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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. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    This is what happens when comrade deblasio and his fellow travelers neuter the cops and suck up to criminals like good little SJW’s –
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/outrage-nypd-officers-drenched-water-105716125.html
    😉

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  2. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    More clear evidence those freshmen jihadi-commies are another level of know nothings –
    “They say all this is going to raise the cost. But I can tell you, milk has gone up. Eggs has gone up. Everything has gone up. The cost of food has gone up. The cost of a lot of things that we need has gone up already,” she said.
    https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/22/rashida-tlaib-minimum-wage/
    The U.S. egg industry has an oversupply issue, and prices are so unprofitable that Cal-Maine, the biggest U.S. producer, posted its first net loss in six quarters.
    But prices may be near, if not at, their lowest. Producers are losing money, and that’s going to force farms to make adjustments and shrink output, said Cal-Maine’s Chief Financial Officer Max Bowman.
    https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/u-egg-prices-bad-could-040001834.html
    😉

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Re: Thelma and Louise are going to Israel.
    “Thelma and Louise to the contrary notwithstanding, there is no comic element to this particular production. I think back to Omar’s utterly deceitful presentation of herself to a largely Jewish audience at Beth El Synagogue in St. Louis Park the week before the DFL primary in August 2018, which I covered for Power Line. Omar plays us one and all for chumps. She reserves a special contempt for her media enablers and they continue richly to deserve it.”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/07/thelma-louise-go-to-israel.php
    “Omar plays us one and all for chumps.” Yep, Omar went to address the Jewish community a week before the primary and denounced BDS. Vote for me….

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  4. Scott O Avatar

    Can’t we all just get along?
    Not in Modesto.
    https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2019/07/22/city-of-modesto-straight-pride-parade/
    Money quote from a city council-thing – ““I don’t think we need to give a permit for anything that when you go to the page it talks about whiteness, it talks about western civilization, it talks about being Caucasian. That’s all hate crime stuff to me, that’s not okay,” said Ah You.”
    Well – OMG!!!!
    Western civilization!!
    Being Caucasian!!
    Whiteness!!
    Better get antifa down here on the double!
    I’m surprised they even let Caucasians live in Modesto.
    Good grief.

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    No way I want to be seen voting with those jew hating socialists said the dem congressional caucus –
    The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bipartisan resolution Tuesday opposing an international effort to boycott Israel as Democrats try to tamp down increasingly heated political rhetoric over differences with the longtime U.S. ally.
    The resolution passed on a vote of 398-17. Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., were among the 16 Democrats who voted against the resolution. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., was the only Republican to vote “no.” Rep. Justin Amash, I-Mich., was one of five lawmakers who voted “present.”
    The resolution puts the House on record opposing the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and its efforts to target U.S. companies that do business with Israel. The movement has grown in recent years, and Israel sees it as a threat. Supporters of Israel view it as an attempt to delegitimize the Jewish state.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/in-rare-bipartisan-vote-house-overwhelmingly-oks-
    resolution-in-support-of-israel
    😉

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  6. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Shine the light on her
    https://www.theblaze.com/news/government-watchdog-group-files-ethics-complaint-against-rep-ilhan-omar-over-potential-immigration-marriage-tax-and-student-loan-fraud?utm_content=bufferc30ca&utm_medium=organic&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=fb-glennbeck&fbclid=IwAR0KyU6PmFincADo5e8zdHrmgV2Hif_jIEeFTX6MPmHy9mFncYUkMM_dE7E
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    Re:Update
    Just as predicted. No minds will change. The Circus continues. Mueller seems more like a figurehead to give some measure of Swamp Gravitas while his Democrat deputies ran this sham investigation that is the absurd witch Hunt that it has always been.
    The House hearing also confirmed my suspicions that Mueller did not write the Report, just as Christopher Steele did not write a lot of the Dossier. Maybe parts of it, but both have seemed uncertain of everything in it. Can’t wait for the dog and pony show to continue.

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  7. George Rebane Avatar

    re BillT 1043am – To avoid unnecessarily long URLs in your comments and emails, you can abbreviate them at the question marks or after ‘.htm’ points to exclude the extra metadata that your own access source appends. An example of this is that the above URL can be shortened to –
    https://www.theblaze.com/news/government-watchdog-group-files-ethics-complaint-against-rep-ilhan-omar-over-potential-immigration-marriage-tax-and-student-loan-fraud

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  8. Russell Steele Avatar
    Russell Steele

    Tom McClintock accused Robert Mueller of misleading America
    California Republican Rep. Tom McClintock accused Special Counsel Robert Mueller of misleading the American people with his report on Russian meddling in the 2016 election and tried to cast doubt about the widely accepted belief that the Russian government was behind Internet trolls that meddled in the campaign.
    “The problem we’re having is we have to rely on your report for an accurate reflection of the evidence and we’re starting to find out that’s not true,” McClintock told Mueller in the House Judiciary Committee Hearing, the first of Mueller’s two highly-anticipated appearances before Congress on Wednesday.
    “For example … you have left the clear impression throughout the country, through your report, that it was the Russian government behind the troll farms,” said McClintock, who represents California’s 4th congressional district. “And yet when you’re called upon to provide actual evidence in court, you fail to do so.”
    https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article233061607.html

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  9. Russell Steele Avatar
    Russell Steele

    This is a test

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  10. Russell Steele Avatar
    Russell Steele

    California Republican Rep. Tom McClintock accused Special Counsel Robert Mueller of misleading the American people with his report on Russian meddling in the 2016 election and tried to cast doubt about the widely accepted belief that the Russian government was behind Internet trolls that meddled in the campaign.
    “The problem we’re having is we have to rely on your report for an accurate reflection of the evidence and we’re starting to find out that’s not true,” McClintock told Mueller in the House Judiciary Committee Hearing, the first of Mueller’s two highly-anticipated appearances before Congress on Wednesday.
    “For example … you have left the clear impression throughout the country, through your report, that it was the Russian government behind the troll farms,” said McClintock, who represents California’s 4th congressional district. “And yet when you’re called upon to provide actual evidence in court, you fail to do so.”

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  11. Russell Steele Avatar
    Russell Steele

    If I included the URL link in the above text it would not post. If added to this post it would not show. Interesting

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  12. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    10:58 am
    Thanks doc. Tested it over at Sandbox and it worked.
    Re:Update
    https://www.facebook.com/dan.bongino/videos/394695914495666/
    Buck sez:
    https://www.facebook.com/BuckSexton/photos/a.568156706588519/2768666396537528/?type=3&theater
    Kinda liked how the Dems grouped Manafort and Gates ith those convicted of the Russian Collusion Delusion bad guys. Inflate those numbers. What exactly d Manafort, Gates, and even Flynn have o do with Russians interfering with our elections? Add the troll farms, some of which are not not connected to the Russian government. Heck, add Michael Cohen, lol.
    Inflate those numbers! Can’t wait for the Union column writers to go off on obstruction of justice. Much fodder to come.

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    David Axelrod, a a former senior advisor to President Obama, tweeted: “This is very, very painful.”
    Leftist Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe tweeted, “Much as I hate to say it, this morning’s hearing was a disaster. Far from breathing life into his damning report, the tired Robert Mueller sucked the life out of it. The effort to save democracy and the rule of law from this lawless president has been set back, not advanced.”
    MSNBC’s Jeremy Bash complained that Mueller “sucked the life out” of the Russia report and seriously “set back” efforts to hold Trump “accountable” — meaning impeachment.
    Bash added that Mueller was “evasive,” “lost at times,” and was “very ineffective” at defending “his own work.”
    “Given his poor memory, sluggishness, and lack of familiarity with his own Report, we now have more insight into why Mueller allowed his 2-year investigation to spiral out of control and devolve into absurdity,” Tracey added.
    And, last but not least…..
    “Lots of buzz on Capitol Hill today. Not sure why. I hear someone is testifying about a report that we already have, regarding Russian collusion that never happened.” —Rep. Dan Crenshaw

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Mueller wants us to believe he never checked on his lawyers’ political affiliation but just randomly picked a group of hardline anti-Trump Democrats with zero pro-Trump lawyers. That is so unlikely it is laughable.——-Newt

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  15. George Rebane Avatar

    Hot flash for Team Emery – “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,” Mueller said.
    “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.”
    You can read the rest of the bad news about today’s Mueller testimony here –
    https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/24/mueller-corrects-testimony-lieu/

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Is this the day Impeachment died or is it going to die a thousand deaths?

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Puerto Rico and culture.
    .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.” ——Dr. Rebane
    ——————
    “What the transcript makes clear is that Wax is not basing her argument for admitting more foreign citizens from Western and first world countries on race at all, but on culture. Her belief is that immigrants who share some cultural norms and values with native-born Americans are better for the country than those who do not.
    “More specifically, Wax is addressing the exact and wrongheaded allegation of racism against her argument. She acknowledges that her policy prescription will, at least in the short term, lead to more white immigrants and fewer non-white immigrants, but effectively shows that this is a correlation, not a cause. That is to say that the change in the racial makeup of immigrants is a byproduct of her policy, not at all its intent.
    “Another good way to think about this is in terms of discrimination and disparities, the title of Thomas Sowell’s excellent 2018 book. Sowell shows that different outcomes for different racial groups are far less often the result of discrimination, or racism, and far more often the product of natural disparities of myriad kinds, and the prerequisites that racial groups have on average, almost all of which are social constructs, not inherent traits of a racial group. Thus, to improve outcomes you must look at the roots of the disparities, not simply blame racism and believe that ending racism would end disparity.“
    “But instead, Beauchamp decided to just point at Wax and yell “Racist!”
    https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/22/no-amy-wax-not-white-supremacist-wanting-immigrants-support-american-norms/

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  18. Walt Avatar

    Cam we now charge Muller with lying to Congress?
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/24/robert-mueller-caught-contradicting-his-report-in-testimony-to-congress/
    “In his opening statement, Mueller stated: “We did not address collusion, which is not a legal term. rather, we focused on whether the evidence was sufficient to charge any member of the campaign with taking part in a criminal conspiracy, and it was not.”
    That statement suggested that the report had not, in fact, concluded that Trump had colluded with Russia — contrary to what the president has said, and with common public understanding of the report.
    Collins began by asking Mueller whether “collusion” and “conspiracy” were synonymous. Mueller said, “No.”
    However, Collins read Mueller’s own report to him: “On page 180 of volume one of your report, you wrote, ‘As defined in legal dictionaries, collusion is largely synonymous with conspiracy as that crime is set forth in the general federal conspiracy statute, 18 U.S.C. 371; … Are you sitting here today testifying something different than what your report states?”
    Mueller struggled to explain the contradiction, and ultimately admitted that the interpretation in his report was the correct one — rather than the answer he had just given Congress.”
    Muller has locked up others for less.

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  19. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    It is over when you lose the Trump-hater Tribe:
    “Much as I hate to say it, this morning’s hearing was a disaster. Far from breathing life into his damning report, the tired Robert Mueller sucked the life out of it. The effort to save democracy and the rule of law from this lawless president has been set back, not advanced.” Laurence Tribe.
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-critic-laurence-tribe-slams-mueller-testimony-the-hearing-was-a-disaster

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Top 5 Questions Mueller Refused to Answer
    “How convenient that he can’t answer any questions about the document that created this whole mess?”
    “Mueller would also impossibly claimed to not know what Fusion GPS is, the firm that produced the dossier.”
    —-
    “Strangely, Mr. Simpson and Veselnitskaya are absent from the Mueller report”
    ——
    “You didn’t mention that or her connections to Glenn Simpson and Fusion GPS in your report at all. NBC News reported the following: Russian lawyer says she first received supposedly incriminating information she brought to Trump Tower describing alleged tax evasion and donations to Democrats from none other than Glenn Simpson, the Fusion GPS owner.”
    https://bongino.com/the-top-5-questions-mueller-refused-to-answer/?fbclid=IwAR1miN5Ba5D7DBZuxy9_z1D7j_3UTWG_Qt701zyS9mjYrE1f-mgz78lRzcA

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  21. Ozzz Oswald Avatar
    Ozzz Oswald

    Hello. My name is Robert Mueller. I am here today to learn about something called the…Mueller Report?

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  22. Scott O Avatar

    Lets get back to what’s really important – the serious nature of the charges. That’s what is most important. Very serious, very, very serious. Then there are the number of indictments. Lots of them – can’t count them all.
    So we have a sitting President accused of very, very serious charges and the folks charged with investigating these charges have issued a lot of indictments – lots of them.
    And (this is icing on the cake) the chief prosecutor can say for certain that he has no proof that the President is not, not-guilty.
    On top of that – he is guilty of Hate-Thought and Hate Speech, combined with being a racist according to everyone who doesn’t like him.
    As Paul Emery just posted recently – “I don’t need evidence”.
    They accuse Trump (without one shred of evidence) that he is a “danger to democracy” but it looks like the left in America has decided to get rid of the rule of law.
    Can you prove you’re not not-guilty – Hmmm?

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  23. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Botox Nancy ran out of lipstick and the pig is still obviously a pig. You have to wonder why they bothered with that disaster of a news conference with that grade school poster? –
    Democrats are reeling after a horrendous day for their party on Capitol Hill with former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony unraveling their case against President Donald Trump, all while Republicans seek to capitalize on the serious missteps by a group of committee leaders and Democrat leadership in the House.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/24/disaster-robert-mueller-testimony-backfires-on-democrats-as-republicans-move-in-for-the-kill/
    😉

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  24. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Even the lamestream admit it is all over –
    ABC News correspondent Terry Moran said on Wednesday that the movement to impeach President Donald Trump is over, after Robert Mueller testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee.
    “Impeachment’s over,” Moran told George Stephanopoulos in a video posted by GOP War Room, “I don’t think Nancy Pelosi is going to stand for her member bringing forth something that is going to obviously lose in the Senate, lose with the American public. And the problem with Mueller’s testimony on this issue is that he had to carry the ball for them in some way, whether he wanted to or not. At least by being a rigorous, strong, rock-solid prosecutor and instead he looked like someone who slowed a step or two.”
    https://freebeacon.com/politics/abc-reporter-on-mueller-hearing-impeachments-over/
    😉

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  25. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    On the march –
    President Trump emerged victorious following former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s appearances Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee and House Intelligence Committee, according to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
    “Donald Trump is stronger today than any time in his presidency,” Graham, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Wednesday night on “Hannity.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/lindsey-graham-robert-mueller-no-senate-hearing
    😉

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  26. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    WHEN YOU’VE LOST CHUCK TODD: Todd calls Mueller hearing an optics disaster for Democrats. “The sentiment echoed remarks earlier by Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, who called the hearing ‘a disaster for the Democrats’ and ‘for the reputation of Robert Mueller’ during a discussion on the network that was retweeted by President Trump.”
    Related: Ken Starr: Mueller has done a ‘grave disservice to our country.’
    UPDATE: Robert Mueller Was Not Interested in Serving as the Democrats’ Performing Monkey, and It Showed. “If lawmakers want to impeach Trump they’re going to have to deal with the politics of it all and not use the Justice Department as a shield.”
    H/T Glenn Reynolds

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  27. L Avatar
    L

    Nice little coup they had going, but at the critical moments, first Comey, then Mueller, decided not to commit the ultimate act of treason. Hence, they don’t remember anything. The real problem is that this real life coup also must include HRC and him, O & W, Brennan, Clapper and about thirty others. It’s the folks at the top that present the real problem. HRC has certainly earned felony time for security violations, etc.
    What does it say about us as a free, democratic citizenry if we let such misconduct go not only unpunished, but practically unnoticed?

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  28. L Avatar
    L

    The false flag op at Trump tower (attempt to frame the prez)is a great detail in this lurid tale. Stay tuned, I almost guarantee that Andy McCarthy’s upcoming book will be the instant authority on the subject. His work on this story has been invaluable.

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  29. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    My respons to the Union AP article on Mueller today.
    I sent this to the Editor. Send a complaint if you agree. Please
    “Another one sided trope for the left. I watched the hearings and Mueller looked asleep and out of it most of the time. He refused to answer any questions on the Fusion GPS “dossier” which triggered this whole fiasco. Yet not a word in the article. This is a prime example of “exclusion”. The authors keep out any info they don’t like. The article is a disgrace to journalism. And he defended 18 democrats on his team many of whom were Hillary donors and pals. And not one word of that or that Hillary paid Russians for dirt on Trump. Do you think you could run articles that actually cover all sides fairly?
    bhamilton@theunion.com

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  30. Russell Steele Avatar
    Russell Steele

    LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: ‘The Robert Mueller Story’ Was Box Office Poison. “I could not have imagined what a dumpster fire the Mueller testimony would turn out to be. The Democrats dragged a geriatric memory-care patient before the American public to try to get the Orange Man and it backfired. Mueller appeared confused, unclear on important information, mumbled phrases like a trained parrot and did not give the Democrats much help with their impeachment passion play. It’s clear Mueller had virtually nothing to do with the report, staff hiring or major decisions. So who was running the show for 2 years? We need to find out.”
    If it was not Muller running the show, then who was it?

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  31. L Avatar
    L

    Russ, when we know that answer, we’ll know who’s at the bottom of America’s first unsuccessful coup. Or Mueller did a ‘rope-a-dope’ to throw the hounds off the true scent- him?

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    First, forget my 10:58 pm last night. Wrong link. I take full ownership of my error. Sorry.
    ———-
    Perhaps that was the reason Bill Barr told Bob Mueller if he wanted to back out of the Circus, the DOJ would back him. A kind gesture to an old friend. Barr would be the one who has known Bob for years, refers to him as “Bob”, and would have figured out about Bob’s role as the Swamp Figurehead with Gravitas who was kept out of the loop…..and observing in their May interactions that Bob’s gas tank running on low.
    As reported here, the DOJ had Mueller threw together a hastily called press conference to save Bob from criminal contempt of court. Mueller’s first words were about Russians accused are to be considered innocent until proven guilty; the presumption of innocence. That presumption of innocence Bob spoke about apparently did not extend to Trump….until yesterday, lol.
    “In the subsequent order, Judge Freidrich wrote: “On May 29, 2019, following the Court’s hearing, the Special Counsel held a press conference…[in which he] carefully distinguished between the efforts by ‘Russian intelligence officers who were part of the Russian military’ and the efforts of” Concord. This, the Judge found, made the criminal contempt proceedings she contemplated against Mueller’s team “unnecessary and excessive under the circumstances.”
    “The government, Freidrich found, “violated a standing court rule” by making these public pronouncements that intruded upon the question to be tried in her courtroom. To save Mueller’s team from “criminal contempt,” Freidrich exercised her discretion to decline to “initiate criminal contempt proceedings in response to the government’s Rule 57.7 violation.”
    “A narrow escape it was indeed. Freidrich found that both the release of the Mueller report and Barr’s statements boosting the report violated DC Rule 57.7 prohibiting lawyers from trying cases in the press. Judge Freidrich rejected the government’s argument that the Mueller report did not smear Concord with unproven links to the Russian government.”
    ————
    Anyway, whose running the show? We know, oh we know. But for the reader who may not have been following events closely, why did the DOJ have the intelligence agencies run the investigation of Trump for them? Who was really running the show? Nots of actors in this play, but who was the stage director and producer?
    Bob running out of gas.
    Robert Mueller: “I’m not familiar … with that”
    Chabot: “It’s not a trick question. It was Fusion GPS”
    https://freebeacon.com/politics/muellers-testimony-marked-by-refusals-to-answer-requests-to-repeat-questions/
    And to think Bill Barr extended the professional courtesy to the former Director of the FBI to back out as Barr would take the heat to save Mueller from the embarrassment and lasting black mark now on his long career.

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  33. George Rebane Avatar

    L 1007am – Interesting point Larry. When we recall Mueller earlier this year at a news conference correcting an erroneous report about his investigation, he was all there – firm, unhesitating, and resolute about the facts of the matter. It’s hard to believe that in such a short time he had such a mental degradation which we witnessed yesterday. If in this interval he had had a medical event – e.g. micro stroke – then someone would have forewarned Team Nadler to pull him as a witness.

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  34. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 10:07 am
    Mueller acting the role one with diminished capacity? Well, he was a reluctant witness and had plenty of time to prepare. Played the role of forgetful, but likable, old grandpa at the Thanksgiving Dinner table.
    Yes, it is not out of the realm of possibility. The insanity defense?
    With the arrest and conviction of Gotti and various Gambino family members in 1992, Gigante was officially recognized as the most powerful crime boss in the United States. For the better part of 30 years, Gigante feigned insanity in an effort to throw law enforcement off his trail. Dubbed “The Oddfather” and “The Enigma in the Bathrobe” by the press, Gigante often wandered the streets of Greenwich Village in his bathrobe and slippers, mumbling incoherently to himself. He was indicted on federal racketeering charges in 1990, but was determined to be mentally unfit to stand trial. In 1997 he was tried and convicted of racketeering and was given a 12-year sentence. Facing new charges in 2003, he pleaded guilty and admitted that his supposed insanity was an elaborate effort to avoid prosecution. He died while incarcerated in 2005 at ……

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  35. Rock Hunter Avatar
    Rock Hunter

    Todd 8:16
    You are delusional if you believe that the folks at the Union read anything you send them. They give your screeds the consideration they deserve and just laugh at you behind your back. You have become an old, feeble minded court jester who can’t even button his shirt or zip up his pants. No one cares what you think.

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Saying goodbye to the Mueller testimony….for now. Farewell my old friend. Tear drops in the rain. I get a sick pleasure watching them get their hopes up so high all the while knowing what will happen next. Like Wile E. Coyote standing six feet beyond the edge of the cliff overhang and looking down. Cue puff of smoke.
    Want to get away?
    https://www.mrctv.org/videos/watch-tv-news-and-after-muellers-disappointing-testimony?#close
    ————-
    L @ 10:07
    Hmmm. Mueller had no problem understanding the Dem questions…and generally no problem answering. Bob was quicker on his feet with the Dems.

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  37. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Rock Hunter” 1229pm
    15 Quatoos say this sock puppet is Jeff Pellini himself.
    His own blog is all but over, with nothing happening in the last two weeks.

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  38. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Rock Hunter | 25 July 2019 at 12:29 PM
    Oh my so all those return emails discussing my concerns from the paper are imagined? Please tell us all how you came to know anything about my interactions with the Union. Waiting.

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  39. Annie Fox Avatar
    Annie Fox

    Well said Gregory!

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  40. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    G@ 206 – Funny how that spurred a lame post at the Dark Lords Liberal Lament Land.
    😉

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    Gregory

    db 428pm
    and a lame comment by “Annie Fox” here at 356pm.
    Anyone notice how Pellini’s Sierra Foothills Report really doesn’t cover the Sierra Foothills much… unless it’s about Pelline’s kid?

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  42. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    15 Quatoos? Sounds about right. They get like this every time they are left standing buff naked in the wind with their ass checks flapping away after, once again, the whole thing blows up in their faces. Call it their response to the Mueller Report. They own it.
    To beat a dead horse one more time, “they look like monkeys trying to hump a football.”
    Expect a good dose of Todd Derangement Syndrome up next. Bongino was right. They do not have any ideas. Trump was right. All the enthusiasm is on our side.
    ——-
    Moving on from the Mueller testimony, who wrote the Mueller Report is the question of the day.
    https://www.gingrich360.com/2019/07/who-wrote-the-mueller-report/?fbclid=IwAR2ZiMMDP2X7_ug722ctzhQV3TYvdfkRrSPySKIDPIYwENLXtLnBvL92bfo

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  43. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The clintion news network embraced a jihadi anti-Semite for years and then someone noticed –
    CNN’s statement accepting the resignation of the editor makes clear the editor had worked at CNN for some time, and had made the antisemitic statements back in 2011.
    The tweets from Mohammed Elshamy, a photo editor for CNN, first surfaced earlier on Thursday. They were until then still public on Elshamy’s Twitter account
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/25/cnn-editor-resigns-after-history-of-antisemitism-resurfaces/
    😉

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