We are the drain the swamp people

• How would it be if we “Do unto Dems what they do unto us”
• The left’s boilerplate denials, sophistries and universal disclaimers

Chris Wallace this morning on FOX news Sunday interviewed James Clyburn…talk about throwing gasoline on a fire: Wallace’s questions were of course all intended to ‘lead’ Clyburn (who didn’t need much). The two of them were engaged in incitement and inflaming racist violence on the part of Blacks. I won’t detail the interview (transcript here), but Wallace should be fired for “inciting violence” and promoting racial division, “without evidence”! Clyburn should be urged, then forced to resign from Congress for essentially the same reasons.

Nancy Pelosi must be impeached…for incitement, rousing the left to violence against Trump supporters, and urging the overthrow of legitimate government (the President of the US), also on “baseless” charges!

Forbes Magazine must be immediately shut down for urging corporations not to hire former members of the Trump administration and to publicly shame and condemn any that do! Discrimination in the extreme, and, done “without evidence”.

All are ridiculous proposals? Yes, perhaps. But they are even less outrageous than current actions and attempts by the Democrats, the Left, the media, and racist Blacks.

I emphasize “without evidence and baseless”…a favorite meme of the media and far left toward anything offered as defense of Trump, when, in fact the evidence of Voter Fraud and election criminality is overwhelming.              dlh

Now we recall just one year ago the same Hagenbeck & Wallace Circus* Clyburn & Wallace Show and this remarkable be-clowning moment of political dialogue techniques emanating from the Democrat’s Majority Whip, unchallenged, un-scoffed at by Wallace.  Via Real Clear Politics — January 20, 2019:

Clyburn: If You Preface Statement With “If This Is True” That Gives You All The Cover You Need

House Majority Whip James Clyburn defends Democrats who jumped on Thursday’s Buzzfeed story that was debunked by special counsel Robert Mueller’s office by noting that they all qualified their statements with, “if this is true.”

“When you preface your statement with ‘if this is true,’ that, to me, gives you all the cover you need,” Clyburn said on FOX News Sunday. “If they had said something as if it were true, then that would be one thing to be concerned about, but they’ve all said, ‘if this is true.'”

Note to attached photos: we put the clown accoutrements on Wallace because doing so to Clyburn would of course be racist (another catch-all “argument” of the left)

*”Anonymous sources” ( an example of a prevarication with impunity the media often uses) tell us that the Hagenbec-Wallace Circus was famous for clowns and contortionists (thus you will understand our confusion en re Clyburn & Wallace.

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• Turley is right even tho somewhat left

This is an excellent piece by Jonathon Turley, a thoughtful and responsible liberal. He echoes many of our thoughts, including a very important one:

“…the president’s speech doesn’t “meet the definition of incitement under the U.S. criminal code.”

However, there is another observation we have that isn’t dealt with:

“Although the law professor took issue with Trump’s speech before supporters, as well as Republicans objections to certifying the electoral votes in Joe Biden’s favor,”

Unlike the professor, we do NOT ‘take issue’ with President Trump’s objections related to certifying Biden’s election. There is, in our view, overwhelming evidence of ‘irregularities’ and ‘tampering’, and outright criminal activity which amounted to the theft of the presidential election.

Please tell us of a case where there has been a mountain of photographic and analytic evidence, supported by sworn affidavits by hundreds of people with firsthand knowledge that has not been thoroughly INVESTIGATED by proper authorities! To suggest that allegations of fraud and ‘rigging’ are “baseless” and “without evidence” is absurd, dishonest, and in itself, criminal.

“But numerous courts and judges have rejected such “allegations”, we hear. But in Georgia a “U.S. District Judge” rejected ‘arguments’ to remove from voting rolls ineligible persons. Yes, and the “judge” was the sister of Stacy Abrams who’s never seen an election she lost that wasn’t “rigged”. (There was “no basis” for recusal?)

We contend that President Trump is right in strenuously objecting to the fraud and rigging that went on in the election. Eventually, the American people will see the consequences of this blatant criminality…but, too late!

The demands of Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats to remove Mr. Trump from Office days before his term ends should indeed appropriately enrage every American who still values the rapidly disappearing freedom this country once prized.          dlh

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LIBERAL LAW PROFESSOR, JONATHON TURLEY ISSUES A WARNING TO DEMOCRATS ABOUT IMPEACHMENT

Liberal law professor Jonathan Turley on Saturday issued a warning about Democrats’ long-term damage to the Constitution should they continue to press forward with their plans to impeach President Donald Trump (yet again) as his administration comes to a close.

“In seeking his removal for ‘incitement,’ Democrats would gut not only the impeachment standard but free speech, all in a mad rush to remove Trump just days before the end of his term,” Turley wrote in an opinion piece for The Hill.

Although the law professor took issue with Trump’s speech before supporters, as well as Republicans objections to certifying the electoral votes in Joe Biden’s favor, Turley said the president’s speech doesn’t “meet the definition of incitement under the U.S. criminal code.” In fact, Trump’s speech is deemed “protected speech” under the First Amendment, the professor noted.

Turley also pinpointed one thing Democrats fail to recognize: the President Trump never called for violence. He simply urged his supporters to march towards the Capitol, something that’s common place in Washington, D.C.

“Despite widespread, justified condemnation of his words, Trump never actually called for violence or a riot. Rather, he urged his supporters to march on the Capitol to express opposition to the certification of electoral votes and to support the challenges being made by some members of Congress. He expressly told his followers ‘to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.'”

The concern Turley has with Democrats’ impeachment push: the precedent it could set for future generations.

There was no call for lawless action by Trump. Instead, there was a call for a protest at the Capitol. Moreover, violence was not imminent; the vast majority of the tens of thousands of protesters present were not violent before the march, and most did not riot inside the Capitol. Like many violent protests we have witnessed over the last four years, including Trump’s 2017 inauguration, the criminal conduct was carried out by a smaller group of instigators. Capitol police knew of the planned march but declined an offer of National Guard personnel because they did not view violence as likely.

Thus, Congress is about to seek the impeachment of a president for a speech that is protected under the First Amendment. It would create precedent for the impeachment of any president who can be blamed for the violent acts of others after the use of reckless or inflammatory language.
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… Democrats are now arguing something even more extreme as the basis for impeachment. Under their theory, any president could be removed for rhetoric deemed to have the “natural tendency” to encourage others to act in a riotous fashion. Even a call for supporters to protest peacefully would not be a defense. This standard would allow for a type of vicarious impeachment — attributing conduct of third parties to a president for the purposes of removal.

The professor noted that various Democrats, including Reps. Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) and then-Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) have all made remarks in the past that contradict their current position. In fact, things they said in the past, like Pressley saying “there needs to be unrest in the streets,” could be construed as meaning violence should take place.

“They can all legitimately argue that their rhetoric was not meant to be a call for violence, but this is a standard fraught with subjectivity,” Turley explained.
He ends his piece by warning about the long-term structural damage this second impeachment push could have on our nation.

The damage caused by this week’s rioting was enormous, but it will pale in comparison to the damage from a new precedent of a “snap impeachment” for speech protected under the First Amendment. It is the very danger that the Framers sought to avoid in crafting the impeachment standard. In a process meant to require deliberative, not impulsive, judgments, the very reference to a “snap impeachment” is a contradiction in constitutional terms. In this new system, guilt is not to be doubted and innocence is not to be deliberated. It would do to the Constitution what the rioters did to the Capitol: Leave it in tatters.

The ball’s in your court, Democrats. How will you proceed

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I no longer live in Scott County so I am reluctant to comment on the strengths or shortcomings of various personalities of prominence in the community.

I will make an exception in this case.

I don’t know Mr. Millage, but the previous post indicates he is a lawyer.

Depending how one might feel about the legal profession, Mr. Millage appears to be either a typical specimen of a ‘trade’ which ranks near the bottom in terms of public esteem, or he is a disgrace to a profession of high calling.

Whichever, I don’t see his position as Chairman of Scott County’s Republican Party as anything more than an affirmation of the proposition that when people of average to above average judgement, commitment, and intelligence are not available to lead a volunteer organization, this is what you get.

It is true that some good people, respected conservatives, active in their party and sincere in their political beliefs, and some journalists, firm in their convictions, sincerely attempting to be objective in their analyses, are troubled by their interpretation of events in Washington and President Trump’s ‘role’ in it

They may honestly, if erroneously, believe President Trump’s concerns about the legality of the recent election and his words to those who share his concerns somehow ‘incited’ those criminal elements of the massive crowd which gathered to support Mr.Trump.

There are others, however, who have resented the politically inexperienced Donald Trump’s entry into politics, his successful bid for the highest office in the land, and even the many positive accomplishments he has achieved during his presidency. They have sought to remove Mr. Trump from office since the day of his inauguration, and they’ve employed every legal, and illegal, ploy and dirty tactic available to them.

Even some ‘nominally’ of his own Party have attempted to undermine him, and seemed to even resent Trump’s sincere efforts to restore America’s greatness and promote the interests and benefit of all Americans.

They are the people who have perceived the events of this week at the nation’s Capitol as an opportunity to one last time attempt to discredit President Trump and his many accomplishments on America’s behalf during a single term.

They are the people who are calling for President Trump’s removal from Office on the most baseless of charges.

One’s motives are virtually impossible to determine but it is possible to make some valid assumptions based on their actions. In President Trump’s case, with less than 2 weeks remaining in his presidency, impeachment is not only wildly inappropriate, completely baseless (that word the media likes to use, in gross malice and error, regarding evidence of fraud in the recent election) , and treacherous in the extreme.

And that brings me to Mr. Millage. Whatever his sincerity, his motives, his level of understanding of events, not yet even known…and the treachery of his actions warrant his immediate removal as a spokesperson for his Party. As to the latter, Mr. Millage has not been prominent in the media for any comments he has made in the past on behalf of his party’s values, or its officeholders or candidates.          dlh

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• Prompt emergency action by Executive Committee and or Central Committee called for
• Chastisement by other county organizations and state central committee called for

Scott County GOP Chair calls for impeachment of Trump; Rock Island County Chair disagrees

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Joy Reid Says BLM Protesters Would Be ‘Shackled, Arrested or Dead’ in Viral Speech on Race

Joy Reid speech has gone viral after the MSNBC anchor eviscerated law enforcement’s double standards in policing rioters at the Capitol yesterday versus the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020.

“I guarantee you if that was a Black Lives Matter protest in D.C., there would already be people shackled, arrested or dead,” said Reid. “Shackled, arrested en masse or dead.”

The political commentator was speaking on Wednesday’s installment of The Reid Out where she made the point that “white Americans aren’t afraid of the cops.”
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Don’t watch Joy Reid but this story seems typical of anything I’ve ever read or heard about her.

Based on what I have read and heard, however, one can only conclude that Joy Reid is a nasty racist, certainly not very bright or even informed. She is both adept and very willing to incite violence by other people as long as she is unharmed by it.

According to this report, Ms. Reid exhibits all of those traits and inclinations. She clearly intends to incite racial violence. From her quoted comments, she is of obviously sub-par intelligence, and she makes it clear that she is either abjectly uninformed or wildly mis-informed.

She could be reminded that with the Black Lives Matter rioting no participants were fatally injured by law enforcement and were never confronted with lethal force.

At the nation’s Capitol Wednesday, Capitol police and Secret Service personnel threatened protestors with guns and one female protestor was fatally shot.

Had that happened to a BLM rioter, Joy Reid would have gone nuts (or maybe nut-tier) and media and race baiters would have labeled it the worst atrocity since Kent State.

No one, as far as we know, has uttered a word or expressed a question about this tragic incident.    Other delightful memes referencing Ms Reid below  dlh

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For one thing some GOP retirements need to be encouraged, with prejudice.  Only meat-eaters at the helm.  If we can’t take the House and or the Senate back in the midterm election then there is probably no coming back from the damage.  We remember the wilderness of 2009 2010 when Democrats controlled the House substantially 257 to 178 and the Senate 57 (59 with Lieberman and Sanders) to 41.  A bit short of filibuster proof but that rule had been loosing its efficacy.  It will be at least as bad there with the Democrats intent on ending the filibuster and moving quickly on everything. The House margin will be difficult to herd for Pelosi the next two years.

This Schlichter article at TownHall is consistent with our thoughts

Welcome to a Wilderness of Lies 

Third party will extend the wilderness, better to seize control of the mechanism that are to a great extent there for the taking.  Let the RINOs go 3rd party and they will be just as likely to hurt Democrats in the process. That said the window is short.  More rational to follow.

By the way, pay no attention to TownHalll resident twits Ann Coulter and Mark Davis.

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I just caught a quick segment of Martha McCallum on Fox.

Sometimes it takes the form of “The Law of Convenient Doctrine”

Marc Theissen was saying how there was the claim that the election in November was stolen. He deplored the “fact’ that the press has no credibility and thus was not believed that there was “no evidence” that the election was stolen!

And this, to me seems that the Marc Theissen may be a big part of the problem.

“No evidence”!!!???

If a law enforcement authority produced a dozen “eye witnesses” who claimed they saw ‘Jonathon Doe’ shoot ‘William Moe’, would a prosecutor or a court dismiss the claims of all 12 without investigating to determine the accuracy of their sworn statements? Would they dismiss with remarks like, “but there’s no evidence”…it’s a “baseless charge”… just because Mr. Moe is in a hospital with a gunshot wound and there are photos of Mr. Doe practice- shooting the identical type of weapon used on Moe?

Would we hear, “well that is merely circumstantial, doesn’t actually prove anything. . . not real evidence” In the meantime after perhaps a perfunctory investigation but lots of  stonewalling Doe destroys all he can with impunity  and any subsequent investigation of course comes up “no evidence”.

Would the 12 be dismissed because they have no standing  — because they were not the one shot?   Would the 12 be told to pound sand because “lack of subject matter jurisdiction” the discretion shown by Doe’s friendlies on the court who have no such reticence when they want to do a number on others.

Welcome to the US Supreme Court and adjudication in America!

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“Decency” Tell it to your BLM, Antifa and Hollywood messengers

Simple decency indeed

Where were such comments when Minneapolis and Portland and Kenosha, and… were burning, and when people leaving the White House lawn after a speech by the president were assaulted:

Biden on Wednesday evening called for the restoration of ‘simple decency’ after the mob delayed Congress from certifying the results of November’s election.
‘At this hour, our democracy is under unprecedented assault unlike anything we’ve seen in modern times,’ Biden said. He called it ‘an assault on the rule of law like few times we have ever seen it.’
‘I call on this mob to pull back and allow democracy to go forward. ‘
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And, there was This !:

Chaotic scenes broke out as dozens of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday afternoon

A female Trump supporter was shot in the chest and later died !!!
There was no Antifa or BLM “supporter” fatally shot in all of their ‘uprisings’ that I heard of. Where was the pepper spray?, the stun gun?, the ‘rubber bullets’? the ‘chemical agents (like tear gas)?

It appears that only lethal weapons were available to the law enforcement people at the Capitol.       dlh

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• OOHHH! “Insurrection” says Joe Biden.
• Good citizens at wits end
• Well, What Did You Expect, America?

For months the Left, has had free rein throughout this nation, with the approval of the media, the silence of top officials of the Democratic Party, and of that party’s presidential nominee. While arson and looting and attacks on women and men, members of Congress was happening in Seattle, Portland, Kenosha, Minneapolis, Washington DC, the Democrats had nothing to say, no condemnation.

Then, America watched the clear theft of an election and courts did nothing, the media apparently thought it was great news.

Pleas to at least investigate widespread, strong, credible allegations of major fraud and wrongdoing in the election process went unheeded.

Always the media prefaced any story about the election that may have alluded to some irregularities with, “Trump charges, WITHOUT EVIDENCE, BASELESS ALLEGATIONS blah, blah…”

Hundreds of sworn affidavits attesting firsthand observation of illegal, fraudulent activity related to the election were disregarded; Photographic evidence supporting those allegations was ignored…all were dismissed as “baseless’, as “no evidence”; statistical and forensic analyses were disregarded as well.

So. Is America Surprised that, finally after months of leftist violence, illegality, and dangerous behavior, Democratic Party and media sponsored, encouraged, and supported, that the good people of this country have had enough!??

Yes. This is a terrible point we have come to. But don’t lay the blame on those America-loving, courageous, hardworking people demonstrating at the US Capitol in Washington today! Some among them may have gone too far but frustration, even rage, is an inevitable product when legitimate pleas for justice go unheeded, even ridiculed, by the most respected authorities of the land, as they fail to carry out their own duties.

Lay it at the feet of those who have brought it about.

Gutless politicians on both sides of the aisle. uninformed, poorly educated, easily manipulated America-hating millennials, ‘elitists’, Democrat Party leaders, and wildly rich “progressives”…the American Left.       dlh

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With both Warnock and Ossuff apparently winning the Georgia senate seats special election, the U S Senate is now firmly in Democrat hands.

Poor “Mittens” Romney can no longer bargain with Chuck Schumer for a cushy committee chairmanship, or some other ‘reward’, in return for his “Jumpin’ Jim Jeffords-style” ‘switch’ from Republican to Democrat.

Had the senate election in Georgia split with one Republican winning and one Democrat, it would have left Mitch McConnell in charge as Majority Leader, 51-49 GOP.

Instead, the unseating of both Republican senators, Perdue and Loeffler, the senate now is 50-50 with Vice President -elect Kamala Harris to cast the vote breaking the deadlock and making Schumer the Majority Leader.

Thus “Mittens” Romney (aka Pierre Delecto) no longer holds a top hand. Because the Democrat majority is effectivley established without him. Mr. Delicto can’t bargain with Schumer for something in return for his de facto disloyalty to the party that supported his election. We firmly believe this is what Romney would have done. He has, we suggest, worn his disloyalty to the Republican president and his party as a badge of honor since coming to the Senate.

So…it appears that a bitter, dishonest “Mittens” didn’t have to so publicly ‘tip his treacherous hand’,and, will remain in the Senate with the GOP caucus, voting with the Democrats when and as needed.

As a now ‘famous’ person says: “LET ‘FWEEDOM’ RING”!       dlh

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