Jan 6th was no insurrection

If you check around the so-called moderate to lefty sites, you can still see them calling the January 6th riot as an insurrection. But if it were an insurrection, it would be against the genuine sovereign power. However, this is not the case. The sovereign power of the United States of America is in its Constitution. Those who participated in the riot may have guilty of disorderly conduct, but there weren't trying to overthrow the Constitution.

The sovereign power also does not exist within any person or groups of persons. This is because all officers under the laws of the United States swear an allegiance to the Constitution. Look it up if you aren't clear on this. An allegiance to any group or person that is above the Constitution is itself an insurrectionary act. If those who claim that there was an insurrection, upon what basis is that made? An act against the Constitution or an act against a person or group of persons?

A person could be acting illegally, but not every illegal act is an insurrection. It is an absurdity to claim such. Need that argument go any further? To show how ridiculous that argument is, just imagine that the next time you get a speeding ticket. If everybody who got a speeding ticket was guilty of insurrection, the Republic would be untenable. The acts of January 6th are closer to a speeding ticket than a heinous crime. Anybody should be able to see that.

Even murder is not an insurrection. A riot isn't either-- even if it results in deaths. If that were so, there would have been more insurrections in our history than what is actually acknowledged as such. Certainly the riots of the summer of 2020 resulted in some deaths somewhere. Even if not, the property damage was far worse.

The riots on Jan 6th can arguably said to have been free of deaths. The only death was of a woman who was shot while attempting to go through a door inside the Capitol Building. The video showed that this was not a justifiable homicide. The worst behavior that happened that day appears to have done under the color of law.

Even if the riot resulted in many other deaths, including some members of Congress, it would not have been an insurrection. These crimes would have been against persons, not necessarily the Constitution itself. To make an assertion of otherwise would be equating members of Congress with the Constitution itself. Clearly this is at odds with the law in the document itself. In fact, it is defined in the Constitution as making war on the same. This wasn't a war, for heaven's sake. At worse, it was a riot. In some cases, it was merely disorderly behavior. Even that much can be challenged in open court.

If the people in charge of the government really had the facts on their side, and the law, why do they need to keep these people under confinement in such a manner that is not consistent witht the rights enumerated in the Constitution? They seem to be extracting forced confessions. One could argue that they may not even be able to win cases of minor offenses. If the people in charge were on the side of angels, why are they acting like this? I think the question answers itself.

Tucker Carlson is on right track here

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He is on the right track. Why use the commie's language? But he goes off course to describe his opposition as being on the "right". This plays right into the hands of the commies, as I've mentioned before.

The dialectic or paradigm if you will, of this would not be the usual left-middle-right, but the freedom-civilization-tyranny paradigm of Ronald Reagan. It is important to stop using their language as well as their models. The left v right is a commie paradigm, so don't use it if you want it to prevail against communism. Make them argue on FREEDOM's grounds, not on their grounds. Their grounds will snuff freedom out. Hence, no lockdowns, masks, nor mandated jabs.

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nuclear pulse thermal rocket concept

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The concept isn't merely thermal, which was tested in the sixties and seventies with the NERVA concept. No, this is a PULSED thermal rocket engine concept. The difference is that the energy level is turned up and down rapidly to give flash heating. In such a scenario, the propellant can get hotter and thus provide more thrust. The ISP is also higher, making it a candidate for advance rocket engines.

A pulsed rocket thermal engine can make trips to Jupiter and Saturn feasible. On the other hand, maybe you don't really want to go there because of the high radiation. Their moons may be quite interesting, though.

It could make it possible to go to Mars in just 39 days. A faster transit time would be most helpful. For instance, if you wanted to establish a Mars colony of 1 million, you could possibly get the people there, unload, and get back before the 2 year window closed. The vehicle wouldn't be stuck on Mars for two years.

Much could be accomplished with such a concept. But it wouldn't likely ever get approved for a launch from Earth. It could be done on the Moon, perhaps. The video follows:

Jan 6th committee

Some of what was on Bongino's show and other places shows the kind of thing that should be front row and center on the news. Maybe it is, but you'd think otherwise on some of the pages I usually visit. Perhaps it is all being dismissed as politics.

It would be pretty easy to dismiss all of it as just politics as usual, but there no "usual" about all this. I've never seen anything like it, and I'm in my late sixties. There is something quite unusual going on in this country right now, and it should alarm a lot of folks, but it doesn't seem to.

No, if you follow the news, they are trying to alarm others about what others are doing, but not what they are doing themselves. Once again, it appears that they are targeting Trump even though he is out of office, and the thing has been already litigated to death.

Bongino says the Congress doesn't have the authority to do this. I would agree. It doesn't have anything to do with the power to impeach. Clearly, that boat has sailed. But there is a clause in the impeachment powers that forbid the one found guilty to be prohibited from holding an office of trust in the US government. That might be what they're after. To stop Trump from running again and assuming the office again.

It does appear that they're stretching even that beyond the snapping point. The Congress has the power to impeach, but not to hold trials and find people guilty of crimes. Only impeachable acts, and in the disqualification from holding office again. They tried that already. Perhaps the hope is to pass it off to the DOJ and get their own kangaroo courts to find Trump guilty of SOMETHING.

The Supreme Court might stop it all, but you never know about this court now. In fact, it is quite a disappointment. If the Court had acted properly prior to January 6th, none of this would have happened anyway. That's because the States cannot change the election laws that are reserved for the various legislatures. The excuse was COVID, but it should be obvious that it was done for political reasons. The Court should have disallowed those states that violated the election laws that state legislatures already decided upon before Covid. Changing election laws is the powers of the legislatures alone. Anybody should have been able to see that the executive authorities of those states exceeded their authority.

All of this behind a backdrop of bad polling of late. Could it be that the Democrats (and their allies in the GOP) are in big trouble, and this is a desperation move? Maybe it works in the sense that the rule of law is over, and they can finally rule without any accountability at all. If it doesn't, these people need to be broomed and have the law turned on THEM for a change. Justice demands it, if justice still exists in this country.

Starship 2.0--- It is much bigger

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This thing is so cavernous inside that you could spin it up with the axis down the center line of the ship, and you would achieve about 4% of Earth gravity at 2 rpm. Put two of these end-to-end, and spin it up at 2 rpm may give an approximation of Mars gravity at each end.

There may have been a write-up about this previously. Also, there may be an economy of scale with larger vehicles. By doubling its diameter from Starship 1, you get 8 times the volume. This may also lead to better mass ratios to orbit.

It would likely require a more powerful engine. The mass would be 8 times as much as well. It seems that someone said you'd need Saturn V engine size, and about 60 of them. Whoa! Just imagine that thing taking off. It would tear the sky apart with the noise.

A thousand people per trip would require a thousand launches to get your million people on Mars. A hundred ship fleet of these over the course of twenty years to get the job done. That's 10 trips per ship times a hundred ships times a thousand people per ship.

This probably stretches a few limits as to feasibility. The video follows:

Cashless society and restrictions upon trade that can be arbitrarily imposed

 

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He describes his problem with Paypal and the effect upon his business. He says that they claimed he was doing what he wasn't doing. It took him months to resolve the problem, and the treatment he received was like he had no rights they had any obligation to respect. If that sounds sorta "Dred Scott"-like, it is for a reason, comrades.

He also said that it wasn't about HIM personally, and while he didn't think it was anything nefarious, that it was scary all the same. You cannot do business anymore as a brick and mortar. These gatekeepers have monopolized the payment for goods and services, and if you violate their arbitrary "terms of service" rules, you could be prevented from doing business.

In my opinion, which is a bit different, I most definitely DO think that it is nefarious. In addition, I think that is the ONLY way to deal with these people. Giving them the benefit of the doubt is not the way to go. If they do ANYTHING like this, as they have been doing more and more across a wide spectrum of activities, it should be a GIGANTIC red flag. In my opinion, it is all about money alright, as he says; but also about power. By power, it is political, and politics is always going to be a big troublemaker with a capital "T".

He is right that nobody is talking about this. That is, in the political sphere. It should be one of those 80% issues that everybody would agree with, and a sure way to victory, but for some strange reason, the GOP isn't much interested in it. Therefore, for the GOP to get control again solves NOTHING. That is, it solves NOTHING, if you get the same kind of people running things that you already have now. There is NO DIFFERENCE in the parties right now. They are all-in on the idea that they can take a giant crap on everybody and make you call it perfume. They will get away with that too, because too many people out there have got their heads jammed straight up their backsides. Know what I mean Vern?

Comradeskies, all you've got to lose is your chains.