The title of this article is a “loaded question,” which we hope and pray never happens. However, the Democrats have launched impeachment against our President, which moves us one step closer to a bloody internal war.[2] And yes, Trump supporters—including law enforcement and our military—are armed to the teeth, like they were when Abraham Lincoln was the president and our last Civil War began.
Acts of sedition have been underway since before our national elections in 2016. Barack Obama and his fellow treasonous co-conspirators embarked on a concerted effort to destroy the candidacy and then the presidency of Donald Trump, which continues to this day. When will they be held accountable, and imprisoned at the very least? Until this happens, no American should believe in our system of justice, because it does not exist. It is a fable and a fantasy, and a tragedy of epic proportions.[3]
On two other occasions in my lifetime, similar events have happened, when our great nation was torn asunder. One involved the Vietnam War and the hatred leveled at former President Lyndon Johnson. There were bumper stickers on cars in the District of Columbia that asked: “Where is Lee Harvey Oswald now that we really need him?—referring to John F. Kennedy’s assassin, and suggesting that Johnson should be killed too. The second event involved Richard Nixon and Watergate, where the hatred of him reached a fever pitch.
Today, the country is polarized in a manner approaching that of our last Civil War, when America was torn apart and barely survived. If Abraham Lincoln had not been our president, it likely that the United States would not exist as a nation today, but might be two or more countries, occupying North America. Lincoln and his generals, Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman[4], turned the tide and won the war, at an enormous cost in human lives. For decades after that. America’s South functioned as a defeated nation within the United States, much like East Germany—or the DDR—existed in a united Germany after the fall of the Soviet Union.
From the moment that Donald Trump began his presidential campaign, he has been attacked by the Left and despicable RINOs like Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan on the right[5], and by the Left-leaning American media. The attacks have been relentless, without ceasing. In a very real sense, Trump is America’s first truly Independent president, who is beholden to neither political party, and attacked by elements in both. His very presence has been and continues to be a threat to Washington’s “establishment” and power structure, and to the goals of globalists in the United States and abroad. As I have written, the Democrats are “evil” but smart, while the Republicans are “Neanderthals” and dumb. This was my conclusion when I left the U.S. Senate, and it has never changed and continues to this day.
I began as a Democrat in a devoutly-Republican household, where my parents “idolized” Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. However, working on and with Capitol Hill for most of my adult life led me to the conclusion that I did not want to be a member of either political party. I have been an Independent ever since. Lots of Americans in our great nation’s “Flyover States” have felt disenfranchised; and Donald Trump has captured their beliefs and been their leader since his presidential campaign began. Is the man perfect? No one is, but he embodies the hopes and dreams of vast numbers of Americans who elected him in 2016 and may reelect him in 2020. Will his enemies, domestic and foreign, accept that result; or will his presidency be besieged until it runs its course?
The latest attacks on the President have been discussed by Pat Buchanan—an adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford, and a former GOP presidential aspirant himself—in an article entitled “Will ‘Ukraine-Gate’ Imperil Biden’s Bid?”:
With the revelation by an intel community “whistleblower” that President Donald Trump, in a congratulatory call to the new president of Ukraine, pushed him repeatedly to investigate the Joe Biden family connection to Ukrainian corruption, the cry “Impeach!” is being heard anew in the land.
But revisiting how this latest scandal came about, and how it has begun to unfold, it is a good bet that the principal casualty could be the former vice president. Consider:
In May 2016, Joe Biden, as Barack Obama’s designated point man on Ukraine, flew to Kiev to inform President Petro Poroshenko that a billion-dollar U.S. loan guarantee had been approved to enable Kiev to continue to service its mammoth debt.
But, said Biden, the aid was conditional. There was a quid pro quo.
If Poroshenko’s regime did not fire its chief prosecutor in six hours, Biden would fly home and Ukraine would get no loan guarantee. Ukraine capitulated instantly, said Joe, reveling in his pro-consul role.
Yet, left out of Biden’s drama about how he dropped the hammer on a corrupt Ukrainian prosecutor was this detail.
The prosecutor had been investigating Burisma Holdings, the biggest gas company in Ukraine. And right after the U.S.-backed coup that ousted the pro-Russian government in Kiev, and after Joe Biden had been given the lead on foreign aid for Ukraine, Burisma had installed on its board, at $50,000 a month, Hunter Biden, the son of the vice president.
Joe Biden claims that, though he was point man in the battle on corruption in Ukraine, he was unaware his son was raking in hundreds of thousands from one of the companies being investigated.
Said Joe on Saturday, “I have never spoken to my son about his various business dealings.”
Trump and Rudy Giuliani suspect not, and in that July 25 phone call, Trump urged President Volodymyr Zelensky to reopen the investigation of Hunter Biden and Burisma.
The media insist there is no story here and the real scandal is that Trump pressed Zelensky to reopen the investigation to target his strongest 2020 rival. Worse, say Trump’s accusers, would be if the president conditioned the transfer of $250 million in approved military aid to Kiev on the new regime’s acceding to his demands.
The questions raised are several:
Is it wrong to make military aid to a friendly nation conditional on that nation’s compliance with legitimate requests or demands of the United States? Is it illegitimate to ask a friendly government to look into what may be corrupt conduct by the son of a U.S. vice president?
Joe Biden has an even bigger problem: This issue has begun to dominate the news at an especially vulnerable moment for his campaign.
Biden’s stumbles and gaffes have already raised alarms among his followers and been seized upon by rivals such as Cory Booker, who has publicly suggested that the 76-year-old former vice president is losing it.
Biden’s lead in the polls also appears shakier with each month. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has just taken a narrow lead in a Des Moines Register poll and crusading against Beltway corruption is central to her campaign.
“Too many politicians in both parties have convinced themselves that playing the money-for-influence game is the only way to get things done,” Warren told her massive rally in New York City: “No more business as usual. Let’s attack the corruption head on.”
Soon, it will not only be Trump and Giuliani asking Biden questions ab[o]ut Ukraine, Burisma and Hunter, but Democrats, too. Calls are rising for Biden’s son to be called to testify before congressional committees.
With Trump airing new charges daily, Biden will be asked to respond by his traveling press. The charges and the countercharges will become what the presidential campaign is all about. Bad news for Joe Biden.
Can he afford to spend weeks, perhaps months, answering for his son’s past schemes to enrich himself through connections to foreign regimes that seem less related to Hunter’s talents than his being the son of a former vice president and possible future president?
“Ukraine-gate” is the latest battle in the death struggle between the “deep state” and a president empowered by Middle America to go to Washington and break that deep state’s grip on the national destiny.
Another issue is raised here — the matter of whistleblowers listening in to or receiving readouts of presidential conversations with foreign leaders and having the power to decide for themselves whether the president is violating his oath and needs to be reported to Congress.
Eisenhower discussed coups in Iran and Guatemala and the use of nuclear weapons in Korea and the Taiwan Strait. JFK, through brother Bobby, cut a secret deal with Khrushchev to move U.S. missiles out of Turkey six months after the Soviets removed their missiles from Cuba.
Who deputized bureaucratic whistleblowers to pass judgment on such conversations and tattle to Congress if they were offended?[6]
Next, award-winning investigative journalist John Solomon has written an article for The Hill, which is entitled “Let’s get real: Democrats were first to enlist Ukraine in US elections”:
Earlier this month, during a bipartisan meeting in Kiev, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) delivered a pointed message to Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelensky.
While choosing his words carefully, Murphy made clear — by his own account — that Ukraine currently enjoyed bipartisan support for its U.S. aid but that could be jeopardized if the new president acquiesced to requests by President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani to investigate past corruption allegations involving Americans, including former Vice President Joe Biden’s family.
Murphy boasted after the meeting that he told the new Ukrainian leader that U.S. aid was his country’s “most important asset” and it would be viewed as election meddling and “disastrous for long-term U.S.-Ukraine relations” to bend to the wishes of Trump and Giuliani.
“I told Zelensky that he should not insert himself or his government into American politics. I cautioned him that complying with the demands of the President’s campaign representatives to investigate a political rival of the President would gravely damage the U.S.-Ukraine relationship. There are few things that Republicans and Democrats agree on in Washington these days, and support for Ukraine is one of them,” Murphy told me today, confirming what he told Ukraine’s leader.
The implied message did not require an interpreter for Zelensky to understand: Investigate the Ukraine dealings of Joe Biden and his son Hunter, and you jeopardize Democrats’ support for future U.S. aid to Kiev.
The Murphy anecdote is a powerful reminder that, since at least 2016, Democrats repeatedly have exerted pressure on Ukraine, a key U.S. ally for buffering Russia, to meddle in U.S. politics and elections.
And that activity long preceded Giuliani’s discussions with Ukrainian officials and Trump’s phone call to Zelensky in July, seeking to have Ukraine formally investigate whether then-Vice President Joe Biden used a threat of canceling foreign aid to shut down an investigation into $3 million routed to the U.S. firm run by Biden’s son.
As I have reported, the pressure began at least as early as January 2016, when the Obama White House unexpectedly invited Ukraine’s top prosecutors to Washington to discuss fighting corruption in the country.
The meeting, promised as training, turned out to be more of a pretext for the Obama administration to pressure Ukraine’s prosecutors to drop an investigation into the Burisma Holdings gas company that employed Hunter Biden and to look for new evidence in a then-dormant criminal case against eventual Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, a GOP lobbyist.
U.S. officials “kept talking about how important it was that all of our anti-corruption efforts be united,” said Andrii Telizhenko, the former political officer in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington who organized and attended the meetings.
Nazar Kholodnytsky, Ukraine’s chief anti-corruption prosecutor, told me that, soon after he returned from the Washington meeting, he saw evidence in Ukraine of political meddling in the U.S. election. That’s when two top Ukrainian officials released secret evidence to the American media, smearing Manafort.
The release of the evidence forced Manafort to step down as Trump’s top campaign adviser. A Ukrainian court concluded last December that the release of the evidence amounted to an unlawful intervention in the U.S. election by Kiev’s government, although that ruling has since been overturned on a technicality.
Shortly after the Ukrainian prosecutors returned from their Washington meeting, a new round of Democratic pressure was exerted on Ukraine — this time via its embassy in Washington.
Valeriy Chaly, the Ukrainian ambassador to the United States at the time, confirmed to me in a statement issued by his office that, in March 2016, a contractor for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) pressed his embassy to try to find any Russian dirt on Trump and Manafort that might reside in Ukraine’s intelligence files.
The DNC contractor also asked Chaly’s team to try to persuade Ukraine’s president at the time, Petro Poroshenko, to make a statement disparaging Manafort when the Ukrainian leader visited the United States during the 2016 election.
Chaly said his embassy rebuffed both requests because it recognized they were improper efforts to get a foreign government to try to influence the election against Trump and for Hillary Clinton.
The political pressure continued. Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in crucial U.S. aid to Kiev if Poroshenko did not fire the country’s chief prosecutor. Ukraine would have been bankrupted without the aid, so Poroshenko obliged on March 29, 2016, and fired Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.
At the time, Biden was aware that Shokin’s office was investigating Burisma, the firm employing Hunter Biden, after a December 2015 New York Times article.
What wasn’t known at the time, Shokin told me recently, was that Ukrainian prosecutors were preparing a request to interview Hunter Biden about his activities and the monies he was receiving from Ukraine. If such an interview became public during the middle of the 2016 election, it could have had enormous negative implications for Democrats.
Democrats continued to tap Ukraine for Trump dirt throughout the 2016 election, my reporting shows.
Nellie Ohr, the wife of senior U.S. Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, worked in 2016 as a contractor for Fusion GPS, the same Hillary Clinton–funded opposition research firm that hired Christopher Steele, the British spy who wrote the now-debunked dossier linking Trump to Russia collusion.
Nellie Ohr testified to Congress that some of the dirt she found on Trump during her 2016 election opposition research came from a Ukrainian parliament member. She also said that she eventually took the information to the FBI through her husband — another way Ukraine got inserted into the 2016 election.
Politics. Pressure. Opposition research. All were part of the Democrats’ playbook on Ukraine long before Trump ever called Zelensky this summer. And as Sen. Murphy’s foray earlier this month shows, it hasn’t stopped.
The evidence is so expansive as to strain the credulity of the Democrats’ current outrage at Trump’s behavior with Ukraine.
Which raises a question: Could it be the Ukraine tale currently being weaved by Democrats and their allies in the media is nothing more than a smoke screen designed to distract us from the forthcoming Justice Department inspector general report into abuses during the Democratic-inspired Russia collusion probe?
It’s a question worth asking.[7]
“Ukraine-gate” and impeachment are simply the latest attempts by America’s Left to divert attention from their presidential candidates, who consist of misfits, freaks, racists and anti-Semites.
As these attacks on President Trump continue unabated and get even worse before next year’s elections, the country may be ripped apart and become more polarized than ever. When will the actual shooting begin, and open warfare commence like our last Civl War? Is it merely a matter of time? Can our great nation heal and survive from such trauma? If the past is any indicator of the future, the answer is “yes,” a resounding “yes,” but it will take time, perhaps lots of it—and there may be bloodshed aplenty.
And what are America’s enemies abroad thinking and doing? Like our last Civil War, they would be wise not to get involved, or to take any actions that would be adverse to those of the United States. This is true of China and North Korea; and it is especially true of Russia’s brutal dictator-for-life Vladimir Putin’s designs for all of Ukraine: “a key U.S. ally for buffering Russia,” to quote John Solomon.[8]
© 2019, Timothy D. Naegele
[1] Timothy D. Naegele was counsel to the United States Senate’s Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and chief of staff to Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal recipient and former U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass). He and his firm, Timothy D. Naegele & Associates, specialize in Banking and Financial Institutions Law, Internet Law, Litigation and other matters (see www.naegele.com and Timothy D. Naegele Resume-19-4-29). He has an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as two law degrees from the School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California, Berkeley, and from Georgetown University. He served as a Captain in the U.S. Army, assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon, where he received the Joint Service Commendation Medal (see, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commendation_Medal#Joint_Service). Mr. Naegele is an Independent politically; and he is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law, and Who’s Who in Finance and Business. He has written extensively over the years (see, e.g., www.naegele.com/whats_new.html#articles), and can be contacted directly at tdnaegele.associates@gmail.com
[2] See https://apnews.com/a9a0bed9f81343b7a725a9adcd84e01b (“Pelosi orders impeachment probe: ‘No one is above the law'”)
[3] See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2019/08/24/americas-left-is-vile-and-evil/ (“America’s Left Is Vile And Evil”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2019/07/29/barack-obama-is-responsible-for-americas-tragic-racial-divide/ (“Barack Obama Is Responsible For America’s Tragic Racial Divide”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2019/07/10/will-the-trump-presidency-conclude-in-2025/ (“Will The Trump Presidency Conclude In 2025?”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2019/07/02/is-putin-right/ (“Is Putin Right?”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2019/04/29/the-democrats-are-evil-but-smart-while-the-republicans-are-neanderthals-and-dumb/ (“The Democrats Are Evil But Smart, While The Republicans Are Neanderthals And Dumb”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2019/04/18/the-mueller-report-a-monumental-travesty/ (“The Mueller Report: A Monumental Travesty”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2019/02/06/the-state-of-our-union-2019/ (“The State Of Our Union, 2019”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2018/07/29/it-is-time-for-trump-supporters-to-fight-back/ (“It Is Time For Trump Supporters To Fight Back”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2018/07/20/the-american-lefts-feeding-frenzy/ (“The American Left’s Feeding Frenzy”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2018/06/15/the-department-of-injustices-inspector-general-is-complicit-in-the-deep-state-cover-up/ (“The Department Of Injustice’s Inspector General Is Complicit In The Deep-State Cover-Up!”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/24/should-barack-obama-be-executed-for-treason/ (“Should Barack Obama Be Executed For Treason?”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/11/robert-mueller-should-be-executed-for-treason/ (“Robert Mueller Should Be Executed For Treason”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/20/the-real-russian-conspiracy-barack-obama-the-clintons-and-the-sale-of-americas-uranium-to-russias-killer-putin/ (“The Real Russian Conspiracy: Barack Obama, The Clintons, And The Sale Of America’s Uranium To Russia’s Killer Putin”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2017/05/16/americas-newest-civil-war-2017-and-beyond/ (“America’s Newest Civil War: 2017 And Beyond”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2013/07/15/justice-and-the-law-do-not-mix/ (“Justice And The Law Do Not Mix”) (see also the extensive comments beneath each of these articles)
[4] See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/ulysses-s-grant-an-american-hero/ (“Ulysses S. Grant: An American Hero”)
[5] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_In_Name_Only (“Republican In Name Only”). Lots of us are ashamed of the fact that we voted for Romney and Ryan in the past.
[6] See https://buchanan.org/blog/will-ukraine-gate-imperil-bidens-bid-137533 (“Will ‘Ukraine-Gate’ Imperil Biden’s Bid?”); see also https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7492969/The-story-Bidens-son-Ukraine-Trumps-claims.html (“Hunter Biden got millions from overseas biz while his father was VP. Did Joe intervene to save him?”) and https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/sep/23/donald-trump-flips-ukraine-furor-joe-biden-son-hun/ (“Trump flips Ukraine furor on Biden, son”) and https://pagesix.com/2019/07/01/hunter-biden-started-dating-brothers-widow-right-after-crack-binge/ (“Hunter Biden started dating brother’s widow right after crack binge”) and https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/06/12/hunter-biden-married-los-angeles-woman-after-split-with-his-brothers-widow/ (“Hunter Biden’s messy personal life is back in the news. Will it cause political headaches for his dad?”)
[7] See https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/462658-lets-get-real-democrats-were-first-to-enlist-ukraine-in-us-elections (“Let’s get real: Democrats were first to enlist Ukraine in US elections”)
[8] See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/29/the-death-of-putin-and-russia-the-final-chapter-of-the-cold-war/ (“The Death Of Putin And Russia: The Final Chapter Of The Cold War”) (see also the extensive comments beneath the article)
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CORRUPTION FROM TEAM BIDEN
If America were to actually experience another “Civil War” the resulting chaos and internal divisions would likely prevent our involvement in any new foreign entanglements or foreign wars. While its true past leaders used war as a way to divert attention from domestic problems at home, I somehow don’t anticipate that happening with President Trump.
The current political skirmish over Hunter Biden’s lucrative salary from a Ukrainian Company is just evidence of corruption from Family Biden and is fair game, since President Obama’s Team ( FBI, CIA, NSA) illegally spied upon then Candidate Trump way back in 2016 and then smeared him with the Steele Dossier. Some even called Russia-gate and Mueller’s Inquiry an attempted coup by the “Deep State”.
President Trump is now just reciprocating and “doing in Rome what the Romans Do”. Now the tide has turned and President Trump is dishing-out a proper “political mugging” of candidate Joe Biden and it looks like Trump has Old Joe on the ropes, judging from all the wailing I hear in Congress about it recently.
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Thank you, Craig, for your comments.
My sense is that the Dems will beat the drums on this issue as long as it lasts, inter alia, because it is the “fig leaf” to move ahead with impeachment, and it undermines and potentially destroys the Biden candidacy. The latter factor is music to the ears of those who are running against him, and others who are convinced that Biden cannot beat Trump.
But see https://www.nysun.com/editorials/beware-impeachment-can-move-fast/90845/ (“Impeachment Can Move Fast, History Reminds”)
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THE NATURE OF CYCLICAL DECLINE IS HUMAN NATURE
( CORRUPTISMA)
“When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing ( City Permits ); when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors (Senator Joe Biden & Son Hunter ); when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work ( Senator Bernie Sanders), and your laws no longer protect you against them (political elites), but protect them against you ( a citizen). . . you may know that your society is doomed.”
“Atlas Shrugged” – Ayn Rand
p. 413 ; Francisco d’Anconia to Bertram Scudde
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Thank you again, Craig.
However, the fact is that “society” has progressed, not succumbed to decline.
Gone are the Mongol hordes that ravaged China, and the barbarians that overran Rome, and the Nazi stormtroopers who conquered Europe.
Gone too are Hitler, Stalin and Mao who killed millions.
In his prescient “Animal Farm,” George Orwell warned of the “Pigs” who began by declaring that all animals were equal, and then proceeded to subjugate their fellow animals and reign over them. Somehow, and with the grace of God, the Pigs have been held in check.
Aside from the Socialist wave that the Democrats would subject us to, there are the “eco-Nazis” who seek power and control; and perpetuating the hoax of man-made “global warming,” they too seek to control our lives.
Yet, all of these forces of darkness have been beaten back so far, and this must continue.
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Tim, are you familiar with Dan Bongino?
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Yes, Anne. I think he is quite good, and has gotten better as time has passed.
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Where Are The Republicans? Missing In Action Again?
Douglas Ernst has written in The Washington Times:
See https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/sep/25/mark-levin-where-the-hell-are-the-republicans-in-t/ (“Mark Levin: ‘Where the hell are the Republicans in the Senate’ as House Dems try to ‘destroy’ Trump“) (emphasis added); see also https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senate-republicans-split-over-trump-urging-ukrainian-leader-to-investigate-biden/ar-AAHPJyl?li=BBnbcA0 (“Senate Republicans split over Trump urging Ukrainian leader to investigate Biden“)
As I have stated many times, the Democrats are “evil” but smart, while the Republicans are “Neanderthals” and dumb. Nothing has changed that conclusion, which I reached when I was leaving the U.S. Senate.
I have been an Independent ever since, after having begun as a Democrat when I was old enough to vote.
It is my belief that Donald Trump will do what Abraham Lincoln did, when he was attacked from all sides: destroy the “enemy,” in no uncertain terms.
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WILL THE PENDULUM IN CALIF. SWING BACK AGAIN?
Republicans, especially in Calif. are status quo all the way. Never stick your neck out for anyone. So, what they really are around here is WHIMPS and RHINOS. Who wants them? The Democrats have gone way out in Left field and become more and more radicalized, not mainstream. Where is the political Middle nowadays? Its shrinking along with the Middle Class.
Its part of the long term political and social trend. Socialism is going to be coming in spades with the next financial crisis, whenever that happens and both parties will be on-board because nobody wants to be seen or perceived as “Herbert Hoover”. Hope its not on President Trump’s watch because he deserves better than that for his service. Our time as King of the Hill are numbered, not eternal. We think we are exceptional. Exceptionally foolish would be my appraisal of my fellow Californian. They live in their own bubbles.
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Thank you, Craig.
The Left Coast is lost at the moment, but there are lots of conservatives in the State who are waiting in the wings to take it back. Remember GOP Governors Ronald Reagan, George Deukmejian, Pete Wilson and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The radical Left and eco-Nazis control the State now, but the times may be a-changin’—in the future.
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The Totally-Despicable Mitt Romney: Shame [UPDATED]
Lots of us voted for Mitt Romney and his despicable RINO running mate Paul Ryan—who could not even carry his hometown for the Romney-Ryan ticket—and we are ashamed that we did so.
Washington Post reporter Robert Costa has reported at both the Post and the FAKE NEWS MSN:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senate-republicans-split-over-trump-urging-ukrainian-leader-to-investigate-biden/ar-AAHPJyl?li=BBnbcA0 (“Senate Republicans split over Trump urging Ukrainian leader to investigate Biden“) (emphasis added)
Mark Levin may have said it best:
Joe and Hunter Biden are finished, and should be prosecuted. Where are you hiding, Mitt? Missing in action (MIA).
See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2019/09/24/when-will-the-actual-shooting-begin-in-americas-second-civil-war/#comment-19954 (“Where Are The Republicans? Missing In Action Again?“); see also https://buchanan.org/blog/will-ukraine-gate-imperil-bidens-bid-137533 (“Will ‘Ukraine-Gate’ Imperil Biden’s Bid?”) and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7492969/The-story-Bidens-son-Ukraine-Trumps-claims.html (“Hunter Biden got millions from overseas biz while his father was VP. Did Joe intervene to save him?”) and https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/sep/23/donald-trump-flips-ukraine-furor-joe-biden-son-hun/ (“Trump flips Ukraine furor on Biden, son”) and https://pagesix.com/2019/07/01/hunter-biden-started-dating-brothers-widow-right-after-crack-binge/ (“Hunter Biden started dating brother’s widow right after crack binge”) and https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/06/12/hunter-biden-married-los-angeles-woman-after-split-with-his-brothers-widow/ (“Hunter Biden’s messy personal life is back in the news. Will it cause political headaches for his dad?”) and https://www.nysun.com/national/the-unforgiven-joe-biden-is-haunted-by-bork/90854/ (“The Unforgiven: Joe Biden Is Haunted by Bork”—”Biden . . . was ‘wrong on nearly every foreign policy and national security issue in the past four decades'”—”Joe Biden is an ostentatious Roman Catholic who appears to disbelieve in practically every tenet of his church except, presumably, that God exists, Jesus Christ was divine, and he told St. Peter to found a church. Apart from that, it’s open house. That there was a creation, that all life is sacred, that abortions, whether a matter of right or not, are the extinction of life, the notion that marriage was created as an institution between a man and a woman: Whenever anything touching on these or similarly important issues arises, he emits a damp little mantra about ‘I don’t believe in imposing my views in others'”—”[T]here has always been the unpleasant feeling that he doesn’t believe in much, what he believes in one day could change tomorrow, and when he takes a stand, he’s often mistaken”—”Asking about Mr. Biden’s conduct in Ukraine is called digging up dirt, while hurling malicious falsehoods at the president is ‘investigating.’ Democratic House chairmen Schiff and Nadler and the shrieking heads at CNN and MSNBC traduce and slander the president constantly. But when Rudolph Giuliani, the former two-term mayor of New York and U.S attorney, acting as the president’s lawyer, makes allegations based on his research on behalf of his client, Mr. Biden has the gigantic vanity to ask publicly that he be kept off the air”—”[T]he other candidates are delighted that Mr. Biden’s candidacy is fading. He has been a significant impediment to merging the Democratic party with the Flat Earth Society and the Leon Trotsky League”—”A miracle — something Joe Biden probably actually believes in, since it’s not politically incorrect — is all that can prevent Joe Biden from sliding back toward what he was in his pre-vice presidential campaigns: a candidate polling 1% or 2%, like most of those running now”)
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You have gone so far over the edge [R extremist] since I began getting your newsletters in the 2000s. What happened to you?
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Thank you for your comment.
The fact is that I am an Independent, and have been since I left the U.S. Senate, after having watched both political parties up close, and based on personal experiences.
I began as a Democrat in a devoutly-Republican family, and then left that party when friends of mine were killed in the senseless Vietnam War because of the decisions of Lyndon Johnson and his Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara. I became a Republican; however, the more I saw of them, the more convinced I became that the GOP was not my party either.
I lived through Watergate, which was breaking wide open just as I was leaving the Senate. I saw how it ripped open the fabric of our great nation, and pitted friends and loved ones against each other. My sense today is that what we will witness in the months to come will be very similar to the Vietnam War and Watergate eras.
I love this country, and no other. I want to see it flourish, and all Americans benefit. However, I am very concerned about the months to come, and the effects they will have on America, and how our enemies abroad view us and our vulnerabilities—which they may seek to exploit.
Political pundit Dick Morris believes that many Democrats in Congress are fearful of attacks from their Left, and losing in their primaries; and hence, Nancy Pelosi has embarked on impeachment to give them cover.
See http://www.dickmorris.com/why-the-dems-are-hellbent-to-impeach-lunch-alert/ (“Why The Dems Are Hellbent To Impeach”); see also https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-09-26/trump-impeachment-voters-national-mood (“Impeach Trump? An America filled with anger and animosity digs in”) and https://www.studyfinds.org/a-nation-divided-u-s-politics-taking-physical-emotional-toll-on-americans/ (“A Nation Divided: U.S. Politics Taking Physical, Emotional Toll On Americans – Study Finds”)
He may be correct. However, the larger issue—which they seem blind to see—is that the country may be ripped apart to a much greater extent than even during the Vietnam War and Watergate. The Democrats and their captive far-Left media and the “Deep State” are determined to end the presidency of Donald Trump. However, they do not realize, much less fully, how strongly other Americans feel about him and his presidency.
Abraham Lincoln was hated by a large segment of America, yet he persevered and saved the nation. The United States today may be approaching a similar juncture, pitting brothers against brothers and sisters against sisters. The Trump faithful have watched Barack Obama and his fellow co-conspirators attempt to destroy the candidacy and then the presidency of Donald Trump—which is an attempted coup, and treasonous and seditious. Yet, no one has been indicted, convicted and gone to prison.
The rule of law in America has been turned on its head; and vast numbers of Americans are very angry. Some are angry that Trump was ever elected in the first place, while others—in vast numbers—are angry that the Left has tried to destroy the Trump presidency and nullify their votes.
And yes, I do compare these times to those faced by Lincoln. As I began the article above, I stated clearly and emphatically:
I believe this completely.
And I wrote years ago:
See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/america-a-rich-tapestry-of-life/ (“America: A Rich Tapestry Of Life”)
I believe this fervently today as well. However—and perhaps it is an overreaction—I am deeply concerned that the United States is heading toward its second Civil War. Also, I do not see anything on the horizon that will bring us together again as one nation.
If we are moving toward a new Civil War, will it become a shooting war? Quite possibly. I do not discount that outcome at all.
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Lastly, this is not like a football game or other sporting event, where if our favored team loses we are disappointed or even “heartbroken,” but we move on to another day. This is about the future and survival of our great nation, and of the American people. Get it wrong, and our offspring’s future may be dark beyond comprehension. We have enemies who would like to destroy us, in an instant.
See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/emp-attack-only-30-million-americans-survive/ (“EMP Attack: Only 30 Million Americans Survive”) (see also the extensive comments beneath the article)
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Well written Tim.. I wholeheartedly agree.
I’m not sure if Trump will survive this latest BS attack, or if it will help him.. The democrats are truly off the rails… Seems as though they are capable of anything, at this point.
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I believe the President will survive and possibly flourish. He is a street fighter, who was raised in your “neck of the woods.”
On some level, his anger will spur him on, and allow him to triumph, or so I believe.
As I have said many times, the Democrats are “evil” but smart, while the Republicans are “Neanderthals” and dumb. The carpetbagging RINO Mitt Romney may be the worst of them all.
See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2019/09/24/when-will-the-actual-shooting-begin-in-americas-second-civil-war/#comment-19961 (“The Totally-Despicable Mitt Romney: Shame”)
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The Despicable Mitt Romney Must Be Driven From The GOP [UPDATED]
McKay Coppins has written in The Atlantic:
See https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/10/mitt-romney-middle-impeachment-fight/600373/ (“The Liberation of Mitt Romney“) (emphasis added): see also https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2019/09/24/when-will-the-actual-shooting-begin-in-americas-second-civil-war/#comment-19961 (“The Totally-Despicable Mitt Romney: Shame”)
“At the trial”? Is this pompous ass, Romney, kidding? Hopefully he hears it at his own impeachment trial, and that he is removed from the U.S. Senate.
Second, there is nothing honorable about Mitt Romney. He is a bitter, carpetbagging loser and fool, who should be run out of his adopted state of Utah, and removed from the Senate. He is a disgrace.
Third, lots of us are ashamed that we ever voted for him and his equally-despicable running mate, Paul Ryan. At best, they are RINOs, or “Republicans In Name Only,” and the party must be cleansed of their likes.
Fourth, Romney is petty and jealous that he never accomplished even a fraction of what Donald Trump accomplished in business, and that he never became President of the United States, and never will.
Lastly, the one title that he will live with until he dies is “loser,” which should be the epitaph written on his tombstone.
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Never one to mince with words, our President described Romney and others as follows:
See https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/republicans-never-trump-gop-human-scum/2019/10/23/id/938377/ (“Trump: ‘Never Trumper Republicans Are Human Scum'”); see also https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/10/senator_pierre_delecto_ends_the_career_of_senator_mitt_romney.html (“Senator Pierre Delecto ends the career of Senator Mitt Romney“)
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