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HMM: Mitt Romney Adviser Sits On Burisma Board Of Directors.

Mitt Romney’s national security advisor in his 2012 campaign — a career CIA spook who rose to its top levels — sits on the board of directors of Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company that formerly paid Hunter Biden $50k a month despite his complete lack of credentials or qualifications.

And it also an odd coincidence that Mitt has as CNN puts it “been a lone Republican voice expressing concern about President Donald Trump’s July phone call with Volodymyr Zelensky in which Trump asked Ukraine’s President to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his family.”

Still more oddly coincidental is the background of Mitt’s adviser deep in the CIA, part of the intelligence community that has “six ways from Sunday” in foiling a mere president who might oppose them, according to Chuck Schumer.

I’d suggest that someone should look into all these curious connections and coincidences, but I’m afraid that would open me up to impeachment.

FAKE NEWS: Acting DNI Shoots Down WaPo Report About Threatened Resignation.

#HERTOO? Woman behind the French #MeToo movement fined for defaming man she accused of harassment.

ED ALREADY POSTED THIS, BUT I JUST WANTED TO EMPHASIZE HOW AWFUL THESE PEOPLE ARE: Kathleen Parker: The other victim of the Kavanaugh saga. She said the party in question never happened, and got pressured by Christine Blasey Ford’s friends — her own classmates — to change her story:

Keyser, reportedly a registered Democrat, has become increasingly convinced that Ford’s story isn’t true and doesn’t make sense, according to the book. Given their close friendship during their school days, isn’t it likely that Ford would have told her about such an attack? And, had Keyser been at the alleged party, since she already had her drivers license and often gave Christine a ride, wouldn’t she have taken her younger friend home?

According to the book, Ford’s team of friends and advisers apparently saw Keyser as an obstacle to Ford’s narrative and brainstormed ways for her to get onboard. The book cites a group text among Ford’s acquaintances from soon after her testimony. Cheryl Amitay, who attended the same girls’ high school as Ford, wrote: “Maybe one of you guys who are friends with Keyser can have a heart-to-heart.” And, “I don’t care, frankly, how f—ed up her life is.”

A man who had gone to a neighboring boys’ school chimed in: “Perhaps it makes sense to let everyone in the public know what her condition is.” To which Amitay responded, “Leland is a major stumbling block.”

Keyser, a former professional golfer who has undergone numerous operations on her back and neck, has suffered addiction during her adult life. Although recovering, she told Kelly and Pogrebin she was concerned that this history would be used against her if she didn’t come up with a more-acceptable recollection of events. When pressed, however, she refused to take the easy route and protect herself.

For her integrity and valor under perceived pressure, she has been punished. Even Ford seemed to turn on her old friend, mentioning Keyser’s “significant health challenges,” during her testimony, and seeming to suggest that her friend might have diminished capacities: “I’m happy that she’s focusing on herself and getting the health treatment that she needs.”

I’m surprised they didn’t go all the way to “a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty.” Anyway, like I said, awful people. There was a time when I thought Ford might have misremembered something, but this looks more like a conscious political hit. By people who are awful, awful people.

THE NARRATIVE HAS COMPLETELY UNRAVELED IN A RECORD-SETTING 48 HOURS:

I once co-hosted a couple hours of “fact-free” music radio as a gag. Now it’s just the news.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE. MOVE ALONG. Did You Know There’s a Treaty Between the USA & Ukraine Regarding Cooperation For Prosecuting Crimes?

GOOD IDEA: It’s Time For Trump To Update His Supreme Court Short List. I like Don Willett.

IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE: ‘Well, Son of a Bitch’ : Ukraine Scandal Is About Biden. “Talk about a quid pro quo. The Democrats will need an electron microscope to find in the Trump-Zelensky phone call particles of either a quid or a pro or a quo — specks, in any event, compared to the Uluru of a quid pro quo in the Biden-Poroshenko palaver. How are Speaker Pelosi and her Democratic caucus going to make a federal case out of Mr. Trump without sacrificing Mr. Biden?”

For someone, maybe that’s the goal.

LAYERS OF EDITORS, FACT-CHECKERS, AND LIARS:

Damning video at the link.

And it isn’t just CNN. This is from last night, so it refers to today’s front page:

This isn’t a simple reporting error or editing miss. It’s a flat-out lie, right on the front page of one of the nation’s leading newspapers.

I’d say it was shameful, except the people involved are clearly incapable of shame.

UPDATE: First link was wrong before. Fixed now — sorry!

SHOCKER: Men Aren’t Defective Women: They’re Men.

THE DEATH OF BUFFET-STYLE POLITICS:  Bridget Phetasy‘s open letter to the Democratic Party.

If you try nuance or engage in ‘wrong-think’ on sacred issues, you won’t just get into a tiff with the neighbors; now there’s every chance you will have your personal life dragged into the public square in order to shame you into obscurity. The days of buffet-style politics are no longer allowed. You either check all the boxes of the ‘good’ party, or you belong to the ‘bad’ one. When I dared to push back by writing articles, I was struck by how quickly the left rejected me. Millions noticed this too: they watched in stunned silence as leftists demanded books be censored, scrutinized language and called anyone who disagreed a Nazi.

Flash forward three years into a Trump administration and instead of learning from mistakes, the loudest members of the party are heading for the same brick wall. At this point the 2020 Democratic platform feels like a barely veiled threat: ‘Vote for us or you’re racist.’

The progressive push to fully embody the promise made in the Declaration of Independence that ‘all men are created equal’ used to feel aspirational and attainable. Now, the open-mindedness and tolerance that attracted me to the Democratic party seems like a thing of the past. Gone is the party that stood in direct opposition to the rigid moralizing of conservatism.

In its place is a movement that feels less about liberation and more about obedience. Progressivism is no longer interested in ideological diversity and instead demands rigid adherence to dogma. Dare to defy and risk being, as we say on Twitter, ‘canceled’.

As Glenn noted in the very early days of Instapundit, “As the old saying has it, the left looks for heretics and the right looks for converts, and both find what they’re looking for. The effect is no doubt subliminal, but people who treat you like crap are, over time, less persuasive than people who don’t. If people on the Left are so unhappy about how many former allies are changing their views, perhaps they should examine how those allies are treated.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: How Long Can Dems Live on a Diet of Nothingburgers? “This flailing has to be exhausting for them but, bless their little hearts, they don’t seem to be wearing down yet.”

THE CAPITAL IS HUMAN: Capitalism In The 21st Century.

WHAT WAS THEIR FIRST CLUE?  Gluten-free trend is expensive BS: new science.

TROLL LEVEL? GODLIKE:  White House emails talking points on Trump’s Ukraine call — to the Democrats.

WELL, SEE, WHEN EVERYONE FROM SCHOOLS TO COMPANIES TREATS MALES AS GUILTY BY REASON OF PENIS, SOME MEN JUST STOP CARING:  Women can’t find men who make as much money as they do.

IF ONLY THERE WERE SOME OTHER SOURCE OF ENERGY!  Africa’s charcoal trade is decimating fragile forest cover.

Wait, wait, it’s coming to me… Starts with an N and Jimmah Carter always mispronounced it…

AND YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE SUCH A STELLAR RECORD OF BEING RIGHT:  UN climate panel warns of dire future: ‘We’re all in big trouble’.

PRE-CRIME. WHAT COULD GO WRONG?  Research suggests brain exams can detect would-be murderers.

SOCIALISM IS THE SANCTIFICATION OF ENVY. THAT’S ALL IT IS, NOW AND FOREVER:  Comrade Bernie’s United Socialist States of America.

IT’S TIME AND PAST TIME THE ADULTS COME HOME:  Scowling Kids and Enabling Parents: What We Allow Will Continue.