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Victor Davis Hanson: We Are Well Beyond Hypocrisy - Have we again forgotten the subpoenaed Trump children?
American Greatness ^ | 18 Dec, 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 12/18/2023 5:22:59 AM PST by MtnClimber

The abject narcissism of the insular Left is startling. They apparently believe the American public is amnesiac enough to forget what leftists once did, now that they’re doing the utter opposite. And they assume we are to discount their hypocrisy and self-absorption simply because they self-identify as erudite and moral and assume their opponents are irredeemable and deplorable.

Impeachment

The Left is saturating the airwaves with outrage over the current House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry. They allege that formally investigating Joe Biden’s role in the family grifting operation is somehow a poor constitutional precedent, if not out-of-bounds entirely.

So we hear further arguments that it will be unwise to impeach a first-term president when he loses his House majority, that there is no reason to “waste” congressional time and effort when Biden will be automatically acquitted in the Democratically controlled Senate, and that the impeachment is cynically timed to synchronize with president’s reelection efforts.

All of these are the precise arguments many of us cited when Donald Trump was impeached in December 2019 (as his reelection campaign began, and immediately after being cleared of the 22-month, $40-million-special-counsel Russian-collusion hoax).

The Democrats tried to remove an elected president over a phone call without a special counsel’s report. So Trump was impeached only after the 2018 election led to a Democratic House majority, which went from eating up nearly two years of his administration in the Russian-collusion hoax straight into the impeachment farce. There was no concern about the cost to the nation of putting an elected government into a continual state of siege.

There is one difference, though, between the Trump impeachment and the Biden impeachment inquiry. Donald Trump was impeached because he accurately accused the members of the Ukrainian government of paying Hunter Biden, with his zero fossil fuel expertise...

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


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: vdh; victordavishanson
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1 posted on 12/18/2023 5:22:59 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

If the left did not have double standards then they would have no standards at all.


2 posted on 12/18/2023 5:23:10 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: texas booster

VDH ping


3 posted on 12/18/2023 5:24:00 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Yes, that’s the perfect summation of our modern Left regarding many things.


4 posted on 12/18/2023 5:25:14 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: MtnClimber

That’s because Trump is evil and Brandon is a lovable doofus. Or some such rationalization by the leftists.


5 posted on 12/18/2023 5:37:14 AM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: texas booster

VDH summarizing how Biden’s family is minimally prosecuted contrasted with Trump’s family being persecuted (my words, not VDH’s). As always VDH is speaking truth with brilliance.


6 posted on 12/18/2023 5:41:36 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: MtnClimber

There are state level voter bribery statutes.

Joe Biden might be charged under one of them for offering $10,000 student loan reduction bribes.

“I approve of this...”


7 posted on 12/18/2023 5:43:33 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: MtnClimber

We don’t have much of a government.
It’s an organized crime gang. They say “Our Democracy” but they mean “Cosa Nostra”.


8 posted on 12/18/2023 5:45:34 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: MtnClimber
The abject narcissism of the insular Left is startling.

I love VDH, but that statement is, er, dumb.

The people on the Left are brainwashed zombies. Their narcissism and hypocrisy aren't startling. They're standard equipment for The Walking Dead.

These are people who think this beast is a girl...


9 posted on 12/18/2023 5:46:19 AM PST by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a strong bias will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: MtnClimber

about $5 million -> Hunter

$100 billion+ -> Ukraine

The NASDAQ won’t beat that.


10 posted on 12/18/2023 5:47:15 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

It is why the government took over the student loan business. It was a democRAT recruiting (bribery) tool.


11 posted on 12/18/2023 5:50:04 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

If a siting President can be sued over J6, why can’t a sitting federal judge be sued over tent-infested city business losses or invader crime?


12 posted on 12/18/2023 5:51:58 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: MtnClimber

There will be a reckoning.


13 posted on 12/18/2023 6:02:26 AM PST by allendale
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To: MtnClimber

Trump owns real estate.

The value of real estate tends to rise.

NYC and SF are having temporary setbacks, but those will get fixed.

Just ask the Mayor of NYC, under oath:

Are you the Mayor of the City of New York?

Yes!

Are you capable of fixing its problems?

With federal help, yes!

Are you likely to get that federal help?

Quite likely!

Should Trump sell off his NYC properties at fire sale prices?

He would be a fool to.


14 posted on 12/18/2023 6:07:55 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: allendale
There will be a reckoning.

Sadly, it won't be while they are living. Little comfort in the knowledge that God will deal with them when the rest of the people on Earth suffer daily by the leftists' actions.

15 posted on 12/18/2023 6:13:53 AM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: MtnClimber

Communists are ruthless.

Leftists are ruthless.

People who would take what is yours to gain power are bad people.


16 posted on 12/18/2023 6:19:26 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

Communists do not care about Commandment 9 when they bear false witness against conservatives.


17 posted on 12/18/2023 6:24:05 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

“Since his wife, Eva, was “Aryan”, Klemperer avoided deportation, often narrowly, but in 1940, he and his wife were rehoused under miserable conditions in a “Jews’ House” (Judenhaus) with other “mixed couples”. Here, and especially when he ventured out, or at factories where he was forced to work, he was routinely questioned, mistreated, and humiliated by the Gestapo, Hitler Youth members and Dresden citizens. Only because of his “Aryan” German wife were the couple able to procure food enough to subsist. In the diary, the much-feared Gestapo is seen carrying out daily, humiliating, and brutal house searches, delivering beatings, hurling insults, and robbing inhabitants of coveted foodstuffs and other household items.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Klemperer

National Socialists and international socialists have a nasty track record.

Socialists are takers, dishonest & nasty takers.


18 posted on 12/18/2023 6:26:28 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: MtnClimber

Democrats have no understanding of the old saying, “What goes around comes around.” Whenever they are in power they are convinced that they will be in power forever.


19 posted on 12/18/2023 6:27:01 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy ( Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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Even people like Hope Hicks were questioned for hours, but Hunter can’t be.


20 posted on 12/18/2023 6:32:09 AM PST by TakebackGOP
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