Close Escape

Man, did we ever dodge a bullet back in 2016:

The report indicates that Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) possessed “DNC communications that Clinton was suffering from ‘intensified psycho-emotional problems, including uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness,’” and that Hillary “was placed on a daily regimen of ‘heavy tranquilizers’ and while afraid of losing, she remained ‘obsessed with a thirst for power.’ ”

Yup… that sounds like Our Hillary, ferrrr shirrr.

Worse still (in the linked article) is the role the loathsome Obama Administration played in the whole matter.

Read it, and rage.

In And Out

…and no, this isn’t some fevered fantasy involving Salma Hayek in a silk nightie.  (sorry)

But it is the best thing I’ve read in a long time.  Read it all, but here’s just a taste:

Fulcher helped redirect nearly $50 billion from bureaucratic bloat into actual defense readiness. He streamlined software procurement timelines from years to months, modernizing critical IT systems across the department. He contributed to acquisition program reviews focused on strengthening military lethality and America’s defense industrial base.

In six months.

Priceless

Okay, the bullshit is strong with this one [Brian Stelter alert] :

Trump’s victory over PBS and NPR ‘bias’ will be ‘devastating’ for rural areas, station leaders say

Of course, given that “rural areas” happen to be where conservative talk radio programs find their biggest audience, I think we may safely say that the disappearance of these pore rural NPR broadcasters will hardly be missed.

One could test this hypothesis, of course, simply by polling said audiences to make a simple choice between “NPR federal funding” and (say) “federal funding for rural road improvements”.  My guess:

(sent to me by Reader Mike L., thankee;  I would never have seen this, coming as it did from CNN)

That Epstein Thing

The Divine Sarah has an opinion about the Epstein thing, and it makes a great deal of sense.  The biggest part:

“No, it is not actually credible that Trump was ‘in the Epstein list’ because if he had been, the Biden DOJ who had control of that list would have published it or at least published that bit of it, with corroboration, instead of going after washed up socialites and media personalities oh, and porn actresses to try to smear Trump.”

That makes a great deal of sense.  Of course, assuming that if such a list even existed — and maybe it did, or maybe it was all in Epstein’s (now-deceased) head, or maybe it used to exist and was so incriminating for a whole bunch of Democrat bigwigs that the Democrat-controlled FBI destroyed it and all its supporting evidence during the arrest and search (which took place, lest we forget, in 2019).

Equally germane to the whole “Epstein coverup” is that the loudest voices now screaming for Bondi’s removal and ritual beheading are either extremist MAGA nutcases or rabid lefties like Keith Olberman.

Why would the Left suddenly be calling for the removal of Trump’s attorney-general?

I dunno, but here’s one reason:

The Department of Justice and the FBI have been quietly building a major criminal conspiracy case targeting the Deep State’s decade-long effort to derail Donald Trump. According to Solomon, the scope of the investigation could finally deliver the accountability that many in the MAGA movement have long demanded.

Now that’s a bigger deal than a pedophile’s little black book that may or may not exist.

Look, I don’t like the fact that the Epstein files were on Bondi’s desk (by her own admission) and it turned out that they were just a big nothingburger.

And I’ll also buy the fact that Epstein may well have killed himself, with the absolute assistance of corrupt criminal officials (surveillance video turned off, the guards “on break”, etc.), because that’s how things work in a corrupt Democrat bureaucracy.

Frankly, I’m more interested that these assholes get to wear prison jumpsuits:


…than a bunch of wealthy or politically-active assholes who liked shagging young girls.  Both would be good, I agree;  but if forced to pick one group, I’d pick to one containing Brennan, Comey and McCabe et al.

And if it were to turn out that the Clintons were involved in that criminal conspiracy — and I’m not taking bets they weren’t — we’d most likely be getting a twofer, given the likely intersect.

Speaking of a real MAGA issue being more important than Epstein, there’s also this one:

The Supreme Court delivered an opinion last week that not even the best of the punditry class was prepared to understand. The decision was Trump vs. CASA, and the topic concerned the nationwide injunction against Trump’s management of U.S. immigration policy. As with more than 40 other cases, federal district judges have intervened to stop the president from exercising executive powers.

The opinion could not be plainer: “Universal injunctions likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has given to federal courts.” That principle applies not only to this case but to the whole panoply of cases that have tethered the ability of the president to manage executive branch operations. The courts have presumed authority over the president that the Constitution plainly does not grant.

I would suggest that the whole Epstein argy-bargy is a sideshow compared to the above two issues, and it’s them we should be going after.  Yeah, maybe Bill Clinton was an Epstein client / accomplice;  but that he may have escaped justice (for the umpteenth time) is just an irritation, not a critical problem.

A runaway Deep State and an obstructive (and un-Constitutional) judiciary are far more important matters — and that the Trump Administration is dealing with them is more important for our nation’s future than some crowd of foul kiddie-diddlers against whom we have little evidence anyway.

Sucks, but that’s the reality of the thing.

Muzzled!

Here’s one that got me giggling:

Donald Trump will not be given the honor of addressing Parliament during his state visit as Emmanuel Macron did this week, The Telegraph understands.

The date of the US president’s trip is being deliberately timed for mid-September, when there is a parliamentary recess, handing the UK an excuse for not offering the speech.

Mr Trump is also not expected to visit Buckingham Palace, which is being restored, or enjoy a ceremonial carriage ride down the Mall in London – features of many past state visits from world leaders.

I’m sure the “deliberate timing” was to prevent Trump from embarrassing the Labour Party with his normal “fuck you” style of speaking in the Commons, and his uncomfortable (to them) habit of telling it like it is, e.g. “You assholes locked up an old lady for an angry tweet?  WTF?”

Never mind. I’m sure his press conferences are going to be epic — if the Brits allow them to be published or aired, that is.

The only way this could be more fun is if the Brit government were having ArgyPres Javier Milei and EyetiePM Giorgia Meloni over at the same time, for a threesome (so to speak).