Posted on 01/29/2018 6:44:58 PM PST by bitt
Very good points. I'm going with you on history books. The press has to cover it live; the man's words can't be filtered; and cannot be twisted until after he's finished speaking. By then, we will have heard him. Great expectations here.
For instance, I pointed out to my family that there are supposedly lots of indictments already prepared. But we have no way of knowing and there is too much chance that the rumor is simply the result of wishful thinking.
It’s good to start with the things that we “know”. For instance, (1)there is a four page memo which the Dems clearly do not want to see the light of day. (2) The MSM didn’t even mention it until it was clear that it would not go away. (3) McCabe has left the FBI.
Things we don’t know: (1) are the contents of the four page memo truthful, (2) why did McCabe resign? Speculation had been that Wray ushered him out due to the memo, but people on this thread think it might be due to the IG report that has now been cancelled.
Call it all the “fog of war”.
At any rate, the decision to release the four-page memo is now up to the President, and I believe he will make the right choice. Should the Democrat's memo also be released? I would say yes; why not?
What if the MSM isn't just ignoring the scandal, but part of the scandal. What if they have been complicit in working with corrupt FBI agents to overthrow the duly elected government.
My guess is he didn’t want to step on the SOTU news cycle. I agree. His report deserves its own day.
Shredders humming at fill speed. Delete buttons breaking on keyboards from overuse, and hundreds of cell phones at the bottom of the Potomac.
“I know.....it’s maddening.”
There’s a reason the saying “There are none so blind as those who will not see” is a saying.
When something interesting is at the forefront, we naturally focus on that to the exclusion of everything else. The press has done that with incessant "Russia Russia Russia" and "obstruction." But that set of issues is not the only thing going on, and in the scheme of things, my sense it is relatively "unimportant."
I think it is "unimportant" (not the best word for the notion I have in mind) because Trump is positioned to win that battle. His defensive forces have positioned very well around the perpetrators of the Hillary exoneration and framing of Trump. Those perps include the press. Those issues are a big deal, so important in the usual sense, but since Trump is positioned to come out on top, he can work on other things.
Sessions has been working without interference. He's done quite a bit. Just because the public is unaware of what he and the DOJ have done doesn't mean nothing is going on. Obama's Lynch placed reams of dirty practice and policy in place. Not all of it was the false framing of Trump.
Obviously if Trump failed to dispel the false framing (or the correlated false obstruction charge) he would be toast, and what I characterize as "relatively unimportant" is converted to existential threat.
Either way (the false framing is dispelled by sunlight, or the false framing persists by the same tool that created it, secrecy), I don't see Sessions as a necessary or even beneficial warrior against the false framing. Other warriors are well capable of dispatching the enemy on that front.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I too am optimistic about the direction of government, for the first time in probably 20 years, maybe ever!
Regarding cherry picked.
Actually, there was profiling. A profile was created to determine which most damning facts were to be included in the memo.
Worse yet, there was blatant discrimination. the truly damning facts were included while the less damning facts were left out.
“Darn it all! I wanted him to be really FIRED...as in “ leave the building now, no bennies for you, no golden parchute for traitors.”
It’s ok. It’s tough to spend those benefits in prison.
Doesn’t surprise me at all. If you’re not first and foremost a political animal, you’re not going to succeed in Washington DC - Democrat or Republican.
Q: What's the difference between the Mob and the FBI?
A:The Mob is privately funded. The FBI is funded by taxpayers.
Any black suspects are going to immediately play the race card hard and heavy - we could have Fergusons breaking out everywhere.
See this thread:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3627328/posts
(See my tagline)
When I see trusted people like Congressman Steve King telling us to be patient, I listen.
You mean like Mule-ears, Rosenweasel, Obie from Nairobi and Hitlery?
Don't be a "popinjay".
you always have to cut people slack about spelling since some of our devices are “sure” that we didn’t really mean that word!
That's what the preview button is for.
Whatever.
That doesn't stop them from being facts, unless the RATs can prove them to be false.
Time to stock up on .223 ammo? The arrest warrants would be welcomed, but civil unrest, not so much. Then again, there's been a ton of (illegal) civil unrest over the past year or so.
So, when a newspaper cherry-picks the facts to paint a one-sided narrative, that doesn't concern you?
In my opinion, Inspector General Horowitz canceled because he has found new and incriminating evidence in the text messages of the two lovers’ phones. Also, he might have obtained the texts from McCabe’s phone and found new and incriminating evidence in them.
In either or both cases, he needs more time to analyze and investigate, then add this new info to his report.
But I reserve the right to be wrong.
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