If All You See…

By William Teach September 28, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil carbon polluting beer, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Diogenes’ Middle Finger, with a post stating Red states should mandate a percentage of gas powered vehicles.

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WRAL Does Some Snitching On Gyms Failing To Enforce The Mask Mandate

By William Teach September 28, 2021 – 10:30 am

Some mask mandates have been reinstated in my area. There’s one for Wake County, which covers the unincorporated areas. Raleigh has one, as does Knightdale. And a few other towns in my area. Some in Wake County said “nope.” Regardless, none of the mandates actually have penalties for non-compliance. Some companies will, some won’t. I know a few who are hardcore about it, and others who don’t care. My gym doesn’t care in the least, and at least half of the members do not bother. And, for those who do wear a mask, they are often pulling it below their nose. WRAL decided to do some snitching, rather than investigating, oh, say, what’s going on in the city, county, and state governments, holding them accountable, which is the entire reason “the press” was mentioned in the 1st

Wearing your mask at the gym? Depends on where you work out.

Since Raleigh officials put a local mask mandate back into effect last month, city staff have visited about 30 businesses to check on compliance after receiving complaints. No citations have been issued to date.

WRAL Investigates checked out some local gyms, including Crunch Fitness in the Village District, after receiving complaints about mask non-compliance.

There wouldn’t be, as there are no penalties, unlike the previous mask mandate. Perhaps the snitches could go elsewhere.

Only two people other than a WRAL producer and the Crunch employee providing a tour were seen wearing masks inside the Raleigh gym. Everyone else was working out without the required face covering.

“The sign’s up everywhere, but no one’s following it. It’s sad, but it’s the state of things,” health care professional Joshua Smalls said as he went to workout.

Smalls, who had his mask on even before going inside, said he feels wearing a mask is the right thing to do.

“I think they’re definitely a benefit. I trust the CDC’s guidance,” he said. “It’s not a trial for me to wear a mask. I don’t think it’s hard.”

So wear it yourself, stop enforcing your beliefs on everyone else, especially when cloth masks work, at best 10% in stopping COVID.

WRAL Investigates also checked CrossFit Brave in Cary. While the gym’s back doors were open to help with air circulation, people there also were working out without masks.

Hey, perhaps WRAL should go over to the State House and Raleigh town hall, see if the lawmakers and employees are playing mask theater, wearing them in public and taking them off in private.

A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association supports the notion that gyms are hot spots for coronavirus transmission.

In a Chicago gym, 68 percent of participants in a high-intensity class became infected when masks were optional. In Honolulu, a spinning class instructor and 10 participants all tested positive for the virus after the instructor taught a class just hours before showing symptoms. Closer to home, Find a Way Fitness, in Raleigh, experienced its own outbreak in December.

Yet, if this were the case, why are so few gyms mentioned? There were none at my gym. Nor at the ones that many people I know go to. You haven’t heard about big outbreaks, have you? For those of us who are vaccinated, we’ll take the chance. That’s the point of the vaccine.

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Illinois To Ban Fossil Fuels By 2045 Or Something

By William Teach September 28, 2021 – 8:15 am

It would be funny as hell if the fossil fuels companies said “oh, you want to ban our products? OK, guess you don’t need them now. We won’t be importing any of those products to your state starting now.” Perhaps the fossil fuels companies could start with just a few cities, such as the state capitol of Springfield and the dangerous city of Chicago, add in Aurora, Joliet, and Naperville, which have the largest populations in the state behind Chicago. Let’s see how that works out. No more airplanes, no more trucks full of goods and foods. No heating oil as winter comes.

Illinois becomes 1st Midwestern state to pass a law to phase out fossil fuels

st greta carAt a time when the Midwest is being battered by more severe storms due to climate change, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a landmark law this month that will transition the state to 100 percent clean energy by 2045, with benchmarks along the way.

While the effort has largely escaped national media attention, it is especially noteworthy for three reasons: Illinois is the first state in the coal-heavy Midwest to commit to eliminating carbon emissions; the plan received some Republican support; and it includes programs to ensure economic and racial equity.

“What we’ve now done is made it clear that [fossil fuels] are not in Illinois’s future,” Jack Darin, director of the Illinois chapter of the Sierra Club, told Yahoo News.

Of course, so much of this will be forgotten by 2045. Because this is more about climavirtue signaling. But, how do they expect to replace all the coal and fossil fuels?

One of the reasons that Illinois can afford to be so much more aggressive is that it has the largest nuclear energy fleet in the nation, so it can stop burning coal and natural gas for power even if renewables aren’t ready to meet 100 percent of demand.

Is natural gas not a fossil fuel? Are climahysterics and extreme enviros not against its use? Yes, yes they are. They want the use of natural gas banned, which is why you are seeing so many climate cult pushes to ban the use of natural gas run stoves, heating systems, fireplaces, and boilers/heaters. Nuclear? The same people are mostly against the use of nuclear, and certainly do not want new plants built.

But Illinois isn’t just going to boost nuclear: The law will double the subsidies for renewable sources of energy, to around $580 million per year.

Yes, because wind works well when they’re frozen and solar is fantastic when covered with snow. Do they actually think those two can provide power for Chicago? Good luck! I’m going to skip by the typical climate justice section

And while environmentalists are singing the law’s praises, there are a few key components of climate action that it does not fully address, including emissions from transportation and coal mining. Still, it is considered a first step in a process that begins with cleaning up the power sector, then moves on to electrifying other major sources of emissions, like home heating and industrial processes.

Another part is how this will actually work, especially considering what to do with the airports and ships and trucks, needed to bring in products and goods, including food. Good luck!

The law includes provisions for statewide building codes to improve efficiency and begin electrification of heating. Illinois drivers can get a $4,000 rebate if they buy an electric car, with the state goal of reaching a million electric vehicles on Illinois roads by 2030. Still, that’s a long way from being carbon-neutral in a state with close to 13 million residents, but the bill’s backers say Illinois will take more action on other aspects of the climate fight, such as transportation, in the near future.

Forcing people to spend money on their homes. A rebate is not actually money. Most people cannot afford an EV. How will you charge them? They’ll let you know later about how they will get food and goods to the state. Good luck! Oh, and since y’all voted for it, don’t leave Illinois. Stay and reap the outcome.

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Republicans Block Democrats Bill To Raise Debt Limit

By William Teach September 28, 2021 – 7:53 am

Of course, the media is complaining about this, because when Democrats block Republicans when Republicans are in the majority everything is OK

Senate Republicans Filibuster Government Funding Bill Over Debt Ceiling Provision With Three Days Until Shutdown

Senate Republicans Monday filibustered Democrats’ bill to fund the government and suspend the debt ceiling, days before a potential federal shutdown and possible debt default.

Republicans vowed for weeks to oppose a debt ceiling increase and urged Democrats to put the provision in their filibuster-proof $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. But Democrats have thus far refused to do so, and with their bill’s failure Monday, Congress now has just three days to pass a new funding bill to avoid a government shutdown set to begin Friday at midnight.

Speaking on the Senate floor ahead of the 48-50 vote, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer lambasted Republicans and alleged that they were throwing the country “toward unnecessarily, avoidable disaster.” Schumer changed his vote to “no” at the last second, allowing him to bring the funding bill back up at a later date.

Blah blah blah. Democrats whine, too, even though they do the same thing. Here’s an idea: stop spending way more money than you take in.

“We will support a clean, continuing resolution that will prevent a government shutdown, get disaster relief to Louisiana, help properly vetted Afghan refugees who put themselves on the line for America and support the Iron Dome assistance for our ally Israel,” McConnell said. “We will not provide Republican votes for raising the debt limit.”

Republicans’ objections stem from the Democrats’ budget itself. If they have the power to and are planning on pushing it through Congress without GOP input, they argue, then they should be responsible for raising the limit on their own. Most estimates say it must be raised before mid to late October in order to avoid a default.

“Bipartisanship is not a light switch, a light switch that Democrats can flip on when they need to borrow money, and switch off when the want to spend money,” McConnell added. “The debt suspension that expired in August covered all the debt that had been accumulated to that point. This is an argument about the future.”

That’s a good point: why would Republicans vote for a bill that paves the way for the Democrats $3.5 trillion 100% partisan bill, especially when Democrats work to gum up the works when Republicans are the majority party, even though Republicans usually ask for Democratic Party input on these types of bills. When Dems are the majority, they suddenly say they want bipartisanship. Which, of course, means, Republicans voting for the insane Dem bills while being allowed no input.

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Bummer: Small Islands Caught Between Tourism And Climate Doom

By William Teach September 27, 2021 – 3:00 pm

This has been mentioned many times, namely, that so many island nations who want all sorts of climate cash make a huge chunk of their GDP, in many cases the majority, off of tourism. Meaning tourists fly in on fossil fueled jets and expect modern amenities in nice rooms. These islands, heck, even places like Hawaii, cannot survive without fossil fuels, as they also need fossil fueled jets and ships to bring them goods and food.

Small islands caught between tourism economy, climate change

Come visit the Maldives, its president entreated the world at this year’s United Nations General Assembly, moments before switching to an impassioned plea for help combating climate change. The adjacent appeals illustrated a central dilemma for many small island developing states: their livelihoods, or their lives?

The United Nations recognizes 38 member states, scattered across the world’s waters, as small island developing states grouped together because they face “unique social, economic and environmental challenges.”

This bloc is particularly vulnerable to climate change. This bloc is also particularly dependent on tourism — a significant driver of climate change, accountable for 8% of global carbon dioxide emissions alone, according to sustainable tourism expert Stefan Gössling — and an industry devastated by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

The predicament these islands find themselves in is essentially recursive: Attract tourism for economic survival, which in turn contributes to climate change, which in turn bleaches the colorful reefs and destroys the pristine beaches that attract tourists. As is, by the end of the century, these low-lying islands could drown entirely.

“The difference between 1.5 degrees and 2 degrees is a death sentence for the Maldives,” President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih told the U.N. General Assembly last week.

They could give up their tourism business, right? Nope, they want climate cash. The small islands are whining about this and climate doom yet again, because the next Conference on the Parties is coming up in November. It just goes to show that most Warmists refuse to practice what they preach.

The decisive decade for climate change

In a subscriber-only live event, Oliver Morton, The Economist’s Briefings senior editor, and Catherine Brahic, Environment editor, discuss the recent findings of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report which has delivered the starkest warning yet about climate change. They also look ahead to the upcoming COP26 negotiations and discuss their expectations of this critical conference. You can watch the conversation in full below.

Every decade is the decisive one. It is interesting that you have journalists talking with journalists about their journalistic viewpoints, eh?

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 27, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is an inland sea created by carbon pollution fueled extreme weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Cold Fury, with a post on generals then and now.

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NY Court System Employees Win Case To Block Vaccine Mandate

By William Teach September 27, 2021 – 1:00 pm

Must be nice. People who work at courts won in court

These NY public workers just won a court order to block looming vaccine mandate

The union representing 5,800 workers in the New York court system won an temporary order Friday blocking the state from moving forward with a vaccine mandate starting Monday.

The victory for CSEA was the latest political development as unions and some workers fight Gov. Kathy Hochul’s decision to stick with the vaccinate mandate for state employees and health care workers.

CSEA was granted a temporary restraining order by state Supreme Court Judge Christina Ryba after the union sought to block the order for all non judges that it represents.

Ryba granted the order until at least next Friday, when additional arguments are set to be heard in state court in Albany.

CSEA has argued that any vaccine edict needs to be collectively bargained between the state and the union.

It must be nice to use the contract government workers signed with government to block, at least temporarily, the implementation of forced shots. They still should voluntarily get them, but, shouldn’t be forced. I’d feel a bit different if the Wuhan Flu vaccines were at least 98% effective.

(USA Today) Tens of thousands of health care workers across New York state could lose their jobs as soon as today, the state-imposed deadline for them to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

All healthcare workers at hospitals and nursing homes are required to have at least one dose under the mandate issued last month by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Home care, hospice and adult care workers must be vaccinated by Oct. 7 under the rules, which some workers are challenging in the courts.

About 84% of the state’s hospital employees were fully vaccinated as of last week. It was not clear how many others had received one shot.The state Labor Department issued a guidance that those who lose their jobs won’t be eligible for unemployment benefits.

Should be some interesting lawsuits over loss of unemployment benefits, both from a union contract and government regulations standpoint, since they would be terminated for something that was never a requirement at the time of hiring.

Gov. Kathy Hochul says she is considering plans to declare a state of emergency, bring in the National Guard and hire workers from others states and countries if staffing issues become dangerous low.

“We are still in a battle against COVID to protect our loved ones, and we need to fight with every tool at our disposal,” Hochul said in a statement.

So, perhaps use positive incentments, rather than forcing health professionals out? You can’t just hire on a dime anymore. Same article

The State Police Association of Massachusetts said dozens of troopers are planning to leave their jobs after a judge on Thursday denied a request to delay Gov. Charlie Baker’s state employee COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

“We are disappointed in the judge’s ruling; however, we respect her decision. It is unfortunate that the Governor and his team have chosen to mandate one of the most stringent vaccine mandates in the country with no reasonable alternatives,” SPAM President Michael Cherven said in a statement.

As a result of Judge Jackie Cowin’s decision, “dozens of troopers have already submitted their resignation paperwork, some of whom plan to return to other departments offering reasonable alternatives such as mask wearing and regular testing,” the union wrote.

Good luck, Mass!

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Your Fault: Today’s Kids Will Experience Three Times More Climate Disasters Or Something

By William Teach September 27, 2021 – 7:12 am

So, you wanted to take a fossil fueled drive over to the burger place and eat well? Well, the kiddies thank you due to future Disasters

Today’s kids will experience 3 times as many climate disasters as their grandparents, new study predicts

If the Earth continues to warm at its current pace, a 6-year-old child will experience about three times as many climate disasters as their grandparents, a first-of-its-kind study in the journal Science predicts, based on a wide array of climate and demographic models. The study, published online Sunday, attempts to quantify how much kids will be affected by the “intergenerational inequality” of climate change.

The average 6-year-old will live through twice as many wildfires, 3.4 times as many river floods, 2.3 times as many droughts, 2.5 times more crop failures, and 1.7 times as many tropical cyclones as someone born in 1960, the 37 researchers determined. Compared with people who lived 150 years ago, in pre-industrial times, today’s children will experience five times more climate disasters — or if they live in sub-Saharan Africa, 50-54 times as many heat waves, The Washington Post reports. (unfortunately, the WP seems to be about the only ones with a story on this, and it is behind the paywall)

And those numbers are almost certainly an underestimate, says co-author Joeri Rogelj at Imperial College London, noting that the researchers were unable to quantify certain risks, like floods from rising ocean levels, and did not account for the increased severity of climate-related events, just frequency.

Ah, yes, another prognostication of Doom using computer models, which do not take a lot of real world data into account. Surprise! I wonder, what happens when this doesn’t happen. What consequences are there to the “researchers” for putting out a scaremongering study? What is the time frame? The current average life span for humanity is 79 years, so, do we need to wait 73 years? Or, can we start looking to see if the study was right in, say, the next 5 years? Because there really has been no acceleration of wildfires, floods, droughts, or crop failures. For tropical cyclones, modern technology, particularly satellites, allows us to see way more than they would have known about in 1966, when those kids born in 1960 were 6.

Georgia Institute of Technology’s Kim Cobb, who did not work on the study, said the climate scientist in her was not surprised by the findings — but the “robust study” did hit her on the parental level. “It brings into sharp focus what so many economic models of climate change impacts fail to capture — the vast toll of human suffering that is hanging in the balance with our emissions choices this decade,” she tells the Post. “The moral weight of this moment is almost unbearable.”

When you’re yapping about “moral weight”, and “intergenerational inequality”, well, this is no longer about science, it’s about politics and sociology. It’s about manufacturing issues to allow government to implement more and more controls on the people.

Lead author Wim Thiery said the study was partly inspired by his three young sons. “Young people are being hit by climate crisis but are not in position to make decisions,” he said. “While the people who can make the change happen will not face the consequences.”

So, parents are fighting to get government to restrict and control the lives of the children? That’s irresponsible and abusive. And they’re framing this all as “health”

(Spiked) It’s scary, portentous stuff. But this rather desperate presentation of climate change as a public-health emergency is hardly a surprise. Policies and measures to tackle everything from knife crime to racism are now often framed in terms of public health. It has become the catch-all justification for policymakers – a source of authority and legitimacy for technocrats. And this tendency to justify just about anything in terms of protecting citizens’ health has been supercharged by the response to the pandemic, where all sorts of measures, from school closures to bans on protests, have been imposed in the name of health and safety.

I’ve been looking for that piece by Tim Black for over a week. COVID allowed government to instituted all sorts of authoritarian controls. This is how they’re trying to frame ‘climate change’ now. Progressivism is called “nice Fascism.” It doesn’t mean things are great, it means “they are doing this for your own good.” It’s a softer, kinder, gentler approach to Authoritarianism.

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Horseback Border Patrol Agents Could Get Minimal Punishment

By William Teach September 27, 2021 – 6:51 am

For what, doing their jobs? For attempting to block all the thousands of illegals attempting to stream into the United States, which is against U.S. federal law? Stopping illegals is a main component of the job of the Border Patrol. But, remember, we’re dealing with spiteful people in the White House (and Congress) who created the situation at the border, who want chaos and tens or hundreds of thousands of people streaming across the border

Border Patrol agents who Biden said would ‘pay’ could get minimal punishment, officials say

The Border Patrol agents who were pictured blocking migrants on horseback in Del Rio and who President Biden promised would “pay” as he echoed false claims the agents “strapped” migrants — could get little more than a few days suspension, if the investigation turns out as some senior administration officials hope.

spite houseThe agents are at the center of a Department of Homeland Security investigation after images emerged which Democratic lawmakers and left-wing activists claimed showed them using “whips” against migrants. Officials and agents quickly noted that the agents were in fact using long reins to control their horses, and were twirling them to move the horse forward, not to attack migrants.

Since then, video has emerged supporting that claim, while the photographer behind the original images has said he did not see migrants whipping anyone. But the administration has doubled down, with DHS Secretary Mayorkas claiming the images “conjured up the worst elements of our nation’s ongoing battle against systemic racism.” Biden, meanwhile, added fuel to the fire of the claims the agents were whipping, and even running down, migrants.

“To see people treated like they did, horses barely running over, people being strapped — it’s outrageous,” Biden said on Friday, making a whipping motion with his hand. “I promise you, those people will pay. There will be an investigation underway now and there will be consequences. There will be consequences.”

Exactly what those consequences will be is up for debate. Despite the angry rhetoric from the White House, senior administration officials told Fox News that the investigation should produce little more than a suspension of a few days with pay for the agents — and should be a “non-issue.”

The Office Of Professional Responsibility is in charge of the investigation, and there are six agents under investigation. At this point, there’s no way they can get a fair review, not with the POTUS stating “those people will pay” and “there will be consequence”. You know, the people who ultimately work for the Executive Office, so, a tainted investigation. Any negative consequences will be illegitimate, and this, again, is exactly what a union is for, to protect the workers from unfair bosses.

Those with knowledge of the matter say that investigation could rest on what the agents said, rather than what they did. One agent was filmed saying: “You use your women?, this is why your country’s sh–, because you use your women for this.”

However, “yelling at people is not a crime,” the official said, adding that the National Border Patrol Council had sent in lawyers and the men are “well represented.”

If they are given even light punishment, it will dissuade the men and women of the Border Patrol from doing their jobs, leading to more problems at the border, just as we’ve seen in the Democratic Party run cities who’ve been treating their police like garbage, even trying to defund them. And any finding of punishment will certainly end up in court, per the union contract. Especially with

(Fox News) Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas admitted Sunday that the vast majority of Haitian migrants who crossed the southern U.S. border in recent weeks have already been released into the United States, and it is possible that more will follow them.

So far, approximately 12,400 of the people are having their cases heard by immigration judges, while another 5,000 are being processed by the Department of Homeland Security. Currently,, only 3,000 are in detention.

“Approximately, I think it’s about ten thousand or so, twelve thousand,” Mayorkas told “Fox News Sunday” when asked how many have already been released. He then acknowledged that this number could very well go up as the 5,000 other cases are processed.

“It could be even higher. The number that are returned could be even higher. What we do is we follow the law as Congress has passed it,” Mayorkas said.

The law states they should be blocked from entering. Except in the stupid cases where they claim “asylum”, for which no more than 10% qualify initially, and less after a deep review. The law certainly doesn’t say to simply release around 12,000 into the U.S. with a promise to show up for their court date.

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Boston Globe: Congress Must Rebuild The Presidency Or Something

By William Teach September 26, 2021 – 7:20 pm

This is a pretty heavy piece from the editorial board of the Boston Globe, perhaps not light reading for a Sunday evening. And it is bat guano insane

Congress must rebuild the presidency
The Protecting Our Democracy Act is Congress’s chance to protect the public from future American tyrants.

When Donald Trump lost the presidency, he left behind a treasure map for future American tyrants that shows them precisely how to undermine — and potentially destroy — American democracy. By constantly and shamelessly flouting anticorruption norms and laws, the former president exposed just how weak the United States’ system of checks and balances is and its desperate need for reform. And evading any accountability for now, he has proved that presidents can go so far as to foment an insurrection without facing any legal consequences.

Interesting. Trump, who tried to reduce the influence of the federal government on citizens, reduce regulations, reduce taxation, was a tyrant or something. I guess because he had mean tweets towards the highly partisan media?

The American presidency has, in turn, become a ticking time bomb, waiting for a future tyrant to abuse its power in order to succeed where Trump failed. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Just as Jimmy Carter signed anticorruption reforms into law after Richard Nixon’s crooked presidency, President Biden must swiftly establish new laws that strengthen accountability for himself and his successors.

Yeah, it’s Biden refusing to enforce the duly passed immigration laws, as required by the Constitution. It’s Biden implementing all sorts of COVID mandates, who’s refusing to send medications to states like Florida who annoy him. Who’s trying to force citizens into electric vehicles. Who took advantage of his position to make lots of money. And so much more.

The good news is that Congress may be on its way to sending Biden a bill to do just that. Known as the Protecting Our Democracy Act, the bill is one of the most important pieces of legislation that Congress will deliberate during Biden’s presidency, and it sets the stage for the federal government to finally address the damage that Trump imposed on the office. “We discovered over the last four years just how much our system is reliant on certain norms of behavior that we thought were inviolate,” Representative Adam Schiff, Democrat of California, the lead sponsor of the bill, told the Globe editorial board. “It turns out so many of the protections of our system are easily flouted.”

If Liberals love this bill, you know there are lots of things being missed that are meant to instituted 1 party control with more power to the feds.

If it’s passed, the bill would strengthen enforcement mechanisms that protect the government and the public from presidential abuse of power as well as introduce new and reasonable restraints on the executive branch. Among other things, it would give Congress more oversight over presidential pardons that may be self-serving and make explicit that presidents cannot pardon themselves; strengthen enforcement of laws like the Hatch Act or the Constitution’s emoluments clause; bolster Congress’s subpoena power by fast-tracking judicial proceedings and empowering courts to levy fines on government officials who do not comply; and require presidents and vice presidents, as well as candidates for those offices, to release 10 years of their tax returns — a provision that was recently dropped from the voting rights bill that congressional Democrats are seeking to pass.

Already you can see this will be shot down in full unless there is some severability. 10 years of tax returns? The Constitution states “No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.” That’s it. Period. Those are the requirements. There is no measure for changing that, adding to that, without an Amendment. This is simply more Trump Derangement Syndrome because he refused to release his tax returns.

Pardons? “and he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.” Again, there is nothing in there that gives Congress the ability to change that nor require oversight.

Emoluments? If they want to strengthen that, pass an Amendment.

Another reported White House concern is the bill’s provisions that ban presidents from firing inspectors general without good cause. But after Trump’s explicit attack on inspectors general — “I think we’ve been treated very unfairly by inspector generals,” he said, after firing a bunch of them — it’s important to give the executive branch watchdogs an extra layer of protection.

They serve at the pleasure of the President. Period. But, see, Democrats only complain when Republicans fire them.

If they want real change, repeal the 17th Amendment, go back to the original way of having state general assemblies appoint Senators, giving power back to the states. I’ll let you read a whole reasoning here. Term limits for the House. One of the complaints the bill looks to fix is spending by the Executive Branch. Well, start passing targeted bills. Specific bills. Bills that have no latitude except as intended. When they passed OSHA, did anyone consider that they would manufacture the ability (supposedly) to mandate vaccines? Where did the authority to implement a contraception mandate come from? There is nothing about contraception in Obamacare. Where did it come from? How about the mandate for Ocare regarding employer size? That was left up for HHS.

Congress passes laws, the Executive Office enforces them. How about the Obama regime refusing to enforce federal law on marriage? Biden admin refusing to enforce immigration law?

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