Monday, March 25, 2019
Michael Goodwin: If Hillary were a better person she would apologize and acknowledge Trump's legitimacy, should be shunned until she does
In a better world, or if she were a
better person, she would apologize and publicly acknowledge Trump’s
legitimacy. I won’t hold my breath. But until she does, she should be shunned in public life. She has no
credibility to speak on any issue or endorse any candidate. She has put
the nation through hell all because she lost an election she should have
won. Let’s remember, too, that her campaign actually did work with
Russians, through FusionGPS and British agent Christopher Steele, to
create a fictional scenario about Trump being compromised. ...
It
was, after all, the Clinton-financed Russian dossier that formed the
basis of the FBI investigation launched by the disgraced James Comey
that summer. How did that happen? How did a partisan dirty trick result in an FBI probe of the other party’s presidential candidate? And how did so much classified information leak, including the names
of Trump associates picked up incidentally on wiretaps? Who in the Obama
White House broke the law?
These and other questions deserve at least as much scrutiny as Clinton’s false claims.
As Trump said Sunday, “This was an illegal takedown that failed. And
hopefully, somebody’s going to be looking at the other side.”
Amen to that.
The KGB refused to let the FBI examine its servers, so there can never be peace
The Democrat Party is the biggest threat facing America.
David Axelrod still pretends that the Russian hack of the DNC servers is a solid fact when it's not
Matt Taibbi knows better ("Russiagate is WMD times a million" is the original html), Axelrod's the hack:
I didn’t really address the case that Russia hacked the DNC, content
to stipulate it for now. I was told early on that this piece of the
story seemed “solid,” but even that assertion has remained un-bolstered
since then, still based on an “assessment”
by those same intelligence services that always had issues, including
the use of things like RT’s “anti-American” coverage of fracking as part
of its case. The government didn’t even examine the DNC’s server, the
kind of detail that used to make reporters nervous.
LOL CNN's Brian Stelter: Who me? I had nothing to do with this! Look at all the solid reporting!
CNN has been nothing so much as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith defending transubstantiation in its promulgation of the Trump-Russia collusion narrative for the last two years.
Sunday, March 24, 2019
The next two years will be nothing but the sound of the media's excuses for getting Russiagate wrong
Which will be nothing but the flip side to Hillary's excuses for two years for losing Election 2016.
All we ask for is integrity and competence . . . all we get is mendacity and excuses.
Trump's Chair of the Council Economic Advisors, Kevin Hassett, wants to DOUBLE the number of immigrants into the US
David Bossie: An ‘America First’ immigration policy looks like this [no, it doesn't, Mr. Citizens United]:
As President Trump’s Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors
Kevin Hassett pointed out in a 2013 paper for the American Enterprise
Institute, the United States could add half a percentage point to
economic growth by doubling the number of immigrants it lets into the
country, especially if they come on employer-sponsored visas. President
Trump’s chief economist continues to make the case that "for a country
that has long thought of itself as a nation of immigrants, the U.S.
falls far behind almost all the other countries in the number of
immigrants it admitted relative to its population size.”
New Zealand fools evacuate concert over someone's "right wing tattoo" while drinking Confederate bourbon distilled by Germans
Meanwhile German carmakers accounted for 9.3% of New Zealand auto sales in 2018, including 4,048 Volkswagens, Hitler's people's car.
Matt Taibbi: The press has now handed Trump the mother of campaign issues heading into 2020
It's official: Russiagate is this generation's WMD:
The Russiagate era has so degraded journalism that even once “reputable” outlets are now only about as right as politicians, which is to say barely ever, and then only by accident. Early on, I was so amazed by the sheer quantity of Russia “bombshells” being walked back, I started to keep a list. It’s well above 50 stories now. As has been noted by Glenn Greenwald of the Intercept and others, if the mistakes were random, you’d expect them in both directions, but Russiagate errors uniformly go the same way. ...
Nothing Trump is accused of from now on by the press will be believed
by huge chunks of the population, a group that (perhaps thanks to this
story) is now larger than his original base. As [Peter] Baker notes [in the New York Times], a full
50.3% of respondents in a poll conducted this month said they agree with Trump the Mueller probe is a “witch hunt.” ...
The biggest thing this affair has uncovered so far is Donald Trump
paying off a porn star. That’s a hell of a long way from what this
business was supposedly about at the beginning, and shame on any
reporter who tries to pretend this isn’t so. ...
CNN
told us Trump officials had been in “constant contact” with “Russians
known to U.S. intelligence,” and the former director of the CIA ["former" communist John Brennan], who’d
helped kick-start the investigation that led to Mueller’s probe, said
the President was guilty of “high crimes and misdemeanors,” committing
acts “nothing short of treasonous.” ...
[N]ews outlets once again swallowed a massive disinformation campaign,
only this error is many orders of magnitude more stupid than any in the
recent past, WMD included. Honest reporters like ABC’s Terry Moran
understand: Mueller coming back empty-handed on collusion means a “reckoning for the media.” Of
course, there won’t be such a reckoning. (There never is). But there
should be. We broke every written and unwritten rule in pursuit of this
story, starting with the prohibition on reporting things we can’t
confirm. ...
The Russiagate era has so degraded journalism that even once “reputable” outlets are now only about as right as politicians, which is to say barely ever, and then only by accident. Early on, I was so amazed by the sheer quantity of Russia “bombshells” being walked back, I started to keep a list. It’s well above 50 stories now. As has been noted by Glenn Greenwald of the Intercept and others, if the mistakes were random, you’d expect them in both directions, but Russiagate errors uniformly go the same way. ...
We’ve become sides-choosers, obliterating the concept of the press as an
independent institution whose primary role is sorting fact and fiction.
Ten shit-hole rivers in Asia and Africa responsible for 90% of plastic polluting the world's oceans
Seven of the ten are communist with Chinese characteristics:
Yangtze River, China (1.5 million tonnes annually and worst offender)
Hai he River, China
Yellow River, China
Mekong River, China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam
Pearl River, China and Vietnam
Indus River, China, India and Pakistan
Ganges River, India and Bangladesh
Amur River, Russia and China
Nile River, eleven countries including Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya
Niger River, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Benin and Nigeria
Just 10 rivers carry 90% of plastic polluting the oceans
Saturday, March 23, 2019
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