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Did the Police-State Dems Finally Jump the Shark with Their ridiculous Trump Raid?
With their unconscionable raid on Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago, the Totalitarian Police-State Democrats have put front and center the question “Do we want America to be a Police State?” It is now the number one issue for the upcoming midterm elections and perhaps for every election from here on out; that is, if we are still allowed free elections.
Forget about Roe v. Wade. Forget that there may be many an empty shelf come November with huge job losses and gut-wrenching high inflation. None of that matters when you live under a dictatorship, and the Democrats with their Mar-a-Lago raid have made it very clear they want to turn America into a dictatorship.
Every Democrat now will have to answer for this raid and answer the question, “are you trying to install a dictatorship here in America,” and variants like, “are you trying to enslave me in your Police State?”
There will be no hiding from these questions. That is what this raid did. It left no doubt what the intentions are for the Democrats. This raid literally proved David Horowitz’s quote, “Inside every Progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out.”
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The beauty of having a lame duck president like Biden is that they can blame all this on him at some point…
Question for Peter Ducey to ask at the next White House briefing: Who is carrying out the duties of the President? You have told us that Joe Biden is not doing them. Who is our functional President?
One can hope.
I remember Obama making several claims that he first heard about something big by reading in the news. I didn’t buy it then and don’t buy it now.
Sure, Biden may have been kept out of the loop, but the White House wasn’t.
I think it quite possible they told him that it was going down, but he forgot about it 15 seconds later.
I can’t help thinking it’s August. Washington is empty because everyone is on the Vineyard or Nantucket.
Last August was Afghanistan.
I think they leave Biden alone, and crazy stuff happens. He is playing out his fantasies.
I got into an argument a while back with a Ricochet PTB where I asserted that our institutions are corrupt. He responded that they are sound. Too many in the Republican establishment are asleep at the switch.
Biden himself frequently prefaces a sentence at a press event with “They told me to [do such-and-such].”
So the Klain Gang may be the contact. But Garland seems so arrogant and smarmy that I could easily imagine him saying “Nah, there’s no reason to put the White House in the loop. They could easily do something to muck it up.”
I don’t have much use for Mitch McConnell, but the fact remains that if it wasn’t for him, the despicable Merrick Garland would be on the Supreme Court.
I think I’m asking a slightly different question.
It’s not about what actually happened. It’s about reading the spin.
Whomever the Authorizer might have been, one of the decisions he or she had to make was how the event would be spun once it hit the virtual front pages. Of course, they could just assume they’d be telling the truth, like always…
…pause for hysterical laughter….
Anyone with any swamp sense would have a number of half-truths, demi-truths, semi-lies and outright fabrications, but these would fall into two rough categories—“Responsible” and “Not Responsible.” The decision about which to go with would be postponed, preserving flexibility, pending reaction from the American people.
If they’d found something dramatically incriminating, they’d choose Door Number One. That is, if the gold-plated safe had opened to reveal an atomic bomb, or better still, a cocktail napkin on which has been scrawled “Jan. 5 2021: Tell Melania to Ask The Guy With The Horned Hat To Lead Insurrection” then Dr. Jill would’ve fetched her husband from the day room, helped him into his special President blazer, and parked him in front of the teleprompter to say he’d Saved America.
The fact that they are, instead, choosing Door Number Two (“we hadn’t the foggiest!”) means the FBI found nothing helpful to their cause, and they are now trying to rescue Biden (or “Biden”) from the gimlet glare of historians who will wonder why 235 years of peaceful-transition-preserving precedent had been overturned for no particular reason.
Not asleep at the switch – unwilling to stand up and risk being thrown out of a club; risk a well paying gig; risk being mocked or made fun of; being attacked; risk lookin/feeling foolish; risk being afraid. Just afraid. Pick your monkey: hear, see or say no Evil. They are afraid monkeys.
And here’s another good one from Newsweek this morning.
The Next President Must Prioritize Destroying the Deep State
This all makes sense. One aspect that might play in is that I truly, honestly think the White House is in near-complete disarray from the standpoint of coordinating messaging and planning PR strategies. They have shown over and over again that they have no idea how to play the game. And I think the biggest explanation for this is that the guy who is supposed to be in charge (Biden) is not actually in charge. My guess is that he is only marginally able to process and decide matters, which leaves too much uncertainty within the White House of where to go with things.
But in summary, you are almost certainly correct–that if there were a bombshell discovery from the search, we would have learned about it by now.
Nearly everyone who advocates against another Trump presidential campaign claims that Trump has too much “baggage.”
The Republican Party establishment is baggage.
That’s not true. Any GOP leader would have done that. Hillary and the Dems wanted the delay, because she wanted to name the next Justice. In sports, they measure the value of a player in terms of “wins against replacement”. That is, how much value does a player add over a typical player. McConnell’s WAR is negative.
Given that logic, does that mean Obama gave the approval or knowledge of the Steele Dossier and the garbage FISA warrants in 2016?
I don’t think “that logic” is necessary to prove that Obama was aware of, and approved of, the entire Russia collusion hoax.
It’s a matter of public record that John Brennan briefed President Barack Obama on the Hillary Clinton campaign’s plan to allege a connection between Trump and Russia. Obama was on board the entire time.
See my above post. The Police State of America has been in place since at least 2016. Top to bottom.