As the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) from July 2012 until he was forced out in August 2014, he clashed mightily with the Obama administration's policies on ISIS and the Iran nuclear deal, among other things. As a result, the decorated general put himself "on the wrong side of history" and at odds with the Obama-friendly deep state.
The outspoken general continued to rock the boat after he left the administration.
For instance, in November 2015 during an appearance on Fox News, Flynn called for an investigation into the ISIS intel-skewing scandal, recommending that it "start right at the top."
"Where intelligence starts and stops is at the White House," Flynn said. "The president sets the priorities and he's the number one customer. So if he's not getting the intelligence that he needs and he's not paying attention to what else is going on, then something else is going wrong between him and the advisers that he has."
Obama already despised Flynn. But his hate likely turned to fear when his former DIA decided to throw his support behind Donald J. Trump, another boat-rocker who had a real chance of winning.
As Sheld noted, Obama made a point after the 2016 election of advising Trump not to hire Flynn. But Trump didn't listen.
Next thing Flynn knew, government spies were listening in on his innocuous phone conversations with Kislyak, his name was unmasked by someone in the Obama administration, and the contents of the call were leaked to the Washington Post (which remains the only serious crime to have emerged in the Russia investigation). Emphasis added
[Breitbart] FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe reportedly launched an obstruction of justice investigation into President Donald Trump prior to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller.
CNN reported Thursday evening that in the days following Comey’s ouster in May 2017, McCabe, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and other leading FBI officials met to discuss how to curb the president from future actions they thought would add to the turmoil at the FBI.
Among the options discussed was Rosenstein donning a wire during meetings with President Trump in an attempt to capture what he believed was manic behavior demonstrated by the president that could potentially be used to convince cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment. Rosenstein has vehemently denied the proposition was a serious one and, after several meetings with the president, the Justice Department’s number two official appears to be safe in his position.
[Babylon Bee] Satire, for the dense WASHINGTON, D.C.‐It may have looked like Hillary Clinton was reciting the Apostles' Creed along with the rest of those gathered at yesterday's memorial service for George H.W. Bush‐Trump and his wife excepted. But the truth appears to be far more sinister: enhanced, slowed-down, zoomed-in footage of the event revealed that Clinton was actually reciting an ancient cultic ritual to raise ancient god Cthulhu from his slumber.
As others around her dutifully cited the Apostles' Creed, Clinton's eyes glazed over in a trance. Her voice took on a cold, eldritch quality, "at least more than usual," according to witnesses. "Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!" she began, as others in her pew shifted uncomfortably. "Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!"
According to scholars, the phrase roughly translates as "In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."
The doors of the church burst wide open. A frigid wind blasted the congregation as Clinton chanted louder and louder, approaching the front of the church: "Cthulhu fhtagn! Cthulhu fhtagn!" CTHULHU FHTAGN!"
[American Thinker] On this day 77 years ago, Japan launched a surprise attack against a U.S. naval base in Pearl Harbor in the then-American territory of Hawaii. Over 2,400 Americans were killed, over 1,000 wounded on that day. The countries were not at war at the time. The next day, the U.S. Congress declared war against Japan. Speaking to a joint session of Congress, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) called the day of the attack "a date which will live in infamy." Three days later, Germany and Italy declared war against the U.S.; the U.S. then declared war against Germany and Italy. Thus did the U.S. enter into what was later called World War ll, which had been raging in Europe and elsewhere for over two years.
The shock of the attack, with not even a trigger warning, to use a modern term, did not send young people then to scurry to safe spaces, as many do today at the first sign of distress, such as, oh, say, their preferred candidate not winning the presidency or hearing ideas that upset them. Enduring hard times during the Depression years preceding that attack, people of all ages rushed to sign up for the military.
One of them was George H.W. Bush. Six months after Pearl Harbor, in June 1942, he celebrated graduating high school and his 18th birthday by enlisting in the U.S. Navy. A year later, three days before his 19th birthday, he became an ensign and one of the youngest Naval aviators. Surviving the horrors of years of war ‐ no safe spaces for him ‐ he married, completed college, and went on to live a life of service to his country, love for his family.
It is hauntingly symbolic that Bush passed away just a few days before another Pearl Harbor anniversary was buried the day prior. Another veteran of that terrible war, former senator and presidential candidate Bob Dole (R), now 95, who was severely injured during that same brutal war but also later led a productive life, struggled to stand in respect at Bush's casket.
They, and millions like them, rushed to danger to protect us all. Most are gone now; their valor endures.
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It is also very symbolic, but in an odd way, that the attack was minutely predicted months beforehand in a written intelligence assessment by the naval and army commanders of US air defense for Hawaii, names Bellinger & Martin, forget who was in what service. You can Google it. The report was thoroughly ignored by the US higher command, and is still mostly ignored by professional and amateur historians alike.
[Barely A Blog] Environmentalists have become traitors to a cause we should all care about: our environment, the resources it provides and the creatures and critters who depend on these for survival. They used to care. No more.
Environmental groups, in particular, "the Center for Biological Diversity, the Animal Legal Defense Fund and Defenders of Wildlife," claim, in multiple lawsuits, that "construction operations [of The Border Wall] would harm plants, rare wildlife habitats, threatened coastal birds like the snowy plover and California gnatcatcher, and other species such as fairy shrimp and the Quino checkerspot butterfly."
To the contrary, migrants pouring over the borders into the habitats these idiots claim to care about are doing great damage. But the situation is far more dire.
"Destruction of this country’s social fabric has never bothered environmentalists. But what of its environmental resources? At the current rate of immigration, 40 percent of America’s lakes and streams are no longer fishable or swimmable. What will be their fate in the middle of the century?"
In California, a school will have to be built every day in perpetuity to keep up with the unremitting influx. Urban sprawl, traffic congestion, overcrowding, pollution, and rural land loss‐there isn’t a community in the US that’ll escape the social and environmental despoliation witnessed in California and Florida.
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Environmentalists have never really been about teh environment. Otherwise they wouldn't push big government answer to all problems when the data clearly shows that big government int he name of the Soviets and Communist China were the worst environmental offenders in Earth history. Scoundrels all.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John Kelly is expected to resign as U.S. President Donald Trump’s chief of staff in the coming days, CNN reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources.
Representatives for the White House did not be immediately respond to a request for comment on the report.
The rocky relationship between Trump and Kelly, 68, a retired Marine Corps general, has been widely reported. CNN, citing its sources, said their relationship was now worse than ever and that the two were not on speaking terms, but added that no decision on Kelly’s possible departure was final until it was announced.
A source told Reuters last month that Trump was considering a replacement for Kelly. Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, Nick Ayers, is a possible contender, the source said.
Kelly had sought to bring more order and stability to a White House that has often been chaotic under the unpredictable Trump.
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The "unpredictable Trump" who seems consistent in his policies and goals.
Does the press really not understand why they're hated?
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CNN* on the teevee crawl a few hours ago said he would be questioned by The Inquisitor. Maybe related?
*I was on a stationary bike in a gym. CNN was visible, along with Fox News, HGTV, and some sports channel, all on a wall 50 feet away.
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The "unpredictable Trump"
It's the latest media meme. Listening to National People's Radio on the drive back from town, all the commentators and reporters were working "unpredictable" and "erratic" into their pitches.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr, who served under former President George H.W. Bush, is the leading candidate for the job as a permanent replacement for Jeff Sessions, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
The Washington Post reported earlier on Thursday that President Donald Trump could choose his nominee for attorney general in coming days, and that Trump had told advisers he plans to nominate Barr.
Sessions departed from the role last month, and Trump named Matthew Whitaker as the government’s top lawyer on an interim basis. With the current session of Congress set to soon end, anyone Trump nominates may have to wait until well into 2019 for confirmation.
Barr has worked in the private sector since serving as attorney general from 1991 to 1993, retiring from Verizon Communications (VZ.N) in 2008. Wiki: William Barr BIO
h/t Instapundit
Some people, on both the "Left" and "Right" have been talking about revolution. Whether it’s "We need to get rid of those fascist right-winging KKK Nazis" or "we need to get rid of those liberal commie pinko hippies" or whatever, the idea of using widespread violence to overthrow the existing order and impose ones own has been gaining steam.
...But what if it’s the side that wants less government intrusion into people’s lives, less control, and less bureaucracy, you have a real problem. How do you set that up so it sticks past even one election cycle (presuming you have elections in whatever you set up)?
So, are you going to have a Constitution? How will you establish that Constitution? Will you just write it and impose it on the population or will you use some mechanism, any mechanism, to give the people some voice in the Constitution you establish? If you don’t have a Constitution, how are you going to limit the government, not just now but in the future?
High level decision: are you going to let the people have a say in their own government or are you just going to force on them the government (strong or weak) which you want them to have? If the latter, how are you any better than the people who wanted to impose their government on the people? (And if you say "no government" then how do you prevent someone else from coming along and establishing their own choice of government on you?)
And if, instead, you allow the people to choose, the same people that voted in the government you just overthrew, what is to stop them from just voting back the same thing once more, rendering that whole insurrection and civil war an exercise in futility with the blood being shed for nothing.
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Why do they assume there would be any lefties alive in the US after the war? I mean, kill food, power and water to the cities, shoot people trying to leave and in about 4 months, there basically are no democrat strongholds because there are no democrats.
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A bunch of competing states barely held together by common interest and a federal government is what then. That was the intent in the constitution, it was broken by the Civil War but there is no reason it can't be recreated.
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Repealing the Progressive amendments would be a start. 16, 17. Repeal the commerce clause or severely limit it. And emphasize 9 & 10th amendments.
Do that, and you'd fix a great many things that are broken. Power moves back to the states.
Add term limits amendment for the house and senate, and a balanced budget amendment with an anti-omnibus-bill clause requiring explicit financing information in each bill.
That fixes even more problems.
Address the grow-never-shrink nature of the federal government:
Toss in a sunset amendment requiring all laws/regulations to expire after 5 years unless explicity renewed.
Address corruption and back-room deals:
Add a sunshine amendment requiring all but classified national security issues to be openly presented and debated online to anyone that wants to see them prior to voting in committee or the floor, and all bills have to explicitly cite their constitutional basis.
Allow any amount of campaign contributions but they must be publicly declared within 24 hours and that includes the source unless its less than $100.
You do those things, and the nation reboots into something it should have been: A Republic of Laws where the rights and liberty of individuals are the highest value.
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Silentbrick, give a month for conservatives trapped behind enemy lines to leave before you shoot everyone. Also have them move to one specific state that can be watched carefully in case of infiltrators and such.
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RJ, by the time this point would roll around, I suspect all sane conservatives forced to live there will have already left. While it would happen fast, the build up would not be quick.
[Townhall] If you really want to know, Kurt, read up on Bill Ayres - he thought they might have to kill 40,000,000 to usher in their little revolution.
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The problem with our current elites, is they believe they can have the big guys with guns take away the guns from the little guys. What they fail to realize is a good chunk of the big guys with guns will straight up refuse to take away the guns from the little guys.
All the elites will have left is the soy boys of Antifa to try to do it. The war will be short and bloody and the elites will be against the wall, up a lamp post or in a ditch very quickly.
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I just can't imagine twerps like Gavin Newsom putting an army together.
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Think Chinese "Cultural Revolution" - not much impact out side where they hold sway, but inside..... Cambodia Killing Fields would look like a playground squabble. So stay out of big cities and get friendly with your redneck neighbors.
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Left thinks because law abiding gun owners are law abiding that they'll all comply. I suspect a lot will bunker up, even more will declare their gun was stolen, they don't know when but when they went to the case to turn it in the dang thing was gone...
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 (Reuters) - Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr, who served under former President George H.W. Bush, is the leading candidate for the job as a permanent replacement for Jeff Sessions, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
