Random News and Notes 24 July

Apparently the hot newness on the TikTok is the room temperature challenge door kick challenge. That’s when you run up to a random door and kick it in while brandishing an airsoft gun.

Sorry kiddos, you try that in large swathes of the country – especially Hillsborough county Florida – and you’ll get ventilated. Pull that garbage at my house and you’ll be having a closed casket funeral. Don’t be dumb kids. . .

Obama DNI James Clapper was on CNN recently. Host – and partisan hack – Kaitlan Collins asked Clapper about the info dump about the RussiaGate scandal and Clapper had this to say:

Well, certainly I do. You know, after eight and a half years of this, and I don’t know of an intelligence product that was more scrutinized, more investigated than that product was by numerous people…You know, it’s very disconcerting. It really is. And I take seriously when the President of the United States accuses me of being a participant in a treasonous conspiracy, which is ridiculous.

The DOJ has formed a ‘strikeforce’ to look into the possible prosecution of those involved. There is an issue though; the statute of limitations has run on a lot of the potential charges Clapper, Brennan, Comey, Rice and Barry could face over this.

I have an issue with anyone calling what was done treason. It is not treason – treason has a very specific legal and linguistic definition – it is seditious conspiracy.

There was another win for the Trump administration at the Supreme Court yesterday. This time it is in a case called Trump v Boyle. The underlying facts of the case are the same as with Wilcox, the president wanted to remove statutorily protected members of an executive agency without cause. In Boyle those individuals are three Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) commissioners—Mary Boyle, Alexander Hoehn-Saric, and Richard Trumka Jr., in Wilcox it was Gwynne A. Wilcox, the then NLRB Chair.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a short concurrence suggesting the Court should have granted Certiorari before judgement. That seems to indicate that the Court is looking to overturn Humphrey’s Executor. That case that upheld the constitutionality of for-cause removal protections for commissioners of independent agencies like the Federal Trade Commission, limiting the president’s authority to remove them without cause. We’ll see. . .

If you haven’t already heard, our dear friend and community member MyrmidoNOT has gone to Freya’s Fields. Take a moment and leave a comment HERE.

This just broke as I was going to publish. According to TMZ, Terry Bollea, better known as Hulk Hogan has passed at the age of 71. The pro-wrestling Superstar was in poor health recently and apparently died of cardiac arrest at his home in Clearwater Florida.

Requiescat in pace.