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Bernie Is Right: Felons Should Vote

What’s the argument against felons voting?  That they’d vote for someone who’d absolve them of their crimes?  Felons might get 1-2% of a vote, so good luck with that.

What if felons could actually influence the vote?  Let’s say 10%, 20%, maybe even 30% of the vote was comprised of felons.  Yeah, that would be substantial influence.  Think about the situation, though.  30% of your electorate is in prison??!!!  Maybe there is something wrong with your laws then.  In fact, maybe it would be critical to allow felons to vote in this situation so that the law could be reformed and you wouldn’t have 30% of your electorate behind bars.  A society that locks up more than 1-2% of its people has problems.

The real argument against felons voting is that they’d all vote for democrats.  That is, having nothing to do with their crimes, these people probably come from communities that want more government hand-outs.  Mind you, this is just “the argument”, not my opinion.  This is the same argument against immigration.  Immigrants come from cultures that prefer a strong government that gives more hand-outs.  This isn’t a libertarian outcome.

However, again, let’s think proportionally.  It’s neither felons nor immigrants causing these ideologies of government and society.  Maybe they’d push the needle over the threshold, but in order for these groups’ opinions to be relevant there’s a mass – a majority – of non-felon, non-immigrant, regular left liberal democrat Americans voting for big government.

Fighting over the margins is a waste of resources.  Educate your “base”, let democracy happen.  If half of America wants socialist healthcare, and is indoctrinated by the military industrial media complex, tough luck.  See, that’s the point, even anti-socialist “red America” is blinded by deep state propaganda on war.  The country’s political cancers are long past metastasis.  We’re not going to win that bright libertarian future by stopping a few immigrants.

Donald Trump or Ted Cruz aren’t going to save America, so paring back a few million illegal California votes won’t matter.  What would we get from limiting immigrant voter fraud?  Maybe less Israel in the Golan Heights.  Think about it!  There’s no “good guy” team here.

Hell, maybe felons and immigrants voting will cut back against police state abuses!

Impeaching Trump

The liberals are bent on impeaching Trump. Utilitarian electoral calculations are their only considerations.

But how to impeach after he just got no-billed by the grand jury on the big collusion plot that never was, and no more than half-assed recommended for future possible charges on obstruction in the case of the big collusion plot that never was.

Hush money for hos?

That’s some pretty thin gruel.

But I sympathize. All presidents should be impeached. And Trump is certainly no exception to that. But after the complete implosion of Russiagate, demands to impeach the president certainly ring partisan and shallow.

If you really want to remove Trump, there’s only one way to do it right and do it for real:

The Democrats are going to have to call for the prosecution of Barack H. Obama for waging an unauthorized, illegal, literally treasonous, genocidal war in Yemen.

Once his indictment is returned, and it is proven that they are really going through with his prosecution, it will then be safe for the House to begin impeachment proceedings against Donald J. Trump and with a bipartisan consensus to move forward in the Senate with removal from office, whereupon a new grand jury will be waiting to indict him on the very same charges.

No need to get all martyr-y here. Life without parole in the Supermax in cages next to Ramzi Yousef and Ted Kaczynski would be appropriate for both.

Does this seem silly? That the federal laws against war crimes, the Geneva Conventions, the recently invoked War Powers Resolution; that these things would apply in real life to American presidents who deliberately slaughter helpless babies? That the Democrats would ever in a million years sacrifice their number one hero in order to prove they’re being fair when removing Trump, the greatest menace humanity has ever faced, according to them, on the most severe charges that could be brought against him? That they would do so even as a last ditch attempt to enforce the War Powers Resolution to stop this genocidal war and save those babies’ lives?

Of course it is silly. Government employees in America are far above and beyond the law. They can murder whichever babies the feel like. The House and Senate will always and forever appropriate all the money necessary as they click their heels and salute. No matter what. Partisan advantage will never concede to a genocide. Not in America. Not of Arabs. Never.

Right?

Only conspiracy theory kooks believe there is a Deep State

The Deep State vs. Wikileaks by Pepe Escobar

The US Government has stood up and coordinated a joint interagency criminal investigation of Wikileaks comprised of a partnership between the Department of Defense (DOD) including: CENTCOM; SOUTHCOM; the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA); Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA); Headquarters Department of the Army (HQDA); US Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) for USFI (US Forces Iraq) and 1st Armored Division (AD); US Army Computer Crimes Investigative Unit (CCIU); 2nd Army (US Army Cyber Command); Within that or in addition, three military intelligence investigations were conducted. Department of Justice (DOJ) Grand Jury and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of State (DOS) and Diplomatic Security Service (DSS). In addition, Wikileaks has been investigated by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Office of the National CounterIntelligence Executive (ONCIX), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); the House Oversight Committee; the National Security Staff Interagency Committee, and the PIAB (President’s Intelligence Advisory Board).”

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