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Mark Small's Blog – December 2024 Archive (8)

Beckwith has no business in a public HS

Tomorrow morning at 4:21, the Winter Solstice occurs. [FN1] Pagans celebrate the lengthening of the days by stripping buck naked, painting themselves blue and dancing in the moonlight. [FN2] From a different perspective: in a month, The Constitution could die. [FN3] 1/13

There are several reasons why trump should not be allowed to take the oath. [FN4] A reason I’ve neglected: by the time trump left office in 2021, > 400K ppl in US had died from COVID. [FN5] On 12/19 I re-posted a…

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Added by Mark Small on December 20, 2024 at 10:24am — No Comments

Beckwith would preside over a ratification convention!?

In the film “Apollo 13,” NASA flight director Gene Kranz, told a typhoon might hit the splash down area, as the spacecraft nears re-entry, says if there’s nothing the astronauts can do about it, “Then we don’t need to tell them.” [FN1] A trump return to the WH, w/promises to 1/8

be a dictator, is ghastly. Worse, post-Citizens United, is a possible constitutional convention. All 27 times The Constitution has been amended has been via 2/3 vote of the House & Senate, then 3/4 of the…

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Added by Mark Small on December 17, 2024 at 4:59pm — No Comments

Former Pres Clinton: please warn trump against targeting the rest of us, too

Headline today: “Bill Clinton Warns Trump Against Targeting Hillary.” [FN1] Threats by trump & his toadies are despicable as leveled against Secretary Clinton. Categories of victims will be harmed, directly or collaterally, as these threats are made reality. 1/7

An international syndicate, real as any racketeer-influenced corrupt organization in history is stretched around the World. People in South Korea, Georgia, Ukraine and Syria have refused to allow tyranny so easily to rule…

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Added by Mark Small on December 16, 2024 at 8:38pm — No Comments

By legal means: stopping trump from taking office (we haven't much time)

Today, Robert Hubbell [FN1] noted the concern of “readers [] about the lack of a coordinated defense against Trump's efforts to run rough-shod over the Constitution. []Until a national leader emerges to unite the Democratic Party,” it is up to the grassroots to oppose trump. [FN2] 1/7

We do not have a luxury of time: trump taking office 1/20 means emergency powers invoked & trump will be a dictator permanently. Syrians overthrew Putin toady Assad. [FN3] In Georgia, protests…

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Added by Mark Small on December 12, 2024 at 9:40pm — No Comments

Do you want trump for a lifetime or...?

To yesterday’s blog [FN1] Bill Smythe, whom I respect, replied “you don’t save the constitution by ignoring it.” I said “everyone has ignored Amend XIV sec 3.” He noted it hasn’t been proven “in a court of law” w/not guilty in 2nd impeachment as close as we’ve come. [FN2] [FN3] 1/8

We must believe trump’s promise to be a dictator. trump loves dictatorial regimes. trump owed the 2016 election hack to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. That is because trump is heavily in debt to Russian…

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Added by Mark Small on December 9, 2024 at 2:44pm — No Comments

Pres Biden must act NOW to stop the insurrectionists' reaching their ultimate goal

The Constitution is a document that memorializes what “We the People” created. The document is relatively short. [FN1] History relevant to its creation would date back to Europeans’ first interactions w/indigenous peoples & include the start of chattel slavery of Africans. [FN2] 1/11

The Declaration of Independence gave notice: 13 colonies were a nation. Their government, as established by Articles of Confederation, “consisted only of Congress” w/neither “an executive branch nor…

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Added by Mark Small on December 8, 2024 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Avoiding dictatorship: not much time & only a few ways

The United States faces several emergencies. Each, independently, warrants/requires Pres Biden to exercise emergency powers granted by statute, [FN1] delineated in Art II of The Constitution, [FN2] or inherent to the Office of President. The emergencies are: 1/12

1) Threat of dictatorship.

maga ppl say trump’s either: a) only joking; b) never said it or c) was taken out of context. Nothing quite says “dictator” like a blanket pardon for those who tried to overthrow the gov’t.…

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Added by Mark Small on December 6, 2024 at 5:23pm — No Comments

Pres Biden hasn't much time to invoke Emergency powers

SEO [FN1] leads many searches to one conclusion: allegations of interference in the elections of 2024 & 2020 elections are, and should be treated, the same. [FN2] Few can argue that an end to a chaos, visited on us each day since 2015, is not only welcome, but deserved. 1/15

Implicitly, we are to view the two political parties as opponents in a game. Vice President Harris lost this general election to trump, who is magnanimous & moves into the Oval Office to do the business of…

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Added by Mark Small on December 2, 2024 at 8:44am — No Comments

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