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Sunday, April 21, 2019

This is how it works...





Talks about dressing up in blackface for Halloween and is fired.




Loses her Food Network show and endorsement contracts with Smithfield Foods, Walmart, Target, QVC, Caesars Entertainment, Novo Nordisk, J.C. Penney, Sears, Kmart, and her then-publisher Ballantine Books because she used the word 'nigger' in the 1960's.





No that's not a Muslim. It's a statue of Kate 'God Bless America' Smith. What was her crime you say? In 1931 she sang a song that contained the lyrics, “Someone had to pick the cotton, Someone had to pick the corn, Someone had to slave and be able to sing, That’s why darkies were born.” The song, which has been called a satirical take on racism, was a big hit for Smith, and also was recorded by Paul Robeson.

No that's not blackface.




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Unlike Megyn Kelly who talked about blackface, Va. Gov. Ralph Northam dressed up in blackface in his 1984 yearbook. Two months after the initial hoopla nearly ended his tenure as governor his life is mostly back to normal.

 State lawmakers who called on him to resign are now all smiles, standing beside him at news conferences. The Twitter mob has moved on to other things.




After Kavanaugh was crucified for alleged sexual misconduct by two women Northam's Lieutenant Governor was similarly charged by two women (both Democrats) who said Fairfax forced them to perform oral sex on him. Again after the initial hoopla, the story has all but disappeared.




It's a trifecta!

The AG of VA. 
Ditto what Northam did.



The headline at the time:




What next? 
Nothing... all 3 still have their job.
Couldn't be because they're Democrats, could it?


PS:

Now imagine Jussie Smollett was a white guy who grew hungry for a Subway sandwich at 2:30 in the morning in -13 degree weather. On his way to settle his hunger, he claims he's accosted by two black panthers shouting "Black lives matter, honkey." Smollett said they worked him over pretty good. Later after the cops find a video of Daronté and Ja Taveon at ACE hardware buying rope and bleach and after further questioning, the culprits admit they received a check of $3,500 from Smollett. The cops determined the whole story was a lie. But not to worry white boy. Once recused Kimberly Foxx concluded you were being overcharged the case was dropped. 

Thank God for fairness! 


BTW...when did Jesse Jackson start working at the Chicago District Attorney office?







    





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Friday, April 19, 2019

'I'M F***ED'




The Democrats are trying to cherry pick "I'm Fucked" in the Mueller Report by taking it completely out of context...

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions broke the news to Trump on May 17, 2017, that Rod Rosenstein had appointed Robert Mueller to be the special counsel.

Sessions was with Trump in the Oval Office conducting interviews for a new FBI director but stepped outside when Rosenstein called to give him the news.

Trump slumped in his chair after Sessions returned and informed him of the appointment, according to notes taken at the time by Jody Hunt, who was Session's chief of staff, and provided to Mueller's team.

"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I'm f***ed," Trump said.

Trump then turned his anger toward Sessions.

"You were supposed to protect me," Sessions recalled Trump telling him.


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This is all Nadler, Schiff, Swalwell, and the
  rest of the Democrats had to hear. It's the smoking gun. What Trump said after that won't serve the sabotage... so they purposely ignore it.

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The Mueller Report continues...


Trump then again bemoaned the potential fallout of a special counsel.

"Everyone tells me if you get one of these independent counsels it ruins your presidency. It takes years and years and I won't be able to do anything. This is the worst thing that ever happened to me," Trump then said, according to both Hunt and Sessions.

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As you can see... "I'm fucked" was not an admission of guilt. Trump's simply pissed off and rightfully so. Democrats attempted to railroad his presidency!

We were bombarded with Russian collusion for 2 years. Now we're told there was none. So how can you truly create an obstruction to conceal a crime that never took place?






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Barr Is Right About Everything. Admit You Were Wrong






From the NYT's no less





The American political and media elites that spent the first two years of the Trump administration promoting the Russian collusion hoax have some explaining to do. And not merely explaining: They owe the president an apology.


As Attorney General William Barr said on Thursday before releasing the Mueller report, “After nearly two years of investigation, thousands of subpoenas, and hundreds of warrants and witness interviews, the special counsel confirmed that the Russian government-sponsored efforts to illegally interfere with the 2016 presidential election but did not find that the Trump campaign or other Americans colluded in those schemes.”

And yet nearly the entire complex of elite media was actively complicit in promoting the biggest political conspiracy theory in American history: that Hillary Clinton lost the election because Donald Trump conspired with Vladimir Putin to — well, that was always a moving target — but to somehow deprive Mrs. Clinton of victory. What we now know definitively is that Robert Mueller, the special counsel, and a team of very accomplished, mostly Clinton-supporting, prosecutors were unable to find evidence of a conspiracy that had been taken as an article of faith by Trump haters.

Journalists don’t like being called “fake news,” but too many of them uncritically accepted the Trump-Russia narrative, probably because of their strong distaste for Mr. Trump himself. But that lack of objectivity represents a major professional failure, and it’s Exhibit A in why Mr. Trump’s taunt resonates with so many Americans. Gallup polling shows that for 69 percent of Americans, trust in the media has fallen over the last decade. Among Republicans, it’s 94 percent; for independents, it’s 75 percent and for moderates, it’s 66. Only among self-identified liberals and progressives does a majority continue to trust the media. They like what they hear.

I’ve spent countless hours on radio and television since the fall of 2016 explaining to respected journalists why the Russian collusion story doesn’t get much, if any, traction in Middle America. This is because the allegations of collusion are not true and because most people who are not deeply committed to irrational Trump hatred see them for what they are: an inside-the-Beltway story being used as a political weapon to undermine the president and overturn — or at least neutralize — the 2016 election.

The whole ordeal had a detrimental effect on the president and the country. As Mr. Barr put it Thursday morning, “The president was frustrated and angered by a sincere belief that the investigation was undermining his presidency, propelled by his political opponents, and fueled by illegal leaks.”

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He was right. And it was obvious in places like Arizona (where I live), but not in Washington or New York.

For nearly four years, members of America’s ruling class, especially those in the media, the academy and government, have operated on one central, unquestioned assumption: orange man bad. This stifling orthodoxy led to a blind, counterfactual faith in the theory that Mr. Trump had somehow colluded with “the Russians” (never well defined) to win the election. Again, the specific charges were always amorphous — plastic enough to change as needed. That’s hardly surprising: That’s the way conspiracy theories always work. The Russian collusion hoax was, in fact, nothing more than a massively multiplayer coping mechanism for people who couldn’t accept the results of the 2016 election.

But why is it not enough to simply acknowledge that you dislike Mr. Trump and disagree with his policies? What psychological purpose does adding the fiction of a conspiracy serve?

The French philosopher and literary critic René Girard held that such scapegoating and ritual sacrifice is an essential part of group identity and solidarity. That seems to apply here. Mr. Trump ran against American elites and their insular culture. Their response was to load onto him all of the sins they see in American society and attempt to sacrifice him to appease their gods.

Mr. Girard asked a question that is pertinent today: “Why is our own participation in scapegoating so difficult to perceive and the participation of others so easy? To us, our fears and prejudices never appear as such because they determine our vision of people we despise, we fear, and against whom we discriminate.”

But the ritual sacrifice of Donald Trump didn’t work — at least not in the sense of removing him from office. It certainly did have the effect of catalyzing and uniting his opponents. Still, one of the many ironies here is that the Trump-hating media has handed him an incredibly powerful weapon for the 2020 campaign, one that may ensure his re-election.

Again, the operating principle was that of the zealot: Believe the narrative regardless of the lack of evidence, squint to see justifications where there are none and then in an intoxicated frenzy of moral superiority use any weapon at hand to destroy your enemy.

Shortly after Mr. Mueller concluded his investigation without any indictments related to Russian collusion with the Trump campaign, Representative Adam Schiff, now the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, did not admit he was wrong — far from it. He brazenly doubled down, saying during a committee hearing, “You may think it’s O.K. how Trump and his associates interacted with Russians during the campaign. I don’t. I think it’s immoral. I think it’s unethical. I think it’s unpatriotic. And yes, I think it’s corrupt.”

Collusion  Collusion  Collusion...






That's all we heard every day for 2 years!





The problem is that the Mueller investigation, as Mr. Barr explained, “did not find that the Trump campaign or other Americans colluded in those schemes.”

Mr. Schiff must know this. He must have known it for a long time. But he has persisted in slandering innocent people for personal political gain. His selfishness has led to a level of civil discord and political acrimony not seen since the late 1960s. That is what I call immoral, unethical, unpatriotic and yes, corrupt.

Too many politicians and journalists were eager, whether cynically or gullibly, to take the bait. The list of collusion Truthers is long. The politicians include not only Mr. Schiff but people like his congressional colleagues Maxine Waters, Eric Swalwell, and Richard Blumenthal. The media enablers included Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, Rachel Maddow (who built her show around Russia Trutherism), David Corn, Michael Isikoff, Manu Raju, Brian Stelter and many others. These people represent themselves as straight journalists who are fair, independent, oriented around facts. What a lot of Americans have seen instead is political partisans.

And then, of course, there is the recently arrested Michael Avenatti, who was eagerly embraced by Trump haters. He appeared on CNN and MSNBC an embarrassing 108 times in a 64-day period in 2018. How could they not see him for what he is?

There are three types of people who promoted Russian collusion hoax. First, those who knew it was false all along but promoted it for money, power, prestige or dopamine hits from Twitter high-fives. Second, the journalists who had a responsibility to dig into this story rather than just repeating what they hoped was true and what the story’s promoters were telling them.

Jeff Zucker, the president of CNN Worldwide, is emblematic of the problem. “We are not investigators,” he said last month. “We are journalists, and our role is to report the facts as we know them, which is exactly what we did.” Has anyone ever seriously thought that investigation was not a core function of journalism?

And then there is the Kool-Aid brigade. These are the people outside of politics, the people who couldn’t wait to hear what Rachel Maddow had to say, who believed every breathless prediction on cable news that “new revelations could spell the end for Trump,” and who shared these nuggets with a mixture of indignation and ecstasy on social media.

But the collusion truthers were not all on the left. Trump-hating neoliberals at some of the old, legacy conservative publications were eager to believe it too. They believed the worst of Mr. Trump because they wanted to, and it led them astray. And none of them have owned their mistake yet, meaning that, as night follows day, they will be duped again.

To the public figures who promoted the collusion story, I say: Own it. Just admit you were wrong. It won’t feel good at first. But when the initial sting passes you will find it liberating. And people will respect you for it. The media and political elites have a lot of work to do if they want to regain the trust of the American people. Confessing a major error that needlessly turned Americans against one another is a good place to start.







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Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Where does Trump get his dumb ideas?




On a tip from Ed Kilbane



A classic!


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You have to wonder about the liberal mindset? Illegals went from a scourge upon America...to God's gift to America Democrats! 

Why?








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Prosecutor Kim Foxx said Jussie Smollett was a 'washed-up celeb who lied to cops' just two weeks before dropping the hoax attack charges






She's comparing Smollet with R.Kelly which is like comparing apples and oranges. Even if she felt Smollett was being 'overcharged'... her decision to rectify the situation was to drop ALL the charges!?! 

 Total bullshit!

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State's Attorney Kim Foxx called Jussie Smollett a 'washed up celeb who lied to cops' in messages sent weeks after she was said to have recused herself from the case

State's Attorney Kim Foxx called Jussie Smollett a 'washed up celeb who lied to cops' in texts sent just two weeks before all charges against him were dropped.

In messages sent weeks after she was said to have recused herself from the case Foxx wrote to fellow prosecutor Joe Magats and appeared to compare Smollett's charges to those leveled at another celebrity defendant, R. Kelly.

She said: 'Pedophile with 4 victims 10 counts. Washed up celeb who lied to cops, 16.'

The case against Smollett, 36, was suddenly and unexpectedly dropped last month by Foxx's office in questionable circumstances.

Thousands of texts and emails about the case were made public by State's Attorney Kim Foxx's office Tuesday.

In messages sent two weeks before that decision Foxx, who has since faced repeated calls to resign over her handling of the case, writes: 'Sooo......I'm recused, but when people accuse us of overcharging cases...16 counts on a class 4 becomes exhibit A.

She goes on: 'Pedophile with 4 victims 10 counts. Washed up celeb who lied to cops, 16.'

Magats replies: 'Yes. I can see where that can be seen as excessive.'

Foxx adds: 'On a case eligible for deferred prosecution I think it's indicative of something we should be looking at generally. Just because we can charge something doesn't mean we should.' 'Agreed', Magats adds. 





State's Attorney Kim Foxx called Jussie Smollett a 'washed up celeb who lied to cops' in messages sent weeks after she was said to have recused herself from the case




Foxx wrote to prosecutor Joe Magats: 'Pedophile with 4 victims 10 counts. Washed up celeb who lied to cops, 16' It is understood she was comparing Smollett's 16 felony counts of lying to the police to the charges leveled at another celebrity defendant, R. Kelly




The case against Smollett, 36, was suddenly and unexpectedly dropped last month by Foxx's office in questionable circumstances




Foxx has since faced repeated calls to resign over her handling of the case

Foxx was said to have recused herself from the case on February 19 but the March 8 messages appear to show she was still meddling in the way it was handled.

Further messages show Foxx replies 'yeah....it's not who we want to be' in response to a message from her colleague Magats saying he'll take a 'hard look' at how we charge the cases.

Magats writes: 'I'll get with Risa and Jim. With him taking over we can take a hard look at how we charge the cases and get it to something that covers what needs to be covered without being excessive and ultimately pointless.'

Risa is thought to be prosecutor Risa Lanier, it is not known who Jim refers to.

Two weeks later Magats announced all 16 charges against Smollett had been dropped.

In a statement to CBS Chicago Foxx said: 'After the indictment became public, I reached out to Joe to discuss reviewing office policies to assure consistencies in our charging and our use of appropriate charging authority.

'I was elected to bring criminal justice reform and that includes intentionality, consistency, and discretion. I will continue to uphold these guiding principles.'

Other messages show how the office struggled to 'anticipate the magnitude of the response' to their decision.

The office released nearly 200 pages of screenshots of texts and more than 3,600 pages of emails Tuesday.

In one assistant State's Attorney Risa Lanier texted Magats: 'Just wish I could have anticipated the magnitude of this response and planned a bit better!'

Magats replied: 'There's really no planning for this. It's the right decision.'

Lanier agreed, responding: 'I agree and absolutely stand by the decision made.' 




Assistant State's Attorney Risa Lanier texted Magats: 'Just wish I could have anticipated the magnitude of this response and planned a bit better!'




Magats replied: 'There's really no planning for this. It's the right decision.' Lanier agreed, responding: 'I agree and absolutely stand by the decision made'


Smollett was arrested in February for allegedly lying about the attack. Police say he paid Abel and Ola Osundairo to attack him and that he thought he could use it as leverage to get a raise on Empire, a claim he denies

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Police Department's Superintendent Eddie Johnson both expressed their fury when her office decided to drop the case.

And messages appear to show the prosecutors' office only told the Chicago police the charges had been dropped as journalists were already in the courtroom, The Chicago Tribune reports.

Foxx messaged Magats to say: 'Eddie just called. (He) needed to know how to answer questions from press. He seemed satisfied with the explanation.'

Johnson would go onto slam the decision with Mayor Rahm Emanuel calling it 'a whitewash of justice'.

Foxx exchanged text messages with members of Smollett's family in the early stages of the investigation and tried, at their request, to convince the Chicago PD to let the FBI take the lead.

The Empire actor was accused of staging an attack on himself on January 29 to try to get a raise on the show. 




In messages sent weeks after she was said to have recused herself from the case Foxx wrote to prosecutor Joe Magats, pictured


He is now facing a lawsuit after the actor refused to pay $130,106 worth of overtime that was accrued by police investigating the January incident that authorities now believe was a staged attack.

The star is currently on vacation with his family in Hawaii where he appeared tense during a heated phone call, telling a pal 'it's over, I got off'.

Police say he paid Abel and Ola Osundairo to beat him in what he then described as a racist, homophobic attack by two Trump-loving perpetrators. He has always maintained his innocence and insisted he was attacked.

Foxx, who recused herself from the case after she communicated with a Smollett relative during the probe, has reiterated that she welcomes an independent investigation into the way she and her office handled the case.

And despite the criticism launched against her, Foxx has continued to ignore calls to resign and revealed she has plans to run for re-election. 




Joined by Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx announces that charges have been filed against singer R. Kelly in February 2019


Protests held outside office of judge who dropped Smollett charges

Smollett, who is black and gay, told police on January 29 that two apparent supporters of President Trump struck him, put a noose around his neck, and poured bleach over him wile yelling 'This is MAGA country'.

He told officers the unknown chemical substance was used on him while 'Empire f****t' and 'Empire n*****' was shouted at him.
Investigators later said they believed Smollett may have paid Abimbola 'Abel' and Olabinjo 'Ola' Osundairo $3,500 to assault him in an alleged orchestrated attack.





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