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Sic Semper Tyrannis
‘Sic Semper Tyrannis’ translates to ‘Thus Always to Tyrants,’ but nowadays it does not mean assassinating them as Julius Caesar, and even Abraham Lincoln in the minds of slaveowners, deserved to be, and were, violently eliminated.
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Nowadays it is enough to destroy what a tryrant stands for and to poison any evil seeds they may have planted while they were in power. Killing them is unnecessary to live up to the words ‘Thus Always to Tyrants.’
And on all Election Days, especially those coming up in November, that will be the task of voters whom I hope will elect a Congress that will finally stand up to the administration of Donald Trump.
It is time to elect Americans to both houses of Congress whose loyalty is to the nation and its Constitution rather than to the malignant law-breaking wannabe tyrant sitting astride the Executive Branch of our government and for whom the Constitution means nothing, especially its daily violation by the Immigration Enforcement and Control and Department of Justice personnel who go out of their way to ignore its First and Fourth Amendments.
Never forget, as the President has, and perhaps has never believed, that we are a nation based on laws.
We were reminded about this by former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s very limited testimony under oath before a House Committee the other day. Within the constraints of that hearing, over five hours long, he outlined the case that the President’s Department of Justice prevented him from trying in a courtroom. Democrats strongly hinted that they would be back with a further hearing once court orders preventing the discussion of other closed cases might expire.
Smith and Democratic members of the Committee made salient points about the events of January 6, 2021 while its Republican members, not under oath, concentrated on piddling details attempting to trick Smith into making a misstatement, which he did not do. The bottom line seems to be that the Republicans were dumb enough to allow Smith to present much of his case before the American people, watching it on TV, rather than before only a jury.
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Don’t count on the 25th amendment offering a way to rid our nation of tyranny either. While it allows the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet to determine that the president is "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office" and thus remove him from the role, that group consists entirely of his loyal appointees. So ‘Fuggetaboudat’! It doesn’t matter to them that this dunce cannot distinguish between Iceland and Greenland just because there is a lot of frozen precipitation in both places.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, read about it anywhere else, except of course on Fox or from similar mouthpieces beholden to the President. Jackspotpourri’s posting dated January 20 might be a good place to start, checking out the newspaper editorial included there.
An alternative course of action is suggested by Professor Barbara Walter in her ‘Here be Dragons’ posting of January 21. To read it, copy and paste https://barbarafwalter.substack.com/p/it-will-all-come-down-to-us on your browser line or click right here.
The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd wrote about real patriotism in her posting dated January 24. Click here or copy and paste https://www.nytimes.com/column/maureen-dowd on your browser line to find out why she says that ‘the depth of his (Trump’s) shallowness is infinite.’
And if that isn’t enough for your tastes, check out history professor Heather Cox Richardson’s ‘Letters from an American’ dated January 23. By now you should know you can find that each day at https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/
JL
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Your Responsibility Despite Despicable Pardons
The convicted criminals who invaded the Capitol on January 6, 2021, attempting to prevent the counting of the electoral votes in the 2020 presidential election which Donald Trump clearly lost, were pardoned by him when he won the 2024 presidential election.
Unfortunately, once properly served and any conditions included in them satisfied, such pardons cannot be voided.
Changing this would require an Amendment to the Constitution and doing that, on a long term basis, seems unwise from a political standpoint. That wold result in the repeated voiding by presidents of pardons made by prior presidents with which they might disagree.
The best course of action would seem to be for legitimate and non-partisan law enforcement agencies to keep an eye on those pardoned to make sure they are not back to their old tricks again, behavior which originally got them convicted and sentenced.
It’s time to consider such pardons as water over the dam and concentrate the government’s resources on addressing the underlying issues for which those pardoned were involved.
If you agree with that, now is the time to start working toward massive Democratic victories in 2026 and 2028.
It is up to you to make sure Democrats win both Houses of Congress in 2026 and the presidency two years later. That is your responsibility. Not the next person’s. IT IS YOURS!
Sic Semper Tyrannis! The power of the vote exceeds the power of an assassin.
JL
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Sources of Information on Jackspotpourri: The sources of information used by Jackspotpourri include a delivered local daily ‘paper’ newspaper (now becoming the South Florida Sun Sentinel) and what appears in my daily email; that includes the views of many contributors. Be aware that when I open that email, I first quickly glance at and screen out those sent to my very old former email address and those considered ‘promotional’ by Gmail’s system as no more than advertisements or requests for donations.
Besides these sources, I also utilize the Google search engine where I can look up any subject I want. Lately, these search results have been headed by a very generalized summary clearly labeled as being developed by AI (Artificial Intelligence). On occasion I might use such search results, but when I do, I will say that I am doing so. Generally, however, I try not to use such summaries in preparing Jackspotpourri.
After such ‘AI’ search results, there follows the other results of my search.
Unlike the anonymous AI-generated summaries, the sources of these results are clearly indicated, giving them a greater credibility than any AI summary. I feel that It comes down to who YOU want to be in the driver’s seat in seeking information: yourself or something else (Artificial Intelligence), the structure of which somewhere along the way had to have been created by others, with whose identity I am neither familiar nor comfortable. At least when I read a column by Timothy Snyder, for example, I know from where it comes, and to some extent, what to expect.
Caution should be exercised in using Artificial Intelligence.
JL
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