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A Dictatorship, If You Can Keep It
Michael Walsh’s writings are always a great pleasure. His non-fiction books are must-reads. And his essays tend to point to fun things not previously known. His sentences are writer’s gold.
And now he turns his pen on Biden and the state of the resistance. A selection:
From the moment Joe Biden — infirm, incontinent, mentally challenged (even in the best of times), crotchety, cranky, boastful, and mendacious, a lifelong pig sucking at the teat of government — took office and immediately decided to “rule” by executive order, the Constitution has been under explicit attack from those who abjure its existence and wish to see it nullified in nearly every particular.
The Bill of Rights’ provisions against unreasonable search and seizure, of course, have long since been abandoned, and the Fifth’s protection against self-incrimination will be gone as soon as the show trials get underway in earnest once full criminalization of such transient causes as “misgendering” and “pronouns” get enshrined in the penal code by their legions of lawyers. And ask the January 6 defendants, currently moldering away in the Garland Archipelago, what they think of the Sixth’s right to a “speedy and public trial,” to know the identities of their accusers, trial by an impartial jury, and the Eighth’s prescriptions against excessive bail and “cruel and unusual punishment.”
Lawsuits are flying and, amazingly, even some on the Left have come out against her breathtaking presumption. “I support gun safety laws,” wrote lefty congressman Ted Lieu on Twitter. “However, this order from the Governor of New Mexico violates the U.S. Constitution. No state in the union can suspend the federal Constitution. There is no such thing as a state public health emergency exception to the U.S. Constitution.” New Mexico police have said they won’t enforce the order.
You know we’re in trouble when a sitting governor — a Democrat, of course — can announce with a straight face that “no Constitutional right is absolute,” and that her own order declaring an “emergency” gives her “additional powers” to suspend the law of the land. But hey, why shouldn’t she think that?
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She’s gotta go. No excuses. Any member of the legislature who doesn’t see this as a violation of their prerogative to legislate needs to go too.
Sadly, the Democrat-controlled legislature will probably protect her.
Michael Walsh is brilliant and a personal favorite writer of mine. One reason he is especially good is his background in the arts, cultural arts. It was easier for him to identify the Marxist cultural revolution than it was for other pundits whose background was political ideologies.
Great line.
The “Garland Archipelago,” I like it! I like It!
It is a great line but somewhere out on Mother Ocean Jimmy Buffet is shedding a quiet tear.
“A Dictatorship if you can keep it”.
One hell of a great line, but also implicit within it is the question of what do we do with all the miscreant traitors who helped to bring about the chaos after we take our Republic back? We
I say execute them all.
What many do not understand is once Biden stole the election along with the many thousands who made it happpen , the drive to impose a Police State Dictatorship was an absolute certainty because all those who helped to do the evil deed knew they had committed High Treason, a hanging offense for sure, and were headed for the gallows if the Patriots were ever allowed to rule again.
That can backfire. An IPO for Martyr Manufacturing, Ltd. might not bring in as much as you think.
A return to the use of stocks in the town square might be better, if done in such a way as to maximize their chances to express their personalities.
Just reminding you that David French and Bill Kristol told you to vote for “Burisma Joe” to “Save Democracy”
And it worked, too! We got back all the norms! Or at least the one about our team losing.
I’m not sure who focus-group tested “Save Democracy” but I’m getting a little tired of hearing it applied to everything Democrats want. “We must _[Insert Democrat Policy]_ to save Democracy!”
I will never get tired of it, and I hope Republicans won’t, either.
“We must emulate Vladimir Putin in order to save Democracy.”
“We must eliminate the Bill of Rights in order to save Democracy.”
“We must have a President whose son gets paid millions from foreign adversaries in order to save Democracy.”
The judiciary end of things would have to protect her as well.
Cynic that I am, I think 80% of all judges are somehow connected to the Epstein client list, and have been shut up for the duration.
(Unless it is true that our educational system, including law school, is so much cow puckey that no one now in the courts realizes the nation is supposedly governed by the US Constitution.)