Reviewing the bidding on the SOTU speech

Reviewing the bidding on the SOTU speech, it was stunning how easily the President manipulated Congressional fringe-leftists into walking in to each of the many fans he held up.

Time after time, they were given the opportunity to show at least some pride in what is alleged to be their country.

And time after time, they displayed their brand of hate-filled indifference that is the hallmark of the left in this county today.

Hatred permeates the left at every level. Their disgraceful performance in the SOTU may well cost them the midterms. The themes were laid out, and in everything from a Harris-like moment (we all remember her disastrous inability to separate herself in any way from the disaster of the Biden-Harris administration in response to the "is there anything you would do differently" question) where the hate-filled leftists sat on the hands time after time, from the "protect Americans over protecting illegals" to their insistence on failing to stand up for the men's US Hockey Team to their failure to stand up for the two warriors presented with their Medals of Honor, including one warrior who will be dealing with his Audie Murphy type wounds for the rest of his life, a man who reached the pinnacle of the Warrant Officer Kingdom of Unicorns... the rank of Chief Warrant Officer FIVE; one of the top 3-4% of the entire warrant officer corps in the Army… and everything in between.
Then of course, the left's Bobbsey Twin terrorist-supporting thugs, terrorist anti-American haters Omar and Tlaib, SHOWED their hatred by attempting (and failing) to disrupt the proceeding, the video of their hatred soon to become several GOP campaign commercials... displaying their hatred and disrespect as the face of the left in the upcoming midterm elections...

The face of the democratic party

The SOTU speech is likely to become the Harris-like faux pa of the upcoming midterms, the moment where the left snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory, something Republicans typically and far too often accomplish.
It's clear they've learned nothing from their general election debacle of November '24. Still on the wrong end of the 80/20 equations that cost them so much last time around.
Still supporting the gender mutilation of children. Still unable to define what a woman is. Still pushing to treat fake women as if they're the real thing, disrespecting women's spaces and privacy. Still married to their illegal alien voting plans or refusing to require proof of citizenship to vote. Still advocating violence and hatred for ICE enforcing federal law; the exact, same thing that Obama did without their comment. Still acting like their horrific inflation was not their doing. Still doing all they can to increase every tax and fee available, HAMMERING the middle class and damaging the poor.
And they're not just doing it federally, they're doing it at the state and local levels.
Here in Washington, for example, they're ramming a REPEATEDLY rejected at the polls (10 times) state income tax down our throats, where this time, they're not even bothering to ask us, because they believe their buddies on the Socialist State Supreme Court will allow their extra-constitutional garbage to stand.
These are the tenets of the left. These are the people turning cities into rat-infested shitholes. Portland, Seattle, LA, NYC; failing to even begin to impact the homelessness problem that is the face of leftist-controlled cities around the country. Wasting billions on the homeless industry and having nothing to show for it, excepting a massive INCREASE in homelessness... because personal accountability is not in their lexicon any more than honest elections.
Their entire platform is two words: "Hate Trump." They have nothing to campaign ON. The scum in Congress, with, oddly enough, Senate GOP support, are even ignoring the massive support of the SAVE Act, the election reform bill that would destroy leftist plans to depending on illegals/foreigners for reapportionment/electoral college manipulation... and act that even 70% of the democrat rank and file support.
The face of the democrats is hatred and violence generally, mixed with a heaping helping of hatred for their country and their thirst for power.
And how will they respond?
Epstein.
They've got no evidence, but this is a pattern they've used before, when they knowing lied about non-existent Russian Collusion. You remember, that scam where fringe-left nutjob Adam Schiff claimed he, personally, had the evidence, evidence he never produced because, well, it didn't exist?
Expect the same play from the left on Epstein. The irony, of course, being that the leftists had FOUR YEARS to produce the same files they're wining about now... and didn't.
That won't stop these political vermin. They'll lie at all levels to get what they want.
Just like they are now.

Typical AOC moment.

 

How bad are leftist controlled cities?

Bad enough that CNN's Fareed Zakaria indicted democrats as his snap shot/indictment of the left shows Washington State OUR future as every allegation he makes against fringe-left-controlled cities also represents an indictment against fringe-left controlled states.

As leftist scum in Olympia continue taxing us into oblivion with their progressive train wreck economics, the fiscal insanity of the left will damage/destroy every corner of our state.

And they don't care, because they'll do it with a smile, all in the name of their phantom "equity."

 

Washington’s democrat-controlled government proves what we’ve known all along: They don't care about a Constitution

For anyone paying attention, we all know three things:

1. Washington does not have an income tax, which is forbidden by this state’s Constitution, without a vote of the people (required to amend this state’s Constitution.)

2. Leftists in this state have lusted for an income tax for decades, comparable with Bill Clinton’s lust for interns, and their demands will result in the same outcome: the people of this state getting screwed.

3. They call this the millionaire income tax… but we all know that limit is only temporary and, sooner or later, that floor will be reduced to nothing and we’ll ALL have to face an unconstitutional state income tax, forced on us by a leftist legislature that views this state’s Constitution as their own, personal roll of toilet paper, mirroring their fellow fringe-left deities at the federal level.

The democrats running this state’s government run the gamut from scum enabling child kidnapping and gender mutilation, to the thug running the Senate who shares the muslim view that children should be used for sex. (Yeah, I’m talking about you, democrat majority leader Senator Jamie Pedersen.)

“Kids over 13 have the complete right to make their own decisions about their mental health care. Parents don’t have a right to have notice, they don’t have a right to have consent about that.”

“If they’re old enough to get pregnant, they’re old enough to make their own decisions about what happens with their bodies, and parents do not have the right to change that.”

- Washington State Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen, (D - Seattle) intelevised clips airing prior to a Senate-led effort to strip out parentalnotification provisions adopted by the 2024 Parents Bill of Rights initiative.

Any political party’s politicians that support these and other far-left extreme views concerning children without any effort to remove the source of that nazi mentality isn’t going to be constrained by a paltry Constitution… either at the national, or the local level.

The elected scum controlling state government have proven their disdain for the constituency of this state. Everything from electing a convicted felon to the House (merely drugs, theft and firearm convictions - Tarra Simmons, D-23)) to trashing the citizen-approved Parental Bill of Rights, passed by the voters of this state in 2024; they show a total contempt for those they would govern.

Their latest effort?

To ram an (10 time rejected at the polls) income tax down our throats WITHOUT THE VOTE REQUIRED BY THE STATE CONSTITUTION.

Why no vote? The same reason we are not allowed by these same leftists to have a voice in anything on their agenda at either the state or local level: they hate the idea of the people, which the state Constitution falsely claims hold all political power saying "no.":

Washington State Constitution, Declaration of Rights - Article 1, Section 1

"All political power is inherent in the people, and governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and are established to protect and maintain individual rights."

They do not give a rat’s ass about our rights. If they did?

They wouldn’t be pissing on this state’s Constitution to ram this tax through, and lie about it.

The leftists are engaging in class warfare, by starting with a millionaire income tax (it’s claimed) that will, when it fails to result in their avaricious revenue demands being met as millionaires (including pro-athletes… Seahawks, anyone?) get out of Dodge to avoid these horrific taxes resulting from the leftist inability to control their spending.

This state does not have a revenue problem. In fact, just last year, these same scum jacked up our taxes what… $12 billion?

But even THAT isn’t enough.

The ONLY reason they want this income tax is for achieving the leftist dream of actual income-redistribution.

Stalin would be proud.

They are provably incapable of reducing spending to levels within a budget. So, they load up this state's budget like yet another Christmas tree and then suddenly claim they're not getting nearly enough blood out of the rock they're squeezing.... so, voila!

Counting on a fringe-left Supreme Court to make up the required excuses to bypass black and white ink on a piece of paper to allow this abuse of that document... and the people of this state.

Meanwhile, yes, this is yet another proof that the left doesn’t care. They don’t care about us. They don’t care about children (So, has Pedersen been having sex with the children he believes can form their own judgment? Will his next move be to get rid of this state’s confusing, but present statutory rape laws?)

I frequently say:

“They (we) have the government we deserve.”

But in cases where the party in charge is running roughshod over this State’s Constitution as if it was their own personal roll of toilet paper?

I’m willing to make an exception.

No one deserves a provably criminal government.

And no one is above the law.

Unless, of course, they’re illegal aliens, convicted democrats they elect, or state senators with a child sex fetish.

Then?

All bets are off.

The tariff issue: how did we get here?

The problem isn't the tariffs per se'. The problem is that, essentially, the Court indicated money was wrongfully taken under IEEPA and, the US now finds itself in a position that all of that money resulting from that application will have to be refunded.

No, the Court didn't say that. But if money was, effectively, taken from any of us, what would we do to recover that money?

My guess is by the end of next week, hundreds, if not more, of lawsuits will be filed to get that money back, which will have to be repaid, not to mention legal fees and interest.

Further, my question, unanswered, is if this solution is so easy, then why didn't the President use those laws instead of the IEEPA which does not have the word "tariff" anywhere in it?

Not to mention, where was all that high-priced legal talent when it came to finding ways to implement tariffs? Did ANY of them foresee this outcome? If they didn't, why didn't they? If they did, did they say anything to Trump about it? If not, why not?

Did the President ignore those warnings? Did he even see or hear them?

The devil is in the details, as this decision clearly shows.

But I seriously doubt it's as simple as many claim.

I would hope it is... but if it was all that simple, then why use an authority that was iffy at best to begin with?