The name of this blog is Pink’s Politics. The name comes from my high school nick-name “Pink” which was based on my then last name. That is the only significance of the word “pink” here and anyone who attempts to add further or political meaning to it is just plain wrong.

Friday, March 6, 2020

Stand By Your Man (and the country be damned), and Other Thoughts


I have not written here for some time for two main reasons.  One, I personally have been quite busy, and second and more decisive was that there is just little new to say.   The Democrats are the same angry haters obsessed with removing Trump from office.  Socialism is still socialism.  Trump is still using crude language but doing great things for the people of this country – jobs, economy, international relations, etc. etc.  So, having addressed all of this previously, it seemed redundant to rewrite.

But, now that the Democrats have seemingly chosen the instrument that they will use to attempt a win in November, and now that we have the Senate Democrat leader threatening Supreme Court justices, I do have a few thoughts which follow.

First, about Joe Biden.  I think it is clear to just about everyone that Joe seems to be in the early stages of dementia.  Whether or not you like or support Joe, that is sad.  But more importantly, it is frightening to consider that he could be the candidate for and could even be elected as president.  Anyone with any thought must be able to see the danger in that.

So, that is why I wonder why his wife stands by and supports him.  We saw her protect him by attacking a protester recently, but is she really protecting him when she encourages his continued run for an office it seems clear that his mind in its present state cannot handle?  Is she protecting him when she is helping him to be used by the Democrats who don’t really care about Joe, but only see him as a useful tool to possibly regain their power?

I don’t understand this.  But then, I don’t understand how a whole party could care more about their own power than the country.  I suspect that if the Democrats successfully use Joe to regain power, they will quickly cast him aside, so if he does get the nomination, the one voters should be scrutinizing is not Joe, but his pick for Vice President. 

But what really puzzles me is the wife.  Democrats are always saying that Republican women can’t think for themselves, but I look at Joe’s wife and I wonder what on earth she is thinking, or if she is even thinking.  Would anyone help to put someone who so obviously seemingly suffers from some sort of dementia into the powerful position of President of the United States of America?  Can she really be that selfish?  Or, is she, like all good Democrats, just falling in line and doing what she is told, even when in the long run it is more likely to hurt her husband or at least make him some sort of laughing stock, while at the same time working to create a situation that endangers the entire country.  

If someone whose mind is not 100% is given the chance to make world and life changing decisions that can affect us all, then we are all in danger.  Joe’s wife, Dr. Biden (Ed.D.) must understand that.   I know that if I were in her situation and my husband were showing signs of early dementia, regardless of party demands or personal love of power, I would do everything I could to talk him out of running.

Joe is a lovable character.  His gaffes are humorous.  Now.   There are many types of dementia, some progress quickly, others slowly.  But no matter how much you love someone, or how much you hate the current white house occupant, absolutely no one should be even considering replacing that current occupant with someone whose mental state is questionable.

But, then, when your only campaign policy is to beat Trump, I guess such things as the good of the country really are not relevant.

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Turning now to Senator Schumer’s recent threats toward Supreme Court Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, this also is something about which every American should be outraged.  His words, while arguably hyperbolic, were clear threats intended to intimidate those justices to rule a particular way in an upcoming case.

That is nothing like giving an opinion about a case that has been decided or about comments made by a justice in a decided case or on other matters not before the court.  Yet, in its biased propaganda wisdom, the mainstream media considers such comments by Trump to be completely analogous to the threats of Schumer.  They are not.

Schumer said: “I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”  These words were spoken at an abortion rights protest in front of the Supreme Court while the court has a pending abortion case before it.  It is a threat to the justices, an attempt to cause them to rule pro-abortion in the pending case. Schumer, despite his attempted retractions, knew exactly what he was saying and what he was doing. 

Schumer’s threat is nothing like the statements by Trump in which he, in his typical straight and common verbiage (not refined politi-speak) criticizes decisions he does not like.  This is something that every president tends to do – give opinions about decisions that have been rendered.  That is very different from threatening a judge to decide a particular way in a pending case “or else.”

Even Trump’s most recent statements about Justices Sotomayor and Ginsburg were not threats to their decision making in a pending case.  He said he thought they have been unfair to him in the past and that they should recuse themselves from future cases involving him.  These are his opinions; there is no pending case involved and there is no threat that if they do not decide his way in a pending case that they will “pay the price.”

Trump’s words express his unfavorable opinions about justices and their past decisions.  Schumer’s words are a clear attempt to intimidate and influence the decision in a current case pending before those justices whom he threatened.  In this country we are allowed to express our opinions.  We do not, however, threaten judges to decide a pending case in a particular way.  To do so can be a felony or other crime.  This is because in this country we expect impartial justice.

It is dangerous when Americans, especially American leaders and politicians, believe they can intimidate the Supreme Court and force it to make decisions political rather than render unbiased, legal, and Constitutional decisions.  Dictators, socialists, other authoritarian regimes may tell their judiciary how to decide a case, but we do not do that in this country.  But, perhaps the Left, in its quest to upend our democracy and establish their own absolute power, have forgotten that.

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And, finally, one quick comment about another Democrat primary contender – Elizabeth Warren.  Her inability to endorse Sanders, whose policies mirror those that she advocated during her campaign, just underscores what we have known since long before this campaign cycle:  that she is a total fraud.   For her, there is only one interest, and that is herself.  She used a false Native American narrative to further her career and her power; she used big money, then trashed it when it better served her campaign to do so; and, apparently she used a progressive/socialist agenda to try to further her presidential chances, but there is no evidence that she really believed in or cared about what she was saying.  She is a woman after her own power and nothing else.  I assume she will work to get the best deal she can for herself before she comes forward with an endorsement which could be for Bernie or for Joe; she really doesn’t care as long as it is good for her.  Remember that next time she runs. 

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