The 2018 US midterm elections are shaping up to be not just a rematch of the 2016 presidential race but a rerun, as Democrats and the media seem determined to repeat the same mistakes that produced the presidency of Donald Trump.

Just look at the headlines, the polls, and the talking heads on television. Doesn’t this remind you of 2016? Once again, celebrities and late-night show hosts are beseeching their fans to vote, while newspapers pen fawning pieces about Democrats “making history,” the inevitability of the “Blue Wave,” and the racist, racist, RACIST nature of every Republican ever, especially Trump.

The only thing that has changed is that most media outlets - which had overwhelmingly endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 - don’t even bother hiding their preferences. Everything is out in the open now, stripped of all pretense and posturing. Ironically, that is one of the effects of the Trump presidency.

“They had learned nothing and forgotten nothing,” is a quote attributed to a famous diplomat from over 200 years ago, about a French royal dynasty. It applies just as well to the American political dynasties - the Clintons and the Bushes - and their coteries, deposed by Trump in 2016.

What they did not realize then, and do not appear to realize even now, is that their tried-and-tested tricks simply didn’t work against Trump, who is not a professional politician and doesn’t react like one. Love him or hate him, agree with his policies or not, this is a fact. Rather than recognize that fact and deal with it accordingly, Trump’s critics just stuffed more wool into their ears and continued screaming “RACIST,” as if that invocation was somehow magical.

It is this sort of magical thinking that doomed the Democrats in 2016. It wasn’t just bad data, or a terrible job interpreting it, but the fact that both the media and the Clinton campaign wanted to believe their own hype. Instead of reporting reality, the media thought they could create it. So they pretended the railroading of Bernie Sanders did not happen, and confidently predicted Clinton would crush Trump. Then came the night of November 8 and the shocked, stunned long faces in TV studios and at the Javits Center.

“They came in the same old way, and we saw them off in the same old way,” is a quote attributed to the Duke of Wellington after defeating Napoleon at Waterloo. As best as I can tell, it’s apocryphal. The actual Wellington described the battle as “the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life.” Which will the 2018 midterms more closely resemble? We’re about to find out.

In very rare move - Trump calls Sarah Sanders up on stage.

Sanders looked hesitant but when urged by Trump @PressSec adjusted the mic and said, "You'll have to forgive Kellyanne and I. We're a little speechless because we're not used to friendly crowds."

The audience roared.

Holy KEK

Papadopoulos:

So everyone understands, the current narrative is that I was in a bar randomly drunk and Alexander Downer stumbles upon me, he’s drunk and we’re talking about conspiracy. That’s, I guess, what the current fake narrative is. Now let me explain to everyone what the truth is.

This was no random meeting. This meeting was orchestrated and it was made through three intermediaries. The first intermediary was an Israeli diplomat, named Christian Cantor, in London, who despised Trump, who one day told me after Trump’s foreign policy speech, I want to introduce you to my girlfriend. Now who was this person’s girlfriend? She just happened to be an Australian intelligence officer and the assistant to Alexander Downer, named Erika Thompson. Now I meet with her and she’s belligerent, calling Trump a pariah, that it’s a horrible campaign and Trump will never win, kind of thing.

So, I’m listening to these peoples’ opinions. And then I have an interview with the Times of London – which is the most powerful newspaper in London. In this newspaper interview, I basically state that David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the UK, should retract or apologize – retract his comments about Trump being an idiot for his Muslim Ban comments. And that he should reach out to Trump in a more productive manner, because he’s likely going to be the next president. Now, that same night, all over the UK and around the world, there was some title along the lines of, ‘Trump demands apology from Cameron.’ It was a very sensationalized title that brought a lot of heat on me – including from US intelligence people in the UK.

The day after this, for everyone keeping track, this is May 2, 2016. The day after that interview, I have two guys, Americans, from the US embassy, reaching out to me, which I think were DIA people. And they tell me, we want to meet with you. Their names are Gregory Baker and Terrence Dudley. I think Terrence Dudley is still at the London Embassy right now as a navy attache. They want to meet with me. They’re wining me, they’re dining me – as if I was Marilyn Monroe or some beautiful woman – something that just never made sense to me. They’re spending a lot of money on me, their probing me, they’re asking me about my ties in the Middle East – let’s go back to that theme. They’re asking me about what Trump wants to do with Russia. I said, ‘look, I don’t know.’ Basically, I’m just deflecting them.

A day after these guys reach out to me, this is May 5th now, I have Erika Thompson message me and say ‘Hi George, I would just like to let you know that Alexander Downer just wants to meet with you. Alexander Downer, for all the listeners, this isn’t a random low-level Australian diplomat. This man ran the equivalent of the CIA in Australia for 17 years. He was the foreign minister and he was their biggest diplomat in London. And ‘he wants to meet with you over drinks.’

On May 10th I go to this meeting, so remember, I have an Israeli diplomat, I have an Australian intelligence officer, I have this strange interview with the Times of London, I have US intelligence officers. And then Downer meeting with me. So this wasn’t a random meeting. This was all very orchestrated.

I go to meet Downer, within one minute or two minutes of sitting down with this person, he pulls his phone out of his pocket and he starts holding it up to me, as if he’s filming me or taking a picture, or something very strange. That is why I was always under the suspicion that this guy was filming me, recording my conversation. And now there’s evidence that he was actually recording this conversation. And he didn’t want to talk about the US-Australian relationship. He basically was there to pass a message along from the UK to Trump to stop supporting Brexit. Remember, Brexit, I think everyone was worried about it at the time in the UK. And that Trump is a pariah. I never in my life talked about emails with this person.

The New Obama–Iran Deal Scandal That the Mainstream Media Is Ignoring

“From the final weeks of 2010 through the end of 2012, according to former American officials, the Chinese killed at least a dozen of the C.I.A.’s sources. According to three of the officials, one was shot in front of his colleagues in the courtyard of a government building — a message to others who might have been working for the C.I.A. Still others were put in jail. All told, the Chinese killed or imprisoned 18 to 20 of the C.I.A.’s sources in China, according to two former senior American officials, effectively unraveling a network that had taken years to build.”

“From around 2009 to 2013, the U.S. intelligence community experienced crippling intelligence failures related to the secret internet-based communications system, a key means for remote messaging between CIA officers and their sources on the ground worldwide. The previously unreported global problem originated in Iran and spiderwebbed to other countries, and was left unrepaired — despite warnings about what was happening — until more than two dozen sources died in China in 2011 and 2012 as a result, according to 11 former intelligence and national security officials.”

“One of the largest intelligence failures of the past decade started in Iran in 2009, when the Obama administration announced the discovery of a secret Iranian underground enrichment facility — part of Iran’s headlong drive for nuclear weapons. Angered about the breach, the Iranians went on a mole hunt, looking for foreign spies, said one former senior intelligence official.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-new-obama-iran-deal-scandal-that-the-mainstream-media-is-ignoring_2708747.html

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https://gellerreport.com/2018/11/flynn-cleared-democrat-treason.html/

https://newrepublic.com/minutes/146076/abc-news-michael-flynn-prepared-testify-trump-told-make-contact-russians

https://www.follownews.com/fbi-clears-michael-flynn-in-probe-linking-him-to-russia-52vxe