All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
More fallout from the Roger Stone set-up.
https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/president-trump-starts-to-drain-the-swamp-yanks-liu/
Jessie Liu, as United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, oversaw the prosecutors that railroaded Roger Stone. She was up for a post in the Treasury Department but now, not so much. Good. Finally vindictiveness is being put to good use.
Now just do this one hundred thousand more times.
Out beyond Pluto in the Kuiper Belt, in the doldrums of the solar system, the forces of gravity were powered by a tepid gruel of space dust so thin that when this material accreted into larger bodies the collisions were so “low energy” that you end up with a dumbell formed by two nearby planetoids colliding in super slow motion. In recognition of its defining characteristic I think it should be renamed Jeb!
Once again, this week, my day job has kept me from my avocation, which of course is my work here on OCF. Things won’t be back to normal next week but they will improve quite a bit. But I want to preview a little of what will be ahead.
I’ve been reading Christopher Caldwell’s new book The Age of Entitlement. I’m only about a third of the way through but I can already tell you that the clear way he walks through the almost endless chain of betrayals, cowardice and stupidity that brought us from the 1960s to where we are today is supremely important to read and at the same time almost too painful to stand. What galls the most is how whenever some horrible piece of legislation is going to be foisted on us the defenders of these poison cups always deride as absurd all the consequences that history will show to be the exact results of the law in question. Each time I have to stop reading it after about fifteen minutes. It’s profoundly depressing. When I finish it I will review it and give my reaction.
This weekend I’ll have my wildlife outing and bald eagles will be the central quarry. With the Sony 200mm – 600mm zoom I hope to get some decent shots of the birds both in the air and on their nests. This will give me an excuse to review the lens.
And of course we’ll have a Star Trek episode and hopefully a music and movie review to post. As far as political posts, I’ll see what catches my interest. I’m not sure what else there is to say about the Dem race. Maybe I’ll do a satire post on an imaginary debate between the remaining clowns. We’ll see.
Sorry about the low production rate here but things will improve. Stay tuned.
Claremont Institute’s on-line magazine American Mind has had several good articles in the last few months. I am always interested in Angelo Codevilla’s thoughts. In this article he argues that the dangers we face from the unfettered power that the spymasters wield is already destroying the integrity of our government. For generations the FBI and CIA have used their power to topple foreign governments and in two cases have aimed at overthrowing a United States president, once successfully and once unsuccessfully.
This mirrors my thoughts in the recent post I wrote. It really needs to be the Supreme Court that strikes down the FISA Courts and the President must remove the most dangerous individuals in these agencies and replace them with law abiding civil servants. And, as I stressed before, the worst offenders need to be prosecuted and punished severely.
I know I said that I’m assuming that President Trump’s re-election is a foregone conclusion and the results of the Democrat primary are of no consequence, but the hilarity of their demolition derby is just too wonderful to ignore. I must opine.
The outcome of the first two state elections for the Democrat Presidential Primary have been disastrous for Joe Biden. He was fourth in Iowa and fifth in New Hampshire. Now granted those states are practically bereft of minority voters who are Joe’s major constituency but to not even come in the top three is highly troubling to the bag men who are supplying Joe’s campaign with the millions of dollars needed to keep the No Malarkey! Reality Bus Tour plodding along on the highways and byways of this great land. It’s probably a good bet that they are already in contact with the Buttigieg and Klobuchar campaigns figuring out how to siphon off funds from Joe and funnel them to the current flavors of the month.
There are already voices in the media calling for Joe to suspend his campaign. They fear that if he remains in the race, he’ll prevent the moderate candidate from knocking off Bernie. You see, the less crazy but more corrupt Dems are afraid that the more crazy but less corrupt Bernie Bros will get their candidate nominated. And those less crazies know that Bernie is unelectable. So even though they must be careful to hide their actions and intentions, they will do anything they can to stop Bernie from accruing the number of delegates needed to win the nomination outright. As long as that is prevented, they can always rig the convention to get their preferred candidate nominated.
But so far, Joe says he’s committed to going forward. His hope is that Nevada and South Carolina will give him the wins he needs to re-establish himself as the front runner. And I really do hope he does stay in. If he manages to siphon off just enough votes to allow Bernie to edge out Butt Pete this contest can go on and on. And once Bloomberg enters the fray things will get even more confused. Bloomberg will pour hundreds of millions of dollars into the race and tempt the establishment with dreams of their own Trump who can rule by fiat and pay for his programs himself. How wonderfully unsettled it all seems to be.
But which way will it all go? I think Bernie will once again fail to secure an outright delegate win. I think they’ll give the nomination to Petey Boy. And I think they’ll make Klobuchar or Kamala Harris his running mate. How exciting is that?
Okay, so I made all this up just now. But tomorrow all these sandcastles could be washed away. Suppose Biden gets a crushing win in South Carolina. Suddenly he’s riding high again. Or suppose Klobuchar beats Buttigieg in both Nevada and South Carolina. Now we must flip the order on the ticket with Amy on top. Or suppose Bernie takes Nevada and Joe comes in second. All these possibilities scramble the logic of who will end up as Dem nominee.
And all of this is driving the Democrat voters and leaders into fits. They’re scared of not knowing who the nominee will be and they’re scared that all the choices are bad. The fear and uncertainty are just great. What a wonderful time to be a conservative.
So not that it should matter who they pick, because they’re still going to lose. But knowing that they’re in agony just makes it so much better.
So Bernie and Butt Pete are neck and neck and Klobuchar is a respectable third. Warren looks finished but claims she’ll fight on. Hah!
Joe is in fifth with 8%. You’d think he would be finished but his (currently) high polling numbers with African Americans will force him to hang on until South Carolina votes soon. But if he doesn’t win there he’s done. If Warren drops out that will benefit Bernie. But Joe dropping out benefits Klobuchar in her competition with Butt Pete. She would be the more dangerous candidate in the General Election but we’ll have to see if she can outlast Butt Pete.
My gosh these people are pathetic.
Two things are true about this particular item. The first thing is I’m sure this is one of the most important aspects of trying to bring back family life. The second thing I’m sure of is that I know almost nothing about how this would work. I know almost nothing about women or dating or anything else having to do with human mating rituals. I met Camera Girl by complete accident when we were both seventeen-year-old kids each separately skipping out on our separate schools and meeting at one of the most anonymous places in a city as large as New York. It was at least a billion to one shot so no one should ever take relationship advice from me.
But I do know that kids these days and especially kids from whom their parents hope someday to receive grandchildren need a better way to find mates. Sure, there are places like match.com and the like but this doesn’t seem to be getting the job done. What is needed is some kind of sponsorship of social activities where the participants are vouched for by their families. In other words, you want to keep the freaks out but still have a place for young people to meet. Now this used to be taken care of by high schools and other teen age membership institutions. But because college is the place where normalcy goes to die and because women now postpone marriage and childbearing until their mid-thirties, we’re in the place we’re in. So, to my mind a new arrangement has to be formulated. And the only ones who have the talent, the inclination and the opportunity are the mothers. This brings to mind the scenes in Fiddler on the Roof where Tevye’s wife is trying to arrange a marriage for her oldest daughter through the village matchmaker and picks a terrible husband that luckily is sidetracked by a subterfuge by Tevye. And of course, living in these liberated times no one is going to allow his parents to pick a wife for him and vice versa but setting up opportunities for young people to meet likely partners makes perfect sense. I will have to consult with my daughters to see if this is an at all reasonable idea. They both have children who one day (and in some cases soon) will be marriageable. I am interested to know if they’ve thought of helping along the process by some discrete manipulations.
But one thing that would increase the chances for more women to find husbands is for them to look outside of the college pool. A young woman right out of high school could do much worse than finding a young man in one of the trades, an electrician or a welder and setting up a home instead of wasting four or more of her most valuable years sitting around a college quadrangle watching the soy boys playing frisbee.
I really have to do more practical research on this and this is just an introductory post. I am especially interested in getting the mother’s point of view on the practicality of trying to influence the courtship decisions of today’s youth. But I’m convinced that this topic is of extreme importance in trying to somehow revive the traditional family from inside the modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah that we find ourselves trapped in. Stay tuned for more on this.
So, this is a loaded question. There isn’t a monolithic consciousness that pervades all of the Right and aligns everyone’s opinions. I have friends who really only care about the Supreme Court and are praying for a Roberts-proof lock on the voting. Then I know guys who more than anything else in the world want to see Comey and all his superiors all the way up to Barry O get frog-marched into prison for their treasonous crimes over the last several years. And I know plenty of people who believe as an article of faith that unless the illegal immigrants are ejected by the tens of millions in the next couple of years that America will be finished.
Look at this list and the other priorities you know about; First Amendment violations, Second Amendment outrages, social media discrimination, job offshoring, etc. These priorities are all over the place. What pattern or organizing principle can clarify how all of these goals are related?
A couple of years ago I wrote a post in which I compared the present illegal immigration situation to a sinking ship. The steps I outlined to solve the problem were:
I laid out what each of these steps translated into with respect to the immigrant problem but it’s easy enough to guess what they were.
Thinking back to that analogy and looking at all the other problems listed above I have to modify the model. It’s not as if we struck a reef and a hole has to be repaired. It’s like a group of maniacal saboteurs armed with explosives has systematically blasted a dozen separate holes in the hull and is in fact still setting up additional charges. In a situation like that plugging holes is not the first order of business. The first job is to liquidate the saboteurs.
For that reason, I agree with the folks who want to prosecute the Coup and throw the book at them. These people are an existential threat to us and as long as they are still in place, we will never make any progress on wresting control of our lives back into our own hands. Comey, Brennan, Clapper and the rest of the conspirators have attempted to overthrow the lawfully elected President of the United States and although they failed, they are still walking the streets unpunished and waiting to get back to work as soon as they have another chance. These people are a de facto oligarchy that decide what is allowed to occur in the federal government and even who is allowed to run it.
Since J. Edgar Hoover started blackmailing Jack Kennedy back in the 1960s the security apparatus has been dictating policy from behind the scenes and controlling many of the elected officials that we thought were the decision makers. Does it go above these coup leaders? Maybe we’ll find out. If the lower level guys squeal on the mid-level rats I would imagine that anything is possible. But this will require that William Barr is both genuinely patriotic and absolutely fearless. It’s hard to believe that we could be that lucky. Once again, we’re about to find out. It’s way past the time for Barr to start getting results from Durham’s investigations. After the acquittal some people have stated that the first indictments are about to be handed down in the next few weeks. Well, I’ve heard that many times before. But I’m interested in seeing what is the result. As stated above I thing that prosecuting these people is the only way to head off further damage to our country. Otherwise we’re just chasing yesterday’s disaster and never catching up.
Here’s a little good news. Finally some meaningful push back from sane people. But it doesn’t go far enough. They should include revocation of medical licenses for doctors involved in this. Something like this needs to be dealt with very harshly.
It’s possible, in my opinion, to belabor certain points. For instance, some folks are so interested in the inside baseball of the Justice Department corruption that countless words will be expended weekly going over the minutia of the various documents available and how these might impact future moves by President Trump’s allies and enemies. Granted, that many people are fascinated by the prospect of the swamp getting nuked by Attorney General Barr. I myself am among those who would build a statue to Mr. Barr if he won that war. But I think continuously covering the same ground is too maddening to contemplate and a form of abuse of the readers. That being said, I want to regurgitate some of the events of this past week. And the reason is I want to talk about what the cumulative effect of all these wins has been on the morale of the Right Wing.
I have some friends on the Right who for a long time have been borderline clinically depressed over the state of the country and the prospects of things ever improving. Well, this week I caught them smiling and laughing about the events of the past few days. When I accused them of optimism, they tried to deny it but the smiles on their faces put the lie to it. And in the news a poll found that Americans by an 80% to 11% margin thought that their lives would improve in 2020.
What we are seeing is the result of winning. What we are seeing is the result of trying. People have been conditioned by decades of seeing the hapless Republicans having their heads handed to them by progressives in the Media and the Democrats that they automatically assume that no matter what break comes our way it will be stifled by a combination of the power of the Left and the incompetence of the GOP establishment.
Well, what we saw this week is something that we haven’t seen since Reagan. Sustained good news. A whole week where every real piece of news went our way. Every event showed President Trump winning and the various Leftists taking it on the chin. You might ask, so what? Shouldn’t we just take this in stride and move onto the next fight?
No. We should celebrate. We should relish the moment. We should go out to dinner and order something special and if you’re of the persuasion, pop open a bottle of good wine. Call up your friends on our side of the aisle and share a laugh and a pleasant conversation. This doesn’t happen every day. Their side took some pretty heavy shots and their leaders and their followers were noticeably stunned at just how bad things turned out. Guys like James Carville were sounding the alarm. They know just how bad it will be for their side if a Bernie Sanders or even a Pete Buttigieg ends up as their candidate. They’re terrified. And us? We’re elated and confident and expecting it to get even better. And the best part? They know the truth of both sides of it and there’s not a damn thing they can do about it. As I said in an earlier post, impeachment is the last bullet in the gun. If you can’t get a conviction or even a bipartisan effort you’re out of luck. President Trump has actually come out of the trial stronger than he went in. Every effort the Democrats have tried, from the ridiculously partisan show trial in the House to Pelosi’s petulant tearing up of her copy of the SOTU have backfired and made them look dishonest or ridiculous or both.
Next week we’ll have to get back to battling in the trenches with these dishonest swine but for now it’s not only desirable to celebrate it’s necessary. Raise a glass of cheer to President Trump for having the fighting spirit to risk everything to expose these evil clowns for what they are. And toast yourself for not giving up. We’ve got the bastards on the run.