We Laughed, We Cried. Then We Laughed Again. Cried Again. Laughed. Cried. LaughCried LaughCried LaughedCriedLaughedCriedLaughCried

And Then We Went Down To the Waterfront, Put On War Paint And Dumped the Tea in the Harbor

Historically speaking, of course. Also "colloquially".

The Lighter and Darker Side of the Recent Unpleasantness

Mark Steyn suggests a new theme song for CNN: the Stones' ubiquitous "You Can't Always Get What You Want". I'm sure Donny Two-Scoops will loan you his copy if you need it, Tater.

After years of hearing CNN's Greatest Hits, including "The Walls are Closing In," "The Wheels are Coming Off," "The President is Increasingly Isolated," and "This Was the Administration's Worst Week Ever," I wrote CNN a new theme song, too. Let's "Get To the Bottom Of It", shall we?

When the Long March Through the Institutions becomes the Short Bus To the Institution

The Wheels on the Bus are coming off
coming off, coming off
The Wheels on the Bus are coming off
in our wildest dream

The White House Walls are closing in
closing in, closing in
The White House Walls are closing in
all through DC

The President is all alone
increasingly, increasingly
The President is all alone
just like Tricky Dick

Worst Week Ever for the President
the President, the President
If its the Worst Week Ever for the President
Then how come we got screwed?

Inside our heads he lives rent-free
Lives rent-free, lives rent-free
Inside our heads he's got a lease
'til 2024!

Roger Simon: Trump Was Not Just Spied Upon But Entrapped

"Hmm.... The perspicacious Margot Cleveland had more to say the other day at The Federalist in "Who Launched An Investigation Into Trump's Campaign Before Crossfire Hurricane."

"Crossfire Hurricane," as most know, is the codename the wannabe hipsters at the FBI gave the Trump-Russia investigation. But more important is the word "before" in Ms. Cleveland's title.

The Post further noted that the academic, since identified as Stefan Halper, first met with Trump campaign advisor Carter Page “a few weeks before the opening of the investigation,” and then after Crossfire Hurricane’s July 31, 2016, start, he met again with Carter Page and “with Trump campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis,” offering the latter his “foreign-policy expertise” for the Trump team. Then in September, Halper “reached out to George Papadopoulos, an unpaid foreign-policy adviser for the campaign, inviting him to London to work on a research paper.”

Papadopoulos and Page are the two naifs of the most obvious sort (sorry, guys) we have all seen on television who spent the last couple of years having to defend themselves against absurd charges. Considering the timing, it's pretty obvious they were being set up (i. e. entrapped) on some level well back during the Obama administration.

Who ordered it is the obvious question, but I'm not going to leave it there. I suggest that an attempt was being made to implant Halper in the Trump campaign, one way or another, not just for spying purposes but actually to help create this collusion of the campaign with Russia--that is, to help manufacture it."...….

I made my own list of just some the Coup's Agit-Prop events. Not just the lies, which are innumerable, but the snares, grifts and entrapments. In no particular order:

*Halper sends naif Carter Page to Trump campaign, inserted to be called a Russian agent to justify FISA wiretaps. The wiretapping was probably years underway before the warrant. Page had been used this way for previous Russian cases. 

*The Unmasking Game played by State and NSC.

*Brennen using Five Eyes foreign spies to evade the prohibition on domestic spying.

*Russians sent to Trump Tower by Simpson and Lynch just to create a RUSSIANS AT TRUMP TOWER!-story.

*Papadopolous' CIA set-up by Amb. Downer and Prof. Misfud. He was given 10k by Brennan cut-out in hopes of creating money laundering charge at his staged FBI arrest upon return to US.

*Rosenstein writes "You Must Fire Comey"-memo, then says "How Dare You Fire Comey!" in order to appoint Mueller and create Obstruction narrative.

*Comey briefs president on Dossier to create news hook justifying Dossier coverage

*Circular Dossier stories are told, each one boot-strapping off of another to create Echo Chamber for a FISA warrants and The Narrative.

*Susan Rice sends the "by the book"-email to herself on Inauguration Day to protect Obama.

*FBI sends Russian criminal Henry Greenberg aka Gennady Vasilievich Vostretsov, to Micheal Caputo, who doesn't bite.

pic: Confederacy of Drones

Z-Man: The End of the World:

"What we’re seeing with the Left is a child learning that they have not only been adopted, but they have been in a coma their whole life and everything they believe about themselves is a dream. Rachel Maddow right now is someone sure she was a Jewish TV lesbian, but has learned she is really white guy with two kids and an ex-wife, working at the Home Depot. Everything about who she was in the moral sense is not just false, it never existed. As a result, she never really existed. She was part of the fraud.

That’s why the audience has evaporated for these lefty chat shows. Conservatives will try to explain this in the same dimwitted way they explain everything, by focusing on the fact these shows promoted a fake story. In reality, we’re witnessing the collapse of an identity cult, built around the belief in a sinister conspiracy to snatch away the 2016 election from forces of light. The collapse of the central narrative is also the collapse of the core of this identity cult. These are now people without a reason to exist."...….

Julie Kelly: 

"Gowdy asked Brennan directly whether the CIA had relied on the dossier. 
“No,” Brennan answered. “It wasn’t part of the corpus of intelligence information that we had. It was not in any way used as a basis for the intelligence community’s assessment that was done. Uh, it was, it was not.” ...Brennan himself is backpedaling on his “corpus” of evidence: “I suspected that there was more than there actually was,” Brennan told MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough earlier this week. “I still point to things that were done publicly or efforts to try to have conversations with the Russians that were inappropriate. But I’m not all that surprised that the high bar of criminal conspiracy was not met.”

(The clip is worth a watch. You’d think a CIA director would know how to lie better than that.)"........

pic: Patriot Retort

Must Watch, Laugh Out Loud-Funny: 

Hitler Finds Out The Mueller Investigation Is Over

Quotes of the Day: 

“I don’t know if I received bad information, but I think I suspected there was more than there actually was”–John Brennan

“I warned everybody that the Reichstag needed new fire sprinklers!”–Himmler

“Nobody believed me when I told them pyramid schemes are inherently risky.”–Ponzi

“I despise a false front. People know that about me.”–Grigory Potemkin

“Like I always say, if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.”–Bernie Madoff

***(crickets chirping)***–Barack Obama

For a guy who would never shut up, he sure is quiet now.

Col. Schlichter:

"The damage to our country is hard to calculate right now. It will take a while to fully appreciate how this betrayal by our alleged betters has undermined the foundations of our Republic. But the signs are ominous. Normal people, those of us who build, feed, fuel and defend this country, have been awakened to the utterly incompetent and thoroughly venal nature of what Instapundit Glenn Reynolds correctly identifies as the U.S. franchise of a useless trans-national elite that prioritizes its own power and perks over the welfare of those is purportedly serves.

We’re woke now. We see that the people we’ve been electing – the people they allow us to elect – are really all the same. Only the labels are different, but the objective – their own money and influence – is identical. Except for Trump, who neither respects the elite nor plays by its shabby rules. And that’s why they threw away any pretens of honesty, integrity or respect for the rule of law to drive him out of the Oval Office they covet. ...

We need to exercise our First Amendment rights to speak out and organize to prevent these aspiring fascists from returning to power unopposed. We need to be militant and loud in defense of our liberty. 2020 is coming; start now if you like being free.

And if this attempted coup, with our elite running roughshod over the rule of law and using the force of the government to oppress political opponents, has taught us anything, it is the wisdom of the Founders in enshrining the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights. It is absolutely essential that we, the American citizenry, remain armed and ready to protect ourselves, our families, our communities and our Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Our elite has demonstrated beyond any doubt that it is morally unworthy of retaining a monopoly on armed force within our society. Do you have any doubt about what these people would do if we foolishly allowed ourselves to be disarmed? Just look at Britain, where the people bought into the lie that being civilized means being defenseless. They now get arrested for mean tweets and their masters are poised to ignore the people’s vote on the Brexit referendum. Buy guns and ammunition and train with them. Be a citizen, not a subject.

The Mueller report marks the proverbial end of the beginning, not the beginning of the end, of this grave crisis. It’s a crisis where our Republic is in danger of becoming something very different, and something very much less free. Eliminating the Electoral College, letting in millions of illegal aliens, packing SCOTUS, banning guns – these are all leftist policies designed with one singular purpose, to dispossess you of the power to participate in your own governance and to ensure that we can never again elect someone like Trump who might challenge the elite’s stranglehold on control. We won this battle, but there is a long campaign ahead. Get ready, because if we let up then we will lose our liberty forever."...….

It's not very funny when you put it that way.

Thanks Again, Vietnam Vets

"On this Vietnam War Veterans Day, we celebrate the brave Vietnam Veterans and all of America’s Veterans. Thank you for your service to our great Nation!"--President Trump

"...And so many of the blessings and advantages we have, so many of the reasons why our civilization, our culture, has flourished aren't understood; they're not appreciated. And if you don't have any appreciation of what people went through to get, to achieve, to build what you are benefiting from, then these things don't mean very much to you. You just think, well, that's the way it is. That's our birthright. That just happened. [But] it didn't just happen. And at what price? What grief? What disappointment? What suffering went on? I mean this. I think that to be ignorant or indifferent to history isn't just to be uneducated or stupid. It's to be rude, ungrateful. And ingratitude is an ugly failing in human beings."--David McCullough

"When the Left was victorious in it's fight against America's involvement in Vietnam, the United states withdrew and left the Vietnamese without our protection. The Communists proceeded to slaughter two and a half million poor peasants in Indo-China and there was not a single protest from the Left. And I realized the Left was never an anti-war movement, it was an anti-American movement and it has remained so to this day. That's what motivates it. It hates America."--David Horowitz

'Three Fighting Men' redeemed 'a black trench that scars the Mall'

"Vietnam was, in truth, a noble cause. Those who died in that cause fought as well and as bravely as any Americans have ever fought in any war."--President Reagan

"On the eve of Phnom Penh's fall, President Ford held a conference begging Congress to appropriate funds to South Vietnam and Cambodia, but many Senators walked out from the meeting. After the Communist take-overs, Senator William Fulbright stated, "I'm no more depressed than I would be about Arkansas losing a football game to Texas."" --Paul Bois

I don't fault those who did not want to fight a war Democrats had already decided to lose. LBJ's policy of "Don't Win, But Don't Lose" seemed more about his political re-election needs than anything else. After a Communist killed JFK, too many Democrats soon became anti-war and even pro-Communist, just as they became pro-Palestinian after a PLO assassin killed Bobby.

Those who answered the call are all the more our very own.

Honor

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Gone Over the Cliff-Update: 
Deranged Democrat lawmakers removed their POW/MIA flags today,  
to fly Transgender flags instead. Their scheme: to make the US military 
into the world's largest provider of "free" sex-change operations.

Locution, Locution, Locution: "Any U.S. Persons" UPDATE: "Treason" vs. "Sedition"

The Secret Language Spoken by Crooked Deep State Lawyers, Lost Amazon Tribes and People Who Name Prescription Drugs For a Living 

Rush: "It validates a hoax to applaud the fact that Mueller found nothing. There never was anything to find! There never was any collusion! There was never, ever any evidence of collusion! Therefore, there could never, ever be any evidence of obstruction of justice.

The dossier was the sole reason all of this happened, and it was created by Hillary Clinton and Robert Mueller knew it! It was paid for by Hillary Clinton. It was commissioned by Hillary Clinton. It was written by somebody paid by Hillary Clinton, Christopher Steele, working with a guy named Glenn Simpson at Fusion GPS, and it was used by the FBI, who also knew that it was total crap to get a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump administration.

There never has been any collusion between Trump and the Russians. And for those of you who remember the report, Mueller says, “Well, there were many, many efforts by the Russians to contact members of the Trump campaign, to infiltrate.” That’s a bunch of garbage as well. The FBI is who infiltrated the Trump campaign, not the Russians. It wasn’t FBI who put informants like Stefan Halper and Alexander Downer into the Trump campaign. It was the FBI that recruited members of the Trump campaign."...….

What Did el Jefe Know and When Did He Get a Nobel Prize For Knowing It? James Freeman: "The Mueller report confirms that the Obama administration, without evidence, turned the surveillance powers of the federal government against the presidential campaign of the party out of power. This historic abuse of executive authority was either approved by President Barack Obama or it was not. It’s time for Mr. Obama, who oddly receives few mentions in stories about his government’s spying on associates of the 2016 Trump campaign, to say what he knew and did not know about the targeting of his party’s opponents. The absolute bare minimum that Mr. Obama owes this country is an explanation of the actions of his government in spying on a presidential campaign. "...….

Parsing Strange: The Meaning of Oz

Any polished turd released by this Crooked Prosecution would naturally be couched in convoluted grammar meant to hide certain inconvenient truths and corrupt motives. And so it is.

At first I thought they were talking about Carter Page with the weird locution: no "U.S. person". It includes him certainly. But it begs the question; How did Page get pegged as a Russian Super-Spy FOUR TIMES before the FISA Court--and now it's "Oops! Nevermind!"?

Page must either be an FBI informant used corruptly to get a warrant or an innocent bystander misidentified by a grossly incompetent Bureau. Corrupt or incompetent?

A: Corrupt. but also incompetent.

In Barr's letter, Mueller is quoted as saying no “U.S. person” worked with the Russian Internet Research Agency, Then Barr goes on to say the Special Counsel found that no Trump personnel helped the Russians with election-tampering (dropping the “US person”-lingo). That clears Page of being a RUSSIAN spy.

But now I think they were talking about British subject Christopher Steele-- or rather, trying not to talk about him. Amb. Downer. Maybe Misfud. Also Veselnitskaya and the other Russians that were sent over to Trump Tower by Glen Simpson and Loretta Lynch. Perhaps other British and Australian spies, too. Brennan and Mueller even used an Israeli to try to  create a laundering charge against Papadopolous.

In other words, the only actual collusion with Russians...was by the foreigners hired by Clinton campaign, the CIA and DOJ!

"...CIA Director John Brennan...could not, though, investigate the Republican presidential campaign, because there are rules against spying on Americans. A formal alliance permits intelligence agencies from the United Kingdom and the United States to engage in common spying in limited circumstances. Called “Five Eyes,” the alliance also includes Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Brennan could seed the investigation to foreign intelligence services."--Thomas Farnan

sundance wrote: “Notice how this is oddly worded:

…”hacked into computers and obtained emails from persons affiliated with the Clinton campaign and Democrat party organizations.”…
That paragraph could be describing anyone. Those who are skilled in reviewing professionally obtuse legalese verbiage from the government will immediately pick up something. They are not saying the “DNC” was hacked, and we know Podesta was NOT hacked (he was a victim of a phishing password change).”

It is possible they are speaking of Seth Rich. And even more possible of Hillary Clinton. She was "affiliated" with her own campaign. This sounds like an admission that Russians hacked Clinton's computer without saying it out loud.

The Bottom Line: Any Russian Election-Meddling Pales In Comparison With the Massive--and Continuing--Election Meddling By Our Own National Security Apparatus.

"Comrade Members, like fire and fusion, government is a dangerous servant and a terrible master. You now have freedom—if you can keep it. But do remember that you can lose this freedom more quickly to yourselves than to any other tyrant."--Robert A. Heinlein,“The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress”, 1966

POTUS-UPDATE: President Trump spoke on Hannity last night. It was gratifying to hear him say that the Cockroach Coup against him--and more importantly, against the People--had to be exposed and punished to discourage future coup-plotters. The president ran to help this country move forward, not to look backwards. But he now realizes that this Police State crime wave will happen again unless it is addressed.

The president used the layman's term "treason" to describe it. Although it is a betrayal like treason, the actual term is "sedition".

Treason is what Obama did in helping Iran fund terrorism and build nukes. Sedition is what Obama did when he unleashed the entire National Security apparatus against our system of free and fair elections, our peaceful transfer of Executive Power established by George Washington himself.

Like an Auto-Immune Disease attacking the Body Politic, the institutions we created to protect our freedoms were turned inward to prevent our freedoms.

This can never happen again.

And it's still happening.

Democrats Already Have the Full Mueller Report

1.) Mueller’s team of Hillary donors, Clinton Foundation lawyers and dirty cops will have already given their fellow Democrats the full Report and any background materials that can be demagogued and weaponized. You may rely upon it.

They merely need Barr to release it all so they won’t get caught leaking what they already know and give the whole crooked game away.

2.) Mueller tried to screw the president with the “exoneration”-non-decision. This is just a ploy to give Dems an Impeachment hook. Ironically, the "Obstruction" centers around firing Comey–who was fired in part for this exact on-one-hand-on-the-other-hand-thing with the Clinton e-mail Fix as Dershowitz noted.

3.) Since Rodentstain wrote the “Fire Comey!/How Dare You Fire Comey!”-memo and hired Mueller in the first place, Barr made him stick around to put his name on the Obstruction declination decision. Now go away, punk.

4.) Hillary got them to insert a Seth Rich alibi for her by claiming it was the Russians who leaked the DNC emails to WikiLeaks. Like 17 Agencies before him, Mueller was not allowed to examine the DNC server. He just relied on the same old report from Hillary’s employees at CrowdStrike.

5. “No American persons” helped the Russians, meaning that Carter Page wasn’t a RUSSIAN Super-Spy after all. Just an honest mistake. Coulda’ happened to anybody trying to wiretap a presidential campaign and fix an election.

An Investigation About Nothing, Of Nothing, and For Nothing–except the mad quest for power.

When Mueller asked to made FBI Director again, that smacked of J.Edgar-Director-For-Life-ism. When he engineered his own appointment as Special Counsel, that was straight-up megalomania. By assembling a team of Hillary donors, Clinton Foundation lawyers, dirty cops and extortionists, he showed his true colors. Every time there was a Trump-Russia event, Mueller made sure to sabotage the event. Special Counsels don't get to run foreign policy--unless they are power-mad hacks. Everybody knows the president had a right and a duty to fire the corrupt and incompetent Comey. But Mueller refused to say so, in order to give Democrats an impeachment hook, however morally-retarded. He did his job, though. Because his job was to run interference for the grotesque mob that has infested our capital.

Stupid. Power-mad. Corrupt. Venal. Un-American. 

Mueller and this cabal are everything they accused President Trump of being.

God Bless this President and the greatest country in the world.

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No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION. KEEP AMERICA GREAT!