I don’t usually play political games and truthfully I hate politics. I rarely comment on Demoncraps because…you know…they’re an evil bunch of crap and are rarely worth my time other than to say that they couldn’t act in favor of the Constitution to save their very lives.
I only comment on people who may benefit from it or who I have some hope. Even then it is only with the possibility that they may fall down a flight of stairs through their mistakes and somehow land on their feet. I have some hope for the Republicans in this, that somehow the true conservatives within the party will somehow gain enough power to wrest control of Congress or the presidency and actually be worthy of their oaths which they have all taken toward the Constitution.
I used to do this thing where I would take someone’s speeches and sift through them and give a score as to how well what they were saying conformed to the Constitution. Just as a couple of examples for the sake of comparison you will find attached here President Reagan’s First Address to Congress which scored at 74.1%. President Trump’s First Address to Congress scored 52.6%. Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address was so horrendous I couldn’t even score it. President Trump’s First inaugural Address scored a dismal 36.2%.
I’m not saying that I dislike The Trumpster. I think he’s kind of funny and entertaining. If he were staring on a TV show about business I’d be a fan. He’s got some good ideas if he were to be running a big business. But it is not the business of a president to run the country as if it were his own personal business. That he is a successful business man means nothing to me as a president. The oath of office is not to the country. It is to the Constitution and it is how the Constitution says that the country is to be run that counts in this matter.
What the liberals say about him is just a big pack of lies. Most of which they themselves are guilty of. They think they have cause to be critical of him and I disagree with their reasoning on the subject. As you read my comments about him you will notice that none of what I say is personal. Almost all of my comments on him are with regards to the duties of the presidency and what the Constitution says about it.
I frequently find him saying things that are so grossly unconstitutional that I’d have thought they were quotes from Woodrow Wilson or FDR; someone of that ilk. His comments on what he wanted to do for universal healthcare in his run for the presidency in 2016 made me realize that I could never support him.
Sigh. Here’s the thing; THE MORE WE, AS CONSERVATIVES, TOLERATE AND EXCUSE A PRESIDENT WHO DOES NOT FOLLOW THE CONSTITUTION, THE MORE THE LIBERALS ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET AWAY WITH IN VIOLATING THE LIMITS THE GOVERNMENT IS SUPPOSED TO ADHERE TO. The successor inherits the power of the predecessor. Trump’s followers trust him with unconstitutional power, because, well, you know, he’s a good guy and they sound like good ideas on the surface. Biden then inherits that same power we trusted Trump with and uses it against us. Four years things go really well before it all turns to crap. What we are going through now is to that degree on Trump for passing all of the unconstitutional power he used on to Biden.
The purpose of the Constitution is to protect us from that. So while a large portion of the people who read this blog are dedicated Trump supporters, and I write this knowing full well that I’m going to offend some of them, I have to take the risk and say what is on my mind. It’s about the Constitution.
So here we are at CPAC, 2023. I could sum up eighty-five percent of his speech as a combination of three things. 1) See how great I am? 2) See how mean to me they’ve been? 3) See how stupid they are?
Don’t get me wrong. It was very entertaining. And mostly right. But in the entire thing, about two hours of talking, he only mentioned the Constitution once! And that once was how he wanted to change it!
This guy, by oath, is sworn to the Constitution’s defense. That’s what a president is really for.
The remaining fifteen percent of the speech was split between things he wants to do that are constitutional or unconstitutional. As is typical with him according to my observations they are about 50/50.
I’m only going to cover the unconstitutional things here.
So he commented about “No voter id.” That’s all fine but elections, per the Constitution, are held by the States and are really none of the federal government’s business. I’ve written about that here.
He made the statement that “We will route the fake news media.” Ummm…First Amendment? Anybody? As much as I disagree with the fake news media we can’t go down the road of regulating them. Honestly he didn’t suggest it and I have hope that he meant routing them by pointing out the truth to their discredit. That said his history for suggesting things that are grossly unconstitutional makes me wary, to say the least.
We are not going back to people that want to destroy our great Social Security system. Even some in our party, I wonder who that might be. Want to raise the minimum age of social security to 70, 75, even 80 in some cases. They are out to cut Medicare to a level that it will no longer be recognizable. Let’s be honest here. Social Security and Medicare are both Ponzi schemes created to rob money from the American People. If you were to set up a private system using the same rules you’d share a cell with the likes of Bernie Madoff. Setting that completely aside there is still the Constitutional issue. Both of these are grossly unconstitutional violations of the Tenth Amendment. I’ve written more on that here.
“A wonderful town in Ohio has difficulty, we are going to take care of that town. That city that village prior to worrying about the rest of the world.” I live in Ohio. A friend of mine from Navy boot camp is from East Palestine. I feel for those people. But this is not a federal issue. There is no authorization within the Constitution for disaster relief of any kind. It is a violation of the Tenth Amendment. There has been three times where entire cities have been wiped out in American History. The Great Chicago Fire. The Great Galveston Hurricane. The San Francisco Earth Quake. These three cities received no federal relief and somehow they still managed to exist quite well. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t help. We should. But at the forceful influence of the federal government and the thugs from the IRS? Nope. Unconstitutional.
“I smashed the false idols of the free-trade fanatics. These are for they are getting pretty rich probably the second. I left the china lobby, bringing in hundreds of billions of dollars pouring into our treasury from china. Thank you very much China. When no other president got anything from them. Our trade deficits were $700 billion per year. Think of it dollars per year.” Now here is something that I have to comment on that is just plain silly. The hundreds of billions of dollars pouring into our treasury did not come from China. We the People paid those tariffs through elevated prices on imports from China. That money doesn’t come from them. It comes from us. There are a lot that great conservative economists like Milton Friedman and Walter E. Williams had to say about this. And with them I agree. If there is one thing that is distinctly conservative it is the right to free trade. This is not exactly a constitutional issue but I had to comment on it for my own sake because I believe in free trade without government interference. Trade deficits are not the evil they’re cracked up to be.
“I arrested the Marxists who toppled statues of our great heroes in Washington, D.C.. I arrested them. They were knocking down the most beautiful artwork, the most beautiful statues of great heroes. He didn't even know who they were, they just wanted anarchy and I passed and signed an executive order anyone who does that get 10 years in jail with no negotiation.” An executive order bypassing Due Process in the Fifth Amendment? Does this really seem like a good ideal for the president of the United States to do?
“And then Covid came in, and we did great job. We never got credit for that job we did a great job with Covid and gave back something very strong.” I remember a lot of press conferences with Doctor Fauci and Donald Trump. Every day press conferences for a while. All the while saying and doing all kinds of things unconstitutional for the federal government. There is nothing in the Constitution giving the federal government any emergency powers for diseases or pandemics. Nothing short of a threat to national security should involve the president on this subject.
“We have more oil in the United States than any country in the world, including Saudi Arabia. People don't realize it. In Alaska, I approved a site, we all know what the site is. Probably the biggest in the world. And the democrats said no, it's over. They turned it down. Ronald Reagan tried to do it. Every president, republican, and some democrats tried to do it. I got it done.” There is nothing in the Constitution that backs any of this up as a federal power. Granted, the federal government has its (very greedy) hands all involved with energy but it is all unconstitutional per the Tenth Amendment. The States can do this but the feds shouldn’t. And yes, we have more oil under our ground than any other place in the world. We can’t get to it because the federal government has no respect for the States, the People or the Tenth Amendment.
“I will end the scourge of homelessness taking of our cities and suburbs.” Good idea for the States and the People. But the Tenth Amendment makes it none of the federal government’s business.
“Frankly, the federal government should take over control and management of Washington D.C..” Ummm… dude! It already has that control. Article One, Section Eight, Clause Seventeen. How does he not know this? This is one of those things that just boggles my mind.
“Under our leadership we will take the homeless, drug addicted and severely deranged, get them off our streets and create tent cities where we will get them the help they so desperately need.” Tenth Amendment again. The States have this authority. Not the feds.
“I will fight for parent’s rights. Can you believe here we are? And I said I'm going to fight for parent’s right? Who would thought he would say, don't you think the parents have good rights? Who would've thought you have to say it, because they took the rights away. Including universal school choice and the direct election of school and supposed by the parents. We want the school principal to be elected by parents. We love the children more than the parents. If any principal is not getting this done, the parents should be able to fire the principal and select someone new.” Do you ever wonder why the federal government and Demoncraps have so much power in the school system? Do you ever wonder why parents are losing their rights to these dirt bags? There is no authorization for the federal government to do anything about education. Nothing. It’s all a violation of the Tenth Amendment.
“We will teach our values and promote our history and traditions to our children. We well, in other words, be proud of our country again.” Same as the previous comment. Tenth Amendment. It is not up to the federal government.
“I will revoke every Biden policy regarding the chemical castration and sexual mutilation of our youth and ask congress to send me a bill prohibiting child sexual mutilation in all fifty states.” I’m going to say it. The transgender movement is insane. I mean total bat-crap-crazy-loony-tunes insane. But I can’t find any Article, Section or Clause in the Constitution for the federal government to do anything about it. The States should. The feds, per the Tenth Amendment, shouldn’t.
“And we will keep men out of women’s sports.” Again, the Tenth Amendment. My God! It’s as if he doesn’t even know it is there! I agree this should be done but everything under the sun is not a federal issue.
“By defeating Joe Biden I will save your economy I will save your retirement accounts and I will save your jobs. I have the greatest job's history of any president ever.” The reason the economy sucks under Biden is because the federal government is too involved with it. Part of this is President Trump’s cranking up the national debt by eight trillion dollars in half of the time that Obama did it. This is the quintessential idea of conservatism. The more the feds get involved with this the worse it gets. Our money and jobs are ours. It’s none of the president’s business, again per the Tenth Amendment. Granted, Trump did a good job at that part of it but his unconstitutional overreach here left us all open for Biden to come in and destroy it all.
“I will have a four-year plan to phase out all Chinese imports of essential goods and gain total independence from China.” It’s none of the federal government’s business what I buy or where it comes from. Tenth Amendment again.
“We want everything including electric cars but we also want gasoline because the cars go longer and they are preferred by many people.” Nothing in the Constitution gives the feds any power over this. Tenth Amendment yet again.
“We want oil and gasoline and natural gas because it is cheaper, better and much more powerful. It is April Fools' Day. Under my leadership we will regain energy independence that we had three years ago. We were on our way to massive energy dominance. We would have been paying off our debt, because energy is big numbers it is not like you are selling a little product you're selling the biggest product of all it is energy. We would have been paying off our debt. We would have been the strongest. We were going to be, we were already bigger under my administration than Saudi Arabia or Russia. We were going to be bigger than both of them combined and within about a year we would have made the kind of money they are making times five.” The federal government has no authority over cars or energy and they are not supposed to be making money from it or them. Donald increased our national debt by a whopping eight trillion dollars. Why is he concerned about national debt now? But I digress… Tenth Amendment on all of this…again.
“I will fight for a constitutional amendment to [propose] term limits on members of congress.” Term limits are very, very, very bad. This is the one time he even mentioned the Constitution. This is his disagreement with it and how he wants it to be changed. If an old tiger is chewing on your throat it does no good to substitute a younger tiger for the older one. The problem isn’t the age of the tiger. It’s that the tiger is chewing on your throat. Term limits are like that. But more than that they don’t limit the powers of the federal government. They limit the choices of the American People on who they have to represent them. I’ve written more on term limits here and here.
“And I will move heaven and earth to fully and finally secure our elections. All republican governors should immediately go for paper ballots one day voting and voter id.” This one is one the line for me. The elections are run by the States. That’s the way it is supposed to be and for good reason. It keeps the president and Congress from running their own reelections. If you want to know what the Constitution says about elections you can find the article I wrote about it here and decide for yourself.
“Our objective will be a quantum leap in the American standard of living especially for young people.” Tenth Amendment again.
“We will rename our schools and boulevards not after communists but after great American patriots.” As much as I would be in favor of such a thing it is not any of the federal government’s business. Tenth Amendment.
“We will get rid of bad and ugly buildings and returned to the magnificent classical style of western civilization.” Unless it is a federally owned building he’s talking about the Tenth Amendment applies here too.
“We will support baby boomers and we will support baby bonuses for a new baby boom.” So he wants to make us pay for other people to have babies too? How does this guy even call himself a conservative? This is not only a flagrant violation of the Tenth Amendment but as grossly liberal an idea as I can imagine; universal healthcare notwithstanding. Imagine this. The federal government with the power to regulate how many babies you can or cannot have. What could possibly go wrong?
“All of this is within our reach but only if we have the courage to complete the job, got the deep state and reclaim our democracy and banish the tyrants and Marxists into political exile forever.” This one is a favorite pet peeve of mine. Article Four, Section Four of the United States Constitution says; “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.” The United States is a REPUBLIC! You would think a REPUBLICAN would be able to properly identify what kind of government the United States has. To his credit he later called it a republic. Look. This is really simple. If you live in a country where the People voted directly on national issues you live in a democracy. If you have representatives who vote on your behalf on national issues, no matter how they are chosen, you live in a republic. These are not the same thing. They are mutually exclusive.
These things as constitutional violations are pretty gross. Really. For the life of me I can’t understand why anybody who is for the constitutional rule of law in this country could support him. Granted, he loves the country. I genuinely admire him for that. He has done a fair number of things that have been good for it, inside and outside of the Constitution. However I would find it very difficult to believe he loves the Constitution which he is sworn to.
That said; I still have a half rotten potato in my cupboard that would be a better president than Biden.
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