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An Honest Accounting: Anti-Trumpism and the Violence Done to the American Traditions of Free and Fair Elections and the Peaceful Transfer of Power
“The most favorable posthumous history the stay-at-home traitor can hope for is — oblivion.” –- The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, p. 43
Understanding the Anti-Trump movement here to mean specifically those active beyond the legitimate election and oversight processes in both 2016 and 2020 (and all points in between) in attempts to keep Mr. Trump from holding and executing the office per the wishes of We the People, there is an applicable adaptation to the above quote for those who conspired against the very essence of this experiment in republican governance. We must not let these traitors off the hook with the oblivion (or historical anonymity) they desire.
Let me back up for a moment and state, based on my clear and obvious agenda here at the Lower Member Feed, two clear facts:
Fact 1: The actions of the fully corrupt merger of the Obama administration, the Clinton campaign, and the DNC throughout the last half of 2016 did more violence to the American tradition of the peaceful transfer of power as derived from the will of the people than a thousand January 6 “riots” ever could have.
Fact 2: The actions of many non-elected current and former government employees coordinated through a willfully compliant media apparatus to knowingly plant lies and mislead the voters as well as the intentional bastardization of state-run election organizations and processes by outside leftist money and influence did more to undermine the legitimacy of all future Presidential elections and administrations than a million mean tweets over 4 or 8 years ever could have.
The hysterics and empty twaddle of breaking news and cable media roundtable discussions notwithstanding, the exhausting daily barrage of fake news over a mere 2000 days of this country’s history does nothing to offset the undeniable facts above. (Argue with that term – “fake news” – all you want but at this point it just makes you look silly.) Honest history, some of which has been written since early 2021, should not let the actors fade into oblivion.
I go down this path today not because of unremarkable things appearing in the news like this:
Turley: “Clinton personally approved the plan to spread the false Alfa bank story. It was one of the most successful disinformation campaigns in American politics, and Mook implicated Clinton as green-lighting the gas-lighting of the electorate.”
For those not habitually and stubbornly marinating their minds in MSNBC drivel, nothing could be less shocking. But I do want to draw your attention to this brief passage at the same link:
…Hillary approved the plan to smear Donald Trump with the Russia collusion hoax on July 26, 2016. (The Fusion GPS/Christopher Steele “dossier” fabrication was under way by this time.) Her action was immediately picked up by Russian intelligence. At almost the same time, U.S. intelligence, spying on the Russians, got the story. On July 28, just two days after Hillary allegedly green-lighted the smear, Barack Obama, James Comey, Susan Rice and Denis McDonough assembled to be briefed by John Brennan on the situation.
Every word of that was known long ago. The main point here is that the Oval Office knew. They knew from the start and they did nothing about it. If you don’t read that as the Executive Branch of our government was supportive of and/or complicit in the enterprise then you just aren’t paying attention. Worse, as Trump found out not soon after the election, the same Executive Branch was (and had been) spying on him and his team for quite some time.
Add to that the fact that the Legislative Branch under the active control of the fully corrupt Nancy Pelosi had openly declared war on Trump with impeachment threats and plans even before his taking of the oath of office AND that the progressive allies on the street executed a “mostly peaceful” insurrection riot demonstration on the streets of DC the day after his inauguration and before he had done anything in his official capacity…certainly much less damage to the country or anyone in it than Biden did in his first nine hours in office…but don’t get me started. None of this, you should notice, represents a party that is interested in free and fair elections and the smooth, peaceful transfer of power…clearly, at least one of the two parties no longer has the intention of participating in good faith in this experiment. If they ever did. (For the record, everyone associated with and/or carrying water for the current charade that is the Jan 6 Committee — and pretending that it is some kind of noble effort against the historically factual backdrop described here — deserves to be included by name in the recorded accounting of the times.)
Also note that sentence almost hidden in the middle of the quote above: “Her action was immediately picked up by Russian intelligence.” There can be little doubt that Hillary’s unapproved and unprotected communications were a well-known conduit to America’s business by the Russians and probably everybody else around the world…including our own intelligence agencies. This had been an open conduit since at least 2009. That it was not closed by Obama and the agencies under his direction is telling. But, if you have been paying attention, certainly not surprising. But I digress.
More from this week that was...with a little creativity we could make a deck of cards (similar to the terrorist list used during the “war” by GWB) out of these traitors to the American cause:
Justice coming for the ‘Dirty 51’ Hunter Biden laptop liars
One of the most galling aspects of the Hunter Biden laptop saga is that the 51 former intelligence officials who played such a critical role in suppressing The Post’s stories and giving Joe Biden cover before the 2020 election have never been brought to account.
The “Dirty 51” lied by painting our stories as Russian disinformation in an Oct. 19, 2020, letter they signed and delivered to Politico five days after The Post exposé and three days before the final presidential debate of the election campaign.
They used the institutional weight of their powerful former roles to legitimize partisan political propaganda designed to smear The Post and everyone associated with the story and dissuade the rest of the media from looking deeper into the laptop.
The letter, titled “Public Statement on the Hunter Biden emails,” and signed by former CIA Directors John Brennan, Leon Panetta and Mike Hayden, former acting CIA Director Michael Morell, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and other ex-spooks, claimed the material on Hunter’s hard drive “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,” although not one of them had seen it.
Their lie “probably affected the outcome” of the 2020 presidential race, as former Attorney General William Barr has said, describing the letter as “partisan hackery,” “baseless” and signed by “a coterie of retired intelligence officials who had lost their professional bearings.”
[Emphasis added]
Even more:
“Over a year after the election, it is conceded that the laptop and its contents are authentic, and the judgement espoused by these 51 former intelligence officials is baseless and false. Yet, the implications of this breach continue. Media outlets used this purportedly credible intelligence assessment as a justification to not report on the story. Some polls show that up to 17% of people who voted for President Biden would not have if they knew about the contents of the laptop at the time.” …
Barr, who was AG at the time, recently told Fox News he was “very disturbed during the debate when candidate Biden lied to the American people about the laptop. He’s squarely confronted with the laptop, and he suggested that it was Russian disinformation and pointed to the letter written by some intelligence people that was baseless — which he knew was a lie …
“When you’re talking about interference in an election, I can’t think of anything more than that kind of thing.”
Again, we see here that at least one of our two political parties of record (and its operatives in and out of government…and on unknown payrolls) is clearly not interested in free and fair elections. The great silence from the watchdog class is deafening. But the greater disappointment to me is the comfortable silence of the masses that I see in my little corner of the world. So many were worn to exhaustion by the 24/7 frenzy of the Democrat-Media temper tantrum over Trump for four long years. They all just want peace and quiet from the TV and don’t seem to even notice the full collapse and complete corruption of the American experiment going on all around them.
Enough for one day. Sorry for rambling on so long.
Into the abyss…
Published in General
I should highlight that last part too: “that led to the crippling Mueller investigation.” This political ploy…this LIE… was crippling from almost the first day of transition. It shaped the cabinet, it delayed the sitting of the cabinet, it certainly hobbled our chosen president for months as the hysteria orgasmically peaked that “he will by gone by Friday” almost every week. Liz babbles her delusional BS about Trump attempting to stop “the peaceful transition of power” with periodic “leaks” of fake evidence but in very REAL terms, We the People were robbed of a peaceful transition of power and a year and a half of our chosen President. It was all petty politics and Clinton vanity. It worked.
Don’t think that this playbook will not be the norm going forward.
[Emphasis added]
This is from a post four years ago, but I want to document in this comment section the corrupt ties noted above :
Have you ever read Mueller’s report on that scandal? Did your local stool pigeon post multiple summaries of it? I didn’t think so.
Did anyone in Liz’s camp say anything about this? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? McCain? Feingold? Bueller?
It will be the playbook only when someone is not “uni-party” approved. Yes, there are always some cabinet nominees that run into trouble, but Biden pretty much got his cast of progressives with only selective push back.
What an awful bunch they are. There must be something Republicans could do to get rid of them. Granholm, Haaland, Mayorkas, and Garland should have been fired long ago. But there are so many more who need to be thrown out the door.
Starting with Biden.
Enter NEWT channeling his inner philo (H/T):
These are the new rules. That other half of the two party game has signaled loud and clear that they are no longer participating in the voluntary compact in good faith. From the minute any future Republican announces a candidacy for president, the whole team should know that the entirety of the DC system is actively working to prevent election and preparing to battle (i.e. ruin lives, families, careers of even innocent pawns in their vicious, dishonest game) against the administration starting the instant a victory is recognized.
While others may be willing and able, a second Trump term would sure be fun to watch.
More Turley:
That last sentence would shame a respectable journalist in our national media…if only there was one.
If anyone knows how badly the FBI and “intelligence” apparatus needs dismantled, and the Justice Department needs reformed, and the Tech Lords need to be put in their place, it’s Donald Trump. Reason enough to vote for him.
So, . . . “lock her up”?
Anything less is a grave injustice to the nation and proof that we are, indeed, little more than a banana republic.
If sailors are going to be locked up for taking “selfies” in the engine room of the submarine they serve on, then Hillary for sure – and perhaps both Clintons – deserve nothing less.
If this monster of all times is not held accountable to some extent many citizens will just give up on the Great American Experiment and I may be in that number. No system of government can survive which deliberately creates two entirely separate and distinct classes under law, which is clearly what we have now. No judicial system can-or should- survive with a truly sordid court in its system such as the District Court in DC, or the blatantly corrupt FISA Court. Both are a disgrace to the Rule of Law.
From your lips to God’s ear.
I’m wary of appearing vindictive or vengeful, but when it comes to this, the greatest political scandal ever visited on the United States of America, I think prison time is warranted. I could even be convinced that execution is the way to go. It is necessary for healing.
And as a warning.
For the record, I’ll go even further: If you are Republican governor (or any statewide office holder) you should now be operating under the assumption that the Federal agencies have your office bugged and are monitoring all of your communications (work and personal). That goes for your staff too. You should also assume that they have planted evidence of criminal activity on your electronic devices for potential later use.
All of the above also applies if you are a judge appointed by a Republican president or in any position appointed by an elected Republican office holder. (SPECIAL NOTE TO REPUBLICANS IN THE US HOUSE AND SENATE: They also know about and are reading everything in your “special” non-government email accounts under some clever name that you use for business that you don’t want to be on government records. Yes, all of them.)
That is where we are now. There is no going back.
Are these really “Professional” agencies? Yeah, I know, the question kinda answers itself:
[Emphasis added]
The all important exit-question: “It is a disgusting story, which inevitably raises the question: can the FBI be salvaged?”
Trust the process (No, not really):
If there was ever a need to appeal an acquittal…
a vital element of a society that lives by self-governance and rule of law is process. People are easily corrupted or mistaken. The various processes of government and justice are established so that there is a consistency within each that can be counted on, trusted regardless of its imperfections since they can be evaluated and adjusted in the public forum. But that trust is essential.
The processes of both government and justice have been corrupted, piece by piece, inch by inch and now mile by mile to the point that trust is no longer possible by the reasonable.
These processes were never perfect, were never going to be, but could be moved more toward perfection thru their purpose within the constitutional framework. Now their purpose seemingly has been lost, or at least shoved to the back corner, and they operate more for central power than the protection of that constant advance toward Liberty for all.
Because the agencies themselves have too much power (seemingly unanswerable power), many of the people in them can abuse.
The destruction of an answerable process has destroyed reasonable trust in both justice and election systems. Both have to fixed if we are to self-govern instead of be governed.
I’m alluding to this Steyn quote twice now within 15 minutes. The process is the punishment.