Washington Times | Progressives stick with impeachment demand Washington Times Progressive groups doubled down Thursday on their calls for President Trump's impeachment, arguing the selection of a special counsel to handle the investigation in alleged Trump-Russian ties should not deter Congress from initiating the politically ... |
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Meanwhile all daily bedevilled patriots, BELIEVE, not in the fantasies the MSM spins but in what is REAL
Theres only one way to get to the light at the end of the dark tunnel where the mainstream media in sync with the progressives have utterly abandoned America. The light at the end of the tunnel can be descried in two little words: BackTrump! Back Donald Trump and Buck Yourself Back Up in believing in America.
People have been giving up on faith since gossip, hearsay and lies became the journalism of the day.
The Long Night of the Knives is not the history of the past but happening right now. The swishing heard in the air is not the onset of Tinnitus, but the shivs, sabres and darts making their way to a well-marked target called Trump and Supporters.
So far, as they wait for Trump to step down, some wish openly for his assassination.
Their never-ending mission is to kill off President Trump with vile words.
Theres a constant 24-7 media barrage against Trump, the president, and the hyenas howls are getting louder by day.
This is a media campaignReports indicate Sources say, blah, blah, blah. Dismal in defeat blabbers Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Maxine Waters, Chuck Schumer being the biggest blabbers of the moment, surpass in their spittle-flecked spite even Blabbermouth Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Back Trump Up and back the Progressives off by being willing to give Americas newly-elected 45th the benefit of the doubt.
Backing Trump Up is not putting a smiley face on it, its giving the back up the stamp of reality.
What Americas enemy is attempting to do is to get back into power by any means necessary.
You dont have to be a talking head or pundit to see the path theyre digging.
Just a glance at the headlines tells you where progressives in exile are trying to lead the masses.
Conservatives begin to whisper: President Pence screams the latest Politico headline.
Not since the release of the Access Hollywood tape, in which Donald Trump bragged about groping women by the genitals, have some conservatives thought so seriously, if a bit wistfully, about two words: President Pence. (Matthew Nussbaum, Politico, May 17, 2017)
Knock it off, Matthew, Conservatives, on the run even with a Congress and Senate majority, dont think of anything past their own pay-checks.
They would hate Pence as much as Trump, but would have to come up with new personal insults besides, Trumps unlikeable hair, small hands and his color of orange.
The scandals clouding Trumps presidency including, most recently, his firing of FBI Director James Comey, his alleged leak of classified information to Russian officials, and reports that he urged Comey to drop an investigation into a top aide have raised once more the possibility that Trump could be pushed aside and replaced by Vice President Mike Pence. (Politico)
By which law on the books can Trump be pushed aside? The U.S. put up for eight long years with a president who hated Americapartly because there was no law on the books that could have him pushed aside.
Erick Erickson, a conservative pundit who was a strong Never Trumper but then pledged to give the president a chance, wrote on Wednesday that Republicans should abandon the president because they have no need for him with Mike Pence in the wings. (Politico)
Put your gargantuan ego in your back pocket, Eric Erickson, and then sit on it!
And then theres this hilarious headline from the propagandist Washington Post: The worst job in Washington right now: Working for Trump.
Wrong: For anyone with any kind of a conscience, the worst job in the world is lying for a living in the MSM, led by the Washington Post and New York Times, where plying the trade of journalism, no longer means chasing down a story but sitting right there at your desk and making one up.
In life on this Earth we all have Crosses to bear and it seems that the progressives, dumped by the thousands in the last election and being forced into a life in exile, is theirs.
Dont believe in all you see and hear on cable television or read on the Internet.
Dont go digging deep for your sympathy whenever a radio talk show host says he/she/or in-between declare that they cant take it anymore and so plan to go running off to join the other side.
Next time the attention-seeking Ann Coulter wants to publicly air her doubts about President Trump, she should at east wait until hes having a better day.
And no, Hell no, Ms. Coulter the anti-Trumpers were not maybe right about Trump back during the election campaign. They werent right about anythingnot even about the so-called impossibility of his ever making it to the presidency.
Meanwhile all daily bedevilled patriots, BELIEVE, not in the fantasies the MSM spins but in what is REAL.
BACK TRUMP! And once youve done that, go on and buck yourself up, just in knowing at heart that all that is going on right in front of you is whatever the media spins.
BACK TRUMP UP and help Make America Great Again!
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Many Americans are rightfully outraged at the firing of FBI Director James Comey, just as they were shocked at Comeys ability to influence political events. But what can we do about it?
A political movement should do more than just react to the days events with outrage, although thats important. It should also offer the vision of a better world.
Donald Trump will nominate the next FBI director. Barring something unexpected, his nominee will almost certainly be approved. But that doesnt mean the rest of us are powerless. We have the power to imagine a nation run on principles of economic and social justice. We can create a vision so compelling that it brings new people into politics, encourages more activism, and compels our political leaders to fight for it.
That vision can, and should, include the FBI.
Special Agents Force
The idea of a progressive FBI may seem strange, even preposterous, given that agencys real-world history. But, as explained inpart 1of this two-part series, the Bureau was created along progressive principles in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt and Attorney General Charles Bonaparte.
Its initial work was progressive, too. The original agency, which was then called the Special Agents Force, concentrated on investigating banking crimes, violations of antitrust law, peonage, which included debt servitude and misuse of prison labor, and land fraud. It also investigated people seeking citizenship.
That changed first, with the passage of the racist-inspired Mann Act, then with the political abuses and misdeeds of long-term director J. Edgar Hoover, and lastly with the political shifts of recent years.
Mission Creep
Today, the Bureau sees its mission in very different terms. The FBIswebsitelists its priorities in the following order: protect the United States from terrorist attack, stop foreign intelligence operations and espionage, end cyber-based attacks and high-technology crimes, fight public corruption at all levels, protect civil rights, combat transnational and other criminal organizations, fight white-collar crime, and combat major violent crime.
While all these objectives are worthwhile, its a telling list. Protecting civil rights is more than halfway down the list. Fighting organized crime the mission that made the FBI famous is near the bottom. White-collar crime, a category that includesthe massive bank fraud that cost the economy trillions of dollars and once put41 million American mortgages underwater, is second to last.
Fighting Discrimination
Imagine an FBI whose priorities more closely reflected its progressive roots. An FBI that cared more about civil rights would make it a priority to end discriminatory law enforcement practices. According to a study by the Department of Justice, black motorists were three times likelier than whites to be searched during a traffic stop. During encounters with police, African Americans were twice as likely to be arrested and almost four times as likely to experience the use of force. Once in the court system, black defendants were six times as likely to be imprisoned.
Hanging over all these encounters is the risk of violent death.
In 1892, even before the Special Agents Force was created, police chiefs around the country created the Criminal Investigation Bureau as a central repository for information on criminals. It, too, was eventually folded into the FBI. Why isnt the FBI using its data management function to track the fatal police shootings of black men, women, and children around the country?
White Collars, White Terror
If our law enforcement system made it a priority to fight organized crime, it would pay more attention to the Wall Street bankers at institutions who laundered money for the Mexican drug cartels. They went free, while kids on the corner went to jail.
And, speaking of white-collar crime: why isnt the FBI doing more to support the work of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has uncovered many cases of banker fraud, referred cases for criminal investigation, and returned $12 billions to ripped-off bank customers?
With the FBIs emphasis on terrorism, why hasnt more been done to combat the white sovereign citizens groups, militia/patriot groups, racist skinheads and neo-Nazis law enforcement officersnamedas the greatest terror threats? Why hasnt it done more to protect the Muslims, Jews, Sikhs, and other minorities targeted by these terrorists?
Republicansapplied political pressureto protect these groups from investigation, to their great discredit, but the FBI needs a leader who will resist that kind of pressure.
Looking for Leadership
FBI agents have a tough job. They deserve respect and appreciation, as all hard-working people do. The problem isnt with the rank-and-file. Its a problem of leadership: political leadership the kind that is so conspicuously absent among the Republicans who protect violent white groups and leadership of the Bureau itself.
So, who should run the FBI? Few of us are likely to be happy with Trumps nominee. That would be ideal nominee look like? Given the number of violent crimes committed against women in this society, it would be especially helpful to have a woman lead the Bureau for the first time in history. And since people of color are disproportionately targeted by Wall Street criminals, violent criminals, and civil rights offenders, it would also be important to choose a person of color.
Many FBI agents are attorneys, as well as highly-trained law enforcement professionals. It would be helpful to have a leader who is familiar with bank fraud, discriminatory banking and real estate practices, and domestic violence.
Most of all, the ideal FBI director will understand that she serves all the people without fear or favor, unafraid of taking on special interests, and unwilling to repeat past abuses of power.
This is not a new vision for the FBI. It dates back to the goals laid out for it by Theodore Roosevelt in 1908, expanded to include society as we understand it today. This isnt utopian thinking. The institutions of government can help all of us pursuejustice. But first, we need to demand it.
Richard (RJ) Eskow is a blogger and writer, a former Wall Street executive, a consultant, and a former musician.
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As progressives in Illinois wage what amounts to a two-front war against President Trump and Governor Rauner, they're always on the watch for a two-birds-with-one-stone kind of weapon.
That is, one issue with which they can stymie Trump's assault on, well, everything, while damaging Rauner's chances of winning reelection in the 2018 campaign.
They have a potentially versatile weapon in Senate Bill 982. Having passed the Illinois senate last month, it now heads for the house. And if it passes there, its ultimate destination will be Rauner's desk, where it would at least make him squirm.
The bill would require presidential candidates to release their income tax returns for the previous five years before they could appear on the Illinois presidential ballot. Similar proposals are popping up in state legislatures around the country.
As we all know, Trump's the only major-party presidential candidate since the 1960s not to release any of his tax returns.
He's failed to do this either because he doesn't want people to see who he owes money to, or how rich he is (or isn't), or how little he pays in taxes, or that he doesn't have to. And apparently his loyal supporters don't care.
SB 982 is being pushed by Indivisible Chicago, the local affiliate of a national group created by four former Democratic congressional aides: Ezra Levin, Jeremy Haile, Leah Greenberg, and Angel Padilla.
In the days after last year's presidential election, the national group published the Indivisible Guide, which lays out a plan to retake Congress and bounce Trump from office by creating a left-of-center version of the Tea Party. On the grounds that if you can't beat 'em, you might as well emulate 'em.
"Like us, you probably deeply disagree with the principles and positions of the Tea Party," the guide reads. "But we can all learn from their success in influencing the national debate and the behavior of national policymakers."
(Actually, I'd take it back a step further: Republican intransigence didn't start with the Tea Party. Republicans have been unbending in their opposition to anything the Democrats propose since former congressman Newt Gingrich seized control of the party in the midterm elections of 1994.)
In any event, the Indivisible Guide basically urges progressives to act like Tea Party Republicans. Unite around a "set of shared beliefs," just "say NO to Members of Congress" who don't take progressive stances on crucial social issues, remain "united in opposition" to Trump, and treat weak Democrats "as traitors."
About freaking time, I'd say.
In January, Rachel Maddow featured Indivisible on her nightly TV show. They've been forming affiliates all over the country ever since.
"All of these Indivisible chapters are really a bunch of concerned citizens with day jobs," says Jeff Radue, one of the founders of Indivisible Chicago. "We're putting our energies into action."
In February, the local chapter found a rallying issue in SB 982, which was introduced by state senator Daniel Biss (now a gubernatorial candidate).
The issue worked on two fronts: It rallied Democrats and swing voters who believe that Trump should release his taxes. And it would put Rauner on the defensivebut I'll get to that in a minute.
On April 27, the bill came before the state senate for a vote. During the debate, state Republicans railed against it, arguing that the measure was unconstitutional, an invasion of Trump's (or any presidential candidate's) privacy, and mean, nasty politics.
In rebuttal, state Democrats replied that there are law professors who say such bills are constitutionalso see you in court.
And, they argued, it's hardly an invasion of privacy to require a presidential candidate to do what every mortgage applicant is required to doyou know, show someone your tax returns.
"The invasion of privacy argument is especially ridiculous," says Radue. "This is the president of the United Stateswhat privacy? We know almost everything about the two main candidates. But we don't know their potential conflicts of interest?"
As for being mean and nastyplease. Republicans have been playing mean and nasty since the days of Nixon, when they invented the southern strategy, pitting whites against blacks.
My guess is Trump's operatives probably wouldn't care all that much if he were kept off the ballot in Illinois, a state he'll probably never win. As we saw in the last election, where Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by about three million votes nationally, the popular vote doesn't currently matter in our democracy. Trump could still be reelected even if he's bounced from all the blue states.
However, there are similar income-tax-disclosure bills coming up in red states like Tennessee and Kansas, as well as swing states like Michigan and Ohio. So this could get interesting if Indivisible keeps pushing.
The Illinois state senate ultimately passed the bill on a partisan vote of 32 to 19. Republicans voted against it and the Democrats voted for itexcept for senator Steven Landek, from the south suburbs.
Now it goes to the house, where speaker Michael Madigan will undoubtedly relish another chance to embarrass the governor.
And that brings us to Rauner. This is one of those bills that puts him in a bindsort of like HB 40, the reproductive rights bill he's vowed to veto to appease his antichoice allies.
In this case, Rauner's always tried to position himself as a good-government Republican who cares about transparency.
Well, what could be more transparent than making sure the leader of the free world has no conflicts of interest with the companies he regulates, or with the foreign powers with whom he must negotiate? We can only know these things if we see the tax returns.
At the very least, it would be fun to watch Rauner squirm as he tries to explain why he's vetoing a bill that fosters transparency in politics.
Entertaining us is the least Rauner can do for bringing so much financial chaos to our state.v
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Its the era of fake fake news, where the mainstream media broadcasts well-entrenched mythology while pointing their collective finger at conservative media outlets for misinformation.
Sigh. Most of you understand just how much treason and scandal has been uncovered by conservative media like WND.com that would never have seen the light of day if left to CNN or the New York Times.
Are you frustrated with people who cling to nonsense? Wouldnt it be great if they would thoughtfully consider conservative viewpoints? Perhaps a list would help.
Although condensed, here are the major points I would make:
10. Conservatives are not racists or sexists, and we dont hate anyone. What we hate are inhumane, destructive policies wreaking heartbreaking consequences. No person is wedded to these, and many people have gotten a conscience and changed their politics. Ex-liberals like me know this all too well. So please be authentically tolerant and respectful. Read views from (for instance) black conservatives like Star Parker, and drop the pejorative racist label.
9. Immigration is not the problem. America is a nation of immigrants. Conservatives are not afraid of immigrants, and their opinion is not a racist reaction. We oppose lawlessness and illegal immigration. I lock my doors at night, and most of you do also, because not all people are trustworthy. For the security of our children and families, we deserve to know who comes to America, their names, backgrounds and values. And we deserve their pledge to honor our Constitution, learn English, follow our laws and respect our history. Every other country regulates immigration. Why not America? Its an issue of national security, and its the law.
8. Conservatives love clean water and air but hate the highly-questionable climate change agenda. Its shaky pseudo-science just happens to coincide with a trajectory toward global Marxism, also a cherished progressive goal, ideally monitored/managed by the U.N. Should first-world countries, already propping up many third-world economies, go along with what would be a devastating result millions of jobs lost based on computer models? Do we need fines, taxes and regulations to cripple the worlds producers? Why would we trust the foolishness of bribe-worthy U.N. bureaucrats? These are the same ditzy people who think Israel is the problem in the Middle East. No, check the facts and history. Its a huge scam that has little to do with protecting the environment.
7. The political tyranny that calls itself a religion Islam would completely transform America if possible, bringing the chaos we see in Europe. Conservatives are not fearful of people who are different from us. We are wary of people who have anti-freedom goals and barbaric, seventh-century customs. Homicide bombers? Female genital mutilation? Severe Christian and Jewish persecution? Women forced to wear hijabs and burkas? Male domination? Read our conservative lips: No American will thrive under values like these. These self-isolated people often endanger other Muslims, not just those they consider infidels. We must resist any policies incorporating Shariah law and try to educate Muslims who will listen.
6. There are no different human types called lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered or queer. There is no gay gene. There are no people born in the wrong sex body. These are learned preferences, and as such, they are up for debate. In a fair debate, they lose, because the outcomes are so personally destructive, socially negative and spiritually compromising. Same-sex desires are changeable, and the numerous former homosexual/ transgendered identifiers deserve to be heard. Children should not be taught these are valid behaviors. This conduct is not a civil right, and its child abuse to enable children to go down these roads.
5. America is fed up with racial identity politics, and conservatives are as well. Not because of racial prejudice, but because honorable law enforcement officers are being sacrificed literally as leftist revolutionary groups exploit a few local situations featuring sketchy characters who love media attention. So they scream over police shootings of black people, regardless of circumstances. Others shot by officers who dont fit the useful profile do not concern these social justice monitors. Its all about money, power and mostly unjustified resentment. Justice has little to do with it.
4. Free speech, freedom of religion and freedom of conscience mean exactly that. The University of Chicago model needs to be implemented on all campuses. The Clemson student government considering mandatory LGBTQ ally training needs to learn tolerance and respect for other viewpoints. And oppressive educators who try to silence students? They need to be dismissed right along with Dr. Zach Ruff who is no longer at STEM Academy in Downingtown, PA.
3. Why is abortion so fundamental to progressives? We conservatives respect scientific advancement, not fables and wishful thinking. Research clearly shows life begins at conception. Your inconvenient pregnancy is a human being who will be your daughter or son. Why is your heart so hard? Why not simply plan ahead carefully and avoid that brief sexual encounter? Hold back out of respect for life and human rights. Your mom did not abort you. Cant you pay the favor forward?
2. Conservative news media are a mixed bag, yet there are many fine reporters and much critical information to be learned not shared by the mainstream. I encourage any progressive to spend a month listening to Rush Limbaugh, reading WND.com and other online news sources, and see if you dont come away with a new perspective, one that is not racist, sexist, or anti-Semitic.
1. Christians are being smeared and mischaracterized for the most part in our nations popular conversation. It is true none of us is perfect. Only our Savior is. And we hold Him up to all of you. He can change your desires, carry your burdens, heal your relationships. He is not our divine therapist, however, but our Father, Creator and Redeemer. Jesus stands at the door of your heart and knocks. Couldnt you open the door just a small crack?
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