Of course Trump is guilty because we say he is
Josh Marshall on Trump and Russia:
The greatest conceit in public life today is the notion that we don’t already know President Trump is guilty. Guilty of what? Conspiring, by whatever level of directness, with a foreign power to win the Presidency and then continuing to cater to that foreign power either as payback for the assistance or out of fear of being exposed. In other words, collusion, a national betrayal that may break some statute laws but which far transcends them and isn’t in the past but is rather on-going.
Evidence? Marshall doesn’t need it. Mueller? He must be in on the Trump-exonerating conceit too. Hillary Clinton and Fusion and the Steele dossier? Let’s not pay any attention to that evidence, either.
Then there’s how hard Trump actually has been on Russia in terms of policy. Ignore. And don’t ask yourself why “we” on the left (and that’s who Marshall is addressing; not the right) would be going so easy on Trump and denying what we know is true. Could it be that we don’t hate him quite enough?
I find it extremely interesting and amusing to watch as people–without any actual evidence, and despite almost two years of digging for it by a very well-funded, resource rich gang of Leftists–professionals who are rabid Trump haters–accuse Trump of being some sort of Russian “Manchurian candidate,” blackmailed by them and under their influence while, at the same time, ignoring the public record of all of the anti-Putin and anti-Russia actions that Trump has taken, which directly contradict their “narrative” and their accusations.
Contemplation of the life and work of Nat Hentoff or Alan Dershowitz or Christopher Jencks makes it apparent that younger generations on the portside are serving everyone sh!t sandwiches. You have a few wonks like Mark Kleiman and Harold Pollack and that’s it for anyone or anything of value.
It is even more amusing to see how those who criticize Trump very carefully ignore all sorts of real economic achievements by Trump–thanks to tax cuts, more actual spendable/saveable money in everybody’s pay checks, the stock market is going gangbusters, low unemployment–especially among teenagers and blacks, U.S. Steel announcing that–as a direct result of Trump’s placing tariffs on imported steel–it is going to spend $750 million dollars to revitalize it’s old steel plant in rustbelt Gary, Indiana, a reported 400% one year increase in black entrepreneurs, Fidelity out with a report today that the number of it’s account holders with million dollar IRA balances has increased by 46% in the last year, etc., etc., etc.
So much good economic news is piling up that I don’t know how much longer the Left’s “look, a squirrel,” ploy, designed to focus our attention on anything–no matter how phony, illusory, or unimportant–other than on our very real, concrete, economic progress–because of actions that Trump has taken–is going to work.
Other transportation sector statistics attesting to just how well our economy is now doing are that freight shipment volume in our country by all means–trucks, rail, barge, and air–is the highest it’s been since 2007, and that orders for new, class 8 heavy trucks are up a reported 187% from last year’s level, to 52,250 trucks, the highest level ever recorded.
I hate reading this Dem PC-bully garbage, looking for stuff worth reading. This one does have some interesting between the lines notes:
” These aren’t questions of criminal law. They might become questions of criminal law. But they’re not there yet. They are now simply political questions,…”
Josh is preparing the PC-bullies for when there are no criminal charges, thus no crimes by Trump over contacts with Russia.
He’s trying to keep up the hate on “what we already know”. Tho what he says he knows is actually Fake News, yet writes as if it’s gospel truth, without legal evidence.
“we are locked in a situation in which we must operate in a system in which the person with the most power is working for a foreign adversary, whether out of avarice or fear. That is a profoundly uncomfortable reality.”
I really think Josh believes this, and wants the other Dem-bullies to believe it, and some of them will justify illegal acts because of this Dem Fake News based belief.
Ironic, and all too often true, that his final line fully applies to his own false Fake News beliefs: “The fact that the reality is real and that it’s too hard for many to accept is what matters.”
The reality is the Deep State vs legitimate President Trump, and the Deep Dem State is both wrong and, at times, has been criminal. That’s the reality too many TDS Trump haters find too hard to accept.
After spending a week on vacation with no news (except glancing at the front page of Drudge once or twice), I see that I’ve missed nothing and nothing has changed.
I’m finding myself paying less attention to news these days, and relying more and more on commentary like The New Neo to know what’s going on. Does this make me less informed? Probably. Does it matter? Probably not.
Besides, I figure with the high quality of commentary from our gracious host, not to mention her many regular commenters, I think following Neo is a good way to get a lot of general knowledge about the state of politics. The news is all fake anyway, right?
When Trump was running, I did have concerns of him being a Manchurian Candidate for the progressives. If he had been accepted by them after the election and Schumer and Pelosi said they would work with him on common grounds, I believe those concerns would have been warranted.
But the over-exuberant protests, demeaning politicians and negative news coverage has meant Trump has stayed away from them and governed more conservatively than I thought.
I don’t know if they realize they created the Trump we have, where with a little cooperation and generosity they could have had the Trump that I feared.
They can’t change their views or actions which could change the reality of how Trump works. They are trapped in their narrative of the “facts” of Trump to preserve their own worldview or keep their place in it. Look at what happens to those who change how they think, even slightly deviating from the progressive vision of the world.
For many in the media, it’s a ‘narrow tightrope’ between acknowledging Trump’s accomplishments and maintaining the appropriate level of contempt.
It’s far easier to ignore any positives, all it takes is the requisite level of intellectual dishonesty. A state easily attained given the Left’s rejection of basic aspects of reality itself.
A lefty friend emailed me a few days ago, and said, essentially – once Mueller finishes his investigation and Trump is impeached – etc. I replied that it sounded like the old westerns, where they say – “First we try him, then we hang him”. It seems that in most lefties minds, there isn’t any doubt that Trump is guilty of something. I suspect this is caused by PTSD over Hillary’s loss, how else could that have happened?
Who is this idiot and what the hell is TMP? Did he manage to graduate elementary school?
“When Trump was running, I did have concerns of him being a Manchurian Candidate for the progressives.”
I remember thinking he was a joke candidate running at least in part to trip up real candidates in order to help out his pals, the Clintons.
Assumes facts conjured and believed.
eeyore on August 20, 2018 at 2:10 pm at 2:10 pm said:
I don’t know if they realize they created the Trump we have, where with a little cooperation and generosity they could have had the Trump that I feared.
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Indeed.
A few interesting posts on topic:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/08/the_story_of_ohr_and_more.html
https://amgreatness.com/2018/08/20/manaforts-web-ensnares-nevertrumpers-democrats-everyone/
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1030528033411674112.html
Thread by @KimStrassel: “It is never fun to tackle fact checkers, but this one is a case study in that modern art of omitting details, stating unsupportable assertions as fact, slipping things in, manipulating a narrative. Opinion as “fact.” So let’s go through it. ”
Kim thorough fisks the WaPo articles “Who is Bruce Ohr?” and hands out a gazillian Alternative-Pinocchios for their word-smithing — nothing they say is literally untrue, but what they don’t say makes the entire article a lie.
Some more things Trump –
https://amgreatness.com/2018/08/19/trumps-character-and-trumps-presidency/
David Horowitz answers Jonah Goldberg – worth reading to see his POV on moral character vs policy & performance:
‘I don’t know whether it was the snideness of this comment [by Jonah] or its absoluteness that triggered me, but it seemed so pigheadedly self-righteous, so oblivious of the complexities of human character, not to mention the nuclear dimensions of the Left’s war against Trump that I responded—and in doing so walked into a hornets’ nest.”
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Kind of a summary of the entire conflict; very short, and the first of several good comments.
http://www.ncobrief.com/index.php/archives/the-dogs-dont-like-it/
04. August 2018 · 34 comments · (from Celia Hayes aka Sgt Mom)
The title of this post is the punchline to an old, old story about the limits of advertising; a story which may or may not be based on fact. The story goes that a big food-manufacturing conglomerate came up with a brand new formulation for dog food, and advertised it with a huge, costly campaign: print ads, TV commercials, product placement in movies, TV shows, county fairs, giveaways and sponsorships; the whole ball of wax … and the product cratered. The CEO of the company is irate and demands answers from anyone who can give him a reason why. Didn’t they do everything possible to make their dog food brand the market leader? Image everyone at that meeting looking nervously at each other at this point – because they have done everything possible … except for one small thing. Finally, someone gets up sufficient nerve to answer. “But the dogs don’t like it.”
This is the point that I believe has been reached with regard to the establishment news and entertainment media with regard to a major segment of the American public: the final consumer is pushing the plate away and saying, essentially, “I don’t like it.” This is not going down well with the major purveyors of the news dog-food. Witness CNN’s Jim Acosta, getting all bent out of shape at being heckled, harassed, and having uncomplimentary signs held up in back of him as he tries to do a live stand-up. It’s not enough for the manufacturers of media dog-food to have been biased on the progressive side since the days of Kennedy and Nixon, to have carried water for Bill Clinton and John Kerry, worshipped adoringly at the feet of Obama and all but carried the juggernaut of his candidacy over the finishing line twice, then to have attempted the same with Hilary, only to have Her Inevitableness, the Dowager Empress of Chautauqua fumble an election that was already almost in the bag for her. The last two years have seen the establishment news hounds (and their fellow-travelers in government, entertainment and academia) go completely bug-nuts with fury. How dare those – those – those deplorables in Flyoverlandia, those ignorant, racist hicks vote for that – that – reality TV star!?
They were so certain that the arrow of history was only ever going to fly one way – their way, the correct way. They were so certain of this … but then to find out that a good half of the country didn’t agree send them into a spiral of angry, baffled, unthinking rage. You would have thought that the good progressive, socially conscientious producers of news, entertainment, education and government rules should have known better, even if only out of self-interest. You’d have assumed they would realize at the start that pouring vituperative contempt on potential customers, clients, and consumers would only end in tears. As it happens, they didn’t – and the contempt flowed as freely as Sarah Jeong’s twitter feed. That apparently unbalanced young person may or may not get to keep a cushy job at the New York Times, the so-called paper of record, given a demonstrated tendency to vent a reservoir of spleen the size of Lake Michigan. A reasonable person might ask why she should, given that Roseanne Barr got the sack from her television show for far less insulting materiel.
Uncomfortable things happen to establishments like the New York Times, Newsweek, CNN, the NFL, Evergreen College and cities like San Francisco when the dogs don’t like it. Are we now at the point where the dogs take their eyeballs, their subscriptions, their entertainment and educational budgets and go elsewhere … and those places and more start feeling the bite? Which hurts … and they have no one but themselves to blame for not pleasing the dogs. Discuss, if you are so inclined.
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John F. MacMichael
20180804 at 1452
The steady downward spiral of the prestige and power of the major media illustrates a truth I first encountered as a boy. In one of Robert A. Heinlein’s YA novels “Citizen of the Galaxy” (1957) the young hero is given some advice by his foster father. He tells the boy to beware of lying because “…once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb because men will no more listen to him than they will listen to the wind.” (I quote from memory so that is not exact).
For the MSM we can see this truth in action. Too many people have caught them too many times; whether getting key facts wrong, slanting stories, ignoring news that would embarrass the people or causes they support or just plain flat out lying (Rathergate anyone?). More and more people are tuning them out.
They will, no doubt, continue preaching to the choir but an awful lot of people who used to be sitting in the pews have gotten up and walked out.
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Cue post on #WalkAway movement.
It looks like Josh is a little nervous about his blew wave. Too bad he and his buddies are the equivalent of 12 year-olds on paddleboards, trying to kick those waves up a bit.
Talking Points Memo…haahahahahhaaahahaaa
Idiots galore there.
AesopFan, above @1:06 AM, I was surprised and rather pleased to see my comment from a few days ago at Sgt. Mom’s blog quoted (with approval) here. I am glad you liked it.
Hi John – small world!
“Everything I know in life I learned from Robert Heinlein & Rudyard Kipling” is starting to look like a functional ideology.
““Everything I know in life I learned from Robert Heinlein & Rudyard Kipling” is starting to look like a functional ideology.”
Personally, I admire both Heinlein and Kipling, not, however, unconditionally or uncritically. That said, one could do a lot worse than live one’s life in accordance with the examples and precepts in their works.