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...a petulant, whiny narcissist

Has James B. Comey, the former director of the F.B.I., ever hugged and kissed the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III?

President Trump, who fired Mr. Comey in May 2017, said in September he could produce more than 100 photographs of such affection.

In testimony behind closed doors before the House Judiciary and House Oversight Committees on Friday, Mr. Comey had an answer: “I’m an admirer, but not that kind of admirer.”

That is not true. The media fails to report he is not letting anyone in illegally. It does not matter where they are from. Plus there are gang members, which Trump has nothing to do with, but dead right by keeping all gang members out.

That is what is going on. The truth seems to bore people.

Since taking office, President Donald Trump’s relationship with chief Fox News propagandist Sean Hannity has been extensively documented, but it is becoming increasingly clear that the president is receiving inspiration for his daily rage tweets about the special counsel’s ongoing investigation from Hannity’s programming. Hannity, who has taken on the role as the face of the crusade against the special counsel, has desperately and almost comically spearheaded the public relations campaign to undermine the public’s trust in the investigation. And now, as the indictments of Trump associates and details of their crimes and possible cooperation agreements with the government begin to pile up and attract media coverage, the president is lashing out on Twitter, oftentimes employing language that can be traced back, nearly verbatim, to one person:

you should know by now that's what he does.

BOOM! It Looks Like The Lardy Hagfish’s 33,000 Emails Aren’t Gone After All!

Recently, Judge Lambeth gave a devastating ruling on the Hillary Clinton Email case, one which will almost certainly obligate the FBI to reopen the case:

“At best, State’s efforts to pass off its deficient search as legally adequate during settlement negotiations was negligence born out of incompetence,” Lamberth wrote of the department’s review of emails Clinton provided to investigators.
“At worst, career employees at the State and Justice departments colluded to scuttle public scrutiny of Clinton, skirt FOIA, and hoodwink this court,” he added.

Clinton’s missing “personal” emails may also be captured on a Google server. According to FBI notes, Combetta “transferred all of the Clinton email content to a personal Google email address he created.” Only the FBI never subpoenaed Google to find out.
The FBI documents also reveal that Hillary’s server was mirrored on a cloud server in Pennsylvania maintained by Datto Inc., a tech firm that performs cloud-to-cloud data protection.
When PRN contracted with Datto, it requested that Hillary’s server be backed up locally and privately. But the techs forgot to order the private node, and they sent the server backup data “remotely to Datto’s secure cloud and not to a local private node.” The FBI never subpoenaed Datto’s server, either.

Source: NYPost

Mark Meadows For White House Chief Of Staff

We don’t want to lose Rep. Mark Meadows, the Chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, but the country, and President Donald Trump need him as White House Chief of Staff.

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Attorneys for Butina and federal prosecutors jointly requested in court documents Monday that U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan set a time for Butina to withdraw her previous plea of not guilty. They said they could be available for her to enter her plea as early as Tuesday.

“The parties have resolved this matter,” Butina’s lawyers and D.C.-based prosecutors wrote in their joint filing.
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Alleged Russian agent Maria Butina poised to plead guilty in case involving suspected Kremlin attempts to influence NRA

Will Liberal Democracy Prevail?
Civilizations are still clashing. Those who despise Donald Trump insist that they are defending liberal democracy… the same liberal democracy that gave them Donald Trump. And they insist that democracy will out over authoritarian capitalist systems, as in China.

Ferguson does offer one important point. America’s brightest people do not go into politics. Take the example of the witless imbecile named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Our brightest people go into finance or high technology. So, we are led by a political class that is not very bright and not very capable. Nowadays, diversity seems to trump everything, even raw intelligence and competence. What good does it do anyone if we elect politicians on the grounds that they look like their constituents… when they cannot do the job.

Does it not strike you that Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May is simply not very bright and not very capable. She has botched the Brexit negotiations to a fare-thee-well.

On the other hand, arguably the brightest politician in the West today is French president Emmanuel Macron. How’s he been doing? Unfortunately, if you want to maintain your intellectual standing you must embrace the dogma of climate change… and carbon taxes.

If you walk away feeling optimistic about the future of democracy you’ve been smoking the wrong kind of cigarettes.

French Gov Now Trying to Blame Yellow Vest Protests on Russians

The formula for totalitarian regimes suppressing popular protests has become really easy.

1. Wait for the Russians to glom onto a political movement (ignore the fact that they're usually trolling both sides)

2. Claim that the movement is therefore a Russian conspiracy

3. Treat is as a foreign plot

4. Connect the whole thing to Facebook. Use it to push internet censorship.

Anybody who starts talking about the "dogma of climate change"when it's really well confirmed science is pretty much immediately revealed as an ignorant idiot.

The usual right wing anti science.