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. Its 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 couldnt 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 ...
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,
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.
Gotta love Clarice!
Not realistic. The glass panes are way too big.
Art is never realistic.
As opposed to a nonfiction novel?
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.
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Superb!
I have it on my model railroad layout. Nighthawks is a great painting.
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