Wednesday, August 10, 2022
It's odd how this guy never mentions the post-election shenanigans which DEFINE the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which would REQUIRE faithless votes in the Electoral College
Time To Eliminate the Possibility of Faithless Electors :
In spite of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Chiafalo v. Washington that states can bind electors to the popular vote, only 14 states have laws in place to do so. This leaves open the possibility that as many as 420 electors across the country could still cast faithless votes with the only remedy being whether or not Congress would choose to count those votes in their Jan. 6 joint session. This is the type of scenario the ECRA is trying to avoid.
He doesn't say anything about the National Popular Vote Compact here, either, which would potentially nullify the will of the people of a state who voted for one candidate but whose electors were forced to vote for another under the compact. That would be done legally by state signatories, but it would still be wrong.
As of June 2022, [the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact] has been adopted by fifteen states and the District of Columbia. These states have 195 electoral votes, which is 36% of the Electoral College and 72% of the 270 votes needed to give the compact legal force.
More.
All 50 states certified their results in Election 2020, making Joe Biden the winner. Rogue electors weren't recognized by Vice President Pence, correctly, under already existing laws.
Electors would be no less rogue under the NPV.
It would be less ambiguous to these people if the Supreme Court had ruled "shall" instead of "may", but the whole opinion is clear:
A State may enforce an elector’s pledge to support his party’s nominee—and the state voters’ choice—for President.
The Supreme Court on July 6, 2020 concluded by saying that
electors are not free agents; they are to vote for the candidate whom the State’s voters have chosen
which ought to settle the matter, but apparently can't in some minds.
Odd.
FBI run amok seizes cell phone of five term Pennsylvania Congressman Republican Scott Perry, head of House Freedom Caucus since January
"My phone contains info about my legislative and political activities, and personal/private discussions with my wife, family, constituents, and friends. None of this is the government’s business."
More.
Labor productivity hits record low in the post-war under Joe Biden, even worse than 1974
THEY PRETEND TO PAY US . . . WE PRETEND TO WORK.
Planting "evidence": Dirty rotten FBI spent 9 hours "searching" Trump's residence on Monday after fruitless hours-long May recon mission
A source close to the former president expressed concern that FBI agents or DOJ lawyers conducting the search could have “planted stuff” because they would not allow Trump’s attorneys inside the 128-room building to observe the operation, which lasted more than nine hours. ...
In May, Corcoran granted access into Mar-a-Lago’s windowless storage room to FBI agents who spent several hours searching through the boxes. Trump stopped by the basement to say hello at one point, says someone who was there.
More.
Monday, August 8, 2022
Little Marco gets it right
'Using government power to persecute political opponents is something we have seen many times from 3rd world Marxist dictatorships But never before in America,' wrote Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida on Twitter.
The Federal Government has been collecting record taxes for months, but that's not good enough for The Beast: The Manchin inflation bill gives the IRS $80 billion to collect even more, $204 billion extra in the next ten years
Meanwhile Sean Hannity on the radio is talking about anything but.
FEDS COLLECT RECORD TAXES... ^
FEDS COLLECT RECORD TAXES... ^
FEDS COLLECT RECORD TAXES... ^
FEDS COLLECT RECORD TAXES... ^
FEDS COLLECT RECORD TAXES... ^
Reconciliation bill includes nearly $80 billion for IRS including enforcement, audits: What that means for taxpayers :
Collectively, those improvements are projected to bring in $203.7 billion in revenue from 2022 to 2031, according to recent estimates from the Congressional Budget Office.
Gee, I guess it didn't work so well
The singer has credited her husband, who founded Amazon Herb Company, purveyors of botanical supplements, with helping turn her on to medical marijuana as a treatment for cancer.
Meanwhile the rich get a $14 billion gift in the Manchin "inflation" bill because the carried interest loophole fix was dropped to please Senator Sinema
Democrats estimated that the proposed changes to the carried interest rules would have raised $14 billion over 10 years.
Joe Manchin's gift to America: IRS gets a whopping 58% funding increase each and every year for ten years over fiscal 2021
They're coming for YOU.
The IRS spent $13.7 billion last year.
The Manchin bill gives the IRS an additional $79.6 billion over ten years:
. . . it will take time to phase in the added IRS funding . . .
CNBC says you WANTED this:
More than two-thirds of registered voters support boosting the IRS budget . . .
LOL, are YOU ever going to get it, good and hard.
LOL, watch for dozens of phony House Democrats who ran on repeal of Trump's 2017 SALT caps vote once again come Friday for a bill (Joe Manchin's) which doesn't remove them and adds more taxes on most Americans
Trump raising taxes on rich coastal elites and Democrats never doing anything about it after running on a promise to do so will never not be funny.
House Dems Drop SALT Pledges To Back Manchin Bill
Democrats and Republicans have forcefully disputed whether the Inflation Reduction Act would raise taxes on middle-class households making less than $400,000, which would violate a core Biden pledge. The non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation, found that the measure would raise $16.7 billion on taxpayers making less than $200,000 in 2023.
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| Josh Gottheimer NJ-5 |
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| Mikie Sherrill NJ-11 |
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| Tom Suozzi NY-3 |
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| Katie Porter CA-45 |
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| Mike Levin CA |
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| Tom Malinowski NJ-7 |
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| Josh Harder CA-10 |
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| Julia Brownley CA-26 |
Sunday, August 7, 2022
US COVID-19: The Big Picture through July 2022
Total cases monthly in 2022:
Jan 20.3 million
Feb 3.95m
Mar 1.07m
Apr 1.25m
May 2.89m
Jun 3.33m
Jul 3.65m.
We averaged 1.68 million cases monthly in 2020 and 2.88 million monthly in 2021.
Monthly cases in 2022 through July now average 5.20 million, down from 5.46 million last month.
Because of home tests and generally milder cases both going unreported, the case data is not very predictive.
The encouraging news is in the deaths per day data, which shows that the pandemic is clearly less severe in the United States two months in a row. Both June and July deaths were low enough to make 2022 as a whole look better than either 2020 or 2021 in each of them.
Deaths per day are still approximately 10x higher, however, through July, and 4x higher in July, than for the average annual rate for influenza.
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