And yet he still won.

One of the papers of choice of the Best and The Brightest

Yeah, unlike how much we knew about Obama on election day, 2008, we hardly knew anything about Trump when he won the presidency,

Yeah, that’s just a wonderful assertion.

My father died a few days ago, and he was a successful businessman and on the boards of all sorts of things. Yet in stark contrast to Donald Trump, this actually could be said of him.

Translation of what they meant by “knew about”:
“We were unable by Election Day to know something about Trump with which we could sink him. We are now making up for lost time by just saying the hell with it and making up crap with which we can sink him.”

Does Bezos block Wikipedia at the WaPo?

The doctor thing makes him look really bad.

The only thing I needed to know about Trump on Election Day is that he wasn’t Hillary. That was enough.

My condolences. It’s tough for longer than you’d expect. I found living in such as a way to honor my late father was the best medicine.

Actually, we knew a lot about O. For instance, about a year before the election “he” wrote an OpEd where he tacitly came out for the SPP (look it up). He was establishment-approved. No one else besides me appears to have remarked on that. And, instead of using that against him, r/w geniuses spent their days combing through records at the UIC library looking for the Whitey Tape.

In Trump’s case, how fake he was was known way back in 2015. I pointed out how his immigration plans (co-written by Coulter) were unimplementable right after he released them. I pointed out how his Muslim Ban and subsequent travel bans were unimplementable and would harm the USA right after he released his plans.

The patriotic choice would have been to ask Trump or his proxies tough questions designed to either stop him or to make his policies better. Instead, those like TangoMan from this site smeared such patriotic attempts and tried to convince the gullible that Trump knew best.

His colluding with Pelosi and Schumer is precisely *because* of all those who treated Trump like Bieber rather than like he was a prospective employee.

The audacity of these people is so alarming; there is no going back from this.

As Michael Caputo put it, this is a punishment strategy. The goal is to utterly destroy President Trump, his businesses, his family, his friends and associations; people who merely work on his campaign. So in 15 years, no billionaire gets the funny idea of running for President again.

He also swears he will never work on a Republican campaign again, at least without indemnity because this is the Democratic strategy going forward, scorched-earth lawfare to break and intimidate their opponents; so even when they lose, they win.

His interview with Tucker Carlson can be found here:

When your knowedge consists of declaring people to be Russian then, yeah, you get surprised.
“Strategic intelligence analyst” Eric Garland has determined that Kanye West is a Russian hacker. It was almost too easy to figure out: Kanye was always such a reserved man in the past, so careful with his words … and he did visit a Moscow fashion designer after visiting Trump in his Tower …

Kanye's recent coordinations with Trump, along with his use of inflammatory rhetoric and symbols (Confederate Flag) reek of "provokatsiya."

— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) May 2, 2018

A bit OT, but has there been any movement on any of the immigration bills? I have my doubts about the ‘blue wave’, but the GOP is likely to lose quite a bit of steam in November. Steve (or anyone else), is there any inside intel on this you’re allowed to pass on? Keep the Internet’s eye on the GOP, don’t let them slip on this issue since we know they just like passing tax cuts for Adelson and the Kochs…

The “special prosecutor” strategy might be used again if the electorate misbehaves with their votes in 2020 or 2024. It would be easy for the deep state to fake some facebook/Twitter activity and claim it was China/Russia/Iran colluding with a future candidate.

Condolences to you on the passing of your very accomplished father. Most great people go unknown to the public. I hope you were able to spend as much time with him and learn as much as you could. Mine went eight years ago, and sometimes I wish I had better realized what I had right there in front of me.

One of the worst things in our time that have been done to us as a people is whatever it is that has separated so many of us from our fathers. I just have to say that here on this blog as something relevant, because it really, really happened in my family in a bad way, and I firmly believe it is a symptom of the cultural reaming we have been receiving now for a lifetime.

I watched that interview and I agree with Caputo. This is an outrage that is becoming more and more obvious. One question is what is anyone going to do about this business-as-usual, deep state, lawfare as you call it. We groundlings can huff and puff and watch Tucker Carlson, but what is anybody in power going to do about it?

What can we do about it?

As the lapdog, ankle-biting media is in thrall to their version of reality, i.e. The Narrative, is it any wonder they fail to inform themselves of the world they live in?

It explains why there are so few heads exploding, and why so few suffer cognitive dissonance–there are no contradictions for them to encounter because they’re purposely in-the-dark.

To be clueless, combined with an absence of self-awareness, ordinarily leads to embarrassment due to one’s complete ignorance, but the WaPo proudly shouts from the rafters one of Rumsfeld’s bon mots about known unknowns and unknown unknowns.

As if confession and repentance will clear their conscience…

The WaPo would be better off walking around with a sign on their back that said: “Kick Me.”

Sorry for your loss.

What need to know about Trump when the Media Narrative always said he is Clown Hitler.

W as Philly the next mass school shooting location? Something strange is going on. An elite Taiwanese exchange student is protected by his host parent, a lawyer.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/crime/police-teen-who-threatened-shooting-at-delco-high-school-had-1600-rounds-of-ammo-and-a-handgun-20180402.html?mobi=true

Please accept my condolences. I know how the loss of my father affected me. If your experience is similar, they you will need to grieve in isolation. Then perhaps, if you can, focus on all the good times, the gracious moments, and the space your father made for you to grow up in. When I think about these things I smile, and I am grateful.

Today Sessions announced he was bringing in extra immigration judges with no pre-loaded caseloads. I wonder if any legislative activity is possible before the midterms, the establishment needs a reminder of how people feel about it.

Sorry for your loss.

“Kanye’s recent coordinations with Trump, along with his use of inflammatory rhetoric and symbols (Confederate Flag) reek of “provokatsiya.””

lol from a wannabee “nomenklature”. Go f yourself eric.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenklatura

His colluding with Pelosi and Schumer is precisely *because* of all those who treated Trump like Bieber rather than like he was a prospective employee.

Okay, so you need to hire someone to manage your ranch and mend the fences. Two dozen guys show up wanting the job. All but one are known criminals. They range from thieves to fraudsters to paid hit men. You know that most of them actually work for your rival rancher down the road and would have no loyalty to your business whatsoever.

The odd man out is a loudmouth braggart who claims he can do anything and has actually built and managed some pretty great stuff. You can tell he’s mostly full of hot air.

Those are your only choices.

With your great wisdom, who do YOU hire?

The GOP isn’t going to pass anything significant for the rest of the year. The question is whether Trump will stop with just rhetoric and actually do something to motivate his voters. So far he’s been completely paralyzed by the Mueller investigation, which was probably exactly what the GOPe intended.

As far as the elections go, I’m optimistic but anything could happen. I’m praying that the party doesn’t completely fuck up in WV next week and nominate Blankenship.

I found living in such as a way to honor my late father was the best medicine.

This is so very nice.

Actually, we knew a lot about O. For instance, about a year before the election “he” wrote an OpEd where he tacitly came out for the SPP (look it up).

Is this a joke? You think that because Obama wrote a single op-ed on a single issue that shows how much we should’ve known about him?

Of course Obama was establishment-approved. But that’s not very informative. The establishment is not monolithic and it changes over time. The U.S. political establishment I grew up with doesn’t look and sound at all like the establishment I see in the U.S. today. And Trump, a candidate who was not at all establishment-approved, is beginning to govern more and more like any other establishment candidate, but with a radical-sounding twitter feed.

I pointed out how his immigration plans (co-written by Coulter) were unimplementable right after he released them. I pointed out how his Muslim Ban and subsequent travel bans were unimplementable and would harm the USA right after he released his plans.

You assign your views an importance they don’t deserve. There’s nothing unimplementable about Trump’s immigration plans or ban, and no serious harm would come from them. Besides, all policies are subject to executive tweaks.

I haven’t been paying enough attention to know who Michael Caputo is, but I know what the left would do in this case – crowdsource a drive to pay his legal fees. That’s a lot of money for one person, but divided by 1000 or 5000 people it’s manageable. We have to start putting our money where our mouths are.

He has a gofundme page right here: https://www.gofundme.com/michael-caputo-legal-fund

I’m in for $100. The total is now $52,000. He needs $100,000.

We can do little things like this and help one man, but there needs to be a fundamental change to how things function. Our system has been infiltrated by a generation of Alinskyites on the left and Neocons on the right who have no qualms about using their now-deep power to crush dissenters.

With all sincerity, my condolences. Here’s the melancholy majesty of Manilow.

Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, looks like the voters knew what they were doing:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-02/trump-formally-nominated-nobel-peace-prize

I am disappointed he fell off of my ignore list. Got to keep a master list for platform switches

My sincere condolences.

Thank you, I’ve done the same. I imagine the re-education camps will find me deplorable either way.

OT 4chan is getting slammed by spam and it may be related to a police emergency in Connecticut.
Right now it is unclear but local mainstream news and twitter accounts are claiming that a man barricaded himself in his home, possibly with other people, resisted police with weapons, and set off an explosion which sent police to the hospital but has not killed anyone. It is being further claimed beyond this that the man is still in the area and that police have taken two men away in handcuffs. All of this will be more clear tomorrow.
But tonight, on 4chan’s politics board, we have been having almost wall to wall spam, to include forbidden material, duplicate threads, and a high rate of restarting. This became normal during the campaign to weaken 4channers’ ability to discuss and react to big news. It became so regular that tons of illegitimate threads all starting at once on an eventful news night was the confirmation that something big had happened. But apart from this standoff in New England, what would they be sliding? The spamming would make more sense if this police standoff started with an attempt to grab the guys’ guns, but that’s a speculation. It is also possible that the spam is an automatic or motiveless act, or that it’s a flood of new people who don’t understand the rules.

I did not know that Trump was a devotee of Fox News, and by extension an acolyte of Rupert Murdoch.

I did not know that Trump was going to appoint his son-in-law as one of his chief advisors.

I did not know that Trump had no alternative health insurance plan to Obamacare.

I did not know that Trump was friends with Stormy Daniels.

I did not know that Trump would continue the tweets after he took office.

I did not know that Trump favored an aggressive foreign policy.

I did not know that Trump was a serial liar.

I did not know that Trump was equally opposed to legal and illegal immigration.

I did not think that Trump was serious about running for President.

Perhaps the Washington Post knew more than I did.

Kanye is in the process of being ‘de-personned’ by the MSM, for the grievous crime of agreeing with the President about something, anything. And as usual, no lie is too big to tell for the MSM in pursuit of its goals.

Of course, Kanye said nothing of the sort. He said specifically that obsessing over slavery for 400 years ‘sounds like a choice’. And that quite possibly it’s holding back black people. Which it is.

While laughable, it’s actually a very revealing quote. America’s elites really didn’t know anything about Donald Trump, other than occasional blather about some supposed “deal” he had made or some show he created a catch phrase for – “You’re fired.”

At the height of its popularity, Trump’s Apprentice show had ten times the audience that libtards like Jimmy Fallon or Stephen Colbert can attract. Roseanne’s reboot of her show has ten times the audience than Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show currently draws.

Globalist billionaires wrote big checks to buy media properties that fewer and fewer people are watching. I’m hopeful that this will be demonstrated in the upcoming midterm elections.

Currently we are in the middle of a rolling constitutional convention facilitated by the courts. Until Congress (not President Trump, but Congress) decides to impeach a few rogue judges there’s gonna be hell to pay eventually when they keep pushing.

From little things, big things some day come.

We have to start somewhere, and if it be here, then let it be here.

Even at this late date, many still don’t get this. Trump is a horror show in many ways, but even still he’s better than his opponent in the last election.

Thanks to Trump’s election, this nation has something of a breather during which it could begin to address its accelerating downfall. Not saying that’s actually happening–not by a long shot. But it’s at least imaginable, for now. If Hillary had won the pedal would have been to the metal as we head for the cliff.

Who here imagined for even a moment that the ‘forces of reaction’ wouldn’t do anything and everything to prevent a change in direction? I share with many here (and elsewhere) complete dismay at the man and particularly at the direction he’s taking lately. But Democracy never promised you the choice of your dreams. It promises you a choice.

Great job on calling them on their BS! This can be explained as a case of plausible deniability by the WaPost. The writers there can claim they really didn’t know what was going on when of course they did know, but they were too sloppy to do the legwork. You would think they would have enough pride than to admit that they didn’t know who Donald J. Trump was by Election Day, but clearly standards have slipped over the years.

I did not know that Trump…blah, blah, something mostly true, something mostly false, blah, blah

Well, you, and the Washington Post have no one to blame but yourselves. His TV show was available to stream and you could have picked up one of his books dirt cheap at a second hand store.

This is Corvinus level stuff, and if an “aggressive foreign policy” means stymieing the horsegirls of the apocalypse (who were actually starting wars) in favor of getting better trade deals, and getting the Korean leaders to talk, then what would a non-aggressive foreign policy be?
The accusation was that Trump is a Russian agent and that the election was illegitimate. They’ve had quite a while to prove that, or even theorize that. And you’re saying that you didn’t know that Trump would keep tweeting.
Heady stuff. Profound.

The patriotic choice would have been to ask Trump or his proxies tough questions designed to either stop him or to make his policies better. Instead, those like TangoMan from this site smeared such patriotic attempts and tried to convince the gullible that Trump knew best.

Or perhaps he just found you to be an insufferable know-it-all and bore, as indeed virtually everyone else here did.

We knew he wasn’t Hillary Clinton — that was enough back then.

Why do you take so long to approve my comments?

I really don’t care what Trump or any president does it doesn’t do.

Liberals hate Whites. The liberal candidate lost to Trump. The liberals are still ranting and raving about how much they hate Trump.

Trump is actually a symbol of American Whites, the goyim Whites.

The elections are the White goyim against the wealthy Jews. Asians, Hispanics blacks Indians Arabs White gays and trannies and whatever dregs and scum idiot intellectuals and the rest of the anti Whites dredge up to form the demon ocrat anti White party.

I’m just enjoying it.

Some judge named John Bates just approved keeping all the DACAs in America and giving them free college tuition.

New WP motto: “Everything you know is wrong”

Perhaps Trump’s supporters need to make clear to the parties concerned that there are “no more free Nixons”.

“Strategic intelligence analyst” Eric Garland has determined that Kanye West is a Russian hacker.

Lol, what an idiot. Well, now he can be trolled forever with his stupidity. “But first, Eric, what do you think of Kanye West as a Russian superspy?” “Are the Kardashians actually From Russia With Love?” (that would be a way to refresh their brand, I suppose).

Trust me when I tell you that you’re one of the lucky ones. Some of us wait for days. Some forever..

Eternity is a very long time, you know. Especially toward the end. (–Woody Allen, I believe.)

Condolences. I lost mine a couple of years back.

The House might try to pass Bob Goodlatte’s immigration bill: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/gop-tweaking-immigration-bill-could-bring-it-up-in-may

Thank you all for your kind and thoughtful replies.

Sorry to hear about the loss of your father. Condolences to you and your family.

The source here is the Washington Post – the US Government factory newspaper, so one assumes that the “We” who knew so little about Mr. Trump denotes “high-ranking government insiders”, a reminder that he was never one of them.

Are these words like “provokatisya” and “Kompromat” actual Russian words or are they made up “Russified” English words, close enough in form to their English counterparts so that the sheeple will know what they mean?

Trump change, not chump change. I wish Kanye or somebody else would put that slogan up on billboards in black neighborhoods across the nation.

Thanks Cornbeef. Your comment really spoke to me.

“A bit OT, but has there been any movement on any of the immigration bills? I have my doubts about the ‘blue wave’, but the GOP is likely to lose quite a bit of steam in November.”

A man who spent his life putting complex real estate deals together has to be a long-term thinker. I’ve got to believe Trump has been thinking how he is wants to shape the issues going into the fall elections, and that immigration will be at the top of the list.

Of course establishment type Republicans like Paul Ryan think he should run on his record of tax cuts and ending the Obamacare mandate. And no doubt the NYT will offer him all kinds of free advice on how he can win.

Agree!

Actual Russian words.

This would be a good litmus test to add to the mid term elections. Candidates should be asked “Do you support President Trump?” Candidates should also be asked “Do you support the impeachment of judges who ignore the constitution and refuse to support the president’s constitutional authority?”

I did look it up. Wikipedia has about forty definitions of SPP. Did you mean the Swaziland Political Party? Or perhaps you meant the Romanian Power Company. Apparently it corresponds to the letters “SPP” when written in Romanian.

I did look it up. Wikipedia has about forty definitions of SPP. Did you mean the Swaziland Political Party? Or perhaps you meant the Romanian Power Company. Apparently it corresponds to the letters “SPP” when written in Romanian.

Kanye didn’t say it was a choice but he might have.

In the Roman world around the first millennium it was quite common for men to choose to be slaves. Free man for example could not be tortured and it was the custom to audit the books – to be sure the truth was being told – under torture. So many financial positions were only available to slaves. Free men with a taste for finance therefore commonly sold themselves into slavery. Many of the millionaires of the day were freedmen. It was a political issue in Rome.

Other occupations were traditionally held by slaves. For example there were no universities so if you were a pater familias and you wanted to educate your kids you would buy a philosopher – usually a Greek. So free Greeks of a bookish mindset would sell themselves into slavery so as to get one of these jobs.

Of course no one would sell themselves into slavery so as to qualify for the mines or a latifundia.

In another sense slavery was a choice in that populations that were the sources of the slave trade would choose to redraw from that market. Germany was a area that provided millions of slaves for the Roman Republic and Empire but Arminius began the big turn around at the Teutoburg forest. All peoples have been enslaved until they organize and resist. Africans never were very successful at organizing to resist being exploited by other peoples. That’s a kind of choice too.

Oops, I forgot the best example. The Gladiators.

Unlike the lesson told in the movie by the time of the Antonines a male slave could not be compelled to be a gladiator. That’s why when I saw it in the theater I kept thinking – If Russell Crowe didn’t want to be a gladiator, why didn’t he just quit?

Gladiators were of course slaves. And as such could be whipped and branded but even so the occupation was so attractive to young men in Rome that the Emperors had to discourage all the free men from volunteering for slavery. Some scholars write that the gladiators were the “Rock Stars” of the day. But it was really even more extreme than that. Gladiators were thought to have sexual magic.

Marcus Aurelius’ wife was being unfaithful to him (or so he thought) so he bought a gladiator, had him slain and made his wife bath in the gladiator’s blood. Who wouldn’t want to be held in such awe? The Praetor Urbanus was cautioned on allowing young men of good families from choosing to become a slave, so as to qualify for being one of those sexy gladiators.

Yes, people often chose to be slaves.

Of course, Kanye said nothing of the sort. He said specifically that obsessing over slavery for 400 years ‘sounds like a choice’. And that quite possibly it’s holding back black people. Which it is.

And it’s the same, the same philosophy
I’ve said it’s four hundred years – look how long
And, the people, they still can’t see

Why do they fight against
The poor youth of today?
And without these youths
They would be gone, all gone astray

[Bob Marley]

Some of my Haitian acquaintances hold African-American culture in low esteem because they did not fight back (enough) against slavery, so I guess this is a point of view that some people have.

Kanye seemed to be making the point that going from chattel slavery to being enslaved by consumerism is not much progress. Again, a point of view, but perhaps not a very nuanced one.

Build your penitentiary, we build your schools
Brainwash education to make us the fools

[Bob Marley]

On the left, there are any number of top-notch lawyers who’d represent you pro bono. (That’s in addition to what Chief Seattle said.)

They must have been taking hits for the ridiculous (even for the WaPo) headline so they changed it.

It now says:

What we didn’t know about Trump on Election Day 2016

However, they apparently didn’t change the story (I didn’t see the original story but I’m guessing) because the first line doubles right back down:

It’s hard to dispute that voters knew far less about Donald Trump on Election Day 2016 than voters had about any other major-party presidential candidate in modern history.

What are the things we didn’t know according to the “analysis”?

1. That Trump’s doctor’s letter was not actually written by his doctor. (Who cares?)

2. Whether Trump was actually healthy since he wrote the letter himself. (While we now have seen Trump stumbling and losing his balance since the election on numerous occasions – oh, no wait that’s Hillary).

3. How much Trump paid in taxes. (That Trump was not making his tax returns public was a big secret before the election- in fact it had never once been mentioned – right?)

4. His income and net worth – see #3

5. His charitable giving – see #3

6. That his campaign was under investigation by the FBI . ( Except for the stories about this printed in the NY Times)

7. The extent of his campaign’s connection to “Russian actors” (Ooh no, Rooshians again!)

8. The scale of Russian interference on Trump’s behalf. “DOJ indictment says this guy at Trump rally in Wilkes Barre, PA in Oct 2016 was paid by Russia.” (The Rooshians spent in excess of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS on Facebook ads and paid a guy to dress up in a clown suit and hold a “Crooked Hillary” sign. Hillary spent $1.2 BILLION.)

9. That his personal attorney paid an adult film actress $130,000 after she claimed to have had an affair with Trump. (These attacks might have been more effective if Mr. Hillary had not done the same and worse.)

10. His positions on any number of policy issues. (Democrats LOVE position papers. Hillary would give audiences her 37 point plan for fixing the agricultural subsidy system or something and people would fall asleep after point #17. Trump’s position was that he was in favor of the American people – that was the only policy position he needed.)

Democrats (including Hillary) are now cultivating a “stabbed in the back” conspiracy theory and this is part of it. IF ONLY the press had not been so nice to Trump before the election and had not gone after Hillary for her trivial faux paus involving her email server, she would have won. It was the fault of the biased (in favor of Trump) media. They actually seem to believe this.

What really happened was that before the election everyone (the media, the Russians, even Trump himself at times) thought that Hillary would win so it was unnecessary to go after Trump tooth and nail. Sure they despised him and did not attempt to hide it, but they thought that they had already hammered the cross into his chest and they didn’t need to pound it in any more.

Give money to his legal defense fund?

A few years ago, Charles Murray suggested a “Madison Fund” to fight such tyranny.

http://www.aei.org/multimedia/charles-murrays-field-guide-to-civil-disobedience/

It’s high time to implement such a fund. There has been too many people bankrupted with the “process” as the real punishment.

It’s called lawfare where the process is the penalty. Of course Caputo won’t work in a campaign again–that’s the take-away from his experience. Many others will take his place–out of youth and inexperience.

Other people (Hillary Clinton, Roger Altman, et al.) have regularly supplied the response, “I don’t recall” to the point of boredom, so as not to get caught up in a process crime (lying, obstruction) by the inability to offer complete and contradiction-free testimony. Very few people have precise memories beyond the recent few weeks.

You cannot be compelled to be helpful or assist the investigation. Just answer questions to the best of your recollection–fleeting, or nonexistent, as it is.

Caputo’s statement that he’s not a target is nativity itself. Anyone questioned under oath is suspect, and a potential target, should anything you offer be contradicted or remain unconfirmed subsequently.

It’s a fishing expedition–don’t even pretend to know anything about fish, water, boats, or fishermen, whether in daylight or darkness.

O/T

Another sign that the “labor shortage” is a myth

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/careers/employment-trends/2018/05/03/labor-shortage-businesses-mellow-over-hiring-pot-smokers/573710002/

Those employers and many others are quietly taking what once would have been a radical step: They’re dropping marijuana from the drug tests they require of prospective employees. Marijuana testing — a fixture at large American employers for at least 30 years — excludes too many potential workers, experts say, at a time when filling jobs is more challenging than it’s been in nearly two decades.

As opposed to Hussein, who Big Media vetted so thoroughly, despite his extensive executive qualifications.

Have you ever made a post where you didn’t position yourself as the lone genius/savior of the right, surrounded by contemptible fools?

Just curious.

My condolences, SJ.

Facts inconvenient to The Narrative will be ignored.

I’ve been saying for some time the the current mantra for Millennials is: “Everything before yesterday was wrong.”

The Kardashian family are known to be Trump supporters, however they’re cagey about saying this in public because they know they’ll be ferociously attacked by the left. (The popularity of the Kardashian soap opera with dim white women–a crucial electoral demographic–makes this a certainty.) So they’re pushing Kanye out front to say these things on their behalf in the assumption that his black skin will protect him from the worst of the attacks. We’re in the process of finding out whether this is true.

That his personal attorney paid an adult film actress $130,000 after she claimed to have had an affair with Trump.

Just as well that it was not a child film actress.

I am surprised that more is not made of the fact that Trump was allegedly being blackmailed by Stormy Daniels in the run up to the election.

Apparently blackmail is not taken very seriously in the US, as the maximum prison sentence is only a rap on the knuckles 1 year versus 14 years in the UK, but apparently this was never reported as a crime.

Perhaps the Special Prosecutor might like to look into the matter, since there is nothing much doing on the Eastern front, and Special Prosecutors seem to take prurient pleasure in anything to do with sex (other than having sex, of course).

I am going to add my condolences to that. The real hit is going to come later, is my experience (I lost both my parents). But keep in mind: Life simply needs to be lived at its fullest, no matter what tragedy. And you are now his heir. Carry that responsibility with pride.

Searching for “Obama SPP” gave me http://www.wnd.com/2009/09/109347/ which in turn leads to (note the archive link, the page the http://www.spp.gov page no longer exists) https://web.archive.org/web/20100301093056/http://www.spp.gov/
Security and Prosperity Partnership Of North America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_and_Prosperity_Partnership_of_North_America

Not entirely OT:

Former British ambassador Craig Murray (of Wikileaks fame) concludes that Sergey and Yulia Skripal were most likely murdered by Western secret services to keep the “Russiagate” fiction alive as a means to undermine the Trump presidency.

Steele, MI6 and the elements of the CIA which are out to get Trump, all would have a powerful motive to have the Skripal loose end tied.

British government “D-Notice” banning British media from mentioning Skripal’s connnection to MI6 agent Pablo Miller (who also lived in Salisbury) who in turn was connected to the Clinton-commissioned “Steele Dossier” (through an outfit known as Orbis Intelligence) strongly indicates official involvement.

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/04/where-they-tell-you-not-to-look/

” Apparently blackmail is not taken very seriously in the US”

This is not the issue rather she is obviously an agent for the DNC, she is a democrat operative, and democrats
are are for the most part not subject to US laws.

A democrat will most likely be forgiven for the same offense for which a non-democrat is then excoriated.

Authenticjazzman “Mensa” qualified since 1973, airborne trained US Army vet, and pro Jazz musician.

They’re “actual Russian words” in the same way that it is “actual German” to shout “Achtung! Achtung! Schnell! Schnell!”

THIS. We must dethrone kritarches.

The antecedent for ‘him’ is ‘the doctor,’ no?

In the comments at your excellent and necessary link is this gem:

https://off-guardian.org/2015/09/09/luke-harding-enemy-of-the-state/

NOTE: In case any of our readers are (understandably) inclined to think we must be making this up or exaggerating, we encourage them to read about it here and here [links at link above] in Luke’s own words. You’ll find we have merely summarised them.

Yes, he really does believe everything attributed to him in this article. He really does think the FSB were opening his windows. And he really did run to the public toilet and take all his clothes off because a man tapped him on the back in an airport.

[Luke Harding] demanded to know if President Medvedev had been told – personally – that Luke was going home. The person in the press department he was speaking to just sort of looked at him and didn’t say anything.

Remember, the internet is a Russian echo chamber, and democracy dies without latter-day John Reeds like Luke Harding.

It turns out the Dems know less about Hillary, deliberately. You try to talk about her unsecure server or other violations of Federal law, and they’ll stick their fingers in their ears and go “La la la, I can’t hear you.”

I rather wish we all knew that Hillary was going to treat her electoral loss like a woman treats a bad divorce. She’s never going to shut up about it and is going to be angry and vindictive and finger-pointing until the end of her days. Her behavior is pure, “I’ve been divorced by that SOB (aka us) and I’m going to make him pay forever!”

The more she keeps it up, the more the Democratic party elders will be reluctant to nominate a woman for president because if they conclude all women are going to behave like this when they lose big, women will be bad publicity for the party and discourage donors. The latter’s very important, because not only is the DNC broke, they’re in debt from taking out loans. The more Hillary rants, the more she discourages donors who were burned by her loss from ever donating to the DNC again.

So all this abuse of FISA court warrants and spying on Trump and the assorted people around him and whoever the “we” party is, knew nothing? Nothing at all?
Either these MSM buffoons just cannot realize how idiotic they sound or our deep state is woefully inept at spying.
Neither outcome makes me feel any better.

Washington Post: “We Knew Little About Trump by Election Day”

Well-behaved men rarely make history. Or the Washington Post, it seems.

I’ve been saying for some time the the current mantra for Millennials is: “Everything before yesterday was wrong.”

Never trust anyone over thirty.

From Jack Weinberg, b. 1940.

Democrats (including Hillary) are now cultivating a “stabbed in the back” conspiracy theory and this is part of it.

This idea was pioneered by the Socialist Workers Party in Germany in the inter-war years: “Germany did not lose WW I, its brave army was STABBED IN THE BACK.”

The Socialist Workers Party’s leader rose to become Chancellor on the strength of this legend. His name escapes me at present.

And that quite possibly it’s holding back black people. Which it is.

When your rival is being held back, don’t interfere.

I have considerable doubt about the official story myself, but the Skripals weren’t murdered. They are both alive.

Livin’ it, Cornbeef. Lost my Dad a couple of years back (and Mom a few years before that, faithfully attended by my Dad as dementia dragged her down from behind). Literally, there is not a day that goes by without me – and my wife, on whom he exerted all kinds of positive influence – that we don’t think of him. Hard to escape when we live in the house that he designed for my family back in 1957; we have renovated it somewhat, but as there was nothing wrong with the bones of that home, we have respected all of the tangible thought and care he put into his design by working with it instead of acting to change it beyond recognition. We often wish that my parents could see what we did with it, and maybe they already do. I should like to think so.

And yes, we honor our forebears by striving to live in such a way that not only gratifies us, but also serves as tribute to that which they imparted to us in our values and through the opportunity and the freedom to actualize these values in the arc of our lives.

Well there’s a theory. I defer to your vastly greater knowledge in this matter!

Inevitably–but what’s more, new ‘facts’ will be fabricated to take their place, and so long as most of the MSM play along, no one even questions them.

That’s actually a (real) Frank Zappa quote btw!

By the way, have they ever solved the cases of the three gay guys from Obama’s church who were knocked off in 2007-8? Does anyone in authority even care?

Dr.X, Bingo. We knew too much about Hillary and that’s why she lost.

If you allow yourself to talk like this, how can you feel smug looking at Trump’s tweets?

Legacy media is circling now, attempting to attack Kanye’s Adidas contract. And, as always, the New Yorker has no self-awareness.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-should-we-think-about-kanye-wests-tweets

I hope Trump pardons that old lady and all the talking heads decide to pile on to an old lady who got pardoned. Their tunnel vision looks exploitable.

I understand your sentiment, for sure.

But symbolism is worth nothing when both legal and illegal immigration continue at massive levels — with more indifferent-to-hostile and/or lazy and/or unassimilable people coming in every day, just like before Trump was elected.

Not to be too much of a nitpicker but slavery in North America started about the year 1610 and ended in 1865. That’s about 255 years, not 400.

MeToo

If you don’t mind my asking, how do you know the Kardashians are Trump supporters,

Progressivism in a nutshell. However, this is the technocrat, idustrialist mentality. It comes from cultures that worship technological advancement. It’s the mentality of those who want Mars colonies and self-driving cars. It’s also typically the mentality of the libertine.

“History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history that we make today.”

-Henry Ford, 1916

I could see the argument that we knew little about Trump the Politician, because he had never actually been one. And indeed there have been surprises.

But he’s been less surprising than any new politician in my memory. And every clip I’ve seen of him talking about politics from the past is pretty much the same Trump I see in office now.

What WaPo probably mean is, “We didn’t take Trump seriously because we assumed Clinton would win. Then suddenly he won, and we were behind the eight-ball.”

They assume everyone else did the same, too. Because that’s what they do.

And every clip I’ve seen of him talking about politics from the past is pretty much the same Trump I see in office now.

Yes, I’ve noticed that too. He clearly understood what a gong show foreign policy and trade policy were a long time ago.

Oh Lord, look what they got me saying now.

Tweet it to Kanye stat! And may God be with you

PS: Even Fox News gets it wrong: “West said 400 years of slavery ‘sounds like a choice’” — again, not the 400 years part but that Kanye didn’t say that about ‘slavery’.

Y’all gotta check out the Seeking Alpha TSLA (ticker symbol for Tesla) Analysis and News web site.

To get more than a teaser of the articles let alone view the comments or even post a comment, you have to register with an e-mail, and maybe that site gets too deep into the weeds of bone-headed, boring finance and the even more boring sciences of trace minerals and of assembly lines.

But that 1916 Henry Ford quote could as much be a 2016 Elon Musk quote of his “physics first principles”, meaning the heck with what Toyota and other “dinosaur” automakers have learned about running an assembly line let alone study history. Musk’s “first principles” means he can come up with a progressive save-the-Earth technocratic, industrialist solution without paying heed to what technocrats, industrialists and even Progressives had figured out in earlier times.

TSLA Analysis and News is an ongoing food fight between Progressives and just about everyone else, where numerous author-contributors post almost as as many fresh articles each day as iSteve.

Progressives believe in many thing — the peril of Climate Change, running out of oil and other natural resources, the plight of the poor and oppressed outside our borders, gun violence within our borders, accessibility to health care and higher education and so on.

Even the most anti-Progressive among us don’t want to see civilization collapse from wrecking the Earth, have empathy and compassion for the poor and oppressed within and outside our borders, don’t like to see people of any race or creed shot dead, would like people of all means to get medical treatment needed to survive along with a chance at social and economic advancement. But I think Mencken described Progressivism best when in sarcasm he claimed, “and those who oppose Dr. Quack’s Magic Anti-Cancer Salve are in favor of letting Uncle Julius die.”

At TSLA Analysis and News you can see Progressive thought in its full glory, but the even more glorious thing is that Progressivism is getting creamed in that fight because car production and remaining money to keep it going at Tesla is going badly. It is the closest thing to Venezuela we’ve got going within our borders.

The first permanent indentures were enacted in Virginia in 1660. Blacks imported prior to that were indentured for terms of years.

Ha.

It makes both look really bad. But only one is POTUS.

Can you name one President in the last 50 years, that hasn’t been a disaster?
If they don’t start that way, they are forced down the AIPAC road, whether they like it or not.

Tesla is just wrecking the earth in a different way. Mining Lithium is no less destructive than mining coal. While his robotics are impressive, there is a lot of smelting needed to build them, certainly as much as a conventional part stamping or hydraulic press.
How are the batteries recharged? Electricity generation for every “electric” vehicle, cannot be done by solar panels, which manufacture causes pollution. Nuclear energy requires massive pollution to build, and disposal of spent fuel is dangerous and expensive. Coal or gas fired causes pollution. Hydro-electric generating stations are expensive to build, and damming rivers causes flood damage to the environment. Wind generated power causes health problems to people nearby, and is devastating to birds and other wildlife.
Tesla’s vision reminds me of the old Charlie Chaplin movie, Modern Times. The machine is running the man rather than the man running the machine.

Kanye is a Kardashian in-law and not exactly a reliable ally. When he went beyond endorsing the President and made the remark whose most charitable interpretation was “Nat Turner didn’t try hard enough,” that should have made anyone but a total fool know he’s a lunatic.

This presupposes that Ted, Marco, etc. were just as bad as Bernie and Hillary. True of Kasich, Graham, and maybe Bush. We’d be a lot better with Ted or Marco and soon we’ll all realize this.

Honestly, I need to send you more money. Coming right up…