Biden Ducks

There were a number of questions that Chris Wallace didn’t ask in the first presidential debate ... or were asked by Trump ... but Biden either ducked or refused to answer. Wouldn’t it be nice if the next two debates filled in this key information void for American voters? But knowing the moderators and venues in these next debates, I don’t believe we will get these questions answered. Here are the Biden posers we voters need to have answered:

- Who, by name, would you appoint to the Supreme Court?

- Do you advocate packing the Supreme Court?

- Have you used a teleprompter is any of your pressers?

- If unsolicited mail-in voting is shown to be fraudulent, will you condemn it?

- Would you push to scuttle the Electoral Collage?

- Were you aware of and participated in Operation Crossfire Hurricane?

- Would you like to eliminate the filibuster in the Senate?

- Why did your son, Hunter get $3.5 million from the wife of the former mayor of Moscow?

- Will you implement AOC’s Green New Deal in its entirety?

- Are you taking any prescription medications to enhance your mental acuity?

- Do you advocate statehood for Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia?

- Will you now denounce Antifa and BLM anarchy?

- Are you prepared to shut down the economy again?

- Will you take the Covid vaccine when it is passed by the FDA?

- Would you eliminate tariffs on China ... and elsewhere?


Just for starters ... more than enough to investigate in three more hours of debate. ... or in future pressers. And, if one were honest, there are not many such embarrassing questions that have not been asked of  the Orangeman.

Afterthought: Chris Wallace is certainly sharp enough to have pressed Biden on a few of the above questions? What does the fact that he didn’t suggest about Wallace?


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Liberal Arrows

According to Nancy Pelosi (and Elizabeth Warren?), America’s  liberals have a lot of arrows in their quivers to threaten who, for many years, have been spineless Republicans. Here are some of them so far identified (I’m sure there are many more arrows):

=> Make states out of Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia =  four more Democrat Senators

=> Accuse Republicans of being racists, homophobes or sexists ... often all three

=> Fulminate violent rioting and mayhem in the streets

=> Eliminate the filibuster rule in the Senate

=> Call Trump & Company white supremacist, Nazis, etc.

=> Impeach the President, the Attorney General, etc.

=> Obliterate the electoral college

=> Pull down statues, rename locales and cover our cities with graffiti both unsanctioned and sanctioned

=> Physically threaten conservatives with bodily harm

=> Stop enforcing the law in many of our major cities and defund the police


That is, this was the case until Donald Trump reminded us that we all have backbones.


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Today’s Poser

Perhaps, just perhaps it is because Donald Trump is so reviled by so many Americans that this becomes his motivation to fix so many of our nation’s problems ... such as calling out China ... and draining the swamp that is Washington, DC?

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Washington

Our spittle-flecked ANTIFA anarchists (and too too many others) are now proposing ... nay, demanding that we tear down the Washington Monument .... after all, George Washington was a slave owner at Mount Vernon. He obviously never did anything to compensate for this communal sin.

Now, this edifice is a rather imposing monument ... sooo ... may I suggest we might just rename it? Possibly just scratch out and replace the last name on all the plaques there with “Floyd?”

Another possibility: Just rededicate and redecorate it in honor of former President Bill Clinton’s penis?

But in order to make this virtue singling complete, we will need also to rename Washington, DC (Swampville?) and Washington State (West Gates? ... capital, Chaz?)

Headlines

German court ruling could tear EU apart, warns senior judge

NFL condemns racism, says ‘we were wrong’ not listening to player protests

National Guard told NOT to carry guns ...

Poll: More people blame protesters for violence than police

Facebook, Instagram join Twitter in removing Trump campaign videos over copyright complaints

Job gains narrow the White House vision for coronavirus relief, but Dems still want to go big

Looters in $350,000 Rolls Royce rob again ...

Nolte: Polls show Trump’s re-election numbers trending the wrong way

D.C. government dubs intersection where police cleared peaceful protesters ‘Black Lives Matter Plaza’

Denver police ordered to stop using tear gas an plastic bullies In protests

Republican senator berates President, compares him to Hillary ...

Democrat senators kneel during moment of silence for George Floyd

Headlines

Bernie Sanders suspends his presidential campaign

Coronavirus updates: Italy’s new cases accelerate, WHO warns leaders against politicizing outbreak

DC braces for looming surge ...

Poll: Trump tops Biden as better leader for coronavirus ...

Oregon Rep. Walden: Nationwide mail-in voting would be a ‘recipe for disaster’

Oil surges in sudden move toward the end of trading, production cuts eyed

Farmers panic-buying to keep cows fed ...

‘His condition is improving’: Boris Johnson is ‘sitting up in bed’

Mnuchin hopes to unveil ‘Main Street’ lending facility this week

New York Gov. Cuomo says state won’t return to ‘normal’ as daily coronavirus  deaths reach new high

Obesity is major risk factor says epidemiologist ...

Harris poll: 77 percent of Americans blame China for coronavirus outbreak

Headlines

Health officials shift focus on coronavirus, say elderly and sick at risk

Coronavirus live updates: Washington state weighs mandatory measures to contain outbreak

Outbreak spreads to 32 states and DC ...

NIH readies vaccine test

Hillary Clinton: Right still winning the message war

Kamala Harris endorses one-time rival Joe Biden’s White House bid

All hospital beds filled with patients ‘by May 8th’ ...

Illinois SCOTUS won’t dismiss charges against Jussie Smollett

Rome locks down northern Italy, as coronavirus cases surge

Amazon is secretly working on a cure for the common cold

Illinois races toward default ...

Denmark: 62% of young Somali migrants convicted by age 30

Headlines

Endangered Dems sound the alarm on Bernie and Warren

Dividend stocks look attractive with a volatile year that nets measly returns expected ahead

Iran rioters demand Khamenei quit ... Rage at rulers ... ‘Death to liars’

Mike Lee co-sponsors Sanders bill to halt unilateral Iran action

Trump suggests he’d invoke executive privilege to block Bolton testimony

Iran admits ‘unintentionally’ shooting down Ukrainian airliner, blames ‘human error’

DC, Philly, 70 degrees in winter!

Swedes vote climate policy biggest waste of taxpayer money in 2019

Sanders jumps to small lead in major Iowa poll

Puerto Rico hit by 6.0 magnitude earthquake, damaging island’s southern coast

White House considers dramatic expansion of travel ban ...

Susan Collins working with small group of GOP Senators to rally support for impeachment witnesses

Crowd Sizes

Trump rally in Evansville, IL

Last week Elizabeth Warren held a rally in the hotbed of liberal politics, Seattle, Washington. Just about every media outlet I saw reported that the crowd she drew totaled 15,000 ... a Trump-size rally. However, like in most fake news reportage these days, these numbers are suspect ... see: daily timewaster analysis ... which-calculates that the real numbers might be one quarter of that reported.

So, was her Seattle crowd as large as reported? Very doubtful. Was Trump’s inauguration crowd as large as Obama’s? Very doubtful ... but after all, it took place in Washington, DC ... not the epicenter of Republican voters. So Trump did let his ego get the better of him back then ... just as Warren’s people and media did recently.

However, there is little doubt that Trump’s recent rallies are drawing over-capacity crowds ... with many thousands more waiting outside his venues ... to see an attempt to discount his numbers, see: Washington Post’s Pooh-Poohing. Media outlets have even taken crowd pictures before the arenas are filled to prove that Trump is lying. And many more defend such media propaganda ...

Come on you liberal folks. Watch at least a snippet of one of Trump’s rallies and see for yourself if he and his people are inflating attendance numbers. If elections are won or lost on voter enthusiasm, Trump is a shoe-in.

Headlines

Supreme Court to take on partisan gerrymandering this year

Moscow says FBI detained a Russian the day after it arrested ex-US Marine

Flu widespread in 24 states; Pediatric deaths rise ...

Arrest made after man stabbed to death on London train

House Dems eye $12B in aid for states hit by natural disasters

Government shutdown means tax refund delays and no IRS customer service

Airports see rise in security screeners calling off work ...

Women's March cancellations grow; California group cites gender issues

Ocasio-Cortez floats 70 percent tax on the super wealthy to pay for Green New Deal

Tuna sells for record $3 million at Tokyo's new fish marker

Democrats look to kill Electoral College ... Make D.C. 51st state ...

Judge sets date for Rachael Dolezal welfare fraud case

Headlines

Trump at NATO summit: 'I an fighting for a  level playing field for our farmers'

Trump administration announces list of tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods

Survey: DC, Detroit, NYC 'worst run' cities ...

Migrants turned pirates: Hostile takeover of rescue ship

Trump administration officials to meet with Mexico's president-elect

OPEC oil output jumps in June as Saudi Arabia opens the taps to tame crude prices

University [of Kansas] flies blackened American flag as art display

Elizabeth Warren: EPA Administrator must believe in Climate Change

Poll: Voters oppose abolishing ICE

Tech and media moguls swarm Sun Valley, Idaho in 'simmer camp' for billionaires

Dems doubt Warren can take on Trump ...

Lisa Page defies Congress subpoena

Headlines

Pruitt support in Senate erodes as GOP lawmakers seek hearings

Treasury Secretary Mnuchin to visit China 'in a few days' Trump says

ICE busts 225 in New York raids ...

Trump promises 'big problems' for Iran if it restarts nuclear program

Trump blasts Iran deal as 'insane' in meeting with the French leader

AG Sessions will not recuse himself from criminal probe of Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen: Report

Car crashes onto DC sidewalk, 4 injured ...

Report: Trump denies spending night in Moscow, flight records

'Stupid question' Trump dismisses talk of pardoning Michael Cohen

Dow drops more than 550 points. Tech stocks Alphabet and Amazon get pummeled

Bernie's USA: promises [$15 per hour] federal jobs to all!

Facebook published 27-page Content Moderation Guide

Emolument Clause

What is this controversial emoluments clause of the Constitution? Here is the verbatim text:

"No Tittle of Nobility shall be granted by the United States. And no person holding office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the consent of Congress, accept any present, Emolument, Office or Title of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State"

And what is an emolument? The best definition I can find is "a payment for work provided" or, let's be frank ... a payoff in excess of value provided. Now Trump is not doing any work for foreign governments, but some of his hotels, run by his sons, might be so doing. (If the Trump holdings were forced to sell its properties, it would lose billions of dollars.) And Trump has pledged that any profits gained by foreign dignitaries staying at his DC hotel will be turned over to our treasury. I believe that these safeguards are enough to pass Constitutional muster.

However, the Attorneys General of Maryland and DC are now suing President Trump for violating this emoluments clause of the Constitution ... see:Washington Post Article. This seems a waste of taxpayer monies by these partisan pols.

And does anyone believe that all the past donations to the Clinton Foundation ... for which they received nothing in return ... in anticipation of her being elected president were not only emoluments, but were freely-accepted bribes?

One last analogy -- if George Washington, during his term as president, had sold some wheat from his Mount Vernon estate to France, would he have violated this Constitutional stricture? I think not!