Leave it to Neil Boortz (@talkmaster) to nail it.
Business & Economics
Comments on the passing scene
Trump was in the UK this past week. By most accounts, he had a good trip. Even the UK media, no friends of Trump or the U.S., ended with some positive comments on the trip. The U.S. legacy media, not so much.
Andrew Klavan has a great article at the Daily wire exposing the political left’s posing while all hell breaks loose in the cities, states and countries they control. https://www.dailywire.com/news/48152/klavan-leftists-virtue-pose-while-their-cities-die-andrew-klavan “More and more, the left is spouting a rhetoric of high, moral-sounding fantasies to distract from the ruinous havoc their policies wreak on the real world” he writes. Hard to argue when you look at what is happening around the world. He ends his piece perfectly:
“The left spends an awful lot of energy trying to get conservatives to shut up. Political correctness, deplatforming, demonetizing, blacklisting, outrage mobs, boycotts — all dedicated to making sure that they alone get to do the talking.
But you know what? The right doesn’t even need words to make the point anymore. Just go to the Democrat-governed cities. Look out the window. Walk the streets.”
The Speech Millennials Need to Listen to
J.J. Watts’ commencement speech at University of Wisconsin was one for the ages. It is amazing that a young man could have such wisdom. If the future is filled with more like him then we’re in good hands.
The Deep State vs. Us
What we have witnessed since Trump’s election in late 2016, is an attempted destruction of our republic. Outrageous right? Well, when you look through the details of exactly how the Deep State attempted to accomplish its goal of eliminating Trump, it becomes very clear there was no consideration of the impact this would have on the republic. With the advent of social media, the lies and misreprestations leaked to the legacy media outlets, spread like fires through a dry forest pitting citizens against citizens.
Glenn Reynolds (a/k/a Instapundit) recently published a book “The Social Media Upheaval” in which he outlines how devastating impact such organizations have on society. As he points out , part of the problem with the social media organizations is their monopoly often allows them to “selectively silence some those voices and amplify others.” While we all expect the truth to win out most of the time, a truth never heard cannot supplant a lie told and rebroadcasted a million times on social media.
Dems with Bylines. Not Journalists
That a lot of journalists did not recognize those pictures from the unaccompanied minors surge in 2014 and shared the story assuming it depicted a new practice under Trump seems like pretty clear evidence that they didn’t do their jobs during the Obama years.
— James Hasson (@JamesHasson20) May 28, 2018
Exactly!
Former ‘CYA’ Director Clapper said they were spying on Trump to protect him. We know who they are/were trying to protect and it’s not or has it ever been Trump! #ThursdayThoughts pic.twitter.com/3DSz554nVv
— Feisty☀️Floridian (@peddoc63) May 24, 2018
Media and its Defense Of Obama Admin Spying
David Harsanyi‘s column at the Federalist lays out the arguments made by the media, and then destroys them. It is amazing the level of gymnastic maneuvers the media is going to in order to justify the unjustifiable. CNN’s Chris Cillizza uses the Democrat and media talking points attempting to justify what the Obama administration did. Cillizza and the media don’t like the word spy, but what else do you call it?
At the end of the day, we all want nothing more than for the facts to come out so we, the public, can make up our own minds on whose the culprits and who the victims are. The relentless stonewalling by the FBI and the media’s continued harping of Democrat talking points can lead you to jump to conclusions. However, we choose to let the facts drive us.
Russian Collusion Narrative Turns into Democrat Politics as Usual
We’ve been pretty silent over the last six months as we have set back and watched this Trump-Russia collusion theater unfold. Where are we now? Well, we know that there was Russian collusion, but it was not with Trump. It was with Hillary and her campaign. Further, we can surmise that the Obama administration knew all of this and decided to open an investigation to do nothing but harm the other party. Andy McCarthy has great piece today at NRO on this. Read it all.
Left Corrupts the Most Venerable Institution in a Very Short Period of Time.
The Washington Times reports that former FBI Director James Comey started writing his exoneration speech on the Clinton email scandal prior to meeting/interviewing key witnesses, including Clinton herself. The article quotes a portion of a letter to the FBI from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Judiciary Subcommittee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.,
“Conclusion first, fact-gathering second — that’s no way to run an investigation. The FBI should be held to a higher standard than that, especially in a matter of such great public interest and controversy,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Judiciary Subcommittee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.”
If the facts are validated you can conclude two things: 1) the FBI has moved from law enforcement to politics and should be disbanded and started anew and 2) the Left can corrupt even the most venerable of our institutions in a very short period of time.
Where do they go next?
Henry Racette has a post over at Ricochet posing the interesting question of where the Trump haters go next. After all, Trump has been accused of everything, but once you’ve accused a man of being a Nazi sympathizer, where do you go from there? If you’re a fevered anti-Trumper bent on finding something with which to smear the man, how do you top “Nazi?”