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Phantom canards, Weak-kneed late-comers, Tedious charade

Conrad Black writes at American Greatness,

...The desperation of Trump’s enemies explodes at every opportunity. Nothing particularly objectionable occurred at Helsinki. Putin’s version of the Russian role in the 2016 U.S. election, though untrue, (like most of what Russian leaders have said since Peter the Great), is closer to the truth than the criminal and demented skullduggery of the Obama agency chiefs and the Clinton campaign claque.

Trump was artless and so cavalier at the joint press conference that he rattled the nerves even of his own followers. But most of his Washington followers are weak-kneed late-comers anyway. They are easily confused by the technique of the wizened Democratic leaders and their media stooges of magnifying the danger of the national basket case of Russia, and conflating the puny, ineffectual Russian 2016 election interference with the phantom canard of Trump-Russian collusion.

Until the inert Sessions-Rosenstein cork can be removed from the legal channel, Mueller will go on with the tedious charade of putting Paul Manafort on bread and water and extracting another twelve names every few months from the Moscow telephone directory and accusing them of improprieties in the United States, (a country they have no intention to visit at his invitation).

The puritanical conscience of America which lives still, beneath encrustations of corruption and cynicism, has risen like a cobra’s head and demands that the guilty be identified and punished. The Democrats can only offer secular and agnostic prayers that Trump, in his clumsiness, blows himself up. It won’t happen. (Even James Comey has fallen almost silent, apart from his tweeted advice to vote for the Democrats.)

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What did you do about it, Mom?

Oregon Muse writes in the Ace of Spades blog,

"Ever since the election, I see these women on the news marching up and down and wearing their pink pussy hats and hollering obscenities and I think, what are they going to tell their daughters? They'll have stories about the evil Trump and how awful everything was, and how he was Voldemort and Sauron and Satan all rolled into one, and their daughters will ask, well then, what did you do to fight this great evil, did you join the army or take up arms like they did in the American Revolution, or what? And the mothers will say, no, I jumped up and down and shouted that Trump was a Nazi while dressed as a giant twat."

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hat tip Theo Spark