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Did I Fire Six Presidents Or Only Five?
Scott Adams jumps several steps ahead of the Screaming Media Harpies and draws the logical lesson and conclusion by re-framing this hair on fire moment into a hypothetical question for everyone watching the spectacle from home:
If you can sit passively while watching the Opposition Media turn “hope” into “asked Comey to end the investigation,” you are part of the slow assassination of President Trump. And you are also part of the slow assassination of the next president, and the next. If Trump goes down from leaks, Mutually Assured Destruction kicks in automatically.
On the plus side, the public has the power and the moral authority to strip the Opposition Media of its power and take control of the government via the weight of public opinion. But that probably won’t happen because of our old friend confirmation bias. Confirmation bias makes the innocent word “hope” look like “Asked him to end the investigation.” Trump’s critics will see it that way. And if they do, your next president might be Elizabeth Warren.
She should last about two years.
Please pass the breath mints. I’m sure they’re not tainted.
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Good grief, has the Robert Spencer story been on the news at all? I haven’t watched all day because it’s too infuriating.
…of Jihad Watch?…What’s happening?
I have to admit, Adams has been pretty good at predicting. At least up until now. His forecast was Trump going from Hitler to incompetent and it seems we’ve skipped ahead to crook.
I’m not much for conspiracies, but it’s starting to look like a community of interests between corrupt bureaucrats, Democrats, conservative smart guys and Never Trump Republicans. Not that Trump isn’t helping out.
Mark Steyn and PJ Media are the only places I’ve seen it.
Do you feel lucky? Well, do you, punk?
Thank you, Sir Percy, for an answer to my query, above.
Took me a few minutes to track down the second reference, Nanda. I didn’t see your request, but I figured someone would ask. :)
It was on Powerline first thing this morning.
That’s horrible. Wow.
Well, well. Multiculturalists literally poisoning their critics.
I’m not at all sure about what Adams says about us evolving into a Twitter democracy.
Boy is he ever right about the confirmation bias.
Would leaks kill a Dem. President the way the Dems. want leaks to kill Trump? I dunno. Aren’t the leakers all Democrats?
Except when it doesn’t. There just is not a real opposing side of the beltway when one of the Ruling Party is in the White House. The Iron Heel patrols a one way street.
Which bring to mind this exchange from Mr. London back in the days of Theodore Rex:
I will leave it to you to go find the (not so hard to imagine) response to that. Nevertheless, here we are, treading dutifully through the first hundred-plus days of the world necessitated by just that struggle.***
*** With, of course, minor changes to the players and organizations to fit the modern times.
Mollie Hemingway today on Twitter – “You learn everything about people by where they choose to aim their fire.”
Beautifully stated. And true. And depressing.
My whole life I’ve seen “us and them” horizontally – right and left. Not anymore. Reading the tweets of @claire and Max Booth and others – people I’ve read with enthusiasm over the years – convinces me it’s now more vertical.
These are people who are trying to undo the will of the people. And where they are choosing to aim their fire proves they have never had much respect for those same people, regardless of their claims.
And they can all go to hell. This is a great country, full of great people. Who did their best with the choices they had. Scott Adams is right: we are watching a slow motion assassination of President Trump. I am beyond disgusted.
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The end goal of this hysteria is Hairmageddon.
Exactly so. The Republicans will hold their fire, as they’ve done in the past, “for the good of the country.” It’s a cinch the media will hide, cover up, and spin in defense of a Democrat, as they have in the past “for the good of the liberal agenda.”
So well said. And you cannot get through to the people who are supposedly on “our side,” if we even still have one, any more than you can get through to a brainwashed millennial SJW. If I hear one more of these turncoats say, “I can’t voice an opinion?” or “My principles blah blah” I will scream.
You just described the swamp.
I’ll just leave this breaking news here ( Trump Told Russians That Firing ‘Nut Job’ Comey Eased Pressure From Investigation ):
Of course, “fake news”, no doubt…….
Both claire and Max Boot are [redacted].
Two things Trump is guilty of are the imprecise use of language and braggadocio. I read The NY Times story, and I interpret it as Trump telling the Russians that “I have finally got that pain in the ass who was pursuing a ridiculously false story out of the way, and now you owe me”. I don’t read it that he thought Comey was onto something and therefore needed to be fired. The story does allude to Trump wanting to use this as a negotiating tactic.
“This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.”
“I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir….”
according to a document summarizing the meeting.
Hmmm. A document summarizing the meeting. Would that be a transcript? Was it written in Times New Roman? I wish they would add in a few David Mamet dramatic flourishes such as:
“Off stage, Caligula’s horse feels his oats.”
I really can’t take that hot mike episode seriously unless you can produce a written document summarizing their discussion. Live dialogue is so 2016.
I read it as exactly what is says, “I just fired the head of the FBI….I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off”.
Whether or not Comey was onto something or whether Trump might think an investigation was the pursuit of a “ridiculously false story” has nothing to do with it. This is a statement that says, “I faced great pressure” from an ongoing investigation being conducted by the FBI, and now, “That’s taken off”, because, “I just fired the head of the FBI”.
Look at all the real scandals under Obama. IRS. Fast and Furious. VA. Bengazhi. Hillarys Server.
does that answer your question?
If the GOP had an ounce of brains they would take this and use it. Want a Special Prosecutor? Fine. Lets get one to look into the topic of “Foreign influence in recent Presidential elections”. Obama had illegal overseas money and votes in both elections. Hillary has the Clinton foundation and the Play for Pay scandals at State.
Or if there is a serious leak in a Democratic administration the MSM would suddenly be all up in a tizzy about the national security problems of the leaks. Some of this is blowing up in their faces – a friend of mine – a hardcore NeverTrumper – to the extent that I’ve been somewhat tuning him out – yesterday sent a post saying basically “you were right.” Former military, he is incensed at the media for the story about Trump sharing intel with the Russians. As he put it – He’s the {COC} national command authority, he gets the ultimate say on whether anything is declassified. Maybe the Russians would have leaked the info to ISIS, though it seems unlikely. But the {COC}{COC}{COC}{COC} leakers committed treason in leaking this information to the press, which told ISIS about it immediately. THAT’s the crime. But because they are shooting at Trump, the MSM are mum.
How do you tell the difference between a MSM journalist and a hooker? A hooker has moral standards.
Asked and answered.
Oh, fer heaven’s sake. It’s as if Comey’s record of malpractice and the Rosenstein memo never existed!
Mollie’s right. I’m not looking for Republican shills. I’d just like the Right to honor a cease-(friendly)-fire.