WAPO: For Democrats, the Mueller report turns their politics upside down.
And? The left have been practicing their 180 degree pivots for a lot longer than Tony Hawk has. Oceania will immediately pivot from Eastasia to Eurasia on a dime yet again.
QED: Brennan Rewrites History: ‘I’m Not Surprised’ by Lack of Collusion.
AND LAUGHED AS HE GAVE THE ORDER: “Che’s face was on posters, drinks, T-shirts, and tattoos, but Castro was invisible. So was Stalin. So, for that matter, was Lenin. Che was the man. The real Che would have executed everyone at the festival.”
THE HILL: Apologies to President Trump.
NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: After AOC Chases Amazon Jobs Away, Some New Yorkers Begin to Understand Socialism.
“Democratic socialism” is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard, to paraphrase H.L. Mencken, an early (if grudging) hero of the “Progressive” movement.
NEO ON RUSSIAGATE: Why did the press do it? “I actually think this last one is the most important: Watergate:”
Watergate turns out to have been the worst thing that ever happened to the press in my lifetime, although they probably think it was the best and the high point. It gave them not just delusions of grandeur but an actual example of their power to bring down the mighty with their metaphorical pens instead of swords.
Watergate was many things, but one of them was a triumph for the press. The press hated Nixon prior to Watergate, and in Watergate several elements came together: an actual wrongdoing with actual evidence of it by the president, an FBI informant with his own agenda, a GOP willing to take the high road and convince its own president to resign or be thrown out, and a public unjaded by all that’s happened since.
Read the whole thing.
BICOASTAL: Feds Charge Michael Avenatti with Extortion in NY, Embezzlement in CA. “Sources told The Wall Street Journal that Mark Geragos, the attorney for Jussie Smollett, is Avenatti’s co-conspirator.”
Talk about annals of leftist autophagy — Geragos is (was?) also Nike endorsee Colin Kaepernick’s attorney, — and is/was a CNN legal analyst:
Related: “Jussie Smollett Hires Michael Jackson’s Attorney Mark Geragos: All His Famous Past Clients” — from People magazine on Friday.
UPDATE: CNN Drops Mark Geragos After Legal Commentator Reported as Co-Conspirator in Avenatti Scheme.
The Media Research Center calculates that CNN alone gave Avenatti “74 appearances and adds that Avenattti made a total of 147 TV appearances over 10 weeks; that means CNN hosted more than half of his appearances ‘which almost certainly makes Avenatti the most ubiquitous guest in the network’s history.’”
MORE: Last year, CNN’s Brian Stelter touted Avenattti as a ‘serious’ contender for the 2020 presidential election.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Video: The Liberal Media’s Most Embarrassing Mueller Failures.
ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE: The Media Has Done Irreparable Damage To The Country: Journalists used fears over Russia and anger over Trump to try to reverse the results of a legitimate election.
Brave firefighters, running forward with buckets of gasoline. And toxic waste.
IF MY SCHADENBONER LASTS MUCH LONGER I’M GOING TO NEED TO SEE A DOCTOR: CNN analyst Mark Geragos said to be Avenatti’s alleged co-conspirator.
UPDATE: From the comments:
Avenatti arrested. Smollett’s lawyer, a CNN mouthpiece, his alleged co-conspirator.
Mueller report exonerates Trump. Media and NeverTrumpers wail in anguish,
SPLC implodes.
Hollywood, not Trump, hauled off to jail by FBI, for bribing university officials.
University officials revealed as bunch of bribe-takers.All in what, two weeks?
Good times!
For added fun, Geragos was Colin Kaepernick’s lawyer, too.
Plus, there’s always a tweet:
THEIR JOURNEY TO THE SERVICES SIDE IS COMPLETE: The Old Apple is dead. Long live the New Apple?
TIME AND PAST TIME:
Flashback, March 2017: “Hypothesis: The spying-on-Trump thing is worse than we even imagine, and once it was clear Hillary had lost and it would inevitably come out, the Trump/Russia collusion talking point was created as a distraction.”
ASTEROIDS GALAXY TOUR: NASA May Send a Smallsat Mission to the Giant Asteroid Pallas.
Maybe this will be the Golden Age.
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YOU GET A RAISE, AND YOU GET A RAISE: Kamala “Oprah” Harris and How Much to Pay Teachers
ANALYSIS: TRUE. The Real Threat to Our Republic: The Democratic Party. “They don’t care about rules, just winning.”
DID TRUMP REALLY DO ALL THAT?, Victor Davis Hanson asks:
Peggy Noonan, apparently like many, believes that Trump’s occasional callousness and crassness are unprecedented. And they have so befouled the political landscape that he has spawned rude and crude leftwing imitators. The result allegedly is the vile language of the “mean girls” such as the anti-Semitism and foul speech of Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib:
I think we all know where this started, the political brutishness, the ignoring of traditions and norms. Donald Trump is both origin and rationale . . . The mean girls of Congress have learned at his knee. They have taken their tactics from him. They claim to be his reluctant imitators but I think they admire his ferocity. They have a taste for it, and a talent.
Collective Amnesia
With all due respect, I don’t think we “all” know that this started with Trump, however crass he can be. Rather, we know all too well the political landscape a decade before Trump.Do we recall the recent deranged talk of 2004-8 from the Democratic Party, the popular culture, and the media—or the relative passivity of the wounded Bush administration in response to such venom?
The DNC-MSM doesn’t – it’s been well known for both its collective and selective amnesia for decades.
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: No Russian Collusion, But the #Resistance Won’t Stop Hollering — They would rather believe the president of the United States is a traitor than admit they were wrong about something.
GODSPEED: Trickiest U.S. Missile Defense Test Is Finally Ready to Launch.
The Missile Defense Agency intends on Monday to fire two interceptors tipped with the latest Raytheon Co. warheads within seconds of each other in a test that hasn’t been publicly announced. The first interceptor would attempt to crash into a dummy target representing an incoming intercontinental ballistic missile. The second would use its sensors to detect another ICBM or other countermeasures.
Monday’s action would be first missile defense test since a successful one in May 2017. The system also scored an interception in June 2014 after two that failed in 2010.
Mark Wright, a spokesman for the Missile Defense Agency, said in an email said he had “nothing to announce at this time.”
The $36 billion system of Boeing Co.-managed radar, command links and 44 ground-based interceptors in California and Alaska is designed to defeat a missile attack. The Pentagon is requesting $9.4 billion in fiscal 2020 for the agency’s programs, including $1.4 billion for the ground-based segment — an increase from the $9.36 billion previously planned.
Missile defense is cheap compared to the damage a nuclear-tipped missile could do.
THERE’S SOMEONE FOR EVERYONE: Pete Buttigieg Is Picking Up A Following In Iowa.
PAYBACK: McCarthy demands Schiff step down as intel chairman.
“[Schiff] owes the American public an apology,” McCarthy said. “Schiff has met the standard that he has imposed on other members of Congress of when they should step back from their positions. He has exceeded that standard, and there is no question he should step down from the Intel chairmanship.”
The GOP offensive comes as Schiff is forging ahead with a renewed congressional investigation of the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia. His committee is slated to publicly interview on Wednesday Trump associate Felix Sater about his efforts to strike a deal for a Trump Tower Moscow during the 2016 campaign. On Thursday, the committee has a second Russia-focused hearing on how the Kremlin used oligarchs and their money to influence U.S. politics in 2016.
Democrats are privately raising concerns that Americans won’t have the stomach for a new, heavily politicized Trump-Russia probe, and Republicans are seizing the momentum from the Mueller findings to lash out at Schiff. Top Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway called for Schiff to resign immediately. And Donald Trump Jr. — who bristled over Schiff’s question’s after a closed-door interview with the House Intelligence Committee in 2017 — tormented him on Twitter.
It’s Politico, so the “Republicans pounce!” angle is more reflexive than anything.
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