WINNING: Eric Garcetti Nomination Crashing and Burning

"Why won't anyone say Hello to me?"

Soon-to-be-former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was destined for political stardom. He served (supposedly) as a key arbitrator with the LA Unified Teachers union and management in early 2019, trying to broker higher pay and more accountability in the district and get the teachers back to work. In January of that year, the LA Teachers all went on strike, the first time in thirty years.

Garcetti was also revving up his potential presidential chances. A lot of politicos and public thinkers, including Trump-Deranged conservative George F. Will, considered Garcetti a viable contender for the Democrat nomination in 2020.

All of that came to an abrupt halt in February 2019, since Garcetti really didn't have the time, money, or gravitas to launch a national campaign. Besides, he would have to contend with other California progressives like billionaire Tom Steyer and US Senator Kamala Harris.

From there, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and the numerous labor unions in the city turned on Garcetti. They saw him as a corporate sellout who did the bidding of the big money developers while ignoring the progressive activists in the city. Crime skyrocketed during his tenure in office, as well, and the homelessness crisis went from bad to worse.

Garcetti couldn't even run his city. What business did he have running for President, or even seeking federal office in a cabinet post? Two years ago, shortly after Biden was "elected," Black Lives Matter activists actively protested outside of his house, demanding that the Biden administration not even consider him for Secretary of Transporation.

Everyone hates Eric.

And the hate has not abated.

Biden acquiesced to consider him for the ambassadorship to India. That nomination has no proceeded as smoothly as he would have hoped. Two years into the Biden debale, and Garcetti has barely advanced out of committee ... and that was in January, 2022.

Eight months later, and his nomination still languishes.

The two US Senators from Iowa, Charles Grassley and Joni Ernst, have blocked his nomination's advancement due to allegations that the mayor ignored allegations and reports of sexual harassment in his office. #MeToo issues are all too common in California politics, and it's no surprise that Garcetti's weak leadership contributed to a climate of abuse in his own office.

Of course, there's a lot more going on behind the scenes why Garcetti can't get a break in the United States Senate. Republicans are committed to frustrating as many local progressive candidates from getting national attention. The Democratic caucus is woefully split on his confirmation, too, because of ongoing Black Lives Matter lobbying. They see him as too much pro-police, and that he did nothing for the black communities in Los Angeles. Let's not forget that Black Supremacist Melina Abdullah shouted "F--k Eric Garcetti" along with her vulgar hatred of President Trump. She condemned both of them in the same breath, by the way.

It has gotten so bad, that little Eric has asked his daddy, failed former District Attorney Gil Garcetti, to lobby for him, along with his mother. This is just sad on so many levels.

Where does the nomination stand now? Nowhere, and it looks like it is getting nowhere fast.

The Orange County Register reports:

The disastrous story of Eric Garcetti’s ambassadorship nomination drags on and on

It has been more than a year since President Joe Biden nominated Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to serve as ambassador to India.

How much longer will Eric insist on embarrassing himself?

In the year since, Garcetti’s nomination has devolved into nothing short of a political embarrassment for the Biden Administration. As mayor of a world-renowned city like Los Angeles, Garcetti should be a shoo-in for a position like this, but his incompetence is just staggering.

Los Angeles may be world-renowned, but for all the wrong reasons. Skyrocketing crime rates, homelessness crises all over the city. Property crimes, robberies, rapes, arsons, murders are up all over the city.

Most recently, he lied to a Los Angeles Times reporter about the purpose of a recent trip to Washington, D.C.

Eric Garcetti has a truth problem? I am shocked--shocked!

Asked whether it was “now or never” on his nomination, he responded to reporter Dakota Smith, “The meetings I took, I wasn’t in D.C. on this issue.” He insisted he was there to talk about the pandemic, transportation policy and the recent Summit of the Americas.

But that wasn’t true.

Eric Garcetti can't get rid of Los Angeles fast enough. The city has turned into a third-world hellhole on his watch, so bad that the chief of police has to warn visitors that their safety cannot be guaranteed. In fact, LAPD basically had to tell tourists that they should be prepared to forfeited whatever goods or money they have if they are accosted or held up, and that they should refrain from wearing anything flashy or expensive when out and about in the city. What are we now, Minneapolis?!

“When Smith pointed out that he also met with the Hispanic Caucus, and told the mayor he wasn’t being truthful, Garcetti walked away,” the Times reported. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus itself announced having met with Garcetti and went out of its way to publicly discredit itself by issuing a statement backing Garcetti’s nomination.

So, Garcetti wants to play the race card, as if that will help his chances. What good is there talking to the House of Representatives, anyway? Is Eric so clueless, that he forgot that it's the United States Senate that is supposed to confirm his nomination?

“The mayor was also seen last week in D.C. with Breelyn Pete, a lobbyist hired by Garcetti’s parents, Sukey and Gil Garcetti, to advocate for the mayor’s nomination,” the Times further noted. “The lobbying firm where she works reported Thursday $30,000 in income during the second quarter tied to Garcetti’s parents. The firm lobbied the White House, Senate and House, according to the firm’s filing.”

Yikes.

Wow! $30,000 to hire some people to tell some other people to make Eric Garcetti an ambassador. Yet for all that time and money, nobody wants him.

Meanwhile, the Times also recently found that a report about the city’s COVID response “softened or removed” criticism of how Garcetti handled the pandemic.

For example “a sentence noting that there were complaints from staff at the Emergency Management Department, or EMD, about their work tasks being ‘politically driven’ was removed.” Further, a reference to the observation of “several department leaders who attended Garcetti’s weekly ‘cabinet’ meetings … that the meetings ‘often felt more like dictations rather than discussions’” was removed.

Garcetti resorts to doctoring reports about his mayoral governance, too.

Yikes.

Just add all of this to Garcetti’s greatest hits.

Like the Politico report that Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly felt “strong-armed over his refusal to relent on Garcetti’s nomination.” He was reportedly threatened he could be “cut off from donor networks” if he didn’t back Garcetti.

Now they are using donors to bully US Senators. How is this going to play with the rest of the caucus? Call me crazy, but I don't think that federally elected officials respond to well to being bullied in this fashion. The way that most progressive lawmakers think in Washington DC, they see the cities and states as their serfs, not their sovereigns. After all, they have no respect for federalism, the rule of law, or constituent service generally.

Or the warning from Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, that, “I have received numerous credible allegations from multiple whistleblowers alleging that Mr. Garcetti, while Mayor of Los Angeles, had knowledge of sexual harassment and assaults allegedly committed against multiple city employees and their associates by his close advisor, and that he ignored the misconduct.” A follow-up report found that Garcetti “likely knew or should have known” about such misconduct.

Me too.

Last year, columnist Doug McIntyre raised the point that, “Those of us who live in L.A. have additional concerns: Did the mayor also not witness the corruption that’s rampant in the city he runs? For nearly 20 years Garcetti has been in the thick of things, including 12 years on the City Council, six of them as council president.”

EEK! How could I forget that Garcetti was a swamp-creature city councilman in Los Angeles all this time? Since I mentioned his father, I cannot forget that the only reason little Eric made it in LA City politics was due to his family name. He had nothing resilient or spectacular on his resume. He never really hustled or worked the precincts that he wanted to represent on the council, either. He is a total machine hack, a selfish golden boy politico with a silver spoon in his mouth, who got where he got because his daddy got lots of money and a shot at countywide office in 1992, only to lose to a Republican in a year that was not that great for Republicans across the country (2000).

Garcetti shouldn't even be a name of any note in LA politics, but here we are.

Enough is enough. Garcetti should do the decent thing and withdraw from the process. If he can’t muster the integrity to do so, Democratic senators should speak out and make clear Garcetti doesn’t deserve the position.

Oh please, if only! Then again, his mayoral tenure is almost over (thank goodness), so he'll have plenty of time to keep begging, pleading, and arm-twisting US Senators in the vain hope that he can get a vote for his nomination.

I predict that his nomination will meander around for another six months at least. There will be a floor vote, and he will lose.

Judicial LGBT Supremacism in Hong Kong

I have wanted to write this report for some time, discussing how judicial activism, or judicial tyranny, or most explicitly stated judicial supremacism is pushing the LGBT Agenda throughout Southeast Asia. To put it simply, judicial supremacism occurs when courts make policy, write laws under the guise of striking down or invoking policies based on broad readings and renderings of a nation's charter or constitution.

The United States has struggle with this contentious legal and political matter for the last fifty years, although the problems of judicial supremacism emerged with the ruling Marbury v. Madison, in which the United States Supreme Court granted itself the sweeping power of judicial review by denying itself a limited power accorded to it by Congress in the Judiciary Act of 1798.

This contentious problem of Judicial Supremacism has become particularly damaging as LGBT activists and lobbyists have relied extensively on this dubious legal mechanism to advance their narrow, elitist cause at the expense of the rule of law and the will of the voters in different countries.

This has not just been an issue in the United States, either.

In 2018, the Indian Supreme Court struck down Statute 377, which criminalizing indecent, i.e. homosexual acts among men.

This pressure, this incessant lobby to overturn the law had started as early as 1991, and gay activists relied on the court systems, not the legislative process, to effect this change. This is a clear-cut example of judicial tyranny, undermining the moral fabric of a country.

This report catalogues the timeline that lead to the unjust reversal of the 377 statute in India. Here are two notable events in the timeline:

July 2018: A five-judge bench of the supreme court, including chief justice Dipak Misra, begins hearing the petitions filed by Johar and others against section 377. While supporters of the law claim the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and the disintegration of India’s social fabric as reasons to retain it, many of the justices make encouraging comments. “It is not an aberration but a variation,” justice Indu Malhotra says.

Instead of respecting this wise counsel, and pushing back on any attempts to repeal Section 377, the Indian Supreme Court apparently reversed itself, and two months later:

September 2018: In a unanimous verdict, the supreme court decides to scrap section 377, which chief justice Misra describes as ”irrational, indefensible and manifestly arbitrary,” marking a triumphant end to a lengthy struggle for justice.

The only irrational behavior was that the Indian Supreme Court heeded the siren sounds of "equality, fairness, and justice", words which have been mangled and perverted outside of their proper meaning. The LGBT lobby does not care about equality, but rather power and tyranny, at the expense of parents, children, and the nations in which they are pushing for privileges at the expense of everyone else.

This judicial supremacism has not just afflicted India.

It's become quite rampant in Hong Kong, where common law still holds sway, even though the former British Colony has now become a special administrative region under the control of the Chinese Communist Party based in Beijing.

Consider this series of legal cases or "rows" which have emerged in the region:

1. Hong Kong’s highest court upholds landmark judgment in favour of lesbian expat QT

The Court of Final Appeal has upheld a lower court’s judgment in favour of lesbian expat QT, affirming what legal experts deemed a “landmark decision” for Hong Kong’s LGBTQ community.

In a unanimous judgment handed down Wednesday morning, the court agreed with the Court of Appeal that the differential treatment towards QT – namely denying her a spousal visa on the basis of marital status – amounted to unlawful discrimination.

This decision was rendered in 2018.

The truth is that there needs to be clear-cut discrimination, i.e. natural definition in matters of sex and marriage. Marriage has been and will always be an institution of one man and one way, a clear expression of the bonds of fidelity for establishing civilizing, establishing mores, for rearing children, and for determining a strong and stable moral fabric.

2. ‘Inconsistent with the right to equality’: Hong Kong courtdeclares male gay sex laws unconstitutional

In 2019, the Hong Kong Free Press reported:

A series of archaic laws criminalising certain gay sex acts were struck down as unconstitutional by a Hong Kong judge on Thursday because they only targeted men and were discriminatory.

The ruling is the latest legal victory for Hong Kong’s gay community who have struggled to persuade the pro-Beijing authorities in the international financial hub to allow gay marriage or civil unions.

The liberal press' pro-gay bias glares out conspicuously in the first two paragraphs of this report. It's striking how unprofessional modern journalism has become. Words like "archaic" amount to nothing more than chronological snobbery, as Dr. Thio Li-Ann of Singapore declared in her spirited and effective defense of Section 377 for the Republic of Singapore.

The notion that statutes which criminalize indecent acts between men should not stand simply because the statute targets men is not sufficient cause to throw out the statute. As for the charge of "discrimination", laws by their nature are discriminatory, defining the difference between good and bad, right and wrong, healthy and unhealthy.

This decision is particularly disturbing because the Hong Kong special region had already decriminalized homosexuality in 1991, but then for added measure the LGBT lobbies in Hong Kong insisted on the striking down of the 377 statute in their legal code, as well.

This legal outcome should serve as further evidence that the homosexual and transgender lobbies have no interest in slowing down their efforts. They are not interested in "fairness", but privilege and pre-eminence. Sadly. this is the second of a series of cases decided by the Hong Kong judicial system to accommodate this gross indecency toward the rule of law.

For the record, there is no such thing as a "gay community."

Notice also this false concept of "right to equality." What does that even mean? Equality of results? Equality of reference? Equality of opportunity? Sexual conduct between a man and a woman are not the same as sexual acts--in reality, sexual abuse--between two men or two women. There is no equality there at all, nor should those acts be recognized as equal in any way.

Again, this judicial supremacism growing in Hong Kong must be checked.

3. Hong Kong’s top court sides with gay civil servant inapplication for spousal benefit and tax assessment

Here's the summary of this case:

The Court of Final Appeal has ruled in favour of a gay civil servant applying for spousal benefits for his husband – a major legal victory for Hong Kong’s LGBTQ community.

Angus Leung is an immigration officer who married his husband Scott Adams in New Zealand in 2014. The Civil Service Bureau refused to change Leung’s marital status and grant benefits, such as medical coverage, to his husband, and Leung filed a judicial review in 2015.

Aside from the natural fact that men cannot have husbands, regardless of any pronouncement from any government, this is a clear affront to the home-rule of Hong Kong. Other gay activists are engaging in similar perverse legal shenanigans to normalize homosexual relationships. Hong Kong citizens marry their same-sex partners in another country, then with that "legal" status in place, they demand all the privileges which come with marital status.

Hong Kong Gay Couple in Benefits Row

Here's the problem: from Common Law established by Magna Carta, to the very Judeo-Christian principles which established marriage as an institution, there is no possible recognition for marriage other than as the union of one man and one woman.

It's nonsensical that any court could rule that the corruption of the marriage bed, as recognized in one nation, should then impose itself on Hong Kong or any other jurisdiction.

4. Hong Kong court rules against same-sex civil partnerships

In this case, Hong Kong judges ruled wisely and properly.

A Hong Kong court on Friday upheld a government policy which denies civil partnerships to same-sex couples.

In the city’s first-ever case on civil partnerships, the Court of First Instance ruled against the woman applicant – known only as MK. She filed a legal challenge against the government last June, arguing that the ban on same-sex civil partnerships was unconstitutional.

It seems very strange that the courts are currently drawing lines between same-sex couples formed in other countries versus same-sex couples from Hong Kong who seek legal recognition in their own government.

So-called same-sex partnerships should not be recognized regardless of their legal status or orgin. Sadly, this kind of legal conflict will create problems for Hong Kong's judiciary in the near future. Hopefully, wiser minds will prevail and strike down the unmerited, immoral privileges which previous court rulings have unjustly conferred on other homosexual couples.

5. Hong Kong’s homophobic public housing policy ruledunconstitutional and unlawful by High Court

The biased editorializing in the title alone is just disgusting. It's also poor English, since policies or government directives cannot be "homophobic" or display any other kind of irrational fear.

Furthemore, opposition to homosexual conduct is not a mental disorder, nor is it a mental ailment which must be treated. On the contrary, a society, a culture which prizes decency and health will oppose the promotion and adoption of homosexual behaviors and ideologies.

As for the ruling itself, here are the basic elements of the matter:

The High Court has said that a Housing Authority policy that prevents same-sex couples who married abroad from applying for public housing is unconstitutional and unlawful.

On Wednesday, the Court of Appeal ruled that the Spousal Policy violated the equal protection Hong Kong residents enjoy before the law, as well as the prohibition of discrimination as detailed in the Basic Law and the Bill of Rights Ordinance. The applicant of the judicial review, 26-year-old Hong Kong permanent resident Nick Infinger, filed the case in November 2018 – two months after the Authority’s rejection of his application for a family public housing tenancy with his partner.

Once again, the Hong Kong court ruling misapplies and distorts the concept of equality. Marriage by its very nature is not about equality, but mutual respect and submission. As an institution, the marriage sacrament--more than a mere contract or compact--protects the beautiful and essential union of one man and one woman.

This issue of "equal protection" as brought forth in this case is unduly troubling, as well. "Equal protection" in what way, exactly? It's as though the judges in this case by their own supremacism are drawing up entirely new meanings for words and language presented in the legislative text.

The courts in Hong Kong have overstepped their bounds. Tragically, they are adopting the unacceptable deviations which have become all to prevalent in other Common Law based and/or Commonwealth countries around the world.

This is a disturbing trend, Judicial Supremacism, which the people of Hong Kong, and citizens in every other country around the world must resist at all costs. Judges who can decide what laws mean are essential passing laws as they see fit, without respect or regard for the will of the voters or the spirit of the laws enacted by the communal exercise of free citizens in their countries.

Is There Hope?

Fortunately, by many accounts a constitutionalist Christian will be serving on the Hong Kong Supreme Court very soon. The South China Morning Post reports:

Mr. Justice Andrew Cheung

Mr Justice Andrew Cheung Kui-nung will be Hong Kong’s next top judge, the city’s leader said on Tuesday, as she praised him as a man of “high integrity” and “exceptional qualities”.

But Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said the appointment would need to be endorsed by the Legislative Council, and expressed concern it could be delayed by political wrangling.

Opposition lawmakers have prevented the Legco’s agenda-setting House Committee from electing a chairman for the past six months.

Cheung, 58, who is a permanent judge of the Court of Final Appeal, will become the chief justice from January 11 next year, succeeding Geoffrey Ma Tao-li, who has served in the top post for more than a decade and will soon turn 65.

A number of Hong Kongers have informed me that this appointment is good news for the pro-family movement in particular, and for the rule of law in general. A similar development has been taking place in the United States, as a new slate of federal judges, nominated by President Donald J. Trump, have all received strong endorsements from The Federalist Society, a conservative non-profit organization committed to restoring Constitutional supremacy to the United States federal judiciary.

Perhaps a similar move of pro-family activism within the Legislative Council of Hong Kong will ensure that future lawyers and judges restore a right recognition of natural law as expressed in the Law of Nations and Common Law, which include an unshakable regard for marriage as a union of one man and one woman.

NewsWEAK Fail: "Ivanka Plagiarizes Her Own Speech"

I cannot believe that the press has sunk to such a low level.

Do they even take themselves seriously anymore? Do they have any self-respect or regard for their craft anymore? No. Instead, they have turned into a 24-7 Anti-Trump Derangement Machine, dedicated to doing whatever they can to smear, shame, and stop the President and his pro-American agenda.

They are still rabid that they could not prevent the President from becoming ... the President. They have all lined up behind Crooked Hillary from the outset, and they were determined to make sure that she was the next Chief Executive. She would complete the circle for the globalist, corporatist international shills who want to enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else. She was an elitist's elite.

Ivanka Trump plagiarizes one of her own speeches in India https://t.co/nqrPl8R6cX pic.twitter.com/C5Ivw2fEbb

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) November 30, 2017

Plagiarism means stealing someone else's ideas and using them as if they were your own. No one can plagiarize themselves!

Someone at Newsweek needs a dictionary.

Of course, this gaffe merely reveals how deep the anti-Trump, anti-White House animus has clouded the judgment and integrity of the mainstream media.

They tried to cover their tracks once someone clicks on the link, but it's too little, too late!

Even with this correction, though, another question comes forward:

"Why is this even news?" I mean, who cares of Ivanka used statements from another speech to address entrepreneurship in India?

Keep in mind, I am not a big fan of Ivanka of Jared. They both need to go, in my view, but that's no excuse for the corrupt media to go out of their way to shame her for speaking her own mind a second time!