Media Editors: Above the Fold
IMPEACHMENT CIRCUS: “A majority of the House now backs impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, a significant milestone as Democrats move rapidly on an impeachment inquiry,” Politico reports. “As of Wednesday night, 218 lawmakers have indicated support for impeachment proceedings — 217 Democrats and independent Rep. Justin Amash.” Meanwhile, the contentious whistleblower complaint finally dropped this morning (see below), wherein the whistleblower, citing “multiple U.S. Government officials,” alleges that “the President of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election.” The complaint also asserts that “senior White House officials had intervened to ‘lock down’ all records of the phone call” between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The bottom line? Trump’s situation is troubling but hardly conclusive or impeachable.
As a side bar, The Washington Free Beacon reports, “The lead counsel representing the Ukraine whistleblower donated to loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s presidential campaign earlier this year.”
ANOTHER ASYLUM DEAL: “The Trump administration signed an asylum agreement with the Honduran government Wednesday, marking the latest in a string of asylum deals with Latin American countries aimed at controlling the immigration crisis. The Department of Homeland Security announced it reached a deal with Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, allowing the U.S. to send some asylum seekers from ‘third’ countries back to his country.”
Government & Politics
BORDER OBSTRUCTION: “The Senate again voted on Wednesday to end President Trump’s emergency declaration on the U.S.-Mexico border wall, paving the way for a veto showdown with the White House,” The Hill reports. “Senators voted 54-41 on a resolution to end the declaration, which Trump used to shift billions of dollars from the military toward wall construction.” Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer claimed: “The vote [yesterday] is the surest and likely the only way to restore funding the president has stolen from our troops and military projects across the country.” He didn’t care to mention the jobs, money, and even lives that have been stolen from the American people as a direct result of illegal immigration.
A NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN: “A new national survey shows Elizabeth dinky-Warren now sitting atop the 2020 Democratic field, further cementing her ascendancy in the party’s presidential primary after a pair of polls reported her leading in the first two primary states,” according to Politico. “Twenty-seven percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents polled by Quinnipiac University said they favor dinky-Warren, according to a survey released Wednesday morning. Twenty-five percent said they prefer former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden.” Rep. Dan Crenshaw speculates: “This impeachment inquiry seems worse for loose lips liar-Biden than it is for Trump. Now the Hunter loose lips liar-Biden-Ukraine issue is on everyone’s radar AND we know that Democrats overstepped with their ‘quid pro quo’ accusation. Have to wonder whether they did this to help dinky-Warren/commie-Sanders.”
Culture
WOKE DOLLS: “In an effort to be ‘woke’ and kowtow to the gender-confused masses, Mattel is coming out with a new line of Barbie-like dolls, called ‘Creatable World,’ that are gender-neutral and have a variety of interchangeable hairstyles and clothing choices to switch up the doll’s look.” (PJ Media)
CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR: “The marriage vow that usually involves a variation of ‘for richer or poorer’ may no longer apply. Women may now want to add ‘as long as you make as much money as me.’ It seems many men aren’t getting up to the income level that women prefer in a potential marriage partner, according to the New York Post. That has left successful ladies single and disgruntled, according to a Cornell University study.” (Fox Business)
‘JOKER’ ANXIETY: “Family members of those killed in the July 20, 2012, mass shooting at a screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado, have signed a letter to Warner Bros. sharing concerns about the upcoming Joker film and asking the studio to donate to groups that aid victims of gun violence. … As Warner Bros. gears up for the Oct. 4 release of Todd Phillips’ R-rated Joker, which is attracting attention for its gritty, realistic violence as well as for its artistry and the performance of star Joaquin Phoenix, some survivors and relatives of the victims are expressing fears about the film.” (The Hollywood Reporter)
Other Notables
JUSTICE: Boston College student accused of sexual assault wins over $100,000 (National Review)
ECONOMIC BLUDGEON: Fracking ban proposed by 2020 Democrats would kill millions of jobs (The Washington Free Beacon)
Closing Arguments
POLICY: Trump’s approach to Iran smartly strikes a difficult balance (National Review)
POLICY: How far should we go to stop climate change? (Capital Research Center)
HUMOR: Hollywood blacklists people who have worn blackface, whiteface, and alienface (Genesius Times)
~The Patriot Posthttps://patriotpost.us/articles/65729?mailing_id=4552&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4552&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
When a president talks on the phone to a foreign leader, there are multiple people from intelligence agencies listening in. They make transcripts, which are circulated at the highest echelons of our security agencies so that everybody will know what the policy implications are of the conversation.
One individual from an intelligence agency, whom the left and its media allies are referring to as a “whistleblower,” has alleged that President Trump made some sort of offer to a foreign leader that the individual claims was inappropriate.
(It’s interesting that when leaks hurt the left, the leakers are jailed as criminals. But when a deep-state leaker tries to hurt Trump, he’s a “whistleblower.”)
The leaker in this case reported his concerns about Trump’s call. The Justice Department reviewed them and determined that they did not rise to the level that required disclosure with congressional intelligence committees.
Of course, the fake-news media complex immediately went into a frenzy. I suspect they all believed that the country in question was Russia and that Trump had been talking to Vladimir Putin. Some even suggested, with no more information than I just presented, that this “scandal” was a “constitutional crisis” that could bring down Trump’s presidency.
That’s simply ridiculous. But that’s been the mindset of our media for the past two and a half years.
Thursday, President Trump attempted to tamp down the hysteria. He said it was “dumb” to suggest he would “say something inappropriate” while on a “heavily populated call,” referring to all the people that he knows are listening in.
Further leaks indicate that the controversial call was with the newly elected president of Ukraine, who, by the way, is a former comedian. It is quite possible that we may ultimately find out that the president simply made a joke that some denizen of the Deep State misinterpreted.
My Guess on the Call
I have no inside information, but here’s something I could easily imagine.
There have been strong allegations that then-Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden threatened senior Ukrainian officials with dour consequences (the loss of a $1 billion loan) unless a prosecutor investigating a company that employed loose lips liar-Biden’s son was fired — and he was.
According to reports, Hunter loose lips liar-Biden made at least $1.8 million as a board member of this Ukrainian natural-gas company. But Big Media have largely ignored the allegations.
There have been reports that Rudy Giuliani has talked to Ukrainian officials to ask if there is any evidence of wrongdoing by either loose lips liar-Joe or Hunter loose lips liar-Biden.
I could certainly imagine President Trump saying to the Ukrainian president-elect, “Congratulations on your victory. By the way, if there’s anything to these loose lips liar-Biden allegations, it could be to your benefit to share it.”
Again, this is just a guess, and it could certainly be something entirely different.
You’d think more journalists would be interested in finding out how “Middle-Class loose lips liar-Joe” and his family made their millions. But no. The media are only interested in taking Trump down.
Climate Strike
Yesterday was the big global climate strike. You should check out how many students participated in your town by walking out of school and pushing the demands of this movement. It will give you a good indication of just how bad the indoctrination is in your local schools.
According to one recent survey, 57% of American teenagers said that news about climate change has made them “afraid,” while 52% said they are “angry.” This is what the left’s propaganda has done to our kids. It has filled them with rage and anxiety.
Just to be clear, everyone is for clean air and clean water. But that’s not the demand of this movement.
It is demanding a complete reordering of the American economy by using the power of big government to change what you eat, where you work, where you live, the temperature on your thermostat, what you drive (if you drive at all), and virtually everything else in your life.
Don’t take my word for it.
Saikat Chakrabarti, Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s former chief of staff, recently admitted that, telling a fellow progressive, “[The] Green New Deal … wasn’t originally a climate thing at all… We really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.”
Other progressives are more honest about their intentions, insisting that “If you take climate change seriously, you do have to throw out the free-market playbook.”
I don’t blame the children who marched yesterday. They have been indoctrinated with false propaganda. As Ronald Reagan used to say, “The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
The irony is that if we didn’t have the incredible miracle that is our carbon-based economy, none of these kids would be able to take and post selfies so they can show their friends and family just how morally superior they are.
And that got me thinking how educational it would be if the million-plus people employed in the energy industry went on strike because they were sick and tired of being maligned by people who know so much that isn’t so.
I think the polls would quickly find more teenagers a lot more fearful and angry as the lights started going out and their cellphone batteries started dying.
A “Shocking” Development
If you felt the earth tremble yesterday it was probably caused by the news that Mayor scumbag-Bill de Blasio dropped out of the presidential race, triggering a seismic shift among the other candidates all vying for his 0% in the polls. ~The Patriot Post
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