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Originally posted by Cliff:
The last Joey D for 2019. Thanks to Para for allowing me to do this. If you guys still want Joey D in 2020, and Para is cool with it, I'll keep it up.

I'm lucky to be able to hear Joe DiGenova live every Monday morning at 7:05am while I'm out on my run. Thank you for posting these so others not as fortunate as I can hear him.

Cliff, I hope that you will be able to continue, as I really enjoy it.

can Comey possibly comprehend what an ass he sounds like ?

From a Comey opinion article in the Wash Post:

Comey writing about the 4 stages of being attacked by Donald Trump:

“It feels like a strange and slightly sad old guy yelling at you to get off his lawn, echoed by younger but no less sad people in red hats shouting, ‘Yeah, get off his lawn!’”

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FU Comey, and yeah, get off the lawn

you completely destroyed the reputation of the FBI. Any decent & honest FBI agent must hold you in the highest contempt

Well, maybe he should get off the fucking lawn, then.

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Originally posted by Cliff:
If you guys still want Joey D in 2020, and Para is cool with it, I'll keep it up.

Cliff, it wouldn't even occur to me to have you cease these contributions. You can post Joey D, Joey E F and G if you like, too.

The Shumb Dit, Rep. Al Green is at it again. Appearing on More Silly Nonsense By Communists (MSNBC), Green doubled down on his impeachment talk, saying the "genesis" of Trump's impeachment began when he was "running for office."

You can't make this shit up.

Well, Comey is a sanctimonious prick for feeling entitled to be on his lawn in the first place.

US Marines deploying to embassy in Baghdad. The embassy called for help and the cavalry is coming. Imagine that, and what a welcome change. Those are not blanks they are loading in their magazines, either.




Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_hYg0rEC10

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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:
US Marines deploying to embassy in Baghdad. The embassy called for help and the cavalry is coming. Imagine that, and what a welcome change.

Yes, this president would never leave them hanging like the last POS did. However, those troops are IMO headed in the wrong direction. Instead of sending more troops to Iraq we should be loading up everyone there now and shipping them home. There is no need to have Americans in harm's way in that shit hole country.

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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:
US Marines deploying to embassy in Baghdad. The embassy called for help and the cavalry is coming. Imagine that, and what a welcome change. Those are not blanks they are loading in their magazines, either.

Damn right.

Haven't seen this elsewhere:

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This is not warning, it is a threat: Trump declares US embassy in Iraq safe, says Iran will pay ‘big price’ for attack

https://www.rt.com/news/477237...-iran-iraq-protests/

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Originally posted by braillediver:
Haven't seen this elsewhere:

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This is not warning, it is a threat: Trump declares US embassy in Iraq safe, says Iran will pay ‘big price’ for attack

https://www.rt.com/news/477237...-iran-iraq-protests/

Pro tip: Don’t read the comments on that page. What a shit show.

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Originally posted by parabellum:

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Originally posted by Cliff:
If you guys still want Joey D in 2020, and Para is cool with it, I'll keep it up.

Cliff, it wouldn't even occur to me to have you cease these contributions. You can post Joey D, Joey E F and G if you like, too.

Thanks Para.

Thank you Mr. President for another great year and for your service to our country. Keep America Great - Go Trump 2020!

Commentary: The Real Cause of Deep State Corruption

https://tennesseestar.com/2019...ep-state-corruption/

What could possibly explain the transparent nonsense that is the attempt to impeach and remove President Donald Trump? The farrago of exaggerations and outright lies that the leadership of the Democrats in the House of Representatives are currently peddling makes little sense.

Impeachment was a remedy crafted by the Founders to remove a corrupt official who put his or her interests ahead of those of the country. But when a president has managed one of the most successful economic recoveries in modern times, and when he has succeeded in reducing taxes, regulations, and in reforming the federal judiciary, that president doesn’t seem like a problem the Constitution’s Framers sought to cure.

Could it be, instead, that those seeking to remove President Trump are themselves the beneficiaries of the kind of corruption the framers feared?

The idea is gaining some currency, as some observers have begun to suggest what we are witnessing is a distraction by the “deep state,” to shift our attention away from the revelations of the extreme misconduct of our entrenched bureaucracy in our intelligence, foreign service, and law enforcement agencies during the Obama Administration. The misconduct is detailed in Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s recent report and could be the subject of prosecutions by U.S. Attorney John Durham.

There is much merit in that analysis. It makes good sense to understand the smokescreen of impeachment as a means of obscuring what appears to be the extraordinary corruption of the Biden family and former Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, or even the “pay to play” assertions concerning the Clinton Foundation, the concealing of which is the best explanation for Hillary Clinton’s shenanigans regarding her “homebrew” server which was used to shield her misconduct from public view.

If, as President Trump maintains, he is the sworn enemy of such corruption, it certainly would make sense for those who have benefited and continue to benefit from a misuse of the power and largess of the federal government to fight him tooth and nail.

Punishing such corruption would be reason enough to support Republicans if they are sincere in their effort to do this. But understanding a deeper cause of the rot that has beset our national government is also necessary.

What makes it possible for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) to claim they are protecting the Constitution? The Constitution they purport to be safeguarding bears no relationship to the original understanding of the actual document.

How can Pelosi refuse even to transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate unless Majority Leader McConnell permits Democrats to implement Senate proceedings, such as the calling of witnesses who did not appear in the House, or provides her assurances of “fair play,” such as were denied President Trump in the House’s hearings?

How could this strategy be something concocted by liberal Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe? How could other purportedly respected liberal law professors such as Noah Feldman and Pamela Karlan support the transparently absurd impeachment theories of the House Democrats?

Could it be that the explanation for this is also something of an answer to the question of why so many Democrat officials of blue-state cities are emboldened to defy our immigration restrictions, or why blue state officials believe they can ignore the federal government’s laws on cannabis, or even the Constitution’s Second Amendment protection of the right to bear arms?

Is there a parallel between Pelosi’s flaunting of the Constitution and its structure and President Barack Obama’s decision that he could implement DACA without the benefit of federal legislation?

What is it that has made the federal Constitution so plastic, that has empowered so many Democrats—many of them educated at our finest law schools—to believe that the clear constitutional provisions regarding the separation of powers and the limitations on the federal government could be ignored?

We are, it would seem, reaping the harvest of the seeds sown by the New Deal and the Warren Court, by Roe v. Wade, by Obergefell v. Hodges, and by a jurisprudence embraced by our elite law schools in the course of the last two generations. Those cases, and the law professors who approved of them, and the law students they educated, came to believe that our Constitution was outmoded, and that it was the job of enlightened jurists and jurisprudence to amend it without benefit of Article V.

On the theory that the Constitution’s framers supported slavery and the deprivation of the franchise to women, it is no surprise that some frank justices such as Thurgood Marshall could argue that deference was simply not due to the original understanding of that document. The abandonment of that deference, then, is what led to the court essentially rewriting the 14th Amendment to let it advance the policies it favored. These grievances with the original document, they argued, permitted them to make new constitutional law and to reallocate the constitutional responsibilities between the state and federal governments.

Once one abandons the original understanding as a means of advancing the rule of law, however, the way is opened for any Supreme Court justice, bureaucrat or legislator convinced that he has access to a higher truth than the Constitution’s Framers or the sovereign people who ratified their work, to ignore the strictures of our fundamental law and to promote arbitrarily whatever policies are ideologically or personally more pleasing.

That arbitrary behavior, however, is what leads to corruption, an abandonment of the rule of law, the ending of popular sovereignty, and ultimately to tyranny. This country is threatened by a loss of its constitutional system, and of the morality that the Framers believed must undergird it. The threat does not come, however, from the occupant of the White House, but from those who would seek to expel him.

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Once one abandons the original understanding as a means of advancing the rule of law, however, the way is opened for any Supreme Court justice, bureaucrat or legislator convinced that he has access to a higher truth than the Constitution’s Framers or the sovereign people who ratified their work, to ignore the strictures of our fundamental law and to promote arbitrarily whatever policies are ideologically or personally more pleasing.

That arbitrary behavior, however, is what leads to corruption, an abandonment of the rule of law, the ending of popular sovereignty, and ultimately to tyranny. This country is threatened by a loss of its constitutional system, and of the morality that the Framers believed must undergird it. The threat does not come, however, from the occupant of the White House, but from those who would seek to expel him.

Spot on article. I think the bit above sums it up very well. A lot of the problem actually started shortly after Lincoln's war once so much power was gathered into the District of Columbia. Power corrupts. Once Wilson opened the spigot of currency in 1913 with the Federal Reserve Act, the show really got started. To all of that add the sophistry of many jurists, politicians and bureaucrats and now, the truly corrupt are deeply embedded in government at all levels.

Getting back to the founding principles of the Republic is going to time, a lot of work - and prosecutions.

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Originally posted by Cliff:
The last Joey D for 2019. Thanks to Para for allowing me to do this. If you guys still want Joey D in 2020...

I appreciate you posting this, Cliff. I hope you will keep it going.

Happy New Year!



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Originally posted by wcb6092:
what we are witnessing is a distraction by the “deep state,” to shift our attention away from the revelations of the extreme misconduct of our entrenched bureaucracy in our intelligence, foreign service, and law enforcement agencies during the Obama Administration. The misconduct is detailed in Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s recent report and could be the subject of prosecutions by U.S. Attorney John Durham.

It seemed obvious with the timing, sudden urgency, lack of direction and lack of follow through.

The next report will be late and probably come out in August during the Conventions.

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Originally posted by Cliff:
The last Joey D for 2019. Thanks to Para for allowing me to do this. If you guys still want Joey D in 2020, and Para is cool with it, I'll keep it up.

Please keep up these links. I look forward to and listen to each and every one. Thanks for your help in distributing honest information.