[National Review] Plan A was to exonerate her and get her elected. Plan B, the failsafe, was an ’insurance policy’ meant to destroy Trump.
There really was a collusion plot. It really did target our election system. It absolutely sought to usurp our capacity for self-determination. It was just not the collusion you’ve been told about for nearly three years. It was not "Donald Trump’s collusion with Russia."
Here is the real collusion scheme: In 2016, the incumbent Democratic administration of President Barack Obama put the awesome powers of the United States government’s law-enforcement and intelligence apparatus in the service of the Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign, the Democratic party, and the progressive Beltway establishment. This scheme had two parts: Plan A, the objective; and Plan B, a fail-safe strategy in case Plan A imploded ‐ which all the smartest people were supremely confident would never, ever happen . . . which is why you could bet the ranch that it would.
Plan A was to get Mrs. Clinton elected president of the United States. This required exonerating her, at least ostensibly, from well-founded allegations of her felonious and politically disqualifying actions.
Plan B was the insurance policy: an investigation that Donald Trump, in the highly unlikely event he was elected, would be powerless to shut down. An investigation that would simultaneously monitor and taint him. An investigation that internalized Clinton-campaign-generated opposition research, limning Trump and his campaign as complicit in Russian espionage. An investigation that would hunt for a crime under the guise of counterintelligence, build an impeachment case under the guise of hunting for a crime, and seek to make Trump un-reelectable under the guise of building an impeachment case.
Upon becoming President Obama’s secretary of state, Clinton improperly set up a private, non-secure system for email communications. It featured her own personal server, stored in her home and, later, maintained by a private contractor. Secretary Clinton used this private email system for all of her official State Department communications, notwithstanding that doing so (a) violated government regulations (which, as the department head, she was responsible for enforcing); (b) violated governmental record-keeping and record-production obligations imposed by federal law; and (c) made it inevitable ‐ due to the nature of her responsibilities ‐ that streams of classified information would flow through and be stored in the non-secure system.
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Upon becoming President Obama’s secretary of state, Clinton improperly set up a private, non-secure system for email communications. It featured her own personal server, stored in her home and, later, maintained by a private contractor.
With tens of thousands of pieces of official government correspondence, many items reportedly classified, some highly classified.
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Clinton improperly set up a private, non-secure system for email communications
Just remember who we're talking about, her intent was never about serving the US as SoS, her focus was all about 'fundraising'. She needed the non-secure access and data gathering to implement that.
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[RED STATE] The depth of the cover-up involved in Hillary’s email illegality is absolutely breath-taking. The lengths they went to and the amount of people who were working to shift priorities and bury evidence seems almost inconceivable, yet we have the government documentation proving these things happened.
Despite all this, it looks like everyone is going to get away with it. The media still claim Obama had no scandals while the current DOJ is ignoring criminal referrals by the IG for figures like Peter Strzok, Andrew McCabe, and James Comey. In fact, some of these people are so emboldened that they are now suing the government to get their full pensions. Meanwhile, others hide behind blanket immunity that was given for no logical reason whatsoever.
This is why so few people trusts our institutions. It’s also why the many conservatives who spent years insisting we treat the FBI/DOJ as sacrosanct were simply wrong. The corruption is blatantly evident. These were not people just trying to do their job and protect Americans. They were political actors that perverted the system of justice and that deserves the exposition it’s now getting.
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The depth of the cover-up involved in Hillary’s email illegality is absolutely breath-taking. The lengths they went to and the amount of people who were working to shift priorities and bury evidence seems almost inconceivable, yet we have the government documentation proving these things happened.
Despite all this, it looks like everyone is going to get away with it. The media still claim Obama had no scandals while the current DOJ is ignoring criminal referrals by the IG for figures like Peter Strzok, Andrew McCabe, and James Comey. In fact, some of these people are so emboldened that they are now suing the government to get their full pensions. Meanwhile, others hide behind blanket immunity that was given for no logical reason whatsoever.
This is why so few people trusts our institutions. It’s also why the many conservatives who spent years insisting we treat the FBI/DOJ as sacrosanct were simply wrong. The corruption is blatantly evident. These were not people just trying to do their job and protect Americans. They were political actors that perverted the system of justice and that deserves the exposition it’s now getting.
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The IG of the DOJ has been finishing up his investigation on the FISA surveillance of Carter Page and others. Until this report is out, the DOJ is, IIUC, limited in what it may do.
The IG report was supposed to be out in June, then July, now September. It may cover more than the FISA issue and that may be what is delaying things.
Anyway, after the IG report is final, investigations will probably accelerate including a re-investigation of Hillary's email issue. How much they accomplish and how fast will depend on how skillfully they organize and execute, witness cooperation, etc.
Posted by: lord garth ||
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[Babylon Bee] U.S.‐Democratic National Committee spokesperson Michael Tyler announced Thursday that all candidates who run in the 2020 presidential election as Democrats will completely forego armed security for the entirety of their campaigns, in a clear and bold stance against gun violence in America.
"We’ve talked to all possible candidates and everyone has agreed. Gun violence is a huge issue in our country, and guns are the problem. So whoever runs for president as a Democrat in 2020‐be it Bernie, Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Jerry Brown, and/or whoever else throws their hat in the ring‐they will steadfastly refuse to employ security teams who carry scary firearms."
Tyler further confirmed that if a Democrat wins the White House in 2020, their first order of business will be to disarm the Secret Service. Asked how the president would then be kept safe, Tyler revealed that they plan on introducing a gun-free zone encompassing a 500-yard radius around the president at all times.
[Free Beacon] A new scientific breakthrough could increase the odds that Hillary Clinton, 71, could enter the Democratic primary in an effort to unite the party behind a tried and tested (albeit twice-failed) candidate in 2020.
Clinton, whose unsuccessful 2016 campaign was plagued by challenges related to likability, balance, mobility, health scares, corruption, incompetence, and hubris, will be thrilled to learn that researchers at Keio University in Japan have developed a piece of technology that could mitigate at least one of those factors in the event she decides to run again.
The "Arque" is an "artificial biomimicry-inspired anthropomorphic tail" that elderly individuals can wear "as an extension of human body to provide active momentum alteration in balancing situations, or as a device to alter body momentum for full-body haptic feedback scenarios." In other words, it could be just the thing Hillary needs to overcome the general distaste with which she is viewed by a majority of the voting public.
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Well it is said that the devil is in the tails or is that details ? Of course with her and mumbles Pelosi around it may be the death knells or screeching end of the Democrat Party .
[Jpost] Why does Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... continue to saber-rattle and threaten to massacre Israelis? Why do Iranian religious and military leaders constantly vow to impose terrible violence on their enemies? And why is the ever-escalating aggression carried on by various Iranian proxies across the Middle East?
These days, international commentators assume that threats of violence and warnings of war are Iran’s boastful way of defying US economic sanctions, which presently have a strangle-hold on their leaders and institutions. Meanwhile,
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Eh wot? Not even a real apocalypse?
Just a shite one?
Ballocks!
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yes the Supreme Leader is like this and also a lot of the other mullahs, council of guardians and some others
I wonder, however, about the military. The regular military probably is not interested in apocalypse. The IRGC may be interested in apocalypse but they also have commercial interests.
Finally, the various external deployments have resulted in a steady stream of fatalities. Almost certainly the general population is anti apocalypse (even anti regime). The IRGC is probably trending this way also.
Posted by: lord garth ||
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This naif swallows their bullshit whole. They are cynical oligarchs who feed this crap to the rubes
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[NYP] Socialism is taking my generation by storm. But just like a hurricane, socialism didn’t gain traction overnight.
It’s important to look at the typical millennial trajectory, and why unprecedented government intervention into our daily lives is now widely seen as the only solution to the problems that bedevil us as a generation.
Millennials grew up in an age of college-prep academics, where the only choice was to go to a college or university. We took this journey on the faith that a college education would give us the necessary skills to kick-start our careers.
After graduation, we quickly found out that our alma maters did little to prepare us to be job-ready. Millions of young Americans are now trapped in underemployment or unemployment in their industry of choice.
Just as we get our first student-loan bill, we find ourselves navigating unpaid and low-paid internships that are often a dead end professionally.
Moving to a large metro area becomes a necessity; most of the jobs created since the Great Recession are in a handful of urban areas. Trouble is, these areas are wildly unaffordable.
The next predictable step is working a service-industry job that doesn’t require a degree while trying to get set up in a city with job openings in our fields. Yet a booming job market often also means a housing horror show. Misguided housing policies in places like New York, Los Angeles, Washington and San Francisco have created such a tight market that it is often financially impossible for a young person to move there.
Still, we persist, often with parental help and significant struggle. Eventually, we get a job that previous generations probably wouldn’t envy. We pay through the nose for health insurance, have zero job security and pray we advance as soon as possible. Most of us, contrary to popular belief, try to fight our latte-obsessed, avocado-toast-addled, entitled-youngster image.
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...I would give anything to see a breakdown of the degree subjects that these people are pursuing. I suspect that if THAT were publicized, the voting public would rise up in righteous fury at any suggestion that those loans be paid off with their money.
Mike
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"You chose......poorly." SJW Studies are unnecessary
Posted by: Frank g ||
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They'll just have to go to work on the night shift at the factory and attend school part-time. Oh wait... there are no factories.
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After graduation, we quickly found out that our alma maters did little to prepare us to be job-ready. Millions of young Americans are now trapped in underemployment or unemployment in their industry of choice.
Just as we get our first student-loan bill, we find ourselves navigating unpaid and low-paid internships that are often a dead end professionally.
Aren't you part of this 'getting ready for adulthood' thing, bunky? Where the hell were you for that one?
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You think it was easy when I was a kid? Think again.
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Re #3: Frank, in my opinion, any major with the word "studies" in it is useless.
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Where are their parents in all this?
What if anything were they told by their parents would happen?
From Roald Dahl's many poem-songs: What do you get
When your kid
Is a brat?
Who is to blame
For all of that?
The-mother-and-the-fa-ah-ther ...
#13
Snivel, get a Kleenex. College is not a work program. It is there to create an environment to enrich the brain. They think the world owe them something, we don't. They seem to think that hanging out in a frat house or dorm room studying college courses is somehow paying their dues for a good life. Its not! Welcome to the real world, America IS the world of dreams where anything is possible and what the millennials forget is the rest of the sentence, "If your willing to work for it", and college is not work.
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These idiots are the result of everyone getting a participation trophy, their views never challenged, and never being made to work for their grades.
The result is laughably predictable. They turned you all into debt slaves with no skills to get out of the predicament you are in.
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How many of these people are would-be apparatchiks that have never had a "production job" and think that a piece of paper makes them employable? In Capitalism you can't ass-u-me that someone will hire you -- in Socialism there is always the gulags (but they ass-u-me that only the deplorables will be sent there!)...
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Magpie, I call that "commissar syndrome." The true believers always are sure they will be among those in charge. If they actually studied the history, they know that most true believers were seen as "useful idiots" by the ones who wound up in charge...
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Ref 16: If they actually studied the history, they know that most true believers were seen as "useful idiots" by the ones who wound up in charge...
The John Brennan-Obama relationship for example. Soetoro being the consummate .... "useful idiot."
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Obama gave us socialism light which stunted the economic recover until Trump showed up and tore it apart to release the economy. So now these geniuses want more socialism. Sympathy drying up.
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When you are talking about what went wrong with successive generations to get here, you must also consider the slow deviation from character consciousness that occurred in the prosperity after the last great war.
The Chomsky brand of education, modern psychiatry and systematized parenting overseen by an increasingly paranoid nanny-state. The simultaneous rise of alt-religion. Acceptance of teen sex, hallucinogens and paraphernalia as a 'part of growing up'. The replacing of the Sunday sermon with 'Santa Barbara' reruns.
You may mind me saying it, but the idiot adherence to mercenary politics disguised as socialism that we see in American youth today is due to the purely suicidal influence of Godlessness. An evil influence of the sort that gone out of a body, seeks an empty place and returning to find one, swept and tidied by ritalin and 'experts', brings with it seven others. And the end of that is even worse.
From what I understand of Americans, the very element of your people lay in hard work. Making your lives count, laying foundations, building and inventing the future for yourselves and others. A society that never much cared for who's in office, because you put the food on your table, not some clown in DC.
The current trend though, is to wait for a technical messiah, a superhuman savior 'with a plan for everything', some intellectual and moral giant that shall take away years of troubles and return gladness and relief just by his/her presence. One can expect this attitudinal lethargy from people of a third world shithole with a history of idol and nature worship, but America was a Christian nation built by its peoples out of nothing but rock and dirt, with no one but God smiling down on the farmer, the miner, the railroad worker...
Today's young America looks down upon the God-fearing, any mention of Jesus, any dialogue on the difference between holy and profane is considered puerile in this time of Hawkings and Hitchens.
There's no way the mental health of the next generation will not be even worse. I just find it a terrible waste.
It can't be turned around without God and only politics. I think people should make the most of the times of Trump, push for a return and appreciation for christian values, emblems and practices. Watch those enemies crumble like the walls of Jericho then.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[National Review] Plan A was to exonerate her and get her elected. Plan B, the failsafe, was an ’insurance policy’ meant to destroy Trump.
[Babylon Bee] U.S.‐Democratic National Committee spokesperson Michael Tyler announced Thursday that all candidates who run in the 2020 presidential election as Democrats will completely forego armed security for the entirety of their campaigns, in a clear and bold stance against gun violence in America.
[Free Beacon] A new scientific breakthrough could increase the odds that Hillary Clinton, 71, could enter the Democratic primary in an effort to unite the party behind a tried and tested (albeit twice-failed) candidate in 2020.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
[NYP] Socialism is taking my generation by storm. But just like a hurricane, socialism didn’t gain traction overnight.
No medical benefits, no 401k, no computer, no overtime pay, no retirement program, no day-care, no iPhone, no Facebook, no Starbucks, no....... 
