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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:-)
Filed under Corrupt Media Collusion, General Interest, Politics, ThatWitch2016, The Media
Past behavior is prologue
According to news reports President-elect Trump is considering 4 candidates for Secretary of State, with no announcement being expected this week. From various reporting, Rudy Giuliani, a Trump loyalist supreme, has business interests around the world that are red flags to conflict of interest problems, if he were to become Secretary of State. On November 15, 2016, the New York Times reported:
“But Mr. Giuliani’s business ties are a major red flag. He built a lucrative consulting and speechmaking career after leaving City Hall. His firm, Giuliani Partners, has had contracts with the government of Qatar and the Canadian company that is building the Keystone XL oil pipeline, and Mr. Giuliani has given paid speeches to a shadowy Iranian opposition group that until 2012 was on the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations.
In one year — 2006 — Mr. Giuliani reported in a financial disclosure report that he had made 124 speeches, for as much as $200,000 each, and had earned a total of $11.4 million. He often made extravagant demands in return for agreeing to make a speech, including that the private plane that flew him to the engagement be a certain size.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/us/politics/donald-trump-cabinet-rudy-giuliani.html
Mitt Romney faces an avalanche of vitriol from Trump loyalists, who view Romney’s public comments during the campaign, about Trump being a fraud, as disqualifying. Senator Bob Corker has been mentioned as a contender and had more than one meeting with Trump.
Then there’s retired General David Petraeus, who has made public noises that he would like to be considered and Trump, being easily dazzled by military stars, can’t get enough of hobnobbing with these retired generals and feeding off of their aura of being “strong leaders”. How on earth David Petraeus is even being considered remains a mystery to me, but then again, he is part of this cult of personality among the Washington elite, where past transgressions disappear or get whitewashed from the public bio and voilá, the person emerges with a new PR blitz, replete with the transgressions scrubbed and a happy face bio repeated constantly. There were reports that retired General Jack Keane had been a Trump favorite for Secretary of Defense, but turned it down and that General Keane recommended General Petraeus to Trump… go figure.
So it is with the “great” General David Petraeus, a man who LIED to the FBI and tried to shut down the investigation into his mishandling highly classified information. The media often tiptoes around top brass military leaders, often unwilling to probe or challenge them or their conduct and too many Americans, to include Donald Trump, stand in awe of generals and confer an almost untouchable status to them. There are good generals and bad generals, but sadly the American people and too many reporters remain dazzled by those stars.
General David Petraeus has demonstrated he is unfit to ever hold a high position of trust in the United States government! Facts matter to me, but apparently many other people are willing to use flimsy legalistic arguments to ignore the “facts” about Petraeus’ behavior. So, once again, here’s a review of the “great” David Petraeus’ conduct during the FBI investigation into his mishandling classified information:
Let me repeat this from a LB post from November 8, 2016:
To me he grossly mishandled highly sensitive information, that could have jeopardized American lives in the field – end of conversation. He lied to try and cover up. For me, when people do this, I no longer trust them and I believe they are a security risk to the United States of America.
I don’t really care that he had Clinton lawyer, David Kendall, work out a plea agreement, so he got off on way lesser charges. The actual FACTS, which aren’t disputed, are he handed over his black books and other classified information to his mistress/biographer, to aid her in writing his biography. Petraeus supporters hype that his mistress, a US Army trained intelligence officer, had a security clearance, as a point to exonerate General Petraeus.
Here are the FACTS on her having a security clearance. A security clearance is a privilege given to people, entrusting them to handle our nation’s sensitive national security information. The clearance allows access to sensitive information to carry our your official duties. The clearance is not for personal, partisan-political, random curiosity or any other purposes. It is NOT for writing a book. She was a trained intelligence officer, who had classified information, that was not secured in her home, but she also had hundreds of classified documents on her home computer unsecured. So, her having a security clearance and being a trained intelligence officeractually makes her actions worse, in my opinion, for the same reason General Petraues’ actions make me have no interest in listening to anything he has to say, they should have known better. General Petraeus and his mistress put personal interest above the safety of soldiers in the field, by such “extremely careless” handling of highly sensitive information. Here are some of the FACTS reported from the FBI affidavit:
“FBI agents found hundreds of classified documents on Paula Broadwell’s home computers in Charlotte during their investigation into her relationship with then-CIA Director David Petraeus, according to newly unsealed FBI documents obtained by the Observer.
More than 300 of those documents were classified as secret,according to a 2013 FBI affidavit accompanying the agency’s request to search Petraeus’ Arlington, Va., home.”
And this: “The affidavit is signed by a Charlotte-based FBI agent. Its allegations include:
“The documents show that when confronted by the FBI, both Broadwell and Petraeus appeared to mislead investigators about their extensive exchange of classified material, most of it involving military and diplomatic operations during Petraeus’ years as commander of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan”
And this: “The FBI gathered recordings Petraeus made as military commander in the Middle East in which he discussed informationclassified as “Top Secret” with reporters.
In an audio file taken from Broadwell’s home in November 2012, Petraeus can be heard discussing “sensitive military campaigns and operations” with reporters from the Washington Post. His only demand was to be referred to in the subsequent stories “as a senior military officer,” the affidavit says.”
And this: “Petraeus tried to stop the FBI investigation as soon as he heard about it. According to the affidavit, the FBI began its probe in Tampa, Fla., after a person identified as “Witness 1,” who is clearly Tampa socialite and Petraeus confidante Jill Kelly, complained of receiving threatening emails from someone who had access to the CIA director’s schedule – a potential breach of security.”
And this: Broadwell, a married mother of two, and Petraeus, also married, took steps to hide their correspondences. The affidavit says the two used pre-paid cellphones and email accounts “using non-attributable names.”
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article82469027.html#storylink=cpy
An interesting thing about people who break rules for their own convenience is they usually have a pattern of this behavior, not just a single moment of bad judgment (they become CORRUPT). Oh my, how dare I use the word “corrupt” when referring to the sainted General David Petraeus, well, because that is the correct word to describe the behavior chronicled in the FBI affidavit.
Most Americans don’t pour over FBI notes, Hillary emails or Wikileaks leaked emails. Instead, they let “reporters” do the digging and accept the reporters’ reports on what they found. It’s easy to get buried in mountains of information, with tens of thousands of Hillary emails, or the 650,000 emails reported to be on the Weiner/Abedin laptop or a Wikileaks dump, like the other day:
“WikiLeaks releases more than half a million US diplomatic cables from the momentous year of 1979”
By Julian Assange
“Today, 28 November 2016, marking the six-year anniversary of “Cablegate”, WikiLeaks expands its Public Library of US Diplomacy (PLUSD) with more than half a million (531,525) diplomatic cables from 1979.”
So, Assange dumped a half million diplomatic cables, starting from 1979, a couple days ago, which assuredly will take months to review, even by professional researchers. Herein comes my issue with the Weiner/Abedin email search of 0ver 650,000 emails, done in days. Sure, all sorts of computer programs can sort, sift through and analyze a lot of data, but it takes a human analyst to tie loose threads of previous information in a case with new bits of information to weave together a fact pattern.
With General Petraeus, on October 22, 2016, FOX News’ Catherine Herridge reported:
“Roughly 1,000 emails between Hillary Clinton and Gen. David Petraeus were thought to be missing from the 30,000 emails provided by Clinton’s team to the State Department in December 2014, according to the newly released FBI investigative files.
In a heavily redacted FBI interview summary from Aug. 17, 2015, a State Department employee from the Office of Information and Programs and Services (IPS), which handles Freedom of Information Act requests, discussed how Petraeus’ records apparently were not among the work-related emails provided by the former secretary’s team.”CENTCOM records shows approximately 1,000 work-related emails between Clinton’s personal email and General David PETRAEUS, former Commander of CENTCOM and former Director of the CIA,” said the employee, whose name is redacted, according to the summary. “Most of those 1,000 emails were not believed to be included in the 30,000 emails that IPS was reviewing. Out of the 30,000 emails, IPS only had a few emails from or related to PETRAEUS as well as a few related to Leon PANETTA, former Secretary of Defense.””
The actual FBI Notes information, Herridge referred to can be found on page 44 – HERE.
General Petraeus did not turn over approximately 1,000 work-related emails between him and Hillary Clinton, yet he turned over his black books and hundreds of classified government records to his mistress, that he was hoarding, unsecured, in his home… Petraeus and Hillary retain the legal counsel of David Kendall, the Houdini of making Clinton scandals disappear. Heck, the FBI Notes suggest that Kendall’s office did not turn over 2 bank boxes of documents – page 40 of FBI Notes, so one can only wonder what more we will eventually find out, but I feel confident to say there’s way more incriminating information being hidden. David Petraeus should explain what happened to his approximately 1,000 missing emails between him and Hillary Clinton, that CENTCOM says existed.
Why would anyone trust David Petraeus with highly sensitive information??? He has already proven that he is untrustworthy – that’s a FACT. And beyond that, since there’s still a lot of unknowns in his missing emails with Hillary, that makes him a prime target for blackmail, by the hostile foreign intelligence services that have ALL of Hillary’s private server emails.
Just Stitching Away
With writing about politics – well, I wanted to be “fair” to Trump, with him being elected and deserving a chance to demonstrate that he can not only “act” presidential, but become a President, in thought and deed. The American people voted and I respect that, but I haven’t changed my opinion, that Trump is a pathological liar, con man and total fraud.
The mainstream (liberal) media, assuredly, avidly searches for negative Trump stories to run with, but here again, Trump hands them ammunition constantly. For instance, Trump has been reported to have only sat down for two intelligence briefings since becoming president-elect. The Trump camp explained that away as Mike Pence is getting those intelligence briefings almost daily.
Then comes the Jill Stein/Hillary Clinton recount effort and Trump runs off into the weeds on a Twitter storm over the weekend about how he would have won, not only the electoral college, but also the popular vote, if over a million illegal immigrants hadn’t voted in the election. There is absolutely no proof that over a million illegal immigrants voted, so where did Trump come up with this??? He retweeted it from someone on Twitter… So, he has no interest in real intelligence briefings, but he wallows in tweet droppings…
This morning, the news is reporting Trump is interviewing retired General David Petraeus, who has made noises that he’d be interested in being Secretary of State. Trump mouthpieces have been waging a complete character assassination effort against Mitt Romney, who would make an excellent Secretary of State, but are championing Petraeus, whose grossly negligent mishandling of highly classified information and obstruction of justice should have landed him in jail. I remain confused by the Trump mouthpieces’ antics
Petraeus, just like retired General Mike Flynn, was a Democrat, NOT a Republican. Then again, Trump was a Democrat too, until his “GOP Insurgency”. I found a tweet and retweet by John Schindler this morning, that I agree with completely:
John Schindler Retweeted John Schindler
Petraeus belongs in jail, not the cabinet. Team Trump is deep into magical thinking if they’re considering him.
John Schindler added,
John SchindlerSince I don’t want to write all diatribes about the media and their hysterics about “fake news” or about Hillary and her endless staged “out and about” unplanned social media photo efforts or farcical “recount” or about Trump’s bizarro social media forays and crazytown cabinet selection process, I’m just working on sewing and craft projects. Oh, and of course, pinning more “inspirations” on Pinterest too. I’ve also been working on trying to organize my large collection of needlework patterns.
I made 2 granddaughters little plastic canvas needlepoint trinket boxes a while ago, so the other 2 granddaughters wanted boxes too. Finished one with a carousel horse on the top and stitched the top of the other one with a horse head on it yesterday:
The box above, the pattern instructed to attach the lid to the box at the top and the lid lifts up, which I don’t really like.
Stitched this top yesterday (about 6″X 6″) and need to make the box now. Making this one a lift off lid, so I’ll have to stitch pieces to attach to this top.
Here are the two other boxes;
And I made a boutique size tissue box cover (pictured below), which my son assures me is something only old ladies like – well, I am an old lady… And I have dozens of patterns for plastic canvas needlepoint tissue box covers… I actually stitched 2 and a half sides waiting at the doctor’s office when I had that sinus infection. One of my small talents is I am a quick stitcher (from decades of sewing a lot).
Just need to buy a box of boutique size tissues for this one:-) I have floral blue and yellow curtains and a comforter on the bed in the spare bedroom, so this blue and yellow tissue box cover will fit right in there. I love that French country blue and yellow color combination:-)
So, after I finish the horse trinket box (my granddaughters like these little boxes for junk, btw), I am going to stitch these two quick long-stitch patterns for a 2 year-old boy:
Then, it’s back to working on some counted cross-stitch and quilting (English paper-piecing to be precise) and getting some Grandmother’s Flower Garden blocks sewn. My great-grandmother loved to sew this hexagon-pieced quilt pattern and I was her handy color-coordinator/quilt piece cutter as a kid. She had a large closet filled with boxes of fabric scraps, which I rummaged through sorting out prints into stacks of different colors for the various quilt blocks. And then she had a cardboard template, which I used to trace the pattern on the back of the fabric with a pencil and cut out stacks of hexagons for her. Luckily, I find tedious, repetitive sorting and cutting tasks relaxing, lol. My sisters did not enjoy tedious sorting and cutting. True story here, at Wal-mart when it came time to make sure that all the DMC embroidery floss skeins were sorted and counted for inventory, I enjoyed sitting there carefully sorting and counting each color…
My needlework is a welcome respite from the 2016 Election hell, that doesn’t seem to ever end…
Filed under General Interest, Politics
Trump: THE GREAT FRAUD
Well, that didn’t take long for Donald J. Trump to expose his true, corrupt crony capitalist roots – he isn’t going to pursue a criminal investigation of the Clintons or appoint a special prosecutor, as he promised. All that “lock her up” jazz was just to dupe a bunch of voters into believing he isn’t a NY liberal, con man, friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton. You know, those people Trump referred to as “good people” last week. He’s now Mr. Dealmaker – the Crony-Capitalist-In-Chief…
Fair warning to Republicans, in case you didn’t learn this in the past year – the ONLY people who will get shafted by a President Trump are REPUBLICANS. He will screw you over every way he can – just like he did during his “GOP Insurgency” and he will cut deals with his corrupt Democrat friends, like the Clintons.
Here’s the latest from the NY Post:
“President-elect Donald Trump won’t subject Hillary Clinton to a criminal inquiry — instead, he’ll help her heal, his spokeswoman said Tuesday.
“I think when the president-elect who’s also the head of your party … tells you before he’s even inaugurated he doesn’t wish to pursue these charges, it sends a very strong message, tone and content, to the members,” Kellyanne Conway told the hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” who first reported that the president-elect would not pursue his campaign pledge to “lock up” Clinton, his Democratic opponent.”
http://nypost.com/2016/11/22/trump-wont-pursue-charges-against-clinton/http://nypost.com/2016/11/22/trump-wont-pursue-charges-against-clinton/
Yep, I guess we can expect to see Bill Clinton and Donald Trump hitting the links in the near future… Perhaps, they’ll invite President Obama along too…
Filed under General Interest, Hillary's Email Scandal, Politics, Public Corruption
Obama Pentagon used plagiarized Wikipedia info in report
President Obama loves to pontificate about his administration’s professional behavior. Here is a report that top level Pentagon officials sent a report to Congress that included plagiarized information pulled from Wikipedia.
This is the same sort of scam that the IRS pulled with the Lois Lerner email game the administration engaged in when Congress requested records and when Congress requested State Department records. It sure appears that the Obama administration does everything it can to subvert the law when fulfilling its reporting obligations to Congress. And for anyone who believes President Obama is honest, well, he declared there was nothing criminal in Hillary’s emails or email server set-up, despite never having reviewed all the emails or before the FBI investigation was completed.
When it comes to “fake news”, the Obama administration should worry more about how they carry out their official duties, than with how social media runs its business. What a joke for this administration to act all high and mighty about integrity or ethical conduct.
Filed under General Interest, Politics, Public Corruption
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