In the advent of the #MeToo age we constantly are bombarded with with real and supposed victims who we are told must be free to “tell their truth.”  “Telling my truth” is a decidedly foreign term to an old fart such as myself.  Forgive me, but when I grew up there was no such thing as “my truth” “your truth” of anyone else’s truth.  It was a much simpler time.  We had the truth, which was defined as a fact that had been verified, a/k/a, what really happened, and everything else, which was not the truth.  Simple really.  Nowadays it’s not that simple.  Today we must be subjected to a “truth” which is peculiar to the speaker of said “truth.”  The Urban Dictionary defines “my truth” as follows:  “Often used by academics, this is a convenient phrase for avoiding arguments because people can contradict your opinion but not your ‘truth.’  The phrase is often used when seeking to justify a controversial personal stance or action because people are not allowed to argue with ‘your truth.'”  It’s not supposed to be  THE TRUTH, but instead, something someone tries desperately to convince themselves of, in order to justify their actions and opinions. So now, the “truth” is whatever any particular person thinks is true.  To paraphrase Rene Descartes,  “Cogito Ergo Verus,”  “I think, therefore it’s true.”  According to Oxford Dictionaries, the term post-truth was first used in a 1992 essay by the late Serbian-American playwright Steve Tesich in The Nation.  Tesich writes that following the shameful truth of Watergate, more assuaging coverage of the Iran–Contra scandal  and Persian Gulf War demonstrate that “we, as a free people, have freely decided that we want to live in some post-truth world.”  In 2004, Ralph Keyes used the term “post-truth era” in his book by that title.  In it, he argued that deception is becoming more prevalent in the current media driven world.  According to Keyes, lies stopped being treated as something inexcusable and started being viewed as something acceptable in certain situations. (Like politics)  Which supposedly led to the beginning of the post truth era.  American journalist Eric Alterman spoke of a “post-truth political environment” and coined the term “the post-truth presidency” in his analysis of the misleading statements made by the Bush administration after 9/11.   A defining trait of post-truth politics is that campaigners continue to repeat their talking points, even when media outlets, experts in the field in question, and others provide proof that contradicts these talking points.  Hannah Arendt, writing in 1967, presciently explained the basis for this phenomenon: “Since the liar is free to fashion his ‘facts’ to fit the profit and pleasure, or even the mere expectations, of his audience, the chances are that he will be more persuasive than the truth teller.”   The New York Times and The Washington Post  continually decry Donald Trump as “a post-truth President.  The Post paints Ronald Reagan as a noted liar, quoting his claim that, “If you tell the same story five times it becomes the truth.”  I might have chosen LBJ or Bill Clinton as better examples of noted presidential liars, but so be it.  After all, it was Bill Clinton who successfully changed the name of continual governmental lying from “lies” to “spin.”  According to the Left, Donald Trump was elected President by practicing “post-truth politics.  The relevant question, which the left-wing media chooses not to answer, is – If Trump is always lying to us, how does his supposed misconduct justify the media’s current practice of lying to the public?  In other words, if Trump is a bad actor, shouldn’t the media be the last bastion of the real truth?  If the media was really concerned with THE TRUTH, then shouldn’t it actually tell THE TRUTH?  That would require it report facts that are verified, whether favorable or unfavorable to the President.  Things like the dramatic improvement of the U.S. economy under this President, the great unemployment numbers, the increase in real incomes, the benefits of tax reform, the improvements of trade agreements, and prison reform.  A media dedicated to telling THE TRUTH would not ignore the Obama Administration’s illegal spying on a rival presidential candidate, just because his name was Trump.  Last but not least, an honest media, which did not itself practice post-truth journalism would honestly report the real and present danger presented by the humanitarian crisis on our southern border. They don’t.   It’s real, yet they deny it.  At the end of the day, the reality that politicians do and always have played fast and loose with the truth is no excuse for journalists to abandon their duty to report true facts.  Simply put, Diogenes would grow old and die toting his lantern around searching for an honest man in Washington.  The duty of the media is to shine the lantern of truth on real facts.  It must not abandon that duty to join the resistance.  Freedom of the press exists to fairly report the positions of both sides, not to take sides.

Even though Robert Mueller recruited a team of Democrat partisans to investigate supposed collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government; even though the Mueller inquisitors left no stone unturned to find evidence of collusion for nearly two years; even though, on May 17, 2017, right after Mueller was appointed, FBI Agent Peter Strozk told his paramour Lisa Page he didn’t want to work on the investigation because he already knew,  “You and I both know the odds are nothing.  If I thought it was likely, I’d be there no question.  I hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern that there’s no big there there,” and even though Mueller and company beat that dead horse until March 22, 2019 before announcing there was no evidence, many Democrats are still not satisfied that there was no collusion.  Nancy Pelosi knows that continuing this charade will not help keep Democrats in control of the House.   That’s why she announced talk about impeaching the President “is not worth it.”  The problem is that Pelosi is not not running the insane asylum that has become the Democrat Party.  Newt Gingrich explained it best the other night in an interview with Laura Ingraham.  Democrats now are split into two groups – the semi crazy wing, and the really crazy wing.  There are Democrats who support infanticide, a 70% income tax rate, single-payer healthcare that prohibits all private health insurance in America, whether you like your insurance or not, banning all fossil fuels, allowing non-citizens to vote, and reparations for slavery.  These are the mildly crazy Democrats.  The really crazy Democrats are even nuttier than that.  They staked everything they had on Bob Mueller’s being able to drive Donald Trump from office.  Finally, finally, they would cleanse the White House of the mistake that the stupid deplorable voters made in 2016.  Democrats are smarter than the unwashed peasants who elected Trump, with the help of Vladimir Putin.  Their national nightmare would at long last end, they would awake, and the fundamental transformation of America begun by Il Duce Obama would recommence, turning the United States into the Socialist workers’ paradise that they know is best for us, whether we like it or not.  However, much like their election day nightmare, Mueller did the unthinkable – he cleared Trump of any wrongdoing.  Never mind that Mueller made the only proper decision under the law.  Never mind that the whole Trump-Russia collusion narrative was a fever dream, cooked up by the Hillary Clinton campaign.  The irony is lost on the Democrats.  Hillary hired Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on Trump.  This is called opposition research.  Trying  to find compromising material on a political adversary is a perfectly routine and acceptable practice, at least when practiced by Democrats.  Problem was, Fusion hired Brit Christopher Steele, and Steele paid some Russian intelligence agents, think KGB, or FSB, or whatever they’re calling it this year, and the Russians made up some outrageous crap (dare I say Bull Schiff) about Trump being blackmailed by the Russians.  Crap so wild that Steele has admitted under oath even he wont vouch for it.  Alright so far.  Lying about an opponent is an American political tradition.  And therein lies the irony.  The Democrats are using false information Hillary bought from Russians to prove that Trump colluded with Russians.  It never happened, they always knew it never happened, Mueller said it never happened, but the Dems can’t let it go.  The really crazy Dems have been promising their even crazier base that they had the goods on Trump.  There never were any goods, but Dems like Adam (Pencil Neck) Schiff can’t, or won’t, admit it.  If he really believes his own crap he’s certifiably insane.  Schiff still insists there was collusion.  This week he said the Trump Tower meeting set up by the Russian lawyer, who promised dirt on Hillary and delivered nothing, was illegal and unpatriotic.  Picture it – according to Schiff, when Hillary actually payed Russians and Ukranians for dirt on Trump that wasn’t illegal or unpatriotic.  When Hillary sent the false information to the Obama Justice Department, and leaked it to the media, that wasn’t illegal or unpatriotic.  When the Obama Justice Department used information it knew to be false to get warrant to spy on a political opponent, that wasn’t illegal or unpatriotic.  It was OK by Schiff when Obama released raw intelligence data to 26 agencies to damage the incoming President, and when they illegally unmasked American citizens intercepted in foreign intelligence surveillance, and when they railroaded General Flynn, and George Papadopolous.  But trying to get information about Hillary from someone with a Russian name – that’s treason, so sayeth Herr Schiff.  But they can’t stop.  The Dems are reliving the Bill Clinton campaign’s Fleetwood Mac theme song, Don’t Stop –

Don’t stop, thinking about collusion,
Don’t stop, it’ll soon be here,
It’ll be, better than before,
Trump will be gone, Trump will be gone.

The Democrats have been lying to their base for so long that they have started to believe their own Bull Schiff.  They should seek help.

Return with us now to those heady days some 14 months ago, when we began to get the release of the emails and texts between those two star-crossed FBI lovers, Peter Strozk and Lisa Page.  To recap, Strozk was a high-ranking FBI Special Agent in the FBI’s Counter-Espionage Unit.  Page was an FBI lawyer, with access to the FBI Brass around Director James Comey.  Those two crazy FBI kids carried out their adulterous affair by means of some 50,000 emails and text messages.  And I bet you thought the FBI spent its time chasing criminals.  Strozk and Page sent thousands of the electronic equivalent of high school love notes to one another, many of them concerning the upcoming 2016 presidential election.  Strozk complained to Page about the smell of Trump supporters he met at a Walmart, and thought that Hillary Clinton should win 100,000,000 to 0.  Page worried that Trump might win.  Peter Strozk comforted Page in an August 15, 2016 text, “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way he gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” he wrote. “It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before 40.”  August 15th was about two weeks after the FBI started Operation Crossfire Hurricane, the counter-intelligence investigation of the Trump campaign that was ginned up by the phony Steele dossier, which led to 4 FISA court warrants permitting the FBI to spy on the Trump campaign.  Never forget how it all began – Hillary paid a British guy to get false information from Russian intelligence operatives in order to try to allege that Trump was colluding with Russia.  Fast forward to Trump’s election.  Comey gets fired, and he leaks information to the media, which leads to Rod Rosenstein’s appointment of Robert Mueller as Special Counsel to investigate Trump.  The same Robert Mueller who, two days before the appointment, unsuccessfully tried to get Trump to hire him as FBI Director, and the same Rosenstein who signed a FISA warrant.  We then endured nearly two years of Mueller investigations, despite the fact that in July 2016, Justice Dept. lawyer Bruce Ohr told everybody, including Rosenstein and Andrew Weissman that the Steele dossier was a crock of political Bull Schiff.  In two years, Mueller never once indicted anyone connected to the Trump campaign with engaging in any illegal conduct with any Russian.  Congress investigated for the same two years, and found nothing.  Meanwhile, we were treated every day to the likes of James Clapper, former CIA Director Brennan, Eric Swalwell and the reprehensible Adam Schiff, who assured us that Trump is a traitor, he would be driven from office, then prosecuted and imprisoned, and his children all would be indicted, et cetera, et cetera.  Whenever any Democrat, such as master Bull Schiff Artist, Adam Schiff was asked about the fact that no evidence of any collusion had been uncovered, the stock answer was “We have to wait for the Mueller report.”  It’s as though every Dem mouthpiece was hypnotized, and could merely intone, “Wait for the report, wait for the report.”  Bob Mueller, we were assured, was the finest investigator on Earth.  Simon Pure.  A Saint.  He and his Hillary-loving henchmen would expose the truth.  Well, last Friday, Mueller sent his report to Attorney General Barr.  The result?  No evidence of collusion with Russians, even though there were multiple unsuccessful attempts by Russians to gain access to the Trump campaign (yeah – by double agents sent by the CIA and FBI).   No charges for obstruction of justice, even though Mueller copped out and refused to make a legal determination on that.  Mueller announced he couldn’t charge, but couldn’t exonerate Trump.  He left that one to the AG.  Barr and Rosenstein decided there was no case for obstruction.  Picture it – we paid Mueller $25 or $30 million for his legal judgment, and he couldn’t judge.  Bull Schiff!  Mueller and his cronies knew damn well they had no case.  No prosecutor ever – EVER exonerates anybody he or she is investigating.  You either indict, or you don’t, and Mueller didn’t.  End of story.  No doubt the “can’t exonerate” language was in the report to set Barr up as the next bad guy, and to allow Democrat Bull Schiffers to say, “Aha!  He wasn’t cleared.”  The same Democrat imbeciles who last week predicted the Mueller report would end the Trump presidency (John Brennan had inside information about coming indictments), now have changed their tune.  Mad Maxine Waters said the report “is not the end of anything.”  Crazy Maisie Hirono said, “just because it wasn’t enough to charge a crime, there still was collusion.”  Uh huh.  Jerry Nadler, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is going ahead with another investigation because, I guess 19 lawyers and 40 FBI agents who spent $25 million working for two years, with thousands of subpoenas, 500 search warrants and hundreds of interviews in 13 countries wasn’t comprehensive enough.  Nadler demanded all the Mueller evidence immediately, immediately, harumph!  I guess you can’t expect the head of the Judiciary Committee to know that the laws passed by the Congress, including by Nadler himself, prohibit the release of grand jury materials without court orders.  That other legal giant, Adam Schiff Heel, threatened to subpoena Mueller, and the complete report, and all evidence, and even to take his case to court.  Good plan Schiff for Brains, you’re going to sue the Justice Department.  Good luck with that.  The Democrat brainwashing machine didn’t skip a beat, changing the “Wait for the report” mantra to “We need to get the entire report.”  And that’s the world we live in.   Their anointed savior, Bob Mueller has let them down.  He now must be destroyed.  Attorney General Barr refused to ignore the law, i.e., “no collusion, no crime to cover up, means no obstruction,” so he now must be destroyed.  The Democrats are channeling the Cowardly Lion, “I do believe in collusion, I do believe in collusion, I do, I do!”  For Democrats, Denial is not just a river in Egypt.  I’d like to say I feel bad for these numb sculls, but nah!  Schiff happens guys, get over it.

In the days before he was elected President in 2008, Il Duce Barack Obama proclaimed that we were only a few days away from beginning “the fundamental transformation” of the United States of America.”  Many Obama detractors, including myself, decried this proclamation, noting that Obama was being elected to lead the United States, not to remake it in his own image.  Upon his accession, Obama went right to work.  In the two years that he had control of both houses of Congress, Obama managed to push through the badly named Affordable Care Act, a/k/a Obamacare.   It wasn’t affordable,  and it provided no more or better care, but it succeeded in advancing Obama’s aim, which was the insertion of the federal government into our healthcare system, by forcing even those who had healthcare they liked into a far more costly system calculated to exert government control over 1/6 of the U.S. economy, a system that was bound to fail, permitting the ever-helpful Democrats to transition to single payer healthcare, a/k/a universal government healthcare along the British or Canadian models, which has been a goal of the progressives for at least 100 years.  When the Republicans won the Senate, Obama’s plans were delayed.  Il Duce had more big plans, but he had to satisfy himself with his “pen and phone,” a/k/a unconstitutional rule by presidential decree, for instance, his completely illegal DACA declaration, the remnants of which trouble us to this very day.  But, not to worry, the Democrats needed to accomplish but one objective to continue their fundamental transformation – they needed only to elect Hillary Clinton President in 2016.  This was only a minor annoyance, but sadly necessary, as the Dems had to at least pretend that elections still matter in the United States.  We all know what happened.  To the surprise of nearly everyone, Donald Trump was elected President.  But not to worry.  The Dems had a plan, an insurance policy if you will, that would see Trump impeached.  But that hasn’t worked either, and to the Democrat’s great distress, Trump has improved the economy to the point where there now are 1 million more unfilled jobs than there are unemployed Americans.  The Democrats have been compelled to conclude that Trump will run for reelection, and that they must find a candidate to defeat him in 2020.  To that end, a dozen or more Democrats/Democrat Socialists, or downright Marxists have declared themselves presidential candidates.  Only now, the landscape has greatly changed.  With a Republican in the White House, the Democrats are no longer “the loyal opposition,” an alternative Party with different ideas about how to make the federal government work within the bounds of the U.S. Constitution.  The drapes pulled back, the Democrats have revealed what Al Gore might call “an inconvenient truth.”  They have no intention of working within the bounds of the Constitution.  Democrats have one and only one aim – the unfettered exercise of absolute power, despite the Constitution, despite the law, despite the results of elections, and despite the will of the people.  Think I’m exaggerating?  I’m not.  All you have to do is listen to the Democrat candidates.  Want to fundamentally transform the United States?  The Dems are ready.  They want to change or do away with any constitutional provision, or governmental component that stands in their way.  When he emerged from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, a woman asked Benjamin Franklin, “What sort of government have you given us?”  Franklin responded, “A republic madam, if you can keep it.”  If the Democrats get their way, we won’t be keeping it much longer.  Democrats are not satisfied with a Supreme Court that contains five or more Justices who are not progressive rubber stamps, so they want to add 6 more Justices that they can control, to ram through policies without Congressional action.  They must have absolute power by any means necessary, after all.  And what about Congress?  Well, the Dems don’t control the Senate right now, so they want to abolish it.  That’s a neat trick, but regrettably necessary.  Any means necessary, right?  The Democrats lost the last election, despite winning the popular vote.  That’s the way the electoral college works, but if Democrats lose it can’t be fair, right?  Not to worry, the Democrats are planning to abolish the electoral college too.  No matter that, but for the electoral college system of choosing a President, there would have been no United States.  The electoral college prevented the States with large populations from dominating the smaller States, which, given a national popular vote, would have to assume all costs and responsibilities of statehood, without having any control over who was elected Chief Executive.  The electoral college prevents that result.  It worked flawlessly in 2016, but the Dems lost, so it too must go.  Any means, right?  These crazy proposals may be no more than fresh red (or is it blue) meat for the wild-eyed maniacs who vote in Democratic primaries. They’re proposals that they can never get enacted, but it’s more alarming than that.  The fact is that today’s Democrats do not deserve the name “Democrat,” as there is nothing democratic about them.  Our system has endured for nearly 250 years because, no matter which Party has been in power, and come depression, foreign war or civil war, we always had the Constitution to guide us back to the route laid out for us by the Founders.  Today, the so-called “Democrats” would sweep away any constitutional provision that stands in the way of their exercise of absolute power.  Founders be damned, history be damned, law be damned, the will of the voters be damned, they want what they want and will do whatever they need to do to get it.  That’s dangerous.  We should be afraid, very afraid of today’s Democrat Party.  Progressives like to claim we have a “living Constitution.” If that is so, someone should ask them why they are trying so hard to kill it.

That darling of the Left, champion of the Woke Folk, and all-around political neophyte Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a/k/a A.O.C. (Asinine Obnoxious-Cretin)  continues to stay in the news, and surprisingly, seems to be wielding much more power in the Congress than any freshman Representative should ever expect to wield.  Never mind, that she doesn’t know anything about any of the subjects on which she expounds.  Never mind that the things she comes out with are often dead wrong, and even stupid.  For instance, the other day, AOC was questioning a Wells Fargo banker who appeared before her committee.  The bank financed the Dakota oil pipeline.  She lectured the poor man on the dangers of pipeline leaks of that nasty fossil fuel that’s destroying the planet, and asked him if Wells Fargo should be held liable for the damage done by climate change due to their financing of fossil fuels.  Whew!  AOC is on a roll.  Recently, she made news when she publicly threatened to punish any Democratic member of the House of Representatives who dares to vote with a Republican on any issue.  And this from the Party that lectures Republicans about the virtues of bipartisanship.  AOC threatened to take the names of any back-sliders, and turn loose her Progressive protest rent-a-mobs on any Democrat who doesn’t stay in line.  This latest threat came in a meeting with Democrats, after 26 of them defected and voted for a Republican measure that would report illegal aliens who attempt to purchase a gun to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  Unlike Party stalwart AOC, whose district is such that she never has to face a real election, most of the Democrat defectors are newly elected members from swing districts formerly held by Republicans.  Translation – the defectors know what their constituents expect, and they’d like to get reelected.  Not good enough for AOC.  AOC’s  spokesman, Corbin Trent, told The Washington Post that any Democrat who does not side with her (with “her” not with the Party) “are putting themselves on a list.”  That put me in mind of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, The Mikado.  In The Mikado, KoKo is a condemned criminal who is made Lord High Executioner.  KoKo reasons that, if the time comes when someone needs to be executed, he should have ready “a little list,” of offenders who could be gotten rid of, and “who never would be missed.”  And so without further ado, in tribute to that master politician Alexandria Ocasio-KoKo, and with sincere apologizes to the memories of Gilbert and Sullivan,  She’s Got a Little List –

As some day it may happen that some Democrats may stray
I’ve got a little list – I’ve got a little list
Of bipartisan progressives who might have lost their way
And who never would be missed – who never would be missed!
There’s the freshmen in the districts where Republicans got beat
And people who’d take guns away from Wetbacks on the street
All Democrats who fail to vote the way the Speaker rules
Who dare to help the other side by voting with the fools
And all who fail to burn the flag and sport an upheld fist
They’d none of ’em be missed – they’d none of ’em be missed!

If they’re not Socialist – She’s got ’em on her list
And they’ll none of ’em be missed – they’ll none of ’em be missed

There’s that turncoat Candice Owens, and others of her race
And any capitalist – I’ve got them on the list!
And those with a position they won’t scream into your face
They never would be missed – they never would be missed!
There’s the idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone
Anyone’s opinion that is different from my own
And Joe Biden, who dared to call Mike Pence a decent guy
And who hasn’t said he’s running, but really wants to try
And those who don’t change Parties, like good old Charlie Crist
I don’t think they’d be missed – I’m sure they’d not be missed!

If they’re not Socialist – She’s got ’em on her list
And they’ll none of ’em be missed – they’ll none of ’em be missed

The talk show host, who’s influence right now is rather rife
And the Right Wing humorist – I’ve got him on the list!
All backward, dumb miscreants who support the right to life
They’d none of ’em be missed – they’d none of ’em be missed
And apologetic statesmen of a compromising kind
Who see two sides to issues, how archaic – Never-mind!
And Huckabee and Hannity, and also You-know-who
And those who wouldn’t steal your vote, but leave it up to you
But it really doesn’t matter whom I put upon my list
For they’d none of ’em be missed – they’d none of ’em be missed!

If they’re not Socialist – I put them on the list
And they’ll none of ’em be missed – they’ll none of ’em be missed!

So hats off to AOC.  I hope she puts all swing State Democrats on her little list, and brings in Socialists even crazier than she is to run against them in the primaries.  AOC’s friends will be easier to beat in 2020.