No Collusion – Just Move On, Dems

By William Teach April 18, 2019 – 10:50 am

This really says it all

“Any American.”

(Fox News) “After nearly two years of investigation, thousands of subpoenas, and hundreds of warrants and witness interviews, the Special Counsel confirmed that the Russian government-sponsored efforts to illegally interfere with the 2016 presidential election but did not find that the Trump campaign or other Americans colluded in those schemes,” Barr said, adding that Americans “should be grateful” for the findings.

As for obstruction

He said that Mueller’s report also went on to “consider whether certain actions of the president could amount to obstruction of the Special Counsel investigation.”

Barr, meanwhile, sought to head off another controversy during his press conference over the issue of obstruction of justice. The Mueller probe did not reach a conclusion on whether the president committed this offense, but Barr and Rosenstein determined there was not sufficient evidence on that front.

“As I addressed in my March 24th letter, the Special Counsel did not make a traditional prosecutorial judgment regarding this allegation. Instead, the report recounts ten episodes involving the President and discusses potential legal theories for connecting these actions to elements of an obstruction offense,” Barr explained. “After carefully reviewing the facts and legal theories outlined in the report, and in consultation with the Office of Legal Counsel and other Department lawyers, the Deputy Attorney General and I concluded that the evidence developed by the Special Counsel is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense.”

Do not expect Democrats to give up. Heck, they still whine about the 2000 election being stolen. And a brief watching of MSNBC saw Democrats who were heartbroken, delusional, unhinged, and living in a fantasy world, as they attempt to spin this into some conspiracy theories.

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AOC Releases New Video On Green New Deal While Still Refusing To Demand A Vote

By William Teach April 18, 2019 – 7:55 am

What’s the point of releasing a resolution if you’re not going to demand a vote on it? Heck, AOC had a meltdown when the Senate voted on the Green New Deal as submitted by co-author Ed Markey

AOC Previews Green New Deal: Oil Workers Replace Pipelines with Mangroves, Indigenous People Heal the Land

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and the Intercept website collaborated on a seven-minute video that takes place in a future where Democrats control the House, Senate, and White House, and America is fundamentally transformed into a socialist country where fossil fuels are eliminated, everyone is guaranteed a union job, and the Green New Deal saves the planet.

Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Tuesday: Surprise! “For months we’ve been working on a very special + secret #GreenNewDeal project,” and promised to reveal it on Wednesday.

But, alas, the project wasn’t figuring out a way to force the House to hold a full floor vote on the GND, as Pelosi has already sidelined it and I doubt it would pass. Nope

She posted the video, which she helped write and narrate, on Instagram, giving viewers another look at the socialist values she hopes to put in place in the United States.

The video begins as an older Ocasio-Cortez with a streak of gray hair is riding a bullet train from New York to Washington, DC. She recalls being elected to Congress as part of “the most diverse Congress in history — up to that time.”

She says that for the first time “children in our community” could see people like them “navigating the halls of power.”

And then the video gets down to business, laying out a scenario in which Exxon-Mobile and politicians hid the truth about climate change and ignored scientists warnings about man-made global warming.

Yeah. Crazy

https://twitter.com/AOCpress/status/1118668260264808448

Ooops, sorry, wrong one

If we have only 12 years left, why is she not demanding a vote?

As for Ocasio-Cortez’s future, Ileana replaces her in 2028 in the “first cycle of publicly funded election campaigns.”

“When I think back to my first term in Congress, riding that old-school Amtrak in 2019, all of this was still ahead of us,” Ocasio-Cortez says. “And the first big step was just closing our eyes and imagining it.”

Is there anyone who thinks that AOC is actually riding Amtrak from NYC to DC and back? Does she even take a train? According to her FEC filings she flies way more than taking the subway.

But, she’s still not demanding a vote. I mean, if the future is worth fighting for, a vote should be held, right?

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Supposedly, Mueller Report Will Be Lightly Redacted

By William Teach April 18, 2019 – 7:39 am

If so, it won’t make a difference, because Democrats are still going to lose their minds and claim there’s a coverup and conspiracy and stuff, because they still can’t get over Hillary losing to Donald, and they still feel that he totes colluded and obstructed in the same manner a fan of a football team believes they can win the Super Bowl despite being 2-6. It could totally happen, right, guys?

Mueller report will be lightly redacted, offering detailed look at Trump’s actions

The Justice Department plans to release a lightly redacted version of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s 400-page report Thursday, offering a granular look at the ways in which President Trump was suspected of having obstructed justice, people familiar with the matter said.

The report — the general outlines of which the Justice Department has briefed the White House on — will reveal that Mueller decided he could not come to a conclusion on the question of obstruction because it was difficult to determine Trump’s intent and because some of his actions could be interpreted innocently, these people said. But it will offer a detailed blow-by-blow of the president’s alleged conduct — analyzing tweets, private threats and other episodes at the center of Mueller’s inquiry, they added. (snip)

While the report’s light redactions might allay some of their concerns, Democrats are likely to bristle at any material that is withheld. What the Justice Department and Trump’s lawyers might view as modest, lawmakers might see as overly aggressive. The redacted version of the report is expected to reveal extensive details about Trump’s actions in office that came under scrutiny, but it is unclear how much the public will learn about how the special counsel’s team investigated the Kremlin’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 election and Russian contacts with Trump associates.

Mueller wasn’t able to come to a conclusion because there is no proof for prosecution, and, in our version of a legal justice system, this means Trump is innocent. But, this matters little to Democrats. You have the Washington Post Editorial Board saying that the redactions (which are required by law) do not deserve the benefit of the doubt.

(The Hill) Democrats say Barr has acted as an agent of President Trump in his role overseeing the release of the report, which will mark the culmination of one of the most-watched probes in recent political history.

Essentially, Democrats are trying to knock down the report they’ve been waiting for which they expected would be The End Of Orange Man.
Democrats are hoping to use the report to bolster their sprawling probes into Trump’s administration, businesses and campaign.

But if the roughly 400-page document contains little evidence implicating Trump on obstruction of justice, the probes are certain to lose steam and thwart their plans to dig into every facet of the administration heading into 2020.

Let them. Trump will just bludgeon them with this, as it will bolster his witch-hunt claims, and this over-reach by unhinged Democrats will help them lose House seats they just won. Really, if you want to know what the Mueller report really means, just look towards the NY Times: they’ve pretty much given up on it saying what they want it to say. They lead with a few obligatory pieces on the webpage and on the paper front page, but, they are basic. There are no editorials or opinion pieces.

There was no collusion, and no proof of obstruction. But, it’ll be fun when the spying on a presidential campaign investigation ramps up.

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Alberta Says Hello To Party That Wants To End Carbon Taxes

By William Teach April 17, 2019 – 3:30 pm

For all the caterwauling about initiating ‘climate change’ policies, this might work in the in very liberal cities, but, in larger areas these policies seem to end up with the party which enacted them losing. Remember back in 2012 when the Labor Party in Queensland, Australia lost so badly after enacting Hotcoldwetdry policies that they didn’t have enough members to be considered a recognized political party. Looking towards the Great White North

‘MAKE ALBERTA GREAT AGAIN’: ANOTHER CANADIAN PROVINCE BOOTS LIBERALS OUT OF POWER OVER CARBON TAXES

Alberta’s United Conservative Party (UCP) won a landslide victory against the liberal New Democratic Party (NDP) Tuesday night.

UCP Leader Jason Kenney’s first priority: repeal the province’s carbon tax.

It’s the first time an Albertan government has been toppled after only one term in power, and it’s the third time in the last year conservatives have won a landslide victory on a platform centered around repealing carbon taxes.

“Friends, tonight the silent majority has spoken,” Kenney said in his victory speech. “They have chosen free enterprise values over the politics of resentment.”

Nearly one year ago, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, a conservative, won a landslide election victory promising to repeal the province’s cap-and-trade program and join the legal fight against Canada’s federal carbon tax.

Trudeau’s carbon tax went into effect in early April, slapping Canadian provinces with a federal carbon tax in the absence of a provincial carbon price. But Alberta’s election suggests Trudeau’s climate agenda may end up being politically damaging to his government.

“From its very introduction, the carbon tax has been very unpopular in Alberta,” Scott Hennig, president of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, said in a statement. “Even dressing it up and trying to bribe taxpayers with rebate cheques didn’t work.”

‘Climate change’ policies seem to be popular right up to the point where citizens actually have to pay for them. You sure don’t see most Warmists practicing what they preach and using their own money, right?

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 17, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible golf course sucking up non-renewable water, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on the violence of Democrats.

And get your heels off the greens!

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Mayor Of Sanctuary City Threatens To Sue If Illegal Aliens Sent To City

By William Teach April 17, 2019 – 10:20 am

 

It’s almost like illegal aliens are a threat

‘Sanctuary city’ mayors say they want asylum seekers — while Bill de Blasio calls it ‘illegal’

Self-styled progressive Mayor Bill de Blasio says he’ll go to court to stop President Trump from shipping asylum seekers to New York City — but other sanctuary city mayors across the US are putting out the welcome mat for the migrants.

“It’s illegal. It is just plain illegal. We will meet him in court. We will beat him in court,” de Blasio, who is considering a presidential bid, warned on NY1 Monday night.

Well, huh. So, why wouldn’t all those Democrat Open Borders advocates want the illegals they agitate for? Heck, perhaps ICE should just not bother arresting any illegal as long as they stay in NYC, and even announce they will not operate in NYC. Oh, wait, Bill doesn’t want them, right?

But, some other mayors do want them

Mayors of other sanctuary cities — including Philadelphia, Chicago and San Francisco — took the opposite tack and opened their doors.

“The city would be prepared to welcome these immigrants just as we have embraced our immigrant communities for decades,” Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said in a statement.

Again, ICE should refuse to operate in those cities, and make sure illegals know about it. As long as they stay there, ICE will not interfere, no matter how bad they are. Let them have the criminals, the arsonists, the murderers, the rapists, the thieves.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed predicted that Trump’s threat was a distraction that would never become a reality.

“This is just another in a long line of scare tactics and half-baked ideas that are just about chasing headlines and distracting people from real issues. In SF we are proud to be a sanctuary city and we’ll continue to stand up for all of our residents,” she tweeted.

What it really is is a way to get the media and Democrats chasing their tails, just like Trump keeps making them do. And it exposes some as being against illegals in their cities in practice, while others are exposes as wanting the criminal illegals. Trump really put Democrats in a no win situation. Except with their own Open Borders base.

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Climate Nutters Glue Themselves To Trains, Ruin The Day For Average People

By William Teach April 17, 2019 – 7:57 am

These people are committed, and should be committed. Nothing says “we care” like ruining the day of people just trying to go on with their lives

Activists glue themselves to train at Canary Wharf

Two climate change activists from British organization Extinction Rebellion have climbed on top of a commuter train at London’s Canary Wharf.

The pair have each glued a single hand to the top of the train car to hold themselves in place and prevent officials from removing them.

A third individual has glued his hand to the side of the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) train, near the carriage door.

(pull, pull!)

Authorities are on scene and have provided the pair atop the train with protective gear while they work around them.

It only caused minor delays for that line, but delays first thing in the morning as people are trying to get to work causes problems for a lot of people. You can see the dirty hippy type person who glued himself.

(City A.M.) “During the next 24 hours, these intelligence-led patrols will be in place to help keep everyone safe and to ensure that disruption is kept to a minimum.”

Extinction Rebellion protesters have already brought traffic to a standstill in Oxford Circus, Waterloo Bridge, Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, and Parliament Square.

Yesterday the Metropolitan Police warned the protests had closed 55 bus routes and affected half a million people.

The Met has made 290 arrests in a bid to clear routes after ordering the protesters to confine demonstrations to Marble Arch in an effort to keep London traffic running.

However, Extinction Rebellion activists have continued to swarm over London landmarks, blockading Waterloo Bridge despite police making 177 arrests there alone.

Besides causing problems for half a million people, this means police officers are being taken away from dealing with protecting people from property and violent crimes.

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NY Times Questions Whether Trump Is Man Of The People Or Of His People

By William Teach April 17, 2019 – 7:41 am

Yet another reason why the news media is not trusted and dying: running an “analysis”, ie, opinion piece, on the front page which is supposed to be news, which is all about taking shots at Orange Man Bad. But really, really forgets to mention a few things

A President of the People or a President of His People?

In the last couple of weeks, President Trump repeatedly called his enemies “treasonous.” He threatened to punish Democrats by dumping migrants in their districts. He promoted a video tying a Muslim congresswoman to images of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

The message seems clear and so does the audience: more red meat for red-state Americans who have been the foundation of his political enterprise since his against-the-odds campaign for the White House. And it is a reminder that this president governs as none of his modern predecessors did.

The old-fashioned idea that a president, once reaching office, should at least pretend to be the leader of all the people these days seems so, well, old-fashioned. Mr. Trump does not bother with the pretense. He is speaking to his people, not the people. He has become, or so it often seems, the president of the United Base of America.

Mr. Trump travels nearly five times as often to states that were in his column in 2016 as to those that supported Hillary Clinton. He has given several times more interviews to Fox News than to all the other major networks combined. His social media advertising is aimed disproportionately at older Americans who were the superstructure of his victory in the Electoral College in 2016. His messaging is permeated with divisive language that galvanizes core supporters more than it persuades anyone on the fence, much less on the other side.

Last time I checked, Trump has not used the Internal Revenue Service to target political opposition. Remember, that is the scandal that media folks, like those at the NY Times, attempted to avoid discussing for a long time, then decided they would defend Obama and his people rather than investigate when dragged kicking and screaming into covering it. This is the same Obama who slurred tens of millions of American Tea Party followers as “tea baggers.” Obama slurred America and Americans multiple times while overseas. Remember when he called Americans “lazy.” How many times did Obama fundraise and have campaign events (while pretending he was in the state for official business) in NY and California, while avoiding visiting typical Red states, even ones he won, like NC?

For all Trump’s verbal attacks, he hasn’t actually taken actions. The NYT forgets that politics is a dirty, nasty business with a veneer of civility.

As far as attacking Ilhan Omar, you know if it had been a Republican who made the comment, the NYT, in the same city that was attacked on 9/11, would be mercilessly attacking that person, and the entire Republican party by extension. Especially if they had a history of anti-Semitism and working with a Jew and Israel hating group with links to terrorist groups (in this case, CAIR).

But Mr. Trump seems to relish divide-and-conquer politics much more than either of them did and has made little effort to expand his coalition beyond the voters who propelled him to the White House in the first place. While other presidents sought to broaden their public support, Mr. Trump appears to be heading into his re-election campaign sticking with his own tribe.

In other words, he’s sticking to his guns, to the things that got him elected in the first place. He’s not changing his policies. He’s telling people why those policies are good, and why his opponents are wrong in objecting to them. Ronald Reagan did the same (without as many attacks, since there was no social media, and, he was a more political speaking man): he stuck to his policies, rather than moderating. He pulled people into voting for him. And the more the media and Democrats caterwaul, the easier it will be for Trump.

Funny thing is, the Times doesn’t attack Democrats for their divisive talk. Go figure.

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UK Guardian: Those Violent Nutters In Extinction Rebellion Aren’t Going Far Enough

By William Teach April 16, 2019 – 4:45 pm

It’s great when one of the major world news outlets advocates for massive violence, and this is from their editorial board

The Guardian view on Extinction Rebellion: one small step

The planned choking of traffic in central London on Monday by climate activists of Extinction Rebellion falls somewhere between street theatre and direct action. If it is successful it will be costly for the demonstrators, some of whom plan to be arrested, burdensome for bus passengers who can’t get to work, and vexing for car drivers who (unlike those in emergency vehicles) will be held up. And yet, should it fail, the long-term costs of climate change will be immense for almost everybody now alive and for all our descendents, too.

In the short term, the rage of the frustrated motorist remains one of the most powerful political forces in countries like ours (WT – yet, the rage won’t be aimed at solving ‘climate change’, but at the ER wankers). The gilets jaunes movement in France started off in part as a protest against price rises on petrol; the Blair government sustained its first big defeat at the hands of lorry drivers in the fuel protests of 2000, which destroyed a sensible and ecologically necessary plan to raise fuel taxes steadily over time to discourage the use of fossil fuels.

Any movement towards ecological sanity will have to confront this anger. The drivers’ blockades were effective direct action in support of the destruction of the planet. The challenge today is to find means of direct action that work towards its preservation while winning the same kind of social acceptance and political force.

The idea that we can change the whole basis of our planetary economy without pain and inconvenience for the global middle classes is simply false. The enormous political challenge is to ensure that the pain of adjustment towards a carbon-neutral economy is fairly distributed. At the moment the pain is concentrated on those least able to bear it. This is true between countries, in as much as it is sub-Saharan Africa where the destabilising effects of climate change are most visible and painful. It is also true within the rich countries which consume more than they sustainably can. In the west it is the poor who will be hit worst by rising prices for food and fuel. Yet a future of less consumption and less convenience is inevitable. We can choose to some extent how and when to face it, but it cannot be indefinitely postponed.

Hmm, forcing a change in the planetary economy, eh? To what? Here’s where it gets more fun

The purpose of climate activism is to make that choice consciously and deliberately, with planning and forethought, rather than have it forced upon us in a series of improvisations between catastrophes. The activists of Extinction Rebellion use the metaphor of war, and this is not entirely exaggerated. Although one of the purposes of groups like Extinction Rebellion is to avert wars over resources, this may – paradoxically – require the kind of social and political mobilisation only otherwise seen in wartime. The sense of a common purpose, and of suffering borne in common, which has so often and so fraudulently been invoked in the rhetoric of the political right since the financial crisis must now be appropriated and given real meaning.

So, they do not want it forced on us, but, they do want to treat this like a war, which requires, you guessed it, the use of force.

The protests are intended as the start of a global movement, as they must be. By themselves, they will accomplish little. Yet the longest journey begins with the first step – even if this is the step taken by a driver who climbs out of their gridlocked car and tries to find some other way of continuing their journey.

Those steps involved violence and destruction. They involved causing lots of problems for people just trying to go about their day. They involved vandalism and lawlessness. They involved the use of force. This is what the Cult of Climastrology wants, and is moving towards.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 16, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrendous golf course which evil rich deniers play on, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on how some Muslims reacted to the destruction of Notre Dame

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