By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com
In the wake of Robert Mueller’s very bizarre nine-minute press conference on May 29, 2019, there can be no doubt his special counsel investigation was a political sham orchestrated, from the start, to undermine the Trump Presidency and increasingly divide the country. But the question remains whether or not we are witnessing legitimate legal warfare in the highest offices of American government or a Reality TV Live Action Role Play (LARP) designed to bleed the nation’s brakes before the big stop.
Indeed, for those seeking America’s demise, the Russian Collusion lie is the gift that won’t stop giving because it is, in fact, a wound that won’t ever heal. The damage is done and the psychology is so perfect it had to have happened either by destiny or design.
The seeds of destruction in the Russian collusion narrative remain rooted in the patriotism of both sides. No matter who wins in the end, it will be a pyrrhic victory because the other team will never surrender, accept any terms, or yield any ideological ground. Any chance of compromise is long past, so it’s all or nothing going forward. In fact, each side’s patriotism precludes any chance of concession. The irony therein, of course, is that the entire slate of premises of one side are predicated upon, and perpetuated by, lies and deception.
How can the political leftists who have openly embraced illegal immigration for years, suddenly have become patriotic over imaginary Russian election hacking? How does that work? It works because truth is relative in the minds of mental midgets and political sociopaths.
This is why the same loons who want federal licensing for gun owners call voter I.D. laws “discriminatory”; and how they could impeach a Republican President for crimes committed by Democrats. It is also why former FBI Director James Comey said Hillary Clinton was “extremely careless” but with no “clear evidence” that she “intended to violate laws” – as former FBI Director Robert Mueller said: “If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so”.
It’s all a state of mind and, certainly, the insanity will get worse as mandated by the depredations of time.
In Mueller’s May 29, 2019 press conference, he perpetuated his leading lie that “Russian intelligence officers” launched a “concerted attack on our system” during the 2016 Presidential election by using “sophisticated cyber techniques” to “hack into computers and networks” used by the Clinton campaign and then forwarded the information to WikiLeaks.
Although none of the above actually happened in the way Mueller described, he did at least acknowledge the Russians were “presumed innocent until proven guilty”. Notwithstanding, the former special counsel then cited the alleged Russian election hacking as the reason to investigate President Donald Trump for obstruction of justice.
The order appointing me special counsel authorized us to investigate actions that could obstruct the investigation….
After that investigation, If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.
We did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime.
What a complete farce.
But what happened next was even more incredible: Mueller led the country into the veritable twilight zone by claiming he didn’t charge Trump with any crimes that weren’t committed because sitting presidents can’t be indicted. This is very strange because Attorney General William Barr stated under oath that Mueller told him that particular consideration did NOT apply to Trump; and, moreover, Mueller said that to Barr in the presence of other witnesses.
Of course, that is just one of the reasons the former special counsel did not take questions at his press conference and why he refuses to testify before congress. Furthermore, one would think the Mainstream Media would be reporting more on those contradicting statements between Mueller and Barr; and, especially, taking the opportunity to additionally discredit the U.S. Attorney General as he now investigates the investigators.
But the media has, seemingly, flushed this historical discrepancy right down the memory-hole. Why?
Perhaps because they also understand Mueller’s premises as predicated upon lies. It’s a show. An act. A charade. Just as the liars have reported on Mueller being a man of integrity, the dupes have fed on the falsehoods so they, too, could be part of the act; when, in reality, neither the media nor the morons care one whit about fairness, or justice, or integrity. In the meantime, the elites have chuckled over their puppet strings and stacked decks as the plebes are strangled by an Orwellian dystopia.
The show goes on.
Ostensibly, and if hindsight is twenty-twenty vision, then it looks like this: Mueller, at the very start, set out to frame Trump either with collusion or obstruction. In so doing, the special counsel investigation was stacked with Clinton cronies led by Andrew Weissmann, who just happened to run the Fraud Section for Obama’s Department of Justice during Hillary Clinton’s “Uranium One” scandal. You know – the same “Uranium One” scandal that occurred when Robert Mueller was FBI Director and later investigated by Rod Rosenstein.
In spite of the Mueller probe breaking multiple prosecutorial rules that ensured justice, they were “outfoxed” by Trump’s legal team beginning as far back as June, 2018 when none other than William Barr sent a 19-page memorandum to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein checkmating Mueller’s apparent “interpretation of a single subsection of a single obstruction-of-justice statute:18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2)“. It was Barr’s contention that Trump could not have violated that particular statute because “he [Trump] was not accused of engaging in any wrongful act of evidence impairment”. In his memo to Rosenstein, Barr also claimed Mueller was giving the statute a “new unbounded interpretation” that “would have potentially disastrous implications” for the Executive Branch of government.
No wonder Barr became the “consensus choice” as the replacement for Jeff Sessions and this would also explain at least one very good reason why Trump campaigned so hard on behalf of the Republicans in the Senate.
However, it was a war of attrition because the Democrats won the U.S. House.
Paradoxically, if Mueller and Rosenstein fully understood their special counsel investigation of Trump was a joke as far back as the summer of 2018 and they said nothing – then might that have affected the outcome of the 2018 Midterm Elections? Talk about election tampering. It means the Democrat controlled House of Representatives is illegitimate, right? Not my congress.
Of course, half the country doesn’t see it that way and this explains why the Democrat’s must impeach the president: It is their only political play currently. That, and, of course, they care nothing about real justice, or fairness, or patriotism.
It’s been said “the wheels of justice turn slowly but grind exceedingly fine” and now that Barr (and others) are dissecting Mueller’s miscarriage – it might explain why the former special counsel looked and sounded so frail during his May 29, 2019 press conference. It could also explain why Rosenstein looks like he’s being held hostage whenever he stands next to Barr.
First, Mueller and Rosenstein stack the decks against Trump before their plans are thwarted by William Barr replacing Mr. Magoo himself, Jeff Sessions. Mueller folds on collusion then ups the stakes on obstruction via volume two of his report which presented like a legal Chinese finger-trap or Gordian Knot. Barr exonerates the president with his summary of the report thus granting Trump three weeks to celebrate his absolution on the world stage. In the meantime, Team Mueller sends a letter to Barr, very likely written by Andrew Weissmann, claiming:
The summary letter the Department sent to Congress and released to the public late in the afternoon of March 24 did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this office’s work and conclusions….. There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations.
To which Barr responded during his congressional testimony by saying the letter seemed “snitty”.
We also know about White House counsel Emmet T. Flood’s April 19, 2019 letter to Attorney General Barr which was delivered immediately after the release of Mueller’s slightly-redacted 400-page abomination. Therein, Flood forthrightly stated the following:
The SCO report suffers from an extraordinary legal defect: It quite deliberately failed to comply with the requirements of governing law.
Les the Report’s release be taken as a ‘precent’ or perceived as somehow legitimating the defect, I write with both the President and future Presidents in mind to make the following points clear.
….conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred was not the SCO’s assigned task, because making conclusive determinations of innocence is never the task of the federal prosecutors.
In other words, Mueller’s bullshit “not exonerating” Trump inverted “innocent until proven guilty” into “guilty until proven innocent”; and Team Mueller’s ensuing protestations (i.e. letter and press conference) served to prove Mueller’s very palpable political prejudice.
Of course, none of that matters to the Democrats in the U.S. House who plan to vote next week “on whether to hold Attorney General William Barr and former White House counsel Don McGahn in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with subpoenas related to the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election”.
And to paraphrase a fellow blogger out here in the still free internet:
I’m nobody, but I object.
In the meantime, the ever-composed Attorney General Barr, in a fireside chat with CBS news, calmly and completely destroyed the deceptions and demurs put forth by Team Mueller even amidst the “slow assassination” of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
And there can be only one of three alternatives with Assange currently:
1.) He’s in the hands of the evil overlords
2.) Trump plans on using him as a pawn to checkmate the black hats
3.) All of it – every act and every scene – is scripted reality television
Interestingly enough, number three above would imply Trump as part of the plan; either as a Judas goat or a blind bull in the china shop.
As was written in this blogger’s Mayday 2019 “Dear Peggy” piece:
During an April 10, 2019 hearing on Capitol Hill, the U.S Attorney General, William Barr, acknowledged domestic spying on a presidential campaign. Americans know the spying was originated over claims that Trump colluded with the Russians, election hacking, and, in part, WikiLeaks serving as an agency of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Or, rather, that was the narrative spun for John Q’s consumption. Then, the very next day after Barr’s bombshell, Julian Assange was arrested on international television.
Was Assange’s arrest a last minute, hail mary maneuver by the Shadow State now cornered by Barr’s public acknowledgement of spying? Because everyone knows that rabbit hole leads to FISA-abuse and much more. Is Assange now being held hostage to help derail that train?
Or, does Team Trump plan on using Assange to red-pill the world regarding Seth Rich and more?
Again, Trump’s claiming he had nothing to do with WikiLeaks seemed like it was also for John Q’s consumption. Furthermore, Trump said all things Assange were under the purview of Attorney General Barr and the news media has reported the Justice Department is actively seeking Assange’s extradition to the United States.
Reality? Or reality TV? In any scenario, the wool is being pulled over someone’s eyes. But whose?
But now, instead of being held hostage, it appears Assange is being slowly murdered while the entire world watches. This, as multiple inquiries are ongoing regarding FISA Abuse, domestic spying on a presidential campaign, and amid politicized accusations of the Executive Branch’s alleged obstruction of justice during and after a partisan special counsel’s sham investigation regarding Russian election hacking.
Whether real or reality TV, there can be no doubt the election of Donald J. Trump has revealed the proverbial gloves coming off just as the allegorical train derails.
And, in the end, that may have been the show we were meant to see all along.
Whoo hoo, first.
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And there’s no light at the end of the tunnel. Not in this world.
Every scenario you suggested is possible, even plausible. They can’t all be accurate, but one – or bits and pieces out of several – will be the answer. Of course the most likely scenario is the one that no one can see, or suspect. I’m kinda cynical that way.
From the first offer of a bite from the forbidden fruit, through all of human history, right up to the “I will come like a thief in the night,” us humans are ALWAYS surprised. The biggest wonder for me is that people are always so surprised that they were surprised.
Even if it’s not exactly reality-tv, somebody somewhere is pulling a lot of strings, thrumming the spiderweb.
Nice job, as always, Unc. THAT is never a surprise.
“…us humans are ALWAYS surprised.”
We do have a book which gives away the ending. No surprises there.
Is it live or is it Memorex?
Get off the train.
I hear what you’re saying, GCP,. The Word is clear about what is going to happen, but not about the detailed how or when. I’m pretty sure, after my experiences, that God will pull a good one and catch us all by surprise. He excels at that.
In the twinkling of an eye…
oh, i thought that book was a tool of control written by the murderers. thats why the mixed messages: eye for an eye vs turn the other cheek.
Props for noticing the mixed messages. Most pretend they don’t exist or ignore them outright.
The solution is right division. Who is speaking to whom, when, for what purpose, etc… For example; Jesus in the red letters was not speaking to believers today. He was speaking to a very small minority of believing Jews He called the “little flock”.
The book, in the wrong hands, is an exceedingly powerful tool of control.
Excellent counter-point, GCP. Much more effective than my off-the-cuff response.
And there’s the problem; you thought. Speaking about something that you have no knowledge of ensures a disregard for something you might actually know about. Just why did you feel it necessary to spout off? It sure had nothing to do with the article, and offered no constructive differing point of view concerning GCP’s and my side-conversation. Just blather.
One never turns the other cheek when it comes to one’s elimination, you kick back hard and fast and my Bible says nothing about suicide by apathy.
The eye-for-an-eye provision was to actually restrict the judicial punishment to an appropriate level, so that the punitive reaction was not allowed to become revengeful. As was all of the law revealed in the Old Testament, it was only applicable to the Jews and was a part of their court system.
Turning the other cheek does not imply pacifism, nor does it mean we place ourselves or others in danger. Jesus’ command to turn the other cheek is simply a command to forgo retaliation for personal offenses. He was not setting government foreign policy, and He was not throwing out the judicial system.
There are universal truths in the Bible that were written before the Bible, you just can’t believe it as a whole.
Wow, TS, I haven’t heard that song in forever. I used to listen to it all the time years ago. It’s pretty grim. There is a place for grim, though.
Very few if any saw 9-11 happening although many saw the progression of totalitarianism needing a lever such as that.
The vast chasm between the Universalist, Utopian Left and the Traditional, Pragmatic Right is every bit as large today as it was in Russia at the beginning of the Bolshevik Revolution.
There can be no detente between people whose ideologies are in existential conflict. The Left is on their March to Utopia, a place where everyone has everything they want and no impulse of any person is to be denied.
Those who object to their Gnostic folly are seen exactly the same way Communists saw anyone who raised an objection to THEIR program.
Watch the movie, “The Checkist” on Youtube. It’s a Russian-made film about a man who oversaw a death squad that liquidated men, women and teens by scores.
This is what the Left promises us. They can’t let us live and let live, not when they’re on a mission to Make People Perfect.
The Left’s and Christian’s utopia does not exist in this realm; however, it keeps them motivated.
I keep your articles as a reference point in keeping score with the whole bloody Russian collusion, now impeachment fiasco. Your words clearly explain all the subterfuge going on in Washington today.
Having said that, I’m tired of trump fighting impeachment and indictments with tweets and more tweets. Why I think it’s reality TV at its sickest, is because Trump is always one episode away from dropping the hammer, but it never falls. To me, this whole farce is just an updated version of “The sky is falling, the sky is falling… oh, did I tell you the sky is falling.”
Apparently, it’s not.
I think a lot is transpiring including grand juries questioning our favorite seditious shitheads. It may be TV but if it is, it is a mini-series. One of those really freaking long ones.
Is someone lying to me or did LLPOH and Mygirl just makeout on another thread somewhere?
LLPOH and Mygirl sittin in a tree somewhere?
Donkey Balls, are you kicking the shit tree hoping to start a shitfest, or just informing us that you’re a voyeur?
We know you lied to somebody about who you’ve been watching.
DD,
I’m just glad to see Mygirl not let herself be run out of here.
Kudos Mygirl.
You forgot the most important point of all that was discovered a few days ago. The Mule-er report was doctored to make conversations seem covertly bad and not provide the background info. Whenm compared to the original it is a complete scam. (in an important government lead inquiry) It does not get worse than this as they go looking, they are sure to find many more scams throughout the report. Seems like the entire report is now suspect of being a complete fraud. As you indicate, Mule-er my be on his way in front of a judge, he’s got some explainin to do. So the democrats pouring over every detail to try and stitch something together will have the facts double checked and it will be a whoopin as their facts fall through their fingers as the stitches dissolve.
@ Gammer,
Yeah, in retrospect, that should have been included in this piece instead of merely the broad strokes. So far, there have been at least two such specific misrepresentations and there will likely be other examples surfacing over time.
Just more proof of the special counsel investigations’s blatant bias and now languishing lies.
History will not be kind to Robert Mueller & associates.
Update: On my own site (in the paragraphs below the Bob Barr/Rosenstein photo) I went ahead and inserted a few more paragraphs so now it reads thusly:
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…..to prove Mueller’s very palpable political prejudice.
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Moreover, the special counsel investigation’s blatant biases, and now languishing lies, have been further demonstrated through recently revealed specific misrepresentations and selective editing in its final report.
To be sure, history will not be kind to Robert Mueller and associates.
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Of course, none of that matters to the Democrats in the U.S. House who……
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Thanks, Gammer, for your input
thanks for the great post. It seems the more we look the more corruption we find. Seems like everyone involved has blood on their hands. So the answer would be to put as many in prison as possible so that this corruption becomes unprofitable. Making America Great Again is going to take a lot of work from all of us.
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Your nation is suffering from complete, irrevocable and exponentially ever-increasing societal collapse. To which one must add complete, irrevocable and exponentially ever-increasing educational collapse, economic collapse, judicial collapse, legislative collapse, executive branch collapse, news-media reliability collapse, moral collapse and health care collapse. Truly, there is practically not ONE single venue of American social life extant that still remains fully functional. In brief, the United States of Transgenders has become an irresolvable CLUSTERFUCK.
As such, it would behoove those who realize what’s really going on to seek their own personal solutions to the problem instead of bitching and complaining about things that, at this current stage, can NEVER be put together again. Those who can emigrate should do so. The rest are destined to go down with the ship tied to the oars.
By the way, I myself (an ordinary Joe with an ordinary IQ who just happened to be paying attention) actually predicted all this would happen way back when GW Bush was “elected” presidente de los Estados Desunidos.
The moment that semi-functional retard wiped away Habeas Corpus, thus eradicating the over 700 year old crowning achievement of the Magna Carta and fundamental linchpin of the entire Anglo-American’t judiciary system without so much as a whimper from anyone …I realized the stage was set for Amerika’s collapse. After which along came the homosexual nigra who continued to expand upon the stupidity. I used to say as much posting right here under the pseudonym “Russia Is Strong” and most of you TBP asswipes responded by getting angry at me, then banning my IP address for years. Proving that even back then your only solution to messages of impending doom was to kill the messenger instead of taking heed of the message.
Fast forward 20 years and guess what? Russia is STILL strong …and you’re STILL fucked. Only worse.
Enjoy!
For me it was after 9-11.
Great article. Good summation, and asks all the right questions.
My guess, …
It’s a show. It’s all a show, always.
Two or three questions come to mind regarding the show:
1) How long has it all been a show?
2) Who writes the script? (i.e., Who owns us?);
3) Who reads the script? That is, which players know they’re playing a part? And, which players play their parts thinking it’s the real thing?
One thing’s for sure, the show must go on.
https://youtu.be/pklk7fCHSXE
There are two shows, one started back in 1913 with the establishment of fiat currency, and the implementation of income tax, that is the big show, and it has shaped the world ever since.
The other show, the one you are talking about, started in 1963, after the cabal eliminated the last actual president, and we have been dealing with puppets of the cabal, ever since.
as to who is the cabal? jeez, just figure out who you can’t criticize in public.
“The seeds of destruction in the Russian collusion narrative remain rooted in the patriotism of both sides. In fact, each side’s patriotism precludes any chance of concession.”
Neither side is patriotic. The opposite, in fact. It is their lack of patriotism that keeps them from working in everyone’s best interests, or even upholding existing laws. Today, Patriotism is a delusional belief that our whore is a virgin; that her destruction of homes all over the world that never threatened her elevates humanity.
Neither Political party puts country before their interests; a DIVIDED country is in both side’s interest. And a divided world.
Patriotism is the ideas and ideals that UNITE a country behind the outcomes they promise. There is virtue in a just society that cares for its weakest, deals fairly and keeps agreements and treaties with everyone, and harms no nation that leaves it in peace. The USA has none of those virtues and it deserves no real patriotism.
Today, ‘Me!’ism defines politics in every part of our government.
Everybody knows America is circling the bowl and that real Patriotism, if any is left, won’t last long.
DD,
See my reply to Swimologist below regarding patriotism & the Russian Collusion breach.
DD your bra must too tight again. Patriotism is the love of place, country, people, culture and history. We, patriots, love America as the first country founded specifically on the principles of inalienable rights, a limited government tasked with defending those rights (God-given and already in our possession) and as a place where there is equality before the law and in opportunity for all.
There is not a peep in our founding documents about caring for the weakest and all the feel-good BS. The core assumption, of course, was that a just people would do that anyways……and we Americans always have (except for that uncomfortable native American genocide thingy).
Unfortunately, the country has been “captured” by an elite which Ben Franklin warned us about….” a republic as long as you can keep it”….which sadly was already lost before most on this thread was born. Call it the MIC/Deep State in charge post-WWII and the government murder of Kennedy in 196 locked them into power. I don’t think we have had a legitimate unfiltered unmanaged national election since. Thus the “mistake” of Trump’s victory despite the best efforts of the elite in charge……and they mean to correct that mistake by any means necessary.
So Trump while imperfect in body, spirit, and action is advancing the cause of the recovery of our liberty slower than we would like but we are moving.
This is not a staged conflict that is idiotic and Trump is no actor….he is one of only a few though and he may not be up to the task, the odds are long. This is, however, the beginning of the end for the elite in America…..far too many of us have put on the “They Live” spectacles and we will not go silently into the darkness of technocratic tyranny. I suggest you ride the Trump train as far as it will take us and be prepared to nimbly jump off if need be. This struggle has never been about Trump, if not him maybe Rand Paul or some other figure would have emerged to lead the cause. Much like the founding of America was not about George Washington, another deeply imperfect person who rose to the occasion.
Wars are won in the will, it is our love of freedom, individual liberty, and limited government vs. the will to power, the need to exercise authority over others and the willingness of some to believe that there is a government that can take from others and gives to them……
I am pretty sure that those fighting to maintain their freedom are more motivated than those seeking to join the FSA and be ruled by some know nothing like AOC.
If I wore a bra you’d beg me to ball-gag you with it until your ‘love of freedom’ ends the delusional, circular reasoning that imprisons your mind.
Our ‘Republic’ was no different when it was formed than it is today. Half of the population staunchly opposing the other half. It was divided between Tories (King Loyalist) and Rebels (Patriots) who bitterly opposed each other.
The Revolutionary war wasn’t fought FOR love of liberty, it was fought AGAINST the greed and impropriety of King Gorge and his home-invading Redcoats. The Rebels only dignified their status as ‘Patriots’ after they won and made a flag with 13 stars. Before that, they were just Rebels, insurrectionists, guerrillas with one cause – get rid of King George’s henchmen bunking in their homes, dining at their tables, taking what they wanted. It was hatred of oppression, not love of freedom, that became the crucible of our Revolutionary War.
After sending the Redcoats back to England, it took another 15 years of tumultuous debate before the Constitutional Amendments and Bill of Rights that prescribed individual liberty were codified. They weren’t the drivers of the Revolutionary War; they arrived after it was won. They were new ideas that not all the founders agreed with; some wanted the President to have dictatorial powers. The three branches of the government were in nobody’s mind at Lexington.
The laws protecting individual liberty were an afterthought, an experiment, and unheard of in their time. Saying our country was ‘founded on ideals’ is idiotic. It was founded on hatred for King George and his troops because they routinely took rough ‘liberties’ with colonialists.
As for your palaver about an overarching global conspiracy spanning centuries, it’s obviously an OCD fixation for you that nobody can put a dent in. You’re welcome to it.
“Man plans, and God laughs.” Jehovah gets a stitch in His side bahawing at your notion that mankind’s psychotic apex predators cooperate with each other in a coordinated, mutually beneficial ‘Plan’.
That’s a laughable, paranoid cartoon.
DD says:
Wrong.
Prior to the passing of a resolution for Virginian troops being delivered to the Revolutionary War (during the 2nd Virginia Convention) – Patrick Henry said: “Give me liberty or give me death!”
DD says:
I submit to you the following: There is no difference.
DD says:
Therefore, America was founded upon the ideal of liberty and was, for a while, “the land of liberty” and “home of the free”.
So many on this site are wedded to ideas based on assumptions that are simply wrong. Of course, the founders were focused on liberty….I would highly recommend the Federalist Papers for their thoughts on the subject. The challenge is how best to operationalize those high-level principles. So the Articles of Confederation turned out to be too weak in terms of centralized power but a good first effort. The 15 years referenced by DD was the time between the end of the revolutionary armed struggle and the adoption of the constitution that we have today as amended. It is an incorrect premise to assume that because there was an interim step to get to the constitution and the first 10 amendments (Bill of Rights) that those were not the founding principles of the country.
Self-determination which in essence is man ruling himself and not being ruled by a king a “Central Committee” or a leftist Commie Congress/POTUS is the very principle of liberty. That DD is exactly what the Colonials were fighting for.
It also the nature of the human species that there is a percentage of people always willing to trade freedom for security (The Tories) and in today’s world the leftist/FSA folks. This cohort is just part of humanity and throughout eternity has actually held sway whether it was the serfs of Europe or the willing Germans supporting Hitler or those demanding we adopt socialism. They are cowards and craven as they are simultaneously willing to be dominated and subservient to a centralized power but also hoping that their personal situation will be improved by that centralized authority redistributing the labor/success of others to them!!!!!!
It is really all the same despite how the labels/dogma is modified to meet the zeitgeist of the times. You are free or you are not……
Thank you. It’s rather convenient, how those plumping the patriotic feathers of the Founding Fathers gloss over the failed Articles of Confederation. They choose to ignore that it was only through a very long and heated debate that our 13 colonies even became a country.
It’s stupid to say there were unifying, patriotic ideals that sparked the Revolutionary War. It was only the heavy-handed infringement on PERSONAL liberty, not against a country that was comprised of separate colonial interests that made money for competing factions in Europe. Georgia Washington was probably the only Virginian that gave a fuck what happened in Boston.
The low-brow tilting at ‘Justice’ for Russian interference that never happened is characteristic of a patriotic love of what? Justice? Country? Easy to believe if one is obscenely stupid.
All politicians act out of self-interest. They’re all corrupt. None of them guzzle out of the .Gov trough because they love their country. There isn’t a ‘patriot’ in DC that doesn’t deserve to be at the next ground zero.
DD says,
Yes. Justice, country, fairness, worldview, freedom, et al. In the minds of the morons, the media has many of them believing their elections were/are influenced by foreign actors. But not like…. for example… Obama’s foreign donations… or the Clinton Campaign’s dirty dossier. But, rather, the evil Russians who have installed an orange-haired, money-laundering puppet into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
What patriotic, green-haired, overweight, Bicurious Polysexual could stand for that type of assault on the U.S. Constitution? Obviously, not many. Because, after all, fascism is clearly unAmerican.
Again, I submit to the readers the following evidence:
“The Rants of the Libtards Ring Hollow then Echo”
The patriotism shown here by Keith Olbermann is nothing short of fanatical. I present Exhibit B;
Yes, just as there will not be any real revolt until the masses don’t have their distractions and comforts they love. The principle of ‘ inherent rights’ being infringed is largely ignored.
Really… it wasn’t the redcoat sitting at the somebody’s dining table that spurred the bloody conflict it was patriotism for a country that didn’t exist.
There was no ‘grand plan’ to unite the 13 colonies into a country. Franklin proposed such in 1754 (The Albany Plan) but it was roundly rejected by the leaders of most colonies. They were leery of ANY plan that required obedience to a central authority.
For a 100 years after this country was formed, State’s rights to rule their population was rarely infringed upon by the federal government. There was very little in the way of a ‘unified spirit’ or shared patriotism before the Civil War and there was none afterwards.
Your sugar-coated patriotic charge toward liberty is an illusion fostered by your grandmaster bankers to keep America fight wars all over the world.
It thanks you for your cervix, even as it fucks you.
Major General Smedley Butler would’ve invited you to suck patriotism out of his ass.
Smedley was a Patroit. Or why else would he do what he did?
Butler, like many here, was misguided into thinking what he for his country was patriotic. Read his “War is a Racket” speech. He said he wouldn’t do it again. That his deeds were nothing more than serving greedy bankers.
“I wouldn’t go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.”
American homes have never been seriously threatened by anyone outside of this country, and its most destructive war was against itself. The Bill of Rights can no longer be defended on a personal basis unless you have Bezos money, and the NSA is all up in everybody’s ass, everywhere. Your home no longer offers you any privacy.
The things Butler would die for as a patriot no longer exist in this country.
DD,
Look at it this way: Trump ran on “Making America Great Again” and he won. Does this mean the people who voted for Trump considered themselves to be patriotic?
Now, what about those who say “Trump is not their president” and the RINOs, Neocons, & never Trumpers who oppose the president. On what grounds do they attack Trump if not out their own perceptions of what America should be as a nation?
Perhaps it is the semantics of the word “patriotism” guiding your stated perspectives on this thread. But whether the professed concerns over the country are real or not (or even misguided) is beside the point. My point in the piece is that they are professed as such. Hence, the irremediable breach
“Look at it this way: Trump ran on “Making America Great Again” and he won. Does this mean the people who voted for Trump considered themselves to be patriotic?”
Trump has NEVER been anything more than the lesser of two evils. Most people voted for him for that reason.
Semantics? Bah. Look at it this way.
Anyone who thinks that DC (3 Branches of Federal Government, it’s lobbyists, ‘Think Tanks’ and vested interests) can be ruled by, or even be remotely hospitable to ‘patriots’ who want a just judiciary, one that punishes High Crimes and Treason, isn’t paying attention. Corruption is DC’s biggest business.
We don’t have a just government and we’re not gong to get one. Nobody is going to jail unless they are a real patriot, so don’t hold your breath. DC doesn’t have any.
It makes me wonder how anyone could be a “real patriot” in a nation that no longer exist. Unless, of course, they were committed to an ideal.
DD we are likely closer than it may appear. Revolutions are organic, chaotic and by definition not strategically planned out. Rage, confusion and violence result in a moderately coordinated effort to push back against the oppressor. I am simply saying that motivating principles were deeper than a redcoat sitting at your table ogling your 15-year-old daughter. Sure that is a trigger but why is it a trigger? You are not offering an overarching theme of why these actions resulted in a revolution….I am simply offering that the American revolution was a culmination of 200+ years of thought about natural law, the rights of the individual and limited government/centralized power.
Unlike many “bottoms up” revolutions which typically result in leftist-authoritarian dictatorships the American revolution was driven from the top down (Washington being an extremely wealthy producer of distilled spirits among other products) and that actually was a big positive in forming the new “rules”.
+1000
So MANY truths here …. yet you get 4 thumbs down.
You probably don’t recall this (why would you? lol) but, many months ago I planned on doing a 3 or 4 part series on the Revolutionary War. Why? Because much of the story (myth) we believe just ain’t the way it happened.
For example, I agree with you 100% that the MAIN reason the RW was fought was because, truly “the greed and impropriety of King George”. The “liberty” aspect is not to be denied, however. It simply wasn’t the overriding reason and, in some cases, it was an afterthought.
So, I wrote Part One — “America’s War of Independence (Part I): History Made vs. History Imagined”.
It got a paltry 107 comments. Uncola tried his hardest to encourage me to write the other parts. But, the effort vs payoff ratio didn’t appeal to me. So, I didn’t.
All that to say; I really appreciated your post greatly … as a fellow traveler in search of revolutionary truth.
Thank you for sharing that, Stucky.
Your article was a well-crafted review of a time when not 1 in 10 could read, and most relied on a ‘Town Crier’s’ reading of the news to stay informed.
A truly ‘informed’ opinion about the nature of the war with King George was rare indeed, and remains rare even today. You provided plenty of insight from those who chronicled the birth of our republic, particularly Charles Thompson, who never missed a Congressional session. I hadn’t read of him before and he said it best:
“I shall not undeceive future generations. I could not tell the truth without giving great offense. Let the world admire our patriots and heroes.” —- Charles Thomson
“Our national identity is defined by how we choose to tell our story.”
Is that not so of everyone’s story? Nobody is defined by the stories they share of their life, we are defined by the stories others tell about us.
Of course the ‘Patriots’ won a new country. They deserve their honor and glory because they were huge underdogs who fought with courage through tremendous hardship. But once the fight with King George started, and the Tories were eager to point out any rebels they knew, the fight was more about staying alive than building an ideal society on principles of liberty.
Excellent article, Doug. I’m posting it tonight.
Thank you, Robert. Very much appreciated.
If you believe that we are watching an orchestrated shit-show, then why expend energy sifting the turds looking for a good one?
If you can’t see the problem, you can’t begin to address it.
HSF,
How do we craft a law regarding physiogianomy?
https://www.owlnet.rice.edu/%7Erar4619/blood.html
Is that Haspel behind him smirking?
If you do not believe “the inmates are running the asylum” then take a long look at this pic. It is a perfect reminder of that fact. One could throw the 80/20 rule at DC in that 80% or greater can be identified by one to potentially all of the following – compromised, crazy (the mentally imbalanced type not the fun loving type), criminal, controlled (see compromised), carpetbagger, cultist, etc….
Enjoyed the article Uncola.
“The seeds of destruction in the Russian collusion narrative remain rooted in the patriotism of both sides.”
I understand what you mean by this. The Democrat base WAS acting off of what they were fed by the Dems and their handmaiden media about “Russian collusion,” so yes, that was temporarily patriotic. And I know most people pay only passing attention to the current/ever shifting political machinations going on at any one time, but as soon as the revelations of Strozk and Page came out and their attempts at a shadow coup, no one but a rank dumbass sheep could have kept the “patriotism” faith with the Democratic party’s collusion narrative. So without that explanation of the
“patriotism of both sides,” I think THAT PART of your thesis falls apart.
@ Swimologist (& Diogenes)
RE: Patriotism
Merriam-Webster defines “patriotism” as “love for or devotion to one’s country”. And if the quintessence of America is liberty manifesting as a result of the U.S. Constitution, then, certainly, that would require both the prosecution of deep state criminals and secure elections. Therefore, in the example of Russian Collusion, the former being a concern of the Political Right and the latter the concern of the Political Left.
At face value, both sides are expressing “love for or devotion to one’s country” (i.e. patriotism) as the impetus behind getting to the bottom of the Russian Collusion rabbit-hole; except (as stated in my above piece) “the entire slate of premises of one side are predicated upon, and perpetuated by, lies and deception.
That’s all that was right there
Yes, I agreed that the Left was motivated by patriotism. (A little odd that NOW they’re worried about Russians; that’s a first) But your response clarified it for me. The “one side” you refer to is obviously the Left, Dems, Media. It took a second, very close reading of your article to see that you called the Left to account.
I’m also of the opinion that many on the left (if not most) consider Strozk and Page to be patriots. In fact, in their view, all of the deep state criminals are seen as defenders of the republic.
This means they could very likely view any deep state prosecutions as a fascist purge and they will not go gentle into that good night. No way, because they have pledged allegiance to the Open Borders of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under Political Correctness, indivisible, with free transgender surgeries and abortions for all.
This is a really good read. Thanks
The issue folks are struggling with is the while the Left fervently and genuinely believes in their position I argue it is not “patriotic” as it is antithetical to the founding principles of America. In fact, the left’s true allegiance is to the borderless principles of collectivism, specifically not America. So I don’t think it is a stretch to say that the left is, in fact, seeking the overthrow of American to remake it into a new country with different governing principles. Aside from the quibble over the use of the word patriot, the article adroitly points out that this is an existential conflict grounded in competing and mutually exclusive world views. Only one side can ultimately prevail, coexistence is not an option. Very much in the vein of the 4th Turning climax!
MH says:
Agreed. And that is what I designated (in the last sentence of the third paragraph) in the above piece as “The irony therein“.
The Russian collusion narrative has weaponized patriotism in the minds of the useful idiots. But the deception is twofold:
1.) The 2016 Presidential Election was NOT hacked by the Russians
and
2.) The useful idiots are not patriotic
Hence, the farce.
I enjoy your comments. Thanks, man
Exactly so. Patriotism isn’t a ‘fervent belief’.
Patriotism is a country’s common bond; principles which elevate a populace and are self-evident by doing so.
Our “Uniting’ principle WAS the right to live your life in a way prescribed by your individual beliefs that harm no others.
That right is being attacked by everyone in every political sphere. We only have rights that our Patriotic Leaders haven’t watered down into oblivescence. We aren’t even allowed to discipline our children. I could never pledge allegiance to this country and I damn sure wouldn’t die for it.
Any country that allows its Founders to be vilified and denigrated as “Oppressive Patriarch White Males” has abandoned every principle they risked their lives to establish as Patriotic Ideals. Patriotism is dead. It’s gone. It’s not coming back.
This isn’t a small, inconsequential nit-picking argument for me. The absolute loss of patriotic ideals will fuel this county’s funeral pyre.
DD says:
And that is why the Revolutionary war will not repeat in this millennium. Which is good, because we would not be fighting redcoats from across the sea anyway.
But I believe many, including yours truly, would be willing to die for the ideal of liberty that America once represented.
Ya know, as an addendum: America’s founders were not swashbuckling rebels and pirates. They were very civilized and deliberative men. They organized, held conventions, and sent delegates. They debated and voted via parliamentary procedures.
I spent my life making money and raising my family when I should have run for office. I’m trying now to make up for lost time, but it’s too late. Hindsight is 20/20.
Run for president! I voted for nobody last time (Darrell Castle) I’ll happily vote for nobody again… 🙂
Great idea, but don’t do it alone. There have for many years been any number of third parties pitching one idea or another but nobody since Lincoln and company has built a party to try to reorganize the country.
When I said it’s too late it’s because the demographics are no longer there. I couldn’t get elected dog catcher.
But, but, but… you object, and that’s what we need! Someone to object to all this BS.
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I’m willing to die to keep an asshole from taking my place at the head of my dinner table. THAT’s what started the Revolutionary War, not patriotism.
Don’t forget that the ‘Rebels’ were less than half the population. Most were Tories, happy to bend a knee for King George, and they were not happy with the Rebel’s ruckus.
The idea of a ‘patriotic’ urge girding America’s nascent lions is silly.
It was the Redcoat’s ability to enter without knocking that sparked flints at Lexington.
Bullshit.
Neither ‘patriotism’ nor ‘liberty’ motivated the Minutemen or the founding of this country. It was ONLY hatred of King George and the Redcoats who took too many liberties with colonialists. If King George weren’t so greedy and overbearing, we might still be a British colony. Colonial anger was justified and it sparked a war for liberty from oppression.
Claiming that ‘patriotism’ motivates today’s hatred between Democrats and Republicans is inane.
Who, on this blog has NOT lost a family member or dear friend to this country’s political polarization? We’ve all shared this outcome ad infinitum. Not one person has claimed that they became estranged over ‘patriotic’ ideals. Not one person has said the lost connection was because their former friend/family was unpatriotic; we all claim that they’re just terminally, unreasonably angry at ‘The other side”.
Patriotic ideals for individual liberty don’t motivate our increasing divisions and inevitable denouement; it’s stupid, unthinking, “Us” hatred for the “Them” this time around.
There are no patriots in this country, and it deserves none.
DD says:
I rest my case.
DD says:
Now ask yourself why we are all (as you say) “terminally, unreasonably angry at ‘The other side’. Dig deep.
Beneath anger is fear. What do you suppose we are all afraid of? Losing our country perhaps? Losing our liberties maybe? Of a diminished future for our children?
Are these not American ideals?
“What do you suppose we are all afraid of? Losing our country perhaps? Losing our liberties maybe? Of a diminished future for our children?”
How can you be afraid of losing something you’ve already lost?
The New American ideal has NOTHING to do with the ideals that founded this country.
Any country that celebrates crossdressing 10 year-olds who pose suggestively and twerk obscenely on National Television has no ideals. I’d say a good portion of Americans are afraid that their 8 year-old will notice there are no ideals left except getting everybody’s attention at any cost.
The next Jesse Smollett fraud will be much more clever. It’ll be ‘ideal’.
And money.
This has got to be the defining political time for my generation. How could it be more evident that it is all kabuki theater?
“It’s all a state of mind and, certainly, the insanity will get worse as mandated by the depredations of time.”
I think about this angle often, the jury is still out. Are things really changing that much for the worse, or is our natural curiosity causing us to see more and more deeply behind the curtain? Quite some time ago it was written…
Ecclesiastes 1:9 KJB… “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”
Things sure do seem to be digressing exponentially downward. Has human nature changed? I don’t think so. Is our perception of that spiral sharpening in comparison to the majority around us becoming more and more disconnected from reality? I’ve noticed the movie “Idiocracy” mentioned in several different posts of late. I do believe that’s a fitting description.
Is lucifer realizing his time grows short?
Anyone familiar with Donald Jeffries? He’s written a very good piece along similar lines, well worth reading here…
Lastly, and certainly not to minimize in any way such astute observations as found here and the time expended to flesh them out; does what goes on in the halls of obviously corrupt and blatantly deceitful government matter to the bigger picture of our individual lives?
Surely we can’t stop nor slow the train. If voting mattered, “they” wouldn’t let us do it. We can complain till it crashes… not sure what that might constructively accomplish. What endeavor then is truly worth involving ourselves in? Obviously I’m heavily biased in a particular direction. Who can suggest a superior mode of operation that might actively improve our own lives and the lives of those within our spheres of influence with whatever time we have left?
GCP asks:
That is an excellent consideration and one I’ll be contemplating for some time.
Just because our eyes have been increasingly opened doesn’t mean the carnage we now see has grown. It just appears that way.
The leftists ideology controlling factions of the “DEEP STATE” are now in the spotlight as are the real people supporting them from our elected bodies . Time for operation clean sweep !
Assange holds the key to the DNC leaked emails, and it aint the fuckin Russians. God knows what else he has, some serious bombs I am sure.
So much happening with UK, Assange, May,Steele, Trumps visit was “multilayered” cloaked in smoke.
Assange is one of my markers, what befalls him will be a “tell”.
Ray Chandler is another.
Obviously Muller rolled over in the 6 hour “FBI Director” interview, he had with Trump all the way back.
Rosenstein? Not sure, but there was an long flight on AF1…
May, Merkle, Macron,Bandar,Guido,Huawei,ISIS,CNN, down.
Salvini, Orban,Assad,MBS, Maduro, Alt news, up.
AMLO folds, Abe confirms support.
Massive global reorg occurring.
Is big tech getting nervous?
Mainstream Media?
Trumps support on all of these levels is gaining, while his opponents power base wanes.
Scripted? Family Y? God? You tell me.
Thanks for the piece, it seems to me the whole matter has crested, about to become “old news”. A new front is needed, act II, possible harbingers to watch, The Disclosure Movement, gaining steam all of a sudden, and Deep Fake porn videos, pre-cover for denial of content on AW laptop(others?). Pedo will break the spell you alluded to, and I assume is Act II, while Disclosure must be a “big gun” to be trotted out in an emergency, or a hail Mary.
https://brasspills.com/good-samaritan-spends-two-weeks-in-prison-after-being-falsely-accused-of-rape-by-woman-he-helped/
Doug, this info came to my attention yesterday. Mueller was using George Nader as an informant all the while knowing there was a warrent for his arrest a YEAR AGO for transporting child porn. The DOJ sealed the warrent so they could use him as an informant in the Russia Investigation. They are saying that he had no connections to Obama but Dan Bongino lays it out. It’s so convoluted he had to put up a chart. He is also connected to the Clintons. None of this will come to light unless they manage to get him to make a deal for singing about his dealings with Mueller. But who knows what will happen.
It’s a must watch because I can’t lay it all out for you in a comment.
https://bongino.com/ep-994-this-shouldve-been-all-over-the-news-yesterday/
Meanwhile, Manafort has been transferred to Rikers Island! For mortage fraud! Lord, these people are beyond evil.
I don’t even know what to say about Assange. They must believe he has information they need or information they don’t want to get out. He should have set up a dead mans switch.
I think that it is not a reality show. There are too many players with lines to remember. I think that it is an epic battle between what might become the “old world order” and what may become the “new world order”. Both are evil.
Which of course provided Weissman and figurehead, Mueller, all the leverage they needed. They are both dirty officers of the court and have been repeatedly reprimanded and overturned. Weissman was briefed on the Steele Dossier very early in this process, selected as a prosecutor for his demonstrated willingness to focus on an outcome not a legal process. Mueller kept four men in jail for decades to protect mafia don/informant Whitey Bulger…..
The entire special prosecutor’s “Team” was populated by Hillary donor’s, anti-Trump zealots and was the “insurance policy” to remove the mistake of Trump’s election. They failed but they are not done by any means. Impeachment is next then assassination would not surprise me. Mr. Trump arrest them today!
Now cue Q: “Do do you believe in coincidences?”
“I think that it is an epic battle…”
Methinks you’re right. I do believe I’m preaching to the choir here, but the new world order is the oldest world order. Compare the verses in Gen 11 to what you read on the Georgia guidestones. This “order” has been striving for a long, long time and it will come to power… for a little while.
Let’s not forget that it was the Clintons who conspired with the Communists and in fact toured Russia while dodging the draft. Their usual strategy is to blame political enemies for their own crimes. Obama is working with them along with our nations enemies.
I find it to quite entertaining watching the people of the world being played against each other, while the ones instructing the game get richer and richer and richer and richer.
They play both sides against the middle, and there’s nobody the wiser. Well, a few……
Never mind these bullshit lies . They are liars and Traitors and we all know it.They don’t care about us or our nation. If or when they destroy us in a financial collapse they all have a way out.Most a first class ticket to Israel.
I have been going to many of the leftist progressive websites. They are planning on tearing our nation apart after the next election. Best be prepared for the coming strife and confict. It’s going to be dangerous to go to some of the big cities . Especially on the west coast and parts of New England.Just a heads up that’s all.
Right you are George, there are few who are wise to the tactics, but could they pull it off without the media? Who owns and runs the media?
Face it it’s Nuremberg Military Trial Time for all involved from Obama all the way down his chain of command . As for Hillary Clinton there is really no Chain Of Command only her and her many minions that are now doing what low life liars in high places do best especially in Washington DC :”SCURRY ABOUT LIKE CATS COVERING UP SHIT”!
“WE interrupt this delicious fantasy of justice served on America’s ‘Traitors-in-Chief’ with a reminder for everyone that these Swamp Critters still enjoy taxpayer-funded recreation to celebrate their hugely successful con games that robbed us in every way they could.
Here are Bill and Barry, “…complementing each other on their First Holes.”
Yes, you heard the newscaster correctly.
https://youtu.be/muwVmvPUBhw
The communist goal of destroying the American republic will never abate until it crushed by force and the extreme loss of blood on the part of the left wing communists, I know that is bit redundant but hey, sometimes force and blood are necessary and communists are left wing .
“I kill a communist for fun” ______Tony Montana
Old White Guy,
I believe Communism is only one of many ‘tactics’ being used by the Lucerfians.
Not their end game.
But, I’m with ya on the old and white part.
You’re still losing because you are still letting them drive the narrative. You are talking about what they are doing because YOU are not doing anything. Those you speak of have been criminals THEIR ENTIRE CAREERS. EVERY bureaucrat is ALWAYS breaking the law because they are being paid in an unlawful tender for their time in a bounded capacity of a different tender. NO ONE in government has the lawful capacity to bring them to justice. You are talking about what they want you to talk about because they don’t want you to talk about the truth. We have NEVER seen ANYONE working for the ‘government’ operating lawfully. ALL of them are committing capital crimes – they don’t want you talking about that. They don’t want you to show everyone EXACTLY how they are criminals for things that are not being discussed ANYWHERE. And MOST OF ALL they don’t want the people to formalize the criminal accusations and take those formal accusations to the grand jury for mass indictments and appoints of special, law abiding, prosecutors and judges OR to hold the grand jury members liable themselves for misprision for letting the criminal tyranny continue. Real law and justice already has a remedy for ALL forms of injury but very few even know that. If you only talk about their actions then you cannot share the path to justice THAT HAS ALWAYS EXISTED.
You are losing exactly how they want you to lose.
Placing here for purposes of posterity: More evidence of how history will not be kind to Robert Mueller & Associates:
“ Mueller Caught In Another Deception; Key ‘Russia Link’ Exposed As Informant For US, Ukraine”
https://www.rt.com/news/461329-assange-video-belmarsh-prison/
He looks thinner than the day of his arrest but, in KaD’s video, he appears to be of good cheer.
THEN:
NOW:
100.
Just happened to drop by and, whoomp!, there it is.
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