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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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He didn’t say he was one of those who voted for Democrats, did he?
I can understand the difficulties in voting for Trump. I overcame them and voted for him, but some people have trouble doing that.
What I can’t understand is the people who had valid enough reasons not to vote for Trump, but who then did a 180-degree turnabout and voted for Biden. It was as if those reasons suddenly no longer mattered.
And/or who think Trump’s “assault on Norms” were somehow worse than Biden’s.
He also said that his reasons for not voting was largely because Trump ‘obsessively’ catered to the conservative base, and not merely due to an intense dislike of Trump himself-that’s another matter entirely.
“obsessively catered” seems rather odd. Nobody wins without their base, of course. What exactly is “obsessively catering” anyway? Actually being anti-abortion? Do we really need – or want – pro-abortion “conservatives?” “Obsessively catered” sounds a bit like GOPe talk, “Well sure we are okay with abortion and we want to take away everyone’s means of self-defense, but we’ll do it slower than the Dims so VOTE FOR US!”
I’m a simple guy, so I just need to know this: WTF is wrong with the ideals and goals of the “conservative base”?
Another good way of putting it, yes.
Except he wasn’t and the idea he was is a lie.
So basically, it always comes back too “But Trump” Got it
In my opinion this was all over by 2004 at the latest. Probably 10 years earlier.
Government expenditure is out running the capitol gains generated by fed easy money.
You need to be more specific if you are going to disagree with me.
Oh please. They work together to get past the next election.
It’s a real genius system. You keep indiscriminately debasing debt and stuffing the economy with debt regardless of if it’s productive. Then everything collapses. This stupidity is called inflationism and there are actually nominal Republicans that think this is a good idea. If you wonder why everything moves left all of the time and you are freaked out about populism, this is a lot of it.
All of that should have been overhauled the second the Soviet Union fell. Instead we did everything wrong with that and with respect to automation and globalized trade. Nobody did anything about the unfunded liabilities. Then they whine about Reagan and spending.
Remind yourself to vote.
Brutal truth.
No. Body. Cares.
We’re Living in the Age of Capital Consumption
Ronald-Peter Stöferle https://mises.org/wire/were-living-age-capital-consumption
Two months and I decided that the Russia stuff was bogus.
Trump knows he’s an international criminal and he’s going to run for POTUS. Sure.
Trump decides to become an international criminal even though the IRS is giving him a continuous colonoscopy for that $1 billion deduction he took. Sure.
I get that the Bidens did that… But they are Democrats.
My son graduated High School Yesterday. I am far more moved than I thought I would be.
I expected it of the Democrats.
It is the people on our “side” who turned out to be on their “side”
I waited for the evidence.
And waited.
And waited.
That maybe a bit early. The fix was not fixed after the 2008 financial crisis, the lack of resolution to that crisis will lay the groundwork for the next crisis – just like every other financial crisis has led to the next since the Long Term Capital Management bankruptcy in the 90s.
Long Term Capital Management should have been the clear warning to the real world that economists are dumber than diplomats… There you had a group of Nobel winning economists running a hedge fund, and it went swimmingly for a while – until their model broke, and rather than re-examine the data and modify the model, they doubled down on the broken model and nearly bankrupted wall street.
We’ve had a financial crisis every few years since – each an order of magnitude larger than the last. Bankers have learned they can pocket the profits and socialize the losses. With the losses being taken up by the taxpayer, either through federal spending with bailout packages rushed through congress (like TARP) or inflated away by the federal reserve. So bankers have had the risk tolerance dialed up to 11 (a Spinal Tap reference – the actual risk tolerance, is much greater than that). After all they can pocket the returns from highly leveraged investments – but when things hit the fan – they’ll ‘retire’ to a friendly beach somewhere and live out their lives in splendid luxury.
We aren’t disagreeing very much.
You can’t expect conservatism to work very well if the country isn’t using intelligent policy to deal with the deflation from automation and trade that happened after the Soviet Union fell. Everybody wants better prices except everybody wants the Fed to inflate the value of their house. etc. This is madness. Then they whine about Reagan and spending.
You could argue that started in 1987. It definitely started under LTCM.
Progress is prices going down constantly.
If you want to make it complicated, somethings go up because they are getting way better than they were before.
Everybody knows what we are really doing.
Too soon to tell. In 5 years, when all the big companies will pay a bonus to any employee that gets an abortion and Hawaii becomes renowned for abortion tourism and Amazon will deliver a home abortion kit the same day, it will feel like a leftward move.
No. We’re not. Yes, the 1987 financial crisis began the Greenspan Punt and the rumored “Plunge Protection Team” … but with LTCM they did it in broad daylight in the full sight of the public. Perhaps the invention of cable news and the 24 hour news cycle in the 90s made it seem impossible to keep financial moves of this magnitude secret.
Thats why I point to LTCM instead of Black Monday – a lot of the stuff around Black Monday is still labelled a “Conspiracy Theory”.
There was no reason to print money on Black Monday. He should have kept his mouth shut.
Now they have a three-way mandate. Unemployment, inflation, and the stock market.
Hawaii will have to get in line. Ontario is already talking about it.
https://mises.org/ko/library/parallel-lives-liberty-or-power?fbclid=IwAR2NCY1p_wdDIqp4EkSjEwZ_E4A-ZxFpvswt5JkDXcFov_lL1GYOO2AV8aE
If I recall, I was already inoculated against it by the CIA’s action associating Flynn with being a Russian spy. And of course the internally inconsistent and clearly faked “dossier”.
Good point.