Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Marcy is terrified by what was exposed today and is making a valiant, if hysterical, effort to sandbag and divert attention from what was revealed. The FBI/DOJ were forced to admit they never had any forensic evidence from the servers that were supposedly hacked showing it was a Russian operation. All they saw were CrowdStrike draft reports minus pages of redaction they were denied to see. Marcy tries to claim she knows what was in those redactions but that is impossible and then excuses the DNC's refusal to turn over the servers for a proper crime investigation because Crooked Hillary was under FBI investigation for her server crimes.
Much of the Collusion Delusion was based on the repeated claim, sold as a fact, that there was real evidence the Russians hacked the DNC/Podesta servers to help Trump but we now know that there was no properly vetted evidence that this occurred, only an incomplete draft report from a hired servant of the DNC.
Whatever you think of Julian Assange he has never been shown to have lied when questioned about his work and he denies the DNC/Podesta emails came from Russia. The true identity of who supplied these emails may be the only valuable thing he has to trade with prosecutors in his upcoming trial.
by Peter (not verified) on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 12:38am
Terrified is the last word I'd use to describe that essay. Didn't anyone other than a few commenters here tell you how much your florid hyperbole sucks? How it has much in common with Trump's idiotic fantasy narratives? How it just plain turns readers off to anything you are saying? What is the purpose of imagining writers in role play that way?
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 1:26am
P.S. You could be of use and make up for insulting our intelligence by letting us in on the new conspiracy explanations for what's going on at Fox News:
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 2:38am
Mattis, who resigned because he thought we trampled on Allies (take note, Peter, roughly same complaint as Tillerson), so Trump in spite pushed him out 2 months early, but 6 months later still hasn't officially nominated a replacement (note that a temporary expires after 1 year - December - and I'd doubt he could then place another temporary). If it weren't to purposefully destroy our government, I'd call Trump incompetent. Instead he's just rogue.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/21/mattis-did-what-no...
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 3:10am
It's comforting to know I can depend on my favorite commie to go Alinsky on me to avoid facing the facts hiding in my florid hyperbole.
I've read and commented on everything Marcy has written in the last 10 years and have sadly watched her devolve from someone I respected, who seemed to be honestly seeking the truth, into a shrieking partisan, police state loving, political hack. She also has a very unhealthy hate fixation on the Man With Two Dicks that may cause her some financial pain and humiliation in the future.
Marcy along with others of her ilk have spent tha last two years ramrodding a false narrative predicated on a criminal hoax and they knew it was a fraud from the beginning if not soon after. I've waded through her faulty analysis and week after week seen her predictions and assumptions fail to produce the coup that would ease the butt-hurt of Trump's victory and restore the elite postmodern rule of men.
It's been a long and painful wait but the tide has turned exposing the demonic corruption that plagues our republic to the light of day and with a little luck justice and the rule of law will prevail.
by Peter (not verified) on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 12:16pm
I am far from a commie by any definition of the term.
Glad to see you admitting what your florid hyperbole does.
That is all.
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 4:10pm
It worked for the promoters of the "Protocols of Zion" narrative, for a little while.
This is the cleaned up identity-free version suitable for use in the curriculum of the Bannon Academy.
It is about the survival of a virus, not persuasion of independent thinkers. You (and whoever) are not independent thinkers by default.
Could you hold my Tiki torch? I need to tie my shoes.....
by moat on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 5:26pm
I was thinking along the lines of: if there's no drama in your life, you better rustle some up by imagining some, see Bartleby the Scrivener?
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 8:54pm
Bartleby never expressed a fear of being replaced.
Josh Marshall pointed to a disturbing excerpt from Trump's rally:
"Our radical Democrat opponents are driven by hatred, prejudice and rage. They want to destroy you and they want to destroy our country as we know it."
That is what is inside of every narrative, fretting anxiously to get out.
by moat on Wed, 06/19/2019 - 11:32am
Absoutely, it's the victimhood thing. As far as I am concerned, it's been the # 1 Trump thing all along: co-opting the oppressed message. Because for 50 years it's made their blood boil to be told that they've had preferences they've got to atone for, by stuff like supporting other tribes going to college and paying for their food stamps, saying sorry when they use the word words, even tho their grandfather came to this country with two cents in his pocket and worked hard for everything he got, yadda yadda... Finally someone figured out how to get back at "them": turn the tables and join the victim olympics. He stokes it all the time, tired of being dissed. Those are exactly the people who go to the rallies, he's their hero for supposedly thinking that up. Pitchfork Pat et. al. didn't do that, didn't do the victim thing, he did "America IS great" not "make America great again."
Is the same with current populist movements allover the world: the global liberal elite have oppressed us.
Edit to add: I was thinking of Peter Unverified alone, not the whole Trump mob. Though he obviously has "resentment" of snowflakes, he thinks he's smarter than them, not a victim of them.
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/19/2019 - 12:19pm
Trump is a genius too. No need to choose between arrogance and fear. They both undergird bad behavior.
I look at it in terms of association. WH Auden said it best:
" A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason."
from Don Juan
by moat on Wed, 06/19/2019 - 1:31pm
Aren't all demagogues "geniuses" though--usually in an idiot savant, intuitive kind of way--isn't that part of their job description? They got their pulse on the grievance, whatever it is. And they manipulate using the fear thing.
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/19/2019 - 2:16pm
The prosecutors described the redactions in detail, from incredibly minor to low percentage. You're lying again, brown nose.
And yes, Assange has lied again and again about his work, as well as his ugly juvenile poll about what disease Hillary might have - note: 3 years later she seems much healthier than you, as you're continuously afflicted with ranting dementia.
Try again? Or should we get you some training wheels?
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 2:19am
M Wheeler doesn't have to guess at what is behind the redactions. She quotes the prosecutors who tell the court the scope of the evidence:
So far, Stone has lost everyone of his motions. Your breathless certainty of his impending vindication is cute.
by moat on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 7:53am
like musick, moat often hath words to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 4:44pm
I'm saddened to hear that you need help tying your shoes today but the effects of stage 6 TDS are profound and apparently permanent. The groupthink... [yadda yadda, Peter's vapid propaganda conspiracy talk deleted - you're not getting a platform for this bullshit on my watch - PP]
by Peter (not verified) on Wed, 06/19/2019 - 1:26pm
PP, you're a sad pompous little stooge and I was correcting Moat's misinformation so MYOB. If you are allergic to facts and reality go see a shrink.
by Peter (not verified) on Wed, 06/19/2019 - 10:10pm
Gosh if that isn't that the most impressive retort to (unpaid, volunteer) moderation evah. Dale Carnegie himself couldn't do better.
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/19/2019 - 10:19pm
He left me hanging - am I Moe, Curly, or (shudders) Shemp? Woop woop woop...
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 06/20/2019 - 3:18pm
Excerpt of text:
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 8:58pm
Yeah, Friedman's good to have on the Twitter roll - Marcy notes the Stone filing is kess a filing and more a way to reveal the contents of a doc that's sequestered. the Shanahan background seems wild too:
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 06/19/2019 - 1:43am