Six Republicans Who Voted to Impeach Trump Led by Mitt Romney – Of Course


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Feb 9, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

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.

  • Sen. Susan Collins of Maine
  • Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana
  • Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
  • Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah
  • Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska
  • Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania

Six Republican Senators Align With Democrats Claiming Impeachment of Former President is Constitutional, It Ain’t


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 9, 2021 by Sundance

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.

Senate Impeachment Trial for Insurrection, Day One – 1:00pm Livestream


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 9, 2021 by Sundance

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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Pete Buttigieg Says DOT Studying Requiring COVID Tests for Domestic Airline Travel


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 9, 2021 by Sundance

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)

Secede Or Die


Re-Posted from GrrrGraphics.com FEB 5, 2021 AT 10:36 AM

The first editorial cartoon published in America was said to be penned by Benjamin Franklin himself. Its title, “Join or Die,” was used as an inspirational meme during the Revolutionary War. The early American states had to combine in order to defeat British tyranny. 

Now we have an illegitimate regime in Washington D.C.

After stealing the election, the Democrat Socialists are now coming after Trump supporters, whom they consider ‘terrorists.’ They lie and say we are trying to kill them while they actively marginalize roughly half the country as enemy combatants. They’re even censuring a lawfully-elected representative, Marjorie Taylor Greene. Even many of her fellow Republicans (RINOs) have denounced her. Why? Because she supported Donald Trump a bit too vociferously. 

As socialists, the Democrats naturally hate Christianity. It’s predictable. They want to destroy our culture, our economy, and our freedom including freedom of religion. Yes, that will be extinguished too. Communists want to be worshipped and they will permit only their own religion, the worship of the state.

The Biden regime is quickly undoing President Trump’s accomplishments, while telling us we need to wear two to three masks at once. Biden and his comrades love the masks because they are symbols of submission–even though they do more harm than the virus itself. Masks cause bacterial pneumonia and impede oxygen flow to the brain. It’s not about health, though. Not really. What the socialists want is medical tyranny. They want us to pay for unlimited and even late-term abortion even if we disagree with the practice. They want us jabbed with deadly vaccines containing aborted fetal tissue. It’s not science, it’s ghoulishness.

They want to destroy our economy—especially our oil industry. They want open borders. Those in power are globalists, not nationalists. They talk about spreading ‘democracy,’ which really means they want to spread socialism. They have destroyed our Republic.

They have also destroyed our free speech and now they want to take away our guns. One way is through ‘licensing,’ which involves getting evaluated by government psychiatrists who will judge our mental competency before granting us the right to own a firearm. My guess is they will be very picky about doling out approval—especially to conservatives. Regardless, we all already have a license—it’s called the Second Amendment. The socialist control freaks are constantly working to infringe upon it.

What the socialist Democrats are doing is far worse than what we rebelled against with the British.

Therefore, the best solution may be ‘un-join and live.’ States should consider seceding from the unrecognizable and incredibly corrupt political hot mess that used to be our country. Why send money derived from our hard-earned labor to traitorous criminals back east? Why let our young citizens get sent to insane foreign wars to fight and die in order to fatten the wallets of the military industrial complex? Why pay money and respect to corrupt security agencies, courts, and politicians who hate us and deserve our contempt? Why be chained to the evil Federal Reserve?

Yes, the time has come for the red states to secede. Perhaps Montana can join with the Wyoming, the Dakotas, Idaho, as well as the eastern parts of Washington and Oregon. We can use gold and silver as a basis for a new currency. Northern California can separate from the insane leftist Hell scape that Southern California is becoming. Maybe states in the south such as Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and West Virginia can all work together as well.

The key is getting ONE state to start to the process and that needs to be Texas. The Lone Star state should seceded and regain its independence. The Republic of Texas! Now that has a good ring to it.

Secede or Die!

Sweden Moves toward COVID Vaccine Passport


Armstrong Economics Blog/Regulation Re-Posted Feb 9, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: Hi

Sweden on their way to vaccination passport

Denmark is also on its way to introduce the passport too.

Ready by summer.

Take Care

C “trapped in Sweden”

REPLY: I really appreciate the readers providing sources from around the world. I really have to wonder if politicians are just following because of peer-pressure because they are spineless, or are they starting to see Schwab’s big picture as the light at the end of the tunnel of insurmountable debt and the politically correct way to default. It just makes no sense that the death toll is 0.028% with COVID, no worse than the 1968 flu, and nowhere close to the Spanish Flu of 1918 at nearly 3%. Can they really be this stupid to shut down the entire world economy?

Just Say No


Armstrong Economics Blog/Opinion Re-Posted Feb 9, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

I have stated that my cousin was a front-line nurse. She caught COVID and got over it. The hospital made her get the vaccine. After the first dose, she had a stroke. Fortunately, she has recovered. She has now refused the second dose. Another friend whose son-in-law works in a hospital was ordered to take the vaccine. He was in his 30s. He ended up violently ill for about one week. This entire drive to mandate vaccinations is political. The death toll is less than 0.02% compared to nearly 4% for the 1918 Spanish Flu. This very dangerous man is saying that 75% of Americans need to be vaccinated before we can return to normal.

We also have Fauci now appearing with the World Economic Forum promo for the Great Reset now saying “inequality” has to be fixed. Where is this in his portfolio of expertise? Those who claim anyone who is against him is a conspiracy nut is very curious because they are refusing to tell the truth about anything. Nearly 40% of the people in France and 23% in Germany say they definitely or probably will not get vaccinated against Covid-19, as reported by the Guardian. In Italy, it was 12% and in the UK it was 14%. Over in the Netherlands, it was at 17%. Meanwhile, 57% of people from minority ethnic backgrounds say they will get the vaccine.

Then we have the Biden Adinitration saying even if you are vaccinated, you still must wear a mask and social-distance. So what is the point of the vaccination?

Fauci made it clear at the outset that a mask will not prevent you from getting the disease. Indeed, when I went to the doctor and said I did not even know anyone with COVID, they said I could have gotten it from pumping my own gas. These people av deliberately destroyed the economy for climate purposes – not for a virus.

Now we have Mark Carney who previously served as the Governor of the Bank of Canada from 2008 until 2013, and was the Governor of the Bank of England until March 2020, come out and said that more people will die from Climate Change than COVID so it is a far greater crisis. Carney is an economist and a favorite at the WEF. Every person who is coming out about this is tied one way or another to the WEF.

However, we then have Biden’s climate czar who tells us we will NEVER return to normal. I am sorry. The one thing I have come to understand is that those in government NEVER tell the truth. This virus has been used for political purposes because they follow Schwab’s global agenda to end capitalism as we know

Kerry is a Davos-Man. What he is saying is that we need to surrender sovereignty to the United Nations becau7se no single country can fight climate change. This is why Schwab says in his promo that the United States will no longer be a superpower – it will be shared and controlled by the Uni8ted Nations which is George Soros’ dream.

Schwab now has his strategic placement in all Western countries and the destruction of jobs and the Great Reset is in motion without even allowing the world population to vote on the changing of the world economy. They expect miners to suddenly manufacture solar panels, yet there is no consideration if there is even such employment available in their area. Do these people have to sell their homes and migrate in hopes of finding a job? It is easy for these elites to just come together and pontificate when they have never worked with their hands or ever had to really work for a living in the real world.

They have turned Washington into a military fortress. They claim it was to prevent Trump supporters from invading again. That did not happen, so now they will continue to remain they are staying into March because of the Trump Impeachment trial. I seriously doubt we will see Washington itself ever return to normal. Biden is even now promoting that Washington DC should be admitted as the 51st state.

The Patriots are no longer in Washington. They are the enemy from Washington’s perspective. Unfortunately, the computer will be right to my disappointment. The USA will break up and will never be the land of freedom ever again. What these people are doing is tearing down every piece of fabric that once made the United States the land of opportunity and the beacon of liberty in the world.

You may think that what we are going through is unique. History repeats because the corruption in government always unfolds. This quote that people have been attributing to Plato for 150 years or so, but I cannot locate in his works. It appears to have been made up by a man running for president in 1872. George Francis Train campaigned to become President of the United States, and a collection of his speeches was published under the title “The People’s Candidate for President, 1872.” Accordingly, Train caused quite a sensation when he said this quotation.  What is interesting is that this did reflect the sentiment at the time. It did not fit Plato since he was the one running schools in Athens back then. Nevertheless, we could make it up again today and once more call it strange times when anyone who disagrees with CNN should be taken off the air and labeled as a conspiracy theorist.

The Devastation of Lockdowns – Freedom is now a Luxury


Armstrong Economics Blog/Economics R-Posted Feb 8, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

When we look at 2020, it will be a year most prefer to forget. Overall, productivity decreased 4.8% in Q4 2020 while unit labor costs increase sharply by 6.8% (annual rates) which is fulfilling what Socrates has been forecasting that this wave into 2024 will be inflationary. The December 2020 jobless rate was up over the year in 379 of 389 metro areas while what was really interesting is that payroll jobs were down in 232 metro areas.  When we turn to compensation costs, that rose by 0.7% from September 2020 to December 2020 and it was up 2.5% over the year ending Dec 2020. Meanwhile, Gross job losses 20.4 million and gross job gains 5.7 million in the 2nd quarter of 2020. (see Bureau of Labor Statistics).

To put this in proportion, the total employment in government is about 21 million (Federal, State, Local). Therefore, the proportion of the UNPRODUCTIVE workforce is staggering (unemployed + government). The total civil workforce is about 160.57 million people in the United States. Therefore, the total UNPRODUCTIVE portion of the civil workforce is really comparable to 1932 and is now standing at about 25%. (far fewer people worked for the government in 1932 pre-New Deal)

The damage of the lockdowns which are really for climate change since Florida had fewer deaths with minimal lockdowns compared to New York which was virtually imprisonment. There are many studies showing lockdowns have failed. Freedom has become a luxury for the elite exclusively. Washington has been militarized because they fear a revolution when the sleeping sheep awake that this Great Reset is all about transforming capitalism into full-blown socialist authoritarianism and changing our way of life by incremental lockdowns that always manage to be extended.

Our greatest problem is that these world leaders are deliberately destroying the Western Economy and are clueless as to even how you would build back better and how long will it take to create this fictional world that they have been sold coming out of the World Economic Forum orchestrated by academics with no practice experience to accomplish something that has NEVER been done since the failure of Marx and his utopian vision of Communism. Who will direct the build back? Bureaucrats with also no practical experience.

Those who have questioned our computer forecasting the shift from the West to Asia and China will become the #1 world economy and the new Financial Capital of the World, better wake up and smell the coffee. Our computer will be ABSOLUTELY correct and this is by no means my personal desire nor opinion. If you want to prove me wrong – then get off your ass and be heard. Otherwise, start learning Mandarin.

Where Have All Ethics Gone?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Ethics Re-Posted Feb 9, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: You don’t suppress treatments, touted by frontline doctors, that have a very high success rate in a real pandemic.
That the AMA still hasn’t rescinded its stance, after some people say it did, is being almost celebrated by the media “fact-checkers” who don’t want to know the truth, instead of seeing how damning that would actually be.
I guess like many politicians, doctors, and journalists they are trapped within their own lying system. The father of all lies would be proud of them!

A

REPLY: I know a pulmonary specialist in a major hospital and they do use the recommendations of the Frontline Doctors. He told me that was all they had to help patients.

The Fraud Behind Greta Thunberg


Armstrong Economics Blog/Climate Re-Posted Feb 8, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Now that Klaus Schwab has put the Climate as part of his Agenda 2030, his inclusion of Greta Thunberg in the film that was supposed to celebrate his 50th Anniversary, The Forum, was the debut of his sinister plan for creating the Great Reset. For the climate urgency, he handed Greta center stage.

Al Gore is linked with Greenpeace’s Jennifer Morgan and since Al Gore has been on the board of the World Economic Forum, the plan to “invite” both Greta and Greenpeace was strategic.

I have previously warned that Greta Thunberg has been a puppet. From people who were at Davos, I was told that it appeared that Greta was just reading scripts that were written for her allegedly by Greenpeace’s Jennifer Morgan and Al Gore or at least with his approval.

Greta traveled to Davos with Greenpeace. I seriously doubt that all her expenses were paid by her parents. It has been well known that Greta Thunberg had severe depression issues, but she has been allegedly manipulated by not just Greenpeace, but by Schwab as well. Greta’s parents supported her activism as “medicine” for her depression. The Telegraph has revealed that this child has been really abused and exploited by Greenpeace’s Jennifer Morgan and Al Gore. Her father, Svante Thunberg, publicly acknowledges that he and his wife were “not climate activists” but made radical green changes to their lives as they saw the impact it had on their daughter’s mental health.

It comes as no surprise that Time Magazine would name Greta person of the year without ever bothering to investigate if she has been nothing more than a puppet used to sell climate change which is a major part of this “Build Back Better” agenda that is orchestrated from the World Economic Forum and now we have world leaders all reading the same script. Then there are the claims that Greta delivered her famous UN speech to an empty room remains suspicious. There are no photographs to prove there was an audience nor did anyone take a photo to show the room was empty.

When Greta speaks without a script, the difference becomes shocking.

Now the puppet agenda is surfacing with India launching a Criminal Investigation into her handlers. Greta accidentally shared a message showing she was getting told what to write on Twitter about the ongoing violent farmer uprising in India. Greta quickly deleted the post that detailed a list of “suggested posts” about the ongoing protests. The list provided a series of tips on what to post and went as far as to request Greta to also repost and tag other celebrities tweeting about it, which included the pop star, Rihanna. The “toolkit” she shared also suggested highlighting planned demonstrations at Indian embassies.

The material leaked by Greta by mistake was created by Canada’s Poetic Justice Foundation. They claim to be a grassroots group creating events to provoke, challenge and disrupt systemic inequities and biases.  The group’s website confirms it is “most actively involved in the #FarmersProtest.” The Delhi Police will file an FIR against the creators of the tool kit shared by Greta Thunberg on her Twitter account.  They have now accused  Greta of creating disharmony and for being a part of a larger conspiracy. Greta tweeted “We stand in solidarity with the #FarmersProtest in India.” She had also shared “a toolkit for those who want to help”. She stated: “Here’s a toolkit if you want to help.” The tool kit takes the user to a document that contains several strategies to support the protest.

It would be great to see criminal charges and orders for extradition. Then there is the traditional prisoner’s dilemma. They spill the beans to save themselves. That would be the only way to break into this global conspiracy and expose once and for all the players behind using Greta as a pawn in this global leftist game to take over the world with Communism 3.0 or an Authoritarian Socialist regime.