As in MSM - MainStream Media
Posted on 02/07/2017 3:21:00 AM PST by Loud Mime
On Sunday, (January 30, 2017) Senator Charles Schumer voiced his opinion of the President’s nominee for SCOTUS. In his speech, he said,
“…if the nominee is out of the mainstream, we will do our best to keep the seat open. Let’s remember that, of the last four Supreme Court nominees, two nominated by a Republican president, two by a Democrat, they had bipartisan support. What I said — you didn’t show it on the air there — is, if the nominee is not bipartisan and mainstream, we absolutely would keep the seat open.
I’m hopeful that maybe President Trump would nominate someone who is mainstream and who could get bipartisan support. We shall see. But, if they don’t, yes, we will fight it tooth-and-nail, as long as we have to.”
Schumer spoke these words before he knew that Trump would nominate Neil Gorsuch to the vacant seat on the Supreme Court. But Schumer had made it clear by his omission that our Constitution meant nothing, but the “mainstream” – his code word – meant everything.
Stop and think of how this word, mainstream, is used in politics. The liberals have forced it into our political system, so much so that it takes the place of the Constitution in their application of law, in their measurements of political matters, and worst of all, in their oath of office
What is the mainstream anyway, and why does it take priority over our Constitution with people like Senator Schumer? Why isn’t anybody else asking this?
For the answer, we need to examine the obvious: When our Constitution is the foundation of all our laws, it should logically be the foundation of all political measurements. But the liberals have mutated that logical system by replacing the center of politics with their creature called the mainstream, which is the mob of people they created who ignore prudent, constitutional government so they can drive up the debt, increase the involvement of government in more of our lives, torture the application of law, and vilify all the people who believe in a constitutional government.
Their concept shoves the Constitution so far off to the right that it does not appear on most political maps. Look at the various diagrams have been recently offered (such as in the New York Times and National Review) that measure each Supreme Court justice in a liberal-to-conservative position within the court. Most of these graphs put Justice Clarence Thomas on the right wing and cluster the liberal justices together in a group just left of the undefined center. But the diagrams are comparisons between the judgements of the Justices; they do not have a constitutional benchmark for their measurements, so the comparisons have nothing to do with our constitution—and everything to do with promoting liberalism. It is not by mistake; it’s by design!
If our constitution was the basis of their measurements, all justices would be to the left of the constitution’s mark, including Justice Thomas. The liberal justices would be positioned somewhere further to the left, most likely between the orbits of Saturn and Jupiter. That is how far to the left the Democrats have traveled from a constitutional foundation.
The Democrat’s mainstream political animal has reduced our Constitution to a fringe, right-wing element in politics—and those who believe in the constitutional rule of law are portrayed as extremists. This perception allows groups, such as the New York Times, to wail that the open seat on the Supreme Court was “stolen” and that the Senate did not perform its duty in allowing a mainstream justice, Merrick Garland, into a seat of judgment.
But the Senate did exactly what their oaths required, they protected our constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
We have a fresh start in politics, so it is up to all of us to start challenging the liberals, especially the politicians, to obey their oath of office and honor the Constitution—instead of finessing their wording with terms such as “mainstream.” That word should have no bearing on the selection of a Supreme Court Justice.
We now have the advantage, don’t waste it.
The Democrat’s twisted use of words is one of their biggest success stories. It stops people from thinking about what they are actually doing.
Orwell warned us about this almost seventy years ago. The destruction of language to control thought.
Yeah....used to be.
But Hillary’s campaign dissuaded a lot of people .... she can twist the political language into a half-baked pretzel.
Her biggest goof after calling us “deplorables” was when she had the gall to tell voters the nation Trump campaigned for “no longer existed.”
Man, her loss to THAT nation was a rude awakening.
Mainestream
Conservative code word.
He is mainstream. ie: he is a thoughtless mind-numbed robot working for the elite.
Despite all the little pillowfights over the Trump nominees, Gorsuch’s nomination is the big one for the Democrats. They will gear-up for this seat with all their energy and tools at hand.
We must reveal that “MAINSTREAM” is anti-Constitutional and beat them over the head with it like they do us.
Otherwise, we will lose our advantage.
Join the fight, just don’t talk about it.
The writings of Karl Marx are mainstream in their lexicon.
Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi are in denial that too many Americans view them as out of touch with the real “mainstream”; too many states’ voters decided they didn’t want to be dominated by “NYC/San Francisco”, so they opted for someone they viewed as more “mainstream”...
Chuck U, Schumer!
Kagan and Sotomayer are not mainstream. They are as far-Left as you can get, and every one of their decisions have been based on politicis, which is decidedly NOT what they should be doing.
The Wise Latina and Professor Von Lesbian are the worst SCOTUS justices Obama could have picked and the Senate confirmed.
gravitas
The Democrats, Schumer and Pelosi included, learned their lesson with the last election; do not underestimate them. The media will side with them at every opportunity, especially after being ‘trumped.’
The fight for the empty seat in our Supreme Court is everything to them now. If we lose it, we lose everything, so be vigilant.
Argue with others about their perverted use of the word MAINSTREAM. Do not lose our advantage.
Ping
The New York mainstream is eddy
A great rebuttal to the "stolen seat!" mob.
The fight for our Constitution comes to the forefront as our Supreme Court Justices are selected. We scraped by these past months since our Honorable Justice Scalia was taken. This is the most important choice Trump has made thus far and it’s a good one. We need to be calling Congress on this. Get our Constitutional nominee in. Use the nuclear option if necessary!
Hitlery changed the connotation of today’s language with her one little hateful “basket of deplorables” remark. Suddenly, “deplorable” is no longer “despicable” but a badge of honor.
See these word games backfire on the lamestream occasionally.
A (liberal mainstream) river runs uphill of it.
I recall reading that way back during the primaries. On target in my book as I felt our entire election process was primarily about this one Justice. This is the number 1 reason we had to have Trump win. All the other things that have come with his win are nice. But this Justice is his most important thing in my book. Zero may have been freaking out over his legacy, all President Trump needs is to restore Constitutional justice and Justices to the SCOTUS and President Trump has a fine legacy. All this other is fluffy whipped cream goodness :)
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