[Townhall] Donald Trump is the victim of a political hit job by the Biden Department of Justice. He didn’t commit any actual law violations as stipulated in the Mar-a-Lago search warrant. Federal officials fought to keep the affidavit providing probable cause for the FBI’s August 8 raid under seal. Still, a judge, the same one who signed off on the search, Bruce Reinhart, disagreed and ordered parts of the document to be released after a redaction process. That means a sea of blacked-out pages, so what’s the point? The best part regarding the reasoning behind keeping the core of the affidavit under wraps is to protect Donald Trump. Nothing is creepier than when the government says, "this is for your protection."
With every development regarding this federal ransacking, two things remain unchanged. It looks increasingly clear that the Trump legal team was cooperating with federal officials regarding the documents in question, so the obstruction of justice allegation gets weaker by the day. Second, where is the crime that precipitated this search of Trump’s home because recent updates only make it seem like the Justice Department cobbled together statutes that aren’t criminal to justify this ransacking?
The latest development in this legal fiasco is Acting Archivist Debra Steidel Wall's role in the document retrieval, where she seems to be one of the leading figures who triggered the FBI raid. As Tom Elliott of Grabien clipped, Trump honored this woman during his presidency, which he cited as a failure on the former president’s part for not draining the swamp (via WaPo):
Debra Steidel Wall became Acting Archivist of the United States in May 2022 upon the retirement of 10th Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero. She was appointed as Deputy Archivist of the United States in July 2011 and previously served as the agency's Chief of Staff (2008–2011) and in a variety of management positions relating to bringing NARA’s archival holdings to the public online. She joined the National Archives in 1991 as an archivist trainee with a specialty in film, and holds an undergraduate degree in history and government from Georgetown University, and a graduate degree in film from the American University.
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Trump began working from Mar-a-Lago because while in the Oval Office because it was bugged and everything he was doing was being leaked to the NYT by (we can now suspect) the FBI.
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The dems are piling up a lot of precedents that they will screech about when the shoe is on the other foot.
At this point, a Republican president would be beyond stupid to do any less than fire everyone that can be fired immediately after the inauguration.
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First order of business: Anyone GS-13 or higher in the GSA, NSA, CIA, FBI or any other hotbeds of treachery, have your resignation letters on the president's desk within 24 hours, and your badge and keys handed in within 4 hours of receipt of this memorandum. Start with Wray and the Klingons, and Gen Milley in the DoD
[Red State] We’ve reported on how whistleblowers have come forward reporting on the politicization of the FBI, including in regard to the Hunter Biden case, Trump matters, and domestic terrorism cases.
But now, even more whistleblowers are coming forth, revealing that the Bureau’s management is "out of control" in offices across the country.
Whistleblowers are complaining about a culture of "corruption, cover-ups and retaliation" against agents who are trying to expose it in offices in Miami, Salt Lake City, Buffalo, and Newark.
The complaints included allegations that supervisors forced agents to sign false affidavits, made up terrorism cases to falsely inflate their performance statistics, sexually harassed, or engaged in other sexual acts with a subordinate.
One of the whistleblowers — who said that superiors, including FBI Director Chris Wray, ignored her complaints about sexual harassment — also said that the "bureau suffers from a "mob-like mentality."
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I'm not convinced this means the FBI can be restored to health.
Yeah. Ask Frank Serpico...
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Rantburg’s own FBI people have been blunt in their judgement on certain FBI choices in recent years. I have no doubt there are still plenty of old-fashioned, squared away agents over there, if only they can be freed from the burden of corrupt colleagues.
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I have no doubt there are still plenty of old-fashioned, squared away agents over there, if only they can be freed from the burden of corrupt colleagues.
I hope so, because Federal Investigation Bureau is not a good look.
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One HR files summary sorting run by demoraphics for Urban Field Offices will point to likely politicized locations.
The second would be a ranking by time in grade for caucasian vs minority agents, and the same sort for military veteran vs non-veteran. The bias will unfold convincingly, with exceptions.
[AMAC] Beginning in earnest with Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... ’s election in 2016, working class voters in the United States have fled the Democratic Party ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... in droves, quickly eroding a once solid base of support for the party. Amid this seismic shift in the electorate, many elected Democrats and mainstream media pundits have over the past several months desperately tried to prop up this narrative of Democrats as the party of everyday Americans — even as the policies emanating from Washington have grown increasingly opposed to their interests. Not to belabor the obvious, but the Dems have become the anti-white party. They're not even pro-black anymore; they take them for granted, and every city they control has become a shit hole of violence and corruption. They're not fond of Hispanix -- Eww! Cubans! Eww Venezuelans! Give us more Hondurans! (Highest murder rate in the world.) Give us more Salvadorans! (Home of Mara Salvatrucha, second highest murder rate in the world.) Send us more Mexicans! (Whole country controlled by cartels.)
Following the 2016 election, many in media circles seemed to believe that Trump’s performance with blue-collar and working class voters in states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio must have been a fluke. Though 2018 was an electoral setback for Republicans in the House, 2020 quickly proved a continuation of the trend that began four years before. Analysis from The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... in 2020 on "The Two Americas Funding Trump and Biden Campaigns" found, for example, that in "ZIP codes above [the median household of $68,703], Mr. Biden outraised Mr. Trump by $389.1 million. Below that level, Mr. Trump was actually ahead by $53.4 million." Additionally, the study also found that much of Biden’s "financial edge" came from deep blue states along the coasts — supporting the widespread perception of Democrats as the party of coastal elites. "The donations mirror voting patterns," Republican pollster Whit Ayres noted at the time. The Washington Post claimed to have counted 30,000 lies told by Donald Trump while they were trying to destroy him with lies of their own. They ignored the fact that the things he said he'd do, he did.
The reason why this shift is occurring is easy to see — on issue after issue, Democrats’ policies are hopelessly out of step with the experiences of working class voters. On day one of his administration, Biden took actions like canceling the Keystone XL pipeline and ending oil and gas leases on federal lands — policies favored by wealthy liberals, but which started a steady rise in energy prices that hit working class Americans particularly hard. Democrats’ $1.9 trillion "American Rescue Plan," which was chock-full of woke priorities aimed at appeasing far-left activists, touched off an inflation crisis that has further devastated the financial lives of working class families. Instead of working to curb inflation, Biden and Congressional Democrats passed a bill dubbed the "Inflation Reduction Act" that economists believe will do nothing but increase inflation, and which contains subsidies for electric vehicles and solar panels — more welfare for the wealthy. In just the past two years, every Democrat in Congress has voted for higher energy costs, ending coal, and unleashing an army of IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... agents on low and middle-income Americans. Google sez we're now 57.8% white, 18.7% Hispanic, 12.4% Black and 6% Asian. We hear constantly about "white supremacy' and white this and white that. But the 18.7 percent that's Hispanic coexists a lot more comfortably now than they did fifty years ago. The Asians are more "white" than white people, taking prizes in the math and science that the white kids are too lazy to pursue. There's also a lot of intermarriage among all the races, to include white and black. That's because girls are pretty and boys are handsome.
Despite Democrats’ claims that these policies are targeted at working and middle class Americans, evidence suggests that the opposite is true. For instance, available data shows that 80% of electric vehicle subsidies end up going to individuals making more than $100,000 per year. A Wall Street Journal analysis of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,’s push to switch to "green" energy sources, a plan similar to the climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act, showed that while working class households saw their energy bills increase, wealthy households actually saw financial gain from the policies.
Additionally, though Democrats slammed the Trump tax cuts as "tax breaks for the rich" and insist that their tax plan would "make the wealthy pay their fair share," real wages grew under Trump, and that wage growth went predominately to "workers at the lower end of the pay scale." Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... an analysis from the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation found that the tax code changes in Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act would result in an increased tax burden of more than $17 billion on Americans making less than $200,000 in 2023 alone.
Democrats’ struggles with working class voters are perhaps best captured in middle American states that were once reliably blue or purple but are now trending Republican. The state of Iowa, for instance, which for decades was "the reliable wind vane of American politics," has all but totally rejected Democrats. Obama carried the state twice in 2008 and 2012, but Trump also won there twice — gaining ground in 2020 over 2016. Since then, Republican voter registration has almost doubled in the state, and Biden’s approval sits at a dismal 23%.
A similar story has played out in Ohio, which also voted for Obama twice, but which Trump won handily in 2020. Though Biden managed to carry Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota two years ago, these once reliable bastions of Democratic support are now toss-ups.
In all of these states, which have been at the epicenter of the decline of American manufacturing in recent decades, working class voters are driving this shift, undoubtedly in large part thanks to Donald Trump’s message of economic renewal and a return to American greatness.
In response, some Democrats have, to their credit, attempted to rebuild this base of support. A headline from The New York Times late last month asked: "How Can Democrats Persuade Voters They Aren’t The Party of Rich Elites?" In an apparent response, Senator Sherrod I absolutely trust Hillary Brown Dem senator from Ohio who harbored the same presidential ambitions as the rest of his colleagues. At a distance he was indistinguishable from most other Dem politicians, including the females. It can be said that he waned without waxing... of Ohio (D) wrote in an op-ed earlier this month, "We’re supposed to be the workers’ Party. Democrats must be that party again." (Never mind the fact that Senator Brown has garnered a reputation as one of the most far-left members of the Senate and was a strong supporter of Democrats’ spending binge.)
But this outreach effort has proven to be little more than lip service to the actual needs of working class voters. Far from re-calibrating their policy agenda as working class voters abandon them, Democrats appear poised to double down on their embrace of elite interests and a far-left social agenda, one that is completely at odds with the traditional values of most working class families. For Republicans, this presents a golden opportunity — if they can follow Trump’s lead and continue focusing on the issues that matter most to these voters.
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They just notice that?
When the Democrats Marxists couldn't make headway on class they switched to race to divide and conquer.
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Remember the 'Rainbow Coalition' started back in the wreckage of McGovern's 72 Presidential Run?
IN: 'People of Color', Coastal Elites, Academics, Government Workers and Ecological Fanatics (dare we also add Reds and Pinks of all stripes?)
OUT: White Southerners, White Midwesterners, Industrial Union Workers ('If you don't get a degree you are a subhuman wretch' plus "How can you work on an assembly line in that foul, Gaea™ despoiling hellhole that harms the property value of my nearby condo?") and Middle Class Small-business owners ("Death to the bourgeoisie!).
It took several generations to fully manifest but the signs were already there in 1976 if you looked hard enough...
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AA, you may be right. But, I first noticed a vast gulf between Dem and Pubs. I was a “marksman” from 1st Bde 82nd Abn up on the rooves of the buildings; the only one. Ostensibly counter-snipers. The others were from Marines, Secret Service, and FBI HR teams. Under our brightly colored beach umbrellas. On the rooves.
When certain politicians greeted us before the start of our day and their first day, happened twice, all of the Dems and maybe 40% of the Pubs could barely conceal their sneers of disgust. 1972.
Hated all politicians since.
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Okay, maybe 30-40%.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike ||
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And the demonstrators; it was an ‘oh please, oh please, oh please” situation.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike ||
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That's a known, has been for some time. The questiobn is, who have the Dems moved to? My view is that they are now the party of the uber rich and their servents recently imported across the southern border... as well as any and all hostile foreign gummints.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
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The Working Class should be so lucky; they just got tapped to pay for the schooling of The Academic Class.
#10
My late father was a lifelong democrat. (Don't know how long after he passed that he continued to vote.)
I wish he were alive for many reasons, but one thing I would like talk to him about is how the Democratic party has changed over the years. Dad was one of the best Catholics I ever knew. I would like to ask him is how he feels about the Democrats' full throated support for abortion.
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People who were indoctrinated from an early age to be a democrat, a communist, yes, even a Republican, can have a hard time overcoming that, regardless of the evidence right before their eyes. When I was a reporter in the Mon Valley area, there were more pictures of Roosevelt and Kennedy than of Jesus in those union steelworker homes I visited while working my beat. And that was when most of the mills had not only been shut down but were being torn down.
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and their servents recently imported across the southern border...
You misspelled slaves. The democrats may promise a 'path to citizenship' all they want - but they will never actually deliver. They love having their slaves too much - and this is what illegals are to them - a slave class entirely dependant on their good will.
[ForeignPolicy] Will the Iran Deal Be Revived? EU officials have noted Iran’s “reasonable” response to a final draft agreement, but Washington’s answer is still unknown.
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This is perhaps the clearest indication of how deep her influence goes, as well as the shocking progress the graft has taken on the "Obama Cathedral " in Chigaco. They have raised $860,000,000+ in contributions towards a $1.6 BILLION cost. Her salary is almost $600k annually.
[DAWN] THOUGH the PTI’s stand-off with the ruling coalition shows no signs of easing, the party’s march towards success at the ballot box continues unabated. After winning 15 seats in the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Assembly by-elections last month, and thereafter capturing the Punjab government following a melodramatic struggle in the courts, the PTI’s latest victory, as per unofficial results, has been in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... ’s NA-245 constituency. The seat was vacated after the party’s politician and televangelist Aamir Liaquat Hussain died in June. Though the turnout was thin — the PTI’s candidate captured the seat with just over 29,000 votes in a constituency with over 500,000 registered voters — Sunday’s election results clearly indicate that the PTI’s graph is on the rise. The MQM’s man came a distant second losing by around 16,000 votes. The Muttahida, once upon a time, used to be unassailable in this part of Karachi, partly through the use of muscle power and electoral malpractices, and partly due to its genuine vote bank. However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... in a worrying development, the TLP managed to secure third place, which indicates that Karachi’s electoral dynamics are changing, and not necessarily for the better.
While Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... himself had led an aggressive campaign, with rallies criss-crossing Punjab, during last month’s provincial assembly by-polls, in the case of NA-245 the PTI supremo did not even bother to visit Karachi. In fact, none of the PTI’s first-tier leadership campaigned hard for the seat. The fact that the party managed to coast to victory despite lacklustre campaigning suggests that voters are responding to Mr Khan’s narrative, though it could also be the case that in NA-245, voters opted for the PTI’s candidate for lack of better alternatives amongst those in the running. Another factor that goes in the PTI’s favour is that it was able to clinch the seat despite the fact that the PPP had withdrawn its candidate in the MQM’s favour. The upcoming second leg of Sindh’s local government elections, as well as by-polls on nine National Assembly constituencies scheduled for Sept 25, which were necessitated after the PTI’s MNAs resigned and were de-notified, will further clarify whether the popularity wave will be capable of carrying Khan’s party to victory in general elections, or if it is a short-term phenomenon. For the time being, Imran Khan’s narrative seems to be resonating with the voter, and the ruling coalition should be seriously worried about confronting the PTI juggernaut at the ballot box.
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[DAWN] PEMRA’S restrictions on the live telecast of PTI chairman Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... ’s public speeches is an attack on the constitutional right to the freedom of expression.
Not satisfied with the ban, the authorities also disrupted the live stream of his recent address on YouTube.
Even though the former prime minister is known for slandering and threatening his political opponents, critics and journalists, censoring his words is a breach of his basic rights. Hence, the restrictions must be immediately revoked.
In an attempt to justify its decision, the electronic media regulator has accused Mr Khan of ’spreading hate speech’ and levelling baseless allegations against state institutions, police officials and an additional sessions judge for the arrest and alleged custodial torture of his chief of staff.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... it is clear from its order that Pemra has interpreted the Constitution’s Article 19, which guarantees the right to freedom of speech, as well as suggests the circumstances in which this right can be restricted, in a manner opposed to the spirit of the article, in order to arbitrarily censor Mr Khan’s views.
The ban is unacceptable even though the PTI itself attempted to gag a broad spectrum of mainstream and social media to silence dissent during its rule. Instead of punishing the politician, Pemra should have directed the channels to use the time-delay mechanism to block out offensive terms or simply left the matter to the courts.
The charges that have led Pemra to order TV channels to censor Mr Khan did not warrant its intervention. If he has said something unlawful, or threatened the state functionaries and judicial officers, he should be proceeded against according to the law of the land.
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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.
[Townhall] Donald Trump is the victim of a political hit job by the Biden Department of Justice. He didn’t commit any actual law violations as stipulated in the Mar-a-Lago search warrant. Federal officials fought to keep the affidavit providing probable cause for the FBI’s August 8 raid under seal. Still, a judge, the same one who signed off on the search, Bruce Reinhart, disagreed and ordered parts of the document to be released after a redaction process. That means a sea of blacked-out pages, so what’s the point? The best part regarding the reasoning behind keeping the core of the affidavit under wraps is to protect Donald Trump. Nothing is creepier than when the government says, "this is for your protection."
...every time you hear the phrase 
...aka 
