A Time For Choosing

January 6 was, at worst, a bunch of goons and wannabes playing “Three Percenter” games. Maybe they were provoked by a Fed, maybe not.

Watergate? That was a President and his committee doing something that they knew was wrong enough that they felt the explicit need to cover it up. amind

The Durham report describes something much worse: the active co-option of the institutions of American law enforcement to political ends.

David Strom on the choice this nation, as individuals and as a collective (or collectives) faces:

But right here, right now anybody who had faith in those liars has a choice: declare your alliance to the truth, or to the lies. Do you care more about America or hate Donald Trump so much that you are willing to give up America? Because defending the abuses of power is a rejection of America itself.

The choice is stark, but the stakes really are that high. Not because Donald Trump is the only man who can “save America,” because if that were true America would already be lost. Donald Trump is not immortal, nor has he proven capable of fighting the “deep state.” This is not about Trump, but about who rules America–the people or the Elite.

No, the choice is between upholding the rule of law, limits on power, ensuring accountability in government, and preservation of our constitutional order, or just handing raw power to the Left, the Administrative State, and an MSM dedicated to lying to you all the time.

A smaller but equally corrosive scandal is out there in plain sight; as I’ve been tirelessly pointing out for six and a half years, we don’t have to infer that the media is not just biased, but actively working for the same people the FBI has been busted working for; representatives of our media “elites” said it, proudly, in front of a friendly crowd, just after the ’16 election.

Trump’s greatest failure was his inability to drain the swamp. He made a start – but in the context of this week’s news, “getting a start” is a little like “getting halfway across Omaha Beach before calling it a ‘L'”.

This is going to have to be the next great national crusade.

More on this to come.

30 thoughts on “A Time For Choosing

  1. January 6 was, at worst, a bunch of goons and wannabes playing “Three Percenter” games. Maybe they were provoked by a Fed, maybe not.

    Slowly, almost imperceptibly crawling back from end of that insurrection branch. 😉

    Trump’s greatest failure was his inability to drain the swamp

    True, but as a former Democrat, I doubt he – nor the rest of us, for that matter – truly realized the full extent of the swamp’s facilities and its maliciousness. In particular, the MSM deserves a special shout-out in both aspects.

  2. It’s worth noting that many Trump voters were once blue-collar Democratic voters before Trump. Union families. Working class people in rural areas without college degrees. Some from military families. Trump resonated with them because he could connect with them in ways that made them forget he was a rich, trust-fund baby from New York city who had nothing in common with them, regularly stiffed tradesmen, never read the bible or went to church, was a total cheat in everything he did, had no respect for the military, the face of corporate greed, and could care less for anyone other than himself.

    This is Trump’s political genius. Everyone that knew him well in New York knew he was a fraud—his friends, associates, the New York media—it was no big secret. He was tolerated by the media because they made them money, and for everyone else he was not of any real consequence. If he wanted to pretend he was a savvy real estate tycoon and whatever else he thought he was—that’s fine. It’s not like he was the first or only guy with a big ego in New York city.

    But Trump could cut through all these things- and more—that would completely disqualify other candidates because he could connect with his base like no other candidate in either party ever did before or since. His tone of grievance was the perfect pitch which his base reveled in. His anti-establishment passion—like theirs—was real. And when others criticized him for misspelling words, getting things obviously wrong, not knowing what the nuclear triad was, they all rallied around him and even endeared him more to them for being shunned by the establishment—just as they felt they were. And then there was the narcissist-codependent relationship as well.

    Others can talk about the same culture issues or express the same grievances, or the same bigotry, but it just isn’t going to resonate as well. Because even though another candidate can echo Trump to some degree, he or she isn’t Trump. No one else has that cult of personality. And without it you blend in with the crowd when it comes to Trump supporters.

    Even Ted Cruz, who I consider way more Trump-like in his tone and rhetoric compared to Ron DeSantis, is a distant second to Trump. Others like Nikki Haley, Mike Pompeo, Kristi Noem, and Mike Pence are not even remotely comparable.

    And so if a non-Trump candidate gets the Republican nomination, as is increasingly likely as Trump’s star fades under legal clouds and failure, there is no Republican heir to his base- which will fragment and/or stay home—or still vote for Trump. Particularly if he decides to run as a third-party candidate out of spite—which is definitely a possibility if he doesn’t get the nomination.

    Some of that fragmentation will go to Biden- especially former union Democrats who voted for Trump. Also more military families—some of which have already departed- and a smattering from other Trump demographic groups as well. It may seem like a smallish percentage, but it will put a lot of competitive states out of reach for the GOP.

    At the same time, more Democrats are more positive about Biden than when he ran two years ago. His legislative accomplishments are impressive — much more than anyone expected. Yes, he’s too old and struggles with many senior moments—but he gets things done. That appeals to a lot of Democrats and Independents—and most likely some previous Republican voters too. Senior voters will notice that the cost of Medicare went down under Biden this year.

    So, all of this is bad news for the Republican party, which has been in decline since Reagan. Since 1988, when George HW Bush was elected, the Republican candidate for president has won the popular vote just once- in 2004 when George W Bush won 50.73% of the vote. That’s only once in the last eight presidential elections over the last 34 years.

    Republicans will hasten to add that they’ve done well in state and local elections, but mostly in more sparsely populated states and also due to heavy gerrymandering and other voter suppression tactics that won’t last forever.

    At some point the Republican party will either go the way of the Whig party, or they’ll need to reinvent themselves- which will be a tough sell post—Trump. It will also mean abandoning the Trump base, or appealing to them along different lines, in order to gain more independent votes or moderate Democrat votes. But Trump has poisoned the Republican party to moderate voters- many of whom are now more consistent Democratic voters- and to younger voters who (as is often the case) are heavily Democratic voters. It’ll take a while for many voters to consider voting Republican again. Trump, the insurrection attempt, the GOP clowns in the House, all that has to be well in the rear view mirror before they could appeal again for many voters.

  3. It’s not a swamp, it is an oligarchial network.
    Imagine all of the people who work in the media, academia, finance, and politics as evenly spaced dots on a field.
    Now connect the dots with each other using lines representing a relationship, one line each for:
    -Attended the same university
    -Common Marriage & “in law” relationship
    -Children attend the same primary or secondary school.
    The network would resemble an aristocratic network if you added “titled nobility,” but we don’t have those (constitution forbids it). But family-run charitable foundations with billions in assets are an analog. You can set up a charitable foundation so it has what amounts to an entailment.

  4. Durham, “The FBI violated its own rules and treated the Trump Campaign differently than the Clinton Campaign.”
    FBI, “It’s cool. We fixed it already and made a few new rules. Let’s move on.”
    Conservatives, “Huh. That’s not enough to get our respect back.”
    Liberals (particularly in the Media), “Well that was a nothing burger. The FBI did everything right, and they said they fixed the problems that didn’t happen.”

    Meanwhile…
    The entire IRS team that was investigating Hunter Biden and includes the whistleblower that has contacted both Chambers of Congress through Members of both political parties has been reassigned upon the request of the FBI.

    Are you going to believe the FBI or your lying eyes.

  5. And if the troll wants to try to claim six police officers died that day, name 2. Sicknick died a day or two later of a stroke I believe. Truth only here.

  6. The clip of Josh Hawley running for his life made Jan 6 worthwhile.

    The core problem is that one of the two political parties lied to those Americans to convince them the election was stolen and that violence was justified in order to “hold on to their country.” Using violence to achieve political objectives is terrorism. This is about Democracy vs Authoritarianism.

  7. “Using violence to achieve political objectives is terrorism.”

    Yes, but it’s okay when our side does it.

    Wait, only YOUR side gets to do it? How’s that fair?

  8. ” This is about Democracy vs Authoritarianism.”
    says Emery, the creature With No Credentials!
    Why would anyone pay attention to emery?

  9. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers convicted of sedition. Accountability. This is the only way forward. More trials and convictions and plea deals to come. These people, and their wannabe followers must understand that there will be profound consequences for this type of criminal activity and betrayal.

    We can hope that those in government who aided this process and event are held to account as well. I am placing great faith in the Special Counsel to charge the higher ups as well.

  10. I do wonder how it is possible to describe the people arrested & jailed for taking part in the January 6 riots as anything other than political prisoners. The crime they are charged with is political, isn’t it? If they aren’t charged with a political crime (trespassing, assault, etc.), what is the justification for holding them w/o bail?
    It was an error of Trump to not pardon them all, and himself, while still in office.

  11. ” I am placing great faith in the Special Counsel “
    mewled (Bill Gleason’s protégé)Emery,
    who lacks any concept of the moral, he can’t even answer this question:
    you present yourself as an expert on the ethics of abortion so it should not be difficult for you to answer this question…
    At what point in your mother’s pregnancy with you would it have become unacceptable for her to abort you?

    As a bonus question where can I find the text in the Constitution that supports this claim you made:
    “The Constitution before amendment said Clarence Thomas should be counted as 3/5ths of a person.”

  12. Pay attention, Bot Boy!

    Under the FoIA, several real journalists, requested all 11,000 hours of video from the capitol on January 6, not just the cherry picked sections that ran on continuous loops by your protégés of Josef Goebbels. The response from the foot soldiers of the elites: “we need the exact times of the sections that you want to look at”. Real Journalists: “why can’t we just have all of it?” Foot soldiers: “Because vast sections would expose under cover agents and other personnel, putting them at risk.”
    And there it is. Conspiracy theories come true and are confessed by the perpetrators.

    Further, shit for brains, both of those groups that you and your ilk keep holding up for your virtue signaling, were created, managed and directed by the CIA and the FBI.

    When is lying, traitorous FBI stooge Ray Epps going to be held accountable?!

  13. So the Trumpalos could not pin the insurrection on Antifa, so now they are accusing the FBI of inciting them. I suppose the scaffold for the lynching Mike Pence was secured through the GSA. Maybe the bear spray they used on policeman came from the Forest Service. Got it!

  14. Wow, gotta at least admire the troll for its courage. Or maybe its just stupidity, coming back here for another beatdown.

    Enjoy it troll, I’m out today, still luxuriating in my beatdown of you yesterday.

  15. Oops, accidentally read one ( a lie of course): Hawley was ORDERED to run, liar.

    Pathetic little life you must have if that’s what you find amusing.

  16. EMERY: “At what point in your mother’s pregnancy with you was it no longer OK to abort you?”

    I’ll join the chorus…you are a moral coward…see yourself out troll.

  17. The attack on our democracy at the end of Trump’s presidency was just a kick at this country on his way out. Yet Republicans still love him. I remember the days when Republicans could say with a straight face they were patriotic and loved this country. But then again, so can any 12 year old.

  18. Man, look at Fluffy go. There’s just something about Trump that brings out the be-… er, brings out something in the Fluffster.

  19. Biden resonated with them because he could connect with them in ways that made them forget he was a career politician from Delaware who had nothing in common with them, plagiarized Neil Kinnock and others in law school and during his first campaign for President, slandered the memory of the truck driver in the accident in which his first wife and infant daughter were killed, claimed his son Beau had been killed in Iraq, demonstrated little to no respect for the military by checking his watch during a dignified transfer, the face of government corruption, and could care less for anyone other than his family and political allies.

    I mean, if we expect the human in the White House to be perfect, let’s hold everybody to the same impossibly high standards, Emery.

  20. FBI whistleblower testifies under oath that FBI won’t allow 11,000+ hours of J6 footage to be released b/c it would expose undercover agents committing crimes inside Capitol

    Not only was J6 a Fed setup, but now it’s confirmed that FBI is also covering its tracks

    The fedsurrection

  21. FBI confirms under oath that undercover officers, confidential informants, and FBI assets were present at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th

    The fedsurrection

  22. Now the interesting question is precisely what evidence the whistleblowers got out before their clearances were revoked. FBI agents present and FBI agents setting the whole thing up are, of course, a couple of wildly different things. I’m guessing a number of people who were convicted for their roles are getting very interested.

  23. Emery-what “insurrection” are you talking about? Is it the kind where the Capital police open gates and lead the people in? You haven’t lost your Drama Queen status…

  24. Christopher Steele, grifter, says:
    “Finally, our 2016 Trump-Russia reporting has not been ‘discredited’. In fact its main tenets continue to hold up well and almost no detail has been disproven, including through numerous court cases. It’s high time serious American journalism put the record straight on this. 4/4”
    https://twitter.com/Chris_D_Steele/status/1658907748212285441
    Has Steele ever disproven that he is a pedophile?

  25. The elements of the Steele that were capable of being disproven were disproven, because Steele claimed that certain people were in certain places at certain times, HAVE been disproven. For instance, Steele that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen had met with Russian operatives in Prague on a certain date. But Steele, despite being some kind of super spy, didn’t seem to understand that border crossings are actually registered (that’s why you need a passport) and Cohen could prove he was in the US on that date, and had never been to Prague.
    In any case, we know from the IG’s 2019 report that Steele’s source was a Russian ex-pat, living in DC, named Danchenko, and he got most of his information from a Clinton campaign operative named Charles Dolan. The IG’s report also found that, despite the statements of various FBI bureaucrats (like Comey) the Steele dossier was, in fact, the basis of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.

  26. Posting this here just to put it on the record.
    Durham report, pg. 85:
    ii. White House briefing
    On August 3, 20 I 6, within days of receiving the Clinton Plan intelligence, Director Brennan met with the President, Vice President and other senior Administration officials, including but not limited to the Attorney General (who participated remotely) and the FBI Director, in the White House Situation Room to discuss Russian election interference efforts. 406
    According to Brennan’s handwritten notes and his recollections from the meeting, he briefed on relevant intelligence known to date on Russian election interference, including the Clinton Plan intelligence. 407 Specifically, Director Brennan’s declassified handwritten notes reflect that he briefed the meeting’s participants regarding the “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on 26 July of a proposal from one of her [campaign] advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security services.”408

  27. When are democrats going to admit that they were bamboozled?
    Byron York@ByronYork
    ·
    Yes. Mueller indicted 34 people, the majority of them Russians charged for 2016 interference. Of the 34, six–Manafort, Gates, Flynn, Cohen, Stone, Papadopoulos–were around Trump. Important: None of them indicted on charges alleging a conspiracy between Trump and Russia.

  28. Yesterday, rep. Linda Sanchez, Democrat of California, asked one of the FBI whistle blowers if he was the same Marcus Allen who retweeted a claim that the Jan 6 riots were a put up job by Nancy Pelosi.
    Allen said that wasn’t his account.
    Nevertheless, Sanchez wanted to know if he agreed with some rando who had retweeted the claim.
    Were are playing on Ultimate Clown Level.

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.