Whistlegate roundup
There are so many good articles on Whistlegate that I’m just doing to do a roundup, for starters:
(1) The incurious press, when Democrat malfeasance is involved:
When you asked who cleared Biden, you got no answer except the news media themselves. When you asked who debunked the claim that Biden had pressured the Ukrainian president to fire the prosecutor by threatening to withhold aid, you got no response except that other European countries also wanted the prosecutor fired (as if that proved anything). When the president stymied the impeachment narrative by releasing the transcript compiled by national security officials who listened in on the offending phone call, which proved that the whistleblower was actually blowing smoke, the media circled the wagons. The Washington Post created its own conspiracy theory that up to two-thirds of the call between Trump and Zelensky had mysteriously been elided into non-existence. I debunked that far-left conspiracy theory myself, but hardly any mainstream reporter seems interested in looking at the facts.
(2) Hillary and the Ukrainians.
(3) It’s not just about the Bidens, by Lee Smith at RealClearInvestigations.
(4) Many whistleblowers coming down the pike:
If the rules were that whistleblowers had to be left-handed Lithuanian midgets who enjoyed eating pickles while wearing pink frilly dresses, you can be sure that somewhere, somehow, the Democrats would be able to dig one up. This is basically the same play they ran with Kavanaugh. When it became obvious that Christine Doctor Ford was pretty much lying her ass off, suddenly, a number of other “credible” witnesses suddenly materialized out of thin air, each one with a kinky Kavanagh story more unbelievably bizarre than the previous one, until finally they had Kavanaugh as the captain of a pirate ship doing rape runs up and down the eastern seaboard in between celebratory keggers.
(5) William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection on the Democrats’ Star Chamber.
There are plenty more, too, but I’ll stop there for today.
I think many people, far more than the left imagines, have impeachment fatigue.
They don’t care. This is like watching some kind of circular –not firing squad — but some sort of onanistic compulsion among this group of political perverts. As the Brits would say, “It’s a bloody wank festival.”
Just how many more “whistleblowers” will there be? I imagine that the Dems now have lined up as many as the grains of sand on a beach. They might even run out of them at some point.
These complaints need to be further investigated — most include some illegal “leak” of confidential information. Who are these illegal leakers?
The Dems are making it tough for The Donald to get much done. On the other hand, the country does better when the private, voluntary sector does more, and the public/ gov’t, force based sector does less. Most problems the gov’t tries to solve makes things worse.
Tho maybe more mental illness facilities, which are more voluntary, would be helpful to more disturbed people.
Today David French at “National Review” pushed me over the line:
In an interview earlier today, I described the [Whistlegate] scandal as one part corruption, one part fitness. Yes, it’s venal and corrupt to depart from any conventional legal process to urge a dependent foreign government (or a hostile foreign government, like China) to investigate a domestic political rival — especially in the absence of evidence of criminal wrongdoing. But the willingness to believe in conspiracy theories and conduct diplomacy accordingly also speaks less to Trump’s corruption than whether he has the character, knowledge, and temperament to be president.
–David French
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/trump-most-loyal-allies-are-putting-him-on-path-to-impeachment/
I haven’t been able to make sense of French’s posts for a while now. He writes the usual exaggerated OMG-look-what-Trump’s-done stuff, while ignoring the context, especially the actions of Trump’s opponents.
So now I find myself on Kurt Schlicter’s side, who today wrote:
I have a confession to make: I hate the pseudo-conservative scribblings of David French with the same kind of smoldering loathing I reserve for foot fungus, movies about spunky young women who triumph over the patriarchy, and the music of Maroon 5.
–Kurt Schlicter
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2019/10/07/liberals-hate-free-speech-when-we-presume-to-use-it-n2554237
I just had an idea for an ad. Get some group to do a good whistling song, run it in the background of Schiff, Pelosi, et al. faces, and top with Our Whistleblowers Are Better Than Yours.
David French used to be a tailor of invisible clothes for various royal families before they became rarer than the truth… his career was blown by an upstart child who, not caring to be called a fool, blurted the truth…
French, and other never trumpers, don’t want the hems of their skirts soiled by the dirty work of politics during the age of ‘resistance’. As a result they have their panties showing.
Not intended as an insult to those who wear panties.
David French and other NeverTrumpers may be about to get a very harsh lesson. I’m not sure how they’re missing it but elected Republicans are fighting back against this Ukraine/impeachment nonsense. For two years the GOP establishment sat back and did next to nothing to defend Donald Trump while the Mueller investigation was going on. That’s not happening this time. If French isn’t careful, he’s going to find himself on the opposite side not of Trump but of a lot of Republican bigwigs who maintain the wingnut welfare that supports him and a lot of “conservative thinkers.”
And it’s only going to get worse. At this time next year, the next President is either going to be Donald Trump or a Democrat who likely supports a “wealth tax” and a whole host of other socialist and quasi-socialist policies. I don’t care how many millennial wokesters there are in their PR departments, corporate America is going to be whole hog behind Trump and not take too kindly to ANYONE standing in there way.
Mike
As a result [French et al.] have their panties showing.
parker: Great. Now I get to think about a bald guy [French] in panties. Thanks a heap.
Catherine Herriage, FNC: Whistleblower wrote memo after learning of Ukraine call, saying WH official called it ‘crazy,’ ‘frightening’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/whistleblower-memo-trump-ukraine-call-white-house-crazy-frightening
Crazy? Hardly.
Scary? For certain, to those involved in the soft coup, as Barr/Durham investigation exposes their malfeasance or crimes.
I think the left, all of them, should be mandated to wear pink slips, have them showing.
I didn’t vote for Trump in the last election, but I will vote for him during this one. Our so-called betters are trash.
Tom Grey on October 7, 2019 at 4:06 pm – The Dems are making it tough for The Donald to get much done. On the other hand, the country does better when the private, voluntary sector does more, and the public/ gov’t, force based sector does less. Most problems the gov’t tries to solve makes things worse.
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Exactly right, if the American people are doing better on the whole without so much being done by “the government” then what are we paying them for.
I voted for Trump (although not in the primary) because it was better than the alternatives, and because I realized he would fight the status quo in D.C. In this, he’s done remarkably well.
I call this time “The Great Clarifying.” Honest people who aren’t news/political junkies can now see the corruption and laziness of our institutions.
Gerard vanderleun – This is crude but they really are engaged in an OUTRAGE CIRCLE JERK.
If the dems had any candidates who weren’t crazy, incompetent or crazy incompetent that wouldn’t be grasping at straws
!) The ICIG who changed the whistleblower form to allow hearsay information was involved in the FISA abuse when he was in the DOJ-NSD which was exempted from the DOJIG review by Obama’s acting AG Yates. Unfortunately someone recommenced his ICIG appointment to President Trump. That person needs to be checked out.
2) The Whistlblower’s statement was undercut by the release of the transcript of the call to the Ukrainian President. If this transcript is said to be false or incomplete, then every trial transcript is suspect and any conviction ever made would be unconstitutional per the 5th Amendment.
3) The corruption put forth from many that the Ukrainian prosecutor was corrupt and it was justified for Biden to have him fired ignores the information that the NG company’s American lawyers admitted to the Ukrainian government that they were the ones that put out falsely that the prosecutor was corrupt. Was he? His sworn statement and others supposedly state he was not corrupt.
Re-rounding the roundup:
1) Last night James Clapper said on CNN he was just following the orders of the commander in chief, Pres. Pseudonym, in
spying ongoing after Trump campaign members. First rat off the ship?2) White House sends a letter to Pelosi and Schiff explaining they should expect no cooperation with their sham “impeachment” inquiry. Take a vote in the House, why don’cha? Maybe then we’ll shake loose a document or two.
3) John Durham’s investigation has been revealed to have advanced beyond the initial timeline prior to the 2016 election period, on up now to the appointment of Mueller in 2017.
4) Mueller himself has been said by administration observers to have been seeking the appointment to head the FBI in the period just prior to his appointment to the Special Counsel office. Mueller had claimed under oath he had done no such thing. Hmmm.
5) Former Congressman Trey Gowdy has signed on to Pres. Trump’s legal team in preparation for any forthcoming actual impeachment proceedings, should they ever arise.
6) IG Horowitz may issue his report Fri., according to Congressman Ratcliffe last weekend. Others today are saying “before the month is out”, so possibly somewhat later. Still, the jitters exhibited by the coup functionaries are palpable.
7) Susan Rice has a new book out. She’s now admitting she felt used when Hillary wouldn’t take to the weekend shows to explain the Benghazi disaster. Rice says her mother didn’t like this episode at all, had warned her not to do it, and was angry in the aftermath. Well duh. But interesting, no? Rice is looking to clean the deck of the sinking ship, the ship she has not yet fled to join with the more prescient, perhaps stronger swimmer James Clapper.
8) Schiff’s got nothing. But his Rep. colleagues Jordan, Gaetz, Zeldin and Meadows are out in front of cameras hammering away at the phantom “inquiry”. They seem to be enjoying themselves.
9) Reports emerge that the wishyblower has or had a working relationship with one of the current Democrat candidates for President. Which one we don’t know, yet.
Oh, and Iraq and Equador are both in meltdown mode, while the Turks are poised to invade northeastern Syria to get after the YPG/PKK. Boogie.