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George Rebane

Marxist-Leninist ideology has proven itself as the world’s most toxic way to organize society, primarily because of its appeal to the simple-minded and uneducated (according to Rebane Doctrine).  Today the so-called Justice Democrats have joined with Our Revolution to form the most prominent ‘legitimate’ political organization to promote an M-L future for America.  Our Revolution is the front for the three most influential Marxist organizations in America – Democratic Socialists of America, the Communist Party USA, and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.  This is what you will get when you back Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and the Squad.

‘Can’t We All Just Get Along?’ Here’s Victor Davis Hanson putting many things from the Obama years in perspective, things that our liberal contingent shows us daily that they have forgotten, if they ever even noticed such happenings in the first place.  As VDH reminds us, the Democrats have sown the wind and are now reaping the whirlwind.  (H/T to reader)

Fire Team (a squad is divided into two fire teams) Tlaib and Omar are heading for Israel and the West Bank with the blessings of President Trump and the welcoming Prme Minister Netanyahu.  They will be there to promote their anti-Israeli BDS (boycott, divest, sanction) bill that Pelosi will never allow on the House floor.  That doesn’t matter, the Squad has become the mind and message of the Democratic Party whose more politically astute members are trying to stifle before the election season gets too far along.  Every Republican considers those brainless broads to be the gift that keeps on giving – long may they wave.

Puerto Rico’s hot summer continues as San Juan’s citizens by the tens of thousands demonstrate to get their governor Rossello to resign after some revealing tweets of his were made public.  But the question I ask readers to consider is why Puerto Rico continues to flirt with being a banana republic.  Why has that island remained a corrupt and essentially dysfunctional state after enjoying more than a century of being a succored territory of the United States with special dispensations for its citizens, trade relations, investment sources, economic aid, … ??  I suggest again that it is their culture that keeps them in their perennial dire straits; a culture that they share with much of the western hemisphere south of our border, and the same culture that most on our Left are trying to infuse into our land with its porous borders.

[update]  Seven Dems on the House Judiciary Committee floated fake Russiagate stories. Tomorrow they get to quiz Mueller.  Such is the nature of the carnival that was once known as the world’s greatest deliberative body.  No more deliberation allowed, just time-worn, disproved allegations and outright lies.  There is the cast of characters ready to expose their character and show their prowess in questioning Special Counsel Mueller in the fervent hope that he will break and tell everyone that Trump was really guilty as sin, his report was a whitewash, and now he is sorry. (more here)

[24jul19 update]  The Mueller testimony to Congress is over. The man came across confused, timid, and uninformed – the Dems ‘movie’ to follow the ‘book’ was a bust.  But au contraire, to hear the Dems on the media outlets tonight, they had a great victory – now the American people know that Trump colluded with the Russians to assure his election victory, and then partook in numerous criminal acts to obstruct subsequent justice.  This is straight out of the Stalinist/Leninist playbook – just counter with bigger lies that contradict truth.  Mueller found no evidence for collusion or obstruction; had he done so, he, who set a new standard for RINO, would have said so.  Instead, his best efforts against Trump was a lame statement, never before heard from a prosecutor, that he “did not exonerate” Trump from the obstruction allegations, having yet to find any evidence of support – a non-news statement first made public in AG Barr’s letter summary of the report over three months ago.  So all the Dems are now busy in the political sweatshop trying to sew silk purses out of sows’ ears.  Only Pelosi is justifiably happy that, no matter the further efforts of Nadler’s nitpickers, the butt stupid effort to impeach the president is dead.  As a footnote, one of my liberal friends assured me today that Mueller’s 17 crack lawyers only included 4 Democrats, when in reality they were 13 Dems, 0 Repubs, 6 Hillary donors, and most having being associated with Team Clinton in one way or another.  But all that only underlined that Mueller’s obvious unfamiliarity with his own investigation and report, strongly indicated that he did little to lead the investigation which was conducted and reported by his ‘never Trump’ troops (e.g. "not familiar with Fusion GPS").

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96 responses to “Scattershots – 23jul19 (updated 24jul19)”

  1. Jig Wiggly Avatar
    Jig Wiggly

    Seeing as GR blocks most of my posts, y’all get a pretty lopsided view of my views. Truly an echo chamber. And you accuse Pelline of doing the same.

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  2. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Accuse @916? LOL Perhaps you might be less trollalicous and shed the sock puppet act…..
    😉

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  3. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Jiggy Wiggley 916pm
    Doug,,, still finding it difficult to find your ass with both hands free?

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  4. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Jig Wiggly | 25 July 2019 at 09:16 PM
    Seeing as GR blocks most of my posts, y’all get a pretty lopsided view of my views.

    Oh I doubt that we get a lopsided view of your “views”.
    Hmmm? The only person that I recall George ever routinely censoring was Tax Man? Is this you Steve?
    And you accuse Pelline of doing the same.
    Hey we only of accuse jeffty of censoring and blocking people because he blocks and censors people.

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  5. George Rebane Avatar

    Jig 916pm – That is a blatant lie. The only comments I pro forma delete, regardless of author, are those that contain references to other commenters’ alleged sexual proclivities, such as with sheep. I have never deleted anyone’s socio-political comments, and check the comment spam folder regularly to retrieve any that TypePad has automatically placed there.
    And Mr Jig, your comments are always particularly welcome in these pages for their display of your values, mores, politics, worldview, policy prescriptions, observations, …, and your knowledge base in general. For RR readers they are invaluable illustrations of everything that you and yours are doing to fundamentally transform our country and community into something that the rest of us are attempting to avoid.
    As I tell all commenters, compose your extended comments offline in some text editor like Word, then copy them into RR. If they don’t post immediately, try again or write me a note. If all else fails, email them to me and I’ll post your text. But cut out that crap of baseless accusations that I block your comments whose only value here is their prominent display.

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  6. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Post Mueller testimony.
    The questions not answered is now what the focus is on. That is a good thing. The truth is leaking out. Even Garbling Gergen couldn’t overlook the elephant in the room.
    https://news.grabien.com/story-cnns-gergen-admits-republicans-raised-issues-we-havent-talke
    ———
    It’s back to Russia, Russia, Russia. When Romney called Russia our biggest geo-political foe, Obama ridiculed Mitt and sunk him.
    “When you were asked, what’s the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said ‘Russia.’ Not Al-Qaeda; you said Russia,” Obama charged. “And, the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back, because, the Cold War’s been over for 20 years.”
    Every debate has a defining moment; for instance, Ronald Reagan’s “there you go again” in his 1980 debate with Jimmy Carter. In 2012’s debate on foreign policy, Obama’s barb, and Romney’s failure to recover, was it. Romney’s momentum evaporated in an instant.”—-CNN
    Hmmm. “Not Al-Quada; you said Russia.” My, things have changed since 2012, just seven short years ago. Russia was not the threat then, it was Al-Qual. Then 2016 happened. Now Democrat Party star and leading voice of the anti-Semites Ms. Ilhan Omar is making sure Al-Quada is not viewed as a threat, white people are.
    Russia is back being the threat to our Democracy. Back to Russia, Russia, Russia and its Trump’s fault for not fixing it. Blame the Republicans. Good thing Trump did not tell the Russians he would have more flexibility after the election like Obama did. Anybody interested in a Russian reset? Just kidding.
    Morning Joe called Cocaine Mitch “Moscow Mitch” this morning. As sure as the sun rises in the morning, Cocaine Mitch will now answer his phone as “Moscow Mitch”.

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Re: Fire Team
    “Tlaib was sworn into Congress on Thursday, with Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour attending. Tlaib supports a one-state solution and is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.”
    Is Palestine in Egypt?
    https://jewishjournal.com/news/nation/291805/rep-tlaibs-d-c-office-map-has-palestine-sticky-note-over-israel/
    One state solution? That’s straight out of the Hamas charter, formed by the Muslim Brotherhood and put under the umbrella of the Palestine Council. The Palestine Council Hamas formed Hamas as its the military arm and CAIR as its political arm in the USA.
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-2017-document-full
    No two state solution. White men are the problem.

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  8. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Honest to GOD. The democrats are demented. Just heard Nadler and he yapped as if there was nothing done on the Trump collusion crap . These people are unfit for leadership. They cannot tell the truth even when the whole country sees it. And Don Rogers screed against Trump today reminded me of a person on heavy meds and not in this world’s reality.

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    For L—throwing them off the scent.
    While I have (for the most part) held my fire about attacking Mueller personally, I cannot overlook his answers to fair questions contained within the 4 corners of the report. Others are not so charitable.
    ——-
    “There’s a lot of speculation about Mueller’s reputation-burning performance Wednesday. Maybe he’s getting old. Maybe he’s getting senile. Maybe he didn’t understand the report he authored because he didn’t write it. Maybe he wasn’t involved enough in the investigation to understand it.
    I don’t know.
    I’m not a doctor.
    And if he is old and frail, I take no pleasure in watching an old man shred his dignity in front of the whole world.
    But I’m paid to tell you what I think — and here’s what I think.
    You want to know who Robert Mueller reminded me of yesterday?
    A guilty man.
    I didn’t see senility or fragility or confusion or old age or anything close to doddering.
    What I saw was a guilty man forced to take the stand against his will, a guilty man who fought like hell to never appear for a cross examination. Why? Because he’s guilty. And because the facts are not on his side, because he cannot explain his behavior, because he cannot justify what he’s done, he has only one choice and that’s to stall — to ask for questions to be repeated, to pretend he doesn’t understand, to run out the clock, and when that fails, he simply refuses to answer any question (take the Fifth!) that will confirm his guilt.
    And in the end we saw who Robert Mueller really is — a dissembling, dishonest, deceptive bureaucrat — a front man (Captain America!) leading a criminal gang of coup plotters staffed with partisan prosecutors, the sore losers in the establishment media, the Democrat Party, and Toxic Revengers with names like James Comey and Andrew McCabe.
    A Dirty Cop will say that Of course I didn’t leak my crybaby letter to Attorney General Bill Barr to the media and then refuse to answer (purview, bro) if his office leaked news of the raid on Roger Stone to CNNLOL — and that is exactly what we saw happen yesterday.
    A Dirty Cop will remember everything in his preview (bro), but can’t remember when he figured out when Trump did not commit a crime, did not collude with the Russians (Gee, was it before or after the midterm elections?) — and that is exactly what we saw happen yesterday.
    What do the guilty-as-hell do under cross examination? They sweat, fall apart, collapse, melt down, break down, lose their composure, lie, stall, stutter, and gulp, and that’s exactly what we saw happen yesterday.
    A guilty man was forced to take the witness stand, a Dirty Cop was cross examined, cornered, trapped, exposed, stripped of his media mythology shield, and found to be Dirty…
    “And it was glorious.“
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/25/nolte-robert-mueller-isnt-senile-he-was-a-dirty-cop-forced-to-take-the-witness-stand/

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  10. L Avatar
    L

    Toes @ 1:27: Yes, this view passes the razor.

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  11. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    It’s a conspiracy!!!! Somebody got to Mueller and dashed their hopes!!
    “Now before we go to questions, I want to add one correction to my testimony this morning,” Mueller began in his opening remarks.
    “I want to go back to one thing that was said this morning by Mr. Lieu, who said, and I quote, ‘you didn’t charge the president because of the OLC opinion.’”
    “That is not the correct way to say it,” he (Mueller) said, adding, “as we say in the report, and as I said in the opening, we did not reach a determination as to whether the president committed a crime.”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=87&v=YvA74ppV0Tw

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  12. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Groundhog day?-
    https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/view-hosts-biden-making-same-mistake-clinton-did-before-2016-election
    House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler repeated a faulty claim Friday – which was corrected by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller during his testimony earlier this week – about why President Trump wasn’t indicted in the Russia probe.
    During a Democratic press conference about Mueller’s testimony, Nadler, a New York Democrat, claimed Mueller said the only reason Trump wasn’t indicted for obstruction of justice was because of a Justice Department opinion prohibiting charging a sitting president with a crime. He cited Mueller’s response to a question from House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif.
    MUELLER ISSUES CLARIFICATION, TAKES BACK BOMBSHELL STATEMENT ABOUT INDICTING TRUMP
    “He told us in a remarkable exchange with Mr. Lieu that but for the Department of Justice policy prohibiting [him] from doing so, he would have indicted President Trump,” Nadler said. “Indeed it is clear that any other citizen of this country who has behaved as this president has would have been charged with multiple crimes.”
    But on Wednesday, Mueller himself went out of his way to clarify that he didn’t intend to suggest that.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nadler-repeats-faulty-claim-corrected-by-mueller-about-why-trump-was-not-indicted
    😉

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Quotes from the Dem Train Wreck:
    Collusion delusion, part I: “How could Mr. Mueller think that the Steele dossier that drove the media clamor about Russia-Trump collusion for months wasn’t part of his purview? Mr. Mueller may never answer that question.” —The Wall Street Journal
    Collusion delusion, part II: “It’s inconceivable that Robert Mueller ran this investigation. One thing that was evident in seven hours of testimony is that he only has a remote familiarity with his own report and with the investigation. He was actually staff-driven and that’s what the president has been saying all along.” —Andrew McCarthy
    For the record: “The last Washington Post/ABC news poll found 63 percent of registered voters oppose impeachment. That’s higher than Trump’s approval rating, meaning there are a decent number of voters out there who don’t approve of the president but who don’t want to see him impeached, particularly when they’ll get to render their verdict on him in 15 months. Impeachment is a subtle declaration of the Democrats that they do not trust the electorate to come to the right conclusion about Trump.” —Jim Geraghty
    Friendly fire: “I single out my former employer in particular, in part because they were certainly the worst mainstream offenders. Russian conspiracy was great for ratings. … Consider this whole set-up has done more damage to the Democrats chances of winning back the White House than anything that Trump could ever have dreamed up.” —ex-MSNBC host Krystal Ball
    Dezinformatsiya: “Russians … have to be celebrating the fact that the entire Republican Party are useful idiots for them now and have flung open their arms for the Russians to come and undermine American democracy.” —MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough
    Braying Jackass: “I think the story of the 2016 election is really a story of disloyalty to country, about greed and about lies. And if there is anything that I think symbolizes those three strands of the 2016 election it was Moscow Trump Tower.” —Rep. Adam Schiff
    Grand delusions: “Even though [Robert Mueller] was reluctant, as you can imagine, to provide the soundbite, ‘The president is immoral; the president is unpatriotic,’ that is the essence of what he had to say.” —Adam Schiff
    Alpha Jackass: “You could worship the devil and be a better human being than if you worshiped Donald Trump. … Look up the tenets of the Church of Satan … and then go to a Trump rally and you’ll feel safer around Beelzebub than this dude.” —comedian D.L. Hughley
    And last… “THE ONLY obstruction of Justice was and is being committed by the Democrats, for not accepting the results of the 2016 Election of Trump.” —Chuck Woolery
    Meme with pic of says: “While we recognize that the suspect did not actually steal horses, he obliviously is guilty of trying to resist being hanged for it.”
    https://m.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913/10156550771635914/?type=3&source=48
    Bonus read for those who are into the spy vs spy stuff.
    “The template was provided by ex-MI6 Director Richard Dearlove, Halper’s friend and business partner. Sitting in winged chairs in London’s venerable Garrick Club, according toThe Washington Post, Dearlove told fellow MI6 veteran Christopher Steele, author of the famous “golden showers” opposition research dossier, that Trump “reminded him of a predicament he had faced years earlier, when he was chief of station for British intelligence in Washington and alerted US authorities to British information that a vice presidential hopeful had once been in communication with the Kremlin.”
    Apparently, one word from the Brits was enough to make the candidate in question step down. When that didn’t work with Trump, Dearlove and his colleagues ratcheted up the pressure to make him see the light. A major scandal was thus born – or, rather, a very questionable scandal.
    Besides Dearlove, Steele, and Halper, a bon-vivant known as “The Walrus” for his impressive girth, other participants include:
    Robert Hannigan, former director Government Communications Headquarters, GCHQ, UK equivalent of the NSA.
    Alexander Downer, top Australian diplomat.
    Andrew Wood, ex-British ambassador to Moscow.
    Joseph Mifsud, Maltese academic.
    James Clapper, ex-US Director of National Intelligence.
    John Brennan, former CIA Director (and now NBC News analyst).
    https://consortiumnews.com/2018/05/31/spooks-spooking-themselves/?print=print
    ——
    https://miro.medium.com/max/1126/1*jO1cYbiP5pto9qTXM33jQQ.png-
    Quotes from the train wreck
    Collusion delusion, part I: “How could Mr. Mueller think that the Steele dossier that drove the media clamor about Russia-Trump collusion for months wasn’t part of his purview? Mr. Mueller may never answer that question.” —The Wall Street Journal
    Collusion delusion, part II: “It’s inconceivable that Robert Mueller ran this investigation. One thing that was evident in seven hours of testimony is that he only has a remote familiarity with his own report and with the investigation. He was actually staff-driven and that’s what the president has been saying all along.” —Andrew McCarthy
    For the record: “The last Washington Post/ABC news poll found 63 percent of registered voters oppose impeachment. That’s higher than Trump’s approval rating, meaning there are a decent number of voters out there who don’t approve of the president but who don’t want to see him impeached, particularly when they’ll get to render their verdict on him in 15 months. Impeachment is a subtle declaration of the Democrats that they do not trust the electorate to come to the right conclusion about Trump.” —Jim Geraghty
    Friendly fire: “I single out my former employer in particular, in part because they were certainly the worst mainstream offenders. Russian conspiracy was great for ratings. … Consider this whole set-up has done more damage to the Democrats chances of winning back the White House than anything that Trump could ever have dreamed up.” —ex-MSNBC host Krystal Ball
    Dezinformatsiya: “Russians … have to be celebrating the fact that the entire Republican Party are useful idiots for them now and have flung open their arms for the Russians to come and undermine American democracy.” —MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough
    Braying Jackass: “I think the story of the 2016 election is really a story of disloyalty to country, about greed and about lies. And if there is anything that I think symbolizes those three strands of the 2016 election it was Moscow Trump Tower.” —Rep. Adam Schiff
    Grand delusions: “Even though [Robert Mueller] was reluctant, as you can imagine, to provide the soundbite, ‘The president is immoral; the president is unpatriotic,’ that is the essence of what he had to say.” —Adam Schiff
    Alpha Jackass: “You could worship the devil and be a better human being than if you worshiped Donald Trump. … Look up the tenets of the Church of Satan … and then go to a Trump rally and you’ll feel safer around Beelzebub than this dude.” —comedian D.L. Hughley
    And last… “THE ONLY obstruction of Justice was and is being committed by the Democrats, for not accepting the results of the 2016 Election of Trump.” —Chuck Woolery
    ————
    Meme with Mueller: “While we recognize that the suspect did not actually steal horses, he is obviously guilty for trying to resist being hanged for it.”
    https://m.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913/10156550771635914/?type=3&source=48

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  14. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    In the ‘Pubbers like Russian interference in our elections because that’s how they win’ dept.: Moscow Mitch McConnell has blocked two election security bills in the Senate. One bill would have required paper ballots, because paper is much harder to hack than a voting machine. The other would require candidates, campaign officials and their family members to notify the FBI of assistance offers from foreign governments because trump himself has stated that he would welcome dirt from foreign governments if it will get him elected… screw democracy.
    Please tell me why you all think this is just fine and unnecessary.. I can’t wait to here all the lame excuses you are going to provide.

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  15. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Roberta Cross | 27 July 2019 at 10:25 AM
    Both of those look fine as improvements to the election system Roberta……why do you think Cocaine Mitch shot them down?

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  16. fish Avatar
    fish

    Steve…..more fever dreams about Nazis again!
    Looks liike P.J. O’Rourke was right: “No one has ever had a fantasy about being tied to a bed and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal”
    Jeez Steve……maybe talking to a therapist would help?

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  17. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    lame excuse #1 from Clouseau. somehow I just knew he would be first.. something to do with not having a life beyond the blogs

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  18. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Roberta Cross | 27 July 2019 at 10:49 AM
    Hmmmm….the Menopausal Avenger is foul tempered this lovely Saturday morning.
    Again……Roberta…..why do you think McConnell blocked the legislation?

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh Mr Cross, with all the excitement going on with the Mueller Train Wreck Disaster, I reckon the Moscow Mitch thang slipped through the cracks. I did hear something about Morning Joe or Donnie Douch screaming into the cameras on MSLSD or MSPMS or Communist News Network about Moscow Mitch, but I just figured it was a typical day in the Insane Asylum and paid it no nevermind. Figured it was just the Leftinistas’ normal reaction when things don’t go the way THEY demand them to. Double down on stupid, hyperventilating, and drama is what they do best. Was it another threat to our democracy?? Was it more Treason? What ever got them to blow their ever loving minds all over the studio again, it must have been something minor. I sure hope they pay the cleaning crew extra after a normal day in of TDS. At least tip them well, but I digress.
    Hard to hear what they were saying over their yelling and carrying on so. I confess the bulging eyes were rather distracting. Something about Moscow Mitch….I thought his name was Cocaine Mitch. Learn something new everyday.
    Ok, what’s our lame excuse? Let me see if I can find a lame excuse. But, before that, let’s try Voter ID to insure the sanctity of the elections. No? Opps, that be racist. Ok. I will try this….though I doubt it will get your blood pressure down. Mueller has blotted out everything. Hmm, I do my best writing under pressure and with quick deadlines. :’
    “As an act of political theater, the Democrats’ recent attempt to cast Mitch McConnell in a bad light has been quite successful. The Internet is awash in headlines contending that he blocked election-security reforms despite warnings about ongoing Russian interference from Robert Mueller and the Senate Intelligence Committee.
    “The reactions are overwrought and unfair. McConnell was right to stop the two bills at the center of the controversy, and the Democrats knew full well ahead of time that he would do so. And “Cocaine Mitch” is a far better nickname than “Moscow Mitch” anyway.
    “The Democrats tried to push these bills by unanimous consent. One of them, a bill giving states hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade their voting systems and requiring the use of paper ballots, had already passed the House — and won only a single Republican vote, meaning its support is far from unanimous. The other would require candidates to report foreign offers of assistance; this would encounter numerous practical difficulties and at minimum cannot simply sail through the Senate unimpeded.
    “Senate Democrats asked for unanimous consent to these bills knowing they would not receive it and pretended to be shocked when they didn’t get it. The media then gobbled up a narrative about McConnell stopping action on an issue right after being warned about how serious a problem it was.
    “To be clear, foreign election interference is, indeed, a serious threat. According to the recent Intelligence Committee report, while there’s no sign that vote totals have been manipulated, there have been successful efforts to access sensitive information such as voter registration.
    “Less well known, however, is that there’s already been immense progress on this issue. The Department of Homeland Security and the states have gotten far better at addressing it since the 2016 election; Congress provided the states $380 million for election security just last year; under McConnell, the Senate has passed bills to further deter and punish those who interfere in elections. Still, additional efforts are warranted, and some of those efforts could require legislation.”
    If I had more time it would have been better. Aha! That is what got Roberta’s mangina all a’twitter this morning.
    https://news.grabien.com/story-scarborough-pumped-about-nickname-hes-thought
    Attack and scare!!!!
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/gregory-price/2019/07/26/msnbc-republican-strategist-you-need-attack-and-scare-republicans

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  20. fish Avatar
    fish

    Went looking for a possible reason for McConnell upsetting Roberta so……found something much more uplifting!!

    Traveling hundreds of miles across Iowa, passing cornfields and covered bridges, visiting quaint small town after quaint small town, listening to the stump speeches of Democrat after would-be Donald Trump-combating Democrat, only one thought comes to mind:

    They’re gonna blow this again.
    Imagine how it looks to Republicans. If that’s too difficult or unpalatable, just look at the swarm of 24 Democratic candidates in high school terms.
    The front-runner — the front-runner! — is septuagenarian gaffe machine Joe Biden, who started running for president in the Eighties and never finished higher than “candidacy withdrawn,” with a career delegate total matching John Blutarsky’s grade-point average, i.e., zero point zero. The summer’s “momentum” challenger is California Sen. Kamala Harris, who spent all year sinking in polls but surged when she hit Biden with “I don’t think you’re a racist . . . but . . .” on national TV.
    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., adjusts his glasses as he and other members of the Senate Republican leadership speak to the media after a weekly policy luncheon, in Washington. “Everybody ought to tone down their rhetoric,” said McConnellTrump Democrats, Washington, USA – 16 Jul 2019
    A third contender is Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a famed red-state punchline who already has 10,000 Pocahontas tweets aimed at her head should she make it to the general. Her “I have a plan for that” argument for smarter government makes her a modern analog to Mike Dukakis — another Massachusetts charisma machine whose ill-fated presidential run earned him a portrait alongside the Hindenburg in a Naked Gun movie.
    A fourth challenger, Bernie Sanders, is a self-proclaimed socialist born before the Pearl Harbor attack who’s somehow more hated by the national media than Trump. A fifth, Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has never earned more than 8,515 votes in any election. The claim to fame of a sixth, Beto O’Rourke, is that he lost a Senate bid to the world’s most-hated Republican. It goes on.
    The top Democrats’ best arguments for office are that they are not each other. Harris is rising in part because she’s not Biden; Warren, because she isn’t Bernie. Bernie’s best argument is the disfavor of the hated Democratic establishment. The Democratic establishment chose Biden because he was the Plan B last time and the party apparently hasn’t come up with anything better since. Nothing says “We’re out of ideas” quite like pulling a pushing-eighty ex-vice president off the bench to lead the most important race in the party’s history.

    Now…..doesn’t that just make your day?!
    https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/iowa-2020-election-democrats-taibbi-858522/

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh, this one will keep me smiling for weeks. Warms the cockles of me weary heart. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
    “another Massachusetts charisma machine whose ill-fated presidential run earned him a portrait alongside the Hindenburg in a Naked Gun movie.”

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  22. George Rebane Avatar

    That countries try and have always tried to influence each other’s elections and politics is old news (to those who read), America is a past master at that and hopefully continues in the same vein. The thing that no liberal seems to be able to connect the dots with is Russia’s attempts and achievements. There is absolutely no evidence that Russia has achieved anything through its longstanding and ongoing attempts. But you gotta wonder how stupid you have to be to not be able to connect such dots. Then again, these liberals may simply be evil in perpetuating those ‘interference lies’ in the attempt to snare some undecided light thinkers. Nah!

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  23. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    This one could fit in a few places but –
    A few years ago I was at the annual CADCA drug prevention national conference/training and every day there was a big speaker and one day it was Elijah Cummings.
    This was especially profound because it was just a few weeks after his nephew had been murdered in a drug fueled home invasion. His whole speech focused on the drug fueled crime wave and commended us for our work and how incredibly important it is to crush the growing crime.
    In the intervening years it has gotten even worse and then there was the added layer of local government giving into the mob and neutering the cops.
    The facts clearly back the President on this one –
    https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/md/baltimore/crime
    😉

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  24. Walt Avatar

    Speaking of influencing elections, our Proggys have always slithered away when it’s brought up that “O” tried to influence
    Israeli elections against Netanyahu.. With our tax money no less… But that’s OK in their book.

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Wow. Timing is everything. I have just spent several hours over the past couple of days researching Vyacheslav Trubnikov. Very very impressive man. Unbelievably impressive and long career. Read interviews by him going back to 1993. Ended up being the head of the Russian equivalent of our CIA. You know Vyacheslav Trubnikov, the guy Steele mentioned as one of his Russian contacts…the same dude that Halper invited to speak at the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar….before Halper quit because of undue Russian influence on the distinguished institution, lol.
    Anyway, what is the point of this? I came across published stories about bugging Clinton’s phone or possibly Monica’s pad. Confirmed in the Starr Report. Bubba knew his phone was being tapped by the Russians (probably) and they had to pretend Monica and Bubba knew they were being bugged as a cover story. The Russians had 78 hours of phone sex between the two! 78 hours. I have done the phone sex thing years ago, but the grand total would be less than 3 hours. 78 hours of phone sex and this was BEFORE our public even heard of Monica or knew about the Blue Dress DNA.
    Anyway, the Russians never intended to use that as blackmail. It was all about “getting to know the man”. It was all about getting inside the man’s mind, something Vyacheslav Trubnikov was a master of. He thinks most spying today is too narrowly focused. One has to be like a Michelangelo to get into the head of foreign leaders….and our public. Getting Russia, Russia, Russia! in the public/ liberals heads is the goal, not messing with the vote count.
    “Today, to get any kind of secret paper, with the top-secret info — that’s nothing,” he said. “It is essential to penetrate into the brains of those who are leading the countries.”
    “And to penetrate the brains of foreign leaders — to predict your adversary’s next move — Trubnikov says only human intelligence works. Meaning, traditional espionage.
    “An intelligence officer must grow up to the level of Michelangelo,” he said.
    “What does Michelangelo have to do with a modern Russian spy? Trubnikov’s answer: The best spy is a Renaissance man.
    “He has to have in his brain an encyclopedia. He cannot today be a very narrow specialist. To get information, very, very delicate information. This is the task of an intelligence officer.”
    Thus, it does not surprise me one bit that Russia did not change one vote in the tally. They may have or may have not got into our voting systems to leave a calling card, but that was the goal in and of itself if they did. No hacking the elections, no true interference, just get into the minds. Free rent in the public’s minds was the real gold. And boy did it work. I believe that the Russians did not cross that line to actually hack an election tally or need to even break into our voting machines. They did not need to. And boy did Vyacheslav Trubnikov and Vladislav Surkov get into the Lefty psychic….big time. Even had Punchy yelling “Treason!” or blackmail or “Putin’s puppet”along with the whole lot of the feeble minded press…..to this very hour by the wack jobs in Congress, media, and some commentators in the Union.
    Russian Derangement Syndrome
    https://bongino.com/new-document-exposes-two-russian-dossier-sources/

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  26. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    ” There is absolutely no evidence that Russia has achieved anything through its longstanding and ongoing attempts.”
    Speaking of stupid light thinkers. How stupid do you have to be to think that just because their is no proof it worked, we should do nothing about it and go ahead and let the Russians fuck with our elections anyway.. Right George? Perhaps eventually they will figure it out if we let them try often enough.
    Besides if a person actually could understand what they read and garnered information from a variety of sources other than right wing propaganda outlets, they might to begin to understand that, like a lot of science, while their may not be direct proof, there certainly is a correlation between Russian propaganda, specifically targeted precincts in specifically targeted swing states, and trump winning all of a state’s electoral college delegates by a few thousand votes. But when person has HUTAS (head up trump’s ass syndrome) who cares about the integrity of our elections and our democracy as long as you win.
    “America is a past master at that and hopefully continues in the same vein.” If one looks at the elections and coups America has participated in, one would find that the results are not that successful for the inhabitants of said countries but very good for multi-national corporations. Just look at our past involvement in Iran, Iraq, and multiple banana republics and how well that worked for starters.
    PS. keep trying Clouseau…

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    George….check for a post I made….around 3:06pm. Lost in space. Thanks

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  28. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Roberta Cross | 27 July 2019 at 03:11 PM
    You’ll never know how much your support means to me Roberta!

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Hacking, Voter manipulation Subliminal messages. 1984 is here. Big Bro is watching you.
    https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4808175/google-moved-millions-votes
    “When questioned further by Cruz, Epstein gave a more concise answer: “The range is between 2.6 and 10.4 million votes depending on how aggressive they were in using the techniques that I’ve been studying, such as the search engine manipulation effect, the search suggestion effect, the answer bot effect, and a number of others. They control these and no one can counteract them. These are not competitive. These are tools that they have at their disposal exclusively.”
    Cruz was shocked by this, responding, “If any headline comes out of this hearing, that should be it.”
    Epstein further warned, “In 2020, you can bet that all of these companies are going to go all out, and the methods they are using are invisible, they’re subliminal, they are more powerful than most any effects I’ve ever seen in behavioral sciences and I’ve been in behavioral sciences for almost 40 years.”
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/techwatch/corinne-weaver/2019/07/17/google-expert-senator-cruz-15-million-2020-votes-risk
    6 minutes
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rNvgl38TLvI

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  30. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Nobody is listen to him luckily! –
    Rep. Jeff Van Drew, D-N.J., cautioned against impeachment Saturday, indicating that his colleagues could turn off voters ahead of the 2020 election if they pour resources into a failed attempt to remove President Trump from office.
    “You can’t go into an election and say ‘well, we’ve done a few things.’ And also we’re responsible for and spent a huge amount of time and a huge amount of money on a failed impeachment process,” Van Drew said while appearing on “America’s News HQ.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/jeff-van-drew-impeachment-will-fail-make-2020-victory-very-difficult
    😉

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  31. Walt Avatar

    we should do nothing about it and go ahead and let the Russians fuck with our elections anyway”
    OK Babs,, explain how we stop them trying. Your supposed to be a big boy,, tell us how that would work.
    Your boy “O” told them to “knock it off!” Did they?
    He knew about it… Just what steps did he take? A hashtag war?
    So spill it Cross Bob….

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  32. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The socialist dems keep eating their own –
    After I interviewed Nancy Pelosi a few weeks ago, The HuffPost huffed that we were Dreaded Elites because we were eating chocolates and — horror of horrors — the speaker had on some good pumps.
    Then this week, lefty Twitter erected a digital guillotine because I had a book party for my friend Carl Hulse, The Times’s authority on Capitol Hill for decades, attended by family, journalists, Hill denizens and a smattering of lawmakers, including Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Susan Collins.
    I, the daughter of a D.C. cop, and Carl, the son of an Illinois plumber, were hilariously painted as decadent aristocrats reveling like Marie Antoinette when we should have been knitting like Madame Defarge.
    Yo, proletariat: If the Democratic Party is going to be against chocolate, high heels, parties and fun, you’ve lost me. And I’ve got some bad news for you about 2020.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/spare-me-the-purity-racket/ar-AAEWOe0
    😉

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  33. Walt Avatar

    I’m sure Bobby and his LIB friends are A-OK with BIG tech screwing (influencing)with elections. Just as long as for the LIB side.
    You know,, those same ones who are giving a reacharound to China.

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    fish

    Posted by: Don Bessee | 27 July 2019 at 04:15 PM
    Four more years of Trump and even nitwit like Mo Dowd might shuck this mortal coil!
    Four more years……Four more years……Four more years……Four more years……Four more years……!!!
    ….and the rest of you!!! SSSSSssshhhh!! Roberta is thinking deep thoughts……!

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  35. George Rebane Avatar

    RobertC 311pm – It looks like you can’t even follow a conversation thread. Who in hell said that “we should do nothing about it and go ahead and let the Russians fuck with our elections anyway”?? You? And who in hell made ANY assessments about the impacts (good or bad) of messing with other countries’ elections??? You don’t seem to understand what is being discussed, as you have demonstrated countless times over the months. Try to keep it together when you visit RR, else you’ll continue looking as if you can’t keep up.
    BillT 313pm – I fished your 308pm out of the spam folder. Thanks for the heads up.

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Dr. Rebane @ 4:05 pm. Thanks. Tanks, tanks a rocket. I kindly draw the dear readers attention to my dissertation at 3:08 pm. They got Russia on their minds….free rent.
    Don @. 3:42 pm
    The unanswered question is where do the Democrat Socialists go from here? Adam Shiifylips is out yelling “LIAR, LAIRS!” at the top of his lungs. He cannot change course after promising everybody that he has seen the goods on Trump for over two years straight. He has seen the smoking gun with his own frog eyeballs. He has to stick to his story. In too deep to back out now. His whole being is invested in the Hoax. Same with Nadler and Rachel Maddcow. Think she will face the camera and do a mea culpa to her audience that she got snookered? Being a unhinged Leftinista with TDS means never having to say you were sorry or wrong…
    There is still plenty of time for them to get on the same page. The far left of the far left Leftinistas want to damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead. TDS and being out of power drives their suicide mission on. And the more ‘moderate’ wacky far left Leftinistas can see the shipwreck ahead, yet need to pacify the more insane among their midst. Oh, what to do, ooh what to do? The only silver lining for them is counting on this to be alll forgotten in 6 months and pure Hatred of Orange Man Bad will be a winning ticket. Lordy knows they have no ideas, so Hate will work as a substitute…..for the party of love.
    https://buchanan.org/blog/after-mueller-debacle-where-do-democrats-go-137344
    Keep thinking that way brother Cohen. You rock
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/49984/watch-democratic-rep-steve-cohen-argues-frank-camp?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwbrand

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  37. Walt Avatar

    Oh ohhhh,,,,, Some LIB parents are going to get real mad.
    “How dare you call my kid a terrorist!!!”
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-considering-declaring-antifa-a-terror-organization
    “President Donald Trump said Saturday that he is considering declaring the far-left Antifa activist group a terrorist organization, equating it with the MS-13 street gang amid reports of members physically attacking conservative demonstrators and journalists at rallies across the country.
    “Consideration is being given to declaring ANTIFA, the gutless Radical Left Wack Jobs who go around hitting (only non-fighters) people over the heads with baseball bats, a major Organization of Terror (along with MS-13 & others). Would make it easier for police to do their job!” Trump tweeted.”

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  38. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Who knew? Comrade Bernie agrees with the Prez on Baltimore. –
    Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) once referenced North Korea to slam the conditions and lifespan of residents in Baltimore’s “poorest boroughs,” calling it a “disgrace.”
    This comes in the wake of far-left politicians slamming President Trump over criticisms of House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD), who represents Baltimore’s district.
    In 2016, Sanders slammed the conditions in Baltimore’s “poorest boroughs,” claiming that residents have “lifespans shorter than people living under dictatorship in North Korea.”
    “That is a disgrace,” he added in May 2016.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/27/flashback-bernie-sanders-cited-north-korea-to-slam-conditions-in-baltimore-that-is-a-disgrace/
    😉

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  39. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Oh my Pelline and Frisch are kissing each other on the swamp blog. And of course Frisch, the white supremacist” is calling RR commenters names again. These metrosexuals are pretty funny.

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  40. Walt Avatar

    Good place for them, Todd. Maybe all of four LIBS will even read the diarrhea.
    That blog eccos like an empty oil drum.

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Baltimore? Is that even on topic? Guess I will go with the punches. Are rats racists, or just fascist racists worse than Hitler?
    “Charm City is once again among America’s “Rattiest Cities,” according to a new report from pest control company Orkin, although it has shown progress in each of the past two years. Baltimore comes in at No. 9 on the company’s 2018 rankings released Monday.
    “This is the fourth year that Orkin has compiled the rankings, which are based on the number of rodent treatments the company performed from Sept. 15, 2017 to Sept. 15, 2018. It includes both residential and commercial treatments.
    “Baltimore dropped one slot from last year, when it was ranked eighth; two years ago it was No. 6 on the Orkin list. The city has undertaken several rat control measures, including the issuance of municipal garbage cans to contain waste.
    “Moreover, “Baltimore had the worst homicide rate among the nation’s 50 largest cities last year and the second-highest violent crime rate overall, according to new data from the FBI,” The Baltimore Sun reported in 2018.”
    Well, the good news is that there are no straws in the pics of the piles of trash, poop, and hypos in LA and the Frisco hellhole street shots. Baltimore could learn something from CA. Straws are bad for the environment.
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/49986/baltimore-amanda-prestigiacomo?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro
    Dan sez:
    “Dear Liberals,
    Don’t dare pretend your ideology hasn’t been the driving force behind the destruction of OUR inner cities. I worked both the NY & Baltimore streets as a cop & a fed agent. You don’t know squat. The POTUS is right, it’s WAY PAST TIME for political accountability.
    Watching liberal media elites, many of whom NEVER leave the Greenroom, pile on while avoiding the real questions about WHY our inner cities are struggling is equally pathetic. The media has become a cosmic embarrassment as they cover full time for liberalism’s grotesque failings.
    And, under no circumstances, should Republicans back away from this fight. It’s LONG OVERDUE. The citizens of these struggling cities deserve better. They deserve a shot at safety and prosperity and the liberal politicians in charge HAVE ABSOLUTELY FAILED THEM.“
    I guess this will be spun as “Trump called black people rats!” Yawn.

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  42. AVMan Avatar
    AVMan

    ,,,Can’t we all get just along??? VDH aptly describes Trump and the local Roundtable here,,,
    ‘’’Indeed, fringe groups at the time (including Donald J. Trump) had trafficked in crazed birther conspiracies.’’’
    https://m.imgur.com/gallery/hWP3FfZ

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  43. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Elijah Cummings district is truly a shithole district. Most of the urban blight is contained in the areas represented by the Con Black Caucus. With over 40 members I have watched them most of my political years and they are as impotent and Steve Frisch. Their districts are shitholes. We see the same thing now in LA with the Hispanic Caucus. If they would cast off their leftist robes of failure and embrace Republican values and ideas they could revitalize their shitholes. But they won’t. The press is siding with these failed politicians against Trump. He sure says what is true.

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  44. George Rebane Avatar

    ToddJ 729am – I reposted your comment in the intro to the new sandbox. Let’s continue this thread there.

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  45. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    AV Projector Booth Man.
    Odd that you mentioned VDH’s piece, “Why can’t we all just get along”. Last night I reread the article and forgot how great the link is. Powerful. Sometimes I reread the topic posts just to remind myself what the original posts were. and to also remind myself to stay on topic. Well worth the reread. Thanks for pointing out Victor Davis Hanson’s opinion piece. Highly recommended.
    “Again, by all means his opponents can, if they so wish, ridicule, caricature, and blast Trump and hope he fails. But after trying for nearly three years to destroy the president and prematurely remove him by any means necessary before a scheduled election, please do not appeal to the better angels of our nature—while deploring the new “unpresidential” behavior of Donald J. Trump for lashing out at those who sought to reduce him to a common criminal, pervert, traitor, dunce, and Satanic figure.
    “Such invective was always characteristic of the new progressive agenda rather than specific to Donald J. Trump. After the 2008 dismantling of John McCain into a senile lecher and reducing Mitt Romney into a tax cheat, animal tormenter, high-school hazer, elevator owner, and enabler of an equestrian wife with MS, and after George W. Bush was reduced to Nazi thug worthy of death in progressive novels, op-eds and docudramas, Donald Trump sensed that half the country had had enough and he would return slur for slur—and so may the best brawler win.
    “After all, in 2019, this 243rd year of our illustrious nation, most Americans are not simply going to curl up in a fetal position, apologize for the greatest nation in the history of civilization, and say, “Ah, you’re right, Representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley, and Tlaib. It is an awful country after all—and always was.”
    “While one may always wish that the president and his critics tone down their venom and play by silk-stocking Republican Marquis of Queensberry rules, it is hard for half the country to feel much sympathy for the Left that sowed the wind and are reaping an ever growing whirlwind.”
    ———
    President Obama once said that “if your opponents bring a knife to a fight, you should bring a gun.” Statement rated TRUE by Snoopes. I do not necessarily agree with that. I am more of a Mano e Mano kind of guy. Fair fight. Bare knuckle brawling. If they bring a knife, you bring a knife. No bringing up children or elderly parents. Let’s get ready to rumble.
    What has changed with Trump is finally the R’s have someone who ain’t going to fold at the first bloodied nose. No more being Charlie Brown with Lucy holding the football. No more believing the Lefties will negotiate in good faith because they are truly a sack of lying pieces of shit who would not know good faith if it bit them in the butt. Those days are over…or at least temporarily suspended. From now on, Charlie Brown walks over to Lucky after she pulls the football back and punches her in the gut with everything he has. And when Lucky is laying on the ground with the wind knocked out of her Charlie Brown leaves a footprint on her face. New rules.
    New rules, yes. But, being who we are, we won’t send swat teams and amphibious assault commandos to arrest an old man with a deaf wife who has no priors or history of violence or threats in the middle of the night when a simple phone call will do. Those rules will be restored, not suspended. There are certain lows even we cannot stoop to.
    The news rules are instead of Trump against the world, it is now when Hayden took the punch in the face, he took it for all of us. And we are ready, willing, and able to hit back harder. Buckle up, buttercup.
    VDH’s piece reminded me in a almost inverse way of this short piece right after Mueller let your team down.
    “In other words, pro-impeachment Democrats wanted Mueller to make the decision for them, to take responsibility for moving public opinion in their favored direction. This is not how impeachment works under the Constitution, and it is not how political conflict works anyway.
    “Just as spectators of the political game, it should be obvious by now that this is the signature mistake that all of Trump’s opponents have made. A fear of direct confrontation with Trump and his base leads his opponents to hope that Trump can be defeated without hard fighting. Perhaps circumstances will change, or the media will finally pin him. Or maybe some other Trump opponent will pick the perfect kamikaze maneuver and reopen the political field.
    “This is a vain hope. Like Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Hillary Clinton before them, House Democrats will lose any contest with Trump so long as they are unwilling to sustain political damage in the act of inflicting more damage to him.
    “One of the lessons of Tim Alberta’s new book American Carnage is that Trump wins because he refuses to doubt himself and always seeks the initiative in a media fight. He makes his opponents appear fearful and weak when they duck and dodge him.
    “And aggression is not the natural language of our political class. Our politicians call for regime change, as if war were a matter of switching office holders. Trump threatened countries with fire, fury, and annihilation. Cory Booker said last week “my testosterone sometimes makes me want to feel like punching” Donald Trump. And in that completely bizarre, and entirely non-credible threat is the Democrats’ problem heading into 2020. They sometimes feel like fighting. But I suspect they never will.“
    https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/you-cant-beat-trump-without-throwing-a-punch/

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