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Huh, I never figured John Kelly as a scumbag traitor like that but it's starting to make sense now. All those leaks were probably HIM. Mad


 
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Yep, a modern day Benedict Arnold.
 
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Huh, I never figured John Kelly as a scumbag traitor like that but it's starting to make sense now. All those leaks were probably HIM. Mad


I know- it makes me want to go through all the leaks and rumors that happened when he was CoS. I'd love to see an analysis of each leak and rumor. the trouble would be how the data point are defined. I'll bet he and old Rex had lots to talk about and leak about.

undermining the boss. gtfo


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https://www.breitbart.com/poli...since-taking-office/

President Donald Trump has relieved over 8,000 Veterans Affairs employees for failing their duty since becoming the president, according to VA Secretary Robert Wilkie.

“The standard is if you don’t live up to your oath if you don’t live up to the standards that our veterans expect, that you will be asked to leave,” Wilkie told reporters in a press conference on Friday.

“This is a transformational moment in our history.”

Wilkie said accountability was a signature promise from President Trump, particularly after the Veterans Affairs scandals in Phoenix in 2014 and 2015.

Under Trump, he said, VA employees as high as network directors down to the lowest employees were removed for not performing their job to the proper standards.

“This is, I think, one of the strongest statements that we can make: That it is a new day at VA,” Wilkie said.
 
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https://www.breitbart.com/2020...ent-weak-2020-field/

The 2020 Democrat presidential field is about to get locked by filing deadlines and that is making a lot of Democrats nervous.
If you want to run for president, it is a 50 state process that requires filing papers and whatever else is required to get on the ballot. Alabama’s filing deadline passed last week. New Hampshire and Arkansas expire this week. The heavy hitters of Illinois, California, and Texas are just weeks away. Ohio and North Carolina arrive before Christmas.

In other words, unless someone gets off the pot, the current 2020 crop of tired, old extremists is locked in forever. Which means one of them will face Trump in 2020, and a quick look around shows that Democrats are not happy about that.

For the last four years, Trump has been smeared by the media and Democrats

2020 should be a lay-up for Democrats; after all, we have all those Fox News polls proving Trump is down something like 99 points to every Democrat politician in America

Why so nervous, Democrats?

Former Vice President Joe Biden is the great slight hope, has the best chance against Trump

Biden was a terrible candidate before he started operating just a notch above “zombie.”

Politico reports the Trump campaign has spent $287,000 just in Iowa on ads that blast Biden over Ukraine, and this pales compared to the money spent on ads targeting Biden on Facebook and YouTube.

And if Biden loses the nomination, that leaves the socialists Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders, or Pete Buttigieg, the 11-year-old mayor black people can’t stand.

Bloomberg’s biggest problem — by far — is that he has no natural constituency

Who does Bloomberg have? He’s a billionaire businessman, a pushing 80 technocrat… He might be seen as a “moderate” in the Democrat Party, a centrist, but that is where he stands politically, which has zero to do with winning votes

Democrats have every reason to be nervous, and after Republicans turn these impeachment hearings into The Joe and Hunter Biden Looted Ukraine and China Show, they will have even more reason.

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adding:

President Trump welcome at Alabama / LSU game

https://twitter.com/i/status/1193270405399818243
 
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Very interesting take on this whole Adam Schiff impeachment farce from political blogger James Howard Kunstler

Could it be possible that Pelosi is setting both Shifty Schiff and The Squad (who are trying to take control of the Democrat Party away from her) up for a fall?

quote:

Death Throes of a Party

November 11, 2019

Is it possible that Rep. Adam Schiff was hung out to dry by the devious Ms. Pelosi, feeding his vanity to be a one-man impeachment wrecking crew, knowing that the congressman from Hollywood would utterly blow it? Hmmmmm. Begins to look that way as Mr. Schiff’s House Intel Committee goes public this Wednesday with its soviet-style format on full display.

Well, first, why? Why allow this nitwit to stage an ersatz impeachment only to see it fail? Perhaps to cancel the Jacobin menace metastasizing in the Democratic Party and get on with the business of winning the 2020 elections — with old-school candidates hand-picked to end-run the gang of fantasists currently on display. The House Speaker must sniff the odor of failure in the wind. Joe Biden, smiling cretinously, blunders through the primary venues with a big red “L” plastered on his forehead, often uncertain of what state he’s landed in, or what direction to face the camera. Everybody over twelve in this land knows that his kid Hunter was on the grift in Ukraine, plain and simple, and that Joe assisted in the operation. Color him toast.

Elizabeth Warren has been caught lying very publicly twice now, first as a phony Cherokee Indian (for career advancement in academia), and lately claiming falsely that she was canned from a teaching job years ago for being pregnant (with a 2007 tape of her out telling a contradictory story). Of course, that’s just the cherry-on-top of her dazzlingly unsound policy proposals to bankrupt the nation. Doesn’t look like she can reel it all back in and pretend to be a credible person in time for a full-on campaign.

Bernie Sanders has not completely lost his appeal for the collectivist demographic. The heart attack barely broke his stride. His line of bullshit remains consistent: 20th century nanny-state “solutions” for the problem of a sunsetting industrial economy. The perception out there remains that the unearned riches of the rentier class can be rationally harvested to support the floundering multitudes. There is scant recognition that a Bernie program would only hasten that setting sun and vaporize all those figmentatious rentier riches lodged in the janky financial markets, leaving everybody equally high, dry, and bankrupt. Note: Bernie raised his hand along with everybody else on the debate platform to give free medical care to border jumpers, and it’s all on tape, too, like the Liz Warren vapor trail. Guess how that will play in the reddish states. Finally, how many of us really want a president that looks and acts like your ninth-grade math teacher?

The rest of the field comprises just so many horses that ain’t gonna finish, not even the saintly Mayor Pete of South bend, IN. The other mayor, Michael Bloomberg stepped up to the plate last week and has already racked up an 0-and-2 count. (Only in France do mayors get to be president.) So, guess who that leaves? Self-style gutsy woman Hillary Rodham Clinton, ready and willing to saddle up and reclaim her lost entitlement to rule the land. What has she been actually doing up in her Chappaqua fortress-of-solitude lo these 36 months of defeat and exile besides pretending to write that gutsy woman book? Exactly how much influence does she still exert in the party, and throughout the multitudinous worm-holes of the Deep State? How much more — more than the three-year RussiaGate hoax — is she behind in the effort to drive the US population toward psychosis and submission?

My own sense of things is that she still influences quite a bit — though that might come to a screeching halt when indictments rain down against a large cast of characters associated with the previous governing regime, herself included. After all, she did pay for foreign interference in the 2016 election. For starters think: Christopher Steele, British national, former MI6 employee, before you even start sorting through the sundry Ukrainians recently revealed as “meddlers” via the awkward “whistleblower” affair.

Which brings us back to Rep. Adam Schiff and his monkeyshines in the star chamber of his personal devising. Now that the show goes public, will he haul many of the same characters back into the witness chair to spin out his engineered narrative, without any cross examination allowed, or other felicities of due process? Someone ought to advise him that playing the Robespierre role tends toward an unhappy ending for the player. Especially when Mr. Jordan of Ohio, newly-seated on the Intel Committee, starts barking out points-of-order. I’m even half-wondering if Mr. Durham, the federal attorney, has not already measured up bills of indictment for Mr. Schiff himself, for the phony CIA agent “whistleblower” Eric Ciaramella, the pre-wired IC Inspector General Michael Atkinson, US chargé d’affaires for Ukraine Bill Taylor, and the spectacularly seditious Colonel Vindman, whose antics stand out in this latest coup attempt against the elected president. And then what kind of bag does that leave Ms. Pelosi holding?


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It was probably easier to let the Dem crazies run the impeachment, than to block it. As mentioned above, this should work to Pelosi's advantage by giving the squad and Schiff enough rope to hang themselves.

I look forward to the next election, and to more Trump judicial picks.


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Bill talks about the master showmanship and stage control by President Trump.

I watch President Trump address the media while Marine 1 is spooled up. President Trump controls them by forcing them to go one-on-one with him, otherwise they'll get no sound bites.




 
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Joey D 11/11/19

Like last week, no description this week. Joe's segment is grouped together again with other segments. His segment starts at 2:08:45 from the third marker of the broadcast.




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maybe you can't impeach Schifferbrains, but you could certainly try him and his cohorts for sedition and staging a coup against the sitting President



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Even my militant lesbian college professor half sister is getting tired of the whole impeachment shit show.
 
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maybe you can't impeach Schifferbrains, but you could certainly try him and his cohorts for sedition and staging a coup against the sitting President


Yeah, I'd be cool with that.


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maybe you can't impeach Schifferbrains, but you could certainly try him and his cohorts for sedition and staging a coup against the sitting President


The difficulty there is that what he does in the Chamber is immune from prosecution.
 
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Shit for brains Schiff has crazy eyes. That crazy fuck would’ve been tarred and feathered by now if the founders were still alive.


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The difficulty there is that what he does in the Chamber is immune from prosecution.


Why is that?




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The difficulty there is that what he does in the Chamber is immune from prosecution.


Umm …, not the way I read this:
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US Constitution:
“The Senators and Representatives...shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony, and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same....”
Article I, Section 6, Clause 1

[But:]

The Privilege from Arrest Clause provides a Member of Congress a privilege from civil arrest only, but not from other civil processes. Even the privilege from civil arrest would be valid only while Congress is in session.

Civil arrest is the physical detainment of a person, by lawful authority, to answer a civil demand against him. At the time the Constitution was adopted, civil arrests were common. Long v. Ansell (1934). The Framers likely feared this tool could be misused to interfere with the legislative process. Civil arrest is rarely, if ever, practiced, so this clause is virtually obsolete and has little application today.

The Supreme Court interpreted the language "in all Cases, except Treason, Felony, and Breach of the Peace" to encompass all crimes.
[Emphasis added.] Williamson v. United States (1908). Tracing the origins of the clause to parliamentary privilege, the Court found this identical language was used to qualify Parliament's privilege from arrest so that the members of Parliament were not immune from criminal prosecution. The Court concluded that the Framers' use of the identical phrase, without any explanation, indicated that Congress's privilege was to have the same limitation regarding criminal actions as did the parliamentary privilege from which the language was borrowed. The clause, therefore, does not provide Congress with any immunity from criminal prosecution. [EA.]

The Supreme Court, applying the Framers' intent, later declared that the clause also did not provide any privilege from civil process. Long v. Ansell. Hence, civil litigants can compel Members of Congress to appear in a court of proper jurisdiction to defend against civil actions. Furthermore, the Court has so narrowly interpreted the clause that Members of Congress may even be compelled by subpoena to testify in criminal and civil actions while Congress is in session.

LINK: https://www.heritage.org/const...rivilege-from-arrest

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The real limits on what many people would like to see used against the people they don’t like is that what constitutes offenses like sedition and treason has been very narrowly defined by the courts. The First Amendment gives broad protections against being prosecuted for saying what one thinks or what one wants others to think.

And attempting a coup—what statute makes that an offense? In the late 1960s when the extent of spying for the Soviet Union by Communists in this country and elsewhere was well known, it was still permissible to ask background investigation questions about people’s subversive political beliefs. We had to be very careful, however, to couch them in terms of whether the applicant not only advocated the overthrow of the US government, but whether they advocated its overthrow “by force or violence.” Even then mere advocacy might have been a bar to receiving a security clearance, but no one seriously considered it to be a basis for criminal prosecution.




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maybe you can't impeach Schifferbrains, but you could certainly try him and his cohorts for sedition and staging a coup against the sitting President


The difficulty there is that what he does in the Chamber is immune from prosecution.


if he is doing the nations business, that I can agree with

but if they are staging a coup, the only shield he should get should be something a lot less than bullet proof

the Constitution shouldn't be used as a suicide pact



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mixed signals re Vindman

Vindman lawyer:

@mikevolkov20 says, “Vindman is still detailed to NSC. We are not aware of any changes in his status. Obviously any retaliatory action against LTC Vindman on a day when we honor our military heroes would be reprehensible.”

@mikevolkov20, attorney for Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, tells @CBSNews his client “Still has a job - his detail ends in July 2020.”



then this:

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/...oved-from-wh-council

National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien said Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who gave a bombshell testimony in the House impeachment investigation last month on President Donald Trump’s Ukraine scheme, will be removed from his post at the White House National Security Council.

“Well look, one of the things that I’ve talked about is that we’re streamlining the National Security Council,” O’Brien replied. “It got bloated to like 236 people up from 100 in the Bush administration under President Obama.”

obama loaded up NSC w his "friends". A little surprise package for President Trump

The national security adviser said Vindman, who currently serves as the council’s Director for European Affairs, will be removed as a part of the White House’s “streamlining” efforts.

“My understanding is he’s–that Colonel Vindman is detailed from the Department of Defense,” O’Brien said. “So everyone who’s detailed at the NSC, people are going to start going back to their own departments and we’ll bring in new folks.”

When Brennan asked O’Brien to confirm that the decision is not retaliation against Vindman, whom Trump has baselessly accused of being a “Never Trumper,” the national security adviser’s response was that he personally had never retaliated against anyone.

“I never retaliated against anyone,” he said. “There- there will be a point for everybody who’s detailed there—that their time, that their detail will come to an end.”

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and this

lawyer Mark Zaid:

It should be made clear that #Vindman's #whistleblower disclosures are protected by law & he is not allowed to be subjected to reprisal. It may be a legitimate, justifiable personnel move, but relevant oversight authorities should inquire.

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I hope they throw Vinmand off NSC right away
 
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@mikevolkov20 says, “Vindman is still detailed to NSC. We are not aware of any changes in his status. Obviously any retaliatory action against LTC Vindman on a day when we honor our military heroes would be reprehensible.”


So what would be so reprehensible about throwing that traitor out on his butt?!? It is not his job to publicly attack the president.

If he wants to get into politics, he should retire/resign, hang up his uniform and get with it.


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Schiff Denies Republican Requests for Testimony From Key Witnesses

A pathetic embarrassment to the nation.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/f...ny-key-joseph-klein/



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