{"id":15880,"date":"2025-11-22T10:12:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T18:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=15880"},"modified":"2025-11-22T10:12:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T18:12:52","slug":"that-was-a-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2025\/11\/22\/that-was-a-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"That was a surprise."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"MTG.png\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MTG.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\">Majorie Taylor Greene has resigned from congress.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure how I feel about that. In many ways she\u2019d become a distraction and in other ways I think she was really trying to make things better.<\/p>\n<p>Her epic confrontations with Jasmine Crockett were always amusing. She\u2019s someone I\u2019d really like to see gone from Congress too. She might have overstepped herself with the latest gaffe about the Dr. Epstein that contributed to Lee Zeldin\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Crockett is trying like hell to walk it back but everyone knows she was trying to conflate Dr. Epstein with Jeffery Epstein. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people, really stupid people, that will run with Zelden accepting money from an Epstein and believe that it was the bad one. Now it looks like Crockett will retain her congressional seat because the Texas redistricting wasn\u2019t good enough. That\u2019s a pity because Crockett is one of the most unlikable, nasty, uninformed members of congress. She really needs to go.<\/p>\n<p>MTG bailing as she has, reminds me of a local guy that used to represent my district in congress or the senate. He went to Washington trying to help, I believe he really wanted to make things better but after one term he threw in the towel. Rumor was that he got to Washington and realized that none of Congress was about doing the right thing for the people. He came back to California and got elected as a supervisor where he can actually do some good. Small as those achievements are with the state of California politics.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"jasmine-crockett-shouting-323714118.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/jasmine-crockett-shouting-323714118.jpg\" alt=\"Jasmine crockett shouting 323714118.\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" border=\"0\">I hope MTG does well in whatever she chooses to do after she resigns.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been amused at the democrats being all pissy about Trump and others calling out their stupid \u201cPSA\u201d telling our military not to follow illegal orders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The subtext was that Trump is giving illegal orders and the military shouldn\u2019t follow those orders. While Trump may have given some questionable orders, thus far they haven\u2019t been illegal or immoral. That, as I recall is the test the UCMJ calls out.<\/p>\n<p>Which means these idiot politicians are technically calling for a coup d\u2019 \u00e9tat. By definition that makes what they\u2019ve said treasonous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course they\u2019ll never face trial, much less the punishment for treason. Honestly, I think they should.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Back in World War II, there was a phrase, \u201cLoose Lips sink ships\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It was cautionary to remind people that loose talk could have dire consequences. If perhaps these politicians faced trial over their loose talk maybe it would cool down the rhetoric. So would a firing squad.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear I\u2019m not suggesting that anyone take up arms against these politicians. I\u2019m suggesting that they be tried, and if convicted, they pay the price.<\/p>\n<p>In their little \u201cPSA\u201d, these politicians claimed they\u2019d have the soldier\u2019s backs. That is an outright lie. These politicians are the same politicians that would think nothing of the soldiers they fed into the gristmill of war. These people would happily deploy American Troops to Ukraine and embroil us in a war with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>They also have zero direct control over UCMJ proceedings and could only \u201c<em>Advise<\/em>\u201d. In other words, they not only wouldn\u2019t have soldier\u2019s backs, there is no way they <em><strong>could<\/strong><\/em> have soldier\u2019s backs. But they\u2019re more than willing to disrupt chain of command, and destroy careers for their personal political gain.<\/p>\n<p>I personally find that despicable. Which is why I\u2019d love to see them put on trial.<\/p>\n<p>In the California Governor\u2019s race, we\u2019ve gotten a field of Democrats, all of whom are somewhat questionable. That being said, the Republican candidates aren\u2019t especially stellar either. Once again, the people of California will not have a decent choice for Governor, not that it would matter anyway given the California Legislature will still be majority &#8220;<em>Tax and Spend&#8221;<\/em> Democrats. These folks implement policies and programs that don\u2019t work, then continue to throw money at demonstrably failed policies and programs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, if they showed the slightest bit of introspection and pulled back from failures I\u2019d be fine with them being in power. <em><strong>But they don\u2019t<\/strong><\/em>. They continue to burn money and then actively defy any voter initiatives that they don\u2019t like. To my way of thinking, that\u2019s not representational governance, that\u2019s simply living in an elitist fiefdom.<\/p>\n<p>I, and I suspect a lot of America wants to see accountability. I even believe that if that accountability were to be equally distributed on both sides of the \u201cParty Divide\u201d it would go a long way toward healing and unifying the country.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sincerely hoping that now we have the disclosure pending regarding the Epstein files, we\u2019ll see some well deserved prosecution. I\u2019m not holding my breath mind you, but I still have a sliver of hope.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to see trials and prosecution about the whole COVID debacle too. There were a lot of people who got rich from that mess starting in Washington and going all the way down to the local levels.<\/p>\n<p>In short, I\u2019m done with \u201cHearings\u201d. Now I\u2019m about justice, retribution, and punishment.<\/p>\n<p>If that means politicians across the nation being arrested and held without bond because they\u2019re flight risks, I\u2019ve got my popcorn ready. Hell, I might even sign up for cable just to watch the nightly recaps of the trials.<\/p>\n<p>Again, I\u2019m not holding my breath. Sadly, I don\u2019t really believe in the judicial system anymore.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, the Supreme Court refused to hear a case that would overturn Gay Marriage. So there\u2019s that. Oddly, the Liberal Democrats have been largely silent on it. Just a year ago, they were saying if Trump got into office, he\u2019d undo Gay Marriage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Where are those politicians and pundits now? Why aren\u2019t they lauding the SCOTUS decision?<\/p>\n<p>Oh right\u2026 They just wanted to terrify the LGBT(insert alphabet here) community into voting against Trump and keep them on the streets protesting.<\/p>\n<p>Aren\u2019t all of us tired of being \u201cUsed\u201d by politicians yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Majorie Taylor Greene has resigned from congress. I\u2019m not sure how I feel about that. In many ways she\u2019d become a distraction and in other ways I think she was really trying to make things better. Her epic confrontations with Jasmine Crockett were always amusing. She\u2019s someone I\u2019d really like to see gone from Congress &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2025\/11\/22\/that-was-a-surprise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;That was a surprise.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[182],"class_list":["post-15880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15881,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15880\/revisions\/15881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}