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Frasier Balzov

Frasier Balzov's Journal
Frasier Balzov's Journal
April 15, 2025

Disbarment will be rendered obsolete under Trump.

Oh there may be certain blue states which attempt to prevent attorneys from practising in their own courts when someone is disbarred for complicity in Trump-era official misconduct.

But a new federal license will be legislatively created to enable an attorney to practice in federal courts as long as the boss hasn't blackballed you for some other reason.

April 11, 2025

Does the PRC want to annex Taiwan?

If so, is there a better time than right now to make that move?

Would it risk harming relations with the United States any more severely than the harm which Trump is already causing?

The outrage of the world would be muted by the humiliation suffered by Trump for his hubris, sending him reeling and scrambling to save face.

I understand that Taiwan is not Hong Kong, and that the people of Taiwan have everything to say about this. They can rightfully be expected to resist invasion and annexation.

But come on. Look at a map of where Taiwan sits. Look at how vulnerable Trump is to having his global bluffs being called.

What set of circumstances could be more ripe for this being the PRC's moment to achieve the unification it has sought for decades?

April 1, 2025

Donald Trump is a lame duck.

I know it bothers Donald to hear that.

I know some people are inclined not to bet against him given how many rules he's broken and gotten away with.

But when the SOB threatens to run for a prohibited third term, the automatic response should be that he's over with.

His days of influence are waning. His brand has withered, dried up and is blowing away.

No more coattails.

Expired like raw tripe left out overnight after its use-by date.

March 29, 2025

Will TikTok's blackout day be postponed again?

The current reprieve runs out on April 5.

Trump is suggesting that he might use a partial relaxation of tariffs on China to induce ByteDance to sell the American operation of the popular short-form video platform on the condition that no supervisory or backdoor access be retained.

Maybe there's public reporting I haven't seen regarding progress toward a deal?

March 28, 2025

All this trouble with a 49.8% mandate?

Let that sink in.

March 25, 2025

Is anybody working on a Trump Gang playing cards collection?

It should be modeled on the Most Wanted Iraqi playing cards concept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most-wanted_Iraqi_playing_cards

March 12, 2025

One particular launch of an Elon Musk rocket I hope goes well.

The rocket being sent up to bring those two astronauts home this week.

March 11, 2025

Are Canadians supposedly Americans?

Americans who wandered too far north?

This sounds like Putin's view of Ukrainians.

Ukrainians are Russians who wandered off and adopted a mistaken identity.

March 8, 2025

Musk's private security deputized as U.S. Marshals.

Ok I'm looking for a name from this two-week-old story.

Who is the person who swore in these bodyguards into the U.S. Marshals Service?

That person needs to be on the list of people upon whom I am heaping my considerable disapproval energy.

March 7, 2025

Am I on the wrong track to want more names?

New York FBI branch chief James E. Dennehy is told by someone to turn in his retirement papers.

Who told him to do this? It wasn't an anonymous suggestion. It was a person Dennehy believes had the authority to order him to do it.

Is it unethical for Denney to disclose the source of the direction he received to retire?

Should it be irrelevant to me who that person is?

I am truly interested. If I am going to assemble a list of people upon whom I'm heaping my considerable disapproval energy, I need to know their identity.

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