Just another Tuesday. This is one wild movie. Expect the left to get crazier and crazier all year. I expect a long awaited red wave this fall. But I also expect the democrats to be totally unhinged between the election and when the new Congress is sworn in.
Oddly enough, fall is not far away (as lightning fast as days pass any more). I expect a whole lot more to happen by then, though...and I mean like we squash the crazies into irrelevance and start to live peaceful and abundant lives.
Don't forget our 250 celebration. We can't be hosting chaos by then, and in my prayers, the evil on this planet gets the boot in short order. This whole process might be more biblical than any of us really can know, and I wonder about this RESET feeling I'm getting about it.
Grok: Only FOIA and term limits are straightforwardly accurate as "exemptions" (due to constitutional design and lack of law, respectively). Vaccine mandates reflect branch separation rather than favoritism. The others are myths or distortions—Congress is generally bound by laws like the ACA and insider trading rules (with the STOCK Act reinforcing this).
Me: Honestly, though...FoIA and term limits are not exemptions that we want them to have. Lovely Luna is right: The American people hate them (or certainly, because hate is not quite accurate here), we think they suck.
The people created government. The Constitution is the government’s charter and chain, not the source of the people’s rights. When government exceeds its delegated powers, it acts without legitimate authority. The people retain the authority to reform, replace, or abolish such government, and Article V provides the lawful mechanism to change the constitutional structure itself.
“A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either.” ~ Thomas Paine (1737-1809) US Founding father, pamphleteer, author
“It has been thought a considerable advance towards establishing the principles of Freedom, to say, that government is a compact between those who govern and those that are governed: but this cannot be true, because it is putting the effect before the cause; for as man must have existed before governments existed, there necessarily was a time when governments did not exist, and consequently there could originally exist no governors to form such a compact with. The fact therefore must be, that the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.” ~ Thomas Paine (1737-1809) US Founding father, pamphleteer, author
Just another Tuesday. This is one wild movie. Expect the left to get crazier and crazier all year. I expect a long awaited red wave this fall. But I also expect the democrats to be totally unhinged between the election and when the new Congress is sworn in.
Oddly enough, fall is not far away (as lightning fast as days pass any more). I expect a whole lot more to happen by then, though...and I mean like we squash the crazies into irrelevance and start to live peaceful and abundant lives.
Don't forget our 250 celebration. We can't be hosting chaos by then, and in my prayers, the evil on this planet gets the boot in short order. This whole process might be more biblical than any of us really can know, and I wonder about this RESET feeling I'm getting about it.
We STILL ARE NOT talking about this enough…
Members of Congress are exempt from ObamaCare.
Members of Congress are exempt from vaccine mandates.
Members of Congress are exempt from insider trading crimes.
Members of Congress are exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.
Members of Congress are exempt from FISA warrantless spying.
Members of Congress are exempt from term limits.
Congress has always been the problem.
America’s Founding Fathers must be rolling in their graves.
Grok: Only FOIA and term limits are straightforwardly accurate as "exemptions" (due to constitutional design and lack of law, respectively). Vaccine mandates reflect branch separation rather than favoritism. The others are myths or distortions—Congress is generally bound by laws like the ACA and insider trading rules (with the STOCK Act reinforcing this).
Me: Honestly, though...FoIA and term limits are not exemptions that we want them to have. Lovely Luna is right: The American people hate them (or certainly, because hate is not quite accurate here), we think they suck.
Love the Grok fact checking! That's the right response, fact check it.
The people created government. The Constitution is the government’s charter and chain, not the source of the people’s rights. When government exceeds its delegated powers, it acts without legitimate authority. The people retain the authority to reform, replace, or abolish such government, and Article V provides the lawful mechanism to change the constitutional structure itself.
“A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either.” ~ Thomas Paine (1737-1809) US Founding father, pamphleteer, author
“It has been thought a considerable advance towards establishing the principles of Freedom, to say, that government is a compact between those who govern and those that are governed: but this cannot be true, because it is putting the effect before the cause; for as man must have existed before governments existed, there necessarily was a time when governments did not exist, and consequently there could originally exist no governors to form such a compact with. The fact therefore must be, that the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.” ~ Thomas Paine (1737-1809) US Founding father, pamphleteer, author
What percentage of vote does it take to remove a member, 50% + 1?
It takes a two-thirds vote in the specific chamber (House or Senate) to expel one of its own members.