We are the drain the swamp people

• . . .  and what does Mr. Barr think of this?

RUSSIAN MEDDLING FINDING IS AFFIRMED, Wall Street Journal,4/22/20,

“The U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help elect Donald Trump was accurate and based on strongly sourced information and sound analytical judgment, a bipartisan Senate report has concluded.”

“The Senate report portrays the intelligence agencies as scrupulously abiding by facts without bias and adhering to high professional standards. The 2017 intelligence assessment “presents a coherent and well-constructed intelligence basis for the case of unprecedented Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election,” the report concludes, adding that it found that intelligence analysts “were under no politically motivated pressure to reach specific conclusions” in the assessment and that normal protocols were followed.”

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But then, it IS Senator Richard Burr who heads the “Intelligence” Committee, along with the minority member, Dem Senator Mark Warner. An investigation of either of these two would turn up things about them that are at least as unsavory as the implications in their Committee Report. Throughout this “investigation”, it was a question for us as to who was the minority member of the Committee and who was the Chairman.

We thought that Senator Burr, as a member of the the GOP Senate Majority should have exercised some modicum of leadership; instead he seemed to defer to Democrat Senator Warner, especially on the matters of Trump-Russia “collusion” and the Hillary email fiasco. We figured Burr was just incompetent and not very bright.

But we have since learned it was not that complicated; it was apparently just a matter of simple corruption…on the part of both Burr and Warner. Readers may recall from the past the issues that the following stories concerned:                   dlh

The FBI Is Investigating Sen. Richard Burr For Insider Trading

https://www.politicususa.com/2020/03/30/richard-burr-fbi-investigation.html

(excerpt)

– “Burr, (in) his position as Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, received two confidential briefings in January in February. After being briefed, Burr warned a group of his political donors to prepare for the coronavirus and he sold $1.7 million in stock. https://www.politicususa.com/2020/03/30/richard-burr-fbi-investigation.html

-“If any other ordinary person in America did what Burr did, they would be looking at criminal charges and a prison sentence. Since Sen. Burr isn’t running for reelection, he appears to be trying to ride out the scandal in the hope that it blows over.
“An FBI investigation is a signal that this story is not going away anytime soon.”
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Sen. Warner Texted With Russian Oligarch Lobbyist in Effort to Contact Dossier Author Christopher Steele  

Fox news: (excerpt) – Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee who has been leading a congressional investigation into President Trump’s alleged ties to Russia, had extensive contact last year with a lobbyist for a Russian oligarch who was offering Warner access to former British spy and dossier author Christopher Steele, according to text messages obtained exclusively by Fox News.

“We have so much to discuss u need to be careful but we can help our country,” Warner texted the lobbyist, Adam Waldman, on March 22, 2017.

Related reading: I had not seen this when I wrote the “Senate intelligence” story…there’s an awful lot in this CTH story (nothing in it contradicts the post above)   dlh

Enough Already – A Legally Conflicted Senate Intel Committee Presents Another Defense of Intelligence Corruption… 

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THEY HAVE A GOVERNOR WITH THE IQ OF MAXINE WATERS!

Via Teaparty247:

In the newly-resurfaced tweet from JULY, 2018, Whitmer sports a mock-MAGA hat with the message “Planned Parenthood Makes America Great.”

IS SHE CUTE AS A BUTTON?

“It (abortion) is life sustaining and it’s something that government should not be getting in the middle of.”   Gretchen Whitmer

And . . .

Bank robbery can make the difference between a life of abject poverty and one of fulfilling wealth and comfort…government should not get in the way of that either!    John Dillinger                    dlh

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If you are going to use a crisis properly to panic the population, or at least a certain number of panty-waste governors, report as many deaths as possible as COVID19 related.

By the way, as we have previously passed on, the combined all-cause death numbers in March in the US are down from the same time period one year ago, indeed comparatively for several years,  and are trending similarly for April.

And what about all the hospital layoffs – furloughs and reported financial losses — are we not in the middle of boom time for health care  . . . the media would give you the impression people are dropping like flies with COVID and needing to get into hospitals.

This clip obtained courtesy HP is how they drive the numbers up (apart from reality).  Illinois follows the CDC protocols for reporting.

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“Well, I’ll tell you why it (her attacks on Trump in the middle of a national crisis) came to that. I was very prayerful on Easter. It was one of the first days I didn’t have to be working every minute. And I could reflect and be prayerful. And what I decided was that the president’s made many mistakes.
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‘ST. NANCY’, APPARENTLY ON HER WAY TO DAMASCUS; WAS SHE KNOCKED OFF HER HORSE ?

For a regular, reasonably intelligent viewer, it was a bizarre, grossly embarrassing appearance. (It made Liz Warren’s “Ah’ll get me a beer’ video clip look downright statesmanlike).

Nancy Pelosi, in an interview with Fox’s Chris Wallace gave just such an appearance this past Sunday…so grotesque and freakish that it was impossible to look away even though you knew that this was a human being making a total fool of herself before the entire nation and the world… but didn’t even know it!

While her words inescapably conjure a vision in the viewer’s mind of a pitiful Joe Biden, perish the thought, the faces she makes and the way she moves her mouth when she attempts to say something that she thinks is intelligible, are so clownish one wonders if her handlers are taking secret delight because they can’t stand the lady and thus encourage her to go out in public to humiliate herself.

Nancy is always anxious to let her constituents, and the American public, know that she is, as she describes herself, “a devout Catholic”.

Not surprising that, although she is one of her Party’s most prominent supporters of abortion… late term, any reason, parents of pregnant pre-teens don’t need to know- type of supporter…and their chief purveyor of the ghastly procedure, Planned Parenthood… she is firm in her faith.

And yet, in her interview with Wallace, and regarding President Trump, Nancy seemed to reveal her “St. Paul Moment” * …on her way ‘to Damascus’, or was it the U.S. Capitol, Nancy was ‘surrounded by a bright light”, and Nancy seemed to tell us, as she, in prayerful devotion, heard the voice of the Lord, a Democrat, she seems to assure us, saying, “Why are you, a supposed follower of mine, not calling out Donald Trump for all his mistakes?”

And, thus, on the road to Damascus…,er, D.C., Nancy Pelosi became ‘God’s co-worker’!

On the road to Damascus…, er, the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi had her Epiphany!

What do you suppose her political party’s leaders are thinking?! First, Joe Biden as their prez nominee!?! And now, “Daffy Nancy” still Speaker!?!!

At any rate, what viewers, and surely her Bay area voters saw Sunday, had to give them pause to wonder what kind of representation are Americans getting in the United States Congress?             dlh
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Pelosi: “What We Have To Do Is Shelter In Place… Quarantine Is The Answer To Opening Our Economy”

PJ Media comments:  You know Trump sure has made a lot of mistakes

In an interview on Fox News Sunday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Planned Parenthood) made an interesting claim.

Host Chris Wallace recounted the back and forth war of words between Pelosi and President Trump and asked the speaker if their verbal warfare is helpful during the coronavirus pandemic. Pelosi said yes, she had some sort of revelation allowing her to bash the president.
On Easter Sunday.

WALLACE: But do you think those kinds of partisan attacks by, in this case, you, are constructive in the middle of a national crisis?

PELOSI: Well, I’ll tell you why it came to that. I was very prayerful on Easter. It was one of the first days I didn’t have to be working every minute. And I could reflect and be prayerful. And what I decided was that the president’s made many mistakes. (transcript thanks to RCP)

This was only revealed to her on Easter? Because she prayed? Orly?

Pelosi has spent Trump’s entire presidency bashing and undermining him at every turn, culminating in the Democrats’ effort to impeach him over a partisan witch hunt. That purely political stunt was expressly designed to hobble Trump’s ability to govern heading into the election.

And it neatly overlapped the rise of the coronavirus pandemic — forcing the president and most of his senior advisers to deal with being just the third American president ever to face impeachment, while the Wuhan virus started ravaging the world.

Pelosi’s a leader of the opposition party, fine, oppose your opposite all day long. But claiming that she just realized Trump has made “many mistakes” because Easter gave her a chance to slow down and enjoy her gourmet ice cream from her $24,000 refrigerator is both laughable and borderline blasphemous.
It’s certainly a transparent lie.

What holiday, observance or random day or thing will Pelosi blame for her running off on vacation while small businesses can’t get the help they were promised?

Here’s video of the full interview, in which Pelosi also suggests that those who are protesting the continued economically devastating shutdown are somehow less American because they’re protesting. That’s very easy for a multimillionaire who hasn’t missed a single paycheck during the shutdown to say. Her lack of compassion for those who’ve been closed by all this is ghastly.

And whatever happened to dissent being the highest form of patriotism?

*Paul’s Epiphany

Acts 26:9-21
Psalm 67
Galatians 1:11-24
Matthew 10:16-22

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Biden campaign has offered all an opportunity to post their picture name and address (or message) in an avatar.  All we can say is that whoever in Biden employ came up with this idea was definitely on our side.  Don’t they know liberals can’t do funny?  It is still available at this writing at https://avatar.joebiden.com/   If you have a creation or favorite by others send us a notice to our comment section and we will contact you.  The first one is the blank copy followed by three of ours and a number we found via The Daily Dot and elsewhere.

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IT’S `EITHER ‘HERE WE GO AGAIN’ OR TO PARAPHRASE THE REVEREND, “JUSTICE AT LAST, INDICTMENTS AT LAST, THANK GOD ALMIGHTY, JUSTICE AT LAST!”

This has to be ‘IT”. The hour is late. The Coronavirus pandemic has crowded out the public’s interest in Barr’s investigation; the campaigning and the Party conventions will soon be the hot topics along with the efforts to reopen the economy. The last thing the Democrats and their media allies will want is any information out to the American people about the overwhelming evidence of the Obama administration’s treasonous and criminal activities to undermine Trump.

The media will pull out all the stops to support Pelosi’s and Schumer’s attempts to block needed action by Trump to bring back the nation’s prosperity, and will devote full time to a search for anything they can distort to blame the president for.

If the full extent of Durham’s already too protracted ‘investigation’ doesn’t get out to the public in the next few days, it will never get to the American people, and the Democratic Party’s narrative will dominate the ‘public square’ in the coming months preceding the election.      dlh

Jim Hoft at The Gateway Pundit reports:

IT’S HAPPENING: At Long Last John Solomon Says Indictments May Be Coming This Week in Obama’s Spygate Scandal

Earlier this week the Senate Judiciary Committee released key material related to the Obama FISA Abuse Scandal

The documents included transcripts and material related to the Committee’s investigation into Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) actions leading up to and during the Spygate scandal.
The information included transcripts of undercover FBI spies interviewing George Papadopoulos in 2016.

On Friday night investigative journalist John Solomon joined Lou Dobbs to discuss the ongoing Crossfire Hurricane or Spygate scandal.

Solomon says DOJ indictments may be coming this week.

John Solomon: In my worst nightmare I could not have imagined what would come out this week. The level of information that the FBI had that raised red flags that they should have never not even for a moment entertained Chris Steele as a human source as a confidential informant is now overwhelming… Christopher Steele should never have been shown the door inside the FBI and instead we sustained two-and-a-half years of an investigation into false allegations that put this country and this president through an unnecessary process.

Lou Dobbs: Unnecessary? This was an attempt to overthrow the president? This was an attempt to align the entire FBI with Russian intelligence objectives and missions… They are refusing to bring these people to justice! This is outrageous!…

John Solomon: …I will say this. There is fairly significant evidence that at this very moment, this week, the last couple of weeks Lou that there is some criminal investigative activity that I think will result in some action coming out soon. It’s not going to be a lot. Don’t expect 10 or 12 indictments but there could be a hand full of indictments and much more information.

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This threesome collection is comprised of a combination of just fed-up and conspiratorial renderings about various governmental responses to the Wuhan virus at various levels in the US and overseas. Elements of each might be  debunked for one clarification or another  although even the debunking of factoids does not necessarily put at ease the implications of what is clearly at work by powerful interests fomenting one-world government.

We are sorry for the ease with which most of us have been scared or shamed into not protesting the curtailment of civil liberties as enforceable policy here these last number of weeks.  Particularly given so little definable threat (although lots of panicked rhetoric).

It is obvious that Democrats see this crisis as an opportunity for policy implementation or as a practice run that they are content will obliterate nettlesome rights in the way of the globalization/world government zeitgeist they work for.  The compliant hysteria (two words that do not always go together except in the case of fear mongering) is easier to generate toward a purpose than ideological debate.

https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2020/04/18/821187/

This virus is dangerous to a smallish number of people who are also vulnerable to a lot of other diseases. Overwhelmingly, the data show that something more than 30 times the number of people who test positive for the Wuhan virus get infected and either have no symptoms or symptoms so minor that they don’t recall having the malady. We can argue over whether this a regular flu or plus-sized flu but only clowns are claiming this virus has some extraordinarily high mortality rate. In fact, the US mortality rate is driven by exactly one state, New York, which is openly and dishonestly juicing its mortality data to make a grab for federal money to fill a $6 billion-and-growing hole in the state budget. The ‘social distancing’ craze is a non-falsifiable presumption, not a fact. If there is an increase in new cases then ‘social distancing’ isn’t being observed. If the cases go down, then it is. There is zero evidence of this; it is an assertion in the absence of evidence. The experience of the USS Theodore Roosevelt shows that 6,000 men and women jammed on a boat for in close quarters for at least three weeks in the presence of the virus can generate about 100 cases of Wuhan virus and in a month it can create 600 cases and 6 hospitalizations and bowel-loosening panic in one Navy captain. This is orders of magnitude below the levels predicted by the various models which are based on ‘social distancing’ and all the other nonsense being implemented.

If this virus is only dangerous to people who were already at risk of an ICU stay or a cemetery plot if they caught basically ANY infection, then why are we hunkering down and locking ourselves in our safe-rooms? Simple. What we are experiencing right now has zero to do with our safety or the safety of anyone else and everything to do with the aggrandizement of power and money to governments.

Across the nation, state and local governments have used the Wuhan virus scare to take draconian measures to curtail civil liberties. Some states, like the fascist paradise of Gauleiter Gretchen, have forbidden the sale of garden seeds and child passenger safety seats as non-essential. She has forbidden Michiganders from traveling from one residence in the state to another residence. Over Easter, states and municipalities across the country directly banned religious services. Not merely services in a church, but services in a parking lot. Curfews have been imposed because, I guess, viruses are more active at night.

California is filling in skate parks.

(see article for examples)

Neighbors are encouraged to narc on one another.

Neighbours pinned this note on a sick, elderly woman’s front door after her daughter dropped off some groceries.

You can see how easily men like Stalin and Hitler achieved their aims. pic.twitter.com/WcyUinpDIy

— karen ricks (@karenricks) April 18, 2020

How do you report places that aren’t enforcing social distancing? It’s simple: just snap a photo and text it to 311-692. #AskMyMayor pic.twitter.com/WQdCcVf1Rl

— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) April 18, 2020

The Governor of New Jersey had the mourners at a Jewish funeral beset upon by police (stop me if you’ve heard something like this in a history class) and some were arrested. When questioned, he said he never considered the Bill of Rights in giving his order:

Tucker Carlson asks New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy where he got the authority to nullify the Bill of rights when he banned religious services in his state:

“I wasn’t thinking of the Bill of Rights when we did this… The science says people have to stay away from each other.” pic.twitter.com/DPQ5d2DFl2

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) April 16, 2020

The police department in Raleigh, North Carolina, has taken upon itself to declare that protests are a ‘non-essential’ activity.

David Harsanyi, writing in National Review, chronicles other examples:

The criminalization of movement ends with ten Philly cops dragging a passenger off a bus for not wearing a face mask. It ends with local Brighton, Colo., cops handcuffing a father in front of his family for playing T-ball with his daughter in an empty park. It ends with three Massachusetts men being arrested, and facing the possibility of 90 days in jail, for crossing state lines and golfing — a sport built for social distancing — in Rhode Island.

None of these policies, none, not a single one, make you safer or prevent the spread of the virus. They are nothing more than government-ordained virtue signaling.    . . .  What all these policies have in common is that they are calculated to impress upon you that your ability to move, to shop, to travel, to work, to wear what you wish, to engage in legal activities, to congregate, to worship or just to f*** off a bit are all dependent upon some level of government deciding that no emergency exists.

Now that we’ve eliminated a good swath of the Bill of Rights with barely a whisper from the citizenry and with total cooperation of the media, ostensibly to protect us all from virus, do you really think government, having learned this lesson, is going to stop using this power any more than a tiger who has tasted human flesh is ever going to forego it again?

Right now we are in a perfect storm of fear and cowardice and stupidity. The modelers who drove this bullsh** frenzy desperately need to not be exposed as the buffoons they are. Politicians and the media who have fanned the flame need a body count to justify their abuse of power. Corrupt governors are trying to turn this crisis into a profit center to shore up budgets that are now dangerously out of kilter because they’ve destroyed the economies of their states. And we are all going along with it because we are either too scared to see this for what it is or we’re too cowardly to say enough is enough and f*** these people and their face masks and ‘social distancing.’

Below are links and an embedded video link to two conspiracy commentaries.  They are  not without some evidence of at least coincidental ideological purposes regarding the use of the disruption pandemics cause.

We have no doubt that ideologies and powerful influential organizations exist to “capitalize “on this pandemic but one does not have to believe “Wuhan”  was necessarily planned.  As regards theories about intentional infliction, we do not here accuse China as we do not see how economic catastrophe helps them. While the jury is out on China’s purposefulness, we have no doubt that they are  guilty of criminal negligence and a cover-up and more.

We see the assault on civil liberties and institutions more as opportunistic, combined with political leadership that is indifferent, lacking in principle, indeed composed of many fellow travelers, and many, including Republicans, largely subsumed by CYA instincts  and moral intimidation.  Combine it also with less grand political opportunism, to impose any pain if it will help get rid of Trump and return “us” to power.  And do not underestimate hubris and or stupidity, nor the sheepishness of the populous.

Because it will happen again (assuming we get over the present  “cure”) we must address this situation with harder rules established to tie the hands of bureaucracies and governors appropriately.  We cannot go through this for every threat of a respiratory disease.  Because so many of the decision makers, elected and bureaucrat, are weak in principle or intimidated by others, whether or not they are part of a grand conspiracy,  we must intimidate them with hurdles that protect life as we know it.

Forwarded without comment by HP: (if embed not available go to the Dana Ashlie site.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZphK_CMUbKg&feature=youtu.be

The following was forwarded by DK referring to perps as insidious:

https://westernfreepress.com/the-ugliest-china-globalist-scheme-yet/

R Mall

*view video to see the use and applicability of the phrase ( it is near the end).

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I’d like to see the story that beats this one for ‘major breaking news’

Recent photo from a Davenport Walmart. So is backing up to a bidet any sort of answer?

The Story of the Day From The Wall Street Journal and the Atlantic:  (bold our emphasis)      dlh

“For tens of thousands of Americans… the time for a bidet has arrived.”

‘Our competitor is toilet paper.’— Mr. Ojalvo of ‘Tushy’ 

– “Jason Ojalvo, CEO of direct-to-consumer bidet company Tushy,* knew that America’s backsides couldn’t wait. Watching demand skyrocket on his online sales dashboard as America’s great toilet-paper crisis of 2020 left store shelves bare and shoppers panicking, he decided to take drastic measures to guarantee ongoing supply.”

– “Where before Tushy might spend a big chunk of the $79 price for its entry-level bidet on advertising—direct-to-consumer companies often spend a third of revenue on marketing—it has been able to redirect that money to its higher shipping costs, says Mr. Ojalvo.”

– “U.S. makers of bidets… decry the quality of inexpensive models direct from China, of which there are an endless variety. But the kind of bare-bones add-on bidets sold by all of these companies vary little in their design. All are slim enough to be installed underneath an existing toilet seat in about 10 minutes, and consist of a hose that attaches to a toilet’s water supply, a valve to control water pressure and a nozzle that sprays water. That’s about it.” (What more do you need?)

– “The French invented the bidet in the 1600s, as a way to freshen up without taking a full bath.

Airfreight costs are still squeezing Tushy’s margins, (Who wants their ‘tushy margins squeezed?”)

Airfreight costs are still squeezing Tushy’s margins, but the company’s leaders have decided that, because people who buy their products tend to become bidet evangelists…(You,too, could become a ‘bidet evangelist’) 

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