If I win the lottery, I may not tell anybody, but there will be signs

Forgive me dear readers, but I’m about to make a very short set of observations. The pain of my conscience for a short time exceeds that of my body.

I’ve lost track for how long I recognized and argued that every increasingly liberal treatment of criminals serves to benefit politicians who recognize that subsequent increases in crime benefit those who will gain more power as the dangers to the public consequently increase. I first made the connection over thirty years ago with arguments favoring the death penalty that were so persuasive at Prodigy* that my opponents got me banned.

I lack the enegry to build this up properly. So here is the core of the point I hope will prime the pump to build arguments that our Congress-critters need to fear too much to ignore.

How can Congress continue to let this Venezuelan gang get protection from our SCOTUS? Isn’t it plain as day that that communist country released its criminals so they could invade US? Isn’t that an act of war?

Why aren’t we screaming at Congress to declare war in kind? Once declared, SCOTUS dare not then continue to ignore the Trump administration’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act.

How many in Congress have taken campaign funds that have some connection to Venezuela? How many in Congress appear to favor criminal alien rights over citizen rights to live freely? Are those members of congress also the same ones who favor liberalized criminal penalties and prosecutions? As I have argued –and so should many other patriots — so called liberal policies serve to increase the size of government which, in practice, reduces citizen freedom. Hence, statists love criminals.

Even criminals who’ve been allowed to invade us without any process, but now those same “liberal” forces are insisting those invaders NOW get due process.

Just how many members of Congress have been and are committing treason?

“While their arguments vary, MPs from all sides have raised concern that issues that have arisen over the last fortnight could seriously damage the public’s confidence in Parliament.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360690392/inside-house-chaos-six-days-saw-parliament-go-bizarre

I’m pretty sure confidence has to exist in the first place, before it can be damaged

Same ole same ole-

https://archive.is/sKPCo

“In fiscal 2019, federal outlays totaled $4.45 trillion, or 20.6% of gross domestic product. This year, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s January 2025 projection, total outlays will be $7.03 trillion, or 23.3% of GDP. That’s a 58% increase over six years. The CBO projects federal outlays will total $89.3 trillion across fiscal 2026-35. Much of the blame goes to pandemic spending, but lockdowns are long over. There’s nothing now to justify this abnormal level of government spending. Pathetically, Congress is having a hard time agreeing on a reduction of even $1.5 trillion from that 10-year amount. That’s a 1.68% cut—a little more than a rounding error. My guess is that much of that minuscule decrease will be backloaded to the end of the 10 years for which Congress is now budgeting, increasing the probability those savings will never be realized.”

Any idea of a budget at this point is just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.