Posted on 11/01/2025 9:50:15 AM PDT by Rummyfan
In 1993, I stood in front of someone and swore my oath of enlistment. I'd joined the United States Navy and vowed then and there to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
During my time in Uncle Sam's Yacht Club, I was never called upon to defend against foreign enemies. However, now that I'm in civilian life, I keep finding myself needing to defend us from domestic enemies.
We call them the Democratic Party, unfortunately.
In recent weeks, the insanity has reached a fevered pace. We've got everything from former presidents calling for the regulation of what people say to some reality TV personality from Bravo threatening literally everyone who isn't as rabidly leftist as she is. We've got a sizeable chunk of the Democrats' base threatening to loot if they don't get their free food money they did nothing to deserve from the government, even.
This follows weeks of celebration of the assassination of Charlie Kirk and generations of pushing to restrict our ability to resist a tyrannical government.
And yet, they try to present themselves as the people who can be trusted with the reins of power?
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BFL
“The Enemy Within”
The Left and the 80%+, $3+ trillion unconstitutional and, thus, illegal, corrupt, and coercive portion of the federal gov’t.
Yup. Thanks for the service. I mostly believe it’s all enemies foreign and democratic. But that could be just me. 😁👍
We call them the Democratic Party, unfortunately.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Respectfully to Mr. Knighton, neither elite desperate Democrats or “lead from the rear” RINOs are the main problem with the country imo.
More specifically, Democratic and Republican ordinary voters with way too much voting power (17th Amendment) imo, voters who evidently don’t have a clue about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, keep reelecting the same crook politicians to the federal government, seemingly expecting different results to remedy federal government corruption every time.
In other words, democracy-loving voters who have evidently never really studied the fed’s constitutionally limited powers unthinkingly created the unconstitutionally big federal government that is now oppressing everybody under its boots.
After the 16th (16A; direct taxes) and 17th (17A; popular voting for federal senators) Amendments were ratified, crook federal lawmakers eventually discovered that they could promise voters every unconstitutional federal social spending under the sun to get themselves elected. Constitutionally naïve voters eventually took the bait and elected these crooks, and then reelected them!
Then once in office, crook lawmakers abuse their 16A powers by simply fulfilling their campaign promises for unconstitutional federal spending, ignoring Section 8 spending limits by doing so.
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)
“Drunk driving” under the “influence” of 17A comes to mind.
Neither of the corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties (bully-driven voting unions) that have pirated control of the country want to give up control of 16A powers, that amendment the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for organized crime, front-ended by deep state Congress.
Regarding the unconstitutionally big federal government, PDJT47 supporters need to permanently preserve his legacy in destroying the elite Democratic and RINO corruption machine by making the repeal of the 16&17A the main talking point of the 2026 primary elections.
More precisely, Trumps red tsunami of supporters, evidenced by his record-breaking win in 2024 elections, need to primary all state and federal popularly elected officials who refuse to publicly promise to support a resolution to repeal the 16&17A in January 2027.
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.
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 [all emphases added], (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. — 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 [all emphases added], under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government. 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.
Consider that a resolution to repeal 16A was introduced as recently as 2021, but was unsurprisingly ignored.
We'll call the repeal amendment Trump's Boston Tea Party II Amendment.
(Again) 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)
Once unconstitutional federal taxing and spend is stopped, the states will ultimately find a tsunami of new revenues that they probably won't know what to do with imo, healthcare, including taking care of the poor, and education, on the short list of priorities.
“Simon says: Feed your replacements! Heh heh heh.”
When America’s in trouble he is not slow;
it’s “Hup hup hup” and away Trump goes (to the rescue).
I remember another one:
Inside the compartment of this ring I fill
with an Underdog vitamin energy pill.
The role of Cad portrayed by Hakeem Jeffries. Riff Raff has been “gender bent” for the times and played by Mafia princess Nancy Pelosi.
You might want to include the 19th amendment as part of the problem, too. And the reduced voting age and the no-longer-required need to own property to vote. Too many with no skin in the game looking for ‘bread and circuses’.
I have a particular issue with people who have served in the military, taken an oath, and then have aligned themselves with Democrats who have, 100%, shown themselves to be enemies of the Constitution.
I view them as oath breakers.
I know several. Uber TDS . Guess they had their fingers crossed when swearing in. My dad swore me in. He was an O-6..
Oh yeah. They exist all right.
So you were a brat? I was too...:)
I cannot "agree to disagree" in this circumstance.
But he's fine getting full disability and retirement pay from the VA.
Tomorrow. Thanks.
I feel pretty strongly about it. That is bad enough that person went to the UN, but to continue to badmouth his own country to a bunch of people who don’t wish us well is another thing.
Terrible.
Yup. My first overseas assignment was Guam when I was about 5 months old in 1947 LOL! I became a member of the Domain of the Golden Dragon pretty early. 😂👍
Very cool…:)
Us brats gotta stick together, dontcha know!
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