I find our Congresswoman pretty exhausting, honestly. And she doesn't believe for a minute what she says about the Durham Report unless she is ignorant, which she is not. Which kind of means she thinks we are, if we believe her, which is a little insulting.
I'm liking Senator Gillibrand more and more. Elise just foams at the mouth and Schumer seems to be busy being important. But I get these great newsletters from Gillibrand about issues she is working on - and moving the needle on- stuff I actually care about: Health care for seniors, paid family leave for parents (We NYers have that, but the rest of the country deserves it too).
The whole Durham thing was kind of mystifying. The way Barr set him up for this on his way out the door in 12/2020- after Trump lost the election-should have been a clue, I guess. But Durham was supposed to be a straightshooter, like Mueller before him. You know, follow the law where ever it takes you kind of thing. Mueller delivered on that- refused to say the President engaged in any obstruction, and also refused to exhonerate him, laying out the many troubling issues and handing it off to Congress to investigate. Durham, on the other hand, went crazy in the opposite way, spending two years trying to make a case that did not exist and then writing hundreds of pages of nothing. His legal team quit on him. months ago. After, Durham finally exhausted every possible conspiracy riddled avenue and wrapped it up, the AG release the report with no comments of any kind. There is no there there. Unscrupulous politicians like Elise will try and make hay with it for a day or two, and cynically fuel distrust and discontent, and then we never hear about it again.
Reading your column caused me to see, in my mind's eye, our Elise standing on the ramparts of NY21, an AR15 in one hand and a quart of chocolate milk in the other ready to kill all those leftist extremists that want to keep the chocolate from the milk.
Ken...congratulation on a true partisan column. Go back to your columns lamenting the downfall of newspapers and journalism...and your current column explains it. The Dems are all good and GOP all bad storyline is old and unprofitable. Truth is that both January 6th and the FBI-Big Tech meddling in elections are bad. The sooner we can get honest, down-the-middle journalism back, the better this country will be.
God bless you for having the fortitude to stay on Twitter. As trollish as our rep is I’m sure she’s happy with the new management there.
The weaponized committee won’t call Wray to testify. The ones they have testifying they are falsely calling whistleblowers. They don’t fit the definition, but the GOP is Orwellian. These are people who were fired for giving full vent to the conspiracy theories they believed in.
Stephen Friend: “The security concerns stem from your refusal to execute a court-ordered, arrest warrant, unauthorized download of sensitive FBI information, failure to participate in a Security Awareness Briefing, unauthorized dissemination of sensitive FBI information, unauthorized recording of executive management, unsanctioned interviews with the media, and lack of candor during an interview with the Security Division.”
Marcus Allen (not the running back): Allen’s clearance was revoked due to security concerns regarding his personal conduct and his “allegiance to the United States,” according to Dunham’s letter to Jordan. Dunham wrote that Allen “failed to provide relevant information to an FBI Special Agent (SA) regarding subjects who were allegedly involved in criminal activity at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.”
Those are from the Washington Post. Among other things Friend was giving interviews to Sputnik. The Right loves Russia now. Allen was running interference for a J6 domestic terrorist. These are who the House Republicans enlist in their effort to tear down the FBI. Why? For Donald Trump.
Stefanik is either insane or she’s the queen of gaslighting for no purpose beyond politics. Traitor is not the right word. Wish I knew what was. It is at least treacherous.
You capture it beautifully, Ken--their (Maga Republicans and Stefanik) "investigation of everyone who has led a truthfully transparent investigation into their wrong doing, attacking Bragg, attacking people accusing Trump of rape, attacking investigation in NY and Georgia...Stefanik's words are really vicious...They talk about weaponizing the justice department,and i think of Barr's actions, of McConnell blocking Obama's rightful choice to appoint a supreme court person when Scalia died, of Jim Jordan screaming about everything (and denying his complicity in the Jan. 6 uprising)> I think of Trump getting his cheering squad to yell "Lock her up" (against HIllary). They should be locked up for crimes against democracy.
I find our Congresswoman pretty exhausting, honestly. And she doesn't believe for a minute what she says about the Durham Report unless she is ignorant, which she is not. Which kind of means she thinks we are, if we believe her, which is a little insulting.
I'm liking Senator Gillibrand more and more. Elise just foams at the mouth and Schumer seems to be busy being important. But I get these great newsletters from Gillibrand about issues she is working on - and moving the needle on- stuff I actually care about: Health care for seniors, paid family leave for parents (We NYers have that, but the rest of the country deserves it too).
The whole Durham thing was kind of mystifying. The way Barr set him up for this on his way out the door in 12/2020- after Trump lost the election-should have been a clue, I guess. But Durham was supposed to be a straightshooter, like Mueller before him. You know, follow the law where ever it takes you kind of thing. Mueller delivered on that- refused to say the President engaged in any obstruction, and also refused to exhonerate him, laying out the many troubling issues and handing it off to Congress to investigate. Durham, on the other hand, went crazy in the opposite way, spending two years trying to make a case that did not exist and then writing hundreds of pages of nothing. His legal team quit on him. months ago. After, Durham finally exhausted every possible conspiracy riddled avenue and wrapped it up, the AG release the report with no comments of any kind. There is no there there. Unscrupulous politicians like Elise will try and make hay with it for a day or two, and cynically fuel distrust and discontent, and then we never hear about it again.
We seem to be in both a post-factual as well as a
post-maturity cultural moment. Not a good combination. The citizenry drives this, though, and those elected reflect that sad reality.
Written like a true liberal, blind to the truth and the facts...lol....nothing new here
I find myself wishing that Republicans would just elects some adults to run the country instead of 7 th graders. It’s just exhausting!
Reading your column caused me to see, in my mind's eye, our Elise standing on the ramparts of NY21, an AR15 in one hand and a quart of chocolate milk in the other ready to kill all those leftist extremists that want to keep the chocolate from the milk.
Ken...congratulation on a true partisan column. Go back to your columns lamenting the downfall of newspapers and journalism...and your current column explains it. The Dems are all good and GOP all bad storyline is old and unprofitable. Truth is that both January 6th and the FBI-Big Tech meddling in elections are bad. The sooner we can get honest, down-the-middle journalism back, the better this country will be.
God bless you for having the fortitude to stay on Twitter. As trollish as our rep is I’m sure she’s happy with the new management there.
The weaponized committee won’t call Wray to testify. The ones they have testifying they are falsely calling whistleblowers. They don’t fit the definition, but the GOP is Orwellian. These are people who were fired for giving full vent to the conspiracy theories they believed in.
Stephen Friend: “The security concerns stem from your refusal to execute a court-ordered, arrest warrant, unauthorized download of sensitive FBI information, failure to participate in a Security Awareness Briefing, unauthorized dissemination of sensitive FBI information, unauthorized recording of executive management, unsanctioned interviews with the media, and lack of candor during an interview with the Security Division.”
Marcus Allen (not the running back): Allen’s clearance was revoked due to security concerns regarding his personal conduct and his “allegiance to the United States,” according to Dunham’s letter to Jordan. Dunham wrote that Allen “failed to provide relevant information to an FBI Special Agent (SA) regarding subjects who were allegedly involved in criminal activity at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.”
Those are from the Washington Post. Among other things Friend was giving interviews to Sputnik. The Right loves Russia now. Allen was running interference for a J6 domestic terrorist. These are who the House Republicans enlist in their effort to tear down the FBI. Why? For Donald Trump.
Stefanik is either insane or she’s the queen of gaslighting for no purpose beyond politics. Traitor is not the right word. Wish I knew what was. It is at least treacherous.
You capture it beautifully, Ken--their (Maga Republicans and Stefanik) "investigation of everyone who has led a truthfully transparent investigation into their wrong doing, attacking Bragg, attacking people accusing Trump of rape, attacking investigation in NY and Georgia...Stefanik's words are really vicious...They talk about weaponizing the justice department,and i think of Barr's actions, of McConnell blocking Obama's rightful choice to appoint a supreme court person when Scalia died, of Jim Jordan screaming about everything (and denying his complicity in the Jan. 6 uprising)> I think of Trump getting his cheering squad to yell "Lock her up" (against HIllary). They should be locked up for crimes against democracy.
Thank you from Argyle for the update on the SGF school board candidate with the very dodgy connections. Whew.
Great, great article!!! And so, SO true!