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The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Supreme Court hysteria

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It true that a few years ago Mitch McConnell stated at the time that the reason he would not bring President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee for a vote was because it was an election year. He stated that he believes in an election year, a Supreme Court nominee should be selected by whoever is the incoming President, and that the Senate would then either confirm or deny whoever that nominee is.

The truth is that was never the reason for holding up the nominee. It was all about politics. They simply did not want to confirm President Obama’s nominee. They should have had the courage at the time to either say that, or say that they would do it after the election without giving the excuse that they did.

The could have simply brought the nominee before the Committee and not confirm him, but they did not do that. The tactic they used may have been bad politics, but it was certainly within their authority to do what they did.

Shift forward to the present. To witness Democrats’ reaction to the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and President Trump’s intent to fill her seat before the elections; one would think that it is the crime of the century (even worse than Trump’s treasonous act of selling out to Russia). On top of all of that the same Republican Senate committee who refused to vote on President Obama’s nominee, now plan to rush through Trump’s nominee just over the course of six weeks.

Well you make not like it, but elections have consequences.

Since the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh Democrats have been threatening to pack the court should they regain the Senate, in order to shift the balance of power in their favor on the courts. These are the same people who also want to abolish the Electoral College, and get rid of the filibuster. They want to grant statehood to Washington D.C., and change many of the rules that have Governed the political process since the country’s founding.

Right about now might be a good time to remind people that, like so many of the awful policies and practices in this country; politicization of Supreme Court nominees is a Democrat Party innovation. There was a time when the Senate Judiciary committee always voted on whoever the President nominated to the Supreme Court. They committee would either confirm or reject the nominee. 

The nominees always got confirmed, regardless of their judicial philosophy. That tradion was blown up, and came to an unceremonious end just over 30 years ago when Democrats went on a seek and destroy mission against the nomination of Judge Robert Bjork. 

They dragged his name through the mud. They accused him of wanting to turn back the hands of time. They claimed women’s right would be threatened, black people would see their civil rights progress turned back, and many other unfounded claims. Democrats torpedoed his nomination, and so began the politicization of Supreme Court nominations. A few years later they did the same with Judge Clarence Thomas, but were unable to stop him from being confirmed.

This has been the model that the Democrats have used since then in order to stymie the process of confirming any nominee to the Supreme Court selected by a Republican President. Then a few years ago, in order to ram through President Obama’s District Court nominees, they changed the committee rules, got rid of the filibuster (a favored tactic that they themselves have abused in the past) and confirmed a number of judges to the courts over the objections of Republicans. They were warned that their tactics would come back to haunt them. 

Keeping all of this in mind, why would the Republicans not exercise their constitutional duty to confirm a nominee for the Supreme Court sent to them by the President, and leader of their party. It is true that Mitch McConnell held up President Obama’s nominee and refused to immediately vote on his nomination, but once again; that’s called the consequence of an election.

The people elected a Republican Senate to act as a check and a balance to the power of the executive branch at the time. That is the way that the constitution designed the system to work between the three equal, independent branches of Government, to guard against the abuse of unfettered power by any one of those branches. Sometimes it works in one party’s favor, sometimes the other.

Lindsay Graham said it best, “Democrats chose to set in motion rules changes to stack the court at the Circuit level and they chose to try to destroy Brett Kavanaugh’s life to keep the Supreme Court seat open. You reap what you sew.”

Deal with it Democrats!

IThe impeachment sham

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Mission accomplished! 

Trump impeached, mark it down for the history books. Make no mistake about it, this will go down in the Democrat annals of infamy. People are rejoicing over it without thinking about the ramifications of such an act. This is not wrong because Trump supporters don’t like it. This is wrong because no President should be treated this way, Democrat or Republican. 

When Barrack Obama was the President, Republicans talked of impeaching him on more that one occassion, but it was political posturing more than anything. They never pursued it, and after a while they were on record saying they have no plans to impeach him. 

Some people on the right thought that Republicans were giving away their hand by declaring they had no interest in impeaching Obama. Those on the right who felt this way believed that removing the threat of impeachment pretty much was a green light to Obama to do whatever he wanted. In any case, despite many actions that were deemed impeachable by people who opposed Obama, Republicans remembered, learned and applied the lessons from the Bill Clinton impeachment. 

Though Bill Clinton was charged with actual crimes, had his law license suspended as a result and had to pay money in a sexual harassment lawsuit; the idea of removing an elected President, and going against the will of the people was deemed to be an act of sacrilege. Republicans were not going to be flippant with impeachment, especially against a popular President as Obama. If they were going to use impeachment as a tool, not only must they have a solid reason; they would need to have bipartisan and popular backing. 

Fast forward a few years later and Democrats would demonstrate no such reverence or restraint toward the idea of impeachment. They began the shameless, relentless effort to impeach Trump from the moment he took office, after they layed the groundwork when the guy was still campaigning as a candidate for President. Politico started talking about impeachment way back in April of 2016. In November of 2016, one week after the elections; Vanitiy Fair wrote a couple of articles titled “will Trump be impeached,” and “Democrats are paving the way to impeach Trump. On the day of Trump’s inauguration, the Washington Post published an article entitled the campaign to impeach Trump has begun. 

Here is the thing though, that was only the beginning. The campaign to impeach Trump intensified with a blind hatred that has no comparison. Who can forget crazy aunty Maxine who made impeachment her rallying cry from the very beginning of Trump’s tenure while pledging that she will never work with him. She once went on a crazed chant of “impeach 45” at a rally, stoking the equally crazed crowd of supporters who were in attendance at the rally. 

It was no secret that our favorite crazy aunty despised President Trump and wanted to tar him with the scar of impeachment. Jerry Nadler made talk of impeaching Trump the staple of his campaign to be named head of the Judiciary committee. Then we have the famous Rashida Tlaib quote on the very night that she was elected when she delcared that “we’re gonn impeach the MFER,” as she gave her victory speech.

As Senate leader Mitch McConnell so eloquently pointed out earlier today yesterday’s vote to impeach was their seventh attempt to impeach Trump since he was elected. Some of the high crimes and misdemeanors for which the Democrats wanted to impeach Trump include, being impolite to the press, being mean to athletes, and for changing President Obama’s Military transgender policy. That’s not even the half of it, Trump haters even suggested, among a long list of similarly inconsequential acts, that he be impeached for mean tweets. 

Despit all of the calls for impeachment though, even though she wanted to do it, Nancy Pelosi resisted the calls to impeach the President. She knew that they had no reason to impeach him, in addition; she knew that it was bad politics. She once said that calls for Trump’s impeachment are a distraction, and back in March she insisted that impeachment would have to be compelling and bipartisan. So what changed? Well, for one thing the pressure from the ultra lefty representatives in her party were growing stronger, plus when the whole Ukraine “scandal” broke, she taught that the moment had come and it was best to seize it. 

Democrats never expected Trump to release the transcripts though, and figured they could muddy the waters with all kinds of unsubstantiated allegations about what he said, so when he did release the transcripts it was too late for them to turn back. The wheels on the impeachment train were rolling, and they were long past their stop. They knew that they had nothing on Trump, and so they made a conscious decision to rig the impeachment process. 

As McConnell noted, they then set in motion the most rushed, unfair and least thorough impeachment process ever against a President. Whereas the process to impeach Clinton and Nixon literally took one to two years. The Democrats completed their entire process in three short months. 

The President was denied his right to confront his accuser, his counsel was not allowed to question witnesses, Republicans were denied subpoena power, they were not allowed to freely go over documents, their witness list was rejected, and in some instances they were shut out of the process. The whistle blower coordinated with intel committee chairman Adam Schiff and his staff before going to the IG, and we found out that the whistle blower even worked for Joe Biden. None of the Democrat witnesses were privy to the Trump conversation save one, and he too had to admit that the President did not say what the Democrats accused Trump of doing. 

These, plus other irregularities were the norm during the whole impeachment saga. In other words, President Trump was denied all of the norms of due process as the Democrats shamelessly and ruthlessly Kavanaughed him during the entirety of the impeachment sham. 

In the attempt to soften the blowback that is sure to result from the scam, Nancy Pelosi began telling us how sad and prayerful she was about the whole thing. She even wore black on the day of the impeachment vote. After giving the tally of the yays ad the nays, the Democrats spontaneously began to break out into celebratory applause, but they were scolded by Speaker Pelosi with the evil eye, and the wagging of her finger as a reminder to them that it was not a reason to rejoice, but a sad occasion. 

They would do their rejoicing the following day. 

What a fraudulent display! 

Lebron James and the SJW movement

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Lebron James quoting Dr. Martin Luther King:

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

This guy who is always popping off at the mouth,  and telling us what a God awful terrible country America is could not muster the courage to speak a word against a country that mercilessly persecutes its people for the wrong political opinion. 

Lebron James is a typical social justice warrior. He creates false battles in which he portrays himself as the hero. He then basks in the adoration as people call him brave. He gets to pat himself on the back as he pretends to “speak truth to power.”

 Lebron James’ idea of bravery is wearing a hoodie with “Black lives matter” emblazoned across the front. People like Lebron James love to take the bad things that happen in America, and exploit them by using these unfortunate situations to portray them as the norm. They hardly ever speak a good word about the United States.

When Lebron wants to speak truth to power, he turns his attention to the President of the United States, and calls him a bum, then he self righteously declares that he will never sit across from the President.

Yes sir, that Lebron sure is brave.

This young man who knows first hand the value of hard work, (good for him) and reaped millions upon million upon millions of dollars as a result only heaps scorn on the country that has afforded him so many opportunities.

He can’t even muster a word of support for a general manager who sent out a tweet supporting the people of Hong Kong who are truly fighting for freedom.

Truth is ladies and gentlemen, Lebron James is not brave. He is not like any of the brave sportsmen in the past who have fought against true injustice in America.

He is no James Brown. He is certainly no Muhammed Ali. Muhammed Ali stood for something when he had so much to lose, but he held his ground because his cause was righteous. 

Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, Rosa Parks and others, these people were true heroes. Some of them gave their lives in the fight against injustice (real injustice). 

When Lebron James speaks “truth to power”, he gets accolades. He is praised by America haters who shower him with compliments.

No one should be surprised by Lebron’s hesitance to criticize China or support the General manager of the Houston Rockets who dared tweet his support for true freedom fighters. 

We have seen this movie before. 

While Colin Kaepernick was calling the police pigs, he was at the same time wearing a T-shirt of the murderous dictator Fidel Castro.

On college campuses, and everywhere across the country, young lefties shamelessly sport T-shirts of a man who famously hated black people, the mass murderer Che Guevarra, while they simultaneously tell anyone who would listen how awful life in America is.

They openly side with and support organizations like the Palestinian Authority that supports terrorists who slash the throats of babies, and oppress muslims all across the Middle East. 

These same social justice warriors save all of their venom for Israel, the only Democracy in the most hostile part of the world, where enemies threaten Israel with annihilation everyday. 

They call Israel an apartheid state.

This is the left ladies and gentlemen, heroes of false battles, champions fighting make believe oppression, but silent when they have a chance to truly speak out against real tyranny.