[American Thinker] Do you think it is a coincidence that as soon as the news broke that a criminal investigation of the origins of the surveillance of the Trump campaign was underway, Andrew McCabe withdrew his lawsuit against the Department of Justice and the FBI?
It might be sheer random coincidence, of course, but maybe McCabe has bigger fish to fry when it comes to the courts. Roger Luchs offers an interesting perspective:
Offensive 'cover for Action' strategy obviously not working. Time to place financial resources elsewhere.
[AlAhram] Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i Prince Tamim Bin Hamad al-Thani has been playing a destructive role in financing terrorist groups across the region while posing as a democrat to Western audiences.
Improving the stature of a country and its sustainable development should be the ultimate goal of every head of state and political leader around the world. The means to attain those goals vary from one leader to another, however, with some focusing on improving economic and political relationships and others focusing on cultural or military ones.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Social media has many uses -- some good, some mildly disturbing. But what we are seeing now in Bangladesh, most recently in Bhola and in many other places before that, is unmatched in its vileness, and reveals the existence of a mind-set in our country that most decent people would rather not think about.
But think about it we must, because we are seeing this ugly thing happen again and again.
This is not a one-off incident, it is a trend. And if we are to stop this trend, we need to recognize it for what it is, and take the swiftest and harshest action, or God help us all.
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(Reuters) - A senior U.S. diplomat told lawmakers on Saturday he did not know whether President Donald Trump had withheld aid for Ukraine to force an investigation of a political rival, two sources said, even as Democrats said he corroborated evidence gathered in their impeachment probe.
Philip Reeker, the acting assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, spent about eight hours with the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs, Intelligence and Oversight committees behind closed doors at the U.S. Capitol.
Reeker told lawmakers that in the June-August period he had no knowledge of the possibility that U.S. security aid to Ukraine may have withheld to pressure Kiev to launch investigations that could have helped Trump’s 2020 re-election bid, as some have alleged, according to the sources familiar with the matter.
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The Congress will vote to impeach. The Senate will veto. Pres. Donald Trump will be re-elected. The Dems will protest, declare the election invalid, and establish a separate government.
An ex-offico president and cabinet will then be appointed. The newly appointed president will be known by her initials and will immediately begin work to establish a new 'Green' constitution along with a more gender and diversely appropriate national flag. Congressional sessions will held via on-line websites and twitter. All servers will of the "home brew" type and will be managed via a no-bid contract with Platte River Networks of Denver, CO. Screen names will be gov't approved (sorry, “Pierre Delecto” is already taken).
Civilian ownership of firearms and home schooling will be immediately outlawed. The New York Stock Exchange will be declared racist and illegal, and be forced to close. Onerous fees will be charged for anyone owning a deadly gasoline powered combustion engine. Huge financial donations from unknown sources will fund the new government until new and different money is printed. With the CBC leading the way, illegals from across the globe, federal employees, the AFL-CIO, NEA, along with disaffected current and retired senior military officers, Google, Shep Smith, the FBI and CIA, will flock to offer allegiance and party membership. The media will gleefully follow.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will no longer be needed and abolished. All personal income will be provided by the US Gov't and 'guaranteed', officially making everyone a government employee (no downside here, they make considerably more anyway).
The new government (and the Pope) will declare, electricity, medical care, food, and guaranteed income, all 'human rights' until there is no more.
Foreign travel will be restricted to For Official Use Only (FOUO). Only the rich and famous will be permitted to leave. Restructured passport fees and visas will see to that.
Old news and quite a bit more is known today about the genesis of efforts to take down Trump (most likely posted at RB at the time). The MSM media seems to have conveniently and completely forgotten about this 1/11/2017 article. Maybe Barr and Durham will flesh out the finer details of all this in the criminal investigation.
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And then patriots of the actual United States take out power, water and shoot up food trucks attempting to feed the Democrat cesspits...strongholds in their nice urban cities. In two weeks all food is gone and they start eating rats. A week later the attempted mass breakout ends when the front ranks are annihilated by concentrated rifle fire. They start to eat each other, disease killing many as water becomes quite scarce. Fires destroy much of the cities. 3 months later, the last remnants of the democrats are cleared by volunteers from the Deplorables.
[Hot Air] One of the constant media themes over the past couple of years has been the story of how terrible Donald Trump’s trade wars with various countries ‐ particularly China ‐ have been for farmers in the midwest. They are allegedly further angered by the President’s "favors" to the oil and gas industry in the form of waivers granted to smaller refineries under the Renewable Fuel Standard, leading to lower prices for corn. This, if you believe what’s regularly repeated on CNN and other outlets, has led to Trump’s support among those in the agricultural community declining. The farmers are angry at the toll that’s been taken on their profits and their way of life.
This mantra has been picked up in outlets both large and small. One example can be found in this breathless article from The Gazette in Iowa. It declares, "No more Iowa nice!" The article then goes on to suggest that farmers are so upset with Trump’s EPA that he’s losing support among a group that was previously solidly behind him.
[Powerline] In his lifetime in politics, Joe Biden has always had a tenuous connection to reality. As he has gotten elderly, that connection has weakened further. While politicians in general are not famed for veracity, Biden’s pronouncements‐especially about himself, a topic on which you might expect him to be an authority‐are uniquely likely to be false.
The latest case in point: Brother of Sandy Hook victim calls out Joe Biden for ’factual inaccuracy’.
Joe Biden has been accused of lying about his claim that he met with ’every family’ who lost a child in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre.
JT Lewis, whose six-year-old brother Jesse was one of the 26 people killed in the Connecticut mass shooting, eviscerated the 2020 hopeful for making the claim in a new video released earlier this week.
In that clip, Biden promised to do more to bring about gun control and stated: ’What really got to me, really firsthand, was what happened up at Sandy Hook. I think I met with every one of the parents, and/ or the families of those who were lost.’
However, Lewis hit back on Twitter on Wednesday, writing: ’This is a lie. Obama came to Sandy Hook and met with every family. Joe Biden DID NOT. In fact, my family was not allowed on Air Force One because we refused to support Obama/Biden gun control efforts.’
Lewis has also pointed out that Biden is so out of touch that he thought he was vice president when the Parkland shootings happened. Lewis concludes:
Lewis then bluntly added: ’Joe Biden is either a liar or he’s losing his mind.’
[Townhall] After the longest war in the history of our country, it is time for our troops to return home. In 2001, the United States responded to the horrific terrorist attacks of 9/11 by sending our military to Afghanistan on a mission to destroy Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda. We were successful in destroying their terrorist camps, killing and capturing Al-Qaeda leaders, and forcing Bin Laden out of the country.
Amazingly, our military is still in Afghanistan, although the Taliban control over half of the country. Of course, President Trump and his supporters want to bring these troops home, but he is facing enormous resistance within the government, including the Defense Department.
During the war in Afghanistan, the administration of President George W. Bush invaded Iraq in 2003 to remove Saddam Hussein from power. It was believed that he harbored weapons of mass destruction; however, none were ever discovered.
Not true. We had contemporaneous reports and personal witness here at Rantburg of troops harmed by huge storage bunkers full of leaking barrels of insecticides, far, far beyond the needs of the farmers and gardeners in Iraq over many years. There was the nuclear thingy, buried under that researcher’s rosebushes, waiting to be put back to work, and of course other bunkers full of barrels of yellowcake, waiting to be refined. Not to mention whatever it was that was burnt in the canals for weeks before the 2003 invasion, and the endless convoy going back and forth tio the Bekaa Valley, followed by one of Saddam Hussein’s dutiful daughters and family going into exile. It wasn’t just Daddy’s gold she was hiding for him. But the New York Times, et al, had their narrative, and President Bush’s team lacked Donald Trump’s gleeful combativeness and Twitter account.
Eventually, Hussein was captured and executed, and, fortunately, Bin Laden was also killed in Pakistan in 2011 after a daring Navy Seal Team 6 mission.
After many twists and turns in Iraq, the terrorist group ISIS was largely destroyed, the country was stabilized, and most of our military forces departed. Today, the United States maintains 5,000 troops in the country.
While some military presence in the region is worthwhile to monitor terrorist strongholds, it does not have the same type of importance for our economy. When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, this region of the world was incredibly important to our economy. Today, while it is still critical to Europe and other areas of the world, it is not as vital to the United States. Fortunately, our country does not "need" their oil, we are energy independent for the first time in many decades.
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They'd lose their war and thus 4th e meaning of their lives. No wonder they're furious.
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They, the top echelon of policy makers, go to all the same parties and share the same extended friends. It is easy, so very easy to believe in "One World First!" policies because it means that you don't have to be loyal to any local place or organizations -- rather like a cloud of mosquitoes that suck blood wherever it is convenient.
Did the inspectors find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Feb 3, 2005
Yes--and they destroyed more of them than the U.S.-led coalition did during the Gulf War. Among other things, U.N. inspectors located hundreds of tons of chemical weapons agents and thousands more tons of the chemicals used to make them; a major biological weapons production facility; machines for separating out radioactive isotopes that could be used to fuel a nuclear bomb; and dozens of missiles, launching pads, and missile warheads for both conventional and chemical munitions. Inspectors were stunned by the volume of information and material they found, and surprised that Iraq’s weapons programs were much more advanced than they had expected.
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[Breitbart] Kelly admitted that he had "second thoughts" about leaving, after watching the chaos take place in the White House in his absence.
"It pains me to see what’s going on because I believe if I was still there or someone like me was there, he would not be, kind of, all over the place," he said.
Despite Kelly’s attempt to rein in Trump’s instincts, he ultimately resigned in December 2018 after a tumultuous period in the White House with warring political factions.
A former Marine general, Kelly appeared to resent his job at the White House, describing it as "bone-crushing hard" after he left and "the least enjoyable job" he ever had.
The general signaled disapproval with the way the White House was run in his absence under Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.
"The system that should be in place, clearly ‐ the system of advising, bringing in experts in, having these discussions with the president so he can make an informed decision, that clearly is not in place," he said. "And I feel bad that I left."
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Kelly appeared to resent his job at the White House, describing it as "bone-crushing hard" after he left and "the least enjoyable job" he ever had.
"Second thoughts, bone-crushing hard, least enjoyable, turmoil everywhere...."
Whatever happened to the old "Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome." I'm certain you made the right decision General, handing the job off to someone you view as even less capable. Surely you made some contributions. Dwell on those, pet the dog, and take a nice nap.
Like so many others within the beltway, solutions appear to escape him.
[RaymondIbrahim] ISIS, Pakistan, Cologne, Rotherham — all a continuum of entitlement to the bodies of unbelievers. And in the West the ruling class ignores it as hard as they can.
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There is a school of thought that states that feminism was a gigantic test for western men to see if they were still worthy. Having failed the test, women now welcome outsiders as they have the brutal masculine traits that women crave. A nice man who is respectful of women is about as interesting as a bowl of cold oatmeal.
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A nice man who is respectful of women is about as interesting as a bowl of cold oatmeal.
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In a west Delhi suburb, two muslim males stalked and tried to rape a christian girl. They thought she was an easy target as hindus would be indifferent to her. She screamed and this brought a few sikhs from a nearby gurudwara (sikh temple). The big boys beat one to death and the other was set on fire by enraged hindu mob that had collected.
Moral of the story is, stop depending on your humanist machines of legality to defend you. They've already given up. To survive against wildlife, one has to get dirty.
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So all these liberated women who don't want me to hold the door for them or go around "mansplaining" stuff will be all on board with me deploying my toxic masculinity when Khalid tries to cop a feel? Seems like a slippery slope to me. But yeah, if a woman is being raped I'll intercede and take my chances in court later. I do have to look at myself in the mirror.
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The parties that are at the forefront of letting in this pestilence to the West all get majority support from Western women.
[Babylon Bee] NEW YORK, NY‐In an inspiring story from the world of professional cycling, a motorcyclist who identifies as a bicyclist has crushed all the regular bicyclists, setting an unbelievable world record.
In a local qualifying race for the World Road Cycling League, the motorcyclist crushed the previous 100-mile record of 3 hours, 13 minutes with his amazing new score of well under an hour.
Professional motorcycle racer Judd E. Banner, the brave trans-vehicle rider, was allowed to race after he told league organizers he's always felt like a bicyclist in a motorcyclist's body.
"Look, my ride has handlebars, two wheels, and a seat," he told reporters as he accepted a trophy for his incredible time trial. "Just because I've got a little extra hardware, such as an 1170-cc flat-twin engine with 110 horsepower, doesn't mean I have any kind of inherent advantage here."
Banner also said he painted the word "HUFFY" on the side of his bike, ensuring he has no advantage over the bikes that came out of the factory as bicycles.
Some critics say he needs to cut off his motor in order to make the competition fairer, but he quickly called these people bigots, and they were immediately banned from professional cycle racing.
[The American Mind] Revisionist Black supremacist history can't grasp our shared equality.
When Beto O’Rourke’s poll numbers were cratering in the Democratic primary runoff this summer, he decided that the only decent thing to do from his perch of white privilege was to confess that "this country was founded on white supremacy." This did little to boost his national appeal. The limb was not properly guided or pruned, it will very likely always need a crutch.
Nevertheless, the New York Times Magazine and the Pulitzer Center have doubled down on the claim that white supremacy is the essence of the American regime in their "1619 Project." Complete with study guides and curricula which supplement more than thirty essays and artistic productions, this multilayered initiative seeks "to reframe the country’s history" by "placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are."
One crucial "1619" installment is a 7,300-word essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones titled "Our Democracy’s Founding Ideals were False When They Were Written. Black Americans have Fought to Make Them True."
In Hannah-Jones’s version of American history, the Declaration of Independence marks not the beginning of a new era in human civilization, but only the continuation of white supremacy’s oppressive march on American soil. America did not begin in 1776 with the declaration that "all men are created equal," but with the clear negation of that statement in 1619, when the first 20 American slaves landed in Jamestown, Virginia. As far as the bedrock of America goes, it’s racism all the way down. Hannah-Jones ably informs us of many important contributions that blacks have made to America’s political and cultural prosperity.
But she unfortunately excludes significant facts that would ruin her disingenuous argument about the American Founders and their most exemplary defender, Abraham Lincoln. Hannah-Jones’s mistake is to interpret American history as a zero-sum narrative, wherein the recovered strivings of black folk must displace the recorded achievements of white folk. What we need is a more capacious revision of American history‐one that incorporates the heroic participation and fealty of black Americans while also acknowledging the Founders’ efforts to establish a free society in a land accustomed to racial slavery. Instead, Hannah-Jones’s "history" is riddled with half-truths, overstatements, out-of-context quotations, and just plain falsehoods about the founding and Lincoln. She distorts our past and undermines our common understanding of how we strove as a diverse people to align our practices with our noblest professions.
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It was founded on principles of Western Civilization. Today's 'intellectuals' pursue the destruction of the language by labeling anything that is Western Civ as 'White Supremacy'. Strange, however, they never seem to leave for Chinese, Indian, et al alternate based societies.
#9
So I guess Lincoln was just pulling Mrs. Bixby's leg:
Executive Mansion,
Washington, Nov. 21, 1864.
Dear Madam,
I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,
A. Lincoln
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Well, think of all the lives that would have been saved if the Civil War had never been fought...
/sarc
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America was founded on the British Royals are bogus. Looking at the modern royals the opinion is still pretty defensible.
h/t Instapundit
[BrassPills] It seems almost inconceivable that a good parent would simply accept it when their small child claims to be a different gender.
...It is beyond belief, especially since 10 years ago, across the political spectrum, almost no one would have gone along with this. There haven’t been any great scientific discoveries or reasons that this makes sense, the political winds just shifted and half the country, including to their eternal shame, many teachers, government officials & psychologists, just went along with it. This has created a situation where schools are actually promoting being transgender to kids, who then go along with it and go to a psychologist who feeds their delusion and then the government comes along to stiff-arm anyone who suggests that they might be making a mistake.
This is despite the fact that 40% of transgender kids attempt to commit suicide and the number may arguably be HIGHER among people that have mutilated themselves via surgery. This is despite the fact that 70-80% of kids that think they are the other gender at some point, later change their minds.
Today, when I was doing the Jaz McKay show, Jaz suggested something brilliant about the parents of these kids that I had not thought of before.
He suggested many of the parents pushing this idea on their children may be suffering from a new type of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.
Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSP) ‐ or Munchausen by proxy ‐ is a psychological disorder marked by attention-seeking behavior by a caregiver through those who are in their care.
MSP is a relatively rare behavioral disorder. It affects a primary caretaker, often the mother. The person with MSP gains attention by seeking medical help for exaggerated or made-up symptoms of a child in his or her care. As health care providers strive to identify what’s causing the child’s symptoms, the deliberate actions of the mother or caretaker can often make the symptoms worse.
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My two cents. I think I'll have to do it in parts.
It's mainly overbearing mothers that are behind this. I'm guessing this sort of thing primarily affects homes where the pants are worn by the lady and the man is just a hapless bread earner, or not even that.
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Men emasculated by their narcissistic wives and shouted back at by their young can't be role models. The dominating archetype in the developing years becomes a 'brawling woman' from which there is no escape. Puberty brings a neurochemical whirlpool - the chief demands of the senses being sexual experience. At an age where approaching the opposite sex for release is questionable, the subject may take to m@sturbation. You will notice that only the unhealthy looking specimens will stick to just that, for an understandable fear of rejection. Self worth and confidence are essential ingredients of a healthy sex life and vice versa. M@sturbation and fetishes too do not satiate the angst created by an opposite sex archetype for self worth, leading to exploration of alternatives that will create friction with acceptable living. An easier solution is provided by the popular fallacy that 'gender is fluid', which emerged out of the 'love yourself as you are' doctrine of modern psychiatry.
Basically, 'if you can't fuck 'em, you can join 'em.'
The insurmountable LHS created in the mind is now answered by a suitable RHS and the equation is resolved for the psyche. This is only rudimentary conditioning and reinforcement though, a sort of Pavlovian trick to make the individual think his needs are only easier met, if he alters his biology. It can't stand the test of life, as the article says. It's bound to come crashing at a later age and destroy what little self-worth there could have been. The individual will hence consider he was 'toyed with' and used by the world, he will want to hate his parents and doctors and counselors and find no escape from the memory of it all.
I have seen this and similar phenomena playing out in some rich families, and observed women unwittingly driving their sons to homosexuality, then to total lipsticked 'freedom' from reality. God even saved a life from being ruined, and I was of use. The cure entailed a re-balancing of the power order in the family really.
The Georgulas phenomenon is newer, maybe begun by hollywood moms and taken up by other narcissistic women. It is militant, empowered by a confused legal system. A woman power thing, it entails literally forcing a boy to become a girl. A kind of planned, historic revenge on the male sex, carried out on mostly adopted or foster children.
In a sane society, it would be termed abuse and the kid separated by the CPS, the pervert jailed. A judge would only be needed to sign warrants and not to arbitrate on who's a better parent.
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.
[American Thinker] Do you think it is a coincidence that as soon as the news broke that a criminal investigation of the origins of the surveillance of the Trump campaign was underway, Andrew McCabe withdrew his lawsuit against the Department of Justice and the FBI?
[Dhaka Tribune] Social media has many uses -- some good, some mildly disturbing. But what we are seeing now in Bangladesh, most recently in Bhola and in many other places before that, is unmatched in its vileness, and reveals the existence of a mind-set in our country that most decent people would rather not think about.
[Hot Air] One of the constant media themes over the past couple of years has been the story of how terrible Donald Trump’s trade wars with various countries ‐ particularly China ‐ have been for farmers in the midwest. They are allegedly further angered by the President’s "favors" to the oil and gas industry in the form of waivers granted to smaller refineries under the Renewable Fuel Standard, leading to lower prices for corn. This, if you believe what’s regularly repeated on CNN and other outlets, has led to Trump’s support among those in the agricultural community declining. The farmers are angry at the toll that’s been taken on their profits and their way of life.
[Powerline] In his lifetime in politics, Joe Biden has always had a tenuous connection to reality. As he has gotten elderly, that connection has weakened further. While politicians in general are not famed for veracity, Biden’s pronouncements‐especially about himself, a topic on which you might expect him to be an authority‐are uniquely likely to be false.
[Babylon Bee] NEW YORK, NY‐In an inspiring story from the world of professional cycling, a motorcyclist who identifies as a bicyclist has crushed all the regular bicyclists, setting an unbelievable world record.
[The American Mind] Revisionist Black supremacist history can't grasp our shared equality.
