Month: August 2018

SUDDENLY, Hinderaker Thinks A Dark “Fourth Estate” Is The “REAL” US Government. Uh-huh.

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Whopperline-Final-Bobby-Three-Sticks-2017…But he never voiced this [plainly loony] Q-infused opinion when Mr. Obama was the sitting President. No one at PowerLine was claiming there was rampant felonious lawbreaking afoot at 1600 Penn, back then (due to some dark Fourth Estate).

Yet John went on and on for eight plus long years — arguing Mr. Obama was essentially the Anti-Christ, arriving in flesh… but never once blamed a shadowy dark Fourth Estate. No mention.

But now… NOW, that 45 is very likely to face a criminal process, in a few months — due exclusively to the operation of our constitutional system of checks and balances… he’s suddenly atwitter — with a Q inspired conspiracy theory: an evil dark cabal that has “always” run DC.

I will leave John’s… fabulism… at that.

[But I am sure it sells lots of VIP subscriptions to crazy PowerLine.] Hilarious.

John Is… Preciously Hilarious, Tonight.

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WhopperLie-Hinderaker-06-16-2017 He writes — on a day when (albeit separately, but nearly simultaneously) Mr. Cohen has directly implicated the (for the moment) still-sitting President  — in directing and coordinating his own predicate felonies, in open court, as follows:

“…I was on the radio… when breaking news came across the wire: the Paul Manafort jury had gone to the judge with a question, saying they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on any count…. I was exultant, thinking that a hung jury would deal a serious blow…. Alas, it was not to be….

The only politically significant counts, as I understand it, relate to Cohen’s role in paying off Stephanie Clifford (“Stormy Daniels”) to keep quiet about her sexual encounter with Trump….”

whopperlie-hinderaker-2017 Putting aside John’s preposterously bad reading of the jury’s tea leaves, for a moment (and his treating Presidential felonies as simple popularity questions): that is simply… insane, John — even for you. It is a question of law — not of politics. It is a crime, by the sitting President — not some popularity question.

Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer of 20 years just agreed to plead guilty to felonies that add up to about five years in federal prison, and for some of those, he told the able judge in open court, he did them at the direction and behest of the President. His campaign chief is going to jail for the rest of his life — guilty of ten felonies.

And there is still much more to come.

Including a likely multi-count felony indictment of Don Jr.

In coo-coo Johnny land, though, this is barely even politically significant.

On the tarmac, headed (of course!) to a “Dear Leader” campaign rally tonight, the Cheeto just (post conviction) called Manafort a “good man“.

Let’s see how that nonsense plays out, in the court of popular opinion — ten time felons are generally not regarded as “good men”.

Enter Now, The “Land Of The Lost…”

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Whopperline-Hinderaker-Manafort-Insanity-2018 I’m not sure whether John is showing his first, but clear, signs of early onset dementia — or whether he’s really this… cluelessly feckless. [It seems unfathomable that he actually believes his tripe.]

Yesterday, he  opined that it would more likely be left leaning terrorists (though his nonsense piece was couched more as ultimate facts, than opinions) that were the impetus for the able US DC (ED, VA) Judge Ellis to order US Marshall protection for himself and his family. Not MAGA nutters. There is no logical thread in that thought — none.

Uh-huh. Okay John — Manafort was Trump’s campaign chief. He is facing prison for the rest of his life, that fate now squarely in the jury’s hands. On a completed shit-ton of evidence, too. Overwhelming.

Unless, of course, Mr. Manafort (even post conviction  — and a conviction it will be), decides to flip on 45 and Jr.

Then Manafort might only do five to ten years.

And yet… John seems to think that an acquittal is so likely… that it is anti-fa people who might be threatening the able Judge Ellis (i.e., not threatening the jury — because the same very capable Judge hasn’t sequestered the jury, nor ordered protective services, for the 12).

So… Judge Ellis is going to toss a jury verdict? Based on being cranky, and grousing a little, from the bench — as he’s been wont to do, for his whole career?

C’mon, John. You know better than that, as a former courtroom lawyer.

Judge Ellis was giving the prosecution a hard time because he knows this is a lead pipe cinch conviction, and he wanted it done efficiently.

The only ones threatening the Judge, or the process, are Trump himself (and perhaps henchmen beholden to him) with Trump’s Manafort’s a “good man” comment — during jury deliberations — on national TV, about the trial’s subject, an indicted unregistered hostile foreign agent.

Trump is hinting at a pardon, and likely trying to intimidate the jurors.

But John inverts all that — the entire rational world, in fact — to say (on zero evidence) that the able Judge is afraid of leftists.

Insanity. Simple insanity.

John’s Jingoism: Wrong On History; Wrong On Morality.

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whopperline-geo-washington-quote-intel-2017 I’ll not spend much time dissecting or repeating the Hinderaker generated and demonstrably false claim that vast terror is being sown at our southern border. And that one theoretical bad man logically allows for the oppression of tens of thousands of asylum seekers, in contravention of our laws and constitutional precepts.

I will say that his mindless fear-mongering is going to put him solidly among the Nathan Forrest Bedfords, David Dukes and George Wallaces (deep in the ash-bin) of  the annals of US history, just a very few years from now.

So, sure John. . . go ahead and live in infamy — live in eternity — every pimple and flaw, in prose exposed — in writings. . . as a jingoistic racist, John.

[One bad apple doesn’t spoil the whole bunch, son.]

To The Silly, Then… Trump Wants National IDs; John Obliges.

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Whopper-John-Cigs-Booze-2018 In a sublimely ridiculous defense of dear leader, Mr. Hinderaker today takes the AP to task for noting Trump’s basic unfamiliarity with how one actually buys groceries. [That’s an act he hasn’t undertaken, for himself, in likely more than a half century. About that much, John is almost certainly right. Has John?]

But the point of this morning-after Tampa-looney rally, is that 45 believes a national ID card is a good idea, because we all “need one anyway“.

[No, he needs that database — so he can work to exclude voters based on race.]

WhopperLie-Hinderaker-06-16-2017 He won’t get his national ID law — and he won’t be around in 2020 (long since impeached), so this is all silly — but his rallies feed a sort of sad group think:

Q.: do all “his people…” only buy their groceries in liquor and gun shops, with the smokes — is that why we see they “don’t care” about a national ID requirement? I wonder.

I think its more a white nationalism “us, v. them” mentality, myself.

Nice, John. Really nice.