Trump’s Tax Returns

I’m baaack.

So Trump’s tax forms…

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/12/30/documents-trump-tax-returns/10965563002/

have been released, and he’s bummin’ (predictably).

“The top tax-writing committee in Congress released former President Donald Trump’s tax returns to the general public Friday morning, ending a years-long battle and shedding light on a complicated labyrinth of businesses and holdings typical of billionaires but rarely seen in detail by the public.

The release included six years of tax returns for the time he was president and campaigned for the presidency, from 2015 to 2020. Thousands of pages across dozens of files included personal returns filed by him and wife Melania and business returns for a handful of entities, including DJT Holdings and DJT Managing Member LLC.

The returns span nearly 6,000 pages, including more than 2,700 pages of individual returns from Trump and his wife, Melania, and more than 3,000 pages in returns for Trump’s business entities.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/12/30/trump-tax-returns-release-experts-deductions/10955777002/?csp=chromepush

As for those “business entities”, let’s not forget that they are in some trouble, right about now, which could very well reflect directly on Trump.

“A jury in New York has convicted the Trump Organization of criminal tax fraud in a stinging rebuke of the former US president’s company.

Although Donald Trump was not personally on trial, prosecutors in the case brought by the Manhattan district attorney insisted he was fully aware of the long-running scheme in which they said executives were enriched by off-the-books perks to make up for lower salaries, reducing the company’s tax liabilities.

“This was a case about greed and cheating,” Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, said in a statement celebrating the guilty verdict. “In Manhattan, no corporation is above the law.”

The 12-person jury in New York’s state court was sent out to deliberate on Monday morning after a six-week trial in which Trump Organization lawyers pinned blame for the fraud solely on the greed of longtime chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/06/trump-organization-guilty-verdict-tax-fraud

“During their deliberations, jurors had zeroed in on the last count listed on the verdict sheet: falsifying business records. Jurors sent notes twice Tuesday asking for clarity on the falsifying business records charge and a reading of related testimony.

Weisselberg testified that he ordered accounts payable supervisor Deborah Tarasoff to delete “per Allen Weisselberg” notations from entries in Trump’s personal general ledger reflecting that Trump personally paid private school tuition for Weisselberg’s grandchildren.

First, jurors asked the judge to reread the charge and the elements they are required to find for a guilty verdict. Later, they asked to again hear Tarasoff’s testimony. Tarasoff, a Trump Organization veteran, testified that Weisselberg called her into his office and told her, “Go in and take my name off it” in September 2016.

After resuming deliberations Tuesday, jurors sent a note asking the judge to reread three counts of falsifying business records pertaining to the creation of false W2 tax forms for Weisselberg for 2015, 2016 and 2017.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/06/trump-organization-guilty-verdict-tax-fraud

“The Trump Corp. and Trump Payroll Corp. were found guilty on all charges they faced.”

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/06/politics/trump-organization-fraud-trial-verdict/index.html

To be certain, this doesn’t look good on Trump, given his organizations have been found deeply, and criminally corrupt, and everyone is trying to pin this directly on Trump, himself, whether they have evidence, or not, I imagine. Then, there’s the fact that his tax returns seem to have a lot of irregularities, in and of themselves:

“A key Congressional committee that reviewed the returns before their release raised questions about hundreds of millions of dollars in deductions and credits that reduced how much Trump and his related companies would have needed to pay in taxes. They also questioned interest income from loans made to his children and unusual accounting calculations.

The Joint Committee on Taxation, staffed with tax experts, found Trump only paid $1.1 million in federal income taxes during the first three years of his presidency and paid no federal tax in 2020 – the year that he claimed a loss of $4.8 million.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/12/30/trump-tax-returns-release-experts-deductions/10955777002/?csp=chromepush

Now, Trump’s less than critical thinker defenders all try pointing to the $1,100,000.00 payment in taxes, but they also lie by omission, in not putting into context the fact that he paid that over the span of 3 years, meaning he only paid some $366,666/year. Given the convoluted, unconstitutional system of taxation that totally violates the vision of the Founders and Framers that the Republicans and Democrats have foisted upon us, that kind’ve seems abnormal. Unfortunately, instead of clarity after years of literally hiding this data, Trump resorted to “whataboutism” arguments, and demanded Biden release his tax returns. Or, more directly, that Congress take Biden’s returns, and release them, like they did his.

Trump blasted Democrats for releasing his tax returns, arguing the premise that it would guide tax law changes is baseless. He said in a video statement that the release is an “outrageous abuse of power” and urged House Republicans taking over the chamber in January to obtain President Joe Biden’s taxes and release them.

Trump said his returns show “show only that I’ve had tremendous success.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/12/30/trump-tax-returns-release-experts-deductions/10955777002/?csp=chromepush

That’s a highly subjective statement, from a “businessman” of Trump’s noted caliber.

In any event, Biden’s tax returns are already public. He released his 1998 – 2019 tax returns, years ago, and, when he did it, challenged Trump to do the same (and we all know Trump refused, and kept them hidden). This also brings up other problems: Biden has a lot of things dogging his steps, such as his crackhead son, and his less than savory business deals, including those with America’s enemies, like Communist China. Did Joe Biden get a cut of that, like many believe? I’ll bet his tax returns don’t reflect that.

https://nypost.com/2022/04/04/hunter-biden-grand-jury-witness-was-asked-about-deal-with-chinese-firm-and-the-big-guy/

Again, Trump’s less than intellectual followers are reliably going to automatically say everyone is wrong, and Trump is responsible for nothing. If Trump’s tax returns, indeed, showed nothing but allegations that Trump “…had tremendous success,” why would he hide that? (One of) Trump’s biggest problems is his inability to override his ego, and his mouth. Combined, they are two of his worst enemies. A guy like Trump can’t resist flaunting his wealth, so it makes no sense, and is completely out of character, that he wouldn’t use his tax returns to show ‘how much better he is, than everybody else’. Honestly, it seems like he did have something to hide, and it’s coming out.

Businesses expenses zeroing out taxes

Many businesses for which Trump and his wife filed taxes from 2015 through 2020 made no money. Often, they reported only expenses, or they reported income that was almost entirely offset by the reported expenses, effectively zeroing out any taxes owed. The filings raise questions about “whether these were valid trade or business activities” or “costs derived from personal activities or hobbies,” the committee experts wrote. 

• Donald J. Trump’s speaking business reported income of $50,000 in 2015 and travel expenses of $46,162. 
• In 2016, DT Endeavor I LLC — Trump’s private aviation company — reported income of $680,886 and expenses of $680,886. The same for DJT Aerospace LLC, another aviation company, which reported gross income of $376,493 and total expenses of $376,493 in 2016.  
• In 2019, a business filing for  “Melania Trump (modeling)” reported gross income of $3,848 and expenses of $3,438. 
• In 2020, another filing reported as “Donald J. Trump (management services)” reported gross income of $87,442 and expenses of $87,442.

Some filings also reported losses with large discrepancies between gross income and expenses. For example, in 2018, DJT Endeavor I reported gross income of $38,392 and expenses of $312,773, meaning the company operated at a net loss of $274,381. In 2019, another aviation company, DJT Operations II LLC reported no gross income at all while there were expenses of $7,382.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/12/30/trump-tax-returns-release-experts-deductions/10955777002/?csp=chromepush

It goes on, and on, and on. This is, in part, biting Trump in the ass, because he deserved it. Oh, and let’s not pretend that Democrats don’t have their own tax irregularities in their skeleton closets. The Republicans were greatly responsible for the foisting of permanent, unconstitutional income taxation on the People, and have never been held accountable. Just as Democrats point fingers at Republicans, blaming them for their bad behavior, the Republicans do it, too. Trump could’ve called the Republicans and Democrats to account for this gross violation of the vision of the Founders and the Framers. Just because you amend something in the Constitution, doesn’t really make it Constitutional. Taxation, and the mechanism was already laid out in the document. In Michigan, for instance, the Legislature has literally made constitutional the ritualized murder of unborn children, by writing it in, but that does not make it constitutional. It violates the very spirit of the document. Just as writing in blood the non-existent, “constitutional” right to murder doesn’t really make it legal, neither did the 16th Amendment make government theft right. In any event, Trump could’ve called Congress, the States, and the People, together, and – in his claims of only hiring the best people – had his “best” people work out an overturning of the 16th Amendment, which has done the country no good. SPOILER ALERT: the government is not entitled to a cut of your money. Furthermore, Trump could’ve worked to actually make good on his promise to cut spending. He didn’t. There was no abatement to the unconstitutional spending Congress loves to indulge in. Had he spend his time doing things like this, instead of what he was doing, not only would the Average American, and the American business have more money in their pockets, it would be their own money, instead of some kind of “stimulus” check (which is nothing more than UBI). Had he tried doing that, and got some retroactivity in that, a lot of people would be out of tax debt and sticky situations, including him, and his businesses. Trump was popular with his less thoughtful, more reactionary base, but not much with anybody else. Love him, or hate him, if he had conquered income tax, only a fool would not vote for him, if he promised further such reforms. Problem is, like all politicians (and their mindless minions), his interests weren’t really with the Constitution; everything, especially for him, was motivated by self interest.

REPUBLICANS: Shut up, stop whining, and so something right, for a change.

Republicans are whining, yet again.

Again?!

Once again, Republicans are complaining about schools. They’re complaining about the unconstitutional Department of Education, at both the state and federal levels. First of all, at the federal level, Republican presidents have had “trifecta” governments, meaning they’ve had control over all houses, and could’ve done away with this department. They didn’t, because they didn’t want to. Instead, they keep bleeding the taxpayers to pay for this abusive monstrosity.

How about this:

Dissolve the Department of Education. Return the tax money stolen from the People to subsidize this unconstitutional monopoly (something Republicans and Democrats claim they don’t like [unless it’s in their favor]).

Get the entrepreneurs together, like Trump, and other millionaires and billionaires. Instead of pouring money into a struggling, social media backwater – like “Truth” Social…

…and invest in starting a privatized school system. Get a K – 12, for instance. Look at all the people that lost their jobs, thanks to people like Governor Whitmer, in Michigan, who took it upon herself to declare that some peoples’ need to pay rent, mortgage, food and utilities was non essential. Reading, writing and arithmetic. Look at all the teachers that aren’t working, now, and people in college working towards higher degrees in English. Vet them to screen out the liberals that can’t keep their socio-politics out of the classroom. Hire ’em. Arithmetic: same process. There’s plenty of out of work professionals, and up-and-comers, right now; we’ve got about a 7% real unemployment rate, right not (https://www.thebalancemoney.com/what-is-the-real-unemployment-rate-3306198). It shouldn’t be too hard to find these guys. Garages that are shut down? That means unemployed mechanics that might be fit for teaching auto shop in this hypothetical school. Big Tech has lost people. Software engineers, electronics engineers, mechanical engineers, etc. Those are guys that could be teaching software engineering, electronics engineering and mechanical engineering in this school. Trump couldn’t keep Goldman Sachs people out of his administration regime. How about putting guys like that, along with guys like Steve Forbes and Peter Schiff into the schools to teach basic, intermediate and advanced economics? The name of the high school escapes me, but there’s one that offers a nursing program, so by the time students graduate, they’ve got their high school diploma, plus an associates degree in nursing (https://www.blackenterprise.com/she-did-that-17-year-old-imunique-triplett-earns-nursing-degree-before-high-school-diploma/), so picture a school that a graduate can get out of with not only their diploma, but multiple associates degrees, limited by their scholarship, and determination.

Get your pricing points right. Private schools can be expensive. Some go well over $75,000/year, which is more than what some half the country even takes home (https://www.statista.com/statistics/203183/percentage-distribution-of-household-income-in-the-us/). Keep the price down and under control, and you get more clients. PBS, for instance, holds fundraisers, ever year, to stay on the air. Holding galas for rich people that don’t know what else to do with their money, as well as accepting donations from everyone else would be effective, I believe. Give parents agency. Everyone that has a kid in the school should be a shareholder, and instead of PTA and PTO meetings, there should be shareholder meetings. With their money comes a say in the direction in which the school moves. Privatized schools that fail to meet parental expectations will lose clients, and get a bad word of mouth, resulting in less business. Less business can result in going out of business.

Avoid unionization. Part of the problem with the public schools is the unions. Keep unions and leftist saboteurs out, and you’re going a long way to maintain order.

School lunches. School lunches are well known to not be the greatest (https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/10/05/children-obesity-school-lunch-congress-health-editorials-debates/72522416/). Get with the entrepreneurs, again. Hold drives to contract restaurants (which have much higher food standard, than schools) to provide lunches.

Let’s bottom line this: instead of whining, Republicans could’ve gotten their own thing going, to combat the public school system. With the standards I’ve outlined, you could turn out superior graduates, with real job skills, unlike the ones coming out, right now, including Republican kids. With my guidelines, you can provide more employment, and get people with actual work experience in whatever field to pass their knowledge onto the kids.

Unfortunately, we all know Republicans don’t think like that.

OK. So Let Me Get This Straight…

Conservative Black Guy is back.

So let me get this straight, Trump-types: you’re crying about the Azov Battalion fighting in the Ukraine against Putin’s Russia for it’s Neo NAZI symbology and ideology (which their leadership has claimed they’ve abandoned: https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/29/europe/ukraine-azov-movement-far-right-intl-cmd/index.html), but have nothing to say about the Wagner Group,

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/putin-nazi-pretext-russia-war-ukraine-belied-white-supremacy-ties-rcna23043

https://thesoufancenter.org/intelbrief-2022-february-24/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group

a Neo NAZI organization WORKING DIRECTLY FOR PUTIN AS HIS PRIVATE ARMY. Then, simultaneously, while you rightly condemn BLM for it’s terrorist, thuggish actions, you have absolutely zero to say about the Neo NAZI NATIONAL SOCIALIST MOVEMENT, which not only allegedly (heavy on the “allegedly”) goes against your “beliefs” for how America should be run, i.e.: socialism, but you have NOTHING to say about their White Supremacist and Neo NAZI ideologies and symbology, as they openly work to integrate themselves with people like you! (And you’re also all mum on the 2016 Sacramento riot, while condemning BLM.) To his credit, Trump OKed a lawsuit against the NSM, and others like them, after their violence at the Unite the “Right” (they’re not Right; they’re social leftists, and, in many cases, political and economic leftists) riot.

You also have nothing to say about the participants at the Unite the “Right” riot, such as the ones in the picture, instead, insisting to blame everything on BLM and ANTIFA.

So, I guess everything in the picture looks fine, to you?

Then, let’s look at the participants on “your” side of the riot in Charlottesville, shall we?:

Stormer Book Clubs (SBCs) (https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/daily-stormer-book-club )

The Daily Stormer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Stormer)

The Right Stuff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_Stuff_(blog) )

The National Policy Institute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Policy_Institute)

The four groups that form the Nationalist Front

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalist_Front_(United_States) )

The neo-Confederate League of the South (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_the_South)

Identity Dixie (https://identitydixie.com/about/ )

The Traditionalist Worker Party (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditionalist_Worker_Party )

Vanguard America (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguard_America )

The National Socialist Movement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Movement_(United_States) )

The Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

The Confederate White Knights

the Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights (a branch of the Proud Boys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proud_Boys#Fraternal_Order_of_the_Alt-Knights)

Identity Evropa (since rebranded as the ‘American Identity Movement’; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Evropa )

Rise Above Movement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_Above_Movement )

The American Guard (https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/behind-american-guard-hardcore-white-supremacists)

The Detroit Right Wings (who, rightfully, were condemned by the Detroit Red Wings for stealing their team logo to promote White Supremacist BS: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2017/08/14/detroit-right-wings-elusive/104604586/ )

True Cascadia (https://www.salon.com/2017/08/18/a-new-generation-of-white-supremacists-emerges-in-charlottesville_partner-2/) (https://www.kuow.org/stories/i-went-undercover-seattle-s-white-nationalist-group/)

Foreign scumbags from Canada, called the ARM (Alt-Right Montreal)

(https://montrealgazette.com/tag/alt-right/) (No wonder you guys are fine with Canadian tar sands oil.)

The Hammer Brothers (possibly related to the Hammerskins)

Anti-Communist Action (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Communist_Action , which is basically just Republican ANTIFA).

So, again: to get this straight, Trumpers are loving on Putin, and defending his every action, and condemning the Azov Battalion, while not talking about the Wagner Group, nor all those other violent, racial supremacist groups, in favor of solely condemning BLM and ANTIFA.

Hm.

Do I think Trump’s a racist? No, not really. Do I think a lot, lot, LOT of his supporters are?

YES.

They’re just like Obama’s Obamanations, the Trumpanzees are. The Obamanations were racists, thinking their Black ‘president payback’ was going to get some payback, for them, for years of perceived injustice. A lot of the Trumpanzees tried casting Trump as their own ‘president payback’, and it didn’t work. By the way, a Trump supporter and a Trumpanzee are two different animals. This is a Trumpanzee:

If you wear shirts like this, move to another country.

A lot of these idiots are the same clowns that try attacking me, because I’m not a Trump supporter, any more than I am a Biden or Obama supporter, but, boy, do they try to cast me as one, because I don’t support their political BS.

I am Virus-X: REPUBLIC COMMANDO, and I approve this message.

Fighting for Freedom, Wherever There’s Trouble

Conservative Black Guy returns.

I’ve been disgusted with Republicans for quite a number of years, and it only gets worse. Now, when you look on sites like MeWe, where they’re free to say anything they want, the disgusting amount of Putin love (because he’s buddies with Trump, quite obviously, considering they weren’t slobbering all over him, like the media slobbered over Obama, prior to Trump taking office) is over the top, compounded with outright Anti Semitism. Republicans are crying about CNN being “fake news”, but hang on Putin’s every word.

So, now we have the Republicans – including the jerk at Flopping Aces – calling Volodymyr Zelenskyy a ‘tyrant’ and a ‘dictator’, because he banned some political parties, some time ago. Yeah, this includes “Curt” at Flopping Aces, that wrote this trash:

“One less traitor”: Zelensky oversees campaign of assassination, kidnapping and torture of political opposition

MAX BLUMENTHAL & ESHA KRISHNASWAMY.

While claiming to defend democracy, Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky has outlawed his opposition, ordered his rivals’ arrest, and presided over the disappearance and assassination of dissidents across the country.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has framed his country’s war against Russia as a battle for democracy itself. In a carefully choreographed address to US Congress on March 16, Zelensky stated, “Right now, the destiny of our country is being decided. The destiny of our people, whether Ukrainians will be free, whether they will be able to preserve their democracy.”

US corporate media has responded by showering Zelensky with fawning press, driving a campaign for his nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize and inspiring a flamboyant musical tribute to himself and the Ukrainian military during the 2022 Grammy awards ceremony on April 3.

Western media has looked the other way, however, as Zelensky and top officials in his administration have sanctioned a campaign of kidnapping, torture, and assassination of local Ukrainian lawmakers accused of collaborating with Russia. Several mayors and other Ukrainian officials have been killed since the outbreak of war, many reportedly by Ukrainian state agents after engaging in de-escalation talks with Russia.

https://www.floppingaces.net/most-wanted/one-less-traitor-zelensky-oversees-campaign-of-assassination-kidnapping-and-torture-of-political-opposition/

So let’s talk about the groups he banned.

The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine decided to ban the activity of Opposition Party — For Life, Shariy Party, Nashi, Opposition Bloc, Left Opposition, Union of Left Forces, State, Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, Socialist Party of Ukraine, Socialists Party and Volodymyr Saldo Bloc, Zelensky said.

https://www.axios.com/ukraine-ban-political-parties-russian-ties-af264ecd-9ad4-4e98-9f87-76f32300fd5f.html

Now let’s break it down, Barney style:

1: Notice the first sentence:

“The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine decided…”

Didn’t say Zelensky, but what are details to Republicans, when they’re trying to push a vilification narrative, right?

2: Opposition Party — For Life:

The Opposition Platform – For Life (Ukrainian: Опозиційна платформа – За життя; Russian: Оппозиционная платформа – За жизнь, OPZZh) was a pro-Russian and Euroscepticpolitical party in Ukraine founded in December 2018.

The party is the successor of For Life (Ukrainian: За життя), formerly All-Ukrainian Union “Center” from 1999 to 2016. It was registered in December 1999. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the party won 37 seats on the nationwide party list and six constituency seats. The current party is composed by members from its predecessor For Life as well as Opposition Bloc, Ukraine – Forward!, Party of Development of Ukraine, and Ukrainian Choice. It is currently the biggest pro-Russian political party in (Ukraine’s national parliament) the Verkhovna Rada, and the second-biggest party overall in the Verkhovna Rada.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_Platform_%E2%80%94_For_Life

3: Shariy Party:

Party of Shariy (Ukrainian: Партiя Шарiя, Russian: Партия Шария, PSh), is a political party in Ukraine founded by political blogger Anatoly Shariy. Its official proclaimed ideology is libertarianism.

On March 22, 2022, during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine decided to suspend the Party of Shariy because of its alleged ties with the Russian Federation.

Relations with Russian ultra-nationalists and anti-government coups: Antonina Beloglazova, the second person in his party and editor of the Shariy website, collaborated in Russia in 2015–2016 with the National Liberation Movement (NCD), which aims to “restorate of Russia’s sovereignty”. This movement has been repeatedly observed at various pro-Putin events. Konstantin Mamrosenko, Beloglazova’s brother, who heads department “B” in the “Shariy Party”, together with “Motorola” took part in the seizure of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration during the so-called “Russian Spring” in 2014. Tarasy Plaksiy, the curator of the Shariy party in Khmelnytsky, Chernivtsi and Ternopil regions, was at the Alabino military training ground in the Russian Federation in 2017, where Russian special forces are stationed, and took part in the patriotic event “Fight for Russia Day”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_of_Shariy#Scandals

Nothing suspicious about that, according to traitorous Republicans, but let’s move on.

4: Nashi:

Ideology: According to Ukrainian journalists and political scientists, Nashi is one of the many pro-Russian parties (Opoblok, Opposition Platform – For Life, etc.) formed from the wreckage of the now-defunct Party of Regions. Some see the star motif in the party’s logo as redolent of the Soviet (or Kremlin’s) red star.

The party has a pro-Russian stance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashi_(political_party)

5: Opposition Bloc:

The Opposition Bloc (Ukrainian: Опозиційний блок, Russian: Оппозиционный блок) was a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine that was founded in 2014 by the merger of six parties that did not endorse Euromaidan.

According to Tadeusz Olszański [pl], of the Centre for Eastern Studies, the party’s 2014 election programme was socially liberal and pro-Russophone. The party’s platform envisages protecting the status of Russian as a regional language. The party wants “maximum decentralization” for Ukraine.

The party wants a non-aligned status for Ukraine and wants to prevent it from becoming a NATO member.

The party hopes to criminalize “the incitement of inter-regional hatred” and ban all organizations that promote “inter-regional hatred”, use “violence as an instrument for political gain”, or set up illegal paramilitary forces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_Bloc#Ideology_and_stances

Hm. So clowns #1 and 2 (MAX BLUMENTHAL & ESHA KRISHNASWAMY) don’t seem to have a problem with this party’s aspirations to ban things. Let’s move on.

6: Left Opposition: I believe the proper name for this is the Union of Leftists.

Union of Leftists (Ukrainian: Союз Лівих Сил) is a Ukrainian political party led by Vasyl Volha. After at the 2007 parliamentary elections the Socialist Party of Ukraine received less and less vote. Afterwards, Vasyl Volha left that party and created the Union of Leftists. The party was founded on 8 December 2007 and its goals were empower local communities, provide state support for poor regions, stop the privatization of strategic state enterprises and the sale of agricultural land, make Ukraine geopolitically neutral and make Russian the second state language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Leftists

How ironic. Republicans – who are crypto-liberal scumbags, by and large, are now whining because the Ukraine – minding their own national business – suspended a political party that was COMMUNIST (yes, socialists are communists, grow up and face reality), and looking to have government own “…strategic state enterprises and agricultural land…”. Sound familiar? I could swear that there was a state in the region that, for decades, did that very thing, but disappeared some decades ago.

Hmmm…

How about a clue?

7: Union of Left Forces: Hm. Maybe this was the Union of Leftists. I’m sure their ideologies are identical, anyway.

8: State: Can’t find anything on it, but I’m sure we can make a very good guess as to what they’re about.

9: Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine: Do we even seriously have to look at this?!

The Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine (PSPU) is a National Bolshevik political party in Ukraine led by Nataliya Vitrenko.

Ideology:

National Bolshevism, Left wing populism, social conservatism, pan Slavism, Eurasianism, Euroscepticism, Russophilia, Anti Americanism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Socialist_Party_of_Ukraine

ZOMFG.

National Bolshevism

National Bolshevism (Russian: Национал-большевизм, romanized: Natsional-bol’shevizm, German: Nationalbolschewismus), whose supporters are known as National Bolsheviks (Russian: Национал-большевики, romanized: Natsional-bol’sheviki) or NazBols (Russian: Нацболы, romanized: Natsboly),^[1] is a radical political movement that combines ultranationalism and communism.

Flag of the National Bolshevik Party

ZOMFG

Yeah, Flopping Aces is looking more and more like a dumpster fire, written by piles of crap, and so is the GOP, as a whole, if they’re defending these jackasses from being suspended (by the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine).

10: Socialist Party of Ukraine:

IDEOLOGY: Socialist democracy, left wing nationalism, Euroscepticism, SOCIALISM.

The Socialist Party of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Соціалістична Партія України, Sotsialistychna Partiya Ukrainy, SPU) is a social democratic political party in Ukraine. It is one of the oldest parties and was created by the former members of the Soviet-era Communist Party of Ukraine in late 1991 when the Communist Party was banned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Party_of_Ukraine

Yep. Exactly what it sounded like.

11: Socialists Party: Can’t find anything, but with a name like that, who could go wrong, right?

12: Volodymyr Saldo Bloc: I believe this was known as Opposition Bloc.

So this is what Republicans are crying about. They can whine about how President Zelenskyy is acting like a tyrant, even though it was another organization, altogether, that did the suspensions, not the executive. The rank hypocrisy of the Republican is very telling, in that while they’re whining like babies about a sovereign country doing what it has the right to, they’re absolutely refusing to even entertain in passing the possibility – if not probability – that these political parties that are, quite probably, beholden to Putin, are undermining the Ukraine, and it’s effort to defend itself against the Russian invasion. It’s also very telling that Republicans – including neocon Trump – are constantly complaining about socialism getting a foothold in the US, and that we should fight tooth and nail against socialism, and socialists (and, ironically and hypocritically, Republicans are helping socialists get that foothold and beachhead in the US).

I am Virus-X: REPUBLIC COMMANDO, and I approve this message. If you didn’t, and you’re Republican, tough crap. If you’re a Democrat, and think, I’m starting to like you, just remember that I’m the guy that’s still mad at Lincoln for not having every last one of you imprisoned for 10 years at hard labor, then executed, for treason and insurrection, after the conclusion of the Civil War (that you started).

Kiss my ass.

WORLD WAR 3 and the GREAT RESET

Conservative Black Guy is back.

The situation in Russia and the Ukraine has been very illuminating.

For decades, Russia and the PRC have been military enemies of the United States, and the US has been stupid enough to do business with them, enriching them through trade (especially the Chinese). Now, we have been given the formula for their destruction.

The Kremlin on Thursday said Russia’s economy was experiencing a “shock,” after the U.S. and its allies imposed sanctions on the country.

The Russian government said that efforts are being made to minimize the impact of crippling economic sanctions imposed on Moscow.

“Our economy is experiencing a shock impact now and there are negative consequences; they will be minimised,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters on press call, Reuters reported.

“This is absolutely unprecedented. The economic war that has started against our country has never taken place before. So it is very hard to forecast anything,” he added.

Many Western countries have issued severe economic sanctions against Russia since it invaded Ukraine in late February. The value of the Russian ruble has plummeted in the past few weeks. 

Peskov referred to Russia’s economic situation as turbulent, according to the newswire, but said efforts to stabilize were already being made.

On Wednesday, Peskov said the U.S. had declared “economic war” against Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin echoed this sentiment, stating that rounds of economic sanctions on Russia are “akin to a declaration of war.”

President Biden announced a ban on Russian energy imports earlier this week, targeting one of Moscow’s largest sources of income. European countries have so far held back from announcing similar actions, though the European Union announced this week that it would be moving to cut its natural gas imports from Russia by two-thirds this year.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/russia/597666-kremlin-says-russian-economy-in-shock-after-sanctions

No shots fired, and yet Russia is in flames. This is exactly what we should’ve done to them, decades ago. It shouldn’t even be lawful to do business with Russians. The Ruble should be banned in America, and America should ban commerce with any country that accepts it. All Russian stocks should be permanently de-listed from the New York Stock Exchange. No imports from Russia, nor countries that do business with Russia, no exports to Russia, nor any countries that do business with them. Corporation after corporation is pulling away from Russia, leading Putin to declare he’s going to steal their assets:

Russia says it could seize assets Western companies leave behind

London (CNN Business)Russia said it could seize the assets of Western companies that have suspended operations in the country.

Dozens of American, European and Japanese companies from almost every sector of the economy have abandoned joint ventures, factories, stores and offices in the last two weeks in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the ensuring sanctions.

The sanctions have hit most of Russia’s financial sector, including its central bank, trashed the Russian currency and are likely to trigger a sovereign debt default and deep recession. And there may be more to come: US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Thursday that Russia’s economy will be “devastated” as a consequence of existing Western sanctions, “but we … continue to consider further steps we can take.”

President Vladimir Putin had promised a response. Speaking Thursday at a meeting with government officials, he backed a plan to introduce “external management” of foreign companies leaving Russia.

“We need to act decisively with those [companies] who are going to close their production,” Putin said according to a video posted by the Kremlin and aired on state media. “It is necessary, then … to introduce external management and then transfer these enterprises to those who want to work,” he added.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said earlier that legislation had been drafted.

“If foreign owners close the company unreasonably, then in such cases the government proposes to introduce external administration. Depending on the decision of the owner, it will determine the future fate of the enterprise,” Mishustin said, according to the Kremlin.

“The key task will be to preserve … the activities of organizations and jobs. Most businesses are announcing a temporary suspension while maintaining jobs and wages, and we will be closely monitoring this situation,” he added.

The exodus of companies includes iconic consumer and tech brands such as McDonalds (MCD), Coca-Cola (COKE) and Apple (AAPL), as well as leading Big Oil groups such as BP (BP) and Shell (RDSA). They were joined Thursday by Goldman Sachs (GS), the first major bank since the war started to say it was winding down its activities in the country entirely. Other banks are likely to follow, leaving billions in outstanding debts behind them.

Russia’s consumer rights organization has drawn up a list of companies that have decided to leave and could be nationalized, according to a report in Russian newspaper Izvestiya later cited by state news agency TASS.

The document that was reportedly sent to the Russian government and the Prosecutor General’s Office, includes 59 companies, including Volkswagen (VLKAF), Apple, IKEA, Microsoft (MSFT), IBM (IBM), Shell, McDonald’s, Porsche, Toyota (TM), H&M (HNNMY) and can be updated with more brands, Izvestiya said.

The Russian government earlier Thursday issued a list of goods and equipment previously imported Russia that companies would be banned from transferring out of the country.

According to a statement published on the government’s website, the list includes over 200 items, including “technological, telecommunications, medical equipment, vehicles, agricultural machinery, electrical equipment” as well as “railway cars and locomotives, containers, turbines, metal and stone processing machines, monitors, projectors, consoles and panels.”

Those restrictions will remain in effect until the end of 2022.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/10/business/russia-nationalization-western-companies/index.html

Economic warfare. Russia’s psychotic dictator had no idea this was waiting for him, right around the corner. Russia is a member of OPEC, and they’re pretty piss poor, as an oil nation. Many, if not most, of their resource exploitation comes courtesy of foreign corporations that are running the show. If those corporations leave, their infrastructure will take a massive hit (especially if they destroy their equipment, on the way out). If the US didn’t have corrupt presidents like Trump and Biden, they could return all unconstitutionally held federal lands to the People and the States, and turn the oil spigot up to full blast, flooding the market and causing oil and fuel prices to nosedive, hurting all other OPEC nations, including Russia.

With shipping corporations refusing to ship or truck supplies in, or out, or Russia, their country would consume itself, in very short order. Sure, Putin’s going to try to steal left behind resources, and turn them into Russian companies, but look at the Ruble: a Ruble is equal to a US DIME, now. Given time under these types of sanctions, pushed to absolute, the choked off Russian currency would turn to dust. They couldn’t pay their war machine, government personnel, etc. Corporations would fall apart. Cut off from banking with any other country, they would have nothing. This could actually lead to action being taken against General Secretary Putin.

Then there’s the PRC.

Emperor Xi Jinping has been fast friends with General Secretary Putin, and has openly stated his willingness to collaborate in any measures that undermine and harm the US. However, the past few weeks of the invasion of the Ukraine has given the Middle Kingdom pause.

Looking at the lack of stunning success, coupled with the super backlash Russia is facing from the rest of the world, Emperor Xi Jinping is starting to see General Secretary Putin as being more than a little radioactive. Knowing that any attempts to seriously bankroll Russia, and help them with a workaround, in respect to the SWIFT sanctions…

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-60542433

…could very well land China in the same kettle of fish General Secretary Putin‘s stupidity got Russia into, by biting off far more than he could chew.

Emperor Xi Jinping lives in terror of this happening to the PRC, as do many other communists.

I think this is exactly what should happen. Those sanctions should suddenly roll over onto China, like a steamroller wheel. Just as Biden’s calling for eliminating trade relationships with Russia…

https://www.axios.com/biden-us-russia-favored-nation-status-d414dc26-ef25-4581-857f-f288d74b25fc.html

…the same should happen to China. Both should have their trade relationships revoked, with every nation, and every nation that doesn’t do this, should suffer the same fate. With both of these global enemies economically crippled, then we can start the Great Reset.

This Great Reset should be the permanent neutering of these perennially belligerent states. China, enjoying economic power, thanks to becoming a global manufacturing hub, would lose that status, forever, in favor of other countries, including the US and the Republic of India. People like to talk about helping raise the 3rd World out of poverty, but they always propose using American tax money to do so, unconstitutionally. I say nations like Republic of India, and many African nations could get their own crap together, if they were given a job. Not taking money from foreign taxpayers, but by improving their infrastructure and education systems, thanks to making money through manufacturing. No more making a single, hostile country an economic power, through manufacturing, but spreading it throughout the world, to countries that are going to do something other than use their wealth to intimidate others, and to destroy and kill. If they fall out of line, the sanctions will work on them, too.

Use the corporate sanctions, people, and don’t just stop when the bad guys cry “uncle”. You’ve got to do actual damage, and make it harder for them to do what they did, again. Don’t forget: Russia has ambitions to replace the USD as the world reserve currency, with the Ruble. China aspires to replace it with the Yuan. With the US dominating the global energy market, countries would get oil and natural gas from a politically stable state, with a strong military, and strong corporate infrastructure, all of which would help drive down prices. By stopping and forbidding the printing of money for a long time, the USD could start to build back some of it’s strength, and recover from the weakness that VIRTUALLY ALL Republican and Democrat politicians shave subjected it to. Maybe Russia could export it’s oil to China and North Korea, but that’s a pretty economically limited base, considering all 3 States would be in the same boat as North Korea, economically.

Oh. Before I forget, you have to go hard on Internet attacks, too. Russia and China hack the US, relentlessly, because they know the country is run by Republican and Democrat cowards, who do nothing about this. These powers will, doubtlessly, retaliate against these weaponized sanctions, and this has to be countered, not only by blocking their attempts, but by compromising their Internet accessible infrastructure, regardless of what it is. Wiping out assets, such as balances in the personal accounts of high ranking politicians and all military personnel, and destroying the bottom lines of Russian and Chinese corporations, would go a long way towards their destruction.

No need for shooting and bombing, no need for destroying the world with a communist agenda. Just nail peoples’ wallets shut, and they’ll be brought to their knees.

I am Virus-X: REPUBLIC COMMANDO, and I approve this message.

UNOPOULAR OPINION: The Left-Left Paradigm

CONSERVATIVE BLACK GUY IS BACK.

So, it’s time to express an unpopular opinion. I’ll let YoungRippa59 (who is in no way Conservative, but, in fact, hates the United States, wishes it destroyed, and thinks, childishly, that the country as a collection of nation states would last 5 minutes) give you the opening jist.

Get it?

Got it?

Good.

The Democrats/Socialists are the AUTHORITARIAN LEFT.

The Republicans ARE NOT A CONSERVATIVE PARTY. YOUR BELOVED TRUMP SAID SO.

He also said he has “principles”, which don’t involve being involved with Conservatives (after claiming he’s Conservative).

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/michael-van-der-galien/2016/05/08/trump-i-have-principles-dont-need-conservatives-to-support-me-n46402

The Republicans/Libertarians are the SUBSERVIENT LEFT.

A lot of you Republican types love to say you’re Conservative, but you’re not. Not even close.

No, you’re not a Conservative. Neither is Trump. You can keep telling that to yourself, to make yourself feel better, but it still won’t make it true, no matter how much you try to guys pull a Joe Goebbels.

Democrats and Socialists support:

• Gun Control
• Unconstitutional, confiscatory taxation
• Out of control deficit spending
• The police state
• The continued, unconstitutional suspension of the Bill of Rights
• The absolute invalidation of the Constitution, in favor of their making up laws, rules and regulations as they see fit, making things up as they go along, lawful, or no.

Republicans/Libertarians support:

• Gun Control: Republicans won’t even TALK about US v Miller. Their politicians won’t, their voters won’t. Why? Because the politicians agree with it, and the voters are too stupid to know that they’re voting against their own, best interests, and the interests of the Country. Or, they don’t care, as long as “their guy” is the one doing the rights violations. You guys – Republicans and Libertarians – even CRAVE the return of a politician that violated EVERY campaign promise on gun rights, and turned around to make unconstitutional bans on bump stocks, and threatened to have citizens killed by fake military cops, by unconstitutionally criminalizing suppressors, and issuing an unconstitutional diktat to give the green light to cops to come to your house and forcibly disarm you, just because your neighbor doesn’t like you.
• Unconstitutional, confiscatory taxation: Guess what? Cutting a few pennies from taxes isn’t a tax cut. A tax cut is cutting the tax. Getting rid of it. As previously discussed, the Republican Party is the party that ram-rodded permanent, unconstitutional income taxation, and the ability to tax anything they arbitrarily deem income, in the un-American claim that they are entitled to a cut of every penny you make. This has rapidly mutated into things like capital gains taxation, and the reviled death tax (which Trump was very silent on). “A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude. One of the first signs of the breaking down of free government is a disregard by the taxing power of the right of the people to their own property. It makes little difference whether such a condition is brought about through the will of a dictator, through the power of a military force, or through the pressure of an organized minority. The result is the same. Unless the people can enjoy that reasonable security in the possession of their property, which is guaranteed by the Constitution, against unreasonable taxation, freedom is at an end. The common man is restrained and hampered in his ability to secure food and clothing and shelter. His wages are decreased; his hours of labor are lengthened.” – Calvin Coolidge. NO Republican or Libertarian has campaigned, that I know of, with a platform including the elimination of unconstitutional, burdensome taxation, including the destructive income tax. NOT ONE.

• Out of control deficit spending: Trump lied his way into office on the Not Hillary Ticket, claiming he would eliminate the national debt.

“Republican candidate Donald Trump promised during the 2016 presidential campaign that he would eliminate the nation’s debt in eight years.

Instead, his budget estimates showed that he would actually add at least $8.3 trillion, increasing the U.S. debt to $28.5 trillion by 2025. But the national debt reached that figure much sooner. The national debt stood at $19.9 trillion when President Trump took office in January 2017, and it reached a high of $27 trillion in October 2020.

The national debt reached another high of $28 trillion less than two months after President Trump left office. In December 2021, Congress then increased the debt limit by $2.5 trillion, to almost $31.4 trillion, as debt rose again under President Joe Biden.”

https://www.thebalance.com/trump-plans-to-reduce-national-debt-4114401

Sure, you can make a clown our of yourself and say he didn’t get a chance, but only you, who voted for him, and would defend this, are stupid enough to believe that a guy that spent that much money in 4 years (beating Obama and Biden, both, at this point) would/could suddenly reverse course and eliminate over $20,000,000,000,000.00 in a single term.

Every budget he signed.

I’m not that stupid.

• The police state: The police have literally become the occupying army the Founders and Framers warned us about:

“Always remember that an armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics—that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.”

James Madison, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1809

“I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights, providing clearly, and without the aid of sophism, for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction of monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury, in all matters of fact triable by the law of the land, and not by the laws of nations.”

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 1787

“Standing armies are dangerous to liberty.”

Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers, 1787

Police forces have acquired heavy weapons, paramilitary tactics, armored vehicles, and “weapons of war”, and simultaneously lost all hesitancy to use them against even innocent citizens. Democrats cry crocodile tears about this, but are more than happy to see these forces used against their political enemies. Republicans and Libertarians don’t cry about it, they applaud it. They lionize these people. I already had a Republican tell me the Constitution was nothing but a piece of paper, and another one tell me the Founders and Framers are nobodies, and that their wisdom is foolishness, in the modern day, which they are not intellectually sharp enough to survive in, much less their laws. When forced do choose between police and military, Republicans and Libertarians choose police. Only when someone they supported for political purposes January 6th was killed by police, did Republicans and Libertarians choose for the citizen, but I’m sure the choice ran deeper, than what lied at the surface. Bottom line: Republicans and Libertarians only have a problem with police misconduct and criminality, when it goes against their agenda, or happens to someone they like. Some are so stupid, they’ll continue to support it, after the police go upside their head.

STOP RESISTING! STOP RESISTING! (Oh, and by the way, the cop got away with this, and no Republican or Libertarian condemned it.)

• The continued, unconstitutional suspension of the Bill of Rights: Self explanatory. As Rush Limbaugh once said, the Republicans don’t want to save the country; they just want to manage the decline. With every rights violating law that the Democrats and Socialists put into place, the Republicans and Libertarians accept, if not add their own. Example: ObamaCare. You can say Trump ended the mandate, but that was only a temporary measure. He never defunded it, he never pushed to eradicate it from the books, and neither did his worthless “Supreme” Court picks. The Republicans have never done anything to arrest the erosion of any of the 10 laws in the Bill of Rights. They’ve never protected the 5 Freedoms, they’ve contributed to the revocation of the 2nd Amendment, etc.
• The absolute invalidation of the Constitution, in favor of their making up laws, rules and regulations as they see fit, making things up as they go along, lawful, or no: They support the very same things the Democrats and Socialists do. They make unconstitutional laws, and they support the unconstitutional laws that the Democrats and Socialists enact.

And there you have it.

The Republican Party is not a Conservative Party; Paleocon/Neocon hybrid Donald Trump confirmed that. The (Not So) Grand Ol’ Party is a CENTER LEFT PARTY.

The ugly truth.

Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, child murder, etc. For all the whining Republicans and Libertarians do, claiming to oppose this, not a single one has even ATTEMPTED to end it. Republican and Libertarian voters, between spitting on the Constitution and smooching their party’s planks, condemn anyone that points this out, saying they’re not being realistic, or that they’re Biden voters (yeah, because liberals so vehemently oppose unconstitutional legislation), a liberal, etc. The same NPC stupidity from people with outdated firmware, and incapable of coming up with something new, much less formulating their own, critically thought out response.

That’s it. I’m not BSing, I’m not beating around the bush. I lay it out, plainly, if not harshly.

I am VIRUS-X: REPUBLIC COMMANDO, and I approve this message.

28th AMENDMENT

Yes, Conservative Black Guy strikes, again.

Anyhow, since Congress won’t address it, I will. I present to you a rough draft of the XXIIXth Amendment.

XXIIX

1. Ballot audits must be conducted by volunteers, and those volunteers cannot be operatives of any political party (committee personnel, precinct personnel, etc.), nor be 1^st or 2^nd degree familial relatives of any operatives of any political party. Corporations, companies and any other businesses are prohibited from being agencies of audits. Volunteers are to be supervised by law enforcement personnel from the local sheriffs office, or, if unavailable, the state law enforcement, or a combination thereof. These supervisors will be watchful for anything improper, such as votes not being tallied, or improperly attributed to candidates. All federal elections – for representatives, senators of presidents – will be automatically audited, within 8 hours after polls have closed.
2. If, after an audit, a candidate that was shown to be the loser of a State’s electoral votes actually won those votes, those votes shall immediately be redistributed and attributed to the actual winner, and regain certified for the winner.
3. If, after an audit, a sitting President has enough votes removed from them, and given to their opponent, so as to be shown to have actually lost the election, the sitting President’s administration will be null and void, and both the President and Vice President shall be removed, immediately, by the day’s close of business, so the incoming president can assume their rightful office in transition.
4. All cabinet officials, as they were, in part, installed by an invalid presidential administration, can, at the Executive’s discretion, be terminated without cause from their positions, in spite of Senatorial confirmation, and replaced through the Senatorial process of advice and consent.
5. All executive orders from the invalid presidential administration, shall immediately be declared null and void, and no longer incumbent upon the Executive Branch to execute.
6. All laws ratified by the invalid presidential administration, shall immediately be declared null and void, and no longer considered ratified, requiring they be resubmitted to the incoming Executive for ratification.
7. In keeping with the 10^th Amendment, which states that: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”, it shall be deemed just and proper for the People to assume the power to recall the Executive. The mechanism for the recall of a sitting president shall be similar to the process of a political election. Signatures are required to get the Executive’s name on a recall ballot, and the amount of signatures must be at least ¾ the population of the state’s registered voters. Once this is done, a majority of states ¾ must follow suit and concur, or else the initiative will not succeed, or be recognized, regardless of outcome. Once both thresholds have been met, a vote to have the Executive remain, or be removed from office will commence. As in other presidential elections, the votes of the Electors shall reflect the Will of the People. Any Elector deemed “faithless”, or voting in contravention to the Popular Vote, will be removed and forever barred from future service as an Elector, and replaced with another. If a majority of electoral votes has a preponderance towards the removal of the Executive, said Executive shall be removed from office, and said Executive will be removed by the end of the month, or 30 days, whichever comes first. A removed Executive shall enjoy no further privileges of being Chief Executive, including no further pay or medical benefits, and no taxpayer funded Secret Service protection. Immediately, the Vice President shall become the Executive, and the Speaker of the House shall become Vice President. As the Speaker of the House cannot hold both the position of Speaker of the House and Vice President, simultaneously, a new Speaker of the House must be elected in the House of Representatives.

Like I said, Republicans, Libertarians, Democrats and Socialists have made no attempt to address this problem, so I did. Don’t like it? Shut up, and come up with something yourself.

I am VIRUS-X: REPUBLIC COMMANDO, and I approve this message.

The Department of Education, and the People that Let America Down

Yeah, you know who it is. Today, we have Obama begging to be relevant, again, talking up the unconstitutional Department of Education, and criticizing parents that want a say in how their children are educated. Let’s get right to it.

Former President @BarackObama: "We don't have time to be wasted on these phony trumped-up culture wars, this fake outrage, the right-wing media's pedals to juice their ratings." pic.twitter.com/PkDUg8GXjE

— The Hill (@thehill) October 24, 2021

Should the video disappeare, here’s the associated article:

https://www.theblaze.com/news/barack-obama-culture-wars-reality-check?

So what did this left wing, anti-American has-been have to say?:

“We don’t have time to be wasting on these phony trumped up culture wars, this fake outrage that right-wing media peddles to juice their ratings,” Obama said.

Obama appeared to be speaking about McAuliffe’s opponent, Republican Glenn Youngkin, whose campaign platform includes supporting parents to have a voice over decisions made by school boards.

“Instead of stoking anger aimed at school boards and administrators, who are just trying to keep our kids safe, who are just doing their jobs, stoking anger to the point where some of them are actually getting death threats,” Obama said. “We should be making it easier for teachers and schools to give our kids the world-class education they deserve, and do to so safely while they are in the classroom.”

https://www.theblaze.com/news/barack-obama-culture-wars-reality-check?

He lies like a rug.

The Department of Education was trumped up by James Earl Carter,

I’m sure this Southern, peanut picking bastard loved everything that rag stands for.

as an unconstitutional, illegal, immoral and anti-American federal power grab, in the liberals war on America’s children, so they can be indoctrinated in leftism, liberalism, neo-liberalism and socialism. This man set the foundation, and where were Republicans, from then, to now?

So your beloved Reagan, Bush, Bush and your other beloved lord and savior, Trump, did nothing about this, over the course of FOURTY TWO YEARS. With all the complaining and whining that Pseudocons (that is, Republican Paleoconservatives and Neoconservatives, which is all of them) have been doing for almost half a century, what have they done to solve this problem?

Yep. NOTHING. This says to me that they were either too stupid to see the problem that they, themselves, were whining about, they didn’t care about the problem, or they were COMPLICIT.

So here we have Barack HUSSEIN Obama, once again hogging the spotlight, and, once again, lying.

“We don’t have time to be wasting on these phony trumped up culture wars, this fake outrage that right-wing media peddles to juice their ratings,” Obama said.

And yet we seem to have plenty of time for left wing BS, like trying to invade the medical privacy of people (something Democrats claimed was a bad thing)…

https://aspe.hhs.gov/implementation-administrative-simplification-hhs

…to find out if you’re up on your shots that don’t even always work, and definitely don’t work as advertised.

In any event, there’s nothing fake about the outrage of parents that are told that they have no say in what goes into their kids heads.

McAuliffe Argues Parents Shouldn’t Have Control over Public School Curriculum

Virginia’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe argued that parents should not tell schools what to teach during a debate against his Republican opponent Glenn Youngkin on Tuesday.

The comment by McAuliffe, who served as governor of Virginia from 2014 to 2018, came in response to Youngkin’s remark that parents should be more involved in the decisions of local school districts during the second and final debate of the race.

“What we’ve seen over the course of this last 20 months is our school systems refusing to engage with parents,” Youngkin said. “In fact, in Fairfax County this past week, we watched parents so upset because there was such sexually explicit material in the library they had never seen, it was shocking.”

By BRITTANY BERNSTEIN
September 29, 2021 9:03 AM
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/mcauliffe-argues-parents-shouldnt-have-control-over-public-school-curriculum/

Now, Republians/Libertarians/Pseudoconservatives/Paleocons/Neocons aren’t very bright, and have the mental bandwidth of a brain damaged insect, so, I’ll have to remind the more dim members of the audience where this mindset came from. It came from the earlier 2000s, and this is one of the spots that articulated it:

Yeah, she said it. Now Barack HUSSEIN Obama is carrying the football, and running it for a 50 yard touchdown, because, once again, the Republians/Libertarians/Pseudoconservatives/Paleocons/Neocons are too stupid to even spell “goal”.

So in recent years, Trump, BFF of Obama

and the Clintons,

who admitted that the Department of Education was crap,

“You could cut that way, way, way down.”

Trump addressing South Carolina Tea Party Convention, Myrtle Beach, January 2015

and yet made no effort to improve the system. He allowed the Department of Education to remain (and yes, cry all you want. Trumpanzees, he could’ve ended it by withholding Congressionally approved funds; the Constitution does not obligate the Executive to spend anything, or take orders from the Legislature; read about the concept of Separation of Powers, if you can), and even worked to KEEP COMMON CORE, after talking crap about it, for the cameras and people stupid enough to believe anything that came out of his mouth.

 “I am totally against Common Core.”

Trump addressing South Carolina Tea Party Convention, Myrtle Beach, January 2015

“We’re cutting Common Core. We’re getting rid of Common Core. We’re bringing education locally.”

Republican primary debate in 2016

Liar, liar…

In any event, let’s get back to Obama’s trashy remarks.

“Instead of stoking anger aimed at school boards and administrators, who are just trying to keep our kids safe, who are just doing their jobs, stoking anger to the point where some of them are actually getting death threats,” Obama said. “We should be making it easier for teachers and schools to give our kids the world-class education they deserve, and do to so safely while they are in the classroom.”

Keeping kids safe.

Trying to do their jobs.

SOME of them, maybe. MAYBE.

World class education,

and safety.

We already went over this.

Well, Obama’s own beloved government disagrees with his assessments.

Federal Report Finds U.S. Department Of Education A Massive Failure

A new report raises questions about how the U.S. Department of Education monitors the performance of its wide-ranging elementary and secondary education programs.

The department currently receives $38 billion for its major K-12 education programs. Yet the assessment says those programs are plagued by “complex and persistent” challenges, many of which have been identified previously, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), the official “congressional watchdog” charged with ensuring taxpayer dollars are spent efficiently.

Specifically, the GAO identified four key shortcomings in the department: oversight and monitoring, data quality, capacity, and evaluation methodologies. As the GAO makes clear, it is not the only oversight agency raising concerns about the department’s program management. What’s more, such problems have plagued our federal education departments since the first one took form back in 1867.

Not Paying Attention to Where the Money Goes

The GAO found that various education department offices failed to document consistently required monitoring activities in their official grant files. For example, its review of 75 grants totaling $21 million in discretionary funding revealed that “almost all” of them “were missing key monitoring documents, including grantee performance reports, which describe the results grantees achieve with grant funds,” according to the GAO.

Low-Quality Data the Department Doesn’t Evaluate Well

There have also been ongoing quality issues with the data K-12 grantees submit to the department, complicating efforts to assess program performance. Even though it issues guidance to grantees about submitting accurate data, “Education did not independently assess the accuracy of these program data submitted by grantees or perform basic logic checks,” the GAO concluded.

Poor-quality data has been an ongoing issue, one previously documented by both the GAO and the department’s OIG. Moreover, “Education officials said that data quality challenges will likely persist under ESSA because Education and its grantees continue to face challenges collecting reliable, comparable program performance data in a minimally burdensome manner.”

We Knew This Was Happening For Decades

The GAO’s findings underscore more fundamental problems with having a Department of Education. In the United States, education is supposed to be a strictly state and local matter under Article 10 of the Constitution. In fact, the word education does not even appear in the Constitution and, until the Civil War era, Congress took no action to extend its authority into K-12 education.

That changed shortly after the Civil War, when proponents insisted that education was a matter of national concern best directed by experts in a cabinet-level education department, rather than being left to the “caprice of individuals and the States.”

Federal Agencies Are Not Built for Performance

A leading reason for re-establishing a cabinet-level U.S. Department of Education in 1979 was better coordination and administration of hundreds of federal education programs. The latest GAO report, however, adds to a growing body of evidence that far-off bureaucracies in Washington, D.C., are ill-suited for this task.

The department is just one of numerous federal entities operating nearly 300 federal social, education, and training programs. In a separate report published nearly a decade ago the GAO concluded that no uniform definition for “education program” even exists across 25 federal departments and agencies. Not much has changed since then.

We Shouldn’t Spend Billions to Get Bad Results

It shouldn’t be this hard to figure out whether specific education department programs are working.  What we do know from publicly available spending and achievement data is that, since 1970, education spending has roughly tripled in real, inflation-adjusted terms, but student achievement has remained largely flat.

The Trump administration proposed merging the education and labor departments last June to streamline education programs and minimize bureaucracy. The plan was met with bipartisan criticism, including by members of several conservative education organizations. Fixing the failures of the Department of Education, however, does not need to mean fiddling with the federal organizational chart.

Rather, the fundamental problem with the Department of Education is that it removes decision-making authority from the real education experts: parents and taxpayers in local communities.

By Vicki Alger FEBRUARY 19, 2019 https://thefederalist.com/2019/02/19/federal-report-finds-u-s-department-education-massive-failure/

I urge you to read the entire article. In any event, while Orange Julius certainly bears the most recent blame, let’s look at what’s on Obama’s hands:

Hmmm…

No, this isn’t about Obama’s Black skin, Republicans.

Obama’s hands are as unclean as anyone else’s, and he couldn’t give less of a damn, what you think about that.

Fuck you, plebs. I’m a millionaire celebrity, now.

In fact, his are even uniquely dirty, considering he actively fought against parents having the ability to get their children out of his failing, unsafe garbage schools into private, far safer successful schools. Then the son of a bitch had the audacity to lie (like that’s something unusual) to the country, and the world, and say that there’s no evidence that such a program would even work, and then proceeded to politicize it as bad, because Republicans supported it.

And you can bet your bottom dollar that Obama’s proud of this. In any event, while he’s lamenting death threats to teaheers, where’s he on this?:

https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2021/10/22/the-national-school-board-association-apologizes-for-its-part-in-the-merrick-garland-domestic-terrorist-letter-n461637

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/school-biden-threats-covid-crt-patriot-act

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9460507/California-teacher-caught-Zoom-saying-sick-stomach-critical-parents.html

Maybe, however, there might be a glimmer of hope.

I don’t expect someone like Biden to do the right thing, or even want to, but people loved to lie about Trump and his deep agape

for America. Funny this god-like love that mortal man couldn’t comprehend didn’t take the form of obeying the Constitution, such as closing down this national indoctrination mill that he called the Department of Education.

Public and charter schools need to be the weapons against public schools, the public school system, the Department of Education, and the Republican and Democrat dirtbags that want to force your kids into them. One method of doing that is to eliminate property and income taxation, which would require the states to stop spending money on things they shouldn’t, such as the Republican, Libertarian, Democrat and Socialist forced worship of their god, MOLOCH.

Republicans, Libertarians, Democrats and Socialists obeying the non law of Roe v Wade, back in 1973

https://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/2015/04/michigan_house_passes_379_bill.html

With increased privatization, the state would be paying for a lot less, and would be able to live within it’s means. With the eradication of the un-American and unethical property and income taxation, they would stop stealing from the People, and the People would be able to afford private schools, more easily. Also, I think that any expenses incurred in putting your own kid through private schooling should be a tax write-off.

Why Are Private Schools So Expensive?

Private schools are so expensive because they are funded by private organisations and individuals, unlike public schools which are funded by the government. Private schools are also more expensive since they are willing to invest in the best equipment and hire teachers with outstanding credentials.

Private schools are not charitable organisations nor do they receive any external funding. As a result, private schools get the majority of their funding from parents in the form of tuition. A small portion of the funding also comes in the form of donations from wealthy families.

Schools are expensive to run regardless of whether they are public or private. There are a plethora of expenses in operating a school that is unfathomable to someone from the outside. Maintaining a school costs a lot more than looking after a house or office.

July 31, 2021 by Robert Williams, https://educationexponent.com/why-are-private-schools-so-expensive/

Whereas the public schools hire people that have no business being near kids. Trump

…and the Republicans violated the Constitution to pioneer UBI, it’s too bad they, over 4 years, gave no thought to solving problems like how to make private schools more affordable and available, to ensure kids get a quality education, as well as shutting down the unconstitutional, unsuccessful Department of Education, and putting it’s thousands of petty bureaucrats out of work. Why am I concentrating on Trump? Because he lied about being Conservative, and a real Conservative would’ve eliminated this unconstitutional department, poste haste.

“When you get down to it, I am a conservative person. I am by nature a somewhat conservative person,” 

https://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/donald-trump-im-a-conservative-jeb-bush-121554

So was it “conservative”, or “somewhat” “conservative”. I’ll go with the “somewhat”. In any event, public schools need to wither on the vine, as the failures they are. What needs to happen is that this unconstitutional taxation needs to also die off, and allow businesses to move in and thrive, displacing the Public Sector from the spaces in which they don’t belong (such as everyone’s personal lives, our bank accounts, our medical decisions, our education systems, etc.). The object of education is to prepare one for life, and that life could be anything from farming, to running a Fortune 500 corporation. The US is supposed to be the greatest, most powerful country in the world, so why doesn’t our education system reflect this?

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/15/u-s-students-internationally-math-science/

Every effort should be made, by government, to stay out of the way. Government is supposed to be like an operating system: keeping things going by unobtrusively working in the background. It’s anything but. I would propose that when the corporations are allowed to operate without the shackles of stupidity like income tax, estimated tax, property tax, excise tax, employment tax, payroll tax, gross receipts tax, dividend tax, capital gains, etc., they’ll be able to provide services at a more reasonable price. Additionally, considering the education system is made to provide them with adequate workers, maybe they can help out in doing things like working with parents to craft STEM curricula for their kids, K – 12, and into the universities. After all, they should be the experts. Maybe if there is any taxation to be paid by businesses (such as imposts, excises and duties), they could be applied to helping fund private schools, as well as home schooling systems. Education that is actually guided by people that have a vested interest in your kid turning out as something other than a brainwashed processed sausage, in cooperation with their parents, who have a vested interest in keeping idiotic social agendas away from their kids would be second to none.

Sure, I have plenty of ideas, but we all know that Republicans, Libertarians, Democrats and Socialists aren’t interested in solving problems, only in keeping them alive, and profiting off them.

You know it’s true.

Until a real Conservative…

(not a Paleocon, not a Neocon) gets real power, this is what the United States will be.

I am VIRUS-X, REPUBLIC COMMANDO, and I approve this message.

The 16th Amendment, and what Role the GOP Played in Foisting it on America

Conservative Black Guy’s back, and, like usual, I will pull no punches.

One of the things I despise most about this country’s government is the imposition of additional, burdensome and confiscatory taxation on the American People, thanks to the 16th Amendment.

“The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.“

16th Amendment, United States Constitution

This is an un-American method of bypassing Article 1, Section 9:

“No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.“

ARTICLE 1, SECION 9, UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION

Why do I say Republicans are mostly to blame for this?

Simple.

Because you (the GOP) are.

The Income Tax Amendment

As the progressive reform movement began to gain strength at the turn of the century, interest in the income tax revived. One of the supporters of the income tax was Cordell Hull, a Democratic congressman from a poor rural district in Tennessee. Hull (who later became President Franklin D. Roosevelt‘s secretary of state) put together a coalition of progressive Democrats and Republicans. They tried to attach income tax bills to tariff legislation making it more difficult to pass. Most Americans disliked tariffs since they drove up the price of many goods.

In 1909, Hull worked out a deal with the Republican president, William Howard Taft. Hull and his allies promised not to stall the passage of tariff laws, while Taft came out in favor of a corporation tax and a constitutional amendment authorizing Congress to enact a federal income tax.

A constitutional amendment was necessary because the Supreme Court had struck down the earlier income tax as unconstitutional. But the process of amending the Constitution made this difficult. First, the income tax amendment would have to pass both houses of Congress by two-thirds majorities. Then, three-fourths of the state legislatures would have to ratify it. Only after ratification would Congress have the clear power to pass an income tax law.

The Income Tax Amendment

As the progressive reform movement began to gain strength at the turn of the century, interest in the income tax revived. One of the supporters of the income tax was Cordell Hull, a Democratic congressman from a poor rural district in Tennessee. Hull (who later became President Franklin D. Roosevelt‘s secretary of state) put together a coalition of progressive Democrats and Republicans. They tried to attach income tax bills to tariff legislation making it more difficult to pass. Most Americans disliked tariffs since they drove up the price of many goods.

In 1909, Hull worked out a deal with the Republican president, William Howard Taft. Hull and his allies promised not to stall the passage of tariff laws, while Taft came out in favor of a corporation tax and a constitutional amendment authorizing Congress to enact a federal income tax.

A constitutional amendment was necessary because the Supreme Court had struck down the earlier income tax as unconstitutional. But the process of amending the Constitution made this difficult. First, the income tax amendment would have to pass both houses of Congress by two-thirds majorities. Then, three-fourths of the state legislatures would have to ratify it. Only after ratification would Congress have the clear power to pass an income tax law.

At first, few thought the income tax amendment had much of a chance surviving a vote in Congress. But the unpopularity of high tariffs eased the amendment through both the Senate and the House. In just a few days during the summer of 1909, the proposed 16th Amendment was approved by the Senate (77-0) and the House (318-14).

Thirty-six state legislatures had to ratify the 16th Amendment before it could go into effect. The public and most newspapers seemed to favor it. The main argument for ratification was that the amendment would force the wealthy to take on a fairer share of the federal tax burden that had in the past been largely carried by those earning relatively little. Only a few critics spoke out forcefully against the amendment. John D. Rockefeller, one of the country’s richest men, stated: “When a man has accumulated a sum of money within the law. . . the people no longer have any right to share in the earnings resulting from the accumulation.”

Ratification moved slowly but steadily through the state legislatures. Some of the states had already passed income tax laws of their own in seeking new ways to finance public schools and other social needs. Surprisingly, the income tax amendment drew widespread support in cities and in rural areas alike, from both Democrats and Republicans, and in all geographical regions. Even New York ratified the amendment despite the state’s reputation as the capital of “money power” with numerous millionaires among its residents (including John D. Rockefeller). By early 1913, 42 states (six more than needed) had ratified the income tax amendment. Only six states rejected it.

https://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-11-3-b-the-income-tax-amendment-most-thought-it-was-a-great-idea-in-1913.html

Sure, Republicans love to make excuses for their behavior, like pointing to a Democrat – Cordell Hull – being the one to really put it on Congress’ radar, and then point to things like:

“…put together a coalition of progressive Democrats and Republicans…”

https://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-11-3-b-the-income-tax-amendment-most-thought-it-was-a-great-idea-in-1913.html

…but that’s because of their reflexive dishonesty. If they’re going to blame it on just “…progressive…” (i.e.: liberal) Republicans, let’s look at the makeup of the 61st Congress, shall we?

“…the proposed 16th Amendment was approved by the Senate (77-0)…”

61st Congress, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/61st_United_States_Congress

Hm. That looks suspiciously like a Republican majority, to me. Somebody check my math. And while you’re doing that, check this out, too:

“and the House (318-14).”

https://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-11-3-b-the-income-tax-amendment-most-thought-it-was-a-great-idea-in-1913.html

The House? Let’s take a look at their makeup.

US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 61ST US CONGRESS https://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-11-3-b-the-income-tax-amendment-most-thought-it-was-a-great-idea-in-1913.html

Well that can’t be.

That’s another Republican majority.

In fact, these look like supermajorities.

Even if all 14 of the dissenters were Republicans, that’s still a lot of “YEA” votes coming from their party.

A LOT of “YEA” votes.

“The Fairest and Cheapest of All Taxes”

Rep. Cordell Hull introduced the first income tax law under the newly adopted Sixteenth Amendment. He proposed a graduated tax starting with a 1-percent rate for incomes between $4,000 and $20,000 increasing to a top rate of 3 percent for those earning $50,000 or more. The House Ways and Means Committee called upon citizens to “cheerfully support and sustain this, the fairest and cheapest of all taxes. . . .”

The first tax collection day under the new law took place on March 1, 1914. Since the average worker earned only about $800 a year, few people actually had to pay any federal income tax. Less than 4 percent of American families made an annual income of $3,000 or more. Deductions and exemptions further shrank the pool of taxpayers. Nevertheless, the federal government collected $71 million that first year. Millionaire John D. Rockefeller alone paid an estimated $2 million.

All in all, most Americans thought the new tax was a great idea. One taxpayer wrote to the Bureau of Internal Revenue, “I have purposely left out some deductions I could claim, in order to have the privilege and the pleasure of paying at least a small income tax. . . .”

https://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-11-3-b-the-income-tax-amendment-most-thought-it-was-a-great-idea-in-1913.html

In case you’re wondering, Rockefeller’s $2,000,000.00, in 1914, adjusted for inflation (something else Republicans have no interest in bringing under control, or reversing), would be $54,600,600.00 USD, today, but I’m sure many Republican readers, just like Democrats, are justifying it, either because they don’t like Rockefeller, or that he should just “pay his fair share”, and do what he’s told, so you can sponge off guys like that to fund your government planned retirement (compliments of another communist president, FDR).

People like to point to a ‘great divide’ between Republicans and Democrats, today, but you damned sure were walking hand-in-hand, back in the early 1900s, to destroy this country. Stupid Democrat voters and Stupid Republican voters, all united in a single cause: national suicide.

You want fair? There. One for each of you.

Everybody knows all Democrats and Socialists are tax and spend liberals, out to bankrupt the Country and the People, but Republicans are every bit as bad, and hide behind Democrat behavior to cover their own. This is why Republicans – including your beloved Trump – have no interest in the abolition of this onerous, un-American taxation that would’ve caused an outright revolt among the Founding Fathers: because they’re just as deeply invested in harming the Country, as any Democrat or Socialist, and are just as socialist as any Socialist.

Looking to Republicans to make things right – some of the very people that were the driving forces in making things go wrong, and helpmeets to the Democrats and Socialists in their anti-American drives – is a waste of time, and downright foolishness.

No Republican will ever tell you things like this, because no Republican will do any research that could be detrimental to their own political party, or to their view of their political party. If doing opposition research, anything that isn’t favorable to their position will be censored. The same goes for Democrats, when it comes to actually trying to do research, and finding pieces of information that they might consider “problematic”.

I am beholden to no political party, and to no politician, and I won’t be. I am only loyal to the Constitution.

Not to Trump,

not to Republicans, not to Obama,

not to Democrats, not to Ron Paul,

not to Libertarians, not to Bernie Sanders,

and not to Socialists.

You don’t realize how stupid you look, when you praise these clowns for reducing the amount they steal from you, by a few pennies.

Basically, you’re praising them for no longer stealing from both your pockets, and just one, but you’re too stupid to realize they’re taking the same amount, just from the same pocket.

You just make excuses like:

“Well, the system can’t be changed.”

Or, if someone says Trump, the last (fake) (neo)conservative president should’ve done something:

“Well, he’s just one man”,

or:

“Well his party was against him.”

or

“The Democrats…the Republicans…Mitch McConnell…Paul Ryan…Nancy Pelosi…blah, blah, blah…”

Stop being stupid.

As long as you keep voting for Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians and Socialists, this is what you get: socialism. Republicans and Libertarians have not reversed ANY of the Democrat and Socialist policies that harm this country, and their voter base of idiots only make excuses for them.

Stop with the political party BS.

Learn how to think for yourself, unless your brains have completely atrophied.

Republicans falsely claim to be Conservative, when they’re really nothing but Neocons (like Trump) and Paleocons (like Ronald Reagan). Until you make the effort to go out and find real, Traditional Conservatives, yourself, or with like-minded people, you’re just as responsible for the destruction these people bring down on the country, as they are. You’re crypto-socialists, maybe even crypto-communists, and are not to be taken seriously.

POLITICAL DERANGEMENT SYNDROME

We’ve had Bush Derangement Syndrome and Trump Derangement Syndrome.  Now the contagion has mutated into an even worse form.

POLITICAL DERANGEMENT SYNDROME:  It’s real. It’s a thing. It’s when you, on whatever side you are of the sociopolitical spectrum, are demonstrably incapable of tolerating the presence and/or expression of opinions, or people, that espouse beliefs, and/or opinions, different from your own, and prefer to spend time in echo chambers, massaging your sacred cow.

The virulence and level of contagion are indescribable.  Many, if not most, members of the Slave Party have it.  Many, if not most, Republicans have it.  Virtually all members of the Socialist Party have it.  Even Libertarians, with their laughable claims of being “above the fray” markedly demonstrate very serious symptoms.  This makes it impossible to have rational, productive discussions with these very diseased people.

Do not get caught up trying to reason with such people.

For the weak minded, this is a dangerous contagion, and, once infected, it is virtually impossible to convince the diseased that they are, in fact, very seriously and gravely ill, and even harder to cure, if it even is possible.

Political Derangement Syndrome: 

This is a disorder that renders victims completely irrational and unable to cope with reality, flying into unpredictable emotional states at the very mention of any sociopolitical position they do not approve of, and, in some cases, at the very mention of any word that sounds too much like the name of a politician they don’t personally like.

Symptoms Include:

• Spiritual/mental pain
• Shortness of breath
• Flop sweats
• Nausea
• Mental confusion
• Hallucinations
• Convulsions 
• Paroxysms
• Pathological lying
• Magical thinking
• Hysteria
• Violent Outbursts
• Symptoms resembling multi-infarct dementia
• Anxiety, taking the form of screaming and/or crying for no apparent reason
• Suicidal ideation
• Homicidal ideation
• Extreme racism

There are more, but these are some of the most common symptoms.  There is no known cure for this condition. 

Commonly, liberals, neoliberals, paleoconservatives and neoconservatives seem to have no natural defense against this crippling mental disease, as is the case with most others.  In fits of hallucinations, magical thinking and mental confusion, those suffering from this condition manufacture things that a politician, supporters of said politician, or a political party, or political ideology has done to them, or their friends/family, and this spreads to others suffering from the disease, via hysteria.  This disease can be very similar to toxoplasmosis.  In some, due to the depths of mental disturbance, it would not even be possible to have a one-on-one conversation with an offending politician/person of an offending sociopolitical ideology, because their mental confusion, anxiety, hysteria and other symptoms would actually prevent them from hearing what he says, but transform his words into something completely different.

Example:

General Purpose Politician or Person From Another Portion of the Sociopolitical Spectrum:  “I really like your hair.  Do you like my hair?  I have really great hair.  I have a full head of hair, you know.  No bald spots.  Would you like to see?  Look closer, it’s not a toupee, I swear.  Look.” [Strokes his own hair.]

Patient Hears:  “One of the first things I’m going to do is declare martial law, and hunt people like you into extinction.  I’m going to use executive orders to get every violent patient out of every mental hospital, and you know what I’m going to do, next?  I’m going to give them guns, and your picture.  Yeah, I’m going to have you killed by mental patients.  What do you think of that?”  [Repeatedly gives Nazi salute.]

In the depths of their mental confusion, sufferers from this type of PDS have little, or no, touch with reality, or very brief periods of lucidity, whereas the majority of their existence is spent in a constant, hallucinatory and tormented state.

Example 1:

Mental Health Care Worker:  “I’d like for you to look at this.  This is a tax plan that Barack and Michelle Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton and Bernie and Jane Sanders came up with, after a night of brainstorming.”  [Hands patient papers.]

Patient:  “Hmmm.  [Reading.]  I like this.  This looks really fair.  See, this is why I support liberal democrats and socialists.  They truly are Of the People, and For the People.  I think a lot of people would benefit from this, and it’s not for corporate fat-cats.  I like this.” 

Mental Health Care Worker:  “OK, thank you.  Now, I’d like you to read this.  This was Eric Holder’s plan to fight Human trafficking problems in the United States.  He came up with this, recently, off the top of his head at a symposium.”  [Hands patient more papers.]

Patient:  “Hm.  [Reading.]  See, this is what America needs.  See?  This is a man that cares about Human rights and is a true servant of justice.  America is really moving in the wrong direction, but things like this really give me hope.  I’m glad that there are still people like this around that actually care more about the Country, than politics, and holding on to their own positions of political power.”

Mental Health Care Worker:  “OK, [takes papers back from patient] now, I have to tell you that they weren’t what I presented them to be.  Actually, that’s Trump’s tax plan, made in cooperation with people like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, of the Republican Party.  And the action plan on taking on Human trafficking was made by former Republican senator and current United States Attorney General, Jeff Sessions.

Patient:  [Sitting with ‘deer in headlights’ look on face.] [Begins trembling.] [Expression turns to horror.] [Gasping, as though having difficulty breathing.] [Sees cell door open, and Trump, Sessions, Ryan and Mitch McConnell enter room, wearing flawless, black Nazi SS uniforms, flanked by brown-shirted stormtroopers, all waving guns.] [Patient starts screaming hysterically, runs and repeatedly throws self against wall, while doctor calls for orderlies and sedation.] [Hallucinatory Trump starts screaming “Sieg Heil!”, inciting others to do it, and give Nazi salutes.]

Example 2:

Mental Health Care Worker:  “I’d like for you to look at this.  This is a gun control plan that Donald and Melania Trump, Dan and Tara Crenshaw and Mike and Karen Pence came up with, after a night of brainstorming.”  [Hands patient papers.]

Patient:  “Hmmm.  [Reading.]  I like this.  This looks really fair.  See, this is why I support the Republican Party.  They truly are Of the People and For the People.  I think a lot of people would benefit from this, and it’s not for liberal elites.  I like this.” 

Mental Health Care Worker:  “OK, thank you.  Now, I’d like you to read this.  This was William Barr’s plan to fight Human trafficking problems in the United States.  He came up with this, recently, off the top of his head at a symposium.”  [Hands patient more papers.]

Patient:  “Hm.  [Reading.]  See, this is what America needs.  See?  This is a man that cares about Human rights and is a true servant of justice.  America is really moving in the wrong direction, but things like this really give me hope.  These are people out to make America great, again.  I’m glad that there are still people like this around that actually care more about the Country, than politics, and holding on to their own positions of political power.”

Mental Health Care Worker:  “OK, [takes papers back from patient] now, I have to tell you that they weren’t what I presented them to be.  Actually, that’s Dianne Feinstein’s gun control plan, made in cooperation with people like Barbara Boxer and Chuck Schumer, of the Democratic Party.  And the action plan on taking on Human trafficking was made by former United States Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, in cooperation with Eric Holder.

Patient:  [Sitting with ‘deer in headlights’ look on face.] [Begins trembling.] [Expression turns to horror.] [Gasping, as though having difficulty breathing.] [Sees cell door open, and Barack Obama, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Talib enter room, wearing flawless, traditional Muslim attire, flanked by stereotypical Islamic terrorists, all waving “Hillary/Whitmer 2020” flags.] [Patient starts screaming hysterically, runs and throws self against wall, repeatedly, while doctor calls for orderlies and sedation.] [Hallucinatory Bernie Sanders starts screaming “Allah Hu Ackbar!”, inciting others to do it, then unroll their prayer rugs, collapse onto them, and begin genuflecting.]

Honestly, this is an extremely dangerous disease, and a threat to national security.  Individuals that have been infected are virtually incapable of self-guided, or critical, thought, relying on massive group minds, or Groupthink.  In the great novel “1984” by visionary writer George Orwell, this is defined:

The political purpose of Newspeak is to eliminate the expression of the shades of meaning inherent in ambiguity and nuance from Oldspeak (Standard English). In order to reduce the language’s function of communication, Newspeak uses concepts of simple construction, such as pleasure vs. pain and happiness vs. sadness.

Newspeak, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

This is what the infected communicate in: Newspeak. Each side seeks to change the definitions of words, tailoring them to their own personal and group narratives, in order to intentionally marginalize anyone else outside of their group. This has amounted to the greatest gaslighting campaign of all time, as each faction of infectees, now virtually incapable of communicating with each other, accuses the other of the very same thing they are doing, and all sides are incapable of communicating with normal, uninfected people. Words are eliminated from vocabularies, as to prevent people with their PDS simplex from communicating ideologies or expressions that are prohibited, in an effort to eliminate them, altogether, in conjunction with propaganda news casts and educational systems.

The term “newspeak” was coined by George Orwell in his 1949 anti-utopian novel 1984. In Orwell’s fictional totalitarian state, Newspeak was a language favored by the minions of Big Brother and, in Orwell’s words, “designed to diminish the range of thought.” Newspeak was characterized by the elimination or alteration of certain words, the substitution of one word for another, the interchangeability of parts of speech, and the creation of words for political purposes. The word has caught on in general use to refer to confusing or deceptive bureaucratic jargon.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/newspeak

The disease, in conjunction with the politicians, political parties, education systems and cable propaganda newscasts – all of whom are dominated by the infected – do truly result in a people that are only capable of a diminished capacity for, and range of, rational, independent thought. When dealing with someone that has a different PDS Simplex, or the uninfected, the diseased will hallucinate, tremendously, with all 5 senses completely compromised. Anyone that speaks against their diseased orthodoxy is a “traitor”, a member of another faction of the diseased, “racist”, ‘on a high horse’, etc.

It cannot be stressed, enough, that the diseased are completely impervious to reason, and incapable of rational thought. They cannot be debated with, as they can only argue, and their arguments are laced with, if not completely composed of, logical fallacies. In some instances, it will look as though they are intentionally going down the list of logical fallacies, and purposefully using them against you, thinking they are making unassailable points, while you are completely clueless. It cannot be stressed, enough, that there are no known cases of anyone recovering from this disease. Please keep up with your mental hygiene, and do not come into contact with the infected. If you are going to a gathering that has a probability of harboring one, or more, infectees, do not go, and expose yourself to this risk. It also cannot be stressed, enough, that some of the diseased will very much resort to violence, if not outright homicide, to suppress any dissenting speech, and to preserve the self-perceived supremacy of their own points of view. Some will pretend to be your friends, all the while slandering and libeling you, in your absence, only to feign innocence if caught. They cannot be trusted, you should not be around them. They are beyond all hope of cure or redemption.

I am Virus-X: REPUBLIC COMMANDO, and I approve this message.