Posse Incitatus

The strange drip drip drip of declassified documents in DC

As the Mueller investigation lurches to an uncertain ending, we're seeing a steady flow of hitherto restricted document coming from House Republicans.

The leftwing press isn't much interested in them because it hurts their cause, but they're out their availability will have a considerable impact on pending judicial action.

The facts likely don't come as a surprise to anyone involved.  We now know that the press was working hand-in-glove with the FBI to leak anti-Trump stories and further the deep state conspiracy against him.

Bob Mueller also has been exposed as exactly the partisan hack people thought he was.  He went after people for process crimes and used dawn raids to intimidate them all the while giving Democrats who did the exact same thing a pass. 

Again, all of this was already known in DC, though the politicians are pretending (as they always do) that each release is a total shock and surprise to them.

No, what's intriguing is the timing and the method of the release.

Donald Trump could have put all this information out and more well before the fall elections.  Yet he's still behaving like a onlooker, cheering each release but also remaining independent of it.

I've seen some conservatives berate him for this, but that too misses the point.  Trump wanted the information out, but didn't want to release it himself.  The reason is obvious: the Dems - and their Grand Inquisitor - would insist that the president using his lawful authority was somehow "obstructing justice."

Indeed, this whole shitshow has been an attempt to turn Trump's decision to fire the sanctimonious lying hack James Comey into a Constitutional crisis, despite the fact that Trump has both the right to do it and Comey absolutely deserved it.

All of which is to say:  things are coming out in a manner Trump desires and at a time of his choosing.  This leads me to believe that other things will progress in a similar manner.

It's going to be interesting to see what he has in mind.

With their victory, Democrat anti-Semites will only become louder and more confident

There's a personality type that can't simply accept the win with dignity.  They have exult, preen and boast after every victory.

This can be a problem, however, when the victory is supposed to be downplayed.

For example, the Democrats have long pretended that anti-Semites only existed on the right (just as they pretended that the KKK all joined the GOP in 1968).

They were able to get away with this charade because the media steadfastly ignored examples of leftwing anti-Semitism and their own Jew-hating allies know how to keep their remarks on the downlow.

To be sure, there were provocations from time to time, but nothing that their media allies couldn't cover up.

That time is now past, and it is precisely because the new generation of Jew haters are actually proud of the distinction and want to world to know what they think. 

It is ironic that these people won't shut up because of another Democrat belief - that of the virtue of ignorant youth.  Alexandria Occaiso-Cortes and her fellow freshman believe that their youth and inexperience make them morally superior to the leaders of the caucus.  They believe that far from owing deference to their elders, their elders actually owe deference to them.

Nancy Pelosi was able to keep a lid on this, but Ilhan Omar was always a loose cannon, beholden to none.  She'd smear Jews, apologize, and then go do it again.  I'm sure she found this hokey-pokey style of discussion tedious and was willing to finally give it up so she could air her full-throated hatred of Zion and the hook-nosed blood-drinkers therein.

To their great discredit, the Democrat leadership caved.

Expect the statements to grow more strident as victorious anti-Semites consolidate their position.  I anticipate a plank in the 2020 platform endorsing both the Boycott Divest and Sanction movement as well as the "Zionism is Racism" United Nations resolution.

When that happens, the Trumpening will have yet another Great Reveal to its credit.  While alarming, this reckoning is also absolutely necessary.  Only after we know the full scope of the problem can we solve it.

Dems want gun control for citizens, not illegal aliens

It is a strange and wonderful thing to see the Democrats suddenly admitting what they really believe.

Last week, the House Republicans managed to come up with a bold gambit regarding a Democrat gun control bill: they introduced a floor amendment that would require the FBI to notify immigration enforcement (aka ICE) if an illegal immigrant tried to purchase a firearm.

Enough Democrats crossed over to support what should be unanimously-agreed upon policy that it was added to the bill.

Naturally the progressive wing is pissed. 

It's long been clear to careful observers (like this blog) that the Dems don't actually care if gun control "works."  They are indifferent to gun crime and could care less about its victims.  We know this because the Obama Administration made it a policy never to prosecute "straw purchases," which allowed people to buy legal guns and turn them over to criminals with impunity.

What this vote did was put it out in the open.  According to the Dems, all purchases of firearms everywhere need to go through a federal background check, but illegal aliens who fail that check are free to go about their business.

Essentially, non-citizens get unqualified immunity from American gun laws.

Meanwhile, the Dems will continue to demand "common sense gun laws," all the while pretending this vote didn't happen.

If India and Pakistan nuke each other, the lead story will still be RUSSIA

If there was any lingering doubt as to the pathetic, miserable, myopic and dim-witted nature of American media, today dispelled it.

Given a story with profound global implications - a military confrontation between to long-time enemies armed with nuclear weapons - you'd think that would be main news event.  For the first time since 1971, India and Pakistan indulged in air-to-air combat.  This is important.

But no, the useless Democrat media was instead focused on the additional lies spread by an admitted perjurer coached by Hillary Clinton's legal time.

Because Trump.

India and Pakistan's leaders aren't gossiping on Twitter, so no one from Washington knows or cares what's going on, but it far more consequential than the latest eternal installment of "Walls are closing in on Trump" story that has now been running for two f*cking years.

In the event of a global conflagration, I imagine the last signals to flicker across social media from these morons will be questions on how it affects Mueller's investigation

BONUS QUISLING NEVER TRUMP STUPIDITY:  Combat Lawyer David French felt compelled to let everyone on Twitter know that he would never, ever, ever vote for Trump. 

So I guess Mr. Painfully Evangelical Christian will be fine voting for a Democrat who favors murdering babies at birth and persecuting Christians, because that's pretty much what we're going to get.

What a useless tool.

Trump's second North Korea summit

Well, this isn't going to make the Endless Unwinnable War lobby happy.

Just to review: since the previous summit - which all the NeverTrump losers denounced as a sell-out, North Korea has not conducted a single missile or nuclear weapons test.

The amount of money/fuel/food provided for this concession?

Zero.  Zip.  Nada.

Ending a previously intractable conflict takes a little time, and it's funny to see how many people who conspicuously failed during their time in power are now demanding that Trump provide instant results.

That being said, I think Trump wants to see some concrete progress on de-nuclearization.  Perhaps a "nukes for food" deal with an American mission in Pyongyang would be mutually acceptable.  Anyhow, the media will as usual be utterly useless in both analysis and relating the actual events, so stay tuned.

As a side note, every time Trump leaves the country, something happens on the FBI/DOJ conspiracy front.  Interesting to see what happens there as well.

If it wasn't for fake hate crimes, we would have any hate crimes at all

Wow, seems like just a few weeks ago the media was in a lather condeming Catholic kids for taunting an American Indian activist who was also a proud Vietnam veteran.

Of course, that was fake.

But not to worry, we have a new fake hate crime involving an obscure Fox TV actor who once again checked all the boxes to continue the media narrative that Trump's America is a Hateful Place.

The alleged attackers were of course white, anti-gay and boldly sported their MAGA hats.

Turns out, they weren't any of those things, but who cares?  We'll have another outrage "proving" America is full of hate in a few days.

The truth is, this country has never been more tolerant - unless you're conservative.   

Another truth is that the left has to keep pushing these hoaxes to justify their miserable performance in office.  Black people have to vote Democrat because REPUBLICANS ARE NAZIS!!11!

That is why Kanye West got beaten up so badly.  Just 15 percent of black voters shifting away from the Dems will destroy them as a national party.

Fake news is not exactly a new thing, but it's become more blatant of late.  I am now completely jaded regarding the outrage du jour.  And once again, I've been vindicated.

Our border wall hair-on-fire moment fades away

One of the interesting things about modern crises is how they are almost entirely fake.

last week's drama is a perfect example of this.  Donald Trump engineered the whole thing by refusing to sign a budget bill, then signed a short-term bill restoring funding, before refusing to sign another one unless certain conditions were met.

This resulting in hand-wringing, howls of protests and warnings of dire things to come (all of which depended on which side you were on).

In the end, a bill was signed, the government was funding, some of the border wall will get built, and life goes on.  Trump also followed through with something he's been telegraphing for a long time: an emergency declaration on border security.

Naturally, this is a dire Threat to the Republic, and the Democrats are (as is their wont) suing to get  judge to overturn it.  The fact that there are 31 other "states of emergency" is beside the point.

Indeed, if the administration's lawyers are smart, they should require the judge to either strike them all down, or none of them.  This business of the judiciary demanding a jump-seat in the Oval Office has got to stop.

There's still some smouldering debate about what exactly is in the funding bill (I mean besides payoffs for people of both parties), but this ignores the big picture, which is simply this:

Trump demanded money for a border barrier.  Nancy Pelosi said he would get none.  Instead, he got some.  Nobody's happy, but that's how compromise works.

A most consequential State of the Union

I've studiously avoided the empty pomp and ceremony of the State of the Union address for some years, but last night I made an exception.

It was a remarkable performance, arguably the best of my adult lifetime.

This was because unlike previous presidents, Donald Trump is playing for keeps.  After weeks of siege warfare, this was his chance to break out into the open field.  He embraced it with gusto.

It was a long speech, and necessarily had its sluggish parts, but it also had moments that cannot easily be forgotten, such as a joint session of Congress singing "Happy Birthday" to a Holocaust survivor.

Or Trump's pointed and necessary calling out of the Democrats for supporting the murder of infants.

Yes, border security was a major theme, but who could watch Trump win over the White Robe Caucus without laughing hysterically?  They defiantly refused to applaud for every worthy cause Trump offered up to them, including a child cancer survivor, but when he talked about female employment rising, they couldn't restrain themselves. 

The master then chided his students for their failure before giving them new cause to cheer.  As they sat down, the master showman teased them that they should remain standing for what came next, which was his tribute to Womens' Suffrage and suddenly it was The White Resistance that was dancing and shouting "U-S-A!"

Democrat Feminist Status:  Owned.

Naturally, the eunuch wing of the GOP was outraged by this vulgar display and they've been pissing about it loudly on Twitter, which perfectly symbolizes their both their hatred of any kind of GOP success as well as their irrelevance.

Ironically, Trump's triumph is getting eclipsed by the Democrat meltdown in Virginia.  It is worth pointing out yet again that the KKK was always nothing more than the militant arm of the Democrat party.  The notion that it suddenly became a GOP front organization in 1965 was always low-grade bullshit.

It's utterly unsurprising that ancestral southern Democrats would use blackface and Klan hoods as punch lines in their youth, and it never made sense that Republicans would have anything to do with these hateful symbols since one of the Klan's pastimes was lynching Republicans.

The "Solid South" was solid because dissenters could easily find themselves on the short end of a long rope.

The sexual assault charges against Lt. Gov. Fairfax are also escalating in intensity, and this in turn makes me wonder: will he be the first thrown under the bus? 

And will the black community passively watch Southern White Democrats once again throw a black man aside without due process to save their miserable hides? 

We'll find out soon enough.

New York: Our abortion laws are as close to murder as you can get; Virginia: Hold my beer

One of the features of social media that render it so toxic is the need to showcase one's virtue with ever greater levels of righteous indignation.

Thus: it wasn't enough that some high school boys might have acted poorly.  No, they my be expelled, their parents reduced to poverty and they themselves soundly beaten!  Firebomb the school, too!

All this for a lie that fell apart within 48 hours.

In the case of abortion, Democrats seem driven to ever-greater extremes.  Virginia is considering legislation that define "abortion" as being what happens when a kid is starting to be born, and maybe after.

The Quisling Never Trump-endorsed Democrat governor, Ralph Northam, tried to explain away this horrific notion by mentioning that if a child is born prematurely, the mother and doctor could then discuss whether or not to let it live.  At least that's what it sounded like he said.

The problem of course with late, late-term abortion is that it isn't really "abortion" any more.  It's murder. 

The whole judicial construct of abortion was built on a foundation of lies wrapped around the notion of "viability."  That is to say, as long as the child was entirely dependent on the mother for life, she could legally kill it without consequence.

But late-term abortions turn this concept on its head.  The womb is now a place of supreme danger for the unborn infant, and according to the Solons of New York and some in Virginia, there's nothing wrong with carrying a perfectly healthy child almost to term, feeling it kick and move and respond to sounds and movement - and then killing it.

Words fail to express the utter depravity at work here.  One can point out that using a similarly grisly procedure on cats or dogs would almost certainly result in a prison term for animal cruelty.

But to Planned Parenthood, it's just expanding their core business and seeking new organ-harvesting opportunities.

Ah, was it only a few weeks ago that I was fondly recalling when Democrats said they wanted abortion "safe, legal and rare?" 

Once you move into "up to the moment of birth" territory, you've already crossed the line into infanticide, because the few seconds that separate the two are so easily bridged with a scalpel.

A tale of two bishops

The orchestrated smear of the Covington kids has revealed something of a fault line within the Catholic Church, and while it isn't flattering, it is necessary to know.

In the immediate aftermath of the information operation being launched, the Diocese of Covington produced a message highly critical of the school kids, clearly buying into the media-driven false narrative.

This was deeply disappointing from the Christian perspective.  It showed not just a lack of compassion for their own high school students, but also a failure to fully explore the facts.  Put simply, student discipline should never be meted out without first discussing it with the alleged offenders and their parents.  Doing it over a web page was particularly egregious.

To his credit, Bishop Roger Joseph Foys subsequently retracted that statement and has since apologized to the students and their parents. Crucially, the new letter does not try to sweep away the diocese's failure:

We should not have allowed ourselves to be bullied and pressured into making a statement prematurely, and we take full responsibility for it.  I especially apologize to Nicholas Sandmann and his family as well as to all CovCath families who have felt abandoned during this ordeal.  Nicholas unfortunately has become the face of these allegations based on video clips. This is not fair. It is not just.

Well put.  The would-be morality police at National Review might want to take note.  This is how one admits fault and seeks and apology.

Everyone can make a mistake, but the key element is owning up to it and trying to make it right.

Sadly, not all Catholic bishops seem capable of this.

Bishop John Stowe of the neighboring Diocese of Lexington, took this as the perfect opportunity to signal his virtue.  It appeared in the Lexington Herald Leader, complete with video of him washing the feet of a poor black man because he really wants you to see his virtue.  It contained this stunning passage:

Without engaging the discussion about the context of the viral video or placing the blame entirely on these adolescents, it astonishes me that any students participating in a pro-life activity on behalf of their school and their Catholic faith could be wearing apparel sporting the slogans of a president who denigrates the lives of immigrants, refugees and people from countries that he describes with indecent words and haphazardly endangers with life-threatening policies. [Emphasis added]

Note that first sentence.  What he's basically doing is saying the whole point of the controversy is irrelevant.  No, the real issue is that Catholics visibly and publicly support Donald Trump.

I should note that the Diocese of Lexington includes southeast Kentucky, which is to say: Coal Country.  This is the part of the nation most impacted by Obama's anti-energy policies and crippled by the loss of blue-collar jobs.  As a result, the people there are staunchly pro-Trump.

Which, according to my reading of Bishop Stowe, means they are not welcome in the Catholic Church.

This is of course a remarkable statement, given that one of the tasks of his diocese is to spread the Catholic faith into Appalachia.  But don't take my word for it:

Thus, the Diocese of Lexington is designated as a mission diocese within the United States: the geographic, demographic and economic characteristics indicate an acute need to evangelize Gospel values and to provide outreach services elevating human dignity and eliminating human suffering.

It seems to this humble layman that Bishop Stowe is undercutting his own mission in a major way.  This highly public criticism will in fact convince a great many people who were already skeptical of Catholicism that it doesn't want them.

This tendency to set up political conditions for religious salvation is typically a tool of the left, and it's distressing to see a Catholic bishop doing it.  (Sadly, it isn't surprising.)

The initial response of both men has been disappointing, but I'm heartened to see Bishop Foys recognize his mistake and correct it. 

Bishop Stowe's error is both more egregious and therefore less amendable to a solution.