Tunnel Wall: May 9, 2020

Saturday, May 9, 2020

It Never Ends: Now MSNBC Suggests Vladimir Putin Was Behind DOJ Dropping Case Against Michael Flynn

Documents revealed the FBI had no basis to interview or investigate Flynn. Further, Trump’s phone call with Putin occurred the same day the charges were dropped, yet U.S. Attorney Jeff Jensen recommended those charges be dropped a week earlier.

Daily Wire "The media over the past few years has reported a false narrative that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia during his 2016 campaign to steal the election.
"That narrative was proven false after a lengthy special counsel investigation found no evidence of such collusion. Media outlets and their Democrat supporters refused to acknowledge that they got the story wrong or that they were biased in their reporting. They are continuing that behavior now that the Department of Justice dropped its charges against former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn.
"FBI agents, in handwritten notes, questioned what the goal was of their January 24, 2017 interview with Flynn, writing: “What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?”
"Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe (fired for lying to the FBI) would later say the interview with Flynn was “very odd” because “it seemed like [Flynn] was telling the truth.”
"But even though Flynn appears to have been vindicated and the victim of FBI entrapment, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell had a different take: That Russian President Vladimir Putin was behind the DOJ’s charges being dropped.
"Seriously." . . .

I'm sure "Pootie-Poot" would agree any publicity is good publicity. TD

Biden Has Become an Albatross for the Democrats

Victor Davis Hanson

Even if Democrats know why Biden must go, they haven’t a clue about when or how.

"Joe Biden is the apparent Democratic presidential nominee. After all, he had a seemingly insurmountable lead in delegates going into the rescheduled August convention in the postponed Democratic primary race.
Biden was winning the nomination largely because he was not the socialist Bernie Sanders, who terrified the Democratic establishment.
"Biden was also not Michael Bloomberg. The multibillionaire former New York City mayor jumped into the race when Biden faltered and Sanders seemed unstoppable. But Bloomberg spent $1 billion only to confirm that he was haughty, a poor debater, and an even worse campaigner. He often appeared to be an apologist for China and seemed clueless about the interior of the United States.
" The least offensive candidate left standing was Biden. Many Democratic primary voters initially had written him off as an inept retread, a blowhard, and an impediment to the leftward, identity-politics trajectory of the newly progressive Democratic Party.
""On the campaign trail, Biden insulted several voters, using insults such as “fat,” “damn liar,” and, weirdly, “lying dog-faced pony soldier.”
"Long ago, he spun tall tales about how in his youth he had taken on a Delaware street gang with a six-foot chain or slammed a bully’s face into a store counter. More recently, he taunted President Trump with tough-guy boasts about taking him behind the proverbial gym and beating him up.
"Biden has been unable to keep his hands off women. Even his supporters cringed when he was seen sniffing the hair, rubbing the shoulders, or whispering into the ears of unsuspecting females, some of them minors. Stranger still, Biden waxed on about his commitment to the #MeToo movement. The handsy Biden has insisted that women who made accusations of sexual harassment must be believed." . . .

So what's an albatross?

He was lynched! Parents of unarmed black jogger, 25, shot and killed by two white men question why the 'vigilantes' haven't been arrested. . .

Was there any influence of a white version of Al Sharpton or Maxine Waters to goad these men, or was it a vestige of Jim Crow that we hoped was long gone? Visiting my long-lost father in the Deep South decades ago, I drove him through his family cemetery. A young black man was walking on the road in the opposite direction, so I veered around him onto the lawn to clear him. My father said "don't go around him - run him off the road. He's not supposed to be in this cemetery!" Shocked to see for myself what I had long heard of, I was thankful he was not driving the car. While believing divorce is discouraged in the Scriptures, I thank God for his grace in removing me from those influences at an early age. The Tunnel Dweller

UK Daily Mail

. . . " 'I saw my son come into the world,' Jones said. 'And seeing him leave the world, it's not something that I'll want to see ever.'

'She added: 'He was my baby boy that I had on Mother's Day of 1994. He was his sister and brother's keeper... his spirit was good. He was a yes ma'am and no ma'am type of fellow.'

"Meanwhile, Arbery's (Maud) father, Marcus, stated: 'It was a hate crime.

" 'My young son wasn't doing nothing - minding his own business, running and working out. And that's a crime? To work out and run and he ain't breaking no law? No. Time out.'

"Video showing the shocking shooting has been shared widely seen it was released Tuesday." . . .

Unlike the sickening response of Maxine Waters to the beating of truck driver Reginald Denny when she did not denounce the attack (On the contrary, she all but endorsed it!); she called it an insurrection! Instead, everyone should be enraged by these two men and what they did. I hope they suffer the maximum penalty, and if they somehow are let out early, it would be disgusting to see anyone embrace these men as Waters did those who tried to beat Reginald Denny to death.
Please let us all condemn what was done to Ahmaud Arbery and may God bring comfort and meaning to his family. TD

Newsom order sending mail-in ballots to all California voters sparks concerns

Fox News "The order by the Democratic governor sparked pushback from Republicans, who have opposed the expansion of mail-in ballots out of fear it would lead to voter fraud -- and raised the prospect of a legal challenge.
"The Republican National Committee said it is reviewing its legal options "to ensure the integrity of the election.”
"California Republicans have pointed to problems in the state with voter rolls and a “motor voter” program to register new voters that led to hundreds of thousands of discrepancies -- although the errors reviewed did not allow anyone to vote who shouldn’t have been allowed to.
" 'To mail out millions of ballots to voter rolls have proven to contain alarming errors throughout the state is not a task that these Democrats can adequately manage or safely execute," Jessica Millan Patterson, chairman of the California Republican Party, said in a statement." . . .

Democrats who love ballot-harvesting should love mail-in ballots
The Stupidity of Ballot Harvesting and How It Steals Elections . . . "Ballot harvesting is the process where organized workers or volunteers--people you don't know--collect absentee ballots from voters and drop them off at a polling place or election office. Nothing can go wrong there; right?
"Some are so hungry to have voters participate in the process that they are willing to lower the bar for how ballots end up at the election office. They are so anxious to do this that they will sanctify any hare-brained scheme to raise the voter count. They forget we live in a free country where it is the right of everyone who meets the requirements to vote or not to vote. Not voting is a statement and a right of every citizen.
. . . "Orange County, California -- which was a Republican stronghold for a long time -- had 250,000 harvested ballots turned in on election day. The Republicans have no infrastructure to pursue testing as to how or whether this process was manipulated or fraud was part of the process." . . .

Flynn should sue and settle for $10 million

Judicial Watch said, "We commend the heroic work of General Flynn’s legal team, led by Sidney Powell, which exposed the criminal conduct by FBI and DOJ officials behind Flynn’s illicit prosecution. This corruption, as we have exposed from the get-go, is the tip of the iceberg. The required next step for justice is the prosecution of the coup cabal who tried to destroy General Flynn and overthrow our president."

Don Surber

"Obama and his posse of henchman from his thug administration framed an innocent man -- Lieutenant General Michael Flynn -- in the hope of flipping him to incriminate President Donald John Trump. To get justice and make himself whole again, General Flynn and his lawyer, Sidney Powell, need to use an old liberal trick called sue and settle.

"Ballotpedia's definition is, "Sue and settle (sometimes hyphenated as sue-and-settle) is a term used to describe cases in which a federal agency is sued by an interested party, declines to defend itself in court, and negotiates a settlement with the plaintiff in a non-adversarial process. Through sue and settle, outside groups sue an agency in order to reach a settlement on terms favorable to the regulatory goals of both. These settlements may require the agency to issue a rule on a particular subject or within a certain timeline.

" 'Sue and settle practices have frequently occurred in response to environmental lawsuits involving the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). Scott Pruitt, former EPA administrator under President Donald Trump (R), issued a directive in October 2017 that ended the practice of sue and settle at the EPA."

"Flynn and Powell can sue for, oh, $100 million and President Trump could agree to an out-of-court settlement of $10 million. He can claim to save taxpayers $90 million while General Flynn sails away with $7 million after paying a contingency fee to Powell." . . .

Here his defense counsel speaks on the Mueller investigation of President Trump:
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Mueller Upends Rule of Law, In Final Appearance—Sidney Powell

Face plant: MSM figures use comedian Jimmy Kimmel a source to falsely attack Mike Pence and get humiliated by Ted Cruz

The joy and fun of late-night comedians has long been gone.
Thomas Lifson "We are at a point in our national political conversation where lies are the principal propaganda tool of the left, and prominent mainstream media figures rely on a comedian’s fake criticisms (since apologized for) to score points against the Trump administration.
"It all started when late night ABC TV comedian Jimmy Kimmel used a deceptively edited C-SPAN video to falsely claim that VP Mike Pence was delivering empty boxes of supplies to a hospital. Via the UK Daily Mail:
"During his monologue in Thursday night's episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the comedian and host showed a clip of Pence delivering boxes of PPEs to the Woodbine Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center hospital in Virginia earlier in the day.
" 'Here he is with no mask on, wheeling boxes of PPEs into a health care center, and doing his best to lift them, what a hero… since it was going so well, and also because he didn’t realize he had a mic on, Magic Mike decided to keep it going, listen in closely here,' Kimmel said during the monologue.
"The video, which was originally broadcast by C-SPAN, showed Pence as he pushed a trolley of big cardboard boxes, then picked them up and put them down outside the hospital's doors.

Then, when Pence returns to the delivery van, which still has boxes inside it, someone tells him: 'Those are empty, sir. We’re good to go.'
"Pence responds: 'Well, can I carry the empty ones? Just for the camera?'
" 'Absolutely,' the unidentified man says, as those around them laugh.
"Kimmel then continued his monologue by saying that 'Mike Pence pretending to carry empty PPEs into a hospital is the perfect metaphor for who he is and what he’s doing. A big box of nothing delivering another box of nothing.'

Video and discussion thread here, ending (so far) with this exchange:

"Scarborough foolishly responded and got his ass handed back to him by the Texas senator:

Remember the top comment follows the one below it:

Senator Ted Cruz lit into Scarborough:

Ted Cruz