Our national security organizations, to include the Federal Bureau of Investigation, were and are corrupt, from John Soloman, Just the News:
[I]n a little-noted passage in a recent order, U.S. District Judge James A. Boasberg, the new chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, took direct aim at the excuses and blame-shifting of these senior Obama administration FBI and DOJ officials.
In just 21 words, Boasberg provided the first judicial declaration the FBI had misled the court, not just committed process errors. “There is thus little doubt that the government breached its duty of candor to the Court with respect to those applications,” Boasberg wrote.
Rather than protect the security interests of the United States high level members of national security establishment used their official powers to pursue their personal partisan political interests. In turn their would be watched just winked. The FISA court has been part of the problem, and now on record as stating the FBI is part of the problem. As for the FBI is time for Director Christopher Wray to kick ass or resign and go home.
The good news is the Chinese mail order brides are now 50 to 70% off.Have you ever noticed that the only person in the health food store that looks healthy is the owner?
I am firmly convinced that the run on toilet paper at the Costco, etc., has nothing to do with a coronavirus and everything to do with a possibility that Bernie Sanders will win the White House.
Toilet paper being a commodity in short supply in Argentina, Cuba, etc.
Has anybody noticed that nobody’s talking about the Australian fires anymore? Apparently, what happened is when they arrested 200 or so people, for setting those fires thus revealing that it wasn’t “climate change”, nobody was interested anymore.
I find it amusing and instructive that we’ve never heard of any of this:
As Jewish tombstones were vandalized in a historic cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri, Pence visited the site to pledge his support for eradicating this hatred.
He then went about cleaning up the place.
Let’s assume that by some miracle are supposedly unbiased press even made mention of such a thing…
They would simply pass it off as a trivial photo-op.
There’s a reason for that. If the Democrats were doing it that would be precisely what it was… A frivolous photo op. Nothing more.
A savage beating in Brooklyn and a civilized response, from Clash Daily:
The New York Police Department questioned five teenage suspects and discovered a motive in the horrific mob beating of a 15-year-old girl in Brooklyn.
A unidentified girl was brutally beaten and robbed by a group of almost 20 teenagers after they chased her near Utica Avenue on Thursday.
Five boys accompanied by their parents turned themselves into police custody early Friday, The Post reports.
Hope grows in Brooklyn.
Hat tip and reax:
For all the other things we might say about the parenting of these punks, at least they didn’t cover for them after the crime.
One thing that’s striking about this election process, at least in this cycle, is that despite all odds, the Democrats have managed to push the establishment candidate through this process.
In most historic election cycles, that would be pretty much expected. Trouble is this isn’t most election cycles. Look at what happened in 2016…. The Establishment candidates all lost to an outsider. the mood of the electorate was such that none of them stood a chance against the outsider.
That said….
Think back just five months ago. Elizabeth Warren had a substantial lead in Iowa and nationally. It looked like she was going to run away with the thing. The running joke then was (and for that matter now is) Joe Biden. Yet, Joe Biden now is the one with the substantial lead?
I’ve been suggesting right along that the mood of the voter Nationwide is definitely anti- establishment, in both parties. at first blush it appears that the Democrats haven’t gotten that message.
But, look deeper…
I’ve been saying all along that the nomination race is between Biden and Bernie Sanders… And that if Sanders won, the Democrat Party would cease to exist, it would split right down the middle, and would be ineffective in National politics for at least a decade….probably longer. So, there is good tactical reasons for the Democrats to be pushing their establishment candidate. The thinking just now apparently is that, yes, we are going to lose the White House in 2020. but we’ve got to keep the party together or we’re going to be losing all of the downvote seats as well and any chance whatsoever of attaining a majority in Congress for several decades.
All of this explains why the Democrats are in the process of nominating the Gaffe+O-Matic.
Now a couple of questions.
We’ve been reasonably sure all along that Biden people will never go with Sanders.
(How bad is it for Democrats when Biden is the sane candidate?)
Assuming that this situation holds and Bernie Sanders loses the nomination as I expect he will, will the Sanders people go with Biden?
I doubt it.
Ironic, isn’t it? The Democrats find themselves splitting the party of young ideas while arguing over a pair of 75 plus year olds.
At least the morons who populate the liberal/media establishment can savor the knowledge that they’re keeping our friends north of the border amused, from Ryan Saavedra Twitter:
MSNBC’s Brian Williams reads a tweet: "Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. U.S. Population, 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million"
NYT Editorial Board Member Mara Gay: “It’s an incredible way of putting it. It’s true. It’s disturbing”
It's $1.53 per person pic.twitter.com/dIiwCESgh8
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) March 6, 2020
Hat tip: Small Dead Animals
Sadly I don’t think even Brian Williams math can pay for Comrade Bernie agenda
The course of surveilling on one Carter Page, an American citizen, agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation asked for and recieved four warrants and lied to the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court some seventeen times. Evidently the FBI issues to her agents a License to Lie. It appears that is response to line of liars, the FISA court has at least suspended, albeit in not revoked, the privilege to lie, from Washington Examiner:
Justice Department and FBI officials under review for their role in the flawed wiretaps of former Trump campaign associate Carter Page are banned from having any involvement in the pursuit of electronic monitoring through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Judge James Boasberg issued a 19-page opinion on Wednesday, ordering that “no DOJ or FBI personnel under disciplinary or criminal review relating to their work on FISA applications shall participate in drafting, verifying, reviewing, or submitting such applications to the Court.”
Needless to say, it is all together disheartening to see the same special agents who lied to the FISA Court in 2017 still the public dole and still attempting to present their crap to the court.
While the court has prudently suspended the License to Lie while the agents cases are being review, their nothing to stop the deep staters embedded in the Department of Justice for white washing the case and resuming the line of lies.
Quip Pro Quo Joe had a big day on his Thursday, otherwise known as Super Tuesday. Meanwhile back on the Boston reservation, one of only two New York Times endorsed democrat candidates lit up the peacepipe, and seceded from the race, from the POTUS Twitter:
Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren, who was going nowhere except into Mini Mike’s head, just dropped out of the Democrat Primary…THREE DAYS TOO LATE. She cost Crazy Bernie, at least, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Texas. Probably cost him the nomination! Came in third in Mass.
Back in her campaign teepee, squaw is said to contemplating who, if anybody to endorse, Legal Insurrection. Then what is for Squaw to contemplate. There are but two candidates of male candidates of pallor left. One is a Fidel Castro loving communist and the other is demented old con artist, likely running to pardon his corrupt son.
The ‘rats do have a candidate of color, female under seventy left, who has won a delegate. None of these attributes applied to Mini-Mike Bloomberg when the DNC let him buy his way on to the debate stage. I am betting the DNC will not let Tulsi Gabbard anywhere never their debate stage. What say you?
Eric has already posted on Super Tuesday, but heck fourteen states can tolerate two posts, from Liz Sheld, American Greatness:
Sleepy, swampy Joe is the big winner on Super Tuesday. The big losers are Mike Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren. Sanders made a disappointing showing winning only California, Colorado, Vermont and Utah. Mike Bloomberg won American Samoa and Sanders[sic Biden] won the rest, including a surprise win in Texas. But the delegate count is close with Biden at 397 to Bernie’s 356.
Certainly the last minute bribes made to Amy! (VP?) and Mayor Pete helped Biden, I’m sure they were promised a mythical Biden Administration position, power position in the party or were threatened with the loss of Democrat party support for their future political efforts. There simply was no reason to drop out of the race when they did with only a 48 hour wait between South Carolina and Super Tuesday.
Quid Pro Quo Joe is an all beef patty short of a Happy Meal, and his handlers know it. Slow Joe conflated his wife with his sister. And both ladies just stood there smiling. Joe is not an incumbent. He can’t hide in the Rose Garden. How will Slow Joe respond to President Donny’s massive swing state rallies, when he can not even be depended to know in what state he is? Is the democrat plan to keep issuing presidential letters to keep the Vice President in charge?
A word on losers, Liz Warren came in third in her own state. Senator Sanders won his own state with barely fifty percent of the popular vote. The voters that knew them best rejected both. As Mayor Bloomberg won American Samoa. Mini-Mike can buy politicians, but he can’t buy any love.
Occasionally, like a blind squirrel, Reason occasionally finds a nut.
In the end, The New York Times’ dual Democratic presidential endorsements—bestowed upon both Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) and Amy Klobuchar (D–Minn.)—were like the points on Whose Line Is It Anyway?: They just didn’t matter.
Nor did the media’s fawning over South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, early flirtation with Beto O’Rourke, and absolute worship of Sen. Kamala Harris (D–Calif.) resonate with the millions of Americans living outside the Acela corridor.
Instead, Democratic voters indicated over and over again that they were most interested in the popular former vice president and the iconoclastic but well-respected runner-up from the 2016 Democratic race. Before the actual primaries, Biden consistently led in polls and Sanders performed well—and then the eventual voting followed this pattern, with early wins for Sanders and a comeback surge from Biden. The idea that any other candidate had a particularly likely shot at the nomination was always pundit-driven misdirection from a class of commentators demanding more interesting, intersectional characters, because the commentators themselves are more interested in identity-based diversity than the rest of the country.
Indeed, the media stumped for Warren so hard that Vox’s Matt Yglesias recently had to write a post explaining to people why she was losing “even if all your friends love her.” By your friends, he meant friends of people like you, a reader of Vox. Yglesias famously described Vox’s audience as “a graduate of or student at a selective college (which also describes the staff and our social peers)” and lamented that “if you assigned me the job of serving a less-educated audience [I’d] probably need to think about how to change things up.” He’s right; outside the Vox bubble, there was little interest in the kind of cultural progressivism represented by Warren.
There’s a number of little nuggets in this thing, one of which is the constant charge from the left of anti-intellectualism.
But what’s really driving the American voter against trusting everything to the smartest guy in the room? Why are they turning their back on the promise of the IGY?
Here at home we’ll play in the city
Powered by the sun
Perfect weather for a streamlined world
There’ll be spandex jackets, one for everyoneWhat a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be freeOn that train, all graphite and glitter
Undersea by rail
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
(More leisure for artists everywhere)A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellas with compassion and vision
We’ll be clean when their work is done
We’ll be eternally free, yes, and eternally young
Maybe all that is being rejected because in reality, the world that we are in was brought to us by the supposedly smartest guys in the room. People have a tendency to judge by actual results, not what the dreams were supposed to result in. You know, the people that told us that those jobs weren’t reappearing. That America being an also-ran third world country is The New Normal, etc.
Then along comes a guy who the “smartest guys in the room” universally despise. The establishment of both parties has gone to extreme effort to discredit and eliminate him. Yet, he’s still with us and oh by the way, the economy that the smartest guys in the room said would never recover, not only recovered but is thriving in a way that hasn’t been happening for over 70 years. No wonder the supposedly smart people despise him. He’s shown quite clearly and quite graphically just how empty their promises have always been.
How bad is the push against the liberal elite, the supposed smartest guys in the room? Its to the point where even the ostensibly liberal Democrats voters are telling these far-left elete to get it out of the sunshine. There is no other conclusion to draw from the numbers we are seeing coming in as this is being written. It’s to the point where they’re backing the gaffe -prone Joe Biden… As Tucker Carlson said last night…
It should be pointed out that in extremist California Bernie Sanders took that particular state but only by a small margin….
As I say… the remaining numbers at this point are not all in yet, but it appears to me that the weight of the votes going to Joe Biden has now even preclude the idea of a brokered election, that even we predicted here.
However that may be, there seems no doubt that by vast majority, the liberal elite has been pulled down even within the Democrat Party, even at the cost of backing somebody who has absolutely no chance whatsoever in the general election. How bad has the Democrat Party gotten, when even those within the party rank and file recognize that somebody like Joe Biden, bad as he is, is less of a threat to the party than are Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Tulsi Gabbard, Etc?
Seven seconds in March.
The preamble to the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
The Declaration refers to no particular deity, by design. Rather the Declaration refers to some power greater than mere Mankind. A power who has granted mortal man with a grift than no man, or would be president, has to power to deprive his fellow men.
Now, Slow Joe’s rendition of it, video:
Joe Biden tries to quote the Declaration of Independence, failspic.twitter.com/ULzGB0XtQK
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) March 2, 2020
Slow Joe fails to grasp the nature unalienable rights. You would thinks Joe would willing to appoint a faux Hispanic of Irish descent to deprive American citizens of their right presumed to be granted by God.
More Bidenisms American Thinker:
Amendment Twenty Five, Article Four:
Section 4.
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
Note under the Twenty Fifth is takes two thirds of both Houses to permanently remove a President from office. If the democrats are willing to sell their souls to put Biden in office, can they be trusted to sell their souls back to remove him from office?
Alternate title: The Thing that Ate Joe Biden’s Brain.
The Jeopardy category of Media Drama Queens just got new question. Dan “What’s the Frequency” Rather is no longer the question, for walking off his CBS news program in snit over a being preempted for tennis tournament. The new question behind twenty dollars is Chris “Tingles” Matthews who retired during a commercial break on his eponymous television show.
Now the Daily Double is why did Chrissy throw his hissy fit. American Thinker posits two suggestions:
The last straw came after Bernie started winning primaries when Matthews referenced France’s fall to the Nazis in 1940 as a metaphor describing the way in which Bernie Sanders had completely destroyed the Democrat primary field. Matthews clearly wasn’t calling Bernie a Nazi. He was just trying to say that Bernie’s victory was complete and that, as to the other candidates, “It’s over.”
The woke mob, however, was “awokened.” Woke mobsters demanded that Matthews be fired. Things got worse when political journalist Laura Bassett got in on the act. In 2017, she had written an essay about her own #MeToo experience with “a famous broadcast journalist” who had dared to flirt with her. (The monster!)
So we have two theories. Which one is it Bernie or the Board. I don’t all the estrogen can provoke one to retire in the middle of his own program. The Bernie Bros. are a different story. You down to two categories, COVID-19 and Comrade Bernie’s Workers Paradise. Take the virus.
As Eric noted With the departures of Pete Buttigieg and Tom Steyer have left devoid male candidates younger the dementia ridden Slow Joe Biden. After Super Tuesday, tommorrow, the ‘rats may well be a all stag field, if Senators Warren and Klobuchar fail to carry their own home states.
As for Klobuchar, she has clearly indicated that she is neither capable nor willing to handle the office, from MSM:
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar canceled a rally in her home state Sunday after protesters took over the stage shouting for her to drop out of the presidential race over the case of a black teen sentenced to life in prison while Klobuchar was the county’s top prosecutor.[…]
Klobuchar was scheduled to speak at St. Louis Park High School in suburban Minneapolis ahead of Tuesday’s Minnesota primary, which she is fighting to win and notch her first victory. But dozens of protesters entered the gymnasium, raised signs and chanted “black lives matter” and “Myon,” a reference to Myon Burrell, who was convicted of the murder of 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards.
One, if Klobuchar is not willing to confront dozens of protesters, there is scant reason to expect the to confront the dozens of American enemies. Will the Taliban have any fear of breaking the new peace treaty intended to end an eighteen year long war?
Two, if Klobuchar is unwilling to defend her own record, how can she survive the upcoming campaign. For example Mrs. Clinton was willing to have four American diplomate killed, blame it on a film maker and still run for President. If Klobuchar is not willing to stand-up, she is right in stilling down.
As for Buttigieg, he has announced the suspension of his campaign. However it is not clear for what office Buttigieg was running. Mayor Pete spent more time spouting his DIY religion. The wannabe Pope cited scripture found no where in the Bible, all without invoking his own Book of Mormon. Mayor wanted to be Pope, but it is not apparent of what church.
Lastly, Mayor Pete was seen entering NAMBLA territory by advising children as to his recommended sexuality.
Addendum: Eric
Apparently Klobuchar has gotten the message. She quit about an hour ago.
So, Buttigieg is out. So is Tom Steyer.
Now, Ponder this one…Joe Biden is now the youngest male Democrat candidate left in the race.
News flash, Congress finally passes a law to make Lynching illegal and Emitt Till is still dead, from Yahoo News:
Sixty-five years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, Congress has approved legislation designating lynching as a hate crime under federal law.
The bill, introduced by Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush and named after Till, comes 120 years after Congress first considered anti-lynching legislation and after dozens of similar efforts were defeated[.…]
Congress has failed to pass anti-lynching legislation nearly 200 times, starting with a bill introduced in 1900 by North Carolina Rep. George Henry White, the only black member of Congress at the time.
According to the Tuskegee Institute, 4,743 people were lynched between 1882 and 1968 in the United States, including 3,446 African Americans and 1,297 whites. More than 73 percent of lynchings in the post-Civil War period occurred in the Southern states.[9] According to the Equal Justice Initiative, 4,084 African-Americans were lynched between 1877 and 1950 in the South.
It does not take a professional historian, just somebody smarter than a professional politician, to notice that Lynching, as bad as it was, is largely a problem in our rear view mirror. To go from a problem to a non-problem something changed, and that change did not emanate from Congress.;
The probable cost of a crime is not merely the statutes on the book, but rather the combination of the statutes and the expectation of enforcement
For example, while it is illegal in leek classified information, the unwillingness of the administration to actually enforce the law leaves them powerless to stem the Schiff flow of classified information.
In my perception what changed was the perception of local juries. Lynching stops when local juries were perceived as no longer being willing to turn a blind eye to murder. If Congress was trying keep Lynching active, they certainly failedl So Representative Rush and ilk, are trying to take a victory lap for a war that was fought and won despite their meager efforts and certainly not because of them.
