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The Truth, from VDH:


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Autopsy of a Dead Coup
By Victor Davis Hanson - Feb 17, 2019

The illegal effort to destroy the 2016 Trump campaign by Hillary Clinton campaign’s use of funds to create, disseminate among court media, and then salt among high Obama administration officials, a fabricated, opposition smear dossier failed.

So has the second special prosecutor phase of the coup to abort the Trump presidency failed. There are many elements to what in time likely will become recognized as the greatest scandal in American political history, marking the first occasion in which U.S. government bureaucrats sought to overturn an election and to remove a sitting U.S. president.


Preparing the Battlefield

No palace coup can take place without the perception of popular anger at a president.

The deep state is by nature cowardly. It does not move unless it feels it can disguise its subterranean efforts or that, if revealed, those efforts will be seen as popular and necessary—as expressed in tell-all book titles such as fired FBI Directors James Comey’s Higher Loyalty or in disgraced Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe’s psychodramatic The Threat.

In candidate and President Trump’s case that prepping of the battlefield translated into a coordinated effort among the media, political progressives and celebrities to so demonize Trump that his imminent removal likely would appear a relief to the people. Anything was justified that led to that end.

All through the 2016 campaign and during the first two years of the Trump presidency the media’s treatment, according to liberal adjudicators of press coverage, ran about 90 percent negative toward Trump—a landmark bias that continues today.

Journalists themselves consulted with the Clinton campaign to coordinate attacks. From the Wikileaks trove, journalistic grandees such as John Harwood, Mark Leibovich, Dana Milbank, and Glenn Thrush often communicated (and even post factum were unapologetic about doing so) with John Podesta’s staff to construct various anti-Trump themes and have the Clinton campaign review or even audit them in advance.

Some contract “journalists” apparently were paid directly by Fusion GPS—created by former reporters Glen Simpson of the Wall Street Journal and Susan Schmidt of the Washington Post—to spread lurid stories from the dossier. Others more refined like Christiane Amanpour and James Rutenberg had argued for a new journalistic ethos that partisan coverage was certainly justified in the age of Trump, given his assumed existential threat to The Truth. Or as Rutenberg put it in 2016: “If you view a Trump presidency as something that’s potentially dangerous, then your reporting is going to reflect that. You would move closer than you’ve ever been to being oppositional. That’s uncomfortable and uncharted territory for every mainstream, non-opinion journalist I’ve ever known, and by normal standards, untenable. But the question that everyone is grappling with is: Do normal standards apply? And if they don’t, what should take their place?”

I suppose Rutenberg never considered that half the country might have considered the Hillary Clinton presidency “potentially dangerous,” and yet did not expect the evening news, in 90 percent of its coverage, to reflect such suspicions.

The Democratic National Committee’s appendages often helped to massage CNN news coverage—such as Donna Brazile’s primary debate tip-off to the Clinton campaign or CNN’s consultation with the DNC about forming talking points for a scheduled Trump interview.

So-called “bombshell,” “watershed,” “turning-point,” and “walls closing in” fake news aired in 24-hour news bulletin cycles. The media went from fabrications about Trump’s supposed removal of the bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. from the Oval Office, to the mythologies in the Steele dossier, to lies about the Trump Tower meeting, to assurances that Michael Cohen would testify to Trump’s suborning perjury, and on and on.

CNN soon proved that it is no longer a news organization at all—as reporters like Gloria Borger, Chris Cuomo, Eric Lichtblau, Manu Raju, Brian Rokus, Jake Tapper, Jeff Zeleny, and teams such as Jim Sciutto, Carl Bernstein, and Marshall Cohen as well as Thomas Frank, and Lex Harris all trafficked in false rumors and unproven gossip detrimental to Trump, while hosts and guest hosts such as Reza Aslan, the late Anthony Bourdain, and Anderson Cooper stooped to obscenity and grossness to attack Trump.

Both politicos and celebrities tried to drive Trump’s numbers down to facilitate some sort of popular ratification for his removal. Hollywood and the coastal corridor punditry exhausted public expressions of assassinating or injuring the president, as the likes of Jim Carrey, Johnny Depp, Robert de Niro, Peter Fonda, Kathy Griffin, Madonna, Snoop Dogg, and a host of others vied rhetorically to slice apart, shoot, beat up, cage, behead, and blow up the president.

Left wing social media and mainstream journalism spread sensational lies about supposed maniacal Trump supporters in MAGA hats. They constructed fantasies that veritable white racists were now liberated to run amuck insulting and beating up people of color as they taunted the poor and victimized minorities with vicious Trump sloganeering—even as the Covington farce and now the even more embarrassing Jussie Smollett charade evaporated without apologies from the media and progressive merchants of such hate.

At the same time, liberal attorneys, foundations, Democratic politicians, and progressive activists variously sued to overturn the election on false charges of rigged voting machines. They sought to subvert the Electoral College. They introduced articles of impeachment. They sued to remove Trump under the Emoluments Clause. They attempted to invoke the 25th Amendment. And they even resurrected the ossified Logan Act—before focusing on the appointment of a special counsel to discredit the Trump presidency. Waiting for the 2020 election was seen as too quaint.


Weaponizing the Deep State

During the 2016 election, the Obama Department of Justice warped the Clinton email scandal investigation, from Bill Clinton’s secret meeting on an airport tarmac with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, to unethical immunity given to the unveracious Clinton aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, to James Comey’s convoluted predetermined treatment of “likely winner” Clinton, and to DOJ’s Bruce Ohr’s flagrant conflict of interests in relation to Fusion GPS.

About a dozen FBI and DOJ grandees have now resigned, retired, been fired, or reassigned for unethical and likely illegal behavior—and yet have not faced criminal indictments. The reputation of the FBI as venerable agency is all but wrecked. Its administrators variously have libeled the Trump voters, expressed hatred for Trump, talked of “insurance policies” in ending the Trump candidacy, and inserted informants into the Trump campaign.

The former Obama directors of the CIA and National Intelligence, with security clearances intact, hit the television airways as paid “consultants” and almost daily accused the sitting president of Russian collusion and treason—without cross-examination or notice that both previously had lied under oath to Congress (and did so without subsequent legal exposure), and both were likely knee-deep in the dissemination of the Steele dossier among Obama administration officials.

John Brennan’s CIA likely helped to spread the Fusion GPS dossier among elected and administrative state officials. Some in the NSC in massive and unprecedented fashion requested the unmasking of surveilled names of Trump subordinates, and then illegally leaked them to the press.

The FISA courts, fairly or not, are now mostly discredited, given they either were willingly or naively hoodwinked by FBI and DOJ officials who submitted as chief evidence for surveillance on American citizens, an unverified dossier—without disclosure that the bought campaign hit-piece was paid for by Hillary Clinton, authored by a discredited has-been British agent, relied on murky purchased Russian sources, and used in circular fashion to seed news accounts of supposed Trump misbehavior.


The Mueller Investigation

The Crown Jewel in the coup was the appointment of special counsel Robert Muller to discover supposed 2016 Trump-Russian election collusion. Never has any special investigation been so ill-starred from its conception.

Mueller’s appointment was a result of his own friend James Comey’s bitter stunt of releasing secret, confidential and even classified memos of presidential conversations. Acting DOJ Attorney Rod Rosenstein appointed a former colleague Mueller—although as a veteran himself of the Clinton email scandal investigations and the FISA fraudulent writ requests, Rosenstein was far more conflicted than was the recused Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Mueller then packed his investigative team with lots of Clinton donors and partisans, some of whom had legally represented Clinton subordinates and even the Clinton Foundation or voiced support for anti-Trump movements.

Mueller himself and Andrew Weissmann have had a long record of investigatory and prosecutorial overreach that had on occasion resulted in government liability and court mandated federal restitution. In such polarized times, neither should have involved in such an investigation. Two subordinate FBI investigators were caught earlier on conducting an affair over their FBI-issued cell phones, and during the election cycle they slurred the object of their subsequent investigation, ridiculed Trump voters, and bragged that Trump would never be elected. Mueller later staggered, and then hid for weeks the reasons for, their respective firings.

The team soon discovered there was no Trump-Russian 2016 election collusion—and yet went ahead to leverage Trump campaign subordinates on process crimes in hopes of finding some culpability in Trump’s past 50-year business, legal, and tax records. The point was not to find who colluded with whom (if it had been, then Hillary Clinton would be now indicted for illegally hiring with campaign funds a foreign national to buy foreign fabrications to discredit her opponent), but to find the proper mechanism to destroy the presumed guilty Donald Trump.

The Mueller probe has now failed in that gambit of proving “collusion” (as even progressive investigative reporters and some FBI investigators had predicted), but succeeded brilliantly in two ways.

The “counterintelligence” investigation subverted two years of the Trump presidency by constant leaks that Trump soon would be indicted, jailed, disgraced, or impeached. As a result, Trump’s stellar economic and foreign policy record would never earn fifty percent of public support.

Second, Mueller’s preemptive attacks offered an effective offensive defense for the likely felonious behavior of John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Bruce Ohr, Peter Strzok, and a host of others. While the Mueller lawyers threatened to destroy the lives of bit players like Jerome Corsi, George Papadopoulos, and Roger Stone, they de facto provided exemption to a host of the Washington hierarchy who had lied under oath, obstructed justice, illegally leaked to the press, unmasked and leaked names of surveilled Americans, and misled federal courts under the guise of a “higher loyalty” to the cause of destroying Donald J. Trump.


The Palace Coup

All of the above came to a head with the firing of the chronic leaker FBI Director James Comey (who would lie to the president about his not being a target of an FBI investigation, lie to House investigatory committees by pleading amnesia and ignorance on 245 occasions, and repeatedly lie to his own FBI bureaucrats).

In May 2017, acting FBI director Andrew McCabe took over from the fired Comey. His candidate wife recently had been a recipient of huge Clinton-related campaign PAC donations shortly before he began investigating the Clinton email scandal. McCabe would soon be cited by the Inspector General for lying to federal investigators on numerous occasions—cynically stooping even to lie to his own New York FBI subordinates to invest scarce resources to hunt for their own nonexistent leaks as a mechanism for disguising his own quite real and illegal leaking.

The newly promoted McCabe apparently felt that it was his moment to become famous for taking out a now President Trump. Thus, he assembled a FBI and DOJ cadre to open a counterintelligence investigation of the sitting president on no other grounds but the fumes of an evaporating Clinton opposition dossier and perceived anger among the FBI that their director had just been fired. In addition, apparently now posing as Andrew McCabe, MD, he informally head counted how many of Trump’s own cabinet members could be convinced by McCabe’s own apparent medical expertise to help remove the president on grounds of physical and mental incapacity under the 25th Amendment. This was an attempted, albeit pathetic, coup against an elected president and the first really in the history of the United States.

At one point, McCabe claims that the acting Attorney General of the United States Rod Rosenstein volunteered to wear a wire to entrap his boss President Trump—in the manner of Trump’s own attorney Michael Cohen’s entrapment of Trump, in the manner of James Comey taking entrapment notes on confidential Trump one-on-one meetings and leaking them to the press, and in the manner of the Department of Justice surveilling Trump subordinates through FISA and other court authorizations.

McCabe was iconic of an utterly corrupt FBI Washington hierarchy, which we now know from the behavior of its disgraced and departed leadership. They posed as patriotic scouts, but in reality proved themselves arrogant, smug, and incompetent. They harbored such a sense of superiority that they were convinced they could act outside the law in reifying an “insurance policy” that would end the Trump presidency.

The thinking of the conspirators initially had been predicated on three assumptions thematic during this three-year long government effort to destroy Trump:

One, during 2016, Hillary Clinton would certainly win the election and FBI and DOJ unethical and illegal behavior would be forgotten if not rewarded, given the Clintons’ own signature transgressions and proven indifference to the law;

Two, Trump was so controversial and the fabricated dossier was so vile and salacious, that seeded rumors of Trump’s faked perversity gave them de facto exemptions to do whatever they damned pleased;

Three, Trump’s low polls, his controversial reset of American policy, and the general contempt in which he was held by the bipartisan coastal elite, celebrities, and the deep state, meant that even illegal means to continue the campaign-era effort to destroy Trump and now abort his presidency were felt to be moral and heroic acts without legal consequences, and the media would see the conspirators as heroes.

In sum, the Left and the administrative state, in concert with the media, after failing to stop the Trump campaign, regrouped. They ginned up a media-induced public hysteria, with the residue of the Hillary Clinton campaign’s illegal opposition research, and manipulated it to put in place a special counsel, stocked with partisans.

Then, not thugs in sunglasses and epaulettes, not oligarchs in private jets, not shaggy would-be Marxists, but sanctimonious arrogant bureaucrats in suits and ties used their government agencies to seek to overturn the 2016 election, abort a presidency, and subvert the U.S. Constitution. And they did all that and more on the premise that they were our moral superiors and had uniquely divine rights to destroy a presidency that they loathed.

Shame on all these failed conspirators and their abettors, and may these immoral people finally earn a long-deserved legal and moral reckoning.



^: https://amgreatness.com/2019/02/17/autopsy-of-a-de ad-coup/


Y'all ought to bookmark the link above and save VDH's article in your archives.

It's interesting to note that our President used the "T" word in one of his tweets today.

Justice comes...
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^: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/
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Looks like FBI MCCabe & Rosenstein throwing each other under the bus. They got caught! Months ago I advised FBI personnel with knowledge of possible wrong doing to break down the “blue wall” & speak up. They better speak up now! Everyone will be held accountable for their actions.

As a veteran law enforcement officer I can say that FBI leadership appears to have attempted a Coup d'état by using our courts to justify the removal of @realDonaldTrump from office. All of us, including dems should be alarmed.Those responsible should be charged with treason!

-Steven Rogers, Military Intel Officer,USN (Ret) FBI NJTTF



^: https://twitter.com/ltstevenlrogers
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- Dr. Ben and Candy Carson



^: https://twitter.com/RealBenCarson/status/109649970 3003389952
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To get Trump, FBI and Justice Department officials trampled the Constitution
Mark Penn, Fox News

The most egregious anti-democratic actions ever taken by the what can now fairly be called the Deep State are confirmed with the publication of fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s new book detailing how the FBI and Justice Department plotted to remove President Trump from office for firing FBI Director James Comey.

Justice Department and FBI officials spied on U.S. citizens with false warrants, gave a pass to one presidential campaign with a predetermined investigation, investigated another political campaign on the basis of no verified evidence, and illegally leaked information on investigations. They discussed wiretapping and using the 25th Amendment to the Constitution to remove President Trump, and appointed a special counsel as a retaliatory move for Comey’s firing.

It is now crystal clear that the highest echelons of the Justice Department and FBI had morphed from the world’s most professional law enforcement organization into a Third World rump group. They had the hubris to believe that they – not the American people or their duly elected representatives – should decide who governs and how.

They upended our election process, fanned partisan political flames, distorted our foreign policy by isolating us from Russia, and abused the powers of their office.

Remember that McCabe, Comey and the intelligence community heads all publicly testified to Congress even after the Comey-Trump meetings and memos that no investigation had been tampered with in any way. None.

Yet upon President Trump’s firing of Comey, the remaining officials didn’t wait for the proper appointment of a new FBI head. Instead, they worked themselves up into an unfounded hysteria and acted to create an independent counsel over obstruction that never happened – and was never happening.

McCabe said he was concerned that the Russia investigation might be snuffed out – but it wasn’t. It was untouched. You need a crime to appoint a special counsel, not a belief that a crime might be committed sometime in the future.

Had FBI officials waited for a new director to be confirmed by the Senate, they might have had a new boss who looked over the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants and discovered that the key evidence for them was an unverified dossier from a fired source who had materially lied to the FBI.

Officials might have discovered that the supporting Yahoo News story was actually an echo created by their source and not independent evidence. The new FBI director might have figured out that the dossier came to the FBI not through actual intelligence channels but through an official’s wife who was on the payroll of the dossier-creating company, Fusion GPS.

The new FBI director might have even discovered that dossier was an opposite research operation from Trump opponents instead of real intelligence. The new director might have legitimately pulled back from this reckless course.

But Justice Department and FBI officials – egged on by the infamous Lisa Page and Peter Strzok of the FBI – knew better than to follow the Constitution. They were now on a mission to remove Trump from office for daring to fire Comey; they even thought they were part of the 25th Amendment, which empowers only the Cabinet and Congress to remove the president from office in extraordinary circumstances.

Realizing that approach wouldn’t work, the FBI and Justice Department officials acted to keep the investigation they created under their supervision and with their friends whom they would appoint. And so rather than allow the new incoming head of the FBI to make these decisions, they acted to empower their buddy Robert Mueller as a special counsel.

Mueller, in turn, hired only Democrats, including a lawyer for the Clintons, and the “insurance policy” was launched and ensconced in power. So a counterintelligence investigation that was formed without probable cause now became the largest criminal investigation in history of a campaign and a presidency, dragging on since May 2017.

Adding to the intrigue is that Comey, McCabe and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein all disagree with each other in material ways.

McCabe believes he never lied to investigators and had permission from Comey to leak to the press. Comey says McCabe acted on his own.

McCabe and others say Rosenstein was deadly serious when he discussed invoking the 25th Amendment and wiretapping against President Trump in an effort to remove the president from office. Rosenstein says he was just joking around.

Newly confirmed Attorney General William Barr needs to crack all this wide open. The secret charge to Mueller needs to be released. The FISA warrants need to be declassified.



^ Source, more: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/mark-penn-to-get-t rump-fbi-and-justice-department-officials-trampled -the-constitution


Officials might have discovered that the supporting Yahoo News story was actually an echo created by their source and not independent evidence. The new FBI director might have figured out that the dossier came to the FBI not through actual intelligence channels but through an official’s wife who was on the payroll of the dossier-creating company, Fusion GPS.

The new FBI director might have even discovered that dossier was an opposite research operation from Trump opponents instead of real intelligence.


Fake News.

Andrew Breitbart was right.
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Ft_bstrd
Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2019 - 10:58 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

There are LEO parallels here between the FBI and the Tuttle/Nichols shooting in Houston.

In both, Law Enforcement used fabricated evidence to create legal cover to commit illegal and unconstitutional acts against otherwise innocent people.

In one, it's a political hit, the other an actual one.
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Fb1
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Partial transcript of remarks made by President Trump this afternoon upon creation of our sixth branch of the United States Armed Forces, the US Space Force:


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Today, I’m thrilled to sign a new order taking the next step to create the United States Space Force. So important, when you look at defense, when you look at all of the other aspects of where the world will be someday. I mean, this is the beginning. This is a very important process.

First, I want to recognize our wonderful Vice President, Mike Pence, who serves as the Chairman of the National Space Council. Thank you, Mike. Great job. I know you feel the same way I do.

I also want to thank Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, who is with us; Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson; Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Paul Selva; and the Executive Secretary of the Space Council, Dr. Scott Pace for being here today.

They’ve all worked very hard on the Space Force. They all believe in it very strongly, as I do. It’s the future. It’s where we’re going. I suspect, whether we like it or not, that’s where we’re going. It’s space. That’s the next step, and we have to be prepared.

Our adversaries and — whether we get along with them or not, they’re up in space. And they’re doing it, and we’re doing it. And that’s going to be a very big part of where the defense of our nation — and you could say “offense” — but let’s just be nice about it and let’s say the defense of our nation is going to be.

America must be fully equipped to defend our vital interests. Our adversaries are training forces and developing technology to undermine our security in space, and they’re working very hard at that.

That’s why my administration has recognized space as a warfighting domain and made the creation of the Space Force a national security priority. I think we’ll have great support from Congress, because they do support something when we’re talking about such importance. And a lot of the generals, a lot of the people involved have been speaking to Congress. And we have some very interesting dialogue going on.

We’re investing in new space capabilities to project military power and safeguard our nation’s interests, especially when it comes to safety and defense.

This directive calls on the Secretary of Defense to develop a legislative proposal that will establish the structure and authority of the Space Force as the sixth branch of the United States Armed Forces. That would mean a high-ranking — the highest-ranking person there would go on to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. So it’s a very, very important deal.

The Space Force will organize, equip, and train the next generation of warriors to deter aggression and defend the nation, our allies, and American interests against hostile actions in the form of space and taking place in space.

So we have a lot of things on the books. We have a lot of new defensive weapons and offensive weapons designed specifically for this, and now we’re going to start taking advantage of. This is something they could have done sooner but they decided to wait. And here I am, and we’re going to do it. And I’m very proud that, during my administration, we’re doing so much in space. We need it.

We’ve already taken historic action to create the United States Space Command, as you know, within the Department of Defense to oversee the nation’s military space operations.

Now, in the face of these threats all around the world, American leadership in space is more important than it ever has been. Before, it used to be something that we’d aspire to, we’d talk about, but we wouldn’t do anything. Now we have to do something because that’s where it’s at.

With today’s action, we will ensure that our people are secure, our interests are protected, and our power continues to be unmatched. There will be nobody that can come close to matching us. It won’t be close.

What we have on the books are things that you wouldn’t even believe. You wouldn’t even believe. It’s going to mean the safety of our nation for many, many decades and many, many generations, and that’s what I’m here for. I guess when you get right down to it, more importantly than anything else, that’s why I’m here.

So I just want to thank everybody. The Space Force is a very important part of my administration and it’s a very important part of this nation.



Full transcript, more (including video): https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/02/19/pr esident-trump-extended-remarks-and-mini-presser-du ring-ceremony-for-space-policy-directive-4/
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/02/t he_trump_doctrine.html
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Ebutch
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They(liberal rem) where upset they're video was used in State Of The Union.







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Aesquire
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/20/the- nuclear-option-in-what-world-is-an-invasion-of-11- million-people-not-an-emergency/

Remember who the Never Trumpers are, and vote to replace them where they are challenged by Tea Party and Liberal Western Civilization Enlightenment types.

It's important to remember that Liberal Western Civilization Enlightenment views are what Made the difference between slavery and emancipation. Between Republics ruled by the people, and monarchies with Kings who ruled by Divine Right, supported by The Church & the Will of God. ( sometimes the Kings had to create their own Church to give them Divine status )

Real Liberals don't support theocratic rule.
Progressive = Communist with a deceptive paint job.
Progressive = Theocracy. After declaring that God is dead, they claim the throne themselves. Any opposition is Heresy.

Don't confuse Enlightenment with woke.

I was chatting with friends last night, and "complained" that I hadn't strapped cameras to everything to document my motorcycles, etc. I had no pictures of myself on my bikes. Little footage flying experimental aircraft. Competed in international competition, and had no pictures with celebrities I'd met, no drama shots striving for the target, no group shots of our teams.

One of my buddies laughed, & "mocked" me. Too busy doing things, and never thought to do selfies on the edge of the planet.

Today, people don't just go to the beach. They have to have photos of themselves there, or it didn't happen. That awesome cheesecake wasn't real without a camera to share it on line.

No one enjoys a concert anymore, they're too busy watching their phone screen to be sure they have it pointed at the stage, so they can prove they were there with another of a thousand badly taken videos of the show posted on Facebook.

And here I spent the two hours with my Lady riding my shoulders, warming my neck, passing our refreshments, and enjoying the show.

I mean, we all got neck strain, but mine was alive, wriggling, and living it, loving it, while you held a phone that cost more than the bike we rode home on.

Extend that level of self absorption and need for group affirmation of the concert crowd to pathological greed in politics today.
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Court
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>>>>they're too busy watching their phone screen to be sure they have it pointed at the stage

Laughing my ass of . . . .

Last year we were at the Beacon Theatre to see the Tedeschi Trucks Band . . . we had our regular seats in the 4th row and I figured we'd see a great concert.

No sooner did the band come on the stage than the entire crowd jumped to their feet.

I'm stupid.

I figured they'd "welcome" the band and then sit down and settle in for a great show.

Not so . . . they stood the entire damn time and a guy about 2 seats to my right, in the 3rd row, was so focused on his phone I don't think he looked up the entire time. I assumed he was "live streaming".

Anyway . . . we've been checking out lots of acts at The Culture Room, Parker Playhouse and Arts Garage as well as Levon Helm Studios and The Colony . . . but I weary on anyplace I can't enjoy and see the show.

Next week we've got to do 5 consecutive nights of concerts, including Procol Harem which I am eager to see, am I am dreading a couple of these venues.

Perhaps the last GREAT concert . . . . hahahaha


Woodstock


And a damn site cheaper than paying $18,000 for 4 tickets to see The Eagles . . .more accurately . . what is left of The REAL Eagles.
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Hootowl
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I have filmed songs at concerts. I wanted to experience it again later. And I appreciate the youtube videos of concerts I wasn’t able to attend. But I generally agree that not everything needs to be recorded for posterity.
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Court
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Just do your posterity on your posterior . . . .

:-)
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Chauly
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Court,
I would suggest checking out Vanessa Collier when you can. Flat out amazing.
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Airbozo
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Procol Harem IS a good show.

Enjoy!

The company I work for hired REO Speedwagon to play at their annual sales conference a couple of years ago in Greenville, SC. Private event with no more than a couple thousand people in attendance. It was Kevin Cronin's birthday too. They brought a cake on stage and everyone sang happy birthday.

Before I left for Greenville, I packed a couple of my original REO speedwagon albums and got them signed before the concert. Had to hand them off to the President of the company to make it happen since they normally don't sign autographs. They signed my albums because I wrote a note and told them how much their music helped me get through my first couple years in the Navy.

Took me 6 months to get those albums back.
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Ourdee
Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 06:15 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

If time travel ever happens, I am going to woodstock. I was 9, if I only knew.
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Court
Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 07:23 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Well . . if you are here this summer you MIGHT (we're having a bit of a scuffle) get to see Carlos Santana and Ringo Starr. All the hotel rooms sold out the day they announced . . . It should be fun.

If you're in the area . . . . Mountain Jam is also fun.

Inside hint: If you are going to Levon Helm's Midnight Ramble studio to see a Stevie Nicks Tribute . . . . don't assume any of the musicians will be over 12 years old.

I had a fellow Badwebber . . . a giant in the music production industry . . . visiting a couple weeks ago and was going to go to dinner and show off Woodstock.

We wandered into a recital by the School of Rock. The "good news" was that all the little tykes were fine musicians and the show was kinda cool and we both agreed it was nice to always keep the musical boundaries fluid.

Good music . . . always is.

I went the other way last Saturday and ran down to Delray Beach to do the Otic Cadillac and the Sublime Seville Sisters. Now . . . THAT, in about 3 different ways, was a show.



I gots ta get a life . . . .
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Court
Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 07:24 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Hahahaha . . . we now return you to your regular scheduled President Trump thread . . . . .
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Tootal
Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 08:26 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

A little late but since REM was mentioned above I just wanted to say that Michael Stipe is a weird dude. I went to high school with him but didn't really know him since he was a year younger. My girlfriend at the time had study hall with him. They were discussing what they were going to do in life and when it was Michael's turn he said he was going to be a rock star. To much laughter! Well, he was right! Still a very strange guy but many artist are.
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Mnscrounger
Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 08:46 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

My son was a school of rock kid from 15-18. Now a 24 yr old, He still has friends he made there, and some of them have gone on to perform professionally. It's such a positive encouraging environment, and a lot of fun. I'd still go because the talent is amazing to see, but I worry I would just appear a creepy old guy nobody knows. It is also a bit strange to witness a nine year old with a Brian Johnson cap, and a black T shirt growling out "A Touch Too Much".
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Aesquire
Posted on Sunday, February 24, 2019 - 04:52 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://pjmedia.com/trending/donald-trump-gay-righ ts-hero/

You have to ask yourself what else the Left would reflexively oppose Trump on.

Trump wants Muslims to quit executing gays = islamaphobic hate speech. And Gay exploitation!

Trump wants foreign invaders to stop using women and children as human shields as they throw rocks at police and storm borders = racist hatred of brown people. ( who, btw, were white in Obama's claimed imaginary son's assault & self defense case )

Thus we have support for murdering gays in public, and MS-13 adults posing as children to sell real children drugs.

I propose Donald push for voluntary vaccination and clean drinking water!

In a generation there would be a major demographic shift. We could erect statues of Marx, Acosta, & Tapper overlooking the mass graves in California & New York & the other "blue" states.

That's assuming the Raw Water folk live long enough to expand their boutique offerings. Today it's "we're calling a spring, but it's really a creek" water, tomorrow that ditch beside highway 78, and the ever popular, clear trickle down the hill from the pig farm.
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Aesquire
Posted on Sunday, February 24, 2019 - 11:23 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/02/t rumps_war_against_unrwa_will_benefit_the_palestini an_refugees_.html

I'm more pessimistic than the author, but agree that the UNRWA should be defunded and eliminated. Possibly with air strikes. ; )
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Ducbsa
Posted on Monday, February 25, 2019 - 04:57 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2019/03/11 /survival-at-the-white-house/
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Aesquire
Posted on Wednesday, February 27, 2019 - 11:41 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://medium.com/@ltthompso/the-congresswoman-loves-the-swamp-d3329 6ec251e

Predicted headline, August 2019.

"Trump wins World Peace to distract from Congressional hearings on his wife's dress!"
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Aesquire
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https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/03/02/presiden t-trump-trolls-hillary-clinton-with-website-error- page/
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Ratbuell
Posted on Saturday, March 02, 2019 - 03:07 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Epic.

And Bernie's attempt at Trump? "The rich get richer"? Um....what's your net worth there, Bern? When are you going to forfeit it all to The Cause?

We're waiting....
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Reindog
Posted on Saturday, March 02, 2019 - 03:40 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I have no problem with Bernard Sanders making millions and owning three houses. That is America!

The problem is his hypocrisy, how he made the money, and how his philosophy will prevent others from working hard to have the chance to attain what he has.
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Ebutch
Posted on Saturday, March 02, 2019 - 05:26 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=12&v=zJBjjP8WSbc
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Court
Posted on Saturday, March 02, 2019 - 05:52 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Odd dynamic ...... they to have it given to them “free” and keep others from earning it.

Same folks are simply intent on making certain that those who choose not to work enjoy the same lifestyle as those who do..... who the hell has any business dictating.

(Message edited by court on March 02, 2019)
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Ebutch
Posted on Saturday, March 02, 2019 - 05:56 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

WATCH Bernies Three Little Pigs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzx4FkdmWA8

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