CNN Admits That Nancy Pelosi’s Shift to ‘Bribery’ Verbiage is a Political Stunt

Washington Sentinel

With US military aid to Ukraine contingent upon that nation’s anti-corruption work, the idea of bribery seems laughable.

 "Impeachment, now that it has become a public matter, is largely a game of perception.r

"You see, the Democrats will not impeach and remove the President; Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has intimated that any trial in his chamber of Congress would be a swift one.  Furthermore, there is no evidence to suggest that enough Republicans would change their minds on the President’s conduct to warrant his removal.

"That means that this is all for show, and the Democrats know this.  Impeachment, the process itself, has now been reduced to little more than a 24/7, cable news, anti-Trump campaign ad for whomever the Democrats eventually choose to run for President in 2020.  Their goals now are not to win an impeachment trial, (no one wins in impeachment), but to damage Donald Trump enough to let the American people vote him out.

"This is why Speaker of The House Nancy Pelosi has adjusted her language when referring to the President alleged misconduct on the subject of Ukraine, from “quid pro quo” to “bribery”.

"Even CNN was forced to admit as much today." . . .

Armed citizen puts a stop to fatal shooting at Walmart by putting gun to suspect’s head

American Thinker  "Thank goodness the Duncan, Oklahoma Walmart is not a “gun-free zone.” Because an armed citizen happened to be doing his shopping Monday morning and spotted a gunman shooting, victim fatalities were limited to two people. Brandon Curtis of Concealed Nation writes:
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"We will never know if the gunman, who was clearly mentally disturbed, would have gone on to shoot others had an armed citizen not intervened. But it is clear that an armed citizen stood in his way if he had wanted to spread the carnage."

Just making sure you and Adam Schiff knew this

Eric Ciaramella, Eric Ciaramella, Eric Ciaramella, Eric Ciaramella

https://www.americanthinker.com/cartoons/

The Radicalizing of Eric Ciaramella "While the lawyers representing Eric Ciaramella, the alleged “whistleblower” in the Trump impeachment fiasco, describe him as having spent his entire career in “apolitical civil servant positions,” the truth is that Eric Ciaramella has been involved in radical political behavior throughout his life — including his years at Yale.

"In fact, long before he was digging up dirt with the DNC’s Alexandra Chalupa about President Trump’s mythical collusion with Russia, Ciaramella was involved in leading a protest over what he believed was the poor treatment of Bassam Frangieh, a radical professor of Arabic studies at Yale. On April 15, 2005, then first-year Yale student Ciaramella dressed in all white to lead a contingent of 10 similarly dressed first-year Yale Arabic students to the offices of the provost and the president of the university to demand that the university provide an incentive to encourage Frangieh to stay at Yale. The students were unhappy because Frangieh had decided earlier in the school year to accept a tenure-track position at the University of Delaware."
. . . "Eric Ciaramella was radicalized at Yale by professors like Bassam Frangieh. He was quickly recognized as a fellow traveler and became an insider in the Obama administration. Unfortunately, he continued that through the first two years of the Trump administration. In October 2016, Ciaramella was the guest of Vice President Joe Biden at a lunch to honor the prime minister of Italy. But, in July 2017, as members of the Trump administration began to suspect that Ciaramella, by then a career CIA analyst and Ukraine director on the National Security Council, was responsible for “high-level leaks,” he was removed from his post.
"Journalist Mike Cernovich exposed Ciaramella back in 2017 in an article claiming that Ciaramella wanted to “sabotage” President Donald Trump.

Cernovich was documenting meetings and lunches that Ciaramella was having with high-ranking officials at the DNC — including Alexandra Chalupa and the NSA. And, although ForeignPolicy.com and others attempted to disparage Cernovich as an “alt-right blogger” and one of “Trump’s Trolls, ” it seems that Cernovich was right all along." . . .

Plot thickens the day after Mollie Hemingway outed so-called whistleblower on Fox News


Will Mollie Hemingway still have a job at Fox News after naming the whistleblower on live TV Sunday?

Iran’s top leader warns ‘thugs’ as protests reach 100 cities

Politico

The government recently raised gasoline prices by 50 percent.

. . . "Since the price hike, demonstrators have abandoned cars along major highways and joined mass protests in the capital, Tehran, and elsewhere. Some protests turned violent, with demonstrators setting fires as gunfire rang out.
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"In a statement issued Sunday, the Trump administration condemned “the lethal force and severe communications restrictions used against demonstrators.”
“Tehran has fanatically pursued nuclear weapons and missile programs, and supported terrorism, turning a proud nation into another cautionary tale of what happens when a ruling class abandons its people and embarks on a crusade for personal power and riches,” the White House statement said.
"In Dubai, the new U.S. ambassador to the United Arab Emirates told The Associated Press that America was “not advocating regime change. We are going to let the Iranian people decide for themselves their future.”
“They are frustrated. They want freedom,” Ambassador John Rakolta said at the Dubai Airshow. “These developments that you see right now are their own people telling them, ‘We need change and to sit down with the American government.’”

Nick Short 
@PoliticalShort
A courageous woman tears down a "Death to America" poster in Iran. The crowd is chanting, "Death to the dictator," in a reference to @Khamenei_ir.
h/t @HeshmatAlavi https://twitter.com/i/status/1196415462038482944

Alireza Nader@AlirezaNader
“We have no money or fuel, to hell with Palestine.” Anti regime protests in Islamshahr,

ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM BARR: How “The Resistance” Is Shredding The Rule Of Law

In this partisan age, we should take special care not to allow the passions of the moment to cause us to permanently disfigure the genius of our Constitutional structure. As we look back over the sweep of American history, it has been the American Presidency that has best fulfilled the vision of the Founders. It has brought to our Republic a dynamism and effectiveness that other democracies have lacked.

Noisy Room  "I deeply admire the American Presidency as a political and constitutional institution. I believe it is, one of the great, and remarkable innovations in our Constitution, and has been one of the most successful features of the Constitution in protecting the liberties of the American people. More than any other branch, it has fulfilled the expectations of the Framers.
"Unfortunately, over the past several decades, we have seen steady encroachment on Presidential authority by the other branches of government. This process I think has substantially weakened the functioning of the Executive Branch, to the detriment of the Nation. This evening, I would like to expand a bit on these themes.
"First, let me say a little about what the Framers had in mind in establishing an independent Executive in Article II of the Constitution.
"The Framers and the Executive Branch  The grammar school civics class version of our Revolution is that it was a rebellion against [monarchical] tyranny, and that, in framing our Constitution, one of the main preoccupations of the Founders was to keep the Executive weak. This is misguided. By the time of the Glorious Revolution of 1689, monarchical power was effectively neutered and had begun its steady decline. Parliamentary power was well on its way to supremacy and was effectively in the driver’s seat. "By the time of the American Revolution, the patriots well understood that their prime antagonist was an overweening Parliament. Indeed, British thinkers came to conceive of Parliament, rather than the people, as the seat of Sovereignty." . . .

The Morning Briefing: Inevitable—Everyone Hates Kaepernick Now

PJ Media

"He Finally Did It

"In the three years since Colin Kaepernick knelt his way off of the San Francisco 49ers and out of the National Football League, the one thing the drama has lacked is ambivalence. 'People either hated him or viewed him as a social hero who was being mistreated and prevented from playing the game he loves.

"Now everybody just hates him.

"Throughout his supposedly unwanted hiatus from football, Kaepernick and those representing him have insisted that he is staying in playing shape and merely wanted a chance to showcase his skills for a team.

"Last week, the NFL offered him that chance. The Nike hero was supposed to work out for twenty-five teams in Atlanta last Saturday.

"As most of you probably know by now, the workout was derailed a bit because Kaepernick did what he truly does best: act like an insufferable prima donna.

At 2:30 p.m. Eastern time, with about two dozen scouts waiting at the Falcons’ facility, Kaepernick announced that the workout would be moved to a high school an hour away. Many scouts threw up their arms and headed straight to the airport. Dozens of reporters and cameramen drove south to the high school field.

"The NFL -- which often gets things like this wrong -- responded like adults, but if you read between the lines here, you can see that they’re really over Kaepernick:" . . .

Read the comments on Kaepernick
One of his disciples:

‘Today’s young generation will see the collapse of Israel and America,’ says senior Iranian cleric

JNS

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s representative in the Quds Force Ali Shirazi: Our confrontation with the U.S. will continue “until the leaders of the White House and the Zionist regime are annihilated.”

Senior Iranian cleric Ali Shirazi

 . . . "Senior Iranian cleric Ali Shirazi said in speech that aired on Iran’s Yazd TV on Nov. 4 that Iran’s confrontation with the United States was “in keeping with the teachings of the Koran, the Prophet Mohammed and the Jurisprudent Ruler” and will continue “until the leaders of the White House and of the Zionist regime are annihilated” and the “oppressive foundations of the global arrogance are disrupted.”

“Allah willing, [this] collapse will occur as soon as possible,” he added.

"Shirazi delivered his speech at a rally celebrating the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, which led to the Iran hostage crisis.

"The following are excerpts from his address:

"Ali Shirazi: “The Iranian people are facing the global arrogance in keeping with the teachings of our religion the teachings of the Koran, the teachings of the Prophet [Mohammed], the teachings of the imams, and the teachings of the current Jurisprudent Ruler. The confrontation with America will continue until the oppressive foundations of the global arrogance are disrupted, and until the leaders of the White House and of the Zionist regime are annihilated.

Mr. Kelleyanne Conway, George Conway: Let's Face It, This Elise Stefanik Character Is 'Trash'

Guy Benson

"He's a man perhaps best known for trolling his wife and her boss on Twitter, to the endless delight of his new political allies, and now he's expanding his blast radius.  Reacting to Rep. Elise Stefanik's (R-NY) aggressive questioning of witnesses and other tactics during the House Intelligence Committee's impeachment proceedings last week, George Conway decided to not only urge people to donate to her 2020 opponent, but to add a little bit of color commentary about Stefanik herself, for good measure: . . ."

Places where you can leave your spare quarters!

Bob's Blog

"The satirical Babylon Bee reports,

WORLD—Airports around the world are reporting record revenues after introducing a long-awaited feature: the ability to turn off CNN on television sets in their terminals.

For just one quarter, you can turn off CNN for a full fifteen minutes while you're waiting for your flight, leaving you with the "far superior" experience of just staring at a blank screen.

"At long last," said one man waiting for his flight at LaGuardia as he dropped a few dollars' worth of quarters into the "Turn CNN Off" slot. "Honestly, I might fly more now." He's not alone: airports expect a 426% uptick in traveling over the holidays as flyers no longer have to worry about having the droning words of CNN hosts pounded into their heads for hours on a layover.

The feature has been one of the most-requested by travelers along with the dismantling of the TSA and pretzel bags with more than 3 pretzels in them.

The money-making move has inspired moments of human compassion and unity as travelers lend each other money or leave quarters behind atop the television sets for future travelers to turn off CNN. One anonymous philanthropist at DFW prepaid for over a year of CNN-less travel throughout the terminal.

"It's great to see what humanity can accomplish when we unite," said one man at LAX as he rummaged through his pockets to lend a quarter to a woman who wanted to turn off the CNN screen near her. "Here you go, miss. Enjoy your flight!"

CNN is protesting the move, saying it has cut their viewing audience in half, leaving them with just one.

A similar program is being rolled out in hospital waiting rooms throughout the country.

Epstein's Prison Guards Could Face Criminal Charges

Zero Hedge  "While the political and financial elites across the globe (and certainly in the UK) are doing everything in their power to bury the Epstein scandal - so to speak-  both literally and metaphorically, CBS reports that such efforts face a hurdle as Federal prosecutors in New York are considering bringing criminal charges against the two correctional officers responsible for guarding Jeffrey Epstein on the night of his death.

"As a reminder, Epstein, who was 66 at the time of his death, was found unresponsive in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City on August 10."

"The official explanation for Epstein's death was suicide, although skeptics have suggested that Epstein's sudden death was all too convenient as it also buried the toxic secrets of countless implicated "luminaries" and Wall Street and Beltway VIPs across all sectors of US life." . . .

Libs circulating doctored photo of Rep. Elise Stefanik giving the finger after Marie Yovanovitch’s testimony

 Twitchy

"You can tell that Rep. Elise Stefanik hit a nerve during the impeachment hearings Friday, as George Conway and a bunch of follows are posting their donations to her opponent’s campaign and celebrating already that she won’t be reelected. Don’t be too sure though; they tried to shut her down Friday, but she persisted.

"You know they’re desperate when they’re passing around a Photoshop of Stefanik giving the finger as former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was receiving a standing ovation from the Democrats.

ms_mims@ms_mims

Replying to @observantjulie and 2 others

https://twitter.com/observantjulie/status/1195703751396536320/photo/1pic.twitter.com/fp2asZxV9E @EliseStefanik
giving America the finger. Classy.

Sullen pout on #Stefanik's face. #NewYorkers, you can obviously do better.

Vote @TedraCobb

 Stefanik posed for this picture as Ambassador Yovanovich was getting a loud standing ovation after giving testimony yesterday.

NY21 deserves better than this childish loser. https://t.co/V13LYg2DMc pic.twitter.com/necHqvJUjH

— Brian J. O'Malley (@BrianJOMalley) November 16, 2019

No, she didn’t “pose” for that photo and a quick scan of the video from which the still was captured proves it’s faked.

This is photoshopped. Here’s full video. pic.twitter.com/kF2oedu82F

— Wozinator (@WozvilleNation) November 16, 2019