Showing posts with label Republicans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Republicans. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

A Reminder of Fifth Amendment Rights

USC: 5th A;

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.


What is fascinating is how the current Administration are using violations of due process to be simultaneously: justified as an "Act of War," by what could at best be a non-state actor (hardly) at-war; and yet we have the most trifling of crimes often being the citation- that of overstaying a visa.

When you inspect our Fifth Amendment, one thing right off the bat is they are describing Grand Juries for felonious and "infamous" crimes, not the misdemeanor of not properly having documentation in our Byzantine pathways to citizenship.

There are plain clothes Agents of the Government arresting contributors to our Society, for arbitrary and capricious reasons, with questionable methods, including the Hell Holes they created for people in El Salvador!

To continue reading about the lack of due process in law enforcement, there are now thousands not getting proper treatment under the intended law of our founders, and the situation is preposterous.  An enterprising lawyer has a class-action lawsuit brewing!

Republicans are traitors to Reagan who famously ended his second term by granting nearly 3million people amnesty to become US Citizens, moreover how dare the plain clothes agents not self identifying as law enforcement before extradition without due process?  Compared to 'I'm from the Government and here to help,'  Which is worse??

I'm not going to try and get my law degree here, but it is worth pointing out a couple of other things: The Miranda case settled much of the process for dealing with citizens, and seeing as they are inadvertently, giving the benefit of the doubt, rounding up citizens, they would be well advised to proceed with caution, as there can be valid claims all the way to the Supreme Court on the basis of the violations of Fifth Amendment procedures, held against the arresting agency for illegal detention.

Aside from deporting US Citizens who happen to be Hispanic, Native American, or let's say 'brown,' as would H.W. Bush, there is the general point about these Judicial Warrants from the bench naming people as John Doe, Jane Doe, and et. al., but not having near the stickiness of a named and sworn Warrant with factual evidence being the cause.

I am weary of the manufactured evidence angle; I am weary they may literally declare war inside the USA to justify actions against not just the 5th Amendment; I am weary of them deporting Soccer Coaches with Footy Tattoos; and I am very weary about the sudden snatching up of what seem to be (a) foreign students of color, (b) often Graduate level students, or even finished with College, (c) often with valid Visas, (d) some on a definitive path to outright Citizenship, and (e) exercised free speech against the Administration.  Not. O. K.

Finally, an outright yellow, after flashing all those red cards: Caution; only the President was determined eminently by the most unStare Decisis-able (reversible) Supreme Courts we have had in a long time, within a very narrow scope to have some king-like authority away from being arrested for crimes; as proved in the Nuremburg trials "We were just doing our job," is not an excuse that is acceptable for the illegal conduct of everyone else besides the President; and therefore with all this already outright claimed damage, "How much will the total illegal detentions cost in damages alone?"


5th Amendment MEMO:

1. Am I being arrested?  On what charges?

2. Do you have a warrant?  May I read it?

3. Under the 5th Amendment, I refuse to give testimony, without the presence of a lawyer, and refuse to testify against myself.

4. May I have your badge number(s) and precinct(s)/jurisdiction(s)?

5. Where are we going (hopefully, it doesn't get this bad)?  When do I get to call a lawyer?


Conclusion, Republicans represent Tortfeasers!

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Opposite and Equivalent

It's been one month, and the International Populist clownshow of distraction, chaos and Austerity has begun.  The Trump Administration is unwittingly giving us the playbook by way of the Narcissist's reflection.  Just listen to the news, and imagine the opposite.  Then imagine how do we undo the damage?  Oppose with Equivalency. (Someone is keeping close score!)


So, other than reminding everyone that the Executive can't rescind Federal law by Executive Orders, here's my first list at what any reasonable opposition should more or less take up as the natural opposite platform: I have ideated from years of observing failed trickle-down Neoliberalism, now it's Oligarchic polity, but am sure to have left things out; included a summary of slogans I have observed per ideal group; the equivalent counter-actions inspired by the current Administration; and what we can ask from the Democrats, when they take 2/3rds of the Congress to become a Veto proof majority- as 1/3 of citizens didn't vote, and ~30% of Gen Z is regretting having voted Republican -even as they limp along as the barely minority party, now- after one would imagine the pendulum swings. This might instead be the modern Bull-Moose party platform, for instance.


(In some semblance of order based upon "slogan ideas")



"America into the Future:"


"Reform the electoral college," so each State must send a representational proportion of Electors to that of the popular vote, make all States send an odd number of electors with the winner thus having at least one Elector more than the loser per State in many cases, and in most circumstances the popular candidate wins the national election. 


Make total number of national electors odd. If there is somehow a national elector tie, then National popular vote winner is the winner, Speaker of the House has no direct say.  This requires a change in the Constitution.



"ESG is good Business for a Sustainable Future," re-Implement DEI programs, reinstate LGBTQIA+ inclusion initiatives (convene a scientific Blue Ribbon Panel to resolve the process for allowing the 0.004% of sex-indeterminate [and other identities] individuals to compete in sports openly), set international standardization for logical transparent rating and measuring of Environmental, Social and Governance in the marketplace; expand the SBA increasing speed and ease of SBA loan process and approvals; and Department of Commerce helps implement all the commercial reforms.


"Hire more public servants," Increase the bureaucracy 10% above 2024 levels to improve service; only nominate qualified public servants based upon highest and best merit for every government position- top to bottom; root out fraud, waste and abuse; eliminate any new agencies formed by Republicans that disagree with policy platform; and reform the other agencies in a countermandate 'on day one.' Thank goodness no more DeJoy, so reform the Post Office he tried to set up for privatization. Hire back Inspectors General; hire additional inspectors, staff and managers for instance expand (restart?) the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Forest Service, OSHA, FEMA, et. al. and fire the old "loyalty pledge" ones; and Fund, expand and hire to 101% the employees of the FAA to enable them to prepare to expand the mission to Near Space Control. Raise military and civil servant pay by 5% a year for three years; and Increase public servant (including military) signing bonuses to enhance recruitment efforts.



"Rejoin all International Treaty Obligations," whatever is broken, like the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, WHO, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Paris Treaty, USAID commitments, etc.- Impose sanctions on legitimate enemies of The Republic. Start new diplomatic bridge building treaties towards an International Peace treaty.


"Join The International Court of Justice," turn over war criminals under special arrangements, and set up an agency tasked with leading US Interpol and ICC interests, separate from the FBI, et. al.  Shuffle, streamline, expand where needed and improve the DOD, State, Treasury, FBI, CIA, and DHS for budget savings of ~10%, optimization and maximum counterintelligence strategy against our enemies foreign and domestic.



"Pathways to Citizenship," Bring Immigration into the light by making clear and understandable pathways to naturalization and citizenship, and provide amnesty for undocumented taxpayers who have no criminal records that have paid for seven years or more on the same ITN.  Affirm the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship. Halt deportations without due process, and restart the Amnesty remote application process.  All immigration hearings must occur within 30-days, including backlog, thus fund and hire accordingly.


"Destroy the Republican built concentration camps."  Have a legal national immigration rate of 14%, build 10,000,000 housing units in four years; enhance federal support for municipal services for immigrants and international and domestic refugees; end private and cruel/unusual prisons, and force all prisons to be safe, healthy and habitable; eliminate homelessness; and make "housing as a human right."


Set up an Infrastructure Bank to fund both domestic and foreign projects, compete with China's Belt and Road Initiatives, and make Environmental, human rights, health and safety tied to favorable loan packages (ideally to countries where migrants come from to reduce economic migrants).  Do this by imitating UK and setting up a Sovereign Wealth Fund.  "International Infrastructure Initiatives" (III)



Harder to say and less catchy than "Drill, baby, drill," but: 'Restrict drilling permits to existing leasing areas, require all wells to be precisely mapped (this is Colorado's) into a public database, including ownership, and all leaking wells must be remediated by owners/operators.'  Restart funding for The Green New Deal, Fund the EPA with fines from gross, flagrant and obvious violators, and "Clear the Air."


"Acknowledge Climate Change," and overfund FEMA, NOAA, NSF, NIH, the Cancer Moonshot, CDC, the sciences et. al.  Expand the EPA to define Methane and CO2 as regulatable substances after basic biological emissions are accounted for.  Further, fund Climate Change mitigation and the EPA with formulation of Carbon tax, Methane tax, and a Toxicity taxes on all manufacturers including of electricity based upon a nationally agreed OMB published standard Benefit-Cost Analysis calculating the implied costs to land values, society and environment.  Use some of the toxicity tax proceeds to mitigate and remediate the millions of wells, tens of thousands of abandoned mines, and thousands of clean-up sites in the US. Plan and Fund workforce accordingly, set a goal of 50% fewer clean-up sites in five years, and end all gross tortfeasership.



"Factual Labeling," Require the highest FDA standards for labeling laws for domestic and imports in the World; proper labeling in lieu of tariffs, major ingredients and nutrition values are labelled en real, however all ingredients must be disclosed via QR code on packaging, etc.; every ingredient must be on file sourced and defined; if chemicals then full names, all secondary chemicals must also be indicated; & nutritional values must be expanded, articulated and standardized.  Expand the USDA inspection system verifying label information. Start a National Underwriters Laboratory for Consumer Products -from cleaning, to auto, to fruit pesticides, to frozen dinners- to ensure all the chemicals and foodstuffs on the marketplaces can be safely enjoyed, used, and combined (purposefully or accidentally) in good health. Join the metric system.


Lower requirements for WIC and SNAP, reform the Department of Agriculture to 1. establish National Organic and Sustainable standards for International Designation, 2. begin subsidizing small- and mid-scale Organic, Tilth and Sustainable Agriculture and Horticulture, in lieu of mono-crop mega-farming, and 3. Assist in low interest loans to increase family-owned and operated Organic and Sustainable farms by 500,000 in four years.  "Lower grocery prices with fresh local supply!"


In international business and trade, the USA argument in favor of free health care is that our competitors have an unfair advantage in that their businesses are subsidized by the Government, and ours are not. Install single-payor insurance for Universal Health Care; Fund CHP, IHS, Community Health Centers, et al. until UHC takes over all programs; Universal School Lunch, locally sourced; in other words make "Clean Air, Clean Water, Good Food and Health Care as a human right."


Restore the 1991 Ukrainian border, and demand Russia cease and desist through ICJ cooperation, and settle with the Russian regime in exchange for the 1. reestablishing peace, 2. offers for financial assistance, 3. lifting of freezes, 4. ending sanctions, and 5. reducing tariffs. Support the 'two-state solution' in Israel, organize International Peace conferences, and cooperate with UK, EU, and all allies to work cooperatively with all parties to restore Palestinian Gaza.  Start by ending trade wars by negotiating the end of most tariffs.  Offer military truce during negotiations.  "Negotiate International Peace!"


"General Free Trade," lift most all tariffs and some sanctions, all imports and exports must label source (with the same QR code on file process as described above for foodstuff, and drugs) components or materials to enforce sanctions effectively, with targeted limited tariffs and sanctions reserved for egregious violators of Human Rights and violations of Peace Treaties. Fully Legalize cannabis to enable proper taxation, regulation and interstate commerce.


"Workers Rights," to Unionize, for Paternity Leave, Raise the National Minimum Wage to $17/hr. Add 15% raise for Social Security and disability recipients immediately, and ease disability and unemployment qualification requirements. Establish a sub-Department to oversee Senior, Disabled and Retiree benefits.

Split VA into two: First integrate some duties back into the military bureaucracy, then open a Department of Peace to oversee all peace efforts, but also to oversee benefits to anyone who can claim privation from the USA, US Military or Department of Defense and the endless missions to settle them until the USA has no claimants or legitimate claims against her; grant relief payments to dishonorably discharged military service persons under specific liberal circumstances; and raise military benefits by 15% over two or three years. Second, Harmonize the VA Health system as specialists for Military, active duty and retired, with the Universal Health Care system.


"Direct Democracy," Create a Cabinet level department 'of Technology' to streamline government using technology, manage and regulate technology including Cyber security, Social Media, VPNs, AI, etc., and operate a transparent modern public central national computer database system designed to allow each citizen: 1. to "vote" in informal Direct Democracy on any topic and such information is sent to their appropriate representatives as information, 2. file claims, make freedom of information requests, or complaints, 3. send ideas or requests, 4. Get official information, register to vote and file taxes electronically, and 5. to view their own official and private "file," and request any true corrections.

Reinstate pre-1980 Broadcast Standards for any organization to be credentialed national press, and considered legally advertised 'national news;' as part of "campaign finance reform," reinstate 'fair time' requirements for broadcasters requiring all National political parties that poll above 3% to have fair air time on any national news station licensed by the FCC; Ban Nazism, espousing outright fascism, symbols, salutes, etc. and issue standards for prosecution of such crimes, but also how to parody, portray dramatically, and describe NAZI and neo-Nazi activities in a timely manner; expand Government Departmental and Inter-departmental Social Media use for external communications, and regulate Artificial Intelligence, Large Social Media Conglomerates, Monopolies and Industry Price Manipulations. Overfund Public Broadcasting, National Endowment for the Arts, International State Sponsored media, et. al., and offer free social media and computer literacy training for all.



As per the 2nd, "Regulate" with National Guns License; end weapons of war being treated as "regulatable arms," exempted from the Individual Rights granted under the 2nd Amendment; because Weapons of Warfare, available for use against the State, it's Ministers, including Peace Officers, are for use by the State alone in Common Defense, not for private unregulated militia, or individuals, regulated or unregulated. The founders whether 1776 or 1865 did not intend ships cannons to be used by individuals in domestic fence line disputes gone awry requiring some legal form of civil self defense.


Run an Administration that doesn't lie, but operates an excellent CIA. Grants privacy, but protects and serves wherever the facts go for the FBI. Makes naturalization, security and internal coordination easier, comprehensive and considerate with a reformed DHS. Operates a well- trained, paid and staffed, humane Immigration and Customs Enforcement, including opening up Custom Houses at all ports of entry, where, amongst other enhanced diplomatic functions, claims of entry may be formally made in a timely manner, in person.



"End Citizens United," by Congress making it necessary under the 14th Amendment to have dna in order to be considered a person, hence citizen, and therefore invalidate the finding that Corporations are citizens with free speech right of unlimited undisclosed campaign contributions.  Then if money equals free speech, and I as an individual have unlimited free speech, therefore the corporations owe me infinity money in compensation? 


Rather, totally new game, "Campaign Finance Reform:" limit all annual campaign contributions to a maximum of $20,000, no tax deductions, to any number of candidates (municipal, local, state, and federal) by any one citizen-taxpayer (you must file taxes individually or jointly [no corporate entities {end all tax free 501 status} may contribute]. Payee-Dependents must make contributions in the name of their Taxpayor-Dependencies that counts towards maximum contribution limit of the taxpayer[s] in order to donate politically) per year; therefore only US American Citizens can donate with taxpayer ID; donations pledges may be garnered at any time by Politician; but may only receive funds during the 180-day annual election Season, which ends four days before Election Day, which ends for all Federal elections as a National Holiday on the fifth day (official start of campaign 185 days prior and this first 180-day funding period should be the only time politicians can accept direct contributions) before "Voting Day;" and all political donations must be transparent and publicly available in a timely record by the 182nd day, with corrections published by the 184th day for full disclosure of all donors, per candidate, for final day to vote the 185th day.  Also all the other voter access bills in the works.


Enact the ERA, enshrine reproductive liberties, and confirm, uphold and declare all sexes, gender identities and consensual unions are equal under law, amending the 14th Amendment. "Reinstate 'Roe.'"


"Supreme Court Reforms," Appoint four new Supreme Court judges, assigning one to each Circuit, with Chief Justice left in charge of The Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit.  Install a fifteen year Term limit for Chiefs, eighteen for Justices, and the Chief must be hired only from within the existing remaining Justices timely.  Impose the same Federal Ethics for Supreme Justices as all other Federal Justices, impeach accordingly. 13 Ethical Term-limited Supreme Court Justices with clear lines for impeachment from either the Executive or the Legislative goes some way to restore the balance of the triumvirate of powers.



'Streamline the Pentagon,' "A Smart Nation is an Intelligent One!"  Addition to above Counterintelligence Optimization (reduced waste, fraud and abuse), also Transfer 2% of the National Spending from remainder of Defense budget to (Rebuild and) Overfund Department of Education, pay off everyone's student loan debt as a single settler.  Low and no-cost "GI Bill for All!" University or College, reform endowment tax treatment as below, harmonize and set reasonably agreed to National Academic Standards, including accurate multi-cultural, diverse and robust explorations of the agreed (*eliminate arbitrary and capricious or counterevidential challenges by sub-par scholastics who composed gems, like, 'Slaves enjoyed learning valuable skills in exchange for their work,' as counter-argumentative fact, or those who ban books not supporting cis gender straight characters in normative situations) facts from history and how they fit into our Civics, like the 14th Amendment. Make a teacher's National Minimum Wage Scale that is portable Nationally, and includes the calculation for honorable time served in the public system. Implement 'First Five' Universal pre-K recommendations, have permission slip based book check out from public libraries for minors in lieu of banning legitimate* books, and overfund libraries.


Overfund all these government proposals primarily with a "Progressive Set-tax:" yearly, all NET Income received from earnings, trades, and dividends, foreign and domestic, accumulating ingress to any taxpaying entity (Individual, Business, or Non-profit, including Religious) between: $0-25k 0%; 25-150k 5%; 150-450k 10%; 450-1mm 15%; 1-5mm 20%; 5-25mm 21%; 25-100mm 25%; 100-499 mm 28%; and everything earned annually above $500,000,000 is 30%... no loopholes, no tax breaks, and most every taxpayer has a Calendar year filing (Fiscal year filings, deductions for expenses, and extraordinary activities require forms. Natural and obvious deductions from gross profit, like a business paying a worker salary, and other Costs of Goods Sold, still remain, but are are handled through streamlined forms and checked and expedited via national computer records). 


These are net tax rates per bundle/traunch set (so an effective gross rate for taxpayer who accumulated earning $500,000 p.a. it would be 8.75% in paid taxation, a tax reduction for most) approved for ten years by 2/3 majority of both chambers of Congress to be adjusted only for inflation in years 3 and 7. This effectively lowers taxes for about 85% of the Nation; makes about 65% of tax returns a simple signature affidavit verifying all automatically reported income- no more than signing a postcard sent by the IRS in February- closing loopholes means most other forms simplify or disappear; slows the velocity of the public markets to be value biased, but ensures conservation of value, long term vision and fair pay from the very wealthy. 'Everyone plays by the same knowable set of fair rules!'


"Fiscal Conservation after Appropriate Taxation."  With all the toxicity and emissions taxes, closed loopholes, excess growth, economic expansion, savings from optimization, including savings from single buyer-payor reforms, we can end the budget deficits, pay off debts, never have to raise the debt ceiling again, and build, manufacture and export our way out of Trade imbalance via free trade, and fund the entire wish list above! 



Progressivism, for lack of a better term, is a peaceful vision of an economy growing itself out of the problems, advancing technologically, and improving quality of life, general happiness, and justice for everyone around in an environmentally recovering, restored, and habitable World.


Any vision with appropriate regulations (you need clear comprehensive regulations to ensure a "free-market," counter-intuitively) grows the needs-based economy accurately into a 'wants-based' abundance, fills the coffers, and makes us more competitive.  The Free Market is a social exercise, it rewards our International Allies. 'You can't have a Free Market without good cooperation and regulation!'


Conclusion. I think this Agenda transcends cultures, generations and even political affiliation, when viewed as a complete recipe for a robust progressive economic expansion: enabling the younger generations an opportunity to thrive; taking care of the elderly, disabled and inveterate; reinstatement of historical norms and precedents; and the ideal for a Government 'of the People, by the People, and for the People' that takes good care of ALL it's people from cradle to cradle


Socially Liberal; Fiscally Conservative; Environmental... Yes!


Whatever you label me, I have here the reflection from the pool of Narcissus, a platform ready for the opposition, whoever they might become, that is the stuff of MAGA Republican nightmares!




Tuesday, November 19, 2024

AstroTurf Media Bubbles Encouraged by the International Populists

Blue states live in blue media bubbles exclusive from the unreported deaths from expecting mothers not receiving correct and timely medical care for emergencies in post Roe-v-Wade states that have failed to protect female liberties.

Red States live in a different media bubble not reporting those same deaths, either, and living under "right to work" laws and other labor unfriendly regulations, such as Only National Minimum Wage, which is still $7.25, amongst other oppressive anti-Liberty laws, often too busy to engage in politics.

There are many points where the two sides may imagine that they meet, but it is an illusion of the mind drowning in modern information and local context. A mirage.

We are a great nation of States, and under the current Republican Supreme Court we will continue to further attribute many powers to the States.

International AstroTurfing influenced the MAGA thought, 'it's a win if we win, or a steal if we lose the election.' That was a ridiculous, childish and unsporting mentality. Do you have no faith in the American people to operate as a Nation of Laws?

Blue State people thought Harris was a 55% chance to win candidate. That means she should have won by 50.4% to Trump's 48%? Not really, even a 99% candidate has a 1% chance of losing.

Just those two examples among so much else, was all because of mass media bubbles, selective reading, and social or micro media silos.

The MSM, Main Stream Media, or mass media has Corporatist interests and have been supporters of Neo liberalism and International Capitalism, since Reagan deregulated them.



Reagan is spinning in his grave now that the Republicans are Populists in cohoots with Russia and our adversaries.

As Reagan pronounced it, we are in the Information Age. As such, we are reduced to cross referencing summaries of complexities, each a tragedy worthy of study, into neat one liners, encapsulations and sound bites. Memes. What of the average citizens?  Everyone has an account and anyone can have an opinion!

In response to this overload, the average citizen is only able to consume a small, predigested portion from the outstanding events on this planet filled by 8 billion of us- let alone each in their own lives happening daily. How much does any one person's opinion matter?

Moreover, what are we meant to make, or do, about the cascade of facts and tragedies presented in manifold ways at all hours through communications?

For one thing, International Political AstroTurf can be imported and exported. Taking advantage of the A) Macro Corporatist Communications environment, each State in our Union, or at least it's media market, can be manipulated to normalize, both-sides, and sportify the messaging. There's apparently a playbook.

Within that context, the other end of the environment. B) Bloggers, pundits and reporters, like your humble author, drowning in facts, optimizing and contextualizing. C) Aggregators like upstart social media organizations are messaging and formulating the opinions. D) influencers helping are like waiters to select our diet, digestion and sometimes detritus. E) Social media companies applying algorithms for gratification and commercialization. F) Individuals sharing with others are varnishing the messaging with a personal flourish of subjective truth. "Social media ecosystem."

Except:
Why did we have proto-MAGA crowds in 2015, chanting "lock her up?"

In introducing the poisonous International Populism, aside from the personality cult figure, early on, the concepts of jailing a political opponent, the opposite number is the enemy, and my team over your team at all costs- the sportification of politics - was novel. That was some 'Banana Republic' stuff.

American Institutionalism was in the end cooperative. I would be a Pollyanna to suggest politics in the past was pure and ethical.

Rather, the International Populists playbook has unfolded, and nine years later in earnest members of our American franchise from the left were, and still are, honestly of the decided opinion that the AstroTurf candidate to be installed, should now also be "locked up."

Next week we should find out....

To whit, even now we are digesting the International Populist Red Pill we collectively have chosen to swallow, again. 

The Populist candidate has made a mockery of decorum, honor and becoming behavior, thus undermining the Institution of the Presidency.

Be clear, China moved to mixed Communism, and there are Chinese Billionaires. There exists in Russia a Cleptocracy of Billionaires who have profited from the collapse of the Soviet Empire. International Populism is in fact a Rump Lemon Corporatism to cater to the Aristocracy of existing Billionaires without borders!

These strange nominations for cabinet ministers are by design sowing Chaos in and of themselves, but also if those grossly underqualified individuals are appointed, surely mass chaos should ensue.

I was watching UK Prime Ministers Question Hour, and someone said Torys (Rightists, Republicans and now Populists) only introduced Austerity and Chaos, whilst in power. That led to the Labor landslide this year, and now recovery from a dozen years of deferred maintenance for Great Britain begins in earnest.

Why would the International Populists want that Austerity and Chaos here and abroad? If the government is non-functional, chaotic and bribable, then the International Billionaires, are freed up from regulation (and taxes) to make even more wealth with the Economic engines of state.

Unfortunately, for Democrats, the sentiment around the world after the response to Macro Economic COVID-19 recovery efforts was to vote out the incumbents.

Fortunately for Democrats they should have a hard swing of the pendulum back to them after two to four years of Populist's willful neglect, as we saw in UK.

Unfortunately or fortunately, the Republican Populists now are the proverbial Dog who caught the moving Car. What will they do with the three branches of power? 

Whatever happens in these next many years shall be the sole responsibility of the Republicans, and they won't be able to scapegoat or blame anybody else for the outcomes!

Unfortunately, we now must probably endure the hardships of chaos and Austerity. I hope I am wrong.



Saturday, January 6, 2024

My Conscience Compels Me, (A Plea to all voters) A Considered Opinion to The Supreme Court in support of the Anderson findings, timely (USA v. Trump, also.)


January 6th, 2024



Dear Voters,


Founding fathers debated establishing an Aristocracy having to convince the Constitutional Convention at large the pure merits of Democracy itself. The unchanged compromise the Electorial College, our figleaf to ensure that the Dukedoms don't require a New Magna Carta (States v. Federal Executive).

Precisely because there will always exist amongst the public the foolish, uneducated, indigent, and misinformed. ("The masses are asses.")

Before I go any further, may I disclaim and explain that I am only a humble youth sports referee who has been sanctioned by the USSF by way of the Colorado Soccer Association, since 2015 to referee youth soccer. I only speak for myself, but I also call them like I see them, and if you read my entire blog I haven't said but two critiques of the primary subject (Donald J. Trump, the Individual; Trump, the 500 businesses, et. al.; Trump, the political organization; and the former Trump Administration [all referring to himself honorifically, albeit fair enough, as in President Carter, President Trump, et. al.] also by the transitive powers the supporters, for any reason, of the above), here The Subject.

How would I explain The Subject to children under the age of fourteen? And aren't we all children, at some level, even after we grow up?

Well, in refereeing we keep an eye for a poor sport. Someone when tackled correctly, then tugs at a jersey to get the ball back, but also then just goes after the same player with aggression, off or on the ball.

A poor sport doesn't know how to work it out on the feild and let his or her soccer do the talking.

A poor sport doesn't accept a loss as a loss.

A poor sport will attack the referee for doing proper duties.

A poor sport believes in and will if possible, cheat.

No matter how we come to the final tally, the score is the score. It is why people like sports, the clarity, the winners, the losers. Life is constant interdependent compromise when you grow up. But also, it's about being a good sport and a good teammate, even if everything is really just shades of grey.

If you don't comprehend loss, how do you learn? On the field, losing, how do you shift on the fly with tactics to turn it around? If you have a poor season what greater lessons can you gain?

Good sports accept a win like a loss, learning, growing and developing into the sport, it just feels better, and we must risk loss for the thrill of the win!

The reason we thank the referees is to show grace and honor those who are trying to keep things safe and fair.


The Subject is a notorious bad sport.

Here is just one pattern of deceit to follow:

Said the 2016 election was rigged when he was scared of losing in the summer of 2016, and then won. Ok, so then it wasn't rigged? (Except Cambridge Analytica and Russia.) Classic cheaters mentality, the refs are on the take, and paranoia, 'everyone is against me.'

Lost outright in 2020 election, and then told the Big Lie, people, our countrypeople, still believe this version of events to this day despite a genuine lack of evidence to the contrary. Yet;

The Subject forged false documents to present false electors to falsely replace true electors on January 6th, 2021 (hereafter J6); pressured election officials at every level in seven swing states; pressured the VP to go along with the electors swap; and install The Subject for a second presidential Adminsitration.

Like a poor sport, The Subject, himself, is prone to denying loss, thus preventing positive lessons from happening, acheiving honest growth or permanent learning. Further himself speaks foully, calls ad hominem names and taunts opponents.

Oh and o boy does the subject himself lie, for whatever reasons.

The Subject writ large has shown they will not just complain about the Referees, but they will body check them during the game. All seven, even the three who dissented, of the Colorado Supreme Court Justices have been threatened by The Subject, oh yes I included supporters and militia in the Subject itself.

Let's go deeper into poor sportsmanship. If everything is crooked, then:

-it gives permission for my team to play by other rules, probably with impunity

-if we lose, then it was for some nefarious reason, or specific call, but never our fault

-we can short circuit anything at any time, because the ends justify the means... Winning is everything! (Referees always win, always lose and always tie, on every game, we just keep score.)

-the referees, regulators, judges, enforcers, prosecutors are ad hominem in the wrong, (especially when our team loses [us-v-them mentality]).

This is a negative self-fulfilling spiral of poor sportsmanship.


Some people are saying Himself isn't fit for office, in part because he suffers from early dementia.


The Subject often demonstrates no honest sense of earthly Law and Order. Himself, once again must be examined;

He was born superwealthy having been granted an allowance of $1,000,000 per annum by Frank, his father, when he was only 1 years old. That's $17,000,000 a year today, and although some went to rent,etc., it would truly distort your perspective on humanity. Paying for what you want, getting most everything at one level or another that you desire, it would be hard not to at the outside appear selfish. But we have ample evidence that he is in fact a Dangerous Narcissist. The United States Presidency is a selfish device, whereby he plans to literally pardon himself, should he lose the argument he has presented to the DC District Court and amici curiae (in part or albeit whole), in Colorado Supreme Court that the Presidency of the US is a Kingship, whereby criminal immunity is granted for prior crimes, crimes not impeached and convicted by the Senate for removal during Adminsitration, or even crimes after occupancy of office?! (However, remember that in Nixon, accepting the pardon admits crimes and misdemeanors existed.)

The Subject is a proven cheater (I digress into simplification that The Subject is pronoun [royal?] "he"):

He has been found in default judgement of Fraud in the NY Business trial.

He is indicted in Georgia under the RICO statues, which were designed to encircle interstate organized criminals, for amongst other things the previously mentioned false electors that were waiting like false barons to usurp the royal court upon countenance of coronation.

Let's be clear, had the false electors scheme been fait accompli, had J6 worked and installed The Subject for another four years as Chief Executive Officer of the United States of America, it would represent a "violent coup."

Now lets' turn to J6 itself. If The Subject writ large the hominem, himself, granted aid or comfort to what is correctly defined by the Colorado Supreme Court as "insurrection." (yes, I read the whole thing: lower court ruling, appeals, co. supreme court ruling, dissents, and the current appeals to the sup. ct. usa.)

If not inciting a riotous insurrection, then giving aid and comfort to those he "love(d)" is clearly, under the plain self-executing language of the Fourteenth Amendment, specifically under the third section, a disqualifcation of The Subject from the Colorado ballot.

Going further, The Subject is one of the more often sued entities and person(s) around. Remember Trump Taj Mahal, Trump University, et. al.? There is a very good reason even a public servant like Joe Biden will put their assests into a double blind trust upon becoming VP or President (note to the Court: or Supreme Court Justice, allows for fewer recusals). It allows one to honestly be removed from any interests that may compete in direct conflict with eachother that your perview, authority or provision of authority allows total command and control over despite your ownership interests at an asset level. Yes it appears as a bully pulpit, an organized Administration to execute faithfully the laws of the USA, and the Veto pen, but break down the Federalist walls, destroy the Washingtonian Executive precedent of peaceful transition of power, don't divest yourself from financial interests, and we have Royalty! Instead, sic semper tyrannis, and now witness the NY Fraud trial crucifixion. (Further, to the court, What if The Subject is found guilty of Emoluments violations? That constitues a High Crime and/or Misdemeanor!)

No other businessperson without political experience will ever go into politics again, if they have common sense.


When someone says "I'm overregulated."

The answer is, "What rule or law did you want to break?"

If you change or break all the rules, even just "on day one," then you have always changed the rule. The Subject can't be trusted.

The Subject, in particular it's ancillary parts, function in a call and response manner whereby one part (the left knoweth not the right [in criminal organizations, this is called "plausible deniability"]) will partake in threatening, intimidating or even violent actions to disrupt or even destroy opponents, while the other one happened to be on vacation, absent the crime. These are called bullies.

When you fight outright in soccer you get a Red Card, and are no longer allowed to play. Playing is a joy and privilege. So too, the Presidency, it is not a civil right enshrined in the Constitution. (One of the arguments in the amici was that access to the presidential ballot is a right of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, which it clearly isn't.)

When confronted with facts, The Subject often prefers the argument ad hominem "gas lighting," eg. blame the victim, your wrong about that fact, et. al., is often presented in lieu of factual evidence. Secondarily, beware the tu quoque projection.


Let's turn to The Candidacy of The Subject:

He has in speeches explained;

He will pardon himself.

He will pardon J6 criminals, including cop killers.

He will eviscorate the civil service, and install cronies.

He will gut the justice department, appoint partisans, and hope to appoint two more Supreme Court judges that agree the Dobbs decision was not judicial activism, the president of the United States is not textually an officer, and the judge can hold seance with Jefferson, Adams and Hamilton to divine original law. In this way The Subject may bully with false "law and order." Especially if we cannot agree on plain English definitions.

He is not The Law and Order Candidate;

Has previously stated that rather than enforce and uphold his sacred Presidential oath, a deeper oath than applies for Congress, to defend the Constitution, he would suspend it for his personal device.

Take him seriously, he has stated clearly, publicly and in plain English that he intends to be a dictator. That is fascism, children.

His replacement of civil and legal service will become a virtual aristocracy granting novel, unique and individual privilege over the public interests. A virtual Aristocracy, what they then do after four years of power to enshrine their version of a civil and legal service and hold onto power would then be anyone's guess?

Has stated they will open concentration camps to manage the immigration problem (that means putting people in death camps).

All of the above means Donald John Trump was born an American King, and wants to die officially a King. ('L'Etat c'est moi.')


I am grateful the Supreme Court of the USA has taken up the writ of certiorari, hope they find our poor little State did her best, and pray they can find True Legitimacy, maybe an honorable legacy. I pray for judicial common sense.

Amongst the fallacious and specious arguments The Subject has tendered:

(1) The presidency isn't an office (even though it is mentioned 25 times in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, as such.) the president isn't an officer of the United States (It was pretty much like others in their Appeal, a Texas Sharpshooter fallacy of what do words mean?).

(2) J6 wasn't insurrection (it was painfully obvious from the co. sup. ruling the definition was met).

(3) The US President holds a lighter not deeper oath to the Constitution? (Twisted logic. If anything, Section Five of the Fourteenth Amendment informs us that to Uphold the Constitution specifies acknowledgment of that specific branch of what the governments duties are in Legislating!)

(4) Because he wasn't convicted and removed by The Senate, his Articles of Impeachment, the trial they bore in re: J6, and the crimes they lay bare, (as if it isn't WYSIWYG) then he isn't ineligble under that language. Further that because he hasn't been convicted specifically of the federal crime of insurrection, then he qualifies for a second term. But after reading thoroughly, it is clear in fact although some States may rightfully disqualify "Trump" from ballots, if elected himself will need an approval of two-thirds of both houses of Congress when having been impeached and removed by congress, convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors, or of a crime, and as remains to the Supreme Court, if indicted. Further, the Supreme Court should comment on the process, because if they cannot pass the 2/3 threshhold for the victor, do they then examine promotion of the VP or the Challenger next, and then do they have to approve by 2/3 if the winning VP or Challenger opposite is also a seditionist, insurrectionist, traitor, or found guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors (having taken oath to Constitution previous)? The Court can conceive of their peril in this decision when imagining one of the convicted leaders, possibly having taken an oath as a military officer before J6 occurred, of the convicted J6er running for President in a future context, of that person winning National Presidential Elections. The Court also has to validate a process for states like Michigan, Maine, Colorado, et. al. to determine how a Presidential Candidate Disqualification occurs in all instances. Say what you want but The Subject has brought the nation to fresh unchartered ground.

(5) The Subject Himself didn't participate in the whatever it was, but wasn't an insurrection, even though he is in Federal and state courts, despite the Maine and Colorado findings, and all for the same activities that the organizers of the J6 now find themselves behind bars for exactly those crimes.

In fact when we read the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution it is clear that just as Section One is a sheild, so too Section Three is. It allows for process of impeachment, but it also specifies the requirements for presidency, including not having engaged in, given aid or comfort to insurrectionists. Pretty much the statement, 'I will pardon all J6 criminals,' already meets this self-evidentiary self-executing standard, without conviction. In normal families this is called, "words mean what words mean." (People can sometimes not believe their eyes when they witness violence, or their ears when they hear politically violent rhetoric.)

The argument that Section Five makes any enforcement of a sheild action by Congress necessary defies the meaning of self-executing sheild. Following the Thirteenth Amendment, passed with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth after the Civil War, the institution of Slavery is illegal, and only Acts of Congress are necessary to continue to enforce that, should new forms of slavery arise or the definitions somehow transgress ancient fashion. In fact the blanket Fifth section of the Fourteenth clearly prescribes that any future conflicts with any of the lettered parts be legislated by Congress. Section Three's requirement concerning Seditionists and Insurrectionists was not a dead letter.

Further, elements of The Subject in fact coordinated the J6 events, with Donald J. Trump honorary spokesperson and guest lecturer. He provided aid and comfort to domestic terrorists. (My original response.)



He is guilty.



So, Voters, I round towards my conclusions. Please be aware that The Subject will probably, even after appeal, be a convicted NY fraudster, possible convicted felon, possibly forced off ballots by honest operation of law, by the time we go to the National Polls, all because he did some bad things. Is this who you want representing our great nation?

Now we are witnessing how Society operates in a lawful, orderly, and self executionary manner.

Thank the Supreme Court for accepting, please consider the above logic from 'the street.'

Please, voters and citizens from states who have already experienced the fraudsters-- AZ, GA, MI, NV, PA, WI, et. al. "Trump rigged the 2016 elections;"

Those who are the early voters-- IA, NH, SC, NV, Virgin Islands, MI, ID, MO, et. al. "Trump tried to steal the 2020 election;"

Fellow Voters, please, consider anybody's Adminsitration other than The Subject, "Trump wants to become a fascist dictator! Watch out he may try to steal or rig again, and probably will not accept the results if he loses fairly!!"

Or, in plainest English, even though this isn't exactly how it works, but to the Supreme Court, too, "Vote 'No' on Trump."

Or as one little American soccer player once chanted to me "No Emperors, No Kings, that's just the way of things!" I have great hope in the future, as the self-evidentuary nature of good sportsmanship and the results of good teamwork will in the end win.



Courtesy Stephen Colbert, his copyrights on this image

Friday, August 14, 2020

Forget Beer, It's Time for a Fender Bender

Presidential Elections are the most famous popularity contests in the world.

 

Famously, we like to think we are voting for an Angel, rather than settling for a Devil by the thought exercise, “which candidate would you rather have a beer with?”  (Yes, like a good American grammarian I ended the survey question a preposition with.)

 

Except, we are in extraordinary circumstances:

 

Hundred Year Pandemic


Chronic Systemic Deferred Maintenance


Climate Change Proven beyond a Doubt


Reconciliation of Civil Rights a precipitous necessity


Worst Economic statistics since measurements began from The Great Depression

 

You can see how people might be willing to choose the best devil in such terrible circumstances, rather than the nicest angel.  Whose Executive Administration will be able to handle the massive macroeconomic issues?

 

Almost makes you not even care if you even like the person, so long as you think they may help?

 

So, which Candidate would you rather get into a low speed fender bender with?

 

 

Thought Exercise

 

You are driving your crap auto called US, and the timing belt needs adjustment, tires are worn, and the brakes have been squealing for months, but like most Americans you don’t have an extra $400 to fix them.

 

As you approach an intersection at the speed limit, you anticipate a yellow light ahead and begin your squeaking brakes.  As the light turns, you are a quarter mile from the stop line, and of the two cars ahead of you the car directly in front of you, a new silver Mercedes-Ferrari Electric Hybrid, has stopped about 500 feet away.

 

Your brakes engage, squeak as loud as you have ever heard, and for one reason or another you hit the $456,000 four door sedan that tops off at 155 MPH in 12 seconds.  The bumper, replacement cost your annual salary, after installation, is broken.  Don’t ask for details, it just needs $45,000 worth of work from a 15 MPH fender bender.

 

Out comes (A) either driver, Presidential Candidate (take the test again, and replace with either Major Political Party), and from the shotgun position (B) a Secret Service agent who will witness and back whatever Mr. A says, no matter how awful.

 

Two more facts: 1. They are self-insured, so they have no Insurance, if it is their fault; and 2. Mr. B pressed the emergency oil slick button as they drew to a halt at seven miles per hour—thus it is 100% their fault.  Oil is everywhere, and the Intersection Camera clearly can show the before and after.

 

Which one of these two gentlemen would you then like to encounter in what, without the super tip-top-secret auto, (a) wouldn’t have been an accident, nor (b) be considered potentially your fault and liability? 

 

That is a more accurate measure for where we are today.

 

 

Lest we should consider this the Junior High School election, remember that the Executive of the USA typically administers directly to a force of hundreds of thousands of people, lest the millions directly commanded.  So, which group do you pick... go ahead take the thought exercise a third time, and remember to Vote!

Monday, February 15, 2016

The Case for and Probability of a Sanders Presidency



Before we address the reasons Mr. Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist who has been in Congress for years as an Independent and caucused with Democrats, could win The Electoral College (as well as maybe even over 53% of the popular vote) in a General Election, let us start by comparing him to his very real rival for nomination; it is sort of hers to lose, as she has sort of begun to do; Hilary Clinton.

Foreign Policy is considered a big part of how the former Lawyer, Senator and Secretary of State via Pennsylvania, Little Rock, and New York could beat the former Mayor, Congressman, and current Senator from Vermont with a proven track record of say what you mean, and do what you say.

Further, some of the ideas about Sec. Clinton (her actual highest rank in service to the American people) revolve around that she’s the ‘realist.’ 

Except, this supposed argument of foreign policy realism, hinges upon 20th century political dialogues about communism and the USSR?

I argue, as an Economist, that any Federal Economic Policy is the foundation upon which both Foreign and Domestic Policy rest.

And we have been a mixed capitalist system (meaning a socialist-capitalist democracy) since The Great Depression (1932). 

Sanders freely works with these truths:  Plus, progressive, underserved, and younger voters sense or know these operational truths of economics; therefore, as we enter four score years, since we began guaranteeing our citizens as a national government, Bernie is the actual realist in the race from strictly economic principles, but I digress.

I am unsure that 99%-ers, Millennials, Social Liberals, Progressives, or Economic realists will agree with my reasoning, in part or whole, yet I guess we may all agree on the bottom line... a better future for our grandchildren and their grandchildren— thinking Seven Generations.

So, here’s my case for what will differentiate Sen. Sanders from his rivals through to November:



WARFARE

On this point, almost anyone who doesn’t respond “bomb them (whoever the enemy is) back to the stone age,” as the best answer to any question of foreign threat to our beloved, misunderstood, and often misguided United States of America; the rest of us need to seriously take a moment to review the clarity and undaunted-ness the Senior Senator has had when it actually counted most to committing American blood, treasure, and resources, especially once we became the unilateral superpower.

On the disastrous move by G. W. Bush, The Younger, to go to War in Iraq on false and manufactured intelligence in 2004, Sanders was one of very few, and even fewer of those still serving in Congress, to have seen through the folly in the moment with foresight, and voted ‘No.’ Clinton voted with the establishment in that same vote.

Besides this, he is the Chair of the Veteran’s Affairs Committee, so Sanders knows the true ongoing costs of making a disastrous decision to go to war.

Clinton voted for endless Emergency Powers, for adventurous wars, and has a record from her time as head of the State Department that isn’t universally admired, if not respected— Sec. Kerry has gone much further to accomplish more substantive results by comparison within and on behalf of the same Administration. 

Thus, even if you disagree with this one of the three points, finding yourself more of a hawkish-dove, than a dovish-hawk, continue reading as to why Sanders can and should prevail against all his rivals in both contests.



WELFARE

Republicans call this “Entitlement Reform,” but what they typically mean is ‘controlling’ entitlements, but most importantly to the actual conservative constituency, in order to manage (or cut) associated costs. 

Republicans continue calls for a re-run straight from the 1980’s of tax-cuts for the 1%, who are already enjoying the best tax benefits, ever, that only translate to eventually pissing off poor, minority, and elderly groups, by capping or eliminating benefits they rely upon to live in exchange for having helped build our nation, but also should be a wholesale alarm to our Veterans and retired civil servicepersons. 

Sanders proposes to afford these programs reinstating what is called Progressive Taxation (lower taxation rates for the poor, and greater taxation rates for the rich), and for the most part was the tradition in our nation, until Ronald Reagan began spending recklessly on the US credit card and playing with Trickle Down Economics, permanent national treasury deficits, and no real wage (adjusted for inflation) increases for the bottom two-thirds of the nation ever since. 

George H. W. Bush, The Elder, observed correctly, before he lost to Ronald Reagan in 1980 to become elevated to Vice President (after having run the CIA for years), that this solutions set was “Voodoo Economics.”  Ad naseum argumentum (arguments that repeat over and over insistently) do not prove right this miserable failure.

Bush the Elder, eventually lost his re-election, since everything he had learned in life, told him he needed to raise taxes on the wealthy, like Reagan did too, because the safety netting for Americans had begun it’s own demolition once Reagan Administration and Republican lawmaking efforts got rolling (and then rolled from the S&L Scandal before ending up into the ditch with the Bank Bailouts— see Neil Bush).

Whatever you call this Economic Policy, it is now a proven failed economic, governing, and fiscal model, in ointments and puddings found around the world since 2008, and we have begun reinstating those safety nets— the enthusiasm across ‘voting blocks,’ indicate Sanders tracks with this trend.

Voters of all stripes, ranks and files must think to not only vote for the children yet to be born, but those who have lost their way in this life, yet still live.  Back when PTSD was called shell shock, this was termed Welfare of the State by the people for the people.









We all want good fiscal policy, and budgetary prudence... the difference— Bernie Sanders also promises to expand Social Security and Veteran Benefits; create Universal Education and National Health Insurance; but also continue the request, to keep the promise written at the foot of The Statue of Liberty, that asks for those “tired, poor, and masses yearning to be free.”   

There is no request or shown preference at Lady Liberty’s feet for only those people with advanced degrees on Work Visas, exclusion of opportunities for the lower or middle classes, nor does it say “No Mexicans, or Muslims.” 

Aside from that, anyone concerned with Native American Rights, let alone the poor (or the 99%), serious about casting a vote this year for any establishment candidate could only seriously consider the Democratic Party. 

Otherwise, there will be made available third-party protest (each only able to garner under 1%) votes that, once again, won’t be noticed by The Establishment— trust me, like Mr. Sanders, I am not a Democrat, either.





Although his Democratic Establishment rival may again be somewhat analogous to this Democratic Socialist, my truth: Sanders, I feel is someone who would probably agree with my more libertarian advocacy for a simple methodology of expansion for the ACA to ‘not discriminate upon age.’ Unlike the Republicans who seem proud to have earned their mantle of “Do-Nothing-Republicans” by voting to repeal ACA 62 times, WITHOUT COUNTER-OFFER, here is at least my idea:



This could happen any day of the week should any relevant class in California decide to sue the State exchange and Medicaid under the Unruh Act, that bans discrimination by age.  This amendment this would most probably open the door to reform critical health insurance coverage (Medicaid and Medicare) to include any citizen who needed health care, nationally.

This “available model” is favorable to a mandatory model, or even Single-payor, because it is still allowing for self-insurers, and those who prefer an esoteric insurance device to act as a market tamp on pricing by offering capital efficiencies in terms of (much lesser degree direct and) indirect competition. 

But the idea of sending in any candidate, who may be willing to take another thirty years dancing with the powers-that-be to get the citizens some version of National Healthcare whilst the nation suffers; let alone those (Republicans) not willing to admit to a Health Crisis, Poverty Issues, nor Climate Change; simply beggars belief.



I think I will chance it with the guy, Sanders, who once again seems to be facing the actual reality of our geo-political and economic situations:



My macroeconomic fiscal conservative recap in favor of Universal Healthcare;



Without some version of universal coverage in health insurance, it is an unfair competitive advantage to almost every one of our foreign trading partners (who mostly have some form of national state health insurance) that acts as an inverse tariff against our national exports and imports, because our manufacturers and business owners do not have comparable benefit(s). 

Meaning that any good, product or service (imported or exported) includes in its measured value in currency terms the subsidized healthcare costs of our competitors’ workers and citizens, thus allowing our trading partners to attract and retain higher quality labor, as well as creating a “reverse hidden taxation to trade,” or inverse tariff. 

In other words, when we don’t have a comparable benefit to any national competitor, then this acts in favor of foreign competition as hidden cost of goods per export, simultaneous to hidden subsidy (in favor of exporting nation) per import. 

This is economically true of most state social netting programs that reduce costs and burdens to business.  Ending this incongruity, and any other social disadvantages to workforce, manufacturers, exporters, and importers, will benefit Corporate America for generations to come.





When any Republican and any Democrat are held up to be chosen by our vet, disabled, and/or elderly voters around the nation as to which candidate for the POTUS will really be backstopping and improving Healthcare, Social Security, and VA Benefits— The retired citizen with a prospect of living to past age one-hundred with advances in modern medicine, the infirm citizen with a permanent disability, disease, ailment and/or deformity, but also anyone who has served this nation— voters should rightly recoil in horror at the massive cuts to benefits being proposed by that Republican field writ large. 



Winning Republican will have to at best modify Entitlement Reform plans, or at least hedge their speech (i.e. lie) on the stump, if they have even made any policy notes known, to then bestill this vast constituencyship, which seems particularly ebullient this year.  Again any Democrat will probably win.







WEEDFAIR



It is not ‘marijuana,’ it is not ‘weed,’ rather it is the cannabis species in all its forms: industrial, commercial, and medicinal. 



Every Republican has espoused doubling down on Ronald Reagan’s failed, outmoded, and unpopular “war” seeking to repeal these State initiatives by the people and their representative governments!



This is the key distinction for the Democratic nominees.  Although, with hedging language, Mrs. Clinton somehow shows up as a 1990’s Republican talking about ‘states rights,’ on this issue; Sanders can make, and often shows, if not alludes to, the connection; that the ill-conceived adventure called “War on Drugs,” Libertarian and Reganite Ron Paul would agree, has been an escapade, which the taxpaying citizenry has answered back these thirty years later with, ‘black lives matter,’ as the number one civil rights issue facing our nation today.



Assuming we also include any people of color within that sentiment, and add any citizen in any disadvantaged class: that insane effort by the US Government against it’s own people must finally come to a complete end.  




It didn’t work with alcohol: without identifying and addressing the real and underlying social issues belying the symptomologies and behaviors (let alone citizen violations against arbitrary and capricious lawmaking, policy, and now case-precedent that must be overturned or outlawed, itself) sought to be modified, or contained, on such complex social issues; it then fails the actual cause of government to protect and defend its citizens in a reasonable free state of liberty, as ratified and identified by our founders, who all used industrial hemp, at a minimum. 

Further, when incarceration is the primary remedy provided by the opposite party (again, the proven poor solution set since the Drug War began last century under the Reagan Administration), there will be continued disenfranchisement of those felons, disadvantaged, and forgotten citizens who have given up on our cynical system— non-voters.  Ending the failed Drug War will end disenfranchisement of citizens from their system.

Voters have Thanksgiving Dinners with those non-voting folks.  And anyone not thinking of being a voter this time, please plan to vote, if you still have the right, and see what happens!



Repealing the now-proven inefficient prohibition of cannabis will save trillions of dollars across the board!!

It will redirect vital policing mechanisms back to the borders, counter-terror, and actual crimes against policy of State— where they belong.  And, by the way, it will pay for itself, generate billions in taxes annually, and create new jobs.

However, Free Hemp is more importantly the number one Law and Order issue for 2016, in part because by redirecting the resources of state to enforce policy, as we have begun to do in Colorado, then, besides fiscal prudence, it should also expedite the removing of those Federal Emergency Powers (yes, we are still under a State of Emergency) to ideally reinstate the concepts of law derived from the Magna Carta and it’s associated democratic principalia connected to habeas corpus.







WHY SANDERS CAN WIN



Weed States aka The Fab Four: CO, WA, AK, OR, and sort of the District of Colombia, which isn’t actually a State, but does vote.  No one in these states is going to consciously ratify any politician explaining why their States Rights will be invalidated and revoked by the Federal Government, should we choose to vote for them to administer the Executive Offices of the USA. 

23 Medicinal States; 15 CBD Only States; 2 pending Medicinal States. 

This represents 44 States (All Native Nations are free to grow, manufacture and sell cannabis products; probably most of our Commonwealth Members will agree; and our Fab Four, and [again] DC) accepting, honoring and commercializing Hemp in 2016! 

(I added Florida, because last year an Initiative to become the fifth state to fully legalize cannabis was passed by the voters at a phenomenal 58%, but didn’t meet the sixty percent ‘super-majority’ threshold to become amended into the State Constitution.  They are going for it again this year!)



44/50!!



Consistently, our US Population supports legalization of cannabis by a majority since 2002, because it is so very common sense— those who don’t, mostly because they were indoctrinated to believe cannabis to be worse than opium, if you can imagine, are getting older and passing away. 

Support really only continues to grow, as the most important plant in the human pantheon comes back online, and myths become demystified.

And States citizens sincerely voting in 2016 to become #5 (and beyond) to legalize it: Nevada, California, Maine, Arizona, Connecticut, Michigan, Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, and Missouri; all have activated their grass-root bases to follow the Weed States into the actual future— just like climate change, it also does exist!

So, this sea change favors a Progressive crowd to be mobilized at the base in 2016.





Then, the ACA States where a successful state health insurance exchange system has begun to heal millions of Americans, including myself, is set up: CO, HI, WA, OR, CA, NV, NM, MN, IA, MS, KY, MD, NY, VT, MA, RI, and CT. 

I would tell 538.com and any other prognosticators, just put these states into Any Democrat’s column, because the countless stories of relief, respite, and hospice cannot be told considering the millions of improvements we are seeing every day to the actual health of our country.  This will begin to show up as lagging economic statistics, as more of our people continue get the help they need.

If any of those states didn’t break Democratic, then I wouldn’t consider that any final verdict upon the ACA— itself mostly the 1990’s Republican solution set, their counter-offers, after the failed Hilary-care effort, which she cashed-in for the CHP (more or less the current national children’s health insurance program, to her credit), currently referred to as Obamacare.

Because this is so massive and complex of an issue, results are so preliminary, then it is no wonder the Do-nothing Republicans voted to repeal this important social netting— their own ‘90’s policy counter-offers— now 62 times, offering no real new solutions, as of February 2, 2016— THEY JUST DON’T GET IT!

Even if the ACA goes unchanged, only managed, it will realize trillions of dollars in long-term savings to the Federal Government, as is, while continuing to heal America. 

Every Republican wants to end available health care solutions without any real counter-offer, thus no true Republican will be preferred by those citizens experiencing positive ACA results— Americans are just not buying it, even though there do exist also many stories about frustration with implementation.



To guess, there is political inefficiency, disagreement, and/or disorganization that could account for the 18 exchanges that have defaulted to the Federal Program, as they are mostly “red states.” 

Thus, this may indicate a potential anti-Obama trend in some of the Federal Exchange states.



(I did not weight those states in the neither/nor zone still developing their exchange solutions.)



However, Wisconsin, Maine, New Hampshire, and maybe Louisiana and Arizona are the only of these eighteen that could be mitigated by other (weed, jobs, etc.) factors, issues and turnouts to prefer Any Democrat.


Therefore, assuming that voters find Mr. Sanders the more trusted, experienced, pragmatic choices for the Democratic primary; assuming my hypotheses about ACA and Free Hemp are more or less correct; then I expect a final General Election map (Sanders-v-Any Republican) to appear something like this:






I am endorsing Bernard Sanders of Vermont for President in 2016. 

Finally: Please, let us not act like we are the oldest modern democracy by having the most anemic voter turnouts.  Even if you do not agree in part or whole with this argument, as citizens let us demonstrate our vigor of old age; please, make sure to vote in November!





Happy President’s Day!