POLITICAL: The judiciary is a branch of the state

Sunday, November 8, 2026

https://www.malone.news/p/notes-on-my-brownstone-annual-conference?publication_id=583200&post_id=223933860&isFreemail=true&r=3snn7d&triedRedirect=true

Notes on my Brownstone Annual Conference Speech (to a sold out crowd)
Address by Robert Malone, Saturday 07 November 2026
Dr. Robert W. Malone
28 minutes ago << EDITOR ADDED DATE 2026-11-07>>

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Murray Rothbard set out the structural reason in Anatomy of the State. The judiciary is a branch of the state. Judges are appointed by the state, paid by the state, housed in state courts, enforced by state police. To expect such a body to deliver justice against the state is to expect a monopoly to rule against itself. In Rothbard’s framing, the court is a branch of the government interpreting the rules of the government in a game against the government. That is a feature, not a flaw. It is what the institution is for.

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In short, “We, The Sheeple” can’t catch a break.

Need to SHRINK the Gooferment down to where it’s unobtrusive.

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POLITICAL: Gavin Newsom commutes 548 death row inmates

Saturday, November 7, 2026

https://nypost.com/2026/11/05/us-news/gavin-newsom-changes-california-death-sentences-to-life-in-prison/

Gavin Newsom lets all of California’s 548 death row inmates escape ultimate punishment
By Titus Wu
Published Nov. 5, 2026
Updated Nov. 5, 2026, 2:57 p.m. ET

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“But as Governor, I have concluded the state cannot morally kill them,” he wrote. “We can now let these offenders die in obscurity while we forever remember and honor their victims.”

“I take this action because I firmly believe that state-sanctioned killing is incompatible with California’s values, undermines the foundations of our legal system, and diminishes each of us,” Newsom explained.

“I know we cannot execute people in our imperfect legal system and remain true to our core values, first among them justice and human decency.”

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Well, “the King of California” has decided that the death penalty is unfair.  While I agree with that, what happened between yesterday and today, that changed his moral compass?  Could it be that he sees an opening to become the “King of the USA”!  That would be my opinion.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Repeal the 17th Amendment

Thursday, November 5, 2026

https://lists.theepochtimes.com/archive/iyApJW4ZG5/5kdG8QBtO/C4ZJRnZSH

Democracy Is Under Threat
By Jeffrey Tucker
<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2026-11-03>>

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The U.S. system was fundamentally distorted by the 17th Amendment, which changed the Senate from being a body to represent whole states of the union to one that mostly reflects the politics of big cities. This is all due to a small change: from a position elected by the state legislature (which represents the whole state) to making it an office voted in by the majority of people. With a word change, the bicameral Congress established by the Founders was at an end.

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Hard to imagine what the Dead Old White Guys would tell us or call us.  “Fools” would be the most polite word; what does one call some one who messes with a system, without understand the implication.

I, for one, would favor the repeal all the amendments after the first ten!

At the very least, we should have a national discussion of how we think the USA should govern itself.  I’d favor dissolution back to 50 individual States and proceed rom there.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: What “child marriage” is still legal in parts of the USA! Where are the feminists

Friday, October 2, 2026

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6rm9mnn0w3eo?utm_campaign=october1morningnote&utm_medium=email&utm_source=iterable&utm_content=morningnote

California bans child marriage, a practice still legal in 32 US states
15 hours ago (2026-10Oct-01)
Regan Morris (in) Los Angeles

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Child Marriage Just Became Illegal in California

Believe it or not, child marriage is still legal in 32 American states. As of yesterday, California is not one of them.

Gavin Newsom approved legislation making California the 18th state to ban residents from marrying children on Wednesday, signing the bill alongside a woman whose parents allowed her to marry a 50-year-old when she was just 16. Approximately 9,000 girls have married adult men in California each year, according to the advocacy group Unchained At Last. The ban will take effect in January.

It is pretty remarkable that the federal government has never passed a similar law. How can Washington politicians lecture the rest of the world about freedom and democracy, while at the same time turning a blind eye to child marriage in their own country?

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Sorry, I’d expect this in some backward thirds world country but not it the USA.  I guess that “rich pedophiliac tech elites” that I hear cited on at least two podcast I regularly listen to are absolutely correct to call this out.

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POLITICAL: The USA should have a state try this Swiss system for a decade and evaluate it

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

https://www.boredpanda.com/unknown-interesting-facts-msn/

Published Apr 01, 2026
57 Interesting Facts To Make Your Boring Day Feel More Productive
Edvinas Jovaišas
BoredPanda staff

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#24
Direct democracy is one of the special features of the Swiss political system. It allows the electorate to express their opinion on decisions taken by the Swiss Parliament and to propose amendments to the Federal Constitution. It is underpinned by two instruments: initiatives and referendums. In Switzerland, the people play a large part in the decision-making process at all political levels. All Swiss citizens aged 18 and over have the right to vote in elections and on specific issues. The Swiss electorate is called on approximately four times a year to vote on an average of fifteen such issues. In recent decades, voter turnout has been a little over 40% on average. Citizens are also able to propose votes on specific issues themselves. This can be done via an initiative, an optional referendum, or a . These three instruments form the core of direct democracy. The popular initiative allows citizens to propose an amendment or addition to the Constitution. It acts to drive or relaunch political debate on a specific issue. For such an initiative to come about, the signatures of 100,000 voters who support the proposal must be collected within 18 months. The authorities sometimes respond to an initiative with a direct counter-proposal in the hope that a majority of the people and the cantons support that instead. Federal acts and other enactments of the Federal Assembly are subject to optional referendums. These allow citizens to demand that approved bills be put to a nationwide vote. In order to bring about a national referendum, 50,000 valid signatures must be collected within 100 days of publication of the new legislation. All constitutional amendments approved by Parliament are subject to a mandatory referendum, i.e., they must be put to a nationwide popular vote. The electorate is also required to approve Swiss membership of specific international organizations.

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This seems to be more like what the Dead Old White Guys were thinking. 

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POLITICAL: What happens when the “elite” don’t like how Joe-Sixpack votes?

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

https://www.malone.news/p/a-modest-proposal?publication_id=583200&post_id=214726958&isFreemail=true&r=3snn7d&triedRedirect=true

A MODEST PROPOSAL
A SATIRE, IN THE MANNER OF JONATHAN SWIFT, 1729.
Dr. Robert W. Malone
Sep 08, 2026

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On the sixth of September, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, the Alternative for Germany received 43.8 percent of the vote. The governing Christian Democrats, who supply the Chancellor of the Federal Republic, received 17.2. The offending party took thirty-nine seats, and required forty-two, so that the Republic survives by three chairs and a coalition arithmetic problem.

I do not raise these numbers to alarm anyone. I raise them because they establish the difficulty precisely.

The voters of Saxony-Anhalt were informed in advance. The domestic intelligence service had classified the state branch as a confirmed right-wing extremist effort. The classification was published. The broadcasters carried it. The Chancellor spoke. Museum directors, grandmothers, and the whole civic apparatus of the Federal Republic marched, petitioned, and explained. The voters were told what the party was, and then they went out on a Sunday and voted for it by a margin of more than two to one over the government.

Here we arrive at the true nature of the emergency:

The instrument of democracy has been discovered in the hands of persons not qualified to operate it.

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And there we have it.  The “will of the people” is nullified.  After all the propaganda deluge, Joe Six-Pack and Mary Ordinary-Woman show up at the polls and vote EXACTLY opposite to what “their betters” instructed them.

Can’t have that!

Watch as “the elite” (i.e., politicians, bureaucrats, “celebrities”, “influencers”, “presenters”, “commentators”, “talking heads”, and all the other paid mouthpieces of the regime) barf all over the results and try to dismiss “the lunacy”.

Argh!

“There is no better educational experience for a child than finding out what happens when you stick a butter knife into an electrical outlet.” — David Burge

“Would you tell me please, Mr. Howard, why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away? An elected legislature can trample a man’s rights as easily as a king can.” Mel Gibson as the character Benjamin Martin in the movie The Patriot http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187393/quotes

“Elections have consequences.”  Sometimes!  When “the elite” get what they want. Argh!

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POLITICAL: Fetterman sounds like a shirker, a slacker, an image without substance, and … … 

Saturday, September 5, 2026

https://tuckercarlson.com/morning-note

TCN Morning Note: The End Of John Fetterman?

Commentary

The End of John Fetterman?

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A new Wall Street Journal report published Thursday might mark the official death of Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman, a pro-Israel ogre who has cast a spell on far too many Republicans and conservatives by appearing on Fox News praising the only policy overlap between him and President Trump: WAR.

The WSJ revealed several damning text exchanges between Fetterman and his staffers.

For starters, the guy barely worked. Fetterman devised a system with his staffers to work as little as possible, according to the WSJ. During hearings, he sent a staffer to make sure he was seen by the Senate Clerk, then he would dip out early. He was marked present for 26 out of 31 full hearings of his assigned committees, but in 20 of them he didn’t even say a word, the WSJ reported.

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Sounds like a shirker, a slacker, an image without substance, and a grifter all at once. 

Very disappointing.  

I too, thought that the D’s had finally found someone of substance that was not a crazy loon.  I could even look past his manner of dress (i.e., casual slob).  He almost had everyone fooled.

Argh!

Send him off to the “no zip” sorting bin of future historical odd-balls before he does any real damage.  

p.s., sitting silent in a committee meeting isn’t the worst sin; skipping out on disabled vets and deceased firefighters is unforgivable.  You go even if you carry a barf bag and shit your pants.  After all Joe did it.

Argh! Argh! Sigh!

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POLITICAL: Birthright Citizenship is a national disaster in the welfare / warfare state

Sunday, August 2, 2026

https://johnklar.substack.com/p/birthright-citizenship-is-the-law?publication_id=779141&post_id=204431619&isFreemail=true&r=3vwsqx&triedRedirect=true

Birthright Citizenship Is the Law of the Land
US Supreme Court holds children of illegals are Americans.
John Klar
Jul 30

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If Americans wish to override the Supreme Court on the issue of birthright citizenship, they have a challenging pathway ahead.

Since he is obviously no king, President Trump finds his hands are now tied in his response to what Justice Alito called “birth tourists” (people who travel to the United States to give birth). Even a majority-conservative Congress cannot sidestep the Fourteenth Amendment, and additional statutory hurdles remain (as Justice Brett Kavanaugh explained in his concurrence).

It’s been a long time since America ratified a new amendment to the Constitution, and it is particularly unlikely when the nation has rarely been so politically divided.

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Seems like a good time to pass one.  

If we ended welfare, then we wouldn’t need it.

But if they want to keep the welfare state with all the “welfare farmers” —  some four generations —, then you have to put a a hard stop to “intruders”!

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POLITICAL: After pricing many low-skilled workers out of job, maybe she can repeal the Law of Gravity?

Thursday, June 18, 2026

https://reason.com/2026/06/08/the-living-wage-attack-on-jobs-and-prosperity/

The ‘Living Wage’ Attack on Jobs and Prosperity
Rep. Ro Khanna’s minimum wage proposal promises prosperity but would likely price many low-skilled workers out of the labor market.

J.D. Tuccille | 6.8.2026 7:00 AM

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“Extractive capitalism” is a slippery concept that tends to mean whatever the speaker wants. Rep. Ro Khanna (D–Calif.) invokes the term as a bogeyman to be slain by the economic snake oil he peddles in the form of a $25 “living wage” bill he and other Democrats introduced. Fortunately, the legislation is not only unlikely to pass the current Congress; it’s almost as slippery as Khanna’s bogeymen. It’s still a bad idea.

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Politicians think that they can over rule “natural laws”.   Like the “Law of Gravity”, it’s firmly established by whatever power you recognize.  Call it “God”, “Dog” (God spelled backwards; man’s Guardian Angel), “the Universe”, “Mother Nature”, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster worshiped by wearing a pasta strainer on your head for your “drivers’ license” photo!  There are Universal Constants that can be observed or reasoned to.  That doesn’t mean that the “Law of Supply and Demand” is any less real than the “Law of Gravity”.

There is so much that we can’t see that’s not real — Santa, the Great Pumpkin, the Easter Bunny, Zombies  —  and so much that we can’t see that’s real —  electricity, the wind, atom, love, and hate.  So why is it so hard for politicians to see their hubris in their opinions and the diktats that they label “LAWS”.  

Real laws, like “Law of Gravity”, are unbreakable.  I dare them to try it.  While overriding the “Law of Supply and Demand” will not have the immediate impact of defying the “Law of Gravity”, it will be just as catastrophic when they “hit” it.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: U.S. military involvement everywhere, but not in Sudan?

Monday, June 15, 2026

https://tuckercarlson.com/morning-note?

Marshall Worth
June 4, 2026

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Please Drop the Act

According to the people who constantly demand U.S. military involvement in foreign nations, America must send its troops to die around the world in the name of humanitarianism. We are the international community’s good guys, Lindsey Graham and his friends say, which means we are obligated to fight the bad guys.

This argument has surfaced countless times. Whether their focus is on Iran, Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, Iraq, Syria, or nearly any other country that permanent Washington decides to demonize, neocons always tend to fall back on the same basic messaging: going to war is the right thing to do.

What’s interesting is that this so-called morality never seems to apply to Sudan. Corporate cable news networks rarely report on this, but the African nation is home to some of the most brutal atrocities taking place anywhere on Earth. This AP News report shines a light on the details. They are jarring.

“The United Nations calls sexual violence one of the ‘most defining features’ of Sudan’s war, now in its fourth year,” the piece reads. “Many women have been subject to sexual slavery and forced to pay ransoms for their release, sometimes up to $10,000,” it continues.

The article centers around interviews with three women, each of whom says they are victims of abduction and sex slavery at the hands of the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF). One of the women recalled RSF fighters ambushing her on the street as she fled her home, forcing her to strip before binding, beating, and transporting her to an abandoned desert village. Once there, she and her fellow captives, some of whom were teenagers, “lay bound in a shelter, urinating on themselves” and “were raped multiple times by different men.”

“The captors would enter [the chambers] and choose who they wanted, untie them, assault them, and bind them again,” the AP reported.

This cycle lasts until the victims die or find a way to buy their freedom. Ransoms routinely run high enough to force the women and their families to sell their cars, homes, and plunge into debt. All just for a chance of release.

Imagine if this precise thing were happening in Iran. Mark Levin and his allies would spend months lecturing the American public about how the Iranians needed freedom, and they would demand that the president drop everything to deliver it. Nothing would matter to them more than saving the women kidnapped by the evil Mullahs, even if doing so meant tanking the U.S. economy, getting our soldiers killed, gifting terrorists troves of new recruitment material, and blowing trillions of taxpayer dollars. This is bigger than politics, they would say in unison. It is about basic decency.

How come no one seems to feel that way about Sudan? The answer exposes the entire pro-war scam. Neocons have no concern for the people of Iran, Venezuela, or any of the countries they demand the United States “set free.” If they did, then they would also care about Sudan, Uyghur Muslims in China, and albinos in sub-Saharan Africa. Their true motives are entirely different; they only sing songs about “liberating the people” to brainwash well-meaning Fox News viewers into believing that globalist foreign policy is of deep moral purity.

Instead of insulting the public’s intelligence with lies about their deep worry for the well-being of Iran’s population, warhawks like Levin should drop the act and be honest about their true reason for wanting war. They pushed for Operation Epic Fury because they thought it would help Israel, not America or the Iranian people. Every honest person knows it.

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AS a little L libertarian, I don’t want “foreign adventurism” and “foreign entanglements”.  Hence, the USA should:

  • Declare Sudanese diplomats persona non grata
  • Cut off all “aid” to Sudan and anyone who supports them
  • Stop all travel visas to and from Sudan
  • Stop anyone from coming to the US that is from Sudan

That’s should shine a laser focus on the problem that they represent.

If that doesn’t work, then there is always Letters of Marque and Reprisal!

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