42 Replies to “August 24, 2018: Reader Tips”

    1. Nancy, the steady pain she was suffering has slowly dissipated somewhat over the summer and now comes and goes. As well, the scars on her back and side are slowly becoming less vivid.

      Thank you for asking.

  3. Kept expecting Hillary near the end of the don’t celebrate early video but checked the title and realized the compilation was for 2018.

    She would have been on the 2016 compilation.

    Or maybe since the 2018 is already out this far from November 2018 she might have ended up on the 2017 compilation.

    1. Don’t count her out yet. There are rumours that she might make another attempt in 2020.

      Then there are the suggestions that Hildabeast, Jr. might go into politics–like mother, like daughter. (Yuck!)

      1. Watching the video I concluded that most of these premature celebrants probably learned from their mistake and didn’t make the mistake in subsequent matches.

        She definitely is showing all the signs of wanting to be the candidate in 2020. If she is, expect her to campaign hard in Wisconsin amongst other places she took for granted in 2016.

        Well. As hard as her questionable health permits.

  5. Comey lied:
    “RealClearPolitics has just posted Paul Sperry’s 7,000-word investigation into the FBI’s misrepresentations and nonfeasance in the matter of the Weiner laptop and the Clinton emails. Sperry’s column runs under the headline ‘Despite Comey Assurances, FBI Failed to Examine Vast Bulk of Weiner Laptop Emails.;

    Sperry reports that the FBI examined only a tiny fraction of hundreds of thousands of Hillary Clinton emails discovered on the Weiner laptop six weeks before the 2016 presidential election. Sperry disputes then-FBI Director James Comey’s assurance to Congress that the FBI had ‘reviewed all of the communications’ found on the Weiner laptop in justifying a hasty second exoneration of Clinton in the email affair just days before the 2016 election. With a little help from the RCP email summary noting the piece this morning, I should add that Sperry also reveals:

    • After claiming they could not possibly review the 675,000 potentially relevant emails in the two weeks before the Nov. 8 election, FBI officials suddenly claimed they had made a great technological breakthrough that allowed them to eliminate the vast majority of emails as duplicates. But that technology didn’t work.

    • The highly restrictive warrant issued to search the Weiner laptop‘s contents prevented investigators from capturing any ‘smoking-gun’ emails outside the time frame of Clinton’s official tenure as Secretary of State, ones that might show intent to evade security requirements in setting up her private server, or efforts to cover up culpability afterward.

    • Ultimately, the FBI manually reviewed only about one percent of the emails – a total of 6,827. FBI lawyers deemed more than half of these personal or outside the scope of the investigation, so that ultimately, only 3,077 emails were reviewed for potential classified material. This review was performed by three agents in one 12-hour session.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/08/the-weiner-laptop-revisited-2.php

    1. The FBI has lied and they where/are “willfully” incompetent… The Inspector Generals Report has specific details on the multiple recovery attempts that were necessary in recovering of the Emails of Peter and Page… No less than 3 inside agencies and one outside before Null results…..SICK SHIT

      The FBi & the DOJ are guilty of obstructing Justice.. Jeff is guilty of obstructing justice…..&&ck the political nonsense, this is all about money & power

      Waiting for the Inspector Generals report on Uranium One & Hillary & Bill’s slush funding

  7. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/opinion/happiness-inequality-prosperity-.html?emc=edit_ty_20180823&nl=opinion-today&nlid=8412136720180823&te=1
    Happiness, envy, inequality.
    Apparently many people’s happiness or lack thereof is predicated on the prosperity of others. I think that’s pathetic but I can only speak for myself and I don’t doubt its true. Of course the leftys blather on about inequality, the differential between rich, medium and poor, because for them it is about result, not effort or merit.

  8. The Globe and Mail has long been considered as the semi-official mouthpiece for Liberal parties (federal and provincial). So reading the morning-after opinion pieces — following Maxime Bernier’s announcement of starting a new party — one can divide the Globe’s pieces into two parts: (1) attacks on Bernier’s conservatism and (2) joy that the right wing will be now split in two. I am not sure the latter is necessarily true. It depends on how many Conservatives bolt Scheer’s Red Tory party.

    P.s. I was involved in local organizing for the Reform Party, way back when, and building a new party takes a lot of work. I am not sure small-c conservatives are up to the challenge. One constant complaint of the Reform party, by members, was the suffocating top-down micro-managing by Preston Manning. I think Bernier will be different, and will have a rather disorganized party. It will be fun to work in this party, but it will suffer from unfair attacks from the big media cartel.

    1. Theres something they haven’t considered in their rush to celebrate what they refer to as a split in the right.
      Its that they believe conservative ideology is limited to a minority of voters, when the fact is their are a limited number of actual conservative candidates that run during elections.
      Before we get on their bandwagon of rightwing split, stop and consider how many left wing parties there are but yet these same editorial writers never have spoken of a left wing split.
      Let me throw out a conservative philosophy that may help create some clarity, competition is good for the market of ideas. The parties compete for our hearts and minds, when the selection is limited in any particular market (in this case those that are looking for a conservative government not necessarily a Conservative government) it becomes a monopoly and the seller starts taking the consumers for granted. Thats where we are now, and its time for some market expansion. There are a majority of eligible voters out there that do not vote due to the lack of confirmed conservatives on the ballot.
      If the bar is raised to force the establishment to start acting like conservatives or they face the prospect of losing out to actual conservatives the demographic on election day will cjange just as it did in the US in 2015.
      Right now the Conservative establishment is acting on the fears fed to them by the Ottawa bubble.
      The media’s fear is that Bernier could gain traction in Quebec and instead of taking votes from the CPC his new party will take votes from the liberals in Quebec.
      Now I don’t have a crystal ball that makes my contention true, but I will add the contention that if you suddenly see the liberals more active in Quebec this could be the reason.
      But i digress.
      The point is that there could be a benefit for conservatives for two reasons. First, that this action by Max forces the CPC to refocus and reach out to those that are still looking for something other than the plethora of left wing options. Second, it may establish another front in Quebec that the liberals have to contend with.
      There are many outcomes to the next election, but they fall under majority or minority. For liberals the worst case scenario for them is losing, the second worst is a liberal minority. Therefore if they can’t retain their majority they have to look for support, which after all the bridges the Sockmonkey has burned will be next to impossible.
      But that’s just my opinion.

    2. David, I was with Reform from the beginning and started the riding association in my district. I actually found Calgary HQ very helpful when we started. Many neophytes in our group and they provided structure. Organizing takes lots of hours of work. It is easier to assume that the next guy will do the work. Combine that with what I call political ‘Carpetbaggers’ who inevitably come in when traction is becoming evident. They will try to take over the org and exploit for their own purposes. IMHO that is what happened to the united CPC. Reform was grassroots and the CPC is not.

      I am a conservative. Will I work for Bernier? He has his own baggage. Scheer has not impressed me much. I have disengaged. No longer provide support $$$. The CPC has done nothing in my riding to recapture it. I am outraged by a CPC assumption that I will vote for them as I have no other option. There is another option. Let the whole process collapse and rebuild from there. Very sad option as I fear for my grand children.

      1. CT, I too was a Reform constituency president and I agree with your main points, and I agree with Joseph’s points as well. I like the point that the Conservative establishment “lives in the Ottawa bubble”. I was a middle-level economist living in Ottawa, liaising with government workers and political types, and I can attest to the fact that one loses perspective of everyday reality when hob-nobbing with power types (it happened to me). As well, Scheer and the Conservative establishment kowtow to the ruling, left-leaning media cartel (Bernier made this point yesterday). The corrupt media cartel will always be around, and it would be healthy to have a leader speak against the media corruption.

        One point: a new conservative party will have to attract younger workers. I am almost 70, and lack the energy to put in much time in politics! I am sure many ex-Reformers are in the same boat.

    3. “I think Bernier will be different, and will have a rather disorganized party.”

      I believe it was the great Newfoundlander John Crosbie who once responded to some remark aimed at him in the House of Commons by saying:

      “Mr Speaker, I resent the Honourable Member’s remark. I’m not a member of an organized party; I’m a conservative.”

  9. It Was A Failed Coup, Mainstream Media Are Covering Up Phony DOJ Dossier
    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-23/whistleblower-it-was-failed-coup-mainstream-media-are-covering-phony-doj-dossier

    MSM.ca, left and right leaning alike, spew the same storyline. MSM.ca bears the same 666 mark of the globalist beast. Freeland and the PM start a trade war to boost their voter popularity & MSM.ca pushes the BS narrative. Trump is discredited and the nationalist-populists are marginalized and vilified. e.g. “Trump lite Kellie Leitch

    MSM gets to frame the narrative and thereby control the process & outcome. And presto voila we have an Andrew Sheer as PC leader.

    1. The Failed Coup was in Russia .. the Russian dissidents & UK (Steele) working with the CIA Brennan wanted Hillary to win and continue the pressure on Putin…The blow back on Trump was by all those deranged fools who wanted to play Russian Rolette with Nukes…
      The small minded fools need to stay in their lanes….They are useless pissants & that happens when children are in charge…

      JMHO

  11. Ilana Mercer gives an insightful picture of the South African land grab. Trump has taken an interest in investigating further, so predictably the media is countering his concerns. I hope Trump persists. I believe Lauren Southern also recently did an investigation. Funny, our own government for all its virtue signalling seems not to have noticed the growing horror in South Aftica:
    https://www.unz.com/imercer/land-reform-in-ramaphosas-south-africa/

  12. MAGA.

    Feature: Leftism’s slippery, slimy, swamp denizens.

    …-

    “Is Trump finished? No, not by a long shot
    MARGARET WENTE” (G-M)

    …-

    “Seamus Bruner, Government Accountability Institute (GAI) researcher and author of Compromised: How Money and Politics Drive FBI Corruption, explained how former FBI Directors James Comey and Robert Mueller leveraged their government positions to enrich themselves.”

    “Seamus Bruner: Comey-Mueller ‘Cash in Through the Revolving Door’ of the Swamp”

    https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/08/23/seamus-bruner-comey-mueller-cash-in-swamp/

    1. I read recently that Obama is now worth 50 million. Where did he get 50 million? I sudlect those gigantic pallets of cash sent to Iran msy have domething to fo with it. Perhaps a few million went astray. Something is not quite right.

      2. I don’t think any former US president has left the White House and faced poverty in recent times. Truman was likely the last to retire from the Oval Office and have to live on limited means.

        I find it interesting that Americans don’t seem too concerned that so many of their elected officials tend to become extremely wealthy from what is putatively “public service”. And I don’t mean those who were wealthy before they were in office (the likes of a Trump or a Kennedy).

        (That’s not to say Canadian politicos don’t do well too but I just don’t see the kind of egregious fortunes US presidents and congressmen seem to parlay themselves into. This might simply be a product of relative scale though.)

        1. No … a BIG deal is being made about how Jimmy Carter still lives in his modest $175k Family Home … and flies coach … etc.

          Yet in NONE of these glowing stories about America’s 2nd-WORSE POTUS EVER … do they reveal Jimmy’s NET WORTH. Nope. They just talk about how he left the WH … dead broke. Jimmy is reportedly worth $7M. Still not too shabby for all the trappings of poordom.

      3. LindaL,
        The congressional staff with Confidential clearance are allowed to “TRADE” ahead of public Policy… They are inside traders, but are immunized to security charges…..Easy to make money during & after service.
        Pull security clearances and BINGO….all gone.. .MSM doesn’t tell you about that nice perk?

  15. https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/pm-calls-on-tories-to-do-better-after-unsettling-robocall-about-liberal-mp-s-health-1.4065878

    The robocall has been traced to the vice president of a CPC Riding ass’n., and he has admitted he made the call. Where does the CPC manage to find people so f***ing stupid? Michelle Rempel is busy apologizing on behalf of the CPC.
    Trudeau is about to win another majority,thanks to CPC ineptitude all all levels. Ezra Levant’s advice to Scheer was spot on,too bad he didn’t take it.

    1. The guy’s approach was somewhat tactless, however, as usual the PM’s comments are an overreaction. Telling the whole party (as though it was a party decision) to “never again do something like this”. casts himself as the teacher and Conservatives as little children who need a reprimand. Trudeau is such an a$$. How about Trudeau “never again” calling someone a racist for asking a legitimate question?

  16. Leftists -vs- leftists

    https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/23/california-senate-passes-bill-to-build-more-housing-at-bart-stations/

    State (leftist) politicians have authorized BART to build mid-rise (up to 6-story) multi-family housing projects over BART parking lots … over the vociferous objections of City and County (leftist) control freak NIMBY politicians.

    The State is especially THRILLED to FORCE the lillywhite, upper middle class, cities to increase the number of lower-income residents within the borders of their pricey enclaves. The race to turn CA into a permanent shithole is being WON by the SUPERMAJORITY leftists in Sacramento.

  18. Trump is crazy like a fox. Nice linkage. The master negotiator at work.

    Trump, in a series of tweets said: “I have asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo not to go to North Korea, at this time, because I feel we are not making sufficient progress with respect to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.”

    “Additionally, because of our much tougher Trading stance with China, I do not believe they are helping with the process of denuclearization as they once were (despite the UN Sanctions which are in place),” he added.”

    Trump concluded, “Secretary Pompeo looks forward to going to North Korea in the near future, most likely after our Trading relationship with China is resolved. In the meantime I would like to send my warmest regards and respect to Chairman Kim. I look forward to seeing him soon!”

    I know Utopiatepeelstheonion, you think Trump is Kim’s bitch. I’m betting on Trump who wins, wins, wins.

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/24/trump-urges-secretary-state-pompeo-to-cancel-north-korea-trip.html

  19. Message to Democrats: you have no presented no vision, alternate or otherwise of how you would govern differently.

    Instead you’re obsessed with every so-called scandal you can muster, hoping, finally, some day, you’ll find impeachable dirt.

    Meanwhile, you ignore the needs of the nation, her priorities, her safety, her very governance, in your blind power aspirations.

    You conspire with a compliant (and extremely unpopular) media sycophants and various other ignoramuses to carry your water.

    You send your deep state operatives to frame Trump, while overseeing legion law enforcement and intelligence failures.

    Your only vision of the country is Trump out and you in power.

    Keep up the good work, the nation will thank you when you political dinosaurs finally go extinct because you defied voters.

    https://nypost.com/2018/08/23/national-enquirer-boss-has-immunity-in-cohen-probe/

  20. I was doing some research on Norway v. U.S. in terms of GDP. This was in response to how well socialism supposedly works in the Scandinavian countries.
    First of all, they are not socialist. At worst, they are capitalist countries with very good social safety nets, such as universal health care.
    What people don’t realize is how small, how rich, and how homogeneous (before) Norway is. Norway has a population of 5.2 million. Los Angeles County has double. The last stats on per capita GDP I found was for 2014. It was $89.3K. For the U.S. it was $51.9K. And the homogeneous population means that it was a lot flatter society. In 2014, the lowest quintile in Norway made 9.1% of the income. This compares to just 3.1% in the U.S. But the difference in real money is even more staggering. It works out the per capita income for the lowest quintile in Norway in 2014 was $40.6K, compared to $7.9K in the U.S. $40.6K was more than what it was for the third quintile (exactly middle) of the U.S., at $36.4K. Even the bottom 10% in Norway averaged $31.3K.
    Norway was a country that was highly industrialized, highly intelligent, hard working. When it decided on universal coverage of things like education and medical care with higher taxes, essentially everyone was able to pay his own way. Very few people indeed was really needy. And the cost of the administration would be like for L.A. county (probably a lot less because a lot more efficient), not the overblown bureaucracy as in the U.S. Now that the Scandinavian countries have allowed mass immigration of people who will rely on this social welfare net exclusively, without contributing, and as their percentage keeps growing, It will be interesting to see how well this social welfare net will be working say ten years down the line.
    As to the real effects of socialism, I would dearly love to see the 1960 stats for the U.S. Alas, what I found started with 1970. Still, it is quite instructive. We can see the creeping effects of LBJ’s so-called great society. Every quintile’s share in the GDP dropped from 1970 to 2016, almost monotonically, except the top quintile. Interesting, isn’t. it. The first quintile dropped from 4.1 to 3.1 (almost 25% loss), the second quintile from 10.8 to 8.3 (agains, almost 25.% loss), the third from 17.4 to 14.2, the fourth from 24.5 to 22.9, and the top quintile increased from 43.3 to 51.5. So as a result of this policy the Democrats pushed through, the bottom 40% lost almost 25% of income, the next 40% suffered more slight losses, but the top 20% made out. The party of cronyism capitalism getting richer on the backs of the poor. That’s what Democrats do for their contributors.

    1. Update: According to the CIA World Factbook
      https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2004rank.html
      for 2017, the per capita gdp of Norway has dropped to $71.8K (gee, I wonder why), and for the U.S. has increased to $59.5K, and hopefully will keep on increasing under President Trump. Not only that, I bet that the Norwegian society economically is not as flat as it used to be in 2014, and the bottom quintille may have a lot of people in need of not just assistance, but outright support, as in the U.S. If that requires even more tax on top of the already high tax rate to provide the same sort of socialist paradise, I wonder how that would sit with the people in the second and third quintilles.

      In fact, even though the U.S. sits at only 19th in per capita gdp, it is only because the list includes a lot of small city states like Liechtenstein and Monaco, and Administrative Regions like Macau and Isle of Man. The U.S. now is first among countries with at least 10 million people. For countries not a city state and not floating on oil, it is behind only Ireland (?!), Norway, and Switzerland. This is in spite of the fact that it is already providing the social support that the Scandinavian countries will be struggling to provide in the near future.

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