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Pamphlet Debates in 140 characters…
Started another plastic canvas tissue box cover – 2 sides done and working on the 3rd side. This one is for my friend, Marrietta, in AZ, who is an expert quilter, talented maker of beadwork jewelry, all around creative needle-worker, and the maker of fantastic potholders:
I used bolder colors than the picture with the pattern, because, unlike me, she’s not a “pink person. I love pink, it’s one of my favorite colors. True story – decades ago we were discussing repainting the living room walls and since my husband defers to me on decorating and because he’s color-blind, I sold him on painting the living room walls a lovely rose color. It wasn’t bubblegum pink, but a more dignified pink color. I told him “rose” is not “pink”. As he painted, he kept saying, “Are you sure this isn’t pink?” I kept a straight face and said, “NO, it’s “rose”!” All the pictures and decorations on the walls popped with that rose color in the background and it sure beat that standard off-white color the walls were originally. The next time we painted the walls, he insisted it was his turn to pick the color and it was back to boring – English eggshell was the name of that blah off-white color.
On to politics – the Left’s push to discredit the electoral college continues. A big component of their talking points is that the electoral college is racist and a remnant of slavery. Well, since The Constitution was written when slavery was legal, not only in the South, but also in the North too, abolishing slavery was not a central issue to the debates on The Constitution. Sure, there was a budding abolitionist movement in the late 1700s, but the overarching goal of the framers of The Constitution was to unite the States and create a federal framework.
I grew up in PA and as my husband always says, “They’re a bunch of Quakers!” (although my family was Lutheran/Reformed). PA was where the first abolitionist society in America, Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, formed in 1775. It was founded by Quakers, in fact, Thomas Paine, one of America’s greatest “Domestic Propagandists” (to borrow President Obama’s terminology), was a founding member of the group.
William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, was a Quaker and to get a feel for Quaker moral conscience, you can read his work, Some Fruits of Solitude.
The British colonial experience in early America was an amazing lab of real-life experiments in various governmental forms and societal orders. Supreme Court Justice, John Marshall, who largely defined America’s Supreme Court, took on the task of writing a biography of George Washington, which resulted in a 5-volume set, titled, The Life of George Washington. The first volume goes into finely detailed history of the explorations in government in early America. To understand how at the end of the 1700s, Americans were forging ahead with a revolutionary new government, the history of the colonial governmental experiments will give you a broader view. Here is a free online copy of Volume 1.
Now, on to the electoral college debate. Since most states had legal slavery, not just Southern states, although some abolitionist sentiments were percolating in colonial America, when the founders, who had forged together The Articles of Confederation as a government framework during the American Revolution, met in 1787 to draft The Constitution of the United States, their intent was to draft an entirely new governmental framework – a constitutional federal republic.
The Articles of Confederation were felt to be in need of improvement. One of the key failings in the articles, was the same failing of many previous mutual defense agreements between states throughout the 1700s, it did nothing to provide for a unified defense. In many agreements between states, in previous decades, requests by one state for militias from another state to assist in military defense needs, were ignored, tardy or insufficient to repel attacks. States often didn’t live up to their pledged defense agreements. The early American frontier was a battle front, with attacks from French and Indians in the north and Spanish and more Indians in the south. The founders had just fought the Revolutionary War, so the intent of drafting The Constitution was to create a stronger union and a national defense structure.
How the framers of The Constitution sold their revolutionary new governmental framework was through Pamphlet Debates, which were a common form of political debate in colonial times. The most famous pamphlet debates on The Constitution are called The Federalist Papers, where three writers, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison, using pen names, energetically set forth to sell America on The Constitution they were writing. Other Americans argued mightily against their radical new form of government, some in its entirety, and some only argued against certain aspects of it.
In today’s factionalized America, President Obama referred to people supporting the electoral college online as “Domestic Propagandists”, using a tone you’d expect to be reserved for calling people “domestic terrorists”. Online, anytime anyone posts an opposing viewpoint or makes mincemeat of an opposing viewpoint, the person is labeled a “troll”. It’s time for more people to make their case, in a vigorous national debate, if they want to amend The Constitution. Some flim-flam, spin-cycle media blitz in a hyped “crisis” mode won’t work for the Dems, who are pushing this only to delegitimize Trump’s winning the presidency.
The electoral college was designed to promote states sovereignty and afford proportional representation among states, so that less populated states would not be marginalized by more populous states. This idea that the founders were all enthused about “popular votes” is nonsense, since some states only allowed land-owners to vote. Slaves were used only to pad the census numbers to give southern states more power and women were not allowed to vote at all. The idea to promote states soverignty, the concept of federalism, is encapsulated in the 10th Amendment to The Constitution:
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Conservative Review put out a Twitter video called, “You Do You”, which in an entertaining manner explains federalism:
https://twitter.com/CR/status/810868496544493568
The thing about America, that should hearten all Americans, is we live in a country where we are free to have opposing views. We are free to criticize our government and elected officials, without fear of reprisals too.
So, if the Left wants to abolish the electoral college, let the free, open, spirited debate begin.
Decided to update this post with a link to an October LB post: America: Our Ordered Liberty Roots, in which I mentioned British charters:
To understand America’s founding, it’s important to look at who the first settlers in America were and how the American colonies were set-up and developed. Originally the British colonies, who later broke off from England and the British crown, operated under proprietary colonies, royal charters, or charters:
“A charter is a document that gave colonies the legal rights to exist. A charter is a document, bestowing certain rights on a town, city, university or an institution. Colonial Charters were empowered when the king gave a grant of exclusive powers for the governance of land to proprietors or a settlement company. The charters defined the relationship of the colony to the mother country, free from involvement from the Crown. For the trading companies, charters vested the powers of government in the company in England. The officers would determine the administration, laws, and ordinances for the colony, but only as conforming to the laws of England. Proprietary charters gave governing authority to the proprietor, who determined the form of government, chose the officers, and made laws, subject to the advice and consent of the freemen. All colonial charters guaranteed to the colonists the vague rights and privileges of Englishmen, which would later cause trouble during the revolutionary era. In the second half of the seventeenth century, the Crown looked upon charters as obstacles to colonial control, substituting the royal province for corporations and proprietary governments.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_charters_in_the_Thirteen_Colonies
The American colonies, in essence, were business ventures, set-up to operate under a British legal structure, but the charter-holder had control of appointing whom would administer the law within the colony. In some colonies, the crown directly appointed an administrator for the colony. The colonial administrators varied widely in leadership ability, legal knowledge, experience and also administrative talent. However, the actual American settlers who embarked on setting up the colonies (business ventures) were almost exclusively Christians of various denominations and their Christian faith defined every aspect of their communities.
Filed under American History, Culture Wars, General Interest, The Constitution, The Media
“Domestic Propagandists”
Decided to make another one of these quilt design plastic canvas tissue box covers for my friend. This design is called Arrowhead… a perfectly named American pattern.
This pattern leaflet has 8 different quilt designs.
This pattern is called Log Cabin, another perfectly named American quilt pattern.
Quilting had been done all around the world, but industrious and frugal early American women turned quilting into a distinctive American needle art form. These early Americans carefully saved small fabric scraps from old clothing and blankets, which they pieced together into blocks. They arranged the blocks into a quilt and often used solid color strips, called “sashing,” between the blocks, “to frame” them. Slave women quilted too and studying the history of African-American quilting is a neglected area of quilt history, that has gained attention in recent years.
On the left, in the background of my tissue box cover photo, in my row of books, next to my book about Samuel Adams, there’s a gap. Sorry the previous sentence sounds like a “in the library, next to the desk” clue leading you to the murder weapon, in a “Whodunit” mystery, but I assure you, it led to a book about an important American patriot in our nation’s fight for Independence: Thomas Paine.
After President Obama mentioned “Domestic Propagandists”, in tones that sounded like he was referring to “Domestic Terrorists” over the weekend, well, I pulled out my book, “46 Pages: Thomas Paine, Common Sense, and the Turning Point to Independence” by Scott Liell. I had purchased this book a few years ago and hadn’t read it yet, but I started reading it last night… in between stitching this tissue box cover and tweeting. I’m quite the multi-tasker these days, lol.
“Domestic Propagandists” indeed, LOL. All I can say to that is, “Yankee Doodle Dandy!”
Have a nice day and maybe after today the Queen Hillary coup attempt to overthrow The Constitution will be over.
Filed under American History, General Interest
Stop the Insanity
Finished the 4th side for my next tissue box cover. I like this side the best.
With the desperate “Hillary or Bust” talking points in the past few weeks, the lame brained “do-over election” seemed to be the most bizarre, but never let an existential threat to Hillary Clinton’s “First Female President” dream go to waste. Look, I warned that she will do ANYTHING to become president and it sure looks like she’s got Clinton, Democratic Party, and Obama machines behind her effort to instigate a coup and overturn a legitimate election. They will fail, because we still have The Constitution. However, in the process, after 8 years of abusing executive power, President Obama appears to be joining the “Hillary or Bust” effort by corrupting the CIA, where “unnamed” officials are floating “intelligence” with no proof. Today there are “reports” that Putin was directly involved in managing the email hacks – no proof offered.
To show how corrupt this is, well, these unnamed sources in the CIA are leaking this information to the media, but refused to appear before the House Intelligence Committee this week and answer questions under oath about this supposedly new intel, with direct links to the Russians. It’s a total sham the Obama administration is participating in – trying to manipulate the American people into buying into subverting The Constitution and a legitimate election.
So, I went back to tweeting and here are some from today:
There are “experts” discussing ways to fight Russian “influence operations” today and their ideas are truly frightening – banning RT from broadcasting and policing “fake news”.
We need to fight for FREE speech, it is our strongest weapon against foreign”influence operations”.
What to do is not rocket science:
An American people educated on and firmly grounded in respect for The Constitution of the United States of America is the best defense
Teach our children CIVIC VIRTUE in our schools, colleges and universities
Resist all the Obama administration fear-mongering about Russian influence operations. Don’t let the media feeding frenzy selling Clinton/Dem/Obama machine talking points scare you. We are strong enough to resist “influence operations” without some new government program or censorship. Just think for yourself, question media and partisan”facts” vociferously. Be cheerful and fearless about standing up and defending American principles and The Constitution.
It’s simple – an America united on American principles isn’t vulnerable to foreign influence operations.
#DefendTheConstitutionAlways
Now I need to get some laundry done and finish the top to this tissue box cover.
Have a nice day and please don’t get worked up about media and Obama administration Russian “influence operation” hysteria – you have total control over your own mind and should not fear “influence operations”:-)
Queen Hillary’s failing coup…
Finished another plastic canvas box.
Here’s a rundown of the Clinton/Dem/Colluding Media talking points I’ve seen, being hysterically repeated on Twitter and various news sites in the last few days:
- “Fake News” is a dire threat and only certain (Clinton colluding) media can be trusted to report “real” news.
- Various incantations on popular vote should rule over electoral college – from the dramatically escalating popular vote total for Hillary (likely embellished) to contorted legal reasoning, to crap like Nate Silver tweeted some tripe that Hillary only lost in 4 states by 1%, so without the Russian hacking she’d likely have won – so based on a hypothetical situation, he created imaginary polling statistics, that he’s presenting as serious analysis???
- More Comey attacks – Harry Reid claimed Comey downplayed Russian hacking.
- Harry Reid claims Trump directly involved with Russian hacking.
- Electoral college electors need a special CIA briefing on Russian hacking.
- America needs a do-over election, because of Russian interference in the election.
The liberal media has shed all pretense of being objective journalists, in fact, many are little more than Democratic hacks. The hysteria over Americans paying attention to Wikileaks over American journalists’ reporting or Democrat mouthpieces speaks not to Americans being idiots, it speaks to people TRUST Wikileaks (a likely Russian front) over American journalists and the liberal media.
Following Twitter, is an exercise in frantic, sore-loser talking points, most bogus or deeply disingenuous, being breathlessly repeated by a cadre of big name “journalists” and news organizations 24/7. It’s like kids at summer camp, sitting in a circle around a campfire, whispering something in the next person’s ear and saying, “Pass it on!”
President Obama has had numerous rappers at the White House. Hillary had Beyonce and Jay Z campaigning with her, but Kanye West showing up at Trump Tower this morning represents some new low in lack of seriousness about the presidency, according to the likes of Andrea Mitchell. I thought she was traveling with Hillary’s campaign, but guess she missed seeing Beyonce and Jay Z…
I think Trump will be a disaster as President. I believe he’s very corrupt. However, I thought the same things about President Obama and America survived. I believe the same things about Hillary too, so I take solace in the FACT that America is much more than our President and we are still a very blessed and fortunate people, because we are FREE. There are millions of wonderful people in America and thankfully most of us encounter them and not these corrupt journalists and shady politicians in our everyday lives. We still are free to go about our daily lives, to dream, to set off on new adventures and to hope and dream. For me, needlework is a stress-reliever, so I’m stitching away… another tissue box cover – three sides done since Sunday:
I have a feeling the Trump years will be very productive stitching years for me, lol. Oh, the little yarn tails on the top center are just my marking the top, while I stitch, so I know which side is the top when I set my sewing down and then go back to it.
Trump worries me, but the corrupt Clinton/Dem/Media cabal scare the crap out of me. The Russian hacking/ interference is bad, but so far there’s no evidence they tampered with ballot boxes, so the election is legitimate – end of conversation! The Dems with this recount fiasco, pushing the propaganda that the popular vote should count and not the electoral college, and now the desperation pitch for a do-over election, ostensibly because of Russian interference are trying to supplant the constitutional process all to prop up a very corrupt woman, who will do anything to be President. And her enablers are ready to discard The Constitution to assist her. I would have supported legal efforts to dump Trump as the Republican candidate before the election, but the general election is THE election, according to The Constitution and that’s FINAL!
Donald Trump deserves the opportunity to take office and be the President of the United States. The Americans who voted for him deserve that too. And frankly, respect for The Constitution demands we follow the rules. If he is a disaster, there are constitutional remedies for that too, but it’s ridiculous to talk about impeaching him before he’s even taken office (which some leftist loons are proposing).
Yesterday, John Podesta, who fell for a common phishing scam and gave the hackers his email password, supported a demand for a special CIA briefing on Russian hacking for electors. One of the chief organizers of this elector effort is Nancy Pelosi’s daughter. The electors don’t have security clearances, so anything the CIA can tell them, they can tell all of America – so cut the drama queen act and just have the CIA release the information. My bet is neither the Obama White House nor the CIA will do this, because they’ve exaggerated the facts.
Even President Obama has gotten into the Russian hacking propaganda blitz and it’s revolting. The Dems are demanding new investigations into Russian hacking, despite the fact there already are ongoing Congressional investigations into Russian hacking. Prior to this election hysteria, the Obama administration tried to downplay the Russian hacking threat.
So, the administration, where widespread use of private email was common practice, including by President Obama, now wants to champion fighting cyber-threats??? Be for real, the first line of defense against cyber-attacks is good online practices… like using SECURE systems for government business.
President Obama used his private gmail account to email Hillary at her private server email address. Huma Abedin was sure the Obama/Hillary email the FBI showed her, which was part of a classified CHAIN, had to be classified. Let’s start by finding out what kind of information President Obama was sending via his private gmail account, before we get too excited about the Russian hacking.
The Democrats are in mass hysteria about investigations into Russian hacking, well, sure let’s find out who they hacked, how they hacked and what was done to prevent their hacking.
It’s hard not to laugh at Democratic mouthpieces hysterically demanding an email investigation as the last ditch effort to beg, borrow or steal the election for Hillary. The clock is ticking…to December 19th.
If these people weren’t able to wield so much influence in America, I’d be laughing, because was there ever a more ridiculous leader to put forth as tough enough to take on Russian hacking, than Hillary Clinton??? She is the Democrats’ champion on facing America’s cyber-threats???
She couldn’t even keep track of her own blackberries, she had her Filipino maid printing out classified emails in the SCIF in her DC home, she and her State Dept. staff were sending classified information on her home-brew server, and she believed her private email server was secure, because the Secret Service protect her home… If foreign intelligence agencies around the globe aren’t laughing at the Obama administration, Hillary Clinton and fools like Michael Morell, I would be shocked:
“Former CIA acting director Michael Morell called the intelligence agency’s conclusion that Russia meddled in the U.S. presidential election to help President-elect Donald Trump “the political equivalent of 9/11.”
“A foreign government messing around in our elections is, I think, an existential threat to our way of life. To me, and this is to me not an overstatement, this is the political equivalent of 9/11,” Morell said in an interview posted Sunday on The Cipher Brief. “It is huge and the fact that it hasn’t gotten more attention from the Obama Administration, Congress, and the mainstream media, is just shocking to me.””
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/michael-morell-russia-us-elections-232495
Too bad these fools don’t realize that THEY and THEIR own weak policies and careless handling of information practically handed the information to the Russians. John Podesta did hand his emails to them…
“Fake news”…. yeah, the people who sold the SPIN cycle to the American people want to lecture Americans on fake news … what a farce!
All in for INVESTIGATIONS!
Finally, the Dems are on board with investigating emails, so by all means investigate the Russians hacking EMAILS! Wikileaks exposed massive, corrupt media collusion with the DNC and Hillary campaign. It’s way past time for the full exposure of the infamous SPIN cycle, that requires massive media collusion to keep Clinton and Democratic Party talking points controlling the 24/7 news cycle.
The Russians are probably sitting on Hillary’s entire server contents, so let’s probe that deeply too and while we’re investigating, let’s find out if the Russians or other hostile actors hacked into the Weiner/Abedin laptop, with it’s reported 650,000 emails. Hop to it Republicans… the Dems finally want an email investigation, so demand a thorough investigation into the full scope of the Russians hacking emails:-) What the Dems may not realize is the Russians will play their hand too and assuredly Wikileaks will be doing more email dumps, resulting in more corruption will be out in the open.
Considering my prognostications on this election turned out wrong, as I believed that no matter what, Hillary Clinton would do anything to become President, here goes with some Monday morning quarterbacking. I never envisioned a set of events, to include an avalanche of emails (Hillary, DNC, Podesta, Abedin, etc, etc.), a reopened FBI investigation, or massive blowback against the Clintons and liberal media for running an over-the-top scorched earth attack against Trump, nor did I envision how Trump masterfully uses Twitter to bait the Clinton machine and the “elite” liberal media (our esteemed “journalists”).
At this late date, NO ONE can pinpoint to what degree these factors played into the election result and beyond that the two candidates personalities assuredly had a great deal of influence too. So, here, in no particular order, are some thoughts:
Dastardly Russian Interference
Let’s be for real here – President Obama has spent 8 long years groveling, drawing down, leading from behind and showing American weakness, in ways both great and small. Every world leader, long ago, realized that President Obama is a waffler and when he does decide to use force, it’s haphazard, ineffectual, strategically-myopic and completely detached from sound military operational principles. He sets timelines based on political optics and domestic political concerns, not on military or strategic needs. He is feckless, malleable and irresolute when deciding to use military force and beyond that, he lacks any sense of military history, military strategy, military capabilities, realities and limits. In plain English, he, and his closest advisers are completely clueless on how to project American strength.
The Obama administration, through feckless foreign policy & military actions, helped create power vacuums across the Mid-East. And on the big picture level, President Obama’s weak leadership globally created a gaping power vacuum there too. Into that power vacuum, Vladimir Putin galloped and he has tried to solidify his position as a strong global leader.
When Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, let’s review here: She tried to launch a Russian reset that fell flat, she oversaw several catastrophic diplomatic disasters, which she bungled. From the Arab Spring and touting the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, to the Libyan debacle, where she came, she saw and she declared he died… To Benghazi.
Also while she was Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton set-up and used her own home-brew email server, that lacked even the security of gmail. She deliberately decided to use that private, unsecured server for her work emails and SHE allowed other government employees to send highly classified information on her unsecured email server. She also sent classified information on that server too. On top of all that, instead of relying on vetted US intelligence information, as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton decided to utilize her own ad hoc “intelligence” sources, like Sidney Blumenthal and the late Tyler Drumheller.
Vladimir Putin has run circles around President Obama, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. The Russians are doing what they’ve always done – work to sow internal divides in America, work to spread disinformation/misinformation/damaging information, work to discredit American democratic governance and institutions, sow racial/class enmity, and fuel partisan divides. Perhaps, they’ve upped the ante, not so much because of some Russian personality preference for Trump, but because after decades of deepening political and social divides, the Russians might believe the time is ripe to create more chaos into the American systems.
Perhaps, the Russian “interference” is more big picture and not centered on “Either Trump or Hillary”. Even if Putin’s goal was to “help” get Trump elected, well, so far there’s no evidence the Russians tampered with ballot boxes.
The Wikileaks leaks assuredly were meant to damage Hillary and FOX News has been a non-stop Trump propaganda factory throughout Trump’s entire campaign. However, while many intelligence people assert that Wikileaks is a Russian front operation (and I believe that too), there’s no direct proof that I have ever seen. Just like there’s no damning emails or evidence to prove what Putin’s intentions were.
Even if he intended to “help” Trump, if the mainstream media was reliable and trusted, Americans would not be trusting Wikileaks over American news outlets.
Popular vote over Electoral College
The news media hysteria about “fake news” last week and the Russian “interference” this week, smack more of last ditch efforts to overthrow the electoral college. On Twitter in the past couple days these ideas are being trial-ballooned. Post-election massive media efforts to convince Americans that the electoral college is unAmerican and that the popular vote should prevail failed to gain traction. It’s amazing to me that in the past couple weeks some news media peeps keep repeating the Hillary popular vote and in the past two weeks, the number jumped from a million and a half to approaching 3 million. None of these “journalists” tweeting that repeatedly have cited a source to back that number. Now, fabricating votes to spread a false talking point would be REAL interference in the election!
Fake News
After the “Ditch the Electoral College” effort failed to gain any real traction, the Clinton machine/Democratic Party machine/Liberal News media launched this mass hysteria about the dangers of “fake news”. Since the liberal media spreads a lot of “fake news”, to include running Clinton machine propaganda without question, well, “fake” is a very subjective term and “news” hardly describes much of what “journalists” produce.
The advent of the internet turned many “journalists” into lazy hacks, who spend more time on Twitter retweeting each other’s crap than they do busting their butts running down NEWS stories or fact-checking. Instead, many of them rely on fact-checker sites, as if these sites are all unbiased seekers of “facts”. There’s a great deal of lazy, arrogant, partisan-driven “reporting” going on by way too many hard news reporters.
The sanctimony about “fake news” by many of these “journalists” is laughable.
You Reap What You Sow
Fueling this Russian interference idea is unlikely to change anything electorally, since the Electoral College votes December 19th and while the Clinton hardliners may believe they can overthrow that, let’s just say, NOT LIKELY! For the Clinton camp/Democratic Party/corrupt liberal media the hype aids in their effort to delegitimize Trump’s presidency, before it even begins. This is a repeat of the GWB derangement syndrome. For the Russians, the hype helps bolster Russian clout, if the Americans are running wily-nilly, ranting, “The Russians are coming!” It’s all positive for Russian propaganda efforts.
So, the hysteria about the email leaks by Wikileaks, well, many of these DNC and Podesta emails show corruption: Donna Brazille railed about not trusting these leaked emails, but she never produced a single shred of evidence to back that up, while Wikileaks has agencies verifying these emails haven’t been altered. These emails also show overt efforts of the Clinton campaign to cheat AND to collude with the media to spread lies.
CNN altered a Trump tweet, by removing the word “Crooked” from the tweet, when they aired it. Why? CBS doctored a Bill Clinton interview, taking out a few seconds of his answer, to change the context of what he said. CBS responded that they edited it because of time constraints… This election has exposed many in the news media as nothing more than shills for the Clintons and Democratic Party machines.
The Comey Factor
Comey reopened the Clinton email server investigation with the discovery of 650,000 emails on the Weiner/Abedin laptop. The Dems went crazy trying to shut down the investigation and they succeeded. The all out PR blitz, with massive media collusion, to silence the FBI was stunning and the vitriol aimed at the FBI by top Democrat lawmakers, pundits was disgraceful. Yet, now the Dems are outraged that Trump is dissing a clearly cherry-picked release of a CIA report, with no named sources, but in October they were calling the FBI corrupt Trump fanboys… Comey knew reopening the investigation was almost a suicidal move, yet he did so, and it’s time we know the details of what these reported FBI investigations into Clinton corruption, in four states were all about.
Let’s recap the media’s role in the 2016 election
I’ve had niggling suspicions about FOX News being part of a foreign front operation for many years, so toss me in the conspiracy theorist looney bin. I have no concrete proof, just a lot of unsettling things about how FOX News agitated throughout this election for Trump, how they worked to fuel the Tea Party movement, how certain “personalities” on their network work to fuel the far-right. Let me repeat, I have no proof, just uneasy feelings watching FOX News.
When I turn on MSNBC , their news and opinion leans heavily to the far-left ideologically. CNN leans to the Clinton and Democratic Party machine. BUT during the GOP primary, CNN, FOX, MSNBC and ABC, CBS, were running the “GOP Insurgency Show”. The Washington Post reportedly devoted 20 reporters full-time to digging up dirt on Trump.
The “GOP Insurgency Show” was the Clinton’s corrupt collusion with their friends in the media to promote Trump in the primary (the so-called Pied Piper strategy as a Podesta email described it). FOX News never stopped running the Trump Show, which again caused me a niggling feeling watching so much of the blatant propaganda effort. Hanity and Pirro should have had on Trump cheer-leading outfits.
Without rehashing all of this again, the TRUTH is a lot of “journalists” helped gather up Trump dirt during the GOP primary and they sat on it until the general election. The Alicia Machado hit was orchestrated with media collusion, to the point when Hillary dumped that Machado hit at the end of that debate – several media already had stories written, ready to run. The Trump “grabbing them” video was orchestrated too. The Trump dirt media avalanche, facilitated by so many in the news media, to assist the Clinton campaign scorched earth messaging to bury Trump, also helped expose the corrupt media collusion and backfired. These same “journalists” worked to bury Hillary’s email scandal and questions about the Clinton Foundation and they jumped on the bandwagon to attack the FBI.
The hysterics about “fake news” and now the Russian “interference” look like desperate, sore loser gambits.
Investigations I Want To See
I am fine with an investigation into Russian hacking and Russian efforts to interfere in our elections, but let’s not stop there.
Something smelled wrong with James Comey reopening the email server investigation so close to the election. He announced the investigation found nothing new, as top Dems were ranting about FBI Trump fanboys, the FBI leaking to hurt Hillary, and assuredly enormous pressure from the Obama White House was exerted to silence the FBI again. So, I want to know more details about the break-down of the Weiner laptop emails. How many of the reported 650,000 emails belonged to Huma, how many were classified State Department work emails? Were any of these emails shared with people not authorized to receive them? Was that laptop hacked?
The State Department released a Hillary email, which showed Chelsea received classified information directly from Hillary, on the home-brew server. Why was Hillary sending Chelsea classified information? That email had a CHAIN of top Obama administration national security officials. Did they know Hillary was using a private server?
The NY Post reported that Hillary’s Filipino maid, Marina, printed out classified emails for Hillary in her DC home. All the circumstances surrounding this maid having access to the SCIF and classified information should be investigated! What happened to all the copies Hillary was forever having printed out for her? Where are they?
And of course, there are still the unanswered questions about David Kendall’s thumb drive of the Clinton server, what was found on Cheryl Mills laptop, who was present for Hillary’s FBI interview, and many other loose threads.
Of course, during those few days when the FBI investigation was reopened, reports surfaced about ongoing FBI investigations of the Clinton Foundation in four states. What happened with those investigations?
I say, “YES!!! Let’s investigate!!!” The more the merrier!
The Queen of Mendacity wages war against “fake news”
Oh my, Hillary, the Queen of Mendacity, wife of former President BJ Mendacity, has a new cause to champion… the dangers of fake news and propaganda…
The Clintons mainstreamed their SPIN cycle, which was a full-blown propaganda operation (information warfare), as I’ve said many, many times. Their talking points messaging and memes were often bold-faced lies. Their SPIN cycle only worked with massive amounts of media collusion, because the SPIN only works when it dominates the 24/7 news cycle. This leftist media collusion advanced over the years to the Obama years, where the Obama administration goes with full-blown “narratives”, that are fabricated stories, which their friends in the media present as NEWS.
Hillary lamenting about “fake news” and dangerous “propaganda” should be taken as seriously as her “landing in Bosnia under sniper fire” or her BIG lie explanation of her home-brew private server, which she said contained NO classified information…
Hard to decide who is more ridiculous… the mainstream media mouthpieces, who have no credibility, due to their over-the-top scorched earth hits against Trump in this past election, or the Queen of Mendacity whining about “fake news”.
The hypocrisy of these sanctimonious journalists, lecturing about how Trump’s lying is way more dangerous, smacks you in the face. Their frantic pleadings that “fake news” must be stopped seem surreal, when many of these very same people happily participated in gathering dirt on Trump and sitting on it throughout the primary. Many of these same sleazy “journalists” willingly coordinated their “news” reporting and messaging with the Clinton campaign. CNN is a joke – they actually doctored a photo of a Trump tweet (removing the word “crooked”) for a broadcast. CBS edited Bill Clinton’s interview to change the context of what he said.
Assuredly, it is disturbing that many Americans trust Wikileaks, a Russian propaganda front, over mainstream American news outlets, but the reason isn’t because these people are idiots. The mainstream media hasn’t just been benignly showing “liberal bias” for decades. They’ve been engaged in deliberate, wholesale, corrupt collusion with the Democratic Party, the Clinton political machine and liberal activists.
Since most reporters do very little hunting down stories, but instead rely on online cut and pasting of each other’s “scoops”, this latest media-generated crisis (the omnipresent “fake news”) looks like another Democratic operative-inspired talking points propaganda effort to me.
Yes, I believe the “fake news” hysteria is a political gimmick that Democratic operatives and their friends in the media are colluding to SPIN. They are the FAKES!
Update: Prevaricator Brian Williams is also reporting about the problem of “fake news”. This just keeps getting more surreal with the liberal media:
Tales from Chappaqua
Oh my, Saturday Night Live isn’t just skewering President-elect Donald Trump. There’s so much poetic justice in con man Trump beating the Clintons, using their scorched earth, spin cycle messaging against them, even though I worry about how an egomaniacal, corrupt, con man like Trump will handle the immense power and responsibility of the Presidency. However, my trepidation about Donald Trump comes nowhere near my fears about Hillary Clinton possessing that much power:-)
Watching the liberal hack journalists going into paroxysms about “fake news” brings a smile to my face too. Listening to their hysterical warnings about the dangers of “fake news”, when they have spent their careers being shameless purveyors of first, the Clinton spin, the GWB derangement memes, the Obama narratives and then they gleefully went along with the Bill Clinton orchestrated “GOP Insurgency”, propelling Trump as the “winner”, all while sitting on piles of Trump dirt throughout the primary. The mainstream news media lost its credibility long ago and it’s entertaining watching their ominous warnings and shameless fearmongering about “fake news”.
Oh yes, Trump lying is so much more dangerous than the mountains of Clinton lies, the Obama administration writing totally fabricated “narratives” or Susan Rice going on national TV and proclaiming Bowe Bergdahl served with “honor and distinction” or the made-up “hands up, don’t shoot” lie… Guess, one of these media truth-tellers needs to pen a 50 shades of lying for the deplorables to become educated on the nuances of “how the media screws with the truth”
The Republican Party lost by allowing their party to be hijacked by a Clinton dupe. Hillary Clinton lost by being out-sleazed by a Clinton dupe. The news media lost even more by being exposed as nothing more than Democratic Party hacks. Of course, the American people lost, but frankly, if the best Americans aspire to was either one of these two very corrupt candidates, well, America deserves to live with the consequences. I feel confident, we’ll survive a Trump presidency. Perhaps, Americans will even wake-up to how dangerous it is to accept corrupt politicians and a lying, corrupt news media too.
The marvel is that the Clintons never envisioned that Trump could win and seemed so arrogantly confident, that many times during the campaign, it looked like Hillary was just going through the motions of campaigning. She acted liked the campaign was just an unpleasant chore to get to her coronation (you might ask, why aren’t I 50 points ahead…hahaha). While the media criticized Trump dialing in interviews to the cable network shows, Hillary was given a pass on hiding from the media most of her campaign.
Aside from losing the election, the Clintons just lost their position and power in the Democratic Party and their prestige globally. And THAT means, they won’t be able to rake in the millions of dollars from their foreign patrons effortlessly now. All those foreign power-brokers, who paid top dollar to the Clinton Foundation in the hopes of securing access in a Hillary Clinton White House, will be taking their money elsewhere.
Will the Clintons be scaling back their lavish lifestyle? Not likely, but their entourage may get much smaller, very quickly. However, it looks like Hillary’s loyal aide, Huma Abedin, will be scaling back her lifestyle. I wonder if her mother is scheming to find Huma a rich Arab to latch onto if she ditches Weiner, who is reported to be broke.
All in all, although a Trump presidency fills me with unease, the prospect of a Hillary presidency filled me with stark terror. And if they are still searching for Hil in the woods of Chappaqua, follow the trail of sour grapes at your own peril is my advice… a vindictive, raging witch can be a dangerous, oh to borrow a Samantha Power line, “monster”.
Hard Choices, rofl, rofl, rofl. Yes, I am enjoying her loss immensely:-)
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