The crew of the 73 stood, their skipper gave the toast.
“To Ensign Charles Parker who survived Capture, interrogation and being smuggled out of Germany to make his way back to Volta Fiore & PT 73 that he’s served so well.”
The Ensign blushed as Mama Giovani refilled the glasses. Gruber stood up.
“And the best part, he came back without old Leadbottom!”
The crew drank again as a Jeep pulled into the town square, bearing the Captain his face wearing all he had been through.
The crew moaned as McHale smirked, “Oh well you can’t win ’em all.”
Yesterday the Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions and also had one of the most historic takedowns of a SCOTUS judge by another as Clarence Thomas illustrated the difference between a justice who had worked hard despite growing up in the segregated south who knows what a woman is and one that is an affirmative action hire that is unable to answer that question under oath.
Today the court once again told Colorado that they can not compel speech against a person’s religion despite the determined efforts of Colorado to continue to attempt to do this.
Now the reality of these rulings are that both the university system which has a lot of people whose income is based on this kind of thing, and Colorado which didn’t let the last SCOTUS ruling on cakes stop them from playing this game are likely to be either noveled by the Universities or ignored by Colorado neither of which are likely to face consequences for their actions, but it DOES do one important thing.
It makes the case for Donald Trump in election 2024.
There are arguments for and against Donald Trump as the GOP nominee but no argument is better than these two 6-3 rulings which along with the Dobbs ruling nuking abortion as a right, were only made possible by three justices appointed by Trump.
Unlike previous GOP presidents who tended to appoint Justices who had a 50-50 chance of suddenly turning liberal, Trump’s judges have been so solid that old yellowstain Justice Roberts unable to be the 5th vote for the left (see obamacare) has repeatedly decided to join conservative majorities making 6-3 rulings rather than 5-4.
Now there might be those who argue that any GOP President could have delivered these victories, and they might argue that a DeSantis (likely) or a Scott (maybe) or even a Christie (never) might have made the same solid appointments given a chance, they may even be right.
But in the end “any” GOP president did not deliver these victories and while it may or may not be true that a DeSantis or Scott, or Pence of Christie might deliver, Trump can say unequivocally that he DID deliver.
If I ran the Trump campaign I’d be making this case every single day in every single appearance I made in the country.
UPDATE: While I was writing this post SCOTUS struck down Biden’s attempt to toss student loan debt from those who took it on to taxpayers again 6-3. Maybe it’s just me but I think it’s a better argument for Trump then declaring that election 2024 is all about retribution.
I’ll be a longer post addressing this but in short circumstances from the loss of our primary domain to our banning from Youtube has caused us to bleed traffic and subscribers to the point where I need to decide if our 15th anniversary coming up in November will be our last one.
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It is safe to say that the Democrats were emboldened by the successful theft of the 2020 presidential election. They were further emboldened by the utter lack of any meaningful response from the Republican Party. That has not stopped them from coming up with more and more elaborate plans to make absolutely sure Republicans will never win another Presidential election.
The Biden Regime’s latest attempt is rather clever and elaborate. Unfortunately it would be more successful than anything Acme ever produced.
Through this executive order, the president is abusing the power of his office and using taxpayer-funded resources to transform federal government agencies into get-out-the-vote machines for the left.
Like all other attempts by the Democrats, this one is in direct of the Constitution.
When it comes to elections, the U.S. Constitution is clear: Determining their time, place, and manner falls squarely upon the shoulders of the state legislatures with limited oversight from Congress. Nowhere is the president granted the power to regulate elections.
The effects of this Executive Order will be far reaching.
The bad news is this executive order brings the threat of federal election interference to every state’s doorstep. And with the countdown to 2024 well underway, time is running out to stop Team Biden’s scheme. The good news is Congress and the states can stop the threat if they work together and work quickly.
This Executive Order will deputize every single far left community activist group, making them voter registration power houses.
In one of his first acts after taking office, Biden signed Executive Order 14019, titled “Promoting Access to Voting.” His order commanded every federal agency to use taxpayer-funded resources to engage in voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts. These are overtly partisan activities reserved for political parties, not government.
Through food stamps, public housing, Medicaid, and other welfare programs, federal agencies have the resources and ability to target millions of potential voters across every state in the country — potential voters whose information is required to enroll in these programs and who are statistically more likely to vote Democrat.
The order went even further by requiring agencies to allow third-party groups, hand-selected by the White House, to engage in voter registration activities on federal agency premises.
There was a lot of crowing on the left over the SCOTUS decision in the North Carolina case
the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that although the Constitution gives state legislatures the power to regulate federal elections, state courts can supervise the legislature’s exercise of that power. By a vote of 6-3, the court rejected the so-called “independent state legislature theory,” holding that the North Carolina Supreme Court did not violate the Constitution when it set aside a congressional map adopted by the state’s legislature.
The left is pretty happy about this, but there is a real silver lining here, and it involves one of the liberals long term plans to own this nation. It’s the National popular vote compact.
This is a deal by which a state agrees to give its electoral votes in a presidential election to the winner of the national popular vote regardless of how the population of the state actually votes in a presidential election.
It’s a great system if your goal is to disenfranchise the voters of your state on a permanent basis. My own currently deep blue state has foolishly gone along with this and I saw no remedy to it as the Constitution clearly gives the state legislature power to determine how electoral votes are cast.
However this decision opens the door to an end around through the courts. If the legislature does not have the final word in how federal elections are cast then we can petition the courts for redress and perhaps even trust the judges on SCOTUS to protect the our franchise.
Does this guarantee victory? No, but it gives a chance, a chance that didn’t exist if the independent state legislature theory was in place.
Let them cheer today, there may be a time in the future that those cheers over this ruling may turn to sobs.
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