Barr’s testimony and public opinion
I didn’t watch Barr’s testimony yesterday, but he was apparently great—but only to those predisposed to agree with him:
Mazie Hirono of Hawaii either completely trashed Barr or made a fool out of herself. Ted Cruz positively owned the Democrats. Kamala Harris, oddly, gutted Barr like a fish? I dunno. That’s what one website said…
If you only paid attention to media takeaways and social media reactions, you have no idea what happened in yesterday’s hearing. It’s almost as if, now follow me on this, but it’s almost as if nothing substantive actually happened yesterday.
Because it didn’t.
These hearings are a joke, moreso now than they’ve ever been. There is no point to these hearings because they give us no new information. Everything we know about the Mueller report, his letter to Barr, and the actual investigation into Donald Trump are things we know based solely on what’s been publicly released. We didn’t need this hearing.
So why have it? Because Congressional hearings are publicly-funded campaign ads. They give politicians a chance to show off their best material to the people who watch not to learn anything but to see someone get “owned.”
Indeed. That’s why some people refer to these things as “theater.”
I used to think—long long ago—that people could be persuaded by logic, and that when it was obvious to me that someone had the better hand in an argument, the same would be crystal clear to the majority of people listening. Ha!
Remember the line in the theater, at the end of The Lives of Others? I may have it slightly wrong: “To think that men like you once ruled a country.” In listening to Mazie, Cory, that stupid wax figure, Blumenthal, the fraud Harris, the idiot from RI, Whitehouse, who actually gives stupid a bad name, that phrase came to mind. “To think we let people like them run this nation.” A pox on us.
I think the Democrats are running scared right now, because I think this whole Trump/collusion/impeachment thing is about to get rammed down their throats. I think they know it’s coming, and the only way they can defend themselves is to attempt to stay on offense.
Many, many Ha-ha. About one in 1000 people can be persuaded by logical argumentation. I love one of Plato dialogues in which such thing happened: both opponents were convinced by arguments of the another party, so in the result they exchanged their positions. But they were philosophers, this was their hobby.
“They give us no new information” says the RedState writer. Well, no, wrong. AG Barr dropped a number of bits of new information if one listened closely. But then, most of those are likely only meaningful to people who’ve followed the entire set of cases closely. And too, these bits will emerge as the next set of cases unfold.
TDS has now been augmented with BDS.
The hearings (i.e., show trials) change no position because (as Greg Gutfield says) people are watching two movies in their heads. Scott Adams’ podcasts have instructed listeners on cognitive dissonance. Facts do not matter, in fact (sorry) they are irrelevant to the world view of many.
Remember what we were being told after the election of 2016:
The stock market would crash
Trump would involve us in a nuclear war
Trump would open concentration camps for (fill in the blank here)
The economy would crash
Trump is an insane puppet of Putin
Yadda-yadda-yadda ad infinitum
Now we are being told new “facts” by the democrats and their henchpersons in the MSM.
If we put any democrat in office in the next election, we deserve what follows.
Meanwhile, I will continue to prepare by following the advice of Kurt Schlichter.
I remember a cartoon about 30 years old: A man with a black eye goes out the door into the hall of some university building and explains to a colleague: “You know how it usually happens: word for word…” And the plaque on the door reads “Logic Department”.
This is simply the democRATS trying to destroy Barr’s credibility so that when the indictments start coming down they can claim they are politically motivated. This is straight out of rules for radicals. Whatever you are doing accuse the other side of first to inoculate yourself.
One would really like to believe that there is at least a modicum of honesty among elected officials and the press. One might just as well believer in the tooth fairy, Easter bunny, et al.
My wife wonders why I don’t watch TV or read the local rag. I tell her that if everything is to be filtered, I will choose my filters.
Logic convinces those who wish to arrive at a judgment based on facts. That doesn’t apply to the Dems in this situation.
“When logic and proportion have fallen soggy and the red queen has offed her head…” the left have definitely gone down the rabbit hole to find themselves in a stranger wonderland than they can imagine. If Barr actually means what he says, many heads will explode.
Chicken: https://mobile.twitter.com/TPMLiveWire/status/1123944889568374785
Yeah, right. (sarc)
It was slightly entertaining to watch Hazy Mazie struggle to read her script. Was it her first read through, or are her verbal skills just that poor, or both? But mostly she and the rest of the display that I saw, was just sad.
Mazie suffers from drain bamage.
When Barr testified that Trump had, in fact, been “spied” upon, it must have sent a chill up that backs of the myriad of conspirators who created and long perpetuated this disinformation campaign, and attempted coup d’etat.
The sudden Democrat and MSM barrage of charges that formerly quite acceptable AG Barr is, in some way, a crook, and their demands that Barr should resign, are a measure of just how deathly afraid they are that Barr will actually, faithfully, and fully do his job.
Because, if Barr does his job when he investigates the genesis of, and all the unethical, and most especially the wide array of illegal machinations that together made up the Trump-Russia conspiracy hoax–this attempted coup d’etat–the whole elaborate scheme and its large cast of characters will be exposed to the light of day.
But, more importantly, it is likely that dozens and dozens of people are going to be indicted.
Smearing and attempting to discredit Barr is these conspirator’s way of trying to knock out their accuser and–if they can’t do that–to cast doubt on any charges he might lay against them.
Smearing and attempting to discredit Barr is these conspirator’s way of trying to knock out their accuser and–if they can’t do that–to cast doubt on any charges he might lay against them.
No, if Barr gets too dangerous, he’ll end up like JFK, some Clinton employees, and other whistleblowers. In the grave.