We’ve all heard this from friends: I hate politics. I don’t like to talk about politics. Politics bores me. My friends are actually saying that they are willing for someone else to dictate the details of their daily lives.
If there is ever a time for ordinary Americans to get involved in the affairs of their government, it is now. If H.R. 1 becomes law, we are finished as a free society because we will have allowed the Socialist Democrats to establish one-party rule in perpetuity, never to be overturned absent an armed insurrection.
H.R. 1 passed the House with only a single courageous Democrat voting against it, Bennie Thompson of Mississippi. Not a single Republican voted for it. It’s now before the Senate.
Annihilation of our civil liberties, now at full throttle under the most radical revolutionary administration ever installed, will have occurred because ordinary Americans didn’t question the Lie that is Leftism. “The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion,” the British statesman Edmund Burke said in a 1784 speech.
In Article 1, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution, our Founders wisely insisted that the state legislatures prescribe “the times, places, and manner” for electing Members of Congress and Senators. The presidency isn’t mentioned, because the Electoral College elected presidents in the Republic’s early days.
But the Founders’ intentions were clear: The states, not the federal government, control the election apparatus. If the Senate passes H.R. 1, control of presidential and congressional elections will pass from the states to the federal government and the permanent Democrat bureaucracy. Americans are allowing this because they believe the lie.
H.R. 1 has the Orwellian name of “For the People Act of 2021.” Really? Among other things, states would be prohibited from requiring voters to show identification. Under the law, votes will be manufactured long after elections, waiting in the wings to be called upon as needed to ensure Democrat victories.
“It would override hundreds of state laws governing the orderly conduct of elections, federalize control of voting and elections to a degree without precedent in American history, end two centuries of state power to draw congressional districts, turn the Federal Elections Commission into a partisan weapon, and massively burden political speech against the government while offering government handouts to congressional campaigns and campus activists. Merely to describe the bill is to damn it, and describing it is a Herculean task in itself.”
Given the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear evidence in Pennsylvania’s election fraud, we can’t depend on SCOTUS to overturn H.R. 1 simply on its incontrovertible unconstitutionality.
In Pennsylvania, you will remember, the governor declared by fiat that Pennsylvania would allow unsigned, unsolicited ballots to appear out of nowhere up to 10 days after the election, in violation of state law. By refusing to consider the evidence, SCOTUS declared Article 1, Section 4 meaningless and void. In Pennsylvania, only the people, through a complicated multi-step amendment process, can change state election law – not the federal government, not the Supreme Court, not the governor, not the secretary of state, not even the Pennsylvania Legislature itself.
One of the Supreme Court’s duties is to declare the constitutionality of state laws. By its silence, SCOTUS declared that Pennsylvania has no duty to follow either its own laws or the U.S. Constitution.
A constitutional expert would need to tell us if this sets a precedent, but from where we sit, the Supreme Court’s stated uninterest in forcing states to comply with Article 1 is frightening. If H.R. 1 gets into law, states would be stripped of their authority over elections, and Article 1, Section 4 would become null and void – the Constitution amended by a rogue Supreme Court.
Here is a short list of H.R. 1’s most draconian and liberty-stripping covenants. See the full analysis at The Heritage Foundation:
· Force states to allow early voting, automatic voter registration, same-day registration, online voter registration, and no-fault absentee balloting.
· Promote fraud by forcing states to allow same-day registration.
· Require 15 days of early voting, a major incubator of election fraud.
· Require states to automatically register all individuals (as opposed to “citizens”) from state and federal databases, such as state Departments of Motor Vehicles, corrections and welfare offices, and federal agencies such as the Social Security Administration, the Department of Labor, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the Department of Health and Human Services.
· Require online voter registration.
· Require states to count ballots cast by voters outside of their assigned precincts.
· Mandate no-fault absentee ballots, the tool of choice of vote thieves. It would ban witness signature or notarization requirements for absentee ballots and force states to accept absentee ballots for up to 10 days after Election Day, and require states to allow vote trafficking (vote harvesting) so that any third parties—including campaign staffers and political consultants—can pick up and deliver absentee ballots.
· Prevent election officials from checking the eligibility and qualifications of voters and removing ineligible voters. Pre-register 16-year-olds.
· Expand regulation and censorship of political activity and speech.
· Reduce the number of Federal Election Commission members from six to five, allowing the political party with three commission seats to control the commission and engage in partisan enforcement activities.
· Permit the IRS to investigate the political and policy positions of nonprofit organizations before granting tax-exempt status, thus enabling IRS officials to target organizations engaging in First Amendment activity with disfavored views, as it did in denying non-profit status to the Tea Party.
· Prohibit lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of H.R. 1 anywhere except in the DC District Court and allow the court to order all plaintiffs and intervenors, regardless of their number (such as all 50 states), “to file joint papers or to be represented by a single attorney at oral argument,” severely limiting the legal representation and due process rights of challengers.
Anyone who votes for a Democrat in the 2022 mid-term election is either ignorant, foolish, or both, and has no business voting.
Behind the Trump-RNC ‘feud’
Even the anti-establishment press jumped into the fray over President Trump’s cease-and-desist letter demanding that the RNC stop using his name for fundraising. Here’s how The Blaze describes it:
“Some saw the effort by Trump as part of a revenge plot against the Republicans who voted to impeach him in the House and Senate. He has vowed to support pro-Trump Republicans who are challenging in primary elections the Republicans who were disloyal to him.”
Here’s a bit of Inside Baseball you probably already understand. When a journalist uses terms like “Some saw the effort,” what he actually means is “I see the effort – me, myself, nobody I interviewed for this article.”
You’ve heard this many times: “Critics say you beat your wife.” Who are these “critics”? Now you know.
As usual, the press omits the best parts. Trump has a valid concern, as former chief of staff and former RNC Chairman Reince Priebus explained to Trey Goudy on FNC Monday: Trump may want to raise money for his own run in 2024 and doesn’t need others to siphon off funds in his name. The problem is not only the RNC but “scam-PACs,” Priebus calls them, shysters who con gullible donors into thinking they are helping a future Trump campaign but pocket the money for their own use.
Nipping a problem in the bud
One role of the Left’s propaganda arm is to squelch trouble before it spins out of control. With an eye to Sen. Josh Hawley’s alarming rising star status, the New York Times did what any hard-hitting investigative news organization would do – interview his high school prom date and middle school principal for dirt. This is why we don’t call journalists reporters. There is a really big difference.
In order to pull this off, the Times assumes its readers already know that Hawley, simply because he supports claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election, is a dangerous and disturbed individual who must be sidelined. He might even fantasize that he could be the next president. The preamble to its hit piece could be “It goes without saying.”
At The Federalist, Mollie Hemingway notes that the school principal, Barbara Weibling, is a leftwing activist whose social media posts support Biden, socialism, Bernie Sanders, and Russian collusion conspiracy theorist and certified nutbag Rachel Maddow of MSNBC, while trashing anyone conservative going back to Reagan.
“I’ve been very disappointed to see who he has become,” said the one-time prom date Kristen Ruehter-Thompson in furrow-browed concern. She must now feel dirty for having gone to a high school dance with him. Maybe she got lucky and regrets it.
Hemingway wonders: “People may want to ask Plott and Hakim’s prom dates or playdate partners about how they feel about their old acquaintances working for a publication that goes after people in this manner.”
Short takes on the news
We recommend Winston Smith for director. A bill in the Colorado Senate would establish a state-run ministry of truth to regulate online speech and punish violators. Sponsored by Sen. Kerry Donovan, the bill creates a regulatory commission to hear complaints about “hate speech, fake news, conspiracy theories,” and anything intended to “undermine election integrity.” It would be the sole arbiter of the truth in online communications, The Federalist reports.
. . . Surprises that aren’t: An organization called Pro-Life Evangelicals for Biden expresses surprise that Biden didn’t keep his promise to uphold the Hyde Amendment in the $1.9 trillion giveaway to leftist and public employee union groups, in this story at Just the News. Soon to be abandoned, the Hyde Amendment prohibits federal funds for abortions. . . . The entire staff and consultants of the Nevada Democrat Party quit after the Democratic Socialists of America won all five leadership positions in an election. Expecting the rout, the former cabal scrubbed $450,000 from party coffers and gave it to a Senate campaign fund.
. . . Quick, before Looney Tunes is banned: What could be crazier than open borders and closed schools, walls to protect the Capitol elites but not the Texas ranchers, masks ordered for the proletariat but not the ruling class?
. . . Testing the limits of absurdity. Unilever, whose brands include Dove soap, drops “normal” from its marketing of 200 products, the BBC reports, for a “more inclusive definition of beauty.”
. . . The City of Pasadena, Cal., cancels a coronavirus vaccination clinic after learning that a majority of registrants works in media and Hollywood entertainment, and are not eligible.
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The Friday Letter / No. 431
We’ve all heard this from friends: I hate politics. I don’t like to talk about politics. Politics bores me. My friends are actually saying that they are willing for someone else to dictate the details of their daily lives.
If there is ever a time for ordinary Americans to get involved in the affairs of their government, it is now. If H.R. 1 becomes law, we are finished as a free society because we will have allowed the Socialist Democrats to establish one-party rule in perpetuity, never to be overturned absent an armed insurrection.
Click here to see Steve’s latest YouTube videoH.R. 1 passed the House with only a single courageous Democrat voting against it, Bennie Thompson of Mississippi. Not a single Republican voted for it. It’s now before the Senate.
Annihilation of our civil liberties, now at full throttle under the most radical revolutionary administration ever installed, will have occurred because ordinary Americans didn’t question the Lie that is Leftism. “The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion,” the British statesman Edmund Burke said in a 1784 speech.
In Article 1, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution, our Founders wisely insisted that the state legislatures prescribe “the times, places, and manner” for electing Members of Congress and Senators. The presidency isn’t mentioned, because the Electoral College elected presidents in the Republic’s early days.
But the Founders’ intentions were clear: The states, not the federal government, control the election apparatus. If the Senate passes H.R. 1, control of presidential and congressional elections will pass from the states to the federal government and the permanent Democrat bureaucracy. Americans are allowing this because they believe the lie.
H.R. 1 has the Orwellian name of “For the People Act of 2021.” Really? Among other things, states would be prohibited from requiring voters to show identification. Under the law, votes will be manufactured long after elections, waiting in the wings to be called upon as needed to ensure Democrat victories.
Here is how National Review describes H.R. 1:
“It would override hundreds of state laws governing the orderly conduct of elections, federalize control of voting and elections to a degree without precedent in American history, end two centuries of state power to draw congressional districts, turn the Federal Elections Commission into a partisan weapon, and massively burden political speech against the government while offering government handouts to congressional campaigns and campus activists. Merely to describe the bill is to damn it, and describing it is a Herculean task in itself.”
Given the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear evidence in Pennsylvania’s election fraud, we can’t depend on SCOTUS to overturn H.R. 1 simply on its incontrovertible unconstitutionality.
In Pennsylvania, you will remember, the governor declared by fiat that Pennsylvania would allow unsigned, unsolicited ballots to appear out of nowhere up to 10 days after the election, in violation of state law. By refusing to consider the evidence, SCOTUS declared Article 1, Section 4 meaningless and void. In Pennsylvania, only the people, through a complicated multi-step amendment process, can change state election law – not the federal government, not the Supreme Court, not the governor, not the secretary of state, not even the Pennsylvania Legislature itself.
One of the Supreme Court’s duties is to declare the constitutionality of state laws. By its silence, SCOTUS declared that Pennsylvania has no duty to follow either its own laws or the U.S. Constitution.
A constitutional expert would need to tell us if this sets a precedent, but from where we sit, the Supreme Court’s stated uninterest in forcing states to comply with Article 1 is frightening. If H.R. 1 gets into law, states would be stripped of their authority over elections, and Article 1, Section 4 would become null and void – the Constitution amended by a rogue Supreme Court.
Here is a short list of H.R. 1’s most draconian and liberty-stripping covenants. See the full analysis at The Heritage Foundation:
· Force states to allow early voting, automatic voter registration, same-day registration, online voter registration, and no-fault absentee balloting.
· Promote fraud by forcing states to allow same-day registration.
· Require 15 days of early voting, a major incubator of election fraud.
· Require states to automatically register all individuals (as opposed to “citizens”) from state and federal databases, such as state Departments of Motor Vehicles, corrections and welfare offices, and federal agencies such as the Social Security Administration, the Department of Labor, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the Department of Health and Human Services.
· Require online voter registration.
· Require states to count ballots cast by voters outside of their assigned precincts.
· Mandate no-fault absentee ballots, the tool of choice of vote thieves. It would ban witness signature or notarization requirements for absentee ballots and force states to accept absentee ballots for up to 10 days after Election Day, and require states to allow vote trafficking (vote harvesting) so that any third parties—including campaign staffers and political consultants—can pick up and deliver absentee ballots.
· Prevent election officials from checking the eligibility and qualifications of voters and removing ineligible voters. Pre-register 16-year-olds.
· Expand regulation and censorship of political activity and speech.
· Reduce the number of Federal Election Commission members from six to five, allowing the political party with three commission seats to control the commission and engage in partisan enforcement activities.
· Permit the IRS to investigate the political and policy positions of nonprofit organizations before granting tax-exempt status, thus enabling IRS officials to target organizations engaging in First Amendment activity with disfavored views, as it did in denying non-profit status to the Tea Party.
· Prohibit lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of H.R. 1 anywhere except in the DC District Court and allow the court to order all plaintiffs and intervenors, regardless of their number (such as all 50 states), “to file joint papers or to be represented by a single attorney at oral argument,” severely limiting the legal representation and due process rights of challengers.
Anyone who votes for a Democrat in the 2022 mid-term election is either ignorant, foolish, or both, and has no business voting.
Behind the Trump-RNC ‘feud’
Even the anti-establishment press jumped into the fray over President Trump’s cease-and-desist letter demanding that the RNC stop using his name for fundraising. Here’s how The Blaze describes it:
“Some saw the effort by Trump as part of a revenge plot against the Republicans who voted to impeach him in the House and Senate. He has vowed to support pro-Trump Republicans who are challenging in primary elections the Republicans who were disloyal to him.”
Here’s a bit of Inside Baseball you probably already understand. When a journalist uses terms like “Some saw the effort,” what he actually means is “I see the effort – me, myself, nobody I interviewed for this article.”
You’ve heard this many times: “Critics say you beat your wife.” Who are these “critics”? Now you know.
As usual, the press omits the best parts. Trump has a valid concern, as former chief of staff and former RNC Chairman Reince Priebus explained to Trey Goudy on FNC Monday: Trump may want to raise money for his own run in 2024 and doesn’t need others to siphon off funds in his name. The problem is not only the RNC but “scam-PACs,” Priebus calls them, shysters who con gullible donors into thinking they are helping a future Trump campaign but pocket the money for their own use.
Nipping a problem in the bud
One role of the Left’s propaganda arm is to squelch trouble before it spins out of control. With an eye to Sen. Josh Hawley’s alarming rising star status, the New York Times did what any hard-hitting investigative news organization would do – interview his high school prom date and middle school principal for dirt. This is why we don’t call journalists reporters. There is a really big difference.
In order to pull this off, the Times assumes its readers already know that Hawley, simply because he supports claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election, is a dangerous and disturbed individual who must be sidelined. He might even fantasize that he could be the next president. The preamble to its hit piece could be “It goes without saying.”
At The Federalist, Mollie Hemingway notes that the school principal, Barbara Weibling, is a leftwing activist whose social media posts support Biden, socialism, Bernie Sanders, and Russian collusion conspiracy theorist and certified nutbag Rachel Maddow of MSNBC, while trashing anyone conservative going back to Reagan.
“I’ve been very disappointed to see who he has become,” said the one-time prom date Kristen Ruehter-Thompson in furrow-browed concern. She must now feel dirty for having gone to a high school dance with him. Maybe she got lucky and regrets it.
Hemingway wonders: “People may want to ask Plott and Hakim’s prom dates or playdate partners about how they feel about their old acquaintances working for a publication that goes after people in this manner.”
Short takes on the news
We recommend Winston Smith for director. A bill in the Colorado Senate would establish a state-run ministry of truth to regulate online speech and punish violators. Sponsored by Sen. Kerry Donovan, the bill creates a regulatory commission to hear complaints about “hate speech, fake news, conspiracy theories,” and anything intended to “undermine election integrity.” It would be the sole arbiter of the truth in online communications, The Federalist reports.
. . . Surprises that aren’t: An organization called Pro-Life Evangelicals for Biden expresses surprise that Biden didn’t keep his promise to uphold the Hyde Amendment in the $1.9 trillion giveaway to leftist and public employee union groups, in this story at Just the News. Soon to be abandoned, the Hyde Amendment prohibits federal funds for abortions. . . . The entire staff and consultants of the Nevada Democrat Party quit after the Democratic Socialists of America won all five leadership positions in an election. Expecting the rout, the former cabal scrubbed $450,000 from party coffers and gave it to a Senate campaign fund.
. . . Quick, before Looney Tunes is banned: What could be crazier than open borders and closed schools, walls to protect the Capitol elites but not the Texas ranchers, masks ordered for the proletariat but not the ruling class?
. . . Testing the limits of absurdity. Unilever, whose brands include Dove soap, drops “normal” from its marketing of 200 products, the BBC reports, for a “more inclusive definition of beauty.”
. . . The City of Pasadena, Cal., cancels a coronavirus vaccination clinic after learning that a majority of registrants works in media and Hollywood entertainment, and are not eligible.
The Friday Letter is updated later Friday at The News-Guardian.