On Levin tonight he doubled down on my position on the 14th amendment and birthright citizenship. And as always he did a deeper dive and so I hope you saw it. In any event, he confirmed that what I told you was right. The only thing different in his view is that even in the case of the Chinese case I talked about where he was born to legally resident parents living here, he was not a citizen under the amendment. He didn’t really explain that but if he thinks so then there is serious legal support.

I have seen that DOGE wants to get away from cost plus contracting in the federal government. What is that you ask? A contract where you get paid for all your legitimate costs plus a profit based on a percentage of your costs. They are common in the federal government and actually encourage companies to inflate their costs because it will increase their profits.

I can give you one example from my days in the swamp. I was, due to my position as the Assistant General Counsel responsible for contracts, the legal person on a committee that had to review and approve all major contracts in the agency. On one occasion and I don’t remember the specifics but it had to do with upgrading something on nuclear power plants. Anyway during the course of the discussion it became clear that most of the work would be done in the first year of the contract and I asked if that is true then why is the payout under this contract a geometric progression and it surprised them that I asked the obvious.

Now if you don’t know what a geometric progression is, it’s a series that goes up by a given factor every year. For example if some service costs two million in year one and then four million in year two and then eight million in year three etc that is a geometric progression. The price doubles every year.

The result was they had to scale down payments in outer years.

And it reminded me of another committee I was on dealing with major rule making. We took a trip to Paducah, Kentucky to visit a Uranium enrichment facility and as part of that trip we also visited a facility across the Ohio river in Metropolis, Indiana dealing with uranium hexaflouride. Btw they have a large Superman statue in the town square. However, the thing I want to mention is that on the day we visited the temperature was 102! Inside the plant we put on appropriate clothing and the temperature at the top level was 132. My point is that we got out and in just our regular clothes, 102 felt like taking a cold shower. Everything is relative.

I saw an article today talking about waiters and bartenders etc planning on fighting the Trump administration by refusing to serve or slow rolling Trump officials in restaurants in the DC area. Now this is particularly stupid for several reasons. First even Mayor Bowser, who I always confuse with the guy on Sha Na Na, has been begging Trump to bring back the federal workforce to actually work in their DC offices because their absence has severely affected DC businesses from coffee shops to sandwich shops and restaurants and even dry cleaners. And so why would these idiots want to discourage what would be a boon to them? And I just saw on Jesse that unsurprisingly Republicans tip much better and demand much less in terms of service than Democrats.

And lastly, Trump is going to give them a huge raise by making tips tax free. Why bite the hand that feeds you?

My one concern is how the Supremes will address the issue of the hundreds of thousands or millions of illegals who are now citizens under a false reading of the Constitution. Will they leave them as citizens or retroactively revoke their citizenship? I don’t have a clue.

I am writing about this once again because Trump has raised it and at least one of you think that he can’t address the problem without amending the 14th amendment to the Constitution. That’s false or at least maybe false if the Supreme Court rules as it should. Now here is what that amendment actually says.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/amendment-14/section-1/

Note that the left always leaves out the part about being subject to the jurisdiction thereof. This is a very important omission. There is a big difference between being born here and being born here subject to the jurisdiction of the US. And as I wrote in August 23, 2019, the issue has never been adjudicated. The only case that ever went before the Supreme Court involved a man born of Chinese parents who were here legally for several years and had a son and then returned to China and when the son returned he was denied citizenship but the court said he was a citizen under the 14th Amendment because his parents were here legally and subject to the jurisdiction of the US. The Supremes have never addressed the question of whether a Mexican can illegally cross the border and push out a child and then use that child to be not only a citizen but an anchor baby to get a whole slew of relatives to become citizens.

And before I continue, let me remind you that the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were the post civil war amendments designed to address the former slaves. The 13th freed them. The 14th made them citizens and the 15th assured their right to vote. The Congress never even remotely considered that illegals could get citizenship by illegally crossing our borders and dropping a kid. Nothing could be further from what they were doing.

So here’s all Trump has to do. Issue an executive order denying citizenship to babies of illegals and wait for it to get to the Supremes. My prediction is that this court will rule in his favor as they should. He should also make his executive order cover birthright tourism. If you come here on a vacation and incidentally drop a kid, the kid doesn’t become a citizen and you don’t get citizenship through an anchor baby. In point of fact, he should eliminate the whole anchor baby nonsense!

Do you realize what dawned on me today and I discussed with one of you. Trump has done more in one month as president elect — not even president — to restore the status of this country on the world stage than Magoo did to ruin it in four years. It is truly amazing to me that he could do it before taking office, and it just shows that the world was eager for the US to reestablish our place as the world leader. How much he has accomplished before taking office is just staggering to me and shows how desperately we were in need of a strong leader instead of a brain dead criminal.

Another pet peeve is with Bounty commercials. They always have a spill and then save the day with Bounty. But did you ever notice that they wipe up the spill by going towards that which they plan to save? Any real person would get ahead of the spill and wipe backwards! It’s just utter nonsense.

I am sick and tired of seeing field goal and extra point kickers going through some nonsense of backing up three steps and then going two steps sideways before the kick. It’s just for show. If you can’t visually go to the right place you should quit! I kicked extra points and field goals in fraternity football and never had to march it off. Just attention seeking. STOP IT. Forgive my indulgence.

I was going to write this last night but better late than never. I predict that Hegseth will be confirmed for Secretary of Defense and Joni Ernst will vote for him. All the allegations against him are from anonymous sources and are just a continuation of the left playbook and republicans are wising up.

Ernst presents a particularly interesting case. It is credibly reported that her potential objection was really because she wanted the position. She has denied it but members of the Trump transition team have confirmed it. And she has made a big mistake. Hardly anyone knows her other than her main claim to fame is that she castrated pigs. Her name pops up once in awhile but is hardly a household name.

She got way out over her skis on this one. Now everyone knows that she is for trans in the military and doesn’t think it’s too woke and also is for women in infantry units. Not what Trump and Hegseth are looking for and more importantly not what her constituents in Iowa are looking for. She is now backtracking because if she votes against Hegseth she may well be primaried in the upcoming elections. Her record is now being exposed as not only RINO but basically Dem. I guarantee you that she will vote for Hegseth to try to save her ass. Btw she voted in favor of Magoo nominees including Lloyd Austin the miserably failed present Secretary of Defense.

I am sure you saw today that Magoo is considering pardoning Schitt, Cheney and Fauci. Now I’m sure Schitt and Cheney have committed crimes and should be worried. However Fauci has definitely committed crimes and has been referred to the Justice Department on two occasions for provably lying to Congress. The Magoo administration did nothing about it but the Trump administration could and should prosecute this scumbag. And he also should be prosecuted for funding gain of function against the law and then lying about it. He needs to be knocked off his sanctimonious pedestal and put in prison for all the harm he caused to the country and enriched himself doing it. That’s not retribution but law enforcement and would send a real message that nobody including Dems are above the law. Make him spend his fortune defending himself and then put him in prison and destroy him once and for all. He has used his position going back to the AIDS epidemic to enrich himself and harm the American people!