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Justice Clarence Thomas: ‘Forget the Bigot in the Pick-up Truck, Biggest Impediment to his Career was Modern-Day Liberals’

It's dawning on more and more Black people that the Left are the ones holding them down. 

“I felt as though in my life I had been looking at the wrong people as the people who would be problematic toward me. We were told that, ‘Oh, it’s gonna be the bigot in the pickup truck; it’s gonna be the Klansmen; it’s gonna be the rural sheriff… But it turned out that through all of that, ultimately the biggest impediment was the modern day liberal. They were the ones who would discount all those things because they have one issue or because they have the power to caricature you.”

The Brennan Dossier: All About a Prime Mover of Russiagate

Keep in mind that Brennan voted Communist before heading the CIA.

The Trump-Russia collusion theory was not propagated by a few rogue figures. Key Obama administration and intelligence officials laundered it through national security reporters who gave their explosive claims anonymous cover. Nevertheless, Brennan stands apart for the outsized role he played in generating and spreading the false narrative.

Strzok-Page Texts Were Not Unearthed by Sharp FBI Investigative Work – Strzok’s Angry and Scorned Wife Turned Him In After Finding Texts on His Phone!

We were told that the texts were uncovered by the diligent work of Michael E. Horowitz, the Inspector General. Now it turns out that it was the wife who turned Strzok in.  The IG had nothing to do with it.

Get ready for the IG report to be a nothingburger that protects the leading lights of the corrupt FBI.

The Justice Department watchdog’s past high-profile probes of FBI cases involving Hillary Clinton, James Comey, and others show a pattern of kid-glove treatment and pulling punches for some powerful people, Paul Sperry reports for RealClearInvestigations.

That suggests Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s soon-to-be-released report on FBI surveillance abuses could disappoint those hoping for a thorough, tough and fair check on government wrongdoing from a man routinely portrayed within the Washington Beltway as a “straight shooter.”

Based on previous reports by Horowitz, I expect that he will be focused on protecting the institutions he's assigned to investigate. 

London Islamist Stabber Was Previously Convicted for “Islamic Terrorism”, Was a Guest Lecturer at Cambridge U on “Prisoner Rehabilitation”

I should be surprised, but I'm not.

Trump Under Fire for Using Male Pronouns to Describe Conan the Hero Dog

The press is cis-gendered bigots.

There are, of course, a large number of tweets mocking Trump for getting Conan's gender wrong. They never asked whether Conan identifies as a male and simply hasn't started to transition yet. Shame on them for assuming gender!

Press Narrowly Escapes White House Lawn After Trump Releases The Hounds

One CNN reporter almost made it, climbing the fence, when one of the dogs got his shoe. Just as all hope was lost for the oppressed CNN journalist, Trump, being merciful, called off the attack, whistling for the hounds to return. "We'll get you one, day, reporters -- you'll see. You'll all see!" he cackled, rubbing his hands together.

I've heard the screams of the vegetables

Steve Hayes - Insane Never Trumper

Today on the Brian Kilmeade show Steve Hayes came out for Trump’s impeachment. He actually defended the only indisputable quid pro quo in the entire Ukraine fiasco. Claiming that Joe Biden only demanded the immediate removal of the Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating Burisma because the prosecutor was corrupt. 

Hayes is stupid enough to imagine that Joe Biden wanted the old, “corrupt” prosecutor to go so that a new “clean” prosecutor would do a better job of investigating corruption at Burisma – and determine why Hunter Biden was being paid over $80,000 per month for a no-show job knowing nothing about gas, Ukraine, or even speaking the language.  He wants us to know that Joe Biden was anxious to have his son's business dealings exposed.

That’s right, according to Steve Hayes, it was Joe Biden’s desire to have his son’s corrupt employer investigated. To do so he threatened to withhold a billion dollars in aid unless the Ukrainians got a better prosecutor, the better to go after his corrupt son. Yes, it makes perfect sense: Joe Biden wanted a new, incorruptible prosecutor investigating Burisma so that the bribery of the Biden family can be exposed.

This makes you realize that either Steve Hayes has always been nuts, or that Donald Trump has driven him insane. And to think that at one time Hayes was considered a credible commentator on the Right.  

And that's why the Right, with spokesmen like Steve Hayes, was always losing. 

Trump Backers Aren't a Cult…But We Are the Outsiders

The message here is clear on two fronts. First, in this present media landscape, a cult could roughly be defined as groupings of people despicable enough to hold views contrary to those of New York newsrooms and Ivy League faculty lounges. The second message also seems self-evident. Rather than debate policy, disparagement becomes the default narrative of the president’s detractors. This new “cult” criticism seems to flow directly from the inability, so far, of the Democrats to damage the president in the impeachment imbroglio.

The smear machine at work. Never forget that they hate you.

The New York Times Lies Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

The New York Times helped Stalin hide the Ukrainian famine he created. Their “reporter”, Walter Durante, did so in an interesting way. What he did was to deny the mass deaths from famine by writing that while there was some hunger and some mismanagement, there were no mass deaths from starvation. Instead, he wrote, “there is no actual starvation or death from starvation, but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.” The dead, you see, died from the sniffles, not from hunger.

The technique is interesting and evergreen: don’t deny the fact that there is a problem, but minimize it and blame it on other factors. And, in Durante’s case – as well as his reincarnation ion the current crop of liars at the New York Times – vilify the brave people that try to tell the truth.

This is how the Times tries to twist the leaks coming out of the Inspector General’s report on the Obama Administration’s illegal spying on the Trump campaign. The modern-day Walter Durnates want you to believe that the top leaders of Team Obama were only doing their jobs. Any “errors” were made by obscure underlings who no one has ever heard of.

How the New York Times Helped Stalin Hide Ukraine’s Famine From The World.

In the years 1932 and 1933, a catastrophic famine swept across the Soviet Union. It began in the chaos of collectivization, when millions of peasants were forced off their land and made to join state farms. It was then exacerbated, in the autumn of 1932, when the Soviet Politburo, the elite leadership of the Soviet Communist Party, took a series of decisions that deepened the famine in the Ukrainian countryside. Despite the shortages, the state demanded not just grain, but all available food. At the height of the crisis, organized teams of policemen and local Party activists, motivated by hunger, fear, and a decade of hateful propaganda, entered peasant households and took everything edible: potatoes, beets, squash, beans, peas, and farm animals. At the same time, a cordon was drawn around the Ukrainian republic to prevent escape. The result was a catastrophe: At least 5 million people perished of hunger all across the Soviet Union. Among them were nearly 4 million Ukrainians who died not because of neglect or crop failure, but because they had been deliberately deprived of food.
Neither the Ukrainian famine nor the broader Soviet famine were ever officially recognized by the USSR. Inside the country the famine was never mentioned. All discussion was actively repressed; statistics were altered to hide it. The terror was so overwhelming that the silence was complete. Outside the country, however, the cover-up required different, subtler tactics. These are beautifully illustrated by the parallel stories of Walter Duranty and Gareth Jones.

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In the 1930s, all of the members of the Moscow press corps led a precarious existence. At the time, they needed the state’s permission to live in the USSR, and even to work. Without a signature and the official stamp of the press department, the central telegraph office would not send their dispatches abroad. To win that permission, journalists regularly bargained with foreign ministry censors over which words they could use, and they kept on good terms with Konstantin Umansky, the Soviet official responsible for the foreign press corps. William Henry Chamberlin, then the Moscow correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, wrote that the foreign reporter “works under a Sword of Damocles—the threat of expulsion from the country or of the refusal of permission to re-enter it, which of course amounts to the same thing.”
Extra rewards were available to those, like Walter Duranty, who played the game particularly well. Duranty was The New York Times correspondent in Moscow from 1922 until 1936, a role that, for a time, made him relatively rich and famous. British by birth, Duranty had no ties to the ideological left, adopting rather the position of a hard-headed and skeptical “realist,” trying to listen to both sides of the story. “It may be objected that the vivisection of living animals is a sad and dreadful thing, and it is true that the lot of kulaks and others who have opposed the Soviet experiment is not a happy one,” he wrote in 1935—the kulaks being the so-called wealthy peasants whom Stalin accused of causing the famine. But “in both cases, the suffering inflicted is done with a noble purpose.”
This position made Duranty enormously useful to the regime, which went out of its way to ensure that Duranty lived well in Moscow. He had a large flat, kept a car and a mistress, had the best access of any correspondent, and twice received coveted interviews with Stalin. But the attention he won from his reporting back in the U.S. seems to have been his primary motivation. His missives from Moscow made him one of the most influential journalists of his time. In 1932, his series of articles on the successes of collectivization and the Five Year Plan won him the Pulitzer Prize. Soon afterward, Franklin Roosevelt, then the governor of New York, invited Duranty to the governor’s mansion in Albany, where the Democratic presidential candidate peppered him with queries. “I asked all the questions this time. It was fascinating,” Roosevelt told another reporter.

The Three Tenors: The Holy City

The Holy City sung by Charlotte Church

The Holy City by the Mormon Tabarrnacle Choir

'Coup' Concerns Suddenly Don't Seem So Far-fetched

Victor Davis Hansen

For most of the last three years, Donald Trump's critics have scoffed at supposed "conspiracy theories" that claimed a "deep state" of bureaucrats were aborting the Trump presidency. We have been told the word "coup" is hyperbole that reveals the paranoid minds of Trump supporters.

Trump's critics have also radically changed their spin on "coups." To them, "coup" is no longer a dirty word trafficked in by right-wing conspiracists. Instead, it has been normalized as a possibly legitimate means of aborting the Trump presidency.

Mark Zaid, the attorney representing the Ukraine whistleblower, boasted in two recently discovered tweets of ongoing efforts to stage a coup to remove Trump.

"#coup has started. First of many steps. #rebellion. #impeachment will follow," Zaid tweeted in January 2017. Later the same month, he tweeted: "#coup has started. As one falls, two more will take their place."

Retired Admiral William H. McRaven recently wrote an op-ed for The New York Times all but calling for Trump's ouster -- "the sooner the better."

No sooner had Trump been elected than Rosa Brooks, a former Defense Department official during the Obama administration, wrote an essay for Foreign Policy magazine discussing theoretical ways to remove Trump before the 2020 election, among them a scenario involving a military coup.

In September 2018, The New York Times published an op-ed from an anonymous White House official who boasted of supposedly widescale efforts inside the Trump administration to nullify its operations and subvert presidential directives.

Such efforts to oppose Trump are often self-described as "The Resistance," a reference to the underground French fighters resisting the Nazis in World War II.

Trump's opponents often have praised the deep state precisely because unelected career officials are seen as the most effective way to sabotage and stymie his agenda.

A "coup" is no longer proof of right-wing paranoia, but increasingly a part of the general progressive discourse of resistance to Trump.

Read the whole thing.