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  1. I remember this shameful travesty well. I Tthe Mueller investigation is another politcal hatchet job.

  2. “The Swamp” is firmly established EVERYWHERE, it would seem.

    I can’t see any way to drain it (or any sub-part of it) without making such behaviors A CAPITAL OFFENSE.

    ONLY “pain of death” would motivate such power-seekers to stop; and even then, probably ONLY after a dozen or so executions had actually occurred and the miserable @#*$!!’s knew the rest of the country was serious about cleaning house.

    Sigh. Ain’t a-gonna happen.

  3. It’s well past time for everybody to get into the habit of using encrypted communications.

    If your rights or your privacy are violated, and you have a million dollars for lawyers, maybe you can sue. But the applicable cliché would be “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

    Popular examples of encryption software:
    Proton Mail (https://protonmail.com/)
    Signal (https://signal.org/)

  4. I was reading Neo’s post on Mr. Strzok and Andy McCarthy’s piece too, and I thought of the recent news elsewhere on the horrific John Doe investigation.

    I sort of agree with the notion that most investigators, lawyers, judges will have political opinions and biases, and that one can’t expect some perfect political agnosticism. But, … Look at what these people, leftists, are capable of. Do you really think that if the parties were reversed in Wisconsin, that Republican prosecutors would have pulled this garbage on a Dem. Governor?

    And what was the penalty in the Wisconsin case? Contempt of court? What does that mean when the case is closed? Until penalties are levied that have real teeth, these people will see these gambits as low risk, high reward gambles.

    We don’t really know much about the Strzok incidents, but being quite fearful and demanding more information is very reasonable, in light of recent history.

  5. “What do you call a system of government that cannot tolerate a transition of power without corrupt machinations by those unwilling to cede control? Banana Republic is a term that comes to mind.”

    See more at:
    http://observer.com/2017/12/indictment-of-michael-flynn-proves-fbi-criminalized-trumps-transition/

    The Wisconsin outrages are very similar to what’s going on in D.C. Same party. Same underhanded criminalizing of political policies and activities. The Democrats should never be elected to office until they can learn to play by the rules.

  6. J.J. Says:
    December 8th, 2017 at 10:58 pm
    The Democrats should never be elected to office until they can learn to play by the rules.
    * *
    They do play by the rules: THEIR rules.
    Heads they win, tails we lose.

  7. TommyJay Says:
    December 8th, 2017 at 10:04 pm

    And what was the penalty in the Wisconsin case? Contempt of court? What does that mean when the case is closed? Until penalties are levied that have real teeth, these people will see these gambits as low risk, high reward gambles.
    * * *
    Now that we know so much more about prior administrations that the press willingly suppressed, is it any wonder that Nixon really didn’t see the Watergate break-in as anything more than “business as usual”?
    He forgot that R’s don’t get the kid-glove treatment from the press that D’s do, and he was especially a target.

    The failure to stamp on the IRS (or Fast & Furious, etc – the list is long and started even earlier than Obama’s tenure) with both feet encouraged the other malfeasors that no punishment would be levied on them, and so far they have been correct.

    I can’t even imagine a Republican skating the way Clinton Inc has done — and we know it can’t be done, because of Libby, Flynn, et al.

  8. I actually think this review of The Godfather goes a long way to explaining why our Deep State functions as it does.
    They all think they work for The Family.

    http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454341/the-godfather-45th-anniversary-enduring-appeal-mafia-organized-crime-righteous-vigilante-justice

    “Forty-five years on, viewers are still beguiled by its alluring fantasy of righteous vigilante justice. If The Godfather (1972) had come out a decade earlier than it actually did, audiences would have resisted it. You can imagine viewers asking: How are we supposed to get wrapped up in the internal disputes of this band of amoral brigands and murderers? Who is the good guy here? Doesn’t the film celebrate evil, or at least condone it? Why is Michael Corleone’s depravity rewarded instead of punished at the end?…

    Even today, as American life grows ever safer and more bureaucratic, there’s an atavistic pleasure in imagining a world in which problems are solvable by violence that can be controlled. The fantasy endures because there is some urge deep within to destroy our enemies, and I don’t mean with satiric putdowns on Twitter. Though crime in reality tends to be petty, sordid, individualistic, emotional, and poorly planned, in the Godfather films it’s the opposite of all these things.

    What if you could lord over a thriving business empire while having the people you don’t like strangled with piano wire?”

  9. One has to understand that Milwaukee, where this took place is a wholey owned subidiary of the Chicage Democratic Machine. It is Wisconsin’s Barad Dur, where the Evil comes from. The rest of the state, which is inhabited by Badgers, rather than Weasels, is a much nicer place to be.

  10. I came to like Scott Walker a great deal, long before is brief run for president, because of his fight vs the teachers unions in Wisconsin and then for his steadfastly brave response to the unremitting campaign launched against him as a result, which I followed at the Althouse blog and elsewhere. This led me to think he might be a fine president, as I foresaw that there would be attacks on anyone who ran against and/or defeated Hillary on the ugly level we’ve seen the Democrat party base attack Trump — close to if not exceeding the antiwar/anti-GWBush hysteria we saw for years on end.

    Scott Walker would’ve withstood such in a different manner, with a different style, but this is how the Dem-MSM do business these days. It “works” insofar as it excites their base, but they don’t realize (or care?) how many others such tactics alienate and how many otherwise indifferent citizens it turns into foes

    If there is some military action vs North Korea or Iran, no matter how justified, I foresee a huge effort to reenergize and drive crazy the antiwar movement of 2003-2008, from Code Pink to the new “action faction” Antifa. They desire a true civil war.

  11. miklos:

    Walker was my early favorite in 2015-2016 for the presidency, too, but in the primaries he just didn’t cut it for whatever reason. He didn’t seem to be a quick study on foreign policy. I think he came across as a bit provincial or something. He realized it almost immediately and dropped out.

  12. Aesop Fan: “They do play by the rules: THEIR rules.
    Heads they win, tails we lose.”

    True dat. Alinsky’s “Rules For Radicals” to be exact.

  13. By attempting to control the electoral process by fraud and misinformation, the GAB was violating the constitutional guarantee of a republican form of government to each of the states. (Article 4, Section 4).

    To wit:

    “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.”

    It may be time for a federal lawsuit?

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