That reminded me of when it was not only okay but patriotic and brave for an American to talk to Assad.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pelosi-defies-bush-meets-syrian-leader/
“The Bush administration has rejected direct talks with Damascus until its changes its ways. But Democrats — and some Republicans — say the refusal of dialogue has closed doors to possible progress in resolving Mideast crises.

Pelosi and a delegation of five congressional Democrats and Ohio Republican Dave Hobson met for three hours with Assad, including a lunch with him in Damascus’ historic Old City.

The meeting brought no immediate change in Syria’s stances.”

I remember a phrase from a book I once read; “Intelligence is wisdom beforehand.”

Or as Will Rogers once said “There are two kinds of people; those who learn from the advice and experience of others, and those who have to piss on the electric fence for themselves.”

Intelligence: “Uh oh! That sign says “High Voltage”! You better not piss on it, Wes!”

Wes: “Go fly a kite, you libtard elitist! I’ll do whatever I want to! And I want to—YEEEAAGRH!”

Intelligence: *sigh* “I’ll go get the first aid kit.”

When the time comes to promote a cowboy to ranch foreman, the smart ranch owner picks Intelligence, not Wes (who’s still twitching from being electrocuted).

It’s similar but not identical; the central cross of the Jerusalem Cross is a ‘cross potent.’
I wonder how much of the purported outrage is due to Hegseth simply having a cross tattoo of any kind.

judicial watch got more documentation even guccifer that free lance hacker who broke the pipeline to Hillary from deep state players, Murray and Drumheller which had agendas of their own,

Trey Gowdy attached him tonight on his Fox News show. Trey’s usually kind of mild mannered. It’s clear he doesn’t like Gaetz.

My mind is somewhat neutral on Gaetz at this point. He is hated by the left, and the sexual assault charges are just the sort of thing they will use to punish someone as combative as Gaetz is. We’ll see if there is any there, there.

If Gaetz makes it to confirmation hearings (not a sure thing, IMO), I’ll certainly be watching. Guaranteed fireworks. Must watch TV.

Of course, some of the other hearings will be brutal from the Democrat side. So, “advise and consent” also has a large element of educational entertainment.

“Pritzker Appoints Himself As Democracy’s Superhero”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pritzker-appoints-himself-democracys-superhero

Opening graf:
“It would be comically hypocritical if weren’t so tragically destructive. Illinois governor JB Pritzker last week appointed himself co-chair of a new group to save democracy.…”

File under: Yuck…Yuck…Yuck…