Update no.1091

Update from the Sunland

No.1091

5.12.22 – 11.12.22

Blog version:  http://heartlandupdate.blogspot.com/

 

To all,

 

A smart salute and hats off to my cousins and the Army football team. They won in second overtime—17-20. It was a tough fought, defensive game. Congratulations to Army. Nonetheless, the loss on the gridiron in Philadelphia does not alter our mantra—Go Navy! Beat Army!

 

The Orion capsule spacecraft successfully re-entered the atmosphere at nearly 50% greater velocity than usual and splashed down off Baja California. The Artemis I mission took flight 25 days ago [1088] sending the unmanned Orion spacecraft to the moon for a complex set of orbits to prepare for the first crewed mission back to the moon since Apollo 17 (9/17.December.1972). Artemis II will be a crewed, close approach mission planned in 2024, while Artemis III will be the first human landing on the moon since Apollo 17 and is expected to take place in 2025.

 

The follow-up news items:

-- We gotta hand it to the MAGA crowd from [the person who shall no longer be named] on down the food chain, they are steady and persistent. They believe. They have swallowed the magic snake-oil elixir, and they believe they are cured of all their ills. The ultimate cure for them is the BIG LIE [982], and they believe. [The person who shall no longer be named] “tweeted” on his Truth Social app: 

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great "Founders" did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!

Dec 03, 2022 at 7:44 AM

[emphasis mine]

The fBICP candidate for governor of Arizona Kari Lake could not resist and retweeted the above message plus added her two cents:

Fake New, Fake Elections, Fake Government.

Time for Americans to demand Fair & Honest Elections so we can right these wrongs/

Share if you agree.

7:13 AM – Dec. 3, 2022

Of course, other loyal sycophant election deniers had to add their voice to ihr Anführer, Unfortunately, so many of these malignant voices are coming from Arizona.

“On Pearl Harbor Day, Paul Gosar supports Trump's call to 'terminate' the Constitution - Opinion: Rep. Paul Gosar joins Trump's call to 'terminate' the Constitution. Yet in a few weeks, he'll swear an oath to support the Constitution. How does that work?”

by Laurie Roberts

Arizona Republic

Published 12:53 p.m. MT Dec. 7, 2022 | Updated 9:36 a.m. MT Dec. 8, 2022

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2022/12/07/rep-paul-gosar-supports-trump-call-terminate-constitution/69709462007/?utm_source=azcentral-OpinionsNewsNow&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=baseline&utm_term=list_article_thumb&utm_content=PPHX-1531AR-E-NLETTER39

This nonsense gibberish will end one day . . . not soon enough for me. 

 

On Tuesday the 6^th, a Manhattan jury found two units of the Trump Organization—Trump Corporation and Trump Payroll Corporation—guilty on all 17 counts of criminal tax fraud in New York State Court. They were guilty on multiple charges of criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records connected to a 15-year scheme to defraud tax authorities by failing to report and pay taxes on compensation for top executives. The organization’s former chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg had pled guilty to 15 criminal counts in August and agreed to testify against the organization but not the family. What is next is unknown so far. [The person who shall no longer be named] continues to stay just ahead of the law and escape justice to date. Whether the Manhattan and New York State prosecutors will charge and try the real perpetrator in these crimes is yet to be determined or at least announced.

His lawyers have indicated they are going to appeal the verdict. It is not real until the proper papers are filed in court. Given past performance, [the person who shall no longer be named] will do anything and everything to forestall the inevitable.

 

Regardless of what we think of Herschel Walker in his campaign in the special runoff election in Georgia, he deserves credit and recognition for the dignity of his loss in the election. Despite monumental support from [the person who shall no longer be named] and his supporters in the fBICP, Walker showed the strength to defy his sponsor and concede the election to his opponent Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia. Thank you, Herschel.

 

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs certified the 2022 election results for the state. In those results, Hobbs became governor-elect. 

True to form, sore loser, fBICP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, trying desperately to emulate ihr Anführer, filed suit to rescind and block the election results based on what amounts to one reason—she lost. Like ihr Anführer, she cites a plethora of imagined transgressions without offering any evidence to the “beyond a reasonable doubt” level. I expect she will attain the same fate as ihr Anführer.

 

A goodly portion of the Press label an announcement this week as a gut punch to the Democratic Party. The public statement at issue is from Senator Kyrsten Lea Sinema, the senior senator for Arizona. She publicly declared that she was switching her political party affiliation from Democratic Party to Independent (like Senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Angus King of Maine). Sinema stated that she would continue to caucus with the Democrats and expects to retain her committee assignments and leadership. Gut punch? I think not. From my perspective, the only thing that has changed is a name—what we call it. The speculation among some talking heads is she wanted to avoid or bypass the corrosive hyper-party primaries in her next election. If true, I would say well played.

 

There are multitudinous examples of the fBICP insanity and anti-American conduct since before the 2020 election, and it has only gotten worse. When will it end? When will they come to their senses? God only knows. I offer the latest evidence.

“It's official: Kari Lake, Kelli Ward and the Arizona GOP have lost their minds”

by Laurie Roberts

Arizona Republic

Published: Tue, December 6, 2022 at 12:30 PM

https://www.yahoo.com/news/official-kari-lake-kelli-ward-183604132.html

For those who are not familiar with Arizona politics, Kari Ann Lake was the fBICP candidate for governor, and Kelli Ward, née Kaznoski, is the chair of the Arizona faction of the fBICP. Both are election deniers and staunch supporters of ihr Anführer. Ward is also facing potential criminal charges for her participation in the alternate elector scheme as part of the BIG STEAL. The pervasiveness of the fBICP within Arizona politics is staggering, discouraging, and disgusting. Will we ever grow up?

 

A friend, colleague and frequent contributor to this humble forum sent along an apropos and poignant meme.

So apparently selling a wedding cake to an LGBTQ couple is participating in the marriage, but selling a gun to a shooter isn’t participating in the crime.

The two-faced hypocrisy is staggering. Like so many social and political issues, we see a contest of power and control by those who make and enforce the laws. We, the People, pay a dreadful price when we allow our individual rights to be played like a ping-pong ball—back & forth. We have not attained that threshold of tolerance, but I certainly hope we reach that point eventually. We must mature as a society and sovereign nation.

 

Comments and contributions from Update no.1090:

Comment to the Blog:

“It’s nice that the courts concerned with January 6, 2021, have worked their way up to the Oath Keepers’ leadership. Perhaps they’ll get around to 45POTUS someday.

“We’ll see what happens to the Respect for Marriage Act. I confess I haven’t yet studied it.

“The Democrats are on TV this morning defending their strike-breaking. Meanwhile, the DNC has announced a performative change to their primary season favoring identity politics. That will not mollify labor (or me) and get the DNC the votes they need. (It’s a matter of record that the DNC controls the actual nomination.)”

My response to the Blog:

Yea verily! There is always hope, until there isn’t. I can perhaps naïvely say I fully expect charges against the whole lot of ‘em up to and including 45POTUS. What he did was crimes of the highest order; his seditious actions are akin to the murder of the Republic . . . not just one or two people, but the whole damn country down to its very core. Further, he deserves solitary confinement for the rest of his natural life, or GenPop at the worst prison we can find. He is worthy of nothing less. And now, he has had the stupidity and audacity to publicly state the U.S. Constitution should be terminated, so he can be installed as president (i.e., dictator or king). But even worse than all that, there are more than a few so-called American citizens who fly his flag and believe in his worthless snake-oil elixir. I doubted the future of the Republic in the 60s & 70s, but that era was nothing compared to what we face today as a consequence of the destruction that man has inflicted upon this once grand Republic. No, he deserves nothing but the absolute worst punishment we can render to him; but we must charge, try, convict, and sentence the man and his enablers.

The news reported the disciplinary action has begun against Rudi Giuliani. He is one of those enablers who deserves criminal conviction and punishment.

I do not share your opinion of the Democratic Party. I do agree they displayed more than a few flaws, but I am struggling with what you expect Congress and the president to do in the face of a crippling national railroad strike. Please educate me, how does the DNC control nominations?

Yes, absolutely, every citizen deserves paid sick leave, but even that can be abused. Many years ago, Beech Aircraft implemented an unqualified 80-day paid sick leave benefit, thinking employees would respect the generous offering. Unfortunately, too many employees abused the benefit; I was not one of those, and I resented the abuse. That benefit lasted one year only. I worked my entire employed life with paid sick leave. I do not understand why railroad executives are resisting paid sick leave. I support the use of labor strikes, like war, as an absolute last resort. What I am struggling with in this issue is punishing the entire country and the world over a labor dispute. It is the sheer magnitude and consequences of such a national strike that causes me to balk.

 . . . Round two:

“The ‘crippling national railroad strike’ wouldn’t last long once the money stopped coming into railroad coffers. Obviously, the railroads want every last dollar, and losing even a week’s income would cost more than giving sick leave. There’s no way they could work scabs, either.

“That the DNC controls nominations has been established by court cases over what they did to Bernie Sanders. Their statement is that they are a private corporation and, therefore, they control who becomes the nominee. I seem to recall the most blatant case was tried in Florida, but I’m sure you can find the record with your paralegal skills. Also, consider last time’s process. There’s a reason South Carolina will become the spotlight state.

“Anything can be abused. Most of the abuse corporate types worry aloud about is unusual.”

 . . . my response to round two:

You may well be correct . . . but that is a huge assumption. The profit motive is what business does. We need the railroads to be profitable. As I stated before, I find it unconscionable that a large, profitable corporation like Union Pacific or BNSF do not provide medical & dental coverage and paid sick leave, like many other industries. Viewed in the broad scale, healthy employees are in the company’s best interests. Why they resist such rudimentary treatment of their employees is beyond my comprehension? The situation reminds me of the worker abuse common 130 years ago, when the union movement reached its stride. The most visible of the worker abuse was the mining industry, e.g., black lung, child labor, fatal work conditions, et cetera. Railroad unions waited far too long to force the issue. I will give them that change is long overdue. What I am struggling with is the work stoppage (strike) of essential infrastructure. Railroads often hold exclusive service to whole regions, so even a limited strike would punish an entire region. The union position as I understand it is all-for-one-one-for-all—a laudable stance. My problem is, we are not talking about children’s toys or automobiles, we are dealing with essential infrastructure like water, sewage, electricity, and such. We must find a better way. We do not know what the USG has done as an arbiter for the labor dispute, but I assume they have tried to find some mutually acceptable position. I wish I knew more, but we do not. Without that knowledge, I am left with the crippling consequences of a national railroad strike, and I support the USG’s implementation of H.J.Res.100 to avoid those consequences. At the end of the day, people are NOT a consumable resource. How the railroad industry has gotten this far is baffling.

We are back into definitions, semantics, and context. The degree of “control” exercised by the national political parties is not what it was a century ago. The most obvious example I can think of is the selection of Harry Truman to replace Henry Wallace as FDR’s VP running mate for the 1944 election. Perhaps the best contrary example is the selection of the GOP nominee for president in 2016. The national political parties are organizations. They want to control the face and message of their organization. Yes, there are probably many reasons the DNC wants to replace Iowa with South Carolina, and that is their choice. I am far more troubled with qualified candidates being kept off the ballot independent of the political parties.

Yea verily! Corporations do not often seek public scrutiny of their internal decisions. Abuse is up to us to illuminate and force correction. Case in point, unions a century ago were vital instigators of necessary change. Most, if not all, corporations of that day would not have sought the needed change; they could not see past their profit motive. The railroad situation is an important example of the need for and place of unions in our culture.

 . . . Round three:

“The history of the Federal Government with respect to labor, specifically railroad unions, hasn't changed over time. They want to force obedience regardless of worker well-being. The only way to bring about change is through direct resistance.

“As far as the DNC, I stand by my statement.”

 . . . my response to round three:

Well, that is quite a statement. I suppose so much of it depends upon expectations and interpretation. Prima facie, I cannot go that far. The USG is not the union enforcer. Further, I believe there is ample evidence that the USG has tried to find a balance point, e.g., OSHA. Exactly what is meant by “direct resistance” is a significant definition.

And, I stand by my statement as well. We shall respectfully disagree.

 

My very best wishes to all.  Take care of yourselves and each other.

Cheers,

Cap                  :-)