Comments on: A bit more about Joe Biden’s January 6th speech

By: Eva Marie

Eva Marie — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 17:20:33 +0000

Jimmy: That’s a great article.
Maybe they tried to threaten Trump but I don’t think that is what affected Trump’s decision. I base that conclusion on Trump’s reaction to the Russian prostitute allegations. Trump knew that was a not-so-subtle threat from the FBI and he didn’t bend.
My thinking is that Trump relied on experts in areas where he didn’t have expertise. Hence Syria, Fauci, Afghanistan, and no on these pardons. There is a suspicion (Intel services would know for sure) that Snowden gave classified information to the Chinese. I don’t really understand why Assange isn’t free.
Greenwald has been doing great reporting but his default position is that Republicans are the bad guys.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 16:47:39 +0000

The Greenwald piece is behind the paywall, but in another piece he suggests one big reason for the ensuing “preposterous” impeachment:

https://systemupdate.substack.com/p/video-transcript-the-semi-inside

all signs are pointing in the direction of him pardoning Snowden, for sure. And maybe Assange. And then suddenly this preposterous impeachment proceeding to impeach a president who was on his way out anyway, emerged precisely because it gave them the leverage to threaten Trump and say that they would convict him if he did any of those things.

And that is why he left office without doing what you can tell from that video he knows he should have done.

By: Cornhead

Cornhead — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 16:44:03 +0000

Biden stole the election. I’m not going to listen to this senile old man. Totally illegitimate; just like the grandchild he won’t acknowledge. Why isn’t that an issue? Why doesn’t the NYT and WaPo run think pieces on Joe’s refusal to acknowledge Hunter’s bastard?

By: om

om — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 14:37:33 +0000

Z had another fixation it seems, The Claremount Institution. But then again, not his history.

The wickedmedia description of the Claremount Institution could use your input, Z, it didn’t go into that kind of “truth.”

By: Eva Marie

Eva Marie — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 12:05:43 +0000

“It was amusing to see the Democrats snuggling up to Dick Cheney, the Darth Vader of their nightmares.”
Dick Cheney has had a heart transplant. Yet there he was, walking through a crush of reporters. No Covid worries?

By: Skip

Skip — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 09:50:05 +0000

One thing taught to me by Dennis Prager in the Barky years is its better to read transcript after speech than listen to it. Sundowner is no exception and read many of his though not this one yet in full, did see many clips.
First time ever, one of his last they inserted a preamble he didn’t even say, but so far have left in his ramblings.

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 03:03:44 +0000

@Om:

Wasn’t headline news around here that the Lincoln worshiping devotees of Strauss and Jaffa have some esoteric weirdness in their ranks.

Further exegesis would be wasted.

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 03:00:35 +0000

@GB:

It’s not entertainment for (broad church) us because we (shaddup Om) are normal.

For a lot of folk it’s blood sport… or worse the only real source of meaning in their sorry lives. And much of the Left is animated by the Will to Power, Self-hatred, and the urge to assuage their internal torment by hurting others via the vehicle of Politics.

Which does raise questions about the desirability of broad participation in politics. Something we’d likely differ markedly on.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 02:50:42 +0000

Zaphod,

“No one is surprised to learn that people in politics have the morals of carny folk, because politics is entertainment.” Zman

No surprise regarding moral bankruptcy but there’s nothing entertaining about our current politics.

By: om

om — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 02:40:46 +0000

Last weeks news Z, Tim Pool got burned by Jack Murphy too. Just another smoke blower.