Sunday, December 22, 2024
Kash Patel, onetime FBI target, now on track to run the FBI - Washington Examiner
Not long ago, a left-wing journalist argued that when Republicans describe Kash Patel’s nomination to be FBI director as a way to “clean out” the FBI and “restore its integrity,” they are in fact creating “cover to go along with Trump’s scheme to unleash the FBI on enemies.” - Byron York .jpg)
1) Opened investigations on presidential candidates.
2) Deployed undercover agents and confidential sources to spy on a candidate’s advisers.
3) Hired a campaign opposition researcher under the guise of intelligence gathering.
4) Presented false opposition research to a court as a basis for wiretapping a candidate’s adviser.
5) Used false opposition research to brief the president of the United States.
6) Ambushed the president-elect with false opposition research.
7) Sought to include false opposition research in intelligence community products.
8) Ambushed the national security adviser with wiretap information on the pretense of a Logan Act violation.
9) Misled/stonewalled Congress on the investigation of the president.
10) Misled the president about the investigation targeting him...
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It’s a common criticism in anti-Trump circles. But it raises a question. Where were these people in 2017, 2018, and after? If one wants to discuss the prospect of a new director unleashing the FBI on enemies, shouldn’t he grapple with the reality of years of bureau leadership unleashing the FBI on enemies?During the Trump years, FBI directors and other top law enforcement and intelligence officials did the following:
1) Opened investigations on presidential candidates.
2) Deployed undercover agents and confidential sources to spy on a candidate’s advisers.
3) Hired a campaign opposition researcher under the guise of intelligence gathering.
4) Presented false opposition research to a court as a basis for wiretapping a candidate’s adviser.
5) Used false opposition research to brief the president of the United States.
6) Ambushed the president-elect with false opposition research.
7) Sought to include false opposition research in intelligence community products.
8) Ambushed the national security adviser with wiretap information on the pretense of a Logan Act violation.
9) Misled/stonewalled Congress on the investigation of the president.
10) Misled the president about the investigation targeting him...
Long but WELL WORTH you time!!-----Rapid-Onset Political Enlightenment - Tablet Magazine
Rapid-Onset Political Enlightenment - Tablet Magazine 
...When I wrote about Rhodes’ ambitious program to sell the Iran deal, I advanced the term “echo chambers” to describe the process by which the White House and its wider penumbra of think tanks and NGOs generated an entirely new class of experts who credentialed each other on social media in order to advance assertions that would formerly have been seen as marginal or not credible, thereby overwhelming the efforts of traditional subject-area gatekeepers and reporters to keep government spokespeople honest.
- In constructing these echo chambers, the White House created feedback loops that could be gamed out in advance by clever White House aides, thereby influencing and controlling the perceptions of reporters, editors and congressional staffers, and the elusive currents of “public opinion” they attempted to follow.
- If you saw how the game worked from the inside, you understood that the new common wisdom was not a true “reflection” of what anyone in particular necessarily believed, but rather the deliberate creation of a small class of operatives who used new technologies to create and control larger narratives that they messaged to target audiences on digital platforms, and which often presented themselves to their targets as their own naturally occurring thoughts and feelings, which they would then share with people like themselves...
Official transcript directly contradicts J6 committee messaging * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
Official transcript directly contradicts J6 committee messaging * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh:
The Federalist noted it months ago had documented how Cheney suppressed evidence "that Trump pressed Democrats to accept 10,000 National Guard troops ahead of Jan. 6, 2021."
Preferred pronouns required for alleged rapist, not for students? Legal cases diverge nationwide | Just The News
Teachers get big settlements for compelled speech as full federal appeals court considers protecting student speech, but prosecutors, victims and witnesses may not get leeway to call a man a man. - Greg Piper 
- Ohio teacher Vivian Geraghty received a $450,000 settlement to drop her two-year-old First Amendment lawsuit against the Jackson Local School District for forcing her to resign shortly after Geraghty expressed "reservations" about participation in the "social transition" of gender-confused students...
- A California judge ordered a prosecutor to refer to Tremaine Carroll with female pronouns in the male inmate's upcoming felony trial for rape and "dissuading a witness" while housed at the Central California Women's Facility...
Republicans gain control of Minnesota House after judge disqualifies Democrat who failed residency requirement | Blaze Media
Republicans gain control of Minnesota House after judge disqualifies Democrat who failed residency requirement | Blaze Media:
Republicans chalk up another victory in state legislatures.
Republicans in Minnesota are celebrating after a judge disqualified a Democratic politician over residency issues and handed control of the state House of Representatives to the GOP.
The joy is gone: A liberal holiday hate-fest celebrates political violence
“May Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace.” - Jonathan Turley 
Those words, from Disney’s new Snow White actress Rachel Zegler, came shortly after half of the country, roughly 77 million Americans, voted for Donald Trump.
Only a few weeks ago, Kamala Harris and her supporters were rallying the country to choose “love over hate.”
Only a few weeks ago, Kamala Harris and her supporters were rallying the country to choose “love over hate.”
- Now, the “joy” is gone.
- Tis the season of the liberal hate-fest.
As Washington prepares for the inauguration, we are seeing a return to rage...
In my recent book, I discussed how addictive rage is. People do not like to admit it, but they like being angry. Sometimes, people can choose madness as a release from reality. It offers a righteous license to slip from the bounds of civility and decency. It allows people to harass Republicans in restaurants or to scream profanities outside of their homes...
We need term limits!!-----A 'Missing' GOP Rep Has Been Found...and It's Not a Good Situation
A 'Missing' GOP Rep Has Been Found...and It's Not a Good Situation - Matt Vespa
Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX) was AWOL for months.
Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX) was AWOL for months.
She was “missing”—no one knew where she was, which was made more conspicuous apparently with the mountain of missed votes.
- Calls to her office went straight to voicemail.
When Congress was barreling toward a total shutdown this week, which has been averted, Dallas Express wanted to know how Congresswoman Granger would vote on the continuing resolution.
- They found her office locked, with no staff in sight.
Now, we know where she has been for weeks: an assisted living facility that specializes in those living with dementia:
Upscale San Francisco Shopping Center Is Total Ghost Town With Just Three Tenants | ZeroHedge
But the damage remains, and not just in the city's abundant bums on the street doing drugs. -
Monica Showalter via American Thinker,
This is what it's come to:
Monica Showalter via American Thinker,
- San Francisco threw out its wokester mayor, London Breed, in favor of a more moderate alternative, and before that, its literally-Chavista district attorney, Chesa Boudin, raised by Bill Ayers, whose only interest was in prosecuting the police.
This is what it's come to:
DC lawmakers on the naughty list after proposing INSANE spending bill | Blaze Media
DC lawmakers on the naughty list after proposing INSANE spending bill | Blaze Media:
Speaker Mike Johnson attempted to cram a bill containing funds for censorship and COVID mandates through Congress before Christmas — but the plan was thwarted by multiple lawmakers and even Elon Musk, who successfully tanked the bill.
“Everyone on D.C. might be going on the naughty list because we’ve seen over 1,500 pages of the CR that the House put forth, and it’s filled with things like a congressional pay raise and an Obamacare exemption for elected officials,” Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight” comments.
“We’ve seen an incredible amount of blowback to this bill online, and it’s not just from lawmakers. Elon Musk is getting into this fight. So is the pressure now from the public square enough to make Mike Johnson go back to the drawing board for the CR?” Savage asks Blaze News senior politics editor Christopher Bedford.
The Utterly Delicious Humiliation of Our Intelligentsia
They were giving themselves a 35% raise, for one. - Frank Charles
- They were continuing the pandemic/WHO biometric tracking regime, and they were funding the International Censorship Regime.
- There were billions of dollars going to various pet projects, a last lovely looting of the public purse before it all came to a crashing end.
“And Republicans were going to vote for it. Of course they were, they were getting another $60K a year.
“The deplorables rose up in a great wave and defeated it.
“The deplorables rose up in a great wave and defeated it.
Oh I know the blithering morons think it was Trump and Musk, but trust me on this, Trump and Musk are a symptom, not a cause.
The blowback, the underlying thinking had been developing for forty years among the garbage people. Trump is our weapon.
So is Musk.
They. Follow. Us.
They are using our ideas.
History for December 22
History for December 22 - On-This-Day.com 
Lady Bird Johnson 1912 - First Lady of the United States, married to U.S. President Lyndon by Johnson
- 1894 - French army officer Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason in a court-martial that triggered worldwide charges of anti-Semitism. Dreyfus was eventually vindicated.
- 1895 - German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen made the first X-ray, of his wife's hand.
- 1939 - Gloria Jacobs became the first girl to hold a world pistol record when she shot 299 out of a possible 300 points. She was 17 years old at the time.
- 1961 - James Davis became the first U.S. soldier to die in Vietnam, while U.S. involvement was still limited to the provision of military advisers.
- 1984 - New York City resident Bernhard Goetz shot four black youths on a Manhattan subway. Goetz claimed they were about to rob him.
- 1991 - The body of Lt. Col. William R. Higgins, an American hostage murdered by his captors, was found along a highway in Lebanon.
Saturday, December 21, 2024
Pentagon should face probe for possible nefarious acts at Capitol Jan. 6, former top Army official says | Blaze Media
Pentagon should face probe for possible nefarious acts at Capitol Jan. 6, former top Army official says | Blaze Media:
In a wide-ranging interview with Blaze Media investigative reporter Steve Baker, one of the top civilians at the Pentagon under the first Trump administration said some of the DOD actions could have been seditious.
“We’ve got people at the top of the Army and the military who I believe were operating outside the Constitution and certainly outside the authorities that they were granted by the commander in chief,” said Casey Wardynski, former assistant secretary of the Army for Reserve and Manpower Affairs. “They were operating in a way that was very political. Could they have been involved?"
Sweet!-----Trump can fire anybody he wants, thanks to Sean Spicer - Washington Examiner
Trump can fire anybody he wants, thanks to Sean Spicer - Washington Examiner - Paul Bedard
- President-elect Donald Trump is arriving at the White House armed with a legal weapon that will let him fire any of President Joe Biden’s appointees.
- And the best part, Spicer told Secrets, “They’ll have no one to blame but Biden himself.”
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