The House Democrats continue to party on their Titanic voyage even as there are clear signs that the impeachment iceberg will sink them:
President Trump’s job approval rating has ticked up 6 percentage points since the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry began, according to a new survey.The Gallup poll released early Wednesday found Trump’s approval rating at 45 percent, up from 39 percent when the inquiry was launched in the fall. The new findings mark the third-consecutive increase in Trump’s approval rating, Gallup noted.
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Gallup’s new poll found that 51 percent of respondents say they oppose impeachment and removing Trump from office, an increase of 5 percentage points since the Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced the impeachment inquiry into the president’s dealings with Ukraine. By contrast, 46 percent of respondents now support impeachment and removal, down 6 points.
Not even the Democrats core supporters are enthusiastic about the step the House Democrats will take later today when they will vote to impeach Donald Trump:
Liberal groups organized more than 600 events from Alaska to Florida, following a familiar model of mass protest that has come to define the left during the Trump administration.
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For all the passion among activists, the gatherings were notably smaller than many of the other recent mass protests ..
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Some activists acknowledge that impeachment doesn’t fire up people like life-and-death issues such as health care, guns or climate change.
The Democrats hope that by November 2020 the voters will have forgotten about impeachment and vote for Democratic candidates. But Donald Trump and other Republican candidates will take care that everyone will keep the issue in mind.
It is the reason why Trump’s letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reads like an overlong campaign ad. Its content will be at the core of each of his campaign speeches. It is no holds barred but surprisingly factual.
Trump partisans are not the only to think that the impeachment articles the Democrats brought forward are astonishingly weak and not supported by the facts. The Senate will need little time to exculpate Trump.
So how did the Democrats get here? Trump’s letter notes that talk about impeachment started as soon as he stepped into office:
Speaker Pelosi, you admitted just last week at a public forum that your party’s impeachment effort has been going on for “two and a half years,” long before you ever heard about a phone call with Ukraine. Nineteen minutes after I took the oath of office, the Washington Post published a story headlined, “The Campaign to Impeach President Trump Has Begun.” Less than three months after my inauguration, Representative Maxine Waters stated, “I’m going to fight every day until he’s impeached.” House Democrats introduced the first impeachment resolution against me within months of my inauguration …
Since Trump stepped into office the Democrats were looking for something that would make him impeachable. The deep state delivered them Russiagate, the claim that Trump ‘colluded’ with the Russian government, by taking seriously an obvious fake dossier the Clinton campaign had ordered and paid for. FBI agents who hated Trump even faked FISA court certification submissions to be able to spy on the Trump campaign. They found nothing that supported the ‘collusion’ claims.
The FISA court is not amused about that:
“The frequency with which representations made by FBI personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable,” Judge Rosemary Collyer wrote in an order published Tuesday.
For nearly two years the Democrats had hoped that the Mueller investigation would come to their help and deliver them the evidence they needed to impeach Trump. But Mueller did not deliver what the Democrats had hoped for. It turned out that the CIA and FBI driven Russiagate was a nothing-burger.
In 2018 eleven former intelligence and military operatives joined the House as representatives for the Democrats. This was presumably a planned invasion by the security state.
After the Mueller bubble had burst something else was needed to impeach Trump. The deep state delivered again.
A day after the Mueller act had played out Trump had a phone call with the new president of the Ukraine Zelensky.
A lunatic Lieutenant-colonel Vintman in the National Security Administration found that during the phone call Trump was not following the Colonel’s preferred foreign policy. He informed a former colleague, the CIA analyst Eric Ciaramella, who then contacted two former colleagues who worked for the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff. They cooked up a scheme in which the CIA analyst would play a ‘whistleblower’ and accuse Trump of wrongdoing. When the legal review of the complaint within the CIA found that the ‘whistleblower’ had no case, the Schiff folks leaked the issue to the press to put pressure on the Trump administration to publish the complaint.
On September 23 2019 seven freshman Democrats published an op-ed in the Washington Post that called for impeachment.
CNN noted approvingly that all seven op-ed writers were (former) members of the security state:
The reason they made their announcement and explained their reasoning as a group, in an op-ed in The Washington Post, is because they had already formed a bond over their national security background — especially the five women: Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Abigail Spanberger of Virginia, both ex-CIA officers; Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania who was in the Air Force; Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey and Rep. Elaine Luria of Virginia were Naval officers.
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The op-ed the women penned, along with Gil Cisneros and Jason Crow, two freshmen male veterans, opened the floodgates for others who had been resistant, and gave House Speaker Nancy Pelosi critical political cover as she announced a formal impeachment inquiry on Tuesday.
Seven of the 11 security state representatives who had joined the Democrats in 2018 gave the impulse for impeachment. A day after the op-ed was published House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the opening of her ‘impeachment inquiry’.
The ‘whistleblower’ claimed, solely based on hearsay and public sources, that Trump had pressured the President of the Ukraine during the phone call to deliver dirt on Joe Biden. His complaint was published and the deep state then used it to again push for impeachment.
Trump then ambushed Pelosi and the whole impeachment effort by declassifying and publishing the memorandum of the phone call in question.
Reading the memorandum it was immediately clear to us that the impeachment attempt was dead in the water:
The immediate impulse to start an impeachment investigation came from some whistle blower in the intelligence community who claimed that Trump did something nefarious during a phone call with the newly elected President of Ukraine Zelensky.The White House published a memorandum of the phone call. The call was made on July 25 2019, a day after the final Robert Mueller testimony in Congress. There are two passages which the Democrats will claim are damaging:
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Trump asks for investigations and Zelensky assures him that those will happen. Trump applied no open pressure.
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How the Democrats want to construct an impeachment out of this is beyond me.
It was therefore easy to predict this outcome that we are now seeing:
Pelosi has nothing. Six committees have investigated Trump issues but so far found nothing to charge him with. Nor did the Mueller investigation find anything damaging. How will combining all those nothing-burgers make an impeachment meal?
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There is no case for impeachment. Even if the House voted for one the Senate would never act on it. No one wants to see a President Pence.The Democrats are giving Trump the best campaign aid he could have wished for. Trump will again present himself as the victim of a witch hunt. He will again argue that he is the only one on the side of the people. That he alone stands with them against the bad politicians in Washington DC. Millions will believe him and support him on this. It will motivate them to vote for him.
The current polls, quoted above, seem to support that conclusion. A majority of U.S. citizens reject the Democrats’ impeachment act while Trump’s approval rating is back at its previous top.
The actions of the deep state, and the Democrats falling for them, will cost them the 2020 election.
Russigate was a false story, invented by the CIA chief John Brennan with support from MI6. The Steele dossier was recognizable as an obvious fake as soon as it was published. But the FBI still used it. To find evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russiagate the crooks at the top of the FBI went as far as to make false sworn statements to the FISA court. It did not help.
As soon as Mueller busted the Russiagate bubble the deep state cooked up a new issue. A Brennan man in the CIA colluded with Adam Schiff to create Ukrainegate.
Seven representatives of the security state then pushed Pelosi into launching the impeachment proceedings. Schiff again sprang into action by holding abstruse hearings in which some deep state minions were allowed to vent their antipathy to Trump and to Russia. The hearings exposed the sham for what it was.
It is unlikely that any Republican will vote today in favor of impeachment. No Republican senator will dare to vote against Trump.
Russiagate, Ukrainegate and the impeachment nonsense were all driven by members of the deep or security state. The Democrats have been riding on these issues while neglecting the real life-and-death issue of their voters – health care, guns or climate change. They will be punished for it.
The Democrats would be well advised to distance themselves from those services that invited them to travel on the Titanic. They should remember that historically they have been far more often the victims of CIA, FBI or military overreach than the Republicans.
As the failure of this impeachment affair is imminent the deep state will likely try to cook up a new issue that it can use against Trump.
If the Democrats want to prevent the further sinking of their ship they must avoid becoming associated with it.
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Can’t wait for Super Tuesday evening when the Dems’ candidate might become clear. Mondale is still available.
Obama the Kenyan usurper is supposedly supporting Warren, good she has the likeability of a skunk at a lawn party.
Skunks are kind of cute, Lieawatha, not so much.
AS to all of the above in the article….
And, soooooooo–just what is going to be done about it?
Meh!
Most likely nothing.
Just like nothing happened–and is still not happening with that ‘Fast and Furious’ thing.
Now correct me if I am wrong, but wasn’t a ‘federal employee’ (LEO/parasite) killed with one of those weapons that was dumped into the hands of the naros in Mexico?
Huh?!
And is there a statue of limitations on conspiracy to commit murder?
Huh?!
And just what is the statue of limitations on international arms smuggling?
And the answer is?
And how about that Benghazi thingy?
That was a bundle of laughs right?
Not that it matters that a bunch of US ex-spec-ops mercenaries were killed.
Oh–that’s right, you’re all still sniveling and whining about that false narrative, huh?!
What about the real narrative that they were all part-and-parcel to another international weapons smuggling operation–as in the hundreds and hundreds of tons of weapons into the hands of ISIS?
The operation went right up the chain of command to Clinton and that Barry Seotoro (the dick smoker).
What about that?
Ohhhhhhhh–yeah, right that congressman with the blonde hair did make a lot of political smoke with it.
And that was about that–right?
Nothing happened.
Maybe if you praaaaaaaaaay enough, something will happen to these rats in the deep state.
Perhaps if you pump your hand in the air and shout Murica’ on street corners there will be justice.
Thumping your bibles will possibly affect the outcome as well (not).
What I am seeing with Barr and all of these other suited fat fecks who are part of the DC machine is that they are all just running out the clock to keep your hopes up and keep you on the tax farms peaceably.
They are gutless despite what Joe Degenova exclaims on Hannity.
What few people are saying right now is that the USA as a union of states is obsolete.
What you fought and sniveled and prayed for and gave your sons lives for is finito.
It’s kaput.
The USA is as about as relevant to our lives as is the Sears catalog.
This county is going the way of Moxie, vaudeville theaters and Woolworth’s five-and-dime stores.
The solution is a peaceful (if possible) separation and division of this country where we can live out our lives and the radical, socialist-leftists can live out their in a manner suiting themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33liQ5P6T0I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loy23-YjSKM&t=1267s
“The solution is a peaceful (if possible) separation and division of this country where we can live out our lives and the radical, socialist-leftists can live out their in a manner suiting themselves.”
won’t happen. the left’s life consists of running ours. they’re not about to let us go, ever.
• “Maybe if you praaaaaaaaaay enough, something will happen to these rats in the deep state.”
• “Thumping your bibles will possibly affect the outcome as well (not).”
A great book about the virtue of love in the Christian life is Jonathan Edwards’ classic ‘Charity and Its Fruits’. Edwards included a chapter on how we are to respond to false charges. There, he makes the biblical point that such attacks should not surprise us; rather, we should expect them:
“Men that have their spirits heated and enraged and rising in bitter resentment when they are injured act as if they thought some strange thing had happened to them. Whereas they are very foolish in so thinking for it is no strange thing at all but only what was to be expected in a world like this. They therefore do not act wisely that allow their spirits to be ruffled by the injuries they suffer.”
Then there are some famous changes of heart at the end of the beginning:
Voltaire famous anti-Christian atheist: “I am abandoned by God and man; I will give you half of what I am worth if you will give me six months’ life.” (He said this to Dr. Fochin, who told him it could not be done.) “Then I shall die and go to hell!” (His nurse said: “For all the money in Europe I wouldn’t want to see another unbeliever die! All night long he cried for forgiveness.”)
Sir Francis Newport, the head of an English Atheist club to those gathered around his deathbed: “You need not tell me there is no God for I know there is one, and that I am in His presence! You need not tell me there is no hell. I feel myself already slipping. Wretches, cease your idle talk about there being hope for me! I know I am lost forever! Oh, that fire! Oh, the insufferable pangs of hell! …Oh, that I could lie for a thousand years upon the fire that is never quenched, to purchase the favor of God and be united to Him again. But it is a fruitless wish. Millions and millions of years will bring me no nearer the end of my torments than one poor hour. Oh, eternity, eternity forever and forever!, Oh, the insufferable pangs of Hell!”
Anton LeVey author of the Satanic Bible and high priest of the religion dedicated to the worship of Satan. Some of his famous quotes are “There is a beast in man that needs to be exercised, not exorcised”. His dying words were “Oh my, oh my, what have I done, there is something very wrong…there is something very wrong….”
Napoleon Bonaparte, the French emperor who brought death to millions to satisfy his greedy, power-mad, selfish ambitions for world conquest: “I die before my time, and my body will be given back to the earth. Such is the fate of him who has been called the great Napoleon. What an abyss between my deep misery and the eternal kingdom of Christ!”
Sir Thomas Scott, Chancellor of England “Until this moment I thought there was neither a God nor a hell. Now I know and feel that there are both, and I am doomed to perdition by the just judgment of the Almighty.”
Charles IX was the French king who urged on by his mother, gave the order for the massacre of the French Huguenots, in which 15,000 souls were slaughtered in Paris alone and 100,000 in other sections of France, for no other reason than that they loved Christ. The guilty king suffered miserably for years after that event. He finally died, bathed in blood bursting from his veins. To his physicians he said in his last hours: “Asleep or awake, I see the mangled forms of the Huguenots passing before me. They drop with blood. They point at their open wounds. Oh! That I had spared at least the little infants at the bosom! What blood! I know not where I am. How will all this end? What shall I do? I am lost forever! I know it. Oh, I have done wrong.”
David Strauss, leading representative of German rationalism, after spending a lifetime erasing belief in God from the minds of others: “My philosophy leaves me utterly forlorn! I feel like one caught in the merciless jaws of an automatic machine, not knowing at what time one of its great hammers may crush me!”
Merry CHRISTmas!
Merry CHRISTmas to you too Mark.
Back at you Donkey…
Fill your ears and rest your eyes on these lovelies singing their praise and worship!
Here’s a 12 year old Irish lass with the voice of an angel.
Merry CHRISTmas
https://youtu.be/FOh6UhNiR8U?t=2
Of course Mark once again chimes in with more bible-babble and no rock solid solutions.
“Modern Evangelical Christianity” has weakened the already weak minds of so-called, self proclaimed ‘Christians.’
Mark still believe that Jeeeeessussssssss will come back in a glorious special effects display, floating down from the clouds with lasers shooting out of his orafices, smiting all the world’s enemies.
Mark still believes the USA is a ‘creation of God’ when in fact it is a creation of Masonic deists who babbled ‘Jeassussus’ words in order for the bible-thumpers to pick up with muskets and do the heavy lifting for them.
The the alphabet agents come to his door–Mark will fall to his knees, and thank Jeasussusus for the opportunity to be martyred ‘in his name.’
Me thinks you do not know Mark very well.
My friend Donkey is 100% correct, you know absolutely nothing about me.
Actually you’re usually the cranky mocker who posts the same Christian insults over and over. Son, you have to stop sucking on them lemons before you post.
Yawn…it is late and I’m sleepy, and feel no obligation to retort further with you at this time.
I will be the Scripture Nazi…NO PEARLS FOR YOU!
Shinmen,
Do yourself a favor and read these words of life and wisdom buddy.
Merry Christmas!
MOCKERS: Don’t take revenge on them but always be prepared to give an answer.
Proverbs 19:11 A person’s wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense.
Proverbs 29:11 A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it
1 Peter 3:15-16 But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.
Galatians 6:7 Stop being deceived; God is not to be ridiculed. A person harvests whatever he plants:
Isaiah 28:22 Now stop your mocking, or your chains will become heavier; the Lord, the LORD Almighty, has told me of the destruction decreed against the whole land.
MOCKERS HATE CORRECTION
12. Proverbs 9:4-12 “Whoever is naive, let him turn in here,” she says to those who lack understanding. “Come, eat some of my food, and drink some of the wine I have mixed. Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live, and proceed in the way of understanding.” Whoever corrects a mocker is asking for insult; whoever reproves a wicked person receives abuse. Do not reprove a mocker or he will hate you; reprove a wise person and he will love you. Give instruction to a wise person, and he will become wiser still; teach a righteous person and he will add to his learning. The beginning of wisdom is to fear the Lord, and acknowledging the Holy One is understanding. For because of me your days will be many, and years will be added to your life. If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage, but if you are a mocker, you alone must bear it.
Proverbs 14:6-9 The scorner seeks wisdom but finds none, but understanding is easy for a discerning person. Leave the presence of a foolish person, or you will not understand wise counsel. The wisdom of the shrewd person is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deception. Fools mock at reparation, but among the upright there is favor.
ON JUDGEMENT DAYTHEIR LUCK WILL RUN OUT
Proverbs 19:28-30 A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the wicked person feeds on iniquity. Condemnation is appropriate for mockers, just as beatings are for the backs of fools.
Matthew 12:35-37 A good person brings good things out of a good treasure house, and an evil person brings evil things out of an evil treasure house. I tell you, on Judgment Day people will give an account for every thoughtless word they have uttered, because by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
CHRISTIANS WILL BE PERSECUTED
7. 2 Corinthians 4:8-10 We have troubles all around us, but we are not defeated. We often don’t know what to do, but we don’t give up. We are persecuted, but God does not leave us. We are hurt sometimes, but we are not destroyed. So we constantly experience the death of Jesus in our own bodies, but this is so that the life of Jesus can also be seen in our bodies.
If you think the leftists will let the normies go and set up their own homeland, you have been smokin some mighty fine weed. They would rather burn down the entire country as to let up live in peace.
Mr. Trump may well be removed from office by vote of the US Senate. He is roundly detested by the entire Body, and (if the powers that be nod) could be convicted and tossed out in an afternoon. Unknown to me is what Mr. Pence might do with the opportunity, but that is another question. Clear to all is it that Mr. Trump is HATED by the entire establishment, Dem and Repub alike. If they can figure a way to get him out of office, they will.
Elections don’t matter, and Epstein did not kill himself.
“If they can figure a way to get him out of office, they will.”
heh. reminds me of the european leaders responding to the 2009 economic crisis – “we know what do to. we just don’t know how to get reelected after doing it.” in the senate’s case it’s “we don’t know how to retain power and control after doing it.”
après trump le déluge
Schiff is already hinting at Pence being investigated and I think he wants SanFranNan to become the first woman President, so she can appoint Hi LIAR y as VP and then resign, so the evil queen can run as the incumbent.
It sounds crazy, but I do believe they think they can pull it off. Tick tock, tick tock, time is running short.
Let’s say that Pence does become President (long shot BTW) –this bible-tard’s will go back to the policies that fucked up this country in the first place. And he will do it mumbling Jesusssusus words and nice rehtoric and make everyone feel coooooommmmmfortable when in fact he will be pissing down your backside–then telling you that it is raining.
Nice Christmas post, douche.
“The actions of the deep state, and the Democrats falling for them, will cost them the 2020 election.”
I predict existing, enhanced, and new voter fraud will give them victory on all major fronts.
when the dust finaly settles we will find out pelosi is china’s poodle
I wonder if the ties to MI-6 will give Trump the means necessary to bend Boris Johnson over a barrel for US-UK trade talks? Johnson can distance himself and declassify MI-6’s actions around the Steele Dossier for Mr. Durham.
Don’t bet on it.
this doesn’t really go well here but in some ways it does–the deep state uniparty mic always protects itself–
do you remember a couple of years back when we had several ships in the far east involved in collisions–there was much speculation about what caused them,with ideas running the gamut from the ship’s computers being hacked to affirmative action playing a role–
here is an expose about the collision of the uss john mccain with an oil tanker off singapore–they courtmartialed people over this but it turned out to be a faulty steering system that the navy had known about 4 years–
they have a pattern of this,remember the faulty shells on the battleship in the 80 s & they tried to blame it on a gay sailor–
I’ve been saying for over a year that the Dem ticket will be Fauxcahontas and Buttplug!