[Right Wing Watch] Upset by former CIA director John Brenna’s reply to President Trump’s tweet disparaging former U.S.ambassador to the Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, last week, right-wing commentator and radical conspiracy theorist Chris McDonald declared that Brennan is "going to hang from a noose."
During Yovanovitch’s testimony on the second day of the public impeachment hearings into Trump last Friday, the president attacked her on Twitter, claiming, "Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad." Trump’s tweet prompted Brennan to respond, "May your downfall be swift, your penalty onerous, & your legacy condemned by all."
McDonald was greatly offended by Brennan’s tweet.
“I have had so many officials, so many security officials—high-ranking security officials—tell me this man committed treason, and I’m telling you tonight, he tweeted out his own downfall, not Trump’s,” McDonald said during the Friday night broadcast of his “The MC Files” program.
“He is a modern-day communist, he is a modern-day America-hating, America-betraying, former CIA agent that committed nothing but treason against this country,” McDonald added. “He lied under oath and he’s going to hang from a noose.”
“If there is any justice in this country, he is going to hang from a noose,” McDonald said. “He’s going to be one of the big players, one of the big names that is going to be removed very soon from the landscape of this country. I don’t say that lightly, but take that to the bank. What he did today was prophesy his own doom.”
#5
Brennan's organization and management of his war room at Langley during the election seems like a fairly obvious violation of the prohibition on domestic spying activities. IIRC that's a felony meriting prison time.
#6
We don't do nooses in this country anymore. Maybe Brennan could get a cell next to El Chapo.
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A little irony, there, P2K?
Beria and the others were tried by a "special court presence" of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union on 23 December 1953 with no defense counsel and no right of appeal. Beria was executed separately. He was shot through the forehead by General Pavel Batitsky who had to stuff a rag into Beria's mouth to silence him.
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No need to stuff a rag in Brennan's pie hole. Just put him in a cell where the only person who can hear him is his next door neighbor, El Chapo...or put them together in the same cell. That might be interesting.
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Christmas ornaments,
drywall,
Epstein
and John Brennan?
[The National Interest] Key Point: The QBU-88 or Type 88 is a relatively modern design, utilizing the bullpup layout to gain additional barrel length. Chinese sources state that the penetration and accuracy are higher than the Type 85.
While the U.S. Army is concerned about next-generation Russian precision rifles and tactics, China has also been making significant advances in the field. In the 1980s, the Chinese used practically the same equipment as the Soviet Union. Nowadays, they use fairly different sets of equipment, including some rifles chambered in NATO calibers. The diverging development of Chinese precision rifles from the same base is an interesting parable of small-arms development driven by doctrine.
In the 1980s, the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union used the same "sniper" rifles, although these rifles would be more accurately described as designated marksman rifles in the west. The Soviet Union used the SVD, a gas-operated short stroke 7.62x54R rifle that fed from a ten-round-box magazine and had an effective range of around eight hundred meters. With proper Russian sniper ammunition, the SVD could achieve accuracy from 1-2 MOA. China made its own clone of the SVD after capturing a sample during the Sino-Vietnamese war called the Type 79, later refined into the Type 85. These were produced alongside copies of the Soviet PSO-1 4x optical sight. Apparently China has problems copying the SVD as its gunsmithing industries were not quite mature. The cloned PSO-1 was not able to handle the recoil of the 7.62x54R cartridge in early versions, and issues were found with the metallurgy of the firing pin, which broke easily in the Type 79. According to sources in the CPAF, this was fixed by the Type 85.
The primary problem with the Type 79 and Type 85 was the lack of proper ammunition for it. Russia issued special 7.62x54R ammunition along with the SVD, the 7N1 and later 7N14 cartridges. China did not develop a version of this and simply issued machine gun ammunition with the Type 79 and Type 85. This resulted in the subpar accuracy. Why China didn’t produce a sniper round is uncertain, but perhaps the limited usage of 7.62x54R in the Chinese military, combined with the PLA’s drive for a new intermediate cartridge in the 1980s made developing an additional sniper round an unnecessary burden. The lack of integration of marksman and precision rifles also delayed the need for such a round, Type 79 and Type 85 rifles were not issued widely among regular troops, only finding use with special operations troops, police units, and border guards.
While Russia still continues to use the SVD as the primary "sniper" rifle, China developed a replacement in the QBU-88 in the 1990s. Development started around the early 1990s, with the rifle completing trials in 1996 and first reaching service with the PLA’s Hong Kong garrison in 1997. The real root of the project was in the development of the 5.8mm cartridge for machine guns. A 5.8mm round was developed that was found to perform better or the same as existing 7.62x54R rounds in Chinese inventory, so a specialized rifle was developed in that caliber for sniping purposes.
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The key to producing better rifles is field use and troop feedback. If your battle experience with rifles for the past half century has been strutting about for PR videos, and smashing buddhist monk faces in - the best you can do is copy someone else's specs, and hope you never have to use the darn thing.
[Stratfor] How Governments Control the Flow of Information Online.
HIGHLIGHTS
As the internet matures, states will continue to refine their techniques for managing the flow of online information to their citizens.
Nearly every national government exerts some level of control over domestic internet use, but the extent of the manipulation, and the tactics used to achieve it, varies widely from state to state.
Four countries — Iran, China, Turkey and Russia — merit special attention for their efforts to break Western hegemony on the internet and, by extension, to challenge the free internet model.
[The American Thinker} I thank God that President Trump is not like other Republicans.
It truly amazes me that many high-profile conservatives and Republicans still wish Trump would dial it back, not be so confrontational, and behave more presidentially. I feel like saying, "Are you guys nuts? Have you not been paying attention?" Desperate times require desperate measures. Donald Trump is God's perfect man in the White House for such a time as this.
...It has been revealed that a few days after Trump was elected in 2016, Democrats, the deep state, and fake news media launched their coup to remove him from office. In essence they said, "Screw idiot American voters. We will not allow this guy to interrupt our plans for America's decline and transformation."
...Frustrated that every play in their Destroy-the-Republican-Playbook has failed against Trump, Democrats' and fake news medias' hatred for Trump and his supporters has grown to pure foaming-at-the-mouth rabid insanity.
For you folks on our side who still wish Trump was kinder and gentler, the truth is that no other Republican could have survived. Trump has the perfect instincts to fight and emerge victorious in this openly treasonous and extremely corrupt political climate.
...Remember the lyric in the Billy Joel song, "I love you just the way you are"? Please Mr. President, don't go changin'. We love you just the way you are.
#3
I woke up to a gentleman on the television news saying that President Trump is causing a flood of kidnapped Americans around the world to be released. He has been intervening personally, according to the reporter, speaking in his most serious voice, and the families of those kidnapped are aware and grateful. Someone whose daughter died in captivity — probably the young lady held as a personal rape slave of al Baghdadi (you must understand that I was just waking up, and not completely aware) — reportedly wished that Donald Trump had been president earlier, because then their child would have been returned instead of murdered.
#4
To be candid, when Trump was elected, I thought of him as the well-known American Archetype - a snake oil salesman. Turns out, the medicine is real.
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#4 To be candid, when Trump was elected, I thought of him as the well-known American Archetype - a snake oil salesman. Turns out, the medicine is real.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-20 09:11
That roughly parallels my own thinking at the time. When I voted for him, I was more voting against Hillary than I was voting for Trump. I didn't expect much from him.
Needless to say, my expectations have been wildly exceeded. Even if he accomplishes nothing more than he has already, he will at least have taught Republicans (except for the 'NeverTrumpers') that you might as well not bother playing nice with the Dems and the media, because they're all gonna hate you anyway unless you cave to their every demand.
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Bluster and exaggeration have always been the hallmark of the American rhetorical style. "Make the world safe for democracy." "The last best hope of mankind." "We have it in our power to make the world anew." "Religion of peace," etc etc
The difference between Trump and his fellow blusterers W, 0, Clinton, Reagan, Kennedy, FDR, and Wilson is twofold:
1) Trump never invokes God
2) Trump doesn't ever claim American exceptionalism.
#2 is very important. Trump is a Realist-- like nearly every other leader around the world. He expects Putin, Xi, et al. to act in their nations' interests, and he fearlessly and plainly states that he will do likewise.
Despite the man's twittermania and chaotic ways, there be method to his madness. He is putting a stake through 100 years of American global-exceptionalist blather and BS.
In this sense Trump is the anti-bullshitter, the voice of Realism.
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I still think Trump's being way too kind to the Washington political establishment. I really, REALLY want to see heads on pikes, literally. I think a row of heads on the wrought-iron fence around the White House would set a STERLING example for future generations.
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^Second that.
Well, maybe not their ugly heads defacing perfectly good fences, but it would be good to have democrat bastiches and deepState flunkies get horribly sick and die; find themselves entrapped in scandals and Jeffried in jail.
I want the whining left con artists to feel the reality of the words they throw at conservatives. Racist, fascist, nazi etc. The bastards have made 'Nationalist' an insult. I'm hoping he will consolidate enough power in the DoJ by next term.
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[Breitbart] Rob O’Neill, the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden, also criticized Vindman as an "operative."
"I agree. I wish the left wouldn’t use his uniform to make him a saint. He’s an operative with an agenda," he said in response to a tweet by the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr.
Trump Jr. tweeted: "Anyone listening to Vindman stammer through this seemingly trying to remember the Catch Phrases he was well coached on should get that. He’s a low level partisan bureaucrat and nothing more."
"You had one fucking job ! We piled you with trinket after trinket. Propped up your sagging, wilted ego for years ! For this ? Useless man ! Get out. Get Out !! "
[The Federalist] The Inside Story Of How America’s Intelligence Agencies Tried To Undo Trump’s Election.
Lee Smith’s new book, The Plot Against the President: The True Story of How Congressman Devin Nunes Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal in U.S. History, lays out a compelling case of abuse against the United States’ major intelligence agencies. In great detail, he explains how the FBI and the Department of Justice not only abused their power in going after Donald Trump, his campaign, and later his administration, but how they sought to cover it up.
Unlike some of the other recent books on this topic, Smith’s epic has a hero. Smith makes a compelling case that California Rep. Devin Nunes and his steadfast team stood up to an army of Goliaths. This small team of committed truth-seekers took on the most powerful intelligence apparatus in the world, a hostile media, and a dishonest opposition party to hold them accountable for violating American citizens’ constitutional rights.
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[Breitbart] WASHINGTON, DC ‐ Former U.S. Special Envoy Kurt Volker maintained during a public hearing Tuesday afternoon that he never "took part" in what Democrats have characterized as President Donald Trump’s efforts to investigate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, in exchange for aid.
Volker’s testimony once again undermined the quid pro quo claim contained in a "whistleblower’s" complaint that triggered the impeachment inquiry launched by House Democrats.
GOP lawmakers have said Volker’s October 3 deposition obliterated the accusation against Trump at the center of the impeachment investigation and "exonerated" him.
Volker’s October 3 deposition is consistent with his public testimony on Tuesday.
The "whistleblower" complaint accused Trump of abusing his power by leveraging U.S. aid during a July 25 call to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to launch an investigation into corruption allegations against the Bidens.
Echoing his October 3 secret deposition almost verbatim on Tuesday, Volker testified alongside former top European affairs official on Trump’s National Security Council (NSC) Tim Morrison, the only two witnesses sought by the Republican minority and accepted by Democrats.
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So lets talk about Quid pro Quo. Call a congressman as a business leader and ask for 30 minutes with the congressman. You are expected to bring a check for $1,250, the max you can donate to his campaign, or you wont get in to see him. That my friends is the Quid,
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Egyptian-American feminist Mona Eltahawy is in the news again, having gone on record suggesting the weekly "culling" of men. She calls this an imaginary scenario, but it is nonetheless hateful and an obvious incentive to homicidal violence.
...Eltahawy’s vehemence, alas, is not new. It is mainly a rehash of Valerie Solanas’ 1967 SCUM Manifesto (an acronym for Society for Cutting Up Men), which reads in part: "No aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex." Solanis leapt to notoriety when, true to her word, she near-fatally shot Andy Warhol. As she wrote: her paramilitary would "coolly, furtively stalk its prey and quietly move in for the kill." No man is safe.
...Feminists like Eltahawy and Solanas may seem like the stuff of farce, whatever suffering, real or fictitious, they may have undergone. But we should not be deceived or amused by the eltasolanic shtick of feminist performance artists, who should be regarded as the clown-world side of feminism’s Medea-like seriousness. The misery inflicted by feminism upon Western societies has a somber and funereal history, going back to the Declaration of Sentiments, signed at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. The lies, misdirections, tactical omissions and manipulation of facts assembled by its key author Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her colleagues, scrupulously analyzed in Steve Brule’s recent and brilliant video exposé, The Birth of Feminism, underlies the bad faith and partisan virulence of modern feminism.
Influential feminists like Andrea Dworkin, who saw little to differentiate rape from intercourse; Germaine Greer, author of The Female Eunuch, who believes feminism must continue to advance; Gloria Steinem, whom many consider the face of modern feminism; and especially Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique, who passed herself off as a typical suburban housewife but was, in fact, a passionate communist writing for Marxist publications were, among others, the "real thing." Lesser known but highly motivated journalists and academics like Clementine Ford, Jessica Valenti, Meghan Murphy, Roxane Gay, Julie Bindel, and Suzanna Walters continue to bear the flaming torch. Their unrelenting hostility against men is not just a kind of vaudeville capering; it has the weight of substantive authority behind it, a declaration of sentiments in contemporary regalia. The sorority is on the warpath.
Soldiers are not Robocops
[Townhall] President Trump’s decision to grant clemency to three United States soldiers ‐ and the attending backlash from the Washington, D.C. establishment ‐ confirm what servicemen and women have known all along: President Trump is the champion our troops have been missing for decades.
...Politicians often pay lip service to the armed forces without backing us up when real decisions are on the line, but President Trump walks the walk. He’s put the troops at the core of his national security decision-making, fighting against entrenched political interests to ensure that America’s warriors are only asked to make worthwhile sacrifices. The president’s withdrawal of American troops from Syria is a perfect example ‐ the move was overwhelmingly supported by our veterans, but received vociferous criticism from establishment politicians.
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.
[Right Wing Watch] Upset by former CIA director John Brenna’s reply to President Trump’s tweet disparaging former U.S.ambassador to the Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, last week, right-wing commentator and radical conspiracy theorist Chris McDonald declared that Brennan is "going to hang from a noose."
[The Federalist] The Inside Story Of How America’s Intelligence Agencies Tried To Undo Trump’s Election.
