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I Was Wrong About Ukraine
I have been really wrong about the Ukraine thing in several respects.
(1) I assumed that Giuliani and Trump were just making a seat of the pants request to the Ukrainians to look at Biden and I found that irritatingly stupid but not unlawful. Turns out that Giuliani had compiled a fairly detailed record of evidence of malfeasance and coverup and that the Ukrainians were already looking into it. Characterizing the call as some kind of spontaneous browbeating to start up an inquiry was spectacularly dishonest.
(2) I paid no attention to the story back in April about US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and her role in blocking Ukranian investigators from coming to meet to the USDOJ about several issues, including Burisma. At that time, I could not tell (or, to be honest, care) whether these were the corrupt anti-corruption officials or the non-corrupt anti-corruption officials and paid no attention. The bleating by State Dept career types outraged that Trump fired such a sterling professional seemed like background noise.
Now it looks like Ambassador Yovanovich may be the most brazen deep-state player since Andy McCabe. Hip-deep in the efforts to go after Manafort while many (protected) Democrats fed at the very same trough, it now appears that she made every effort to stonewall efforts to reveal extensive corruption involving American (Democrat) political and financial interests. It also appears likely that resentment over her firing may be a causal event in the development of the Schiff Circus and its “whistleblower(s).”
(3) I completely missed the fact that this offensive regarding Ukraine is clearly a calculated pre-emptive strike because the more we get to look at the origins of Russiagate, the more all roads lead to Kyiv and a very broad pattern of both political and financial corruption by the minions of Barack and Hillary. I had just assumed this latest it was just another random attack on Trump.
I will be looking for bulk popcorn deals on Amazon today because I think fun stuff is about to unfold that Ricochetti can sit back and enjoy.
Published in General
The US Atty in the southern district is striking a blow to keep the narrative bipartisan. Picking out two pro-Republican sleazoids from the vast number of sleazoid choices in Russia and the Ukraine is some pretty precise targeting. The rapidity with which Democrats in the House knew the details and subpoenaed the accused is also striking.
I don’t think the truth of the level of corruption will reach the masses until we get a Senate impeachment trial (which I doubt the Dems want). This will be 5 months of Trump’s attorneys (including Trey Gowdy) calling Obama and Hillary and Hunter and Paul Pelosi to testify under oath … and putting the whole DNC on trial for corruption live on TV day after day. This won’t be a hearing with blowhards saying nothing. It will be an real trial with a real judge. It. will. be. epic!
I think that is why indictments and jail time are so necessary. That will make ‘the news’ and is much less ambiguous.
I hope you are right. The internals of that 51% poll look pretty skewed apparently. So that may not be as big a hit as I originally thought. Also I can no longer find the 3 in 10 Republican number so that may have been smoke as well. It is so hard to sort truth from falsehood these days. Especially with a relatively demanding job and family obligations this week. I can see why the press is so good at controlling a narrative. Even relatively engaged and informed people can be taken in.
He never looked. On purpose.
Monitor the MSM, but don’t watch. Polls are almost complete BS used to promote and demoralize. These people are not informing you, they are propagandizing everyone.
Tell everyone they are being LIED to. If you watch too much yourself, you will be in their thrall. Every human being, even smart people are vulnerable to hypnotism and false virtual reality attacks. You hear the same things from ( seemingly) different sources you begin to believe it as truth.
This is an information war and we must deal with it on that level.
So this means, for example, someone says “ blah blah Trump blah blah” you ask, “ how do you know that?” They say CNN, Fox, whatever. You say , “ and you believe them?” They say, of course it’s the news. You say, “ they don’t have an agenda? Do you really believe that?” Et Cetera. Always go for the source not the content.
Stay away from R & D labels. In fact no labels. Do not accept any labels applied to anyone. None of this will change any minds, but you have to plant the seeds of ( very justified) epistemological doubt. Use Covington, Kavanaugh, Smollett, every exposed hoax. Ask them if they believed it when it came out and ask them why they did.
People ARE waking up to the fake and corrupt news agenda. That’s the key.
Will make a point of listening when time allows. One point I haven’t seen being made though is that the ‘Ukraine’ during Obama’s Reign of Error was controlled by a Russian puppet. I’m alleging that the Ukraine of that time period was a ‘cut-out’ for Russia: the Biden’s graft, the Obama Admin. being able to put the screws to Manafort, the ‘Crowd-Strike/Democrat server storage lock-box’. That famous ‘flexibility’ that Obama spoke to Medvedev of was evidenced in Ukraine: MRE’s vs. arms, Russian natural gas to the West through Ukraine and Democrats got a piece of that ‘flexibility’.
Look, John and Jane Q. Public elected Trump in the first place, in spite of all the negative publicity and commentary against him. I think they aren’t taking the trouble to look into the weeds because they know there’s nothing there . . .
Very, very true. It’s Psy Ops.
Did you substitute foreign names and locations for our homebodies?
As he did with Manafort.
And as far as the quarter of a million Ukrainian citizens who had to become refugees due to the fighting that was destructive of their communities, I am sure the Dems who put the catastrophic situation together could have cared less. After all, when such tragedies can be ignored while the Ca Ching! of personal American fortunes are made, who cares? Ukrainians are after all, people who live close to Russia.
If they wanted to live in peace, they should have moved their country further away from Russia’s borders. Or chosen to be born elsewhere.