lindawadman

retired librarian, cook, crafter, knitter, mom, grandmom

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

Oh, how convenient.

The Supreme Court is suddenly very “conservative” when the issue is firing some mid-level bureaucrat or keeping boys out of girls’ sports. They’ll even let you have the Callais ruling so you can feel like something meaningful happened.

Then the second you ask them to do something that might actually slow down the demographic replacement or clean up the election system, Roberts and Barrett remember they have principles.

Barrett, in her infinite wisdom, decided Americans should continue enjoying the full benefits of mail-in voting chaos. Roberts, ever the steady hand, made sure birthright citizenship remains the world’s easiest loophole. Because nothing screams constitutional originalism like letting foreign nationals turn one trip to a blue city into generational political power for their entire extended family.

It’s almost impressive how consistent they are. You’re free to win the culture war skirmishes that don’t threaten the actual balance of power. The moment the conversation turns to who gets to be an American and whether elections should be trusted, the same two justices appear like clockwork to explain why now isn’t the right time.

This isn’t a Court. It’s a stage production with excellent lighting on the easy wins and a very sturdy wall the second anyone tries to walk toward the exits marked “sovereignty” or “citizen-only politics.”

Keep clapping for the little victories though. I’m sure the people running the show appreciate the free advertising while they decide how much of the country you’re still allowed to keep.
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[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WHAT ON EARTH?!!!

Over 100 Flock cameras that were set to "go dark" at the end of June after city council voted to shut them down...

...have bizarrely just REMAINED ON and the police are still using them

On June 17, the city council's safety committee voted to END the contract because when they asked police to prove these cameras actually reduce crime, the police could point to only 3 cases that led to convictions.

So the city council let the contract expire on June 29th, but then people noticed the cameras were still up...

...because Flock VOLUNTEERED to keep running them for FREE while the city "figures it out."

In fact, police confirmed they are still running them to "keep the community safe" and the company agreed to keep the system live, despite the contract expiring.

It gets worse.

When reporters asked simple questions like... is data still being collected? Do the cameras shut off or keep recording? Who can access what was already stored? It turned out that neither the city NOR Flock would answer.

So just to recap:

The contract is expired.
The elected body said no.
Nobody re-authorized it.
Flock won't say what it's doing with the data.

...but the cameras are STILL ON and being used by police

[Seth Keshel @RealSKeshel]

Have you ever noticed that the Supreme Court almost always makes the right rulings, except for when it really matters? Yea, me too:

Link in first comment to today’s newsletter on “Who owns the Supreme Court?”:

[LindellTV @RealLindellTV]

🚨 Rudy Giuliani: "The E. Jean Carroll Case Was Lawfare."

Following the Supreme Court's decision not to hear President Trump's appeal in the E. Jean Carroll case, Rudy Giuliani argued the lawsuit was politically motivated and criticized the Court for declining to review it.

"All of it was lawfare... It's not all about justice sometimes."

@RudyGiuliani also reflected on his own legal battles, alleging that investigators improperly accessed his records and searched his home and offices while he was representing @realDonaldTrump.

"They searched my home... they searched my law office... and destroyed my business."

[Joe Dan Gorman @JoeDanMedia]

We're up to 29 Gavelers ⚖️

29 different Republican Senators
taking turns presiding over Pro Forma Sessions to sabotage our sitting president.

Neither party has EVER used this tactic against their own POTUS

Until now.

[Unmask The SYS @UnmaskTheSys]

🚨Chief Justice John Roberts just got exposed big time — his wife Jane raked in over $10.3 million in commissions from Big Law firms arguing cases right in front of his Supreme Court. Roberts tried to hide it by listing the money as her “salary,” never recused himself from more than 500 cases with massive financial conflicts, and even “saved” Obamacare while selling out conservatives for years. A formal disbarment complaint was filed against him back in April. Patriots, this is blatant corruption at the highest level — do you agree House Republicans need to impeach John Roberts immediately? Drop your thoughts below and share this far and wide.

[Nancy Mace @NancyMace]

Looking back at the Senate records from May 30, 1866, it’s clear what the authors of the 14th Amendment intended. Senator Jacob Howard explicitly stated it wouldn't apply to 'foreigners' or 'aliens' born here. The Supreme Court has strayed far from this original meaning - it's a complete misinterpretation of our history.

Hat tip @AndrewKolvet

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

Here it is:

THE whistleblower right here on American soil:

Gary Berntsen, a 24‑year veteran of the U.S. Air Force who served as a Senior Operations Officer and Chief of Station for the Central Intelligence Agency.

The Central Intelligence Agency via Dominion rigging systems and Smartmatic, toppled the U.S. government on November 3, 2020, from abroad.

Smartmatic set up its office inside Venezuela’s election commission, with engineers working side by side to steal elections and defeat audits. Gary Berntsen explains how ballot images are swapped, source code is hidden, and fourteen methods of fraud are mixed so that no pattern is ever found. The same engineers later moved into U.S. counties and flipped long‑red districts overnight.

“Dominion Voting Systems manages elections in almost all the swing states in the U.S., which determine who wins the presidency. We have evidence and witnesses that can prove the source code operating the election machines of both Smartmatic and Dominion, and other election companies, is owned by the Venezuelan narco regime. We also have evidence and witnesses proving the machines are manufactured in the People’s Republic of China.”

“I was in the CIA for 24 years. The agency has been defeated. We’ve been penetrated so badly that our enemies now influence U.S. foreign policy. It’s time to shut the CIA down and build an OSS‑style service with a dedicated MI5‑type counterintelligence arm.”

@realDonaldTrump @POTUS @WhiteHouse @laralogan @FBIDirectorKash

[Eric Metaxas @ericmetaxas]

The SCOTUS justices who ruled in the majority MUST be held accountable and MUST give the reasons for their ruling. I see a scandal coming. There can be no legitimate legal reasoning. So why did they do it?

[Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow]

I am still seeing some insist, with an unwarranted air of sanctimony, that "the Court simply continued interpreting the citizenship clause as it has for 140 years." That is a lie.

Clarence Thomas notes in his dissent what the rest of us who've studied this have also known for decades: "The Citizenship Clause was consistently interpreted not to apply to the children of foreign temporary visitors, who were by definition not domiciled in the United States.” “Regardless of administration or party, the Federal Government for decades after ratification regularly denied claims to citizenship by children who were born in the United States but not domiciled here.” Roberts had to ignore this for to do otherwise would undermine his argument. But we don't have to play along.

Some are saying, relax, there are statutory fixes. There are no statutory fixes to birthright citizenship per se, certainly not now, since the Court just constitutionalized the practice. A statute cannot fundamentally cure this. And there will not be a constitutional amendment as long as there are Democrats in Congress and RINOs to support them.

Well, the issue was a close call, we are lectured. No, it was not. Not if you are thoroughly familiar with it. It was actually straightforward and relatively simply. Read Roberts's opinion. He mostly ignores the contemporary record at the time, which is loaded with statements by relevant congressmen and senators rejecting the entire notion of birthright citizenship, the context of the citizenship clause (even excluding Indians because of dual loyalty), and on and on. There is not a definitive piece of actual historical evidence of any kind supporting the interpretation Roberts and the Majority embrace. Hence, they go to 17th century Britain and power of Kings over servants. The irony is lost on the 250th anniversary of our independence.

We are told, look, the border is secure, the damage is limited, there are a number of executive and administrative decisions that can be made to help control this. Tell me, folks, when the Democrats are back in power, why wouldn't they undo every executive and administrative effort to limit the damage since they caused most of it in the first place, and why wouldn't they throw open the immigration doors even more enthusiastically knowing they've the birthright citizenship decision behind them.

It is one thing to say don't be hysterical and another to be damn near braindead to what just happened. There is cause for alarm. This isn't some manufactured concern. There's a revolution by immigration. It is swallowing Europe; it is swallowing parts of our country right now. That's precisely why President Trump acted. The Court's ruling has removed one of the most important constitutional and societal tools we have for fending off this crusade, and the Democrat Party's lawlessness in stoking it. The fact that the 14th amendment has been used to promote birthright citizenship for multiple decades is not a rational defense of its constitutionality. The fact that there are other ways to try to deal with this, with varying degrees of effectiveness, is not the point and not relevant to what the Court did. The Court has constitutionalized a policy without a real constitutional, factual, or historical basis. That is what Roberts's opinion demonstrates, and the dissent highlights. It was raised now because President Trump saw what had and was transpiring, including through the abuses of the amendment, took executive action to stop it, and lawsuits were brought to block his action. And what was and is happening is the abuse of birthright citizenship as never before.

Thomas and Alito went to great lengths to explain our history and that of the amendment, spending much time correcting Roberts's deceit. And they were blunt about their frustration. So, too, were they emphatic about the dire consequences of the decision.

Thomas and Alito are right. I have spent more than half-a-century studying, discussing, and writing about Supreme Court arguments and decisions, etc. I have also participated in several very big issues before the Court. I predict the dissenting opinions will be cited, studied, and praised by scholars and historians long after the Roberts Court is gone, whereas the Roberts opinion will be dismissed as a hodgepodge of mostly gibberish.

What was intended to be an amendment to the Constitution to protect the civil liberties and rights of newly freed Black slaves and their progeny, has been turned into a legal absurdity -- a spigot to justify granting citizenship to aliens who have entered our country in violation of federal law and, who in turn, are rewarded with American-citizen babies. The entire purpose of immigration laws used to destroy immigration laws, along with our national security, cultural and societal assimilation, economic determinations, electoral processes, etc. Who knew this was all intended when, in 1868, the 14th amendment was drafted, adopted by Congress, and ratified by the states? Certainly, its authors and the elected federal and state representatives who debated it and approved it had no idea. And I doubt the British monarchy in the 1600s would've approved, either.

[lindawadman @lindawadman]

@SteveBakerUSA Are you aware that no one can see your posts at https://t.co/rGXSZVhhA0? Error messages say site not configured or page doesn't exist.

[Steve Baker @SteveBakerUSA]

Never before released video shows the J6 pipe bomber was wearing and using a smart watch. My personal interviews with family members, including all available photography reveals that Brian Cole Jr. has never owned or worn a watch, or jewelry of any kind.

https://t.co/mOpmjyKOUs

[Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow]

I just finished reading Clarence Thomas's dissent.  I encourage you to do the same.  If you take the time to read Roberts's opinion and compare it to Thomas's dissent, Thomas completely outclasses Roberts.  His is a step-by-step history and constitutional lessen that brilliantly and methodically unravels every aspect of Roberts's argument.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Charlie Kirk left a tweet for everything

[Andrew Kolvet @AndrewKolvet]

Official transcript from the US Senate on May 30, 1866. Senator Jacob Howard, who introduced the 14th Amendment:

"This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens...”

SCOTUS got this ruling 100% wrong. A total travesty.

[Christina R @CR07100710]

So, what’s his condition? He is a tie breaker vote to pass the SAA attached to the reconciliation bill as well as to nuke the filibuster. He was admitted to the hospital within days of voting against SAA, and no updates have been provided as to his condition since then. The American public is entitled to know the correct, and true status of his health and whether a special election needs to be held in KY to fill his position immediately.

[Christina🇺🇸 @faithfulsoul70]

@TheCalvinCooli1 Remove his staff.
Nobody voted for Mitch McConnells staff to represent Kentucky.
Capitol police should escort every single one of them out of the building.
If Senate had "actual" leadership, this nonsense wouldn't be tolerated.
This PATSY falls in line👇
@LeaderJohnThune

[Brenden Dilley @WarlordDilley]

When you're 84 years old and hospitalized for two weeks, it generally means you don't come home.

...and when you're a deep state politician, it usually means you're already on ice, but still casting votes until someone notices.

[War Correspondent @warDaniel47]

🚨 WOW! Elon Musk just resurfaced this video of Chuck Schumer in 1996 saying that "the NUMBER ONE REASON" migrants come to America is to commit fraud and steal taxpayer dollars

"They can get benefits against the law because of FRAUD!"

ELON: "That’s what he said."

We need to pass the SAVE America Act so they CAN'T VOTE.

[DATA @DataDiscovered]

USAID ran a secret fake Twitter to spark revolution in Cuba. Funded Venezuelan opposition politicians directly. Got expelled from Bolivia after WikiLeaks cables revealed the ambassador admitted aid was "hidden by our use of third parties." All documented. All sourced. This isn't conspiracy, it's declassified.