Rep. Fischbach sides with Trump and Russia

Trump's lies and incompetence don't inspire confidence. Wake up and serve your constituents, not the chaos-causing oligarchs. It's bad enough that the people who write the laws exempt themselves from prohibitions against insider trading.

One of us is in denial of reality. Do you think Trump's hatchet to the federal government and his plans to privatize (make it for-profit) benefit us? 

How about his plans to gut Social Security (with a 50-year low in employee numbers), starting with firing employees and cutting regional offices? He's already fired government inspectors that were focused on fraud and waste. 

For decades, Republicans have refused to meaningfully adjust the revenue side of Social Security, instead focusing on cutting benefits and raising retirement ages. You think those people care about us? Do you think they care that they have reduced Social Security's 100% 75-year solvency down to 100% 10-year solvency over the last 40 years? 

No, Republicans want us suffering under private for-profit retirement, survivor, and disability plans that are subject to mismanagement, theft, fraud, brokerage firm bankruptcies, and denials of coverage. Think 20% overhead (same as for-profit health insurance) instead of the 2% overhead the Social Security program currently has. 

Did anyone take responsibility when Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme collapsed (that the SEC was repeatedly warned about)? For years, firms lied to their customers about where they were investing their funds, telling them the make-believe investments (by Madoff) were what they invested their retirement funds in. A Ponzi scheme, just like they are telling us what Social Security is. 

Republicans want to eliminate the matching corporate Social Security tax contributions. They think it's their money. They are not about to give that money to us workers so that we can pay the full 12.4% rate on 100% of our net income. Right now, half of Social Security tax contributions are tax-exempt for employees. 

No, Republicans want to gut revenues to speed up their Social Security manufactured crisis. How about if we instead raise or eliminate the salary cap? Won't that make it fairer? It's not like Republicans are going to change capital gains tax rates or hedge-fund tax rates or eliminate corporate subsidies or the corrupt insider-trading.

And how about Trump's cryptocurrency plans? He wants the federal government to invest in them, allegedly with a 20-year minimum no-sell clause. Would he use the Social Security Trust Fund for the investments? You know, the money that's supposed to help cover Baby Boomer retirements.

At this point, anything goes for our Felon-In-Chief. Including siding with Russia and blackmailing Ukraine (rare-earth metals).

Wake up.

A letter to Representative (MN-7) Michelle Fischbach for her gushing praise of Trump's plans.

Conservative Supreme Court Justice Alito's Sharp Legal Mind

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, in the leaked draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, cited Sir Matthew Hale as one of the “eminent common-law authorities.” Alito cites him to show how abortion was viewed historically not as a right, but as a criminal act.

Hale wrote about abortion in the late 1600s, but cites no precedents for his claims because there were none. Hale also believed in witches and personally sentenced three women to death (before the Salem Witch Trials) for that crime. He had a very dim view of women, considering them useless, feeble-minded, squanderers of estates, and who occupied themselves with makeup, fashions, and gossip. 

Hale was somewhat of an extremist even in his own time, holding some views that were regarded as anachronistic. This is the eminent authority on abortion that Alito uses to justify his own opinions.

Alito wrote, “Two treatises by Sir Matthew Hale likewise described abortion of a quick child who died in the womb as a ‘great crime’ and a ‘great misprision.’” Even before quickening (when movement is detected, usually between the 16th and 18th week), Hale believed an abortion could qualify as homicide if the woman died as a result, and Alito quotes Hale on this.

I'm not sure how much, if any, of this draft made it into the Supreme Court's final decision overturning Roe v. Wade. But the draft itself is damning enough. Alito cites Hale as an authority. A judge from the 1600s who sentenced women to death for witchcraft, who had scathing views of the nature of women, and who wrote legal treatises with opinions pulled out of thin air.

https://www.propublica.org/article/abortion-roe-wade-alito-scotus-hale, May 6, 2022

Deists, Not Christians

The Founding Fathers were Deists, not Christians. They fought against state-sponsored religion (especially The Church of England). Nowhere in The Constitution is there anything about Christianity, Jesus, sins, an afterlife, etc. 

Freedom of Religion is in the Bill of Rights. You are allowed your religion. You are not allowed to impose it on others. 

You want a theocracy? There are plenty of Fascist, autocratic, theocratic countries you can move to. You want to ban books? Go there. You want a preacher standing between a person and their doctor? Go there. You want to execute people for not following YOUR religious beliefs? Go there. 

You want to worship an antiChrist? Go there. You want to invade peaceful countries and spread lies as justification? Go there. You want to arrest and try opposition leaders who have not had evidence presented to and indictments issued from Grand Juries? Go there. 

You want to lie about scientists proving that zygotes or fetuses are human just after conception? (Hint: they proved that zygotes and fetuses have human DNA. Not that they were people.) Argue and shove your religion down your fellow "Christian" brethren's throats; I'm sure all the myriad of other Christian sects will choose to follow YOUR beliefs. 

Take your Christian Nationalists out behind your Churches and hold barbeques with them and listen to them endorse a lying, cheating, con artist who mangles sentences, gets basic facts wrong, mispronounces words, and claims he can hear one fact about a subject and suddenly be the world's smartest man on that subject. (He said, "That's the way my whatever works," while pointing to his head.)

Go ahead, we are waiting.