Finding the Facts - ist Magazine

 

Do not allow facts to get in the way…

 

Wednesday, January 25th, 2023

by Ken Pullen

A CROOKED PATH

 

Why did I invest the time in this research? Well, after reading through the following factual material you’ll discover the reason why and I hope at least a few folks take the time to think long and deeply about these facts.

We’re going to deal in pure facts here. Actual history. From 1961 to the present in America. No hyperbole, no opinion, no fanatisim or bias. As ‘ol Sargent Friday used to say on Dragnet to witnesses he interviewed with that slightly perturbed expression on his face and in his voice, “Just the facts, just the facts, ma’am.”

Now when you’ve gone through all this researched and factual information to the end you may not like what you discover, you may not agree with what you read here — but it’s all factual. Right to the very last word.

Thirty-one U.S. Congresses. Twelve different presidents.

First the Presidents:

Kennedy — Democrat, although he would never get on the ticket as a democrat today. Not opinion. Fact.

Nixon — Republican

Ford — Republican

Carter — Democrat

Reagan — Republican

George H.W. Bush — Republican

Clinton — Democrat

George W. Bush — Republican

Obama — Democrat

Trump — Republican

Biden — Democrat

Since 1961:Five Democratic Party presidents and six Republican Party presidents.

Now let’s carefully go over the facts regarding the thirty-one U.S. Congresses since the 87th one in 1961:

87th U.S. Congress 1961-1963:

John F. Kennedy is president.

Both the House and Senate have a Democratic Party majority. This is the first time that the Democratic Party held both houses of Congress since the 81st Congress of 1949.

88th U.S. Congress 1963-1965:

Lyndon B. Johnson is president.

Both the House and Senate have a Democratic majority.

89th U.S. Congress 1965-1967:

Johnson is president.

Both the House and Senate have a Democratic majority.

90th U.S Congress 1967-1969:

Johnson is president.

Both the House and Senate have a Democratic majority.

91st U.S. Congress 1969-1971:

Richard M. Nixon is president.

The Democratic Party retains the majority in the House and Senate but this ends the democrat’s trifecta of holding both houses as well as the Executive Branch.

Nixon initiates the Environmental Protection Agency and that department of the U.S. government is formed.

92nd U.S. Congress 1971-1973:

Nixon is president.

Both the House and the Senate have a Democratic majority.

93rd U.S. Congress 1973-1975:

Nixon is president, but on August 8th, 1974 he makes a speech to the nation announcing his resignation from office and resigns as president on August 9th, 1974 with then vice-president Gerald R. Ford becoming president.

Both the House and the Senate have a Democratic majority.

94th U.S. Congress 1975-1977:

Ford is president.

Both the House and the Senate have a Democratic majority.

95th U.S. Congress 1977-1979:

Carter is president.

Both the House and Senate have a Democratic majority.

96th U.S. Congress 1979-1981:

Carter is president.

Both the House and the Senate have a Democratic majority.

97th U.S. Congress 1981-1983:

Ronald Reagan is president.

The House remains a Democratic majority while the Senate is now a Republican majority.

98th U.S. Congress 1983-1985:

Reagan is president.

The House retains the Democratic Party majority while the Senate retains the Republican Party majority.

99th U.S. Congress 1985-1987:

Reagan is president.

The Democrats retain the House majority. The Republicans retain the Senate majority.

100th U.S. Congress 1987-1989:

Reagan is president.

The Democratic Party gains majority control of both Houses of Congress.

101st U.S. Congress 1989-1991:

George H.W. Bush is president.

The House and Senate have a Democratic Party majority.

102nd U.S. Congress 1991-1993:

George H. W. Bush is president.

The House and Senate retain Democratic Party majorities.

103rd U.S. Senate 1993-1995:

Bill Clinton is president.

The House and the Senate have Democratic majorities.

104th U.S. Senate 1995-1997:

Clinton is president.

Both the House and the Senate are Republican majorities.

105th U.S. Congress 1997-1999:

Clinton is president.

Both the House and the Senate have Republican Party majorities.

106th United States Congress 1999-2001:

Clinton is president.

The House has a Republican majority while the Senate has a 50/50 split.

On December 21st, when few were paying attention, one of the direst pieces of legislation passed in the past 22 years, legislation that we’re still haunted by and paying the price for — literally — making sure financial derivatives remained UNREGULATED which is nothing more than gambling with money one does not have with world economies, which has led to the economic problems ever since including but not exclusive to the Great Recession and economic troubles of 2007 to the present:

December 21, 2000: Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, Pub. L. 106–554 (text) (PDF) (as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001)

107th United States Congress 2001-2003:

George W. Bush is president.

The House has a Republican majority. The Senate has a Republican majority. A Republican Party trifecta in holding both houses of Congress and the Executive Branch.

The so-called “Patriot Act” wherein was continued naming acts erroneously as they resemble the exact opposite of how they are being labeled, but whoever bothers to pay attention to these things, right, when the finals for “Dancing With the Stars,” or the next season of “Survivor” is on, right? Rapidly the erosion and removal of long established privacy rights, and freedoms, in general, are removed. With nary a whimper or wee voice of dissent as all fall into lockstep with the decisions made in Washington, D.C.

2001: “USA PATRIOT” Act, Pub. L. 107–56 (text) (PDF),

As well as in 2002 increasing globalization and the hominization of nations and their trade, which in effect furthered America reducing good jobs, industry, trades, skilled labor, and making things Americans used every day made in America, thus becoming enslaved to Communist China primarily as well as other Asian nationsCentral American, South American, and Islamic nations such as Oman and the like. This was a furtherance of horrendous trade legislation enacted in the previous 20 years. This particular legislation bypasses having to have a full House or Senate vote and FAST TRACKING any trade legislation that would arise in the future. Such is “we the people” being represented in the “People’s House” as it once was called, the United States Congress Building, that is.

2002: Trade Act of 2002, Pub. L. 107–210 (text) (PDF),

As well as this abuse of power and the further removal of privacy, freedoms, liberties and rights. One of the most dangerous pieces of American legislation ever made a law that not only opens a can of worms but permits the worms to invade and eat whatever they desire upon their whim, their created chaos and catastrophe to further erode freedoms, liberties and rights. Working towards removing the First Amendment and the freedom of religion and the freedom of speech, which we are now closer to than at any other time in American history. Everything for the future has been put in place in the past. Ignored. Never noticed by the overwhelming majority, or forgotten by the few that were paying attention at the time. The numbness, the indoctrination, the propaganda so constant and effective to make the mind numb, the eyes blind, the ears deaf, the fear ever increasing, the obedience to tyranny and fascism so easy to bring about with the constant wearing down, whittling away, increasing reliance on massive government.

November 25, 2002: Homeland Security Act, Pub. L. 107–296 (text) (PDF)

108th United States Congress 2003-2005:

W. Bush is president.

The House has a Republican majority. The Senate has a Republican majority.

Events of note.

109th United States Congress 2005-2007:

W. Bush is president.

The House has a Republican majority. The Senate has a Republican majority.

March 8, 2006: Since enacting the Homeland Security Act in 2002 Congress has increased the department’s budget by $67,700,000,000 in less than 39 months after creating the department. Increasing the department’s reach without oversight or informing the public, paying for all this, of the department’s true function.

110th United States Congress 2007-2009:

Bush is the president.

The Democratic Party has regained a majority in both houses of Congress.

Remember what the 106th Congress did in 2000? Well, here you go. The DIRECT RESULT of their actions in conjunction with similar actions taken by multiple Western nations’ financial institutions and legislative bodies all in the quest for ever greater accumulation of wealth. GREED.

  • January 2008: Start of the Great Recession — which actually started in the mid-summer of 2007, but why permit facts to get in the way

The following was enacted into law to permit all intelligence agencies to conduct warrantless wiretapping of anyone deemed a threat, a possible threat, this determination is left up to the various intelligence agencies. Again, no can of worms here. The entire land is being ingested and among the rot and overrun with worms.

July 10, 2008 — FISA Amendments Act of 2008, Pub. L. 110–261 (text) (PDF)

111th U.S. Congress 2009-2011:

Barack Hussein Obama is president.

The Democratic Party had a majority in the House. The Democratic Party held a majority in the Senate. This would be the last time the democrats held a majority in both houses of Congress until more than a decade passed and they again held majorities in both houses again in the 117th Congress.

112th U.S. Congress 2011-2013:

Obama is president.

The Republican Party had a majority in the House. While the Democratic Party held the majority in the Senate.

113th U.S. Congress 2013-2015:

Obama is president.

The Republican Party had a majority in the House. The Democratic Party had a majority in the Senate.

114th U.S. Congress 2015-2017:

Obama is president.

The Republican Party had a majority in the House as well as in the Senate.

This was the largest majority held by a single party since the 71st Congress of 1929-1931.

The 114th U.S. Congress was comprised of 248 Republican seats in the House and 54 Republican seats in the Senate.

115th United States Congress 2017-2019:

Donald Trump is president.

The House was controlled by a Republican Party majority as well as the Republican Party had a majority in the Senate.

Something few if any paid attention to but something very important leading to what is transpiring in the present and will be instrumental in what is to come in the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.

116th United States Congress 2019-2021:

Trump is president.

The Democratic Party had the majority in the House. The Republican Party had the majority in the Senate.

117th United States Congress 2021-January, 3, 2023:

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. is president.

The Democratic Party had a majority in both the House and the Senate.

In December of 2022, we had once again one of our most erroneously named pieces of legislation become the law of the land.

118th United States Congress January 2023-2025:

Biden is still president as of this writing on January, 25th, 2023.

The Republican Party has a majority in the House of Representatives. The Democratic Party has the majority in the Senate with the vice-presidential tie-breaker vote and 3 Independents.

 

Okay. For the factual, historical tally that cannot be disputed no matter one’s political bent. Not leanings as folk no longer lean but are BENT in one way or the other without rational thought, historical facts, or any thought. Mostly just reactionary emotional discharge, or what their parents said around the house and they heard or were indoctrinated with in the home, or in their school.

This was done to hopefully dispel and if not dispel at least get people thinking about just how wrong all this “It’s those stinking leftists! They control everything!” to “It’s those stinking conservatives they control everything!” malarky, lies, and misinformation. And I’ll wrap this up by stating what is really taking place in America over the past 62-plus years, if anyone is interested and wants to know the facts, the truth, and deal with realities rather than what most folks are doing, thinking, saying, writing, and believing — thus perpetuating in great error.

Okay — of the 31 U.S. Congresses since 1961…

18 have had both houses of Congress held by a majority of Democratic politicians.

14 have had both houses of Congress held by a majority of Republican politicians.

7 have been split. With either the House or the Senate under majority control of one political party while the opposition held majority control in the other house.

And prior to 1961, the Democrats had not held control of both houses of Congress since 1949!

Is anyone willing to surrender their “I’m an illogical, don’t care about facts, or actual history and enjoy being an irrational and reactionary about American politics obsessive nutter” badge, or card and resign from that group and join the group of those dealing in facts, in history, in the truth, and in reality? Knowing what really is and why?

While God ordained and created human government for myriad reasons, every human government EVER formed ANYWHERE is comprised of fallen, corrupted, sinning men and women. Without exception. And enough of this “lesser of two evils” rubbish!

Every person — every single person whether admired, adored, liked, respected, or receiving your vote is a sinner. A fallen person. Prone to evil. Prone to lying. Prone to sin. Prone to not just turning from God but RUNNING in the opposite direction from God [as foolish and ignorant as those attempts are because there is no place anyone can go to hide from God. To hide one’s thoughts or hide one place anywhere on this earth, hide anything from God. Yet so many run, thinking they can accomplish such a feat].

This has been researched, compiled, and provided in the hope someone finding themselves here caught in the sticky, smelly, ugly web of lies and delusion fostered by the Evil One and his legions of minions and ministers can somehow overcome them making nationalism, a political party, a form of human government, a politician, an election, their adhered to errant beliefs preeminent in their life, that all that is occurring is part of a cultural war between leftists and conservatives, democrats and republicans, and come to the awareness and truth it’s always been, it is, and always will remain nothing more than a spiritual war between God and Satan, God’s elect, God’s Word, God’s people versus Satan’s enslaved, Satan’s lies, and Satan’s confusion and rebellion against God and the truth.

Some will hear the Word and…

Make the Lord Jesus Christ preeminent in their life.

Above all things.

Or, rejecting the facts, the truth and loving the world, believing the lies, they will suffer the eternal consequences. Of which no nation, no election, no politician, no celebrity, no pastor, no one is going to save you from once you’ve become so enthralled, so entrenched in darkness while also being darkness. Going to a place of eternal darkness, gnashing of teeth, pain, torture, and separation from God exists. For eternity.

Each person’s eternity is dependent on the truth. On facts. Not opinion. Not conjecture. Not on another person. Except for the person of Jesus Christ. Yes, it’s solely about faith and God’s grace, but that’s a fact as well — the most important of FACTS! On their faith and obedience to God, to Christ, to the Holy Spirit, and to the inerrant infallible active and living Word of God should a person build their life upon. Not to a nation. A political system. Anything of this world that will pass away and be forever forgotten.

Just the facts, just the facts ma’am and sirs…