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Yeah, I Know. I’m Not That Happy About It Either.
I was having breakfast with a friend this morning. He’d never heard of Kevin Clinesmith. “You never heard of Kevin Clinesmith?” … No. “The FBI lawyer in the Horowitz report?” … No. “The guy who doctored the email?” … No. I never heard anything about that.
My friend is not a dumb guy. He’s well educated. He has a professional degree. He listens to the news. He’d never heard of Kevin Clinesmith or anything about the FBI falsifying information for the FISA warrant on Carter Page.
If my friend never heard anything about Kevin Clinesmith or anything about the FISA warrant, then I’ll go out on a limb here and speculate that 99% of Americans are similarly unaware of the biggest political scandal in my lifetime: The FBI’s attempt to oust a duly elected president using lies and the extraordinary combined power of a rogue government agency allied with a complicit media.
Have you ever asked yourself why folks like Jerry Nadler and Adam Schiff can lie so egregiously and not pay any sort of political price for it? That’s why. America is either too stupid or too apathetic to care.
So there is only one way we’ll ever see any justice in this whole affair, and that is to re-elect Donald Trump.
I didn’t vote for Trump in 2016 and can think of a half dozen or so Republicans I’d rather see become president in 2020 other than Donald Trump. But it is looking less and less likely with every passing day that the villains who perpetrated this attempted coup against the president will ever answer for their crimes. Comey will walk. McCabe will walk. Page and Strzok will walk. Brennan and Clapper will walk. Schiff and Nadler will both get re-elected. Kevin Clinesmith might go to jail. He might go to jail. He might not.
If these folks had done this in China or the old Soviet Union, they would have been tortured for a month or two before being taken out and shot. In America, they’ll sue the government for unfair dismissal, and go home with back pay and punitive damages. They’ll go to work as consultants for CNN or MSNBC and end up on the NY Times Bestseller List for the books they’ll write on how they stood up for American values during the darkest days of the Trump regime.
Sadly, there is only one way for justice to win the day. That is for Donald Trump to win re-election in 2020. There is an element of cutting off our noses to spite our face in that revelation. I don’t really want another four years of Donald Trump and all the sturm und drang that will come with it. But if Donald Trump loses, we all lose. If Donald Trump loses, Justice loses. If Donald Trump loses, they win.
So, sign me up for the Trump train. I’m not sure I want to go where this train is headed, but I don’t like where any of the other trains are going, and I sure as hell don’t want to reward the station master for trying to sabotage the locomotive.
I’ve designed the above yard sign that I will distribute to all my like-minded friends.
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He should take a cue from the aging rock bands and call it the “NO FILTER” tour.
Yeah, we got it on video. More sucking than biting though.
Meh, Biden has less “corruption” in 40+ years than Trump has in 3, groping women for 10 seconds is less gross than outright assault and pornstars and Epstein parties, and I definitely don’t see Biden gaslighting people on the scale that Trump does. And Biden has positive personal qualities too, while Trump has none. So, no contest.
We don’t see the world the same way — at all.
Oh, yes.
Epstein parties? Fact check: false.
Meanwhile, Biden is hip-deep in corruption. But don’t take my word for it, let’s investigate!
Oh, wait. We can’t because that would be an impeachable offense, right?
Being a Democrat means having a perpetual Get Out of Jail Free card.
jinx
Well, if you only ever get your news from CNN and the Washington Post, you’ve been gaslighted for most of your life.
Was CNN around when Gropey Joe was caught plagiarizing? Or for the Clarence Thomas hearings? I forget. So does Joe.
Gary Robbins (View Comment):
Amen. Biden is the best Democratic alternative.
Guliani is on it. Knock yourself out. Go investigate. Can’t be that hard to hire these people. Just don’t bribe Ukrainians with my tax money to do fake investigations that you know won’t find anything more than Biden has a grifter kid, like most politicians do.
Or his characterization of Obama as the first clean, articulate black candidate for President.
What you didn’t see on CNN:
That money was going to Ukraine regardless, as authorized by Congress. In fact if Trump had followed through with his (alleged) threat to withhold the money he would have saved you a few tax dollars.
If Biden knows he has a grifter kid, what does it say about Joe’s judgement that he would take his grifter kid on an official trip to China on Air Force II and introduce him to high-level Chinese officials and a big financial deal suddenly materializes? So just how much of this must occur before you think it might warrant a look? Your talk is big but it’s full of holes.
Am I the only one who sees the VP Biden extortion is threatening to withhold $1 Billion in US loan guarantees from the Ukrainian government unless the Ukies fire the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the sketchy company which inexplicably is pays VP Biden’s profligate son over a $million for ….. being the profligate son of VP Biden.
The reason the Biden Ukie extortion slipped by barely remarked upon at the time is pretty much how all the Obama era scandals(ie: Fast and Furious, the BS Benghazi narrative, the IRS targeting of conservatives, HRC’s illegal server/lost e-mails, etc.) slipped by …. the Obama DOJ/FBI looked the other way and the MSM did a drive by nothing to see here folks ….. now it’s time to start unmasking potential (R) Presidential candidates campaigns who may threaten to run against the predetermined (D) candidate HRC.
When did I say it doesn’t warrant a look? I said, go investigate it all. Just don’t make bribes with tax $$ to other country’s politicians to make it happen. Ultimately, I just don’t see Biden’s one grifter kid as being any worse than all the Trump grifter kids, not to mention all of the Trump kowtowing to hotel concerns.
It’s always about projection with the Democrats. Biden is guilty of bribery and extortion, so the Democrats project his guilt on the President.
“My name’s Joe Biden. I’m a Democrat. And I love John McCain.” Here is Biden’s eulogy to John McCain.
During one of the government shut downs, Obama finally asked Biden to see if he could settle it. Biden met with McConnell. Biden knew what Republicans wanted, and more importantly, when they needed. McConnell knew what Democrats wanted, and more importantly, what they needed. They settled the government shut down in less than two hours.
The huge difference is the Trump kids are playing with privately earned Trump family business money.
Joe Biden has been a political office holder from 1970 until January 2017. It can be argued his current run for President effectively puts him in politics to this day, just not as an office holder.
The Biden’s have earned their family money the old fashioned way, a lifetime spent at the highest level of political deal making.
Should we be surprised a Democrat would sing the praises of John McCain?
Here is where specifics are necessary to carry an argument. We have plenty in Hunter Biden’s case and they seem to get more noticeable right after he is bounced from his very non-traditional Navy commission for illegal drug use. Somehow you want to compare Trump’s character before his public service to Biden’s while in public service. I consider Trump’s behavior exemplary as President and I had many questions when he first showed up as a candidate in 2015. I have many outstanding questions about Biden who has always been in public service. Do we know the net worth of Joe Biden and his close family members? We know the Trump family members have money accumulated from private ventures.
If you truly have concerns about how our tax dollars are being used you should have some serious questions about how the working class Clinton, Obama, and Biden families acquired their current wealth.
No i don’t. I want an equal investigation into which rich Chinese that Joe introduced Hunter to….and which rich Saudis that Donnie has introduced Jared to. Also, Joe Biden will surely be forced to exclude Hunter going forward……while the Trumpers will hold Donnie to no ethical standard EVER. I’m tired of playing the Trumpian “standards for thee, but not for me” game.
Oh surely. I’m sure the media will expose every bit of the Biden family’s corruption! I trust the media to be fair and balanced!
j/k
I trust them to be Democrat operatives with bylines.
I like your response and about the only way I know to accomplish the result you like and with which I agree is to have a free, balanced, unbiased investigative press and other media. I don’t know if we can get that.
They are always settling those shutdowns. With my money.
Odd how that works. The “compromise” always consists of everyone getting the money for his/her pet projects.
Hey, John McCain is the guy who got Biden his job as vice president!
All that, and you still think Biden could be tolerable as President?