Professor Jacobson is pulling no punches in this piece.
And if he’s correct, several folks have crimes to be held to account for, and several millions more will need to take some time and reflect on what they’ve done, how they’ve acted, who they’ve aided, colluded with (unbeknownst or not) and their treatment of a duly elected president of our Republic.
“In a few days we may get a look at the much ballyhooed memo written by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee, led by Devin Nunes, regarding alleged FISA abuse leading to spying on the Trump campaign and the role of the Steele Dossier in justifying that spying on a presidential candidate.
Very soon we may also see a report by DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz into the DOJ/FBI handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
What I expect those reports to show is a deep politicization of the highest levels of both DOJ and FBI.
The signs are already there as to the effort to exonerate Hillary.
The Strzok-Page texts already made public show political hatred of Trump, and strongly suggest that such hatred influenced the Hillary investigation, which was a charade. I covered the unfolding disclosed facts in my prior post, Loretta Lynch – Bill Clinton tarmac meeting now makes sense, it was the end not the beginning.
As to the Steele dossier, the House Intel memo may or may not delve into whether it was a Russian intelligence set-up. It certainly would be consistent with Russian disinformation practices according to a former CIA officer in an Op-ed in The Wall Street Journal,
The Steele Dossier Fits the Kremlin Playbook:
When the “Steele dossier” was first published a year ago, it looked like a bombshell. The document, drawn up by the British ex-spy Christopher Steele, contained salacious allegations against President Trump and suggested that Russia had helped him win the 2016 election. No one has been able to corroborate its charges, but Democrats continue to see the dossier as a road map for impeaching Mr. Trump. Republicans, on the other hand, point out that it was created as opposition research, leading them to see it as an elaborate partisan ploy.
There is a third possibility, namely that the dossier was part of a Russian espionage disinformation plot targeting both parties and America’s political process. This is what seems most likely to me, having spent much of my 30-year government career, including with the CIA, observing Soviet and then Russian intelligence operations. If there is one thing I have learned, it’s that Vladimir Putin continues in the Soviet tradition of using disinformation and espionage as foreign-policy tools….
The pattern of such Russian operations is to sprinkle false information, designed to degrade the enemy’s social and political infrastructure, among true statements that enhance the veracity of the overall report….
If this turns out to be the case, and I believe it will, that means that for the past 18 months the American people have been manipulated by useful idiots for the Russian intelligence operation — the media, Democrats and #NeverTrump Republicans who have relentlessly spread the allegations of the Steele dossier, and used it to justify an attack on the most basic foundations of our Republic.
The people screaming the loudest about Russia collusion were in fact doing the Russians bidding in sowing chaos.
The dossier and gossip generated by it was the foundation of the Russia collusion conspiracy theories that led to attempts to intimidate Electors into changing their Electoral College votes. As I’ve said many times before, that was a defining moment for me that confirmed that #TheResistance was dangerous beyond our normal and sometimes vitriolic politics. “
Worrisome numbers for GOP in NBC News millennial poll:
•63% disapprove of Trump •72% say GOP “doesn’t care about people like me” •Only 17% identify as GOP & 57% of them as “not very strong” Republicans •63% say country headed in wrong direction https://t.co/zrrvDCuTCl
I also agree with this comment from Siegfried. The Millennials I know are tight with their money and view the government as ridiculously wasteful.
The notion that millennials don’t have jobs, are lazy, want free stuff, etc. is part of why the GOP has a millennial problem. Reality is they’re the largest part of the workforce, most fiscally conservative gen since Great Depression & don’t want to associate with us in the GOP https://t.co/3oa0LHOZp7
As Millennials become more politically powerful, expect:
1. Defense spending as a percentage of GDP to sharply decrease.
2. It to become much harder for folks to collect Social Security Disability benefits.
3. The share of people paying income tax to increase from the current 50%.
4. Co-pays for Medicare recipients to significantly increase.
5. Medicare to stop paying for double knee replacement surgeries for obese 75 year olds and other weight and/or lifestyle related procedures.
6. The door of immigration to be opened more widely to highly skilled immigrants who can help the young pay the Ponzi scheme liabilities of Social Security and Medicare.
Looking at Medicare, Social Security, the Iraq War and the government-created financial crisis of 2007-2008, Millennials began to suspect that their elders did not know what they were doing. The nomination of Hillary and Trump and the election and presidency of Trump have convinced the young that their elders are complete idiots.
Millennials are not a Republican voting block. When they come into their own, I expect things like healthcare and student debt will be properly taken care of, and I expect the issue of low wages will be taken more seriously as well. But as long as establishment Republicans and Democrats hold most of the power as they do now, this will not happen. I do not believe Millennials are going to be following in Ricky’s footsteps (gloating, name-calling, blaming those in economic distress, etc.) as they really seemed to love Bernie Sanders, and he had other types of solutions.
I also do not see Donald Trump as the beginning of a new era, rather he is the end of the old era. I do not mourn this even though it may indicate that things are about to change more radically than I am comfortable with. But sometimes, these things must be. It’s just another opportunity to see that God is in control in other ways that we are not accustomed to considering.
We will see Debra. It all depends on whether most Millennials wind up viewing government as something that hands out goodies (the view of Democrats and Trumpers) or whether they have figured out that someone (probably the young) eventually has to pay for all that stuff.
If Millennials end up hating government except for its ability to ‘hand out goodies’ to big business, then it would not be the end of the era–just a continuation of business as usual for establishment politics. Bernie Sanders is damaged goods now, but his campaign showed where political hope is coming from among Millennials and others. He managed to garner support without ever tapping large special interest groups with funding or Wall Street players. That has a lot of appeal to people who clearly see corruption in government, yet don’t see the neutering of government as a valid solution.
Bernie is a classic Democrat. He promised to hand out more goodies. Trump’s promises were stranger and those you would expect from a con man. He promised to keep the existing goodies (Social Security and Medicare) flowing while magically fixing other issues with a giant free wall and repeal of decades of trade policy which had actually benefited all US consumers and tens of millions of workers.
You also seemed to have missed that it’s only a survey of 1800 people, and as Debra mentioned, from a group who doesn’t vote R anyway. No surprise at all.
“The first of it’s kind bi-monthly survey of racially and ethnically diverse young adults Democrats”
It’s always amusing to project what a particular “generation” will do, how it will impact the nation, whether a generation is “good” or “bad.”
While there are trends tied to generations (especially the larger groups), they are products of their time and wind up pretty much like any other generation: a mix of good and bad influences on a society.
Theres nothing new under the sun, don’t forget.
But yes, I would agree that the so-called “Millennials” are strongly in line with the Sanders view of government. For now, anyway.
For those who are interested, 1800 people is a large sample size for a poll. Most polls on which politicians, corporations and the press rely are of about 1000 people.
Young people have not always voted for the Democrats. In 1980, the 18-25 year olds voted for Ronald Reagan. He appealed to the hopes and dreams of all Americans and to our better instincts.
Most writers and politicians are not appealing to better instincts right now. They’re selling copy and outworn cliches seasoned liberally with outrage. The first party to wake up, come to their senses and address real issues constructively will be at the front of the line to take the presidency next time. Most seem content to remain in a stupor. That gives a slight edge to Republicans right now I think.
Interesting article, DJ. So far so good, but it hasn’t got very far yet has it. Give us a few minutes and we’ll map out everything that can go wrong with them. :–) Some of my grandchildren are generation Z and the latest 2 will be a part of the as yet unnamed generation. My children also fell in between the crack of generational labeling, with 1 being Gen X and 3 Millennials. :–)
“Tonight, President Trump will give his first State of the Union address; we’ll have a live post on that later, so be sure to come back and share the fun. In the meantime, the guest lists for both the president and the Democrats have been released.
The contrast between those guests invited by the president and those invited by the tone-deaf Democrats is illuminating, speaking to the heart of the great political divide in our country. President Trump’s guests include law enforcement, first responders, and economists. The Democrats are bringing a bunch of DREAMers and some representatives of the dwindling #MeToo movement.
The White House released a list of invitees that includes military heroes, ICE and border control agents, the founder of the Cajun Navy, parents of children slaughtered by the brutal illegal alien street gang MS-13, and the organizer of the Flags and Flowers challenge, a movement dedicated to respecting veterans by placing flags and flowers on their graves.”
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“Democrats, on the other hand, have invited a slew of DREAMers, a handful of #MeToo activists, and people related to various Democrat causes.”
“House Speaker Paul Ryan called Tuesday to “cleanse” the FBI as he openly backed the release of a controversial memo that purportedly details alleged surveillance abuses by the U.S. government.
“Let it all out, get it all out there. Cleanse the organization,” Ryan, R-Wis., said.
He added: “I think we should disclose all this stuff. It’s the best disinfectant. Accountability, transparency — for the sake of the reputation of our institutions.”
The striking remarks came at a breakfast with anchors and reporters ahead of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address; much of the session was off the record.
Ryan spoke on the record to address the controversy over the House Intelligence Committee voting late Monday to make public the surveillance memo.
Ryan said “we should disclose,” and “disclosure is the way to go.”
He said problems at the FBI and the Justice Department should be cleaned out, while “covering up mischief would be worse.””
Democrats pay another hack to bring baseless allegations against the President. And now they want to say it’s proof the Steele dossier is true because they shared info and it matched.
It’s like magic…….. or a desperate attempt by the brass at the FBI to change the subject.
“A second dossier relating to Russian “collusion”? Should Donald Trump be shaking in his boots? Naah, at least not from the description by The Guardian. But the FBI may have more questions to answer if this second dossier got used to legitimize their surveillance of Carter Page and the Trump campaign:
The FBI inquiry into alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 US presidential election has been given a second memo that independently set out many of the same allegations made in a dossier by Christopher Steele, the British former spy.
The second memo was written by Cody Shearer, a controversial political activist and former journalist who was close to the Clinton White House in the 1990s.
This could be potentially dangerous for Trump if it provides evidence for the allegations in the lurid Fusion GPS/Christopher Steele dossier on Trump and his campaign. However, it may be more likely that any correlation between the two is either coincidental or manipulated. The Fusion GPS effort began as a research project for the Free Beacon, but it later morphed into an oppo-research effort by the Hillary Clinton campaign. Steele came on board in that phase, with the former intel operative trying to find as much dirt as possible for a political campaign rather than evidence for a prosecution.”
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So who is the “author” of this latest piece of slime, and who do they work for?
Few people have heard of Cody Shearer, the unsanctioned diplomat, private eye, and Clinton flunky whose name surfaced in connection with the so-called intelligence reports Sidney Blumenthal was channeling to Hillary Clinton during her time at the State Department. But this shadowy fixture of the Clinton machine was everywhere in the 1990s — including war-torn Bosnia, where he became the subject of a State Department investigation after he represented himself as an agent of the U.S. government and took cash from a genocidal warlord.
Now evidence suggests Shearer, working with his partner Blumenthal, was up to something similar during the 2011 revolution in Libya. And like in the 1990s, the Clintons were lurking on the margins. Much of the intelligence contained in memos fed to the Clinton State Department by Blumenthal was not just self-serving — it was provided by someone with a history of misleading foreign sources, misrepresenting himself as an agent of the U.S. government, and creating trouble for both himself and the United States abroad.
Though often described as a journalist, Shearer hasn’t written much since the 1980s. His work, like that of his father, Lloyd Shearer, the former editor of Parade magazine, was often gossipy and reputation-ruining. A series of columns the younger Shearer wrote on the sexual proclivities of former Texas senator John Tower sank his nomination for defense secretary in 1989.”
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I heard on Metaxas today that after the government shut down, Nancy Pelosi took all the Congresspeople who voted with her out to dinner on the US Government dime. Is this possible? Can anyone be that tone deaf?
What is wrong with #MeToo activists? Is it that the particular ones invited are probably on the side of liberal Democrats, or is it because of the movement itself?
So many women – left, right, and in-between – have been adversely affected by sexual harassment at work, or in other situations. Women used to “just take it”, thinking they didn’t have any other choice if they wanted to keep their jobs.
It is interesting that the two dossiers both indicated that Russia had Trump under its thump because of lude acts he committed in a fancy Russian hotel in 2013. That is consistent with another story that came out right after Trump blabbed the classified information on ISIS terror plots we obtained from an Israeli spy to the Russian ambassador. Right before Trump’s inauguration, a senior CIA official told his Israeli counterpart that Russia had compromised Trump and that Israel should assume that any intelligence it gave to Trump might be passed on to Russia and wind up in the hands of Iran and Hezbollah.
Nothing. But it’s entirely inappropriate for a SotU speech. And of course will be partisan by design. I doubt they’re bring Harvey’s or Bill Clinton’s victims. You know I’m right.
Besides, they already have their own venue to vent. Daytime TV and every award show out there.
It’s inappropriate, as is bringing illegal immigrants. Trump has already won that @#$%ing contest though. He’s bringing the families of victims of illegal alien criminals. Touche’
“Two senior FBI officials have now reviewed a controversial Republican staff memo alleging abuses of government surveillance programs during the 2016 presidential campaign, a source familiar with the matter told Fox News – adding that the officials “could not point to any factual inaccuracies.”
The two officials – one from the bureau’s counterintelligence division and the other from the legal division – followed up after an initial review of the memo during a rare Sunday trip to Capitol Hill by FBI Director Christopher Wray.
The House Intelligence Committee voted late Monday along party lines to release the memo, prompting a backlash from Democratic lawmakers. Top Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff called it a “very sad day.” President Trump has five working days to review the contents but is widely expected not to block its release.”
“The research firm behind the so-called Trump “dossier” accused U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley on Monday of endangering its employees by ignoring “multiple” requests not to publicly disclose their names.
In a letter to Grassley, which also criticized Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, lawyers for Washington-based Fusion GPS said the firm had twice reported unspecified “threats” to the police and had tried to keep its employees’ names confidential “because of well-founded concerns about their public safety.”
Fusion hired former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele to compile the “dossier” that included allegations about contacts between then-presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign, his advisers and Russia. The document has since become the focus of attacks by Trump and his supporters.
Fusion’s lawyers complained that the names of Fusion employees were publicly disclosed in six letters issued last week by Grassley and Senator Graham, a judiciary subcommittee chairman, although the company’s lawyers “on multiple occasions” had asked committee staff members to avoid doing so.”
So if Putin did have leverage over Trump, what sort of actions might Trump take?
According to the @AtlanticCouncil, federal agencies created a list of Putin's oligarchs as required by the new sanctions law, but the Trump Administration threw it out and used a Forbes list of wealthy Russians instead. Secretary Mnuchin then signed it. https://t.co/d4USXsPEMA
“Former British spy Christopher Steele gave the FBI a copy of a second dossier on Donald Trump, this one put together by a Democratic political operative who has been referred to as a “hatchet man” for the Clinton family.
The Guardian reports that Steele passed the so-called “Shearer memo” — compiled by Cody Shearer — to the FBI in October 2016. Steele, an ex-MI6 officer, had been given the document by an American contact who is unnamed in The Guardian report.
According to the newspaper, Steele told the FBI that he could not verify the information in the memo, but he said that he gave the bureau a copy because some of the information in it matched up with what he had reported in his own dossier.
Shearer has a long history with the Clintons, and his involvement in investigating Trump is likely to raise questions about his dossier’s impartiality.
“He’s a hatchet man for Hillary Clinton, not a sophisticated intel operative,” North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows told The Daily Caller of Shearer in response to The Guardian’s report.
Meadows, a Republican who has pressed the FBI and Justice Department for information regarding the Steele dossier, questioned the origins of the information in the Shearer memo.
“Did the information come from Hillary Clinton?” he asked.”
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“You’ve done tremendous damage to a number of institutions that we used to respect. You’re seeing the delegitimization of the news media, the delegitimization of law enforcement, of the intelligence community… Long term, this will have consequences.” https://t.co/lWt9vqMTFG
Haberman with an interesting article on Trump’s speech preparation. I think he is learning and getting better at his job. Debra is right about the decline in the number of moronic Tweets. I expect he will make a good speech tonight.
AJ – Okay, I see your point. I thought the mention of the #MeToo women was somehow against the women themselves or the movement, but I see what you mean about the appropriateness – or lack thereof – of being invited to the speech.
All things considered, the speech was not bad. The police officer and his wife and the baby adopted from the drug addicted mother was a nice touch. There were several of those. No horrible moments and not bad over all. Now the only question is should I ruin the positive effect by listening to the Democrats rebuttal….If I thought they had anything serious to offer, I would… Nah, there’s time enough for that tomorrow. I think I’ll just enjoy the evening. :–)
Wandering Views 
Professor Jacobson is pulling no punches in this piece.
And if he’s correct, several folks have crimes to be held to account for, and several millions more will need to take some time and reflect on what they’ve done, how they’ve acted, who they’ve aided, colluded with (unbeknownst or not) and their treatment of a duly elected president of our Republic.
You know who you are.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/01/seven-days-in-january/#more-240768
“In a few days we may get a look at the much ballyhooed memo written by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee, led by Devin Nunes, regarding alleged FISA abuse leading to spying on the Trump campaign and the role of the Steele Dossier in justifying that spying on a presidential candidate.
Very soon we may also see a report by DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz into the DOJ/FBI handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
What I expect those reports to show is a deep politicization of the highest levels of both DOJ and FBI.
The signs are already there as to the effort to exonerate Hillary.
The Strzok-Page texts already made public show political hatred of Trump, and strongly suggest that such hatred influenced the Hillary investigation, which was a charade. I covered the unfolding disclosed facts in my prior post, Loretta Lynch – Bill Clinton tarmac meeting now makes sense, it was the end not the beginning.
As to the Steele dossier, the House Intel memo may or may not delve into whether it was a Russian intelligence set-up. It certainly would be consistent with Russian disinformation practices according to a former CIA officer in an Op-ed in The Wall Street Journal,
The Steele Dossier Fits the Kremlin Playbook:
When the “Steele dossier” was first published a year ago, it looked like a bombshell. The document, drawn up by the British ex-spy Christopher Steele, contained salacious allegations against President Trump and suggested that Russia had helped him win the 2016 election. No one has been able to corroborate its charges, but Democrats continue to see the dossier as a road map for impeaching Mr. Trump. Republicans, on the other hand, point out that it was created as opposition research, leading them to see it as an elaborate partisan ploy.
There is a third possibility, namely that the dossier was part of a Russian espionage disinformation plot targeting both parties and America’s political process. This is what seems most likely to me, having spent much of my 30-year government career, including with the CIA, observing Soviet and then Russian intelligence operations. If there is one thing I have learned, it’s that Vladimir Putin continues in the Soviet tradition of using disinformation and espionage as foreign-policy tools….
The pattern of such Russian operations is to sprinkle false information, designed to degrade the enemy’s social and political infrastructure, among true statements that enhance the veracity of the overall report….
If this turns out to be the case, and I believe it will, that means that for the past 18 months the American people have been manipulated by useful idiots for the Russian intelligence operation — the media, Democrats and #NeverTrump Republicans who have relentlessly spread the allegations of the Steele dossier, and used it to justify an attack on the most basic foundations of our Republic.
The people screaming the loudest about Russia collusion were in fact doing the Russians bidding in sowing chaos.
The dossier and gossip generated by it was the foundation of the Russia collusion conspiracy theories that led to attempts to intimidate Electors into changing their Electoral College votes. As I’ve said many times before, that was a defining moment for me that confirmed that #TheResistance was dangerous beyond our normal and sometimes vitriolic politics. “
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This is what I have been talking about:
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I also agree with this comment from Siegfried. The Millennials I know are tight with their money and view the government as ridiculously wasteful.
As Millennials become more politically powerful, expect:
1. Defense spending as a percentage of GDP to sharply decrease.
2. It to become much harder for folks to collect Social Security Disability benefits.
3. The share of people paying income tax to increase from the current 50%.
4. Co-pays for Medicare recipients to significantly increase.
5. Medicare to stop paying for double knee replacement surgeries for obese 75 year olds and other weight and/or lifestyle related procedures.
6. The door of immigration to be opened more widely to highly skilled immigrants who can help the young pay the Ponzi scheme liabilities of Social Security and Medicare.
Looking at Medicare, Social Security, the Iraq War and the government-created financial crisis of 2007-2008, Millennials began to suspect that their elders did not know what they were doing. The nomination of Hillary and Trump and the election and presidency of Trump have convinced the young that their elders are complete idiots.
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Millennials are not a Republican voting block. When they come into their own, I expect things like healthcare and student debt will be properly taken care of, and I expect the issue of low wages will be taken more seriously as well. But as long as establishment Republicans and Democrats hold most of the power as they do now, this will not happen. I do not believe Millennials are going to be following in Ricky’s footsteps (gloating, name-calling, blaming those in economic distress, etc.) as they really seemed to love Bernie Sanders, and he had other types of solutions.
I also do not see Donald Trump as the beginning of a new era, rather he is the end of the old era. I do not mourn this even though it may indicate that things are about to change more radically than I am comfortable with. But sometimes, these things must be. It’s just another opportunity to see that God is in control in other ways that we are not accustomed to considering.
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We will see Debra. It all depends on whether most Millennials wind up viewing government as something that hands out goodies (the view of Democrats and Trumpers) or whether they have figured out that someone (probably the young) eventually has to pay for all that stuff.
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If Millennials end up hating government except for its ability to ‘hand out goodies’ to big business, then it would not be the end of the era–just a continuation of business as usual for establishment politics. Bernie Sanders is damaged goods now, but his campaign showed where political hope is coming from among Millennials and others. He managed to garner support without ever tapping large special interest groups with funding or Wall Street players. That has a lot of appeal to people who clearly see corruption in government, yet don’t see the neutering of government as a valid solution.
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Bernie is a classic Democrat. He promised to hand out more goodies. Trump’s promises were stranger and those you would expect from a con man. He promised to keep the existing goodies (Social Security and Medicare) flowing while magically fixing other issues with a giant free wall and repeal of decades of trade policy which had actually benefited all US consumers and tens of millions of workers.
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Then I would say the ‘classic Democrat’ who is not on the take is very appealing to Millennials.
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So who is GenForward, and why should I take them seriously or care what they think?
A Democrat group geared toward minorities.
And I don’t.
https://genforwardsurvey.com/about/about-genforward/
Try again.
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Ricky,
You also seemed to have missed that it’s only a survey of 1800 people, and as Debra mentioned, from a group who doesn’t vote R anyway. No surprise at all.
“The first of it’s kind bi-monthly survey of racially and ethnically diverse young
adultsDemocrats”I fixed it for ya’.
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It’s always amusing to project what a particular “generation” will do, how it will impact the nation, whether a generation is “good” or “bad.”
While there are trends tied to generations (especially the larger groups), they are products of their time and wind up pretty much like any other generation: a mix of good and bad influences on a society.
Theres nothing new under the sun, don’t forget.
But yes, I would agree that the so-called “Millennials” are strongly in line with the Sanders view of government. For now, anyway.
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OK, if we must — so speaking generations …
And now Generation Z
JANUARY 30, 2018 BY GENE VEITH
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2018/01/and-now-generation-z/
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For those who are interested, 1800 people is a large sample size for a poll. Most polls on which politicians, corporations and the press rely are of about 1000 people.
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Young people have not always voted for the Democrats. In 1980, the 18-25 year olds voted for Ronald Reagan. He appealed to the hopes and dreams of all Americans and to our better instincts.
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Most writers and politicians are not appealing to better instincts right now. They’re selling copy and outworn cliches seasoned liberally with outrage. The first party to wake up, come to their senses and address real issues constructively will be at the front of the line to take the presidency next time. Most seem content to remain in a stupor. That gives a slight edge to Republicans right now I think.
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Interesting article, DJ. So far so good, but it hasn’t got very far yet has it. Give us a few minutes and we’ll map out everything that can go wrong with them. :–) Some of my grandchildren are generation Z and the latest 2 will be a part of the as yet unnamed generation. My children also fell in between the crack of generational labeling, with 1 being Gen X and 3 Millennials. :–)
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The guest list says it all really.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/01/trump-and-democrat-sotu-guests-maga-vs-metoo-and-dreamers/
“Tonight, President Trump will give his first State of the Union address; we’ll have a live post on that later, so be sure to come back and share the fun. In the meantime, the guest lists for both the president and the Democrats have been released.
The contrast between those guests invited by the president and those invited by the tone-deaf Democrats is illuminating, speaking to the heart of the great political divide in our country. President Trump’s guests include law enforcement, first responders, and economists. The Democrats are bringing a bunch of DREAMers and some representatives of the dwindling #MeToo movement.
The White House released a list of invitees that includes military heroes, ICE and border control agents, the founder of the Cajun Navy, parents of children slaughtered by the brutal illegal alien street gang MS-13, and the organizer of the Flags and Flowers challenge, a movement dedicated to respecting veterans by placing flags and flowers on their graves.”
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“Democrats, on the other hand, have invited a slew of DREAMers, a handful of #MeToo activists, and people related to various Democrat causes.”
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And yet she’s still drawing a taxpayer pension despite her betrayal of voters.
http://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/corrine-brown-to-report-to-prison-by-noon/690892983
Still pretending she’s the victim as well.
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Looks like Ryan agrees with Trump and Nunes.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/30/paul-ryan-calls-to-cleanse-fbi-backs-surveillance-memo-release.html
“House Speaker Paul Ryan called Tuesday to “cleanse” the FBI as he openly backed the release of a controversial memo that purportedly details alleged surveillance abuses by the U.S. government.
“Let it all out, get it all out there. Cleanse the organization,” Ryan, R-Wis., said.
He added: “I think we should disclose all this stuff. It’s the best disinfectant. Accountability, transparency — for the sake of the reputation of our institutions.”
The striking remarks came at a breakfast with anchors and reporters ahead of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address; much of the session was off the record.
Ryan spoke on the record to address the controversy over the House Intelligence Committee voting late Monday to make public the surveillance memo.
Ryan said “we should disclose,” and “disclosure is the way to go.”
He said problems at the FBI and the Justice Department should be cleaned out, while “covering up mischief would be worse.””
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Missing? No ma’am. Ignoring. 🙄
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/01/29/mollie_hemingway_media_is_missing_something_huge_happening_at_fbi_doj.html
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before…..
Democrats pay another hack to bring baseless allegations against the President. And now they want to say it’s proof the Steele dossier is true because they shared info and it matched.
It’s like magic…….. or a desperate attempt by the brass at the FBI to change the subject.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/01/30/oh-fbi-working-second-trump-dossier/
“A second dossier relating to Russian “collusion”? Should Donald Trump be shaking in his boots? Naah, at least not from the description by The Guardian. But the FBI may have more questions to answer if this second dossier got used to legitimize their surveillance of Carter Page and the Trump campaign:
The FBI inquiry into alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 US presidential election has been given a second memo that independently set out many of the same allegations made in a dossier by Christopher Steele, the British former spy.
The second memo was written by Cody Shearer, a controversial political activist and former journalist who was close to the Clinton White House in the 1990s.
This could be potentially dangerous for Trump if it provides evidence for the allegations in the lurid Fusion GPS/Christopher Steele dossier on Trump and his campaign. However, it may be more likely that any correlation between the two is either coincidental or manipulated. The Fusion GPS effort began as a research project for the Free Beacon, but it later morphed into an oppo-research effort by the Hillary Clinton campaign. Steele came on board in that phase, with the former intel operative trying to find as much dirt as possible for a political campaign rather than evidence for a prosecution.”
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So who is the “author” of this latest piece of slime, and who do they work for?
Two guesses….
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/419131/meet-cody-shearer-strangest-character-hillarys-vast-left-wing-conspiracy-brendan
“And you thought Sidney Blumenthal was shady.
Few people have heard of Cody Shearer, the unsanctioned diplomat, private eye, and Clinton flunky whose name surfaced in connection with the so-called intelligence reports Sidney Blumenthal was channeling to Hillary Clinton during her time at the State Department. But this shadowy fixture of the Clinton machine was everywhere in the 1990s — including war-torn Bosnia, where he became the subject of a State Department investigation after he represented himself as an agent of the U.S. government and took cash from a genocidal warlord.
Now evidence suggests Shearer, working with his partner Blumenthal, was up to something similar during the 2011 revolution in Libya. And like in the 1990s, the Clintons were lurking on the margins. Much of the intelligence contained in memos fed to the Clinton State Department by Blumenthal was not just self-serving — it was provided by someone with a history of misleading foreign sources, misrepresenting himself as an agent of the U.S. government, and creating trouble for both himself and the United States abroad.
Though often described as a journalist, Shearer hasn’t written much since the 1980s. His work, like that of his father, Lloyd Shearer, the former editor of Parade magazine, was often gossipy and reputation-ruining. A series of columns the younger Shearer wrote on the sexual proclivities of former Texas senator John Tower sank his nomination for defense secretary in 1989.”
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I heard on Metaxas today that after the government shut down, Nancy Pelosi took all the Congresspeople who voted with her out to dinner on the US Government dime. Is this possible? Can anyone be that tone deaf?
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It appears to have happened Michelle. But who paid is a little sketchy.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/01/nancy-crumbs-pelosi-ripped-media-reports-taking-house-democrats-dinner-party-troops-pay-price-schumershutdown/
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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/22/pelosi-wines-and-dines-dems-swanky-dc-haunt-midst-/
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What is wrong with #MeToo activists? Is it that the particular ones invited are probably on the side of liberal Democrats, or is it because of the movement itself?
So many women – left, right, and in-between – have been adversely affected by sexual harassment at work, or in other situations. Women used to “just take it”, thinking they didn’t have any other choice if they wanted to keep their jobs.
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Here is the Guardian article.
It is interesting that the two dossiers both indicated that Russia had Trump under its thump because of lude acts he committed in a fancy Russian hotel in 2013. That is consistent with another story that came out right after Trump blabbed the classified information on ISIS terror plots we obtained from an Israeli spy to the Russian ambassador. Right before Trump’s inauguration, a senior CIA official told his Israeli counterpart that Russia had compromised Trump and that Israel should assume that any intelligence it gave to Trump might be passed on to Russia and wind up in the hands of Iran and Hezbollah.
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The initial story came out about the time of the Comey firing. This one has a little more detail.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-russia-putin-leverage-report-us-intelligence-official-latest-a8072726.html%3famp
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“What is wrong with #MeToo activists? ”
Nothing. But it’s entirely inappropriate for a SotU speech. And of course will be partisan by design. I doubt they’re bring Harvey’s or Bill Clinton’s victims. You know I’m right.
Besides, they already have their own venue to vent. Daytime TV and every award show out there.
It’s inappropriate, as is bringing illegal immigrants. Trump has already won that @#$%ing contest though. He’s bringing the families of victims of illegal alien criminals. Touche’
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Yeah Ricky, 🙄
It sure is interesting that 2 hit pieces set up by the same people would seem to corroborate each other. Almost like it was planned.
Because it was.
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And as always is the case with these hit pieces like the latest from the Guardian….
From your link…..
“The Guardian cannot verify any of the claims.”
And yet they print it anyway. And you keep falling for it.
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If “The Memo” has misspellings, random capitalizations and bad grammar, I think we will have our answer.
https://twitter.com/woodruffbets/status/958479719611150336
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Looks like Schiff will need a new narrative.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/30/fbi-officials-review-surveillance-memo-could-not-cite-any-factual-inaccuracies-source.html
“Two senior FBI officials have now reviewed a controversial Republican staff memo alleging abuses of government surveillance programs during the 2016 presidential campaign, a source familiar with the matter told Fox News – adding that the officials “could not point to any factual inaccuracies.”
The two officials – one from the bureau’s counterintelligence division and the other from the legal division – followed up after an initial review of the memo during a rare Sunday trip to Capitol Hill by FBI Director Christopher Wray.
The House Intelligence Committee voted late Monday along party lines to release the memo, prompting a backlash from Democratic lawmakers. Top Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff called it a “very sad day.” President Trump has five working days to review the contents but is widely expected not to block its release.”
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Poor babies. You built this, and now you’re gonna own it. Show a little pride in your work.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-fusion-letter/dossier-firm-says-u-s-senators-leaks-endanger-its-employees-idUSKBN1FI2OH?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5a6fd65304d30161be33b6c7&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
“The research firm behind the so-called Trump “dossier” accused U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley on Monday of endangering its employees by ignoring “multiple” requests not to publicly disclose their names.
In a letter to Grassley, which also criticized Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, lawyers for Washington-based Fusion GPS said the firm had twice reported unspecified “threats” to the police and had tried to keep its employees’ names confidential “because of well-founded concerns about their public safety.”
Fusion hired former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele to compile the “dossier” that included allegations about contacts between then-presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign, his advisers and Russia. The document has since become the focus of attacks by Trump and his supporters.
Fusion’s lawyers complained that the names of Fusion employees were publicly disclosed in six letters issued last week by Grassley and Senator Graham, a judiciary subcommittee chairman, although the company’s lawyers “on multiple occasions” had asked committee staff members to avoid doing so.”
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So if Putin did have leverage over Trump, what sort of actions might Trump take?
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Insurance policy?
http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/30/christopher-steele-gave-fbi-a-2nd-dossier-from-notorious-clinton-hatchet-man/
“Former British spy Christopher Steele gave the FBI a copy of a second dossier on Donald Trump, this one put together by a Democratic political operative who has been referred to as a “hatchet man” for the Clinton family.
The Guardian reports that Steele passed the so-called “Shearer memo” — compiled by Cody Shearer — to the FBI in October 2016. Steele, an ex-MI6 officer, had been given the document by an American contact who is unnamed in The Guardian report.
According to the newspaper, Steele told the FBI that he could not verify the information in the memo, but he said that he gave the bureau a copy because some of the information in it matched up with what he had reported in his own dossier.
Shearer has a long history with the Clintons, and his involvement in investigating Trump is likely to raise questions about his dossier’s impartiality.
“He’s a hatchet man for Hillary Clinton, not a sophisticated intel operative,” North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows told The Daily Caller of Shearer in response to The Guardian’s report.
Meadows, a Republican who has pressed the FBI and Justice Department for information regarding the Steele dossier, questioned the origins of the information in the Shearer memo.
“Did the information come from Hillary Clinton?” he asked.”
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Of course it did, since she paid for both.
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Charlie Sykes on the need to be open-minded in the search for truth:
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Haberman with an interesting article on Trump’s speech preparation. I think he is learning and getting better at his job. Debra is right about the decline in the number of moronic Tweets. I expect he will make a good speech tonight.
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AJ – Okay, I see your point. I thought the mention of the #MeToo women was somehow against the women themselves or the movement, but I see what you mean about the appropriateness – or lack thereof – of being invited to the speech.
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All things considered, the speech was not bad. The police officer and his wife and the baby adopted from the drug addicted mother was a nice touch. There were several of those. No horrible moments and not bad over all. Now the only question is should I ruin the positive effect by listening to the Democrats rebuttal….If I thought they had anything serious to offer, I would… Nah, there’s time enough for that tomorrow. I think I’ll just enjoy the evening. :–)
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