All_Pro_Bills

The short story is the Nazi's came to power through means of violence and brutality but also through the ballot box. The party held a minority position but managed through "legislative" process to set up the circumstances where Hitler became chancellor. Through changes to the rules of how the government operates Hitler and the Nazi's were able to gain complete control over every aspect of German society and unleashed its brutality on the rest of the world. I fail to see any corollary to Hitler, his motives, actions, and impact to Trump. While I find he to be a somewhat despicable character I think continuing to parrot that comparisons simply shows ignorance of the facts. But please enlighten me and tell me how many millions of people did Trump exterminate, brutalize, or imprison? And please answer the question and don't change the topic or avoid it which is typical.

Why can't the government give us all $50,000 a month? We should vote on that. I'll bet it passes and democracy will prevail. That way nobody has to work and we can all live an affluent and comfortable life and end poverty and income inequality all together. Please don't ask about trivial details like where are all the goods and services we need coming from if nobody has to work.

DHS has been told to refer questions to the White House on the border crisis (but don't call it a crisis) situation. So the "cone of silence" has been invoked.

Deek & Bill you're onto an important insight. I put my "2 cents" in on the Dr. Suess books here but truth is when it comes down to it I could care less about it one way or the other. I expect that's the general view of most. I doubt anybody is ready to take to the streets in acts of civil disobedience or protest in front of the "Dr. Suess foundation" (if such a thing exists). In the scheme of things its completely unimportant. But being unimportant is why the social justice crowd is successful. Their strategy is to follow the foot in the door approach. Ask for something small in the pursuing the objective of something big. They only pick the small fights they know they can win at the start. They're smart and cunning bullies. They're not going to pick a fight with the biggest, strongest, and meanest guy in the room because once somebody kicks the crap out of them their game is over. At that point nobody will listen or comply. But as they proceed and their power grows the fights get bigger and bigger and the stakes get higher and higher. And by the time their "boil the frog slowly" approach gets to the tipping point its too late to mount any resistance or descent to what they want. At this point even the biggest, strongest, and meanest guy in the room is no match for them. At this point they'll have achieved the objective which is not to censor and erase "racist" images or words but rather to acquire power. Pure and simple. Power to dictate what people do, what people say, ultimately what people think. Power to reward themselves with the spoils of conquest and the property and wealth of others. Power to reward their followers and punish their opponents. Power to control everyone's lives. Power to control the government and all aspects of live through one party rule and the so called "democratic" process. Somebody posed the question "sure you say they need to be stopped but what do you propose to do to stop them"? As it is this isn't some brutal form of some political or social ideology where people are physical forced to follow some edicts or rules. This is a "soft" tyranny. Coercion, social pressure, shaming, threats against people's livelihoods. Most of it done through social media where its not necessary to take the risks associated with physically getting in somebody's face. But in general nobody is "forcing" anyone to do or not to do anything, at least to this point. To this point everyone seems quite agreeable to comply without much of a fight.

I've read elsewhere, a NYT op-ed, that Pepe Le Pew appears to be the next target of the cancel mob as the cartoon character symbolizes that rape and sexual assault are okay. But rather than argue the pro's and con's of Pepe I thought it would be more fun to generate ideas on what might be targeted by the cancel cult. But first a just a word of warning to all Wokesters and SJW's. I realize that none of you have any sense of humor nor do you find any joy in life or the burden of sniffing out social injustice everywhere so be warned that I am attempting something lighthearted and nothing that is intended to be serious. Sticking to entertainment I ran across some while surfing through the channels for classic TV. The Honeymooners - the lead character verbal abuses his wife and on occasion threatens her with violence. Hogan's Heroes - Nazi's and comedy just don't go together. Married With Children - the lead male character is a symbol of extreme misogyny. Three's Company - the male lead pretends to be gay in order to share an apartment with 2 women which leads to lots of homophobic comedy. The Three Stooges - gratuitous use of violence (at the time called slap stick comedy) while occasionally negatively stereo-typically portraying racial and ethnic characters Any show that depicts male/female roles where the man goes to work and the women stays home to tend to the household. Clearly sexist. Bugs Bunny & Daffy Duck - I'm not sure what's wrong here but there's something about a story about a Rabbit and a Duck that just doesn't seem right. Same thing goes for that Roadrunner and Coyote. Scobby Do - that dog better watch his back because I'll be watching and if he so much as blinks an eye inappropriately at anyone his ass is cancelled.

I've always loved the comedy of George Carlin. His humor combined with the ability to break down a topic and expose the essence of an argument was second to none. Many of his conclusions and insights have stuck with me. A specific thing he said (to paraphrase) which I find applicable today is "the last thing any government wants is a population of critical thinking citizens. They want obedient workers that are just smart enough to get things done that won't ask too many questions". This can also be applied to the MSM because for all intents the MSM is now a instrument of government. That's kind of where we are now. Critical thinking, logical deduction, skeptical approaches to understanding events, are unwelcome and discouraged. Looking at most of the prevailing narratives of today anyone applying any or all of those concepts will likely generate a lot of tough questions that officials will prefer to avoid. To understand how all this works we need to examine how people think. I've concluded most people believe things that reinforce their pre-existing conclusions that come from sources they "trust". No matter how ridiculous or absurd these narratives or conclusions might seem to people applying mental tools like critical thinking. And why do they trust these sources? Simply because the message they communicate is something they agree with already. In other words its a closed loop feedback system. Anything that conflicts with the message being sent through the system is rejected. Until the trusted source in the system alters the message to include anything previously prohibited.

Or Huge migrant influx poses major COVID super-spreader event risk (throw in mention of more infectious and deadlier variants for dramatic effect) Administration faces humanitarian crisis at the border without a plan Family separation policy draws fire from immigration experts and faces calls for Congressional hearings Administration's media black-out policy draws ire from legal experts and activists while raising questions about abuse (What are they hiding?) I could go on. More or less the problem is what we get from MSN is controlled by 7 people. A concentration of power situation. Billionaires that use their power to deliver "news" and opinions to support their own personal agenda. Used to be you had professional news people running these organizations. They cared about the truth, finding and reporting facts, posing tough questions to officials and others. No more (other than going after Trump 24x7). Today its con men and grifters running the show.

Well Biden's kind of correct about that conclusion. While certain segments of other minority groups are pissing and moaning about racism and white supremacists along with playing the victim all the time and making up a lot of excuses for their failures by always blaming somebody else and demanding more handouts and free money the American-Asian-Indian community has been quietly and effectively embracing the concepts of the American Dream by working long and hard while rejecting the victim approach. In a short time they've achieved success and some degree of affluence that appears to be elusive to others.

I expected it too. I bought a whole bunch of energy funds and ETFs starting around the 1st of the year. I tried to convince a lot of my friends and colleagues to do the same but they just don't see it either. It all seemed so obvious where things are headed. I'm not going to blame Joe for all of it because he kind of walked right into the meat grinder and for decades the government has been on a drunken spending binge running up massive un-payable debts and the Federal Reserve has been accommodating this behavior along with making a lot of rich people a lot richer for a long time now. All acting as if there are or never will be any consequences. COVID kind of pulled those consequences forward and now its here. Food costs and inputs are also rising which is going to result in a lot more suffering on the poor and internationally on developing nations. Big 1970's type inflation with an added kicker of out of control government debt and a failing currency is on the way. If you've lived it or studied it you will know what I'm saying but most people under 50 years of age have no real-life experience to understand. It will be nothing like anything most have experienced before.

Crazy old Uncle Joe just wandered out of the basement and onto the stage here! One subplot concerning "foreign policy already getting results" is the price action in the energy markets. The result is you'll be paying well over $3 for gasoline soon. Crude oil prices are in an uptrend. Supply at the margin is controlled by OPEC (with Saudi Prince MBS) and Russia (with Putin) calling the shots. OPEC decided to keep production cuts in place this week and price rose significantly. Who are some targets of the Biden administration so far? Well traditional whipping boy Russia and now MSB with the intelligence report conclusions. Combine that with the decision to stop the Keystone XL pipeline and new limits on fracking and add in some life in the economy if things open up over the course of the Spring and we've got the ingredients for a price climb to around $100 a barrel and certainly gasoline prices well over $3 by Memorial Day. Yes, getting results already!

The only risk faced by the National Guard troops stationed at the Capitol is the potential to die from boredom. There isn't going to be another "attack" and none are planned. The so-called intelligence is plain old horse crap. Made up stories rather than "intelligence" reports which are released for dramatic effect. Keep the story alive and in the news and on the front page for as long as possible. I can't understand how totally clueless people are that take it all hook, line, and sinker. There doesn't seem to be any learning curve here. Again, there are no attacks coming on the US Capitol building. What would be the point of it? I'm open to suggestions and ideas. Tactically, the element of surprise is clearly gone and the force you'd face is overwhelming. Other than fulfilling a desire to die what would be the point of leading or participating in such an attack? Pelosi suggested another attack is in the works too but I think she's been inhaling a lot of exhaust fumes hiding in the House parking garage from imaginary "right wing militia's".

A fundamental requirement for any "election reform" might be to remove political parties and their interests from the discussion. The common interest should focus on the benefits to the voters. The way it works now is like a competitive sporting event between two teams where the game is officiated by the manager of one of the teams. You can't help but think there's going to be some funny business at work here. Sadly, the entire process might boil down to an exercise in common sense where you could pick a handful of posters on the board here willing to work together in cooperation and they could come up with a sensible and valid approach to the electoral process that ensures its fair and accurate for everybody. But politics and common sense aren't often spoken or written in the same sentence.

I hear what you're sayin' but it doesn't send an assuring message to the international community knowing the President's health is potentially compromising his ability to perform his duties and presents an ambiguous and unknown chain of command. Its a certainty that every intelligence service of every country we deal with friend or foe is aware of this situation. Some may be alarmed while others might see opportunity for advantage or mischief. And for example if VP Harris was making key decisions and performing key duties I might feel a lot better than if the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon had commandeered policy decision making duties for Middle East policy. Essentially the government is operating without a functional head of state. This might ultimately fall under the 25th Amendment of the Constitution in some scenario fitting of the the 4 sections.

Expanding on your conclusion, wouldn't you agree that having a President that is incapable of performing the most elementary duties of the office is a national security threat? Which begs the question, if Biden s not calling the shots here, who is? Actions like VP Harris taking meetings with other world leaders where custom and protocol require them to be handled by the President is a red flag. Something is wrong. We know it, our allies know it, and our enemies know it too.

You are right once again here. The 1st amendment protections apply to the prohibition of government actions to restrict free speech. When you walk into the workplace you lose your Constitutional rights and you are at the mercy of your employer. Which to a large extent is true. There are many things you cannot do inside the workplace environment regardless of what the Constitution allows. In the case of individuals being targeted by cancel culture, individuals can be targeted for something they said at some point in their life or something they did or didn't do at some point in their life. it doesn't matter if it has anything to do with your conduct on the job. The general idea behind the proponents of cancel culture is to punish these people by depriving them of employment or the ability to earn a living by coercing or influencing their employer or management to fire them. Sometimes it might be for something they said or did 20 or 30 years ago as there's no statute of limitations cancel culture follows. The objective is to control everyone's behavior, and words and actions by making examples of others. Like the Roman practice of decimation. Killing every 10th prisoner. The origin of the work decimate. It keeps the remaining group in line with the program through fear and terror. Giving in to the mob can leave an employer open to a lot of lawsuits for "wrongful termination". Can you fire someone "for cause" because of something they said 20 years ago? Or in a private setting last week? I guess it depends. On the terms of employment and the nature of things like employer code of conduct and ethical standards and rules for governing employee behavior. But in the end it all works this way. The mob descends on somebody for something they "said" and then fires up the outrage machinery on social media. There's pressure on the persons employer at some point whether their job has anything to do with the situation or not. Soon the employer is targeted for allowing a "terrible" person to work at their firm. Rather than have the fortitude to stand up to the mob and tell them to MYOB the firm takes the easy way out and looks to dismiss and terminate the employee. But the legal department warns them there's a big risk of litigation. So they call in the employee and his representation and hold a meeting. They give some sob story about how their hands are tied and they're sorry but they need to let the person go for the "good of the company". But in order to avoid any legal issues or negative publicity they offer the employee a substantial and generous severance package bundled with a non-disclosure agreement. Everybody walks away happy. The mob gets their blood, the employer skates away without any business impacts, and the fired employee gets a generous package. So what's the point of it all? It proves some mob of idiots can get you fired and force your employer to give you a few hundred thousand dollars and health care coverage to keep your mouth shut about the whole thing.

Kill them? No. Admit them to some facility for the mentally ill? Yes, as they must be delusional because they "find" racism behind every tree and under every rock. I assume trees and rocks are racist too as some trees are taller than others and some rocks are bigger or smaller? I sense an inequality issue here! The lives of these intellectually and morally superior super humans must be perfect because they apparently have no problems of their own to devote their time to handling and they are free to concentrate all their time and effort on finding fault and issues with everyone else. Meanwhile, the rest of us are left to the dreary task of trying to scrape by and generally minding our own business without a care or concern about what Dr. Suess wrote or what pictures he used. I deserve zero discourse. Don't flatter yourself..

Wow. That one really stings. And is so original. Is that one they teach in the handbook to use when you can't find anything intelligent to use in countering somebody else's views?

Dr. Suess bad, teaching 6 year olds about Trannies and forcing them to participate in gender reversal role playing, good!

It might be some sort of trap to see who checks them out. You see these far-left liberal PhD do-gooders are crafty and sneaky little twits. They can find out what "racists" are checking out and reading them and then take the appropriate action to enforce their strict absolute moral code. Is it just me that finds their behavior, while offensive and annoying, also comical in many ways? They waste all their time and energy meddling and getting into all kinds of things that don't produce anything. If they are disappeared overnight they world wouldn't notice any difference the next morning with the exception of dealing with less BS. Its like large number lawyers and lawsuits. The reason we have so many lawsuits is because our universities are graduating so many lawyers. They all need work so the generation of lawsuits no matter how frivolous is necessary for the creation of employment for all of them. Like water seeking its own level. In the case of the wokesters they have all kinds of useless degrees like gender and women's studies, and sociology. What business that produces real good and services needs to hire a lot of them? None! So we get all these unemployable and useless graduates running around looking under every rock and behind every tree for some social evil. And presto, they keep finding them. This little moral and ethical quest keeps them all busy.

A lot is determined by the concept of comparative advantage. You do something better than me and I do something better than you. Rather than both of us doing both things we each do the one thing we're best at and trade between ourselves the goods or services one or the other make and don't make. That makes sense. But regarding the USA I think there are a few questions that needs to be asked and answered (maybe not by any of us): 1) What are "we" good at making? What do we have a comparative advantage in doing over trading partners? 2) What do we want to be good at making? What future or current manufacturing or technology areas do we want to develop a comparative advantage in? Like robotics or medical devices or EV's? 3) What national or local policies and programs might be needed to accomplish this goal? What are we doing now? What else needs to be done? 4) What private sector innovations or inventions or expertise is there to leverage and nurture? 5) What are the skills needed to support these industries and areas? Does our population have these skills? And if not, why not? 6) What targeted educational programs or paths do we have in effect now to support this goal? What more is needed to do? While there might be other questions or issues I think the core problem is the USA has nothing that might be described as a plan or strategy whatsoever. At any level, with a few exceptions in business and government there is just no vision and there is a lack of visionaries required to pull it all off. Other international competitors are eating our lunch because they do have plans and are executing them well. But Washington and the business community, and the American people are focused and engaged in a lot of fools errands right now. Like sitting in the living room of the house and arguing about racism while the house is burning down around them. The thing that might facilitate a lot of positive things happening at some point unfortunately needs to be a disaster that will be the crash and burn of the current system of political, social, and economic con-games and hustles. Which I think is coming fast. And the Phoenix will rise from the ashes!

I ran across this blog which I think is relevant to the topic and the current state of the country. To me its spot on as to the source of all the anger and conflict we are witnessing and in some cases participating. http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2021/02/what-normal-are-we-returning-to.html

My message to the mentally ill psychotics pushing CRT is they can shove that crap back up their rear-ends where it came from. Its not a theory but rather some race baiting fairy tale (are fairy tales racist too?) And parents and taxpayers need to go to school boards and aggressively inform the school board they will no longer tolerate these curriculum's or teachers or administrators pushing some political or social agenda of any kind on their children. Its not the job of the schools to socially indoctrinate children in any belief system. This is something for parents to decide with their children. If they refuse then they should be prepared to suffer any and all consequences that might fall on them. And let the politicians who push and support this nonsense that they're next. After listening to all this garbage masquerading as some kind of science or fact (which none of it is) that these kooks have been puking up on everybody for some time now I've concluded it is senseless to try and reason with them. You need to get rid of them by neutralizing them by striping them of all social and political power they now hold. No debate, no compromise.

The basic flaw of the "race hustle" is it fails to accept the concept of the individual. Individuals don't exist, only groups of like individuals. The concepts of diversity are themselves laced with race bias and stereotypes. They place everyone is a specific group, you're in the white group, you're in the black group, you're in the Asian, group your in the Hispanic group, you're in the Native American group, etc. Everyone belongs to a group and by definition assumes all the characteristics and traits the movement associates with that specific group. The "group" and that determines everything about them. Exceptions to this groups norms or behaviors or traits are not recognized. You could be a millionaire but if you're in a group the "program" identifies as "oppressed" you are oppressed. You could be dirt poor living below the poverty line but if you belong to a group the "program" identifies as "oppressor" you are an oppressor. In order to eliminate racism, bias, and stereotypes the practice of judging and grouping people by their race needs to be to eliminated and people need to be judged solely on the good and bad of their individual self. I've attended several diversity and culture workshops. At some point during each of these everybody in the room gets a couple minutes to tell the "group" about themselves. What I find is that while people come for diverse racial and social backgrounds the stories are pretty consistent. There is not a lot of difference in what people want. No "race" has a monopoly on any positive or negative human traits and actions. Society needs to be "color blind". Highlighting differences causes differences. There needs to be a common culture. An obstacle is the political process. If you notice one thing about politicians is they take up causes of a "group" of victims and set themselves up as some sort of champion or voice of the people in that "group". I want to help the poor, I want to help immigrants, I want to help unemployed farm workers, etc. All groups need to be seen as victims of some other group. This creates conflict between the two groups, the victims and the targeted oppressors while the politicians slip through the system. The funny thing is they never seem to "help" anyone except themselves. Poor people are still poor, immigration still faces the same issues today as 40 years ago, unemployed workers are still unemployed. But politicians of across the political spectrum magically become wealthy and powerful as they exploit the suffering of others.

Frankly I don't recall some big movement on "the right" to bury the allegations made against Kavanuaugh by Ford. I believe the push back was generated from the left and their lapdogs in the press declaring a guilty verdict without due process, without hearing witnesses, without having yet held any hearings. And calls for the President to withdrawal the nomination or for the judge to withdraw himself immediately when the allegation surfaced. I suspect the MSM will dare not pre-judge Cuomo to be guilty starting with tomorrow's stories and things like "The View" talk show (if they even mention it). And it would surprise me if there is any mass movement out of the left for him to immediately resign. One thing seems clear the story can no longer be pushed to back page like it was most of last week. At the confirmation hearings Dr. Ford was given the opportunity to tell her story of alleged sexual misconduct in the case of the Kavanaugh. But her testimony and recollection of events was contradicted by all other witnesses providing statements that she identified as present at the time she stated the assault took place. None of them recalled any such get-together even occurring. Even her "best friend" at the time did not collaborate her story. And she could not identify the location of the "party" which I found strange since logically you'd expect it would be at a home of one of the individuals she indicated was present. It seems like the women accusing Cuomo of misconduct will also be given the chance to tell their story. This is the right thing to do. I don't see any political problem here. Its a case of alleged misconduct by a State governor and these women should be given a fair chance to tell their story without fear of consequences. Most likely some anonymous fringe alt-left terrorists will threaten them in some way. What I love most about these cowards is how their self-professed moral superiority is contingent on how well being moral needs to conveniently align with their agenda for it to be expressed.

Only the US is allowed to act with "impunity".