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J “The use of Executive Orders seems akin to a dog marking its territory. With great consequence.”
K “Trump marked his territory and remarked what Biden had unmarked. Biden had marked his territory and unmarked what Trump had marked. You can mark their words.”
J “It is a dog-mark-dog world.”
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K “We may each hear what we want to hear. I did hear him celebrating freedom of speech and the rule of law and the possibility of peace sprinkled among some of the other dross and red meat he announced.”
J “He has not left the campaign trail. His screed was a full contact frontal ‘shock and awe’ assault on the status quo.”
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J “Not much about China. China is the challenge. China will define his administration.”
K “You can say that again.”
J “Not much about China. China is the challenge. China will define his administration.”
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J “The DEI movement was problematic and often unfairly discriminatory in practice. However, the wholesale attack and dismantling of the programs is too wrenching. Public and private programs must provide for everyone’s participation in society.”
K “His broad attacks on LGBTQ+ concerns are too sweeping. Someone needs to find the reasonable common ground.”
J “Americans of all stripes believe they can repudiate both physics and biology when reality is inconvenient or intrusive. Trump and I – imagine that – and you – imagine that – accept biology and recognize that biological men and women are different when they walk out on the playing field, the pitch and the court. However, some courts demand to repudiate this reality.”
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K “I am pleased he kept his word and commuted and pardoned the January 6 defendants. I have trouble with the release of those who had committed violent acts and/or destroyed property. However, with time it is clear that the entire undertaking was a grand cynical entrapment by the Democrats. Convictions are tossed out when the prosecution is tainted. The pardons are in effect a repudiation and an indictment of the entire Democratic political and legal machine. Biden’s pardon of the J6 Committee is a clear acknowledgment that the members and its henchman were involved in a dishonest and fraudulent enterprise.”
J “Trump’s pardons are disgusting. There is no law. Biden’s pardons were necessary and appropriate.”
K “Is there even one person in America who has the knowledge and the wisdom and the perspective and the maturity and the independence to chronicle the events of J6 honestly and objectively? Future historians will write whatever is necessary to obtain tenure.”
J “If there is tenure.”
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K “What about Biden’s pardon of the other members of the Biden crime family? If they accept the pardon, they are admitting culpability. Back to the books for a read of Burdick v. United States, 235 U.S. 79 (1915).”
J “Trump has made it clear that the Biden family would have been unfairly pursued and prosecuted.”
K “On the basis of the available public information, there is no doubt that the government could have secured criminal indictments against each one of the Bidens.”
J “Just a political vendetta.”
K “Someone has argued for some time that the Lawfare would circle around.”
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J “It is and will always be Denali.”
K “Yup.”
J “Denali, Alaska has a nice ring and subtle cadence. As I recall, ‘Denali’ is a Koyukon Athabascan word that means ‘big’ or ‘tall’ and ‘Alaska’ means ‘Mainland’ or ‘Greatland’ in some dialects. Big, Great. They pair well.”
K “Denali, Alaska is also a pleasing six-word memoir.”
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J “Here be dragons.”
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Bumper stickers of the week:
“We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end and, perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into. My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier. That’s what I want to be, a peacemaker and a unifier.” Donald Trump, Inaugural Address.
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast.” Alexander Pope
Here be dragons
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