As any longtime reader knows, I was a Never Trumper throughout the election. But when the nation selected him, I laid down that label and accepted reality. Trump was my president for the next four to eight years, I earnestly hoped for his and my country’s success, and I would praise or criticize him based on his actions.

But if I were one of those dead-enders who kept fighting reality, the last thing I’d do is rehash the same failed strategy that didn’t stop him in 2016. What is obvious to any Army captain or novice entrepreneur was utterly lost on several of our most celebrated pundits and political strategists.

https://ricochet.com/509257/yes-anti-trumpism-failure-always-destined-one/

And the promised Mueller-fueled impeachment? It’s abandoned collusion with Vladimir Putin for collusion with Stormy Daniels. ~ from a link by I R A Darth Aggie at April 13, 2018 6:57 AM

This should serve as fair warning about special prosecutor investigations, that too many of them seem to devolve into the sordid; Clinton's into the Lewinsky affair and Trump's into the Daniels affair. Lawrence Walsh's years-long investigation into Reagan and Bush resulted in the nothing more than the prosecution of a dying man for having a faulty memory.

Special prosecutors spend inordinate amounts of taxpayer money ostensibly to investigate corruption and misdeeds. Finding such investigations difficult, they opt for low-hanging fruit in sordid affairs and perjury traps.

No special prosecutor is going to report to Congress "nothing to see here" and close up shop without at least one prosecution. No Attorney General wants to report having spent millions on an investigation that revealed nothing. By default, a special prosecutor investigation becomes a witch hunt; a self-perpetuating machine that won't rest until someone, anyone, is in the stocks.

As a result, they've become little more than a partisan posturing to smear the opposition.

the last thing I’d do is rehash the same failed strategy that didn’t stop him in 2016.
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Darth, enjoy this, whether or not you can get to the original op-ed by Hessan (the blogger who responded - Josh Bernoff? - is still good - and so are the comments).

"Trump supporters told Diane Hessan the truth. Now, what should the parties do about them?"

https://withoutbullshit.com/blog/trump-supporters-told-diane-hessan-the-truth-now-what-should-the-parties-do-about-them

Questions, we have questions for the good Mr. Mueller.

What did Bob Mueller know about the FBI’s framing of four innocent men for a murder they didn’t commit, and when did he know it?

This is an important question for the “special counsel,” and for two days I’ve been emailing his press office, asking for answers about his tenure in the U.S. attorney’s office here. No response. Zip, zero, nada.

http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2018/04/linkneck.html#comments

Leonan, nice set of articles. I know what the Dems should do, but what they will do is a combination of

Be as loud and outraged and resistant as possible.
Make Trump the issue.
Demonize the other side.
Make impeachment the issue.

Additionally, they'll run on promises to repeal Trump's tax cuts and the Second Amendment.

They have a very long track record of enforcing ideological purity and being pretty good at the demonization thing. Hessan mentions Doug Jones and Conor Lamb by name as "getting support both from progressives and from moderate Republicans".

That's all well good, right up until Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi need them to fall in line. In which case, they'll leave some portion of their voters unhappy.

Well, California looks to be putting the CAL 3 proposal to split the state into three states on the ballot in November.

https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-referendum-to-split-calif-into-3-states-will-be-on-ballot/

The Internet's health report:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/mozilla-foundation-report-details-decline-in-health-of-internet/

Oy.

In what could be a major blow to the prosecution's sexual assault case against Bill Cosby, a former model and reality TV star admitted on the witness stand Thursday that she fabricated passages in a memoir -- including a story of "rebuffing" the comedian's advances.

Janice Dickinson took the witness stand in a Pennsylvania courtroom, testifying in Cosby's retrial on three counts of aggravated indecent assault.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/bill-cosby-accuser-admits-concocting-story-memoir-001407177--abc-news-topstories.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=fb

"This should serve as fair warning about special prosecutor investigations, that too many of them seem to devolve into the sordid."

Yeah, I thought everyone had learned that lesson with Ken Starr.

If they were paying attention, they learned it long before that, Perhaps with Lawrence Walsh, whose investigation through two presidents resulted in the ethically-questionable last-minute indictment of a dying Caspar Weinberger that gave us Bill Clinton as president and Hillary Clinton as political gadfly.

I will never not love the United States of America, and I'm not ashamed to say it

Trump Should Focus on Debt Crisis Rather Than Raising Tariffs

https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/04/11/trump-should-focus-on-debt-crisis-rather-than-trade/

Our President is just a fabulous, fabulous man.

Trustworthy! Right, Ben? Reliable! Right, Raddy? Stalwart! Right, Snoopy?

And we all love his hair Crid. Or something like that I guess.

Still don't understand why you've become irrelevant Crid?