[Daily Caller] California Rep. Devin Nunes released a statement Wednesday on the FBI and Justice Department’s objections to releasing a classified memo detailing alleged surveillance abuse.
"Having stonewalled Congress’ demands for information for nearly a year, it’s no surprise to see the FBI and DOJ issue spurious objections to allowing the American people to see information related to surveillance abuses at these agencies," the statement said.
"The FBI is intimately familiar with ’material omissions’ with respect to their presentations to both Congress and the courts, and they are welcome to make public, to the greatest extent possible, all the information they have on these abuses."
The statement continued, "Regardless, it’s clear that top officials used unverified information in a court document to fuel a counter-intelligence investigation during an American political campaign. Once the truth gets out, we can begin taking steps to ensure our intelligence agencies and courts are never misused like this again."
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...Man, given the screaming that's come from the other side of the aisle over this, I'm starting to believe that it's going to be really, really bad.
Add to the memo kerfluffle that a record number of Congresscritters have decided 'to spend more time with their families' and I'm beginning to suspect that we're about to be living in those interesting times the old Chinese curse mentions.
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Domino effect.
FISA, Clinton emails and off-site servers, Wasserman-Schultz and her DNC's IT people, Huma, Lynch, Valjar, Comey, McCabe, Brennan, Slick Willie, and Soetoro.... all dominos.
The left and many others in the Swamp have much to lose.
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They don't fear the 4 page report. They fear the appointment of a Special Counsel, the legitimate investigation demanded by the Forgotten Man, and the indictments.
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I believe this is all a scrimmage before the DoJ IG report is released...that is when the screaming starts...the critters in the DoJ and FBI will want the IG report classified and prevent its release.
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As to the "changes" Adam Schiff is claiming were done in secret Byron York tweets this, "Just talked with House Intel source. Said total changes to memo were: A) Unknown number of 'grammatical and clarifying' fixes. B) One change requested by FBI due to sources & methods concerns. C) One two-word change requested by Democrats for accuracy."
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Release the damn memo. We've got 2018 midterm elections to soon vote in. We need the info.
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I have serious doubts about the memo as well. It's a Republican written memo, not some clue found at the scene of the crime. It likely connects dots we at Rantburg already know about.
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If Brennan and the Klingons out-sourced the signals collection effort on Trump Towers to the British Intelligence, it sure would be of interest. Perhaps that's what everyone keeps referring to as 'sources and methods.'
[ConservativeTreehouse] Gotta love the professionally obtuse former DNI James Clapper.
As much as he is a stuttering doofus, and therein showcases his political value for the former administration; and to the extent that Clapper has previously stated there was no attempt by the DOJ/FBI to gain a FISA authorized approval for surveillance on any Trump campaign officials: “none that I’m aware of“; …it is always valuable to listen to Clapper because he has a tendency to, well, to let slip stuff that makes the black hats cringe.
Cue the audio visual “slippage.” Inside tonight’s interview by Jake Tapper, former DNI James Clapper now unwittingly refutes his previous assertion of “no Trump FISA warrant“, and simultaneously lets it slip out that the Clinton/Steele dossier was not used in gaining origination authority for FISA-702 surveillance, but rather for an “extension” of a previous application for FISA-702 surveillance. WATCH:
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Wow. This is prima facia evidence of misuse of the FISA process for political means by Comey, Clapper and others in service of Obama and Hillary Clinton against Trump. Clapper, in particular, should be charged with Perjury based on his lying to Congress. Use of that info involved a statement that they had verified the information in the dossier as credible in order to get or act upon the info in a warrant in the FISA court. They lied. Perjury. Also abuse of process. And probably Corruption changes, as well as obstruction of Justice - all this against Lynch, Comey, McCabe, and possibly Clapper.
The whole thing in Justice and the FBI is turning out to be far more rotten than most would have imagined.
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Clapper is to stupid to keep his stories straight. I was a bit shocked but not by much as we heard Lt ColonelAnthony Shaffer said James Clapper is an Idiot. A video well worth watching. If not just for his comedic dismissal reflection on Clapper's "eyes glaze over".
Deep State protects their own. No action against 'The Clap' is likely.
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Don't worry Injun, there's a lot of Potemkin villages in and among the Beltway. You would be amazed how many Unit Readiness Reports changed when Bush (the First) said we were going to the Gulf (or how many senior officers got relieved/retired).
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If Jews are controlling the world, someone forgot to tell me where the meeting is being held.
We all have free will, even those who don’t believe in it. I think that, like climate, what we see is the emergent behaviour that is the sum of individual choices. Or Adam Smith’s dead hand, if the reader prefers.
[TheAmericanMirror] Maxine Waters now sees a Russian behind every mailbox and lamp post. Only the Republican mailboxes and lamp posts.
During an anti-Trump tirade at an urban housing event, the California congresswoman went on a stem winder about Russia and the Kremlin’s alleged love for the American president. A stem winder of the unhinged variety, that is.
At one point, the paranoid Waters declared Trump has committed "obstruction of justice," and made the case for impeachment, also citing "possible collusion" with Russia. When you're done ranting, I want to revisit the "obstruction of justice" subject, OK?
She theorized Russia wanted to elect Trump so he would lift sanctions to allow Russia to drill for oil in the Arctic. No way. To MAGA, the US needs to suck all the oil out of the North Pole, not Russia.
President Obama created the sanctions. She claimed Trump "hates" Obama. So do I. But I don't think Obama was in control of the Arctic.
"I want to tell you they absolutely hacked our Democratic National Committee‐absolutely did that," she told the audience to cheers. Not at all. Just because some Communist ideologues made the DNC look bad doesn't mean it was the Russians.
"RT, which is Russian television, absolutely interfered with a speech of mine on the floor of Congress and blocked me out for 10 minutes," she bellowed, as a woman in the audience gasped, "What?!?" Strange. I wonder where it switched over. I'll have to look very carefully.
"They don’t play. They mean business," Waters declared. Yep. The Russians mean business. The Dems are the ones at play.
She was referring to an incident last January when C-SPAN briefly showed RT on its Internet feed. The TV broadcast wasn’t affected. Yep. The TV broadcast continued to spill hateful nonsense.
C-SPAN blamed the moment on an "internal routing error." The router thought it was seeing gibberish and switched to something that made more sense.
"We don’t believe that we were hacked," the network said in a statement. Thereby leaving Maxine a little wiggle room to live out her fantasy. Well played, C-SPAN, well played.
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"I want to tell you they absolutely hacked our Democratic National Committee‐absolutely did that," she told the audience to cheers.
Seith Richard broke into the DNC IT server room, copied the emails to a thumb drive and then dumped them onto Wikileaks file drop. Can't hide that kind of thing.
Clapper and Brennan concocted the narrative that the Russians hacked the DNC. Can't hide that kind of thing either. Thank you, George Webb.
Since Mad Maxine is repeating a story that she knows to be false does that make her a co-conspirator? Inquiring minds want to know.
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[TheHill] Michelle Obama has a message for Americans who are frightened by the current political climate: remain hopeful. Ah yes. How'd that hopey-changey thing work out for you anyway?
"All we have is hope," the former first lady says in a preview clip from Thursday's "Ellen" show. After that dummy Trump paddled every other Republican in sight in the primaries and then the Chosen Candidate in the election, he went to work on your smart husband's legacy and has pretty much dismantled it in a year even though he's pulled several punches. Yeah, all you got left is hope. But not in your lifetime.
Obama's sit-down with host Ellen DeGeneres marks her first TV interview since leaving the White House last year.
"People are afraid, but then there are people who feel good about the direction of the country, so I mean, that’s what makes this country complicated because it’s made up of so many different people from different backgrounds," Obama tells DeGeneres, when asked what advice she'd give people who find the world to be a "scary place right now." Whatever that means.
"The thing I learned in the eight years that I was in the White House is that what we do every day in our lives, the good things that we do every day ‐ and we know we do it: we show empathy, we care for each other, you know, we do have a lot in common," says Obama. "That’s what it means to lead with hope and not fear."
"I would just encourage your viewers, the country, to do the things we do every day: to love each other, to take care of each other, to show empathy ‐ and you can’t do that only when people make you feel good or safe," the 54-year-old Obama said, without mentioning President Trump. "We’ve got to do it all across the board." Just ignore the crime and problems we've invited by bringing in MS-13 and any terrorists hiding amongst the good immigrants.
"We have to be an open-hearted nation and that’s who we are," she added. Open hearted to everyone but our own citizens because we can depend on you voting without thinking about it.
"So, let’s just keep living our lives like that every single day and forget what they’re saying in Washington. That’s not necessarily who we are. We know who we are." We are the only ones whose opinion matters, not the majority. That's who we are.
Obama also shared some lighter moments with DeGeneres as part of the daytime talk show host's 60th birthday celebration on her eponymous chatfest. Personally, I'd prefer to see the floor dropped out from under her like the contestants in that stupid game show Ellen runs.
The ex-executive mansion resident gifted DeGeneres with a few birthday goodies, including boxed wine, Metamucil, push-up handles and a Barack Obama Chia pet. Now that's just plain racist.
(WaPo) The FBI, the White House, and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee were embroiled in a public standoff Wednesday over the expected release of a Republican memo criticizing the bureau's use of secret surveillance orders.
In a highly unusual move, the FBI issued a statement challenging the classified memo's anticipated release, saying: "IWe have grave concerns about the material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact its accuracy." I am absolutely positive that the FBI has grave concerns but not about any omissions of fact.
The FBI's statement followed remarks made by President Trump on Tuesday night indicating he wanted the document to be made public.
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the Intelligence Committee chair, fired back at FBI officials, calling their objections to the memo's release "spurious." Ya think?
"It's clear," Nunes said in a statement of his own, "that top officials used unverified information in a court document to fuel a counter-intelligence investigation during an American political campaign. Once the truth gets out, we can begin taking steps to ensure our intelligence agencies and courts are never misused like this again."
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Why didn't Nunes just say, "When the truth gets out, heads will roll."
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Yes, we're now at the...'discredit the memo' stage. Next will come the hospitalization of the Hildebeest, the McCain memorial, or some other media cloud or heard of squirrels.
h/t Gates of Vienna
[Breitbart] The unnamed Social Democrat (SPÖ) was arrested last Thursday by police in the region of Lower Austria in connection with child abuse that is said to have gone on for several years. Once police searched the man’s home, they found a number of weapons, including hand grenades, and Nazi memorabilia, including uniforms
[ConservativeTreehouse] Against a newly discovered likelihood the Robert Mueller investigation began under false pretenses; and against the backdrop that FBI surveillance and wiretaps were obtained through materially (intentionally) false representations to the FISA court; and against the backdrop the original Flynn plea judge (Contrereas) was also the approving FISA judge; and that judge ‘was summarily recused’ from the case; and against increasing evidence that Mike Flynn was set up by a terminal animus, and politically-motivated investigative rogue unit, operating within the FBI; and against surfacing IG Horowitz evidence that FBI investigators manipulated (lied on) their FD-302 interrogation documents; and understanding those falsified 302’s were used in the Mueller/Flynn charging document…
…Special Counsel Robert Mueller now asks for postponement of sentencing: Link to image
Both parties did not ‘request‘ a postponement; both parties ‘agreed‘ to a postponement. The motive for the request is entirely divergent from, yet complimentary to, the motive to agree to the request.
This is all beginning to go backwards.
It is not coincidental that Brandon L Van Grack is the signatory to the delay request by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s request to the new Judge, Emmet G Sullivan.
If, as has been reported, Inspector General Michael Horowitz now has evidence the FBI manipulated their FD-302 (interrogation and questioning) documents, as also admitted by FBI agent Peter Strzok in related matters regarding Clinton…
…. and those manipulated or falsified FBI 302’s (containing FBI investigative notes of Michael Flynn’s questioning during the January 2017 interview), were used in the actual Flynn charging documents.
Well, then the underlying evidence presented to the initial judge, Ruben Contreras, in the December 1st plea hearing, were materially misrepresented.
With the IG exposing falsified and manipulative investigative practices by the FBI, Mueller would have no alternative but to throw the brakes on. This whole thing is turning into a sh*t-show of epic proportions. EARLIER WE DISCUSSED
The Robert Mueller lawyer, the Special Counsel attorney that signed General Flynn’s Statement of Offense filed in U.S, District Court 12/1/2017 was “Brandon L Van Grack”. [See page #5]
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If the source of the evidence or evidence itself is tainted, then anything gained from it is tainted as well. And the source for Mueller is looking less and less credible and more tainted every day.
Think of it this way: As the FBI/Justice/FISA fiasco comes unwound, Flynn case will come unwound as well - and with that, away goes anything Mueller has for a credible case against anyone.
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There is a flight to Mars Orbit by FH on next Tuesday. There is a perfectly fine used Tesla on that rocket with nobody in the seats. Perhaps some of the coup plotters need a ride out of town?
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Martha Stewart Redux... Mueller couldn't get Flynn to roll over (evidently) and now it looks like he is hoping that if he just agrees not to charge the whole thing will go away.
My hope is that they can track the slime trail all the way back to Mueller and arrest him and his buddies. Karma and worth an extra big bowl of popcorn.
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Besoeker,
I have to agree that the reason the minions went after Flynn first was that he knew too much about what Zero and Shillary and Lynch and Comey were up to in the run up to the election...after all he was the head guy at NIA for a while and would have seen some juicy stuff with NSA vacuuming up everyone's cellphones and texting.
Yep, I bet somewhere in all of the witch hunt involving Flynn is a gag order on Flynn. To keep him from talking.
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Rogue government operatives CAN be jointly and severally liable for their actions against a citizen. McCabe's pension and Strzok's home equity would be a good start to providing a cure for Flynn
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They 'took out' Petraeus and they took out Flynn. No general officer, aging Vermont socialist, or anyone else was going to compete with or impede the campaign of the Hildebeest.
Unfortunate circumstances always seem to befall those who might represent a threat to the Clinton's.
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I'm surprised the Dems have not called for the Special Council to be dissolved at this point. All it's accomplished has been to turn the spotlight on Dem criminality.
Since the Special Council was formed as the result of surveillance of Trump and team based on unmasking and a fake dossier to obtain a FISA warrant, the investigation ought to be tossed and anything coming from it (Flynn and others)--fruit of the poisoned tree.
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#15 Key here is, Flynn was no pal of Soetoro and the Klingon Deep State puppet masters. He knew far too much. Posted by Besoeker
Not sure why so many on here support Flynn. Flynn was in order:
1. An democrat Obama sycophant
2. Self promoter at the DIA...a place with so many wonderful tools that produces so little.
3. Remained a self promoter with the Flynn Group...who on here believes any retired three star is worth $500K for one consulting gig?
4. A leech opportunist sycophant that latched onto Trump's leg and started humping at the first opportunity. Eureka - Flynn is a Republican for the first time in his life!
5. A liar. Got fired for lying to the VP and prosecuted for lying to the FBI.
Flynn is an arrogant loser that lied to the command team when they needed the truth...he played the stoopid game and won his stoopid prize.
I am open for counter opinions...maybe I missed something somewhere where Flynn transformed into a martyr for the conservative cause...
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If Mueller conducted his investigation based upon data that was willfully distorted for what ever reason, and in the course of his investigated he convicted a man on a process crime based on that data, whether he knew about it or not,, that is a severe miscarriage of justice.
Like him or hate him, Flynn does not deserve to be convicted of a crime based on an investigation of a crime that the investigators knew was no crime at all.
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"I am open for counter opinions...maybe I missed something somewhere where Flynn transformed into a martyr for the conservative cause..."
The conservative cause is a Man and his Family should not be wiped out by the Federal Government under abuse of power and false accusations or entrapment.
This is where you get the Bundy thing and 45% of property confiscation cases in the US.
If he was not a Republican then, he may be now and he did chew through a bunch of Doctrine and did some solids for me in the past. Some of it right and wrong but he helped me through an Adjudication or two.
I do not want anyone on the Cross that does not belong there and he does not.
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Like him or hate him, Flynn does not deserve to be convicted of a crime based on an investigation of a crime that the investigators knew was no crime at all. Posted by badanov
If he was not a Republican then, he may be now and he did chew through a bunch of Doctrine and did some solids for me in the past. Some of it right and wrong but he helped me through an Adjudication or two. Posted by: newc
Badanov has a valid point, although if Flynn would have just told the truth he would have kept his job and avoided the hot seat.
newc, while Flynn may be competent, if you can't trust him or his motives then disaster will soon follow...and it did. I don't think he is one of us...he is/was for Flynn
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"newc, while Flynn may be competent, if you can't trust him or his motives then disaster will soon follow...and it did. I don't think he is one of us...he is/was for Flynn"
Point taken.
I'm still not happy with the fake investigation tho.
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I dont trust Flynn. But, even you can agree there is an issue here bigger than that:
Its exceedingly wrong for Flynn or ANYONE to get railroaded by an out of control prosecutor who proceeded to try to "flip" him into another perjury (in order to "get" dirt on the Trump campaign) based on tainted "evidence" obtained in an unconstitutional politically partisan search abuse of the FISA system. Further worsening it, the basis report was apparently based on a political tissue of lies hatchet-job that was bought and paid for by the Clintons/DNC, which was used to trigger an investigation of their opponent, including the aforementioned (now revealed to be likely illegal) surveillance.
Doesnt matter who the victim is - its the seriousness and magnitude of this corruption that should be important to anyone that loves this country.
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Both Flynn and his deputy at DIA stayed in a static pi**ing contest with the DNI and Klingons over HUMINT collection in support of what used to be called the GWOT. I don't know the specifics of his credibility lag with the VP, or the details of his guilty plea.
Water under the bridge now, but had the administration kept the Flynn issue 'close hold,' we might be in a better position today.
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I don't have a firm opinion about Flynn one way or the other, and even if he's a lifelong Democrat, I do not necessarily agree with financially ruining someone based on trumped up charges. However, to the extent that the left has done that over the past decade or so to cake bakers and folks like Brendan Eich, do it to twice as many on their side until I see them fly a white flag of surrender.
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Looking at the photo charts in the article... I can't help but thinking that IRS former head Lois Lerner was a resource for all of these and should be on the chart.
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Its exceedingly wrong for Flynn or ANYONE to get railroaded by an out of control prosecutor who proceeded to try to "flip" him into another perjury (in order to "get" dirt on the Trump campaign) based on tainted "evidence" obtained in an unconstitutional politically partisan search abuse of the FISA system. Posted by Injun Bucket8891
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There was an article on one of the political blogs last week or the week before in which it was stated that Flynn's "interview" by the FBI, Strzok and another agent, was an ambush. They appeared at the White House, unannounced, without an appointment and did not state to Flynn what the interview was about. He thought it was so innocuous that he did not legal counsel present, although it appears the White House counsel joined at some point.
Combine that with the revelation that the 302's were falsified and misrepresented the statements that Flynn made, shows that the entire episode was a hit job on Flynn and entrapment.
I still believe that the FBI did not want to have someone in the White House with knowledge of that the Zero regime was up to with regard to intel gathering...and who they were gathering it on.
Of course the phone call to the Russian Ambassador was completely legit because it was AFTER the election and technically part of the transition of power, not BEFORE as often miss-stated, deliberately by the leftist media.
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Also. All that russian hacking BS happeneed under obama and he promptly ignored it untill Hillary mad the clame after the election was won by T-Rump.
[FOXNEWS] A key U.S. Senate committee overseeing the FBI is demanding that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein release newly recovered text messages between anti-Trump FBI officials Peter Strozk and Lisa Page.
“I respectfully request that the [Justice] Department produce all text messages newly recovered or received by Peter Strzok and Lisa Page for the period December 14, 2016 to May 17, 2017,” reads a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee letter dated Jan. 31.
The committee wants the information no later than Feb. 14.
The documents show more on the Democratic Party's attempt to turn the USA into a 3rd World S---hole.
[Townhall] One would think that condemning an extremely violent international gang like MS-13 would be an innocuous thing for an American president to do, but alas, in today’s broken political discourse, Trump’s State of the Union spotlighting of the infamous Salvadoran criminal enterprise was met with screeches of indignation from anti-Trump politicians and media figures alike.
Much of the outrage over Trump’s choice to highlight the tragic murders of teenage friends Nisa Mickens and Kayla Cuevas was centered around criticizing the President for suggesting a linkage between immigrants and MS-13. The following comments from Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) on MSNBC were representative of this line of argument:
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When a cop beats up or shoots a black man its 24/7 coverage. When illegals commit hideous crimes, its buried, buried, buried (as usually are the victims).
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It's so easy to poke holes in their arguments that it's pathetic, and yet the media never does.
OK, for one thing Trump did not mean all immigrants or even all illegal immigrants. He was talking about a handful of illegal immigrants who also happen to be hardcore violent criminals. But loonies like Kamala Harris ignore that little detail and make it sound like Trump was talking about all immigrants, legal or otherwise, and therefore he is a racist. This is a very basic flaw in her reasoning that anyone should be able to see.
But Harris is not that stupid. She knows better so when she misrepresents what Trump said she is in fact lying. Why? Why won't she tell us what she really wants? Why can't she be honest? Is it because the vast majority of the American people would recoil at such malevolence?
Loonies like Harris will never admit that United States citizens deserver to be protected from criminals who enter our country illegally.
Why not, Kamala? Is it because the best way to protect our own citizens from criminals like MS-13 entering our country is to secure our border? Does that mean Harris believes that anybody from anywhere in the whole wide world should be allowed to walk right into our country, no questions asked? That they should be allowed free education in our schools, free health care? EBT cards? Free housing? Free money? Who's gonna pay?
Why can't you tell us, Kamala? Stop lying and tell us what your really want.
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Liberals Condemn Trump For winning elections against their candidate. Because all power belongs to the People, and they are the only ones who know what's good for the People.
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All those tatooed gangsters riding on the trains into this place illegally with your CACA DACA you piece of shit democrats.
You are all Traitors and I wish you would just leave.
You hate this place and have no business running it no matter how looney your idiot base is.
I hate the democrat party more than anything on this entire planet right now.
I would kick you all down the Temple stairs you arrogant heathen.
[PJMEDIA] Let's give them the award straight up: Worst Performance by a Minority Party at a State of the Union Address.
(Hey, it's awards season, right?)
They broke the record. They get the prize with no runner-up for years to come.
the mealy-mouthed Steny StinkyHoyer ... Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi's second banana, or plaintain, or mango, or whatever he is... and Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace... watching Trump's speech looked like a pair of sullen six-year olds on a sugar crash the day after Halloween. Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated by Hillary, then went back to being a socialist... looked mummified. Schumer was slumped so deeply in his chair he was almost falling through the crack.
Other Democrats, even ones who should have known better or secretly felt otherwise, sat on their hands. You could see them glancing at each other, wondering whether they were allowed to applaud or stand up. What a bunch of cowards.
It was a disgraceful display of bad manners, but even more it was incredibly stupid because "the whole world was watching." The camera was getting them all in close-up.
Who are these ungrateful corpses, middle America must have been asking. Good question. (Can you imagine how much money Pelosi has made in the stock market since Trump was elected? What does she have to be so upset about?)
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It was an honest response: He was beating their brains out, and they acted like he was.
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I wonder how few times CNN & the other national media panned out the camera shot to show these long Dem faces?
(1) Isn't it weird that in America, our flag and our culture offend so many people, but our benefits don't?
(2) How can the federal government ask U.S. citizens to pay back student loans, when illegal aliens are receiving a free education?
(3) Only in America are legal citizens labeled "racists" and "Nazis," but illegal aliens are called "Dreamers”.
(4) Liberals say, "If confiscating all guns saves just one life, it's worth it". Well then, if deporting all illegals saves just one life, wouldn't that be worth it?
(5) I can't quite figure out how you can proudly wave the flag of another country, but consider it punishment to be sent back there.
6) The Constitution: It doesn't need to be rewritten, it needs to be reread.
(7) William F. Buckley said: "Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other points of view, and are then shocked and offended when they discover there are other points of view."
(8) Joseph Sobran said: "'Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer."
The Gutierrez snowflake moment with the USA chant really chapped my ass. Living in SoCal and watching Hispanics wave the flag of Mexico and chanting "Mexico, Mexico" at soccer games and having huge demonstrations and celebrations when Mexico knocked Team USA out of the World Cup...makes me wonder. Why is "USA, USA" oppressive and a trigger moment when "Mexico, Mexico" is not?
The al-Jizz/Dem view.
[Al Jazeera] In his first State of the Union address, 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... offered a combative world view, claimed success in the war on the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, also known as ISIS), boasted about recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and outlined a nakedly nationalistic American economic and foreign policy.
"As we strengthen friendships around the world, we are also restoring clarity about our adversaries," Trump said, naming Iran a "corrupt dictatorship" and attacking North Korea, which he characterised as a "cruel dictatorship" in "reckless pursuit of nuclear missiles."
The speech displayed an American president clearly comfortable with raising tensions around the world with allies and adversaries alike in pursuit of an "America First" agenda.
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[Blogs.ScientificAmerican] Tonight, Bill Nye "The Science Guy" will accompany Republican Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK), Trump’s nominee for NASA Administrator, to the State of the Union address. Nye has said that he’s accompanying the Congressman to help promote space exploration, since, he asserts, "NASA is the best brand the United States has" and that his attendance "should not be ... seen as an acceptance of the recent attacks on science and the scientific community." 500 Harpies in Lab-coats can't be wrong...). But by attending the SOTU as Rep. Bridenstine’s guest, Nye has tacitly endorsed those very policies, and put his own personal brand over the interests of the scientific community at large. Rep. Bridenstine is a controversial nominee who refuses to state that climate change is driven by human activity, and even introduced legislation to remove Earth sciences from NASA’s scientific mission. Further, he’s worked to undermine civil rights, including pushing for crackdowns on immigrants, a ban on gay marriage, and abolishing the Department of Education.
As scientists, we cannot stand by while Nye lends our community’s credibility to a man who would undermine the United States’ most prominent science agency. And we cannot stand by while Nye uses his public persona as a science entertainer to support an administration that is expressly xenophobic, homophobic, misogynistic, racist, ableist, and anti-science. More blather at link (although the "science entertainer" tag is kind of fun.).
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xenophobic, homophobic, misogynistic, racist, ableist, and anti-science
The BS is strong with this one...
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Funny, but not that long ago your kind were the only people telling all the rest of us that Bill Nye was the acknowledged font and source of ALL science. Glad those people had a moment of clarity, maybe it will spread.
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.
[TheAmericanMirror] Maxine Waters now sees a Russian behind every mailbox and lamp post.
[TheHill] Michelle Obama has a message for Americans who are frightened by the current political climate: remain hopeful.
(WaPo) The FBI, the White House, and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee were embroiled in a public standoff Wednesday over the expected release of a Republican memo criticizing the bureau's use of secret surveillance orders.
[FOXNEWS] A key U.S. Senate committee overseeing the FBI is demanding that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein release newly recovered text messages between anti-Trump FBI officials Peter Strozk and Lisa Page.
[Townhall] One would think that condemning an extremely violent international gang like MS-13 would be an innocuous thing for an American president to do, but alas, in today’s broken political discourse, Trump’s State of the Union spotlighting of the infamous Salvadoran criminal enterprise was met with screeches of indignation from anti-Trump politicians and media figures alike.
[PJMEDIA] Let's give them the award straight up: Worst Performance by a Minority Party at a State of the Union Address.
...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated by Hillary, then went back to being a socialist...
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But by attending the SOTU as Rep. Bridenstine’s guest, Nye has tacitly endorsed those very policies, and put his own personal brand over the interests of the scientific community at large. Rep. Bridenstine is a controversial nominee who refuses to state that climate change is driven by human activity, and even introduced legislation to remove Earth sciences from NASA’s scientific mission. Further, he’s worked to undermine civil rights, including pushing for crackdowns on immigrants, a ban on gay marriage, and abolishing the Department of Education.
