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Flynn proves: yes, it’s a Soft Coup

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I have said and written since January of 2017 — three long years — that what we are witnessing in the United States of America is a Soft Coup against a presidential nominee, a president-elect, and a sitting president.

I was writing and saying that, again, years before it became “cool” to do so. Because I had insight to laws violated and, well, I also have at my disposal a grasp of history, facts, logic, rationality, proportion, tradition, context, intent and common sense.

And because those things — power, mighty applications of power, propaganda and weight — can be applied to one president by whom the forces of the Deep State disagree, well, it can thusly be easily applied to another president of a different party by similarly-arrayed forces.

But that’s immaterial with the LDAMM: Leftists, Demorats and American Media Maggots.

With a number of caveats, of course, including the American Media Maggot factor. Because the AMM will never side with Republicans or Conservatives, not unless and until the AMM are totally eradicated and reinvented. Which may, in time, occur. We certainly know they are moribund.

The AMM hate to be called Fake News, except they continue to go out of their way to prove, each and every week, that they are indeed Fake News.

NBC admits Chuck Todd’s ‘Meet the Press’ deceptively edited Barr remarks on Flynn

by Greg Re, 5-11-20

NBC News’ Chuck Todd aired a deceptively edited clip of Attorney General Bill Barr discussing the Michael Flynn case during his “Meet the Press” broadcast on Sunday, prompting the network to concede the mistake hours later — but there is still no word on whether Todd will apologize on-air.

Asked by CBS News’ Catherine Herridge how history would judge the DOJ’s decision to move to dismiss the Flynn case, Barr initially responded, laughing: “Well, history is written by the winners, so it largely depends on who’s writing the history.”

After the brief clip aired, Todd remarked that he was “struck by the cynicism of the answer — it’s a correct answer, but he’s the attorney general. He didn’t make the case that he was upholding the rule of law. He was almost admitting that, yeah, this was a political job.”

In the full clip, which the NBC show did not air, Barr immediately went on to state explicitly that, in fact, he felt the Flynn decision upheld the rule of law.

“I think a fair history would say it was a good decision because it upheld the rule of law,” Barr said. “It upheld the standards of the Department of Justice, and it undid what was an injustice.”

Here’s how the full cut went, with Catherine Herridge.

That was NBC’s American Media Maggot hit job on William Barr — because he had the guts to do his job.

This all stemmed, of course, when the Department of Justice decided to drop charges against General Michael Flynn on May   .

But even before that, documents were unsealed on April 30th, indicating the collusion really occurred with the FBI regarding General Flynn.

Gregg Jarrett: FBI’s actions in Michael Flynn case should send a chill down your spine

by Julia Musto

Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said Thursday that explosive new internal FBI documents unsealed Wednesday evening in the government’s case against former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn are the most “outrageous” and “unethical” actions by government officials that he has seen in 40 years of practicing law.

In an interview on “Fox & Friends” with hosts Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt, and Brian Kilmeade, Jarrett explained the findings.

“You know, I thought this is the most outrageous, unethical, dishonest, and corrupt act I have ever seen. And, I have been a lawyer for 40 years. I have never seen such misbehavior by government officials,” he remarked.

You can read the documents here.

Rep Jim Jordan told us what he thought the released documents indicated.

And then former Rep Trey Gowdy weighed in on same.

But what did fired former FBI Director Jimmy “The Leak” Comey say, in 2019, about why he sent FBI agents to the White House? Jimmy reveals: it was a purposeful Perjury Trap. And he did it because he could. He thinks it’s amusing.

Never before have I seen such a sanctimonious, hypocritical, entitled, arrogant, self-serving, preening, alleged law enforcement officer in my life. He is right is better, more sacrosanct and devout than you will ever be.

From RedState.com:

New Docs Tie Obama in to Effort Against Flynn, Biden Also in Room

by Nick Arama, 5-7-20

You can make the judgment call here, but this does not look good for former President Barack Obama.

According to the newly released documents from the Department of Justice, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates learned about the effort against Gen. Michael Flynn from Obama himself.

From Townhall:

“Yates first learned of the December 2016 calls between [LTG Michael] Flynn and [Russian Ambassador to the United States, Sergey] Kislyak on January 5, 2017, while in the Oval Office. Yates, along with then FBI-Director James Comey, then-CIA Director John Brennan, and then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, were at the White House to brief members of the Obama Administration on the classified Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian Activities in Recent U.S Elections. President Obama was joined by his National Security Advisor, Susan Rice, and others from the National Security Council,” the document states.

“After the briefing, Obama dismissed the group but asked Yates and Comey to stay behind. Obama started by saying he had ‘learned of the information about Flynn’ and his conversation with Kislyak about sanctions. Obama specified he did not want any additional information on the matter, but was seeking information on whether the White House should be treating Flynn any differently, given the information. At that point, Yates had no idea what the President was talking about, but figured it out based on the conversation. Yates recalled Comey mentioning the Logan Act, but can’t recall if he specified there was an ‘investigation,’” it continues.

But how can you discover information if you fail — as the American Media Maggots have purposely failed to do — to even ask the basic question:

And even after all this time, has anyone asked Obama or Biden: what did you know and when did you know it?

John Solomon — an excellent journalist — writes at Just The News:

Schiff releases transcripts undercutting Dem claims of Russia collusion proof

by John Solomon, 5-7-20

FBI officials admit they knew Papadopoulos had little contact with Russians but opened probe anyways. DNC-connected lawyer reveals CIA contact.

The House Intelligence Committee on Thursday released thousands of pages of declassified interview transcripts from the Russia investigation that show that more than a year into the probe senior FBI and intelligence officials could offer no specific proof of collusion between Donald Trump’s campaign and Moscow and instead offered rambling explanations of why the probe had persisted.

The testimony of fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe typified the testimony that was given back in 2017 to the committee, then under the leadership of Rep. Devin Nunes.

McCabe admitted at one point that while the FBI opened up the entire Crossfire Hurricane investigation based on a tip from Australia that George Papadopoulos may have been told Russia possessed emails of Hillary Clinton, the bureau suspected the former Trump campaign adviser had little or no contact with Moscow.

You can see for yourself. Go here for Russia Investigation Transcripts and Documents.

So agents pivoted instead to another adviser, Carter Page, who had been the focus of Christopher Steele’s now-discredited dossier, he explained.

“Papadopoulos’ comment didn’t particularly indicate that he was the person that had had — that was interacting with the Russians,” McCabe answered when asked by lawmakers why a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant request in October 2016 focused only on Page and not the man the FBI originally predicated the Trump investigation upon.

It was one of the few extraordinary admissions from McCabe: The FBI opened up an entire counterintelligence probe of the Trump campaign on a figure agents did not believe was having contact with Moscow.

But wait; it’s all a Nothing Burger that Schiff had to cover up. Schiff said this:

In releasing the transcripts Thursday, the current Democratic House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff claimed they provided proof of nefarious connections between Russians and Trump associates. “The transcripts released today richly detail evidence of the Trump campaign’s efforts to invite, make use of, and cover up Russia’s help in the 2016 presidential election,” he alleged.

But this was actually in the documents.

JAMES CLAPPER:

In fact, witnesses were repeatedly pressed to offer specific evidence of a conspiracy between Trump and Russia and could offer none, saying it was either too preliminary or they did not have any. 

“I never saw any direct empirical evidence that the Trump campaign or someone in it was plotting/conspiring with the Russians to meddle with the election,” former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told lawmakers. “That’s not to say that there weren’t concerns about the evidence we were seeing, anecdotal evidence.

“But I do not recall any instance where I had direct evidence,” he added  

LORETTA LYNCH:

Former Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch testified that by the time she left office on Jan. 20, 2017 with the case more than six months old, she was unaware of any direct evidence of collusion.

“I don’t recall anything being briefed up to me, and it’s just my recollection at this point is not,” she said. She added that what officials had was mostly fears Russia might be working with Trump.

“Certainly the information that was given in [redacted] was concerning to me and indicated that there was a goal to have coordinated activity,” she said. 

SALLY YATES:

Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who worked for both Obama and Trump, also acknowledged there had been no determination of any conspiracy to collude before she was fired. Her winding answer was typical of many of the witnesses.

“I think you need to learn — if you want to get to the bottom line answer of was there collusion, conspiracy or coordination — if I got the three Cs right — then you also need to learn about who had contact, because you can’t get to that collusion — the other — the three Cs there, until you figure out who’s having contact with who,” she said.

Pressed to be more specific, Yates conceded there was no finding. “I don’t believe anybody had reached a conclusion yet as to whether there was a nefarious alliance … with the Russians. We were at the fact-gathering stage here, not the conclusion stage.”

MARY McCORD:

Mary McCord, the former assistant attorney general for national security, also testified that by the time she left the department a year into the probe there was no evidence that anyone from the Trump campaign had conspired with Russia to hack DNC or Clinton campaign officials.

“I can’t recall if there was information, any information or evidence at the time I left about conspiring to take part in the actual intrusion,” she said.

ANDREW McCABE:

“What is the most damning or important piece of evidence in the dossier that you now know is true?” McCabe was asked during his December 2017 interview.

“Well, as I tried to explain before, there is a lot of information in the Steele reporting. We have not been able to prove the accuracy of all the information,” he answered.

Pressed further to confirm that he did not know if Christopher Steele’s dossier was true, McCabe said, “That’s correct.”

BEN RHODES:

When asked under oath by House investigators if he had any evidence of coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia, Rhodes said he did not.

“I wouldn’t have received any information on any criminal or counterintelligence investigations into what the Trump campaign was doing, so I would not have seen that information,” Rhodes told investigators.

Pressed again on the topic, he continued, “I saw indications of potential coordination, but I did not see, you know, the specific evidence of the actions of the Trump campaign.”

SAMANTHA POWER:

Samantha Power, former US ambassador to the United Nations, has publicly accused Trump of catering to Russian President Vladimir Putin to compensate him for interfering in the 2016 election.

“Every day @realDonaldTrump finds new ways to compensate Vladimir Putin for his election interference. And every day Putin gains additional incentive to interfere again on Trump’s behalf in 2020,” she wrote on Twitter in November of last year.

But when speaking under oath to House investigators, she sang a different tune.

Asked whether she had seen evidence of Russian interference, she said, “I am not in possession of anything—I am not in possession and didn’t read or absorb information that came from out of the intelligence community.”

SUSAN RICE:

Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice told ABC’s “This Week” in July 2018 that questioning if President Trump was compromised by the Russians was “legitimate” because Putin was benefitting by the commander in chief’s policy decisions.

“What his motivations are I think is a legitimate question … the policies that this president has pursued globally have served Vladimir Putin’s interests,” she said at the time.

Less than a year earlier, however, Rice told House investigators that she hadn’t seen evidence proving then-candidate Trump coordinated or colluded with Russia to take the 2016 election.

“I don’t recall intelligence that I would consider evidence to that effect that I saw prior…to my departure,” she said when being questioned by former Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC).

The American Media Maggots also did their jobs on behalf of Russia — as you knew they would.

From TheFederalist.com:

Obama, Biden Oval Office Meeting On January 5 Was Key To Entire Anti-Trump Operation

by Mollie Hemingway, 5-8-20

Susan Rice’s bizarre Inauguration Day email about that meeting helps explain the campaign of leaks, lies, and obstruction that followed.

Information released in the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss the case it brought against Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn confirms the significance of a January 5, 2017, meeting at the Obama White House. It was at this meeting that Obama gave guidance to key officials who would be tasked with protecting his administration’s utilization of secretly funded Clinton campaign research, which alleged Trump was involved in a treasonous plot to collude with Russia, from being discovered or stopped by the incoming administration.

“President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia,” National Security Advisor Susan Rice wrote in an unusual email to herself about the meeting that was also attended by Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, FBI Director James Comey, and Vice President Joe Biden.

Remember that convoluted email?

A clearer picture is emerging of the drastic steps that were taken to accomplish Obama’s goal in the following weeks and months. Shortly thereafter, high-level operatives began intensely leaking selective information supporting a supposed Russia-Trump conspiracy theory, the incoming National Security Advisor was ambushed, and the incoming Attorney General was forced to recuse himself from oversight of investigations of President Trump. At each major point in the operation, explosive media leaks were a key strategy in the operation to take down Trump.

Not only was information on Russia not fully shared with the incoming Trump team, as Obama directs, the leaks and ambushes made the transition chaotic, scared quality individuals away from working in the administration, made effective governance almost impossible, and materially damaged national security. When Comey was finally fired on May 9, in part for his duplicitousness regarding his handling of the Russia collusion theory, he orchestrated the launch of a Special Counsel probe that continued his efforts for another two years. That probe ended with Mueller finding no evidence of any American colluding with Russia to steal the 2016 election, much less Trump or anyone connected to him.

Read the rest of the article. It goes step-by-step in a clear timeline delineating everything.

Listen now to Adam Schiff. Psychologists term this kind of thing “projection.”

One of the biggest questions, of course, is this: who will fold first? Who will try to cut a deal with the DOJ first? Because whoever makes that decision will get the cushion deal and the rest will be out in the cold.

Here is Obama’s former DNI, Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, throwing Barack Hussein Obama under the bus. Do you enjoy hot kitchens much, JC?

You know; the same James Clapper who lied before Congress in 2013.

The case against General Flynn was dropped by the Department of Justice on Thursday of last week. Here is Politico’s take — and please note the biased stance.

DOJ drops criminal case against Michael Flynn

by Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney, 5-7-20

The move comes after the president and his allies stepped up their assault on the legal case against the former national security adviser.

The Justice Department has abandoned its prosecution of President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, throwing in the towel on one of the most prominent cases brought by special counsel Robert Mueller.

The move represents a remarkable reversal two and half years after Flynn initially pleaded guilty to the FBI about his dealings with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. In that time, the case has taken a number of dramatic turns: Flynn went from the precipice of being sentenced in 2018, to abruptly switching legal teams in 2019, to trying to withdraw his guilty plea in 2020. Flynn’s attempt to take back his plea led Attorney General William Barr in January to assign a federal prosecutor to review the case.

It was that review that led to the move on Thursday to dismiss the case altogether. Department officials, including Barr, concluded in light of recently disclosed evidence that the FBI’s questioning of Flynn just four days after Trump’s inauguration lacked a proper investigative basis. Flynn admitted in front of two federal judges that he intentionally lied during that interview about his dealings with the Russian ambassador, but the retired U.S. Army lieutenant general formally retreated from those admissions in January.

“A review of the facts and circumstances of this case, including newly discovered and disclosed information, indicates that Mr. Flynn’s statements were never ‘material’ to any FBI investigation,” read the motion filed Thursday seeking to dismiss the criminal prosecution.

This was a Mark I, Model I “Perjury Trap” plain and simple, because I’ve seen them, I’ve worked them. Director Comey admitted to it, plainly and clearly. It was a fishing expedition.

For what? Russia “collusion”? You want to talk about Machiavellian? How’s this for convoluted? The famed Susan Rice “cover your ass” email at the end of the Obama regime.

Try to follow. The Obama Regime and Susan Rice believed General Flynn had to be Putin’s Poodle because he was — correctly, as certainly is confirmed now — emphasizing the threat and danger China is to the United States, whilst also indicating that Russia was — and is — the world stage “has been.”

Thusly proving that General Flynn was a Russian stooge and required targeting.

But mostly because Flynn was a clear threat. For one, he planned to revamp pretty much all seventeen intelligence agencies and, to them, that was a true existential threat. Jobs could be lost! Power could be lost! Control could be lost!

The bastard’s gotta go, the Obama Administration agreed.

For a moment, let’s go back to 2017 and the truthful Marie Harf, Obama devotee extraordinaire.

Let’s also go back to 2018 for this article from the WashingtonExaminer.com:

Memo: FBI recommended Michael Flynn not have lawyer present during interview, did not warn of false statement consequences

by Byron York, 12-11-18

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who arranged the bureau’s interview with then-national security adviser Michael Flynn at the White House on Jan. 24, 2017 — the interview that ultimately led to Flynn’s guilty plea on one count of making false statements — suggested Flynn not have a lawyer present at the session, according to newly-filed court documents. In addition, FBI officials, along with the two agents who interviewed Flynn, decided specifically not to warn him that there would be penalties for making false statements because the agents wanted to ensure that Flynn was “relaxed” during the session.

The new information, drawn from McCabe’s account of events plus the FBI agents’ writeup of the interview — the so-called 302 report — is contained in a sentencing memo filed Tuesday by Flynn’s defense team.

Citing McCabe’s account, the sentencing memo says that shortly after noon on Jan. 24 — the fourth day of the new Trump administration — McCabe called Flynn on a secure phone in Flynn’s West Wing office. The two men discussed business briefly and then McCabe said that he “felt that we needed to have two of our agents sit down” with Flynn to discuss Flynn’s talks with Russian officials during the presidential transition.

McCabe, by his own account, urged Flynn to talk to the agents alone, without a lawyer present. “I explained that I thought the quickest way to get this done was to have a conversation between [Flynn] and the agents only,” McCabe wrote. “I further stated that if LTG Flynn wished to include anyone else in the meeting, like the White House counsel for instance, that I would need to involve the Department of Justice. [Flynn] stated that this would not be necessary and agreed to meet with the agents without any additional participants.”

Can anyone say “Perjury Trap” again? Hands? Bueller?

Chief conspirator himself, Barack Hussein Obama, had to weigh in on the DOJ dropping the Flynn investigation. Ever notice how Obama isn’t the so-called incredibly brilliant orator when a TelePrompter isn’t around?

Why does Barack Hussein Obama care? His presidential ship has sailed. That’s yesterday’s news. Unless he somehow fears that orange really is the new blue.

And speaking of Obama, why doesn’t he want to let us see his archives? I thought — no, wait, I know — Obama said his was going to be the most transparent presidential administration in the history of history.

Obama Sends Private Letter to National Archives Claiming ‘Confidentiality’ To Not Release Biden-Ukraine Docs

by Gregg Jarrett, 5-10-20

What exactly is Obama concerned with in regard to the “confidentiality interests that all presidents have sought to protect?”

Former President Barack Obama has inserted himself into the Russia, Ukraine fiasco; arguably this was not the first time. While Democrats have been denying and protecting their guilt in creating and advancing the Russia Hoax, there is evidence that suggests President Obama likely was aware of the probe. Fox News has obtained a letter from the office of former President Barack Obama to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), which manages presidential records.

Why would Obama, four years after leaving office, suddenly get involved? The letter to the National Archives was privately sent in March. Arguably they did not want Fox News to obtain a copy. Nonetheless, the letter bashes Senate Republicans and their investigation of Hunter Biden’s dealings with Ukraine. Hunter, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, joined the Ukraine company during the Obama administration. Very intriguing.

Obama’s letter to the NARA is a response to Republican Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson having requested the Obama administration records on Ukraine-related meetings, placed on November 21, 2019. Obama’s letter claims the senators’ inquiry is an effort “to shift the blame for Russian interference in the 2016 election to Ukraine.”

In retrospect, it appear the Obama Administration was in fact one of the most opaque administrations.

So depending upon the prevailing political prairie winds, the Leftists and American Media Maggots will always align with, alternately — whenever it suits their purposes of working against President Trump in any fashion — Russia, China, or the loving Nazi George Soros.

While we’re here, let’s remind ourselves of what was said between Hillary Clinton and James Comey in 2016.

And let’s review how I knew James Comey was lying back in 2016, and couldn’t be trusted or believed from that point forward. As I wrote in early 2017:

It is crystal clear from the evidence released by the FBI after the first investigation that the former Secretary of State used a private email server to transmit national security information rather than safeguard such information, as required by law, and that she subsequently made statements contrary to the facts as we continue to learn.

Second, the real actor in this Theater of the Absurd is the Justice Department’s decision to commence an investigation that was a sham from the very beginning. After all, it was the Justice Department that failed to convene a grand jury, issue search warrants for computers, place witnesses under oath and appoint a special prosecutor who could operate free from conflicts of interest. Hey, just like Robert Mueller, right?

Then FBI Director James Comey “cleared” Hillary Clinton of all wrongdoing on July 5th of last year.

Comey admits that Clinton lied.  But here is the difference (that we won’t know precisely because there was no oath and no recording).

You can lie publicly all you want, if people are sufficiently stupid to believe it — like much of the electorate and the American Media Maggots are doltish enough.  But you should not lie to the FBI.  My guess is that Hillary Clinton came relatively clean in 3.5 hours.  And that is why I believe she was not placed under oath and the interview was not recorded.  Things like that make it easier to dispute later when politically necessary.

But James Comey outed himself to Jason Chaffetz:

Chaffetz then asked whether it was that he was just not able to prosecute it or that Clinton broke the law.

“Well, I don’t want to give an overly lawyerly answer,” Comey said. “The question I always look at is there evidence that would establish beyond a reasonable doubt that somebody engaged in conduct that violated a criminal statute, and my judgment here is there is not. “

And this is how James Comey attempts to rationalize his decision.  He states he does not believe his case established guilt “beyond a reasonable doubt.”

NEWSFLASH: It is not UP to YOU, Director Comey, to assemble a case that yields a determination of “beyond a reasonable doubt.”  That threshold is up to the DOJ or more pointedly a Grand Jury, not you or your organization.  All you need to compile a case for submission is “probable cause.”  That’s what real cops and real DAs in America do. Their jobs.  They stay in their lanes and do their jobs.

As I have said time and again, there are two kinds of crimes as written by statute: those of general intent and those of specific intent. Comey stated that HRC had to have possessed a very specific intent to commit her crimes. EXCEPT that the US codes applicable are not those of specific intent because they do not include the phrase “with the intent to.”

That is how a crime of specific intent is crafted. It is stated.

Even more disturbing: Attorney General Lynch did not recuse herself from the final decision on whether to prosecute the case — nor did she give that decision to a career prosecutor at the Department of Justice. She instead prejudged the case by supposedly blindly accepting the FBI’s recommendation.

“[AG Lynch] said…she would accept whatever recommendations career prosecutors and the F.B.I. director made…” –NYTimes July 1, 2016

Of course she would. The fix was in. And Comey was predestined to take whatever fall occurred, not her. After all, he is white and male; she is black and female.

Here, Maria Bartiromo speaks with Devin Nunes about the situation.

Now we’re discovering that, of course, Barack Hussein Obama knew what was going on with Flynn — but Joe Biden knew as well. From FoxNews.com:

Obama knew details of wiretapped Flynn phone calls, surprising top DOJ official in meeting with Biden, declassified docs show

by Gregg Re, 5-7-20

President Obama was aware of the details of then-incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn’s intercepted December 2016 phone calls with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, apparently surprising then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, according to documents released Thursday as exhibits to the government’s motion to dismiss the Flynn case.

Obama’s unexpectedly intimate knowledge of the details of Flynn’s calls, which the FBI acknowledged at the time were not criminal or even improper, raised eyebrows because of his own history with Flynn — and because top FBI officials secretly discussed whether their goal was to “get [Flynn] fired” when they interviewed him in the White House on January 24, 2017.

Obama personally had warned the Trump administration against hiring Flynn, and made clear he was “not a fan,” according to multiple officials. Obama had fired Flynn as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014; Obama cited insubordination, while Flynn asserted he was pushed out for his aggressive stance on combating lslamic extremism.

Obama knew what was going on. So did Joe Biden. No one can possibly think that Barack Hussein Obama was either a stupid or an uninformed individual in the Oval Office. And particularly when dealing with issues of these importance.

So it’s official: we have a name. ObamaGate. Jesse Watters talks about same.

And listen how the LDAMM, the Leftists, Demorats by way of the American Media Maggot Brian Stelter, want it both ways. Flynn is just a smoke screen for avoiding Wuhan-19 deaths, which is essentially an overblown flu targeting the elderly while — in the meantime — the nation spent almost four straight years being put through the wringer of the constant whining and keening of little officious pricks like George Costanza on CNN.

General Flynn’s lawyer weighs in, from the New York Post:

Flynn’s lawyer accuses Obama of framing the ex-national security adviser

by Mark Moore, 5-10-20

The lead attorney for former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Sunday accused former President Barack Obama, other top administration officials and the FBI of setting up her client.

Sidney Powell on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” cited the revelation in recently released-documents that FBI agents didn’t tell Fynn he was under investigation or that lying to them would be a federal crime.

“These agents specifically schemed and planned with each other how to not tip him off, that he was even the person being investigated,” she said.

“So they kept him relaxed and unguarded deliberately as part of their effort to set him up and frame him.”

“The whole thing was orchestrated and set up within the FBI, [former Director of National Intelligence James] Clapper, [Former CIA Director John] Brennan, and in the Oval Office meeting that day with President Obama,” Powell said.

And finally, when you’ve lost New York media, you know things aren’t going well for you. This, just today, from the New York Post:

It looks like President Obama ordered up phony RussiaGate scandal

by The Post Editorial Board

RussiaGate is now a complete dead letter — but ObamaGate is taking its place. Just how far did the then-president go to cripple his successor?

It’s now clear the Obama-Comey FBI and Justice Department never had anything more substantial than the laughable fiction of the Steele dossier to justify the “counterintelligence” investigation of the Trump campaign. Yet incessant leaks from that supposedly confidential probe wound up consuming the Trump administration’s first months in office — followed by the Bob Mueller-led special counsel investigation that proved nearly the “total witch hunt” that President Trump dubbed it.

Information released as the Justice Department dropped its charges against Gen. Mike Flynn shows that President Barack Obama, in his final days in office, played a key role in fanning the flames of phony scandal. Fully briefed on the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation, he knew the FBI had come up with nothing despite months of work starting in July 2016.

Yet on Jan. 5, 2017, Obama told top officials who’d be staying on in the new administration to keep the crucial facts from Team Trump.

And there you have it. ObamaGate.

Sadly, Comey’s FBI played along — sandbagging Flynn with the “friendly” interview that later became the pretext for the bogus charges dropped last week, as well as triggering the White House chaos that led to his ouster. This when the FBI had already gone over the general with a fine-tooth comb, and concluded that, no, he’d done nothing like collude with the Russians.

Meanwhile, Comey himself gave Trump an intentionally misleading briefing on the Steele dossier. That was followed by leaks that suggested the dossier was the tip of an iceberg, rather than a pack of innuendo that hadn’t at all checked out under FBI scrutiny.

Pulitzer Prizes were won for blaring utter fiction; the Trump administration was kneecapped out of the gate. Innocents like Flynn were bankrupted along the way.

Say this about Obama: He knows how to play dirty.

Everyone, up to and including Barack Hussein Obama, in this treasonous chain, should be prosecuted criminally and civilly.

Criminally, under 18 USC 242.

Civilly, under 42 USC 1983:

Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.

And finally: the Fruit of the Poisonous Tree Doctrine should prevail. Everyone caught, sentenced or affected by the illegal FISA warrant should be set free, to include Manafort and all others.

I have said and written since January of 2017 — three long years — that what we are witnessing in the United States of America is a Soft Coup against a presidential nominee, a president-elect, and a sitting president.

Heads should roll.

And this can never happen again.

BZ

 

 

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Freedom and law enforcement: what are the laws?

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A paddleboarder was arrested 4-3-20 for disobeying Governor Newsom’s “stay at home order” on Malibu Beach. It took a sheriff’s boat, a USCG boat, and about $17,000 worth of fuel, time and man-hours to “corral” the miscreant, who faces 6 months in jail and a $1,000 fine — at the same time that actual criminals are released from Kalifornia jails. Perspective, anyone?

The fight continues.

And I am perplexed why it does.

I’m not speaking out of school when I say that this issue is tearing through a number of law enforcement contingents on Facebook, with groups featuring retired and current LE members, who have vastly different opinions on the subject.

Altogether too many of them shockingly wrong.

Wrong how? As in marching lockstep with whatever edicts are handed down by local mayors or state governors. I won’t enumerate all the myriad reasons on this post; I already did so on my prior post in great detail. Read it here.

I find this thinking disappointing and, frankly, a bit shocking and certainly disturbing. In my opinion, altogether too many law enforcement officers are willing to look at the computers in their vehicles, acknowledge a call with an easy fingertip, respond, violate rights, and seemingly think nothing of it, all in the name of what I term Fear Porn.

And now, there’s another reason for cops to continue violating your rights. We’ll get to that in a moment.

Perhaps that might have been initially semi-excusable about two months ago when the numbers were still rolling in — and yet, not very excusable when taken in overall context in terms of rights and freedoms in the United States of America.

The subject was already a primary focus, for two entire hours, on my wireless radio show last Thursday night, the 7th, where I delineated the numerous reasons, in significant detail, why too many responses by law enforcement feature unnecessary, over-the-top — and unconstitutional — reactions to situations that can be best served, easily, by other less heavy-handed means.

Listen to “BZ’s Berserk Bobcat Saloon Radio Show, Thursday, 5-7-20” on Spreaker.

And yet the hits and foolishness just keeps on coming. Please understand, the bulk of what I’m addressing with this post applies primarily, as you will read below, to Kalifornia laws.

The most recent incident that set me off — as well as apparently others in the opposite direction — occurred in Fresno, Kalifornia on May 10th, Sunday, Mother’s Day.

WATCH: Police Shove Through Crowd, Arrest Mother’s Day Diners at Fresno Waffle Shop

by Todd Starnes, 5-10-20

At least two people were hauled away by police after law enforcement officers tried to enter a diner that was illegally opened in Fresno, California.

The diners were waiting in line outside the Waffle Shop. Officers ordered the diners to step aside so they could enter the establishment. When they refused, the officers forcefully shoved aside patrons. It was during that confrontation that at least two people were taken into custody.

Body cam video from Fresno PD.

Then: off to the races on a law enforcement Facebook group. The original post:

So I can’t find the post where the video of my Alma Mater Fresno PD arrested a guy at a restaurant this morning.

I watched the video earlier and only later decided to respond to it. What I saw was an officer meeting two code enforcement officers to make contact with the management of the restaurant probably to cite them for a muni code violation. As they walk up to the door, the crowd gets ugly. There is a guy blocking the door.

The big guy is about 6-03. He blocks the door as a crowd surrounds the officer and tells him he can’t go in. The big guy also gives the officer some sort of forearm or elbow. The officer arrests him.

I know the officer pretty well. He did everything by the book. The crowd and the tall guy were angry and things went down hill because of them not the police. The officer is a good dude who does his job impartially doesn’t get jacked up easily. Don’t judge until the facts are in.

You may not like the fact that code enforcement was going to shut down the restaurant, fine. In my opinion the officer did his job the way he thought it needed to be done.

I disagreed. After a number of comments I wrote:

Maybe the guy’s (the officer) a good guy. At this point it’s becoming immaterial. The numbers and the science aren’t justifying these actions any longer.

I retired as a cop after 41 years in LE. As a Sergeant I wouldn’t have allowed my troops to be the Covid Gestapo.

I can read and people can read. I smell bullshit and people smell bullshit.

You forget the phrase “with the consent of the governed” at your own peril.

From that point the fire was lighted. One deputy responded to my comment.

The police are being used by the politicians to enforce poorly thought-through directives. The public is getting more and more pissed off about these Draconian measures to contain the virus. What will result is civil unrest as the public grows more defiant against the politicians while the police get caught in the middle. It’s a no-win situation for the police.

By the way I’m a retired deputy sheriff and I’m catching a lot of flack from friends who see more and more intrusion on their civil liberties.

He’s correct. Cops are catching crap — properly — for actions such as this. I replied:

My point precisely.

Then there was a response I hadn’t anticipated, corroborating my thoughts.

You might need to get your glasses checked, the guy he arrested never gave him a forearm or elbow. The officer reacted to a verbal challenge and got pissed off. There was no crime, hope you buddy is ready for the law suit. Also ask your buddy how long it will be before he does gun confiscation as ordered.

Then we were off to the races when I wrote:

I’ve read on any number of LE sites how “politics like this” are ruining these sites. Debatable. The overarching points in my mind are Constitutionality and the Bill of Rights. That’s the oath I took. Not to a mayor, not to a governor, but to the US Constitution. Because LE can do a thing, we always need to ask: “are we doing the right thing for the right reason?”

Spirit of the law vs the letter of the law. Discretion. Malum in se vs malum prohibitum.

One individual began the thread.

So what would you have done if you were directed by your supervisor to assist code enforcement with their investigation?

I replied:

Told my troops to C4, gone over myself to look, listen. The city can send paper later. Is it worth getting my troops or citizens hurt over this when the numbers and stats don’t justify it, when I personally see the same thing happening at Costco or Save Mart, or people standing in line for EEO? Nope.

So when rational arguments don’t work, as with everyone else — and attorneys — you go for the ad hominum attacks:

You worked in Sacramento County, one of the most pussified and liberal departments in California. Where you need permission before you can make a request (he meant arrest). I understand your response. But, in real police work, things are a bit different.

So my 41 years mean nothing. Okay. But factually, again, he was sorely incorrect. I responded:

Oh, you mean SAC PD.

Because historically, with the Sacramento Police Department, you need the permission of a SPD Sergeant to make an arrest absent exigent circumstances.

Not so, historically, at the Sacramento Sheriff’s Office where I worked for 35 years, where myself and others were granted trust and utilized discretion — and did not require a Sergeant’s permission for any arrest.

That is one of many reasons that retired SPD officers came over to Sac SO to work as annuitants because, as most every retired SPD officer told me when I supervised EVOC: “If I’d only known this, that you treat your officers like actual adults, I would have gone with you guys.”

Another individual wrote:

Funny we never went with code enforcement people when they did their job, wasn’t our business enforcing health codes and such, only time I ever responded to assist a code enforcement was when the place had a history of getting physical with the code enforcers and I can’t imagine that was the case here, but one never knows. Personally with all the lies and deception coming from newscum I would have on viewed something en route and not gotten their to be involved…..this isn’t about a virus it’s about the upcoming elections…..

Now we’re getting closer to the crux of the biscuit, because here’s another thought:

Where was the on duty patrol Sgt. That would not have happened if those were my troops. I would have led the Code Enforcement officers through the back door, securred the front door after safely ecorting the customers out the back door after they had finished their meals and as as soon as Code Enforcement was done, ecorted them to their vehicles. Sorry Folks the Waffle House is closed until further notice.
10-8 Clear – return to your beats.

The same goon who hated me hated that response. He posed:

Back doors locked. Now what?

The response?

Have dispatch call them and tell them to open the back door. If that doesn’t work, have a unit borrow a crowbar from the Fire Dept. Do I have to do all the thinking? Apparently.

Boom, shaka-laka.

More comments.

We can all debate the officers actions/tactics, etc. But I’ve read several comments on here referring to the officer as “ short shot, gnome, tweedle dum” etc.
It’s disappointing that a few of the arm chair warriors on here feel the need to denigrate an officer who is still out there wearing the badge, doing a difficult job.

And:

That Officer is 5-02 of fury. He is tough as hell any of you who denigrate him based on his size are dicks.

Several comments later, a voice in the wilderness:

The police should not be involved in this issue at this level. Distrust & rebellion are growing, & involving our police is perceived as the overreaction that it is. LE cannot afford further erosion of respect & cooperation. Our collective security is at great risk & anarchy is the result. Big Bird appeared to challenge the officer. I know nothing of him or his motives but that cannot be allowed.

And there we have it. Another comment:

The officers did not have their heads in the game. I led patrol officers as their field Sgt.for 26 years and that was a cluster f..k from the get. They did not follow the 5 Ps – Prior planning prevents piss poor performance.

Then it went to this, and rightly so.

Confiscation of lawfully possessed firearms? Better bring a body bag. Our neighbors, friends and every citizen will ultimately be engaged in armed resistance. We’ll be getting a taste of what it was like to be a Redcoat in 1775. Sure, there will be cops and soldiers who will buy in and enforce such orders. I expect the majority will not. I know of none of the Marines I served with who would comply.

Exactly what I want to hear from law enforcement officers.

Another comment.

“The officer is a good dude who does his job impartially doesn’t get jacked up easily.”

I don’t doubt that at all, but I bet their friends and colleagues would have said much the same about many of the Redcoats at Concord on April 19, 1775.

Sometimes “good guys” follow bad orders, and find themselves on the wrong side of history. Time will tell.

And another comment.

Speaking for myself only, if I had to go out on a call to assist another city department, I just stood by to keep the peace. My dog wasn’t in the fight over too many chickens or how tall somebody’s grass was.
That’s their call. But, if things started going south then I was in charge and called the shots. It wasn’t worth the potential damage trying to force a hand over a municipal code violation.
The department involved could file a report with the city attorney and go about finding another solution. I’d back them but I wasn’t going to get my butt in a sling for them either.

You have to look further down the road. What are the ramifications of this call, particularly a Wuhan-19 call?

The problem today is that the police are in a no win situation. They are expected to uphold the law but in turn are crucified by the press and the public, who know nothing about the law or the situation.

And:

Agencies need to step back and away from all the bull shit. U have people getting arrested and released…real crooks. Not people trying to keep there business going and people hired. Really. Going to arrest people on the beach, or your not social distancing and going to take them. Come on. My son a combat Marine grunt was hired by a agency. After seeing all this the kid withdrew. Told them he wanted nothing to do with what they r doing…He is back in the service

Then this dropped:

I thought this site was an LEO site. All the second guessing sounds like some of you need to be in IA.

A response:

Exactly. Bunch of self righteous assholes

I responded myself:

Who follow the Constitution, Bill of Rights, honor their oaths and don’t blindly obey. So I guess I’m an asshole.

A reply to me:

Right. I’m sure when you were a cop in the 80’s and some asshole mouthed off to you, you immediately thought “of the constitution, bill of rights” and walked away. Come on.

Me:

Apparently you don’t understand the difference between Constitutional and unconstitutional. I’m not someone’s political poodle and this is all politics. These political mayors and governors can fight their own political wars.

Him, with the ad hominum attack, which is what attorneys use when they have no argument.:

Apparently you forgot what it was like to be an officer. Easy for you to judge in retirement how bad ass you were and how you would have done it.

One defender:

Calling out a fellow officer for doing something stupid isn’t anti LEO.

Then I wrote, more pointedly:

Oh please. This is all political bullshit that cops get placed into by fuckhead politicians, meaning it isn’t worth getting my troops embroiled in. I go back to my original reasons above. Numbers, stats, politics.

Then a little more common sense emerged from another officer:

This reminds me of the time I had a municipal code violation for loud music. The guy was ready to go to blows along with his party friends. I issued the ticket noted the refusal, wrote a brief report. The city attorney later got upset and said I should have taken the guy to jail. I asked if they would have stood by me for a use of force complaint over loud music. The look on his face told me I did the correct thing… cops are being pulled into a bad situation with this mess.

Bingo. Thank you. Then another interesting comment making the distinction between a police department and a sheriff’s department.

Can’t fault a city peace officer if he is ordered by a city appointed Police Chief who must answer to city officials who order him to enforce unconstitutionally issued orders, codes or statutes.

A county Sheriff on the other hand is elected and answers directly to his citizens and if he truly believes in the Oath of Office he swore to he will tell those communist leaning officials, whether they be city, county or state, that he will NOT enforce any unconstitutional statue or rule that violates the rights guaranteed to the citizens under the U. S. Constitution.

Whether it be active military or active law enforcement anyone who took the Oath of Office which is a life long obligation, knows full well they do not have to carry out orders they know to be wrong and in this case an egregious violation of the rights of all Americans…….………………

Read what Wikipedia says about governors executive orders. As I interpret it, the governors executive orders apply to only government employees and departments, “NOT” the citizens. If that is the case all of these communist leaning orders they have issued are illegal in the first place and not adhering to an illegality issued statute or code by people exercising their protected rights is not a violation of anything.

Except yes, I still fault the police department.

It’s politics, people. Backed, now that we are cognizant of so many other updates, by smoke and mirrors. The numbers and statistics and even the World Health Organization, the WHO, no longer back the Chinese model, instead selecting the Swedish model. Sounds kind of lascivious. I’d select the Swedish model also.

And on and on it went.

So let’s check the law. Let’s let an attorney grab a part of this.

Please note these salient portions.

California Government Code section 8567 states that all orders under the California Emergency Services Act must be in writing and they take effect immediately. When the governor calls a state of emergency, he may suspend any state statute, rule or regulation. (Cal. Gov. § 8571). Please notice that the governor does not have the authority to suspend the California Constitution. As such, any rights contained in the Constitution are still in force. In fact, to make sure the government understands that there are limits to their authority, Cal. Gov. § 8571.5 expressly states that nothing in the California Emergency Services Act gives the government the right to seize or confiscate any firearm or ammunition unless an officer is arresting someone pursuant to an investigation for the commission of a crime.

And:

On March 4, 2020, Governor Newsom Declared a State of Emergency.

On March 11, 2020, Governor Newsom’s office published the fact that it was California Department of Public Health’s policy of preventing gatherings of groups larger than 250 people “should be postponed.” This was not an executive order by the governor, instead it was a California Department of Public Health policy. This policy does not cite a single law that gives the California Department of Public Health authority to shut down events of 250 people or require social distancing of more than 6 feet. While these may be good guidelines to follow, they are simply policies, they are not the law.

To emphasize that this was just a policy and not a law, on March 12, 2020, Newsom issues his next executive order (N-25-20). This executive order states that “All residents are to heed any orders and guidance of state and local public health officials, including but not limited to the imposition of social distancing measures, to control the spread of COVID-19.”

Notice the language of this order. “All residents are to heed any orders and guidance …”. If you look up the word heed in the dictionary, you will discover that it means “to give consideration attention to.” It does not say you must obey. Gavin Newsom in his executive order utilizing his powers granted him after declaring a state of emergency told the citizens of California that Californians should takes the advice given by the California Department of Public Health into consideration when making decisions.

Now a very important part.

Thus, contrary what you may have been led to believe, Gov. Newsom did not actually issue an executive order requiring Californians to practice social distancing, nor did he actually order gatherings of over 250 people to shut down. All he did was order people to pay attention to what these organizations were saying. These were merely recommendations.

Understand, a policy is different from a regulation. While I was able to find authority that allowed the California Department of Health Services to issue emergency regulations after they jumped through a few hoops, I have been unable to find where their policies would have the full force of law. Laws are passed by the legislature, or under the state of emergency, via executive order by the governor.

We’re not done yet.

Cal. Health & Safety § 101040 permits local health officers to take any preventive measures that may be necessary to protect and preserve the public health from any state of emergency declared by the governor. After a local health emergency has been declared, “The sheriff of each county .. may enforce within the county … all orders of the local health officer issued for the purpose of preventing the spread of any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease.” (Cal. Health and Safety Code 101029). Cal. Health & Safety § 101030 specifically gives the county health officer the authority to order quarantines.

As one studies California law, it is clear that the law used to be very explicit that a quarantine was only applicable to those who had a contagious disease or those who had come in contact with someone who had a contagious disease.

While most of the laws regarding quarantine are very broad, Cal. Health & Safety § 120215 appears to have limiting language. This statute reads: Upon receiving information of the existence of contagious, infectious, or communicable disease for which the department may from time to time declare the need for strict isolation or quarantine, each health officer shall: (a) Ensure the adequate isolation of each case, and appropriate quarantine of the contacts and premises. (b) Follow the local rules and regulations, and all general and special rules, regulations, and orders of the department, in carrying out the quarantine or isolation.

And finally:

The quarantine laws are clearly intended to be applied to individuals not to the entire county. The quarantine laws are designed to stop those who might have been infected from passing the disease onto others. Absent the local health officers finding that an individual has the disease or is likely to have the disease, California law does not give them broad authority to quarantine the entire county.

As such, it appears counties such as San Francisco that have issued broad shelter in place laws may be violating California law.

Let’s just be plain and obvious. With altogether too many cops in these circumstances, they are taking the calls personally. It becomes a personal affront. That’s not how this works. Not with politics and politicians — who are all to happy to allow cops to get caught in the middle so that they can be kicked to the curb at will.

And by departments, when faced with use of force complaints, aren’t willing to support their officers when they’re correct.

They are failing to see the ramifications of their short-sighted decisions. That’s my job as a Sergeant, to cover my troops, make sure they’re doing the right thing for all the right reasons, and to ensure people are safe and rights are upheld.

Here is an organization that knows how to protect its troops against an absolutely classic “no-win” situation for law enforcement, the New York Police Benevolent Association.

NYPD union wants cops out of ‘social distancing enforcement’

by Tina Moore, 5-4-20

The city’s largest police union is demanding cops get “out of the social distancing enforcement business,” while slamming New York pols for “releasing criminals,” “discouraging proactive policing,” and leaving subways “in chaos.”

“This situation is untenable: the NYPD needs to get cops out of the social distancing enforcement business altogether,” a statement from Police Benevolent Association president Patrick Lynch said.

“The cowards who run this city have given us nothing but vague guidelines and mixed messages, leaving the cops on the street corners to fend for ourselves,” Lynch said. “Nobody has a right to interfere with a police action. But now that the inevitable backlash has arrived, they are once again throwing us under the bus.”

Lynch was referring to a fracas that erupted as NYPD cops were trying to enforce social distancing rules over the weekend in the East Village and a cop was caught on video slapping and hitting a bystander who appeared to challenge him.

Lynch added that the politicians are “still watering down our laws, releasing real criminals and discouraging proactive enforcement of fare evasion and quality of life issues.”

“As a result, our subways are in chaos and we have hero nurses getting mugged on their way to our hospitals,” he said, referring to a nurse who had her phone torn out of her hand in Times Square on April 26. “As the weather heats up and the pandemic continues to unravel our social fabric, police officers should be allowed to focus on our core public safety mission. If we don’t, the city will fall apart before our eyes.”

If only more organizations took this logical stance.

Before I go, this came to the forefront:

The original video can be seen here.

There is also this, from a locality closer to my area, Lodi, Kalifornia:

Lodi Police Officer Says He Was Fired For Refusing To Enforce Stay-At-Home Order

LODI (CBS13) — A Lodi police officer says he was fired for not enforcing the states’ stay-at-home order.

In the past 24 hours, his community has raised thousands of dollars to support his family.

Former Officer Jordan Duncan only worked with the police department for four months. The details of the incident aren’t clear, but city officials confirm an April separation date. They would not go as far as to say that Duncan was fired.

Officials did point to a recent ruling which calls the stay-at-home order “lawful,” and said police officers can’t choose which laws to enforce.

That last paragraph? Wrong. Cops have been using discretion in terms of which laws to apply and when for, literally, over a century.

Two aspects the article fails to point out are that, one, he fronted off the Chief of Police in a briefing, telling him what he would and would not do. The other aspect is, two, that he belongs to the easiest class of person in the world to fire, someone on probation.

THIS JUST IN: A RECENT RAY OF LIGHT

From Breitbart.com:

Fresno County Sheriff Won’t Enforce Stay-at-Home Orders; Too Busy Re-arresting Freed Criminals

by Joel B Pollak, 5-14-20

Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said Tuesday that she would not be able to enforce Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home orders because she was too busy re-arresting accused criminals set free under the state’s new “zero-dollar bail” policy.

Mims appeared on the Trevor Carey Show, discussing the challenges facing law enforcement during the coronavirus pandemic, as well as the economic hardship. She pointed out that government employees were also vulnerable to the economic damage, because the decline in tax revenues meant that state and local governments would cut services.

Carey asked her: “I’ve heard multiple sheriffs around the nation state they will not enforce their governors’ shelter-in-place orders. Is that your position?

“That is my position. We do not stop the public to find out what they’re doing when they’re not sheltering in place. We don’t ask those questions, we don’t ask if they’re ‘essential’. We’ve got our hands full trying to re-arrest people that are released due to zero-dollar bail. So we’ve got other things that are on our mind that are more important than stopping normally law-abiding citizens.”

Fresno County now, officially, has a Good Sheriff.

Clearly, two camps have emerged in law enforcement.

The strict “we follow the orders and directives all the time” camp — and the other, like mine, who insist there are overarching issues we shouldn’t be ignoring — like the rights and freedoms we as peace officers are sworn to uphold, the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, no matter the circumstances. I don’t recall the “Time Out, It’s A Bad Flu” clause in any of those documents.

The bottom line is: there’s no doubt this is a proverbial “dry run” for Leftists and Demorats to push the envelope and see what it is that you, the average American citizen, will tolerate in terms of having your freedoms and liberties removed.

Do they only have to provide some kind of “safety crisis” for you to cave and fold? Will Fear Porn do it? How far can you be pushed before you react negatively?

I think we’re starting to see those answers right now.

We cannot allow law enforcement to be wedged into political issues like this. Because we have to do what I term The Logical Extension:

If law enforcement will willingly obey Fear Porn — what will they do when ordered to confiscate firearms from American citizens should Leftists return to power — which they obviously will, some day? And just as Leftists and Demorats said “nah, we’re not coming for your guns,” wrong, they now state openly they’re coming for our firearms.

Doing again The Logical Extension, that means they’re coming for, eventually, all of your rights — every little thing they can steal. IF you stand there complacently and allow it. But wait. Once you have no firearms?

Yeah. You are going to have to stand there and allow it.

I wish I could say I knew for a fact that all law enforcement officers are not going to act unconstitutionally. I cannot.

And that is so foundationally disturbing to my core.

Because I’ve seen all of this, now.

BZ

 

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BZ’s Berserk Bobcat Saloon Radio Show, Tuesday, 10-22-19, with returning guest Rev. RALPH J CHITTAMS, SR.

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Featuring Right thinking from a left brain, doing the job the American Media Maggots won’t, embracing ubiquitous, sagacious perspicacity and broadcasting behind enemy lines in Occupied Fornicalia from the veritable Belly of the Beast, the Bill Mill in Sacramento, Fornicalia, I continue to proffer my thanks to the SHR Media Network for allowing me to utilize their studio and hijack their air twice weekly, Tuesdays and Thursday nights, thanks to my shameless contract — as well as appear on the Sack Heads: Against Tyranny Show every Wednesday night.

Hours 1 and 2: BZ spoke with Reverend RALPH J CHITTAMS, SR, about politics, religion, race, blacks in America, abortion and the terrible ruination this country is suffering at the hands of Leftists.

As BZ has said before, Leftists and Demorats, in concert with the American Media Maggots, have pushed society in this fashion, where people made these fundamental cultural transitions regarding sexuality/LGBT issues:

  • Tolerance
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  • Advocacy

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Don’t believe the American Media Maggots — there’s a lot of good news about President Trump

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There’s a lot of information out there on the internet and in the world that the American Media Maggots — what others would term the “mainstream media” — either aren’t covering at all (purposely), are glossing over (purposely), or are “reporting” in an outright false fashion.

Otherwise known as Fake News.

Let’s begin with the two most obvious and recent Fake News stories; the first glaring one from ABC News because, apparently, ABC thought no one was paying attention to much of anything. From RealClearPolitics.com:

ABC News Footage Of “Slaughter In Syria” Is Actually Footage From A Kentucky Gun Range

by Tim Hains

ABC News show “World News Tonight” issued a correction and apology Monday for reportedly using video from a Kentucky gun range while falsely claiming it depicted a fierce battle between Syrian Kurds and Turkish forces.

“This video, right here, appearing to show Turkey’s military bombing Kurd civilians in a Syrian border town,” ABC’s Tom Llamas said as the video played.

Here is the footage available on YouTube.

What do you think would have happened had, say, Fox News distributed that video and portrayed it as truth? Correct. You’d still be hearing about their error this week and next week and the rest of this month and on into the next.

And why was ABC concocting this illicit and false video? Because it was part of an ongoing attempt — successful or not, you be the judge — to portray President Trump in as poor a light as possible for having the sack and temerity to pull American troops out of northern Syria in contravention of all the NLH (New Leftist Hawk) factions rampant throughout DC and such environs.

As well as various and sundry “military professionals” throughout — again, you guessed it  — the northeast portion of the United Snakes of America.

Starting to recognize just a wee bit of a current theme here, eh wot?

As your realtor would say: “location, location, location.”

CNN couldn’t not be outdone, so we recently discovered that CNN editors take their daily marching orders personally from owner Jeff Zucker, who tells the HOPs (Huddled Opiate Heads) to constantly beat the following drums:

  • Impeachment, impeachment, impeachment;
  • Russia, Russia, Russia;
  • Recession, Recession, Recession;
  • Racist, Racist, Racist

And anything else Zucker can think of as long as it works against OMB, President Donald John Trump, the guy with the dead orange cat on his head.

How about some visual proof from Project Veritas?

  • You can’t trust ABC.
  • You can’t trust CBS.
  • You can’t trust NBC.
  • You can’t trust CNN.
  • You can’t trust MSNBC.
  • You can’t trust CNBC.
  • You can’t trust NPR.

And I haven’t even hit newspapers or websites yet. Those negative anti-Trump elements are legion and almost too numerous to mention. Some much less worth mentioning and attracting any attention to them. Okay; you win. Here are a few more examples of CNN’s bullshrimp — from just a couple months in 2017.

Here Are Five Fake Stories CNN Pushed

by Justin Caruso, 6-17

False Story 1: CNN Reports Hands Up, Don’t Shoot

This claim has been proven to be untrue. Barack Obama’s Justice Department investigated the shooting and concluded that the use of force was not unreasonable and that Brown charged at Officer Darren Wilson before being shot.

The Washington Post ran an article in early 2015 on its’ “Fact Checker” blog entitled, “Hands up, don’t shoot’ did not happen in Ferguson.”

False Story 2: CNN Falsely Claims Sherelle Smith Was ‘Calling For Peace’

Sherelle Smith, the sister of Sylville Smith, a black male shot by a black police officer in August spoke to news reporters after his shooting. CNN deceptively edited the clip to make it sound like she was calling for peace in response to the shooting, when in fact she was encouraging violent behavior in the suburbs of the city.

In the full video, Smith also says, “Stop burning down shit we need in our community. Take that shit to the suburbs. Burn they shit down. We need our shit. We need our weaves. I don’t wear it. But we need it.”

Because hair weaves are, well, important.

False Story 3: CNN Says It’s Illegal To Look At Wikileaks

In one baffling moment from October 2016, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo claimed that it was illegal to look at Wikileaks.

Except that he could do it. Because he’s Chris Cuoma and, well, he’s much more important than you are, you proles, you serfs, you commoners, you rabble, you groundlings, you unwashed peasants, you pond-scum subjects.

Of course, this isn’t true. It is not against the law to view Wikileaks or possess hacked documents, as long as you are not involved in breaking the law by hacking them.

False Story 4: CNN Says Rape Is Pre-Existing Condition Under ACHA

A headline on CNN.com from early May of 2017 read, “Rape and domestic violence could be pre-existing conditions.” CNN argued that the American Health Care Act (AHCA) could make sexual assault a pre-existing condition, preventing women who survive rape from getting health care.

This claim was contested by many fact checkers.

The Washington Post posted an article on its “Fact Checker” blog saying, “Despite critics’ claims, the GOP health bill doesn’t classify rape or sexual assault as a preexisting condition.”

Polifact, which has previously displayed some liberal-leaning bias, said the claim that “[u]nder the House Republican health plan, sexual assault is a pre-existing condition” was “misleading” and “mostly false.”

Jimmy “The Leak” Comey. My. That’s a topic worthy of hundreds of posts. So, just one:

False Story 5: CNN Had To Correct False Comey Report

CNN reported on June 6th that Comey was going to contradict President Trump’s claim that he wasn’t under FBI investigation in his Senate testimony, a report which obviously was going to make Trump look like a liar.

The article, originally titled, “Comey expected to refute Trump,” featured in its byline Jake Tapper, Gloria Borger, Eric Lichtblau, and Brian Rokus.

Of course, this isn’t what Comey said in the Senate. Instead, Comey did not dispute Trump’s claims that he told the president that he was not under FBI investigation.

And because I haven’t heard it for so long, I’m tossing this in for good Karmic measure on account of, well, I just like to bob my head to the beat:

That said, let’s move on to the stories you won’t be hearing about on any other non-Conservative site, and you certainly won’t hear on the American Media Maggots.

The New York Times cocked it up once again, and trust in the American Media Maggots is — wait for it — plummeting. From FoxNews.com:

Trust in mainstream media on the decline: ‘The news industry is in chaos’

by Brian Flood

In the wake of the latest controversial New York Times story, many are saying the mainstream media is in big trouble.

“The View” co-host Meghan McCain on Tuesday confronted a pair of New York Times reporters who blamed Gray Lady editors for botching a now-revised story accusing Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct.

“You guys left out a key detail,” McCain said, referring to the paper leaving out the tidbit that the alleged victim doesn’t remember the incident. “I think this is sort of Ground Zero for why so many people mistrust the media.”

From the NYTimes.com:

Trump Campaign Floods Web With Ads, Raking In Cash as Democrats Struggle

by Matthew Rosenberg and Kevin Roose

On any given day, the Trump campaign is plastering ads all over Facebook, YouTube and the millions of sites served by Google, hitting the kind of incendiary themes — immigrant invaders, the corrupt media — that play best on platforms where algorithms favor outrage and political campaigns are free to disregard facts.

Even seemingly ominous developments for Mr. Trump become fodder for his campaign. When news broke last month that congressional Democrats were opening an impeachment inquiry, the campaign responded with an advertising blitz aimed at firing up the president’s base.

Bottom line?

The onslaught overwhelmed the limited Democratic response. Mr. Biden’s campaign put up the stiffest resistance: It demanded Facebook take down the ad, only to be rebuffed. It then proceeded with plans to slash its online advertising budget in favor of more television ads.

Most of the Democratic Party is “not even fighting last year’s war — the war that they’re fighting is 2012,” said David Goldstein, chief executive of Tovo Labs, a progressive digital consulting firm.

Yay President Trump. Boo-fucking-hoo Demorats. Maybe you can teach an old Republican new tricks.

But wait; why would people possibly want to contribute to President Trump anyway? Could this be one possibility? The NBQ, or No Bullshit Quotient? I mean, how many times have we screamed at Republicans as we watch on television or at press conferences that “you don’t have to put up with that crap”?

And Trump doesn’t. With each act like this the Demorats and RINOs despise Trump even more viscerally, to the point where they’re stroking out and dying.

Then there’s this from NPR. Is this Russian disinformation? Is NPR working for the Russians now?

NPR Poll: More Americans Trust Trump Administration Than Congress, The Media

by Timothy Meads

A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll released Thursday shows that more Americans trust the Trump administration than the media and Congress as a whole.

The poll also found that at this point in their presidency, more Americans believe the country is headed in the right direction under President Trump than under President Barack Obama. In this poll, 35 percent of Americans believe the U.S. is headed in the right direction. In September 2011, just 22 percent of Americans felt the nation was headed in the right direction.

Then here’s the jobs report for September of 2019:

  • Unemployment Rate: 3.4%, the LOWEST since December 1969
  • For Women: 3.4%, tying LOWEST since 1953
  • For Hispanic-Americans: 3.9%, a RECORD LOW
  • For African-American: 5.5%, remaining at a record low
  • For Asian-Americans: 2.5%, near historic low

From the WashingtonExaminer.com:

Economy added 136,000 jobs in September to bring unemployment to 5-decade low

by Melissa Quinn

The U.S. economy added 136,000 jobs in September, and the unemployment rate ticked down to 3.5%, a new 50-year low, according to federal data released Friday.

The monthly employment report from the Labor Department fell short of expectations from economists that 145,000 jobs would be created in September, up from 130,000 in August. Unemployment was expected to hold steady at 3.7%, indicating the labor market remains tight and the economy strong.

The unemployment rate last hit a 50-year low in May and has continued to hover at record lows. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the jobless rate was last this low in December 1969. The unemployment rate for Hispanics and high school dropouts also hit record lows.

Average hourly wages changed little in September after increasing 11 cents in August. Earnings are up 2.9% for the year.

Did you hear ANYTHING about this in last week’s Demorat debates? Of course not. Not ONE WORD. Because all the Demorats have is more Social Justice Warrior emotive crap and a race to offer more “free stuff” to everyone — and no way to pay for it. Not one they’ll tell you about, anyway.

Because who will pay for it? The Middle Class will pay for it; there just aren’t enough billionaires around to hit that nut. But wait; there was this from WesternJournal.com:

While Dems Obsessed over Whistleblower, Senate Confirmed Justice Scalia’s Son as Labor Secretary

by Joe Setyon

While the whistleblower controversy and impeachment have been the talk of the town, other important things have also been going on this week, as evidenced by the Senate’s 53-44 vote Thursday to confirm Eugene Scalia, the son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, as secretary of labor.

The position opened up in July, after then-Labor Secretary Alex Acosta resigned over his handling of a plea deal given more than a decade ago to wealthy financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who has since died in an apparent suicide.

Here’s something it’s guaranteed you haven’t heard or read, from Mediaite.com:

Most Americans Now Have an Unfavorable View of the Democratic Party, A Flip From 2018

by Joe DePaolo

A column in The New York Times Tuesday cited a Pew Research Center survey which found that Americans currently hold an unfavorable view of the Democratic party. According to the poll, 45 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of the Democrats, compared with 52 percent who hold an unfavorable view. Those numbers mirror the Republican party exactly. The GOP also stands at 45-52 in those metrics.

Last September, ahead of the 2018 midterms, the numbers told a different story. Fifty-three percent of Americans had a favorable opinion of Democrats prior to the election, compared to 42 percent who had an unfavorable opinion. Republicans, meanwhile, boasted just a 43 percent favorable number, with 52 percent unfavorable.

What’s the difference? Impeachment 24/7. And a continuing strong economy.

Then from the DailySignal.com:

Black Americans Are Doing Great Under Trump

by Star Parker

The August jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed more great news for all Americans. And particularly for black Americans.

The nation’s unemployment rate of 3.7% puts it near the lowest ever in the last half-century.

Black unemployment is at an all-time low at 5.5%.

Also at an all-time low is the gap between black and white unemployment. With white unemployment at 3.4%, the gap is 2.1 percentage points.

As President Trump himself said:

Then there is the wall itself. From the Associated Press:

450 miles of border wall by next year? In Arizona, it starts

by Astrid Galvan

This 5-mile (8-kilometer) section of fencing is where President Donald Trump’s most salient campaign promise — to build a wall along the entire southern border — is taking shape.

The president and his administration said this week that they plan on building between 450 and 500 miles (724 and 806 kilometers) of fencing along the nearly 2,000-mile (3,218-kilometer) border by the end of 2020, an ambitious undertaking funded by billions of defense dollars that had been earmarked for things like military base schools, target ranges and maintenance facilities.

In Yuma, the defense-funded section of tall fencing is replacing shorter barriers that U.S. officials say are less efficient.

The MilitaryTimes.com weighs in with this story:

About a mile of new wall built each day along Mexico border, Pentagon says

by Military Times Staff

About a mile of border wall along the border with Mexico is constructed each day, according to the Pentagon.

The Army Corps of Engineers awarded about $2.5 billion in projects in April and May to build 129 miles of the border wall in New Mexico, Arizona and California. With the exception of $3 million, the entire $2.5 billion pool of money is obligated on contract. The remaining chunk will be obligated before the end of September, the Pentagon said.

Leftists, Demorats, American Media Maggots and even many Republicans don’t want you to know about that little factoid.

There’s this from the EpochTimes.com, something no one mentioned at the last Demorat debates as well:

REPORT: Over A Million Households Have Risen To Middle Class Under Trump, According To Census Data

by Petr Svab

More than 1.2 million American households moved to above $50,000 in annual income between 2016 and 2018, according to Census Bureau data released on Sept. 10, a sign of a growing middle class.

The data is a boon to President Donald Trump, whose platform is centered on a strong economy and promises of increased prosperity.

While in 2016, some 58.5 percent of households enjoyed more than $50,000 in total money income, the share rose to more than 60 percent in 2018. The median household income, meanwhile, rose by nearly 2.3 percent—with all figures adjusted for inflation.

Remember how everyone said that President Trump’s tariffs would relight the Chinese economy and enable them to leapfrog over us — how terrible the tariffs were? This is from Reuters.com:

China’s slowdown deepens; industrial output growth falls to 17-1/2 year low

by Kevin Yao and Stella Qiu

BEIJING (Reuters) – The slowdown in China’s economy deepened in August, with growth in industrial production at its weakest 17-1/2 years amid spreading pain from a trade war with the United States and softening domestic demand.

Retail sales and investment gauges worsened too, data released on Monday showed, reinforcing views that China is likely to cut some key interest rates this week for the first time in over three years to prevent a sharper slump in activity.

Despite a slew of growth-boosting measures since last year, the world’s second-largest economy has yet to stabilize, and analysts say Beijing needs to roll out more stimulus to ward off a sharper slowdown.

Helen Raleigh says the trade war has already been lost.

Helen Raleigh: China has already lost the trade war. Here’s why

China already lost in the trade war with the U.S. Although you will never hear Chinese authorities, especially President Xi Jinping, admit it as such, the evidence is everywhere and only becoming more compelling by the day.

Reuters recently reported that based on the Chinese government’s own data, China’s economic slowdown has worsened in August, with “growth in industrial production is at its weakest in 17-1/2 years amid spreading pain from a trade war with the United States and softening domestic demand. Retail sales and investment gauges worsened too.” Despite such poor readings, Premier Li Keqiang insists that China is still on track to achieve 6 to 6.5 per cent growth rate this year.

Given the Chinese government’s tendency to present a rosier economic picture to satisfy political goals, most China watchers believe that Li’s statement was an about-face, and that the actual economic situation is much worse.

Say not so!

Researchers at the Brookings Institute estimated that China had inflated its GDP growth rate by close to 2 percent every year between 2008-2016. So in reality, China hasn’t seen a 6 percent growth rate for nearly a decade (someone should send a copy of this to Premier Li). Moreover, the actual size of the Chinese economy was an estimated $10.9 trillion, 18 percent lower than the officially stated $13.4 trillion, as of 2018.

Beijing can’t count on Chinese consumers to stimulate economic growth either because of rising pork prices. Pork is a staple food for Chinese households. Since the trade war began, China had imposed higher tariffs on agricultural products from the U.S., with the tariff on pork rising from 12 to 62 percent. China hoped that causing pain to U.S. farmers would pressure Trump to back off his trade war. That strategy failed spectacularly in two ways. First, while U.S. farmers are suffering and are critical of the trade war, their support for the president is growing. Bloomberg reports that, “about 67 percent of farmers are saying that they’d back Trump for reelection in 2020.”

Second, China’s own hog industry is experiencing the worst African swine fever in decades. The government has been criticized for its ineffective measures to stamp out the epidemic. It is estimated that China could lose up to 50 percent of its pig population by the end of 2019. Pork prices have spiked by more than 46 percent so far, and some experts predict the price increase may be over 80 percent by next year. This spike has pushed prices for other types of meat higher as well, increasing inflation pressure to the overall economy. This has hindered Chinese consumers’ willingness and capacity to spend in other areas. Given the pivotal role pork plays in the Chinese diet, the country could potentially experience social unrest if the pork price continues to skyrocket while the supply continues to be sparse.

But the American Media Maggots haven’t told you about this, have they? The Demorats in their talking points and in their debates haven’t mentioned this at all, have they?

While we’re at it, an MSNBC poll about firearms went down in flames.

MSNBC Poll About Guns Backfires Fabulously

by Kemberlee Kaye

A poll hosted by the MSNBC asked respondents a simple question: Do you think people should be allowed to carry guns in public?

Given that it’s MSNBC, the leftist conspiracy machine, hosting the poll, I doubt they thought the results would be so favorable to our beloved Constitution.

At the time this post was published, more than 547,000 people voted and 92% of them answered “Yes! The second amendment guarantees it.”

That’s pretty clear. What’s also clear is, from The Five, that President Trump came to Kalifornia recently and raised MILLIONS of dollars, then tore their alleged “leadership” in Sacra-shithole-mento apart:

From FoxNews.com, while no one was looking.

Trump nominates wave of California judges, in fresh bid to reshape courts

by Judson Berger

President Trump nominated a slew of judges Friday to posts on California-based federal courts, ramping up efforts to reshape the judiciary after hitting a milestone earlier this month with the confirmation of the 150th federal judge on his watch.

Two nominations are for the influential San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, a long-liberal bench with jurisdiction across the American West whose political makeup has shifted with Trump’s aggressive appointment campaign.

While it is traditional for a nominee’s home-state senators to give their approval, it is not required, and Trump lately has bypassed the so-called “blue slip” tradition in order to get conservative judges on the bench.

While Democrats have fumed at the tactics, conservatives cheered Trump this month for seeing the 150th federal judge confirmed.

“This is a historic milestone,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in a statement. “As Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I will continue to push through highly qualified, conservative judges at all levels of the federal courts.”

This video from OAN:

Trump also focused the EPA on San Franshithole:

Trump: EPA to hit San Francisco with violations notice over homeless crisis

Details: Per pool reporter Peter Baker, Trump said the EPA would serve the city of San Francisco with a notice because there was “tremendous” pollution flowing into the ocean because of waste in storm sewers, specifically citing used needles. 

“It’s a terrible situation — that’s in Los Angeles and in San Francisco. And we’re going to be giving San Francisco, they’re in total violation, we’re going to be giving them a notice very soon. EPA is going to be putting out a notice. They’re in serious violation. … They have to clean it up. We can’t have our cities going to hell.”

— President Trump’s comments to reporters

From TheHill.com:

Federal judge blocks California law requiring Trump tax returns

by Naomi Jagoda and Justine Coleman

A federal judge issued a temporary injunction against a California state law that requires presidential candidates to disclose their tax returns to appear on the primary ballot.

President Trump‘s lawyers and the Republican National Committee had challenged the law.

U.S. District Judge Morrison England Jr., a George W. Bush appointee on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, said there would be “irreparable harm without temporary relief” for Trump and other candidates if he did not make the rare temporary decision to block the law, The Los Angeles Times reported.

The California law, which was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), requires candidates for president or governor to provide five years of federal tax returns to appear on the state’s primary ballot.

Further, Trump flatly rejected Newsom’s request for federal homeless aid.

Trump Rejects California Governor’s Request for More Homeless Aid

by Noah Buhayar, Christopher Palmeri and Jordan Fabian

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson rebuffed California Governor Gavin Newsom’s request for more federal money to combat a homelessness crisis, instead demanding the state revise its housing regulations and crack down on undocumented immigration.

Carson’s letter, which he said he’d written at the request of the president, escalated a feud between the Trump administration and California over the state’s ballooning population of homeless people.

Dr Carson’s letter to the State of Kalifornia is here.

Let’s be honest. Texas Representative Al Green was correct when he said that, “if we don’t impeach him, Trump’s going to get re-elected.”

Maybe there’s such a thing as an “impeachment bonus”? From FoxBusiness.com:

Republicans rake in $15 million of donations over Trump impeachment threat

by Megan Henney

In the few days since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opened an impeachment inquiry into President Trump, Republicans have capitalized on conservative outrage, pulling in millions of dollars in donations.

As of Friday, Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign received $15 million in small donations, including 50,000 from new donors, according to a tweet from Eric Trump.

And this from the WashingtonExaminer.com:

If Democrats impeach Trump, a GOP House would probably impeach the next Democratic president

by Philip Klein

House Democrats are poised to impeach President Trump once they’ve spent more time following the leads in the whistleblower complaint. But should they take that step in a heavily partisan process in which most Republican voters believe Trump was unjustly targeted, it’s quite likely that the next time there’s a Democratic president and a Republican House, we’ll have another impeachment.

Trump himself hinted at this on Saturday when he tweeted about a hypothetical scenario imagining if Republicans acted toward Barack Obama as Democrats are acting toward him. “Oh well, maybe next time!” he concluded.

To be clear, I’m not saying that the decision to impeach should be determined by the prospect of potential retribution by a future Republican Congress. But I’m acknowledging the reality of the potential long-term fallout of impeaching Trump.

Right now, 85% of Republicans oppose impeaching the president. Many prominent voices led by Trump are pushing the idea that the Ukraine scandal is a hoax in which the intelligence community, the Democrats, and the media are attempting to take a president down because they hate him.

If Trump gets impeached over what Republicans believe were nonexistent or minor misdeeds, then they are likely to want to jump on any scandal in a Democratic administration to pursue impeachment. And of course, should they take that path, Democrats will not soon forget.

It only stands to reason.

Here’s how CNN sees things as of a couple of hours ago. No. Not kidding.

Trump must get it together to avoid another disastrous week

Analysis by Stephen Collinson

Washington (CNN)Donald Trump is under severe pressure after a disastrous run which saw his impeachment defense shredded by current and ex-officials and, most stunningly, by his own acting White House chief of staff.

He must also placate fellow Republicans on whom he will depend to save his presidency in any Senate trial, after triggering self-inflicted crises over Syria and the G7 summit that tested his party’s tolerance for its volatile leader.
Every Monday over the month since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi initiated an impeachment inquiry, it seemed like life could not get much worse for an increasingly isolated President.

Yet every week it does.

Right. A “disastrous week.” Here’s the truth, from Breitbart.com:

Mansour: While Democrats Pursue Impeachment, President Trump Builds Impressive Record of Accomplishments

When candidate Donald Trump promised to be “the greatest jobs president God ever created,” the pundits rolled their eyes. What kind of an idiot would say or believe that?

Here are the facts. You decide:

More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history. More than 6 million new jobs have been created since Donald Trump took office.

Keep in mind that the labor participation rate has risen under Trump. That means Americans who had been sitting on the sidelines out of the job market for years are finally going back to work. Since January 2017, 4.2 million more Americans joined the civilian labor force, and 1.5 million fewer Americans are unemployed.

In fact, the unemployment rate has reached a 50-year low under Trump. And when you drill down, the details are even more amazing. African-American and Hispanic unemployment has achieved the lowest rate ever recorded in our nation’s history. Women’s unemployment recently reached the lowest rate in 65 years. The unemployment rate for Americans without a high school diploma has also reached the lowest rate ever recorded.

Those are real jobs and real opportunities for Americans. And thanks to President Trump’s immigration policies, this tight labor market has forced employers to invest in training American workers for the jobs they need to fill.

“Americans are not only working, but they are making more money today than they have in the past,” Rick Manning from Americans for Limited Government noted. “The household median income rose to a record $61,372 in 2017, as more Americans are benefitting from wage gains earned.”

And:

Over 500,000 new manufacturing jobs have been created since Trump took office. In fact, the U.S. economy added nearly as many manufacturing jobs during Trump’s first two years in office as it did during Obama’s entire second term. In 2018 alone, the manufacturing sector added more jobs than it had in any other year since 1997—a 20-year high. 1997—that’s before China was admitted into the World Trade Organization!

You’ll recall that in his campaign kickoff speech, candidate Trump said he would tell the Ford Motor Company that if they moved their plant to Mexico they could expect a tariff from President Trump.

I don’t know if a conversation like that took place between President Trump and any of the Detroit automakers. But I do know that thanks to Trump’s threat of auto tariffs, Chrysler announced last February that it would build the first auto plant within the city of Detroit in a generation.

And:

Trump is fulfilling his promise to reorient the nation’s trade policies to put America first, despite furious pushback and denunciations from Wall Street, K Street, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue.

The centerpiece of this effort is the deal Trump negotiated with Mexico and Canada—called The United States Mexico Canada Agreement, or USMCA—which is a vast improvement on the flawed and outdated North American Free Trade Agreement. USMCA tightens rules of origin, including raising the North American content for auto manufacturing from 62.5 percent to 75 percent. It also guarantees Mexican workers the right to form and join unions, preventing U.S. workers from having to compete with exploited workers. Most importantly, the new agreement will need to be renewed every six years, allowing the agreement to be updated if the results are not acceptable to the U.S., Mexico, or Canada.

And:

Despite obstructions, Trump successfully brokered a “Remain in Mexico” policy. The initiative has allowed the U.S. to send more than 42,000 migrants to Mexico while they await the adjudication of their asylum cases rather than being released directly into the nation’s interior. The policy has exposed the fact that the overwhelming majority of these asylum claims are fraudulent. The so-called “catch-and-release” policies of past administrations allowed a person to make a bogus asylum claim, get released into the country, and just disappear. The majority would not even show up for their asylum hearings.

Similarly, Trump signed a “Third Safe Country” agreement with Guatemala ensuring that migrants are not allowed to pass through the Central American country in order to travel to the U.S. to claim asylum. Instead, migrants must seek asylum in Guatemala. Even moving beyond the border, Trump enacted visa sanctions in his first year in office on countries like Eritrea and Cambodia after they failed for years to take back their nationals who were ordered deported from the U.S.

And:

  • To fight the opioid crisis, Trump signed into law the SUPPORT Act, the largest legislative package in history addressing a single drug crisis. He’s also beefed up funding for drug treatment, cracked down on prescription-drug abuse, and pressured China to cease its fentanyl trafficking as a requirement of any trade deal.

  • Trump got us out of the bogus Paris Climate Agreement (i.e. a sham treaty that allowed the world’s biggest polluter, China, to go on polluting while punishing us.)

  • He signed an executive order defending free speech on college campuses (i.e. the Orwellian indoctrination centers for future woke apparatchiks). Universities now risk losing federal funding if they fail to uphold the First Amendment.

  • He’s appointing constitutional conservatives to the federal judiciary at a record pace, recently reaching 150 appointments.

  • He picked two good Supreme Court justices. (And if you don’t think the Kavanaugh hearings were crazy enough, just wait till you see what happens if he gets to pick another one).

  • Despite Democrats’ refusal to work with him on nonpartisan healthcare reforms, Trump signed executive orders that have helped lower drug prices for the first time in half a century and keep health insurance premiums—which skyrocketed under Obama—relatively stable.

  • His Department of Justice has launched an antitrust probe against big tech giants who are busy censoring conservatives, violating our privacy, and interfering in our elections. In fact, Trump has brought global attention to the problem of Silicon Valley’s political bias and censorship, raising the status of the issue in America’s public discourse and in his speech before the United Nations.

Oh. I almost forgot this, from Breitbart.com.

More than 2.5 Million Households Drop Off Food Stamps Under Trump

by Katherine Rodriguez

More than 2.5 million households dropped off food stamps since President Donald Trump’s first full month in office, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data.

The most recent USDA data shows that 2,543,924 households stopped receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits— the program in charge of food stamps— between the end of Trump’s first full month in office and July 2019.

As of July 2019, the most current data available, 18,393,979 households and 36,285,397 individuals have participated in the nation’s food stamp program.

Even John Roberts is wondering:

We thusly close with this.

More truth.

And yet, despite all of this — or perhaps because of it — I say Donald Trump has a great shot at being re-elected in 2020.

BZ

 

 

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Featuring Right thinking from a left brain, doing the job the American Media Maggots won’t, embracing ubiquitous, sagacious perspicacity and broadcasting behind enemy lines in Occupied Kalifornia from the veritable Belly of the Beast, the Bill Mill in Sacramento, the capitol building at 10th and L Streets, I continue to proffer my thanks to the SHR Media Network for allowing me to utilize their studio and hijack their air twice weekly, Tuesdays and Thursday nights, thanks to my shameless contract — as well as appear on the Sack Heads: Against Tyranny Show every Wednesday night.

Kurt and his dog Bitey, relaxing at home.

Hour 1: BZ spoke to KURT SCHLICHTER for the entire first hour as we discussed his fiction books PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC, INDIAN COUNTRY and WILDFIRE.

KURT is in the final stages of writing his fourth novel in the Kelly Turnbull series, entitled COLLAPSE.

We also hammered home a lot of politics! KURT also agreed that, following the publication of COLLAPSE, he’d be back in the Saloon.

Hour 2: BZ took calls and read Kurt’s article “The Elite Hates The Trump Doctrine Because It Puts America First.”

CNN revealed its true nature in the new Project Veritas videos (BZ renamed CNN the new TIC, or Trump Impeachment Channel) — and BZ bid “adieu” to the sniffy Shepard Smith who stepped away from his $15 million dollar per year deal at Fox because he became “offended” for his reprimand involving Tucker Carlson.

BZ also deployed his Happy Stories!

Here is Texas Representative Al Green letting the Demorat Truth Cat out of the bag by admitting that “I’m afraid if we don’t impeach this president he will get re-elected.”

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