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Jedediah Tucker Ward: It’s not hypothetical to Dr. Pavel, he wrote it

Michael Grazier: So he says.

Jedediah Tucker Ward: So he says under oath

Class Action 1991

PM James Hacker: (On Phone): No, no, leave me out of it. A routine visit. (Listening) All right – a routine surprise visit. (Listening) Well, say they were invited earlier, but the NATO exercise got in the way. Now they’re not needed, they’re going anyway. (Listening) All right. Nobody knows it’s not true. Press statements aren’t delivered under oath.

Yes Prime Minister A Victory for Democracy 1986

One of the principles of Capitalism is the cost benefit analysis ie: Does the cost of a particular action or decision produce a sufficient benefit to make it worthwhile. It’s risk vs reward. It’s a principle that is older than the word “capitalism” itself

Which of you wishing to construct a tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if there is enough for its completion?  Otherwise, after laying the foundation and finding himself unable to finish the work the onlookers should laugh at him and say, ‘This one began to build but did not have the resources to finish.’

Or what king marching into battle would not first sit down and decide whether with ten thousand troops he can successfully oppose another king advancing upon him with twenty thousand troops?  But if not, while he is still far away, he will send a delegation to ask for peace terms.

Luke 14:28 -32

The revelations from the now declassified documents have taught us one thing about our Democrat friends. That while they might be big fans of socialism and even bigger fans of Feudalism (with them in the role of the Lords of the manor) when it comes to the whole “Trump conspired with Russia” business they are strictly capitalists fully in the cost benefit analysis business.

When there was the prospect of being featured on national news programs, thus increasing speaking fees, book sales or their prospects of profitable employment in various Democrat/Liberal institutions they were all in confidently declaring that there was plenty of evidence of the Trump administration colluding with Russia, that General Flynn was corrupt, and that the Obama Administration had no knowledge of FBI investigations into Flynn or Trump

But once it was a question of being under oath with the full penalty of law for perjury applicable, suddenly the story was very different. Like good capitalists they weighted the cost of lying under oath and told the truth instead

Of course since this testimony was classified and was not coming out except as leaks if at all, this did not affect the public statements given to the press or on cable networks. They figured the benefit of their lies outweighed the risk

And then, these documents were declassified.

Suddenly we discovered that these statements that the professional left were making were suddenly not the ones they were saying under oath or saying in classified meetings.

So what lesson should we take from this? What is our cost benefit capitalistic call? It’s this:

Unless a Democrat is under oath anything they say concerning Trump, or Flynn or anything else should be taken with a grain of salt.

George Bailey: If Potter gets a hold of this Building and Loan, there’ll never be another decent house built in this town. He’s already got charge of the bank. He’s got the bus line. He got the department stores, and now he’s after us. Why? Well, it’s very simple. Because we’re cuttin’ in on his business, that’s why. And because he wants to keep you livin’ in his slums and paying the kind of rent he decides. Joe, you had one of those Potter houses, didn’t you? Well, have you forgotten? Have you forgotten what he charged you for that broken-down shack? Here, Ed. You know, you remember last year when things weren’t going so well, and you couldn’t make your payments. Well, you didn’t lose your house, did you? You think Potter would have let you keep it?

It’s a Wonderful Life 1946

In yesterday’s post on former president Barack Obama commenting on the Flynn situation I included this line about my own situation:

On the day he was elected I had a great job, great benefits while working from home (not due to a plague either) and making more money than I ever did working in the field I trained in. By the time President Trump was elected I was a temp with no benefits working in a warehouse only making over minimum wage because of the 3rd shift differential. After three years I’m not back where I was but I’m no longer a temp, I have good benefits and my pay is up 42% from that low.

That brought this response if comments from Bob:

The day obama was elected I ran a boat building company with 250 people putting out 150 boats a month. By his second term we had 60 people & where building fiberglass wheel barrows & mailboxes & only 20 or so boats a month. We’re not completely back to full production but getting there. Well till the china flu hit .

Now in fairness it’s easy to comment on a blog, and other than an IP address and an email address (which could both be spoofed) I can’t prove that “Bob is who he says he is, but I suspect that there are a lot of other people who were or are in the situation described by “Bob”. I invite said folks to share those stories in comments.

But more importantly I say this: We’re already seen Democrat after Democrat do their best to keep you closed down, we’ve seen criminals released from jail while restaurants and barbers are sanctioned. If the choice is between your prosperity or even survival and power they’ll take the latter every time.

Do you really want to return to those Obama days under Joe Biden with a Democrat House or Senate to back him up because that’s what’s at stake and the choice you’ll be making this fall..

In many ways the Obama years were an image of what the Nixon might have been if the press was solidly republican and saw their duty as defending him.

DTG

There is a reason why Jackie Robinson integrated baseball and Choo Choo Coleman didn’t.

When you’re afraid to talk to school kids on the record…

I remember the day that Barack Obama was sworn in I wrote my 1st ranking of the presidents and said this:

President Elect Obama has the potential to end up anywhere on his list.  The trick is not to under rate him due to unreal expectations or overrate him due to his unique place in history.  Lets hope he earns high ratings due to high performance.  As of today it will come down to the economy and the war on terror but who knows what tomorrow will bring?  If he is really bad then he has the potential to help propel GWB much higher on the list.

It will be fun to find out.

Well it wasn’t all that much fun. On the day he was elected I had a great job, great benefits while working from home (not due to a plague either) and making more money than I ever did working in the field I trained in. By the time President Trump was elected I was a temp with no benefits working in a warehouse only making over minimum wage because of the 3rd shift differential. After three years I’m not back where I was but I’m no longer a temp, I have good benefits and my pay is up 42% from that low.

So when I was writing my revised ranking of the presidents at the time there question wasn’t which tier he would rank in but where in the lowest rank he would be:

 He ranks below WH Harrison because Harrison died within a month of being sworn in and doing nothing would have been better than the Obama years.

How sad is it that a literal “Do nothing” president is far superior to Obama

Turns out thanks to the unsealing of the Flynn information it seems he was even worse than I thought (confirming Glenn Reynolds theory that the offensive vs Trump was about covering this up) as Glenn said:

The thing is, why spy on Trump when everybody expected Hillary to win? I think the answer is that they wanted to gather dirt they could use to destroy him and discredit his supporters after the election was over. See this, for example:

So I think it wasn’t so much about winning an election through dirty tricks, but about something even dirtier, looking for a way to prosecute and bankrupt Trump after he lost, as a warning to others. An awful lot of people involved in this should wind up in jail, disbarred, and unemployed.

These are the actions of a thug, not of a historic presidency and as long as these actions could be divorced from the president directly, Barack Obama would have been content to live the good life that has been given him.

But now that is threatened if this investigation goes further (and if President Trump gets re-elected it will) then the reality that he was just a cheap inexperienced Chicago machine poll who brought the tactic of the corrupt Chicago machine to DC. Thus he has spoken up to try to counter the narrative.

The irony of course is that the black community is so invested in the myth of Barack Obama that if documentary evidence of him profiting directly from the current African slave trade with video of him running the auctions they would explain it away for the sake of the myth. I suspect the reality is his real concern are the liberal movers and shakers who help finance his lifestyle and that if it comes out that he was Nixon on steroids the offers might dry up.

Between the Flynn revelation and the sudden interest south of the border in Fast and Furious (an interest our press never had) the myth of Obama can be shattered permanently.

The press of course (and apparently the judge presiding) will do all it can to prevent this but given their record of success lately I suspect President Obama doesn’t trust any of them to the job for him.