Posted on 08/12/2019 4:08:02 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Wait. Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth were married? – Tongue-wagging pop star Miley Cyrus and movie heartthrob Liam Hemsworth announced they were splitting over the weekend and the big news in all of that for me was that they were actually married in the first place. But here’s the good news, folks – the couple both say they will still remain dedicated parents to their childr…er, pets:
“Liam and Miley have agreed to separate at this time,” a rep for Cyrus told PEOPLE on Saturday. “Ever-evolving, changing as partners and individuals, they have decided this is what’s best while they both focus on themselves and careers. They still remain dedicated parents to all of their animals they share while lovingly taking this time apart. Please respect their process and privacy.”
Good god who cares.
You can judge the quality of a Trump nominee by who his friends aren’t. – Last Thursday, President Trump named his new acting director of ODNI, Counterterrorism Center Director Joseph Maguire. Maguire will assume his new job on August 15, the day that current ODNI Director Dan Coats leaves arm-in-arm with his allegedly-leaky deputy Sue Gordon.
Whenever this President has named a replacement for one of the high-ranking intelligence posts in the past, it has been very easy to tell whether he’s made a good choice or not by looking to see who weighs in to publicly endorse him. If all the Usual Suspects from the Obama years take to Twitter or CNN or MSNBC to give the person a hearty endorsement, you can be sure that person will change nothing for the better.
For example, Christopher Wray’s nomination to lead the FBI was greeted with gleeful endorsements from the likes of John Brennan, James Clapper, Sally Yates and all the other swamp creatures. Just-fired James Comey even had nice things to say about Wray, if memory serves. All of which helps to explain why, more than two years later, the FBI remains a raging dumpster fire of incompetence and duplicity and a roadblock to the declassification of documents related to the Spygate scandal.
On the contrary, when President Trump first named John Ratcliffe to become Coats’s permanent replacement in the ODNI job, the Swamp creatures wasted no time in blasting him, a clear indication that Ratcliffe would have represented a clear and present danger to the destructive status quo that exists within the nation’s firmly-embedded intelligence community.
What is interesting about Maguire is not who has spoken out about him, but who hasn’t. Four days after his naming, and we have yet to hear a peep out of any of the Usual Suspects. Not a word from John Brennan; not a peep out of Comey; not a mumble out of Clapper or Rosenstein or McCabe. Radio silence from the creatures of the swamp.
That lack of endorsement or attack means one of two things: It could mean that the Usual Suspects finally figured out that their messages of public approval of a fellow skunk are really counterproductive. Or it could mean that they aren’t sure whether Maguire represents a friend or a foe. If it’s the former, we’ll find out the hard way soon enough, because ODNI will continue to serve as the same final roadblock to declassification that it has ably and consistently performed under Coats. If it’s the latter, then it’s likely the Usual Suspects are just biding their time to see which way Maguire will jump once he assumes his new job.
Two and a half years into the Trump presidency and we are left with the feeling that uncertainty would at least be progress. Baby steps.
And speaking of declassification… – 83 days have now passed since the President ordered Attorney General William Barr to assume full discretion over the process of declassifying all the documents that his employees at the DOJ and FBI have spent the last three years desperately hiding from the American people.
So what do we have after 83 days? Bupkis. The Bruce Ohr 302s released last week were the result of a court order in a case brought by Judicial Watch – Barr had nothing to do with them.
From Barr and his Department of “Justice”, we have bupkis. Zero. Zilch. Nada.
Over the weekend, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, which also happens to reside under the not-so-watchful eye of the Barr DOJ, did its best imitation of Jack Bauer’s fictional “CTU” from the old TV series “24”, losing its highest-profile prisoner to an alleged “suicide”.
If you ever watched that show, you knew it was a foregone conclusion that any time Keifer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer character arrested a terrorist and brought him into custody at CTU, said terrorist would very quickly either be kidnapped or murdered right under the noses of what was supposed to be the nation’s most elite secret law enforcement unit. I used to guffaw about that every time it happened, but as time as gone on and we have seen the actual Keystone Cops nature of our real law enforcement and intelligence apparatus, I’ve come to realize that CTU was actually very true-to-life.
Mr. Barr has certainly talked a good game since assuming office early this year. But after six full months on the job, talk and lofty promises are all we have to show from his time at DOJ. We still have zero indictments of real wrong-doers, zero perp walks, and even worse, we now have the spectacle of the likes of Andrew McCabe and Peter Strzok having such contempt for the DOJ that they are actually suing to get their old jobs back.
As of right now, Barr’s actual performance record is no better than what we got out of Jeff Sessions, and that ain’t good.
That is all.
Bump
” But after six full months on the job”
I dont know why anyone would want the job when idiots on our side will scream bloody murder and demand you be fired after 6 months because 2/3rds of Washington DC hasn’t been lined up and shot.
Crazy Hannah Montana has kids? Good Lord...
Barr is a multigenerational Deep State cover-up specialist all along. Just ver u smooth about giving enough fakes and fwints to fool some of the Trump base.
I dont know why anyone would want the job when idiots on our side will scream bloody murder and demand you be fired after 6 months because 2/3rds of Washington DC hasn’t been lined up and shot.
My thoughts exactly and more than once lately.
I disagree with this. Trump declassifying allowed Barr and Durham to work freely - get everything they needed to be ABLE to move forward towards real investigations, Grand Jury and prosecutions. I never took it as meaning we’d see a bunch of stuff. That’ll come. First I want them to be working behind the scenes.
“Barr is a multigenerational Deep State cover-up specialist all along.”
Everyone is apparently.
Including you, your dog, your washer and dryer.
Just like everyone is a Nazi and or a Russian agent, everyone else is a “deep state agent” too.
A nation full of paranoid nutcases looking for the Tom Clancy plot behind everything.
Tom Clancy is the deep state. That answers everything.
They want the job because there will be people that support them no matter what they do. Can you believe people still think sessions was a white hat?
I will continue to think this is true until otherwise proven wrong. I will be the first to admit I was wrong about Barr when/if that time ever comes.
By kids, it says they are referring to their pets.
There is criminality all around Barr, and aside from him being “appalled” by Epstein, he’s done nothing. He’s bumping up into Magoo territory.
Who? I've seen no one that hasn't disavowed Sessions in the past six months. Even from those who once had high regard for him.
We've heard the saying, "the jury is out" when describing an unresolved problem or issue. This thought is applicable to whether the DOJ and FBI can or will bring government elites to justice.
Frankly, I have my doubts that any Clinton, Obama, Brenner, Comey, Clapper OR any high level democrat -- will see the inside of a court room let alone prison.
Regarding all the criminals in government, I'm still waiting to hear the words, "the jury is IN".
I agree with your comments & sincerely hope you are correct.
That is funny :) and I award you the coveted, "Post of the Day"!!!!
BECAUSE NOT ONE DAMNED THING HAS HAPPENED AS FAR AS ANYONE BEING HELD FOR THE MASSIVE TREASON THEY COMMITTED!
THAT’S WHY!
I HOPE YOU CAN UNDERSTAND IT, SO I WROTE IT ALL IN CAPS FOR YOU TO SEE.
QUIT LECTURING US ABOUT PATIENCE.
IT’S BEEN LONG ENOUGH, STOP MAKING EXCUSES FOR INCOMPETENCE AND CORRUPTION, IT’S DISGUSTING.
Me, until I see the Dept. of Just Us being cleaned out and shaken down to its roots, I don't believe anyone over at that Dept. gives a damn about anything except their career.
JMHo
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