I saw in the last two days that there was some theory that Magoo could avoid the debt ceiling by invoking the fourth section of the 14th Amendment. I confess I had no idea how that could be. So I did a little research, not a lot because you know my legendary laziness, but it turns out that that section actually deals with the obligations of the federal government. The section is spelled out in the link below.

The purpose of the section was to make sure that debts of the north incurred during the civil war would have to be paid and that even if the carpetbaggers from the south took over Congress, they could not stop payment of the north’s debts nor pay the debts incurred by the southern states during the war.

There are a lot of legal positions on both sides. Some saying that because of this section the debt ceiling is unconstitutional and others arguing to the contrary. I believe the latter because to rule to the contrary would be to negate the constitutional requirement that all spending bills must originate in the House. And also because as far as I know the contrary argument has never been put forth before or attempted to be used by any president.

But if Magoo tries it, it will no doubtedly go to the Supremes and I like my odds with this court!

Hopefully this makes some sense.

https://constitutionallawreporter.com/amendment-14-04/

Trump or whoever wins in 2024 needs to immediately revoke the clearance of all the former intelligence individuals on day one. I had pretty much the highest clearance when I was a federal employee and that ended when I retired. Why do these idiots continue to have theirs. They have absolutely no reason to continue to have access to our most secret information. Cut these idiots off from classified information. There is no reason they have the requisite need to know!

I’m sure you know that all but one of the Proud Boys on trial were convicted of sedition. I have not followed it closely because I knew the deck was stacked against them in D.C. What I didn’t know was that the judge was appointed by Trump but was clearly biased beyond belief. He wouldn’t let the defense call Ray Epps and required the defense to get questions about FBI agents or informants be cleared by the prosecution. This is clearly reversible error and will be overturned by the Supreme Court if not the court of appeals, but DOJ doesn’t care because they can push the J6 nonsense until after the next election. This has nothing to do with law. It’s just a blatant attempt to weaken Trump before the next election.

Julie Kelly has been covering this more closely than anyone. Her latest is below.

Maybe the reason Magoo put the cackler in charge of AI is because he knows that she has no natural intelligence and thinks that she could get some artificially! Just a thought.

Other than having positions that I agree with, the most important thing that I want in a commander in chief is someone who has mental acuity and stamina and they are not the same thing. Obviously I don’t want a brain dead chief executive like Magoo but I also want one that is mentally alert for at least 12 hours a day. Magoo is apparently only seemingly awake from 10 to 4. For anything other then that he needs to sleep all day and then get shot up with speed to get through a night time appearance.

And when I talk about stamina, I’m not talking about running a marathon or even a 10K, I’m talking about being at full mental competence, I’m talking about being awake and cogent to perform the functions of the office. I don’t care if the president is in a wheelchair or riding a scooter. I just want him or her to be cogent every day all day.

Age isn’t the issue. There are many people older than Magoo that are still incredibly cogent. Magoo isn’t and his mobile skills aren’t the issue.

So let’s stop talking about age and pretending that Magoo should be given a pass because he and Trump are old. I’m almost as old as they are and am still mentally acute all day everyday. Trump is active and cogent all day everyday. Magoo is not mentally acute any day. Listen he was stupid for all his life and he hasn’t gotten better with dementia.

Magoo and his moronic cronies have been peddling complete bullshit about McCarthy’s debt ceiling bill claiming all kinds of Armageddon results. They are really concerned that now the republicans have Magoo and his cronies in the frying pan. They can talk all they want about republicans holding the country hostage but the fact is that the republicans have put out a bill increasing the debt ceiling and it makes democrats responsible for any failure. They can’t refuse to negotiate and then blame the other side for for their failure.

Now here’s what you may not know. The house bill caps discretionary spending at the level of the 2022 budget that was approved by Magoo. So when they claim all kinds of gloom and doom, they are saying they created it. The bill would allow a growth of one percent per year. The bill does destroy somethings that weren’t in that budget like the 87,000 new IRS agents which aren’t needed and will be used to harass mainly lower and middle class Americans. So don’t listen to the hype. The Republican house is holding Magoo’s feet to the fire and he can’t stand that since he can barely walk now!

It just occurred to me that the left has won another language contest. They use green energy to describe their bs. However, in point of fact, CO2 is actually what leads to a greener planet. The higher the CO2. The greener the planet!

As I indicated yesterday he has taken a hit by not having Tucker’s huge audience just stay on for him. It turns out that he’s now down to 1.3 million viewers which is where Kilmeade is at. Tucker carried the night time lineup for Fox on his back and now it’s indisputable!

Listen I always watched Tucker but would skip Hannity if there was something else that I followed on. Tucker was riveting, even though he was occasionally wrong as I have ranted about previously, but was always must see. Hannity was always if there’s nothing else on.

I have waited to see how things shake out but I still have no idea. One day they say that Tucker and Fox parted ways amicably. The next day they say Tucker was fired for cause and won’t get paid for his contract and he was clearly removed from his job involuntarily but was he fired or did they keep him under contract so he couldn’t go anywhere else and compete with Fox. I saw an article today that said with 95% certainty that it was the latter.

I agree because Fox has a history of firing but not really by keeping people off the air but paying their contracts so they could keep them from competing with Fox. I think that’s what is going on here. Listen OAN has already indicated that they are willing to pay Tucker $25 million a year to move his program there. And I’m sure that Newsmax will come up with something comparable. Tucker’s audience goes with him wherever he goes.

And just in case you don’t know, Fox stock has taken a big hit and and its viewership has cratered. Kilmeade dropped from Tucker’s 3.5 million viewers to 2.9 million on Monday. Not too bad but it has steadily decreased until it’s now at 1 point something that is lower than someone on CNN or MSNBC I don’t remember which and Hannity’s numbers have also fallen. They’re still good but declining. People watched Tucker and stayed on to watch Hannity. Now they’re not watching Kilmeade and so may be watching something else and don’t flip back to see Hannity. From my perspective if you watch Hannity twice a week you pretty much get everything he has to offer.

The other interesting thing is that Eric Bolling, who has the 8pm slot on Newsmax went from 150K viewers to over 500K viewers with Tucker’s departure. The leftist Murdock kids are willing to destroy Fox News to silence someone who exposed their false narrative crap. They are really upset because Tucker exposed the J6 crap and it’s interesting that McCarthy gave the tapes to Tucker not Fox News.

And the idiot known as Geraldo got destroyed today when he I guess tweeted about his hatred for Tucker especially because he wouldn’t go along with the lefts bs about J6. People said things like you’re an idiot. The tapes show Ray Epps and others inciting violence and fomenting the violence at the Capitol, not Trump.

Btw the lawyers defending J6 defendants have now identified 80 plus people, thanks to finally getting access to the tapes, that are either federal agents or federal plants and are demanding further discovery.

I’m watching a discussion where mothers are being sued for defamation for complaining about basically pornography being made available in school libraries for children of any age and it reminded me of the difference between now and back in my day.

Back when I was in elementary school books that you could check out were limited by your grade. Not pornography but just books they thought were beyond the comprehension of younger children. They had to give me a waiver to check out anything I wanted.

Now you can check out pornography at any age.