Posted on 11/25/2019 12:00:38 PM PST by EyesOfTX
Polling support for impeachment of President Donald Trump is plummeting, and there is a clear reason why that’s the case. – Nate Silver’s 538 crew has a new report out today about the crashing support for the Democrat impeachment circus. While support remains strong among the Democrats’ demented voter base – which is always, consistently oversampled in these polls by about 10% – it is crashing and burning among independent voters, who have watched Adam Schiff’s clown-show public hearings and didn’t like what they’ve seen.
What did they see in those hearings? They saw a pack of members of America’s diplomatic corps, whining and complaining that the President of the United States was not following the dictates of foreign policy as implemented by the President’s globalist predecessors in office. They saw a bunch of hacks whose loyalties lie less with the American people than with the corruptocrats and oligarchs who control the Ukraine, and who appear to have worked against the interests of the country’s new reformist president, Volodymyr Zelensky.
Deep State skunks helping Deep State skunks, as it were.
The public was also treated to the spectacle of a classic Deep State plant at the National Security Council, a preening, self-aggrandizing anti-Trump Lt. Colonel named Alexander Vindman. Vindman spent his time at the witness table obviously prevaricating and deflecting in order to construct damaging testimony against his Commander-in-Chief. Equally as repulsive and revealing was Vindman’s demand at one point that the Committee’s ranking minority member, Devin Nunes, address him by his military rank rather than respectfully as “Mr. Vindman.”
Add to all that the clownish Ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, a Jeb! Bush supporter who bought his ambassadorship in the grand DC Swamp tradition. Then toss in the fact that the only two witnesses who clearly weren’t Deep State hacks, Kurt Volker and Tim Morrison – who had been Vindman’s manager at the NSC – had already basically been run out of the diplomatic corps, and the picture presented to the public was one of rampant disloyalty, clownish jealousy and corruption. In other words, just like the public saw at the Department of Justice, pre-William Barr, and still sees at the FBI and in the nation’s intelligence community.
In the days since the public impeachment circus left on its long Thanksgiving holiday recess, the public has been treated to the next episode of the Deep State unmasking itself, this time at the Department of the Navy in the Eddie Gallagher affair, which the Campaign Update chronicled in two separate posts on Sunday. There we found the repulsive spectacle of senior officials at the Pentagon openly defying the clear orders of the Commander-in-Chief, and outright threatening him in the public space.
As repeatedly noted here, Barack Obama spent his 8 years in office in a continuous effort to utterly corrupt every agency, bureau, commission and committee of the federal government, and was every successful in doing so. But this weekend’s shenanigans, which culminated – at least for now – in the unceremonious firing of Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, likely represent the first time that millions of ordinary Americans learned that the corruption is so deeply integrated within our military leadership.
Sadly, the purging of the Swamp snakes at the Pentagon should not end with Spencer. The Commander of the Navy Seals, Admiral Collin Green engaged in the same defiant behavior as Spencer, and Rear Admiral Charlie Brown, the Navy’s Chief of Information, issued the following statement in the midst of the dustup:
“The Navy follows the lawful orders of the President. We will do so in case of an order to stop the administrative review of SOC Gallagher’s professional qualification. We are aware of the President’s tweet and we are awaiting further guidance.”
The clear implication in that statement is that The President’s tweet ordering the Navy to disband its review board against Gallagher did not amount to a “lawful order.” Which is outrageous. The Commander-in-Chief just issued a pardon to Gallagher a few weeks ago, making his wishes on this matter clearly obvious to everyone.
Spencer claimed on Saturday that he did not consider a tweet to be a “formal order,” but the CinC can make his wished known in whatever form of communication he prefers. For Spencer and the rest of the Navy brass to convene a review panel to question Gallagher’s status after the President’s pardon was rank insubordination. The pretense that the President’s tweet somehow does not constitute a lawful order borders on open sedition.
As Kurt Schlichter advocates in a great piece on all of this at Townhall.com:
Fire them all.
Then fire their bosses for not having fired them already by the time the president got around to it. And fire their bosses. Fire the whole chain of command and order them all to retire.
Open defiance of the Commander-in-Chief and the sarcastic questioning of his authority in official statements is simply an intolerable situation. The Navy needs a good purging, if for no other reason than to set a good example for the leadership of the other branches of the armed forces.
The good part of all of this is that, the more these Deep State skunks and snakes unmask themselves, the more repulsed is by their actions. It has been a really bad couple of weeks for the denizens of the DC Swamp.
That is all.
When average people see the deep state, they think “DMV on steroids”.
Our Masters in DC think everyone looooves the gubmint, based on how much we loooove the IRS, Social Security, Department of Education, and other agencies we have had involvement with.
Thanks for posting this. That is a spot on, truth telling piece.
“Equally as repulsive and revealing was Vindman’s demand at one point that the Committee’s ranking minority member, Devin Nunes, address him by his military rank rather than respectfully as ‘Mr. Vindman’.”
Snooty Mr. Vindman reminded me of equally snooty Ms. Boxer: https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/boxer_to_general_senator_not_maam/
Elitists disgust me. Yes, I had a military rank. Yes, it’s “Dr. Pollster”. No, I don’t care.
I despise squealers and informants. I always have.
From now on all of you must address me as Mister Uneducated Deplorable Shelterguy, I have earned that title and I expect every to respect it.
They were like DMV—leaking your personal data to the local crime syndicate...and proud of it!
Trump Derangement Syndrome needs to added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5).
Jeez when combover boy Nate Silver’s discredited liberal fart circus site says you are dropping in support, you know you got problems. Today has been all bad news for Nancy Pelosi. You were warned stupid.
Re: “Polling support for impeachment of President Donald Trump is plummeting.”
My home page is MSN.com, and boy, is that ever obvious!
For the first 10 days of Impeachment, every lead headline on MSN.com was trashing Trump.
Here are the lead headlines on MSN.com right now:
(1) Winter weather
(2) People and their therapists
(3) Black Friday Ads
(4) AMA celebrity photos
(5) College and Pro football
(6) Black Friday Ads
(7) Attack on GOP for “pushing” Ukraine conspiracy theories
Govt careerists clearly don’t consider Trump legitimate and act accordingly. Ashcan these people.
It’s dead, Jim.
Good way of analyzing the news there zee.
Gee, this is the second time in two days I have responded to your comment. You must be doing something right.
Honestly, I haven’t been stalking you. Bwahaha :- )
Most days, I am under attack by the Always-Trumpers, or, I am being mocked by the Trump-splainers for not understanding Trump's secret plans.
Although I vote for Trump, I criticize him almost every day at Free Republic, most often on immigration issues, and quite often for his Executive personnel decisions, also for the high percentage of his judge nominations who get overwhelming Democratic support, and for his politically incompetent defense against the Russia Hoax and the Ukraine Hoax.
My Bottom Line.....
If Conservatives do not hold Trump's feet to the political fire, who will?
The GOP has already gotten great mileage out of Ukraine. We're seeing the Republicans united and faces like Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, Stefanik, and many others have gained recognition in the fight.
So just like Nimitz at Midway, Trump gets good intel and like to spring traps on the enemy -- rope-a-dope.
Interestingly, I went to see Midway 2019 with a Lib who reads the New York Times religously. We go back and forth and I often introduce points he's not heard. He's watching a different movie of events.
Even more interesting is that the guy's Dad was a highly decorated RAF pilot and crash landed more than once -- one time in the ocean where he was recovered by a cruiser.
Rope-A-Dope is a little too subtle for my taste.
(1) Thanks to massive legal immigration, one third of eligible voters in 2020 will be non-white. They will vote 75%-80% Democrat. When Conservatives get out voted in a democracy, nothing else matters.
(2) Trump retained, or even promoted, hundreds of Obama’s senior executives. When the Deep State is firmly in the hands of the Hard Left, it almost doesn't matter if the GOP wins the White House.
(3) By my last count, 54% of Trump's District judges and 20% of his Circuit judges got at least 25 Democrat votes. When the federal judiciary is firmly in the hands of the Hard Left, it almost doesn't matter if the GOP wins the White House.
Bottom Line - win or lose, Trump will be the last Republican President in American history.
Trump has postponed America's political suicide, but he has done nothing consequential to stop it.
I hear what you’re saying, but I think in the fullness of time, things will get done. You can’t turn around a big battleship on a dime.
Who would have thought a guy like Kanye West would come along and help move the needle back in the other direction in the Black community?
But we shall see. If Trump can win back the House, some great things can happen.
I struggle with pessimism v optimism a lot.
I do read about current youngsters not trusting the left or MSM, about blacks waking up to he D’rats’ scam, about more people defending 2A, about more women turning away from feminazis, about LGBTQ losing support and about more legal immigrants not wanting illegals & supporting Trump.
Truth will out. The heart is aware of many truths, even when the mind listens to lies.
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