Dakota Beacon

Thus far I have not written about the on-going impeachment process. In the first place, so many are talking and writing about it that it seems almost superfluous to do so. In the second, we are in an existential struggle to preserve our culture and way of life in an increasingly dark world - that seems more important, and third, I have not seen Donald Trump as our political “savior” as some do. I see him rather as one more disappointment from the Republican Party. All that said, however, it is apparent that impeachment is being used as nothing but a political tactic.

The Democrats have settled on the president’s phone call to the Ukrainians as its pretext for impeachment. Supposedly he twigged it that Vice President Biden had made a state visit to Ukraine in order to sort them out over there with regard to his wayward and apparently useless son, Hunter. Hunter was being paid $50,000/month to be on a “gas board". This person would have a difficult time back home finagling a $500/month job, given his accomplishments to date, so the figure does certainly raise some questions. One question being why, if it is not Hunter-related, would our Vice President interfere in perceived corruption in the far reaches of the known world. No one seriously has a question about this. By deciding on this course the Democrats clumsily lifted the veil on some of the heretofore covered up machinations of the corrupt Obama administration. Good going, guys. And Biden, currently a candidate, in particular.

Next, in order to accomplish this they had to make up ex-post-facto laws (which you will recall from 8^th grade are illegal under our Constitution), to allow the contribution of Adam Schiff to be used against Trump. He was not technically allowed to bring in testimony of a whistle-blower second-hand. Okay, so Nancy Pelosi’s team had to fix that one. Already the process is illegal. Pelosi believes that there really are no rules in this process.

Impeachment is a necessary option to keep our government on the level at least to a large degree. When there is strong evidence of real corruption we need to act through our established processes. This, however, is showing more corruption in the Obama administration than in the Trump administration. After all, if Trump became aware of the state visits of the former Vice President to obscure regions to examine their conduct on their gas boards, it would actually behoove him to check it out and see what position the United States might have been left in with regard to the government of Ukraine. What concessions were made? What promises? These questions are very germane to the function of the current administration. You or I would certainly feel some compulsion to check on this, if not normal curiosity.   Would you think a president should find out why our heads of state are making personal visits to, say, Cameroon or Laos or Ukraine, for example, to look into corruption in their gas boards?  I would.  But now that curiosity appears to be a crime or at least an "impeachable offense".

What this begins to look a lot like is election nullification. The media and the Democrats hated it that Trump surprised them with a win. They don’t want to accept it. This looks to them like a way around the last election. It reminds me of Brexit. In Britain voters have made it clear through referendum that they want out of the European Union. The media and the elitists who run Britain won’t accept that. This is now about to be put to another vote through election. It has been two years since Brexit won and at least two deadlines have come and gone for withdrawal from the E.U. It looks as though they will keep voting until the Brexit side gives up and sits it out. That’s how Grand Forks got their events center. Every year we pay for it. But that was voted on multiple times, always getting a “no” from the people who would have to pay for it. Finally, during the early days of flood recovery, when everyone was preoccupied with getting the carp off their carpets, the vote was taken again. This time they got the result they wanted. If they hadn’t we’d still be voting on it. After enough elections we’d have paid for it in costs to stop it. That is what this impeachment “process” looks more and more like.

Chris Farrell has an interesting view of this posted in Gatestone Institute today (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15127/corrupt-impeachment-resolution ). Well worth the time to read it. We are in the midst of a coup. We don’t really have heroes in this fight but there seem to be a lot of villains to go around.

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