Posted on 10/25/2020 5:04:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
Contrast the Trump/Pence ticket running for re-election with the last time an incumbent ticket ran for re-election: Obama/Biden in 2012. For most of our history, the press has served as a Democracy's child, willing to tell the truth about situations as they unfold. Then, Barack Obama and Joe Biden were elected.
Either because Obama was the first African American president, or the mainstream media was so steeped in their own ideology, they abdicated their position for eight years running, and since then.
From Magnifying Glass to Feigned Disinterest
With Bush/Cheney, the mainstream media covered every infraction, error, and misspoken word and then magnified the issue endlessly. With Trump/Pence, the constant dissection and distortion, 24/7/365, has risen to unimaginable heights.
For the first five years after Obama/Biden took office, the mainstream press treated them with kid gloves and did not pursue anything controversial, at least not for long. Then, their transgressions became so egregious that mainstream media was finding it nearly impossible to continue to shield him. The list of their sordid policies, botched programs, gerrymandering of our democratic process, and outright fraud and deception was ample.
Had Bush/Cheney been at the helm of the IRS targeting of political groups, let alone Fast and Furious, Black Panther voter intimidation, the Benghazi cover-up, the Affordable Care Act’s website debacle, the Gulf Oil Spill, the National Security Agency's snooping, the General Motors recall, the Veterans’ Administration scandal, the Bergdahl swap, the border debacle, the ISIS menace, etc, the headlines would be non-stop.
The Most Dangerous Change
Cleta Mitchell is a prominent Washington, D.C. attorney representing many clients who had been victimized by IRS criminal conduct. She previously served as a Democrat in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1976 to 1984. In her testimony before Congress, she asserted that the Obama/Biden administration was responsible for ‘lies upon lies’ covering up the multifarious, politically inspired wrongdoing of the IRS.
Mitchell regarded the politicization of the IRS as the most dangerous change in her lifetime and perhaps in the history of the U.S. because Obama/Biden did liberals' bidding and the press was willing to endure a wide variety of their non-democratic, dangerous practices. Thus, we experienced government intrusion in unprecedented ways, picking sides in the long-term debate between conservatives and liberals and ensuring that liberals win, as happened in the 2012 election.
Mitchell notes, “The charge that Richard Nixon attempted to misuse the IRS” for political purposes was included in the second of the three articles of impeachment against him. Nixon sought to weaponize the IRS, but his efforts were futile. "By contrast with Nixon's failures to misuse the IRS, the IRS have very effectively screwed Obama/Biden’s political opponents...”
We have yet to learn the full story about what Barack and Joe knew and when they knew it. Late one Friday, before the Father’s day weekend, the IRS “announced” that it had lost 28 months worth of Lois Lerner’s emails... after 12 months of looking. In other words, the incriminating communications that the Senate investigating committee had requested “couldn’t” be found. This obstruction of justice, in a democracy, is intolerable.
In any other era, Lerner, an Obama/Biden devotee, would already be serving hard time. Instead, for eight years she’s been enjoying her well-paid retirement, funded by you.
Contorting History
The typical uninformed voter perks up a couple weeks before an election. Such voters find their way by what appears on the front page of news sites, morning newspapers, morning talk shows, etc. Imagine that the Watergate Commission, led by Sam Ervin, investigated a Democratic president. Wait... would the Commission even have been formed?
Obama/Biden’s politicization of the IRS, and our federal agencies in general, which should otherwise be completely non-partisan and non-biased, was an assault on our civilization. The utter contortion of our democracy that we experienced with their Attorney General, Eric Holder, was a sad legacy to leave. Holder stepped over legal and constitutional lines so often that the line faded. His rap sheet is long and involved.
None of the transgressions of Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, or George W. Bush come close to what Obama and Biden did and for which the mainstream media turned a blind eye. Donald Trump and Mike Pence have done nothing on the order of these Democrat contortions. Liberal icon Noam Chomsky summed it up well when he said the Obama administration's attacks on civil liberties "go well beyond anything I would have anticipated, and they don’t seem easy to explain."
The legacy of Clinton and Biden: Pay to Play and Quid Pro Quo.
What a shame that a black man in America reaches the highest office in the land, the most powerful man in the world...was the most corrupt, America loathing (along with his commie wife) president in our short history.
They have caused irreparable damage. How do we reign in these agencies that are all corrupt and interconnected? Who is on the outside of all of this and able to plan and enforce such an undertaking? Trump needs to bring down the house of cards, obama clinton biden kerry etc and some how get a handle on this
Dog Shit on everybody’s shoes. 💩💩
Yes. This started with the Clintons. It was actually allowed to continue and fester under GWB who said folks could do whatever just so long as they didn’t interfere with his precious global wars. The next couple of e-folding under bummer were already baked in the cake.
It’s a sad comment on our American system that justice has been set aside for so many in the Obama -Biden years. Somebody has either not tried hard enough or so many have been bought off or maybe there are many other reasons, but we know who most of the suspects are. Those folks need to be brought in & re-questioned in such a way that some answers WILL BE forthcoming & the guilty parties finally be brought to justice. The American people deserve nothing less if our Republic is to survive.
Isn’t it interesting how the ademoanaziCkmmies want to try taking away your firearms while they want to disarm the police sworn to help protect you. And they’ve armed up dozens of federal civilian agencies. Recalling Obama’s desire to create a domestic army larger than our regular military forces. Follow the dots. They lead directly to a defenseless population Just like how the soviets and hitler did it to their people
The way it has happened is through pay for play, quid pro quo, filling the federal district and surrounding areas with support service contractors - and this is a huge scandal that needs to be taken apart because there is no limit on their numbers and therefore no limit on the pay of the owners and senior officers off the companies providing the support services - and promoting useful idiots to the SES who need the support of the support service contractors to tell them how to do their jobs. And GWB did this as well.
You can fire most of these people tomorrow because the employment and use of support service contractors is actually illegal under the anti-deficiency act. Their employment and utilization is a felony and you can prosecute as well.
From your keypad to Trump’s eyes.
What is illegal is the hiring of people for what is technically called "personal services" which means hiring the person to have the person - not a good or product for the public.
When you hire someone who is incompetent to run a department in an agency and his subordinates are incompetent as well, you "fix" this by hiring support service contractors to do the work that the feds were hired to do, but don't understand the first thing about. Holding a senior level government position doesn't buy mansions in McClean VA and Potomac Md. But owning a support service contracting outfit to supply these folks to the government sure does.
And once they are there, there principal job is to invent tasks that have to be done that keep everyone so busy that you need even more support service contractors to do the work created by the other support service contractors.
Yep. When the weaponization of the IRS against conservatives was revealed, we saw the trend leading to murder of Christians. Had the Clinton Communist Family won already in 2016 we were prepared to move to another country. Thank God for His mercy!
Non-natural born citizen Obama could not have usurped the office without the full cooperation of the GOP.
*** “The legacy of Clinton and Biden: Pay to Play and Quid Pro Quo” ***
All the Clinton’s, all the Biden’s
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