Utah Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) recently stated what many have observed in the wake of the Ukraine call disclosures — the push by President Donald Trump for Ukraine (and now China) to investigate his political rivals is unacceptable. The response from President Trump was both personal and perplexing. He denounced Romney as a “pompous ass” and seemed to call for his impeachment — even though there is not only no impeachment provision for a sitting U.S. Senator and Utah does not even have a recall provision. Sen. Susan Collins (R, Maine) has also made measured but critical comments recently.
Trump tweeted that not only was Sen. Jeff Flake “better” than Romney but “I’m hearing that the Great People of Utah are considering their vote for their Pompous Senator, Mitt Romney, to be a big mistake. I agree! He is a fool who is playing right into the hands of the Do Nothing Democrats! #IMPEACHMITTROMNEY.”
It is certainly true that, according to a poll taken in July, Romney’s approval rate with Utahans is only 38% (the lowest on the delegation) with a 40% disapproval rate. However, President Trump’s disapproval rate remains over fifty percent.
None of that matters of course. A president should act with a modicum of decorum and dignity even in addressing political rivals. While one could give the President the benefit of the doubt and dismiss the impeachment talk as a joke, the personal attacks were not. Romney’s comments were reasonable and deliberative even if you disagreed with him. The name calling and unfounded talk of senatorial impeachments only make it harder for Republican senators to openly support the President. They also play into a narrative of the Democrats that Trump is wounded and unhinged. With the Senate now at risk in 2020, these Senators will be increasingly concerned about their future as a Senate impeachment trial looms. This is the not the way to assure them that the White House has a coherent and controlled strategy for navigating these increasingly dangerous waters.
The President has defenses to these charges but much will depend on intent and credibility. Neither is helped by these attacks on political rivals or fellow Republicans.
Democrats whine about voter suppression?? But what about the cheating the Dems do? Media won’t report that.
Nothing to see here —->
A Democratic city clerk in Michigan who had been honored by the state party for her work was charged this week with multiple felonies related to charges of altering absentee ballots.
Sherikia Hawkins was arraigned Monday in Southfield, Michigan, on six counts related to the 2018 election including forging public documents and misconduct in office and was released on $15,000 bond, according to National Review Online.
“The alleged misconduct was discovered after the Oakland County Clerk’s Office noticed that 193 voter files had been changed to reflect that the voters failed to include a valid signature or return date, when all of the implicated voters had in fact included both items. The county clerk’s office later discovered the original voter files in the trash at the election-division office,” National Review wrote.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/sep/24/sherikia-hawkins-southfield-city-clerk-charged-alt/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork
Mitt needs to see this musical, “Book of the Mormon”
How to double down & reaffirm everything that a Mormon believes. You can’t allow yourself to have any doubts. It’s time to set your worries free.
Here’s a great presentation of the entire Ukraine timeline, with audio and documented evidence. Anyone looking for truth supported by facts will take the time to watch the presentation. If you are still not convinced at the end of it, then you must have alternate evidence. I’d like to see that alternate evidence. And for those that will dismiss this presentation without watching it; then you’re being willfully ignorant and you’re simply one of the controlled masses your masters need and expect.
https://youtu.be/kuvfYE7ZdL0
Excellent must listen. But wait, there’s more! Oliver Stone looked into Ukraine as well. Pay particular attention to what is being said at 45 seconds into this trailer….
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OLLY – in the transcript Trump mentions getting rid of the Ambassador.
Your point is?
OLLY – one of the points of the trailer was the US helping overthrow the govt of Ukraine and they show the US Ambassador who was taking the lead.
Oh, and I thought we needed 17.09 minutes of dignity and decorum this morning!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faRE7ccUfwM
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Today’s NYTs:
“WASHINGTON — The legal team for the whistle-blower alarmed by President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine is now representing a second whistle-blower, an intelligence official with firsthand knowledge of the president’s interactions, the ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos reported Sunday.
The new whistle-blower has already been interviewed by the intelligence community’s inspector general’s office, but has not yet communicated with any congressional committees, Mr. Stephanapoulos said on his show, “This Week.” The new whistle-blower has the full legal protection for those who raise alarms about wrongdoing in the executive branch, he said.
A member of the legal team confirmed on Twitter that the firm was now representing a second whistle-blower…..”
So, we’ll learn who plays Michael Avenatti in this latest farce. Good to know.
NYT appreciates her subscription fees and web traffic tho’
Next stop: self-immolation
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” A president should act with a modicum of decorum and dignity even in addressing political rivals.”
If true,a presidents opponents, when they are Congressmen and Senators, and highly “respected” journalists, should also act with a modicum of decorum and dignity, and even GASP! a simple rewspect for the truth.
That is my opinion. But even then, there is nothing wrong with calling a witch-hunting mob, a witch-hunting mob. Nor, is there anything wrong with calling a pompous ass, a pompous ass.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
“But even then, there is nothing wrong with calling a witch-hunting mob, a witch-hunting mob. Nor, is there anything wrong with calling a pompous ass, a pompous ass.”
Never before have I seen a competent President faced with such an incompetent legislature where the Republicans are mostly silent when they should be standing tall against all the cr-p, lies and deception from Democrats. Most Republicans are do nothings waiting for someone else to clear the forest before they attempt to move forward. Trump is nearly alone with few that have been willing to stand up front. That Trump is able to accomplish so much with so much decorum in accomplishing his goals is amazing. I worry little about his decorum when fighting Democrats that lie, a media that doesn’t report the truth and never Trumpers that were never true conservatives.Turley focuses on a single sapling in the forest that should not survive and never sees the forest.
You have these prissy complaints about public discourse. It would be agreeable if certain norms were observed, but that isn’t a priority right now. The priority is establishing substantive norms for the conduct of public business which will be buttressed by formal courtesy. You take no interest in the most acute problems.
Public discourse? Is that what you call this? Acute problems? Like what acute problem am I uninterested in? I am interested in REAL problems “buttressed” by REAL facts, something that doesn’t seem to be required here. Yes, I take pleasure in reading the ridiculous nonsense taken into belief by the American ignorami. Like believing ANYTHING COMRADE TRUMP says, for one thing. We are fighting for our very democracy that the Comrade and his miscreants seem determined to destroy. I am not letting it go down without a fight.
Yawn…zzzzzzz
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https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Duranty%27s+lethal+lies%3a+using+terror+and+famine%2c+Josef+Stalin+murdered+…-a0108277195
Duranty’s lethal lies: using terror and famine, Josef Stalin murdered millions in the Ukraine. Walter Duranty, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and the New York Times covered up the massacre.
When it was discovered that New York Times reporter Jayson Blair’s work was shot through with plagiarism, fraud, and fabrication, the BBC described the affair as “the biggest scandal in the history of America’s most distinguished newspaper.” As is now widely known, the Times found inaccuracies, misrepresentations, and outright lies in 36 of 73 reports penned by Blair.
Still, the Blair scandal is hardly as significant, or unusual, as the BBC’s report on the matter suggested. The Times, in fact, has a long history of misleading the public through selective coverage and the reporting of outright lies and falsehoods. This is especially the case whenever a left-wing tyrant or budding dictator has found himself in need of a friend in the media. In late 1957, tot instance, as Marxist revolution swept Cuba, the Times published a series of influential reports by Herbert Matthews lionizing a young revolutionary leader named Fidel Castro. The Castro program, the Times reported, “amounts to a new deal for Cuba, radical, democratic, and therefore anti-Communist.”
In covering for Castro, the Times and Herbert Matthews were simply following a blueprint established decades earlier by another Times man, Walter Duranty. As the New York Times’ chief correspondent in Moscow, Duranty established his reputation as the world’s leading newsman while covering the rise of Josef Stalin. His later coverage of Stalin’s First Five Year Plan garnered a Pulitzer Prize. During the same period, though, Stalin’s brutal regime was carrying out a terrifying genocide.
In the early 1930s, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of innocent victims were deported to Siberia’s uninhabitable hinterlands and abandoned to their fates. Millions more, possibly 10 million, starved to death in their ancestral homeland, surrounded by fertile land that once served as the breadbasket of Europe. In a scandalous infamy far worse than the Blair episode, Walter Duranty, in the pages of the New York Times, said the genocide didn’t happen–even though he and the Times knew that it did. For both Duranty and the Times, casting Stalin’s “workers’ paradise” in a favorable light was more important than telling the truth that the Soviet government was murdering millions of innocents.
Thanks to much hard and thankless work by Ukrainians and others around the world, the truth about the terrible genocide in the Ukraine has gradually become known to a wider circle. Now, not only has the Times begun distancing itself somewhat from the work of Walter Duranty, but the Pulitzer board is reviewing the case with an eye toward the unprecedented revocation of Duranty’s Pulitzer Prize. As the sordid tale of Duranty’s career in Moscow illustrates, such a move is long overdue.
The Devil and Duranty
Walter Duranty was born in late Victorian England to a family of some wealth. He attended, for the most part, the finest schools, first at Harrow as a boy, and later moving on to Cambridge. Despite possessing a fine mind and academic capability, Duranty ended his higher education prematurely, preferring instead a more exciting life as a poor vagabond frequently journeying between New York and Paris. That he was tapping into the seedy underground world of both cities can be inferred from the fact that during this time he met and befriended Aleister Crowley.
Crowley believed himself to be the Anti-Christ and called himself “Beast 666.” He devoted himself to studying the occult and practicing Satanic magic, but, by the end of the first decade of the 20th century, had fallen into a funk. No longer sure of himself, he was on the verge of giving up his life-long quest for evil. It was then that Crowley met Duranty. The new relationship invigorated Crowley, who recovered from his depression and rededicated himself to a life of depravity.
The two men became friends and partners, sharing an interest in the occult, in drugs, and in the affections of Jane “the Scarlet Woman'” Cheron. It was now 1913, and by the end of the year Crowley, assisted by Duranty and another partner named Victor Neuberg, began the elaborate Satanic rituals Crowley dubbed “the Paris workings.” These rituals were designed to evoke the Roman gods Mercury and Jupiter, whose analogues in the Greek Pantheon are Hermes and Zeus. The first of 23 ceremonies, composed of pagan, Satanic rituals and chants mixed with homosexual encounters between the participants, took place on December 31, 1913. Duranty, serving as “priest,” administered what Crowley termed a “sacrament,” the key component of which was a homosexual act.
The War Correspondent
At this time, Duranty was leading a sort of double life. When not participating in Satanic perversion, he was on the lookout for a vocation, preferably something that would employ his considerable, if still unpolished, literary skills. A few months before the “the Paris workings,” Duranty and a companion walked into the offices of the Paris bureau of the New York Times and introduced themselves to bureau chief Wythe Williams. Duranty and his partner, a photographer, proposed a story on a French aviator who intended to fly upside down in an airplane, a feat many thought impossible. Williams was not enthusiastic about the idea, but the pair persisted, finally winning the assignment. The next day, Duranty submitted his first manuscript to the Times. Though badly written, Williams largely rewrote it and had it published. This initial, modest success motivated Duranty to seek regular employment with the Times as a journalist. Though at first frequently rebuffed, his perseverance won the day. “He finally talked himself into a position,” Williams recalled, “because he talked so much I could no longer refuse him and arranged with the Times to give him a salary.”
When World War I broke out in 1914, the still inexperienced Duranty was kept by the Times in Paris, rather than sent to the front with the more seasoned reporters. Still, there was plenty to report on in wartime Paris. The biggest story by far came on January 30, 1916. That night, as Duranty sat at a street-side cafe, German zeppelins appeared over the city. The monstrous, gray airships dropped their payloads of bombs on horrified citizens as police and fire crews scrambled to extinguish lamps to obscure targets. Still, a number of German bombs fell in a heavily populated sector of the city. Duranty secured a cab and arrived near midnight at a nightmarish scene of destruction. His report on the aftermath in the Times exhibited the easy and lucid but dramatic style that marked his later work and contributed to his journalistic success.
If wartime Paris provided material for Duranty’s first serious work as a reporter, it also provided opportunity for his first sellout of journalistic principles. In the summer of 1917, Duranty was asked to write a false report to aid the Allied propaganda effort. The circumstances of this request, as Duranty biographer S.J. Taylor records, have been lost. But Duranty himself felt strongly enough about the episode to record the incident. “I was young and inexperienced,” he recalled, “but I had to decide the question alone.” He decided to write the story, penning a report about a fictional battle in which the Allies repulsed a German submarine attack. He “fancied,” he wrote later, that on occasion “a noble end” justified “somewhat doubtful means.” More significantly, Duranty’s willingness to fabricate the news, supposedly to achieve “‘a noble end,” would make him particularly useful to the Times when it came time to conceal Stalin’s crimes.
Duranty Goes to Moscow
After the war, Duranty continued to work for the Times, in Paris and around Europe. During this time he frequently reported on happenings inside Russia in relation to the Bolshevik (i.e., Communist) takeover there. Western journalists were not allowed in Russia then, and most of Duranty’s reporting, like that of his colleagues, was produced while outside the border. His early work on Russia was notable for its anti-Bolshevik stance. Taylor records that, in Duranty’s opinion, at least for a time, Bolshevism was “a compound of force, terror and espionage, utterly ruthless in conception and execution.” Unfortunately, Duranty purged anti-Communism from his articles as soon as the opportunity to gain entry to the Soviet Union presented itself.
By 1921, the Communist tyranny in Russia had resulted in a food shortage and famine that took, in Duranty’s own estimation, the lives of “5,000,000 or 6,000,000 including deaths from disease.” The Soviets sought help from foreign relief agencies. One of those that agreed to help was the American Relief Association, but its assistance was predicated upon the Soviets allowing Western journalists to report from within Russia. Immediately, the Times sent Duranty to Riga, Latvia, where he was to attempt to get a visa for entry into the Communist state. Once there, a Soviet press officer told him that he had been rejected for entry into Russia because of his past anti-Soviet bias. Determined to reverse this decision, Duranty wrote a puff piece on Soviet dictator Lenin’s New Economic Policy (NEP). Lenin had contrived the NEP as a step back from the repressive “War Communism” that had brought about economic stagnation and famine. The main objective of the NEP was to reintroduce into the Soviet system, in a manner controlled by the state, some elements of a market economy in an attempt to recover the economic ground lost under “War Communism” The NEP was tantamount to an an admission by the Bolsheviks that Communism, as an economic system, was a dismal failure. Such criticism as this, justified though it was, did not make it into Duranty’s report. When it was finished, Durauty’s work on the NEP in the Times apparently met with favor in Soviet circles, and Duranty was in.
Now that he had gained entry to the Soviet Union, the old Duranty who had been skeptical of the Bolshevik regime was quickly replaced with the new Duranty who was willing to heap praise on the Communists. On January 18, 1923, he provided his readers with a glowing critique of Stalin and the Soviet system:
[D]uring the last year Stalin has
shown judgement and analytical
power not unworthy of Lenin. It is to
him that the greatest part of the credit
is due for bringing about the new
Russian Union, which history may regard
as one of the most remarkable
Constitutions in human history. Trotsky
helped him in drawing it up, but
Stalin’s brain guided the pen.
In the coming years, Duranty would cement his reputation as the leading journalist in Russia and the top journalistic expert on Russian affairs by covering such important events as Lenin’s death and the rise to power of Stalin, whom Duranty referred to as “a remarkable personality.”
Genocide
In 1928, the Stalin regime adopted the first of the Five Year Plans. The plan’s goal, as stated by party propaganda, was to “catch up and bypass the capitalist world.” The plan called for rapidly developing industry, especially heavy industry, which the commissars pledged would grow by 330 percent. Stalin intended to finance this expansion by collectivizing the USSR’s agricultural sector. By confiscating the land and assigning the peasants to collective farms, the Soviets hoped to increase agricultural output by 150 percent. From this output they expected to reap a bloody profit sufficient to finance their dreams of industry.
The drive for completely collectivizing agriculture, Stalin and his henchmen realized, would be resisted by those peasants who had been farming their own meager holdings and retaining what profits could be made. These “kulaks” thus became enemies of the state, and Stalin, in a chilling proclamation, called for the “liquidation of the kulaks as a class.” This order led to deportation, famine, and genocide, primarily in the Ukraine.
To carry out the “dekulakization” campaign and force the peasantry onto the collective farms or “kolkhozes,” the Kremlin dispatched brigades of loyal Communists and Komsomol (Young Communist League) members to the Ukraine and to other agricultural areas to organize and enforce the effort. These fanatical party functionaries used whatever means necessary, up to and including the frequent use of lethal force, to expropriate the land from the peasants and force them to labor on the collective farms. Those unfortunate enough to be deemed kulaks–the official definition was sufficiently vague so that nearly anyone could designated as such–were the first to come under fire.
Ukrainian historian Orest Subtelny noted that “the ‘dekulakization” process reached its high point in the winter of 1929-30.” Kulaks who resisted were simply shot. Most of the remainder were forcibly relocated to Siberia and the Arctic. “Hundreds of thousands of peasants and their families,” Subtelny writes, “were dragged from their homes, packed into freight trains, and shipped thousands of miles to the north where they were dumped amidst Arctic wastes, often without food or shelter.” Approximately 850,000 peasants were removed in this way. Many did not survive the journey. Many more died of exposure and related ailments shortly after being abandoned in the inhospitable wilderness.
Those allowed to remain in their ancestral homelands also suffered the confiscation of their property and livestock. Predictably, a fierce resistance developed. This resistance was principally a homemade scorched-earth policy. Rather than relinquish their assets to the state, the peasants did what they could to destroy them. Professor Nicholas V. Riasanovsky of the University of California at Berkeley notes that “from 1929 to 1933 in the Soviet Union the number of horses, in millions, declined from 34 to 16.6, of cattle from 68.1 to 38.6, of sheep and goats from 147.2 to 50.6, and of hogs from 20.9 to 12.2”
In response, Stalin determined to destroy the population through starvation. Soviet agents actively worked to enforce strict collection quotas on agricultural production, leaving little or nothing for consumption in the Ukraine and other affected areas. In conjunction with this, the GPU (a KGB precursor) was ordered to ban “by all means necessary the large-scale departure of peasants from the Ukraine and the Northern Caucasus for the towns. Once these counter-revolutionary elements have been arrested,” the order continued. “they are to be escorted back to their original place of residence.”
Without food, and without an ability to seek relief by leaving the region, a terrible and brutal famine developed. In testimony to the San Francisco regional hearing of the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine in 1987, Ivan Kasiianenko, who in 1932 at the time of the famine was only a boy, described in a chilling account the horrors he witnessed:
My father was always on the run during
the day and would only come at
night. We had nothing; they had taken
everything from us. They came with
their pikes, poked around, asked
questions and grabbed my mother by
the hair. They tore off my mother’s
earrings and her cross. We children
cried, but nothing helped. No one
paid any attention to our tears.
They locked our mother in the basement. So there we were, five of us children with me the oldest, and our father nowhere to be found. They came back to see if they had missed anything and found one egg that had not been taken. They took it away….
After two weeks they let mother out of the basement. But what could she do when there was nothing to eat? In March or April 1933 they took our cow. The first to die was my youngest sister, then another sister. Then my brother and a third sister died at the same time. Father died and was buried on Holy Thursday. Mother died two days later, and they threw her in a hole on Easter Sunday. I remember how a neighbor came and comforted me, saying that although my parents had gone, they had died on holy days, Holy Thursday and Easter. It was a terrible time for me. I was starving myself, to such an extent that I could not walk.
Ivan Kasiianenko’s testimony goes on at length describing the grisly horrors he witnessed, from “starving people on the verge of death” to “even mothers, [who] sometimes lost their sanity and turned into animals who smothered their own children and ate them.”
Whitewash
At the height of the famine, Duranty was living in relative comfort in Moscow with his mistress, Katya, and enjoying the acclaim that results from winning the Pulitzer Prize. lie was given that prestigious honor in 1932 for his reporting on developments in Russia during the previous year. “Mr. Duranty’s dispatches show profound and intimate comprehension of conditions in Russia and of the causes of those conditions,” the official announcement of the award enthused. “They are marked by scholarship, profundity, impartiality, sound judgement, and exceptional clarity, and are excellent examples of the best type of foreign correspondence.” in the very acceptance of his award, however, Duranty put the lie to the myth of his impartiality. “I learned to respect the Soviet leaders,” he said, “especially Stalin, whom I consider to have grown into a really great statesman, and their [the Bolsheviks’] planned system of economy, despite present imperfections.”
During this period, Duranty worked hard from his Moscow quarters to dismiss and belittle reports that the Soviet regime was engaged in a campaign of genocide. Both Duranty and the Times knew the truth, of course. In an absolutely incredible admission, Duranty confessed that his writings reflected the official Soviet line. As Soviet expert Leonard Leshuk notes in his recent book US Intelligence Perceptions of Soviet Power, 1921-1946, in June of 1931, Walter Duranty “admitted to A.W. Klieforth of the U.S. Embassy in Berlin … that ‘in agreement with The New York Times and the Soviet authorities’ his official dispatches always reflect the official opinion of the Soviet regime and not his own.” That is, the New York Times, the most powerful, most respected news organization in the United States, served as a Soviet mouthpiece. Undoubtedly, the Times was much more effective than Pravda, the Moscow-based Communist newspaper, at burying the truth, since the Times was much more highly respected, was supposedly impartial, and had a much wider readership in the West.
And Walter Duranty, based in Moscow, was the Times” key propagandist popularizing the lie that there was no genocide in the Ukraine. On November 11, 1932, the Times published a front page report from Walter Duranty entitled “All Russia Suffers Shortage of Food; Supplies Dwindling.” Through clever semantics the report minimized the tragedy in the Ukraine by claiming that all Soviet citizens faced the same difficulties. But more to the point, Duranty dismissed the prospect of famine altogether. “There is no famine or actual starvation, nor is there likely to be,” he wrote.
The very next day the Times published a follow-up report in which the celebrated reporter, parroting the official Stalinist propaganda, blamed the food shortage on the peasants themselves, to a report headlined “Food Shortage Laid To Soviet Peasants,” Duranty wrote that “the food shortage must be regarded as a result of peasant resistance to rural socialization, or, perhaps more accurately, as a result of the measures taken to overcome that resistance. The measures have proved effective and the resistance has been overcome….” Still, Duranty placed the blame most squarely with the peasants rather than with Soviet policy because, he wrote, “food production dwindled as the peasants killed their livestock and abandoned the production of surplus food stocks.” This was shockingly false. The root cause of the food shortage was the Soviet government’s systematic oppression of the peasants, its outright murder and deportation of the most successful “kulak” farmers, and the brutal, state-sponsored and organized theft of all remaining peasant assets.
The worst whitewash of the famine perpetrated by the New York Times with the help of Duranty came in the spring of 1933. During the height of the famine, a young British traveler named Gareth Jones spent three weeks walking through the affected region. After his trip Jones, who had once been secretary to British Prime Minister Lloyd George, announced to the world, at a press conference in Berlin and a lecture in London, that he had seen starvation on a massive scale. According to Eugene Lyons, a Western reporter with left-leaning sympathies, the head of the Soviet Press Office, Constantine Oumansky, demanded that Western journalists based in Russia denounce Jones’ report, under penalty of losing their credentials. “The scene in which the American press corps combined to repudiate Jones is fresh in my mind,” Lyons wrote in his book Assignment in Utopia. “It was in the evening and Comrade [O]umansky … consented to meet us in the hotel room of a correspondent…. There was much bargaining in a spirit of gentlemanly give-and-take, under the effulgence of Umansky’s gilded smile, before a formula of denial was worked out.” According to biographer S.J. Taylor, Walter Duranty was one of the reporters to attend that meeting. In Duranty’s subsequent report repudiating Jones, published by the Times on March 31, 1933, Duranty wrote that “there is no actual starvation, or deaths from starvation,” and, though “conditions are bad … there is no famine.” Moreover, he crassly dismissed hardships caused by Soviet policy. “[T]o put it brutally,” he wrote, “you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs….”
The omelette the power elite on both sides of the Atlantic hoped to concoct included normalizing relations between the United States and the Soviet Union On November 17 1933, the still-new administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt granted full diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Union, despite the massive campaign of genocide underway there. The deal was brokered from the Soviet side by Foreign Minister Litvinoff, who traveled to Washington earlier in the month aboard the steamer S.S. Berengaria. The only Western journalist on board for that trip was Walter Duranty.
Diplomatically, Duranty was little more than a sidelight to the proceedings, but his reporting from Russia certainly facilitated the normalization of relations. Almost certainly, if the true nature and scale of the Soviet genocide in the Ukraine had been truthfully reported, the Roosevelt administration would have found it impossible to grant diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Union. Indeed, Stalin himself congratulated Duranty for his reporting not long after the normalization of relations. “You have done a good job in your reporting the U.S.S.R.,” the dictator told Duranty on Christmas Day, 1933.
The Truth Comes Out
For public consumption, Duranty was happy to deny the famine and thereby help the Times cover for the Soviets. Privately, though, he was willing to concede that the famine was real and disastrous. “In private conversation with British diplomats,” writes Soviet expert Leonard Lesbuk, “he [Duranty] estimated that as many as 10 million people may have starved to death.” Similarly, in Assignment in Utopia, Eugene Lyons describes Duranty’s estimates of the death toll following the latter’s return from a trip to the Ukraine. Lyons writes that he and his wife, Billy, were dining with Duranty, Anne O’Hare McCormick (also of the Times), and McCormick’s husband. Duranty, Lyons recalled, “gave us his flesh impressions in brutally frank terms and they added up to a picture of ghastly horror. His estimate of the dead from famine was the most startling I had as yet heard from anyone.”
Despite the artful misrepresentations made by Duranty and many others who covered the Soviet Union during the famine years, the existence of this monumental crime would prove impossible to deny. Thanks to the tireless work of many Ukrainian-Americans and several groups representing, Ukrainian immigrants to America, the genocide in the Ukraine has become more well-known, as has the shameful role of Walter Duranty and the New York Times in its cover-up.
Now, 70 years after the famine, a push is on to have Duranty’s Pulitzer Prize revoked due to the slanted and partisan nature of his reporting and his role in covering up the man-made famine. In announcing earlier this year its campaign to have the prize revoked, the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America noted that Duranty not only disregarded the famine in hi s dispatches but “called other journalists outright liars for reporting about Ukraine’s Famine Genocide.” The publicity generated by a new interest in uncovering this monstrous atrocity is having an effect. According to CBS News, “more than 15,000 postcards and thousands more letters and e-mails were sent to the Pulitzer Board” by concerned Ukrainians and others around the world asking that the prize be taken from Duranty.
As a result, a committee of the Pulitzer Board is undertaking a review to determine if the prize should be revoked. Calls placed by THE NEW AMERICAN to the Pulitzer panel seeking information on the status of the review have not been returned as of this writing. Still, the review is a step in the right direction. For its part, the New York Times remains proud of Duranty’s Pulitzer, if one can judge by the paper’s actions. Though it has posted a disclaimer on the prize indicating that “other writers in the Times and elsewhere have discredited this coverage,” the paper has neither apologized for Duranty’s lies on its behalf nor returned the prize.
That was a fascinating article! I have never heard of Duranty. Thank you for posting this!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
The NYT has never given back its Pulitzer for this lying reporting.
On the 10/2/19 audio of the X22report at about the 22nd minute somewhere they came up with more details about rep Shitf Schifft, the 1st want to be whistleblower, the ICIG & likely Pelosi & others , knowingly were producing fraudulent documents to further their Coup against a sitting president.
https://x22report.com/
I just love you guys! Do you all have your aluminum hats on?
You should consider eating real food instead of aluminum, mercury and lead paint chips
Then again who are we to tell a libertard what to do so feast away on that corrosive iron and lead pipe
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Maybe it is the lead paint from his mom’s basement walls???
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Those suffering from DJT syndrome should beg for extra vaccines from here on out & ask for the ones that have the special sauce.
Dear Mr. Trump, You first!
OT: “WORLD TAKE NOTE!”: Genocide of Christians in Nigeria
Muhammadu Buhari, the Muslim president of Nigeria — who reached that position in part thanks to former US President Barack H. Obama — continues to fuel the “genocide” of Christians in his nation, according to Nigerian Christian leaders.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14958/nigeria-genocide-christians
There’s a lot of violence in Nigeria as it’s a disorderly country generally. There is no ‘genocide’ among Christians. The promiscuous use of that term is gross and absurd. Mohammed Buhari was elected president according to law, defeating the previous president. There have been complaints about electoral fraud. That’s Africa.
DSS, being so sanguine is dangerous. Lebanon used to be a Christian country and we have see genocide all over the world frquently reported as ‘nothing is happening’. I can’t say for sure one way or the other and I don’t think you can either. Here is the complete article for you to peruse. There are others as well but you are entitled to your opinion.
“It’s tough to tell Nigerian Christians this isn’t a religious conflict since what they see are Fulani fighters clad entirely in black, chanting ‘Allahu Akbar!’ and screaming ‘Death to Christians.'” — Sister Monica Chikwe, reported by John. L. Allen Jr., Crux, August 4, 2019.
“Hundreds of indigenous Numan Christians in Adamawa state were attacked and killed by jihadist Fulani herdsmen. When they tried to defend themselves the Buhari govt. sent in the Airforce to bomb hundreds of them and protect the Fulani aggressors. Is this fair?!” — Femi Fani-Kayode, former Minister of Aviation, Daily Post (Nigeria), December 6, 2017.
Such is the current state of affairs: a jihad of genocidal proportions has been declared on the Christian population of Nigeria — and according to Nigerian Christian leaders, spearheaded by that nation’s president and his fellow Fulani tribesmen — even as Western media and analysts present Nigeria’s problems as products of economics — or “inequality” and “poverty,” to quote former US President Bill Clinton on the supposedly true source that is “fueling all this stuff.”
According to Bosun Emmanuel, the secretary of Nigeria’s National Christian Elders Forum, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari (pictured) “is openly pursuing an anti-Christian agenda that has resulted in countless murders of Christians all over the nation and destruction of vulnerable Christian communities.” (Photo by Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images)
Muhammadu Buhari, the Muslim president of Nigeria — who reached that position in part thanks to former US President Barack H. Obama — continues to fuel the “genocide” of Christians in his nation, according to Nigerian Christian leaders.
Most recently, Father Valentine Obinna, a priest of the Aba diocese of Nigeria, attributed the ongoing slaughter of Christians to the planned “Islamization of Nigeria”:
“People read the handwriting on the wall. It’s obvious. It’s underground. It’s trying to make the whole country a Muslim country. But they are trying to do that in a context with a strong presence of Christians, and that’s why it becomes very difficult for him [Buhari].”
Nigeria is roughly half Muslim, half Christian. A 2011 ABC News report offers context on when and why Muslim anger reached a boiling point:
The current wave of [Muslim] riots was triggered by the Independent National Election Commission’s (INEC) announcement on Monday [April 18, 2011] that the incumbent President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan [a Christian], won in the initial round of ballot counts. That there were riots in the largely Muslim inhabited northern states where the defeat of the Muslim candidate Muhammadu Buhari was intolerable, was unsurprising. Northerners [Muslims] felt they were entitled to the presidency for the declared winner, President Jonathan, [who] assumed leadership after the Muslim president, Umaru Yar’Adua died in office last year and radical groups in the north [Boko Haram] had seen his [Jonathan’s] ascent as a temporary matter to be corrected at this year’s election. Now they are angry despite experts and observers concurring that this is the fairest and most independent election in recent Nigerian history.
Between 2011 and 2015, Boko Haram — a jihadi group that committed ISIS-types of atrocities even before ISIS came into being — terrorized and slaughtered thousands of Christians, particularly those living in the Muslim-majority north. In 2015, Nigeria’s Muslims finally got what they wanted: a Muslim president in the person of Muhammadu Buhari. The violence, however, only got worse. Muslim Fulani herdsmen — the ethnic tribe from which Buhari hails — joined and even surpassed Boko Haram in their slaughter of Christians.
Between June 2017 and June 2018 alone, Muslim Fulani slaughteredapproximately 9,000 Christians and destroyed at least a thousand churches. (It took three times longer for the Fulani to kill a fraction [1,484] of Christians under Jonathan’s presidency.) In just the first six months of this year, 52 lethal terror attacks targeting Christian villages occurred. “Nearly every single day, I wake up with text messages from partners in Nigeria, such as this morning: ‘Herdsmen stab 49-year-old farmer to death in Ogan,'” human rights lawyer Ann Buwalda said in July.
Whenever the mainstream media touches on the violence wracking Nigeria, it repeats what Obama’s Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Johnnie Carson, claimed after a church was bombed, leaving nearly 40 Christian worshippers dead on Easter Sunday, 2012. “I want to take this opportunity,” Carson said, “to stress one key point and that is that religion is not driving extremist violence” in Nigeria.
As Sister Monica Chikwe recently explained, however, “It’s tough to tell Nigerian Christians this isn’t a religious conflict since what they see are Fulani fighters clad entirely in black, chanting ‘Allahu Akbar!’ and screaming ‘Death to Christians.'”
Similarly, the Christian Association of Nigeria asked:
“How can it be a [secular or economic] clash when one group [Muslims] is persistently attacking, killing, maiming, destroying, and the other group [Christians] is persistently being killed, maimed and their places of worship destroyed?”
In short, Christians are being targeted by Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen because, to quote Fr. Valentine Obinna, President Buhari and his Muslim cabinet “want to make sure the whole country becomes a Muslim country,”
As the following quotes make clear, Fr. Obinna is not alone in accusing President Buhari of clandestinely fueling his Fulani clansmen’s jihad against Christians:
“[T]he Muslim president [Buhari] has only awarded the murderers with impunity rather than justice and has staffed his government with Islamic officials, while doing essentially nothing to give the nation’s Christians, who make up half the population, due representation….. Hundreds of indigenous Numan Christians in Adamawa state were attacked and killed by jihadist Fulani herdsmen. When they tried to defend themselves the Buhari govt. sent in the Airforce to bomb hundreds of them and protect the Fulani aggressors. Is this fair? WORLD TAKE NOTE!” — former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, 2017 (caps in original; see here too).
“Under President Buhari, the murderous Fulani herdsmen enjoyed unprecedented protection and favoritism… Rather than arrest and prosecute the Fulani herdsmen, security forces usually manned by Muslims from the North offer them protection as they unleash terror with impunity on the Nigerian people.” — Rev. Musa Asake, the General Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria, 2018.
Buhari “is himself from the jihadists’ Fulani tribe, so what can you expect?” — Emmanuel Ogebe, Washington DC-based human rights lawyer, in conversation with Gatestone, 2018.
“They want to strike Christians, and the government does nothing to stop them, because President Buhari is also of the Fulani ethnic group.” — Bishop Matthew Ishaya Audu of Lafia, 2018.
Buhari “is openly pursuing an anti-Christian agenda that has resulted in countless murders of Christians all over the nation and destruction of vulnerable Christian communities.” — Bosun Emmanuel, the secretary of the National Christian Elders Forum, 2018.
While acknowledging President Buhari’s role, the National Christian Elders Forum has been more direct concerning the ultimate source of violence in Nigeria:
“JIHAD has been launched in Nigeria by the Islamists of northern Nigeria led by the Fulani ethnic group. This Jihad is based on the Doctrine of Hate taught in Mosques and Islamic Madrasas in northern Nigeria as well as the supremacist ideology of the Fulani. Using both conventional (violent) Jihad, and stealth (civilization) Jihad, the Islamists of northern Nigeria seem determined to turn Nigeria into an Islamic Sultanate and replace Liberal Democracy with Sharia as the National Ideology. … We want a Nigeria, where citizens are treated equally before the law at all levels….”
Although Christians were only recently the majority of Nigeria’s population, the ongoing genocide against them has caused their population to drop — to the point that Christianity in Nigeria is, according to the National Christian Elders Forum, “on the brink of extinction,” thanks to “the ascendancy of Sharia ideology in Nigeria [which] rings the death toll for the Nigerian Church.”
Such is the current state of affairs: a jihad of genocidal proportions has been declared on the Christian population of Nigeria — and according to Nigerian Christian leaders, spearheaded by that nation’s president and his fellow Fulani tribesmen — even as Western media and analysts present Nigeria’s problems as products of economics — or “inequality” and “poverty,” to quote former US President Bill Clinton on the supposedly true source that is “fueling all this stuff.”
DSS isnt sanguine. Pompous, insulated, detached, unconcerned for others, yes, but not sanguine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/02/persecution-driving-christians-out-of-middle-east-report
Persecution of Christians ‘coming close to genocide’ in Middle East – report
Patrick Wintour
Fri 3 May 2019
Millions uprooted from homes, says UK-commissioned report, with many jailed and killed
The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was mentioned in the report for denigrating Christians.
Pervasive persecution of Christians, sometimes amounting to genocide, is ongoing in parts of the Middle East, and has prompted an exodus in the past two decades, according to a report commissioned by the British foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt.
Millions of Christians in the region have been uprooted from their homes, and many have been killed, kidnapped, imprisoned and discriminated against, the report finds. It also highlights discrimination across south-east Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and in east Asia – often driven by state authoritarianism.
“The inconvenient truth,” the report finds, is “that the overwhelming majority (80%) of persecuted religious believers are Christians”.
Some of the report’s findings will make difficult reading for leaders across the Middle East who are accused of either tolerating or instigating persecution. The Justice and Development (AK) party of the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, for instance, is highlighted for denigrating Christians.
Hunt described the interim report – published on Thursday, based on a review led by the bishop of Truro, the Rt Rev Philip Mounstephen – as “truly sobering”, especially since it came as “the world was seeing religious hatred laid bare in the appalling attacks at Easter on churches across Sri Lanka, and the devastating attack on two mosques in Christchurch”.
Hunt, an Anglican, has made the issue of Christian persecution one of the major themes of his foreign secretaryship. “I think we have shied away from talking about Christian persecution because we are a Christian country and we have a colonial past, so sometimes there’s a nervousness there,” he said. “But we have to recognise – and that’s what the bishop’s report points out very starkly – that Christians are the most persecuted religious group.”
He added: “What we have forgotten in this atmosphere of political correctness is actually the Christians that are being persecuted are some of the poorest people on the planet. In the Middle East the population of Christians used to be about 20%; now it’s 5%.”
“We’ve all been asleep on the watch when it comes to the persecution of Christians. I think not just the bishop of Truro’s report but obviously what happened in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday has woken everyone up with an enormous shock.”
The interim report is designed to set out the scale of the persecution and a final report in the summer will set out how the British Foreign Office can do more to raise awareness of the issue.
The report shows that a century ago Christians comprised 20% of the population in the Middle East and north Africa, but since then the proportion has fallen to less than 4%, or roughly 15 million people.
In the Middle East and north Africa, the report says, “forms of persecution ranging from routine discrimination in education, employment and social life up to genocidal attacks against Christian communities have led to a significant exodus of Christian believers from this region since the turn of the century.
“In countries such as Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Saudi Arabia the situation of Christians and other minorities has reached an alarming stage. In Saudi Arabia there are strict limitations on all forms of expression of Christianity including public acts of worship. There have been regular crackdowns on private Christian services. The Arab-Israeli conflict has caused the majority of Palestinian Christians to leave their homeland. The population of Palestinian Christians has dropped from 15% to 2%.”
The report identifies three drivers of persecution: political failure creating a fertile ground for religious extremism; a turn to religious conservatism in countries such as Algeria and Turkey; and institutional weaknesses around justice, the rule of law and policing, leaving the system open to exploitation by extremists.
The report says: “The rise of hate speech against Christians in state media and by religious leaders, especially in countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia, has compromised the safety of Christians and created social intolerance.”
In findings that may pose difficulties for the UK as it seeks to build relations across the Middle East, the report states: “In some cases the state, extremist groups, families and communities participate collectively in persecution and discriminatory behaviour. In countries such as Iran, Algeria and Qatar, the state is the main actor, where as in Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Libya and Egypt both state and non-state actors, especially religious extremist groups, are implicated.”
“In 2017 a total of 99 Egyptian Christians were killed by extremist groups, with 47 killed on Palm Sunday in Tanta and Alexandria. Egyptian Christians were continuously targeted by extremist groups during 2017 and 2018.
“Arrest, detention and imprisonment are common in Iran, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. For example in the course of six days before Christmas 2018, 114 Christians were arrested in Iran with court cases left pending as a form of intimidation. Though most cases in Iran involve converts, indigenous Christians such as Pastor Victor, an Assyrian Christian, with his wife, Shamiram Issavi, have also been targeted and imprisoned.”
It also highlights how states, and state-sponsored social media, sometimes incite hatred and publish propaganda against Christians, especially in Iran, Iraq and Turkey. “The governing AK party in Turkey depicts Christians as a ‘threat to the stability of the nation’. Turkish Christian citizens have often been stereotyped as not real Turks but as western collaborators.”
In Saudi Arabia, the report says, school textbooks “teach pupils religious hatred and intolerance towards non-Muslims, including Christians and Jews”.
The report says freedom of religious belief can also act as a means of helping those suffering gender discrimination, since there is clear evidence that female Christians suffer disproportionately.
Defending the claim of genocide, the report says: “The level and nature of persecution is arguably coming close to meeting the international definition of genocide, according to that adopted by the UN.”
The eradication of Christians and other minorities on pain of “the sword” or other violent means was revealed to be the specific and stated objective of extremist groups in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, north-east Nigeria and the Philippines. An intent to erase all evidence of the Christian presence was made plain by the removal of crosses, the destruction of church buildings and other church symbols.
“The killing and abduction of clergy represented a direct attack on the church’s structure and leadership. Where these and other incidents meet the tests of genocide, governments will be required to bring perpetrators to justice, aid victims and take preventative measures for the future. The main impact of such genocidal acts against Christians is exodus.”
Referring to the universal declaration of human rights, the report concludes: “The challenge that faces us at the beginning of the 21st century is not that we need to fight for a just legal system, it is rather that to our shame, we have abjectly failed to implement the best system that women and men have yet devised to protect universal freedoms.”
Finally! Someone on this blog that doesn’t pull “facts” out of their ass like Trump!
Genocide of Christians are indeed occurring in Nigeria but not just there and not just now. Good call on your part and keep educating the readers
https://www.newsweek.com/christian-persecution-genocide-worse-ever-770462
Christian Persecution and Genocide Is Worse Now Than “Any Time in History,” Report Says
By Cristina Maza
1/4/18 at 11:42 AM EST
The persecution and genocide of Christians across the world is worse today “than at any time in history,” and Western governments are failing to stop it, a report from a Catholic organization said.
The study by Aid to the Church in Need said the treatment of Christians has worsened substantially in the past two years compared with the two years prior, and has grown more violent than any other period in modern times.
“Not only are Christians more persecuted than any other faith group, but ever-increasing numbers are experiencing the very worst forms of persecution,” the report said.
The report examined the plight of Christians in China, Egypt, Eritrea, India, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria and Turkey over the period lasting from 2015 until 2017. The research showed that in that time, Christians suffered crimes against humanity, and some were hanged or crucified. The report found that Saudi Arabia was the only country where the situation for Christians did not get worse, and that was only because the situation couldn’t get any worse than it already was.
A member of the Syrian Arab-Kurdish forces places a cross in the rubble ahead of a Christmas celebration at the heavily damaged Armenian Catholic Church of the Martyrs in Raqqa, Syria. The persecution and genocide of Christians across the world is worse today “than at any time in history,” and Western governments are failing to stop it, a report from a Catholic organization said.
The authors criticized the administration of President Donald Trump for not holding Saudi Arabia accountable for its human rights violations and instead focusing on the trade relationship between the two nations. In May 2017, Trump signed a $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia during his first overseas trip in office.
The report put special focus on Middle Eastern countries like Iraq and Syria, where the authors argued Christians would have been entirely wiped out if it weren’t for military action and the assistance of Christian humanitarian organizations, like Aid to the Church in Need.
“The defeat of Daesh [the Islamic State militant group] and other Islamists in major strongholds of the Middle East offers the last hope of recovery for Christian groups threatened with extinction,” the report found. “Many would not survive another similar violent attack.”
Relatives of Coptic Christians who were killed during a bus attack surround their coffins during their funeral service, at Ava Samuel desert monastery, in Minya, Egypt.
The report, which was released in November 2017 but received renewed attention this week, is based on research in the countries and testimony from victims. It detailed attacks against Coptic Christians in Egypt and monasteries burned in Syria.
In Africa, the report focused on countries like Sudan, where the government ordered that churches be destroyed, and Nigeria, where ISIS-affiliated groups like Boko Haram have led a surge in attacks on Christians. In Eritrea, hundreds of Christians have been rounded up and imprisoned over the past year because of their faith.
The report also documented numerous case studies in which Christians in countries such as India and Nigeria were murdered or beaten for practicing their faith.
“A Christian pastor in India was left in a coma after being beaten in a ‘planned’ attack apparently carried out by Hindutva extremists,” the report noted. “Before slipping into unconsciousness, the pastor told police that the attack was religiously motivated.”
“You must never come to our village to pray. You should never enter our village,” the men told the pastor, according to the report.
In late October, Vice President Mike Pence pledged that the Trump administration would redirect aid money formerly given to the United Nations to the U.S. Agency for International Development, a move that was meant to appease Christian organizations that say the U.N. isn’t doing enough for persecuted Christians.
Mitt’s an empty suit.
On the flip side he is not a thrice married, philandering, self-confessed molester who oggles at his own daughter.
Bill Clinton isnt president tho’, so your ilk keeps reminding us when we remind you of the rapist and liars he and Hillary still are
Clinton had a CONSENSUAL affair with an ADULT intern, and not the first one, either. He didn’t rape anyone. Nothing he did was against the law, except to lie about when asked by Congress.
Boy, do you need a history lesson. Here’s a primer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_sexual_misconduct_allegations
Warren Buffett kept a concubine.
JFK, Monster
By Timothy Noah
“I knew that John F. Kennedy was a compulsive, even pathological adulterer, given to taking outlandish risks after he entered the White House. I knew he treated women like whores. And I knew he had more than a few issues with his father about toughness and manliness and all that. But before I read in the newspaper that Mimi Alford’s just-released memoir, Once Upon A Secret: My Affair With President John F. Kennedy And Its Aftermath, described giving Dave Powers a blow job at JFK’s request and in his presence, I didn’t know that Kennedy had an appetite for subjecting those close to him to extreme humiliation.”
“WASHINGTON (AP) – Paula Jones is awaiting the arrival of an $850,000 cheque from President Clinton, bringing an official end to the four-year saga spurred by her allegations of sexual harassment.”
“FDR and His Women”
“… she was deeply wounded to discover that Franklin had been having an affair with her secretary, Lucy Mercer.”
Bill Clinton as enabled by Hillary Clinton
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1. Eileen Wellstone (1969) Allegation: Sexual assault
2. Anonymous female student at Yale University (1972) Allegation: Sexual assault
3. Anonymous female student at the University of Arkansas (1974) Allegation: Sexual assault
4. Anonymous female lawyer (1977) Allegation: Sexual assault
5. Juanita Broaddrick (1978) Allegation: Rape
6. Carolyn Moffet (1979) Allegation: Sexual assault
7. Elizabeth Ward (1983) Allegation: Unclear
8. Sally Perdue (1983) Allegation: Unclear
9. Paula Jones (1991) Allegation: Sexual harassment
10. Sandra Allen James (1991) Allegation: Sexual assault
11. Christy Zercher (1992) Allegation: Sexual assault
12. Kathleen Willey (1993) Allegation: Sexual assault
He’s nothing of the kind. He’s a capable and accomplished man with a great many assets and virtues. The thing is, his career in politics seems to have had as its motor the liking of a challenge, rather than a discernible interest in the content of public policy (the Bushes, father and son, give that impression as well). No clue why, with every other iron he has in the fire, he wants to be doing what he’s doing, except some sort of pride-driven butt-hurt.
TIA:
He started life on second base as the scion of an elite family and wants praise for skidding into third. He’s Ted Kennedy without the traffic accident. Hardly the self-made man you portray.
LOL! Yes, but Trump’s not. He’s full of great ideas like avoiding forest fires inn California by “RAKING THE FOREST FLOORS!” and halting destructive hurricanes by “DROPPING NUCLEAR BOMBS IN THEM!” He’s a real Thomas Edison!
A president should act with a modicum of decorum and dignity even in addressing political rivals.
Oh, that ship sailed the moment it was decided a soft coup was better than democracy.
We did not vote for Trump at home but we find ourselves supporting him because he fights back against all of the powerful forces Americans have found despicable: the liberal news media and the lying Democrats starting with Bill Clinton Presidency
We languished during the Bush presidency because George was such a weasel, a limp stick, a man only by virtue of DNA. The liberals ran over him time after time while Bush didn’t fight back and hence looked pitiful.
Turley continually complains about, well, everything, that Trump is beneath the office for ….whatever. As if Bill Clinton and all those despicable Dem House and Senate Leaders modeled virtue, honor, integrity. Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, Hillary, Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler…. they should all be tarred and feathered.
Keep fighting Mr Trump. We didnt like you initially but we loathe Pelosi, CNN, NYT, et al so you have our support as long as you call out the enemy of the people: the MSM
Is Mitt a “Mormon”? What is that? It is something to do with the geography of Utah? I thought Mitt was formerly a Senator or Congressman from another state. Why did he move to Utah? Mitt looks a bit weird. Is he gay? Does he gamble in Vegas?
That seems like copied from the Morin’s tweet today? No?
Thank you for the laughs! I love reading this shit at breakfast, I am literally hysterical!
Paul Sperry tweet:
“BREAKING: The whistleblower is a registered Democrat & CIA analyst who was detailed before the 2016 election to the Obama White House,where he worked on the NSC’s Ukraine desk & met w anti-Trump Ukrainian officials before being sent packing by the Trump NSC & becoming disgruntled”
I think President Trump has had it with all these investigations. He has come to realize that everything he gets accused of someelse is actually doing inclding Romney. Senator Romney it was just revealed has connections to the same company that Hunter Biden got money from. Do you think maybe that s why he does not want Hunter Biden investigated.?
As soon as I heard them talking about a 2nd whistleblower I immediately thought back to Kavanaugh. One “victim” and when she was falling apart, out come “victims” 2,3, etc. Each more unbelievable than their predecessor. It’s like they have a playbook and they just keep picking the same tired stories over and over. It’s not working and now America is waking up 🇺🇸
Paul Sperry stated his belief that this type of action would occur in his NYPost article right after innaugeration “How Obama is scheming to sabotage Trump’s presidency”, February 17 2017. We have to remember that Obama’s only substantial activity was as a Community organizer in the form of Saul Alinsky with a very wealthy supporter George Soros.
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When former President Barack Obama said he was “heartened” by anti-Trump protests, he was sending a message of approval to his troops. Troops? Yes, Obama has an army of agitators — numbering more than 30,000 — who will fight his Republican successor at every turn of his historic presidency. And Obama will command them from a bunker less than two miles from the White House.
In what’s shaping up to be a highly unusual post-presidency, Obama isn’t just staying behind in Washington. He’s working behind the scenes to set up what will effectively be a shadow government to not only protect his threatened legacy, but to sabotage the incoming administration and its popular “America First” agenda.
He’s doing it through a network of leftist nonprofits led by Organizing for Action. Normally you’d expect an organization set up to support a politician and his agenda to close up shop after that candidate leaves office, but not Obama’s OFA. Rather, it’s gearing up for battle, with a growing war chest and more than 250 offices across the country.
Since Donald Trump’s election, this little-known but well-funded protesting arm has beefed up staff and ramped up recruitment of young liberal activists, declaring on its website, “We’re not backing down.” Determined to salvage Obama’s legacy, it’s drawing battle lines on immigration, ObamaCare, race relations and climate change.
Obama is intimately involved in OFA operations and even tweets from the group’s account. In fact, he gave marching orders to OFA foot soldiers following Trump’s upset victory.
“It is fine for everybody to feel stressed, sad, discouraged,” he said in a conference call from the White House. “But get over it.” He demanded they “move forward to protect what we’ve accomplished.”
“Now is the time for some organizing,” he said. “So don’t mope.”
Far from sulking, OFA activists helped organize anti-Trump marches across US cities, some of which turned into riots. After Trump issued a temporary ban on immigration from seven terror-prone Muslim nations, the demonstrators jammed airports, chanting: “No ban, no wall, sanctuary for all!”
Run by old Obama aides and campaign workers, federal tax records show “nonpartisan” OFA marshals 32,525 volunteers nationwide. Registered as a 501(c)(4), it doesn’t have to disclose its donors, but they’ve been generous. OFA has raised more than $40 million in contributions and grants since evolving from Obama’s campaign organization Obama for America in 2013.
OFA, in IRS filings, says it trains young activists to develop “organizing skills.” Armed with Obama’s 2012 campaign database, OFA plans to get out the vote for Democratic candidates it’s grooming to win back Congress and erect a wall of resistance to Trump at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.
It will be aided in that effort by the Obama Foundation, run by Obama’s former political director, and the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, launched last month by Obama pal Eric Holder to end what he and Obama call GOP “gerrymandering” of congressional districts.
Obama will be overseeing it all from a shadow White House located within two miles of Trump. It features a mansion, which he’s fortifying with construction of a tall brick perimeter, and a nearby taxpayer-funded office with his own chief of staff and press secretary. Michelle Obama will also open an office there, along with the Obama Foundation.
Critical to the fight is rebuilding the ravaged Democratic Party. Obama hopes to install his former civil rights chief Tom Perez at the helm of the Democratic National Committee.
Perez is running for the vacant DNC chairmanship, vowing, “It’s time to organize and fight . . . We must stand up to protect President Obama’s accomplishments,” while also promising, “We’re going to build the strongest grassroots organizing force this country has ever seen.”
The 55-year-old Obama is not content to go quietly into the night like other ex-presidents.
“You’re going to see me early next year,” he told his OFA troops after the election, “and we’re going to be in a position where we can start cooking up all kinds of great stuff.”
Added the ex-president: “Point is, I’m still fired up and ready to go.”
…….said the guy who votes for a party that investigated Bengazi NINE times! THAT’S not picking the same tired story over and over again!
You guys are ridiculous. You be.lkeve a guy that has lied over 12,000 times JUST SINCE TAKING OFFICE! You define the term “drinking the Cool-Aid” every time you open your mouths! I just love it!
RaPa, this board is quite the open window on the “thinking” of cult followers. How they coalesced around a middle straddling academic lawyer is curious, but they treat anyone who has not downed the Kool Aid as interlopers and rude guests in the temple. Don’t bother removing your shoes.
Please,…..you really got to rethink your news sources. The Orange Orangutan is as guilty as John Wilkes Booth, for the Ukraine scam plus much, much more. There was not a single thing wrong with Hunter Biden being on the board in Ukraine. It has already been investigated a NUMBER of times with ZERO results. Where do you get your information from Fux News? Alex Jones?
BTW, I’m happy that you are so comfortable with your president asking a foreign country to interfere in our election to his benefit, something our founders specifically warned us against. Very patriotic! But, then again, he only became president because a foreign country interfered in our election in the first place, so there you go.
now we understand why you are unchurched. Heavenly oriented churches wont take you and Hell thinks you belong with Stalin, Mao and Adolph
Nice
Benghazi should be investigated until Hillary and Barack are gassed in Auschwitz, aka Newark.
Trump’s comments on Romney:
“He is a fool who is playing right into the hands of the Do Nothing Democrats,”
“a pompous ‘ass’ who has been fighting me from the beginning”
Romney could have won the 2012 election if he “worked this hard on Obama.”
Trump is absolutely correct.
Trump also said:
Where is the LameStream Media on this (tweet)?
“BREAKING: The Democrat whistleblower who complained about Trump digging up dirt in Ukraine was himself helping dig up dirt in Ukraine against Trump (and Manafort) while working in the Obama White House during 2016 campaign” __Paul Sperry
How much money has Romney taken from the Chicoms & other foreign govts to sell out the US citizen’s interest?
Will he be one of those soon indicted?
Ukraine/China were buying off plenty of US politicians & they’re pissed Trump is cutting them off their $$$ Bribery Tit.
https://banned.video/watch?id=5d97c33470b7b10013e76cbf
President Trump pushed to investigate potential corruption by a US politician, his son and the step-son of a US SOS. He also pushed to investigate foreign interference in our elections. Isn’t this exactly what you wanted with the absurd Mueller investigation by an out-sized democratic group of investigators?? Please be clear and don’t repeat Adam Shiff’s lies to the American public. Those lies and smears are what is ruining public discourse.
Also using terms such as “appears to” and “tirade” are biased and politically charged. Stick with the facts. And have a sense of humor – if the Dems can talk about a fake impeachment which they don’t have the facts or will to prosecute, why shouldn’t the rest of us use that word as inaccurately and blithely as the Dems do. If everyone else throws it around like common parlance, why shouldn’t Pres. Trump.
Will the 2 Idaho Mormon Republican Senators tolerate Trump any further? They already know his character is somewhere between despicable and repugnant.
I think one Idaho Senator is Mormon, the other is not.
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article111033717.html
Sen. Crappo is the Mormon Senator from Idaho.
By God, they sure do not want to win, huh?
Those good and moral Idahoan Morman republicans espouse righteous failure – the silence of the lambs.
Let’s lose and have an honorable, respectable, agreeable even delightful Mittens Romney lead us into subjugation and oblivion.
The Feminazi Gaystapo, Deep Deep State, globalist communists don’t give a flying —- about anything but winning, dominating, commanding and dictating. After they secure their victory, they will outlaw “the opium of the people,” religion. For —–‘s sake, they kill babies – they commit abortion. What’s that tell you?
You be sure to follow orders to the bitter end.
Have you noticed that they have nullified the entire Constitution and imposed the principles of the Communist Manifesto on America, the few nominal exceptions they mollify us with being freedom of speech and press as long as we say what they want. Try on this oxymoronical contradiction in terms: Homosexual Marriage – marriage being derived from Mother Mary and Mary, Mother of God – matrimony being derived from Mater Dei, Latin for Mother of God all referring to the singular point or objective of motherhood and procreation, that of making babies. Homosexuals can’t make babies, therefore, homosexuals can’t be married. Homosexuals can enter into legal contracts but they can’t be married because the institution of marriage exists for the production of babies. You believe and live in nonsense; in newspeak.
It’s great to hear that you are noble and superior and that you want to lose.