Friday, March 29, AD 2024 7:03am

The System Is Rigged

 

One of the sure fire applause lines for Trump at his rallies is his contention that the system is rigged.  Well, he is right under this administration:

Several FBI field offices approached the Justice Department asking to open a case regarding the relationship between the State Department and the Clinton Foundation, according to a law enforcement official,” CNN said late Wednesday.

“At the time, DOJ declined because it had looked into allegations surrounding the Clinton Foundation around a year earlier and found there wasn’t sufficient evidence to open a case,” the report continued.

Go here to read the rest.  Clinton and her hubby are transparent crooks but they are also protected crooks under the current regime.

 

 

 

 

Update:

Now this is interesting.  According to The Daily Caller, go here to read the story, there are now multiple investigations underway by the FBI in regard to the Clinton Foundation.

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Foxfier
Admin
Friday, August 12, AD 2016 8:57am

You do not want to piss off the people who have to deal with basic infosec on a daily basis. They’re going to have a hard time stomping on all of these.

Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd
Saturday, August 13, AD 2016 2:59am

To obtain justice in this situation Trump must be elected.

Philip
Philip
Saturday, August 13, AD 2016 4:06am

“Social Justice.”

Welcome to the Orwellian world where we must fund Planned Parenthood for the sake of the little babies.

http://www.lifenews.com/2016/08/12/nancy-pelosi-we-need-to-fund-planned-parenthood-to-stop-zika-its-for-the-babies/

Zika hype to raise Worse than Murder coffers is typical of social justice that’s rooted in double speak and as merciful as The Final Solution. Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton. The duo of death.

…for the babies.
Unbelievable!

Father of Seven
Father of Seven
Saturday, August 13, AD 2016 5:17am

Well said Philip. And yet, as far as we know, Nancy is still Catholic as far as her Bishop is concerned. There is a greater outrage here than Nancy’s most recent example.

Philip
Philip
Saturday, August 13, AD 2016 7:38am

Father of seven.

The silent Bishops will be silenced when judgement comes. There, before God, they will listen to the testimony of millions of the unborn speak of the loss they sustained when if only the Bishops would of stood up to (c) atholic politicians and enforced cannon 915 after having personally instructed the politician as to the consequences…. yet, because of their false mercy, new generations if (c) atholics grow up believing that you CAN be Catholic and pro-death.

The Bishops have made their positions known and the DIW’s keep piling up. ( Dead in Wombs.)

Philip
Philip
Saturday, August 13, AD 2016 7:39am

typo…of..not if.

Kyle Miller
Kyle Miller
Saturday, August 13, AD 2016 8:15am

Didn’t the FBI investigate the Hillary email scandal? What became of that? Nothing. The FBI investigating the Clinton foundation is only interesting if there is a DOJ that will actually execute justice. Otherwise, just more hand wringing. Many will profit from the spectator sport, but justice doesn’t.

.Anzlyne
.Anzlyne
Saturday, August 13, AD 2016 2:49pm
.Anzlyne
.Anzlyne
Saturday, August 13, AD 2016 2:51pm

sorry I should have put the link to Pat Buchanan’s site:
http://buchanan.org/blog/yes-system-rigged-125529

Kyle Miller
Kyle Miller
Saturday, August 13, AD 2016 9:19pm

Perhaps, or perhaps some disgusted FBI agent will begin leaking what is found in the investigation.
As if what we do know isn’t enough to put her behind bars? Not even a fine. Amazing. And what happens if more does leak? Another do-nothing congressional hearing? Great TV, but that’s it. (Maybe the new GOP is a good fit for camera loving Trump after all.) Barring murder or pedophile rape, no one will make a move on Clinton (or Obama for that matter). And by murder, I mean first hand murder. Murder through associations is survivable.
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You say the GOP is still conservative. Having conservatives doesn’t make it conservative. It is ineffective and paralyzed in fear of being painted as the opposition party, i.e. opposition just because we are not the other party. And it should be afraid. It has taken no time to makes its case for federalism and refuses to back those who do. The statesmen are so few. The opportunists are many.

Kyle Miller
Kyle Miller
Sunday, August 14, AD 2016 7:23am

What do you expect Congress to do, lynch her? Critics of the GOP always act as if the Obama administration does not exist.
At least censure? I was operating under the assumption Congress and the president were equal branches of government. Apparently the president and his cabinet can be as lawless as they want. Too bad the GOP never had the chance to reauthorize the Independent Counsul Act since it expired in 1999.
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This happens at the same time the GOP has never been stronger on a national level than anytime since the twenties of the last century.
Greater populace, but not stronger. The Democrats are stronger. Debt has never been higher. (Thanks GOP for passing the spending bills and not making debt a serious issue. Remember when it was a major talking point?) Obamacare is funded and still present in every aspect. Military compromised. Major liberal victories in the culture war.
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Imagine if this large populace of GOP was of single mind on issues and presented a united front to educate the public on the ideals of the party, provide real resistance to Democrat agenda (Yes, that means fighting fights you know there is little to no chance of winning.), and working together to move forward a republic restoration plan. But no. They can’t even agree on a convention of states.
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While Trump is doing his best to lose, news about Hillary and the Democrats are also hitting the news wire. So the bad news is not one sided. Yet, Trump is trailing badly. The year of the disgruntled voter is overestimated and overrated.

Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd
Sunday, August 14, AD 2016 7:50am

Both Democrat and Republican congressman are just trying to keep their jobs. The good of our country comes someplace after that. The best way to keep their jobs is to compromise and basically go with the flow and don’t make a big stink. The Democrats set the agenda with smart marketing: giving palliatives to the aggrieved and encouraging victim hood. The only official non-victims left are white men. Everybody wants a piece of them. So ironically, they are the real victims.

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Sunday, August 14, AD 2016 8:00am

Here’s the way I see it (cringe).
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Early in the USSR, Lenin made a show of legislative governance. He would pack the galleries with armed soldiers. The Duma(?) would do his bidding.
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In 21st century America, where 47% of the population either is dependent on government payments for their subsistence or pays no income tax, Obama and his ministry of truth/media threaten to shut down the government and blame it on the GOP. Thus, the GOP folds like cheap cameras; becomes enablers for Obama and gives him everything, except the ACA, he wants. It’s a convenient excuse, anyhow. It’s a painful explanation of Trump.
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Anyway, in 2008, Obama told the mob, “If they bring a knife, we bring a gun.” Again, in 2008 Hillary hinted at assassinating Obama. Trump says, “Second Amendment people know what to do . . .”, and he is defeating himself.
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Here is how the game is played. Headlines: “GOP Congressmen Kill Children and Old People – Government Shut Down . . .” And, “Critics Assert Classified Information . . .” Note the usage of the word “critics” implying bias and dishonesty.
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Foxfier
Admin
Sunday, August 14, AD 2016 8:18am

At least censure? I was operating under the assumption Congress and the president were equal branches of government.

Why should they make an expensive– in multiple meanings– show of it? Equal doesn’t mean they have identical powers, and the Executive can nix criminal investigations.
It can’t be to make sure people know about what she’s done, the FBI already made sure of that. People know and don’t care.
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Imagine if this large populace of GOP was of single mind on issues and presented a united front to educate the public on the ideals of the party
Agreeing on goals doesn’t do much if you don’t agree on tactics. Especially when the price is so high if you’re wrong.

Philip
Philip
Sunday, August 14, AD 2016 9:39am

Thanks everyone for your insights.

It helps to listen to good opinions.
I thought the Pat Buchanan link and his prediction was interesting as well.
How ever this mess turns out, it’s not going to be January 20th 1981 agian. Not by a long shot.

Kyle Miller
Kyle Miller
Sunday, August 14, AD 2016 9:50am

_To my knowledge Congress has never censured a private citizen. Of course that would clearly be in the useless gesture category you lament._

Censure for her work as a government official. Would it be useless? As Foxifier expressed, it would be a public show, preferably united, of the seriousness of the crimes. Every day the censure process was underway is a day the party could continually remind people the crimes of Clinton, that “extreme carelessness” is just a synonym for “gross negligence” aka a criminal offense, the lawlessness of the presidency, and the corruption of the justice system. That last one they could play to great effect, i.e. there are laws for the elite and then laws for everyone else.
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One can’t support the current strategy of do nothing and then complain about the product of such nothingness, e.g. Donald Trump.
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If you think that Congress has any say about who is prosecuted you were proceeding under a false assumption.
The party should have reauthorized the counsel act. But I am not limiting Congress’ power to prosecution. They can stop being a lapdog to the president. Be an opposition party. Execute and prosecute.
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What would you have them do, shut down the government and go home? Been there done that. It did not work out well.
And why did it fail? Because the party and party leadership were not united. Leadership did not support those fighting the president’s agenda. They let the president take ridiculous measures to embarrass the GOP. And other than conservative voices, primarily on the web and radio, no one pointed out the pettiness of the president and defend the closure. Perfect example of how greater levels of GOP across the nation does not equal power. When duty called, where were they?
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Until the GOP controls both Congress and the Presidency I guarantee you that nothing will be done about the debt.
That’s why the GOP should be doing work now to ready the public for what they will need to do if they get the presidency and congress. (I’d settle for them buying 30 minutes of prime time to bring the message ala Perot style. Of course, they had a convention and wasted that opportunity.) If you think they gain both and starting righting the budget without preparing the public that all will go smoothly, think again. Time to think long game. GOP needs to do this more so than the Democrats whose initiatives appeal more to emotion.
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Thanks to the Supreme Court. Once again the Presidency is all important.
Thanks to GOP justice nominees.
I think the court does follow the fashion of the nation. It is not entirely a court of laws, unless it serves their inclinations, or rational. And since the fashion of normalizing homosexuality, to pick an issue, has been underway for decades, they felt the time was right to follow the fashion. There are other cases where the emotion of the situation compels a justice to rationalize ridiculous stances, e.g. Roberts. I say all this because the GOP and conservatives to an extent have not made a good case for its positions. The air is poisoned. And the court follows where the wind blows. The Democrats had a stronger, poisonous wind.
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You could say homosexual unions failed every time it was brought to the people. But fashion is not the same as popular vote.
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This is why I keep stressing preparation, preparation, preparation. The GOP is doing nothing to prepare the people for its agenda. We spent the primaries talking about president citizenship qualifications, hand sizes, and Oswald associations. Before that, we talked about being one half of one third of the government. Before that, we talked about the importance of hands across the aisle.
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True but almost all the media is.
What’s new? Do we think if we sing that song enough times the tune will change? Get the message to the people. This is one aspect of Trump’s strategy I agree with. He knows you are not going to get your message out unless you rattle the media cage. Being limp or timid achieves nothing. Rattling is not the only tactic. Shutdown the government. Buy air time. Obama bought an entire channel one election cycle. 7/24 messaging. And if the GOP does not have a social media communications dept, they better amp it quickly. I’ll settle for good artificial turfing. The opposition is doing it.
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There are a great many Brexit voters in Britain who would beg to differ.
What happens in Britian does not necessarily translate. While Brexit passed, Scotland independence didn’t. Brexit involves a country different from the U.S. and different circumstances.
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both Sanders and Trump would have been astericks in the primaries.
Sanders and Trump are popular for primarily different reasons with a little overlap. Sanders is popular by those who want to take the country hard left and feel Hillary isn’t left enough. They also want someone other than a Clinton. Been there, done that. Sanders’ success can’t be because there’s anti-politician sentiment. He is a career politician. Trump’s popularity is strongly rooted in the fact he is not a politician (even though he is political). It’s not rooted in him wanting to take the party hard right. In fact, some Trump supporters are happy he’s not really religious. The party won’t be distracted with “fake culture wars.”

Brian
Brian
Sunday, August 14, AD 2016 10:11am

TAC: “Clinton and her hubby are transparent crooks but they are also protected crooks under the current regime.”

We have been traveling down this slippery slope for some time. A turning point was when the Nation decided a sex crime, followed by Perjury under Oath, committed by a sitting President, was unworthy of impeachment for practical reasons. Democrats liked his policy goodies. Republicans feared bad publicity. Both sides failed to do their duty.

Until we Americans place policy underneath, and in the service of, the Rule of Law we will continue to slide down this slope toward ignominy. We Republicans are little better except in the matter of scale. We refuse to hold Hillary accountable beyond publicized chest beatings. We are afraid. We continue to support Trump and ignore his epic,well known failures for the sake of “policy”, and “Judges”. We are again, afraid to do what we must.

We may be different in scale, but we are little different in the fundamental principles that drive why we do what we do, which is cold hard calculation, unmoored from higher principle.

Again; Rule of Law first. Constitutional principles and Federalism first. Moral principles first. And then …. Policy and practical outcomes second, in service to them.

Kyle Miller
Kyle Miller
Sunday, August 14, AD 2016 1:20pm

It would be regarded as a completely partisan waste of time since no Democrat in Congress would vote for it. It would accomplish nothing that the House investigations have not already accomplished.
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Does the appearance of partisanship ever stop the Democrats? How about lay the case out during the formal process and let the people decide rather than not even trying? I would rather the GOP fall for trying to stand on principles than fall into uselessness by way of timidity. I don’t think they would fall in the case of censuring Hillary. Her negatives are high, not that polls should drive the GOP to do what’s right.
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I don’t see planting the seeds for tomorrow as a waste of time.
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It would have been filibustered in the Senate and if that hurdle were somehow overcome, Obama would have vetoed it.
There were plenty of chances between 1999 and 2016 to get this done. Democrats have the same challenges as Republicans, i.e. periods of not controlling White House and Congress or controlling only part of the house, and now, as you admit, having the lowest levels of Democrats at all levels of government. Yet, they are able to fundamentally transform a nation. And no, this didn’t start with Obama. Decades in the making.
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Because the Democrats and the media threw a huge hissy fit and too many people are dependent upon checks from the Federal government.
That’s true. And what didn’t help was the GOP and its leadership, except for a handful, did nothing to prepare for or sustain the shutdown. They acquiesced… again. Not every battle has to be a win to be successful. This GOP needs to decide if it has the courage to go to battle.
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I just got back from mass. I find this discussion more interesting given today’s readings. Is the GOP on fire for freedom? What are they going to do for liberty? “[In your struggle against liberalism, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood.]”
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Shutting down the government is not a good idea if the idea is to make any progress on the deficit.
I was thinking more of the last time it was done, to try and save us from Obamacare.
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With Trump no such attempt is possible, since even he has no idea what he is going to say next.
LOL. I was going to say so true so true. However, I don’t think he is as much as an oaf as he appears. I thought his convo with Hugh Hewitt was telling.
DT: Therefore, [Obama] was the founder of ISIS.
HH: And that’s, I’d just use different language to communicate it, but let me close with this, because I know I’m keeping you long, and Hope’s going to kill me.
DT: But they wouldn’t talk about your language, and they do talk about my language, right?
HH didn’t want to believe DT knew what he was saying. Trump knew.
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That is utter crap.
My point is believing having the presidency will sanitize the court is fanciful, e.g. Roberts. GOP presidency guarantees nothing. Two things need to happen to fix the court:
1) Rein in the court. End the idea the court is the king of the land, that whatever it decrees is the law of the land. It’s no longer judging law. It’s changing law to fit a verdict it wants.
2) Change the fashion. This will take decades, planning, and a united front. Not that I disagree with your assessment of the change required in the elite schools. Entirely true, but I think they will follow as fashion changes. They got where they are today after decades of liberal conditioning.
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They both got most of their following with people immensely dissatisfied with the status quo.
If I was a liberal, what could I be possibly angry about with the status quo? Too many victories? Nah. Not hard enough left? Bingo. Let’s keep the fundamental transformation going! You can’t do that with someone like Hillary. It takes a radical like Obama to keep it going. That’s Sanders! Not an opportunist like Hillary.
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Always interesting and engaging Donald and The American Catholic. Enjoy your Sunday! I’m going to re-read today’s readings. Awesome stuff. Peace my brothers and sisters. 🙂

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