{"id":32351,"date":"2025-02-21T05:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=32351"},"modified":"2025-02-20T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T02:00:00","slug":"cruel-and-unusual-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/cruel-and-unusual-punishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruel and Unusual Punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was a brutal week.\u00a0 Traveling, problems at work, family health issues, snow and ice removal and on and on and on.\u00a0 So of course, the week ends with my yearly trip to the tax accountant. But honestly it was kind of soothing.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got a few business-related problems that have been gnawing at my mind for the last few months but I let it fester because I knew I could talk about them when I had my tax appointment.\u00a0 But in the last few weeks I\u2019ve been getting some warning e-mails from the state so I was planning to do some research before the appointment to have all my ducks in a row.\u00a0 But all this jazz that\u2019s gone on in the last week harpooned my good intentions and so I showed up at this meeting annoyed and worried.\u00a0 And my accountant, as all good accountants should, explained in a few short words what I had to do and told me to stop worrying about it and just put it to bed in February and I would never have to think about this situation for the rest of eternity.\u00a0 After that he told me that the reason I hadn\u2019t gotten a document from one of the brokerage houses I have an account with is because they have until the 15th<\/sup> of February to mail it out and if I had waited another week to do my taxes, I\u2019d have the form in hand.\u00a0 So, problems solved, headache soothed and fears dispelled.\u00a0 So, until next week there\u2019s nothing but smooth sailing.\u00a0 Well, there are a few inches of snow predicted for tonight but that\u2019s just so I don\u2019t get bored.<\/p>\n

And today, the Senate finally voted in Kash Patel as the next Director of the FBI.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been waiting impatiently for this one for weeks.\u00a0 Only the loopy women Republican senators from Maine and Alaska voted against him.\u00a0 Even crooked old McConnell voted for Patel.\u00a0 Mitch announced he\u2019s not running for reelection next year and probably wants to stay on Trump\u2019s good side so he isn\u2019t prosecuted for corruption.\u00a0 I think FBI Director is the last of the really important appointments left.\u00a0 At this point, Trump has his people in place to start getting things done.<\/p>\n

The first clip I saw on Patel\u2019s approval on YouTube was from MSNBC and so the tenor of the report was that Kash Patel would lead to the downfall of the United States because he was the actual devil.\u00a0 They had all these Democrat senators railing against Patel because he would subvert the mission of the FBI by weaponizing it against Donald Trump\u2019s enemies.\u00a0 It was hilarious.\u00a0 The sheer scope of the projection they were transferring from Biden\u2019s FBI to Patel was staggering.\u00a0 They swore up and down that Patel had a hit list of about sixty FBI agents that he would punish for their work against Trump.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if it was true but it made my mouth water just thinking of it!\u00a0 If only a quarter of what they say Patel has in mind comes true it would be a reason to celebrate.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m well aware that the US Constitution has an explicit statement prohibiting \u201ccruel and unusual\u201d punishment.\u00a0 But both words in this description are somewhat vague.\u00a0 I think all of Trump\u2019s tormentors should lose all of their civil service benefits including pensions and be forced to work as janitorial cleaning staff at Trump properties at minimum wage for the rest of their lives or until Donald Trump thinks they\u2019ve suffered enough.\u00a0 Only in that way can they truly learn the humility that comes with being a civil servant.\u00a0 Oh, and they should be forced to listen to an audio loop of Trump\u2019s most memorable rally speeches during their hours of work.\u00a0 That should do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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