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Media Still Doesn't Realize Who They're Dealing With

We've spent the last few days (and probably will most of this coming week) watching the usual suspects in the media as they attempted to knock down or explain away Donald Trump's wiretapping claims. What I suspect the media doesn't understand is Donald Trump is playing a different game, a game using their own rules against them.

Let's start with the key word "legally." They keep going over the ways Obama could have wiretapped Trump in a legal manner. Who said anything about legal? Donald J. Trump has never said that Obama wiretapped him legally. It's funny to see the way the useful idiots talking heads all blow past this point as if this dick Obama was beyond something like that.

One example was the little weasel from The Washington Post, E. J. Dionne: 

"It appears that Trump issued his wild tweet storm Saturday morning largely on the basis of reports in conspiracy-minded right-wing media. He signaled his lack of evidence first by reportedly pushing his White House staff to ransack sensitive intelligence information to find support for his claim. Then on Sunday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Trump wanted Congress to look into the matter and that the administration would offer no further comment. Trump has a problem either way. If he was not wiretapped, he invented a spectacularly false charge. And if a court ordered some sort of surveillance of him, on what grounds did it do so?" 

"Trump has a problem either way," Dionne says, working from DNC script as usual. He imagines only two possibilities: 1) Trump didn't get wiretapped at all, and  2) Trump got wiretapped legally, with "a court ordering some sort of surveillance of him."

Believe it or not, E. J. Dionne graduated summa cum laude from Harvard. But because he was working from script, he didn't consider the obvious third possibility. It's hard to believe that we will hear it bandied about only on right-wing talk shows:  3) Trump was wiretapped illegally, by a gang of "plumbers."

Earth to six- and seven-figure journalists: Donald J. Trump is playing a game it's fairly easy for him to win, at least within his own tribe. As a general matter, neither Barack Obama, nor anyone else, can prove that he didn't engage in a certain action. If Trump wants to claim that Obama sent in a gang of plumbers, no one will ever be able to prove that it didn't happen. For this reason, there's only one approach to take to claims of this type. You have to note that the accuser, in this case, Donald Trump, has offered zero evidence in support of his claim. Zero evidence; none at all.

You need to draw attention to that fact, and to very few others. But alas! In the hands of our under-skilled cable talkers, we've already seen Trump's wiretap claim end up seeming more credible.

The media pundits have peddled bullshit for many, many years. They've carried water for decades for very some shaky accusers. They're much more practiced at selling bullshit than at knocking it down. They have little experience at trying to ferret the truth. They're mainly skilled at reciting script, not at challenging demagoguery, on which their own engine runs. They're good on Q-ratings, makeup and clothes, but still not that, just as no one "ordered tax" in the famous old joke, Donald Trump hasn't said squat about "legal." 

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The President can technically request a warrant to gather information via wiretap, but it still has to go through the process. Obama couldn't authorize it on his own. The Attorney General still has to sign off and the FISA judge still has to authorize the warrant. If the wiretapping did happen, everyone is under the assumption this was all done above board and legal. But we're talking about Democrats here, remember?

Critics say Trump's wiretap claim is baseless, but what is truly lacking in solid evidence is the claim that there was some sort of collusion between Trump or his aides and Russian officials to hijack the election. Yet that's all Trump's foes (and much of the press) want to talk about. Remember, too: Team Obama has a record of abusing power for political gain, as when the IRS targeted conservative groups.

At this point, it's hard to know for sure if Trump Tower was actually bugged, and if so, who authorized the tapping and why. But given Team Obama's record,  and the never-ending bid to overturn the election, there's little doubt why Trump might think the worst."

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Now He Has Really Done It! Babs Blames Trump for Her Fat Ass

Looking past the Quarts of Vodka and the Gallons of Yogurt, we can't have a leader who makes Hollywood legends fat, now can we? According to the Hollywood Reporter, Barbara Streisand blames Donald Trump for her recent massive weight gain. She tweeted out the news that the president has affected her morning routine.

I guess Babs hasn't come to the realization that when you're stupid, being ugly And fat doesn't really matter anyway. We feel for ya, though. Sit back and have four or five BLTs and a Martini or two.  It will all be over in ...oh...7 years and 11 months......

They Are Oh-So Clever.

"Clearly, evil Russian geniuses have developed a crystal ball which can predict US elections with much greater accuracy than our multi-billion dollar pollster business.  In addition, the Russians have a diplomatic corps whose members automatically recruit any Republican politician with whom they make contact. The Russians, apparently, knew years ago that Trump would win the 2016 elections and put all of their eggs in that basket. 

They suborned and blackmailed Trump and his closest associates, bankrolled his campaign through laundered mobster money via Trump Tower, and even, just to nail things down, got the DNC to write horribly incriminating emails protected with clever passwords such as Podesta's email password "Password."  The Russians somehow managed to get thousands of US labor union members to vote Trump and take down the "Blue Wall." - Diplomad 2.0 

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Please Help Us Identify the Mysterious Man Sharing a Krispy Kreme with Chuck Schumer in this Photo

Here's what we know.  In the photo below, Chuck Schumer appears with an unidentified foreign personage of some sort. They're eating donuts at a Kirspy Kreme. We assume everything is on the up and up, because Schumer is obviously a person of the highest moral character, but we'd still like to know who his companion is.  He looks kind of familiar, but we just can't seem to place the face.  

Here's the picture in question:

We're trying to do a little forensic work to determine the identity of this mysterious man. As you know, Schumer (a Clinton campaign surrogate) has called for Jeff Sessions to resign immediately over alleged - but utterly unproven collusion with Russia.

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Chuck and Nancy: The New Punks

Burning Jeff Session

News of AG Jeff Session's supposed illegal contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak came from a New York Times story stating that officials under former President Barack Obama had sent information throughout government about potential Russian contact with Trump's associates and interference in the 2016 election. The officials did so in order to preserve the information after Obama left office.  

Two days before Trump's inauguration, the State Department sent Sen. Ben Cardin (D -MD.) the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a batch of documents related to Russian attempts to meddle in elections worldwide. Cardin spokesman Sean Bartlett told news media that the senator had received the classified documents on request and that they were shared with both Republican and Democratic committee staffers.

This Information remains classified.

I'm not buying any of this present Bullshit.  If there was known hacking of Hillary's emails believed to be the Russians (we all know they came from inside) then why was nothing leaked during the campaign on Trump if U.S. intelligence/FBI had compiled all this info the Russians were influencing election worldwide? Because Trump couldn't win.

I'm saying this is payback. You can argue Donald Trump's criticism of the Intel community was not such a wise thing to do or not, but with Barky remaining in D.C. and at the helm of a not so underground resistance movement, combined with a some segments of not so friendly intelligence community, (who know a little about disinformation) giving the Dems ammo for a witch hunt, anything is possible. Burning Jeff Sessions has their fingerprints all over it. And I think things are just warming up.   The swamp not only needs to be drained, but also salted.

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Left Threatens Dem Senators Who Swim Away From the Sinking Ship.

After Donald trump garnered accolades after his speech before a joint secession of congress Tuesday from some of the most unlikely members of the media and the left, like Barky's commie buddy Van Jones, and from the left side of the congressional aisle like Senator Joe Manchin, progressives who were already running around hysterically with there hair on fire completely burst into flames and are now threatening there own.

The Hill - "Progressives are threatening primary challenges for Democratic lawmakers who don’t commit to full obstruction of President Trump’s agenda.  Democrats already face a daunting 2018 landscape, with 10 senators up for reelection in states that Trump won. However, the threat of primaries foes going up against vulnerable Democrats such as West Virginia’s further complicates the party’s chances of coming out with a net victory. But the party’s left flank is convinced that a full embrace of progressivism is the only way to return to power, and it is ready to fight for the party’s soul. " 

The website We Will Replace You states it's mission and in it's title the the veiled threat to uncooperative lawmakers: 

“We fundamentally reject the assumption that Democrats can only win in red states by pandering to racists and big bankers....." 

“The way we beat Trumpism and take back Congress and statehouses is offering a coherent vision of our own to put people back to work. … We don’t need to completely compromise our own values and principles......” 

It will be interesting to watch the left eat it's own. And to watch and see if an of the ten Senators up for re-election recognize the progressive ship they have been sailing has a big hole the shape of the letter "T" in the side of it and decide to swim with the tide or let the dem leadership shove their head further under water. 

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Breaking News: Shock and Awe on Captiol Hill

This Just in from MFNS Senior Washington Correspondent Earl of Taint:

The Moaning and Gnashing of Teeth

Most of the usual suspects spoke out but didn’t stop at irrelevance and incoherence. They went on to disrespect war widow Carryn Owens, whose late husband, Navy SEAL Senior Chief Ryan Owens, died defending America, including Americans who could not be bothered to clap or stand while she was being honored.

How low can you go? Debbie Wasserman Schultz or Keith Ellison did not clap or get off their sorry asses when the rest of the hall was honoring a widow who had lost so much, and an American warrior and hero who had given all. This behavior is, to use one of Hillary Clinton’s favorite adjectives, deplorable. (My own choice of adjective is despicable.)

One Dan Grilo, a Hillary Clinton volunteer and principal for the Chicago-based Liberty Advisor Group has been fired for his despicable tweet, which before being deleted received hundreds of retweets and favorites from other disgusting progressive liberal Democrats. 

And Nan Pelosi wanted us to all know how "very proud" she was of the dignity displayed by Democrats who sat and listened to the President's speech.

I hope and trust it will be seen as such in most precincts outside of the five boroughs, California, and university towns. Democrats are circling the drain, much of the damage has been self-inflicted. Perhaps the only thing they can rely on now to save the remaining examples of them is the Endangered Species Act.

It Was A Bases Loaded Home Run

It probably torched what soul the Democrats have left to stand when they did.  And as the President's address ended with "God Bless The United States", they scattered like cockroaches......