This impeachment thing is looking like a sham.

Biden has already pissed off the unions, blue collar workers and women. Now he goes to piss off the military. All for .6% of the population.

Not all Democrats are embracing a complete system overhaul.

And some of the dumber stories out there already this week.

Let’s listen to how Jen Psaki answers touch questions from the media about the hypocrisy of Joe Biden:

WTF is she talking about. Not only did she make a mistake and lie but she danced around that question like a ballerina. So much transparency.

 

This Is Looking Less Legit by the Second

Unlike the first Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, over which Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts presided, the second Senate impeachment trial, which is scheduled to commence on February 8, will not see Roberts presiding — Vermont Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, who is the Senate President Pro Tempore, will preside.

On Monday, Leahy, who voted to impeach Trump in the first impeachment trial, said he would administer “impartial justice,” according to The Hill.

Leahy said in a statement:

The president pro tempore has historically presided over Senate impeachment trials of non-presidents.  When presiding over an impeachment trial, the president pro tempore takes an additional special oath to do impartial justice according to the Constitution and the laws.  It is an oath that I take extraordinarily seriously. 

I consider holding the office of the president pro tempore and the responsibilities that come with it to be one of the highest honors and most serious responsibilities of my career.  When I preside over the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, I will not waver from my constitutional and sworn obligations to administer the trial with fairness, in accordance with the Constitution and the laws.

John Corkyn of Texas said:

The Constitution requires that the chief justice preside over the impeachment trial of a president but that’s not what we’re doing. To me that’s indicative of the fact that we’re in uncharted waters. I just think it looks very petty and vindictive and I understand there are a lot of people who are mad but the process itself already looks like a railroad job.

In the midst of Trump’s first impeachment trial, New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer asked Roberts if he would break a tie vote if there were one. Roberts answered, “If the members of this body, elected by the people and accountable to them, divide equally on a motion, the normal rule is that the motion fails. I think it would be inappropriate for me, an unelected official from a different branch of government, to assert the power to change that result so that the motion would succeed.”

Chief Justice John Roberts is not a Conservative but he has always said he was not going to allow his position to become political. This sham is nothing but political and he knows it. He wants nothing to do with it. The fact that they put Pat Leahy (we’ll get into that in a second) as the judge of the impeachment trial says it all.

Leahy hates Trump and all Republicans. He is the definition of a partisan. His words of being impartial means absolutely nothing to me or any Conservatives or Republicans.

Finally, this sham has lost all its legitimacy. Even if a bunch of Republicans do decide to convict Trump, the entire thing is unconstitutional.

You can’t convict a former President. If they think he did anything illegal, they can convict him in the legal system. If convicted, he can’t take office again and will face punishment. The Constitution is actually quite clear about this. Impeachment only works with a sitting President.

The Constitution is also very clear on who can preside over the impeachment trial: the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Period. There is no mention of the Senate President or, worse, the Senate President Pro Temp.

It’s all a show to embarrass the Trump, stain his legacy and take the attention off of Biden’s crappy policies.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-senator-not-roberts-to-preside-over-trumps-impeachment-trial
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/535700-leahy-roberts-to-preside-over-impeachment-trial

 

Sure Making a Lot of Effort

Speaking of crappy policies:

President Joe Biden repealed a Trump-era executive order barring people who identify as transgender from serving in the military in most cases, as well as preventing military funding from paying for sex reassignment surgeries.

Biden’s executive order, which the White House announced on Monday morning, rescinds one Trump issued in 2017 and implemented in 2019.

The White House said in a statement:

“Allowing all qualified Americans to serve their country in uniform is better for the military and better for the country because an inclusive force is a more effective force. Simply put, it’s the right thing to do and is in our national interest.”

Ian Thompson of the ACLU told Axios:

“Repealing the military ban sends a powerful message that transgender people belong in our country.” Biden’s new order “is the first of many essential steps to not only rollback the many discriminatory policies from the Trump administration but go farther than any previous administration in fully recognizing transgender and non-binary people.”

I love this:

• Sleepy, Creepy Joe has now pissed off workers, the unions and women. All for .6% of the population. Now he’s going to piss off the military. I hope he keeps doing it.
• The military does not ban transgenders because they hate them but because it is seen as a mental deficiency that is unneeded when at war. The is based on psychology’s DSM-5 when defining Gender Dysphoria.
• People are going to get tired of paying taxes so soldiers can get tax payer money to have their penises mutilated. That’s going to go over real well in the South and Midwest.

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-biden-repeals-trump-ban-on-military-funding-for-sex-reassignment-surgeries

 

That’s One Bullet Dodged

Per the Daily Wire:

On Monday, The Washington Post reported that there is another Democrat who is not willing to eliminate the filibuster besides Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV); Arizona Senator Krysten Sinema.

The Post reported:

Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) has been the most outspoken Democratic opponent of changing Senate rules and has sought to assemble a bipartisan cadre of centrist senators willing to hammer out deals across the aisle. But other Democrats are similarly resistant. A spokeswoman for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) said the senator is “against eliminating the filibuster, and she is not open to changing her mind about eliminating the filibuster.”

Because of the filibuster, a minimum of 60 votes is needed to advance legislation; most Democratic proposals would require at least 10 GOP senators to agree in order for them to be passed. Eliminating the legislative filibuster would enable the Democrats to pass legislation with a simple majority vote.

The way the filibuster works is this: the minority party can keep debate open on a legislative issue until the Senate votes to close the issue, but to close the vote takes 60 votes. There are limitations on the filibuster: it cannot be used for certain budget bills, federal executive branch appointees and judicial appointments, including Supreme Court nominees.

This gives me some hope. There are sane people out there even if they are Democrats.

The filibuster is a safe guard against majority rule. In other words it is meant to avoid the majority becoming tyrannical. There are two things the Democrats want to destroy when it comes to the system: kill the filibuster and pack the Supreme Court and Federal Courts. If the filibuster remain intact, it will be almost impossible to pack the courts.

This is great news and means we may be able to survive Joe Biden’s Presidency for the next two years.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/now-its-two-dems-sinema-will-oppose-eliminating-filibuster-report-says
https://www.dailywire.com/news/mcconnell-says-eliminating-filibuster-is-dead

 

Dumb Stories of the Day

This Will Fix It

Chicago is suffering through an “epidemic” of carjackings — nearly 200 reported in the space of a single month — and city officials are now putting a plan into action to curb juvenile vehicle crime: free snacks and educational movies at select Chicago Police Department-run locations.

CWB Chicago reports that the program, called the “Criminal Trespass To Vehicle Workshops,” allows suspected juvenile offenders arrested in connection with the theft of a motor vehicle, to endure an afternoon of “video interviews” with full snack and beverage service instead of more aggressive punitive measures.

“According to CPD, the workshop is a ‘video interview series’ with victims and volunteers who talk about vehicular hijacking, motor vehicle theft, possession of a stolen motor vehicle, and criminal trespass to vehicles,” the outlet reported Monday, adding that CPD’s Facebook post about the initiative “features a photo of three participants watching a video — with snacks and beverage service, of course. And, boy, do the youngsters look attentive!”

Frigging Disney

Disney is censoring four of their classic films from the Disney+ accounts of children under age seven, citing what they described as the “negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures.”

“Dumbo,” “Peter Pan,” “Swiss Family Robinson,” and “The Aristocats” are no longer available for young users of the streaming account service, according to The Mail on Sunday.

On a website called Stories Matter, they stated:

“As part of our ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion, we are in the process of reviewing our library and adding advisories to content that includes negative depictions or mistreatment of people or cultures. We can’t change the past, but we can acknowledge it, learn from it and move forward together to create a tomorrow that today can only dream of.”

“This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now. Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it and spark conversation to create a more inclusive future together. Disney is committed to creating stories with inspirational and aspirational themes that reflect the rich diversity of the human experience around the globe.”

So, what’s wrong with these movies?

Dumbo (1941)

“The crows and musical number pay homage to racist minstrel shows, where white performers with blackened faces and tattered clothing imitated and ridiculed enslaved Africans on Southern plantations. The leader of the group in Dumbo is Jim Crow, which shares the name of laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. In ‘The Song of the Roustabouts,’ faceless Black workers toil away to offensive lyrics like ‘When we get our pay, we throw our money all away.’”

Peter Pan (1953)

“The film portrays Native people in a stereotypical manner that reflects neither the diversity of Native peoples nor their authentic cultural traditions. It shows them speaking in an unintelligible language and repeatedly refers to them as ‘redskins,’ an offensive term. Peter and the Lost Boys engage in dancing, wearing headdresses and other exaggerated tropes, a form of mockery and appropriation of Native peoples’ culture and imagery.”

Swiss Family Robinson (1960)

“The pirates who antagonize the Robinson family are portrayed as a stereotypical foreign menace. Many appear in ‘yellow face’ or ‘brown face’ and are costumed in an exaggerated and inaccurate manner with top knot hairstyles, queues, robes and overdone facial make-up and jewelry, reinforcing their barbarism and ‘otherness.’ They speak in an indecipherable language, presenting a singular and racist representation of Asian and Middle Eastern peoples.”

The Aristocats (1970)

“The cat is depicted as a racist caricature of East Asian peoples with exaggerated stereotypical traits such as slanted eyes and buck teeth. He sings in poorly accented English voiced by a white actor and plays the piano with chopsticks. This portrayal reinforces the ‘perpetual foreigner’ stereotype, while the film also features lyrics that mock the Chinese language and culture such as ‘Shanghai, Hong Kong, Egg Foo Young. Fortune cookie always wrong.’”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-chicago-battling-carjacking-epidemic-with-free-snacks-and-videos
https://www.dailywire.com/news/negative-depictions-disney-blocks-children-under-7-from-watching-peter-pan-dumbo-other-classics