MSNBC host: If the Electoral College was not in the Constitution it would be unconstitutional
Since the alt-left sky screamers first discovered in November of 2016 there was this institution called the Electoral College they have been calling for its demise. The Democrats in the Congress are naturally on board and the mainstream media likewise has been calling for its repeal.
To properly repeal the Electoral College would take a Constitutional amendment but that is too time consuming for the Democrats so they have set in motion the National Popular Vote movement, but that is the subject for another day. This plan has been in the works for awhile but has gained steam now that the Democrats have lost one election.
But speaking of the Constitution: MSNBC host Chris Hayes took to the air to slam the Republicans and deride the Electoral College as “undemocratic” and, in Biden-esque fashion, went so far as to say the Electoral College would be unconstitutional if it were not actually written into the Constitution.
“It’s basically this, do we actually really believe in democracy, right?” Hayes said. “The question before us now in the Electoral College question is, are we going to actually live up to the promise of one person one vote. Now, to be fair, it is not surprising the Republicans are defending the Electoral College, right. There’s a very obvious reason for that. Since 1992 we have had seven presidential elections. Republicans have won the popular vote one time, but they’ve gotten three presidents out of it which is a very sweet deal if you’re the Republican Party, right.”
“You can see why on just basic tactical grounds why the Republican Party would want to continue a system in which they can lose a majority of votes and still get all the powers the presidency appointing the Supreme Court justices and judges and signing legislation, vetoing legislation, commanding the army, everything, right,” he continued. “All of that with less votes than the Democrat got. No wonder they like. But I think there’s actually a deeper philosophical thing happening which is the question of what exactly American democracy is for. And the weirdest thing about the Electoral College is the fact that it wasn’t specifically in the Constitution for the presidency, it would be unconstitutional.”
There you have it, how can you argue with that logic?
The only thing I would add is I find it humorous that a man who does not understand the Constitution guarantees a republican form of government is claiming the Electoral College is undemocratic. That was the point of it in the first place.
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Poor ole Uncle Joe. I think we are finding out why the former President did not want him to run for President and why he refused to endorse him. It has been a tough few weeks for Barack Obama’s former Vice-President. It has gotten to the point where he is showing signs of sundowning, his handlers have had to cut down on his evening schedule in an attempt to hide it, and he felt the need to assure his listeners he was not going nuts. (That is never a good sign…)
In addition to the normal gaffes we have come to expect from Joe Biden he has forgotten where he was, during what time frame he was Vice-President, and what he was doing during a medal pinning ceremony. And now he seems have become confused while trying to make a point about DREAMers. Here is what he had to say:
“And these kids who come and they end up doing well — they become Americans before a lot of Americans become Americans,” Biden said.
There was an awkward laugh from the audience so Biden pushed back with, “No! I’m serious!”
That makes no sense whatsoever, I suppose he was trying to say sometimes these children do better than American children in school but lost his grasp on the English language and his point for a second and did not recover properly. Have you ever noticed how many time Joe Biden has had to say “I’m serious” after he makes what he believes is a profound point of some kind?
It is actually sad to see a man so addicted to glory, prestige, and power that he does not understand when it is time to give it up and shame on those closest to him for enabling him–perhaps they too are addicted to the same.
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Joe Biden tells fake story of pinning a medal on a military hero
A couple of weeks ago Joe Biden erroneously made the claim that he met with survivors of the Parkland shooting when he was Vice President but of course this was a lie because he was not the Vice President in 2018. His supporters and the mainstream media wrote this off as a simple misstatement. He was thinking of the Sandy Hook shooting and simply misspoke.
Okay, even if we give him the benefit of the doubt on that one it is going to be hard for his supporters to explain how he got this next one wrong. It falls along the same lines but this time we meet Joe Biden as Vice President pinning a medal on a Navy hero. Here is how good ole Uncle Joe told the story:
“This guy climbed down a ravine, carried this guy up on his back under fire,” the former vice president said during a campaign stop in New Hampshire last week. “The general wanted me to pin the Silver Star on him. I got up there, and this is the God’s truth, my word as a Biden. He stood at attention. I went to pin it on him. He said, ‘Sir, I don’t want the damn thing. Do not pin it on me, sir. Please, sir, do not do that. He died! He died!'”
There is just one thing…strike that, there are just seven things wrong with that story:
But according to the Washington Post, who spoke to more than a dozen military and campaign sources, “Biden got the time period, the location, the heroic act, the type of medal, the military branch and the rank of the recipient, as well as his own role in the ceremony” wrong.
In a span of about 10 seconds Joe Biden got 7 things wrong about the story (which was the whole story) but The last one is the kicker, he even got his own role in the ceremony wrong. In other words he did not pin the medal on anybody who was shouting at him not to do it. In my opinion that alone puts this in the category of a lie and not a misspeak. You simply do not mis-remember something like that unless it is intentional.
To be fair Joe Biden has pinned a medal on a hero before, he just apparently has no idea who it was–and that is quite disrespectful–and it was not nearly as dramatic as he would have us believe.
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Inspector General report finds James Comey violated FBI policies
The long-awaited Inspector General report was released today, shortly before a long holiday weekend of course, and it confirmed the rumor we heard back at the beginning of the month. The report found that James Comey did violate FBI policies when he released his notes on his interview with Donald Trump.
Here is more:
A scathing report released Thursday by the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General found former FBI Director James Comey violated bureau policies and his employment agreement with his handling of official memos.
The investigation concerned memos detailing Comey’s interactions and conversations with President Trump.
“We conclude that Comey’s retention, handling, and dissemination of certain Memos violated Department and FBI policies, and his FBI Employment Agreement,” the report states. It noted that “much of the content of the Memos was directly tied to FBI investigative activities.”
he said Comey broke FBI policies by seeking to share unauthorized information about ongoing investigations with a friend — who then gave the information to The New York Times two months after Comey was removed from the FBI by Trump.
“Former Director Comey failed to live up to this responsibility,” the 83-page report says. “By not safeguarding sensitive information obtained during the course of his FBI employment, and by using it to create public pressure for official action, Comey set a dangerous example for the over 35,000 current FBI employees—and the many thousands more former FBI employees—who similarly have access to or knowledge of non-public information.”
However Michael Horowitz did not find that James Comey shared classified information and because of this he did not recommend bringing charges against the former FBI Director. And of course we already knew from the rumors at the beginning of August that the fix was in because William Barr had already decided to let him off the hook.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims global warming is going to cause ancient diseases to escape from glaciers
Over the years we have heard the global warming alarmist fear-mongers make some of the most outrageous claims in an attempt to frighten the people into supporting their radical regressive agenda, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez might have outdone them all.
The Representative from New York is claiming that diseases which have been frozen for thousands of years will be released into the water and we will not be able to cope with them. Here is what she had to say:
“Things that were frozen for thousands of years, and that they’re going to get into our water, and that humans could contract them, and they’re going to be diseases that are thousands of years old that have vectors that we are not prepared for, that we have never seen. Um…and so that’s a concern…Even if there are no diseases frozen at all in these glaciers, you have diseases that are spread by mosquitoes, and now mosquitoes are starting to fly further north that carry diseases like malaria, and a whole slew of other things.”
She must have realized how silly this sounded and tried to walk it back, but by saying “even if there are no diseases” frozen in the glaciers she is basically admitting she just made that up on the spot. And it did not get any better for Ocasio-Cortez when she continued by saying mosquitoes are going to carry malaria. I am pretty sure mosquitoes already carry malaria…
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Earlier this month Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Chief of Staff and her spokesman suddenly resigned amid accusations of campaign finance violations and now it looks as if another “squad” member might be in a little bit of trouble.
According to this story Ilhan Omar might have broken campaign law to finance an affair she was having with a married Democratic consultant. Here is more:
A complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Wednesday alleges freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) illegally used campaign money to help carry on an extramarital affair with a Democrat consultant whose firm she paid tens of thousands of dollars.
Federal campaign finance records show that Omar’s campaign has paid nearly $230,000 since 2018 to the E. Street Group, a political strategy firm of which the lawmaker’s alleged married lover, Tim Mynett, is a partner of.
According to FEC filings, the Minnesota Democrat campaign made eight payments totaling $21,547 to E. Street Group for travel costs between April and June.
The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), the right-leaning non-profit group behind the complaint against Omar, alleges the timelines of the affair and travel payments overlap. As per FEC guidelines, lawmakers are forbidden from using campaign money for personal travel expenses unless the candidate pays the money back using their personal funds.
“If Ilhan for Congress reimbursed Mynett’s LLC for travel so that Rep. Omar would have the benefit of Mynett’s romantic companionship, the expenditures must be considered personal in nature,” NLPC’s complaint reads.
Move along, nothing to see here…
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Joe Biden: ‘I’m not going nuts’
A couple of new polls came out today and they show Joe Biden’s lead slipping in about direct relationship to his apparently faltering mind. I am not making light of people who are struggling with Alzheimer’s or with other forms of dementia but Joe Biden’s recent gaffes go beyond the typical mistakes the former Vice President makes and they have people wondering if he is fit for office.
Joe Biden’s handlers are worried about his sundowning and they have sought to limit his appearances, especially later in the evening but that did not stop him from forgetting which state he was in on Friday. Joe Biden has apparently heard people’s concerns and he has a message for them:
“I want to be clear; I’m not going nuts,” the 76-year-old former vice president told an audience in New Hampshire on Friday after being unable to recollect a speech he gave at Dartmouth College only hours prior. “I’m not sure whether it was the medical school or where the hell I spoke. But it was on the campus.”
It is never a good sign when you have to try to convince people you are not crazy. I believe we are beginning to see the end of good ole Uncle Joe.
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Sunday, August 25th open thread: ‘Say Hey (I Love You)’
“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24 KJV)
Here is this week’s open thread. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.
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Here is Michael Franti and Spearhead performing an extended version of “Say Hey (I Love You)” live in 2009. In addition to this being a catchy song it is the only song I know of which manages to sneak the word metaphysical into it. (The Dead Milkmen did have a CD called “Metaphysical Graffiti” which was a parody of a famous Led Zeppelin CD however.)
Joe Biden asks audience to imagine Barack Obama’s assassination
After a gaffe-filled week a couple of weeks ago Joe Biden’s handlers decided to scale back the candidate’s campaign appearances, especially at night, so that his potential voters would not see him sundowning on the campaign trail. I guess his handlers did not quite cut back his appearances enough because yesterday at an event in New Hampshire Joe Biden mused about Barack Obama’s assassination. Here is more:
I think of where we are at the moment. You know, none of you men are old — women are old enough, but a couple of you guys are old enough to remember. I graduated in 1968. Everybody before me was, drop out, go to Haight-Ashbury, don’t trust anybody over 30, everybody not getting involved. I’m serious, I know no woman will shake their head and acknowledge it, but you guys know what I’m talking about. Right? But then what happened? Dr. Ki— I only have two political heroes. I have one hero who was my dad, but I have two political heroes were Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy. My senior semester they were both shot and killed. Imagine what would have happened if, God forbid, Barack Obama had been assassinated after becoming the de facto nominee. What would have happened in America?
That is a pretty strange thing to wonder about, isn’t it? I guess in his awkward way he was trying to say the assassinations in 1968 were what drew him into politics, and he is wondering what the effect on the youth in America would have been if the first black nominee for President were assassinated. What kind of person even thinks this way? Personally I find it to be more than a little sick and twisted.
So many people of the proper age seem to long for the late 1960’s, they seem to look back nostalgically and with great fondness at the times and while the times produced great changes I think sometimes people forget how violent the times were. But in this case Joe Biden appears to be longing for the violence as well, and violence is something the left has been trying to goad the right into since Donald Trump became President, so in the end it is not all that surprising Joe Biden went down that road.
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Democratic Senator faces ethics complaint for threatening the Supreme Court over the Second Amendment
Back on August 13th we learned that a group of Democratic Senators threatened–in Wassermanesque style–the Supreme Court with retribution in a court brief if the court did not rule with the Democrats and against the Second Amendment in an upcoming case.
Here is a little background:
Several high-profile Senate Democrats warned the Supreme Court in pointed terms this week that it could face a fundamental restructuring if justices do not take steps to “heal” the court in the near future.
The ominous and unusual warning was delivered as part of a brief filed Monday in a case related to a New York City gun law. Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., referenced rulings by the court’s conservative majority in claiming it is suffering from some sort of affliction which must be remedied.
“The Supreme Court is not well. And the people know it,” the brief said. “Perhaps the Court can heal itself before the public demands it be ‘restructured in order to reduce the influence of politics.’”
The hypocrisy of playing partisan politics while accusing the court of partisan politics was not lost on me, but the idea that sitting Senators would file a court brief with the Supreme Court threatening it was astounding to me! And now it turns out at least one Democrat is facing an ethics complaint for trying to intimidate the Supreme Court.
Here is more:
Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island has attracted an ethics complaint and vigorous criticism from conservatives after raising the prospect of court-packing in a new legal filing before the Supreme Court.
“Senator Whitehouse’s bald-faced threat to ‘heal’ or face the consequences is inappropriate and shows just why an independent judiciary is essential to our system of government,” Elizabeth Slattery, a legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The justices should, and most likely will, ignore attempts to intimidate them, and instead focus on what the Constitution requires.”
“And further, the facts don’t bear out Senator Whitehouse’s claim that the justices are driven by a partisan agenda,” Slattery added. “Just look at the voting records of the newest justices, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, who ended up on opposite sides in nearly a third of cases last term. That doesn’t look like the outcome-oriented judging to me.”
I could not agree more, both with the need for an ethics complaint to be filed against this attempt to bully the court and with the fact that this court has hardly been partisan. With Donald Trump’s two nominees, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, being busts and with John Roberts as Chief Justice the newly made Supreme Court has been mostly a disaster.
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