Pulling the Plug on Democrats’ Life Support
American Greatness,
by
Conrad Black
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
2/4/2020 10:39:19 AM
On Wednesday the Democratic Party is scheduled to be removed from the life support system that has sustained it these past four years: the fraudulently and almost certainly illegally confected condition of Donald Trump being under a legal and ethical cloud.
The wild aspersions about financial chicanery, misogyny, racism, rank ignorance, and incompetence, and the monstrous canard about “treason” with Russia, the Mueller investigation, and the spurious impeachment were all that the Trump-hating media needed to persuade the credulous, within the United States and throughout the world, that this was an aberrant president who was about to be led out of the Oval Office in handcuffs.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 2/4/2020 10:43:27 AM (No. 307033)
FTA:
The Democrats, and the sharply dwindling ranks of their anti-Trump Republican allies, have retreated from the charge of electoral fraud, to treason with Russia, to obstruction of justice, to impeachable abuses of power and contempt of Congress. All of it was piffle; there was no truth to any of it. All there ever was is a candidate and now a president who is so bombastic and garish in some of his stylistic and rhetorical quirks, that there was an over-eager readiness to believe that there might be some merit to these accusations.
There wasn’t.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 2/4/2020 10:46:00 AM (No. 307038)
Black is just too good.
The Democrats have an inadequate group of implausible candidates, appear to be fixing up their convention to sandbag Bernie Sanders again and perhaps to make an energetic effort to sell themselves to Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg is a capable man but a New York liberal who is far from a spellbinder, starts with no following outside the wealthy parts of New York City, and he spent $170 per vote in his last election municipal election. That translates to $14 billion in a presidential election. He could afford it, but Trump and the Republican Party are rich, too, and no one can simply buy an American general election. For good measure, whatever tatters are left of the ethical gap with Trump will almost certainly be blown away by the conclusions of U.S. Attorney John Durham when he has finished looking at the official harassment of the Trump campaign in 2016.
The Democrats’ astonishment is understandable. So, up to a point, was their belief in Trump’s indifferent ethics, but these became a crutch that they have leaned on more heavily as Trump has racked up successes in almost every policy field. Now the crutch has been kicked out as they face the revelation of their own skullduggery, and face up to the profound mediocrity of their candidate pool.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
PChristopher 2/4/2020 11:04:11 AM (No. 307065)
People talk about the Dems as a patient on life support waiting to die. I think a more apt analogy for them and the Deep State would be to the last days of Berlin where the Nazi's....the real Nazi's.....threw every man, woman, child, cat, and dog into the vicious fight against the Russians. If anyone thinks that the Dems, the Deep State, the MSM, Antifa, and any of their other goons are going to just shrug their shoulders and go home after Wednesday, you can forget that. If anything, it's going to get worse and more vicious....you just wait. What a mess this all is.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 2/4/2020 11:21:01 AM (No. 307083)
Ummm, yeah, these rats are nowhere near their last gasp, and Black (wasn't he imprisoned because he disagreed with the Dims?) seems to think that the Dims just want to get rid of a president they don't like. It's much more sinister than that. They want total and complete control of the U.S. and US.
Come on, Conrad! Painting pretty pictures to try to delude the masses is pure, unadultered BS!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
chance_232 2/4/2020 11:36:50 AM (No. 307105)
A more apt description would be that the democrats are like islamists. You can beat them to a bloody pulp. They will retreat, regroup, lie about their intentions and in short order resume blowing up cafes, churches and schools.
Leftists never go away and never give up. They just rebrand themselves and choose different terminology.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bad-hair 2/4/2020 11:38:30 AM (No. 307110)
Come on November. I rarely watch when I flush but this time might be an exception.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Quigley 2/4/2020 12:13:42 PM (No. 307153)
I loved the article. One point of disagreement:
FTA: "Trump’s flamboyant career as a huckster, Trump University, the junk bond casino bankruptcies, as well as the spectacular divorces and constant tabloid and television presence, opened him up for a good deal of ridicule. Not even the most disciplined and fervent Trump supporter would deny that this president’s résumé contains some elements that he would be better off without in his present position, nor would many claim that all of his public comments have been suffused with the dignity and thoughtfulness that would be ideal in the nation’s chief executive and commander-in-chief."
Anyone who thinks presidential politics is dignified has surely been disabused of that delusion over the past three years and especially the last three months. Shitf has shown that there is no bigger hucksterism than politics. So, these activities were an intrinsic part of Trump's preparation for the office. Bush may have been dignified, but he was swept away, and the whole purpose of the Iraq War (as I thought I understood it anyway) was brought to ruin by the dims for their huckster purposes; thousands of lives and trillions of dollars for the dims huckster purposes.
I think the dims are more like a cornered scorpion than a patient on life support.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
earlybird 2/4/2020 1:24:10 PM (No. 307239)
Much as he admires President Trump, Black is also a snob. He cannot write a piece without including a gratuitous paragraph or so on President Trump’s superficial “flaws” (in Black’s mind) that make him not quite perfect. I wonder if he does it to distance himself from PDJT in any reader’s mind who might also be a snob. “I really like this and this and this about him, but I hasten to add that I don’t agree with his being/doing this.” (There, did I cover myself?)
I am a fan of Black’s writings, but he does this every time….
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ToryWhite 2/4/2020 1:48:38 PM (No. 307274)
President Trump is in every way morally superior to anyone in the Clinton and Bush dynasties. To compare him disfavorably in that regard is b.s.
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Why do you think they tried to impeach the President ? They have nobody and nothing.
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