Congressman Jim Banks and the Reopen Our School Act

The Reopen Our Schools Act is a mind boggling travesty. During this crisis, parents and schools should have the right to decide whether or not to have kids back in the classroom without the federal government getting involved. For that matter school districts should forego federal funds if they have dangerous strings attached.

Congressman Jim Banks co-authored this bill. He claims that children are at low risk of contracting COVID-19. My guess is that the reason for this is because the kids have been staying home. Children have died from this illness. And while children might be at a lower risk of death, they can transmit the virus to their parents and others.

Dr Fauci has said that whether or not schools re-open might depend on the region. Since the Reopen Our Schools Act would apply to the entire country, this might encourage a lot of schools to reopen when the risk of infection is still high.

Folks, I’m running against Jim Banks in the 2020 election this November. You’ll hear a lot more about my campaign soon. #PleaseVoteResponsibly

Don't break quarantine just to protest

Fellow lovers of liberty

Please do not leave your homes for the purposes of protesting the quarantine. You can totally protest it from home.

The way I see it, the virus is either real or a hoax, and it is either dangerous or no worse than the flu. We all can argue until we're blue in the face about the unknown unknowns.

If the virus is real and as dangerous as advertised, staying home is the common sense thing to do. If something can hurt or kill you, and you can't kill it, then you avoid it. That is common sense. Even if you plan on wearing masks and social distancing at your event, there is the risk that someone will be involved in an accident and require treatment at the ER. This puts that person at risk of catching a disease at the hospital. Officials will be highly tempted to blame any increase in deaths on the protest. If the Deep State is as evil as you think they are, then they WANT you to protest the quarantine. They want the liberty movement to look like dangerous idiots. They want an excuse to arrest you or even shoot you in front of dozens of cameras, and make you look like a terrorist when they do it.

State governments will have to reopen the economy soon anyway. This is what most of you want anyway, so sit tight. If state governments don't reopen the economy, they'll run out of tax revenue, go bankrupt, and we'll see a massive society collapse. That is what some of you want anyway, so sit tight.

Once again, if the virus threat is real, then the right thing to do is to stay home, in spite of what the government has ordered. If the virus threat turns out to be exaggerated, that could be an interesting discovery during an election year. In either case, please stay home, stay safe, and stay woke. Stock up on canned goods in case the grid goes down, learn to code in case the grid stays up.

A Long Way From Tipperary is on sale for the duration.

By now, you will have exhausted everything worth watching on Netflix. So my novel will be on sale for the duration. The ebook is 99 cents and the print version is $7.92. This is as cheap as Jeff Bezos will let me make it. Pretty much any device that you are reading this on can be used as a Kindle.

I would say that now is the time to switch to e-books. You're not going to the library any time soon. It's not like you've been to one recently either, you functionally illiterate savages, but let's focus on self-improvement. An e-book can be available to you within minutes, and is still available off line after you downloaded it. The only upside of a print book is that you can still read it after the grid goes down, but you'll probably have bigger things to worry about when that happens.

Maybe I should be thinking more positive. Anyway, buy my book about space warlords who want to murder everybody. 

SENATE: Vote to Confirm Jussie Smollett to Supreme Court

We support President Trump's nomination of Jussie Smollett to the Supreme Court. The fact that the Cook County prosecutor is not filing charges against Smollett PROVES that he is INNOCENT. Both Trump and Smollett have been the victims of FAKE NEWS! If we have learned anything from the Kavanaugh hearings, it is that. a man is innocent until proven guilty. Unless you are 100% certain that a man committed a crime, then you cannot say anything to imply that he is guilty or you can go to prison for SLANDER and TREASON!!! If we are only 99% percent sure that Smollett is guilty, then the Senate must vote as soon as possible to confirm his nomination.

The Sentinelese people are at risk.

On the one hand, most people agree that the Sentinelese people have a right to be left alone. On the other hand, they just aren't going to be left alone forever. One foolish man tried to convert them to Christianity this month. Fools are like roaches, there are many, many more besides the one you just stomped on. If the Sentinelese don't die out from a disease brought by this most recent intruder, they are still at even more risk than ever before.

Some might try to convert them again, someone might try to recruit them for a cult, someone might want workers for a new sneaker factory. Their best hope for survival is a well-planned intervention. The first step to helping them is gaining their trust and consent. The first step to gaining their trust is to establish contact. The safest way to establish contact is to send an arrow-proof robot with a video screen to the island. And even if the natives don't destroy the robot or ignore it, it will still take years before linguists learn enough of their language before their can be any mutual understanding.

If the Indian government isn't willing to allow this, these people may die out within a few years.

That possible executive order

Trump insists that he can revoke birthright citizenship through an executive order. This is the most bizarre and chilling thing I've ever heard a president say.

The 14^th Amendment guarantees citizenship to everyone born on US soil as long as they are born to parents who are subject to US jurisdiction. Being subject to US jurisdiction means you can be arrested and put on trial if you break the law. Of course this includes US citizens, but it also includes tourists, business travelers, foreign exchange students, and illegal aliens. Yes, illegal aliens are subject to US jurisdiction. If they weren't subject to US jurisdiction, then nothing they do would be illegal. Foreign diplomats and visiting heads of state are NOT subject to US jurisdiction. So if the next Queen of England were to give birth in New York, that British prince would still not be a US citizen.

Anything this president can do, the next president will try it too. If President Trump is allowed to override the Constitution with a executive order in 2018, then in 2025, President Pinko McGungrabber will also be able to do the same thing after he takes the oath of office with his hand on a copy of Mao's little red book.

Revoking birthright citizenship will have drawbacks. A child born in the US might not be eligible for citizenship in the country that his parents are from. This creates a stateless person, someone who owes no allegiance to any country. For such a person to be deported, another country would have to be willing to accept them. Stateless people can pose quite a security risk. Osama Bin Laden was a stateless person after he was exiled from Saudi Arabia. Citizenship must begin at birth and end at death.

The primary benefit of birthright citizenship is that as long as you are born here, you are a citizen and that cannot be revoked. You can never be deported. Any foreign-born woman who loves America so much that she is willing go through labor or undergo a C-section has forever earned the right to stay.

Trump and Saudi Arabia

So Saudi Arabia is alleged to have murdered a journalist. Jamal Khashoggi was seen entering a Saudi consulate in Turkey, and was never seen leaving. Trump says that there will be “severe punishment”. But he wants to continue to sell Saudi Arabia weapons! Because jobs!

1. Maybe we shouldn't sell weapons to assholes? If you were running a gun store, and an MS-13 member walked in, would you sell him a gun? Maybe he'll get a gun anyway, but does it have to come from you? Yes, I get that there are lots of jobs in the defense industry. This is mainly because the Pentagon overpays for everything. But if we stop selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, so what if Boeing and Lockheed have to lay some people off. Are all those STEM majors going to have a hard time finding a job in the best economy in 20 years? Really?

2. If you HAVE to sell a country weapons, how do you safely “severely punish” them? Wouldn't you want to stay on friendly terms so that your merchandise doesn't get used on you or your friends?