May 7-11, 2020
May 07 03:31 Adam Schiff's day of reckoning? May 07 05:16 Melissa Kolstad vs. Tim Walz May 07 06:28 Is Adam Schiff in panic mode? May 09 06:54 John Solomon on Adam Schiff: he's "a modern day Joe McCarthy" May 10 03:37 Trust: the key to this election May 10 11:05 Barack Obama vs. Trey Gowdy May 11 02:14 Queen Pelosi vs. We The People
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Adam Schiff's day of reckoning?
Will Thursday turn into Adam Schiff's day of reckoning? That's definitely a possibility according to Byron York's Daily Memo :
A big development in the fight over 53 secret interviews the House Intelligence Committee conducted during its Trump-Russia investigation. Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell has sent a letter to chairman Adam Schiff notifying him that transcripts of all 53 interviews, over 6,000 pages in all, have been cleared for public release. "All of the transcripts, with our required redactions, can be released to the public without any concerns of disclosing classified material," Grenell wrote to Schiff in a letter dated May 4.
Grenell then provided a list of which transcripts had been cleared:
Then York noted this:
The interviews were conducted in secret. But by September 2018, with the committee's report long finished and made public, the Republicans who still controlled the committee decided the interview transcripts should be released to the public. In a rare moment of comity, Democrats agreed, and on September 26, 2018, the committee voted unanimously to release the transcripts. But there was a catch: The documents would have to first be checked for classified information by the Intelligence Community. So off they went to the IC -- never to be seen again.
Now, in May 2020, they're still secret. Two weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal editorial board reported that the IC had finished its review of 43 of the transcripts, but Schiff was refusing to release them. The paper said Schiff was also preventing declassification of the remaining ten transcripts.
Then Grennell threw in one other thing:
In the letter, Grenell revealed that the 43 transcripts have been finished since June 2019. Schiff has been sitting on them all that time. Grenell said the final ten have just been finished as well. "I urge you to honor your previous public statements, and your committee's unanimous vote on this matter, to release all 53 cleared transcripts to Members of Congress and the American public as soon as possible," Grenell said. Just in case Schiff is still not interested, Grenell added, " I am also willing to release the transcripts directly from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence , as to ensure we comply with the unanimous and bipartisan vote to release the transcripts."
That's a rather large thing. This puts Mr. Schiff in a difficult position. As York highlights, some in the GOP think that "Schiff was making it up all along." This is rich:
A House Intelligence Committee spokesman told Fox News Wednesday that the panel received Grenell's letter on Tuesday. "After more than a year of unnecessary delay, the ODNI has finally concluded its protracted classification review of the Committee's transcripts, and it also appears the White House has now abandoned its improper insistence on reviewing key transcripts, which the Committee appropriately rejected," the spokesman said.
House Intel Republicans slapped back:
'We understand now that Chairman Schiff is blocking the release of these transcripts,' they wrote. 'This news, if accurate, is disturbing, especially in light of Chairman Schiff's cries in 2019 for transparency regarding allegations that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.' 'For nearly four years, prominent Democrat politicians and commentators alleged that President Trump colluded with Russia, with Chairman Schiff going so far as to say that he had 'direct evidence' of collusion,' they continued. 'Now that these allegations have been disproven by several investigations, the American people deserve to have transparency about why public figures such as Chairman Schiff continue to promote such wild accusations.'
Adam Schiff is a liar and a leaker. He should be expelled from Congress and have his security clearance revoked. He told NBC's Chuck Todd that he had proof that President Trump colluded with Russians way back in 2017:
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Schiff is the most corrupt chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He's also the most partisan chairman of the Committee.
Posted Thursday, May 7, 2020 3:31 AM
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Melissa Kolstad vs. Tim Walz
Melissa Kolstad is just a shopkeeper in St. Joseph, MN. Tim Walz is the governor (emperor?) of Minnesota. Despite the mismatch, Kolstad intends on defying Gov. Walz's stay-at-home order :
The BabyGirlz woman's clothing boutique announced Monday on Facebook that it plans to be open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. When it opened last week, an officer with the St. Joseph Police Department was sent to shut it down. Proprietor Melissa Kolstad said she respectfully complied at the time, but as of Wednesday morning her Facebook page still stated the store would follow those same hours starting Thursday.
"Open: . like a customer can walk in and look/buy??" asked a resident, via Facebook. Kolstad posted the response: "If you feel comfortable coming in, you are more than welcome. The door is unlocked. I am cleaning regularly, and I have a small store so I can easily control social distancing. The door will be propped open, so you don't have to touch the handle, and I have hand sanitizer when you walk in the door, as well."
Gov. Walz is confused by Kolstad's actions:
Walz said many Minnesotans have voluntarily embraced the spirit of social distancing for the greater good. Still, he said, it's tough to explain the benefit of business closures to those who have not been infected, in the same vein as it's tough to explain beach closures to everyone who hasn't drowned.
"I think most of us know, regardless if it's speeding laws or moving up to other things, social compliance is the idea that (our) actions don't only impact ourselves, they impact others," Walz said at a news conference this week.
It's difficult to explain the benefit of business closures when a) the businesses are following the CDC's guidelines and b) the shopkeepers need to feed their families. It escapes Gov. Walz why businesses put feeding their families ahead of "the greater good." It's difficult, too, because Gov. Walz hasn't defined what the greater good is.
Instead, he's shifted the goals multiple times without explaining why they're important. A leader establishes easily understood goals that people quickly agree with. Gov. Walz didn't do that.
Instead, he cited a model put together by the U of M and the Minnesota Department of Health that was criticized virtually immediately. Then Gov. Walz issued an ultimatum, saying that our options were limited to no mitigation, which would lead to 74,000 Minnesotans dying from COVID-19, or shelter-in-place, which would lead to 'only' 50,000 Minnesotans dying. As of this morning, 485 Minnesotans have died from COVID-19. This article highlights a disturbing trend:
More than three-fourths of the newly reported deaths involved elderly residents of long-term care facilities , which have become an increasing focus of state COVID-19 testing and response efforts. The state on Wednesday morning reported that one death involved a person in the 70s age range who was the spouse of a worker at the Jennie-0 turkey plant in Melrose. At least 11 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed among workers at the Melrose plant. The disclosure that the death involved a spouse was an error by state health officials, who normally don't reveal such specific details and leave that to county agencies, companies or families.
Why hasn't Gov. Walz prioritized protecting long-term care facilities from the start? The first mass fatalities happened in a nursing home in Kirkland, Washington.
I was told by the Minnesota Department of Health, aka MDH, that protecting the elderly was their highest priority. If that's true, then MDH has failed miserably. Meanwhile, Minnesota's economy keeps tanking:
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Posted Thursday, May 7, 2020 5:16 AM
Comment 1 by Rex newman at 07-May-20 09:24 PM
It's encouraging to see the nearly total public support for these upstarts. So is the scorn their tyrants and tyrantistas are getting.
Response 1.1 by Gary Gross at 07-May-20 09:32 PM
Amen, Rex!!! I recall (at least, I think I recall) a George Will column in which he wrote "When the people want something badly enough & they scream for it loud enough & long enough, sooner or later, the leaders will follow. It's time to get hoarse!!!
Is Adam Schiff in panic mode?
Apparently, Adam Schiff is in panic mode now that transcripts of the House Intel Committee are about to be released. What's supposedly getting under Schiff's skin is that he's about to be exposed:
Another source familiar with the transcripts told Fox News that the people interviewed by the House Intelligence Committee during its Russia probe were asked whether they had evidence that Trump, himself, or the Trump campaign conspired, colluded or coordinated with Russia during the 2016 election.
Two sources familiar with the transcripts told Fox News that not one of the 53 witnesses could provide evidence of collusion . "The transcripts show a total lack of evidence, despite Schiff personally going out saying he had more than circumstantial evidence that there was collusion," one source involved in House Russia investigations told Fox News.
Mueller, similarly, at the conclusion of his nearly two-year-long investigation, said he and his team found no evidence of criminal conspiracy or coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia, but did not reach a conclusion on obstruction of justice, which current Attorney General Bill Barr ultimately decided not to pursue.
Then there's this:
While law enforcement officials have long maintained that there was clear intelligence Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election, to date, there have been no charges concerning actual conspiracy against people associated with the Trump campaign, which was at the core of the Russia investigation.
There isn't any dispute that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election. The question was whether people from the Trump campaign assisted in that meddling. It isn't that Mueller couldn't find enough evidence to recommend impeachment of President Trump. It's that the official Mueller Report didn't find any evidence that anyone in the United States worked with the Russians.
This should make Schiff nervous:
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This won't help Schiff's credibility , either:
'According to Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer who is reportedly held in high regard by U.S. intelligence, Russian sources tell him that Page has also had a secret meeting with Igor Sechin, CEO of Russian gas giant Rosneft,' Schiff declared at a March 20, 2017 House Intelligence Committee hearing.
'Sechin is reported to be a former KGB agent and close friend of Putin's. According to Steele's Russian sources, Page is offered brokerage fees by Sechin on a deal involving a 19 percent share of the company,' the California Democrat added.
Later, Schiff added this:
For instance, Schiff claimed this about the Steele dossier in a Nov. 15, 2017 interview with The Wall Street Journal: "The bigger factor is how much of it can you corroborate and how much of it is true. A lot of it has turned out to be true."
Adam Schiff is a guttersnipe and a Democrat partisan hack. If Nancy Pelosi cared about integrity, which she doesn't, she should've thrown Schiff out of the House.
Posted Thursday, May 7, 2020 6:28 AM
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John Solomon on Adam Schiff: he's "a modern day Joe McCarthy"
John Solomon has worked overtime and then some to rip Adam Schiff's mask off. So have Catherine Herridge, Sara Carter, Lee Smith, Gregg Jarrett, Kim Strassel, Mollie Hemmingway and Byron York. Solomon's article highlights how utterly dishonest Adam Schiff is. Ditto with the upper echelon of the FBI. Strap yourself in. This isn't a short ride.
The pursuit of the truth ended Thursday when the Justice Department formally asked a court to vacate Flynn's conviction and end the criminal case, acknowledging the former general had indeed been cleared by FBI agents and that the bureau did not have a lawful purpose when it interviewed him in January 2017.
Attorney General William Barr put it more bluntly in an interview Thursday : "They kept it open for the express purpose of trying to catch, to lay a perjury trap for General Flynn."
According to Solomon's reporting, the FBI didn't have a reason to investigate Gen. Flynn:
3. Case closed memo. FBI agents wrote a memo to close the investigation of Flynn on Jan. 4, 2017, writing they found "no derogatory" evidence that Flynn committed a crime or posed a national security threat. FBI management then ordered the closure to be rescinded and pivoted toward trying lure Flynn into an interview. https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/fbi-found-no-derogatory-russia-evidence-flynn-planned
Corrupt FBI agent Peter Strzok allegedly ordered Crossfire Razor, the codename for the Flynn investigation, to stay open. Later, in a text to his lover, said this :
"Our utter incompetence actually helps us."
It's fair to ask how this relate to Adam Schiff. Adam Schiff knew that the FBI line office wanted to shut down Crossfire Razor. Most importantly, he knew that the officers had found "no derogatory" evidence against Flynn. They found that out before President Trump's inauguration. That meant that there wasn't a legitimate predicate for the Flynn investigation. Solomon laid out his case in this interview:
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Schiff is a sociopath. Solomon cites 10 different statements Schiff made in public that were contradicted by what was known by the intelligence community. This is disgusting:
Unequal treatment. James Comey bragged in a videotaped interview that he authorized the FBI to try to conduct a Flynn interview without the proper notifications and protocol, hoping to catch Flynn and the new Trump White House off guard. In other words, they didn't follow procedure or treat Flynn like others when it came to due process. Comey said the tactic was "something I probably wouldn't have done or maybe gotten away with in a more organized administration." https://www.foxnews.com/politics/comey-admits-decision-to-send-fbi-agents-to-interview-mike-flynn-was-not-standard
Comey and Schiff are the most reprehensible figures in this disgusting episode. They're both narcissists and sociopaths.
Posted Saturday, May 9, 2020 6:54 AM
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Trust: the key to this election
The keys to this election, at least in terms of themes, will be trust and performance over the past 2 years. That's the headwind working against the Democrats this year, both here in Minnesota and nationwide. Let's start with what's happening in Minnesota.
Gov. Walz has grudgingly started reopening Minnesota's economy. That's happening only because of multiple protests and the threat from some business owners who simply started threatening to open with or without Gov. Walz's permission. Even then, Gov. Walz has been pathetically slow. LFR was told that protecting the most vulnerable in LTC facilities were a high priority for this administration. Despite that prioritization, 81% of Minnesota's COVID deaths have happened in LTC facilities.
In terms of Minnesota's economy, it's in the crapper. Rep. Anne Neu debated House Majority Leader Ryan Winkler on Friday night's Almanac. It didn't turn out well for Winkler:
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When Cathy Wurzer asked about the possibility of laying off or furloughing state workers, things got interesting fast.
WINKLER: I think that should be one of the last resorts that we should consider. State workers are providing essential services throughout Minnesota, from people who are processing unemployment insurance checks to epidemiologists at the Department of Health to correction officers engaged at the Department of Corrections to making sure that that doesn't become a hotspot. We have people working to protect the meatpacking industry. We have people working to make sure our state parks are able to operate. : I also think that layoffs or wage cuts doesn't help the economy, doesn't help any of us if some people are making less money and so that's why I hope that's one of the last things we would look at.
REP. NEU: Well, I certainly think that salary freezes are appropriate. : The reality is that we're looking at a significant deficit. We're at $2.4 billion right now. There's a good chance that will go up by the November forecast. And frankly, we have asked our private sector businesses, our mom and pop shops, are devastated right now and it really is not fair to those businesses to take the hits that they have taken and then to say that, no, as a government, we are going to fund everything at the levels that we always have.
We shouldn't trust the DFL, aka the party of big government. Walz's campaign slogan was One Minnesota. The policy that Winkler defended sounded like one of the private sector getting tossed table scraps after the government has feasted and had seconds. That isn't my definition of One Minnesota.
Nationally, Democrats like Gretchen Whitmer keep tightening the screws on Blue Collar Americans with arbitrary (and unilateral) executive orders. It's apparent that Democrat governors don't want to return to sharing power with GOP legislatures. They'd rather act unilaterally rather than work with Republicans.
Why trust Democrats who want to act unilaterally and without the consent of the governed? This isn't a third-world dictatorship. This is the nation whose Declaration of Independence emphatically states that we are "endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights."
Democrats have dragged their feet in terms of reopening the economy and restoring our God-given rights. Democrats have jailed patriots like Shelley Luther:
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Democrats even tried jailing a 3-star general because Donald Trump had the audacity to win the 2016 presidential election. Listen to the condescension of this pundit:
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He's perplexed after reading the deposition transcripts? When Jim Clapper said that he hadn't seen "any direct empirical evidence" of conspiracy between Russia and Trump or anyone in Trump's campaign, does this idiot still think that there was justification for prosecuting Gen. Flynn? If he thinks that, the next question is why he's that stupid.
None of this engenders trust for Democrats. Finally, if Biden is elected, why think that he wouldn't return Clapper, Comey, Mueller, et al, to his national security team? Why trust any of these people in positions of power after what they've done?
Posted Sunday, May 10, 2020 3:37 AM
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Barack Obama vs. Trey Gowdy
Yesterday, President Obama said "The news over the last 24 hours I think has been somewhat downplayed - about the Justice Department dropping charges against Michael Flynn. And the fact that there is no precedent that anybody can find for somebody who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free. That's the kind of stuff where you begin to get worried that basic, not just institutional norms, but our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk. And when you start moving in those directions, it can accelerate pretty quickly as we've seen in other places."
What President Obama intentionally omitted from that statement is that Eric Holder, his Attorney General, dropped the charges against the New Black Panther Party way back in July, 2010. That's rather odd since the New Black Panther Party had pled guilty in 2008. Bartle Bull, a civil rights ally of JFK's in the 1960s, summed things up perfectly, saying "Martin Luther King did not die to have people in jack boots with Billy clubs, block the doors of polling places."
J. Christian Adams adds this:
"I mean we were told, 'Drop the charges against the New Black Panther Party,'" Adams told Fox News, adding that political appointees Loretta King, acting head of the civil rights division, and Steve Rosenbaum, an attorney with the division since 2003, ordered the dismissal.
This morning, Maria Bartiromo interviewed Trey Gowdy on the subject. Gowdy said "I find that an amazing statement from President Obama. Where was his respect for the rule of law for the crime that Michael Flynn was the victim of? Remember that he was unmasked by somebody in Obama's administration and then it was leaked, which is a 10-year felony, Maria." The Gowdy interview starts at the 25:30 mark in this video:
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It's worth watching the entire interview. President Obama obviously has a big megaphone but it's limited in this instance because he's using it to spin his way out of a growing scandal. This isn't going away anytime soon. Obama and the Democrats know it. As President Trump uses social media to highlight the things that Jim Clapper, Susan Rice, et al, said under oath about Gen. Flynn and the Trump campaign vs. what they said on TV, Democrats, starting with Schiff and Obama, won't find a rock big enough to hide under.
Expect the media to counter with renditions of 'But Flynn pled guilty'. Whenever the MSM play that stunt, adults in the room of all political persuasions should drive the MSM and other Democrats back to the things that Clapper, Comey, Strzok and others said in texts and transcripts.
In the end, the truth set Gen. Flynn free.
Posted Sunday, May 10, 2020 11:05 AM
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Queen Pelosi vs. We The People
Anyone who's studied Nancy Pelosi, henceforth nicknamed Queen Pelosi on LFR, knows that she's into writing major bills in her office. Further, she's a control freak, seeking only the input of her top lieutenants rather than listening to the voice of the people. Listening to the voice of the people would require holding committee hearings, which Queen Pelosi isn't a fan of except when they're impeachment hearings (see Schiff, Adam) or to rubberstamp articles of impeachment, (see Nadler, Jerry). Democrats, BTW, haven't uttered a word fighting Queen Pelosi. Why should they? These Democrats agree with Queen Pelosi.
When Obamacare was written, the House bill was run through multiple committees, though none of the bills that were marked up in committees were the final bill. That final House bill was written in Pelosi's office. That led to this infamous statement from Queen Pelosi:
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If Pelosi's actions guided her grade on the Declaration of Independence , she'd get an F- or worse. Early in the Declaration, it emphatically states this:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed , --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Queen Pelosi doesn't care about getting "their just powers from the consent of the governed." Queen Pelosi just cares about shoving legislation down the minority party's throats. The House Democrat Caucus is beholden to this tyrant because Queen Pelosi is a prolific fundraiser. Without her, 75% of them wouldn't be in DC.
That's why I'm advocating for a modern-day revolution, one not fought with muskets but with ballots. If Queen Pelosi isn't interested in representing We the People, then it's time to strip her of the thing she thirsts for most -- her Speaker's gavel. That's the only way to restore the House of Representatives to representing We The People.
Queen Pelosi doesn't work with House Minority Leader McCarthy. According to McCarthy, she informs him of what she's about to do. That isn't showing interest in what We The People want. That's proof that Queen Pelosi is interested in her ideological checklist. It's time for her to get terminated from the Speaker's position.
Posted Monday, May 11, 2020 2:14 AM
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