Why is Ben Sasse Protesting Too Much?

We haven’t talked about this but the red warning lights are pinging.
Take a look at Ben Sasse during the Barr testimony.
None of this makes sense to me.

 
Ben Sasse references page 129-144 of the Mueller Report and how it speaks to Deripaska. Remember, if the Mueller team can escape their inquiry by finding Trump innocent, but leave the impression of overwhelming Russian GUILT, then the inquiry is deemed valuable and the Dems are left with the conclusion “Hillary only lost because of Russia = Trump is illegitimate”
It appears imperative to the intel community to paint Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election as a big deal, something for which we need to form committees, spend vast sums of taxpayer dollars, and guard against for 2020. Also, if Russian involvement is legitimate, then previous actions by FBI/DOJ/CIA – spying on the Trump campaign – would be deemed legitimate = we did it to protect you.
At the Barr hearing on Mueller’s Report, Sasse comes out of the box with questions disparaging Oleg Deripaska. Barr says he would rather not give his opinion in an open setting. Not to be deterred, Sasse goes on to quote a publicly available document from US Treasury. Sasse lists a litany of Deripaska’s “crimes and allegations” and presumes “he’s a bad guy”. Yet, Sasse goes on to call Deripaska a “bottom-feeding scum-sucker”. Ouch! “And he has absolutely no alignment with the interests of the US people”, Sasse finishes.
Well, we know that’s not…. quite….. true. Deripaska’s interests definitely aligned with John McCain, Mueller, and the CIA on several occasions.

  1. We know Mueller offered Deripaska 25 million dollars to help get Levinson out of Iran. Levinson was McCabe’s mentor and old boss to both McCabe and Ohr in SDNY, remember?
  2. Oleg also wanted a VISA to the USA and Hillary denied it, which is, perhaps, why Levinson is still in Iran.
  3. We also know, according to John Solomon of The Hill, McCabe approached Deripaska in NYC, for information about Trump colluding with Russia, and Oleg laughed.
  4. We know about Senator Warner and his conversations with Adam Waldman, the lawyer for both Chris Steele and Oleg Deripaska. Adam Waldman stopped representing Deripaska the day before Deripaska was sanctioned by our Treasury.
  5. And then…….. there’s that little matter of John McCain’s 70th birthday, on board Oleg Deripaska’s super-yacht….. which was docked in Montenegro.
  6. And McCain’s push for Montenegro to be added to the NATO list of countries, so we are defending Montenegro, which is largely considered a Russian playground on the Mediterranean. Background see here: Link 
  7. Oh, let’s not forget the old Soviet Naval base in Montenegro, bought for a pittance by Rothschild and Deripaska, who turned it into a super yacht marina…… where John McCain had his 70th birthday party.
  8. And the subsequent fundraisers for John McCain, hosted by Rothschild, in London, prior to the election of 2008.
  9. And who could forget Nastya, the Belarus model, mistress to Deripaska, who gave classes on “how to seduce a billionaire”, but was arrested in Thailand. She claimed to have been arrested because she had information about Donald Trump. Link

What a tangled web. Deripaska has been involved in US Politics for quite a while but let’s get back to Ben Sasse. Ben continues giving his speech during the Barr hearing and claims “Manafort was on Deripaska’s payroll”, and Sasse tries to imply a nefarious reason (Deripaska loyalty) as to why Manafort would volunteer to work for Candidate Trump. Well, that’s not an entirely accurate picture either. Deripaska and Manafort tried to put the deal together for Black Sea Cable, but the deal never went through. Although much has been made of this failed deal, Deripaska did not lose the entire 18 million (only about 2 million). This incident has been painted as the source of contention between Manafort and Deripaska, but it does not pass the smell test.
Then, at about 3:30 in the video, Sasse sums up his ‘speech’ and pivots. Sasse’s mission of establishing Deripaska as a bad man was completed. Sasse pivots to FINALLY ask a question to Barr, in essence, “what can we do to avoid this problem in the future.”
The setup is glaringly odd.
If Sasse is worried about foreign intel agencies in our elections, he did not need a long-winded prerequisite about Deripaska and Manafort. See what I mean? Why the over the top language about Deripaska, “bottom-feeding scum-sucker” when we know our intel agencies AND the hero of Ben Sasse (John McCain) seemed to like Deripaska.  Did I mention…. none of us have ever seen any proof of GRU involvement in influencing our elections….. we just have the word of CrowdStrike….. and the Mueller team.
We’re left with Senators and media, nodding in agreement about Russian interference, but what do we actually have as proof? From Mueller/CrowdStrike we have three main areas.
1. We have the Mueller indictment of military members of the GRU, which Russia denies and we know will never be brought to trial – even though Putin offered Mueller to trade info at the Helsinki Summit.
2. We have a few companies and individuals who worked for an alleged Russian troll farm indicted. The case is being defended by American lawyers, in a DC court, and the Mueller case is in trouble. It’s not going well for Mueller. Don’t be surprised to see this case fade away.
3. We have the charge of Russians buying approximately $164,000 worth of Facebook Ads. I looked at this one myself. From Congressional testimony of Facebook execs, we know the ads disparaged BOTH Hillary and Trump. We know the ads were placed for several months before and AFTER the election “to sow discord in the USA”. Well, I took a look at Facebook ad revenue at the end of Q1 of 2017. Facebook reported more than 9 billion dollars in ad revenue for a single quarter. Thus, if we do the math $164K/9 billion = .0000182222. Huh? That’s not even 2 thousandths of 1% of Facebook ads. AND the actual occurrence would be even less, since we know the ads were purchased over several quarters.
This is why we spent 3yrs of our time investigating interference by Russians? Think of the billions of dollars in media time spent on this subject. Think of the relatives not invited to Thanksgiving dinner because of the controversy. Think of the damage to our foreign policy. Wow, we could have teamed up with Russia in the Middle East against Islamic extremism or with Russia as an ally against China.
Yet, for some reason, our intel community, the press, and power brokers don’t want the USA and Russia to be friends. Wonder why that is………?
We have been way ahead of the curve on the Ukraine intrigue. I see Ben Sasse on the horizon. His reaction makes no sense to me, whatsoever, and we need to know why.

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Hello again, Wolf pack, and welcome to another end of the work week! I don’t know about you, but that cabin PA above is an immediate classic. Oh how we wish we could improvise those boring PA’s and veer off-script! Hey, we can all dream, can’t we?


If only! Ah well. Onward and upward, as we say. This week’s Friday wrap up begins with this MAGAtastic news….

And then Monday the BEA came out with consumer spending results for the first quarter that defy expectations.  Consumer spending on goods increases 1.7%. Overall spending +.09 in March, reaches highest gain in ten years. Meanwhile core inflation drops to 1.6%. 

Guess what? The pundits are shocked. SHOCKED, I say!

Now, leftists are scared….truly scared….because nothing spells S-E-C-O-N-D T-E-R-M like a roaring economy. Hey, even CNN agrees…check this out…

Now, if you talk with them (and I do) the precious snowflakes love to describe this economy…and it’s attendant stock market….as a “sugar high” that is quickly going to sour. To which I say…Ha! Kinda like all their other failed predictions, right? Remember how the stock market was supposed to crash right after the election because OrangeManBad? And let’s not forget that, according to them, the polar caps should have melted by now and we’re all supposed to be under water!

Speaking of…did you hear? Click on this link…

18 Spectacularly Wrong Predictions Made Around the Time of First Earth Day in 1970, Expect More This Year

In other news, on the very same day that an unhinged leftist wacko shot up a synagogue in Poway, California, the good folks that run that flagship of liberal propaganda…the NY Slimes…decided that this week would be a great time to inform the world that not only do they hate PDJT, but also Jewish people, too. And nothing says a thousand words like a picture, which the nitwits at the Slimes decided to publish. Check it out…

Faced with massive condemnation and backlash, the NYSlimes was forced to retract the picture and then subsequently issue an apology for having published it. After all….

https://twitter.com/kishkushkay/status/1122290507714113538

But they weren’t done…oh no…not by a long-shot. Following quickly on the heels of that faux pas the anti-Semitic Jew haters at the Old Grey Lady published this…

https://twitter.com/Israel_News_INA/status/1122892557413945344

You can read all about it in this Breitbart summary piece linked here…

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/04/29/new-york-times-prints-another-anti-israel-cartoon-amid-antisemitism-scandal-rocking-newspaper/

And lest we forget history…

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All of which simply proves this truth…

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Naturally, the best way to counter such vile hate is with ridicule and mockery, and very few do it better than the masterful Mel Brooks…

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Moving along…

The excellent watchdogs at Judicial Watch released over 300 pages of emails from Nellie Ohr, proving she was far more involved with the creation of the “Muh Russia” coup attempt than anyone thought. These emails also prove she purjured herself giving Congressional testimony, so guess what??

Read more here…

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/441580-nellie-ohrs-hi-honey-emails-to-doj-about-russia-collusion-should-alarm-us#.XMo3POquQ5U.twitter

You already know the story…

Wednesday was also a YUGELY interesting day as AG Barr testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee chaired by Sen. Lindsey Graham. This was his first appearance before Congress since the release of the Mueller Report and the AG’s summary of it. For an excellent play-by-play recap, here is the link back to the QTree Barr Testimony thread…by our very own daughnworks247…

https://wqth.wordpress.com/2019/05/01/barr-senate-testimony-thread-may-1-2019/

During the AG’s 5 hour testimony, the democrats established their new narrative post-Mueller report…to wit, that AG Barr is corrupt, is acting as POTUS’ personal lawyer, and is a liar…..the messaging of which was inarguably closely coordinated with their media allies. This is a gross hypocrisy that Brit Hume quickly pointed out…

Of course, the Commie bastards now know the AG is coming after the democrat-led cabal inside the DOJ/FBI/C_A, and they are rightfully terrified. So they seek to discredit the AG in advance of the political and legal harm heading their way.

How terrified are they?

A: They NOW want to block Bob Mueller from testifying before Congress. SERIOUSLY! Watch this action on Wednesday in the House Judiciary Committee, now chaired by the odious Jerry Nadler, as the AG was testifying just a few doors down…changing the rules of the committee in order to prevent Mueller from being called to testify….check this out…

Folks, if this surprises you…at this point…you’re doing it wrong.

Anyway, after the democrats’ performance in both the Senate and House Judiciary Committees on Wed., exposing their plot to discredit the AG while preventing Mueller from appearing and getting questioned by Republicans, AG Barr decided that he wasn’t going to play along with the clowns and refused to appear at Thursday’s HJC meeting…

The clowns reacted to this news poorly….listen…

https://twitter.com/occulturalism/status/1124063805103800320


At this point, you should be able to smell the left’s fear like a burrito fart in a closed elevator. Believe me when I say the left is well aware of all that we already know re: the Obama administration’s corruption and Spygate. They know their party is now very close to being electorally obliterated for a generation or more. This is why they be all like…

So we gotta ask….how is this all playing out with the public? Hmmmm??

Friends, I can’t speak for you, but I just L-O-V-E heaping even more bad news for liberals on top of them, ESPECIALLY when it comes from their own crooked and corrupt media. So you just know I truly enjoy throwing this giant can of high octane avgas on an already raging democrat dumpster fire…(credit to Fleporblog)…

From the article linked above (emphasis Fle’s….):

More than two-thirds of Americans want an investigation into the Justice Department’s handling of the Russia Collusion Hoax.T

According to a April 25-28 poll of 1,007 random adults taken for CNN (a far-left fake news outlet), a full 69 percent “think Congress ought to investigate the origins of the Justice Department’s inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election, including 76% of Democrats, 69% of independents and 62% of Republicans.”

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Two liberals and a conservative react….

Of course, there was much more than happened during the week, and discerning readers will be sure to visit Fleporblog’s daily news roundup threads. The news is coming fast & furious these days and it’s getting harder and harder to keep up. In fact…

Whew! What a week. The winnamins, eh??

Lastly, but not leastly, we’ll leave you with a tayyyyystie nugget of timeless music to take you gently, but gloriously, into the weekend.

In a nod to liberal’s deepening despair and our own delicious, ever-increasing schadenfreude and joy post-Obummer, I present to you one of Led Zeppelin’s very best songs along with some interesting song notes….which we dedicate today to President Trump and his administration.

First, it is one of the very few in which all four members of the band received writing credit. Second, Robert Plant himself ranks his vocal performance on the original track as his personal all-time best. Third, the song was inspired by George Harrison of The Beetles, who was a big fan and friend of the band. And fourth, from Wikipedia…

George Harrison was reportedly the inspiration for it when he made a comment to Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, about the fact that the group never wrote any ballads.[4] In Light and Shade: Conversations with Jimmy Page, biographer Brad Tolinski quotes Page:

George [Harrison] was talking to Bonzo one evening and said, ‘The problem with you guys is that you never do ballads.’ I said, ‘I’ll give him a ballad,’ and so I wrote ‘Rain Song,’ which appears on House of the Holy. In fact, you’ll notice I even quote (Beatles’ song) ‘Something’ in the song’s first two chords.

Record producer Rick Rubin said of the song, “I don’t even know what kind of music this is. It defies classification. There’s such tasteful, beautiful detail in the guitar, and a triumphant feel when the drums come in — it’s sad and moody and strong, all at the same time. I could listen to this song all day. That would be a good day.”

Ok then.

So with that all said, friends, we invite you to kick back, relax, enjoy today’s flight, and if there is anything we can do for you just let us know.

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