Cats, Guns, and National Security

Donald Trump, Jr back during the campaign (thank God it wasn't this year, or I'd want Don Jr locked away for gross stupidity), he had a brief exchange of messages with WikiLeaks, and now that's under scrutiny. Because of when it was, and because people didn't realize then that WikiLeaks IS basically Russia, he can survive this and it can be filed under "Even more political stupidity by Trump people during the campaign." Don Jr. will take hits because now we know WikiLeaks is Russia but didn't release this publicly, at least. It's easily conceivable he didn't put this together, and at least he didn't communicate with them about or release his emails regarding the meeting with the Russian lawyerette through them (as some suggested he ought to have done). It's probably not a crime to "talk" to an outfit like WikiLeaks, but it looks bad.  KEY POINTS: 1. Probably not illegal. 2. Political stupidity during campaign (still ...

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WHY WE ARE WHERE WE ARE IN ALL THIS: James Comey, an acknowledged jerk, acknowledged under oath--and out of fear of "tapes" allegedly held by President Donald Trump--that the President, as critical at times of the Russia "collusion" investigation as he has been, indeed wanted an investigation to learn what Trump termed "satellites" may have been doing during the campaign.  In a March 31 meeting of a foreign policy advisory committee for the campaign, a certain member raised the possibility of using contacts with Russian officials to arrange a public meeting of Trump with Vladimir Putin.  In a discussion of this idea, it was put down by a number of people there, who noted the "optics" of such a meeting, with Senator Jeff Sessions insisting that the idea of such dealings never be talked about again.  At some point, a campaign policy was even put into effect barring any campaign employee from traveling overseas as part of the campaign.  Hence, the...

From June 2017. This discussion of Comey lays out the core position of Trump's denunciation of the witchhunt. It's not a blanket denial of contacts occurring (the Russians try to get into everything), but rather of the running of an operation by the campaign or a reaching out on a par with Ted Kennedy's action in 1984.

MY BRILLIANT THOUGHTS: 1. The Constitution itself needs serious revision, as in its current configuration the Judiciary ends up with the claimed power, even if by accident. By not stating an alternative short of a Second Amendment solution for overreach by the political branches, the courts ended up with the responsibility. 2. Gutting the Judiciary by literally eliminating ALL--repeat, ALL--lower courts and replacing them with totally new courts with hack judges will A. go far to cancelling out district- and circuit-level precedent, and B. right now give the good guys full control of the Judiciary overnight. 3. Courts don't have guns. All authority really lies in the ability to kill people. So courts can't really do that. The Executive needs to remember that and learn to use a powerful verbal weapon against judges--the "F-bomb" (coupled with the word, "off"). https://www.conservativereview.com/articles/why-appointing-better-judge...