As IF Times

Source: Nunes: Ben Rhodes Must Have Seen the Russian Dossier – Cortney OBrien

Even the most non political person can’t help but be exposed to the never ending river of controversy, scandal and subterfuge that flows from Washington D.C.  This is hardly a recent phenomenon; scandals are as inexorably linked to politics as fingernails are to fingers.

All of this shady behavior has resulted in a bull market for lawyers and investigators to probe whatever malfeasance has been imagined to have been propagated by whomever.  It’s like primary school only with adults and real money.  Ultimately however, nothing much seems to come from all of the investigations, legal procedures and huffing and puffing.

Back in the day, if there was ever discovery of impropriety, it was over.  The perp is shamefully forced out of office or people spend time in the hoosegow….piled of top of which was a heaping dollop of disgrace.  In our modern times, the notion of anyone being brought to account for actions which are several times more severe is laughingly quaint.  What’s more, the same gaggle of perps seems to appear anytime someone  even mentions the word ‘scandal’.  You would think a lot of money could be saved by just investigating the same people!  Like the famous Gary Larson cartoon, they don’t even pretend to conceal their efforts.

And why should they? Over the past 8 years, despite overwhelming evidence condemning their proven nefarious activities, no one in government has suffered any penal consequence.  People are allowed to resign, keep their pensions, write a book and become a sage pundit on MSNBC.  Who suffered from the IRS scandal? Fast and Furious? The Benghazi cover up? Anyone go to jail? Pay a fine? Write numerous times on a chalkboard? A strong scolding?

What’s clear is that malfeasance on the progressive side of the political divide is not punished with the same zeal as if the accused were a conservative.  The conviction of Scooter Libby for activities that pale in comparison to what’s happening now with the FBI investigations show just how slanted the process is.

What’s worse is that the very ones who were found to have told knee slapping whoppers are still in the media tsk tsking about truth and discovery.  The very same names keep popping up again and again like the fat guy at the buffet table.  This is a real life version of the famous line from the film Casablanca, in which the police captain tells his men to round up the usual suspects.  Imagine if exterminators came to your house and identified the vermin but just sent them on their way.

In Washington, as in most businesses, the general means by which to get things done is by the classic carrot and stick methodology.  From the public’s perspective, it looks as if political operatives get all carrot and no stick.  As we can imagine, this only emboldens people to act without any real fear of consequences and thus nefarious activity becomes standard operating procedure.

Source: ‘American people turning against Trump-hating celebrities’ | Daily Mail Online

The day after Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, accolades are being received from many quarters of the public including some heretofore skeptical news outlets such as CBS.  Of course, this excludes that segment of people who have been hard wired to despise anything that Trump does; much like an old weather vane rusted in place to always point south.  The Democratic party will not even pretend that they are on board, choosing to obstruct, regardless of policies that would be benign to their constituents.  That’s expected.

But the most visible, vocal and annoying are the usual cabal of nutters and self important ‘entertainers’ and media personalities who feel that their skewed views should be accepted by a sane public.  Actually, that’s not even correct; there are no values that they support, they’re just protesting anything Trump.  They maintain their program of shrill protests and infantile bleating even as the general working public begins to finally see past their charade of righteousness.  Apparently some of the celebrities are so distressed that they’d require a doll to show where they’ve been hurt.

This phenomenon of self importance is to some degree a function of the industry in which they work.  It’s an industry of delusion and make believe.  They are used to having people fawn over them for their great ‘work’ and confirming their importance to both themselves and to the world.  In an industry having no shortage of egos, they come to believe the accolades heaped upon them.  They believe their own fake reality, convinced that having some fleeting moments of fame endows them with the wisdom to be arbiters of social justice.

The jig may be up.  When the positive effects of the economic and social programs forwarded by the Administration become apparent to the population at large, they will compare what the entertainers bleat versus what they see with their own lyin’ eyes.  At that point, the line between reality and the fake world professed by the nutters will be apparent and hopefully we’ll hear less from them.