I’m watching The Clinton Affair on A&E, all about Paula Jones and Kathleen Willey and Monica and impeachment. The parallels with that witch hunt and the current witch hunt are striking. Both independent counsel investigations are totally partisan efforts to get the President by any means necessary, and both are perpetrated by a cabal of the President’s enemies.

The main difference between then and now is that then the press was largely on Clinton’s side, doing their best to portray Paula Jones as an ignorant trailer trash hick, and Monica Lewinsky as a psychotic slut. Whereas now it’s all orange man bad all the time, no benefit of the doubt allowed. The mainstream press, which was the only press there was at that time, didn’t print the Monica story. So guess who did? Drudge Report. It was the beginning of the internet alternative.

But the similarities are uncanny. The special counsel can’t make a case on the original target, the Whitewater real estate deal and the Madison Guaranty Bank, all stuff that happened in Arkansas when Bill Clinton was Governor and Hillary was at the Rose Law Firm. So they start going after people for other things, mostly lying about this or that. They are desperate to have something to show for the year that they have wasted, and then the Paula Jones civil suit happens. And then, mirabile dictu, Linda Tripp calls on the phone, out of nowhere, with some hot info about a young intern named Monica Lewinsky.

Lucianne Goldberg (the mother of Jonah Goldberg, well known conservative writer for National Review, and virulent anti-Trumper) is managing Linda Tripp, who is managing Monica Lewinsky, and the magic dress is preserved. Linda has a collection of tapes of her phone conversations with Monica, which are illegal in Maryland, but the Starr team grants her immunity. Linda Tripp is like a very evil person.

Bill Clinton was arguably doing a pretty good job as President. None of this had anything to do with his Presidential duties. And, as it turned out, the American people didn’t give a shit who he had sex with, and they didn’t care if he lied about it.

I hated what they tried to do to that sleazy sexual predator President Clinton, and I hate what they are trying to do to President Trump.

I wrote something to sum up what the elements of a compromise on immigration would entail in admissions of truth on both sides. Then I had to chop it down to squeeze it into a tweet. As usual, the tweet was better than the original. Here is the tweet:

#Republicans must admit:

Not all criminals & gang members

Some women & children

Most want better life, work hard, raise family.

@TheDemocrats must admit:

Some are criminals & gang members

Mostly young men

Not all who want to come here, can come here.

#compromise

Guy on business news saying, “We’re waiting for the capitulation, when investors say I’ve given up my gains for the year, now I just want to get out of the mess.” Then the market will go back up. They’re admitting it! Time to squeeze out the weaklings, and snap up discounts.

When the 2nd amendment was adopted, the armed citizenry was much closer to being equal to the government in firepower. True, the government had cannon, and the citizens did not, but nevertheless citizens were a force to be reckoned with by the government. The capacity for guerrilla warfare was not to be sneezed at, and it was immortalised as the second right in the Bill of Rights.

Today the government has tanks, fighter planes, nukes, and more, while the citizenry has semi-automatic rifles and handguns, which the Democrats would like to take away from them.

This argument that the Founders were talking about muskets and now we are allowing AR-15s, is ridiculous. The point is the disparity between the authorities and the people, which has gotten much larger, not smaller.

If the Founders were around today, they would be legalizing fully automatic weapons and RPGs, at least.

The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) has put out an ad comparing Judge Kavanaugh to Bill Cosby and Bill Clinton. The ACLU is coming out in favor of abolishing the principle of presumption of innocence, and they are cool with smearing Judge Kavanaugh by linking him to sexual predators with whom he has no relationship whatsoever.

Why not add Ted Kennedy?

@ACLU? @ACLU? I have a vague memory of them. Aren’t they the legal organization that defended the NAZI Party march in Skokie, IL? Why! Sputter! Sputter! We can’t have NAZIs arguing before the Supreme Court! There is no presumption of innocence for NAZIS! They have no rights!

I was at a party once, when I was 15, where NAZIs were raping buxom blonde frauleins and I remember the ACLU was there standing by the punch bowl.

Christine Ford’s entire existence on the internet was wiped out, not an easy thing to do, something which would have taken a team of savvy technicians to accomplish, a polygraph test was administered (whose detailed results have been withheld), lawyers were hired.

All of this was done before anyone, other than Dianne Feinstein and her staff, and presumably some of her Democratic colleagues, had ever heard the name Christine Ford.

If Mrs. Ford is to be believed, her lawyers did not even inform her that the Republicans on the committee offered to go to California and have a private session with her to spare her any inconvenience or discomfort. This after these same lawyers said she was unable to fly, even though she is actually a frequent long distance flyer.

Christine Ford has been groomed and coached and manipulated by people who have no moral restraints in order to destroy a good person’s reputation.

Brett Kavanaugh makes me think of Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate, valedictorian, captain of the team, private school, Yale graduate. He even looks like Dustin Hoffman.

But then instead of suffering what does it all mean 60s angst and throwing it all away for love, he stays on track, lives an impeccably square life and is nominated for the Supreme Court.

And what is his reward for being so good, so careful, so perfect for his entire life? He is accused, without any evidence, of attempted rape, indecent exposure, and plying women with alcohol and drugs to make them victims of gang rape.

If, instead of doing everything he was supposed to do, he had misspent his youth like I did, none of this would be happening to him.

Looks like he’ll make it onto the Court, but for the rest of his life millions of people will believe all of this crap about him is true. I predict that he and Clarence Thomas will become good friends.

When I was in China in the 80s, I was part of Dianne Feinstein’s entourage, the third mini-bus back from Dianne’s (true fact). It was thanks to my partner who had been the Coopers and Lybrand rep in China before any American Accounting firm was there.

One night she assaulted me in my hotel room in Shanghai demanding sex. I would be happy to testify before Congress about it, but I want a full FBI investigation first.

I remember when it happened and where it happened. I thought she was going to kill me. I have never gotten over it.

I’ve had quite a few traumatic experiences in my life, experiences that I would have shared with my therapist if I had ever had a therapist. Some of these experiences, I would claim, were much more traumatic than a situation where a drunk teenager jumped on me and I got away with no physical harm. Where is my FBI investigation? Where is my revenge?

There are people who have hurt me, have caused me pain. Some of them were lawyers. If only they were nominated for the Supreme Court, then I’d get them, those bastards. I already have the letter composed that I would send to Dianne Feinstein.

I don’t really remember when the bad things happened, or where they happened, or what happened exactly, but I’m pretty sure of who did it, and I want justice!

When an issue arises, like oh say, how many people died in Puerto Rico, or Kavanaugh said birth control is abortion, or Google is a brainwashed cultural Marxist cult. As soon as it appears, the counterspin appears.

All that is required is for it to be something one can say that will echo in the chamber of one’s compadres. It doesn’t matter even if it’s wildly untrue to the point of absurdity, it will be believed.

Arguments between the sides are useless, a waste of energy. There is an impenetrable response for every argument.

We can only look on in horror, from our strongholds, at the possibility or the reality, of the other side winning.