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Friday, March 4, 2022

The great weasel-word gaslight: The Jan. 6 commission finds nothing on Trump

Liz Cheney's Jan. 6 commission is starting to look stupid.

Like the clown's outfit that tried to pin impeachment articles on President Trump over utterly nothing, as well as the grotesque fabulists of the Steele dossier who invented and peddled outright lies to manipulate U.S. law enforcement into taking action against Trump, there's no there there, zero substance, and as the truth gets out, they once again look like an awfully sorry bunch.

They've been trying for years to "prove" that Trump is guilty of something, and this current Jan. 6 effort is once again demonstrating their capacity for pratfalls.

Here are two breathy headlines that ran in the last couple days from the New York Times:

May? Did I just see the word "may" in that March 2 headline? What's the counterpart of "may"? Yes, the term is "may not" — which means they don't know for sure. Commissions like this are appointed to supposedly sort out the facts and come to a jury-like conclusion. If all they can conclude from this joke investigation, which has excluded significant witnesses and details in the interest of promoting the Democrat agenda, is the word "may" — and its invisible counterpart "may not" — then they don't have jack.

But wait, they are still trying. Here's their March 3 weasel word of the day:

Did I just see the word "narrative" — as in, tying lots of events together for the press as a thesis, to keep other events from getting out? Narrative is a weasel word, a syrup in which gamy facts float in the interest of promoting the Democrat agenda. Don't ever call that a juridical-style conclusion of actual facts. Narrative is spin. But ignore the top part of the tweet because an even bigger weasel word is below in the headline. Notice the word "suggest"? Reporters use that weasel word when they know they can't say some variant of the word "is." They do that to avoid libel lawsuits. The Times knew that it couldn't use any better word than "suggest" because once again, the Jan. 6 commission doesn't have the goods.

The Times then followed with a butt-covering story, citing "experts" to point out that there really isn't a case here at all:

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Video: Avowed communist US Army vet joins Russian forces fighting Ukraine

An avowed communist from Texas and U.S. Army veteran is fighting for the Russian army in Ukraine, according to a video posted by the man who said he was currently “on the front with Russian troops.”

Russell “Texas” Bentley shared a video on social media showing himself apparently among Russian fighters in Ukraine after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his army to invade the neighboring nation.

In the video, Bentley says something in Russian before adding, “It’s Texas on the front line with the de-Nazifiers and the liberators of Ukraine. These guys are tough, these guys are ready, and there’s plenty of them. So far, Russia has used about 10 percent of its military power and we’re getting ready to bring the hammer down.”

“These guys are going to save and liberate all of the good people in Ukraine, and the bad people,” he continues, kicking into the air, “Boom! Kick their ass.”

Texas Monthy reported that Bentley first traveled to Ukraine in December 2014 and joined the Russian militia group the Vostok Battalion, which was led by Alexander Khodakovsky, who was later sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department “for being responsible for or complicit in actions or policies that threaten the peace, security, stability, sovereignty, or territorial integrity of Ukraine.”

After a couple of weeks of training, Bentley was assigned to a unit called Sut’ Vremeni, or “Essence of Time,” described by Texas Monthly as a Stalinist communist movement.

“Texas showed himself to be a good, hardy fighter, and an excellent machine gunner,” Sut’ Vremeni’s newspaper once stated.

Bentley’s self-identification as a communist began during a trip to Cuba in the 1990s, the outlet reported, during a dinner with a captain in the Cuban army.

“Well, I’m a communist,” the captain said after Bentley referred to himself as a socialist.

“What’s the difference?” Bentley asked.

“A communist is someone who is willing to fight for socialism,” she responded.

After a moment’s consideration, Bentley said, “Then I’m a communist too. I’m willing to fight for...

Visage à trois #95

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Trump loyalists get it about Gov. Ron DeSantis. You can be foursquare committed to a candidate and still understand the prudence of having good potential prospects in the wings.

The Florida governor guided his state through COVID-19 with the kind of resolute leadership and anti-propagandist wisdom that left the Democrats floundering in their baldly partisan display of crisis-conserving overreach. Though they are loathe to admit it, the Blue State firmament now grasps how fully their pandemic ploy is exposed; DeSantis stands as a leader who got the response to COVID right.

DeSantis may have come in a distant second in the CPAC poll, but he was second. He routinely shows evidence of the kind of good-sense decision-making and political savvy that could someday secure the White House for Republicans. His admonition to “stop the mask theater” — addressed to schoolchildren but aimed squarely at the “adults” in the room — was an off-the-cuff, spontaneous public relations masterstroke.

Free the children from this madness. Trump loyalists must wonder if, in the same set of circumstances, even 45 would have done that.

So, appoint Gov. DeSantis as heir apparent. While he is definitely his own man, crown him the successor to Trump’s America First movement. It is already happening.

And yet as much as some in the GOP wish the era of Trump to be gone — some with personal grievance issues and some with valid concerns about Trump and the future of the party — there’s a much-too-compelling storyline surrounding the former president and a deep-seated sense of the need for political justice.
Even if you concede that Biden fairly won the election (a stretch of Herculean proportions), there was nonetheless a concerted and extralegal effort to undo Trump’s presidency, a collusive plot that reached to the highest levels of government. No matter the sterling credentials of Ron DeSantis or any other worthy contender, it is going to be hard, probably impossible, for the Trump Troops to let that go without a fight to the finish. Unless Trump declines to run, a prospect which seems less likely with each news cycle, he will get his chance to avenge what was done to him and his millions of supporters.

A 2024 rematch is the stuff of legend, of myth. Trump’s ascendance is already enshrined as one of the most singular developments in...

Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #271

Is your toddler 'forming' racist 'attitudes'? This professor says talk to your kids before it's too late.

'Just because you haven’t heard your child say anything prejudiced does not mean that those attitudes are not forming,' Perry argues.

A Northwestern University psychology professor is pushing for parents to talk to their children about systemic racism as early as preschool, criticizing the “colorblind” approach to teaching kids that race does not matter.

Professor Sylvia Perry told Northwestern Now that parents need to be having conversations about race with their children as soon as “your child can have a conversation with you.”

“Just because you haven’t heard your child say anything prejudiced does not mean that those attitudes are not forming," Perry alleges.

Instead of taking a “passive approach,” on race Perry says, parents need to be “talking to their children about the history of and existence of racism within this country, the social construction of race, and the systemic biases that contribute to racial inequality.”

Through her research, Perry advocates for parents no longer teaching their kids about race by using a “colorblind approach- in which they emphasize a belief that race does not matter” but instead taking a “color conscious approach- in which they acknowledge race-related issues.”

“White parents have the potential to be agents of change that socialize color-conscious beliefs in their children, but many are reinforcing the current system of color-blind indifference to...

In the end it doesn’t matter whether Biden was deluded or diabolical. Come November, Americans will rightfully blame him for willfully damaging their lives.

The Democrats will suffer historic losses in the November midterms.

This disaster for their party will come about not just because of the Afghanistan debacle, an appeased Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the destruction of the southern border, the supply chain mess, or their support for critical race theory demagoguery.

The culprit for the political wipeout will be out-of-control inflation—and for several reasons.

First, the Biden Administration is in such denial of inflation that it sounds to Americans simply callous and indifferent to the misery it has unleashed.

Biden officials have scoffed at price spikes as “transitory.” Or they have preposterously claimed spiraling costs are a concern only to the elite. They blame the Ukraine crisis. Or they fault the out-of-office bogeyman, Donald Trump.

The administration assures us that consumer prices are only rising at an annualized rate of 7.5 percent—as if the steepest increase in 40 years actually is not all that bad.

Yet the middle class knows that inflation is far worse when it comes to the stuff of life: buying a house, car, gas, meat, or lumber.

Second, inflation is an equal opportunity destroyer of dreams. It undermines rich and poor, Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals. It unites all tribes, all ideologies, all politics against those who are perceived to have birthed the monstrous octopus that squeezes everything and everyone it touches.

The conservative passbook holder sees his meager life savings eaten away. The liberal teacher’s car payments stretch from six to 10 years.

The prospective Republican home buyer sees his hard-earned potential down payment eaten away each month. The Democratic carpenter feels his new higher wages buy even less.

Third, inflation is ubiquitous, inescapable, omnipotent—and humiliating. It destroys personal dignity. And its toxicity is insidious, sort of like seeping, odorless, colorless, but nevertheless lethal carbon monoxide.

Unlike now-unpopular critical race theory, it cannot be avoided for a day. You cannot tune it out like one does the mess in Afghanistan or the now nonexistent southern border. Inflation attacks everyone in 24/7, 360-degree fashion.

It belittles you at the gas station. It downsizes you at the food market. It humiliates you in the obscene real estate market. It makes you look stupid when you are paying for a new car. It ridicules you when you buy lumber. Suddenly you apologize that you really cannot afford your child’s braces.

Fourth, inflation undermines a civil and ordered society. It unleashes a selfish “every man for himself” mentality, the Hobbesian cruelty of a “war of all against all.”

Inflation is the economic and emotional equivalent of smash-and-grab or carjacking. It is a brazen robber in broad daylight that so infuriates Americans by its boldness. It convinces them their very civilization is...