[PUBLISH.TWITTER] It should be noted that John Ratcliffe is scheduled to be sworn in as Director of National Intelligence on Tuesday. But I suspect he will continue on the same path.
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Actually, Grenell was sent to let the lightning out of the bottle so Ratliffe would not be under pressure coming in.
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Imagine if Grenell had been in the slot Bremer filled in Iraq.
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I have read many of the formerly 'classified documents' which have reached the internets. Having been trained (albeit decades ago) on Foreign Disclosure, I have seen absolutely nothing that would point to a breach of national security.
I can only conclude that the documents were erroneously classified. The justification or reason for the classifications should now be quite obvious.
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Over-classification has always been a bit of a problem, but probably 99% of the time not done on purpose. But E.O. 13526 is quite clear on deliberate over-classification. Oh, and EO is signed by someone named Obama.
[Dallas News] WASHINGTON — More Americans lost jobs in the last nine weeks than live in Texas. The staggering toll — 38.6 million — is more than half the number of votes President Donald Trump collected when he won the White House. So how about a little historical perspective, media mogul?
The last president seeking reelection while presiding over such economic carnage was Herbert Hoover, and the latest national unemployment rate, 14.7%, is the worst since the record of 25.5% in 1932 — three months before FDR sent Hoover packing. Oh, yeah. Hoover is a lot like Trump. Not that anyone alive remembers Hoover. Except Biden's son.
Trump didn’t cause the COVID-19 pandemic, just as Hoover didn’t cause the Great Depression. Anybody remember who caused the Great Depression? Bush? Nixon?
But voters do tend to blame presidents for such pain and malaise, which helps explain why he’s gone to such lengths to pressure states to lift stay-home orders — and to point fingers at China for unleashing the virus and at Barack Obama for leaving behind a national stockpile depleted of masks and ventilators. Florida and South Dakota didn't need pressure; New York and California will never appear to respond to the Orange Man. Who disagrees with the origin of the virus or the 2017 status of stockpiles?
The president’s support grew steadily in the early weeks of the pandemic when he somberly cast himself as a "wartime president" at long televised briefings, flanked by the nation’s top public health experts. Until the sleaze media decided his briefings were helping, not hurting his standing. His support against Democrat Joe Biden has slipped sharply since then, as quick cures he promised didn’t materialize, the death toll kept outstripping his overly optimistic projections, and tens of millions of workers suddenly found themselves furloughed or fired. You can see where this is going. Cures promised? Optimistic projections, or were they hopes? Who sent trillions in aid, after delay by Nancy and fellow travelers?
Trump’s prospects for a second term now hinge on how fast the economy bounces back. History and the latest polls and economic forecasts suggest an uphill fight. However - (skipping down)
The election isn't entirely a referendum on Trump, or the economy.
Voters will choose between him and former Vice President Biden, who as recently as Friday reminded everyone that he's an imperfect vessel for the hopes and dreams of those eager to evict Trump from the White House. Let's see if the author foresees a Biden replacement.
"Hoover essentially responded by saying, this is what happens in life and you have to suck it up. It's not the federal government's responsibility to save you," Engel said. Roosevelt, by contrast, offered empathy "by the bucket load…. His response was, this is not your fault but we have a responsibility to each other." Which former president sounds more like Trump? The author is going to help us answer that!
In Ypsilanti, Trump promised an "epic comeback" for the United States in the next year if he's reelected.
Promoting the pressure he's put on states to lift stay-home orders, he struck a populist note and cast himself as friend of the blue-collar set.
"Americans who need and want to return to work should not be vilified," he said. "They should be supported. Unlike many politicians and journalists, for those who earn a living with their hands working remotely is just not an option." Cold and distant as Herbert Hoover, the former engineeer? I think not.
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"Imperfect vessel"
Giggle. A hair-plugging (his own) hair-sniffing (little girls') streaker, pervert, lifelong liar and all-around buffoon whose brother was a war profiteer in Iraq and whose deadbeat drug addict son is still receiving millions from the Chinese Communist Party. And who now shows all the clinical signs of dementia.
Vessel indeed-- but a perfect one: for the CCP and for his family of Grifters.
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Todd J. Gillman Todd has been Washington Bureau Chief since 2009, six years after joining the bureau. Before that he covered East Texas, City Hall and politics. He started at The Dallas Morning News in 1989 as an intern. He has been elected twice to the White House Correspondents’ Association board, with a term ending in 2020. Todd has a Master in Public Policy from Harvard and a BA from Johns Hopkins in international studies.
Uh huh
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"When Roosevelt put American in to help Russia as Hitler invaded Russia in June 1941. We should have let those two bastards annihilate themselves."
~ Herbert Hoover
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America should be using its unemployed waiters, cooks and retail sales people to build factories for the goods we want to make in America, not getting baked on the couch. That also means phased in tariffs. After that, many of those same people can work in those factories and not depend on other people spending mad money.
[JUSTTHENEWS] Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'... should not select Sen. Amy Klobuchar Senatrix from Minnesota, candidate for the Dem presidential 2020 nomination. You can tell the kind of husband a boy will make by the way he treats his mother. You can tell the kind of leader a politician will make by the way he treats his staff. Klobuchar is reportedly overbearing, snide, and dictatorial with her people. She see this as merely getting the best from them. Her name spelled backward in the Russian alphabet would be "Rachubolk," which sounds pretty daggone suspicious... as his vice presidential running mate according to some black and Latino activists and strategists.
The Minnesota Democrat would "risk losing the very base the Democrats need to win," said Aimee Allison, founder of She the People, according to Politico.
"It comes from her performance in the primary — her weakness in being able to motivate them," BlackPAC executive director Adrianne Shropshire said. "The engagement and the enthusiasm of black voters is going to be a difference-maker in this election, and the concerns about her in this role stem from the degree to which she resonated or not with those core constituencies."
Klobuchar only secured one percent of the black vote during the South Carolina primary and four percent of the Latino vote in the Nevada primary.
Biden, who has pledged to select a female running mate, has indicated that several black women are included within his potential picks.
"A choice such as Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), who failed to prosecute controversial police killings and is responsible for the imprisonment of Myon Burrell, will only alienate black voters," according to an opinion piece that also called for Biden to select a black female running mate.
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Just as the DNC decided Biden would be the nominee, they have decided Klo butcher will be the VP pick. It's all locked in because they know they are going to lose and they aren't going to tarnish any future talent.
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Much like "Maverick" McCain in 2008 and "Mittens" Romney in 2012.
God forbid the nation see trash drifted in Baltimore corners behind him, and the rats scurrying about.
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] GOP MD Gov Larry Hogan to Snub President’s Visit to Fort McHenry
The president can honour the service of American troops living and dead without your NeverTrumping aid, sir.
Dear Mr. President @realDonaldTrump, please stay home! The City of Baltimore is currently under a Stay at Home order for the safety of our residents, who have been hit hard by #COVID19. pic.twitter.com/7FwrHIHyeX
— Mayor Bernard C. Jack Young (@mayorbcyoung) May 21, 2020
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I can kinda sorta sympathize with the Mayor. Be as embarrassing as heck for the Prez to get bitten by a rat or catch a stray round while visiting a historic but somewhat worse for wear American city.
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Did the POTUS have to go thru the 'City", using up all their 'valuable resources' and endangering their citizens, or did he just fly Marine 1 to the site?
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I suspect he's worried about Secret Service agents who will not operate under the same rules as his police. You know, feral yoots who think they can attack people and not get ventilated with prejudice.
[FREEBEACON] A few hours after this column appears on the internet, more than 30 liberal activists will meet online to plan your future. The gathering is called the "Friday Morning Group." It comprises, according to the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , "influential figures at labor unions, think tanks, and other progressive institutions." These influential figures, the Times goes on, believe that when Democrats last had full control of the federal government, between 2009 and 2010, they did not "take the initiative in specifying plans for achieving large-scale change." They hope to correct this mistake. What happens on November 3 might give them the chance.
[BIZPACREVIEW] Allegheny County, Pennsylvania — home to the city of Pittsburgh and its surrounding suburbs — has settled a lawsuit directing officials to clean up voter registration rolls.
County officials settled the suit on Monday with the Public Interest Legal Foundation, which focuses on election integrity, after the Allegheny election manager and three board of elections members were sued over registration rolls containing duplicate entries and the names of persons who had died, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
Representatives of the elections watchdog said researchers discovered almost 1,600 dead registrants, nearly 7,500 with erroneous data, and more than 1,500 who were older than 100 years — including 49 who were born in the 1800s.
The lawsuit accused county officials of failing to maintain up-to-date registration rolls as is required by federal law.
In the settlement, the county agreed to turn over records related to dead registrants as well as issue letters to people with incorrect birthdates on file, examine records of people aged 110 or older to see if death notices have been missed, and to accept "list maintenance leads" from the group over the course of the next year.
The suit forcing Allegheny County to fix its voter registration lists comes just six months before the presidential election where Pennsylvania figures to be a battleground state. In 2016, President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... only won the state with fewer than 45,000 votes.
The president and general counsel of the election integrity organization, J. Christian Adams, said the county should get credit for agreeing to fix the "serious problem with elections there."
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Possibly the larger threat, Communist Dem governors and mayors are running the CV-19 clock out to the November elections to institute Mail Fraud Voting. A bold attempt at perpetual one-party rule !
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.
WASHINGTON — More Americans lost jobs in the last nine weeks than live in Texas. The staggering toll — 38.6 million — is more than half the number of votes President Donald Trump collected when he won the White House.
His support against Democrat Joe Biden has slipped sharply since then, as quick cures he promised didn’t materialize, the death toll kept outstripping his overly optimistic projections, and tens of millions of workers suddenly found themselves furloughed or fired.
Voters will choose between him and former Vice President Biden, who as recently as Friday reminded everyone that he's an imperfect vessel for the hopes and dreams of those eager to evict Trump from the White House.
[BIZPACREVIEW] Allegheny County, Pennsylvania — home to the city of Pittsburgh and its surrounding suburbs — has settled a lawsuit directing officials to clean up voter registration rolls.
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
