Good morning kids, So in pondering the Jeffrey Epstein saga, is this the latest chapter or is this the final chapter? Other than all of the combined stories, and revolting details and allegations, I have no actual knowledge of what he has been accused of doing nor of his death in a New York jail cell. The fact remains that, AG Pam Bondi made a very big deal out of this and now all of a sudden, it's, meh, nothing to see here so case closed and lets move on?! All she has succeeded in doing is pointing the spotlight away from Epstein and shining it on her and by extension President Trump. Brilliant maneuver, so what the hell is going on here?
But, you see, here’s the thing: People want answers that seem logical, that provide rational explanations to obvious questions, that provide proof that the speculation is wrong. This is particularly true when the people now saying there’s nothing there were the very people who promised that answers, transparency, and accountability would be coming when they won. Well, they won, and we’re getting the same obfuscation. . . The problem here is that this is all happening in an environment where Americans are coming to believe that no one is ever accountable for their actions. We see city centers across the country imploding as stores, shops, and hotels close because of the crime that sees hoodlums, thugs, and drug addicts in urban centers basically take or destroy with impunity whatever they want. We see judges issue injunctions against the administration despite SCOTUS specifically ruling they can’t. At the same time, we have politicians, Antifa, and activists undermining, hindering, and assaulting ICE agents who are trying to deport criminals, and the chances of them being held accountable for these crimes are almost nonexistent.
Bingo. Of course Democrat/Leftist politicians and sometimes their useful RINO confederates are protected up until the point where they become political liabilities, and then they are thrown to the wolves.
When roving bands of criminals, domestic terrorists and criminal domestic terrorists can riot, loot and burn with impunity while the average citizen is arrested, and tried for self defense (Kyle Rittenhouse) or worse, arrested, tried and imprisoned for merely exercising their first amendment right of free speech (1/6/21 in DC, at school board meetings and abortion abattoirs), a very dangerous precedent is set that can only end in the breakdown of the civil society as trust in our institutions that are meant to preserve said society is completely eroded.
Look at it this way. When degenerate scum like Jasmine Crockett and Karen Bass and the majority of their fellow Democrat politicians — again John Fetterman being the surprising lone voice of sanity and reason in that Snake Pit of Evil — openly call for violent resistance to Ice and law enforcement in carrying out their legitimate duties to arrest, detain and deport illegal aliens, What does that do to the morale and effectiveness of the officers on the front line? Answer: it destroys it and will ultimately lead to their dissolution or worse their defection to the terrorists and criminals and maybe the ultimate formation of citizens brigades that will arm and protect themselves even if it means using deadly force to do so. Is that what we really want? Answer that any way you want, but for sure it might very well be where we are heading, and then all bets are off.
Elsewhere, President Trump's near 180 degree pivot on Ukraine is disappointing if not outright alarming in its potential implications.
Some, like Tucker Carlson (who seems to spend half his time in the Gulf and seems to have offered flattering interviews to every Muslim tyrant in the region), were obvious agents of foreign influence, others may have been sincere in their hysteria, but the combined effect made the movement look like clowns, especially once they were proven wrong. Most refused to admit they were wrong, but have gone on claiming that if it wasn’t for their bedwetting, we’d all be dead. Whoever won the debate on social media is hard to say, but we all know who won the debate in real life. Trump acted and shrugged off the antics. But, interestingly, there are signs he’s pivoting on Ukraine. While that may be in part hardball negotiating politics due to Putin’s refusal to make a deal, but it seems to have ramped up after the same people who had vocally argued against U.S. support for Ukraine burned up all their credibility trying to stop a U.S. strike on Iran’s nukes.
There is no doubt that a severely degraded if not completely destroyed Iranian nuclear program is a wonderful thing for world peace and security. Whether America should have been directly involved in delivering the coup de grace Qom shot at the Fordow foundation is something that even I, as an ardent supporter of Israel, thought beforehand was not the best course of action but what's done is done, and as stated, The nuke program is a smoldering ruin. What emerges from the ashes there and in the Iranian government are still big question marks.
But President Trump's meddling in a war between Russia and Ukraine that has much less if not zero national security ramifications for America, unlike the Iranian nuclear program, is a head-scratcher. Russia as of right now will likely win the war and even if Trump does push Putin and Shecky Zelensky to a negotiation table, does anyone really think that Putin is going to surrender a single inch of territory? Regardless of the fact that Putin started this latest round of war, there is going to have to be some give and take on both sides, so what will Ukraine give up in order to stop the carnage?
As for Trump, is he merely doing this to get a Nobel Peace Prize, which would never happen anyway? What does Donald Trump and the USA have to gain by meddling here and potentially getting involved in a war that could very quickly get out of hand where a lot of hair would get mussed . . "depending on the breaks" as General Buck Turgidson would say.
Months of violent left-wing anti-ICE rhetoric achieved its apparently desired end state this week as an alleged Antifa cell conducted an attempted assassination of police officers outside the Praireland Detention Center, being used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a detention facility for illegal aliens.
On July 4, 11 black-garbed individuals, some equipped with body armor, ammunition, and firearms, conducted what the Department of Justice described as a “planned ambush.” Two of the attackers allegedly opened fire on ICE officers after their comrades initiated a disturbance to lure officers out of the building and into the line of fire by launching fireworks and spray painting anti-ICE slogans on nearby property. A police officer was shot in the neck but is expected to live. According to the criminal complaint filed by the Department of Justice, pamphlets on insurrectionary anarchism and propaganda materials, including a “Resist Fascism” flag, were recovered by law enforcement.
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