Nom de plume: Rivrdog

Children Crusaders or Children as Human Shields?

I haven't written directly on this subject before, but it has been raising it's ugly head in American Politics ever since the Columbine (CO) school shooting. Since that time, there have been a number of other school shootings, most, if not all, perpetrated by teen boys with horrible parents, with most of those parents being Liberals. The Liberals have seized upon these shootings (note that I do NOT subscribe to any theory that Liberals planned and executed them) to further their forever goal of removing the Second Amendment of the US Constitution, so as to disarm the populace and prevent the ONE method of keeping the Constitution alive which the Founders all agreed upon, the use of citizens' arms to remove tyrants from power.

The method the Liberal (New World Order) Establishment has focused on to achieve this treasonable Liberal end is to use the victims of the school shootings, the child-victims, as martyrs for their Constitution-wrecking agenda. Invariably, within minutes to a few hours of each shooting, the Liberal Establishment "dances in the blood" of the child victims by using them as martyrs even before their parents were properly notificed in some instances. Of course, those aggrieved parents are NEVER given a prior right of refusal to have their child's life and now death used in this manner for this brand of Treason.

The Liberal Establishment may have realized that after 10 years, and especially after the Parkland, FL shooting last year, a shooting in which most, if not all the victims should still be alive were it not for the cowardice of first-responding officers and their commanders, a new strategy has arisen in Liberal-run States.

That strategy is to use high-school kids to carry the Liberals' anti-2A message. That's right, the Liberals have adopted the ancient practice of using kids for Human Shields, so now they have kids "writing" various 2A-infringing laws.

My response to this? I wrote it on Facebook, and it's re-published here:

I'll accept the gun-banning teens' enthusiasm for this subject in SB-501 (Oregon Legislation) when and if: (1) The teens take a comprehensive test on our Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, and pass it. (2) Show me PREVIOUS writings and/or dissertations and discussions of THEIRS (not plagiarized or ghost-written) suggesting that they do, in fact, understand how History shows that ALL new dictatorships begin their evils by arising from a disarmed populace. (3) They list ALL their adult influencers from age 10 onwards.

We all know that the gun-banning teens are not only simple tools of those adult politicians who would ban a Natural human and ALSO Federal Enumerated Right, but do so in a completely DISHONORABLE way, acting knowingly as Human Shields for adult politicians of the socialist/communist stripe who would overthrow this constitutional Republic. Excuse me, ARE NOW overthrowing this constitutional Republic.

Using children as human shields is not new, but up to now in THIS society, it has ALWAYS been held to be an extreme moral failing. Isn't it time we defenders of the 2A (and next, the rest of the B.O.R.) stand as one and correctly call out the EVIL adults who hide behind these children and their previous PRESUMPTION of innocence in order to achieve an immoral AND treasonous end?

State Senator Laurie Monnes-Anderson (D - 25), YOU are an immoral and Treason-wielding politician, as you hide not only behind the presumed innocence of Children in order to wreck the Constitution you have SWORN an Oath to uphold, but you hide also behind the credentials and good works of the Nursing profession as you do your grisly work to begin the worst Civil War the world will have seen since Red China was formed. Shame on you, Senator! /end of post

Yes, in the paragraph above, I accuse a State Senator (MY State Senator, btw) of extreme immorality and Treason. I also accuse her and all of those Liberals working hard to end our right to Keep and Bear Arms of Treason. Of course, on the way to that Treason, they have ALL committed a violation of 18 USC 241 and 18 USC 242, relating to taking substantial steps to prevent use of or remove a guaranteed Civil Right.

Yes, there is going to be a Civil War fought over this. It might be a short war, resulting only in a few victims, politicians mostly. It could also be a VERY bloody and long Civil War, perhaps in the end being fought to eliminate the entire class of people who support this Liberal agenda. One thing I know about war after having served during three of them: once one gets started, very few of them actually stay within the boundaries of the reasons under which they started.

Preps for Civil War: Some heavy reading

If you intend to have any leadership role in the battles to come, you first have to understand, at least with a basic familiarity, the history of Marxism, which ideology is driving us towards the coming conflict. I've found a marvelous, well-annotated source: The American Partisan blog, and in it, the writings of Matt Bracken.

Matt Bracken's latest essay is a masterpiece, find it here:

From that essay, the heavy reading. First, the Wiki on Antonio Gramsci, who took Karl Marx' "Das Kapital" and related it to the struggle that socialism had to win, NOT over the Royalists, who still ran most of Europe then, but over the now-respectable middle class, the "bourgeoisie". Note that this IS a Wikipedia article, so it will be somewhat slanted towards Marxism, but it's a definitive read on the man.

Next, Matt Bracken looks at the ruthlessness of Vladimir Lenin, who most liberals today view as a mild-mannered socialist academic and theorist. He actually was just as ruthless in outlook as Josef Stalin. This Wiki shows how extreme political violence is used to advance Socialism, and whereby it then becomes communism. You will observe that the tactics of Antifa, Black Lives Matter and the New Black Panther Party all resemble Lenin's use of violence, perhaps not yet as extreme, but nevertheless carefully targeted as Lenin would have done.

Bracken then goes on to set the Civil War Two stage in the American demographic: He describes what we've come to call "low information voters" by a more exact term, a psychological term, the "Dunning-Kruger Effect", which shows how low-information itself becomes an advantage to it's sufferers (yes, they suffer a defect!). Next, he goes into the "Cloward-Piven Strategy", which we should all know well by now: a simple deception, using the sufferers of the Dunning-Kruger Effect to generate a public outcry for more and more support for the low-information voters, and thereby, less and less hegemony of more advanced thinkers/voters.

With this heavy background of the origination, the projection and the advancement of Socialism fresh in our minds, Bracken next leads us to how Civil War Two starts, and it is nothing less than the conversion of the low-information masses into murderous mobs which will swell dramatically in their size and scope of operations until they take over the big cities. Not the smaller mobs of Antifa and BLM which we've already seen, but vast mobs going door-to-door in the cities, killing, looting/burning and/or occupying looted areas.

Bracken then shows how this tactic of war fails the Left, because the low-information people are also low-skill people and mostly not capable of learning to survive in a hostile environment. He describes just how hostile it will get. Think: Venezuela on steroids. Bracken describes, as I have, how the war becomes a war of logistics, and the Left is completely unable to feed and supply their terror-army. Trained warriors of the Right then show their force-multiplier effect and using stand-off precision weapons, begin to take a large toll of their enemy.

Here's where Bracken drops the ball, though. he shows the Right as the ultimate victors, but he never tells us what has to happen to the survivors of the former armies of the Left. He also fails to tell us how and what the Right will wind up imposing as their conditions of peace on the Left, and what a new Constitution might look like when imposed on the Left. There has to be imposition of smaller government, imprisonment of ALL Deep State leaders left in the Nation, and demonstrative executions of the worst of them. If they are just let go on their word of no more Socialism, they will reconstitute, and thirty years later, it all starts again. No, every molecule of Socialism must be removed forever.

I've written about those things with this blog. Look up my categories "2 Republic" and "The Un-Do" on the sidebar Categories list. Just click open those categories and scroll to find blog-posts you want. there are around 5,000 posts in the 15 years of this blog.

Hiatus over! Revolution coming!

My Sunday Blather:

Today's subject, the Second American Revolution.

This article is long, a five-minute read for most, and it is written for Free People, who will shortly have to take up War to restore Freedom in this Nation.

Yes, most Patriots believe that there WILL be a second armed revolution fought to resist, then remove Communist Government. Why do I use the word "Communist"? By definition, Communism is nothing more than Socialism enforced at the point of guns. Colorado (the town of Boulder, anyway), is Communist, and we know why: they have just accused thousands of their citizens of Felonies for possessing a common rifle. So, yes, Virgina, there IS Communism afoot. The examples of Communism brought by political Administrators is too long to completely post here.

Look at other, less-obvious Communist efforts: stone-hearted killers are illegally IMPORTED in their thousands and turned loose to terrorize. "Sanctuary"? My rosy-red patootie! That's a common and well-known Communist trick, using an indigenous group to terrorize the citizens with. The original Red October Revolution in Russia used the Cossacks.

If Trump loses his re-election bid in 22 months, we WILL see even more Communism, and it will be dumped on us all at once, not gradually as has been the case up to now.

So, there will be revolution. There HAS to be. The Left has the blood-lust of evil in their veins now and will accept nothing less than the total installation of Socialism (by force, making it Communism).

The revolution will proceed to kick Communists out of places where they aren't well established. The USA then splits into Communist vs Free City-States, and if both the Communists and the Free peoples can establish survival commerce, that situation could last for some time, long enough time for a new Free Constitution to be promulgated and agreed on by all the Free Peoples.

How bloody will this war be? Look at all the guns available to both sides, and there is your answer. Look at the Communist-run cities we have now: They are full of ARMED GANGS which the City Fathers and Mothers never seem to suppress. Clue, they don't WANT to suppress them, those gangs will all be Communist Irregulars the day the Revolution kicks off.

The strategy of the Free peoples will be to let the big Communist Cities rot in place. This will be a Logistical war. Whoever can control or deny Logistics wins. On the Communist Coasts, the Free troops will have little success other than distractions: the Commies will be likely to keep all their ports open. What the Commies will NOT be able to do though, is keep the railroads and Interstate Highways open. Some of the big Communist-controlled Cities will fall to the Free because they will get starved out. You can't keep a place like St Louis or Kansas City going by air logistics only.

What is the key area for the Free to hold? The answer is Texas. With Texas, the Free have ports to communicate and trade with the rest of the world (although that World will quickly devolve into more communist States being declared: i.e.: most of Europe). If Texas holds as Free, it will probably become the Capital of the Free States Confederation.

How many might die in this war? A few thousands to many tens of millions in direct fighting, but multiples of those numbers to starvation and disease. After the inevitable stalemate leads to a cessation of hostilities (probably in the third year), I would expect that the population of both sides won't exceet 200 million.

Is it possible to avoid this war? Not really. It COULD be avoided if the communists suffered some sudden and dramatic setback, enough to make them give up THEIR blood-quest. That setback would have to be the arrest, trial, conviction and imprisonment (or execution) of enough major Traitors to convince the slightly-less traitorous to abandon their political dreams of communist hegemony.

If I were placed in charge, my start on preventing Civil War Two would be to indict, arrest and imprison (no bail) EVERY political administrator/administratrix or candidate who has EVER made substantial Acts to operate a municipal corporation as a "Sanctuary" for illegal invaders. That list would include the bulk of the Federal Judiciary and most of the City Administrations in the major "democratic party" (communist) run cities.

That purge (yes, it would be called and IS a Purge) could very well be done when and IF Associate Justices in failing health were replaced (they are all "liberals").

Think on this, my friends. You will all be involved soon enough.

We're at WAR, Mr. Trump, fight and win it for us!

Re: The Democratic Party: What you have here is a POLITICAL PARTY tying to overthrow the legitimate government of the USA with acts of force and violence. I don't know what YOU call that, but I call it WAR. The USA is at WAR with the Democratic Party and their sycophants, and the USA seems unable to properly fight back. THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE USA CONSTITUTION WAS NEVER INTENDED TO BE A COVER FOR REBELLION VS USA GOVERNMENT.

 

President Trump, the "shrug and hope it goes away" strategy has failed. For starters, the Democratic Party needs to be sued out of existance as a Racketeer-Influenced Corrupt Organization, and doing so would be a slam-dunk court case. If this fails to stop the Democrats, then bump it up: POTUS can, as the legitimate Head of State, declare in the United Nations that the USA is in a state of violent armed rebellion. POTUS uses Article 51 of the UN Charter for that (self-defense of members allowed).

 

If the riots, etc, persist, the President can call out the Militia, and order the Armed Forces to support it. Can you see Pantifa standing up against a Well-Regulated Militia trained and equipped to use deadly force and commanded by officers with ONE order only: Restore Order and end the leftist predations? I can't see that happening.

 

At some point, the POTUS will need to ask the SCOTUS to remove the jurisdiction of the lower Courts in favor of the Militia's use of the Universal Code of Military Justice during the Restoration period. Yes, that would be the dreaded "martial law", but the USA has already had Martial Law four times that I can read about in the History books: War of 1812, Civil War, World Wars One and Two, each time applied in varying degrees to keep the USA safe from it's sworn enemies.

 

It's WAR, Mr. Trump. It's not fun, it's not nice, but we have it now, deliberate WAR brought by the Democratic Party. Please, Mr. President, REMOVE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY UTTERLY FROM OUR POLITICS, CULTURE AND MIDST.

 

We are close to having to rise up in our own counter-rebellion, start a Civil War and do the job ourselves. That would be ugly, and leftists from outside of our borders would probably try to get involved on the Democrats' side. Follow my plan to take out the Democrats, Mr. President, and you have no worries about exterior forces coming into play.

We're at THAT point, yes

Here's how close to War we are in this Nation:

1. The elected President can't get a thing done, the bureaucracy and Legislative and Judicial branches, most from the past President, actively oppose Trump's Administration, even to the point of calling their oppositon "The Resistance", a term of WAR.

2. The GOP, the President's Party, mostly opposes the President. The GOP "majority" in the Senate is a joke, because at least 6 Senators would rather vote with the opposition Party 90% of the time.

3. The borders are porous and open, all manner of undesireable aliens sneak in and the bureaucracy lets them stay, believing that at some point, resolve will break down and they will be offered Amnesty and become opposition-party voters.

4. The "Resistance" has the nerve to invade a restaurant and chase out a CABINET SECRETARY dining there.

5. The Military is forced to take morale-destroying trans-gender people in as combat troops.

6. Social Media DESTROYS Freedom of Speech, actively censoring conservative viewpoints and banning conservative writers by callously referring to their writings as "Hate Speech".

7. The opposition is going all-out to destroy the Second Amendment, trying to declare that this militia-authorizing Amendment doesn't allow Militia weaponry!

8. The premier Federal Law Enforcement Agency (FBI) is co-opted and CORRUPTED by the opposition party, and has ACTIVELY become the militant wing of the "Resistance".

9 A cabal of ultra-rich Marxists (the New World Order), is throwing BILLIONS of dollars at the "Resistance" to enable their mayhem.

10. Those same Marxists have funded a Black Revolutionary Movement which has the DECLARED RACIST objective of DESTROYING all previous American Custom and Tradition, claiming it is "too white".

11. The entire US Higher Educational establishment has turned TOTALLY Marxist, and supports, then covers for all the projected Marxist revolutionary activity.

12. The Women's Movement, born fifty years ago to try to right employment and related wrongs in our social structure, has also become a total tool of Marxist Revolution.

 

We have nothing to do now but wait for the bullets to fly, then start sending ours back at the Marxists. We've LOST the run-up to this war, now we will have to actually FIGHT this War.

It all makes sense now...

I mean the Left's War on the 2A.

The Democrats say that they are going to run Bernie against Trump in 2020. THAT makes sense, because he was second-best behind Crooked Hillary in '16, might even have gotten the nod to run vs Trump except for HRC's fixing several primaries.

So, what will such a 2020 race bring?

It will bring, in short, simply the most starkly different two candidates this Nation has EVER seen run against each other. Bernie Sanders is a Communist. Yes, a COMMUNIST, NOT A SOCIALIST (as even he claims). How do we know that? Easy: the changes he wants to make will have to be made at the point of a gun, or they won't get made. As I've said before on this blog, Socialism at the point of a gun IS Communism.

So, the Democratic party, should it win the election, plans to point guns at citizens and make them to things they otherwise wouldn't do (such as double the Income Tax of the middle class). If YOU were one of those Democrat leaders, wouldn't YOU want to take the citizens' guns away first? It could get real messy those guns were still out there.

I rest my case.

Moral of this little story?

If you don't want to be Communist, citizens of our USA, work to save your 2A. The 2A IS the only thing that will prevent Communism here.

Long Time, no blog...UPDATED!

But I'm BAAAACK!

Item one on #FrightfulFriday: Facebook Jail. Yep, I dared to piss off some real, by-God, Canadian Loons, and they snitched me off for writing a lampoonish comment about their Loon-in-chief, Justin Trudeau, whom I called "Junior Trudeau" (true, that: look it up, his father is still alive!). I referred negatively to Junior's "Letting the Muzzies in" immigration policy, in those words. I'm suspended, under THREAT of permanent banning, but those ASSWIPES at Facebook won't even tell me what behavior it is I have to change to stay on the FacePlace, other than I commited "hate speech", which is so vague a charge it could NEVER be used in any court to convict ANYONE. Just like a meglo, isn't that? "I'm God and YOU can't question me." You don't suppose that reference to WASPs (White Anglo Saxon Protestants) would be Hate Speech now, do you? I was called a WASP damn near every day in high school, and that School is considered one of the most PeeCee in the country, and has been for 100 years. Here's news FacePlace can use: I have contacted a civil rights attorney in Kali, and am inquiring about sending the Zuckerbooger a Cease and Desist letter, maybe even a Tort Claim.

Item Two: I waited, and now it's here, TAAAH-DAAAH! Savage's Model 110 Tactical rifle. I'm interested in Stock Number 57007, the .308 with 24" barrel. With this barrel length, heavier bullets can be loaded with slower-burning powders which are calculated to burn completely in the longer barrel, accelerating the bullet to a better velocity, almost as good as 300 WIN Magnum. The MSRP is $784 (Streets @ $606.99 at Grab-a-gun.com), very nice for a rifle of this capability, likely a half-MOA or better. Looks like I might be able to put together the rifle, the good glass and whatever else I need, maybe even a can for around $2500. Some 168-gr match and the tables look good at out past 500 yards. Yowza. One shot, one (nevermind).

So, I'm back on here, and on Twitter (@straightcase) and on MeWe (George Schneider) or the email attached to this blog.

See ya around!

MAJOR Gun Grab proposed in OR

This would be the most severe gun-grab in the Nation, if passed. A group calling itself "Interfaith Leaders" proposes to ban all semi-automatic, or magazine-fed firearms. The article says just "Assault Rifles", but the boasting out of the Commissar Knutson's "Church" (bull. commies don't have churches) was to include all semi-autos fed by magazines.

The Initiative process, by which Commissar Knutson proposes to enact this law, is operated by the State of Oregon, so...(my Facebook Post)

My answer to the "Inter-Faith Group" seeking to ban all semi-automatic firearms in Oregon - Here is YOUR future:

1. You have ALREADY conspired to restrict or remove an enumerated Right of the Bill of Rights. You have done that just by MEETING to discuss your ill-conceived Initiative. Legally, that means that Probable Cause might already exist for your arrest on 18 USC 242, Denial of Civil Rights under Color of Authority.

2. "Under Color of Authority" will probably have to be decided in a courtroom, but this 25-year Officer of the Circuit Court of Multnomah County believes that the "Authority" of the State of Oregon is extended willingly down to reside in those following the Initiative Process. The fact that this Initiative IS a de-jure Denial of Civil Rights cannot even be challenged.

3. Prior to the Finding that the Initiative Process DEPENDS on the Color of Authority of the State of Oregon, there is another legal facet to be perfected. That facet is the Racketeer-Influenced Corrupt Organization designation which will apply to the organizers, from the Chief Petitioner on down to the signature-collectors. Under any declaration that a criminal conspiracy exists (a simple True Bill from a Federal Grand Jury or a USAG's Information) the RICO process may be initiated. That process will freeze ALL the assets of the named conspirators, the financial supporters and yes, perhaps even the signers of the Petition (the instrumentality of the criminal conspiracy). A VERY wide swath can be cut by the RICO process, and it might indeed ensnare all governmental officials who had provable Notice of the Petition, were in a position to stop the approval of the Petition but didn't, and maybe even the Judge who approved the ballot title. BTW, for the uninformed, once a judgment of RICO has been rendered, the defendants may be assessed as much as treble damages, in addition to Court Costs, Attorney Fees and all such expense.

4. The final Sword of Damocles hanging over this entire legal proceeding would be Class Action. I believe that there are over two million gun owners in Oregon, and each would be entitled to join in a Class as Plaintiffs, seeking common damages. I should think that those damages would be at least $10K/Plaintiff, which would put the erstwhile gun-grabbers on the legal hook for $20 Billion dollars. Considering the VERY deep pockets of the likes of Soros, Steyer, Bloomberg and other Limousine Liberals who can be expected to empower this conspiracy via their wealth, they probably DO HAVE $20B amongst them.

Your essayist begs for many, many Shares, so someone at the top of this anti-Civil Rights cabal will get my notice. Pass this word, please!

Thank you.

Goldman Sachs trashes the US Economy, AGAIN

Fifty-eight years ago, I wrote this all down...

The money-pundits are full of themselves this morning. Fox' usual Saturday-morning gang, are blasting the very heavens with "Three Trillion Dollars Lost to the Economy"...

That's bullcrap. Yes, the total losses WERE that high, but only if you also consider the failed gambles of derivatives trading the same as stock losses.

Nowhere do I see the figures on the losses of the actual market value of companies such as Caterpillar, US Steel, Ford Motor Co. etc.

This wild sell-off see-saw started with Investment Bankers tinkering with Derivatives, especially Goldman's Vix funds. There is NO earthly reason that actual investment funds should EVER be spent on wild gambles such as betting how wide the sweeps between losses and gains will be in certain time frames (that's "Vix", or in long-form, Variability-factor X).

Vix is a calculated factor used in the Arbitrage Theory of predicting price variations in equities, but it's only one such factor of many. Paying for "Vix Shares", or guesses where the swings will wind up, makes no more sense that betting on the daily "Handle" (total amount bet at the betting windows) for a horse or dog-racing track.

I don't follow the pricing of Vix Shares a sold by Goldman, but I DID hear a blurb on the news about a week ago which said that GS had somehow jacked up the price of those shares to over three thousand dollars per share, and their scarcity is one of the things that started this sell-off.

Yours Truly went to a private high school in DeeCee, the Maret School, and as a Junior, my Annual Thesis (long term-paper, got A-minus on it) was about how Goldman Sachs created the Crash of 1929 by introducing a CHAIN of three investment banks so as to allow highly leveraged trading. By running your funds through this chain, you could buy on 10% margin, so 0.1% actual cash went into your stock purchases (ten percent of ten percent of ten percent). They did this AGAIN with Derivatives trading in 2009, and now they have their Vix Bank (CBOE) trying it again, right on the heels of messing with the cryptocurrencies, which RAISED the Vix and helped them make their Vix shares so expensive. It's all in here.

If the entire brain trust of Goldman Sachs were frog-marched off to Gitmo tomorrow, first, they would be in the right place, and second, that would leave fiscal-advisor vacancies on the Trump Team, another benefit, because we can ALL do without the historic fiscal meddling of this cabal of bankers.

 

The Swamp won

Time to take off the gloves of politeness.

The only proper thing to do here from a Conflict Management point of view is to take out a major Swamp-rat. Part of me says that targeted rat should be Mitch the Bitch, but another part of me says take out a major rat who has fewer pawns protecting him, so I'd target John McCain.

Police profiling is not new, the Brits did it (Sir Robert Peel) some 180 years ago. My profiling training associates criminal propensity (likelihood of doing crimes) with demonstrated personality traits. In McCain's case, the man is personally a craven coward, but one with a huge ego. In my profiling experience, that makes him a VERY likely target for the #MeToo crowd, since these personality traits are common in sex-harassers. John McCain has only one protector of note, and that's his daughter Meghan. She is LGBTQEIEIO, so when her dad is attacked, she will interpose herself like the pawn she is. When she interposes, she will start spouting the usual LGBTQEIEIO drivel about haters, etc. If I was the OIC running this attack, I would be ready for that, and would have some Hanoi Hilton survivors ready to take HER on. Once that pawn is down, John the Rook is vulnerable, because John McCain is too stupid to even think about the protective moves of Castling (yes, Chess 101, despite my Dad being a Master, I never got much farther than Novice).

Given his fragile state of health, McCain is a soft target, but except for the Majority Leader, he is the best-known RINO. I think that when the heat is REALLY brought, McCain will retire. That gives AZ-GOP the opportunity to appoint a real Conservative.

If conservatives can take out McCain, there is a good possibility that McConnell will pass the baton.

Now, for Trump. POTUS has to realize by now that his GOP "Majority" was never worth the paper it was printed on. The chances of getting ANYTHING contentious through the Senate are remote. It is time for Trump to change modes. He was correct in trying to work with the system for his first year, but now it's time to get down and dirty. If he starts swinging a serious Hammer, he can make side-deals with the Asses in the Senate from his position of power.

The first swing of the hammer should target the Clintons. He needs a real "war-time Consigliere" now, so he might have to let Sessions go, since Sessions has more allegiance to the Swamp than to POTUS. Once he is definitely set on a path to indict the Clintons (both of them) for their obvious corruption, then the Donks will come to him and try to talk him out of it. I would strike a hard bargain if I were Trump: I would demand that ALL my nominations be fast-tracked to confirmation, and when that was all done, he could think about pardoning the Clintons. I might even raise the price of that deal some and demand all the confirmations PLUS the declared "resistance" is withdrawn.

Trump has good hole cards. He has the goods on Senator Fauxcahontas, on Senator Gillibrand and a couple others, all of whom have been mentioned as possible POTUS contenders in '20. He needs to use some of his clout now. Doing that will put the Left on notice that their gaining of one seat has meant nothing to them.

The game is BASEBALL, Mr. Trump, not slow-pitch mushball as you've been playing up to now.