Friday, November 12, 2021

Opuscula

Human or humanoid?
Who is asleep
In the White House?

WHO STOLE AMERICA’S PRESIDENT?

The man who “hid out” during the recent presidential primaries and general election — yet still managed to be elected U.S. Chief Executive — apparently is a humanoid robot similar to, but perhaps not as “smart,” as Sophia. https://tinyurl.com/25majm3a

The person known as POTUS (President Of The United States), among other polite and impolite titles, simply cannot be for real.

 

No thinking person would

    •  Try to force a country to host a U.S. consulate for a non-state sworn to the host state’s demise — despite the action being illegal under U.S. law

    •  Try to force two warring factions of the aggressor non-states to join forces against a common enemy, the only democracy and solid U.S. ally in the region

    •  Attempting to get into bed with a nation that has threatened to physically destroy the U.S.

    •  Kowtow to a country that considers America a “paper tiger” and beneath contempt

    •  Issue executive fiats that are beyond the scope of the office and the U.S. Constitution

Yet the person or humanoid robot posing as POTUS is doing all of those things.

Sleepy Joe

Some of his political rivals refer to POTUS as “Sleepy Joe.” That is one of the nicer sobriquets applied to him.

Deserved?

POTUS often seems to be mentally “elsewhere” during press presentations; he rarely answers even “easy” questions, preferring to have his minions chase the media — media generally friendly to POTUS — from the room.

    In one instance, a visiting dignitary was willing to respond to questions from the media and POTUS shut him up: “No questions.”

When he DOES answer a reporter’s question, e.g., is the U.S. going to give illegal aliens $450,000 each as compensation” for breaking the law?

No, he replied; that’s “garbage.”

The next day, having been advised by people supposedly reporting to him and following his lead, he began back-tracking. As this is keyed, no one knows how much will be paid — the whole process now is secret — and what percentage of the “compensation” will go to the lawyers representing the criminals. (Let’s see. 40% of $450,000 is “only” $180,000 per litigant, adult and child.)

For the record, it was Democrat Obama that established the “cages” for captured illegals. Trump gets the blame for an Obama/Biden administration action.

Tasks ignored

Similar to Jacob Rodney Cohen https://tinyurl.com/4d5cbb3n, POTUS apparently gets no respect from his staff.

He appointed his vice president as the point person for the border issue.

The vice president has visited borders in central America and in Europe, but carefully avoided visiting the U.S.-Mexican border where criminals are crossing as freely as ants to a picnic basket.

Cartoon of ants raiding picnic

POTUS’ point person on the supply chain issue has managed to avoid visiting West Coast ports where, as this is keyed, more than 100 vessels are waiting to discharge cargo.

Conversely, his predecessor in the White House was encouraging, perhaps coercing, U.S. companies to “bring manufacturing back to the States.” He had some success.

Take down the flag

POTUS has embarrassed the U.S. and shown the U.S.’ “friends” that they cannot depend on the nation to keep its promises.

An agreement to exit the Afghanistan quagmire was inked by the previous administration. It came with several requirements that the Taliban was required to honor else the agreement was void.

The Taliban breached the agreement, but POTUS went ahead and pulled out most U.S. troops, but not all (as the body count reflects) and he abandoned many Afghans who had been working for the U.S. to the hands of the “new’ Taliban, an entity that is strikingly similar to the “old” Taliban.

The U.S. has gone, since POTUS was sworn in, from energy independence to begging OPEC, the folks who brought the U.S. outrageous inflation in the mid-1970s, to sell us oil products.

Because he is controlled by a faction that would allow Americans to freeze rather than warm themselves with — gasp — fossil fuel (oil, gas, coal) in the cause of clean air, he is shutting down oil and gas pipelines. (Oil via tankers from OPEC apparently are exempt.)

Unfortunately, the U.S. lacks the infrastructure to replace fossil fuels with wind, solar, and water power. Even these non-fossil fuel substitutes have an environmental impact.

These shut-downs are no surprise. One of his first actions was to cancel the Keystone pipeline, following in Obama’s footsteps.

Meanwhile, the U.S. is selling coal (as it has been doing for several years) to China so that China can continue to develop war materiel to use against the U.S. while leading the world in air pollution.

Illustration by Gary Varvel for Creators Syndicate (https://tinyurl.com/ahrcm74m)

Private jets, motorcades to save earth

The recent UN’s COP26 in Paris and its follow-up in Glasgow saw politicians and “environmentalists” flying in to the venues, many in private jets. Once on the ground, they were escorted in motorcades. In the case of POTUS, the motorcade allegedly was 80-vehicles long, and of those vehicles, many were mammoth SUVs (GM Escalades, Ford Excursions) made even less environmentally “friendly” by being armored.

China and Russia were notably absent.

POTUS led the way by promising to spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars not only to reduce the U.S.’ environmental impact, but to help developing nations (not defined) avoid negatively impacting the environment.

The problem for POTUS is that Congress must appropriate the money.

Such promises in the past have proven empty since the executive cannot force the legislative to do its bidding on all things.

    Given the economy of the U.S. in late 2021, and the fact that mid-term elections are nigh, POTUS’ pledge is just words, hot air.

POTUS’ promotion of electric cars apparently fails to take into account

    The cost and inability of the “Average Joe” to afford one

    The environmental impact or replacing limited lifetime batteries and tires that wear out faster

    The lack of charging stations across the country and the infrastructure to get electrical power to those stations

Nothing is without challenges.

States’ rights

While it may not lead to another civil war, POTUS’ fiats and executive orders are trampling on states’ rights.

POTUS has decided that all employers of 100 or more people must have 100 percent COVID vaccinated staff. The health benefits are still out on that.

The questions:

    Does POTUS have the authority to mandate vaccinations nationwide?

    When did the Federal government supplant states in areas not granted to it by the Constitution and its several Amendments.

    Article VI, Paragraph 2 of the Constitution is commonly referred to as the Supremacy Clause.

This should not be a prerogative of any government for a malady of the COVID variety. Mandating smallpox vaccinations is another matter. Polio vaccinations, pneumonia vaccinations, and even seasonable influenza vaccinations have been, and should remain, individual decisions.

    For the record, this scrivener IS vaccinated, including the booster.

POTUS also has decided that dock workers and most auto workers must be union members.

The problem is, many states have freedom of choice — “Right to Work” laws.

Despite Article VI, Paragraph 2 (ibid.), the several States in most cases cannot be coerced into accepting a presidential fiat. Insisting on implementing a presidential whim first results in court cases. The vaccination fiat already is slated to be heard by several Federal District courts.

 


 

 

 

 

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