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Midnight at the Democracy Dies in Darkness Café
American Thinker ^ | December 17, 2017 | Clarice Feldman

Posted on 12/16/2017 11:42:20 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom

The Democracy Dies in Darkness café is located conveniently near the Capitol, the Hill and the FBI headquarters. It’s open all night and I stopped in for a late-night coffee with my friend, a fiction novelist who was depressed. “I spent a year writing about a coup attempt against an outsider who by strategic brilliance defeated the handpicked candidate of a cabal of establishment powerhouses. It involved the highest officials of the FBI and Department of Justice. They manipulated a FISA Court into letting them electronically surveil the candidate and all who worked with him, unmasked their names, leaked what they found, and they still couldn’t beat him. Then they engineered the recusal of the attorney general, got his deputy to appoint their bestest pal to be special counsel. Given free rein, he hired fierce partisans of the defeated candidate, used the ill-gotten information against her opponents to prosecute three people with minimal connection to the campaign -- one for a dubious process crime dependent on the notes of an FBI agent who had earlier orchestrated lies about Benghazi, covered up for the misuse of classified information by the losing candidate, and oversaw the investigation into the president.”

“Sounds great,” I said, so why are you depressed?”

“Every publisher I sent it to rejected it as being too implausible to sell to readers.”

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: frame; silentcoup; trumprussia
Could have just as easily been called Midnight at the Schadenfreude Cafe
1 posted on 12/16/2017 11:42:20 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
[writing about a coup attempt against an outsider]

The liberals are deeply embedded in this attempted coup d'état

And now, a definition (1), that I found on Google, of the efforts of the MSM, the DNC, and their tools Robert Mueller and company:


2 posted on 12/16/2017 11:53:33 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
Could have just as easily been called Midnight at the Schadenfreude Cafe

After President Trump succeeds in warding off the baseless accusations, plugging the leaks, and draining the swamp - then will be the time for Schadenfreude, not before.

Regards,

3 posted on 12/16/2017 11:53:53 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
I have always liked this painting.


4 posted on 12/17/2017 12:33:15 AM PST by Enterprise (Do away with all symbols of past slavery. Start with the Democrat Party.)
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To: Enterprise

I don’t know why but every time I see that painting it reminds me of the café in the movie “The Sting”...A great movie btw.


5 posted on 12/17/2017 1:05:47 AM PST by lewislynn ( If I had a badass rodeo bull I'd name it Trump)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Gotta love Clarice!


6 posted on 12/17/2017 2:15:36 AM PST by glock rocks (... so much win!)
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To: Enterprise

Not realistic. The glass panes are way too big.


7 posted on 12/17/2017 2:29:02 AM PST by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: JohnnyP

Art is never realistic.


8 posted on 12/17/2017 4:59:59 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Islam is Satans finest work.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

As opposed to a nonfiction novel?


9 posted on 12/17/2017 5:58:39 AM PST by Lord Casselreagh (any)
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To: JohnnyP

Not realistic. The glass panes are way too big.


The large window creates a picture frame within the picture. Light surrounded by a somber darkness. The darkness surrounds the light and gives the light itself a somber, lonely feel. If the window glass had been realistically subdivided, the composition inside the diner would have been subdivided.


10 posted on 12/17/2017 6:15:20 AM PST by Flick Lives (The FBI is a corrupt partisan organization.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom; bobfeland; COUNTrecount; GladesGuru; glock rocks; HotKat; jazusamo; ...

Clarice Feldman ping.

If you'd like to be on or off the Clarice Feldman ping list, please drop me a FReepmail.

11 posted on 12/17/2017 8:08:44 AM PST by upchuck ("Ex-obama" ... That phrase itself honors America. ~ h/t glennaro)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Superb!


12 posted on 12/17/2017 12:09:06 PM PST by Gritty (Epithets of 'moderate Islam' are very ugly. Islam is Islam and that's it.—Turkish President Erdogan)
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To: Enterprise

I have it on my model railroad layout. Nighthawks is a great painting.


13 posted on 12/17/2017 6:28:47 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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