[ExI] Nobody can say we weren’t warned

Fri Oct 21 16:55:45 UTC 2016

>… On Behalf Of John Clark
Subject: Re: [ExI] Nobody can say we weren’t warned

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 2:07 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net <mailto:spike66 at att.net> > wrote:

> >…The chief justice swears in the winner,

>…A chief justice who was appointed by the president…

Ja we definitely need to go to extraordinary means to protect Roberts.  He is 61, which is young, but 38 is also young (80 days now and counting.)

>… the Constitution is … just a piece of paper that only has power if the people at the top agree to abide by it…

If nothing else, the next president will give America a new love and appreciation for that piece of paper, what it means, how it works and why it was written that way.  Viva constitution!

>… first time in the country's history a presidential candidate says he will abide by the results of election day ONLY if he wins…

He doesn’t need to accept it.  If he loses he will have no legal authority, so what difference does it make?  If he loses by cheating, he still loses.  And so do we.

>…It makes no difference how the system is set up if the people at the top refuse to abide by it…

I am betting on the constitution to win this one.

>… Even Nixon had more integrity than Trump…

This election has certainly cast a new light on Nixon.  The man was a meek and humble SAINT compared to these two.  In retrospect, all he needed to do is destroy all the tapes, use the 1970s equivalent of BleachBit, tell the investigators he didn’t recall anything about any tapes, object to their questions, and on it would go.  No evidence, what difference does it make etc.

>…And what happens when President Trump says congress is rigged… friendly generals that he appointed during the last 4 years to back him up?  

I am betting the generals will stand with the law.  They are not killer robots.  Generals and admirals are skilled personnel managers, all of them honest sorts almost without exception.  I do admit we have seen two exceptions very  recently, Petraeus and Cartwright, oy vey.

>> …The other is senile 

>…Senile? 

Ja.  In the sworn document to Judicial Watch, in which she was requested to explain the differences in testimony to congress and testimony to the FBI, she said she did not recall 21 times and objected to the question on the rest of them.  That is senility or false testimony under oath.  Your choice America.

>…She beat Trump like a rented mule in 3 debates and demonstrated a strong understanding of the issues…

For some interesting lawyer-esque dodging and deflecting, watch as much as you can stand of the last four minutes of this interview of DNC chairman Donna Brazile, when directly questioned over whether Mrs. Clinton was given the debate questions in advance.  Kelly kept hammering on the question, the DNC chair kept deflecting and is-ising, claiming prosecution because she was a Christian (!) inserting carefully the term “from CNN” deflect, is-is, dodge the question, deflect, and on and on it goes for 4 solid minutes, and never as far as I can tell is there a direct unambiguous answer to the evidence posed by Kelly, not once.  Advance to the five minute mark:

http://freebeacon.com/politics/megyn-kelly-and-donna-brazile-spar-in-post-debate-interview/

Aaaaaaastonnnnnnnishing interview, amazing.  My conclusion: Clinton had the questions in advance.  The DNC chair got them somehow, and supplied them.  Clinton won those debates by cheating.

>… including what Aleppo is...

I consider it a bad thing for a US president to think we should be involved in Aleppo.  We cannot fix that.  We can only break it further,  while breaking us further.

> >…So don’t vote for them.  Hear the footsteps.

>…Yes I know, make a historic principled gesture and vote for Johnson, but exactly what historic point would you be making? 

You didn’t vote for a hawkish megalomaniac or a hawkish senile gangster.

>…and if Gary Johnson is remembered at all is will be for being the “What is Aleppo?” man. 

If this turns out the way I fear it will, we may soon yearn for a president who knows not what is Aleppo.  Unacceptably high is the risk of going to war with the commies where we have nothing to gain and everything to lose.  Now is not the time to elect a war hawk.

Either way, the bright side is that this distasteful affair will be over in three weeks and we can get on with suffering the consequences and our favorite intellectual pursuits.

>…In 5 years even talented Trivial Pursuits players will have difficulty naming the 2016 Libertarian Party presidential candidate… John K Clark

But you will know who you voted for.  I will know who I voted for.  I still have to face the man in the mirror every day when I shave my face.  

Hear the footsteps John, now more than ever.

spike

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