The MAGA Shame Upon America

Where the inspiring words were once “Make America Great Again, the acronym MAGA has become a pariah of American politics. Where once there was hope, there is now shame.

The President of the United States was actively involved in subverting the Electoral College of the United States of America. The shame begins here.

In an effort to remain in office, the billionaire real estate mogul known as Donald J. Trump set in motion an audacious plan called The Green Bay Sweep to create a constitutional crisis; a crisis so great that he could falsely claim the federal election had been corrupted. He only needed a handful of people to make the same false claim in an attempt to retain his Presidency. He wasn’t trying to overthrow the Constitution, he was bending it to his will. He was willing to break pieces of it, if necessary, to retain his position as President.

When ex-President Donald J. Trump supported the attack on Capitol Hill, he became the enemy within. As described in the President’s Oath of Office, he became a domestic enemy, not because he believed the election was fraudulent, but because he unilaterally chose to exert his will over the political process described in the Constitution.

Previous constitutional crises regarding presidential elections had been resolved by Congress (Compromise of 1877 for example). Of course, those previous crises occurred AFTER the Electoral College had convened and voted.

Because Vice-President Pence would not lie, and would not subvert the vote of the Electoral College as demanded by the Republican Party, outgoing President Trump executed Plan B to physically disrupt the Electoral College in order to prevent an orderly transition of power.

By this act, Donald J. Trump asserted himself as an enemy of the Constitution of the United States of America. He should be charged with treasonous acts, but there may not be a political will to do this. Just as pardoning former President Richard Nixon for his involvement in Watergate was necessary, Donald J. Trump will not likely be charged for his crimes.

The problem in America today is that the two mainstream political parties believe it acceptable to subvert the Constitution of the United States for political gain. Will the Constitution continue to govern the rules of engagement for the two political parties or will it be cast aside in favor of an autocratic ruler?

Will Congress abide and improve the Constitution or will it continue to shirk its duties to the Republic and the American people?

Will a third national party arise to protect and improve the rules of engagement, the Constitution, AND the Republic or will its focus be on other matters?

To be determined…

Law and Order? ROFL

The “Law and Order” President appears to once again break the law by ordering it to be done. I guess that is what he meant by this:

https://apnews.com/article/billings-montana-archive-only-on-ap-472201d09bc69de32fbf3e110c094fa6

When the President is not draining the swamp, he is creating a new one.

Here is how the corrupt Trump Admin really get things done:

a) Appoint a shill to a Deputy position avoiding Senate confirmation.

b) Appoint the shill to the Acting Director position but never have your buddy in the Senate actually confirm him for the job as Director.

c) Your shill knows he will not be appointed so he writes something that says as long as there is no Director over him , then all the power and duties of the Director’s office now belong to him.

d) Then the shill opens up 95% of the federal lands in Montana to oil and gas companies.

e) Then the Montana governor sues the Trump Administration because the un-appointed shill didn’t have the Constitutional authority to actually approve selling those rights in Montana.

f) Then the Trump layers argue that while the shill didn’t have the position, he did have the authority and power to do what he did because he wrote a piece of paper that said he did. Then they said Obama did it, too…like children.

g) The Judge tells them they are idiots and rules against the President’s lawyers.

“BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s leading steward of public lands has been serving unlawfully, blocking him from continuing in the position in the latest pushback against the administration’s practice of filling key positions without U.S. Senate approval.

U.S. Interior Department Bureau of Land Management acting director William Perry Pendley served unlawfully for 424 days without being confirmed to the post by the Senate as required under the Constitution, U.S. District Judge Brian Morris determined.”

Oh, did I mention that William Perry Pendley also did this:

“During the Reagan administration, Pendley was a deputy interior secretary for energy and minerals under James G. Watt.^[7] Pendley was reassigned in 1984 when a federal commission faulted him, along with other high-ranking officials, in the underpricing of coal-mining leases in the Powder River Basin, the largest such federal sale in history.^[“

The Prez sniggers at America

While everyone wrings their hands and says the sky is falling, the Prez is having a scornful laugh at America.

The Prez isn’t trying to gerrymander the mail-in ballot process. He’s paying back a political donor for his campaign donations.

It’s classic Trump.

a) Destroy what’s working that he cannot control. (The USPS is independent of the President’s cabinet.)

b) Re-structure the deal to favor his political donors.

This Prez loves to divert government money to his political donors. He’s really good at it. Someone should tell Congress to follow the money for a RICOH violation.

Louid DeJoy:

“DeJoy’s appointment was controversial because of his political bias^[17][18], as well as because of his financial position. While he divested some investments before taking on his role (shares in UPS and Amazon), he did not divest his $30-$75 million equity stake in XPO, a subcontractor for USPS. Additionally, when he sold his Amazon shares, he purchased stock options in the company that represent between 20-100% of his prior holdings.^[19][20]. Finally, DeJoy is the first postmaster in two decades without prior experience in the United States Postal Service.^[21]

Upon assuming office as Postmaster General, DeJoy began taking measures, such as banning overtime and extra trips to deliver mail, to reduce costs. Critics said these measures would result in slowing of the mail service.^[22][23][24] Congressional Democrats called for the measures to be rolled back.^[25] More than 600 high-speed mail sorting machines were dismantled and removed from postal facilities without explanation,^[26] raising concerns that mailed ballots for the November 3 election might not reach election offices on time.^[27] Mail collection boxes were removed from the streets in many cities; after photos of boxes being removed were spread on social media, a postal service spokesman said they were being moved to higher traffic areas but that the removals would stop until after the election.^[28]

On August 7, 2020, DeJoy announced he had reassigned or displaced 23 senior USPS officials, including the two top executives overseeing day-to-day operations.^[29][25] DeJoy said he was trying to breathe new life into a “broken business model.”^[30] Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, who chairs the House committee that oversees the post office, said the reorganization was “deliberate sabotage”.^[25]

In a letter to postal workers on August 13, 2020, DeJoy confirmed reports of delays in mail delivery, and called the delays “unintended consequences” of changes that eventually would improve service.^[31] At the same time that DeJoy was taking measures that postal workers and union officials said were slowing down mail delivery, President Trump told a TV interviewer that he was blocking funds for the postal service in order to hinder mail-in voting.^[32]

How many times do we have to tell people that government is not a business and it is not supposed to have a business model? Apparently not enough. Government is a service bought and paid for with taxes. It does not now have and never will have a profit component to it.

In fact, the struggle will always be to ensure that government is effective first and efficient second.

Sometimes I think Peter Drucker’s book “Managing the Non-Profit Organization” should be required reading in every Executive Branch of every city, state, and federal government.

Oh, I know political appointees are more interested in milking the government’s teats than in serving the public’s needs and interests. I’m not naive. And yet, I hope that, if shown the way, some portion of political appointees will do the right thing if they only knew what the right thing was.

So Louis DeJoy will now divert government money to his logistics company in order to “assist” in the mailing of ballots. Money that pays back the Louis DeJoys donations and earns him more money to donate in the future to the Republican Party.

The best democracy money can buy. Embrace it.

A purge of generals….2012

Here is what I don’t understand among many other things:

1. General Petraeus is being tarred and feathered and tainted so that he can never run as a Republican presidential candidate. To be president, I hear, was an ambition of his. One can see why Democrats might want to prevent this popular general from having an advantage over their own candidate. So who is doing this?

2.  General Allen is also besmirched but not for having an affair. He is besmirched for crafting emails to a woman who is a friend of General Petraeus. Why is this happening in such a public way?

3. General William Ward was just reduced in rank and then allowed to retire because  he (get this) spent government money on his wife. Imagine that. His wife! One would think that generals who take care of their wives with a few perks like military chauffeurs and stop overs in the Caribbean would be appreciated and not excoriated.

4. How can Jill Kelley be so socially liaison-ed that two generals and an FBI man are lured into emailing her and/or  sending photos? Who else is sending her salacious messages and pictures from our government?

5. How does Jill Kelley write a few lines to a suitor in the FBI that creates an investigation of multiple generals and FBI men? Don’t we have laws and lawful people in government who prevent the misuse of government powers any more? And don’t we have people who prevent scandal instead of creating it?

6. And finally, why is this misdirection occurring when there is so much more to learn about Benghazi and the killing of our ambassador? And why is the news media ignoring this story completely? Even Greenwald ignores it.

Something is wrong in America. Again.