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Even if it doesn’t normally win popularity contests, we like to keep things candid (but fun!) on the Ricochet podcast. And even if it cost US attorney general Bill Barr some popularity points, we still want to hang out with him! He’s just published his memoir One Damn Thing After Another, and the gang do what they can to get at all the damn things. Barr proves still-adept at handling himself when things are coming in from all directions.
Rob also talks Ukraine and reassess the way history repeats itself; Peter applauds Elon Musk’s latest undertaking; and James wonders about the “groomer” conversation. Plus, shoutouts to Saint Augustine and Jenna Stocker–just cuz they’re awesome Ricochet members!
Music from this week’s podcast: You’ve Got to Stand for Somethin’ by John Mellencamp
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There is a difference between suspecting election fraud took place and knowing election fraud took place. We suspect it and have been seeking the truth ever since . I hope we indict every perp. We don’t need an AG who would do what you wish Barr had done at the time, with the information he had of the time. Then you would have a Merrick Garland, Jim Comey, etc.
Just how more intrusive do you want the DOJ to become? Isn’t that what we want less of?
He didn’t justify that but said the problems in government are too deeply entrenched to be fixed by one president’s administration but said it took three administrations to fix it before.
I’m with @concretevol and @garyrobbins, I liked the interview. I’ve heard him at least a couple of other times, each time he comes across as level-headed. I’m as troubled as anyone by antifa, I cannot fathom the lackadaisical approach to them. That said, I can see how it may have been tough for him to get much movement among the Trump-hating bureaucrats during the short time-span available.
I don’t know which is more disgusting: Bill Barr’s continual reframing of history and facts with regard to Trump and the election, or Peter, James, and Rob’s complete acceptance of it. They’re all detached from reality. Not a single question about all of the documented instances of federal election law violations. Not a single acknowledgement of the dozens of legal cases currently pending about them. Not a single question about Barr’s interference and refusal to investigate the election, the wholesale corruption of the FBI, or any of the prominent non-investigations during his tenure.
Trumps greatest accomplishment was in doing more to combat human trafficking than every president since Lincoln combined. How about digging into that story? What have we learned about big money and pedophiles? Any interest in the fact that Hillary was actively spying on Trump during the election and inside the White House? Right under Barr’s nose.
Instead Barr, and Peter, and Rob foolishly cling to the establishment narrative that Trump lost the suburban mom vote in complete disregard of all evidence to the contrary, followed by his mind after the election. They have no interest in examining whether or not what he, and I, and everyone else in the true conservative media has been documenting in exhaustive detail ever since the counting stopped in the middle of the night on Nov 3rd.
Either they’re all cozy residents of the swamp, or hopelessly captured by its gravity. I’m completely done with this Podcast.
In another recent podcast (can’t remember which one), someone told the story of how Trump was grousing about firing Barr when Melania told him he was crazy. That Barr was the best man for the position. Don’t know if it’s apocryphal, but I heartily agree and also believe Barr’s the reason why the Hillary campaign might actually be taken to task over the Steele dossier or at least be publicly revealed as the true colluders in 2016. … Not to mention that Barr’s wife seems as sensible and principled as Melania.
Much of what we know wasn’t known his last six weeks in office. Nothing could be done to overturn the election. One mistake was making baseless claims early on that caste a dubious light on every claim since. Keep plugging and investigating. It won’t make a difference until it stands up in court and proves Trump won. You have until 2023 to do that. As to Trump’s behavior, if I had worked as hard as he did to get re-elected, I would have been mad, too. As to suburban moms, they have been our weak link for some time. I hope $5 gas squeezes their good life and tender sensibilities. They earned it.
Trump is mercurial. Democrats are tyrannical, immoral, and corrupt. Enough people voted for the latter. Too many have sunk that low.
I repeat myself – we’re screwed, folks. We’re on our own
Sometimes, possibly all the time, governments get too big to fix. The founders were wise to keep it small. We ruined a good thing in the 20th century. Government doesn’t readily give up power peacefully. The founders didn’t expect our good thing to last forever without people pruning the tree of liberty once again.
Barr is one of the problems if, as seems to have been the case, he didn’t raise hell about it and getting it fixed.
A self-serving excuse. Had he chosen to move aggressively, putting the DOJ and FBI on 24/7/365 operational clock for every major investigation, like he actually believed our constitutional republic was at stake, President Trump would have fully backed his play and we would be in a very different place, a much better place.
No, he shouldn’t have said, flat out, that as far as he was concerned at least – and he spoke for the Justice Department too – the election was fine. That leads to people not bothering to look closer.
Fine, then they should stop investigating and prosecuting conservative groups too. Don’t be one-sided.
He described DOJ efforts to identify and prosecute the leaders of Antifa; the arrests that were made; some convictions; and the limited success due to local judges and prosecutors dismissing charges, especially in Portland. And he talked candidly about the difficulties in gathering intelligence on left-wing groups.
“The difficulties in gathering intelligence on left-wing groups,” as I heard him say it, was that they would get raked over the coals – “keel-hauled” as he put it – by the media etc. Absolutely no reason to shirk his and their responsibilities.
That’s what I heard as well
Well, the only sensible thing to do when faced with a skilled paramilitary group organized to defeat the ordinary operation of justice is to give up and manufacture some soft targets that the liberal establishment will let you prosecute – amirite?
That would be after the fact. But it doesn’t stop them from going in and arresting people wearing black hoodies and masks etc, at the time. It’s their fear of the media and Democrats – but I repeat myself – that does that.
Zactly.
This ^
Thanks for the interview, guys! I thought it was interesting. I found the discussion of etymology per “general” to be hilarious. :)
I thought most people knew that already, at least in general. (See what I did?) But maybe not.
No one knows everything, and a good story is always the most interesting the first time you hear it. But you’re cute. ;)
I thought that so many people refer to them properly as “attorneys general” was all it really took to know that it referred to general attorneys, not some kind of military-type rank. But okay.
Anybody else you want to kill based on political differences? I personally think we should guillotine anyone who hasn’t read two Thomas Sowell books and restart the world anew.
That’s what you got out of that?
I do use exaggeration for humorous purposes. I hear it was popular among the Greeks.
The Republic is not dead, but I think if this keeps up some people will be bleeding. Sooner or latter we will hit critical mass.
How much federal snooping do you want in our states during elections? …knowing the Dems like they do…they would abuse that, in fact they already do.