Posted on 07/29/2020 5:14:28 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Let’s make a deal. – Here’s an idea: Let’s trade Portland and Seattle to China in exchange for Hong Kong and a player to be named later. Everybody involved would be happier. Think about it.
Wait. I thought these were “peaceful protests”??? – In a perhaps unconscious display of exactly how deceitful and despicable he and his fellow Democrats truly are, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler – along with a member of the city commission – requested a sit-down with Department of Homeland Security leadership “to discuss a ceasefire and removal of heightened federal forces from Portland.”
From a piece by KGW8 TV in Portland:
Monday evening’s statement is a turnabout for Wheeler, who previously said he wouldn’t meet with DHS Acting Secretary Chad Wolf even if he was invited.
Wheeler had a phone conversation with Wolf two weeks ago. He said he wanted federal officers off Portland streets, and then “asked him to clean up the graffiti on local federal facilities.”
Hardesty, a longtime police reform advocate, has also denounced federal officers being in Portland. She has also been critical of Wheeler’s leadership during the protests, even going as far as telling the mayor, who is also the police commissioner, that if he “can’t control the police, give me the Portland Police Bureau.”
Monday’s request also comes as reports indicate more federal officers are on their way to Portland. Oregon Public Broadcasting and the Washington Post reported President Donald Trump’s administration has deployed an additional 100 federal officers to protect federal buildings in downtown Portland, including the federal courthouse which has been the epicenter of nightly protests.
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ummmm…does anyone else see the multiple inconsistencies here? First, if the protests are “peaceful” as Wheeler, his fellow Democrats and their corrupt toadies in the national news media like to claim, why is there any need for a “ceasefire”? Doesn’t the term “peaceful” imply that no hostilities are taking place?
Second, Wheeler, the Democrats and their corrupt media toadies continue to claim that these “peaceful protests” are entirely organic events with no organizing entities overseeing them and funding them. If that is the case, then how can anyone – much less Wheeler – claim to represent these unorganized, organic protesters?
Here is what is really happening here: The polls are starting to turn on the Democrats as more and more Americans are able to see video of the extremely violent riots that have been ongoing in Portland for more than 60 straight days now. The TV news operations continue to refuse to air those videos, but thanks to the work by real, working journalist Andy Ngo and others, millions and millions of Americans have been able to now see what is really taking place through social media channels.
As I have repeatedly pointed out, Democrats make literally every decision based on polling and focus groups, and they view the staging and funding of violent and destructive riots as just another tool in their toolbox of political tactics. Thus, these riots are fine with them until the polls start to go bad, as they are now finally doing. This is why the talking points suddenly switched late last week from outright denying that any violence was taking place to now attempting to blame all of the violence on the presence of federal personnel who are there to prevent the rioters from burning down the federal courthouse.
So, Wheeler now becomes the party’s point man in finding a semi-graceful way out, and a negotiation of a “ceasefire” is the new political tactic of the day. Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf should simply inform Wheeler that his personnel will continue to do their jobs until the Portland police either get control of the situation themselves, or request the National Guard to come in and clean it all up.
There can be no compromise with Marxist insurrectionists, which is what the rioters and Wheeler himself are.
This supercut retweeted by President Trump this morning is fantastic:
A Barr bombshell goes largely unnoticed. – While the focus of coverage of the hearing yesterday is properly on the outrageous behavior of the committee Democrats, the single most important moment to me came during the exchange between Mr. Barr and Ohio Republican Jim Jordan.
That exchange included Mr. Barr informing Jordan that, in addition to the ongoing Durham investigation into the origins of Obamagate, he has yet another U.S. attorney in Texas looking into the rampant illegal unmasking effort targeting U.S. citizens that took place throughout the Obama Administration’s 8 long years in office.
Watch the clip – the key exchange takes place starting at the 1:27 mark:
Transcript:
Jordan: 38 people unmasked Michael Flynn’s name 49 times in a 2-month time frame. Seven people at the Treasury Department unmasked Michael Flynn’s name. Is this an issue that Mr. Durham is looking into?
Barr: I’ve asked another U.S. attorney to look into the issue of unmasking. Because of, you know, the high number of unmaskings, and some that do not readily appear to have been in the line of normal business.
Jordan: [Clearly surprised by this information] Wait, wait, I want to be clear. So there is another investigation specific to that issue that is ongoing at the Justice Department right now?
Barr: Yes.
Jordan: Wow, that’s great. So, Mr. Durham is looking at how the whole Trump/Russia thing started, you have another U.S. attorney – can you give us that U.S. attorney’s name? Is that something you’re comfortable doing, or…
Barr: John Bash of Texas.
Jordan: John Bash of Texas is looking specifically at the fact…
Barr: …at unmasking…
Jordan: …38 people, 49 times, unmasked Michael Flynn’s name, and probably other unmaskings that took place in the final days of the Obama/Biden administration. Is that accurate?
Barr: Actually, a much longer period of time.
Jordan: Even before that.
Barr: Yes.
Jordan: Thank you, Mr. Barr, I appreciate that. That is information that the Committee did not know.
[End]
Boom.
So, why does this matter? I have written several times in the past about the fact that Obama’s final NSA Director, Admiral Mike Rogers, was that rarest of rare animals in the Obama administration: A true American patriot.
It was Admiral Rogers who first informed then-President-elect Trump that he and his transition team were being spied upon just days after the 2016 election. Rogers discussed that reality with Mr. Trump at Trump Tower, where the transition team was being housed. The very next day, Trump moved his team out to one of his New Jersey golf resorts where it remained until the inauguration.
Rogers had discovered the fact that Obama officials had used contractors working for the FBI and the various intelligence agencies to abuse the unmasking process, most likely going all the way back to 2009, through the use of many thousands of search queries into the NSA database. Upon making that discovery, Rogers immediately banned contractors from accessing that system, which was the reason why, from that point forward, you see Obama deploying all manner of his own officials at odd places like the Treasury Department, his UN Ambassador Samantha Power, his National Security Director Susan Rice, and even Vice President Joe Biden doing the unmaskings themselves.
NSA director Mike Rogers's remarkable comments about Trump's ...
Admiral Mike Rogers
We have also known for a couple of years now that this illegal spying was not limited to the Trump Campaign and Transition Team. The same was done to Republican presidential contenders Ben Carson, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, and even to Democrat/Communist Bernie Sanders and his campaign. Indeed, this systematic and illegal abuse of the NSA database by contractors spying on domestic political enemies goes all the way back to Obama’s first year in office.
That, friends, is what U.S. Attorney John Bash of Texas is looking into.
So now the Democrats and their disgustingly corrupt toadies in the news media have one more target to demonize.
Isn’t it glorious?
That is all.
actually the Bash appointment was announced late May.https://www.foxnews.com/politics/barr-asks-us-attorney-john-bash-to-review-unmasking-before-and-after-2016-election-doj-tells-fox-news
“...he has yet another U.S. attorney in Texas looking into the rampant illegal unmasking effort targeting U.S. citizens that took place throughout the Obama Administration’s 8 long years in office. “
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This is the real reason Barr is before committee circuses.
Attempted intimidation of an AG right before your eyes... all for the sake of protecting the great leftist warriors who tried to bring down Trump
This may be why the dem/media complex has ramped up attacks on Barr and the DOJ (and Trump). Four more years of Trump may see some indictments, finally.
Anyway, that is my fantasy.
The only bombshell would be a seated Grand Jury or sealed indictments.
wheeler joined the riot to get himself a whiff of tear gas so he could blame the feds of gassing an innocent mayor. He bears full responsibility for the murders, rapes, thefts, arson and destruction.
Bkmrk
If Wheeler wants a cease fire between protestors and the feds, he just needs to put his police in between them and let them take the heat. If they can keep the “protestors” away from federal property then the feds have no reason to act.
They would appreciate the rest and over a couple of weeks, the number of federal officers would decrease as they are no longer needed.
An actual piece of information slipped out during a Democrat “hearing”.
Imagine that...
OREGON ping
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Pretty ironic stuff - I recall that a few Federal gov’t employees were curious about the travels of candidate Obama and peeked at his passport records. They were hunted down and fired.
The Deep State plays hardball, and cheats at the highest level. What Obama did to probably hundreds of US citizens is more than 100 times more egregious than those few passport-peepers.
Just a matter of time until Trump is gone from the scene and the descent into the abyss accelerates once more.
I would love an expose that includes the media toadies who are acting as the defacto propaganda arm of the DNC.
It would be a pretty big expose. Isn’t that ALL of the media toadies?
Hong Kong and a treaty to leave Taiwan alone.
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