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I commented in part 1a but an FYI for you – I was with my 11 year old son getting groceries at Walmart this weekend. The check out lady was a ‘senior’ and very, very slow. I showed him the Tim Conway “Old Man” skits on U-tube. They still hold up. Hilarious! We were blessed to have shows like that as a kid.
Conway is proof you don’t have to drop the F-bomb every other word to be funny…makes him perfect for 11-yr-olds :-) I like the Mrs. Wiggins skits, too. Anything with Tim and Harvey makes me laugh because Harvey eventually can’t keep from laughing at Tim, and I end up laughing at Harvey laughing at Tim.
They still have the Carol Burnett Show on classic TV cable channels in my area.
Great posts.
Very much agree. The fact that it is apparent that the DOJ and FBI are totally politicized arms of the Democrat Party is more than troubling./ it is an outrage.
I still have not had anyone on any of the blogs I go on explain how it is that someone gets indicted for financial crimes that are based on activities in 2005. It is now 2018. I would assume if a financial misdeed was committed prior to 2013, the statute of limitations would apply. We financially concerned liberals were repeatedly told under Obama not to mess with any of the Big Banking folks – as their crimes went back to 2006, 2007 and 2008. Obama’s people stated by the time any activists got their cases heard, the cases would be ruled moot by a court, due to statute of limitation that allows only some 6 years for such a court case to go through.
Had Paul Manafort been a friend of Hillary’s, his 2005 and 2006 transgressions would have been swept under the carpet. Instead due to his association with Trump, he has been convicted on many counts of criminal activities – all so that the Dem leadership can hold on to their hope that he will flip on Trump.
Besides his appalling pre-trial treatment by Special Counsel (my orig post didn’t mention his solitary confinement jail time — for a white collar crime and because of alleged witness tampering that sounds suspect on prosecution’s part to me), the fact that he was found guilty solely based on those documents (according to a juror interviewed by Shannon Bream) was distressing.
Those documents were obtained in the extra-legal mafia-style raids Mueller got authorized even as Manafort and his attorney were cooperating with Mueller. Manafort wasn’t convicted by the IRS (which has some top notch forensic accountants) for the same crimes; I’m sure because they didn’t get a warrant to employ tactics that stepped over normal search/seizure bounds.
The juror I saw interviewed said there were two jurors who didn’t believe he was guilty beyond reasonable doubt; mentioning confusion due to way prosecution presented docs, the personal nature of some docs and concern re: different ways of interpreting some that were presented into evidence. The hesitant jurors were eventually persuaded to vote guilty on some of the charges. I wondered when I heard that if it was around the time reporters challenged, while the jury was present to hear them, the judge’s decision not to release the jury’s personal information. The jury should have been dismissed for that discussion to avoid any possibility of jury intimidation.
The juror interviewed also indicated the jury did not find business partner Rick Gates’ testimony credible, and I thought it odd there was no mention of any testimony from those witnesses Manafort supposedly tampered with that cost him his liberty pre-trial (another intimidation tactic IMO).
None of this would ever happen to a Democrat President with the Democrats in control of both houses of Congress. Never would the Dems sic a Special Prosecutor on a Dem President. I will vote for Republicans only as long as Trump remains President. After that, I will find it very difficult to pull the lever for Republicans.
Excellent job@mim526 of laying out the precise situation we and our President find ourselves in today. This is a coup…period. The Republicans are riddled with traitors to our President and our Party. The Democrats have grown into children who cannot accept defeat. Our country is in serious trouble.
The sooner everyone starts calling it a coup the better. There’s no other word for it, and I agree re the Republicans. And now I see that Ben Sasse is talking about leaving the party. Don’t let the door hit ya in the butt, Bucky.
There are countries where being a member of “the party” is more important than rule of law. I don’t want to live in China or Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany. Remember this and tell everyone you see: Socialism=Genocide
Haven’t any stats, but I’d wager you’re absolutely correct since Dems out of lockstep with the group can usually be counted on one hand on the rare occasion they break ranks. One way to define the political/cultural struggle going on in the US that personally resonates with me is Leftists vs. Non-Leftists. I much prefer persuasion, but that’s possible only with someone on both sides willing to listen and be persuaded. With Leftists, it’s conform to group think or suffer the consequences (censure, intimidation, personal injury, loss of job…individual rights/freedoms/protections appear to be available to group members only.)
With near daily evidence how bold Leftists are becoming, my thinking is to vote for the most conservative non-Leftist I think can win. If that’s a GOP ruling class elite, so be it. Hopefully next time a more conservative American can muster the funds and fortitude to brave the media cesspool a conservative who runs for public office faces.
The Conservatives cheering Muller on want this outcome. They want to be sure the wrong sorts never again have power.
I have a Dem friend who claims justification for this because of judicial abuses begun during the presidency of Richard Nixon. It made me think that perhaps the media and the swamp ignored the politicization of justice that has taken place under several other administrations, because the president had an attorney general to protect him as Obama certainly had with Lynch/Holder.