The American people are reeling. Something is dramatically wrong, and the American people, even those who don’t pay close attention to public affairs and politics, are today wondering what in Hell is going on in Washington DC, but I repeat myself. There’s a good deal to unpack in this episode, but there are key facts we must know. If you don’t know these, or haven’t linked them, none of it makes sense. Why is the DCMafia going after Donald Trump now? What did they hope to find at Mar-a-Lago? Before describing to you what I think is part of the answer, I want you to watch this interview with Kash Patel and Devin Nunes on Maria Bartiromo’s show(H/T Sundance from theconservativetreehouse.com):
Nunes lays out a chronology of events, stretching back at least from the Obama administration. This is key. All of these things(and many more) are related, but I want you to think about a number of things that seem to be a shared feature.
In every case, all of the people linked to Trump who’ve had their doors kicked in at zero-dark-thirty have had search warrants executed, and it’s clear that the charges ultimately brought against these people were trivial compared to the nature of these charges. I want you to now consider a related, somewhat parallel timeline:
As Bongino observed on Monday’s radio show, and on his podcast, in the interview above, Patel points out that it’s all the same people. Lisa Monaco, and others, all operating inside the DOJ, are all the same people who were operating there before. Why? Because they’re on the hook for all of it. The very real truth is that these people may be on the hook for treason, and more. They can’t let Trump become President, but no matter what, they must never permit any of the information President Trump tried to declassify from to coming to light. Traced and tracked to the bitter end, this information reveals treason throughout the US government, and all over Washington DC. This isn’t a search for evidence about Trump’s alleged criminal mis-use of classified documents. This is all about impounding evidence that will cook the DCMafia, and ultimately, silencing any witnesses. Is Durham almost concluded? Will there soon be no further reason to retain some of the declassified documents?
This is why the search warrant has a broad scope, covering the entirety of Trump’s presidency. This is why. Just like in the case of Manfort, Stone, Giuliani, and all the other people they’ve raided, this is not about gathering evidence. It’s about impounding it, and keeping it forever sealed under the label of “ongoing investigation.” Hunter’s hard-drive? They can’t account for it. They impounded it. They intend to disappear it, just like they did with media and hardware taken from Epstein’s NYC mansion. I’ve been insisting that this is the purpose of all these raids and investigations since I first noticed the trend in late 2018.
Do you get it yet? They have to disappear the documents, and I expect they intend to re-classify it, and probably hide it for a half-century. In the mean time, because of Durham, some of the data, some of the most damning info, hasn’t been released. This prompts another question: Is Durham part of this? By essentially impounding some of these de-classified documents as part of his “ongoing investigation,” he’s delaying its disclosure. This is giving the FBI time to round up any copies, including those at Mar-a-Lago.
I’ve always believed Bill Barr was merely a clean-up fixer for the Deep State, recommended to Trump by the same people who brought John Bolton into the administration. By appointing Durham, Barr basically made sure that none of this info would come out until the investigation is complete. This would mean that Durham’s job isn’t to convict the dirtbags, but to ensure they get away. Think about it. Paul Sperry reported over the weekend that a number of the people involved in the raid of Mar-a-Lago were also tied to the Spygate scandal. He was subsequently suspended by Twitter without explanation.
Are you beginning to see the point? This means that once they have all the information impounded, they will move to make Trump go away, by one means or another, so there’s no chance he can ever get back into office and fully disclose this information to the public, never mind fill the Justice Department with people of the temperament necessary to clean this up and make it stick to the criminals. They’re going to arrest him and Epstein him. Or they’re going to claim he wrestled with a Secret Service agent in the back of the Beast and was killed. They are setting him up, on way or another, and after they cart him away, you will never be permitted to hear from him again. That, or the Iranians will convenientlymake good on their threats against Trump.
Our [legitimate] president, Donald J. Trump, is in mortal danger.
I’ve asserted repeatedly, here on this site, and on other platforms that there is no limit to what these people will permit themselves to do. They aren’t even attempting to hide it any longer. There, in front of you, is an obvious plot to conceal their crimes, frame the man who can expose them, and bury it all(and him,) so that they and their masters can evade justice again. Do you wonder why Merrick Garland looked and sounded as though he was to break out in tears? He wasn’t nervous. He was terrified, but worked himself up to face the moment. He knows with precision what his part is, and he’s playing it. The Raid is a cover-up. The evidence of treason is real, but it’s theirs – not his.
The difficult chore of maintaining credibility in the era of FakeNews
It started in a big way last week. Dan Bongino violated his own self-imposed “72 hour rule” with the story of the Snake Island story from Ukraine. Before the weekend was over, he’d discovered that he’d been misled like so many others, promptly informing his listeners of that fact on Monday. Dan’s “72 hour rule” is that when some new story of bomb-shell proportions comes along, he tends to hold onto them in order to verify the stories multiple ways before repeating them to his audience. Many others have seemingly been duped, repeatedly, and it’s a real problem, because while they may not be the ones originating the story, they’re the ones repeating it to their audiences. From the point of view of their audiences then, for all intents and purposes, they are originating the stories. On Tuesday, as is my habit while driving home, and as soon as I walk in the door, I tuned into Mark Levin’s show. Levin, long my runaway favorite among talk-show hosts, began in on a story in which he described the workings and effects of thermobaric bombs. He explained that Russia was using them. He also explained that Russia was using cluster-bombs against civilian areas, despite the bombs having been banned for use against civilians. Within less than twenty hours, these reports had been smashed when Bongino said on air on Wednesday that these reports hadn’t panned-out. A little digging revealed that this had been a completely unconfirmed report, and initially, there was a video discounted as fake by the gentleman in charge of the political subdivision in which it had allegedly occurred. The claims about cluster bombs are likewise unconfirmed, except that in Eastern Ukraine, there’s some evidence the Ukrainian forces have used them. At this moment, there is still no firm evidence that either side has used them, but even as of this moment, you can surf over to Levin’s site for his Tuesday Recap page and find the unverified claims about their use by Russia, along with the false claim that these weapons are altogether forbidden. He also claimed during his on-air description that the thermobaric bombs constitute a chemical weapon, which they most certainly are not. All of this made it plain to me in a very painful way that my favorite among talk-show hosts, Mark Levin, a guy I have enjoyed more even than Rush over the years, had now joined the legion of outlets I generally consider #FakeNews. It’s both shocking and saddening to me. We have so few media outlets we can take at face value. Whether by negligence or intent or because they’ve simply been fooled by others, it’s clear now that just when we need them most, most all media, even supposed “conservative” media, lie to us in varying degrees. Though I neither feel it should be my place, nor do I feel I have the heart to do the matter full justice, I must now take on “the Great One,” for the sake of my own integrity.
This is and has been the greatest disappointment of the last several years, and it began during the era of Trump, not because of anything Trump did, but because since the rise of Trump, any pretense at objectivity has been ditched in mainstream media, from CNN to MSNBC to Reuters to FoxNews. Media outlets have become so uniformly unreliable in so many ways for people like talk-show hosts, who must rely upon valid and factual news stories to fuel the discussions they will spawn with their audiences. The underlying information is so frequently inaccurate that talk-show hosts are finding it difficult to stay ahead of the fake news injected at light-speed into the conversation. Don’t misunderstand me to have said that I believe Mark Levin or Dan Bongino are liars, but that they now serve as a conduit through which lies are smuggled to their predominantly conservative audiences. I don’t believe this is their intention, but I suspect that applies to many other talkers. It’s that they’ve come to rely on sources that are corrupt or corruptible. It’s happened to me a time or two over the last eleven years here on this blog, usually in very small ways I’ve rushed to correct. The problem is that at the speed with which information now propagates upon its release in modern media, a lie can do real damage to our world, in ways that could be measured in millions of lives.
When the pandemic coverage had begun in 2020, I’d already suspected Fauci of giving us all a load of internally inconsistent nonsense. From a logical point of view, many of his pronouncements didn’t make sense. His answers were either unnecessarily evasive or expressed with unjustifiable certitude. Some of it was simply nonsensical. Mark Levin was among the first people in conservative media who featured Fauci as a guest, on his show on Foxnews. Fauci used Levin’s credibility with his conservative audience to ensnare them with his now largely-debunked and almost completely refuted narratives. I dare Mark Levin to now go back and re-watch the garbage he permitted Fauci to spew under the banner of “Life, Liberty and Levin,” and tell me that somehow, he feels unashamed for having failed his audience. He should feel pain if he now re-watches that episode, particularly considering that people made life-and-death-level decisions based on Fauci’s pronouncements early on. Mark Levin is a trusted source among conservatives like me. You can do the math. The fact that Fauci was saying these things on Levin’s show made them seem more reliable. Silly, gullible me. While I still didn’t trust Fauci, I did trust Mark Levin, and Fauci had now been given Levin’s virtual imprimatur. Fool me once…
Less than one year later, on January 6th, 2021, I listened as Mark Levin came on the radio and raged against the rioters at the Capitol on that day. He railed against the people at the Capitol, as if they were the terrorists my gut said they hadn’t really been, at least most of them. I listened, and I began to get that sickly feeling of disappointment. Was Levin falling for another false story? Since then, Levin has clearly realized, due to in-depth reporting by people like Julie Kelly, that he wasn’t getting the full story then, either. This entire episode had been frustrating to me because I actually know a man who observed some of what went on at the Capitol that day, during the event, from outside the Capitol, where he could see much of what was going on. While he never went into or anywhere near the scrum going on outside, he was in a position to see that there were numerous and obvious provocateurs. He told me that at one point, it became clear to him that at least some of the Capitol Police appeared to be acting in collusion with some of the provocateurs. Many innocent dupes followed the provocateurs into the Capitol, and my friend could see this happening. Some of the dupes were even drawn into a melee with police by the provocateurs, which happens quite easily in a crowd this size. As these events were happening, I was in my office listening to accounts of it, live on the radio, wondering immediately if this was another DC-UniParty setup. Why wasn’t that Levin’s first instinct? He has enough experience to have spotted it. I live half a continent away, but I can smell DC BS from the other side of the planet these days. This event had that stench from the beginning. Despite our shared experience of the last several years, for more than a few radio hosts, it wasn’t so obvious for some reason, but should have been. Instead, we got the usual “we condemn all violence” business, in a fashion no different than Chris Wallace repeatedly demanding that Trump denounce white supremacists on the debate stage, starting from the ridiculous premise that Trump were some sort of racist who now needed to renounce such associations. Conservatives must lose their fear of these smear-jobs, because it cripples them, not only politically but also intellectually, which is the intent of the smear-artists. For all appearances to the world, Levin and many other hosts were pushing the mainstream media, DC UniParty narrative, again.
Levin is a passionate advocate for positions in the information sphere, as am I, which is undoubtedly a large measure of what draws me to his broadcasts daily. I don’t make decisions about issues or candidates on the basis of emotion, but instead take a firm and careful accounting of them. Once I’ve done so, I then apply my passion to the conclusions I’ve drawn in explaining an issue or advocating a particular stance. The problem that arises for people like Mark Levin, Dan Bongino, or anybody else in the broadcast space is that things move incredibly fast. Information blasts in and out, and it is updated and superseded by better, more accurate information, but also sometimes more bogus, inflated, and hyped information. It happens constantly. In this environment, one is going to make judgments about the newsworthiness of a story in an accelerated frame of reference, and it will necessarily lead to a much higher rate of error than it will, for instance, on a lowly blog published in the backwaters of the Internet. Some of the posts here are composed, fact-checked, and pushed out in thirty minutes or less, but those are rare. In the main, the postings on this site will have taken hours to compose, sometimes days, or longer, and I’ve been known to table a story indefinitely if I think my information isn’t solid enough. If you were to have access to what’s here, you would see that I have almost half as many posts in “draft” status as the almost fourteen-hundred posts that have been published over the span of years. Those drafts are posts you cannot see, and many of them you will likely never see, but this is the process. If a story just doesn’t stand up as I think it should, it’s never published. That’s born of the luxury of knowing I’ll almost never be “first” with a story, and that all I can offer is a unique perspective, or new details you hadn’t been presented before, and because the speed at which I present information is far less important to my audience than the idea that I get it right.
Levin sometimes has excellent instincts. In March of 2017, based on a smattering of seemingly unrelated stories across several media outlets including McClatchy and the New York Times, Levin’s good instinct for political chicanery by Democrats led him to piece together the story we’ve all come to know is SpyGate, which actually encompasses a whole universe of sub-scandals, from spying on the Trump campaign and presidency, to the use of that information to concoct two fake impeachment narratives. The chicanery also revealed what should be the biggest scandal of all: The corruption of the FISA system by actors within the Justice Department and the FBI, along with others both directing and participating in these activities in the administration, and on the FISA court. What Levin’s instinct (and experience within the DOJ)provided him was the starting point for unveiling what should be known as the greatest scandal in American history, but for the fact that the corrupt and corruptible media will never willingly report on it. Claims that Levin is incapable of stellar research and investigation are to be ignored. It’s clear he has the experience and clear-eyed thinking to analyze such things. Why does it seem, of late, that he’s not nearly so clear-eyed in his appraisals? We can always forgive errors born of honest intent, but the problem is that media will attack even for those sorts of instances.
Levin bitterly complained after a small error in his most recent book, runaway New York Times best-seller American Marxism, was made out to be a mortal sin by a few among the chattering class in the leftist mainstream media. In general, his books are extremely informative and well-written. They’re amazingly well-researched and thoroughly documented. Few authors go to the lengths to provide the citations that Levin routinely does within the pages of his books. The problem is that when those critics reviewing your books are doing so with a political bias and intent, what you get instead of honest critiques are partisan hit-jobs. Levin made the error of writing “Franklin School” instead of “Frankfurt School,” as if that’s not an easy mistake to make and and a more difficult error to spot in editing. From the point of view of the full-tilt leftist media, this was the worst scandal in literary history, and they used it to libel him mercilessly. There’s a vast difference between an innocent error and the intentional falsehoods leftists publications gin through their presses and websites daily.
One of the problems is that in broadcasting, information moves extremely rapidly, and if you let yourself become emotionally invested in your conclusions about a given story too quickly, you’re going to get burned, quickly losing the trust of your audience, particularly if you don’t forthrightly confront the story’s inaccuracies or plain falsehoods promptly, as Bongino did on Monday and again Wednesday. In the case of Mark Levin, I’ve come to a crossroad due to this trouble. As a matter of loyalty for all his years of hard work, honest advocacy, and excellent programming, I am easily persuaded to give him another chance. And another. And probably several more. The crisis I’m beginning to experience is that this has become something of a trend, but more importantly, he surely became aware between his broadcasts of Tuesday and Wednesday that the use of thermobaric or cluster bombs (by either party) in the war in Ukraine are unconfirmed. I listened intently to the whole of his Wednesday broadcast, as I do most days, waiting for him to step right into the matter and clear it up. He never did.
Another sin of Levin’s is made up of his best intentions to advance conservatism. On many more than one occasion, due to his desire to defeat the left, he’s let alleged conservatives on the air, generally Republicans seeking election/re-election, who come on to use his platform in a political season, often seeking his endorsement or even just the legitimacy among conservatives lent to them by appearing on his airwaves. Lindsey Graham? Kevin McCarthy? There are more. Too many, really. I remember yelling at my radio, riding down the road “Mark, why do you bring these RINOs on your program? They’re going to screw you and betray us as soon as they’re re-elected.” Well? Have they? Yes, sadly they have. Levin himself was gently commenting on this recently. He knows. What he may not realize is how thoroughly it harms his credibility.
Since the beginning of the Russian attack on Ukraine, Levin has begun to bang the pots and pans indicating he’s very much in favor of some kind of intervention, or at least assistance to the beleaguered people of Ukraine. It’s leading him to accept too quickly the dis/misinformation he’s getting from some source(s), perhaps at Foxnews, or perhaps elsewhere. This has begun to seriously impact his credibility. On Wednesday evening, my worst fears in this vein were realized when he began gushing over Never-Trumper FoxNews Pentagon Correspondent, Jennifer Griffin, who’s a known leftist, clearly committed to corrupting news over at FoxNews. She’s one of the demons involved in the fake, ridiculous story about Trump at Normandy back in 2018, in which he allegedly called service-members who died there “suckers.” At the time of the story, Griffin said she was “unable to confirm the more salacious details,” implying she had confirmed the less salacious details, which naturally, she hadn’t. The whole story was later debunked, but as usual, the debunking never received coverage to scale of its the story’s original propagation. If this is one of Levin’s routine sources on national security matters, then nothing he says on the subject is even remotely reliable any longer. I get it: He’s not a reporter, but he still has some obligation to the facts, and he needs to be more discerning in selecting his sources. Neither Griffin nor Baier, both to whom Levin seems to have some unusual attachment, are what I would consider reliable or even particularly passable sources. Before going on an anger-fueled rant about how he’d happily provide his own weapons to the people of Ukraine, perhaps it would be a good idea to verify the reports of cluster-bombs and thermobaric bombs allegedly employed by the Russians. When it turns out, less than one day later, that the stories were either false or at least unverified, what then can he say to pull back on the bombast? It’s too late. Elvis has left the building. The best he can do is to retract the story later, but how does he then retract the bombast? He almost certainly won’t. He’s likely to leave that part stand, despite being at least partially motivated by the false stories. This is the danger of the passion when driven by unchecked or unverified information. As of now, he’s still letting the thermobaric and cluster bomb stories stand. I suppose he hopes we won’t notice, or that the unverified stories will become verified, or even mooted by future verified use.
Bongino was more measured Wednesday, having mostly abandoned the narrative that Putin had become unhinged and “irrational,” instead pulling it back to “unpredictable.” The interesting part about that is that in times past, Bongino had criticized Biden for destroying any “strategic ambiguity,” while praising Trump for having maintained it. “Strategic ambiguity” consists, in part, of unpredictability. On Monday and Tuesday, he had relentlessly pounded on the idea that Putin was perhaps irrational or even insane. It doesn’t help that this has been the mainstream media and UniParty narrative. Here is Hillary Clinton from Tuesday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe show:
Notice that Clinton questions Putin’s state of mind too. It’s foolish to assume your enemy is a crackpot because he’s become less predictable. In time of War, I would in many respects seek to make myself as unpredictable as possible to adversaries and enemies. It would be my intention to keep them guessing, and I’d want them to worry mightily about my willingness to ratchet-up the intensity or scope of the war. Bongino likes to talk about how President Trump had maintained a cloak of “strategic ambiguity” around his foreign policy intentions. Why would Putin behave differently? In contrast, Clinton famously had her reset button with the Russians while serving as Secretary of State, a job she was woefully ill-equipped to perform. Fortunately for her, it did give her access to bilk much of the globe with her Clinton Foundation. It was strictly a cash-and-carry operation, and there was no “strategic ambiguity” in it. Her mission was to cart away cash, and Russia fully understood it.
The other thing clear in the video is that the DC UniParty establishment is trying to capture the mantle of Ronald Reagan, as they continue their anti-Trump narrative. People like Levin and Bongino need to think very carefully about who’s providing the information they now rely upon to make pronouncements about Ukraine. If I could ask either man a question, I think I might pose it this way:
Consider the following list of names: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Mitt Romney, Adam Schiff, Susan Rice, Eric Swalwell, Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney, Fiona Hill, “Colonel” Vindman, Victoria Nuland, Ron Klain, and Jake Sullivan.
Now consider the events in Ukraine since roughly 2004. Then consider the activities of that list of people(and other cohorts) over the intervening period. Then, consider the following facts: In 2014, with funding and assistance from the US State Department, US DOD, and various US intelligence agencies, there was a coup d’etat in Ukraine. Essentially, the US fomented and funded regime-change in Ukraine. Ever since, the narrative in DC by the establishment, particularly the Democrats, has been “Russia, Russia, Russia.” Even Mitt Romney talked about Russia in his debate appearance, but Obama immediately deflected the question by mocking Romney. Had Romney inadvertently let a cat escape the proverbial bag?
Now ask: How many of the people listed above were involved in the RussiaHoax/SpyGate, the First Impeachment of Trump, the Second Impeachment of Trump, and how many had a hand in the January sixth story, events, and subsequent narrative? How many are now pushing the official DC UniParty’s Ukraine narrative, in concert with corrupt and corruptible media?
The media lies endlessly to us, and those lies don’t stop with events beyond the water’s edge. Meanwhile, I have to hear Levin questioning the patriotism of Americans who are questioning the official DC narrative, or suggesting they’re Russophiles or similar garbage. That’s what I expect from Hillary Clinton, so that when I hear it coming from the radio in Mark Levin’s voice, I must ask him: “What in the Hell are you thinking?” Why would Mark Levin now take up the “Russia, Russia, Russia” allegations of Hillary Clinton only to aim them against members of his own audience? On the basis of information from which sources? Jennifer-freaking-Griffin???
These two men have repeatedly demonstrated their capacity for intense investigations and research, but they’ve been steered in the Ukraine story largely by emotion, driven by many false stories, false narratives, and imagery that’s been created but unsubstantiated in far too many cases. In media generally, we’ve been shown a story about Miss Ukraine, bearing arms and ready to fight, but the rifle she’s pictured with is an airsoft rifle, (airsoft being a sport she enjoys.) We’ve been told about the “Ghost of Kiev,” by such low-lifes as Adam Kinzinger, that has turned out to be an utter hoax. The Snake Island story turned out to be propaganda in the larger dimension: It appears that rather than having been killed after telling their Russian attackers to “Go F’ themselves,” they laid down their arms in surrender, and are now all safe, albeit disarmed and removed from the battlefield. We’ve had a member of the Ukrainian Parliament tell the world that she’s fighting “not only for Ukraine, but for the New World Order.” We’ve had every manner of false story propagating, not merely from the combatants, but particularly from the Western media. The number of fabricated, concocted stories coming out of the war zone are far too numerous to list here. Even the imagery is frequently suspect, as reported elsewhere on this site.
That Levin and Bongino walked into some of these stories is no surprise. I too was sucked into one of them early on. The Snake Island story recalled the bravado and courage of the Alamo, until it didn’t. What’s been surprising and disappointing is how thoroughly Levin has been entirely swamped by some of it. Bongino corrected the record, in his defense and to his credit. So far, Levin has not, and he’s not backed-off his bombastic declarations about his willingness to ship arms to a country that has been a playground for the DC UniParty’s money-launderers. The alleged brave acts(it’s not that I doubt the bravery of Ukrainians, but only the veracity of this narrative) are being pushed in media with a reckless disregard for fact-checking and verification, which is the definition of war-time propaganda. The “fog of war” only clears if we work to make that hapen. It’s important for talkers to right their ships when they get a story wrong. Sometimes, it’s understandable and forgivable if the host makes amends by leading with the truth or a correction at the next available opportunity, as Bongino has done this week. We need solid information, and while I still want the passion both men bring to their respective endeavors in media, I have to insist that they improve their information-vetting, by reconsidering the sources they now employ. Clearly, some of those sources are of dubious veracity. I enjoy the presentations of each man, both interesting and entertaining, as well as bracing and motivating, but I need the foundation to be solid. Everybody makes mistakes, me included, but there are innocent errors and errors of incomplete information, but there are also errors born of haste, undue passion, lack of due diligence and malice. I expect the former to happen from time to time, and they are entirely generally to be forgiven upon forthright correction. The other sort, when they become habitual, threaten to turn an outlet or a show into nothing better than another mainstream media outlet: Corrupt or corruptible. This also applies to many others in the conservative space. In a moment of excess passion, it could easily happen to me. We must fight against this kind pollution of facts driven by our own intemperance, but we must also hold outlets and hosts accountable. I need Levin to correct the record, telling his audience that reports of thermobaric bombs or cluster bombsintentionally targeting civilians are unconfirmed, unverified reports at this time. In fact, their use at all remains unverified. These weapons are indeed nasty, but the US has employed cluster-bombs too. Ask the Iraqis. Ask the Afghans. What makes their use illegal, like so many weapons of war, is their use in the intentionaltargeting of civilians. Under various international treaties and conventions, doing so constitutes a war crime. It’s important for Levin to fix this at the next opportunity, and as ever, at least for the moment, I’ll be listening this evening to see if he will.
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time to get ready for the inevitable. The crooked Manhattan DA along with others operating in New York are getting ready to go after President Donald J. Trump. Just like every other piece of their witch-hunt over the last few years, it’s all about fraud, mis-direction, mis-information, and despicable politicization of the law. You should steel yourself for what’s to come. The Arizona Audit results are coming. It’s only a matter of time. They have to attack Trump, and soon, so they will be forced to make the biggest media splash they’re able to generate. They’ve already sent out the usual suspects, including Mitt Romney and Al Gore, to attack the audits and attack the effort to get to the bottom of 2020. Let’s just be blunt: If they are permitted to get away with the 2020 steal, there is no 2022 or 2024. There can be no legitimate elections until we learn the full extent of the steal. If Trump lost, SHOW US. If not, we need a reckoning, and it needs to reach into every branch of government, and it needs to include criminal remedies. In his speech in Ohio over the weekend, President Trump said it best: “They used COVID to steal the election.” He’s right, but what’s more, they’re going to use all of these news stories they’re pushing, including the “Delta Variant” and whatever they do to attack Trump. in achieve that object about which I told you earlier this year: When you carry out a coup d’etat, there’s no higher priority: Secure the coup. All of these attacks are about creating a smokescreen to obscure their goal. President Trump is out there trying to tell the world the truth while the media continues to bury it. We must see through the fog.
You can watch the entirety of President Trump’s speech in Ohio here, courtesy of his channel on Rumble:
There’s nothing more despicable in all the history of the United States than what is being done right now. We, the people, have been under continuous attack by elements of our own government, in collusion with media and also foreign actors, as well as corporate oligarchs since Donald J. Trump was elected President of the United States in 2016. That’s what the impeachments were really about. It’s all an attack on you.
Understand that the DC UniParty cannot tolerate Trump in office. They cannot tolerate you having power via a President who’s more concerned with your welfare than the economic interests of a lengthy list of corporate oligarchs, media dirtbags, and politicians who subvert it all. They were willing to steal the election, in part because they had to hide the degree to which they’ve succeeded in stealing previous elections. Make no mistake: They don’t want you to see the Arizona Audit results, and if you do, they want to make sure you doubt those results. This is why for weeks, or months now, they’ve continuously pounded the audits as a “scam” and a “fraudit.”
This is why they had to suspend Rudy Giuliani’s law license in New York. They’ve literally attacked an American hero in order to further their attacks on President Trump. They have to stop this, because as Rasmussen reported last week, more than half the American people want to see audits, and an increasing proportion of the American electorate believes Joe Biden is an illegitimate President. The steal really happened and as more and more people, even Democrats, are discovering the extent of the corruption, and as Joe Biden’s destructive policies push America closer and closer to the brink, Americans are realizing that something is very, very wrong.
Even now, they’re trying to push the “Delta Variant” because they need to stop the American people from talking and seeing or sharing information. They need to put an end to these School Board Meetings, so another lock-down is in the offing. They need to prevent the American people from comparing notes on anything. They know they can rig social media to the largest extent, and they can stifle search results, but if the American people are driven inside again, prevented from talking over the back fence with the neighbors, or engaging in public political activism, they can try to contain it.
I caution all of you: They want to incite violence or at least public protests they can infiltrate with provocateurs to incite violence. Don’t fall for these tactics. They also intend to make it impossible to get information. The Republican Party, that is in on the steal, is all too willing to help. Be aware that most media is corrupt. FoxNews is worthless. Yes, they have a few good hosts, but they’ve been muzzled too. This is your country, they know they haven’t succeeded in securing the coup as yet, and all of this is aimed at that object. Let your politicians know: There can be no discussion of 2022 or 2024 without fixing 2020. We need to get to the bottom of the November 3rd elections, or all future elections are pointless. Meanwhile, the UniParty needs to make its power bulletproof against future elections. Don’t let them.
On January the 6th, 2021, I published a post on the events in the Capitol. In my opinion, there was all the evidence in the world that the events of the day were being stage-managed by somebody as the means by which to set up MAGA/Conservatives. To the extent that was the case, we now may conclude that among the people/institutions stage-managing the attack were the FBI. The FBI had many confidential informants and probably agents who to varying degrees participated in the event, and may have helped to organize it. Indeed, it’s increasingly clear that many of the so-called “insurrectionists” who fomented and incited the worst of the behavior at or in the Capitol were role-players. All of this is being revealed by work being done by Darren Beattie at Revolver.News and reported on Tucker Carlson earlier this week. Here’s a clip from Carlson’s show:
The FBI was likely in on it. The FBI has been involved in other things too. We now know the FBI was in on the attack in Dallas in 2015. As time goes on, we’re finding that this is the M.O. of the FBI more broadly. Yesterday, Sundance over at TheConservativeTreehouse, rightly let loose with a criticism of the desire some have expressed for a “commission” to investigate all of this. The post is correct: We have lost our minds if we expect these people to police themselves. A commission won’t do it. When has a commission ever revealed anything useful? The Warren Commission? The 9/11 Commission? Even the Base Realignment and Closure Commission was intended to give politicians a measure of political cover. The worst part in this case is, as Sundance points out:
“The Legislative Branch of the federal government is part of the Intelligence Community corruption. The oversight “gang of eight” (pictured above), are enablers and participants in the corrupt endeavors that Carlson wants them to investigate.”
“The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) led by Chairman Adam Schiff, and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) led by Chairman Mark Warner, are part of the institutional corruption. This is the problem, the core issue in the background, that too few people are recognizing as they begin to see the corruption within the intelligence community. The legislative branch and the executive branch are working together; there is NO functioning oversight.”
This is the correct understanding of the problem we face. There is no chance to reform any of this with the current crowd in power, or, I would argue, even with the current “opposition.” Most of these people, if not all of them, are in on the plot. This gets to the real nub of the issue. If you wonder why they hated Trump so much, and why at any cost, he needed to go, it’s this: He wasn’t on the team. He wasn’t on the payroll of the DeepState. He’s not a member of the UniParty. Virtually everything elected Republicans have done since he won the nomination in 2016 had been designed to undermine him and sabotage him. Everything the Democrats and the media have done since has been calculated likewise to destroy him. The response to COVID-19? That too was part of the playbook.
If you get to the bottom of January 6th, you get to a set of people. If you get to the bottom of the ElectionCoup of 2020, you get to the same core set of people. If you get to the bottom of COVID-19/SARS-CoV2, you get to the same core of people. ObamaGate/SpyGate? Same people. ImpeachmentHoax? Same people. No matter how far down into the manure-pile you dig, you always get to the same core of people. This isn’t coincidental.
We’re under attack by deeply anti-American elements operating inside the American government with the full knowledge/cooperation of people at the tops of all branches of government. Sundance rightly pointed out the legislative and executive branches, but it’s pretty clear to me given all we’ve seen with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the behaviors of Chief Justice John Roberts in mal-administering the FISC that the judiciary is also mostly compromised. They don’t care about your civil liberties, any notion of constitutional legitimacy, or any mechanism of the law in general except when they can exploit it to their virulently despicable purposes. To make all of it more clear to you, so that you might finally understand what they’re willing to do, consider the reporting of WesternJournal.com in which they explain that the Biden Administration is now urging Americans to report on supposedly “radicalized” friends and family.
The Patriot Act and FISA are being used primarily against the American people. Just as civil libertarians warned at the time of their original enactments and subsequent reauthorizations, these have become the weapon of the vast machinery of state against the American people.
This is not a game, and there’s no avoiding it. The time for choosing is coming. For all of us.
We’ve known all along the COVID19 #WuFlu pandemic was being used as a political tool to drive Donald Trump from office. We knew the economic shutdown, most intense in so-called “Blue States,” was being used as a means to drive down his support among moderates. From the beginning of the year, with the falsified, corrupt, wholly partisan impeachment debacle, 2020 and everything throughout the year would be leveraged to destroy the Trump administration and drive President Trump from office. When the riots broke out over George Floyd, and they rapidly spread to other cities, it was obvious they were being fomented and driven by political operators intent upon seeing Trump overthrown at the polls in November. Only once Democrats saw their own polls sliding off a cliff after three months of quietly giving their tacit support to the rioters, did we finally see a sudden wave of Democrats “condemning the violence” but incredibly, blaming it on Donald Trump! It’s as though they believe if they tell a lie long enough, they will have it believed. Too often, this tactic has worked on so-called “low information voters” who don’t pay attention to politics until within weeks of an election. Finally, a week ago, however, Hillary Clinton tipped the Democrats’ hand. Now we know how they intend to steal the election, and while we were right to guess that the mail-in ballots would play a part, I think most of us had no idea what form it would take. Now it’s clear: They’re saying we won’t know the outcome of the election on election night, because the Democrats won’t be done stealing it until some days, weeks, or months later.
Hillary tipped their hand, though she speaks in code to the media:
President Trump had known it all along. His complaint about the mail-in ballots had been that they would be overwhelmed by fraud. He’s right, and the Supreme Court’s role in unseating Trump will not go unnoticed on this site. John Roberts, joining with the majority, to permit the mail-in fraud was the final nail in the Republicans’ coffin. The whole swamp is out to get him, in fact, but only the Democrats and a few hands-full of Pierre Delecto-types on the Republican side are willing to openly admit their hatred of Donald Trump. It isn’t anything that he’s done, so much, as what they fear he will do. They fear exposure, and they fear the prosecutions that will follow. Trump the outsider has laid bare more swampy corruption than the most obtuse conspiracy theorist had dared dream. There’s more yet to expose, from #Obamagate and the treason ongoing, to the thorough sell-out of American public officials to the Chinese Communist Party. There are ties to sexual abuse rings, and while that is the most salacious material in the offing, the most harmful to the broadest swath of America has been the betrayal of US security interests to the Chi-Comms. There can be no doubt that life and death are at stake, because real treason has been committed against the US by elected officials, from lowly local officials all the way up the chain to former Presidents.
That’s quite an accusation, but all of the basic evidence is there, right before your eyes, if only you will see it. Much of the worst treason has been uncovered already by various acts of declassification. Page, Strozk, Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Yates, Lynch, Biden, Obama and a laundry list of others constitutes a real cabal to commit offenses against the United States Constitution, acting in the capacity of enemies of the State. There’s no shortage of supporting characters, in Congress, and also in the Judiciary. What do you suppose this extraordinary action by District Judge Sullivan and the rogue’s gallery of appellate level judges is all about in relation to the Flynn case? This is all about delaying exposure until after the election, an election they are actively and passively conspiring to steal. After all, we’ve known for some time that Biden has retained the services of some 600 lawyers for the post-election ballot fight he’ll wage.
Rush Limbaugh pointed out on Tuesday that these fiends intend to keep Biden from conceding the election, because on election night, it will look like a Trump blow-out. Instead, Biden’s team of lawyers will follow Hillary’s advice and he will not concede, and they will go to work counting fake ballots.
You might ask at this point why they would do such a thing. You might wonder in perfect incredulity at the mere suggestion. What you don’t understand is that these demons know with a foreboding finality that their very lives are on the line.
Treason is a capital offense. Even avoiding that charge, their ill-gotten fortunes built on careers of graft and corruption will be destroyed, seized, and remitted to the treasury. Large-scale donors who have thrown in with this gang are also on the line. Do you have any doubt what names like Zuckerberg and Bezos have at stake? Gates? Pichai? Bloomberg? Romney? Pelosi? Schiff? Barack Hussein Obama and his master, George Soros?
These people are desperate. It’s only a matter of time before some thug or gang of thugs working on their behalf makes an attack on the President directly. That may be their final option, if they find they’ve failed to steal the election. Whatever the outcome, they are going to find a way to power, or they’re going to die trying. You see, while people like Hillary want their measure of pure revenge, it’s also true that this is an act of legal self-defense. These people, many of them, are going to jail when all is said and done, should Trump be re-elected. They will lose everything, perhaps even their lives, should all plausible charges be pursued, and this is a scandal much broader than two-bit, run-of-the-mill, billion-dollar DC establishment corruption. There is high treason here, and there are crimes against children to be pursued, and there are billions of donated dollars from the good-natured, charitable Americans who contributed to all sorts of causes because they thought they could help people afflicted with diseases, pestilence, earthquakes, floods, and all the other things Americans send their cash to help with around the globe. The betrayals are many. The various conspiracies are innumerable.
Donald Trump may win in a landslide on election day if we all get out there and do our civic duty, dragging as many friends and relatives to the polls with us as we can. Don’t be surprised if they try to pull some sort of terroristic operation on or near election day, as a way to deter us from the polls. They may even try to attack the electrical grid, or networks, or whatever else they think they can do to foul and confound the vote. These people aren’t just angry control-freaks seeking to run your lives: They’re monsters, and they intend to get away with crimes they’ve long ago committed. At this point, they’re well beyond “in for a penny, in for a pound” thinking. The worst of their deeds are already done or in progress. They can scarcely lengthen or worsen the penalties they might face should Trump be re-elected. There’s basically nothing they will not permit themselves to do. Extortion of federal judges? Check! Extortion even of Supreme Court justice(s)? Check! Media collaborators? Check! On the hook with all the worst global vermin? Check! Treason against the Union? You betcha! These people have far more to lose by a Trump re-election than anything additional that may be heaped upon them in their attempt to prevent it. This is for all the marbles, ladies and gentlemen. All of them.
#BLM, #Antifa, and the Occupiers are all the same people. They’re the funded, paid, foot-soldiers and mercenaries of this plot. They’ve infiltrated everything, from the public schools and universities to the local government and the media. They’re in the bureaucracy and outside of it, waiting for their turns to create mayhem on command.
On election day, and in the sixty-two days from now until then, we must do all we can to defeat them. We have no choice. If Trump goes down, so does our republic, and with it, any future of which you might have dreamed for you and your children, and all the generations beyond. The choice is finally with you: Supine and helpless, or activist and ferocious, like a momma bear defending her cubs? No, I’ve not forgotten. Neither should you. Fight, damn it, Americans, FIGHT!
Most of my long-time readers will remember that I was raised to be a Catholic. Many of the causes of my discontent with the church are subjects dealing with the conduct of the church, its hierarchy, the behavior(s) of some of those who would claim to lead it, and the various cover-ups that have become the signature of an historic religious institution that has lost its way. With that in mind, I want you to read this letter from Arch-Bishop Carlo Maria Viganò. He’s been an agent of reform in the church, attempting to right some of the very wrongs about which I and so many others have complained. In this case, he offers to give you a glimpse into the nature of the devils against which he wars, and he makes clear that he is a natural ally to President Trump, to patriotic Americans, and indeed all people of good will everywhere. I don’t ordinarily discuss religion on this site because it is so divisive, but I think upon reading this letter, all Americans of good will can recognize the good in men where we find it, whatever our religious beliefs(or even lack thereof.) It’s in this spirit that I offer you an amazing, astonishing open letter to President Trump, first made available late Saturday. I think you will profit from the time spent reading it, as the Arch-Bishop concludes with a prayer in his war against the Invisible Enemy:
(It’s a three page document, the controls should appear at the top of the document)
Listening to the audio of the phone-call in which then Vice President Joe Biden kept his promise to get more than one-billion dollars for Ukraine provided they would fire the prosecutor who was investigating his son, Hunter Biden, who had been a no-show member of the front company Burisma, it’s hard to believe that from then until now, he’s become as senile as his basement-bound appearances in recent days. One might begin to wonder if Biden is in such a thoroughly steep decline of his mental capacity whether he could even carry out the purely ceremonial aspects of the presidency, never mind actual decision-making. The other alternative is that Joe is faking it for the sake of avoiding prosecution. After all, QuidProJoe is pretty clearly caught in the following video making plain the nature of his criminal misuse of official US foreign policy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPVPBNGH2HA
Could he be faking his apparent senility?
This is beyond a string of gaffes. This man is either a serious actor who’s adept at faking senility, or he’s truly well into some form of dementia or other age-related disease of the mind. Those diseases are quite sad, and of all the things that can happen to a person, slowly losing one’s intellect, memories, and basic capacity to attend to one’s own affairs is probably more frightening to most people than the prospect of death itself.
If Biden really is rapidly losing his mental capacity, he’ll never face the justice he deserves. On the other hand, if he really is losing his mind, then the people around him, particularly his wife and children, are absolute monsters to let this farce of a campaign continue. I think they intend to make Joe a scapegoat for the whole of #ObamaGate, and then to have the DOJ dismiss any charges due to the rapidly advancing senility of “poor ol’ Joe.”
The other possibility is that he’s faking it. That seems pretty far-fetched to me, but I suppose if one is attempting to avoid the sword of justice, one might very well be able to bring-off an Academy Awards level performance in convincing the world one is incompetent for trial.
I bring this to your attention because while the media plays along with Biden’s farcical campaign, I wanted you to know why they might be doing this. Bluntly, I believe Obama is behind this, and he’s using Biden, and he’s threatening Jill Biden to gain her compliance. Either that, or Biden is a much better actor than Tom Hanks. Patsy or pro? You decide.
On Sunday, an opinion editorial appeared in the Boston Herald that began to address the truth. Unfortunately, like most things in media, the tendency is either to conceal the whole truth, or to understate the matter. This was true of the Herald op-ed because on the one hand, it offered us a bogey-man, a true dirt-bag, evil-doer of the most despicable sort in the person of US Representative Adam Schiff(D-CA.) The Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee was served-up on a silver platter. The Herald op-ed explained all the well-known dirt on Schiff, but the true travesty of the Herald piece is what it scandalously does not disclose: Schiff was a bit player in this scheme. They’re offering you Schiff so that you’ll be satisfied with his nearly bald scalp, and in the process, forget all about the other seditious, treasonous actors in this saga. They hope you’ll forget about the Republicans who were complicit in this plot, and most of all, they don’t explain the motive for the whole thing. No, ladies and gentlemen, we can’t let them slide through with this nonsense. It’s time for the whole plot to become known. It’s far worse than the admonition of Schiff pretends, and the scandal reaches far into the upper echelons of both parties. The corruption is unforgivable. So is the treason. It’s time to open our eyes to the full depth and breadth of this treachery. It’s more than Adam Schiff. It’s more than even a corrupt and disgraceful Democrat Party. It’s time we begin to unmask all of them, top to bottom, Democrat and Republican.
Every word the Herald Op-Ed says about Adam Schiff is true. In fact, one could argue that but for the necessity of brevity, they might have gone into greater detail as to the nature of the sedition of this reprehensible dirt-bag. One of the ways the Herald falls short is in pretending that Schiff largely acted alone, or at least in failing to mention that there had been far more at stake in this whole treasonous escapade than the Herald was willing to identify. Adam Schiff is a bit player, a man with neither the skill nor the intelligence to cook-up a plot of the sort we have witnessed. He’s a slimy wretch, naturally, but Schiff has bosses, and those bosses coordinated his activities, along with those of the equally detestable Jerry Nadler(D-NY) and Maxine Waters(D-CA,) among a host of other Democrat house members. These people painted Donald Trump as a traitor, despite that their own acts in so doing were all aimed at overthrowing a duly elected President of the United States by disguising the plot as an impeachment of a treasonous man. The conspirators in this plot were many, and it included some Republicans. Do you want to guess what the real “insurance policy” had been?
In early 2017, just as then Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes(R-CA) had begun his investigation into what he saw as significant irregularities, he found himself under the cloud of a contrived House Ethics Investigation. Speaker Ryan set Nunes down as Chairman, putting Trey Gowdy(R?-SC) into the spot. The hearings didn’t accomplish much, because in the end, no subpoenas were issued. This is why Nunes was taken down as Chairman. This is why Gowdy was inserted as Chairman. Nunes would have loudly and publicly pushed for subpoenas, (and in fact, he still did, but removed from the Chairmanship, he couldn’t get the requisite press to lean on Speaker Ryan.) You want to know who the insurance policy was in 2017? The Democrats had several, and most of them were secreted within the Republican Party leadership. This is why the Herald happily offers-up Adam Schiff, but fails to mention the conduct of Paul Ryan(R?-WI.) Listen to Trey Gowdy back-pedal on his previous position during an interview on Tucker Carlson’s show last week:
Ooops. Gowdy suddenly got visibly nervous and seemed shaken by Carlson’s questions. “Insurance policy” We’ve been wondering what that was. What if that was not a “what” but a “who.” Don’t kid yourself. There are any number of Republicans who continue to work against President Trump. Consider that McConnell has appointed famous Trump-hater Marco Rubio to head the Intelligence Committee.
As pod-caster and Fox News contributor Dan Bongino has so often repeated, there are a number of Republicans in Washington DC who aren’t really Republicans, but there are NO Democrats in Washington DC who aren’t really Democrats. It’s part of the scam. It’s part of how, even when we’ve had Republican majorities in either or both Houses of Congress, or even Republicans in the White House, over the last forty years, they’ve gotten precious little accomplished, but managed to sell-out to the Democrats at every opportunity. There are many more, and a large number of them “unexpectedly retired” from Congress in 2018, clearing the way for the Democrat majority that would impeach Donald Trump. Some of them are now even entertaining a return, since they think the coast is clear. After all, betraying Republican voters just once clearly isn’t enough. Watch closely for Republicans who abandoned ship in 2018 to attempt a return in 2020 or 2022.
The Herald piece also doesn’t broach the subject of senior-ranking Democrats who were involved in this coup attempt. For instance, it was Hillary Clinton who retained the services of Fusion GPS to go out and get dirt, even if wholly invented, on the then GOP presumptive nominee. At the time, strictly speaking, Clinton was not in government, although many of her staffers and hangers-on still littered the halls of the State Department, the Justice Department, and every other department of the federal government, including even the National Institute of Health, and many others. The Herald neglects this fact, leaving us to think solely about Adam Schiff.
In the same way, the presumptive 2020 Democrat nominee is likewise omitted. Joe Biden is deeply enmeshed in the who scandal, particularly the larger scandal about which the media, including the Herald, refuse to touch, even tangentially. The thing they must hide from you, and indeed from the whole world, is that Barack Hussein Obama, then president of the United States, was engaged in using the foreign policy, particularly the foreign aid funds, as a sort of personal piggy-bank and graft machine. This is why the whole Schiff-Russia-Collusion narrative was invented. This is what they’re hiding from the American people to this very day, and the failure to report this, even at this late date, is why when papers like the Herald regale you with the tales of despicable behavior by the lowly Adam Schiff, you should recall that he’s a small matter in the larger scheme. He’s a tool. Barack Obama was the mechanic, and with him, Hillary and their pack of detestable, seditious traitors. They had turned the whole of the US foreign policy into a money-laundering operation, the pinnacle of which had been the “Iran Deal,” or “JCPOA,” as it is more formally known. Tens of billions of dollars went missing. Marie Yovanovitch has been revealed as one of the on-scene go-betweens in Ukraine. This scandal is about something larger than pure party politics. High-ranking people risked sedition and treason to cover it up.
Ladies and gentlemen, you might take some solace in the outing of Adam Schiff, but the truth is that you’ve known for a long while that he was a ruthless dirt-bag. His scalp should not assuage your rage at what has been done (and what they’re still trying to do,) to your constitutional republic. Do you really think the continued, extend blue-state shutdowns are really about a virus? Do you believe even the handful of red-state governors who are still slow-walking the opening aren’t part of this?
(See the sidebar below.)
Last Friday, Dan Bongino had one of his best podcasts in the history of his show. What he did was to point out something critical, that people like this op-ed in the Herald and others in publications like the Washington Post, while finally rightly critical of Schiff, have failed almost predictably to point out. General Mike Flynn’s call with Russian Ambassador Kislyak wasn’t unmasked. It was never masked to begin with. Barack Obama, exercising a little-known option of the FISA law, simply directed Attorney General Loretta Lynch to certify the necessity of monitoring the call. It was transcribed directly, and not masked, as had been the assumption.
Listen to Dan’s excellent show of last Friday here:
The point of all of this is that Barack Obama is at the heart of this issue, and he not only knew, but he led the effort, and he directed it, and he’s been involved in continuing to direct it since he’s left the presidency. Now is not the time for half-measures or half-truths. We need full justice. We won’t get to anything like full justice until we recognize that this is not simply a story about some corrupt high-ranking government department heads. This is the story about a completely corrupt President and then former President working to overthrow his successor in order to preserve his freedom and his ill-gotten wealth. Barack Obama is guilty, and we have now a growing body of evidence that proves it.
What makes all of this more despicable is the degree to which some Republicans in Washington DC are participating in the cover-up. We’re in a war for our constitutional republic, but while no shots are being fired, we must be ever-mindful of the fact that they’re not playing around. These people are desperate to conceal their global money-laundering scam.
Sidebar:
Think again. You see, I posted a response on Disqus essentially laying out the above, though in abbreviated form. There are much more harshly-worded response regarding Adam Schiff’s behavior alongside the op-ed, but there’s more to this. For some reason, my response remains in pending, without explanation. Would you like me to explain it? Did any of the other posts mention the Republican role in this treason? Here’s my response. Judge for yourself:
A Comment Too Hot to Handle…
Other comments discussing all parts of Obama’s involvement and the involvement of other Democrat players are discussed as some length comments. How is it possible that when somebody attempts to point out the Republican involvement in this scandal, the response is left in “pending” indefinitely? How is it that a remark that goes to the motive behind Schiff’s scam is censored? Think carefully. As of the date of this article’s publication, the comment above has now been pending for more than two days as hundreds of other comments have been approved. You be the judge.
