Rat establishment Republicans (ReRs), as always, are far more dangerous to PDJT than inept Dopes

Today totally biased and criminal Dopes like the bug eyed pencil necked lyin’ Adam Schi(t)ff take up impeachment – sort of.  The resolution being voted on today is a hoax designed to give the Dopes top cover for their BS clearly unfair hearings. It’s not the Dopes voting for the resolution that PDJT should worry about.  It’s the never ending line Rat establishment Republicans that pose the real threat to the president.  

Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoff summed it up nicely when he noted:  Maybe someday Republicans will realize they are not dealing with normal people. These people are vicious. They are power hungry and many are evil.

I would change “many” to most, but otherwise Hoff’s assessment is a totally accurate statement. Republican may “someday” wake up and smell the coffee, but, sadly, it won’t be today or before the 2020 election.  

The usual ReR suspects will line up with the Dopes, first feigning outrage at PDJT’s tone on the phone call the Ukrainian president and then claiming a full investigation is necessary to clear the president. PDJT should respond to such nonsense by claiming that the ReRs are all lying thieving pedophiles and we need a complete investigation of each one of them to clear their names. It makes about as much sense.

PDJT is the most investigated president – maybe the most investigated person – in America.  It’s not his fault Inspector Clouseau in the persons of Laurel and Hardy look alikes Fat Jerry Nadler and pencil neck Schi(t)ff are running the Soviet style, Inquisition style hearings. The big differences are that the Soviets and Torquemada had a clue as to what they were doing and had more justification than the Dopes do today.   

It makes no difference to the virtue signaling ReR PsOS like Peter Derelicto (AKA Mittens Romney) that what the Dopes are pursuing is not justice but rather the reversal of an American election.  Derelicto is perfectly happy to have the country destroyed with this Dope BS as long as PDJT is hobbled and he gets some measure of revenge for Trump saying – in true Trump fashion - that he owned stores in Trump Tower that are worth more than Romney’s entire fortune.

I’m not saying that Pete Derilicto et al are anti-American PsOS.  I’m just saying that if they were anti-American PsOS, they wouldn’t be behaving any differently. Republicans who vote with Dopes on this are complicit in the ruining/poisoning of the presidency, American politics and American government for generations.

Here’s what needs to happen after the House vote today. The Senate needs to make it clear that the Senate intends to adopt rules that redound to PDJT’s favor in the same measure that the Dopes deny the president due process.  They should it make clear that Schi(t)ff is going to be sown in and made to answer questions as a material witness in the case. They should make clear that the blower will be expected to testify, that he entitled to protection not anonymity.  That any laws that broken in the process will refereed to DOJ for prosecution.  That Ukraine President Zelensky’s will be deposed and his testimony read into the record.  That Slow Joe Biden’s and addict no talent son Hunter’s shake down and corrupt practices will be open game the second the Dopes bring it up Slow Joe’s name.  That full transcripts of Schi(t)ff’s star chamber hearing will be made public.  That those witnesses will be called and exposed to thorough cross-examination. Last, they need to make it clear that to date there is not one thing that comes within a 1,000 miles of an impeachable offense. 

Congrats to the Nats!!
The Washington Nationals won the World Series last night.  Shrillda the Hutt immediately released a statement that the Nat’s are illegitimate world champions because the Astros had more hits in the series.*

*Note: I don’t know if that’s an accurate stat.  Look it up yourself.  But it makes the point.

WE HAVE THE F-ING TRANSCRIPT!!!

Someone has some splainin’ to do with regard to PDJT’s phone call with the Ukrainian president. Adam the bug eyed pencil neck liar Schi(t)ff keeps calling in witnesses to tell us what they heard or what someone told them they heard on the phone call.  One problem for the Dopes and Shifty with that BS, WE HAVE THE F-ING TRASCRPIT!!

PDJT played Road Runner to Shifty’s Wiley E. Coyote.  PDJT’s unprecedented release of the transcript definitely caught Grand Nan from San Fran Peloser and Shiffty short. They appear to be too stupid to adjust their coup plans.  They continue to bring forth witnesses to testify about what they heard or what someone told them they heard or what they supposed PDJT might say on such a phone call a la Shifty’s theater of the lie during his open hearing where he read a lie into the congressional record.  HEY DOPES!!! WE HAVE THE F-ING TRANSCRIPT!!!

So what can anyone add or detract to that fact.  Enter LTC Vindman.  He added that he “was concerned” about the phone call.?.  WTF.  He’s probably also concerned about PDJT’s twitter habits, the way he wears his hair, the way ties his ties a bit longer than most, and on and on.  The fact that a lowly Caligula, D.C. deep state Army LTC is “concerned” about something is evidence of…what…Oh…exactly NOTHING.

I do not know Vindman. The fact that he admitted to leaking/sharing information of a phone call by the President of the United States with a foreign power does not reflect well on him. As far as I know, officers are still swearing an oath to the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.  Sharing a call from POTUS with a foreign nation would seem to be a rather clear violation of his oath and probably a dozen or so laws regarding the handling classified material.

ASIDE:  Looking at the pics of Vindman my first question would be: LTC Vindman are you now or have you ever been on the Army’s weigh control program.  He looks like a bit of porker.  That uniform can hide a lot of pounds.  It’s his round face and over full cheeks that give him away. 

Then there’s the note that Vindman’s recollection of the call doesn’t match the transcript.  Happens to me all the time.  I think I heard the doctor telling me something like, “You can eat whatever you want in any amount.”  Mrs. Lex corrects that recollection, “No he said, ‘You can’t eat whatever you want in any amount and expect to maintain your weight.”  That’s not what I heard.

Vindman places his version over that of the people responsible for transcribing the call.  I’m not saying Vindman is lying, but he might be.  What do others recall about the conversation? Is Vindman an outlier?  Do others have the same recollection?  I don’t know.  

I suspect that it’s a lot like any event witnessed by any group of people. People will hear and see the same event differently as it is filtered through their own perspective and biases.  I’m absolutely certain that there are any number of (M)ichigan fans that still think they should have won last year’s game where The OSU hung 62 on the boys from up north. So it may be with Vindman.  What’s the consensus of those on the call?  I suggest the consensus is what is in the transcript.

Last thing on this.  If Vindamn had so much “concern” about the Commander in Chief, he had a responsibly to express that concern to the chain of command.  If the situation wasn’t resolved, he then had a duty to resign.  After resigning he could then go public.  That fact that he went public and he’s still around is proof positive – to me anyway - that he’s a deep state plant. Getting PDJT is more important to this guy than doing his duty. Also, all officers “serve at the pleasure of the president.”  PDJT should fire the azzweasel by sundown today. At least get him the hell out of the White House.

Today's JG rants - Tax exempt status for churches and Ft. Wayne's "growth"

Re: David Waas’s letter “Political advocacy voids churches' tax-exempt status” of Oct 29, 2019

Waas is wrong. Not only is he wrong, he’s colossally, foolishly and irreversibly wrong when states faith-based organization cannot advocate for or against “political acts.” The IRS website offers the following guidance on “campaigning” on behalf candidates: “Currently, the law prohibits political campaign activity by charities and churches by defining a 501(c)(3) organization as one ‘which does not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office.’"

The same website offers the following guidance on advocating for or against political measures and legislation: “…churches and other 501(c)(3) organizations can engage in a limited amount of lobbying (including ballot measures) and advocate for or against issues that are in the political arena. The IRS also has provided guidance regarding the difference between advocating for a candidate and advocating for legislation.”

IRS guidance makes it clear that faith based organization can advocate for the Biblical position on the political issues of the day as long as they do not campaign on behalf of a particular candidate.  Not only are religious organizations permitted to advocate for Biblical principles, it would be a sin not to do so.  There are scores of Bible verses about silence in the face of evil but the short verse from Ephesians 5:11 makes the point in succinct fashion:  “Take no part in the fruitless works of darkness; rather expose them.”

      

Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a WWII hero who opposed Hitler and was hung for that political act, summed it up nicely when he noted “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless.  Not to speak is to speak.  Not to act is to act.”

All that Waas and like-minded leftists want to do is shut people up.  They exercise the heckler’s veto on college campuses when anyone not in full agreement with their narrow-minded views shows up to speak and the Waas’s of the world shout them down.  They exercise the thug’s veto at Trump rallies when their hoodlum army, AntiFa, shows up to assault and intimidate people.  They exercise the editor’s veto when papers print rubbish like Waas’s letter with no regard for the truth then refuse to print a rebuttal containing the cold hard facts.

Leftists have to engage in such boorish behavior because they cannot compete in the arena of ideas, because they have none, so their goal these days is to simply shut the opposition up. 

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 1:00 am

Letters

Political advocacy voids churches' tax-exempt status

In his Oct. 18 article, Rep. Jim Banks charges Democrats with imposing secular views on religion. He argues that if churches and faith-based organizations lose their tax-exempt status for advocating opposition to same-sex marriage, it would be an “outrageous attack on the First Amendment.” He is wrong.

A tax-exempt status was granted in the liberally motivated 1954 Internal Revenue Act to encourage faith-based organizations in their core missions. But advocating against same-sex marriage is a political act. Such a change in American law can be achieved only by political or judicial action. Withholding tax-exempt status for such advocacy is not an attack on the First Amendment nor on freedom of religion. Persons of faith may hold any position on same-sex marriage they wish, but advocating for change in American law is advocating political action. Any American citizen may hold any position she/he wishes on the issue, but urging the passage of legislation to restrict same-sex marriage would be both discriminatory and a violation of the privilege of a tax-free status.

Banks correctly recognizes that losing tax-exempt status would leave churches in a financially untenable situation. But the liberal legislation granting tax-exempt status to churches was meant to encourage religious freedom and viability, not strengthen political clout. He falsely claims that cases such as Christian Legal Society v. Martinez are a blow to Americans' freedom to believe. No, such cases recognize that individuals and organizations have complete, constitutionally guaranteed, religious freedom to believe, but may not engage in political advocacy and remain tax free.

David Waas

North Manchester

Re: Greg Erlandson’s letter, “Continued growth gratifying” of Oct 29, 2019 cheering Ft. Wayne for opening the riverfront’s Promenade Park.  Nice. Too bad your schools still suck and the city can’t get the garbage picked up, but dummies living under a pile of trash will have a nice place to go on weekends to get away from it all.

An old boss of mine had a plaque on his desk that read: The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.  You’d think quality education and trash collection would be near the top of the main things a city tried to accomplish.  I’m not Mayor-for-life Tom Henry so what do I know?  Maybe hanging more lights on a downtown bridge and building a new downtown park are the main things for Ft. Wayne.  

Continued growth gratifying

Kudos to Fort Wayne and the city administration for the development of the riverfront and Promenade Park. We lived in the Fort for almost three decades and saw it become a more interesting city culturally, socially and architecturally. Now, having been away three years, it is wonderful to see the city continuing to develop. The promenade is the start of something great.

Greg Erlandson

Hyattsville, Maryland

Today's extended JG rant - failing newspapers

Too bad newspapers are failing.  It’s their own fault.  Sears was the largest retailer in America from the end of WWII until the 1980s.  Sears is now bankrupt.  You can almost hear the board members of the retail giant chortling, “This interweb thing will never take off.  We’re just too big to fail,” but fail they have.  Newspaper are taking the same route.

It’s comical to read the JG’s sub-headline, “Agenda-driven sites masquerading as journalism ill serve news-starved communities.”  Look at the log in your own eye – it’s the mainstream media’s own agenda-driven reporting that is masquerading as journalism.  The only professions with lower approval ratings than “journalists” are pimps, prostitutes and pornographers.  

Does the JG seriously believe that they are fooling anyone except the same writers who habitually litter this paper’s letters and editorial page that what happens at the JG is “journalism”? It is agenda-driven tripe through and through, nothing more.

The JG buys the ink and newsprint.  It can print whatever it chooses, but to pretend that what they choose to print isn’t “agenda-driven” nonsense is just plain lying to yourselves and your readers. 

“Newspapers, of course, offer political opinions, but they are labeled as such and usually presented on the editorial and oped pages.”  Newspapers are also a business.  What business model encourages businesses to not only ignore half the potential customers but openly lampoon them, call them names like racists, white supremacists, deplorables, irredeemables, criminals etc. for nothing more than who they chose to support in the 2016 election?

Ad revenue is driven by circulation.  When newspapers decide that it is worth printing nothing but left leaning rubbish and lies day in and day out they alienate a large percentage of potential customers.  When they drive those customers off, ad revenues drop and the newspaper possibly folds or shrinks causing the dreaded “news-desert”.

That’s right JG, newspapers’ single-minded “agenda-driven” trash masquerading as journalism is a self-inflicted wound, sometimes fatal, that ill serves news-starved communities.  In simple terms JG - you are the problem – you are your own worst enemy.

Look at your Sunday letters.  Actually it could be any day that it is one-sided smorgasbord of leftist hate and foolish arguments.

“Senators must restore our order, tranquility” by Nick Wilhelm referring to the Kurds as allies left to suffer annihilation at the hands of the Turks is just stupid.  Whatever a person might think of America’s precipitous withdrawal of 28 American’s from Syria, the Kurds are NOT allies.  There is no treaty between the US and disparate factions, some communist supporting, Kurds. The US has a treaty with only one side in that fight and happens to be with NATO ally Turkey. The Kurds would be more accurately described as mercenaries.  We armed them, and we paid them to fight an enemy that it was in their own best interest to fight.

“US embarrassment can't end too quickly” by Jack Rhoades is another example of leftist knee-jerk foolishness.  He misquotes scripture to indicate why he’s so scared he cannot come out from under the bedsheets.  Rhoades writes, “It seems like money really is the root of all evil because that is the only excuse you could possibly give for people putting any kind of backing behind him.”  First 1 Timothy 6:10 states that it is “the love of money that is the root of all kinds of evil.”  Next it is rich that Rhoades misquotes that passage and applies it Trump supporters when Democrats are the party of Soros, Gates, Bezos, Steyer, Bloomberg, all of Silicon Valley, all of Hollywood and the rest of super rich big dollar donors.  It’s also ridiculous that Rhoades ignores Joe Biden and his next to worthless addict son’s get rich quick off of Joe’s position as VP and the Clinton Foundation’s get richer quicker scheme of selling influence when she was “a sure thing” to be the next president of the United States.  99.9% of that money dried up on Nov 9^th 2016 when she got her ample backside handed to her by PDJT.  He also ignores the fact that PDJT is working for free and while Joe and Hunter were exploiting every opportunity to market Joe’s government position, PDJT’s family has eschewed foreign investments the day he was elected.  That is why PDJT is known as the “blue collar billionaire” and the Bidens and Clintons are being exposed as cheap crooks.

What would a day on the letters page without a poorly reasoned broad-brush assault on all Trump supporters and their motives?  David Soward’s hit piece, “Blind support should bring harm to GOP,” fits the bill.  Soward’s letter, dripping with anger, claims “people who support criminals are criminals, too, right down to the voters” must include the Biden’s and Clinton’s criminal activities. Does Soward want to take on Fast and Furious, IRS, EPA and Bergdahl scandals, spying on American citizens and an opposition party’s presidential candidate and allowing Russian interference in the 2016 election all of which took place under President Obama? Full filling campaign promises is not a crime.  Voting your own economic and social interests is not a crime. 

Then throw in the JG’s support for assaulting Americans’ constitutional rights when it come to the first, second and fourth amendments found nearly daily on the JG’s letters and editorial page and ask why would any right leaning person pay to read such utter garbage?         

            

To the extent that “news deserts” exist, the MSM need look no further than the bathroom mirror to understand why. To the extent that people get their news from the JG, Ft. Wayne is already a “news desert.”  It will be a great day for Ft. Wayne when the JG is sold, folds or is reduced to a tabloid format printed three days a week.  When that great day comes, it will be by the JG’s own editors’ and owners’ hands.  

We need a parody of this song for Bagdaddy - I'm blown to pieces

 

Thursday, October 24, 2019 1:00 am

EDITORIAL

Web of deceit

Agenda-driven sites masquerading as journalism ill serve news-starved communities

Journalism researchers call them “news deserts” – communities whose principal daily newspaper has either closed, merged with papers in other communities or reduced publication to a few days a week. The presumption has been that citizens who depended on local reporting to keep them informed and perform a watchdog role on local government will be shortchanged.

Last year, a paper by Paul Gao, associate professor of finance at the University of Notre Dame, and two University of Illinois at Chicago researchers revealed that communities that lose their newspaper literally pay a price in higher government costs as officials conduct business without being subject to the scrutiny of local newspaper reporters.

“Our results indicate that local newspapers hold their government accountable, keeping municipal borrowing costs low and ultimately saving taxpayer money,” the team wrote. “The research also found that the loss of government monitoring from newspaper closures is associated with higher government wages and deficits.”

Other studies have shown correlations with lower voter turnout, fewer people running for office and greater political polarization.

Just how news-desert communities are going to fill the information void is a subject of constant debate within the journalism community. But one notably bad solution is already taking root. In some communities, political and ideological groups are producing news on websites and in print and foisting their products off as “newspapers.”

In Michigan, where Detroit and several other large communities no longer have a daily newspaper, dozens of websites have emerged offering some local news but also peddling a hidden political agenda.

Newspapers, of course, offer political opinions, but they are labeled as such and usually presented on the editorial and oped pages. And websites with a political slant certainly aren't new.

“But presenting them as non-biased local news sources is,” Matt Grossman, director of Michigan State University's Institute for Public Policy and Social Research, recently told the Lansing State Journal's Carol Thompson. “The big issue is this extent to which they have gone to try to confuse about this being the site of a local newspaper,” Grossman said.

The sites, which resemble newspaper websites, carry local and state stories – only some of which have a conservative bent – and bear such names as the Lansing Sun, the Ann Arbor Times and the Thumb Reporter, Thompson reported.

Democrats have been trying to get in on the action in some areas as well.Vice.com (itself an undisguised progressive-leaning news website) reports: “Four 'news' outlets staffed by Democratic operatives will publish state-specific information across social media in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Wisconsin.” Republicans are also starting swing-state websites designed to look like newspaper sites, Politico.com reported.

Fake newspaper sites have even been mobilized to covertly push a candidate in a political primary. Last year, Arizona Senate candidate Kelli Ward proudly posted links to an “endorsement” by “the Arizona Monitor.” The “Monitor's” endorsement included attacks on Ward's opponents in the Republican primary and concluded, “Kelli Ward is your woman.”

But, Politico reported, “despite its reputable sounding name, the Arizona Monitor is not a real news site. It is an anonymous, pro-Ward blog ... the site launched just a few weeks before publishing the endorsement, and its domain registration is hidden, masking the identity of its owner.”

As the journalism website Poynter.org observed, news deserts “not only produce nothing nutritious for people, they also attract snakes, scorpions, vultures and cactuses armed with prickles.” Michigan is just a click or two away from Indiana; let digital readers beware.

Senators must restore our order, tranquility

I recently appealed to our two U.S. senators on recent presidential threats to our orderly political system.

In the preamble to our Constitution are the words “ insure domestic tranquility.” Today I wonder what tranquility remains with the actions of the presidency unleashed on this union.

Recently, our president proclaimed we are pulling out of Syria and leaving the Kurd allies to suffer annihilation by Turkish forces. There seems to have been no discussion with Congress, our military leadership or intelligence agencies. Then President Donald Trump proclaims: “Anyone who wants to assist Syria in protecting the Kurds is OK with me, whether it's Russia, China or Napoleon.”

This flippant language lacks any sense of leadership. Vladimir Putin is inserting himself as moderator of a region that brought 9/11 to our shores and includes Iran, which is in lock step with the Russian leader.

Trump is not interested in our tranquility, and most certainly neither is Putin.

 It bothers me that both our senators remain silent when they see a leader who clearly threatens the integrity of our relationships to world and national order. Tranquility and order are tied together.

How do they sit without being provoked to action when both made oaths to uphold our Constitution?

This president mocks constitutional limits. There have been direct references to his abusing our whole system of ordered elections. This is a rogue trampling through a nation's identity.

Get up, not according to your political stripes, but to truly support the stripes of one nation needing a sense of order and tranquility.

Nick Wilhelm

Fort Wayne

US embarrassment can't end too quickly

I would like to agree 1,000% with Sharon Heckaman's letter (“Actions of president leave unsafe feeling,” Oct. 16). She hit the nail squarely on the head.

Every word she wrote is painfully true and will certainly come back to bite us all if we elect Donald Trump again. I can't even fathom another four years of his childish ways which are so divisive to our country. It seems like money really is the root of all evil because that is the only excuse you could possibly give for people putting any kind of backing behind him.

Folks like me are really going to have trouble if we reelect him. It's sad that people are so greedy we have to put up with a reality TV show host as our leader. There are so many better choices out there. This is embarrassing to our country.

Jack Rhoades

Fort Wayne

Blind support should bring harm to GOP

Would you vote for someone who was racist or who was corrupt or who lied 10,000 times or who broke the law openly or who undermines trust in the government or who was involved in numerous scandals? No? Then don't vote for those who support someone like that.

We can take a stand against the president and what his party has become by voting against every Republican running for office this year and next year.

I call on all Republican candidates and voters to renounce their party. The president doesn't represent you or your values, so why support him?

Local Republican candidates would like to distance themselves from Donald Trump, but they are linked to him whether they like it or not. They have supported him. They have raised money for him. They have voted for him. They have sent their own money to him. And now, they are tainted by him. So, how can you vote for anyone who follows the president so blindly?

Before you vote for any Republican, ask yourself, do you really want to be known for making that decision? Consider years from now, how could you possibly defend supporting Trump and his followers? Your children, grandchildren, and other relatives and friends may even ask you in the future how you possibly could have made a mistake like voting for the Republicans. 

People who support criminals are criminals, too, right down to the voters. Take a stand. Support and vote for the Democrats while you still can.

David Sowards

Fort Wayne

Left's world view could spark civil war

The world is slipping off its axis.  How else can you explain judges allowing the “transition” of a 7year old boy – in Texas for crying out loud? We don’t let them ride the roller coaster because it’s too dangerous, but sex change, meh, what could go wrong.  We don’t let them walk to school alone anymore or see scary movies, but really sex change will have far less impact on their lives – right?  Of course a 7 year old cannot vote, smoke cigs, vape, drive, consume alcohol or play with matches, but sex change at age 7 is being normalized by cruel adults more interested pushing a politically correct position than protecting children.  But hey, all is not lost.  The kid could go on to win the European women’s cycling championship lie the dude did last week, and the left thinks that the completion was “fair.”  The whole bunch ought to be horsewhipped.

But it doesn’t stop there. The entire Dope field is promising to spend money we’ll never have to buy votes with everything from the Green New Deal (93 trillion dollars), Medicare for all (32 trillion dollars), wiping out college debt (1.6 trillion dollars), “free” college for all (70 billion a year), other trillions on everything from “free” food to “free” housing” and they promise to extend the freebies to illegal aliens as well.*  Yet, no responsible news agency has compiled the costs and asked any of the Dopes, “You Dopes want to spend between 11-13 trillion dollars a year buying votes.  PDJT’s last budget came in under 5 trillion.  How do plan to more than double expenditures?  What is the average tax rate for idle America?”  To misquote James Treacher: The MSM’s main job these days is to hide facts that might reflect poorly on the Dope party. 

Free speech is on a death watch *(illegal aliens is hate speech in NY City.  You can be arrested and fined for using that term.).  Those willing to put a bullet through the head of free speech used to be the institutions that held it most dear – congress, universities and the MSM.  Now they want to be the arbiters of what a “lie” is and what constitutes “hate speech.”  Dopes in congress harassed Mark Zuckerberg for not saying he’d pull down “lies” from Facebook. The Zuck already suspends conservative speech at the drop of a hat.  What else do the Dopes want? A simple ban of all conservative content.  The Dopes are ostensibly worried about Russians influencing the election.  YGBSM?  What idiot gets their political news from Facebook?  Dopes I suppose.  Colleges can be relied upon to exercise a heckler’s veto any time a conservative arrives on campus to speak – claiming speakers like Dennis Prager, Ben Sapiro, Jordan Peterson et al - lie and engage in “hate speech.”  The Dope thug army – AntiFa – takes it a step further and actually assaults conservative who show up for a college speech or PDJT rally.  The MSM can be relied to ignore the assault on free speech as they exercise it on a daily basis on the front page and OpEd page of their failing papers and nightly newscasts.

The two tier justice system where Dopes can get away with about anything while conservatives go broke and end up in the poky for, what by Caligula, D.C. standards, amounts to jaywalking.  Shrillda the Hutt and her staff are guilty of myriad high crimes.  Not one has landed in jail or even been charged with a crime.  Meanwhile a long line PDJT supporters have been harassed into bankruptcy and thrown into solitary confinement after having their homes raided by government thugs in the wee hours of the morning for nothing more than shock and intimidation effect.  Much is being made of IG Horowitz’s report and Durham’s investigation.  I still do not believe that either will amount to much.  Here’s why.  The perps will have to indicted and tried in Caligula, D.C.  If ever there was a tainted jury pool Caligula, D.C. would be it. Dope will simply let Dope criminals walk no matter the mountain of evidence to the contrary.  Remember, jury nullification let guilty as hell OJ walk.

All of this could point to civil war if this BS continues in such a one-sided manner and with the government’s heavy and tipping the scale at every turn.  What else can be done?  Well we vote, Lex.  We voted in 2016.  The Dopes have tried to nullify the result of that election since Inauguration Day.  So I ask again, if you cannot get your story out due to speech codes, if you are subject to a different standard of justice for nothing more than your political views and your vote either doesn’t count, is offset by an illegal alien’s vote or your guy is impeached days after winning the election, what are you to do?  If they get power through these nefarious means, they will first take your guns then tell you that your little boy “must transition” to a little girl and their kangaroo courts will enforce the government’s edict. So again, what are you to do?

Upon further review the Kurds were/are mercenaries rather than allies

Well this is what I turned up after taking a day off conducting hours of research to ferret out the difference between the words mercenary and ally.   

Mercenary: (adj) a person hired to fight for another country than their own; (adj) marked by materialism; (adj) serving for wages in a foreign army

Ally:  (noun) a friendly nation; (verb) become an ally or associate - as by a treaty or marriage;  (verb) an associate who provides cooperation or assistance

There you it.  Time well spent, I believe.

So lemmesee, We paid the Kurds - a people without a country or nation - to fight for the US.  So under the first set of definitions for the words, the Kurds would appear to be mercenaries rather than allies.  In the second set, the Kurds were offered and received material support – i.e. arms and money – to fight with the US.  There is no treaty or marriage license between the US and the Kurds.  Again, under the second meaning of each word, the Kurds would appear to be mercenaries rather than allies. Let’s examine meaning three.  The Kurds served for wages if not in a foreign army at least supporting a foreign army.  The Kurds no doubt provided cooperation and assistance to US forces in Syria.

So by a score of 2.5 to .5 the Kurds were/are mercenaries.

Add to that the fact that the Kurds, in part at least, are commie loving azzbags and in all were as interested in securing a plot of land to call their own as helping us.  Mercenary is, no doubt, the correct word for the Kurd’s relationship with the US.

The Caligula, D.C. ruling class azzhats are all aghast that PDJT is fulling another campaign promise and pulling troops from Syria – a supposed 30 day mission that has gone on now for nearly 10 years.  The ruling class weasels all feign concern about the return of ISIS, but none has the courage to propose a real solution – an authorization for the use of force against anyone aiding ISIS or attacking our “ally” the Kurds or a declaration of war against NATO ally Turkey.  If all of this Turkey/Syria stuff is so damn important, why aren’t the virtue signalers demanding NATO step in to patrol the Tukey/Syria border to ensure the peace?  Why does America always have to go it alone?  Surprise assessment, I think the Caligula, D.C. hazzhats are all virtue signaling, posturing weasels.

I’m all for joining the fight in the Middle East and killing anyone who F-s with us – Including the Israelis.*  There has to be a mission.  There has to be an imperative to win.  There has to be a real national interest at stake.  There has to be a strategy to exit once the mission is complete. There has to be an understanding that if we break it in support of NATO or the UN then NATO or UN fixes it or it lays in ruin until they do.    

I applaud House Democrats for holding an impeachment inquiry in secret.  Elections have consequences.  Democrats won.  They can run the impeachment process in any manner they choose.  If we have learned one thing over the last 243 years it’s that government is always at its best when it operates in secret and ignores hundreds of years of common law regarding due process.

It is well within the power of the House under Democrat’s control to blow through millions of dollars over months and months to impeach a duly elected President of the United States for purely political reasons when an election is about a year off.  Everyone recognizes that as a very judicious and necessary use of public funds.  

Besides polls show that there is mounting support for impeachment.  We know we can trust polls regarding PDJT because Hillary Clinton is now in process of running for her second term…no, wait.

Wednesday, October 23, 2019 1:00 am

Letters

Banks offers incomplete picture on impeachment

Rep. Jim Banks, quoted in an Oct. 11 article, said we have elections “whether or not to elect or throw people out of office whether it's the president or ... your local representative. That is what elections are all about.” Indeed, he is correct. He goes on to say, Democrats, in their push to impeach Donald Trump, are mounting “an attack on our democratic process ...” I believe he is incorrect. An impeachment inquiry, just like an election, is part of the democratic process.

What Banks fails to mention is that our Constitution empowers Congress to discipline members for wrongdoing or misconduct in office. And for questionable behavior, the president can be held to an impeachment inquiry by the House and trial by the Senate. All of this is part of the democratic process.

So what is the point? We do not have to wait for an election to pursue alleged wrongdoing by our elected officials. Can you imagine a senator accused of misdeeds in the first year of office and the electorate having to wait five years for a decision whether to reelect that senator?

I urge Banks to present a fair and balanced overview of all democratic procedures available for elected officials who may have misbehaved in office. Sometimes we cannot, nor should we, wait for elections to consider any alleged misconduct by such individuals.

And finally, while there appears to be no outcry in the 3rd District to impeach the president, national polls are beginning to show something different. More than 50% of American voters are now leaning toward impeachment. Perhaps our elected officials should examine why this trend is occurring.

Richard N. Avdul

Fort Wayne 

We’ll begin healing on Nov 3^rd, 2020.

Hip Hip Hooray for Bonnie Caudill for calling out PDJT for his vulgar language.  It’s about time. I searched the JG archives for Caudill’s letter condemning President Clinton for having an intern service him in the Oval Office but could not find it.  I also looked for her letter condemning Joe Biden for telling President Obama that signing the Affordable Care Act was big F-ing deal but couldn’t find that one either. I looked for her letter condemning Rashida Tlaib for saying she was going to impeach the M-Fer – PDJT, but alas the JG’s archives are incomplete.

These other letters have to exist, because if there’s one thing we know about Democrats, it’s that they are NOT raging hypocrites. We know they do not fly on private jets while condemning the use of fossil fuel.  We know they do not surround themselves with armed guards while telling the rest of to turn our self-defense weapons. 

I wish PDJT would give up the bad language at rallies and other places.  That said his accomplishments far outweigh the bad language most us fall into from time to time.

Time to begin healing from Trump's corruption

Did anyone catch coverage of Donald Trump's rally in Minneapolis on Oct. 10? I did, and yet another shocking presidential pronouncement made my heart sink.

[In reference to Joe Biden]: “He was only a good vice president because he understood how to kiss Barack Obama's a**” (of course, he said the word). Think about that. Just think about those words said in front of the usual rally crowd. And think of the irony, with Mike Pence as his own vice president.

This should make every American cringe. The crowd behind him cheered wildly in their red MAGA hats. There were children in the crowd cheering and having a great time, too. Who are these people who will cheer deliriously any vile thing this man says? The crowd's reaction says more about them than it does about Trump.

We all know who this guy is. He will never change. No U.S. president should get away with saying vile things referencing a former president, former vice president or anyone else. Words matter.

This is not about Republicans or Democrats, or whom you support or dislike. This is about decency and morality.

There are those who will say, “Oh, that's just Trump being Trump.” I refuse to say that.

This man is corrupt, dangerous and an embarrassment to the free world he leads. The sooner this man with his vile language, acts (remember how he despicably mocked a disabled journalist who was in the room doing his job? I do), and lies gets swept out of the Oval Office, the sooner our broken country can begin to heal.

Children are watching. The world is watching, too.

Bonnie Caudill

Fort Wayne

A well deserved day off

I’m taking a day off to research the difference between an ally and a mercenary.  I think our friends in the MSM, Dope Party and Rat establishment Republicans may be confusing the two when it comes to the commie loving Kurds.  Only hours of research will tell.

Add the word lynching to words you can’t say.  I’ll have to take additional time to research the meaning of the word lynching.

Pierre Delecto = Pete Delight and Shrillda the Hutt sees Russians everywhere

Peoples Cube

I cannot believe I supported and voted for cowardly turncoat Mittens Romney.  Well to be fair the alternative was voting for a know-nothing, do-nothing, be-nothing cowardly turncoat and waif Barry The Empty Suit OB, so there’s that.  Also, TES gave rise to PDJT, so maybe it was all worth it.  It’s just sad to watch Romney show his true colors so publicly.

Why in the world is Romney running a shadow twitter account?  And Pierre Delecto?  Puleeez. Why in the world would he go under that foolish moniker?  

Loosely translated as near as I can tell Pierre Delecto = Peter Delight.  WTH?  Pierre Delecto?  I guess Mitten’s search for decent nom de guerre was like Maryland settling on the “terrapins” for their mascot.  The president of the university explained it this way, “What were we supposed to do?  All the good animals were already taken.”*  So in fairness to Mittens, all the good names – Lex E Libertas and Carlos Danger - were already taken.

*NOTE:  The terrapins?  Really?  A turtle?  They’re slow, ugly and docile.  WTH.  Why not the Maryland Manatees or sloths or opossums?   

Still Pierre Delecto?  It’s just too easy: Pete Dildo, Peter Derelicto, Penis de Dumbazz…okay it’s getting away from me now, but Peter Delight aka Pierre Delecto is meme gold – just wait.

But still, why does Mittens need a shadow twitter account?  Answer:  He wasn’t man enough to stand up to Harry the roach Reid, I ate too much Candy Crowley, Barry The Empty Suit OB, his wife, the baby sitter, the waiter at his favorite restaurant who serves him under cooked liver whenever he shows up, the elevator operator who habitually drops him at the wrong floor, his dog who sh*ts on his side of the bed every day, et al, so he cannot be expected to take the heat for putting his thoughts out there under his real name.  Pierre Delecto my azz.  Mittens needs to go with Pierre Timidus or Pete Coward. 

Shrillda the Hutt sees Russians – everywhere
Shrillda the Hutt is running for re-election…in her warped narrow mind anyway.  This woman just cannot get enough of be clowning herself. She calls PDJT every name in the book forgetting, I guess, that he kicked her ample azz like a free kick soccer ball in a World Cup shootout. 

My tactic would be to heap great praise on the opponent who just beat me like a drum.  You now like a coach whose team just got badly beaten.  “Well you now they’re a great team and we just didn’t play best and you cannot beat a team like them when you’re not at your best.  Blah, blah, blah”

Instead she tries convince us that she got her fat, lazy, lying, thieving azz beat by a crude, shallow, dumbazz who is a Russian spy.  So okay, you got your azz beat by a crude, shallow, dumbazz.  So what does that make you?