It’s Monday, November 11th, Veterans Day 2019…but before we begin, inquiring minds wonder what WON’T Progressives’ unabashed shills in the MSM blame on Republicans?!?

For those of you not quite up to speed on Baltimore politics, the young lady April “I WILL Lie for Food” Ryan and Brian “Cantstandsya” Stelter are blaming for Elijah Cummings timely demise, one Kimberly Klacick, recently announced her candidacy for the late career-politician/bunko artist’s House seat.

Witness the price one pays, regardless of race, for telling the truth.

Now, here’s The Gouge!

First up, courtesy of Speed Mach and The Hill, Sharyl Attkisson details…

The curious timeline for taking down Trump

“It’s three full years since President Trump was elected.

Among those who predicted he could never win the election — or that he might have been conspiring with Hillary Clinton all along, worked for Russia’s President Putin, would crash the U.S. stock market his first week in office, would ban all Muslims, would send illegal immigrants home en masse on buses and trains, and would start a nuclear war — there have been real concerns.

But to others, there are different concerns that have borne out. We continue to get evidence of an orchestrated effort among government insiders and the well-connected to take down President Trump at all costs. The public evidence indicates that the effort was hatched even before he took office.

Trump critics would argue that there was good reason to devise plots against him before he was inaugurated. His supporters would argue that the opposition has crossed the line into unlawful actions involving wiretapping and attempts to frame Trump and his associates.

In any event, we can build an oversimplified timeline to make the point…

…It could be a coincidence that so many key names in this timeline — from John Brennan and James Comey, to Ukraine and CNN — factor into the Trump impeachment push. And, further, it could be a coincidence that we have ended up where some Trump critics said they hoped to be, even before he was sworn in.

On the other hand, in retrospect, the biggest surprise might be that, all things considered, it took them so long to get to this point.“

So many baseless charges…so little time; time which is growing Schifflessly-shorter with every passing day.

Next up, writing at NRO, Kevin Williamson offers a primer for what has become, for Progressives…

A Syllabus of Errors

The emerging Democratic agenda for 2020

“The age of Trump is supposedly an age of Republican radicalism, a phenomenon about which we hear daily — indeed, hourly, if we endure cable-news commentary and talk radio.

But that Republican radicalism is almost nowhere to be found in the Republican policy agenda… 

…The radicalism of Donald Trump’s Republican party is rhetorical — the party’s language is unsparing and confrontational, its stance unyielding, its understanding of itself in relation to the major American institutions increasingly countercultural. But even though it is wed to an utterly conventional GOP political playbook, that rhetorical radicalism has provided the Demo­crats with what they take to be a plenary indulgence of reciprocal radicalism — not only in rhetoric but in substance.

This current of Democratic radicalism predates Trump and Trumpism — it was evident in the antiwar movement of the Bush years and theOccupy Wall Street movement that emerged toward the end of that administration…Trump’s victory helped to supercharge that emboldened radicalism, partly because of who he is and how he comports himself but chiefly because he was supposed to lose and didn’t.

Hence the emerging 2020 Democratic agenda as articulated by those seeking the party’s presidential nomination, an agenda that owes a good deal more to Hugo Chávez than to Jack Kennedy…

…The Democrats are setting themselves up for disappointment in 2020. They believe that the answer to a glowering and polarizing figure such as Donald Trump is an equally divisive figure — and agenda — of their own. Howard Schultz already knows that he cannot run in his own party, even though Senator Sanders — who is not a member of the Democratic party — can. Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, the most experienced and reasonable of the likely Democratic contenders — and the one with by far the best actual record in office — already is being denounced as just another rich old white man who is a part of the problem more than of the solution. The proverb holds that revenge is a dish best served cold, but the Democrats are going into the primary season hot, hot, hot.“

You know,…Rosie O’Donnell…

…HOT!!!

Since we’re on the subject of Progressives’ playbook for 2020, courtesy of G. Trevor, the WaPo (quite unintentionally!) offers a sneak preview of The Left’s anti-Constitutional attractions to come:

He Fought in WWII…Died in 2014…And Just Registered to Vote in VA.

“The FBI and local police are investigating how at least 19 dead Virginians were recently re-registered to vote in this critical swing state.

…All 19 were initially registered as voters in the Shenandoah Valley city of Harrisonburg, although a clerk double-checking the entries later raised questions about one. She recognized the name of Richard Allen Claybrook Sr., who died in 2014 at age 87, because his son is a well-known local judge. She happened to recall that the judge’s father had died.

All of the forms had been submitted by a private group that was working to register voters on the campus of James Madison University, according to the Harrisonburg registrar’s office. The group was not identified. (Actually, as shown below, NOT true!) No charges have been filed. (Actually, incredibly as it might seem, all TOO true!)

…House Minority Leader David J. Toscano (D-Charlottesville) said the case was not proof of voter fraud because no one had actually managed to cast a vote in the names of the dead. “First of all, there was no voter fraud — they caught him,” Toscano said. “Nobody cast a vote….There’s still no evidence of that going on in the state. But there is evidence every time you turn around that the Republicans are trying to make it more difficult for citizens to vote in elections.”…”

No, just make it more difficult for non-citizens…as well as the deceased…to vote in elections!

Since we’re on the subject of the abjectly ignorant thoughts of…

…as Debra Heine records at American Greatness, it’s clear we should trust LT COL Vindman’s personal opinions about as far as we can throw him.  Which, given his recorded girth…

…is about as far as Hillary’s recollections of her private email server.

So, at the risk of short-circuiting his premature Progressive beatification in the Daniel Ellsberg Hall of Infamy, you’re invited to join as a…

Retired Army Officer Remembers Lt. Col. Vindman as Partisan Democrat Who Ridiculed America

“In an eye-opening thread on Twitter last week, retired U.S. Army Lt. Colonel Jim Hickman said that he “verbally reprimanded” Vindman after he heard some of his derisive remarks for himself. “Do not let the uniform fool you,” Hickman wrote. “He is a political activist in uniform.”

Hickman’s former boss at the Joint Multinational Simulation Center in Grafenwoehr has since gone on the record to corroborate his story.

The retired officer said that Vindman, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Ukraine, made fun of the United States to the point that it made other soldiers “uncomfortable.” For example, Hickman told American Greatness that he heard Vindman call Americans “rednecks”—a word that needed to be translated for the Russians. He said they all had a big laugh at America’s expense.

…Hickman said he decided to come forward because Vindman “disobeyed a direct order from the commander-in-chief, his boss,” made his testimony “about his foreign policy opinions versus facts,” and “wore his Army service uniform to make a political statement” against the president…”

We hate to tell Jim Geraghty, along with any and every other writer, pundit or cartoonist, regardless of personal political preference, who placed Vindman above reproach simply because he served, we told you so…

…but…we told ya so!

As we previously observed, Benedict Arnold was a heroic patriot in the service of his country…right up until the moment he wasn’t!

Which brings us to The Lighter Side:

Then, courtesy of Mark Tapscott, there’s these bits of dark humor on the Epstein Arkancide…

…along with these more political memes:

Last but not least, like the more meaningful version of the “Coexist” decal which now adorns both our vehicles…

…courtesy of Jeff Foutch, here’s a version of the LGBT acronym from Shannon Wood we can unabashedly support:

Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with yet another titillating tale torn from the pages of The Crime Blotter, and what we can only classify as innovative thinking on the part of a…

Iowa convicted killer who claims he served life sentence after he died, and then revived

An Iowa judge on Wednesday rejected an appeal from a convicted murderer who argued that because he suffered a medical emergency in 2015—and died momentarily—he therefore already completed his life-sentence and since then has been unjustly held behind bars over the past four years.

Benjamin Schreiber, 66, was rushed from the Iowa State Penitentiary to the hospital in 2015 after large kidney stones caused him to develop septic poisoning, according to court records. Schreiber – who had been convicted of first-degree murder in 1997 and sentenced to life without parole – was unconscious by the time he arrived to the hospital, the Des Moines Register reported.

He had signed a “do not resuscitate” order years earlier. Hospital staff also called his brother in Texas who told them “if he is in pain, you may give him something to ease the pain, but otherwise you are to let him pass,” court documents said. Doctors instead administered resuscitation fluids through an IV and performed life-saving surgery to repair the damage caused by the kidney stones.

Schreiber filed for post-conviction relief April 2018, claiming that he died momentarily at the hospital and therefore finished his life sentenced. He said in court documents that he was sentenced to life behind bars “but not to life plus one day.” A district court rejected his request for release, writing that his argument was “unpersuasive and without merit.”

The Iowa Court of Appeals upheld that decision Wednesday. “Schreiber is either still alive, in which case he must remain in prison, or he is actually dead, in which case this appeal is moot,” Judge Amanda Potterfield wrote in the court of appeals opinion.

Neither court addressed Schreiber’s additional claim that his due process rights were violated when doctors ignored his “do not resuscitate” order, the Register reported.

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