Fox News host Maria Bartiromo announced earlier today that sources have shared not to expect any interim report or outcomes from the probe by John Durham prior to the election. Obviously for many CTH readers this will not be an unanticipated outcome; however, that alone does not mitigate disappointment. WATCH:
A decision not to pursue honest justice due to the election is ultimately a political decision. The dynamic of worrying about the optics of the political calendar, is itself a political decision. This is the great dichotomy and weirdly irreconcilable conflict CTH previously outlined.
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What Ms. Bartiromo encapsulates is in-line with my own research and interactions with people very close to the DC events. In essence, this sentiment; in combination with AG Bill Barr having a keen awareness of the undercurrent frustration outside the DC bubble; is at the heart of why USAO Jeff Jensen has been channeling information to Michael Flynn’s defense counsel Sidney Powell.
Perhaps some expanded opinion is prudent…
When we see that justice is measured, not by due process, but by compulsion; when we see that in order to invoke our right to due process, we need to obtain permission from those who rebuke the constitution; when we see that justice is determined by those who leverage, not in law, but in politics; when we see that representatives get power over individual liberty by graft and by scheme, and our representatives don’t protect us against them, but protect them against us; when we see corruption holding influence and individual liberty so easily dispatched and nullified; we may well know that our freedom too is soon to perish….
When I wrote on September 2nd that we need to focus intensely on winning the 2020 election, my focus was based on accepting this inherent reality. Regardless of what AG Barr may want to do – he has defined evidence and consequence through the prism of political silos.
No single proposition so brutally outlined the intent of the Bill Barr DOJ than an institutional agreement to carve the fourth amendment into two parts; with two different standards for a FISA application. One standard for DC elites, the second standard for everyone else. There is no excusing this. The institutions operating within Washington DC are echo-chambers; penetrating that bubble with common sense discussion about what is already known to those outside the system is fraught with frustration.
President Trump is unique in that he is inside the bubble yet ideologically aligned with Americans outside the bubble. One can only imagine how frustrating it must be to be part of a machine of government that is self-actuating. It took decades of the system to be created; and it will take some seriously targeted effort to disassemble that same system.
Foolishness and betrayal of our nation have served to reveal dangers within our present condition. However, that said, misplaced corrective action, regardless of intent, is neither safe nor wise.
To the extent the severity of the DC corruption is outlined, it becomes completely understandable how people would throw up their arms and walk away disgusted and disenfranchised. We cannot lose people like this.
We cannot afford to lose a single voter…. we need everyone in this fight.
I have spoken to many patriotic people familiar to many of you, and without question when you direct the conversation to the subject of this dynamic eventually everyone concedes: we must urgently shift focus to winning 2020. We must win.
No-one is going to come to our nation’s rescue. We are the people we have been waiting for. This is our task, and there are only thirty five days left to expand our ranks.
We have the best message. We have the best candidate; and both represent the pride, values and patriotism of this nation. Our opposition is weak and their message is based on fear and trepidation. We cannot afford to fuel their preferred narrative of dark inevitability by focusing on a system that has become completely rigged and corrupted.
Every disenfranchised voter becomes a win for the anti-American opposition. We must intensely provide an alternative message of faith, fellowship and patriotism. This is so critical it cannot be overemphasized. Optimism, deliberately focused and intensely directed American spirit, will win this 2020 battle; and the winner of the 2020 battle will eventually win the political war.
To emphasize the point, I return to a message provided by Bill Whittle well over a year ago. We can all relate to this eloquent presentation. WATCH:
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All around us, in every tribe and region, there are people who need you to show them the strength that you have. Strength of spirit. Strength of fellowship that you will not relent from expressing. No matter what noise is shouting from the loudspeakers we must withstand it; we must make eye contact and remain joyful. We cannot allow despair to be the status quo.
Our nation needs more people like you, right now. Don’t wait… engage life, get optimistic however you need to do it. Then let that part of you shine right now… This is how we fight. Hold up that flag; give the starter smile… rally to the standard you create and spread fellowship again.
God knows we need it; and that is how we will win.
It is the responsibility of each of us to stand, defiantly if needed, and support a President who is waging a battle against multiple adversaries on our behalf. “Stand” means be visible. “Stand” means let your voice be heard. “Stand” means telling your representatives what your expectations are. They represent us; WE are the people.
We know exactly who Donald Trump is, and we also know what he is not.
He is exactly what we need at this moment.
He is a necessary, defiant and glorious fighter.
He is our weapon.
This man has faced opposition that would overwhelm any other President. Our chosen President is constantly attacked by those holding a corrupt, conniving and Godless leftist ideology. It is our job now to stand with him, firm on his behalf.
To respond we must engage as an insurgency. We must modify our disposition to think like an insurgent. Insurgencies have nothing to lose. If insurgents are not victorious the system, which controls the dynamic, wins. However, if insurgents do nothing, the same system, which controls the dynamic, also wins.
Do nothing and we lose. Go to the mattresses, and we might win.
The choice is ours.
The awakened American middle-class insurgency, led by Donald Trump, is an existential threat to the professional political class and every entity who lives in/around the professional political class. Their entire political apparatus is threatened by our voice. The political industry, all of corrupt governance, is threatened by our support through Donald Trump.
Decision time.
You know why the entire apparatus is united against President Trump. You know why the corrupt Wall Street financial apparatus is united against President Trump. You know why every institutional department, every lobbyist, every K-Street dweller, every career legislative member, staffer, and the various downstream economic benefactors, including the corporate media, all of it – all the above, are united against Donald Trump.
Donald Trump is an existential threat to the existence of a corrupt DC system we have exposed to his disinfecting sunlight. Donald Trump is the existential threat to every entity who benefits from that corrupt and vile system.
Right now, through November 3, 2020, every day is Saint Crispins day.
If we are mark’d to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
God’s peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more methinks would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is call’d the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam’d,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say ‘To-morrow is Saint Crispian.’
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say ‘These wounds I had on Crispian’s day.’
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb’red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.
Get your head right.
Now, Get in the fight…
Shelley Childs posted a most excellent short read on the previous page. It’s worth reposting so it doesn’t get lost. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1310242995585732608.html. I’m a big believer in the Stockdale paradox. “Great people must retain faith that they will prevail in the end regardless of difficulties, but at the same time, they must confront the most brutal facts of their current reality, whatever they might be.”
Thread was by Larry Schweikart. I want to make sure he gets proper credit also. Well done Sir, and thank you, Shelly for finding that and posting it.
Thank you!
Thanks, Star, for posting that. If Schweikart and Rush are correct, we are going to get a lot of good news between now and Christmas.
Remember,if trump wins then it will all come out, i believe. If he loses, it doesn’t matter does it ..
Good point dave. If he loses, he still is president, isn’t he. Which means he still has the power to declassify everything and in essence like Samson pull the temple down on all their heads. No end to the mischief a wounded elephant can cause
My thoughts exactly. The left and Deep State will not call off the dogs on him if he loses the election. They will still be hell-bent on destroying him and his family, as a lesson to anyone else who dares to come against them. So if he loses, I believe he will declas and expose as much as possible on his way out, take out as many as he can, and do what Barr and others should have done long ago. What does he have to lose?
A decision not to pursue honest justice due to the election is Bill Barr’s version of being a Jeff Sessions.
Well said.
Sad but true.
“I think Barr and Durham should be charged with election meddling.”
“I think Barr and Durham should be charged with election meddling.”
I think Thomas Dowling maybe should have read this article before writing this posting.
How will we win this election if we continue to direct our ire toward people who will not have jobs if we lose. Nothing like the old circular firing squad while the enemy is up in the trees shooting at all of us. Time to focus on the most serious matter, which is getting out there and helping Donald J Trump win his re-election.
I don’t want to be too harsh, but this comment is nothing more than a distraction from our need to save our Constitutional Republic. How does charging Barr and Durham with anything help us accomplish this one thing we have to get done?
Donald Trump needs more of us to be poll watchers. Do that. It could help us save our country from the worst kind of hell for freedom loving people to have to endure.
Focusing on the election without recognizing and informing others of the criminality (and insanity — don’t forget the insanity) of the Democrats, is inescapably merely political, and the more so the harder one works at it; I have called that obscene, and repeat it over and over. This election is about Donald Trump as President (his record of unprecedented achievement, for all), versus an illegitimate antagonist intent upon throwing everything hateful it can at our founding ideals and universal moral rights, based only upon lies and stunted, hateful thinking (a complete misuse — abuse — of each and every Democrat’s mental abilities). Donald Trump vs. Vengeance for a dead, and failed, past.
So I say, thank God for Thomas Dowling’s comment. The truth demands no less.
Fine, I am all for the truth and I know the only way the truth will come out is if Trump can get re-elected, period. I think with 5 weeks left until the election, we would be even wiser to focus on the one thing We The People can do to salvage our Republic. You worry about truth for a while longer and I will try to help Donald Trump win. We are in a political dogfight, and sometimes you have to deal with the imperatives before we can write about the superlatives. Righteousness can have different forms at different times. I don’t disparage the truth, but sometimes the truth is not as consequential as the fight. I hope to God we get to the truth, so I think it is time to be sure we keep that pathway open to us.
i bet this News helps Biden to the debate ;]
So, hell, lets just concede the election right now. I am an old man and I do not intend to let a bunch of Communists control what is left of my life. I will be voting for Donald J Trump after he destroys old Pop Corn in the debate. Or Corn Dog or whomever it was.
The fix is always in.
Dem blackmailers got to Roberts….probably Souter and Sessions and to God only knows how many “retiring” Congressmen in ’18……Barr and Durham?
It’s Washington…..the F’nBI knows…..everyone’s got skeletons in their closets.
Yak, yak, yak. I m from Missouri, the Show Me State. This site has allowed us to enjoy the “words”, while be have been looking for the “deeds”. Based on all the “words”, it is too late for the “deeds” before election. I have listened to you, I have trusted you, but no “deeds” have come. I must revert to my trust in Almighty God (which always do), to deliver the “deed” the Donald J. Trump will be elected again, so he can deliver the “deeds” that the meek could not do.
Your first mistake is saying you read things you did not read here. Your second mistake (in my humble opinion) was turning away from Almighty God and placing your faith in the imperfect. At least that’s what I read in your seemingly painful need to revert to God. Just a question; why are you here?
Sheesh. I am just going to go vote for Donald Trump and convince my neighbors to join me.
No surprise here. The William Barr Department of Two Tier Justice never disappoints.
Unless some insider blows the whistle and goes on national tv and basically expose everyone, these people will get their power back one way or another.
The whole deep state is working to take their power back to rule over us. They are willing to burn down the country… they are also working to steal the election and are not even hiding it.
the debate would be a good time for POTUS to whistleblow.
I think my head would literally explode!!!!!
Maybe that’s really why they want to avoid a debate and put Hiden Biden up to make it look like that’s why they don’t want a debate.
Pray and pray and pray some more.
Btw, I sure do miss Andrew Breitbart. What a perilous journey we are on.
unseal the kill order on andrew
Well, if this in fact true, then it tells me that Barr and Durham actually how Trump loses. Because they are telling the president of the United States that you aren’t worth going to bat for prior to the election and we will only do this if the people vote you in against actual voters on the left AND fake voters pumped in by mail in fraud.
That means these guys are willing to risk PDJTs backlash if he wins. Which is actually scary because that means they probably don’t think he’s gonna win. And they look forward to just walking away from everything.
This country is beyond screwed if VSG doesn’t win. BEYOND. And if he does win we need to make sure Jr or Eric wins the next 8 years and the other one wins the 8 years after that.
God please save us.
Justice delayed is justice denied
Ohhh, so, politics comes before justice in this country… Got it!
Justice needs to check with the politicians to make it can do its thing…
Don’t let the Justice System get in the way of politics. No no.
I’m a retired storm trooper who kidnapped thousands of people over my career. I, myself never kidnapped anybody in Portland. We kidnapped people off the streets, cars, busses, at train stations, airports you name it yet mainly at night and on remote desert trails or in thick riverine riparian habitat, swampy deltas and the pacific ocean. Funny thing though. At least for a while, 92 campaign, Pelosi actually supported our kidnapping and brought Feinstein and Boxer with her to have a presser just to say so and that they supported hiring more federal storm troopers to kidnap more people. 18 usc 2 anyone?
Many are unaware that federal storm troopers are also US Marshals yet only act in that role during national emergencies and to protect federal property as with the Portland Federal Bldg.. Storm troopers also receive additional months of training in Spanish, arcane trivia and fun facts about immigration and nationality law and a lot of running and exercise, preferably in hot weather.
Storm troopers were actually the US Marshals who provided security for children in the south when the schools were being desegregated in the 60s. They spent the night in the school buildings with the kids while those outside were yelling “burn it down” and actually trying to do so. They were also the US Marshals at Wounded Knee and the Cuban boat deal.
I went into work one morning in May, 92 the first time Barr was AG and was ordered to go home pack a bag and get right back. That evening we were in LA storm trooping (as federal marshals) the epicenter of the Rodney King riots. Oddly, we were ordered not to kidnap anyone as all the jails, stations and buses were full beyond capacity. We were about 100 beat up vehicles with 4 storm troopers per and I remember first arriving in the late afternoon and driving through the side streets to get to the area. The locals came running out of their houses waving American flags as we drove by. Nobody wants their neighborhood burnt down. That’s just fake news.
Anyway with all those encounters and kidnappings over the years there also came an applicable amount of feces hit fan moments on almost a daily basis. The organization was under constant attack from media, anti-kidnapping groups and from within. Of course these incidents all came with accompanying reports and memos from all involved for the internal investigations. The memory fades yet a phrase often over heard from the Obergruppenfuhrers to the field marshals above us during those times echoes with me today. “Get to the bottom of it.” And in parting “Protect the service. Protect the agents.”
I know that is what Wray is doing yet he is accountable to Barr and the president. Soooo? Barr recently said something to the effect that we will know or have a report by Election Day and another time that he’ll let the chips fall as they may. Kinda goes against what is being reported today.
This is starting to feel like Comey’s no reasonable prosecutor or Robert’s ACA monologue and I really hope I am wrong.
I also wish I was young enough to join the space force. It would be nice to kidnap extraterrestrial aliens. See how they like being probed and prodded for a change. Yeeeeaaaah!!
After the election we will get another slap on the wrist of somebody else. Another wolf. If that.
See 2018 elections…
Pattern so far, they all walked.
After the election… more of the same pattern.
Trump should declassify everything. It’s the only thing that will happen if he does.
Durham is a sham.
After election there will be no justice. Might as well dump all docs online now and expose the crooks for the world to see.
That will be the only justice we will see.
If we the people don’t revolt, the ruling class will not send themselves to jail and give us their power.
It’s theirs, they have been ruling over us for decades. They will not just walk away from it.
I don’t think being able to say, “See, we were right all along” will help Trump win on November 3rd. I used to be baffled at how someone like Adolf Hitler could have taken complete control of Germany. Now, not so much.
TRUMP 2020!
It’s been clear as day since about February ’17 that we are actually the insurgents. The nation that lives by the Constitution and obeyed the will of the people was lost already in decades past while we weren’t paying attention. The behavior of all the insiders caught with their hand in the Crossfire Hurricane cookie jar made it plain as day that they knew they were still in charge, and that “we, the people” are really just speedbumps on their road to power and personal enrichment
Ho Hum.
Clever misleading of the Deep State again.
Everyone knows that Durham will release some charges in the next 6-10 days.
He is just lulling them into a false sense of security.
I expect one or more to go down each week in an avalanche of charges pre election.
Not Struck until after his Senate Testimony.
But a little sweetener?
Maybe Page first to put the frighteners into him.
Plus a full scale Hunter investigation in 2 weeks.
Hm
What more on the wish list.
Flynn exoneration would be good but that judge is sewn up tight.
Expect a Supreme Court referral from Sydney very soon.
https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1310333926624366594
I trust Durham and Barr. But even though they are more political than I wanted to see. We control our future. We expected this. Let’s keep moving.
Nancy has communicated to the House that they should be prepare to choose the next President. What does she know that we do not? She is projecting again. She knows nothing. Only that vote by mail fraud works for her.
Vote in person. Absentee as last resort. Volunteer to be poll watchers. And take pictures if legal also videos. Do not allow the hate to get to you. Be proud and cautious. VOTE.
Trump knows we have his back. And we do.
Act like it.
There is no fight to get in. It is already lost. President Trump cannot win this election after the left stole Pennsylvania, Michigan and North Carolina. He gets 255 electoral votes tops now. The coup conspirators will walk free and they all know it. Bondo Bill Barr has done his job. Did anybody really think there was an ounce of fight left in a nation that passively let their freedoms and their livelihoods be taken away from them ?
So true…………………..
Buck up, seharper1960. Only 5 more weeks to elect our side. If not, about 60 more years to add to your 60 before we have another real chance at an election. When I ponder that thought, I can push myself a little harder.
TRUMP 2020
Their sure doesn’t seem to be an ounce of fight left in you! You’re not a regular here and the kind of defeatism you are pushing here SUCKS! President Trump not only can, but WILL win this election, and the criminals will be brought to justice. If you’re not just a troll, then cowboy up and do what Todd Beamer said when in a much worse situation: “LET’S ROLL!!!”
Does this surprise anyone? Like those corrupt Obama era investigators who were convinced that Hillary would win in 2016, these current crop of ‘investigators’ are waiting to see election results so they will know which the wind blows. The complete and total lack of integrity is what currently contributes to the continued down fall of this republic. It’s just that simple when the dust settles….
So maybe we need to change the direction of the wind. Keep your head up. We grossly outnumber them, but we have to make that known all around each of us.
I want satisfaction and justice as much as the next person. But, I believe God is working here. I will trust Him.