The Real Collusion Story: How Hillary, the DNC, Brennan, Clapper and Obama Conspired to Frame Trump for a Crime That Never Even Happened

This is a long piece. 14,000 words.

You should read it. Bookmark it if you don't have time to read it. It'll make for some good weekend reading.

By the way, this is from National Review. A lot of commenters keep saying that NR, as a whole, is part of the NeverTrump conspiracy-theory mass delusion. That's only partly true. Some there are obviously of that stripe, but others aren't.

This is the real story, the one that Washington Consensus doesn't know.

Or do they actually know it, but just won't tell it, as they long ago knew there was no Trump/Russia collusion?

Who's to say.

But read it. I promise, it's worth it.

Here's just part of it:

Consider, again, the coy Brennan. When questioners push him to explain what in the Steele dossier he finds compelling, he habitually takes shelter behind secret sources -- evidence hidden behind a classified screen, where only he, the chief intelligence professional, was permitted to see it. "I was aware of intelligence . . . about contacts between Russian officials and U.S. persons that raised concerns in my mind about whether . . . those individuals were cooperating with the Russians . . . and it served as the basis for the FBI investigation to determine whether such collusion [or] cooperation occurred."
John Brennan sees things that we cannot see. If he indeed has access to secrets that transform stories from Marvel Comics into the stuff of everyday reality, then he has done a very poor job of explaining what they are. Moreover, no disinterested intelligence professional has supported him.

Another part of the article talks about Brennan's long campaign to try to create a climate-change like "consensus" about RUSSIA-Trump Collusion Conspiracy theory, but even Clapper and Comey balked at his over-the-top claims.

Brennan's somber and self-righteous appeal to hidden secrets is the oldest con in the book. Just replace his top-secret computer monitor with a crystal ball or dried chicken bones, and his scam is the same one that Gypsy fortunetellers ran on superstitious peasants in early-modern Europe, or that soothsayers were operating in Homer’s Greece.
With respect to the framing of Trump, however, the second-sight scam required elaborate orchestration, the work of many hands. The key was the double-tracking of the dossier. Hillary Clinton's enablers channeled it simultaneously into the press and into the government. They then recruited people inside government to verify to the outsiders that it was a serious document, a guide to the intelligence that reporters were not allowed to see. Without this double-tracking and official or quasi-official authentication, journalists would never have believed that they were catching a glimpse of what Brennan and the FBI saw in their crystal balls -- pardon me, their top-secret monitors. And without leaks about investigations, journalists would have had no dossier-related news to report. Official statements that the dossier "was being looked into" transformed it into a legitimate topic for reputable news outlets.
This con failed in its primary goal of preventing the election of Trump, but it was nevertheless a partial success. It instilled in a significant portion of the American public the conviction that Trump indeed conspired with Putin. This conviction is especially prevalent among the lofty-minded -- a class of people that includes Republicans as well as Democrats.
The bipartisan character of the delusion was the greatest factor that legitimated the appointment of Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel leading the investigation into Trump’s alleged relations with Russia. The lofty-minded have greeted every indictment that Mueller has handed down as confirmation of their collusion delusion. In reality, those indictments only prove that a phalanx of crack investigators armed with nearly unlimited resources, a grand jury, and an expansive mandate can draw blood almost at will. If a similar phalanx were to target Hillary Clinton and the shenanigans surrounding the Clinton Foundation, how much blood would flow? In other words, Mueller’s indictments are just the latest form of the non-verification verification.
Regardless of Mueller’s intentions, his probe serves as precisely the kind of "insurance policy" that Strzok seems to have been discussing with his lover, Lisa Page, in August 2016. Trump cannot shut down the Mueller probe and excise the rot in the DOJ and the FBI without appearing to obstruct justice. In practical terms, then, the Mueller probe is the cover-up.
Of course, the lofty-minded refuse to see it this way. The political damage that Mueller’s team is inflicting on Trump helps explain why a surprising number of people mount passionate and sincere defenses of the dossier and the super spy who compiled it. The logic of partisan politics will always lead a significant percentage of people to insist, with varying degrees of true belief, that a sow's ear really is a silk purse. But partisanship is not by any means the only factor at work here. Even people with well-deserved reputations for intellectual seriousness passionately defend the integrity of Christopher Steele, a man whom the New York Times insists on calling, despite all contrary evidence, "a whistleblower."
For a complete understanding of the dossier’s tenacious hold on lofty minds, one must supplement conventional political analysis with psychology. What we are witnessing is nothing less than a textbook case of denial and projection -- the most perfect case imaginable.

Like I said: good weekend reading.

Posted by: Ace at 07:00 PM

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1 doesn't matter until GOP rules get applied to these people

Posted by: Chaos! At the White House at March 16, 2018 06:55 PM (V3U1L)

2 Wait. I'm still reading.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at March 16, 2018 06:55 PM (roQNm)

3 I found a biopsy of Mueller's brain
twitter.com/GrantMuseum/status/974581788097105920

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 16, 2018 06:56 PM (6FqZa)

4 Michael Doran, never heard of him. Is he someone important?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at March 16, 2018 06:58 PM (roQNm)

5 NRO buried the article pretty quickly. It was not on the front page even when it was still a top story on the site. Basically the only way you found out about it was from Twitter unless you refresh NRO a few times a day.

Posted by: bjstuggzzz at March 16, 2018 06:59 PM (e44Qj)

6 I think trump needs to go to the mattresses if Sessions doesn't fire McCabe.

Rebuild relationships with his NYC/NJ pals who are serious lawyers and make them Special Counsels. Go after everyone.

Posted by: Chaos! At the White House at March 16, 2018 07:00 PM (V3U1L)

7 dancing into the top ten

Posted by: Anthony Weiner - still dancing for dollars at March 16, 2018 07:00 PM (8OpRV)

8 L'Affair Trump oui?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 16, 2018 07:01 PM (6GRjM)

9 >>>4 Michael Doran, never heard of him. Is he someone important?
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at March 16, 2018 06:58 PM (roQNm)
_________
He was that sexy hunk of meat that played Worf on Star Quest

Posted by: Anthony Weiner - still dancing for dollars at March 16, 2018 07:01 PM (8OpRV)

10 14k words qualifies as a 'novella'; longer than a short story, shorter than a book.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at March 16, 2018 07:02 PM (roQNm)

11 Finally, a word in before the nood

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2018 07:02 PM (aC6Sd)

12 He"s NOT firing McCabe....stealth Jeff the tiger is a figment of the imagination. Pansy Jeff is real

Posted by: CN at March 16, 2018 07:03 PM (5gaNQ)

13 Their conspiracy theory is crazier than Pizza Gate.

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 16, 2018 07:03 PM (hMwEB)

14 I got through half of it, re-post it Monday and I'll read the other half.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 16, 2018 07:03 PM (4e+hS)

15 Sessions should not last the weekend.

Pruitt in for AG, Bolton for NSA, and let's go.

Posted by: anon2 at March 16, 2018 07:04 PM (v6UKb)

16 meanwhile Mueller is still out there, going batshit crazy, trying to come up with some weird victory.

Like Rush was musing about him going after his 1995 tax returns...because that's what a special counsel investigating nat sec stuff should be doing.

I get the idea mueller hasn't investigated any part of his actual mission statement and a special counsel should give his life the rectal rootereing.

Posted by: Chaos! At the White House at March 16, 2018 07:04 PM (V3U1L)

17 12 He"s NOT firing McCabe....stealth Jeff the tiger is a figment of the imagination. Pansy Jeff is real
Posted by: CN

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well, then he's not a team player. needs to go. sad. Too bad he sucked so bad AND we lost his senate seat.

Posted by: Chaos! At the White House at March 16, 2018 07:05 PM (V3U1L)

18 Common knowledge brennan is a muslim, only he owns up to being a muslim. His sheikh ubama won't own up to being a muslim,

Posted by: Eromero at March 16, 2018 07:05 PM (zLDYs)

19 Welcome to the Banana Republic of America. Enjoy your stay.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 16, 2018 07:05 PM (NWiLs)

20 do that nro article did a page fail to reload

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 16, 2018 07:05 PM (hMwEB)

21 18 Common knowledge brennan is a muslim, only he owns up to being a muslim. His sheikh ubama won't own up to being a muslim,
Posted by: Eromero

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but they'all like us and want to fit in and be normal bacon eating americans and therefore they should be given access to all our security secrets.

Posted by: Chaos! At the White House at March 16, 2018 07:06 PM (V3U1L)

22 Roddy is AG, and that needs to stop

Posted by: CN at March 16, 2018 07:06 PM (5gaNQ)

23 It does show you how good these subversives are at gaming. They knew Mueller would be their insurance policy if Trump one- and Mueller has played that role well. To the point where he is now delving into Trumps business dealings from way beyond the time he had presidential aspirations.

The public is so bamboozeled and the Democrats are so drunk with power that Trump knows firing Mueller would create a massive backlash from the uninformed masses.

It is really a double edged sword until someone starts taking serious actions against the perpetrators- and by the way Sessions is not that guy.

I hope for the sake of our republican democracy someone reaches deep and finds a pair, so these traitors end up behind bars.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 16, 2018 07:07 PM (igFq3)

24 I'll read it but I doubt it will shed much more light on this because most of us could already connect these dots in Jan 2017.

Posted by: Chaos! At the White House at March 16, 2018 07:07 PM (V3U1L)

25 In a room redolent of kerosene, cosmoline, and gun oil, a handsome and girthy fellow hears a whisper. He leans down. 'What's that, Nastya? You wanna go to the range tomorrow?'

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 16, 2018 07:07 PM (fA1SL)

26 'AND we lost his senate seat.'

Only briefly.

Posted by: anon2 at March 16, 2018 07:07 PM (v6UKb)

27 22 Roddy is AG, and that needs to stop
Posted by: CN

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he is a snake and should have been fired long ago.

Posted by: Chaos! At the White House at March 16, 2018 07:08 PM (V3U1L)

28 Thanks, ace. Have a great weekend.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 16, 2018 07:08 PM (ptqGC)

29 26 'AND we lost his senate seat.'

Only briefly.
Posted by: anon2

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do we know?

i thought he has it for a long time

Posted by: Chaos! At the White House at March 16, 2018 07:08 PM (V3U1L)

30 Reading it now, almost choked on Barak saying " I saw how she treated everyone with respect "

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2018 07:08 PM (aC6Sd)

31 Looks like Sessions was the insurance policy rider

Posted by: anon2 at March 16, 2018 07:09 PM (v6UKb)

32 Also, this can be put in sound bites the electorate could understand- and it would destroy the Democrats.

But the GOP is either in on it or so incompetent they just can not do it.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 16, 2018 07:09 PM (igFq3)

33 Brennan is the muzzy convert traitor, as opposed to all the generic commie traitors correct?

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at March 16, 2018 07:09 PM (eASYU)

34 >>>33 Brennan is the muzzy convert traitor, as opposed to all the generic commie traitors correct?
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at March 16, 2018 07:09 PM (eASYU)
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Yes. Muzzie

Posted by: Fascist Pikachu at March 16, 2018 07:10 PM (8OpRV)

35 Clearly Michael Doran is a Russian bot. Or a Nunes minion. Or a Manafort henchman. A Trump toady. Maybe a Federalist stooge. A Gowdy groupie. A Carter flunky. A McCarthy puppet.

Pish-tosh.

Posted by: The Washington Consensus at March 16, 2018 07:11 PM (pYQR/)

36 An FB friend, Mark, just posted this story:

Some guy just walked up to my table in the pizza place, spotted the bottle of Tabasco sauce, and remarked, "You like that Tabasco, huh?"
I said, "Yes."
He rejoined (while I'm eating), "But you don't like it the next morning, you know, going out. It hurts, right?"
"No."
I gave him 'the look' until he went away.

I would have told the idiot/creep, "yeah, it makes a great substitute for pepper spray."

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 16, 2018 07:11 PM (eMKNe)

37 Jones stands for re-election in Trumps re-election year.

That's an ant before a tidal wave.

Posted by: anon2 at March 16, 2018 07:11 PM (v6UKb)

38 31: Blackmail, senility, or a stupid definition of integrity? He even had a fig leaf and will not act

Posted by: CN at March 16, 2018 07:11 PM (5gaNQ)

39 > "John Brennan sees things that we cannot see. If he indeed has access to
secrets that transform stories from Marvel Comics into the stuff of
everyday reality, then he has done a very poor job of explaining what
they are."

If this continues without massive high-level prosecutions and prison sentences for these lying DC swamp creatures, what they're actually going to provoke in this country is the not-Marvel Comics version of "Civil War".

Posted by: Anonymous 7 at March 16, 2018 07:12 PM (Wv9jW)

40 Reason: "Thanks to this TIGER funding, FIU students will be able to walk from their student housing to class through a pedestrian bridge across Southwest Eighth Street," Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla.) said in 2013. "More jobs will be created in our community thanks to this grant, and I look forward to celebrating the project's success with everyone in South Florida."

Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) made similar comments on Saturday. "FIU has come a long way since the TIGER grant that funded this pedestrian bridge was awarded in 2013," he said. "This project represents a true collaboration among so many different partners at local, state, and federal levels, and in both the public and private sectors."

This was another Obama shovel-ready affirmative action-engineering fiasco just like the PROMISE Program. Figures.

Our governments are so busy wiretapping candidates, fixing elections, sending pallets of money to Iran, putting men in girls' locker rooms, holding anti-gun rallies instead of educating students and hiding criminals that they can't even build a fucking bridge anymore.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at March 16, 2018 07:12 PM (Ndje9)

41 I hope for the sake of our republican democracy someone reaches deep and finds a pair, so these traitors end up behind bars.
Posted by: Marcus T

Hear, hear! And soon.

Posted by: Just another flyover Deplorable Bot at March 16, 2018 07:12 PM (uU9xW)

42 'Blackmail, senility, or a stupid definition of integrity?'

Compromised. From the jump.

Posted by: anon2 at March 16, 2018 07:12 PM (v6UKb)

43 Ugh.

So, Comatose Jeff didn't fire McCabe?

Not Quite Brain Dead Yet Jeff needs to be fired.

C'mon Trump, man up on this one and admit he was a mistake.

The info is now turning in the right direction (ie. toward the Democrats) and you need a bulldog in that position,

if you want to drain the swamp.

Bitten by Hordes of Tsetse Flies Jeff needs to go home to lay in his hammock all day long.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 16, 2018 07:12 PM (9q7Dl)

44 Sessions needs to resign and apologize to the country.

A man can dream.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 16, 2018 07:13 PM (EoRCO)

45 the u.s.a. six months from being a complete, total, shithole. thanks, paul, mish,sleepy, and miss lindsey. what would they do different if they wren't playing for the other side? burn it all down.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2018 07:13 PM (KP5rU)

46 37 Jones stands for re-election in Trumps re-election year.

That's an ant before a tidal wave.
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so a long time, trump's first full term basically, he lost a safe vote in the senate, got it.

and we know bitch mcchodal will play to lose in 2018, spending money only on the safest seats.

Posted by: Chaos! At the White House at March 16, 2018 07:13 PM (V3U1L)

47 And his personal embarrassment is allowing illegal activity to be rewarded. Fuck him with a pineapple

Posted by: CN at March 16, 2018 07:14 PM (5gaNQ)

48 Read it yesterday. I have a problem with him referring to the "hacked" DNC server eith no caveat.

Posted by: dagny at March 16, 2018 07:14 PM (3mA+W)

49 yeah, but look at the Senate math in 2018; we're going to gain seats, while probably losing the House.

Posted by: anon2 at March 16, 2018 07:14 PM (v6UKb)

50 Ace I tried to tip this story to you on Tuesday via Twitter. I know you are not tweeting anymore but I just saw yesterday that you are not seeing anything from Twitter that you don't specifically go looking for.
Do you have a suggestion on how to send tips?

Posted by: motionview at March 16, 2018 07:15 PM (pYQR/)

51 This was another Obama shovel-ready affirmative action-engineering fiasco just like the PROMISE Program. Figures.
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Yep. A GAO report was highly critical of TIGER projects for lack of adequate quality controls.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 16, 2018 07:15 PM (398bZ)

52 These people are simply not accountable, and therefore not trustworthy.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 16, 2018 07:15 PM (oVJmc)

53 So tired of Deputy Dawg faking like he is a real AG.

He is just another tool I'll bet he thinks he is doing a good job.

He would be wrong. Like Hillary Clinton projections on November 7 wrong.

I gave Sezzzzzions the benefit of the doubt. Now, I can't stand to see the guy on TV.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 16, 2018 07:16 PM (UsCnO)

54 Bill Kristol hardest hit.

Posted by: golfman at March 16, 2018 07:16 PM (48QDY)

55 NPR had a segment on the Russia scandal this afternoon during which they stated the FISA request was initiated by the reports about George Papandropulos AS SHOWN IN THE NUNES REPORT. I was listening while driving and I started yelling and cursing, but then I noticed a cop was eyeballing me as we were stopped at a light. So I mouthed N-P-R as I pointed at the dashboard and made a turn-off motion with my hand. He laughed!

Posted by: Astronomy Nazi at March 16, 2018 07:16 PM (SXaOr)

56 it sucks the GOP is by its nature by choice to suck...fucking cucks. Where's Lee Atwater? Tom Delay? Newt, even?

meanwhile...the dnc's immigration policies will add 10 million new voters before 2020.

Posted by: Chaos! At the White House at March 16, 2018 07:17 PM (V3U1L)

57 Was Sessions in on the plan? I know it sounds tinfoil hatty, but shit, Jeff's actions are inexplicablae.

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 16, 2018 07:17 PM (UGzBD)

58 I'll be the Devil's Advocate this evening, and risk becoming abused by countless Morons and Moronettes:

I doubt there was or is any grand plan to take down Trump. Sure, Strzok and Page, Brennan, Sally Yates, and many others hated the idea of Trump as POTUS and did what they could, individually or in small unconnected groups, to derail his candidacy or later to get enough on him to get him impeached. But a lot of this GetTrump stuff is starting to sound like some of the JFK assassination and post-mortem body alteration conspiracy theories.

Mueller could be digging into things like 20-year-old Trump Organization financial records, and interviewing everyone who knows how to spell Trump, simply out of thoroughness in following leads. If he gives Trump a clean bill of health on no collusion with the Russians for the 2016 election, Mueller knows he needs to have all his i's dotted and t's crossed.

OK, fire away at those ideas!

Posted by: Gref at March 16, 2018 07:18 PM (AMIL/)

59 There better be arrests, or suicides, or unexpected fatal heart attacks, fatal single car accidents, slip and falls.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 16, 2018 07:18 PM (OrxbI)

60 38
31: Blackmail, senility, or a stupid definition of integrity?

yes.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 16, 2018 07:18 PM (UsCnO)

61 57 Honor and integrity must mean different things to swamp creatures like little pansy Jeff

Posted by: CN at March 16, 2018 07:18 PM (5gaNQ)

62 just remember, the USA is sinking ship...the new replacement citizens are the water, the DNC is the iceberg, and the GOP is basically Billy Zane skeaking out in the first life raft.

Posted by: Chaos! At the White House at March 16, 2018 07:19 PM (V3U1L)

63 The media is complicit, too.

Posted by: hepcat at March 16, 2018 07:19 PM (5b+Sr)

64 58
I'll be the Devil's Advocate this evening, and risk becoming abused by countless Morons and Moronettes:

I doubt there was or is any grand plan to take down Trump. Sure,
Strzok and Page, Brennan, Sally Yates, and many others hated the idea of
Trump as POTUS and did what they could, individually or in small
unconnected groups, to derail his candidacy or later to get enough on
him to get him impeached. But a lot of this GetTrump stuff is starting
to sound like some of the JFK assassination and post-mortem body
alteration conspiracy theories.

Mueller could be digging into things like 20-year-old Trump
Organization financial records, and interviewing everyone who knows how
to spell Trump, simply out of thoroughness in following leads. If he
gives Trump a clean bill of health on no collusion with the Russians for
the 2016 election, Mueller knows he needs to have all his i's dotted
and t's crossed.

OK, fire away at those ideas!

Posted by: Gref at March 16, 2018 07:18 PM (AMIL/)

Seriously?
You haven't been paying attention at all, have you?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 16, 2018 07:19 PM (UsCnO)

65 59 There better be arrests, or suicides, or unexpected fatal heart attacks, fatal single car accidents, slip and falls.
Posted by: Grump928(C)

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at what point does the super-hitler who has no respect for God, Man, or Law that we elected get into the mode of fighting the fuck back?

Posted by: Chaos! At the White House at March 16, 2018 07:19 PM (V3U1L)

66 Wow, I was wrong about Trump the whole time! I'm sorry for being such a fool, everybody.

-Bill Krystol

Yeah, fuckin right. Is it April 1 yet?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2018 07:20 PM (wdmm9)

67 58

Was there some grand plan hatched in the WH with weekly meetings and task lists and shit like that? No. But it was also more than a few rogue FBI agents. There is too much smoke to not be at least a campfire burning.

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 16, 2018 07:20 PM (UGzBD)

68 This post demonstrates that Ace approves of us commenting before reading the content (or without reading it; ymmv )

Posted by: Hands at March 16, 2018 07:20 PM (EzdLW)

69 also, compare this shit the DNC did to the idea floated that somehow Trump asking Mueller to take it easy on Flynn is obstruction of justice n' shittz...instant impeachment bait.

what the fuck, weak dickless gop?

Posted by: Chaos! At the White House at March 16, 2018 07:21 PM (V3U1L)

70 OK, fire away at those ideas!
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No need. You've chosen to deliberately ignore the overwhelming evidence already uncovered. No argument will change your mind.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 16, 2018 07:21 PM (398bZ)

71 Okay. I was looking for something that would keep me out of the bars on amateur day (when everyone is Irish!) and 14000 words should get me part of the way there. I am looking forward to being totally enraged already!

Posted by: goon at March 16, 2018 07:21 PM (EaQ6/)

72 14,000 words. Holy crap. I have to read this while I'm whipping up the corned beef brisket and cabbage in the slow cooker.

Posted by: Fritz at March 16, 2018 07:22 PM (bJ0w+)

73 68
This post demonstrates that Ace approves of us commenting before reading the content (or without reading it; ymmv )

Posted by: Hands at March 16, 2018 07:20 PM (EzdLW)

In fairness, Ace said we have all weekend to read it.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 16, 2018 07:22 PM (UsCnO)

74 What's that? Ohhh.....you LIKE that corrosive ammo, don't you? You're a naughty, naughty rifle, aren't you, Nastiy

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 16, 2018 07:22 PM (fA1SL)

75 Oh, hell no! I forget to set the oven timer and I have no idea how long that stuff has been in there while you people have led me down these twisty-turny paths! Crap!

Posted by: goon at March 16, 2018 07:22 PM (EaQ6/)

76 Gonna celebrate St. Paddy's day properly. Avoid the bars, stay home and drink whisky, and if all goes according to plan, maybe fall down a well.

Erin go Bra-less!

Posted by: Pug Mahon in the Upside Down at March 16, 2018 07:23 PM (xPJvm)

77 Ya, 14,000 words in the linked article. I made it through the first paragraph before exhaustion set in. I'll need a nap before starting on the second graph.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at March 16, 2018 07:24 PM (roQNm)

78 I thought commenting before reading is a tradition here

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2018 07:24 PM (aC6Sd)

79 Seriously?
You haven't been paying attention at all, have you?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 16, 2018 07:19 PM (UsCnO)

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at March 16, 2018 07:24 PM (Dp6qK)

80 I read the article. What's the matter with you people?

Posted by: Evelyn Wood at March 16, 2018 07:24 PM (398bZ)

81 I thought commenting before reading is a tradition here

All you need is the headline, and maybe a pull quote.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at March 16, 2018 07:25 PM (roQNm)

82 so, having the word count when there is such a long article is useful to have up front,

however,

do you know ho many different words and which words are used?

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 16, 2018 07:25 PM (MTjB1)

83 Teacher's comments:

While Michael has demonstrated considerable effort in writing and managed to outline many of the book's basic themes, he struggles with details that are compulsory to understand the core message. By forgetting to explain the Uranium One scandal, the literal romantic entanglements between the boutique research firm Fusion GPS and the DOJ/ Obama administration, Michael fails to show that this was a deeply orchestrated coup against a legitimate presidential campaign that was lawfully elected into goverment- and a whitewashing of the multiple hith crimes and felonies committed by the other preidential campaign. By failing to fully address the corruption within the judiciary itself, he unquestionably fails to show why standard remedies will be wholly insufficient.

65/ 100. A disappointing effort.

Posted by: trev006 at March 16, 2018 07:25 PM (abUwP)

84
I'll be the Devil's Advocate this evening, and risk becoming abused by countless Morons and Moronettes:

I doubt there was or is any grand plan to take down Trump.
{PROCEEDS TO DESCRIBE SOMETHING LOOKING KIND OF LIKE A PLAN}
Sure, Strzok and Page, Brennan, Sally Yates, and many others hated the idea of Trump as POTUS and did what they could, individually or in small
unconnected groups, to derail his candidacy or later to get enough on
him to get him impeached....

Curly brace comment is my interjection

Posted by: Hands at March 16, 2018 07:26 PM (EzdLW)

85 I read it yesterday and linked it here with an ugh. Lots of little NR type smirks in it.

Posted by: dagny at March 16, 2018 07:26 PM (3mA+W)

86 4 Michael Doran, never heard of him. Is he someone important?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at March 16, 2018 06:58 PM (roQNm)

++++

This is the only piece he has published at NR. They also note he is the author of Ike's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East

Wikipedia hasn't heard of him, but the above book is available at Amazon. Amazon says the following about hm.

Michael Doran sits in a tank and thinks - mainly about the Middle East. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC, but in the past, he served in the White House, the State Department, and the Pentagon. He also worked at the Brookings Institution, and taught at NYU, Princeton, and the University of Central Florida.

He is the author of two path-breaking articles. "Somebody Else's Civil War" (Foreign Affairs, 2002) was the first to advance the "near-enemy/far-enemy" thesis: the idea that, on 9/11, al-Qaeda attacked the far enemy, the United States, as a way of striking at the near enemy, Muslim regimes in the Middle East. "Obama's Secret Iran Strategy" (Mosaic Magazine, 2015) revealed that President Obama was using the nuclear negotiations with Tehran as a means of effecting a detente in US-Iranian relations a broad realignment of American power in the Middle East.

Doran's first book, Pan-Arabism before Nasser, analyzed the 1948 Arab-Israeli war as an inter-Arab conflict. His second book, Ike's Gamble, which was just released, traces the evolution in President Eisenhower's thinking about the Middle East.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 16, 2018 07:27 PM (pvjTE)

87 83
Teacher's comments:

While Michael has demonstrated considerable effort in writing and
managed to outline many of the book's basic themes, he struggles with
details that are compulsory to understand the core message. By
forgetting to explain the Uranium One scandal, the literal romantic
entanglements between the boutique research firm Fusion GPS and the DOJ/
Obama administration, Michael fails to show that this was a deeply
orchestrated coup against a legitimate presidential campaign that was
lawfully elected into goverment- and a whitewashing of the multiple hith
crimes and felonies committed by the other preidential campaign. By
failing to fully address the corruption within the judiciary itself, he
unquestionably fails to show why standard remedies will be wholly
insufficient.

65/ 100. A disappointing effort.

Posted by: trev006 at March 16, 2018 07:25 PM (abUwP)

Brilliant commentary. Well done.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 16, 2018 07:27 PM (UsCnO)

88 The twitterite vachel Lindsay still insists that at 1159 on Sunday Sheriff Jeff will pull the trigger and McCabe will go down

Posted by: CN at March 16, 2018 07:28 PM (5gaNQ)

89 57
Was Sessions in on the plan? I know it sounds tinfoil hatty, but shit, Jeff's actions are inexplicablae.

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 16, 2018 07:17 PM (UGzBD)

Rosenstein appointment confirmation was near unanimous. Sessions was a party line vote, or practically so.

I read that as safe GOPe, which does not bode spectacularly well for Trump, despite him being an early and enthusiastic Trump supporter.

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at March 16, 2018 07:28 PM (Dp6qK)

90 This post demonstrates that Ace approves of us commenting before reading the content (or without reading it; ymmv )

Posted by: Hands at March 16, 2018 07:20 PM

In fairness, Ace said we have all weekend to read it.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 16, 2018 07:22 PM

============================

That's what I meant!

Posted by: Hands at March 16, 2018 07:28 PM (EzdLW)

91 The difference between PizzaGate and the Trump Russia collusion is PizzaGate has an 80% chance of being true.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at March 16, 2018 07:28 PM (pw+jk)

92 9 whole comments on NR article page. Lo how the might have (deservedly) fallen.

Posted by: Random ~~Lurker~~ Commenter at March 16, 2018 07:29 PM (UOiT9)

93 >>>Michael Doran, never heard of him. Is he someone important?<<<

Isn't he the alien dude in Star Trek with ridges and scowl in his forehead?

Posted by: Fritz at March 16, 2018 07:29 PM (bJ0w+)

94 Gref: there's no plan to remove Trump, just a wide agreement by the international aristocracy to throw whatever they got at him. It's the Big Lie strategy. People like, oh, Pennsylvanian and Alabamian voters will look at the great cloud of smoke and assume that maybe 10% of it is true.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 16, 2018 07:29 PM (6FqZa)

95 so, Drudge has a story up quoting kelly. Guess tillerson was indisposed when he was told he was fired.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 16, 2018 07:29 PM (MTjB1)

96 Mightyndammit

Posted by: Random ~~Lurker~~ Commenter at March 16, 2018 07:29 PM (UOiT9)

97 Do you have a suggestion on how to send tips?
Posted by: motionview at March 16, 2018 07:15 PM (pYQR

Top left sidebar... Under contact.

Posted by: golfman at March 16, 2018 07:29 PM (48QDY)

98 Count me among the uncaring on this one. I hear a steady drumbeat of GOP fundraising letter material, but no indictments. Wake my sleepy ass up when they intend to put someone in a pound-me-in-the-ass penitentiary.

Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at March 16, 2018 07:30 PM (H5knJ)

99 well, the article is a bit airy fairy...mentioning no-drama obama and other dramimine Bs.

Posted by: Chaos! At the White House at March 16, 2018 07:30 PM (V3U1L)

100 My old lost in a canoe accident Mosin ate corrosive ammo from third world shitholes lie it was steak and lobster. Lord I miss that club.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at March 16, 2018 07:30 PM (pw+jk)

101 Put this on the wrong thread:

So far this afternoon I've taken a nap, gone to the range, eaten two huge streak fajitas and drank 2 beers. I really don't want to be upset about how fucked this country is right now, so Ima go sit outside where it's still sunny and 80.

Later folks.

Posted by: Legion of Gloomer at March 16, 2018 07:31 PM (mqNBT)

102 ichael Doran, never heard of him. Is he someone important?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at March

not done much since he played that klingon on star trek.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 16, 2018 07:31 PM (MTjB1)

103 >>>Michael Doran, never heard of him. Is he someone important?

Isn't he the alien dude in Star Trek with ridges and scowl in his forehead?
Posted by: Fritz at March 16, 2018 07:29 PM

Grrr. A WARRIOR does not read 14000 word essays unless they are written in the original Klingonese and the subject matter involves crushing one's enemies and attaining glory! Grrr.

Posted by: Worf at March 16, 2018 07:31 PM (EzdLW)

104 Bookmarked for later. Three glasses of wine in and in no shape to read anything complicated.

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 16, 2018 07:31 PM (dUJdY)

105 What's that? Ohhh.....you LIKE that corrosive ammo, don't you? You're a naughty, naughty rifle, aren't you, Nastiy

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 16, 2018 07:22 PM (fA1SL)

You already lit it up ? Wolf Steel Case, I assume ?

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 16, 2018 07:31 PM (fiGNd)

106 I would like the GOP to counter this Russia bullshit just because the mentally infirm DNC voting base has made this the only news the news will actually report on.

constant fake news about russia has resulting in a state of Anti-News from which no actual news about anything of importance get discussed.

Posted by: Chaos! At the White House at March 16, 2018 07:32 PM (V3U1L)

107 90
This post demonstrates that Ace approves of us commenting before reading the content (or without reading it; ymmv )

Posted by: Hands at March 16, 2018 07:20 PM

In fairness, Ace said we have all weekend to read it.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 16, 2018 07:22 PM

============================

That's what I meant!

Posted by: Hands at March 16, 2018 07:28 PM (EzdLW)

Sorry man. I'm just a bitter clinger here, reading my Bible, and cleaning my AR-15 and my XD40.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 16, 2018 07:32 PM (UsCnO)

108 Haven't seen "Jennie hates her phone" lately, might want to bother that phone part

Posted by: Random ~~Lurker~~ Commenter at March 16, 2018 07:32 PM (UOiT9)

109 lol Jewells.

I'm not drinking but am sorely tempted to start. My first week on the 'job' was a disaster. The software environment is a joke and there is WAY too much bureaucracy.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 16, 2018 07:33 PM (6FqZa)

110 I think that this whole topic, and thread, should count toward our 14000 word merit badge!

Posted by: goon at March 16, 2018 07:33 PM (EaQ6/)

111 Borrow.
cheese n rice

Posted by: Random ~~Lurker~~ Commenter at March 16, 2018 07:33 PM (UOiT9)

112 105. Tomorrow. Got a spam can full of finest Bulgarian ammo, just for her.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 16, 2018 07:33 PM (fA1SL)

113 Based on the Drudge article, it looks like Kelly is trying to get himself fired. Short truce.

Posted by: anon2 at March 16, 2018 07:33 PM (v6UKb)

114 In fairness, Ace said we have all weekend to read it.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 16, 2018 07:22 PM

Will there be a quiz on Monday?

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at March 16, 2018 07:34 PM (2NqXo)

115 I will probably wait and do my cornbeef and cabbage slow cooker meal the week of Easter. My folks are coming down then. I'm not that Irish anyway. Will drink some Guinness Lager and Murphy's Stout instead. Maybe fry some fish.

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 16, 2018 07:34 PM (pY+s4)

116 Posted by: Gref at March 16, 2018 07:18 PM (AMIL/)

Keep in mind that Mueller's original mandate was to investigate Russian collusion during the campaign. So far, the two biggest indictments have been for money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent ten years before Trump ran for office. If he's investigating Trump's financial dealing from twenty years ago, he's gone way too far afield.

Posted by: Old Blue at March 16, 2018 07:34 PM (gEvQ8)

117 Based on the Drudge article, it looks like Kelly is trying to get himself fired. Short truce.
Posted by: anon2 at March

quite the opposite, Trump has to love that Kelly told the story about where tillerson got the news he was being replaced.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 16, 2018 07:35 PM (MTjB1)

118 My real hope is that I can choke down my burned food and still have enough strength left to make it to the Stop 'n Rob to get some more smokes so that I don't have to leave the house tomorrow.

Posted by: goon at March 16, 2018 07:35 PM (EaQ6/)

119 typed d-r into browser bar.

Went no further.

Posted by: golfman at March 16, 2018 07:35 PM (48QDY)

120 105. Tomorrow. Got a spam can full of finest Bulgarian ammo, just for her.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 16, 2018 07:33 PM (fA1SL)

*raises glass*

Stay thirsty, my friend !!!

And you NAMED the damn thing already. Outstanding. I've only named one.

My favorite. The GP-100, .357, 4", Stainless. I call her ... Maggie.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 16, 2018 07:36 PM (fiGNd)

121
So far this afternoon I've taken a nap, gone to
the range, eaten two huge streak fajitas and drank 2 beers. I really
don't want to be upset about how fucked this country is right now, so
Ima go sit outside where it's still sunny and 80.

Later folks.

Posted by: Legion of Gloomer at March 16, 2018 07:31 PM (mqNBT)

Now THAT is a Friday afternoon!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 16, 2018 07:36 PM (UsCnO)

122 Did you read further down where it is also reported that Kelly personally insulted both Kudlow and Trump?

Posted by: anon2 at March 16, 2018 07:36 PM (v6UKb)

123 120. Nastiya. I hefted the rifle, and she whispered her name to me.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 16, 2018 07:37 PM (fA1SL)

124 g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 16, 2018 07:37 PM (KCxzN)

125 And you NAMED the damn thing already. Outstanding. I've only named one.

My favorite. The GP-100, .357, 4", Stainless. I call her ... Maggie.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 16, 2018 07:36 PM (fiGNd)

Whew!
For a minute there, I thought you had named it Brad.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 16, 2018 07:37 PM (UsCnO)

126 I wonder how much blood is on Brennans hands.
He was in charge of the
company that one of the employees got caught at the state dept. going
through passports. Then ends up on barrys campaign later in 2008.

And good old Bob, wasn't he head of the FBI when UR1went down.
I am sure he didn't know anything about it.
But all I hear about him from both sides is how honest he is. LOL

Posted by: MarkC at March 16, 2018 07:37 PM (88Xt3)

127 The Tillerson story does have an LBJ flair to it.

Posted by: anon2 at March 16, 2018 07:38 PM (v6UKb)

128 Meuller has entirely abandoned the Russian collusion story, which his office was created to investigate, and is now digging into Trump's finances to find something there. Since he has basically unlimited powers and political protection, he can keep doing this forever until he finds something to go after, no matter how reasonable.

Really the only way to deal with this is to nail Meuller himself with something. Get him in a case and put him on trial. Because the Uranium case does lead to him, along with several others.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 16, 2018 07:38 PM (39g3+)

129 And yet Nazi Müller will bankrupt several people in the process

Posted by: Avi at March 16, 2018 07:38 PM (cNIfY)

130 Keep Mueller if need be. A second, real, investigation of everything he's had to ignore would be interesting

Posted by: t-bird at March 16, 2018 07:38 PM (XaSia)

131 I would have told the idiot/creep, "yeah, it makes a great substitute for pepper spray."

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 16, 2018 07:11 PM (eMKNe)

I'd have said, "Naw, it only hurts if you are a fag."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2018 07:38 PM (Dbv1R)

132 Did you read further down where it is also reported that Kelly personally insulted both Kudlow and Trump?
Posted by: anon2 at March

you really should copy and paste the comment you are responding to so people do not have to figure out what you are talking about.

who cares. Dishing on tillerson is something that Trump would love to tweet but is not going to do. Not something kelly wants to do but does to make Trump happy.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 16, 2018 07:38 PM (MTjB1)

133 Did you read further down where it is also reported that Kelly personally insulted both Kudlow and Trump?
Posted by: anon2 at March 16, 2018 07:36 PM (v6UKb)

Seriously?

I may be wrong, but don't see that happening.

Posted by: golfman at March 16, 2018 07:39 PM (48QDY)

134 Keep in mind that Mueller's original mandate was to
investigate Russian collusion during the campaign. So far, the two
biggest indictments have been for money laundering and failing to
register as a foreign agent ten years before Trump ran for office. If
he's investigating Trump's financial dealing from twenty years ago, he's
gone way too far afield.

Posted by: Old Blue at March 16, 2018 07:34 PM (gEvQ

20 years ago, Russia existed. And 20 years ago, Trump was alive.
What more proof of collusion and other felonies do you need?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 16, 2018 07:39 PM (UsCnO)

135 120. Nastiya. I hefted the rifle, and she whispered her name to me.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 16, 2018 07:37 PM (fA1SL)

*wipes a small tear*

I'm tellin' y'all, as I get older, it's the sappy shit that gets me. Puppy dogs, rifles that talk, gang-bangers getting capped in a car-jacking, dumb-ass white libs suffering. You know ... all the schmaltzy shit.

I ain't proud of it - but it helps to confess it all the same.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 16, 2018 07:39 PM (fiGNd)

136 There is always going to be someone around, who just has to twist the knife and talk about frying some fish. Like we have an endless supply of saliva or something! No wonder our country is in the condition that it is in!

Posted by: goon at March 16, 2018 07:39 PM (EaQ6/)

137 Nastiya. I hefted the rifle, and she whispered her name to me.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March

so you had to point a gun at your date to get her to tell you her name? not sure that is gentlemanly.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 16, 2018 07:40 PM (MTjB1)

138 Tick Tock

Posted by: Sean Calamity at March 16, 2018 07:40 PM (r9UYA)

139 'I wonder how much blood is on Brennans hands.'

Brennan is one of the most vile people to have ever served in the uppermost echelons of the federal government.

The Obama administration had a number of really bad characters, but IMHO Brennan was the worst.

Posted by: anon2 at March 16, 2018 07:40 PM (v6UKb)

140 I haven't seen surplus x39 in years.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 16, 2018 07:40 PM (OrxbI)

141 Trump needs to find someone who can channel Oprah for when the IG finally wakes up Rip van Sessions and tells him it's show time.

Youuuu go to jail, and youuuu go to jail, and youuuu go to jail.

Posted by: Random ~~Lurker~~ Commenter at March 16, 2018 07:40 PM (UOiT9)

142 >>>Did you read further down where it is also reported that Kelly personally insulted both Kudlow and Trump?<<<

MeAgain called her makeup artist a fucking bitch, so at this point, it's not surprising.

Posted by: Fritz at March 16, 2018 07:40 PM (bJ0w+)

143 'I may be wrong, but don't see that happening.'

I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying that is what is reported in the piece.

Posted by: anon2 at March 16, 2018 07:41 PM (v6UKb)

144 And had Trump NOT been elected the cancer would have spread until...

Posted by: Dan Patterson at March 16, 2018 07:41 PM (AsjQP)

145 140. It's still around. There's a private secondary market. And I had one on hand, picked up ages ago because why not?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 16, 2018 07:41 PM (fA1SL)

146 Basically, Our Betters at, yes, National Review and elsewhere reacted like this:

https://youtu.be/RxUaZh_b1Yk

to Trump being elected and, being Our Betters and ever so mature, decided to rip the country apart.

That's just awesome.

Posted by: alexthechick - containing multitudes at March 16, 2018 07:41 PM (dEQP3)

147 OT:

Perched above Beverly Boulevard near Fairfax Avenue, a cherry red billboard commands attention. In chunky white letters, a message is written to the city.

"Dear LA," it reads, "Which way to WeHo? Asking for a friend."

It's signed, "Love, Simon."

To most, the advertisement for 20th Century Fox's latest film might not make any sense. That is until they discover that "Love, Simon" is a coming-out story. And then the unique cheekiness of the billboard becomes all the more intriguing, especially because a film in the studio system has never centered on a gay teen in this way.

If I've said it once, I've said it a million times. There's not enough gay sex in Hollywood.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 16, 2018 07:42 PM (+y/Ru)

148 There better be arrests, or suicides, or unexpected fatal heart attacks, fatal single car accidents, slip and falls.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 16, 2018 07:18 PM (OrxbI)

Also lightning strikes, meteorite impacts, swarms of killer bees, and the heartbreak of psoriasis.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2018 07:42 PM (Dbv1R)

149 I haven't seen surplus x39 in years.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 16, 2018 07:40 PM (OrxbI)

Me neither. When I had my SKS, I always just bought Wolf. Ran just fine.

My old man took a shine to it, and the extra money helped bring home the Springfield M1A.

Another happy story. My God ... I'm getting so sentimental.

*wipes another single tear*

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 16, 2018 07:42 PM (fiGNd)

150 Did you read further down where it is also reported that Kelly personally insulted both Kudlow and Trump?

MeAgain called her makeup artist a fucking bitch, so at this point, it's not surprising.
Posted by: Fritz at March

well, not her biggest fan, but in her defense the makeup girl used the wrong trowel.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 16, 2018 07:42 PM (MTjB1)

151 #135
Let it out.
Get it allll out...

Posted by: Dan Patterson at March 16, 2018 07:42 PM (AsjQP)

152 But "cooperation" is not "collusion".
People *cooperate* with Russia all the time. Like when they need to start a business there.
*Criminals* "collude". Which is why "collusion" is what they have been searching high and low for. And why they desperately try to turn every bit of "cooperation" *into* "collusion".

Posted by: GWB at March 16, 2018 07:42 PM (63l5P)

153 At this point, what difference does it make?!?

Posted by: SteveOReno at March 16, 2018 07:42 PM (2sCft)

154 missed the thread about the assault by the Dem staffer earlier. The only part I regret about that story is that the Capitol Police didn't think they saw a gun on him, if they had they could have blown him away on the spot. that would have been nice.

And he was one of David Brock's hired thugs.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 16, 2018 07:42 PM (V2Yro)

155 For that matter, I haven't seen surplus 54r in years either.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 16, 2018 07:43 PM (OrxbI)

156 I only drink Guinness on Patty's day and I'm always shocked at how good it is. This year I'm starting in on a few the night before.

Posted by: Max Power at March 16, 2018 07:43 PM (Hucnr)

157 Posted by: Sean Calamity at March 16, 2018 07:40 PM (r9UYA)
--------
AWWWW How cutee Under Fire found a new sock

Posted by: DeploraBOT at March 16, 2018 07:43 PM (y3aQB)

158 The Real Collusion Story: How Hillary, the DNC, Brennan, Clapper and Obama Conspired to
.............

make the public believe Hillary can navigate stairs on her own.

Posted by: wth at March 16, 2018 07:43 PM (HgMAr)

159 *Criminals* "collude". Which is why "collusion" is what they have been searching high and low for. And why they desperately try to turn every bit of "cooperation" *into* "collusion".

Also why they keep blurring the lines in the press so that people begin to associate mere interact with a Russian as collusion with the Russian government.

Meanwhile actual corrupt collusion with the Russian government as well as lying about being hacked by Russians by Democrats... static.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 16, 2018 07:44 PM (39g3+)

160
And good old Bob, wasn't he head of the FBI when UR1went down.
I am sure he didn't know anything about it.
But all I hear about him from both sides is how honest he is. LOL

Posted by: MarkC at March 16, 2018 07:37 PM (88Xt3)

But I am just positive the undercover FBI mole that documented Russian bribes to the Clinton Foundation, complete with emails, recordings, videos, appointment logs, and more FOR 6 YEARS somehow never got to the attention of Herr Mueller when he was running the entire FBI.

Nah, ol' Bob never knew, never ever.

The level of deceit is disgusting.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 16, 2018 07:44 PM (UsCnO)

161 >>>There is always going to be someone around, who just has to twist the knife and talk about frying some fish.<<<

Steelhead fillets. Fresh caught. Out of the icehole, onto the cutting board, and into the skillet. Pink and firm. Mmm.

Posted by: Fritz at March 16, 2018 07:44 PM (bJ0w+)

162 st patricks day, ugh. should one ethnic group be grateful for the benefits of the jihadis it is the irish. moved em up off the bottom rung.

//

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 16, 2018 07:45 PM (MTjB1)

163 For that matter, I haven't seen surplus 54r in years either.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 16, 2018 07:43 PM (OrxbI)

7.62x51 however ... still out there everywhere.

Why - it's almost like a fellow would select .308 long-guns simply based upon that single fact.

You know - if a fellow were interested in such things.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 16, 2018 07:45 PM (fiGNd)

164 Pink and firm. Mmm.

Posted by: Fritz at March 16, 2018 07:44 PM (bJ0w+)

God, I miss those days ...

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at March 16, 2018 07:46 PM (fiGNd)

165 155. A lot of that stuff has been tapped to supply a surprising new demand in Donbass and Lugansk.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 16, 2018 07:46 PM (fA1SL)

166 Kelly, etc - probably because I've been around rough people in my life, insults and the like don't bother me. It's how rough men talk, some of the time. Trump gets it - Trump and Kim may be able to negotiate because each one has been insulting the other grievously, and neither of them have taken to the fainting couch over it. Kelly insults Trump, fine, Trump can tell people no one ever sees Kelly bend over because he has that big stick rammed so far up his ass. then they can go have lunch and laugh it up.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 16, 2018 07:46 PM (V2Yro)

167 Any MI folks about. I got a letter from Captain John James. Wants to run for MI senate. He writes a nice picture of himself.

Worth supporting or Fringe guy with no chance to even win GOP primary? I think my decent HOR dude is safe, although with CO doing the mail in ballots and figuring out how to work the cheating with them even that is an unknown. My squish GOP senator isn't up till 2020. At least his win bugged the commies, I knew I'd not get much more satisfaction than that when I voted for him.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at March 16, 2018 07:46 PM (eASYU)

168 One of the reasons we know about the Uranium One stuff, what we've managed to learn is beause "snoozy mcComa Sessions, the deep state mole who does nothing and should be drawn and quartered" is having the case investigated.

What a do-nothing loser!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 16, 2018 07:46 PM (39g3+)

169 After the visual and verbal eruptions during Hillary's India odyssey this past week, I think the chatter about another run will pretty much fade.

She may not mentally or physically make it to 2020.

Posted by: anon2 at March 16, 2018 07:47 PM (v6UKb)

170 I would like the GOP to counter this Russia bullshit just because the mentally infirm DNC voting base has made this the only news the news will actually report

Why? Things are going just fine

Posted by: Your GOP at March 16, 2018 07:47 PM (XaSia)

171 If I've said it once, I've said it a million times. There's not enough gay sex in Hollywood.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 16, 2018 07:42 PM (+y/Ru)

Amen, Brother!

Posted by: Shep Smith, Millionaire Star and Serious News Anchor at March 16, 2018 07:48 PM (UsCnO)

172 pan frying some tilapia filets right now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 16, 2018 07:48 PM (V2Yro)

173 has someone mentioned the bathub was full of gin?

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 16, 2018 07:48 PM (MTjB1)

174 A posse of prevaricating pusillanimous pussies.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at March 16, 2018 07:48 PM (Sda6L)

175 The key here is to destroy as much of the coordinated deep state apparatus as possible, before they inevitably cast aside the Trump anomaly and start going after their real target....us. Sessions has appeared to shy away from that battle. That makes knowledge about what's happened kinda pointless. What's the point of tracking enemy forces if there follows no action of even remote significance?

Posted by: The Lonebadger at March 16, 2018 07:49 PM (PpNwk)

176 One of the reasons we know about the Uranium One stuff, what we've managed to learn is beause "snoozy mcComa Sessions, the deep state mole who does nothing and should be drawn and quartered" is having the case investigated.

What a do-nothing loser!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 16, 2018 07:46 PM (39g3+)

Dude ... we knew about Uranium One during the friggin' Romney campaign. We were all bitching because Romney wouldn't talk about it. For fuck's sake ... Limbaugh was talking about it at the time.

Come on Chris.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 16, 2018 07:49 PM (fiGNd)

177 @139
'I wonder how much blood is on Brennans hands.'

Brennan is one of the most vile people to have ever served in the uppermost echelons of the federal government.

The Obama administration had a number of really bad characters, but IMHO Brennan was the worst.

That would be my guess, evil person.
A reporter was doing an investigation on him and he ends up dead after his Mercedes is caught on video going full speed down a road and slams into a tree exploding on impact.
I am sure he had nothing to do with it /s
After all you dont want to mess with the CIA cause the have 6 ways of Sunday to get back at you, at least thats what chucky schumer has to say about it.

Posted by: MarkC at March 16, 2018 07:50 PM (88Xt3)

178 Why - it's almost like a fellow would select .308 long-guns simply based upon that single fact.

Not to mention it's practical accuracy.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 16, 2018 07:50 PM (OrxbI)

179 Tula seems to be putting out spam cans of ammo. Which is nice. Palpatine approve.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 16, 2018 07:50 PM (fA1SL)

180 'good old Bob'

To read the story of the anthrax investigation is chilling.

Beyond the false accusations and harassment of Hatfill, Bruce Ivins was driven to suicide. Ivins may well have prepared the anthrax, but there has never been any evidence he actually mailed it.

Posted by: anon2 at March 16, 2018 07:50 PM (v6UKb)

181 I like Tilapia, but it seems like the quality has gone downhill. When I first got a taste like 15 years ago, they were really nice and flakey, good taste without being too fishy. Now they aren't nearly as good.

I prefer halibut, but that stuff is really expensive, despite there being like a quarter ton of meat on each fish.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 16, 2018 07:51 PM (39g3+)

182 Tula seems to be putting out spam cans of ammo. Which is nice. Palpatine approve.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 16, 2018 07:50 PM (fA1SL)

Watch 'em chief. Primers. I've had issues.

Just one man's opinion. YMMV.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 16, 2018 07:51 PM (fiGNd)

183 because a film in the studio system has never centered on a gay teen in this way.

If I've said it once, I've said it a million times. There's not enough gay sex in Hollywood.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 16, 2018 07:42 PM (+y/Ru)

Barry O: Preach it!!!

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 16, 2018 07:52 PM (SiINZ)

184 I used to take Colludes back in the day.
Then I quit popping pills.

Posted by: wth at March 16, 2018 07:52 PM (HgMAr)

185 >>."Mueller has entirely abandoned the Russian collusion story, which his
office was created to investigate, and is now digging into Trump's
finances to find something there. Since he has basically unlimited
powers and political protection, he can keep doing this forever until he
finds something to go after, no matter how reasonable.

Really the only way to deal with this is to nail Mueller himself
with something. Get him in a case and put him on trial. Because the
Uranium case does lead to him, along with several others".

--Posted by Christopher R. Taylor

Limbaugh's theory is that Mueller wants to nullify Trump's 1995 tax deduction and get him charged for that plus added penalties and accrued interest --which would amount to about six billion dollars that Trump would suddenly have to come up with, probably bankrupting him.

Assuming, for the sake of argument, that this theory is true, if all else fails to provoke him, you can bet that Trump won't stand for this, and would finally pull the plug on Mueller, political consequences be damned.

Posted by: Anonymous 7 at March 16, 2018 07:52 PM (Wv9jW)

186 182. Yeah.....hard to argue that. Hmm.....when current stocks are exhausted, I suppose I can start trolling the boards again. That's how I still find my proper, Slavtastic ammo now.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 16, 2018 07:52 PM (fA1SL)

187 175
The key here is to destroy as much of the coordinated deep state
apparatus as possible, before they inevitably cast aside the Trump
anomaly and start going after their real target....us. Sessions has
appeared to shy away from that battle. That makes knowledge about what's
happened kinda pointless. What's the point of tracking enemy forces if
there follows no action of even remote significance?

Posted by: The Lonebadger at March 16, 2018 07:49 PM (PpNwk)

So Sezzzions really isn't the Attorney General, but in actuality he is the Attorney General Monitor.
Now I get it.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 16, 2018 07:53 PM (UsCnO)

188 Odds hILLRY makes it through the weekend without another Oopty?

Posted by: wth at March 16, 2018 07:53 PM (HgMAr)

189 92 9 whole comments on NR article page. Lo how the might have (deservedly) fallen.
Posted by: Random Lurker Commenter at March 16, 2018 07:29 PM (UOiT9)

Lemme guess..

3 Lib trolls
4 NeverTrmp Bill Cristal types
1 Pakistani who makes $187 an hour
1 conservative

Am I close?

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 16, 2018 07:54 PM (+TBy+)

190 For those of you needing 54R surplus (Soviet), I've got some to spare. Reasonably priced, and you'll have to pick it up.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 16, 2018 07:54 PM (QDnY+)

191 Tula seems to be putting out spam cans of ammo. Which is nice. Palpatine approve.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 16, 2018 07:50 PM (fA1SL)
............

What do they do with the Spam?

Posted by: wth at March 16, 2018 07:54 PM (HgMAr)

192 The Real Collusion Story: How Hillary, the DNC, Brennan, Clapper and Obama Conspired to Frame Trump for a Crime That Never Even Happened

Levin was ranting about this today. How the real story is how all of those mentioned tried to rig an election.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 16, 2018 07:55 PM (SiINZ)

193 'Limbaugh's theory is that Mueller wants to nullify Trump's 1995 tax deduction '

I wonder who put that bug in Rush's ear?

Posted by: anon2 at March 16, 2018 07:55 PM (v6UKb)

194 IRS has a 7 year statute no?

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 16, 2018 07:55 PM (+TBy+)

195 Tula seems to be putting out spam cans of ammo. Which is nice. Palpatine approve.

Wolf does too and they have a better reputation.

http://bit.ly/2G0kXrC

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 16, 2018 07:55 PM (OrxbI)

196
So Sezzzions really isn't the Attorney General, but in actuality he is the Attorney General Monitor.
Now I get it.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 16, 2018 07:53 PM (UsCnO

YES.

Posted by: The Lonebadger at March 16, 2018 07:57 PM (PpNwk)

197 Have never had, and never heard of, any failure to ignite with Soviet/eastbloc surplus ammo. And I've fired thousands of rounds of 54R.

*Did* have some weird delayed, "hang fire" type ignitions with some heavy-ball (180 grain, yellow tip) Soviet ammo somebody gave me, small amount. Decided to disassemble, use powder on the garden, save projectiles for the far-off day when I roll my own 54R, and I just took the cases to the range and fired off all the primers.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 16, 2018 07:57 PM (QDnY+)

198 NOOD

Flying cars for realz

I call shotgun

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at March 16, 2018 07:58 PM (oScPm)

199 195. Noted. A useful alternative. Spasibo.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 16, 2018 07:58 PM (fA1SL)

200 193:this sort of bullshit is why DOJ has to get off its ass and stop dragging its feet on the dossier stuff and Uranium One

Posted by: CN at March 16, 2018 07:58 PM (5gaNQ)

201 My Go-To ammo site is SGAMMO. YMMV.

Pretty good looking buys right now for 7.62x39. Including some old Slav surplus. You know ... for that special lady in your life.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 16, 2018 07:58 PM (fiGNd)

202 has someone mentioned the bathub was full of gin?

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 16, 2018 07:48 PM (MTjB1)
...........

She wouldn't have went near it otherwise.

Posted by: wth at March 16, 2018 07:58 PM (HgMAr)

203 A whole bunch of people need to swing for this corruption, criminality and, yes, treason.

But none of these jackals are going pay any price.

The vast majority of them will probably end up serving in the next Democrat administration.

Imagine the deprivations of a Kamala Harris, aided by this crew of vipers?

Posted by: Kreplach at March 16, 2018 08:01 PM (UfMVm)

204 Not to mention it's practical accuracy.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 16, 2018 07:50 PM (OrxbI)

I'm a proficient shot ... but I ain't The Rifleman.

I'm confident with the M1A to about 500 yards. With the Rem700 that I set up for sniping ... I imagine about 800. But I'm no Weasel ... won't be winning any competitions anytime soon.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 16, 2018 08:01 PM (fiGNd)

205 Limbaugh's theory is that Mueller wants to nullify Trump's 1995 tax deduction and get him charged for that plus added penalties and accrued interest --which would amount to about six billion dollars that Trump would suddenly have to come up with, probably bankrupting him.

---

I do like how:

1. this assumes that the IRS could do this
2. that the fight over a $6billion bill from the IRS would not be fought in an epic battle that would last a decade.
3. that trump would be required to pay all Six Billyone Dollars at once
4. that trump wouldn't FIRE EVERYONE if there became a whiff of this being true.

then again, trump hasn't fired everyone...isn't koskein still on at the IRS despite he needing to be fired like McCabhe?

Posted by: Chaos! At the White House at March 16, 2018 08:04 PM (V3U1L)

206 I'm a proficient shot ... but I ain't The Rifleman.

What I mean by practical accuracy is that I zero the battle sight at 200 yards and never move it. I'm point blank from 0 to almost 450 yards. Put the sights on the center of mass and someone's going down.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 16, 2018 08:05 PM (OrxbI)

207 Tilapia today is farm raised.

Posted by: gNewt at March 16, 2018 08:05 PM (fdz7u)

208 What I mean by practical accuracy is that I zero the battle sight at 200 yards and never move it. I'm point blank from 0 to almost 450 yards. Put the sights on the center of mass and someone's going down.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 16, 2018 08:05 PM (OrxbI)

I get that ... we used to call that a Battlefield Sight.

I don't shoot a sexy group - but I shoot an effective group.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 16, 2018 08:09 PM (fiGNd)

209 Gref, no attacks, but I think it's sort of ridiculous to describe investigations of Trump finances stretching back decades as possibly reasonable thoroughness in investigation.

Mueller's appointment was improper, didn't follow DOJ regs. Because no crime or reasonable suspicion of a crime was present, and in fact the primarcy "focus" of the investigation isn't even a criminal, but rather a counter-intelligence, matter. Even as partisan a player as Strzok, who participated in the very extensive *actual* counter-intel investigation, indicated there was no there, there.

Types like Graham and Hewitt who incessantly repeat their "support" for Mueller's operation, which was baseless to start and a year later obviously was pointless, just further beclown themselves with this nonsense.

And I don't see, even remotely, a "political firestorm" from firing Mueller. Not beyond the Beltway. Try war-gaming such a scenario - which leads off with a withering, extensive summary of the special counsel's inability to find anything, after the "intel community" had previously also found nothing, and a spicy review of the incredible criminal corruption of the DOJ and FBI - and even the judiciary - that was revealed in the process of this goose chase. The trivial plea from a non-entity (Papadopolous), the very likely criminally corrupt framing of Flynn, the irrelevant and dubious indictments of Manafort for activities years before the election.

Such jaw-dropping antics as the idiot Schiff regularly delivers demonstrates that a portion of the Beltway will *never* drop their Reichstag fire hysteria, regardless of the facts. This appeals to only the dumbest, most misinformed portion of the electorate, not anything close to a majority. Nobody who is reachable or useful in any sense takes this crap seriously now, even fewer will if a shut-down order were accompanied by 100 megatons of facts and findings.

If the idiotic de rigeur "deep concern" of comically stupid Beltway figures is immediately mocked and eviscerated with an unapologetic hammering of facts, shutting down Mueller would be a political non-event, nationally.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 16, 2018 08:10 PM (QDnY+)

210 So Tillerson supposed learned of his firing while sitting on the toilet.

I'm making first claim on Dump Dump-Gate.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 16, 2018 08:12 PM (0ogQG)

211 Took Mrs. E out for sushi and bought her a Joseph's Coat rose. Because I love her.

Posted by: Eromero at March 16, 2018 08:12 PM (zLDYs)

212 I, too, see no real support for mueller except from the CNN enabled alternate American population made up of people like that Hogg kid.

This is such bullshit that Mueller staffed his staff with hillary volunteers and donors and they apparently have done no actual work on their mission statement.

Posted by: Chaos! At the White House at March 16, 2018 08:13 PM (V3U1L)

213 Knowing the size of this corruption and I believe it is huge.
If you were in charge what would be your plan to go after it.
How much time would that take,
If you charge some of these people how would you prosecute them?
Will a jury actually convict them?
How long would these trials go on for?
I am thinking you have to approach this very carefully

Posted by: MarkC at March 16, 2018 08:13 PM (88Xt3)

214 The Truth About Tilapia

http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2014/04/09/truth-about-tilapia.html

And they voted for Bernie.

Posted by: hepcat at March 16, 2018 08:17 PM (5b+Sr)

215 I am thinking you have to approach this very carefully
Posted by: MarkC at March 16, 2018 08:13 PM (88Xt3

I know I get that. But, there's a difference between a calculated response type caution and McClellan with the Army of the Potomac type caution. Sessions is starting to look a lot like the latter...a whole bunch of marching back and forth and not even an attempt at giving battle when providence dictates. Just saying...

Posted by: The Lonebadger at March 16, 2018 08:21 PM (PpNwk)

216 This is why I am short-term hopeful and long-term hopeless. Trump will hold the deep state in place simply by running his own agenda. They can do little things here and there but their lawful power has been taken away for now. But the moment democrats are back in charge, any restraint on them is gone. It will be right back to department wide corruption and felonies as a routine part of the day. The GOPe is waiting for this too, Trump has upset too many apple carts and they don't like their influence and reach being curtailed.

Posted by: Mr Black at March 16, 2018 08:22 PM (4Szfi)

217 If you were in charge what would be your plan to go after it.

Easy ... and it's why the purported Sessions method is a waste of fucking time.

These people ain't going to jail. There is no possibility of "investigating them" that will do shit. Because it is too big. Too widespread.

You expose everything ... and destroy the institutions they occupy. You demolish their power bases. You go Scorched Earth.

You Humiliate the FBI ... then dismantle it. You Humiliate the State Department ... then dismantle it. Same for the DOJ, IRS, BATF, etc... etc...

Which is why Sessions is a joke. He's working to Save those institutions ... and they're beyond saving.

Sessions is part of the problem.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 16, 2018 08:22 PM (fiGNd)

218 then again, trump hasn't fired everyone...isn't koskein still on at the IRS despite he needing to be fired like McCabhe?

Posted by: Chaos! At the White House
********************************

Trump has the list and the plan. They will be fired at the minimum. He is playing the long game and when they go they will go in his favor not as some media favorite cliche'.

Posted by: gNewt at March 16, 2018 08:22 PM (fdz7u)

219 Which is why Sessions is a joke. He's working to Save those institutions ... and they're beyond saving.

Sessions is part of the problem.
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 16, 2018 08:22 PM (fiGNd

And this is why I loudly supported Trump in the general election. I WANTED a bull in a china shop...not a guy who fixes watches.

Posted by: The Lonebadger at March 16, 2018 08:25 PM (PpNwk)

220 Fried fish via flying forces

Posted by: Some Dude at March 16, 2018 08:25 PM (q177U)

221 MarcC, this kind of thing cannot be solved by process. There will be hundreds if not thousands of people involved across the government, many of whom have the power to conceal their crimes or divert investigations. And how many solid criminal cases could really be brought before a jury, no more than a handful I'd think. There isn't the resources, the cooperation or the time. To fix this you'd need to fire whole departments without regard to probable guilt or innocence. There is just no way to sort them out in these numbers.

Posted by: Mr Black at March 16, 2018 08:26 PM (4Szfi)

222 I don't actually know if people think I am repeating myself, but:

Who is Sessions supposed to trust in arresting these people? Bush appointees? Obamabots? Clinton supporters? I must admit, the IG has been doing a fine job, almost entirely without backup from Sessions. But honestly it would take only one Dem judge without morals, and there are more without than with, to turn the necessary trials into a farce.

No, I think the point is to find exactly how deep the rot goes. After that? It will not be solved by trials. In the meantime, Bob Mueller should start reading about Otto Theirack. Riveting stuff, and a 9/10 ending.

Posted by: trev006 at March 16, 2018 08:27 PM (Xvkbj)

223 In the long run the Republic is dead.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 16, 2018 08:29 PM (OrxbI)

224 20 years ago, Russia existed. And 20 years ago, Trump was alive.
What more proof of collusion and other felonies do you need?
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 16, 2018 07:39 PM (UsCnO)

Omg Impeach!!!

Posted by: LASue at March 16, 2018 08:35 PM (Z48ZB)

225 223 In the long run the Republic is dead.

And so are we all. So are we all.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 16, 2018 08:35 PM (V2Yro)

226 So are we all.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 16, 2018 08:35 PM (V2Yro)

The trick is for the other guy to be dead for longer. A little, a lot, boils down to the same thing historically.

Posted by: trev006 at March 16, 2018 08:37 PM (Xvkbj)

227 I read the whole thing, and there are two points I take issue with:
1) The author states with surety that the DNC hack had no on-site component. I've heard of no credible, impartial source to corroborate that. I've heard the evidence of high data-transfer rates that disputes it, though.
I'm not implying that Russia had agents on site; I'm implying that the "hack" wasn't conducted by Russia, but a disgruntled Bernie supporter.

2) Right at the end, the author seems to pity Hillary for her deluded state. I don't think she actually believes any of this crap. I think she's just a world-class liar, so she's internalized the message in order to better sell it.

Other than that, it was a pretty good read.

Posted by: Matt_SE at March 16, 2018 08:37 PM (CTWGT)

228 Ace, I've been mad at you ever since you posted a pic of one of Rodin's statues of Despair after Trump gained a significant victory. But today, with the posting of this article, my anger is ebbing. Of course I love you, I love my fellow morons, and you are only human. I would lay down my life for the values that I share with you. But not before I croaked out, "I fucking hate you for posting Rodin's stature of despair on a day when I was happy!" I will pray that God remove the rest of my anger toward you now that you've made this repost of a good article.

Posted by: Anonymous-9 at March 16, 2018 08:40 PM (omz2g)

229 statue

Posted by: Anonymous-9 at March 16, 2018 08:40 PM (omz2g)

230 Do these people really want a Hillary Clinton, perverse, drunken, vindictive, cold-hearted, with the soul of an assassin, in charge of our 300 million people and the world's billions?

This feeble wreck of a woman, with a failing and attacked brain?

One would think self-preservation alone would open the obstructed vision of those who promote her. Unless they have a means of escaping the total destruction that she would have brought to this nation and to the world.

Posted by: True the Note at March 16, 2018 08:53 PM (HLTe8)

231 230 - Yes they do want her. So corrupt that all their corrupt schemes can flourish as well.

Posted by: Mr Black at March 16, 2018 09:01 PM (4Szfi)

232 Overheard on the NYC subway this evening, by a 20-something in full "vocal frye" to some relation with a posh British accent:

"But isn't Jared from a criminal family? It's like the rules don't apply to them. With all of Trump's Russian dealings. And how they played around with security clearances..."

This is nearly word-for-word. And I would guess the speaker had an expensive "degree" from NYU or something similar.

Lesson? Innuendo and repetition are powerful influencers. Combine that with the primal fear of being "othered" in an environment (news, cultural) in which The Worst That Can Possibly Be Imagined About Donald Trump Must Be True !!! and you have brain washing to a degree that the Manchurian Candidate Norks could only envy.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at March 16, 2018 09:01 PM (BsGS1)

233 With socialist brainwashing Americans for decades that whites are evil and blacks can get away with anything by SCREAMING RACISTS/RACISM. They sure managed to get away with the unbelievable by using Obama, who hated America and whites. Obama and the clintons did amazing damage to this Country and nearly killed it. Warring against whites, freedom of speech, right to own guns and the Constitution, while raiding the Treasury and trashing our security/secrets.

Posted by: ron n. at March 17, 2018 02:06 AM (MBrFx)

234 Just read the entire 14,000 words. Thanks for recommending it, Ace -- kind of synthesizes many (but certainly not all) of the highlights in this ONE (of numerous) threads of corruption and treason.

This paragraph near the end ruffled my feathers:

In the wake of the DNC hack, leading figures in the press and senior
officials in the Obama administration faced a choice. They could depict
Carter Page as he really was: an unknown man of modest accomplishments
who played no role of note in the Trump organization. Or they could
conspire with Fusion GPS to promote the fiction that he was a sly
operative in a sinister network. In a fateful choice, they opted for
dishonesty and deception over truth.

Mr. Doran is attempting to be objective and give them the benefit of the doubt, here. None of their dishonesty and deception is a "fateful choice;" it's part of their DNA.

Posted by: Formerly Self-Banned at March 17, 2018 09:58 AM (BiLU+)

235 227 I read the whole thing, and there are two points I take issue with:
1) The author states with surety that the DNC hack had no on-site component. I've heard of no credible, impartial source to corroborate that. I've heard the evidence of high data-transfer rates that disputes it, though.
I'm not implying that Russia had agents on site; I'm implying that the "hack" wasn't conducted by Russia, but a disgruntled Bernie supporter.

2) Right at the end, the author seems to pity Hillary for her deluded state. I don't think she actually believes any of this crap. I think she's just a world-class liar, so she's internalized the message in order to better sell it.

Other than that, it was a pretty good read.

Posted by: Matt_SE at March 16, 2018 08:37 PM (CTWGT)

========

His name was Seth Rich.

Posted by: Formerly Self-Banned at March 17, 2018 11:32 AM (BiLU+)

236 Who stood to lose the most by Trump winning? The Leftist movement, Hillary, Obama, Democrat party, RINO/nevertrumps, media, leftist activists and others.

Who stood to win the most by Trump winning? America, Americans who believe in Americanism, American middle-class (*the* existential threat to leftism/globalism because we are too independent and too well armed).

The war in America is not Left vs. Right. That is a Potemkin division to maintain the illusion that the two-party system did not actually die years ago as the wages of anti-Americanism increased for elected/appointed officials.

The war in America is the new Leftist authoritarianism, aka, Globalism vs. Americanism and those of us who believe in it.

I firmly believe if the Leftists take Congress and the Executive, America is over and with it our rights and freedoms which will be dissolved 'for the greater good'.

Posted by: DrDean at March 17, 2018 12:16 PM (KiUxL)

237 Hi there this is somewhat of off topic but I was wondering if blogs
use WYSIWYG editors or if you have to manually code with HTML.

I'm starting a blog soon but have no coding skills so
I wanted to get advice from someone with experience. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Posted by: tube at March 19, 2018 04:12 PM (3kD4+)

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