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Republican Trey Gowdy suggests deputy FBI director will be ousted by next week
Business Insider ^ | December 15, 2017 | Eliza Relman

Posted on 12/15/2017 4:43:55 PM PST by PJ-Comix

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To: Be Careful

Where is the pic of Gowdy in the Issa mounted trophy room?


61 posted on 12/15/2017 7:16:08 PM PST by Paladin2 (There is no credible evidence that 0sama is a NBC.)
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To: mass55th; Candor7

With or without absolute proof that the fictional Steele document was used to justify spying on candidate Trump, it is high time for all of us to begin using the correct term for what took place:

“coup d’etat” or “attempted coup d’etat”.

Thanks to General Flynn, Trump himself, Sessions and a whole lot of behind the scenes work over this long year, the real facts are coming out steadily like Chinese waterdrop torture. How can anyone think these daily reveals aren’t by design?


62 posted on 12/15/2017 7:17:07 PM PST by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine, education and our forests!)
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To: PJ-Comix

Well, “forced out” isn’t good enough. I’ll settle for jail time.


63 posted on 12/15/2017 7:29:37 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ( "Free men are not equal, and Equal men are not free".)
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To: Sivad

It may be the “quieter” questioners who accomplish the most.

Check this out, but be warned, it may, as the body language expert analyzing it says, make your skin crawl.

Body Language: Rosenstein Mueller Expansion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56pZkXXqWsA


64 posted on 12/15/2017 7:36:25 PM PST by Paul R. (I don't want to be energy free, we want to be energy dominant in terms of the world. -D. Trump)
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To: mass55th; Candor7

The question whether the dossier was used as the basis for the fisa warrant has been asked by Rep. Jordan (R- Ohio):

http://stillwatercourier.com/2017/12/10/fbi-director-defends-agency-against-trump-twitter-attack/

https://www.rt.com/usa/412383-trump-russia-dossier-fisa-warrant/


65 posted on 12/15/2017 7:44:48 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: PJ-Comix
Trump's style

I received this from a friend who occasionally writes letters to the editor of the Chicago Tribune which usually get published.

Trump's lack of decorum, dignity, and statesmanship:

My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t think his tweets are “beneath the dignity of the office.”

Here’s my answer:

We Right-thinking people have tried dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency.

We tried statesmanship. Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized “collegiality” as Ronald Reagan.

We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney?

And the results were always the same. This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.

I don’t find anything “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper” about Barack Obama’s lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the Democratic Party.. I don’t see anything “dignified” in lying about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover your tracks. I don’t see anything “statesman-like” in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy your political opponents and any dissent. Yes, Obama was “articulate” and “polished” but in no way was he in the least bit “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper.”

The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of the Children of the ‘60s. To them, it has been an all-out war where nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale. It has been a war they’ve fought with violence, the threat of violence, demagoguery and lies from day one – the violent take-over of the universities – till today. The problem is that, through these years, the Left has been the only side fighting this war. While the Left has been taking a knife to anyone who stands in their way, the Right has continued to act with dignity, collegiality and propriety. With Donald Trump, this all has come to an end. Donald Trump is America ’s first wartime president in the Culture War.

During wartime, things like “dignity” and “collegiality” simply aren’t the most essential qualities one looks for in their warriors. Ulysses Grant was a drunk whose behavior in peacetime might well have seen him drummed out of the Army for conduct unbecoming. Had Abraham Lincoln applied the peacetime rules of propriety and booted Grant, the Democrats might well still be holding their slaves today.. Lincoln rightly recognized that, “I cannot spare this man. He fights.”

General George Patton was a vulgar-talking, son-of-a-bitch. In peacetime, this might have seen him stripped of rank. But, had Franklin Roosevelt applied the normal rules of decorum then, Hitler and the Socialists would barely be five decades into their thousand-year Reich.

Trump is fighting. And what’s particularly delicious is that, like Patton standing over the battlefield as his tanks obliterated Rommel’s, he’s shouting, “You magnificent bastards, I read your book!”

That is just the icing on the cake, but it’s wonderful to see that not only is Trump fighting, he’s defeating the Left using their own tactics. That book is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals – a book so essential to the Liberals’ war against America that it is and was the playbook for the entire Obama administration and the subject of Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis. It is a book of such pure evil, that, just as the rest of us would dedicate our book to those we most love or those to whom we are most indebted, Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer.

Trump’s tweets may seem rash and unconsidered but, in reality, he is doing exactly what Alinsky suggested his followers do. First, instead of going after “the fake media” — and they are so fake that they have literally gotten every single significant story of the past 60 years not just wrong, but diametrically opposed to the truth, from the Tet Offensive to Benghazi, to what really happened on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri — Trump isolated CNN. He made it personal.

Then, just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule which Alinsky described as “the most powerful weapon of all.” ... Most importantly, Trump’s tweets have put CNN in an untenable and unwinnable position. ... They need to respond. This leaves them with only two choices. They can either “go high” (as Hillary would disingenuously declare of herself and the fake news would disingenuously report as the truth) and begin to honestly and accurately report the news or they can double-down on their usual tactics and hope to defeat Trump with twice their usual hysteria and demagoguery. The problem for CNN (et al.) with the former is that, if they were to start honestly reporting the news, that would be the end of the Democratic Party they serve.

It is nothing but the incessant use of fake news (read: propaganda) that keeps the Left alive. Imagine, for example, if CNN had honestly and accurately reported then-candidate Barack Obama’s close ties to foreign terrorists (Rashid Khalidi), domestic terrorists (William Ayers), the mafia (Tony Rezko) or the true evils of his spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright’s church. Imagine if they had honestly and accurately conveyed the evils of the Obama administration’s weaponizing of the IRS to be used against their political opponents or his running of guns to the Mexican cartels or the truth about the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the Obama administration’s cover-up.

So, to my friends on the Left — and the #NeverTrumpers as well — do I wish we lived in a time when our president could be “collegial” and “dignified” and “proper”? Of course I do. These aren’t those times. This is war. And it’s a war that the Left has been fighting without opposition for the past 50 years. So, say anything you want about this president - I get it - he can be vulgar, he can be crude, he can be undignified at times. I don’t care. I can’t spare this man. He fights for America!

66 posted on 12/15/2017 7:45:21 PM PST by Osage Orange (Watch your six.)
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To: ptsal; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

thanks, pt


67 posted on 12/15/2017 8:01:20 PM PST by bitt (The first to squeal gets the best deal.)
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To: PJ-Comix

I’ll be surprised if the Clintons let him live till next week.


68 posted on 12/15/2017 8:04:19 PM PST by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: Gahanna Bob

Federal employees have outstanding job security. There really is no reason for them to perform above their minimum capacity.


69 posted on 12/15/2017 8:28:35 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: Osage Orange; ptsal

excellent read, thanks!

see#66


70 posted on 12/15/2017 8:32:08 PM PST by bitt (The first to squeal gets the best deal.)
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To: bitt
Yep....

I thought it was spot on.....!

71 posted on 12/15/2017 8:58:14 PM PST by Osage Orange (Watch your six.)
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To: Brilliant
The damage is done.

Yes, but ultimately it will wind up being mostly to themselves.

72 posted on 12/15/2017 9:02:42 PM PST by AAABEST (Got Traditional Catholicism? - Angelqueen.org)
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To: Osage Orange

A truly outstanding post. One of the best I’ve ever read here. Thank you.


73 posted on 12/15/2017 9:36:07 PM PST by Empireoftheatom48 (God did help the Republic, can we keep it.)
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To: Be Careful

The “ankle biter” did a great job grilling Rosenstein on Wednesday, even without yelling.


74 posted on 12/15/2017 9:44:28 PM PST by EliRoom8
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75 posted on 12/15/2017 10:02:09 PM PST by KavMan
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To: Osage Orange

Bingo
Very good read #66


76 posted on 12/15/2017 10:04:21 PM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: Paladin2

Ousted, forced out, reassigned, and so on. You never hear fired for cause.


77 posted on 12/15/2017 10:15:42 PM PST by blackdog
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To: Paul R.

Thanks so much for that interesting video analysis.
I am not sure though if does a whole lot of good
if those who need to see it will see it and what
they could do with it anyway. Great entertainment
value. I would like to see a similar analysis when
Jordan and Gowdy are asking the questions of
Rosenweasel.

Again, Thanks


78 posted on 12/15/2017 11:03:36 PM PST by Sivad (NorCal red turf)
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To: realcleanguy

the FBI should be defunded and disbanded as worthless democratic party hacks. The whole lot of them are guilty—low level people knew what was going on and were silent. Clinton weaponized them as she did the State Department-to serve her needs.


79 posted on 12/15/2017 11:59:25 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Osage Orange

BTTT


80 posted on 12/16/2017 2:35:56 AM PST by Osage Orange (Watch your six.)
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