Steve Bannon, a former chief White House strategist, is charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, each of which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.

Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced to a combined 7.5 years in prison, but he was released to home confinement in May because of the health risks posed by the coronavirus pandemic in federal prison.

Roger Stone, a longtime Republican political operative who advised Trump during the campaign, was convicted of lying to Congress and obstructing its investigation into Russian election meddling and sentenced to three years in prison. Last month, Trump commuted the sentence of his longtime confidant, just days before Stone was set to report to prison.

Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to investigators about meetings with Russians while in the White House. He cooperated with Mueller under a plea agreement.

George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, served 14 days in prison and was ordered to pay a $9,500 fine and complete 200 hours of community service.
— USA Today, 8/20/20

We know that some of these people were set up by federal law enforcement and in at least one case, documents that could have exonerated one was altered and submitted to give a false impression of guilt. The person who committed that breach of trust and federal crime is now asking for leniency so he doesn’t have to go to prison.

Kevin Clinesmith made a grievous mistake. By altering a colleague’s email, he cut a corner in a job that required far better of him. He failed to live up to the FBI’s and his own high standards of conduct. And he committed a crime. Kevin pled guilty and accepts full responsibility. He deeply regrets his conduct and apologizes to all those who have been affected—including his former colleagues, the FBI, the DOJ, the Court, the public, and his family.

Not specifically to Carter Page; the man he tried to have imprisoned by his “grievous mistake”. Now, cue the violins….

Since the inception of the government’s investigation, Kevin has been devastated personally and professionally. And the financial and emotional costs of this ordeal have had a profound impact on him and his family.

As a result of his conduct, Kevin has lost his career and professional identity. He no longer works for the FBI and his conviction likely precludes him from ever working for the federal government again, let alone in his chosen field of law enforcement and intelligence, which was his true passion since college. Moreover, Kevin has lost his livelihood. His non-attorney job prospects are also bleak. For one thing, he will likely be unable to qualify for a security clearance, which will significantly hinder his ability to obtain a private sector role relating to national security, where his skills and competencies lie. Indeed, since leaving the FBI, despite his best efforts Kevin has been unable to find work. As a result, he and his family have and will continue to suffer financially, as evidenced by their negative monthly cash flow.

Michael Flynn would probably ask Clinesmith how it feels?

A sentence that includes incarceration is therefore unnecessarily harsh because it would expose Kevin to a greater risk of severe illness caused by COVID-19. On the other hand, a sentence of probation—which would be the most appropriate sentence even if there were no pandemic—would limit the risks that COVID-19 presents to Kevin as well as prison inmates and staff.
— Sentencing memo for Kevin Clinesmith, 12/3/20

When Clinesmith altered a federal document intent on framing Carter Page, did he consider the potential prison time he be sentencing an innocent man to serve? With all the lawyering-up and the costs associated with having to defend himself, did Clinesmith consider Page had suffered enough? Did Clinesmith consider Page’s life being “devastated” and his reputation ruined?

Obviously not, as Clinesmith’s action dictated. These actions, along with the persecution of those in the Trump orbit, show that those involved with the attempted sabotage of his 2016 campaign and presidency had no inhibitions when it came to ruining the livlihoods of those they sought to attack and showed no restraint when it came to their ability to deprive the politically innocent of their freedom.

People like Peter Strzok, Andrew McCabe, John Brennan, James Clapper, and especially Robert Mueller (who has a documented record of intentionally sending the innocent to prison), are horrible human beings. They have no problem sleeping at night after knowing they can weaponize their personal politics and use the power of federal law enforcement to financially ruin their accused but also technically sentence some to death in prison just because they can.

Clinesmith deserves no leniency because deliberate failure to upload the laws and Constitution of the United States should be considered the callous breaking of a blood oath. Should the day ever come where the #resistance coup-plotters ever face long-overdue justice, they should be sentenced harshly, without mercy, and to the fullest extent of the law.

UPDATE

The two-tier justice system strikes again.

Former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith, 38, received the sentence of 12 months probation (and 400 hours community service) from U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg Friday during a video hearing.

Clinesmith admitted that in June 2017 he sent an altered email to an FBI agent that indicated a target of court-ordered FBI surveillance, former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, was “not a source” for the Central Intelligence Agency. The statement, passed along as the FBI was applying for a third extension of surveillance of Page, made Page’s actions seem more suspicious by downplaying his past cooperation with the CIA.

The sentencing hearing featured an impassioned speech from Page, in which the energy industry analyst complained that his life was turned upside down by the media firestorm that followed public disclosure of the fact that he was a focus of the FBI probe into potential Russian influence on the Trump campaign.
— Politico, 1/29/21

They can make the lives of Americans hell but we can’t make their lives any more uncomfortable than necessary.

Rep. Devin Nunes and other Republicans blasted the probation sentence with no prison time for ex-FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who pleaded guilty to fraudulently altering a CIA email during the FBI’s flawed pursuit of surveillance against former Trump campaign associate Carter Page.

Nunes, the former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee who unearthed a host of problems with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act process in the Trump-Russia investigation, told the Washington Examiner that “once again, we see a two-tiered system of justice where average Americans get investigated and imprisoned based on fake media narratives like ‘Russian collusion’ while government officials who perpetuated these abuses get off scot-free.” He added: “The FBI, DOJ, and judicial system need to regain Americans’ trust, and this absurd sentencing won’t help.”. 

Other Republicans also expressed outrage at the judge’s decision.

“This sentence is absolutely despicable,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told the Examiner.

“An FBI agent falsified evidence in one of the Bureau’s most important investigations ever and a slap on the wrist isn’t going to cut it,” Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., said in a statement.

Sasse added, “this isn’t traffic court” and argued, “America only works if the truth matters, if lying has consequences, and if public servants are held accountable for breaking the laws.”
— Washington Examiner, 1/29/21

See how it works?

Had Hillary Clinton won the 2016 presidential election, it would be demanded that Republicans respect the will of the people and they would as they always have. There would be no Indivisible, #Resist or #Resistance movement. But because she lost and Democrats decided they wouldn’t respect the agreed-to process of Electoral College results and not a goal post-moving popular vote, the left has given themselves license to act out in any fashion current events dictate.

Their violence is clearly on the uptick and it’s only a matter of time where their violence is no longer just reactionary but on the offense.

Shots fired at ICE Administrative Offices in San Antonio, Tex. are setting off alarm bells for what officials say has become a dangerous trend.

“To fire indiscriminately into any building- let alone a federal building, let alone a federal facility- is not an act of protest. It is an act of violence,” said Christopher Combs, FBI Special Agent in charge of San Antonio’s Division.

This targeted attack on ICE is one of four in the last month or so, the others occurring in Tacoma, Washington, Aurora Colorado and Washington, D.C. “We cannot allow political discourse to lead us to the point of violence where federal employees innocent people doing their jobs are put into harm’s way”, Combs said.

This follows a string of rallies, including on the streets of New York, the blocking of buildings and roads in Washington D.C. and the removal of an American flag at an ICE facility in Aurora, Colorado later replaced it with a Mexican flag and defaced “Blue Lives Matter’ one.
— KTVL CBS10

Republicans and conservatives traditionally do not take to the streets, disrupting traffic and committing acts of vandalism as a pattern of “peaceful protest”. Republicans and conservatives don’t trash areas where they’ve actually take the time to obtain permits for their rallies. Liberals routinely do all of the above and they’ve taken it to the next level.

FBI agents are searching for suspects in connection with shots fired at two ICE buildings early Tuesday morning. The shooting first reported took place around 3 a.m. Tuesday on the 1700 block of NE Loop 410 near Brookhaven Drive. We’re told another shooting happened at a separate ICE facility around the same time. Investigators say that multiple shots were fired on two floors targeting ICE officials. No one was hit, but windows were broken in the building. One person was injured, it’s not clear how they were, though.

“I don’t think there’s a question that they knew which floors the ice offices were,” FBI Special Agent in Charge Chris Combs said Tuesday. The building shot at has multiple tenants, with the ICE facility located on upper floors. “All of the shots that we have found are on the floors where ICE had offices,” Combs explained. “This is no question a very targeted attack. It’s not a secret facility, you can go online, it’s out there. So they did some research, they knew what floors ICE was on, they knew what buildings they were and and they hit those.”

ICE ERO San Antonio Field Office Director Daniel Bible says the national discourse surrounding ICE and the topic of immigration is reckless, blaming today’s shooting on politicians, media and activists.

“This attack at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Field Office in San Antonio is completely without justification,” said Bible. “Political rhetoric and misinformation that various politicians, media outlets and activist groups recklessly disseminate to the American people regarding the ICE mission only serve to further encourage these violent acts. ICE officers put their lives on the line each and every day to keep our communities safe. This disturbing public discourse shrouds our critical law enforcement function and unnecessarily puts our officers’ safety at risk.”
— News 4 San Antonio, 8/13/19

Like college professors and/or high school teachers who inspire their students to risk arrest and possible injury to participate in any manner of protest while staying behind in the safety of their faculty lounges, media and the activist/pundit class inspire aggressive acts from the safety of their studios and offices.

This was at least the fourth act of aggression directed at ICE offices since early July. Protesters outside a facility in Aurora, Colorado pulled down an American flag and raised a Mexican one in its place on July 12. Two days later, a self-described anti-fascist apparently tried to set an ICE facility on fire in Tacoma, Washington. On July 16, nearly a dozen protesters were arrested for unlawfully entering ICE offices in Washington, D.C.

At a time when many Democrats say President Trump bears some responsibility for a mass shooting in El Paso allegedly driven by anti-immigrant anger, some Republicans maintain anti-ICE rhetoric by prominent Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is encouraging violence on the left.

Ocasio-Cortez is one of many Democrats who have lashed out at ICE in recent months over the treatment of migrant families detained at the southern border and undocumented immigrants swept up in raids inside the country. She and others have called for the agency to be abolished.
— KTVL CBS10

Of course, when those who intentionally block the freedom of movement of others find themselves in the peril, the media chooses sides and affords them victim status.

The protesters were sitting on the pavement to block staff from parking at a Rhode Island prison that works with Immigration and Customs Enforcement when a black pickup truck swerved toward them. The protesters shouted as the driver laid on the horn, and the truck briefly stopped. And then, the driver hit the gas.

…

In a viral video captured by bystanders, the protesters screamed and jumped out of the way. Several were struck, according to organizers of the Wednesday night demonstration at the Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, R.I. Some were treated at a hospital, though none were severely injured.

“It was terrifying because we didn’t know what exactly his intention was,” Amy Anthony, a spokesman for Never Again Action, a Jewish activist group that planned the protest, told The Washington Post. “It certainly appeared he was trying to hit us.”
— Washington Post, 8/15/19

As Bill Maher basically told the nation, the United States may not be so “divided”. In other words, we’ll be unified and there will be peace on the streets ONLY if Democrats are allowed to win the next presidential election and have unfettered control over policy, thus our lives.

With all the allusions to a coming “civil war”, it may ultimately come down to this…

“Peace only results after victory.”
— The Limbaugh Doctrine

Thinly-veiled blackmail can also be considered protected political speech and until the sore losers get their way, expect an uptick in incendiary commentary and subtle marching orders. If there was ever an argument for declaring anyone a domestic terror threat, the left has long since made their case.

For all appearances at this moment, it looks like they won’t get their way in 2020 and their lashing out and punishing those who won’t give them their way has really yet to begin.

Last Saturday’s HBO program was no exception.

What Bill Maher closed with, regarding Democrats getting over their “Trump fatigue”, is very important.

If the Democrats can do that and win, this country might stop being as divided as it is, because underneath maybe we’re not so divided.
— Real Time with Bill Maher, 8/3/19

He’s basically implying that had the American people had the good sense to elect Hillary Clinton, there would be no real visible division in the United States. His closing remark could also be construed as a veiled threat.

Do you think there would’ve been any kind of potentially violent conservative Republican #Resistance had Hillary won? Probably not.

Do you think a United States congressman and others would’ve been shot at a baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia by a Bernie Sanders supporter? That’s up for grabs but probably not.

Do you think conservatives would’ve called for the denial of service and harassed members of Hillary’s administration in restaurants or held loud protests in front of their homes? That’s not really in the Republican decorum playbook.

Do you think, given what we’d never know, conservatives and Republicans would be allowed to cast any kind of question as to the legitimacy of Hillary’s presidency? We’d probably see very few “Not my president” signs on election night or after and the media would suggest we get a life.

Do you think #Antifa members would’ve found something else to concentrate on while living at home off their parents? Probably so as watching anime and playing video games takes a lot less effort than getting out of bed to take the streets.

Do you think celebrities would be happier since they didn’t have to leave the country as promised, even though they never do when the Republican wins? Maybe their publicists would have to find other reasons to make anything all about them.

If Donald Trump is reelected, we can all justifiably expect more of the incivility the left has to offer. Trump’s nominees can be smeared and/or falsely accused, federal law enforcement officials may again attempt to undo the Will of the People using all the tools at their disposal, his cabinet members (and Republicans in general) can be harassed, students can be frightened into acts of defiance including violence, Antifa can get on with 2.0, Democrat politicians can declare half the nation as “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it”, online platforms can practice political discrimination against anyone not 100% liberal, senators can be violently attacked on their front lawns, and the media can continue to shed any notion of impartiality, let alone sanity.

So, we’re only a divided nation when a Republican (especially like Donald Trump) wins but we’re united when a Democrat wins with that subtle “Let the wookie win” warning hanging over your head.

Got’cha, Bill.

It’s hard to feel any sympathy for those who created J20 precisely to punch the faces of millions who were fed up at the way this country was going and voted for Donald J. Trump.

It is essential to organize in a way that distinguishes us from all state actors and leaves no space for the state to regain legitimacy; antifascism must mean opposition to the state itself, lest we topple Trump only to pave the way for an equally authoritarian regime. The sooner a crisis comes, the better, before Trump, the Deep State, and the Democratic opposition have the chance to get their feet under them; at the same time, we have considerable work to do making our proposals comprehensible to the general public. Last but not least, if regime change takes place, the momentum must come from the streets, not from within the halls of power. As usual, we’ll get out of revolution what we put into it, nothing more.
— Crimethink.com

We saw sore loser liberals in their norm, disrupting traffic, threatening motorists, destroying public and private property, enlisting school children to leave classrooms and take to the unsupervised streets, verbally and physically accost administration members and elected federal representatives in restaurants and in front of their private residences, assault conservative protesters and journalists, and even called for physical violence against those who didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton, including the shooting of an United States congressman. There was/is gross insubordination by federal employees against Republican appointees heading their departments, media bias justifying actions that would lead to jail time in some instances.

There was/is an attempted coup by the previous administration, Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and some in federal law enforcement to fix the election in favor of their preferred candidate, disrupt President-elect Trump’s transition and later, President Trump’s ability to govern. The “resistance” was an unprecedented mechanism to not only dissent but to bully.

Unlike the previous Obama administration, no progressive 501(c)(3) nonprofits were harrassed, no journalists (or their parents) were surveilled and intimidated in an unprecedented manner, no Freedom of Information Act requests are being stalled or ignored, in fact the Trump Administration has show great strength enduring the ongoing media onslaught along with a petulant “resistance” that includes #Antifa which could also be considered Klan 2.0.

And now, they’re triggered by a show of military pride? Only the narcissism of sore-loser liberals would explain why they’d look at a tank and assume it was meant for them.

TBS’ Samantha Bee shamed former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on her show and did so in the expected juvenile, over-the-top fawning manner.

She found a champion; put all of her eggs in that #antiTrump, #resistance, #MeToo basket, that she set herself up for the humiliation she rightfully deserves. Bee, in typical liberal media modus operandi, reedited the title and description of the YouTube upload from November 8, 2017 to imply she was a victim of a con before proceeded with a #MeToo pile-on.

By editing the title, Bee admits that she was busted in blind, full-frontal praise of Schneiderman and attempted to cover her tracks because her judgment is in valid question. Then again, an evil man tricked HER: add her to that #MeToo victim list.

Had anyone on Fox News or any conservative media outlet produced such a squishy segment with a serial abuser of women, Samantha Bee would be the first to call out that outlet on their stupidity and complicity in propping up such a vile person. But she assumes no responsibility for having on someone who misled her and her audience. She took no responsibility for not properly vetting a guest on her show, even though it was a well-kept secret.

“Fuck you, Eric Schneiderman” is not a respected acknowledgement of a lapse in judgment or even an admission that believing Schneiderman may just mean some of the things he said about Donald Trump may also not be true.

Samantha Bee has no credibility outside of her small mind.

Then again, she has a TV show and that’s all she needs.

The National Football League has made the game’s objective very simple for those who have any doubts as to the possibly antiquated motivations of those who started playing professionally as early as 1892.

The team that scores the greater number of points during the entire game is the winner.
— NFL Operations: The Rules

If total yardage were an overall determining factor during the 2017 season, the Philadelphia Eagles would not even be eligible to compete for the Super Bowl.

Given their dominance during the regular season through the playoffs, the New England Patriots should have been declared the winner of Super Bowl LII because they won the total yardage tally in a record-breaking effort.

Despite the effort, the Philadelphia Eagles were awarded the Lombardi trophy because they scored more total points than the Patriots and as total points was the formally accepted determining factor on who wins football games, the final score was accepted by both teams and the New England region is not in full #resist mode, contesting the outcome of a Super Bowl and trying to undo the results.

Going into the 2016 presidential election, the Clinton and Trump campaigns understood and ran on the established rules that determine who wins the presidency: which campaign won the Electoral College (total points) and NOT who received more popular votes (total yardage).

Overview of the Presidential Election Process
During the general election, Americans head to the polls to cast their vote for President. But the tally of those votes—the popular vote—does not determine the winner. Instead, Presidential elections use the Electoral College. To win the election, a candidate must receive a majority of electoral votes.

This was simply explained as logical by liberal Democrats for Democrats in 2008….

The New England Patriots organization and their fans nationwide would be roundly (and justifiably) ridiculed had they taken to the mics during the post-game press conference and whined that they really won the game because they broke the all-time Super Bowl record for total yardage. It would be even more damning to their reputation if they mobilized fans across the country to #resist the results and question the legitimacy of the Philadelphia Eagles as the duly victorious on the field.

The sanity of Patriots nation would also be questioned, especially if the sports media also went along with the sore-loser narrative, attempted to create a divide between Philadelphia and the rest of the nation, and even repeated an unproven storyline that the Patriots cheated because they somehow colluded with the Canadian Football League in rigging the game.

During the last couple of weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump observed the established rules and campaigned heavily in states needed to win the game. Unlike Hillary who maybe had one or two appearances every day or so, Trump appeared in four to six events per day. At the end of November 8, 2016, Donald Trump scored more points than Hillary, yet her supporters are still trying to make the case they really won because they got more yards.

If short sighted Democrats manage to get their way and change our election process to the popular vote, both sides know the new rules and if the Democrat loses the popular vote, suddenly discovers the wisdom of the Founders and their reasoning for creating the Electoral College process, they’ll DEMAND we go back to that very well thought out (albeit “antiquated”) system.

That’ll be as logical as the National Football League changing the rules so total points are no longer the determining factor on who wins a game.

People with narcissistic personality disorder believe they are superior or special, and often try to associate with other people they believe are unique or gifted in some way. This association enhances their self-esteem, which is typically quite fragile underneath the surface. Individuals with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) have difficulty tolerating criticism or defeat, and may be left feeling humiliated or empty when they experience an “injury” in the form of criticism or rejection.
— Psychology Today

Couple that with the mental state of too many on the left….

A political-science journal that published an oft-cited study claiming conservatives were more likely to show traits associated with “psychoticism” now says it got it wrong. Very wrong. The American Journal of Political Science published a correction this year saying that the 2012 paper has “an error” — and that liberal political beliefs, not conservative ones, are actually linked to psychoticism.
— New York Post, 6/9/16

When Hillary Clinton was defeated and the above mentioned did not get their way, the liberal Democrat left took it very personally. They believed, despite the fact in two elections 120,881,827 voted against Barack Obama, the narcissists claimed a mandate to implement anything and everything they wanted and we were all good with it as we didn’t immediately take to the streets in “mostly peaceful” opposition that they would call “obstructionist”, “racist” and “unpatriotic”.

No Republican voter wanted our local law enforcement repeatedly second-guessed by the President of the United States to the point where some were targeted for assassination by liberal crazies who now consider political violence a valuable tool of #resistance, informally blessed by the former attorney general.

The left assumed the next president would continue the legacy of Barack Obama precisely because it was what THEY wanted and Republicans, respectful of the election process, didn’t take to the streets like spoiled children. Instead, Republicans elected politicians they hoped would #resist his policies. So much for that, however….

No Republican voter wanted the federal government to “stimulate” the economy by throwing billions of dollars to the well-connected into technology that still isn’t economically feasible.

No Republican voter wanted IRS employees to be able to politically target people and/or entities that weren’t of the political positions they hold.

No Republican voter wanted our country to be balkanized by race, gender and our institutions of higher learning be dominated by educators who feel free to indoctrinate students into “mostly peaceful” activists with one-sided presentations.

No Republican voter wanted unelected bureaucrats that could implement policies affecting our land and water and when they screw up, are shielded from any accountability despite how much they pollute and negatively affect the livelihoods and health of the public.

No Republican voter wanted the federal elected to implement a health care system they exempted themselves, their staffs and families from and despite ALL the promises to the contrary, took away our choice of doctors and plans via a website the cost a half billion dollars and didn’t work.

No Republican voter wanted our intelligence agencies to have the ability to spy on us, yet that’s a part of the Obama legacy.

Instead, we got a president in Barack Obama that encouraged his supporters to go home and disrupt family holiday gatherings. In fact, during the 2008 campaign he said,

I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face.

When it comes to the crime of being a presidential narcissist, Barack Obama was clearly near the top of the heap, even though it was mostly the conservative media doing the counting.

The election of Donald J. Trump was a repudiation of policies the leftist #Swamp imposed on the American people and arrogantly assumed would be left in place.

The election of Donald J. Trump was a repudiation of federal employees who believed they knew better than the American people and would imposed their beliefs on us with the full power of the government behind them.

The election of Donald J. Trump was a repudiation of policies that left our inner cities in worse shape then when Obama assumed the presidency, despite direct outreaches to black voters promising the contrary, including condescending overtures like the Obamaphone.

The election of Donald J. Trump was a repudiation of an administration that repeatedly lied directly to our faces on foreign policy disasters that cost the lives of Americans, blaming everything from a YouTube video or a subsequent election loss on Russian collusion without one scintilla of evidence.

The election of Donald J. Trump was a repudiation of policies that gave favor (via the overused moniker of “hate”) to a religious minority that holds questionable allegiance to our country while some are committing violent atrocities unheard of until their gradual admittance began with little attempt to assimilate to our culture while gradually demanding we adapt to theirs.

The election of Donald J. Trump was a repudiation of the continued neglect of Veterans Administration including the many shameless lies told by President Obama, his wife, and other Democrat politicians that veteran homelessness is “functionally ended”.

The election of Donald J. Trump was a repudiation of a political party in bed with a media that fawned all over and protected an administration led by the president one columnist considered “God”; a president who actually said his election “was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal“.

The election of Donald J. Trump was a repudiation of lax immigration policies that have led to the deaths of countless innocent Americans, not to mention the sanctioned, continued genocide of millions of babies in the womb. While topics like granting benefits to illegal aliens and gay rights consistently lose at the ballot box, liberal judges blow off the Constitution and impose their superior judgments to the detriment of the “non-college educated” consider beneath them.

The election of Donald J. Trump was a repudiation of liberal Hollywood elites who believed they have the power to change public opinion and shame opposition into voting for Democrats and their policies. Many of these “celebrities” still believe the promise to leave the country and deny us of their presence is enough to make us change our minds despite the fact they never leave when we don’t succumb to their threats.

Since the election of President Donald J. Trump, almost every doom-and-gloom scenario painted by the left has been proven false despite the initial declarative hysterics.

The disaster for America and the world has so many aspects that the economic ramifications are way down my list of things to fear. Still, I guess people want an answer: If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.
— Paul Krugman, New York Times, 11/9/16

The stock market has risen to record levels to this day, yet a responsible admission of error will never come from narcissists.

As a result of the election of President Donald J. Trump, some on the left are planning to invoke the 25th Amendment in an attempt to have him removed because in their wisdom and benevolence, they believe he’s a dangerous narcissist in undoing the wonderful legacy of Barack Obama.

They would know.

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana was shot Wednesday at a congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, officials said. His wounds were not believed to be life-threatening. Alexandria police said a suspect in the shooting was in custody.

CBS News has learned that Scalise was shot in the hip. At least three others were also shot, including the gunman and two Capitol Police officers. President Trump said on Twitter that Scalise “was badly injured but will fully recover.”
— CBS News, 6/14/17

The media is going on and on about how prayers should be issued for the Congressmen, their staffers, the security detail, how unfortunate the political discourse is and how sad a day in America this is.

The man was wearing running clothes, asked Duncan: “Are those Republicans or Democrats out there practicing?” Per source familiar.
— CNN Tweet, 6/14/17

This morning’s shooting was predictable, it’s all on the #resistance climate elected Democrats created and I wouldn’t be surprised just how many liberal activists are happy this happened, laments that the shooter was a bad shot, and are hoping for greater accuracy in the future.

Approximately a year ago, the Democrats rigged their primary election so Bernie Sanders would be pushed aside in favor of Hillary Clinton. That made many Democrats very angry, and as has become the pattern going back to their violent infiltration of Trump rallies up to the incident in Portland, this morning’s shooter is a Bernie supporter.

Washington Post Shooter identified by law enforcement officials as James T. Hodgkinson
Heavy Hodgkinson Is a Supporter of Bernie Sanders & Democratic Socialism Who Wrote on Facebook, ‘Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It’s Time to Destroy Trump & Co.’

We’re going to be instructed by Democrats and their media not to lump all (“it’s on both sides”) with that tendency towards documented violence; violence they readily justify.

Not this time….

Last November, after months of being assured by a constant partisan news/entertainment collective onslaught that Hillary would win the presidency, why she didn’t really lose, all the excuses why she did, all that “Russian collusion”, killing people by not saving the intentionally-flawed Obamacare, the now-antiquated Electoral College, Donald Trump’s tax returns, all that made many Democrats very angry.

One of my favorite TV shows is “The Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC.
— Hodgkinson letter, 7/29/12

In a very secretive meeting, George Soros rounded up high-ranking Democrats and met in a D.C. hotel for a conference on how to #Resist President Trump and his agenda; an agenda millions of Americans voted for which made many Democrats very angry.

George Soros and other rich liberals who spent tens of millions of dollars trying to elect Hillary Clinton are gathering in Washington for a three-day, closed door meeting to retool the big-money left to fight back against Donald Trump.

The conference, which kicked off Sunday night at Washington’s pricey Mandarin Oriental hotel, is sponsored by the influential Democracy Alliance donor club, and will include appearances by leaders of most leading unions and liberal groups, as well as darlings of the left such as House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chairman Keith Ellison, according to an agenda and other documents obtained by POLITICO.
— Politico, 11/14/17

Entrenched federal employees went underground and actively planned to #resist the president’s (thus the American people’s) agenda, formed a nationwide network called #Indivisible which succeeded in turning out thousands of Democrats to go to Republican House and Senate members’ town hall meetings and disrupt them because they didn’t like Republican proposals that made many Democrats very angry. Yes, the Tea Party did the same thing but there was no expectation of possible violence like there is today whenever the left gathers en masse.

As former but prominent “leaders” of the party, neither Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, nor Bernie Sanders told their black-masked mobs committing acts of vandalism, stopping traffic, and violently attacking Trump supporters in the streets to stop. The Democrats lost the presidential election and every special election since and that made many Democrats very angry.

President Obama is heartened by the level of engagement taking place in communities around the country. In his final official speech as President, he spoke about the important role of citizen and how all Americans have a responsibility to be the guardians of our democracy — not just during an election but every day.

Citizens exercising their Constitutional right to assemble, organize and have their voices heard by their elected officials is exactly what we expect to see when American values are at stake.

With regard to comparisons to President Obama’s foreign policy decisions, as we’ve heard before, the President fundamentally disagrees with the notion of discriminating against individuals because of their faith or religion.
— Former president Barack Obama, statement, 1/20/17

When Barack Obama won his presidential elections, the left took to the streets in a Third World-like frenzy. No Republicans got in their face in street opposition to rain on their parade. Democrats had their victory, the media echoed their joy, and they were allowed to enjoy their day if not openly gloat.

Republicans were not allowed to enjoy their election victory.

From the moment Donald Trump was declared President of the United States, there has been nothing but a constant onslaught of Democrat and their media’s talking points about “Russian collusion”, “obstruction of justice”, “impeachment”, and anything they can say or do to delegitimize the Republican victory and we wonder why it’s come to a shooting aimed directly at Republicans and these same Democrats and their media are now telling us all to take a step back and check the partisan air?

Fuck that.

A couple of days ago, I told Laura that I saw this getting violent. I predicted that there could be a violent clash between Democrats and Republicans because the left believes they can do anything they want to reach that “by any means necessary” goal: impeach and replace Donald Trump with a Democrat, then go after Vice President Pence and so damage the Republican brand that even Hillary could win in 2020.

Until then, ramp it up.

Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe was one of the first to officially politicize the shooting, saying “93 million” people are killed in the United States every year by guns. This is the same Terry McAuliffe who still shamelessly and falsely declares, to this day, Virginia the “first state to functionally end veteran homelessness”.

Like cowardly college professors who propagandize their captive students and incite them to take to the streets (while they stay safely behind in their campus-provided housing), Democrat politicians on Capitol Hill have been actively inciting their base to do anything to destroy the duly-elected President Trump, his family, his cabinet, and his support base.

Today’s shooting is a natural progression of all they’ve done since November 9, 2016 and no one with any credibility should let the Democrats off the hook. When they repeatedly told us “elections have consequences” after they won, we now know exactly what that means when they lose.