Pot meet kettle

 

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Very interesting

            Speaking of getting popcorn to watch the show how about Biden’s lawyers finding classified documents at an office formerly occupied by Biden?[1]  The really interesting thing about this story is that it took place last year on November 2^nd and this is the first that we’re hearing about it.  It’s being reported that some of the dozen documents had the Sensitive Classified Information (SCI) designation.[2] 

            I’m reminded of a phrase from the Nixon years.  What did they know and when did they start lying about it?  Or something like that.  Other Democrats were aware that it had happened.  Biden damn sure knew about it.  A Trump appointed attorney is doing the investigating as Special Council. (See correction note at bottom.)

Weird.

Scavenger hunt

            Want to bet that a lot of ex-Presidents, Vice Presidents and government officials in general are going through old files right now not to mention all of the current members of Congress along with their staff.  They should.  This is outrageous. 

We now have a bigger problem than just current and former Presidents having classified documents in places where they shouldn’t be.  This is more than enough evidence now to show that there’s a lot of sloppiness when it comes to handling classified material.  LOTs of people are involved.  You know that people at that level aren’t getting their own documents so staff and clerks are involved. 

When I was a classified documents courier, I carried a 45.  I had a Top-Secret clearance.  That didn’t mean that I could look at the documents.  I didn’t have any “need to know.”  Signed out.  Signed in.  Never left my physical presence.  The documents were tracked.  There were documents where even the names were classified.  I can’t even imagine a scenario where it would happen that oh by the way that Top Secret document you were carrying around never showed up or checked out and never came back. 

            There obviously needs to be a major overhaul of how classified documents are regardless of whatever Administration and Congress is in power.  Anyone that handles classified information should be given mandatory training before they’re allowed to handle it.  Anyone.  Where any classified document is at any given time should never be in question.

There should be consequences.

What now?

            Welp, the Dems and Reps are already arguing over whose is the greatest sin in regard to the mishandling of classified documents.  Yes, there are major differences between the two cases but in my estimation, it is a matter of degree.

            Biden can’t be charged as President.  The DOJ is already doing an investigation headed by a Trump appointee.  Whatever the finding nothing will happen until he leaves office.  Republicans will hesitate to impeach him over the issue because doing anything puts their guy at more risk than he already is.  Whether the classified documents were mishandled intentionally or on purpose will weigh heavily on any decision made by the courts or DOJ. 

            One thing for is for certain.  It will be a show.

Welcome to the bigs.

[Correction note:   I had my election dates wrong.  The Trump Administration would not have known about it.]

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[1] https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-classified-documents-story-lights-social-media-watch-fast-disappears

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/09/politics/joe-biden-classified-documents-upenn/index.html

A time such as this

 

Biden’s Steady Hand

            President Joe Biden has provided exactly what we need at a time such as this. A steady hand. We need this. The country needs this. There’s no daily or hourly spewing of insults or denigrating our nation’s institutions, intelligence community, allies or armed forces. No spewing of perceived slights or grievances against all and sundry on Twitter. There aren’t any despots being praised. Biden’s doing what needs to be done.

The daily chaos is gone.

            He is using his time in office to put our government back together and get it functioning properly. He hasn’t put people in charge that have the opposite agenda and goals of the departments they’re in charge of. So far he has avoided the revolving door turnover of personnel that President Trump’s Administration had.

            President Biden hasn’t attacked news media as being “fake”, like Trump and his idol Putin do, or the “enemy of the people” even though media has been critical of Biden’s Presidency and the missteps that he has made. President Biden is the polar opposite of Trump in how he presents himself. He doesn’t go on ad nauseam about how he’s being treated and play the victim nor is he a braggart.

            President Biden is a journeyman. Years of experience in government have taught him his craft. He understands the nuts and bolts of our Republic and how to conduct business in a way that befits our place in the world arena. He has worked behind the scenes and in public to repair our relations with our allies that President Trump had undermined. He succeeded in pulling NATO back together. Some people have conveniently forgot that Trump undermined NATO at every turn and held up military supplies to Ukraine that had already been approved.  Trump questioned the very usefulness of NATO and threatened to pull out.

Then Putin invaded Ukraine.

State of War

            An expert on Russia and Putin commented that we were already engaged in World War Three. I really had to stop and think about that. It’s a comment that definitely gives one pause.

            The last time the United States declared War was World War Two. Constitutionally Congress reserves the right to declare war. We’ve been at war a lot of times since then but war was never declared. Kind of hard to believe isn’t it? Well, perhaps not but that’s the way it is.

            World War Two started well before the US declared war. Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Japan seized Manchuria in 1931 and allied with Germany and Italy on September 27^th, 1940. The United States didn’t declare war until Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7^th, 1941 followed shortly thereafter by our declaring war on Germany on December 11^th, 1941.

            Putin has invaded Ukraine. Nations are choosing sides. Other nations, including ours, are supporting the war effort of Ukraine against Russia. Once again a state of war exists in Europe without declarations of war being made. The same thing happened and is ongoing in the Middle East. The technicalities don’t really make any difference.

We are at war.

The state of the state of.

            I watched President Biden’s “State of the Union” address to Congress. In addition to fulfilling a Constitutional requirement of the President the “State of the Union” is grand theatre! The President’s party cheers them on while the other party sits mostly on their hands. The President touts their accomplishments both real and perceived and provides their agenda to achieve goals they have deemed important.

            It is important. We get to see the President unfettered before a captive audience. We get to hear what they want out of life. Sometimes we even learn things about them on a personal level. For instance I did not know that President Biden was a college professor. So I looked it up. He was a for real adjunct professor.

            What he did that’s really important to the world is present a calm, measured response to what is taking place in Ukraine. No hyperbole or unnecessary personal posturing in a time of worldwide crisis. President Biden laid out what we would and would not do as much as others might want to have us set in motion an escalation that no one will win anywhere. I’m talking about the use of nuclear weapons. The old cold fear is now upon us again.

Putin did that.

Where to from here?

            Man! That is the question du jour for quite a while. Republicans and some Democrats are wanting to shut off oil purchases from Russia because that is a major source of income. What that will do is raise fuel prices in this country. Prices are already climbing and nothing has happened to supply lines or production yet. It’s hard to even hazard a guess as to what diesel and gas could cost other than to say records will be broken. So far Biden is saying no.*

            The world economy is going to tank. Okay, that’s a strong statement but I don’t see any way around it if history provides any kind of a guide. Just to up the ante Putin is now saying that sanctions amount to a declaration of war. As I already mentioned above I certainly believe that we are now at war even though people will go to great lengths to say that we aren’t. Technicalities.

            War brings hardship. Hardships are coming. Are people ready for them? The Ukrainians certainly are. They’re living them. They are living with the horror visited upon them through no fault of their own. Europe is being flooded with soon to be millions of Ukrainians fleeing the horror that Putin brought upon them. They are without food and water. They have lost it all because of Putin.

            Will people in this country be willing to put with higher prices of anything, everything? The very Republicans clamoring for Biden to stop the purchase of oil from Russia are and will continue be the ones blaming him for the higher prices at the gas pump and elsewhere. (Only 2% of our oil imports come from Russia.) I base this upon some Republicans taking credit for the good done by popular bills that they have voted against.

            Hardship always hits the poor the hardest. EVERYWHERE. Traditionally Republicans aren’t all that great when it comes to helping the poor. They would rather give money to the wealthy pretending that they will give it to the poor.

They don’t.

 God takes sides

            Evangelicals that claimed Trump is a man of God are also claiming that Putin is a man of God called to invade Ukraine. Putin also doesn’t like Muslims or LGBTQ people. Putin is tailor made for them! Hard to believe but true nevertheless. Actually it isn’t that hard to believe. They have created a mythology to support their outrageous beliefs along with the white nationalists that supposedly want to help Evangelicals establish a Christian theocracy.

            Then we have all the millions of Republicans that say they trust Putin over Biden. Putin. The guy that invaded Ukraine and threatens the world with nuclear war. That’s the guy they trust. They worship a man that even 50 years ago they would have been calling a “Godless Communist.” While they do that, they also call our free press fake news just like their hero Putin does. They have created their own news sources that validate their beliefs. What’s more they will continue to attack the institutions of our Republic and our form of government.

It’s what their comrade Putin wants.

 

 *3/8/22, The Biden Administration has now shut off oil purchases from Russia.

Election fraud discovered!

 

Lawyers R Us.

            Trump’s band of gas-bag lawyers have turned up election fraud. They were standing in a circular firing squad at the time of their discovery: the only fraud belongs to them. They were trying to overturn a legal election where there was NO widespread fraud other than theirs in trying to reverse the vote of “We the People”. Those words are enshrined in the Constitution for a reason.

            Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) even asked the United States Supreme Court to overturn Biden’s wins in the swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia. Just the swing states that Trump lost, mind you.

            Republicans took their assault all the way to the United States Supreme Court (USSC) where Trump expected to have his Supremes install him as President. After all, they are HIS Supremes.

They didn’t.

Coup attempt

            On one side the United States of America, the world’s oldest constitutional democracy. On the other—the country and denizens of Trumplandia where the incredible powers of gullibility along with obliviousness have been harnessed. That and the recycled intestinal gas from the leaking lawyers that can’t file straight.

            What does need to be treated seriously is that the President of the United States tried to overthrow the vote of the people and had the almost complete support of the Republican Party congressional representatives who are too afraid to speak out about the Commander in Tyrant because they’re afraid that his racist violent supporters won’t vote for them next time.

            In addition to actively trying to get Republican state legislatures to “fix” the vote, Trump, along with his supporters, encouraged violence against not only Congress but against state governments as well. His supporters in Congress also voted to overturn the Electoral College vote. Other Trump supporters encourage seceding from the United States. This, in addition to their attack on the Capitol, is also known as sedition.

            In simple terms, Trump tried to overthrow and take over the government through extra legal means as well as through violent actions taken against Representatives, Senators and their support staff, including police. In other countries we call actions like that an attempted coup. We just haven’t seen one here before this country.

            Trump and his entourage encouraged violence and armed Trump supporters turned up. The MAGA insurrectionists also turned up at the homes of officials that stood up to Trump by doing their jobs and upholding a legal vote of “We the People.” But as it turns outs.

It was a hoax.

Those madcap jokesters!

• Hang Vice President Mike Pence!
• Liberate Congress!
• Kill Pelosi!
• Liberate the United States!
• God appointed Trump!
• Trump is the Chosen One!
• Let old people die!
• Money is more important than dying!
• RINOS are enemies of the people!
• Media is the enemy of the people!
• Execute the opposition!
• It’s the deep state!
• Put his head on a pike!
• The Socialists are coming!
• Capitalism works! Just ask the 40 million people living in poverty!
• Poor people are lazy!
• Brown people are rapists!
• Some Nazis are fine!
• Marauding caravans are coming!
• Mexicans are rapists and are coming for white women!
• Brown children are disease ridden!
• Black people come from shithole countries!
• Be willing to die for Trump!
• Democracy is a hoax!
• The pandemic is a hoax!

 You’ll put your eye out!

            Sure it’s all fun and games until people with guns show up.

          The biggest hoax of all?

Claiming Trump won!