If the Movie Stinks, Why Make a Sequel?

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team of prosecutors investigated President Donald Trump -- and everybody around him -- for 2.5 years, using the full investigatory powers of the United States government.

They found there was insufficient evidence to charge the president with conspiracy, or any other crime, relating to Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

There are numerous redactions in the Mueller Report. But does any rational, neutral observer really believe that those portions would have been redacted if there had been competent evidence that the president, or those around him, had conspired with Russia or engaged in any other crime?

If the special counsel had had competent evidence to support Trump's guilt, the report would have trumpeted, "We charge that evil President Trump conspired with Russia!" And yet, there are those who still believe the Democrat fairy tale that Trump colluded with Russia. And there are those who believe that Rep. Adam Schiff and other Democrats on his House Intelligence Committee will still somehow dig up evidence that Trump colluded with Russia.

NBC News described Mueller's team as the 18 "best prosecutors in the business." They had virtually unlimited subpoena power and power to haul witnesses before grand juries. Does any rational Democrat seriously believe that if Muller's expert prosecutors couldn't find competent evidence to charge the president during their exhaustive 30 months investigation, somehow Schiff will?

The phony Steele Dossier didn't get the job done. But wait! Schiff is here to save the day! And he has in hand (gasp!) a "letter" from a so-called whistleblower!


Never mind that Schiff's whistleblower has no personal knowledge of the things he alleges the president did wrong in speaking to the Ukraine president. Never mind that the whistleblower's allegations are rank hearsay. Never mind that hearsay is admissible only in kangaroo courts. Never mind that the transcript of that call utterly debunks and contradicts the whistleblower's hearsay claims.

Never mind that the whistleblower's statements were not made under oath. Never mind that neither the president, nor Republican members of Superhero Schiff's committee have been allowed to confront the accuser or cross-examine him.

Never mind that Schiff has lied about his, or his staff's, involvement with the whistleblower, or that Schiff's staff may have drafted or helped draft the whistleblower's "complaint," or directed the whistleblower to an anti-Trump lawyer to "refine" the allegations.

Never mind that the chairman is running a secret hearing -- closed to the press and public -- with only Schiff-approved "leaks" being made available to a partisan mainstream media. Never mind that Schiff repeatedly lied about having "evidence" in his possession that Trump colluded with Russia.



In case you haven't figured it out, Ukraine collusion is a sham. It is a remake of the Russian collusion sham. It's rather like the Hollywood remakes of "The Prisoner of Zenda." Hollywood first made the movie in 1922 with Ramon Navarro, then again in 1939 with Ronald Coleman, and again in 1952 with Stewart Granger: same movie, slightly updated script, new cast.


Here's Schiff's 2016 movie:

 "Trump Colludes with Russia": Evil racist, bigot, homophobe, white-supremacist Donald -- aka, Joseph Stalin Jr. -- Trump colluded with Russia to dig up dirt to steal the 2016 election from saintly Hillary Clinton. Script based on the fictional whistleblower Steele Dossier, paid for by Fusion GPS, the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign, and sundry half-truth affidavits filed in the FISA court.


Here's Schiff's 2020 movie:

 "Trump Colludes with Ukraine” (still in production): Evil racist, bigot, homophobe, white supremacist Donald -- aka Adolf Hitler Jr. -- Trump colluded with Ukraine to dig up dirt to steal the 2020 election from former Vice President Joe Biden. Script based on a hearsay whistleblower complaint crafted by either Schiff himself, his staff, or his designated attorney, all without disclosing that the whistleblower appears to be an old crony of former-VP Biden.


The American people have seen enough. The 2016 version was garbage. The 2020 version bids fair to be even worse. With the Republicans in control of the Senate, and with 67 votes needed in the Senate to convict, Democrats know that any partisan impeachment is DOA.


The 2020 election is a year from now. If Trump is the consummate evil racist, white supremacist, traitor that the Democrats claim he is, he will be "impeached" by the voters!

Posted: QCOline.com   October 24th, 2019

Copyright 2019, John Donald O'Shea

Vote Democrat, GM - Get Bernie-care, and $15 an hour

You are a GM worker.

Are you really going to vote for a Democrat who is telling you that if elected he/she wants Medicare-for-All (Bernie-care) and is going to abolish all private medical insurance?

At a recent Democratic debate, moderator Lester Holt asked, "Who here would abolish their private insurance in favor of a government run health plan?" Sen. Elizabeth Warren's and Mayor Bill de Blasio's hands shot up. Warren bleated, “I’m with Bernie on Medicare-for-All.”

But how about the rest of the Democrats? Sen. Bernie Sanders' proposed legislation would abolish ALL private health insurance. Sen. Cory Booker and Sen. Kristen Gillibrand are co-sponsors of Sanders’ bill. Reps. Tulsi Gabbard, Tim Ryan and Eric Swalwell are sponsoring similar legislation in the House. Sen. Kamala Harris was for the Sanders' proposal before she was against it. Joe Biden says he's for Obamacare. But at least one Democrat candidate has some doubts. 

Sen. Amy Klobuchar supports a Medicare public option, but as yet doesn't support Sander's Medicare-for-All bill

“I am just simply concerned about kicking half of America off their health insurance in four years, which is what this bill says,” she said.


Would that include GM workers? Do UAW workers and retirees agree with Sanders, Warren, Booker, Gillibrand, Gabbard, Ryan, et al? Are they willing to hazard their GM insurance to elect a blithering socialist? Or will Sanders, Warren and the rest abolish all private insurance except that provided by the UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust?

That trust provides health care benefits for current and future eligible UAW retiree members of Chrysler, General Motors, and Ford. The trust is an independent entity and not administered by the auto manufacturers or the UAW.

Medicare members can choose one of three plans: Medicare Advantage PPO, Traditional Care Network (TCN), or HMO. The monthly cost for TCN is $17 single and $34 family. There is no monthly cost for the MA PPO or the HMO options.

Non-Medicare members can have two options: Enhanced Care PPO (ECP), or HMO. Both require a monthly $17 single and $34 family payment. Due to word limitations, I am only going to discuss the primary plans. For Medicare members, the primary plan is MA PPO, for non-Medicare members, it is ECP PPO.

Here what the MA PPO provides: Deductible, $245/person; coinsurance (amount paid after deductible is met) 10%; out-of-pocket max before the plan covers 100 of covered costs, $630/person; primary care physician (PCP) office visit, $20 copay; specialist office visit, $25 copay; emergency room (waived if admitted), $50 copay.

ECP PPO provides: Deductible, $400 single, $675 family; coinsurance, 10%; out-of-pocket max, $800 single, $1,475 family; PCP office vsit, $25 copay; specialist office visit, $35 copay; urgent care, $50 copay.

Regardless of the medical plan option, the copay amounts for prescription drug benefits are the same. For a month supply: Tier 1 generics, $14; Tier 2 preferred brand, $45; Tier 1 non-preferred brand, $115.

The trust also provides hearing aid, vision and dental benefits. So what are the UAW workers and retirees going to do, play Russian roulette?

The progressives also demand the abolition of the use of fossil fuels and internal combustion engines. But with gasoline and an internal combustion engines gone, what's going to happen to auto worker jobs?

If we go to electric-powered or wind-powered cars, will auto workers even have to worry about Medicare-for-All wiping out their private health insurance? Do permanently laid-off workers still get company-provided health benefits? And if you get rid of internal combustion engines, what happens to the jobs of workers in the gasoline production industry? To their insurance?

And if you abolish all private insurance, what becomes of the jobs of workers who work for private health insurance companies? Of their private health insurance? In the past, the Democrats' answer has been to "set up new job-training classes."

A vote for any of these Democrats should mean job re-training will become the new growth industry" What, me worry?

Sanders has another brilliant plan: "Give everybody a $15 per hour government job!" That should really appeal to GM workers.

Posted: QCOline.com   October 17th, 2019

Copyright 2019, John Donald O'Shea

Democrat Leftist Mobs are the Best Gun Salesmen

The Democrats demand gun control. In particular, they demand banning AR-15-style rifles, and large-capacity magazines.

They argue that the average citizen has no legitimate reason for possessing such weapons and magazines. Democratic candidate Beto O'Rourke now calls for outright confiscation.

Until recently, I had believed that most Americans were inclined to agree with the Democrats on AR-15-style rifles and large-capacity magazines. Then, within a brief period, Democrats, their street-mob allies, and their Hollywood henchmen go nuts and demonstrate that the NRA's concerns may very be well-founded.

They give Americans who rationally fear mob violence and unconstitutional confiscation of their guns (in violation of the 2nd and 5th amendments) excellent motivation to run out and buy AR-15-style weapons with large-capacity magazines for the protection of themselves, their families, their homes and their businesses against leftist mobs and government overreach.

Indeed, rather than dissuading the sale and possession of such weapons, the Democrats and their allies now seem intent on inducing every "deplorable" in America to purchase the very weapons the Democrats have been railing against.

Here are four recent incidents that illustrate the point.


1. Recently a mob of extremist leftists gathered outside the home of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in Louisville, Ky. During the mob action, which was calculated to shatter the nighttime quiet of the neighborhood and to disrupt the ability of McConnell, his family and his neighbors to sleep peacefully in their homes, a female mob-member can be heard, in the video of the incident, saying “just stabs the mother f----r in the heart, please.”


2. Democratic Congressman Joaquin Castro, brother of Julian Castro, has tweeted, "Sad to see so many San Antonians as 2019 maximum donors to Donald Trump. ... Their contributions are fueling a campaign of hate that labels Hispanics as 'invaders.' ... In 2019, these 44 San Antonio donors contributed the most allowable by federal law."

He then lists the donors' names. (Making his actions even more irresponsible, his list erroneously included people who weren't donors). Castro published his "little list of society offenders" for one reason. He wanted leftist mobs, to target Trump donors to intimidate them from exercising their 1st Amendment right to support the candidate(s) of their choice. Castro wanted their homes and businesses mobbed, and their businesses boycotted. If they were bullied in restaurants, good.

3. Then, leftist at the Universal Studio, announced a new movie, "The Hunt," in which rich, elitist leftist thrill-seekers take a private jet to a five-star resort where they embark on a "deeply rewarding" expedition that involves hunting down and killing "deplorables" (Hillary Clinton's term for Trump supporters). The movie glorifies hate, political violence and the mass murder of those with whom you disagree. (Universal has had second thoughts -- at least until the heat dies down).


4. Then, during the last Democratic presidential debate, socialist candidate Beto O'Rourke vowed that if elected, he would "take away" from every law-abiding citizen any gun he believes is "not needed for hunting." That would include AR-15 and AK-47 semi-automatic rifles that have a cosmetic similarity to actual military weapons.


Imagine now you are one of Hillary's "deplorables." Imagine further a political climate in which a supposedly responsible members of Congress puts you name and address on a list as a "contributor to a campaign of hate against Hispanics" with the implication that you, like McConnell, deserve to be confronted by the mob in your home in the middle of the night, or when you are dining in a restaurant. Or that you deserve to have your business boycotted -- or worse.

Add to that a toxic political climate in which the Hollywood left produces a movie in which conservatives are treated as subhumans to be shot to death for sport and amusement.

And to top it off, imagine a howling mob descending upon your front door in the dead of night, led by a 21st century "Madame Defarge," who rather than knitting, encourages the mob to stab you in the heart. Or imagine that in the dead of night, 10 members of the mob kick in your front door and come for you. Would an AR-15 with a large-capacity magazine be your weapon of choice?

When mob violence is encouraged by politicians who would tear up the Bill of Rights, the mob and demagogue politicians become the best salesman for AR-15-style weapons and magazines, and the unwitting ally of the NRA.

Posted: QCOline.com   October 10th, 2019

Copyright 2019, John Donald O'Shea