Democrats Throw Hissy Fit, Want To Punish Trump For Refusing To Testify At Shampeachment

By William Teach February 9, 2021 – 6:43 am

Constitution? What’s that? Due Process? MIA. Democrats? Still unable to Move On, in complete Trump Derangement Syndrome. The “trial” starts today at 1pm

Democrats Threaten to Punish Trump for Not Testifying at Impeachment Trial

Move OnDemocrats reiterated Monday a threat to punish former President Donald Trump for not testifying at the impeachment trial in the Senate, which begins Tuesday.

In a short filing responding to Trump’s lawyer’s 75-page trial memorandum, submitted Monday, the House impeachment managers — all Democrats hand-picked by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) — wrote:

[T]he House has invited President Trump to voluntarily testify under oath, yet President Trump immediately rejected that opportunity to tell his story. The House will establish at trial that this decision to avoid testifying supports a strong adverse inference regarding President Trump’s actions (and inaction) on January 6.

The Democrats were responding to Trump’s lawyers’ claim that Democrats’ rushed impeachment, which defied all previous procedural conventions governing impeachment in the House, denied the president the constitutional due process of law.

The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides that “No person … shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” The impeachment trial is not a criminal case; however, many constitutional scholars argue that the same principles ought to apply — there, above all.

When Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) wrote to Trump’s lawyers last week, inviting Trump to testify, he made a similar threat: “If you decline this invitation, we reserve any and all rights [sic], including the right [sic] to establish at trial that your refusal to testify supports a strong adverse inference regarding your actions (and inaction) on January 6, 2021.”

Trump was afforded no due process in the House, with a rushed process, then Pelosi sat on impeachment for weeks. Now they’re threatening some sort of punishment for the constitutional guarantee that a person doesn’t have to testify, and finding him guilty till proven innocent. Trump and his people and the Republican Senators should just refuse to show up for this bit of unhinged Democratic Party hissyfit.

Rep. Jim Jordan: Trump impeachment trial – here’s what the Senate must do

It’s been almost a month since he left office, but Democrats still can’t let go of President Donald Trump. That’s why, as our country faces many urgent challenges, the Senate will set aside its real work this week and instead focus on yet another political impeachment charade. (snip through his evidence that there’s evidence that Trump had nothing to do with the violence)

Democrats ignored these facts. They also ignored the Constitution. Democrats afforded President Trump no due process in the House of Representatives. In fact, there was no process whatsoever – no witnesses, no depositions, no hearings, no cross-examinations.

Because Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., withheld sending the article of impeachment to the Senate until after President Trump left office, the Senate is poised to conduct an unprecedented impeachment trial of a president who is no longer in office. The only problem? The plain text of the Constitution makes clear that’s not allowed.

The Constitution states the “President … shall be removed from office on impeachment … and conviction.” The Constitution also specifies that “Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor.” The Senate obviously can’t remove a president who is no longer in office, and so it can’t disqualify a president from future office if it didn’t remove him while he was in office.

The Constitution also requires that the chief justice of the United States preside over a presidential impeachment trial. Chief Justice Roberts has said that he won’t preside over this trial. The substitute presiding officer, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., is also a juror who has already signaled support for President Trump’s conviction. Americans know this arrangement wouldn’t fly in a court of law, and it’s equally concerning in this trial too.

In their desperation to attack President Trump, Democrats are trampling on other important constitutional rights. Last week, Democrats threatened President Trump that if he declined to testify during the Democrats’ impeachment charade, they would use it as proof of his guilt. That may be how trials work in socialist countries. But that’s not how it works in America.

Democrats do not care, and the Credentialed Media will provide cover.

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Who’s Up For WWII Style Meat Rationing To Stop Climate Crisis (scam)?

By William Teach February 8, 2021 – 7:00 pm

Tell you what, if climate cultists can do this for 5 years in their own lives, I might consider that they believe the Earth is doomed rather than doing this for their authoritarian political beliefs (and not realizing the Bad Stuff will hit their own lives)

Boris Johnson faces calls to bring back WW2 meat rationing to save the planet

Donnachadh McCarthy is an Extinction Rebellion activist and author who proposed the idea after Tony Danker, Director of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), urged the Government to mimic the postwar recovery programme of 1945. Mr McCarthy took it one step further and claimed we should reintroduce rationing, which was implemented to feed the country on limited food supplies. This method, he believes, would be the fairest way to combat climate change when compared to alleged government plans to introduce a carbon tax on the food industry.

Speaking to Cristo Foufas on talkRADIO, the Extinction Rebellion supporter said: “The CBI, not a mad radical organisation, this week said that we should treat the climate crisis and the Covid crisis and the economic crisis as we did the Second World War.

“And how did we do it fairly in the Second World War? We didn’t say we were going to put a tax on meat and the rich can afford loads of meat and the poor get none, what we did was rationing.

“We have to accept that meat has really high carbon emissions, so the fair way of bringing it down and bringing down consumption is for (someone) to say ‘this is as much meat as you’re allowed each year’ and there’s your ration.

It’s weird how this keeps coming down to Government controlling the lives of citizens, eh? It’s almost like this has nothing to do with science.

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Dems $15 Minimum Wage Hike Will Kill 1.4 Million Jobs

By William Teach February 8, 2021 – 3:00 pm

They think it will lift 900K out of poverty or something. Of course, how many of those remaining jobs will be given to illegal aliens?

CBO: $15 minimum wage hike would cost 1.4M jobs, lift 900K out of poverty

surprise surprise surpriseA new Congressional Budget Office report says the Raise the Wage Act – the bill to gradually raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 – would increase the cumulative deficit by $54 billion over 10 years.

Supporters of the minimum wage increase have hoped the report could bolster the case for including the measure in the next COVID-19 relief package.

The report analyzed the impact of the legislation if it were enacted at the end of March. The report found the wage hike would cost 1.4 million jobs by 2025. It would also lift 900,000 people out of poverty and increase wages for 17 million people. The CBO said a wage hike would also benefit many of the 10 million people who currently make slightly more than the minimum wage.

Most likely, it would kill 2-3 million jobs, since the CBO is rather conservative in their estimates. And help half that number, because, in the real world, people’s hours would be limited, OT will be restricted, many full time jobs will become under 30 hours to avoid having to pay health insurance. CBO estimates tend to be on static situations, rather than what actually happens. Like with California companies leaving the state as they raise their minimum wage, even going to Mexico.

The CBO says the wage hike would lead to higher prices for goods and services, which would contribute to an increase in federal spending. While spending on nutrition programs would fall, spending for unemployment benefits, health care programs and Social Security would rise due to increased costs.

The CBO says Medicaid spending would increase, in part, because so many care workers would receive raises.

Wait, I’m shocked that the cost of goods and services would go up to offset the wage increase, which would reduce the power of that wage increase. Welcome to Economics 101, pal!

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 8, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…are trees being killed by beetles due to Other People driving fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post on the real cost of offshore wind power.

BTW, will I certainly appreciate the female form, does it annoy anyone else that people travel to scenic areas not enjoy them, but get selfies?

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COVID Crazy: You Should Wear A Mask While Walking Your Dog

By William Teach February 8, 2021 – 10:30 am

Pretty much every single state and city that has a mask mandate requires you to wear it if you are going to be in proximity with other people. But, you can stay away from people outside, right, so you don’t need to be masked up all the time, right? Au Contraire

It’s great when you’re told to wear a mask by someone who isn’t wearing a mask while inside and in the company of at least several people who are filming this bit of COVID moonbattery.

BTW, a fireplace is Evil for climate change, isn’t it? Not sure if wood or natural gas, but, either are supposed to be Bad.

Biden says women dropping out of workforce, closed schools are “national emergency”

President Biden said the exodus of millions of women from the labor force and the closing of schools —along with the mental health issues for children that could arise — during the COVID-19 pandemic constitute a “national emergency.”

“CBS Evening News” anchor and managing editor Norah O’Donnell spoke to Mr. Biden in the first network news interview he has given since his inauguration.

“It is a national emergency. It genuinely is a national emergency,” Mr. Biden said. Nearly 3 million women have left the workforce over the past year.

The president said he and his staff realized the Trump administration’s handling of the pandemic was “even more dire than we thought” once they entered the White House.

Got that? China Joe is blaming Trump, despite Trump wanting to reopen the economy and schools. Despite the areas with the closed schools and biggest business restrictions being in areas run by Democrats. Despite this happening in areas around the world. Funny that Joe won’t throw any blame towards his pals in China, eh? Nor towards his pals in the teacher’s unions, many of whom won’t come back to class.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Mr. Biden’s chief medical adviser and the top infectious disease doctor in the country, has said that to get herd immunity, 75% of Americans have to be vaccinated. At the current rate of 1.3 million vaccines a day, CBS News has calculated 75% of Americans won’t be vaccinated until the end of 2021.

“We can’t wait that long,” Mr. Biden said.

We wouldn’t even have vaccines without Trump’s leadership. Joe was out there, along with other Democrats, saying a vaccine would never happen this quick.

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Study: Modern Warm Period Started Around 1825

By William Teach February 8, 2021 – 7:56 am

Could this be something? It’s always been assumed that the Modern Warm Period around the 1850’s, which allows Warmists to claim that the Industrial Revolution caused the current warm period

Climate change: global warming may have started before industrial revolution, Chinese study says

Studies of coral reefs in the Paracel Islands suggest that the South China Sea started warming up in 1825, at the start of the industrial revolution, according to a study by Chinese scientists.

That was the year the world’s first railway began operating in England and most ocean-going ships still used wind power.

Man-made carbon dioxide emissions could not fully explain such an early rise in the warming trend, they said in a peer-reviewed paper published in Quaternary Sciences on Friday.

The Paracel coral record “will fill in some important gaps in global high resolution marine environment records and help us better understand the history of environmental change in tropical waters”, said the researchers, led by Tao Shichen from the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology.

Coral reefs provide useful climate records because the higher the temperature the faster they grow. The Paracels have one of the largest living reefs in the Asia-Pacific region, but in recent decades the archipelago has become the focal point of territorial disputes between China and Vietnam, and the construction of infrastructure has threatened the natural environment. (snip)

With the help of uranium dating technology, the researchers found the samples contained a continuous climate record going back to 1520. To ensure the accuracy of the results, parts of the samples were also sent to a laboratory in Queensland, Australia for independent analysis.

The results showed that the temperature 500 years ago was lower than it is today. The cooling trend lasted until 1825. From that date to the present, there was “a general trend of rapid increase” with the biggest spike reaching 2.3 degrees Celsius, Tao said.

This isn’t the first study to show that the MWP started decades earlier that originally thought, and, yes, this would certainly mean that the cause was mostly natural, because the increase in CO2 from anthropogenic activities would have been negligible. There were no fossil fueled vehicles, coal trains were slowly being used, same with ships, but, there weren’t a lot of them. There weren’t a lot of heavy manufacturing plants at the time. So, what would cause the warming?

Of course, none of this will matter to climate cultists, because they don’t actually care about science, they’ve been indoctrinated into a Belief. They’ll find a way to spin it to their benefit, poo poo the study, etc, all the things they do.

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Palestinians Set To Reap Rewards Of Trump’s Israel-UAE Peace Deal

By William Teach February 8, 2021 – 7:37 am

The Democrats and the Credentialed Media looked to downplay all the peace deals they brokered between Israel and Muslim nations, but, they keep reaping better and better things

Palestinians are signing up to UAE peace deal, claims Israel’s first ambassador in the Gulf

Palestinians stand to reap major benefits from Israel’s peace agreements with the Arab world, the Jewish state’s first official ambassador in the Gulf has claimed, as he began his historic posting in Abu Dhabi.

In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, Eitan Na’eh, the new Israeli ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, said the accords could lead to major investments in Arab-majority towns in Israel and in East Jerusalem, the home of many Palestinians.

“When you connect the dots from the Emirates to Israel there are a few more people along the way, and Palestinians are on the way, and will be there to benefit,” he said.

Signed in September on the lawns of the White House, the Abraham accords set up full diplomatic ties between Israel, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, as well as direct flights and a raft of trade deals.

Israeli officials say one of their major goals is to bring more wealth to the Arab population on their side and heal tensions between Jews and Muslims, though Palestinian leaders have strongly condemned the treaty as act of betrayal.

“It’s early now but when you…create jobs, and people are starting to work together, rather than against each other, the increase in trade and investments in areas such as infrastructure, energy, [it] will affect Palestinians too,” Mr Na’eh said.

The leaders of the Palestinian extremists are not happy about what could happen, but, the average Palestinian citizen who generally just wants to go about their life seem to be anticipating reaping some benefits.

“People are calling, telling me, ‘Ambassador I am from Nablus, can we be in touch, I’ve got some business propositions” he said.

“It’s getting across the message that this peace is not just between leaders [but] a peace between people. The spectrum of that is evident. We are discussing dozens of areas of cooperation in various fields at a pace not known before.”

The deal itself has increased trade between Israel and Dubai tremendously, so, now comes the question, will Joe Biden attempt to ruin it, since he’s trying to get rid of all things Trump? Will Joe give in to Iran, which will cause issues in the Middle East?

Iran Tells U.S. It Won’t Honor Nuclear Commitments Until Sanctions Lifted

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday warned Tehran will not reverse its nuclear program until the U.S. drops all sanctions against the Islamic republic.

“Iran has fulfilled all its obligations under the 2015 nuclear deal, not the United States and the three European countries … If they want Iran to return to its commitments, the United States must lift all sanctions first,” Khamenei wrote on Twitter.

“After verifying whether all sanctions have been lifted, then we will return to full compliance,” he wrote.

Joe had sorta claimed he would lift the sanctions once Iran stopped enriching uranium (like they ever really stopped cheating the original deal), but, will he give in to Khamenei?

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Who’s Up For Carbon Neutral Underwear?

By William Teach February 7, 2021 – 3:00 pm

It’s totally rewriting the American underwear story

I Tried the World’s First Carbon Neutral Seamless Underwear — and I Already Want More

I stumbled upon underwear brand Parade about a year ago after seeing the brand’s impossibly cool Instagram ads. Upon further investigation, I fell in love with the mission, which is to “rewrite the American underwear story” with styles that are comfortable, size-inclusive, and as socially and environmentally conscious as possible.

I adore every pair of Parade undies I own, but the brand’s new Universal seamless collection is what truly changed the game for me. I can comfortably say I’ve never felt so strongly about undergarments.

Universal is Parade’s first foray into the world of edgeless, line-free underwear, with a robust collection of thongs, full-coverage hip huggers, briefs, and boyshorts. They’re all made from the same innovative fabric, composed of 80 percent recycled nylon and 20 percent elastane. The underwear has a buttery texture unlike anything I’ve ever felt, and each pair is topped off with organic cotton lining for maximum breathability.

Wait, nylon? They do realize nylon is made with petroleum, right? Fossil fuels. There’s a good chance that the elastane is made from petroleum, as well.

Beyond the combination of comfort and style, Universal breaks ground in the sustainability department. Parade balances emissions from producing the collection with carbon offsets, which take the form of investments in May Ranch, a Colorado prairie home to over 300 bird species. And as always, the brand continues to donate one percent of profits to Planned Parenthood.

So, they are not really being carbon neutral in their operations, they’re just purchasing “offsets” to cover up their climate killing operations. How are they delivered? Fossil fueled vehicles and airplanes, right?

Oh, and pretty much most of the models look exactly like you’d think a climate cultist leftist would look like.

But, kudos to them for coming up with a product and company that caters to Warmists, taking advantage of their climaidiocy. I hope they’re making a bundle off the little Modern Socialists.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 7, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is wine which will be ruined by climate change, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post noting that being a moron can get you killed.

Kinda basic this week, it’s time for some bikinis!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach February 7, 2021 – 9:14 am

Ren Wicks Patriotic Pinup

Happy Sunday! It’s still a great day in the once and future nation of America. Got some rain for the bushes, the Super Bowl is today, and I tested negative for COVID again. Though the parents didn’t. Caught it from their barber. While wearing masks. Fortunately, it seems low level. Pray it stays that way. This pinup is by Ren Wicks with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. neo-neocon covers Time mags piece on the conspiracy to “save” the 2020 election
  2. Noisy Room discusses the only exhibit Team Trump needs for Impeachmentpalooza
  3. Pacific Pundit wonders where are the National Guard are as Antifa hassles diners
  4. Powerline covers SCOTUS knocking down California’s ban on inside worship
  5. Raised on Hoecakes discusses NC’s Lt Gov being likened to the KKK….he’s Black, BTW
  6. The First Street Journal notes Biden’s act about caring for Americans is just an act
  7. The Other McCain discusses catch and release in San Francisco
  8. The Right Scoop covers Iowa’s governor ending mask mandates and opening the state
  9. The Rio Norte Line wonders what we do now
  10. Virtual Mirage covers changing institutions
  11. Weasel Zippers notes Biden saying it will take 10 years to bring jobs back
  12. Legal Insurrection highlights the CDC being nags about the Super Bowl
  13. Gay Patriot shows up on the feed reader again, with a post on it being fun being a conservative
  14. Chicks On the Right has a doozy of an addition to the wall of shame
  15. And last, but not least, Blazing Cat Fur notes British Columbia extending COVID restriction indefinitely

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me.

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

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