The Push Toward a Break

I’m not sure if it’s enemy action, or just native stupidity, but the push for a break continues, hard. We’re going to look at some of the events today, ones that will, in all probability wind up in some future history textbook, in the chapter “events leading up to the third American Civil War.” (the first one was the revolution)

Steak, and salad for dinner tonight, our partners in Redstone Farms have finally managed to flee Occupied Washington and are finally home. You know where the liquids are, grab something, you’re going to need it. Please don’t forget the tip jar where we collect for the mess, and thank you to those that have thrown a few bucks in the jar.

If you’ve managed to live in a complete news blackout, let me give a very quick recap of events in Virginia:

Infuriated that Texas decided to do a redrawing of their districts in a way that would aid Republican efforts to gain seats, and desperate to make sure that the Dems won the midterms, Virginia decided to do a redistricting of their own. Trouble is, their districting is governed by their constitution. Well, they said, lets amend the constitution; after all it’s a document, it can be changed.

Well, the problem there is: the constitution also has requirements on how to amend it. Following those requirements would take longer than the time from now until the national midterms. They went ahead anyway.

They, and I speak of Abigail Spanberger, Mamie Locke, Louise Lucas, (who’s got other troubles, see below) Don Scott, and Scott Surovell among others, were sued over the effort to redraw the districts in such a way as to ensure a nine to one split. This is in a state that is 55/45. Their plan changes the map from 6 democrat districts and 5 republican districts, to ten democrats and one republican.

This new map involved some very creative drawings to produce the planned split. When they were sued, they argued that “no one has standing, because the law hasn’t happened.”

The courts effectively said, “Well, you’re right, but know that what you’re doing is not going to stand scrutiny, if it passes.”

In Virginia, any amendment must go before a public vote, along with several other requirements, not the least of which was a requirement that the amendment be language neutral. The full list includes:

A legislative proposal (they had that)

Consecutive Session Approval with it passing before and after a general election (they did NOT have that)

Submission to the voters not sooner than ninety days after the second passing of the bill (they did NOT have that) and

It must be language neutral in the ballot (this thing was a model of communist propaganda, disguised as a ballot measure.)

They passed the measure, putting it on the ballot, and were again sued because they didn’t do it in accordance with the law. Again, they argued that “No one has any standing, until after the vote, because no one is an injured party yet.”

Again, the courts said, “Well, you’re right, but know that what you are doing won’t stand up in court.”

So it went before the voters during the primary. Living as close as I do to the Virginia border, our radio was filled with propaganda about how passing this was the only way to ensure a fair election, and here’s all these vets and patriots that say you gotta pass this, or Orange Man is going to be dictator for life, and so on…

It passed, barely. It was immediately struck down by the courts, and upon appeal to the VA Supreme was found illegal on the face of it three different ways. Remember, the courts told them when they started this, that the way they were going about it was illegal. They went to it anyway thinking that they can get the courts to accept a fait accompli.

OK, that’s the review. Now that they have lost in court, they’re losing their shit.

First they want to appeal to SCOTUS. (who will refuse to hear it, because they don’t have jurisdiction. I predict either a blank refusal on the day it arrives, or a nine to zero signed refusal due to lack of jurisdiction.)

Since they already know, in their calmer moments, that SCOTUS isn’t going to save them, they’ve cooked up another idea. “Hey, they said, why don’t we make a new bill, lowering the mandatory retirement age on Supreme Court Judges from 75 to 54? Every sitting judge would have to retire, we pack the court with ‘good’ judges that will rubber stamp anything that can hurt Trump, and re try the case?” Even the NYT is reporting this shit.

Now of course the problems with this little plot are many. First, the second this proposal becomes law, the VA Supremes will rule it unconstitutional.

Second this is such a transparent power grab it’s ridiculous. This is the sort of thing that winds up with events like The Battle of Athens Tennessee. Virginia is democrat barely, and that mostly because of Alexandria and Arlington Virginia. (IE the outskirts of the District of Columbia.) Most of the state by land mass, is solidly red.

Third, it invites and in fact begs for the backlash that is already a federal bill, the “Make D.C. Square Again act.”

History lesson time:

At the creation of the Capital, the District of Columbia was square. Virginia and Maryland each coughed up some land, in the middle of a swamp, and made the Capital district. This land included the areas now known as Alexandria, and Arlington. This was all done under the “Residence Act” of 1790.

After the Organic Act of 1801 those folks living in that area lost Virginia state citizenship and voting rights for senators and congressmen.

Well, that was a problem for the people living there, because most of the rich ones were heavily involved in the slave trade, and the loss of those votes weakened the pro slave vote.

As a result, in 1847 those areas were given back to Virginia at the demand of the Pro Slavery party, called… wait for it… The Democratic National Pary. If it feels like that was one of the contributing factors to the Civil War, congratulations, you get a gold star, you’re paying attention.

Yes the people involved included the son of “Light Horse” Henry Lee, cousin of Richard Henry Lee, both famous patriots during the revolution. The man, and the plantation, is of course, Robert E Lee’s plantation, now the site of Arlington National Cemetery.

Well, the case is being made that that takeback by Virginia was illegal and that D.C. should be restored to its original boundaries, and that’s what the “Make it square” act does.

What are the effects? One, Virginia suddenly becomes redder than blood. I mean Tennessee Red. Two, the folks in those two cities suddenly lose the right to vote for senators and congressmen, which changes the eastern seaboard political dynamic massively, as well as disenfranchising about 400,000 people.

The gloves are coming off, and the knives are coming out people. Yes, the Dems started it. Yes, the Dems are willing to do anything to win. AND that Square act, while it has some historical underpinnings, pours nitroglycerine on the fire.

One of the key players in all this stuff, Louse Lucas just got raided by the FBI for her illegal Marijuana store, so that’s still more fun in that area (and yes she and her pot shops are in the area that would be prospectively given back to D.C.)

Then we’ve got California. Look I have long ago written Cali off. They’re the fourth stage drug addict that was once a beautiful person. You can’t save them. They may be able to save themselves, once they hit rock bottom, and wallow in it, if they don’t die; but it’s not the way to bet.

There are some few signs that things are changing there though. Let’s start with a real eye opener, Eileen Wang, (D) Mayor of Arcadia CA (part of the LA Metroplex) just pled guilty to acting as a foreign agent on behalf of West Taiwan. (The PRC) Needless to say, she’s no longer mayor, or city councilman. Not a very long time ago this prosecution would never have happened.

Tom Knighton did a really nice California piece at the-difference-between-helping-and-grifting that’s worth looking at, and the result of all this crookedness becoming more and more obvious is what’s going on in their primary’s. For the first time in a very long time, there’s a Republican with a very strong shot at Mayor of LA, and two Republicans with a good shot at Governor. In fact because of the “jungle primary” that California set up, thinking that it would ensure Democrat rule forever, it’s quite possible that the Governor’s election will be between to Republicans. Now, without a change in the houses as well, it’s not going to mean much, but it’s cracks in the wall.

Chris Bray, over at “Tell me how this Ends” did a piece, exhaustion-theory on the whole California mess, righteously ridiculing some vapid bitch named Robin Abcarian who has been a reporter in LA for forty years and apparently has all of the writing and reporting chops of a “My First Reader” book. The thing is, he’s black pilling over that and “well there’s no candidate signs in the parts of LA that I drive through looking for them!” From this he draws the conclusion that everyone is burned out on everything, and we’re all going to hell.

I think it might just be that the places that he toured are places it’s social suicide to ADMIT you’re voting for the republican… So they just ain’t advertising. The mayor of LA and the Governor of CA have so damaged their brands, between the Palisades fires and their aftermath, the High Speed Rail disaster, the Homelessness and crime and drug addiction problems, the way they’ve bepunked themselves on McArthur Park, and all the rest that even died in the wool leftists may just be seeing the light.

Rush did a song called “Tom Sawyer”. If you don’t know it, go find it. There’s a pertinent line. “He knows changes aren’t permanent.” This is what too many politicians forget. Even in a place as long held by a single party as California, eventually, the worm turns. Give that worm time to turn, it beats the hell out of going kinetic.

There’s a vast number of folks on the right that are black pilling, especially on California. Yes, the left is getting more and more blatant. It’s desperation. That doesn’t mean they’re not dangerous, a wounded and dying animal is always at its most dangerous. That said, the writing is on the wall. We’ve passed through the worst they can do, people are aware now of the games they’re playing.

Here’s a little piece of fun, Remember how “team Biden” was so adamant against allowing President Trump to use executive privilege about anything? Well the shoe is on the other foot and apparently it pinches. There’s about 70 hours of partially redacted audio recordings from his conversations with the ghost writer that wrote his memoirs. They were gathered by Special Counsel Robert Hur, during his investigation on Joey’s handling of classified documents… It seems the Heritage Foundation is “Freedom of Information” lawsuiting these.

Biden’s handlers are losing their minds, saying the tapes were provided to the investigator on the condition that they not be released to the public, and that this demand is “political, rather than a genuine transparency effort.” Sure, because catching a former president doing illegal shit, or proving that he had all the cognitive function of a toadstool is only Genuine Transparency if it comes from the Genuine region of New York City, otherwise it’s just sparkling political activism.

Oh, and speaking of Genuine New York, we have a really great piece by the Bad Cat called suicidal-empathy.

Some silly Bint is now feeling bad, because after some Psyco tried to end her and her girlfriend on the Subway. (Testimony includes: “but then thank God the cops were right there because, I mean, we kept thinking about, imagine that there were no cops, we would have had to literally run for our lives. They immediately arrested him. It was shut down really fast by the cops and we respected that.”)

It seems that after this mutt messed with the two women in question, they refused to press charges because “Maybe a part of me was like, I don’t want to put another black man in jail.”

Well, good for you chickee, because of your racist antiracist bullshit, five days later the dude pushed an old man in front of a train, killing him. Bravo, well done. Now mind you, this guy had racked up six major assault charges THAT WE KNOW OF between February and May, each time being released on no cash bail.

So she shares the responsibility, but here’s the thing: responsibility shared is not divided. If you could have stopped a death, and someone else could also have stopped a death, the fact that they failed too doesn’t make you any less culpable. The rolling shitshow that created this goes on and on. Read the whole thing, just to get a picture of how dysfunctional NYC is.

The Brawl Street Journal did a wonderful piece on all the other things that we do with oil, and why even if we didn’t use gasoline at all, oil would still be vital to our economy, our medical treatments, and so on, and did it without even mentioning plastics… brawlstreetjournal/p/pain-starts-upstream Read this, and then file it away for the next time some vapid twentysomething tells you why we need to quit pulling oil out of the ground, and just make due without cars. It’s good stuff and it’s vital to understand on the “this is how the world works” front.

Before I take my leave, there’s some stuff on the Navy front worth mentioning:

The CNO and SecNav have published the USN’s Shipbuilding plan, and CDR Sal covers it at /we-have-a-shipbuilding-plan Despite Sal’s sudden love of and over use of worn out adages, this is worth looking at. In spite of my long history of hating carriers, and considering them the enemy, second only to the actual enemy’s submarines, I agree with him. The only real problem with the new shipbuilding plan is that we’re not building Carriers fast enough. WE NEED MORE CARRIERS, BADLY. Look we’re going to lose at least one in a war with China, or we’re going to keep them too far away from the battle zone to be effective. That’s just reality. With only 11 carriers in the fleet, we can’t afford to lose even one. That will drive strategy in bad ways.

He also did a piece on the Shahed Drone,

Bollocks to the Iranian Engineers: Shahed Drone is German-American

he eats some crow, it seems that Iran doesn’t get the credit for inventing that most useful of low tech drone weapon’s technology, they stole it.

From US (and Germany)

Yeah, that’s right we invented the damn thing in the 80s, then filed it away as “Meh, not as useful as we might have hoped.” The Soviet Union collapsed, “we ain’t a gonna study war no more” and the project was filed.

We gave it to Israel, who also went “Meh.”

It’s a fast read, and it tells how we went wrong, and then had to play catch up; go see it.

Well that’s a wrap for today, I’ve got to cook this evening,

QOTD “ What kind of world do we want to live in? A world united by democracies that uphold a certain standard of human rights is incompatible with a weak Navy. That’s because a stable, humane world requires economic prosperity. That, in turn, requires relatively unimpeded intercontinental trade and commerce. And that requires secure waterways.”

Robert D Kaplan, Author, Foreign Correspondent, former instructor at the Naval Accademy.

Yours in Service,

William Lehman