POLITICAL: Voting Laws Every State Should Enact Right Now

Saturday, December 20, 2025

https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seven-voting-laws-every-blue-state-should-enact-right-now/

Seven Voting Laws Every Blue State Should Enact Right Now
By Marc Elias
November 28, 2025

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1. Enact a statutory right to vote for every eligible citizen.
2. Ban signature matching of mail-in ballots.
3. Count all ballots postmarked by Election Day.
4. Guarantee voters they will not have to wait more than 30 minutes in line.
5. Ban third-party voter challenges and other forms of vigilantism.
6. Provide criminal and civil remedies for voter intimidation.
7. Revise and strengthen election-certification laws.

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Remember the Dead Old White Guys were opposed to “democracy”.

“The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government.” — Walter E. Williams

Remember they saw the (bloody) French Revolution, as well as the many “slave uprisings” in the New World.

“If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.” — Emma Goldman ― often incorrectly attributed to American humorist Mark Twain ― but very very true imho!

“The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone’s opinion is worth the same.” — Robert A. Heinlein

All that being said:

  • I agree with #1 and #2.
  • The rest I’m not so sure are improvements or do-able.
  • I’d add a few of my own

#8 Voter Id — mandatory —  citizens only —  indelible ink like in India

#9 Voter Competency —  no “nursing home” voting blocks —  not sure how to enforce that but should be easy to figure out

#10 Voter crypto signature —  if iPhone and Android can do passkeys then the USA can do it too

#11 Fraud and Campaign contributions penalties with teeth 

#12 Political Campaign contributions limited amounts, from real individuals, and all domiciled in the district

#13 Paper ballots only!  No machines.

#14 Repeal the 17th Direct Election of Senators and return it to the State legislators

#15 Ranked Choice voting nationwide

I thing that about covers it.  I’m sure I’ll think of some more.

Laugh!

As if anyone cares.

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CORRUPTION: Many senators are possibly criminally involved in money laundering

Friday, December 19, 2025

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/massive-democrat-money-laundering-discovered-names-include-gretchen/

Massive Democrat Money Laundering Discovered – Names include Gretchen Whitmer, Jon Ossoff and Cory Booker
by Jim Hoft Dec. 15, 2025 8:00 am1022 Comments

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Epilogue It now can be seen that Senators Cory Booker, Mark Kelly, Elissa Slotkin, Raphael Warnock, Adam Schiff, Jon Ossoff, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar are heavily and possibly criminally involved as recipients of what is obviously a massive money laundering effort that probably spans the past two decades! This grouping of 42 seniors, AKA “smurfs” reveals the dedicated efforts of some very determined, corrupt individuals to launder money into the Democratic sphere of campaign finance. These 42 persons are “alleged” to have donated over 7.4 million dollars in over 32,000 separate donations. The ActBlue scheme of “Too Small, Too Many To Find” has been discovered! This current revelation is just a current snapshot of what will be an ongoing and probably ever growing investigatory effort.

Stay Tuned Fellow Patriots and please share this as you are able! The Best (Or Worse) is Yet to Come!

Bob Cushman – Investigative Reporter The Freedom Press https://michiganscorruption.com

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The ActBlue scheme of “Too Small, Too Many To Find” and that of WinRed need to be thoroughLy investigated.  And all involved sent to jail.  PERIOD!

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POLITICAL: Election suck and “special elections” are a boondoggle

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

https://patch.com/new-jersey/southbrunswick/s/jslig/special-election-to-replace-mikie-sherrill-set-here-s-what-happens-next?user_email=6977bb79afc18d89968a6a0494d4b398a8e9e97df94217a36edb8fcfd93b518e&user_email_md5=cff302c94eb4f6351922680bba576fdd&lctg=512c02461e240a9c

Special Election To Replace Mikie Sherrill Set: Here’s What Happens Next

  • ​New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has set an election date to replace Mikie Sherrill in Congress.

Eric Kiefer, Patch Staff
Posted Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 10:56 am ET
Updated Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 11:06 am ET

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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has set an election date to replace Governor-elect Mikie Sherrill in Congress.

On Friday, Murphy issued a writ of election to fill a vacancy in the U.S. House of Representatives for New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District. A special primary election will take place on Feb. 5. A special general election will be held on April 16.

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Boy, do I HATE elections.

Not only because a minority of those eligible to vote bother —  AND I understand why!  As a “red” voter in a “blue” state, my voting is hopeless —  and with all the fraud and “non-citizens” voting, it is a foregone conclusion who will “win”!

So until we have voter id requirements, we are never going to have an honest election!  AT ANY LEVEL!!!

“If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.” — Emma Goldman ― often incorrectly attributed to American humorist Mark Twain ― but very very true imho!

“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.” – Oscar Ameringer

“It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the votes.” — attributed to Joseph Stalin

“As long as I count the Votes, what are you going to do about it. say?” — attributed to William M. “Boss” Tweed in Thomas Nast cartoon, 7 October 1871).

Now onto “Special Elections” and “Ranked Choice Voting”.

Special elections, like here in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee this year, occurred when a sitting Congress critter was elected Governor.  This could easily be avoided if there was a rule that a sitting legislator is ineligible to run for another office.  And, for death or disability, then let the State’s legislature pick someone (from the phone book, voter rolls, someone who voted, or the unemployment office) to fill out the term.  BINGO!  No need for “special elections”.

Ranked Choice Voting, aka Instant Runoff, is necessary to prevent “spoilers” in the current scheme of “First Across The Finish Line” (aka, winner take all).  In this case, voters would rank their candidates in preferential order.  Then, in tabulation, if no one has a majority, then the lowest ranking candidate is discarded and the votes are recalculated. Voters for that lowest ranking candidate, who expressed a preference, would have their votes added to their preferred candidate. Voters for that lowest ranking candidate, who did NOT express a preference, would have their votes discarded. The recalculation would continue until a candidate has a majority or only one candidate was left; a plurality!

Seems simple enough to enact and add in some “life sentences” for cheaters and we COULD have honest elections.  Note: if we arrest low level cheaters, then, with plea bargains, we can, just like with drug dealers, work our way up the chain of corruption.  

Sigh!  Fat chance in hell!

Of course, I’d prefer if voting was restricted to taxpayers, or veterans.

“A veteran is someone who at one point in his life wrote a blank check made payable to the ‘United States of America’ for an amount of ‘up to and including my life.'” -Anonymous

Remember Heinlein’s Starship Troopers’ universe? One does not merely have the right to be a citizen and vote by virtue of what Heinlein called the mere accident of birth; rather, one has to earn this right through Federal Service that tested one’s ability and willingness to sacrifice for the greater good of the polity. Bet not a lot of vets would vote for all the undeclared wars the USA has been in since WW2?

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POLITICAL: If the data exonerated the program, it would be published immediately

Friday, November 28, 2025

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/uk-government-wins-battle-withhold-data-linking-covid-vaccines-excess-deaths/

November 17, 2025 › Health Conditions › Toxic Exposures › News
Toxic Exposures

UK Government Wins 2-Year Battle to Withhold Data Linking COVID Vaccines to Excess Deaths

  • Under a ruling last week by the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK Health Security Agency is not required to publicly release data that could link COVID-19 vaccines to excess deaths. The ruling, which ended a two-year battle over the data, has led to accusations of a “cover-up,” according to The Telegraph, which first reported the story.

by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.
November 17, 2025

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British health freedom activist and podcaster Dan Astin-Gregory, a member of MEHA’s steering committee, said that if “the data exonerated the program, it would be published immediately. The refusal alone shows that transparency has been traded for institutional self-preservation. Families who have lost loved ones deserve honesty, not secrecy.”

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Sorry, but any and every Gooferment should have no secrets.  

“Secrecy begets tyranny.” —Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

The fact that the UK Gooferment is concealing the “bad news” just means that the US Gooferments will do the same thing.

“The state is a gang of thieves writ large.” — Murray Rothbard

And, this just proves it.

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POLITICAL: Mortgage Fraud Cannot Be Tolerated

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/primary-residence-scam-heres-why-james-schiff-cook/

The Primary-Residence Scam: Here’s Why James, Schiff, Cook, and Swalwell’s Mortgage Fraud Cannot Be Tolerated
by Joel Gilbert Nov. 17, 2025 8:00 am

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Allowing lies about occupancy hides this elevated risk.

How about down payments? Primary residences may require as little as 3-5% down, while second properties are often 20-25% higher.

When someone misrepresents a second home or investment property as their primary residence, they distort the lender’s assessment of risk.

The bank thinks they are issuing a safer loan than they actually are. In reality, they are being exposed to the elevated risks associated with investment properties including higher vacancy rates, greater likelihood of strategic default, and more volatile cash flows.

If this deception is tolerated, the pricing model for mortgages collapses. The lender cannot correctly measure risk, and without accurate risk assessments, the cost of lending rises for everyone.

Make no mistake, primary-residence fraud is theft. Lying about primary residence constitutes mortgage fraud, a federal crime under 18 U.S.C. § 1014. Penalties may include federal felony charges, up to 30 years in prison, fines up to $1 million, and civil liability, including treble damages.

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Sorry, but I feel little sympathy for politicians and bureaucrats who commit mortgage fraud.  As someone, who has had multiple homes and multiple mortgages, I ALWAYS played by the rules.  And, suffered bigger down payments, higher interest rates, and more expensive insurance rates.  I think the legal distinction between: domicile, primary residence, other residences, multiple homes, and “vacation” homes as arbitrary and confusing.  (I also object to paying property taxes on a home where I can not vote how money is spent, but I can sure pay those taxes from which money is spent.)

The politicians and bureaucrats, who are always in the top tier of wealth, should be held to a standard like Caesar’s wife.  And, when they fall afoul of the laws they created, they should be judged and punished harshly.  

Equality under the law for everyone; not just us “little people”!

That goes for insider trading too!

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POLITICAL: Separation of Gooferment from Aviation

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

FROM 1440 http://join1440.com/

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House Shutdown Vote

The House reconvenes today and is expected to vote on a Senate bill to reopen the government. The vote comes on the 43rd day of the US’ longest shutdown.

Seven Democrats and one independent joined 52 Republicans to pass the Senate bill, which would fund much of the government through January. The Agriculture Department—which facilitates SNAP food benefits to 42 million Americans—would be funded through September 2026. The bill does not extend COVID-era healthcare subsidies for 24 million people who purchase plans under the Affordable Care Act. Democratic leaders had sought to make reopening the government conditional on extending those subsidies, due to expire Dec. 31. ACA marketplace premiums are projected to rise up to 30%, from 18%, without an extension. Federal health subsidies cost an estimated $1.8T in 2023, roughly 7% of the US gross domestic product.

Separately, airlines canceled an estimated 6% of flights at 40 of the US’ busiest airports yesterday amid ongoing air traffic controller shortages.

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Why is the Gooferment regulating and operating “Aviation”?

It should ONLY be regulating as necessary. Clearly a consortium of commercial airlines could do a better job and cheaper. Surely a private entity would not be running on 1950’s hardware and software. Additionally, the Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy. So, there would be efficiencies and cost reductions.

This goes for Air Traffic Control and Airports.

Now there would have to be some role for “private aviation” and “military aviation” in this consortium. But those details can be worked out between the parties involved.

Airports would be just like any other corporate establishment regulated by the state or local Gooferment.

I can see a much better future once we #privatizetheFAA!

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POLITICAL: The single best suggestion yet — repeal vaccine immunity legislation

Sunday, November 16, 2025

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/four-next-steps-from-mccullough-foundation?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1119676&post_id=178068896&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3snn7d&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

 

Four “Next Steps” from McCullough Foundation Report on Autism
Dr McCullough outlines constructive actions to be taken by our government for Dr. Gina Loudon
Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
Nov 08, 2025

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Rescind The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986 (42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-1 to 300aa-34) and restore product liability to the vaccine manufacturers

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And watch Big Pharma scram like a stuck pig.  All that lobbying money for naught.

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POLITICAL: Socialism interferes in the private sector—via regulations, taxes, mandates, and bureaucratic controls

Monday, November 10, 2025

https://www.cato.org/blog/democratic-socialist-plans-will-only-make-nyc-worse

November 2, 2025 8:04AM
Democratic Socialist Plans Will Only Make NYC Worse
By Michael Chapman

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The Nature of Democratic Socialism

Libertarian economists have long explained that democratic socialism does not involve outright government seizure of the means of production. Rather, it manifests through layers of government interference in the private sector—via regulations, taxes, mandates, and bureaucratic controls. Each intervention distorts market processes, producing inefficiencies and crises that, in turn, invite yet more intervention. The cycle repeats, expanding state power and eroding prosperity.

A contemporary example can be seen in the Democrats’ push to extend Obamacare subsidies, which are set to expire at year’s end. These subsidies were meant to stabilize insurance markets, yet their expiration will drive premiums upward. The government created this instability by intervening in healthcare and now seeks to intervene again—at an estimated cost of $415 billion over ten years—to “fix” the problem it caused.

This incremental approach is socialism by installments: policy by policy, the private market is replaced with a government-run one. Mamdani’s proposals fit within this framework.

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Congress is a known cesspool for producing market distortions.  Creates more opportunities for “insider trading”.   How else do so many enter broke and leave grazilionairs?

How can “We, The Sheeple” stop this ever quickening slide into Socialism / Communism?  End “Federal Gooferment Benefit” programs.  If the States want welfare, let them pass and pay for it.  No more “sugar” coming from the Feds.

Also, eliminate all “non-profit” entities —  NGO’s, “Foundations”, and “Trusts”.  

End the cycle of “political contributions” that come from “winners” of lucrative Gooferment contracts.

Political contributions Should be limited to small amounts from “inside” the representative’s district.

Time to shrink all levels of Gooferment!

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MEME: Something to remember this Election Day — choose wisely,

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Something for “We, The Sheeple” in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerk to remember this Election Day?

Your candidate is a self-proclaimed Communist.  

“The problem with socialism is that you can vote your way into it but you need to shoot your way out of it.” — Larry Lambert

When NYC becomes a “socialist paradise” like Cuba, at least the escape won’t be as far or as dangerous?

Unless this mentality infects the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee too.

“When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.”

“But choose wisely, for while the true Grail will bring you life, the false Grail will take it from you.” Grail Knight in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097576/quotes

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POLITICAL: Welfare was supposed to be temporary help, but it’s become a lifestyle

Friday, October 31, 2025

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/brazilian-woman-us-delivers-powerful-takedown-americas-nanny/

Brazilian Woman in the US Delivers Powerful Takedown of America’s Nanny State (Video)
by Margaret Flavin Oct. 30, 2025 2:00 pm

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A Brazilian woman now in the US took to social media to deliver a powerful and accurate takedown of America’s nanny state that has become even more visible during the Schumer shutdown.

“The left is so funny,” she began. “Workers who don’t work, students who don’t study, educators who don’t educate, and politicians who cannot lead, so they buy votes instead. But somehow they figured it out.”

“They create dependence and call it compassion.”

“They create victims and call it justice, create laziness and call it equality.”

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“Now, I’m going to say something that is controversial, but shouldn’t be. I don’t think these people should vote, honestly. How can you vote freely when you’re being bought?”

“Welfare was supposed to be temporary help, but it’s become a lifestyle.”

“Worse than that, it’s become a political strategy.”

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I’m impressed that this unnamed “Brazilian woman” can so aptly describe our “welfare” problem.

I’d be more impressed if she was identified.  Perhaps she’s an illegal and on the dole she complains about.  How would we know she’s not.

Part of being a “cynical skeptic” is to doubt EVERYTHING.  Even if it’s taking “your side”.  Perhaps, then is when we should be the strictist when exmining the “evidence” we like..

Argh!

But, regardless, the USA has a problem with the “Welfare / Warfare” state that we can’t afford.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: end the IRS and the FCC

Monday, October 27, 2025

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/10/ron-paul/it-didnt-start-with-trump/

It Didn’t Start With Trump

By Ron Paul, MD

The Ron Paul Institute

October 21, 2025

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The administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt used tax investigations against political opponents.

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President John F. Kennedy used the IRS and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to drive his conservative critics off the radio.

President Lyndon Johnson also used the IRS and the FCC to silence conservative critics.

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President Richard Nixon used the IRS to target political enemies. The Nixon administration also threatened television and radio companies with revocation of their broadcast licenses unless they provided favorable coverage of the administration.

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During the Clinton administration, the IRS not only targeted conservative and libertarian organizations it audited Paula Jones after she sued President Clinton for sexual harassment.

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During the George W. Bush years, the IRS targeted organizations critical of the Iraq War.

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When Barack Obama assumed the presidency, the tax agency turned its attention back to conservative and libertarian groups, with a focus on organizations associated with the Tea Party.

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So, let’s “nuke” the IRS and the FCC.

Seems like a good start.

Many if the abuses of power all originate from the Federal Gooferment “regulating” “We, The Sheeple”.  Since we are supposed to be a Federal Republic, the Federal Gooferment should only interact with the various State Gooferments that created it.  Leave “We, The People” alone.

Argh!

Let’s start Limited Government!

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POLITICAL: Zohran Mamdani is a self proclaimed Communist; what are New Yorkers thinking?

Saturday, October 25, 2025

https://nypost.com/2025/10/20/us-news/zohran-mamdanis-terror-suspect-imam-ally-once-called-america-filthy-and-sick/

Three men smiling, two in suits and one in a white thobe, in an office with bookshelves.

By

Emily Crane
Published Oct. 20, 2025, 10:28 a.m. ET

Zohran Mamdani’s alleged terror-tied imam ally, Siraj Wahhaj, once ripped the United States as “filthy” and “sick” in a hate-filled rant.

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I don’t understand what the voters of the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerk could possibly be thinking.

No man or group of men—including any group of men calling themselves “the government”—is morally entitled to initiate (that is, to start) the use of physical force, the threat of force, or any substitute for force (such as fraud) against any other man or group of men. “The Market for Liberty” Linda & Morris Tannehill (1970)

And, any reading of history will show that once you vote in “socialism” aka “communism”, it takes a violent revolution to get rid of it.   A lot of people die!

Anyone remember Mao, Pol Pot, and all the other Communist “revolutionaries” and how many dead bodies they produced.

Same thing is happening in the USA with “leftist” judges who don’t seek to protect the citizens and other innocent victims.

It has to stop IMMEDIATELY.

Paratattein (παρατάττειν) “Form the line!” — attributed to Leonidas to prepare his men for battle at Thermopylae 

Here is the line we dare not cross.

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POLITICAL: The Epstein “Evidence List” is damning

Thursday, October 23, 2025

https://x.com/glennbeck/status/1942442921103614098?s=12

Glenn Beck
@glennbeck

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The Epstein “Evidence List” isn’t just damning—it’s clarifying. No matter what you believe about Epstein’s past or fate, five conclusions can be logically drawn from the material seized.
This thread is for anyone who still cares about truth. 

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FROM LUDDITE

Anyone think Epstein was stupid enough to keep a client list?

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Yes. I AM. If this was an intelligence operation by — either or all — CIA, Mossad, MI6, Ukraine?, Russia —of some combination of them, then I believe extensive organized “evidence” was preserved in various places —his island, his apartment, in the archives of one or more intelligence services.

As evidence, I offer the “sweetheart plea deal” by the Federal Gooferment, the paintings in his apartment, and Musk’s assertion of a “list”.

IMHO this one is not going away.

And, the sooner the “list” is published then the sooner we can excise this “moral cancer” from out collective conscious.

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https://www.wtvq.com/rep-thomas-massie-urges-transparency-on-epstein-victim-list-says-names-should-be-released/

Rep. Thomas Massie urges transparency on Epstein victim list, says names should be released
September 19, 2025
ABC 36 Digital Staff

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WASHINGTON (ABC36 NEWS NOW) – Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie is calling for more transparency from federal investigators after saying the FBI has received at least 20 names from Jeffrey Epstein victims that have not been made public.

Massie told reporters that the list of names given to investigators has not been released and suggested two possibilities for why: either the FBI doubts the victims’ credibility, or the agency is protecting “rich and powerful people.” “This is not a hoax. There are more names. Those names are not being released,” Massie said. “The only argument for not releasing those names is either the FBI doesn’t think the victims are credible or they don’t want to embarrass those rich and powerful people.”

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So, OBVIOUSLY, there is a “list” and it shoulda, coulda, and woulda be released!

Argh!

@realDonaldTrump Are you listening?

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POLITICAL: What if you were acquitted but they imprisoned you anyway?

Friday, October 17, 2025

https://downsizedc.org/act/end-judicial-findings-2/

End Judicial Findings
What if you were acquitted but they imprisoned you anyway?

Five Ways the Feds Foster Mass Incarceration
Where did judicial findings come from?

Judicial findings are a power judges created out of thin air. It means that acquitted or uncharged conduct can be treated as a relevant “finding” at sentencing. This power has been consitently abused. Here’s an example…
How judicial findings imprisoned Ross Ulbricht for life.

Ross Ulbricht made national news when he was pardoned in the first days of the Trump administration. Ross created Silk Road which didn’t ban the sale of contraband items. Needless to say, federal police didn’t like that.

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———- Forwarded message ———
From: Downsize DC <newsletter@downsizedc.org>
Date: Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Subject: The Ian Freeman false imprisonment

Learn how it happened View this email in your browser How did Ian Freeman fall prey to false imprisonment, even though he evaded the IRS agent’s sting operation? Most libertarians are familiar with the Ross Ulbricht story. In review, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for charges that were not even tested in court, and for which he was not convicted. 

You are probably also aware that President Trump promised to pardon Ross during the campaign and then promptly kept that promise. 

Now comes another miscarriage of justice, which we hope will also have a good ending. You can help that happen. Ian Freeman was a libertarian activist in Keene, New Hampshire. He was also a partner with Mark Edge in one of the most successful radio talk shows in America, Free Talk Live. 

In a recent episode of Gracearchy with Jim Babka I interviewed Mark Edge to explore who Ian Freeman is, my relationship with both of them, and how Ian was sentenced to eight years in prison, despite committing no authentic crime. Watch On Rumble OR Free Ian Freeman, with Mark Edge – Gracearchy with Jim Babka EP143 This story involves…

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I knew Ian when I was up in Keene.  He was a passionate little L libertarian activist then; I think still is now.  He was always truthful and honest that I’m aware of.  From the facts that have been published, I think he got the “you know what” end of the stick.  He’s always been a persistent PIA to the politicians and bureaucrats so it’s no wonder that “they” decided to take him out.  An ardent ₿itcoin advocate, he was always using that to attack the Federal Reserve System and fractional reserve banking.  I think he was finally making a dent in the Keene economy with people and business using ₿itcoin, Goldbacks, Silver, and barter.  Can’t have that shaking “We, The Sheeple” awake.  So this fraudulent justice sent him to jail.  Many great leaders have been “railroaded” and here’s one case you can do something about.

Free Ian.  End “Judicial Findings”.  Start impeaching judges for their conduct.

 

No man or group of men—including any group of men calling themselves “the government”—is morally entitled to initiate (that is, to start) the use of physical force, the threat of force, or any substitute for force (such as fraud) against any other man or group of men. “The Market for Liberty” Linda & Morris Tannehill (1970)

Time to take a stand.

Paratattein (παρατάττειν)  “Form the line!” — attributed to Leonidas to prepare his men for battle at Thermopylae

“…if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” — Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 1, The Gathering Storm (London: Cassell, 1948, 272, on the British guarantee to Poland in Spring 1939.)

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POLITICAL: Term limits and some other limits!

Saturday, October 11, 2025

<<FROM TWITTER>>
<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2025-10-06>>
{tip of the old tin foil hat to @GuntherEagleman for the idea!}

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Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman

There should be a way Americans could vote for term limits and bypass Congress.

If 90% of the American people support term limits, it shouldn’t be blocked by 500+ corrupt members of congress.

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Of course, I’d add a few:

  • Maximum age for politicians and bureaucrats should be the full retirement age of social security
  • Minimum age for politicians and bureaucrats should be 21
  • Only politicians, who are vets, can vote to send the military in harms way
  • ALL politicians MUST be native born in the USA with each parent being a US Citizen
  • ALL bureaucrats MUST be a US Citizen 
  • Politicians and bureaucrats may NOT hold “dual citizenships”
  • All politicians and bureaucrats must publish all “investments” 90 days before executing them
  • Politicians and bureaucrats must publish ALL tax returns for the last 20 years
  • Politicians must publish ALL campaign contributions and “gifts” within 7 days of receipt
  • Bureaucrats must publish ALL “gifts” within 7 days of receipt
  • All politicians and bureaucrats must disclose all employment agreements within 7 days of receipt
  • Any Federal Budget deficit makes ALL Federal politicians ineligible for reelection

That’s all that I can think of off the top of my head!

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POLITICAL: Jasmine Crockett Provides Head-Scratching Explanation

Friday, September 26, 2025

https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/18/jasmine-crockett-provides-head-scratching-explanation-about-law/

Jasmine Crockett Provides Head-Scratching Explanation About Law: Committing Crime ‘Doesn’t Make’ Person ‘Criminal’
Jason Cohen
DCNF Reporter/Clipper

<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2025-09-19>>

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Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett claimed on “Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness” Wednesday that committing crimes does not make a person a “criminal.”

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“I do want people to know that just because someone has committed a crime, it doesn’t make them a criminal,” the continually entertaining congresswoman said. “That is completely different. Being a criminal is more so about your mindset.”

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Most amusing quote.

I hope the voters in Texas take this to heart.

Maybe it’s me, but that seems “stupid”?

No wonder that the D’s are losing with quotes like these.

Maybe “three strikes and your out” is harsh criminal policy.  But surely “14 strikes and you’re still out” is just stupid. “We, The Sheeple” need the Judges to step up and protect us.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: You can’t reason with crazy

Sunday, September 21, 2025

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/futility-of-trying-to-reason-with?publication_id=1119676&post_id=173510671&isFreemail=true&r=3snn7d&triedRedirect=true

Futility of Trying to Reason With Lunatics

  • Widespread jubilation at the cold-blooded murder of Charlie Kirk reveals not only ideological possession, but also widespread mental illness.

John Leake  —  Sep 13, 2025

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For several years I’ve been turning over in my mind an idea that initially struck me as far-fetched, but now strikes me as a distinct possibility. Could it be that people suffering from some degree of mental illness are now heavily influencing or even directing cultural, political, and economic affairs? To put it more bluntly, are we now being constantly buffeted and even, in some jurisdictions, governed by lunatics?

*** and ***

I would rather take my chances at bull riding or venomous snake handing than try to reason with deranged college students. 

*** end quote ***

I’m beginning to realize that expecting change from lunatics is like “waiting for Gidot”, the second coming, an honest politician, or the Second Coming.

As such, I’m going to stop trying.  Best to keep to myself and my blog.  Not that anyone cares.

Sadly, it’s frustrating to see things that are so OBVIOUS, and those things must be in Panes 3 and 4 of everyone’s Johari window. (the Hidden area known to self but not to others, and the Unknown area known neither to self nor others)

Sadly.

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The Johari Window model is a tool used to improve self-awareness and interpersonal communication. It consists of four quadrants: the Open area (known to self and others), the Blind area (known to others but not to self), the Hidden area (known to self but not to others), and the Unknown area (known neither to self nor others), helping individuals understand their relationships better.

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POLITICAL: When to clean the slate and start the next cycle anew?

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

https://survivalblog.com/2025/09/03/survivalblog-readers-editors-snippets-228/

SurvivalBlog Readers’ & Editors’ Snippets

James Wesley Rawles September 3, 2025 

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Reader R.W. in Oregon had this comment:

“Well, it took a long time but I’ve come to the conclusion that politics is like the weather. People can bitch about it but there’s not a d*mn thing they can do about it. Politics is gonna happen with or without us.

Our votes haven’t meant sh*t since before reconstruction, the “Parties” and “Machines” captured or created by bankers and industrialists made short work of that. There’s no “Right” or “Left”, it’s just “Us” vs “Them”.

Thank God for people like Smedley Butler who had the courage to call it like it is. What he said applies to the entire world, not just us. Read: “Against the Grain”. Greed and avarice breed tyranny.

The most insightful, wise and thoughtful dissection of that premise, in my opinion, is still the Federalist Papers and various books of the Bible.

Eventually, every corrupt and rotting government finally picks a war (all wars are bankers wars) or drives their economy and culture into the ditch and the people won’t take it anymore. Our job is to know when to clean the slate and start the next cycle anew.

That is the one thing we can do. And, as we are one of the last peoples on this planet to retain that one very important right, the rest of the world is looking to us to do it. 

*** end quote ***

A most interesting dictum to us all.  When is enough enough?

Do we wait for “them” to start herding us in to freight cars?  We know from history what comes after that!

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn 

Or do we, like “quiet quitting” and “quiet firing”, just refuse to kowtow to ever more increasing intrusive demands, diktats, and “trends”?

I think that ₿itcoin is the first step.  Instead of “saving” in “dollars”, I’m “saving” in ₿itcoins, GoldBacks, junk silver, and gold rounds.  Let them figure out how to “inflate” those.

YMMV

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POLITICAL: The Young Democrats and Young Republicans of Connecticut issued a joint statement

Friday, September 12, 2025

https://reason.com/2025/09/11/after-charlie-kirks-murder-politicians-can-back-away-from-the-brink-or-make-matters-worse/

After Charlie Kirk’s Murder, Politicians Can Back Away From the Brink, or Make Matters Worse

  • The political class has been pushing the country towards a conflict nobody should want.

J.D. Tuccille | 9.11.2025 3:00 PM 

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The Young Democrats and Young Republicans of Connecticut issued a joint statement denouncing the murder.

“What happened at Utah Valley University this afternoon is unacceptable,” it reads. “We reject all forms of political violence. There is no place in our country for such acts, regardless of political disagreements.” 

*** end quote ***

Finally a little bit of sanity returns to politics.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083987/quotes/

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    Nehru: Think of what you can do by living, that you cannot do by dying… What do you want?

    Gandhi: That the fighting will stop. That you make me believe it will never start again.

*** end quote ***

This quote is preceded.  By a line, something like, “I will fast until the violence stops to atone for my part in stoking it”.  Something like that.  It’s seems that ALL politicians need to take this example and tone down the posturing.

No one should be stoking the flames of violence for any reason.  Certainly not for their political gain.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Tina M. Peters deserves better; “What you do when no one is looking defines your character.”

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

https://joehoft.com/tina-peters-open-letter-to-president-trump-from-prison-one-week-before-her-70th-birthday/

Tina Peters’ Open Letter to President Trump from Prison One Week Before Her 70th Birthday

Guest post by Martel Maxim

    Dear, Dear Mr. President,

    As I sit here in this cell (and notice I didn’t say “my cell” as nothing I have here is mine and can be taken at any time), I’m reminded to be grateful and how blessed we are as a nation, as well as how fragile liberty is.

    I am grateful for the multitudes praying for you, this country, and I am humbled to say for me as well.

    I long for the day I can be free to continue to fight for the foundation of our society:

    Free, fair, transparent elections.

    One week from today on September 11th, I will be 70 years old. Never in my life of 35 years of marriage, a business owner for 32, home schooling my two children, with a Navy SEAL son and a marine husband, did I ever imagine I would end up in prison for following the law and doing what was right.

    This should scare every citizen of this country. It shows how close we have come to losing this nation and our liberty that so many before us died to protect. But God chose you Mr. President, and each one of us that will rise up and answer the call.

    Your good friend, Peter Ticktin, has requoted my standards for those that have once been close as a part of the story in my life. I’ve always said “if one could be swayed by four things: money, power, position, or fear, they can be compromised. What you do when no one is looking defines your character.”

    When I used to speak to audiences about the globalists and compromised ones that wish our great nations demise, I would often say “everyone can do something. There are more of us than there are of them. They can’t get us all.”

    One day when I was telling my story of not knowing if I would die from the lung cancer that took a third of my lung, I looked up to heaven and said “Lord, if this is my time I’m ready…but you know my prayer!”

    I then repeated my life’s prayer to him which is:

    “Don’t let me leave this earth until I’ve accomplished everything you sent me here to do.”

    At that split second, I knew I was going to live. He has more for me to do. That was in 2016, the same year I walked door to door talking to anyone and everyone for you tirelessly from morning until night. And when it got dark outside, I’d be helping others on the phone calling for the vote.

    As a business owner, I knew we needed you to become our president. I never wavered, even when there were 17 candidates. God has his protection over you, as you know, and we are all grateful you took his call. He prepared you for this, and he has prepared me for this.

    Nevertheless, I’m ready to be released because the midterms are close. I feel like a racehorse held back by the starting gate. We don’t have much time. We cannot allow the continued selection of governors, secretaries of state, attorneys general, and fraudulent passage of blils and laws because of the voting machines I exposed. I want to finish the job we started.

    I cannot allow Jena Griswold to be the attorney general of Colorado, or crooked Phil Weiser to be the governor, and many more need to be displaced in this state, country, and in many nations across the world because the voice of the people has been stolen.

    The rally cry of God’s chosen people to stand up and step forward has never been greater.

    Please set me free to champion that call to the people. Use my voice, the reason they put me in prison, to be the clarion call. I didn’t raise a Navy SEAL for nothing.

    I love you, your family, and this great country.

    Thank you.

    Gratefully yours,

    Tina M. Peters

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https://tinapeters.us/

I think this lady has been “railroaded” by politicians and bureaucrats.  I chipped in.  Will you?

<<impressive hand written letter>>

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POLITICAL: 1994 IVF miracle: World’s ‘oldest baby’ born in US from embryo frozen for 30 years

Monday, August 4, 2025

1994 IVF miracle: World’s ‘oldest baby’ born in US from embryo frozen for 30 years:

A baby boy has been born in the U.S. from an embryo frozen for over three decades, setting a new record for the longest-stored embryo to result in a successful live birth.

Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, a baby boy born on July 26, 2025, to parents Lindsey (35) and Tim Pierce (34) in Ohio, is being called the world’s “oldest baby.”

According to the MIT Technology Review, the embryo that he was born from was created via in vitro fertilization (IVF) in 1994 and cryopreserved for 30 years.

The parents adopted the embryo from US-based Linda Archerd (now aged 62).

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This will stimulate a lot of “legal” questions: 

  • How old is the child?
  • Is there child support issues?
  • Are there health implications or developmental concerns?
  • Is this “moral”?

And that’s just off the top of my head.

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POLITICAL: Why does the USA fund the Israeli Gaza extermination?

Sunday, August 3, 2025

https://tuckercarlson.com/john-aguilar-highlights-2

Firsthand Witness: They Shoot Into Crowds Of Unarmed Starving Civilians, Highlights
Premiered 1 day ago•13 mins

<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2025-08-02>>

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Tucker and Tony Aguilar discuss the horrific animal-like treatment of civilians in Gaza at the hands of Benjamin Netanyahu.

*** end quote ***

Ok here’s a post that will probably offend about ½ the country, get me kicked off Social Media sites again, and get a lot of <synonym for excrement> from family, friends, and strangers.

BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), here goes!

I am moved to almost tears  — and I’ve only cried real tears a few times in my life  — I’m not a “crier” or a “Karen” about most everything.  I try an emulate The Buddha, WWJD, and be the pessimistic optimistic (i.e. plan for the worst and be pleasantly surprised when it turns out better than expected) I think I am.  On most things, I figure “small stuff” “this too will pass” and “it could be a lot worse”.  I sit at my keyboard nearing the end of my adventure and “Face Life”.  Just like this blog’s title “Reinke Faces Life”.  

This <synonym for excrement> in Gaza has got to stop.  Killing starving humans and inflicting savage trauma and death on little children has really gotten to my heart and soul.

While there is little I can do about it directly, other that sit and rant, I don’t intend to sit and let it go on without speaking up. Pastor Martin Niemöller spoke up when there was big price to pay. 

Now I am a gun-owning pro-life pro-choice little L libertarian and think that the “system” is the problem.  But this has gone on too far and for too long.

The President DJT4547 can stop this with a stroke of a pen but seems to be unable to muster up the moral fortitude to say to Israel: “Stop!  The USA is not giving you another dime until it stops.”   (He could do the same with Ukraine but that’s a topic for another day!)

I have never been a fan of the US foreign policy for as long as I can remember.  The Christian Brothers, all vets from WWII and Korea, made me anti-war.  I remember the pro-Israel propaganda back when I first recognized it in the movie “Cast A Giant Shadow”.  Bit I also remember the USS Liberty being attacked by Israel and the US Gooferment didn’t say “boo”!①

Yes, I remember the atrocity of October 7th.  It was horrific.  But, when you have humans in box and are torturing men, women, and children, don’t be surprised when the “worm turns … … into a snake” and bites you.  When you back men into a corner, they will attack with savagery and mercilessness that will stun you.  

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Seems like Palestinians are a lot like the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.  

So starting today, I am going to annoy all the politicians and bureaucrats to stop funding Israel.

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FOOTNOTE:

①  USS Liberty. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/06/08/were-fed-it-survivors-of-uss-liberty-look-answers-55-years-later.html

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POLITICAL: Is it time to “refresh” the whole SCOTUS?

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

https://johnklar.substack.com/p/solidifying-president-trumps-judicial?publication_id=779141&post_id=168553287&isFreemail=true&r=3vwsqx&triedRedirect=true

Solidifying President Trump’s Judicial Legacy

  • The importance of being ideologically earnest.

John Klar
Jul 23, 2025

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It seemed that, when nominated, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was noted for her gender and skin color more than her intellectual prowess. Yet the Constitution registers no consideration of these attributes as necessary to fairly and impartially adjudicate the nation’s laws. Deviating from longstanding precedent, Jackson has a strong ideological bent toward activism. Ironically, her intersectionality includes womanhood and a feminist inclination, but she famously could not define what a woman is.

Several aspects of the modern American judicial system have steadily veered away from its traditional role of simply enforcing laws passed by Congress or issued by the executive in favor of insinuating deeply held political views into a system designed to be apolitical. It is no wonder that public confidence in the courts has declined. Rarely have SCOTUS decisions been as politically predictable as on the current Court, where the left-leaning allegiances of Justices Jackson, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan routinely place them in a dissenting face-off against the other six justices.

*** end quote ***

Seems like “We, The Sheeple” need a “codification” of SCOTUS.

I’d suggest:

(even though no one has ever or will ever ask how “King Ferd” [me] how I’d have set it up.  I’m sure the Dead Old White Guys would not believe how their SCOTUS has evolved.)

  • There should be a minimum age of 30 and a maximum age of 70;
  • The selection should be limited to sitting Federal Appeals Court and State Supreme Court  judges;
  • End lifetime appointments to SCOTUS and each judge should be appointed for 36 years;
  • Terms should expire at the first anniversary of each Presidential election; 
  • So, that each President will get to appoint at least one judge to SCOTUS;
  • Should a judge die in office, the sitting President should name a replacement for the balance of the deceased judge’s term;
  • SCOTUS should establish “ethics rules” for itself identical to any impose on lower Federal Court judges.

I’d like to see that done and run for a few decades, then evaluate how it turns out.

Sort of like planting a shade tree that you’ll never sit under.

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POLITICAL: Marriage, divorce, Gooferment Courts, and LLCs

Saturday, July 26, 2025

Why is the Gooferment involved in marriage?

Separation of Church and State should be absolute.

Shouldn’t the correct civil form of marriage be two person LLC?

(A church service could be inaddition to a legal proceeding?)

Then we don’t need marriage licenses with all the attending bureaucrats, divorce courts with all the attending politicians and bureaucrats pontificating on marital issues (i.e., race; same sex; different sex).

Child custody issues could be mediated with certain norms (i.e., 50/50 unless one is unfit).

Finances would be just like when a partnership dissolves.

Homes held by the LLC could be sold or “bought out”.

No need for messy expensive public divorces.

No need for “common law marriages” or just shacking up.

Seem reasonable to me.

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POLITICAL: Why are Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats allowed to have “secrets” from “We, The Sheeple”?

Friday, July 25, 2025

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/07/08/cia_contradicts_obama_officials_sworn_denials_about_russiagate_report_1121513.html?mc_cid=7561fcbec4

CIA Contradicts Obama Officials’ Sworn Denials About Russiagate Report
By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations
July 08, 2025

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The materials include a secret 200-page congressional audit revealing how the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Russia was allegedly rigged to frame Trump, emails linking the CIA’s ICA drafting to the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation, and Special Counsel John Durham’s investigative notes and depositions.

*** end quote ***

Why are Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats allowed to have “secrets” from “We, The Sheeple”

Shouldn’t everything “classified” have an automatic expiration date?

Why are the JFK records, the RFK records, the MLK records, etc. etc. STILL “secrets”?

I’d envision an “official” blockchain where EVERYTHING is deposited (i.e., emails; drafts; memos; recordings; executive orders) that “block chain” had a publish date.  Then, when the date arrives, the key is published in the Congressional Record automagically.  Maybe the Congressional Record should be a “block chain” as well.  Along with every bill put in the Congressional “hopper”, and every revision to it.

In short, “We, The Sheeple” are ENTITLED to the “truth” and full timely disclosure.

“Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to.” Colonel Jessep in A Few Good Men played by Jack Nicholson

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POLITICAL: Did he just plea out because of the death penalty?

Friday, July 11, 2025

FROM 1440 https://join1440.com/

https://apnews.com/article/kohberger-idaho-students-killed-91eeb98eebd3d9b007e4a5cae0f81030?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4b9c55d78644b3a882a4d

Bryan Kohberger to plead guilty to killing 4 University of Idaho students in deal to avoid execution
By REBECCA BOONE, GENE JOHNSON and MARK SCOLFORO
Updated 12:35 AM EDT, July 1, 2025

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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Bryan Kohberger has agreed to plead guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students as part of a deal to avoid the death penalty, an attorney for one victim’s family said Monday.

*** end quote ***

I always wonder if he really did it, OR did he just plea out because of the death penalty?

As a gun-owning pro-life pro-choice little L libertarian, I’m against the death penalty for moral and irreversible grounds.  Moral because the Gooferment shouldn’t be able to do anything I can’t do since Gooferment is a fiction and represents a collection of individuals.  Irreverable since mistakes happen and there is no way to un-die someone.

We have the saying that “better a hundred guilty go free that one innocent be imprisioned”.  Plea bargains, regardless of the guilt or innocence, seems to make a mockery of our sense of “justice”.  Any more than poor “defendants” get Legal Aid and rich “defendants” get the best money can buy.  Also, even a rich “defendant” can be impoverished when faced with a Gooferment bureaucrat with unlimited funds to convict them.  

Finally, how fair is our “justice system” when some civil and criminal cases “cost” a staggering amount of attention, time, and money?  A Pyrrhic victory is a win that comes at such a significant cost to the victor that it is almost tantamount to defeat.  One has to wonder.

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