As I come to the end of my life, I despair for my child. For myself, I'll do what I can while I am on this earth, but if I am going to live in a banana republic, I going to live in one where it is a lot warmer. Mexico is looking better and better to me.
With everything else (Covid, lockdowns, vaxx) one can make the excuse that he was under constant assault, and forgive his mistakes.
With Barr, he had a unique 2nd chance at AG - which he flubbed, again.
Yes, McConnel stonewalled him, but instead of hopping on his Twitter megaphone and turning normies against McConnell, he wen't and endorsed him for re-election.
That small battle, amongst all the others in the war, showed, in my opinion, that Trump does not have what it takes to drain the swamp.
I agree that Trump made some boneheaded mistakes with personnel. But, I can’t fault him when it comes to Barr, who had us all fooled right up to the election.
Trump had inside knowledge - he alone could look into the white's of Bill Barr's eyes and know what his intentions were. He alone could exercise executive privilege and know whether Durham was legit or not. He failed when the stakes were highest, and there is no reason to trust him again.
After hearing what I knew to be bs, I finally read Trumps statement. I took his points from a Socratic viewpoint of posing questions and not calling for the destruction of the constitution. In the end he does make the point used here frequently “fraud vitiates everything”.
Mark, Has anyone else mentioned this to you? For the past week all your notifications are going directly to my spam account. Luckily for me I check it everyday. Which of us is making enemies? I’ve been told that yesterday’s critical thinker is now considered a conspiracy theorist, I’m looking for my tinfoil hat as I write.
It is ironic that Barr was quite vocal about the possibility of fraud in the upcoming election of 2020. Interviewed by NPR on June 25, he stated that “where all the ballots are essentially mail-in…there’s so many occasions for fraud there that cannot be policed.” Barr was particularly concerned about the possibility of counterfeiting ballots and mailing them in, about mail being misdirected because people move a lot, and he said, “you can easily take things out of mailboxes.”
I don’t see much irony here. In my view he simply did not mean what he was saying but was only playing to his audience, lulling us into thinking justice might actually prevail. Meanwhile he green-lit the cabal, at least implicitly, by doing absolutely nothing about the matters he publicly raised. Actions speak louder than words because they reflect what someone really beleives.
anybody who says complains about "lie[s] to the FISA Court" as a major strand of Russiagate narrative doesn't understand it. Hackneyed talking points.
It is impossible that Paul Ryan had a copy of the Steele DOSSIER "six months before" Patel. The "dossier" consisted of a series of memos prepared as late as December 2016. Ryan might well have seen a copy of Reports 80 and 95 in late September 2016 and chosen not to disseminate such trash. So what?
Do we KNOW that Barr personally "authorized" the FBI to have weekly meetings with Twitter and Facebook up to the 2020 Election about Hunter Biden’s laptop so they could craft a false narrative? That seems very unlikely to me. Barr's main (and obviously unsuccessful) objective was to restore a de-politicized DOJ. By the end, he was obviously very impatient and frustrated with Trump, but my take is that efforts by Patel and others to demonize Barr are both misplaced and a distraction from a penetrating investigation. It's a lot easier to yell at Barr than laboriously extract and process FBI documents.
Having worked in that bureaucracy for 30 years I will repeat: There's no way that the Biden Family investigations were suppressed as they were without Barr's OK.
Re the dossier, Patel is talking about the period during which he and Nunes were investigating these matters--so, into 2018. He doesn't say when he saw the dossier docs.
Re authorizing official collusion to suppress "misinformation" and to label other information as disinformation, I'd be very surprised to learn that Barr and Wray had no knowledge of that type of coordination. Alternatively, if Wray knew--which he did--there's no way Barr did not know. These were official authorized programs.
Terrific post Mark. Yes they are criminals who censored the Biden laptop and in doing so took a blowtorch to the Constitution, effectively disenfranchising 80 million voices, silencing us with the iron fist. It really makes my blood boil. What have we become?
Looks like Putin's sending flexibility signals too. Driving over the Crimean bridge in a German Mercedes, right after Russian airfields (like, well inside Russia! strategic nuclear defense air bases!) sustain damage from Ukrainian drone attacks.
This administration is absolutely clueless and criminal as was Obamas foreign policy that led to this. Billions spent on military industrial complex feeding at the Ukrainian war troff, millions in Ukraine in misery and death, all this suffering for European people and for what? Billions spent on the way in and tens of billions more on the way out to rebuild the Ukraine and stuff the pockets of the corrupt corporations and meanwhile, average people suffer and die. How thoroughly obvious and disgusting.
Alex Christoforou totally disagrees with me. He believes this chatter should be placed in the context of the drone strikes at Russian air bases, which he believes are efforts to force Russia to escalate. I would suggest it could be a good cop/bad cop ploy, with the idea being to make Russia believe that if they don't accept the crumbs being offered as "security guarantees", then NATO could escalate. I doubt that Putin would fall for that, but it wouldn't surprise me as a Neocon delusional tactic.
More to the point is that if it plays out as the presentation suggests, the prisoners do not trust the guards. In dealing with the masses, in the past the power of persuasion has been employed. Hitler was immensely popular. You can control the masses by force, but you cannot count on their cooperation. People were ready to die for Hitler. Biden???
America is not China, and the real choice is to neither cooperate nor die. We can, as Bartleby, choose not to, and there is no reason to inform the regime of our decision. We can choose to survive and thrive, as humans have done through the centuries. Just as they 'dissimule' and take on the trappings of legality, we can take on the appearance of following their rules. They are not intelligent and in their arrogance will assume they control us, just as now they are convinced in the power of the press to influence us.
The best thing we can do for Trump is to send a clear message that America will not support him when he continues to contest the election process, and will never support another run for the Presidency. That way he can walk away with a clear conscience and have a good life. Just accept the fact that we have no voice in our government and ask what the government can do for you, as you give as little as possible in return.
As I come to the end of my life, I despair for my child. For myself, I'll do what I can while I am on this earth, but if I am going to live in a banana republic, I going to live in one where it is a lot warmer. Mexico is looking better and better to me.
I maintain that Trump's greatest error was Barr.
With everything else (Covid, lockdowns, vaxx) one can make the excuse that he was under constant assault, and forgive his mistakes.
With Barr, he had a unique 2nd chance at AG - which he flubbed, again.
Yes, McConnel stonewalled him, but instead of hopping on his Twitter megaphone and turning normies against McConnell, he wen't and endorsed him for re-election.
That small battle, amongst all the others in the war, showed, in my opinion, that Trump does not have what it takes to drain the swamp.
I agree that Trump made some boneheaded mistakes with personnel. But, I can’t fault him when it comes to Barr, who had us all fooled right up to the election.
Trump had inside knowledge - he alone could look into the white's of Bill Barr's eyes and know what his intentions were. He alone could exercise executive privilege and know whether Durham was legit or not. He failed when the stakes were highest, and there is no reason to trust him again.
After hearing what I knew to be bs, I finally read Trumps statement. I took his points from a Socratic viewpoint of posing questions and not calling for the destruction of the constitution. In the end he does make the point used here frequently “fraud vitiates everything”.
Mark, Has anyone else mentioned this to you? For the past week all your notifications are going directly to my spam account. Luckily for me I check it everyday. Which of us is making enemies? I’ve been told that yesterday’s critical thinker is now considered a conspiracy theorist, I’m looking for my tinfoil hat as I write.
That's been reported to me once or twice in the past. It doesn't appear to be pervasive.
“diminutive Frenchman” 🤣
Macron sees himself as “jupiterian!”
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/president-jupiterien-comment-macron-comptait-regner-sur-l-olympe-avant-les-gilets-jaunes-1264783
It is ironic that Barr was quite vocal about the possibility of fraud in the upcoming election of 2020. Interviewed by NPR on June 25, he stated that “where all the ballots are essentially mail-in…there’s so many occasions for fraud there that cannot be policed.” Barr was particularly concerned about the possibility of counterfeiting ballots and mailing them in, about mail being misdirected because people move a lot, and he said, “you can easily take things out of mailboxes.”
He certainly fooled me, but I agree with Brother Ass now.
I don’t see much irony here. In my view he simply did not mean what he was saying but was only playing to his audience, lulling us into thinking justice might actually prevail. Meanwhile he green-lit the cabal, at least implicitly, by doing absolutely nothing about the matters he publicly raised. Actions speak louder than words because they reflect what someone really beleives.
Very well put
anybody who says complains about "lie[s] to the FISA Court" as a major strand of Russiagate narrative doesn't understand it. Hackneyed talking points.
It is impossible that Paul Ryan had a copy of the Steele DOSSIER "six months before" Patel. The "dossier" consisted of a series of memos prepared as late as December 2016. Ryan might well have seen a copy of Reports 80 and 95 in late September 2016 and chosen not to disseminate such trash. So what?
Do we KNOW that Barr personally "authorized" the FBI to have weekly meetings with Twitter and Facebook up to the 2020 Election about Hunter Biden’s laptop so they could craft a false narrative? That seems very unlikely to me. Barr's main (and obviously unsuccessful) objective was to restore a de-politicized DOJ. By the end, he was obviously very impatient and frustrated with Trump, but my take is that efforts by Patel and others to demonize Barr are both misplaced and a distraction from a penetrating investigation. It's a lot easier to yell at Barr than laboriously extract and process FBI documents.
Having worked in that bureaucracy for 30 years I will repeat: There's no way that the Biden Family investigations were suppressed as they were without Barr's OK.
Re the dossier, Patel is talking about the period during which he and Nunes were investigating these matters--so, into 2018. He doesn't say when he saw the dossier docs.
Re authorizing official collusion to suppress "misinformation" and to label other information as disinformation, I'd be very surprised to learn that Barr and Wray had no knowledge of that type of coordination. Alternatively, if Wray knew--which he did--there's no way Barr did not know. These were official authorized programs.
Terrific post Mark. Yes they are criminals who censored the Biden laptop and in doing so took a blowtorch to the Constitution, effectively disenfranchising 80 million voices, silencing us with the iron fist. It really makes my blood boil. What have we become?
Easier to say what we no longer are. I shudder to think what we've become.
I share your dread
Looks like Putin's sending flexibility signals too. Driving over the Crimean bridge in a German Mercedes, right after Russian airfields (like, well inside Russia! strategic nuclear defense air bases!) sustain damage from Ukrainian drone attacks.
https://stansheppard.substack.com/p/and-world-peace
This administration is absolutely clueless and criminal as was Obamas foreign policy that led to this. Billions spent on military industrial complex feeding at the Ukrainian war troff, millions in Ukraine in misery and death, all this suffering for European people and for what? Billions spent on the way in and tens of billions more on the way out to rebuild the Ukraine and stuff the pockets of the corrupt corporations and meanwhile, average people suffer and die. How thoroughly obvious and disgusting.
The problem is that Obama's foreign policy was largely a continuation of Bush's. Uniparty FP. And that's what the problem with Trump was.
Alex Christoforou totally disagrees with me. He believes this chatter should be placed in the context of the drone strikes at Russian air bases, which he believes are efforts to force Russia to escalate. I would suggest it could be a good cop/bad cop ploy, with the idea being to make Russia believe that if they don't accept the crumbs being offered as "security guarantees", then NATO could escalate. I doubt that Putin would fall for that, but it wouldn't surprise me as a Neocon delusional tactic.
Tom Luongo also disagrees:
https://tomluongo.me/2022/12/06/has-the-counter-revolution-arrived-in-the-us/
Again, I doubt that Putin will allow himself to be played.
More to the point is that if it plays out as the presentation suggests, the prisoners do not trust the guards. In dealing with the masses, in the past the power of persuasion has been employed. Hitler was immensely popular. You can control the masses by force, but you cannot count on their cooperation. People were ready to die for Hitler. Biden???
America is not China, and the real choice is to neither cooperate nor die. We can, as Bartleby, choose not to, and there is no reason to inform the regime of our decision. We can choose to survive and thrive, as humans have done through the centuries. Just as they 'dissimule' and take on the trappings of legality, we can take on the appearance of following their rules. They are not intelligent and in their arrogance will assume they control us, just as now they are convinced in the power of the press to influence us.
The best thing we can do for Trump is to send a clear message that America will not support him when he continues to contest the election process, and will never support another run for the Presidency. That way he can walk away with a clear conscience and have a good life. Just accept the fact that we have no voice in our government and ask what the government can do for you, as you give as little as possible in return.