the golden ratio

 

The dollar golf tour.



Thinskin

 

What a prick!

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/x_TGmtWNDRQ

Thinskin

 

Cease and desist.......yeah right!



Thinskin

 

This raid was most likely unnecessary, but was instead supposed to make an impression on low-info voters as the mid-terms approach, possibly causing Donald Trump to throw in the towel politically. Whether you like Trump or not though, this is an embarrassing day for our nation, the kind of thing banana republics do.
I don't believe Trump will be actually be indicted because criminal proceedings demand cross-examination and could bring questions Democrats don't want asked, especially about Jan. 6.
The bottom line? "Trump raid not about classified documents -- it's about Jan. 6th."
ALSO, Jan. 6th is not about Jan 6th -- Jan. 6th is about keeping Trump from running in 2024.

Trump raid not about classified documents — it’s about Jan. 6
By
Andrew C. McCarthy
August 9, 2022 9:14am

The court-authorized search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate is another unmistakable signal that the Justice Department is trying to build a criminal case against him arising out of the Capitol riot. Ostensibly, the search relates to a long simmering dispute between the former president and the government over Trump’s potentially illegal retention and mishandling of classified information. But don’t be deceived.

National Archives officials alerted the Justice Department months ago regarding missing records and possible classified information violations. That owes to the chaotic atmosphere in which the Trump family decamped to Florida from the White House following the Capitol riot – with impeachment proceedings and even talk of removing Trump from office under the 25th Amendment then underway.

Reportedly, about 15 boxes of records were removed from the White House and shipped to Mar-a-Lago. The National Archives subsequently explained that much of the material should have been kept in the government’s possession, pursuant to the Presidential Records Act. After extensive negotiations, Trump agreed to return some of the materials in January 2022. Upon receipt, National Archives officials advised the Justice Department that the returned materials included classified information.

If true, that raises several issues. If Trump had not declassified these materials while he was president, then his continuing possession of them in a non-secure location was probably illegal. While presidents have unilateral authority to declassify intelligence, they only maintain that authority while in office – it may not be exercised in the post-presidency. The returned documents were thus potentially evidence of crimes. In addition, since it is believed Trump did not return everything that was shipped out of the White House in those hectic days of January 2021, there was significant reason to suspect he continued to retain classified information at Mar-a-Lago.


Trump says FBI raided Mar-a-Lago, broke into safe
One of the potential law violations, under Section 2071 of the federal penal code, includes in its penalty provisions that, upon conviction, a defendant “shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.” The ongoing proceedings implicating Trump – in particular, the Justice Department’s investigation and the House January 6 committee probe – seem geared toward undermining his capacity to seek the presidency again in 2024. Obviously, then, there is speculation that DOJ may be mobilizing now in order to trigger the Section 2071 disqualification.

I doubt that. The Justice Department well knows that the qualifications for a presidential candidate are set out in the Constitution. They may not be altered by statute, precisely because the Framers did not want the executive branch to be dominated by the legislature, as would happen if Congress could disqualify incumbent or potential presidents simply by passing a law. The Constitution’s qualifications for the presidency are minimal – one must be over 35 and a natural-born citizen. Being a felon is not a disqualification, so even crimes potentially far more serious than mishandling classified information are not a bar to seeking the presidency.

Moreover, the Constitution also prescribes the basis for disqualifying a person from seeking the presidency or other federal office: conviction by the Senate on an impeachment article voted by the House. Again, what is prescribed by the Constitution may not be altered by a mere statute. To trigger disqualification, Congress would have to impeach and convict Trump; it cannot be done by criminal prosecution.

The Justice Department obviously used the potential classified information as a pretext to obtain a warrant so it could search for what it is really looking for: evidence that would tie Trump to a Capitol riot offense – either a violent crime, such as seditious conspiracy to forcibly attack a government installation (which is highly unlikely), or a non-violent crime, such as conspiracy to obstruct the January 6 joint session of Congress to count electoral votes, or conspiracy to defraud the government.

As previously explained, I believe it would foolhardy for the Biden Justice Department to indict a former president on such debatable non-violent crime charges. That is especially so when it comes to a former president who could be the 2024 Republican nominee, since such charges would fuel the perception that Democrats are using the Justice Department as a political weapon.

That said, let’s assume Attorney General Merrick Garland contemplates bringing such conspiracy charges against Trump. If so, DOJ would need to prove that Trump clearly knew that the 2020 election was not stolen by fraud, yet willfully persisted in deceptive schemes to prevent Congress from counting the state-certified votes that would establish Biden’s victory.

This is why, in recent weeks, the Justice Department has aggressively sought evidence from advisers close to Trump. In June, it executed search warrants on both former Justice Department attorney Jeffrey Clark, who sought to help Trump convince contested states of the false premise that DOJ believed Biden’s victory might be fraudulent; and constitutional law scholar John Eastman, architect of the legal strategy by which Trump unsuccessfully sought to persuade then-Vice President Mike Pence to discount electoral votes from key states won by Biden.

About a week ago, DOJ issued grand jury subpoenas to Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone, and Cipollone’s deputy Patrick Philbin, who were aware of and reportedly pushed back against Trump’s schemes to undo the election result.

The Biden Justice Department is under enormous pressure from the Democratic base to indict Trump, and it is straining to deliver. But what it is trying to deliver is a Capitol riot case, not a case of mishandling classified documents.

https://nypost.com/2022/08/09/trump-raid-not-about-classified-documents-its-about-jan-6/

 

Nonsense.......the raid was because Trump has ignored every supeona he has been served with therefore whatever the subject matter a warrent was necessary.

Thinskin

 

From the article: Anti-Trump hysteria is in the final analysis not about Trump. The regime can’t allow Trump to be president not because of who he is (although that grates), but because of who his followers are. That class—Angelo Codevilla’s “country class”—must not be allowed representation by candidates who might implement their preferences, which also, and above all, must not be allowed. The rubes have no legitimate standing to affect the outcome of any political process, because of who they are, but mostly because of what they want.

They Can't Let Him Back In
Michael Anton
July 28, 2022

The people who really run the United States of America have made it clear that they can’t, and won’t, if they can help it, allow Donald Trump to be president again. In fact, they made this clear in 2020, in a series of public statements. Simply for quoting their words in an essay for The American Mind, I was mercilessly mocked and attacked. But they were quite clear. Trump won’t be president at noon, Jan. 20, 2021, even if we have to use the military to drag him out of there.

“Anti-Trump hysteria is in the final analysis not about Trump.”
If the regime felt that strongly back then, imagine how they feel now. But you don’t have to imagine. They tell you every day. Liz Cheney, Trump’s personal Javert, has said that the 45th president is literally the greatest threat facing America today—greater than China, than our crashing economy, than our unraveling civil society.

That’s rhetoric, of course, but it isn’t merely that. It’s safer, and generally more accurate, to assume that your adversaries mean what they say. If you doubt this, ask yourself: When was the last time they acted more moderately than they talk? Even if it is just rhetoric, the words nonetheless portend turbulence. “He who says A must say B.” The logic of statement A inevitably leads to action B, even if the speaker of A didn’t really mean it, or did mean it, but still didn’t want B. Her followers won’t get the irony and, enthused by A, will insist on B.

Take some time to listen to the mainstream media. It doesn’t have to be long; five minutes should do. Then spend another five or so reading the statements of prominent politicians other than Trump. To round it out, sacrifice another five on leading intellectuals. It should become abundantly clear: They all have said A and so must say—and do—B.

And B is that Trump absolutely must not be allowed to take office on Jan. 20, 2025. Why? They say Jan. 6. But their determination began much earlier.

And just what is so terrible about Trump anyway? I get many of his critics’ points, I really do. I hear them all the time from my mother. But even if we were to stipulate them all, do Trump’s faults really warrant tearing the country apart by shutting out half of it from the political process?

Love him or hate him, during Trump’s presidency, the economy was strong, markets were up, inflation was under control, gas prices were low, illegal border crossings were down, crime was lower, trade deals were renegotiated, ISIS was defeated, NATO allies were stepping up, and China was stepping back (a little). Deny all that if you want to. The point here is that something like 100 million Americans believe it, strongly, and are bewildered and angered by elite hatred for the man they think delivered it.

Nor was Trump’s record all that radical—much less so than that of Joe Biden, who is using school-lunch funding to push gender ideology on poor kids, to cite but one example. Trump’s core agenda—border protection, trade balance, foreign restraint—was quite moderate, both intrinsically and in comparison to past Republican and Democratic precedent. And that’s before we even get to the fact that Trump neglected much of his own agenda in favor of the old Chamber of Commerce, fusionist, Reaganite, Conservatism, Inc., agenda. Corporate tax cuts, deregulation, and bombing Syria: These are all things Trump’s base doesn’t want, but the oligarchs desperately do, which Trump gave them. And still they try to destroy him.

Again, why? I think it’s because, while Trump’s core MAGA agenda is decidedly not outside the historic bipartisan mainstream, it is well outside the present regime’s core interests. Our rulers’ wealth and power rise with open borders, trade giveaways, and endless war. Trump, at least in principle, and often in practice, threatens all three. The old America—the one in which Republicans cared about the heartland and weren’t solely valets to corporate power, Democrats were pro-worker and anti-war, and Bill Clinton and The New York Times could advocate border security—is in the process of being replaced, if it hasn’t already been, by one in which there is only one acceptable opinion on not just these, but all other issues.

“Our rulers’ wealth and power rise with open borders, trade giveaways, and endless war.”
Anti-Trump hysteria is in the final analysis not about Trump. The regime can’t allow Trump to be president not because of who he is (although that grates), but because of who his followers are. That class—Angelo Codevilla’s “country class”—must not be allowed representation by candidates who might implement their preferences, which also, and above all, must not be allowed. The rubes have no legitimate standing to affect the outcome of any political process, because of who they are, but mostly because of what they want.

Complaints about the nature of Trump are just proxies for objections to the nature of his base. It doesn’t help stabilize our already twitchy situation that those who bleat the loudest about democracy are also audibly and visibly determined to deny a real choice to half the country. “No matter how you vote, you will not get X”—whether X is a candidate or a policy—is guaranteed to increase discontent with the present regime.

People I have known for 30 years, many of whom still claim the label “conservative,” will no longer speak to me—because I supported Trump, yes, but also because I disagree on trade, war, and the border. They call not just my positions, but me personally, unadulterated evil. I am not an isolated case. There are, as they say, “many such cases.” How are we supposed to have “democracy” when the policies and candidates my side wants and votes for are anathema and can’t be allowed? How are we supposed to live together with the constant demonization from one side against the other blaring 24/7 from the ruling class’s every propaganda organ? Why would we want to?

More to the point: How are we supposed to get through the next two and a half years? The regime would prefer to get its way via the path of least resistance. The ideal situation, at least for those of a less punitive cast of mind who would be satisfied seeing Trump gone but not necessarily in jail, would be for Trump to just walk away. But how likely is that? He doesn’t, to say the least, seem primed for a graceful exit in which he passes the baton to Ron DeSantis (or whomever). Even if he did, how many in his base would convince themselves that the fix was somehow in? “They threatened his children,” etc. That kind of thinking leads not to demoralization but to outrage. That might be irrational, but this isn’t a math competition; it’s politics in a hyper-partisan, supercharged time.

Since the long goodbye has about as much chance as Kamala Harris completing a sentence without cackling, Plan A is to use the Jan. 6 show trials to make it impossible for Trump to run again, or barring that, to win again. But that isn’t working; at least, not well enough. They may have dented Trump a little in opinion polling, but not nearly enough to prevent him from getting the GOP nomination. Perhaps they still can; I doubt it, but who knows? But more likely, even if they do further damage, Trump will have plenty of time to get his numbers back up.

And the ruling class will surely help him in that endeavor by being ever-more radical, hateful, and incompetent. They have shown time and again that there is no moderation in them. They can’t let up even a single mile per hour, not even when easing back is in their clear interest. Whether they are driven by the demands of their base, their own internal conviction, or some supernatural force, I couldn’t say.

Plan B is for the Jan. 6 committee to lay the groundwork for an indictment of Trump. The Justice Department is already leaking that “seditious conspiracy” might be the charge. Now, I personally believe that such a charge would be ludicrous. Seditious conspiracy, when it is charged at all, which it rarely was before Jan. 6, is typically reserved for the likes of Omar “Blind Sheikh” Abdel-Rahman, who tried to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993. And they are going to try it against a former president, for phone calls and texts ambiguously connected to a protest in which many walked through doors held open by Capitol Police, minimal property damage occurred, the only people who died were unarmed protesters, and which may have been a setup, or at least egged-on, by the feds.

I am under no illusion that I’m going to convince regime apparatchiks of any of this. However, if any are reading, I would ask them the following. I know you think it’s perfectly obvious that “Trump Is Guilty!” and that anyone who doesn’t agree is not merely insane, but A Danger to the Republic. But just as I know I can’t convince you, I also know that you can’t convince 100 million Trump supporters. Do you realize that, too? Do you consider it a feature, not a bug?

Moreover, if the regime goes forward with this, it’s going to try him in the District of Columbia’s 77 percent Democratic and 92 percent virulently anti-Trump jury pool, which lately has been acquitting obvious Democratic miscreants and convicting Republicans on silly charges that never used to have been brought in the first place.

It’s just a fact—perhaps, to many, a baleful fact—but nevertheless a fact that somewhere between a third and half the country is going to find this totally illegitimate and be outraged by it. I know what some of our masters are thinking because they are already saying it: Justice must be done, come what may. We must stand on principle, consequences be damned. This sounds noble in the abstract.

“What if, somehow, Trump is acquitted or gets his case tossed out?”
Is it? I suspect some of them are thinking: This is win-win for us. If we convict him, or damage him enough that he can’t run, and there isn’t a huge backlash, then mission accomplished. Or if there is, well, those people were already, or soon-to-be, insurrectionists and so we will be justified in unleashing the security state against them. Indeed, there are benefits to flushing them out now, before they are fully organized for the “Second Civil War” we know the insurrectionists are already plotting.

At any rate, a conviction would all but ensure a Senate vote under Article I, Section 3, making Trump constitutionally ineligible to run (at least half the Republicans would sign on). But what if, somehow, Trump is acquitted or gets his case tossed out? Then I think you will see the same indignant reaction, but from the other side. Suddenly it will be Blue America declaring all our institutions, and especially the courts, illegitimate. You might even see some attempts at blue secession, e.g., “Calexit.”

Plan C, if none of this works, is to have Trump declared ineligible under the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment. This is riskier than Plan B. If they couldn’t get a Senate vote in favor (and, absent a conviction, I don’t think they could), it would come down to a mere court opinion. If you think Trump’s base will howl over a conviction in a DC kangaroo court, wait until you see their reaction to some Democratic-appointed appeals judge saying Trump can’t run. Even if the regime got the Supreme Court to uphold that 9-0 (and they won’t), Trump’s base won’t accept it.

Plan D—just beat him at the ballot box—is also risky. The country is in desperate shape. Biden is enormously unpopular. Harris is spectacularly unpopular. Getting rid of one of them will be hard. Getting rid of both? The first black, South-Asian, and female vice president and heir apparent? Does anyone think the race-and-sex-obsessed Democratic base of 2024 is going to tolerate that?

And then who do they replace them with? Gavin Newsom? A ciswhite male? Even if they can get past that non-trivial problem, which they can’t, Newsom has no appeal outside deep-blue America. I’m not saying he would certainly lose, but it’s dicey as hell, especially with a demoralized base and the very strong likelihood that the state he governs will be deep in recession by election time.

Plan E is to cheat. I know what you are thinking. But I’m not talking about Dominion voting machines. I mean the kind of “pre-cheating” that the regime boasts about as “election fortification”: change the rules in advance in ways that favor Democrats and hurt Republicans, especially in swing states. There is no question that they will do this. Why wouldn’t they? It worked last time, and the more overt cheating they can avoid, the better.

They are already using the federal government to thumb the scale in favor of Democrats. Biden’s Executive Order 14019, “Promoting Access to Voting,” requires “every federal agency to submit a plan to register voters and encourage voter participation. It also required agencies to form strategies to invite nongovernmental third parties to register voters.” That is to say, a federal takeover of state elections by the Biden administration. This is a replay, with federal power, of the $400 million in “Zuckerbucks”—money donated by the tech-oligarch founder of Facebook—that pre-rigged the last election, but this time with taxpayer dollars, a White House aide (Susan Rice) coordinating, and cabinet agencies like Housing and Urban Development implementing, in conjunction with leftwing NGOs. That combination will be hard to beat.

“A supermajority of Republicans doesn’t believe that the election was on the level.”
But suppose it is. There is always cheating-cheating. If you believed that Trump presents an unprecedented threat to the republic, would you really object to a few boxes of extra ballots falling off trucks near vote-counting headquarters in Las Vegas, Phoenix, Milwaukee, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta? When the Survival of Our Democracy Is on the Line?

One has to tip one’s hat to the rhetorical disadvantage they have imposed on us. All questioning of any election they win is denounced as paranoid, unpatriotic, “racist,” and a threat to the integrity of the process. (Never mind that they always do it when the right wins; see, for instance, 2000, 2004, and 2016.) The questionable practices such as late-night ballot dumps that lead to our questions are never explained, much less ended. They get to engage in shenanigans that make elections look fishy; we get blamed for saying they look fishy. When we point out that, hey, something looks off there, the response is invariably: How dare you sow doubt about the election! You are undermining confidence in Our Democracy™. Not their shenanigans, but our doubts undermine confidence.

But there is reason to wonder if they can get away with it next time. Whatever happened in 2020, a supermajority of Republicans doesn’t believe that the election was on the level. The regime is extremely worried about this, which is why the propaganda on it is so intense. They know that to pull off a win in 2024, and have it accepted by the 2020 doubters, the next election is at least going to have to look a lot cleaner than the last. Making it look cleaner is hard to do without actually making it cleaner. The downside to that, though, is obvious.

So the choice before them is: Do what(ever) they did last time—and more so, if necessary—and risk an even bigger reaction, or take their chances that they can win a fair fight. (The latter assumes that they have complete control of their minions who run elections at the local level.) But to repeat a point: Perhaps they consider the reaction a feature, not a bug?

Which leaves Plan F, which they have already sketched in broad outlines. I don’t know exactly what form it will take, but they have made clear that “under no circumstance” can Trump be allowed to take office again. Among the “circumstances” covered by the word “no” would seem to be an Electoral College majority, or a tie followed by a House vote in Trump’s favor.

What happens then? Well, in the words of the “Transition Integrity Project,” a Soros-network-linked collection of regime hacks who in 2020 gamed out their strategy for preventing a Trump second term, the contest would become “a street fight, not a legal battle.” Again, their words, not mine. But allow me to translate: The 2020 summer riots, but orders of magnitude larger, not to be called off until their people are secure in the White House.

On Sept. 20, 1911, the RMS Olympic—sistership of the ill-fated Titanic—collided with the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Hawke, despite both vessels traveling at low speeds, in visual contact with one another for 80 minutes. “It was,” writes maritime historian John Maxtone-Graham, “one of those incredible convergences, in full daylight on a calm sea within sight of land, where two normally operated vessels steamed blithely to a point of impact as though mesmerized.”

Our sea isn’t calm, nor are our vessels normally operated. But we do seem headed for a point of impact, with the field of vision before us as clear as it was on that day. And the regime isn’t changing course. It must want this—or else is so high on its own supply that it can’t see what it is doing.

Rest assured, if what I fear might happen, happens, we will be blamed for it. And the fire next time will make their reaction to Jan. 6 look like a marshmallow roast. I don’t know which possibility is scarier: that they haven’t thought any of this through, or that they have.

https://compactmag.com/article/they-can-t-let-him-back-in

 

Well the one thing is, as long as the despicables are so focused on keeping trump from ever even running again, they sure as hell aren't taking care of our business.

Which is good, and bad.

Good because this bunch of robbers has never and will never take care of our business, so as long as they're obsessed with Trump, not much bad is happening.
Bad because they aren't taking care of our business.

Let em rant on Trump, and raid his residence, and sling their propaganda. Midterms approach, nothing has changed that probable outcome, and following that we have 2024. The biden bunch will be lame duck for two years (not much of a change from the current situation, but every bit counts) and as long as the old poop doesn't blow something up, or crash the economy (worse) before midterms we can get back on track.

So go, despicables! Get Trump! Whatever it takes! LIE!! CHEAT!! STEAL!!

30 31 32 Federal and state investigations and counting. Still waiting.

 

Yup, the FBI purposefully waited until Trump was absent before raiding his home. Yup, this Mar-a-Lago raid was supposed to be a low-key effort attended by 30 or so of his closest friends. Instead, they've set off a firestorm that may ensure Trump runs again in 2024

Those Democrats on the rabid side of far Left, seemingly incapable of understanding the precedent this raid sets, enjoy the hell out of it.
Others, a little more sophisticated and capable of understanding big picture nuances, wonder WTH just happened? These are not small names in the Democrat Party...

Tulsi Gabbard: FBI Raid Against Trump a ‘Blatant Abuse of Power’
The Biden administration is using the FBI "to target their political opponents or frankly anyone who dares to dissent or challenge or disagree or even question what this administration is doing," says former congresswoman.
https://www.newswars.com/tulsi-gabbard-fbi-raid-against-trump-a-blatant-abuse-of-power/

Andrew Cuomo questions FBI's raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago: 'DOJ must immediately explain'
Cuomo said a lack of transparency would discredit the work of the Jan. 6 committee
https://justthenews.com/politics-po...-questions-fbis-raid-trumps-mar-lago-doj-must

‘It Seems Political’: Andrew Yang Condemns FBI Raid On Mar-A-Lago
Former Democratic presidential candidate and entrepreneur Andrew Yang on Tuesday condemned the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/08/09/andrew-yang-statement-fbi-raid-trump-mar-a-lago/

On the other hand....
There are also pro-deep state Decepticons this raid is forcing out of the woodwork on the Republican side. For example, the Senators from South Carolina, one a known quantity, the other previously still in question. How is it possible that Andrew Cuomo had a better response to the raid on Mar-a-Lago than did both of these Republican senators from South Carolina?

Senator Lindsey Graham is going to talk a lot about how unprecedented this raid was, but he's not gonna actually do anything. All talk, no action. As usual. He has shown this to us over and over again. How South Carolina continues returning him to the Senate, as a Republican, is beyond most observers.

Appearing on CBS news to kickstart his 2024 presidential ambitions, and react/respond to the FBI raid on President Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, Senator Tim Scott advanced the DeceptiCon narrative, “we need to let this play out” etc. Senator Scott followed this up in a tweet, telling us the American public needs to let the FBI’s search and DOJ investigation of former Pres. Trump “play out” before jumping to conclusions — adding that this could raise more questions about whether the agency is “doing their job apolitical.”

Lindsey Graham is a known quantity, a RINO of the highest order. But Tim Scott? There were some who'd still held out a slim hope that he might be a little something more than a member of the Uniparty. This hope, however, now has been answered. Rarely do you get to watch a DeceptiCon evolve in real time. Historically, DeceptiCon extremists hibernate for years in the dark as they evolve, leaving only minuscule trails of mucous behind until they emerge, exploding like stealth terror cells. Think of John McCain's thumbs down on defunding ObamaCare or Mitch McConnell's never-ending efforts to stab Donald Trump in the back.

However, Tim Scott prematurely detonated, unexpectedly confirming to most observers that he's the RINO they feared he was. After endorsing Lisa Murkowski (of Alaska) last week and then giving his waffling answer to the Mar-a-Lago raid, Senator Tim Scott can kiss his presidential aspirations good by.

Other Decepticons
There still remain other DeceptiCons out there who continue mouthing the right words--sort of. When discussing the aftermath of the Trump raid, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) said about testifying before a Congressional committee, "Be ready Merrick Garland, because you’re coming and you better have your documents ready and you better have explanations ready for the American people, because you cannot weaponize our institutions for political gain. That is the destruction of democracy."

The problem is, Crenshaw has always been a closet NeverTrumper. He won’t come out and show his true colors like Kinzinger or Cheney do, but he believes the same things they do and has always used every opportunity, like Mitch McConnell, to passive-aggressively slam President Trump and the America First agenda. That’s no secret. Crenshaw is a “Paul Ryan” establishment Republican, and recently admitted that he goes to Paul Ryan for political advice — that should tell you all you need to know about Dan Crenshaw and his politics and why he should be booted from the party.

If Republicans don’t get rid of RINO's like Dan Crenshaw now, he/they'll set root in the party's structure (perhaps ultimately as a Senator), and like Lindsey Graham, we’ll never be rid of them. They’ll be another McCain, Flake or Romney, and permanent thorns in the party's side.

 

Give generously you poor dedulded fucks!



Thinskin

 

Passport seized.....what a giggle!

Thinskin

 

Elect a crook and take some fucking reaponsibility.

Thinskin

 

I think Never Trumpers just don't care. I don't think they've swallowed anything and I think most of them don't believe any of it or even think that what has happened is right. They are so afflicted with TDS syndrome that they simply cannot get past it.
Hate trumps all in their case.

Friday, August 12, 2022
Don surber
What you have to swallow to be a Never Trumper



David French and the rest of the gang cheered the FBI's raid of Mar-a-Lago. They also convinced themselves that pleading the Fifth Amendment to every question asked in a deposition is proof of guilt. Just what the crime is will be determined later. We have kicked these buffoons around for 6 years, but we have never really examined the sacrifices made to be a Never Trumper.
Here is what they have had to swallow.

1. You have to believe that Hillary sending classified material to foreign agents and foreign governments as secretary of state was no big deal.

2. You have to believe that Trump taking home material to Mar-a-Lago is a capital offense that requires 30 FBI agents to spend 9 hours rifling through his wife's undergarments and the like.

3. You have to believe that Obama using the FBI to spy on Trump was no big deal.

4. You have to believe that Trump asking Zelensky to look into Hunter Biden's criminality is an impeachable offense.

5. You have to believe that Democrat riots in city after city was no big deal.

6. You have to believe that Trump rallying 250,000 people at the National Mall was an insurrection and an impeachable offense.

7. You have to believe that Hillary colluding with Russians to frame Trump was no big deal.

8. You have to believe that Russia colluded with Trump based on Democrat oppo research.

9. You have to believe that Trump was a buffoon while at the same time believing Trump was a diabolical criminal mastermind.

10. You have to believe that Make America Great is an anti-American slogan.

That's a lot to swallow, so much that Linda Lovelace would gag. Small wonder they look so sad all the time.

https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2022/08/what-you-have-to-swallow-to-be-never.html

 

7 years, 30 31 32 Federal and State investigations, not to mention all the allegations of sexual misconduct.
The answer is still yes.

 

Giggling here!



Thinskin

 

The FBI did not inform the Biden White House of the raid?? If true, then as far as they are concerned, the FBI doesn't answer to anyone. I was stunned by Garland's press conference in that I think he actually believes what he was saying. He doesn't think they are acting like mindless thugs, because he really doesn't think they are doing anything wrong... As such, I fully expect they will continue to act like mindless thugs operating outside the law with no outside oversight, providing more and more evidence that they are mindless thugs.

Speaking of “truth,” here is what Sleepy Joe said in 2018: “We choose truth over facts!” With this raid, apparently truth is whatever the neo-Marxists and Democrat Socialists say it is. The malignant evil that is today's Democrat Party literally does not give a damn whether its Stalinist psychopathology has any legitimacy. All it cares about is destruction; of Trump, and the nation, at any cost. This is irredeemably sociopathic, almost feral behavior. Unfortunately, right now, they have all the organs of government to enforce that totalitarian notion.

And they call Trump a fascist, claiming that he is a threat to our democracy!

August 19, 2022
Truth Matters And Never More So Than With the Mar-a-Lago Raid
By Ted Noel

With the bungled raid on Mar-a-Lago by Voldemort Garland’s minions, we must turn off the valve on his gaslight and blow away the stench being spread by the lamestream media. To do this, we must unequivocally declare that words actually have meanings. As John Adams said at the Boston Massacre trial, “Facts matter, and facts are stubborn things.”

Bill Clinton’s famous prevarication of, “It depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is” notwithstanding, the Supreme Court has made it abundantly clear with Heller, McDonald, Dobbs, and Bruen that the meanings of words in law are those that the authors of the law would have understood, not some later permutation preferred by the Left. That’s why we should question the Lawfare blog’s insistence that “The FBI has clearly developed significant evidence of criminal activity at Mar-a-Lago related to the handling of classified material, and government property more generally.”

Lawfare’s take is not surprising given that it is a lefty organization. But inquiring minds want to know the Truth. And no, I’m not talking about Trump’s social media organization that still doesn’t have a web app. I’m talking about the word “truth” and what it actually means.

“Truth” is a verbal representation of what is or what has happened. Truth does not care whether you believe it or not. It will not argue with you. It will simply hit you between the eyes when you ignore or deny it enough times. For example, if you have no income and you keep spending money, eventually your credit card will be rejected. It’s not complicated; it’s just a fact. It’s not my truth or your truth. It is the truth. In this vein, we must consider the seizure of documents from Mar-a-Lago. There are four classes of material.

The first is the simplest. Donald Trump works at Mar-a-Lago while he’s there, so he has created work-related documents. Those are properly his and should never have been taken. They aren’t covered by the Presidential Records Act and aren’t classified security documents.

Second are his passports. As president, he had both a personal and a diplomatic passport. Those are his unless he is required to surrender them by a Court or the State Department. No such orders have been given and, should he be required to surrender them, the Mar-a-Lago raid would look like kicking over a sand castle on a beach.

The third class is security-related documents. Here’s where things get interesting. If Trump took classified documents with him and did not store them properly, then it is possible to suggest that there might be a securities violation.

But…

In 1988, the Supreme Court, in Navy v. Egan, declared that the President’s control over classified documents is absolute:

The President, after all, is the "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States." U.S.Const., Art. II, § 2. His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security and to determine whether an individual is sufficiently trustworthy to occupy a position in the Executive Branch that will give that person access to such information flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the President, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant.


This is also a direct reference to Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution. “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” In short, the Constitution granted President Trump complete authority to classify or declassify anything he wanted. No one had any legal authority to question him. He was not required to follow any procedure. His standing order that any materials he removed from the Oval Office were deemed declassified was both fully effective and unquestionable. He had “plenary authority.”

As Trump attorney and adviser, Kash Patel, noted, “He can literally stand over a set of documents and say these are now declassified and that is done with definitive action immediately.” This is not opinion. It is the truth. Not my truth. The truth. The Constitution requires it.

There is only one possibility regarding any materials taken from the White House before noon on January 20, 2021. Unless Donald Trump rescinded his standing order, all those documents were, in fact, declassified the moment they left the Oval Office. Thus, any Espionage Act charge relating to documents at Mar-a-Lago is bogus. As President Trump said, “All the documents were declassified.”

The only possible way that Trump could have possessed classified documents would be if he removed them after Biden was inaugurated president. But Donald and Melania left the White House around 11:00 a.m., and there is lots of news coverage to confirm that fact. He hasn’t been back since.

Of interest, Marine One flew in and the Trumps flew out on it moments later. Neither Donald nor Melania had anything in their hands other than the other person’s hand. As for the movers, they are required to be gone with all the outgoing President’s belongings, mementos, and whatever before noon. Put bluntly, if Trump didn’t get it out of the White House by noon, he didn’t have it at Mar-a-Lago, and that means that any papers fell under his standing declassification order. Game, set, and match.

The final question is whether Trump had documents that the Presidential Records Act says belong to the National Archives. While that’s possible, 45 has been very cooperative on that count. When the movers took things out of the White House, it’s quite likely that they scooped up some items that fit into that description. On an earlier DOJ visit to Mar-a-Lago, some of these things were identified and handed over without objection. And as The Donald has noted, all they had to do was ask. He’d be happy to return anything that fit the bill. And that brings us to a key consideration.

Attorney General Merrick said, “I’m only enforcing the rule of law.” Garland apparently dithered over authorizing the raid for weeks. If national security was at issue, why wasn’t he knocking on Trump’s door within a few days after January 20? It’s now over a year and a half later. For National Archives issues, a simple phone call would work. Trump’s personal work and passports don’t fall under any form of request or excuse. So, what’s going on?

I can’t read the alleged mind of anyone on the Left, so here comes my best guess. Sleepy Joe’s puppet masters realized that their attempt to use the January 6 circus to paint Trump as an insurrectionist was failing. So, they needed to find a way to soil him so badly that his base would reject him. “Under investigation” would be the magic words. But they forgot a key item.

First, as I’ve noted above, Trump did nothing illegal. Second, they tried multiple investigations. Russiagate flopped. Then, an investigation into a routine phone call resulted in a sham impeachment. Finally, when bad actors crashed Biden’s Electoral College party, the Left gave Trump credit. But in every case, the Left failed.

Donald Trump loves America. He didn’t need the money. He endured the endless slings and arrows of the feckless Clockwork Orange hoodlums. And he keeps coming back for more. He is the essential leader that America must have, and real Americans see it. Yes, many dislike his mean tweets but accept that he fights for them, unlike the Left who use “Fighting for You” as a meaningless mantra.

And that’s the truth.

https://www.americanthinker.com/art...ever_more_so_than_with_the_maralago_raid.html

 

@Scotchlass
Excellent article, but you're expecting despicables to a) read a lengthy article with lots of big words b) objectively evaluate it's message and that requires that they put aside the "get trump no matter what" agenda and c) compose reasoned discussion of the subject matter.

Good luck with that.

 

One thing that all the articles about this raid leave out: when Trump was elected president, he received the highest security clearance we have. And they, presidents, retain them for life. Jimmy Carter still has a security clearance, Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Obama, all still have the highest security clearance.

This raid is already blowing up in their faces. How many times have they changed their story on what "dire documents" Trump might have had in Mar-a-Lago? Too many too count and if they had ACTUALLY found something it would have been leaked immediately. This was a political raid and nothing more. The security question is absurd on it's face. But my personal favorite is the nuclear codes. Like the president of the United States carries around a notebook with codes in it.

Garland's feeling the pressure but has no true legal way to indict Trump. And the Kenyan running this show is ticked off.

One final comment. The part about Bruce Reinhardt having represented Jeffrey Epstein's employees really struck a raw nerve. Ordinarily I'd say it's inappropriate to comment about who a lawyer may represent; it's everyone's fundamental right to be represented. But I can't, not now. The Dems have wrecked every last wall which might have prevented a scorched earth battle. They've already gone after Trump's lawyers just for the nerve of having represented the bad Orange Man. How else to respond but to destroy (legally) every last one of them?

These people don't respond to reason, rules or good faith any more, and I'm afraid this doesn't end well for any of us.

What We Now Know About The Mar-a-Lago Raid
A failing Biden Administration, facing a rematch against Trump and a pro-Trump Republican Congress in January, has launched a politically motivated assault.
By Paul du Quenoy
August 18, 2022

“There’s so much we don’t know!” says any liberal losing an argument about the dramatic FBI raid last week on Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s Palm Beach residence and private club.

There are, indeed, some things that we do not know, but what we do know is already quite revealing. We know that the raid—which involved 30 FBI agents and three Justice Department lawyers—lasted over nine hours and was by day’s end reclassified as a “search” by all government agencies and the entire legacy media. We know that this supposed “search” was personally ordered not by FBI Director Christopher Wray, but by Attorney General Merrick Garland, a highly partisan Biden Administration appointee who has implied that parents objecting to critical race theory in public schools are domestic terrorists, and who refused to provide home security protection to Supreme Court justices in the majority of the recent ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade.

We also know that Garland and all other administration officials remained silent about his involvement for three days. We know that President Biden has refused to answer any question or address any detail of the raid while vacationing at a $20 million property in South Carolina.

We know that Garland described the “search” as “narrow in scope,” but that the warrant authorizing it permitted the seizure of any document produced between January 20, 2017, and January 20, 2021—that is, any document produced at any time during the Trump presidency. We know that three of Trump’s passports were seized, despite not being mentioned in the warrant, and that the FBI has now claimed this was an “error” and has returned them.

We know that the judge who signed the warrant, Bruce Reinhardt, is a partisan Democrat who publicly disparaged Trump during his presidency, contributed significant sums to Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns, and represented criminally charged employees of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. We know that the affidavit justifying the warrant has not been released despite significant public pressure, and that the Justice Department has petitioned the court to keep the affidavit sealed, vaguely citing “compelling reasons, including to protect the integrity of an ongoing law enforcement investigation that implicates national security.” A hearing to determine the issue will be held on Thursday.

We know that some documents were subpoenaed and not turned over, but that the government took no action to enforce the subpoena prior to the raid. We know that Trump’s lawyers were not allowed to observe any search activity, that they were ejected from inside the property during the “search,” and that the FBI demanded that Mar-a-Lago’s security cameras be switched off as the agents conducted the “search.”

We know that this serious procedural irregularity has led to claims that incriminating evidence may have been planted, that some of the seized material was protected by attorney-client privilege, and that some of the seized material may have documented further evidence of FBI complicity in the debunked Russia hoax. We know that the FBI has refused Trump’s requests to return documents he claims are protected by attorney-client privilege, and to have the remaining material examined by an independent investigator.

We know that former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith pleaded guilty and was convicted of making a false statement to a FISA court to extend a surveillance warrant on Trump campaign aide Carter Page. We know that former FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok was removed from the Russia investigation and then fired after it was revealed that he texted his colleague and mistress Lisa Page suggesting measures to prevent Trump from becoming president. We know that presidential historian, legacy media commentator, and Biden adviser Michael Beschloss implied on Twitter that Trump should be executed for treason, like Cold War spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and that former NSA and CIA Director Michael Hayden retweeted that this “sounds about right.”

We know that 11 sets of documents marked “top secret” or above were seized, that the current classified status of these documents is unknown, and that Trump has consistently maintained that they are not classified. We know that regardless of the documents’ markings or classified status, Trump, as president, held ultimate declassification authority for all federal documents.

We know that the “search” ostensibly was for documents that the National Archives and Records Administration believed to have been improperly removed from the White House when Trump left office, and that both the National Archives and Trump’s representatives described their discussions of said documents as cooperative and even “cordial.” We know that four days after the raid the Washington Post, and no other news outlet, cited “anonymous sources” to claim that the documents contained vital “nuclear secrets”—secrets so vital that the documents were not recovered for 19 months, and so “secret” that their alleged unsecured status was announced in a major national newspaper.

We know that prior to the raid, Biden’s approval rating had in some polls tanked to 33 percent—the lowest of any president in modern American history. We know that at the same time 81 percent of Americans rated the economy as something less than “good,” that 75 percent believe the country is on the wrong track, that 70 percent expect the next generation to live worse, and that over 40 percent identified inflation—a Biden Administration phenomenon—as by far the single most important issue facing the country. We know that 69 percent of Democrats oppose Biden running for a second term and that at least eight prominent congressional Democrats have dodged questions about whether they would support his reelection.

We know that almost all polls have rated Trump as the most popular candidate for the Republican nomination in 2024, and that Trump-endorsed primary candidates in 2022 midterm election races have a strong track record of prevailing over anti-Trump opponents. We know that today their ranks will include Wyoming contender Harriet Hageman, who defeated incumbent anti-Trump U.S. Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) in a landslide. We know that most polls show Trump either defeating or tying Biden in the 2024 popular vote and almost certainly winning an electoral college vote.

We know that the only similar recent cases of federal records disputes involved Trump’s 2016 opponent Hillary Clinton, who removed more than 33,000 emails to a private home server and then destroyed them, and Clinton-era National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, who physically removed classified documents from the National Archives. We know that neither Clinton nor Berger was prosecuted and that their homes were not raided—or even “searched”—by federal law enforcement. Former FBI Director James Comey publicly upbraided Clinton for having acted illegally and took no further action against her, while Berger was issued an administrative fine.

Surely there are both known and unknown unknowns, but the known knowns point to an ugly conclusion: a failing Biden Administration, facing a rematch against Trump and a pro-Trump Republican Congress in January, has launched a politically motivated assault on the leader of the opposition without regard for due process, constitutional rights, and proper procedure. As Trump put it on Monday, “This is an assault on a political opponent at a level never seen before in our Country. Third World.”

That is as despicable as it is likely true, but there is one more known known: We know that Trump’s polling over potential rivals has skyrocketed over the past week, elevating his chances of winning the nomination in 2024 from mere likelihood to near certainty.

The most important thing we do not know is what the Regime will try to do to Trump next as it tries to keep a lid on the affidavit, retains all seized documents, and prepares to deploy 87,000 new IRS agents recruited under a job description that includes requirements to bear arms and use deadly force if necessary. Whatever the next move is, what we know so far suggests that it will be another step toward a police state.

https://amgreatness.com/2022/08/18/what-we-now-know-about-the-mar-a-lago-raid/

 

Do you have proof of those? I've read that they do not keep their clearance, but the current sitting president can give them access if they deem it necessary.