'Believe Democratic women': Paying the price for a lie

Noemie Emery    “ ‘Believe the woman’ didn’t mean believe all women, all the time. But this is an era of slogans, and we’re paying the price for that.” So spoke an adviser to one of the women now being considered as Joe Biden’s running mate, quoted by Politico. In other words, "believe the woman" was a lie.
"What they meant was, "Believe the woman when she’s with our party and the man she's accusing is a conservative who might vote against us on the Supreme Court." So Anita Hill was a saint, whereas Paula Jones (who got a nice, hefty sum out of Bill Clinton) was "trailer-park trash." Juanita Broaddrick could not get a hearing, and Gloria Steinem wrote in the New York Times that President Clinton, because of his party and his stance on abortion, should get a pass, depending upon whom he had pawed.
"Now, the woman to be disbelieved is Tara Reade, a one-time Biden aide who was fired in 1993 soon after she claimed Biden raped her, with just a little more evidence than Christine Blasey Ford had against Brett Kavanaugh, which, in that case, was nothing at all. If this seems like deja vu, it’s because that it is, case one being the Lewinsky affair and the Clinton impeachment in 1998, seven years after the Hill-Thomas hearings, with the Kavanaugh buzz-saw occurring in 2018.
"Each time, Democrats believed in the woman, sight unseen, when the man involved was a conservative who seemed on his way to a Supreme Court appointment. They disbelieved when the man was a Democrat either in the White House or trying to get there. Does this sound kosher to you?
"This time, the situation emerging is still more complex. Biden, before this, had promised to pick a woman to run for vice president, and every last woman who fits that description is already on the record as a fervid opponent of Kavanaugh and as a supporter of Blasey Ford's allegations. This means that each one will have to explain, many times over, why Blasey Ford was believable with no evidence whatsoever, whereas Reade is not.

Note that Ford told no one her story until 30 years passed, whereas Reade spoke to a number of people only days later. They cannot, of course, vouch for the truth of her story, but can at least say it was told at the time.
"Reade also gave a time, date, and place to her story; Blasey Ford can’t remember the day, month, or year when her incident happened, or the house where it happened. Blasey Ford cited the names of the people she says were in the house at the gathering, but no one she mentioned remembered the house, or the party, or even one like it. No one could recall seeing Blasey Ford and Kavanaugh at any occasion at all. No one can prove that Kavanaugh and Blasey Ford did not meet on some occasion, but no one can prove that Reade’s story’s not true.
"Given this, an impartial observer has to conclude that Reade’s story is probably more likely true because she gave a time and a place to her story, seemed disturbed to contemporaneous observers, and told others about it. Any woman who believes Blasey Ford and not Reade does not believe in "believing the woman." And the woman chosen by Biden to run right beside him will be "paying the price" for the lie." . . .

Your Guide To The Obama Administration’s Hit On Michael Flynn

Margot Cleveland at The Federalist

New documents in the Michael Flynn case cemented that a small cadre of high-level FBI agents set a perjury trap for President Trump’s then-national security advisor.

"The unsealing last week of a series of documents in the Michael Flynn criminal case cemented the reality that a small cadre of high-level FBI agents set a perjury trap for President Trump’s then-national security advisor. Beyond exposing the depth of this despicable personal and political hit job on a 30-year military veteran, the newly discovered documents hold great legal significance. Here’s your legal primer.
"The Russiagate special counsel’s office charged Flynn with violating 18 U. S. C. § 1001, which makes it a federal crime to “knowingly and willfully” make a false statement of “a material fact” to a federal official. Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team claimed Flynn violated Section 1001 by lying to FBI agents Joe Pientka and Peter Strzok—the latter of whom has since been fired—when the duo questioned Flynn on January 24, 2017, about Flynn’s December 2016 telephone conversations with the Russian ambassador.
" 'Flynn pleaded guilty to the Section 1001 charge in December 2017, but after the special counsel’s office disbanded, Flynn fired his prior attorneys and hired Sidney Powell. He later moved to withdraw his guilty plea, arguing his prior Covington and Burling lawyers had provided ineffective counsel. More significantly, Flynn maintained that he is innocent of the charge and had only pleaded guilty because Mueller’s prosecutors threatened to go after his son if he refused."  "New Lawyer Discovers a Rat’s Nest" . . . Full article...

BARR: Michael Flynn’s Legal Tormentors Should Be Prosecuted

. .  . "What the FBI — then under the leadership of the since-discredited James Comey – did to Gen. Flynn constitutes a blatant violation of the most basic ethical principles which federal investigators and prosecutors are sworn to uphold. The fundamental ethical foundation according to which these men and women, including Comey and former Special Counsel Robert Mueller — whose office prosecuted Flynn — is best captured in a speech delivered by then-Attorney General Robert Jackson in early 1940." . . .

Here It Comes: The Move to Remove Gropey Joe

PJ Media  "Democratic presidential nominee-apparent Joe Biden got hit with a double-whammy today from his one-time allies in the major media. “How will the Democrats pull a Torricelli and replace Biden on the ticket with someone who can win?” used to be a question limited to the comments sections on the right side of the blogosphere. Now it’s a question debated openly on the op-ed pages of the MSMDNC’s two biggest newspapers.
"In the New York Times on Sunday, “Catholic Left” opinion writer Elizabeth Bruenig argued that “Tara Reade’s allegations against Joe Biden demand action,” and that she “can assert with firm conviction” that “Democrats ought to start considering a backup plan for 2020.”
“ 'One,” she writes, “that does not include Mr. Biden.”
"Tellingly, Bruenig notes that the Democrat-friendly (to say the least!) Planned Parenthood Action Fund has called for “a more thorough investigation than Mr. Biden’s camp has currently agreed to.” Maybe it’s possible for a Democrat to get elected president without the aid and support of Planned Parenthood’s political action wing, but I doubt they’d want to try." . . . More...

New committee seeks to draft Michelle Obama as VP nominee

The PAC says Obama would help "defeat Republicans up and down the ballot."

" 'Ms. Obama, the most admired woman in America, will be a vital asset this November, when Vice President Biden will face an uphill battle to combat the lies and deceit emanating from the White House," said the statement released Monday. "Her credibility as a trusted leader and a strong symbol of unity within the Democratic Party would certainly help Democrats defeat Republicans up and down the ballot.' " . . .

The UK Guardian on President Trump's "lack of compassion"

Serving CNN: Will Americans ever forgive Trump for his heartless lack of compassion? 

While the nation grieves, the US president has spent less than five minutes expressing compassion for those who are suffering

"To exist at this moment is to navigate (or try to fend off) the flood of grief that threatens to submerge even our rare, buoyant moments. We mourn the death of friends and relatives, the absence of human contact and the everyday pleasures we once took for granted. We can’t stop thinking about the tens of thousands of families facing hunger, bankruptcy and homelessness even as they struggle to endure the loss of someone they dearly loved.

What’s striking, if not surprising, is that this deluge of sorrow has run dry at the door to the Oval Office. " 
"One’s heart goes out to the reporters who have sifted through the Donald Trump’s press briefings on the current pandemic. . . "

Like the "compassion" Hillary showed in standing beside the caskets of our Benghazi victims? 

Or Obama's "compassion" for the dead soldier whose casket he used as a photo op?

How's this for compassion?

President Trump Thanked By Hospital Staff For Visit To Pittsburgh

Black Panther Leader Praises Trump’s Speech, RIPS Democrat Party: ‘We’re Being Pimped Like Prostitutes’

The Failed Experiment of Social Distancing

The history of science, sadly, is littered with bad experiments gone horribly wrong. The Great Social Distancing Experiment of 2020, when it is over, will very likely be toward the top of that list.

American Greatness  "After a two-month trial, researchers are collecting early outcomes of the Great American Social Distancing Experiment of 2020.
"The results, to say the least, ain’t pretty—and the “experts” who initiated this experiment on 330 million well-meaning but unwitting test subjects are starting to admit failure.
" 'Wait. An experiment?” you may ask. But we have been assured by the credentialed class that keeping a distance of six feet between healthy people for weeks on end was the only tried-and-true way to prevent the deadly spread of the novel coronavirus. No way would the government shutter public schools and colleges for five months, bankrupt small businesses, send tens of millions to the unemployment line, jeopardize the nation’s food supply chain, prevent children from comforting dying parents and grandparents, and subject their fellow countrymen to soul-crushing house arrest for the first time in U.S. history if the so-called “social distancing” guidance hadn’t been carefully vetted over time, you might insist.
"Certainly every variable and every side effect of social distancing has been factored into this economy-crashing “mitigation” strategy, right?
"Unfortunately, and maddeningly, the answer is no.
"Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former head of the Food and Drug Administration and a lead booster of social distancing, admitted Sunday that the draconian measures aren’t working as the experts promised.
“ 'The concerning thing here is that we’re looking at the prospect that this may be a persistent spread,” Gottlieb said on CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” further noting 20,000 to 30,000 new reported cases per day despite intense lockdown orders in most states." . . .
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When will the Democrats pull the plug on ‘Plugs’ Biden?

There are contributing factors, his flacking for China as his son reaped ten-figure backing from the Communists, and his sexual harassment issues most prominently (for now). But the wiser and wilier among the DNC’s power elite know that they will not be able to hide Biden’s mental infirmity all the way to November third.  So, they are considering how and when best to be rid of Joe.

Thomas Lifson  "If we presume that Joe Biden’s pace of mental decline doe not reverse direction, the Democrats will be stuck with an embarrassment leading them into disaster in November.  Unless there is vote fraud on a massive scale, Americans will not hand the fate of the Republic to Grandpa Simpson, also known as “Plugs” Biden after undergoing expensive hair transplant surgery in 2008 to avoid going bald." . . .
. . . "Should this path be followed, Sanders supporters are on the record that they will burn down Milwaukee if the Bolshevik is not fairly treated. But the entire reason Biden garnered the support he did was that he was supposedly “safe” compared to an open socialist. They fear a Sanders-led ticket would bring total disaster." . . . 

. . . Such a switch could be made any time between the convention nomination and Election Day. Because we technically vote for Electoral College members rather than presidential candidates, it may be, as Vox proposes, that Electors could simply transfer their vote from the old Democratic nominee to the new one regardless of what was printed on the ballot. But the legal situation is uncertain and varies from state to state. "For instance," notes FiveThirtyEight, "Michigan's law requires an Elector to vote for the ticket named on the ballot whereas Florida's rules say that an Elector is to 'vote for the candidates of the party that he or she was nominated to represent.'" That means a sooner swap, allowing more states to print the new name on the ballot, would be better. Yet court battles would be inevitable with the ever-litigious Trump involved.

"At this point, outsiders have no way of knowing the real extent of Biden’s infirmity, nor do we know the true views of the party insiders and their funders about his prospects for avoiding embarrassment and defeat. But if I were a betting man, I’d wager that someone else will be on top of the ticket November third."

Botox, hair plugs, and veneers: Biden could escape the cosmetic surgery scrutiny Hillary Clinton endured
"Cosmetic doctors are certain that former Vice President Joe Biden’s full head of hair, smooth forehead, and Cheshire Cat grin are the result of plastic surgery and other procedures."
. . . "Dr. Jeffrey Spiegel, chief of the Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Boston University Medical Center, said in 2013 that John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic nominee, had been "a little over-injected" with Botox and "looks Frankenstein-ian."

"The key to effective cosmetic surgery is subtlety, Alster said. “If they look like they’ve had cosmetic work, it works against them.' ". . . Joe's teeth had their own web site:  Joebidensteeth.com

Are these signs of mental infirmity in Biden back in 2012?

Daily Beast  "So just how many times did Joe Biden deploy his withering/excessive smile of contempt in Thursday night's debate? We've counted them up -- non-teeth-baring smirks excluded -- and present them here."

I feel if one fails to revere the Bible's words, they don't merely believe nothing; they believe everything.

Man of the Book; Second, every man needs the Bible — not just handy tips. 
From Desiring God: John Piper
"In the age of the Internet, we are swamped with opinions and pronouncements and the latest whatever. But a Christian minister must set himself to be, as John Wesley put it, “a man of one Book.”

"I hope you will live all your life as a reader. I hope you will read widely – novels, biographies, poetry, and more. But far more, I hope you will master the Bible. You will find more of Christ there. As Jim Elliot said, the Bible is “Christ in print.” So, I am thinking now of more than your preaching from the Bible. I am proposing to you a lifetime of daily immersion in the Bible.

"For starters, read the Bible through, from cover to cover, annually, for twenty years straight. You will change. You will see the flow of the whole biblical drama, and you will start seeing the whole of reality with new eyes.

"I also suggest you choose one Old Testament book and one New Testament book and drill down deep. Make those two books your special projects for the rest of your life. For me, it’s Isaiah and Romans. They are addictive. I have read them many times in English, I have read them in the original text, I have gathered commentaries and articles about them. And I am so glad I jumped in at the deep end. Both Isaiah and Romans function in the Bible like theological intersections, where the traffic of biblical thought flows in and flows out. These two books broaden my understanding of everything in the Bible. But you choose your two, and get after it!

"Finally, if you can, read through the entire Hebrew Bible and the entire Greek New Testament. If you do not read Hebrew and Greek, don’t worry about it. The English Standard Version is, for all practical purposes, the original text put plainly before you. But if you have studied the languages, do not lose them!

"What percentage of Christians in the last 2000 years have been given the privilege of reading biblical Hebrew and biblical Greek? After Jerome died in A.D. 420, for the next thousand years you could almost count on one hand the number of Christians in the West who knew Hebrew and Greek. But today, you are among the privileged few? You should get down on your knees and thank God! And then read, read, read your Hebrew Bible and your Greek New Testament.

"I cannot imagine a pastor coming to the end of his days with regrets that he knew the Bible too well. And I have never heard a church member complain that their pastor knows the Bible too well. But I did hear a minister in the Church of Scotland tell me that a group of Muslim clerics, visiting the ministers there years ago, came away saying, “Your holy men do not know their holy book.” That does not have to be you, dear brother. Make your plan. Work your plan. And by God’s grace, you will reap endless rewards."

Leader McCarthy Releases Plan to Allow the House to Return to Work

Townhall  "While Speaker Pelosi and her Democratic colleagues insist that the House will not return to work this week, GOP leader Kevin McCarthy outlined a plan to get the lower chamber back in session safely. Reps. Tom Cole (R-OK) and Rodney Davis (R-IL) joined the top Republican in co-authoring the detailed plan.

“In the interim, a bipartisan taskforce has been convened — on which we are all serving — to further explore ways in which Congress can operate during this challenging time. While differences remain, it has become clear through our initial meetings that all members of our taskforce share several fundamental beliefs….As we enter this indeterminate period between outright mitigation and a return to normalcy, everyone recognizes that our typical ways of doing business will need to adjust. Simply put, Congress will look and feel different...However, we believe there is a pathway forward that enables the House to fully perform its key functions without compromising our shared values or sacrificing bedrock norms,” the GOP congressmen wrote.

"The plan includes modifying the House's current procedural practices, a phased return of committees, a responsible use of technology and an implementation of mitigation practices to lower COVID-19 risks for House members." . . .

Gretchen rats out Michigan’s worst

Richard Jack Rail  "Caution: This piece drips with satire and sarcasm. If that’s not your thing, read no further.

"Headline: Michigan's Whitmer says armed protesters displayed 'worst racism and awful parts' of US history. (FoxNewspolitics, 3 May 20)

"Whoaaaa! Good thing Gretchen told us. We’d never have suspected that Michiganders would protest the lockdown by lynching black people, burning their churches, terrorizing them with burning crosses and raping their wives and daughters.

"Or that they’d scalp Native Americans and give them blankets infected with smallpox germs.

"Or that they’d round up Japanese Americans and put them behind barbed wired fences. Or line up any handy Vietnamese women and children and mow them down with machine gun fire. 

"Those are about the most awful parts of US history any of us can imagine, and it’s good that Michigan has Gretchen Whitmer in charge so she can keep us informed of all these atrocities being carried out in this day and age in what we once thought a civilized member of the 48 contiguous states. We were naively thinking such things were in the distant American past, long before Brown v. Board of Education or the Freedom Marches of the Fifties and Sixties.

"Seriously, it just never would have occurred to any of us that anyone living in Michigan would be capable of such racism or of acting out these worst parts of American history. Do you have secret societies up there, Gretch? Paramilitary outfits that practice shooting and like to do things outdoors and stay in shape and work on self-defense and other similar barbaric customs? Deplorable NRA types who cling to their guns and bibles, insisting irrationally on 2A rights and dragging their knuckles on the ground? As AOC might say, “Wow, this is, like, some heavy stuff.' ”

Whatever happened to dedicated, professional journalists?

Is there a Tim Russert out there anywhere?
News Thud

"New White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany shut down the media’s rude questions with a great performance at her first briefing today.

"She also took a few shots at Joe Biden and embarrassed the Dems over their treatment of Brett Kavanaugh.

" 'But it was how she shut down one rude reporter, AP reporter Jill Colvin, who actually asked if she would “pledge to never to lie to us from the podium.”

“ 'We are pleased that Joe Biden listened to President Trump’s advice and went on the record about the Tara Reade allegations 16 hours after the president said to do so,” she said.

“ 'How General Flynn was treated by the FBI should scare every American.”

“ 'Do you not consider it a miscarriage of justice when you have the FBI writing ‘we want to get someone to lie?’ I’ve seen a whole lot of scant information about Michael Flynn when there was a whole lot of speculation about Russia Russia Russia”

"She also announced the Trump administration will distribute $12B in provider relief fund payments to 395 hospitals hardest hit by the #Coronavirus

“ 'Not a single American died from lack of a ventilator,” she said about the Trump admin’s response to the crisis.

“ 'I think it was a grave miscarriage of justice what happened with Justice Brett Kavanaugh,” she said before adding the dagger:

"“That was an embarrassment for the Democratic Party.” . . .

Same AP Reporter Asks Trump’s Doctor What His Life Expectancy Is  . . . "If you’re the Associated Press, is that the kind of reporter you want covering the White House? One who either thinks she’s making a joke about the President dying, or is actually hoping to find out that he is dying?

The AP wants to know when Trump will die. Sick https://t.co/lRjJ4lnLCV

— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) January 16, 2018

"In fact, the Secret Service and Administration officials may want to look into whether or not Colvin should have her credentials revoked for this stunt.

"Colvin also asked the White House official if he had found evidence of bone spurs, a clear shot at Trump’s medical reason for getting one of five military deferments during the Vietnam War." . . .

She would fit in well at CNN. I contacted Colvin with this: 

Shame on you for your self-serving question to Kayleigh McEnany. Were you angling for a guest spot on “The View” or some late-night talk show? I cannot imagine when or if ever we will be able to trust our “free press” again when we consider so very many of you to be as corrupt as those on CNN and MSNBC.

Funeral Directors Blow the Whistle on Deaths Falsely Attributed to Coronavirus

PJ Media

“ 'Basically, every death certificate that comes across our desk now has COVID on it,” said a funeral director in Williston Park, N.Y., on a recorded phone call with Project Veritas in a newly-released video. James O’Keefe has been asking for people inside the medical system to blow the whistle if they see corruption or inconsistencies in reports about the Chinese WuFlu known as COVID-19. In conversations with several funeral directors across New York City, O’Keefe uncovered a shocking narrative where, without fail, every director he spoke to expressed his or her concern that coronavirus deaths are being inflated and every death in NYC is being recorded as a COVID death with or without testing to confirm.
“They are putting COVID on a lot of death certificates because people who are going to their hospital with any kind of respiratory distress, respiratory problems, pneumonia, the flu — the flu-like symptoms lead into the COVID-19,” said Joseph Antioco of Schafer Funeral Home. “To me, all you’re doing is padding the statistics. You’re putting people on that have COVID-19 even if they didn’t have it. You’re making the death rate for New York City a lot higher than it should be.”
"One funeral director talked about a family who is related to an unnamed Supreme Court Justice who insisted on a private autopsy that discovered their relative did not have COVID-19. “I had one that was autopsied because the sister was famous, and apparently, and I don’t know who the Supreme Court Justice is, but the Supreme Court Justice was related to this family, and she says I know my sister didn’t die of COVID-19,” said Josephine Dimiceli of Dimiceli & Sons Funeral Home. “She said she had Alzheimer’s and they didn’t suction her. You have to suction because they forget how to swallow. And right away they put down COVID-19 on her death certificate, and the Supreme Court justice, whoever it is, contacted the hospital. They did an independent autopsy; bingo. No COVID-19.” . . .

Not the Bee, but the WASP

Woman dies from shark attack; TV networks claim she’s ‘latest coronavirus victim’

. . . “The moment we saw that attack, we knew it had to be COVID,” an unidentified producer at MSNBC said. “I mean, what else could it have been? No doubt the woman was exposed to coronavirus at some point, so yeah, it had to be COVID.”“Not only that,” added another producer from CNN, “but she was obviously violating quarantine orders so, you know, what can I say?”“No one finds this disease more tragic than we in the media do,” the first producer, who asked to be identified as an uncaring Trump administration official, continued. “So if we have an opportunity to scare people to death so they’ll comply with their government masters, we’re going to do it.”“Our headline will be, ‘Coronvirus finds another way to kill,'” the CNN producer added. “It’ll sell. And people will believe it.”

Obama reacts to Grope and Change

Don Surber  "This is also a non-denial denial."

"David Axelrod wrote in CNN, "Obama team fully vetted Biden in 2008 and found no hint of former aide's allegation."

"That's Obama's story, and he is sticking to it because this story supports Biden while also providing CYA to Obama.

"Make no mistake: Axelrod speaks for Obama. We all know Axelrod would not be vouching for Biden without Obama's blessing. This is political theater.

"This is also a non-denial denial.

"Obama's spokesman began his piece, "When it became clear that Barack Obama would be the nominee of the Democratic Party in the spring of 2008, he commissioned a team of lawyers to begin an in-depth vetting process of potential candidates for vice president."

And Axelrod said, "The comprehensive vet certainly would have turned up any formal complaints filed against Biden during his 36-year career in the Senate. It did not. The team would have investigated any salacious rumors of the sort that travel far and wide in Washington. There were none.

" 'While I was not on the vetting team, as senior strategist to the campaign, I was briefed on their work and potential problems.

" 'Through that entire process, the name Tara Reade never came up. No formal complaint. No informal chatter. Certainly, no intimation of sexual harassment or assault from her or anyone else. The team of investigators, expert in their work, would not have missed it."

"Of course it never came up. Reade did not go public with this allegation until a dozen years after the 2008 campaign." . . .