Posted on 01/16/2017 6:27:58 AM PST by wtd
Harry Reid has now, famously, used the nuke option in the senate to kill cloture on a debate with a simple majority vote, meaning no delay can be used to drag a bill or appointment to death. EXCEPT for SCOTUS appointments.
I think the senate now WILL ultimately use this for SCOTUS because Chucky Schumer had to open his fat trap to show how tough he was and declare the D’s ready to do a reverse Merritt Garland for FOUR TO EIGHT YEARS. Now comes the real meat though. Elected representatives (FROM THE COASTS WITH A VERY FEW EXCEPTIONS – and this list is now larger) have named Donald Trump as ILLEGITIMATE, and have refused to attend the inauguration because Trump is who he is, instead – PUBLICLY ORGANIZING FOR RESISTANCE to ….what? A better economy? More jobs? Secure borders? To ensure more illegal aliens? Or maybe it’s the manifest horrible things Trump has promised against LGBTQ folks (nothing, in fact he has declared the issue settled via SCOTUS, and will enforce the law), or because he has the locker room sense of a 9th grader and all wimmin’ on earth are endangered? Seriously? Or Trump hating black folks because the 1973 housing lawsuit proves he was a discriminatory landlord via redlining (i.e. a law instituted by FDR in the 1930’s to PROTECT the banking system from high risk mortgage lending, which after J Carter was elected – AFTER THIS SUIT – was declared to be discrimination)?
So what is this resistance to and of?
THE DECISION OF THE PEOPLE.
The democrats ARE SIMPLY UNABLE TO STAND THE IDEA THE PEOPLE HAVE REJECTED THEM AT EVERY LEVEL, except in the few urban counties in the USA in which they completely dominate.
They probably are PARALYZED with fear someone like Trump is liable to do something which IMPROVES life in urban centers.
Imagine if Barry Goldwater had been alive and believed so fervently that Mr. Obama was born in Kenya, or Indonesia, or Canada that he had named Obama as illegitimate, and unable to serve, had begged the Joint Chiefs to find a way to WITHHOLD nuclear launch authority from him (that happened this week- HuffPo), and organized resistance to SUBVERT the process of converting the choices of the people in each state to electoral college votes, and OTHERS in the Congress, and 90% of the national media followed him, then promising total resistance, and using the second inauguration to promote violent and destructive demonstrations.
That’s what is happening and WHO is doing this in congress makes no difference.
Wait until, this precedent of resistance of this kind and degree, BEING NOW SET, this shoe is on the other foot, and folks from Zanesville, and Peoria, and Cheyenne demand their reps refuse any part in the ‘ILLEGITIMATE’ elected govt which is a more radical democratic party govt.
Elected under a Keith Ellison run DNC, and a Soros puppet like ideological toady tool is president for the express purposes of LEGITIMIZING the idea the people everywhere have the right to just come here and SHARE our to be normalized zero sum game of resources, to ensure globalization of HUGE business erodes national character, to ensure OPEN SOCIETY means something human and worldwide (as if). Does that sound like something which would provoke the kind of total and massive resistance Mr. Lewis and others are creating?
This total break with precedent AND THE NATIONAL INTEREST is being justified because Trump is so exceptional. He is not, YOUR ARROGANCE, Mr Lewis, your ARROGANCE IN JUDGING YOUR THOUGHTS ON THIS SUPERIOR TO THE PEOPLE is the exceptional item. Thanks for your work on civil rights. Thanks for making this a better USA – THEN. But your recent comments and thoughts mark you as at the end of a sad decline of you and other once fine organizations like the NAACP, and SCLP to a marker of something else … something legal here but not that many other places…
In law, sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that tends toward insurrection against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent (or resistance) to lawful authority. Sedition may include any commotion, though not aimed at direct and open violence against the laws. Seditious words in writing are seditious libel. A seditionist is one who engages in or promotes the interests of sedition.
Your precedent of this has been noticed, and I promise you, you will see this again deployed against you as your example will be used to further DEGRADE the republic.
YOUR EXAMPLE
It’s effect threatens to be far more important and MORE LASTING than any righteous civil rights actions once in your balance
Think that warning is excessive?
Just watch
This needs to get tamped out
TODAY.
NOW.
“Definitely the most important election of my life...and I’m 73.”
You have me beat by 8 years, but I agree. The closest to it was the election of 1980.
Crazy conclusions...the Revolution is On.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3514497/posts?page=3#3
Al Gore killed it in 2000 with his frivolous election lawsuit.
Alas Babylon! wrote: "Usually, I do not like seeing blogs posted on Free Republic due to blog pimping, but this one is not.It doesn't matter if the writer is famous or not, the words are absolutely right on!
And thank you, wtd, for not excerpting, but giving the whole article!"
Your response is greatly appreciated. Despite anticipated complaints about blog pimping, I, too, thought the original author made some excellent points worth posting at the risk of this thread being pulled.
Poetic license. I knew that, love the picture!
If I may stick my nose in....
HRC would have been a less damaging president in 2008 - note that I said "less damaging", not "good choice" - because she didn't have the either the political chutzpah, or the hatred for America to push through the reforms that BO achieved.
However, she was most certainly politically savvy enough, along with a complicit media, to cement in place all of the political "gains" that were obtained by BO.
"The Most Important Election of our Time" is a trite cliché. However, 2016 truly may have been. I'm not sure that America could have recovered - heck, I'm still not sure. But I do know that with Trump leading the charge, at least we have a chance.
The threats of violence may have stopped a lot of people who would have otherwise attended the demonstrations.
Let's see what happens.
The is the logical end outcome of adopting the Saul Alinsky ethos 45 years ago.
I have been told that Bikers for Trump are attending, should make any snowflakes quiver if they start rumbling
Nah....don't feel that way. I'm quite sure He likes it when we ask for good things, even if we ask over and over again.
See Luke 18:1-8
None of this is new. I watched “Victoria” last night and when 18 year old Victoria ascended the throne, the Tories busied themselves in trying to get rid of her through rumor and innuendo.
The democrats only claim illegitimacy because historically, their accusations, along with media help, have not been challenged with any vigor. George W Bush decided he would be noble-minded and let the democrats slap him over everything until the population began to believe and accept it. So they intend to try it with Trump. Trump hits back quickly before it takes root.
I loved Foghorn Leghorn when I was a kid.
Then the illegal alien problem will just get worse as anyone who is working tries to flee.
:o)
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