Proof the Birth Certificates of the NRA Members and ICE are FORGED

Alright, this will seem strange but I'm using this one weird trick, walk with me.

First, background.  ICE has recently begun to pretend that some legitimate birth certificates of immigrant citizens are forged.

But this isn't political persecution in a state that the Republicans might lose, oh no!  It is Trump's legit religious belief that Birth Certificates are something you must spiritually believe in.  Trump didn't believe in Obama's birth certificate even when he showed the long form Birth Certificate on national television to humilate him right before Osama Bin Ladin was killed.

Oh wait, you didn't forget that did you?

I know Trump didn't.

So since Spiritual belief is what matters to Trump on Birth Certificates, and all Trumpanzees Think Like Trump they believe what he believes...

Then the Religious Freedom Act prevents us from applying science to the birth certificates of NRA Members and ICE.

What does THAT mean?

It means that when the court determines that we can't tell if their birth certificates are forgeries placed there due to Time Travel from Russia in the year 2099 to go back in time and infiltrate America to destroy it from within; we can legitimately question their citizenship.

And when their lawyers say that there is no scientific evidence of time travel....we point to the Religious Freedom act, and how they have already involved their spiritual beliefs in science rather than actual fact due to their denial of climate change.

Let me repeat that:

Members of the NRA and ICE are NOT citizens.  Their birth certificates are forgeries.

IF you defend them, we might need to check the validity of your birth certificate too.

The Slippery Slope is now a cliff.  It's a question of whether or not you're getting pushed off it.

Excision Is The Right Decision

Let us be clear.

NOWHERE in the constitution does it forbid the congress from ceding territory of the United States. A corrupt, and dishonest court, such as the one we have now, could warp an interpretation of Amendment 9 to state that since it isn't mentioned, a state has the right to Secede.

Technically, this is actually correct.  The south was well within its right to leave.  Then we fought this thing called the Civil War; but make no mistake, this was justified because of the Confederacy's attack on Ft. Sumpter.

But it is not without precident for a Republic to simply EXPEL a member state when it is deemed a threat to the union.  What the congress cannot do is split a state.  What we need to do is split the country geographically between the third of trump supporters and the two thirds of us who aren't Fascists.  Yes, I get that some of this is a fluid thing, but I think a parting of ways is WAY better than a civil war.  Before we even TRY for the Article 5 convention we need; let's just PART WAYS with the conservatives before we even try to reconcile with the Progressives and the moderates.

The simple act of congress; the National Excision act would only require a majority of both the House and the Senate and the signature of the president.  It could allow a state to divide itself up, by state wide referrendum (yes, a corrupt court could say it has to be a legislature, but the 14th amendment can override that) and basically allowthe majority of a state in cities to remain in the United States while effectively EXPELLING rural territory that does not reflect the values of the American Republic due to TREASON and collusion with a foreign power.

You COULD try bribing corrupt Red State legisulators to accept Federal division of the state by offering to take the debt of those states.  But really, state wide referrendums TO ME meet the criteria preventing the Federal Government from dividing a state.

The Patriotic Case for an Article 5 convention to Save America

"We have nothing to fear, but Fear itself," - FDR

Article 5, in the constitution, was written by wise men who wrote a document that was written to fix a broken, totally non functional government that the rest of the world laughed at because it was a pile of shit.  That government was called "The Articles of Confederation" and it could not do anything.  With the POSSIBLE exception of Switzerland prior to 1850, no confederation in the history of mankind has done jack or shit; not the American South, not the Athenian League, not the EU; confederations DO. NOT. WORK. 

The Founding Fathers knew this.  And they realized that we would likely fuck things up eventually.  Hell, Jefferson felt that we should have a new constitution every 20 years.  And we should but instead Jefferson did his job too well and we have a constitution that won't go away even if it needs to.

In THIS post, I'm not arguing about the constitution itself but the simple understanding that a house divided cannot stand.  We have two realities, and a recent conversation with an inhabitant of that reality made me remember; no one views themselves as a mustache twirling villain.  The nazis, to themselves, were holy warriors fighting for racial purity.  The romans enslaved but brought roads and civilization.  The british brought order and tea and democracy.  America brings McDonalds.

To a Trump supporter; these are not concentration camps for kids but Freedom Cages for the kids of criminals.  To a Trump supporter, they aren't traitors collaborating with Russia but Good Citizens who have a good ally and friend in Uncle Putin (and they aren't even working with him anyway).  To a Trump supporter, Trump may be crass and anti woman, but at least he doesn't murder babies.

They don't view themselves as monsters.  They view themselves as good guys and us as badguys who hate America, hate them, hate kids, hate babies, hate dogs, hate ourselves, hate the truth, hate kittens. WE, the inhabitants of reality, are the real villains and are cartoon characters in their minds; frightened children who need the Gubbamint to solve our problems and are; effectively, zombies in the servants of Soros and the Clintons.  Why do you think these people obsesses about the zombie apocalypse?   That isn't real zombies they are preparing for but the day when their Leader says it is OK to go out and mow down the evil; rather, "the evil is mowing us down, defend yourselves with extreme prejudice and their kids too just in case."  Seriously, these people look at the Republic of Gillean and nod, "We have to do it for God."

You can't reason with that.  You can't appease it.  You can't even legislate your way around it.  It is never, EVER, going to get better and you can't educate around it because their reality filters will listen to what you say and put you in the "Not Human" box and move on.

So, its either civil war or....

An article 5 convention.

We can agree to split ways; let them have their little reality where they put kids in cages and make women use wire coat hangers in alleys and keep black men from marrying white women and gay marriage is illegal.  We can do that, and keep ourselves and our cities safe.

You can argue that its horrible to let them do these things but are you prepared to sling a rifle on your back and walk through radioactive mud and live off MRE's for 10 years to make it happen? I bet you are not. I'm sorry but you just aren't.

So if we aren't REALLY wanting to fight the 2nd Civil War; and we don't want the Republic of Gillead, we have to give these people their pound of flesh.  We have to let them raise their taxes for the rich and let corporations rule them.  We have to let them let their sick racist fantasies become real and separate the country between Red and Blue america and the only real way to do it (without war) is an Article 5 convention.

You can put your fingers in your ears and keep saying "lalalalalalalala" or you can try and find a way besides war.  A real soldier avoids war at all costs.  Anyone with a shred of wisdom listens to the horrors of others; while I may be no soldier, I listen to them.  War is horrible; war is awful and war is what we are going to get if we don't split the country.

But do what you want.

Nazi Containment - The Case for a Global Lockout of America

Let's start with the simple awful truth.

Trump is not going away.  I don't mean the man, I mean the forces that put him in office and sustain him.  40% of America backs him unconditionally.  This man is a self avowed murder, adulterer and traitor and yet he has the unconditional backing of more than a third of America.  Even if he is removed from office, his backers are chomping at the bit to replace him with an even crazier fool.

America is sick.  America is infected.  America is beyond saving.

Nothing short of a constitutional convention could deprive these people of their 'rights' and they will not stop demanding the destruction of freedom for the rest of the world.  This is not hyperbole.  This is not exaggeration.

These. People. Will. Not. Stop.

And of the remaining 60% of America, fully a third has the intelligence of a tadpole and the memory of Dory in "Finding Dory."  Republican presidents WILL be elected again and they will all be as filthy as the one we have right now.  Waiting for another democrat is meaningless.  Any good will or faith in America will be undone the next time White Trash occupies the White House.

So its time to lock America out.

1) Remove America from the UN Security Council.  How does America serve the security of the world? We don't.  We bomb more people than all other nations combined.  America makes the world less secure not more.  Fascist countries do not deserve votes on the security council.

2) Remove the Dollar as the world reserve currency.  Why in the HELL would ANY country in the world want to use a currency backed by schizophrenic nazis?  We will quantatitive ease it.  We will dictate what your banks can do.  We will fuck your economy for our own. 

3) We do not keep our word.  There is no treaty conservatives will honor and the will of the non conservative Americans is simply not there to oppose them in all things and reduce them to the legal status of children they deserve.  So we will ALWAYS be Trump.  We will break our word again and again.

You are a fool to trust America.

4) Our military should be unwelcome in all ports out of the US.  Without cooperation from the world, our military is effectively powerless.  Does that let Russia and China extend their reach? Yes, it does.  Maybe the rest of the world can join up and form a defensive alliance, but YOU CANNOT COUNT ON AMERICA, because America is filth.

Conservativism is the root of all evil - The individual is all that matters

I consider conservativism to be the root of all evil.

But what does that mean?

Well look at this article, wherein the Toronto Incel Rapist Terrorist (Rapist because he insists women sleep with him against their will making him a Rapist even if he has not been known to rape, and Terrorist because he uses terror as a tactic to promote his political beliefs) justified randomly killing people because women aren't sleeping with him.  We can see here that he is definitely selfish, which is at the heart of libertarian and conservative philosophy, as well as a resistance to change, change in this case being that women are getting rights.

I posted in an earlier post that all conservatism is evil and it lies more.  Conservatism is resistance to change since change has almost always favored granting more rights, but I do think it important to understand, not ALL change is good.  A change BACK to previous conservative times would and should be a change to be resisted.  Conservatism is largely about, why the fuck should I have to give a fuck about anyone else?

The problem is, liberalism and very often to a lesser extent progressivism, and certainly what lying libertarians refer to as 'collectivism' has one flaw and that is a disregard for the individual.  The individual is all that matters in any philosophy that is inherently evil, and is the root of what you can call good or evil.  It is a balance that must be constantly sought and found and then refound to prevent excess.

What do I mean by that? If we call "Greater Good" as doing the most good for the most people possible, then that means just that.  PEOPLE.  A system unto itself is worthless except to the extent that which it helps the PEOPLE that are part of it.  Let's look at the greatest example of 'colletivism' to have a historical model with which to draw example to look for patterns.  Routinely, we saw that the soviets in mid level management worked for the good of the system rather than the individuals in it.  The reason Atlas Shrugged resonates with young impressionable minds is because this really happened.  They can see and sense the truth in it.

If your system does not help PEOPLE, your policy is fuck.  Fuck your system and fuck you.  But ALL people matter, and that means a lot of things.

• It means that you can't write someone off just because their needs are different than yours.
• It means that because everyone matters, the minority can't get a benefit at the expense of the majority.
• It means that you CONSTANTLY have to reasses the benefits of the minority and the majority.
• It also means you must have a HIERARCHY OF VALUES. (Defined below.)

Let's look at Health care as a way of applying this.  The right to have medical care is a reasonable one, and as I've mentioned in previous posts, the concept of what is or isn't a right is an going on.  Natural rights as a concept are garbage.  So for health care

*A minority, libertarians have a need for more money than everyone else.  The majority, not libertarians, have a need of not dying.  You can't just simply write of the libertarian need for more money just because more people need it.
*But some minority rights matter; like religion.  That religion might not matter to you but to that minority it is THEIR WHOLE LIFE.  And if all individuals matter, then those rights are at a basic level fundamentally important and they need to be protected.
*People change, values change and so what is a right today will change vs tomorrow.  If a society is comprised of individuals, then the rights of the current society should constantly be assessed.  (I'll leave off argueing for the rights of previous societies (which should be considered but last) and the values of future societies (which should be considered above all but only in very limited contexts) when making this decision.
*A Hierachy of Values is the key to all of this.  There will be conflicts, and it is not always a black and white case, common sense must be applied, but the fact is, a society, and at that the majority of a society should get to determine what values matter most and when the needs of the majority can trump the minority, but there is NO SUCH THING as fixed rights which do not go away ever regardless of the minority or the majority.

Using that logic, conservatism is always about trying to prevent the natural reassesment of values by the majority to match the individual needs of everyone.  What libertarians argue about in terms of 'collectivism' in this context would be about ignoring the rights of the minority at the expense of the majority in the hierarchy of values, and it is a legitimate point.

Let me repeat that, the SYSTEM is never valuable.  It is only the individuals it serves, so if 90 percent tax is actually LEGITIMATELY helping 90 percent of the people and their desires and needs, then it is legitimate BECAUSE it is helping 90 percent of the people despite the whining of the remaining 10 percent.   But it has to actually be helping people.  A system exists to serve people not the other way around.

There Must Be No "Right to Lie" in a Free Society

If we imagine that democracy is a market place of ideas, then how can the ‘right to lie’ as established by the court in the satanic decision in Susan B Anthony list vs Dreighaus (Here) is absolute bullshit. The First Amendment exists because of the extreme value the press and political literature played in the revolution. The constitution was written at the time of the enlightenment but within a generation lies were created by Thomas Jefferson (yes THAT Thomas Jefferson) which led Adams to Pass the Alien and Sedition acts. From then on, it became the obsession of the left that any argument always favored the liberal if you allowed anything to be said. But this was before the discovery of psychology, propoganda or psyops with surgical computer assisted precision. Experiments conducted by Social Media with such specificity that the APA (American Psychology Association) actually protested it as UNREGULATED NONCONSENTING PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH. So we’re entering Millgram experiment territory here. Moreover, thanks to the libertarian and republican infested government we possess, we have 45 percent of our population literally willing to believe anything a sociopathic traitor says. A democracy is a living fragile thing that requires much more breadth of society than merely a democratic government with checks and balances. It also requires strong non governmental institutions that can build a strong civil society that can build character and honor among its inhabitants who value diversity and freedom for all forms of individuals and fairness for all. This is why the Kock brothers have attacked schools, lawyers, unions and doctors; as well as creating toxic dirt rags like TMZ, to take away legitimacy and power in our society from any source but the rich and the foul lying mouthpieces that they control.

It is time we grew up. It is time that we understood that allowing a market place of ideas should follow the same rules of any other market place; let the market be a market but insider trading (or specifically allowing one person to have an advantage unfairly in a market) is simply not to be allowed. When you allow lying to go unpunished in the political sphere, you essentially set up an uneven market place which is a hazard to everyone. Lying is not a right, no matter what the conservative says. Indeed, why would a conservative not say it? Because it is in their nature to lie. The success of the conservative depends on the lie far more than the liberal, which is why people like Jefferson and every western liberal that has come after him has been such a staunch defender of an unlimited first amendment. Trump, Fox and Facebook show us where that road leads. Lying is the first step at reform in our society. It must stop. It must not be permitted, and while you can have unlimited political speech and unlimited artistic speech, if you are using those freedoms, just like invoking the 5th amendment you must clearly invoke it so all understand what you are doing. You must have a disclosure that says “I am a lying piece of filfh” if you are going to have Fox News. You can’t pretend to be real news and not in a ‘hide it deep in some obscure website way’ but wearing a scarlet L on your forehead.

You can have freedom or you can have lies, you cannot have both. Period.

"Why does God need a Starship?" - Demystifying Xi

There is a moment in Star Trek V where Captain Kirk asks the "all powerful" being from beyond the Galactic Barrier, "Wait a second...why do you need US to do anything for you?"  To which the all powerful being kind of goes "uuuuuuuuuuuh......"

Look, I get that China is the rising power.  Anyone who pays attention to history and world affairs gets that.  But I kind of have to ask...what does that do to change certain well observed rules in history?

There is a well known stereotype called the Inscrutable East which is widely understood to be racist as all out fuck, and I approve those who recognize it as such, but when I see people who approve of a lot of the things that China does well apply it to China somehow being exempt from these rules, I'm like...Excuse me?

Let's look shall we?

1) Democracy is a western form of government.

Is it? There are plenty of other philosophers who abstractly discussed the ideas of self beyond the greeks even if they didn't put it into practice, but I find the idea that the people of Asia are not able to have democracy because they are somehow 'unworthy' of it to be racist, even if it is applying the racism to themselves.  Let's call a spade a spade.  Democracy works because it WORKS just like Science works because Science Works.  If you want to start saying that Asian governments can't be democratic because the people there can't handle a democracy, explain India.  Explain Japan.  Sure, they work DIFFERENTLY, but China has no excuse for not embracing democracy just because of ancient greece.

2) Democracy is the best form of government except for all the others....except for China.

Churchill has this quote because Democracy isn't the most efficient form of government, no matter what your flavor; Direct Democracy, Democratic Republic, Swiss Democracy, Parliamentary Democracy, etc etc.  Splitting up authority means that power is less powerful.  Period.  But the thing is, you lessen your likihood of a crazy person getting into control.  In the US, we've had a lot of inept middling people muddle their way through four years of the executive without causing an implosion of power or having the military take over.

The reason Democracy brings wealth isn't because of all the wonderful things it does, its because of the transition of power.  Lack of democracy means that the sovereignty of the nation lands on Rule of Force not Rule of Law, no matter how much you try and pretty up the words.  This is something the Chinese understood, it's why they made up their own little version of the Sith "Rule of Two." After the last Chinese Civil War they said, "Let's not do this again, be poor and get overcome by richer countries."  And it worked.

Twice.

And now it's broken.

3) China is Strong.

No it's not.  It's just not.  Sure, it has a lot of soldiers, a lot of money, and a lot of soft power.  For an authoritarian regime, it's damn smart. It studies everyone else in the world and says "How can I do that smarter?"  It studies it's own history with remarkable efficiecy and says "How can we avoid ever making that mistake again?" And it even has an ideology to it.  The Chinese Communist Party are the ultimate nationalists, they really DO want China to be strong as compared to the North Korean Party which just wants to be in power and survive by any means necessary.  Sure, there are ideologies there, but there is also insanity.

My point is, that despite having an ideology, China does insane fucking stuff when it fears a threat.

It banned talk of Time Travel to go back and change the past in fiction so the party wasn't there.

Just recently, it banned pictures of the letter N or WINNIE the POOH?!

That's why they were so obsessed with Fulan Gonh, because of their past when religions rose up against them.

But this isn't careful meticulous planning, this is FEAR.  Fear of their own people, fear of the fact that their Faustian bargain that they made with their own people after Tienanmen Square, Growth in exchange for their freedom simply isn't sustainable. 

In fact, it has been fraying for some time.  That's why China has begun to increase authoritarianism.  That's why Xi is seizing power instead of their pathetic attempt to circumvent democracy.  Democracy works because it works, not because it's fantastic.  If you are going to come up with a system that concentrates almost all power in one guy except for another guy, you need more of a check on the would be almost dictator beside 'the party.'  Our country has LOTS of problems, and one big baby disgusting problem in the white house...

But in two years historical context says that America is going to pick another leader and move on.

Sure, there is thunder on the horizon of civil war, and despite Russian attempts at agitation, it has been like that for decades, yes, this time is different but this post is about China.

Xi is behaving like a dictator.  And he has as thin a skin as Thailand. 

I want to share an anecdote about Saudi Arabia when my wife and I visited Portland.  I brought up at our bed and breakfast that sooner or later things would change in Saudi Arabia.  A senior gentleman there said, "I'm sorry Tom but you're wrong."  Then he told us some wonderful anecdotes about his experience in Saudi Arabia and how efficient wise and all knowing the kingdom was.  And though dubious, I admitted I might be wrong.  Nope, I was right.  Saudi Arabia is a kingdom, and like a kingdom, no matter how you try to slice things up, when you transition power, sooner or later someone will want to take power.  Now the Crown Prince is doing just that.  Sure he is instituting 'reforms' but that's because he is aware of the same things I was several years ago; Saudi Arabia has PROBLEMS and the people there are SICK of living under oppression.

The people of China are getting richer.  They are tired of a cowardly inept government and when they do take power, they are going to be pissed at all the western companies that helped them do it.

Xi is a tyrant, a dictator in charge of a country that happens to have more resources than others but all their ideologies are lies and all the dancing around the fact that "China is Different" is just either racism or naivety.