Entertaining Questions

Guest Post by Jim Kunstler

Anyone who doubts that the Attorney General is dead serious about cleaning up the goddamned mess of sedition spawned by the Democratic Party, its agents in the permanent Washington bureaucracy, and its public relations arm in the news media, might invest a little time and attention in William Barr’s speech to the Federalist Society Friday evening. (Text of speech here and video here.)

Mr. Barr declared unambiguously and in plain English that “in waging a scorched earth, no-holds-barred war of ‘Resistance’ against this Administration, it is the Left that is engaged in the systematic shredding of norms and the undermining of the rule of law.” Is any part of that unclear? The confounded might take in this more detailed lesson in recent history from the speech:

Immediately after President Trump won election, opponents inaugurated what they called ‘the Resistance,’ and they rallied around an explicit strategy of using every tool and maneuver available to sabotage the functioning of his administration.  Now, ‘resistance’ is the language used to describe insurgency against rule imposed by an occupying military power. It obviously connotes that the government is not legitimate. This is a very dangerous — indeed incendiary — notion to import into the politics of a democratic republic.  What it means is that, instead of viewing themselves as the “loyal opposition,” as opposing parties have done in the past, they essentially see themselves as engaged in a war to cripple, by any means necessary, a duly elected government.”

And anyone who takes in the nauseating spectacle of Congressman Adam Schiff’s House Intel Committee impeachment process can see that shredding of norms on full shameless display, where the attempted defense of nakedly absurd charges against the president is thwarted by a chicane of deceitful rules outside any concept of due process, concocted by Mr. Schiff and his task force of Lawfare hustlers — no right to call witnesses, no right of cross-examination, and no right to argue that set of rules cribbed from the Stalin show trials by way of the Spanish Inquisition.

They’re pouring it on this week ahead of a post-Thanksgiving cold water deluge of bad news that will detail charges against the progenitors of RussiaGate. The roll-call may be a long one, including many actors whose turpitudes have been publicly and richly documented for many months — Messers, Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Rosenstein, McCabe, Strzok, Halper, Ms. Page, et. al — and, if real justice is on order, not a few figures lurking in the Deep State deep background — John Carlin, Bill Priestap, Dana Boente, Michael Gaeta, Sally Yates, Loretta Lynch, Susan Rice, Samantha Power, and perhaps even the archangel Barack Obama, just in time for Christmas, too. Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissmann deserve to be included for what amounted to a blatant, arrantly mendacious malicious prosecution, knowing that they had no case and proceeding anyway for two whole years.

I hope the roundup will extend to the very latest ploys leading to RussiaGate’s successor subterfuge, UkraineGate, namely the exploits of “whistleblower” Eric Ciaramella, his handlers and enablers in Mr. Schiff’s office, and the actions of his accomplice, Michael Atkinson, the current Intelligence Community Inspector General, with obvious conflicts of interests as a major player in the previous RuissiaGate dodge — he was legal counsel to Assistant Attorney General John Carlin, who headed the Department of Justice’s National Security Division at the birth of the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” gambit, and before that he was Robert Mueller’s chief of staff at the FBI. Anything to see there, ya think? The “whistleblower” himself was, in fact, a CIA spy in the White House. You may recall that the CIA is prohibited from spying on Americans in their own country, and doing that in the White House is arguably the essence  and height of lawless sedition.

Obviously, Rep. Adam Schiff will at some point be called to face the atonal music he composed (with a little help from Karlheinz Stockhausen — give a listen) in a court of law, where different rules apply than the ones now on display in his committee. He has a lot to answer for in his campaign to blow smoke up America’s ass for three years running, with deleterious effect on the national project generally and on the honor and dignity of the legislature in particular.

The American public also deserves to know exactly who has been leaking transcripts from Mr. Schiff’s star chamber depositions to the news media — most recently last Friday when the supposedly secret testimony of diplomat David Holmes, lately of the US embassy in Kiev, Ukraine, found its way to CBS News reporter Margaret Brennan. A logical presumption would be that the leaker is someone on Mr. Schiff’s staff. Who else might have access to it? (Well, possibly the NSA and thereby the CIA.) It shouldn’t be too difficult to find out. Perhaps one of the minority members of the House Intel Committee might put the question to Mr. Schiff when the hearings re-open on Wednesday — if Mr. Schiff will allow the question to even be entertained.

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oldtimer505
oldtimer505

Like Larry the cable guy, Get-r done!

Anonymous
Anonymous

I didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition!

TJF
TJF

Nobody does.;-)

M G
M G

You can say that again… oh, you already did. 😉

EC
EC

Naw he dint.

“Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea?
Alice: Well, I haven’t had any yet, so I can’t very well take more.
March Hare: Ah, you mean you can’t very well take less.
Mad Hatter: Yes. You can always take more than nothing.”

Baba Looey
Baba Looey

How’d that saying go in “Grumpy Old Men”? Wish in one hand…

All political masturbation with no climax. This will go on until the dollar collapses and nothing short of a dollar collapse will end the show.

mark
mark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-tMM3eVrSc

Financial writer and book author John Rubino points out, “Fear is the enemy in a fiat currency system. Everything is based on our assumption that the guys in charge know what they are doing and that the confidence in them is good. You take that away, and they let us see them sweat, and it’s over. There is no real bottom for the dollar, euro or the yen. Their intrinsic value is zero. When the economic players out there in the global financial system realize that the central banks of the world are out of ammo, and nothing these guys do is going to fix our problem, then all hell breaks loose. . . . What worries me about today’s world is that everything falls apart all at once, and there is no way to fix what went wrong. . . .We have a lot of examples of governments doing crazy things when everything falls apart.”

TN Patriot
TN Patriot

NAILED IT

Anonymous
Anonymous

I didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition!

Miles Long
Miles Long

That’s the 2nd time you said that.

Ivan
Ivan

He didn’t hear that

flash
flash

I don’t believe it. What is the converso going to do ? Indict and lock up the entire criminal controlled US government. That’s a mighty big swamp … gonna’ need a bigger prison system.

oldtimer505
oldtimer505

Strip the guilty of “all” their assets, citizenship and ship them off to a country that will put up with their BS. If they return then simply use them for plant food. It won’t stop the corruption, there is too much money in it. It might slow the rot down a bit.

Miles Long
Miles Long

Fear & pain are great motivators for change.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

They could just imprison Brennan – except he’s the one least likely to be taken alive. He’d get his CIA co-conspirator buddies to kill anyone who indicts him.

A. R. Wasem
A. R. Wasem

A good summary of the present situation.

Dan
Dan

“…This is a very dangerous — indeed incendiary — notion to import into the politics of a democratic republic…”

How about: Attorney General William Barr says the government should have access to your encrypted data

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs

Dan.
That’s legit. He can’t implement Trump’s Pre-Crime directive without it and he needs that to drain the swamp. Just ask Q.

'Reality' Doug
'Reality' Doug

Anyone who doubts words as credit, credit these words from the Swamp! That is the genius that must die.

CCRider
CCRider

More great expectations. Let justice be done tho the heavens may fall. Yeah, sure.

Here’s the actually tally:

Stone, Manafort and Flynn bagged.

Comey, John and Tony Podesta skate.

Which side looks like it’s winning to you?

Bob P
Bob P

Good post, CC. I like Kunstler, but he’s been making this same prediction of imminent indictments for months. 2020 is around the corner and still nothing. My guess has been that they’ll pick a chump or two, maybe Strzok and Page and possibly someone higher like Brennan, and let the rest skate, putting the nasty business behind us “for the good of the country.” Obama? Not a chance he’ll face any punishment. Clinton? Not a chance–though the Clinton Foundation business may eventually sink both of them.

CCRider
CCRider

Bob-I agree completely. They’ll bag some low level saps like Stone and Manafort and depend on the memory hole to work as it has for centuries. Consider the tenet we were raised to think of as from God’s lips to our ears: NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW! What insulting horseshit-just ask prince andrew and hunter biden.

This nonsense stimulates those with a daddy complex towards trump. Daddy is going to kiss the booboo and make it all better. When you have lost as much liberty as we have you don’t vote it back-you take it back.

ottomatik
ottomatik

Trump, Q, and the Patriots appear to be “winning” to me.

overthecliff
overthecliff

Damn, gimme some of that dope you’re smoking.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot

The side that is on the inside is winning, just as it always has.

motley
motley

The political scene works only because it knows we are all labrador canines … with an ample supply of squirrels continually passing through of field of vision.

Lars
Lars

Exactly. Good analogy.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Reading the text of Barr’s speech was interesting.
Glad JK included the links, to the text as well as audio of the AG’s speech there.
Any Constitution scholar with a good historical awareness might have an equally interesting opinion on what Barr cited, as long as said scholar was / is bi-partisan and unbiased.

Of course, the left is howling he is not an unbiased AG.
Sounds to me he has a legit argument about the threat discussed.

ottomatik
ottomatik

They will come after him now with everything they can. Watch, it’s on like donkey Kong, Barr must be removed,either by impeachment or other means.

Miles Long
Miles Long

“…the honor and dignity of the legislature…”

The what?

Anonymous
Anonymous

And the American public deserves to be paid back all the money that’s been wasted the last 3 years. (much longer, but at least it’ll be a start.)

yahsure
yahsure

I’ll believe it when I see it. Maybe soon this well be what the news talks about. It might help get Trump elected again.

SlickWilly
SlickWilly

Exactly. This nonsense is the same as those sports shows. For the true fans of the Red and Blue team it keeps them focused on the things that do not matter rather than thinking about the things that really do. Anyone with any ability to observe and apply critical thinking knows these game players are on another level where the rules we must follow do not apply. But for those that ‘believe’ well keep on believing that someone else is going to right all the wrongs and fix everything. To my knowledge no corrupt system has ever un-corrupted itself.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs

Slick..
That last line is worth patenting.

overthecliff
overthecliff

Whining and pissing and moaning is not getting serious. Talk is cheap. Come on Sessions, o I mean Barr shit or get off the pot.

Trumper

Cuck’s are notorious for the ability to talk big and do nothing. See Lindsey Graham!

Maybe he will and maybe he won’t. The real indicator is where the indictments drop. If in DC, he plans to lose. If in Utah, he plans to win.

James the Wanderer

What Mr. Schiff will or won’t allow is going to become moot. Which is almost a shame – his perfidious prosecutorial mood-shifts and rule revisions have shown normal Americans he’s crazy, dangerous and partisan as hell. A education their school systems never gave them is coming high and fast on the daily television show trial, with disgust and anger at his antics rising every day they are on.

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