What it’s like for a first-timer at a Trump rally

Everything you’ve heard about a Trump rally is true: It is a coming together of a broad swath of people who still believe in the Constitution and the promise of America. They see Trump as someone who shares their views and, having made America great, can keep it great.

If you’ve watched rally videos, you already know what makes them so special: It’s Trump himself. He is exactly as you see him on the screen – a larger-than-life, uniquely American character, a showman who is nevertheless a person of tremendous substance and accomplishment. He's also a comedian with the perfect timing of any performer who ever appeared on a Borscht Belt (aka Catskills) stage.

Given how urban and, indeed, how Jewish, Trump's humor is, you'd think it wouldn't sell well in South Carolina. Wrong. The audience loved it every bit as American audiences in mid-20th century America loved Jack Benny, George Burns, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, or Danny Kaye. Once you're in on the joke, you will always laugh.

What makes attending the rally special is the other attendees. Sadly, it was a mostly white crowd, with only a small number of black, Asian, and Hispanic people present. I say “sadly” because they would have been welcomed there.

—When Trump spoke about outreach to the black community, the whole crowd roared its approval. People there clearly believe that blacks have been enslaved by the Democrat party for too long. It's time for them to break free and come to a community that welcomes them as fellow Americans who can enjoy this land's bounty, rather than as a victim class that can reliably be played for votes as needed.

—While the crowd may have been mostly white, there was nothing else "mostly" about it. Judging by looks, there were young families, retirees, current and former military, cops, blue-collar workers, white-collar workers, bikers, farmers, scads of "women for Trump," high school and college students, polished urban people, and rough-hewn country people. What bound them together was a shared love of country and, because he is serving this country well, love of Trump.

—I spoke with several people and got some insights into their support for Trump. Without exception, all had voted for Trump in 2016. Despite his bombast and boasting, they believed he meant it when he made his promises. It helped that he wasn't a career politician but was, instead, a businessman with a broad and deep record of success.

In 2020, they're supporting him more fervently than ever because he kept those promises. That was the theme they came to over and over again: He kept his promises

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/02/what_its_like_for_a_firsttimer_at_a_trump_rally.html

Gotta say Tapper has been somewhat defending Trump in the last month, he must know what’s coming kek

Smackdown: Jake Tapper calls out Democrat Ted Lieu for lying about Trump and coronavirus

It's like some sanity has returned, at least a little.

For all the sludge of lies about President Trump and his preparations for coronavirus, modeled in part on the Democrats' Katrina template which damaged President Bush, Jake Tapper of all people stepped in and shut leftist Rep. Ted Lieu up.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/02/smackdown_jake_tapper_calls_out_democrat_ted_lieu_for_lying_about_trump_and_coronavirus.html

God this guy is so weird, he can’t stop freakin lying, if Trump said even one of those out and out lies, we’d never hear the end of it! Where’s the outrage at Biden’s constant lying

Joe Biden Says He ‘Became A Professor’ After Leaving White House — He Never Taught A Class

Vice President Joe Biden claims he “became a professor” after leaving the White House in 2017, but reports from the time say neither he nor the university that hired him expected him to teach any classes, and students and faculty were confused about what he would be doing.

Biden made the claim Wednesday at a campaign event in Georgetown, South Carolina, saying he “became a teacher, became a professor” rather than “taking a Wall Street job” before his book about his son, Beau, released. The University of Pennsylvania did indeed make Biden the “Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor” in 2017, but neither the school nor Biden expected him to teach any classes, according to comments at the time.

He will not be teaching classes,” Biden spokesperson Kate Bedingfield said in 2017.

One article at The Daily Pennsylvanian featured the headline “No One Is Really Sure What Joe Biden Will Be Doing At Penn.”

UPenn announced Biden’s hiring on February 7, just a week after he left office, and by the end of February Biden’s role was “still uncertain” and “being ironed out,” University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy told the Pennsylvanian.

MacCarthy did not respond to a request for comment.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/28/biden-penn-professor-south-carolina/

Pope Francis cancels third day of events amid mysterious illness

Pope Francis has canceled a third day of scheduled events to recuperate from an undisclosed illness.

The 83-year-old pontiff will skip two official audiences at the Apostolic Palace. One would have been with a team of bioethicists and another with the Catholic “Legion of Christ.”

Francis is working from the Vatican’s Santa Marta hotel during his recovery, papal officials said, who noted he continues to attend Mass each morning.

Uh oh karma coming back to poor pedo

https://nypost.com/2020/02/29/pope-francis-cancels-third-day-of-events-amid-mysterious-illness/

Not important but I didn’t know there were Q train riders, except here! Kek

MTA saddles Q train riders with old subway cars to prep for new signal system

The MTA is giving Q riders the subway switcheroo.

The authority is shuffling its fleet of trains, swapping new cars for far older models on the Q train in preparation for the launch of a modern signal system on the E, F, M and R lines.

Q train riders accustomed to modern trains introduced in 2006, with bright lighting and light blue bench seating, now travel in a model 30 years older that feature faux wood paneling and muted orange and yellow bucket seats, imbuing the vintage warmth of an old pizza parlor.

https://nypost.com/2020/02/28/mta-saddles-q-train-riders-with-old-subway-cars-to-prep-for-new-signal-system/

NYT opinion editor reveals her ex is Lady Gaga’s new boyfriend

Strange twist I saw some posts on Gaga this am

A New York Times opinion editor has revealed that her ex-boyfriend is Lady Gaga’s new “mystery man.”

“I was eating bodega grapes at my desk on a recent Monday morning, gearing up to wrangle my inbox, when my phone started buzzing,” writes Times Opinion senior staff editor Lindsay Crouse in the paper. Multiple pals reached out to ask if she’d checked social media: “It was an emergency: My ex-boyfriend, I learned, had a new girlfriend. Lady Gaga … While I’d been watching the Super Bowl on television in New York, they were snuggling in her private box at the Hard Rock Stadium … There were the paparazzi as he escorted her away, her pink hair flowing

https://pagesix.com/2020/02/27/nyt-opinion-editor-reveals-her-ex-is-lady-gagas-new-boyfriend/?_ga=2.235391815.75044000.1582992878-1258837206.1582992878

Friday, February 28, 2020

Kevin Clinesmith And The Papadopoulos Interrogation

A few days ago we took a look at recently released FBI 302s reporting on the FBI interviews of George Papadopoulos: Devin Nunes Looking At Team Mueller Lying Re Papadopoulos. Our conclusion was that when those 302s are compared with the sentencing memo re Papadopoulos, the picture that emerges is that the FBI really had no interest at all in the substance of what Papadopoulos had to say about his conversations with Joseph Mifsud. They knew that Papadopoulos was telling the truth–that Mifsud had told him about the Russians supposedly having Hillary's emails–because Mifsud had told Papadopoulos exactly what the FBI had told him to tell Papadopoulos. Instead, the whole point of the lengthy interrogations of Papadopoulos was to get him to change what he had said about the timing of his conversations with Mifsud.

There's a review of Papadopoulos' book, Deep State Target, at American Greatness: The FBI Considered Joseph Mifsud an Asset. The concluding portion of the review recounts a portion of Papadopoulos' recollection of his interrogation by the FBI, which bears directly on our earlier discussion of what motivated the FBI:

… when the FBI interviewed Papadopoulos, the FBI interrogators showed very little interest in the source of Mifsud’s information.

“One of the investigators is an FBI lawyer named Kevin Clinesmith,” Papadopoulos writes. “And he seems to be leading a lot of this inquisition.”

Papadopoulos was asked over and over to name anyone in the Trump campaign with whom he may have shared the Mifsud emails story. “I keep waiting for someone to ask me about Mifsud himself. But nobody seems to care about him. I can’t believe these people are not interested in the source of this information.”

In a later exchange, Papadopoulos is subjected to another round of questioning that becomes so repetitive and suggestive that Papadopoulos asks, “I don’t know if you are trying to implant a memory in my mind, or what. But I cannot sit here and tell you I told [the Trump campaign] about emails when I don’t have a memory of doing that.”

That didn’t stop the Mueller team. They continued for seven hours, suggesting Papadopoulos had indeed told the Trump campaign about the hacked email rumor that Mifsud fed to him.

“Unfortunately,” Papadopoulos writes, “the truth was not what they wanted to hear. No matter how much Robert Mueller and his team of FBI agents and prosecutors wished I had told the campaign members about Mifsud’s claim, I hadn’t.”

The interesting aspect to this, of course, is that Kevin Clinesmith has already admitted to submitting fraudulently altered documents to the FISC. IG Horowitz referred Clinesmith's case to John Durham for consideration of criminal prosecution of Clinesmith. I assume that when Clinesmith was selected to interview Papadopoulos, there was more to that decision than Weissmann popping into Clinesmith's office and saying, 'Hey, why don't you go talk to Papadopoulos, OK?' This was an interview that could have potentially led to Trump's impeachment and removal from office, so I assume that many hours of preparation went into that interrogation. I further assume that Durham and his team want Clinesmith to tell them all about that preparation, in excruciating detail. They will want to know who made the decisions, who led the discussion of tactics, goals, etc. What they hoped to obtain from Papadopoulos.

http://meaninginhistory.blogspot.com/2020/02/a-few-days-ago-we-took-look-at-recently.html?m=1

Anons probably knew this, but I did not, Team Mueller continued to use Ohr to get into through Steele during their investigation. Hole sheet, they knew the Steele dossier was bunk but they continued to get more dirt from Steele, and the FBI failed to document Ohrs interviews after Special Counsel took over. Yep Team Mueller going down and I hope those in FBI go too. After all Wray was fully in change at this time! Non documentation of 302s is the least of their worries

Monday, January 6, 2020

Cleveland: OIG Report Fingers Team Mueller

I've been saying for quite some time that everything the Barr/Durham investigation is doing leads inexorably to Team Mueller–and maybe into the Obama White House. Today at The Federalist Margot Cleveland has an excellent article that details the ways in which Michael Horowitz's FISA report points a finger at Team Mueller:

Inspector General Report Shows Special Counsel Replicated FBI Abuses

The report established that the special counsel’s office was complicit in the FISA abuse, the probe was a witch hunt, and its report was a cover-up for systematic government malfeasance.

Here I'll hit what I regard as the highlights.

First, of course, is the matter of the fourth FISA application–a renewal application. That happened on Mueller's watch. FISA renewal applications don't simply piggyback on the previous applications. The same duty of accuracy and full disclosure applies equally to each renewal, as does the obligation to demonstrate that the previous FISA orders are producing new intelligence of value. We now know, of course, that FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith actually falsified documents that were part of that fourth application. Will Clinesmith take a big hit for Team Mueller? We'll find out.

Beyond that, Horowitz documents that when Team Mueller demonstrably identified new information that invalidated the Steele evidence that was relied upon, this information was concealed from the FISA court for many months. The same applies to concealing the fact that, far from being a Russian agent, Carter Page was a US intelligence asset.

Second, the OIG report discovered something that, if it didn't exactly shock me, definitely caused me to sit up and take notice, to even involuntarily raise my eyebrows:

… after June 2017, “an agent from the Special Counsel’s Office became Ohr’s final point of contact through November 2017.” Thus, Mueller’s team made a concerted decision to continue to use Ohr to obtain “intel” from Steele—a decision the IG condemned.

In fact, the special counsel’s use of Ohr appears even more problematic than the FBI’s prior mishandling of their meetings with Ohr: At least prior to Mueller’s appearance, the FBI documented the details of their conversations with Ohr in FD-302 forms, but as the IG report noted, while Ohr continued to communicate with Steele through the end of November 2017 and passed on the details of those conversations to the FBI, “the FBI did not memorialize any meetings its agents had with Ohr after the Crossfire Hurricane investigation was transferred to the Special Counsel’s Office in May 2017.”

Further, while the special counsel’s team continued to meet with Ohr during this time, no one from Mueller’s group informed DOJ leadership of Ohr’s involvement in the investigation nor his meetings with Steele until “after Congress requested information from the Department regarding Ohr’s activities in late November 2017.”

I had previously thought that, once the 302s of Joe Pientka's contacts with Ohr stopped, so did the contacts. Not so!

http://meaninginhistory.blogspot.com/2020/01/cleveland-oig-report-fingers-team.html?m=1

Albright of course, evil in arnate

Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Who Paid For The Russia Hoax?

We did! You and I–Joe taxpayers. We pay the salaries of the bureaucrats at DoJ, the FBI, the CIA, the DoS and the NSC–the bureaucrats who tried to stage a coup.

OK, that's hardly news, but there's another less direct way in which taxpayer funding helped pay for the Russian Hoax: through grants to Non Government Organizations (NGOs). Today at The American Thinker Leo Goldstein discusses one particular such NGO, and his discussion plays into a blog I did back in November: The American Empire And Its Enemies.

Goldstein's article is The Russia Hoax Was Aided by NGOs Peddling Junk Science, but rather than focusing on the junk science angle, I want to point out the political connections, the confluence of persons, organizations, and–of course–MONEY. With that in mind, here's how Goldstein begins:

Some of the most vicious anti-Trump voices have come from US government-funded Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), affiliated with the State Department, Big Tech, and Soros afiliates. Many of these NGOs have existed since the Cold War, with a mandate to promote freedom and democracy abroad. They are forbidden to operate in the US, especially in partisan fashion.

Note that well. These NGOs were set up to advance the cause of freedom and democracy, but they've been coopted by the international Left and the Democrat Party to advance their own cause–which happens to be what Obama termed the "fundamental transformation" of America. It's subordination to the new Globalist order.

Apparently, they have disregarded that mandate and have instead positioned themselves as pillars or guardians of the “global civil society.” They found a reliable ally in State Secretary Hillary Clinton. They have been interfering in US political campaigns and elections since at least 2016, frequently in coordination with their UN/EU counterparts.

One such NGO is the National Democratic Institute, headed by Madeleine Albright

It receives federal funding, which it mixes with money and influence from the Open Society Foundation (George Soros), UN agencies, the European Commission, multiple foreign governments, Amazon, Google and others.

Check out the board members. These are the people that the federal government is shoveling money to.

The day after the 2016 elections, NDI published a piece called: The distributed denial of democracy. Its author expressed dismay at Trump’s victory and blamed it on Russia, bots, Russian troll farms (IRA – the Internet Research Agency), and social media misinformation, all mixed together.

The day after the 2016 elections the Russia Hoax was being propagated by the NDI. Certainly, having glanced through the NDI's board members you won't be exactly surprised, but this fact is highly suggestive of coordination on a scale that most people would be hard pressed to imagine. And I'm talking about fairly well informed people.

Who wrote that article? Dan Swislow did. Who is Dan Swislow? "Daniel Swislow serves as senior partnerships officer at the National Democratic Institute, leading the Institute's presence in Silicon Valley and supporting programs related to open government and civic innovation."

What is "open government and civic innovation?" I'll leave that to your imagination but if "open government and civic innovation" involve maintaining a presence in Silicon Valley and establishing "senior partnerships" I think you can guess that it all tends toward the Left. Here is what Dan Swislow had to say "[t]he day after the 2016 elections":

"Social media and the Internet have had a drastic effect on the surprise results of yesterday’s election in the United States, driving the spread of information—and misinformation … Through “troll farms” of professional online provocateurs, automated bots pumping out thousands of comments, or a “Web Brigade” of crowdsourced online abuse, authoritarian regimes are engaged in a long-term and well-resourced program of undermining the democratic rights … Russia that is the most noted offender."

http://meaninginhistory.blogspot.com/2019/12/who-paid-for-russia-hoax.html?m=1