In which POLITICO attempts to rescue the sorry mess that Mr. Strzok, et al made in their attempt to reverse the 2016 election.
[Politico] "I’m sorry to bother you. But it turns out Trump just accused me of treason."
Peter Strzok, who was still an FBI employee that day in January 2018 and couldn’t respond to the president’s attack, was appealing to his boss: "The bureau can’t let this stand," he pleaded.
"I’m sorry, Pete," came the response. "We’re not going to say anything."
Nearly three years later, Strzok — who led the FBI’s Russia investigation, dubbed Crossfire Hurricane, until he was removed over several anti-Trump texts
...hundreds or thousands, actually — I don’t exactly recall the appalling number, just that it’s a wonder he got any work done at all...
he’d sent during the election amid an affair with a colleague — is finally able to speak publicly and on his terms for the first time since he joined the FBI more than two decades ago.
And he has a lot to say.
No doubt. Did he run the manuscript by management before release, or is that only a CIA thing?
Strzok’s new book, obtained by POLITICO ahead of its release next week, recaps the full arc of Crossfire Hurricane from the perspective of an enterprising
..that’s one word, certainly, though not one on my list for him...
counterintelligence expert who perceived Donald Trump and his campaign team not necessarily as criminals but as compromised by a foreign adversary. And he worries that there’s still much we don’t know, because the bureau was never able to do the kind of deep dive into Trump’s business records he wanted.
Perhaps he should have consulted Robert Mueller’s team — they spent two years and tens of millions of dollars investigating the question, followed by Attorney General William Barr, Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Lindsey Graham investigating the Mueller investigation.
The investigation began as a pure counterintelligence inquiry — an attempt to understand who, if anyone, on Trump’s campaign team had been offered help by Russia to undermine Hillary Clinton. The probe kicked off with a tip from an Australian diplomat, Alexander Downer, who told the FBI that he had heard from a Trump campaign staffer about a Russian overture to the campaign after the leak of hacked Democratic National Committee emails.
The FBI’s probe soon zeroed in on four possibilities of who might have received that offer, according to Strzok: Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, foreign policy advisers Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, and soon-to-be national security adviser Michael Flynn. It turned out to have been Papadopoulos. But by the time they figured that out, Trump had been elected president — and Strzok’s team had uncovered so many suspicious contacts and communications between the campaign and Russians that they began debating whether to open a case on Trump himself.
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'A noisy gong or a clanging cymbal' if not immediately followed by Seppuku.
That's a ceremony for honorable people who feel shame about something they've done or failed to do. It is not the way sociopaths like Strzok roll. His feelings are expressed by that smirk in the graphic.
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Traitor seems like a good term to use with regards to this guy (Strzok).
Sound familiar? Perhaps not yet. What about ’alternative facts’ or ’fake news’?
These phrases and terms all fall under the same breadth, a highly effective manipulation tactic called gaslighting. Gaslighting is an insidious form of abuse that seeks to alter its victims’ reality and ultimately foster a sense of self-distrust in its victims.
The term gaslighting stems from the 1944 Oscar-nominated film "Gas Light," based on Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play by the same name. The film, a murder-mystery at its core, showcases an overtly emotionally abusive relationship between a husband, the abuser, and his wife, the victim. The husband attempts to seek control over his wife by altering parts of her reality to make her feel like she is going crazy. The husband dims the gaslights in their home periodically throughout the story, and each time the wife points this out, he tells her she is imagining things.
"The victim often begins to blame themselves for the abuse or have feelings that they are crazy or imagining things while the abuser is normal," Orange Coast College psychology instructor Jennifer LaBounty said. "Many times the victim questions their own sanity and believes they are delusional because of the abuser’s systematic manipulation of the environment, intended to cause the victim to question their own reality."
According to LaBounty, a person employing gaslighting will do so through a variety of channels including lying, feigning shock, denial, contradiction and deflection in order to generate psychological insecurity in the victim. Gaslighting can lead to anxiety and depression by way of insecurity, fear, withdrawal and independence, LaBounty said.
"Even if the abuser never physically touched the person and never said emotionally abusive things like ’you’re stupid,’ ’you’re fat or ugly,’ ’no one will love you,’ they’ve made the person feel incompetent and unstable by denying life events and manipulating the environment to make it seem like things are not happening that actually are. This is physical abuse," LaBounty said.
LaBounty said victims of gaslighting tend to stay with their abuser longer due to the crippling sense of self-doubt and self-worth. She said although gaslighting can sometimes be engaged unintentionally, sociopaths and narcissists will deliberately gaslight maliciously. Oftentimes people who hold positions of power will purposefully use these techniques to have their victims become more fearful and dependent, she said.
But when gaslighting preys on victims on a larger scale it affects audiences on a global stage.
According to OCC argumentation instructor Sean Connor, gaslighting is a highly effective yet highly unethical tactic employed by President Donald J. Trump and politicians alike. Although a politician’s job by nature begs for their words to be fact-checked, the careless dismissal of presented facts as alternative facts or fake news twists the rhetoric of gaslighting to a more political narrative.
"Argumentation is based on grounds. When you disprove grounds, you disprove everything else," Connor said.
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According to OCC argumentation instructor Sean Connor, gaslighting is a highly effective yet highly unethical tactic employed by President Donald J. Trump
(Eyeroll)
Some valid points in this article, although one key point to consider is that we live in a time where alternatives to the Narrative still exist (for now) and folks could avail themselves of those resources -- but many choose not to do so.
Long cons rarely work without some active cooperation from the mark.
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Everything is new every day to some people, see Sophists...
The Romans were importing Greek teachers of gaslighting Rhetoric for their noble children quite a few years ago... "Sophists did, however, have one important thing in common: whatever else they did or did not claim to know, they characteristically had a great understanding of what words would entertain or impress or persuade an audience."
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Gaslighting doesn't work as well in the world of video everywhere. So now they have to edit out the "I'm not talking about the neo-nazi's" part of the speech and hope nobody seeks it out.
Redpill people are those that sought it out and realized how they'd been willfully misinformed. It is the gaslighting Achilles heal.
[Garden & Gun] For Southerners, the front porch is as iconic as a batch of boiled peanuts or a syrupy slice of pecan pie. A beacon of hospitality, the wraparound structures welcome family and visitors, offering shelter from the rain or a shady spot to escape the summer sun. A steady backdrop for life’s unplanned occasions, the porch is a place to press pause, serving impromptu gatherings and peaceful moments alike. From homes on the Carolina marsh to neighborhoods in small towns far and wide, the meaning of a porch to Southerners goes far beyond aesthetics.
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Depending upon whether it goes all the way around or not it's a gallery or a veranda, never a porch...
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Practical Thermal Engineering in Hot Climates: A Porch keeps the house walls from direct sunlight and the house cooler. D'Oh! A/C that doesn't need electricity!
[Daily Caller] It’s become common knowledge that the elderly and people who are immunocompromised are at increased risk of severe illness from coronavirus.
But there’s another underlying condition that millions of Americans have that helps place the country at first place in coronavirus cases compared to the rest of the world and that medical professionals say may be leading to increased risk of severe illness — obesity.
The obesity rate in the U.S. is roughly 38%, a number that makes Americans the heaviest in the world. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, people of any age that are obese are at increased risk of severe illness from COVID-19.
The comparison between the U.S.’s obesity rate and the rest of the world’s is striking. In Europe, Hungary was among the only countries to come close to the U.S.’s rate, at 30%. Mexico was the second heaviest, at 32.4%, according to Market Watch.
Medical professionals like Dr. Stephen J. Carter have questioned the links between obesity and coronavirus complications. While experts continue to learn more about the links between the two, there has been evidence indicating that one of America’s epidemics — obesity — is worsening the effects of the pandemic for Americans who are obese.
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Gonna have to ear the way humans were designed to. No mammoths around anymore, but cows will do. More fat, less carbs. Lots of veggies because they don't fight back or run away.
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Yeah, 4000 years of history of mankind living between famines. Of course if you have no history, you don't understand the achievement you made as a successful civilization.
About a hundred years ago, fat was considered a sign of wealth, ie Fat Cat. The working class was lean (and hungry). Now the rich pay for dieticians, personal trainers, et al to look 'healthy'. We're graced with the fattest poor in the world.
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Sugar is worse than heroin, worse than fentanyl.
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Baffles me a bit when I see these grotesque behemoths riding those electric carts at the grocery store and wonder what is between their ears. But, whatever makes them happy (taxpayer-supported medical care aside).
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so called fat shaming was the norm during the 1900's my grandmother and father , both lived through the depression, my dads a ww2 vet, routinely made fun of fat people to their faces and warned me to stay in shape.
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I've lost 5-10 pounds during COVID and wife has lost about 25. Probably a commentary on my cooking. Instead of delicious, fattening resaurant meals.
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I saw an article that talked about the food pyramid. As soon as we put out the food pyramid out with its carb heavy base (designed to get votes out of the farm states) the US average weight started increasing.
If the coup d’état in Mali was mentioned at either the Republican or 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... conventions I did not notice, and even if it was, it is unlikely to turn up as a topic during the campaign.
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[Breitbart] A self-described "African reparationist" called for the creation of a pan-African superstate at an Extinction Rebellion climate alarmist protest in London.
In a Breitbart London exclusive video, Esther Stanford-Xosei spoke before the crowd of mostly white leftist activists on Tuesday, calling for the creation of a pan-African superstate which she referred to as "Maatubuntuman".
"We are called upon to not only repair ourselves but to ensure that our repair process catalyses the repair process of all humanity and that is why, as an African reparationist, we talk about in the Stop the Maangamizi Campaign: ’Stop the Maangamizi [a Swahili term for Holocaust], build Maatubuntuman’ which is our pan-African superstate," Stanford-Xosei explained.
"But we know that, that superstate, that nation that we have been dispossessed of, which is why we experience racism today, anti-black racism, and Afro-phobic racism. But that nation cannot survive outside of a world of global justice, which we refer to as Ubuntudunia," the activist said.
Stanford-Xosei gave her speech in front of several members of the Red Rebel Brigade, a performance artist group that is a mainstay of Extinction Rebellion protests. With their dystopian red outfits, they claim to symbolise "the common blood we share with all species".
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"Liberia v2, this time we'll not have genocide and starvation!"
Pan African Superstate would make the EUSSR blush with how much coercion (and enable sooo much graft) would be needed to keep the tribes from looting each other.
If you take two failed nations and join them together you make a bigger failing "state".
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What great nonsense they speak. If the self-ruling residents of Rwanda, Nigeria, even Cameroon cannot live in peace among themselves, how reasonable is it to expect the entire continent — or even just the sub-Saharan portion — to suddenly feel brotherly love and tolerance for those of so many different tribes and peoples?
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It'd be funny if the Right flooded the zone with "Repatriations Now!" memes, signs, T-shirts, etc. and actually got the mass of ethnically African people to get on board with it because of deficiencies in spelling skills.
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A patchwork of feuding tribal/ethnic states that profited by selling their neighbors to slavers several centuries ago... That sort of "Pan-African Superstate"?
Moved to Home Front: Politics because the purpose of the publishing of this now is to offset a political hit job by the Democrats.
[NBCNews] That extraordinary Army soldier killed in Syria? Her veteran Green Beret husband speaks up about Trump's relationship with the military. A seasoned combat soldier.
[Babylon Bee] PORTLAND, OR—In an effort to prevent the reelection of sitting President Donald Trump, Mayor Ted Wheeler is encouraging citizens to raze their city to the ground. They hope that by desolating the entire city and reducing it to nothing more than smoking heaps of ash, that Trump won’t stand a chance in 2020.
"This is a small price to pay, if it means getting literally Hitler out of office," said Mayor Ted Wheeler pouring gasoline throughout the city. "Now burn those buildings down! Burn them all!"
In response to the violence, the president has offered to send support to restore the peace to the city. Instead of giving Trump the political win he craves, Mayor Wheeler has come up with a solution of his own. "You can’t restore law and order to a city if there is no city left!"
Many questioned Mayor Wheeler’s commitment to the cause until he struck a match and set his own home ablaze. "In the end, this will all be worth it. Homes can be rebuilt, but a chance at hurting Trump’s poll numbers is priceless!"
So far there have been no signs of these actions negatively affecting Trump’s re-election chances. Confusingly, some polls even show Trump gaining ground.
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Think of all the rebuilding funds from Uncle Sugar when they get through with this venting. The joys of breaking giant plate glass windows at banks and department stores is something every millenial should experience.
How did this make NBC?? A great read
[NBC(!)] I'd never met a president before Donald Trump. His empathy and thoughtfulness on one of the worst days of my life won my gratitude.
[WND] John Bolton is no friend of Donald Trump, but the president's former national security adviser on Friday disputed the anonymously sourced story by The Atlantic claiming Trump called fallen World War I soldiers "losers" and "suckers."
"I didn't hear that," Bolton told the New York Times. "I'm not saying he didn't say them later in the day or another time but I was there for that discussion."
The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, in a story titled "Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are 'Losers' and 'Suckers,'" also claimed Trump skipped a 2018 visit to a cemetery near Paris where American service members are buried because he didn't want to ruin his hair.
White House press secretary Kaylie McEnaney said Friday there are 10 on-the-record sources "debunking" the claims of four anonymous sources.
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Fail. So effing obvious.... these stupid fuchs are as ludicrous as they are disgusting
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Read elsewhere - Had Bolton heard something even remotely like this, there would have been a whole chapter in his book about it.
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Only in the furthest left tinfoil hat fever swamps would anyone believe this ever happened. They tried to jump 50 shark tanks and came up about 50 short.
#5
If I told the Atlantic editors that I hated Trump, do you suppose they'd be interested in buying the Brooklyn Bridge from me? I could use the money.
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Mullah Richard: Taking a step beyond, here it is in his own words:
[American Thinker] There is new evidence supporting President Trump's public call for drug testing before the all-important presidential debates.
"He’s on some kind of an enhancement in my opinion," Trump told Laura Ingraham on Fox News. "And I say we should both — I should take a drug test, so should he. Because we don’t want to have a situation where a guy is taking some kind of..."
"It’s like athletes?" Ingraham asked, seeking clarity on what Trump was alleging.
"No. No. I want to take one," Trump said. "I’ll take one, he’ll take one. We should both take a drug test."
As Joe Biden’s mental acuity seems to be declining rapidly, his ability seemingly to rise to the occasion when in a high-visibility public appearance does appear suspicious. Now comes something else suspicious: a bruise and swelling on Biden’s left hand right where an intravenous drip needle is customarily inserted when administering drugs (such as amphetamines). Cecilia M. Levi spotted the bruise and noted its suspicious nature on Twitter:
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Most elected officials in DC couldn't pass a drug test.
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mebbe a cigarette burn? I mean, El Gropester put his hands on a little girl's shoulders and her alert grandma put out her cig on the back of El Gropester's hand?
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I'd assumed he got fresh 02 rich blood from time to time. Athletes used to do that to improve performance. I don't see how it wouldn't improve brain performance as well.
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I'd assumed he got fresh 02 rich blood from time to time.
When I looked into that a few years ago as an energy supplement for chronic fatigue syndrome, I was told by my doctors very firmly that one cannot buy blood for that purpose, but only for surgery or treatment of hemophilia. Of course I am merely an unimportant member of the middle class, not the future Saviour of the Nation.
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I don’t know what POTS is, Clem, so I have no idea.
lord garth, the naturopath my GP sent to me one year had a hyperbaric chamber, but it was expensive, so we decided to try other things first and never got back to it.
No, I don’t have it. I have the more usual cognition issues instead, colloquially call brain fog. I have a girlfriend who instead has POTS with her chronic fatigue — she is as scary smart as she was before, but the POTS is so bad that she has trouble if she even sits up for any length of time, never mind standing. This is the lady with the schizophrenic son who is serving 10 years to life for murdering his grandmother.
It’s all very annoying, but I am hopeful that some of the immune response learnings from COVID-19 will spill over in my direction. I intend to return to being terrifyingly energetic once this thing is fixed, so y’all have been warned.
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One thing about these drugs is they lose effectiveness and you have to keep upping the dose. After a while you start losing weight. Maybe they're having to play chicken with these effects becoming too obvious.
You are a darling, Clem, thank you. I am grateful to have come down with this thing when the scientists started looking at it more seriously, and to have good doctors and a medically pushy husband. Mr. Wife did post-doc level cancer research, back when he thought medicine was his calling, and has stayed on top of the research once we knew what we were dealing with.
Dear Rambler, I only ever bring out the clue bat when y’all force me to it, so I wouldn’t expect to need more if I were more energetic. I might go hand Fred wrenches while he plays under the hood, though, if you want something to worry needlessly about. ;-) And I still owe you a Rantapalooza...
[PJ] Waking up to a news cycle trying to convince you that President Trump does not respect members of the military, or dismisses their sacrifice, should not be viewed as just another poorly sourced hit piece. Even though, according to witnesses, that is precisely what The Atlantic story is. It is the intent of the anonymous sources that should rattle you.
While researching Ukraine around the time of Trump’s impeachment, I came across a bit of research that bothered me. The research was from academic and diplomat Michael McFaul. McFaul served as ambassador to Russia under President Barack Obama and was the architect of the Russian "reset."
In the early 2000s, he studied the so-called color revolutions in the former states of the Soviet Union. McFaul identified the seven elements of successful revolutions in these countries. Reporting from The Atlantic and The New York Times fits into step number seven. Both publications have run stories highlighting racial, gender, and sexual orientation divisions in the military in the past week.
To understand why this matters, we will go through McFaul’s seven steps one by one. We have seen these steps used during the Arab Spring and the Maidan Revolution in Ukraine. They were weaponized and taught overseas by the State Department under Hillary Clinton in a program called Tech Camps. This program taught activists how to build movements using technology.
The groups were then activated around an invigorating event. Clearly, the event being leveraged now is the 2020 election.
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I don't think the american military soldiers are as stupid as the Democrats think they are.
Wasn't it John Kerry (-Dimocrat) who called them losers and stupid?
[Free Beacon] Democratic Senate candidate Amy McGrath compared supporting her campaign to serving in uniform, prompting condemnation from a group of Kentucky veterans.
During an August 29 virtual event, McGrath told members of her veterans coalition that by "helping this campaign," they were "doing as much" to help the country as when they "wore the uniform."
"What you are doing in helping this campaign, you are literally helping your country," McGrath said. "I would say you are doing as much, right now, in being part of this effort, as you were when you wore the uniform."
Retired master sergeant George Kaelin, a 26-year Air Force veteran, called the comparison "degrading."
"It irritates me because there's nothing that compares to serving in the military," Kaelin told the Washington Free Beacon. "I've been next to people with their legs blown off. I've had friends go out on missions and not come back. I've been shot at. There are people trying to kill you. It's not comparable at all."
[NationalReview] Biden and his enablers can’t decide whether the mayhem helps or hurts his candidacy.
It is not just conservatives at the recent Republican National Convention who wonder why the Democratic Party and its media appendages have not without qualification decried the looting, arson, violence, and occasional killing that have swept the nation’s cities.
Recently even left-wing CNN’s incendiary Don Lemon wondered out loud why Joe Biden and the Democratic powers have not at least tried to square the circle of deploring police overreach while at the same time going through the motions of condemning the utter lawlessness that often breaks out at dusk in Chicago, Portland, and Seattle, and now in smaller cities such as Kenosha, Wis. What Lemon praised in June, he now seems terrified about in August. But for that matter, most retired generals and media anchors who assured us in June that there were only a "small" number of violent protesters have long grown silent after the occupation of Seattle and the Alamo siege of the police precinct in Portland.
This fight of voter backlash about crime has infected the entire Democratic elite — glued to volatile internal polls that do not lie — whether it is Nancy Pelosi’s demanding no debates, Michelle Obama’s obsessing with "Vote! Vote! And Vote!" or Hillary Clinton’s urging Biden to never "under any circumstances" concede the election that apparently she now believes he could well lose.
RUN OUT THE CLOCK?
There are fewer than 70 days left to Election Day. Joe Biden was told that it was still wise to sit on his once-sizable lead.
In other words, until recently, he planned to run out the clock in hopes that the late-August Trump resurgence would be too incremental to catch Biden before Election Day.
Or put more crudely, Biden figured that the dangers of going out on the campaign trail and conducting a real campaign — town halls, whistle-stop speeches, unscripted press conferences, no-holds-barred, one-on-one media interviews — and risking another Biden senior moment (or worse) far outweighed any downside of deliberately waging a virtual campaign as a virtual candidate.
For the past three months of nightly violence, Biden has proven correct that it would be blamed on the sitting president. Yet any time Biden does impromptu or unscripted riffs, he says things that sound either incoherent or offensive — or racist. And any time he stays in his basement and keeps mum, he cedes the media cycle to Trump, whose job description is to deal with the worst year in American history since 1941—42, given the plague, lockdown, recession, street violence and revolution, and general Trump derangement syndrome.
So it is a question of whether riots like those in Kenosha will continue until November and finally reach a tipping point where millions of swing voters believe that the silence of Biden and his Democratic Party fuel the protests, and thus force them to make the necessary adjustments on Election Day.
Biden’s masters are now rethinking that very question: Can he stay mute? Will the riots subside? Are the polls to be trusted? Is it 1988 or 2016 redux? Can Trump still be blamed for the chaos? Will the military wing of the Democratic Party at least be more selective in its politicized violence?
BIDEN’S SOCIALIST STRAITJACKET?
Or is the problem more fundamental? Is Biden so compromised by the politics of his own nomination that he cannot fault Antifa, BLM, and by association the left-wing, local blue-state district attorneys general, city councils, mayors, and governors who appease and encourage the urban war zones? If he did so, would he bleed support from among his new socialist coalition with Bernie Sanders and the squad?
That is, Biden was resurrected from his primary coma by wealthy Democrats terrified of a Sanders nomination, the utter failure of the Bloomberg antidote, and the mysterious lockstep departure from the race of all his earlier Democratic-primary rivals.
The subtext is that to win, he needs the radical vote, the identity-politics vote, and the Sanders vote to make up for the deplorables, clingers, and irredeemables of the key swing states who are never again going to vote Democratic. Antifa/BLM and their sympathizers are now Biden’s new socialist base.
America is both being held hostage by thugs in the street and in reaction blackmailed by the Democratic Party. The street brigades and their various enablers know that they represent a key constituency in the new socialist Democratic Party. And so they will riot and burn until Election Day in the belief, as narcissists, that they are winning converts, but also in their surety that Biden will be elected by the sheer chaos they spawn on Trump’s watch.
[News With Views] Let’s understand why a liberal magazine known as The Atlantic would release an anonymously-sourced unsubstantiated story about President Trump allegedly making offensive comments about wounded and fallen soldiers. It has everything to do with misdirection. The magazine knows that Joe Biden’s record on war and peace is scandalous. That means the media have
to talk about something else.
Before the story was issued, a liberal outlet released an article, "Joe Biden, don’t let Donald Trump run as the antiwar candidate!" The left was afraid that Trump would run in the last days of the campaign as an anti-war peace candidate and that Biden’s record of support for wars in Iraq, Serbia, Syria, and Libya, would backfire on him.
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Trump is wise to quickly dismiss the fake news attacks, continue his policies of bringing the troops home, and concentrate on the real enemies that occupy positions of power in both the Deep State and the military-industrial complex.
Simply follow the money. This is the Trump strategy that concerns the globalists and Deep State 'endless wars' sector the most.
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.
[Politico] "I’m sorry to bother you. But it turns out Trump just accused me of treason."
[Coast Report] "You’re crazy." No, I’m not.
[Garden & Gun] For Southerners, the front porch is as iconic as a batch of boiled peanuts or a syrupy slice of pecan pie. A beacon of hospitality, the wraparound structures welcome family and visitors, offering shelter from the rain or a shady spot to escape the summer sun. A steady backdrop for life’s unplanned occasions, the porch is a place to press pause, serving impromptu gatherings and peaceful moments alike. From homes on the Carolina marsh to neighborhoods in small towns far and wide, the meaning of a porch to Southerners goes far beyond aesthetics.
[Daily Caller] It’s become common knowledge that the elderly and people who are immunocompromised are at increased risk of severe illness from coronavirus. 
...every time you hear the phrase 
[Babylon Bee] PORTLAND, OR—In an effort to prevent the reelection of sitting President Donald Trump, Mayor Ted Wheeler is encouraging citizens to raze their city to the ground. They hope that by desolating the entire city and reducing it to nothing more than smoking heaps of ash, that Trump won’t stand a chance in 2020. 
[American Thinker] There is new evidence supporting President Trump's public call for drug testing before the all-important presidential debates.
[PJ] Waking up to a news cycle trying to convince you that President Trump does not respect members of the military, or dismisses their sacrifice, should not be viewed as just another poorly sourced hit piece. Even though, according to witnesses, that is precisely what The Atlantic story is. It is the intent of the anonymous sources that should rattle you.
[Free Beacon] Democratic Senate candidate Amy McGrath compared supporting her campaign to serving in uniform, prompting condemnation from a group of Kentucky veterans.
