same reason.” President Trump took a step in the right direction, but may not have gone far enough, when he instituted a policy where for every new regulation instituted, that department was required to nullify two existing regulations.

 

It would have been more productive and might have mattered if he had made it five regulations out for every new one put in. Unfortunately, it will take a form of revolution from the people to bring the government under control. It really is a self-perpetuating and out of control monster and it will eat the country into the poor house. President Eisenhower warned in his farewell address about the need to watch over the Military-Industrial Complex, he should have said Government-Military-Industrial Complex. Just as President Washington warned of the evils of political parties in his prescient farewell address, so was Eisenhower and between them they may have targeted the two main problems the people will face against them taking back their nation. We can only hope that the people of America are capable and able of recovering their lost power and becoming the masters of their destiny as was the hope of the Founding Fathers. One thing we often hear in rumor is that there was a strong affiliation between Biblical Law and how the Founding Fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution with often reference to Deuteronomy limiting the wealth of kings in their possessions. We did run across something peculiar from Dr. Andrew Porwancher, a core faculty member of the Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage at the Oklahoma University who has researched Alexander Hamilton going back to his birth and other peculiarities and posits that Mr. Hamilton was Jewish. We will leave that as is and, along with this link, each can assign whatever value they care to on these items. Whatever the beginnings of the American adventure, it has taken ill and is in need of resuscitation and requires that its bleeding of treasure through the deficit spending have a tourniquet applied and have it stopped while there is still hope. The world would become a poorer place without the United States and it would be quite painful to watch as she committed suicide.

 

Beyond the Cusp

 

What if We Actually Refuse to Maintain the Past?

 

The latest craze sweeping America, the home of the brave, is to tear down statues of military heroes whose audacity was to fight for the wrong causes by the standards of the far left. That makes virtually every military statue a relic threatened by the wearers of rose colored glasses who believe that all war is evil and every soldier a demon of the darkest parts of human antiquity. These are the rewriters of history who claim that peace conquers all. Forgotten is the greatest generation which saved the world from the evils of Hitler and his Nazis with their Master Race. Now we have a new Master Race who are the holders of the purest truths and the standards by which all time must be judged. They hold that the modern perfection they seek to press upon our world will make all people free from all the old hatreds. They promise true equality for all and an end to poverty, and end to wars, an end to hatreds and an end to the old ways which no longer stand against their purity with which they desire to wash all history.

 

They desire to rewrite the history using the new-speak which has rewritten the dictionary and, by teaching the youth whole word recognition, they will cleanse the future purging it of the hateful words. Gone will be the words slavery, war, hate, envy, lust, violence, fight, fear and almost countless other words which they claim, along with every derivative and alternate forms, are what had tainted society allowing for these evils to exist. They desire to rewrite all books, or better yet only allow new books which will be written using only the pure speech which has been approved by the new masters. The New York Times will update its dictionary to meet the new standard and everything will become perfected as the new language works its miracles. No more fossil fuels as we will have this new energy called limitless green energy, and we can only feel for the first person to complain that only three hours a day of electricity is a form of deprivation as deprive is one of the forbidden worlds.

 

But rewriting the books is only the first step. All the military statues and war memorials must be cleansed to reflect the new perfect world. We will simply rename the lists of people erasing the awfulness which took their lives but still remembering that they once lived and are now mysteriously gone. Watch, as our lives will be so much nicer as we all have equality on all things. Do not be worried as the redistributors take some of your things to give to those who have less until we all have the same, well, except for those who are giving the orders, of course they get more as they require more if they are to be charged with making everything equal. Also, be very careful and just pay the word-fines for using the forbidden language as arguing will only lead to more wrong-speak and larger fines. There is more good news, and only good news, as spelling is now personalized allowing everyone to add their own flair to their representation of the good words which make up new-speak. Meanwhile, the world is changing and we all are going to have to adjust, it is just going to be that way.

 

The new world must be rearranged and all white privilege has to be wiped away. From now on all privilege will be cleansed and equality will be the new standard. Tests will be free of all stereotypes and social preference and be formed to a standard which will erase the former white bias due to white privilege. Academics from the diversity offices have devised these new tests which they have verified are free of the old standards and conventions and are now completely free and test purely intelligence. The tests will continue to be adjusted until there are absolutely no biases and the results represent the equality between all peoples regardless of their racial, genetic, social or any other classification because they are designing a world where there will be absolutely no differences and all people are completely equal. The new education for equality will see to it that everybody is made to be equal and nobody will be made to be better. Teachers will promote group-think and group-responsibility and group-cooperation will be the new and wonderful concept supreme. Things are going to be very different in our new reality.

 

This is what is being sold through the media-academic-cultural-social networks where the socialist-leftist diversity is our savior and solution to all ills, networks which permeate society and is the major message being transmitted throughout every arena and platform available. There will be changes coming which will be for the betterment of the society and will further diversity and equality. There have been rumors of some of the proposed changes we will see in the coming years as we further the perfect society. Children of the future will be arranged by the department of diversity and parents will be matched with the child which best fits their attitudes. The new youth, the new children will be arranged such that they are a perfect and representative blend using modern technology such that their racial and genetics will all be exactly the same with the only real differences being almost imperceptible. Our new leadership will be chosen for their proven acceptance of the principles, conscience and specific standards for advancement of diversity. The new leadership will be the best capable of advancing the goals of the new perfection which works to perfect equality and to attain a perfect balance in order to make diversity the greatest goal which will be attained with the unflinching resolution diversity deserves. This is the promise from the new masters of our futures.

 

They promise that diversity will actually initiate new developments and discoveries just as adequately and with the same speed and pace which the world has become accustomed. Diversity and total equality does not mean that excellence will be sacrificed for equality. There is no reason that genius cannot coexist with diversity and equality in all things. This seemed confusing and just plain improbable that genius and equality could both be maintained. True equality and making a purely equal and diverse society under their definitions means something different than what we would expect. They define diversity as nobody being different and everyone being treated exactly the same as the next person and nobody can excel as that might offend the person who measures up as the lesser by comparison. Their ideas are simply great but unattainable. People, even designer people, are going to be different if for no other reason than they will live where the weather is different such as Seattle, Washington and nine months a year of rain and Albuquerque, New Mexico where rain does not appear in many dictionaries as it is unnecessary.

 

Further, if the government is going to produce advancements as promised, then they will require breaking their own rules and having some people who will be truly diverse and anything but equal. Since the government is engineering the babies and also sitting in full control of information as they watch every word so as to never cause anyone to hear a discouraging word. Remember that our new Constitution does not promise freedom of speech but now provides for freedom from being offended. That has been the most contentious of the new laws such that the courts have a backlog of people suing other people for offending their sensitivities. The latest reports tell that more than five thousand such suits are filed daily in San Francisco alone. Good thing such trials are in Federal Courts as it is a Constitutional right because that puts the Deep State into gear and they have their ways. There are reports of a special new city which has been built in the middle of the Wyoming Rocky Mountains which can only be reached by helicopter and has a no-fly zone Federally enforced for five-hundred miles in all directions. This place is presumed to be the actual source of all the latest inventions and remarkable advances which suddenly have begun to appear after fifteen years of barely a decent invention or new idea in all of the society since the new governance. There have also been the first rumblings over the fact that the national leadership remains in the hands of twenty or thirty families whose children all go to the Sidwell Friends School and then on to Harvard or Yale and they all appear to look very unlike all the other children and more like their parents. It also has been strange that the leadership all appear to intermarry as they choose to free of any government matchmaking. But surely, these are all just people making things up, as equality and diversity are the central pillars of the new society, the new world.

 

This is the view of many in our society today and if they were ever granted complete freedom to make the perfect world, it would not even pretend to be as fair with equality as we painted above. The world would actually quickly start to appear more like the great days of Europe past. There would be the leadership class living in their great homes like the ones, yes, plural, ones that Al Gore owns (see below). The remainder would reside in blocks of apartments all made with the very same architecture making everybody’s home exactly the same as the rest of the population with the sole difference being the floor number. So as to make everybody feel like their apartments were identical there are no windows and instead they all have video windows from which they can choose from any view on the Internet. They are not even told which floor they reside so as to prevent envy and promote equality. The apartment blocks have a modern appearance (Image further down). The new society where diversity is the word upon which everything is modeled and equality is the purpose for every program and everything is done with care and compassion because everybody deserves to be treated with respect. The result gives you the Gores with more and the rest with less.

 

The Gore Homes

 

 

Equal Apartment Building Complex

 

Well, such a world will never work and fortunately never come to be. The real problem is that some things of today’s world have some similarities. The political class does live in a separate world than the remainder of the public. The part of their children attending Sidwell Friends School and then on to Harvard or Yale and their marrying the children of other wealthy individuals is true. They have different rules. We will give one example which does make a difference. The members of Congress and their staffers are specifically exempted from insider trading laws. Beyond this little convenience for the people and their staffers who are the people who grant billion dollar deals with companies which trade on the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE as well as others on the Nasdaq Exchange. One does not need much imagination to figure out how so many in Congress enter with possibly moderate wealth and within a few years they are multi-millionaires. Campaign Finance Reform is a smokescreen they trot out every number of years and make a huge deal about how they are taking the money out of politics. Well, they are really taking the money out of politics and placing it in their bank accounts and their back pockets. There are other means by which they make their wealth but why bother with small change from other sources, insider trading just might make them enough wealth to last, what, say a lifetime? Should they ever begin talking of equality, remember how equal the trading laws are on insider trading. How many of you in the United States actually are aware of the allowance for Congress and their staffers to get wealthy on your dime as they take your tax dollars, give them to their supporters and their companies, and then purchase stock in these companies so they can both get wealthy together. Remember that next elections and see if at a Townhall meeting you might ask your Congress person how well they are doing with their trading, their insider trading. Remember life is really not equal, not at all equal, and Congress probably would like to keep it that way.

 

Beyond the Cusp