Category: Vid O’ The Day

With Mfume, you don’t know whether he’s arrogantly stupid, or stupidly arrogant. In either case, he and his ilk are the reason some of the framers of the Constitution demanded a Bill of Rights that specifically included a protection of RKBA.

Democrat Kweisi Mfume Claims the Role of the FBI and IRS Are to ‘Keep Democracy in Check’

Wednesday, Maryland Representative Kweisi Mfume used his time at a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability featuring IRS whistleblowers (WATCH LIVE: IRS Whistleblowers Testify Before House Oversight Committee Regarding Biden Criminal Investigation) testifying about the efforts of the Justice Department to stymie the criminal investigation of the Biden Crime family to provide a revealing insight into how the Democrats view our republican system of government; see IRS Whistleblower Joseph Ziegler Details DOJ Protection of the Bidens in CBS News Interview.

In a seamless segue from the subject of the hearing to complaining about Donald Trump, who, unlike Hunter, James, and Joe Biden, is in legal jeopardy for his real and imagined shenanigans, Mfume, who resigned his position as president of the NAACP due to sexual harassment, let loose with this broadside.

Here’s what galls me. I don’t like these attacks on the Department of Justice, the FBI, the IRS, as if they are somehow anti-US agencies. Those agencies keep this democracy in check and keep moving forward [he lapses into gibberish for a moment, so my transcript might be wrong about “forward’}. They provide the checks and they provide the balances.

 

Once you get past the point of being shocked and appalled that a member of the House of Representatives, the part of the federal government closest to the people, could claim that the DOJ, FBI, and IRS are part of our system of checks and balances and their role is to “keep this democracy in check;” you can actually be thankful to the guy.

On Tuesday, I posted on the confusion and disarray at the New York Times because of Trump’s public plan to bring the federal bureaucracy to heel; see Trump’s Plan to Destroy the Deep State Causes Panic at the New York Times. As my friend and RedState OG “Thomas Crown” noted on Twitter, “Our administrative state, at the federal level, is premised on two weirdly unconstitutional but broadly-accepted (and therefore sort of constitutional?) premises: That the Legislature can cede its power to the President’s branch, which he cannot and must not fully control.”

Granting any federal agency, much less those agencies who can take your possessions and kill you if you rile them up (just ask Vicki Weaver…oh, that’s right, you can’t ask her), status as our checks and balances looks, smells, and tastes very much like the Soviet Union referring to the KGB as the “sword and shield of the Communist Party.” Placing any federal agency, particularly those with the power to deprive you of life, liberty, and property, above criticism is something we sort of suspected the Democrats believed but never expected to hear them say out loud.

Federal Appeals Judge Speaks to The Four Boxes Diner about the 2nd Amendment, Justice Thomas & Originalism

A well planned ambush simply to commit murder is almost always highly effective and lethal.
But since such as this is usually over something personal – as it appears to me in this case -the list of suspects will likely not be long.

But even the politicians on our side of the equation don’t seem to get it.
The 2nd amendment gives the people nothing.
The people already possess the right to keep and bear arms.
The people have had this right even before the U.S. was the U.S.!
The amendment restricts government power.

Riley Gaines fact checks transgender claims as Democrats push for ‘gender identity’ as protected class

‘Both Serena and Venus lost to the 203rd ranked male tennis player’

Riley Gaines was a key witness at a Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday to push back against efforts by Democrats to pass the Equality Act, which would add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” as protected classes to the nation’s nondiscrimination laws.

During testimony Wednesday, panelist Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign, refused to concede that biological men have an advantage over biological women in sports. Robison cited the claim that men cannot beat Serena Williams in tennis.

Asked to weigh in, Gaines quickly shut down the claim. “Both Serena and Venus lost to the 203rd ranked male tennis player, which — they’re phenoms for women,” Gaines said.

She also explained that even though she has more accolades and national rankings as an NCAA swimmer from the University of Kentucky than her husband — who also swam competitively for the school — “he could kick my butt any day of the week, without trying.”

It was one highlight reel among many produced by Gaines, a spokeswoman for the Independent Women’s Forum, as she told senators that gender identity policies that allow men to compete against women “exclude female athletes.”

At times Gaines’ testimony was emotional, and she appeared to hold back tears as she spoke of changing in the locker room alongside biological male and fellow NCAA swimmer Lia “Will” Thomas.

“A 6-foot-4, 22-year-old male equipped with and exposing mail genitalia. … No one asked for our consent and we did not give our consent,” she said. “… We were forced to take our swimsuit off in front of a male who was doing the exact same thing, if nothing else I truly hope how you can see this is a violation to our right to privacy and how some of us have felt uncomfortable, embarrassed and even traumatized by this experience.”

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A conversation with constitutional attorney Stephen P. Halbrook