Comments on: Will the MSM ever retract their old Russiagate stories, in light of the Durham revelations?

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 16:55:35 +0000

Barry. Love to see convictions by the boatload.
But as a lesson against “they’d never do that” comments by those only moderately mush headed, the records can still be useful.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 14:35:53 +0000

In that interview, Greenwald says (or implies) that Durham’s investigation, ultimately, must be approved (or accepted?) by Garland.

I guess that’s the huge catch.

That is, if I’ve understood Greenwald (in the interview) correctly, Durham can work his backside off for years and produce all the evidence he wants, thousands and thousands of pages—all of it ironclad and irrefutable—and successfullyindict everyone and his brother; but at the end of the day Garland can say, “Great job, John!!…You really hit it out of the park! But, um…uh, uh. Nope. Sorry. No dice. Stiil, helluva job. Really. No one coulda done it better….”

Someone, kindly tell me I’m wrong about this….

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 14:18:56 +0000

Yes, that’s right. Thanks

Here’s Glenn Greenwald’s take on the Schiff show:
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1458128033907359744

(Tlak about “take no prisoners”…)

+ Greenwald himself interviewed on the topic..
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1458128033907359744

By: geoffb

geoffb — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 13:37:50 +0000

“Keep in mind that John Ratcliffe in a previous interview claimed that Schiff, as Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, was informed that the Steele Dossier was bogus, i.e., he was TOTALLY IN THE LOOP regarding its total unreliability. IOW, Schiff KNEW.”

As did all members of the “Gang of Eight.” The House Speaker and minority leader. The Senate majority and minority leaders. The House and Senate chairs and ranking members of the Intel committees.

By: Cappy

Cappy — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 12:44:29 +0000

Nope.

And don’t you bring up even the name of principal players in social media, specifically FaceBook, Wikipedia, or Reddit.

Although not in the Russia B.S., in the collateral smear, saying the name Eric Ciaramella will get you banned off those platforms.

Voldemort!

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 11:35:41 +0000

More hope?
The Danchenko indictment may cause a cascade as the net widens:
“New Twists in Durham Probe: FBI Danchenko Recordings and Suspicions Fiona Hill Lied”—
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/11/09/new_twists_in_durham_probe_fbi_danchenko_recordings_and_suspicions_fiona_hill_lied_802878.html
H/T Powerline blog.

Key grafs:
‘Asked whether she was “aware of any interaction between Mr. Steele and Ukrainians,” Hill did not say “to the best of my recollection” or “I don’t remember specifically,” or even a simple “no.” Instead she expanded her answer to deny not only any knowledge of Steele and Ukrainians, but to deny any knowledge of anything Steele-related: “I have no knowledge whatsoever of how he developed that dossier. None. I just want to state that.”
‘Lawmakers are particularly interested in that statement. The Danchenko indictment states that Hill introduced Danchenko both to Steele and to an unnamed public relations executive, since identified as Charles Dolan Jr., a Hillary Clinton ally. Republican members of the House Permanent Select Committee are questioning whether Hill could have had “no knowledge whatsoever” of how the dossier was developed when she had a central role in connecting those key players….’
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NOnetheless, there are still plenty of reasons for grave dismay and foreboding…in the wake of the imminent passage of the so-called “Infrastructure Bill”—
“Pete Buttigieg’s Slush Fund”:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/11/pete-buttigiegs-slush-fund.php

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 11:26:14 +0000

Still, that is some hope out there…based on the possibility that Youngkin’s victory in Virginia will be adopted as a strategic model for future elections:
https://www.city-journal.org/glenn-youngkin-coalition-of-the-sane
H/T Powerline blog.
Key grafs:
“…[Younkin’s] victory offers three key lessons for Republicans. First, Youngkin relentlessly opposed the cultural agenda of the newly ascendant illiberal Left…
“Second, Youngkin avoided conspiracy theories and extremism and deftly triangulated where necessary…
“Third, Democrats may not be able to pull themselves out of this mess….”

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 11:03:46 +0000

Re Jake Sullivan…
He figures, along with many others, in this masterful (if not all that easy to follow) compendium (from Sept. 20) on the morass that was the extraordinarily convoluted and complex plot to take down Trump.
The article’s author tries to cover the evolution of the defenestration but it’s incredibly complicated. (A timeline would be useful here. I wonder if anyone has put one together…)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/details-in-michael-sussmanns-indictment-reveal-conspiracy-against-trump_4006442.html

+ Bonus…of sorts (that is, if you can stomach it):
Adam Schiff (yes, I know) being interviewed. The interviewer actually asks some serious questions, and Shiff is his usual dishonest, evasive, creepy and repulsive self—did I mention “contemptible”?—(poor guy can’t seem to help it…).

Well, you’ve been warned…
https://twitter.com/LiveOnTheChat/status/1458113615739998217
H/T Lee Smith twitter feed.

Keep in mind that John Ratcliffe in a previous interview claimed that Schiff, as Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, was informed that the Steele Dossier was bogus, i.e., he was TOTALLY IN THE LOOP regarding its total unreliability. IOW, Schiff KNEW.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 09:20:06 +0000

An absolutely MUST READ on the current, and evolving, predicament—make that “attack from within”—facing the country:
“Yuri Bezmenov’s Marxist Crisis Is Near
And it’s just the beginning of the Left’s plan to destroy America as we know it.”
https://spectator.org/yuri-bezmenov-crisis-america/
H/T Instapundit
Key grafs (read the whole thing):
“…In that interview, Bezmenov outlined the Soviet plan, hinted at so many years before by Premier Nikita Khrushchev, to implode American society from within. It had four stages.
“Demoralization. Destabilization. Crisis. Normalization.
“Bezmenov’s formulation was eminently believable, even if things didn’t turn out the way he envisioned. It informed virtually every single Marxist takeover of the 20th century, from Latvia to Venezuela. But it never quite permeated our understanding of the Marxist project, because less than a half-decade after Bezmenov’s interview with Griffin the Soviet Union had fallen apart and our attention to communism as a threat to our freedom diverted elsewhere.
“You’re probably a lot more familiar with the Cloward–Piven strategy than Bezmenov’s four stages, and that’s not surprising.
“But right now, if you want to understand the insane times in which we’re living and make some sense of why things are happening as they are, perhaps the best way to do so is to focus on the first two stages Bezmenov outlined.
“Demoralization and destabilization are where we are.
“Things aren’t falling apart by accident, and they aren’t falling apart because Joe Biden is incompetent. As my column last year noted, Joe Biden wasn’t selected by the Democrat Party’s top leadership because he was a strong leader — exactly the opposite is true. In Biden they have a figurehead they can control completely…”
“…It isn’t incompetence. It’s the plan. It’s Cloward–Piven. It’s destabilization. They’re even gaslighting you, trying to make you believe it’s a good thing….”
Etc…
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Re: media retraction…
Forget about it.
E.g., here’s how the media reported the prosecution’s immolation in the Rittenhouse trial:
“If you want to understand why no one trust the press, today’s headlines about the trial are a perfect example. This witness got caught in multiple lies and his testimony ended up making a clear case for self-defense. This is how the major outlets reported on it”….”
https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1457822321465495556

Watershed moment for America….
Gonna have to pull together.
It’s existential.

By: TJ

TJ — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 05:30:01 +0000

Insufficiently….heh. Grim future? So it seems to me. And these are people I will not stay civil with as citizens.

Barry — thanks for sharing the Sullivan quip vid a vis Trump.

Death to fascists, I say.