Kid Berwyn
Kid Berwyn's JournalA President swears to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
It goes -- without needing to be said -- that he or she will follow the law in doing so.
Pretty darn clear. Yet SCOTUS found a way just the other day to say that the 14th Amendment doesn't say what the 14th Amendment says:
Section 3.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Seems in keeping with modern GOP hypocrisy. In World War 2, the motto of the USN Seabees (Construction Battalion) was: "The difficult we do at once, the impossible takes a bit longer."
How Henry Kissinger put it: "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."
It's taken a bit of time, but the treasons of Nixon are now Old School A-OK. It is sickening to see that this has been realized.
Yeah, from the BFEE's perspective.
The pardon prevented any mention in court of "George Herbert Walker Bush and The Texans."
From Spartacus:
George Herbert Walker Bush
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(10) Paul Kangas, The Realist (1990)
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Nixon told Pepsi, Standard Oil and other corporations who lost property given back to the farmers of Cuba, that if they would help him win, he would authorize an invasion to remove Castro. To further impress contributors to his campaign, then Vice-President Nixon asked the CIA to create Operation 40, a secret plan to invade Cuba, just as soon as he won.
The CIA put Texas millionaire and CIA agent George Bush in charge of recruiting Cuban exiles into the CIA's invasion army. Bush was working with another Texas oilman, Jack Crichton, to help him with the invasion. A fellow Texan, Air Force General Charles Cabel, was asked to coordinate the air cover for the invasion.
Most of the CIA leadership around the invasion of Cuba seems to have been people from Texas. A whole Texan branch of the CIA is based in the oil business. If we trace Bush's background in the Texas oil business we discover his two partners in the oil-barge leasing business: Texan Robert Mosbacher and Texan James Baker. Mosbacher is now Secretary of Commerce and Baker is Secretary of State, the same job Dulles held when JFK was killed. (Source: Common Cause magazine, 3-4/90).
On the Watergate tapes, June 23, 1972, referred to in the media as the "smoking gun" conversation, Nixon and his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman, discussed how to stop the FBI investigation into the CIA Watergate burglary. They were worried that the investigation would expose their conection to "the Bay of Pigs thing." Haldeman, in his book The Ends of Power, reveals that Nixon always used code words when talking about the 1963 murder of JFK. Haldeman said Nixon would always refer to the assassination as "the Bay of Pigs."
On that transcript we find Nixon discussing the role of George Bush's partner, Robert Mosbacher, as one of the Texas fundraisers for Nixon. On the tapes Nixon keeps refering to the "Cubans" and the "Texans." The "Texans" were Bush, Mosbacher and Baker. This is another direct link between Bush and evidence linking Nixon and Bush to the Kennedy assassination.
In the same discussion Nixon links "the Cubans," "the Texans," "Helms," "Hunt," "Bernard Barker," Robert "Mosbacher" and "the Bay of Pigs." Over and over on the Watergate tapes, these names come up around the discussion of the photos from Dallas that Nixon was trying to obtain when he ordered the CIA to burglarize the Watergate. (Source: Three Men and a Barge", Teresa Riordan, Common Cause magazine, March/April 1990, and San Francisco Chronicle, May 7,1977, interview with Frank Sturgis in which he stated that "the reason we burglarized the Watergate was because Nixon was interested in stopping news leaking related to the photos of our role in the assassination of President John Kennedy."
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https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKbushG.htm
There are billions of reasons.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was at the Bohemian Grove, a secretive all-mens retreat in Northern California, with billionaire industrialist David Koch, right, and Ken Burns, whose films Koch has financially supported. Credit:Obtained by ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-secretly-attended-koch-brothers-donor-events-scotus
"A cabal of grotesques..."
"...might yet predominate."
Fake journalist George Will hit the nail on the head re 112 GOP members who voted against military aid for Ukraine.
Sex and power inside "the C Street House"
Sanford, Ensign, and other regulars receive guidance from the invisible fundamentalist group known as the FamilyBy JEFF SHARLET
Salon, July 21, 2009
I can't say I was impressed when I met Sen. John Ensign at the C Street House, the secretive religious enclave on Capitol Hill thrust into the news by its links to three political sex scandals, those of Gov. Mark Sanford; former Rep. Chip Pickering, R-Miss., who allegedly rendezvoused at the C Street House with his mistress, an executive in the industry for which he then became a lobbyist; and Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev. Although Sanford declared today that his scandal will actually turn out to be good for the people of South Carolina because he's now more firmly in God's control, the once-favored GOP presidential prospect will finish out his term and fade away. And Ensign's residence at the C Street House during his own extramarital affair now threatens to end a career that he and other Republicans hoped would lead him to the White House.
When I met Ensign, he was just back from a run, sweaty and bouncing in place, boasting about the time he'd clocked and teasing a young woman from his office. She seemed annoyed that the senator wouldn't get himself into a shower and back on the job. When I wrote about Sen. Ensign in my book about the evangelical political organization that runs the C Street House, "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power," I described him as a "conservative casino heir elected to the Senate from Nevada, a brightly tanned, hapless figure who uses his Family connections to graft holiness to his gambling-fortune name."
Now, of course, I know I was wrong: John Ensign is a brightly tanned, hapless figure who used his Family connections to cover up the fruits of his flirtations, to make moral decisions for him, and to do his dirty work when his secret romance sputtered. Doug Hampton, the friend and former aide whom Ensign cuckolded, tells us that it was Family leader David Coe, along with Coe's brother Tim and Family "brother" Sen. Tom Coburn, who delivered the pink slip when it was time to put Cynthia Hampton out of Ensign's reach.
If sexual license was all the Family offered the C Street men, however, that would merely be seedy and self-serving. But Family men are more than hypocritical. They're followers of a political religion that embraces elitism, disdains democracy, and pursues power for its members the better to "advance the Kingdom." They say they're working for Jesus, but their Christ is a power-hungry, inside-the-Beltway savior not many churchgoers would recognize. Sexual peccadilloes aside, the Family acts today like the most powerful lobby in America that isn't registered as a lobby -- and is thus immune from the scrutiny attending the other powerful organizations like Big Pharma and Big Insurance that exert pressure on public policy.
The Family likes to call itself a "Christian Mafia," but it began 74 years ago as an anti-New Deal coalition of businessmen convinced that organized labor was under the sway of Satan. The Great Depression, they believed, was a punishment from God for what they viewed as FDR's socialism. The Family's goal was the "consecration" of America to God, first through the repeal of New Deal reforms, then through the aggressive expansion of American power during the Cold War. They called this a "Worldwide Spiritual Offensive," but in Washington, it amounted to the nation's first fundamentalist lobby. Early participants included Southern Sens. Strom Thurmond, Herman Talmadge and Absalom Willis Robertson -- Pat Robertson's father. Membership lists stored in the Family's archive at the Billy Graham Center at evangelical Wheaton College in Illinois show active participation at any given time over the years by dozens of congressmen.
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Family leaders consider their political network to be Christ's avant garde, an elite that transcends not just conventional morality but also earthly laws regulating lobbying. In the Family's early days, they debated registering as "a lobby for God's Kingdom." Instead, founder Abraham Vereide decided that the group could be more effective by working personally with politicians. "The more invisible you can make your organization," Vereide's successor, current leader Doug Coe preaches, "the more influence you can have." That's true -- which is why we have laws requiring lobbyists to identify themselves as such.
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https://www.salon.com/2009/07/21/c_street/
Time for some Biden Bragging
The Biden Administration Has Taken More Climate Action Than Any Other in HistoryThe United States has accomplished more on climate change under the Biden administration than during any other presidential administrationand theres still more to come.
by Trevor Higgins, Rachel Chang, Devon Lespier
Center for American Progress, March 6, 2024
From comprehensive legislation to ambitious executive action, the Biden administration has set the United States on a new course of climate action. Not only does this mark a profound break from the policies of the Trump administration, but it also amounts to more action on climate than any other administration in history.
This column details just nine of the many ways the Biden administration has pushed forward its ambitious climate agenda, from boosting the clean energy sector to prioritizing environmental justice.
1. Setting a goal that gets the job done on eliminating emissions
Building a 100 percent clean energy economy requires clear goals to guide its critical decisions. The Biden administration is the first to embrace the goal of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by midcentury in order to stabilize global temperatures at 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming.* That means that the Biden administrations interim targetcutting U.S. carbon pollution to half of peak levels by 2030requires reducing annual carbon pollution nearly four times faster than the Obama administrations interim target did.** Ambitious policy goals drive ambitious policy change.
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https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-biden-administration-has-taken-more-climate-action-than-any-other-in-history/#:~:text=Mar%206%2C%202024-,The%20Biden%20Administration%20Has%20Taken%20More%20Climate%20Action%20Than%20Any,there's%20still%20more%20to%20come.
Donald Greeting the Jury Pool
In this courtroom sketch, former President Donald Trump smiles to the jury pool as he is introduced to them at the beginning of his trial over charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in Manhattan state court in New York, Monday, on April 15, 2024.Jane Rosenberg / Pool via AP
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-hush-money-trial-jury-selection-day-2-rcna147940
Somehow the leer doesn't match its circumstances.
How Trump talks about Judge Aileen Cannon
Trump praises judge overseeing his classified documents case, saying she loves our country
BY BRETT SAMUELS
The Hill, July 16, 2023
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Asked on Sunday Morning Futures on Fox News whether he believes the judge will grant the motion, Trump said he did not know.
I know its a very highly respected judge. A very smart judge, and a very strong judge, Trump said.
When host Maria Bartiromo noted that Trump appointed the judge in the case, Trump said, I did, and Im very proud to have appointed her.
But shes very smart and very strong, and loves our country, Trump said. We need judges that love our country so they do the right thing.
SOURCE: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4100155-trump-praises-judge-overseeing-his-classified-documents-case-loves-our-country/
Trump Post Targets Judge's Daughter
Intimidating the judge: Expert says Trump Truth Social post put a target on judges daughterTrump could be slapped with "gag order" after latest outburst, says ex-US Attorney Joyce Vance
by Igor Derysh
Salon.com, March 26, 2024
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday attacked the judge overseeing his Manhattan criminal hush-money case and his daughter.
Judge Juan Merchan, a very distinguished looking man, is nevertheless a true and certified Trump Hater who suffers from a very serious case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, Trump wrote on Truth Social. In other words, he hates me! His daughter is a senior executive at a Super Liberal Democrat firm that works for Adam Shifty Schiff, the Democrat National Committee, (Dem)Senate Majority PAC, and even Crooked Joe Biden.
Trumps post came a day after Merchan took his lawyers to task for claiming prosecutorial misconduct in the case and set his trial to begin on April 15.
Trump puts a target not only Judge Merchan in the criminal case in Manhattan but on his daughter, tweeted former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance. This is a rank effort at intimidating the judge by threatening his family. It merits a gag order but also serious pushback from GOP leadershipwhich we know won't come.
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https://www.salon.com/2024/03/26/intimidating-the-judge-expert-says-truth-social-post-put-a-target-on-judges-daughter/?in_brief=true
The traitor Donald J Trump is a no-good, low-down, bastard.
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