When do Comey, Clapper, and Brennan go to jail? They are still advising other governments on censorship and posting deranged tweets inciting violence. Commissars and red guards are worse than redcoats. Thanks for your dogged reporting Matt. Happy 4th to the racket rabble ;)
This is the truly amazing thing of our new reality. WaterGate is a kid taking a lollipop and mom coming back 2 hours later to pay for it compared to this shit.
I'd go further. I'd say that the events of Watergate are SOP today. Just because no one has to stealthily sneek around with flashlights and jimmy door locks on private offices to gather confidential info, that it only takes a pimply-faced hacker to aquire it, doesn't change the what, why, and wherefores.
And yet I recall at the time, Watergate was talked up the most horrendous crime against the Republic since the South tried to secede. I argued with liberal friends (when I still had them) that it was a third-rate burglary perpetrated by fools who were play-acting at being secret agents. They got nothing of political value out of the effort at terrible risk of damage to their own side, which in fact came to pass. The only reason it was a big deal was because it was a chance to beat up on the despised Nixon. As he said, “I handed them a sword (in the form of the cover-up, not the break-in itself which Nixon knew nothing about). My point was belatedly made decades later when it was discovered that Lyndon Johnson bugged Barry Goldwater’s campaign plane, in my opinion, a far worse crime against democracy than Watergate. But when mention that now, people just shrug, just as they would have if Watergate had been revealed only decades later.
I would argue your friends weren't and aren't Liberals. They are followers. I am a Liberal, Matt likely still identifies as Liberal. We can certainly fall victim at times to the following, or confirmation bias, but a true Liberal isn't that blind, ignorant, and rude.
Tucker Carlson did an interview about Watergate with a White House witness who kept his records and it was the most shocking interview I have heard on this subject. Maybe you can find it. It was not that long ago.
Evidently way too much media crap cluttering the internet highway as I missed Geoff Shepard even existed. Thanks for posting the link. Many more people than the media will ever admit believe Watergate was a setup.
I also read that the plumbers were looking for the files on the Democrat Party's escort service provided to its bigwig donors.
Nixon knew it was a setup, there’s a tape of him talking to then-CIA Director Richard Helms during the middle of the crisis along the lines of “look Richard, we both know who killed John, it would be a real shame if someone — not me of course but someone — were to out the CIA’s dirty tricks to the public”. He is clearly trying to get Helms to back off of Watergate as he knew where the whole thing originated, but of course in the pre-Internet era he couldn’t survive the condemnation of the Washington Post and the other mockingbirds of the deep state so he made a deal (and as a result later was rehabilitated in the public eye by the corporate media in a way that Trump never will be).
The visible decline in people's expectations of having a moral government is really alarming, but seems consistent with what an end-stage empire might look like.
The Watergate 'scofflaws' were the same as these Russiagate 'scofflaws' in that they were all CIA connected and put up to their bad behavior by senior leadership like Brennan for the purpose of setting up and taking down Nixon. They were successful then, but not Brennan. He's nasty, dirty, and an enemy of America, but a moron like most power hungry Communists
I am not sure is a lack of curiosity more than it is a lack of initiative. We subscribers to Racket and other alternative media are outliers. If the mainstream press got on this in a big way - like it did on Russiagate - I think there would be curiosity. But you can bet your bottom dollar this will not be a story on CNN or if it is, it will be distorted.
Not sure why people still refer to them as "mainstrem"? CNN's viewership is teetering on the edge of oblivion. MSNBC is deplorable. Very few are serious reporters are referring to them to illustrate anyth9ing resembling reality. Legacy or corporate media seem to be the better choices.
Don't you just love the way Anderson Cooper screws up his face into his trademark "serious news analyst" frown when one of these utterly despicable creeps is dispensing the latest lies?
The Clean Air Act was the best thing to ever happened to NYC. The city was disgusting in the 1970s. The blue clouds of lead exhausts filled the tunnels and underpasses and the buildings' exteriors were caked with the stuff. Graduating high schools students in the metro area fled for out of state colleges.
1972: Nixon announces the Space Shuttle program. Nixon presented his vision for a reusable spacecraft designed to make space travel more routine, cost-effective, and accessible. The Shuttle’s reusability promised to revolutionize space economics by spreading costs across multiple missions.
Between 1981 and 2011, the Shuttle completed 135 missions, becoming the workhorse of NASA’s operations in low Earth orbit. It played an essential role in advancing scientific research, international cooperation, and space station assembly
2010: And along comes Obama who decided that NASA needed to take a long break from space travel to engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering.
Yes, and don't forget all the cheap Chinese consumer goods that Americans have so damn much of that there's as many storage places as gas stations. And I'm not complaining. I had just as much as anyone else did, "had" being the operative word. Now, it's only what fits in my 300 sqft home, and that ain't much beyond what I need.
Don't blame Nixon for your cheap China imports. It was Carter that recognized the PRC in 1979 and revoked the 1955 mutual defense treaty with Taiwan (effective in 1980) that led to the1980 sales of military supplies to China and negotiations to share military intelligence.
Forty years ago, the US became China's third-largest trading partner, and China became America's 14th largest.
Most of the negative results of his time in office should not be assigned to him, like eliminating the gold standard or establishing the EPA, which the Dem run Congress had previously designed and Nixon just consolidated the numerous other departments under it.
JFK and Johnson had spent so much money abroad that England and France were afraid the US could not back its money with gold and the US held the worlds gold. France and England asked for all their gold back when Nixon was in office. That depleted Fort Knox. France sent a war ship to our coast to pick up its gold. But Nixon was smart. He forced all oil to be purchased in dollars - his petro deal kept the US in charge.
I've got nothing against Nixon, I voted for him, except maybe that he turned out to be a paranoid schizophrenic. But so what? I believe most pols today are, so he was a guy before his time. He would probably be a huge success today.
When the gangsters are actually after you like they were Nixon and Trump, I guess you can describe the reaction as paranoid schizophrenic, but that's just your assessment.
US President Barack Obama should be the first four words of every single story on this entire sick decade of electoral corruption and political malfeasance. Joe Biden isn't president without 0bama.
Matt listened to Walter explain how Walt "figured out" that O was nothing but a hack from Chicago in 2012 at Sun Valley. That's four years after Matt and the rest of the press corps swooned in Dick Cheney's security state on steroids coz Barack was so cute and made Bard liberals feel a little less guilty about the fucking over of middle-America during O's first term and America's sins of the past. Walt in 2010 at TNR was a babe in the woods, btw, not an accomplished journalist and utterly unschooled in the wicked ways of the world. Imagine Walter's disappointment. Boo-hoo.
My favorite NYT headline of the time? The "Hidden Unemployed - How did we miss them." Remember Obama locking the WH press corps on a plane, Bill Clinton meeting O's AG by chance on a runway? "Yes, we can, Yes, we can" Nothing revolting and stomach-churning about watching America's press corps chant O's political slogan on command in chorus. Yum!
O is on the hook for all of this shit. And so are all who cover for him. The fact that Matt identifies Miranda first and then starts bragging about his own recent story, one that was documented clearly before and after 2017, before getting to Obama tells us just far up Obama's ass Matt still is. Hello?
Fucking nauseating, frankly, to read Matt taking a victory lap while he was asleep even as Obama's IRS crawled up the Tea Party's ass for years. Matt only noticed, sorry to say, when the IRS knocked on his own door.
No room for a mea culpa anywhere from Matt as the facts "come to light"? Many of the commenters here seem equally unwilling or unable face up to the gigantic tongue bath O received from day one when and how the US press corps decided to fail, and why. And don't forget the good times when "inexperienced" meant calling O "boy." Bu-bu-bu- but Trump!
President Nobel Fucking Peace Prize - that's who America was and is. Let that sink in.
And if anyone thinks I'm being "over-the-top" about just how much reverse racism is baked into Matt's piece and the comments here, ask yourself the question: if the US president who ushered in Russiagate had been white - wouldn't that US president be the first name in every single discussion of the most culpable? Consider a few examples from history- Johnson, Reagan, HW and GW, Clinton, and the current commander-in-chief - the chief executives are always the first names on the shit lists. Strange, huh? Only one president is stripped of agency and ultimate responsibility. I've no idea why that might be.
Check the comments - free passes for President O from start to finish, pretty much, and that's in July, 2025. Dig it!
UPDATE - Behold! The paragraph Matt Taibbi couldn't bring himself to write now in print:
"President Barack Obama. Not CIA Director John Brennan. Not Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. And not FBI Director James Comey. But President Barack Obama. The 44th president of the United States directed the intelligence community to interfere in the peaceful transition of power to his successor — Donald Trump. And for that Obama should forevermore be considered a pariah in presidential history."
Matt's already credited Margot Cleveland. Let's hope Matt and Walter step up asap.
I don't think it's that most America are 'indifferent'.
The problem is that our legacy media has completely buried the truth about what happened - so most Americans have no freaking clue that the entire Russiagate fiasco was a lie cooked up by intelligence actors who hate Trump.
The coverup wasn,t worthy of the name since anyone with a normal IQ knew Biden was senile. That the American public and their elected representatives knew but didn't care (except to make political hay after the fact) indicates something really important - but I'm not sure what.
Stone cold election interference. I wonder if Bari Weiss & company over at The Free Press will waddle out from under their mushrooms to cover any of this?
I doubt it Evans. Bari and TFP are working on bringing the 2 sides back together now. Which is good and fine. But the dirty laundry must 1st be aired out and wrong doers given some justice.
If her upcoming year-long project brings more D's into loving America again then I'll give her a pass. Loving the Grand ol' Flag (again) by those taught to despise it is a pandora's box I want to see opened. All kinds of unexpected, good things can come from that.
TFP is busy rebranding the DNC as moderate, along with every so called Biden central planning “Economist”. “Moderate” Josh Shapiro just did an interview with Jacobin contributing writer , (climate mandates and rationing, Zohran Mamdani endorsement of state seizing means of production) podcaster David Sirota.
Also just heard a Mamdani interview about housing and how developers are only interested in making money which is why the government has to take over housing to make it fair.
I'd be all for it if we start with his 3 million dollar apartment. He doesn't need that much space for himself and his new wife, I expect him to lead by example and bring at least 2 families in to share his housing.
Remember when a leftist says they want things to be "equitable" they mean all you all should have equally nothing, party leaders on the other hand, need lots more.
Try reading Ayn Rand's "We the Living" for a glimpse into life under "Equitable" framework.
NYC will be a war lords mafia state so fast if he gets his way. The global cartels that want their rent or protection money will take over. Then again, leftists don’t seem to have a problem with gangs if they individually can afford private security. That private security will be breached someday and the first ones against the wall will be the trust fund Jacobin morons.
The story on TFP today was about a woman who grew up in NYC and indoctrinated by D parents to hate America but escaped to rural Connecticut farm where she is slowing getting red-pilled. And now this year finally has come around to proudly flying an American flag. TFP is launching what they call 'The America at 250 Project' which they tout as a year-long celebration of where we've come from, where we are and where we're going.
Not in this lifetime she is a card carrying MSM liar. She just fed up with someone being nasty to her at the water cooler at the NYT and then found some big tech guy to back her up with real money.
Obama was a Chicago machine implant. He went from total obscurity to POTUS in record time with no accomplishments. A little light reading on how he became an Illinois Senator and what he did while in that position is quite revealing. Spoiler: the popular incumbent candidate was professionally smeared, trashed, and forced aside at the last minute, and Obama was installed. He did nothing in the Senate and began campaigning immediately for President; the rest is history. He was less qualified than my dog.
That's the rumor. I don't particularly like him, but he has at least done something between smoking weed at frat parties and campaigning for POTUS, unlike Obama.
he was pure manufacture by the IC. he was the wool pulled over everyones eyes and the smoke up everyones ass. another point of proof that the media is just a propaganda arm of the IC, and should always be considered thus.
The same playbook installed K Harris as well. Re: Obama...that DNC speech a tightly orchestrated, scripted move. Then Rubin came in and ushered him into the WH, with resounding WS approval. And the public, incl myself, lapped it up. Truly astounding.
I'm from Illinois and watched the Chicago machine puke out the Senator they didn't want and install Obama. A big player in the switch was Speaker of the House/DNC chairman Mike Madigan, who is headed to prison, having recently been convicted of 10 counts of various types of corruption. Illinois spawns many of our "leaders", most of whom go on to wreak havoc before retiring to prison.
Many retired government employees just received windfall Social Security payments for their time in government when they didn't pay into FICA. Additionally, their Social Security payments were increased to cover that time before they switched over to Social Security.
Permanent Government Employees are bureaucrats who are the few in America with permanent jobs. According to the National Taxpayers Union, Biden's Social Security Fairness Act (he benefits although not paying into FICA for his first ten years as US Senator) will cost $hundreds of billions: "According to analysis by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the SSFA would add $196 billion to the national debt. CBO’s analysis does not account for $37 billion of accrued interest from the additional spending, which brings the total cost to taxpayers to $233 billion."--ntu.org/foundation/detail/social-security-fairness-act-will-cost-billions-create-unfair-loopholes
my vote is for something that sends them on the run to flee the country where we can later drag them from a sweaty mideast shithole like saddam hussein.
This was an insurrection, plain and simple. These people rejected the duly elected POTUS and were determined to prevent him from discharging the office he was elected to. They did not care what was legitimate; only what was possible.
The insurrection continues to this day in the form of nationwide injuctions, et al.
They don't, you see at least half of the country just think this is partisan fascism making up "facts." This is the world we live in now. Swamp creatures get to continue being swamp creatures, because no matter who is in office, or the courts or whatever, it's all made up party propaganda, and will just find it's way under the rug.
Yes. Today, many people just believe what they want to believe. They really don't care what's true. I think it'll have to blow up in their faces before it stops and we get back to reality. My gut tells me that the blow up is imminent, and that it'll probably be catastrophic.
Look, I'm no lawyer; I was a street cop. And, from this reading I see a L O T of underhanded, slimy justifications for sure. What I don't see is a specific crime committed that could justify an arrest. This whole fiasco is now at the investigation stage; a lot's coming out, but I don't see anyone being cuffed and perp walked.
- Nobody went to prison for 'Nam & the Tonkin lies.
- all the WMD promotors are still out there
- And one guy, ONE perp got locked up from the '08 Financial Crises
So...nahhh...this too will be swept under a rug.
And yet, sooo many lives were destroyed from the Jan 6 Investigations. DESTROYED.
I trust (and that's cool that I do despite such skepticism in general) that Biondi & Patel are doing all they can to nail these clowns; but I don't think be able to develop enough for a collar, let alone a conviction.
If there's anyone w/more than a layman's knowledge like mine, please change my mind. PLEASE.
I used it to mean that I'm not a member of a specialized group-- in this case I meant either prosecutors or lawyers familiar w/ this sort of wrongdoing. (It's a snazzy sounding way of admitting I don't know WTF I'm talking about! LOL)
Go to jail? These guys need to face more than jail. They if not treason committed sedition, created chaos and caused irreparable harm to an already harmed nation. Maybe time to go Mongol on them.
When do Comey, Clapper and Brennan go to jail? Just after Wall Street Executives who committed fraud leading up to the 2008 financial collapse are sent to prison.
It's too bad the 5 year-statute of limitations has run on most of the crimes committed by Brennan and his fellow jackals under 18 USC 1001 (making false statements). Same story for other crimes such as conspiracy to defraud or overthrow the government, sedition, domestic terrorism, and obstruction of justice. Treason has no statute of limitations but it requires giving aid to the foreign enemies of the United States. One would have to prove the Democrats are controlled by a foreign enemy for the treason charge to stick.
I believe they extended the Statute of limitations for Trump's trial on hush money payment to the porn star, claiming Covid. Maybe they could do the same with the conspirators in Russiagate? Also even if Statute of Limitations starts when the crime occurs, for civil cases Statute of Limitations may be longer particularly if the crime was only discovered recently as in this case. Sue them.
Do like Canada did to the protesting truckers over Covid. Freeze all their assets including pensions (although OJ Simson had good accountants and never paid court judgements living a luxurious lifestyle instead).
When the malfeasance is split and spread among a large number of parties, the ability to prosecute is limited. Ergo private remedies have to be implemented for justice
They were Obama's special and untouchable dogs. Jail is not going to happen, although the whole pack reeks. DC creeps love to preach that no man is above the law, but clearly that is not true.
PS - and never mind the part about Brennan excluding 13 of 17 intelligence agencies. We still have the letter signed by 51 intelligence people that Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation. Just think: 51!
Correction: the letter stated that the laptop "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation." My apologies for the error. However, headlines, and certain cable news talking heads, tended to portray the letter as a statement of fact:
Imagine a prosecutor, at trial, simply claiming that a crime "has all the classic earmarks" of something the defendant would do. No fact nor expert witnesses, no forensics, just an assertion.
Oh, they've written about it. The basic talking point is that while there may have been "irregularities" in the compilation of the report, its conclusions were sound. Also, the Steele Dossier is a red herring, an unimportant inclusion that nobody really believed -- hoping we'll forget that they all believed it, repeated it, shot videos of themselves jumping on Moscow hotel beds, etc. at the time.
And Ratcliffe is a "Trump loyalist" in every article. I guess every other president's appointees were disloyal? IDK. Seems like Trump had more of a problem with that than most.
In a country whose largest city just elected someone so backwards and dumb as to think his dumb ass has answers?? First freedom of speech, then rule of law, then property rights. This is not news.
The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to eliminate the next two years of federal funding for public media outlets, including NPR and PBS, as part of a broader rescission bill requested by President Trump.
My comment wasn't about race, it was about things like this and other things he's pulled, this Russia Gate thing, he could have put a stop to it. I used to call him "The Chosen One" because Democrats and the mainstream media fawned over him like he was the second coming.
Your comment wasn,t about race but reactions from press and public have been ALL about race. The Obama years have been a curiously modern version of the medieval morality play.
Obama is the whitest black guy I've ever watched. He had to choke out the slang "brothas" during his lecture to actual black guys, and those guys righteously seemed indignant. I remember one of them responding to Obama's plea that they don't sit this one out. The man said, "Oh, I'm GONNA vote!", and it was followed by a very nervous chuckle from the other guys. Something told me it was a veiled message.
EDIT: I googled "veiled" for the right spelling, and what came up was mucho pics of muslim women wearing hijabs... I'm not sure what to make of that.
Google is controlled by their board now. They're all about money - advertising dollars. Websites don't reach the top unless pushed by moneyed interests. Youtube is the same way - opinions that don't make money or that the board ideologically don't want, become demonetized.
Wasn't that crazy? That was the day I fully started disregarding the Nobel prizes. Though, I've come to consider every award ceremony across genres and themes to be rich people circle jerks.
This means the WaPo and NYT will return their spurious Pulitzers now? And admit they were either dupes and/or enablers and didn't reveal any facts but only helped spread lies?
You mean the same WaPo whose Thomas Pham LeGro was part of the team that won a Pulitzer for their coverage of Roy Moore and was just arrested for possession of child pornography?
Seriously, what will it take for people to no longer consider these propaganda outlets to be reliable sources?
First the manufacture of the lie. Then the lie. Then outrage at the lie. Then the double down on the lie. Then as time progresses another lie to cover the lie and another lie to cover that lie. Then a brand new lie and brand new outrage. Then We the People go "...my oh my oh my how long can a free people live inside a lie..?" Then they scream "....my head hurts from all this lying..out with the old liars and in with the new..!" Then the old liars deposit a great big truckload of tax largesse in their private accounts and the new liars step up to the cash register. Then We the People go " I'm so tired. ..my oh my oh my..how long can a free people live inside a lie..?"
PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS (PSYOP): Operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their motives and objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of governments, organizations, groups and large foreign powers. (In layman's terms: a bitch slap.)
"..people are driftin' from door to door...ain't seen such trouble in their lives before...If I ever get off of this hard time killing' floor...ain't never gonna get down this low no more..." Skip James
Yep, that's how it works. Just like Martha Stewart. Insider trading is rampant and in the gazillions, but Martha makes a $200k mistake and she gets locked up. She pissed someone off.
I think in the case of La Martha, it's not so much that she pissed anyone off, it's that the DoJ had to claim an important scalp, lest they be accused of ignoring the issue or showing favoritism.
Worse. He was just a convenient high profile case for feds angling for promotions to claim that they did something. I've learned that the truth is certain government and corporate jobs rely on destroying lives as evidence of their success.
Never happen. What’s more likely is these people will return to power and be worse than ever. They likely will use the “hate crime” fiction to ban the Republican Party and its sympathizers.
The problem is that its not illegal to be an idiot to misjudges everything, and they were able to sell the idea that they were simply stupid enough to believe the nonsense they were being fed.
Class envy is such a great leaven - it always works.
You raise an interesting point. Martha Stewart's fan base was middle class moderately affluent women who dreamed of a fantasy lifestyle within reach. And yes, they do vote, but they certainly weren,t looking to Martha for political or financial advice. Her power was the promise of DIY "pretty." Her financial success was an irresistible target for politicized law enforcement because her fan base couldn't/ wouldn,t make political waves. I'd be very surprised if the absurdity of her crime and punishment changed a single vote, although certainly provided mostly females with plenty of “human interest."
Indeed. And though it’s good that Radcliffe brought this to light we might be interested to know how deeply he himself is interconnected with Mossad. Trust is in short supply these days.
Thank you Matt. The galling thing is that to this day I don’t think they even give a damn and would do it all over again. There’s just no consequences. Send them to prison for 2 years? They’re out in 6 months and are still relatively wealthy individuals respected in some circles. There’s just no consequences. Think any of this troubles Obama? I do not. But great reporting Matt.
it is frustrating to see so many still trying to cajole a legal system to deliver justice when it is that same system that is protecting them from any accountability. if we want justice, it can be delivered. i mean, at the end of the day, if a guy gets the electric chair or is accidentally run over by a bus, I guess he ended up the same and got what was coming to him. one will never happen, but the other might......"by accident." just an observation.
If I understand your perspective on the matter, I'm out. That said, would I like to see these guys and anyone else in on it criminally prosecuted? Yes I would regardless of the thoughts I have about deterance and consequences.
For better or worse, Trump's foreign policy was hamstrung from the outset. Anything other than reckless imperialism was greeted with cries of "Putin puppet!" Even when Trump was reckless, it still didn't buy him any support.
Hell, the russiagate conspiracy theory remains a Team D Article Of Faith to this day.
Brennan and Co. should be dragged before Congress.
In other news, Matt, it’s really sad to see this guy Yasha Levine willfully misconstruing your politics in a long recent Substack piece—basically pretending that a man who didn’t want Russia bought up by Western corporations and didn’t shrink from calling out Wall Street vampirism was somehow not a man who could believe in free enterprise.
The leftish attacks you’ve been hit with are cheap and incoherent. Only thing they’ve done for me is drive home the degree to which Cheap & Incoherent has basically become the Left’s flagship store.
It’s called propaganda, and there is an insightful section in Mein Kampf that explains how to do it. There’s always lackeys like the guy you mention willing to do it for a few shekels, too.
So let’s not forget that the venomous vermin Brennan was appointed by the equally venomous vermin, B Hussain Obama. The one pity about Brennan is that his neck is so fat that he’s probably not subject to be hanged. But in my view drawing and quartering him works equally well.
Forcefully wedging the clearly ridiculous "golden showers" of the Steele Dossier in there did us all a favor in that it clearly smelled from the outset. What hubris. But yes, we're all still waiting for the Fall.
Won't happen. And no evidence or lack of evidence will change the minds of true believers. Humans are masters at cognitive dissonance, not to mention it is nigh impossible to prove a negative.
I think you meant "evidence will [not] change the mind of true believers."
I don't know. We destroyed the monarchies powers (even though they somehow still exist despite being the epitome of the corrupt elite lording over others' productivity)
I like the mib " the person is smart. People are stupid" quote because I know a lot of individuals that have rational opinions. Unfortunately they are outnumbered in democratic elections by the not so quality demos.
Anyway, contrary to popular belief, the intelligent and educated are in fact more prone to cognitive dissonance, because they are better at symbol manipulation to reach a desired outcome, and because they tend to have more of their sense of self wrapped up in externals.
This further validates that the mainstream media - as you and Walter discussed in Sun Valley - has so jumped the broom that this story will be buried. An (outgoing) president and his security team cooking up a treasonous story about their opponent to slime him for his entire presidency (and spy on him via flim-flam FISA warrant and 3 renewals). Yet this story will ONLY be reported by a small subsegment of the press. 40% of America who gets their news via Rachel, Nicole, David Muir will never hear a tidbit of this. If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there......After two prime-time impeachments, multiple trials (Trump), Bannon going to jail (not Eric Holder), I think America is ready to put Brennan and Clapper (wittingly) on trial.
The craziest thing about this to me is Trump came in as just kind of a hothead with poor manners and that was his cardinal sin to these people. A somewhat more competent spook class probably could have won him over with flattery and intelligence reports while increasing faith that our elections matter.
Instead they came up with this retard conspiracy, undermined the whole system, brought us closer to nuclear war, and ultimately still lost, creating a real enemy for themselves.
Whenever anyone starts proclaiming that [insert name of successful wealthy businessperson] is an incompetent idiot…. I stop listening. You don’t have to like them but to insist that they’re stupid is … well, stupid.
Who said such a thing? I called the spooks incompetent for creating an incredibly antagonistic relationship with Trump and then losing anyway.
That said, it's uncommon, but some wealthy and successful people are the normal kind of morons, Dave Portnoy for example. More commonly though they are good at business but have no particular knowledge about politics or whatever else they are popping off about.
I was referencing those with Stage IV TDS… they’ve been screaming for ten years how stupid Trump is….WW3, racist, every phobe possible, etc… it’s like I don’t happen to think much of Bill Gates, but he ain’t stupid.
And that he only got a start because his Dad handed him $10 million…. I lived in metro NYC for 20+years in the 80s-2006…sold contract furniture & design…$10 million in the world of commercial development is chump change. The criticisms only displays their ignorance.
Just like Trump would benefit from toning it down 10%, his critics could get him to do a lot of what they want if they could only put their hate aside and instead butter him up a bit. None can help themselves though, with the exception of Kim Kardashian and John Fetterman who seem to be the only libs to figure it out.
John Brennan was the ringleader. Comey and Clapper his more than willing partners. Brennan and Co, along with ideological soldiers like Strzok and Page, were hellbent on impeaching a sitting President on charges he and they knew were a fraud. That is called Treason. What is the penalty for that? In George Washington's time it was Capital Punishment by hanging as Washington order for John Andre who aided Benedict Arnold in his betrayal of Washington and the Colonial government. Andre, knowing his crime, argued only to be shot like a Gentleman. His request was denied.
It is time for John Brennan, at a minimum, to face his crimes.
When do Comey, Clapper, and Brennan go to jail? They are still advising other governments on censorship and posting deranged tweets inciting violence. Commissars and red guards are worse than redcoats. Thanks for your dogged reporting Matt. Happy 4th to the racket rabble ;)
This and Biden’s senility should be the biggest political stories since Watergate. Too bad so many in this country are curiously indifferent.
The Watergate crowd while despicable were traffic scofflaws compared to this treacherous tribe.
This is the truly amazing thing of our new reality. WaterGate is a kid taking a lollipop and mom coming back 2 hours later to pay for it compared to this shit.
I'd go further. I'd say that the events of Watergate are SOP today. Just because no one has to stealthily sneek around with flashlights and jimmy door locks on private offices to gather confidential info, that it only takes a pimply-faced hacker to aquire it, doesn't change the what, why, and wherefores.
And yet I recall at the time, Watergate was talked up the most horrendous crime against the Republic since the South tried to secede. I argued with liberal friends (when I still had them) that it was a third-rate burglary perpetrated by fools who were play-acting at being secret agents. They got nothing of political value out of the effort at terrible risk of damage to their own side, which in fact came to pass. The only reason it was a big deal was because it was a chance to beat up on the despised Nixon. As he said, “I handed them a sword (in the form of the cover-up, not the break-in itself which Nixon knew nothing about). My point was belatedly made decades later when it was discovered that Lyndon Johnson bugged Barry Goldwater’s campaign plane, in my opinion, a far worse crime against democracy than Watergate. But when mention that now, people just shrug, just as they would have if Watergate had been revealed only decades later.
I would argue your friends weren't and aren't Liberals. They are followers. I am a Liberal, Matt likely still identifies as Liberal. We can certainly fall victim at times to the following, or confirmation bias, but a true Liberal isn't that blind, ignorant, and rude.
Oh, they were liberals all right.
I was thinking that Watergate dirty tricks were like short-sheeting a bed in comparison.
Or a frat prank!
Watergate is littering compared to this stuff.
Tucker Carlson did an interview about Watergate with a White House witness who kept his records and it was the most shocking interview I have heard on this subject. Maybe you can find it. It was not that long ago.
Good call, I saw that as well. Here is a link to his website, that also includes the Tucker interview and a documentary with the latest findings:
https://shepardonwatergate.com/
Evidently way too much media crap cluttering the internet highway as I missed Geoff Shepard even existed. Thanks for posting the link. Many more people than the media will ever admit believe Watergate was a setup.
I also read that the plumbers were looking for the files on the Democrat Party's escort service provided to its bigwig donors.
I had no idea about Mr. Shepherd. Amazing he hasn’t become un-alive…
Thanks. Spellbinding, to say the least.
Nixon knew it was a setup, there’s a tape of him talking to then-CIA Director Richard Helms during the middle of the crisis along the lines of “look Richard, we both know who killed John, it would be a real shame if someone — not me of course but someone — were to out the CIA’s dirty tricks to the public”. He is clearly trying to get Helms to back off of Watergate as he knew where the whole thing originated, but of course in the pre-Internet era he couldn’t survive the condemnation of the Washington Post and the other mockingbirds of the deep state so he made a deal (and as a result later was rehabilitated in the public eye by the corporate media in a way that Trump never will be).
The FBI under Hoover's lifetime built a huge system of surveillance, spying and blackmail.
I think Watergate was just a subplot about who ended up with control over that network after Hoover died. (It wasn't Nixon)
Certainly Deep Throat represented one of the factions fighting for that power.
I think a lot of Russiagate can be traced back to that battle.
I agree. The history goes deep.
The visible decline in people's expectations of having a moral government is really alarming, but seems consistent with what an end-stage empire might look like.
they committed treason agsinst millions of soverign US citizens. their deeds cannot go unpunished. justice demands it.
The Watergate 'scofflaws' were the same as these Russiagate 'scofflaws' in that they were all CIA connected and put up to their bad behavior by senior leadership like Brennan for the purpose of setting up and taking down Nixon. They were successful then, but not Brennan. He's nasty, dirty, and an enemy of America, but a moron like most power hungry Communists
I am not sure is a lack of curiosity more than it is a lack of initiative. We subscribers to Racket and other alternative media are outliers. If the mainstream press got on this in a big way - like it did on Russiagate - I think there would be curiosity. But you can bet your bottom dollar this will not be a story on CNN or if it is, it will be distorted.
Not sure why people still refer to them as "mainstrem"? CNN's viewership is teetering on the edge of oblivion. MSNBC is deplorable. Very few are serious reporters are referring to them to illustrate anyth9ing resembling reality. Legacy or corporate media seem to be the better choices.
the media is an arm of the corrupt IC. there is simply no other logical conclusion.
Ever since (or perhaps even before) Operation Mockingbird.
Yes, I was being a bit daft
...or dismissed as more lies and "misinformation" from the lying Trump administration. Some recipe designed to ease the hunger of the gullible masses.
Can't wait for them to melt away into obscurity and for real news agencies to gain prominence.
Aren't these intel 'experts' paid cable news dopes? CNN and MSNBC trot these out like they're not criminals.
Don't you just love the way Anderson Cooper screws up his face into his trademark "serious news analyst" frown when one of these utterly despicable creeps is dispensing the latest lies?
Who is Anderson Cooper, and why does he matter?
I wouldn't know what he does with his face as I've never watched him.
Criminals always appeal to criminals why else would Democrats tune in.
True,that
Don’t hold your breath, I’m sure you are joking though!
I agree. But, are there any real news agencies anywhere on the horizon? I’ve gotten so jaded that I trust few.
Can’t wait for them to be tried in a court of law then sentenced to prison
Some good things happened during the Nixon years.
The Clean Air Act was the best thing to ever happened to NYC. The city was disgusting in the 1970s. The blue clouds of lead exhausts filled the tunnels and underpasses and the buildings' exteriors were caked with the stuff. Graduating high schools students in the metro area fled for out of state colleges.
Yes, as well as creation of the EPA and Title IX protecting women's athletics. All presidencies have good and bad.
Wasn't Nixon the only President to put Man on the Moon? I think 12 Astronauts walked on the moon under Nixon.
1972: Nixon announces the Space Shuttle program. Nixon presented his vision for a reusable spacecraft designed to make space travel more routine, cost-effective, and accessible. The Shuttle’s reusability promised to revolutionize space economics by spreading costs across multiple missions.
Between 1981 and 2011, the Shuttle completed 135 missions, becoming the workhorse of NASA’s operations in low Earth orbit. It played an essential role in advancing scientific research, international cooperation, and space station assembly
2010: And along comes Obama who decided that NASA needed to take a long break from space travel to engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering.
Yes, and don't forget all the cheap Chinese consumer goods that Americans have so damn much of that there's as many storage places as gas stations. And I'm not complaining. I had just as much as anyone else did, "had" being the operative word. Now, it's only what fits in my 300 sqft home, and that ain't much beyond what I need.
Don't blame Nixon for your cheap China imports. It was Carter that recognized the PRC in 1979 and revoked the 1955 mutual defense treaty with Taiwan (effective in 1980) that led to the1980 sales of military supplies to China and negotiations to share military intelligence.
Forty years ago, the US became China's third-largest trading partner, and China became America's 14th largest.
Most of the negative results of his time in office should not be assigned to him, like eliminating the gold standard or establishing the EPA, which the Dem run Congress had previously designed and Nixon just consolidated the numerous other departments under it.
JFK and Johnson had spent so much money abroad that England and France were afraid the US could not back its money with gold and the US held the worlds gold. France and England asked for all their gold back when Nixon was in office. That depleted Fort Knox. France sent a war ship to our coast to pick up its gold. But Nixon was smart. He forced all oil to be purchased in dollars - his petro deal kept the US in charge.
I've got nothing against Nixon, I voted for him, except maybe that he turned out to be a paranoid schizophrenic. But so what? I believe most pols today are, so he was a guy before his time. He would probably be a huge success today.
When the gangsters are actually after you like they were Nixon and Trump, I guess you can describe the reaction as paranoid schizophrenic, but that's just your assessment.
I heard a joke about that. Maybe it was Carlin. Only in America is there $100,00O worth of vehicles in the driveway and the garage is full of junk.
US President Barack Obama should be the first four words of every single story on this entire sick decade of electoral corruption and political malfeasance. Joe Biden isn't president without 0bama.
Matt listened to Walter explain how Walt "figured out" that O was nothing but a hack from Chicago in 2012 at Sun Valley. That's four years after Matt and the rest of the press corps swooned in Dick Cheney's security state on steroids coz Barack was so cute and made Bard liberals feel a little less guilty about the fucking over of middle-America during O's first term and America's sins of the past. Walt in 2010 at TNR was a babe in the woods, btw, not an accomplished journalist and utterly unschooled in the wicked ways of the world. Imagine Walter's disappointment. Boo-hoo.
My favorite NYT headline of the time? The "Hidden Unemployed - How did we miss them." Remember Obama locking the WH press corps on a plane, Bill Clinton meeting O's AG by chance on a runway? "Yes, we can, Yes, we can" Nothing revolting and stomach-churning about watching America's press corps chant O's political slogan on command in chorus. Yum!
O is on the hook for all of this shit. And so are all who cover for him. The fact that Matt identifies Miranda first and then starts bragging about his own recent story, one that was documented clearly before and after 2017, before getting to Obama tells us just far up Obama's ass Matt still is. Hello?
Fucking nauseating, frankly, to read Matt taking a victory lap while he was asleep even as Obama's IRS crawled up the Tea Party's ass for years. Matt only noticed, sorry to say, when the IRS knocked on his own door.
No room for a mea culpa anywhere from Matt as the facts "come to light"? Many of the commenters here seem equally unwilling or unable face up to the gigantic tongue bath O received from day one when and how the US press corps decided to fail, and why. And don't forget the good times when "inexperienced" meant calling O "boy." Bu-bu-bu- but Trump!
President Nobel Fucking Peace Prize - that's who America was and is. Let that sink in.
And if anyone thinks I'm being "over-the-top" about just how much reverse racism is baked into Matt's piece and the comments here, ask yourself the question: if the US president who ushered in Russiagate had been white - wouldn't that US president be the first name in every single discussion of the most culpable? Consider a few examples from history- Johnson, Reagan, HW and GW, Clinton, and the current commander-in-chief - the chief executives are always the first names on the shit lists. Strange, huh? Only one president is stripped of agency and ultimate responsibility. I've no idea why that might be.
Check the comments - free passes for President O from start to finish, pretty much, and that's in July, 2025. Dig it!
UPDATE - Behold! The paragraph Matt Taibbi couldn't bring himself to write now in print:
"President Barack Obama. Not CIA Director John Brennan. Not Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. And not FBI Director James Comey. But President Barack Obama. The 44th president of the United States directed the intelligence community to interfere in the peaceful transition of power to his successor — Donald Trump. And for that Obama should forevermore be considered a pariah in presidential history."
Matt's already credited Margot Cleveland. Let's hope Matt and Walter step up asap.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/07/cia-review-reveals-obama-pushed-intel-community-to-launch-trump-russia-witch-hunt/
All the Dems could do as the BBB passed was “MOO”. (Literally) and act like the lunatics they are.
I don't think it's that most America are 'indifferent'.
The problem is that our legacy media has completely buried the truth about what happened - so most Americans have no freaking clue that the entire Russiagate fiasco was a lie cooked up by intelligence actors who hate Trump.
The coverup wasn,t worthy of the name since anyone with a normal IQ knew Biden was senile. That the American public and their elected representatives knew but didn't care (except to make political hay after the fact) indicates something really important - but I'm not sure what.
Stone cold election interference. I wonder if Bari Weiss & company over at The Free Press will waddle out from under their mushrooms to cover any of this?
I doubt it Evans. Bari and TFP are working on bringing the 2 sides back together now. Which is good and fine. But the dirty laundry must 1st be aired out and wrong doers given some justice.
Bari and her rag are a POS. Spread the word.
If her upcoming year-long project brings more D's into loving America again then I'll give her a pass. Loving the Grand ol' Flag (again) by those taught to despise it is a pandora's box I want to see opened. All kinds of unexpected, good things can come from that.
The thing is, the “2 sides” are both represented in the Trump party. There’s nothing on the left.
Ha! That's a riddle!
Agreed. However, Americans are loath to admit they made a mistake. Sometimes I think most would rather shoot themselves in the head.
TFP is busy rebranding the DNC as moderate, along with every so called Biden central planning “Economist”. “Moderate” Josh Shapiro just did an interview with Jacobin contributing writer , (climate mandates and rationing, Zohran Mamdani endorsement of state seizing means of production) podcaster David Sirota.
Also just heard a Mamdani interview about housing and how developers are only interested in making money which is why the government has to take over housing to make it fair.
I'd be all for it if we start with his 3 million dollar apartment. He doesn't need that much space for himself and his new wife, I expect him to lead by example and bring at least 2 families in to share his housing.
Remember when a leftist says they want things to be "equitable" they mean all you all should have equally nothing, party leaders on the other hand, need lots more.
Try reading Ayn Rand's "We the Living" for a glimpse into life under "Equitable" framework.
Madmanny relies on the ultimate maxim: you can vote yourself into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.
Yep
NYC will be a war lords mafia state so fast if he gets his way. The global cartels that want their rent or protection money will take over. Then again, leftists don’t seem to have a problem with gangs if they individually can afford private security. That private security will be breached someday and the first ones against the wall will be the trust fund Jacobin morons.
Escape from New York here we come!
Some leftist are more equal than others....
Please let me know, I’ve cancelled TFP
Me too, please let us know.
The story on TFP today was about a woman who grew up in NYC and indoctrinated by D parents to hate America but escaped to rural Connecticut farm where she is slowing getting red-pilled. And now this year finally has come around to proudly flying an American flag. TFP is launching what they call 'The America at 250 Project' which they tout as a year-long celebration of where we've come from, where we are and where we're going.
CT is not the place to get red pilled. Murphy and Blumenthal are left wing loonies. Murphy's fiance works in the Soros blue pill manufacturing plant.
She moved to a farm in upstate New York
I canceled TFP quite a few months ago, too, not resonating with me anymore.
ditto
I like them but expect they are on a five day weekend. Good piece from Larissa Phillips today
Not in this lifetime she is a card carrying MSM liar. She just fed up with someone being nasty to her at the water cooler at the NYT and then found some big tech guy to back her up with real money.
Obama was the Don Corleone of the operation..... Never mind, on second thought, the Corleones had principals.
Obama was a Chicago machine implant. He went from total obscurity to POTUS in record time with no accomplishments. A little light reading on how he became an Illinois Senator and what he did while in that position is quite revealing. Spoiler: the popular incumbent candidate was professionally smeared, trashed, and forced aside at the last minute, and Obama was installed. He did nothing in the Senate and began campaigning immediately for President; the rest is history. He was less qualified than my dog.
Obama is also known as Rahm Emanuel. I believe he’s running again in 28?
That's the rumor. I don't particularly like him, but he has at least done something between smoking weed at frat parties and campaigning for POTUS, unlike Obama.
Read Saul Alinski's "Rules foe Revolution." It is the Rom Emanuel playbook.
you mean “Rules For Radicals”?
By the way, Saul Alinsky, who authored that little tome, offered Hillary Clinton a job out of college. She’d written a term paper on Alinsky.
Thanks, I'll check it out.
he was pure manufacture by the IC. he was the wool pulled over everyones eyes and the smoke up everyones ass. another point of proof that the media is just a propaganda arm of the IC, and should always be considered thus.
So true!
The same playbook installed K Harris as well. Re: Obama...that DNC speech a tightly orchestrated, scripted move. Then Rubin came in and ushered him into the WH, with resounding WS approval. And the public, incl myself, lapped it up. Truly astounding.
I'm from Illinois and watched the Chicago machine puke out the Senator they didn't want and install Obama. A big player in the switch was Speaker of the House/DNC chairman Mike Madigan, who is headed to prison, having recently been convicted of 10 counts of various types of corruption. Illinois spawns many of our "leaders", most of whom go on to wreak havoc before retiring to prison.
Obama was more like the guy Joe Pesci beats up in Good Fellas
BHO more resembles Barzini.
Jail time for sure and then they should reimburse all taxpayer funds used in this law fare.
And take away their pensions. Scumbags.
None of em should have pensions. That’s what social security is for, right?
Only for the proles.
Many retired government employees just received windfall Social Security payments for their time in government when they didn't pay into FICA. Additionally, their Social Security payments were increased to cover that time before they switched over to Social Security.
Permanent Government Employees are bureaucrats who are the few in America with permanent jobs. According to the National Taxpayers Union, Biden's Social Security Fairness Act (he benefits although not paying into FICA for his first ten years as US Senator) will cost $hundreds of billions: "According to analysis by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the SSFA would add $196 billion to the national debt. CBO’s analysis does not account for $37 billion of accrued interest from the additional spending, which brings the total cost to taxpayers to $233 billion."--ntu.org/foundation/detail/social-security-fairness-act-will-cost-billions-create-unfair-loopholes
Wow!
Did Trump finally yank their security clearances?
my vote is for something that sends them on the run to flee the country where we can later drag them from a sweaty mideast shithole like saddam hussein.
This was an insurrection, plain and simple. These people rejected the duly elected POTUS and were determined to prevent him from discharging the office he was elected to. They did not care what was legitimate; only what was possible.
The insurrection continues to this day in the form of nationwide injuctions, et al.
I have always preferred the term "obamagate" over "russiagate" because it is more accurate.
They don't, you see at least half of the country just think this is partisan fascism making up "facts." This is the world we live in now. Swamp creatures get to continue being swamp creatures, because no matter who is in office, or the courts or whatever, it's all made up party propaganda, and will just find it's way under the rug.
Totally agree.
Yes. Today, many people just believe what they want to believe. They really don't care what's true. I think it'll have to blow up in their faces before it stops and we get back to reality. My gut tells me that the blow up is imminent, and that it'll probably be catastrophic.
Well...I don't know...
Look, I'm no lawyer; I was a street cop. And, from this reading I see a L O T of underhanded, slimy justifications for sure. What I don't see is a specific crime committed that could justify an arrest. This whole fiasco is now at the investigation stage; a lot's coming out, but I don't see anyone being cuffed and perp walked.
- Nobody went to prison for 'Nam & the Tonkin lies.
- all the WMD promotors are still out there
- And one guy, ONE perp got locked up from the '08 Financial Crises
So...nahhh...this too will be swept under a rug.
And yet, sooo many lives were destroyed from the Jan 6 Investigations. DESTROYED.
I trust (and that's cool that I do despite such skepticism in general) that Biondi & Patel are doing all they can to nail these clowns; but I don't think be able to develop enough for a collar, let alone a conviction.
If there's anyone w/more than a layman's knowledge like mine, please change my mind. PLEASE.
Wait, define “layman” for those of us unfamiliar with the term.
I used it to mean that I'm not a member of a specialized group-- in this case I meant either prosecutors or lawyers familiar w/ this sort of wrongdoing. (It's a snazzy sounding way of admitting I don't know WTF I'm talking about! LOL)
If they were younger, I'd be on board for a good 'ol bumper drag, but...
Just kidding! We can still dream, can't we?
When I look at Brennan I see Satan. I admit that I can't prove that he's Satan scientifically, but I trust my eyes.
Go to jail? These guys need to face more than jail. They if not treason committed sedition, created chaos and caused irreparable harm to an already harmed nation. Maybe time to go Mongol on them.
When do Comey, Clapper and Brennan go to jail? Just after Wall Street Executives who committed fraud leading up to the 2008 financial collapse are sent to prison.
It's too bad the 5 year-statute of limitations has run on most of the crimes committed by Brennan and his fellow jackals under 18 USC 1001 (making false statements). Same story for other crimes such as conspiracy to defraud or overthrow the government, sedition, domestic terrorism, and obstruction of justice. Treason has no statute of limitations but it requires giving aid to the foreign enemies of the United States. One would have to prove the Democrats are controlled by a foreign enemy for the treason charge to stick.
I believe they extended the Statute of limitations for Trump's trial on hush money payment to the porn star, claiming Covid. Maybe they could do the same with the conspirators in Russiagate? Also even if Statute of Limitations starts when the crime occurs, for civil cases Statute of Limitations may be longer particularly if the crime was only discovered recently as in this case. Sue them.
Do like Canada did to the protesting truckers over Covid. Freeze all their assets including pensions (although OJ Simson had good accountants and never paid court judgements living a luxurious lifestyle instead).
When the malfeasance is split and spread among a large number of parties, the ability to prosecute is limited. Ergo private remedies have to be implemented for justice
They were Obama's special and untouchable dogs. Jail is not going to happen, although the whole pack reeks. DC creeps love to preach that no man is above the law, but clearly that is not true.
PS - and never mind the part about Brennan excluding 13 of 17 intelligence agencies. We still have the letter signed by 51 intelligence people that Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation. Just think: 51!
Correction: the letter stated that the laptop "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation." My apologies for the error. However, headlines, and certain cable news talking heads, tended to portray the letter as a statement of fact:
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276
Imagine a prosecutor, at trial, simply claiming that a crime "has all the classic earmarks" of something the defendant would do. No fact nor expert witnesses, no forensics, just an assertion.
I won't believe any of it matters until the indictments come down.
Can’t wait to read all about this in the NYT, WaPo plus in depth coverage at NPR and CNN.
Don't forget The Rachel Maddow Show - of the entire group, she was probably the one who pushed it the hardest.
I know people who still watch her (unironically)and similarly, have yet to give up the ghost of Russiagate.
That’s because she’s a “truth-teller”!
Oh, they've written about it. The basic talking point is that while there may have been "irregularities" in the compilation of the report, its conclusions were sound. Also, the Steele Dossier is a red herring, an unimportant inclusion that nobody really believed -- hoping we'll forget that they all believed it, repeated it, shot videos of themselves jumping on Moscow hotel beds, etc. at the time.
And Ratcliffe is a "Trump loyalist" in every article. I guess every other president's appointees were disloyal? IDK. Seems like Trump had more of a problem with that than most.
Sarcasm I’m sure.
Lets all hold our breath. :-)
That gives me an idea. Why not just water board this motley crew and ask them what they know?
In a country whose largest city just elected someone so backwards and dumb as to think his dumb ass has answers?? First freedom of speech, then rule of law, then property rights. This is not news.
It would certainly fit for Brennan, while he was in the CIA under Bush II was in favor of, and possibly complicit in, torture.
Bwahahahahahaa!
That will be a long wait.
Remember, this isn't a movie. The truth coming out doesn't actually set everything right. Or anything. The lie continues to win.
https://principlesvstribes.substack.com/p/this-isnt-a-movie
You will never hear or read a word about this in any MSM.
If you want it there, you'll need to post it yourself. lol
Don't hold your breath.
Hope you’re not holding your breath!
Hey did the BBB delete NPR funding?
The NPR funding was removed the last I knew.
The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to eliminate the next two years of federal funding for public media outlets, including NPR and PBS, as part of a broader rescission bill requested by President Trump.
lol!
Yeah, no kidding - they’ll be up in arms about . . . (pause) uh, never mind.
BO-HO-HO . . .
Don’t hold your breath…
What obama did to spy on the Trump campaign is worse than anything Nixon did.
But Saint Barack can do no wrong.
including Uranium One deal. untouchable
My comment wasn't about race, it was about things like this and other things he's pulled, this Russia Gate thing, he could have put a stop to it. I used to call him "The Chosen One" because Democrats and the mainstream media fawned over him like he was the second coming.
Your comment wasn,t about race but reactions from press and public have been ALL about race. The Obama years have been a curiously modern version of the medieval morality play.
I love the last sentence of your comment. LOL perfect.
Thank you - I thought so too!
He has privilege. Everyone in this country knows it too.
Obama had "black privilege." Say it out loud. Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize for being black. Just a fact.
Obama is the whitest black guy I've ever watched. He had to choke out the slang "brothas" during his lecture to actual black guys, and those guys righteously seemed indignant. I remember one of them responding to Obama's plea that they don't sit this one out. The man said, "Oh, I'm GONNA vote!", and it was followed by a very nervous chuckle from the other guys. Something told me it was a veiled message.
EDIT: I googled "veiled" for the right spelling, and what came up was mucho pics of muslim women wearing hijabs... I'm not sure what to make of that.
Obama as a brotha…great moment!
Google is controlled by their board now. They're all about money - advertising dollars. Websites don't reach the top unless pushed by moneyed interests. Youtube is the same way - opinions that don't make money or that the board ideologically don't want, become demonetized.
Wasn't that crazy? That was the day I fully started disregarding the Nobel prizes. Though, I've come to consider every award ceremony across genres and themes to be rich people circle jerks.
:)
Whaaaat? He cannot have "privelege." He is not Caucasian.
This means the WaPo and NYT will return their spurious Pulitzers now? And admit they were either dupes and/or enablers and didn't reveal any facts but only helped spread lies?
And they wonder why they have zero credibility.
You mean the same WaPo whose Thomas Pham LeGro was part of the team that won a Pulitzer for their coverage of Roy Moore and was just arrested for possession of child pornography?
Seriously, what will it take for people to no longer consider these propaganda outlets to be reliable sources?
The NYT still has Walter Duranty's, who was another destructive political hack.
It was designed not just as an election gambit but to justify ongoing illegal search and seizure of Trump’s private information and communications.
This is a federal civil rights violation and all of those gentleman and their co-conspirators should be tried
First the manufacture of the lie. Then the lie. Then outrage at the lie. Then the double down on the lie. Then as time progresses another lie to cover the lie and another lie to cover that lie. Then a brand new lie and brand new outrage. Then We the People go "...my oh my oh my how long can a free people live inside a lie..?" Then they scream "....my head hurts from all this lying..out with the old liars and in with the new..!" Then the old liars deposit a great big truckload of tax largesse in their private accounts and the new liars step up to the cash register. Then We the People go " I'm so tired. ..my oh my oh my..how long can a free people live inside a lie..?"
PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS (PSYOP): Operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their motives and objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of governments, organizations, groups and large foreign powers. (In layman's terms: a bitch slap.)
"..people are driftin' from door to door...ain't seen such trouble in their lives before...If I ever get off of this hard time killing' floor...ain't never gonna get down this low no more..." Skip James
Interesting comment
Hope Skip runs for office!
Law is meaningless. Enforcement is the only thing that matters.
I want to see arrests, firings, jail time, and most importantly the seizing of wealth (these people didn't do this because of political convictions.)
Jail is for the poors.
It's also for those who refuse to break the law. My father was the president of a bank and got thrown in federal prison with literally zero evidence.
Your father must have really really pissed someone off.
Jon Corzine is still free as a bird, last I checked, and he isn't even on the "No Christmas card list" for the People Who Matter.
Yep, that's how it works. Just like Martha Stewart. Insider trading is rampant and in the gazillions, but Martha makes a $200k mistake and she gets locked up. She pissed someone off.
I think in the case of La Martha, it's not so much that she pissed anyone off, it's that the DoJ had to claim an important scalp, lest they be accused of ignoring the issue or showing favoritism.
An important scalp but not TOO important (only to entranced housewives).
Worse. He was just a convenient high profile case for feds angling for promotions to claim that they did something. I've learned that the truth is certain government and corporate jobs rely on destroying lives as evidence of their success.
Human beings at their most sophisticated worst.
Never happen. What’s more likely is these people will return to power and be worse than ever. They likely will use the “hate crime” fiction to ban the Republican Party and its sympathizers.
The problem is that its not illegal to be an idiot to misjudges everything, and they were able to sell the idea that they were simply stupid enough to believe the nonsense they were being fed.
Class envy is such a great leaven - it always works.
You raise an interesting point. Martha Stewart's fan base was middle class moderately affluent women who dreamed of a fantasy lifestyle within reach. And yes, they do vote, but they certainly weren,t looking to Martha for political or financial advice. Her power was the promise of DIY "pretty." Her financial success was an irresistible target for politicized law enforcement because her fan base couldn't/ wouldn,t make political waves. I'd be very surprised if the absurdity of her crime and punishment changed a single vote, although certainly provided mostly females with plenty of “human interest."
Brennan is an avowed communist.
I think he was just lying like communists do.
Amazing how consistently "intelligence" can be fixed around a predetermined policy--isn't it?
Indeed. And though it’s good that Radcliffe brought this to light we might be interested to know how deeply he himself is interconnected with Mossad. Trust is in short supply these days.
Thank you Matt. The galling thing is that to this day I don’t think they even give a damn and would do it all over again. There’s just no consequences. Send them to prison for 2 years? They’re out in 6 months and are still relatively wealthy individuals respected in some circles. There’s just no consequences. Think any of this troubles Obama? I do not. But great reporting Matt.
it is frustrating to see so many still trying to cajole a legal system to deliver justice when it is that same system that is protecting them from any accountability. if we want justice, it can be delivered. i mean, at the end of the day, if a guy gets the electric chair or is accidentally run over by a bus, I guess he ended up the same and got what was coming to him. one will never happen, but the other might......"by accident." just an observation.
If I understand your perspective on the matter, I'm out. That said, would I like to see these guys and anyone else in on it criminally prosecuted? Yes I would regardless of the thoughts I have about deterance and consequences.
Yes, and it worked.
For better or worse, Trump's foreign policy was hamstrung from the outset. Anything other than reckless imperialism was greeted with cries of "Putin puppet!" Even when Trump was reckless, it still didn't buy him any support.
Hell, the russiagate conspiracy theory remains a Team D Article Of Faith to this day.
Aaron Mate on the fallout from Russiagate - https://thegrayzone.substack.com/p/aaron-mate-the-dangerous-consequences?utm_source=podcast-email&publication_id=474765&post_id=167257725&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_content=watch_now_gif&r=eov1&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Brennan and Co. should be dragged before Congress.
In other news, Matt, it’s really sad to see this guy Yasha Levine willfully misconstruing your politics in a long recent Substack piece—basically pretending that a man who didn’t want Russia bought up by Western corporations and didn’t shrink from calling out Wall Street vampirism was somehow not a man who could believe in free enterprise.
The leftish attacks you’ve been hit with are cheap and incoherent. Only thing they’ve done for me is drive home the degree to which Cheap & Incoherent has basically become the Left’s flagship store.
It’s called propaganda, and there is an insightful section in Mein Kampf that explains how to do it. There’s always lackeys like the guy you mention willing to do it for a few shekels, too.
So let’s not forget that the venomous vermin Brennan was appointed by the equally venomous vermin, B Hussain Obama. The one pity about Brennan is that his neck is so fat that he’s probably not subject to be hanged. But in my view drawing and quartering him works equally well.
I vote for tarred and feathered and paraded through the public square.
You are so much kinder than I. But being able to mock and throw dung at him as he was paraded would work almost as well.
Forcefully wedging the clearly ridiculous "golden showers" of the Steele Dossier in there did us all a favor in that it clearly smelled from the outset. What hubris. But yes, we're all still waiting for the Fall.
"But yes, we're all still waiting for the Fall."
Won't happen. And no evidence or lack of evidence will change the minds of true believers. Humans are masters at cognitive dissonance, not to mention it is nigh impossible to prove a negative.
EDITED in accordance with Stephen's suggestion.
I think you meant "evidence will [not] change the mind of true believers."
I don't know. We destroyed the monarchies powers (even though they somehow still exist despite being the epitome of the corrupt elite lording over others' productivity)
You are correct regarding evidence. No evidence or lack of evidence will change the conspiracy theorists' minds.
But humans are not rational animals. They are rationalizing animals.
I like the mib " the person is smart. People are stupid" quote because I know a lot of individuals that have rational opinions. Unfortunately they are outnumbered in democratic elections by the not so quality demos.
mib?
Anyway, contrary to popular belief, the intelligent and educated are in fact more prone to cognitive dissonance, because they are better at symbol manipulation to reach a desired outcome, and because they tend to have more of their sense of self wrapped up in externals.
So we’re screwed. That’s disappointing
This further validates that the mainstream media - as you and Walter discussed in Sun Valley - has so jumped the broom that this story will be buried. An (outgoing) president and his security team cooking up a treasonous story about their opponent to slime him for his entire presidency (and spy on him via flim-flam FISA warrant and 3 renewals). Yet this story will ONLY be reported by a small subsegment of the press. 40% of America who gets their news via Rachel, Nicole, David Muir will never hear a tidbit of this. If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there......After two prime-time impeachments, multiple trials (Trump), Bannon going to jail (not Eric Holder), I think America is ready to put Brennan and Clapper (wittingly) on trial.
I would add Fauci and Mayorkas to that list
Doesn't matter, a majority of Progressives will continue to insist on Russian Collusion.
Forever.
and continue to sink in their own muck
The craziest thing about this to me is Trump came in as just kind of a hothead with poor manners and that was his cardinal sin to these people. A somewhat more competent spook class probably could have won him over with flattery and intelligence reports while increasing faith that our elections matter.
Instead they came up with this retard conspiracy, undermined the whole system, brought us closer to nuclear war, and ultimately still lost, creating a real enemy for themselves.
Whenever anyone starts proclaiming that [insert name of successful wealthy businessperson] is an incompetent idiot…. I stop listening. You don’t have to like them but to insist that they’re stupid is … well, stupid.
Who said such a thing? I called the spooks incompetent for creating an incredibly antagonistic relationship with Trump and then losing anyway.
That said, it's uncommon, but some wealthy and successful people are the normal kind of morons, Dave Portnoy for example. More commonly though they are good at business but have no particular knowledge about politics or whatever else they are popping off about.
I was referencing those with Stage IV TDS… they’ve been screaming for ten years how stupid Trump is….WW3, racist, every phobe possible, etc… it’s like I don’t happen to think much of Bill Gates, but he ain’t stupid.
I love their claim that he has “never accomplished anything in his life”
Lmao love him or hate him, Donald Trump has a ridiculous list of various life accomplishments
And that he only got a start because his Dad handed him $10 million…. I lived in metro NYC for 20+years in the 80s-2006…sold contract furniture & design…$10 million in the world of commercial development is chump change. The criticisms only displays their ignorance.
Well no, his cardinal sin was not kowtowing to progressive values. The hotheadedness and bad manners were just aesthetically displeasing.
When your daughter brings a Hell's Angel to dinner, you aren't actually concerned about his tattoos, although that might be the shape of the critique.
that still falls under "decorum" as far as they are concerned
Just like Trump would benefit from toning it down 10%, his critics could get him to do a lot of what they want if they could only put their hate aside and instead butter him up a bit. None can help themselves though, with the exception of Kim Kardashian and John Fetterman who seem to be the only libs to figure it out.
John Brennan was the ringleader. Comey and Clapper his more than willing partners. Brennan and Co, along with ideological soldiers like Strzok and Page, were hellbent on impeaching a sitting President on charges he and they knew were a fraud. That is called Treason. What is the penalty for that? In George Washington's time it was Capital Punishment by hanging as Washington order for John Andre who aided Benedict Arnold in his betrayal of Washington and the Colonial government. Andre, knowing his crime, argued only to be shot like a Gentleman. His request was denied.
It is time for John Brennan, at a minimum, to face his crimes.