BALTIMORE, Maryland, Monday, February 20, 2017 and Friday, February 17, 2017 - I initially posted this story on Friday. Now I have rewritten and changed much of it.
Lawyers, at least those with a functioning brain, have a saying that bad facts lead to bad law. The ongoing ordeal the USA suffers through in this start up of the Trump years is a case that illustrates this point. All of the American ideals and traditions of good government, of full and equal opportunity, of respect for the ultimate fairness and nobility of democracy, reverance for the concept of one man-one vote, respect for human decency, honor for the goal of liberty and justice for each human being, and ultimate respect and admiration for the rule of law in These United States, not to mention lasting clear respect for human freedom; all of these have been thrown forcefully out the window. In the place of these wonderful and noble ideas and traditions are the now daily doses - and we mean large sour and very putrid doses - of pure sick and disgusting anarchy. Riots in the street, riots in the Congress, riots in the states. The thing is, if you are actually paying attention, these riots are not naturally occurring; they don't consist of a large group of angry people spilling out into the streets each and every day to address some very obvious societal wrong. No sir. These daily shows (and that is all that they are: Vaudville shows) are staged by a bad person, an international pariah, who, sadly, has a lot of ill-gotten money at his disposal, money he has used to matriculate here to these United States. The person of whom we speak, George Soros, working with B. Hussein Obama, rounds up a cabal of thugs, and then these thugs go and play out these staged and scripted faux riots. The latest manifestation of this sickness were a couple of "films" of little children acting out a "movie" of anti-Trumpisms, as if little children would think of trash like this. All of this stuff is, to quote our leader, "fake." It even feels fake, it even looks fake, it even smells fake. Why? Because it is fake.
The Soros and Obama Thug Show features thugs who show up places and disrupt. On another day, the thug team shows up places and riots. Then they show up places and stage all manner of things directly resembling anarchy. But these despotic plays and shows are nothing more than stage names for anarchy, because there are virtually no Americans who are just doing these awful things because they seem like good ideas. They are very bad ideas, sick ideas. Americans don't want this, even the many who voted against Trump. As Ms. Kidman said and Mr. McConaughey said, it's time to rally behind Trump because, like it or not, he is the President. We elected him. At least, that is how I conceptualized the task at hand. I was sitting staring out into space - something I am prone to do when there is a problem I need to solve - and it struck me that Obama has to be about the most bitter and self-centered (and vapid) man on earth to have sunk so far down the moral and ethical ladder to get himself involved with running this thug squad that he and Soros are running in, apparently, a very hands-on way.
Thugs here. Thugs there. Thugs all over the place, and each and everyone of these low-brow people answering directly to Obama and Soros and their closest minions. One man was our President. The other is one of the richest on Earth, through hook or crook. For eight years Obama held the reigns of power in his hands. Soros stood just off stage in the shadows. Together, they wielded the greatest military power. Together, they wielded the greatest technological advancements, holding them at their fingertips for use anywhere on earth. A veritable who's who of brilliant people, all at their beck and call, people who could flesh out the ideas the two came up with and then form and mold these ideas into usable tools to solve mankind's most vexing problems. Eight years all of this was theirs. Eight years. And then, one of the most amazing and stunning phenomenons known to mankind: the peaceful changing of power - the same peaceful change that put Obama into power then put his replacement into power - left Obama and his family with money and resources to continue contributing to society from a higher plane, while his replacement dug in to tackle the day-to-day issues that a head of state confronts.
None of this was enough for somebody like Obama or for Soros; both have this sociopathic sense of narcissistic entitlement that is far beyond anything Americans are familiar with. When you believe the world owes it to you to do everything you say it should do, in the way you say it should be done, well, you aren't going to keep your nose out of things even if your life depends on it.
Our form of government does not curtail a former president's life in any way whatsoever. The one and only restriction on his life, going forward, is that he can no longer be president of these United States. This one restriction is not part of the original constitution. It was added to USA law following the four elections of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Even though most Americans loved and adored Roosevelt - God knows I adore him, and I wasn't even born when he departed this life - there was a feeling among most Americans that Roosevelt and the times he lived in was a story that should not be repeated. As Wikipedia reports, Americans have long opposed any person serving more than two terms as President. The first elected President, George Washington, almost certainly could have run for and won as many terms as he chose. A great many Americans wanted him to be King of the United States, and if he had acquiesced, he could've been King, so great was te admiration and respect the citizenry as a whole had for the great man. Washington, however, thought eight years was enough. There is evidence that the main reason he did not seek a third term was his health. Others believed it was to set an example. From Washington's time until FDR's time, there was much discussion about setting a two-term limit on the presidency. Even Roosevelt's decision to run for a third term was something he didn't relish making. As the Democrats came together at their 1940 Convention, Roosevelt wrote a letter to the Convention, saying he would only run if they "drafted" him. World War II had started, although the USA'a entry into the actual fighting was still more than a year away (the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor happened on December 7, 1941). Nonetheless, many, if not most Americans were aware that America's entry was inevitable, and Roosevelt had just guided the USA through the Great Depression. It was the one time that neither side was all that anxious to change leaders.
The situation today could not be more different. A lot of Americans would be happy if there was a one-term limit on the Presidency. After the Obama experience, how far away can we be from a law severely limiting a President's participation in post-term politics.
As I sat and contemplated how bitter and vapid a man has to be to end eight years of omnipotence and have to plunge immediately into deviously screwing another man's effort to run the same nation. Trump was duly elected. Before Trump was duly elected, Obama was duly elected. Both came to power in the same way. As for how a president acts toward his predecessor, Obama's treatment of his predecessor is not the stuff of legend. In short, he treated him terribly, blaming him for any and every problem America has, whether or not Bush had anything to do with it. And heaven only knows how hard Obama tried to preserve Bush's accomplishments. Sure he did.
But there is no use griping about what Obama is doing to Trump. Why? Griping about Obama won't change anything. He is doing what he is doing because he can and because he thinks he is so wonderful and smart that America needs him to do it. In reality, of course, nothing could possibly be further from the truth. What we need is for him to get out of today's politics and take his thugs with him. How could anybody - and I mean any sane thinking American of either party - think that a former President rounding up actual thugs and then turning them loose on the incoming administration is a good idaa. Whatever you think of Trump, he has appointed a cabinet of distinguished Americans who know how to govern. Turning thugs loose on them? Really. Do you know that Ms. Devos, the Secretary of Education, now has U.S. Marshalls guarding her around the clock because she has already been physically attacked trying to enter a public school. Good idea turning loose thugs? Talk about setting a precedent. If Obama does it, any former president will feel entitled to do it. Think of some of the Ultra Leftists Obama put in charge. I've heard people say it will take years to clean up the awful mess Obama has made of American foreign policy. Word came today that the American embassy in Macedonia was used by George Soros and his functionaries to overturn the existing government there. Our embassy was used by Soros. What? What? What? Now, the former President is directing a band of thugs. And Trump is the problem? How really sick is what Obama is doing? I'll give you a hint, it is very sick.
Watch the mainstream media bury this. What kind of American would bury this stuff and allow somebody like Soros run roughshod with American power? I was a journalist, and I cannot imagine in a million years allowing myself to be used for this kind of stuff by people like this.
What America has to do is stop Obama and stop Soros. This kind of stuff is very bery sick. It isn't OK. Soros is not a good person. Does anybody on the Ultra Left really think Soros is ok? Is it OK for him to be in charge of anything. Do you want somebody like him telling your family how to live and where to live and what to do? Once we realize that Obama and Soros won't stop themselves - and they won't - Americans have to band together to put a stop to this sickness. A former president directing thugs to screw up the next administration is about the pit of reality.
The best thing about the United States of America is that we are free: free to think, free to act, free to speak, free to decide how to handle certain situations we encounter. Except when we deny others their freedom, there is no limit on our freedom. Tens of millions of American men and women have given their lives to preserve that freedom, that liberty that makes us different from other nations throughout history.
Obama wants to change that. Soros hates democracy and capitalism. They both abhor the first amendment. A strong central government naturally opposes liberty. A strong central government cannot stand up to a barrage of criticism. It won't stay strong. A limited government whose primary duty and obligation is defending the people it serves has no trouble with criticism. Criticism is good. Take a really stupid example, take Michelle's school lunch mandates. Michelle wanted to be able to order children to eat a certain menu for lunch. If the kids brought something from home that was different than what was ordained for them to eat, she wanted the school administration to take the home-packed lunch and give the kids the awful looking and tasting vegan stuff she'd come up with. But the kids weren't going to eat the Michelle lunch. They literally threw it out. What Mom sent in might, perhaps, lack a bit in some nutrient requirement, but the mom knew what her kids were willing to eat. The kids got more nutrition eating what mom packed, because they actually ate it. The Michelle lunch might have more nutrition, but only if it were being eaten. But it was being thrown out.
A free nation will have researchers, many of them private, putting out facts and studies educating families on the latest news in nutrition. But they won't make people, mothers, follow their findings.
Trump wants to delay entry to certain immigrant classes until his government can properly vet them. If that delay lingers on too long, you can bet the loyal opposition will scream bloody murder. But if Trump totally capitulates to the ultra left and stops trying to weed out the terrorists, the entire nation will suffer. What Trump is doing seems a reasonable compromise. More importantly, it is what he was elected to do.
The three judge panel apparently realizes the egregious error they made and is looking for ways around it. I hope they feel severely chastened. Maybe a happy ending is at hand. Wow.
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