Posted on 12/15/2024 8:34:51 AM PST by Starman417
From the moment of Joe Biden’s coup d'état “victory,” in 2020, Democrats, who had spent years telling everyone our elections were vulnerable to manipulation, suddenly began telling us it was the most secure election in American history.
Not long after the inauguration, adding insult to injury, Molly Ball wrote a long piece in TIME describing all of the maneuvers and manipulations Democrats had used to steal the election, and their preparations for “protests” – read violence – if their coup didn’t succeed. But it did, and they were, gloating about it.
Since that time, we’ve all come to see exactly what happened, much of it described in Mollie Hemingway’s bible on the coup: Rigged. We’ve read the Twitter files, listened to Zuckerberg on Rogan, and watched Mike Benz on Tucker, not to mention the yeoman’s work done by Jeff Fulgman on investigating the blatant fraud in Georgia, one of the swing states that was awarded to Biden.
Mad doesn’t begin to express the rage inspired by watching them shred the Constitution and the Republic for four years, trying to kill the golden goose that has produced more prosperity and more freedom for more people around the world than any nation in human history.
But now, after Donald Trump won a second term, perhaps a different perspective is necessary. One of gratitude…
Why gratitude? Clarity. Because of the Democrat’s unprecedented malevolence, Trump has an opportunity like no other president, ever. He knows more than any politician in our history exactly what his enemies will do to stop him. We’ve watched it play out over 8 years and now he’s in a position to do something about it. Almost…
Despite Democrat fraud that stole GOP Senate seats in AZ, MI, NV, and WI, Trump still finds himself with a GOP Senate. That body, ostensibly controlled by Republicans, is as much of a swamp as anything you’ll find anywhere in the Democrat party. The majority recently elected RINO John Thune as their leader. What’s more, the outgoing leader, the anti-Trump Mitch McConnell has just announced he’ll be chairing the powerful Rules Committee and the Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense. At the same time, on the Senate Appropriations Committee, the single most powerful chairmanship in the Senate will be occupied by the virulently anti-Trump RINO Susan Collins of Maine. None of that bodes well for the MAGA agenda.
Trump, however, doesn’t have to acquiesce to RINOs derailing his agenda. Why? Because he has a not-so-secret weapon: JD Vance. Trump should tell Vance that his sole job for the next four years is to exercise his constitutional role as President of the Senate and preside over the body, something vice presidents regularly did until the 1950s . Article I, Section 3, Clause 4 of the Constitution says: The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote unless they are equally divided.
While casting the deciding vote when the Senate is tied is something he’s likely to be called upon for, there’s much more that he could do. The Constitution itself says practically nothing about how the Senate should be run. It talks about voting and quorums, passing laws, and more, but virtually nothing about what goes on in the Senate procedurally. As such, most of what they do is done because… that’s how they’ve always done it, or at least for a while. Some of the procedures were voted on by members while others were put in place by leaders. As an example, the leader of the majority is the most powerful person in the Senate because he has the first right of recognition by the chair: “This perception is based on his ability to make motions to proceed to legislation and nominations…” That “right” didn’t exist for the first 150 years of the Republic until it was created by Vice President Cactus Jack Garner while presiding over the Senate in 1937.
And this is where President Trump needs to utilize Vance. According to the Senate’s website: “The Senate is governed by the Constitution, a set of standing rules, precedents established in the course of the legislative process, and special rules of procedure adopted by statute for particular types of legislation.” Rules are created and voted upon by the Senators themselves, and unlike in the House, the rules apply from one Congress to the next. As such, those would be difficult to change without a rock-solid majority, something the President sadly doesn’t have.
But precedents are something altogether different. Here’s the thing, as we saw with Plessy and Roe being overturned at the Supreme Court, precedents are precedents… until they’re not. And there are a lot of them: 1,600 pages worth!
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BTTT
And a Doberman on a leash.
“Trump should tell Vance that his sole job for the next four years is to exercise his constitutional role as President of the Senate and preside over the body,”
Cry havoc and let slip the hillbillies of war!
If you haven’t read the TIME article on how the 2020 election was stolen by a coalition of scumbos, it is well worth the time. One of the key parties was the US Chamber of Commerce, working in tandem with the AFL-CIO. The Chamber should get NOTHING they want in this Administration or Congress.
I hope they get relentlessly infinite frustration, disappointment and despair rather than simple nothing.
But that’s just me.
:)
Push the boundaries. Make the opponents go through the full, tedious effort to prove that it’s a step too far. I don’t think it is. But if it is, make the other side do the work. We should no longer hold ourselves back in fear of what the other side might do. We’ve already seen them do their worst.
"The Constitution itself says practically nothing about how the Senate should be run."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Whatever constitutional drafters intended for the constitutionally limited power Senate, the states unthinkingly effectively repealed the Constitution when they ratified the 16th (16A; direct taxes) and 17th (17A; popular voting for federal senators) Amendments (16&17A) imo.
Consider that when PDJT47 announced his candidacy for a second term, he mentioned that he wanted to amend the Constitution for term limits. But he was aiming his "gun" too low with term limits imo.
More specifically, he actually needs to lead the states to effectively "secede" ALL the states from the unconstitutionally big federal government by putting a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes and interference in the affairs of the states by repealing 16&17A.
The Boston Tea Party-ignoring, repealable (hint) 16A has not only weakened our 4th Amendment protections imo, but has also become the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for organized crime imo.
"16th Amendment: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived [emphasis added], without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"4th Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
The congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as follows.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
Illegals are indeed getting immediate Social Security, contrary to Democrat claims (7.11.24)
Democrats [and RINOs] Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
God is in charge, and it’s all good. 2020 was needed to bring us Trump 2.0. just as God didn’t just hand Jacob the Torah but made the Jews go through slavery in Egypt before freeing them and giving them the 5 Books of Moses. The Trump coming in now is the real Trump...the one we deserve, at full power, about to rescue this nation from darkness...for the Lord.
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