Democrats are convinced that Trump will lose because Bevin lost in Kentucky last night (presumptively: as of this moment, still no concession on the part of Bevin but with him behind 4,700 votes its unlikely he’ll prevail). The Democrats – and the Never Trump Tru-Con Experts – are sure of this because Bevin lost by being blown out in the ‘burbs…and that means Trump is toxic in the ‘burbs and – presto! – say hello to President Warren.
Not so fast: while Bevin was getting crushed in the ‘burbs, all the other GOP Statewide contenders were destroying their Democrat opponents. So, it looks as though it was merely Bevin who was unpopular. I hadn’t paid much attention to it all but what I’ve been able to find is that Bevin is, apparently, quite an abrasive personality and there wasn’t a single group he hadn’t offended at some time…his approval rating is something like 36%. So the real news is that Trump nearly dragged a political carcass across the finish line. And we got as our GOP consolation prize the new Attorney General of Kentucky, Daniel Cameron…who does appear to be quite an impressive man who should go far…that he’s the first GOP AG since 1948 and the first ever African-American AG for Kentucky is just icing on the cake.
OTOH: Virginia went pretty Blue last night – on the back of Democrat power in DC-dependent northern Virginia. I don’t know how we flip VA back to red…though Trump’s plan to move federal departments out of DC might help. My advice to VA people who don’t want their State to become East California is to set up South Virginia…break up the State. Let the Democrats have their DC suburbs.
Eric Ciaramella – recently outed by Don, Jr on Twitter – appears to be the whistleblower: and he’s what you expect…a partisan hack. This is why the Democrats and the MSM (BIRM) wanted to keep him anonymous. But it is absurd to keep him anonymous. We, the people, have an absolute right to know all relevant details about whomever is accusing any public official of corruption. It is the only way we’ll be able to tell if there is something real, or if its just a partisan hit job. As this whole impeachment thing is a partisan hit job, the quicker we get the truth out the quicker we can force the Democrats to drop the charade – which is what I expect they’ll do. I don’t know, of course, but I don’t believe the Democrats want to have a Senate trial where Cocaine Mitch will set the agenda.
ABC spiked the Epstein story in 2016 because prominent Democrats – including the Clintons in an election year – were involved. You know that’s why; I know that’s why: everyone knows that’s why. You weren’t at all surprised when the story broke about the cover up. Here are some things to think about:
1. It isn’t just Epstein. Rest assured there are lots and lots of other scandals the MSM is keeping a tight lid on because their revelation would put powerful Democrats at risk.
2. Those Conservatives who were only mildly critical – making comments about how this was just not a good look for ABC – are traitors. They are angling for MSM gigs and will knife us in the back if they think it’ll help secure one.
3. As the MSM is proven to be bald-faced, partisan liars…anyone who pays attention to their reporting, polls or analysis of politics is either monumentally stupid, or a liar, themselves.
From Carpe Donktum:
Remember when the entire media had a panic attack over Trumps comments on the Access Hollywood tape? While this was going on, those same people knew that Epstein was raping children… and then decided to cover it up.
As I’ve said: in relation to his opponents, Trump is the morally superior person.
Our Matt points out that Sondland’s changed testimony is not proof of an impeachable offense. I go a bit further: it proves Sondland’s a liar.
Blogs For Victory 
I haven’t seen anything to indicate that Sondland is a liar. We often recall conversations that we didn’t think of under interrogation, and realize in retrospect that they might have had implications we weren’t aware of at the time, or didn’t think of as significant. Sondland said, if my limited reading of his comments is accurate, that he remembered a conversation in which there appeared to be a belief by someone that the funds for Ukraine were being held up until an investigation was announced—-but he refused to link Trump himself to this perception.
On a separate topic—I don’t know in which category this belongs–the See How Stupid the Left is, or the See How Insane the Left is, or probably just the See How Stupidly Insane the Left Is.
Starting with an admission: Sometimes I watch bits and pieces of Dancing With the Stars. As a two-left-feet person I am fascinated by the fact that other clumsy people can be transformed into graceful dancers. It’s kind of like why I like hockey: They are doing all that stuff WHILE THEY ARE SKATING !
BACKWARDS!
Anyway, I have caught a few minutes of Sean Spicer valiantly trying to keep up with the real dancers, and admiring him for his good attitude and cheerfulness. He knows he can’t dance. His partner knows he can’t dance. The judges know he can’t dance. But he refuses to be cowed by embarrassment and is just having fun, and he’s picked up kind of an Underdog Fan Club that loves his spirit. He just goes out there and wears awful costumes and stomps around and has a hell of a time. He seems to have taken to heart the advice to “dance like there’s no one looking”. I would love to have that ability to set aside self-consciousness.
And this is simply unacceptable to a NYT writer who is incensed by this, to the point of, well, going bonkers about it. If you think the rabid mouthbreathing Left is insane in its elaborate parsing and interpretations of what President Trump said, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Some self-appointed critic angling for a position as head of the Dance Police has explanations for what Spicer is really doing. And thinking. And it is AWFUL.
• “Sean Spicer,” Kourlas laments, “is something worse: an untruthful dancer.” She adds, “Mr. Spicer isn’t trained, of course, but he has revealed much about his soul’s weather through his dancing. He hides behind an egregious smile, parting his teeth to make it look as though he’s been caught mid-laugh. That smile seems meant to distract from his plan of attack: never actually performing a dance, but conquering it.”
• An “untruthful dancer?” An “egregious smile?” His “soul’s weather?”
• Kourlas explains what she means. “When interlopers invade a dancer’s world, it reveals much — about their psyche, their strengths and weaknesses, their essence as human beings. Are they generous? Lazy? Thoughtless? The truth comes out in the dancing.” (My response to this is Bullcrap. Pretentious bullcrap. Self-aggrandizing egotistical bullcrap. But I digress.)
Watching Mr. Spicer try to wipe away some of his disgrace through dancing hurts. Yet here he is, week after week, using dance as a way to redeem his character. Giving the public the chance to laugh with him — dressed as a buffoon in that scary green ruffled shirt, dancing to “Spice Up Your Life” — and not at him comes off as a calculation, on his (and probably the show’s) part. And Mr. Spicer’s later performances have been scary in a different way, like his militaristic Paso Doble, which had a cold brutality to it.
Yeah, like a comment that Spicer has some “disgrace” he has to try to “wipe out” doesn’t telegraph some very nasty and toxic bias that has nothing to do with dance. But that’s not nasty enough for this harridan—she has to elaborate, that he is “using dance as a way to redeem his character.” I not only never saw any character defect he needs to redeem, I find his joyful participation in this experience a mark of great character. But then, I am not a hate-driven shrew. According to her, letting the audience know he is in on the joke is not just good nature, it is cold “calculation”.
And then. as the background music tells us something really sinister is coming, she gets to the nitty-gritty: His dancing is scary. Ooohh!!
And “brutal”.
And “militaristic”.
Well, the Paso Doble IS an allegory of a bullfighter challenging and dominating a bull, and is danced with authority and determination. But this is the first time I have heard of an interpretation as “BRUTAL”. Much less “MILITARISTIC”. I’ve never seen a Paso Doble with the theme of getting a butterfly to land on a finger but I’ll bet it wouldn’t be scary, or brutal, or militaristic. Of course, it wouldn’t be Paso Doble, but whatevs……
Whatever this broad is smoking, it isn’t the Happy Weed they sell in Colorado. She’s got some big nasty hate thing going, and seems to think that this is an appropriate way to vent it. When will these people figure out that we get it, we understand that they are really just opening up windows into their own sour hateful souls? And that we don’t really want to see the ugly within? Because every word she wrote was dripping with venom, and illustrative of a truly dark and malignant soul.
And, BTW, she also accuses the audience voters of racism. (Come on—you had to see that coming.) And in the early weeks, it was striking that the majority of the dancers whose votes put them at the bottom of the pack were black.”
She also believes that sexism and ageism were responsible for former Supreme Mary Wilson being voted off the show.
I can’t imagine what it would be like to live inside that kind of cold, hateful, spiteful mind. Eeuuww. BTW, over the years many of the dancers who got the most praise, highest scores and even won the final trophy have been black, or female.
https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2019/11/06/ny-times-columnist-deems-sean-spicers-dancing-militaristic-untruthful-betrays-cold-brutality-misses-point
https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-prominent-abortionist-accidentally-demolishes-nearly-every-pro-abortion-argument-in-less-than-one-minute
When asked if he “has a problem with killing babies,” he responded “absolutely not.”
Chilling
Ya gotta love Steve Hilton. This is the way you get in a Liberal’s face.
I watched the replay of that segment yesterday and he did a great job just laying out the facts of the Biden/Ukraine saga and Marie Harf was caught off guard and could only repeat the narrative … “but there is no evidence of any wrong doing” to which one of the other gals said “but aren’t these facts evidence?”
That’s a good 2020 campaign message – “The facts are the evidence”
Kamala Harris is on Morning Joe saying that the people of Iowa want to talk about reproductive racism and environmental racism. For some reason I don’t buy it lol. She then proceeded to channel our Founding Fathers claiming Trump to be a traitor to this country and our Constitution. Quote “The crimes he has committed are in plain sight” Well if that’s the case then Schiff and Pelosi are really bad at what they do. She’s a weird chick.
I don’t think “weird” begins to cover it.
Now here’s a LOL headline.
“I’ve paid over $10 billion in taxes, I’ve paid more than anyone in taxes. If I’d had to have paid $20 billion in taxes — fine. But, when you say I should pay $100 billion, okay I’m staring to do a little math about what I have left over.”
hahahahahahaha C’mon Bill …. Elizabeth knows how to spend your money better than you do. I mean you might just buy a yacht or something racist like that.
Billionaire Socialism is cool as long as you get to stay rich.
Scathing, Mark, and oh so true.
What is it with these people??
Sessions expected to announce plans to run for Senate
There’s no other qualified candidates in Alabama? These career politicians are insufferable and have massive ego complexes and are the reason why our government is so corrupt. I guarantee you Sessions is getting pressured by lobbyists to get back in the Senate and start doing their bidding again. Sessions is not running again because he feels the need to serve his constituents. I think we really need term limits.
Rumors I’m hearing is that Trump will bless the effort; perhaps as a bone thrown to the GOPe.
Without a really good, dynamic and committed conservative as an alternative to Sessions I don’t have a problem with him being in the Senate. I think he will go along with Trump and the conservative agenda. I always saw him as a perfect example of the Peter Principle—he was good enough at what he did to keep getting promoted till he got promoted to a level above his skill set, where he failed. Drop him back down to a level where he can function well and he is fine.
Newt Gingrich has an excellent review of Lee Smith’s new book, The Plot Against the President.
This part in particular stands out because we have all acknowledged it numerous times on this blog:
I’d say from comments I’ve read on various sites that more and more people are becoming aware of this tactic. It’ll be interesting to see if the Left continues to use it or moves on to something else.
And this is why many people in the media need to be held accountable. They were in on it, and I am convinced of that. At the very least, they abdicated their responsibility as journalists to verify the information thru other sources before broadcasting it. They did the same thing with Kavanaugh.
OF COURSE they were in on it. That is now how most in the various media see their roles—-to assist in any way the accomplishment of the goals of the Left. They now want to shape how people feel and what they think. That is, they have become propagandists, nothing more or less than a tool of the Left.
That is why the Complicit Agenda element of the press truly is an enemy of the people, because they are trying to herd the public into a trap that will enslave it.
Look how fast they are working on finding out who leaked the video: that person will be found and his or her career is OVER. They are warning all and sundry that they’d better keep their traps shut.
A quick quote from Taylor’s testimony to show the impact of a corrupt press:
ZELDIN: “So do you have any other source that the president’s goal in making this request was anything other than The New York Times?”
TAYLOR: “I have not talked to the president. I have no other information from what the president was thinking.”
And now his testimony is being touted by that same corrupt press as damaging to the president.
It is just absurd; and I can only figure the Democrats are continuing with this dog and pony show because they’ve whipped up their base to the point that backing down would be even more suicidal than continuing.
The Dems have to know, if they continue down the impeachment path, that witnesses like Taylor will be obliterated on the witness stand during a Senate trial.
Glenn Beck is comparing the “whistleblower” to Al Capone’s accountant. I’d really like to see him testify in open session.
This is actually starting to get good. I may have to buy more popcorn.
Mark, which video are you referring to?
The leaked ABC video on the Epstein cover up: ABC already found the leaker, who moved over to CBS, and got that person fired.
BTW, Taylor was asked in his testimony “does a person by the name of Eric Ciaramella ring a bell for you?” and this was not redacted when the transcript was made public. No matter what the intent was—as a form of leaking information without taking responsibility for the information being out there, or just an oversight (which was never corrected) the fact is, it was Schiff who got the name out there.
We also need to go back to the purpose for a whistleblower law—it is to protect someone from being fired for revealing crimes or serious problems in his or her agency. It is not to shield someone from consequences for engaging in a malicious and fraudulent attack on someone. If there is any justification at all for protecting the identity of a true whistleblower it is to keep him or her from being fired or otherwise targeted or punished for filing a legitimate report on actual wrongdoing in the reporter’s agency. In the private sector, such laws are to protect a whistleblower from being punished for revealing wrongdoing in his or her company.
Every single aspect of the whistleblower law has been distorted, abused and wrongly applied.
Last week I ordered two copies of Lee’s book from Amazon. Not quite sure why I bought 2, except for maybe talking to someone about it and just giving him a copy.
Check this story out:
Major cities could be decimated by rising sea levels, with millions displaced before the end of the century, scientists warn. Water levels could rise by 11 foot by the end of the century, according to estimations based on a similar period of warming 125,000 years ago ……. While the ‘last interglacial’ warming was a naturally occurring phenomenon, the warming we are experiencing now is mostly caused by human activities, the scientists explain.
So now they are predicting things 100 years out instead of 10 or 12. And how do you square these findings with AOC’s claim that we only have 12 years left??
Also, the last warming period, which reportedly was worse than it is now, was a natural occurrence but this one is directly attributed to man?? They become more and more desperate everyday pushing this narrative.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7659559/Antarctic-ice-melt-cause-sea-levels-rise-11-FEET-century.html
Also, the last warming period, which reportedly was worse than it is now, was a natural occurrence but this one is directly attributed to man??
Yeah — pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
I was just listening to Glenn Beck in the car, and his guest was brilliant—a rabbi whose breadth and scope of knowledge is amazing. I may sign up for a Beck podcast, my first, if he has one and this is on it.
One comment the rabbi made was that the Left now consists of creeps, crooks, clowns and cranks.
He and Beck also talked about Leftism as a religion, because it is a belief system that will not tolerate heresy., and how worshipers of Moloch and Baal sacrificed their infants. It was a far-ranging and fascinating conversation and I’d like to hear it again and in full.
Democrats and liberal journalists now resemble those world-famous Chinese monkeys: See No Evil and Hear No Evil. The Left clearly prefers that Joe and Hunter Biden’s unusual connections to Ukraine remain unscrutinized.
But what if a Ukrainian probe—especially under corruption-fighting President Volodymyr Zelenskiy—confirms that the Bidens are total crooks? Should Americans elect Joe Biden absent that knowledge?
Conversely, what if Kiev’s inquiry demonstrated, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the Bidens’ Ukrainian ties were even more legal than a bar exam? Should U.S. voters not know that?
And, perhaps more important, what about reports that Ukrainians hacked the Democrat National Committee’s server in 2016? What if this suspicion is not “debunked,” as the Left now insists?
Imagine that these same cyber-criminals are waiting to chew their way into the DNC’s computers in, say, October 2020. Perhaps they aspire to go even farther than e-thieves did three years ago and actually rig electronic voting machines during early balloting in Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, and Wisconsin.
Such sabotage could cripple Joe Biden’s, Elizabeth Warren’s or Bernie Sanders’s efforts to achieve the Left’s paramount ambition: the president’s banishment to Trump Tower.
Trump haters idiotically reason that it would be better not to ask Ukrainian officials to look for these people and their malware and, if they exist, let them, in essence, vote early and often in America’s next presidential election.
But if Zelenskiy truly debunked this story, then everyone from Left to Right could relax and delete this from America’s long national to-do list. Is that so wrong?
What if Trump never told Zelensky by phone “I would like you to do us a favor” and review Ukrainian interference in 2016, including finding these alleged hackers?
If October 2020 found Kiev-based hackers gnawing like rats into U.S. election systems, the very same Leftist cobras who spit venom at Trump for seeking answers would spin 180 degrees and spew poison at him for precisely the opposite reason:
“It’s Trump’s fault!” they would hiss. “Why didn’t he ask Ukraine to help prevent this re-run of 2016? Zelenskiy is the puppeteer, and Trump is his loyal, colluding marionette. IMPEACH!”
For Trump haters, it makes no difference what Trump and his team say. They’re always wrong.
https://www.libertyheadlines.com/murdock-mulvaney-mea-culpa/
As Mark alluded to earlier, this is how Progressives handle genuine whistle blowers:
CBS News fires staffer who leaked Amy Robach hot mic audio after ABC learns a former employee accessed the footage – and tips off execs at rival network
So breaking right now on Meet the dePressed on MSNBC is Micheal Bloomberg entering the Dem POTUS field and they seem a little panicked lol. Even they admit that things aren’t going well with the current field of clowns. Chuck Todd asked the panel if Bloomberg was “in line with the big progressive issues of guns and climate”. I have to tell you Chuck that if climate and guns are the “big progressive issues” in 2020, you’ve already lost.
Also, I think the whole manufactured whistle blower coup attempt is starting to unravel and I can’t wait until they start turning on each other.
Some people are saying it is just vanity – which it may well be: but I’m thinking that some Democrat money-bags, watching Biden sink, have decided they need an Un-Warren/Un-Bernie in the race.
So I see the Amazona is back to her old tricks of deleting posts because she can’t sustain discussion with anyone she disagrees with. Weak.
Meanwhile, Vice President Pence on whistleblowers: “Without the assurance of confidentiality, many whistleblowers will simply refuse to come forward//many important conduits of information about our government will be shut down.”
Oh.
Of course, that was in 2006. Now he’s a Trumpist, and a very meek one at that.
can’t sustain discussion?
I not only “sustained” discussion, I dominated it with facts, not emanations from fantasies or regurgitation of lies, and I kicked your ass. You couldn’t or wouldn’t come back with “discussion”, just more of your tiresome whimpering and a plaintive plea for my sources. Hey, I found that information, and so can you.
Real whistleblowers should have protections. Embedded activists trying to skulk behind whistleblower rules while breaking them? Not so much.
You do seem to attribute a great deal of power to me. I guess, after the way you are totally incapable of scoring any points when I deign to engage you, I can understand that. But surely your own “whistleblower” when he tried to curry favor by whispering in your ear didn’t tell you I am the only auditor of this site. Face it, argy, you are so annoying and useless no one can stand you or the whimpering sniveling crap you dump here.
I not only “sustained” discussion, I dominated it with facts, not emanations from fantasies or regurgitation of lies, and I kicked your ass.
Haha. If you had kicked me ass, you would have let my posts stand for everyone to see in order to prove it. So no, you didn’t kick anyone’s ass. Besides, it’s not about that.
You do seem to attribute a great deal of power to me.
Well, you do have the power to moderate this site. Of course you are not the only one. WordPress allows for multiple moderators, as you know.
Are you really trying to claim that you DID address my points, and that your responses were removed?
Because if that is what you are trying, forget it. That simply did not happen. Not a single post of yours, as far as I know, was removed during that little back-and-forth. If you are now going to claim that you were edited, you show yourself to be even more despicable than I thought—and that would be hard to do. What a loser! Not even man enough to admit that you simply were unable to address the points I made, so you just fall back to your default positions—whine and lie, whine and lie.
And if you didn’t mean to claim I don’t “sustain discussion” then why did you say it? Again–what a loser!
As usual, any effort to engage you in anything like a real discussion falls apart in a hurry and you start babbling. I do not have “THE POWER” to moderate this site, but I do have some input into what I think makes it interesting and worthwhile and what I think drags it down. And you are a drag. All you do is whine, whimper, snarl, snivel, attack and post lies and ridiculous theories you treat as if they are legitimate.
The one person on this blog who tried to give you the benefit of the doubt realized he had made a mistake and you are exactly what you seem to be. You have to live with the reality that you don’t have a single positive thing to bring to any discussion—-and, I speculate, to any relationship.
Not my problem. Not the blog’s problem. You remind me of a joke I will slightly remake because it reminds me of you:
rgrg2 walks into a bar with a duck on his head. The bartender says “where did you get that?” and the duck replies “beats the hell out of me. It started out as a pimple on my ass.” You are the pimple on the ass of this blog and when it comes time to vote I will vote to remove it.
Why do you hate Pence?
I don’t.
Then why are you sniveling about something he said years ago, about a different situation, and trying to spin it to make him look bad?
Or is it just your free-form hostility that happened to land on him at that moment?
Great article summarizing where we are politically:
Over the past 30 years the Left and the Democratic Party have utilized a dog-eared playbook whose only entry encompasses the personal destruction of any opponent by any means possible as their singular strategy. Just the threat of or the opening salvo of this tactic has been successful as innumerable Republican and conservative leaders surrendered virtually without a fight. The Left knew its enemy but its enemy did not know the Left. Accordingly, the Left calmly and unemotionally went about forcing Republicans out of office or dramatically changing their positions on an issue.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/11/donald_trump_and_the_art_of_political_warfare.html#ixzz64dghqkoP
Funny how Amazona shows up and my response to Cluster gets deleted. Not sure why, but let me just ask a plain question: Which Republicans were forced out of office or dramatically changed their position on an issue because of “the Left.” The article states this as fact but offers no names at all.
Are you STILL whining about me?
Silly question—of course you are
And are you really claiming you responded to a post? Maybe the flying pigs took it off with them.
And are you really claiming you responded to a post? Maybe the flying pigs took it off with them.
You–I mean, the moderator–deleted my first response to Cluster’s comment above. I responded to it again. I mean, you can take a crack at answering it too if you want.
Today’s nugget from the transcripts of testimony, this from George Kent, senior State Department official in charge of Ukraine policy:
Kent transcript, Page 268: “POTUS wanted nothing less than President Zelensky to go to microphone and say investigations, Biden, and Clinton.”
Gee, yesterday Amazona was claiming nothing of the sort ever happened.
Kent did not say the president SAID this. It is not a quote. It is a perception, a guess, an attribution of motive, desire or intent.
In other words, the same ephemeral crystal-ball-reading second-guessing the entire charade is based on.
Well, not the ENTIRE charade. Some is based on the wistful fantasy that anyone would consider Joe Biden such a threat he would have to be taken down like this.
BTW, one of the questions you dodged was why you think anyone should be immune from investigation just because he is delusional enough to think he could be president. Here—-I’ll quote from an earlier post of mine. It has several questions. Why don’t you step away from the script your minders have researched for you and answer them?
The Left clearly prefers that Joe and Hunter Biden’s unusual connections to Ukraine remain unscrutinized.
Do you agree that Joe and Hunter Biden’s unusual connections to Ukraine (and China) should remain unscrutinized?
But what if a Ukrainian probe—especially under corruption-fighting President Volodymyr Zelenskiy—confirms that the Bidens are total crooks? Should Americans elect Joe Biden absent that knowledge? Or do you think Americans should be kept in the dark about the criminality of candidates?
Conversely, what if Kiev’s inquiry demonstrated, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the Bidens’ Ukrainian ties were even more legal than a bar exam? Should U.S. voters not know that? Why do you people assume that any investigation will prove criminality and corruption? Why aren’t you confident that the Bidens will be cleared? Trump was confident that no investigation would uncover collusion with Russia, because he knew there was none. Why aren’t you Bidenistas confident that investigations into them and their activities will come up with nothing? What about Biden investigations makes you so nervous?
Enjoy the public testimony next week, sweetie.
Pretty sure I will, dumpling butt.
Yeah, yeah, yeah: the walls are closing in on Trump, for the 100th time. When will you guys stop listening to MSNBC and start to think about it?
Here’s the real deal: you are hitting out at Trump and hating the man while letting the common yet rank corruption like that of the Bidens go unpunished. WTF is wrong with you? Why can’t you see that there’s a Ruling Class – made up of Democrats and GOPers, if that makes you feel any better – who have been screwing us over FOR DECADES? Trump isn’t the problem: if he’s guilty of every last thing he’s accused of then he’s still the moral superior of his opponents. He just got here – he’ll be gone, at the latest, 5 years from now. But Biden and Pelosi and Romney and Schumer and on and on and on have been in there for ages…robbing us blind; refusing to do what they promised; cutting sweetheart deals for family and cronies. And you’re just gonna let it slide because Orange Man Bad. Sorry; that’s just dumb. Wake the heck up.
There are places where unending screeds of vitriol and hatred of Trump are welcomed. This is not one of them. This is your obsession. It is not ours. // Moderator
And the liar keeps on lying. …yesterday Amazona was claiming nothing of the sort ever happened.,,
Oh, really? Where? Quote me.
Two days ago (do try to keep up, though I know there is often lag time while you get your script) there was this exchange:
You: If it was a legitimate investigation, it wouldn’t fall to the president himself to strong-arm other nations into making public statements that they will investigate the Bidens.
Me: Yet no one ever heard the president do any such thing.
And I don’t believe anyone has actually claimed to have heard this from the president. As a matter of fact, you even admitted: …at least some of Trump’s minions interpreted his request as a seen-on-TV event. Yeah. INTERPRETED. Just like the whole thing is based on how someone interpreted something, assumed something, guessed at what someone meant, went to the Psychic Hotline to find out what the president REALLY meant, are attributed to him, blah blah blah.
But there is more:
Trump aides working to secure a statement from Zelensky at one point floated the possibility of having him do a television interview that would satisfy Trump’s desire to hear a statement on anti-corruption measures, according to Sondland.
Sondland told lawmakers that by early September the idea for a press statement had morphed into a possible television interview that would take place on a network “Trump would obviously see.”
About which I commented: Hmmm. So not a word about Trump demanding a television statement. And not a word about it being tied to releasing the funds. Funny how your claims tend to fall apart when compared to facts.
Any reasonable person (you will clearly have to have this explained to you) would understand that if Trump had to see such a statement on TV that would mean someone else had put it into play.
And now you assert that I denied that Trump ordered, demanded or said he wanted this. No one KNOWS what Trump wanted, because he evidently didn’t TELL anyone. So they guess, they attribute, they speculate, till all this make-believe starts to feel real. It’s as if they really heard him say this. But so far at least no one has been willing to say “I heard him SAY this, and he said it here and he said it when and these people were also present.”
McCain
Oh, argy, isn’t there someplace else you can go to indulge in your addiction to petty bickering? It is this incessant yapping and trying to draw people into meaningless quibbling pseudo-discussions that makes you so annoying no one can stand to have you around. Get a grip. Get a life.
This line from an article caught my attention. ”The death rates inherent in leftist policies aren’t a bug, they’re a feature.”
I’m sure I don’t need to point out that when argy isn’t here whining and sniveling about TrumpTrumpTrumpTrumpTrump we have interesting discussions about all sorts of things. No wonder he is not welcome here.
I guess he is assigned a certain number of places to dump his assigned scripts.
I had to laugh when he tittered Today’s nugget… He seemed so proud of that, but it just reminded me of a comment I once made to another rabid troll (possibly even him) that his posts were like little nuggets he found when he reached back into his tighty whities, and then felt compelled to throw.
Seems like his mo is ‘start and argument, lose, then claim he had genius devastating arguments but they got deleted so no one saw them.
Murph, that is exactly right. There was a period when none of his posts were deleted, no matter how whiny or bickering or silly they were, specifically so they could be addressed and debunked. Every time he was presented with facts, he just pivoted to a slightly different attack point. When it was pointed out that he had ducked, dodged and avoided questions and answers that undermined his position, he just whined that well, he HAD answered—and answered brilliantly, so much so that his answers had to be deleted by the big bad bully who couldn’t stand to be bested.
But it didn’t happen. He was given ample opportunity to present something that was not just a canned Leftist script, a rehash of reasons he hates Trump or, in some cases, out-and-out lies. He didn’t get deleted till he started repeating himself, and trying to draw us into petty bickering. He got to the point where he tried to keep things going by challenging people to prove that the Dems were breaking a rule or law in the way they are trying to manipulate their process, as if the sliminess and underhandedness and general lack of honesty have to be violations of specific laws to be considered underhanded and slimy and dishonest.
Now that we have flushed the toilet and are no longer swamped with the mental excrement of the Trump-obsessed hate-driven troll, we can talk about other things.
I used to live in Santa Fe and had relatives in Los Alamos, and have always loved both cities and been fascinated by the history of Los Alamos and its role in ending WW Two. So articles about Los Alamos grab my attention. This is a particularly disturbing story, not just for the drug aspect but the national security lapses of the labs there.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/corruption-chronicles/u-s-lab-known-for-security-failures-loses-enough-opioids-to-kill-1750-people
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A few years ago, a Los Alamos scientist and his wife, both contractors at the facility, stole “classified restricted data” involving nuclear weapons and passed it along to a foreign government that’s hostile to the U.S.
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Before that, Los Alamos officials sent top secret data relating to nuclear weapons via an open electronic mail network and police accidentally stumbled upon it in a drug dealer’s mobile home during a drug bust. The highly classified information included details of the actual characteristics of nuclear material used in weapons. The 1,500 highly classified nuclear weapons designs were stashed in a trailer park near the lab along with paraphernalia to manufacture methamphetamine
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Some of us think there are issues more compelling than wallowing in emotional sewers and spewing rage and fury at people who aren’t eager to jump down there with the deranged, but we’ve got this, we’ve got our neighbor nation protecting drug cartels whose war on Americans recently went to a more openly hostile and deadly level and we have the specter of Leftist tyranny not just looming over us but being actively and openly promoted even by some members of our own government. Stuff a little more important, at least to the rational, than what some guy did a decade or more ago.
Well, it seems that the NYT is still printing melodramatic (and, of course, anti-Trump) headlines based on, you guessed it, anonymous “sources”.
Trump officials once considered resigning en masse, an anonymous author identified as an administration official says in a new book.
The author is the same anonymous writer who penned an Opinion essay that appeared in The Times last year about resisting President Trump’s “more misguided impulses.”
And the paper is the same shameless complicit propaganda arm of the Left.
Caitlin Fisher, author of “The Gaslighting of the Millennial Generation,” whines:
“Millennials have faced extraordinary levels of student loan debt only to be told that they need to take unpaid internships or cobble together a living wage with part-time work, [and] when we dare to complain, the boomers tell us that in their day, they put in their time and we have to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps,” said Fisher. “Yet the world they are leaving for us is a deck stacked against us. The minimum wage is not livable, health care costs are exorbitant (while many boomers rely on tax-funded health care programs and simultaneously tell us that socialism will be the downfall of society), living and education expenses are increasing far faster than wages keep up, and we’re tired of being told we aren’t allowed to complain.”
Perhaps the poor little snowflakes would get a little respect if they had the mental energy or capacity or will to actually analyze the reasons for the things that fret them. For example, the “extraordinary levels of student loan debt” combined with the “need to take unpaid internships or cobble together a living wage with part-time work” is a situation directly attributable to the Left, which has infiltrated higher education with utterly useless drivel such as the “studies” courses which are just propaganda, while shifting student loans to the government where they are handed out like Halloween candy with no real discernment regarding the worth of the classes they are paying for. The combination of courses designed to let students stay in school indefinitely and pretend they are really getting an education while in fact just wasting time and money on nonsense, and the ability to recklessly borrow tens of thousands of dollars to do so, is the real problem. And that comes back to the Millennial making very bad decisions.
All this pity-party whimpering ignores the people of the same age who actually took real classes and studied hard and got real degrees and then went out and got real jobs. It skims right over the lack of work ethic that seems to define so many younger people, who refuse to accept the fact that they will be expected to put in the appropriate amount of work to get a paycheck.
Fisher whines “The minimum wage is not livable”. Well, it isn’t supposed to be. It is a minimum wage for a reason—the jobs require minimal education, minimal job skills and minimal commitment to advancement. Most minimum wage jobs are really just extensions of education, work places where people get paid a relatively small amount of money because they are either unskilled or don’t want to commit to full time jobs, where they can learn how to be employees. The people who learn this and apply it can move up, or on. Those who don’t are stuck at that level. It’s a decision.
John Furner recently became the President and Chief Executive Officer of Walmart U.S.
Furner, 45, started with Walmart as an hourly associate in 1993, working part-time in the garden center of a supercenter. He worked his way up through a number of frontline leadership roles, later becoming a store manager, district manager and buyer.
He will report to Walmart President and CEO Doug McMillon, who first joined the company as a summer associate in high school,
Most Walmart managers have worked their way up through the ranks. The same is true of Kroger managers and fast-food company managers.
It’s the kind of lesson the Fishers of this country will never learn, preferring instead to whine that they somehow got handed a raw deal.
So I am guessing RG went off the rails last night … again. He sure likes to accuse us of a devotion to “one man” when in reality it is his unhinged hatred that is solely directed toward one man. He is obsessed with Trump as is the media and Democrats. It’s all they think about and all they talk about 24/7. I have never seen so many people consumed with one man.
I can think of four “Republicans” who cowered when confronted by Democrats and who were probably more Democrat than Republican – McCain, Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, and George HW Bush. I am sure there are many more but these 4 are easy to identify. Was that the difficult question RG wanted answered?
RG and his ilk (media and Democrats) are having a difficult time with confrontational conservatism. They are use to Republicans like McCain, who would fold when confronted with Alinsky type tactics. I think what I like best about Trump is that he takes those tactics and shoves it right down their throats. The more they turn up the volume, the more sh*t they will have to eat because now there are millions of us who finally have someone at the top with a backbone and we have been waiting for that since 1988.
Get use to it RG because millions of us are not real happy with the bullsh*t your side dishes out daily. Right now that piece of sh*t Joe Scarborough is lecturing people on civility after he has accused the POTUS of being a Russian agent, liar, and every other name in the book over the last 3 years, but he is taking exception to conservatives pushing back. F**K off Joe and be careful when you enter conservative country and I will say the same to you RG. .
It’s not that rg “ran off the rails”. It’s that his rails only go to Trumpville, where nothing matters except what Trump did years ago, what his enemies say he did years ago, how he feels about what Trump did years ago, and how he feels about anything even related to Trump–past, present, real or imagined.
Because in his sad sick little world what he thinks about Trump is automatically, by default, what is true about Trump, and where how he feels about Trump is automatically, by default, an accurate description of Trump. He then has snarling, surly temper tantrums when others refuse to see Trump through his personal hate goggles.
This makes him an ideal tool for the Left, which constantly seeks out and recruits the mentally unhinged, like rg, and then validates their pathologies and personality disorders by assuring them that they are right and it is most of the rest of the world that is wrong. And his pretense of wanting to engage in discourse is bogus—it is just a blog version of clickbait, where there is some kind of reward for how many people he can suck in and how many responses he gets.
I played along for a while because there were some things I wanted to get into the discussion anyway so I led him into opening the doors for those to be posted as responses instead of just stand-alone posts like mine on Los Alamos, for example. But he has never been anything but a mindless, hate-driven tool of the Left, and so devoid of anything even remotely like personal dignity, or honesty, or integrity he is just a waste of bandwidth.
….. a mindless, hate-driven tool of the Left
Yup. RG is a sound bite troll. He hears or reads something that confirms his hatred of Trump and regurgitates it. Proof of that is his enrapture with the “walls closing in on Trump”, a delusional refrain we have heard for over 3 years now … but they still believe it
And you feed the trolls by obsessing about what they say and reacting to what they say. You were so enchanted by the fantasy that you would be able to convert a handful of them that you ran into their arms, started an anti-B4V blog, betrayed the trust of the B4V administrators and then when you discovered that what looks like a nest of vipers is really, in fact, nothing but a nest of vipers you came back here.
But you still hang on to your fascination with who they are and what they say. It’s very weird. You just have to keep one foot in that toilet, because you argue that this is the only way to know how bad the toilet smells. Everybody else just says “yeah, it stinks, because it is full of crap” and then walks away from it.
No that’s not it all. You have no idea who I am. I withstand their mental illness and have fun with it, and will continue to do so whenever I want. You think what you want. I actually got to like Mitch who has since passed away. He and I chatted back and forth for a couple years before he passed and he was a great father and that I have a lot of respect for.
Just a WAG, but I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if one of RG’s main purposes for coming here is to pit you two against each other. Please don’t take the bait. We’re all on the same side.
I’ve known for years what happened back then and got past it, but that doesn’t mean pretending it didn’t happen. As for rg trying to start trouble here, it is certainly the kind of thing he would try—and did try, as we saw—but I don’t think that is a reason he comes here. I have wondered, and we have talked about it. One idea is that he is just such an obsessive hater that he dedicates his life to digging up obscure old references he thinks he can use as gotchas in his ceaseless beating of the Orange Man Bad drum. The other is that he is a paid, or at least recruited, troll who is fed scripts and references to use as he tries to get his toxic sludge on as many sites as possible.
And the two are not mutually exclusive. I think the chance to try to stir up a little trouble was just icing on the Spite Cake, and rg has never been one to pass up a chance to wallow in spite and malice.
Damned pesky facts:
Headline: Please consider NASA Sees Climate Cooling Trend Thanks to Low Sun Activity. (emphasis mine)
“We see a cooling trend,” said Martin Mlynczak of NASA’s Langley Research Center. “High above Earth’s surface, near the edge of space, our atmosphere is losing heat energy. If current trends continue, it could soon set a Space Age record for cold.”
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From 1940 to almost 1980, the average global temperature went down. Political concerns and the alleged scientific consensus focused on global cooling. Alarmists said it could be the end of agriculture and civilization. Journalist Lowell Ponte wrote in his 1976 book, The Cooling.
The problem then was – and still is now – that people are educated in the false philosophy of uniformitarianism: the misguided belief that conditions always were and always will be as they are now, and any natural changes will occur over long periods of time.
Consequently, most people did not understand that the cooling was part of the natural cycle of climate variability, or that changes are often huge and sudden. Just 18,000 years ago we were at the peak of an Ice Age. Then, most of the ice melted and sea levels rose 150 meters (490 feet), because it was warmer for almost all of the last 10,000 years than it is today.
During the cooling “danger,” geo-engineering proposals included:
* building a dam across the Bering Straits to block cold Arctic water, to warm the North Pacific and the middle latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere;
* dumping black soot on the Arctic ice cap to promote melting;
* adding carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere to raise global temperatures.
“Taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere,” as advocated by the IPCC in its October 8 news conference, is also foolish. Historic records show that at about 410 parts per million (ppm), the level of CO2 supposedly in the atmosphere now, we are near the lowest in the last 280 million years. As plants evolved over that time, the average level was 1200 ppm. That is why commercial greenhouses boost CO2 to that level to increase plant growth and yields by a factor of four.
https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/mikeshedlock/2019/01/30/amidst-global-warming-hysteria-nasa-expects-global-cooling-n2540500
More good stuff in the article.
Excellent article as well as links to other excellent articles and NASA research. This part in particular stood out to me:
and this:
Democrats’ efforts to bury former Vice President Joe Biden‘s quid-pro-quo operation in Ukraine are unraveling after the State Department released emails that showed lobbying efforts between Burisma representatives—including the vice president’s son Hunter—and top Obama officials.
Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., responded to the revelations by asking current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to provide additional materials that may not have been released in earlier freedom-of-information requests by Hill columnist John Solomon.
In a letter to Pompeo, the powerful committee chairmen sought help filling the gaps in dealings that implicate not only the Bidens but also former Secretary of State John Kerry and other high-level officials dealing in Ukraine policy.
The senators requested a full release of State Department documents related to the scandal—including any that may be classified—by no later than Nov. 20, in order to “better understand what actions, if any, the Obama administration took to ensure that policy decisions relating to Ukraine and Burisma were not improperly influenced by the employment and financial interests of family members,” said the letter.
https://www.libertyheadlines.com/gop-probe-lobbying-obama-burisma/
Does anyone else here have the sense that “powerful committee chairmen” like Grassley know less about what’s going on than we do? If I were a “powerful committee chairman” I would have a staffer or two dedicated to fact checking every column that John Solomon and Sara Carter have written in the last 3 years, and every chalkboard presentation Glenn Beck has done WRT nefarious deep state anti-Trump activity. I’m not suggesting Grassley is complicit, just overwhelmed by the amount of sh*t the Dems are throwing at the wall. At least I hope that’s the case.
Speaking of Beck, he’s promising to have a presentation next Wednesday that will blow all the current controversy WRT to Trump/DNC/Ukraine and much more wide open. We’ll see.
Something else I’m curious to get everyone’s take on is the underlying reason there seem to be so many Obama holdovers in the intelligence community, the State Department and the DOJ/FBI that are working to subvert the Trump administration. Virtually all of these people require a significant security clearance to do their jobs. What would be the best way to keep them in place for as long as possible? Stalling security clearances for people Trump has nominated to replacement the comes to mind.
Spook, I have wondered the same thing about letting enemies into the tent.
We remember the latter days of the Obama regime, when appointees were scurrying to be appointed to agency positions where they would have some protection against being fired due to Civil Service regs, etc. We have also seen the naive and misguided efforts of Trump to treat Obama holdovers with respect, in what appeared to be a belief that if they were treated with respect they would respond in kind. Well….no.
I would not only have put a good person in charge at the CIA—which Trump did—but then charge her with weeding out the subversives. Allegiance to the man who is president is not essential, but allegiance to the office of the presidency and the United States is, and that should be the criterion for any CIA employee. Period.
Ditto for the military. It’s harder to get rid of flag officers, but there has to be a way to move good officers and officer candidates up the ladder to squeeze the Lefties out.
I would have yanked the security clearance of Hillary Clinton the day it was proved that she violated the law and exposed confidential and classified information by having an illegal server. That alone should have disqualified her from having a clearance, and the same thing goes for every single government official who used that server—including Obama.
But these vipers inside the government retain their clearances while, as you pointed out, blocking security clearances for new appointees.
I’ve been in the position of having to get rid of employees but having to juggle circumstances and timing to do it, and that was on a very small scale. So I have no problem believing that Grassley, et al, know at least as much as we do and are involved in the same kinds of calculations. Common sense says they know more. But there are undoubtedly factors in play that demand skill and cunning to know the best timing for addressing them.
Personally, I have an image in my mind of people behind the curtain carefully assembling the myriad pieces of Leftist trickery, criminality, treachery and general manipulation of our system to try to gain control of the nation. And I think/hope that the gamble has been to have most of this going on in the background while Trump lays the foundation for a significant win in 2020, after which he would have about two years to pull the curtain back and start kicking ass and taking names. That would leave two years for the dust to settle, trials to take place, sentencing to occur and deadwood to be trimmed so emotions could calm down a little before the 2024 election.
This belief is borne out by the panic of the Left as they frantically try literally everything they can pull out of thin air to try to scuttle that second term. They were counting on a Clinton presidency to cover what they had been up to, and since then they have been setting up trip wires and speed bumps to slow or stop serious efforts to bring them to justice. The whole Mueller charade was intended to block the firing of some people and the indictment of them and others, thanks to the careful structuring of the “obstruction of justice” image in the minds of the sheeple. Everyone knew Trump couldn’t do much of anything till that was ended, which is why it had to drag on for so long, until I think Mueller pulled the plug on it himself and refused to continue being a human sacrifice for the Left. I don’t think he realized the toll his involvement would take on him—-the stress of being caught between the Left and the law, the destruction of his reputation as being both smart and ethical and the realization it wouldn’t really make any difference.
It is my belief, or maybe it is just a hope, that staffs of several people have been carefully constructing time lines and evidence packets, much as Beck does, to prepare for the cascade of consequences to come. But I think doing it all now could be counterproductive, and while some of it has to come out now to counter the smear campaigns of the Left it would be more productive to wait till after the next inauguration. I also believe the Left knows this and is trying to force Trump’s hand into playing his cards too soon, too close to this upcoming election, so the fallout can be spun as a negative against him.
But…I am not a strategist. It is possible that hitting the public with this stuff now will let some of the dust settle and time indictments and plea bargains and resignations and so on to build, right up to the election.
Have any of you other posters noticed the annoying feature of Word Press by which it refuses to recognize a paragraph break at the end of a post, running the last two paragraphs together? I have tried entering several spaces between the last two paragraphs and this doesn’t work. In my post about the information request from State about lobbying efforts by relatives of Biden and Kerry, the last two paragraphs appear without a space dividing them, which is what Word Press does with all posts.
I see what you’re talking about in your post at 1:14PM. I don’t recall experiencing it. Does it happen only in cut and pasted text or also in text your create? It may be some glitch in your computer rather than a Word Press problem.
I think it happens to my own text as well but that is a good point and I will pay attention the next time it happens. BTW, I use two different computers, though they are the same brand and model.