In this episode of American Thought Leaders, Jan Jekielek sat down with classicist and historian Victor Davis Hanson to discuss the rise of critical social justice and woke ideology, growing limits on freedom of speech, and his take on the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump.
“It’s like a public-shaming like the Communist Party used to make people wear dunce caps,” Hanson says.
The second day of former President Trump’s second impeachment trial continues in the Senate. President Trump is being charged with one article claiming incitement of an insurrection prior to the Jan. 6th Capitol chaos. [Livestream Links Below]
The insufferable political exercise is scheduled to begin at Noon ET.
CSPAN Livestream – PBS Livestream Link – Fox News Livestream – FBN Livestream
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Re-Posted from GrrrGraphics.com FEB 8, 2021 AT 9:50 AM
“I don’t even know what I am signing” Fraud in Chief Joe Biden
Who is ordering Biden’s flood of executive orders? Why, the invigorated Deep State Swamp, of course.
Biden is a puppet chosen by the Swamp. He certainly wasn’t chosen by many voters. In early 2020, Biden came in 4th in Iowa during the Democratic primary. He finished 5th in New Hampshire. Sleepy Joe looked finished. His debate performances were a dismal embarrassment.
Yet the Deep State chose him and that was that. They knew he was corrupt and would carry out another term for Obama, who is likely one of Biden’s string pullers. Hillary pulls the strings on Kamala. They didn’t care what the voters wanted. The Swamp obviously did everything necessary to assure a Biden victory. They outspent Trump by a wide margin on campaign ads. They shamelessly cheated and stole the election when it was clear Trump would win by a landslide.
The plethora of executive orders are necessary for the Swamp to remove as many of Trump’s accomplishments as possible just in case something happens and Biden is removed from office. Everyone knows the election was stolen—even Democrats. Only they call it ‘fortifying’ the election.
It’s unlikely a general revolution will occur by the people to remove Joe’s regime. Americans may be angry, but they’re kept distanced and fearful. Most won’t even remove their slave masks of submission. Perhaps the last hope resides with the Supreme Court. If only they’d get off their duffs, examine the massive amount of evidence and mete out some justice. Then maybe China Joe will be removed.
This could also be why Pelosi is so eager to impeach Trump. She doesn’t want him to be able to take his rightful place in the White House for his second term.
—Ben Garrison
COMMENT: Marty,
Each day I read reports from so called reputable people expressing what they think might happen given the backdrop today. It is laughable. Most do this based on superficial analysis or cursory comparisons with things that appear to line up, appear to rhythm, to paraphrase M Twain. What a joke.
I say this here because as I relearn what I once thought I knew, analyze my mistakes using real data…it brings me back to you and your marvelous study of history, your database, which is incomparable, and your willingness…let’s call it humility, to let Socrates make the call. Just remarkable.
What this has done for me is save countless hours reading nonsense and instead focusing on the data. Not trying to push my opinions on a trade and expect the market will follow, but respect what is there and not force things. Nothing is absolute, no one is always right. But today there are so many people who are flat out wrong, who claim to be right…just give them time, it explains why the government fails repeatedly…because these are the people who, like Keynsians or socialists claim…just give it more money…it will work. Right. History always seems to tell a different story.
MS
REPLY: Thank you. What I try to get across is what I have learned from my clients. Because I was perhaps the only international analyst in foreign exchange back in the 70s and 80s, we ended up with the largest client base that was so diverse that it compelled me to look at the world through everyone else’s eyes. I remember doing an institutional conference in Zurich probably around 1982-1983. People started flying in to attend from around the world. There were people from the USA and Canada as well as Germany who traveled to Zurich.
I remember doing a forecast on gold after I had provided a forecast in Swiss francs. I had said that gold would rise in dollars, but that the dollar would decline against the Swiss. The Swiss aptly said if they bought gold they would lose. I realized at that time that forecasts had to be based upon the individual currency. The above chart showed the start difference in a forecast for gold based upon the currency.
Everything I have learned has come from my clients. I have designed Socrates to be an international tool so everyone around the world can do their own technical analysis and use our tools on any market around the world expressed in their own currency.
I was a history buff. I am not the all knowledgable soothsayer. My studies are probably the most comprehensive when it comes to economics and monetary history. I am not the one who cares about every war and how they won or lost if it had no relevance to the monetary system and economics of the time.
I bought my first Roman coin probably around 1963 for $10. I was fascinated that I could actually have a piece of history. I then learned that much of history was not only preserved by the coins, but it was confirmed by the coinage.
For example, we know when Titus opened the Colosseum because he issued a coin to announcing it. We know that Brutus did assassinate Julius Caesar on the Ides of March (15th) in 44 BC because he issued a coin bragging about it. Probably the rarest of all Roman coins is the Saturninus gold aureus. It is one of two in existence which proved the academics all wrong and the book “Historia Augusta” was real.
Roman coins enabled me to reconstruct the world monetary system to answer the question — how did Rome fall? This eliminated all the opinions. I did not stop with Rome. I reconstructed the entire world. It was to ELIMINATE opinion, which to me was biased and worthless. I have mentioned that in high school I had to read “The Great Crash of 1929” by Galbraith. Never in there did he ever talk about the sovereign defaults, which I only discovered by coming across a copy of Herbert Hoover’s memoirs in an antique store in London. That meant I could not trust the history books and I had to investigate the raw sources.
I am trying to put this all together in a book which will probably be 5 or 6 volumes. But it has to be authoritative for it is breaking new ground on a global scale.
The Senate wrapped up initial arguments on Tuesday and is set to begin hearing evidence Wednesday in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. History will remember every member who voted that this proceeding is constitutional. There is NO precedent for such a farse and now when the Republicans get back in power they can go back and impeach Obamas for ordering the surveillance of Trump in 2016 which was worse than what Nixon did. Or perhaps we impeach George Washington because he owned slaves? The House was supposed to be like a Grand Jury. They never presented any evidence nor did they present a single witness. They simply did this to try to prevent Trump from running in 2024. The Constitute does not given Congress the power to retroactively impeach awnyone. The plain language is clear and the Chief Justice refused to participate which in and of itself shows there is no basis for this nonsense. If Trumpo is guilt of insurrection, he should have been charged and that is for the courts to decide.
Article 1, Section 2, Clause 5
The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
Article 1, Section 3, Clauses 6 and 7
The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried the Chief Justice shall preside; And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
Judgement in Cases of Impreachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgement and Punishment, according to Law.
Article 2, Section 4
The President, Vice President and all Civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
The interpretation being used is in itself illegal. If it does not expressly say anything about a past president, then they assume they can. This is not the way to interpret the constitution. Since it does not satet that the president may not exercise the common law right of king to Prima Nocta/Noctum, then he too can demand to sleep with every bride on her weding noght to ensure she was a virgin since it is not expressly forbiden. BTW, that evolved into the marriage certificate because you would pay the king not to sleep with your bride which became the license over time.
Trump’s lawyers – David Schoen and Bruce Castor – contended that there is no legal justification to hold a trial for a president who is no longer in office. But senators sided with House managers prosecuting the case. The vote was 56-44 with six Republicans joining every Democrat to go forward with the trial. Those six Republicans might as well join the Democrats for what they have just done is guarantreed that the Republican Party will split. Trump was elected simply because he stepped into a trend which had been moving for decades – the anti-establishment that is fed up with the corruption in Washington that this now raises tro ne heights.
Wednesday is expected to be the first opportunity for impeachment managers, the House Democrats prosecuting the case, to present what they say is new evidence to convict the former president on a single article that he incited a pro-Trump mob to storm the Capitol on January 6, 2021. They never presented anything in the House which was a complete denial of due process of law. Here ares the six Republican senators who voted that the impeachment trial was consistent with the Constitution confirming they are nothing more than swamp creatures themselves. Since he cannot be removed from office, the only purposes of voting with the Democrats is to deny Trump the right to run in 2024.
Highlighting the insufferable alignment of the two wings of the UniParty bird, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell allowed, permitted, and grinned as six GOP senators concurred with leftist democrats that impeachment of a former President is constitutional… Pro Tip: it ain’t.
Republican Senators: Bill Cassidy (LA), Lisa Murkowski (AK), Mitt Romney (UT), Susan Collings (ME), Ben Sasse (NE) and Pat Toomey (PA) aligned with the usurpation:
To see evidence of the constitutional quagmire one only has to look at Chief Justice John Roberts’ refusal to participate in the impeachment trial. Despite his own ideological progressiveness, even Roberts couldn’t bring himself to compromise the baseline of the Judicial Branch role in determining constitutional issues around impeachment.
The entire system in DC is operating outside the constitutional framework… FUBAR.
The ridiculously political impeachment trial of President Trump begins today at 1:00pm with a four-hour open session debate on the constitutionality of impeaching a former president. [Livestream Links Below]
PBS Livestream Link – CSPAN Livestream Link
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Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg (aka Alfred E Newman), made a rather stunning statement during an Axios interview today.
When discussing domestic travel and transportation as it related to COVID-19, the transportation secretary said: “there is an active conversation within the CDC now” about requiring COVID tests prior to air travel inside the United States.
This ridiculous position was unfortunately one of the issues CTH predicted might happen.
COVID is not a virus inasmuch as it is an opportunity to achieve social-change goals advocated by the far-left. Remember, one key element within the Green New Deal was to ban airplanes altogether.
The kindergarten class of tree-shouting, algae-cake-eating, everything must be sustainable and stupid, ie. leftist moonbats, are the ones offering actual policy suggestions
WARNING […] Think about who in Washington DC then takes control of what types of business interests are allowed to operation…. who determines the winning and losing.
Think about how Federal COVID-19 regulations can be used to put the multinational corporate world back (the globalists) on their former financial pathways, even without TPP and TTIP trade deals.
[Every domestic regulation weaponized against Main Street USA is a win for the Wall Street multinationals.]
Think about how much China and Europe would love to see our economy knee-capped in a Biden regulatory stranglehold; essentially achieving the same objectives as the Paris Climate Treaty.
Think long and hard about how far the tentacles of achieving the Green New Deal (pdf of GRD below) can extend under the auspices of federal COVID-19 mitigation.
Remember, those who are working on this don’t care about the middle-class and they have not for decades. The visibility of the ‘rust belt’ is the reference. This is about government bureaucrats using their DC power-base to control trillions in economic value and sell their ability to influence the winners and losers to the highest foreign bidder.
Look at what blue states have already done to seize power and control. Now think about that same manipulative intent spread throughout the entire country by weaponizing federal agencies with advanced regulation.
That should start to frame the reference point going forward. Remember, within totalitarian states religion is a risk… the assembly for religious worship is always considered a risk to by those who demand control over free-thought and lives.
The national legislative priority will be entirely focused on retention of that power system by generating an entirely new form of congressional representation. New states, new senators, new election systems, and funding for the needs of the executive…. that will be the focus of the facilitating legislative branch.
Those behind the executive branch; those controlling Joe Biden; will harness and weaponize the power. The legislative leftists will attempt to ensure the new systems they create under the guise of COVID-19 are never in a position to be withdrawn. (read more)
Former acting Director of National Intelligence, Richard “Ric” Grenell, appears on NewsMax to discuss the current status of JoeBama and DC’s effort to cancel the Trump administration.
Grenell first talks of the refusal to provide classified intelligence briefings to the former president as it is traditionally handled. Grenell also notes the overall goal of the leftists behind JoeBama is to completely cancel the prior president. WATCH:
The Senate trial of former President Donald Trump should be an exercise in futility; there is no constitutional framework to impeach a former president. However , that said, when both wings of the UniParty bird are working in mutually beneficial alignment, anything can happen. [Senate Trial Rules – Impeachment #2 HERE]
Senators Schumer and McConnell have agreed to a set of rules for the impeachment trial. The rules will be voted on tomorrow, along with an initial set of four hours of arguments on the constitutionality of the entire fiasco beginning… and then a vote.
WASHINGTON DC – The agreement between Schumer and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, in conjunction with the House impeachment managers and Trump’s lawyers, will allow up to four hours of arguments on Tuesday about the constitutionality of putting a former president on trial. The Senate will then vote on whether the trial is constitutional. (more)
Assuming the trial goes forward… Then beginning Wednesday, each side will have up to 16 hours to lay out their case, spread out over two days per side. Senators will then have four hours to pose questions to the House managers and Trump’s attorneys.
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