Just one vote away
I came up out of the bunker with my coffee cup in hand. Now it is not just any cup. This one has on it remnants of a camouflage pattern and rank insignia. An old friend.
Household 6 intercepted me at the entranceway to the kitchen. She was blocking my access to the coffee pot. Technically I do not believe you can call it a coffee pot any longer. Coffee maker perhaps? It grunts, groans and hisses out a cup from a pre-measured little container of coffee grounds. If I hear it first thing in the morning, I am running to the latrine. Works good as those prostate pills the doc prescribed. I presume what comes out of it is coffee because I have never opened up one of those little container cups to see what exactly is inside. HH6, like most days, was of the mind that I had reached my day’s ration of caffeine. Begrudgingly I agreed, sat my good friend on the counter by the sink and quicker than you can say yahoo, I grabbed a Mountain Dew from the fridge and made a run for the bunker all along thinking I really need a coffee maker down there.
I think I would like to ask Bernie Sanders how that socialism stuff is working out for him. After stomping Mrs. Clinton in the New Hampshire primary, she left there with the most delegates. They shared the wealth Bernie. Those democrat super delegates are equivalent to how they would choose the leader in a communist country – if the vote did not turn out the right way. Sorry Bernie, that is how it works in the land you envision. The difference between you and the other communist that is running is you are not afraid to claim it.
I am seeing the instant replay of prior losing republican campaigns for the presidency. Endless debates where eventually they must pound the snot out of one another alienating anyone in that important group who may want to help the general election effort. The celebrities, I consider Sarah Palin as one these days and not so much of a political force, including talk radio types are going all in for one candidate or another. The problem if their candidate loses they will spend the remainder of the election cycle badmouthing the winner. Declaring that in the interest of maintaining their own political purity they simply cannot vote for that person. Instead, they will vote for some unknown libertarian. And by their efforts of talking down a candidate to their very large audiences, they will do more to suppress the republican vote than Hillary’s crew and unethical pollsters could ever hope to do.
When I was in the Army, CAB meant Combat Aviation Brigade. I see the Commander-in-Chief’s Pentagon is directing commanders to engage the climate change battle. So CAB may now become Climate Assault Brigade. We are holding out hope that somewhere hidden away and waiting for leadership to arrive are some war fighting oriented Generals. Generals who believe that force capability far outweighs the benefits of social engineering and dealing with the wealth redistribution scam that is global warming. Rebuilding our military is going to be a challenge bigger than rebuilding the post Vietnam force and a bigger mess than Regan inherited from Carter. I served in the post Vietnam Carter Army. It was not good.
Justice Scalia, our true Constitutional originalist on the Supreme Court, died. I do not want to get off in to never never land with my thinking, but it just seems to me there are a lot of convenient tragedies these days. This looming battle, assuming the establishment republicans can muster enough backbone to put up a fight, will suck all of the attention away from whether Mrs. Clinton should be an inmate or a candidate. But the politics of it are the least concern. I have only heard one candidate speaking of how crucial the Supreme Court is, knowing that the next president will likely make several appointments. Ted Cruz, like him or not, clearly pointed out how we are a single vote away from losing rights such as religious liberty and the right to keep and bear arms by Supreme Court decisions.
Well, here we are. Supposedly sitting at a 4-4 split, but I do not even buy that it is that good considering that a majority of us rightfully thought Obamacare was going to be gone as unconstitutional. We are one vote or decision away from something. But what? Civil War? Yes, I believe it is that serious. And dear leader? He is 10 months and one Supreme Court judge away from completing the promised fundamental transformation and for what it is worth preserving a legacy.
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Well this is going to be, truth or roll it’s time for the republicans to put up or shut up, 100 bucks says as always he gets everything he wants, kiss your rights away watch wait and see, also Kiss your guns rights away and thanks to McConnell or what ever that dip stick from Kentucky is called he’ll clear the way for him to get it, the Dems have already said it they get the senate back the filibuster goes bye bye but the republicans don’t seem to understand they are not playing by the rules anymore,,, God Help America we need it now more then ever
Unfortunately, RINOs will kiss Democrat ass all the way to our loss of freedom.
Well… I am in agreement with a lot of what you are saying.
Where I differ is the gun rights thing. There is no way in hell America will stand for that. It will take about 3% of the population of the US to instigate a civil uprising and taking away gun rights is exactly how they would trigger it, (pun intended).
It would be a bloodbath of epic proportions and I doubt that the rank and file military would begin to follow such a clearly unconstitutional and illegal order.
Inasmuch, the sheriffs and regular PD’s of every city, state and country would also not follow it as they know how vehemently those laws would be objected to and their orders if followed would lead to numerous assaults on themselves.
I have faith that whatever is happening is happening by design and to me the screams I am hearing from the left are the same screams the hog cries when they figure out their life is going to end quickly.
Their agenda has been trashed by conservative voters since Reagan and it will continue to be trashed until they finally understand that their way of thinking is as outmoded as a 56K Baud modem…
Seriously, this country has been through the fire before and I have faith that it will make it through this mess again.
I only ask that we all pray to whomever and whatever spirit we profess allegiance to that it doesn’t come to civil war.
That is a horrible prospect that has no winners…
“At this point, what difference does it make?”
I’m thinking that even if the Soopremes do “vote” (as if this was a “democracy”) to take away one of our BoRs, there is now a counter-movement of civil ignorance, “molan laave”. “Your move next, bitch. Now what?”
Now I remember, WWNC, “We Will Not Comply.”
Ted Cruz claimed that if president, he would carpet-bomb ISIS into oblivion. He claims to be Christian. That is not Christian,I agree, they need to be taken down, but when you consider carpet-bombing, you’re bombing children. I’ve been there, on foot, in both countries. I’ve met the kids, their parents. Theyre good people. I don’t want to see them blown up because 2% of their population are a$$holes
What part about him saying ISIS means the entire landscape? I took it to mean their training camps, their fuel convoys and their bases of operations. Will there be civilians there? Probably, but how do you propose that we beat them without striking the fear of God in them that there is no place they can hide that we won’t hit them.
Also, I love how everyone knows what is Christian like or not Christian like.
I gotta laugh when I see anyone claiming someone isn’t a ‘Christian’ when they advocate for total war. All I gots to say to that is go back and really read your bible, the Judeo Christian God is bloodthirsty as all get out. Taking out an enemy of the faith down to the last little chitlin is absolutely supportable as a ‘Christian’ if you’re an evangelical and really do believe the bible is the indisputable word of God.
Bible says love thy neighbor
Convince ISIS of the value of “love thy neighbor”. Until that happens, the only thing that is effective in stopping their advance is sudden violent death. YMMV.
Amen Sarge!
Yeah, Josh, and it also says turn the other cheek.
You into that?
Note he only mentioned turning ONE cheek… He didn’t say do it back and forth. Once is enough… then it’s Katie bar the door and drive the money-lenders from the temple.
Maybe those ISIS fellas just need a hug. Well, Josh, put your money where your mouth is. When do you leave for Syria?
The bible says lots of things.
J.D. your concerns mirror mine closely although I differ that there will be a civil war. Civil war implies the liberal faction having to field an army to fight a much larger, better armed and better trained army of conservative supporters of the 2d Amendment. I just don’t see the leftists of contemporary America having the stones for that. Modern day leftists aren’t composed of the downtrodden working classes of earlier European and Asian civil wars, but rather are the spoiled brats of an affluent, effete, pseudo-intellectual class led primarily by academia, the entertainment industry and the thoroughly corrupted, elitist media. Most of those folks are unarmed, untrained and unwilling to take up arms, most being better equipped for mindlessly entertaining themselves than the hard physical work of armed combat. On the other hand, many millions on our side are well equipped to do just that with some minimal organization and training.
So no, the gungrabbers won’t choose to fight their own battles; rather, they’ll call upon the police and the military to deal with those who refuse to obey a supreme court ruling negating the 2d Amendment. And as others have expressed here, the possibility of that going very far is highly unlikely except in urban areas where law enforcement is more likely to be part of the Democrat political machine.
Out here in flyover land, I see most governors and state legislatures adopting nullifying counter-legislation guaranteeing our gun ownership rights which means most of us will never have to lift a hand or fire a shot in anger.
As for our serving military, I believe most are cognizant of their oath being to the constitution and not the left wing of the Democrat party. Mind you, I’m not saying we aren’t going to undergo a constitutional crisis, because I do believe the loons on the left are just nutty enough to try and nullify our 2d Amendment rights. However, we have the guns, the fighting skills, the will, most of our state political leaders, and most importantly, the Constitution on our side, so ultimately, we will prevail.
Poetrooper, please see what I posted below.
“I believe most are cognizant of their oath being to the constitution and not the left wing of the Democrat party.”
Unfortunately, after wrapping up my 20 years in the last 10, I don’t share the optimism you do.
There are plenty of good little socialists in uniform today, as well as plenty of little anarchists.
The uniform is no guarantee, and unfortunately a good many of the socialists are in the upper ranks. :/
Watch, Shineski will be our next SecDef… here’s a little ditty I wrote about his Black Beret in 2000 (sung to Ballad of the Green Berets, of course) ’cause it seems appropriate again for some reason:
THE BALLAD OF THE (NEW) BLACK BERET
Chairborne soldiers on profile,
Fearless men, PowerPoint style,
Men who’ll run to collect their pay,
The Hooah! men of the Black Beret.
BDUs upon their chest,
These are men, the best of what’s left,
One hundred men will test today,
Ninety-seven will win the Black Beret.
Trained to live on pogie bait,
Might have trouble makin’ tape,
Men who cheese by night and day,
The Hooah! men of the Black Beret.
Gay shower buddy? You’re outta luck.
Can’t get parts to fix the truck.
Readiness problems every dang day.
All solved overnight by a Black Beret.
Back at home a young wife waits,
Her Black Beret has met his fate,
You can bet that she will cry,
When she can’t get his SGLI.
Put BDUs on my son’s chest,
Make him one of the best of what’s left,
Couldn’t get hired at BK,
But he’d still get a Black Beret.
Oh, pardon, 2001… it still embodied the unprepared Spirit of 9/10 (peacetime, garrison, everybody gets a trophy, etc.) by a good bit.
All right, that’s enough! Perhaps you could stop navel gazing and hark back to Reagan’s nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court in 1987, to replace Lewis Powell. Here’s a bit of fluff for you on that issue: Bork was one of only three Supreme Court nominees, along with William Rehnquist and Samuel Alito, to ever be opposed by the American Civil Liberties Union. Bork was also criticized for being an “advocate of disproportionate powers for the executive branch of Government, almost executive supremacy”, most notably, according to critics, for his role in the Saturday Night Massacre. – source: Wiki (for a quickie) He was roundly condemned by Teddy Kennedy as being anti-women’s rights, anti-black rights, etc. You can go read about it for yourselves. Bork was one of several Reagan nominees in the 1980s. You just assume, wrongly, that there is ONLY ONE issue: whether or not you get to keep your guns, per the 2nd Amendment. There are FAR MORE ISSUES than that, and you know it. If the Supreme Court can tell the State of Illinois that it has to issue CCWs to support the FOID requirement for gun ownership, which REALLY pissed off the diehard cowards in Chicago like the now-departed police chief Whatshisname, why do you immediately assume that the 2nd amendment is going to be trampled to death? I would be far more interested in seeing Howbadismycare viewed as a form of extortion and an anti-business model that has either deprived an extremely high number of working people of their affordable health insurance, or made simply going to the doctor for a flu shot unaffordable because of the egregiously high deductibles and premiums. And by viewing it this way, it can be overturned as unworkable and no, it’s not a tax – it’s extortion. The trash that has repeatedly come out of the current (lack of) administration from a bunch of arrogant asses can be repaired. I fail to understand what it is that drives even one of you to think that civil war is in the offing. That is ridiculous. You wrongly… Read more »
Why is it that so many people think that “that could never happen here”? What makes us so unique that we are above engaging in civil unrest or civil war? It happens all over the globe and is happening right now in several places. Europe is a short and curly away from it as we speak. It’s happened in the Balkans. It’s happened in the ME. It’s happened/happening in South Asia. Central America, South America.
No; it can happen here, again.
And I said:
Is it going to happen here? NOT IF WE PAY ATTENTION AND INSIST ON THE RIGHT TO SELF-DEFENSE.
And having the right to defend ourselves from harm INCLUDES THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS for that purpose.
Go back and read it.
I read it. I read it, again. I’m still reading it.
You said “Is it going to happen here? Not if we pay attention and insist on the right to self-defense.”
Now, my reading comp may not be what it used to, but I believe in your statement you were saying that insisting is all that will be needed to avoid civil war. They insisted in 1775 and it wasn’t enough. What if we insist and they ignore our insisting? They ignore our insisting all the time and the only reason nothing has happened, yet, is because we’re too stoopid to do anything about it, other than bitch and re-elect the assclowns. Obamacare was shoved down our throats, because every poll showed that a majority of Americans didn’t want it, yet they ignored our insisting and rammed it through.
Then, we elected, and in many cases, re-elected chuckleheads that said they would work to repeal Obamacare. Hasn’t happened, yet; has it? Do you see it happening any time in the future? Yeah, me either.
The point is; once you give away your rights, you don’t get them back, no matter who you vote for.
Obamacare can be repealed, revoked and overturned, you know. That’s the democratic process. (Not the party.)
Well, maybe I just wasn’t forceful enough in using ‘insist’. I don’t know. But I did also say ‘pay attention’, didn’t I? That means don’t turn a blind eye to the crap that enhances the self-interest and greed in professional politicians.
Even so, must a ‘civil war’ be something destructive?
The difference between us and more ‘civilized’ countries like the UK is that we do not take bad ideas lying down. In the UK, you’re not even allowed to defend yourself if someone is trying to kill you, because you might hurt your murderer and that makes you worse than him.
That was my point. We should always have the right to defend ourselves AND the right to self-defense should include the right to bear arms.
Ma’am, I respect the hell out of your intellect in most instances, but you’re really missing the mark on this one. Please don’t be offended, because I don’t offer this as an insult, but as an observation, many people, if not most, tend to pooh pooh things they deep down don’t even want to entertain as possibly happening even when it happens right under their nose, simply because it shakes their faith in the ‘natural order’ of their world. PH? Our Republic is DEAD, and it’s getting ‘deader’ by the day.
Take your statement “Is it going to happen here? NOT IF WE PAY ATTENTION AND INSIST ON THE RIGHT TO SELF-DEFENSE.”
I gots news for you, and every other gun toting firearms aficionado here; in the instance of a true revolution, if our military doesn’t break in favor of the populace, we are done. Hows that for how well we’ve paid attention? It’s TOO LATE, we have NO parity in any reasonable sense with our own military AT ALL. We’ve already given it up. This isn’t a movie like Red Dawn, and the number of committed civilians will astound you in it’s scarcity. Your position assumes ‘We the People’ have enough will and weapons to prevent something, I don’t believe we do anymore, and haven’t had for decades and decades.
“NOT IF WE PAY ATTENTION”, ya, that went away even before 1968.
Both parties have super delegates.
However, the democrats have more than twice as many, and the democrat delegates can vote for whoever they please and can pledge their votes before the campaigns even start. Republican super delegates have to vote for the winner of the popular vote in each state. They are primarily a means to ensure republican establishment gets to have a seat at the convention.
The democrat super delegate system is utterly undemocratic. With them making up 15% of the votes it is essentially impossible for a non-establishment approved candidate to win without the acquiescence of the democratic party establishment.
They created this 15% house establishment advantage in response to the nomination by voters of Carter and McGovern. It was literally intended to give the party the power to ignore the will of democrat voters.
The narrative that the super delegates switch their votes later is so pledged votes don’t matter is essentially false, very few pledged delegates switch their votes. It was the unpledged delegates that in the past went with the candidate with the popular vote.
The only thigk preventing the party establishment from ignoring the will of the people is the damage it would do to the democratic party. It would utterly destroy it and lead to a party split that would likely cots them the election if the right has a viable candidate.
The super-delegate system needs to go. It is anti-democratic and damn near corruption (since these pledged votes are often politically negotiated in exchange for political influence or support or appointments).
Personally, I find both parties disgusting. But the democratic party is outrageous to think they should have the power to ignore the will of the voters during the candidate nomination process.
Damnit, I agree with Lars.
The Dems have a lot of soul searching to do over Bernie. In light of the current situation he could take the majority of states and/or the popular vote. If they turn around an nominate Srillary…
I fear for the Republic.
I believe the Democratic and the Republican parties both will split this election cycle, the left wing between progressives and HRC/Third Wayer/DINOs; and the right wing between military-industrial machine and talibangelist theocratic whargarrbl sides. And then hopefully, the crazier fringes of the political landscape at that point will phase itself out and return politics to a clean, proud equilibrium.