It turns out that wealthy people are fleeing California.  The natural beauty of the place is hard to overstate.  But the politicians have ruined paradise.  The cities are overrun with criminality, and “homeless.”  No way the squatters could afford to live on the real estate where they’ve pitched their tent.  I guess you can live anywhere you want.  Just pitch a tent, and settle down.  The video is unbelievable.  How have they allowed this to happen?  

People are getting out, and who can blame them?  There are still places in this country where vagrants and illegals are not welcome to establish their quarters.  Who wants to have to live amid squalor?  Californians are leaving for greener pastures.

Can you remember a week like the one we just had?  The wheels are coming off the pretender’s administration.  Jonathan Turley says it’s the biggest scandal of his lifetime.  This makes Watergate look like tiddlywinks.  The list of names ripe for impeachment is as long as your leg.  There are calls for a special council, which in our experience means that we’ll find out something in a couple of years.

You know the news.  It’s as if there are competing headlines.  The department of injustice is determined to match the Biden revelations with even more bad news for Trump.  Just when we’re all wondering if Biden dares appear in public again, more charges against you know who.  It was already death by a thousand cuts.  A few more charges will surely be the final nail in his coffin.  Or, will it end up being a demonstration of just how corrupt our national agencies have become? 

There are big, maybe insurmountable problems looming.  We think we’re being punished now?  The embarrassment of what we’re about to live through is off the chart.  It’s already making headlines around the world.  It’s going to get messy.  The White House spokeslady has proclaimed that the pretender will not pardon his son.  Uh oh.  I got the impression that was the ace in the hole.  You’ve seen those knowing, impassioned looks in the photos.  I assumed that’s what that was all about.  We can only imagine what is about to transpire.  It’s going to be hideous.  

Some of us remember the humiliation of Watergate.  It wasn’t just another newsworthy event.  What apparently has been taking place under everyone’s noses is beyond anything this country has ever undergone.  

But we’re supposed to carry on.  This is the hand we’ve been dealt.  America cannot sustain the path the government, the media and the big corporations have led us down.  We’re bombarded with the modern version of righteousness all the time.  Now you’re righteous if you’re working toward equity, diversity and inclusion.  It wouldn’t hurt if you’re all about saving the planet too.

Meanwhile, we’ve been sold down the river.  What, in fact, is the war in Ukraine all about?  It seems like we’re supplying the equipment, but otherwise not involved.  It is a ridiculous charade, and accurate news is sparse.  We’ll all hope not, but there have been hints that some of the previous nefarious activity in Ukraine may have something to do with ongoing policies.  Better not.  

Do you get the impression that the United States is being punished for something?  We’re going to be drug through some pretty disheartening events in the foreseeable future.  Apparently somebody wants to guarantee that there’s no going back.  We can keep whistling past the graveyard, but the penalties for our national sins may be severe. 

Mark

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Great news everybody!  It turns out the third booster shot is the ticket for immunity from the Omicron variant.  But that supposes… New York Mayor De Blasio issued an executive order on his way out the door.  For the first time in American history a Mayor has ordered everyone under his power to get inoculated, even five to eleven year old children, that is, if they want to go out to eat or to a theater.  But it turns out the “fully vaccinated” no longer are fully vaccinated, and the way things are going, never will be for more than several weeks at a time.  It looks like you’re going to need a fourth booster shot.  After that, we’ll see what the famous doctor says.

Do you think for one minute the drug companies are ever going to declare the “pandemic” over?  Is there some possibility that they’ll ever stop banging on about the great benefits of the substances they produce?  Have you seen how much money they’re making?  Maybe they claim it’s free, and maybe it is, besides giving up freedom itself.  How free is that?  But somebody’s footing the bill, and chances are good that it’s us.

They’re virtually impossible to tolerate, but have you ever noticed who the sponsors of the mainstream media are?  How many times a day are you told to, “Call your doctor,”  Ask you’re doctor if such and such is right for you.  Mind you, half the promotions tell you all the ways you might die if fate has your number, but other than that.  Maybe something is doing some good, but one thing is for sure.  If they can afford to be in your face all over the internet, TV and print, they’re making bank.

The so-called news reporters have been leading their readers and viewers down one dead end after another for longer than we care to remember.  They’re never wrong.  At least they never admit to having been wrong, even when they’ve failed to produce any sound logic for their continued dissembling.  It’s become clear that they are advocates, not reporters, determined that the American people see things their way regardless.  You people that love your country have yet to become as smart as they are, even when they’re dead wrong.  They were right all along, and the cases just weren’t ever proven, but they weren’t wrong!  It’s a lot like the Jessie Smollett situation.  If you think he’s not telling the truth…

The pursuit of President Trump and his supporters is on-going.  Nobody in media has admitted that they wasted at least four years of everybody’s lives accusing the former President, and by extension all who favored him. of bizarre, unbelievable crimes.  Meanwhile, they secretly stacked the deck behind the scenes.  They trotted out accusers like, well, why say their names?  No one has forgotten the outlandish claims, or those who made them all over national media, engendering unending coverage of the coverage of a story cut from whole cloth.

Now, however, we’re expected to hang on every word of people who’ve been trying to deceive their audiences for a living. Their good buddy, the former actor, is UNDER OATH making the most unbelievable claims that he didn’t do what he’s proven to have done.  His friends have told what happened.  They didn’t want to risk whatever trouble would have ensued had they continued to lie for the little self-righteous schemer.  But he defiantly acted his way through testimony, smug in his feigned innocence.  Legal expert Jonathan Turley says he wasn’t trying to convince anyone, he was hoping to provide an excuse for even just one juror to “hang” the jury.  But that didn’t happen.  They say they’ll appeal.  The ridicule will be hilarious.  It already is.

How many household names went on record to say, “See there?” as if it were proof of the false narrative they’ve been promoting for years.  What a coincidence that he’s “close friends” with Don Lemon, Cory Booker and the troubled vice president. It’s also convenient that hate-crime legislation was under consideration which included something about “lynching.”  Then the little twerp turns up with a phony noose around his neck.  Pathetic.

The media beat Jan. 6 to death ages ago, and they’re still at it.  In fact they’ve been obsessing over the “investigation” as a diversion from the embarrassing reality of the “hate-crime” trial.  January 6 was a DEADLY insurrection after all.  Some real police-state activity is underway as a result of these claims.  People are still rotting in jail because of this bogus perception that is sold unquestioningly by the mainstream.  Their time is short, and they seem to know it.

Everything is going just great for the pretend administration.  The Big Guy scared Putin half to death, threatening to revoke approval of the Nordstream oil pipeline to Germany if anything goes wrong in Ukraine.  Huh?

Maybe we were dreaming, but wasn’t it Putin’s threat, to cut off Europe’s oil supply?  Turns out that it’s Biden’s threat against Putin!  Aside from having their threat stolen, they’re worrying that a strongly worded letter may be in the offing.  By now everybody knows that Russia has one hundred thousand troops on the border with Ukraine.  But the media says the Pretender in Chief was adamant during a “tense” zoom call.  No doubt the Russian was rattled to his core.  Surely he’ll think twice before doing anything.

Inflation is already in Jimmy Carter territory.  The supply chain is backed up.  We’re being informed of the many booster shots we’ll be needing, until we need another one.  The airlines have never seen less friendly skies, especially now that stewardie are in charge of enforcing the mask mandate, just extended.  Those poor federal workers are just doing their jobs after all.  There have been more incidents of “unruly passengers” than in all of airline history, combined.  Losing freedom tends to make people a little testy.  Autocratic regimes from Russia to China to North Korea are poised to take advantage.  Our military is being schooled in the finer points of transvestite feelings.  Can you remember any military conflict resolved on the basis of whose feelings got hurt?

We hope your sense of humor is intact.  If we can’t laugh at those promoting fear and threatening people who aren’t frightened; if we can’t laugh at what fools the media has made of themselves; if we take any of their nonsense seriously it’s going to be goodbye to freedom.  So long, Western nations and all your dignity to boot.  They’re trying to get Boris Johnson to resign as Prime Minister because he broke COVID rules.  Really?  The world has gone mad.  We intend to retain whatever sanity we can.  Bringing God into the equation might be a good start.

Mark

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“House Democrats have wasted enough of America’s time with this charade,” White House counsel Pat Cipollone said in a scathing one-page letter to Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., obtained by Fox News. “You should end this inquiry now and not waste even more time with additional hearings.”

PELOSI CALLS FOR ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST TRUMP: ‘NO CHOICE BUT TO ACT’

Friday was the deadline for Trump to respond to Nadler’s request for participation in committee proceedings.

But instead of giving House Democrats a direct “no” answer, Cipollone penned a two-paragraph letter derailing the entire process.

“As you know, your impeachment inquiry is completely baseless and has violated basic principles of due process and fundamental fairness,” he wrote. “Nevertheless, the Speaker of the House yesterday ordered House Democrats to proceed with articles of impeachment before your Committee has heard a single shred of evidence.”

A senior administration official, though, made it clear they won’t be participating, telling Fox News: “We don’t see any reason to participate because the process is unfair. Speaker (Nancy) Pelosi has already announced the predetermined result. They will not give us the ability to call any witnesses.”

Nadler is set to continue hearings in the committee on Monday.

The decision by the administration likely accelerates the pace of impeachment.

In 1998, the Clinton Administration took 30 hours to present its side of things to the Judiciary Committee. That means there may not be another hearing after Monday’s session.

Trump telegraphed Thursday he wanted to sidestep the House impeachment process and move quickly to the Senate where he believes he’ll be acquitted by the GOP-led upper chamber.

“Therefore I say, if you are going to impeach me, do it now, fast, so we can have a fair trial in the Senate and so that our Country can get back to business,” Trump tweeted. “We will have Schiff, the Bidens, Pelosi and many more testify, and will reveal, for the first time, how corrupt our system really is.”

Cipollone repeated Trump’s comments in the letter and said the House Democrats would be making a historically unjust mistake by plowing forward.

“Adopting articles of impeachment would be a reckless abuse of power by House Democrats, and would constitute the most injust, highly partisan and unconstitutional attempt at impeachment in our Nation’s history,” he said.

Trump and his allies in Congress have dismissed the impeachment as a “sham” partisan exercise aimed at undoing the results of the 2016 presidential election. Trump says his July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was “perfect” when he asked the newly elected foreign leader to investigate the Bidens and the Democratic National Committee server.

Pelosi, however, said the facts of Trump’s wrongdoing involving Ukraine are “uncontested” and announced Thursday Democrats are plowing forward with drafting articles of impeachment against Trump.

“The president abused his power for his own personal political benefit at the expense of our national security,” Pelosi said.

WHITE HOUSE, IN FIERY LETTER, DECLARES TRUMP WON’T PARTICIPATE IN HOUSE JUDICIARY IMPEACHMENT HEARING

Trump declined to have his lawyers participate in the House Judiciary Committee’s first impeachment hearing Wednesday when four legal scholars debated whether Trump’s conduct was impeachable.

Cipollone blasted the “baseless and highly partisan inquiry” in a letter Sunday declining to attend. The White House also accused the Judiciary Committee of “purposely” scheduling its first impeachment hearing when Trump would be meeting with NATO leaders in London and couldn’t attend.

At Wednesday’s hearing, the three lawyers the Democrats invited made the case that Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine for personal political purposes and his stonewalling of Congress are impeachable. The lone GOP witness, George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley, said Trump’s call was “anything but perfect” but said Democrats haven’t made the case.

“One can oppose President Trump’s policies or actions but still conclude that the current legal case for impeachment is not just woefully inadequate, but in some respects, dangerous, as the basis for the impeachment of an American president,” Turley said.

Nadler, D-NY,  had set a deadline of 5 p.m Friday in a letter he penned to the president a week ago.

“I am writing to determine if your counsel will seek to exercise the specific privileges set forth in the Judiciary Committee’s Impeachment Procedures … and participate in the upcoming impeachment proceedings,” Nadler wrote in the Nov. 29 letter.

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Nadler scheduled the next impeachment hearing for 9 a.m. on Monday, where lawyers for Democrats and Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee will present their evidence.

Fox News’ Chad Pergram contributed to this report.

Source: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-responds-to-impeachment-deadline-i

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