Wow.  Here’s Comey’s prepared statement.  It’s going to be quite a morning, tomorrow.

This is obstruction of justice, by any reasonable standard.  The only reason why Comey does not come out clearly and say that, I suspect, is because he knows he will be asked this tomorrow: “Well, if you felt it was obstruction of justice, why didn’t you act before now?”  It’s a fair question.

Thus, he left it a bit vague – the “I could be wrong” sophistry.  It’s a duller blade, but it’s a knife that still kills.

Everything changes, tomorrow.  Donald Trump is nearing the final act, whether he is aware of it or not.

 

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The video showing the assault on Kevin here. Update from Kevin here:

So I just wanted to provide an update on the assault case I’m involved in.

I just got off the phone with 52 Division and can confirm pending charges against two individuals: member of the Jewish Defence League Max Bocknek, and a previously unknown individual, Michael Smith.

Bocknek is currently being processed at 52 Division and Smith has been issued a summons to turn himself in to the local police in his community. This will be converted into a warrant if his voluntary appearance is not forthcoming.

It’s been a rough ride personally and as you can see from the chart – four involved parties are still on the street. I can confirm that more charges are pending and will provide updates when those are available.

Thank you to everyone who has expressed support over the last month and I hope you all rest a little easier knowing that there will be a smaller number of these violent cultural supremacists at rallies in the coming months.

Also, if you’re a member of the public who can identify the ‘unknown’ (top center) in my attached rogue’s gallery it would be greatly appreciated.  Kevin

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Rumours are rampant. Tweeters are a-Twitter. Pundits are prognosticating.

Herewith, the Grit pros and cons.

PRO

• eliminates the PC’s huge financial advantage
• capitalizes on post-budget bounce
• potentially catches the opposition off-guard 
• recognizes that things could get worse the longer they wait

CON

• we could lose – badly

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Here’s what The Rebel is saying about a fine Canadian company, Sears, which quietly declined to advertise with The Rebel. 

Got that? Okay. And here’s just one thing found on The Rebel’s web site:

If you can make sense of any of that, drop me a line. 

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Now in HuffPo!

My preferred graf:

You’ll never get him off Twitter. Ever. He thinks he’s The Shakespeare of Twitter. So, invite people to tweet at him about challenges they face. Have him commit to reading a certain number every day, and develop solutions for them. On Twitter. It’ll satisfy his craving for attention, and it’ll maybe even help out some citizens.

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My friend Dave was elected Alberta Liberal leader on the weekend. He’s an amazing guy, and I believe he’s got what it takes to win.

He’s also got a few things in his favour:

• The ideological extremes are arrogant, and have (stupidly) left the Alberta political centre wide open
• The notion that a Liberal option is unelectable in Alberta is just not true – Trudeau showed everyone that in 2015, even in Calgary
• The Wildrose/PC internal battles aren’t over – they’re just starting.  And the NDP remains very unpopular.  There’s room for a smart, centrist Liberal option in Alberta – because Alberta has changed

The Alberta Party is a stalking horse for the Right and the Left.  Khan’s Liberals are the only sensible option for modern Alberta.

Watch this guy.

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What’s Sleeping Giants? Basically, it’s citizen-run Twitter accounts which try to persuade advertisers to boycott far-Right web sites like Breitbart and The Rebel, (which was founded by Andrew Scheer’s top aide, BTW).

It works.  You can read about the results here and here and here.

There’s a Sleeping Giants Canada account, too.  It’s here.

What is Sleeping Giants Canada concerned about? Here’s just one example:

Go there, and use friendly persuasion to get companies to stop giving money to those who say they “hate Jews” and more.  Examples here and here and here.

Citizen power works.  Use it.

THE SG UPDATED CONFIRMED LISTS:
therebel: https://t.co/Xos8Uuv1Na
breitbart: https://t.co/0ng4LqtlXX
THE SG FAQ: https://t.co/qyd8IoWdJl pic.twitter.com/E3gstUS3cB

— Sleeping Giants CA (@slpng_giants_ca) June 1, 2017

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7,500 votes. 

That’s much more than the margin Scheer “won” by. That’s an actual scandal. 

But what would you expect from a leader whose campaign guru helped to found the alt-Right web site The Rebel?

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That, or Kim was a him.

“Definitely not,” said Trudeau. He later added: “Although I will say, I have one daughter and there is something very special about imagining a woman prime minister. I think it’s long overdue. I just don’t think we have to wait that long. I think it should be sooner than that.”

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Can Donald Trump be saved?

Most Americans – and most non-Americans – don’t want to, of course. They want him gone: impeached, indicted, imprisoned. Whatever it takes.

But his legions of opponents lack the means. Impeachment won’t happen until the Democrats have sufficient numbers in Congress – and that’s many months away, if it happens at all. And the Justice Department’s Special Counsel only recently started picking through the entrails of the Trump-Russia conspiracy. Indictments from that, too, are many months away. Maybe years.

So, for the foreseeable future, we are stuck with Trump, and he with us. It may therefore seem like a rhetorical (or wholly unwanted) question, but it needs to be asked: can Trump be saved? Can he be rehabilitated?

Per the name of this space, this writer is a war room guy. War roomers like impossible political challenges. We are the campaign saints of lost causes.

So, herewith and hereupon, ten things Trump’s staff and advisors can do to save him. Seriously.

1. Work the phones. Politicians are most human, and most humane, when they pick up the phone and start regularly talking to real people about real problems. It’s time consuming, sure. But have Trump commit to speaking to ten average Americans every day. It will humanize him and it will impress them.

2. Get out of the Oval Office. Take him to places he’s unused to – food banks, factory floors, women’s’ shelters, young kids’ schools. No media in attendance, at the start. Just interaction with regular folks. Humanizes him, again, impresses them.

3. Get back on TV. Celebrity Apprentice made him a celebrity – and somehow convinced millions of Americans the presidency could use his “business sense.” Develop a show for him where citizens can come present problems and ideas and solutions. Seriously. It might just work.

4. Reassign Tweeter-in-Chief. You’ll never get him off Twitter. Ever. He thinks he’s The Shakespeare of Twitter. So, invite people to tweet at him about challenges they face. Have him commit to reading a certain number every day, and develop solutions for them. On Twitter. It’ll satisfy his craving for attention, and it’ll maybe even help out some citizens.

5. Stop revenge tweets. He uses Twitter for one thing above all else: to get back at critics. To get even. He will never stop doing that. He thinks it helped him win. So, develop a team to help him with Twitter. Have them do research for him, and develop tweets that he can use, and that sound like him, but will get him in a lot less trouble. Make him dependent on that team. And show him statistics, regularly, that prove it is working. He’s a numbers guy. That’s how you change his mind: numbers, results.

6. Apply anti-testosterone. Make the West Wing 75 per cent female. Trump’s all testosterone, all the time. He needs people around him who will slow him down, a bit, and help him stop being his own worst enemy. The White House would only improved by the presence of many more smart women.

7. Keep it simple, stupid. Identify three things he wants to do. Just three. Do-able, sell-able things. Dispense with everything else. Call them “deals,” so he goes along with it, and do all that it takes to achieve them.

8. Get him out of town. Voters – and his voters in particular – correctly think D.C. is where good ideas go to die. So, get him on the road, campaigning (which he loves almost as much as he loves Himself) for his Three Things. Campaign all the time. If he wants to golf along the way, have tournaments to benefit local women’s shelters and food banks. It’ll work.

9. Dr. No. Find the guy, or the gal, who is (a) unafraid to tell him no and (b) who he will listen to. Station this person outside whatever room he is in, and pay them lots of money to never leave. It’s really, really needed.

10. Let Trump be Trump. Like all men, his greatest fear is the fear of failure. Help him achieve some wins, however modest. That’ll make him happy and a lot less angry and a lot less likely to lash out. Above all, stop trying to make him a politician. He’ll never be one. Make him the Celebrity Apprentice guy again. He’ll go for it. People might even watch it.

Will these things work? They just might. Try them out, The Donald. And if you’re dissatisfied with the results, you can go back to what you are doing now.

Which is, you know, losing the presidency.

You’re welcome.

 

 

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