We are the drain the swamp people

Can and should the Senate proceed in response to the House vote to impeach President Trump at this point sans anything else from the House?  What are the logical, legal, political implications of a Senate impeachment trial proceeding  promptly regardless of further communication from Nancy Pelosi’s House?

We will hold forth with our opinion (or split opinion ) about it later but we would like to know your opinion as to what properly can and or should occur now that the House took a vote to impeachment President Trump on two specific counts of impeachment.

The event is rare enough and the law arguably vague enough along with the implications that there might be no expert conclusion on the legal or political propriety of proceeding on the matter without further delay .  Anyway, not hearing any conclusive legal argument about the Senate’s obligations today, pretend there isn’t and answer:

Should the Senate proceed to consider the articles of impeachment against Trump passed by the Democrats based on the conclusion of the House vote? 

or

Should the Senate wait for Speaker Pelosi to “send” some sort of official notice to the Senate presumably after she is satisfied with the proceedings in the Senate (for whatever legal or political reasons you might hold to)?

There are various conclusions and implications to be drawn from the fact of the impeachment vote in the House and whether or not the action is conveyed automatically or a separate action is required without which there is nothing for the Senate to act on, including whether or not President Trump has actually been impeached short of the formal transmission of the House action. The political implications of holding a trial as regards the impeachment vote, or not, or submitting to delay maneuvered by Pelosi, or not, might be reflected upon. There are a number of permutations.

Issues or formulations of the issues that may fit into your thought process may include:  Should Majority Leader McConnell wait until hell freezes over before trying the impeachment articles as passed rather than play Pelosi’s game?  Should the McConnell Senate proceed promptly with a responsive communication justifying proceedings decided upon with or without Democrat concurrence?  What is your opinion as to whether “impeachment” has occurred if a memo or whatever formalization Pelosi believes is necessary to be sent to the Senate has not or does not occur?

Is Pelosi delaying any further proceeding (assuming she has anything practical to delay) because she believes she can  “leverage” the Senate to provide Democrat advantages she refused Republicans . . . or perhaps even to avoid the adverse political implications of a trial as regards Democrat fortunes by sitting on it (AKA the Lawrence Tribe gambit)?  Is this about her being able to claim victory over a pound of flesh thrown to her rabid base while trying to not let Republicans have any opportunity to bite back, or limit the bite, on the presumption she will find any proceeding in the Senate unfair in an effort to discredit it if not prevent it?

Of course such a gambit would invite payback anytime the House is controlled by Republicans as regards any Democrat in office —  making impeachment a political football of the House majority.  In times of protected (politically assured) districts that might be something they have decided to live with, while getting the first blood and relying on RINOs to save them from retribution.  Or maybe they think this can be a one-time tool  period, and they will get to be the one’s to use it?  These are very cynical animals or ones with such hubris that they believe they can control the narrative.  What say you?

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Another good column by Michael Goodwin…like Chuck Schumer’s ‘warning’, it should cause America real fear and concern…this is KGB stuff!

“Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community — they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Sen. Chuck Schumer said on MSNBC.

“It was an incredible thing to say in a nation where the people are supposedly sovereign, but soon it would become clear that Schumer knew what he was talking about, which still raises questions.

“How did he know the FBI, CIA and others were going after Trump?

“Did he warn them against meddling in politics? Did he alert prosecutors?

“If so, nobody did anything because it was quickly obvious that law enforcement and intelligence officials in the Obama administration were leaking secrets designed to embarrass the new president — and kill his administration in its infancy.”

Bold our emphasis

Donald Trump’s ‘they’re after you’ tweet says it all: Goodwin 

On its face, a tweet President Trump sent last week is fairly benign. It doesn’t mock anyone, isn’t personally nasty and hasn’t caused any hair-on-fire controversy.

Yet it is powerful in its own way, for it artfully sums up the Trump era from the perspective of the president and his supporters. With a likeness to the Uncle Sam “I want you” poster, the disrupter in chief reaffirms in 14 words the belief of Trump Nation that the political establishment, the media, the permanent bureaucracy and yes, the deep state, are trying to crush him and them.

The president tweeted the image the day House Democrats voted to impeach him, and hours after his raucous rally in Michigan that evening.

The tweet included no added comment because none was needed. The message is clear: I am all that stands between you and the barbarians at the gate. If I fall, you are next.

Critics regard it as fear-mongering, and there is no denying that the president wanted to rally his base, lest it be discouraged by the day’s events.

Yet Trump’s oblique reference to a weaponized and powerful adversary is hardly unfounded, with a partisan, flimsy impeachment the latest example. The tweet’s siren call to believers is a shorthand way of saying that impeachment is just a continuation of the endless attacks against us.

Indeed, his presidency effectively begins with a prophecy of those attacks, one that came 17 days before Trump took the oath.

“Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community — they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Sen. Chuck Schumer said on MSNBC.

It was an incredible thing to say in a nation where the people are supposedly sovereign, but soon it would become clear that Schumer knew what he was talking about, which still raises questions.

How did he know the FBI, CIA and others were going after Trump?

Did he warn them against meddling in politics? Did he alert prosecutors?

If so, nobody did anything because it was quickly obvious that law enforcement and intelligence officials in the Obama administration were leaking secrets designed to embarrass the new president — and kill his administration in its infancy.

The effort never stopped, with impeachment launched when a man identified by the media as CIA officer Eric Ciaramella filed a complaint about Trump’s July 25 call with the president of Ukraine.

Most of the period between Schumer’s warning and the Ukraine complaint was dominated by the two-year slog of special counsel Robert Mueller. It, too, made lots of noise and the Democrat/media frenzy created the clear implication that Trump would be formally charged with helping Russia tip the 2016 election.

Of course, Mueller found no such evidence, but he still hurt the president. The probe was a black cloud hanging over the White House during the 2018 midterm campaign, and thus likely played a role in Dems winning the House majority — the majority they would use to impeach the president.

Thus, Mueller’s team struck out legally, but helped Dems score big politically. So much for its integrity.

More recently, added confirmation that Schumer was right has come in spades. Thanks to reports from the Justice Department’s inspector general, we know there was rampant misconduct and political bias at Jim Comey’s FBI.

We learned through texts that top agent Peter Strzok, who said he could “smell” Trump voters in a Walmart, had exchanges with his office paramour about stopping Trump, including references to an “insurance policy” in case Trump won. J. Edgar Hoover would blush at the audacity.

A second probe scorched the FBI’s handling of the FISA applications to spy on Trump campaign associate Carter Page. Although the probe found no direct evidence that anti-Trump bias was a factor, it did reveal that all the omissions, failures and mistakes worked against Trump, with even exculpatory evidence against Page intentionally withheld.

Thankfully and finally, the fallout from those findings is picking up speed, with the top FISA judge questioning the FBI’s “candor” and saying the flawed submissions “calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable.”

Even bigger fish could be on the grill in a separate probe. Other top officials in the Obama administration, CIA head John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, are reportedly under scrutiny by US Attorney John Durham, who is conducting a criminal investigation of the spying effort against Trump.

The New York Times reported that Durham is gathering Brennan’s emails and documents in a focus on his congressional testimony about the use of the Hillary Clinton-financed Steele dossier in the government finding that Russia tried to help Trump in 2016.

To understand the import of the investigation, it pays to recall that Brennan, Clapper, Comey and his former top deputy, Andrew McCabe, have for years appeared on hate-Trump TV to accuse him of treason and other crimes, as has Clinton.

None of those charges was true, but the endless attacks on Trump from former insiders are unprecedented, and reflect badly on the institutions they led and the government as a whole. All these false charges were amplified by a media that ignored basic fairness.

Attorney General Bill Barr offers the best overview of this unholy alliance, saying, “Our nation was turned on its head for three years based on a completely bogus narrative that was largely fanned and hyped by a completely irresponsible press.”

Barr also says the question of whether anti-Trump bias led to FBI misconduct is still open. He also says Durham’s probe will not be limited to that agency or even to the United States.

So Schumer’s warning hit the bull’s-eye — but uncharacteristically, he’s been shy about taking credit.

Is he afraid of the intelligence agencies, or is he OK with the officials playing politics because Trump was the target? If the latter, he joins a crowd who fancy themselves liberals of integrity, but who are comfortable with abuses of power and double standards against Trump.

Even impeachment was not the grand, noble process the Founders envisioned, despite Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s efforts to dress up a dirty trick. Under her, impeachment proved that the House, like the FBI, CIA and the media, has corrupted itself in a bid to destroy Trump and delegitimize his presidency.

In his bristling letter to Pelosi, Trump cited numerous examples where Dems talked of impeachment long before Ukraine, including a Washington Post story on Inauguration Day that said, “The Campaign to Impeach President Trump Has Begun.”

Trump also highlighted the quote that, for my money, is the matching bookend to Schumer’s “six ways from Sunday” prophecy. This one came from Rep. Al Green from Texas, who said last May he was “concerned if we don’t impeach this president, he will get reelected.”

Can’t have that. Whatever it takes, can’t have that.

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• Everything is open to interpretation
• Ninety-eight score and seven years ago, our fathers didn’t know what they were talking about
• Latest Papal Bull

From 1970 through 1974, one of the most popular shows on television was “The Flip Wilson Comedy Show”.

One of Flip’s most popular bits was “The Church of What’s Happening Now”. Wilson created the role of Reverend Leroy, who was the minister of the ‘Church of What’s Happening Now!’ It featured a ministry somewhat like what Pope Francis seems to advocate in his latest pronouncement to ‘conservative and traditionalist’ Catholics. At Flip Wilson’s ‘church comedy’ creation, new parishioners were wary of coming to the church as it was hinted that Reverend Leroy was a con artist. Wilson popularized the catchphrase “The Devil made me do it!”.

(We offer no further comment as to any similarity to current religious events in the world today.)

Pope Francis is Warning That The Catholic Church Must “Embrace Change”

“Have to beware…” of being “too rigid”, Francis cautions; If Church “ends up disseminating stakes…in the ground of the common good”…it could end up “turning into a minefield of misunderstanding and hatred”.

Apparently clinging rigidly to its notions of things like ‘right to life for the unborn” could threaten the Church’s popularity with Planned Parenthood, NARAL, Hollywood, etc……………or,

“You Wanna ‘Get Along’, You Gotta “Go Along”?

Pope Francis has been one of the Associated Press’s favorite religious figures since the ‘humble pontiff’ burst on the scene, almost 7 years ago (Mar, 2013).

He has been the liberal media’s favorite pope, undoubtedly, for his Marxist approach to Catholicism and for the contemptual impulses he exhibits toward some of its historic tenets. We’re guessing the AP’s affection for His Holiness grew out of his early Papal pronouncements to the effect that, and we paraphrase, ‘there was too much ‘obsession’ going on regarding abortion and gay marriage among those ‘rigid’, conservative Catholics’.

He also garnered much admiration among the mainstream media, including the AP, for his expressed dislike for President Trump, his disapproval of America’s capitalist ways, and Francis’s belief that our country is to blame for Latin America’s dysfunction and most of the ‘woes of the modern world’.

“Borders” are apparently one of Il Papa’s pet peeves, especially. He has frequently excoriated those who support the concept of private property and oppose “open borders’ and the ‘redistribution of wealth’.

So it is not surprising that the former Argentine cardinal has come out against the Church’s “rigidity” in clinging to its doctrines which clash with the Marxist beliefs as outlined in the leftist “liberation theology’ which flourished in Latin America during Bergoglio’s ministry there. (One of the tenets of “Liberation theology’ relates to its disdain for the concept of personal property).
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The ‘story’ as reported by Nichole Winfield of the Associated Press:

Pope denounces ‘rigidity’ as he warns of Christian decline

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis warned Saturday that “rigidity” in living out the Christian faith is creating a “minefield” of hatred and misunderstanding in a world where Christianity is increasing irrelevant.

Francis called for Vatican bureaucrats to instead embrace change during his annual Christmas greetings to the cardinals, bishops and priests who work in the Holy See.
Francis’ message appeared aimed at conservative and traditionalist Catholics, including within the Vatican Curia, who have voiced increasing opposition to his progressive-minded papacy. Their criticisms have accelerated over the past year, amid Vatican financial and sex abuse scandals that may have predated Francis’ papacy but are nevertheless coming to light now.

Francis issued a stark reality check to the men in the Sala Clementina of the Apostolic Palace, acknowledging that Christianity no longer holds the commanding presence and influence in society that it once did.

He cited the late Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, a leader of the progressive wing of the Catholic Church, who in his final interview before dying in 2012 lamented that the church found itself “200 years behind” because of its inbred fear of change.

“Today we are no longer the only ones that produce culture, no longer the first nor the most listened to,” Francis told the prelates. “The faith in Europe and in much of the West is no longer an obvious presumption but is often denied, derided, marginalized and ridiculed.”

As a result, he urged the Catholic hierarchy to embrace the necessary pastoral reforms and outlook that will make the church attractive so that it can fulfill its mission to spread the faith.

“Here we have to beware of the temptation of assuming a rigid outlook,” Francis said. “Rigidity that is born from fear of change and ends up disseminating stakes and obstacles in the ground of the common good, turning it into a minefield of misunderstanding and hatred.”

He recalled, as he has in the past, that people who take rigid positions are usually using them to mask their own problems, scandals or “imbalances.”
“Rigidity and imbalance fuel one another in a vicious circle,” he said. “And these days, the temptation to rigidity has become so apparent.”

Traditionalist Catholics have denounced Francis’ emphasis on mercy and openness to doctrinal wiggle room on issues such as sacraments for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics. They also sharply criticized his recent synod on the Amazon, which called for the ordination of married men as priests, and what they considered pagan worship of an Amazonian statue of a pregnant woman that was featured during the meeting.

Francis has defended his outlook and priorities as a reflection of the Gospel, and the axium that the true tradition of the church is one of a continuous, discerned path of change.
“Tradition is not static, it’s dynamic,” he said Saturday.

In a tangible sign of change, Francis issued a new decree Saturday limiting the term of the dean of the College of Cardinals, an influential job that had previously been held for life. Francis accepted the resignation of the current dean, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, and decreed that going forward, the future top cardinal would only have a five-year renewable term.

Sodano had been the powerful secretary of state under St. John Paul II, and was blamed in part for the Vatican’s refusal to crack down on pedophile priests, including the notorious Rev. Marcial Maciel. Sodano, 92, continued to wield behind-the-scenes influence in the two papacies that followed, acting most recently as something of a beacon for conservative opposition to Francis.

As dean, he delivered his final Christmas greeting to Francis on Saturday.

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• Deserves pity not respect

‘Classy’ Robert DeNiro exhibits the character which Barack Obama apparently saw in him to award the Medal of Freedom

President Obama presents the 2016 Medal of Freedom to star-studded honorees (main criterion)

DeNiro: “Pigs have dignity. He (President Trump) has no dignity. He is a disgrace to the human race. I’d like to see a bag of shit right in his face. Hit him right in the face like that, and let the picture go all over the world.”

This is evidently what passes for “dignity, respect, wisdom, and character” in Barack Obama’s world. Some in Hollywood accuse Donald Trump of acting “unpresidential”.
How do they describe this clown, on whom many ‘awards’ have been given by his ‘friends’ in the “entertainment” industry and by “progressive” politicians?

It’s fair to assume that there are far saner people than DeNiro who, at this moment, are undergoing psychological and emotional therapy to alleviate serious disorders!

Whatever respect DeNiro may have earned in the past for his acting talent, is now in great jeopardy; he has become a silly caricature…deserving of pity, not respect!

If he had true friends who were themselves, stable, they’d discourage him from appearing in public and begging the senile actor to seek help, immediately!     dlh

Given his filmography and off-the-set demeanor it seems DeNiro has been type cast for believability as a nut case or person of limited intellectual capacity.

Taxi Driver

Bang the Drum Slowly

Cape Fear 

Analyze That

The Bag Man 

Hide and Seek

Red Lights 

He is also attracted to a whole bunch of films with the goofiest of plots.

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• And “Ginsberg Is Not a President”, Mr. Trump Could Have Responded
• And “the Justice is not a Senator or a constitutionalist” we would add

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave a brief answer earlier this week to a President Trump tweet earlier this month suggesting he could appeal to the Supreme Court to stop impeachment proceedings.

“The president is not a lawyer,” Ginsburg said Monday.

— On Dec. 2, Trump tweeted, “I read the Republicans Report on the Impeachment Hoax. Great job! Radical Left has NO CASE. Read the Transcripts. Shouldn’t even be allowed. Can we go to Supreme Court to stop?”

“He’s not law-trained,” Ginsburg continued at a New York City event where she was being honored, according to the BBC.

“The truth is, the judiciary is a reactive institution,” she said. “We don’t have a program, we don’t have an agenda. We react to what’s out there.”

And thus was the solemn pronouncement from on high by the Supreme Court’s oldest (86), and most liberal Justice

But, then, “Ruthie” turned around and ‘advised’ the Senate on their prerogatives:

“Ginsburg also suggested that senators who show bias on impeachment should not be allowed to serve as jurors in the impeachment trial.

“If a judge said that, a judge would be disqualified from sitting on the case,” she added.”

“THE JUSTICE IS NOT A SENATOR”, WOULD CERTAINLY SEEM TO BE AN APPROPRIATE RESPONSE IN OUR OPINION

Numerous members of the Senate of both parties have already stated their opinion on Trump’s impeachment even though the trial isn’t expected to be held until January, if the House follows through with impeachment this week.
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IN THIS WORLD, IT SEEMS TO BE ACCEPTED FORM AND PROPRIETY TO NOT ONLY ‘RESPECT’ THE JUDUCIARY (AND WITH THAT, THE ‘LEGAL PROFESSION’ TO AN EXTENT), BUT TO BOW DOWN IN ABJECT ACQUIESCENCE TO ITS ALWAYS WISE PRONOUNCEMENTS AND DICTATES ??.

In the vignette setforth above Justice Ginsberg seems to seek to reinforce that concept: “The President is NOT a LAWYER…you may now feel free to gaze upon my countenance”, she seems to say.

How many times, before someone wishes to make an observation on a legal action taken by some judge or attorney, have you heard them say, almost apologetically, “I’m not a lawyer, but…”, as though saying, “I know I have no right…and certainly not the wisdom…to suggest that the judge erred, or the lawyer was off base in his remarks…”
Donald Trump is often described as ‘unpresidential’, in part because he doesn’t show such undeserved deference to lawyers and judges. That’s one of the many things I like about him! And that has nothing to do with being “presidential”…that’s just being “human’ and having good old common sense.

And thus, let me say, “I’m not a lawyer”, and I don’t know if Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel is or not; however, in my ‘oh so humble’ opinion, Ms. Strassel is right on target in her column this Friday:           dlh

FISA COURT OWES SOME ANSWERS   (excerpt, pay wall)

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court this week blasted the Federal Bureau of Investigation for “misconduct” in the Carter Page surveillance warrant. Some would call this accountability. Others will more rightly call it the FISC’s “shocked to find gambling” moment.

Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer issued her four-page rebuke of the FBI Tuesday, after a Justice Department inspector general report publicly exposing the FBI’s abuses. The judge blasted the FBI for misleading the court by providing “unsupported or contradicted” information and by withholding exculpatory details about Mr. Page. The FISC noted the seriousness of the conduct and gave the FBI until Jan. 10 to explain how it will do better.

The order depicts a court stunned to discover that the FBI failed in its “duty of candor,” and angry it was duped. That’s disingenuous. To buy it, you’d have to believe that not one of the court’s 11 members—all federal judges—caught a whiff of this controversy until now. More importantly, you’d have to ignore that the court was directly informed of the FBI’s abuses nearly two years ago. . . . .

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BLUE ALERT Our firewall was down and some malcontent slipped this into our website !!

Actually this is from 2018. We only this week viewed this gem from Allie Stuckey.  It has received several million hits but how many accumulated after 2018?  Our point is we suspect people were tuned out and the result was Nancy Pelosi running the House in 2019. Seems longer but then Paul Ryan did not leave much of an inspiration deficit. The content  is still timely (socialism, command and control is in their bones).  Send it to all your friends and encourage them to post it on social media. Begin the inoculation regime now.

Comments on the Youtube site.

Allie sarcastically depicts a new campaign ad for the Democratic Party.

Sadly this isn’t even an exaggeration it’s literally their platform.

Are you sure this is a parody?

Awesome, for the first time in history a honest Democrat commercial.

I will chip in $20 to get this ad aired. Many others would as well. Get it done!

I’ve never yet seen the Democrat platform so accurately depicted. I think this about sums it up.

CNN approves this message.

Show this to a Democrat, and he might think it’s a great ad.
He’ll keep nodding his head in agreement with Allie.

Watch this get removed for hate speech. Downloading now.

Love your sarcasm. However, half of America don’t know the difference and will still vote Democrat.

Half of me is laughing out loud at this and the other half is crying at the truth . . .

In all seriousness – This is the best depiction of the crazy left. Ms. Stuckey did a phenomenal job in this skit.

Many times better humor and REALITY than anything SNL ever produced.

Oh man, as a UK nationalist I must say, the satire is excellent lol.
wonder how long it will be allowed to stand before youtube says it violates some of their imaginary “community values” and removes it.

HOW did you do this with a straight face?? You are female Bud Abbott. well done.

. . . The only thing missing is someone screaming in my face.

This is maddening because of how true that is

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Ahh-men, Ahh-men, Ahhahh-Men; The Dems get religion

From Joseph of Massachusetts;  of the sainted Kennedy clan;  Chapter 1 Verse 1

“For I am already being poured out, as a libation and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”

Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) took to the House floor on Wednesday to explain to his three-year-old and one-year-old kids why he’s voting to impeach President Donald Trump.

The congressman said he doesn’t “feel good” about impeaching the president, but he feels he has to because he “broke our laws … threatened our security,” and “abused the highest, most sacred office in our land.”    (Moreon subject below)

Then there’s ‘The Three Stupids Stooges”

From left to right: Larry, Moe, and Curly
Poor Nadler: “Woe is me…”
‘Tiny’ Nancy: “God Bless Us…One and All…”
“Curly”: “Nancy, Nancy…they’re coming for us…”

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Heard on way to impeachment

Some other observations and quotes from the Democrats’ Vaudeville show Wednesday (aka, “Whadda we want? “impeachment”! When do we want it? Now!”

“PRESIDENT” SWALWELL WASN’T THE ONLY DEMOCRAT ‘PASSING GAS’ IN CONGRESS WEDNESDAY !

Nancy, the Black Clad “Devout Catholic’s” Dentures Were Giving Her Trouble Again…

The Leader of The House Democrats, Maxine Waters, Was Wednesday’s ‘Winner’…a Triumph For AI (“Artificial Ignorance”) !
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The FISA Court announces:

“…the FBI’s actions (were) ‘antithetical to the heightened duty of candor (it) owed to the Court…”

The FISA court Attempts to Clarify:

“The FBI partook of dissimulation in its quest for anti-authenticitous asseveration”
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An almost inconsolable Christopher Wray asks plaintively: “Where do I go to restore my ‘candor’?

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We watched NBC and they must have used the word “historic” a hundred times. We think their inflection and spelling was off.

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While supplies last

Reader “Gus” calls us to task for not relating Quid-Pro Joe’s full street cred’s in our recent post Losing Beto and prospect of losing Biden too much in one day.  We apologize for the omission.  In recompense we would like to call the attention of readers in need of last minute Christmas gift ideas to the Joe Biden commemorative Chia Leg shown.  Use chlorinated tap water to grow to get the full effects of the plant turning blond. However no warranty is expressed or implied that kids will actually like to rub it.

Gus writes:

“Damn straight I did and anybody who says not is full of malarkey and I will meet them under the bleachers”

Wait a minute! This just in. We’ve heard about how Uncle Joe stared down the fierce ‘Corn Pop’. But what isn’t so widely known is that probably the world’s greatest lightweight intellectual/ fighter of all time, that’s right, ‘Jersey Joe’ Biden, took on Corn Pop’s entire gang in one epic brawl. Joe put down Mr. Pop’s brutal gang, including the legendary mugger, ‘Jack Cracker’, the ruthless “Flakes” Bran, their gangbanger associates, “Frenchy” Fries, “Frank” Furter, and the ‘busty’ female contract killer, “Pears” Bartlett. Took’em all out with one ‘pushup’! Biden also stole Corn Pop’s ‘main squeeze’, the vivacious Frances Pope. This guy is presidential material!

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• As it stands now there is no downside for FBI malcontents – other than a “rebuke” — worth it for the cause

FISA COURT REBUKES FBI ON WIRETAP

Says Agency mishandled applications for surveillance of one-time Trump aide, Carter Page
Judge Rosemary Collyer, the presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, called the FBI’s actions“antithetical to the heightened duty of candor” owed to the court by government agents.

We’ll bet ‘Big Jim’ Comey was really hurt emotionally by being ‘rebuked!’…….Ohh Nooo…not ‘rebuked’…

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“Applications were ‘mishandled’ “???
“…the FBI’s actions (were) ‘antithetical to the heightened duty of candor (it) owed to the Court…”

Let us translate Judge Collyer’s words as us ordinary rubes would understand them…you know, in kinda the ‘vernacular of the street’:

” THE FBI IS A BUNCH OF DAMNED LIARS !”

“ANTITHETICAL? TO “THE HEIGHTENED DUTY OF CANDOR” !!??!!… my ass!

Why in the hell would someone say something like that unless they intended to make the ‘average American’ think ‘this was no big deal…just a case of ‘antitheticality’ in service to a ‘heightened duty’ to…you know…be a little more candid…’

(Yes, yes, we know…it was only a few ‘bad actors’ at the Bureau…not the ‘36,000’ dedicated…)                       dlh

Article at Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON—A secret surveillance court issued a rare public order on Tuesday rebuking the Federal Bureau of Investigation for its handling of applications to wiretap Carter Page, a one-time Trump campaign foreign-policy adviser whose monitoring by the government has become the subject of significant public controversy.

Judge Rosemary Collyer, the presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, called the FBI’s actions“antithetical to the heightened duty of candor” owed to the court by government agents.

“The frequency with which representations made by FBI personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable,” Judge Collyer wrote, referring to the behavior of FBI personnel criticized in a recent Justice Department watchdog report. Wall Street Journal, December 17, 2019
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“Applications were ‘mishandled’ “???
“…the FBI’s actions (were) ‘antithetical to the heightened duty of candor (it) owed to the Court…”

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