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Eight Days In May–Rosenstein Did Wear a Wire and Discuss Using the 25th Amendment to Remove the President of the United States
I had written a slightly sarcastic post about how it was our civic duty as American citizens to rush out and read the latest book by a member of the Swamp, and how their families could probably use the money in the future when all appeal delays have expired after criminal proceedings have been wrapped up, and then I read Byron York’s piece of this morning, and Powerline’s comment on the same, and saw the book in a whole new light.
I strenuously urge a reading of York’s discussion of the number of suspicions and speculations some of McCabe’s book confirms, such as:
“If it’s all true, that is, if revelations in an upcoming book by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe are accurate. The bottom line on that is that, at least from what we know now, McCabe’s story seems consistent with information congressional investigators have been able to glean elsewhere.”
“It’s just like we thought all along,” said one House Republican upon hearing the news. “If McCabe’s account is true, it confirms what we thought, that Rod Rosenstein was serious when he talked about wearing a wire and invoking the 25th Amendment. Rosenstein should be under oath answering our questions. We need to know who was in the room and what was said.””
There is a lot more in York’s piece, especially about Rosenstein who is, in my opinion, one of the most dangerous people in government today.
As John Hinderaker concluded on Powerline, “Someone should be doing hard time.”
Indeed.
Sincerely, Jim
Published in General
Straightforward from here . . .
The question I keep coming back to is, what can we do about it? How can we “fix” our media, or barring that, utterly destroy them?
I think they have overstepped and made too many aware of how they themselves can be, and are being, manipulated. The rise of alternative media is a testament to that, and that’s where I get my news. I’m not boycotting the MSM, I’m avoiding it for my own mental health. I’m fully aware of what they are saying I just won’t allow it to dominate me. And I think that’s where a lot of people are, or are gravitating toward. They’ve lost a good deal of influence over prevailing beliefs and are now fighting over the existing audience that’s made up mostly of true believers.
If enough people simply don’t care what they think or say, they will continue to lose power.
I do believe more awareness of the basic epistemology chain ( how do you ‘know’ that?) will help a lot.
But my pessimist side sees a steady drift toward a totalitarian dystopia – a hybrid of Orwell/Huxley/Idiocracy – where people are dumbed-down, put to sleep by entertainment and legal ‘medications’ and the population monitors ( self monitored – even better!) for wrongthink by social media. Anyone off the grid will be suspect, forensic crimes from the past prosecuted ( that’s a new one, I think) and every single transaction and association recorded for possible future prosecution should you become a threat. History will be rewritten ( even more than it is now). As much of a capitalist and appreciator of corporations I am, there’s a real downside to global multinationals dominating people’s thoughts and beliefs. (that’s why the media is so anti-religion, since it infringes on their territory)
I wonder sometimes if biblical prophecies come from reports and understandings of fallen ancient civilizations.
These predictions are simply coming from Wise men who see the inevitability and natural evolution of these civilizational forces. Like predicting what will happen to a drunk if he keeps drinking. He says the guy is going to lose his family, his job and his drivers license eventually, and lo and behold, 10 years later it comes true! Is that guy good at predicting-a prophet- or just wise and observant?
Sorry to get so far off topic.
Who is Sally Kohn, and why should I care what she thinks? (No disrespect intended here; I genuinely don’t know.)
Just an MSNBC Talking Head. That tweet of hers went viral and became an easily mockable meme. So yeah, I’m just saying that in answer to what purpose they thought it would serve? Why, getting Hillary into the White House as was always meant to be . . . right? It’s so easy. You just remove the President, and the loser in the previous election gets to be president right? (That’s how dumb people think.)
I remember the Million Man March, it was a generation ago, when AOC was a wee bit of a girl. And having been there, I feel entitled to say that it accomplished little to nothing — it was feel-goods for a little while. The reporting iirc was about size and numbers and who was counting, and who was the most experienced at counting, and what algorithm they used compared to the eye-balling of whichever network’s most experienced reporters.
If you want a protest make it last for so long the media can’t ignore it, such as Occupy Wall Street; without the drum beating, garbage piling up, the rape and drug use and crapping on cars.
20 million people, a million a week, in shifts so to speak, taking off time form work to do it. One speaker at a time, speaking to news crews that may or may not assemble. Demanding what; Rule of Law, Bill of Rights (and 10th Amendment?), and accountability and jail time for government lawbreakers.
We should be able to learn from the left how they were able to “fundamentally transform” our nation, and use those tactics to transform it back.
I think those transformations were extra-legal, to put it nicely. Interestingly, this Senate vote preceding the House vote, which is I suppose technically unconstitutional, was used to get 0bamacare through. (As I understand it, the Senate bill was passed and then a previously-passed and unrelated House bill was gutted and replaced with the text of 0bamacare, keeping only its House Bill number. Or the name was changed and then the two were reconciled privately in committee without either full house voting on the product. I’d really like someone who knows to clarify that for me, thanks.)
Nonetheless an odd coincidence.
While I agree with your ultimate conclusion I must respectfully dissent from your position that this was not an attempt at a coup d’etat; before I wrote this, I viewed the entire Dershowitz interview from Tucker Carlson last night, and I also listened to the p;portion of the 60 Minutes interview in which McCabe personally outlined what they were trying to do; it sure sounded like it was far more than a chat over brandy in the Faculty Lounge as they were “counting votes” as to how many they could count on being on their side of the 25th Amendment question and actually talking about putting a wire on Rosenstein, who I will continue to say is the most dangerous snake in the Swamp until I run out of breath. These people were dead serious, not to mention complete failures as attorneys who should have known the simple basic legal point that, as you point out, that provision has absolutely no application to what they were planning. Also, in all the discussion about what Prof. Dershowitz said in that interview about an attempted coup, his powerful statement regarding the inapplicability of the 25th Amendment to this situation was very much worth watching, as he challenged all his colleagues on the far left to debate him on this topic.
Can you provide a link to the Dershowitz interview?
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/02/15/alan_dershowitz_using_25th_amendment_to_oust_trump_is_clearly_an_attempt_at_a_coup_detat.html
Yeah, there ya’ go. That radical Trumpkin Dershowitz calling it a coup d’etat.
Thankfully, we’re talking in the hypothetical, at least for now. In that light, I’m not so sure. The Dems in both houses are blocks. The Never Trump Republicans can probably be taken at their word, particularly since even holding that position requires a squishy view of the Constitution at the start. How many Trump supporters, especially the nominal ones, would decide that it was time to end the battle, and get on with running the country (to ground, but I digress)?
However, the backdrop of public acceptance of the soft coup was brought about by the CIA. Anyone who thinks the CIA is not behind at least 75% of what we see on TV, or hear on the radio, or read in the newspapers really needs to remember Operation Mockingbird. An think about what that Operation currently means for all of us.
The mind boggles at the thought that 75% of what we hear and think about comes from a few dozen people with mad-dictator passions at the CIA. It smacks of 18th century French or Russian intrigues, in which only the courtiers have a cue what’s going on and only the few are the movers and shakers, and the people outside are like cattle to be moved around pacified and eaten. Nonetheless, Roger Simon’s “The only Way to Save the FBI IS to Expose It” and then Robert Spencer’s warning on AOC “Stop Laughing: Yes, the Green New Deal is Stupid and Evil, But It’s Coming“, and maybe finish off with an aperitif of John Hawkins’ “Fifteen Devastating Quotes That Show How Dangerous Social Media Has Become to Society“, all on PJMedia today.
Perhaps this comment has already been made; to accomplish this will require replicating the “Long March through the Academy.” We need to figure out how to get teachers into the colleges who will shift the prevailing world view away from the Progressive and back to the Conservative.
(BTW – I am trying to find such a college-level teaching position myself; so far, no luck, but I’ll keep plugging away.)