No Surprise Here

McCain says Trump should skip his funeral, wants Pence to attend

Why eulogize a known traitor anyway? I'm sure that W and Obama won't bring that up. But Trump just might.

What Happens When the Everyday Donks Figure Out They've Been Had?

Or will they EVER figure it out...?

Key Democratic Officials Now Warning Base Not to Expect Evidence of Trump/Russia Collusion

Perhaps most revealing of all are the Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee — charged with investigating these matters — who recently told BuzzFeed how petrified they are of what the Democratic base will do if they do not find evidence of collusion, as they now suspect will likely be the case. “There’s a tangible frustration over what one official called ‘wildly inflated’ expectations surrounding the panel’s fledgling investigation,” BuzzFeed’s Ali Watkins wrote.

Moreover, “several committee sources grudgingly say, it feels as though the investigation will be seen as a sham if the Senate doesn’t find a silver bullet connecting Trump and Russian intelligence operatives.” One member told Watkins: “I don’t think the conclusions are going to meet people’s expectations.”

What makes all of this most significant is that officials like Clapper and Morell are trained disinformation agents; Clapper in particular has proven he will lie to advance his interests. Yet even with all the incentive to do so, they are refusing to claim there is evidence of such collusion; in fact, they are expressly urging people to stop thinking it exists. As even the law recognizes, statements that otherwise lack credibility become more believable when they are ones made “against interest.”

Media figures have similarly begun trying to tamp down expectations. Ben Smith, the editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed, which published the Steele dossier, published an article yesterday warning that the Democratic base’s expectation of a smoking gun “is so strong that Twitter and cable news are full of the theories of what my colleague Charlie Warzel calls the Blue Detectives — the left’s new version of Glenn Beck, digital blackboards full of lines and arrows.” Smith added: “It is also a simple fact that while news of Russian actions on Trump’s behalf is clear, hard details of coordination between his aides and Putin’s haven’t emerged.” And Smith’s core warning is this:

Trump’s critics last year were horrified at the rise of “fake news” and the specter of a politics shaped by alternative facts, predominantly on the right. They need to be careful now not to succumb to the same delusional temptations as their political adversaries, and not to sink into a filter bubble which, after all, draws its strength not from conservative or progressive politics but from human nature.

And those of us covering the story and the stew of real information, fantasy, and — now — forgery around it need to continue to report and think clearly about what we know and what we don’t, and to resist the sugar high that comes with telling people exactly what they want to hear.

For so long, Democrats demonized and smeared anyone trying to inject basic reason, rationality, and skepticism into this Trump/Russia discourse by labeling them all Kremlin agents and Putin lovers. Just this week, the Center for American Progress released a report using the language of treason to announce the existence of a “Fifth Column” in the U.S. that serves Russia (similar to Andrew Sullivan’s notorious 2001 decree that anyone opposing the war on terror composed an anti-American “Fifth Column”), while John McCain listened to Rand Paul express doubts about the wisdom of NATO further expanding to include Montenegro and then promptly announced: “Paul is working for Vladimir Putin.”

Observation: there is exactly ONE traitor in that last exchange and it's not Paul.

Treasonous John McCain, Viet Nam Traitor Extraordinaire, Attacks Trump

John McCain just systematically dismantled Donald Trump’s entire worldview

How many lies can you find here?

"[The founders of the Munich conference] would be alarmed by an increasing turn away from universal values and toward old ties of blood and race and sectarianism.”

“They would be alarmed by the hardening resentment we see towards immigrants and refugees and minority groups -- especially Muslims.”

“They would be alarmed by the growing inability -- and even unwillingness -- to separate truth from lies.”

"They would be alarmed that more and more of our fellow citizens seem to be flirting with authoritarianism and romanticizing it as our moral equivalent."

McCain continued: “But what would alarm them most, I think, is a sense that many of our peoples, including in my own country, are giving up on the West, that they see it as a bad deal that we may be better off without, and that while Western nations still have the power to maintain our world order, it's unclear whether we have the will.”

Each of these statements contains at least one lie.

After his capture in Viet Nam, McCain turned into an informer of military intelligence, and then he lied constantly and continually when he became the equivalent of Tokyo Rose by broadcasting lies over the Cong's inter-camp radio system, encouraging American POWs to commit treason just as he had done.

Yet he is not affected by any humility or apparent remorse, as he spreads lies and mongers fear across the Allies of the USA.

McCain is one of the remaining RINOs that needs to be purged from the Republican Party.

John McCain: War [REDACTED]

This seems not well known, at least I hadn't heard of it until recently. McCain certainly has received copious protection from the political class, including the Democrats (of which party McCain seems to be a stealth member).

John McCain is an admitted collaborator with the enemy, according to a journalist named Doug Valentine. Valentine's investigation reveals a very different story of McCain's stay in the "Hanoi Hilton", including a McCain confession of having cracked under interrogation and subsequently becoming an ongoing collaborator with the North Vietnamese. He revealed flight paths of American planes, resulting in so many casualties that the flights were stopped. He became the voice of propaganda radio, "psywar" operation against US forces. He reaped the reward of favor for his actions, which were, if true, acts of treason.

McCain is known to have put information concerning the remaining missing in action under classified status. There is a group of veterans pressing for the truth about McCain and the still missing military personnel to be released to the public. When one FOIA request was fulfilled, it contained redactions to conceal... exactly what?

McCain's attack on Trump's supporters ("crazies") has brought about a look back into McCain's own, actual history as a war "hero". It doesn't look good.

McNasty

Read it there; it's long and filled with interest, at least from my perspective.