A House Once Again Divided

With the resignation of Justice Kennedy, we come to the great separation between the wheat and the chaff, the sheep and the goats regarding what it is to be an American.

Americans who support Donald Trump BECAUSE of who he is are beyond recovery and must be "encouraged" to go back under their rock.

Americans who, based on legitimate grievances against the Powers That Be, support Donald Trump IN SPITE OF who he is must have their cause championed and their motivations changed from fear to a realistic hope for redress.

The fault line is not Republican vs. Democrat nor conservative vs. liberal but a collection of nativist, racists, isolationists, protectionists, ethno-centrists, and conspiracists vs. Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, liberals, and independents who recognize the hostile takeover of the Republican party for what it is: America's shadow self that, in difficult times, can be summoned by fear-mongering and lies to come out from under their rock to empower the narcissistic demagogues who use them.
America has been here before and while at no time in its history could anything be taken for granted, the track record is shows us muddling through in our own sweet time (see 10 Overturned Supreme Court Cases (How Stuff Works) )

"Roy Marcus Cohn (/koʊn/; February 20, 1927 – August 2, 1986) was an American attorney. During Senator Joseph McCarthy's investigations into Communist activity in the United States during the Second Red Scare, Cohn served as McCarthy's chief counsel and gained special prominence during the Army–McCarthy hearings.

"Cohn was also known for being a U.S. Department of Justice prosecutor at the espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and later for representing President Donald J. Trump during his early business career. He was disbarred by the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court for unethical conduct in 1986.[2] He died less than two months later."

Roy Cohn (Wikipedia)

When they say "SPYGATE!," you say, "informant."

When they say "SPYGATE!," you say, "informant."

" The term informant means any individual who furnishes information to an intelligence agency in the course of a confidential relationship protecting the identity of such individual from public disclosure."
50 U.S.C. § 426 - Definitions

So, if I have a loose connection to the mob (say, I'm friends with a bartender and various regulars at a bar where mobsters tend to hang-out) and he overhears one of them indiscreetly and drunkenly claim to have whacked a rival and I call the FBI and give them that information with the understanding that they will keep my friend and my own identity confidential, I am an informant.

And if the FBI agrees to that and says they'd be most grateful for any further information I could get from my friend on the mob's activity, that does not mean I'm a spy and it doesn't mean my bartender friend or any of the regulars are targets of an investigation or even subjects of an investigation.

BECAUSE THE FBI WANTS TO COVERTLY INVESTIGATE THE MOB, NOT THE BARTENDER AND THE REGULARS.

Okay. Now substitute Stefan Halper (the FBI informant) for me, members of the Trump campaign for the bartender and regulars and Putin and Russian intelligence for the mob.

Why do we KNOW BEYOND ANY DOUBT that this is so?

Because the fact that the investigation into Russian attempts to contact the Trump campaign NEVER LEAKED.

Only Clinton was hurt by leaks, not Trump.

And, since I know Mike Talotta will not read my Stefan Halper link, I'll point out that Stefan Halper "was an assistant for three chiefs of staff, Alexander Haig, Donald Rumsfeld, and Dick Cheney," served as "National Policy Director for George H. W. Bush's Presidential campaign and then in 1980 he became Director of Policy Coordination for the Reagan- Bush Presidential campaign," and then "became Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs."

Also worth noting: "From 1984 to 1990 Halper was chairman and majority shareholder of the Palmer National Bank of Washington, D.C., the National Bank of Northern Virginia and the George Washington National Bank.[6] Palmer National Bank was used to transfer money to Swiss Bank Accounts controlled by White House aid Oliver North.[10] Halper later set up a legal defense fund for North."

So, no limp-wristed liberal he. 😃

So when they say, "SPYGATE!," you say, "informant," - or, better yet, "BENGHAZI! BENGHAZI!"

In any event, that's enough of THAT nonsense.

Stefan Halper (Wikipedia)