For the sake of unity?

A few thoughts now that the Democrats have finished their harangue:

1) From what I've seen, they played up to the fence-sitters on the GOP side.  We heard a great deal of bravo sierra about their regard for the writings of the Framers, and some of the statesmen of the past.  Trouble is, they don't mean it.  How do I know this?

The answer to that question is the rhetoric that is their custom.  They are only using
these honeyed words because they know that some folks on the GOP side will like hearing them.  There are suckers on the GOP side, make no mistake.  They don't mean it, and the Pierre Delecto types should know better.

2) To expand on that point, besides Delecto being mistreated by the same people who are now playing up to him, just recall how they treated both Bushes---Papa and Shrub.  They got no respect then, but they get it now.  You have to know how insincere all of this truly is, or you are a sucker for it.

3) The academics are the worst when it comes to disrespecting our heritage.  These people vote Democrat, as you must know if you are inclined to agree with what these phonies are saying.

4) Chris Matthews once claimed that he would consider voting for John McCain.  I recall he got huffy on television when someone doubted it.  Does anyone have any doubt that when John McCain ran in 2008, he didn't get Matthews' vote?

5) Democrats will cry foul if they get no GOP votes, but why should they expect any?  None of these Democrats like or respect even the moderates, but they can certainly play this double game with the best of them.  You can be assured that once they get what they want, the harsh rhetoric for all of their opponents will resume in force.

6) All of this should be known amongst the GOP caucus.  They know better.  Yet they have allowed this.  At what point do conservatives give up on them?  Or are there any of those?

7) I wonder if there are because if any of the Democrats' honeyed words meant anything at all, this impeachment would not have happened.  It shouldn't be happening, and the only reason for it happening is these weak-kneed, squishy GOP types.  To criticize them is to risk conviction, but I'd rather tell the truth about them than to play up to them the way the Democrats are doing.  A regard for truth requires no less.

8) I'd rather that there be defeat to retreat one inch.  Victory at any price?  Not if by
"victory" that we empower unreliable types like these.  This is a deadly fight.  The loss
of this war might have grave consequences for the GOP and everybody else for that matter.

9) There is not one iota of merit in anything the Democrats are saying.  The things that
sound good are being said insincerely.  Therefore, it is only a trick.  Don't fall for it.

Governed, not ruled

There are a lot of non-compliant zones these days.  One that comes to mind is sanctuary cities that do not comply with Federal immigration laws.  Another one has come to the fore recently in response to the gun-control laws being passed in Virginia.

In order to keep the nation free, there will have to be some civil disobedience.  There does not seem to be any way around that fact.  If gun rights are to be preserved, then the new sanctuaries will have gained favor in more and more places.

However, peaceable people are more likely to obey a law than to defy it.  But when a law is clearly intended to do away with our rights, then the time for active disobedience has come.

This will entail some suffering.  There will be definite attempts at enforcement.  Such
attempts will make it more and more painful to rebel.  But the rebellion must continue.  If it fails, then the tyrants will have won.

It is preferable to have a law-abiding society as compared to a rebellious one.  But those who wish to impose gun-control are the very ones who are impeaching this President without just cause.  They have no respect for the law.  The law is to be applied discriminately to those that they do not favor.  Such a feature is a hallmark of tyranny.

The Democrats like to claim to be for the rule of law.  That is a lie.  They are for the
rule of Democrats.  If we are to remain free, their attempts at subjugation must be opposed with all the strength we can muster.

The impeachment articles should be dismissed with prejudice.  Nothing less will preserve our freedom.  If the Democrats succeed in defeating this President by using the impeachment process as a political hammer, then they will have politicized the Constitution itself.

The Constitution is supposed to treat everyone equally.  Evidently, the Democrats believe they are more equal than everyone else.  Consequently, they will have rendered freedom as a mere word on a piece of paper.  The Bill of Rights will have become a hollow and meaningless document.  The same will become true of the Constitution itself.  For what meaning has it when its words are not honored?

It is against the law to use the apparatus of government for political purposes, but that is what this impeachment is about.  Instead of winning an election, it should cause the
rule of Democrats to be ended for sufficient time so as to make it clear to them that the
people of this country will not be ruled.  But we can be governed by a just people.  The
question is not the "guilt" of the POTUS, but whether there are enough just people left
to make a just government in this country.  If such be the case, then the Democrats will
have succeeded in their coup.

The late Vince Bugliosi once said that you have to spoon-feed people in order to persuade them.  Perhaps Bugliosi knew that people tended to be lazy and would not secure the facts themselves.  But that is not good enough if you want to keep your freedom.  You have to secure the facts for yourselves.  If you do not, then there is always someone more cunning and determined there to rob you blind with his lies.  If you are too lazy, you will be overcome by these lies, and you will do what the liar and the thief wanted you to do.

Everything the Democrats said recently when I looked into this farce has been covered in the House and elsewhere.  They misrepresented it.  The defense can go over each of these lies one-by-one and refute them, but that was already done in the House.  Therefore, why do it all yet again?  They are hoping that you will be too lazy to secure these facts for yourselves.

Therefore, I will not dignify them with a response to their lies, except for this one
thing, that they were systematically lying about everything that has taken place these
last four years.  They are hoping that enough people will be lazy and believe them.  I won't because I have seen enough.

It is enough to establish a principle.  The principle is that they will lie to achieve
their ends.  They will lie even under oath.  That is enough for me.  I have seen enough.

I could go on and on.  If I were to be like Bugliosi said, I would spoon-feed all the
evidence once again.  Instead, I will direct you to what already exists in the record.  All
you have to do if you want the truth is to look for yourselves.  It is there.  If not,
then listen to the liars and be deceived.  You will not deserve any better.  You will not
have it nor freedom, nor democracy, nor rule of law.  For you will be unworthy of it.

Democrats stick a gun to their heads and blame Trump for it

Update: RUFKM?  What do they need to hear???  I have to think that they must believe that they could weather the shitstorm that would swirl around them if they continue with this much longer.

I decided to watch a bit of the impeachment proceedings today.  Let me recap briefly what I heard.

The Democrats are claiming that Trump should be removed from office because he knocked Biden's poll numbers down.  They are claiming that this was cheating.

That's about the sum total of their case.  Trump knocked Biden's poll numbers down by asking Zelensky to look into Hunter Biden.  To them, this is an impeachable offense.

Just speaking from my own perspective here, it wasn't because of Trump's phone call that I learned about Hunter Biden.  If it weren't for the Democrats making such a fuss over it that I took interest in finding out about the dude.  In other words, the Democrats caused Biden to fall in the polls.

Chances are that nobody really cared about Hunter Biden.  They ought to, but I am guessing that they didn't give a hoot then, nor now.  If Biden fell in the polls, it wasn't Trump's fault.

If this is the best they have got, then why don't the Pierre Delecto types just call it a day and dismiss.

PJ Media: The Top Seven Lies Adam Schiff Has Told to Boost Impeachment

Adam Schiff is a liar. Like most Democrats, he cares more about ousting Trump than the facts—so much, in fact, he's repeatedly turned a blind eye to the facts to smear Trump in the hopes of swaying public opinion against the man who dared to defeat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. It's ... 

This is what you get when you go down that road.  Schiff can look the part of respectability, but there's much that is wrong with this man.  You cannot trust the words of a liar.

Democrats aren't crazy, they know what they are doing.

Before anybody gets the wrong impression from the title, allow me to explain.

The current organizing principle is Judeo-Christian.  If you adhere to that ethic, you don't bring false charges against another person.  It is in the Ten Commandments.  "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor."

What I'm getting at here is that the Democrats have rejected the Judeo-Christian morality.  They know what they are doing.  They aren't insane, nor stupid.  They are communists.

The communists believe that religion is the "opiate of the masses".  Every communist regime has tried to overthrow the Judeo-Christian ethic because they consider it an axiom of their system.  If they allow it, it is only because they find it useful at the time.  Eventually, they attempt to stamp it out.

To make false charges against the POTUS is right in line with their thinking.  If that is what it takes to defeat him, that is what they'll do.  If it doesn't work, they'll be sorry.  But not because they have changed their ways.  They'll only be sorry that it didn't work.

They know what they are doing.  It is we who do not know what we are doing.  That is why we are in trouble.

I decided to share the following link because of this very problem among the so-called conservatives.  So-called conservatives are just a little less committed than the Democrats is all.  For all intents and purposes, they have swallowed communism hook, line, and sinker.

Impeachment: Republican Senators “recognize the trial … as an attempted political decapitation”

RCI's Paul Sperry has something the GOP might want to look into ( pretty please )

Whistleblower Was Overheard in 17 Discussing With Ally How to Remove Trump 

 ...but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for them.

CTH - First Schumer Rules Amendment Defeated - House Managers Attempt To Rectify Inherent Impeachment Flaws...

sundance posted: "Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is attempting to rescue two legally and structurally deficient articles of impeachment rushed from the Lawfare community in the House of representatives.   However, in his first effort to introduce new documents and fo" Yours truly shared a post from The Last Refuge UPDATE – First Schumer Rules Amendment Defeated – House Managers Attempt To Rectify Inherent Impeachment Flaws… by sundance Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is attempting to rescue two legally and structurally deficient articles of impeachment rushed from the Lawfare community in the House of representatives.   However, in his first effort to introduce new documents and force the Trump […] Read more of this post sundance | January 21, 2020, at 5:46 pm | Categories: 4th Amendment, 6th Amendment, AG Bill Barr, Big Government, Big Stupid Government, Cold Anger, Conspiracy ?, Decepticons, Deep State, Dem Hypocrisy, Dept Of Justice, Donald Trump, Election 2020, Impeachment, Lawfare, Legislation, media bias, Notorious Liars, President Trump, Professional Idiots, propaganda, Typical Prog Behavior, Uncategorized | URL: https://wp.me/p1kzlW-Lep Comment    See all comments Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/21/update-first-schumer-rules-amendment-defeated-house-managers-attempt-to-rectify-inherent-impeachment-flaws/ Comment: It won't matter if the GOP "wins" these rounds of votes if the Dems end up getting what they want out of this stupid exercise.  The Dems have already gained some cheap points and will continue to rack them up.  Does the GOP intend to defend the POTUS?  It doesn't look that way from here.

Cure for Cancer

The Dems are a type of cancer, so maybe we have hope after all. 

All so predictable

The Democrats are doing it again.  The so-called Kill Switch is for the POTUS to use, so the Democrats are going to be "tough", they say.

It's typical.  The Democrats violated the procedures and started introducing evidence in the preliminary phase of the trial.   They did it for political reasons.  The "trial" will be a circus then.  The Kill Switch was to stop all that, but will they use it?  If they do, the Democrats will claim it is all rigged.

The presumption here is that the GOP will cry uncle first.  That's because it's what the GOP always does.  Unless the GOP "grows a pair", then the Dems will score cheap points this way.

If the Dems want a donnybrook then let them have it.  Big Time.  There should be no fear because there is nothing to hide here.  It is the Dems who have something to hide.  Make them rue the day they picked this fight.

Does the GOP have it in them?  The Dems are testing you.  What are you made of?  The Dems think you are putty in their hands.  Are you?

Not very interesting

You'd think that today would be interesting with the impeachment trial beginning in the Senate.  So far, it is a big yawn.  I have to scan a lot of news to have an idea for a post crystallize.  But it did finally.

Once again, I'd like to point out that the use of the term "right-left-center" is a Marxist invention.  It is mentally lazy to use it.  AOC says that there is no left-wing party in the USA.  Hah, hah.  The very use of that terminology means that it is alive and well.  It is all relative you see.

I like to use the term "so-called conservative" because these people like to play the left's word games.  I use "left" when referring to the left because it is their terminology.  When AOC says we have no communism, I would tend to agree-- mainly.  But we do have a lot of forerunners of it.  To claim that we don't is the usual smoke that they like to blow in your eyes.  AOC isn't happy that we're not communist already.  That's good news.  It's bad news that she's around demanding it and she's in a position of power.

Why is that terminology a left-wing invention?  Communists argue about classes.  With that terminology, you create the classes on a rather grand scale.  Anybody and everybody has to be in a class.  That is how Marxism works.  It's collective as well as relative.   Relative means where you are standing when you observe.  If you are outside, like me, you can see it better.  When you are inside, like almost everybody else, you are blind.  Playing their games puts you on the inside.

Then you have the conflict.  With the left, if there is peace there is a problem.  That is why they are always out there stirring things up.  The left cannot be happy with things even when they are in total control.  They have to invent trouble even if there isn't any.  Happy people cannot be revolutionaries.

The use of their terminology just plays into their hands.  It is okay to identify them, but don't identify everybody who disagrees with them according to their model.  As Ronald Reagan said, it isn't right v. left, it is freedom v. tyranny.  Reagan won big with that formulation.  It is simple really, but it might as well be brain surgery because so many "so-called conservatives" don't seem to see it.  It is impossible to see it from the inside.

Ronald Reagan was no dummy.  I thought so back in 1980, but I was under the influence of the Marxist model-- I was a student then.  It is especially contagious for the mentally lazy.  I'd like to think I have been cured of that affliction, but it is a rather persistent mental virus.  It takes effort to think.  The cure is conservatism.  Reagan knew that.  Too bad that so many of his so-called admirers don't.

Kill Switch

Supposedly McConnell has put in a safety valve to keep this thing from blowing up like a 50 megaton nuke.

If Rand Paul keeps his word, if the Dems want witnesses, they'll get witnessed to death.  It will be the Democrats who'll want the Kill Switch.

As for me, I am all for KILL KILL KILL.

As long as the right thing gets KEALED.

Yowsa.

The impeachment circus reeks of betrayal

This impeachment really sucks.  It bounces you back and forth between worrying about it and not worrying about it.

Now I am worried about it.

Why?  The thing that worries me is that they will be unfair to the President, and then use this as an excuse to convict.  They are going to allow witnesses, which should not have happened.  There is no high crime, nor misdemeanor in the two articles.  Forget what Schiff and the other partisan Democrats say.  There is no law in the US Code that covers either of the two articles.  Schiff is framing the argument in a way that supposedly appeals to originalists.  That is to say, he is claiming that the framers intended this to be why a President could be impeached. 

Unfortunately, this gives the squishes an out.  They can claim that they are only following the Constitution, which is not so.  If they did, they would dismiss this case because there is no impeachable charge.  There is no crime.  The articles admit that the President did not commit a crime.  If the Framers intended for this to be a high crime, they would have identified it as an impeachable offense.

The weak GOP Senators who fell for this argument are going to allow the trial to proceed.  That is how you know that this will be unfair to the President.  If they are consistent with this decision, then they will allow the Democrats' witnesses.  We will not get Hunter Biden, nor the whistleblower, nor Adam Schiff.  The President should get all of his witnesses.  But these will not be allowed.

Ironically, this is all being done in the name of the rule of law, but that is not true.  Evidently, those who are allowing this do not care about that.  They are going to play the Democrat's game.

That's what I am worried about.  There may not be anything that anybody can do about it without cutting off your nose to spite your face.  Punish the GOP?  The GOP is the only defense against this, but they have to win the House.  When that was lost in 2018, this was inevitable.  Some of the Democrats have said all along that they could impeach without a crime, and that is what they did.  Evidently, they also knew that the GOP would not defend Trump even if they claim to be strongly united. 

The GOP is as fake as the Democrats.