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Steyn Online ^ | 4 Aug 2025 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 08/10/2025 8:33:06 AM PDT by Rummyfan

A couple of things that caught my eye. First, à propos further revelations re "Russiagate" from the Durrrrrrrrrrrham Report - actually, from the Durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrham Annex - Michael Ledwith thinks it confirms something called "the Steyn Rule" that I apparently articulated a bazillion years ago:

One of the lessons learned by the Clintons back in the Nineties is that, if you're gonna have a scandal, have a hundred of 'em. And then it's all too complicated and just gives everyone a big headache, and they go back to watching 'Friends' or 'Baywatch' or whatever it was back then...

Well, early Clinton scandals were certainly "complicated' - something to do with vacation properties and cattle futures and a savings-and-loan collapse and Travelgate perjury ...and that's all years before Monica first dropped to the broadloom. So yes, there was a lot to stay on top of.

But, with due respect to Mr Ledwith, I don't think the phony-baloney Russia investigation is in that sense Clintonian. As I wrote over seven years ago:

The investigation into foreign interference with the 2016 election was created as a cover for domestic interference with the 2016 election.

That's it; that's the whole enchilada. And everything that has emerged since fits into that summation. In the Clinton scandals, individuals who crossed them had an unfortunate habit of dying prematurely in unusual ways, like being hit by a train on an abandoned rail track on which no locomotive had run for years. Again: odd, but complicated.

(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: durhamannex; marksteyn; michaelledwith; russiancollusion; vincefoster

1 posted on 08/10/2025 8:33:06 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Steyn is brilliant and a joy to follow!

There is a mother in ARK who spent years, and still is if she is still alive, trying to find out why her 14 yo son died on those train tracks near the Mena airport. Her concerns were successfully buried and ignored then and continue to be now. Perhaps she is just lucky that she, herself, didn’t add to the body count.

We may never know the depth of the Clinton’s depravity in our lifetime, but of the three of them, Hillary is the “queen”, the source and the principle “mob boss”. Her daughter becomes more like her every day and Bill is the goofy side kick.


2 posted on 08/10/2025 9:07:53 AM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: Rummyfan

...BTW... I sometimes have trouble understanding British english....
What does it mean to be “rogered senseless”?


3 posted on 08/10/2025 9:10:24 AM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: 13Sisters76

Back in the early days here on FR one eagle-eyed poster found a picture of the Oval Office with a table surrounded by Clinton staffers with two pieces of paper on the table.

It was a long list with the title of “scandals”.

We studied the list and recognized about fifteen of them that had been discussed here.

There are about fifty more we had never heard of....and still have not to this day.


4 posted on 08/10/2025 9:18:04 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: Rummyfan

5 posted on 08/10/2025 9:27:45 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: 13Sisters76
What does it mean to be “rogered senseless”?

Schlonged to infinity and beyond.

6 posted on 08/10/2025 9:31:08 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: Rummyfan
This is the most age- and sex-distorted "refugee" population cohort in history: not a single old person, not a single child, not a single woman; just young fit men from some of the most barbaric cultures on earth.

When the UK Government collapses and the UK globalists are literally running for the lives (which will happen soon), it will make it all the easier to find and deport the invaders.

7 posted on 08/10/2025 9:39:59 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Rummyfan

You can’t keep it simple when you have so many lies and misdeeds to hide.

https://havachat.com/2025/07/23/dnc-server-hack-hoax-hillary-campaign-turned-a-server-intrusion-into-trump-russia-collusion-smear/


8 posted on 08/10/2025 9:48:05 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: 13Sisters76
What does it mean to be “rogered senseless”?

Rogering a euphemism for intercourse.

9 posted on 08/10/2025 10:08:16 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
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To: Rummyfan

“if you’re gonna have a scandal, have a hundred of ‘em.”

A manufactured fog dense enough to keep the worst of their criminal profile as low as possible.


10 posted on 08/10/2025 10:49:11 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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The “Steyn Rule” appears to be a derivative of the concept that when one owes the bank $1000, the bank owns you. However, if you owe the bank a significantly larger sum, you own the bank. IOW, go big or go home. In sports terms, flood the zone was the prime Clinton scandal approach.


11 posted on 08/10/2025 10:55:17 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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To: 13Sisters76

Roger began as Brit military slang for “I understand and will comply”—i.e. “Roger that.” So Steyn could have been talking about how much they have been silenced and forced to go along with this madness.


12 posted on 08/11/2025 6:13:12 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (If [mortals] are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it? —Benjamin Franklin)
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To: cgbg

I can only, again, recommend Ambrose Evans- Pritchard’s book, “The Secret Life of Bill Clinton”.
I read it about 30(?) years ago when I was still capable of being outraged and surprised by the democrat party. My mother, a fine shanty Irish woman from Boston, thought I was a “conspiracy theorist” and the book nothing but salacious lies.
Every word he wrote was true.


13 posted on 08/11/2025 8:37:53 AM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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I have a copy of that book—agreed it is outstanding.


14 posted on 08/11/2025 8:47:10 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: cgbg

lol yeah...
I still never buy Tyson products...


15 posted on 08/11/2025 8:50:34 AM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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