{"id":1319,"date":"2022-08-12T00:12:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T00:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2022-08-12T00:12:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T00:12:30","slug":"a-message-from-trumpworld-at-least-they-can-count-to-twenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1319","title":{"rendered":"A Message from Trumpworld — At least they can count to twenty\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Message from Trumpworld<\/b><\/p>\n

At least they can count to twenty\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n

Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/i><\/p>\n

August 11th<\/sup>, 2022<\/i><\/p>\n

www.zeppscommentaries.online<\/i><\/p>\n

A buddy of mine in the Weasels passed this list of twenty complaints about the general state of affairs along to me the other day. It was posted on the web by a fellow named P. Ritter. It strikes me as a fairly good example of the sort of stuff that is circulating amongst the information-deprived and increasingly cultish right.<\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t know this Ritter fellow, so I won\u2019t speculate on his motives or level of knowledge. But most of the items bear examination, and a response. His text is in italics. Mine is in English.<\/p>\n

It’s not a question of right and wrong anymore. There have been plenty of examples of wrong in recent history. I will list them so there’s no equivocating about it:<\/i><\/p>\n

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  1. Supreme Court Justices intimidated without law enforcement action. <\/i>No public official should ever be intimidated or threatened. This includes death threats (such as the one judge who issued the Mar-A-Lago warrant has received), doxxing, or threats against family members. Peaceful protests, on the other hand, are legal and should be encouraged.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. Prosecution of innocent Americans for political gain and judges that become the prosecutors.<\/i>Anyone formally accused of a crime is entitled to a presumption of innocence. It is why newspapers refer to \u201csuspects\u201d rather than \u201ccriminals\u201d until the accused are found guilty. It is why anyone being investigated for a crime is entitled to legal representation, reasonable bail, warrants and searches based upon probable cause, and trial by jury. It does NOT include whipping up mobs that chant \u201cLock Her Up!\u201d or demands that men cleared of guilty verdicts upon the presentation of new evidence be executed anyway, as happened with the Central Park Five.<\/li>\n
    2. District Attornies <\/i>[sic] who refuse to prosecute and release criminals back into the population. <\/i>America still has over two million people in jail, the highest prison population outside of China. The problem isn\u2019t that District Attorneys don\u2019t want convictions. In too many cases, DA\u2019s regard convictions as notches on their belts, ones that could lead to higher office or a judgeship. It\u2019s a system that breeds cruelty and corruption. I suspect Ritter is referring to the DA DeSantis just fired for saying he would not enforce Florida\u2019s cruel new anti-choice laws. DeSantis has that right, but I would sooner have prosecutors that won\u2019t uphold unjust laws over politicians to avidly support such in an appeal to their base.<\/li>\n
    3. Juries that decide criminal cases based upon political affiliation and not evidence. <\/i>Juries are usually better than we deserve. It used to be the sort of corruption that we see in \u201cTo Kill a Mockingbird\u201d was widespread and socially acceptable. Our track record has improved. Demanding verdicts from juries based on politics is every bit as bad as a corrupt jury.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      1. No cash bail! <\/i>See point 2. Bail has been used as a fundraising system by towns and even some states, with the result that people who haven\u2019t been convicted of any crime are thousands and tens of thousands of dollars in debt. Financing a judicial and police system through traffic violations corrupts. Letting police seize and KEEP property is a recipe for a banana republic.<\/li>\n
      2. Judges who let criminals off despite their prior convictions. <\/i>We tried \u201cthree strikes\u201d for some 20 years, and it turned out to be a horrible mistake. You had people getting 20-to-life for a third conviction, which might include stealing a bicycle, or a piece of pizza. Yes, both extremes actually happened. In the other direction, you had juries or DA s not convicting because it was clear that they would be giving a petty thief a life sentence for an action that might normally be a fine, or probation.<\/li>\n
      3. Criminals killing innocent people at random in our largest cities. <\/i>And smaller cities. And towns. But you know where the highest murder rate is? Rural areas! By way of example, my county, with some 40,000 people, had one murder in the past five years. To match that rate, Los Angeles County would have to have 2,500 murders over the same period.<\/li>\n
      4. Schools, districts, and teacher’s unions want children to learn everything but what they should<\/i>.That one is so ridiculously vague I can\u2019t even respond. Ritter should check with the local public school district to see what the actual curriculum is. It\u2019s public record. It will not include \u201ccritical race theory\u201d which is taught only at a handful of universities and on the graduate level. As for what IS taught, Ritter may or may not agree, but he\u2019ll have to be a bit more specific about what he disapproves of.<\/li>\n
      5. Politicians doing insider trading right in front of our eyes and getting away with it.<\/i>Absolutely! And any politician convicted of insider trading should be banned from running for office again. There is a bill, H.R.2655 – Insider Trading Prohibition Act<\/a>, that passed the House by a huge margin, 350-75. An earlier version was passed in 2021 410-13. It is currently languishing in the Senate, lacking votes to overcome a Republican filibuster.<\/li>\n
      6. Congress is fixated on prosecuting Donald Trump than on doing anything positive for America.<\/i>Donald Trump is credibly accused of attempting to stage a coup against the United States. The Select Committee issued invitations to Trump and members of his administration to testify under oath on a voluntary basis. Some acceded, others refused. But insurrection is an extremely grave charge to make against any public official, and must be investigated. Why isn\u2019t Trump raising a defense above the level of personal attacks on the members of the committee? Why have so many members of his administration been material witnesses?<\/li>\n
      7. Taxpayer money is wasted on useless programs designed to weaken the economy and nation.<\/i>Again, too vague to be of any use. I would agree that the F-35, and tens of billions in tax subsidies to oil companies weaken the economy and the nation. For all I know, Ritter had those in mind. Or perhaps not. He\u2019ll have to let us know.<\/li>\n
      8. China is in charge along with Russia. <\/i>I\u2019m not sure what \u201cin charge\u201d means. Russia is failing to conquer the Ukraine, a country about the size of California but with a much smaller economy. China is much more powerful, but remains no match for the United States.<\/li>\n
      9. Our borders are more like open sewer lines flowing into the country. <\/i>That\u2019s not a very nice thing to say about your neighbors. It\u2019s worth noting that the crime rate amongst aliens, documented or not, is lower than it is amongst Americans.<\/li>\n
      10. Homelessness is so rampant that cities are incapable of dealing with the problem. <\/i>True. But homelessness isn\u2019t a crime or even a moral issue. It represents a failing by society, one that needs to be addressed.<\/li>\n
      11. Food shortages, supply chain issues, and our President thinks things are hunky-dory. <\/i>I doubt Biden thinks these issues are \u201chunky-dory.\u201d Food shortages mostly stem from the Russian invasion of Ukraine and climate disruption. Accordingly, they will get worse. Supply chain issues stem from capitalism\u2019s inability to adapt to the pandemic.<\/li>\n
      12. Inflation is at its highest since it has been recorded.<\/i>Nonsense. It was half again as high in 1974<\/a> compared to June. And the inflation rate in July of this year \u2013 last month \u2013 was ZERO.<\/li>\n
      13. The President shuts down oil production and begs for oil from our enemies. <\/i>Biden has shut down no production. I wish he would. He did negotiate prices with Saudi Arabia, which I don\u2019t like, because I loathe theocracies. But he didn\u2019t engage in begging, and he even managed to avoid ridiculous photo-ops with the Saudi royals and a glowing orb.<\/li>\n
      14. The President sells our national emergency reserve oil to our enemies.<\/i>Utter nonsense. Cite an example. Show your work.<\/li>\n
      15. The President makes money off of our enemies with impunity. <\/i>Again, utter nonsense. Cite an example. Show your work.<\/li>\n
      16. The President’s family is immune from prosecution despite numerous criminal acts. <\/i>Donald Trump Junior might beg to disagree. Oh, he won\u2019t agree that he performed \u201cnumerous criminal acts\u201d, but certainly the prosecution, although he\u2019ll pronounce it \u2018persecution.\u2019 There are rumors that Jared Kushner may have provided evidence to the FBI for their warrant at Mar-a-Lago. Just rumors, but if that is the case, then the Feds had to have a fair bit of dirt on him to goad him into flipping on dear old daddy-in-law.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        This is Trumpworld in a nutshell. Unsupported allegations, vague claims, a total lack of self-awareness, hypocrisy, and above all, projection. Recognize it when you see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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