It's Only Money

While the Bush Administration and Congress wrangle over exactly how much the American taxpayer will be shafted in order to rescue the flagging economy, the temptation to spend more than the $700 billion already estimated will be impossible to resist: It is, after all, pretty hard to buy votes without money. Barney Frank, Charles Schumer, Chris Dodd and their ilk will want to attach all kinds of provisions to the legislation that have nothing to do with bolstering failing banks and everything to do with bolstering Democrat politicians' hopes of reelection, so we'll see an additional $100 billion for another "economic stimulus package" as the price of getting things done, and the only people really complaining will be those stuck with the check.



This attitude of, "While we're at it...," will certainly carry over to the next administration and if Barack Obama is elected, we may very well face the zenith of Federal largesse: Slavery reparations. Now, before I start getting hate mail, let me say that slavery was a great evil, that it was tragic beyond description, perfectly horrible and rightfully expunged from our national life. Using the suffering of millions of people as the foundation of the Southern economy and culture was an affront to humanity, and nobody in his right mind looks back to it fondly. (NOTE: Senator Obama rejected the idea of reparations in a speech on 02 August, but given that the NAACP supports reparations, as do the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the City of Chicago, the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, and at least two dozen Members of Congress who are sponsoring legislation to investigate the payment of reparations, the political pressure to proceed may be too great for the first black President to resist.) That said, if official action were ever taken to reimburse black Americans for their ancestors' bondage, the damage it would cause could be literally incalculable:



1) Who would pay these reparations? If the Federal government assumed such an obligation, then we may assume that the Federal taxpayer would be the source of the funds, in which case, the situation would include black people paying themselves for slavery. If not, perhaps the proponents of reparations envision only white people paying reparations, and transforming the US Census Bureau into a sort of American Gestapo, ruthlessly enforcing racial purity for the purpose of taxation. Would there be any exemption for those people whose ancestors owned no slaves, or who fought for the Union in the Civil War? Maybe, maybe not.

2) Who would receive the reparations? It would seem that the logical recipients would be US-born black people whose ancestors were slaves, but what if the advocates of reparations envision a broader scope, maybe just all US-born black people, or all black people living in the United States regardless of their nationality or their ancestral connection to slavery?

3) How much "white" blood would a person have to possess to be considered white? Conversely, how much "black" blood would a person have to have to be considered black? Would self-identification suffice? What would be the penalties for lying?

4) How much money would each recipient receive and how would the amount be calculated? What proof would a person have to present to receive payment, if any? This question would probably be the most controversial as black Americans would fight each other over whose ancestors were more oppressed, and no formula exists that would please everyone except the word, "more."

5) Would the payment of reparations be a single event, or might it become an entitlement that would dwarf Social Security? Could reparations be considered an asset that could be passed from one family member to another like an inheritance, or seized like personal property in a bankruptcy, or divided in a divorce settlement?

6) Would there be any assessment against those West African nations who assisted in and profited from the slave trade, or US citizens of West African heritage?

7) Would there be any consideration for the descendants of the 360,000 Union soldiers who died during the Civil War or of the million who were wounded fighting to end slavery? Or would active opposition to slavery in a person's past not count? Would there be any penalty for the descendants of black soldiers who fought for the Confederacy?

8) Who would oversee such a massive program, by what authority would they operate, and for how long?

As you can see, reparations represent the most Gordian of knots. The more we attempt to answer these specific questions regarding slavery reparations, the more it becomes apparent that this movement is not about granting long-overdue relief for injustice suffered but about revenge, not about righting an historic wrong but about lining the pockets of professional race-baiters, and that after whatever gigantic sum is spent, black Americans would still, to a great extent, be mired in poverty.

It Might Start Like This

President Hillary Rodham Clinton nominates former Attorney General Eric Holder to the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, with the potential of giving the liberals a 5-4 majority and the ability to reshape American society to the Left for the next hundred years. The Republicans escape the November elections with a narrow 51-49 majority in the Senate and Holder’s nomination is bitterly opposed, the televised hearings of the Judiciary Committee are particularly acrimonious and on Thursday, 25 May 2017, Holder’s nomination is rejected. 

Over the four-day Memorial Day weekend, Chicago endures a record-breaking wave of shootings as gangs battle for turf and scores are settled.  Speaking from his hometown, and in the context of Holder’s defeat in the Senate, former President and Priest-King of the Golden Temple Barack Hussein Obama rails against “gun violence” and demands that President Clinton take immediate executive action to stop it, which prompts her to issue a Presidential finding that the private ownership of firearms within Cook, DuPage, Lake and Will Counties in Illinois and Lake County, Indiana, poses a “clear and present danger” to the national security of the United States. With this finding as her basis but with no legal or Constitutional authority to do so, she directs the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) to coordinate with local law enforcement authorities in those jurisdictions to confiscate all registered private firearms and to arrest anyone who refuses to comply. She furthers directs the Attorney General to support BATFE with whatever Federal resources may be necessary to implement her order.

The Governor of Illinois promises to cooperate with BATFE but the Governor of Indiana and the Sheriff of Lake County do not, citing the Second, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments and the egregious violation of Federalism that President Clinton’s order represents. The State of Indiana sues the President in Federal court to block the order while the Attorney General threatens to arrest the Governor of Indiana and the Sheriff of Lake County for obstruction of justice, and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan loudly warns Clinton that funding for the Federal government will be frozen if she proceeds.   The situation then explodes when BATFE agents attempt to seize the lawfully-owned and registered handgun of a citizen of Cook County. A 72 year-old Vietnam veteran refuses to allow BATFE into his home and when they try to force their way in, he shoots one agent and is then killed himself, the entire episode recorded on body camera video which is hacked and published to YouTube by pro-Second Amendment activists. Blood is spilled and the entire world now knows that Hillary Rodham Clinton is willing to kill American citizens as she deprives them of their Constitutional rights.

The Governor of Indiana mobilizes the Indiana National Guard and the Indiana State Police and authorizes them to recruit and deputize citizen volunteers to defend the state from Federal aggression, while President Clinton orders the 101^st Airborne Division from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, to support the enforcement of her order, citing Section 1076 of the amended Insurrection Act as her authority. Some soldiers refuse to obey and are arrested themselves, and as the rest of the division air assaults to Indianapolis, a force of 15,000 armed Hoosiers deploys to oppose them. The stage is set for the first battle of the Second Civil War.

I’m not saying that this scenario will happen or if it’s even likely: I hope it is not. I am clearly speculating and obviously many, many things would have to go wrong for this tragedy to play out, and there are plenty of cooler, more reasonable heads in this country who would assert themselves in this sort of crisis. On the other hand, HRC is a bitter opponent of the Second Amendment, an outspoken critic of the Heller v. District of Columbia decision that confirmed an individual right to Keep and Bear Arms, an admirer of Priest-King’s unconstitutional usurpation of legislative power and she has publicly stated that if she were elected President, she would nominate Justices who would reinterpret the Second Amendment and overturn Heller, making an armed clash between the Federal government and the States who created it a faint but real possibility. Thus it would seem that the surest way to avoid such a disaster would be to vote against Hillary Rodham Clinton on 07 November and deprive her of the opportunity to impose her autocratic views on the country, or at least it seems that way to me. 

Terraforming

In the movie Man of Steel, the crazed villain General  Zod uses two gigantic “world engines” to try to recreate the planet Krypton that disintegrated many centuries before. By placing one engine in the city of Metropolis and the other in the southern Indian Ocean, Zod intends to physically transform the Earth into an exact duplicate of Krypton so that he and his band of followers can then rebuild the Kryptonian civilization to which they are accustomed. That virtually all of humanity would be eradicated in the process bothers him not a bit; if seven billion people have to die so that his tiny group of aliens can enjoy an environment more hospitable to their needs, then so be it. Of course, Superman intervenes to destroy the engines and save the day, but the damage and death caused by Zod’s interrupted reshaping of the Earth would take decades to undo.

Since 20 January 2009, Barack Hussein Obama has been reshaping American society and indeed the world to fit his vision of human existence and has largely succeeded:

• ·         Vast sums of wealth have been transferred from the prosperous to the indolent, from America to the rest of the world, from citizens to illegals, from his political enemies to his allies.
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• ·         The American health care system has been restructured to favor his constituents.  Thanks to the Supreme Court saving his signature legislative achievement not once but twice, Obama can force private citizens to engage in commerce of his choosing and at their cost and the law can mean whatever he says it means.  Even as it collapses, as I and many other commentators predicted – Aetna announced that it lost $430 million since January 2014 and is leaving 11 of 15 markets it services because it is impossible to make a profit – Obama and his allies count it a victory because it advances his vision. Priest-King will blame the health insurance companies and capitalism itself for Obamacare’s failure and will demand that only a single program created, staffed and managed by the Federal government (the same Federal government that weaponized the IRS against conservative policy groups, that neglects, defrauds, lies about and then leaves veterans to die and that refuses to enforce immigration law) can provide and distribute health care to the American people…and to whoever else he wills. The shift from a nation based on equality of rights to one based on equality of results will go forward and Priest-King’s golden image, standing majestic and bejeweled in the pantheon of Leftist gods, will be worshipped by his hypnotized acolytes.
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• ·         Every law prohibiting homosexuality and homosexual marriage has been struck down and opponents face ridicule, threats, lawsuits, bankruptcy and prison. Transgenderism has been elevated to a civil right.  Connected to this, homosexuality is now accepted within the U.S. military and every job, even the most demanding like Special Forces and artillery, is now open to women. Eric Fanning became the first openly gay head of a service department when he was sworn in as Secretary of the Army.
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• ·         Every effort to slow down the onrush of illegal immigrants and to deport the millions already here has been beaten back. The number and political power of sanctuary cities have grown and it is only a matter of time before illegals are granted to right to vote, creating a new Democrat constituency the size of New York.
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• ·         Those countries normally counted as enemies of the United States – China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba – have been empowered while Bashar al-Assad, once threatened with a “red line,” still torments his own people. The impulse to directly confront ISIS has been throttled and Russia sets the agenda in both Syria and Ukraine.  The Communist Castro brothers still rule Cuba, which now enjoys full diplomatic relations with the United States while not releasing a single political prisoner: Priest-King watched a baseball game in Havana while ISIS thugs murdered 32 people and injured over 300 in Brussels.
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• ·         Despite universal revulsion at the case of Dr. Kermit Gosnell and at videos released by anti-abortion activists, Federal funding for Planned Parenthood has been protected and closing the Federal government yielded nothing.
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• ·         By refusing to approve the Trans-Canada XL Pipeline, by imposing new EPA regulations on fuel efficiency and power plants and favoring high-cost, inefficient and low-yield alternatives like wind turbines and pond scum, Priest-King has vigorously assailed carbon-based fuels and promoted the clean energy agenda, fully cognizant that closing coal-fired power plants would cripple the U.S. economy, which derives 40% of its energy from coal.
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• ·         His negotiating strategy of all-or-nothing, together with his defiance of U.S. law and the Constitution itself to assert dictatorial power, has ensured the survival of Obamacare and led to the crack-up of the Republican Party. Their majorities in Congress have been impotent against him, funding for his projects continues unabated and he faces no threat of impeachment for his brazen lawlessness.
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• ·         His handpicked successor has been confirmed as the first woman to be nominated for President by a major political party and will be beholden to him throughout her administration, given he protected her from criminal prosecution for her e-mail and bribery scandals.  He first defeated her and then made her his vassal, demonstrating the depth and scope of control he wields over the Democrat Party, the legal machinery of the U.S. government and American society itself, ensuring that his goal – the complete and irreversible transformation of the American republic into a Soviet oligarchy – is not only achieved but sustained.

Traditional American society in which individual rights, limited government, achievement, drive, ambition, self-reliance, innovation, patriotism and the two-parent, husband + wife family were cherished and protected is disappearing, not of necessity but because it is anathema to the modern fanatical Left. Sloth, indolence, selfishness, envy, tribalism and degeneracy are the virtues they prize and like the psychotic General Zod, they don’t care that the old society that spawned so much freedom and prosperity and opportunity is destroyed so long as their society, the one more hospitable to class warfare, racism, dissipation, vice and rigid state control over life and death and which bathroom you can use replaces it. Priest-King, building upon the legacy of the former Fornicator-in-Chief, has pushed us much closer to that world and if she is elected, Hillary Rodham Clinton will push us even further, but they strive for a world that has already been realized: Would anyone doubt that the citizens of Russia, Venezuela, China and North Korea live in a paradise on earth? Or Krypton?

The Triumph of Reality

Omar Mateen, a 29 year-old security guard and Muslim fanatic, used two firearms that he purchased

legally to murder 49 people and wound 53 others at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, during the early morning hours of Sunday, 12 June 2016. After starting his murderous rampage, he paused to call 9-1-1 to claim responsibility and pledge his allegiance to ISIS, then continued shooting people before he was himself killed in a gun battle with police. Witnesses report that he repeatedly used racist, misogynist and anti-gay slurs during the attack and at his workplace before the attack, and he was interrogated – and released – three times by the FBI for his connections to Muslim terrorist groups.

Facts are wonderful things. They stare you in the face with cold, unblinking, emotionless eyes.  They don’t change and they don’t care about ideology, the political climate or social justice. They are what they are, and in a horrible moment like this, they can simply be accepted as such to guide future action so that similar incidents can be prevented.  Or, as Priest-King, HRC, the Democrat Party and their Leftist media construct do, they can be ignored because they are inconvenient, because they don’t fit an ideological blueprint or because they don’t advance the right political agenda. Priest-King and HRC talk about “terror” and “hate” and “tragedy” and complain about how easily Mateen bought his guns but they don’t explain whose terror was perpetrated and whose hate was vented nor why Mateen was released by the FBI three separate times, and they dismiss Mateen’s own public declaration of loyalty to ISIS as invalid, as does their amen corner in the Council on American-Islamic Relations. They revert to their shopworn argument that universal background checks would have deterred this massacre when it is manifestly evident they would not – Mateen passed two background checks when he bought his guns and had not been arrested, charged or convicted of a crime – so what they are dog-whistling to the broader audience is the suspension of a person’s Second Amendment rights on the mere suspicion, not simply of criminal activity, but of any activity to which the radical Left objects. (Think Christian bakers who refuse to bake a cake for a gay wedding.) They also ignore – again – that Omar Mateen’s one-man jihad was only stopped by the intervention of the Orlando Police Department SWAT team, since apparently nobody in the Pulse nightclub was carrying a firearm themselves, meaning that 102 people were shot before someone had the effective means to shut him down. By strictly controlling the exercise of Second Amendment rights for the law-abiding public, Priest-King and his socialist one-worlders guaranteed Mateen a large, defenseless and target-rich environment and thus are complicit to his gruesome crimes. But though not a word will be said as to their guilt, the facts remain the facts.

Sharia law condemns homosexuality. Another fact that Priest-King chooses to ignore is that the Muslims he has wooed and apologized to and protected the last eight years absolutely detest the depravity of western culture, which includes the flaunting and celebration of homosexuality. Gays are hanged and stoned in Iran and ISIS throws them from rooftops so it’s not hard to imagine a young, angry, small-time loser like Omar Mateen being driven to a homicidal fury by the sight of hundreds of gays, lesbians and drag queens parading themselves in public. If Priest-King acknowledged this fact, he would throw into question the policy he has so ardently pursued during his Presidency and his core beliefs themselves, so he deliberately pushes ahead with the same flawed philosophy that led to Fort Hood, the Boston Marathon bombings, Chattanooga, Paris, San Bernardino, Brussels and now Orlando. More people will die, more lives will be ruined, more destruction and misery will ensue because staring facts in the face would invalidate everything he believes in, he would be proven to be spectacularly and fatally wrong and that thought is simply unimaginable: His support for Islam as a legitimate alternative to Christianity – because Islam doesn’t require personal acknowledgment and confession and repentance for sin, and accepting Jesus Christ as the only source of salvation, unacceptable to the liberal mind – lies at the core of his being. How could he be such a fool? How could he be so naïve? How could he have believed that a religion based on the 7^th century Arab bandit culture of slaughter, rape, pillage and slavery be compatible with postmodern liberal philosophy? These are questions from which Priest-King recoils, he instinctively dismisses violent Islamic ideology as a motive for terrorism, demands the further restriction of guns, blames conservatives for his failures and shifts the debate away from those horrible, relentless facts.

The worst mass shooting in American history reminds us that reality trumps dogma, that the thousands of people killed every year by violent Muslims don’t die because young Muslim men are uneducated, unemployed and poor but because Muslim ideology itself demands their deaths, that Muslim ideology condemns homosexuality and rejects the casual acceptance of deviant lifestyles promoted by the fellow-traveling Left, that it’s not the gun but the fanatic wielding it that’s the threat, and that there is a clear and powerful and unmistakable moral distinction between Islam and the societies Islam wants to destroy. If we cannot together accept and acknowledge and then act on these facts, to deter and finally defeat the march of jihad, then the only people who will profit will be the gravediggers.

Dead World

Islam is the religionization of 7^th-century Arab bandit culture.  That’s what it is. If someone professes Islam as their faith, they are saying it’s okay to steal whatever you want and to kill anyone who gets in your way, to kill for land or gold or camels or whatever you fancy at the moment, to burn villages and behead people and carry off slaves and hostages and then celebrate your raid by glutting your appetites for food and alcohol and rape – what did Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi do with Kayla Mueller, a young, naïve American who only wanted to help the Syrians that al-Baghdadi was torturing and killing, but kidnap her, torture her and rape her repeatedly for nearly eighteen months before murdering her? What is Islam’s vision of heaven but an eternal, wine-drenched orgy? (Nobody considers what heaven is like for devout Muslim women, as if being outraged by foul-smelling drunks forever is paradise.) What do ISIS, al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Boko Haram, Al Shabaab and Iran want to do but raid, slaughter and pillage Western culture and forcibly convert their populations to their bandit religion, creating a global bandit caliphate? And have the warriors of militant Islam actually thought about what that would mean? It would mean – if we take the statements of Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Ayatollah Khamanei and al-Baghdadi at face value – that there would be nothing left to loot and plunder, that every human being would profess and display the same robotic devotion to Allah that they do, that the raiding and burning and beheading and massacres so central to their religion would cease, would be obsolete and unnecessary. Whom would they attack? From whom would they steal horses and hostages? If the entire world is dragged into the outhouse of Mohammed’s vision, who would be their slaves?

My guess is that the answer to this question is: Nobody. Nobody in the Islamic world has considered the end result of jihad, that the desired end state of violent Muslim terrorists and governments renders everything they would have done to achieve it absolutely pointless. Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik spent three years planning and dreaming and preparing for jihad, planning and preparing to massacre their neighbors and co-workers and everyone who had helped them while living apparently ordinary lives in the suburbs, enjoying a degree of freedom and prosperity completely alien to the Muslim world. They gathered weapons and ammunition and explosives, plotted their attack, fumed about their hosts’ democratic values while living in perfect security when those activities, if engaged in Tashfeen’s native Pakistan, would have subjected them to summary arrest by the secret police, torture in some dank, nameless prison and then death from a noose, the culture that Tashfeen left behind and to which she and her husband yearned to convert San Bernardino. Farook’s colleagues’ Christmas party, the final provocation, was an unremarkable exercise of First Amendment freedom but was so repulsive to them that they had couldn’t just leave it alone, they had to extinguish it with bullets and pipe bombs, killing 14 people and wounding 22 others before they were themselves killed by the police. And to what end but to create an environment in which their actions would have been utterly impossible? An environment of inescapable and crushing mediocrity populated by automatons, thoughtless, dull, moribund and backward? They used air travel, credit cards, cell phones, computers and the Internet to prepare their attack, conveniences invented by the society they hated, but did this irony occur to them? At some point, did they realize – like the ISIS thugs who murdered 130 people in Paris three weeks earlier – that they were attacking a society that had given them the ability to attack it? That they were, in essence, trying to create a dead society, devoid of freedom, innovation, prosperity and progress?

Probably not. That level of thinking requires independence and originality, concepts forbidden to the ordinary Muslim. They are called by a dead prophet to think dead thoughts, live dead lives and kill anything that isn’t as dead as they are, so they can live in a dead world, a global zombie apocalypse of walking corpses worthy of nothing but extermination. That Barack Hussein Obama and his Leftist fellow travelers refuse to acknowledge this plain and simple fact disqualifies them from legitimate debate on the subject and from the offices they hold, but perfectly qualifies them for tar and feathers. Tell the 1^st Armored Division and the Big Red One to saddle up: D-Day is 20 January 2017.

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El Generalissimo

There’s a certain fascination with those leaders who not only fail but fail spectacularly, men who are so profoundly incompetent yet charismatic that they can convince entire nations to follow them to their doom. Simon bar Kochbar, Peter the Hermit, Robespierre, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Mao Tse-Tung, Pol Pot, and Nicolai Ceaucescu all come to mind as men who captivated their people with charm and brutality and led tens of millions to their deaths because they didn’t know what they were doing, and although the number of his victims was thankfully far fewer, my personal favorite has always been Generalissimo Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. A master of fiery rhetoric and navigating the dangerous world of Mexican politics, Santa Anna rose to ultimate power not once but twice, wielding a combination of deceit, treachery, egotism and ruthlessness. Dressed in elegant uniforms and styling himself the “Napoleon of the West,” he spent two years putting down revolts during which he never faced an opponent on equal terms until he was defeated by Sam Houston at the Battle of San Jacinto, the result of which was the loss of Texas, the Presidency of Mexico and exile to Cuba. Given the opportunity to return to Mexico to broker the peaceful annexation of Texas by the United States in 1845, Santa Anna promptly violated the terms he had accepted, resumed the Presidency and defiantly announced that any attempt to annex Texas would be considered an act of war, thrilling his countrymen with patriotic fervor against the hated gringos. However, his actions could not equal the passion of his speeches. After wiping out a 63-man patrol of the U.S. Army along the Rio Grande (outnumbering them by at least fifteen to one), Santa Anna proceeded to lose every battle for the next two years until the Americans marched through Mexico City and Mexico was forced to surrender almost everything between the Rio Bravo and the Canadian border, some 500,000 square miles of territory. That being the final straw, what was left of the Mexican government deposed the Generalissimo again, unable to endure the loss of half their land and unwilling to risk the loss of even more. However, there is no explanation as to why so many Mexicans would trust Santa Anna a second time against a far stronger United States when he had already lost Texas to a weaker foe. Such is the lure – and the cost – of personality.

Barack Hussein Obama, 44^th President of the United States, Priest-King and Sultan of the Caliphate of the West, is another of history’s epic failures. A man who, by his own account, enjoyed a sheltered upbringing and has no obvious reason to hate his own country, nonetheless hates it with passion, is ashamed of and embarrassed by it. Mesmerizing the entire world with his predictions of a post-political paradise, he ascended to the most powerful office of the most powerful nation in the history of the world and immediately set about deconstructing it. With America suffering through the worst economic recession in thirty years, he insisted on a massive public spending bill that rewarded his labor union allies but no-one else; issued thousands of new regulations designed to throttle productivity and growth; fanned the flames of racial division; precipitously retreated from Iraq and apologized profusely for America when no apologies were called for; added $9 trillion in debt when we already owed $10 trillion that we couldn’t pay; punished the coal and oil industries and threw $4 billion away on solar energy and pond scum; fired the CEO of General Motors when he had no legal or Constitutional authority to do so; passed the largest entitlement program in the history of mankind, folding the nation’s health care industry into a Federal government already bloated, inefficient and corrupt; used the IRS to flay his political enemies and wiretapped reporters who were insufficiently loyal; changed Obamacare 51 times without legal authority; released over 100,000 illegal immigrants from incarceration and relieved 800,000 others from the threat of prosecution; traded five Taliban commanders for one U.S. Army deserter; blamed a terrorist attack that left four Americans dead on an Internet video that nobody had ever heard of; cut $1 trillion from the Pentagon budget as the world burned from Islamic terrorism and Russian and Chinese adventurism; normalized relations with a Cuban regime that still executes political prisoners;  and contracted an agreement with Iran that gives them $150 billion in frozen assets and relief from international sanctions in exchange for allowing inspections at some sites with 24 days’ notice and trusting Iran to inspect others themselves. If we wrote a script for the most laughably incompetent way to govern the greatest country that has ever existed, a script calling for destroying America economically, socially, militarily and diplomatically, we could do no better.

Like so many failures of the past, Priest-King is deluded. From his youth, he has held a messianic vision of himself, exacerbated by the fervent and repeated assurances of others that he was simply more intelligent, more sensitive, more intuitive, more articulate, more sophisticated, more anything than anyone else.  People like him, they trust him, they believe in him, they do things for him that are unethical, immoral and even illegal because they think he is so transcendent, charting the course from mere hubris to demagoguery, from petty huckster to dictator. The fact that economies behave at odds with his design does not deter him, neither do the realities of war, diplomacy, law or human nature, because it is his intent that matters, not the results. Of course, he would prefer that people could keep their health care plan and doctor and hospital and save $2500 per year and Obamacare itself only cost $1 trillion, but if they can’t and it doesn’t, it’s not important: He intended it to be so. If Russia intervenes militarily in Syria, ordering us to stop our airstrikes and evacuate our personnel so they can bomb our allies, he dismisses their aggression as proof of their weakness and then plays golf because it’s not his failure to assert American power that invited their intervention, but his intent that Syria should be peaceful and united and free of Assad.  Priest-King employs a serene detachment from reality, operating in a sanitized ether (“ISIS is contained”) in which the only permanent element is his ego, standing golden and majestic and aloof from the tragedy he has wrought. And what an ego, validated in 2008 and then again four years later, even after the voters (“the proletariat,” though he dare not utter it) had volumes of proof of his massive ineptitude and unsuitability for his office, even after they knew that he was an ideologically-driven, cardboard cutout! And validated again with the Nobel Peace Prize, simply for being black (a fact that he does not dwell upon, otherwise it might bother him), leaving him unique among the leaders of history! Yes, his “strategy” against ISIS reads like an Ed Wood screenplay, yes, 129 people were just gunned down and blown up in Paris because of his fecklessness (“a setback,” in his words), and France will be leading the fight against the homicidal savages and not the United States, but doesn’t that validate his foreign policy since Day One? The world is working out its own problems without first relying on American money and tanks and isn’t that a legacy worth having?

In fourteen months, if he decides to obey the Constitution, Priest-King will relinquish the Presidency and assume his role as one of the Beautiful People, shuttling from Chicago to Washington to Martha’s Vineyard to Geneva on private jets, dining on poached salmon, sipping champagne and dispensing his wisdom at $500,000 a pop. A Presidential Library and Museum will be built in his honor, he will receive a $400,000 annual pension and Secret Service protection for the rest of his life, an office and staff at the taxpayers’ expense, and he will write a memoir extolling his achievements for $25 million or so. He will establish a foundation and persuade Leftist millionaires to contribute to it, he will appear on television and at movie premieres and swanky social occasions and he will never drive a car again, and he will accumulate fabulous wealth, and as far as I’m concerned, he can have it all: Having left us a weak, impoverished, disrespected, divided and leprous nation, he can have the most lavish exile in the history of exiles as long as he never, EVER returns.

Inauguration Day

Monday, 20 January 2025: It is a cold but sunshiney day in Washington, DC.  Her Excellency the President Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton relaxes in her leather club chair on the West Front of the Capitol, comfortably observing the proceedings as she awaits the inauguration of her successor, President-elect Kamala Harris, as the 46  ^th President of the United States.  It is altogether fitting that the first black woman to hold that office should be sworn in on the Federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, setting yet another milestone in this great country’s history. A great day to be alive, she thinks – indeed, a great day to be an American!

And as she waits, Her Excellency the President reflects on the milestones passed in her own career, the monuments to a career unmatched in American politics, starting with helping drive the loathsome Richard Nixon from office, then First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the United States, United States Senator from New York, Secretary of State and finally the brass ring itself, the grand prize, the Oval Office.  No-one else could have done it, no-one else had the combination of intelligence, drive, commitment, supreme patience and ruthlessness required to maneuver through scandal and infidelity and Congressional investigations for forty-five years to the most powerful office in the world, and as she transitions to her next role – Secretary-General of the United Nations – she leaves behind a legacy unmatched in American history:

·         After passing the largest tax increase in world history, unemployment stands at 12%, the economy contracts at an annual rate of -1.5% and the national deficit stands at $30 trillion. However, the minimum wage is raised to $25 per hour, the retirement age is lowered to 55 with a month’s paid vacation every year, Washington, DC, is granted full voting rights in Congress, community college is now free, all student loans are forgiven and a minimum 2.0 GPA upon graduation is guaranteed.

·         When Obamacare goes bankrupt, Her Excellency promptly cancels it and replaces it with the National Health Care System, the single-payer, government-controlled program she’s dreamed of for fifty years.  The Federal deficit explodes and such cancellation and replacement are entirely illegal, as are her other actions, but Congress is afraid to confront her for fear of being called sexists, just as they were afraid of confronting Barack Hussein Obama “unh, unh, unh!” for fear of being called racists, and the Republican Party splits in two.

·         By Executive Order, all convicted felons have their voting rights restored and all illegal immigrants are pardoned and granted full U.S. citizenship.  In addition, Her Excellency appoints the first transgender person to her Cabinet and the first lesbian as Chairperson of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

·         To prevent corporations from fleeing America’s oppressive tax and regulation regime, Her Excellency places an indefinite “hold” on all corporate moves overseas involving fifty or more employees; moreover, executive salaries are capped at $250,000 and ordinary stock trades are taxed at 15%.

·         California declares bankruptcy,  followed by Illinois and New York.  They then sue Arizona, Florida, Nevada and Texas for “predatory” policies that attracted millions of their citizens to relocate, taking their incomes with them.  The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals awards a $100 billion judgment in their favor.

·         Every oil refinery in the United States is nationalized, all coal-fired power plants are closed and energy rationing is instituted.

·         The United States Supreme Court rules that polygamy is constitutional.

·         Christian churches, hospitals, clinics and community service organizations lose their tax-exempt status and insurance coverage unless they hire homosexuals and Muslims and perform homosexual weddings.  Christian schools and universities lose these benefits but also lose their accreditation, and Christian students are denied Federal student loans.  Christian ministers lose their licenses to preach and some are prosecuted, Christian business owners are jailed for refusing to participate in homosexual weddings and over 1000 Christian organizations of all kinds are forced to close.

·         Concerning foreign policy, Russia overruns Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and although the United States is obligated by treaty to defend the Baltic states from attack, Her Excellency avoids a military confrontation with Russia and NATO collapses.  Iran violates the treaty it signed with Barack Hussein Obama “unh, unh, unh!” and detonates a nuclear bomb.  The Iranians annex Yemen and that part of Iraq not controlled by the Kurds or ISIS, prompting Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey to buy nuclear weapons from North Korea and Pakistan for sheer self-defense.  ISIS overruns Damascus, forcing Bashar Assad to flee to Tehran, and seizes Syria’s remaining stockpile of ballistic missiles and chemical weapons.  As she did with Russia, Her Excellency declines to retaliate against Iran and ISIS but as Israel is surrounded by fanatical enemies armed to the teeth, she demands that the Israelis immediately withdraw from the Golan Heights, Gaza and the West Bank in exchange for “peace.” In the background, China annexes the entire South China Sea.

She could go on, but what would be the point?  No other President, not even her despised predecessor (she’ll never forgive the stab in the back in South Carolina in 2008!) had accomplished so much in only eight years, so it was time to move on, time to take her talents truly global, time to ascend the pedestal of world fame and bathe in the glory that she had earned.  Ah, there’s the fanfare!  The President-elect approaches!  The oath is about to be administered, so Her Excellency stands, beaming with pride and satisfaction, knowing that the greatest days of her career were still ahead of her.  “Today, America,” she thinks, “tomorrow, the world!”