An open letter to the Democratic party

The Spectator

So Democrats, please stop with this nonsense that people like me have left you, as you endlessly tell me on Twitter. You pushed us away. Offer us a compelling vision of the future based on the strength of your ideas and policies. If you can’t, maybe you don’t deserve to win.

Rep. Ilhan Omar, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Pramila Jayapal

     "Dear Democrats, I’m mad at you. I was raised a die-hard, bleeding-heart liberal. My grandmother was an Irish Catholic New Englander who worshipped JFK almost as much as Jesus. My dad and his nine siblings sang for the Kennedys at Hammersmith Farm.

     "For decades, I was a loyal regular at your bar until suddenly you started ignoring me. You took my support for granted and dismissed my concerns, focusing instead on courting the young city hipsters with their scooters and their designer weed and their craft beers. You began overlooking pragmatic moderates and catering to loud extremists who favor rewriting the Constitution and accelerating our lurch towards socialism.
      "So in 2016, feeling politically homeless, I dropped my party affiliation. How did this happen? How did I go from being a lifetime Democrat to a registered independent? I am far from alone: why don’t you Democrats seem to care?
. . . 
     "Having been born and raised a liberal Democrat, I had only a vague sense of the truth behind America’s political divisions. This was because of the left’s firm domination of media, entertainment and education. I subscribed to what I now call ‘The Approved Message’, a sort of ‘right-think’ that meant you were one of the good guys: a Democrat. It made for a simpler life.
     "Then came Trumpism. The Approved Message grew louder and angrier. It coalesced into a progressive religion, ‘Wokeism’, which adopted increasingly complex rules. Suddenly, there was no limit on what someone might deem offensive. Certain opinions, words and ideas became unacceptable overnight. Citizens took to policing one another’s jokes, tone and internet histories.
     "It quickly became clear that anyone who supported Trump (to be clear, I am not a fan) should be shamed and ostracized. If they were a family member, disowned. In fact, coming out as anything other than anti-Trump could end your career, get you kicked out of your mommy group or land you on the wrong side of a virtual mob.
     "Like most Americans, I was suddenly playing catch-up. Speech is violence, capitalism and democracy are oppressive, critical thinking is ‘fence-sitting’ ".
    "If you try nuance or engage in ‘wrong-think’ on sacred issues, you won’t just get into a tiff with the neighbors; now there’s every chance you will have your personal life dragged into the public square in order to shame you into obscurity. The days of buffet-style politics are no longer allowed. You either check all the boxes of the ‘good’ party, or you belong to the ‘bad’ one. When I dared to push back by writing articles, I was struck by how quickly the left rejected me. Millions noticed this too: they watched in stunned silence as leftists demanded books be censored, scrutinized language and called anyone who disagreed a Nazi.
     "Flash forward three years into a Trump administration and instead of learning from mistakes, the loudest members of the party are heading for the same brick wall. At this point the 2020 Democratic platform feels like a barely veiled threat: ‘Vote for us or you’re racist."
Read the full article here. There is much more.

Barack Obama, the real king of the quid pro quo

Forget the child human shields, look at someone who could take the Thunbergians to school on climate

Israeli Astrophysicist Dr. Nir Shaviv: ‘How Climate Change Pseudoscience Became Publicly Accepted’ 
" ‘Tenfold variations in CO2 over the past half-billion years have no correlation whatsoever with temperature’ "

"Professor Nir Shaviv, the chairman of the Racah Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: "The West would then realize that global warming never was and never will be a serious problem...To begin with, the story we hear in the media, that most 20th-century warming is anthropogenic, that the climate is very sensitive to changes in CO2, and that future warming will, therefore, be large and will happen very soon, simply isn’t supported by any direct evidence, only a shaky line of circular reasoning."

"Shaviv: "There is no evidence on any time scale showing that CO2 variations or other changes to the energy budget cause large temperature variations. There is, however, evidence to the contrary. Tenfold variations in CO2 over the past half-billion years have no correlation whatsoever with temperature; likewise, the climate response to large volcanic eruptions such as Krakatoa.Both examples lead to the inescapable upper limit of 1.5 degrees C per CO2 doubling—much more modest than the sensitive IPCC climate models predict. However, the large sensitivity of the latter is required in order to explain 20th-century warming, or so it is erroneously thought."

"Censorship: "My interview with Forbes. A few hours after the article was posted online, it was removed by the editors “for failing to meet our editorial standards.” The fact that it’s become politically incorrect to have any scientific discussion has led the public to accept the pseudo-argumentation supporting the catastrophic scenarios.' " . . . Source: Climate Depot

" ‘I may lose it here in a sec’: Electric police car runs out of power during pursuit" 
California will pay any price to "save the planet".

Dems must go after Trump if they want to protect Joe Biden

http://www.terrellaftermath.com/

American Thinker  . . . If President Trump is the cop, who is the perp?  Joe Biden.  That's whom the Dems are protecting.  The purpose of Joe's involvement, wielding the influence and the power of America, was to turn off the investigation of his son's relationship with Burisma, the leading natural gas company in Ukraine.  Then he boasted about doing so.  The boasting is preventive.  He gets the story out without his son's involvement, and he has neutralized it, or so he thought.

"But it's not just Biden.  The Dems are protecting the process that Biden used: wielding the power of America to shake down governments — foreign and domestic — for personal enrichment.  Doing so, they give the Republic the back of their hand — which means giving us the back of their hand.

"How do they go after the cop, the president, an upright man?  By bearing false witness against him.  Adam Schiff's tissue of lies in his opening statement at the House Intelligence Committee hearing on Thursday is an example of this.  He is unembarrassed because lies are the means liberalism uses for public argument.

"But don't miss the significance of Schiff making up the case against the president.  This is an open hearing, and all the documents are in the public domain.  Yet Schiff is brazen enough to misrepresent the situation.  What does that tell you?  That the truth is not good enough.  That if he stuck to the truth, he wouldn't have a case!" . . .

Members of Adam Schiff's House Intelligence Committee

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence  Rep. Mike Turner, Ohio Republican on Adam Schiff's committee got numerous texts from his constituents telling him to speak out against Schiff for his distortion of the Trump phone call to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. Since they could not find anything impeachable in the phone call text, it had to be created by the corrupt Schiff.
Please consider contacting other members when you see them being: A.demagogic, or B. ineffective in their opposition to Trump. The Tunnel Dweller:

The House Intelligence Committee 
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Democrats:

• Adam Schiff Chair                                                                
• André Carson
• Peter Welch
• Eric Swalwell
• Jackie Speier
• Terri Sewell
• Mike Quigley
• Joaquin Castro
• Sean Maloney
• Raja Krishnamoorthi
• Jim Himes
• Denny Heck
• Val Demings

Republicans

• Devin Nunes Ranking Member
• John Ratcliffe
• Michael Turner
• Chris Stewart
• Elise Stefanik
• William "Will" Hurd
• Rick Crawford
• Mike Conaway
• Brad Wenstrup

Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Still, fortunately headed by Republicans for now.

California Rep.Schiff Called Out For FABRICATING Ukraine Call Transcript In Opening Remarks

Grounds for Impeachment, I'd say... First some context from Blaze TV.




Socio-Political-Journal Entire article posted.
Rep. Adam Schiff acknowledged on Thursday that he made up parts of the Ukraine phone call transcript when he delivered his opening statement at a much-watched TV hearing with the U.S. top intelligence officer.
"Mr. Schiff, California Democrat and chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said his reading was “part in parody”––but made the admission only after Rep. Mike Turner, Ohio Republican, called him out.
"In his opening statement, Mr. Schiff said Mr. Trump asked Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky for fabricated dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden and said Mr. Trump threatened to make the same request Mr. Zelensky eight times–––both quotes not in the transcript.
"When it came his time to question Joseph Maguire, the acting Director of National Intelligence, Mr. Turner noted inaccuracies uttered to a large TV audience as Democrats rev up talk of impeachment.
“ 'It’s not the conversation that was in the chairman’s opening statement,” Mr. Turner said. “ 'And while the chairman was speaking I actually had someone text me, ‘is he just making this up?’ And yes, yes, he was because sometimes fiction is better than the actual words or the text. But luckily, the American public are smart, and they have the transcript. They’ve read the conversation. They know when someone is just making it up.”
"When Mr. Turner concluded, Mr. Schiff said:
“ 'I want to mention that my colleague is right on both counts. It’s not okay, but also my summary of the president’s call was meant to be at least part in parody. The fact that that’s not clear is a separate problem in and of itself. Of course the president never said, ‘If you don’t understand me, I’m going to say it seven more times.’ My point is, that’s the message that the Ukraine president was receiving in not so many words." ” 
"The issue has to do with how many times Mr. Trump ask the Ukraine president to contact Attorney General William Barr about the role of former Vice President Biden and his son, Hunter, in Ukraine politics and business. A Wall Street Journal story said Mr. Trump pressured Mr. Zelensky eight times, which is not born out in the transcript.
"Mr. Schiff also said in his opening statement that Mr. Trump asked Mr. Zelensky to “make up dirt” on Mr. Biden––again something the president didn’t say in the 30-minute phone call in July.
"Mr. Schiff said the transcript, “reads like a classic organized crime shakedown. Shorn of its rambling character and in not so many words, this is the essence of what the president communicates. We’ve been very good to your country, very good. No other country has done as much as we have, but you know what, I don’t see much reciprocity here. I hear what you want. I have a favor I want from you, though. And I’m going to say this only seven times, so you better listen good. I want you to make up dirt on my political opponent understand the loss of it on this and on that.”
"Republicans earlier this year asked Mr. Schiff to resign, accusing him of putting out falsehoods about the Russia investigation."    Rowan Scarborough

Source: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/sep/26/adam-schiff-called-out-fabricating-ukraine-call-tr/

Why the Impeachment Frenzy May Only Strengthen Trump

Victor Davis Hanson  "Contrary to suggestions by some, most Trump supporters are not automatons or blind supporters. What bothers them, and should bother others, about the latest Ukraine hysterias is the familiar monotony of this latest scripted psychodrama.

"The whistleblower admits to hearsay (“I was not a direct witness to most of the events described”). His term-paper report is laden with anonymously sourced rumors, e.g., “According to multiple White House officials I spoke with,” “I was told by White House officials,” “Based on my understanding,” “I learned from multiple officials,” “I do not know whether similar measures were taken,” “I do not know whether those officials spoke with or met with . . . ”

"Between references to Internet news accounts and “I heard from” and “I learned from” and “I do not know” anonymous officials, there is nothing here to launch an impeachment of any president.

"In the complaint are all the now-familiar tell-tale signs of pseudo-exactness, in the form of Mueller-report-like footnotes and page references to liberal media outlets such as Bloomberg, ABC, and the New York Times. There is the accustomed Steele-dossier scare bullet points. We see again Comey-memo-like disputes over classification status with capital letters UNCLASSIFIED stamped as headers and footers and TOP SECRET lined out.

"Scary references abound to the supposed laws that the legal-eagle whistleblower believes were violated. In sum, there is all the usual evidence of an administrative-state bureaucrat, likely to be some third-tier Brennan or Clapper-like intelligence operative, who is canvassing disgruntled White House staffers, writing a report that imitates intelligence-department dormats, combing the Internet, in “dream-team” and “all-star” footnote fashion, for scare quotes and anti-Trump stories, and then likely having it dressed up in legalese by an activist lawyer. Take all that away, and one is left with “I heard.”

"After nearly three years of this, we know the delivery system that ensues. Along with the sensationalized initial media hype, the promised “smoking gun” leak usually follows. But when the “overwhelming” evidence or “walls are closing in” documents are released, there is no criminal act to be found other than occasional art-of-the-deal bluster from Trump. And then on to the next crude coup attempt, since the line of wannabe Glen Simpsons, Bruce Ohrs, Andrew McCabes, and John Brennans seems endless." . . .

Townhall columnists have a lot to say on Adam Schiff's strange statement

Schiff Gets Slapped For Fabricating What Was In Transcript, Backpedals Claiming It Was “Parody”   Ryan SaavedraVerified account: : :
"Update to this story. He literally had to invent things because there wasn’t enough in the actual transcript to justify their lies and any cause for impeachment. 

Impeachment Circus: Adam Schiff Kicks Off Intelligence Hearing By Making Up Parts Of the Trump-Ukraine Transcript . . ." Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), in his opening remarks, re-wrote the transcript to make Trump sound like a mob boss. This is the lengths the Left will go to get Trump, just making stuff up. Is it shocking? No. We all know Democrats lie, but the extent and breadth that is has taken post-2016 are notable. I mean, Schiff recites lines that are just not in there:" . . .Daily Caller video:

. . . "That’s all you need to know. In fact, that’s all you need to watch from this hearing if you’re not paid to watch it. If you’re a voter and are interested, feel free—but the fact that the Democrats are now twisting public documents to fit their narrative only reinforced everything we know and think about the Left and their lust to impeach Trump. You all know this is political theater. And yes, with the transcript public, we will notice when the Left tries to sneak in a salacious and totally false rewrite." 
"That’s all you need to know. In fact, that’s all you need to watch from this hearing if you’re not paid to watch it. If you’re a voter and are interested, feel free—but the fact that the Democrats are now twisting public documents to fit their narrative only reinforced everything we know and think about the Left and their lust to impeach Trump. You all know this is political theater. And yes, with the transcript public, we will notice when the Left tries to sneak in a salacious and totally false rewrite."

The Hill  "Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is not a bomb-thrower. And he’s not a partisan street brawler.
"A fair-faced congressman from southern California, Schiff is a moderate, a compromiser, a man who chose law school over med school because he thought it would give him greater opportunities to serve the public.
"He is passionate about science education. He sponsors town-hall meetings on Darfur. He reads the classics for pleasure — he’s in the middle of what he calls his “Victor Hugo phase.”

"So there is nothing in the world that prepares you for the dark side of Schiff.

"But it’s there.

"Just ask Stephen Colbert." . . .

The Spin: Schiff Shares His Own Interpretation of the 'Damning' Ukraine Transcript"Before the call transcript was even released, Democrats used it to announce a formal impeachment inquiry on Tuesday. As of this morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi still hadn't read it."Per the request of Schiff and several others, the DOJ will also release the full whistleblower complaint. Schiff has already made up his mind about that document too." 

. . .Mark Davis feels Impeachment Gamble Already Backfiring on Democrats. . . "The arc of this story can certainly change. As the gaggle of House committees tries to avoid stepping all over each other, a hungry media climate will devour every development. This may or may not be of benefit to a Democratic Party that has telegraphed its doubts about any of its candidates’ ability to beat Trump next year." . . .

Rep. Schiff Fabricates What Trump Said In Ukraine Telephone Call Transcript

. . . "The House Intelligence Committee chairman even suggested that Trump told Zelensky, “‘And I’m going to put you in touch with Rudy — you’re going to love him, trust me. You know what I’m asking, and so I’m only going to say this a few more times in a few more ways. And by the way, don’t call me again, I’ll call you when you’ve done what you’ve asked.’ This is the sum and character what the president was trying to communicate with the president of Ukraine. It would be funny if it wasn’t such a graphic betrayal of the president’s Oath of Office.” 

"Schiff has said he believes impeachment of the president can be used as a “tool” to expose Trump’s alleged misconduct."

Schiff Gets Slapped For Fabricating What Was In Transcript, Backpedals Claiming It Was “Parody” 

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Double Standards on Ukraine: "Democrats in Congress and the media pretend to swoon over conduct they accepted when Obama did it."

Andrew C. McCarthy

"House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff’s opening statement at today’s hearing, a grilling of National Intelligence Director Joseph Maguire, was remarkable. To begin with, he recited a parody of the conversation between President Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky that was so absurd, it would not have made it into a Grade-C mob movie. A telling decision by Schiff, a capable former prosecutor: If you have an extortionate conversation, you quote it. If you need to imagine it into something it isn’t, that means it is not an extortionate conversation.

"Also telling: Chairman Schiff came flying out of the starting block describing how overwhelmingly dependent Ukraine is on the United States and its president. Of course, this fact must be forced to the fore because it is not obvious from the Trump–Zelensky conversation — again, Schiff does not have evidence that Trump extorted Zelensky for the purpose of aiding Trump’s 2020 campaign.

"But more to the point, the relationship of dependency intensified in 2015 due to the flight to Moscow of Ukraine’s president, Viktor Yanukovych. At that point, a new Ukrainian government more to the Obama administration’s liking, under President Petro Poroshenko, came to power. It was desperate for American help, financially and security-wise, which is why Vice President Biden was in a position to pressure it into firing the prosecutor who was conducting a corruption investigation of Burisma, the energy company that had appointed Hunter Biden to its board and was lavishly compensating him." . . .

Whistleblower complaint on Ukraine call released, alleges Trump solicited foreign 'interference' in election

Fox News Video at the link with the highly respected Catherine Herridge reporting.
"The whistleblower complaint that touched off a political tempest in Washington was released to the public Thursday, alleging President Trump used the "power of his office to solicit interference" from Ukraine in the 2020 election -- and that White House officials subsequently tried to "lock down" records of that phone call.
The rough transcript of the July call, between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, was already released a day earlier by the White House. It confirmed that Trump sought an investigation from Ukraine into the Biden family, though did not show the president explicitly leveraging U.S. aid as had initially been suggested in some media reports.
"But the whistleblower complaint, released by the Democrat-led House Intelligence Committee ahead of testimony from Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire, goes further, though it is not a first-hand account of the call. The whistleblower, who remains anonymous, says in the complaint that White House officials who heard the call were "deeply disturbed" by it, and that White House lawyers discussed how to handle the call "because of the likelihood, in the officials' retelling, that they had witnessed the President abuse his office for personal gain." 
READ THE COMPLAINT  
"The document is sure to fuel the impeachment inquiry formally launched by House Democrats earlier this week. Trump, though, has maintained he did nothing wrong." . . .