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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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While I am in basic agreement with this post, as I am with Dennis Prager, who argues that the left is so serious a threat to liberty that, however flawed he is, we should support Trump; that said, as people commented on Adams’ thread, if your boss says he’d like you to work Saturday, it really is more a command than a request. However this is complicated by Comey’s May 3 statement to a Hawaiian senator that Trump did not ask him to stop the investigation.
So I am unsure what conclusion to draw until all the evidence is in.
Washington DC Live TruthCam broadcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I49jRf5cGKE
When did the left start in with ‘Saint Comey’? These are the same folks who wanted his ‘n*ts, roasting on an open fire’ only a few months ago.
The R’s don’t have the spine for this and the D’s love encouraging the long knives along with their media henchmen… “but our hands are clean”.
As Robert McReynolds has written passionately several times, this is all about POWER, heavy handed governance, control the people POWER! And what will it take to obtain REAL POWER? Well, lets riot in the street, start fires, make physical assaults de regeueur and as was just demonstrated to Robert Spencer in Reykjavik… take out your enemy.
For the ‘Never Trumpers’, you need to understand that this isn’t a governed game anymore, the Constitution isn’t the rule book you think it is, rules are adjudicated by people like the ninth circuit court and ‘wise Latinas’.
Yes Neil Gorsuch is great BUT, the last big point… the Libs don’t care, look at all the mud they slung over a great SCOTUS choice, no honor there just lust. They don’t care about the rules, they don’t care about the principles and they really don’t care about the people, they want POWER! Raw uncontested power and its beginning to look more and more like they might ‘kill’ for it both figuratively and literally.
Unfortunately, the proper Ruling Class credentials gives access to the secret password that inactivates such investigations. The last one to leak out was “no controlling legal authority.” Rest assured, while probably the only leak proof info inside the beltway today, the new codes are active.
The OP title, and your response, just made my day.
Re Robert Spencer poisoning. Mark may have hit the nail on the head: “They’re too stupid to argue. For the Islamic imperialists, debate is a largely alien concept. For the left, it’s simply too much effort.”
Oh, look. Nothing to see here folks.
Associated Press
19 MAY 2017 • 1:22AM
Jason Chaffetz announced on Thursday he will resign from Congress next month, saying a “mid-life crisis” compelled him to step away from his chairmanship of the House Oversight Committee as it is poised to launch an investigation into president Donald Trump’s firing of FBI director James Comey.
But seeing as how this is a Special Prosecutor and will blow the lid right off the Executive Branch, you’ve got to ask yourself a question. Do I feel lucky?
On a serious note, I have two comments about the Scott Adams post:
(1) He seems to be objecting to partisan hyperbole with, um, partisan hyperbole. So I’m part of the “slow assassination” of the President — which will lead to the end of the Republic, by the way — if I “can sit passively” as the Left-wing media spins its stories? What exactly am I supposed to do? I already largely disregard almost everything said by the media, and occasionally post objections.
I wish that Mr. Adams would make the point that the Left-wing media is further showing that it cannot be trusted, without trying to match them. I know, maybe you need to fight fire with fire, but perhaps an eye for an eye won’t help solve the blindness problem.
(2) Mr. Adams is proposing a different rule for Trump than the one that I, and many other conservatives, applied to Obama. Oh, he just said “I hope you can let this go.” Yeah, and will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?
I don’t mean to accuse the President of wrongdoing. I’m just pointing out that this type of suggestion, from a person in power, is not reassuring to those who already distrust the person in power.
You left out the part about “the most powerful unconstrained law enforcement officer in the world.”
I wish that Mr. Adams would make the point that the Left-wing media is further showing that it cannot be trusted,
Do you really think he’s going to say that out loud after what happened to him as a result of being seen as a Trump supporter?
“turncoats”
Oh, boy, we may be descending into the Trump/Anti-Trump civil war again.
I think that the key question regarding conservative criticism of President Trump is tone. That’s why I give such high marks to Andrew Klavan, who is able to level serious criticism while maintaining support. The alternative seems close to the idea that the President can do no wrong, or to be more accurate, the President may do wrong but one must never, never speak of it.
If you’re a serious conservative commentator and you don’t acknowledge the President’s errors, you look like a party-line hack. This President messes up all the time. He also does some really good things. We need to keep this in balance. I also think that the media hostility toward Trump is unprecedented, and we should always raise this issue, even when discussing legitimate errors (like the reported comment to Comey).
Of course,the whole Russia story is ridiculous on its face. The idea is that Putin wanted Trump to be President? Because . . . what, exactly? Trump is a Russian toady?
Right, the guy who appointed James Mattis to be SecDef is a Russian plant. The guy who gave the Tomahawk treatment to the Syrian air force is a Russian stooge. The media never seems to ask the right questions. If you were Putin, who would you want as SecDef? Mad Dog Mattis or Windsurfin’ John Kerry? If you were Putin, what kind of President would you want? The kind who draws “red lines” and then does nothing to enforce them, or the kind who won’t even tell you where the line is, but will punch you in the nose if you cross it. Or maybe even if you look like you’re thinking about crossing it.
Putin may well have dumped dirt on Clinton in advance of the election. I expect the he did. This was an attempt to weaken her position, in the expectation that she was going to win. It it influenced the election at all, it was a major error for Putin.
Back to the well with more from The Iron Heel:
The direct approach on Mr. Spencer is scary. Here at home, I would expect a more subtle tack along the lines of the above or planting stuff on the targets hard drive, etc. Destroy a few in a very messy public way to control the masses. Just another step along the path to much, much worse.
[ADD: Considering the topic at hand, I meant to include a quick “In Ford We Trust” just for you.]
She’s the gift that keeps on giving.
It never ended. There was a brief cease-fire, but it dissolved in a matter of days. Negotiations for terms of a lasting peace have stalled.
Exactly right. I am so angry and horrified that this is happening in our country. We’re now no better than those third world countries where an election is just the beginning of violence.
We were the light of the world. No more, thanks to these–I don’t know what epithet I could use here. My hatred of them knows no bounds.
And have you noticed there are a couple of TV commercials out now where the slogan is “Better Together”? I think one of them is a realty company, I forget. But when they said that at the end, it made my blood run cold.
Let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves — after all, last I checked Trump was still in the White House. It may be a slow-motion assassination attempt, but it’s no forgone conclusion that it will succeed. If there’s one thing I learned from 2016, it’s not to underestimate Trump.
You’re right about that! Watching the election results was like one of those great dreams where everything you’ve been dreading is miraculously reversed.
What if we could look ahead to NEXT Memorial Day, and see our nation humming along in blessed quotidian tranquility? Ive been fantasizing about that lately. After all, last May at this time, it seemed impossible Trump could win.
You have to hand it to the Dems, though: I mean, here we are, the market way up, unemployment way down, manufacturing in our country prospering–I mean, people feel the effects of these things. Yet the Dems and nevers have created this Waco mentality: Lo! The end times are upon us! How do they do it? They just don’t cover what, under any other administration ,would be hailed as the good news it is.
There’s piece up here today, blaming FUTURE bad economic times on Trump! Huh? And of course Wednesday’s drop in stocks, now reversed, is being called the “Trump Slump”. DARE to mention Trump in the same sentence with 2008, the bleakest period of many of our lives? I can’t go on–I’m going to respond on that thread…
When my imagination fails me, I use [COC] or occasionally multiple [COC]s and let everyone else’s imagination carry the load for me. I thought everyone did that.
I reckon I could use “nutjob”–apparently, that is now the very worst thing you could call anyone…
Maybe I won’t dig out the nearly 20 pages of notes I took on The Great Terror. I’ve probably already gone overboard on this and we’re not that far down the path…yet.
It doesn’t have to be a conspiracy to work: the Dems, media and bureaucrats share Leftist ideas about America and about vanquishing the Right at all costs, and each of them works toward only his own coercive purpose, “and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible [FIST] to promote an end” which looks as though it were centrally planned. All the little vectors of their efforts point in generally the same direction and add up to a large effect in roughly the same direction.
I’m with you. And @andrewklavan. I’m flabbergasted that some thinkers on the Right don’t see this as a
concertedas-if-concerted effort (not “concerted” I guess, since that means coordinated and I said above that wasn’t necessary) by the Left that is very dangerous, and that all of us need to push back against.So.. what can we DO? Any time Trump appears, huge crowds show up. But he can’t spend all his time on the road. And without him there, you’re not going to be able to draw very large enthusiastic crowds. We didn’t hear much about the rallies across America this winter, except for snarky coverage like “Dozens gather in support of Trump”.
Of course, it’s because people who voted Trump have, y’know, lives. We’re not waiting around for Soros to offer to pay us to destroy property.
But how can we demonstrate that we’re still out here? How can we “push back” in a highly visible way the MSM can’t ignore? Any ideas?
I guess I meant “all of us Righties, to the extent we can“, but mainly said it to include everyone on our side who has influence. All of the Right should be pushing back, but most of the pushing would have to be done by those with influence.
Okay, so you’re saying all we can do is vote–like we did last time. But sadly the process going on right now sidesteps the ballot box.