‘Conspiratorial Fire’

PJ Media

https://pjmedia.com/trending/clapper-whistleblower-complaint-fuels-the-conspiratorial-fire-of-the-deep-state-trying-to-overthrow-trump/

Clapper: 

Whistleblower Fueling the 'Conspiratorial Fire' of the 'Deep State' Trying to Overthrow Trump

BY NICHOLAS BALLASY OCTOBER 2, 2019

WASHINGTON -- Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said that there isn't a "deep state" effort to undermine President Donald Trump but the whistleblower complaint about his call with the Ukraine president from someone in the intelligence community "fuels that conspiratorial fire."

"Well, I never heard of the term deep state, maybe I was, you know, ignorant or bliss or something, but I never heard of that until the campaign and afterwards. Allegedly this is a conspiracy of career government public servants who somehow organize themselves into a conspiracy to undermine or overthrow the president, which on its face is ridiculous," Clapper said during the Washington Post's Cybersecurity Summit on Wednesday.

“You know, the intelligence community, it's almost wholly writ, truth to power and under whatever difficult circumstances that may be, even if the power ignores the truth, they still have to keep telling it. My experience has been that, sure, people in the intelligence community, they're citizens like everyone else. Sure, they have their political views, but they, again, my observation has been consistently they park those political preferences at the door before they walk into the office," he added.

Clapper continued, "So now, unfortunately, this recent whistleblower complaint coming from a member of the intelligence community just fuels that conspiratorial fire that there is such a thing as a deep state."

Wealth Tax Will Only..

https://pjmedia.com/trending/why-the-wealth-tax-will-only-bring-in-a-fraction-of-what-supporters-are-claiming

Why the Wealth Tax Will Only Bring in a Fraction of What Supporters Are Claiming

The rich have always been with us. And no nation on earth celebrates wealth as much as the United States.

It's true there is much envy and, lately, hatred of the rich. Most of that is based on ignorance of how wealth in the U.S. is acquired. The socialists teach us (or, in the case of Warren and Sanders, broadly hint) that the rich acquire their wealth by "stealing" from the poor and middle class. Getting rich "off the backs of the working man" has been a Democratic Party theme since the 1960s.

The ignorant see wealth as a zero-sum equation, where wealth is like a pie and the rich have too big of a slice. Instead of seeing wealth creation as an act of faith, hope, luck, and hard work, resulting in more for all, they see wealth as a finite resource, greedily assimilated by the rich and hoarded to prevent anyone from sharing in it.

Over the decades, various tax schemes have been proposed to confiscate wealth from the wealthy, none of which have ever come to pass. But if a Democrat is elected president in 2020, that will change. The reason given is straightforward: some people have too much and the wealth must be confiscated for the good of all.

They promise the confiscated wealth will make America a paradise on earth — free medical care, free college, not to mention saving the earth from total destruction. Trillions upon trillions of dollars will fall into the hands of the poor and middle class (after passing through the hands of Congress and the bureaucrats) and we'll all live happily ever after.

There's only one problem: the amount of cash that the socialists expect to confiscate isn't anywhere near what they are promising.

The Week:

But wealth is a mercurial thing, and more difficult to measure than straight income. Critics contend that a wealth tax would be crippled by avoidance schemes the rich would cook up. As an idea, a wealth tax may fire people up. But would it actually work?

Aside from the idiocy of trying to calculate wealth, there's a problem trying to collect it. It seems that rich people actually like being rich and aren't in favor of losing their wealth to a bunch of scruffy revolutionaries to be "distributed." So, they seek to hide their wealth in various perfectly legal shelters.

One of the arguments worth engaging with comes from Larry Summers, who's worked in previous Democratic administrations, and his co-author, Natasha Sarin,  who point to the already-existing estate tax, which itself is a form of wealth tax. And revenue for the estate tax chronically comes it at much lower levels than you'd expect if you just ran the raw numbers on the tax rate and the amount of wealth it could hit. Summers and Sarin argue this is due to numerous evasion strategies: "questionable appraisals; valuation discounts for illiquidity and lack of control; establishment of trusts that enable division of assets among family members with substantial founder control; planning devices that give some income to charity while keeping the remainder for the donor and her beneficiaries; tax-advantaged lending schemes" to cite a few examples.

Oh dear. What's a socialist to do? Obviously, the answer is to "close loopholes" in the tax system. Easier said than done, that's for sure. Every "loophole" that benefits the super-rich also benefits others -- perhaps in a different interpretation of a rule, but operating on the tax system is like operating on the heart. You have to know what you're doing so you don't kill the patient.

Congress doesn't know what it's doing. And the likelihood that other tax dodges will be created by their tinkering with the tax system means that the rich will continue to hold on to their wealth.

Besides. all those glorious promises from Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are going to collide with reality.

As a crude intellectual exercise, they use the results of the estate tax to estimate Warren's wealth tax would only bring in one-eighth to three-eighths of the roughly $200 billion in annual revenue she calculates. They don't do this so much to claim their numbers are right,  as to point out the enormous variances evasion can cause. (This same problem would also apply to Sanders' proposal, which is even more aggressive.)

You don't get rich in America by paying all the taxes you should owe. You get rich by paying as little tax as possible allowed by the law.

We all know that the rich could part with a few more bucks than most of them pay, so the concept isn't necessarily unacceptable. What is unacceptable and alien to the United States is confiscation. And, as we've seen in France and other European countries that have instituted a "wealth tax" only to rescind it later, tax increases never, ever, ever bring in as much revenue as predicted.

Sanders and Warren are selling the American people a bill of goods. Because eventually, in order to pay for their socialist schemes, they're going to have to start taxing those who most of us would consider a lot less than "rich."

And that means you, and me, and anyone who they feel has more than their "fair share."

Trump says he's considering 'a major lawsuit' over Mueller investigation

Article by Tal Axelrod in "The Hill":

President Trump said Wednesday that he’s considering bringing “a major lawsuit” against unidentified people regarding former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, accusing Mueller of treating him and his associates unfairly.

“We’ve been investigating on a personal basis, through Rudy [Giuliani] and others, lawyers, corruption in the 2016 election. We’ve been investigating corruption because I probably will, I was going to definitely, but I probably will be bringing a lot of litigation against a lot of people having to do with the corrupt investigation having to do with the 2016 election,” Trump said during a press conference with Finnish President Sauli Niinistö.

“I’ve been looking at that long and hard for a long period of time, how it started, why it started, it should never happen to another president, ever, but I’ve been talking about it from the standpoint of bringing a major lawsuit, and I’ve been talking about it for a long time,” he added.

Trump has long accused Mueller of political bias and misconduct during his two-year probe into Russia's election meddling and obstruction of justice.

The former special counsel found insufficient evidence to charge Trump with conspiracy to collude with Moscow but declined to make a prosecutorial judgement as to whether the president obstructed subsequent probes.

While Trump largely escaped the probe unscathed legally, the inquiry did ensnare a number of his associates, leading to jail time for some over perjury, financial misdeeds, foreign lobbying and more.

Trump said he has “every right” to bring a lawsuit “because the way they treated me and other people, they’ve destroyed people, they’ve destroyed their lives with a phony charge that never existed, and that was collusion.”

“They came down to Washington to do a great job, and they left Washington dark, they were dark,” he added of his associates who were wrapped up in the probe.

“They came down here, I say bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, they wanted to do a great job for the people,” he said. “And then they get served with subpoenas, all these subpoenas.”

The remarks come as the House ramps up its impeachment inquiry into Trump over his dealings with Ukraine. The House has already subpoenaed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney, and has threatened the White House if it declines to hand over certain documents by the end of the week.

Giuliani on Tuesday floated the idea of suing members of Congress over the probe, saying their actions are “worse than McCarthy.”

“I had a couple of talks with civil rights lawyers and a constitutional lawyer today and here's what they're recommending: that we should bring a lawsuit on behalf of the president and several of the people in the administration, maybe even myself as a lawyer, against the members of Congress individually for violating constitutional rights, violating civil rights,” Giuliani said in an appearance on Fox News.

 https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/464096-trump-says-hes-considering-a-major-lawsuit-over-mueller-investigation.

What Do Illegals Add To The Economy?

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/09/affordable-housing-fresno-california-home-real-estate-rent/598840/

California’s Poorest Big City Faces a Different Kind of Housing Crisis

1. LAURA BLISS

 SEP 30, 2019

Housing costs have been a relative bargain in inland cities like Fresno. But a sharp rise in rental costs is making life less affordable for low-income families

Then discussion turned to housing. “Who has heard of gentrification?” Grecia Elenes, a senior policy advocate at the Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability, asked in Spanish. No one raised a hand.

Elenes described the process by which wealthier and often whiter residents transform a neighborhood. Juliana Seguín, who lives with her husband and four children in a nearby three-bedroom apartment, piped up. Her month-to-month rent has climbed from $850 in 2017 to $1,550, as her complex has undergone renovations to attract a better-paid crowd, she said. 

Another renter in attendance, Patricia Lobato, chimed in: She had been recently forced to move, due to a giant rent hike.

At some point, said Segúin, her property manager explained that the prices were normal for the building’s new owner, who had previously lived in the Bay Area.

“I said, if this is the Bay Area, then bring us the beach,” said Seguín, whose name (along with Lobato’s) has been changed due to her status as an undocumented immigrant. 

But I thought Nancy Pelosi dais ILLEGALS were good for the economy?

World War II-era bomber plane crashes at Bradley Airport in Connecticut; fatalities confirmed

A World War II-era bomber plane crashed Wednesday morning at the Bradley International Airport in Windsor Lock, Connecticut. CBS affiliate WFSB-TV reports that fire officials confirm the Boeing B-17 Bomber, knows as "The Flying Fortress," crashed at the airport and that the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection have responded.

In a press conference on Wednesday, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, Senator Richard Blumenthal and several state officials confirmed there were fatalities in the crash.

"Right now my heart really goes out to the families," Lamont said. "Our hearts are broken for them right now. We're doing everything we can."

The state officials confirmed that there were fatalities in the crash, though they would not give a number, as victims still need to be identified. State officials confirmed there were 13 people on the aircraft — 10 passengers and three crew members. They also said one person on the ground at a maintenance facility may have been injured in the crash.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/plane-crash-at-bradley-airport-boeing-b-17-flying-fortress-crashes-connecticut-today-live-updates/

How Did You Get to See ..

https://www.redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2019/10/01/liz-cheney-pelosi-get-see-full-ukraine-call-transcript-white-house-authorized-release

Liz Cheney to Pelosi: 

How Did You Get to See Full Ukraine Call Transcript Before White House Authorized Release?

Sister Toldjah

There are some pretty fishy things going on with respect to the Ukraine call transcript, the whistleblower complaint itself, and the how Democrats are conducting the impeachment process – and GOP leaders are demanding answers.

This morning, I wrote about how Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA), the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, was on Fox News Monday raising questions about what House Intel Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) knew about the whistleblower complaint and when he knew it. Here’s what he told Fox and Friends host Brian Kilmeade (bolded emphasis added):

Collins: “If you go back, actually the whistleblower complaint was on August 14th I believe. On August the 28th, go back and look at Adam Schiff who is now heading the ramrod investigation. He actually put a tweet out saying basically what the whistleblower complaint said. This is a month ahead of time. I’m beginning to wonder if there was not more communication here.”

Collins also said there is a troubling reason why Pelosi has not called for a House vote on a formal impeachment inquiry:

“And this is why I’ve said this week that the Speaker abused her power … she said we’re starting the impeachment inquiry and she gave it to her buddy Adam Schiff who has been dishonest with the American people from the get-go on Russia. And why that is important for everybody in this country to know is a [true] impeachment inquiry would actually afford due process, it would make sure both sides were heard. It would make sure the President and the minority have the rights that are not present in the hearings currently.“

Kilmeade pointed out something else during the segment about how Pelosi made “a slip” in an interview she did with 60 Minutes on Sunday about when she read the Ukraine call transcript. Here’s what he said:

Kilmeade: “Nancy Pelosi on 60 Minutes last night was asked ‘Did the President call you?’ She said ‘yes, he called me.’ [This was] before she came out with the impeachment inquiry. [Trump said] ‘the letter was perfect. We’re gonna release the transcript, the call was perfect.’ And she said to him, ‘I knew what was in the letter.’ Then she paused and said ‘it was in the public domain.’ Number one, it was not in the public domain, and the transcript had not been released yet. How could she possibly know?”

Collins isn’t the only GOP leader in the House raising alarm bells about what Democrats knew and when they knew it. 

Rep. Liz Cheney (WY), who is the GOP Conference Chair, tweeted out a clip of the Pelosi interview on Monday and stated “This is starting to seem like a political set up”:

Fred Fleitz, who has extensive experience working for various intelligence agencies including the CIA NSC, and DIA, speculated last week that the whistleblower might have had “outside help” writing the actual complaint itself – either from a member of Congress or staff:

I am very familiar with transcripts of presidential phone calls since I edited and processed dozens of them when I worked for the NSC. I also know a lot about intelligence whistleblowers from my time with the CIA.

My suspicions grew this morning when I saw the declassified whistleblowing complaint. It appears to be written by a law professor and includes legal references and detailed footnotes. It also has an unusual legalistic reference on how this complaint should be classified.

From my experience, such an extremely polished whistleblowing complaint is unheard of. This document looks as if this leaker had outside help, possibly from congressional members or staff.

He also wrote that it was “more than a coincidence” that a Schiff tweet from late August virtually mirrored the whistleblower complaint.

You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to see shades of the Russia collusion hoax playing out all over again. This whole thing stinks.

— Based in North Carolina, Sister Toldjah is a former liberal and a 15+ year veteran of blogging with an emphasis on media bias, social issues, and the culture wars. Read her Red State archives here. Connect with her on Twitter. –

School Safety Measures

MCCLATCHY

Shootings prompt effort to help schools pay for silent alarms, other safety measures

BY ALEXANDRA MARQUEZ  - OCT 1, 2019

Public schools around the country would receive funding for safety measures, such as metal detectors and bulletproof windows, designed to protect students and teachers during school shootings in a new bill before Congress.

The school violence prevention bill, sponsored by Reps. Roger Williams, R-Texas, and Ted Deutch, D-Florida, would provide grants for public schools to undergo safety assessments to determine what structural improvements should be made to help reduce security risks during school shootings.

The bill would fund these safety measures through the Department of Justice’s Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program.

The measure would allocate $2 billion over 10 years to help the Justice Department pay for the entire cost of Independent Risk Security Assessments and half the cost of constructing recommended security measures like metal detectors, steel doors and bulletproof windows, according to Williams.

The other half of improvements would be paid by the school or school district being assessed, unless the COPS director issues a financial hardship waiver. In that case, the Justice Department can pay the full cost.

Deutch represents Parkland, Florida, the site of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting, where 17 people were killed in 2018. This bill would benefit schools such as Stoneman Douglas because it prioritizes safety assessments and funding for schools that have already experienced a violent event or have been seriously and credibly threatened with violence.

The bill also includes a provision that requires all schools who undergo the independent security risk assessment to install a silent panic alarm, which the bill can fund.

Silent panic alarms could be used during active shooter situations to call local police departments and emergency services to alert them of an emergency without the shooter knowing that help has been sought.

This panic alarm provision has been introduced independently as a bill in state legislatures across the country as Alyssa’s Law, named after Alyssa Alhadeff, a 14-year-old who was killed in the Stoneman Douglas shooting. A version has been passed in New Jersey and another version was introduced by Florida state lawmakers in August.

“Over a year after the tragedy at Stoneman Douglas High School in my district, our country continues to search for ways to keep our children safe in schools. Part of addressing threats to our schools and students is understanding the gaps in our security plans,” Deutch said in a statement.

The Williams-Deutch bill has support from members of both parties. It has been assigned to the House Judiciary Committee.

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, a committee member, said he expects approval.

“I suppose it all depends on what’s going on with other Judiciary matters,” Raskin said. “But I would say there’s a pretty good chance of that happening.”

Williams spent his August recess visiting Texas schools and advocating for his bill.

Dr. John Craft, the superintendent of Killeen Independent School District in Killeen, Texas, supports the bill.

“Anything pertaining to students and staff being safe in public institutions is really important,” he said. “For students to learn, they have to feel safe and I argue all that is true for staff members as well.”

Craft and Joe Perrin, the superintendent of Grandview Independent School District in Grandview, Texas, both said they would apply for Justice Department funding for security improvements if the bill were to pass.

“We will definitely look to apply for the grant funding,” Craft said. “As far as specifics go, we’ll be relying on this outside assessment to see where those funds would be best applied.”

Craft says that Killeen ISD already has Strategic Facility Program Funds that allow for safety improvements and strategic construction needs that could be dedicated to pay for half of any structural projects recommended by the safety assessments mandated in the bill.

Williams stressed that this is not a gun control bill, but explicitly a school safety bill to protect students, teachers and other school workers.

“I want the teachers to be able to go to school safe and sound,” Williams said. “We get confused that it’s a gun debate and everything gets tangled up in the gun debate. But we gotta pull the security part out of this debate and get it fixed now.”

Preparing All Their Lives

Babylon Bee

Nation's Civil War Reenactors Have Been Preparing For This Moment Their Entire Lives

October 1st, 2019

U.S.—After Trump tweeted about a civil war, the nation's Civil War reenactors excitedly began mobilizing, reporting that they have been waiting for this exact moment their entire lives.

"I knew this day would come," said Jed Jenkins, who reenacts the Battle of Gettysburg every year. "When Trump tweeted about civil war, I donned my rebel gray uniform and answered the call."

The nation has long wondered why Civil War reenactors did what they did, thinking it was "cool but kinda weird" that they get all dressed up in historically accurate uniforms and pretend to shoot each other. But now it's clear: they were getting ready for the second Civil War, and the nation is laughing at them no more.

According to a report, thousands of reenactors began descending on the site of Fort Sumter yesterday to get things started. Cannons were wheeled into position. Rifles were loaded. Muskets were musketed. Rebels and Union soldiers began shouting insults at each other, as they've practiced for years. The tension was high as everyone waited for the first shot of Civil War 2: The Sequel.

Unfortunately, Trump then tweeted, "Lol jk," making the reenactors sad. They say their time will still come at some point in the future however, and when it does, they'll be ready.

Federal Judge Lays The Smack Down On California Over Law Denying Trump Ballot Access

Bonchie reporting for RedState

Here’s a bit of an update to a story I covered a few weeks back.

After California passed a law effectively keeping President Trump off their state ballot unless he released his tax returns, the Trump campaign sued. The law was a loser from the start and the judge quickly put a hold on it going into effect.

Now, he’s released his written decision and it’s an absolutely beat down for California’s unconstitutional garbage.

Federal judge finds tax return disclosure requirement for ballot access cases violates Elections Clause, First Amendment, and Equal Protection Clause https://t.co/s1pmlik0Vh

— Derek T. Muller (@derektmuller) October 1, 2019

On four different counts, the judge found the law to be unconstitutional. This was like an NFL team playing a high school team, i.e. just a total massacre. I can’t link to every line of the above article but I’ll post the summaries below.

Earlier, I noted the court suggested that California’s statute was preempted by the Ethics in Government Act. The court did make that finding. But the court also found it unconstitutional on three other bases.

First, the statute runs afoul of the Elections Clause, meaning California lacked the power to add this rule as a condition of ballot access…

Second, the court concluded it burdened the associational interests of candidates, voters, and political parties under the First Amendment…

Third, the court held that it violated the Equal Protection Clause by “distinguishing among constitutionally eligible candidates.”

If you’d like the full legal breakdown, be sure to click the link above and check it out. The author obviously knows his stuff and had this called from the beginning.

It was painfully obvious that California was going to run afoul of the constitution here. The idea that a state can arbitrarily decide to deny a citizen the right to vote for their candidate of choice is a horrible precedent to try to set. It was also sure to backfire, so perhaps California should be thanking this judge? Had this been upheld, Republican states could have put their own barriers up.

In the end though, it’s better this was shot down. We don’t need states kicking people off the ballot because they won’t play ball with whatever political delusion the party in power has at the time. People should be able to for who they want as long as they meet the constitutional requirements. Releasing tax returns, school records, medical reports, etc. are voluntary and it’s up to voters to decide how much that matters, not partisan legislators.

What’s so ironic in all this is that Democrats were cheering this on, even as they melt down over things like voter ID laws. Ask people to do something easy to prevent fraud and they set their hair on fire. Try to kick a candidate off the ballot completely, disenfranchising million, though? Well, they are all for that.

No doubt California will appeal. I’m not even sure the 9th Circuit is stupid enough to give them the green light here though.

Blue Privilege Meets..

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/international_blue_privilege_meets_the_trump_wrecking_ball.html

International Blue Privilege 

Meets the Trump Wrecking Ball

Another chapter in the saga of attempting the removal of President Trump is upon us:  Ukraine.  The crisis continues to clarify the dangerous but persistent problem of an elite intellectual power structure that refuses to yield or be removed from its established positions in the most powerful nation in the world.  Blue privilege is the power over language that determines what is appropriate and inappropriate so that individuals can be found as transgressing a moral order held by that elite.  Its origins can be traced as far back as Plato’s Republic.  Ruthless manifestations of its contemporary roots were seen in the French Revolution. It is, of course, contradictory and only applies as the interest of those in blue to whom it is dedicated.  This blue privilege power structure is bipartisan as well articulated by Republican politician Mitt Romney.  It is perfectly okay for some individuals to influence foreign governments for the purpose of influencing elections in those countries or of course our elections here in the United States, so long as that influence serves the appropriate political interests.  Public frustration with these enduring arrangements and contradictions led to the election of President Trump in 2016 and the blue elite have refused to accept this.  It is worthwhile to observe the contradictions of this intellectually derived system in order to best resist it and advance the cause of human freedom. 

Take note of Senator Mitt Romney, who agrees that impeachment of the President should be pursued.  In the general election debates of 2012, Romney defeated President Obama more soundly than any incumbent has been beaten in televised debate history.  One of Romney’s key argumentsin the 2012 debates was:  Russia is perhaps the greatest threat to the United States in the world.  Obama’s jocular comeback resounded: ‘The 1980s called and they want their foreign policy back.’  The punditry and intellectual classes chortled and laughed at the ‘stupid’ Republican Romney.  These same scoffers have no restraint in bullying anyone on the internet that the Russians stole the U.S. election in 2016.  The contradiction is real and an essential characteristic of blue privilege.  If we say Russia is a threat --  you believe it is. If we say Russia is not a threat --  you believe it. 

More recently, Vice President Biden braggedbefore TV cameras and at a meeting for the Council on Foreign Relations that he did in fact have a Ukrainian prosecutor fired by explaining that he would withhold U.S. aid.  This was done while his son had received an excessive salary from a Ukrainian natural gas company. The bravado with which Biden bragged that he had got ‘that son of a bitch,’ is precisely the essence of blue privilege.  Of course, Joe Biden can do that and of course President Trump may not inquire or interrogate that matter or he will be impeached and removed from the office of the Presidency. Biden was comfortably explaining to his blue privilege colleagues, who are super smart, what a tough guy he is in foreign policy and the vast echo chamber into which he shouted --  including the media and foreign policy elites -- was exhilarated by such behavior.   This is in fact why he should be President of the United States --  even if we are not especially united with those pathetic red states. 

Speaker Nancy Pelosi explains that the current Ukraine crisis is a threat to national security.  In many ways this is correct.  The blue-privilege world order that colludes with enemies of the United States --  such as Iran -- consorts with British government agents to block the election of a Republican President in 2016, that covers up the realistic basis of the killing of an American ambassador in Libya, are only a small number of normative abuses that are necessary to Pelosi’s ideal view of “national security.”  It is therefore not surprising that the government rules for “whistleblowing” were changed almost immediatelyprior to the release of this report involving Ukraine.  In the former rules, a truthful account required direct knowledge of the events being reported.  This report to the House allows not only second-hand but any account of information the informant can gather.  Simple water cooler gossip is sufficient ground for forthcoming scandals originating with “secret whistleblowers” whose identities must be protected.  The Deep State that entrenches these pathological notions of “national security,” that values close relations with Iranian supremacism over Israeli democracy, is able to defend ‘our national security’ by protecting itself from the President of the United States. 

The American public grew too weary of these plain contradictions abounding in the bipartisan world of blue privilege in 2016.  So they elected a human wrecking ball known as Donald Trump.  It was not that long ago that the blue elite counted him among them as a member of their coastal club.  Now he is a traitor of the highest order.  Bill Weld asserted in a jealous play for attention that President Trump ought to be executed.  The awkward impending reality that haunts us now in 2019, is why would the public feel any differently in the election of 2020?  Would not the obvious contradictions of the 27th crisis of the Trump Presidency point to an even greater need to further wreck the world of blue privilege?  Honest prognosticators of all stripes know the answer to these questions.  The outcome remains clear. 

Ben Voth is an associate professor of communication and director of debate at Southern Methodist University.  He has served as an adviser with George W. Bush Institute and is the President Calvin Coolidge Debate fellow.  Among his three recent academic books are his co-authored book with professor Robert Denton:  The Social Fragmentation and Decline of American Democracypublished by Palgrave Macmillan.

It's Time to Stand Up and Be Counted....

Posted on October 1, 2019 by sundance

They’ve gone too far. “Donald Trump’s supporters are racist“, or “uneducated”, or “unenlightened”, or (fill_In_The_Blank).  This hate-filled sentiment is clear within the latest corrupt and targeted impeachment attack against the office of the President.

Now the media narrative controllers are fully engaged, gleeful with impeachment blood-lust amid their broadcast brethren.  The raw political corruption is now extreme.

Do not look away.

As we bear witness, anyone trying to convince us this entire assembly of our union is headed in the right direction, well, they might want to revisit their proximity to the 2020 election ballpark. Because they’re not just out of the city – they’re also out of the same state the election ballpark is located in….. Then again, the media know that.

David Mamet had a famous saying, essentially: …‘in order for democrats, liberals, progressives et al to continue their illogical belief systems they have to pretend not to know a lot of things’… By pretending ‘not to know’ there is no guilt, no actual connection to conscience. Denial of truth allows easier trespass.

This hate-filled Democrat ideology relies on our willingness to accept their lies, falsehoods, and scripted presentations; and then demands we grant benefit amid their seeds of doubt.

There’s a level of anger far deeper and more consequential than expressed rage or visible behavior, it’s called Cold Anger.

Cold Anger does not need to go to violence. For those who carry it, no conversation is needed when we meet. You cannot poll or measure it; specifically because most who carry it avoid discussion… And that decision has nothing whatsoever to do with any form of correctness.

We watched the passage of Obamacare at 1:38am on the day before Christmas Eve in 2009. We watched the Senate, then the House attempt passing Amnesty in 2014. We know exactly how it passed, and we know exactly why it passed. We don’t need to stand around talking about it….

We know what lies hidden behind “cloture” and the UniParty schemes.

We watched the 2009 $900+ billion Stimulus Bill being spent each year, every year, for seven consecutive years. Omnibus, Porkulous, QE1, QE2, Bailouts, Crony-Capitalism. We know exactly how this works, and we know exactly why this ruse is maintained. We don’t need to stand around talking about it…. We’re beyond talking.

We accept that the entire Senate voted to block President Trump’s ability to use recess appointments in 2017, and 2018, and 2019. Every.Single.Democrat.And.Republican.

Cold Anger absorbs betrayal silently, often prudently.

We’ve waited each year, every year, for ten years, to see a federal budget, only to be given another Omnibus spending bill by “CONservative” politicians.

We’ve watched the ridiculing of cops, the riots, and the lack of support for laws, or their enforcement. We’ve been absorbing all that. We’ve been exposed to violence upon us by paid operatives of the organized DNC machine. We know; the media trying to hide it doesn’t change our level of information.

Cold Anger is not hatred, it is far more purposeful.

We watched in 2012 as the Democrat party thrice denied God during their convention. The doors to evil enterprise opened by official proclamation and request.

Cold Anger takes notice of the liars, even from a great distance – seemingly invisible to the mob. Cold Anger will still hold open the door for the riot goer. Mannerly.

We’ve watched our borders being intentionally unsecured.

We’ve watched Islamic Terrorists slaughter Americans as our politicians proclaim their uncertainty of motive. We know exactly who they are, and why they are doing it. We do not need to stand around discussing it…. we’re clear eyed.

Cold Anger evidenced is more severe because it is more strategic, and more purposeful. Eric Cantor’s defeat, Matt Bevin’s victory, Brexit, Donald Trump’s highest vote tally in the history of presidential primaries or President Trump’s victory might aide your  understanding.

Cold Anger does not gloat; it absorbs consistent vilification and ridicule as fuel. This sensibility does not want to exist, it is forced to exist in otherwise unwilling hosts – we also refuse to be destabilized by it.

Transgender bathrooms are more important than border security.

Illicit trade schemes, employment and the standard of living in Vietnam and Southeast Asia are more important to Wall Street and DC lobbyists, than the financial security of Youngstown Ohio.

We get it. We understand. We didn’t create that reality, we are simply responding to it.

The intelligence apparatus of our nation was weaponized against our candidate by those who controlled the levers of government. Now, with sanctimonious declarations they dismiss accountability.

Deliberate intent and prudence ensures we avoid failure. The course, is thoughtful vigilance; it is a strategy devoid of emotion. The media can call us anything they want, it really doesn’t matter…. we’re far beyond the place where labels matter.

Foolishness and betrayal of our nation have served to reveal dangers within our present condition. Misplaced corrective action, regardless of intent, is neither safe nor wise. We know exactly who Donald Trump is, and we also know what he is not. He is exactly what we need at this moment. He is a necessary glorious bastard.

He is our weapon.

Cold Anger is not driven to act in spite of itself; it drives a reckoning.

When the well attired leave the checkout line carrying steaks and shrimp using an EBT card, the door is still held open; yet notations necessarily embed.

When the U.S. flags lay gleefully undefended, they do not lay unnoticed. When the stars and stripes are controversial, yet a foreign flag is honored – we are paying attention.

When millionaire football players kneel down rather than honor our fallen soldiers and stand proud of our country, we see that. Check the NFL TV ratings – take note.

When a school community cannot openly pray, it does not mean the prayerful were absent.

When a liar seems to win, it is not without observation. Many – more than the minority would like to admit – know the difference between science, clocks and political agendas.

Cold Anger perceives deception the way the long-term battered absorb a blow in the hours prior to the pre-planned exit; with purpose.

A shield, or cry of micro-aggression will provide no benefit, nor quarter. Delicate sensibilities are dispatched like a feather in a hurricane.

We are patient, but also purposeful. Pushed far enough, decisions are reached.

[…] On the drive to and from the East Coast, I paid attention to the billboards and bumper-stickers. Folks, the people in “Fly over” country are PISSED, from the guy that guides hunters, to the mayors of towns and cities, to state senators congressmen and Governors who are voting to arrest and imprison federal law enforcement officials for enforcing federal gun laws that don’t agree with state law … The political pendulum has never, in the history of humanity, stayed on one side of a swing. The back lash from over reach has always been proportionate to how far off center it went before coming back … right now we’re staring at a whole hell of a lot of the country (about 80-90% of the land mass, as well as about 50+% of the population) that is FED UP. You really don’t want those guys to decide that the only way to fix it is to burn it down and start over… (more)

It’s too late…

This man has faced opposition that would overwhelm any other President.  Our chosen President is constantly attacked by those holding a corrupt, conniving and Godless leftist ideology.  It is our job now to stand with him, firm on his behalf.

To respond we must engage as an insurgency. We must modify our disposition to think like an insurgent. Insurgencies have nothing to lose. If insurgents are not victorious the system, which controls the dynamic, wins. However, if insurgents do nothing, the same system, which controls the dynamic, also wins.

Do nothing and we lose. Go to the mattresses, and we might win. The choice is ours.

The awakened American middle-class insurgency, led by Donald Trump, is an existential threat to the professional political class and every entity who lives in/around the professional political class. Their entire political apparatus is threatened by our insurgency. The political industry, all of corrupt governance, is threatened by our support through Donald Trump.

Decision time.

You know why the entire apparatus is united against President Trump. You know why the corrupt Wall Street financial apparatus is united against President Trump. You know why every institutional department, every lobbyist, every K-Street dweller, every career legislative member, staffer, and the various downstream economic benefactors, including the corporate media, all of it – all the above, are united against Donald Trump.

Donald Trump is an existential threat to the existence of a corrupt DC system we have exposed to his disinfecting sunlight. Donald Trump is the existential threat to every entity who benefits from that corrupt and vile system.

Global elites now stand with jaw-agape in horror as they witness the result.  The value of multi-billion dollar contracts dispatched at our leisure. Trillion dollar multi-national trade deals, full of scheme and graft, left nothing more than tenuous propositions smashed asunder from the mere sound of our approach.

The fundamental construct within decades of their united global efforts to tear at the very fabric of our U.S.A is being eliminated. They too have nothing to lose; their desperation becomes visible within their apoplexy; and they’re damn sure displaying it.

Do not look away.

Throw aside the sense of discomfort and bear witness to the evil we oppose. Do not turn your eyes from the hatred focused in our direction. Stand firm amid the solace of our number and resolve to the task at hand.

Those who oppose our efforts are merely vile parasites quivering as they stare into the Cold Anger furnace of righteousness.

Who fuels that furnace?

… . . US !