I have an honest question for the Trump fans here.

What do you like about him? I can find nothing… absolutely nothing… not one good thing. And I don’t like that. Everyone has some good points. What am I missing? Please try to explain it to me without using references to Biden, or Obama, or Hillary, or anybody else you don’t like. Convince me Trump has some good points.

Also, if Trump does not run in 2024, who would you like to see as the nominee for the Republican Party for President?

The link below tells the story of Donald Trump’s endorsements for the GOP Senate race in Alabama. He initially endorsed Mo Brooks – one of his most loyal disciples – and denounced his opponent Katie Britt as “unfit.” Later he unendorsed Mo Brooks and last night he endorsed Katie Britt. What I found to be very telling was Trump’s own words in his new endorsement. . .

“Last year I endorsed Mo Brooks for the U.S. Senate because I thought he was a Fighter, especially when it came to the Rigged and Stolen Presidential Election of 2020. The evidence is irrefutable. Then, out of nowhere, and for seemingly no reason, Mo backtracked and made a big mistake by going Woke at our massive Cullman, Alabama Rally. Instead of denouncing the Voter Fraud in the Election, Mo lectured the crowd of 63,000 people saying, “Put that behind you, put that behind you,” meaning that, in effect, forget the Rigged Election and go on to the future.”

OMG, Brooks dared suggest it is time to move on from the 2020 election. How disloyal is that! And even worse, he is now “Woke.”

I hope you people are proud of your Dear Leader.

https://tinyurl.com/437sy3nu

I don’t want to beat up on an old man, but an old man as damaged by age as Joe Biden should not be president of the United States.

After watching the presentation by Lynn Cheney last night as she provided an overview of where the detailed evidence will be going, I have these reactions:

1. Everyone around the President knew that the Big Lie was “bullshit.” That included not only AG William Barr but also first daughter Ivanka. And, according to them, they shared that view with the President over and over again.
2. I had – up to now – bought in to the gaslighting that only a few rogues initiated the violence and everyone else was just carried away. It is now clear that the Proud Boys played the role of shock troops and that between 200-300 of them did not even listen to the inciteful speech but were already positioning themselves to fulfill their mission of breaching the Capitol.
3. My view that Mike Pence redeemed his career that day was reinforced. Not only did he not allow himself to be whisked away to safety (or something else), but he also tried to fill the leadership vacuum left by Trump’s refusal to protect the Congress. And, it was chilling to see again the President castigating Pence in front of that rabid crowd as was the Trump reaction to the hang Mike Pence chants that “Maybe our supporters have the right idea, Mike Pence deserves it.”
4. I got a better sense of what a running battle it was as the Capitol Police continued to fall back to new defensive lines before finally being overwhelmed by the weight of the onslaught.
5. I will be very interested to learn which members of Congress were seeking Presidential Pardons for their roles in the insurrection and what those roles were. I wonder if Jim Jordan was one of them.
6. Finally, and most importantly, it is more clear than ever that the violence was not spontaneous, that it was part and parcel of a plan to create a Constitutional crisis from which a Trump victory would emerge. In short, a criminal conspiracy lead by the President of the United States.

https://www.itv.com/news/2022-06-09/two-britons-and-moroccan-man-sentenced-to-death-penalty-in-pro-russian-state

Prisoners of war being taken out and shot is a clearly defined war crime. So are such kangaroo courts. And this is not in the heat of battle. It is a deliberate flouting of the rules of war. At least one of the two British citizens has family ties in Ukraine and was serving in the Ukraine military before the invasion. The Moroccan national sentenced to death was living in the Ukraine and also joined its military before the invasion. Spinning them as some sort of mercenaries is more of Putin’s lies. And it is not relevant to how POWs are to be treated.

The other thread wandered pretty far afield. So, to get back to the issue.

It’s not about Trump. The judicial branch is not supposed to be political. It is supposed to interpret the law, not make it. The opinions of the judges are irrelevant to their decisions, and so are the opinions of the public. The law is what it is. If it needs changing, that belongs to the legislative branch. There is no reason to lobby a SCOTUS justice, ever.

It is against Federal law to try to intimidate a judge. Those protesting outside the homes of justices are blatantly breaking the law, and Garland won’t enforce the law. Finally, this led to an unstable partisan trying to kill a justice. Thankfully he was incompetent.

But the MSM seems intent to ignore this, and not hold those who sent protestors to the justices’ homes fueled by violent rhetoric accountable. Schumer should resign, Garland should be impeached.

Elected official inciting terrorism

So, we’re going to have a prime time “hearing” on an elected official inciting violence.

Why isn’t it this one?

Source: Bacon’s Rebellion.

I read this article with some dismay. Although I agree that universal broadband internet in Virginia would be a good thing, I don’t agree with the approach to creating it.

A basic principle of economics holds that free markets are an efficient dialectic (thesis, antithesis, synthesis). Given that resources are scarce and stakeholders are many, every economic puzzle has an almost infinite number of solutions. Free market dialectics take time, but tend to produce optimal results.

Here, government preempted the free market, driving out benefits society could have enjoyed. Just because something is good doesn’t mean it needs to be done right away.

NYT, Cancer miracle? 

In a small study, 100% of patients with advanced rectal cancer were cured, with no serious side effects.

So, are we going to get it to market as fast as it can be produced? Nope, the FDA is going to demand a much larger study with diverse participants before beginning its evaluation process. At best, it will be available in 2 to 3 years.

Can’t take any chances that there might be adverse side effects, can we?

Really? What side effects would there be that are worse than ass cancer?

New life saving drugs should be available to fully informed patients immediately, more thorough studies can be done in parallel with saving the most lives.

Source: The Saker.

I don’t know anything about the writer of this brief commentary, except what he says about himself in the piece, but I suspect he represents the point of view of a sizeable number of Russians. He sees the war in Ukraine as the beginning of apocalyptic events, and expresses his belief that “at the ultimate conclusion of this Special Operation, there is no reason why the USA or the EU should continue to exist.”

I don’t endorse the writer’s view, but I expect most Americans would be surprised by the intensity of anti-Western sentiment it conveys.

I think, too, there are very few Americans who take seriously the prospect that the war in Ukraine may become a major turning point in world affairs, with the collapse of Western Civilization a very real possibility.