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The Season of Treason

 
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Happy Mother’s Day to my Mom and all the wonderful American mothers across these United States.

Now that the important item is complete let’s get to the rest of it.

I love Progressivism.

I love Progressivism like a kick to the groin or kidney stones.

Progressives are similar to ticks.

No plan in sight, just jumping from one host to another slowly sapping their strength, and if left to their own devices, will kill the host they so badly need to survive.

Maybe a better comparison would be the one celled amoeba, with of course my apologies, to the amoeba.

They shift and morph into different shapes and sizes.

Referencing shapes, Jerry Nadler strikingly resembles Humpty Dumpty. With too many in the population unable to pull up their pants, it appears Jerrold is doing his best to even the score.

Nancy Pelosi looks like death warmed over, but both of them want to tell the rest of us what kind of health care we should have.

That’s like asking Gavin Newsom how to remain sober, faithful, or tell the truth.

Speaking of telling the truth James Yes Hillary Was Guilty and Yes I Covered it up Comey stated that, “You can’t have a president who is a chronic liar. ”

Au contraire mon frère.

Clinton, Bush, and Obama were and are still chronic liars and of course Homey the Clown Comey knows this as he has been the Fixer in many of their situations/crimes.

To those in the know these three are referred to a distinction without a difference.

I digress.

According to Aunt Nancy we are now having a Constitutional Crisis.

This is hilarious coming from a Democrat.

Democrats referring to the Constitution is similar to Bernie Sanders talking about the protection of women, Elizabeth Warren discussing “native” facial structure, Beto O’Rourke and after school child care, or AOC bumping her gums about “like” anything.

These people aren’t just rotten to the core.

They are stupid without a bottom.

There is no floor to their insecurity, imbecility, or ineptitude.

This is Progressivism at its finest.

Talking about one of the greatest written documents in the history of Man and getting it all wrong!

There is no crisis. There is no Democracy.

What we have here is a failure to communicate.

Let me try it in the simplest of ways.

According to the USA Today, California politicians have voted to keep Donald Trump’s name off of the 2020 Presidential Ballot if he doesn’t release his tax returns.

Now I know the Dims haven’t read the Constitution but the “releasing of tax returns” isn’t a prerequisite to running for President.

Still they continue to ramble and have moved from Collusion to Obstruction to a Constitutional Crisis.

By attempting to keep an American Citizen off the ballot in any State, specifically the one with the largest population, a court battle will indeed ensue.

With that said this attempt could be construed as Secession, and although Secession isn’t directly found in the Constitution, another term is.

Treason.

“Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.”

The Democrats and RINOS have been adhering to our enemies and giving them aid and comfort for decades.

Tens of million of illegal foreign nationals are running all over America, in many cases murdering our citizenry.

What do the Democrats do?

Sneak them out the back of our courthouses, increase their EBT cards, or pile so many of them in one area a Somali, a “Palestinian,” and La Raza are now found in the House of Representatives.

Obama was so blatant with his support of Hamas and Hezbollah he didn’t even try to hide a helicopter drop of cash to Iran.

Roseanne might be a crass ass but she wasn’t incorrect about Valerie Jarrett’s connections to the world’s leading State sponsor of Islamic Terrorism.

Nancy Pelosi and her fellow idiots are one hundred percent wrong.

There is nothing wrong with the Constitution nor is it in any peril.

Keeping Donald Trump off the ballot in California is a completely different thing.

There’s nothing Constitutional about it but I can guarantee if that happens there will be a crisis.

For the Democrats.

Jason Kraus

www.aleadernotapolitician.com

www.freeamericanetwork.com

Nadler Leading the Pack Against Barr but Holder Contempt Vote was Shameful?

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by Daveda Gruber:

On Wednesday House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., led his pack of Democrats to hold Attorney General Barr in contempt of Congress.

The contempt charge has been led by Nadler and has Barr allegedly accused for not handing over documents related to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe ˗˗ declaring the move necessary as the country enters a “constitutional crisis.”

Nadler also alleged that Barr acted as President Trump’s personal attorney.

Watch this video put out by MSNBC:

Oh my, things have certainly changed since 2012. In that year the shoe was on the other foot. House Republicans took the same step against then-AG Eric Holder for refusing to hand over documents related to the Fast and Furious gun-running scandal.

Remember Fast and Furious? Of course you do. All of us have recollections of where DOJ officials tracked thousands of guns smuggled across the border and then did nothing to stop them.

Well, Nadler was so against Holder being held in contempt that he tweeted this:

And they did. Over one hundred members of Congress walked out of Congress over the vote to hold the Obama-era DOJ leader in contempt.

Donald Trump Jr. noticed the “irony” that Nadler had displayed and tweeted  about it:

The House Minority Leader, at that time in 2012,  Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., argued House Republicans were more politically motivated in attacking Holder than driven to get to the bottom of the failed operation.

Pelosi said, “What is happening here is shameful.”

You can’t make this stuff up. In the year 2012 Pelosi was so against Holder being held in contempt and she made sure she put her two cents in. Watch these video clips and how Pelosi felt about Holder being held in contempt of Congress:

Former Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, wrote an op-ed for FOX News and said that the White House ‘stonewalling’ Congress represents an attack on ‘the essence of our democracy’ – as though stonewalling were some new phenomena. Where was Nadler’s righteous indignation when the stonewalling came from a Democratic White House?”

In an article by Politico, it was written that Fast and Furious has finally come to a conclusion and both sides said they maintained their disagreements but were dropping their appeals and the underlying lawsuit.

A settlement in a seven-year legal battle between the House and the Justice Department over records related to a gun-running investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious was publicly announced Wednesday just as similar clashes continue to intensify between the House and Trump administration.

The deal ends a lawsuit the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee filed in 2012 after the House voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt for refusing to release some records the panel demanded about the probe, during which law enforcement officials watched but did not intervene as up to 2,000 weapons were illegally sold.

The fight over the records ended more than a year ago, but a proposed settlement ran aground last fall after U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson signaled that she would refuse to wipe out her rulings in the case.

Both the Obama administration and the House objected to aspects of her decisions, but the executive branch had the larger grievance, as Jackson rejected the Justice Department’s longstanding position that courts have no proper role in resolving battles between Congress and federal agencies over access to records.

In the settlement filed Wednesday, both sides said they maintained their disagreements with Jackson’s decisions but were dropping their appeals and the underlying lawsuit.

 “The Parties agree that because subsequent developments have obviated the need to resolve those issues in an appeal in this case, the District Court’s holdings should not in any way control the resolution of the same or similar issues should they arise in other litigation between the Committee and the Executive Branch, and hereby waive any right to argue that the judgment of the District Court or any of the District Court’s orders or opinions in this case have any preclusive effect in any other litigation,” the agreement says.

Is this a big coincidence that Nadler is being held in contempt of Congress but “Fast and Furious”  just finally got an agreement worked out on both sides agreeing not to use an appeal?

If we don’t pay attention and we are not “a fly on the wall in Congress” who knows what we’d miss.

In my humble opinion, I don’t see Barr being hurt by any of these allegations by the Democratic side of Congress. He has only gone by the rule of law and has not broken it.

Is Christopher Wray Splitting Hairs with William Barr?

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by Daveda Gruber:

On Tuesday FBI Director Christopher Wray testified to Congress. Wray disagreed with Attorney General William Barr and applied a different term than Barr who used the word “spying.”

When asked if FBI agents engage in “spying” when they follow FBI policies and procedures, Wray told lawmakers on the Senate Appropriations Committee “That’s not the term I would use. Lots of people have different colloquial phrases. I believe that the FBI is engaged in investigative activity, and part of investigative activity includes surveillance activity of different shapes and sizes, and to me the key question is making sure that it’s done by the book, consistent with our lawful authorities.”

In a hearing last month Barr stated, “I think spying did occur. The question is whether it was adequately predicated. …Spying on a political campaign is a big deal.”

The statement was later clarified during the hearing by Barr when he said, “I am not saying that improper surveillance occurred; I’m saying that I am concerned about it and looking into it, that’s all.”

Even President Trump has alleged that the bureau engaged in spying against Trump associates during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Barr’s remarks were broadly criticized by Democrats. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., accused Barr of “peddling conspiracy theories.”

Trump allies have noted that there is documented evidence that the FBI obtained surveillance warrants to monitor Trump adviser Carter Page. There have been numerous reports disclosed that reveal the use of an informant and others to gather information during the early days of the probe.

A source has brought to light that in his remarks, Barr was not trying to fuel conspiracy theories or play to the conservative base.

The source said, “When he used the word spying, he means intelligence collecting.” He also noted Barr’s history as a CIA analyst in the 1970s. “He wasn’t using it in a pejorative sense, he was using it in the classic sense.”

On Tuesday when he was asked directly by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., whether he believes the FBI spied on the 2016 Trump campaign, Wray deferred his response to the ongoing investigation by Inspector General Michael Horowitz.

Wray said, “I want to be careful about how I answer this question here because there is an ongoing inspector general investigation. I have my own thoughts based on the limited information I’ve seen so far but I don’t think it would be right or appropriate to share those at this stage because I really do think it is important for everybody to respect the independent inspector general’s investigation, which I think this line of questioning starts to implicate, and I think it’s very important for everybody to be able to have full confidence in his review.”

Later on he added, “I don’t think I personally have any evidence” of illegal surveillance into the Trump campaign in the 2016 election, but he said that he has been in “close contact” with Barr about helping him get to bottom of how the Russia investigation began.

You can see/hear Wray speak here:

In my humble opinion, the investigation should lead right to the Democrats and Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaign via the Steele Dossier.

Would You Pay to See Them?

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by Daveda Gruber:

Bill and Hillary Clinton are still relevant to some of the American people but apparently people don’t want to spend a whole lot of money to see the couple speak on their political views.

The Clintons are on a speaking tour of thirteen cities but they don’t seem to be drawing in crowds who want to spend big bucks to see the couple.

When the tour was announced in November, the best tickets were going for the hefty price of $1,785, which was a far cry from the 54% drop in price of $829.

On Friday the cheaper seats could be had for as little as $20 at Seattle’s WaMu Theater where the Clintons were speaking.

Organizers had to slash listed prices and even offer discounts through Groupon to boost sales. The Seattle Times reported that the official prices for the former first couple’s appearance ranged from $66.50 to $519.

The performance by the Clintons lasted about ninety minutes and was presented as an interview of Hillary and Bill by actor Bradley Whitford.

The former First Lady and former Secretary of State said, “I really believe that we are in a crisis, a constitutional crisis. This is a test for our country.”

She also said to  the crowd in Seattle that Barr “would rather be the president’s defense lawyer than the chief law enforcement officer of our country.”

She wasn’t done yet. Hillary continued by saying that the Mueller’s report “not only decisively proves, but goes chapter and verse about how the Russians — in the words of the report ˗˗ conducted ‘a sweeping and systemic interference in our election.”

She topped that up with a dig at President Trump by saying, “And then you wake up and your president is spending an hour on the phone with Vladimir Putin, who was the mastermind of the interference and attack on our election.”

In my humble opinion, the tickets could have been free and I don’t believe that many people would have gone to sit through what the Clintons have to say about anything.

I venture to say that the only way to get a large crowd to view the couple would have to guarantee that at least Hillary would be carried away in chains and shackles at the end of the performance. Now, that would call for a standing ovation.

The Devil to Watch is the Devil We Know

 
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We are now in full Presidential election bloom.

The Democrats have almost two dozen “contestants” and no real choice.

The Party of Diversity is being lead by Joe Groper Biden, Bernie Gang Rape Sanders, and then depending upon the poll either a Cheekbones Cherokee,  Beto I Dream of Running Children Over O’Rourke or Kamala Willie Brown Harris.

They’ve all kissed the ring of Al Death to the Jews Sharpton, called for reparations to occur, and stated that walls are immoral and should be torn down.

One can only imagine if the three stooges known as Omar, Tlaib, and AOC were actually in the race.

Nothing quite like “diversity”.

Lurking behind this pool of grouper is the ultimate rotten fish.

A shark known as Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The Chairman Mao tunic wearing Progressive seems to have finally dealt with her issues of using stairs, or standing without physical support, although I’m sure a vehicle is always available for her to be thrown head first into because at this point “what difference does it make.”

Believe it or not, for the Moo Moo, it may matter.

After watching decades of political races, and entering one myself, there is no doubt, energy is a very important key to winning.

Hair sniffer Biden just doesn’t have it.

If he somehow grabs the nomination (and I don’t think he will) Donald Trump will run over him like a Mack truck.

Sometimes you’re the windshield sometimes you’re the bug.

In Presidential elections Biden has always been the bug.

Bernie Sanders has the energy (hate) but it is doubtful he is a top of the ticket winner.

He also isn’t a registered Democrat and even though laws don’t matter to the Dims they did pass new rules stating their choice must be a Democrat so we shall see how they decide to enforce their hypocrisy.

If the Democratic Party had any sense they would talk Bernie into the VP position. Americans won’t elect him to the top spot but his voters (and they are many) would support whomever, as long as Fantasizing Sanders was on the team.

Sad but true.

Fortunately the combination of Democratic stupidity and Bernie’s desire to feed his fragile ego will probably keep the Communist loving traitor off of the VP list.

Beto O’Rourke is mentally unstable and even the Liberals know this as he falls in the polls. The man flaps his arms more than Icarus and he was crashing into the sea.

Woo woo woo Warren (insert Loretta Sanchez here) is emotionally weak. She is indeed filled with vitriol but virtually cowers in the presence of cameras. She is very comfortable making ridiculous statements while sitting in the Senate but standing on her own two feet and answering questions off the cuff is too much for the beer sipping fraud.

Criminal Harris is dumb and I mean that in the most textbook of ways.

She doesn’t understand economics, education, or excellence.  She’s ripped her own family while flip flopping on every subject imaginable. If Harris is the nominee President Trump may eclipse Reagan’s 49.

The Devil to watch here is the Devil we know.

Fish rot from the head down and there is no doubt the stench emanating behind the scenes is coming from the woman who shared her husband with Monica Lewinsky and continues to do so with others.

Unless or until the Democrats bring in a heavy hitting viable candidate, HRC is waiting in the wings, swallowing grouper by the mouthful.

We already know she has the super-delegates.

The real question is will she take Bernie for a long weekend and slap a sticker on his disheveled forehead that says I’m With Her.

Jason Kraus

www.aleadernotapolitician.com

www.freeamericanetwork.com

Gloom and Doom for the Future in Ten Years?

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by Daveda Gruber:

We’ve been told, just recently, that our planet has twelve more years to exist. This news came to us from no other than the infamous Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).

It appears that the media darling isn’t the only person who is putting fear in the hearts of earthlings. A 2020 runner for the presidency has said that the earth has only ten years to exist. What? Yes, if “Beto” Robert Francis O’Rourke is correct, no one is going to be around on this planet if we don’t address climate change.

Ocasio-Cortez made a statement at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event with Ta-Nahesi Coates, who is an American author, journalist and comic book writer.

Ocasio-Cortez told Coates, “Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us are looking up and we’re like: The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it? This is the war — this is our World War II.”

Check out this tweet:

On Monday Beto, the Democratic presidential candidate, warned that civilization could have only “ten years” left on Earth if nothing is done to combat climate change.

Beto has hopes of reaching zero carbon emissions by 2050 but at a rather high cost. The former Texas congressman laid out his first major policy proposal of his candidacy.

Beto’s policy for his climate change proposal would cost $5 trillion in over ten years.

O’Rourke appeared on MSNBC and was asked about his prior support from the oil and gas industry and whether the relationship would be a problem going forward.

MSNBC host Chris Hayes asked Beto, “Do you see the oil and gas industry as an opponent in that? Won’t you have to declare yourself in opposition to their interests?”

Check this out:

O’Rourke’s response was “yes,” but said he is optimistic that the industry will take part in his initiative.

O’Rourke told Hayes, “We know that certain oil and gas corporations have been fighting public policy on this issue, have been hiding their own science and research at the expense of our climate and human life. So whenever those two things come in contrast or in opposition, I’m always going to choose the people of this country.”

Beto continued, “Having said that, I want to make sure those who work in the oil and gas industry, those who work in the fossil fuel industry are brought along as partners to make sure that we make this transition in the ten years we have left to us as the science and scientists tell us to make the kind of bold change that we need.”

O’Rourke also said, “We cannot afford to alienate a significant part of this country and we cannot do this by half measure or by only half of us. It can’t be Democrats versus Republicans, bit cities versus small towns, we all have a shared interest in a cleaner future for this country. So I’m going to work with, listen to everyone anytime, anywhere to make sure that we advance this agenda and get to net zero green house gas emissions by 2050.”

Whether we have ten or twelve years left on the planet isn’t the biggest issue but certain gloom and doom seems to be a major talking point for most Democrats running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020.

Libs Need to be Progressive with Their Bigotry

 
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While our National Guard was apparently being disarmed by the Mexican (Drug Cartels) military, the Democrats decided to focus on “environmentalism” by creating a Senate Caucus that will deal with “Race and Class”.

Let me help you Libs.

You are losing the race because you haven’t any class.

According to one of the Democratic Senators “Often times black and brown communities are the ones that suffer the biggest consequences of pollution.”

Whoa whoa whoa!

What is this black and brown stuff?

You Libs need to be Progressive with your bigotry.

African-American, Hispanic, or Latino are your 21st Century choices.

Why are there two different options of bigotry for the “brown” people?

I don’t know.

Maybe the Senate will create a Caucus and get us an answer to that.

In other action happening in Washington D. C. , a few voices SLOWLY are starting to ask whether or not Barack Obama was responsible for the spying on then Presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Of course he was.

It can be a bit surreal to listen to talking heads finally start to discuss things that EVERYONE already knows.

Speaking of talking heads Cheekbones Warren has announced it is time to impeach Donald Trump…again.

The beer swilling “Cherokee” apparently doesn’t understand she has no authority during the Impeachment process.

NONE.

Then again she thinks the United States is a Democracy.

Unsurprisingly so does Humanitarian Hamas Pelosi.

Who down with HHP!

Aunt Nancy the ultimate acronymic three letter virus.

How do Libs feed themselves?

With other People’s money!

Thank you. Thank you.  I’ll be here all week.

In other Dumb Lib News it appears Medicare will start to run out of money in about seven years.

I’m sure putting everyone on it will make it all better.

Due to the limited intellect of the Liberal let us explain this issue with song.

Hush little Libby don’t say a word, don’t bother with the truth, just follow the herd.

If that herd shifts to reverse, Medicare will be there, with your hearse.

Too late Libby, stop that wailing, Sarah was right, you should’ve listened to a Palin.

Okay enough singing. Let us continue in sotto voce to soften the blow to the Dims.

According to “scientists” (propaganda) “feedback loops will make climate change even worse.”

Let’s use the AOC translator to explain this further.

“It’s like you know, like, yeah, (hair flip) like, instead of like twelve years, like it’s like now six years, until we all like die.”

I cannot speak for all but in my opinion, in the case of Progressives, the sooner the better.

Six years is like way too long, dude.

Ya feel me.

Surely you do.

I do and don’t call me Shirley.

Of course Shirley is better than Kareem.

Speaking of worthless humans Bernie Gang Rape Sanders is leading the Democratic Party’s Presidential nominee process without actually being a Democrat.

This shouldn’t surprise anyone.  The Party of Criminality wants to count illegals as citizens in the next Census.

What’s one more comrade on the Hindenburg leading his flock back to their Schultzstaffel roots.

The Dims appear to enjoy the repetition of consonants.

The SS, the KKK, the CBC.

One can only imagine their stupidity with the addition of a vowel.

Jason Kraus

www.aleadernotapolitician.com

www.freeamericanetwork.com

Could Christian Massacre in Sri Lanka have Been Avoided?

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by Daveda Gruber:

In Sri Lanka’s deadliest violence since a devastating civil war in the South Asian island nation ended a decade ago, nearly 300 people were murdered in mass explosions on Easter Sunday by an attack by a domestic radical Muslim group.

Authorities in Sri Lanka had apparently received warnings that a potential attack was coming but took no action. The threat was revealed to authorities on April 4th, nearly two weeks before the attack.

In coordinated explosions that were detonated in three churches and three luxury hotels in and around Colombo, which is the capital city. A few hours later two more explosions went off at a guesthouse and near an overpass.

While at least 290 people were known to have lost their lives in the massacre, another 500 were injured. The death toll could rise.

On Monday the government of Sri Lanka said that the attacks likely were carried out by a local militant group that goes by the name “National Thowfeek Jaamath” which is a radical Islamist organization that promotes an Islamic terrorist ideology.

The director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism, Anne Speckhard, said,  “These attacks appear to be quite different and look as if they came right out of the ISIS, Al Qaeda, global militant jihadist playbook, as these are attacks fomenting religious hatred by attacking multiple churches on a high religious holiday,”

In early April, several times, international agencies warned of possible attacks. Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne said the defense ministry wrote to the police chief on April 9th to give law enforcement a warning about the intelligence.

On April 11, police wrote to the heads of security of the judiciary and diplomatic security division about the warnings. It is not known if any action was taken.

Political dysfunction within the government is allegedly the cause for  Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and his Cabinet and other top government officials to have been unaware of the threat. An investigation is said to have been launched into the breakdown of communications within the government.

On Sunday Wickremesinghe said, “We must look into why adequate precautions were not taken.”

The ultimate blame for the horrific blasts has been put on at least seven suicide bombers who were citizens of Sri Lanka. Forensic analysis of body parts found at six sites determined the number of the suicide bombers who conducted the coordinated assault.

Authorities said foreign links to the plot were suspected and at least 24 suspects were in custody for questioning.

On Monday, one of the churches that was targeted, St. Anthony’s Shrine, had a van parked outside close the church since Sunday. It exploded scaring many pedestrians who ran for their lives but no injuries were reported after that blast.

The archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, said, “We placed our hands on our heads when we came to know that these deaths could have been avoided. Why was this not prevented?”

On Sunday the U.S. State Department confirmed “several” Americans died in the attacks. A revised travel warning for Sri Lanka has been issued. It says that terror groups continue to plot and may possibly carry out new attacks in hotels and churches. Possible targets include tourist locations and transportation hubs, noting the terrorists “may attack with little or no warning.”

Social media has remained blocked after officials said they needed to curtail the spread of false information and ease tension in the country of about 21 million people.

Christians were targeted in this horrendous attack. That fact is clear. Now, I think back to Paris, France and the very large fire that burned Notre Dame Cathedral. There were no fatalities but the beautiful structure became a raging blaze of flames.

Was the fire an accident? I, for one, would not rule out that the fire may have been intentionally set. Notre Dame is a religious icon and I have no doubt that there were some evil people who celebrated the fire that damaged the Christian symbol.

The targeting of Christians is becoming more and more widespread and I find that to be very disturbing.

Want to Read the Mueller Report?

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by Daveda Gruber:

We have been waiting for a long time for this day to come. In fact, we’ve waited for nearly two years while Special Counsel Robert Mueller lead the Russian Probe investigation.

On Thursday morning the Mueller report was released by the Department of Justice to Congress and to the American people. The report is redacted but there is still lots to read. I’m pretty sure that many legal minds are reading the report at this moment.

Will the mainstream media actually report it for what it is? I’d be shocked if they do even if there is no collusion and no obstruction involving President Trump or his election campaign in 2016.

You can read the report and come to your own conclusion.

The report can be viewed here:

Mueller Report by on Scribd

President Trump posted these awesome tweets:

Did Pelosi Take Aim at Herself While Trying to Jab AOC?

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by Daveda Gruber:

On Monday Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, made it clear that more praise was due to Democrats who flipped Republican seats in the 2018 midterms rather than to give that praise to representatives like herself and freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who carried districts where “glass of water” with a “D” next to it could win an election.

While Pelosi downplayed her own win she said, “When we won this election, it wasn’t in districts like mine or Alexandria’s. [S]he’s a wonderful member of Congress as I think all of our colleagues will attest. But those are districts that are solidly Democratic.”

To put emphasis on her claim, Pelosi then picked up a water glass that was next to her and said, “This glass of water would win with a ‘D’ next to its name in those districts.”

The phrase “Dumb as a Rock” comes to mind as I try to compare Pelosi and Ocasio-Cortez to a glass of water. A rock is an inanimate object as is a glass of water. Both don’t seem to have a brain.

Pelosi made the statement while making an appearance before the London School of Economics and Political Science.

This week Pelosi is traveling in Europe with a congressional delegation.

Is Pelosi seeing that the progressive wing of the Democratic party needs to be explained even if it means downplaying the significance of her own win in California?

Well, let’s analyze what Pelosi said on “60 Minutes” on Sunday night to  Lesley Stahl. Pelosi described the influence of the Democrats’ progressive wing as being “like five people.”

Who are the five people? Well, I can pull a few names out of the air but then I seem to get a much larger number than five.

I also find that saying the word “like” a lot seems to be what Pelosi and Ocasio-Cortez have in common aside from winning in easy to win Democratic districts.