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Sleepwalking into Our Own Demise

Try “swive” instead of “fornicate.” It’s closer to period slang.

Grassley.

While I could disagree with Hubert Humphrey on most issues, he did in fact co-found the Americans for Democratic Action to toss the Communists out of the Democrat Party. He personally played a critical role in tossing them out of the Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party in Minnesota when he was mayor of Minneapolis.

I think he'd be horrified of what his party has become.

Democrats' Scorched Earth Policy

90 days from August 8 is the election. That’s when the clock runs out.

In pro football, when the clock hits the 2-minute mark near the end of the game, a series of offensive plays, known as the 2-minute drill, goes into effect to take advantage of the clock and advance the score. I see Trump’s team doing the same in the form of a 90-day drill.

In football, they have the 2-minute drill. It appears that on August 8, Trump initiated the 90-day drill.

Congress does not have the authority to suspend federal elections, although Congress has set the date of federal elections since the 1840s. Only the president can all off elections, and that requires the complete abrogation of the Constitution due to some war or crisis and a return to what the Framers called "a state of nature."

The office of president is covered by the laws pertaining to federal elections.

No, the midterms elect senators and congressmen, which are federal officers.

State/county/local are not governed by federal law.

Federal elections can't be canceled as you think. The terms of office for Congress and the President require elections so that the offices can be filled. Without elections, the offices expire, and no one fills them.

Only if the Constitution is annulled due to war or some major disturbance can elections be canceled. In that case, the President is military dictator. He can hold elections again if the Constitution is ever restored.

Note that LBJ asked the NSC to explore this scenario in 1968 after the unpleasantness at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. He feared that the antiwar youth and Black Panthers might join forces and disrupt the elections via terrorism.

Sergei Rachmaninov plays “The Star Spangled Banner”

Dates and conditions for federal elections were enacted into law in the 1840s. Property qualifications for federal elections were removed by law in 1826. Age 18 was set for voting via constitutional amendment in the 1960s.

But elections for non-federal positions are totally up to the states.

He's right.

My housemate is a born-and-bred Democrat.

Trump? "He's a dick."

Democrat ballot box stuffing? "Both parties do it."

Democrat corruption? "The Republicans are just as corrupt."

Difference between the two parties? "The Democrats are the party of the little guy; they care about the poor. The Republicans are for the rich."

Today she said, "I don't like Trump, but what's wrong is wrong."

Maybe I'm making headway.

Canada Bans Gun Imports (money quote at the end)

The Decline and Fall of the United States

Their Next Step Will be Assassination

From Martin Armstrong:

FBI Raids Trump's Home -- DOJ Planning Indictment -- End of the USA as We Have Known It

His mouth should be more open in that picture. It makes for a better target.

Which Constitution? The Constitution of the Framers or the Living Constitution?

The federal entity honors the Living Constitution to the letter.

What is the difference between them?

The Living Constitution is what happened to the Constitution of the Framers after 200+ years of case law, some of it good and much of it bad. This case law empretzeled the Constitution of the Framers until it became the Living Constitution. The Living Constitution is a document whose meaning changes over time even though the actual wording never does. Earl Warren, and three current justices on the Supreme Court, can tell you all about the Living Constitution, by which they rule.

Amendments generated by an Article V Convention can create structural changes that constrain the power of those forces that push the Constitution into a strange realm of "emanations and perturbations."