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Here’s What Donald Trump Should Do Before Inauguration Day https://mises.org/wire/heres-what-donald-trump-should-do-inauguration-day Step two: pardon generously. One of the best and most libertarian powers a president has is the ability to grant pardons. This is an essential check on the power of the federal bureaucracy and the federal courts. Trump should employ this power broadly: Step 3: fire the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Although it is rarely acknowledged in discussions of law or policy, members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors are no more protected from being fired than are members of the president’s cabinet. That is, Trump doesn’t need permission from Congress to fire the entire board. For years, the Fed has pursued a radical policy of money supply inflation by relentlessly expanding its portfolio. The purpose of all this has been to both prop up favored industries and pursue higher inflation targets. Rockwell quotes Ron Paul, who notes: These policies will prove to be disastrous for American families and the economy overall. And the members of the Fed board are all poised to enjoy a free pass. By firing the entire Board, Trump would of course not prevent similar bureaucrats from taking over the same reins. But there’s also no reason to help the Fed project a false image of “public service” and stability. Firing the entire board would force the Board’s members into the spotlight where they would have to publicly justify their cushy jobs, while perhaps letting the mask slip on the Fed’s longstanding ruse surrounding its alleged “apolitical” policymaking. Step four: bring the troops home. Rockwell writes: For decades, the national garrison state has coasted on the fact US troops have been stationed all across the globe. The status quo thus becomes one state of global intervention, while withdrawing the troops is portrayed as some sort of radical departure from established policy. Trump could reverse this situation by withdrawing enormous numbers of troops from global deployments right now. The Pentagon would of course drag its feet. But the Pentagon likes to claim it can deploy troops across the globe on a moment's notice. Why is it the process is impossible in reverse? An aggressive drive toward demobilization would create a new status quo, and put the onus on the Pentagon and its allies who would then have to justify countless new deployments across Asia, Europe, and Africa. As the Obama administration's failed attempt at a large-scale Syria invasion showed us, the public's appetite for new deployments may not be as large as the interventionists hope. But the debate must be forced onto the public stage by bringing the troops home now. Step five: the president must reject calls for “unity”: Coming from politicians, calls for unity are almost never anything other than a ploy designed to consolidate power for the regime. The Biden administration's latest remonstrances for unity are no different. Moreover, as the election has shown, the United States is indeed not unified at all. Voting returns suggest perhaps half the country views the incoming administration with a mixture of fear and suspicion. Slapping a thin patina of "unity" on top of a deeply divided electorate won't solve the nation's problems. Indeed, if Trump is on the way out, his final months should be characterized by a rejection of "unity" in which the outgoing adminsitration paves the way for the new administration to seamlessly begin implementing an entirely new round of freedom-destroying policies. If anything, now is the time for maximize disunity in Washington with radical steps the Trump has been too cautious to attempt before. And as one of the comments to this commentary states Mr. Trump should pardon Edward Snowden and Julian Assange.

Vaccine Music To Libertarian Ears: https://www.cato.org/blog/vaccine-music-libertarian-ears There’s a libertarian regulatory lesson here: as we saw with the Food and Drug Administration and COVID-19 diagnostic testing, bureaucracy can hold up important innovation, bringing enormous costs during a pandemic that right now is severely constraining commercial activity and our liberties. And with government funds come the threat of both political pressure and control that put further sand in the gears.

https://www.jconline.com/story/news/2020/11/09/lafayette-census-taker-says-she-told-enter-false-information-rush-close-2020-count/6219129002/ So if this happens in little 'ole Lafayette, Indiana it must be happening across the country. Yet another government institution that betrays the public's trust. And of course the MSM has to portray it as Mr. Trump's fault.

So when is the MSM the sole decider of who wins a presidential election? Wouldn't this year be on 12/14 when the Electoral College electors vote in their state?

The Bears are currently 5-4 and on a 3 game losing streak. They tank their remaining 7 games to go 5-11 and that may put them in shouting distance of the #1 pick with a lucrative trade thrown in. Say Mr. Mack?

Exactly. And why doesn't this seem to work for 99% of the government school football programs. Should Frankfort, a "4A" school, join a primarily 5A/6A conference so they can "slum down" to 4A for the tournament? Sounds like a recipe for success to me, if p/p's can do it why can't the government school programs?

Time for the Bears to tank in order to enter the Trevor Lawrence sweepstakes?

And here we go with the "well p/p school X has a moribund football program, why should they get bumped up to class Y?" argument. Items like the success factor and a multiplier are just Band-Aids over a flawed classification system where enrollment is still the primary factor. It needs to be removed from the equation entirely, and the IHSAA needs to go to a true system of promotion/relegation where labels like '1A', '2A', '6A', etc. have nothing to do with enrollment but are instead a measurable success or lack thereof of a school's football program.

Notre Dame president now slamming students for exposing his failure: https://deadspin.com/notre-dame-president-now-slamming-students-for-exposing-1845619706

wrong topic. sorry

The Absurdity of Lockdown 2.0 https://mises.org/wire/absurdity-lockdown-20

R.I.P. Alex Trebek https://news.avclub.com/r-i-p-alex-trebek-1833211841 Truly and American/Canadian icon. He will truly be missed. Now comes the question of who will replace the late Mr. Trebek on Jeopardy! My pick is Ken Jennings.

I really doubt that if you support the socialist polices of the left. Like POTUS-Elect Biden's plan to spend 11 trillion dollars in various socialist endeavors.

Yep, only to be replaced by your cult.

Show me where that goal is enumerated in the U.S. Constitution.

Yes, if you love a crushing national debt, the fallout from will be born by our children and grandchildren.

Trump Says Mail-in Votes Are Suspicious Because They Overwhelmingly Favor Joe Biden. He's Wrong. https://reason.com/2020/11/05/trump-says-mail-in-votes-are-suspicious-because-they-overwhelmingly-favor-joe-biden-hes-wrong/ In the months since, various experts have warned about the so-called "blue shift" that could occur after the election, as Trump's supporters headed to the polls in force on Election Day and Biden's mail-in vote calvary was counted in the days after. It's also worth noting that Pennsylvania could have averted some of this mess by changing its law to allow mail-in ballots to be counted prior to the election. Republicans in the state legislature refused to do so. If they had, many of the votes now being tallied for Biden—votes that have nearly erased what was once a 700,000 vote lead for Trump in the state—may have been counted earlier. Counting those votes earlier wouldn't have changed the outcome, of course, but it would have potentially avoided the appearance of a late comeback from Biden—and it is that appearance to which Trump is now objecting and using as the basis for his unsubstantiated claims of fraud. In every way, what's happening now is the entirely predictable result of decisions that Trump and his allies made earlier in the year. If he and they do not like what they are seeing, it should be obvious where the blame rests. Yes it should.

Then again, you must live a very, very sheltered life. Or you are lying. Hmm, I would think a successful democratic and capitalist state would have a degree of healthy skepticism, fear, etc. between the governors and the governed. Not blind adulation and boot licking like you appear to subscribe to.

The Trump vote is rising among Blacks and Hispanics, despite the conventional wisdom: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-vote-rising-among-blacks-hispanics-despite-conventional-wisdom-ncna124578 Ahh, I guess those minority individuals that voted for Mr. Trump just aren't "woke" enough.

I lived in Greene county briefly in the late 1980's when their were 7 high schools. WRV didn't exist and instead you had Central (Switz City), L&M, and Worthington. Those were the days: https://vault.si.com/vault/1985/02/18/back-home-in-indiana

The Disinformationists: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/11/the-disinformationists/

Nice to have yet another mind reader her on the GID forum. Hmm, or maybe gambling, regardless of the odds, is morally repugnant to him.

So you telling us here on the GID that you have never ever violated a federal, state, or local statute of any kind? Why?

Why is betting so important to you, StatGuy? Sounds like you may have a gambling problem............. And for the record I voted for the Libertarian Party candidate for POTUS. Both sides of the uni-party are simply spending the U.S. into oblivion with no end in sight.