Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
As another president once remarked in a different context — LBJ speaking to a hanger full of grunts in Vietnam — “go on out there, boys, and nail that coonskin to the wall!” That was around the time the war was looking like a lost cause, with 1000 soldiers a month coming home in a box and even the Rotarians of Keokuk, Iowa, starting to doubt the official story of what exactly we thought we were doing over there. It was also, arguably, around the time America stopped being, ahem, “great” and commenced the long, nauseating slide into idiocracy and collapse.
The news media has taken LBJ’s place in today’s Wile E. Coyote phase of our history, cheerleading the congressional hunt for the glittering golden scalp of You-Know-Who in the White House. They got all revved up on Friday in a New York Times front-page salvo with the headline: F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia. The purpose of this blast was to establish the high and grave seriousness of Robert Mueller’s Russia Collusion investigation, because otherwise the yarn has completely shed its credibility. Note: it was around paragraph nine in the story that the team of three Times reporters inserted the sentence that said, “No evidence has emerged publicly that Mr. Trump was secretly in contact with or took direction from Russian government officials.” The idea, you see, was to simply drag the teetering narrative back onstage to titillate the paper’s Creative Classnik readership who desperately want to nail that Golden Golem of Greatness to the wall, scalp, paunch, tiny hands, and all.
The CBS 60 Minutes Show took its turn last night with a puff piece on Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland), incoming chairman of the House oversight Committee, which, CBS interlocutor Steve Kroft delighted in pointing out, “can investigate any [old] thing.” And so, Rep. Cummings will be the ringmaster of this new “Greatest Show on Earth,” aimed at climaxing in an orgasmic impeachment operation. Mr. Kroft could hardly contain his glee onscreen.
The facts say something a bit different about the actual reality-based Russia Collusion case, namely, that it’s been a two-year smokescreen to cover the collective ass of a rogue leadership in the Department of Justice and its step-child, the FBI, who deliberately and repeatedly broke the law in dishonestly pursuing a way to annul the 2016 election result. It also reflects darkly on the Obama White House and its participation in all this huggermugger. Wads of information around this matter also came out in the past week — which you can be sure the news media would not touch — including congressional testimony from last July with former FBI lawyer, Lisa Page, revealing that the traffic controller for the so-called Steele Dossier was one John Carlin, Assistant Attorney General at the time, and formerly then-FBI Director Robert Mueller’s chief-of-staff. Ms. Page herself characterized Mr. Carlin as “a political appointee.” Was he Mr. Mueller’s clean-up man?
What was there to clean up? For one thing, that the Steele Dossier was never properly verified when it was used as a predicate to commence spying operations against Mr. Trump and people who had worked for him in the campaign and afterwards. In fact, it was revealed last week that a file exists proving that the FBI didn’t follow verification procedures before the Dossier was submitted to the FISA courts for warrants to surveil the Trumpistas. Mr. Carlin’s role was also to coordinate the Hillary email investigation with then-AG Loretta Lynch and Barack Obama’s White House. He resigned shortly after then-NSA Director Michael S. Rogers was alerted that the FBI was abusing the NSA data-base to spy on Trump (as reported by Jeff Carlson at Themarketswork.com.)
The purpose of the Russia Collusion narrative was to buy time for Mr. Mueller to come up with an obstruction of justice case on Mr. Trump, which was becoming increasingly difficult to do, and still apparently hasn’t been accomplished. Meanwhile, the actual malfeasance evidence against Mr. Mueller, Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein, and a long cast of characters mounts steadily and raises the question of when the spotlight will be turned on them, and who will throw the switch.
I said before that “they are grasping at straws. That doesn’t mean Trump is squeaky clean, only that he doesn’t qualify for impeachment yet since they have no unimpeachable evidence of malfeasance.”
The curious thing is Trump’s over-reaction by closing down the government to distract from the minor revelations of the investigation. They bluff and Trump covers, wtf?
Coyote……It was not an over-reaction by any means. This country and its tax payers cannot even manage to pay for its own b/s wants, wishes and desires with out having to pay for the feeding, clothing, housing, educating, medicating and entertaining the majority of south and central America. If you think this is the end of the line forget it. These clowns are the welcome wagon for the rest who want all the freebies for one thing and one thing only –the democrat vote every two or four years.
He better stand tall and shred Pelosi or this country is over and done with.
Crying the sky is falling will always get a huge round of applause, I applaud you for that. You just claimed the entire Latin America wants to come here for freebies. Ok, you said the majority. Have you taken a survey?
You also claim that America can’t hardly pay for it’s own wants and needs. That’s been my point, the wall is estimated to come in at $50 to $70 Billion. That little detail has been carefully hidden away and the public is informed over and over that this battle is over a mere $5.7B. I said before, that’s just the tip.
Trump never exhibited this resolve when he had control of the house and senate. What’s the big hurry now? Where’s the fire? This battle isn’t over any emergency that somehow could wait for two years until now. This is about a diversion from the president’s abuse of power, using the presidency to rake in the bucks, and cutting private deals with Putin.
Look, Hillary made a lot of dough as Secretary of State. What makes you think Trump suddenly became civic minded and decided to dedicate his old age to serving the public? He smelled money and went for it. A tiger doesn’t change his spots mid-stream. President Trump is still Trump the businessman.
The caravan and no deal with Democrats is what is leading to the “emergency,” especially with another caravan to arrive soon.
Not only does the author have the Vietnam premise all wrong, using Vietnam is a very poor example and does not apply to our present situation regarding the FBI. He conveniently omits that the investigation of President Trump was a “smokescreen”, buying time to “sanitize” the FBI and IRS and to divert attention from the shenanigans committed by the Clintons, with FBI complicity. If Clinton had won, it would have been “business as usual” at the FBI, IRS, and other “alphabet agencies”. The criminals in these agencies would have still been free to operate. The election of President Trump put a “crimp” in their plans, forcing them to scurry like rats to cover up the evidence of their wrongdoing.
If I had my way, I would fire EVERYONE at the FBI, IRS, and other federal agencies and start over…
As in ready, aim, …
If I had my way, I’d fire everyone at the FBI, IRS, CIA, etc. and close them down permanently.
The guys who couldn’t find the JFK assassin, the 9/11 perps, the Nixon tapes, probably won’t find a smoking gun on Trump. It’s all a big dramatic play in the main theater of the Titanic.
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They did find the assassin. Harvey did it and they did catch the 911 perps. Don’t you remember the unemployed Camel Jockeys who left their fire proof passports in the plane?
California, not wishing to be left behind, also has fireproof drivers licenses. Why we don’t wrap important buildings in Saudi Passports and California drivers licenses is a mistake that needs to be rectified.
Interesting new 911 info … confirms (for me) the military shoot down of the PN plane.
One down vote = someone doesn’t know sarcasm when they see it.
I keep hoping we aren’t on the Titanic but Trump is like Perry Mason and has his AG calls a witnesses that suddenly nails the Clintons and the Deep State Coup.
Might as well get used to it. Here is your MSM shitfuk scheduled “news” stories that will be carried EVERY SINGLE DAY for the next two years;
—1) Some aspect of Trump being impeached (subpoena, leaked documents, committees out the ass, etc etc)
—2) Russian collusion (naturally)
—3) endless 2020 POTUS coverage … and which Democrap can beat The Gollum (personally, I believe ALL 235 Demons will eventually declare they are running)
That there is 90% of programming on shitfuk MSM for the next two years. (Note: This assumes ‘Murika won’t experience a full blown Depression-like collapse in the next two years. Should that occur the above 3 stories will be reduced to a mere 85% coverage.)
Turn off the fucken TV, lest you go insane.
Books. You’ve inspired me to renew my local library priveliges.
Look away! No peeking! Or you might want to kill yourself.
If Uncola comes out with a third chapter to the Sandra Bollocks saga, I might consider it.
There’s probably a dozen or two Dems pretending to be Rethuglicans slavering over primary possibilities too.
‘The News’ – isn’t. I grant none of those people any benefit of the doubt. In fact, automatically assume it’s a Bizarro World projection mirror. Their owners do what they accuse others of.
Turned off the TV over 10 years ago now.
Finally a president that attempts to stick to doing what he promised in his campaign . Well the swamp creatures of Pelosi , Schumer , Fienstien must slither about using every POS Obama appointee still hanging on to take every word said dissect it flip it and fire it back as a charge of criminal shenanigans . Most normal people hear their bravato and really hear BULL SHIT !
These swamp things like Maxine Waters (left her out earlier)are merely doing what my Great grandmother said about Washington insiders : “They are all down there in DC scurrying about like cats covering up shit”! Miss the old gal , what she lacked in education she more than made up for with common sense and a PHD from the school of hard knocks .
She had another good one about welfare : “Put a beggar on horseback and he will ride it to death”! Her wisdom and hard life’s lessons made her someone to be listened to pity she would be ignored today especially by our self promoting DC elites !
You had a smart grandmother, Boat Guy. Why someone down-voted you, I don’t know.
Meanwhile, we inch ever closer to Arab springing Venezuela because we want to. They will flood Florida and Texas with socialists who will make Michelle President and presto. Instant Bolshevism.
Where is the long overdue counter offensive?? If justice is not to be had here and soon, then another plank has been loosened in America’s hull and the pumps don’t work.
I liked the first paragraph, but to pretend this whole political scene in America isn’t just a circle-jerk of professional pawns (Trump can be a half-ass Knight for the purposes of chess) is just a waste of time.
They’ll all be drinking buddies and laughing about this affair behind closed doors when it’s over.
Meanwhile, you still believe all the intrigue and drama was real.
All sound and fury; all accusations, no indictments.
Good summation of what’s going on. But he forgot the fact that Mueller is there to clean up the mess and cover up.
When mueller is done he should be locked up as well. Fuckin douchebag