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What To Do When Your Idiots Are No Longer Useful
When former heroes of the cause decided to throw in with Progressives in their quest to oust Donald Trump from the White House there were plenty of folks that told them whatever support they were getting was ephemeral. It would be a mere wisp of smoke rings that would dissipate into the ether as certain as a bad Saturday night of partying leads to a Sunday morning hangover. But they didn’t listen. No, you couldn’t tell the people at The Lincoln Project (or their devotees) anything.
Maybe they couldn’t listen. It was reported that more than a few of them were in financial trouble. John Weaver had a $313,655 federal tax lien against his home in Texas. Likewise with Rick “Stars ‘n’ Bars” Wilson and his Florida abode – to the tune of $389,420. This was an opportunity that presents itself once in a lifetime.
But now that the election is over and Orange Man Bad has been sent packing to Mar-A-Lago, the knives are out. Not just the long ones, either. The short ones, the rusty ones, the butter knives, and any handy object that can be turned into a prison shiv. They’re all out and looking for blood.
As far back as 2004, Karl Rove was trying to tell reporters that John Weaver was a sexual predator. They laughed it off. Weaver, they knew, had tried to weasel his way into the GW Bush re-election campaign and Rove wanted no part of him. Reporters liked Weaver. An acolyte of John McCain’s he would happily squeal and dish against his fellow Republicans. Why mess with that? In the end, he telegraphed future moves by consulting with the campaign of Bush’s opponent, Senator John Kerry.
This past summer it started to catch up with him. He was sending lewd texts full of homosexual imagery to LP interns. Some were targeted to boys as young as 14. When The New York Times reported on it in January, the rest of the LP honchos expressed their shock and dismay. But this week the Associated Press reported “in June 2020, members of the organization’s leadership were informed in writing and in subsequent phone calls of at least 10 specific allegations of harassment against co-founder John Weaver, including two involving Lincoln Project employees.” It was, like Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, Jeffrey Epstein, and Charlie Rose before him, just one of those open secrets nobody really talked about. He was useful. Until he wasn’t.
Then there’s Jennifer Horn. A co-founder of the group, she recently tried to negotiate a new contract. According to the Huffington Post, Horn demanded the group “properly address the Weaver issue publicly and issue a call to action to take on sexual harassment and power imbalance/exploitation issues.” When they would not agree to that she walked, prompting the LP to put out a statement aimed at her destruction. Again, the HuffPost:
The Lincoln Project said last week that Horn had requested “an immediate ‘signing bonus’ payment of $250,000 and a $40,000 per month consulting contract.” She earlier demanded “a board seat on the Lincoln Project, a television show, a podcast hosting assignment, and a staff to manage these endeavors [to] establish immediate and long-term financial security,” the group added.
As if that wasn’t enough, they got wind of another unflattering piece that was to be penned by reporter Amanda Becker. Rick Wilson then tweeted out a screenshot that came from Becker’s direct messages from her Twitter account with the ominous-sounding phrase: “Abe hears things.” This was not the content from Horn’s company phone, it was from Becker’s account. In their haste to intimidate a member of the press, Wilson accidentally revealed that someone had been illegally hacking into Twitter.
That was too much even for George Conway, who seems to have hated Donald Trump more than he ever loved his own wife.
Wilson may not only be guilty of hacking but there are rumblings that he could be in trouble for wire fraud. He started a GoFundMe page with author Ben Howe promising that they would be producing a “major motion picture documentary” titled “Everything Trump Touches Dies.” Trump must of touched that, too, because it died like a 106-year-old man in an Andrew Cuomo nursing home. As late as February of last year, Wilson promised that the film was still happening and almost done. No one has even seen a rough cut. They also haven’t seen anything of the $65,000 he took for it.
What we do know is that some people have been looking at LP’s financials and that they stink like yesterday’s nappy bag. There are huge consulting fees paid to the companies run by the Lincoln people. Ron Steslow, who hosts the LP podcast and Steve Schmidt raked in at least $45M. Reed Galen, son of long-time GOP strategist Rich Galen, also reportedly raked in millions.
I hope they saved and invested wisely. Because now they are toxic. Donors are fleeing and the FBI is knocking. If they thought their new political friends would save them, they have another thing coming.
But we told you so, didn’t we?
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Doublespeak.
Wish I could take credit but I can’t. I just made it COC compliant.
As a scouter we take youth protection training frequently. It is shocking and difficult to understand, but it happens. Grooming, normalization, shame, threats – it can go undetected like that. Whatever is happening in elite circles may have additional dimensions, though, including some element of collusion.
When you risk suspension for plain speaking doublespeak is the result.
I have no idea why my question was redacted? It was a serious question and not any kind of accusation. The list of donators was on a government compiled list available to the public. I meant no harm by asking a simple question. If this is the kind of censorship I am to expect on Ricochet I may need to reassess my membership. I want an explanation immediately. This is ridiculous. Yea I probably will not be missed but if this is where Ricochet is going I will not miss it.
You have no idea? Please.
I requested it. That is a path I personally do not want to take. For one, it makes the post unpromotable. I tried to deflect it but was unsuccessful. If you want to ask the question in your own post that can be kept behind the pay wall, have at it.
We have been roundly criticized that we do not put enough pro-Trump or anti-anti-Trump posts on the public facing main feed. The implosion of The Lincoln Project presents such an opportunity. And you crapped all over that with that question. (Note: As an employee I have the ability to post my opinions directly to the main feed and I do not because that’s not what I do. On that I go through the same process as any other member.)
I’m not prescribing any ill intent to your question. But the way it was presented was inartful and could be easily misconstrued. If you can’t see that, I can’t help it.
I will do a post per your advice, my last.
I can’t figure out Conway’s tweet. I sort of understand “Abe Listens” but not really. What on earth is going on other than the lurid news about LP’s leadership.
The conversation Wilson tweeted out was between a reporter and Jennifer Horn. Horn insists that she was never issued a company laptop or other device that one could access Twitter on. Therefore the only way for Wilson to obtain that information is through hacking and theft, which as Conway pointed out is a clear violation of Federal law.
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I’ve little patience for any of this. The New York Times is not whom you call when someone makes homosexual propositions to a 14 year old boy. You call the police.
Karl Rove was warning people? Did he call the police?
Where were this child’s parents and why didn’t they call the police?
A pox on them all.
The equation is simple. Why would someone seeking so much power risk it on such behavior? It’s because that behavior is why they are seeking the power.
Well, it depends on what he knew. No one is saying that Rove had any knowledge of Weaver’s preying on minors at the time, only that Weaver was a married father who was soliciting sex from younger men. Infidelity may be grounds for divorce, homosexuality may be distasteful to some people, but neither is a crime providing everyone is beyond the age of consent. Same with employment harassment. That kind of thing is usually left up to civil litigation, not criminal investigations. I’m not sure what Rove would go to the police with.
Why would he be warning people about legal behavior?
I suppose the argument is that a man who would regularly cheat on his wife is untrustworthy in all regards. (And, yes, I am fully aware Trump is a serial monogamist with allegations of infidelity.) But thanks to the last 30 years of culturally shifting mores, what one might have found unacceptable in the late 90s and early aughts barely raises an eyebrow now.
And how interesting that he immediately tagged Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy in that.
Bill Gates was quite fond of showing up at Epstein’s Island as well. I wonder if his being there allowed him to keep a comprehensive list of any politicians who in the future might not want their citizens to be locked down and masked up and vaccinated? It sure seems that all of the world has complied with what he wanted for humanity.
People think it is money that has power, which it does. But knowing where all the bodies are buried holds power as well.
Now that Epstein has been removed from the social scene, Gates continues to be seen with the Canadian version of “Mr Underage Sex Trafficker.”
Who’s the Canadian version? I’m honestly not familiar with this story.
Those of us who followed the wikileaks information in the lead up to the 2016 election are not surprised by the pedophilia connections:
https://decryptedmatrix.com/evergreen-hillary-clintons-code-word-connection-to-haiti-trafficking-and-more/?fbclid=IwAR0vdgi5WU7S7jdJoP-Fxl8-60JEetwa9bPTf0CcbMXIDMT1tZPEeNAtWYY
Gary Franchi reporting:
The individual in question is one Laura Silsby, former director of The New Life Children’s Refuge. She was caught trying to steal 33 children from the country, most of whom were not even orphans and had families.
Hillary has a LONG history of interest in Ms. Silsby. Wikileak emails dating back till at least 2001 have been found in her archives discussing Laura’s NGO. Laura had claimed she planned to build an orphanage in the Dominican Republic, but authorities in the country said she never submitted an application for this purpose. They instead located to Haiti.
Sources:
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/10BUENOSAIRES166_a.html
https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/3465
One of the first things Hillary did when she took over the scene in Haiti was to get Laura off the hook:
http://harvardhrj.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/King.pdf
And the attorney who represented Laura Silsby? A man who was himself convicted as a sex trafficker:
Jorge Puello Torres, convicted sex trafficker, the attorney who represented Laura Silsby.
Franchi’s full report is at top link
Peter Nygard. Google him.
It’s not simply collusion – it is that this is a psy op in which elected officials are targeted, plied with booze or drugs and then put in compromising positions with minors. (I am not excusing these people, but they fell into an operation designed to compromise them.)
Then there is absolute certainty on the Puppet Masters being able to count on the compromised individuals to do the bidding that the Masters desire while the compromised individuals are in power. Should they ever decline, then they will no longer be in power.
So this is the guy Bill Gates has been hanging out with. Yikes.
Thanks!
I now understand what’s going on. There was a private conversation via Twitter that no one would have known about unless…
boggles the mind… the internet should never be considered private, even if it’s supposed to be. You’d think people would use a secret code or something. AND, letting the cat out of the bag is generally not a good idea.
Smart people abound!
I do not think this quote is properly mine….it belongs to @TheScarecrow
I’m not the only one who doubts Steve Schmidt’s “I, too, was the victim of a homosexual pervert when I was young” story. I feel like he’s invented a victimhood tale which he will now use as a shield to deflect all criticism.
Lots of predators were victims. That does not make it ok
I just don’t believe him. Too convenient. And the tactic is too obvious. Especially because in the same breath he was booking himself on news channels.
Are we thinking any of these people have a further career dealing in public policy matters?
I have a sense there will always be beltway types willing to hire them or news channels willing to give them air time. They’re an incestuous lot.
Who knows. Would a John Kasich go back to that well? Probably. Would the candidate be successful? Probably not.
The consultant class is parasitic. Take Mike Murphy (Please!). His bio lists every election he worked on and won. It ignores every one that he lost. What does that tell you? It’s the candidate that wins and the candidate that loses. That doesn’t mean that there’s no need for campaign professionals with the minefield of election laws. But they can mess you up.