George Rebane
The Khashoggi murder continues to aspirate the pundits on both sides after Biden’s fistbump with Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman. To me the whole affair is politically ridiculous and a diplomatic farce. Khashoggi was not a US citizen, but a foreign national with a permit to live and work in America (among other countries). While within US borders, our governments’ responsibility toward Khashoggi’s security is the same as it is for any US citizen and legal resident. But our federal government has no responsibility for the security of ANY alien permitted to live and work in our country when they travel outside our boundaries, especially when they frequent one of their own legations in a third country. To think otherwise would be a ludicrous contemplation. So why then are we putting our important foreign relations on the line when this foreign national gets butchered by his own countrymen in a foreign land? If some soft-headed pundit or politician thinks otherwise, why are we then so sanguine with the governments of Russia, China, North Korea, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Belarus, … who regularly murder their own citizens? Why are all of them not also ‘pariah states’ denied handshakes when making diplomatic contacts? And why is this consideration not brought up by all those sharp-witted journalists, pundits, and politicos?
Nevada County’s currently registered voters were made available to me by my bride who concerns herself with such things. The CA SecState collects and publishes this data for all the state’s counties as of 23 May 2022 shown below. (more here).
What interested me was the prominent inclusion of the American Independent Party in the political party headings. I’m ashamed to admit that I know next to nothing about the AIP, and had to do a quick read-up on the organization (here). What I found was both surprising and refreshing. With my longtime and growing frustration with the Republican Party, I discovered that the AIP’s tenets and platform were totally acceptable to me save, perhaps, their stance on marriage. I share it with readers in hopes of soliciting a broader critique of that party’s statement of purpose and principles. My only regret is that they seem to have gone dormant after the 2016 election as witnessed by their website. But then, how do they maintain a self-declared, currently registered membership of 3,335 in the county? My bride’s answer is that most of these people are really political independents who, when registering, were confused by that word appearing in the party’s name.
[21jul22 update] Corrupt corporatism is ubiquitous in the land, and runs rampant in our automotive industry. Reader Efox (@ 858am below) beat me to the report about Ford getting ready to cut thousands of white-collar jobs currently at work in its combustion engine division (here). The reason? Ford along with the other car makers are investing over $500B before 2026 to develop new e-vehicles. Now why would all these capitalists go out on a limb and spend so much of their retained earnings to get ready for volume production of products for which there is no evidence of open-market demand? Simple answer, they’re not going out on any limb. Instead, they are colluding with federal central planner/controllers who have informed them of future federal mandates for us to purchase all the e-vehicles they can roll off the assembly lines. You and I will soon be told to either buy an e-car, or walk. Unabashed corporatist corruption on parade.
Blatant treason. If ever there was a reason to indict a sitting president for the peacetime treason of wholesale compromise of national security – job one of government – then Biden’s flagrant solicitation and abetting of our open border with Mexico amply qualifies. Bumblebrain’s policies, supported by daily lies of ‘our border is secure’, have caused countless deaths, murders, mayhem, and human suffering, with his invitation to the world’s multitudes to come to America through the open border; an invitation accepted by millions of aliens who have entered during his tenure at the White House. Moreover, the overdose deaths of Americans are in the thousands from the unabated free-flow of fentanyl into our country, with the cost of crimes committed by illegal aliens now in the billions. And no one has yet to tally the cultural and economic impact of the thousands of uneducated illegals secreted surreptitiously by this administration into cities and communities across the entire country. The number of foreign terrorists who have entered and disappeared into hidden cells is unknown as they prepare for opportunities to strike into the heart of where we all work and live. And this invasion of our homeland is made possible with full knowledge and purposeful indifference by the evil Democratic Party. What more evidence is required to unseat Joe Biden and his team of cynically incompetent lackies at the first opportunity?
[22jul22 update] Biden’s foreign policy debacles began long before he was elected president. They have been documented lavishly elsewhere – bottom line, he’s been batting 000 on foreign policy over his entire career in public life. Since president, a bevy of additional blunders have joined the record, including, of course, the Afghanistan exit debacle. But the biggest one to date is his publicized belief that a renewed agreement with Iran will do anything other than speed up their development of deployable nuclear weapons. He intends to ink a new deal that will make this atrocity possible by also including funds to support Iran’s ongoing development. Unleashing this new level of danger and terror on the world, and intentionally compromising US national security to boot, adds to the list of treasonable actions by this president. Ramirez summarizes it nicely.
[23jul22 update] In this blog’s continuing criticism of the Republicans as the party of wusses, we add to their long list of shortcomings their current support of the Democrats’ new spending bamboozle, which attracted 16 Republican senators to help them get a hokey $76B chip industry support bill to the floor so that sleazebag Schumer can bump it up to over $250B with pork for all, before bringing it to a vote. This kind of BS from Republicans comes with a significant cost. WSJ’s Kim Strassel points out (here) that “the political risks of this GOP spending habit are huge, both in the short and the long run. Republicans correctly blame the Democrats’ 2021 spending for today’s inflation, and public fury over high prices makes for their best shot at retaking the House and Senate this fall. But the potency of the inflation argument will dissipate if the GOP joins yet another spending frenzy. The next time a Republican runs an ad hammering a Democrat for inflation, the target will simply remind voters that it was a bipartisan effort that produced the vast majority of Covid-and-beyond spending.”
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