#18 Talking Filibuster and HR1 Voter (Fraud)

In My Right Mind

Podcast #18:

Welcome back friends to In My Right Mind with the ever-impassioned Russ Andrews (that’s me) along with my good buddy, the debonair PJ Jaycox.

Before we get started PJ, I come bearing gifts for you:

Hat.

Bumper sticker.

New bumper sticker, Revoke The walking Woke.

Hey PJ, did you know that the demented Joe Biden was the only person in the W/H who hid his own Easter Eggs?

A new Rasmussen Poll Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 64% of Likely U.S. Voters say it is not possible to completely prevent mass shootings like the ones in Atlanta, Georgia, and Boulder, Colorado. Only 23% believe mass shootings can be completely prevented, while 13% are not sure.

BUT, they will make a run at our guns!

History of the Filibuster:

PJ, what article of the constitution created the filibuster? Article 1 created the House and the Senate…but the filibuster wasn’t created until 1837. As a refresher, the filibuster is intended to slow down legislation in the Senate…the so-called world’s most deliberative legislative body.

When the founders devised our bicameral legislative body, they didn’t make much of any kind of differentiation between rules in the House and the Senate. The primary difference at the time was the length of service; the House was intended to address fervors, fevers & the madness & issues of importance of the day, and hence representatives only serve a 2 yr term.

“George Washington is said to have told Jefferson that the framers had created the Senate to "cool" House legislation just as a saucer was used to cool hot tea.” The Senate was intended to be less reactive than the House which is why senators serve 6-yr terms.

The House and Senate rulebooks in 1789 were nearly identical. Both rulebooks included what is known as the “previous question” motion. The House kept their motion, and today it empowers a simple majority to cut off debate. (REPEAT). The Senate no longer has that rule on its books. It has the filibuster instead.

The filibuster was started in 1837 when Senate allies of Democrat President Andrew Jackson attempted to remove a Senate Censure of Jackson for his role in attempting to partially defund The Bank Of The United States of Gov’t $$$. Essentially, a group of senators threatened to speak all day, for every Senate session unless Jackson’s allies relented. And so it began.

There was no way to end a filibuster until 1917 when the Senate adopted a super-majority rule that required 67 votes to bring an end to any filibuster….which is called cloture. (arming merchant ships with weapons). That rule was amended in 1975 when the Senate reduced the required majority to 60 senators to bring cloture to a filibuster.

Essentially, the filibuster guarantees that the minority party will be heard. Now our friends…the Dimms…are attempting to eliminate the filibuster to create a $15/hr minimum wage, to make Puerto Rico and Wash DC states, to confiscate certain weapons from law abiding citizens, to federalize elections making it easier to cheat, and on and on and on.

The Dimms claim that the filibuster is racist because during the debate over passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 19 senators filibustered the bill for 72 days. The 19 broke into 5 groups of 3…and a 6th group of 4 senators. Each group was assigned a day of the week to take the dias and to speak for hours and hours.

Now here’s something the left-wing-nut media will never tell you; 18/19 of those filibustering senators were….democrats. The 19th was republican John Tower of Texas. Now PJ, I’m not really good at math, but that means that 94.7% of the gentlemen who filibustered the 1964 CRA were….wait for it…democrats.

One last point; prior to the Trump presidency, the filibuster had been used precisely 244 times. During the 4 yrs of Trump…how many times did the democrats use the filibuster? I mean they claim the filibuster is racist…so they must not have ever used it even once…right??? The miserable, lying, toilet bug, hypocrite democrats filibustered Trump initiatives exactly 314 x…or 28.6% more times than in the whole prior…227 year history…of the Senate! But now it’s got to go, because its Racist!

Anybody who falls for democrats characterizing anybody or thing as racist is an ignorant simpleton! And I am talking to you Captain Woke…aka Captain Cancel!

BTW, the filibuster was changed in 1970 from a speaking filibuster to a silent one where a lone senator can filibuster anything except budget debates. Big spenders on both sides of the aisle back in 1970 understood that delaying Senate debate… delayed buying votes with massive pork. Just think PJ, Mr. Smith would never have gone to Washington w/o the speaking filibuster!!!

West Va senator Joe Manchin along w/ Az’s Kyrsten Sinema have both stated they will never vote to eliminate the filibuster. Joe Manchin always talks the talk, but rarely walks the walk. (Keystone XL pipeline, planned parenthood, 2nd amendment legislation, Obamacare). He came out last week and said he would be in support of bringing back the speaking filibuster…which incidentally…I am all for. As far as I am concerned, anything we can do to slow down the creation of new laws is good for the country. Remember folks, nearly every new law further restricts our liberties. We’ll see what Big Gov’t Expansion Joe Manchin ends up doing..

In preparation of the Dimms blowing up the filibuster, Mitch McConnel took to the Senate floor a couple of weeks ago and stated that if they eliminate the filibuster, he will make the Senate operate like a 100 train car pileup. How can he do that PJ?

Kimberley Strassel wrote that “To blow up the filibuster—and in the process infuriate 50 “minority” senators—would destroy the one thing that does in fact make the Senate function: comity (courtesy). Democrats wouldn’t speed up their agenda; they would bury it.”

So what would a scorched Earth Senate look like? Ms. Strassel went on to say “It’s a world without “unanimous consent.” Apparently, Senate leaders rely on unanimous consent dozens of a times a day. You need consent to open the Senate before noon, to dispense with the reading of the preceding day’s journal, to move to business, to avoid reading out loud the text of every amendment and resolution, to avoid roll call votes. The Senate functions because the vast majority of consent requests are granted.

When they aren’t? It takes only one Republican to object to a request but a majority to overcome most objections. Mr. Schumer might at any time need all 50 of his members—and the vice president—on the floor to move things along. Likewise to override a flow of “points of order.”

All day, every day, Republicans could shuffle in and out, and it would only take a handful of members to force roll calls for all these votes, eating up more hours. Democrat senators and Kamala Harris would essentially live at the Capitol, constantly on call. If even one was absent at a crucial moment, the Senate would essentially shut down.

Now add in Article 1, Section 5 of the Constitution, or “Quorum calls.” Any senator can question, at any time, whether the Senate truly has 51 senators on the floor (the vice president doesn’t count as being on the floor). It’s unclear whether a lone Republican could issue a quorum call, flee and stymie Senate business until the sergeant of arms rounded him back up. But even if that lone Republican stayed, quorum calls would eat up hours. The Senate secretary is required in each case to call the roll, of all 100 senators. Anyone who has ever watched C-Span 2 knows this takes ages.”

I say go for it Chuckles Schumer! Give America a lesson on parliamentary procedure.

Can you imagine the left-wing-nut media reaction to all of this? Buy lots of popcorn folks.

What is H.R. 1 (S.1), and why does it suck? Much of the following was taken from Heritage Action For America:

Well, first off, HR 1 doesn’t suck if you are a democracy hating socialist. In fact, it pretty much guarantees that the socialists win all future elections; which is actually why it sucks. It also violates the spirit of Article 1, Section 4 of the Constitution…..remember that dirty document that was written by racist, misogynist, slave owners?

House Resolution 1, and please take notice that it is not HR 100, but rather the first new proposed law of this congress, which federalizes elections, which means it overrides the election laws of all 50 states in favor of new laws that make cheating easy, and a priority.

The bill contains two separate provisions that force taxpayers to fund politicians’ campaigns.

First, the “My Voice Voucher” redistributes $25 in taxpayer dollars to each “qualified individual” to give to political campaigns in as little as $5 increments. The program is capped at $10 million in federal funds per participating state. That’s $500 myn of income re-distribution to political candidates.

A second provision allows any campaign that raises donations between the amounts of $1 and $200 to be able to match those donations with federal funding, dollar for dollar, up to 600 percent, i.e. a 6-1 match ratio. The matching contribution has a sliding scale cap based on previous election cycles, but no hard dollar amount cap.

So, Lori and I typically giver $100 to candidates we like. That means that for every $100 we give, the federal gov’t will match it w/ another $600. Great!

These two provisions force taxpayers to fund candidates they disagree with. Imagine you are watching your Philadelphia eagles getting blown out of another game on an overcast Sunday afternoon in October of the next election year, and there’s good old Jared Polis on a commercial advocating to eliminate ranching in Colorado, using your taxpayer dollars to run the commercial???

The bill contains several provisions that together amount to a hostile takeover of state-run elections. HR1 would force states to enact same-day voter registration, automatically register voters, implement online voter registration, allow voters to cast ballots outside of their precinct, keep ineligible voters on voter rolls in perpetuity, register voters without verifying eligibility, and allow people to vote without showing any identification. Repeat after me PJ…voter fraud.

Same-day registration doesn’t give officials enough time to verify the truthfulness of the information provided. Automatically registering voters risks the registering of illegal immigrants and ineligible voters. Online voter registration makes it much easier for hackers and cyber criminals to commit massive voter registration fraud.

Counting ballots outside of assigned precincts increases the likelihood of improper vote observation and monitoring. Preventing election officials from verifying voter eligibility eliminates the integrity of the election process. Allowing people to show up to the polls and vote without a state ID would completely destroy the effectiveness of the already existing state voter ID laws that are in place to prevent fraud from happening.

Each of these provisions on its own provides known pathways for bad actors to commit election fraud and, taken all together, represent a breathtaking commandeering of our election systems in a way that eviscerates common-sense protections against fraudulent voting.

H.R. 1 goes completely off the rails and unconstitutionally increases government censorship over political campaigns, activity, and speech. Using a very vague standard, the bill regulates any speech that is deemed threatening to a federal candidate or election official, forces groups to publicly identify donors so that the walking woke can arrange boycots of that person or groups products, it regulates speech about legislative issues, regulates online political speech, forces groups to file reports with the Federal Election Commission when they sponsor political ads, and imposes burdensome disclaimer requirements for issue ads. In other words, it eliminates the free speech protection delineated in the First Amendment.

The bill strips the power of state governments to regulate their own congressional district lines by forcing independent redistricting commissions on states.

Which brings us to the new Georgia state election laws, which the left is lying about at every turn to promote HR 1., which Lyin’ Joe Biden referred to as “un-American,” “sick,” “pernicious,” and worse: “This makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle. ”

WSJ: “Georgia’s new law leaves in place Sunday voting, a point of contention with earlier proposals, given that black churches have a “souls to the polls” tradition after services. The Legislature, rather, decided to expand weekend early voting statewide, by requiring two Saturdays instead of only one under current law. In total, Georgia offers three weeks of early voting, which began last year on Oct. 12. This is not exactly restrictive: Compare that with early voting that started Oct. 24 last year in New York.”

“The new law also leaves in place no-excuses absentee voting. Every eligible Georgia voter will continue to be allowed to request a mail ballot for the sake of simple convenience—or for no reason at all. Again, this is hardly restrictive: More than a dozen states, including Connecticut and Delaware, require mail voters to give a valid excuse.”

So what does the Georgia law do? First, it gets rid of signature matching, so election workers aren’t trying to verify mail ballots by comparing John Hancocks. This subjective process should concern both sides. It creates avenues for contested outcomes, with fighting over ambiguous signatures. In 2018 about 2,400 ballots in Georgia were rejected for issues with the signature or oath, according to a recent paper in Political Research Quarterly. Those voters were 54% black.”

“Instead of signature matching, voters will submit a state ID number with their mail ballots or applications. This way there’s no arguing over handwriting: The ID number either matches or it doesn’t. Georgians who vote in person are already asked to show identification. Anyone who lacks an ID can get one for free.”

Much hay is being made about a provision that prevents third parties from giving gifts, including “food and drink” to those standing in line at the polls. But the point is to prevent activists from showing up in union shirts—or National Rifle Association shirts, for that matter—and passing out drinks and snacks, with some subtle electioneering thrown in.

As for the genuinely thirsty, the new law specifically allows poll workers to provide “self-service water from an unattended receptacle.” Also, the legislation recognizes that it’s a failure if voters stand in line long enough to get parched. That’s why it says wait times at large precincts must be measured three times throughout Election Day. If the line hits an hour, changes are required before the next election.

The law makes ballot drop boxes a permanent part of Georgia’s voting architecture. The terms are tighter than they were during last year’s pandemic emergency, but how is it part of “Jim Crow 2.0” to give absentee voters more options than they had 2 years ago in 2019? The legislation also says applications for mail ballots are due 11 days before the election, instead of four days. If that’s racist, so is the U.S. Postal Service, which urges voters to allow 15 days for two-way delivery.

No election rules are perfect. Ballot access, integrity and administration are all important. Mr. Biden knows this. Democrats aren’t smearing Georgia because they believe their “Jim Crow” nonsense. Their strategy is to play the race card to justify breaking the Senate filibuster, so they can jam through their election reform known as H.R.1 and overrule 50 state voting laws.

Now, for some good news Brad C: We don’t have a spy in the White House, nor do we even have a voice. But we DO have teeth. Thank Dog…I mean thank God for Major; our hound in the White House. Looks like young Major, Creepy Joe Biden’s newest German Shepard…has bitten 2 people in the official residence and outside in one of the gardens.

Too bad that Major hasn’t masticated that Raggedy Ann Doll who gives the daily press briefings. Nor has he gnawed on W/H Chief of Staff Ron Klain. But its good to know we have somebody…somebody…roaming the halls of the W/H who is on our side.

Now, the Secret Service also , uhm, stumbled into a steaming pile of fecal matter in one of the W/H porticos, but they aren’t sure if it was Major who left that behind, or if it was our new president.

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