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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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I can’t wait for $2,000 tax credits for abortions. I’m a guy, but for 2,000 bucks I might consider getting an abortion a few times a year.
Oh, for a one-page tax law.
I expect they would want to see your receipts.
But it is however discriminatory against trans women. Just because they can’t get pregnant doesn’t mean they should lose out on a program for women.
I’m sure if they get an abortion, and have a receipt, they can get the tax credit.
No deductions.
No deductions for a one-page tax law, of course. I meant receipts for the previous “I’m a guy, but for 2,000 bucks I might consider getting an abortion a few times a year.”
The Commie Democrats and the Corrupt Bureaucrats can get away with literally murder and definitely High Treason because they will always be protected by corrupt Corporatist GOPe Never Trumpers. The Corporatist GOPe is the key “swing vote” faction in government that always, when the chips are down. votes or “swings” to protect the Commie Democrats and their Bureaucratic fellow travelers.
That is why Congress will never investigate all this malfeasance and that is why our nation is so divided and so at risk, unless hardcore conservatives get an overwhelming majority in both houses that can overrule Cocaine Mitch and his thugs.
Literally our entire Federal Government is thoroughly, utterly and ridiculously corrupt, but the GOPe will not lift, of their own volition, a finger to rid our nation of that corruption.
“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.”
This comment epitomizes the cluelessness of the Left. The Nasdaq, S&P 500 and the Dow have been pushed higher to a point just before the recent downturn 4 times that of 2008/9 with a P/E ratio substantially above that of the 20th century average without a corresponding rise in the real GDP largely due largely to the machinations of the FED and other federal agencies. These machinations engineered the greatest multi-trillion dollar wealth transfer theft from the lower, middle and upper classes to the Financial Elite and the 1% in the history of our nation, perhaps the world. That grossly illegal Multi-Trillion Wealth transfer generates the flow of huge bribes all across all the Federal Agencies and Congress that is leading us to a total destruction of our Constitutional Republic.
One could argue it started with the “Greenspan Put”, but the Gramm-Leach-Billey Act of 1999, which repealed Glass Steagall Act, essentially opened a huge financial Pandoras’ Box of Corruption which led directly to the Financial Panic of 2008, only to lead to the greater theft and folly of Helicopter Ben’s QE Trillion Dollar giveaway to the Big Banks starting in 2009 which firmly ensconced financial corruption as a part of regular government business. Big Corporatist Business became beneficiary of thousands of favors while Small Business was given the shaft, which has led us to the utterly corrupt government we have of today and quite likely a “Great Reset” type Authoritarian government of tomorrow.
No, there would never be any receipts.
In that case, I had 5 abortions THIS MONTH. Where’s my $10,000?
Very well put. Especially the bolded part.
My goodness! Feel free to not go to the Dispatch and the Bulwark, but how do you propose to “destroy” them?
For the record, I am glad that Sussman is being prosecuted.
Do I regret buying into Russian Collusion. No. Regret is the wrong verb. When I read Barr’s book, I was convinced that I was wrong and I promptly admitted my mistake. I did what I did because I believed it, and when I received further information I changed my mind. Calling me names didn’t change my mind, heck it made me dig in. But a detailed treatment by Barr changed my mind.
You lost me at the word bogus. I believe that the world is round, that 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust, that we walked on the moon, that W won in 2000 and 2004, that W did not know of 9/11 in advance, that Trump won in 2016, Biden won in 2020 and that Santa Claus is not real. I think that most Americans agree with me on these 9 points. I hope you will join us.
Trump has been vindicated on the Russian Conspiracy, but he has not been vindicated on either impeachment, the Big Lie, and January 6th.
After DeSantis is elected in 2024 I hope we can move on from Trump.
Your first mistake was apparently believing that what you received before, was actually information, not just self-serving propaganda. A whole lot of people realized they were being lied to, but not you.
I am so happy for you. I hope you will post about him. I really admire and respect your love for your children. (is he the Eagle Scout?)
As with the Russian Conspiracy, “vindication” is not required, because they were propaganda/lies to start with. That you fell for them and continue to believe most of them, is nobody’s fault but yours.
Just for the 2020 presidential election. Please, please, please don’t nominate Trump again.
Because we’ll force you to do something stupid, again? Yeah, sure, it’s OUR fault.
I made the right decision at the time in November 2020. This decision was vindicated by the Trump Big Lie and January 6th. On the other hand, Biden has spent money like a drunken sailor, and cut and run in Afghanistan. On the second other hand, Biden has done a good job in Ukraine.
Indeed. The US economy is dependent on the stock market to stimulate consumer spending and generate taxes and cover pension funds. California is even more dependent on funding their largess through stock inflation.
You THINK you made the right decision at the time, because you believed the lies that other people recognized for what they were. You have since repented from one of the lies (or groups of lies, depending on how you see them) but continue to cling to the others. At least for now.
Maybe if you ever get around to recognizing the other lies for what they were, you’ll eventually realize that you DIDN’T make the right decision at the time, since it was based on lies. But I have a suspicion that you’ll either not allow yourself to come to realization about all the other lies – maybe just clinging to one would allow you to justify your mistake – or even if you do, you’ll maintain that your mistake was actually correct because it somehow wasn’t a mistake to be taken in by the lies.
“Live not by lies,” eh? Attorney, heal thyself.
If that’s how you identify your body, that’s probably going to be the law.
I’m going to write in Trump’s name and Gary’s for VP. Let me see him assist Trump with his policies saving the country. Then Gary will be a legitimate hero.
What’s this “We”? You are the one that cannot even regret falling for this tripe.
Sorry, Sir, I am not going to move on from your betrayal of the man who you choose for your avatar and what he stood for. You voted for Joe Biden.
Yes. Without the Russia Conspiracy the impeachments are empty.
Whats the Big Lie? Was that the democrat theory that a presidential candidate used foreign intelligence assets to manipulate an election? There was. The democrats always accuse others of what they have done.
Jan 6? Who cares? There are a dozen cities who have suffered a dozen riots far more damaging and deadly than Jan 6. Trump did everything he could to avoid trouble. Democrats declined.
Yeah. I honestly don’t know what the “Big Lie” actually is. The election was rigged, and it was not ok, and illegally cast or counted votes were well past the Biden margin of victory in GA, WI, PA, NV, and AZ. What precisely is the lie?
Remind yourself to vote.
I see #118 is getting a lot of likes. I really like the way Greg Jarrett does business. He writes very good monologues. I think it makes whatever else he chooses to do even better. Really clear.
How? Real answers, please, not MSNBC boilerplate.
Congratulations, you’re functionally a Democrat.