Posted on 07/14/2018 5:46:02 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Todays Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Hollywood continues its slow death spiral. Actress Scarlett Johansson became the latest victim in the lefts war on women on Friday, and hardly anyone noticed. Johansson had been cast to play a transgender character in a film tentatively titled Rub and Tug which had been lined up to begin filming in 2019. In taking the role, Johansson would have added her name to a long list of heterosexual actors who have played such roles in movies.
But the radical left LGBTQ movement decided to make an example of Johansson, taking to social media to protest the fact that the role had not been awarded to an actual transgender person. The answer why is obvious to any thinking person: Ms. Johansson is a name celebrity whose presence in the film would help ensure it would be profitable. This is not exactly rocket science its how the movie business works.
Without a name actress who would draw crowds to theaters in the role, it is in fact unlikely the movie will even be made. But the activists would rather kill he film than see this extremely leftist actress get the role.
So how far are the activists willing to take this particular principle? Will they demand the recasting of the role of the gay character Cam Tucker in the sitcom Modern Family, which has been hilariously played by heterosexual actor Eric Stonestreet since 2009? And will they ultimately, for authenticys sake, demand that all hetero roles be played by non-gay actors? If not, why not, other than the obvious answer that it would mean that certain prominent closeted actors would never work again?
While transgender actors complain that they cant even get auditions to play heterosexual roles, killing film projects like this one seems like a pretty poor way of increasing their chances. In announcing her withdrawal from the role, Ms. Johansson said According to GLAAD, LGBTQ+ characters dropped 40% in 2017 from the previous year, with no representation of trans characters in any major studio release. Gosh, I wonder why?
How does Rod Rosenstein still have his job, Part 9,453. Infamous girlfriend of FBI Super Duper Agent and apparent disciple of Satan Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, was grilled behind closed doors in a deposition by the House Judiciary Committee on Friday. Apparently, she offered up Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as one of her sacrifices, at least if this tweet from Congressman Mark Meadows is accurate:
Mark Meadows ✔ @RepMarkMeadows Remarkably, we learned new information today suggesting the DOJ had not notified Lisa Page of Congress' outstanding interview requests for over 7 months now. The DOJ/FBI appear to be continuing their efforts to keep material facts, and perhaps even witnesses, from Congress.
5:25 PM - Jul 13, 2018 16.4K 10.5K people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy Back story: On January 4, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes reached an agreement that DOJ and the FBI would provide seven witnesses in the coming weeks to testify before Nunes Committee. Of course, Rosenstein also laughably committed in this deal to provide the Intel Committee access to all documents relevant to its investigation, a commitment on which the Deputy AG has continued to stonewall.
Well, it turns out that Rosenstein also had no intention of providing the agreed-to witnesses, at least if Meadows tweet is accurate. Which is no surprise, given that Rosensteins strategy all along has obviously been to keep the congressional investigations at bay until the mid-term elections have come and gone in the hopes that the Democrats will win control of the House, allowing Democrat committee chairmen to kill the investigations entirely. Which they will do, make no mistake about it.
Meanwhile, reports cropped up again on Friday that Meadows and fellow Freedom Caucus leader Jim Jordan are leading an effort to submit impeachment filings on Rosenstein as soon as next week. If such an effort had the buy-in from Speaker Paul Ryan, it would be meaningful, but without Ryans support and commitment to whip the vote in its favor, its just one more futile gesture by members of the feckless and toothless Republican House majority.
You could see in their body language and facial expressions during their recent testimonies before the House Judiciary Committee that both Rosenstein and Strzok believe they are above the law and completely safe from any punitive action related to their behavior.
There are two competing bodies of thought that would explain these two apparently bad actors behavior and attitudes:
- Rosenstein has been working diligently behind the scenes with AG Jeff Sessions and DOJ IG Michael Horowitz to get at the truth with Strzok as a cooperating witness who has been given immunity and are planning to unleash hell at the real bad actors once the final Horowitz report becomes public, all with President Trumps full knowledge and cooperation; or
- Rosenstein and Strzok know that Sessions is hopelessly corrupt or compromised and will never take any action against them, meaning this ongoing farce will just continue for another 2 or 6 years, until a new president can come into office and cover it all up. I have wanted to believe scenario #1 above, and have even bought into it in some instances because it has seemed to make sense. But the longer this all lingers on and the more of Rosensteins stonewalling and outright deception become publicly revealed, the less probable that first line of thought appears to become.
The news on Thursday that Strzok still has his FBI security clearances in place two weeks after Sessions publicly claimed they had been revoked doesnt help much, either.
The bottom line is this: If Sessions, Rosenstein, Horowitz and President Trump truly have been executing some grand Machiavellian scheme to ultimately bring all the Obama-era bad actors to justice, theyd better get to the end game very quickly. Because if youre in danger of losing people like me, youre in danger of losing everything.
Just another day in this crap has gone on long enough America.
That is all.
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It'a not time yet. It is too far from November.
I have a mental image of Uncle Sam in an intensive care bed. Hovering over him with a pillow, looking a lot like Rosenstein, is a character representing the Swamp. Asleep in the visitor’s chair, chin on chest, is Jeff Sessions.
(Ben Garrison. Are you reading? You have my permission to use this, rights free.)
The incredible shrinking AG.
Whatever happened to Attorney General Jeff Sessions hiring Utah’s top federal prosecutor, John Huber, to investigate a cluster of Republican-driven accusations against the FBI in March of 2018. Jeffy also decided that no second special counsel is needed yet..
This really fell off the radar. WHY?
Rosensteins strategy all along has obviously been to keep the congressional investigations at bay until the mid-term elections have come and gone in the hopes that the Democrats will win control of the House”
We all know this so it is madness to allow to hm to remain as the de facto AG with all the power. He can do so much damage that he can almost insure the Rats get the House remove this evil prick before it’s too late.
The FBI unit in Little Rock also seems to be in hibernation.
Is that Little Rock team headed by a McCabe fan?
They are now letting Mueller interfere with Trump’s foreign policy. It is getting out of control.
Exactly. Trump, Sessions & Co. are going to lower the boom bigly.
Maybe Trump is planning a special October surprise.
I agree
Drain the damn swamp already!!
Congress should call Rosenstein in under oath and ask him if Sessions has been compromised, threatened with prosecution by Rosenstein or Mueller.
I want to know yes or no.
But I don’t think Repubs will do anything with mid terms.
would be nice if they even had a beginning game- seems they are paralyzed by fear or opposition to this president
You could have snipped out the bit about the LGBTQueers pressuring the straight actress to give up her movie role. It was completely non sequitur to this article.
There’s no rule saying you must excerpt from the top.
The game never started. Sessions recused himself a year and a half ago.
And Sessions has left Rosenstein in charge of stonewalling all Deep State matters.
There is no "Trump, Sessions & Co."
The President has indicated this a multitude of times via Twitter, but Freeqers choose to believe the droppings of an anonymous internet poster instead.
Off the radar is a much better place to do the necessary work. There is bright neon target for the MSMleft to fire at.
LOL
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