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Nobody calls me chicken!  What am I doing wrong?20250316

Germany:  Illegal Afghan Migrant Receives 2 Years In Prison for Raping a 6-Year-Old Boy in Refugee Center
March 17, 2025

□ [“Trump Declares Biden’s ‘Autopen’ Pardons 'Void, Vacant, and of No Further Force or Effect'"]

Here we go.  This is going to be a big deal but we probably can't see all the possible arguments.  There's all the other documents Biden signed when he was pretending to be POTUS.  All the attention will go to the laws or the pardons, but does this apply to basics?  Indicating that he has read an official paper or, I dunno, signing a FLIPL.  Commanders need to sign generic paperwork so does that still apply if Biden's were all fake?  Military promotions?

Then there are questions about the pardons.  Do they still apply?  That's very relevant.  One thing about being pardoned is that you can no longer use the 5th amendment to avoid questions.  Congress wants to question some of these pardons so that's a valid point.  This will need to be worked out before those hearings can be held.

There's also the issue of Biden himself.  If he was totally signing everything with this newfangled autopen device, there's no chance he remembers any of that.  He's probably not getting less senile now that he's out of public view so he wouldn't know what he signed or why.  Then there's all the implications if he didn't autosign anything.  The laws, the EOs, the pardons, who was behind it and why?

Those who were involved may not know about the others.  Most of Congress probably doesn't know about it either.  There could be a convincing argument that this should just be kept secret because the truth would be far too appalling.  Foreign allies must have been making decisions based on documents signed by Biden, what do they do about it?  Trump might enjoy renegotiating but that seems like a huge amount of work among everything else he's already doing.

Appeals Court of Biden, Clinton Judges Reject Trump to Reinstate Thousands of Probationary Workers
March 17, 2025

□ [“Dozens of NATO Officers Among Encircled Ukrainian Troops in Collapsing Kursk Pocket"]

I'm sure there are US troops on the ground but probably Special Operations so they won't fall into the same category.  I hope there are no Americans among these people from NATO.  Russia finally got around to surrounding the remaining defenders of Kursk and, in public statements between Trump and Putin, will only spare them if they surrender.  That doesn't seem likely at the moment.

This is obvious a set-up to get NATO involved.  They've waited this long, they obviously aren't bothered by the body count, so might as well add their own people to it.  But the US isn't going to help and it's not like other NATO members have done anything to build up their militaries, so who do they expect to go along with this?

Starmer and Macron are making a lot of noise but no one seems to care what they think, at least no one who's willing to go fight in Ukraine.  I suspect the EU elites will stop before it gets that far because they'll realize that the troops have to be given weapons and could use them right here.  I also assume none of the population will enlist to go fight, but that's why the elites will stop before they get to a draft.

Britain and France have nukes and the fact that they're insane enough to get this far is worrisome.  Otherwise they'd have had no choice but to give up a long time ago, since they don't have any other options.  But they're still pushing for this.  They're just pawns who obey others, but the real enemy in WWIII does seem to become slightly more visible, given that they can no longer hide behind the US.  And Zelensky is just babbling about he suddenly has long-range missiles and bashes that whole ceasefire.  He is not long for this world.

Trump Strips Hunter and Ashley Biden of Secret Service Protection “Effective Immediately”
March 17, 2025

□ [“Democrats’ Comeback Plan: Hold Townhalls in GOP Districts"]

It's almost like they've finally realized that they've been ignoring the majority of the voters and that may be why they're losing elections.  Just last fall, Trump made a point of campaigning in blue states like California and New York.  Probably not a coincidence that he won all seven 'swing states' in the process.  And months later, Democrats think they should give that a try.

I'm guessing this won't work very well.  First of all, there's little incentive to show up unless you're already politically dedicated, in which case it's just talking to the choir.  Second of all, even the choir is having these problems, and not just because they're no longer funded by USAID.  Half of them are going to be calling everyone racist and homo/transphobic and the other half is going to tell the first half to STFU.

□ [“Dems Are Terrified to Speak Out About Men in Women’s Sports Because the Woke Mob Rules the Party"]

This comes from a D-Mass. Congressman.  It's starting to look like the trans movement really is at the center of modern leftism.  It's probably not the core, but it appears that way as far as activists are concerned.  If you believe you can make-up new genders, you can probably also make up climate change, global cooling and warming.  You can certainly erase the biological functions of men and women, i.e. ending pregnancy on a whim.  And you'd probably whine that you're oppressed like blacks and women and gays and Jews every time you don't get everything you want.  You'd probably only be happy with a cult in complete agreement with you.

That's a simplistic description, but it does come off as fairly accurate.  It's all focused on forcing everyone else to believe what you tell them or be punished, fatally or at least exiled from the masses.  Anything that gets them what they want is morally right, everything else is morally wrong.  This is what leftists always do to seize power and the only thing that stops them is realizing that they'd lose power if they kept going because everybody's pissed off at them.  Effectively that's the excuse that *real* communism has never been tried.

So for a high-ranking Democrat to be saying this in public is revealing.  Gavin Newsom and a few others have been saying similar things because the party hadn't permitted that up to this point.  It's almost like Trump's victory has finally cracked open the balloon they lived in to the point where they can sense some fresh air and sunlight for the first time in ages.

West Virginia Governor Signs Bill Defining ‘Man’ and ‘Woman’ Based on Biology
March 17, 2025

□ [“Trump Announces JFK Files To Be Released Tomorrow:  'People Have Been Waiting Decades for This'"]

Mmm-hmmmm.  As I've said, like it or not, these files are the priority, just because of how long the conspiracy theories have been going on.  It's been over 60 years, anybody who was even alive at the time is now old and everybody involved are long-dead.  Notice that he didn't mention RFK and MLK, much less anybody more recent, where co-conspirators are still very much alive and can be arrested or executed.

So will these files mean anything?  Not sure.  For that matter, it might be a while before we hear about it, just because everybody obsessed with JFK's death is also quite old by now and they're the only ones who'd ponder every revelation.  I would prefer it if Trump at least said whether there was anything meaningful to be found here, but I guess not.  At this point, I'm skeptical if he gave them any attention, but for that matter, I won't be surprised if they aren't released at all.  Or they're just photocopies of material that's already been released.

Is there any relevance to the 'magic bullet' theory or any other possibility?  Not sure, but what I'd really like to know is why the hell these things weren't released before.  About the only valid explanations I can think of is if LBJ or someone like that was aware in advance that this would happen.  I've heard Richard Nixon was in Dallas on the day, could that mean anything?

There's a chance this could reveal a large puzzle piece in assembling modern times.  There's a slightly bigger chance that it won't be that meaningful in-and-of itself, but it will reveal how everybody involve reacted to the shooting which itself manipulated society for decades.  And there's an even bigger chance that it's pointless, nothing meaningful to be found here.  And don't forget that these files might have been faked or altered at any point in the last 60 years.  I'll assume they weren't but that won't matter to anyone.  And there's also a chance that someone Trump respects will tell him not to do it, so we'll never know.

South African Scientists Stranded in Antarctic Base Plead for Help as Mission Member Sexually Harasses and Threatens To Kill a Colleague
March 17, 2025