Open Forum: What Shall We Argue About Today?

/ Jack Marshall

Today marks the anniversary of Marines raising the flag Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima to declare the U.S. victory over Japan in that bloody battle. Let’s if any media outlets mark the day, or if doing so would be considered “racist”….

Meanwhile, here are some notable items you might want to peruse, or that I might choose to post about if and when I wake up…

  • This poll, among several out today, suggests that the third party candidates announced so far all help Trump in a general election Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West and Jill Stein all take at least a percentage point away from Biden. That makes sense: the idea that anyone inclined to vote for Trump would vote for a Kennedy instead never made sense to me.
  • The mainstream media is taking a ridiculous victory lap, of which this is typical, over the likely collapse of the GOP House’s stupid Biden impeachment efforts. Since there was zero chance that the Senate would vote to convict Biden anyway, it’s a non story.
  • A new essay by Victor Davis Hanson nicely summarizes the full extent of the cynical and partisan cases pending against Donald Trump.
  • It’s fun to read how weaselly Niki Haley is furiously spinning to try to decide what she thinks about the recent Alabama court ruling that frozen embryos are human beings with a right to live.

Now it’s all up to you…

12 thoughts on “Open Forum: What Shall We Argue About Today?”

  1. Hanson lays out the effects, but not the causes of the problem. If we had competent, professional attorneys and more importantly, impartial judges, none of this would be happening. These cases would have immediately been dismissed. What this has demonstrated to the American public is that the legal profession is too biased to administer the law. So, what do we do now?

    As for Trump’s claim of immunity, why not? I mean, at the current moment, the same federal officers who have illegally spied on, and sought to frame Trump for any number of things are granted blanket absolute immunity. They operate in a Constituion-free zone. 

    https://ij.org/issues/project-on-immunity-and-accountability/why-its-almost-impossible-to-sue-federal-agents/

    https://www.tpr.org/criminal-justice/2021-10-04/citizens-cant-sue-federal-agents-scotus-could-change-that

    If the bottom-level federal employees enjoy such protection, why shouldn’t the President? I mean, it appears that if you neighbor is an IRS agent and has a dispute with you, they can kick in your door and kill you with no repercussions.

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    • Does he have to lay out the obvious? We have a party that has now embraced a tool or power once believed to reside only in totalitarian regimes, because, as Harry Reid might say, “It works, doesn’t it?” It is also making full use of Useful idiots in cultures estranged from core American values, like due process and equal protection.

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      • No, we have an entire class of people who are totalitarians who have seized control of the government in all forms and are above the law. The ruling elite use the Democratic Party as a cult to maintain the illusion of a democratic system. Absolute immunity for the president is a terrible idea. However, we currently have absolute immunity for all Democrats in the government and only Democrats and that is an even WORSE idea. So, you get absolute immunity for all of them or absolute immunity only for the Democrats. That is the current choice. Only one of them gives the public a chance of regaining control of the government and reversing the totalitarianism we currently experience. Only one gives us the possibility of keeping the loss of freedom from expanding. Two bad choices, that is what is before the country. If Trump doesn’t get absolute immunity for the president, than this country is done. No elected official will have any ability to do anything to stop the ruling elites from complete domination. Anyone who tries will be sued or convicted of any number of things by our corrupt courts and corrupt law enforcement and our corrupt media and education will tell everyone that this is exactly how it is supposed to work and how it has always worked. This is a completely corrupt country with a corrupt bureaucracy, corrupt education system, corrupt media, corrupt courts, and they all belong to the same club. As Biden and his allies have said, we can’t allow administrations to charge their political opponents with crimes and imprison them as a way to subvert democracy and that is why we have to imprison Trump to keep him off the ballot. The brainwashing of the socialist cult is so complete that almost half the country agrees with the preceding sentence wholeheartedly.

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    • And they kicked out Gaiman?
      “There were concerns that a couple thousand people from China purchased memberships [in the World Science Fiction Society] that year to vote for Chengdu,” Sanford told Esquire in February. “It was unusual, but it was done under the rules.” Talk about being willfully blind.
      Guess the Chinese didn’t spend all their money buying our president. Wonder if anyone got any nice diamonds or Porsches out of this deal? Sounds like the WSFS should add a rule barring any official functions in countries where regimes suppress opinion, media, & etc. (though that might put the US, UK, and most of the EU out if interpreted strictly enough.)

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      • Pretty disgusting, although the Hugo nominations have had a recent history of political correctness bias. I don’t know of a case where they simply kowtowed to the government of whatever country Worldcon was being held in. Given the censorship leanings of the current American government, that is not a really good omen (to coin a phrase). Hopefully there will continue to be fallout.

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