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“Juicing the economy to help Kamala?”

Interest payments on the total federal debt are now over $1 trillion per year. The federal government is borrowing money in order to make interest payments on the existing debt. This is not an economically sustainable proposition. Since the president and Congress have no appetite for reducing spending, the Federal Reserve is using its power to control interest rates to lower rates and thereby help the government by lowering the cost of new debt being used to pay interest on the existing debt.

“40% of teamsters are morons?”

Teamsters represent many professional and non profession workers in industries other than trucking. The membership as a whole is representative of much of the population demographically. Likely a high percentage black, hispanic and Asian Teamsters reflexively vote Democratic just as other non-union members of their race. Females in the general population tend to favor Democrats and it is reasonable to assume female members of the Teamsters union also favor Democrats.

While the Teamsters membership has spoken, it appears the Teamsters leadership, like the DNC, does not really support “our democracy” when the people make choices the leadership does not like. Hence the decision by the leadership not to endorse any candidate, even though the membership strongly favors Trump.

“So how many of the rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights are we now considering relics of the 18th century at this point? Four? Five?”

In the present time all of them are being infringed on by the federal government daily. The left considers the entire Constitution to be immoral and invalid because slave holders were involved in its creation.

When the power to “interpret” the Constitution was seized by the Judiciary branch, without pushback from the Executive and Legislative branches, the nation started down the road to the Constitution’s demise. Today the courts, and the regulatory bureaucracy of the Executive branch, not only interpret the Constitution, they effectively amend it by decree. Hence the left marches from victory to victory without even considering going through the amendment process.

Unfortunately courts have watered down the 4th Amendment to the point it is nearly toothless and Congress has failed to protect citizens against the tyranny of the courts.

Under the strict wording of the 4th amendment many of the routine searches in daily life are prohibited without a search warrant yet they occur every day. Examples: TSA searches of luggage and bodies, police searches of stopped motor vehicles, government requests for information on private citizens from social media companies, utilities, communications companies or other businesses.

Blanket search warrants are frequently issued by judges with little probably cause shown. Courts allow police to seize personal property not listed in warrants during a legal search if they perceive it might have been used in a crime. During search warrants police intentional damage personal property and carry off computers, filing cabinets, safes and other material that “might” be relevant and for which there has been no description in the warrant of the specific thing being seized. Hence Melania Trump’s lingerie drawer was fair game for the FBI to search at Mar a Lago.

Then there is the problem of civil asset forfeiture where the police seize personal property for public use without due process, and refuse to return it once the judicial process has run its course.

Essentially the courts have determined than any search an unelected judge authorizes is “reasonable” under the Constitution. It will not be long before the concept of “private” property will be eviscerated from our society. All property will belong to the state and its use be subject to the whim of bureaucrats and judges.

“just wait till kamala orders doctors and nurses to work 12 hour days”

In my area hospital nurses already work 12 hour shifts.

State universities are established, funded, and sustained through the appropriations of the state legislature. Professors and administrators at state colleges are state employees. State legislatures can require state institutions to guarantee free speech and have diversity of ideas. It is time for the taxpayer voters to hold their state legislators accountable.

“I’d rather hear from the Republicans who keep approving these debates. The RNC. The president’s campaign team. Who are they? What are their names?”

Donald Trump is the name. He agreed to the debate, the network, the moderator, and the rules. He is also responsible for his own performance at the debate.

Trump appointed his advisors and campaign team. He approved the current RNC chair and his daughter in law Laura is heavily involved in the RNC. Trump has gone through two presidential campaigns and spent four years as POTUS. He knew what he was dealing with and made the decision to debate.

In the immortal words of Harry Truman, “The buck stops here.” If Trump can’t take responsibility for the consequences of his decisions he is the wrong person for the job. If he can’t find and appoint good people to work for him, he is the wrong person for the job. Real leaders make decisions in an imperfect world and take ownership of the consequences resulting from those decisions.

Michigan is a must win for Harris, North Carolina is a must win for Trump. He won NC in 2016 and 2020 by small margins. Harris is spending time in NC which must indicate Democrats believe they can turn the state. Polls show the Democrat candidate for governor is leading conservative Republican Mark Robinson in the race for governor. Millions of out of state money is being spent in NC by the Democrats to defeat Robinson and Trump. The state ‘s population has grown dramatically in the liberal urban cites over the last 8 years. If NC goes for Harris, along with Georgia, Trump’s route to an electoral college victory is nearly impossible.

“And media love reporting this s**t”

Which is exactly why Graham keeps doing it. A real supporter and friend would call Trump on the phone, give his point of view, and remain quiet. In the Senate Graham was the protege of the serial backstabber John McCain who delighted in being a “maverick”, frequently voting with the Dems on key issues in order to get favorable press and constant invitations to the Sunday morning mainstream media talk shows. Lindsay is a favorite “go to” Republican for the press because he will often backstab a fellow Republican or side with the Dems on a particular issue.

Harris chose to spend five days of rigorous preparation by engaging in mock debates against someone posing as Trump. According to news reports Trump used informal policy review sessions with aides, not actual debate practice sessions.

Harris practiced under fire and memorized responses to questions thrown at her. Trump did not. He chose an ad lib approach to the debate.

Ultimately both candidates made decisions, and own, their debate prep strategies. Trump chose to wing it during the debate. As a result he was often playing defense.

As to fairness of the moderators, both candidates knew the bias of ABC and the moderators. Both candidates agreed to the terms. If you choose to dive into a pit of angry snakes expect to be bitten. Ultimately Trump owns his preparation decisions and performance, good or bad.

Trump had the option of not debating. All he had to do was agree to debate Harris on a liberal network with liberal moderators and insist she debate him on a conservative network with conservative moderators. Fair is fair. Harris would never have agreed to this condition. It would have been her backing out, not Trump.

Politicians, including Donald Trump, have promised to eliminate carried interest for two decades. It hasn’t happened. Neither will taxation of unrealized capital gains.

“A business leader who settles for temporary benefits to him/herself is no business leader at all.”

He or she retires extremely wealthy, not unlike most politicians and the current president.

Doubtful governments would “implode” but many politicians, entertainers, journalists, and business executives experience their careers terminating suddenly. As long as the replacements aren’t as corrupt as those they will replace, the country benefits.

“Any business leaders that endorses Kamala, is NOT a budiness leader.”

Big corporations have for years paid off politicians of both parties with campaign funds, speaking engagements, book deals, board seats in retirement (Paul Ryan at Fox comes to mind), trips on corporate jets, sexual encounters (Epstein), vacations, and cash bribes. In return they receive special tax breaks, protectionist legislation for their industry or company, regulations hurting competition, and other special favors buried in 10,000 page spending and tax bills.

Kamala’s team is making deals. For years Republicans gave the best deals and had the loyalty of Wall Street, billionaire oligarchs and multinational corporations. In recent years Republican infighting has weakened the party’s governance so the fat cats are simply transferring allegiance to the united power brokers. Don’t forget, in the Republican Party the deal makers are the RINOs and they are opposed to Trump.

If Trump wins or loses demographics is destiny and the changes in demographics (immigration, leftist youth graduating from universities), plus the shrinking economic pie favor democrats. Democrats are happy to promise corporations and groups “deals” in exchange for money and votes. When in power Democrats happily wield the regulatory hammer against their enemies. At this point in our history individual liberty and the Constitution is under heavy attack. The wealthy individuals and corporation are placing their bets on who they see as the long term winners.

“To me this means the US needs to quit funding this war and send the billions of dollars we’ve spent on escalating this war - send to protect OUR borders.”

Agree with ending the funding. However, the answer for the billions of dollars wasted on foreign military aid to Ukraine and other countries is simply not to spend the money period. Something has to be done about the obscene budget deficit and foreign military spending is a good place to start.

We already spend nearly a trillion dollars a year on “defense”. Deploy the troops we are already paying for along the border with orders to shoot to use any means necessary to stop anyone crossing the border illegally. The cartels and illegals will test our resolve. After a few dozen are shot crossing the border the “migrants” will turn around, others will stop trying to enter illegally, and the border will be secure.

Even day American citizens lose jobs to illegal migrants, become addicted to drugs brought into the country by cartels, lose their jobs to lower paid migrants, and are raped and murdered by illegal migrants. Taxpayers in small towns and cities across the country are being crushed by the mandated social services spending to house, feed and educate illegal migrants being resettled by the federal government. The #1 purpose of a nation’s army is to defend the borders and the citizens inside the border. Why pay nearly a trillion a year for the armed forces if you aren’t going to use troops to defend the nation’s borders against an invasion?

Even if one could find an attorney to fight the Covid mandates, too many tyrannical judges were in place and happily enforced the mandates even though doing so denied due process and had no basis in law, but were simply edicts from elected officials and bureaucrats.

Look at the trashing of constitutional rights to speedy trial, due process, and free speech for the January 6 defendants. The withholding of evidence against them with the blessing of the judge. The same for Trump. He is under gag order pertaining to at least one of the cases against him.

With the widespread corruption in the legal system it is difficult to envision things will be any different during the next “crisis”. The day is coming when a liberal majority Supreme Court approves onerous penalties on “hate” speech, gives federal judges and law enforcement the discretion to suspend a “suspect’s” civil liberties for public safety, determines trail by administrative panel can substitute for a jury trial, and approves draconian restrictions on firearm ownership and use.

The day is also coming when the state redistributes personal property and assets on the whim of bureaucrats. The courts already allow civil asset forfeiture. The Supreme Court’s Kelo decision allows private property to be taken and given to other private entities “for the public good”. Compensation for that property taken is what the state determines is appropriate. Certainly leftist social activists, politicians, and bureaucrats are plotting to gain the authority to take private property, without compensation, and redistributed it how they see fit. This is the end game for politicians such as Kamala Harris who constantly preach “equity”. Seizure and redistribution of private property is the end game of the equity advocates.

“Massholechusetts, that’s your problem rite there.”

The private equity economic model is also responsible for destroying this company and many others. Private equity “investors” buy a company, load it with debt, strip the assets, offshore operations and jobs where possible put millions in their own pockets, milk the company into bankruptcy, then jettison the carcass leaving destroyed lives, jobs, and communities behind.

Private equity vultures, in league with “too big to fail” Wall Street investment banks, contributed greatly to the destruction and offshoring of America’s manufacturing supply chains in the 1990’s and early 2000’s. Their partnership with greedy politicians of both parties has resulted in the corruption of government at all levels. When the history of the decline and fall of the American republic is written, the rapacious role of private equity will be a leading cause.

“Massholechusetts, that’s your problem rite there.”

The private equity economic model is also responsible for destroying this company and many others. Private equity “investors” buy a company, load it with debt, strip the assets, offshore operations and jobs where possible put millions in their own pockets, milk the company into bankruptcy, then jettison the carcass leaving destroyed lives, jobs, and communities behind.

Private equity vultures, in league with “too big to fail” Wall Street investment banks, contributed greatly to the destruction and offshoring of America’s manufacturing supply chains in the 1990’s and early 2000’s. Their partnership with greedy politicians of both parties has resulted in the corruption of government at all levels. When the history of the decline and fall of the American republic is written, the rapacious role of private equity will be a leading cause.

“John McPain was a loser. He was one of the most corrupt politicians in DC. The Keating 5 should have been sent to jail.”

Thank President George H.W. Bush for the decision of the DOJ not to prosecute the Keating 5. It wasn’t McCain who saved the Keating 5 from going to prison for influence peddling. It was John Glenn, former Marine officer and first American astronaut to orbit the earth. Bush felt it would be a national embarrassment to have America’s astronaut hero spend his last years in prison.

If McCain had been the only one (i.e. the Keating 1) he likely would have been prosecuted and sent to prison. There was no love lost between the Bush dynasty and McCain.

Raising the retirement age only works for those able to find employment and are healthy enough to hold a job. The ultimate solution for the fiduciary problem of sustaining an elderly population is euthanasia. “Voluntary” euthanasia is being enacted in western countries today. End of life counseling is a feature of Obamacare. In Canada the government run healthcare system is encouraging voluntary euthanasia.

Like all leftist social programs it is beginning slowly so the population can consider the early termination of the elderly to be normal. Then the end game is quickly enacted. Expect compulsory euthanasia for the extremely ill, particularly after state run single payer healthcare becomes enacted. Then comes age determined denial of healthcare and forced termination of life.

Once involuntary euthanasia becomes common place, governments no longer face funding issues with pensions and healthcare for the elderly. Eliminating the beneficiary eliminates the expense. Plus there is the added benefit of using confiscatory estate taxes to redeploy the assets of the dead for the common good.