MikeJelf
MikeJelf's JournalJudge, To Resuscitate Our Dying Constitution, LOCK HIM UP!
Imagine an insanely improbable situation:
A white collar criminal's lawyer and C.F.O. have been given sentences of three years and five months, respectively, in an election fraud case about ttheir boss's first run for the presidency.
Our criminal -- let's call him "Johnny "-- is aided by the most creative Supreme Court in the history of humanity. Unlike the State Supreme Court which ruled Johnny was barred from seeking office by the 14th Amendment, the federales say "We don't got to show you no estinkin precedents, we're legislating here! Anything older than 100 years don't count." Or words to that effect.
The lawyer and the accountant serve their time in pokey while their boss is convicted of 34 felony counts by his peers, but is given a "get out of jail" pass to continue his campaign for Viceroy, which he wins.
So now we have two employes who've been locked up for following Johnny''s orders, while he hopes to escape every negative result.
We know Johnny can't read anything longer than a Hitler speech , but maybe one of his underpaid lawyers might read a little Roman history to him at bedtime.
Then he might understand why republics can't abide ambitious psychopaths who storm the Capitol with mobs under their orders rather than under the law.
It's nothing personal.
There have been rumors Johnny will be accorded a delayed sentence in his state conviction, jn the hope he'll drop dead before his federal term of office expires. That would present at least two constitutional dilemmas
1. "Equal justice under law" is a very nice sentiment upon the pediment of a palace of politicians in the Capital.
If johnny receives anything less than a 3 year, 5 month sentence, as the instigator of ALL the offences, the slogan means less than "thoughts and prayers" in the aftermath of the latest slaughter of our innocence
2. Ours is supposed to be a federal republic. If the state of New York is barred from imposing its sentence on Johnny because he's special in a national government sense, federalism is at long last slain by tthe absurdity of imperial presidency.
As there is no more than a cosmetic effect on the presidency in having a president serve time in both his office and the pokey, the effect of seeing the State of the Union delivered from a New York jail cell could only be healthful.
Trump Agrees to I.Q. Challenge
Source: CBS News
The man who introduced I.Q. scores into presidential politics as a campaign issue a month ago agreed Sunday that candidates' cognition test results -- of which Intelligence Quotient is an arguable gold standard-- should be facts available to voters.
At the time of this writing no word has come from either the Trump nor Harris campaign on which qualified third party would administer the test.
Trump introduced I.Q.s into the campaign before the televised "debate," when he said, "I know her".(They had never met.) "She's a low-I.Q. individual."
Read more: eyes and ears
Advice to the Attorney General from Abe Lincoln
Dear A.G. Merrick Garland,
Pardon me for publicly accosting you with advice on how to do your duty as Attorney General, but it seems the First Amendment requires me so to do.
Also, my petition is iendered not only for myself, but also for my late Great Grandfather, who emigrated from Kent to fight against racism and slavery under President Lincoln, and for his bride, whose Delaware ancestry reflected the indigenous American principles on which the Age of Reason tenets founding the American Revolution were based.
This Petition might never have been triggered but for the sight of a traitor against the U.S. Constitution proudly flaunting the battle banner of the Confederate States of America in the Capitol on 6 January, 2021.
Another spur for this petition was a segment on Public Television yesterday in which a Washington Post editor opined that prosecution of Donald John Trump for violation of 18 U.S.C. 2384 and 2385 (seditious conspiracy and advocating overthrow of the U.s. Government by force, violence or assassination of Mike Pence)) was unlikely due to lack of precedent.
Guidance on this point comes from Abe Lincoln, who advised the Congress that, "As our case is new, so we must think anew ,and act anew .
" We must disenthrall ourselves, and act anew. "
M. Jelf
Advice to the Attorney General from Abe Lincoln
Dear A.G. Merrick Garland,
Pardon me for publicly accosting you with advice on how to do your duty as Attorney General, but it seems the First Amendment requires me so to do.
Also, my petition is iendered not only for myself, but also for my late Great Grandfather, who emigrated from Kent to fight against racism and slavery under President Lincoln, and for his bride, whose Delaware ancestry reflected the indigenous American principles on which the Age of Reason tenets founding the American Revolution were based.
This Petition might never have been triggered but for the sight of a traitor against the U.S. Constitution proudly flaunting the battle banner of the Confederate States of America in the Capitol on 6 January, 2021.
Another spur for this petition was a segment on Public Television yesterday in which a Washington Post editor opined that prosecution of Donald John Trump for violation of 18 U.S.C. 2384 and 2385 (seditious conspiracy and advocating overthrow of the U.s. Government by force, violence or assassination of Mike Pence)) was unlikely due to lack of precedent.
Guidance on this point comes from Abe Lincoln, who advised the Congress that, "As our case is new, so we must think anew ,and act anew .
" We must disenthrall ourselves, and act anew. "
M. Jelf
A Specialist Explains How Masks Could Harm You
1. If the mask covers your eyes while you're walking, driving. or using a razor.
2. If the device is an oxygen mask used at a flow rate of less than six litres per minute.
These particular masks must, of course, be impermeable to gases.
Otherwise they'd be like dribble glasses for getting drunk, or intravenous lines with drain holes:
Useless.
Consequently if insufficient oxygen (O2) is delivered, in theory, excess "bad air" (CO2) could be retained around the patient's mouth and nose, causing them to rebreathe excess CO2.
Unfortunately some nurses aren't aware of this standard, and will simply turn down the O2 as the patient requires less, rather than switch to a nasal cannula.
HOWEVER while the low O2 flow to a mask poses theoretical risk, it's worth noting that in none of the cases I've encountered did the patient show signs of excess CO2 levels or oxygen insufficiency.
As CO2 diffuses at a rate 20 times greater than O2, that finding hardly surprises.
3. "But didn't T.V. Airhead report a study..." STOP RIGHT THERE!
What should be questions of science and public health have become articles of faith for political propagandists who pick up an obviously defective report and trumpet it without seeking comment from anyone who would let facts get in the way of a bad story.
The bogus report by an unqualified framer will be retracted by whoever printed it, but the retraction won't be mentioned by Mr. Airhead.
The harm to public mental health is done by a cynical liar about masks, and cowardly governors of Texas and Florida do their damnedest to infect as many kids as they can.
4. If masks actually did harm, by CO2 retention or anything else, my experience would have turned it up. Not infrequently when air quality's less than good I'll quick march (120 paces per minute) a mile to the city limits, where concrete ends and jogging can begin, wearing an N95 mask.
Nada.
Air molecules simply aren't large enough to be trapped or excluded by personal protective masks . Larger particles, including viral ones, are.
The next variant of the Covid 19 agent will arrive many days before it's identified, many more still before it's announced. That's why I'll continue wearing masks around others in common areas
(The writer retired from a post as senior respiratory care practitioner at a regional trauma center.)
MY POLITICAL SCIENCE DOCTORAL THESIS for the INTERNET AGE
Nixon went to Communist China and brought back the demise of American industrial workers for the Republican Party.
Trump went to Communist North Korea and brought back their political culture to do to the Republican Party.
Having an infallible, infantile, narcissistic psychopath as the leader of a major political party can cause comment, but some say it also can bring vital change.
They cite the groundbreaking animal rights activist and Roman Emperor known as Caligula as an example.
He reportedly appointed Incitatus -- his favorite horse -- a consul and senator.
To be fair, that report came from a historian named Suetonius, a notorious "Never Caligula!"-er.
As psychopathic narcissists go in politics (which is pretty far if they put their ambitions on Cruz control) the nation's former Dear Leader showed improved economy over classical lunatics.
Rather than waste an entire horse on the post of Middle East Peace Miracle Worker, he stuck out only the neck of his son-in-law.
To quote one of the best lines from any Bogart film, he "set the son-in-law business back 50 years."
Pundits prognosticating on the future of the G.O.P. under Individual One would ignore the personal cost to Republicans of subjecting themselves to a demigod pervert at their own peril, if pundits ever were held accountable.
Where any honest soul sees a naked, obese, psycho septuagenarian under a clown wig, Republican pol.s see the finest figure of a man seven figures can buy -- and wouldn't you rather have that nice suit than a silly old Constitution?
As long as he doesn't exile them to the corn field and send the flying monkeys with guns after them, the pol.s will speak no ill of him.
Eventually the water will be thrown, the flying monkeys will hail Dorothy, and all the pent up rage of self-degradation will be aimed at the Republican Party by its former enablers and victims.
Eventually, if the current Republican Party implodes altogether, the media will be forced to notice we have one-party rule, and wonder if that's a good thing for Democrats.
They won't wonder that because they're suddenly wise or thoughtful, but from the habit of always seeking Democratic doom in any boon.
But maybe they'll be right.
Opposition parties, like physical exercise, are tiresome but necessary for health.
Some say one-party rule brings fatalistic cynicism, citing such as Mexico's PRI or India's Congress Party of yore.
For six years after Watergate, truthfulness was all the rage.
After the coming Great Shakeout we'll have at least two new parties. One can but wonder whether they'll both, in their own ways, tolerate truth.
ARE YOU A NEVER-TRUMPER?
As the second Trump impeachment trial starts the week of Feb. 8, Americans must grapple with a central, soul-searching question:
"Am I a 'never-Trumper'?"
This question must urgently be answered by citizens ranging from Congress members to unhatched boobies -- and some who occupy both roles -- if we're to render an authorized verdict on the following question:
"Is it tolerable to overthrow the U.S. Constitution by violence for the benefit of Mr. Check-kiter-in-Chief?"
All prior comments on this politician's acts and omissions have been subject to one acid test:
"Did you swear eternal obedience to God's elect representative on America, Donald Trump, the last time you dropped acid?"
Anyone who answers "No" is a "never-Trumper."
The mere mention of this indictment stops all discourse. It renders any fact raised by the depraved holder of the title automatically invalid, and corroboration pointless.
Lest you disgrace yourself by voicing an opinion which reveals you as a latent "never-Trumper," take the following quiz. It will reliably determine whether your degenerate tendencies require you to seek absolution by donating to a Trump slush fund.
For each point which describes you, count one toward your total score. An assessment follows the quiz.
(1) You let the facts get in the way of a good story.
(An affirmative answer here also disqualifies from employment with Fox.)
(2) To you, Benedict Arnold was NOT merely a shrewd businessman.
(3) You don't think any Government facility should be named for John Wilkes Booth.
(4) You think it unmanly to terrorize children, degrade women or blame all your failings on others'.
(5) You doubt the Founding Fathers endorsed assassination as a means to change administrations or prevent peaceful change.
(6) You work daily at being honest while loving your neighbor, and admit you often fail.
(7) You believe blue lives matter even when they're protecting the Constitution from a Trump mob.
(8) When you watch a movie set in World War II, you find yourself rooting for the Americans.
(9) You recognized "Springtime for Hitler" was satire, not a manifesto.
(10) You refuse to degrade yourself for a psychopathic liar and fraud unless you're paid in advance, in cash.
Your Score: 8 - 10: You should pack a bag and prepare to emigrate if Trump's acquitted.
5 - 8: You're not a real Trumplandian, but can improve your status with sufficient payments.
1- 4: You're a real Trumplandian, and already contribute regularly to Trump.
SHERIFF SONGER: MY RIGHT TO LIVE TRUMPS YOUR RIGHT TO BE AN A**HOLE
(An open letter to Klickitat Co., Oregon Sheriff "Fomite" Bob Songer, who has publicly refused his duty to enforce state public health law requiring mask wearing, citing Constitutional liberties.)
First, Sheriff Bob, be warned that, for a person of your age and obesity level, covid 19 infection poses a serious to severe risk of death or permanent organ damage.
Second, you are advised to survey photos of World War I victory celebrations from 1918. Notice the young men in uniform are wearing masks as they celebrate the victory of Liberty. They recognize their freedom carries a duty to not spread the deadly influenza pandemic of that time.
Third, you assert your right to shoot into inhabited dwellings at random to be supreme to the rights of inhabitants of those homes to live, at least metaphorically:
A person's body is the dwelling place of their soul, and they have a right not to have deadly viral particles shot into it by a**holes who refuse to recognize any duty to their community.
It is beyond dispute that when one person in a duo wears a mask viral transmission is reduced markedly, and where everyone wears a mask infections are reduced by 90% or more (e.g. S. Korea, Czech Republic).
You claim to defend the 1st and 2nd Amendments in protecting the liberty of jerks to spread deadly disease. Doubtless if I were to appear outside your courthouse nude you'd refuse to warn, cite or arrest me.
Obviously showing the human body is but a little more a hazard to public health than the spreading of a deadly virus through the air.
Perhaps you refuse to believe in the existence of microbes because you've never seen one.
Well, you,ve never seen air, but if yours was cut off by a pulmonary embolism caused by covid 19 you'd want nothing so dearly. That's what happened to Quentin, a 24-year-old friend of ours whom we'd watched with affection as he grew up from childhood at our church.
Perhaps you could explain to his mother why health is not a public concern.
Signs Republicans are Dumping Trump
If it's true that Republicans are shuffling toward the lifeboats, preparing to abandon Good Ship Trump before its sinking pulls them down in the undertow (a phenomenon we saw in 1974 with Nixon), one of the clearest signs may have appeared in an oligarch-owned organ Nov. 4:
An opinion piece by a lawyer who worked on the Clinton impeachment for Kenneth Starr held that prior impeachments resulted from coverups rather than actual crimes, but that the Trump case centers on the actual crime of extortion and shaking down a foreign victim for something of value to a political campaign, a clear campaign law violation. (To be fair, calling it extortion, which it so clearly is, was my idea.)
Of course the premise cited by Paul Rosenzweig in the Los Angeles Times is at best questionable:
The Clinton impeachment may have been baseless without the coverup, but Nixon's Administration did tons of crime aside from the Watergate burglary, which was simply the loose thread which, when pulled, unraveled all else.
Whether there's evidence Nixon specifically knew about the Watergate job beforehand is irrelevant, as impeachment is not an ordinary criminal proceeding, but a constitutional one.
When a president has ordered subordinates to violate the law even in a general way, that is a constitutional "high crime" and grounds for removal from office, with or without the executive's foreknowledge of a specific violation of criminal law.
That's also why Trump partisans' throwing up of dust about the safeguards afforded defendants in criminal trials is such an insult to anyone who hears it.
Getting insulted is something that's hard to avoid when you're on the same planet as Trump, and the quality of the lying has deteriorated vastly since the days of Tricky Dicky.
Earlier impeachments likewise were founded on deeds rather than the hiding of them.
Andrew Johnson's impeachment followed his failure to enact the radical Republicans' reconstruction policies to their satisfaction, which he hardly hid.
And the impeachment which inspired the Constitution's framers, that of Lord Latimer in 1376, was based on, among other things, taking something of value from a foreign adversary in a "quid pro quo" against the national interest.
When Edward III pardoned Latimer a few months later, he inspired the Framers to specify that our presidential power of the pardon does not extend to impeachment.
CALL TRUMP'S BLUFF and SEND HIM to HONDURAS
About the same time this Orange Clown was getting a podiatrist to retouch an x-ray of someone else's metatarsal (of which-foot-he-can't-remember) I was answering a draft notice in L.A. and marking my packet "Volunteer Marines," though by then I'd lost faith in the value of the Vietnam effort to the U.S.
That wasn't particularly brave; thousands of guys didn't wait to be drafted, but turned out to put their lives on the line because their country said they were needed, and that's what guys in the post-WW II generation were expected to do.
Now this character who, as a private citizen, proved too cowardly to walk the streets of Manhattan without bodyguards, claims refugees from Central America who seek asylum here are using a "big, fat con" when they say they fear for their lives back home.
Clearly either the refugees are lying or Trump is.
If Trump's the honest party, he should be eager to prove it by spending a night on the streets of a Honduran city without bodyguards. That's not a problem if these places are as safe as Trump claims. No one would think it a big deal to spend a night on the streets of Oslo or Bergen, in the country from which Trump says he wishes immigrants to the U.S. came.
Too big a risk for a U.S. president? Abe Lincoln exposed himself to Confederate sharpshooters at Fort Stevens (11 July 1864) to share his troops' hazard and prove himself worthy to lead them. An officer standing near him on the parapet was wounded. Surely Trump's not more valuable than Honest Abe!
If Trump refuses this offer to either apologize to the refugees for "misspeaking" or proving them liars by putting his body on the line, he should be followed wherever he goes by a giant Honduran chicken.
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