Posted on 01/30/2020 3:48:33 AM PST by Kaslin
Have you heard that the president has been impeached? Seriously, the trial is happening right now in the U.S. Senate.
Im kidding. Of course, you cant escape the news because its the only thing the news is talking about. Were in the middle of the most choreographed foregone conclusion in history and the media is treating it like a whodunit. But the suspense is akin to a murder mystery where there are two people in a room and one of them ends up dead. We know the outcome. Its time to move on.
But while the press is single-minded in their attempt to smear the president and help Democrats in this years election, there are other things happening, more important things, that arent getting the attention they should. In some cases, the timing is fortuitous a distracted media means blunders and whatnot fly under the radar. In other cases, maybe the timing is deliberate, used for cover for things that otherwise would have been opposed were they to happen in a sane time because they would be known.
Thats why I thought it was worth taking a look around the rest of the world while the media world is stuck in impeachment mode. These stories are just as important, if not more so, than what the liberal industrial media complex is fixating on.
Elizabeth Warren is running for president. You know this, or at least knew this. Shes been tanking of late because shes an awful candidate who spent nearly two months dodging questions about raising taxes on the middle class (spoiler alert: shes going to). Voters took note, drew the accurate (and obvious) conclusion, and have started to leave her. Even Democratic primary voters dont want to pay more in taxes. They just want others to.
With the desperation that comes with watching what you want slip through your fingers, Warren is scrambling to stop the hemorrhaging. But shes not doing so by injecting some much-needed sanity into her campaign, shes going the other way. In an attempt to out-crazy her fellow Democrats, shes now pledging to set up a unit in the Justice Department to investigate the Trump administration, anyone associated with it, and anyone named Trump to see if theyve broken any laws over the presidents tenure. This is straight out of the Third World.
At a time when House Managers are calling the President of the United States a dictator on the floor of the Senate, one of their leading politicians is promising to be one if shes elected. How is this normal?
If theres evidence of a crime, by all means, investigate it. I want corruption rooted out no matter who does it. But to launch an investigative unit to specifically target your political opponent is fascistic. Yet, shes proposing it because she knows theres a constituency for that in the Democratic Party. Thats very telling, which is why its not getting the coverage it deserves.
The funding of Planned Parenthood has long been a political hot potato. Republicans oppose it because theyre pro-life, Democrats support it because they support abortion and because they get a piece of the action. By sending hundreds of millions of our tax dollars to the abortion mill, Democrats get tens of millions of it back in campaign contributions. It was recently announced that the group, which pleads poverty every time the idea of cutting their federal funding is discussed, will spend $45 million in 2020 to elect Democrats.
Planned Parenthood received more than $500 million in our money this year, which means Democrats are getting a nearly 10 percent return on that money to directly benefit them. In the private sector, that would be called a kickback. In liberal politics, it barely rates a mention. The mafia isnt that effective.
But its not just Democrats hoping to sneak bad ideas past the American people while they arent looking. While the Trump administration has been excellent, perhaps the best ever, when it comes to cutting regulations and removing the boot of government from the throat of the economy, it hasnt been perfect. When you try to drain the swamp, the swamp has a way of bouncing back.
The Department of Health and Human Services is pushing forward with a scheme to implement foreign price controls on prescription drugs in Medicare Part B. Rather than focus on opening up markets overseas, these regulators want to bring Europes horrible policies here. The idea is Medicare should only pay the average of what other countries pay for prescription drugs. Importing price controls will only import the stifling of innovation and shortages price controls create. The focus should be on removing restrictions abroad, not bringing them here.
Ive written about this a lot because, in a former life, I was a health policy analyst (before escaping in a hot air balloon before losing my sanity) and I recognize the importance of innovative health care. My mother lived almost 30 years longer than doctors initially said she would because of the innovations in medicine, particularly prescription drugs, from her first diagnosis. Those advancements were made possible because the companies that made them were able to make enough money to be able to afford to research and develop them. The solution to lower-priced medicine is more innovation, not less, and the way to get there is to apply pressure on free rider nations using price controls to lift those restrictions, not bring them here.
All of these things are happening now, none are getting the attention they deserve because all focus is on the Democrats 2020 campaign strategy masquerading as a Constitutional crisis on the Senate floor. If you werent outraged already, now would be a good time.
The next Democrat President (GOD FORBID) will have CARTE BLANCHE to do ANYTHING they want to!!
This impeachment is in retaliation for the Clinton impeachment no matter what the press says.
Look for news of the East African locust plague on ACCNNBCBS.
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Do they know there is a probable pandemic in the offing?
Oh, never mind...
I wonder if Warren’s special force to investigate Trump crimes will have their own special uniforms and hats?
You can bet they will have their own SWATT Team.
That’s what I picture too. And they won’t restrict their tactics to just the Trumps. Eventually it will be applied to their political opposition in general(and that includes most FReepers). A frightening thought, but a very real possibility should any Dem win the presidency in November.
Freedom of Information Act requests will never be approved against Democrats.
The founder of Mozilla was ousted for the crime of donating his own money to the popularly approved Prop 8 initiative in California. Every voter who supported it could likewise be terminated from employment and denied jobs or advancement because of that support.
Yes, they will dox, blacklist, and have HR political re-education for those on the right.
Bernie Bros are full still Stalinist and calling for Bill Ayers’ gulags.
They will make political prisoners of us all. Restricting the right to dissent is the first task.
They wanted to impeach Richard Nixon in his first term long before Watergate.
They wanted to impeach Ronald Reagan before he was inaugurated.
They were itching to impeach Bush I over a conspiracy theory about the Iranian hostages in 1980 and later about Communist regimes.
They tried to label Bush II a war criminal.
They wanted to impeach Donald Trump before he was inaugurated.
The peaceful transfer of power from Democrat to Republican ended in 1960 when JFK stole the election.
It was even less peaceful when LBJ ascended over JFK by political assassination.
she's now pledging to set up a unit in the Justice Department to investigate the Trump administration, anyone associated with it, and anyone named Trump to see if they've broken any laws over the president's tenure. This is straight out of the Third World.
Welcome to the third world! What Warren proposes is the way the US government has been operating against Trump and anybody else who gets to close to the truth.
Warren seems to be proposing laws that punish “disinformation,” but does not directly define what that term means. Sounds like a threat to the 1A.
This impeachment is in retaliation for the Clinton impeachment no matter what the press says.
No, this impeachment is in retaliation for Trump beating Clinton, even with the widespread Democrat ballot stuffing/cheating.
There is no crime a the center of this sham impeachment, but there was for the impeachment of Clinton - actually lying under oath.
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This impeachment is in retaliation for the Clinton impeachment no matter what the press says.
No, this impeachment is in retaliation for Trump beating Clinton, even with the widespread Democrat ballot stuffing/cheating.
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Its both retaliation for impeaching Slick & for Hellary losing.
Crimes are irrelevant to Rats.
Freedom of Information Act requests will never be approved against Democrats.
"Bad things, man....I mean bad things!"
DEMOCRATS are LAWLESS because REPUBLICANS are BALLLESS.
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