THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MARCH 29, 2024 AT 9:37 PM
Paul Plante says:
And as we are adults in here, people, not no longer naive children as we once might have been, with it so very easy to pull the wool over our eyes as it once perhaps was, we can’t kid or delude ourselves into either thinking or believing that the future is anything other than possibilities, precisely because the future, not being here yet, does not exist.
That is what the future always is, always has been, and always will be – nothing more than endless possibilities, and assign all the probabilities to the possibilities that you want to, you, and Joe Biden and all the king’s men and all the kings horses can no more build the future together, than you can move the moon to a different position in the heavens so it don’t shine in your bedroom window anymore at night to keep you awake.
And you and Joe can remember all you want that you are the United States of America, and think like deluded fools and idiots that there is nothing — nothing beyond your capacity when you act together, something which has never yet happened in this nation’s history, and never will, because it is an impossibility to have 330 million people all working together on something at the same time, because there is no way to coordinate their efforts, or even to give them all proper instructions as to what must be dome next.
So, with that said, it should be obvious that deluded, senile Joe Biden, who has never yet built anything in his life other than a lucrative political career for himself and the Biden family, cannot build a future of possibilities — a future where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get all the tax breaks.
He can pretend he can, and there are deluded people out there willing to pretend along with him, but pretending is merely pretending, and anyone who engages in the effort with Joe is a fool.
And speaking as an engineer, there is a veritable host of things the United States cannot do, like invent a perpetual motion machine, so that is simply a very stupid statement from Joe Biden aimed at people even more stupid than he is.
And stupid statements, people, DO NOT belong in a State of the Union address, yet Joe Biden’s MOCK SOTU, in actuality a cheap, poorly-written angry political rant by a small, angry old man, was chock-a-block with them as well as cheap shots at his political enemy and opponent, which again do not belong in a State of the Union address, but nonetheless, there they are, to wit:
America is a founding member of NATO, the military alliance of democratic nations created after World War Two prevent — to prevent war and keep the peace.
And today, we’ve made NATO stronger than ever.
We welcomed Finland to the Alliance last year.
And just this morning, Sweden officially joined, and their minister is here tonight.
Stand up.
Welcome.
Welcome, welcome, welcome.
And they know how to fight.
Mr. Prime Minister, welcome to NATO, the strongest military alliance the world has ever seen.
end quotes
The Swedes know how to fight?
How so, Joe, when Sweden had a policy of neutrality in armed conflicts from the early 19th century, until 2009?
Sweden wanted to remain neutral during World War II and in fact, it successfully avoided entering the war, although depending on the course of the war, the Swedes sometimes tended to act more pro-German, while at other times they supported the policies of the Allies.
According to high school history, which Joe Biden himself knows absolutely nothing about, being the stupidest human being to ever serve as an American president, the last time the Swedes actually fought was a short war against Norway in 1814, which is TWO HUNDRED TEN (210) years ago now, so what then, besides his over-active imagination, makes Joe Biden think the Swedes can fight?
And NATO is the strongest military alliance the world has ever seen?
That’s BIDEN BULL****, plain and simple.
Does Joe Biden think we are all so stupid and uninformed that we cannot possibly remember or recall that NATO’s ill-fated and incompetent engagement in Afghanistan against some poorly-armed Tenth Century tribesmen began in August 2003 and then ended ignominiously (deserving or causing public disgrace or shame) in August 2021 when NATO ran away like a bunch of scared rabbits, including Joe Biden, which resulted in the collapse of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the return to power of the Taliban, who Joe Biden and NATO were unable to beat.
As to Iraqinam, from 2004 to 2011, NATO conducted a relatively small support operation in Iraq that consisted of training, mentoring and assisting the Iraqi security forces.
So, if NATO was run out of Afganistnam like a chicken-killing dog by some poorly-armed Tenth Century tribesmen, which it was, then how can Joe Biden truthfully say that NATO is the strongest military alliance the world has ever seen?
But let’s face it, people, we are dealing here with Joe Biden, whose flights of fancy (an unrealistic idea or fantastic notion, a pipe dream) are legendary, so this is what we have to expect from him, and this is what we are now going to be confronted with between now and November, which is going to be nothing but a continuing litany of lies from Joe Biden and his enablers and apologists in the main-stream and legacy media, as well as his cabinet members and NSC members, who are all out there on the campaign trail for Joe, beating their drums and chanting his name, calling for “FOUR MORE YEARS,” and God help the nation if that should occur, because we are going to need it!
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WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MARCH 30, 2024 AT 6:24 PM
Paul Plante says:
And here, on March 7, 2024, with this following from Joe’s MOCK SOTU, we were plunged by Joe Biden into the depths of mindless gibberish and mere sound and fury signifying exactly nothing, or as H.L. Mencken would have it, the immemorial blather of a candidate for office under democracy, addressing multitudes unfamiliar with ideas and incapable of thought, the sort of sonorous bilge that delights Kiwanis Clubs, attendants at Methodist revivals, and the editorial writers for party newspapers, to wit:
We must be honest: The threat to democracy must be [defeated].
end quote
And what crap that is, given democracy is nothing but a concept with no concrete meaning, and it certainly isn’t a possession of either Joe Biden, who in my estimation cherishes and worships the word “democracy” the way Gollum called the ring “my precious” (cue Gollum loses his Precious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhBgPEdWeKM ) or the United States of America.
And if in fact we must be honest, and why wouldn’t we be, given we are not politicians like Joe Biden who lie and dissemble and mislead for a living, what exactly is the threat to democracy that we must defeat?
Does anyone have an inkling, or a clue?
Has anyone ever heard Joe Biden be explicit about this supposed threat to democracy, which itself is an unstable political system, that according to Jemmy Madison, himself as much an American president as is this loser Biden, in Federalist No. 10 where Jemmy stated as follows as to what Joe Biden’s “democracy” has “blessed” us with today, to wit:
The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished; as they continue to be the favorite and fruitful topics from which the adversaries to liberty derive their most specious declamations.
end quote
The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into OUR national government in our times today by the policies of Joe Biden are now the mortal diseases under which our REPUBLICAN FORM of government may well perish thanks to Joe Biden, and when I think of an ADVERSARY TO LIBERTY in this country, the name which comes readily to mind is Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, and more to the point, given we have a Constitutional Republic in this country (see, U.S. Constitution article IV, § 4; The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government), what democracy is Joe Biden talking about that is supposedly under threat?
Which takes us back to March 7, 2024 and the MOCK SOTU and more BIDEN BLATHER, to wit:
As I’ve done ever since being elected to office, I ask all of you, without regard to party, to join together and defend democracy.
end quote
Join together and defend democracy?
How, Joe, when it is you and the DEMOCRATS who you are asking us to join with who are the clear and present threats and true danger to free and fair elections in this country with your on-going efforts to make sure that the name Joe Biden is the only choice for president in November?
Going back to the MOCK SOTU, Joe went on as follows:
Remember your oath of office to defend against all threats foreign and domestic.
end quote
And how about you remembering yours, Joe, which again takes us back to the MOCK SOTU, to wit:
Respect — respect free and fair elections, restore trust in our institutions, and make clear political violence has absolutely no place — no place in America.
Zero place.
Again, it’s not — it’s not hyperbole to suggest history is watching.
They’re watching.
Your children and grandchildren will read about this day and what we do.
end quotes
Yes, people, that is exactly true, which thought takes us to a New York Post article titled “Biden and the party of ‘democracy’ are terrified of third-party candidates and voter choice” by Jonathan Turley, an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School on 25 March 2024, where we have political reality in America stated as follows, to wit:
The last time that the Chicago Democratic Convention was held in Chicago in 1968, the resulting riots led to one of the greatest Freudian slips in American politics.
Mayor Richard Daley declared “the policeman isn’t there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.”
The Democratic National Committee has now added its own gem: the Democratic Party is not here to preserve democracy, it is here to prevent democracy.
end quotes
And boy, is he dead on the money there, which is what makes this above blather by Joe Biden about us joining together with Joe Biden and the DEMOCRATS to defend democracy in his March 7, 2024 MOCK SOTU so pitiably stupid sounding, which takes us back to the article, to wit:
That’s because the DNC is seeking to block third party candidates from ballots — Robert Kennedy Jr., Cornell West, and Jill Stein.
All three are liberal and are considered a threat to Joe Biden.
This effort will likely include any ticket put forward by the No Labels group, seeking a moderate alternative to the two parties.
According to media reports, former Buttigieg campaign aide Lis Smith will lead the effort with another Buttigieg alumni, Matt Corridoni.
This effort includes not just a public campaign against Kennedy and Stein as spoilers, but “legal action” to solve the problem by denying voters a choice.
end quotes
And denying voters a choice is exactly what BIDEN FAUX DEMOCRACY is all about, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
The media does not appear at all alarmed or critical of the effort to limit democratic choice.
end quote
With the exception of the Cape Charles Mirror, the media is all but worthless, as well, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
The Washington Post stated clinically “Democrats are taking third-party threats seriously this time.”
Taking it seriously appears to mean using legal means to keep them from the ballots.
It is true that the main political parties have challenged qualification signatures and paperwork in the past.
However, the reports indicate a systemic effort geared toward reducing the choices for voters.
What is striking is that this is coming from democratic groups and the DNC, which are raising money on this pledge.
The contradiction is spellbinding.
On the same sites promising to oppose the third party candidates, the DNC and other groups push the narrative that only the Democrats are working to protect the right to vote.
The Post reports that Democrats have studied the Hillary Clinton campaign and vowed not to allow third party candidates to drain away millions of voters as they did in 2016.
Of course, the comparison is particularly telling because in both 2016 and 2024, the DNC had the least popular Democratic candidates.
Polls showed that Clinton was the worst possible candidate for the party, but the Clintons had control over the DNC and state party organizations.
Of particular concern is the fact that Trump beat Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan by only 67,000 votes.
In just those states, Libertarian Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Stein received more than half a million votes.
Rather than actually pick a candidate that most citizens want, the DNC wants to replay the 2016 strategy of forcing the choice between two evils in a Biden-Trump choice.
That can only work reliably if there is no other choice for citizens tired of the duopoly and the political (and media) establishment.
So Kennedy, Cornell, and Stein just have to go.
I am one of those misguided voters.
Years ago, I wrote a column saying that I was tired of voting for the lesser of two evils — leaving every election as a moral hazard.
We are played as chumps by a political and media establishment in every election system.
Over two decades ago, I pledged to vote for the best candidate, even if they are with a third party.
The DNC is reportedly to be joined in this effort by a well-financed array of groups including the liberal think tank Third Way (which has filed complaints with secretaries of states); American Bridge (a Democratic opposition operation), and Clear Choice (a super PAC composed of “allies of President Biden”).
While these groups work to limit the choice of voters, the effort continues in Florida, Georgia, Washington, and New York to keep Trump in court until the election, including a possible trial running up to or even through the election.
There is hope that this multi-front effort will be the winning ticket, particularly if the ultimate ticket denies voters any other choice.
The open discussion of these efforts in the media illustrates the contempt for voters, who need to be protected from their bad choices.
I have previously compared the underlying assumptions to a type of electoral Big Gulp law.
Before they were also struck down, these laws sought to take away the dietary choices of citizens because they were making the wrong choice in the view of experts.
Now activists are now big gulping the election.
Voters cannot be trusted with something as important as democracy.
President Biden has said “make no mistake: Democracy is on the ballot for all of us.”
Of course, he could end this effort by denouncing further ballot cleansing (something he refused to do when Trump was removed by the Colorado and Maine ballots).
It appears that the last thing that democracy needs is free democratic choice.
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Paul Plante says:
And here, on March 7, 2024, with this following from Joe’s MOCK SOTU, we were plunged by Joe Biden into the depths of mindless gibberish and mere sound and fury signifying exactly nothing, or as H.L. Mencken would have it, the immemorial blather of a candidate for office under democracy, addressing multitudes unfamiliar with ideas and incapable of thought, the sort of sonorous bilge that delights Kiwanis Clubs, attendants at Methodist revivals, and the editorial writers for party newspapers, to wit:
We must be honest: The threat to democracy must be [defeated].
end quote
And what crap that is, given democracy is nothing but a concept with no concrete meaning, and it certainly isn’t a possession of either Joe Biden, who in my estimation cherishes and worships the word “democracy” the way Gollum called the ring “my precious” (cue Gollum loses his Precious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhBgPEdWeKM ) or the United States of America.
And if in fact we must be honest, and why wouldn’t we be, given we are not politicians like Joe Biden who lie and dissemble and mislead for a living, what exactly is the threat to democracy that we must defeat?
Does anyone have an inkling, or a clue?
Has anyone ever heard Joe Biden be explicit about this supposed threat to democracy, which itself is an unstable political system, that according to Jemmy Madison, himself as much an American president as is this loser Biden, in Federalist No. 10 where Jemmy stated as follows as to what Joe Biden’s “democracy” has “blessed” us with today, to wit:
The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished; as they continue to be the favorite and fruitful topics from which the adversaries to liberty derive their most specious declamations.
end quote
The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into OUR national government in our times today by the policies of Joe Biden are now the mortal diseases under which our REPUBLICAN FORM of government may well perish thanks to Joe Biden, and when I think of an ADVERSARY TO LIBERTY in this country, the name which comes readily to mind is Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, and more to the point, given we have a Constitutional Republic in this country (see, U.S. Constitution article IV, § 4; The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government), what democracy is Joe Biden talking about that is supposedly under threat?
Which takes us back to March 7, 2024 and the MOCK SOTU and more BIDEN BLATHER, to wit:
As I’ve done ever since being elected to office, I ask all of you, without regard to party, to join together and defend democracy.
end quote
Join together and defend democracy?
How, Joe, when it is you and the DEMOCRATS who you are asking us to join with who are the clear and present threats and true danger to free and fair elections in this country with your on-going efforts to make sure that the name Joe Biden is the only choice for president in November?
Going back to the MOCK SOTU, Joe went on as follows:
Remember your oath of office to defend against all threats foreign and domestic.
end quote
And how about you remembering yours, Joe, which again takes us back to the MOCK SOTU, to wit:
Respect — respect free and fair elections, restore trust in our institutions, and make clear political violence has absolutely no place — no place in America.
Zero place.
Again, it’s not — it’s not hyperbole to suggest history is watching.
They’re watching.
Your children and grandchildren will read about this day and what we do.
end quotes
Yes, people, that is exactly true, which thought takes us to a New York Post article titled “Biden and the party of ‘democracy’ are terrified of third-party candidates and voter choice” by Jonathan Turley, an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School on 25 March 2024, where we have political reality in America stated as follows, to wit:
The last time that the Chicago Democratic Convention was held in Chicago in 1968, the resulting riots led to one of the greatest Freudian slips in American politics.
Mayor Richard Daley declared “the policeman isn’t there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.”
The Democratic National Committee has now added its own gem: the Democratic Party is not here to preserve democracy, it is here to prevent democracy.
end quotes
And boy, is he dead on the money there, which is what makes this above blather by Joe Biden about us joining together with Joe Biden and the DEMOCRATS to defend democracy in his March 7, 2024 MOCK SOTU so pitiably stupid sounding, which takes us back to the article, to wit:
That’s because the DNC is seeking to block third party candidates from ballots — Robert Kennedy Jr., Cornell West, and Jill Stein.
All three are liberal and are considered a threat to Joe Biden.
This effort will likely include any ticket put forward by the No Labels group, seeking a moderate alternative to the two parties.
According to media reports, former Buttigieg campaign aide Lis Smith will lead the effort with another Buttigieg alumni, Matt Corridoni.
This effort includes not just a public campaign against Kennedy and Stein as spoilers, but “legal action” to solve the problem by denying voters a choice.
end quotes
And denying voters a choice is exactly what BIDEN FAUX DEMOCRACY is all about, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
The media does not appear at all alarmed or critical of the effort to limit democratic choice.
end quote
With the exception of the Cape Charles Mirror, the media is all but worthless, as well, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
The Washington Post stated clinically “Democrats are taking third-party threats seriously this time.”
Taking it seriously appears to mean using legal means to keep them from the ballots.
It is true that the main political parties have challenged qualification signatures and paperwork in the past.
However, the reports indicate a systemic effort geared toward reducing the choices for voters.
What is striking is that this is coming from democratic groups and the DNC, which are raising money on this pledge.
The contradiction is spellbinding.
On the same sites promising to oppose the third party candidates, the DNC and other groups push the narrative that only the Democrats are working to protect the right to vote.
The Post reports that Democrats have studied the Hillary Clinton campaign and vowed not to allow third party candidates to drain away millions of voters as they did in 2016.
Of course, the comparison is particularly telling because in both 2016 and 2024, the DNC had the least popular Democratic candidates.
Polls showed that Clinton was the worst possible candidate for the party, but the Clintons had control over the DNC and state party organizations.
Of particular concern is the fact that Trump beat Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan by only 67,000 votes.
In just those states, Libertarian Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Stein received more than half a million votes.
Rather than actually pick a candidate that most citizens want, the DNC wants to replay the 2016 strategy of forcing the choice between two evils in a Biden-Trump choice.
That can only work reliably if there is no other choice for citizens tired of the duopoly and the political (and media) establishment.
So Kennedy, Cornell, and Stein just have to go.
I am one of those misguided voters.
Years ago, I wrote a column saying that I was tired of voting for the lesser of two evils — leaving every election as a moral hazard.
We are played as chumps by a political and media establishment in every election system.
Over two decades ago, I pledged to vote for the best candidate, even if they are with a third party.
The DNC is reportedly to be joined in this effort by a well-financed array of groups including the liberal think tank Third Way (which has filed complaints with secretaries of states); American Bridge (a Democratic opposition operation), and Clear Choice (a super PAC composed of “allies of President Biden”).
While these groups work to limit the choice of voters, the effort continues in Florida, Georgia, Washington, and New York to keep Trump in court until the election, including a possible trial running up to or even through the election.
There is hope that this multi-front effort will be the winning ticket, particularly if the ultimate ticket denies voters any other choice.
The open discussion of these efforts in the media illustrates the contempt for voters, who need to be protected from their bad choices.
I have previously compared the underlying assumptions to a type of electoral Big Gulp law.
Before they were also struck down, these laws sought to take away the dietary choices of citizens because they were making the wrong choice in the view of experts.
Now activists are now big gulping the election.
Voters cannot be trusted with something as important as democracy.
President Biden has said “make no mistake: Democracy is on the ballot for all of us.”
Of course, he could end this effort by denouncing further ballot cleansing (something he refused to do when Trump was removed by the Colorado and Maine ballots).
It appears that the last thing that democracy needs is free democratic choice.
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR APRIL 1, 2024 AT 9:07 PM
Paul Plante says:
And before we go to an article in the Brit publication The Telegraph titled “The Democratic party is now indisputably woke” by Joel Kotkin on March 31, 2024 to see where in their estimation Joe Biden has brought America down to, while we’re on this subject of “DEMOCRACY” which is so dear to Joe Biden’s heart, even though he can’t say what his version of a “DEMOCRACY” actually is, given that officially, North Korea is an “independent socialist state” which like America under Joe Biden holds democratic elections, and even Iran’s complex and unusual political system combines elements of a modern Islamic theocracy with democracy which makes it highly questionable exactly which brand of “DEMOCRACY” Joe Biden is actually on about, let’s go back to FEDERALIST No. 10, The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection, from the New York Packet on Friday, November 23, 1787 by Jemmy Madison to the People of the State of New York where we have as follows concerning “DEMOCRACY,” to wit:
AMONG the numerous advantages promised by a well constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.
end quote
And since we right now are witnessing the violence of faction in this country, as Joe Biden and his FACTION try to control our national election going into November 2024, it logically follows that we do not have a well-constructed union in this country, no matter what crap Joe Biden spewed about it on March 7, 2024, which takes us back to Jemmy, to wit:
The friend of popular governments never finds himself so much alarmed for their character and fate, as when he contemplates their propensity to this dangerous vice.
He will not fail, therefore, to set a due value on any plan which, without violating the principles to which he is attached, provides a proper cure for it.
The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished; as they continue to be the favorite and fruitful topics from which the adversaries to liberty derive their most specious declamations.
The valuable improvements made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cannot certainly be too much admired; but it would be an unwarrantable partiality, to contend that they have as effectually obviated the danger on this side, as was wished and expected.
end quotes
And as those particular constitutions in this country are now largely dead letters (see University of Richmond Law Review, A Vanishing Virginia Constitution? by the Honorable Stephen R. McCullough on Jan 13, 2012 https://lawreview.richmond.edu/2012/01/ ... stitution/) it would indeed be an unwarrantable partiality on our part today to contend that they have as effectually obviated the danger on this side, as was wished and expected, which again takes us back to Jemmy, to wit:
Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.
end quotes
And yes, people, right there he is indeed talking about Joe Biden and his DEMOCRAT PARTY FACTION when he states that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority, which takes us back for more, to wit:
However anxiously we may wish that these complaints had no foundation, the evidence, of known facts will not permit us to deny that they are in some degree true.
It will be found, indeed, on a candid review of our situation, that some of the distresses under which we labor have been erroneously charged on the operation of our governments; but it will be found, at the same time, that other causes will not alone account for many of our heaviest misfortunes; and, particularly, for that prevailing and increasing distrust of public engagements, and alarm for private rights, which are echoed from one end of the continent to the other.
These must be chiefly, if not wholly, effects of the unsteadiness and injustice with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administrations.
end quotes
And it is that FACTIOUS SPIRIT which we will be confronted with by the Brits in The Telegraph article titled “The Democratic party is now indisputably woke” by Joel Kotkin on March 31, 2024 where we will be told that the base of the Democratic Party of today under the unsure and ever-wavering hand of President Joe Biden is increasingly found in the highly educated white middle and upper classes, the tech oligarchs and Wall Street, which takes us back to Federalist No. 10, to wit:
By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
end quote
And by that definition, the Democrat party of today is very much a faction, and very much a faction united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens in America, which is all of us who are not BIDEN DEMOCRATS, and to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community, which takes us to the heart of the matter as follows, to wit:
There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects.
There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: the one, by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence; the other, by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests.
end quotes
And with that in front of us for our consideration, let’s pause here for station identification, and after several hours of Informercials about just how good and beneficial the Joe Biden administration has been for America and the Democrats, we will be right back with more Federalist No. 10 so stay tuned.
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Paul Plante says:
And before we go to an article in the Brit publication The Telegraph titled “The Democratic party is now indisputably woke” by Joel Kotkin on March 31, 2024 to see where in their estimation Joe Biden has brought America down to, while we’re on this subject of “DEMOCRACY” which is so dear to Joe Biden’s heart, even though he can’t say what his version of a “DEMOCRACY” actually is, given that officially, North Korea is an “independent socialist state” which like America under Joe Biden holds democratic elections, and even Iran’s complex and unusual political system combines elements of a modern Islamic theocracy with democracy which makes it highly questionable exactly which brand of “DEMOCRACY” Joe Biden is actually on about, let’s go back to FEDERALIST No. 10, The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection, from the New York Packet on Friday, November 23, 1787 by Jemmy Madison to the People of the State of New York where we have as follows concerning “DEMOCRACY,” to wit:
AMONG the numerous advantages promised by a well constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.
end quote
And since we right now are witnessing the violence of faction in this country, as Joe Biden and his FACTION try to control our national election going into November 2024, it logically follows that we do not have a well-constructed union in this country, no matter what crap Joe Biden spewed about it on March 7, 2024, which takes us back to Jemmy, to wit:
The friend of popular governments never finds himself so much alarmed for their character and fate, as when he contemplates their propensity to this dangerous vice.
He will not fail, therefore, to set a due value on any plan which, without violating the principles to which he is attached, provides a proper cure for it.
The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished; as they continue to be the favorite and fruitful topics from which the adversaries to liberty derive their most specious declamations.
The valuable improvements made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cannot certainly be too much admired; but it would be an unwarrantable partiality, to contend that they have as effectually obviated the danger on this side, as was wished and expected.
end quotes
And as those particular constitutions in this country are now largely dead letters (see University of Richmond Law Review, A Vanishing Virginia Constitution? by the Honorable Stephen R. McCullough on Jan 13, 2012 https://lawreview.richmond.edu/2012/01/ ... stitution/) it would indeed be an unwarrantable partiality on our part today to contend that they have as effectually obviated the danger on this side, as was wished and expected, which again takes us back to Jemmy, to wit:
Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.
end quotes
And yes, people, right there he is indeed talking about Joe Biden and his DEMOCRAT PARTY FACTION when he states that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority, which takes us back for more, to wit:
However anxiously we may wish that these complaints had no foundation, the evidence, of known facts will not permit us to deny that they are in some degree true.
It will be found, indeed, on a candid review of our situation, that some of the distresses under which we labor have been erroneously charged on the operation of our governments; but it will be found, at the same time, that other causes will not alone account for many of our heaviest misfortunes; and, particularly, for that prevailing and increasing distrust of public engagements, and alarm for private rights, which are echoed from one end of the continent to the other.
These must be chiefly, if not wholly, effects of the unsteadiness and injustice with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administrations.
end quotes
And it is that FACTIOUS SPIRIT which we will be confronted with by the Brits in The Telegraph article titled “The Democratic party is now indisputably woke” by Joel Kotkin on March 31, 2024 where we will be told that the base of the Democratic Party of today under the unsure and ever-wavering hand of President Joe Biden is increasingly found in the highly educated white middle and upper classes, the tech oligarchs and Wall Street, which takes us back to Federalist No. 10, to wit:
By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
end quote
And by that definition, the Democrat party of today is very much a faction, and very much a faction united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens in America, which is all of us who are not BIDEN DEMOCRATS, and to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community, which takes us to the heart of the matter as follows, to wit:
There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects.
There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: the one, by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence; the other, by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests.
end quotes
And with that in front of us for our consideration, let’s pause here for station identification, and after several hours of Informercials about just how good and beneficial the Joe Biden administration has been for America and the Democrats, we will be right back with more Federalist No. 10 so stay tuned.
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR APRIL 3, 2024 AT 10:38 AM
Paul Plante says:
And before we go back to FEDERALIST No. 10, The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection, from the New York Packet on Friday, November 23, 1787 by Jemmy Madison to the People of the State of New York, where we were told by Jemmy that in his estimation, there are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects, with the two methods of removing the causes of faction being on the one hand to destroy the liberty which is essential to its existence, which is what we are seeing this autocrat Biden trying to do with all of his “WOKENESS” and EXECUTIVE ORDERS, while the other, also being employed by Joe Biden, is to give, or in this case, force each and every one of us to have the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests, all dictated to us by the dictatorial Biden regime in the IMPERIAL CITY of Washington, D.C., from which city Joe Biden rules the world with an iron fist, to see that iron fist closing here in America, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “White House’s Brainard says corporate profits remain elevated” on March 28, 2024, where we have Joe trying to assume total control over how much profit any given business in America in entitled to, according to Joe, to wit:
WASHINGTON, March 28 (Reuters) – White House National Economic Adviser Lael Brainard said on Thursday corporate profits remain elevated, after U.S. consumer sentiment rose unexpectedly in March to the highest in nearly three years on hopes inflation will keep softening.
Brainard said the Biden administration still has work to do to lower costs – a high priority as President Joe Biden grapples with voter attitudes about stubbornly high prices and mounting housing costs.
“We have more work to do to lower costs for American families … with corporate profits still elevated, President Biden will continue to call on companies to pass their savings on to consumers,” she said.
end quotes
As to Joe’s lame efforts to control the economy, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “US inflation moderating; consumer spending underpinning economy” by Lucia Mutikani on March 29, 2024, where we have this dose of reality to consider as we head into November and the presidential elections, to wit:
Data for January was revised higher to show the PCE price index climbing 0.4% instead of 0.3% as previously reported.
Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, jumped 0.8% last month.
But much of the spending was funded from savings as income rose 0.3% after accelerating 1.0% in January on the back of a Costco Wholesale Corporation special dividend.
Income at the disposal of households after accounting for inflation and taxes fell 0.1%.
end quotes
INCOME AT THE DISPOSAL OF HOUSEHOLDS IN AMERICA FELL UNDER BIDE-O-NOMICS!
Don’t believe Joe’s lies to the contrary!
As to BIDENFLATION, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “US manufacturing on the mend; rising raw material prices pose obstacle” by Lucia Mutikani on April 1, 2024, where we have this news from that front, to wit:
WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) – U.S. manufacturing grew for the first time in 1-1/2 years in March as production rebounded sharply and new orders increased, but employment at factories remained subdued amid “sizable layoff activity” and prices for inputs pushed higher.
While the manufacturing rebound is a boost for the economy’s growth prospects, the rise in raw material prices suggested goods inflation could pick up in the months ahead.
Nonetheless, inflation at the factory gate picked up.
The survey’s measure of prices paid by manufacturers rose to 55.8 from 52.5 in February, indicating raw materials prices increased last month.
Twenty-four percent of companies reported higher prices compared to 18% in the prior month.
end quotes
So more BIDENFLATION misery is on the way from there.
And how about the price of a gallon of gas?
On March 22, 2024, I paid $3.87 for a gallon of 89-octane gas, up from $3.72 a gallon the time before.
So why then is gas going up?
Because Joe Biden has his puppet province Ukraine and its tin-pot dictator Vladimer Zelensky bombing Russian oil infrastructure with drones, as we see in the Reuters article titled “Oil settles up on supply threats, hits 2024 highs during session” by Laura Sanicola on April 2, 2024, where we have as follows on that score, to wit:
April 2 (Reuters) – Oil prices settled higher on Tuesday after a session in which Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy facilities and escalating conflict in the Middle East pushed the Brent benchmark above $89 a barrel for the first time since October.
U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures for May settled up $1.44, or about 1.7%, to $85.15 after touching a peak of $85.46, also the highest since October.
A Ukrainian drone struck one of Russia’s biggest refineries in an attack Russia initially said it repelled.
A Reuters analysis of images showing the impact of the attack suggests it hit the refinery’s primary oil refining unit, which accounts for about half of the plant’s total annual production capacity of 340,000 barrels per day (bpd).
“The likelihood that continued restricted Russian product exports could further tighten US petroleum supplies has suddenly forced re-calculation of U.S. (oil) balances across the rest of this month and possibly beyond,” said Jim Ritterbusch, president of Ritterbusch and Associates LLC.
end quotes
So, expect to be further behind in your finances thanks to BIDENFLATION caused by BIDE-O-NOMICS as we move through the months ahead to November and the election, which takes us another Reuters article titled “US construction spending falls for second straight month in February” on April 1, 2024, where we learned as follows:
WASHINGTON, April 1(Reuters) – U.S. construction spending unexpectedly fell in February as strength in single-family homebuilding was more than offset by weaknesses in nonresidential and public projects.
The Commerce Department said on Monday that construction spending dropped 0.3% after an unrevised 0.2% decline in January.
Spending on private construction projects was unchanged for a second straight month in February
Outlays on private non-residential structures like factories dropped 0.9%.
Spending on manufacturing construction projects fell 0.6%.
end quotes
So where then is this HUGE BOOST to our economy from all these INSANE GREEN DREAM construction projects that Joe Biden is pouring HUGE FEDERAL DOLLARS into?
Which takes us to a Reuters article titled “Intel discloses $7 billion operating loss for chip-making unit” by Stephen Nellis on April 2, 2024, where we have this bit of reality to consider, to wit:
April 2 (Reuters) – Semiconductor company Intel disclosed increasing operating losses for its foundry business on Tuesday, according to a regulatory filing.
Intel said the manufacturing unit had $7 billion in operating losses for 2023, a steeper loss than the $5.2 billion in operating losses the year before.
Intel shares were down 4.3% after the documents were filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
During a presentation for investors, Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger said that 2024 would be the year of worst operating losses for the company’s chipmaking business and that it expects to break even on an operating basis by about 2027.
Gelsinger said that the foundry business was weighed down by bad decisions, including one years ago against using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) machines from Dutch firm ASML.
Intel plans to spend $100 billion on building or expanding chip factories in four U.S. states.
Its business turnaround plan depends on persuading outside companies to use its manufacturing services.
end quotes
INTEL’S BUSINESS TURNAROUND PLAN DEPENDS ON THEM PERSUADING OUTSIDE COMPANIES TO USE THEIR MANUFACTURING SERVICES!
Think about what is being said there, as we then go to a Reuters article titled “Intel latest to get US funds for chips, more grants and loans planned” on March 20, 2024, to9 wit:
WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) – Intel Corp on Wednesday was the latest semiconductor company to be awarded billions of dollars in grants and loans from the U.S. government in President Joe Biden’s effort to supercharge domestic chip output.
end quotes
JOE BIDEN’S EFFORT TO SUPERCHARGE DOMESTIC CHIP OUTPUT WHICH JOE KNOWS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT!
Yes, people, good old Stalinistic CENTRAL PLANNING at its finest!
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Paul Plante says:
And before we go back to FEDERALIST No. 10, The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection, from the New York Packet on Friday, November 23, 1787 by Jemmy Madison to the People of the State of New York, where we were told by Jemmy that in his estimation, there are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects, with the two methods of removing the causes of faction being on the one hand to destroy the liberty which is essential to its existence, which is what we are seeing this autocrat Biden trying to do with all of his “WOKENESS” and EXECUTIVE ORDERS, while the other, also being employed by Joe Biden, is to give, or in this case, force each and every one of us to have the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests, all dictated to us by the dictatorial Biden regime in the IMPERIAL CITY of Washington, D.C., from which city Joe Biden rules the world with an iron fist, to see that iron fist closing here in America, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “White House’s Brainard says corporate profits remain elevated” on March 28, 2024, where we have Joe trying to assume total control over how much profit any given business in America in entitled to, according to Joe, to wit:
WASHINGTON, March 28 (Reuters) – White House National Economic Adviser Lael Brainard said on Thursday corporate profits remain elevated, after U.S. consumer sentiment rose unexpectedly in March to the highest in nearly three years on hopes inflation will keep softening.
Brainard said the Biden administration still has work to do to lower costs – a high priority as President Joe Biden grapples with voter attitudes about stubbornly high prices and mounting housing costs.
“We have more work to do to lower costs for American families … with corporate profits still elevated, President Biden will continue to call on companies to pass their savings on to consumers,” she said.
end quotes
As to Joe’s lame efforts to control the economy, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “US inflation moderating; consumer spending underpinning economy” by Lucia Mutikani on March 29, 2024, where we have this dose of reality to consider as we head into November and the presidential elections, to wit:
Data for January was revised higher to show the PCE price index climbing 0.4% instead of 0.3% as previously reported.
Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, jumped 0.8% last month.
But much of the spending was funded from savings as income rose 0.3% after accelerating 1.0% in January on the back of a Costco Wholesale Corporation special dividend.
Income at the disposal of households after accounting for inflation and taxes fell 0.1%.
end quotes
INCOME AT THE DISPOSAL OF HOUSEHOLDS IN AMERICA FELL UNDER BIDE-O-NOMICS!
Don’t believe Joe’s lies to the contrary!
As to BIDENFLATION, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “US manufacturing on the mend; rising raw material prices pose obstacle” by Lucia Mutikani on April 1, 2024, where we have this news from that front, to wit:
WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) – U.S. manufacturing grew for the first time in 1-1/2 years in March as production rebounded sharply and new orders increased, but employment at factories remained subdued amid “sizable layoff activity” and prices for inputs pushed higher.
While the manufacturing rebound is a boost for the economy’s growth prospects, the rise in raw material prices suggested goods inflation could pick up in the months ahead.
Nonetheless, inflation at the factory gate picked up.
The survey’s measure of prices paid by manufacturers rose to 55.8 from 52.5 in February, indicating raw materials prices increased last month.
Twenty-four percent of companies reported higher prices compared to 18% in the prior month.
end quotes
So more BIDENFLATION misery is on the way from there.
And how about the price of a gallon of gas?
On March 22, 2024, I paid $3.87 for a gallon of 89-octane gas, up from $3.72 a gallon the time before.
So why then is gas going up?
Because Joe Biden has his puppet province Ukraine and its tin-pot dictator Vladimer Zelensky bombing Russian oil infrastructure with drones, as we see in the Reuters article titled “Oil settles up on supply threats, hits 2024 highs during session” by Laura Sanicola on April 2, 2024, where we have as follows on that score, to wit:
April 2 (Reuters) – Oil prices settled higher on Tuesday after a session in which Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy facilities and escalating conflict in the Middle East pushed the Brent benchmark above $89 a barrel for the first time since October.
U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures for May settled up $1.44, or about 1.7%, to $85.15 after touching a peak of $85.46, also the highest since October.
A Ukrainian drone struck one of Russia’s biggest refineries in an attack Russia initially said it repelled.
A Reuters analysis of images showing the impact of the attack suggests it hit the refinery’s primary oil refining unit, which accounts for about half of the plant’s total annual production capacity of 340,000 barrels per day (bpd).
“The likelihood that continued restricted Russian product exports could further tighten US petroleum supplies has suddenly forced re-calculation of U.S. (oil) balances across the rest of this month and possibly beyond,” said Jim Ritterbusch, president of Ritterbusch and Associates LLC.
end quotes
So, expect to be further behind in your finances thanks to BIDENFLATION caused by BIDE-O-NOMICS as we move through the months ahead to November and the election, which takes us another Reuters article titled “US construction spending falls for second straight month in February” on April 1, 2024, where we learned as follows:
WASHINGTON, April 1(Reuters) – U.S. construction spending unexpectedly fell in February as strength in single-family homebuilding was more than offset by weaknesses in nonresidential and public projects.
The Commerce Department said on Monday that construction spending dropped 0.3% after an unrevised 0.2% decline in January.
Spending on private construction projects was unchanged for a second straight month in February
Outlays on private non-residential structures like factories dropped 0.9%.
Spending on manufacturing construction projects fell 0.6%.
end quotes
So where then is this HUGE BOOST to our economy from all these INSANE GREEN DREAM construction projects that Joe Biden is pouring HUGE FEDERAL DOLLARS into?
Which takes us to a Reuters article titled “Intel discloses $7 billion operating loss for chip-making unit” by Stephen Nellis on April 2, 2024, where we have this bit of reality to consider, to wit:
April 2 (Reuters) – Semiconductor company Intel disclosed increasing operating losses for its foundry business on Tuesday, according to a regulatory filing.
Intel said the manufacturing unit had $7 billion in operating losses for 2023, a steeper loss than the $5.2 billion in operating losses the year before.
Intel shares were down 4.3% after the documents were filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
During a presentation for investors, Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger said that 2024 would be the year of worst operating losses for the company’s chipmaking business and that it expects to break even on an operating basis by about 2027.
Gelsinger said that the foundry business was weighed down by bad decisions, including one years ago against using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) machines from Dutch firm ASML.
Intel plans to spend $100 billion on building or expanding chip factories in four U.S. states.
Its business turnaround plan depends on persuading outside companies to use its manufacturing services.
end quotes
INTEL’S BUSINESS TURNAROUND PLAN DEPENDS ON THEM PERSUADING OUTSIDE COMPANIES TO USE THEIR MANUFACTURING SERVICES!
Think about what is being said there, as we then go to a Reuters article titled “Intel latest to get US funds for chips, more grants and loans planned” on March 20, 2024, to9 wit:
WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) – Intel Corp on Wednesday was the latest semiconductor company to be awarded billions of dollars in grants and loans from the U.S. government in President Joe Biden’s effort to supercharge domestic chip output.
end quotes
JOE BIDEN’S EFFORT TO SUPERCHARGE DOMESTIC CHIP OUTPUT WHICH JOE KNOWS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT!
Yes, people, good old Stalinistic CENTRAL PLANNING at its finest!
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR APRIL 4, 2024 AT 9:17 PM
Paul Plante says:
And getting back to FEDERALIST No. 10, The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection, from the New York Packet on Friday, November 23, 1787 by Jemmy Madison to the People of the State of New York, where we were told by Jemmy that in his estimation, there are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects, with the two methods of removing the causes of faction with the one being to destroy the liberty which is essential to its existence, which is what we are seeing this autocrat Biden trying to do with all of his “WOKENESS” and EXECUTIVE ORDERS, while the other, also being employed by Joe Biden, is to give, or in this case, force each and every one of us to have the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests, all dictated to us by the dictatorial Biden regime in the IMPERIAL CITY of Washington, D.C., from which city Joe Biden rules the world with an iron fist, Jemmy continues as follows, to wit:
The second expedient (force each and every one of us to have the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests, all dictated to us by the dictatorial Biden regime in the IMPERIAL CITY of Washington, D.C., from which city Joe Biden rules the world with an iron fist is as impracticable as the first would be unwise.
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests.
The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
end quotes
However, while on Friday, November 23, 1787, protecting the diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property originate might have been the first object of interest of government in Jemmy Madison’s mind and times, today, in April of 2024, under Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior and his WOKENESS, protecting those faculties is no longer an object of government under Joe, at all, which takes us back to Jemmy for more of what Joe Biden sees radically wrong with America today, to wit:
From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results; and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of the society into different interests and parties.
end quote
And it is that which Joe Biden ends to stamp out with his DEI programs, where “equity” under Joe means complete equality in every way enforced by the federal government under Joe, which takes us back to Federalist No., 10, to wit:
A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good.
end quote
And as we head into November 2024 and the presidential contest of the century, if not millennium, that is exactly where we find ourselves as a nation, with our attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power having divided us into parties inflamed with mutual animosity, and rendered much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for our common good, which again takes us back to Jemmy, to wit:
So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts.
But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.
end quotes
And there, of course, is where Joe Biden’s equity policy comes into the picture as we shall see, but let’s go back to Federalist No. 10 to see where Jemmy is trying to take us, to wit:
Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.
Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination.
A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views.
end quotes
And it is those different sentiments and views that Joe Biden seeks to crush to render us all perfectly equal in every way, which again takes us back to Jemmy. to wit:
It is in vain to say that enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust these clashing interests, and render them all subservient to the public good.
Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.
end quotes
And people, never has that been more true than it is today, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction.
A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual.
Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.
end quotes
And that gets us to where we need to be to continue on when we return from a break for station identification with the Telegraph article “The Democratic party is now indisputably woke” by Joel Kotkin on March 31, 2024, where we will be told by the Brits, who don’t have to fear political retaliation by Joe, and so, don’t have to suck up to and grovel before Joe like the mainstream and legacy media in this country do, as follows, so stay tuned:
The passing this last week of Joe Lieberman, a long-time Connecticut Senator and former vice-presidential candidate, stands as reminder of how far the Democrats have moved from the kind of centrist politics that he so epitomised.
Lieberman was an older type of Democrat, someone who embraced the party’s defense of the working and middle classes, while also rallying to the cause of American patriotism.
The Democratic Party under the unsure and ever-wavering hand of President Joe Biden is none of these things.
Its base is increasingly found in the highly educated white middle and upper classes, the tech oligarchs and Wall Street.
In terms of the world, it is largely either isolationist or timid in the face of terrorist threats, and in the case of Hamas even seems ready to embrace them.
Starting in the 60s and 70s, largely due to the Vietnam War, the party adopted an agenda largely congruent with that of the European Left – obsessed with climate, gender, and race issues and deeply hostile to basic notions underpinning American civilisation.
These are positions that centrists like Lieberman nor his closest allies in the Clinton Administration could accept.
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Paul Plante says:
And getting back to FEDERALIST No. 10, The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection, from the New York Packet on Friday, November 23, 1787 by Jemmy Madison to the People of the State of New York, where we were told by Jemmy that in his estimation, there are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects, with the two methods of removing the causes of faction with the one being to destroy the liberty which is essential to its existence, which is what we are seeing this autocrat Biden trying to do with all of his “WOKENESS” and EXECUTIVE ORDERS, while the other, also being employed by Joe Biden, is to give, or in this case, force each and every one of us to have the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests, all dictated to us by the dictatorial Biden regime in the IMPERIAL CITY of Washington, D.C., from which city Joe Biden rules the world with an iron fist, Jemmy continues as follows, to wit:
The second expedient (force each and every one of us to have the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests, all dictated to us by the dictatorial Biden regime in the IMPERIAL CITY of Washington, D.C., from which city Joe Biden rules the world with an iron fist is as impracticable as the first would be unwise.
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests.
The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
end quotes
However, while on Friday, November 23, 1787, protecting the diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property originate might have been the first object of interest of government in Jemmy Madison’s mind and times, today, in April of 2024, under Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior and his WOKENESS, protecting those faculties is no longer an object of government under Joe, at all, which takes us back to Jemmy for more of what Joe Biden sees radically wrong with America today, to wit:
From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results; and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of the society into different interests and parties.
end quote
And it is that which Joe Biden ends to stamp out with his DEI programs, where “equity” under Joe means complete equality in every way enforced by the federal government under Joe, which takes us back to Federalist No., 10, to wit:
A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good.
end quote
And as we head into November 2024 and the presidential contest of the century, if not millennium, that is exactly where we find ourselves as a nation, with our attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power having divided us into parties inflamed with mutual animosity, and rendered much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for our common good, which again takes us back to Jemmy, to wit:
So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts.
But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.
end quotes
And there, of course, is where Joe Biden’s equity policy comes into the picture as we shall see, but let’s go back to Federalist No. 10 to see where Jemmy is trying to take us, to wit:
Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.
Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination.
A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views.
end quotes
And it is those different sentiments and views that Joe Biden seeks to crush to render us all perfectly equal in every way, which again takes us back to Jemmy. to wit:
It is in vain to say that enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust these clashing interests, and render them all subservient to the public good.
Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.
end quotes
And people, never has that been more true than it is today, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction.
A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual.
Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.
end quotes
And that gets us to where we need to be to continue on when we return from a break for station identification with the Telegraph article “The Democratic party is now indisputably woke” by Joel Kotkin on March 31, 2024, where we will be told by the Brits, who don’t have to fear political retaliation by Joe, and so, don’t have to suck up to and grovel before Joe like the mainstream and legacy media in this country do, as follows, so stay tuned:
The passing this last week of Joe Lieberman, a long-time Connecticut Senator and former vice-presidential candidate, stands as reminder of how far the Democrats have moved from the kind of centrist politics that he so epitomised.
Lieberman was an older type of Democrat, someone who embraced the party’s defense of the working and middle classes, while also rallying to the cause of American patriotism.
The Democratic Party under the unsure and ever-wavering hand of President Joe Biden is none of these things.
Its base is increasingly found in the highly educated white middle and upper classes, the tech oligarchs and Wall Street.
In terms of the world, it is largely either isolationist or timid in the face of terrorist threats, and in the case of Hamas even seems ready to embrace them.
Starting in the 60s and 70s, largely due to the Vietnam War, the party adopted an agenda largely congruent with that of the European Left – obsessed with climate, gender, and race issues and deeply hostile to basic notions underpinning American civilisation.
These are positions that centrists like Lieberman nor his closest allies in the Clinton Administration could accept.
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR APRIL 6, 2024 AT 10:22 PM
Paul Plante says:
Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.
Think about those words, people, which were stated by Jemmy Madison two hundred thirty-seven (237) years ago now on Friday, November 23, 1787, and what you are in fact reading about there is the Joe Biden administration, which administration is a TRUE BELIEVER that if only it can reduce mankind in America, which happens to be all of us in here today, to a perfect equality in our political rights, we would then, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in our possessions, our opinions, and our passions.
But then ask yourself this question: where and when in the history of mankind has a perfect equality in people’s political rights that would cause people to be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions ever freely existed without coercion by the “state?”
Consider, for example, Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 – 20 December 1679), who was an English philosopher best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory drawing mostly on his Epicurean political philosophy, whereby the rule of a strong authority, the sovereign, disciplines the wills of subjects in order to properly balance their passions, to the extent that a distinct domain of peace and security is created and maintained, a domain he mostly calls simply ‘society’.
That Hobbesian rule by the strong authority is what coercion (the act or process of persuading someone forcefully to do something that they do not want to do) is all about, and in America today, pursuant to the tenets of BIDE-O-NISM, it is Joe Biden himself who is that strong authority, the sovereign, here in America, who is there to discipline the wills of we, the American people, who are his subjects in order to properly balance our passions.
But let’s go to a Foreign Policy magazine article titled “Janet Yellen and Mario Draghi Have One Last Job – The U.S. treasury secretary and the Italian prime minister have spent decades shaping this economy. But can they control what comes next?” by Adam Tooze, a columnist at Foreign Policy and director of the European Institute at Columbia University on April 1, 2021, where we have as follows when that policy or approach is attempted here in America where we are and know we are, a free people, to wit:
Yellen and her colleagues in the United States have come face to face with structural problems of their own — in the U.S. financial system, the country’s profound social inequalities, its inadequate welfare state, and its deeply polarized politics.
For all their sense of having history on their side, what the modernizing technocrats of the Democratic Party faced, in fact, was a resurgence in conservatism.
It turned out that America’s rapid social, cultural, and economic transformation was splitting the country in half.
end quotes
Which takes us forward in time to The Telegraph article titled “The Democratic party is now indisputably woke” by Joel Kotkin on March 31, 2024, where we see where we have gotten to since then, thanks to Joe Biden and Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, who was quoted in an Associated Press article tilted “At Essence Festival, Yellen touts efforts to build ‘fairer economy,’ says much work still to do” on July 2, 2023 as saying “I strongly believe that our racial equity work is not just the morally right thing to do; it’s in the best economic interests of our entire country,” as follows:
The contrast between Lieberman and his old Senate colleague, Joe Biden, could not be greater.
Lieberman stuck to his views on defense and social issues, some of which reflected his embrace of orthodox Judaism.
In contrast Biden, once regarded as a centrist, has morphed into a progressive ideologue.
He has systematically weakened our defense posture, super-charged the debt credit card, and adopted identitarian politics to an almost absurd level.
This abandonment of basic centrist principles was institutionalised under Barack Obama.
The former president, unlike Biden, could express himself with great eloquence and, with great care, shifted the party away from the centrist Clinton model to one more in line with the activist base.
By the time he left office these policies generated enough resentment among the working class to help elect Donald Trump in 2016.
Four years ago, many of these same people, fed up with Trump’s rhetorical ugliness and drama-inducing antics, voted for Biden, thinking of him as a reassuring centrist.
But this turned out to be something of a feint.
Rather than rule from the middle and make Trump irrelevant, he doubled down wokeism.
Instead of working class Joe, we got someone whose agenda reflected more than values of the faculty lounge and the oligarchic elite.
The reaction among voters has been predictably hostile.
end quotes
So, thanks to BIDE-O-NISM, are we going from the frying pan into the fire?
The more Joe tries to make us all “equal,” which he can only do through coercion, the more he makes people hostile, instead, which takes us back to The Telegraph, to wit:
Despite all the hype about “Bidenomics”, a term now being abandoned by his handlers, the current economy offers young people little hope of owning a house, as buying a new home costs an estimated 80 per cent more than four years ago.
Party hacks like the New York Times Paul Krugman may castigate the masses for not recognising how great things are, but perhaps it’s because Biden has produced an economy that favours government workers and Wall Street over ordinary voters.
The fact that Dollar Tree, a key retailer in working class areas, is closing 1000 tells us more about the state of modern America than the improvement in sales in high-end retailers.
end quotes
So, the more Joe Biden tries to make us all equal, the more he is dividing us, and never in the three-quarters of a century I have been on the globe, have I seen anything like this in our country.
It don’t bode well for the future, people, but too late now, because the BIDEN TRAIN has left the station, and all we can do now is to survive the consequences.
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Paul Plante says:
Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.
Think about those words, people, which were stated by Jemmy Madison two hundred thirty-seven (237) years ago now on Friday, November 23, 1787, and what you are in fact reading about there is the Joe Biden administration, which administration is a TRUE BELIEVER that if only it can reduce mankind in America, which happens to be all of us in here today, to a perfect equality in our political rights, we would then, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in our possessions, our opinions, and our passions.
But then ask yourself this question: where and when in the history of mankind has a perfect equality in people’s political rights that would cause people to be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions ever freely existed without coercion by the “state?”
Consider, for example, Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 – 20 December 1679), who was an English philosopher best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory drawing mostly on his Epicurean political philosophy, whereby the rule of a strong authority, the sovereign, disciplines the wills of subjects in order to properly balance their passions, to the extent that a distinct domain of peace and security is created and maintained, a domain he mostly calls simply ‘society’.
That Hobbesian rule by the strong authority is what coercion (the act or process of persuading someone forcefully to do something that they do not want to do) is all about, and in America today, pursuant to the tenets of BIDE-O-NISM, it is Joe Biden himself who is that strong authority, the sovereign, here in America, who is there to discipline the wills of we, the American people, who are his subjects in order to properly balance our passions.
But let’s go to a Foreign Policy magazine article titled “Janet Yellen and Mario Draghi Have One Last Job – The U.S. treasury secretary and the Italian prime minister have spent decades shaping this economy. But can they control what comes next?” by Adam Tooze, a columnist at Foreign Policy and director of the European Institute at Columbia University on April 1, 2021, where we have as follows when that policy or approach is attempted here in America where we are and know we are, a free people, to wit:
Yellen and her colleagues in the United States have come face to face with structural problems of their own — in the U.S. financial system, the country’s profound social inequalities, its inadequate welfare state, and its deeply polarized politics.
For all their sense of having history on their side, what the modernizing technocrats of the Democratic Party faced, in fact, was a resurgence in conservatism.
It turned out that America’s rapid social, cultural, and economic transformation was splitting the country in half.
end quotes
Which takes us forward in time to The Telegraph article titled “The Democratic party is now indisputably woke” by Joel Kotkin on March 31, 2024, where we see where we have gotten to since then, thanks to Joe Biden and Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, who was quoted in an Associated Press article tilted “At Essence Festival, Yellen touts efforts to build ‘fairer economy,’ says much work still to do” on July 2, 2023 as saying “I strongly believe that our racial equity work is not just the morally right thing to do; it’s in the best economic interests of our entire country,” as follows:
The contrast between Lieberman and his old Senate colleague, Joe Biden, could not be greater.
Lieberman stuck to his views on defense and social issues, some of which reflected his embrace of orthodox Judaism.
In contrast Biden, once regarded as a centrist, has morphed into a progressive ideologue.
He has systematically weakened our defense posture, super-charged the debt credit card, and adopted identitarian politics to an almost absurd level.
This abandonment of basic centrist principles was institutionalised under Barack Obama.
The former president, unlike Biden, could express himself with great eloquence and, with great care, shifted the party away from the centrist Clinton model to one more in line with the activist base.
By the time he left office these policies generated enough resentment among the working class to help elect Donald Trump in 2016.
Four years ago, many of these same people, fed up with Trump’s rhetorical ugliness and drama-inducing antics, voted for Biden, thinking of him as a reassuring centrist.
But this turned out to be something of a feint.
Rather than rule from the middle and make Trump irrelevant, he doubled down wokeism.
Instead of working class Joe, we got someone whose agenda reflected more than values of the faculty lounge and the oligarchic elite.
The reaction among voters has been predictably hostile.
end quotes
So, thanks to BIDE-O-NISM, are we going from the frying pan into the fire?
The more Joe tries to make us all “equal,” which he can only do through coercion, the more he makes people hostile, instead, which takes us back to The Telegraph, to wit:
Despite all the hype about “Bidenomics”, a term now being abandoned by his handlers, the current economy offers young people little hope of owning a house, as buying a new home costs an estimated 80 per cent more than four years ago.
Party hacks like the New York Times Paul Krugman may castigate the masses for not recognising how great things are, but perhaps it’s because Biden has produced an economy that favours government workers and Wall Street over ordinary voters.
The fact that Dollar Tree, a key retailer in working class areas, is closing 1000 tells us more about the state of modern America than the improvement in sales in high-end retailers.
end quotes
So, the more Joe Biden tries to make us all equal, the more he is dividing us, and never in the three-quarters of a century I have been on the globe, have I seen anything like this in our country.
It don’t bode well for the future, people, but too late now, because the BIDEN TRAIN has left the station, and all we can do now is to survive the consequences.
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR APRIL 9, 2024 AT 8:42 PM
Paul Plante says:
When I was young, some years back now in a different century and millennium than the one I am stuck in today in this trying time of DEMOCRAT autocrat Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, himself the descendent of Irish royalty from back in the time of Brian Boru and a long line of Delaware Bay watermen after that, before Joe was a hardhat union coal miner in Scranton, where Joe was dirt poor before he got into politics and became filthy rich, and this is in the fifth grade, there was a series of books on the lives of the presidents from Washington up to Truman, and I sat down and read them all, but I have to say that when I got to Harding and especially Coolidge, it was a real slog to keep turning pages because I found absolutely nothing in the least inspirational in the life stories of either of them, which had my young mind wondering how on earth it is that people like these become the president of this country when there is nothing in their life story that would seem to recommend them for the position.
So when I read the political essays of H.L. Mencken who was covering the political campaigns of both of them, Harding first, and then Coolidge, who became president when Harding decided to drop dead instead of running again, what I am reading is contemporary American political history as seen through his eyes, just as I today write about contemporary American history today as seen through my eyes, since it is quite impossible that I should be able to see clearly through any other, just as Mencken saw life through his own eyes and reported it as he saw it, which takes us back to the Baltimore Evening Sun on October 6, 1924 and “The Coolidge Buncombe” by H.L. Mencken, where we have some of what I will call “comparative politics” between his time and ours, and more importantly, a basis of comparison of Joe Biden with both Harding, who before Joe Biden took the crown from him was deemed the worst American president, and Calvin Coolidge, or “Silent Cal,” as he was known, to wit:
One of the chief arguments made for Dr. Coolidge is that the majority of businessmen are for him.
If this were true, then it would be fair to conclude, not only that businessmen can put their private profits above the public good — which they probably do in fact, precisely like the rest of us — but also that they are singularly lacking in sense and prudence.
For if anything is plain today, it must be that another Coolidge administration, if it is inflicted upon us, will end inevitably in scandal and disaster.
end quotes
Knowing history as it happened thereafter, which was the stock market crash, the GREAT DEPRESSION. WWII as a result of the collapse of the Weimar Republic, and on through Korea and Viet Nam up to our times today, when I read those words of Mencken’s from October 6, 1924 about scandal and disaster, my mind flashed forward to today and where it is that Joe Biden, and his crowd are taking the nation as they keep running up the debt like there is no tomarrow, which crowd includes Janet “TOODLES” Yellen who has been in China lecturing the Chinese on how to run their country when it is crystal clear to the Chinese, who are keeping this country functioning by buying up the debt “TOODLES” has to issue to pay for Joe Biden’s fiscal profligacy, that neither Joe nor “TOODLES” have a clue when it comes to running this country, as opposed to running it into the ground, which takes us back to 1924 and Cal Coolidge as seen through the eyes of H.L. Mencken, to wit:
The day good Cal is elected every thieving scoundrel in the Republican party will burst into hosannas, and the day he is inaugurated there will be song and praise services wherever injunctions are tight and profits run to 50 per cent.
Then will follow, for a year or two, a reign of mirth in Washington, wilder and merrier, even, than that of Harding’s time.
And then there will come an explosion.
How all this will benefit legitimate business I can’t make out.
The only businessmen who will gain anything by it will be the one who manages to steal enough while the going is good to last him all the rest of his life.
All the others will get burnt in the explosion, as they always do when political dynamite is set off.
end quotes
And five years later, in 1929, that political dynamite did explode, and down came Wall Street in flames, which has me wondering, as I follow the economic news each day, about the explosion that is waiting in the wings as a result of the fiscal profligacy and irresponsibility of the Joe Biden regime and its Stalinistic CENTRAL PLANNING, which according to the Reuters article titled “TSMC wins $6.6 bln US subsidy for Arizona chip production” by David Shepardson and Stephanie Kelly on April 8, 2024, just handed TSMC, a Taiwanese company, a fistful of American taxpayer coin, to wit:
WASHINGTON, April 8 (Reuters) – The U.S. Commerce Department said on Monday it would award Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s U.S. unit a $6.6 billion subsidy for advanced semiconductor production in Phoenix, Arizona and up to $5 billion in low-cost government loans.
end quote
In that same article, it was stated as follows:
Commerce expects the projects will create 6,000 direct manufacturing jobs and 20,000 construction jobs.
end quote
Oh, really?
Then where are all these jobs?
I go through the job reports each month, and I fail to see where all that money is going, except into corporate coffers, where it seems to get swallowed up, as we see by going to the Reuters article titled “Strong US labor market underpins economy in first quarter” by Lucia Mutikani on April 5, 2024, where we have the latest job figures from Joe’s own government, to wit:
The healthcare sector led the broad increase in employment, adding 72,000 jobs that were spread across ambulatory services, hospitals as well as nursing and residential care facilities.
Government payrolls increased by 71,000 jobs, boosted by local and federal government hiring.
The construction sector added 39,000 jobs, about double the average monthly gain of 19,000 over the last 12 months.
Leisure and hospitality payrolls rose 49,000, returning employment to its pre-pandemic level.
There were also increases in employment in the social assistance, retail and wholesale trade sectors.
Financial activities reported modest gains in payrolls as did mining and logging, transportation and warehousing.
Professional and business services employment rose slightly, with temporary help – seen a as harbinger for future hiring – posting a small decline.
But manufacturing added no jobs last month as did the information sector.
Utilities shed 400 jobs.
Wages increased 4.1% on a year-on-year basis, the smallest gain since June 2021, after advancing 4.3% in February.
end quotes
And that subsidy (a sum of money granted by the government to assist an industry or business so that the price of a commodity or service may remain low or competitive) to TSMC is on top of $8.5 billion in grants and up to $11 billion in loans for Intel to subsidize leading-edge chip production from the same program, while Joe is expected to unveil an award for South Korea’s Samsung Electronics as soon as next week, sources said.
But this is as much about character of presidential candidates in America as it is policy, which takes us back to Mencken in 1924, to wit:
Do they quake today before the menace of La Follette?
end quote
There he is talking about Robert Marion “Fighting Bob” La Follette Sr. (June 14, 1855 – June 18, 1925) who was an American lawyer and politician that represented Wisconsin in both chambers of Congress and served as the governor of Wisconsin from 1901 to 1906, and then ran for president of the United States as the nominee of his own Progressive Party in the 1924 presidential election that Mencken is writing about above.
As Wikipedia tells us, with the Republican and Democratic Parties each nominating conservative candidates in the 1924 presidential election, left-wing groups coalesced behind La Follette’s third-party candidacy, and with the support of the Socialist Party, farmer’s groups, labor unions, and others, La Follette briefly appeared to be a serious threat to unseat Republican President Calvin Coolidge.
La Follette won 16.6% of the popular vote, one of the best third party performances in U.S. history, which takes us back to Mencken, to wit:
If so, let them consider how La Follette came to be so formidable.
Three years ago he was apparently as dead as Gog and Magog.
The Farmer Labor party snored beside him in the political morgue; Socialism was already in the dissecting room.
Then came, in quick succession, the oil scandal, the Veterans’ Bureau scandal and the intolerable stench of Dougherty.
In six months La Follettism was on its legs again, and now it is so strong that only a miracle can keep the election out of the House.
end quotes
And let’s pause here for station identification before going back to 1924, to see if we can learn anything at all about where we are today with Joe Biden in the white house, but stay tuned and don’t touch that dial, because we will be right back with more.
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Paul Plante says:
When I was young, some years back now in a different century and millennium than the one I am stuck in today in this trying time of DEMOCRAT autocrat Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, himself the descendent of Irish royalty from back in the time of Brian Boru and a long line of Delaware Bay watermen after that, before Joe was a hardhat union coal miner in Scranton, where Joe was dirt poor before he got into politics and became filthy rich, and this is in the fifth grade, there was a series of books on the lives of the presidents from Washington up to Truman, and I sat down and read them all, but I have to say that when I got to Harding and especially Coolidge, it was a real slog to keep turning pages because I found absolutely nothing in the least inspirational in the life stories of either of them, which had my young mind wondering how on earth it is that people like these become the president of this country when there is nothing in their life story that would seem to recommend them for the position.
So when I read the political essays of H.L. Mencken who was covering the political campaigns of both of them, Harding first, and then Coolidge, who became president when Harding decided to drop dead instead of running again, what I am reading is contemporary American political history as seen through his eyes, just as I today write about contemporary American history today as seen through my eyes, since it is quite impossible that I should be able to see clearly through any other, just as Mencken saw life through his own eyes and reported it as he saw it, which takes us back to the Baltimore Evening Sun on October 6, 1924 and “The Coolidge Buncombe” by H.L. Mencken, where we have some of what I will call “comparative politics” between his time and ours, and more importantly, a basis of comparison of Joe Biden with both Harding, who before Joe Biden took the crown from him was deemed the worst American president, and Calvin Coolidge, or “Silent Cal,” as he was known, to wit:
One of the chief arguments made for Dr. Coolidge is that the majority of businessmen are for him.
If this were true, then it would be fair to conclude, not only that businessmen can put their private profits above the public good — which they probably do in fact, precisely like the rest of us — but also that they are singularly lacking in sense and prudence.
For if anything is plain today, it must be that another Coolidge administration, if it is inflicted upon us, will end inevitably in scandal and disaster.
end quotes
Knowing history as it happened thereafter, which was the stock market crash, the GREAT DEPRESSION. WWII as a result of the collapse of the Weimar Republic, and on through Korea and Viet Nam up to our times today, when I read those words of Mencken’s from October 6, 1924 about scandal and disaster, my mind flashed forward to today and where it is that Joe Biden, and his crowd are taking the nation as they keep running up the debt like there is no tomarrow, which crowd includes Janet “TOODLES” Yellen who has been in China lecturing the Chinese on how to run their country when it is crystal clear to the Chinese, who are keeping this country functioning by buying up the debt “TOODLES” has to issue to pay for Joe Biden’s fiscal profligacy, that neither Joe nor “TOODLES” have a clue when it comes to running this country, as opposed to running it into the ground, which takes us back to 1924 and Cal Coolidge as seen through the eyes of H.L. Mencken, to wit:
The day good Cal is elected every thieving scoundrel in the Republican party will burst into hosannas, and the day he is inaugurated there will be song and praise services wherever injunctions are tight and profits run to 50 per cent.
Then will follow, for a year or two, a reign of mirth in Washington, wilder and merrier, even, than that of Harding’s time.
And then there will come an explosion.
How all this will benefit legitimate business I can’t make out.
The only businessmen who will gain anything by it will be the one who manages to steal enough while the going is good to last him all the rest of his life.
All the others will get burnt in the explosion, as they always do when political dynamite is set off.
end quotes
And five years later, in 1929, that political dynamite did explode, and down came Wall Street in flames, which has me wondering, as I follow the economic news each day, about the explosion that is waiting in the wings as a result of the fiscal profligacy and irresponsibility of the Joe Biden regime and its Stalinistic CENTRAL PLANNING, which according to the Reuters article titled “TSMC wins $6.6 bln US subsidy for Arizona chip production” by David Shepardson and Stephanie Kelly on April 8, 2024, just handed TSMC, a Taiwanese company, a fistful of American taxpayer coin, to wit:
WASHINGTON, April 8 (Reuters) – The U.S. Commerce Department said on Monday it would award Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s U.S. unit a $6.6 billion subsidy for advanced semiconductor production in Phoenix, Arizona and up to $5 billion in low-cost government loans.
end quote
In that same article, it was stated as follows:
Commerce expects the projects will create 6,000 direct manufacturing jobs and 20,000 construction jobs.
end quote
Oh, really?
Then where are all these jobs?
I go through the job reports each month, and I fail to see where all that money is going, except into corporate coffers, where it seems to get swallowed up, as we see by going to the Reuters article titled “Strong US labor market underpins economy in first quarter” by Lucia Mutikani on April 5, 2024, where we have the latest job figures from Joe’s own government, to wit:
The healthcare sector led the broad increase in employment, adding 72,000 jobs that were spread across ambulatory services, hospitals as well as nursing and residential care facilities.
Government payrolls increased by 71,000 jobs, boosted by local and federal government hiring.
The construction sector added 39,000 jobs, about double the average monthly gain of 19,000 over the last 12 months.
Leisure and hospitality payrolls rose 49,000, returning employment to its pre-pandemic level.
There were also increases in employment in the social assistance, retail and wholesale trade sectors.
Financial activities reported modest gains in payrolls as did mining and logging, transportation and warehousing.
Professional and business services employment rose slightly, with temporary help – seen a as harbinger for future hiring – posting a small decline.
But manufacturing added no jobs last month as did the information sector.
Utilities shed 400 jobs.
Wages increased 4.1% on a year-on-year basis, the smallest gain since June 2021, after advancing 4.3% in February.
end quotes
And that subsidy (a sum of money granted by the government to assist an industry or business so that the price of a commodity or service may remain low or competitive) to TSMC is on top of $8.5 billion in grants and up to $11 billion in loans for Intel to subsidize leading-edge chip production from the same program, while Joe is expected to unveil an award for South Korea’s Samsung Electronics as soon as next week, sources said.
But this is as much about character of presidential candidates in America as it is policy, which takes us back to Mencken in 1924, to wit:
Do they quake today before the menace of La Follette?
end quote
There he is talking about Robert Marion “Fighting Bob” La Follette Sr. (June 14, 1855 – June 18, 1925) who was an American lawyer and politician that represented Wisconsin in both chambers of Congress and served as the governor of Wisconsin from 1901 to 1906, and then ran for president of the United States as the nominee of his own Progressive Party in the 1924 presidential election that Mencken is writing about above.
As Wikipedia tells us, with the Republican and Democratic Parties each nominating conservative candidates in the 1924 presidential election, left-wing groups coalesced behind La Follette’s third-party candidacy, and with the support of the Socialist Party, farmer’s groups, labor unions, and others, La Follette briefly appeared to be a serious threat to unseat Republican President Calvin Coolidge.
La Follette won 16.6% of the popular vote, one of the best third party performances in U.S. history, which takes us back to Mencken, to wit:
If so, let them consider how La Follette came to be so formidable.
Three years ago he was apparently as dead as Gog and Magog.
The Farmer Labor party snored beside him in the political morgue; Socialism was already in the dissecting room.
Then came, in quick succession, the oil scandal, the Veterans’ Bureau scandal and the intolerable stench of Dougherty.
In six months La Follettism was on its legs again, and now it is so strong that only a miracle can keep the election out of the House.
end quotes
And let’s pause here for station identification before going back to 1924, to see if we can learn anything at all about where we are today with Joe Biden in the white house, but stay tuned and don’t touch that dial, because we will be right back with more.
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR APRIL 11, 2024 AT 8:44 PM
Paul Plante says:
Cause and effect, people!
Yes, they still exist.
Something that happened yesterday is inextricably linked to something that will happen tomarrow, such as the policies of the Roaring Twenties resulted in the GREAT DEPRESSION, or BIDE-O-NOMICS yesterday has resulted in sticky BIDENFLATION today, but, if people are confused, or scared, or have short memories, or are distracted, or busy doing something else, all of which politicians since time immemorial have counted on as they gull and swindle and hornswoggle the populace for their benefit and that of their cronies, they fail to connect the dots, which of course is the hope and goal of the politicians feeding off the taxpayers, because in America, at least, feeding off the taxpayers is not a crime, and hey, it is what they are there for in the first place, to serve as a food source for the politicians to feed off of, which takes us for the moment back in time to back to the Baltimore Evening Sun on October 6, 1924 and political essay “The Coolidge Buncombe” by H.L. Mencken, where we have a basis of comparison of the character of Joe Biden with that of both Warren Gamaliel Harding, who before Joe Biden took the crown from him, was deemed the worst American president, and Calvin Coolidge, or “Silent Cal,” as he was known, to wit:
What I contend is that the Coolidge Administration, if it is inflicted on us, is bound to be quite as bad as the Harding Administration, and that the chances are that it will be a great deal worse.
In other words, I contend that it is bound to manufacture radicalism in a wholesale manner, and that this radicalism will be far more dangerous to legitimate business than the mild stuff that Dr. La Follette now has on tap.
I believe that the Coolidge Administration will be worse than that of Harding for the plain reason that Coolidge himself is worse than Harding.
Harding was an ignoramus, but there were unquestionably good impulses in him.
end quotes
Why don’t we have people in the main-stream and legacy media today who have the guts and courage to label Joe Biden an ignoramus?
Because they think he is a brilliant genius statesman, instead?
Going back to Mencken on Harding, who as bad as he was, was actually a far better president than is Joe Biden, we have more, as follows, as we ponder the question of just how is it that we end up with these kinds of people as our “leaders,” which makes the term American president into a mockable term, to wit:
He (Harding) had a great desire to be liked and respected; he was susceptible to good as well as to bad suggestions; his very vanity, in the long run, might have saved him from the rogues who exploited him.
Behind Harding the politician there was always Harding the businessman — a man of successful and honorable career, jealous of his good name.
Coolidge is simply a professional politician, and a very petty, sordid and dull one.
end quotes
ENTER JOSEPH ROBINETTE BIDEN, JUNIOR!
He (Coolidge) has lived by job-seeking and job-holding all his life; his every thought is that of his miserable trade.
end quotes
That description, people, also fits Joe Biden to a tee, which takes us back for more, to wit:
When it comes to a conflict between politicians and reputable folk, his instinctive sympathy always goes to the politicians.
He showed this sympathy plainly in the Denby and Daugherty cases.
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“Denby,” of course, is Edwin Denby (February 18, 1870 – February 8, 1929), who was an American lawyer and politician who served as Secretary of the Navy in the administrations of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge from 1921 to 1924, and he is famous for playing a notable role in the infamous Teapot Dome scandal which took place during the Harding presidency, where Denby got Harding’s approval to transfer control of the naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, and Elk Hills, California, from the Department of the Navy to the Department of the Interior, headed by Albert B. Fall, who then proceeded to lease these oil fields to friends who were heads of oil companies in exchange for over $400,000 in personal loans.
Despite attempts to keep the deal secret, The Wall Street Journal leaked news of the leasing, and the Senate decided to launch an inquiry into the matter, which investigation began in October 1923 after Harding’s death, and the Senate Committee on Lands and Public Surveys, which carried out the inquiry, concluded in 1924 that the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills leases to the oil companies had been fraudulent and corrupt, so that both Denby and Fall were forced to resign from office as a result.
“Daugherty” was Harry Micajah Daugherty (January 26, 1860 – October 12, 1941) and he was an American politician best remembered for his service as Attorney General of the United States under presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, as well as for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal during Harding’s presidency.
Daugherty remained an influential figure behind the election of several U.S. representatives and senators and he was Harding’s campaign manager at the 1920 Republican National Convention.
Following Harding’s successful election, Daugherty was named attorney general.
Twice the subject of federal corruption investigations, Daugherty was forced in 1924 to resign his post as attorney general by Coolidge.
Which takes us back to Mencken and 1924, to wit:
To say that he (Coolidge) was not strongly in favor of both men is to utter nonsense.
He not only kept them in office as long as he could, despite the massive proofs of their unfitness; he also worked for them behind the door, stealthily and ignominiously.
To this day he has not said a single word against either of them; all his objurgations have been leveled at those who exposed them and drove them out.
He kept the asinine Teddy Roosevelt, Jr., in office until a week or so ago, and then gave him a parting salute of twenty-one guns.
He is even now trying to promote Captain Robison, the man who arranged the Doheny oil grab.
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“Doheny” is Edward Laurence Doheny (August 10, 1856 – September 8, 1935) who was an American oil tycoon who, in 1892, drilled the first successful oil well in the Los Angeles City Oil Field.
In the 1920s, Doheny was implicated in the Teapot Dome scandal and accused of offering a $100,000 bribe to United States Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall.
Doheny was twice acquitted of offering the bribe, but Fall was convicted of accepting it.
In 1922 Albert B. Fall, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, leased the oil field at Elk Hills, California, to the Pan American Petroleum & Transport Company, and around the same time, the Teapot Dome Field in Wyoming was leased to Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation.
Both oilfields were part of the US Navy’s petroleum reserves and neither lease was subject to competitive bidding.
In 1924 rumors about corruption in the deals escalated into the Teapot Dome scandal, and Doheny’s reputation was somewhat tainted by a bribe paid to the Secretary of the Interior, Albert B. Fall in 1921.
He (Doheny) made the “gift” of $100,000 in connection with obtaining a lease of 32,000 acres (13,000 ha) of government-owned land used for the Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve near Taft, California, and the resulting scandal broke soon after that, over similar bribes Fall accepted for leasing Teapot Dome in Wyoming.
Doheny was charged with bribing Fall but, in 1930, was acquitted.
His son, Ned, who had delivered the money, and assistant Hugh Plunkett were also charged, but died before they could be tried.
Nevertheless, Fall was convicted of accepting the bribe.
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Which again takes us back to Mencken on Coolidge, to wit:
Who has forgotten that he wanted to appoint Daugherty to “investigate” that colossal steal?
Or that he was in close and constant communication with Ned McLean, Dougherty’s and Fall’s friend, during the whole of the inquiry?
No amount of campaign blather will suffice to wipe out this discreditable record.
Coolidge pulled against the oil investigation from the start; he pulled against the Dougherty investigation from the start; he let Daugherty and Denby go at last only under pressure, and after trying to hit their opponents below the belt.
His sympathy has been with such oppressed patriots all his life, and it is with them today.
If he is elected for four years every professional politician in the Republican party will rejoice, and with sound reason.
There will be good times for the boys — and Fall, Daugherty and company will be safe.
But will the country be safe?
It is not so certain.
Those businessmen who think only of easy profits tomorrow might do well to give a thought or two to the day after.
They have seen a very formidable radical movement roll up under their noses.
If they have any sense, they will not be deceived by the argument that it has been set in motion by “agitators.”
What agitators?
Who and where are they?
I can find no such persons.
La Follette stumped the country for years and got nowhere.
Only his own State heeded him.
But last winter he began to get a response, and soon it was immense and vociferous.
That response came from men and women who had become convinced at last, and with good logic, that government by professional politicians was intolerably and hopelessly rotten — that the only remedy was to turn them out, and then make laws to prevent them coming back.
Personally I doubt that such laws, if made, will work.
In other words, I am not a radical.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
But that is certainly not the common American view; the majority of Americans are far more hopeful.
When they see an evil they try to remedy it — by peaceful means if possible, and if not, then by force.
In the present case millions of them tire of the degrading Coolidge farce, with its puerile evasion of issues, its cloaking of Denby and Daugherty, its exaltation of such political jugglers as Slemp and Butler, its snide conspiracy to rob La Follette of honest votes in California.
They tire of it and want to end it.
What now, if they are forced to stand four years more if it?
What if they must see it grow ever worse and worse?
To timorous businessmen, in this year 1924, La Follette may look dangerous.
But let them ask themselves what sort of radicalism will probably be afoot in 1928, after four more years of Coolidge.
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And let us ask ourselves what sort of radicalism will probably be afoot in 2028, after four more years of Joe Biden?
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Paul Plante says:
Cause and effect, people!
Yes, they still exist.
Something that happened yesterday is inextricably linked to something that will happen tomarrow, such as the policies of the Roaring Twenties resulted in the GREAT DEPRESSION, or BIDE-O-NOMICS yesterday has resulted in sticky BIDENFLATION today, but, if people are confused, or scared, or have short memories, or are distracted, or busy doing something else, all of which politicians since time immemorial have counted on as they gull and swindle and hornswoggle the populace for their benefit and that of their cronies, they fail to connect the dots, which of course is the hope and goal of the politicians feeding off the taxpayers, because in America, at least, feeding off the taxpayers is not a crime, and hey, it is what they are there for in the first place, to serve as a food source for the politicians to feed off of, which takes us for the moment back in time to back to the Baltimore Evening Sun on October 6, 1924 and political essay “The Coolidge Buncombe” by H.L. Mencken, where we have a basis of comparison of the character of Joe Biden with that of both Warren Gamaliel Harding, who before Joe Biden took the crown from him, was deemed the worst American president, and Calvin Coolidge, or “Silent Cal,” as he was known, to wit:
What I contend is that the Coolidge Administration, if it is inflicted on us, is bound to be quite as bad as the Harding Administration, and that the chances are that it will be a great deal worse.
In other words, I contend that it is bound to manufacture radicalism in a wholesale manner, and that this radicalism will be far more dangerous to legitimate business than the mild stuff that Dr. La Follette now has on tap.
I believe that the Coolidge Administration will be worse than that of Harding for the plain reason that Coolidge himself is worse than Harding.
Harding was an ignoramus, but there were unquestionably good impulses in him.
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Why don’t we have people in the main-stream and legacy media today who have the guts and courage to label Joe Biden an ignoramus?
Because they think he is a brilliant genius statesman, instead?
Going back to Mencken on Harding, who as bad as he was, was actually a far better president than is Joe Biden, we have more, as follows, as we ponder the question of just how is it that we end up with these kinds of people as our “leaders,” which makes the term American president into a mockable term, to wit:
He (Harding) had a great desire to be liked and respected; he was susceptible to good as well as to bad suggestions; his very vanity, in the long run, might have saved him from the rogues who exploited him.
Behind Harding the politician there was always Harding the businessman — a man of successful and honorable career, jealous of his good name.
Coolidge is simply a professional politician, and a very petty, sordid and dull one.
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ENTER JOSEPH ROBINETTE BIDEN, JUNIOR!
He (Coolidge) has lived by job-seeking and job-holding all his life; his every thought is that of his miserable trade.
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That description, people, also fits Joe Biden to a tee, which takes us back for more, to wit:
When it comes to a conflict between politicians and reputable folk, his instinctive sympathy always goes to the politicians.
He showed this sympathy plainly in the Denby and Daugherty cases.
end quotes
“Denby,” of course, is Edwin Denby (February 18, 1870 – February 8, 1929), who was an American lawyer and politician who served as Secretary of the Navy in the administrations of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge from 1921 to 1924, and he is famous for playing a notable role in the infamous Teapot Dome scandal which took place during the Harding presidency, where Denby got Harding’s approval to transfer control of the naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, and Elk Hills, California, from the Department of the Navy to the Department of the Interior, headed by Albert B. Fall, who then proceeded to lease these oil fields to friends who were heads of oil companies in exchange for over $400,000 in personal loans.
Despite attempts to keep the deal secret, The Wall Street Journal leaked news of the leasing, and the Senate decided to launch an inquiry into the matter, which investigation began in October 1923 after Harding’s death, and the Senate Committee on Lands and Public Surveys, which carried out the inquiry, concluded in 1924 that the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills leases to the oil companies had been fraudulent and corrupt, so that both Denby and Fall were forced to resign from office as a result.
“Daugherty” was Harry Micajah Daugherty (January 26, 1860 – October 12, 1941) and he was an American politician best remembered for his service as Attorney General of the United States under presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, as well as for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal during Harding’s presidency.
Daugherty remained an influential figure behind the election of several U.S. representatives and senators and he was Harding’s campaign manager at the 1920 Republican National Convention.
Following Harding’s successful election, Daugherty was named attorney general.
Twice the subject of federal corruption investigations, Daugherty was forced in 1924 to resign his post as attorney general by Coolidge.
Which takes us back to Mencken and 1924, to wit:
To say that he (Coolidge) was not strongly in favor of both men is to utter nonsense.
He not only kept them in office as long as he could, despite the massive proofs of their unfitness; he also worked for them behind the door, stealthily and ignominiously.
To this day he has not said a single word against either of them; all his objurgations have been leveled at those who exposed them and drove them out.
He kept the asinine Teddy Roosevelt, Jr., in office until a week or so ago, and then gave him a parting salute of twenty-one guns.
He is even now trying to promote Captain Robison, the man who arranged the Doheny oil grab.
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“Doheny” is Edward Laurence Doheny (August 10, 1856 – September 8, 1935) who was an American oil tycoon who, in 1892, drilled the first successful oil well in the Los Angeles City Oil Field.
In the 1920s, Doheny was implicated in the Teapot Dome scandal and accused of offering a $100,000 bribe to United States Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall.
Doheny was twice acquitted of offering the bribe, but Fall was convicted of accepting it.
In 1922 Albert B. Fall, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, leased the oil field at Elk Hills, California, to the Pan American Petroleum & Transport Company, and around the same time, the Teapot Dome Field in Wyoming was leased to Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation.
Both oilfields were part of the US Navy’s petroleum reserves and neither lease was subject to competitive bidding.
In 1924 rumors about corruption in the deals escalated into the Teapot Dome scandal, and Doheny’s reputation was somewhat tainted by a bribe paid to the Secretary of the Interior, Albert B. Fall in 1921.
He (Doheny) made the “gift” of $100,000 in connection with obtaining a lease of 32,000 acres (13,000 ha) of government-owned land used for the Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve near Taft, California, and the resulting scandal broke soon after that, over similar bribes Fall accepted for leasing Teapot Dome in Wyoming.
Doheny was charged with bribing Fall but, in 1930, was acquitted.
His son, Ned, who had delivered the money, and assistant Hugh Plunkett were also charged, but died before they could be tried.
Nevertheless, Fall was convicted of accepting the bribe.
end quotes
Which again takes us back to Mencken on Coolidge, to wit:
Who has forgotten that he wanted to appoint Daugherty to “investigate” that colossal steal?
Or that he was in close and constant communication with Ned McLean, Dougherty’s and Fall’s friend, during the whole of the inquiry?
No amount of campaign blather will suffice to wipe out this discreditable record.
Coolidge pulled against the oil investigation from the start; he pulled against the Dougherty investigation from the start; he let Daugherty and Denby go at last only under pressure, and after trying to hit their opponents below the belt.
His sympathy has been with such oppressed patriots all his life, and it is with them today.
If he is elected for four years every professional politician in the Republican party will rejoice, and with sound reason.
There will be good times for the boys — and Fall, Daugherty and company will be safe.
But will the country be safe?
It is not so certain.
Those businessmen who think only of easy profits tomorrow might do well to give a thought or two to the day after.
They have seen a very formidable radical movement roll up under their noses.
If they have any sense, they will not be deceived by the argument that it has been set in motion by “agitators.”
What agitators?
Who and where are they?
I can find no such persons.
La Follette stumped the country for years and got nowhere.
Only his own State heeded him.
But last winter he began to get a response, and soon it was immense and vociferous.
That response came from men and women who had become convinced at last, and with good logic, that government by professional politicians was intolerably and hopelessly rotten — that the only remedy was to turn them out, and then make laws to prevent them coming back.
Personally I doubt that such laws, if made, will work.
In other words, I am not a radical.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
But that is certainly not the common American view; the majority of Americans are far more hopeful.
When they see an evil they try to remedy it — by peaceful means if possible, and if not, then by force.
In the present case millions of them tire of the degrading Coolidge farce, with its puerile evasion of issues, its cloaking of Denby and Daugherty, its exaltation of such political jugglers as Slemp and Butler, its snide conspiracy to rob La Follette of honest votes in California.
They tire of it and want to end it.
What now, if they are forced to stand four years more if it?
What if they must see it grow ever worse and worse?
To timorous businessmen, in this year 1924, La Follette may look dangerous.
But let them ask themselves what sort of radicalism will probably be afoot in 1928, after four more years of Coolidge.
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And let us ask ourselves what sort of radicalism will probably be afoot in 2028, after four more years of Joe Biden?
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR APRIL 12, 2024 AT 8:30 PM
Paul Plante says:
And here is an existential question for our times today – if back in 1924, men and women in America had become convinced at last, and with good logic, that government by professional politicians like Joe Biden was intolerably and hopelessly rotten and that the only remedy was to turn them out, and then make laws to prevent them coming back, how on earth is it that today, we are stuck with this piece of ignorant dead wood named Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, as president?
Have we become stupid since then?
Have we become brain-dead as a people and as a nation?
Are we moon-struck and dazed which made us believe that somehow, in some strange and mysterious and perhaps mystical or magical way, despite his proven record of nothingness and failure, that electing Joe Biden president would transform him from a loser into a brilliant and dynamic and forceful yet intelligent world leader?
If so, we were seriously deluded, weren’t we, given Joe Biden is anything but.
Or is it more a case that we have become so degenerated as a people in the last hundred years since 1924 that we see a mediocrity like Joe Biden as being the best among us?
Consider that in 2012, Sen. John McCain, who would know the difference, stated that Joe Biden has been consistently wrong on every national security issue that McCain had been involved in in the last 20 years or so, while in 2014, in a memoir by former Obama Defense Secretary Bob Gates, he slammed Joe’s foreign policy, saying therein: “I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”
And look where Joe has steered the nation since then – into CHAOS and TURMOIL!
Boggles the mind, don’t it?
Stay tuned!
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Paul Plante says:
And here is an existential question for our times today – if back in 1924, men and women in America had become convinced at last, and with good logic, that government by professional politicians like Joe Biden was intolerably and hopelessly rotten and that the only remedy was to turn them out, and then make laws to prevent them coming back, how on earth is it that today, we are stuck with this piece of ignorant dead wood named Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, as president?
Have we become stupid since then?
Have we become brain-dead as a people and as a nation?
Are we moon-struck and dazed which made us believe that somehow, in some strange and mysterious and perhaps mystical or magical way, despite his proven record of nothingness and failure, that electing Joe Biden president would transform him from a loser into a brilliant and dynamic and forceful yet intelligent world leader?
If so, we were seriously deluded, weren’t we, given Joe Biden is anything but.
Or is it more a case that we have become so degenerated as a people in the last hundred years since 1924 that we see a mediocrity like Joe Biden as being the best among us?
Consider that in 2012, Sen. John McCain, who would know the difference, stated that Joe Biden has been consistently wrong on every national security issue that McCain had been involved in in the last 20 years or so, while in 2014, in a memoir by former Obama Defense Secretary Bob Gates, he slammed Joe’s foreign policy, saying therein: “I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”
And look where Joe has steered the nation since then – into CHAOS and TURMOIL!
Boggles the mind, don’t it?
Stay tuned!
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR APRIL 17, 2024 AT 5:49 PM
Paul Plante says:
Where I have been these last several days of apparent quietude on my part in here is out there in what these days passes for the “real” world, embroiled in a controversy splitting my small community which is a direct outcome of what happens when BIDEN INFRASTRUCTURE MONEY is mindlessly made available to small towns like mine for alleged “infrastructure” improvements, which small towns, to get their hands on what they consider “free money,” a windfall of riches into their pockets courtesy of the federal government in Washington, D.C., have to promise to put their local taxpayers in hock for a certain percentage of the project cost, whether those taxpayers want or need the project, in this case a public water supply, without those taxpayers having any say in the matter, period, largely because it is all, the process of actually getting that money being political in nature, going on behind closed doors with absolutely no transparency for the affected taxpayers of whom I am one, as can be seen beginning @6:34 into this video of the April 11, 2024 Poestenkill, New York town board meeting ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc0BOo3NIa4 ) where I go ballistic with respect to us being lied to and misled as I vent some incandescent rage at a corrupt town board for selling us into debt slavery to get their hands on some $5,277,567 of grant money of which $670,367 is coming from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law-EC grant, and $1,693,000 in a congressional community project funding grant from Kirsten Gillibrand, with us in a small community being on the hook for a minimum of $272,433, subject to cost overruns we will also be on the hook for, all based upon an imaginary crisis at local middle school as the need for the grant money.
In other words, to get their hands on this “free government money,” the Poestenkill town board simply lied, knowing they could and would get away with it, because first of all, given the secrecy, who would even know, and then, once they did find out, which always happens, other than vent some fury about it, as I am seen and heard doing in that video, and make some noise, which goes away real soon, what can they do about it?
Have the federal government, which based the grants on that lie, take the money back?
HAH, as if that is going to happen, as we see in a 31 July 2023 writing from myself to Hon. Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senator, Leo W. O’Brien Federal Office Bldg,, 11A Clinton Ave, Rm 821, Albany, NY 12207, RE: Federal funding for Water District No. 2, Poestenkill (T), Rensselaer County; U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 9, Clause 7: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law, wherein was stated as follows with respect to the fraudulent nature of this grant application, to wit:
Dear Senator Gillibrand:
As you will recall, on 28 January 2023, I sent a letter to your office concerning this above referenced matter of Water District No. 2 in the town of Poestenkill, Rensselaer County, state of New York titled RE: Poestenkill (T), Rensselaer County; Water District No. 2; Requesting federal assistance for Water District No. 2 based on false pretenses, wherein I detailed for you the fact that the PFAS contamination in Poestenkill’s groundwater is as a result of willful gross negligence and neglect of duty by the town of Poestenkill itself, which raises the substantive question of why the federal taxpayers should be put on the hook here to pay for the intentional negligence and neglect of duty by Poestenkill, especially when the request is made based on falsehoods?
Subsequent thereto, on July 28, 2023, Poestenkill Town Councilmember Eric Wohlleber, who since 27 September 2021 has been spearheading a whitewash and cover-up in this matter to protect the polluter, Waste Management of New York, LLC, at the Poestenkill transfer station in a Planned Development District at the intersection of NYS Rts. 66 and 351 in Poestenkill regulated by the town of Poestenkill, sent out a notice to Poestenkill residents titled Subject: Poestenkill PFOA Water Update, wherein was stated as follows, to wit:
Neighbors,
I just received a message this evening from a member of Senator Gillibrand’s office with some great news.
“The appropriations committee moved your Poestenkill Water Supply Project CDS request forward!”
“This means there is a very high likelihood your project will be included in the final appropriations package and funded.”
“I will keep you updated on any movements and please let me know if you have any questions.”
This is an important step to hopefully securing additional funding for a potential Water District #2 here in Poestenkill, which would lower the cost per unit, should the district receive approval.
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So my question to your office, which I will also raise with Senator Patty Murray, Chair of the Appropriations Committee, and Senator Susan Collins, Vice Chair of the Appropriations Committee, remains the same: why are the federal government taxpayers, who get no benefit from the expenditure of these federal dollars, being put on the hook here to pay for the intentional negligence and neglect of duty by the town of Poestenkill, coupled with nuisance, negligence and trespass by Waste Management of New York, LLC at the Poestenkill transfer station?
This question is relevant because to date, there has been no demonstration whatsoever that this water district is even needed because in a New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) Report titled “Community Update – April 2023 – Poestenkill Area PFAS Contamination, it was stated as follows, to wit:
To date, RCDOH has sampled 97 private wells near the school.
PFOA and/or perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) were detected above the State’s public drinking water standards of 10 ppt in 14 private wells.
As a result, DEC provided the 14 homes served by private wells that exceed 10 ppt with point-of-entry treatment systems (POETs) to filter out PFAS and provide clean drinking water.
The remaining 83 private wells did not show PFOA or PFOS detections above the standards.
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The cost of these activated carbon point of entry treatment systems is between $300 – $1,800, and as the NYSDEC Report from April of 2023 makes incandescently clear, the 14 homes affected have already had these systems installed, which the NYSDEC states will provide them with clean drinking water, which is more than this proposed Water District No. 2 can claim, given it is based on a surface water supply which itself is susceptible to PFAS contamination.
As to the remaining 83 private wells, the cost of installing activated carbon filter point of entry systems, which is the most cost-effective solution, assuming a cost of $2000 per home, would be $166,000, which money Poestenkill already has in hand.
So what then, is your office providing federal tax dollars to Poestenkill for?
To establish a slush fund for the local politicians?
We federal taxpayers residing in Poestenkill would like to know!
Thanking you in advance for your prompt reply to this taxpayer inquiry, I remain
Respectfully.
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And I never heard a word back from any of them.
As to the MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR LIE that is bringing home the federal bacon to tiny Poestenkill, I have emulated Wayne Creed, who I consider a true unsung American hero for maintaining the Cape Charles Mirror as a bastion of sanity in otherwise totally insane world, by starting my own on-line newspaper, this is what today’s edition had to say on that score. to wit:
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill
April 17th 2024 Edition
“THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM – STEALING FROM THE TAXPAYERS POESTENKILL STYLE”
Yesterday, I was asked by a fellow town resident to justify a statement I made about the town procuring these county, state and federal dollars for water district no. 2, all taxpayer dollars, which means the pockets getting looted here include ours, based on false pretenses (a deliberate misrepresentation of facts, as to obtain title to money or property), which is a form of stealing, although stealing from the taxpayers in Rensselaer County and New York state is not considered a crime, but a benefit of holding public office.
“What false pretenses,” he wanted to know, “where are the false pretenses, because I am unaware of them?”
To which I answered that he was unaware of them precisely because he was supposed to be, because if he knew his pocket was being picked, and his bank account was being looted, then he would have stood up at a town meeting and protested, and that had to be prevented at all costs for this taxpayer scam to succeed, which it has to the tune of MILLION$ in the form of a cash transfer from our pockets into those of the looters.
As to the false pretenses, they are right there staring us all in the face, in the beginning of the Laberge report accepted by the town board in August of 2022:
I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This Map, Plan and Report was commissioned by the Town of Poestenkill Town Board to evaluate the feasibility of, and to assist with, the creation of a water district in the Town.
The need for expansion of the water system stems from the joint investigation by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, New York State Department of Health, and Rensselaer County Department of Health.
The presence of multiple contaminants shows the priority of providing municipal water to the Algonquin Middle School and surrounding area.
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The false pretenses are right there for all to see right there in that last sentence, where it says there is a priority of providing municipal water to the Algonquin Middle School, which is an untrue statement.
There NEVER was a need for Poestenkill at taxpayer expense to provide water to the school.
That was a ruse that Poestenkill and Laberge used to obtain county, state and federal funds.
The Algonquin Middle School in Poestenkill is already served by Public Water Supply NY4117257, a Non-transient non-community water system serving 1000 persons at the Algonquin Middle School in Poestenkill, which water supply is owned by the taxpayers of the Averill Park School District, of whom we are all one, and that is a separate taxing district the town neither owns nor controls, so that was a patently false statement the town submitted to get those funds, which is a false pretense.
That Poestenkill would have known in August of 2022 that it was a false statement that the town needed to run water to the school, the necessary excuse to get this project going, is made clear by the following:
COMMUNITY UPDATE
NOVEMBER 2021
PROTECTING POESTENKILL’S DRINKING WATER AND INVESTIGATING PFAS CONTAMINATION
Two Public Availability Sessions Scheduled for Dec. 8, 2021
The school is currently installing a granular activated carbon (GAC) system to filter the PFOA and other PFAS and effectively treat the contaminants to provide clean water to the school community.
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So if the town knew in November of 2021 (actually earlier) that the school was getting that filter, it would have known it was telling a falsehood in September of 2022 when it applied for state funds based on a premise that it had to supply the school with water.
And it is news to ALL of us because it was all very well buried so we wouldn’t know, given we had no access to that Laberge Report in August and September of 2022 when the town made those funding requests.
As to the funding requests, recall from the Laberge Report at p.5 in the section titled PROJECT BACKGROUND AND HISTORY, under i) NYS Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), as follows:
The Town, as required to submit for certain grant funds, has completed the required SEQRA review and has made a Determination of Significance under SEQRA (6 NYCRR Part 617). The Town Board issued a Negative Declaration on September 8th, 2022, a copy of which is included in Appendix F.
That the town would have known on September 8th, 2022 that it was a false statement about the need to provide water to the school is further reinforced by the following:
COMMUNITY UPDATE
FEBRUARY 2022
POESTENKILL PFAS INVESTIGATION
Updates: New Investigation Summary Reports
The New York State Departments of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and Health (DOH), and the Rensselaer County Department of Health (RCDOH), are working together to protect the public health and environment of the Poestenkill community.
The following is an update from the November 2021 community update.
Beginning in December 2021, the school installed a granular activated carbon (GAC) system to provide effective long-term treatment of the contaminants to ensure clean water for the school community.
System startup and flushing of the school’s distribution system continued throughout January and into February 2022.
The school district is currently working with the RCDOH to test the water and make the system operational.
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If in fact as the DEC said in February of 2022 that the granular activated carbon (GAC) system installed by the taxpayers at the school would provide effective long-term treatment of the contaminants to ensure clean water for the school community, then clearly, in August of 2022, there was no need for the town to do so, but they needed that excuse to get those funds – big emergency, school kids, poisoned water, send money!
That money doesn’t come from heaven, it comes from our pockets. so should the town be telling lies to take it from our pockets?
Call me very old-fashioned, but I don’t think so.
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Paul Plante says:
Where I have been these last several days of apparent quietude on my part in here is out there in what these days passes for the “real” world, embroiled in a controversy splitting my small community which is a direct outcome of what happens when BIDEN INFRASTRUCTURE MONEY is mindlessly made available to small towns like mine for alleged “infrastructure” improvements, which small towns, to get their hands on what they consider “free money,” a windfall of riches into their pockets courtesy of the federal government in Washington, D.C., have to promise to put their local taxpayers in hock for a certain percentage of the project cost, whether those taxpayers want or need the project, in this case a public water supply, without those taxpayers having any say in the matter, period, largely because it is all, the process of actually getting that money being political in nature, going on behind closed doors with absolutely no transparency for the affected taxpayers of whom I am one, as can be seen beginning @6:34 into this video of the April 11, 2024 Poestenkill, New York town board meeting ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc0BOo3NIa4 ) where I go ballistic with respect to us being lied to and misled as I vent some incandescent rage at a corrupt town board for selling us into debt slavery to get their hands on some $5,277,567 of grant money of which $670,367 is coming from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law-EC grant, and $1,693,000 in a congressional community project funding grant from Kirsten Gillibrand, with us in a small community being on the hook for a minimum of $272,433, subject to cost overruns we will also be on the hook for, all based upon an imaginary crisis at local middle school as the need for the grant money.
In other words, to get their hands on this “free government money,” the Poestenkill town board simply lied, knowing they could and would get away with it, because first of all, given the secrecy, who would even know, and then, once they did find out, which always happens, other than vent some fury about it, as I am seen and heard doing in that video, and make some noise, which goes away real soon, what can they do about it?
Have the federal government, which based the grants on that lie, take the money back?
HAH, as if that is going to happen, as we see in a 31 July 2023 writing from myself to Hon. Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senator, Leo W. O’Brien Federal Office Bldg,, 11A Clinton Ave, Rm 821, Albany, NY 12207, RE: Federal funding for Water District No. 2, Poestenkill (T), Rensselaer County; U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 9, Clause 7: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law, wherein was stated as follows with respect to the fraudulent nature of this grant application, to wit:
Dear Senator Gillibrand:
As you will recall, on 28 January 2023, I sent a letter to your office concerning this above referenced matter of Water District No. 2 in the town of Poestenkill, Rensselaer County, state of New York titled RE: Poestenkill (T), Rensselaer County; Water District No. 2; Requesting federal assistance for Water District No. 2 based on false pretenses, wherein I detailed for you the fact that the PFAS contamination in Poestenkill’s groundwater is as a result of willful gross negligence and neglect of duty by the town of Poestenkill itself, which raises the substantive question of why the federal taxpayers should be put on the hook here to pay for the intentional negligence and neglect of duty by Poestenkill, especially when the request is made based on falsehoods?
Subsequent thereto, on July 28, 2023, Poestenkill Town Councilmember Eric Wohlleber, who since 27 September 2021 has been spearheading a whitewash and cover-up in this matter to protect the polluter, Waste Management of New York, LLC, at the Poestenkill transfer station in a Planned Development District at the intersection of NYS Rts. 66 and 351 in Poestenkill regulated by the town of Poestenkill, sent out a notice to Poestenkill residents titled Subject: Poestenkill PFOA Water Update, wherein was stated as follows, to wit:
Neighbors,
I just received a message this evening from a member of Senator Gillibrand’s office with some great news.
“The appropriations committee moved your Poestenkill Water Supply Project CDS request forward!”
“This means there is a very high likelihood your project will be included in the final appropriations package and funded.”
“I will keep you updated on any movements and please let me know if you have any questions.”
This is an important step to hopefully securing additional funding for a potential Water District #2 here in Poestenkill, which would lower the cost per unit, should the district receive approval.
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So my question to your office, which I will also raise with Senator Patty Murray, Chair of the Appropriations Committee, and Senator Susan Collins, Vice Chair of the Appropriations Committee, remains the same: why are the federal government taxpayers, who get no benefit from the expenditure of these federal dollars, being put on the hook here to pay for the intentional negligence and neglect of duty by the town of Poestenkill, coupled with nuisance, negligence and trespass by Waste Management of New York, LLC at the Poestenkill transfer station?
This question is relevant because to date, there has been no demonstration whatsoever that this water district is even needed because in a New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) Report titled “Community Update – April 2023 – Poestenkill Area PFAS Contamination, it was stated as follows, to wit:
To date, RCDOH has sampled 97 private wells near the school.
PFOA and/or perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) were detected above the State’s public drinking water standards of 10 ppt in 14 private wells.
As a result, DEC provided the 14 homes served by private wells that exceed 10 ppt with point-of-entry treatment systems (POETs) to filter out PFAS and provide clean drinking water.
The remaining 83 private wells did not show PFOA or PFOS detections above the standards.
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The cost of these activated carbon point of entry treatment systems is between $300 – $1,800, and as the NYSDEC Report from April of 2023 makes incandescently clear, the 14 homes affected have already had these systems installed, which the NYSDEC states will provide them with clean drinking water, which is more than this proposed Water District No. 2 can claim, given it is based on a surface water supply which itself is susceptible to PFAS contamination.
As to the remaining 83 private wells, the cost of installing activated carbon filter point of entry systems, which is the most cost-effective solution, assuming a cost of $2000 per home, would be $166,000, which money Poestenkill already has in hand.
So what then, is your office providing federal tax dollars to Poestenkill for?
To establish a slush fund for the local politicians?
We federal taxpayers residing in Poestenkill would like to know!
Thanking you in advance for your prompt reply to this taxpayer inquiry, I remain
Respectfully.
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And I never heard a word back from any of them.
As to the MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR LIE that is bringing home the federal bacon to tiny Poestenkill, I have emulated Wayne Creed, who I consider a true unsung American hero for maintaining the Cape Charles Mirror as a bastion of sanity in otherwise totally insane world, by starting my own on-line newspaper, this is what today’s edition had to say on that score. to wit:
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill
April 17th 2024 Edition
“THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM – STEALING FROM THE TAXPAYERS POESTENKILL STYLE”
Yesterday, I was asked by a fellow town resident to justify a statement I made about the town procuring these county, state and federal dollars for water district no. 2, all taxpayer dollars, which means the pockets getting looted here include ours, based on false pretenses (a deliberate misrepresentation of facts, as to obtain title to money or property), which is a form of stealing, although stealing from the taxpayers in Rensselaer County and New York state is not considered a crime, but a benefit of holding public office.
“What false pretenses,” he wanted to know, “where are the false pretenses, because I am unaware of them?”
To which I answered that he was unaware of them precisely because he was supposed to be, because if he knew his pocket was being picked, and his bank account was being looted, then he would have stood up at a town meeting and protested, and that had to be prevented at all costs for this taxpayer scam to succeed, which it has to the tune of MILLION$ in the form of a cash transfer from our pockets into those of the looters.
As to the false pretenses, they are right there staring us all in the face, in the beginning of the Laberge report accepted by the town board in August of 2022:
I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This Map, Plan and Report was commissioned by the Town of Poestenkill Town Board to evaluate the feasibility of, and to assist with, the creation of a water district in the Town.
The need for expansion of the water system stems from the joint investigation by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, New York State Department of Health, and Rensselaer County Department of Health.
The presence of multiple contaminants shows the priority of providing municipal water to the Algonquin Middle School and surrounding area.
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The false pretenses are right there for all to see right there in that last sentence, where it says there is a priority of providing municipal water to the Algonquin Middle School, which is an untrue statement.
There NEVER was a need for Poestenkill at taxpayer expense to provide water to the school.
That was a ruse that Poestenkill and Laberge used to obtain county, state and federal funds.
The Algonquin Middle School in Poestenkill is already served by Public Water Supply NY4117257, a Non-transient non-community water system serving 1000 persons at the Algonquin Middle School in Poestenkill, which water supply is owned by the taxpayers of the Averill Park School District, of whom we are all one, and that is a separate taxing district the town neither owns nor controls, so that was a patently false statement the town submitted to get those funds, which is a false pretense.
That Poestenkill would have known in August of 2022 that it was a false statement that the town needed to run water to the school, the necessary excuse to get this project going, is made clear by the following:
COMMUNITY UPDATE
NOVEMBER 2021
PROTECTING POESTENKILL’S DRINKING WATER AND INVESTIGATING PFAS CONTAMINATION
Two Public Availability Sessions Scheduled for Dec. 8, 2021
The school is currently installing a granular activated carbon (GAC) system to filter the PFOA and other PFAS and effectively treat the contaminants to provide clean water to the school community.
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So if the town knew in November of 2021 (actually earlier) that the school was getting that filter, it would have known it was telling a falsehood in September of 2022 when it applied for state funds based on a premise that it had to supply the school with water.
And it is news to ALL of us because it was all very well buried so we wouldn’t know, given we had no access to that Laberge Report in August and September of 2022 when the town made those funding requests.
As to the funding requests, recall from the Laberge Report at p.5 in the section titled PROJECT BACKGROUND AND HISTORY, under i) NYS Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), as follows:
The Town, as required to submit for certain grant funds, has completed the required SEQRA review and has made a Determination of Significance under SEQRA (6 NYCRR Part 617). The Town Board issued a Negative Declaration on September 8th, 2022, a copy of which is included in Appendix F.
That the town would have known on September 8th, 2022 that it was a false statement about the need to provide water to the school is further reinforced by the following:
COMMUNITY UPDATE
FEBRUARY 2022
POESTENKILL PFAS INVESTIGATION
Updates: New Investigation Summary Reports
The New York State Departments of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and Health (DOH), and the Rensselaer County Department of Health (RCDOH), are working together to protect the public health and environment of the Poestenkill community.
The following is an update from the November 2021 community update.
Beginning in December 2021, the school installed a granular activated carbon (GAC) system to provide effective long-term treatment of the contaminants to ensure clean water for the school community.
System startup and flushing of the school’s distribution system continued throughout January and into February 2022.
The school district is currently working with the RCDOH to test the water and make the system operational.
end quotes
If in fact as the DEC said in February of 2022 that the granular activated carbon (GAC) system installed by the taxpayers at the school would provide effective long-term treatment of the contaminants to ensure clean water for the school community, then clearly, in August of 2022, there was no need for the town to do so, but they needed that excuse to get those funds – big emergency, school kids, poisoned water, send money!
That money doesn’t come from heaven, it comes from our pockets. so should the town be telling lies to take it from our pockets?
Call me very old-fashioned, but I don’t think so.
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