When a bomb explodes in the forest . . . Scandals and Stories ignored

Just a quick Wednesday morning post about a couple or three things that I find quite troubling. 

We see the beginning of a torrent of declassified material (which should never have been classified) showing conclusively that the Putin-Trump collusion hoax was cooked up and paid for by Hillary Clinton's campaign in 2016. The Director of the CIA at the time, the execrable John Brennan (may there be prison in his future), briefed the President of the United States at the time, the execrable Barack Obama (same wish for him), that the Hillary campaign was doing this to deflect from the growing email scandal that was threatening her bid for the Presidency. The Russians were aware, according to Brennan, that Hillary was doing this. The CIA automatically had referred the info to the FBI. Obama, therefore, knew it was a hoax; he and Biden not only remained silent, but went along with the fake probe into Trump-Putin collusion, and allowed the FBI to use the FISA to smear and destroy the lives of private American citizens and the power of the NSC and NSA to monitor and "unmask" the conversations of private Americans. The head of the FBI, the liar Jim Comey, also went along with all this, and ignored the intel on Hillary and, instead, "investigated" Trump! Obama and Biden knew all this and, it seems, Biden even suggested going after General Flynn with the Logan Act. Adam Schiff, head of the House Intel Committee, had this information and refused to share it with the Republicans. Robert Mueller had this information, too, but went ahead for nearly three years with a fake investigation. 

As anybody with any degree of intelligence knew from the start, it, therefore, was Hillary's campaign that hired foreign intel operatives to  draft the fake Steel Dossier. Yet, we are hearing almost nothing from the mainstream media. This is the greatest political scandal in American history. The mass media is almost completely silent on this.

Another scandal met by the sound of crickets: the rape of Tara Reade by Joe Biden. Only the Australian version of "60 Minutes" has carried the story in any depth. The US media continues to ignore her story.

Another: Burisma, the crooked Ukrainian energy company, has admitted in court paying Hunter Biden a lump sum of $900, 000. It is not clear for what purpose the son of the then-Vice Preisent got paid this money -- I think we can all guess that purpose with 100% accuracy. Any mainstream so-called journalists going to check this out? Anybody going to ask Joe?

Has anybody in the media noticed that peace is breaking out in the Middle East? The Saudis, as this humble blog long ago predicted, have come out and told the Palestinian Authority to take a hike. The Saudis, clearly, support the moves by Bahrain and the UAE to establish full diplomatic and economic relations with Israel. This is a major victory for President Trump and the USA, and further evidence of the growing coalition against Iran. Another story being ignored.

OK, waiting for the Veep debate.

"Plans" and "Bombshells"

An old Ashkenazi joke: "Do you to want to make God laugh? Just tell Him your plans." 

That little witticism keeps running through my mind as I survey our current socio-political plight. 

These past almost four years have proven momentous for our country and the West. We have seen a revolt against the Globalist Elite Deep State, and the corresponding mule-kick reaction from that entity, or to use Biden's absurd formulation re Antifa, that "idea." Britain, of course, produced the revolt of Brexit, this had to overcome fierce opposition, lamentations, and outright lies from that Elite and its minions in the media, most notably the execrable BBC. That Elite, although it lost at the ballot box, did not resign itself to accepting the popular will. Voting, you must understand, only counts when the Elite get the result the Elite want. After the vote, we saw and continue to see an effort in Britain to delay, obstruct, and entangle the Brexit process in a thicket of negotiations, regulations, and my perennial favorite, "international treaty obligations." As of now, it remains unclear whether the people of the UK can defeat their enemies, foreign and domestic, extricate themselves from the EU quicksand, and claim back sovereignty over their great country. We must listen for Heavenly peals of laughter.

A similar revolt has occurred in Brazil, where now a pro-West conservative populist governs to the great chagrin of the Brazilian and the international Global Elite/Deep State. I have dealt with the Brazilian foreign policy Deep State: a formidable bastion of leftist anti-Americanism and cliche-ridden Global Elite thinking. President Bolsonaro, who dares, wait for it, to put Brazil First, has had to endure a barrage of attacks, including from Sleepy Joe Biden threatening Brazil with dire consequences unless President Bolsonaro adopts the Global Elite's absurd "environmental" virtue signalling stance on the Amazon rain forest. In Mexico, an old-time Marxist has become President, and proven surprisingly realistic and more in touch with his own people than with the Elites; he, for one thing, realizes that the constant stream of undocumented people across Mexico is not good for, wait for it, MEXICO! He wants to put, wait for it, Mexico First! He even has established a good working relationship with--HORRORS!--Donald Trump. Say it ain't so, AMLO! Is He laughing?

Because of the America-centric nature and, frankly, American dominance of both legacy and social media, in the USA is where the battle between the established Elite and the people proves most pronounced and visible. As I have detailed at some length in prior postings, too many to list, the Deep State has refused to recognize the results of the 2016 election. Those results didn't match the plan's objectives. Hillary was "destined" to be Barrack 2.0, and to carry on the left's growing control of our institutions and life. Didn't happen. The reaction came in fierce. We now have incontrovertible evidence that, as any sentient being already knew, the Leftoid Elite planned a coup. Trump had to be removed from the scene by any means necessary, including blatant lies, widespread violence, and the unleashing of America's politicized intel agencies against him, a legitimately elected President. 

Thanks to recently released intel, we now know for just about dead certain that Hillary Clinton, with the support of the outgoing Obama misadminstration, cooked up the Russia collusion hoax; the DNC proceeded to pay for the fake Steele dossier, which relied on a Russian spy for the main portion of its "information." Comey's FBI ignored the "bombshell" intel on Clinton collusion with Russia, and instead launched an "investigation" to nail Trump for "colluding" with Russia. This horrid hoax received the full-throated support of the media, the Democrats in Congress, Hollywood, and the Twitter crowd all of whom suddenly were super-patriots defending our country from Russia. Right. Mueller where are you? Adam Schiff?

It was a brutal and stupid hoax, which only brutal and stupid people genuinely could believe; anybody with any sense knew that it made no sense for Putin to favor Trump. It was Hillary Clinton's hubby, for example, who made money from Russia, and Hillary who ceded to Russian interests throughout her term as SecState. Hillary, not Donald, was clearly the preferred candidate of the Russians. Despite the whole Trump-Putin collusion story falling apart, we continue to hear Democrat operatives, aka journalists, still refer to Putin's "support" for Trump. He laughs.

With that failure under their belts, the anti-Trump crowd moved on to Trump-Ukraine collusion! It wasn't the Russians, it was the Ukrainians! This new idiocy got far enough to have the House impeach Trump for a PHONE CALL with the newly elected President of Ukraine. As with the prior Russia hoax, it turns out, of course, that it was Democrats--the Kerry family, the Biden family--making money from the Ukrainians (and the Chinese). Another Heavenly laugh-fest when that Ukraine hoax fell apart.

We now have the ChiCom virus pandemic. A relatively mild disease by pandemic standards has become the weapon of choice to destroy the West's economy and promote the power of the tyrannical Global Elite. All over the world individual rights and freedoms have been trampled; economic activity, especially by the private sector, has ground nearly to a halt in a blizzard of alarming and deceptive "expert models" and "death counts." The power of governmental elites and leftist techno-billionaires has been enhanced tremendously. The plan? To keep us afraid, cowering at home, waiting for the government and politicized "science" to save us. 

This latest plan also includes getting rid of Trump by running the most fake candidate of any major U.S. political party, one impervious to certified "bombshell" revelations of corruption, malfeasance, and incompetence. Biden does not matter. He is just the stalking horse. That's the plan. We'll see . . . 

                                            Waiting to hear the results of the plan . . .

Conman Comey: America's Dirtiest Cop

In my nearly 34 years in the State Department I had many occasions in which I worked with the FBI. Except for one time (here), my experiences proved positive. I particularly enjoyed working with the FBI when I served at the US Mission to the UN in New York. Although many years have passed since then, I still do not feel comfortable discussing the nature of the work; suffice it to say, it was fun, legal, and done in the spirit of serving our country and allies by protecting them from some very bad guys. We worked closely, then, there, and elsewhere, with other US agencies and some genuinely excellent foreign ones. We never discussed domestic politics, including those of our foreign colleagues. I don't think any of us knew or cared how any other of us voted. It was just inconceivable that anybody's political preferences made any difference when working for the West. Good times. They seem so far, far away.

Back in those golden, olden days the FBI was universally recognized as the world's best law enforcement  and counterintelligence service. That is gone, thanks to the politicization of the FBI, aided and abetted by recruiting from our crap leftist universities and the emphasis on "diversity." To top it off, the FBI got saddled with a malicious, narcissist known as Jim Comey.

I have written a lot about Comey, and won't repeat it (you can see some of that here,  here, here). I watched what I could of his testimony before Graham's committee, and was, again, appalled by this man. He is a very polished liar; I am not a psychiatrist and don't play one on the internet, but there is something deeply wrong with this man. He lies with an incredible facility and never looks back. He has the most selective memory I have ever seen. Of critical events he has "no recall," but yet writes books and has a hagiographic HBO mini-series made about him based on his accounts of his doings. He adopts the pose of the moral arbiter, the super patriot, all the while using the great powers of the FBI to destroy innocent people's lives and conduct a coup against our democracy. He is disgusting beyond all bounds. 

Watch the testimony and you'll see what I mean.

First Debate: Rocky vs. Walter Mitty

OK, it's 2 am, I just got in after a long drive in torrential rain so don't hold me to anything I write here. If needed, I will deny ever stating any of it.

Went to Raleigh and with two of my sons watched the first presidential debate.

General observation: the organization of the debates does not fit the bill. Instead of holding the candidates to some arbitrary six sections of topics, controlled by a moderator, often biased or inept, let them debate. Have them ask each other questions! Have them give each other answers! DEBATE!

I will vote for Trump, as will the Diplowife and the Diplosons. I don't think this debate will have changed anybody's mind. If you favored Trump before, you most likely still do. If you favored Biden before, you most likely still do. In that regard the debate proved a draw but . . . a draw in long-run games such as world chess championships or the Tour de France can prove part of a strategy for winning, well, in the long-run. Maybe.

Very briefly: each contestant played his version of hard-ball. Trump clearly came off as the more aggressive and energetic; critics would say he came off as a bully--I'll come back to that. Biden generally held up well, and aided by the moderator, Chris Wallace, on occasion managed to get Trump a bit flustered. Both interrupted one another, and Biden even engaged in outright name-calling, to wit, calling Trump a "clown" and a "liar," and telling him to shut-up. These guys obviously don't like each other.

Trump did not give as strong a defense of his naming a SCOTUS justice in an election year as he could have. He started saying, in essence, he would because he could: he has the White House and the Senate, and the other side would do the same if the situation allowed it. Realpolitic, and all that. Fair enough, but not very "principled," I guess, for want of a better word at 2 am. Toward the end of his statement, he concluded how he should have started: the President has a four-year term, not a three-year term, and the Constitutional responsibility and power to nominate a Justice for consideration by the Senate does not end in the last year. Precedents exists in our history for such nominations in an election year.

I found Trump's defense of his COVID policy a bit confusing and not as strong as it should have proven. He, after all, has done what the "scientists" said, and even imposed a ban on travel to and from China before they said he should--certainly well before Biden came around to that position. He needs a much leaner, cleaner explanation and defense. Biden, for his part, still can't say what he would have done differently and of what his "plan" consists. Come on Joe, save our lives, reveal your plan! End the mystery.

Biden, who looked old and waxen, did not deal well with the story of his son Hunter's blatant corruption. It just doesn't cut it to keep repeating that the stories of Hunter's corruption and financial links to China, Russia, and Ukraine have been "debunked." Uh, no they haven't, Joe, no they haven't. Hunter's a drug-addled crook whom you aided via the vice presidency in getting rich.

The tax issue? Meh. If you actually read the NYT story--a gruesome endeavor which I undertook--it does not state what the headlines claim. Trump, in fact, paid millions in taxes; the infamous and much-ballyhooed $750 was in addition to the millions he already had paid in estimated taxes. Trump fumbled a bit with this, but I don't think it hurt him much.

Biden proved totally inept on the issue of law-and-order, and made an absurd statement/lie about Antifa not comprising an organization but an idea. He also got caught by Trump's demand to know what law enforcement groups had endorsed Biden. Couldn't do it. He needs to prep better on that issue.

The Trump as bully meme? Don't know; don't care. Let me state, however, that I don't want as my president some timid clerk-type afraid of his own shadow and unable to take on real bullies such as Putin and Xi. 

I don't want to go on too much longer. Let me note that Trump seemed playing the long game by getting Biden, in essence, to disavow his own party's platform. Biden would not endorse nor condemn calls to pack the SCOTUS. Even more startling, he dumped the Green New Deal to Trump's shout, "You just lost the radical left!" In any regular election that would prove a crucial development. 

The problem, however, that Trump faces--as do all who love America--is that the left knows that Biden is not a real candidate, but rather a delusional Walter Mitty. It doesn't matter what he says, including his boast that "I am the Democrat Party!" No, no, you are not. You are just chaff thrown out to confuse the radar and let the real bombers get in. You, sir, won't be the real President even if elected.

More later.

 

Wedding, BLM, and Latin Lives Matter!

Diplowife and I just returned from a pleasant weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina. Although many establishments remained on ChiCom virus "lock down," total or partial, or required face masks, enough functioned to give a taste of Charlotte's greatness. The three hour-plus drive from Wilmington runs though a lot of beautiful NC countryside and small towns. We still have no interstate all the way; I, selfishly, hope it remains that way. You, however, must watch your speed since dramatic drops in the posted limit occur as you approach some towns. 

American flags and Trump/Pence signs greeted us all along the route: I have no doubt of how rural North Carolina will vote.

We went for the Saturday wedding of a good family friend; our three sons served as groomsmen. We stayed in downtown Charlotte, although the event itself took place in a vineyard some 30 miles away. Having arrived in the city the night before, we wanted a good nearby restaurant, and asked the receptionist for a recommendation. A Caribbean immigrant, judging from her accent (see disclaimer below), she urged us to exercise care; a few days prior the neighborhood had suffered BLM violence, with "protestors" erupting into the hotel. She hoped things would stay quiet; the "protestors" who stormed the lobby had frightened her a great deal. 

Outside, indeed, we saw evidence of the "protests": broken and boarded windows, graffiti, and a portion of the street on one side of our hotel blocked. That blocked stretch of street displayed a bizarre BLM mural, and a four-foot, greenish, faux "Lady Liberty" statue standing on a two-foot pedestal, right fist raised, a noose holding the "scales of justice" dangling from her left hand, and an upside-down American flag draped over her back. About a dozen, maybe more, "protestors" milled about, including several obese white women, some wearing the standard SS-type black BLM/Antifa outfits. They left us two old reactionaries alone; the "activists" seemed more interested in taking pictures of themselves adopting faux "revolutionary" poses in front of faux "Lady Liberty." Clowns. Stupid ignorant clowns. Proud products of our faux universities.

We found a nice Brazilian restaurant and enjoyed an excellent dinner, even if the wait staff wore masks and gloves giving off a bit of an emergency room air. Our walk back to the hotel passed without incident, although a small number of bored-looking "protestors" still wandered around the BLM mural. They, again, ignored us . . . oh, in case you ask, and, ahem, just in case, I had my Springfield Armory 1911 EMP--a very good carry weapon.

The open-air wedding ceremony the next day had about 90 or so participants--no masks, no distancing, lots of handshakes, hugs, back slaps, and kisses. Nearly the entire group, including the groom, consisted of Venezuelans living in Florida. Officiating the nuptials, we had a pastor from a small town in Wales--one of my sons, a fanatic about and very accurate when it comes to accents, claimed the good Rev obviously had spent time in Northern Ireland because of how he pronounced certain vowels. I don't know what to say about that. I have little ear for accents--to my son's chagrin, I can't tell an Aussie from a Kiwi, or a Canadian from a Yank--but having watched a couple of Welsh police dramas on TV, at least I thought he sounded Welsh. I kept looking for subtitles to appear when he spoke, but dim. 

All had a good time. Your humble correspondent filled the role for which God has him on earth: sitting at a table, watching over the purses and the shawls of the ladies cavorting on the dance floor. 

The ENTIRE wedding crowd proved fanatically pro-Trump. One very smart young Venezuelan-American told me, "Do brown lives matter? Do Latin lives matter? I don't hear those protestors saying that!" He would vote Trump, needless to say, but said anyhow.

Back in Wilmington, my own presidential debate prep has begun: you know, buying popcorn and pizzas. I will head to Raleigh to watch that debate with two Diplosons. In the absence of decent stand-up comedy these days, the Trump-Biden rumble will have to do.

Hunter "of Millions" Biden Becomes the Prey

The majority report put out jointly by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the Senate Committee on Finance (text here), "Hunter Biden, Burisma and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns," makes for some disturbing reading. We should congratulate the authors for writing so well, and digging out lots of information despite the failure to cooperate and other obstruction by former Obama officials.

I won't summarize the report in any detail; you can read it and weep on your own.

 Let me, however, state that the report does show the Biden family as avaricious and highly corrupt. Hunter, the drug-addicted and ne'er-do-well son of Joe Biden, showed no hesitation in using his last name to secure megabuck deals with the corrupt Burisma corporation in Ukraine, and to get millions from corrupt Ukrainian and Russian oligarchs. State Department officials, named in the report, warned the Department and the Vice President's office that Hunter's activities lent, at a minimum, the appearance of a "conflict of interest" given that Vice President Biden served as the point man for Obama on Ukraine (and China). 

I found even worse than his dealings with Ukraine and Russia (Mueller and Schiff, call your offices), Hunter's dealings with the Chinese. These included setting up the sale of a US company that manufactured military technology to a CCP/PLA-controlled firm; getting billions (yes, with a 'b') from the Chinese to invest in the US; and even getting the Chinese to set up a large checking account (of at least $100,000) for unrestricted use by himself as well as by his uncle and others of the Biden clan. Hunter Biden, of course, traveled with his dad on Air Force 2 to China where he pursued his lucrative deal-making.

Veep Biden and SecState Kerry, aware of these activities, did nothing to prevent them, turning a blind eye when not facilitating the needed USG permissions for certain sales. 

I think this report has scratched the surface. 

If we dig a bit deeper, we will find much more corruption. The mass media, of course, either ignore the report, try to make it appear a baseless GOP hit job, or state that nothing directly links Joe to the corruption. Right-o, boys.

I understand Senator Paul has forwarded the report to the DOJ recommending further action. Good.

RBG, RIP

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at the age of 87. I express my condolences to her family and friends. May she rest in peace.

You can go to all sorts of media stories about her life, so I won't bother going over it all. 

Her death unleashes yet another political firestorm in a year in which it was hard to imagine yet another political firestorm. We will see a battle over whether President Trump should or should not name a replacement for RBG. The Dems will wheel out the tired arguments about not naming a Justice during an election year--unless, of course, a Democrat is in the White House. The Republicans, I hope, will cite RBG herself,

When asked if the Senate should consider then-President Barack Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, Ginsburg said, “That’s their job,” the New York Times reported. “There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the president stops being president in his last year,” Ginsburg added.

So, do the head count, if the Senate votes exist, then move on. Let the Dem mob riot in the street, that's what they do best.

Now, let's turn to RBG herself. 

We see her held up as an icon, described--even by President Trump--as "amazing." We have a true intellectual giant such as Meghan Markle, the Royal High Grand Duchess of Cupcakes and NetFlix or whatever, telling us mortals, from her mega-mansion on the California coast, that RBG, “has been a true inspiration to me since I was a girl. Honor her, remember her, act for her.” 

Yeah, right . . . as if Her Royal Cupcakeness had heard of RBG before some PR flack wrote that blather for her. No word from defrocked Prince Harry as to whether RBG inspired him to become a little girl . . .

OK, fine, but, sorry, at the risk of seeming cruel and uncouth, might we ask for proof of that judicial greatness? 

I see lots of puff pieces and hagiographies, e.g., here, but they come off rather skimpy when listing her achievements as a Justice. 

OK, I got it: she favored killing unborn children and "promoting" women, but other than that? What?

Just a thought.