Lyle's Blog

Although there is much noise on the part of the Democrats, I don’t see any real excitement from their supporters. Vitriol, yes but hate for your opponent doesn’t win elections.

The House has spent most of the time trying to find a way to oust President Trump. Some legislation has been passed but Congress has very vocally kept the accusation crusade in front of the public, so it would lend most of us to think that they are a “do nothing” Congress. Perception is everything and Congress can’t show much bang for the buck which isn’t great for keeping power.

Furthermore, there is a power struggle in the party between the oldsters and the younger blood. Pelosi has allowed herself to be pushed too far left. That is palatable with people that always vote Democrat. But many in the party see the failings of their leaders and aren’t ready to abandon our constitution and way of life.

Elon Musk put it like this: “the left has lost the middle”. Rioting, looting, constant protest, and anarchy make most of us uncomfortable. I see no way for them to retain the House without resorting to ballot tampering.

The Senate is a slow-moving body and being they are elected for six years, voters become familiar with their names and as we know, incumbency is hard to overcome.

Enthusiasm is markedly greater for Donald Trump. Yes, there is much hate, but from what I see on Twitter, many Democrats are leaving for greener pastures. I’ve heard podcasts with guests from all walks of live and I just can’t believe old Joe has a chance. President Trump having and conquering COVID19 is a game-changer. I think all of a sudden many will have an epiffany and decide that fear isn’t as beneficial as they’ve been told.

To sum up, if Donald Trump isn’t elected in a landslide I’d be hugely surprised. Yes, I said hugely.

I’ve always thought there were too many attorneys per capita in the United States. Whether that’s true or not is a matter of personal opinion, but to lend credence to my position I offer a couple observations.

First is that our laws are made by attorneys and for attorneys. Attorneys make up 40% of Congress and 54% of the Senate. On the surface, it makes total sense that trained professionals make the best product. Wouldn’t we want a well-trained mechanic to work on our car or a chef with lots of culinary experience preparing our meal at a restaurant? Of course!

However, I feel the wholesale making of the laws we live by should have input from those that are affected by those laws. Yes, the chef prepares your meal, but in the end, it is the customer who determines if it satisfies their expectations. The same for the service on your car or any other service.

Congress passes hundreds of laws every year and a half are for special circumstances to accommodate something not dealt with before. But after decades of our government passing laws, our system had become muddled in interpretation hell. An example is IRS law, 75,000 pages of many times contradictory rules and more are added every year.

I met a man who the IRS took to court trying to take his home from him for taxes they said he owed. It just so happened that this man was what I considered a genius with a photographic memory. He fired his attorney when he realized he didn’t know as much as he knew. The IRS attorneys were befuddled because of his ability to quote IRS law. The case went to the appeals court in San Francisco. The court refused to consider the case and he was able to keep his home. I know that story sounds far-fetched but this guy quoted IRS law to me word for word off the top of his head. I’m sure the average person would have lost their home.

The government have great lawyers and an endless supply of money and time so the likelyhood of you winning isn’t much. What I’m saying is simply this. There are too many laws that can be interpeted several ways depending on the courts bent.

We’ve arrived at the most liturgeous point in our history because well-meaning lawyers desire to right some perceived wrong. Case in point is the settlement with the tobacco industry. The attorney who headed the case wound up with a billion dollars and his own jet. And the money set aside to each state for iradicating tobacco addiction was in the end largely used to feed the general budget of each state.

There’s no doubt the case (Bates vs Arizona) that brought about lawyers being allowed to advertise is a matter of free speech. The court noted: “The choice between the dangers of suppressing information and the dangers arising from its free flow was seen as precisely the choice that the First Amendment makes for us. “ 

Of course that’s true. The problem is Americans have become accustomed to thinking with their eyes and ears and not their brains. Pizza appears on the screen, there’s a good chance you’ll have pizza tonight. An ambulance chaser appears on the screen a thousand days in arow chanting their phone number. What’s the first thing you do when you’re in an accident? Call an attorney!

Wouldn’t it make sense to talk to your agent first before calling an attorney? Maybe what you’re offered is fair and you could just get on with your life. Adding a lawyer fee or not on top of what remedies your situation would seem like something worth considering.

I do realize that there are times when an attorney must be involved and maybe we’ve reached a point where we’re fools not to play that game.

But maybe we could try to work things out and not think that every accident or tragedy is an opportunity to win the lottery.

Mandating masks are giving the state power it shouldn’t have. We have a constitution that gives us inalienable rights (rights from God). This is all that keeps us from becoming like the rest of the world where human rights can be abused at the government’s will.

Mask wearing also makes the population more pliable and therefore willing to submit to further encroachments on personal rights. Social distancing is dividing us even further than we already are.

Some people are even afraid to breathe the air outside without a mask. Common sense would tell you that this is ridiculous, but so many people are afraid and their fear makes them overly react and unwilling to touch anything, especially people. Politicians love a crisis and like their constituents to believe they can’t get by without them. Giving up your right to breathe freely is terribly dangerous.

It’s unfortunate for us the pandemic came upon us in an election year. Everything is politicized and this crisis is no different. The public is easily convinced they are in total peril it can then be argued by the Democrat Party that something must be done and of course, money is the solution to everything. Politicians don’t care about trillions of dollars of debt; they only care about vilifying their opponent and taking credit for saving the day to facilitate their re-election.

If no money had been spent, people wouldn’t have put up with the shutdown of their lives because they’d have to make money of their own for living expenses. Small business has been decimated and tens of thousands of them are gone for good. If people had just gone on with their lives and not fallen for the dictates of their betters, we’d be in a much better position. Our economy wouldn’t be upside down, people’s livelihoods wouldn’t have been ruined, and we wouldn’t be suffering from the results of the house arrest.

Money isn’t the solution to the pandemic. Common sense would have led people to be careful. But no, self-righteous, arrogant, power-hungry little tyrants have upped the debt ceiling 15–20 percent in six months putting our nation’s survival in jeopardy.

Our founders warned us of the dangers of power in the hand of men; we’re now paying the price for not listening.

The problem isn’t that politicians are too old to serve their country, it’s that voters are lazy and by their own choice ignorant of civic duty to be well-informed. People tend to be one issue voters and therefore easily influenced by what touches their hot button. For the most part, name recognition is the deciding factor, and the attitude “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” prevails. Unfortunately, our ship is ready to sink and those that are suggesting the hard decision to man the lifeboats and venture into unchartered waters are assailed as being traitors to our comfortable living standards.

Our federal and state governments have piled up unfunded liabilities to the sky in hopes of satisfying the promises made to voters. What we now have is a huge elephant in the room: unpayable debt. The public, living in their utopian bubble of future promises, is beginning to awaken to the farce-laden life they’re living.

The basis for electing people to serve us comes from simple mathematical and parenting skills. Two plus two equals four, not five, and honey I’m really sorry but we can’t afford that and no Billy, I’m not going to take from your sister to give to you just because you want it and think you deserve it.

The bulk of people are ignorant by choice. They only think of rights and not responsibilities. The first question we should ask a politician is this: who are you going to steal from to satisfy me? And if I support that theft, why isn’t the budget balanced?

Our country was founded on the premise that men could govern themselves. For that to happen, we all had to agree on the same basic laws which were derived from English natural law and the ten commandments from Judeo-Christian teaching. Ever since our government’s inception, there has been a continual, unabated assault on the liberty our constitution gave us.

The Bill of Rights spelled out the inalienable rights that people must have if they are to call themselves free. We are daily in a battle with those who want to run our lives and spend our money. We must win this battle if not for ourselves, for our posterity. Our “rights” should come from God, not some bureaucrat who delights in their power over other people’s lives.

Following are comments on an article Tom Woods posted on the lockdown.

The American system was obsessively designed to bolster state and local power to protect against federal tyranny.
Now it has being taken over by state and local tyrants, and the federal government can’t do sheit.
Who woulda thunk that the federal government would become a champion of freedom ???

Really?? • 4 days ago • edited

For individuals, a vaccine is far, far in the future, of uncertain effectiveness and producing and distributing literally billions of doses reduces the likelihood that one will actually get an effective vaccine. The best case scenario one can hope for is to eventually catch a case of the COVID that does not kill them or require hospitalization that bankrupts them or become a COVID “long hauler” AND that a COVID infection confers immunity from future infections.

Giverment authority will greatly expand when state giverments start prosecuting people for non-compliance (e.g., fines, imprisonment, requiring proof of COVID antibodies). For example, my sister, who lives in New Mexico traveled to Colorado to visit our mother. She was required to quarantine for 14 days upon return to New Mexico, unless she took a COVID test and could prove that she was negative. At this point, it is unclear who enforces such laws or what the penalty is for ignoring them. Will New Mexico law enforcement authorities be empowered to demand proof of a negative COVID test of anyone they know has been outside New Mexico?

robert carpenter • 3 days ago • edited

The great fear of ALL POLITICAL REGIMES is always the fear of REBELLION. The great dream of all political regimes is the carceral panoptican society. All over the world one sees emerging populist rebellions against the ruling political classes. Trump’s 2016 election was a decisive rebellion against the ruling class. It was always a question of how rather than if the ruling class would move to put down the emerging populist rebellion. The covid lockdown regime is best understood as one tactic within a counter-revolutionary strategy.

frozenjim robert carpenter • 3 days ago

I tell you what, if Trump loses, it isn’t only America that is going full-on Marxist. If Trump loses, both Canadian mainstream parties (Conservatives and Liberals) are just ITCHING to move this lockdown into high gear – forever.
Your president is the only person standing between the globalists and a global win. Sad to see him embracing Covid the way he has – spending trillions on a lie, which makes him the biggest swamp creature in the history of the swamp. Worse, even than Obama when it comes to spending.

10/09/2020Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

When it comes to Covid-19, bureaucrats and politicians keep moving the goalposts, changing the rules, and engaging in bait-and-switch tactics, so they can maintain the “new normal” dictatorship. Those who object, we’re told, “just want people to die.” It’s now becoming clear that “you can’t have your life back in some states unless you take it back.”