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By: Sennacherib

Sennacherib — Fri, 17 May 2024 17:04:19 +0000

Hey, lay off Romney, it’s a heavy burden to be as smart as he is, it shows!!

By: miguel+cervantes

miguel+cervantes — Fri, 17 May 2024 14:38:53 +0000

need I remind anyone that they needed to replace lynch as atty general, and then put in a replacement for sally yates who pushed the whole fraud against General Flynn, thank you Mike Pence for playing, they set the trip wires about three levels down, at DOJ FBI and CIA, Brennan promoted coffee fetcher ned price as I dubbed him noodlehead ned, to intelligence operative, Comey McCabe, Strzok, Lynch Yates Laufman, Mccord and thats who I can conjure up at short notice
then they sprung the silly memo, from Comey, that triggered the Mueller investigation, all of this is context to the story,

just as they prevented General Flynn from doing a proper assessment of the corrupt intel bureaucracy, because of some bogus charge, Ambassador Kislyak was in on this operation, as he had collaborated with a dozen democrats including Air Claire for the poison challce that was the Iran deak

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 17 May 2024 14:32:26 +0000

Karmi @5:45 pm,
You remember the “lock her up” chants at Trump rallies, but you forgot the “they’re good people” line that Trump himself voiced when he explained his refusal to pressure the DOJ to prosecute her.
I don’t know, maybe both sides do it, but it seems like one side is eager to project the faults of a small percentage of their opponents supporters onto the opponent. J6 anyone?

By: Sailorcurt

Sailorcurt — Fri, 17 May 2024 10:13:47 +0000

“Romney said, referring to Biden. ‘It was a win-win for Donald Trump.'”

And that there’s the money quote. Romney doesn’t give two hoots about the reputation or viability of the legal system. He hates Trump and cares only about the fact that these cases help him more than hurt him.

If the opposite were true, he’d be cheerleading the trials from the front seats.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Fri, 17 May 2024 07:21:58 +0000

What better place than a post on utter nonsense to link to an excellent—even formidable—and relatively brief article of utmost seriousness on a major reason why collectivism cannot work unless certain conditions are met; on the necessity of decent leadership; AND that the Pursuit of Happiness—if within the limits of law and religion, or “enlightened self-denial”(?)— may in fact be the most effective and efficient organizing social principle…?
“The Unheavenly Farm;
“Before turning his insights to urban difficulties, Edward Banfield wrote an important but forgotten book—now republished—on the enduring difficulties of cooperation.”—
https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-unheavenly-farm
H/T Powerline blog.

By: Whitehall

Whitehall — Fri, 17 May 2024 07:02:37 +0000

Even if Biden had the power and the will to “pardon” Trump (Biden doesn’t in the Bragg case) the “pardon” would have tainted Trump as a still a guilty criminal who we shouldn’t vote for. Interesting to see if Biden tries that for Trump’s two federal cases.

Can Trump refuse a presidential pardon?

The prosecutions of Trump are as Talleyrand said of Napoleon’s execution of a German prince: “It is worst than a crime, it is a mistake.”

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Fri, 17 May 2024 06:29:27 +0000

“That would violate the separation of powers, which would be an impeachable offense.”

Well, um, OK…but I’ll raise ya’
“Joe Biden Invokes Executive Privilege Over Special Counsel Recordings”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-invokes-executive-privilege-over-special-counsel-recordings
Key excuse:

…Because of the President’s longstanding commitment to protecting the integrity, effectiveness, and independence of the Department of Justice and its law enforcement investigations, he has decided to assert executive privilege over the recordings,” said White House counsel Ed Siskel….[Emphasis mine; Barry M.]

(By the way, he said that with a straight face…but then he would, wouldn’t he…)

File under: Just a small, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy taste of things to come…with Canada not far behind—actually, Canada may even be the leading edge!

By: BJ

BJ — Fri, 17 May 2024 05:28:03 +0000

New Presidents who have just been elected are often dismayed to find the job has far less power and far more responsibility than it appears. No President can call up the various state DAs and say “Yeah, you know the guy who’s running against me? Throw every charge at him you can get.” That would violate the separation of powers, which would be an impeachable offense.

The House GOP has been desperate to impeach President Biden since day one. If even the slightest bit of evidence could confirm that the White House was behind the indictments in Georgia and New York, then the GOP would be on it like “a duck on a June bug”.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Fri, 17 May 2024 03:44:15 +0000

“… The New York case and the Georgia case are state crimes, and a President can not pardon state crimes; you’d have to petition the governors to do that.”

How much you wanna bet that these prosecutions are being run, stage managed, orchestrated and choreographed by the “White House” (with the appropriate raucus support provided—free of charge, of course—by the corrupt media)?