In a 6 to 3 decision, the Supreme Court just handed Resident Joe Biden his ass. His precious (albeit clearly unconstitutional) vaccine mandate was seriously challenged yesterday. Praise the Lord!
However, with every silver cloud, there is a dark lining: Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh regrettably upheld the vaccine mandate for healthcare workers, which includes physicians, who are employed in institutions that take Medicare and Medicaid. (Can’t think of one that doesn’t.)
I’m not going to lie to you, this latter ruling is a disappointment. It hits a little too close to the bone as far as I’m concerned in that I’m in the healthcare field. Actually, the fact that the three other Justices thought nothing wrong with either mandate in the first place is an even bigger disappointment. It should have been 9 to zero. In a sane world, it would have been. Are these leftards so totally gone over the dark side that they can’t see the manifest evil of this mandate? By the way, whatever happened to “my body, my choice”?
I think they’ve realized by now that when hospitals say they don’t have the capacity to cover their patient because of COVID it’s not because they don’t have the beds. It’s because they don’t have the staff and now they’ll have even fewer to care for incoming patients.
Anyway, I choose to view the glass as 7/8ths full.
We have passed the high-water mark of the Xiden regime which was probably the day before Kabul fell to the Taliban. Anyway, it’s been downhill ever since. Perhaps the cherry on the top of this delicious two-scoop sundae (I was hoping for a banana split) was the announcement by Sen Kyrsten Sinema that she would be opposing any changes to the Senate filibuster rule. (I can easily see her as Trump’s running mate in 2024.) This is huge in that it spells doom for the remainder of the present regime’s plans to further bolshevize America. (If only we could repeal the Seventeenth Amendment and then we’d have a real Republic.)
At this point, I’d keep my eye on Hunter Biden, specifically his laptop and/or any documents that leak out of Kazakhstan. It’s possible that the Chinese may have grown tired of their puppet and so salacious pictures of Hunter or financial statements regarding Rosemont Seneca may be leaked to the press. If the press chooses (or is directed) to make an issue of these pieces of kompramat, look for Hilary Clinton to give another interview where she expresses “concern” for the “chaos” in the West Wing.
The only question in my mind is whether the Republicans can take advantage of Biden’s troubles. Whereas it’s a forgone conclusion at this point that the GOP will sweep the House and take the Senate, it remains to be seen whether they can put aside their “principles” and turn back the tide of the cultural Marxism that has overtaken our nation. That’s an iffy proposition given that as a rule of thumb Republicans are always looking for ways to be congratulated by their enemies for not acting like that ghastly Trump fellow. Truth be told, they find it hard to stray too far from the cuckhouse.
But by God, this is a cultural war. If we don’t win this, then it’ll be a real civil war. Best to give it all we got; even if we lose, we can scramble their brains and make these Bolshies rue their pyrrhic victory.
This brings us back to the recent SCOTUS decision: Roberts is a lost cause, he’ll always gauge the situation to maximize his clout. Unfortunately, now that there are five (mostly) solid conservatives on the Court, he’s lost the ability to be the swing vote that Justice Kennedy invariably was. (Make no mistake, for decades Kennedy was the most powerful man in America, sitting on an evenly-divided Supreme Court as he was.)
As for Kavanaugh, he’d better straighten up or he will lose the respect of the conservatives and the liberals will kick him to the curb.
Anyway, I’m proud of Gorsuch and my girl, Amy. And yes, of President Trump, too, who moved heaven and earth to remake the judiciary. Even though, generally speaking, I’m not enamored with the idea of a kritarchy (or rule by judges), you gotta fight with the army you got. I’m not holding my breath with Roberts, but Kavanaugh better get back on board. We need him.
P.S. Here’s an additional cherry on top: https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/baltimore-prosecutor-marilyn-mosby-is-federally-indicted.
Make that glass 9/10th full!
Well, thank God for small miracles! Me and my brother-in-law, who is an RN in a major city, were talking over Christmas about his work, he was telling me that they are so insanely swamped due to lack of staff that they’re not even letting them off if they have covid (which he had and who I got it from) which he ignored. He’s now second guessing his profession.
These healthcare entities lost so many people over the vax mandates that they don’t have the bandwidth to take care of people.
All of this is political theater. The courts stabbed us over the stolen election, and you’re calling them “mostly solid conservatives”?
Okay, we won a token victory in the court, whatever. Do you think the children of Satan are going to accept the rules, pick up their ball and go home? They’re going to find a way around it. In what possible world will a brutal tyranny encounter a speed bump and say, “Well, I guess we should give the people back their freedom and give up, because they’re getting a little angsty, and we don’t want to break any more rules.”?
“We” “won” a meaningless token victory to give the illusion that the system still works. It means nothing. Biden’s team is pressuring businesses to enact vaccine mandates, and they’re going to do it regardless of whether they have to or not. No one wants to be on the bad side of this administration. DirectTV just dropped OAN because Biden tweeted something. That’s how powerful this administration is.
Every business in the country could enact a vaccine mandate. It could be the new political correctness, just like masks have become, just like all the sexual harrassment and racial harrassment and other gibberish designed to put down anyone with integrity. Major corporations will and have already done this. The only thing stopping them from escalating is the labor shortage.
Is this a joke? The Republican Party is anti-Marxism? Since when? The Menshevik Party won’t even stop transvestites from grooming small children, and people still think that they will “turn back the tide of the cultural Marxism”?
In fact, the party recently announced a partnership with the Log Cabin Republicans. So there’s your conservative movement.
If you vote Republican this November, then you give your implicit approval of their betrayal in the last election. Almost every single elected Republican on the national level refused to support the people over the stolen election. Almost every one of them gaslit their voters and told them that what they saw wasn’t real. If you vote Republican this election in the hope that maybe this time they will be different, then the Republican Party is exactly what you deserve. You deserve Romney, McCarthy and Graham if you vote Republican again.
Last year I thought that there is no way that the Republican voter base will ever vote again. I assumed that the Democrat Party would win by a landslide in 2022 just because of the new mass of stay-at-home voters. But people’s memories are short, and they are attached to the illusion of democracy. Trump’s America will swarm the elementary schools and Methodist gymnasiums to vote for the likes of McConnell, Sasse and Collins, and it will be disgusting.
Well, I believe that I deserve better than the Republican Party. I believe that America is a people, not a government. I will not compromise with pedophiles and Moloch-worshippers, and I suggest that all of you do the same. Stay home in 2022 and let the Democrats have it. Stay home and keep your dignity. If you vote for someone like Asa Hutchinson, then you deserve for your child to be kidnapped by the state and forcibly castrated, because that’s literally what you voted for.
Let me know once you have organized a conservative party that is truly able to win seats in the congress. And win the White House. I’ll be glad to have a look at what you’ve got when you’re ready for the Big Reveal.
Until such time, please recognize that the Republican Party still is, for all intents and purposes, the conservative party of this Union. There are some less-than-stellar Republicans in office, to be sure, but there are some stalwart Republican warriors, as well. Let’s reëlect them and seek to remove the useless ones through primary elections and caucuses.
Your decision to sit the next vote out and let the Democrats just have it all is not a wise one, if you ask me. The Democrats often prove that their agenda is utterly demonic. Even though not all Republicans are angelic, they are the political force that stands between us, the People, and a socialist tyranny. One mustn’t abandon the Republicans now just to give one’s idealism a Pyrrhic victory that is of no practical effect.
Name one thing that they are conserving. For example, has the Republican Party passed a law against Drag Queen Story Hour at any public library system in the country?
there are some stalwart Republican warriors, as well.
Let’s reëlect them and seek to remove the useless ones through primary elections and caucuses.
Even though not all Republicans are angelic,
they are the political force that stands between us, the People, and a socialist tyranny.
One mustn’t abandon the Republicans now just to give one’s idealism a Pyrrhic victory that is of no practical effect.
Let me know once you have organized a conservative party that is truly able to win seats in the congress. And win the White House.
Well stated Austin. As a staunch social conservative, I get twitchy whenever I hear my conservative friends go on and on about the left. It’s not that what they’re saying is untrue, I just wish they realized that the GOP is infinitely more aligned with the left, than they are with me.
There’s not much left.
They did get their initial trillion plus boondoggle; yet that and the initial executive orders were about all the steam they had. They barely had a Senate majority and there are about a half dozen semi-closeted and not so closeted moderates including Manchin and Sinema who kept anything else from going through. No filibuster, no pro-fraud election bills, not to mention BBB.
Biden will move back to the pen and try to do through executive orders and agency action what he can’t get done through the legislature and the courts will sort it all out. That’s probably the remainder of his term, allowing for the occasional Afghanistan or border style debacle.
Soon, there will be a two in front of the favorable number.
A loser is a loser is a loser. Biden’s the opposite of Trump and has the reverse Midas touch, everything he touches turns to boo boo. Look at Trump. He won on all fronts from the time he came down the escalator despite the overwhelming odds and even when they stole it from him he made a plausible case and came back to contention as a kingmaker and actual contender in record time.
That’s a winner. And I predict he will go out on a win.
Biden is bleeding two types of people he can’t afford to lose now: white liberals and white commies. They will remain the core of his base but as you near 30% you’ve lost all the independents. Even the blacks wouldn’t come out for him in Georgia the other day. The Hispanic thing is not working out as planned and they are flocking to Trump in droves. It’s visceral, feral. They can smell winners and losers.
And God is great.
Yeah, Stacy Abram had a “scheduling conflict” when Creepy Joe showed up in GA last week.
Stacy Abrams, the black Hillary Clinton. No one can name anything she’s accomplished herself, but she’s thrown in our face as a political celebrity. Angry and pig-ugly, they are role models for young women everywhere.
The good news for those who work in health care is that the religious exemption can be effectuated.
(Slip Opinion) Cite as: 595 U. S. ____ (2022) 1
Per Curiam
NOTICE: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the
preliminary print of the United States Reports. Readers are requested to
notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D. C. 20543, of any typographical or other formal errors, in order that
corrections may be made before the preliminary print goes to press.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
Nos. 21A240 and 21A241
JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES, ET AL., APPLICANTS
21A240 v.
MISSOURI, ET AL.
XAVIER BECERRA, SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES, ET AL., APPLICANTS
21A241 v.
LOUISIANA, ET AL.
ON APPLICATIONS FOR STAYS
[January 13, 2022]
PER CURIAM.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services administers the Medicare and Medicaid programs, which provide
health insurance for millions of elderly, disabled, and lowincome Americans. In November 2021, the Secretary announced that, in order to receive Medicare and Medicaid
funding, participating facilities must ensure that their
staff—unless exempt for medical or religious reasons—are
vaccinated against COVID–19. 86 Fed. Reg. 61555 (2021).
Two District Courts enjoined enforcement of the rule, and
the Government now asks us to stay those injunctions.
Agreeing that it is entitled to such relief, we grant the applications.
The good news for health care workers is that the religious exemption can be effectuated.
(Slip Opinion) Cite as: 595 U. S. ____ (2022) 1
Per Curiam
NOTICE: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the
preliminary print of the United States Reports. Readers are requested to
notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D. C. 20543, of any typographical or other formal errors, in order that
corrections may be made before the preliminary print goes to press.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
Nos. 21A240 and 21A241
JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES, ET AL., APPLICANTS
21A240 v.
MISSOURI, ET AL.
XAVIER BECERRA, SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES, ET AL., APPLICANTS
21A241 v.
LOUISIANA, ET AL.
ON APPLICATIONS FOR STAYS
[January 13, 2022]
PER CURIAM.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services administers the Medicare and Medicaid programs, which provide
health insurance for millions of elderly, disabled, and lowincome Americans. In November 2021, the Secretary announced that, in order to receive Medicare and Medicaid
funding, participating facilities must ensure that their
staff—unless exempt for medical or religious reasons—are
vaccinated against COVID–19. 86 Fed. Reg. 61555 (2021).
Two District Courts enjoined enforcement of the rule, and
the Government now asks us to stay those injunctions.
Agreeing that it is entitled to such relief, we grant the applications.
Hope it sticks.
All of this is political theater. The courts stabbed us over the stolen election, and you’re calling them “mostly solid conservatives”?
Okay, we won a token victory in the court, whatever. Do you think the children of Satan are going to accept the rules, pick up their ball and go home? They’re going to find a way around it. In what possible world will a brutal tyranny encounter a speed bump and say, “Well, I guess we should give the people back their freedom and give up, because they’re getting a little angsty, and we don’t want to break any more rules.”?
“We” “won” a meaningless token victory to give the illusion that the system still works. It means nothing. Biden’s team is pressuring businesses to enact vaccine mandates, and they’re going to do it regardless of whether they have to or not. No one wants to be on the bad side of this administration. DirectTV just dropped OAN because Biden tweeted something. That’s how powerful this administration is.
Every business in the country could enact a vaccine mandate. It could be the new political correctness, just like masks have become, just like all the sexual harrassment and racial harrassment and other gibberish designed to put down anyone with integrity. Major corporations will and have already done this. The only thing stopping them from escalating is the labor shortage.
Is this a joke? The Republican Party is anti-Marxism? Since when? The Menshevik Party won’t even stop transvestites from grooming small children, and people still think that they will “turn back the tide of the cultural Marxism”?
In fact, the party recently announced a partnership with the Log Cabin Republicans. So there’s your conservative movement.
If you vote Republican this November, then you give your implicit approval of their betrayal in the last election. Almost every single elected Republican on the national level refused to support the people over the stolen election. Almost every one of them gaslit their voters and told them that what they saw wasn’t real. If you vote Republican this election in the hope that maybe this time they will be different, then the Republican Party is exactly what you deserve. You deserve Romney, McCarthy and Graham if you vote Republican again.
Last year I thought that there is no way that the Republican voter base will ever vote again. I assumed that the Democrat Party would win by a landslide in 2022 just because of the new mass of stay-at-home voters. But people’s memories are short, and they are attached to the illusion of democracy. Trump’s America will swarm the elementary schools and Methodist gymnasiums to vote for the likes of McConnell, Sasse and Collins, and it will be disgusting.
Well, I believe that I deserve better than the Republican Party. I believe that America is a people, not a government. I will not compromise with pedophiles and Moloch-worshippers, and I suggest that all of you do the same. Stay home in 2022 and let the Democrats have it. Stay home and keep your dignity. If you vote for someone like Asa Hutchinson, then you deserve for your child to be kidnapped by the state and forcibly castrated, because that’s literally what you voted for.
Perhaps God is at work changing the minds of some people. Remember, God is in control, and has the final say.
Sould of added to my comment, the church teaches that nothing happens without the permissive will of God.
I think what you meant was “Nothing happens unless God allows it”. This much is true. But because He allows us free will, we do many, many things without God’s permission that God would never will.
For example, men murder men. Murder is against God’s will as specifically stated in the 10 commandments. He gives us permission to exercise our own will but it is not His will nor does He give us “permission” to do it.
Seems to me that God has allowed both hell on earth and peace on earth. And sometimes whether we like it or not we will go through hell. Look at history. Russia, Cuba, China, many parts of Africa., and I could go on. God wins but often after a bloody bath.
Labels. Republican, Democrat, Socialist, Labor, Green……labels. Same cloth, different tailors.
Tell the masses what they want to hear. Marketing, branding, packaging and you are the mark.
A con game targeting your fears, aspirations, desires and emotions to benefit those with a desire for authority and power to get as many people as possible to believe their con of voting for change, something fresh, new, responsive, responsible. Wash, rince, repeat. No one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the masses.
Voting is the illusion that you have a choice which has already been made for you.
The only change will happen when people take direct action instead of voting and stop doing this over and over again expecting a different result each time. Break the cycle and the Marxist, Democracy lie. Tar and feathering works well, otherwise, a short rope from a tall post.
Exactly!
Regardless of what you think about him, Donald Trump was the closest thing to a third party outsider we will ever have. If he couldn’t change anything, then democracy doesn’t work.
Tucker Carlson had a great bit several months ago about how they give us meaningless token victories while ignoring real problems.
Yes, for e.g. the supreme court ruling, natural disasters and so on. That’s what I meant.
It is a difficult time in American history. The last time we faced what we are now facing, I believe, was the Civil War. While some are unconvinced that there is a real battle going on and insist that it’s all still political theater, I’m convinced that that is not the case and that there is actual jeopardy being faced by the ruling Powers That Be (PTB) of being displaced decisively.
Now, to be sure, the PTB encompasses the uniparty; i.e., the entire Democratic Party and much of the Republican Party establishment, including many otherwise non-RINO genuine conservatives. They want to see the two-party kabuki continue and are satisfied with it ideologically and politically. These are your Mitch McConnell’s and Liz Cheney’s. Thus, though Trump clearly leads the Republican Party, it is still filled at the top with traitors to his cause.
However, many such traitors are being primaried in the 2022 midterms and will continue to be challenged and isolated. Being otherwise conservative, like Lyndsey Graham many of them will simply capitulate to the emerging reality at some point though not being wholeheartedly convinced. It just has to gain critical mass so it is seen as inevitable within Republicanism. The Never Trumpers have mostly already been effectively ostracized and the rest of the non-MAGA variety will follow slowly but surely. It is a movement with legs – that is the thing that some well-intentioned critics are failing to see. It has international counterparts and is the product and proxy war of vast international forces of nationalism vs. globalism.
Formerly, I thought you could actually boil it down in ideological terms as Russia v. China. I’m no longer convinced of that. The theory was that Russia represents re-emerging religious nationalism and China represents world socialism and thus is the mother ship of the DNC. Having taken a closer look at China itself, its character, and America’s relationship with it as well as the Russian-Chinese relationship, I’m no longer convinced that they are the primary source of the problem.
The Problem is simply the Western Liberal Establishment – full stop. It may lean on the Chinese in terms of attempting to mirror some of China’s totalitarian aspects, and it may do considerable business with China and be politically compromised by the CCP; however, when it comes down to brass tacks, the DNC and the CCP are not ideological koumbari. China is racist, nationalist, patriarchal and LGBT is repugnant to them. They do maintain the “communist” label and are totalitarians so that obscures the reality of their cultural nationalism. In a sense, they are Confucian Nationalists, nominally communists, decidedly totalitarian, who exploit the globalists who see a mutual partner in them for world dominance. The Chinese are not interested in partners however, just in global dominance of the Chinese nation.
Now, that does not mean that they had no part in stealing the last election. Trump is an American nationalist and Chinese nationalists are natural rivals given the exploitation that has been allowed by globalist Americans over the past several decades. Trump was a threat to their already staked positions in the West. What it does mean however is that the Chinese see the DNC as useful idiots and as expendable rather than as even allies, let alone friends. The “respect” is entirely one way, from the DNC left.
This bodes a bit better for us traditionalists than the previous model. It takes the Chinese out of the category of globalist, secular, atheistic socialists and puts them in their own sui generis category like India (Hindu Nationalists), call them Confucian Nationalists, for lack of a better term. They are not our friends, nor are they allies at this point; however, they are not really the source of the problem but only an actor who engages in a relationship of mutual exploitation with the globalists. That relationship can be weakened and even severed.
Given cover by the liberals with their embrace of Nordstream II and the fallout from the Russia Collusion Hoax, MAGA should gradually cozy up to the Russians and seek to drive wedges between the globalist PTB and China.
Misha, I too agree with you that there is more than kabuki theater going on here. Yes, there is an Establishment made up of Democrats and RINOs but the hatred that the MSM/Globohomo/Establishment heaped upon Trump —and continues to do so–is all I need to know that Trump truly was/is a threat to the globalists.
One simply doesn’t expend that much energy and power on a tacit (and hidden or unwitting ally/dupe). For all the hatred heaped on Bush 43 by the glitterati was merely a distraction; he got most of what he wanted and the Establishment left him alone. He started two wars and only Rosie O’Donnell and her ilk were exercised by it. Trump spits on the sidewalk and they impeach him twice.
This is out of all disproportion.
Are things changing in a Trumpian direction? Case in point: Associate Justice Sonia “Wise Latina” Sotomayor has diabetes. Chief Justice John Roberts “asked” all seven of the other Justices to wear masks so she won’t be “at risk.”
Neil Gorsuch told Roberts to go play with himself: he wasn’t going to wear a mask. Sotomayor, the Wise Latina had to isolate herself in her chambers and hear the daily deliberations via zoom or something.
And Gorsuch is an Episcopalian, ordinarily what comes to mind about country-clubbers who always bend over backwards for PoCs and other grievance groups du jour. Maybe things are turning.
This is quite good on the present madness. Sane people will not put up with this nonsense indefinitely. Karen has to be put in her place.