Special counsel John Durham logged a second indictment in his investigation of the Trump-Russia investigators on Thursday. A grand jury returned a 26-page indictment charging Michael Sussmann , a lawyer for Perkins Coie who had worked on behalf of Democratic clients numerous times, with intentionally lying to the FBI’s top lawyer in September 2016 about who he was working for when he passed along controversial allegations of secret communications between Russia’s Alfa Bank and the Trump Organization.
“Sussmann lied about the capacity in which he was providing the allegations to the FBI,” the indictment says. “Specifically, Sussmann stated falsely that he was not doing his work on the aforementioned allegations ‘for any client,’ which led the FBI General Counsel to understand that Sussmann was acting as a good citizen merely passing along information, not as a paid advocate or political operative. In fact … this statement was intentionally false and misleading because, in assembling and conveying these allegations, Sussmann acted on behalf of specific clients, namely, a U.S. technology industry executive at a U.S. internet company, and the Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign.”
First, if you truly want a little media bias just think about the difference between how the media covered the failed Mueller investigation versus how they are "not "covering the Durham investigation. I guess it was more exciting to cover an investigation of a President versus the investigation of the people who investigated the President.
Oddly, this is the exact sort of "lying to the FBI" charge that I didn't care for when Mueller did it. Of course, they generally found things fairly irrelevant to charge people with lying about. The actual date of hire in the case of George Papadopoulos (who was actually telling the technical truth, but was charged with misleading the FBI) or whether or not General Flynn did or did not have conversation about something that he told the person on the other side of the phone that he was not going to talk about.
Those charges from the Mueller campaign were designed to put pressure on people to "give up the goods" so to speak. These charges are similar, but actually show a nefarious intent. The concept was that the original allegations about Russian collusion was not political and not designed to harm a Presidential campaign. The original concept rejected the idea that the FBI or anyone else was going after the Trump campaign due to political influence.
But now it is obvious that the FBI was gathering information directly from people from the Clinton campaign. This prompted the entire FBI investigation which eventually led to a special counsel. None of this would have happened had not been for false reports coming from the Hillary campaign. This was always the allegations that were denied from the FBI. Turns out the allegations were right.
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BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! RELEVANT TO FUCKING MORONS LIKE YOU LIL SCHITTY WHO STILL THINKS TRUMP WON BY A LANDSLIDE!!!!!!!
The nation will forever be grateful to Trump for keeping Hillary out of the presidency. She's easily the most corrupt and unlikable candidate in history.
Does anyone know what TLS means other than Roger?
George Szamuely
https://twitter.com/GeorgeSzamuely/status/1438830033410330627
Hard to take seriously the notion of FBI as victim. Let's not forget that in 2016 the media kept their distance from the Steele Dossier, arguing that it was "unverified." Not so the FBI, which ran with it to the FISA court and claimed falsely that it was "verified."
C.H. Truth said...
Does anyone know what TLS means other than Roger?
tramps Lydia senseless ?
he does appear very aggressive still
Arthur Schwartz
LETTER:
https://mobile.twitter.com/ArthurSchwartz/status/1438648955584360448
Reminder: CIA briefed Obama & Biden on intelligence suggesting that Hillary & her campaign cooked up the entire Russia hoax as part of a scheme to deflect from Hillary’s email server problems.
Guess Schiff never saw this with his own eyes
and somehow Obama and Biden didn't figure this was important enough to let the American people know
and never leaked or reported on by the state media in 2016
wonder why
Blogger C.H. Truth said...
Does anyone know what TLS means other than Roger?
Probably an obscure nursing home term, or maybe the 'L' stands for 'liver' and it has something to do with his transplant.
The 't' could stand for 'tranny' as in Char-Lee.
Just spit-balling here. When your life is as enormous a shitpile as the alky's is the possibilities are endless.
Emerald Robinson
https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1438845615975321607
RIP: Everyone at @nytimes and @wapo who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for running a Hillary Clinton disinformation campaign against Trump.
People like @maggieNYT @adamentous @gregpmiller
Staffs of The New York Times and The Washington Post
For deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign, the President-elect’s transition team and his eventual administration.
https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staffs-new-york-times-and-washington-post
and dutifully copied over here daily as bombshell after bombshell
what a towering pile of lies
According to the indictment:
Sussmann lied about the capacity in which he was providing the allegations to the FBI. Specifically, Sussmann stated falsely that he was not doing his work on the aforementioned allegations 'for any client,' which led the FBI General Counsel to understand that Sussmann was acting as a good citizen merely passing along information, not as a paid advocate or political operative. In fact ... this statement was intentionally false and misleading because, in assembling and conveying these allegations, Sussmann acted on behalf of specific clients, namely, a U.S. technology industry executive at a U.S. internet company, and the Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign.
RIP: Everyone at @nytimes and @wapo who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for running a Hillary Clinton disinformation campaign against Trump.
People like @maggieNYT @adamentous @gregpmiller
All well and good except for one thing - None of those people or media outlets care. The mask has been dropped, the lies are told openly and with impunity and journalistic integrity is fucking DEAD.
The folks at these outlets write what they write for the consumption of FUCKING MORONS* like the alky, and most importantly in service to the DNC.
*h/t: Indy Voter
TLS - Took Leave of his Senses
Newsmax
FANTASTIC VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1438666397194805252
A former White House counsel will not release Russia documents on the heels of Thursday’s indictment of a Clinton 2016 campaign attorney.
@stinchfield1776 & @jsolomonReports discuss what could happen next with those involved in the well-documented anti-Trump “smear campaign.”
this is over 9 minutes long but it plows new ground and reveals just how much Trump was hamstringed even by people he should have been able to trust.
to me these are crimes against the American people as well as Trump
but good luck with that especially with state media cover-ups and their agenda
Trump Love Syndrome
The U.S. Capitol Police chief formally asked for 100 armed National Guard members to be on standby for a rally this Saturday at the Capitol in case it turns violent, but withdrew the request at the urging of a top Senate security official who said he had not followed protocol.
Days later, Chief J. Thomas Manger instead asked for unarmed Guard members after conferring with the official, Senate Sergeant at Arms Karen Gibson, and the Pentagon, according to internal correspondence and three people familiar with the discussions. The Guard members would be armed only with batons and would be accompanied by armed police.
On Friday morning, the Department of Defense approved the request for support, saying unarmed soldiers will be stationed at the D.C. Armory and deploy only if necessary. It’s highly unusual for armed National Guard members to respond to protests, and strict rules must be followed in such cases.
But the change to the chief’s original security plans infuriated some Capitol Police officials. They privately argued it was a foolhardy repeat of a central mistake that had left the Capitol so vulnerable during the Jan. 6 protests — not preparing for the worst, according to interviews with three people familiar with the dispute.
Gibson, a retired Army lieutenant general, said the modified request was based on conversations with Pentagon officials and that she did not oppose the idea of having armed Guard members on standby. The fact that part of the request was changed was “incidental,” she wrote in an email to The Washington Post.
“I asked the USCP to drop a request that had not been coordinated. That uncoordinated request happened to be for armed Guard,” she wrote, saying they then conferred with Pentagon officials. “At the end of those planning session, we agreed jointly that this request was the best use of potential DoD assets within that specific context.”
In a statement, Defense Department spokesman Chris Mitchell said soldiers on Saturday would serve only in a support capacity “to help protect the U.S. Capitol Building and Congressional Office buildings by manning building entry points and verifying credentials of individuals seeking access to the building.”
Asked Thursday if representatives of the Defense Department had spoken with Gibson or Manger and discouraged the request for armed soldiers, Mitchell said there were discussions about the deployment and such conversations are “not out of the ordinary.” Mitchell said he was unaware of the “interagency or internal discussions that led to the current request” for unarmed soldiers.
The behind-the-scenes revisions over the requested National Guard deployment lay bare how, despite the clear failure to protect the building on Jan. 6, Congress hasn’t fixed the disjointed Capitol Police command structure that contributed to that failure.
Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/793250312119263233
Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank.
Oct 31, 2016
Posts a Statement released by Jack Sullivan
yep, the current National Security Adviser to Biden, Jake Sullivan
what a bunch of crooks and they are still running America
into the ground
FJB
in fact why is Clinton even allowed on Twitter after all this ?
or Comey and company ?
Hey roger you were the one who spammed this board for years with Russia, Russia, Russia bombshell, bombshell, bombshell, walls closing in etc.
Now when the truth starts dripping out you off-topic spam like a demented old coward.
Which of course you are
But scared to face the truth about your lies and now want to try and cover them up?
WaPo reporting that national guard request has been withdrawn. Probably because it wasn't needed in the first place.
Former officer Black will be Scott's next hero because he assaulted a drug addicted black.
Story at a glance:
Black and white Tennessee officers reported their department’s alleged racism to Black Lives Matter.The police chief allegedly left a Klu Klux Klan magazine in a locker.The city manager fired an officer for inciting a protest.
Black and white Tennessee officers reported their department’s alleged racism to Black Lives Matter.
The department of Millersville, Tenn. allegedly has a culture of harassment and intimidation, so Robert Black created a fake Facebook to contact his local BLM chapter, The Daily Beast reported.
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During that time, the assistant police chief, Dustin Carr, was under investigation for allegedly assaulting his wife who was allegedly involved with an affair with a drug suspect. Black and other police officers claim they were fired for not complying with “Blue Lives Matter.”
In addition to questioning the police department management, Black endured alleged sexual harassment, including a female officer grabbing his genitals, and a second incident in which a male allegedly made disparaging comments about Black’s biracial son.
In a new lawsuit, Joshua Barnes, a Black and former Millersville Police sergeant, claims the department harbors a culture of harassment and intimidation. Black, who is white with a biracial son, has joined Barnes in the lawsuit.
The lawsuit’s three defendants are Millersville Police chief Mark Palmer, assistant chief Dustin Carr, and the city of Millersville. Palmer told the Daily Beast that all comments must be addressed to the city manager, which did not return requests for comment and neither did Carr.
Palmer and the city had already in the past faced racial discrimination allegations. In 2015, two Black officers sued Palmer for racial discrimination, claiming that each of them were told “I don’t like n-----s.”
One of the men, Anthony Hayes, claimed Palmer took him to a former KKK leader’s home, where Hayes “was subjected to an extended conversation in the presence of KKK memorabilia.”
Hayes claimed that Palmer placed a copy of a KKK magazine in his police locker, with a sticky note that read “this was left for you—don’t let your subscription run out.”
“You can’t find this anywhere,” Black said of the [KKK] magazine. “That’s why I hit up BLM [Black Lives Matter] reps. I was like, ‘hey y’all…’”
In their response to the lawsuit, the city denied the allegations against Palmer. The city manager’s office has not responded to a request for comment from Changing America.
Brian McCartherenes, the other officer besides Hayes, said they were being forced out of their post after they accused the department of racism.
According to a police memo, McCartherenes got fired for alleged racist conduct, telling a new Black officer at the time that “at the end of the day, remember you are Black.” McCartherenes says he intended the comment as a warning about the risks of the job.
Former officer Black was fired by the city manager for inciting a protest on Sept. 11, 2020, but the protest was relatively peaceful without anything getting damaged or anyone getting arrested, contrary to the warnings of the then-city manager who allegedly told Black in private that “tell everyone who is involved in this [BLM protest] that we are coming after them next!”
Because very few people will demonstrate tomorrow because Trump said it was a Democratic hoax to put more people in jail
WaPo reporting that national guard request has been withdrawn. Probably because it wasn't needed in the first place.
They admit to not having any credible evidence of any actually plans or threats of any violence. They ENTIRE reason for it is to reinforce their own narrative that any conservative rally or protest is cause for red alerts and almost certain violence.
After the tea party and other conservatives have never, ever displayed any evidence of violence, the left will seize upon the "narrative" that the Capitol riot was the worst thing since 9-11.
Not, of course, because the riot was actually more violent than any other riot (it was demonstratively less violent than any typical Antifa riot).
Not, of course, because there was massive amounts of destruction (the estimated cost from the riot was in the 20 million dollar range, but the major portion of that was their own security and responses (like putting up fencing for several weeks to deal with non-existent threats).
Not, of course, because of massive casualties. The only real murder seems to be a Capital police officer cowardly shooting an unarmed woman as she crawled through a broken window.
but 100% because they want to "paint" the picture of some sort of violent outrage from the right, when everyone knows that 99% of the actual violence and destruction comes from the left.
Projection at the highest levels of our Government. Scary.
During that time, the assistant police chief, Dustin Carr, was under investigation for allegedly assaulting his wife
Unbelievable Roger!
We should throw this guy in jail and throw away the key...
Imagine the criminal and horrible behavior of being investigated for assaulting your wife? Can anyone here really imagine such a thing?
Just a bastard all the way around!
The Pentagon just admitted a tragic incident.
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon said Friday that a U.S. drone strike in Kabul last month killed 10 civilians including seven children.
The Pentagon originally said that the strike, which occurred Aug. 29, killed two ISIS-K fighters believed to be involved in planning attacks against U.S. forces in Kabul.
“This strike was taken in the earnest belief that it would prevent an imminent threat to our forces and the evacuees at the airport, but it was a mistake,” U.S. Marine Corps General Kenneth McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, said Friday.
Scott Johnson was right on day one August 29th
The allegations were a civil matter not a criminal investigation
I never hit Lydia.
It's tragic.
.
WASHINGTON – Ten civilians, including up to seven children, and no terrorists were killed in Kabul by a drone strike that the Pentagon had hailed initially as "righteous," the Pentagon announced Friday.
"Our investigation now concludes the strike was a tragic mistake," Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, chief of U.S. Central Command, said Friday.
The strike was made because the vehicle was deemed an imminent threat, McKenzie said. There had been more than 60 pieces of intelligence at the time that indicated an attack was coming, he said.
As many as six Reaper drones had followed the vehicle, a white Toyota Corolla, for six hours before the strike, he a.
The initial report about a secondary explosion was likely caused by a propane tank near the vehicle that blew up, he said.
This is the first time Scott has been correct in years.
The Defense Department, which previously defended the Aug. 29 operation as a “righteous strike,” saying it tracked a white sedan for hours after it left a suspected Islamic State-Khorasan safe house and that officials believed the car was loaded with explosives for an imminent attack. In fact, the driver, Zamarai Ahmadi, was a longtime aid worker for a U.S.-based group and was hauling water cans for his family, according to officials and video obtained by The Washington Post and others.
The chain of missteps ending with the missile strike that killed Ahmadi, seven children and two other adults, came days after a suicide attack at the Kabul airport claimed the lives of at least 170 Afghans and 13 U.S. troops, inviting a sense of urgency that may have been misplaced. It also highlights flaws in the Biden administration’s strategy for targeting threats that emerge in Afghanistan from long distance, a plan analysts have criticized as being vulnerable to inadequate intelligence and overconfidence among commanders reading ordinary behaviors as evidence of malicious intent.
“Having thoroughly reviewed the findings of the investigation … I am now convinced that as many as 10 civilians, including up to seven children, were tragically killed in that strike,” Marine Gen. Kenneth “Frank” McKenzie, the head of U.S. Central Command, told reporters Friday. “It is unlikely that the vehicle and those who died were associated with ISIS-K or were a direct threat to U.S. forces.”
They actually admitted errors.
An influential Food and Drug Administration advisory committee on Friday rejected a plan to administer booster shots of Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine to the general public, saying they needed more data.
The panel, however, could still clear the shots for older populations. Scientists continued debating the need for a third dose of the vaccines for people 60+
They rejected the President's decisions
Trump would have called them traitors @
WASHINGTON (AP) — An influential federal advisory panel has soundly rejected a plan to offer Pfizer booster shots against COVID-19 to most Americans.
The vote Friday, 16-2, was a blow to the Biden administration’s effort to shore up people’s protection against the virus amid the highly contagious delta variant.
Over several hours of discussion, members of the Food and Drug Administration panel of outside experts voiced frustration that Pfizer had provided little data on safety of extra doses.
And they complained that data provided by Israeli researchers about their booster campaign might not be suitable for predicting the U.S. experience.
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They are following medical experts advise.
Blogger rrb said...
Blogger C.H. Truth said...
Does anyone know what TLS means other than Roger?
Probably an obscure nursing home term, or maybe the 'L' stands for 'liver' and it has something to do with his transplant.
I thought it might mean he’s a fall risk
U.S. Military Acknowledges Kabul Drone Strike Killed 10 Civilians
The U.S. military said Friday that it mistakenly killed 10 Afghan civilians, including seven children, when it launched a drone strike on a car in Kabul last month, and missed its actual target.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-military-acknowledges-kabul-drone-strike-killed-10-civilians-including-seven-children-11631905653?st=nak2wzxhxf7xsb1&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina judges struck down the state’s latest photo voter identification law on Friday, agreeing with minority voters that Republicans rammed through rules tainted by racial bias as a way to remain in power.
Two of the three trial judges declared the December 2018 law is unconstitutional, even though it was designed to implement a photo voter ID mandate added to the North Carolina Constitution in a referendum just weeks earlier. They said the law intentionally discriminates against Black voters, violating their equal protections.
The law “was motivated at least in part by an unconstitutional intent to target African American voters,” Superior Court Judges Michael O’Foghludha and Vince Rozier wrote in their 100-page majority opinion.
“Other, less restrictive voter ID laws would have sufficed to achieve the legitimate nonracial purposes of implementing the constitutional amendment requiring voter ID, deterring fraud, or enhancing voter confidence.”
The majority decision, which followed a three-week trial in April, is now likely headed to a state appeals court, which had previously blocked the law’s enforcement last year while the case was heard. The law remains unenforceable with this ruling.
transplant.
I thought it might mean he’s a fall risk
BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!! Yeah shorty....thay's about as funny as a covid patient on a respirator fighting trumps flu....!!!!
Pay attention fatboi
More Severe Obesity Leads to More Severe COVID-19 in Study
Pres. Trump was right.
oh you Herschel Walker, run Herschel run
Do you know what this is??
Two days ahead of a Trump-inspired rally outside the Capitol on behalf of people who have been charged with crimes in connection to the January 6 insurrection, former President Donald Trump released a statement supporting the cause of the Justice for J6 movement.
It would be like a celebration of 9/11!
It's domestic terrorism. It's allowed by the first amendment rights.
But we need identity it for what it means!
Traitor Joe gets kicked down again.
FDA Does NOT recommend booster shots for all Americans.
It looks like we aren't leaving them behind anymore!.
More than 170 people, including U.S. citizens, made it out of Afghanistan on a chartered flight on its way to Qatar this morning, Reuters reports.
Caliphate4vr said...
oh you Herschel Walker, run Herschel run
what a fantastic ad
KansasDemocrat said...
Traitor Joe gets kicked down again.
FDA Does NOT recommend booster shots for all Americans.
Voted down 16-2. Pretty much went along with what DeSantis has been doing. Protect the elderly (65+) or others at high risk who want it.
Makes a lot more sense than what Biden was pushing
Deb Heine, Dissident
https://twitter.com/NiceDeb/status/1438695337804324865
Seems like as good a time as any to revisit WXYZ-TV's call for unvaccinated horror stories blowing up in their face. FB post now has over 208 THOUSAND comments, the vast majority of them describing horrible vaccine side effects.
of course it may have more to do with things like this
and we'll see what pressure Biden puts on the FDA in the coming months
He's had 2 of the top FDA vaccine experts turn in their resignations over that
Traitor Joe paid 64 million .
"More than 170 people, including U.S. citizens, made it out of Afghanistan on a chartered flight on its way to Qatar this morning, Reuters reports."
or this WP article:
Natural immunity to covid is powerful. Policymakers seem afraid to say so.
People making decisions about their health deserve honesty from their leaders.
It’s okay to have an incorrect scientific hypothesis. But when new data proves it wrong, you have to adapt. Unfortunately, many elected leaders and public health officials have held on far too long to the hypothesis that natural immunity offers unreliable protection against covid-19 — a contention that is being rapidly debunked by science.
More than 15 studies have demonstrated the power of immunity acquired by previously having the virus. A 700,000-person study from Israel two weeks ago found that those who had experienced prior infections were 27 times less likely to get a second symptomatic covid infection than those who were vaccinated. This affirmed a June Cleveland Clinic study of health-care workers (who are often exposed to the virus), in which none who had previously tested positive for the coronavirus got reinfected. The study authors concluded that “individuals who have had SARS-CoV-2 infection are unlikely to benefit from covid-19 vaccination.” And in May, a Washington University study found that even a mild covid infection resulted in long-lasting immunity.
So, the emerging science suggests that natural immunity is as good as or better than vaccine-induced immunity. That’s why it’s so frustrating that the Biden administration has repeatedly argued that immunity conferred by vaccines is preferable to immunity caused by natural infection, as NIH director Francis Collins told Fox News host told Bret Baier a few weeks ago.
That rigid adherence to an outdated theory is also reflected in President Biden’s recent announcement that large companies must require their employees to get vaccinated or submit to regular testing, regardless of whether they previously had the virus.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/09/15/natural-immunity-vaccine-mandate/
So natural immunity is 27x better than the vaccines
no wonder Fauci ignores that
and science
Big pharma sure doesn't like that or cheap generics
Banana Republic
political science
I'm surprised the Washington Post ran this.
It must have been starting to get some traction away from the state media
The Post Millennial
@TPostMillennial
Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC gives his thoughts on what’s in store for General Mark Milley
GREAT 3 minute VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1438672268952014849
Very sad but probably true
Banana Republic
Look what happened to Comey especially taking into account the Durham indictment on the foundation of the investigation and the FISA warrants. Everybody should be able to figure out that Comey knew what he was doing was a lie.
And those involved all are on cable TV or have written books
None of them have paid any consequences
of course there's a small chance they will in the future
but the other side sure paid, unjustly
Brent Scher
https://twitter.com/BrentScher/status/1438942137131978754
It is absurd that @JoeBiden left for vacation two hours before his administration announces it killed 10 civilians and no terrorists in Afghanistan strike against ISIS
We already knew. No wonder they didn't name the senior level terrorist they killed
They knew they didn't.
And Biden's speech about hunting down and killing those responsible for killing out troops ?
all show
like OJ looking for the real killer
But we sure pissed off a lot of Afghans by killing innocents
thanks Joe
enjoy your vacation
You will probably due less harm by staying away
FJB
Josh Rogin
https://twitter.com/joshrogin/status/1438942473284427776
Gen. McKenzie today: "As many as 10 civilians, including up to 7 children, were tragically killed in that strike. Moreover, we now assess that it is unlikely that the vehicle and those who died were associated with ISIS-K."
Gen. Milley, Sept. 1: "It was a righteous strike."
(continued)
Gen. McKenzie: "It is my assessment that leaders on the ground... had achieved reasonable certainty at the time of the strike to designate the vehicle as an imminent threat to US forces at the airport." So, no accountability then for killing 10 innocent people?
Jack Posobiec
https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1438963514656296974
Pentagon was forced to admit all today bc of social media
Prior to this they would just lie and no one would know
But social media debunked the war propaganda in realtime
That’s power
He called it Aug 29th
great sources
and he has a great question for National Security Adviser Sullivan (source of Russian misinformation in the Hillary campaign):
Jack Posobiec
https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1432136675854016512
· Aug 29
Hi @JakeSullivan46! Did the Taliban provide the target data for your Kabul strike today that wiped out an interpreter and his entire family?
No wonder Joe never takes questions
and the Biden administration cowers from real reporters
Just like Thecoldheartedtruth
Dark Omen in Rep. Anthony Gonzalez’s Retirement
A slap in the face for delusional Republicans who want to pretend the GOP is anything but a pro-insurrection Trump cult.
by TIM MILLER
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
UNITED STATES - MARCH 11: Rep. Anthony
The retirement of Trump-impeachment-supporting Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio), in part over fears for the safety of his young family, is a deeply ominous sign for our politics.
It might be a Trump era cliché to say that “this is not normal” but a 36-year-old congressman in his second term doesn’t just retire. That is the start of one’s career, not the finish. Moreover, a 36-year-old Republican congressman sure as shit doesn’t retire because he is scared Republican voters might hurt his family.
That is not normal. At all. It is a flashing siren about just how dangerous the Republican party has become.
Gonzalez had the perfect story for his district. He is a former Ohio State football star who decided to get a Stanford MBA after his playing career was cut short by injuries. He had an essentially down-the-line conservative voting record and no reason to be concerned about re-election until the former president began attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election following his defeat at the hands of “Sleepy” Joe Biden.
Unlike fellow Ohio congressman Jim Jordan, Gonzalez was not willing to go along with the phony election-certification charade. He eventually became one of ten Republican House members to vote for Trump’s impeachment over the actions that led to the January 6 insurrection.
The backlash from that vote is what led to the harassment and eventually tonight’s resignation.
It resulted in a primary from Max Miller, a douchey trust-fund baby who worked for Trump and allegedly assaulted his girlfriend and colleague, Stephanie Grisham. Unlike Gonzalez, Miller was no athletic hero. He had no record of accomplishment, though he does have a rap sheet. He had no coherent policy critique of Gonzalez. The primary was to be solely a referendum over whether voters of the district wanted their representative to be a Trump toady even if it means overthrowing American democracy.
Gonzalez’s primary race—not Liz Cheney’s or Adam Kinzinger’s—would have been the prime test of whether the Republican party was a cult in thrall to a wannabe authoritarian or a conservative political party. The answer was so clear that Gonzalez didn’t even wait around to find out. He barely made it out of the starter’s gate:
It's still a slow coup
Roger parroted that the Biden team.got a win in a deal.with Australia.
"France has lashed out against the deal, calling it a stab in the back"
Roger is always spectacularly wrong.
"France has lashed out against the deal, calling it a stab in the back"
France had to hear about it through media, NOT diplomatic channels. And Blinken fancies himself a 'Francophile.'
This, from the regime who told us they would be "repairing the US reputation abroad."
These fucking morons don't have the first clue.
So far the Biden regime excels at two things - skyrocketing domestic inflation, and blowing two year old children into small pieces.
And if Stairmaster Joe takes a knee. we get a $2 whore.
Dark Omen in Rep. Anthony Gonzalez’s Retirement
LOL.
"Dark Omen" drunkard?
LOL. The DNC water carriers in the MSM are working overtime trying to find a nugget of good news in an abysmal fucking mid-term prospectus.
One douche from Ohio announces retirement and Peloshee is reaching for the lube to grease up the old piss flaps looking for some Steny action..
LMAO.
And Peloshee is in her 80's and NOT in a fucking nursing home, right alky?
LOL.
"dark omen"
Show your plagiarism alky...
https://www.thebulwark.com/dark-omen-in-rep-anthony-gonzalezs-retirement/
The Bul-Shit.
No part of Bidenomics is working for low and middle income earners.
"Bloomberg) -- The last time Americans were this turned off by the U.S. housing market, borrowing costs were over five times the current rate.
The share of people who think now is a good time to buy a home fell in September to 29%, extending the plunge from March when the proportion was more than twice as high, data from the University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey showed Friday."
And BorisWhatever you think of them, they're making big decisions
Andrew Sullivan
Sep 17
If the definition of political courage is making big calls crisply and effectively, despite obvious risks and unknowable consequences, then it seems to me that President Biden and Prime Minister Johnson qualify right now. They’ve made calls recently that go beyond the usual mush of compromise and calculation and might even merit being called bold.
Biden braved the Blob and got out of Afghanistan. We will debate how he did so, and with what consequences, for quite some time. But he still did it. Obama tried and failed. Trump made a big song and dance and signed a surrender deal. But Biden actually got us out.
This wasn’t inevitable. The defense and foreign policy establishments had plenty of their usual arguments — threats of terror attacks, pabulum about recent “progress,” the avoidance of humiliation — to slow-walk presidents into inaction, but they didn’t succeed this time. Biden had sufficient experience to see through their bluff, and the fortitude to fight back when they raged against the withdrawal. Yes, it was horribly messy; tragic in the ways wars always are. But it had that mystical quality of an actual decision: doneness.
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Equally this week, the sudden and surprise announcement that the UK, the US and Australia would form a new military and intelligence alliance in the Pacific, including new nuclear-powered submarines for Australia, was a bold signal to China that the US is not about to abandon that region, or its allies there. It came seemingly out of the blue, but had been in the works, apparently initiated by Australia, for some months.
I’m leery of too aggressive a posture, as I explained here, but you can’t deny that this was a real shift. The British national security adviser, Stephen Lovegrove, called it “perhaps the most significant capability collaboration in the world anywhere in the past six decades” — which seems like a bit of truthful hyperbole. But the deal will bolster our Pacific allies, alarmed by the peremptory Afghanistan withdrawal, and rattled by China’s newly raw nationalism and economic clout. Militarily, it targets one of China’s weaknesses — its submarine program — and, if coordinated with India, for example, is a serious act of enhanced deterrence.
As with the Afghanistan withdrawal, this decision also severely bruised an ally, France, whose previous diesel submarine deal with Australia was suddenly scuppered. But the reassertion of an Anglophone alliance on China’s doorstep is not a sign of a superpower in retreat. It was Biden taking the initiative.
For Boris, it was a nifty demonstration of
For Boris, it was a nifty demonstration of his otherwise iffy notion of a post-Brexit “Global Britain.” Projecting British arms across the globe, in alliance with non-European countries, is exactly the kind of internationalist posture he was going on about for so long. (Seeing the French have a conniption over it must have seemed like a side-benefit, after the agonies of dealing with Macron over Brexit.) Of course, he could have forged such an alliance while staying in the EU. But as with his British vaccine, it was the image that mattered: the UK as a global actor, outside the EU, back with the former colonies and the special relationship, but facing a 21st century foe.
Boris also made a more profoundly risky move this month, that could reverberate in the US as well. He broke a campaign promise and committed to raising taxes in order to fund healthcare in the aftermath of Covid and for home care for the growing ranks of the elderly in Britain. In other words, he’s actually walking the walk of the red Toryism he has committed his party to: a reassertion of populist patriotism, combined with higher social spending, and the “leveling up” of Britain’s poorer regions. It’s easy for conservative politicians to appeal to working-class voters culturally, but to cross the red fiscal line of new taxation is far harder. He deserves props for the balls.
The shift on taxes isn’t completely new. Boris scrapped plans to reduce the corporation tax to 17 percent when he came to office, and then hiked them to 23 percent. But raising National Insurance by 1.25 percent spreads the cost much more widely. The party once headed by Margaret Thatcher is now presiding over the highest tax burden in the UK since 1945. And he has taken a hit to his right as a consequence.
For the first time in this parliament, Labour is ahead of the Tories in one poll — and it was not by Labour gaining much, but by the Tories losing their support from some of their previous base. And so we reach a truly interesting moment in the evolution of the right: can the Tories really abandon their austerity legacy and wrap nationalism and cultural conservatism into a Red Tory package of spending on the sick and the old? Or is that reinvention a chimera?
Before now, that has been an academic question. From here on out, it isn’t. Foolish or wise, you’ve got to credit Boris for taking the leap.
This wasn’t inevitable. The defense and foreign policy establishments had plenty of their usual arguments — threats of terror attacks, pabulum about recent “progress,” the avoidance of humiliation — to slow-walk presidents into inaction, but they didn’t succeed this time. Biden had sufficient experience to see through their bluff, and the fortitude to fight back when they raged against the withdrawal. Yes, it was horribly messy; tragic in the ways wars always are. But it had that mystical quality of an actual decision: doneness.
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Equally this week, the sudden and surprise announcement that the UK, the US and Australia would form a new military and intelligence alliance in the Pacific, including new nuclear-powered submarines for Australia, was a bold signal to China that the US is not about to abandon that region, or its allies there. It came seemingly out of the blue, but had been in the works, apparently initiated by Australia, for some months.
Mike Lindell and Tucker Carlson for president and vice President.
The first leg of the collusion narrative was run by Steele, who used his MI-6 credentials and his prior ties to the FBI and high-ranking DOJ official Bruce Ohr to walk in his infamous dossier to U.S. law enforcement and intelligence in the summer of 2016. The FBI ultimately concluded Steele's dossier was riddled with Russian disinformation and disproved evidence.
The second leg was Sussmann, who crafted information from computer experts supporting Hillary Clinton into the tale of the Alfa Bank server back door. That narrative was flagged by Sussmann's team as unlikely even before he pitched it to the FBI, according to the indictment, and the theory was ultimately dismissed by the FBI and Russia Special Counsel Robert Mueller. "It wasn't true," Mueller testified to Congress in 2019.
And the third leg of the dirty trick consisted of the efforts of federal bureaucrats inside the FBI, State Department and intelligence community — many of whom disliked Trump — who managed to deceive the FISA court, the Congress and the American public, often by using leaks to news media outlets to sustain a collusion story that had fallen apart within weeks of Steele's first approach.
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If the definition of political courage is making big calls crisply and effectively, despite obvious risks and unknowable consequences, then it seems to me that President Biden and Prime Minister Johnson qualify right now. They’ve made calls recently that go beyond the usual mush of compromise and calculation and might even merit being called bold.
Here Sullivan got it wrong. Biden decided to bugout after polling told him it would popular. But the polling didn't differentiate between a controlled withdrawal and an uncontrolled cowardly bugout.
The public didn't like the humiliation of the uncontrolled, cowardly bugout. They like the betrayal of Afghans who worked for the Americans even less. And most of all the public despise the abandonment of American citizens and resident aliens to there fate at the hands of the Taliban.
The irony is that if the foreign policy establishment made their case to the American public they may still have their support for military action.
The consequence of letting the Taliban win the war is the creation of a rouge state.
What was missing was a 5 year strategy to destroy the Taliban. The foreign policy failed to take into account the line solder already knew.
The people in the rural areas never recognized a central government. In fact they don't even know concept of a central government. The highest authority they recognized is their tribal leader.
While it is good to create a central government for the cities, the allies needed to work with the local tribes to remove the Taliban. if the means giving them arms to fight with than so be it.
The tribes don't like the Taliban and consider them a foreign occupying power.
It would have nice to have more support from NATO and other allies to help out.
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