{"id":4655,"date":"2024-07-06T15:01:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T20:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=4655"},"modified":"2024-07-06T15:01:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T20:01:17","slug":"repeating-vignettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2024\/07\/06\/repeating-vignettes\/","title":{"rendered":"Repeating Vignettes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After seeing more political bits:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li> The government is too big to fail<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This was a big SCOTUS ruling at the end of last week after the President&#8217;s epic debate performance.  The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2024\/06\/supreme-court-strikes-down-chevron-curtailing-power-of-federal-agencies\/\">decision overturning &#8220;Chevron Deference.&#8221;<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So much of what happened under Obama and Trump was based on the idea that the regulatory agencies can make whatever rule they wan;t. the bureaucrats are the <em>experts.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really wonder how much of the out-of-control Federal spending is directly-related to agencies spending stolen money to enforce whatever expert rules they crafted.  <strong>The experts<\/strong> say you can&#8217;t have a gas stove.  It is, after all, bad for children&#8217;s health, <strong>AND<\/strong> it belches carbon into Gaia&#8217;s atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really don&#8217;t know how much of the agencies&#8217; budgets are dedicated to enforcement of whatever regulations <strong><em>THE EXPERTS<\/em><\/strong> have invented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know, I know, I haven&#8217;t bought the credentials to question their conclusions.  Moreover, how dare I think that everything should expire at some point?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you an anti-government extremist?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given my very-skeptical past with religion, being called a &#8220;Christian Nationalist&#8221; doesn&#8217;t really work, either.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You broke it, you bought it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite many accusations from extended friends and family, I never voted for President Trump.  Not once.  The only time it&#8217;s ever really crossed my mind was following the conviction in Alvin Bragg&#8217;s show trial in Manhattan.  That almost made me forget his deranged speech to the LP National Convention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There really isn&#8217;t anything there worth considering, though.  Even that absolute miscarriage of the legal system might well be tainted by inclusion of testimony protected by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2024\/07\/justices-rule-trump-has-some-immunity-from-prosecution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Presidential immunity<\/a>.  Credit to the Al Frankel network for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/judge-trumps-hush-money-trial-delays-sentencing-supreme-court-immunity-rcna160028\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hitting on this<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what evidence, exactly, was presented at trial, but if any of it was actually protected by EP, the verdict has to be vacated.  <a href=\"https:\/\/lawandcrime.com\/high-profile\/you-need-not-be-unanimous-legal-experts-explain-confusing-jury-instructions-in-trump-hush-money-case-as-jurors-themselves-ask-judge-to-re-read-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">There&#8217;s still disagreement about this<\/a>.  I do think the interpretation the New York statute probably conflicts   I kind of suspect that a non-unanimous verdict is at odds with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ramos_v._Louisiana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ramos<\/a><\/em>, but, again, it&#8217;ll have to snake through years of appeals before we&#8217;ll ever know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The inflation in prices should be expected.  Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden have absolutely exploded spending based on interest rates that don&#8217;t even cover, you know, food, fuel, housing, and equities.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spending, since Y2K, has massively outpaced tax revenues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has to stop;  the math just doesn&#8217;t work.  Boomer largesse is coming to its messy end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, <em><strong>I support Biden and\/or <\/strong><\/em><b><i>Harris<\/i><\/b><em>.<\/em>  They&#8217;re responsible for this, and I&#8217;d rather see them in office as at all collapses.  Yes, it might be easier to blame Trump, but there&#8217;s thirty years&#8217;-worth of politicians who deserve the scorn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Might as well be Joe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not like there&#8217;s anyone with voting for from the LP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing more political bits: This was a big SCOTUS ruling at the end of last week after the President&#8217;s epic debate performance. The decision overturning &#8220;Chevron Deference.&#8221; So much of what happened under Obama and Trump was based on the idea that the regulatory agencies can make whatever rule they wan;t. the bureaucrats are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scarred-brain-murmurings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}