The inertia in today's Britain seems telling. We are, as the French Prime Minister and the London Mayor and other eminences have advised, getting used to it. Terror doesn't appear (from this distance) to have played much part in the election campaign: in a certain sense, the remorseless Islamization of Britain seems to have passed beyond politics. If you still think the major parties can ameliorate the situation, Mrs May is just about preferable to Jeremy Corbyn: In a choice between a dissembler and a dupe, vote for the marginally less unsafe pair of hands. If you feel the need (as they did after Enniskillen) to be outraged and impassioned, direct your outrage and passion wisely and join your fellow Britons in excoriating the President of the United States for Tweeting about the Mayor of London. If you feel the need (like Mrs Thatcher after South Georgia) to "rejoice, rejoice", join the patriotic employees of LBC radio in cheering the defenestration of Katie Hopkins, also for Tweeting. If you feel the need (as Mrs May's COBRA meeting did) for an instant policy prescription, then draw the logical conclusion from the above and blame the Internet. The Prime Minister's plans to lean on Google, Facebook et al will discombobulate the next bombers not a whit, but they'll almost certainly lead to a Robert Spencer or Geert Wilders having his YouTube channel taken down or Twitter account suspended, and that's great news, isn't it?
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Increased violent death is a Middle East fixture. Bringing that culture in and then telling the people to get used to it is an acknowledgement of the catastrophic impact on people. It supports the theory that increased barbaric violence against a normally civilized society will secure power for the perpetrator.
[USA Today] James Comey likened himself to a priest who was assassinated in the 12th century as he described how he believed President Trump felt about him.
Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, asked whether Comey interpreted certain phrases from the president of the United States, such as "I hope" or "I suggest," as directives.
"Yes. It kind of rings in my ears as, 'Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?'" Comey replied.
Comey was quoting a well-known saying from Henry II. Back in 1170, the king of England was years into a quarrel with Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, over the rights of the church. Henry II is often quoted as saying, "Will no one rid of me of this turbulent priest?" His men interpreted this as the king wanting Becket dead. Soon after, Becket was assassinated.
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This falls far far below 'obstruction'.
However, sadly, Trump still does not understand the way the govt is supposed to work (i.e, with independent agencies, independent judiciary, etc.
The Trump Organization being privately held, doesn't have a board of directors that reviews the Chairman and CEO's work, doesn't have public stockholders and operates almost completely top down. Obama also had problems in this but not because he didn't understand, but because he worked to bypass the checks and balances.
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checks and balances?
That died with an independent aristocracy judiciary that sits for life and is unaccountable to the people.
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FBI isn't an "independent" agency. It's part of the executive.
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True RC. All the members of the executive branch work at the pleasure of the President. None of them are independent other than as specifically created that way by congress.
#8
Nah, shoot him in the back and make it look like a bungled robbery.
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Let me get this straight: with no evidence of a crime Comey just assumes Trump intended to obstruct justice. But with evidence against Hillary of committing a crime by having classified materials on a server outside of the secure network he assumes she had no intention of committing a crime
[Breitbart] Thursday during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, former FBI Director James Comey said he kept detailed notes about his discussions with President Donald Trump because he "was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting."
Comey said, "A combination of things. I think the circumstances the subject matter and the person I was interacting with. Circumstances first, I was alone with the president of the United States, or the president-elect, soon to be president. The subject matter, I was talking about matters that touch on the FBI’s core responsibility and relate to the president-elect personally. And then the nature of the person. I was honestly concerned he might lie about the nature of our meeting so I thought it really important to document. That combination of things I never experienced before but it led me to believe I have to write it down and I have to write it down in a very detailed way."
No 'notes' on FBI discussions with the Hildebeest. How strange.
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He didn't keep notes on Hillary, Loretta or WJC during the Server-gate investigation? Comey is his own worst enemy as credibility goes. To listen to Comey testify, the Russians are everywhere, all the time. trying to rig our elections.
Currently, the only election-related lawsuits involving fraud and election rigging are lawsuits against the DNC and have to do with Hillary's campaign. It is not the Russians who are being sued for election fraud and election rigging.
[FOX] After a New York chapter of Black Lives Matter hosted a 'blacks-only' Memorial Day party, Tucker Carlson asked a BLM supporter why such an event is acceptable.
Carlson said the party promoted segregation - the exact thing BLM purports to oppose.
"I thought the whole point of Black Lives Matter was to speak out against singling out people based on race?" Carlson asked political commentator Lisa Durden.
"Boo-hoo, you white people are angry because you couldn't use your 'white privilege' card to get invited to the Black Lives Matter all-black Memorial Day celebration," Durden said.
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I watched the show with utter amazement at the condescending and arrogant comments by this radical racist idiot. Singlehandedly she is a retrorocket for the path of race relations in America. The BLM victimhood ideology is ruining the progress made in the last fifty years, and honestly, encouraging many to rethink attitudes about association. Sad at how democrats have ruined so much with the encouragement of identity politics. This is the emergent endstate of the policy trajectory of welfare and low expectations.
#8
The US has no redeeming value and is awash in racism and hatred but the borders are wide open and they are free to leave at any time. YET THEY STAY. Tucker should ask them about that next time.
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.
