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Spare Me The Principles Lecture
by Kurt Schlichter
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Losing Ground, Dems Attempt Strategy Pivot
The Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy has been on life support for weeks now, half-heartedly propped up by a few Democrats and their Leftmedia allies, but after a fourth straight special election loss, some Democrats are suggesting pulling the plug on their scandal narrative. It has now become unquestionably apparent that the Democrats' strategy of employing a scorched-earth anti-Trump obstructionist tactic is failing, and failing miserably. In fact, as Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) observed, "Our brand is worse than Trump."
Democrats are now in the midst of a strategy pivot, not uncommon in the game of politics. As with any competition, those who find themselves losing the game must change tactics or risk greater defeat. With Donald Trump's surprising election victory, Democrats were caught flat-footed, but they refused to relinquish the fight for the White House. They opted to double down on attacking Trump with the goal of delegitimizing his presidency at the very least and publicly entertaining the possibility of Nixon-like scandal leading to impeachment. This was a poor play on their part and served only to act as a distraction to the MSM, themselves and their constituents while exposing them to the majority of America as sore losers interested primarily in clawing for power.
Now Democrats are stepping out to do damage control. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) noted this week, "The fact that we had spent so much time talking about Russia ... has been a distraction from what should be the clear contrast between Democrats and the Trump agenda, which is on economics." Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY) reiterated this talking point saying, "The shiny object which is Russia and the Trump administration is in many ways a smokescreen for Mitch McConnell and the Senate to do things they probably wouldn't be able to get away with if the public and media were paying more attention. We're guilty of that to some degree."
Democrats are also working to pull the plug on their impeachment narrative, realizing it has only served to expose them as being blind partisans and uninterested in abiding by the choice of the people. So, how do Democrats back off their calls for impeaching Trump without giving ground on their anti-Trump bias? They vilify Vice President Mike Pence. Hence this statement from Sen. Al Franken: "Pence ran the transition and some of the very worst nominees, I felt ... were Pence selections, clearly, I think. He's ideological, I consider him a zealot, and I think that in terms of a lot of domestic policy certainly would be worse than Trump." A convenient excuse, but make no mistake, if they really had enough evidence to impeach Trump they'd do it in a heartbeat.
~The Patriot Post
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Trump Can Get Library Rice
Unmasking Docs – Target Lynch, liar-Clinton
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ It was Judicial Watch that once again broke the story, that records from Susan Rice’s exploitative snooping into the political opponents of the liar-nObama White House... had been moved to the liar-Obama library and were off limits for five years. Originally that was what they believed and reported, that they were beyond reach for the time being. Judicial Watch President, Tom Fitton says, “It shows you that even in the Trump White House organization the National Security Council is just moving information and evidence that the seemingly public and the President would want, out from right under his nose to the national archives, the liar-nObama ‘presidential’ Library, under the Presidential Records Act, when documents from the prior president get and cataloged and eventually made available, as you say, beginning five years or so after the ‘president leaves office.” Things may not be as bleak nor Rice as shielded as first thought. Fitton says, “But there are ways around that restricted access and one of them is – the President needs them he can have them. And so the question now for the White House is whether they’re going to get some records like these back...http://rickwells.us/fitton-trump-get-library-rice-unmasking-docs-target-lynch-clinton/
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State Department Opens
Probe on liar-Hillary Clinton
by Martin Lioll
{conservativetribune.com} ~ The State Department has set its sights on liar-Hillary Clinton with a new investigation into her handling of classified information during her time as Secretary of State, Fox News reported Tuesday... The inquiry, which seeks to determine whether the 2016 Democrat standard-bearer violated federal government protocols for handling, storing, and transmitting classified information, also includes her aides. However, liar-Clinton will retain her security clearance as the investigation continues. The State Department would not say when its inquiry began, but Fox News noted it is separate from the conclusion of the FBI’s investigation into the matter — which, in case you’re just waking up from a year-and-a-half hibernation — ended with then-FBI Director James Comey recommending that liar-Clinton not be charged with any crime... http://conservativetribune.com/state-department-sights-hillary/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=braverapoliticaloutcast&utm_campaign=can&utm_content=2017-06-23
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Dem CANNIBALS – WASSERMAN
Schultz EATEN ALIVE For Server Trickery
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The Democrats have something up their sleeve and it appears to involve the sacrificing of one of their own, former DNC chairthing Debbie Wasserman Schultz... In the world of political cannibalism, keeping this one down isn’t going to be easy for any of them. The old witch is a bit chewy, like moose leather and with a taste like fresh landfill. They’ll do their best but there’s no guarantees. The setup for the question on CNN Fake News makes the assumption as if it’s fact that the Russians hacked our 2016 election. Again, if you repeat the lie often enough people will perceive it as truth, eventually. The host references testimony by the anti-American globalist who was DHS Secretary under Hussein liar-nObama, Jeh Johnson, in which she describes him as having, “flat-out said that the DNC refused his department’s help. “You put out a statement afterward basically saying that Jeh Johnson was wrong. Where is he wrong?” “He’s wrong in every respect,” says Schultz, who then goes into her own familiar diatribe of half-truths, distortions and lies... http://rickwells.us/dem-cannibals-wasserman-schultz-eaten-alive-server-trickery/
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Court Tosses Out 14 Charges Against Reporter
Who Exposed Planned Parenthood Harvesting...
by M.J. Randolph
{truthrevolt.org} ~ California’s Attorney General Xavier Becerra charged David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt with fifteen felonies in March after they went undercover to expose Planned Parenthood officials selling aborted baby parts for cash... Becerra has received hefty donations from both Planned Parenthood and NARAL: A review of federal campaign records reveals that Becerra and his predecessor, now-Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.), have received tens of thousands of dollars from Planned Parenthood and other abortion activists over the years. But here's some good news, for a change: according to Legal Insurrection, Wednesday "San Francisco’s Superior Court dismissed the first fourteen charges against Merritt, finding them legally insufficient." Life News has more:... http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/court-tosses-out-14-charges-against-reporter-who-exposed-planned-parenthood-harvesting-selling.
CNN Leaks Classified Trump Testimony –
Mueller Or Senate Leaked To Them First
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Mueller’s witch hunt is just starting and already his “investigators” are feeding CNN the details of what is said behind closed doors, what is supposedly private testimony... Then again it could be those pillars of integrity on the Senate or House Intelligence Committee. There’s no shortage of rats in the DC Swamp. Back in May CNN claimed that President Trump had asked both DNI Coats and Admiral Rogers to “knock down” the Russia collusion story, based upon a Washington Post leak. Now they claim to have confirmation of testimony to that effect from classified American secret leakers, what they term “sources.” The reporter brazenly refers to the information as “the first glimpse into what two top intelligence chiefs said behind closed doors to Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s team and to members of the Senate Intelligence Committee.” Why wouldn’t they expect the spigot of leaks to continue – who’s lifted a finger against them thus far?This should be the end of testimony before either of those bodies until the leaks stop and President Trump should have both Coats and Rogers in his office, on the carpet accounting for how private, privileged information became the substance of a CNN broadcast... http://rickwells.us/cnn-leaks-classified-trump-testimony-mueller-senate-leaked-first/
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There, I said it. And now, according to some people on the conservative side, I’m not a conservative anymore.
Oh. Well, if conservatism has morphed into a human centipede of onanistic purity-signaling, then you fussy guardians of the word can have it.
Now, there is a coherent and reasonable argument that hitting back liberals with a taste of their own medicine – that is, inflicting upon them a microscopic fraction of what they have spent decades inflicting upon us – is a bad idea. People I respect and who are friends adhere to this view. I’ve listened to their opinions – because they have earned my attention – and they are wrong.
Note that yes, we are allowed to disagree within conservatism.
Spare Me The Principles Lecture
by Kurt Schlichter
{townhall.com} ~ I think it was mildly amusing that some loud right-wingers spent a minute disrupting a bunch of New York liberals’ conservative murder porn party.
There, I said it. And now, according to some people on the conservative side, I’m not a conservative anymore.
Oh. Well, if conservatism has morphed into a human centipede of onanistic purity-signaling, then you fussy guardians of the word can have it.
Now, there is a coherent and reasonable argument that hitting back liberals with a taste of their own medicine – that is, inflicting upon them a microscopic fraction of what they have spent decades inflicting upon us – is a bad idea. People I respect and who are friends adhere to this view. I’ve listened to their opinions – because they have earned my attention – and they are wrong.
Note that yes, we are allowed to disagree within conservatism.
Now, a few people I don’t respect also say the disruption was terrible, mostly because they are weak and scared because, in our new conservative world, they have been displaced by more interesting and influential talents who are committed to actually achieving results. Conservatism, Inc., is no longer dedicated solely to securing these timeservers’ mediocre status within the NY/DC establishment hierarchy, and they are understandably frightened of facing a future where mere posturing doesn’t get enough folks writing checks. People got woke because when it came time to fight the same leftist Democrat they had allegedly been fighting for decades, the wimpcons embraced her. After all, she went to the right schools, and under her they would be able to return to their comfortable, if ineffectual, positions in the political scheme of things. And that uncouth Trump – well, he and his supporters are just the wrong kind of people.
Regardless, it was appropriate and conservative to chastise the murder fetishizers at the Trump killing play. And you wusscons – don’t start with the, “Well, it’s a play and you don’t understand literature, and the whole butchering the president thing is art which you obviously don’t understand” baloney. Without their POTUS-murdering dog whistle, this would just be another bunch of theater geeks putting on a show. They are rubbing their violent threats in our faces while gaslighting us to the effect that we shouldn’t believe our own lying eyes.
Now, the good faith critique of the disruption, the one not made by conservatism’s Sore Loser League, is that we don’t silence presentations, that we don’t inject the political into the personal, and that we don’t interfere with free speech. Simply because liberals do all those things does not mean we should too. That’s true, to a point.
But let’s look at what actually happened. Some sort-of goofy people infiltrated the Murder/Trump staging of Julius Caesar and started yelling about how these giddy liberals needed to stop celebrating political violence, especially after one of their liberal ilk tried to butcher two dozen GOP legislators a few days before. They didn’t shut down the show – they paused it, for about a minute. After the main one was hustled off-stage, some guy started shouting about how the audience was “Goebbels,” which was embarrassingly silly. Then they followed it up with a lot of whining about being arrested, apparently not understanding how civil disobedience works. So, the initial stage rush was amusing and effective – a measured and short-term protest that did not prevent the moronic staging from continuing. The rest though, as Saul Alinsky warned, became a drag.
Overall, give it a B-. Next time, make your point and move on.
And yes, there should be a next time. There is a case for this sort of activity. It’s just not something we have done much of to date, but we should do more.
First, the “If it’s wrong for them to do it to us, then it’s wrong if we do it to them” formulation is less a principle than a tired cliché. This minor disruption was a tactic; shouting was a tool. It is moral for the good guys – and we are the good guys – to use tactics and tools against an enemy that are immoral when they do it. It was immoral for the Nazis to bomb London; it was moral for us to bomb Nazis. Of course every tactic and tool is not acceptable, but the guys who stormed Omaha Beach did not “become what they were fighting” because they used the same tools and tactics as the enemy.
Second, this sort of performance art is so harmless that the cost/benefit calculus weighs in favor of tolerating such occasional inconveniences. That’s not to say we should not impose higher costs on them – we disapprove of the firing of people for what they say, but Kathy Griffin’s defenestration was a sacrifice worth making to demonstrate the costs of liberal misbehavior. This is crucial. They must pay a cost for establishing their new rules.
Call it retribution or punishment or just payback, but causing pain to wrongdoers is a conservative principle we seem to have forgotten. The left needs to feel the pain that comes from their choices. If they want a world where people suffer for speaking, well, I prefer they didn’t, but I damn well know that if that’s the new rule, their side is going to get it shoved down their throat.
Yes, there is a slippery slope risk. I’ve seen it overseas, where the rule of law was replaced by the rule of power. But we will slip down that slope if we do not grab on up at the top. People are not going to sit back and take this leftist abuse and allow them to impose their leftist tyranny upon us without reacting. If we don’t stop the left now from taking this dangerous path – including by using tools like harmless civil disobedience – then that weakness, as my novels illustrate, invites real conflict with real bloodshed. And we can’t let that happen.
Finally, if our principles are worth having, they are worth fighting for in a way that might conceivably lead to success. One of the folks telling me how wrong and unconservative I am for finding it amusing – a patriot, though wrong – also mentioned that he had been fighting for free speech on campus and in the culture for 20 years. Hmmm. I’ve been fighting for them for 30 years, ever since my dean at UCSD called me in to yell at me because I wrote that the student government was composed of leftist dweebs. Shouldn’t the fact that we have spent decades using the same tactics and losing indicate that maybe we ought to try something new?
Are we going to reason the left out of its ruthless quest for absolute power? Are we going to talk them into civility? Is our sterling example of high principles – which apparently include never, ever, for even a moment, annoying leftists by interrupting their bloody assassination festivals – leading to anything but defeat?
At Fort Benning, they didn’t teach us to lose.
That’s why I reject any principle that somehow obligates me to submit to the left’s tyranny. If your principles told you we had to elect Felonia von Pantsuit and allow her to complete the transformation of the United States into Venezuela II, maybe that’s a sign you need some new principles.
Regardless, it was appropriate and conservative to chastise the murder fetishizers at the Trump killing play. And you wusscons – don’t start with the, “Well, it’s a play and you don’t understand literature, and the whole butchering the president thing is art which you obviously don’t understand” baloney. Without their POTUS-murdering dog whistle, this would just be another bunch of theater geeks putting on a show. They are rubbing their violent threats in our faces while gaslighting us to the effect that we shouldn’t believe our own lying eyes.
Now, the good faith critique of the disruption, the one not made by conservatism’s Sore Loser League, is that we don’t silence presentations, that we don’t inject the political into the personal, and that we don’t interfere with free speech. Simply because liberals do all those things does not mean we should too. That’s true, to a point.
But let’s look at what actually happened. Some sort-of goofy people infiltrated the Murder/Trump staging of Julius Caesar and started yelling about how these giddy liberals needed to stop celebrating political violence, especially after one of their liberal ilk tried to butcher two dozen GOP legislators a few days before. They didn’t shut down the show – they paused it, for about a minute. After the main one was hustled off-stage, some guy started shouting about how the audience was “Goebbels,” which was embarrassingly silly. Then they followed it up with a lot of whining about being arrested, apparently not understanding how civil disobedience works. So, the initial stage rush was amusing and effective – a measured and short-term protest that did not prevent the moronic staging from continuing. The rest though, as Saul Alinsky warned, became a drag.
Overall, give it a B-. Next time, make your point and move on.
And yes, there should be a next time. There is a case for this sort of activity. It’s just not something we have done much of to date, but we should do more.
First, the “If it’s wrong for them to do it to us, then it’s wrong if we do it to them” formulation is less a principle than a tired cliché. This minor disruption was a tactic; shouting was a tool. It is moral for the good guys – and we are the good guys – to use tactics and tools against an enemy that are immoral when they do it. It was immoral for the Nazis to bomb London; it was moral for us to bomb Nazis. Of course every tactic and tool is not acceptable, but the guys who stormed Omaha Beach did not “become what they were fighting” because they used the same tools and tactics as the enemy.
Second, this sort of performance art is so harmless that the cost/benefit calculus weighs in favor of tolerating such occasional inconveniences. That’s not to say we should not impose higher costs on them – we disapprove of the firing of people for what they say, but Kathy Griffin’s defenestration was a sacrifice worth making to demonstrate the costs of liberal misbehavior. This is crucial. They must pay a cost for establishing their new rules.
Call it retribution or punishment or just payback, but causing pain to wrongdoers is a conservative principle we seem to have forgotten. The left needs to feel the pain that comes from their choices. If they want a world where people suffer for speaking, well, I prefer they didn’t, but I damn well know that if that’s the new rule, their side is going to get it shoved down their throat.
Yes, there is a slippery slope risk. I’ve seen it overseas, where the rule of law was replaced by the rule of power. But we will slip down that slope if we do not grab on up at the top. People are not going to sit back and take this leftist abuse and allow them to impose their leftist tyranny upon us without reacting. If we don’t stop the left now from taking this dangerous path – including by using tools like harmless civil disobedience – then that weakness, as my novels illustrate, invites real conflict with real bloodshed. And we can’t let that happen.
Finally, if our principles are worth having, they are worth fighting for in a way that might conceivably lead to success. One of the folks telling me how wrong and unconservative I am for finding it amusing – a patriot, though wrong – also mentioned that he had been fighting for free speech on campus and in the culture for 20 years. Hmmm. I’ve been fighting for them for 30 years, ever since my dean at UCSD called me in to yell at me because I wrote that the student government was composed of leftist dweebs. Shouldn’t the fact that we have spent decades using the same tactics and losing indicate that maybe we ought to try something new?
Are we going to reason the left out of its ruthless quest for absolute power? Are we going to talk them into civility? Is our sterling example of high principles – which apparently include never, ever, for even a moment, annoying leftists by interrupting their bloody assassination festivals – leading to anything but defeat?
At Fort Benning, they didn’t teach us to lose.
That’s why I reject any principle that somehow obligates me to submit to the left’s tyranny. If your principles told you we had to elect Felonia von Pantsuit and allow her to complete the transformation of the United States into Venezuela II, maybe that’s a sign you need some new principles.
sad sad sad. published to my public FB with my added comments:
WAKE UP AMERICA!!!
Of course the FBI will find nothing on “opening day:” although their avg IQ is only 75 (means half have IQ LESS than 75), they can hide bad stuff and lie to the FBI and governor. The brain dead liberal idiots we have in public office let these non assimilating taqiyya lying warriors in with welcome arms! HOW DARE THEY DESTROY MY COUNTRY LIKE THIS???? Which citizens of Overland Park will be the first beheaded? Which poor children will be raped and brutalized first? KEEP IT UP DUMB ASS LIBERALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dorothy we are not in kansas anymore
Looks like the wicked witch of the West really DOES EXIST–not to mention all the demons and devils from the PIT OF HELL that are coming out of the woodwork!!!!! I’m sooo sure the “good” citizens of Overland Park (like Mary Baker from the Bible Church) can’t wait to hear that screeching howling wailing racket blaring from the minarets FIVE TIMES A DAY!!!!! Hey Mary, did you stick your ass-end of in the air for the allah-god yet–YOU’RE PATHETIC, Mary!!!!! YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY PATHETIC!!!!!
I the US the Arabs do not need to behead anyone they cut the throats of anyone who speaks against them not with a knife but with our very legal system. Yes they use the law to silence anyone. they are given aid by the liberals who think that in so doing they are in control; it will be a sad day when they wake up and find they ones holding the power ae those who have bought them heart and soul.
As Christians are being killed and marginalized across the world (yes, in our America), the Islamic Caliphate is making inroads at an amazing pace, especially in this country. All you politically correct mush-head liberals, can’t you see what’s happening to your country? Or perhaps you prefer Sharia Law to our constitutional law and think that wearing hijabs and burkas is really cool, as well as female genital mutilation and wife beating, all in the name of the magnificent and beneficent Allah who tells you if you kill infidels you will go to heaven and have 72 virgins at your beck and call? Keep ignoring the obvious, and that’s just what America will be turned into, sooner rather than later.