[Red State] I didn’t expect to see H.R. McMaster’s
... National Security Advisor February 20, 2017 – April 9, 2018, after which the Army retired him, possibly for being an insubordinate weenie. He has since amused himself with writing the usual book, joining the Hoover Institute, and two days ago became a board member of Zoom Video Communications. Possibly they want help with their security issues...
name come up in regards to the Michael Flynn saga, which has now ended with all charges being dropped, but here we are.
Adam Housley is reporting that the man who replaced Flynn at NSA is now coming under scrutiny.
This tweet is obviously really short on details, but it actually makes a lot of sense when you go back to 2017 and review how everything went down. Upon Flynn’s firing, McMaster came into the role and absolutely cleaned house. He notably promoted several anti-Trump figures in his office, a point of contention that festered until his resignation.
McMaster also played right into the Trump-Russia investigation, refusing to tell the President he was a target.
Further, there’s the matter of Ezra Cohen-Watnick, who blew the whistle on all the unmaskings that took place during the latter months of the Obama administration. McMaster attempted to fire him but Trump blocked the move initially. Who did McMaster want to replace him with? A Democrat flack who authored the Benghazi talking points that caused so much controversy during that period. McMaster eventually got his way and got rid of Cohen-Watnick.
As it pertains to Flynn, there’s no doubt McMaster was well aware of everything that had been done. There’s also no doubt that he was read into all the corruption that occurred involving the FBI and the Page FISA warrants. The entire reason Flynn was targeted was almost certainly because he would have discovered that information. McMaster sat on it, though, perhaps even aiding the cover-up.
Given all that, it makes perfect sense that he’s being investigated at this point. We’ll see where this goes.
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Much much bigger, Lex. A couple of bugs in DNC bldg versus this stuff...man, it is mind blowing. And when you see the Dems' response, it is a sign that the political system is dead here. And, oh, how I want to get sick at the sight and sounds of one Adam Schiff.
Destroying / tampering with evidence, setting perjury traps, lying to the President, creating circular "evidence" with planted fake news stories, using foreign agents to spy on US persons = "rule of law"
"I say nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure..."
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The problem with getting rid of the CIA and FBI is that you can't leave all those bitter ex employees at a loose end. I think exile would not work. That leaves only liquidation...
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FISA = "F*ck You In the sorry A$$"
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A nice summary by the superb Mollie H today that helps remind us why what Zero staged was far worse than Watergate:
"Not only was information on Russia not fully shared with the incoming Trump team, as Obama directs, the leaks and ambushes made the transition chaotic, scared quality individuals away from working in the administration, made effective governance almost impossible, and materially damaged national security.
"When Comey was finally fired on May 9, in part for his duplicitousness regarding his handling of the Russia collusion theory, he orchestrated the launch of a Special Counsel probe that continued his efforts for another two years. That probe ended with Mueller finding no evidence of any American colluding with Russia to steal the 2016 election, much less Trump or anyone connected to him...."
I worked around all of the above plus Flynn. I thought McMaster brilliant, but bat-shit crazy at times...kinda of a ADD savant...would be shocked if he was disloyal; McChrystal a self promoter and way in over his head - obviously a back-stabber; McRaven's recent comments surprise me; Flynn is narcissistic and is way too ambitious for someone with such limited skills. McClean, et al - see description for Flynn.
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Re #20 there have been hundreds of generals and admirals. The ones you never heard of got most of the heavy lifting done.
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#21Perspective requires distance. "I worked with them" is not a positive in the long term evaluation process...Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-05-09 12:10
Perspective is. In this case distance does not have anything to with perspective ...other than to cause its loss.
In my world senior leaders and senior operators have a well established reputation. Their rep is set and repeated by those they work with and refined by their peers and subordinates over the years. Their rep precedes them and remains after they leave the room so to say...their mere words can not change their rep, only their actions.
The brief perspective that I related above is a sum of my interactions with each which corroborated the rep that I had previously heard.
Just because some person on Twitter issues a vague one sentence allegation does not change my perspective nor opinion of McMasters...a guy I first heard about while still in Kuwait back in 1991...dude was a genuine war hero to us back then.
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The guy stabbed my President in the back. His actions his words. Quit pissing down my back and saying it's a warm rain.
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I thought McMaster brilliant, but bat-shit crazy at times
There were those among the NeverTrumpers who advocated going to work for President Trump in order to guide him if they could, and thwart him if he walked off the proper path, as they saw it, all for patriotic love of country. I am willing to accept that General McMaster falls into that camp, which would not contradict Tennessee’s evaluation. That he, according to his Wikipedia page, as National Security Advisor was willing to purge Trump supporters, promote anti-Trump staff, and openly support the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation speaks to his conventional thinking on the political side without impacting his brilliance as a military man.
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I wish I knew what fucking military award it was you can get with oak clusters and the right to frame someone, if we have one like that we need to recall all of them and melt them down.
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#26 The guy stabbed my President in the back. His actions his words. Quit pissing down my back and saying it's a warm rain.
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Where is your proof that McMaster stabbed the POTUS in the back? Specific actions and words?
Other than your gratuitous assertions I haven't seen them...further Trump ain't feeling it either since he has been calling McMaster for advice since he fired Bolton.
Re: Trailing Wife's comment: There is zero proof that LTG McWaster was a "never Trumper" he was on active duty as a three star outside of the NCR in the run up to the election. Re: running off a "pro-Trump" team, I remember Watnick, Harvey and Higgens moving on at different times for different reasons... Harvey was counter to not only McMaster but Mattis as well, Higgens was bat shit crazy too and I imagine that he got on Mcmaster's nerves. Watnick had no real skills or experience and was brought on by Flynn as part of his team.
Steve Bannon (with no real experience other than Brieitbart) was likely intimidated by McMaster which is why he started the smear campaign against him.
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#32 Anyone surprised at this wasn't paying attention .
Oh wait, it's Red State.
As for war heroism, Benedict Arnold was an American military hero for awhile too.
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A real warrior being disparaged by a keyboard warrior...
But, hey don't tell me, tell Trump, he is the one still calling McMaster asking for advice...IMO Trump must have finally figured out that Steve Bannon was the inexperienced turd in the punch bowl.
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McCain's boy Lindsey Graham was just on Judge Jeanine's show. Not a fan of hers, but Graham did a lot of tap-dancing when she was trying to get an answer out of him. Gee, what a surprise.
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If LTG McMaster was not part of the nefarious network, the current investigation should quickly reveal that and be dropped, especially given, as Tennessee testifies, that he still has the president’s respect as an advisor. And if I am wrong about him I will happily apologize — goodness knows I’ve been wrong often enough in the past.
Shakespeare’s Coriolanus is neither a model of conduct nor a horrible example: he is a tragic hero, brought down by his own inherent faults of character, qualities admirable in some circumstances, disastrous in others.
Cicero in his treatise De Officiis, enormously influential during the Renaissance, makes exactly this point, though not specifically about Shakespeare’s character. Greatness of spirit, appropriate “in times of danger and toil,” when not allied with a concern for justice and the common good, becomes barbarism, the wilfulness characteristic of tyrants
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Coriolanus: If you have writ your annals true, 't is there, That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles. Alone I did it. Boy! (Coriolanus, Act 5 scene 6) mm
CORIOLANUS
Well, I must do 't.
Away, my disposition, and possess me
Some harlot's spirit! My throat of war be turned,
Which choirèd with my drum, into a pipe
Small as an eunuch or the virgin voice
That babies lulls asleep! The smiles of knaves
Tent in my cheeks, and schoolboys' tears take up
The glasses of my sight!
... A beggar's tongue
Make motion through my lips, and my armed knees,
Who bowed but in my stirrup, bend like his
That hath received an alms. I will not do 't, Lest I surcease to honor mine own truth
And, by my body's action, teach my mind
A most inherent baseness. (3.2.137-150)
[Bakersfield.com] NEW YORK — Coronavirus does not discriminate. Social distancing enforcement in New York City apparently does.
That’s the takeaway from newly-released numbers from the New York Police Department that show an alarming racial disparity in social distancing enforcement. And, despite Mayor Bill de Blasio’s reassurances, elected leaders and community activists are saying City Hall should be ashamed.
According to the NYPD, there have been 374 social distancing-related summonses issued since COVID-19 restrictions were put in place six weeks ago. Of that number, 304 of the summonses have been issued to black or Latino people.
That follows news that 35 of 40 people arrested in Brooklyn between March 17 and May 4, were black. Across the city, where there were 120 social distancing arrests, 68% of the people were black, 24% Latino and 7% white.
"That’s abysmal," Public Advocate Jumaane Williams said during a Zoom meeting news conference Friday. "This is not the federal government. This is not Donald Trump."
Williams blamed de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo for stressing enforcement over education, and said that approach has set the tone for heavy-handedness, and business as usual within the NYPD. Williams said the social distancing disparity is in line with decades of marginalization within communities of color.
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Population densities should not be used as a justification for racism. Heavier surveillance drone concentrations within privileged neighborhoods should 'flatten the curve.' Selective enforcement is yet another tool which could be used.
Lastly, members of the NYPD need additional sensitivity training and a re-look at minority recruiting is very obviously needed.
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The CCP did its homework. They knew that unleashing another flu bug on America would trigger all the race obsessions and other social pathologies of our idiotic media and lefty activists and cause Americans to tear each other apart over lies and BS.
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How dare you - arrest the people who actually do crimes...
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It's a slippery slope. Once you start arresting people for crimes, it's a short step to throwing innocent people in jail just because they are criminals.
[LA Tmes] The crowds protesting California’s stay-at-home orders aimed at stopping the spread of the novel coronavirus have a litany of grievances: Open the beaches. Free the churches. End the tyranny of a governor who has gone too far.
They hop barricades to surf. They cite the Constitution. They wave American flags. They sport Trump 2020 gear. They rail against vaccines. In other states, including Michigan, protesters have shown up at government buildings carrying rifles.
Despite their varied causes, the protesters have been almost entirely white — even in California, a state that mostly is not.
The raucous protests in wealthy, coastal Orange and San Diego counties and at the state Capitol in recent days have, for many, highlighted racial and class disparities amid a pandemic that has killed more than 2,500 Californians — a disproportionate number of whom are black, Latino and poor.
In Los Angeles County, where nearly half of the state’s more than 61,000 confirmed coronavirus cases are located, public health officials say residents of low-income communities are three times more likely to die of COVID-19 than those in wealthier neighborhoods. A Times data analysis found blacks and Latinos under 50 are dying of coronavirus in significantly greater numbers than other groups, including whites. Experts believe one reason is that many work in "essential" service jobs that require them to leave home, putting them at a higher risk of infection.
F---ing liars. In California, Whites and Asians generally have been FAR more affected by this than Latinos.
CDC's ethnic data adjusts for density and other factors and shows that white Californians have TWICE the propensity of Latinos to die a COVID-related death as Hispanic Californians:
Group....% COVID-Attrib'd Deaths...Weighted % CA pop..
Hispanics......................30.1%...........46.6%
Non-Hisp. Whites.........40.2%........... 28.3%
Only by dishonestly sorting the data can one conclude that Hispanics, who are the dominant population in LA by far, are unduly harmed by COVID. In fact, they're the ones unduly hurt by the lockdown.
Russia's $600k in Facebook ads over a year didn't "sow division" anywhere near as much as every one of these lying bastards does with every hysterical "rayciss!!" screaming headline and faux-analysis they publish each day.
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But we can always count on the LA Slimes to stoke the fires of racial and political divisions.
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Re the LA Slimes article, note how little "analysis" of, y'know, actual evidence or data these four cub reporters provide in the course of some 5,000 words. Again and again they make a claim - "rayciss!!" - and then pivot quickly to a series of man-on-the-street impressions or tendententious academics' quotes. It's nothing more than series of incoherent slurs flung at whitey.
[Francer24] In an interview with FRANCE 24, Taiwan's Vice President Chen Chien-jen, an epidemiologist by training, discussed his country's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, while criticising the response of China and the World Health Organization. Chen refused to rule out the "possibility" that the coronavirus originated in a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan. He also expressed concern about a second wave of the virus appearing in autumn or winter.
Taiwan has some 440 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and so far only six deaths, despite being relatively close to the epicentre of the virus. Vice President Chen Chien-jen told FRANCE 24 his country had been able to control the pandemic because it took a very early decision to quarantine travellers from the Chinese city of Wuhan and quickly isolate and trace confirmed cases. He explained that this rapid reaction was a result of the experience of the SARS outbreak in 2003.
Reacting to the Trump administration's claims that the virus had most likely originated at a laboratory in Wuhan — and not a seafood market as claimed by China — Chen said this theory could not be ruled out but that the only way to know was a thorough scientific probe. "The origin of the virus has to be examined scientifically and so far we can see that the virus originated from Wuhan. Whether it is from a laboratory or from the natural infection sources needs further confirmation," he said, adding that the laboratory theory was "one of the possibilities".
He said that China clearly did not give the true figures of victims of the pandemic, saying that in the early stages, "only severe pneumonia cases were isolated and treated in hospital", thereby underestimating the real figures.
[The Hill] The World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday that "wet" animal markets should not be shut down globally after one such site in Wuhan, China, is suspected of being the origin of the coronavirus pandemic.
WHO food safety and animal diseases expert Peter Ben Embarek said in a press briefing Friday that live animal markets play a key role in providing food and jobs to millions of people and that authorities should focus on improving safety standards rather than shutting them down.
"Food safety in these environments is rather difficult and therefore it’s not surprising that sometimes we also have these events happening within markets," Embarek said.
The WHO expert added that improving hygiene and food safety standards at wet markets could reduce the risk of diseases being transmitted from animals to humans and noted that investigators are still trying to clarify the precise animal from which the coronavirus jumped to first infect humans.
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With all of the markets, souks, farms, etc., over hundreds of years, one could think we would be regularly having some outbreak of something. Yeah, some of these markets serve up some weird sh!t, but I gotta wonder sometimes.
[ISPIONLINE.IT] The "Libyan Political Agreement" (LPA) is the somehow controversial outcome of the month-long, United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... -sponsored negotiations between various Libyan stakeholders in Skhirat, Morocco. It was signed on December 17, 2015 and endorsed by the United Nations Security Council a few days later. The LPA is the foundation of the current stabilization efforts led by UN Special Representative Ghassan Salamé, strongly supported by Italia, La Belle France, UK, the U.S. and many other nations. It is also the justification for Libya’s international recognized government, the "Government of National Accord" (GNA), led by prime minister Fayez al-Serraj.
According to several senior law experts, the LPA expires after two years, on December 17, 2017. Actually, this period of time is mentioned in the LPA itself. Article No. 1/ 4 of the LPA states unequivocally that "The term of the Government of National Accord shall be one year as of the date of granting it a vote of confidence by the House of Representatives. In case the Constitution was not finalized during its term, it shall be renewed automatically for one additional year only. In all cases, the term of the Government shall end immediately after the formation of the Executive Authority as per the Libyan Constitution, or the expiry of its specified duration, whichever is earlier". It can be argued, that with the endorsement of the LPA by the United Nations Security Council and the international recognition of the GNA as Libya’s legitimate government, the two-years period started de-facto right away on December 17, 2015, even without a vote of confidence by the "House of Representatives" (HoR), Libya’s internationally recognized parliament.
HOW TO OVERCOME THE "EXPIRY"? However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... presumably the validity of the agreement will be somehow extended, although this was not foreseen, or, even more likely, the date will be simply ignored. The United Nations, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , several European nations, and the U.S. follow the argumentation, that the two years of the legal force of the agreement have not even started, because the agreement has not yet been voted into law by the HoR.
Notwithstanding that this can be certainly argued correctly, it leaves the question open, how a government can be recognized, while claiming that the agreement establishing the very same government has not yet entered into force. It is doubtful, that there is any legal justification for this.
As a consequence, the already very limited legitimacy and credibility of the GNA will be certainly further undermined.
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[Babylon Bee] USA—Another video has been released depicting Chinese officials raiding a Christian church and violently dragging members out of the building. Other recent videos show churches being demolished and worshippers being taken prisoner simply for practicing a religion the government does not approve of.
While many Christians in the USA find these events alarming, they should be reminded that stuff like that will never happen here.
"Sure, there are a lot of similarities between Americans and the Chinese. They are all humans for instance. And sure, atrocities like this have been committed by many nationalities for many different reasons across history," said Historian Francis Pennwick. "But it'll never happen here. If you even worry about it you're insane."
Some Christians say that the rising acceptance of socialist and communist ideas gives them pause. "Why would you want to flirt with a political system that has literally the worst track record in the known universe?" asked one ignorant sky fairy adherent, unaware that real communism has never been tried.
"Nobody wants to violently drag people out of churches here, and they never will," said Calvin Ridgley, a Political Science professor at Penn State. "It would be easier to just release murder hornets into the building or something. Not that anyone wants that! I'm just saying—IF that was something we wanted to do—sure, there are lots of ways to deal with all these pesky religious lunatics if they won't unite with the greater good. Hypothetically speaking of course."
American Christians can rest easy knowing that—though many people of one specific political persuasion absolutely despise them beyond any conceivable level of rationality and would definitely love to make them disappear (in a perfect world of course)—they have nothing to worry about because nothing like that will ever happen here, seriously. You're fine.
[Rudaw] When Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... wanted to threaten the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) days before its planned independence referendum in September 2017, he only needed to remind the Kurds that their treasured oil revenue reaches the market via Ottoman Turkish territory. "We have the tap. The moment we close the tap, then it’s done," Erdogan said at the time.
With the completion of the TurkStream pipeline, Erdogan now holds a similar political and economic trump card which he can use at will to turn the pressure on and off on Europe.
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Hmm........two bad players. Nice little pickle you are in EU.
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"Erdogan", isn't that arab for butt plug? Cause the EU is sure feeling it.
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(2018) Sixty-seven percent of Russia's tax revenues came from energy exports, particularly gas. Gazprom, and Russian resource oligarchs, the kleptocracy, operate with Kremlin approval. As noted, they operate in conjunction with the elites in countries such as Bulgaria, Serbia and Turkey.
[PJ] This will teach those Islamophobes that Islam is a religion of peace: a professor is facing death threats for suggesting otherwise. Nicholas Damask, Ph.D., has taught political science at Scottsdale Community College in Arizona for 24 years. But now he is facing a barrage of threats, and his family, including his 9-year-old grandson and 85-year-old parents, is in hiding, while College officials are demanding that he apologize — all for the crime of speaking the truth about the motivating ideology behind the threat of Islamic jihad worldwide.
Damask, who has an MA in International Relations from American University in Washington, D.C., and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Cincinnati, says he is "to my knowledge, the only tenured political science faculty currently teaching in Arizona to write a doctoral dissertation on terrorism." He has taught Scottsdale Community College’s World Politics for each of the 24 years he has worked at the school.
Professor Damask’s troubles began during the current Spring semester, when a student took exception to three quiz questions. The questions were:
Who do terrorists strive to emulate? A. Mohammed
Where is terrorism encouraged in Islamic doctrine and law? A. The Medina verses [i.e., the portion of the Qur’an traditionally understood as having been revealed later in Muhammad’s prophetic career]
Terrorism is _______ in Islam. A. justified within the context of jihad.
Damask explained: "All quiz questions on each of my quizzes, including the ones in question here, are carefully sourced to the reading material. On this quiz, questions were sourced to the Qur’an, the hadiths, and the sira (biography) of Mohammed, and other reputable source material." And indeed, the three questions reflect basic facts that are readily established by reference to Islamic texts and teachings and numerous statements of terrorists themselves.
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No different than pointing out that before the Europeans arrived Native Americans were like any other human society, hierarchical, tribal, and territorial. They simply practiced it with stone age weapons. Some, like the Aztecs and Incas, more efficiently than others, but just as human as their European competitors. Cortez didn't surround the entire city of Tenochtitlan with a few hundred Spanish. He had an army of natives out for revenge and payback.
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#3 Reportedly the Tlaxcalans asked only one question of Cortes when confronted with the demands to convert, and swear allegiance to the Spanish crown, 'Can we kill Aztecs?'.
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Raymond Ibrahim’s book “Sword and Scimitar “ says precisely the same things in enormous detail and impeccable sourcing. CAIR went apoplectic when he gave a presentation at the Army War College because viewing the Koran and Hadiths as a political and military doctrine that grew out of a murderous cult is anathema to their pretext of religion of peace.
Schadenfreude Alert - I expect they'll "Stop production for Coronavirus" and never resume, if they have ANY sense
[MRC] If the "first draft of history" in the news media sounds dubious, the "second draft" made by Hollywood is almost certainly going to be worse. I'm not talking about documentaries, which can be judged as journalism. I'm talking about movies and TV shows, which will inevitably be pressed to dramatize things so it is ever more loosely "based on real events."
CBS has been preparing a miniseries based on ex-FBI director James Comey's memoir, pompously titled A Higher Loyalty. In it, he lectured "Ethical leaders choose a higher loyalty to those core values over their own personal gain." But the personal gain was sweet for Comey.
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Agree with JohnQC though I would add Narcissistic as a descriptor to traitorous..."Narcissistic Traitorous James Comey"
A quick google search reveals that ole Jim meets all nine of the:
9 official criteria for NPD
1. grandiose sense of self-importance
2. preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance
3. belief they’re special and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people or institutions
4. need for excessive admiration
5. sense of entitlement
6. inter-personally exploitative behavior
7. lack of empathy
8. envy of others or a belief that others are envious of them
9. demonstration of arrogant and haughty behaviors or attitudes
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Red State] I didn’t expect to see H.R. McMaster’s
[LA Tmes] The crowds protesting California’s stay-at-home orders aimed at stopping the spread of the novel coronavirus have a litany of grievances: Open the beaches. Free the churches. End the tyranny of a governor who has gone too far.
[Francer24] In an interview with FRANCE 24, Taiwan's Vice President Chen Chien-jen, an epidemiologist by training, discussed his country's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, while criticising the response of China and the World Health Organization. Chen refused to rule out the "possibility" that the coronavirus originated in a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan. He also expressed concern about a second wave of the virus appearing in autumn or winter.
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
[Babylon Bee] USA—Another video has been released depicting Chinese officials raiding a Christian church and violently dragging members out of the building. Other recent videos show churches being demolished and worshippers being taken prisoner simply for practicing a religion the government does not approve of.
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
