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Does the Sussman Trial Cause Any Regret at All?
From RealClearPolitics on Thursday:
Baker’s testimony was followed, on Friday, by that of Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook. Mook casually (perhaps inadvertently) dropped a bombshell. Hillary Clinton, he said, had personally approved sharing the Trump-Alfa Bank story with the press. Mook said the campaign wasn’t sure if the story was true but figured the press would look into it. Hillary agreed and approved spreading the false story.
But Mook cannot be right when he says “the campaign” didn’t know if the Alfa Bank story was true. Mook may not have known, but others in the campaign surely did since they were the ones who created the false story. They expended campaign funds to generate that dishonest “inference and narrative” about Trump and Alfa Bank from internet data, knowing it would fool only naïve FBI agents and reporters. Real cyber experts could – and did – disprove the “inference” almost immediately.
Without a doubt, this was the Democratic Party using the levers of government to go after its opponents. For every person on the right who complained loud and long about the threat to the Republic by Trump, where are those voices now?
Those of us willing to overlook mean tweets (or enjoy them, which I admit too) were able to see how this was all a setup at the time. It was painfully clear because our eyes were not clouded. We are owed apologies by the people screeching that Trump was a threat to democracy.
We won’t get it.
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And that turned out so well! Congratulations!
So no apologies for January 6th. Congratulations!
Roe is on the verge of being overturned. Everything doesn’t move left all of the time.
OMG that is one thing out of many bad ones. Every single institution except for the Supreme Court is failing from a libertarian or conservative point of view. Enabling Democrats doesn’t work. Scoop Jackson is gone and he is never coming back.
Do I need to apologize for anything? I wasn’t there, and the people who WERE there were let in by Capitol Police et al.
Also, January 6th happened AFTER – and very likely BECAUSE OF – what is increasingly known to be a bogus election. Unless you can somehow prove that it would have happened anyway even if Trump had won re-election, that’s bogus too.
Or I should say, unless you can prove that it would have happened the same way, with the same people. There’s some good chance that something would have happened from the Left, if Trump had won, but we’ve seen that the Left – Antifa, BLM, etc – don’t just walk into buildings and stay inside the ropes. They don’t even just SAY “threatening” things, if that’s the worst you’ve got. The Left loots, and burns, and kills…
I remember welfare reform, a ban on assault weapons that was allowed to expire, balanced budgets. We have a conservative majority on the Supreme Court because of successive conservative victories. If you don’t want things to not always move left, you need to not start with your surrender.
I don’t buy that in aggregate this is working out.
What year are you talking about balanced budgets? If you are talking about during the NASDAQ bubble you are kidding yourself. The loft can’t make an argument about guns. Big deal.
If the economy is getting more regressive all of the time, which it is, it doesn’t matter a hell of a lot about welfare reform. Getting rid of the ACA was a slam dunk. What was the problem?
Trump had some bad civics posturing about what Pence should be doing. Trump didn’t cause the riot.
I have to disagree.
I think Trump should be vindicated. The charges against him have all been proven to be lies. The victim of false accusations should be granted vindication, otherwise you end up in a Reign of Terror. The first lair is the last to the guillotine.
Trump’s policies where as much deflationary as inflationary. While the reckless covid relief spending was a terrible policy and terribly implemented, his focus on deregulation and energy production could have reduced some of the inflationary pressures.
There would be some inflation – but in a Trump second term – it wouldn’t have been as bad.
This is well said. We are decades past the point when you can control spending. The asset bubble needs to be kept intact or that party loses power. You need to do other libertarian things particularly with fossil fuel. My God this is terrible.
Spaceman is a lot better at this than Gary but everything is like Lois Lerner and the IRS. Look at what Durham has found it and he hasn’t even finished yet.
With respect to the Russia stuff, yes, but there was a LOT more to his presidency than that. His fiscal policy was worse than even Obama’s which is feeding our current inflation.
Maybe it seems like that if you’re only looking at one side. But if you’re allowing a naturally-booming economy and energy production etc, spending isn’t as big of a deal as it is if you’re clamping down on the economy and clamping down on energy production etc, while spending even more. aka, Biden et al.
ohhh! the mean tweets … stop the meany! As if Biden or Obama is any kinder…
IF Romney had the tiniest fraction of New York street fighter of Trump – he would have been president. This is another case of Repressive Tolerance. Any false vindictive vulgar attack a leftist makes is just fine – any right wing response is beyond the pale of polite society… This is not just a double standard this a rhetorical tactic.
Ding Dong the witch is dead!
To be more specific, law enforcement, the intelligence agencies, and the DOJ shouldn’t frame a president, and would deserve jail time. (The NYT or NT Post are legally allowed.)
I was going to recopy it myself, but I see you just did. Oops. I did it anyway.
There’s another reason. Bribery is built in now, with committee seats for sale by the party leadership, and the only way to pay for them is through scamming businesses and interest groups for fungible campaign donations.
But Reagan is still a viable force. (Don’t forget that.)
Exactly.
So…SO correct. I haven’t been introduced to this idiom- Repressive Tolerance. Greatness.
Expected politeness is so easily manipulated. Politeness is not a first order virtue… truth and courage are.
Its not an Idiom. Repressive Tolerance is from Herbert Mancuse, published in the 1965 book “A Critique of Pure Tolerance”… Its a legitimate communications strategy of the democrat party – and has been for decades…
You can either vote for Republicans, who give large budget increases to abusive federal agencies, or you can vote for Democrats, who give very large budget increases to abusive federal agencies.
No all bubbles pop at some point anyway, its better to control the unwinding of assets so that it doesnt destroy the world. (I know probably too late for that too)
But Biden made the inflation much worse by radically expanding the money supply – by 6 trillion dollars in the past 2 years – while at the same time restricting production, distribution of goods… He designed this inflationary economy.
The Nasdaq, S&P 500 and the Dow are way higher today and we don’t have a balanced budget. Somebody is kidding themself. It ain’t me.
Biden tried to increase spending by that much. He came up short. He still spent too much but not as much as you claim. The president doesn’t expand the money supply. The Fed does.
Again, I ask, as I do more and more often: Incompetence and coincidence? Or malice.
Marcuse, Habermas, Fromm…Frankfurt School…Marxist Critical Theories. Evil geniuses.
How do we wake up the masses that have bought into this ‘regressive tolerance’ without sending the population into rightwing fascism (according to Frankfurt School) ? That is their trump card, no pun intended. The fear of Nazism was the origins of this school of critical theory.
Are we really facing a national, violent rightwing movement if our culture rejects such hateful critical theory?
Seems more likely to me that the hateful critical theory etc causes any violent right-wing movement that might come, as a backlash.
In other words, you’re not especially fond of the conservative base, and don’t believe the Democrats (who had just spent a year promoting a terroristic hate movement that was burning down cities and killing people) are all that bad.
It seems like your vote was only ‘gettable’ at too high a price, if the events of 2020 alone were not enough for you-its better to recruit people who are mugged by reality than people who see reality*, but don’t care.
*An assumption based on your participation on conservative platforms.