The White House won’t emphatically state that the coke isn’t Hunter’s. It is a fairly simple thing – it either is, or it isn’t his. And as I’ve said before, don’t buy any story claiming they have no idea…they know exactly who the coke belongs to. That they won’t forthrightly state it isn’t Hunter’s means they know it is his. And, yes, coke-heads are like that – very irresponsible to the point of sheer idiocy. He really did leave his laptop filled with incriminating evidence at the repair shop. Because he’s a stupid drug addict. You don’t have to overthink this. More than likely, he brought a little blow into the White House (it seems that 53 year old Hunter has taken up residence there as being there is bullet-proof as far as getting a summons goes)…he probably took it out to give himself a little boost and simply forgot about it. End of story.
But the thing is that simple possession is 3 years in jail – in other words, if it is Hunter’s coke (and it is) then he has to go to jail. So, the White House will continue to spin this thing with the most absurd lies and rely on it that DOJ has been told to keep hands off on it.
I just want it noted at this point that bringing decency back to the White House has involved a lot more hookers, blow and abandoned grandchildren than I thought it would.
And about that grandchild – I guess the case has now been settled but the fact of the matter is that Joe Biden refuses to acknowledge the child. Some rumors exist that Hunter pressured the mother to get an abortion; it is in keeping with the sort of low-life Hunter is and I could easily see him and his garbage father being pissed off that she didn’t agree to that expedient. Not that I’m calling her a pillar of virtue – it could well have been a set up by a clever girl looking for a payday. That does happen – normally with sports stars and the like, but any moron with access to cash is a target of such things. But regardless what sort of people mom and dad are, the child isn’t responsible…and that child is Joe’s flesh and blood. Family. And he’s rejected her. That right there shows what a lousy creep Joe Biden is.
But we already knew that – when his first wife was killed Joe showed up at the hospital with cameras in tow…so that they could get dramatic, heart-wrenching shots of Joe’s reaction. Think about it: at a time when his wife was dead and his child injured, Joe spared thought for how to wring some political advantage out of it. Joe Biden has been trash as far as we can determine all his adult life – some time after he rose to adulthood, and it seems early, he decided that being a lying, backstabbing grifter was the way to go.
More and more people are thinking that Trump has the nomination in the bag. I’m not one of them. Mostly because I’ve given up making any sort of hard and fast political predictions. Been burned too many times when what is obvious turned out to be wrong. Things are just strange out there and anyone telling you that they know what will happen is trying to make a sucker out of you.
But speaking of the upcoming election – that is another wrinkle in the coke story; at least for a time, the White House was trying to imply that Team Harris might be responsible for the coke. They dropped that – my bet because someone Team Harris knows for certain who’s coke it is and threatened to spill it – but it brought to mind that Gavin Newsom has been acting a lot like a guy who wants to run for President…and not in 2028. As California continues to crash and burn, Newsom has been out on the hustings helping State Democrat parties and politicians. You know: laying the groundwork. To be sure, it could just be groundwork for 2028 but if he was laying the foundation just for that, he’d be front and center stumping for Joe and Kamala. He isn’t. What’s going on?
Once again, nobody knows – even the people doing it might not know. Might just be keeping irons in the fire. But there is that chance that Team Democrat is planning on scratching both Joe and Kamala…and that means they’d need a new guy and Newsom is the major Democrat doing the preliminary work to be that guy.
I guess we’re sending cluster bombs to Ukraine – lot of people upset about that because of the type of ordnance. I’m meh on it: the only reason cluster bombs are rated as bad is because when we used them in the past, the American Left worked up the accusation that use of such munitions counted as a war crime. That was ridiculous then and it remain ridiculous today. They are just bombs…and they are excellent for anti-personnel and for making runways at least temporarily unusable. As I’ve said before: there really aren’t war crimes. There are crimes, of course – the Holocaust being the worst. But war crimes? You’re engaged in mass slaughter and you’re going to try to parse this type of slaughter as good while that type is bad? Attempts to humanize war are attempts to humanize hell; the thing just can’t be done. Additionally, no enemy of the USA will ever adhere to any rules – if they think it will give them an advantage against us, they’ll do it. The reason we, as a people, should not engage in brutality (rapine, slaughter and the like) is for our own sake…and because clemency towards enemies is the mightiest engine of war. But just get stuffed about “war crimes” when we’re blowing the enemy up…the purpose of the war action is to kill the enemy. How he’s killed is irrelevant.
Speaking of Ukraine – we’re sending the bombs because they’re said to be out of ammo. The Ukrainians have been on the offensive for some while now and they’ve only advanced a few miles and are now out of ammunition. This doesn’t look like raging success to me.
Blogs For Victory 
Robert Malone has a really thought-provoking essay today.
It was astounding to me how effective the propaganda was. I lost a friend over it – and she’s older than me so I know she got the same biology education I got or maybe even better. She knew that a mask cannot stop a virus – not even something like an N95. They are just too small…that’s why people who work with viruses do so in an air tight body suit. Pretty much any gap is sufficient for a virus to get through. But there she was – ending our friendship because I merely pointed out that masks don’t work. I was “toxic” and she had to remove me from her life. The TV told her something she knew was false…and rather than dispute the TV, she dumped a friend of 20 years.
But if we really start to think about it, we’ve been manipulated for a very long time. Some years ago I noted how for most of WWII the American MSM was praising Chian Kai-shek to the skies and then on a dime (and at Soviet orders) it did a 180 and started calling him a corrupt, fascist bastard…and it worked! Millions of people who a week before would have said, “Kai-shek is a hero” turned to “he needs to go” in an instant. As if they had never thought the previous thought. And this was pre-television! This was just newspapers and radio…TV just makes the propaganda more effective. We laugh at stories of Krauts still having faith in victory with the Russians at the gates of Berlin…but we are simply not any smarter than they were.
I can’t really describe how important it was for me those years ago when I simply stopped watching the MSM at all – the more time went on, the longer my mind wasn’t being poisoned by regime propaganda, the more my own knowledge started to inform my views. A mirror image of that friend I lost…she kept her eyes glued to the TV and became ever more servile…I stopped listening and became ever more free.
As you may or may not know, my wife of 57 years passed away the middle of May. She was in home hospice care for about 10 days prior to her death, and I’ve barely had the TV on since then. Not getting that daily dose of propaganda is very cathartic .
I’m glad you are sparing yourself the misery of the Agenda Media as you go through your own healing period. My thoughts are with you all the time, because I know what a painful time this is
I thought a hint of reality would start to seep in when we were told, during the horrible forest fire season when the smoke was so bad, that the masks would not provide any protection against the smoke. I had a mask made that said:
Won’t block large smoke particles
Will block tiny virus particles
Because science
And it often got a sour face from a grocery clerk or someone who had read it. It got some thumbs-up, too, but I was surprised at how many were offended by it. They were simply not capable of connecting the dots and realizing that something that won’t filter out smoke won’t stop a virus molecule.
When the mask mandate was pretty much over Kaiser still required masking of everyone who went in for anything. I was being checked in by the assistant and commented, very mildly, that it was kind of hard to have faith in medical care from people who thought paper masks were some kind of virus protection. She smiled and left the room and immediately the doctor came in, laughing. She said they had heard my comment out in the hall and all agreed with me, but that it was a corporate decision. Then we took our masks off and had a normal conversation.
I was on the airport shuttle to the Denver airport the day they halted the mask requirement at the airport, so when I went in I had mine down around my neck, not sure what I would find. About half of the people were not wearing masks and that number grew over the next couple of hours. But the rest of the people looked absolutely terrified, They literally had no idea what to do with the freedom to make a decision.
I still see a mask every now and then, and the eyes and posture are either fearful or defiant. what is heartbreaking is to see small children forced to wear masks.
We’re seeing a different but similar disconnect from reality as commenters still whine about how “corrupt” Trump is, without batting an eye at the unfolding proofs of Biden corruption.
Spook,
I am so sorry to hear about your wife. Losing my wife was the worst thing I’ve ever gone through. I still think of her everyday. You are in my thoughts and prayers.
I hope your hearts are healing Spook and Casper.
My husband died in 2006 and while the sharpness of the original grief is dulled, it never completely goes away. It’s a special kind of loss.
Losing a spouse transcends politics. My condolences, Casper. It was made easier (if I can say that without sounding like a heartless bastard) in my case because my wife had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s right before Christmas, so we were both looking at some ugly times ahead. I’d like to think that God’s mercy spared us both a lot of agony.
All compromised in a mad rush to achieve an ill-advised and ill-conceived utilitarian “public health” (or was it a financial?) mission.
I think, and always did think, it was a test to see how much tyranny the American public would tolerate–after the China test to see how we would react to a biological threat. We were human guinea pigs from the get-go.
The thing is, I don’t think we would fall for it a second time. If it was to give the Left confidence that the whole country would bend the knee to tyranny and meekly fall into line, I think it has backfired as so many truths are starting to come out and be accepted, and people are realizing we were taken advantage of, abused, and lied to. I think it is a “fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me” situation. We’ll see if our eventual nominee has what it takes to articulate the threat posed by this kind of tyranny if we don’t change direction right now.
I just want it noted at this point that bringing decency back to the White House has involved a lot more hookers, blow and abandoned grandchildren than I thought it would.
And naked trans activists !!! LOL.
On Friday, Latrine jean Pierre was asked point blank if the coke belonged to the Biden family. She didn’t say no … to one of the easiest questions ever asked.
The Democrats of today are a complete 180 from the Democrats I remember in the 1980’s. Todays Democrats are in full support of the Military Industrial Complex, Big Pharma, Censorship, and the Security State. Those positions would never have been supported by 1980 Democrats.
Janet Yellin is a complete embarrassment, and I can’t believe we sent a bat shit stupid 80 year old woman to meet with the Chinese leadership. It’s more than obvious that the Chinese own Joe Biden
This is what I call “cluster bombs” lol
Heh!
The virtue signaling and hypocrisy of these two capitalist millionaires is off the charts. I despise people like this, and sadly will never buy another pint of their delicious ice cream.
I stopped buying Ben and Jerry’s years ago when they first made one of their virtue signaling hypocritical rants.
RedState addressed these clowns in an article about “performative progressivism”—a great phrase, by the way. After the two kinda-Commies posted this:
Ben & Jerry’s
@benandjerrys
This 4th of July, it’s high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it. Learn more and take action now:
they got a response I don’t think they expected.
Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Band of The Coosuk Abenaki Nation, one of four recognized tribes in Vermont, expressed his desire to dialogue with Ben & Jerry’s about the matter. Stevens pointed out that the company’s corporate headquarters was located on Western Abenaki land and suggested that if Ben & Jerry’s was sincere in its statements, it should put its money where its mouths are and return the land to the Abenaki tribe.
As of this writing, Ben & Jerry’s has not responded to Stevens’ invitation. But we already know they won’t have anything to say, don’t we?
Being a white progressive means one can use marginalized communities to virtue signal about how much they care about the plight of downtrodden brown people without ever having to lift a finger to do anything significant to help them. While Ben and Jerry implored the nation to give back what was taken, they conveniently overlook their own reluctance to part with their lands or share their profits. It seems that when it comes to actually taking action, these performers develop an inexplicable bout of stage fright.
Isn’t it the Left that demands a Death Tax—that is, a tax on inheritance? I wonder what the accumulated Death Tax would be on land “returned” to the descendants of the “original owners”.
Not to say it wouldn’t be interesting to watch the decades-long legal battles as tribe after tribe asserted this ownership—“we had it—no, you took it from us—but you took it from US…” and so on.
Only the Left would try to tie itself in knots trying to untangle centuries of shifting occupation of various lands. They posture as merely trying to be “fair” but it’s pretty obvious it’s just another aspect of their commitment to divisiveness and trouble-making.
I’ve mentioned the time I went to Berlin to attend an espionage conference. I was visiting with top espionage officials from the US, Canada and England and when I asked about something the Russians had done the Brit said that the Russians “just like to make mischief”. I thought that was a typically British understatement. The others agreed, though, that it is a feature of the Russian government mentality to just make trouble wherever it can. This seems to be a main ingredient in all Leftist thinking.
I love that statement from the tribe to Ben and Jerry. Poetic Justice.
That is brilliant on so many levels….
Zuck is a cuck
I really like Elon Musk
BTW, regarding your sign posts, I saw a sign that said:
“Alcohol. Because no good story ever started with “someone ate a salad”.”
I also liked “If assholes could fly this place would look like an airport”—but that’s only true here when we have one of those troll invasions of whiners demanding that people PAY ATTENTION TO THEM!
Cluster, you have a better memory than I have about the guys who ran the Democrat server for so long. What do you remember about that, and Wasserman-Schultz trying to defend them and the DNC being so careless about security? When that story broke, before it got shut down, there were some comments about Feinstein’s Chinese driver, too. That would all be an appropriate story to tie in with this (Bombshell Allegations About Special Treatment Feinstein, Swalwell Chinese Spy Sagas Got From FBI)
My memory has faded with age lol, but what I recall is that it started with John Podesta clicking on a link that allowed spyware to be placed on the servers, so ironically it wasn’t the alleged Russians “hacking in”, it was Podesta allowing them in. And I don’t think it’s any stretch of the imagination to think that there was a lot of dirt on those servers, including DWS efforts to kill Bernie Sanders campaign and give the nomination to Hillary. Sadly Seth Rich was killed in 2016 as he was suspected of taking some of the damning information public. Truth be known, I think Democrats are more intertwined with China than we know, whether intentional or unintentional. The Chinese have exploited Democrats weak spot … vanity.
Good info, but not what I was looking for. Remember the foreigners—Iranians?—who had the DNC contract to do their IT work? They ran the whole DNC network, with full access to everything. One of the family—the mother?—was arrested at an airport, flying out with tons of money.
Wasserman-Schultz kept them on even after suspicions were raised, and no one on the Dem side seemed at all concerned about all DNC information that passed through their servers being available to bad actors.
During this period there was a kerfluffle about Feinstein’s driver but it, too, got swept under the rug and he stayed on for years.
Nope—they were Pakistani. I didn’t have enough info to even do a search, but finally stumbled onto this:
A trio of Pakistani brothers who provided IT services to several House Democrats, including former DNC chair Rep. Debbie Waserman Schultz, pilfered $100,000 from an Iraqi politician while they had administrator-level access to the House of Representatives’ computer network, a report said.
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ringleader Imran Awan and his brothers Abid and Jamal
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The Awan brothers had provided IT services since 2005 for Wasserman Schultz and dozens of other House Democrats, including members of the intelligence, foreign affairs and homeland security committees. Those positions likely gave them access to congressional emails and other sensitive documents, the Daily Caller report said.
A spokesman for Wasserman Schultz did not respond to the Daily Caller’s questions on Feb. 20 about Imran’s employment status. As of Feb. 6, she had declined to fire Imran, the report said.
Investigators in the case found that congressional information was being copied to an off-site server and they suspect the brothers of improperly accessing information and stealing congressional property. Chiefs of staff for the employing Democrats were notified Feb. 2.
Soon after Imran began working for members of Congress, Imran’s and Abid’s wives — Hina Alvi and Natalia Sova — also began receiving congressional paychecks, the Daily Caller report found. Imran’s employers included two members of the intelligence committee, Indiana Democrat Rep. Andre Carson and California Democrat Rep. Jackie Speier.
I keep thinking that if only the Right had a focus and a plan, we could put together a pretty damning outline of Democrat threats to national security—-the Awan brothers, the Hillary bathroom server, Hillary bypassing the DoD to send Stingers to the rebels in Syria (resulting in a panicked effort to get them back after one of them shot down an American helicopter, leading to the Benghazi disaster), Joe blabbing about the formerly top secret existence of Seal Team Six, boxes of classified documents haphazardly stowed in Biden’s garage, his relationships with Ukraine and China, etc. Not to mention pillow talk with Fang Fang and whatever Feinstein’s driver picked up from her, either directly or through eavesdropping or ???
Oh shit, I forgot all about them … see how that is. Good memory and yes, that was a Pakistani family that had unfettered access.
Here’s an anecdotal story – yesterday I was reading about how “climate experts” are saying that much of the southern part of the United States will be unlivable by 2070 because well you know … climate change. Isn’t it strange how hot weather always brings out the climate loons?? Well shortly thereafter I ran to the store for a few things in the 110 degree Phoenix heat. Upon arriving, I noticed an open air 4×4 ATV with two hispanic gentleman casually chatting in the parking lot, as well as an older hispanic gentleman in his pickup with the window down and music on wearing a long sleeve shirt and obviously waiting for someone in the store. I got quite a laugh out of this and wondered of the climate experts have consulted hispanics on “unlivable heat”?? LOL. Seriously, I don’t think these climate clowns ever leave the classroom. Like Tucker often says, the people who want to protect nature, have never been in nature.
I guess the “experts” have now decided that Global Cooling is a myth and won’t happen.
BTW, all that noise about this being “the hottest 4th of July in history” is just that—noise. The alleged record-braking GLOBAL temperature was something like 65 degrees F, and it turns out there really isn’t any such thing as a “global temperature” anyway.
The goal posts have been moved …
“We cannot imagine Ukraine without Crimea. And while Crimea is under the Russian occupation, it means only one thing war is not over yet,” said Zelensky during the CNN interview.
Crimea has been under Russian control since 2014 under then President Obama, who said and did nothing as Russian tanks rolled in. But now the little corrupt war lord in Ukraine wants it back and America will pay the price thanks to Democrats. It’s the definition of FUBAR
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/zelensky-trash-talks-trump-blabs-incoherent-nonsense-during/
I think the “coke” belonged to ol’ crackhead Joe himself.
Except I can’t see his handlers letting him carry it around or handle it. Given Hunter’s well documented love affair with cocaine, and his odd behavior on the balcony during the 4th of July photo opp, he really is the most likely culprit.
That, and his habit of leaving stuff lying around.
Yea it’s a real mystery
Update on climate change – high today in Phoenix will hit 111. For reference, the record high temperature for this day is 118 set back in …. 1958. And it’s important to note, there were no SUV’s in 1958. And this was just one year before Grand Cyclops of the KKK Robert Byrd was a sitting Senator for the Democrat Party.
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I’m not sure Ron can overcome this …
A poll found that Florida Republicans strongly favor former President Trump over their governor, Ron DeSantis, in a hypothetical 2024 presidential primary contest. The new Florida Atlantic University Mainstreet PolCom Lab poll showed that Trump held a 20-point lead over DeSantis among registered GOP voters
I know there is a lot of time left but polling this far behind in his own State makes me wonder. And this isn’t because Ron is unpopular amongst conservatives … if Trump were not in the picture, DeSantis would be up by double digits. Trump is getting stronger with each indictment … for the obvious reason.
https://www.wtrf.com/hill-politics/florida-poll-finds-trump-well-ahead-of-desantis-in-state/amp/
Oh NO!!!!!! The Hill cited part of a poll saying that a Republican just isn’t popular enough to win!!
Well, I actually read the whole article about this stunning, oh-so-significant, ground-shaking poll, and found some additional information.
the gap between the two candidates is narrowing. In April, a similar poll showed Trump held a 24-point lead over DeSantis, with 57 percent supporting Trump, 33 percent supporting DeSantis, 5 percent undecided, and approximately 6 percent support for other candidates.
Among all voters surveyed in Florida — not just Republicans — respondents supported DeSantis more than Trump: 54 percent approve of DeSantis (41 percent strongly, 13 percent somewhat), and 43 percent disapprove (34 percent strongly, 9 percent somewhat). Trump’s favorability is at 50 percent (33 percent strongly, 17 percent somewhat), and his unfavorability is at 47 percent (38 percent strongly, 9 percent somewhat).
The poll also showed DeSantis would beat President Biden in a head-to-head match-up by 13 points, if it were held today: 49 percent would support DeSantis, 36 would support Biden, 11 percent would support “other” and 4 percent were undecided.
In a match-up between Trump and Biden, on the other hand, Trump would lead by a narrower margin of 10 points: 49 percent would support Trump, 39 percent would support Biden, 10 percent would support “other” and 2 percent were undecided.
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Trump is getting stronger with each indictment … for the obvious reason. We are supposed to assume that the “obvious reason” is that for some reason the accumulation of indictments means Trump is now appealing to more people. But there’s another, less starry-eyed fanboi way to see this. That is that Americans in general are passionate about fair play and rightly see the government attacks on Trump as manifestly unfair and an effort to rig the next election. We are a nation that cheers for the underdog. So there is rising support for him as a man being unfairly set upon by a powerful and vindictive government.
The question is whether or not that is also a growing conviction that he is the best person for the job. And even more important than faith in Trump The President is the question of whether Trump The Candidate can prevail.
There seems to be a switch in the minds of the ardent pro-Trumpers that automatically flips an observation of Trump’s problems as a candidate into a criticism of Trump himself or of his ability to be a good president. To put it bluntly, a lot of people who don’t think Trump’s Idiot Factor will interfere with his ability to be a good president—-again—but who fear that it will affect his electability. He’s got almost a year and a half to prove to us that he can, and will, rein in that Idiot Factor and start acting like a serious statesman. That would mean excising whole parts from his persona—the whole Victim schtick, accurate as it is and the juvenile and off-putting name calling and personal insults being the two things that are going to drag him down. I for one don’t think he can do it. or even understand why it would be necessary.
“less starry eyed fan boi” lmao. You certainly get defensive when I criticize ol Ron
You can not deny empirical evidence – Just in the last week – Trump pulled 75,000 people to his rally in SC; he was met by a huge contingent of California law enforcement on the tarmac in LA that was not scheduled, they just showed up; he then went to Las Vegas and spoke to a sell out room of evangelicals and then just a couple hours later was met with huge standing ovation at a UFC event, and just for the record those last two groups are not exactly of the same mind. Trump is out there speaking to every group he can and is being well received and generating excitement, and that’s aside from his record as President, which everyone loved. Politics is a retail business, and so far Ron is in the wholesale business.
And the “obvious reason” is that a lot of Americans are realizing that Trump is being persecuted, not prosecuted. And Americans by nature are inclined to defend the persecuted. I think that’s what’s happening. And no, I don’t think Ron could, at this point, pull 75,000 people to an event. Maybe someday.
I agree with you that all polls need to be taken lightly, they do shape opinion rather than mirror it, but there is some validity to it. Ron will need a break out moment, and I kind of hope that happens. I like him
I merely point out that loving Trump and going to his rallies does not necessarily mean these people will ignore the huge numbers of people who still hate Trump with a white-hot passion.
As I said, we Americans tend to root for the underdog. But we also tend to be pragmatic and realize that passion won’t move the needle very far if the other side isn’t given a reason to set aside its overweening hatred. Bringing out the base is all well and good, very exciting, cause for some bragging. It feels good to support the guy being picked on by the government, but will that sense of fair play extend to rolling the dice at the ballot box?
What will matter in the long run are two things:
(1) How much support will he get from the demographics who voted against him last time? And
(2) Will WANTING Trump to win overcome concerns that his baggage is just too massive to overcome?
My reading is that the country yearns for a normal term of office, a period of calmness and seriousness. While the specter of Trump rampaging through the government slashing budgets and canceling agencies and firing people is very appealing, and I personally like it, when push comes to shove there is a lot of appeal for Mr. Average American, not flashy, not melodramatic, but someone who Gets The Job Done. Just a calm small-town guy who played baseball and went into the service (where, according to some, he acted as shot-caller for Seal Team actions) and married a pretty hometown girl and quietly and methodically, with no fireworks or melodrama or self-aggrandizement took on some giants and won. A Jerry Springer chair-throwing name-calling primary season is likely to reinforce a longing for a more normal government and a more boring, non-dramatic, president.
I keep saying if we could just drop Trump into the White House I would do it in a heartbeat. But as much as I like the idea of Trump As President, Trump As Candidate scares the life out of me, because the same things that are generating all this passion FOR him are reinforcing the passions AGAINST him. And I feel that a campaign that is less dependent on a wildly polarized voting public will be a very good thing.
Politics is a retail business, and so far Ron is in the wholesale business.
I have no idea what this is supposed to mean.
I doubt that DeSantis is even interested in the ego-gratification of having 75,000 people screaming his name, and I for one am tired of having these spectacles take the place of serious discussion of what we need to do and how to do it.
Ron will need a break out moment, I think it more likely that Trump will have a break down moment. He’s flying high right now, getting maximum mileage out of his Victim Card, but if DeSantis unloads on him the way he could, about the whole vaccine debacle and the incredible damage this has done to millions of people, Trump and his bragging about being the mastermind of Operation Warp Speed is going to be backed into a corner of his own making.
Well I think Trumps appeal is growing, in part because of the indictments, but also because everyone is now realizing how good everything was when he was as President. And really, most of the “hair on fire, chair throwing” antics are done by those who oppose Trump. He does lash out at them, and then of course he’s labeled the crazy one, so it’s a no win situation for him. And honestly, I think a lot of Americans themselves have the idiot factor when they think of Trump simply because he does lash out. But who wouldn’t? The man has been unnecessarily and relentlessly attacked the past 7 years for simply wanting to govern the country he loves. And remember, Trump grew up in a very different world than any of the “polished” candidates. NY commercial real estate development is not for the weak and is cut throat. Much like politics. Trump is just being Trump, and his appeal is growing.
Politics is a retail business means “pressing the flesh” and holding rallies of 75,000 people and getting your message across. Not strategizing in a back room with mega donors.
This is no surprise whatsoever …
Heavily redacted documents from the National Security Agency tell at least part of the story of a final-month rush by the outgoing Obama administration to torpedo the incoming presidency of Donald Trump.
Truth be known, Obama is Americas most dangerous insurrectionist. And still is
The entire #RESIST movement and its adjunct efforts were efforts by the Left to unseat a duly elected and inaugurated President of the United States, if not physically then in terms of making him unable to execute the powers and responsibility of his office, and to assume those powers. It was openly designed to sabotage the new president and his administration, even military officers and members of Congress stated their support and participation, and it was a blatant effort to accomplish a political coup and transfer power back to the Left.
There are Leftists out there all giddy because Gal Luft has been indicted for working with a Chinese company without registering as a foreign agent. The problem? It’s the same Chinese company Hunter Biden worked with WITHOUT REGISTERING AS A FOREIGN AGENT YCMTSU!!!
The hypocrisy and stupidity of Democrats has no limits. Yesterday, I read a report from the Atlantic on Twitter of the dangers of white nationalism and how racist and dangerous that ideology is. They however failed to mention that the people of Ukraine, who they have sent over $113 billion to, are all white nationalists and racist. So ??? I guess some white nationalism is bad, while the other is the last stand for democracy.
Tortured logic.
What’s really funny is that “white nationalism” is a meaningless phrase concocted by the Left, knowing its zombie deadheads will think it is somehow a very very important description of a very very important thing they must find very very dangerous and very very threatening and probably even A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY !!!. So they will flutter and mutter and wait to be told which Republican is the most white and nationalistic of those dreaded “white nationalists” so they can go vote for tyranny instead.
They tried to demonize the word “populist” but that sounded too much like “popular” and confused the Idiocracy-ists. So they tried “nationalist” that still didn’t stir up any rage, but when they tacked on the deadly word “white” they had a winner. “Cause white is bad. A genetic, born-in-the-bone source of all that is evil, a visible marker of malignance and oppression, blah blah blah.
Take away their ability to simply redefine words at will and you will have crippled the Left.
“indicted?” Isn’t that the same thing as being found guilty? (Just ask a Dem.)
Here’s an example of one of the “Crimes” Luft is indicted for:
LUFT’ Scheme to Violate F R17. As described in more detail below, among other things, GAL LUFT the defendant, agreed to and did engage in political activities in the United States on behalf of CEFC CEFC China, and CC1, in an effort to seek to influence United States foreign policy toward and the public perception of China, and concealed these efforts by creating the false appearance that they were simply the sharing of sincere opinions of an independent expert on national security and international relations.
Aside from the fact that with only a few minor chanages this could be an indictment of Fauci, it really comes down to a toxic hash of incendiary language (the repetition of the word “scheme” throughout the document) and an effort to criminalize Thought Crimes, including the application of the Leftist Crystal Ball in determining what Luft was thinking and what he really meant when he did whatever it was that he did. The government just states that the opinions shared by Luft did not reflect his true feelings or beliefs—were not “sincere”. Only this miserable excuse for a Justice Department would go on record indicting someone on the basis of a claim that he was not “sincere”.
The phrase concealed these efforts by creating the false appearance that they were simply the sharing of sincere opinions of an independent expert on national security and international relations is a blatant application of an assigned motive, steeped in the kind of unprofessional snark we have come to expect from this increasingly unhinged DOJ.
Kind of strange that Americas agenda media has no interest in this story
Missing Biden corruption whistleblower Dr. Gal Luft released a 14-minute video to The New York Post on Thursday detailing damning allegations against Joe Biden and his family in a massive international bribery scheme filmed in an undisclosed location while on the run from the Biden regime and Department of Justice … The Justice Department indicted Biden corruption whistleblower, Gal Luft on Monday
As usual, the basis of the argument went right over your head. No surprise
An interesting and informative comment on a TownHall article:
Six Ways From Sunday to Eliminate President Trump:
What Happens to the MAGA Middle Class Political Movement After the Deep State Gets Rid of Trump?
June 15, 2023
Laurie Thomas Vass. http://www.civildissolution.com
Full article available at Substack: http://www.civildissolution.substa...
Introduction: In a moment of candor, in 2017, about his hatred of Donald Trump, U. S. Senator Schumer, from New York, boasted that the deep state would eventually get rid of Trump.As described by Margaret Cleveland in her Federalist article of September 27, 2019, the deep state had already deployed the strategy of political operations, in 2017, to stop Trump’s re-election in 2020.
Cleveland wrote,
“Harder to address, though, is the other half of the story—something Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer spoke of in glee, in response to then-president-elect Trump’s criticism of U.S. intelligence agencies. “Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community — they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer told MSNBC’s host Rachel Maddow.”
Schumer added,
“Let me tell you. Whether you’re a super liberal Democrat or a very conservative Republican, you should be against dismantling the intelligence community,”
In other words, the deep state intelligence community was threatened by Trump because Trump was suggesting that he was going to Make America Great by downsizing the government.
Sundance writes, on The Last Refuge,
“Trump was disrupting the global order of things in order to protect and preserve the shrinking interests of the U.S. [middle class citizens]. He was fighting, almost single-handed, at the threshold of the abyss. Our interests, our position, is zero-sum. His DC opposition seeks to repel and retain the status-quo. They want to return to full economic control.”
The deep state New World Order has a will of its own, independent of the will of the people, and the deep state will protect its interests, in any way possible.
The deep state spy apparatus has conducted many operations to get Trump, and none have succeeded, thus far….
If the deep state gets rid of Trump, one way or the other, the issue for MAGA Trump Patriots is building an organizational infrastructure, without Trump, that uses the Soros organization as a model to emulate, so that the MAGA Trump movement has the resources and administrative infrastructure to continue the mission of the MAGA middle class/working class social movement.
Full article available at Substack: http://www.civildissolution.substack..
The deep state New World Order has a will of its own, independent of the will of the people, and the deep state will protect its interests, in any way possible.
That is 110% correct.
Unsealed Court Docs Show No State Secrets in FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Files
This is one of the demoncrats often used ploy – make damming accusations citing evidence to prove it, then hide that very evidence that actually says otherwise.
Well this is a shocker. This is just like every other indictment of Trump. It has no substance, just headlines.
Climate change propaganda is all over my local weather reports now. It’s as if Phoenix has never had 110+ temps before. All the 20 year olds are convinced they have it worse than their grandparents …. lmao.
Remember when Obama would hold rallies and tens of thousands of people would show up? And we all discounted it saying “oh that’s just fandom and won’t translate to votes” – well we were wrong. I see kind of the same thing now happening with Trump.
I can see your point but you can’t see mine.
First, as to “lashing out”. Yes, that is quite understandable—in a child. In a president, leader of the Free World, not so much. At some point you have to grow the F up and stop being such a whiny baby. Did he get screwed in 2020? Yes, and more than half of the country believes Biden is not a legitimate president. So drop it already. If you feel compelled to keep making your case to people who already agree with you, there’s something wrong with you. If you think that constantly whining about something will change the minds of people who hate you, there is something wrong with you. Trump needs a bumper sticker that says DON’T TRIP OVER WHAT IS BEHIND YOU.
While Trumpsters think “lashing out” at people who have upset you, or wronged you in some way, is understandable, millions more want a more stable president who DOESN’T “lash out” when he feels put upon. No man with the massive power of the presidency should be one who just “lashes out”. Nixon is still being savaged for his paranoia, and his was quiet and behind the scenes, not on display every day in every way.
And it’s not just the “lashing out” in response to unfair attacks—it’s the crude and infantile name calling. Give it a rest, already. I’ve read that the name-calling, like “Lying Ted”, made a difference in 2016. I’m not so sure. I have a feeling that for everyone who got a kick out of the schoolyard taunting others had to hold their noses to vote for a man who thought this was smart and funny.
If Trump could do a reset, pay attention to what people tell him instead of charging ahead because he always knows more than anyone else, ever, he could vastly improve his chances. That means instead of constantly whining about a stolen election, STFU about HIM and HIS victimhood and look ahead, and only talk about the dangers of a nation in which more than half of the people have no faith in their ability to elect who they want because they think the system is rigged. Look forward, for a change and calmly and quietly talk about election reform. Leave the big ME out of it, and act like a leader.
He could say that DeSantis has done a great job as governor and will be a fine president one day, but at this particular point in time he thinks that he, Trump, is what we need to address the problems we are facing right now He could be generous and thoughtful, and win a lot of respect, and contrast his qualifications with those of DeSantis without rolling around in the gutter. He’s forgetting that the people he wants to support him out of a sense of fairness are just as likely to find his attacks on DeSantis unfair and push back against them, for the same reason.
A big negative is his refusal to agree to support the GOP nominee, because this is basically a threat to have a temper tantrum and run on his own if not nominated, or at the very least pick up his ball and go home without endorsing or supporting the nominee. That is inexcusable to me, and to millions of others, because it is basically a statement that if Trump doesn’t get his way the country can go to hell.
And this is all before DeSantis, or anyone else, has even stepped up to the plate and started a serious campaign. Covid killed Trump, and it very well might do it again. Three years of learning that Fauci was a fraud means that the country has had time to consider what kind of leader blindly follows a guy who isn’t even legally in the job he claims to have. Between his acceptance of everything Fauci et al told him to do and his pushing and even current self-praise for Operation Warp Speed he is facing major attacks on that front he simply cannot fight. When a campaign against Biden could and should include attacking him on his fawning pandering to Fauci and the CDC and silencing of opposing opinions, Trump will be in the same boat.
As for the cheering crowds, you seem to think that supporting Trump because he is being unfairly attacked means voting for him, and I just don’t agree. I’d go to a Trump rally (if I was into that kind of thing) to send the message that as an American I don’t accept having the heavy hand of the State interfering in elections by persecuting the opposition but given a choice of melodrama or quiet accomplishment I’d pull the lever for the latter.
Right out of college I was a finance manager with a large Ford dealership in Idaho. There was one long term salesman there who was obnoxious as hell and most everyone in the dealership would roll their eyes and kind of stay out of his way. He was a cowboy hat wearing, vanity fueled, narcissist BUT he was the salesman of the year for the last several years running. He put up numbers no one else could and his many clients loved him.
The dealership did business with a lot of ranchers and farmers in the surrounding area, and nearly all of them were cash buyers with nice trade ins fully paid for. My job was to convince them to save their own money, and use our financing at a low interest rate to finance the balance, and needless to say, it wasn’t easy convincing these tough old birds not to just write a check. My job was made even more difficult with this salesmans clients because he would torpedo me many times telling his clients to not listen to the finance pitch and just cut the check. When I brought this concern to the owner, he said to me … “this guy could take a shit on my desk and I would not do anything about it”, that’s how much he meant to the bottom line of the dealership, and that’s the way I feel about Trump right now. I’m not a fan of his, I just know what he did as President, and that’s the only thing that matters to me.
And re: blindly supporting the GOP. I’m in the same boat. If someone like Nikki Haley is the nominee, I won’t support her. In fact, currently DeSantis and Vivek are the only other candidates I would vote for.
Well, since both Haley and Ramaswamny are ineligible, that makes your choice a lot easier.
Nothing would make me happier than to see Trump deliver, but if he stumbles on the way through the primary I won’t stick with him hoping that he’ll be able to turn it around. I need to see how he acts when he’s not preaching to the Trump Choir.
Hope is not a strategy
I see your point and know that that is a huge negative to Trump. Every candidate has negatives though. A lot will happen in the next year.
I don’t remember anyone saying “oh that’s just fandom and won’t translate to votes”.
You have to remember that there are different metrics that have to be considered. One is the level of absolute rejection of a candidate—I think the polls call it “strongly disfavor”. That is the segment of the voting public least likely to shift to approval. If faced with equally unfavorable candidates this segment might just stay home, but they’re not going to flip. Trump’s negatives are based on almost ten years of constant attacks on him added to his own serious foot-in-mouth problems, while DeSantis’s are exclusively the result of negative press, not of experience with him.
But the one I pay attention to is not the one about Trump v DeSantis, because that is way too premature right now. Nearly all of the country has had no real exposure to DeSantis and his record, and all they “know” is the preliminary attacks by the Left, which fears him every bit as much as they fear Trump. What I pay more attention to is how Trump and DeSantis fare against Biden.
Not strategizing in a back room with mega donors.
First, this is a snide perception based on hearsay, and second, a certain amount of “strategizing in a back room” is the right way to prepare for a campaign that hasn’t even really launched yet.
A full-fledged campaign before anyone else is out of the gate might give Trump an advantage, but he also runs the risk of creating Trump Fatigue and making a new entry feel fresh and a positive change.
Hey, I like Trump and would like to have him back as president. I’m just not wearing Trump Blinders, dismissing his negatives.
Who still thinks the FBI is an honorable institution?
“The Committee’s analysis of these ‘disinformation’ registries revealed that the FBI, at the request of the [Security Service of Ukraine (SBU)], flagged for social media companies the authentic accounts of Americans, including a verified U.S. State Department account and those belonging to American journalists,” the report reads. “At times, the FBI would even follow up with the relevant platform to ensure that ‘these accounts were taken down.’” … The government coordination with Silicon Valley ran so deep that Meta even proposed a “24/7 channel” with foreign agents to facilitate censorship
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fthefederalist.com%2F2023%2F07%2F11%2Freport-fbi-colluded-with-russian-infiltrated-agency-in-ukraine-to-censor-americans%2F
As I’ve been saying for a while, the FBI needs to be abolished. And this would be true even if it wasn’t hopelessly corrupt as it is now.
Keep in mind what generated the FBI – the assassination of William McKinley; his assassin was a kook but also an anarchist who had been influenced by that ideology and it was felt that we needed some ability to ferret out such people. It got its first big expansion in the need to stop the alcohol trade during Prohibition and with that as a reason, Hoover (made Director in 1924) built an bureaucratic Empire with its fingers increasingly in every pie. And that is where the problem comes in – that Hoover was far more interest in serving himself than the United States. I’m sure he conflated his desires with the USA because megalomaniacs do that…but the bottom line was that certainly by about 1940, Hoover was in it for Hoover and to keep Hoover in place he’d manipulate and obfuscate as necessary.
I mean, there’s zero chance that the FBI actually missed the rise of the Mafia. Hoover knew – but he was ok with it because the Mafia didn’t threaten Hoover’s position and, of course, was a difficult target. Best way to keep your agency as stellar is to simply avoid something that could cause failure, right? It was only after the mob’s existence became too obvious to ignore that the FBI went after it…and made a hash out of it with the FBI eventually conniving at crimes in an attempt to nail mobsters. And, of course, the Mafia is still there…as are many other widespread criminal organizations which have likely infiltrated all levels of American government.
But God help you if you talk to the FBI and they have it in for you – they’ll just claim you lied and put you on trial and now you have to prove you didn’t lie…but most of the time you’ll take the plea deal because you simply don’t have the resources to fight the government and you’re worried that if they’ll do this to you, what will they do to your family and friends if you don’t roll over?
Part of the problem is the multiplication of federal offenses – the more crimes there are, the more cops you need, right? And of course the FBI has pressed for ever more laws criminalizing ever more actions. No government agency actually seeks to solve the problem it was created to resolve…you’re out of a job if you do that! Much easier to just make more of the problem.
Federal law enforcement should be placed entirely in the hands of the US Marshall’s entirely subordinate directly to the President.
Re: the mafia back in the late 30’s and 40’s, Lucky Luciano and Vito Genevese the two main capos at the time, knew Hoover was gay and had evidence so that is why J. Edgar Hoover never acknowledged “organized crime”. They are definitely in it for themselves and their power.
We can’t prove that, of course, but the Mob would have been really stupid to not find out things like that…and as they controlled most of the places to express that side of sexuality, good chance they did find out.
And it really staggers you once you really think about the game the FBI played to make itself into arguably the most trusted organization in America. The G-Men! Upstanding citizens all! Tough. Educated. Dedicated.
And couldn’t catch the Walker spy ring which went on for 18 years until his drunken ex-wife dropped dime on him.
Cracker Jack work, FBI!
FFS they were spying on black radicals who were just trying to work the system for some government hand outs…while letting Walker turn over the absolutely most sensitive communications information to the Soviets.
And speaking of black radicals…we should look into those major riots in the 1960’s and the LA riot in 1991. Black people can drive cars. Heck, they can take a bus. Why is that each time the black radicals work up a mob to burn and loot its always confined to the black neighborhoods? You can steal better stuff in Brentwood than Compton, after all.
Almost like someone in government was manipulating it to get upper middle class crackers willing to provide more money to government (with, of course, kickbacks to black “leaders” who organized the riots…BLM leadership isn’t the first black leadership to wind up rich after a bout of riots).
I think that once we really get a look at the data – that which hasn’t been destroyed – we’re going to be astonished at the game that was played on us.
You touch on something the Left ignores—or is too stupid or naive to understand. That is the pressure to plea bargain.
It comes down to a calculation of cost vs risk.
We were once audited and aced the audit. The auditor said it was probably the best one she had done, with all information clearly presented and explained. But her boss said tough, we’re going to deny the claim and go after them. Our tax attorney said this is what the IRS does—it’s basically extortion. They ding you for $150,000, they know you know it will cost $100,000 to fight them and you might lose so you settle for $75,000. When you are up against the State, you’re playing with your money and they’re playing with your money but they have access to more of it, so after a while you weigh losing every single thing you own and still being crushed by them or you say OK, I’ll plead guilty to such-and-such.
And then they parade this as a huge victory and the Dem Zombies rush to the blogs to gloat about how guilty the Right-wingers are, just look at how they admit to it.
(BTW I told my lawyer to meet with the IRS agent and tell her he was very sorry, he had tried to talk sense into me but when I talk about the IRS my eyes look like Mel Gibson’s in Lethal Weapon, he hates to admit it but I’m just plain crazy and will sell everything I own to fight them. And he says this is what he told her, and in a week or so we got a letter that they were dropping it.)
And the Left thinks none of this will ever be turned against them…they always think that their Comrades will remain Comrades. They forget that FBI agents, IRS auditors, EPA regulators gotta eat even after all the nasty MAGAt Nazi Homophobes are in GULAG.