Thursday, July 26, 2018

A Master Manipulator at Work

President Trump's enemies, who are found in abundance
in both major political parties, have been trying ever since
not his inauguration but his election to oust him, by hook
or by crook. They have been joined in their nefarious efforts
by The Deep State, defined as inclusive of the intelligence
community --- the FBI and the CIA. We have seen the testi-
mony of Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Peter Strzok
claiming to be without bias against the president but still
refers to him as "disgusting" and "horrible", he of the
correspondence with Lisa Page, an attorney with the FBI and
Strzok's paramour in which he said that they would stop
Trump from being elected. Former FBI Director James Comey,
whom President Trump had fired for the partisan overtones in
his work in that capacity, had recently urged Americans on
Twitter that it was their duty to vote Democratic in this
year's mid-term election.

But the bigger menace in all this is former Central Intelligence
Agency Director John Brennan, President Obama's appointee
to the post. On Twitter as well, Brennan tweeted that President
Trump's press conference in Helsinki was "nothing short of
treasonous," and that the president was guilty of "venality,
moral turpitude and political corruption." Such heated partisan-
ship is why his role in the 2016 Spy Scandal merits the closest
scrutiny. It must also be noted that prior to his nomination as
CIA director Brennan was a close advisor to Obama.

At a House Intelligence Committee hearing in May 2017,
Brennan stated that he became "aware of intelligence and
information about contacts between Russian officials and
U.S. persons." Brennan also claimed credit for launching
the Trump investigation. As to the veracity of his claim
your scrutinizing Peasant is unable to say, but he certainly
has shown himself to be an Obama-Clinton minion.

Brennan also had a major role in forming the Russian
narrative --- the story that had Russia interfered in the
2016 presidential election intending to assist candidate
Trump against his Democrat challenger, Hillary Clinton.
This was kneaded into the Trump - collusion narrative
which soon followed. But Brennan couldn't get the FBI
to buy what he was selling; the bureau believed that
Russian cyberattacks were aimed at playing havoc with
the U.S. political system in general, not at benefitting
candidate Trump. Since he couldn't get the FBI or his
own agency the CIA to back him up, Brennan couldn't
go public with his overall narrative, so he went to Sen.
Harry Reid, the then-Senate Minority leader, the top
Democrat in that chamber. In a subsequent briefing,
he told Reid that Russia was attempting to help
Donald Trump win the presidency and that Trump's
advisors were in collusion with the Russians (by the
by, in the two years since there is STILL no public
evidence that has been discovered which could
support this serious accusation).

A few days after the meeting between Brennan and Reid,
the latter wrote a letter to FBI chief Comey, which
immediately became public. Reid echoed Brennan's
story, claiming that evidence of a direct tie between
Russia and the Trump campaign continued to amass.
Sen. Reid's letter was the first official salvo of the
collusion narrative being fired into the open. 
Comey then announced in October that the FBI had
reopened their investigation into the Republican
candidate, but the timing may well have affected
the election in a negative, rather than a positive way
for Democrat Hillary Clinton, and Clinton supporters
maintain this is indeed the case. However, Trump's
supporters claim that the publicizing of the collusion
narrative was harmful to their candidate and could
have cost him the election.

And through it all, at its center was partisan politics
and John Brennan. And he had the unmitigated gall
to accuse President Trump of treason.

There had better be an even larger investigation con-
ducted into this sordid affair, resulting in some people
going to prison. And John Brennan had damn well better
be one of them.


MEM


Thursday, July 19, 2018

Substance Over Style

During my hiatus so many news stories of great importance
and riveting in nature that upon my return I find myself badly
behind! But your faithful Peasant shall give each of them the
attention that they require so that we, my fabulous readers,
can be up to speed on the who, what, why, when, where and
how of it all.

We'll start with this thought-provoking item from California:
The mayor of Livermore, California, recently wrote a piece
in which he gave a very frank, matter of fact explanation as
to why President Donald Trump is so successful --- and so
popular --- as president. Writing about Trump's "lack of
decorum, dignity, and statesmanship", Mayor Marshall
Kamena pointed out that our most successful presidents have
relied less on propriety, collegiality, and niceness and more
on a direct approach in getting legislation passed and
international pacts agreed upon and enacted; they would
fight tooth and nail for what they wanted, even with
legislators in their own parties. Mayor Kamena, a conservative
who ran for office as a Democrat (reasoning that one couldn't
get elected dogcatcher, let alone mayor or any other higher
office in the super liberal Bay Area of very left-leaning
California), gave examples of GOP presidents and presidential
candidates who tried the "nice guy" approach only to be savaged
by Democrats who followed Saul Alinsky's playbook "Rules for
Radicals" rather than the ways of mannerly comportment to
decorum. President George W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt
Romney were named as prime examples of coming to the
fight insufficiently armed, and the consequential results.

Kamena is correct in stating that we are in the middle of a
long and protracted culture war, whose origins can be traced
to the 1960s and the radicalism on the college campuses
across the country. The radicals of their day took over
their campuses, occupied the offices of the presidents and
deans, and forced through rule changes that they demanded
to have adopted; no ifs, ands, buts, discussions, or
debates. They shut up and shut out everyone who stood in
their way. Their ideological children, the leftists of today,
take that same tack with the political system at all levels.
And it's not just with politicians and government officials,
be they elected or appointed; today's radical lefties also
bully everyday people if they are wearing MAGA (Make
America Great Again) caps or T-shirts, or even buttons
with the names of conservative candidates for public
office. Some MAGA cap wearers have even been assaulted
in restaurants. Presidential Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee
Sanders and some other members of the president's staff were
even told to leave a restaurant in Northern Virginia, near
Washington D.C. because they work for President Trump!

And in this culture war, which is truly a war for not only
our culture but our government, our economy, our rights
and liberties, our very way of life. We need a leader in the
White House who understands this, and realizes that the
enemy's people in Congress and in the opposition party,
like their comrades on the college and high school campuses,
in the urban areas and indeed, some suburbs, in the unions,
in the media, and in the realm of entertainment (Hollywood
comes to mind) and will be willing to get his hands dirty
and his face bloodied in order to get his programs and
'initiatives enacted, and we now have such a leader ---
Donald J. Trump. He fights! He doesn't back down!
He doesn't stick to the Marquis of Queensbury Rules while
his opponents employ street fighting tactics! And, most
importantly, he gets things done!

Mayor Kamena cites as examples of such leaders two great
American generals who won wars by these means: Ulysses
S. Grant and George S. Patton. They weren't very big on the
protocols of Amy Vanderbilt either but they, like Donald Trump,
got results. Trump has a record of accomplishments in his
first thousand days in office which rival those of Presidents
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. 

Furthermore, President Trump has no illusions regarding the
media. He knows that most of the media hates him with a
passion that you wouldn't believe, and they have done all they
could to undermine him ever since his presidential campaign
took off like a rocket and made him a serious contender for
the Republican nomination, and now want to find a way to
drive him out of office. While it was true that President
Reagan dealt with the media and the rest of his enemies
with a cheerful if wary countenance, they didn't exhibit the
unhinged hatred for The Great Communicator that Trump's
enemies are toward Trump. And once in a while, the media
actually reported favorably on Reagan's successes, giving
him credit for getting legislation he favored passed and
signed into law. Your scrutinizing Peasant has yet to see
any instance of the media doing that with President Trump,
and I'm not holding my breath waiting for that to happen.
So President fires back at his media detractors, calling
them out for their biased and dishonest reporting of his
presidency and related topics. He has even called CNN,
an especially rabid attacker, "Fake News". He later applied
this epithet to other news organizations and some reporters
as well, and sometimes even told them he wouldn't respond
to their questions in press conferences, because he knows
that all they'll do is lie and distort.

Mayor Kamena knows that we are at war --- a cultural war
in which the soul of our nation is on the line, and he appreciates,
respects, and supports President Trump because he knows it too.
And even more importantly, he conducts himself accordingly.
A victory for substance over style.


MEM








Thursday, July 5, 2018

Happy (Belated) Independence Day!

Well, the technical problems I had been experiencing
in attempting to access my blog have lifted, so I am
wishing you all, my grand readers, a belated Happy
Independence Day. A lot of you may have today off,
and will also be off tomorrow as well as we head into
the weekend, so you will be continuing to celebrate
our dear country's birthday right up until Monday
July 9. So for those who are so fortunate, and for all
the rest of you with more stringent work schedules,
The Peasant wishes you all a safe, joyful, fun-filled,
Happy Fourth of July --- Independence Day --- our
United States of America's birthday! I shall return
to duty shortly; thank you all for your understanding
and indulgence! What a way to mark this blog's
500th post!


MEM