Huh. Look at that. Voting is even futile in conservative Utah. Even when the Republicans put on the ballot some people worth voting for — in a very conservative state — they still cannot win. Voting is futile.

When will the Republicans and conservatives DO something about it? Several of us here on BTB have begged for something to be done about it, but all we get back is ‘nah, just vote, and it will all be OK.’

We voted back when it should have made a difference, and now that it is too late, we are the ones being blamed for the ineffective, corrupted political system. The real culprits are the Republicans who allowed the American elections and the Democrats to become and remain corrupted. These Republicans remain in place and continue to allow corrupted elections, because too many people ‘just vote.’

Mark, why is that the case? Perhaps because they (we) made the choice in voting for government to “protect” them in its various ways.

At one time, fracking on Federal lands was restricted in the name of such “protection” … until we elected a President who was willing, to the extent of his authority, to reject that in favor of using our own resources instead of OPEC’s.

Unfortunately, followed by another President who reversed such prudence in the name of “protecting the planet.”

But even that last President is now signing off on expanded use of nuclear power. Things CAN change, when we stop wishing for an effortless/non-profit-driven/risk-free Utopia in our conditioned helplessness and instead exercise our responsibility to assure that government does nothing but act to secure our rights – so we are free to make the efforts and take the risks to get ahead as individuals and neighbors.

Believe in magic and assume that every American worker can just wave his hand to accomplish his task, whatever it might be.

We still can’t compete because we cannot build the factories. Of course, we “can”, but the process is so wrapped up in regulatory red-tape and lawfare that it’s not economical in many cases.

It’s the same reason we have no new nuclear power plants. It’s not that we have unproductive plant operators.

That’s also why we only do high value-added manufacturing. The counter-argument to my incessant “Musk should just leave” comments is that one cannot build rocket engines in Mexico (or wherever). Because it can only be done here, the costs are not relevant. If you’re going to do it all, you must accept them. Jet engines are another example (who knew that turbine blades were so hard to make).

Meanwhile, I’ll have to say White House Press Secretary KJP was absolutely right about cheap fakes.

I saw evidence of Tom Savini’s work…eyes rolling back, veins swelling…

I thought I had tuned into the Presidential Debate–but clearly I was watching SCANNERS.

Wasn’t Michael Ironside in the back row?

The results are in, the Democrats won.

Utah is considered the most conservative state in the union and yet no conservatives won. “Just rhinos”, Including Chris Stewart’s temporary house replacement (his secretary whom nobody knows) after he step down a few months ago citing health concerns for his wife then promptly started campaigning for Senator…
This man was once head of the Utah County Democrat party.

How could this happen? They’re claiming low voter turn out due to vacation season, and the fact that most of the Democrats in Utah are registered as Republicans because no Democrat registration required. Hanky-panky is also suspected.
If you can’t beat them, join them!

A lot of the “work” the executive branch regulatory agencies do could fairly be characterized as politically-motivated harassment of businesses and individuals who won’t toe the various lines demanded by the overwhelmingly left-wing administrators and rank and file employees of said agencies. This SCOTUS decision will make such “work” more difficult, time-consuming, expensive and less effective from the standpoint of pursuing leftist political agendas from within the government apparat. There will, accordingly, be less of it – far less it is to be hoped. Certainly there should be no basis for wholesale expansion of Article III courts.

To drive the total of politically-motivated agency “actions” down to zero will require the next Trump administration to do three more things:

1. Eliminate government employee unions.

2. Polygraph all current federal employees and all future applicants to find those whose main motive is to further “progressive change” from within the government bureaucracy.

3. Fire all of the latter currently employed by the federal government, cancel their pensions and blackball all such would-be subversive applicants from any future federal employment.

It can be done. Otherwise there would be no American manufacturing left – including businesses that have employed me in the past and present.

There is a time and place for trade restrictions – to diminish how much rope we buy from tyrannies like China, so they will be less able to fund the force to hang us. And to enforce fair dealing with nations that love our free markets, but won’t open their markets up to our competition.

Going beyond that, is how we slouched into the Administrative Law State this decision addresses … among other problems, past and present.

Assume for the moment that these agencies decide to file as many complaints as they have in the recent past against citizens and businesses. All such complaints now must be reviewed in an Article III court. Said district courts will be overwhelmed, unless, of course, you hire many, many more prosecutors, clerks, and (importantly) new district court judges. The latter are presidential nominees confirmed by the Senate; the rest are DOJ personnel.

See where this is headed? The next Congress has to authorize and pay for all this, and the next president will need to nominate several hundred new judges.

Whatever the stakes yesterday, today the stakes for control of the next Congress and the White House are that much higher. The Deep State will not want Mr. Trump to nominate all those judges.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/california-lawmakers-exempt-their-new-office-building-from-state-environmental-law/ar-BB1oZgOC

But you make sure that if you are building a new building that adhere to the rules that they will not and even refuse or are unable to follow.