IIIII-EEEEeeeeeee...hear the siren ramping up to about 110 decibels? That is the Bologna Sensor system. It is focused on Washington, D.C. Seems a Democratic Congressman is preparing to "investigate" Donald Trump, Jr. because he "met with a Russian diplomat to get some dirt on Hillary Clinton." The putative purpose of the "clandestine" encounter was for the Russians to feed harmful intel to the Trump campaign.
Without even considering the information involved, we have set off the BS alarm. And what is the intent of the "investigation" by our unnamed friend? It is to discover harmful intel on the President and his campaign. Isn't that what Trump Jr. was doing in reverse?
Let's review the political campaigns from about 1950 to the present. Well, if you are a glutton for punishment, go back to 1789. Running against GW was about like running against God, one would imagine. He got all of the votes for President.
Of interest to Tennessee voters was Andrew Jackson's campaign where the opposition dug up dirt on Jackson's wife. Excuse the pun, but dirty politics is nothing new.
So for the Trump campaign to explore any possible misdeeds by the opposition is neither new nor nefarious. And, if I recall correctly, the "opposition" paraded a stream of accusers of Candidate Trump before the cameras and the news outlets. That was not to "undermine" the campaign, was it? And we can find evidence that the Ukraine worked with Hillary's campaign to undermine Trump's. IIIEEEeee.
And the BS meter goes crazy when the supposed content of the "dirt" on Hillary is factored into the mix. The agent implied that Secretary Clinton had crossed some legal and ethical lines in the uranium compact that she brokered with the Kremlin. If that were true, then disclosing that information BEFORE the election would seem to be of paramount import for the United States, and antithetical to the interests of the Soviets.
Think for a second, with all the dirt flying from the primaries to the final result. Did you change your vote because of something "bad" you heard about your candidate? It reaffirmed my dislike for the other guy, but otherwise it was just "politics as usual." And further, if Russia had released emails of the Trump campaign planning to upset the Hil, would you have switched to support her? The emails cemented positions. If you liked her, you were unfazed. If you disliked her, you were confirmed in your belief of her deficiency. The same thing happened with regard to the Trump campaign.
Doesn't "collusion" have to effect the outcome? Not to mention that it is only a crime when financial fraud is intended. If a ball player colludes with a bookie, he shaves the score or throws the game. A jockey holds his horse back as a result of collusion. I suppose that the Democrats assume that "the loss" was an affected outcome, yet they have failed to show any voters who changed their votes based on the "Russian interference." And no financial ramifications.
The "Tennessean" ran a story (7/12/17) "Wayne County residents support President Trump despite controversy" that seemed to leave the writer mystified. Maybe I was reading into his comments, but it was almost as if he were saying, "With all this bad stuff, they still support him." I guess, collusion, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. I do not recall a similar article marveling at the devotion to former President Obama when his pronouncements were all going awry. Maybe failure is likewise eye-of-beholder dependent.
Let's run the BS plow a little deeper. If Clinton had indeed given the Russians undeserved benefits, why would they be "blowing the whistle" on her at this point. If she were in actuality, Russia-phillic, would it not make sense that they would prefer her in the White House? Why would they sabotage their own stooge? Oops, I mean confederate.
And if the information were to be determined spurious, would it not behoove any campaign, regardless of politics, to expose it? Then we find out that the actual "agent" was a Russian lawyer, and not any type of government official. The supposed Russian agent has disavowed any connection with the Kremlin and the Kremlin returned the compliment. The rumor hounds are at full bay, nearly drowning out the BS siren. Funny we didn't hear any of that during the Benghazi brouhaha. But I digress.
Combine a questionable agent, with a questionable motive, with questionable information, and what do you get? An inquisitive son, who was not even an official campaign official.
Was it a little ill-advised? Maybe, but put the "smoking" emails back into context and the ulterior intent drops to about the level of a son fighting, what he considered, a lop sided battle against his dad. He was actually "delighted" to hear that someone had some "dirt" and not that it was a Russian agent it seems, when reading the actual text.. For the conspiracy consumed, read slowly.
As Ronald Reagan used to say, "It isn't that the liberals don't know anything. It is just that a lot that they know, just ain't so."
The siren song of collusion (pun intended) is deafening, but not communicative. I hope we all aren't deef by December. IIII-EEEEEEeeeeee. And our BS sensor has not even touched the "articles of impeachment" presented by two Constitutional imbeciles.
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