SEEMS LEGIT: Whistleblower will not testify in public, Democrats say.
The impeachment mess would look less like a kangaroo court and an insult to the Constitution and congressional institutions if it weren’t such a kangaroo court and an insult to the Constitution and congressional institutions.
COLD WAR II: Russia’s Suspected Internet Cable Spy Ship Appears Off Americas.
According to position tracking data, the Russian Navy’s Yantar left her home port about a month ago, and has not been visible on open sources until suddenly appearing in the Caribbean on Friday. That she appeared on ship trackers so suddenly is unusual.
She has gained attention in the past for hovering in the vicinity of the undersea cables which connect the world. Called Submarine Communications Cables (SCC), these crisscross the world’s oceans carrying Internet traffic and military communications.
Yantar is a ship of particular interest among Western Navies. According to naval officers familiar with the situation, she is suspected of being involved in placing listening devices on undersea communications.
Just another front in the shadow war Russia is waging against the West. I’d like if we hit them back — electronically, of course — until they cut this stuff out.
TRUTH IN LABELING: Clovis brewery prints ‘Epstein didn’t kill himself’ on the bottom of cans.
TRUMP ON BLOOMBERG: ‘Little Michael … Doesn’t Have the Magic’ But Bad for Biden.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE EITHER: Whistleblower Lawyer Defends Tweet Celebrating Deep State ‘Coup’ Against Trump.
NED RYUN: Our Elites Don’t See What’s Coming.
As our constitutional republic faces the wrecking balls of the Left and is asked to endure as they smash away at every norm that has made this country great, many Republicans find themselves conveniently absent from the action. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), for example, sure does love himself a TV hit—and I have to tell you, his super-duper “enthusiasms” while on TV almost make me want to believe him when he says he is serious about being effective. But then another day goes by and it’s clear he lacks the stones actually to hold hearings and subpoena the corrupt cabal that has massively abused our surveillance state and law enforcement regime.
Richard Burr (R-N.C.)? Well, he’s been off in “la-la land” for quite some time. At some point, for decency’s sake, he should just give the title of chairman of Senate Intel to Mark Warner (D-Va.) so as actually to reflect reality. One would think confronting injustice and illegal behavior should be pretty standard, common sense sort of stuff. But then again, Swamp Creatures are hardly paragons of truth and justice. So let’s assume until things change that Graham and Burr have zero problem with what has happened over the last few years; heck, they might be implicated in what could be uncovered.
This all leads us to a serious problem that we as a country are facing: we’ve been losing trust in our institutions for quite some time.
Read the whole thing.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE. MOVE ALONG. Feinstein Reunites With Ex-Staffer Who Worked With Fusion GPS On Trump-Russia Investigation.
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ANALYSIS: TRUE. The Democrats have decided not so much that Trump committed a crime as that he is a crime; his very existence is criminal.
This is also pretty much true of anyone who voted for him.
OH: Former Twitter employees charged with spying on users for Saudis. “Indictment accuses two of passing data about people critical of Saudi royals, government.”
FLASHBACK: Twitter bug potentially exposed DMs to unauthorized developers for over a year.
SUNSHINE IS THE BEST DISINFECTANT: Sens. Johnson & Grassley Ask Pompeo To Release All Hunter Biden Documents.
UGH: US Military Duped Into Buying Chinese Cameras Rife With Flaws. “According to the Justice Department, New York-based Aventura Technologies has been concealing that its network-connected camera products were made in China while raking in millions through lucrative contracts with the US military and government agencies.”
Rife with flaws — and who knows what else.
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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: MSM Finally Finds a Whistleblower It Doesn’t Like.
These depraved psychopaths are the same people who have been having a love affair with whistleblowers ever since Chelsea Manning was just a traitor named Bradley. They lionized Edward Snowden and, for the past several weeks have been portraying the second-hand hearsay whistleblower in the impeachment nonsense as the second coming of John the Baptist.
But the person who exposed just how long ABC was a perv hideout gets fired. The fact that CBS was willing to exact ABC’s revenge for them makes me wonder just how much more there is hidden.
Lots, would be a safe bet.
WELL, I SUPPOSE THAT’S A TAKE: Adam Schiff Stops Devin Nunes From Turning Impeachment Hearings Into A Circus.
Not The Onion, not The Babylon Bee.
You really don’t want to click this one. I’m merely posting it as yet another example of the two different realities somehow coexisting in one America.
ELECTION MESS: Bolivia mayor has hair forcibly cut by crowd of protesters.
THE YOUNG KIDS IN PARTICULAR WERE ASKING FOR IT: LA Times accused of ‘blaming’ Mexican cartel massacre victims by noting family’s ‘long history of violence.’
Comfort the afflicted, yadda yadda yadda.
Very small rocks are in possession of more self-awareness than whoever came up with, reported, and wrote the headline to this story.
BREAKING: No link yet, but NBC News is teasing a story that Michael Bloomberg is readying for a possible 2020 presidential bid.
NOT JUST IMMIGRATION: On Democrats and Immigration, It’s the Hard Left vs. the Loony Left.
WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH VIRGINIA? Newly Elected Virginia Senator Had Been Jailed for Having Sex with Teenager.
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