Category: Kevin’s Stuff

CHUCK SCHUMER CALLS FOR CIVIL WAR

Watch any mass media talking heads show on CNN, MSNBC, PBS, NBC, ABC and the like and you will eventually see someone like Maxine Walters, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, AOC, Don Lemmon, MSN, The Atlantic, VOX, Wired, etc. warning of the cataclysmic civil war Donald Trump so desperately wants.  How his actions are threatening the public and crashing the economy.  How he is hurting the working class.  How he is endangering the elderly.  

Hmmm.

Then, now that I have brought that to your attention, take a look at what is really going on and who is really doing it.  

Crazed Liberals, especially those with Trump Derangement Syndrome, are attacking Jewish students; taking over college campuses in support of terrorists; torching buildings; encouraging people to dump a publicly traded commodity while causing damage to their own state’s pension system and threatening people’s jobs; damaging people’s personal property; and verbally abusing and cursing out people who do not think, look and act like them.  

And then, and then you have Thursday, March 20th, 2025, when the Senate Minority Leader of the United States, Chuck Schumer, during an interview on PBS.ORG/NEWSHOUR called for civil war.  

He said, and I quote, “We are mobilizing in New York.  We have people going to the Republican Districts and going after these Republicans who are voting for this and forcing them to either change their vote or face the consequences.  This is a long relentless fight that we fight every day, and I am confident we will bring Trump’s popularity numbers and strength down.  If we keep at it, keep at it, keep at it.”

As a side note, try that out in Suffolk County and see what happens.  Try that in Arizona and see what happens.  As the song goes, try that in a small town and see what happens.  

Is this 2025’s “shot heard around the world”?  Is this the Democratic / Liberal call for civil war?  

Before I get into the more serious issues with Schumer’s statement, let me point out the strategy is to “bring Trump’s popularity numbers and strength down”.  Really?  That’s their strategy.  They have absolutely nothing on policy so they’re going after “popularity”.  Wow.

Now, let’s talk about that “forcing them to either change their vote or face the consequences”.  Well, that’s a violation of several Federal Laws and I didn’t bother looking up New York’s laws as they are probably even stricter.

I imagine these are some of the illegal things the Democrats / Liberals plan on or are actually doing: violent or physical acts; improperly following, monitoring, harassing, or surveilling voters at polling places; actual or threatened publication of voters’ personal information; phone and physical canvassing that try to interrogate people about their voting status and history; baseless voter challenges, particularly those that target Republican voters.   

Fortunately, we have protections against Chuck Schumer’s thugs.  On the civil side we have the following provisions regarding protections against anti-intimidation:

Section 11(b) of the Voting Rights Act, 52 U.S.C. § 10307(b): prohibits actual or attempted “intimidation,” “threats,” or “coercion” against a person “for voting or attempting to vote” or “for urging or aiding any person to vote or attempt to vote.” No showing of intent to intimidate is required so long as the behavior has the effect of intimidating voters.

Section 131(b) of the Civil Rights Act of 1957, 52 U.S.C. § 10101(b): prohibits actual or attempted “intimidation,” “threats,” or “coercion” with the purpose of interfering with a person’s right to vote in federal elections.

Section 1 of the Enforcement Act of 1871 (“Ku Klux Klan Act”), 42 U.S.C. § 1983: prohibits any state official from violating the constitutional rights of any person, including the right to vote, the right to equal protection, and the right to due process.

Section 2 of the Enforcement Act of 1871 (“Ku Klux Klan Act”), 42 U.S.C. § 1985(1): prohibits two or more persons from conspiring to use “force, intimidation, or threat” to prevent a person from “discharging any duties” related to administering a federal election.

Section 2 of the Enforcement Act of 1871 (“Ku Klux Klan Act”), 42 U.S.C. § 1985(3): prohibits two or more persons from conspiring to use “force, intimidation, or threat” to deprive a person of equal protection, to hinder state officials in securing equal protection for others, or to prevent voters from engaging in lawful activity related to voting in federal elections.

And for all the allegations that Trump is a racist, a Nazi, a KKK sympathizer I find it ironic the Liberal / Democratic behavior is subject to prosecution because of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871.

On the criminal side of the issue, we note the penalties for doing what Chuck Schumer says is being done:

Section 12 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, 52 U.S.C. § 20511(1)(A): provides criminal penalties for “knowing” and “willful” actual or attempted intimidation, threats, or coercion against any person registering to vote, voting, or attempting to register or vote. It also protects those who urge or aid any person to do the same.

18 U.S.C. § 241: provides criminal penalties for any person who conspires with another to intimidate any person exercising a constitutional right, including the right to vote.

18 U.S.C. § 242: provides criminal penalties for a state official who willfully subjects a citizen to the deprivation of a constitutional right, including the right to vote.

18 U.S.C. § 594: provides criminal penalties for any person who intimidates or attempts to intimidate voters with the purpose of interfering with their right to vote.

52 U.S.C. § 10308(a): provides criminal penalties for any person who deprives or conspires to deprive a voter of their right to vote.

18 U.S.C. § 875(c): provides criminal penalties for any person who threatens to injure another person using methods of interstate communication.

So, what can you do?  First, know what people at the polls can and cannot do, especially poll monitors.

Poll monitors can be inside the polling place, but they are limits to the numbers.  Pollbooks can be inspected, and poll monitors CAN challenge the qualifications of voters.  Unofficial and self-proclaimed or designated election “observers” are not permitted inside a polling place.  Poll monitors CANNOT go inside an enclosed voting booth / machine; interact with voters (unless the voter needs help with the mechanics of the machine).

Further, if any voting thug, on EITHER side tries to intimate you, you can report them to:

The Election Protection Hotline 1-866-OUR-VOTE or 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA for Spanish speakers.

The U.S. Department of Justice Voting Rights Hotline 800-253-3931.

Call your local County Clerk, your local Elections Commissioner, State Board of Elections, or local officials.

FLEEING THE COUNTRY

It is almost a joke now hearing all of those political pundits, washed up celebrities, social justice activists, and people trying to remain relevant saying they are leaving the country. Really?? So, what’s the tally? How many actually did it? If you check what ever social media app you prefer you’ll see there was a lot of big mouth talk but you can really only find two who actually did – Eva Longoria bounces back and forth between Spain and Mexico; Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Portia deRossi moved to the United Kingdom. I have to give them credit for putting their lives where their mouth was.

All the rest are just cry baby blow hards.

Let’s really think about what it means to leave your native country just because your candidate didn’t win the election.

First, it means you don’t respect the election outcome that is fundamental to democracy. You know, the same thing they are screaming about. If you really cared about democracy you would have tried to stay engaged and made sure your voice and your vote was heard in future elections.

Second, and this is what these social justice activists and political hacks LOVE – being able to advocate for change and claim to be part of a solution. Policies and leadership can only be influenced through some form of civic engagement (think Charlie Kirk), activism, and dialogue.

Third, the cost of making such a crazy move. Certainly, if you’re mega rich, you know the one who screams for “paying your fair share” while cheating the tax code at every turn, you have the financial ability to move. But, taxes in the socialist countries you crave to live in are going to sap your bank account. There is more economic stability if you stay put.

Fourth, shut your mouth. You’re not in Kansas anymore and your freedom of expression and speech, not to mention other constitutionally guaranteed rights and freedoms are GONE. You’re in a new land and you better watch what you say and post. There are other legal processes to consider and adapting to a new culture can be quite stressful. And, what makes you think another country is going to be happy to have an American trouble maker in the midst?

Finally, what about your family? Will your relationships be strained? Will your professional and person life be disrupted? Considering the pending doom and dread you predict are you leaving them to fend for themselves?

It is hysterical to a lot of people to see the pouting and literal crying because your candidate didn’t get in. You feel alone. You can’t believe people don’t think like you. Frankly, there are at least 77,284,118 million people who don’t think like you and probably more. Your morals, ethics, values, and oppression was rejected.

Then again, maybe it is a lot simpler. Maybe you’re just a coward.

Exactly What Rights Are You Losing?

Flip through any Tic Tok or Instagram stream and you will find countless sites of left wing minded people and groups screaming about all the rights they have lost now that Trump won the election.

As a side note, Trump is not in office and hasn’t put out any, that is right – not one, policy that is being enforced. So, the complaint is an outright lie but for the probability they really mean the rights they are about to lose.

And exactly, what rights are they? Certainly, neither Trump, his current recommended cabinet appointees, nor anyone running in his circle has voiced any intention to take anyone’s rights. In fact, the only rumblings are the contracting (decrease in size) of government oversight thus INCREASING individual freedoms.

What are these people screaming about?? What freedoms are being or going to be taken away?

Well, here they are. You see the one and only way woke-ism can exist is through the subjugating of the un-woke. That is, the woke do not want freedom of speech, thought or expression. They demand the un-woke’s compliance with the woke agenda. The battle lines and differences between the woke and the un-woke play out mostly on social media, college campuses, the big screen and television (news shows, talk shows, late night, and sit coms). In social media the woke pushed for a huge cancel culture. On college campuses the woke demanded the de-platforming of speakers not subjecting themselves to their ideology. They also insisted on mandated diversity while screaming about cultural appropriation and outright public censuring of anyone with different viewpoints. Just watch any talk show and the political leanings of obvious.

Woke-ism demands social justice while allowing the outright grand theft from retail stores; allowing violent criminals to roam free and emboldening them to kill, rape, kidnap, steal, burn and destroy with not a fear for any consequences.

The woke will go so far as to say children do not belong to the parents, they belong to society. Wow, how Communist of them. The woke established policies that banned responsible educators, medical professionals, and law enforcement agencies from advising parents when their children were seeking gender change procedures. The woke socialist Education Secretary conspired with the National School Board Association to have parents arrested or “tracked” by the FBI if they voiced opposition to the teaching of critical race theory and highly questionable covid masking protocols and restrictions.

But, and please forgive the tired and worn out saying, there is a new sheriff coming to town. And the woke about to lose a whole bunch of rights.

The woke will lose the right to label parents as domestic terrorists for fighting against the indoctrination of their children to accepting critical race theory.

The woke will lose the right to dance around with barely a stitch of clothing on in front of young children. They will lose the right to have adult themed books in elementary school libraries. They will lose the right to force their sexual identities and preferences upon children.

The woke will lose their right to have the Justice Department’s Domestic Terrorist Unit harass, arrest, charge and prosecute political opponents.

The woke will lose their right to support the massive invasion of illegal immigrants and thus their dreams of having them vote, illegally, for liberal and Democrat policies and candidates.

The woke will lose their right to have economic policies kept in place that strangle small business, keep inflation high, and take away benefits from veterans and American homeless to support their illegal immigrant friends.

The woke will lose their right to silence opposing views in all areas including social media, college campuses, television and the big screen.

The woke will lose their right to demand diversity that force the hiring of people based upon skin color rather than their qualifications.

The woke will lose their right to criticize individuals for cultural appropriation. The woke want everyone divided and separate. The woke don’t want people to mix and mingle and enjoy each other’s cultures. The woke don’t want America to be the great melting pot anymore. And, one example of the hypocrisy of their demands is that white people should never have dreadlocks yet the complaint is coming from a black female with dutch blond white hair.

The woke will lose their right to harass and beat members of other religions. They will lose their right to protest by disrupting the lives of others. They will lose their right to loot, burn and destroy.

Perhaps the most significant right the woke will lose is the right to censure. They lose the right to silence. They lose the right to cancel. They lose the right to take away the un-woke rights to freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, and freedom to defend themselves.

In the end, the woke are right. They’re about to lose a lot of freedoms.

Shots Fired

We were 1” from a horrific event that could have blown this country into a civil war. The rest of the world is watching us. Our enemies thrive on our division. Dangerous rhetoric we hear everyday needs to be silenced. Now is the time to join together to demand peaceful, non-violent and intelligently argued discourse.

DEMOCRATES / LIBERALS MAKE HISTORY – But Is It Really One to Be Proud Of?

To be fair, he should have plead guilty and paid a fine long long ago. But, this was a battle of egos that was hugely stacked against him by a political machine that had control of the entire justice system. Everyone in America, indeed throughout the world, should readily understand the reference I am making.

But before we get the main point here, let’s admit there are countless examples of America’s double standands in terms of criticizing other countries for their activies. Here are a few:

  • criticizing Russia, China, and many others for slaughtering their own citizens in the name of progress while America slaughtered Indians throughout the 1800s.
  • complaining about Russian and China election interference while continuously intervening in the elections of other countries since the 1940s so “American friendly” puppets could be installed.
  • sending Americans to “fight for the rights of oppressed people” in Vietnam while oppressing the very same people being sent over there to fight for that freedom.
  • complaining about foreign “brain washing” of its youth while pushing a massive socialist educational agenda in its own public schools (while an argument for another day, let’s face it, public school = government schooling).
  • “monitoring” elections in other countries and pointing out the unfairness of the voting process while allowing non-citizens and other various unidentified people to vote in its own elections.
  • pointing out the unfairness of racial inequality in countries like South Africa and female oppression in countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia while oppressing men, especially white men, under the disguise of diversity, equity and inclusion.
  • providing countries will massive military aid to protect their borders while allowing an invasion at their own Southern Border.
  • jailing its former leaders or potential challengers to the current leaders while prosecuting Trump for “election contribution accounting violations”.

Certainly there are many more examples but those are the ones that quickly come to mind.

The Liberals / Democrats are enjoying a great Memorial Day Holiday week with the jury verdict of guilt towards Donald Trump. The rest of the world laughs at America as it sees this trial for what it was – a political witch hunt with the intention of jailing a political opponent. Some examples of that would be:

  • a prosecution witness who blatantly lies – about everything
  • not allowing defense witnesses
  • a judge that was handpicked and should never have been allowed on the case due to a conflict
  • gross inaccuracies in the jury instructions
  • the statute of limitations for the crime had long expired
  • the judge donated heavily to the Biden campaign even though it is illegal for New York judges to donate to political campaigns
  • using federal law violations to prosecute state law issues
  • evidence that was either excluded or improperly admitted
  • the due process concerns of listing 34 counts without specifying the unlawfulness by which NY Election Law was violation

Certainly legal scholars could come up with a more specific and accurate list.

But let’s look at this in the grand scheme of history. A former President of the United States was charged, tried and convicted of a felony.

That’s not only embarrassing, it is a black eye to the country and really further diminishes our standing, relevancy, status throughout the world. Well done Liberal / Democrats. But, that’s really what they want to do anyway. The socialist, bordering on Marxist idiology of Liberals / Democrats is the downfall of America as a Republic.

Maybe we’ll just become a vast waste land to vanish like the Persian Empire, the Alexandrian Empire, the Roman Empire.

FALL OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE

Long ago a book was published with the title, “Fall of The Roman Empire”. I recall borrowing it (we called it “taking it out” back in the day) from the Brentwood Public Library in Brentwood, New York. I had taken it out with a bunch of other books and don’t recall ever actually reading it.

I have wondered if there were any comparisons between the fall of the Roman Empire to the reduction in America’s influence in the world including, what most agree to believe, the collapse of society and culture in the United States.

Someday, and I mean during this 2024 calendar year, I am going to find that book and actually read it. However, I have spent the last few days “googling it” and came up with what I believe to be 8 main parallels between what happened throughout the Roman Empire and what is occurring in the United States today.

  1. Failing economy / economic problems and reliance upon slave labor / unskilled workforce working for low wages. Rome had a long string of endless wars and over spending. The United States rarely, if ever since its existence, has been at peace. Its current spending deficit speaks for itself. In Rome there was an ever increasing gap in the wealth of the super rich and super poor. That happening in America speaks for itself. (I’m going to use that term a lot throughout this rambling.) Over taxation, high inflation and citizens fleeing the taxman into other countries exist in both examples (Rome and America).
  2. Trying to expand its influence throughout the world and overspending on military budgets. Rome did so by literally expanding itself across the European world and simply overextending its supply chains and reinforcement lines. America does so by “sticking its nose” in every foreign affair and its military overspending, especially to finance the Ukrain’s war with Russia, is infamous.
  3. For Rome it was the invasion by the Huns and migration of numerous clans of barbarians. For America it is the invasion across the southern border and migration of millions of numerous nationalities that do not accept American laws, ethics, freedoms, and culture – essentially our version of “barbarians”. During the Roman Empire times wars chased entire cultures fleeing attacks into Roman occupied and controlled areas. During our time millions are alleging they are political refugees fleeing war, famine and persecution. In both examples, the weakening of the society by the mass immigration allowed for enemy states to simply “walk right in”. Americans should be panicked by this example.
  4. Weakening of the Roman Military / Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the American Military. For Rome, it was the hiring of mercenaries because they couldn’t find qualified soldiers and the ones they did, did not have any loyalty to the legion. In America, the military is more interested in promoting unqualified members to meet quotas for “certain types” rather than promoting the actually qualified members. Allowing members with obvious mental problems to be promoted to high ranking positions, like Admirals, places military members, strategy, and safety at huge risk. Promoting members because of their gender or race simply to meet some “ratio” is just foolish.
  5. The collapse of religion and conservative values. For both examples, Rome and American (despite the separation of Church and State) interference by religious leaders and their insistence on laws to be imposed on everyone (think limitations on abortion as one example) and the absolute collapse of society and culture occurred in Rome and is occurring in the United States today.
  6. Government corruption and political instability. Is there any need for further discussion here? How is it possible that people of relative moderate means get elected into office, stay there for life, come out of office multimillionaires and not be “on the take” if not outright extorting their influence?
  7. The rise of the Eastern Empire. For Rome, it was dividing its empire into 2 main parts and having the eastern part governed by the Greeks. Attacks from “the east” contributed to the collapse of the entire empire. For America, it is the extreme divide in political appetite. There is extreme left wing socialism / bordering on marxist totalitarianism versus the extreme right wing conservatives / bordering on ancient English aristocratic culture and rule.
  8. Continued invasions by barbarian tribes / continued invasion of military aged and well fit “refugees”, drugs, criminals released from prisons if they agree to migrate north. For Rome, it was actual war parties invading its territories resulting in the defeat of the last Roman Ceasar – Augustulus around 476. For America it is the uncontrolled border crossings discussed in the heading that is leaving its citizens, its territory, its laws, its culture, its morals, values and ethics, and its existence all at great risk.

Will Americans ever look to the past to see what can happen in the present? There is a reason why the liberals in America want a dumbing down of the American student, the erasure of history, the actual re-writing of historical facts. They don’t want Americans to learn about what happened in the past so they, the liberals, can repeat it.

INVASION – Volume 6 Episode 1

This is the Kevin Driscoll Blog.  It’s a rambling, babbling, blog of non-sense that will leave you dumber just for either reading or listening to it.

This is a big election year.  Whether you are left wing, liberal, or a Democrat OR you are right wing, conservative, or a Republican OR anything else in between, there is a critical Presidential Election coming November 2024 and you need to participate.

Of course, the short analysis, if Trump wins, will be, “See, he was cheated at the last election.”  And, if Biden wins, will be, “See, we told you no one likes Trump.”  What ever.

The slightly longer analysis will be if Trump wins, the people didn’t like the way the country is and was going.  If Biden wins, the people liked the way the country is and was going. 

Of course, there are immediate issues in everyone’s face with most of those issues being pushed by the liberal philosophy or agenda: safe spaces a/k/a segregated dorm rooms; child / human trafficking issues; pornography being allowed in elementary schools; transgender identity issues; allowing men to compete in women’s sports in violation of Title IX; crime; lack of prosecution for crime; illegal immigration; failure to protect the border; environmental politics (think global warming); oil v. electric; failure to provide benefits to our active military members (how is it possible we have military members on food stamps????); providing illegal immigrants with housing, healthcare, food, education, and cellphones while our homeless are dying on the streets, failure to provide benefits to our veterans (veteran hospitals and doctors are being used to attend to the wellness of the millions of illegal immigrants let into the country); school boards withholding information from parents; school boards doing away with minimum testing standards; high level federal corruption of our elected officials (how is it a congressman / woman or a Senator comes into session relatively middle class and leaves office a multi-multi millionaire??); and, not that this is the all-inclusive list – raging inflation, price increases, food and consumer good shortages, and out of control interest rates.

Now, if you’re sick and tired of everything above.  You’ll vote for Trump.  If you’re the type of person who can “see their side of it” or “understand their point of view”, then you’ll vote for Biden.

But, what if you’re like me and hate both of those clowns?  Who are you going to vote for?  You can’t write in anyone who would ever have a chance to win.  There is no third party in our country.  The Republicans couldn’t find anyone strong enough to primary against Trump and the Democrats didn’t even try to put up anyone against Biden. 

Indeed, a country heading for a division that may never be reconcilable.

Might I suggest you consider making your choice based upon the following criteria.

Let’s start off with Adam Smith and his Wealth of Nations.  Putting aside the economic discussions in the book, which are obviously the basics of capitalism, he does talk about what the role of government should be.  Interesting in face of the when the book was published – right in the middle of our Revolutionary War (American War for Independence) in 1776, one could almost argue some of the material in the book was used as the basis for getting our country running once we won the war.  Smith argued government has three and only three functions: national defense; administration of justice (including property rights); and public goods (infrastructure).

Criteria One: national defense.  I think the current and past administrations have done a mediocre job in this area.  Certainly, the Biden Administration’s actions keeping illegal immigrants out shows violations of oaths of offices bordering (no pun intended) on criminal culpability.  With the number of military aged males from terrorist and adversarial countries pouring across the border we must remain vigilant for attacks inside our country.  Our National Guard (the weekend warriors) are ill equipped and although their initial boot camp training simulates active military, their ongoing training meets the bare minimum.  I fear it is going to be the good old fashioned local militias that will have to protect our country.  So, if you’re under the liberal gun control delusion that you don’t need a gun, well, you’re delusional. 

The best we can ever say is that part of our economy is thriving as we send military aid to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and other “friendly” countries.  Part of that keeps American kids off the front lines as Ukraine fights our war with Russia; Israel fights our war with religious extremists; Taiwan prepares to fight our war with China; etc etc. Personally, I’d rather see my tax dollars going overseas than either of my sons.   

It is simple here.  Our border is not safe.  The Biden Administration fails criteria one.

Criteria Two: Administration of Justice.  Look around at the crime in the northwest like Seattle and Portland, big cities like Chicago, Baltimore, New York, almost any big city in California.  Listen to the district attorneys say how they are downgrading “felonies to misdemeanors”, not prosecuting everyday crime, convincing local administrations to stop the police from enforcing some laws, allowing civilians to tell law enforcement what parts of cities they are not allowed to enter, and remember they are all run by Democrats.  Remember how the Biden Administration coddled families of CRIMINALS killed by police with language and statements emboldening, justifying, and almost out right supporting the mass of destruction that occurred during the riots of 2019, 2020, and 2021. 

It is simple here too.  The administration of justice is not happening.  The Biden Administration fails criteria two.

Criteria Three: public goods (infrastructure).  We know there was a bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed early in the administration.  It accounted for $220 Billion dollars to be allocated to the private sector.  32,000 specific projects were identified across 4500 different sites.  Here, I must admit, is where the administration has made it most significant and impressive strides.  The major projects included significant bridges like the Brent Spence, The Walk, West Mission Bay, Frederick Douglass Tunnel, Boston Logan Airport, Orlando International, Fargo-Moorhead Flood Risk Management, Montgomery Locks, Diablo Power Plant, Arkansas Conduit, Sisk Dam, Navajo Water Supply, Mescalero Bridge.  And there is still a significant amount of money left for major roads, rail line, airports, ports and waterways, transit, electric vehicle charging stations, and clean water.  Other monies are for high-speed internet, superfund clean-up sites, and tribal communities. 

This one is easy – the Biden Administration did very well for this criterion.

It appears a lot of people don’t realize there are actual real penalties for not “living up” to minimum standards discussed above.  Certainly, getting voted out of office is one of them.  But there are more very serious penalties written in our Constitution.

Article 4 of the U.S. Constitution Section 3 states, “… nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims…. Of any particular State.”

Section 4 of Article 4 is the most significant.  The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government and shall protect each of them against Invasion…. And against domestic Violence (internal rioting – think Rodney King riots and George Floyd riots). 

The Guarantee Clause gives us the majority rule standard.  A republican government is one in which the PEOPLE GOVERN THROUGH ELECTIONS.  Essentially, local supreme courts keeping Trump off the ballot is in violation of Article 4 Section 4 and needs to be addressed immediately.  The people decide who to vote for, not the judges.

The protection against invasion or internal mass rioting is normally only available from Congress or the President.  Texas, Arizona, and even Florida can make very strong cases that they are under invasion.  Article 1 Section 10 permits states to act without permission of the federal government when states are under imminent threat.  Section 10 Clause 3 allows for the states to ENGAGE IN WAR, waiving congressional permission in cases of imminent danger.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott initiated a program called OPERATION LONE STAR.  Essentially, it is a statement regarding Texas’ constitutional right to self-defense.

The programs premise is the Executive Branch of the United States, aka the Biden Administration, has a constitutional duty to enforce Federal Laws protecting States.  Those include immigration laws currently “on the books” but not being enforced.  Biden ordered his agencies to ignore Federal Statutes mandating detention of illegal immigrants. 

Abbott then lays out the logic: failure to fulfill obligations under Article Four Section Four triggers Article One Section Ten Clause Three and thus triggers Texas’ right to self-defense. 

Arizona is following.  However, somewhat rather slowly.  Attorney General Mark Brnovich issued an opinion that Arizona is being invaded and subject to an influx of drugs, criminality, and human trafficking.

Back to the penalties.  If you are an elected official you swear an oath.  Typically, that oath is almost identical in all Federal Offices and even into State and Local offices, including police.  It goes something like this, “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

“Faithfully execute” means the President cannot refuse to enforce a law simply because he dislikes it.  Acts of Congress must be obeyed and enforced.  This is critical because Biden CANNOT ORDER HIS DEPARTMENT HEADS TO IGNORE immigration laws !!!!

Now, a lot of people will scream, “Treason, treason” but that is really not the case unless Biden is in cahoots with some foreign power intent on striking us from within and Biden created a situation to let those single males of military age and capacity into the country.

But, it is a very strong argument as to who you should vote for in November 2024.   (And believe me, I am asking myself, “How does that taste coming out of your mouth?”) 

Volume 1 Episode 5 – American College Students Lack of Education

Hey, this is Kevin Driscoll.  I assure you; you will be dumber for reading or listening to this podcast of rambling poorly researched and structured arguments.  However, this is Volume 1 Episode 5 and I want to talk about how under-educated the American born after 1999 is and let’s use the following three items as an example: 1. The definition of genocide; 2. Who is the longtime resident of Judea? 3. The “occupation” of Judea. 

The easiest of the three is #3.  The long-time occupants of Judea are the Jews.  Period.  No argument.  No misunderstanding.  The Jews have occupied Judea since about 2000 years before Jesus of Nazareth.  From 1800 – 1450 BC they were enslaved and brought to Egypt.  But they returned to Judea around 1450 BC.  Around 600 BC they are concurred, enslaved, and transported to Babylon by the Babylonians.  Cyrus, a Persian, concurs Babylon and send the Jews back to Judea around 550 BC.  The Greeks show up in 325 BC under Alexander the Great and rule Judea for a short time.  The Romans concur the area around 150 BC.  Around 100 AD the Jews are expelled from Judea.  From 1517 to 1917 the area was occupied by the Ottoman Empire (Turkey).  The Jews were, by that time, spread out throughout the world with a strong concentration in Eastern Europe.  After World War II England leads a movement to have Jews resettled back in Judea where they remain today. 

The Palestinians don’t exist until 12 BC – 5 BC and they were in Syria, between Phoenicia and Egypt.  Syria is not in Judea.  Palestine as a State did not exist until 1988 during a conference in Algiers.  It, technically, does not have a land territory.

So, the issue as to “who was there first” is now put solidly to rest.

The second easiest issue deals with the “occupation” of Judea.  In 1917 the Balfour Declaration puts the Jews back in control of the area based upon their historical occupation of the area.  This area is usually defined by the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.  The West Back is between Israel and Jordan.  The Gaza Strip is between Israel and Egypt.  In 1948 the United Nations proposes a two-state area: an independent Jewish state and an independent Arab state.  Arabs rejected the proposal.  War breaks out pitting Israel against Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, and Lebanon.  Israel won the war and maintained their presence in Judea.  They did indeed occupy Gaza as a conquering army.  In 2005 Israel completely pulled out of Gaza and forced upwards of 9,000 – 10,000 Jewish people out of Gaza and back into Israel.    

So, the occupation issue is now solidly put to rest.  Israelis do NOT occupy Gaza and did not occupy Gaza at the time of the October 7th Terrorist Attack. 

Now, let’s talk about the hardest of the three issues: genocide.  First, a definition – the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.  The “legal” definition as per Article II of the Convention of the United Nations defines it a crime committed with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, in whole or in part.  IT DOES NOT INCLUDE POLITICAL GROUPS OR SO CALLED “CULTURAL GENOCIDE”.   

The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed in 1964 and dedicates itself to the destruction of Israel.  Hamas, an offshoot of the PLO, is a POLITICAL GROUP formed in 2006.  Hamas is a Sunni Islamist militant group associated with Iran but living and operating in Gaza.  They have conducted terrorist attacks, suicide bombings, deadly raids on civilian targets and repeatedly call for the eradication of Israel and Jewish people.  Actions by Hamas are clearly genocide.

Just after the October 7th Terrorist Attack on Israel, Hamas then started firing rockets into Israel in an attempt to further their eradication efforts.

Currently, the Jews are defending their land and their people.  They have returned rocket fire.  However, their return fire is specifically directed at Hamas targets, not at civilians.  Returning fire is NOT genocide.  The Israeli Defense Forces have now entered Gaza and are routing out Hamas terrorist militants.  They have killed many.  This isn’t genocide by either definition above. 

So, the genocide issue is now fully put to rest. 

Let’s return to the stupidity level of the under-educated American born after 1999.  They demand the immediate cease fire to end the “occupation” of Gaza and the “genocide” of Hamas while harassing, threatening, beating, and in limited cases actually killing Jews.  They proudly boast of the LGBTQ support for Hamas while failing to recognize they would be quickly put to death under Hamas rule.  They cry for the “genocide” they allege to be occurring while screaming, “From the river to the sea”.  They scream for the eradication of a nation and the genocide of a people.  They show just how stupidly under-educated they are.

And, as a P.S. their actions are typical of the bully tactics, we see every day on American social media.  They go out looking for a fight, picking a fight with an adversary who is prepared to defend his or herself and then cry victim when that adversary is successful in a counterattack.  Similar to what is going on now trying to make Hamas the victims.

Finally, now that Israel agreed to a ceasefire, shut the hell up.