Governing in secret

The Republicans are reportedly asking for a secret ballot for President Trump’s impeachment trial, so their voters won’t know who to blame.

1 The Constitution’s impeachment process was intended to permit Congress to remove a public official from office. It isn’t supposed to permit the Legislative branch to bypass the judiciary and conduct Kangaroo court proceedings.

2 SCOTUS are a bunch of cowards who are refusing to perform their duties under the Constitution. The Chief Justice punts again.

This is the part where we get to see that the show trials common to every communist takeover are being held.

Common Radio Freqs

In the event of a complete loss of communication, here are the channels that I will monitor/use. There is little to be lost by putting these out here, because a quick frequency scan by anyone who wants to listen will find them as soon as you transmit, anyway.

Citizen’s Band
Channel 9 | CB9 | 27.065 | AM | Channel 9
Channel 19 | CB19 | 27.1850 | AM | Channel 19
Channel 22 | CB22 | 27.2250 | AM | Channel 22

FRS Channels
BAND| CHANNEL |FREQUENCY MHZ | MODE| ALPHA TAG
UHF |FRS 1 ===| 462.5625 | FM | FOX 1
UHF |FRS 2 ===| 462.5875 | FM | FOX 2
UHF |FRS 3 ===| 462.6125 | FM | FOX 3
GMRS
BAND| CHANNEL |FREQUENCY MHZ | MODE| ALPHA TAG
UHF |GMRS 15==| 462.5500 | FM | GANG 1
UHF |GMRS 16==| 462.5750 | FM | GANG 2
UHF |GMRS 17==| 462.6000 | FM | GANG 3
MARINE
VHF |MARINE 3 | 156.1500 | FM | BASIC 3
VHF |MARINE 72| 156.6250 | FM | BASIC 7

MURS Channels
BAND| CHANNEL |FREQUENCY MHZ | MODE| APLHA TAG
VHF |MURS 3 ==| 151.9400 | FM | MUSIC 3
VHF |MURS 4 ==| 154.5700 | FM | MUSIC 4
VHF |MURS 5 ==| 154.6000 | FM | MUSIC 5

HAM VHF/UHF BANDS
BAND| CHANNEL |FREQUENCY MHZ | MODE| APLHA TAG
2 METER |”652” | 146.520 | FM SIMPLEX | SIX FIVE TWO*
2 METER |RED | 147.250 | FM SIMPLEX | RED
2 METER |PURPLE| 144.850 | FM SIMPLEX | PURPLE
70 cm |GREEN | 424.250 | FM SIMPLEX | GREEN
70 cm | BLUE | 432.350 | FM SIMPLEX | BLUE
70 cm | 600 | 446.000 | FM SIMPLEX | SIX HUNDRED*

*Channels “600” at 446.000mHz and “652” at 146.5200 mHz are both channels commonly monitored by amateur radio operators.

Government teat

The story sounds incredible: Researchers at UC San Diego claim to be developing a colormetric strip that you stick on to a mask that will change colors when COVID is detected. The press is all aflutter about it. Researchers in San Diego just received $1.3 million to test the stickers for accuracy from the National Institutes of Health. This makes it sound like the stickers already exist.

So go to the college website, and you discover the truth: They haven’t been invented yet.

The team will create test strips, or stickers, that can be put on any mask (N95, surgical or cloth). They will be designed to detect the presence of protein-cleaving molecules, called proteases, that are produced from infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Some clerk at the college managed to secure a grant for for over a million dollars that will fund a project that is in the concept phase and will likely never come to fruition.

Biden, Trump, COVID

Biden was a nearly constant critic of the Trump administration’s COVID response. Biden vowed to do better. Now that he is President, he is claiming that there is nothing that can be done to change COVID’s trajectory.

Biden’s plan for dealing with COVID has nothing to do with controlling, mitigating, or curing the disease. Here’s what Biden’s $2 trillion plan calls for:

  • Direct payments of $1,400 to most Americans, bringing the total relief to $2,000, including December’s $600 payments
  • Increasing the federal, per-week unemployment benefit to $400 and extending it through the end of September
  • Increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour
  • Extending the eviction and foreclosure moratoriums until the end of September
  • $350 billion in state and local government aid
  • $170 billion for K-12 schools and institutions of higher education
  • $50 billion toward Covid-19 testing
  • $20 billion toward a national vaccine program in partnership with states, localities and tribes
  • Making the Child Tax Credit fully refundable for the year and increasing the credit to $3,000 per child ($3,600 for a child under age 6)

The only items there that have anything to do with COVID are the testing and vaccine points, and those were already being done by the Trump administration’s “Operation Warp Speed.”

Meanwhile, we are $27.8 trillion in debt, a number that is $4.5 trillion higher than it was a year ago, and Biden is aiming to increase that debt by another $4 trillion in his first year.

Biden is a fraud, and his only goal is to eliminate the American system of government to install communism. Fuck him and his dictatorship bullshit. Am I still allowed to say that, or is dissent no longer patriotism? I can’t keep track anymore.

Graft and corruption

Microsoft President describes the bribery that makes our government work.

It (cash) plays an important role. Not because the checks are big, but because the way the political process works. Politicians in the United States have events, they have weekend retreats, you have to write a check and then you’re invited and participate. If you work in the government affairs team in the United States, you spend your weekends going to these events; you spend your evenings going to these dinners, and the reason you go is because the PAC writes a check.

Smith added that the relationships built at these events make it more likely lawmakers will be receptive when he calls them to ask for their help on employees’ immigration cases, as well as “issues around national security, or privacy, or procurement reform. Or the tax issues our finance team manages.”

When legislation controls what gets bought and sold, the first thing that is bought and sold are the legislators themselves.

Ex-President Club

There is a story in the national press that Trump is shunning the “ex-President” club that goes on to note that the club doesn’t want him, either. According to the story:

Members of the ex-presidents club pose together for pictures. They smile and pat each other on the back while milling around historic events, or sit somberly side by side at VIP funerals. They take on special projects together. They rarely criticize one another and tend to offer even fewer harsh words about their White House successors.

I call bullshit on that last sentence. George W Bush was critical of Trump from his first year in office. So did serial philanderer, possible pedophile, and sex pervert Bill Clinton. Obama spent Trump’s entire term criticizing Trump and organizing “the resistance.” Carter even refused to accept the results of the 2016 election, something we are told is traitorous and rises to the level where removing sitting members of Congress is the only possible remedy.

So it comes to no surprise that Trump doesn’t want to hang out with the assholes. I wouldn’t either. Would you?