All_Pro_Bills

Public enemy #1. “Intelligence agencies are flouting the law and buying information about Americans that Congress and the Supreme Court have made clear the government should not have.” https://www.wired.com/story/odni-commercially-available-information-report/

Nobody else reacting seems to feel that way. Maybe you're walking around with your eyes closed? Or you depend on the system for your livelihood? As for modern monarchies, I suggest you travel to to Saudi Arabia with the intent of establishing a DEI program to get some firsthand experience on how a modern monarchy would handle that idea?

The key to your post is "State control". Dictators, authoritarians, and ideologies can be centered around a single figure or a group such as a political party, sometimes both. Whether Fascists, Communists, Socialists, Monarchies, Theocracies, or whatever other system they claim to represent, all must crush any dissent and competition to their rule. They require control of the "messages" transmitted through media (both State and Private) providing their subjects (you are no longer a citizen here) with information. They require the ability to censor, block, or discredit any conflicting messages. No alternative interpretations of events and "facts" are allowed. They directly and indirectly control the ability of subjects to be rewarded or punished by economic, political, and social means. They require a State monopoly on violence to maintain their rule through fear and intimidation, and in some cases death. In cases where they maintain the illusion of choice, they hold control over the electoral process which "rubber stamps" their rule. Importantly, they don't recognize the concept of "rights". No subject has rights, rather they are granted privileges by the State. Privileges that can be granted or taken away from people based on their allegiance and obedience to the State. Some outlaw of reject the religious concept of God. Not because they don't believe but because under their system there can be no greater power than the power of the State. Therefore, God cannot be allowed to exist. How close or far away are we from a system aligned around the principles of authoritarian rule? That's subject to a lot of interpretations. But if the following assessment resonates with your perspective you probably feel its closer than most think. "We are ruled by a government that is corrupt and self-serving, dominated by two political factions that pretend to be at odds with each other all the while moving in lockstep to maintain the status quo". A status quo where their power grows and your freedoms shrink. As such liberals are not the enemies of conservatives and conservatives are not the enemies of liberals. Despite all the bickering and debate about marginal social issues. The "deep state" holds a firm grip on the core. The enemy is the institutions and systems of our Federal government. And while they tell us that Russia, China, Iran, and a host of other external foreign enemies are the biggest threat to our democracy and freedoms the true threats are right there in plain site. Sitting in the seat of power in DC.

As opposed to the perpetual victim message from the left which commands center stage 24/7?

That he should have done this on day one of his term leads me to doubt this would happen.

Ancient proverb says you cannot find that which you do not seek to find.

Let me guess. Suicide by multiple gunshots with a note saying he made it all up and couldn't live with lying about such a nice and caring old man.

They'll force her out prior. She resigns before Joe perhaps to take over Feinstein's Senate seat in California. They appoint the chosen one as VP. Then Joe resigns citing some health issue. Then the appointed VP become President. Some liberal aristocrat like Newsom. A person receiving zero votes. That would be quite a coup. But following along with the Constitution, within the "rules". Ethical? Well, that's debatable and not critical to politics. Newsom becomes the de facto 2024 nominee without much of a fight and has 6 to 9 months of experience as President to run on. Is it likely, no. Is is a pretty wild scenario? Absolutely. Would I put it past this crew to try to pull off this type of scenario? Absolutely not.

I'm guessing 1) he's so unpopular that he's forced to resign by DNC leadership, 2) he take a dirt nap before this term expires.

I understand those re-education camps will be exceedingly torturous for Bills fans. They'll make us all wear Dolphins colors because the lefties think their uniforms are "pretty". Just like they are when those hairy and ugly dudes get together for dress up like a lady play time!

So shopping for a venue where a judge and jury would most likely render a conviction? How about North Korea? I understand that jurisdiction is very friendly to ALL government cases with a 100% conviction rate.

You can't say the word for lady-parts but you can stock the local school library with transsexual pornography. That's how low our moral and ethical standards of behavior have fallen. Decadence is a common theme of failing societies like our own is in the process of becoming. From a sociological perspective, allowing ideas previously the exclusive domain of mental hospital patients and perverts to become core social beliefs. What's amazing is how few actually believe any of it yet so many go along.

Reality check: both parties do this already. Both love wars and unlimited spending.

They shouldn't impeach Biden for a couple reasons. The first being any such action would likely fail. And why stoop to the no-class level actions the Democrats pulled with Trump, twice. The second being the same reason allied military commanders near the end of World War 2 discouraged any plans to assassinate or remove Hitler. He was a terrible military strategist and his lousy decisions hurt the German war effort. Eliminating him risked having the decision making authority transferred to military commanders with the competence to make better decisions. Joe is just a lousy President. As demonstrated by his poor job performance polling numbers. Imagine how much more damage Joe can do before November 2024. Why impeach him? Let an extremely unpopular President run for a second term or force the DNC to go in another direction against an incumbent President's re-election bid. Another candidate could easily disassociate their campaign from the awful record of the incumbent.

Washington does have a pointless war agenda. And has lost every single one of them either militarily, politically, and economically while spending countless dollars making certain corporations and individuals rich and others gainfully employed to protect the racket.

So something like Delta House being on Dean Werner's double-secret probation list?

The irony and perhaps comedy value of this entire charade is how rags like the NY Times, other media, and all the associated twits our friend here cites lots of sources that claim to have access to secret and confidential forms of evidence and communications proving the guilt of the former President, and now apparently others in some wild conspiracy. Which if true was leaked illegally by somebody and published illegally by somebody. So you're using illegally gained confidential government information to support the arrest and conviction of somebody in possession of confidential and secret government information. The exact same thing. Do any of the clowns signing off on these stories realize the contradiction of the very laws they express so much concern over?

I think "the" major difference in the media is a concentration of power into just a few people and the "type" of people employed by media outlets. Historically, these were individuals that had an interest in reporting and investigating the events of the day. Digging into stories, asking the tough questions, investigating to dig into the details to uncover the truth. People that likely went to journalism school, got a degree in it or in communications. Started in the newsroom and worked their way up. Today, you have networks and newspapers across the political spectrum committed to communicating and interpreting events from a specific ideological viewpoint. And the people they employ are more political operatives from various government agencies and think tanks representing specific and sometime undisclosed interest eager to tell a story or interpret an event to communicate the "story" from a point of view of their personal or professional self-interest. These are not the Woodward and Bernstein journalist of the Watergate days of uncovering corruption.

All I know is the FBI sure works a lot different than they do on all those TV shows. The good guys always saving the day in selfless acts of heroism. Imagine a real script. Violating FISA rules, hiding evidence against powerful officials, spying on political parties, setting up entrapment operations to railroad undesirable groups, stonewalling motions and orders for the release of documents and information, hiding and protecting themselves from oversight, and so on. Maybe way too much reality for the viewer to handle?

I've run across lots of different animals on my property and nearby wooded areas. Rabbits, Squirrels, Woodchucks, Chipmunks, Deer, Foxes, Skunks. During these encounters I don't get a sense that any of them were suffering from any gender identity crisis. They seemed way too busy focused on finding food, survival, building shelters & nests, and not getting killed to be concerned with such frivolous nonsense as Human's commit themselves too. When seeing and dealing with idiots and mental patients consumed with narcissism and anxiety focused on their self-identity I wonder if we're really the "higher" form of life and intelligence.

Major Atlantic Hurricanes by year (1851 to 2017) 8 - 1950 7 - 1961, 2005 6 - 1926, 1933, 1955, 1964, 1996, 2004, 2017 5 - 1893, 1916, 1951, 1958, 1969, 1995, 1999, 2008, 2010 4 - 1886, 1894, 1909, 1932, 1948, 1953, 2001, 2011, 2016 3 - 15 years 2 - 45 years 1 - 48 years 0 - 31 years My expectation is current weather monitoring, measurement, and predictive systems have improved over time so measurement of storm strength should be more accurate over the last 25 to 30 years than it was prior.

When they told Joe they were hiring "influencers" he retorted that "we already have enough people working in my administration that are under the influence. Why are we hiring more?"

The basis of all insurance business models is risk management. The premium costs and insurer's decisions to sell policies in Florida have everything to do with the risk profile of the market and very little to do with the person holding the governor's office. I expect you can get hurricane insurance in Buffalo a 100x cheaper than you can in Tampa and that has everything to do with probability and impact of loss in that specific market. Its got nothing to do with Kathy Hochul being the governor or blue state politics.

If required to do what? Half the country has concluded the rule of law doesn't exist. Or at the very least is applied on a case by case basis subject to political consideration. Those law enforcement and military organizations employ a significant number of those very people. You think they're going to obey orders to shoot their brothers and sisters in the streets? You're going to order military units to kill American citizens? You've got a real surprise coming if you think its going to play out that way. Now I don't expect it will come to anything close to that, and I hope it doesn't. But I wouldn't be surprised to see some sort of social unrest or a general strike in the form of what happened with the Canadian truckers. But more widespread. You can only push people around so much until they've had enough.

By law enforcement do you mean the FBI?