Hello Again from Arethusa, now Arethusa505

[arethusa505]

Hello Again, Everybody,


It's been a while since I posted back in November to say I would like to post again if anyone wants to chat. Although I did retire from my regular job at the end of this past December, life has not slowed down a whole lot. 

But there is still time to post about all of the subjects we enjoyed discussing when I left six years ago, not seven, all of which time passed too quickly and that is for sure.

I had re-register and change my username that was tied to an e-mail address that I no longer have, but I'm the same old Arethusa with the emphasis on old ha ha ha.

So, if there are any holdovers or new people who like to post about baseball, cooking and recipes, history, politics, current events, the law, or any other subjects of interest, I will drop by from time to time to keep the conversations going and thank you in advance for that, you can be sure!

Arethusa

[Sailor]

Welcome back! It's good to hear from you again. 101 will probably be along shortly.

[arethusa505]

Hey Sailor! It's great to hear from you. Been way too long. Looking forward to chatting again with you and 101. So much is going on these days and it will be fun to hear your take on it all. Super Bowl was a defensive nightmare for both sides, sort of like in today's politics - but the Patriots won.

The SOTU address is tomorrow night, wonder if the D's will have folks showing up with nooses around their necks and illegals carrying babies into the House Chamber - babies that didn't escape their scalpels, that is. Oh the cheap psychodrama that nevah ends - I compare it to the psy-ops pulled on Noriega to flush him out of his Panamanian bunker, only this time it's to drive DJT out of the WH.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, there is still no sign of an admission that open borders are akin to importing the next generation of slaves - the ones who will take jobs that citizens don't want to do - the same philosophy that allowed for 250 years of the same to pollute the antebellum South, only this time we're footing the housing, food and medical bills and not the plantation owners. And getting called every filthy name in the book for demanding an end to it.

I'm also an avid 2nd Amendment supporter now that Antifa is attacking us. What a difference a few years can make in the national zeitgeist. Granted the R's did not take well to 8 years of O, but never waged an all on war against the will of we the people like the travesty that is assaulting us all now.


Well, that's for starters. Thank you for your welcome and Have a great evening and see you next time!!

P.

[Sailor]

Wife and I listened to the SOTU over the internet and we were surprised with how easy it was for Trump to pull the Dems into Standing O's with one comment and then smack them upside the head with the next. Example was the note about record numbers of women in the work force and a promise to work toward 'paid maternity leave' and even while the 'women in white' were getting to their feet to applaud the next comment about New York's evil 'late term abortion' law driving them back to their seats. He did that a couple of times.

Pelosi had so much trouble keeping her 'poker face' that she had to resort to shuffling papers on her desk. I'd love to be able to play poker against her.

Roger that about Antifa, sooner or later they are going to assault the wrong person and someone is going to end up with 9mm holes poked in their chests.

[arethusa505]

Feb 11, 2019 10:00:43 GMT -8 Sailor said:

Wife and I listened to the SOTU over the internet and we were surprised with how easy it was for Trump to pull the Dems into Standing O's with one comment and then smack them upside the head with the next. Example was the note about record numbers of women in the work force and a promise to work toward 'paid maternity leave' and even while the 'women in white' were getting to their feet to applaud the next comment about New York's evil 'late term abortion' law driving them back to their seats. He did that a couple of times.

Pelosi had so much trouble keeping her 'poker face' that she had to resort to shuffling papers on her desk. I'd love to be able to play poker against her.

Roger that about Antifa, sooner or later they are going to assault the wrong person and someone is going to end up with 9mm holes poked in their chests.

[arethusa505]

Hi Again Sailor!

It's been such a long time since I've posted anywhere that I'm finding the preliminary setting up a bit balky and sorry there is silence after I quoted your post. Here's what I was going to say and hopefully it will stay here. 

I thought DJT's SOTU speech was brilliant right from the start when he introduced it as being "for the American people" and then reminded us all of the issues raised by "we the people" for decades that have gone ignored by our foreign government, i.e. "the Swamp" in DC.

My favorite part of the speech was his taking the time to call out the D's lies that the Wall is about legal immigration when it's the opposite, and I loved the line "support for illegal immigration is not compassionate, it is cruel."

The "suffragettes" artifice was more of the tiresome theater we've come to expect from the D's - and the inspiration is from Hillary's dress at high profile events since she lost, minus the funereal purple and black at her concession speech. Was she warning DJT in advance of the Russia probe? I will always wonder about that.

With Antifa, the Handmaid's Tale demonstrators at the contrived Kavanaugh hearing and now the elite women in white suits a hundred years and two feminist waves removed from being chained to their kitchen appliances, we've been pummeled with constant kabuki theater scripted upon the usual whining subtext at losing the presidency. 

Perhaps the still extant control of DC by the globalist OBushton cabal has utterly destroyed the D's sensibility that you catch more flies with honey and two wrongs don't make a right. Every pronouncement made by anyone high up in the D's rank and file sounds like it came directly from the Clintonista's camp.

As for AOC's emergence and emerging rumors that the D's may now seek to gerrymander her district to get rid of her and her dumbass histrionics, her presence is emblematic of the fact that the powerful Clinton machine has left a generational gap in the party's leadership wider than the Grand Canyon!

The "green dream" is so fabulously tin-eared and wrongheaded, unless you're a commie or a Marxist, that it boggles the mind that it was allowed to be published in the first place! Not only because it would demolish every vestige of a once thriving Western Civilization, which, it may be readily inferred, has been the longterm aim of the D's tiresome 60's racialist politics, but also because it is being pushed as a fait accompli once DJT has been bullied out of power by the Clintonian swamp dwellers.

Finally, as children of the Greatest Generation, it was heart warming to see DJT recognizing some of its greatest heroes and accomplishments during the speech, and to emphasize that our country is one that is dedicated to striving toward greatness in our accomplishments and citizenry. 

I am so tired of hearing how awful we are from lame, undistinguished and shallow politicos and newsies so lacking in a sense of the history that they are trashing and constantly insulting, bullying and defaming half of the American population in service to a politics that was resoundingly rejected in November of 2016 that I must believe we are not alone in that opinion. 

The major networks reported a 72% approval rating for the SOTU address, and DJT's ratings have been rising ever since. This must be our long awaited sign that the change we voted for may finally be arriving.

Let's hope so and Best wishes to you and your missus, and to 101 and all other members of The Outpost!! 

P.

[Sailor]

Sorry for not getting back to you before this, life keeps tossing me curveballs and hand grenades to deal with.

I'm really getting disappointed in the lack of support Trump is getting from the GOP on getting done the things that WE sent their sorry asses to Washington to get done. They're doing the kind of crap I expect from the loony liberals and I expect it won't be long before several of them sign up to ride AOC's high speed crazy train and ban cow pharts.

The same Repubs that are bitching about Trump's Emergency Declaration sat on their hands and didn't do a G.D. thing about Obama's unconstitutional DACA and ACA orders making or modifying laws without benefit of legislative action.

Trump HAS the Constitutional Authority do issue that Order and Public Law as passed by Congress gives him the authority to shift funds as he's ordered.

Sorry, I'm just a grumpy and grouchy old man.

All the best to you and yours!
Bob

[arethusa505]

Good Morning, Sailor!

Thank you for your great reply and sorry to hear you've been dealing with some difficult challenges lately. Please know I'm here for help, advice, support and prayers that all will be well again soon for you and your family.


The establishment GOP has yet to come to terms with emerging conventional wisdom that DJT's was a third party victory and that it needs to get on board with the MAGA agenda if it wants to survive into the future as a viable political entity.


The massive power of the globalist machine, whose scam of a cash boondoggle worth trillions of dollars in cheap labor profiting is being defended with racialist virtue signaling and incendiary rhetoric against DJT and us deplorables, is something to behold. If you wondered why the victors in the 2016 election were not afforded a constitutional peaceful transfer of power, then or ever, this is the answer.


Fear of the same sort of attacks and/or being cut from the Soros/Davos/OBushton payroll controls the Swamp dwellers and their MSM propaganda machine.


I agree that the wackiest voice in support of illegal immigration has been Sandy O, who will be used in that light for as long as she is deemed serviceable to the elites. Yet, I'd bet she'd be hard pressed to define the difference between bringing immigrants to work for free in jobs American citizens did not want to do from the 1600's to the 1860's and allowing tens of millions of cheap illegal immigrant labor to gouge the taxpayers and an economy that worked for everyone on grounds that they would do jobs American citizens do not want to do!


In short, if MAGA is to continue to work as well as it has been, the multinationals must cough up the investment that made this economy great for the working and middle classes after WW II until the 1970's when government and business joined hands to abandon the public good in service to a profit motive that has now given the overall value of the wealth of our citizens to the richest among us.


DJT has been doing everything in his power to make this happen and has been hounded, harassed, defamed, shamed and vilified to the high heavens. All in the name of greed.


The "socialist" threat is a red herring. The end of socialism is a gutting of the vaunted safety net in a final orgy of elitist greed. Naïve millennials may not perceive it, even looking at Venezuela, but if enacted, it will become the fate of their grandchildren, indeed.


Bottom line, the political sturm und drang of today is not about any violation of the "ism's" being inflicted on the oppositional electorate, it is about money. And the political power to keep raking it in at our expense without regulation or punishment.


Recalling the head shaking of the establishment at the onset of the Bush Recession of 2007 over regulatory reforms having failed to anticipate the financial industry's phenomenal greed, we are dealing with a too human frailty that threatens to destroy our constitutional democratic republic if monetary common sense in service to the public good is not restored in DC.


DJT, faced with the worst attacks against a sitting POTUS in history, is attempting to do just that with his orders that are, as you said, well within his authority to issue and fund, in order to restore our national sovereignty and preserve our resources on behalf of our legal American citizenry.


I thank God every day that he is our standard-bearer and bless his supporters who have steadfastly stood at his side from day one. It's been a long slog, and it's far from over, but with the Declaration of Independence and Constitution as our principled and spiritual guides, it is certain that the elites thoroughly corrupted by money who despise this country and Americans as much as the modern-day globalists, cannot survive indefinitely to oppress us forever.

This is the intrinsic meaning of MLK's great pronouncement that "the arc of history bends toward justice" - noting that MLK was an economic populist to his core.

Take care, Bob, and Very best wishes to you and your family and to 101 and all members of the Outpost too!

P.

[Sailor]

Thanks for the words of support. The curve balls and hand grenades have been job related, not the truly worrisome health issues I had in the past. I survived those, comparatively what I face today ... pfft!

There's a meme going around that says (paraphrasing) "Trump gave up a Billionaire lifestyle to face humiliation and attacks on his character in order to try to lead this country" or something like that. And it's true. He's in his 70s now, he could simply retire to watch his son and grandkids grow up and live that billionaire lifestyle. Instead he chose to take the hard road instead of the easy, that tells me a lot about the man.

Enjoy your weekend. Mrs. Sailor and I have some grandkids to sugar-up and hand back to their parents.

[arethusa505]

Hi Bob!

I know you and Mrs. Sailor will enjoy sugaring up your grandkids - always a fun thing to do! Still laughing at your statement about this and thanks for that and your great reply too!


Good luck with the job issues - have had a number of those in my years of employment so, if you want any advice on that front or just to vent, I'm here for that too.


And yes, overcoming health issues puts the trivialities of work hassles into the shade, for sure!


Like you, I would have kept working to shore up the savings, but my job eligibility rested on my boss still being employed in a position he aged out of last year. He is the best and I will miss him and his great sense of humor. I will be keeping my law license for a while though, in case some interesting projects come my way in the near future.


Oddly enough, when friends here have asked what I'll say when people ask what I'll be doing with the time, I reply that when I tell them what I used to do, they'd probably shut up and change the subject LOL. Ideally, I'd love to find an animal rescue place for volunteering nearby, but after I get used to enjoying the freedom not to decide to do that. :-)


And yes, having been raised and schooled in upstate NY after my Dad left the AF, I was very familiar with DJT for many years after he emerged into public life. I knew his sense of humor and braggadocio that are characteristic of people like him in the business field. I knew that he's not the most moral man when it came to his marriages and that he'd probably not make a good close friend. But I loved his take no prisoners approach when challenged and knowing what he was facing in the campaign, was thrilled to see him receive the nomination.


And flabbergasted to the point of being rendered speechless when he beat the biggest and raunchiest political machine we've seen in politics in our lifetimes and that I firmly believe is still calling the shots fired in his direction. And he beat them at their own game - I will never forget the array of Clinton accusers lined up at the debate after NBC's Billy Bush tape was leaked to the media. Too funny!!!


As you said, one of his kids, maybe Don Jr., has insisted several times that DJT does not need this job because he has the means to enjoy life at his age and not to bother with the heavy stuff. So true! And likely coming at the top of the speeches when his face is carved on Mt. Rushmore for saving the country from radical leftist extremism and making and keeping America as great as she has been.


About that, I read an op-ed today commenting on Peggy Noonan's piece regarding the Mao Revolution in China that pitted the kids against the establishment using the same means of slandering, shaming, publicly humiliating and assaulting members of the opposition such as is happening here and now on university campuses, public restaurants, the public square, and in Tucker Carlson's case, outside of his own home in suburban Washington.


The commenter on Noonan's (who's a never Trumper, sad to say) article opined that DJT is the only bulwark standing between us and these machinations that, at their most extreme in the halls of Congress and in the Beltway media, are designed to drive him from office. It's the tactic that succeeded with Nixon, whose administration turned on him in the process and told him to leave, and he complied rather than endure any further suffering. So, it's no accident that "Woodstein" are front and center on the propagandist MSNBCNN attempting to repeat that achievement.


And the "trumped" up charges are, indeed, a cynical and fraudulently based strategy to implement such a coup about which the instigators have spent very little time contemplating nor exhibiting any care for the consequences. They want him gone by any means necessary, but he bravely soldiers on with a fighting spirit that warms my heart because the stakes are so high for everyone, even the selfish fools populating the Swamp's army against him.


In a way, I pity the Swamp because its tactics are so serpentine as to threaten them in reverse, as we have often seen lately. Compare the delirious reaction to "all lives matter" with the backtracking on sanctioning that new member of Congress whose views are so anti-American as to be a declaration of war against Israel and the Israelis. But instead of naming her as the one to be chastised for going against all we stand for, the D resolution chastises everyone who lives and breathes American air for having thoughts only a small minority possess. Just like the kneeling at NFL games trashed our flag, the whole country and our military for the actions of a very few of a vast population of honorable and honored members of America's law enforcement community.


Bottom line, why have the Ds turned on their own country whose people and traditions have made us the greatest on earth up until now? This is the question my father, whose very young 23 year old behind was nestled in a tail gunner's bucket over Germany in WW II, would be asking Sandy O and her young fellow travelers right now. Why are they given such freedom and encouragement by D leadership to impose an order desired by foreigners and the world's money grubbers on those who sacrificed so much to preserve the Founders' dreams for America's future?


Fact is, establishment DC and the historically ignorant or blind propagandist purveyors of this exotic new landscape in American politics have not, as Santayana's saying goes, learned the lessons from the mistakes of the past, and if they get away with overtaking and destroying all that we hold dear, they and their descendants will be condemned to repeat them in the future.


So, whatever this is about, hatred of DJT, trillions from globalist cheap labor profiteering, an attempt to co-opt Islamic extremism, avenging the loss of the 2016 election, a generational changing of the guard, a backlash against the backlash against the status quo of entrenched Swamp domination of the government, and so on, the crap we see flying in our nation's capitol will increase in vitriol and extremism as the 2020 campaign for POTUS plays out.


Not something you'd expect if there were adults in the room, i.e. moderates capable of compromising to achieve the objectives of DJT's election as expressed by we the people, like all Americans deserve from our government of a Constitutional democratic republic.


But we have not been getting it for another reason besides - that DJT was victorious over a pathological sociopath whose followers are as crazy as she is and remain too deeply in denial to realize it. :-)


Enjoy your time with the grandkids, Bob, and all best to Mrs. Sailor and your family, and to 101 and all members of the Outpost too.


P.

[Sailor]

Mar 8, 2019 13:28:55 GMT -8 arethusa505 said:

Hi Bob!

I know you and Mrs. Sailor will enjoy sugaring up your grandkids - always a fun thing to do! Still laughing at your statement about this and thanks for that and your great reply too!


Good luck with the job issues - have had a number of those in my years of employment so, if you want any advice on that front or just to vent, I'm here for that too.


And yes, overcoming health issues puts the trivialities of work hassles into the shade, for sure!


Like you, I would have kept working to shore up the savings, but my job eligibility rested on my boss still being employed in a position he aged out of last year. He is the best and I will miss him and his great sense of humor. I will be keeping my law license for a while though, in case some interesting projects come my way in the near future.


Oddly enough, when friends here have asked what I'll say when people ask what I'll be doing with the time, I reply that when I tell them what I used to do, they'd probably shut up and change the subject LOL. Ideally, I'd love to find an animal rescue place for volunteering nearby, but after I get used to enjoying the freedom not to decide to do that. :-)


And yes, having been raised and schooled in upstate NY after my Dad left the AF, I was very familiar with DJT for many years after he emerged into public life. I knew his sense of humor and braggadocio that are characteristic of people like him in the business field. I knew that he's not the most moral man when it came to his marriages and that he'd probably not make a good close friend. But I loved his take no prisoners approach when challenged and knowing what he was facing in the campaign, was thrilled to see him receive the nomination.


And flabbergasted to the point of being rendered speechless when he beat the biggest and raunchiest political machine we've seen in politics in our lifetimes and that I firmly believe is still calling the shots fired in his direction. And he beat them at their own game - I will never forget the array of Clinton accusers lined up at the debate after NBC's Billy Bush tape was leaked to the media. Too funny!!!


As you said, one of his kids, maybe Don Jr., has insisted several times that DJT does not need this job because he has the means to enjoy life at his age and not to bother with the heavy stuff. So true! And likely coming at the top of the speeches when his face is carved on Mt. Rushmore for saving the country from radical leftist extremism and making and keeping America as great as she has been.


About that, I read an op-ed today commenting on Peggy Noonan's piece regarding the Mao Revolution in China that pitted the kids against the establishment using the same means of slandering, shaming, publicly humiliating and assaulting members of the opposition such as is happening here and now on university campuses, public restaurants, the public square, and in Tucker Carlson's case, outside of his own home in suburban Washington.


The commenter on Noonan's (who's a never Trumper, sad to say) article opined that DJT is the only bulwark standing between us and these machinations that, at their most extreme in the halls of Congress and in the Beltway media, are designed to drive him from office. It's the tactic that succeeded with Nixon, whose administration turned on him in the process and told him to leave, and he complied rather than endure any further suffering. So, it's no accident that "Woodstein" are front and center on the propagandist MSNBCNN attempting to repeat that achievement.


And the "trumped" up charges are, indeed, a cynical and fraudulently based strategy to implement such a coup about which the instigators have spent very little time contemplating nor exhibiting any care for the consequences. They want him gone by any means necessary, but he bravely soldiers on with a fighting spirit that warms my heart because the stakes are so high for everyone, even the selfish fools populating the Swamp's army against him.


In a way, I pity the Swamp because its tactics are so serpentine as to threaten them in reverse, as we have often seen lately. Compare the delirious reaction to "all lives matter" with the backtracking on sanctioning that new member of Congress whose views are so anti-American as to be a declaration of war against Israel and the Israelis. But instead of naming her as the one to be chastised for going against all we stand for, the D resolution chastises everyone who lives and breathes American air for having thoughts only a small minority possess. Just like the kneeling at NFL games trashed our flag, the whole country and our military for the actions of a very few of a vast population of honorable and honored members of America's law enforcement community.


Bottom line, why have the Ds turned on their own country whose people and traditions have made us the greatest on earth up until now? This is the question my father, whose very young 23 year old behind was nestled in a tail gunner's bucket over Germany in WW II, would be asking Sandy O and her young fellow travelers right now. Why are they given such freedom and encouragement by D leadership to impose an order desired by foreigners and the world's money grubbers on those who sacrificed so much to preserve the Founders' dreams for America's future?


Fact is, establishment DC and the historically ignorant or blind propagandist purveyors of this exotic new landscape in American politics have not, as Santayana's saying goes, learned the lessons from the mistakes of the past, and if they get away with overtaking and destroying all that we hold dear, they and their descendants will be condemned to repeat them in the future.


So, whatever this is about, hatred of DJT, trillions from globalist cheap labor profiteering, an attempt to co-opt Islamic extremism, avenging the loss of the 2016 election, a generational changing of the guard, a backlash against the backlash against the status quo of entrenched Swamp domination of the government, and so on, the crap we see flying in our nation's capitol will increase in vitriol and extremism as the 2020 campaign for POTUS plays out.


Not something you'd expect if there were adults in the room, i.e. moderates capable of compromising to achieve the objectives of DJT's election as expressed by we the people, like all Americans deserve from our government of a Constitutional democratic republic.


But we have not been getting it for another reason besides - that DJT was victorious over a pathological sociopath whose followers are as crazy as she is and remain too deeply in denial to realize it. :-)


Enjoy your time with the grandkids, Bob, and all best to Mrs. Sailor and your family, and to 101 and all members of the Outpost too.


P.

Regarding the Dems, it appears to me that the remaining 'moderates' are hunkered down hoping to be able to ride out the coming backlash that the extremists like AOC are likely to trigger. You'll note that even the 'leadership' like Pelosi and Hoyer are considered fair game by the extremists.

With every new proposed legislative idea like Warren's annual tax on existing wealth, not income but funds and property that have already been taxed each one seems bound and determined to 'out-extreme' the others.

And if they succeed they'll drag this country so far down that rabbit hole that I won't be around long enough to see the recovery. It'll make the 1930's Great Depression look like a marginally bad day on Wall Street.

It scares the bejesus out of me. If they win we ALL lose.

[arethusa505]

Amen to all you've said, Bob, and more! The sensationalist, profit crazed lamestream media are hyping all this garbage to the max and will ultimately bear the blame for tearing this country apart in the name of propagandist politics.


The thought occurs that the Ds are courting the backlash by allowing the extremists to "flourish" in order to front a "moderate" (i.e. a lower key globalist bought and paid for tool) as a purported "savior" therefrom down the line. The Ds' politics of fear, loathing and character assassination will guarantee that our half of the population will be further demonized, ostracized, censored, oppressed and likely imprisoned for not going along with the party line.


The Maoist "revolutionaries" masquerading as the "resistance" will have triumphed and turned this country communist without batting an eye. It is clear that socialism only is not their aim, but complete control over we the people's hearts and minds. It's a 16 year old's wet dream of taking over the house and throwing out their parents and all the rules. So, it's no wonder the Ds also want to hand the vote over to children as well as to law-breaking non-citizens to achieve the national power.


Scares the bejesus outta me too - clearly the intention overall. Except, in the long run, such systems implode because, seeking power for themselves, the tribes and factions exploited to attain it tend to turn on each other and 00an even more oppressive system arises to control them and they will lose too.


The Founders, in their infinite wisdom and experience, created a system that worked for 200 years to absorb the tensions between us and assured a method of working them out for the good of us all. Clearly, the Ds are more interested in attaining power than in perpetuating that dream of a well-governed, prosperous, diverse people who were a beacon of hope of good governance onto the world.


Take care and be well, and my very best wishes to you and Mrs. Sailor and 101 and all members of the Outpost.


P.

[Sailor]

Mar 21, 2019 1:43:36 GMT -8 arethusa505 said:

The Founders, in their infinite wisdom and experience, created a system that worked for 200 years to absorb the tensions between us and assured a method of working them out for the good of us all. Clearly, the Ds are more interested in attaining power than in perpetuating that dream of a well-governed, prosperous, diverse people who were a beacon of hope of good governance onto the world.


Take care and be well, and my very best wishes to you and Mrs. Sailor and 101 and all members of the Outpost.

P.

The 'D's have realized that they can't win consistently with the rules the way they are now, so they seek to change the rules and will scream 'UNFAIR' if the Constitutional Amendment needed to abolish the Electoral College doesn't pass.

Are they stupid enough to try to change the Constitution through the courts? To get the COURTS to rule the Constitution as 'Unconstitutional?'

I think they are.

All the best.

[arethusa505]

Hi Again, Bob,


Given the bloviated flatulence of their political rhetoric, it makes sense to believe the Ds will attempt to amend the Constitution through the courts because it will be impossible under our states' centered Constitutional democratic republic to do it the prescribed way because they lack the power to do so.


In like manner, where it concerns the Electoral College that was designed for the states to participate in the election of the POTUS, given their limited control over most of our state legislatures, it looks nigh onto impossible for them to accomplish their threat of removing it as a means of selecting our highest national leader either now nor in any time in the foreseeable future.


It is certain, that while they have the jurisdiction to disallow laws enacted by Congress and the state legislatures as unconstitutional, the nation's courts, as defined under the Constitution, have no jurisdiction to allow for any Constitutional amendment to become law nor to create such an Amendment themselves.


Article 5 of the Constitution governs how amendments are made. They can be proposed either by Congress or by a constitutional convention. The latter method, however, has never been used. All current amendments to the U.S. Constitution have been proposed by the U.S. Congress and not by constitutional convention.


When Congress proposes an amendment, they do so in the form of a joint resolution agreed upon by a two-thirds majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.


From there, the amendment goes to the National Archives and Records Administration, which packages and ship it to the states for approval. Three-fourths of state legislatures or conventions must approve the motion for the amendment to pass.


For an amendment to be proposed via a constitutional convention, two-thirds of the state legislatures must call for it. That convention proposes the amendment which is then sent to the states to be approved, and approval must be granted by three-fourths of the legislatures or conventions among the states.


The Ds base their willingness to change all the rules on the dubious size of the popular vote in their candidates' favor in 2016 that was realized in California, in large part, as well as in urban centers of the East coast, most notably in NYC. The vast majority of the states went for DJT, hence the EC victory. The Ds are also banking - both literally and figuratively - on the belief that Americans will go to the polls with the same hatred in their heart for all things DJT.


It's interesting to note that you don't hear DJT trashing the D base nor D voters in general where the constant pummeling of his supporters occurs 24/7 on the Ds' propagandized news outlets via print, online and televised means.


In any event, anyone who has found themselves in the depths of strong emotion of the sort being generated these days politically, knows that you can't remain in that state for very long before you lose your marbles completely like certain Ds now dominating the political scene. :-)


So, even though the political class has chosen to remain there, with predictable results that we've seen, in my opinion, it is doubtful that the general public will take all this venom into the voting booths in an election that is nearly two years hence. Frankly, a lot of people I know on both sides are burned out on it already. LOL


I don't think this is a wrong assumption, even with any new causes for high dudgeon that could become the subject of further major league hoo hahs within that time.


So, let's have faith in the American people to sort all the Ds' manufactured garbage out and toss it in the trash when the time comes like we did on November 8, 2016.


A great weekend to you and Mrs. Sailor, 101 and all members of The Outpost.


P.

[arethusa505]

Hi Bob,

I hope all has been going well for you and your family. I've hesitated to post again for fear of pressuring you to reply when you have pressing issues to deal with.


But, while writing the letter below to some other friends, the thought occurred that these thoughts about what's been happening in DC since the Mueller Report came out might interest you and other Outpost members.


So, here it is:


". . .I had to laugh yesterday when writing back and forth with [another friend] when observing that DC is such a mess with growing intensity of the struggles of DJT to save the country from the ravages of leftist extremism and rampant globalist attacks on our economy and national sovereignty.



The thought occurred that all that’s transpiring there is striking the adults in the room as rampantly infantile, whereupon arises the realization that the list of those who have achieved greatness in that realm is ridiculously small.



Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Lincoln, FDR with . . . lesser lights like Eisenhower, Truman and Jackson coming to mind. All of these figures were involved in either creating the foundation of the norms and standards by which the nation is run, or with saving them from some massive threat, or assuring the steadiness of the ship of state for generations to come after such threats have been neutralized.



Jackson alone seems to have been the embodiment of the voice of we the people where the other great leaders were solidly in the camps of the elites of their times. His reminder that we are the owners and funders of the government was not received well and the resentment he generated in that light echoes down to this very time when another such a reminder was delivered with the sending of DJT to DC.



It is always reassuring to hear DJT reflect upon his awareness of his unique place in our history and that he is here to provide a check on the elites’ power to continue on a path that is not good for the rest of us and the nation at large. You and I knew that this struggle would be epic because massive power concedes nothing without a tremendous fight.



Recalling the adage about Archimedes who “stood alone and changed the world”, it seems that DJT is in a very lonely place – but that is the nature of greatness. The facts that he has the personal and financial resources and tremendous courage to wage this battle on our behalf are a boon to the nation and cannot be forgotten.



Today’s elites and their shameless partisan propagandists have underestimated his strength and overestimated their own power to bring him down from the getgo. That they have not succeeded is proof that there is a very real acceptance and understanding of what he and all this are about, even in the swamp where there must be freedom fighters on our side, else DJT would have been gone by now.



Even Henry Kissinger noted early on that DJT is one of those historical figures who emerges to place a check on the direction of the government, either to preserve its traditions or to send it in another direction altogether. Andrew Jackson was just such a figure, and it’s no accident that his portrait was hung in DJT’s office in the White House.



The 2020 election is about nothing more than stopping the elites from actualizing policy and legislative choices favoring both the loss of our sovereignty in the name of “world peace” and the loss of our economy in the name of oligarchic “one world government” by the world’s money grubbers and continuing to actualize the dreams of the Founders and those who have sacrificed everything to preserve them.



We will either have a community of nations that have learned through trial, war, error and compromise to get along for the good of their respective populations, or a worldwide amalgam of misery, serfdom and death at the hands of a selfish, brutal, communistic extraordinarily wealthy band of terrorists.



And we will either have a country that has learned through trial, error, civil war and compromise to manage the tensions between the millions of human beings who inhabit it, or a nationwide amalgam of misery, serfdom and death at the hands of a selfish, brutal, communistic extraordinarily wealthy band of terrorists.



The weapons of the American Maoists are insidious as we’ve seen – even yesterday, Peloser’s muttering that DJT needs an “intervention” harkens back to why Nixon caved and fled the scene. His advisors and cabinet browbeat him into leaving and he obeyed. DJT is not going to do that, and those who have [made such attempts] in the past have been given the gate.



All and all, we are going to be stuck through the election of 2020 with dealing with such tactics employed in the overall strategy of bullying DJT from office and putting we the people back in our silently suffering place. While we are hopefully laughing every step of the way at the insult that his fighting back against all they have taken from us is not “presidential”. LOL



Along with pronouncements from those corrupted by globalism that fighting against a rancid DC establishment politics in service to worldwide cheap labor profiteering and communistic infliction of intellectual and personal conformity to a philosophy with which millions upon millions of people solidly disagree presents a constitutional crisis and a threat to “democracy”.



The EU remainers are on the verge of driving Theresa May from power because she was not a wholesale supporter of the Brexit that she was elected to shepherd into actuality The one true voice keeping that dream alive is Nigel Farage, a figure who has endured the same ridicule and condemnation as DJT over here.



Yet, if you’ve seen Farage, there seems to me to be a fountain of joy in his nature and a sureness of his purpose that keeps him fighting there to win the same sort of battle we are fighting over here. He may come across as a little crazy, a bit uncouth, but he has not wavered and has developed a following that is bringing the Brexit mentality into being all over Europe.



He stands alone, DJT stands alone, Jackson stood alone, and something huge happened. Even with a snowflake’s milkshake staining Farage’s suit, the EU will now have a bigger Brexit membership in its parliament because of him.



The Swedes, Italians, Hungarians, Austrians and others have seen their “brexit” politicians following suit while Merkel and her acolytes, like [Clinton's] over here, are berating this movement as bringing back the horrors preceding WW II.  Mark Steyn is the only member of today's commentariat whom I've heard regaling Germany's Merkel for attempting to conquer Europe politically so as to finally achieve the goal of her monstrous forebear who failed to do so militaristically.



And speaking of female power – up until now, it has been exercised in the service of the globalist elites. If we had a female leader or politician who is standing up for we the people instead, we would know she was truly liberated and free. 😊



Well, those are my thoughts on all this. I should spend more time in my retirement doing the projects around the house, but politics is just too interesting right now."


That's it, in hopes things are fine there with y'all and With best wishes for you, Mrs. Sailor and your family and all members of the Outpost to have a pleasant and happy Memorial Day Weekend.

P.