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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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The stock market increasingly has little to do with the citizen class.
You have to get it straight in your own head, with your own words, why populism and Socialism are an issue today. Voting Democrat just makes everything worse. Vote Republican and work within that.
Trump was not exactly Mr. Intellectually Curious About Civics, but it’s not worth it to vote against him for that.
But Adam Schiff had hard evidence! Incontrovertible proof!
There are some on Ricochet who still believe it.
Do Republicans with bar cards lie about the justice system even 10% as much as Democrats? It’s so screwy how they get to confuse the public with impunity like this.
Tactical nukes.
Or, how about we gin up a crime — like they did to Trump — and take them all down. Or how about we lock them up in prison for 18 months without due process like they are doing to the J6 attendees.
Let’s do to them exactly what they supported doing to President Trump and see if they cry.
And when they cry, let their cries go unheard. They are not dupes. They are co-conspirators with the Democrats.
As if on cue:
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-crusade-prove-russia-investigation-170429896.html
Absolutely mind boggling. There is no justice. The left will continue to cheat because there are no consequences.
Not just cheat. Lie, steal, and cheat.
Could it be that Barr and/or Durham actually had this result in mind, and it’s what they wanted? They probably know that “the narrative” is what matters, regardless of facts.
Trump’s presidency had little to do with conservatism.
The “price” was a willingness to acknowledge Trump’s mistakes. His fiscal policy was an absolute train wreck. His trade policy was long on bluster and short on results. His foreign policy was a triumph in the Near East but a looming calamity in Afghanistan. There was a lot I found objectionable about his presidency. I didn’t want to give my support to policies with which I disagreed especially because where I live a vote for Trump would have been purely symbolic. He wasn’t going to win Connecticut.
Yeah, I’ve always been a huge fan of dime store psychoanalysis.
By the way, neocons used to describe themselves as mugged by reality. Neocon has long been a dirty word among Trump supporters. You aren’t really interested in recruit people who were mugged by reality.
Obviously.
And now millions if not billions of people are getting mugged by the reality of President Biden. Smart.
The original claim was that the balanced budget at the end of the 90s was only due to a Nasdaq bubble. All the equities markets now are higher than they were then. If the budget only balanced then because of a Nasdaq bubble, why isn’t it balanced today? The citizen class also isn’t served by ever expanding deficits and runaway debt.
Well obviously, the budget wasnt actually balanced then.
Granted it was in better shape back then, but the budget was brought into balance by an accounting trick, that counted social security taxes as general revenue. Remember Al Gore (I know its a long shot) running around the country talking about the lock box? How he wanted key to the lock box to loot the social security fund? (he may not have said the quiet part out loud)
Yeah, blame me. That’s pathetic. It’s not enough I didn’t vote for Biden and that I’ve always had an extremely low opinion him. I was also supposed to vote for Trump in a state where such a vote was absolutely futile and despite my substantial disagreements with Trump’s policies.
I don’t expect you to try and persuade me to the “error of my ways” because persuasion isn’t part of your skill set. Not actively seeking to alienate me at every turn should be doable, though.
No, in your state you didn’t need to vote for Trump. But how about helping the states that did matter, correct for the fraud? Or at least supporting the people who were doing their best.
You are right. His 2000 budget had an $18B deficit. That’s the closest he came to a balanced budget but compared to today, all of us would take that in a heartbeat.
The SS gimmick was used to conjure up the make-believe surpluses that Clinton and the Democrats claimed. Despite those phony claims real progress was made towards fiscal sanity. It wasn’t long before it was all thrown away.
The GOP should control spending. What decade should we start? lol
Regarding trade, we did everything wrong in the face of automation and globalized trade. The Fed should have run with deflation. It’s very complicated, now.
I don’t buy boiler plate GOP solutions anymore on almost anything.
For a short time the capital gains covered tax needs while the fed was printing money. It would be nice if we could keep doing that.
The smart guys I follow say the absolute latest you could be serious about controlling spending was 2004 before they passed Medicare Part D to finish off Iraq. Forget about it. It’s never happening. The mistakes were made when we did not adjust to the deflation from automation and globalized trade.
Blah blah blah, trade and automation lowers prices, blah blah blah and then the Fed runs with asset and CPI inflation anyway. Then people bitch about populism and socialism. Forget about all of it.
Everything Moves Towards Communism All Of The Time™
Aw, my state is too Democratic for my vote to matter!
Boo hoo. Once upon a time California was too Republican for Democrat votes to matter.
What changed? Democrats didn’t throw in the towel.
Compared to what? Personally, I was a Cruz supporter from the very beginning (I think we were in single digits) who thought that Trump was a progressive conman who would ‘triangulate’ and betray the base in pursuit of national popularity, and could barely bring myself to vote for him in a purple state.
I changed my mind in light of new information and demonstrated actions-including being attentive to the base you mentioned, and that base openly and loudly calling out early mistakes, and Trump correcting himself on their behalf.
So what do you consider the conservative base, that was in your eyes not appealed to, and Trump’s base, which should not have been appealed to? And why do they seem to travel in the exact same circles?
As for spending, Trump never campaigned as a conservative on that issue, but then, with the debatable exception of Reagan, we’ve never had a full-spectrum conservative to vote for in a national election. Of course, in terms of results, if not intention, the effect of voting for either Reagan or Trump was the same; no relief on the fiscal front, but a warrior against the most salient national threat of the time in the White House.
Megyn Kelly number #332 is outstanding on Sussman.
I do not get all the people who simultaneously complain about Dubya and Medicare Part D while excusing Trump’s fiscal incontinence. Pick a freaking lane! Bush’s $500 billion deficits weren’t okay but they were orders of magnitude better than Trump’s multi-trillion dollar deficits.
Excuse? Where are you seeing that?
The train left the station both mathematically and morally decades ago. Worry about something else until after the bond market collapses.
Exactly. I’m not complaining. It’s too late.
I’m halfway through an interview with Judy Shelton, who is a hard money monetary economist. The Fed should have told the government to take a hike no later than 1995. The GOP never cared and really it’s the whole ball game. All kinds of changes should have happened after the Soviet union fell if you didn’t want the country to look like it does now, and the GOP were the only ones that could do it. They didn’t.
Yeah, really. Medicare Part D seemed to be one of the incidents that caused a large portion of conservatives to start looking at Dubya with a jaundiced eye.