2024: America’s First Fraudulent Election!
America has run its most recent election in November of 2024. However, unlike past elections where the candidates were fully eligible to be on the ballot, this time around we had one Presidential candidate who was placed onto the ballot illegally and fraudulently. Let’s explore.
January 6th, 2021
It is widely understood that January 6th, 2021 was in insurrection. What is an insurrection? The definition according to the Oxford Dictionary is as follows:
in·sur·rec·tion
/ˌinsəˈrekSH(ə)n/noun
noun: insurrection; plural noun: insurrections
a violent uprising against an authority or government.
Let’s examine the events and the reasons behind January 6th, 2021:
- Donald Trump fomented, incited and encouraged people to march to the capitol, knowing he had full well invited The Proud Boys and various other similar groups who are known to have violent tendencies.
- Donald Trump arranged and fomented this event solely to halt the counting of the electoral votes in hopes of preventing the transition from Trump’s administration to Joe Biden’s (the winner of the election)… all so that Trump could stay in power beyond his legally elected term.
- Once the march to the Capitol began, barricades soon began to fall, people rushed into the Capitol building, broke windows, assaulted police officers with all manner of weapons, leading to the deaths of several.
- During the 4 hours of continual rioting, not once did Donald Trump step outside in an attempt to quell or urge the rioters to stop.
- The counting of the ballots was temporarily halted so that Congressional members could be moved to safety while the building was temporarily occupied by marchers; marchers who were there solely because of Donald Trump.
- After 4 solid hours of solid violent rioting, Trump finally emerged from his hole and effectively rewarded the rioters with an oddly sardonic message, “Go home. We love you.”
Don’t have to believe me, here’s one in hundreds of YouTube videos about it. Go watch them for yourselves. The above is only intended as a short synopsis.
Insurrection Proven
Many people, including Donald Trump have attempted to gaslight and whitewash that this event was a “peaceful demonstration”. You don’t exhibit peaceful demonstrations by bashing police officers with flagpoles and breaking windows.
More than this, many, many, MANY of the Capitol participants have been charged with violent crimes related to the insurrection that day.
Here’s a small sampling from this DOJ article:
- Approximately 452 defendants have been charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers or employees, including approximately 123 individuals who have been charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury to an officer.
- Approximately 140 police officers were assaulted on Jan. 6 at the Capitol, including about 80 from the U.S. Capitol Police and about 60 from the Metropolitan Police Department.
- Approximately 11 individuals have been arrested on a series of charges that relate to assaulting a member of the media, or destroying their equipment, on Jan. 6.
- Approximately 1,186 defendants have been charged with entering or remaining in a restricted federal building or grounds. Of those, 116 defendants have been charged with entering a restricted area with a dangerous or deadly weapon.
- Approximately 71 defendants have been charged with destruction of government property, and approximately 56 defendants have been charged with theft of government property.
- More than 332 defendants have been charged with corruptly obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding, or attempting to do so.
- Approximately 57 defendants have been charged with conspiracy, either: (a) conspiracy to obstruct a congressional proceeding, (b) conspiracy to obstruct law enforcement during a civil disorder, (c) conspiracy to injure an officer, or (d) some combination of the three.
I refer you to the above definition of insurrection: a violent uprising against an authority or government. Every single one of these charges above PROVES beyond a shadow of a doubt that what Donald Trump fomented and incited was ABSOLUTELY an insurrection.
The 14th Amendment of the Constitution was passed by Congress on June 13, 1866 and ratified on July 9, 1868. This amendment is entirely designed to qualify ALL candidates who wish to hold an elected office. The qualifications include such things as age and citizenship. In addition to these basic qualifications, Section 3 includes language regarding actions that DISQUALIFY candidates when certain conditions are met. Let’s examine this language:
Section 3
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
The 14th Amendment Section 3 language above is crystal clear. To paraphrase:
If someone who has held an office in the past and has previously taken an oath of office for said position AND has ENGAGED in insurrection or rebellion against the same (i.e., Government), given aid or comfort, they are DISQUALIFIED from holding ANY future office.
This section even takes this disqualification language one step further and gives Congress a new power: “But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”
Meaning, if a candidate has become ineligible to hold office due to having engaged in insurrection, Congress has the power to remove that disqualification by voting in a 2/3rds majority to lift that disability and allow the person to become eligible.
This last part is EXTREMELY important to understand. Because the 14th Amendment has given Congress a new and explicit power to override the 14th’s disqualification rules, this means that this is absolutely the ONLY method that can be used to override any of the 14th’s disqualification rules. Why? Because this power was explicitly granted to Congress! Not to the SCOTUS. Not to the Executive branch… to Congress, the Legislative branch.
What Constitutes Disqualification under the 14th?
Many have argued this point. The 14th Amendment doesn’t explicitly have language stating who makes the determination of what constitutes disqualification. Rather, the 14th seems to leave this aspect up to obviousness rules. Meaning, when someone has engaged in insurrection, that fact should be extremely obvious. As in the case of Donald Trump, it IS extremely obvious.
If anyone needs something more obvious than that above, the January 6th committee spent from June until December of 2022 describing EVERY SINGLE DETAIL of the January 6th Capitol attack in brutal, unflinching detail. This information described Donald Trump’s behavior during the entire Capitol attack. That information even included testimony from people who were close to Donald Trump on insurrection day.
If you didn’t have enough information to leap to insurrection before the Congressional hearings, these obviousness rules would 100% apply after. By the time the January 6th committee had completed its findings, it was crystal clear that January 6th was not only an insurrection because of the Committee’s findings, but also because so many participants have been found guilty of participating in a violent uprising against the government (fomented BY Donald Trump himself).
By the time ALL of this information came to light, it was 100% certain and, here’s that word again, obvious that Donald Trump had engaged in insurrection through his actions on insurrection day.
Even Congress was so taken aback that they had to consult with the Supreme Court on if what Donald Trump had done constituted engaging in insurrection. Let’s be clear here. The Supreme Court has no power or authority to disqualify or qualify a candidate. That power has been given explicitly to Congress and Congress alone. If Congress had questions regarding Donald Trump’s eligibility under the 14th Amendment, it was Congress’s authority alone (granted by the 14th Amendment) who needed to have made this determination.
Because Donald Trump had both fomented and had taken part in January 6th, having engaged in insurrection is absolutely 100% crystal clear. What that means is that it became Congress’s job alone to qualify Donald Trump as a candidate in any future elections via a vote. This action did not happen.
Because the 14th describes who is qualified, it also means that if they are not qualified (i.e., disqualified), they cannot be added to ANY ballot for any elected position. Adding such a disqualified candidate to a ballot is considered illegal under the 14th Amendment. Any such person added to a ballot illegally makes any election involving an illegal candidate also invalid and, ultimately, fraudulent.
Fraudulent Election
Like entering any contest where qualifications are required, if a person entering is considered disqualified for entry (at any time… before, during or after), the person’s involvement and benefits are forfeit and the contest void.
If you enter a contest and you must be 18 years of age, yet you’re 17 and you enter and win, the prize that you win will be forfeit and you will not receive it. Additionally, you will be publicly admonished by explaining that that person entered the contest illegally. In these situations, if there is a runner up winner, that winner is typically to whom the prize is ultimately awarded. However, some contests may choose to cancel the entire contest, forfeit the prize making no winner at all. The result of participating illegally in a contest is entirely up to the contest creator and rules governing the contest.
In the case of a Presidential Election contest / election, there can only be one outcome under fraud. If it is found that a contestant participated in the contest illegally, the contestant must be publicly admonished and removed as the winner. Because the 2024 Election requires citizens of the United States to vote, handing the winner to the runner-up under a fraudulent participant condition isn’t considered fair to the voters. Awarding to the runner up would exclude whatever amount of people who voted for the fraudulent candidate.
Instead, the United States would need to perform the following actions:
- Announce that the election was fraudulently operated
- Announce that any results from the fraudulent election are abandoned and void
- Announce that the reason for the fraud was due to an ineligible person participating
- Announce that a new election will be held on [insert new election date]
- Then, disqualify said fraudulent candidate
At this point, the election process would start anew as if the previous election never occurred. All candidates would submit for participation in the election as they previously had.
Requalifying ineligible candidates
Under the 14th Amendment section 3, Congress may choose to hold a vote (both houses) on whether a disqualified candidate is to be qualified. This vote must occur before the new election date is reached. If Congress fails to pass the resolution, then that candidate remains ineligible to participate. Only eligible candidates are allowed on the ballot.
That means that, for example, if Donald Trump’s vote for re-qualification in Congress were to fail, he would remain ineligible to participate in any future election. Only candidates that qualify would be allowed to participate. The former candidates in the previous fraudulent election are still able to participate in the new election IF they were then and now remain qualified.
Trump, Riots and Election
One thing is certain, if those in the Government made an announcement that the 2024 election contest had been fraudulently operated because it included a disqualified candidate (Donald Trump), an uproar would ensue. I get that. To thwart that, time would need to be given to allow for a new election to be held and a new count to be tabulated for the then qualified candidates. Additionally, police would need to be coordinated around the country in case of such riots.
Many would blame the Democrats for “doing this”, but in reality, it is the Constitution “doing this”. All Americans need to understand that the Constitution is the law of the land, not the Democrats and not the Republicans. The parties are simply participants in the system, they are not the owners of it. The Constitution is the owner.
We all either accept that the Constitution says the Election was fraudulent or we don’t. Per the 14th Amendment, the 2024 Election is considered fraudulent. The President Elect under this fraudulent election is not valid. Because a participant was included in the election illegally and fraudulently, the election results stand as null and void. No one won because it’s as if the election never took place.
The Democrats didn’t disqualify Donald Trump. Donald Trump disqualified Donald Trump the day he chose to foment, encourage and engage in insurrection. The Democrats had no hand in Donald Trump’s actions and activities on January 6th. He did that all to himself. He disqualified himself in 2021.
Oaths of Office
Both Democrats and Republicans alike need to uphold their oaths of office and call for a new Constitutionally VALID and LEGAL election, one that doesn’t contain a disqualified candidate. Donald Trump absolutely is NOT the President Elect. He’s not anything at all other than a cheat. He illegally entered an election and took advantage of the fact that Congress failed to qualify him via the 14th Amendment. That’s called CHEATING.
All duly elected representatives must STAND UP and call the 2024 election for what it is, fraudulent.
If we don’t do this and accept a disqualified candidate under the guise of a “President”, we have subverted the will of the Constitution and EVERY SINGLE ELECTED OATH HOLDER has violated their oath to uphold the Constitution. Yes, EVERY SINGLE ONE.
Call to ALL elected Officers, Senators and Representatives
We have limited time before this election deal is done. However, we do have time for every person who has sworn an oath to protect the Constitution to do the right thing. We need each and every one of you to stand up and state that this election is fraudulent and invalid. We need you to denounce Donald Trump as an ineligible candidate placed onto the ballot illegally.
Only then can we move forward with creating a new election day and time and asking voters to step to the polls and vote once again, THIS TIME on eligible candidates only.
We’re all wanting to talk about voter fraud, but no one is talking about candidate fraud and we need to be talking about this. Let’s call this election for what it is. Fraudulent. Let’s rip this bandage off and start anew.
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Trump: America’s first illegally elected President
America is about to make a massive mistake! The U.S. Constitution has a lot of words. I know, it’s seems difficult to read. It’s not. Let’s explore the constitutional problems with Donald Trump as President Elect and why the 2024 Election results are invalid. Let’s explore.
The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is a curious beast. It says a lot of things, but none more important than section 3 below:
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Highlights have been added for brevity and clarity. The 14th Amendment describes ALL of the qualifications necessary for a person to run for any elected office. Failing any of these requirements means that the candidate is INELIGIBLE to run. Note this previous statement because it becomes very important to America and the 2024 Election.
January 6th
… is widely understood as an insurrection. It fits all of the qualifications for it. It was violent. It was an uprising. The uprising was against the United States government. The uprising was intended to subvert the will of the voters. The uprising was intended to aid Mr. Trump in remaining in office past his term. The uprising was fomented and incited by Mr. Trump at the ellipse the morning of January 6th.
More than this, Mr. Trump decided to sit idly by for 4 hours and do nothing to stop it. This is aiding and abetting… the very definition of what’s written in the 14th Amendment.
As a result, even Congress was forced to consult with the Supreme Court on whether what Mr. Trump did was considered an insurrection. The problem is, it doesn’t matter what the SCOTUS believes, it only matters what Congress believes.
If Congress was required to ask another authority in the government about Trump’s conduct, then it’s clear that Congress is unclear on Trump’s eligibility. This means that Trump is and should be considered ineligible to run for office until this question is 100% cleared by using the 14th’s prescribed VOTING mechanism. Trump is now considered a “grey area” candidate at this point.
The 14th Amendment is CRYSTAL CLEAR on what is required to ensure any “grey area” candidate is eligible. “But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”
It says it right here in the 14th’s text. Congress may choose by a 2/3rds vote to lift such a disability and make any such “grey area” candidate eligible to run for office. Until such a vote, the candidate must remain ineligible.
Congress failed to vote on this! (IMPORTANT)
Keep in mind that nowhere in the 14th Amendment does it allow or authorize the SCOTUS to chime in on such and make any definitive choices. The ONLY choice given by the 14th is to have Congress VOTE on it. Any questions involving any candidate’s eligibility automatically means that a Congressional VOTE is REQUIRED.
2024 Election
What does all of the above mean for the 2024 election? Let’s break it down.
Since Donald Trump was then and is now an ineligible candidate per the 14th Amendment and because Congress failed to vote on Trump’s eligibility because of his “grey area” status, that means Trump is and remains an illegal candidate on the ballot.
Trump shouldn’t been on the ballot because he’s ineligible due to the failure of Congress to follow the procedures outlined in the 14th Amendment; procedures that are quite crystal clear in their intent and in their required actions.
But the SCOTUS…
The SCOTUS doesn’t play into this. Nowhere in the 14th does it say that the SCOTUS can intervene and offer up their opinion. Think of it this way. The SCOTUS’s opinion is tantamount to you having committed a crime, then asking a judge if they believe you are innocent of the crime.
If a judge gives you their opinion as “innocent”, that doesn’t mean you aren’t still responsible for having committed that crime. That judge’s opinion absolutely DOES NOT let you off of the hook for having committed that crime. It’s just an opinion. What matters is what the LAW says is required.
If the law says you should be indicted and charged, that judge’s opinion absolutely 100% WILL NOT get you out of that predicament. You will still be held accountable for what you did in whatever way the law requires. Talking to a judge absolutely does not get you a “get out of jail free” card no matter what that judge says. The same for the SCOTUS. An opinion is just an opinion. It is 100% not binding. What is binding is what the written law requires.
Election 2024 continued…
Because Trump is a “grey area” candidate due to his involvement in January 6th AND because Congress had questions involving his conduct on January 6th AND because Congress did not rule on Trump’s eligibility, Trump remains ineligible to run for ANY office… period.
Until or unless Congress votes on Trump’s eligibility as the 14th Amendment requires, Trump remains ineligible to be on any ballot.
Let’s break this down further…
Because Trump was on the 2024 ballot as an ineligible candidate, the results of the election are, likewise, invalid. This means that the 2024 Election technically has no winner because the Election results must be tossed out in their entirety. Trump is not the President Elect because the 14th Amendment is clear on this matter. Trump is ineligible.
Kamala Harris is not the winner either because the entire election results must be tossed out entirely. It’s a fraudulent election because an ineligible candidate participated.
Re-Run the Election
Because the 2024 Election results are 100% invalid, the election must be rerun with 100% ELIGIBLE candidates. Trump can only be made eligible by a Congressional vote in both houses. That would need to be done BEFORE any Re-Run election. If the vote fails or if Congress is unable to hold such a vote, then Trump must remain off of the Rerun election ballot.
Accepting an Illegal President
If America moves forward with this illegal Presidential charade, then we are complicit in breaking down the will of the Constitution. The Constitution is completely clear on how candidate eligibility matters need to be handled.
If we accept Donald Trump as President Elect under these ineligible circumstances and accept the results of this invalid election, America will have voted in its first ILLEGAL President in U.S. History. It also means the Constitution is null and void. Democracy is dead if we proceed here.
Technicality
Technicalities matter and this one matters a great deal to both America and the United States Constitution. Do we stand with the Constitution and uphold it? OR, do we stand with Donald Trump and vote against our Constitution?
Because Congress made a procedural faux pas in this matter, it is on Congress to right this wrong. In fact, it’s on the entirety of the United States Government leaders to stand up for our Constitution and call the 2024 Election invalid and require a re-run election.
Let’s do the right thing here! OR, there’s no stepping back from this precipice! We are at America’s decision gate and most of us don’t even know it. There is a short amount of time to correct our course here, but it requires ALL Americans and all American Leaders to bring attention to this situation regardless of their partisanship.
Trump can still be America’s President, but it must be voted on in the Constitutionally correct way.
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America has made the wrong choice
Much to the chagrin of so many, Donald Trump has managed to win the election and become President, but not by a landslide. Donald Trump will spin it that way, but it isn’t true. One thing that is absolutely true, however, is that lies are winning over truth. Lies are how Trump won. Let’s explore.
Over-Analyzed
The news media outlets are now over-analyzing Trump’s win, pulling out all manner of random talking heads to say whatever they think. These randoms, most of the time, make zero sense with their inane arguments as to why Trump won.
For example, one of MSNBC’s talking head randoms claimed that Trump won because Democrats called the Trump base biggots and racists. I don’t recall any Democrat candidates saying this. Media outlets may have been making these arguments, along with many talking heads on media outlets, but I can’t recall a single Democrat candidate saying this. Feel free to point how how I’m wrong in the comments below, however.
One thing that is absolutely certain is that media outlets have been calling Trump a biggot and racist. This is true. It seems if these talking heads are so out of touch that they can’t recognize the difference between a news media outlet and a Democrat, they’re living in a cave. They’re also clearly not thinking.
Spinning Lies
Trump won, not because Democrats did or said anything wrong. Trump won because Trump and his cabal are able to spew lies about the Democrats that seemed truthful to the masses. That’s the gist of it at all. At the heart of the matter, it comes down to lies over truth.
People seemed to have forgotten one cliché, but very salient and prophetic quote:
If it seems to good to be true, it probably is.
No where is this quote more applicable than towards Donald Trump. Trump is a conman, first and foremost. The word “conman” has a lot of negative connotations, but let’s break it down. The “con” prefix in “conman” is short for “confidence”.
This means that a “conman” gains your “confidence” by saying things that, you guessed it, “seem too good to be true”, leading to an initial skepticism. Then, the conman follows up those skeptical words with words that try to allay your fears about his statement being “too good to be true.” In a very real sense, leading you down a primrose path made of up plastic flowers. They’re pretty and may seem real, just don’t get too close.
He then hauls out 2, 3 or more shills who all backup his claims as the conman. These shills are paid accomplices who say whatever the conman wants because they were paid off. Think of them as paid actors.
These shills who come rolling out are intended to prove to you that the conman’s words are truthful. Some people may still be skeptical at this point, unless some of the shills are people like a mayor, your police leader or even your pastor. That’s where a conman’s words get a huge boost to seem “truthful”, even though they’re still all just a pack of lies.
The Wrong Decision
It seems that the vast majority of America has now been conned by a man who has enlisted far too many confidence shills like Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott and Rupert Murdock (and sons) and this list goes on and on and on.
Gullible sorts believe what Trump says because they believe what his shills are saying. That rationale is, “if all of these people are saying the same thing, then it must be true.” Yet, shills are still shills perpetuating lies on behalf of the conman. Unfortunately, when so many are perpetrating the same lies, it can be difficult to undersatnd that these lies are, very much in fact, still lies.
Let’s not get bogged down into Trump’s continual lies.
4 years of Hell
America is literally in for 4 years of hell. You will begin to realize that the lies that Trump and his cabal have told are in fact truly lies. That you were, in fact, deceived by a legitimate conman. Unfortunately, you’re going to learn this fact in the most difficult ways possible. Let’s list out each of what Trump has made claims of “fixing” and then realize why he will be unable to actually do any of it. In fact, the economy will get far, far worse under Trump’s leadership than where we are right at this moment in time.
Trump’s lies:
- Trump will bring down inflation and restore what was the economy prior to Biden. This is both a lie and it is false. Trump has no ability to steer America’s economy to make it any better than it is right now. In fact, with Trump’s continual chaos, firings, distractions and age-related mental degeneration, America’s economy will actually get worse, not better. Expect higher rents, higher food costs, higher gas prices and higher inflation than where we are today. It could even get to twice higher than today.
- The Middle East and Russia wars will end. Lies. Trump has no influence to control or change the outcomes of what’s going on the Middle East or with Russia. The best he can do is attempt to befriend Putin again and play hardball with Netanyahu, neither of which will affect those wars in any way at all. Worse, though, is that for all of his meddling in these international affairs, he will see to it that No. 1 above absolutely comes true… a worsening economy, more inflation and higher prices. The only way that the Ukraine war ends under Trump is for the Ukraine to be handed over to Russia on a silver platter.
- Trump will deport many, many immigrants. Lies, mostly. Not in that he will deport people, but in HOW and WHO he will deport. While he may be able to round up immigrants and “deport” them, there’s no way to know what exactly he means by this. He could attempt to round up not only recent immigrants, but all immigrants of any nationality regardless of their legal citizenship status or how long they have lived in America. Then, deport ALL of them. MAGA isn’t just about “Making America Great Again”, it’s about “Making America White Again.”
- Trump will fix the border. Lies. Trump has no way to fix the border. Putting up a border wall will cost taxpayers trillions more in money. Instead of reducing taxes, you’re going to be paying even more to help put up that wall along the border… a wall, that incidentally, will do nothing to stem the tide of immigrants. Of course, Trump will lie about all of this and tell you it is working. Because you don’t live near the border, you will have to take his word at face value. Living near the border will tell you the real truth, but you don’t care about that because you don’t live near there.
- Trump will make the country better. Lies. Trump only cares about one person. Himself. Trump will make the country better for HIM only. Not for you, not for your family and not for anyone else you know. This ties back to No. 1 above, but it is markedly different because Trump wants to be President for not only the power he derives, but for the money he gains and the money he can skim from just about everywhere he can find. This, of course, costs the economy money and you, as a taxpayer, money. Trump wants to turn the country into a playground for the rich with those at the bottom becoming pawns for his pleasure, convenience and for the work he can make you do. He wants you to work even longer hours, get even less money in wages and effectively become slave labor to him. Well done voting for him.
Third World Nation
These above are the top things Trump has promised. However, he has also promised political retribution to his opponents. We’ll have to see how his political retribution ends, but that likely means completely getting rid of the Democrats entirely.
That above and his promise of toppling the constitution. These here are additional promises he has made. The problem is, toppling the constitution means toppling America. Toppling America means putting America into not only a great depression, but the biggest depression that America has ever seen. It also means America will cease to exist as a country and will instantly become a third world nation. The dollar will cease to have value across the globe. Think of what the peso is worth in Mexico and devalue the dollar by even more than that.
If the constitution is toppled, your rights are gone. Your home is gone. Your land is gone. Your money is gone. Everything you hold dear is absolutely, 100% completely and utterly gone. Without a constitution to protect your rights, you have no rights at all.
Trump can come in and seize everything you have and everything you own. Trump can then rearrange the state boundaries, remove voting entirely, disband the military or rearrange the United States to his will and effectively cause one of the most catastrophic changes to what was formerly known as America.
If we get to this point, and yes it is entirely possible we will in less than 4 years, Trump will have to begin selling off parts of American territory to continue to fund his own lifestyle choices, that and to avoid becoming part of a coup. That probably won’t work. Don’t bet that if we get to this point that Mexico, Russia, China and North Korea won’t eye our land for conquest. World War III? Forget that. We won’t be able to even defend our nation once Trump brings us to this point. Our military will be so disjointed and disbanded, that we won’t have a military to speak of. Nukes? They probably won’t even work.
You Voted For This!
This is exactly what you voted for. You bought into Trump’s con. You think he’ll make America better, but that’s not going to happen. He’s too old and too unstable to produce any results. Trump has no moral compass nor ethical boundaries. Trump is, as some media outlets have stated, transactional. He does things on a whim, but also does some planned things with as minimal planning as possible. When something is planned, it’s usually planned and executed in hours, with absolutely not enough time to judge the consequences.
Trump offers no real plans. He isn’t a planner. He’s not even a doer. He’s a leach and a conman. He takes and takes and takes. He almost never gives back.
This is what you wanted? No? It’s absolutely what you’re going to get.
The next 4 years are going to be a living hell for not just Democrats, but equally for all Republicans. You wanted to open Pandora’s Box. Well, now you did. Now we get to see exactly what’s inside of Pandora’s box… and no, it’s not going to be pretty.
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Do sunscreen chemicals cause cancer?
As we move into the heart of summertime, let’s check out sunscreens once again. While many medical professionals including a notible cancer hospital, the sunscreen industry and researchers all purport that the artificial compounded chemicals included and used within sunscreens do not cause cancer, the question remains, do they actually cause cancer? Let’s explore.
Which chemicals are used in sunscreen?
There are many compounds and chemicals that can be added to a lotion base that can reduce and absorb exposure to UV rays, but the chemicals don’t just stop there.
Here is a list of lab created chemicals:
- Avobenzone†
- Bemotrizinol†
- Bisoctrizole
- Cinoxate
- Dioxybenzone
- Ensulizole
- Homosalate†
- Meradimate
- Methylisothiazolinone†
- Octinoxate†
- Octisalate†
- Octocrylene†
- Oxybenzone†
- Octyl Methoxycinnamate
- PABA aka 4-Aminobenzoic
- Padimate O
- Sulisobenzone
- Trolamine Salicylate
Are there any “organic” or mineral sunscreen formulations?
Yes, but these mineral formulations may not do your long term health any favors, either. These mineral formulations have not been tested for long term repeated exposure just as the chemicals above have also not. Here’s a list of these mineral formulations:
- Retinyl Palmitate† (a form of Vitamin A — can be naturally or artificially derived)
- Zinc Oxide
- Titanium Dioxide
What else is in sunscreen?
Some sunscreens contain fragrances and other skin conditioners and oils that help the lotion smooth onto the skin and feel nice. These additional non-UV absorbing inactive ingredients may also increase the problems of …
Skin Absorption: The Trouble with Sunscreen Chemicals
The biggest difficulty with slathering any type of lotion onto your body is that the chemicals placed into the lotion can and do get absorbed into your body. The skin is not solid holdout barrier. The skin is porous and allows any substances placed onto it to eventually be absorbed into the skin, some ingredients absorb faster than others. The smaller the particles in the lotion, the easier it is for the skin to absorb.
Because sunscreen chemicals are finely milled and/or lab created, these particles can be as small as 100 nanometers in size or possibly smaller. When the sizing of such particles reaches 100 nanometers or less, this size is well small enough to transmit through the skin into the bloodstream and even cross the blood brain barrier. By comparison, a human hair is between 80,000–100,000 nanometers in width. These sunscreen chemical particles are very, very small… way smaller than the size of a hair.
Because those minerals can show up in your sunscreen in two ways: in nano form (teeny tiny particles smaller than 100 nanometers), or non-nano form (particles bigger than 100 nanometers)… A particle that minute can penetrate cell walls, breach the blood-brain barrier, and slip into the lungs. And. The smaller the particle, the more it reacts to UV radiation, forming free radicals…
Basically, the smaller the particle, the more easily it is absorbed by the body and the more it interacts with UV light, breaking those particles down into potentially problematic and/or toxic components that can also be absorbed into the skin and into the body. Once a particle is small enough to slip into the bloodstream, all bets are off for long term safety. What this means is that once these particles are swimming in your veins, they can land and deposit anywhere…. in your lungs, in your brain, in your muscle tissues, in your liver… literally anywhere.
Even in 2020, the FDA readily admitted that sunscreen chemicals do absorb into the skin (based on prior AMA research). As the FDA always does, it stops short of stating that there’s a risk posed with skin absorption. However, the FDA’s lack of risk confirmation DOES NOT state that there’s NOT a risk. It simply means the FDA has chosen not to investigate whether there IS a risk. Here’s a quote from the FDA’s statement:
[T]he FDA’s newly-published research in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) provides much-needed additional information about the absorption of the active ingredients in sunscreens into the body’s bloodstream after they are applied to the skin. It’s an important follow-up study to prior research … that showed when certain sunscreens were used at their maximal recommended use … , their active ingredients were absorbed through the skin and into the body.
The findings in these studies do not mean that the FDA has concluded that any of the ingredients tested are unsafe for use in sunscreens, nor does the FDA seeking further information indicate such.
Internal Consumption
Because sunscreen chemicals are not intended to be consumed internally, there’s no way to know the long term safety risks posed once absorbed. It’s entirely possible that some of these chemicals, like many heavy metals, never leave the body. Some of these sunscreen chemicals can even cause hormone disruption. Some of these chemicals may also break down under UV light or via other mechanisms into more dangerous particles that can be absorbed and which can disrupt the human body function.
The sunscreen industry has, unfortunately, predicated its product safety assumptions entirely on the fact that its lotion products do not enter the body or the bloodstream. That assumption has now been proven wrong. While the sunscreen industry has a large number of studies describing how effective and efficacious its lotions are when applied to the skin when wanting to avoid and limit UV exposure, there is a complete dearth of studies on whether these sunscreen chemical formulations enter the bloodstream OR whether the absorption of these chemicals lead to future long term chronic diseases. Yet, we already understand (and it has even been proven) that these very small chemical molecule sizes are able to penetrate and traverse into the bloodstream?
After all, no product manufacturer wants to point out that its products are dangerous. By remaining completely silent on whether sunscreen products do long term damage to the body, these manufacturers can continue to state that they are perfectly safe… that is, until someone produces a study that proves they aren’t safe. So far, no independent researcher has yet been willing to step up and call out the sunscreen industry on this safety fact involving skin absorption.
For this reason, this is why hospitals like MD Anderson can write articles espousing the safety of such sunscreen chemicals. In part, they’re willing to do this because if people don’t use sunscreen, we also know that risk of UV exposure causes skin cancers. However, using sunscreens for their short term UV blocking benefits can easily trick the user into thinking their skin is safe and covered, when it is not. More on this below. The question remains…
Are we trading in a single solution for more health risks?
Skin exposure UV reduction = ???
This equation is the question that needs to be answered. While using sunscreen is a short term solution in helping reduce skin exposure levels to harmful UV, it also leaves the other side of the equals sign empty. The sunscreen industry doesn’t want you to know that the other side of the equals sign likely contains a whole passel of long term diseases down the road and years later in life, simply because you slathered on sunscreen nearly every single day. Then, much much later in life, ended up with cancer anyway much later… or maybe even a worse debilitating disease? Who really knows?
You may not even be able to correlate your disease to the use of sunscreen if the two happened more or less in isolation and years apart. That’s exactly what the sunscreen industry hopes.
Here’s a recent example of such a product correlation. The talcum powder industry purported its short term health benefits of drying and preventing chaffing when used every day. People believed that assumption. Because talcum powder does offer limited short term benefits, the long term health tradeoff came once we fully realized that many brands of talcum powder also contain asbestos. Asbestos is a carcinogen and when exposed over and over, it increases the likelihood of cancer wherever that asbestos is applied or inhaled.
One might want to argue that this talcum situation was considered a matter of product tainting. Unfortunately, this is not tainting of a product. When talcum powder is mined, inevitably it is found where asbestos deposits also exist. Inevitably, manufacturers had to accept that their talcum could be laced with asbestos simply because that’s how the mines produced talc. You might, again, argue that the manufacturer could remove the asbestos, but that’s almost impossible at talcum powder particle sizes. For the manufacturer to sell talcum powder, they had to accept that it also contained asbestos. Of course, some manufacturers also denied that asbestos fact simply so they could say their product was safe. Sound familiar? I digress.
As in the talcum example above, sunscreen is now in a similar position. The short term health benefits of sunscreen obviously include preventing UV exposure over a several hour period. In that time, you’re required to reapply sunscreen every 2 hours or less depending on factors. This means, incidentally, a frequent amount of exposure and re-exposure to sunscreen chemicals continuously throughout a day. If you’re doing this for days on end, those repeated exposure sessions may cause these small nano particles to build up in your bloodstream, on your skin and within your body to unknowingly wreak havok internally.
The more often you use sunscreen, the worse it’s likely to get. This means that for the short term benefit of reduction in UV, you are very likely trading your future long term health to gain those short term skin benefits. Because no studies have been produced involving long term exposure to sunscreen chemicals, we simply have no idea what diseases might lurk in our future. Is the sacrifice of potential long term health worth the risk simply to prevent UV exposure? Only you can answer this question.
For those future diseases, will it involve cancer? Will it be mesothelioma? Will it become other chronic pain and disease we haven’t yet encountered? We simply do not know what is ultimately on the other side of that equals sign. There is definitely something on the other side and it’s not going to be pleasant, rest assured. Aging already takes a toll on the body. There’s no need to compound aging by slathering chemicals all over the largest organ on your body and then think nothing will happen.
Sunscreen in Every Day Products
This entire absorption issue is even more compounded because many daily wear products, such as cosmetics, lip balms and even regular lotions include SPF chemicals in their formulations. For women wearing makeup, these SPF formulations might offer minimal UV production, such as level 4 or 10. They might not even be broad spectrum. The problem isn’t in the UV protection factor, but the fact that women wear foundations and other makeup daily.
Makeup products also tend to stay on the skin for way longer than an average sunscreen you might wear at the beach across a day or two. Women might even refresh their makeup throughout the day adding even more exposure to SPF chemicals.
Adding SPF to regular health and beauty products adds even more to the risk of long term toxicity with these sunscreen chemicals and incidental ingredients. Yet, the cosmetic and sunscreen industries have both embraced these chemicals as if they’re some kind of health saver… when, in fact, the long term problems with these chemicals are actually unknown. Why are they unknown? Because long term studies simply don’t exist. Simply search Google for the terms ‘long term sunscreen chemical studies‘ and you’ll see for yourself that none exist. If a study exists, Google will find it.
If you’re not planning on being out in the sun for no more than 15-30 minutes in a day, there’s no need to wear SPF chemicals at all. You’re exposing your body to chemicals all with effectively no short term benefit. The only reason to wear SPF is if you need to be out in the sun for longer than 30 minutes. Even if you have a sun allergy, it’s best to cover up with clothing rather than relying on sunscreens to do that work. Clothing is much more protective than sunscreen. Incidentally, sunscreen begins breaking down the moment you put it on your skin. Clothing doesn’t break down and works so long as your skin remains fully covered.
Mineral Sunscreen vs Chemical
At this point, you might be thinking that you can avoid the chemical use situation by using mineral sunscreens instead; sunscreens which include Titanium Dioxide or Zinc Oxide. Unfortunately, while these mineral formulations aren’t lab created in the same way as a chemical like Octyl Methoxycinnamate, there’s no way to know the long term problems in the bloodstream when using these minerals sunscreens either.
Minerals are needed for a healthy diet. However, consuming too many minerals can become toxic to the body. Slathering on these mineral sunscreens regularly and constantly, you could find your body having negative reactions over time; reactions that could range from allergies to diarrhea or even worse health conditions.
With repeated exposure to sunscreens over many years, it’s entirely possible that the constant irritation to the skin from these chemicals and minerals might even trigger skin conditions up to and including skin cancer. The problem, however, with sunscreens is that it’s far too easy to blame any skin cancer that you might get on UV exposure and not blame on the chemical formulation used in the sunscreen. That’s exactly how sunscreen manufacturers play this legal situation, too. It’s super easy for sunscreen manufacturers to blame the UV for your cancer, not THEIR chemicals. Be cautious.
Best Answers?
The best answer to the above use of sunscreen is to stay out of the sun. Unless you absolutely need to be in the sun for some purpose, don’t. If you do need to be in the sun, wear high SPF clothing, hats and coverups, and even SPF umbrellas if laying out. For skin portions that do need to be exposed, use sunscreen only on those parts. That might include portions of your face and your hands only. Less sunscreen used means less problems to worry about later.
Yes, I realize that summertime is hot and wearing lots of clothing makes it even hotter. The problem is, slathering on sunscreen is a risk every time you do it. Wearing coverup clothing lets you avoid wearing sunscreen.
Again, the only reason to even put on SPF is if you intended to be out in the sun for longer than 30 minutes. If you’re only outside for 10 minutes, putting SFP lotion on is not only a waste of time and lotion, it’s a waste because you won’t get burned in 10 minutes.
Having a Tan
A lot of cancer alarmists believe that tanning is the bane of being exposed to the sun. In fact, tanning is actually just the opposite. Having a tan is actually a natural sunscreen barrier that your body produces naturally to protect your skin, assuming that you can tan. Getting the tan is where the damage occurs. Having that tan is what protects you. The faster you can get that tan, the faster that that skin melanin can begin absorbing UV to protect help your skin. Having a tan means you can remain in the sun longer than without a tan. It’s just that getting this tan is what leads to skin damage. Unfortunately, there’s still no way to activate a tan for many people without having this damage.
For those with naturally dark skin, consider yourself lucky in this regard. For those with light skin and who rely on being exposed to sunlight to get a base tan, that’s when the damage happens most.
Because every person’s tan is slightly different in intensity, each person needs to understand how long they can stay out even with their specific tan.
Tanning and SPF
One thing that’s not really well discussed is that wearing SPF works against getting a tan. While a portion of the UV does filter through even the strongest sunscreen, the point in using an SPF 50, though is to halt the tanning process. If you think you’re getting tanned safely while wearing an SFP 50, think again. Since the SPF 50 stops the tanning process, you will not get a tan wearing SPF 50. Yet, even at SPF 50 and because it’s a sunscreen, meaning some UV is still getting through, you’re still at risk of skin damage even wearing SPF 50. It’s actually worse for you because you’re not tanning and the UV is slightly getting through the sunscreen barrier to damage your skin. Yes, much lower risk than without wearing any sunscreen at all, but still the risk is not zero.
If you have a tan and wear sunscreen, your tan combines with that sunscreen to block even more UV rays than without a tan. However, obtaining that tan is the risky problem because it incurs sun damage to get that tan.
Are Tanning Beds Safer?
Unfortunately, there is no truly safe way to get a tan; not by laying out in the sun and not by using a tanning bed. Both are equally damaging in the same exact ways. However, unlike sunlight, tanning beds offer timed exposure. In the sun, it’s impossible to gauge UV rays exactly and how many you’ve absorbed. However, tanning beds offer timed and limited exposure for the duration of a session. Because a timer allows for short amounts of UV exposure, it’s much much easier to build a gradual tan without burning or peeling. Sunburn is what needs to be avoided most as a sunburn is actual visible sun exposure skin damage. Sunbeds are typically set to a time just short of burning you, giving you enough rays to trigger tanning, but not enough to actually burn.
Sunbeds, unlike uncontrolled sunlight, offer slow and steady progress without the burning… as long as that UV exposure is limited correctly and handled professionally by the operator. For this reason, tanning beds do offer a better alternative when compared than laying out in direct sun. Laying out in sunlight is problematic for a lot of reasons, the least of which is not knowing how many rays you’ve absorbed. In cloudy outdoor conditions, it’s even trickier to gauge.
It’s very easy to be outdoors for excessively long periods and remain unaware of exactly how much UV exposure you’ve received. Sun skin exposure is tricky and easy to misjudge when outdoors. A burn doesn’t show up for between 3 and 6 hours after exposure… at which point the skin gets hot, turns red and the pain and swelling begins. Before that, you may think you did just fine outdoors.
The point is, by the time you realize you’ve been sunburned, it’s already too late. Tanning beds, however, don’t usually offer enough time on the clock to burn you. It is possible to get a burn from a sunbed under certain abuse conditions (back to back sessions and/or salon hopping), but a trained operator will be able to assess your skin tone and know how much time you need in a single session. They also shouldn’t allow back to back sessions unless you’re choosing to hop between multiple tanning salons in the same day or by also sitting outdoors after having used a tanning bed…. note that you shouldn’t ever do this!
When tanning in a tanning bed, don’t use SPF lotions at all. The point to tanning in a sunbed is to expose your skin to the UV in a time limited and controlled fashion. There is no need to wear SPF when in a tanning bed. If you wear SPF in a tanning bed, you have just thrown your money away. The light effectively bounced off of your SPF and did nothing to help you gain a base tan. A professional tanning bed operator will be able to properly assess your skin tone and set the sunbed timing appropriately each tanning bed session. Many salons may even offer less intense beds and more intense beds. They will choose which sunbed is correct for you. You can always get out of the tanning bed early and stop the session if you feel that your skin isn’t reacting correctly.
These points above are all pluses when using a tanning bed in a tanning salon. Even though tanning beds are not any more safe than sitting in sunlight in terms of skin damage and exposure, sunbeds at least offer timed and controlled exposure, something that’s difficult to do when outdoors.
SPF Safety
The primary takeaway from this article should be to avoid the use of SPF lotions formulated with chemicals when at all possible. Even the use of mineral sunscreen is not a perfect alternative, but these lotions may be somewhat overall better when used in moderation. You should also avoid using sunscreen when you are not planning to be outdoors for longer than 30 minutes. Instead, cover up with clothing.
Slathering SPF lotion over your whole body is way more of a problem than using it only on your hands, neck and face when wearing sufficient SPF clothing coverups elsewhere. The best overall solution to being outdoors is to coverup as much as possible and minimally use SPF only where absolutely needed. Stay outdoors only the minimum amount of time needed. Wash the SPF lotion off thoroughly the instant you get back inside.
This article intentionally does not include naming any specific SPF lotion brands as this author believes all SPF lotions are problematic. Because there are many SPF lotion sellers out there who want to hawk their products, I will leave it up to you to research which SPF lotions might be best choice for you and your family. However, know that any use of sunscreen chemicals may be one step closer to a future disease.
SPF Lotion Failure
One thing that few ever discuss is the primary failure point of sunscreen. Sunscreen has the uncanny knack at deceiving and tricking you into thinking you’re protected when you, in fact, aren’t. What is meant here is that because SPF lotions apply and dry invisibly, there’s no way to know how well you’ve applied the lotion or how effective that lotion is at protecting you or even if you’ve missed spots.
Worse, not all SPF lotions are created equal. Some lotions require thick application and some don’t. Some use higher quality ingredients, some don’t. Because of all of these variables in lotion manufacturing, in lotion quality and, indeed, even in how well you apply the lotion to your skin, you may think you’re better protected than you actually are.
Because it takes 3-6 hours before the telltale signs of sunburn begin to show, it’s way too late to do anything about it when the sunburn begins. You can only tend to the sunburn itself using other remedies. That bottle of SPF won’t do you any good after-the-fact.
The point is, no one is perfect at applying lotions when they apply and disappear invisibly. Inevitably and invariably with sunscreen, you’re going to miss one or more spots and burn there.
It gets worse. Because the lotions break down in the sun as the UV strikes the particles, the lotions become less and less effective over time. The effectiveness wanes not just because of UV, but also because of sweating, heat, swimming and wiping your skin off. The more you do outside, the faster the sunscreen wears off. That means reapplication frequently, perhaps even more frequently than the 2-4 hour reapplication guidelines. You might need to reapply as frequently as every 30 minutes.
Reapplication
Most articles state that SPF lotions need reapplication after every 2 hours because the effectiveness of the product begins to wane due to chemical UV exposure and chemical breakdown. The difficulty is, lotions contain separate blockers for both UVA protection and UVB protection using separate chemicals. This makes a lotion known as broad spectrum. The thing that isn’t mentioned is that UVA chemicals break down at a much faster rate than the chemicals used to block UVB. This author recalls reading an article describing the exact breakdown times between UVA and UVB chemicals, but was unable to find that article to cite when penning this article.
Still, that SPF chemical break down article included a chart illustrating that UVA chemicals do break down in as fast as 15-30 minutes compared to UVB chemicals which break down at around the 2 hour mark. While the UVB chemicals keep you from burning, after 15 minutes your skin is being exposed to as much as 50-75% more UVA than when you first applied it. After the 30 minute mark, your skin might be exposed to as much as 90% of the UVA rays… where UVB might still be blocking in the 95% range. What that means is that while your skin won’t burn, you’re still receiving critical UVA damage if you don’t reapply as frequently as every 15 minutes.
UVA chemicals are apparently more volatile when exposed to sunlight than UVB chemicals. At least, that was the gist of the aforementioned article. If this author can find that article again, this article will be updated to cite it.
What this all means is to keep your SPF blocking at maximum protection for both UVA and UVB, you will need to reapply more frequently than what is recommended, perhaps as frequently as every 15 minutes when outdoors between the hours of 10AM and 4PM and especially on high UV index days. Because UVA chemicals are way more sensitive and way more volatile, you’ll need to keep this in mind as you wear SPF.
Chemical Blockers as Oxidants
Because UV chemical blockers break down as UV rays hit them, it releases heat as a result and the chemicals may turn into free radicals. As a result, these free radicals may enter your system as oxidants. What this means is that as these oxidants leach into the bloodstream and into the body, your body will need to fight off these with antioxidants. Some lotions include antioxidants to help thwart the breakdown of these UV chemicals into oxidants to bind with and help prevent them from becoming a problem.
The problem is that these included antioxidants may not be effective at catching all of the oxidant breakdown of UVA and UVB chemicals as they age and get struck by UV rays.
What this all means is that oxidants leading into the bloodstream may end up causing disease or other chronic problems. The more you use SPF lotions, the more likely these problems are to come to exist.
SPF Lotion Quality
The final issue that needs to be addressed, at least in the United States, is that SPF lotions are loosely regulated; very loosely. What this means for you as a consumer is that when you pick up a tube, bottle or spray, you have no idea if what’s included will be effective. Because of the loose regulations, lotions can be as cheap and ineffective as not wearing anything, to very effective because they’re made by reputable, honest companies.
The point is, big name brands are usually safer SPF lotion purchases than heading to a dollar store and buying their random brand names you’ve never heard of. While those lotions might be fine, they might not be. Do you want to trust your skin or the skin of your child to an unknown brand?
It’s better to stick with large name brands when buying SPF lotion. These large companies have reputations that they must uphold. They can’t risk putting out garbage, ineffective products, unlike the brands that show up at dollar stores where there’s zero accountability involved. Sure, the FDA is supposed to be regulating these, but we know how well regulation works in these industries. Everything the government does is reactive. Meaning, they wait until a company offends, then they go after them after-the-fact. That means that garbage, fraudulent, mislabeled, misleading and ineffective products can hit store shelves. With SPF sunscreen, choose wisely by sticking with known reputable brands.
Behind the Times
One additional problem is that the United States lags way behind the curve on SPF technology advancements. While the rest of the world is way ahead of the United States for SPF lotion technology improvements, the United States now lags behind because of its slow barge, antiquated approach at approving new sunscreen components. That’s partially because the United States classes sunscreens as an over-the-counter drug.
The last time the Food and Drug Administration approved any new active ingredients for sunscreen that helped to block our skin from ultraviolet rays was 1999.
Conclusion
SPF lotions have in place in blocking UV rays. However, they are not a cure-all, nor do they reduce or eliminate sun damage or skin aging as a result of sun exposure. SPF lotions are there to reduce your chances for a sunburn and to reduce your chances of get deep level tissue damage which might lead to skin cancer. However, because these SPF lotions are suncreens and not full out sunblockers (as they are sometimes called), sunscreens (as any kind of screens do) allow limited amounts of light through.
These problems eventually become apparent because these chemicals break down as a result of UV exposure and may turn into free radicals and other harmful or toxic chemical by-products on the skin. Some of these nasty by-products as well as the chemicals themselves may leach into the blood stream and into the system to cause longer term systemic damage.
Because both the SPF industry and the FDA refuse to investigate the systemic damage from skin absorption, consumers are left with no answers on how safe these lotions are for long term use. What this means is that it is entirely possible that some or many of these chemicals might, in fact, cause not only direct skin cancer, they might enter the body and cause internal cancer of organs, tissues and other types of cancers. These chemicals might be precursors that aid or encourage diseases to appear in the presence of other oxidants present in the system.
Because these SPF chemicals have not been tested once ingested, there is no way to know what level of damage they can cause once inside the body.
The safest approach to practicing sun safety is to wear high SPF clothing instead of lotions. Cover up exposed surfaces as much as possible. Use minimal amounts of SPF on exposed surfaces like the face and hands, if not wearing gloves on the hands.
Because regulators fail to provide us with adequate information regarding long term safety, not wearing SPF lotion on your body is the safest choice for long term health. Use it sparingly and only as needed. If you’re heading out for 15-30 minutes, even in midday sun, you might not even need it. If you’re planning on driving for hours on the road in a vehicle, wearing clothing to cover up might or might not work. In cases like this one, wearing SPF while traveling might be the best choice.
When choosing an SPF lotion, the mineral varieties might be the best alternative over choosing the chemical versions. Unfortunately, the mineral versions typically leave a white cast on the skin surface. Honestly, I’d rather have a white cast on my skin than worry about the long term consequences of wearing Oxybenzone on my skin.
Keep in mind that when driving in a vehicle or if you’re behind glass, UVA makes it through glass surfaces. You’ll want to find the best UVA protection you can find when you’re behind glass either in an office or in a car. Note that UV rays make it through clouds and bounce off of the blue sky itself. You don’t need to be exposed directly to sunlight. Even bounced light from the outdoors gives UV exposure.
Circling back around to answer the original question posed, “Do sunscreen chemicals cause cancer?”, there is no way to determine if long term use of SPF chemicals may cause cancer. Why? Because no studies have been produced. The reality, though, is that with enough repeated exposure to the chemicals, it is entirely possible that these chemicals may be just toxic enough to cause cancer because of years of exposure. Once again, it is recommended to rely on clothing and coverups rather than on artificial chemicals to protect your skin to support long term health. Everyone needs to consider their health not only in the now, but also in the years to come.
You don’t want to reach your 50s, 60s and 70s (and beyond) with chronic problems related to the use of SPF chemicals you used earlier in life. It’s easy enough to avoid this problem early in life by using clothing as coverups instead.
Citations
For the chemicals listed and marked with a †, check out the article 11 Toxic Sunscreens to Avoid for more information on these specific chemicals. This cited article is well written and offers much information regarding these chemicals as well as other ingredients used in sunscreen formulations.
In addition to those links included within the article, here are some additional sites to visit:
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Inside Job? Suspicious Shooting at Trump’s Butler Rally
As the investigation into what went on at Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania rally progresses, one question that should be on everyone’s mind is, “Was this shooting was an inside job?” There are too many suspect things involving this shooting, least of all the 20 year old suspect.
Disclaimer: This article is intended to be speculative in its nature and in handling this sensitive topic as this situation is still unfolding. Not all information is yet available. This article is not intended to accuse or defame any individual person or entity stated. This article is only intended to ask the pertinent questions that need to be asked based on what we know so far.
Let’s explore.
What happened?
Trump, as he does on the campaign trail, was holding a political rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13th. Trump was at the microphone at the time speaking. Several shots rang out and Trump’s ear was allegedly grazed by a bullet along with a bullet striking and killing one rally attendee.
Secret Service then stepped in to protect the former President by attempting to hold him down. Before that happened, he defiantly raised a fist, displaying his bloody ear.
Election and All Stops
Trump will pretty much stop at nothing to secure the Presidency. He’s already made that abundantly clear with the January 6th event using his failed attempt at halting the counting of the state electoral vote. Then, as a part of that, setting up and fomenting a violent riot that followed at the Capital.
The question then remains, “Was the shooting at Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania rally an inside job?” Let’s see if we can at least understand better why this is even a question.
Inside Job?
Again, this is a speculative article in its nature. It’s not intending to accuse anyone. It is intended solely to ask questions. Let’s get right to the meat of this article. There are so many suspicious activities involving this Butler, Pennsylvania Trump shooting that we need to understand them all. Let’s make a bulleted list:
- The CIA and FBI are primo at sniffing out early notifications of possible mass shootings. Yet, they missed this one? No social media ramblings at all?
- The Secret Service didn’t scope out the crowd in advance or even during the event?
- The Secret Service didn’t wand or otherwise run the crowd through metal detectors?
- The Secret Service seemingly didn’t have close building rooftops covered to prevent someone from taking pot shots at Donald Trump or the crowd? Hmm…
- The Secret Service was able to neutralize the shooter in seconds? Even more, hmm…
- Donald Trump fist pumps for the camera with a bleeding ear after a supposed gunshot. Yeah, that’s a big hmm…
- That a 20 year old is able to circumvent Secret Service’s security measures? Okay, hmmm.
- Donald Trump’s sends up a defiant fist while Secret Service is attempting to secure him. Uh, nokay.
- Let’s label this what this really is, another a mass shooting.
Let’s break this all down. Neither the CIA nor the FBI had any advanced notice of a possible shooter at this rally? That’s suspect. It’s like no one said anything prior to the rally. I find it difficult to believe that a 20 year old doesn’t have a social media presence, let alone have potential discussions about what went on. Alone, this one miss isn’t a problem if other safeguards catch a would-be assailant. They didn’t.
It’s unclear if the Secret Service was able to properly vet the entire crowd through Magnetometers or by wand device, but it seems that at least one person slipped through that process. The question then is, what happened here? How did this happen? Did this assailant remain far enough away from the event to not need to be vetted by Secret Service?
The building where the shooter camped was not too far from the rally site to fire a weapon reliably, but also it was also not too close to be detected, apparently. I’m guessing that because of this distance, the Secret Service didn’t require vetting people at this distance? Really? Below is the alleged building involved where the suspected 20 year old shooter allegedly camped.
Unfortunately, there is yet another metric that supports that this may have been an inside job. It seems highly unlikely that this building wouldn’t have been fully secured (even the rooftop) in advance of the rally by the Secret Service, including either having SS staff on the rooftop or at least standing outside of this building location to prevent trespassing.
Clearly, at least according to various news media reports, the shooter was neutralized moments (seconds?) after the shots rang out by a Secret Service agent, with one of the suspect’s earlier shots allegedly grazing Trump’s ear while killing a rally participant.
Suspicious
This whole building security situation is highly suspicious. How did a shooter manage to get on top of a building that should have been fully secured by the Secret Service? That either means that Secret Service was not securing that building properly or, this is an even worse thought, that Secret Service ignored the individual as they traversed onto the rooftop with their weapons.
Yet, clearly the Secret Service was able to neutralize this rooftop target in moments after the shots rang out? Secret Service apparently had that rooftop covered as it has been reported that a Secret Service sniper was able to locate, take aim and shoot at the assailant all within a matter of seconds. All of this action by the Secret Service implies that this building was, indeed, being fully covered by Secret Service protection. Yet, a 20 year old shooter can manage to get past that security, pull out a weapon, take a position on the roof and begin firing shots… all without being detected? Yeah, this author is not buying that idea.
The question remains, how would such a shooter manage to get past Secret Service and traverse onto a rooftop of a building that was apparently so well secured? Yes, this is A really big and suspicious question.
Inside Job Part II
As we delve into all of the above, we come to realize that either the Secret Service was highly inept at performing their security responsibilities (doubtful) or that this was an inside job.
Donald Trump and all of his closest confidants, particularly the ones participating in the rally, would likely have known of the Secret Service’s plans (or at least many of them) to secure the rally site. Information that could potentially “leak”.
If the rooftop building was so well covered so as to neutralize the target in moments, it’s inconceivable that a random person could randomly and with extreme luck happen upon a Secret Service blind spot to infiltrate and make their way onto the rooftop all without being seen or, more importantly, heard by Secret Service. Again, either Secret Service was ignoring this situation or it seems likely that something else was going on here. It’s all too suspicious and this author is not buying it.
Why not a Lone Wolf Shooter?
For a person to cart a weapons bag onto a rooftop that is being actively secured by Secret Service and not be seen or heard doing this is infinitesimally small. By infinitesimally, I mean the chances are next to zero. Clearly, if Secret Service were able to neutralize this shooter as rapidly as they did, the Secret Service had coverage on or near the building involved. Having that level of coverage implies that the shooter may have had help to get around the Secret Service detail.
This means that the shooter would have needed to get help to find a blind spot in Secret Service coverage, a blind spot that only an inside person would know. That means that the shooter may have been fed this information prior to traversing onto the rooftop, which allowed that person to avoid being detected by Secret Service, arm up and then take the shots.
Fist Defiance
One highly suspect issue during this whole event is Trump’s behavior immediately following the shot where he realized a bullet had allegedly struck him. Instead of going into panic mode as one might do, he decided to stand up with a fist in the air for a photo opportunity. It’s almost like Trump knew that the threat was over, somehow. That’s not a normal behavior after having been shot and nearly assassinated. Instead, he should have wanted to leave the rally as quickly as possible to secure the safety of his person. Instead, he seemed willing to defy his Secret Service detail as they attempted to pull him to safety.
Seriously, who thinks about photo opportunities when someone is shooting a weapon in your general direction?
Trump involved?
This is a question, not an accusation. We already know that Trump is not avert in taking drastic and unusual steps to make a point and in his attempt to win and/or hold the Presidency. Just look at January 6th as an example. Disclaimer: this is question that must be asked. It is not intended to accuse.
Democrat Involvement?
Clearly, Trump’s sycophant Republicans are going to play the lone-wolf must-be-a-Democrat card, even though it has been confirmed that the now deceased 20 year old shooter was a registered Republican. It also seems like almost every time something happens involving Trump, it is inevitably Trump who had a hand in its outcome. Yet, Trump (and his sycophants) will inevitably and hypocritically blame it all on the Democrats in one breath, while calling for unity in another. Because of all of the suspicious goings on involving this shooting, the entire situation does seem highly suspicious and dubious.
Trump’s Repeated Calls for Violence
Trump has repeatedly used veiled words and rhetoric to call his “troops” into action. What troops you ask? Well, obviously troops like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers and other Republicans. Trump is willing to and understands that through various broad rhetoric, it will call “his” troops into action. His veiled words tell these various groups to do things up to and including performing violence when necessary. Again, look at January 6th as a prime example. It’s not the only example (e.g., NY trial), though.
As a person with the amount of public sway that Donald Trump holds, his seemingly innocent words are put into sometimes threatening and violent actions by his followers. Just look at the rhetoric that Trump used against various judges and various court staff and what ultimately resulted onto those people after Trump’s words were unleashed. His words even went so far as to force a judge to issue a gag order against Trump during his New York Trial. Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump’s biggest hired sycophant lackeys at the time of Trump’s Presidency, was even sued and lost a defamation suit against election workers as he spread many lies about those workers involving the 2020 election; lies that fomented negative action towards these workers by Trump followers. Rudy Giuliani has even been disbarred as a lawyer over his 2020 election lies.
While what Rudy Giuliani said didn’t personally result in threats and violence against those people, at least not by Giuliani’s own hand, it did foment many, many uncomfortable situations for these election workers by others from within Trump’s “troop” camp; well-meaning workers who were simply hired to do a job during an election. Fomenting these kinds of unchecked threats and violence against others is clearly something Trump (and his lawyers) shouldn’t be doing. And yet, perhaps one third to one half of the nation want to reelect this man?
Fomenting violence, regardless of how veiled the rhetoric may be, is still fomenting violence. It’s no wonder that eventually Trump’s own veiled words would turn back around on him. Trump likely knew that this would be an eventuality. Based on all of the suspicious goings on above, it seems more likely that what occurred may have been an inside job, taken as a step to quell that violence by potentially doing it as an inside job; one that looks like it isn’t? We just don’t know.
Unfortunately, one rally goer died as a result.
Is Trump, the Secret Service or his inner circle involved?
There’s no way to know, yet. But, this question must be asked and answered. This situation is still unfolding and we don’t yet have all of the details. This article is written solely using logical speculation based on the details known at the moment of this article and it is based solely on the logical deduction around these rather dubious situations so far. This article is not intended to accuse anyone. It is simply here to ask pertinent questions. After all, even as infinitesimal as it is, a 20 year old lone-wolf shooter managed to slip through Secret Service’s grasp and gain access to an unsecured rooftop to take shots at Trump? It’s not likely he did this without help.
Is it possible it could be done? Yes. Is it probable? No.
Secret Service is way too meticulous in planning its security details involving the former President. Either the Secret Service lapsed in its responsibilities for security at this rally or this was an inside job designed to circumvent the Secret Service.
Unfortunately, even if it was an inside job, the Government will likely squash all evidence of that to make it seem like it was strictly a lone-wolf operation. Only time will tell if the Government will be honest with us over what really happened.
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Christian Nationalism: The Devil’s Work
What is it about Christian Nationalism that makes people want to hate others? Don’t be scammed by false prophets and their wicked deceivers. Let’s explore.
What is Christian Nationalism?
Christian Nationalism is both contradictory and not at all about Christianity. It also embodies a whole lot of negatives without providing much in the way of positives. On its face, Christian Nationalism might seem like a movement that offers something good, decent and positive. However, this movement offers anything but those ideas. Let’s understand more.
Christianity vs Christian Nationalism
Christianity itself teaches every good Christian tolerance, love, inclusion for all and forgiveness. Christian Nationalism, however, does not. Christian Nationalists believe that you are only a good Christian if you’re white and if you believe that Christianity is the ONLY “true” religion, thus preaching intolerance and hate against anyone who doesn’t fall within this exclusivity system. More than this, Christian Nationalists have also co-opted God and Jesus as Republican. Such political groups didn’t even exist when Jesus lived. Yet, Christian Nationalists believe that you MUST be a Republican to be a Christian Nationalist and you MUST be Republican to be Christian. Again, this exclusive system teaches and preaches hate and intolerance against ANYONE who is not Republican, anyone who is not Republican Christian, who is not White and who does not believe what Christian Nationalists believe. In other words, Christian Nationalists believe that you cannot be Christian unless you believe exactly as Christian Nationalists believe.
It gets worse. Christian Nationalists further believe that you cannot be a Democrat or Libertarian and still be a good Christian. In other words, Christian Nationalists believe that if you are a Democrat, you are not a Christian. Christian Nationalists believe that it is impossible to be a Christian unless you fully drink the Christian Nationalism Kool-Aid, including swallowing whatever latest whacked out conspiracy theory that this demonic nutjob group dreams up.
Christian Nationalism even goes so far as to profess that Jesus was white, depicting a white Jesus on whatever collateral they produce. Christian Nationalism is simply another form of the Ku Klux Klan. Jesus most likely didn’t have white skin. Jesus was born into and lived in a region where olive and dark complected skin tone, brown eyes and dark hair was quite common. We don’t know conclusively Jesus’s skin color, hair color or eye color, though. However, the chances of Jesus having blonde hair, white skin and blue eyes is about as probable as a child being born white in Kenya, Africa. For probability proof, there are 54 million people living in Kenya with approximately 70,000 of those who are of European descent and even fewer of those who could be born white. Probabilities indicate that Jesus most likely had a dark complected skin tone, dark eyes and dark hair. Jesus wasn’t even Christian; he was Jewish.
Actual Christian values do not and have never preached hate, intolerance and exclusion of anyone. Jesus, himself a Jew, believed in teaching love, tolerance and inclusion for all who believe. Jesus believed that regardless of another person’s beliefs, values or actions, he preached to “love thy neighbor”, a tenet of inclusion for anyone and for everyone.
Jesus said unto him, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” -Matthew 22:37–39
These words are crystal clear and, according to Matthew, were spoken by Jesus himself. There is no race here. There is no politics here. There is no anything of exclusion here. There is only love and inclusion and tolerance. Jesus believed that everyone should profess love over hate and inclusion over intolerance.
Christian Nationalists, however, believe that their view of Christianity is the only view that matters in their narrow view of the world. They further believe that their view of Christianity is defined as a very tight view that only exists if the person falls into a very specific and narrow group of people, excluding all others as “non believers” or “heretics” or whatever demonizing descriptive word they choose to profess and use towards “outsiders” using labels. Within true Christianity, there are no “outsiders” and there are no “labels”. With Christian Nationalists, there must always be “outsiders” and there must always be “labels”, if for no other reason than to justify exclusion.
Demons and Devils
In fact, this Christian Nationalist situation couldn’t be more opposite and contradictory from true Christianity. By Christian Nationalism taking this very narrow, very hateful, very vengeful, very exclusive view of Christianity, they are by their very nature condoning hate, vengeance, intolerance, exclusion and possibly even condoning violence against others. This is a view that diametrically opposes the views of both Jesus and the word of God. This Christian Nationalism viewpoint is what is now known as a religious extremist viewpoint.
How can a Christian Nationalist even be called a good Christian when they don’t even believe what Jesus and God believed? How can Christian Nationalists be called a good Christian when they don’t believe or uphold the values of what is written in the Christian Bible? They can’t! Again, the Christian Bible does not profess nor condone exclusion, hate, vengeance, idolatry or intolerance in any form. In fact, The Bible preaches just the opposite and condemns any person who partake in these very real sins.
And yet, Christian Nationalists truly believe they speak on behalf of God, even though they are actually perpetuating the word of the Devil by speaking, instead, on behalf of false prophets. What Christian Nationalists believe is tantamount to making themselves and their leaders into false gods.
“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.” -1 John 4:1
Believing in false prophets is to do the bidding of the Devil. When such groups like Christian Nationalists perpetuate and preach to others that only THEY offer the true word of god, they themselves have become false prophets.
Devil in Disguise
What Christian Nationalism professes and what Christian Nationalists believe is what the Devil believes and wants for the world. These so-called Christians are actually professing Satanism in disguise. Instead of putting forth God’s actual word of love and inclusion, Christian Nationalists sardonically believe in intolerance, hate and exclusion.
Many Satanists believe in rebellion against authority because they believe they have been oppressed. This view has been adopted and co-opted amongst Christian Nationalists who also believe they have been oppressed and must rebel against so-called authority. This view is even more solidified because Donald Trump lost his re-election bid and, in so doing, fomented January 6th in retaliation. Christian Nationalists have coalesced around a false conspiracy that the election was stolen; a lie told many, many times by Donald Trump and his cabal.
Thou shalt have no other gods before me. -Exodus 20:3
This is the first of ten Biblical Commandments. What this commandment means is that each person must believe in only the one creator God, the Christian God, the God who spoke through Jesus on Earth. This statement also means that as a good Christian, you do not and shall not idolize any other person as though they were a god. Yet, Christian Nationalists idolize Donald Trump is a new Messiah, that his word is more powerful than the word of God. This false belief system within Christian Nationalism is, in fact, defined as Idolatry and violates this very first commandment above. Believing in an Idol as a god over the actual creator God means violating the above first commandment.
When someone believes in Donald Trump’s word over God’s word, then that person cannot be Christian, let alone a Christian Nationalist. For this reason, Christian Nationalism is an oxymoron.
The words Christian and Nationalism cannot appear next to one another because together they are an oxymoron. If someone believes in Nationalism in the way that Christian Nationalists believe, then that is form of extremism condoning hate and intolerance, making that conspiratorial so-called nationalism mutually exclusive of Christianity which fully embraces tolerance, love and inclusion.
Repentance
God and his disciples also believe that all can be forgiven, even for those who choose to worship false idols. Again, Jesus professed love, inclusion and tolerance, not hate, intolerance and exclusion. Christianity isn’t an exclusive club with a membership card that requires special requirements to obtain. Christianity is accepting of all who choose to believe and join. Christianity also believes in absolving those of their sins so long as they are willing to give of themselves freely and fully over to the Lord.
For Christian Nationalists who are neither Christian nor Nationalists, they too can obtain absolution by forsaking their old Christian Nationalist ways and repenting their sins of hate, racism, exclusion and intolerance. Christian Nationalists must give up their false Christian Nationalism beliefs to embrace the love of God.
The apostle Peter exhorts, “Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.”
It’s easy to succumb to evil forces. One must choose to overcome these sins and repent.
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity [i.e., hate], strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. -Galatians 5:19-21
Taking the Wrong Path
Christian Nationalism is not a viewpoint any good devout Christian should adopt. This thinking leads one down onto a path of evil and into darkness. It is not something that provides the true goals that any good Christian should adopt.
Christian Nationalism is a “devil” ideology, one that idolizes people as false gods over the creator God. Christian Nationalism also adopts intolerance and hate over love, it adopts exclusion over inclusion and it adopts racism over the love of all man. We are all created equal in the eyes of God and yet Christian Nationalism professes that this equality is not true.
Conclusion
Succumbing to evil forces is easy. Waking up from being coerced into evil is difficult. Christian Nationalism is, at its very core, a wicked, evil movement entity intent on co-opting those among us who are weak willed into its ranks. It’s easy to see how seductive Christian Nationalist hate and intolerance beliefs are. Yet, those beliefs are the work strictly of Evil, not of the forces of Good nor based on the word of God.
It’s easy to see the words “Christian Nationalism” sitting together and believe it means something good. However, as a good Christian, you need to wake up and see exactly how this movement is not based on God’s word nor is it based on good, but instead it is based on the word of one man, a man who believes he is above God, a man who believes he is a god. Donald Trump is not a god. He is a man; a fallible, frail, scared man. He is a man who believes not in the word of God, but in his own word alone. Christian Nationalists need to repent and hold this man up as a false prophet, lest you not inherit the kingdom of God.
For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with [i.e., accept and succumb to] it readily enough. -2 Corinthians 11:4
Do not fall prey to seductive false prophets who intend to lure you using honeyed words. Instead, walk away from them AND allow them wallow in their own evil doings. Only then will you truly accept the word of God. You do not have to take part in false prophets nor take part in their evil schemes. Forsake their evil seduction and embrace all that is good instead.
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The Manufactured Border Crisis
OR… “How the GOP wastes taxpayer time and money on a fabricated crisis.” Does this crisis really exist and who’s actually responsible for it? Let’s explore.
Watch, But Don’t Listen!
With any politician, it’s more important to watch what they do, not listen to what they say. As has been stated, if a politician’s lips are moving, they must be lying. Nowhere is this true more than now… and more specifically within the ranks of the GOP, but it’s not limited to this party. The GOP has simply taken it to a whole new level. That’s not to say that the Democrats don’t lie; they do. Even Independents lie to get elected.
The difference now is whether they’re lying to you over something they’ve already done or lying to you over something they haven’t yet done. With the GOP, more often than not, they are not only lying to you over something they’ve already done, they’re lying to you over what they plan to do.
As stated, don’t listen to their words, watch their actions. Actions speak louder than words. If you watch what they do, then their lies fall right into place. They can’t lie their way out of their actions… though they may try, but that’s actually called gaslighting.
Border Crisis and Number of Crossings
Let’s begin this discussion with these dhs.gov border crossing statistics up to fiscal year 2013:
These above statistics set the tone of this article with regards to the statistics to come next. These above statistics also go to prove that we have had years under both Democrat and Republican Presidential leadership of higher than expected influx. Both parties are to blame here. Let’s further understand who was President at the time of the above statistics going back to 1989. Presidents prior to 1989 are not needed for the point this article is making. However, if you’re interested in all past Presidents, here’s a link.
In fact, up until 2013, the highest border crossings occurred at 1.8 million per year under Bill Clinton (D). George Bush (R) would get close second to this number at 1.3 million during fiscal year 1993. Here’s the list of presidents going back to 1993:
With the above table in mind, let’s proceed to the most updated DHS statistics for border crossings for 2013 and beyond. Let’s keep in mind that George Bush (R), Bill Clinton (D) and “Shrub” Bush (R) all presided over border crossings well above 1 million per fiscal year. It wouldn’t be until 2009 when border crossings began to subside again, but would then drastically surge during and after the COVID pandemic.
Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans can exclusively say that their border crossing policies have worked to lower immigrant attempted ingress. Here are the border crossing apprehensions from 2013 to the 2024 (YTD):
At this point and with these ever increasing numbers under Joe Biden, you might be wondering what the hell is going on? This is a very good question. Before we get into the REAL answer, let’s discuss what the GOP is saying, but not actually doing.
Republican Lip Service
Clearly, the Republicans are paying a lot of lip service to this ever increasing turn of events around the border, but without pointing fingers at the actual situations and actual politicians who are driving this migrant influx to the southern border states. No, the GOP prefers to point fingers at the Democrats, even though the Democrats aren’t the ones driving the border crisis directly. While Democrats aren’t the party causing this drastic border influx, the Democrats also haven’t done much to arrest it either. This is called complacency, of which the Democrats are fully and entirely guilty. In fact, the Democrats prefer playing on the world’s stage rather than tackling difficult domestic issues. This is fully evident of the Biden administration’s continual meddling in world affairs, like Ukraine and Israel, all while fully ignoring the problems at home… except when such a problem suits their political fancy.
One thing is certain, nothing happens in a bubble. If something is occurring, there’s definitely a driving factor behind it. It also means that someone or something stands to gain from that driving factor. Let’s also understand that what the GOP / Republicans are saying is absolutely not what’s actually driving the influx to the United States southern border.
The Republicans are claiming that it is Joe Biden’s lack of policy around border that is the cause and reason behind this influx. In fact, this could not be further from the truth. Let’s get to that truth right now.
The Truth Behind the GOP’s Manufactured Border Crisis
The reason immigrants are now flocking to the United States southern border is actually due almost solely to Florida’s Ron Desantis (R) and Texas’s Greg Abbott (R) actions. How are these two governors responsible for this influx? It’s quite simple….
When these two nab immigrants from the border, place them onto expensive cushy busses and expensive, but cushy chartered jets… then feed, clothe and subsequently fly or drive them across the the United States… what do you think is going to happen?
Yes, the word is going to get out that now these Governors are now pro-migrant and, more than this, are willing to place you, as a migrant, onto a bus and transport you to a nice new city… FOR FREE. This transportation is literally considered winning the lottery for many migrants. These men are taking migrants and placing them onto a very cushy busses, only to drop them handily off in Chicago or New York or anywhere else other than at the border. They might even get new clothes and food in the process. What migrant would say, “No” to that? In fact, these actions might even drive more migrants to the border… and that’s exactly what’s occurring. Yes, the word does get out.
The millions of recent influx of immigrants is NOT due to lax government policies or even due to policy changes at all, no. The influx is due to these insane trafficking policies performed illegally by irresponsible governors. This fully Texas Governor endorsed and costly trafficking of migrants across America is almost solely and completely responsible for the wild influx to the United States, that and the remnants of COVID. I did write that nothing occurs in a bubble. Right here is where that bubble pops. The GOP would have you believe it is Biden’s policies that are failing… when it’s just the opposite. The policies are failing because it is the GOP who is sabotaging the United States for their own political agenda. They are they ones placing hundreds, if not thousands of illegal migrants onto busses and jets, then transporting them all across the United States.
Yes, this word DOES get out to those seeking asylum here. The GOP realizes this enticement fact and is continuing to do it anyway, yes, on purpose. It is, in fact, the GOP who is attempting to force Joe Biden’s hand. Even then, these policies under Joe Biden are almost identical to the policies that have come before. Yet, we now have double, if not triple the number of migrants to the border? And where is Joe Biden’s administration on this border issue? Twiddling their thumbs.
Texas has spent more than $148 million bussing migrants across the country. Greg Abbott has also bussed more than 102,000 migrants (and counting) to cities around the country. Greg Abbott has even paid to fly at least 120 migrants on jets to Chicago.
Illegal Maneuvers
Let me get this one out of the way right now. What Greg Abbott and Ron Desantis have done by placing migrants onto busses and into jets, then transporting said migrants across the country is actually an illegal Federal Offense under 1907. Title 8, U.S.C. 1324(a):
Subsection 1324(a)(1)(i)-(v) prohibits alien smuggling, domestic transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or harboring unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to enter the United States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and abetting any of the preceding acts. Subsection 1324(a)(2) prohibits bringing or attempting to bring unauthorized aliens to the United States in any manner whatsoever, even at a designated port of entry. Subsection 1324(a)(3).
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Domestic Transporting — Subsection 1324(a)(1)(A)(ii) makes it an offense for any person who — knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, transports, or moves or attempts to transport or move such alien within the United States by means of transportation or otherwise, in furtherance of such violation of law.
Clearly, 1907. Title 8, U.S.C. 1324(a) makes it federally illegal to knowingly transport illegal immigrants across the country. Yet, the DOJ has done nothing towards indicting either Greg Abbott or Ron Desantis for their ongoing part in this illegal campaign of transporting illegal aliens across the country. Where is the DOJ on this action? Once again, the DOJ is missing in action.
Homeland Security and ongoing Security Threats
For GOP governors to actually play these illegal shenanigans all for the sake of politics, this says a lot about the United States… and not in a good way. Governors are elected to govern, not to backstab and cause security risks to the United States Federal government. And once again, the Department of Justice and Merrick Garland have done nothing to enforce federal code over this matter. There’s not even been a peep about this, not out of the DOJ and not out of mainstream media. Illegal is still illegal, yet nothing.
Encouraging Illegal Migrants and Manufacturing a Crisis
The point to all of the above for Greg Abbott is to show that the United States border policies are not able to handle migrants at all. This has been Greg Abbott’s ongoing shtick for months. However, when a rogue governor decides to undermine and, indeed, run afoul of the rule of federal law by endangering the United States of America AND becoming a national security threat himself AND by knowingly and willfully using paid transportation to move illegals around the country, this is a serious federal problem. It’s also crime. Worse, his actions only serve to encourage and entice would-be migrants around the world to flock to the United States southern border. More than this, tensions are now rising between the United States and Mexico over Greg Abbott’s actions and the GOP’s wider actions involving the border.
In fact, it is Greg Abbott who is causing the border migrant flood. It is Greg Abbott is who causing the problems that the United States is seeing at the border. It is Greg Abbott’s policies that are indeed undermining the rule of law and the United State of America. It is Greg Abbott who is single-handedly ruining our relationship with Mexico… all for what? To score political brownie points with his Texas base and the GOP? Greg Abbott, just like Donald Trump, is a clear and present danger to America. If he wants to play games with Texas, have at it. When his games endanger the security of the United States as a whole, that’s when his shenanigans must stop.
Since when is it okay for Governors to perform federal illegal actions and get away with it? I guess it’s when Merrick Garland and the DOJ both choose to turn a blind eye to it. When the rule of law doesn’t apply to politicians, then who does it apply to? Clearly, not to anyone else. If politicians aren’t considered to be citizens under the same rule of law as anyone else, then there is no rule of law.
The rule of law must apply to everyone or it applies to no one!
Joe Biden and the Democrats
The Democrats don’t get a pass here. The Democrats are just as much complicit in this situation as is Greg Abbott and the rest of the Republicans. By Joe Biden and the rest of the Democrats staying mum about pushing an indictment onto Greg Abbott over his illegal transport of many, many illegal immigrants, the Democrats instead choose to sit idly by doing nothing at all. That’s also not governing. The point is, if you’re elected to govern, then govern. Sitting around doing nothing is not governing.
Unfortunately, this is what the Democrats are doing. Yes, some Democrats might have extreme liberal agendas, but it doesn’t matter when the Democrats of any type won’t push anything through. Sitting on your hands is not governing any more than bussing migrants across the country.
The State of America: Two Party System
America is under siege, not just by the Republicans, but also by the Democrats. Both parties are actively sabotaging the United States by either intentionally performing illegal actions (Republican politicians) or by sitting around doing nothing (Democrat politicians) allowing others to perform illegal actions. Right now, politicians of any party are running roughshod all over America and its citizens.
It is, in fact, the two party system that is failing America. Neither of the two parties are working towards or for the best interest of America. They both have their own internal agendas which don’t include working for the citizens or in actually solving problems. In fact, both parties seem intent on either doing nothing or in creating problems, rather than solving any.
The reason we elect our representatives is to work on our behalf. Yet, so many of these elected representatives only have personal agendas they wish to push. For whatever reason, these selfish, self-centered, egotistical, ill mannered politicians seem to be continually elected and re-elected. Why? What are they doing for you?
This is the state of America. America is being overrun by elected people who have no interest in fixing America. They only have interest in making bank for themselves and doing nothing else in the process. Lip service doesn’t fix things, only actions do. We need to tell these politicians to shut up and get to work.
Reactive versus Pro-Active
America has always had mostly a reactive system with politicians. Something bad happens, we make a law against it. That’s pretty much how the founders wanted it. That also means that knee jerk reactions tend to rule. What that also means is that when something bad happens, we can’t just ban it in the locale where it happened. No, we have to ban it everywhere.
This is what’s happening with abortion rights. When we thought we had the abortion issue locked down, conservative justices come along only to completely upend what had been in place for years… all to throw it right back into turmoil again.
Once again, knee jerk reactions rule the roost. Let’s not just ban abortion, now we have to ban everything possible involving abortion, including IVF, drugs, stem cell research and eventually, nearly everything that has come out of the technologies involving birth, babies, stem cells and all the rest.
The point now is that these politicians are taking aim at the very medical technologies which have given America incredible quality of life and longevity improvements. Yet, the fundamentalist Christians feel it is their place to take it all away and throw America back into a medical dark age. It’s coming, folks. You had better get prepared… all thanks to the GOP.
Drugs that had been created using these technologies are now under fire for the same reason as abortion. It’s only a matter of time. This is why FEDERAL laws handling fundamental rights must exist. They must exist and they must matter because it puts EVERY citizen on a level playing field no matter where they live. Having states create a haphazard patchwork of laws only serves to put everyone at risk. This is why Federal laws matter. It’s why Federal laws must exist. It’s why Federal laws have to continue to exist. It’s why Congress must act swiftly to craft Federal abortion laws that apply to all states equally. And yet, crickets!
The System is Hopelessly Broken
The Federal government cannot keep twiddling its thumbs doing nothing… thanks Democrats. The Federal government cannot keep throwing out and replacing the Speaker of the House… thanks Republicans. These are wastes of taxpayer time and money. When Government workers are not governing, then what the hell are they doing, other than collecting a paycheck? Why do we keep electing these worthless people? Something has to change. Exactly what that is and when it will happen is unknown.
I’d love to offer up a quick fix solution here. Unfortunately, our political system is so intrinsically and hopelessly broken, the only way fix it is to throw it out completely and start over fresh with a brand new and modern Constitution. We must endeavor to make a new modern Constitution that takes into account MODERN ideologies and technology, that limits the damage any one political party or political actor can do to America and that allows quick, easy and PERMANENT removal of bad actors from the stage. We cannot afford or allow this level of sabotage to remain in the ranks of politicians. Politicians need to work for the betterment of America; they are not elected to sabotage it.
One thing is crystal clear, America cannot stay on its current political trajectory. If anything, the manufactured border crisis proves this sabotage situation out… in spades.
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10 signs you’re living in an echo chamber
As politics become ever more and more polarizing and divisive amongst individuals, it’s not the politics that are the problem, it’s the echo chambers that feed into misinformation and into false beliefs. Let’s explore.
Background
More and more I find people who profess openness and critical thinking skills, yet I also find it is these very people are actually holed up and living in local echo chambers, chambers that only serve to reinforce their own beliefs; but whose beliefs have no actual basis in reality or what’s actually happening in or to the world around them. It is these echo chambers which are causing the divisive nature of not only politics, but just about any other belief which can be found in the world. It seems that more and more people are choosing their personal beliefs over using their eyes, ears and most importantly, their brains.
With that said, let’s uncover the 10 signs that prove that it is YOU who may be living in an echo chamber. Before we begin, let’s define…
What is an Echo Chamber?
An echo chamber is simply a space where you tend to converse with people who also tend to believe in the same things as you and/or who are feeding you disinformation that seems as though it is genuine and truthful; but that disinformation supports your beliefs, which makes you want to believe in it. An echo chamber is designed to 1) never contest your current belief system and 2) reinforce your beliefs, supporting your way of thinking… even when your way of thinking is completely based on fantasy, not reality. Echo chambers can be filled with friends and family who converse by using a gossip-like information transmission methodology (word of mouth, texting, etc), but may extend onto social media sites like Facebook.
Basically, instead of watching news programs directly and forming your own objective opinions yourself, you, instead, rely on receiving your news mostly by using a gossip grapevine of friends and family. When you do watch the news, you turn it off as soon as anything contests your beliefs. In your mind, you believe that news channel is then biased.
An echo chamber thrives because everyone in it essentially agrees on a very specific skewed view of the world… viewing the world not actually how it is, but how everyone in the echo chamber believes that it is.
In other words, an echo chamber is, yes, a form of brainwashing.
Without further adieu, here are the 10 signs you’re living in an echo chamber…
10. You firmly believe to the point of anger that the world is one way when actual news events prove your beliefs are invalid.
This sign shows us that you have subscribed to a belief system so strongly that you simply cannot allow anyone to disrupt that belief system at all, not under any circumstances. In other words, you are fully unwilling to even entertain the possibility that your belief can be in any way proven false.
You remain so firmly entrenched in that belief, even if it can be proven to be a false belief, shows that you are not only stubborn, but also exceedingly closed-minded. You are absolutely not interested in truth. You’re interested only in others who are willing to coddle and support your beliefs. Being unwilling to entertain any outside information that disagrees with your belief system is a hallmark sign that you have succumbed to the power of an echo chamber.
9. You say that you’re open to all ideas, but you instantly shut down anyone who puts forth an idea that doesn’t support your beliefs.
Here’s a situation where when you have a discussion with someone who doesn’t believe what you believe, you then feel the need to counter their arguments with such phrases as, “Well, I’ve always seen the exact opposite.” However, instead of actually providing concrete examples to support your “exact opposite” belief statement, you delay, avoid and ignore requests to provide any details on how those “exact opposite” beliefs actually became real in your mind. In other words, your beliefs are crafted entirely on faith, not on facts.
What this typically means is that you’re listening to the (false) beliefs of others in your gossip group, instead of forming your own opinions based on witnessing world events yourself and digesting and forming your own opinions from actual world events. Listening to other’s words and trusting that those words are valid reinforces your belief system under an echo chamber.
8. You instantly counter any argument to which you disagree, then attempt to insult the person by claiming you’ve been offended by the other person’s argument.
This is both bad debate form and it also proves you’re living in an echo chamber. This situation manifests when another person (party 2) counters one of your beliefs with actual real world facts showing exactly how your belief is invalid and untrue. Instead of rationalizing and realizing the possibility that that belief is wrong, you instantly take offense to the statement and then claim that party 2 is in the wrong for insinuating that you’ve been brainwashed.
This is a circular argument that only intends to insult the second party solely to reaffirm that your own personal (false) belief is true and valid. This is strictly a manipulation tactic to get the other party to back down. Using any form of manipulation in an attempt to win your argument is not only bad debate form, it is illogical, it shows that you’re closed minded, it shows that you’re unwilling to entertain any outside ideas and it also proves that you’re living in an echo chamber.
7. You only visit social media sites that support your belief systems. More than this, you only friend accounts who also believe like you do.
This one should go without saying. However, many people may not realize that this is exactly what they are doing. When you sign up at or into Facebook or X (formerly known as Twitter) or similar, you find yourself gravitating towards those who believe like you do. This does two things at once: 1) Like minded “friends” make you feel instantly comfortable and 2) by doing this, nothing will ever challenge your beliefs (see point 1).
By not exposing yourself to counter arguments from others, you limit your view of the world to only those people who profess to believe just like you. This is the very definition of an echo chamber.
6. You state that you’re critically open minded and claim to watch all types of news programs, but you prove that you don’t do this when you’re presented with reports that invalidate your beliefs… and then you claim news media bias.
It’s easy to profess equality and critical thinking skills, but it proves more challenging for some people to actually do this. Typically, even if a person does watch many news programs, it’s very easy to discount and invalidate what any news reporter is showing you by simply claiming that news channel is biased. This rationale instantly allows you to shut off that real news spigot claiming it as “fake news” or disinformation, thus keeping your false beliefs fully intact.
Here you’ve just watched a news program that has shown you the reality of the world, yet you’ve instantly decided to completely discredit the news report, and by extension the entire news channel, simply because that news report invalidates your own personal beliefs.
Discounting ALL news reports that are fully documented with videos, clips and interviews using people who are first-hand involved, yet you STILL choose to discredit all of that simply to hold onto a (false) belief indicates you’re living in an echo chamber.
5. Using year’s past examples or potentially old and misleading information to support your beliefs. (Cherry Picking)
It’s easy to call on examples from the past, using potentially misleading or cherry picked quotes that support your beliefs. Instead of researching the full information and context surrounding any given quote or news snippet, you choose to take a quote or snippet entirely out of context or, worse, choose to cite sources of misinformation or disinformation solely to support your beliefs.
Cherry picking tiny bits of (mis or dis)information that supports your beliefs, but where the very real and full context of information doesn’t hold up your beliefs under contextual scrutiny is a sign you’re living in an echo chamber.
4. Your actions prove you’re unwilling to entertain any other points of view.
This one is pretty simple. It’s not what you say. It’s how you respond and act as actions always speak louder than words. Sincerity is easily determined not by your words, but by how you respond to argumentation. A listening party can easily determine you’re not being sincere when you make claims of being fair and open-minded, but prove that you are not by devolving arguments into nonsensical debate tactics solely in an attempt to win your arguments.
Not only does this prove you’re not sincere, it proves you’re only in it solely for the argumentation and most likely only to support your current beliefs. This is entirely a defense mechanism against outside beliefs, but it also proves that you’re living in an echo chamber.
3. Instantly discrediting legitimate news sources and news articles because “they’re biased.”
While definitely linked to number 6, this one is wholly separate. When you cannot win your belief argument because of counter facts brought up using a news article example of how the beliefs are false, you insist on attacking the news source as highly biased, non-credible, illegitimate and “fake news” strictly because they have written an article that runs counter to your beliefs.
I won’t state which person now does this frequently, but suffice it to say that he has taught others to do exactly this and that this behavior is acceptable. It isn’t. Not only does this tactic look insanely stupid, it shows us that you’re close-minded and unwilling to entertain alternative beliefs AND that you must instantly attack anyone or anything that doesn’t fit within your belief system. This one shows us you’re living in an echo chamber.
2. You find news articles on extremist and tiny “news” sites that almost no one has heard of solely to support your beliefs.
When a counter argument to your (false) belief system is given to you by the likes of The New York Times, The New York Post, USA Today or even featured on CNN, MSNBC or Fox News, you counter those articles by claiming “biased reporting”, choosing instead to locate an article on a super tiny “news” site that few have ever heard of and which receives maybe 50 views per day solely to show that your belief is valid and true.
Having to dig down into the bowels of the internet to a teeny-tiny “news” site solely to refute articles published by large news organizations, like those listed above, your actions say you’re not interested in being open minded or fair. Forget that these tiny news sites are likely mini echo chambers themselves by echoing extremist disinformation view points, many of their “news” articles are not even professionally written nor do the “reporters” even have journalism credentials. If they did, they’d be working for CNN or The New York Post.
It also says you’re willing to put your faith into a super tiny “news” site with no notable credentials over actual professional journalistic organizations whose sole goal is to produce professional news segments 24 hours and 7 days a week, employing hundreds if not thousands of degree holding journalism majors. What credentials does your tiny news site offer? Not much. What proves your cited article is even valid? Nothing.
Relying on extremely tiny, boutique news sites that few use or have heard of proves you’re trying way too hard to support your belief system and that you’re living in an echo chamber.
1. You resort to insults and name calling to support your beliefs.
Insulting someone by name calling is not only extremely bad debate form, it’s stupid, inane, insipid and sophomoric. It tells the other party that not only is your point entirely invalid, it shows us that you have no solid way to debate your beliefs using actual real facts. Further, your name calling not only tells other parties that you are NOT open-minded nor do you possess any critical thinking skills, you also don’t even know how to properly argue your stance in any legitimate way.
Because you are unable to win on actual facts, articles and information that support your beliefs, you must resort to name calling and by insulting the other party; which seems to be the modus operondi for such sophomoric behaviors when all else fails. This action is considered such a bad sporting tactic that, if you were playing in an actual professional sporting event, you’d have been suspended and required to leave the field.
By resorting to this kind of amateur action, you have proven that you have no interest in hearing any other points of view or in listening to other belief systems other than your own. Doing this one proves you are 100%, most definitely living in an echo chamber.
Conclusion
While these 10 signs are the most critical, these are not the only signs that indicate you’re living in an echo chamber. Any way that sees you to rationalize and maintain your belief system by potentially hurting others indicates you are living in an echo chamber. If you are doing any of the above, you may not personally want to believe that you’re living in an echo chamber, but you are. You can choose to continue to pull the blinders over your eyes, or you can firmly open them to the world around you.
It’s far easier to live in a world of fantasy than it is to live in a world of reality. Unfortunately, living in that fantasy world does you no favors. For example, if you vote a candidate in based solely on your false beliefs, you may be dooming yourself and, more importantly, your children and grandchildren to something they may not comprehend until years later when it’s way too late. It is on you to choose to wise up and become a responsible adult. Living in an echo chamber may feel nice right now, but it won’t prevent the chaos and decay that will born and consume us from such destructive echo chambers.
If you wish to break free from an echo chamber, it may not be easy and it definitely won’t feel comfortable. You will need to stop the arguments designed to support your beliefs. Instead, you will need to ask questions and find out why the “other side” believes the way that it does, read articles that support other beliefs and understand why those beliefs make sense. Additionally, you will need to use your eyes, ears and brain to comprehend it all. Stop the arguing and begin questioning.
As long as you’re arguing for your stance only, then you’re not open to all information out there. You must be willing to open your eyes, ears and mind to ideas and beliefs beyond your own world view. Until you are willing to do this, you will remain stuck in your comfortable, but destructive echo chamber.
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Andrew Weissmann on Trump’s Legal Woes
Andrew Weissmann is one of many legal analysts that MSNBC has turned to for legal discussions involving Donald Trump’s legal woes. Let’s explore some of Mr. Weissmann’s misguided analyses.
State Prison Term?
One assertion that Andrew Weissmann puts forth over Donald Trump’s state legal woes is that Donald Trump won’t be able to “get out of” any state convictions. While on its face, this assertion may seem valid, but not if you take into account a second presidency of Donald J. Trump. While a “standard bearer” President wouldn’t be able to get out of it, at least someone who actually respects the Constitution and the rule of law, we already understand that Donald Trump respects nothing but himself.
We already know that Donald Trump intends to retaliate against his political rivals. He’s already stated this. Exactly what that means or how that retribution may come is unclear. However, one thing is crystal clear. If Donald Trump is capable of an insurrection against the United States, complete with inciting his followers into violence, then Trump is absolutely 100% capable of any action against any government authority.
Should Donald Trump be found guilty of any state crimes that require incarceration in a state prison and assuming his guilty sentencing involves such incarceration, you can bet Donald Trump as President won’t serve a day of that state prison sentence. Why? Retribution.
Military Might
The President of the United States is the commander over the United States Military. Trump knows that. We know that. What this means is that instead of simply making calls to heads of state using nebulous language that might or might not sound guilty, Trump’s gloves will come fully off. Donald Trump can and will use the military to retaliate against his foes, including those in state power. He will use the military to stop anyone who attempts to collect him for any state incarceration.
Not only will Trump play the innocent victim card as hard as possible on all media outlets and call out state officials by name so his followers will seek them out, he will also send in the military to collect and then detain and/or jail anyone who tries to bring him in, placing these people into federal prisons. Will these people get trials? No. Why? Because Trump will have unraveled the need to use the judicial system to find anyone guilty. Indeed, he will make himself judge, jury and executioner (such that that term means) over all Federal legal actions. All he will need to do is pen a missive that someone is guilty and off to Federal prison they go without a trial.
You might be thinking that these ideas are all far fetched, that Trump will never be able to assert that type of authority. If Trump gets back into power as President, he will have that authority because the voters who voted him in willed that power to him. This folks is what a dictator looks like. This is how a dictator acts.
It Doesn’t Affect Me!
Yes, absolutely it does. If Trump becomes arbiter over all federal legal matters effectively disbanding the courts, even the tiniest of federal infractions could lead to federal prison time and/or death, all at his or his assign’s whims… yes, for any citizen. Even if you haven’t managed to commit any federal infractions, but you wrote something Trump disliked on social media, this could land you in prison. Think of Alexei Nivalny being placed in prison because of Vladimir Putin didn’t like what Nivalny was saying…. you’ll quickly get the idea of where Donald Trump will take America.
Weissmann’s Delusion
Andrew Weissmann is under the incredible delusion that the judicial system will hold and somehow continue to work as it normally has after Donald Trump regains power as President. Weissman’s rationale and thinking is so incredibly wrong. Donald Trump has already stated he will gut the Constitution and its powers. He will fully take the gloves off and begin systematically dismantling the U.S. Constitution at its core including the Legislative and the Judicial branches of government. Trump will usurp the powers of both the Legislative and Judicial branches and make them his own, probably disbanding all courts and Capitol Hill. Trump will become all three branches in one.
Cabinet
Will Trump’s cabinet allow this? Sure. Trump is filling his little black book with names of those people who are fully willing to do his bidding. In his last term, he failed to find people willing to make these hard choices. If Trump manages another Presidential term, he will most certainly surround himself this time with people fully ready, willing and able to fulfill Trump’s every wish and desire… no matter the cost to America, to the Constitution or to you, the voters.
State Powers
Once the Constitution is gutted, the idea that States have any say under his dictatorship will evaporate. Congressional representatives? Nope. They’re history. Trump will then make it so that if the state authorities don’t immediately bow to his wishes, they won’t remain state authorities. In fact, I fully expect that Trump will immediately remove any state authorities who don’t agree with his Presidency. In fact, I then further expect Trump to reassign his own cronies to operate those same state authorities under federal purview.
That means that once Trump begins running not just the Federal government, but also every State government, he can commute any sentence he likes, including any state sentences that might be pending against him.
State Legislatures
What does this mean for states, state voting and state legislatures? It means they’re gone, history, expunged from existence. Donald Trump absolutely cannot allow states any manner of power that overrides his own authority.
Thus, Weissmann’s analysis of Donald Trump’s state legal woes is incredibly premature and could even be considered incredibly naive. The only way Donald Trump manages to become incarcerated under state law (assuming he is found guilty) is if he is NOT reelected as President in 2024. Only at that point will Donald Trump be forced to surrender to authorities under this current legal and constitutional system. If Donald Trump becomes President again, there will be no Constitution or, indeed, any state law under which to hold Donald J. Trump accountable for anything; not now, not ever.
Vote as if your life depends on it
If you still don’t believe Donald Trump is capable of the above, then you’re even more deluded than Donald Trump. However, if you’re invested in your current way of life, in your family and indeed, the current system, constitution and rule of law, then you need to vote as if your life depends on it; because it does. A vote for Donald J. Trump is a vote to dismantle the United States.
If you want your children to have a future in the same way that you had a future when you were a child, then you need to vote to maintain our current way of life. What that means is NOT voting for Donald J. Trump. Further, you shouldn’t vote for ANY GOP candidates because they are all tainted by Donald Trump’s ideals… and wish the same harm to America that Trump does.
In the 2024 Election, that leaves voting for Independents, Libertarians and Democrats. Whatever you do, DO NOT vote for anyone in the Republican party unless you want to see America, your current way of life, your family and any money that you have saved all end.
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