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Wednesday, October 16, 2019

The Ukraine Hoax Looks Like Russia Hoax Redux

Nancy Pelosi's statement yesterday regarding the ongoing Impeachment Theater made it pretty clear that the endgame is to try to tie Trump's consideration of withholding military aid to Ukraine to renewed allegations that Trump is doing Putin's bidding. That reflects the claim that Glenn Simpson (following others) will make in his book, which we reviewed in What Did Obama Know--And When?

After four years on his trail, the authors' inescapable conclusion is that Trump is an asset of the Russian government, whether he knows it or not.

I don't think there's any other way to interpret Pelosi's remarks:



It's a shockingly bankrupt strategy--both morally and strategically. Morally bankrupt, because it IS morally bankrupt to consciously  and cynically attempt to dupe the public in this way with patently false conspiracy theories. It's a bankrupt strategy because it's certain to backfire. 

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  1. The metaphor that comes to mind regarding roads Nancy Pelosi is traveling is the Hershey Highway? In other words, she's full of it...

    Their story was a bust, their narrative has failed, so the Dems now revert to the Big Lie repeated ad nauseum: "Whether he knows it or not, Trump is a Russian asset..."

    But it's Republican spouting conspiracy theories about the Bidens and Ukraine!!

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  2. >It's a bankrupt strategy because it's certain to backfire. <

    Sir this is ACME strategy guaranteed to produce "results".

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    1. Coyote will be along shortly to so demonstrate...

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  3. It boils down to criminalizing thought. So now a particular position on foreign policy can be prosecuted.

    So much for the voters running the country. Of course, they're going to find out (I hope) just out of touch they are with the majority.

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    1. It's a layered thing. The top layer masquerades as legalistic concerns, but just below that are policy differences (Russia v. Ukraine and many other matters that are involved in that). However, those policy differences hide big money interests which, in turn overlay major ideological agendas (Soros).

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  4. Mueller & Co tried like mad and failed to pin something on Trump without evidence. I think Schiff looked at that and thought, "Amateurs!" He's now taken on the role of prosecutor and is trying like mad to show those amateurs how it's done.

    The result is our newest comedy-drama, "Special Counsel 2.0: The Mulligan," starring Schiff as Mueller, Pelosi as Rosenstein, and with special guest The Whistleblower as Christine Blasey-Ford. Not a perfect fit, but pretty close. Like the rest of you, I don't see it ending any prettier for this sorry remake than it did for the original.

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  5. As Sundance would say "It's a big club and you ain't in it."

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  6. I was amazed of the amount of people the FBI spied on in the newest FISA report. Over 3 million.

    Rob S

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    1. 3 million isn't necessarily the number of people--it's the number of searches. Could be multiple searches on the same person. Still, lots. I'm surprised that they continued this through 2018. Part of it was pure sloppiness and lack of controls, but an unforgiveably large amount was undoubtedly deliberate. So, what's gonna happen to Wray? Any consequences? Is getting rid of him to politically risky for now?

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    2. Maybe in future years it'd be easier to report the number of Americans that the FBI DIDN'T spy on.

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