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What does not kill him makes him stronger.

05 Sunday May 2019

Posted by essaybee2012 in Donald Trump, end justifies the means, mainstream media, mob mentality, Progressives, Russia collusion, Victor Davis Hanson

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Concisely written, wry and too true not to read, this article gives wisdom one has come to expect from Hanson, a Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. –sab

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All the Progressive Plotters

By Victor Davis Hanson| April 7th, 2019

Right after the 2016 election, Green Party candidate Jill Stein—cheered on by Hillary Clinton dead-enders—sued in three states to recount votes and thereby overturn Donald Trump’s victory in the Electoral College. Before the quixotic effort imploded, Stein was praised as an iconic progressive social justice warrior who might stop the hated Trump from even entering the White House.

When that did not work, B-list Hollywood celebrities mobilized, with television and radio commercials, to shame electors in Trump-won states into not voting for the president-elect during the official Electoral College balloting in December 2016. Their idea was that select morally superior electors should reject their constitutional directives and throw the election into the House of Representatives where even more morally superior NeverTrump Republicans might join with even much more morally superior Democrats to find the perfect morally superior NeverTrump alternative.

When that did not work, more than 60 Democratic House members voted to bring up Trump’s impeachment for vote. Trump had only been in office a few weeks. Then San Francisco billionaire Tom Steyer toured the country and lavished millions on advertisements demanding Trump’s removal by impeachment—and was sorely disappointed when he discovered that billion-dollar-fueled virtue-signaling proved utterly bankrupt virtue-signaling.

When that did not work, celebrities and politicians hit social media and the airwaves to so demonize Trump that culturally it would become taboo even to voice prior support for the elected president. Their chief tool was a strange new sort of presidential assassination chic, as Madonna, David Crosby, Robert de Niro, Johnny Depp, Snoop Dogg, Peter Fonda, Kathy Griffin, and a host of others linguistically vied with one another in finding the most appropriately violent end of Trump—blowing him up, burning him up, beating him up, shooting him up, caging him up, or decapitating him. Apparently, the aim—aside from careerist chest-thumping among the entertainment elite—was to lower the bar of Trump disparagement and insidiously delegitimize his presidency.

When that did not work, during the president’s first year in office, the Democrats and the media at various times sought to invoke the 25th Amendment, claiming Trump was so mentally or physically impaired that he was not able to carry out the duties of president. At one point, congressional Democrats called Yale University psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X. Lee to testify that Trump was unfit to continue. In fact, to prove her credentials, Lee edited The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump that offered arguments from 27 psychiatrists and other mental health experts. In May 2017, acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein met secretly in efforts to poll Trump cabinet members to discover whether they could find a majority to remove Trump from office—again on grounds that he was mentally unbalanced. According to McCabe, Rosenstein offered to wear a wire, in some sort of bizarre comic coup attempt to catch Trump off-guard in a confidential conversation.

When that did not work, 200 congressional Democrats in late 2018 sued in federal court to remove President Trump, claiming he had violated the esoteric Emoluments Clause of the Constitution that forbids federal officials from taking gifts, jobs, and titles from foreign governments. They alleged Trump’s presidency has enhanced his overseas real estate holdings and interests. Yet, according to some sources, the various Trump companies have lost some $1 billion in value after he took office—to the delight of the same critics who swore he has profited enormously as president.

When that did not work, the ongoing “Resistance” both covertly and overtly sought ways to retard or destroy the Trump presidency—often by leaking presidential memos, conversations, and phone calls. An anonymous op-ed published in the New York Times on September 15, 2018 boasted of a plan of resistance to his governance and initiatives from those in the administrative state from inside the Trump Administration, most of them allegedly establishment Republicans.

When that did not work, progressive heartthrob lawyer and now indicted Michael Avenatti reintroduced pornographic film star Stormy Daniels to the public. He claimed that Daniels had somehow been tricked into signing a supposedly improper and now invalid non-disclosure agreement not to talk about an alleged sexual encounter of a decade earlier with private citizen Trump in an exchange for a payment of $135,000.

Allegedly, Trump’s acquiescence to Daniels’ veritable blackmail demands had now impaired her own opportunities of further profiting to a far greater degree from the past alleged tryst with a now President Trump. Until his recent indictment for a number of felonies, Avenatti himself had translated his work with Daniels into media celebrity-hood, appearing over 100 times on cable news shows to damn Trump, predict his impeachment, and prep his promised 2020 presidential run against Trump.

When that did not work, federal law enforcement officials stormed the offices of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, in search of incriminating materials. Cohen quickly was leveraged by federal attorneys, flipped, and offered anti-Trump testimonies and documents in exchange for leniency. He produced stealth tapes of private conversations with his own client Trump—and shortly afterward was disbarred by the New York State Supreme Court for pleading guilty to a series of felonies.

When that did not work, Russian collusion hysteria continued to sweep the country. The moribund phony Steele dossier (that had failed to derail the Trump campaign and transition) was reignited by the media and progressive politicos after the firing of FBI director James Comey, leading to the recusal of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and the emergence of Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein.

Rosenstein then appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel—in a series of events prompted by none other than fired James Comey, who admitted that he illegally leaked confidential, if not some classified, presidential memos to create the conditions necessary for such a special appointment. Mueller’s subsequent media darling attorneys—praised as the “dream team,” “all-stars,” “army,” “untouchables,” and “hunter-killer team”—of mostly Democratic partisans, some Clinton donors, and a few who had defended either the Clinton Foundation or Clinton aides then spent 22 months, and between $30-40 million trying to build a case. In the end, they leveraged mostly minor Trump satellites on process crimes, misleading testimonies, or past business deals in hopes of finding collusionary guilt. Leaking was a Mueller team trademark as each week the collusionary media announced another “bombshell” or “noose tightening” around the neck of Donald Trump—or mysteriously showed up at the home of the next Mueller victim, to wait for the arrival of SWAT teams to swoop into make an arrest.

When that did not work, congressional committees and the left-wing mob next went after William Barr, Trump’s “hand-picked” attorney general (are not all AGs “hand-picked” by the president?). Barr’s crime was that he had followed the law to the letter. And so Barr spent a few days after the arrival of the exonerating Mueller collusion report to ensure first, before releasing it to the public, that it did not endanger national security or besmirch the reputations of innocent named individuals. If in a blink, “collusion” had died, soon in its death throes it birthed “obstruction”—as if Trump’s objections to vast resources wasted on chasing an imaginary non-crime of collusion was obstruction

When that did not work, congressional committees mobilized to sue and force Trump to release at least six years of his private income tax records, elements of which already in bits and pieces had been leaked.

Are such efforts in the future to be institutionalized?

Will the Left nod and keep still, if Republicans attempt to remove an elected Democratic President before his tenure is up? Are appeals to impeachment, the 25th Amendment, the Emoluments Clause, the Logan Act, and a Special Counsel the now normal cargo of political opposition to any future elected president?

Is it now permissible in 2020 for Trump’s FBI director to insert an informant into the campaign of the Democratic presidential nominee? If Joe Biden is the 2020 nominee, will the Trump Justice Department seek FISA warrants to monitor the communications of Biden’s campaign team—in worries that Biden son’s business practices in the Ukraine had earlier compromised Biden who had intervened on his behalf by threatening to cut off aid to Ukraine? Will they investigate Biden’s propensity to hug and kiss under-aged girls? Will Trump’s CIA director contact foreign nationals to aid in spying on Biden’s aides? Will National Security Advisor John Bolton request that the names of surveilled Biden campaign officials become unmasked as a way of having them leaked to the media? Will Trump hire a British ex-spy to gather together rumors and gossip about Biden’s previous overseas trips and foreign contacts, especially in the Ukraine, and then see them seeded among the Trump CIA, FBI, Justice Department, and State Department? Is that the sort of country we have now?

America over the last half century had been nursed on the dogma that the Left was the guarantor of civil liberties. That was the old message of the battles supposedly waged on our behalf by the ACLU, the free-speech areas on campuses, and the Earl Warren Court.

Not now. The left believes that almost any means necessary, extra-legal and anti-constitutional or not, are justified to achieve their noble ends. Progressive luminaries at CNN and the New York Times have lectured us that reporters need not be disinterested any more in the age of Trump—or that it might be a crime to shout “lock her up” at a Trump rally. Will those standards apply to coverage of future Democratic presidents?

No reporter seems to care that Hillary Clinton hired a foreign national to work with other foreign nationals to sabotage, first, her opponent’s campaign, then his transition and his presidency, along with the wink and nod help from key Obama officials at the Department of Justice, State Department, National Security Council, FBI and CIA.

The final irony? If the CIA, FBI, and DOJ have gone the banana republic way of Lois Lerner’s IRS and shredded the Constitution, they still failed to remove Donald Trump.

Trump still stands. In Nietzschean fashion what did not kill him apparently only made him stronger.

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About the Author: Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson is an American military historian, columnist, former classics professor, and scholar of ancient warfare. He was a professor of classics at California State University, Fresno, and is currently the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He has been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College since 2004. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush. Hanson is also a farmer (growing raisin grapes on a family farm in Selma, California) and a critic of social trends related to farming and agrarianism. He is the author most recently of The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict was Fought and Won (Basic Books).

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title quote from: Nietzsche, Friedrich. “Why I Am So Wise.” Ecce Homo. 1908.

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Growing concerns for Hillary’s questionable health

12 Friday Aug 2016

Posted by essaybee2012 in Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), concussion, Hillary Clinton, Hillary's medical records, Jane Orient, mainstream media, organic brain syndrome

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http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/08/10/physician-strangely-silent-mainstream-media-fitness-hillary-clinton/

Physician:  Mainstream Media ‘Strangely Silent’ About Hillary Clinton’s Health

Democratic Presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton slips as she walks up the stairs into the non-profit SC Strong, a 2 year residential facility that helps former felons, substance abusers, and homeless move into self-sufficiency February 24, 2016 in North Charleston.

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by Dr. Susan Berry  10 Aug 2016

The executive director of a physicians’ organization questions how the mainstream media can ignore signs of what could be a traumatic brain injury in the Democrat nominee for president.

Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, observes that “strangely silent is the mainstream media about the fitness” for presidential office of Hillary Clinton.  At AAPS’ website, Orient summarizes the concerns about Clinton’s health that she says are growing:

There’s the photograph of Secretary Clinton’s difficulty walking up some steps.  Now inability to climb stairs does not necessarily disqualify a person for public office.  However, neither she nor people with her apparently anticipated a problem.  The people helping her seem to be preventing a fall.  Did she simply trip?  Or was it a seizure or a stroke?

Videos widely circulated on the internet are, if authentic, very concerning.  One shows prolonged, inappropriate laughter; another, strange head movements.  In a third, she appeared momentarily dazed and confused, and lost her train of thought. Reportedly, she has a volcanic temper.  (This is probably not new.)

A man who stays close to her, who is reportedly not a Secret Service officer, was photographed carrying something in his hand that purportedly might have been an autoinjector of Valium.

While we don’t have Mrs. Clinton’s medical records, it is widely stated that she experienced a fall that caused a concussion.  Since then, she is sometimes seen wearing eyeglasses with prisms, as are used to correct double vision.

Orient explains that serious concussions can often cause traumatic brain injury that is not always detected on standard medical tests such as a CT or MRI.

“Many of our veterans who experienced blast injury from improvised explosive devices suffer from it,” she continues, adding:

These are some symptoms:  difficulty thinking, attention deficits, confusion, memory problems, frustration, mood swings, emotional outbursts, agitation, headaches, difficulties with balance and coordination, and seizures.  Many veterans with such an injury cannot hold a job or interact normally with their families.

“Obviously, it would be very dangerous for a person subject to symptoms like this to be dealing with foreign leaders or making critical decisions,” she states.  “The President of the United States may have to make world-changing decisions on a moment’s notice.  For example, should we launch nuclear-armed missiles?  And if the Commander in Chief is confused, who will make the call?”

In November of last year, watchdog organization Judicial Watch reported its review of pages of email from Clinton’s top aide Huma Abedin, in which Abedin advised a State Department staffer that it was “very important” to review phone calls with Clinton because she was “often confused.”

Abedin had emailed Monica Hanley, a State Department Clinton aide and companion, from her Huma@clintonemail.com address to alert Hanley about the need to review phone calls with the then-Secretary of State.

According to the report, on January 26, 2013, Abedin had the following email exchange with Hanley:

  • Abedin:  Have you been going over her calls with her?  So she knows singh is at 8?  [India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh]
  • Hanley:  She was in bed for a nap by the time I heard that she had an 8am call.  Will go over with her
  • Abedin:  Very imp to do that.  She’s often confused.

Breitbart News asked Orient if the Judicial Watch report of Abedin’s emails is consistent with the signs she notes in her article.

“It is,” she responds, adding:

There are some very concerning things on Twitter #hillaryhealth.  For example, that she naps at 5 p.m. and can’t be aroused, or that her Mini-Mental State exam – which you use to screen patients who might have an organic brain syndrome – has deteriorated since 2013.

“Scurrilous lies?  Or sign that somebody unknown is acting for her?  Could she pass a random drug screen that might be required of a crane operator?” Orient asks.

Orient then poses what is perhaps the most obvious question of all.

“Is it conceivable that Hillary supporters would really be voting for Huma Abedin, Clinton’s top aide, or for the First First Husband President, Bill Clinton?” she asks.  “The American people are entitled to know the objective medical facts about Secretary Clinton.”

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Glenn Beck COWARDS on the shelves today

13 Wednesday Jun 2012

Posted by essaybee2012 in Amazon.com, Bill O' Reilly, CNN, Cowards: What the Politicians, Radicals, and Media Refuse to Say (2012), economic terrorism, Election 2012, forest from the trees, GBTV, Glenn Beck, huckster, innovation, know your enemy, mainstream media, media, online programming, opposing views, President Barack Obama (1961- ), Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Wall Street Journal

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This is a touchy blog to write because Glenn Beck is a polarizing figure, but I’m going to write it anyway, and you can make up your own minds on its worth.  One either hates him, loves him or has no idea who he is.

He began his television career with a CNN program on politics, books and commentary.  He was then hired for much more money to move to FOX News Channel where he resided for two years.  His show on FOX was politically incendiary, to say the least.  Many still believe that he was forced off due to certain “offended personalities” on FOX who didn’t like the fact that Beck had garnered on an almost daily basis the largest audience share at FOX.  As Beck explained it, he was at a point of moving on to bigger projects, which he undeniably accomplished.

Since leaving FOX, he has secured two large television studios in New York City and in the Dallas area.  His studio near Dallas is the former location where many large-scale movies such as JFK and Silkwood were filmed.  He made enough money to entirely pay off his investments in the new studios in less than half-a-year.  He now has a handful of shows produced at the new studio with future plans for 24/7 programming as well as book publishing, theatrical movie productions and television documentaries and entertainment.  His revenue is in the millions per year.

GBTV Studios at Las Colinas, Texas

Video tour of Las Colinas Studios:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rZ6zefwbnc

GBTV Website:  http://web.gbtv.com/index.jsp

His variety of GBTV daily programs, including his own daily show, is online for a $9.95 monthly membership and $99.95 for a yearly membership.  Wall Street Journal has written of him several times regarding how he’s spearheading the viability of online programming.  Whatever you think of his politics, he’s unquestionably become a media mogul and a technological innovator to be reckoned with, not to mention a major thorn in the butt of the political left.

In describing Beck, I would say that if there are two kinds of people, those who see the leaves and those who see the forest.  Beck is the one who sees the forest.  I would further say that most, if not all, major media outlets produce reporting on the daily leaves.

Beck is an outsider for many reasons.  Within mainstream media, almost no one agrees that his “big picture” predictions logically follow from their “micro picture” events of the day.  This would include big names from the right such as O’ Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, etc.  He’s basically on an island to himself, but it’s a big island and his megaphone that he’s shouting through is wired for globalwide emergency-siren sound.  This doesn’t seem to rattle much those in the mainstream media who still view him as nothing more than a large-scale (very large-scale) huckster peddling fear and dread.

He has many books, some non-fiction and some fiction (many would say all fiction), and he has a new book, Cowards:  What Politicians, Radicals, and the Media Refuse to Say, which was just released today.

I’ll offer here what Beck is offering for free on his website:  the entire text of chapter four on “Economic Terrorism”:

http://media.glennbeck.com/downloads/CowardsCH4-r.pdf

and the table of contents for the book:

http://www.glennbeck.com/publish/uploads/2012/06/CowardsTOCIntro-r.pdf .

For the link to Amazon.com for editorial comments and reader arguments for or against the book:

http://www.amazon.com/Cowards-Politicians-Radicals-Media-Refuse/dp/1451693478

If you don’t wish to buy the book, there are free ways to approach it.  Thumb through it the next time you’re in a book store or follow the Amazon.com link to occasionally read the arguments for or against the book from people who have read it.

If you’re to the left of center and you’ve wondered why President Obama has not accomplished more of what he promised in his first term and why he has lost much of his support from the left, you can thank (I firmly believe) Glenn Beck for being a large part of the reason.  I’ve said it before, don’t just read about those you agree with–know your enemy as well (if you consider Beck as such).  Don’t just listen to what blogs tell you about what you want to hear, do some research on opposing views and contrast them to what you’re being told to believe.

This is perhaps our most important election in decades close on the horizon, if not in the last century, and it’s worth understanding not just who you’re voting for, but more importantly, what you’re voting for–not just in the short view “trees” approach, but in the long view “forest” approach as well.

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