[Hot Air] Can you imagine what the presidential sh*tposting about Bill Barr will be like if the Horowitz report turns out to be a dud? Trump is counting on it to deliver his vindication in the Russiagate mess. Barr was the Roy Cohn figure POTUS had longed for after being massively disappointed by Jeff Sessions, the AG who would finally prove that Trump’s worst fears were right all along. The bogus Steele dossier inspired the witch hunt; the renegade deep-staters at the FBI spied on the campaign; Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, and God knows who else were all rancid with bias against Trump because they resented a right-wing anti-interventionist president who wasn’t chummy with Washington’s entrenched bureaucracy.
According to last week’s Times story about the IG’s draft report and now this new one, none of it is true. Per this afternoon’s reporting, inspector general Michael Horowitz is prepared to conclude that the FBI didn’t spy on the campaign.
...although it did use at least two informants to make contact with Trump campaign staff. Huh?
Until now, the debate over whether the FBI had "spied on the campaign" focused on the spying part. Is it "spying" when the police use an informant as part of a legitimate counterintelligence or criminal investigation? (Last week’s reporting claimed that the draft report will find that the Russiagate probe did have a sufficient factual and legal basis when it was opened.) But now we’re going to end up debating the "on the campaign" part too. Was the FBI spying on "the campaign" if it had informants in touch with advisors to the campaign but not attempting to join the campaign themselves? Remember that both Stefan Halper and a mystery woman were each working for the feds when they made contact with George Papadopoulos.
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Obama administration's faux concern over Russian espionage. Oh WTF, just release all ten of them. We'll call it a 'swap' and go grab some lunch.
Anna Vasilyevna Chapman (Russian: А́нна Васи́льевна Ча́пман, born Anna Vasil’yevna Kushchyenko 23 February 1982) is a Russian intelligence agent, media personality, and model who was arrested in the United States on June 27, 2010 as part of the Illegals Program spy ring. At the time of her arrest she was accused of espionage on behalf of the Russian Federation's external intelligence agency, the Sluzhba vneshney razvedki (SVR).[2][4][5] She had previously gained British citizenship through marriage, which she used to gain residency in the U.S.
Chapman pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government. She and the other Russians were deported to Russia on 8 July 2010, as part of the 2010 Russia–U.S. prisoner swap. Learning that Chapman had wanted to return to the United Kingdom, the UK government revoked her British citizenship and excluded her from the country.
Since her return to Russia, Chapman has worked in a variety of fields, including for the government as head of a youth council, a catwalk model in Russian fashion shows, and running a television series.
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Nothing heard on the topic from Admiral(Ret) Michael S. Rogers, U.S. Navy, former Director NSA. Yes, that's the fellow who conducted a solo visit to Trump towers (the day before the Trump campaign team moved to more secure quarters).
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If they were spying or whatever they kept notes and tapes and all sorts of data. Trump could declassify it all. I'm sure it would make interesting reading.
[The Federalist] Late Tuesday, federal prosecutors filed a motion to cancel the briefing due in mid-December in the Michael Flynn criminal case.
In early September, D.C. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan had ordered the government to file a supplemental sentencing memorandum by December 2, 2019, and directed Flynn’s new attorney, Sidney Powell, to file a supplemental sentencing memorandum for the retired general by December 10, 2019. Judge Sullivan had then set a December 18, 2019, date for Flynn’s sentencing.
But now, after having previously argued stridently that there was no reason to delay Flynn’s sentencing, the government has asked the long-time federal judge to put both the briefing and the sentencing hearing on hold.
Government attorneys presented two justifications for the requested delay. First, they stressed that the court had not yet ruled on Flynn’s pending motion to compel the production of Brady material. As prosecutors note in the motion to delay the sentencing proceedings, Judge Sullivan had scheduled a hearing on the motion to compel for October 31, 2019, but then "canceled the hearing for the Motion to Compel because of the parties’ ’comprehensive briefing.’"
Nearly a month has passed since the original hearing date and the court has not yet ruled on Flynn’s Motion to Compel. The government’s motion, which Flynn joined, stressed that while "both parties share the Court’s goal to move this case along expeditiously[,], [t]he parties nonetheless believe that their sentencing submissions will be incomplete if they are filed prior to the Court’s issuance of its ruling on the Motion to Compel."
This explanation for the delay makes imminent sense: If the court orders the government to turn over more information it could well alter the arguments made in the sentencing memorandum. Alternatively, newly disclosed evidence may trigger other proceedings‐such as a motion to dismiss based on egregious prosecutorial misconduct‐that need resolving prior to sentencing.
What is surprising, however, is that the government agrees with this reasoning. Until now, federal prosecutors argued that the Motion to Compel is a fishing expedition and the evidence sought is immaterial to sentencing. But now, the government seems to accept the possibility that the Motion to Compel has some merit.
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Hoping for a Ray Donovan outcome for Gen. Flynn.
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He tried to do a good job at DIA. He and his deputy stepped on too many Klingon-Soetoro toes.
No lawyer here, but I suspect that basing a criminal conviction on a contrived and false Steele Dossier may be a problem. Illegally obtained FISA evidence may also be problematic. 'Fruit of the poisonous tree' perhaps. We shall see.
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I think going forward, considering Turkey and Ukraine "no go zones" from an engagement standpoint would be a good thing. There are other places that belong on the list as well.
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[New Republic] Every day, I start the shift by throwing on my marking gear. It’s not as heavy as my kit in Afghanistan, just an easy 40-odd pounds with the paint. Instead of a blaze orange cruiser vest like the ones my co-workers use, I still take the old tactical vest I wore over my armor back then. The mag pouches hold the Relaskop I use to measure tree height, and the dump pouch holds my clipboard of data cards, with room to spare for the wild mushrooms and onions I collect. Add to that my four-gallon backpack paint sprayer and I’m ready to go.
Sometimes I think about the blood on the vest. You can’t see it anymore; everything I own is splattered with timber-marking paint nowadays. We use water-based paint for marking in pine stands, and oil-based for hardwoods. The water-based paint wears off of hardwood bark after only a few years. My best friend bled on me during a firefight. He had been hit in the fingertip by something minor enough to not notice, but because it was during a fight, the Army would call your family and freak them out no matter how quaint the injury. The paint manufacturer uses citrus oil, so by the end of the day, my beard smells like an orange from the overspray. We didn’t tell our NCOs he had been hurt. He’s been dead five years. He shot himself.
After spending six years overseas, I came back and couldn’t deal with the hectic lower-48 lifestyle, so I went to Alaska. When I first became a forest ecologist, I’d wanted to do research, make the world a better place through learning. But I learned quickly that none of it mattered if policymakers ignored your work. Last year, I decided I needed to be involved in direct management, and took a job in the Wisconsin northwoods. It took 18 months to finally get VA appointments for my TBI and PTS. The doctor tried several medications to help me. One of them made me certain I was having a heart attack. Thinking I was dying, I made peace with God on the floor of my one room cabin. Next time I saw him, the doctor told me to just smoke cigarettes to dull the anxiety. He said he couldn’t do anything for my other symptoms.
I spend my time working in Wisconsin’s second-growth forests, administering timber sales and marking trees for harvest. Old growth takes a long time to regenerate, so I help the process along by cutting to favor the old growth species. In a hundred years or so, I hope my grandkids will walk through the forest and think well of what I did. The next VA doctor told me he thought I was just a drug addict looking to score Xanax when he saw my medical allergies. So I chew nicotine gum like a fiend to keep the edge off.
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What an odd piece. I hope he finds peace, and the family he wants. Pappy occasionally mentioned that another of his Marines had committed suicide — it’s tough, and the VA doesn’t do enough, possibly because psychiatry seems only beginning to understand how PTSD works, never mind anxiety and depression.
h/t Instapundit
[Spectator] ’You can talk about anything you like,’ said Radu, a young Romanian academic when he invited me to a conference in Bucharest. The theme was ’Real liberty or new serfdom?’ marking the anniversary of the fall of Nicolae Ceausescu 30 years ago. The audience was made up of Romanian undergraduates.
The keynote speaker, a German federalist, was planning on making the classical liberal case for the EU, which made the title of my lecture ‐ ’The classical liberal case against the EU’ ‐ a no-brainer. But I was nervous when I told Radu what I wanted to talk about. Thirty years ago, Romanians had been ruled by a man who literally gave his critics cancer. Would fears of criticising the powerful die hard in Bucharest? I waited for the explanation that there had a been a mix up, that my lecture would be cancelled, and... ’Excellent!’ replied Radu. ’That’s exactly what we need.’
A week later I was preparing to talk to a student politics society at Cambridge and I suggested the same subject. Only this time I did get the explanation. ’The problem is... we’re looking for something a bit more mainstream.’ Mainstream? But this is broadly the view of 52 per cent of the UK population! ’Right. It’s just that we had a pro-Brexit speaker once and it all got a bit uncomfortable, a bit... controversial.’ Controversial ideas? At a university? Whatever next?
He was quite honest about it. It seemed like his society’s director had introduced a policy of no-platforming Brexiteers. I spared him the thoughts crystallising in my mind about Cambridge as the scholarly heart of the English Reformation and the Parliamentarian struggle against arbitrary power. ’Something on China, perhaps?’ he suggested. An authoritarian regime that suppresses free speech. Yes, I can see why that would go down better at Cambridge.
Back in Romania, we all got together in a hotel in Bucharest. The German federalist did his thing: Kant, perpetual peace, the brotherhood of Europe like the good old days of the Holy Roman Empire (never mind the Thirty Years’ War). He was asked how he squared this vision with the mess the EU is in today. ’We need to squash down these nation states, that’s the way,’ he said cheerfully. He ended with a flourish, explaining how ’these days, under the EU system, Bratislava for example is a great German, I mean European, city.’ Nervous laughter; polite applause.
...The students in Bucharest were doing what students are supposed to do: hearing each side of the argument. They didn’t show any of the symptoms of intellectual decay that I often encounter among students in the Anglosphere ‐ in particular, using someone’s dissent from progressive orthodoxy to exclude, purge, persecute, or otherwise gain power over them (I mean no-platforming, social-media mobbing or denouncing in an ’open letter’). But there is another malady that afflicts so many of our students, and is often indicative of an authoritarian mindset: they are so boring.
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So, so sad what's happened to our universities.
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...kill the student loan program and the invisible hand of the market place will kick in. Toss in the endowments as fully taxable entities and watch the wailing begin.
[The Hill] Former Navy Secretary Richard Spencer on Wednesday admonished President Trump for repeatedly involving himself in an internal review of a Navy SEAL whose case led to controversy and Spencer's ouster over the weekend.
Spencer penned an op-ed in The Washington Post in which he laid out multiple instances in which Trump attempted to intervene in a military review of Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher, who was accused and later acquitted of several war crimes.
"This was a shocking and unprecedented intervention in a low-level review," Spencer wrote. "It was also a reminder that the president has very little understanding of what it means to be in the military, to fight ethically or to be governed by a uniform set of rules and practices."
Spencer called it "highly irregular" for senior military officials to be involved in personnel matters. But he described how Trump "involved himself in the case almost from the start."
The former secretary wrote that the president called him twice to request Gallagher be released from confinement in the Navy brig while he awaited trial. Trump later asked Spencer to have Gallagher transferred.
The ex-secretary attributed Trump's intense interest in the case to its prominence in the media.
Gallagher was convicted earlier this year of one charge of posing with an ISIS captive’s body. He was acquitted on more serious charges related to an incident in which he allegedly shot at several civilians during a 2017 deployment and killed the ISIS captive, who was already injured, with a hunting knife.
Earlier this month, Spencer wrote to Trump asking him not to get involved in the review of whether Gallagher would retain his rank and status as a member of the SEAL force, according to the op-ed. But he said White House counsel Pat Cipollone later called to say Trump would order him to restore Gallagher's rank.
A week later, Trump tweeted that Gallagher would keep his Trident pin and subsequently retain his status as a SEAL.
"I recognized that the tweet revealed the president’s intent," Spencer wrote Wednesday. "But I did not believe it to be an official order, chiefly because every action taken by the president in the case so far had either been a verbal or written command."
Spencer acknowledged that he sought to find a workaround with the White House without consulting Defense Secretary Mark Esper, a decision that ultimately contributed to his ouster from the administration.
"That was, I see in retrospect, a mistake for which I am solely responsible," Spencer wrote. But, but, but.... nobody fires MEEEEEE !!!
Trump invoked the controversy during a rally Tuesday in Florida, portraying those opposed to his pardon of Gallagher and grant of clemency for two others involved in war crimes cases as members of the "deep state."
"I will always stick up for our great fighters," he said. "People can sit there in air-conditioned offices and complain, but you know what? Doesn’t matter to me whatsoever."
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The President of the United States (POTUS) is of course The Commander In Chief. He can pardon whomever he wants. Like any other lawful order, his pardon is an order which must be followed. Orders should not be a matter of debate, they must be followed. Liking or disliking the order is optional. Subverting the order, or failing to carry it out are not.
The onerous Soetoro pardoned dozens of murderous Taliban varmints and released them from GITMO. Thanks to Soetoro, they immediately returned to their old jobs in the Stans, murdering and pillaging. The fact that they returned to their old jobs is indisputable.
As expected, the liberal media didn't make much of the Soetoro pardons.
By the way, I have no use for men taking fotos of dead enemy combatants, or for alleged UBL... 'face shooter' and sometimes FOX teevee guest, former USN SEAL Rob O'Neill. Nor do I have much use for any of the other book writers and story tellers. Men who talk about such exploits and take pictures are crude, vulgar, and lack professionalism.
Remember the old fellas from 'the greatest generation?' Many refused to talk about the war until much later in life. Some never spoke of it at all. Those are the "quiet professionals" the real warriors. Perhaps you have known or have served with some of those fellows. Perhaps you are one.
Just my two cents worth. Please excuse the lengthy rant.
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An Op-ed. Well, I guess THAT will put Trump in his place!
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That was, I see in retrospect, a mistake
Your mistake was voicing your opinion in the first goddamn place. Once the Chief merely indicates he wants a thing a certain way, you embrace the suck and don't have a second thought. No army worth its MREs can function with a 'democratic' ethos; where everybody can question orders, rat on brothers, and seek redress for imagined outrages on the enemy.
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Let me see if I grasp the story correctly.
They wanted to convict this chap Gallagher of murder (probably as PR stunt) failed and used a trivial technicality - betcha lots of GI took pix with dead Talibs and brass looked the other way - as an excuse to get revenge for making fools of them.
Am I correct?
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I think his fellows had the smaller dick syndrome with this one. He was 'a difficult guy' even before this whole thing and they just wanted him gone from the team. His infantile slip just gave them the chance.
The way they went about it was still better than some other people have in the past. I'm afraid we have just witnessed an attempted 21st century 'career fragging' attempt.
"I recognized that the tweet revealed the president’s intent," Spencer wrote Wednesday. "But I did not believe it to be an official order,
tl;dr: Spencer's claim that he didn't get an 'order order' is BS.
One of the interesting aspects of the US military is that even though it is a hierarchical organization, it pushes a lot of decision-making capability down to lower levels, which gives it flexibility when unexpected events occur in war - which is pretty much all the time. This allows it to run rings around a top-down organization like Saddam's army, for example.
A consequence of pushing decision-making down is that everyone is supposed to know their commander's intent two levels up the food chain. Spencer's claim that he knew the CinC's intent but didn't have a written order is simply ass-covering. If you are unsure, pick up the damn phone.
/disclaimer: not a mil guy, just on the outside looking in.
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What Besoeker said. In our age of nonstop noise and self-advertising, where No Thought However Foolish Can Go Unexpressed, the quiet professionals might as well not exist.
Whatever presence they have in the physical world is completely overshadowed by our virtual world's braying donkeys and smirk-snarling hyenas.
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"People can sit there in air-conditioned offices and complain, but you know what? Doesn’t matter to me whatsoever."
Is it me or is he not aware of the irony in that statement.
Also, as a veteran who has been on the receiving end of a Captain's Mast for not following a senior officer's "suggestion". I can assure you that Mr. Used-To-Be SecNav is wrong! I second what everybody else has said, hear it then do it.
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I'm in no position to judge military affairs, but people claiming "The silent professionals" just irritate me. Yes, plenty of soldiers serving before the centuries turn were like that. God Bless their souls.
But there were many I'm sure who simply never saw an opportunity. The internet, media, television, and flat out benefit just wasn't there. I admire the hell out of The Greatest Generation, but blindly saying a generation wouldn't when they never received that chance seems... distasteful.
And the politics of this time also don't make such a thing on these "Big" missions impossible. Didn't Biden out the group having done the Bin Laden raid?
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Shakespeare's ironically named character "Francis Feeble" in Henry IV, Part II has the last word:
Francis Feeble. By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death.
I'll ne'er bear a base mind. An't be my destiny, so;
an't be not, so.
No man's too good to serve 's Prince; and,
it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for next.
[American Thinker] Ana Navarro-Cardenas managed to produce one of the most offensive tweets of the year in response to the news that multiple polls show black job approval of President Donald Trump now at 34%.
She tweeted, "Zero chance this is accurate. Zero. The poll must have only been conducted in the homes of Ben Carson, Kanye, that sheriff guy with the hat and those two Cubic Zirconia & Polyester-Spandex ladies."
You can almost smell the fear oozing from her keystrokes, competing with the hate that was already there. This is so blatantly racist that only a liberal could have spouted it. And, to my knowledge, not a single liberal has called her out on it, choosing to celebrate her instead. She wasn't just mocking the polls, as Newsweek suggests. She was mocking courageous black Americans.
First, she charmingly assumes that black Americans have no right to form their own political opinions and belong to the Democrats, which is an odd position for somebody who plays a "Republican" on CNN.
Second, she insults prominent and accomplished Americans who support the president and intentionally refuses to name three of them, even though surely she could have looked up the names of David Clarke and Diamond and Silk (Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson), in seconds. She chose to marginalize them by focusing on appearance choices that offend her delicate sensibilities instead of engaging their arguments.
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We are their outgroup. Of course they are allowed to use ugly words that they deem off-limits to us. That's what you do to the outgroup. Don't expect them to abide by the rules they make: those rules are for US to follow.
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What is this person's job, exactly?
Is she a reporter?
If so, then why is she so rancid with vile and hostility and bias?
If not, then what expertise does she have to offer, on what subject, gained how?
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The Dems are afraid of a preference cascade - that moment when people realize that instead of being a single individual with a forbidden opinion, that pretty much everyone thinks the same way. The problem is that when you hear the rumble, the avalanche has already started. Kanye West is just the loud, visible tip of the iceberg, if I may stir my metaphors.
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^ True-- allegiance is necessary, but it's not enough. Dems also need A-As to actually show up and vote. I forget the number but if A-A turnout in Cleveland and Milwaukee falls below a certain threshold percentage, the Dem presidential candidate will lose OH and WI.
[American Thinker] Just days before our national Thanksgiving holiday, a report explained that Millennial students in their wisdom say, "It's not okay to celebrate Thanksgiving."
What would we do without these young people correcting the rest of us, the fossil generations?!
According to The College Fix, college students think Thanksgiving represents "oppression" because it is "based off of the genocide of indigenous people." They see Thanksgiving in terms of the "themes of oppression and colonization." More to the point, with the focus on eating a "bunch of food," Thanksgiving is "just a bunch of capitalist b-------." Some of the students "believe most American holidays are rooted in oppression." Others see Americans celebrating "unethical holidays." A few proclaim that "no holidays with religious connotations should be observed."
No wonder today's students have such warped views of life; most have no grounding in history. They do not know, for instance, that half of the Pilgrims who braved the storms of the North Atlantic for two months in early winter died before the feeling the warmth of summer. A few died at sea before they were able to leave the Mayflower. They have little to no appreciation of the fact that throughout most of history, life for all but a few has been the struggle for bare survival. Thus, they cannot understand the fact that some Pilgrims were willing to endure being indentured servants for the desperate hope of an opportunity for a better life after they worked off the cost of their passage. The thankfulness of the Pilgrims was rooted in these harsh realities, something today's students should be thankful to have never experienced.
It's not enough that Thanksgiving is already being swallowed up by Halloween and Christmas. Before the Halloween candy is all gone and the jack-o-lantern candles are blown out, Christmas paraphernalia is displayed in stores, and Christmas lights go on around neighborhoods. Now we have a whole generation who cannot be bothered to express thanks for what they already have before making out a list of expensive items they want at the Black Friday sales that, this year, begin Thanksgiving afternoon.
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I read a superb story about the conceit of the cotton-wool kids of America. 'Turbo Satan' by Christopher Fowler. I find short horror fiction to be have hardest hitting takes on contemporary society and its failings.
I'll post a link to the collection in the 'O Club' if anyone's interested.
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Well, Thanksgiving can be stressful if you have to share it with liberal in-laws.
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if you have to share it with liberal in-laws.
As Zman calles em, "w(h)ine box aunties." Enjoy the food. Agree with the most absurd bullshit because nobody can hold you to it. Let other people be miserable, just enjoy *your self*.
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There is a small and very loud group of socialist/communists that happen to be of millennial age that want to remove everything culturally American: thanksgiving, Columbus DAY, ETC... Once we have no common culture we cave no "united" in our states...
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Kurt Schlichter
On this special day, we should reflect upon the blessings we enjoy, and I enjoy nothing quite as much as stupid people who are miserable. There are a lot of stupid people who are miserable right now, and this is good. The misery stupid people cause themselves should disincentivize future stupidity ‐ with luck, America will be burdened with less stupidity because of it. Think of it as natural selection of people who aren’t stupid.
But there are other things to be thankful for besides the pain dummies cause themselves as a result of their own dumbness. There are good things happening out there, though the media and the elite want to conceal them. You see them if you look ‐ in the world, in our country, in your personal life.
There’s a lot to be thankful for, and it is right and proper that we be thankful. So, without further ado, here is what we should be especially thankful for at Thanksgiving 2019:
The Continuing Humiliation of the Fredocons
...Donald Trump: Imagine, if you will, living under the cold, smarmy dictatorship of Stumbles McMyturn. We knew about the staggering incompetence of our garbage elite ‐ Iraq, Wall Street, girl Ghostbusters ‐ but we never really understood the full extent of the corruption and rot until after the inauguration. We’ve seen a Deep State determined to undermine the will of the voters because the faculty lounge consensus at Harvard feels that promoting American interests is gauche. We’ve seen our intelligence agencies, which can’t do their actual job, meddling in domestic politics. We’ve seen formerly respected law enforcement agencies and the DoJ shamelessly push a dual-track justice system that protects the connected and persecutes the elite’s political enemies. Under Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit, this would have escalated; under Trump, the festering abscess that is our ruling caste has been exposed to the sunlight. She would have continued to marginalize and oppress us. Donald Trump stopped her, and probably saved this country from the violent conflict her tyranny would have provoked. Thanks!
Dogs: Be thankful for dogs, especially ones that try to rip the gonads off cowardly jihadi terrorists. Thanks!
Twitter: Imagine a marketplace of ideas where you can talk to thousands of other people just by typing in a few characters on your computer or phone. We all have beefs with Twitter, and too often its lefty functionaries put their soft, spindly fingers on the scales for their leftist pals, but the fact is that Twitter has created a forum for exposing liberal foolishness as well as communicating with, and organizing, fellow conservatives that has made our conservative populist rebellion possible. We isolated the gatekeepers by breaking down their walls. And it infuriates them. Thanks!
The Impeachment Schiffshow: Trump was always getting impeached. The thing is, the Democrats could have done it in a manner that appeared at least superficially fair. But instead they gave it to that weirdo Adam Schiff, whose googly eyes make him look like some sort of second-tier anime sidekick, and he has predictably turned it into a disaster. When after two weeks of testimony by bow-tied dorks, foreign-born schoolmarms who were totally "I’m with Her," and the sausage soldier, the American people have chosen to respond with a significant increase in support for the president. Way to go, dummies. Thanks!
Economic Prosperity: You might not have heard about it, but we’re in a boom ‐ though it is not the kind of boom the elite prefers because normal people are sharing in the benefits. The people hurt most by the greed and self-service of our globalist elite are finally getting their cut of the good times, and it’s magnificent. Unemployment for blue collar workers and minorities is the lowest in the history of ever, but hey ‐ Trump tweeted something mean so we need to go back to malaise because of principles or something. Thanks!
The Senate and Cocaine Mitch: It’s weird to think anything positive about the Senate, but damned if it has not been a bulwark of freedom, as opposed to a Bulwark of otherwise unemployable cruise-shillin’ losers, by punching out judge after Constitution-reading judge under the stern guidance of the Murder Turtle.
...Chick Fil-A’s Cowardice: It pained me to see what had been a stalwart and independent voice of conscience cravenly submit to the left. Their spines turned out to be as boneless as their chicken patties. Of course, anyone with even the tiniest bit of wokeness could have seen what would (and instantly did) happen. As soon as the poultry purveyors groveled, the professional LGBTQ+X&#z8 malcontents started with more demands.
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And I am thankful that Kurt's new book is downloading right now.
And for Rantburg.
And other things, you know, the usual stuff.
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The heavenly promise is that we will lack for nothing that we truly need. I still have good health at an advancing age. I owe no one, nor they me. It would appear that I have arrived, and I am very thankful. My current prayer is that I be permitted to stay a bit longer.
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Echo B’s words.
Where can I go to place a bet on number of shootings/victims that will occur tomorrow during black friday looting and pillaging events?
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I'm grateful that two polls are showing enough Black voters have figured out the "keep them in the dark and feed them bullshit" tactics of the Democrats and their skunks in the Media to throw the election to Trump. The 95% has shrunk to about 82% and the Dims are a panicking big time and my popcorn stock are rising.
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Thank you, B.
Thank you, Fred, and TW, and all Rantburgers. You have been and continue always to be, as Ezra Pound urged, a "blight upon the dullness of the world."
THANK YOU.
Happy Thanksgiving!
h/t Instapundit
Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.
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It's a highly profitable activity too, where your individual odiousness can actually be encashed. Like p0rn, but for rabid ugliness and public nuisance.
In fact, not even 10% of professional activists know or care what the campaign wants overall, or is aware of the reasons/ethics/science involved. More than half have got to be the ugly, frustrated brats of the cotton wool generation, products of an over-systematized nanny state.
The Democrats have long trusted the dysfunctional human individual as a 'grunt' in n army. To be regimented under an umbrella of causes and sent out as fodder against political or economic 'enemies'. They did the same thing with the contras, the muslims, and now with their own citizens.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Hot Air] Can you imagine what the presidential sh*tposting about Bill Barr will be like if the Horowitz report turns out to be a dud? Trump is counting on it to deliver his vindication in the Russiagate mess. Barr was the Roy Cohn figure POTUS had longed for after being massively disappointed by Jeff Sessions, the AG who would finally prove that Trump’s worst fears were right all along. The bogus Steele dossier inspired the witch hunt; the renegade deep-staters at the FBI spied on the campaign; Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, and God knows who else were all rancid with bias against Trump because they resented a right-wing anti-interventionist president who wasn’t chummy with Washington’s entrenched bureaucracy.
[The Federalist] Late Tuesday, federal prosecutors filed a motion to cancel the briefing due in mid-December in the Michael Flynn criminal case.
[New Republic] Every day, I start the shift by throwing on my marking gear. It’s not as heavy as my kit in Afghanistan, just an easy 40-odd pounds with the paint. Instead of a blaze orange cruiser vest like the ones my co-workers use, I still take the old tactical vest I wore over my armor back then. The mag pouches hold the Relaskop I use to measure tree height, and the dump pouch holds my clipboard of data cards, with room to spare for the wild mushrooms and onions I collect. Add to that my four-gallon backpack paint sprayer and I’m ready to go. 
[American Thinker] Ana Navarro-Cardenas managed to produce one of the most offensive tweets of the year in response to the news that multiple polls show black job approval of President Donald Trump now at 34%. 
The heavenly promise is that we will lack for nothing that we truly need. I still have good health at an advancing age. I owe no one, nor they me. It would appear that I have arrived, and I am very thankful. My current prayer is that I be permitted to stay a bit longer. 
