When liberalism is in trouble it's time to tear down statues.
ONCE WE DESTROY EVERY HISTORICAL AMERICAN STATUE AND MEMORIAL
symbolizing and tainted with the evil of racism, slavery and hate (from statues of Lee to the Washington Monument) we must then turn our wrath on Moslem houses of worship: mosques. For Mohammed, the founder of Islam (the 7th century Adolf Hitler) was a vicious, violent, intolerant, predatory, anti-Semitic, imperialistic racist thug who was a huge slave-master owning thousands of male, female and children slaves: Blacks, Jews, Christians and Arab pagans.
Mohammed was the 7th century Hitler. Hitler was the 20th century Mohammed.
Indeed, when Mohammed and his followers fled from Mecca and settled as refugees in the city of Medina it had a thriving community of religious Jews that got on well with the city's pagan citizens. But on the day Mohammed died the only Jews left in Medina were converts to Islam and slaves. What happened in between was horrific, murderous persecution as the city was ethnically cleansed of most of its Jews (see). Why? Because the Jews refused to give up their faith and accept Mohammed as God's final, ultimate, perfect prophet (superior to and closer to God than Moses so he believed) with the absolute revelation of saving truth for mankind: the Koran.
This persecution drove Medina's Jews to form a desperate military alliance with Mohammed's enemies the Meccans...to get rid of him so they could live in peace and safety once again. But that was not to be. Mohammed defeated the Meccans, and in revenge violently turned on the Jews for their "treachery" butchering, beheading and enslaving them.
Therefore, no cultural revolution to purify America of racism, slavery, bigotry and hate can be complete without including the destruction of mosques. Mosques are unquestionably symbols of racist oppression and man's inhumanity to man as bad if not worse than Confederate statues and memorials. For it was the Arabs that started the massive African slave trade centuries before Europeans got into the act - it was the Arabs that gave Europeans the idea and incentive to grow rich. It is estimated that Arab Moslems enslaved some 14 million African blacks legally and morally justifying it by the example of their slave owning "God-directed" prophet and the laws that he gave them (see). And though we're in the 21st century Moslems still own black slaves in certain parts of Africa (see) - and not one word of condemnation from CAIR because slavery is perfectly lawful in Islam.
Arab slave ship with its human cargo from Africa.
Moreover, we mustn't forget that the Barbary Wars, the next wars that our country fought after the revolution, was against Moslem pirates, profiteers and jihadis - who in the name of Allah, Islam and Mohammed attacked and seized at sea peaceful American merchant ships stealing their cargo, and killing or enslaving their crews.
USS Philadelphia burning at the Battle of Tripoli Harbor during the First Barbary War in 1804
Don't be deceived: Mohammed, Washington and Lee are three different faces of the same evil enemy of justice and humanity and must be erased from historical memory. Anyone who disagrees with me is evil, unAmerican, Nazi scum.
I am a proud, white, conservative, country first, pro-American patriotic nationalist. Like Donald Trump my black conservative friends are proud, black, country first, pro-American patriotic nationalists. Like Donald Trump my conservative Hispanic friends are proud, Hispanic, country first, pro-American patriotic nationalists. Like Donald Trump my yellow-skinned conservative friends are proud, Asian, country first, pro-American patriotic nationalists. Like Donald Trump my conservative wife and lady friends are proud, female, country first, pro-American patriotic nationalists. Like Donald Trump my 19 year old conservative son is a proud, teenage, country first, pro-American, patriotic nationalist. And like Donald Trump my dog (Washington) is a proud, canine, pro-American nationalist. How do I know? Washington barks happily and wags his tail every time he hears the Star Spangled Banner, God Bless America, Yankee Doodle or most any patriotic song.
As for hate driven, Neo-Nazi, white supremacist racist scum (a tiny, powerless minority that had nothing to do with Trump's election*) they put race above country (give skin color absolute value) and aren't true, proud, country first, patriotic American nationalists.
And while the racism of Neo-Nazi and white supremacists is evil, unAmerican and unpatriotic also evil, bigoted, divisive and unAmerican are those on the radical race obsessed Left that deny whites any semblance of racial identity. It is racist bigotry, and therefore evil, to tell whites that they can't have a racial identity and pride in their race and its achievements - as if being white is morally corrupt, genetically flawed, oppressive and genocidal. This is insanity that leads to racial resentment, division, violence and hate. It leads to Charlottesville.
Racial pride is fine for the members of all races but becomes evil when taken to the extreme of supremacism: White, Black, Red, Hispanic, Asian, etc. Racial pride is morally good in all races so long as the goodness, beauty and potential for great achievements isn't monopolized and denied to other races. Be a proud White, Black, Red, Hispanic or Asian man or woman. But remember there is only one race: the HUMAN RACE; and that the great achievements of any one race is for the good, progress and evolution of all races and ethnic groups that make up the totality of mankind.
*POSTSCRIPT
WAS TRUMP ELECTED PRESIDENT BY WHITE SUPREMACISTS?
NO WAY!
I thought it was the Russians that somehow mysteriously elected Donald Trump President? Now we're told by the divisive, race obsessed, identitarian, PC, Trump hating Left that it was "ethno white nationalists" or "white supremacists" that elected him as if all or most Americans who voted for him (the vast majority were middle class working whites) did so mainly because of race. We are told that after eight years of a popular black president the millions who made Trump his successor did so because they wanted a bigot like themselves in office who'd wipe out his accomplishments as if he'd never been president. And we're told that the reason for Trump not initially explicitly condemning white racism for Charlotteville was to avoid offending and alienating his "loyal racist base." But this is pure, utter, easily refutable rubbish.
Fact is, as Roger Simon points out at PJ Media (see), white supremacists make up a microscopic speck of the U.S. population (a fringe group) and have zero political clout. Indeed, according to a study done by History Channel on the Klu Klux Klan, at the height of its power in the 1920s it commanded a membership of 4 million supremacists. That was a staggering 4% of the total U.S. population at the time - politically significant by any measure as the Klan's influence over the Democratic Party into the 1960s proves. But by the 1990s (30 years after MLK's death) Klan membership dwindled to a low pitiful 10,000 supremacists or less. That would be .03% (3/100ths of 1%) of today's population of 320 million. In other words, as a voting block the KKK (still the largest white domestic supremacist group) is an impotent, insignificant, inconsequential nothing burger deserving not the least bit of credit for Donald Trump's historic victory.
Indeed, if every white racist had vanished on November 7th the election's outcome would have been unchanged with Trump winning the same swing states that made him President. Indeed, that Trump and the GOP need white supremacists to win elections is a bald face lie (as I proveHERE); that might have been true for the Democrats for 100 years; but never, not today or ever, of Lincoln's nationalist, non-racist party of emancipation, justice, civil rights and liberty.
POSTSCRIPT II
It would seem that nothing short of Donald Trump abducting David Duke, binding him in chains and dragging him into the Oval Office and strangling him to death would satisfy the race obsessed Left that he wasn't a white supremacist, and that he meant what he said when he disavowed supremacists and their bigotry.
But just as the demonization of Trump as a racist bigot couldn't stop him from being elected, so will it prove ineffectual in 2020 when he's reelected and most likely with a larger minority vote.
when Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union "The Evil Empire."
AND THEY WENT BONKERS AGAIN
when George W. Bush called Iran, Iraq and North Korea the "Axis of Evil."
NOW TRUE TO FORM
they're freaking out because Donald Trump is threatening to rain down utter destruction on the evil, murdering, socialist Norks if they dare attack Guam, or any part of the US.
They're all
Pussyheads!
DONALD TRUMP VS. KIM JONG-UN/NICOLAS MADURO
Wealth Creating Free Market Capitalism vs. Impoverishing Oppressive Egalitarian Socialism
with a small government, freedom loving conservative at its helm who's shrinking the size, scope and power of the growth killing regulatory state? Donald Trump is moving the country in the exact opposite direction of a totalitarian, command and control centralized communist dictatorship. Truth is Barack Obama has more in common with Fat Boy that does President Trump. In fact, the American people are freer today than they were on the day Barack Obama left office.
Under the filthy wig of this ugly foul mouth leftist mutt there's a brain so microscopically small that she couldn't find North Korea on a map if it were pointed out to her.
IF BERNIE SANDERS HAD KIM JONG UN'S ABSOLUTE TOTALITARIAN POWER
he'd be no less brutal and murderously cruel with the enemies of socialism - that's how much of a fanatic he is. If he wouldn't kill or jail people like us he'd send us to reeducation camps to beat selfishness and capitalist greed out of us until we became the selfless servants of the all good, wise, just, compassionate state. If you scratch Bernies surface hard enough you'll find a Fat Boy Jong.
BETTER TRUMP'S "FIRE AND FURY"
to denucleraize the Norks than Barack Obama's "Fast and Furious" fiasco to arm criminals linked to drug cartels, and disarm law-abiding citizens with tighter gun controls and laws.
To mock and ridicule climate change extremists and their deranged unscientific hysterical notion that beneficial, life-giving Carbon Dioxide (which feeds plants, makes them grow and is the basis of the planetary food chain) is a deadly, noxious, world destroying "pollutant" dangerously driving global warming (and a fossil fuel burning humanity to existential doom) I posted on Disqus the following fun question about the impact of drinking CARBONATED water (seltzer) on my health to see what reaction it would get from these loons:
QUESTION ABOUT CO2 POLLUTION AND MY HEALTH
If what the EPA and many climate scientists claim is true about Carbon Dioxide (CO2): that it's a deadly, polluting heat trapping gas that's catastrophically imperiling a fossil fuel burning humanity by dangerously heating the Earth's atmosphere and seas (creating droughts, floods, heat waves and coral disease) then am I polluting my body and possibly ruining my health by drinking large amounts of seltzer (CARBONATED water)?
I'm addicted to the stuff and need to know that it's safe to drink and won't kill me prematurely. Truly, it's no fun living in fear that me, a drug free healthy teetotaler could be drinking myself to death with a nonalcoholic beverage that's sold everywhere. Can someone, anyone help me here!
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Two days later I received the following reply by a humorless climate alarmist named "waxliberty" who completely missed my sarcasm; and taking me literally used my post to mock me for my ignorance of science which he set out to correct. This is what he wrote:
No, ye who desperately needs some basic science education.
CO2 is a pollutant due to its role in driving warming and climate change, for example the loss to mortality via bleaching/heat stress of up to half the Great Barrier Reef in the last two years. If it can kill off the world's coral, it's a pollutant.
Consider comparison cases: iron is essential for nutrition, yet also an industrial pollutant. Is your mind able to juggle such subtleties?
My Reply
(not posted on Disqus)
Thanks for your desperate attempt to educate my ignorance and rescue me from skepticism and denialist hell. But after reading your comment I'm not any smarter, wiser or enlightened for it. I do however pity you for the foolishness and hysterical nonsense that you mistake for real, settled science, which hopefully the following analysis and facts will correct.
We know that the Earth is in an interglacial period between two frigidly cold ice ages, and has been warming for the last 11,000 years (see). And we know that this long epoch of interglacial warming is divided into phases or cycles of global warming and cooling; and that the problem, as you point out, is the role that CO2 (a heat trapping greenhouse gas) has played in all these warming phases; and especially in the latest phase that is now upon us - having started around 1850, 90 years into the Industrial Revolution as this chart shows.
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Now over the last 3100 years (as the chart shows) we've had four periods of interglacial global warming: the Minoan Warm Period, the Roman Warm Period, the Medieval Warm Period and the current Modern Warm Period. And three of these four periods were in the pre-industrial past when wood was mainly used for fuel, and fossil fuels were scarcely used.
Indeed, at the time, as you know, atmospheric CO2 was a low 280 parts per million (ppm) or .028% of the atmosphere. And since the invention of the internal (fossil fuel powered) combustion engine, that launched THE INDUSTRIAL-CAPITALIST REVOLUTION (the greatest era in history of scientific discovery, creativity, technological progress and wealth creation), atmospheric CO2 levels have risen by more than 30% to 400 ppm - a tiny, little minute increase of .01% over pre-industrial levels. And this increase (which is growing by a mere 2 ppm per year) you believe poses the greatest existential threat ever faced by humankind?
And alarmists like you believe that if we stupidly and dangerously persist in massively burning fossil fuels to power our world there'll be hell to pay and catastrophe ahead leading to an extinction event: global rainlessnes and droughts will cause famines and crop failure killing millions, you believe; desertification will turn fertile lands into arid, bone dry sierras and death valleys; rising acidified seas will flood coastal towns and cities displacing millions, and all coral and marine life will perish; runaway, extreme weather events (hurricanes, cyclones, typhoons, etc) will multiply exponentially becoming daily occurrences wrecking universal havoc costing trillions in damage and financial distress; and terrible unheard of killer plagues will arise making the Black Death seem like the common cold or flu or a bad stomach virus. Indeed, if this is what the future holds because of human-industrial CO2 then yes, indeed, you're right: CO2 is a dangerous, menacing "POLLUTANT" that should alarm us.
But this is mindless, hysterical, unscientific nonsense deserving mockery and ridicule or, at worse, a long stay in the nut house. For the truth is this: if CO2 is a "pollutant" because, as you say, its "driving [global] warming and climate change" then anything that causes that should also be termed a "pollutant." And such would be (to an even greater degree) the burning, scorching, nuclear furnace at the center of our planetary system: the SUN. For, as you'll see from the evidence below, it was variations in the heat and energy output of the Sun that drove climate change and global warming in past, pre-industrial interglacial warm periods.
Indeed, solar physicists who study the Sun (a young evolving star) tell us that it's heat and energy output is slowly increasing; and that sometime in the distant future (a billion years or less) the Sun's output will become so intensely and hellishly hot as to make surface temperatures on this planet (as on Venus) impossible for life. Will the Sun then be a "pollutant" because of its globally destructive heating effects?
Hell, not even high levels of 7000 ppm of atmospheric CO2 (see above chart) that enriched the pre-historic Cambrian Age 500 million years ago (when most of the major groups of animals were born) couldn't do to this planet what the hotter, brighter future Sun is irreversibly fated to do regardless of what the CO2 level is. Which then of the two potentially is the greater and more deadly pollutant? The Sun? Or CO2.
Indeed, the evidence is overwhelming and conclusive that the Sun has driven climate change and global warming in past warming cycles, just as you believe the "pollutant" CO2 is doing in this age. Going back 1000 years take for example the Medieval Warm Period (900 AD - 1200 AD) which was global in scope and just as warm (if not warmer) than it is today. Indeed, this was the age when Viking explorers led by Erik the Red discovered a relatively warm Greenland (that's warming up again) that was green with grass, trees and plants and suitable for growing barley and raising livestock - until killer cold conditions set in from the advancing Little Ice Age (see).
Above is a google map (see) charting the vast extent of the warming during the 300 year Medieval Warm Period (MWP). The red balloons which dominate the chart represent scientific research papers (climate reconstructions) related to the areas pinpointed by them. And what we see is UNIVERSALITY. From the North Poll to the South Poll, from the Atlantic East to the Pacific West, across North America, Europe, Africa and China and down under in the Australian continent the work of over 700 scientists from 40 countries and hundreds of institutions found warming in every part of the medieval world - warming that was equal to or greater than temperatures today.
The great global warming of the Medieval Warm Period
One of the most prominent of these papers by Rutgers Professor Yair Rosenthal (no AGW skepticsee) found that the medieval Pacific Ocean was warmer than today's Pacific by 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Another MWP reconstruction by Prof. Hong Yan of the prestigious Chinese Academy of Sciences(see)similarly found very warm temperatures in the Western Pacific, China Sea and on the Chinese mainland; and backing Yan's work is yet another paper from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (see) that reconstructed temperatures in China for 2000 years.
Two other fascinating MWP reconstructions for the Southwestern United States (California, Arizona, Colorado etc.) found two devastating mega droughts lasting a total of 420 years with sweltering temperatures of 3 degrees F higher than today, like offshore in the Pacific (see, see andsee); and it goes on and on and on, study after study multiplied in the hundreds finding warm land and ocean surface temperatures across the medieval world establishing its global magnitude.
But the fundamental question remains: if the deadly, Earth destroying "pollutant" CO2 wasn't driving the climate change and global warming of the Middle Ages then what was? In an interview with New York Times' climate columnist Andrew Revkin (see) Yair Rosenthal claimed that the cause was a "reorientation of the Earth to the Sun." Now I'm not quite sure what "reorientation" here means; but what Rosenthal says suggests that the Sun was the primary factor in medieval climate change and global warming - not volcanic activity, El Ninos, ocean oscillations, etc. as others wrongly believe.
Rosenthal is not alone in linking solar activity to medieval global warming. Indeed, there are perhaps dozens more studies linking the two - as well as dozens more (including Rosenthal) linking the decline in solar activity to the end of the MWP and the Earth slipping into a new global cooling phase: the Little Ice Age.
So there you have it Mr. waxliberty, enough hard, empirical scientific evidence (gathered over decades of research and global climate reconstructions) proving that the grand, glorious, life-giving Sun is, according to your definition, as much a climate changing, global warming deadly "POLLUTANT" as Carbon Dioxide.
Now do you see how idiotic this narrative is and what a fool you and other warmunists have been to believe it? That you've been blindly accepting as settled science and unquestionably true politically driven doomsday nonsense about beneficial, global greening, mildly warming anthropogenic (man caused) CO2?
THE TRUTH IS THIS:
The climate is indeed changing, changing for the better. And fossil fuels and man caused CO2 will continue to enrich the Earth and the life of humanity for a long time to come.
Since November's shocking election I have been writing that Donald Trump the unpredictable, odds defying, underestimated candidate truned 45TH President are one and the same Providential Man with one and the same national mission and winning destiny. I've been writing that the victorious 16 month campaign that defeated a popular but God awful leftwing President, the "smarter," better funded and organized Clinton machine, the "morally superior" Democrat Party, the ferocious 24/7 destroy Trump press, and Republican "Never Trumpers" was prelude to a successful and victorious eight year presidency. I wrote that Trump's enemies on the Left and Right (the Never Trumpers of all shades and stripes) are an army of midgets with pee shooters firing spit balls at an unstoppable battleship that will reverse the decline of America and its disappearing middle class and make this nation great again. And despite the daily colossal effort to stop him (which failed during the campaign) Trump is prevailing, defyingly changing the country's direction as I predicted, and he promised to do.
Indeed, at least one respected liberal journalist has dared to break ranks with the unhinged, brain broken, demonizing Trump hating press and speak the truth about his success: that despite the chaos and low ratings (unchanged since the campaign) Trump is proving to be an effective, unstoppable force for change. Indeed, last week veteran journalist Jeff Greenfield reluctantly told CNN's Michael Smerconish that "Trump is more effective than he's given credit [by Greenfield's liberal peers]." He said that "by the year's end the slew of Trump's conservative court appointments will have reshaped the Federal judicial bench for years and perhaps decades to come (see) ;" and that on "business regulations, the environment and issues of race and crime," Trump is radically altering the nation to the Right-which is his destiny.
But Greenfield's report only scratches the surface of Trump's underreported achievements. There is a ton of good news on what the Trump Administration is accomplishing on trade, the economy, immigration, law and order, congressional and executive action and foreign policy. As you will see from the two lists below, mine and a larger one compiled by blogger "unseen_1" on Redd.it.com (see)*, the accomplishments exceed 200 in number in less than 200 days. As I stated HERE and HERE Trump in his first 100 days was more productive and fruitful in achievements than were Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy combined; and as you will see from what follows Trump beats Reagan and JFK in the next 100 days as well. The two lists are as follows:
*Hat Tip Sue2
ON TRADE
1. KILLED TPP
2. $350+ billion deal with Saudi Arabia ($110 billion in arms $250 billion in trade/investment) creating 100,000’s of jobs in both countries, historic.
3. Pulled out of PARIS ACCORD 4. Had a major victory on sugar exports from Mexico, made Mexico drop the exports % and the amount of refined sugar. This will help our sugar industry and the US sugar mills that produce refined sugar from raw sugar.
5. Notified Congress of NAFTA renegotiation on May 18th. Talks can start 90 days later on Aug 16th, 2017
6. China Trade deal opening up beef and LNG gas as well as giving a way to get 1 billion Chinese credit scores so the USA can offer them credit. Trade deal was done in record time.
7. Sec Ross has slapped more than $2 billion in fines on China and Canada for illegal trade practices.
8. the U.S. Department of Agriculture has reached agreement with Chinese officials on final details of a protocol to allow the U.S. to begin the beef exports to China (6/12/17). The first beef has been imported to China (06/30/17 and Sec Predue cut and ate a USDA prime rib in China)
9. Reopening KORUS ( South Korean )trade deal per Sarah Sanders press briefing on( 06/30/17)
10. saw the first shipment of LNG to Poland and spoke at the three Seas summit to open up additional energy exports.
ON ECONOMY
1. Unemployment rate 4.4% u-3 and 8.6% U6 (for June 07/07/17)
2. 222,000 Jobs created in June per BLS (07/7/17)
3. Proposed a $1 Trillion infrastructure project
4. Stock Market at Historic Highs (Dow up 17% (07/13/17), as of 6/11/17 NASDAQ up 19.5% since election day)
5. US homes prices climb at fastest pace In 3 years per CNBC. 6. Jobless claims hit 28 year low in Apr
7. OPEC broken can no longer set prices due to USA energy production unleashed
8. Secured $50 billion investment from Japan
9. Secured $20 billion investment from Exxon in Gulf coast
10. Gasoline at $1.95/gallon in Central NC (lowest price at this time of year since 2005 for entire US 06/30/17)
11. Repealed 14 Obama regulations via CRA saving $ billions in costs to the economy
12. Atlanta Fed sees 3.0% growth in 2nd qrt per CNBC (07/06/17)
13. Federal debt is 132,273,000 billion LOWER since Dec 30th 2016 (as of 06/30/17) pertreasurydirect.gov
14. Federal surplus was $182 billion at end of Apr (unexpected) 15. Consumer and business confidence at record highs
16. North Dakota experiencing a boom since Dakota access pipeline finished (500,000 Barrels now flowing through pipeline per day)
17. Keystone pipeline construction ongoing
18. Mining, steel and oil/gas jobs booming 19. Mines reopening
20. 1,079,000 JOBS created since Jan1st (per BLS) 1,395,000 per ADP (07/07/17)
21. Directed Dep’t of Commerce to streamline Federal permitting processes for domestic manufacturing
22. Launched United States-Canada Council for Advancement of Women Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders with Canadian PM Justin Trudeau
23. Cut 1.6 billion costs from Air Force one and F-35 airplanes.
24. Regulatory freeze on all federal governmental agencies
25. Making agencies cut 2 regulations for each new one.
26. Saw the opening of the first NEW COAL MINE IN PA in YEARS creating 70 jobs at the mine and more than 400+ supporting jobs in the community. (06/10/17) Per foxnews.
27. Coal prices for Central Appalachian coal has increased 8.95% this year. Increasing the economy for SE OH, SW PA, VA, MD and WVA
28. Maine unemployment at 32 year low. The State dept of unemployment forced to layoff people because of lack of claims
29. Food Stamp spending is down almost $1 billion per month and $12 billion per year per USAD
30. Black unemployment at a 17 year low in May at 7.5% per Bureau of Labor Statistics. (06/24/17)
31. Coal mining rose 19% in USA for first 5 months per US energy Department
32. 1st qrt GDP revised up to 1.4%
33. USA now pumping 500k more barrels of oil per day since Dec 31st. Now at 9.3 million bpd. 3rd in the world only 1.2 million bdp behind Russia and Saudi Arabia
34. USA is the world leader in natural gas production
35. Institute for Supply Management says its manufacturing index rose to 57.8 last month from 54.9 in May. Anything above 50 signals that factory activity is increasing (07/03/17)
36. 15 of 18 manufacturing industries posted growth in JUNE per ISM (07/03/17)
37. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) statistics for fiscal year (FY) 2017 show that food stamp enrollment decreased nationwide by 2.9 percent over the past year (07/05/17)
38. Oil exports FROM the USA are running at 1.3million BPD worth more than $1.5 billion per month to the economy. Per NYT (07/5/17)
39. Crude exports from Corpus Christi have already increased from an average of 68,000 barrels a day during the first half of 2016 to 384,000 barrels a day this April NYT (07/05/17)
40. India-based information technology outsourcing company Infosys plans to hire 2,000 workers within four years in North Carolina and 10,000 total in USA. Infosys emphasized Thursday that the jobs created as part of its U.S. expansion would go to American workers. Per Charlotte Observer (07/06/17)
41. Trade deficit fell 2.2 % in the month of May on higher exports and less imports. China imports dropped 6.1% and Mexico imports increased 5.8%. Trade deficit for the year is still growing by about 13.1% yoy per Breitbart even with the drop in May’s numbers. It will take a while to turn the ship but the ship is turning (07/06/17)
42. Labor participation rate 62.8% (07/07/17)
43. In June, mining employment grew by 8,000, with most of the growth in support activities for mining (+7,000). Since a recent employment low in October 2016, mining has added 56,000 jobs. (07/07/17) per BLS
44. FICO scores for Americans has hit and ALL time high per CNBC (07/11/17)
ON IMMIGRATION
1. Authorized DHS to hire 10,000 ICE officers & 5,000 border patrol agents
2. Secured funding for more immigration judges for deportation cases in 2017 budget
3. Ended “catch and release” policy
4. ICE arrests up 40% as of May
5. ICE arrests are 75% criminal illegals as of May
6. Ice Arrests for non criminal illegals up 150% as of May due to sanctuary cities polices making Ice go to the home instead of the court houses
7. 70%+ decrease in border crossings of illegal aliens in JAN,FEB,MAR,APR) 64% down in MAY
8. No Cuban refugees seen by Coast Guard in Apr first time in 7 years
9. Open bidding and plans submitted for the WALL. Finalists selected, prototypes to be unveiled this summer per CBP official/Breitbart news.\
10. 6ft chain linked fences being replaced by 20ft hardened steel fencing at border
11. More than 1400 gang members have been arrested by ICE
12. This year the U.S. has already deported 398 MS-13 gang members back to El Salvador – compared to only 534 for all of 2016
13. Texas has passed a law outlawing sanctuary cities
14. Foods stamp requests by ILLEGALS D O W N
15. The Trump administration has moved to reopen the cases of hundreds of illegal immigrants who had been given a reprieve from deportation by Obama
16. Per Sec Kelly Plans are to start building the WALL by end of summer.
17. Travel ban EO cut refugees to 50,000 limit has been reached as of 07/12/17). USA now closed to refugee without a close connection to the USA
18. per Breitbart Sec Kelly has refused to expand H2-B visa program in FY 2017 Update 06/22/17 Sec Kelly will expand the H2-b visa program for a limited number of businesses that are in danger of failing and can’t find employment per breitbart.
19. Pres Trump and Sec of DHS ended DAPA (06/16/17)
20. Refugees dropped by half entering the USA in first three months of Pres Trump’s admin over Obama’s admin. (6/24/17 per Washington Times)
21. Per Pres Trump 6,000 MS-13 gang members arrested in first 5 months
22. Per Sec Kelly 66,000 mostly criminal illegals arrested by ICE in first 5 months
23. Kate’s Law passed the House 06/29/17)
24. No Sanctuary Cities Law Passed the House (06/29/17)
25. Illegal immigrant arrests in San Diego, Ca have more than doubled from 2016 and 2015 figures per the San Diego Union Tribune (07/04/17)
26. In a reversal of Obama administration policy, federal prosecutors with Operation Streamline are filing criminal charges against migrants the first time they are caught crossing the border illegally. Per Tucson.com and breitbart (07/05/17)
27. Refugee Arrivals Plummet in Week After Supreme Court Ruling on Trump Executive Order per Breitbart and Department of State website (07/05/17)
28. The International Entrepreneur Rule obama era loophole was closed by DHS on (0711/17). The rule allowed illegals to stay in the country for 2 and half years if they were “starting a business” per breitbart.
29. ICE crackdown in Pueblo scaring some families back to Mexico per the Pueblo chieftain (07/10/17)
30. House subcommittee includes $1.6 billion in funds for Wall in approbations bill (07/12/17) goes to full house for vote
ON LAW AND ORDER
1. Authorities have arrested an unprecedented number of sexual predators involved in child sex trafficking rings in the United States and around the world
2. DOJ issues new sentencing guideline to enforce tougher laws on drug dealers (05/12/17) per Justice. gov
3. DOJ stops Obama’s slush funds (06/08/17) per Washington Examiner
4. Massive raids on gangs going on across the nation 5. More arrests for voter fraud in 2017 then anytime in recent history.
6. DOJ and DHS ordered to take on transnational criminal gangs (02/07/17) per POTUS EO
7. No tolerance for violence against LEO with a signed EO (02/07/17)
8. Fired FBI director who is and was a nutjob.
9. Nominated Wray for FBI director, confirmation hearing 07/12/17
10. Nominated 21 conservative judges to the federal court
11. AG Sessions dismantling the Obama legal doctrine brick by brick at the DOJ per Bloomberg (06/29/17)
12. Operation Broken Heart lead by the DOJ arrested over 1,012 sexual child predators across the nation bringing 69,000 cases against them. (06/28/17)
13. AG Sessions has asked for an extra $26 million to hire 300 prosecutors devoted to gang violence and deportation cases per Bloomberg (06/29/17)
14. DOJ drops case against the Washington Redskins (06/30/17) the era of Political correctness is over.
15. AG Sessions condemned murder of NYPD on (07/05/17) calling the attack cowardly.
16. April 13, 2017-Under President Trump, The Justice Department prosecuted two doctors and one other for practicing female genital mutilation– the first such prosecutions under a federal law passed by Congress in 1996 prohibiting the practice.
17. June 30, 2017—The Trump Administration sent 20 ATF agents to Chicago to help the city fight gun violence.
18. AG Sessions and Deputy AG visit GITMO to see operations and conditions in effort to frame future Trump policy on Gitmo. (07/07/17)
19. AG Sessions and Sec Price announce the biggest ever Healthcare Fraud operation. Arresting 412 people including Doctors who have committed more than 1.3 Billion in medical fraud including opiod fraud. (07/13/17)
ON CONGRESSIONAL AND EXECUTIVE ACTION
1. Confirmed Gorsuch to SCOTUS
2. Signed 39+ Laws so far
3. Signed more than 30+ EO
4. Reviewing the Obama land grabs at the Sec on interior
5. Reviewing and repealing Obama’s regulations
6. Obamacare repeal and replace passed House stuck in Senate as of 07/12/17)
7. Tax cuts and reform moving through Congress waiting on obamacare repeal
8. Submitted 2018 Budget that cuts spending and gives a pathway to a balanced budget in 10 years.
9. Returned power to make decisions on “transgender bathrooms” to states (02/27/17)
10. Instituted 5-year lobbying ban for all Executive branch appointees
11. Instituted permanent lobbying ban for foreign governments for all Executive branch appointees
12. Banned aid helping foreign countries provide abortions (Mexico City Policy) (01/23/17)
13. Formed Commission on voter fraud led by VP Pence
14. Returned the mission of NASA to space exploration (03/21/17)
15. Installing aspects of extreme vetting at points of entry to the USA
16. Signed Two bills into Law on June 2nd that makes it easier for family members of slain LEO to get benefits and that helps hire Veterans as LEO
17. Sec of VA is starting process to combine the DOD and VA medical records to improve Veteran’s health. Massive shift in government policy (06/05/17)
18. Pushing a massive overhaul of our FAA Air Traffic control (06/05/17)
19. House votes to roll back Dodd Frank goes to the Senate (06/08/17)
20. Senate votes for VA accountability act. Goes to House passed house 06/13/17 major victory for Trump agenda signed into law on 06/23/17
21. Pushing an apprentice program to train skilled works to fill 6 million open positions. (06/10/17)
22. The U.S. Treasury Department unveiled a sweeping plan on to upend the country’s financial regulatory framework, 80% of which will be done from the executive side and does not need Congress. MAGA!!!!! (06/13/17)
23. Signed EO to reshape the education system of the USA to include votech and apprenticeships (06/13/17)
24. Did away with rules requiring the Federal government to report on the Y2K bug 17 years after 2000.
25. President Donald Trump signed an executive order creating an accountability and whistleblower protection office at the Department of Veterans Affairs.(04/ 27/2017)
26. Sec Zinke moves to purge the Interior department of Obama holdovers (6/16/17 per Washington Post)
27. Energy Department eliminating the Office of International Climate and Technology
28. 22 federal agency task force formed to help the rural America fight regulations and lack of prosperity led by Sec Perdue
29. Environmental Protection Agency has ended a nearly $1 million program that provided gym memberships for employees
30. 5-0 in special elections (GA6 primary, KS, MT, GA6 final election, SC)
31. Sec Kelly dropped many “Pro-Obama Islamic groups from funding” Groups that pushed for sharia law and closed muslim communities within the USA. (06/23/17 per breitbart)
32. TRAVEL BAN upheld by SCOTUS by 9-0 ruling. Extreme vetting will now become law of the land.
33. ScottPruitt signed #WOTUS proposed rule, supporting @POTUS order to restore the rule of law.
34. Travel BAN now in full effect across the world. (06/29/17)
35. Signed agreement to construct oil pipeline into Mexico per Pres trump speech
36. Opening up LNG centers to ship LNG across the world (06/29/17)
37. Introduced 6 point plan to unleash American energy (off shore, Nuclear, coal, NG,Oil, renewable) (06/29/17)
38. President Trump Signs EO Reviving The National Space Council (06/30/17)
39. Pentagon halts Obama’s transgender plan (07/01/17 per Breitbart)
40. Sec Devos has stopped two obama regulations from going into effect which would have harmed for profit colleges. The Gainful Employment rule and the Borrower Defense rule (06/30/17)
41. On May 4th, 2017 Pres Trump signed the Religious Freedom EO ordering his admin among other things to not enforce the Johnson amendment.
42. Reduced White House expenses by $22 million by reducing staffing levels from Obama levels. Doing more with less
43. Pres Donald Trump’s first-quarter salary donation will help fund the restoration of two projects at Antietam National Battlefield, Department of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced Wednesday per Breitbart (07/05/117)
44. Returned the Winston Churchill bust back to the Oval Office and Kept the Martin Luther King Jr bust proving we can respect and honor both men.
45. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Thursday ordered the agency to resolve a backlog of more than 2,000 oil and natural gas permit applications for drilling on public lands per Washington Examiner (07/06/17)
46. The Department of Veterans Affairs announced today (07/07/17) 747 disciplinary actions including 526 employees who were fired since January 20th 2017 per CBS (07/07/17)
47. Sec Carson of HUD announced a $500+ billion “error” in the Obama HUD’s 2015 and 2016 budgets was found by an Audit completed by the Office of Inspector General (04/08/17) per CBN
48. He had ordered that he gets 2 scoops of Ice Cream per CNN so might be fake news:)
49. Working hard to get the Olympics for the United States (L.A.) (07/10/17) per POTUS twitter
50. House cuts Sec of Department funding by 17% in approbations bill (07/12/17) goes to full House for vote
ON FOREIGN POLICY
1. Secured a 34,000 Arab force to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria
2. Sent 3 carrier battle groups to NK to pressure them on nuclear program, installed THADD in SK and Japan
3. Working with China on NK but results are not going well as of (07/12/17) but we had to try.
4. Sent Navy to South China Sea to secure sea lines
5. Fired 60 Tomahawks after a gas attack in Syria
6. Got the G7 countries to agree that a nation has a right to control migration and immigration
7. Had G7 countries agree NK was a threat
8. Had G7 nations agree that Trade should be FAIR as well as FREE and that nations can punish non fair trade
9. Had NATO agree to pay more and got more countries to pay their fair share of defense pact
10. Have met with more than 100 of the world leaders many at the white house
11. Pulled out of Paris Accord and freed the USA from the economic Slavery Obama sold us into
12. Have surrounded ISIS in Iraq and Syria strongholds
13. Have killed the ISIS commander in Afghanistan and reduced their strength by 2/3rd in Afghanistan
14. Dropped the MOAB on ISIS killing more than 90 ISIS fighters
15. First sitting POTUS to pray at the Western Wall
16. Restarted peace process between Israel and PLO
17. Visited the land of the three major religions in the world
18. Opening of center to defeat radical Islam in cyberspace during
Saudi Arabia visit. One orb to find them and in the darkness and bind them.
19. Gave powerful speech in the heart of Islam about the need to reform Islam and drive out the radicals
20. Had G7 countries agree that refugees should stay as close as possible to home country and be returned when the threat is gone
21. Got the Arab nations to cut ties to Qatar for funding terrorists, massive historic shift in diplomatic actions in the Muslim world.
22. Started the assault on Raqqa in Syria to defeat ISIS on June 6th 2017.
23. Got Romania to up it’s NATO funding to 2.1% of GDP
24. Has the Special Forces helping relieve siege in Philippines.
25. Visited Poland, attended the Three Seas summit (07/05/16)
26. Per Sec Tillerson. The PLO has stopped the payments to terrorists families. Major change in PLO policy conflicting reports on this
27. Pres Trump’s State department secured the release of American citizen Otto Warmbeir from NK without paying $400 million ransom
28. Pres Trump admin secured the release of American citizen, Aya Hijazifor, from Egypt Jail without paying $400 million ransom.
29. Obama appointed Ambassador to Qatar “quit” during the biggest Crisis in Qatar’s history. What was she hiding?
30. Gave Sec Mattis authority to set troop numbers in Afghanistan to turn the tide of the war. 06/16/17 .
31. Rolled back Obama’s Cuban policy. 06/16/17
32. Canada promised to increase defense spending by 70% (06/16/17)
33. Gulf Countries sent Qatar a list of demands to defund terrorism, reject the Muslim brother hood so Qatar can return to the fold, direct consequence of Pres Trump’s trip to the Middle East. Qatar has since rejected these demands setting a possible military conflict (updated 06/30/17)
34. NATO countries (excluding the US) increase defense spending by 4.3% from last year per daily mail and breitbart(06/30/17).
35. Per Iraq military Mosul has fallen. ISIS no longer controls the city. Just a couple pockets of resistance left per independent
(06/30/17) PM of IRAQ declares the complete pacification of the city (7/09/17)
36. Imposed Sanctions on major China Bank for it’s funding of North Korea and has declared the admin will work to cut North Korea off from access to the US financial market. (06/29/17)
37. approved a $1.42billion arms deal with Taiwan (07/02/17) 38. Reached out by Twitter to offer help to save baby Charlie Gard and has started the conversation on Baby Charlie’s fate. (07/03/17)
39. The US ambassador to the UN threatens China and other countries who trade with North Korea with blockage from the USA market. (07/05/17)
40. Pres Trump increases the threat to use trade access to the US market to stop North Korea setting up a potential for a trade war with China and other nations (07/05/17)
41. Gave a major speech in Warsaw Poland to a crowd of thousands reaffirming Western Civilization (07/6/17)
42. Pres Trump has had 50% more meetings with foreign leaders than Pres Obama did during the same time period. Per Breitbart (07/06/17)
43. US, Russia, and Jordan announce ceasefire in Southern Syria (07/07/17) Cease Fire still holding as of (07/13/17)
44. OLD City walls in Raqqa were breached by US led forces on July 4th 2017. Less than a month after the battle for Raqqa began. Per Economist (07/07/17)
45. Pres Trump got three major victories in G20. 1) Trade he had the G20 agree that nations can protect themselves from unfair trade. 2) He got them to agree a nation has control over their borders and can control immigration and migration. 3) He stood firm on the climate hoax known as the Paris accords and included the importance of fossil fuels. Per the G20 communiqué (07/08/17)
46. U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday promised $639 million in aid to feed people left starving because of drought and conflict in Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria and Yemen. (07/08/17) per Reuters
47. Sec of State signed a counter terrorism funding agreement with QATAR giving Pres Trump and the Gulf allies major victory and moving along the impasse in the region to a hopeful peaceful solution (07/11/17) per state. Gov
48. Visited France to hold bilateral meetings and take part in Bastille day marking the 100th anniversary of the USA entering WW1 (07/13/17)
TO WHICH I ADD
taken from news reports
7/18/17 A Washington Post survey of established economists shows growing support for President Donald Trump’s planned merit-based immigration reform to boost Americans’ productivity and wealth.
7/20/17 USDA statistics on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participation showed that 42,609,852 people in the U.S. took part in the food stamp program in fiscal year (FY) 2017, the lowest level it has been since 2010 when 40,302,000 people enrolled in the program.
7/20/17 The Trump administration has stopped over 800 regulations proposed under former president Barack Obama, according to a new White House report.The White House said Thursday it had withdrawn or removed from active consideration more than 800 proposed regulations that were never finalized during the Obama administration as it works to shrink the federal government's regulatory footprint.
7/26/17 In what’s being called the largest economic development project in state history, Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn plans to build a $10 billion plant in Wisconsin that would create liquid-crystal display panels and employ as many as 13,000 people,
7/26/17 President Donald Trump announced via Twitter that he is not allowing transgender people to serve in the U.S. military, a reversal of former President Obama’s decision last year to let them serve.
7/28/17 - The U.S. economy accelerated in the second quarter as consumers ramped up spending and businesses invested more on equipment, but persistent sluggish wage gains cast a dark shadow over the growth outlook. Gross domestic product increased at a 2.6 percent annual rate in the April-June period, which included a boost from trade, the Commerce Department said in its advance estimate on Friday. That was more than double the first quarter's downwardly revised 1.2 percent growth pace.
8/4/17 America has added more than a million jobs since President Trump took office. the US economy added a strong 209,000 jobs in July, more than economists had expected. The unemployment rate fell to 4.3% the lowest in 16 years.
8/4/17 President Trump threw his support Wednesday behind a Senate bill (THE RAISE ACT) that would cut legal immigration in half and impose a merit-based system, giving preference to English-speaking immigrants who demonstrate job skills and curtailing the traditional pipeline that rewarded extended family ties.
THAT'S 209 MAGA ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN LESS THAN 200 DAYS. THAT'S MAGA-NIFICENT, AND BORDERING ON THE SUPERHUMAN GIVEN THE GALACTIC OBSTRUCTIONISM TRYING TO STOP HIM
Special Council Robert Mueller was expected (as was normal) to impanel a grand jury to investigate the media created hoax known as Russiagate. So yesterday's report by the Wall Street Journal that this has materialized didn't come as a surprise to me as it did to some. But to my delight what did surprise me and couldn't have been planned or anticipated by anyone was the extraordinary timing when this occurred, and what it could mean for Trump, his family and presidency. For yesterday August 3rd on the very day that we learned about the grand jury, amazingly and auspiciously a billionaire Democrat governor with the last name "JUSTICE" made it official at the Trump rally that he was leaving the Democrat Party to join the President and GOP.
Could it be, is it possible, that the "coincidence" of a governor with the surname name "JUSTICE" publicly announcing he'll be joining Trump and the Republicans on the very day we learned about the grand jury was a signature effect of Providence? That it was a meaningful SIGN that JUSTICE (Divine Justice) is on Donald Trump's side? And that JUSTICE once and for all will be done in clearing him and his family of any and all allegations of wrongdoing and crimes? Indeed, standing on the stage with President Trump Governor JUSTICE, questioning the JUSTICE of the Russian probe, asked the wildly cheering crowd of West Virginians: "Have we not heard enough about Russians?" Meaning that the outcome of the 2016 election was fair, legal and JUST; and that Mueller's probe into Russian collusion (absent a crime) is just plain UNJUSTIFIED. Indeed, Jim JUSTICE at Trump's side on the day we learned that a Russiagate grand jury was formed could very likely signify that those UNJUSTLY trying to undo the election are doomed to fail; and they will JUSTLY suffer the humiliation of an unbowed battling Trump staying in power; and possibly (depending on the economy which is improving) JUSTLY win a second MAGA term.
It is fascinating to note that Jim Justice won the governorship of West Virginia on the day Trump unexpectedly won the presidency (see). And as mentioned by Trump in his speech he won that state by a staggering 42 points (68% to HIllary's 26%) - the largest margin of any state in the election for either candidate. You couldn't ask for a more auspicious sign of coming vindication and victory for the President - and the destroy Trump media going down in flames suffering another huge defeat consumed by their useless hatred and rage.
Our relationship with Russia is at an all-time & very dangerous low. You can thank Congress, the same people that can't even give us HCare!
5:18 AM - 3 Aug 2017
DEAR PRESIDENT TRUMP,
Stop blaming Congress for the breakdown in US-Russian relations. You too are to blame, Sir; and perhaps more so than Congress and the hysterical, brain broken John Birchite media. Consider the following anti-Russian actions you have taken since you've been in office:
1) Two military strikes (raiding an airfield and downing a jet) against the mass murdering, Russian backed Baathist Assad regime.
2) Rallying 54 Sunni Moslem states in an alliance to stop and reverse Putin backed Islamofascist Iran's growing and destabilizing power and influence in the war torn Middle East.
3) A stronger and more unified NATO, spending more on defense due to the "Trump effect" (as acknowledged by SecGen Stoltenberg and complained about by Putin, see and see).
4) Delivering a powerful and very eloquent anti-Russian speech to cheering Putin hating Poles in Warsaw.
5) Selling Poland (in defiance of Putin) a Patriot missile defense system - canceled by Obama to appease Putin.
6) Natural gas and coal sales to Europe and the Ukraine - part of a long term plan to diminish Europe's and Ukraine's energy dependence on Russia costing it billions in badly needed revenue ( see and see).
7) And now the signing of this sanctions bill that triggered Medvedev's threat of economic warfare.
Truly Mr. Trump, whether you know it or not, in your first six months as President you've done more to hurt Russia economically, militarily and geo-politically than did Ronald Reagan in his first six months. In effect, Sir, in striving to make America great again you're weakening Russia and making it smaller again. So when lamenting the deterioration in US-Russian relations (which you sort to improve) you've made things worse. Indeed, you're slowly but surely becoming Vladimir Putin's worst nightmare, and you mostly have yourself to blame.
With great respect,
All the best,
God Bless,
Apollo
P.S. With all the direct and indirect hurtful actions you've taken against Russia I can't understand how anyone with half a brain could believe that you're Putin's colluding, criminal, traitorous "agent" and "puppet;" and that he has any kind of leverage or control over you. Putin no more owns you than the Soviets owned Ronald Reagan. To think otherwise is insane.
President "CHAOS" is on his way to CHAOTICALLY super charging Barack Obama's trickle growth, flat to failing, bad jobs Keynesian economy, and CHAOTICALLY winning a second term - like he CHAOTICALLY won the presidency against staggering odds because the middle class preferred a CHAOTIC outsider to business as usual Hillary (and the settled, orderly, organized, largely self-serving status quo that wasn't working for them and needed radical disruptive change).
And let me be perfectly clear (as I said HERE) Trumpian CHAOS is BENIGN; it's not the bad, destructive, leftist kind of "Kill Cops, Burn Down Shops, Raise Capitalism and Wall Street to the Ground" CHAOS. It's not the destroy Trump at any cost Democrat Party/liberal news media CHAOS. Nearly 200 days in office and Trump's BENIGN CHAOS has measurably benefited this nation and the world on many levels and in many ways; and it will continue to do so until Trump retires in 2025 leaving behind an enviable legacy and hailed as one of the great ones.
No freaking way America's toughest Sheriff ever on illegal aliens and border security will be going to jail. No freaking way America's toughest President ever on illegal aliens and border security will let Joe Arpaio spend one second in jail - for being a superb law and order man defying open border nuts and moronic left-wing judges and going to extraordinary lengths to keep the citizens of Maricopa County safe from criminal alien scum. For 24 years Sheriff Joe's only crime was being the Donald Trump of his city and ENFORCING IMMIGRATION LAWS.
Yes, indeed, Sheriff Joe admitted to inadvertently disobeying a 2011 court order that barred his officers from stopping and detaining Hispanic motorists in what was clearly acts of racial profiling. But as Hispanics commit most of the crimes in Maricopa (75%) its only logical that Sheriff Joe should have focused his attention on this group in trying to track down criminals. WHERE'S THE CRIME IN THAT?
It wasn't until Obama's Justice Department charged Sheriff Joe with racial profiling (in retaliation for exposing Obama's long form birth certificate as a computer generated fraud see) that he had any legal problems with discrimination laws. It was then that the DOJ revoked Sheriff Joe's authority to enforce immigration laws, which he rightly ignored. This triggered Obama's political hack Eric Holder to file formal civil rights charges against Joe and found a leftist judge, Murray Snow, to hear the case. Snow ruled that the Sheriff and his department were guilty of racial profiling and ordered the practice to stop. Sheriff Joe considering it a dereliction of duty to obey the judge refused and continued to enforce the law that he had sworn to uphold; and on Monday he was charged with contempt of court and faces fines and six months in jail.
Sheriff Joe is appealing the verdict; but if he should lose he has a powerful friend in the White House who will reverse this injustice; and giving the middle finger to Obama, Holder, Snow and the ACLU absolutely pardon him.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush aimed his sights repeatedly at Donald Trump during Tuesday's Republican presidential debate, telling the real estate mogul “you’re not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency.”
Bush’s first attack focused on Trump’s plan to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S.
“It’s not a serious proposal,” Bush said. “It will push the Arab world away when we need them to engage.”
“Trump is great at one-liners,” Bush continued. “But he is a chaos candidate.”
“This is frightening,” candidate and Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio said Saturday before the Ohio event. “Leadership has never been about taking people’s anger and getting them to vote for you.”
Rubio also suggested he’s now unsure whether he could support Trump if he becomes the party nominee.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich said Saturday that Trump is “creating a toxic environment."
“I hope he’ll knock this off and stop trying to divide us,” Kasich also said, ahead of essentially make-or-break primaries Tuesday in Florida and Ohio.
Saying "You're fired!" won Donald Trump stardom on reality TV but it's not likely to end the crazy in his embattled presidential campaign. Trump's firing, dismissal, purge, acceptance of resignation, ambiguous goodbye — whatever you want to call it — of his hot-headed, loose-with-his-hands campaign manager Corey Lewandowski on Monday is just the latest effort to bring a semblance of order to a chaotic campaign machine.
Donald Trump said at a rally Wednesday his campaign has never been so well united - but those close to him say otherwise. Fellow Republicans are starting to turn on Trump and his own running mate, Mike Pence, is contradicting Trump by endorsing John McCain and Paul Ryan.
Seeking to move past the tumult that has damaged his campaign since he accepted the GOP presidential nomination, Donald Trump tried this week to broaden his appeal and sow the seeds for a competitive fall race against Hillary Clinton.
Trump shook up his campaign leadership, launched television ads, gave one of the best speeches of his candidacy and quietly visited flood-ravaged Louisiana. But much of his effort was overshadowed by the announcement Friday that his campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, had resigned, completing the shift in power at the top of Trump’s campaign but keeping alive the sense of turbulence within the operation.
GOP strategist and NBC News political analyst Mike Murphy says "Trump is doubling down on failure by launching an overnight Twitter rant against former Miss Universe Alicia Machado encouraging Americans to "check put sex tape and [Machado's] past." Hillary Clinton responded by saying "This is a Machado meltdown and unhinged..."
Keep in mind that this tape was recorded when Donald Trump was a progressive liberal Democrat. and friends with the Clintons.
There have been some extraordinary 24-hour periods in recent American political history. Consider the chaos surrounding the 2000 presidential election, for example, or the 1998 impeachment crisis, when House Republicans forced one Speaker to resign, only to see his successor quit soon after.
But when it comes to campaignhistory, Americans have probably never seen anything quite like the developments between Friday and Saturday afternoon.
As most of the planet has learned, Donald Trump was recorded in 2005 boasting about his romantic exploits, which eventually led him to brag about committing sexual assaults.....
From reports of transition team infighting to people leaving or declining positions in a Trump administration to a failure to sign a document to allow communication with the Obama White House, a sense of chaos in what already is a hurried process appears to be dogging Donald Trump's transition to power just one week into his surprise victory.
It’s been a week since Donald Trump took the oath of office to become the nation’s 45th president, though it certainly feels more like a month. And if the past seven days have had a defining characteristic, it’s been this -- CHAOS.
Las Vegas (CNN) Jeb Bush just gave the political equivalent of an "I told you so" to President Donald Trump.
"When I ran for office, I said he is a chaos candidate and would be a chaos president," Bush said on Friday. "Unfortunately, so far chaos organizes the presidency right now."
BUSH IS THE SIGN THAT THE CHAOS IS BENIGN
People, this "I told you so" by Jeb Bush (who'd have certainly lost to Hillary had he been the nominee) is a certain sign that all the chaos and tumult we are seeing, despite appearances, is BENIGN; that it has an underlying order and organization directed by the Hand of Providence that in the end will prove good for the prosperity and security of our country and peace of the world. And just as "Candidate Chaos" won the election because in part he was perceived by middle class voters as anti-Bush, and a necessary disruptive force to radically reverse the economic, military and geopolitical decline of our country, so will "President Chaos" win reelection is 2020 with the promise to continue the awesome work of national regeneration and
In 1982 with the economy in a state of stagflationary recession (double digit unemployment, inflation and interest rates), and Reagan's Gallup approval rating at 37%, it was said by Libs and GOP Rinos and moderates that his presidency was "effectively over."
Then came the "voodoo," "trickle down" economic boom that sent jobs creation and GDP growth soaring; and in 1984 Reagan was reelected in a crushing 49 state landslide. In fact, the economy was so supercharged by Reagan's policies and business friendly pro-growth free market leadership that the S&L Crisis and market crash of the late 1980s could do nothing to stop or reverse it. And in 1988 with the Cold War practically over and a prospering America wanting Reaganism to continue elected George H. W. Bush President in a 40 state landslide.
Now in 2020 it's doubtful that Donald Trump will win a Reagan like reelection victory. What he'll have however is an easier path to 270 than he had in 2016 - which he'll achieve on Election Day, this time before midnight.
Because President Trump (like the vast majority of active service people and veterans) believes that the mission of the military is to kill people and destroy things in the defense of our country and free way of life (the traditional consensus view) he's some kind of racist bigot, transgenderphobe.
Wednesday's bombshell tweet by President Trump on banning transgender people from military service was a very, very BIG DEAL. Why? Not just because of combat readiness and unit cohesion problems and costs (actually in the billions), or that TGs are mentally ill with serious identity and reality problems (born male die male) and don't belong in the military* (they also have a very high suicide rate rooted in their illness), but because it signaled the end of an era: the reorientation of military priorities where for the last eight years the most unpopular President in US history with our active servicemen and veterans (see and see) made leftist social engineering experiments (treating the U.S. Military as a laboratory to test social theories) the grand, overarching purpose of our military.
*TGs are the most loathed and unpopular group within the military. 66% say that they are a disruptive force hurtful to combat readiness and unit cohesion.
After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow......Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory....
122,998 likesTransgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming.....
As of Wednesday those days are over - along with the downsizing of our military and dangerous rules of engagement that demoralized and depressed our troops (see), and caused three defense secretaries (Gates, Panetta and Hagel) to quit their jobs in utter disgust (see).
Wednesday, July 26th, was also significant in another respect: it was the 69th anniversary of President Truman signing into law Executive Order 9981 abolishing racial discrimination in the military (see). This was an unmistakable sign that ending segregation between healthy normal heterosexual Americans of different races is radically different from integrating the army with mentally ill people, or those with psychosexual disorders and defects like gay men and women. It is fascinating to note that President Trump came into this life during the Truman era (b. June 14, 1946); that he was born on the 26th month of Truman's presidency (see); and that Wednesday the 26th day of July was the 26th week of Trump's presidency (see). An amazing numerical coincidence that could be a sign of providence at work.
Donald Trump is hell-bent, like no President since Ronald Reagan, on making the mighty U.S. military machine the most powerful, potentially desructive and feared fighting force on Earth; and the way to do that completely, thoroughly and absolutely is to undo all of the social experiments short of racially desegregating the military post-July 26, 1948. That means reinstituting the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy while phasing out homosexuals; and eliminating women from combat roles on land, sea and in the air*. Hopefully, Donald Trump reinstituting the ban on transgender service is the beginning of creating the most lethally combat ready and cohesive army humanly possible to defend Western civilization and the Free World from its anti-Democratic enemies and forces of medieval regression and barbarism.
*As someone commented on another blog: "Given the amount of training ... and the cost, thereof ... to female pilots, they should be allowed to retain their positions, until retirement. However, the training of women for fighter pilots should cease, immediately."
One Trump hating wishcasting leftist (typical of thousands like him) certain that Don Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort are guilty as sin of committing multiple felonies and crimes with Russia that would put them away for good posted the following laughable wish list on the internet recently:
"Many crimes [by Team Trump] that have been identified for which a very large amount of evidence has been made public: obstruction of justice, soliciting campaign contributions from foreign nationals, conspiracy to commit election fraud, perjury, falsification of federal forms under penalty of perjury, conspiracy to violate the espionage act, accessory after the fact tonumerous violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, violations of the foreign corrupt practices act, lying to federal agents, conspiracy to commit kidnapping, failure to register as a foreign agent, money laundering tax fraud, and treason."
The profusion of charges takes your breath away. Now any one person who committed most if not all of these crimes would be facing in excess of 100 years in prison and rot in jail for the rest of their lives without hope of parole. But common sense tells us that if Don Jr., Kushner or Manafort were guilty of these things, and were certain that Mueller and the FBI had collected enough evidence to hang them, they would have fled the country by now to avoid prosecution. In fact, like traitor, spy and classified info thief Eric Snowden they'd probably be in Russia the guest of Vladimir Putin enjoying asylum.
Indeed, when the jig was up for guilty as hell mega millionaire tax cheat and traitor Marc Rich instead of waiting to be charged with his crimes and arrested (he was facing a maximum of 300 years in prison) he fled to Switzerland where he had a fortune safely stashed away in numbered bank accounts. Like Rich, Don Jr., Kushner and Manafort most likely have millions in foreign banks and could live like czars in Russia as the honored guests of Vladimir Putin.
Indeed, like Rich, who was pardoned by Clinton on the last day of his presidency, Don Jr., Kushner and Manafort could live comfortably in Russia till the last day of Trump's presidency, and receive pardons and resume their lives and business activities in the States as if nothing had happened. It could be that simple.
President Bush and Cap Weinburger.
Let's face it, if anyone from Team Trump feared criminal prosecution and a long stretch in prison they would probably have absconded by now living in Moscow dinning and horse riding with Putin. But no one has fled (not even Mike Flynn who seems like the guiltiest of all) because there's nothing to flee. The above wish list of felonies and crimes is based on rumor, innuendo, suspicious circumstances, guilt by association and leaks by unnamed sources passing as truthful, objective reporting. Hundreds of FBI agents spending thousands of hours investigating every member of Team Trump for 12 months, then joined two months ago in a separate investigation by Mueller, have found absolutely nothing criminal or treasonous with regard to Russia. And as long as Don Jr., Kushner, Manafort and the others are careful not to perjure themselves with Congressional investigators and Mueller's aggressive team they have little or nothing to worry about. And if someone is trapped in a lie or justice obstruction Trump has already indicated that he'll do for them what George H. W. Bush did for Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger just before he left office: pardon them*.
*Oddly Weinberger was charged with perjuryand justice obstruction over the Iran-Contra scandal on June 16, 1992 (23 years before the date that Trump announced his run for the presidency see); and Bush 41 was the last President before Trump to win election on a November 8th election date.
Apparently a great deal when it comes to Donald Trump, Russia and Vladimir Putin. This is what I mean:
The name Trump is anagrammatically encoded with the letters RU (tRUmp). This stands for RUssia in its abbreviated form.
The name Donald Trump is encoded with the letters PUTN (doNald TrUmP). And when we add to Trump's name his title of "Pres(i)dent" it provides the letter "I" giving us what's missing to complete the name "PUTIN."
Moreover, the 14 letter name "President Trump" when rearranged gives us the words MR. PUTIN'S RED PET.
Contrawise, the name "Vladimir Putin" is encoded with the name D. TRUMP (vlaDiMiR PUTin).
This is clear, objective, unambiguous, empirical evidence that Donald Trump in 2016 was Russia's Siberian Candidate, and that Russia's leader Vladimir Putin owns the Trump Presidency.
BTW, Donald Trump's Kremlin code name is "Agent Orange." Some say Double O Orange or OO-RANGE. Orange is the new red.
In April 2014 more than 35,000 people signed a petition on the White House website calling for Alaska to be returned to Russia after 150 years of American rule.
Mark my words, when Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin engineer Donald Trump's reelection in 2020 as a gift to Putin Trump will honor the 2014 petition and return Alaska to Russia. That way Sarah Palin can say: 'I no longer see Russia from my house. Now I'm living there.'
A Russian Orthodox church in Alaska, soon to become the official religion of that once great American state.
Are the Norks threatening to nuke Alaska as a warning to Trump that they will destroy the gift he's planning to give Putin if he goes ahead with sanctions?
BREAKING!
Berkeley students ransack campus library then burn Russian books at anti-Russia rally. Demand banning of Russian lit courses.
Copies of War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, Uncle Vanya and Trump's Art of the Deal incinerated in Berkeley bonfire. Conspicuously absent were the writings of Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Maxim Gorky.
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Any anti-Trumpers who after reading the above think I'm one of you then click on to anyone of the links below and see how badly you've been fooled.
After a failed, wasteful 12 month investigation started by the FBI then continued by Special Council Robert Mueller* into finding a criminally collusive connection between the Trump campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 election (as if the Russians who hacked the White House** needed Trump to hack the DNC) it was learned on Thursday that Mueller would be moving the goal post and expanding the probe to President Trump's business dealings.
*10 months by the FBI under Comey and 2 by Mueller.
Bloomberg reports, citing a person familiar with the matter, that:
"FBI investigators and others are looking at Russian purchases of apartments in Trump buildings, Trump's involvement in a controversial SoHo development with Russian associates, the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow and Trump's sale of a Florida mansion to a Russian oligarch in 2008."
This development comes as no surprise. For in early June, after the FBI collusion probe came to naught with practically nowhere else to go, Mueller began hiring lawyers with extensive experience in dealing with fraud, racketeering, money laundering and other financial crimes. And now, according to an unnamed source, Mueller's team has "issued subpoenas to banks and filed requests for bank records to foreign lenders under mutual legal-assistance treaties."
And many on the destroy Trump left citing a recent "spectacular" article in the New Republic ("Trump's Russian Laundromat") on the billionaire president's known business dealings with corrupt Russian oligarchs and Putin mobsters (who used his properties to "launder money, hide assets and as a base for their criminal operations") are in a state of orgasmic joy that this is it for Trump; that the jig is up; that Trump who refuses to disclose his tax returns is hiding all kinds of crimes and damning things committed with Russians that Mueller is going to uncover. Indeed, they can see and smell and taste impeachment - and Trump resigning in Richard Nixon like Watergate disgrace with Pence playing the pardoning Gerald Ford. But, as usual, they are deluding themselves.
“As far as my returns, I want to file it, except for many years, I've been audited every year. Twelve years or something like that. Every year they audit me, audit me, audit me. I have friends that are very wealthy people who never get audited."
Indeed, the "spectacular" New Republic article (a sad political hit piece) is based on old news and info taken from the public record and known to two agencies of the US government that have investigated with laser like intensity Donald Trump and his alleged "criminal" ties: the IRS and General Services Administration*.
*The IRS has an annul budget of $11 billion; and the GSA a budget of $20 billion ; both have the money, manpower and resources to thoroughly investigate large corporations like Trump Org. for illegalities and crimes.
The IRS has been auditing and scrutinizing Trump for two decades and they know every nick and cranny of his dealings and transactions with foreign entities and nationals (Russian and otherwise); and to date they haven't so much as found a smidgen of illegality despite known Russian criminals and Putin cronies buying high-end apartments, condos and homes from him (as they have from many of Trump's competitors). Indeed, when a civil audit is being done and something suspicious turns up (and there is perhaps much in Trump's business dealings with Russians to raise red flags) the auditor refers it to the IRS's Criminal Investigation Division (CID) with has 2200 special agents for investigating the full range of financial crimes from money laundering to funding terrorist groups and corporate espionage (see). And if the CID investigated Trump, which is likely, no crimes were found, or else he'd be in jail.
Indeed, during the campaign when Trump said he was under audit (and used it as an excuse to keep his tax returns private) surely the profoundly corrupt "Chicagoland" Barack Obama (frightened at the prospect of a President Trump destroying his legacy) had the abusive, intrusive, politicized IRS working overtime desperately looking for incriminating dirt to stop him - and found nothing. Those who doubt that Obama wouldn't use extralegal means to stop Trump need reminding on how the IRS was harassing conservatives, tea partiers, Romney donors and Obama's political enemies while he was president (see and see and see). Indeed, as late as October 2016, 16 months into the campaign, Trump was complaining that the IRS was still examining him - which is excessively long by any measure, but not improbable given the critical political situation and what was at stake for Obama and the Democrats if Hillary lost the election.
But the IRS wasn't the only government agency to scrutinize Trump's finances in general and dealings with Russians in particular. When the Trump Organization beat out the competition and won the Old Post Office project in Washington (to convert the landmark building into a luxury hotel) the General Services Administration (GSA) conducted a wide-ranging, comprehensive investigation into his finances and business practices. "It was one of the most highly scrutinized [vetted] deals the GSA has ever done," reports Buzzfeed (see). There was no way the GSA (US government) was going to partner a major real estate deal with a criminal enterprise illegally in bed with Russian oligarchs, mobsters and crooks. But the scrutinization of Trump doesn't begin and end with the IRS and GSA. As noted in the New Republic piece:
"For the past three decades, state and federal investigators, as well as some of America’s best investigative journalists, have sifted through mountains of real estate records, tax filings, civil lawsuits, criminal cases, and FBI and Interpol reports, unearthing ties between Trump and Russian mobsters....... and found no smoking gun."
So the big question now is this: what crimes could Robert Mueller and his crew find in Trump's dealings with Russians that the IRS, GSA, numerous state justice departments and journalists have missed? In covering the same ground gone over so many times by many others it looks like Mueller is just wasting taxpayers money to find nothing all over again. Indeed, Trump knows that if Mueller sticks to his mandate and limits his investigation to Russia related things it will soon be over. But his concern is Mueller joining the partisan destroy Trump witch hunt - pushing beyond his mandate and jurisdiction to look at all his business dealings, not just, for example, the Miss Universe Contest in Russia, but in other countries where it was held: Brazil, Mexico, Bahamas, etc. An investigation of that scope with no parameters or limits going on and on, moving the goal post farther and farther, until hopefully some crime somewhere is found* could be very politically damaging to Trump, paralyze his ability to govern effectively and role out with his MAGA agenda. And this shouldn't be tolerated.
*Like special prosecutor Patrick FitzGerald in the Plamegate case nabbing Scooter Libby for perjury 33 months after he discovered where the leak came from.
On February 20th, four days after Mick Mulvaney was sworn in as President Trump's Director of the Office of Management and Budget, I posted on this site my version of the Administration's economic plan for Making America Prosperous Again called: Donald Trump's Six Point MAGANOMICS Plan For Reversing The Worse Economic Recovery Since The Great Depression, Saving The Middle Class And Winning Reelection." And on July 13th, 144 days later, the Office of the Press Secretary posted on the White House's website:
Mulvaney: "Introducing MAGAnomics"
It was the official unifying vision of President Trump's economic agenda using my term "MAGAnomics." Now between February 20th and July 13th I've been all over the internet promoting my article and using the term MAGANOMICS. So it's not surprising that someone in the Administration stumbled upon it and thought it was the IDEAL term to use in branding President Trump's vision of economic renewal.
But then again maybe I'm giving myself too much credit. As the saying goes "great minds think alike." Issac Newton and philosopher Gottfried Liebniz developed independently the method of infinitesimal calculus; so why not two conservative minds and strong supporters of the President independently thinking up the same economic term? My small claim to fame then would be thinking it first. And that suits me fine.
Below is a repost of my article:
DONALD TRUMP’S SIX POINT MAGANOMICS PLAN FOR REVERSING THE WORST RECOVERY SINCE THE GREAT DEPRESSION, SAVING THE MIDDLE CLASS AND WINNING REELECTION
PRESIDENT TRUMP'S SIX POINT MAGA PLAN FOR ECONOMIC RENEWAL
DEREGULATION
DEPORTATION
REPATRIATION
TAX REFORMATION
TRADE RENEGOTIATION
BOOMING ENERGY PRODUCTION
TRUMP'S PATH TO 270 ELECTORAL VOTES IN 2020
will be easier for him than it was last year because of the following six point plan to radically reverse and supercharge our weak, trickle growth, bad jobs, high debt, overly regulated economy.
Repealing Obama's massive, growth inhibiting regulatory policies and anti-business executive orders (EPA's Clean Power Plan, Obamacare, Dodd Frank, etc.)will greatly unleash the pent up growth and huge productive power of Capitalism from federal restraints and add a conservatively estimated $100 billion per year to the economy.
The mass deportation of illegal aliens* will save American taxpayers up to $100 billion on education, medical care, incarceration and welfare costs. It will also drive up wages (createbetter paying jobsfor low skilled, poorly educated Americans) as they'll be less people competing for low end jobs with employers forced to pay higher wages (at least the minimum wage) to attract legal workers as the supply of illegal aliens dry up (see).
*Whatever is practical and possible over an eight year period.
The repatriating of up to an estimated $2.5 trillion of horded offshore U.S. corporate profits will be used for investment and job creating business expansion, while raking in at least $218 billion in new government revenues to repair our roads and bridges creating tens and thousands of good paying jobs.
The implementation of JFK-like pro-growth, pro-business, pro-family tax reform policies will hugely boost investment, productivity ($150 billion in higher output) and jobs creation while surging the government's revenue stream, as it did in thebooming mid to late 1960s.
Keep in mind these very same principles and policies ended the Wilson Depression of the early 1920s; likely prevented a sixth post-war recession in the 1960s (that Kennedy feared and was trying to avoid); ended the scourge of stagflation (economic stagnation with inflation) in the 1980s; and rescued socialist Sweden from Greek-like socialist financial and economic collapse in the 1990s.
The renegotiation of NAFTA and other bad trade deals to create a two-way level playing field will dramatically reduce our trade deficit, grow exports and create jobs.
President Donald Trump (center), accompanied by coal miners and (from left) Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt, Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Vice President Mike Pence holds up the signed Energy Independence Executive Order, March 28, 2017, at EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C. Photo by: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
And lastly, since Gerald Ford every US President has sworn and failed to achieve energy independence for our fossil fuel rich nation (see). And now we have a President who is hell-bent on unleashing America's energy potential, turning us into an energy HYPERPOWER, creating tons of good paying secure jobs and making independence a reality.
These anti-Leftist/Obamunist policies is how Donald Trump (continuing the legacies of Harding/Coolidge, John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan) will reverse the worst and weakest economic recovery since the Great Depression, and create a roaring, soaring, high growth, all boats lifting American economy.
Because of their lunatic fears over Russia's rising power under Vladimir Putin (blowing it up it into an existential threat as if the Soviet Union never disappeared) some have called the Democrat Party and MSM the new, paranoid McCarthyites. But it's much, much worse than that. The obsessive Russophobic anti-Trumpers and their 24/7 accusations of treasonous collusion with Moscow (and criminalizing contacts with Russians) have transcended mere McCarthyism; they have, in fact, become the new. more extreme
JOHN BIRCHERS.
For those of you who don't know, the John Birch Society is a radical ultra nationalist right reactionary political organization formed in the late 1950s by arch-conservative Robert Welch to fight Russian communist subversion in America. It was McCarthyism on steroids so extreme and delusional in its fears of Russia that it was banished by William F. Buckley from the mainstream conservative movement. Indeed, Birchers saw Russian spies, conspiracies and plots everywhere - even in the White House where they went where Joe McCarthy dared not go: accusing President Eisenhower (a World War II hero) of being a subversive Russian agent working to bring down America and the West. No one could imagine this psychosis over Russia getting any worse than Bircherism, until the unexpected election of Donald Trump drove the left over the cliff into the abyss.
Before there was Trump treasonously conspiring with Russia there was Ike, according to Birchers
Indeed, the new Democrat-MSM Birchers see America under a similar threat from the White House: Donald Trump, they imagine, is the "Siberian Candidate" and "Trojan Horse" turned president who colluded with Moscow to defeat Hillary Clinton and is Vladimir Putin's puppet for subverting our democracy and making Russia (not America) great again. Trump, the new Birchers warn, must be stopped at all costs, even if that means his assassination by bullet or knife. It's complete bat shit crazy collective wingnut leftist hysteria that social philosophers and psychologists will be studying for a long time to come.
But now after relentlessly digging deeper and deeper (nearly all the way to China) to find evidence for their treasonous White House-Russia conspiracy theory the new brain broken Birchers think they found at last the smoking gun to stop and bring down Donald Trump:
DONALD TRUMP JR.
Donald Trump Jr, Jarred Kushner and Paul Manafort (then Trump's campaign manager) met in June 2016 at Trump Tower with a Russian attorney claiming to be a Kremlin agent bearing secret, damning, incriminating information about scandal plagued candidate Hillary Clinton: that she was criminally and treasonously colluding with Russia and Vladimir Putin in things more crooked than the Uranium One deal. This started with an email Don Jr. received from an associate in Britain, music publicist Rob Goldstein. You can read the email HERE.
After a curious Don Jr. expressed an interest in wanting to see these damning documents (who wouldn't) Goldstone then set up a meeting with Russian lawyer and lobbyist Natalia Vaselnitskaya who would supposedly bring the docs with her. But, as the story goes, she had nothing. Instead, Vaselnitskaya (accompanied by a former Soviet intelligence officer turned U.S. citizen) talked about repealing the Magnitsky Act which bans Americans from adopting Russian children. And according to both Don Jr. and the lawyer (who was interviewed by NBC) that is where the meeting ended - with a disappointed Don Jr. leaving empty-handed.
In other words, there was no criminal collusion or treasonous activity. Even if Don Jr. had received info damaging to Hillary and it was used by Team Trump to hurt her, that too wouldn't rise to the level of treason or any serious crime. For treason means colluding or conspiring with an enemy to hurt one's country - stealing and passing on classified info, for example; it does not and cannot mean conspiring to hurt a political opponent or presidential candidate during a campaign. Politics in a free society under the rule of law is war by any legal means however unethical, improper, corrupt, cruel and dirty. Lying, smearing, cheating, character assassination by politicians and a vicious partisan press go back to the brutal Adams-Jefferson race of 1800 when dirty American politics was born (see). In short, the end of winning justifies any means short of violence, killing, theft, voter fraud and funding by a foreign source. Just look what Ted Kennedy appallingly tried to do to Ronald Reagan in the 1980s using our Soviet Russian enemies to manipulate our presidential elections.
When Ted Kennedy in 1983 sent an agent to Russia (former Democrat senator and friend John Tunney) proposing to Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov (an ex KGB chief) a secret anti-Reagan political alliance between Russians and Democrats* - that they covertly join forces and coördinate efforts (collude and conspire) to stop the hard line, anti-communist Ronald Reagan from being reelected - it wasn't criminal collusion or a treasonous crime. Why? It wasn't America (our national security) Kennedy was plotting to hurt by working with the Russian enemy. Kennedy's intention, plan and stated purpose was to undermine Ronald Reagan politically, hurt his reelection campaign and end his "dangerous" presidency - which, Kennedy believed, would be good for US-Russian relations (that were deteriorating) and world peace. Appallingly sick and unAmerican though it was what Kennedy and Tunney tried to achieve for their party (based on a deranged understanding of what was good for their country) was, nevertheless, not criminal and perfectly legal. Inviting the Soviet Russians to interfere with our elections bordered on treason but never crossed the line**.
*Neither Kennedy nor Tunney (who is still alive) have ever denied doing this. And no one has charged either with a crime.
** It's worth mentioning that the nuclear freeze movement to stop Reagan's defense buildup (supported by Kennedy and Democrats) originated in Moscow (see).
Now using as a model Kennedy's Russian-Democrat nearly treasonous plot against Reagan let's imagine that Don Jr, Ms. Vaselnitskaya and the ex-Soviet intel agent were plotting something similar at their meeting: how best to coordinate their efforts and resources to defeat Hillary Clinton and make Donald Trump president; and they developed a plan toward that end and put it in motion soon after Trump's nomination; and part of the plan were the hacked/phished Wikileaks DNC emails to be released as an October surprise when it could do Clinton the most harm. Indeed, like Kennedy's Russian-Democrat plot for defeating Reagan this Trump-Russian plot (if it happened as some rightly or wrongly suspect) wasn't criminal or treasonous in the slightest degree.
In other words, the new, brain broken, bloodthirsty, obsessive Trump hating Birchers, after eight post-election months of unhinged Russian-mania, have nothing incriminating with which to hang the President, his son and other family members. They're spinning their wheels in conspiratorial madness to no purpose kicking up a lot of dust. Trump's cover ups and lies cited as evidence of underlying crimes are over politically damaging farcical mistakes - embarrassments not prosecutable crimes. This latest "scandal" it would seem is as close as the destroy Trump lynch mob will get to sinking its collective teeth into a SOMETHING BURGER. After Don Jr. testifies before congress there will be, I predict, a subsiding of this Russian collusion delusion nonsense as MSM and the Dems focus more of their anger, fear and hate on stopping Trump from implementing his agenda for renewing the prosperity of the middle class (that will reelect him) and greatness of America.
trying to stir up 1950s and 60s like mass hysteria about Russia (as if the Soviet Union never died) is it any wonder that most of the public worries about a major war? Whether they know it or not what may be preventing such a war is President Trump's "peace through strength" policy of strengthening our military, the NATO alliance, and peacefully competing with the Russians, especially on energy (fossil fuels) which can do tremendous damage to their economy.
for pointing out the futility of going to war against nuclear armed Russia which the insane hysterical Russophobic Left (following Napoleon and Hitler) seem to want to do.
For me one of the great pleasures of the Trump presidency is watching the deceptively weak, vulnerable, fragile looking Kellyanne Conway embarrassingly castrate strong, vigorous male fake news "journalists" like CNN's Chris Cuomo who she took apart in the now famous acrimonius July 10th marathon debate. What an asset Kellyanne is as the President's counselor; and what a bang up job she did as his campaign manager helping him to over come "gropergate" and charges of sexism to unexpectedly win 53% of white women voters which proved crucial to his odds defying victory.
Ironically, the first woman to successfully run an American presidential campaign was a huge factor in defeating Hillary Clinton: the first woman presidential nominee of a major party. Even more ironic and fascinating is that Donald Trump named Kellyanne as his new campaign manager to plan out Hillary's defeat on, of all days, August 19, 2016 (see): Bill Clinton's 70th birthday (see) - an auspicious sign of victory over the Clinton machine if there ever was one.
But the ironies continue. On Inauguration Day when Donald Trump was sworn in as President Kellyanne was not only celebrating the greatest achievement of her highly successful career but also the 50th anniversary of her life on earth. And when Donald Trump (riding the wave of a coming economic boom) is reelected Kelleyanne will be celebrating her 54th birthday watching her boss sworn in as POTUS again. Kellyanne is President Trump's good luck charm, and is one of many signs he'll be a successful two term President.
GET USED TO IT TRUMP HATERS
We're in the second 100 days of eight MAGA Trump years. And if you're so mentally and emotionally broken from just 170 days of Trump what will you be like after 2922 days when Mike Pence is sworn in as 46th President on the day Kellyanne celebrates her 58th birthday?
Days in advance of Thursday's meeting with businessman turned president Donald Trump, and the experienced, duplicitous, ex KGB thug Vladimir Putin (Russia's neoimperialist master for 17 years) most of the destroy Trump Democrat propaganda media had already decided that the President was "boxed in," woefully unprepared and at a huge disadvantage to engage in such talks; that he'd be no match for Putin (the world's most powerful man*); that he'd be the lightweight in the room with Putin dominating and humiliating him and emerging the big winner just like Nikita "bury the US" Khrushchev crushed John Kennedy in Vienna decades ago. Indeed, the fix was in: nothing short of Donald Trump doing to Putin what he did to CNN in the mock wrestling video (body slamming him to the ground and punching him silly) would have satisfied Democrats and MSM that Trump bested Putin and freed himself of all suspicion that the Kremlin had something incriminating on him.
But after Thursday's meeting it is now clear there were no winners or losers; that Trump was no cowed, defeated, badly shaken JFK; that Putin was no humiliated Gorbachev with the US President walking out on him. In short, Hamburg was neither Vienna for one nor Reykjavik for the other. It is clear that the two ultra nationalist leaders respected each other as equals and their competitive goals of making America and Russia great again; and to that end they rose above the insane partisan media frenzy of conspiratorial nonsense and formed a détente of sorts (a working relationship) agreeing to coöperate in certain areas like in Syria where they declared a cease-fire; and to compete peacefully in the economic, energy and geopolitical arenas.
Indeed, what is crystal clear is that Trump again has defied predictions of failure by the naysaying enemy media and radical Trump hating Left; and that his meeting with Putin towered above JFK's terrible ordeal with Khrushchev. Indeed, if Kennedy's meeting with Khrushchev went like Trump's with Putin the course of American and world history might have been different; but before I get into that a comparison between Donald Trump and the great liberal icon JFK is in order:
Like JFK Donald Trump was born into great wealth.
Like JFK Donald Trump comes from a northeastern state.
Like JFK Donald Trump won the presidency on November 8th with just over 300 electoral votes*.
*Trump won 304 electoral votes Kennedy 303.
Like JFK Donald Trump succeeded a popular two term president of the opposing party.
Like JFK Donald Trump inherited from his predecessor a worsening conflict with Russia and weak economy.
Like JFK's meeting with Khrushchev in Vienna Donald Trump met with the leader of Russia in the second 100 days of his presidency.
And apart from both men being effective, charismatic communicators, believers in the superiority of Western Civilization, and in the efficacy of tax cuts for stimulating economic growth, that is where the likeness ends.
Indeed, the time leading up to their meetings with the two Russian leaders is what made the one a dangerous failure and the other a success where JFK earned Khrushchev's contempt and Donald Trump Putin's respect.
Taking JFK first: because of the Bay of Pigs disaster Kennedy dealt with Khrushchev from a position of weakness not strength; the brutal intimidating Khrushchev saw Kennedy as the opposite of his predecessor: World War II hero Dwight Eisenhower; Kennedy for Khrushchev was a young, weak, gutless, inexperienced bungler - an ill prepared, incompetent amateur - who could be taken though he'd been a congressman for 13 years. And their meeting confirmed everything Khrushchev believed about Kennedy, to the detriment of East-West relations and world peace.
Indeed, the consequences of that diplomatic Bay of Pigs was an emboldened Khrushchev increasing Cold War tensions by first ordering (just two months after Vienna) the construction of the Berlin Wall (which he feared to do with Ike); and then one year later recklessly upping the ante by moving nuclear missiles into Cuba, which nearly led to nuclear war. And between those two events what did Kennedy do to reverse Vienna and prove himself to Khrushchev? He decided (as he told NY Times reporter James Reston) to draw the line against communist aggression in South East Asia. Consequently, before he died JFK significantly increased our military presence in Vietnam from 900 military advisers in 1961 to 16,000 military personnel embedded with So. Vietnamese forces; and he had CIA special ops leading raids into Vietnam from Laos and flying helicopter gunships on combat missions. This slippery slope of escalation would continue under LBJ and tear this country apart for a generation.
But in Trump's six month buildup to his meeting with Putin he won the Russian strongman's respect by doing and achieving the following things which have diminished Russia's economic, military and geopolitical power:
1. Attacking a Syrian military air base in retaliation for Assad's deadly use of chemical weapons (with Putin's approval and complicity) on innocent men, women and children.
2. The downing by an F-18 of a Russian made Syrian jet showing hostile intent while US and coalition forces were fighting ISIS terrorists near Raqqa (see). This provoked Putin to issue warnings against future attacks (see).
3. The historic rallying in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia of over 50 Sunni Moslem states in an alliance to destroy ISIS and bring down radical Islamic terrorist Iran-Russia's most important economic, military and strategic partner in the region.
4. The substantial increase in NATO defense spending due to the "Trump Effect" as praised by NATO's Secretary General Stoltenberg at the White House in April (see).
5. Supporting Montenegro's entry into NATO over Putin's strong objections and warnings (see) .
6. Negotiating US natural gas and coal sales to Poland, Romania, Hungry and other Eastern European countries to free them from dependence on Russia that could cost it billions in desperately needed energy revenues (see)*.
*Trump's commitment to unleash America's $50 trillion energy potential and turn us into a fossil fuel HYPERPOWER has already cost Russia billions by driving down oil, coal and natural gas prices (see).
7. The sale to Poland of a Patriot Missile Defense System reversing Obama's canceling of the sale in 2009 to appease Vladimir Putin (see).
And 8. Trump's pro-Western Reaganesque anti-Russian speech in Poland (the most anti-Russian of European countries), which couldn't have pleased Putin.
Indeed, unlike Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs fiasco which set the stage for the Vienna disaster, the Berlin Wall, Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam War Donald Trump committed eight known anti-Russian actions (what has he done covertly?) which won Putin's respect - while making total idiots of a radical partisan press that portrays him as Putin's colluding puppet and predicted an ass kissing marionette show in Hamburg.
Hell! If JFK had been as tough on Russia as Trump had been in the lead up to Hamburg he would have commanded Khrushchev's respect at Vienna; and there would have been no Berlin Wall, no Cuban Missile Crisis nearly causing a nuclear war; and there might not have been a Vietnam War (and its 50,000 dead US troops) causing much of the chaos and social turmoil of the late 1960s.
In sum, judging from Donald Trump's and JFK's first 170 days it appears that Trump has the hapless, unfortunate, feckless JFK beat; and is on his way to becoming a far better and more effective leader on the world stage for defending freedom, justice, Western Civilization and the American way.
From Ronald to The Donald. Trump is Reagan's third term, and will be his fourth.
WAS DONALD TRUMP'S ANTI-RUSSIAN
SPEECH IN POLAND
TODAY
too tough, provocative and inflammatory? It was bad enough that he started his trip in Poland the most anti-Russian of European countries. But did he go too far in identifying Russia as an enemy of freedom, Western Civilization and classical liberal values?
When Ronald Reagan defended Western Civilization against the evil, barbaric, oppressive Russians, and blasted them for their tyranny, aggression and destabilizing influence in Europe and across the world, he was slammed by the progressive liberal left and MSM for being "dangerously confrontational;" and was urged to tone it down lest he start the war to end all wars fought with nuclear arms. And when Reagan persisted the appeasing, ass kissing, insane left (who in collusion with Russia blamed America for the Cold War) sent millions into the streets to protest - useful idiots of the anti-Western Russian cause.
Should President Trump then tone down the rhetoric against Russia and try instead to ease the tensions between our two nations and work toward peace? Or should he continue blasting the Russians like Reagan did and work toward the downfall of Putin's neo-imperialist, anti-Western expansionist regime just as Reagan's hardline, right-wing, anti-Soviet policies eventually collapsed Soviet Russia?
WHAT IS DONALD TRUMP TRYING TO ACHIEVE BY BASHING THE LIBERAL MEDIA WITH BRUTAL VIDEOS AND TWEETS?
As I was watching our fiercely combative, ass kicking Pres beating to a pulp CNN it dawned on me what he was trying to do with his furious fists and defiant FUs: more than just wanting to pound fake news to death he wants to turn bleeding heart liberals like Zucker, Cuomo, Cooper and Blitzer into BLEEDING FACE LIBERALS like Morning Joe's Mika - and drive down their ratings to zero. And it's working like a dream, as CNN's ratings, according to Twitchy, are crashing and burning as I speak:
Yesterday at the Department of Energy Donald Trump on the 160th and perhaps best day of the second 100 days* of his presidency (see), gave a speech on energy independence where, I believe, he prophetically said, and I quote, that he'd be "President for 8 years." And indeed he will be. For yesterday was a super-auspicious day for a President destined for greatness and reelection. Look what happened:
*Trump's best day arguably so far was on April 7th, the 77th day of his presidency. when he ordered the bombing of Syria, and the Senate confirmed Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court.
Kate's Law passed in Congress along with a bill for the defunding of sanctuary cities; the controversial so-called "Moslem Ban" went into effect after being upheld by the Supreme Court against the unconstitutional rulings of left-wing hate Trump lower courts; the Secretary General of NATO (who credited the Trump Effect for increased NATO spending) announced that the alliance would be sending 2000 troops to Afghanistan to fight the radical Islamic Taliban; and US backed Iraqi forces took the Great Mosque at Mosul where three years ago ISIS leader al-Baghdadi declared the ISIS caliphate. It takes your breath away.
And yesterday President Trump reconfirmed his commitment and pledge to the American people and declining middle class to restore American greatness and create American jobs by turning our country into a fossil fuel HYPERPOWER - another blow to crazy, crackpot global warming nuts after he shredded the worthless, US hurting Paris accord signed by his worthless warmunist predecessor.
With the US economy poised to take off from the slashing of taxes, spending and regulations Trump's recommittment to energy independence means, as White House officials tell us: benefiting every local US economy that produces "dirty" energy; boosting tax revenues that will help pay for infrastructure rebuilding and the security wall; and it increases US leverage in diplomatic matters in dealing with such enemies as neo-imperialist Russia and radical "Death to America" Iran. Every president since Jimmy Carter promised energy independence; and now it looks like it will become a reality.
Indeed, yesterday was a stellar day for President Trump mixed with a little amusing side-show where he dumped all over ugly, boring low ratings Mika and Morning "Trump sucks" Joe. Did the president demean himself and the dignity of his office by crapping all over these two? HELL NO! They had it coming, as their fake news show is a daily, dreary, destroy Trump hate fest that makes you want to puke. But if Trump's crude counterpunching against his brain broken enemies upsets you then keep in mind that the economy is the destiny of presidents; and ultimately what counts for his success and the country's is his policies; and as long as he's making the right decisions, and signing the right bill's into law,
his tweeting will mean nothing in 2020; and a prospering middle class will reward him with a second term.
POSTSCRIPT
NUMERIC SIGNS
On June 16, 2015, 16 months before Donald Trump won 1600 Pennsylvania Ave he announced his candidacy - 16 days after the publication of Ann Coulter's book "Adios Amigos" on illegal aliens; and 16 days before Kate Steinle's death by a criminal Mexican illegal (see). And then on the 160th day of his presidency (and 745 days after starting his campaign see) the House finally passed Kate's Law. Astonishingly, the vote on Kate was 257 to 157. Why is this astonishing? 257 = 16 x 16 +1, one number more than 16 squared, strangely and almost consistently Trump's auspicious number (in its factors and multiples) during the 2016 campaign. And here it is popping up again on the day Trump predicted he'd win a second term.
And BTW, just as 16 months separated the start of Trump's campaign from his historic 2016 election, so is the 2018 mid terms 16 months away (see) - perhaps a sign that yesterday's events prefigured that 2018 will be a triumphant extension of Election Day with Republicans adding seats across the country to every legislative body including the House and Senate.
"... A LIGHT WILL SHINE THROUGH THAT WINDOW, A BEAM OF LIGHT WILL COME DOWN UPON YOU, YOU WILL EXPERIENCE AN EPIPHANY ... AND YOU WILL SUDDENLY REALIZE THAT YOU MUST GO TO THE POLLS AND VOTE FOR OBAMA" - BARACK OBAMA LEBANON, NEW HAMPSHIRE. JANUARY 7, 2008.
It was all so predictable. And I, a former radical counterculture hippy from the late revolutionary 1960s (fan of Ho Che Mien and the Vietcong and the terrorist Weather Underground) predicted one year into Obama's presidency (see): the return of leftist terrorism and violence in the post-Obama era. The socialist chaos and rage following Obama's failed presidency wasn't too difficult to foresee. Based on the absurdity (believed by millions) that Obama was a spiritually exalted being and God-sent progressive messiah who'd work miracles (see) - that his presidency would be "a great defining moment" in American and world history, that he'd save the earth from climate catastrophe and "fundamentally transform" our country into a more perfect dependency union - I predicted a dangerous descent into political violence and madness when this vision failed to materialize.
Though Obama, during his presidency, tolerated some left-wing violence (Occupy Wall Street and BLM rioting) he was essentially a nonviolent Alinskyite or Democratic stealth socialist striving to build the transformative socialist state by democratic electoral and quietly subversive means; or, in contrast to Marxist-Leninism, to peacefully work through the system to gradually undermine it; instead of violently overthrowing it - as Marx and Lenin believed was the only possible way for revolutionary change.
Michelle "hope is dead" Obama herself a disillusioned Alinskyite.
But after one year into Obama's presidency seeing how inept, incompetent and feckless he was (how his $800 billion stimulus was failing to supercharge the economy, his EPA and other regulations were damaging to business, investment and growth, and how he was pushing with lie after lie for a total unpopular government takeover of healthcare) the writing was on the wall: Obamunism was the last hurrah for nonviolent, democratic, Alinsky stealth socialism.
Indeed, I foresaw that Obama would leave office with Alinskyism largely discredited; and the freaked out, disillusioned, angry Left would revert to Marxist-Leninism; they'd return to the violence and terror of the late 1960s as the only way left to revolutionary change. And now it's here spreading like cancer in all its savagery, blood lust, madness and rage.
RESIST! RESIST! RESIST!
SHOUT THESE LOSING LIBERAL FASCISTS, AS THEY CALL FOR TRUMP'S DEATH FEARING HIS SUCCESS
Back in my college days at Queens College in Flushing, Queens (I'm a Queens boy like the President) I majored in Classical Philosophy (I'm a Platonist) and was a veracious reader of the Greek and Roman classics in translation where I learned a great deal from writers like Plutarch, Suetonius, Appian and others about Julius Caesar: the great Roman dictator who destroyed the terribly corrupt and declining Roman Republic - and is getting much attention these days because of the tragic Shakespeare play in New York using a Donald Trump look-alike playing the assassinated leader (see postscript).
Now this awful business by deranged, violent, leftist Trump haters of turning the murdered Caesar in the play into President Trump (as if he had a tyrannical authoritarian personality wanting unlimited power and was plotting to destroy our constitutional republic to get it) is just plain nuts. True the two men are charismatic leaders who by sheer will power, audacity and cunning triumphed over all their enemies to achieve great power. But that's where their likeness ends. For Caesar politically was anti-Repubican and believed in unchecked, unlimited autocratic rule; while Trump is the opposite wanting to defend, protect and strengthen our republican form of government and constitutional norms; and to that end he nominated constitutional originalist Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court; and will possibly nominate two more like him if Justice Kennedy retires and Ruth Bader Ginsberg dies. Would Ceasar have done that?
However, just as the killing of Caesar by Brutus and the conspirators didn't kill or stop Caesarism*, making the restoration of the Republic impossible, nor would the killing of Trump stop Trumpism** which, unlike Caesarism, is trying to save our Republic from the radical statist left and its impoverishing, socialist, anti-free market, freedom killing agenda.
*Wikipedia defines Caesarism as "a form of political rule that emulates the rule of Roman dictator Julius Caesar over the Roman Republic, in that it is led by a charismatic strongman whose rule is based upon a cult of personality."
**Trumpism, in essence is radical America first economic nationalism for the restoration of middle class prosperity and family and work ethic values; and a "Peace Through Strength" foreign policy to restore America as the most powerful nation on earth after the military and geopolitical decline of the Obama years. For a fuller treatment of Trumpism see Trumpism: What Is It? Tradition, Populism, American Greatness, for Starters | National Review
Indeed, after Rome plunged into a series of bloody civil wars in wake of Caesar's death the ultimate victor Octavian (Caesar's nephew and heir) transformed himself into another all-powerful Caesar becoming the absolute master and ruler of the Roman world, and started a dynasty of Caesars that lasted centuries until Rome crashed and burned.
Similarly, if President Trump's political enemies get their sick, evil, demented wish and he was, God forbid, murdered it wouldn't stop Trumpism anymore than Caesar's death stopped Caesarism. Indeed, Trump's MAGA Agenda for draining the Washington swamp, reviving the economy and reversing America's decline making it greater than ever would live on in his successor President Pence (who is to the right of his boss) - with perhaps another Trumpian President to follow who'll continue the necessary work of national renewal.
In other words, following the analogy with Julius Caesar and post- mortem Caesarism Trumpism and Republican rule of Congress would surely survive and live on for sometime to come (a generation, not ages) if President Trump met Caesar's fate. The genie of radical pro-American domestic and foreign policy change is out of the bottle; and because of an angry, American, disappearing middle class that's hell-bent on prospering again (and will do so under Trumpism) there's no putting it back, regardless if Trump lives or dies.
In sum, If Donald Trump is the new American Caesar, and Caesarism powerfully survived Julius Caesar's death, then killing Trump would be useless for stopping Trumpism as a powerful force shaping American politics, and would live on long after he was gone.
POSTSCRIPT
ABC'S SCANDAL
Donald Trump and Scandal's Trump-like Hollis Doyle
This is amusing. One of the speakers at the Democratic National Convention last year was actor Tony Goldwyn. Goldwyn plays President Fitz Grant III in ABC's hit TV series Scandal. President Grant is a Republican version of Bill Clinton: he is liberal in his politics and cheats on his wife Mellie, with Olivia Pope (and other women) the show's central character who heads a DC law firm that fixes scandals for Washington politicians.
During Grant's second term wife Mellie (like Hillary when husband Bill was President) runs for and wins a seat in the US Senate. Mellie then wanting to succeed her husband as President runs in the Republican primaries. One of her opponents is Hollis Doyle a coarse, flamboyant, insulting, sexist, anti-immigrant Texas oil billionaire who was intentionally made to resemble Donald Trump. But what many don't know is that actor Gregg Henry who played the Trump like Doyle in Scandal is the actor playing the murdered Julius Caesar in the New York play. Ain't that a kick in the head.
Since the start of Donald Trump's historic campaign for the presidency and rise to power his political adversaries from Left, Right and Center have been consistently wrong in their predictions about his fate right up to Election Day. And they haven't stopped being wrong since, as we saw on Tuesday with Karen Handel's upset victory in Georgia.
First treating Trump as a clown they roared with laughter when he announced his candidacy saying that his inexperience, ignorance of policy and mediocre debating skills would make him the laughing-stock of the race and failure a certainty. Indeed, they predicted that Trump wouldn't survive the first GOP debate; that his rivals on the dabate stage - savvy, experienced, gifted politicians like Christe, Cruz, Bush, Kasich and Rubio - would cut Trump to ribbons and quickly end his run. But the exact opposite happened: he won that first debate and went on to do well in the others growing in popularity with Republicans and Independents.
Then they predicted that he could never surmount the opposition of the GOP establishment, the viciously, negative, hostile press and false image as a racist, sexist, xenophobic bully to win the GOP primaries; and again they were wrong as he tapped into the anger of a forgotten and collapsing middle class who wanted a President who'd reverse their fortunes and make them great and prosperous again.
Then it was predicted that the GOPe fearing Trump would take down the party and cost it the House and Senate would deny him the nomination at the Convention and choose Ted Cruz or someone else. But again they were wrong as his support with Republican voters was just too damn strong.
Then in late September with Trump unexpectedly surging in the polls and tying Hillary (see) it was predicted that the "world's greatest woman" (and most qualified candidate ever to seek the presidency) would crush Trump in debate, show voters how unfit he was for office, and runaway with the election. And though HIllary bested Trump in their first debate and pulled ahead in the polls by several points (see) it wasn't enough to make the Clinton machine comfortable that she'd win.
So they came up with an 'October surprise' that they thought would do Trump in: the leaking of the Billy Bush "Access Hollywood" tape where Trump said denigrating things about women (he was, btw, a liberal Democrat at the time). Because of the tape and subsequent multiple groping allegations (whatever happened to them?) Trump's poll numbers took a nose dive (see) as his enemies were uncorking the champagne in expectation of a Hillaryslide.
But again they were wrong; as the race tightened going into the campaign's final week (Trump helped somewhat with late undecided voters by the "Comey Effect") a dire warning rang out from billionaire Mark Cuban, Nobel Prize economist Paul Krugman and other economic masterminds on the Left:
Trump beating Hillary would crash the Dow and world economy causing a domestic and global recession or worse.
But again from their broken, clouded, hate filled crystal balls the anti-Trumpers made yet another bad call. Predictably (immediately after the election) the very opposite occurred: the market began climbing after a slight fall, then soared into the stratosphere to record highs risng and rising as investors saw economic nirvava ahead.
What was the reason for the sudden upsurge of investor confidence and optimism?
IT WAS THE TRUMP EFFECT, STUPID!
The promise of MAGANOMICS: tax and regulatory relief (shrinking the size of our massively intrusive government) plus other business friendly polices (repeal of Obamacare, infrastructure rebuilding, trade renegotiation, etc.) designed to unleash the pent up GDP growth that Obamunism was suppressing.
Indeed, Trump haters who are hell-bent on wanting to remove the President from office, or politically weaken him to the extent of paralyzing his presidency so he can't roll out with his leftist smashing MAGA Agenda, must be horrified by the actions taken by Janet Yellen (a liberal Democrat) and the Fed since the election.
Trump and Yellen
It's no coincidence that before the election (going back to January 2009) the Fed hiked interest rates only once (showing little faith in Obama's abysmally bad recovery and redistributionist-social justice-fake climate science policies); while since, Janet Yellen raised rates not once, not twice, but a whopping THREE times. Why? In anticipation of a "TRICKLE DOWN" economic boom like Coolidge had in the 1920s, John Kennedy in the 1960s, and Reagan in the 1980s when there was "Morning in America."
In March 2016 Fed Chief Yellen announced that there were no definite plans to hike interest rates any time soon, after the slight increase of 0.25% made the previous December.
THEN CAME THE EARTHSHAKING ELECTION OF DONALD TRUMP
Make no mistake about it, if Hillary Clinton (who pledged to continue Obama's failed low growth bad jobs policies) was elected president the Fed rate hike of early December (one month after the election) would not have happened.
Business Insider reported:
"2017 may be the year that fiscal policy starts to support the economy in a significant way [which it hadn't under Obama] as President-elect Donald Trump enters office. Trump has pledged to cut taxes for corporations and individuals and to invest about $550 billion [now $1 trillion] in infrastructure. Wall Street already thinks these steps will spur economic growth and inflation while supporting company earnings; stocks surged to new highs after the election, while bonds sold off."
THEN AT ITS JANUARY MEETING THE FED ACKNOWLEDGES THE "TRUMP EFFECT"
"The [Fed] meeting was the first since Trump took office, following his stunning November election upset. The president's name was never mentioned in the minutes, but the broad brushes of his agenda show up often.
Members reported hearing higher levels of confidence in the business community. And they predicted that the expected increase in economic growth related to Trump's policy proposals could push the Fed into action [in raising interest rates]."
AND SINCE DECEMBER'S RATE HIKE THE FED HAS DONE IT TWO MORE TIMES
"The simple message is the economy is doing well," Yellen said in a press conference. "We have confidence in the robustness of the economy and its resilience to shocks..."
"While experts caution that President Trump's policies won't take effect until 2018, the Fed must pay attention to how financial markets perform in response to news about the policies.Trump's potential reforms have already caused U.S. stock markets to rise to all-time highs. Expectations for his policies have triggered a significant increase in business and consumer confidence."
Three Fed rate hikes in five months since the election vs. one before in the seven years since the end of the recession is an auspicious sign of what's ahead for the economy as Donald Trump battles on against titanic media adversity and keeps on winning - as his proxy Karen Handel did in Georgia on Tuesday. And as for those who fear or hope for Trump's impeachment based on some weak obstruction charge by Robert Mueller (very unlikely but not impossible in my view) keep this in mind: with the economy robustly growing and Donald Trump's popularity soaring there's no way in hell that he'll be impeached. With a prospering economy like Clinton had in the 90s (most voters believed he was guilty of perjury and justice obstruction) the chances of a Republican House impeaching a popular, successful President Trump are as remote as the Democrat Senate convicting Bill Clinton of crimes. No country wants a change in leadership when it's on the right course.
Get used to it Left!
WE'RE IN THE SECOND HUNDRED DAYS OF EIGHT MAGA TRUMP YEARS
WASHINGTON —The International Monetary Fund on Monday raised its forecast for the U.S. economy over the next two years, saying President-elect Donald Trump’s policies would boost economic growth.
Economic growth accelerated to an annual rate of 2.6% from April through June, the government said Friday.
Second-quarter growth more than doubled thesluggish pacefrom the first three months of the year. First-quarter economic growth was revised down to 1.2%
The economy gained steam in part because of stronger consumer spending, according to the Commerce Department. Helped by the strong job market, personal spending grew at a 2.8% pace, faster than in the first quarter.
Last night Republican Karen Handel (a Trump political proxy) defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff to represent Georgia's Sixth Congressional District in the U.S. Congress. Now Georgia (one of the original 13 American Colonies) was named after King George II of Great Britain who reigned from 1727-1760.
In 1742, the 15th year of George's reign, the classical composer George Frederick Handel (above) debuted his greatest and most inspired work: Messiah. And in celebration of Karen Handel's victory I bring you the very moving and exhilarating "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's masterpiece - beautifully conducted by Georgia's very own Robert Shaw of the Atlanta Philharmonic Orchestra.
HEAR IT. ENJOY IT. FEEL THE LOVE.
Let's top off this Republican-Trumpian triumph with Handel's glorious Royal Fireworks Music.
“I am being investigated for firing the FBI director by the man who told me to fire the FBI director."
Now taken literally the President is saying that he's being investigated for firing James Comey not by Special Counsel Robert Mueller but by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein - the one who told Trump to fire Comey then hired Mueller, which is totally absurd.
Jay Sekulow clarifying the President's statement said: "It should not be taken as a confirmation that Trump's under investigation by Mueller for the Comey firing.....The tweet from the President was in response to the five anonymous sources purportedly leaking info to the Washington Post that Mueller is investigating him."
So what we have is 1. the President's tweet which makes no logical sense when taken literally; and 2. it's interpretation by Jay Sekulow which absolutely nails the President's true meaning.
But let me clarify this further: in his tweet the President isn't being mistakenly illogical as many believe, he's being satirical; he was simply, humorously pointing out the utter, total absurdity of news reports saying that he's being investigated by Mueller for firing Comey on the recommendation of Rosenstein - the correct, legal, DOJ procedure for firing the FBI director.
In other words, just as it would be absurd for Rosenstein to investigate Trump for the perfectly legal firing of Comey (done on his advice) so would it be absurd for Mueller (hired by Rosenstein after firing Comey) to investigate possible crimes related to the firing. If the Deputy AG, for whatever reason, determines that the FBI Director is unfit to carry out his duties he writes a memo to the President telling him to fire him. No special council would investigate this perfectly legal procedure for a crime. It could be the reason for firing the FBI Director was inappropriate; but (with one theoretical exception) it wouldn't be a crime; and especially the crime of "justice obstruction (stifling a federal investigation)" which fake news reports say is what Mueller is looking for.
Indeed, that Comey's firing couldn't possibly be justice obstruction is proved by its total ineffectiveness in impeding, halting or obstructing in any way the Russiagate investigation; as acting FBI director Andrew McCabe told the Senate Intelligence Committee, the firing of an FBI director under no circumstances can affect or impact in the least any FBI investigation or project (see).
However, there is one theoretical exception (and this is important to understand) that McCabe doesn't mention in his testimony (because it's never happened and probably never will). Indeed, the only possible way that the canning of an FBI director can criminally stop, impede or obstruct an investigation is if it's his own personal project where he's the entire probe doing all the work with no one assisting him; then and then only would firing him criminally impede, halt and obstruct that probe; but this wasn't the case with Russiagate which has a life of its own apart from the FBI chief with possibly hundreds of agents working it*.
*The Clinton email investigation had 147 agents working it.
In conclusion, then, Mueller can't be investigating the President for firing Comey as it was perfectly legal following protocol and didn't criminally obstruct the Russiagate investigation.
And as for what Trump allegedly said to Comey in private about "letting Flynn go" it's a "he said he said" situation with no corroborating witnesses; and falls way below the high bar of proving justice obstruction and criminal intent as in for example Watergate. In Watergate there was hard objective evidence of crimes: a burglary by the president's men followed by a White House cover up where Nixon told his deputies to lie to FBI agents, then used hush money to bribe witnesses into silence. Those who compare the legal, non-obstructive Comey firing to Watergate crimes are either Trump hating liars or Trump hating fools; and if they think, because of the firing, that Trump is on his way to impeachment by a Republican led Congress then they're headed for disappointment.
The only real difference between the radical, psycho, leftist loser on the left and the unhinged, brain broken billionaire on the right is that the one wanted to kill President Trump physically (and took out his rage on Republican Congressmen during a practice baseball game), and the other wants to kill him politically and takes aim and fires with lies, leaks, innuendo and character assassination. Otherwise they're of one mind and spirit, comrades in arms joined to the hip fighting in the same failing cause to unseat a U.S. President they hysterically fear more than hacking Russians, Moslem terrorists and fake science climate change.
The question now is this: will vicious, frustrated, wingnut moguls like Jeff Bezos turn increasingly to violent dissent as the economy booms, Trump's popularity soars and the destroy Trump media falls flat on its face, worn out and exhausted unable to compete? Hope not.
But whether the Jeff Bs of the country fight civilly or violently against the "orange menace" one thing is clear: Donald Trump is bigger, much bigger than them; they are midgets with pee shooters firing spit balls at a battleship - hoping against hope that Robert Mueller will be the torpedo to sink him when all else has failed. But the closest they'll come to killing Trump's presidency is the idiotic corruption of Shakespeare's great play; and ISIS inspired wingnut comedians cutting off his head.
The Left is at it's wits end. And their mounting berserko rage at Trump are
"The results through the first four months of the Trump presidency are clearly impressive. More Americans are working at better jobs, new claims for unemployment benefits are at a 44-year low, and median household income, household net worth, and job openings all set record highs. Some might call that “tremendous.”
Now, it’s time to pass tax and healthcare reform......."
THINK ABOUT IT PEOPLE:
If Donald Trump's disgusting Hollywood Access tape (recorded when he was a progressive liberal) and multiple subsequent groping allegations (whatever happened to them?) couldn't stop his impossible, unthinkable election just think how impossible it will be to stop his reelection with a booming, high powered economy hugely benefiting the forgotten, declining, angry middle class that put him in office?
Take sleazy, perverted, alleged rapist Bill Clinton and Monicagate for example: though he befouled and desecrated the White House with Lewinsky, and a majority of Americans (who he lied to) believed he was guilty of perjury and justice obstruction, they were against his impeachment and removal from office. Why? Because of a robustly growing, kick ass economy that was lifting all boats and prospering the country.
"The survey found that although most people did not dispute the accusations in the articles of impeachment approved by the Judiciary Committee [perjury and justice obstruction], only 24 percent wanted the House to actually vote to impeach. Thirty-seven percent of Americans want Congress and Mr. Clinton to forge a compromise; another 37 percent want the matter dropped entirely."
In other words, with a supercharged economy growing in jobs and rising wages the public will reelect Donald Trump to a second term even in the unlikely event that Robert Mueller charges him with a crime, like Ken Starr charged Clinton.
The economy is the destiny of presidents. It is conceivable that if Richard Nixon had Clinton's or Reagan's high growth economy (not double digit inflation) he would have finished out his presidency Watergate and all; his economic policies and great popularity would have chilled any attempt to impeach him as happened to guilty as sin Bill Clinton in the Senate. When times are good voters want to stay the course and fear a change of leadership.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. PRESIDENT!
YOU'RE ON YOUR WAY TO REELECTION CARRIED ON THE
WAVE OF A HUGE ECONOMIC BOOM SUCH LIKE WE
HAVEN'T SEEN IN
DECADES.
POSTSCRIPT
AT THIS POINT IN BILL CLINTON'S PRESIDENCY
he had an approval rating as low as Donald Trump at 37%. Then the economy took off (as it will for Trump) and he was reelected, as Trump will in 2020 (see).
Two years into his presidency and the economy in recession Ronald Reagan's approval rating fell below 40% (see). Then came the great Supply-Side driven economic boom just in time for the 1984 election; and Reagan won a second term in a 49 state landslide.
The question for 2020 is not will the Reaganite Donald Trump win? The question is by how much?
"You and I both know my father a long time. When he tells you to do something, guess what? There's no ambiguity in it."
After 24 months on the American political and world stage everyone knows who Donlad Trump is; they know that he's a brutally blunt, direct, straightforward man who hits back harder when he's hit; and pulls no punches holding nothing back when he fights to achieve his aims. Indeed, he was that way before his election; and defying expectations he'd be different once in office (softening his rhetoric and crude, harsh, aggressive style) he's hardly changed a bit.
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Now in searching for a real life or fictional analogy to President Trump one writer has likened him to the comic book super villain Bane played by Tom Hardy in the blockbuster film The Dark Knight Rises - who Trump seemed to quote in his inaugural speech (see). Trump is not a schoolyard bully who loves pushing around weaker souls, as Hillary Clinton and others have said; instead he greatly delights in taking on the strong and powerful (Clinton campaign machine, Democrat Party, GOPe, liberal media for example) and in defeating and breaking them; and when they're down he pounces on them like Bane broke Batman in the film then continued to beat him into unconsciousness. Just look at his continued post-election attacks on Hillary and Obama. Rightly or wrongly he just loves to keep on bashing them.
Indeed, the extreme politically incorrect Trump loves tormenting his opponents and eating them alive then spitting them out. Recall how this 900 pound gorilla treated his political rivals and enemies heaping a torrent of abuse and insults on them during the campaign: there was Carley Fiorina's looks, John Kasich's dining manners, Jeb's low energy, Rick Perry's IQ; there was "sad, lyin Ted" whose dad "killed JFK;" "crooked, weak Hillary" with her pathetic lack of "stamina and energy;" look how he eviscerated "little" Marco Rubio, called Obama "sick," and recently started in on Comey calling him a "nutjob." Earlier this year The New York Times compiled a list of 332 people, places and things that Trump has insulted on Twitter. For a good laugh you can read them here
In a word, Donald Trump is Mr. Meanie, and it's hilarious. Only humorless lefties don't appreciate the entertainment value in all this. But I digress from my reason for writing this piece. The reason being that the Donald Trump of James Comey's leaked memo (and testimony to the Senate) is not the audacious, defiant, counter punching, anti-PC Donald that we've come to know and love. No way that the real President Trump would have said to Comey about his friend Michael Flynn:
'I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a goodguy. I hope you can let this go.'
How can anyone but an obsessive, partisan, anti-Trump freak see in these 28 words the candidate who bulldozed his way into office, and continues to be so outrageous and unchained? This is not the Donald Trump that we know or, for that matter, the duplicitous Comey knows and conversed with that day.
It's as Don Jr. (an authority on his dad) indicated to Judge Pirro Saturday: the Donald Trump of Comey's memo is radically uncharacteristic of him; he's too vague, subtle, nuanced, indirect and ambiguous for the real, gruff, hard-hitting Donald; those 28 words and Trump's habitual style simply don't mesh - they're way too unTrumpian. If Trump was hell-bent on Comey dropping the Flynn investigation he wouldn't have testified: "I FELT that Trump was pressuring me to drop the probe." Comey would have had no doubts or misunderstanding about the president's intent. He wouldn't have "FELT" that Trump was pressuring him (leaving open the possibility he could be wrong); on the contrary, he would have KNOWN with 100% certainty what Trump meant.
Indeed, as Comey's meeting with Trump was private there was nothing stopping him from being the brutally blunt Donald Bane Trump he normally is; there was nothing stopping him from applying the utmost pressure on Comey (short of violence) threatening him unequivocally to do or die saying:
'This is the deal, Comey: drop the Flynn probe or lose your job starting today!'
That's Trump's way; he doesn't mince words. Don Jr. is perfectly correct: the subtle, nuanced Donald Trump of Comey's February 14th memo isn't his father. It's crystal clear those 28 words are wordsmith Comey's skillful invention. In other words, it's more James Comey than Donald Trump and should be dismissed as a lie designed to appear like justice obstruction in retaliation for being fired - and wanting a lengthy, troublesome special council investigation to follow him. That was very clever of Comey. But it's not going to stop the roll out of Trump's ambitious agenda to
I have written on the topic of President Trump winning the 2016 election in the wee hours of the morningon November 9th or 11/9 when the great Rust Belt state of Pennsylvania put him over the 270 electoral votes he needed to win. But what I wrote was a defense against those shell-shocked Trump haters on the Left who seized on the date "11/9" and spun it into an ominous sign that Trump would be a 9/11 disaster (11/9 reverse) as president:
"11/9 is the new 9/11," tweeted one. "Worst day in
America 9/11....2nd worst day in America 11/9" tweeted another. Then came Michael Moore, who predicted Trump's victory, with the tweet, "Fahrenheit 11/9."
In defense of the newly elected president I wrote that "11/9" was 9/11 reverse. That it was a sign of Donald Trump completely reversing the fortunes of our radical Islamic terrorist enemies; and I predicted that Trump (with Mad Dog Mattis* at Defense) will do to them what they did to us on 9/11-and worse, much worse. In short, I predicted that Donald Trump will be their worst nightmare and 9/11 CATASTROPHE. And so far, unless you hate his guts, President Trump hasn't disappointed us.
*Oddly, on 9-11-2007 (sixth anniversary of 9/11) President George Bush elevated Lieutenant Mattis to the rank of general to command U.S. Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia. Thenon 11-9-2007 Mattis was promoted to four-star general and took control of
But what you're about to read has nothing to do with defeating ISIS and al Qaida and winning the war against Islamic jihad and terror. What you're about to read is a new, astonishing, inspirational discovery about Donald Trump's historic 11/9 victory date; a discovery like many others that I wrote about since the start of his gravity defying against the odds presidential campaign two years ago, signifying that his presidency is the Work of Divine Providence, as Reverend Graham said, and not a freak historical accident. For what I've discovered below can only be explained supernaturally as a signature effect of a
Higher Power, or sign, that Donald Trump is a Providential Man: a blessing to this nation and its people in a time of peril for reversing our economic, military and geopolitical decline. This is what I found:
DONALD TRUMP'S 11/9 ELECTION VICTORY AND THE FOUNDING AND FRAMING OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC
When on 11-09-2016 around 2:30 p.m. a stunned anti-Trump media led by the New York Times called the election for Donald Trump it was the 44th week of the year, one day shy of the 45th (see). Indeed, on 11/9 Trump was elected by the country to succeed the 44th president, Barack Obama, to be its 45th president; and it was the blue state of Pennsylvania, one of the 13 original revolutionary colonies (which a GOP presidential candidate hadn't won in 28 years*) that led the way to Trump's astounding, odds defying, underdog victory - and put him in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
*Oddly, on November 8, 1988 (the last time before 2016 a presidential election was held on that date) George H. W. Bush won Pennsylvania and the presidency.
Now here is where it gets profound and shows signs of a Higher Power connecting Donald Trump's 11/9 election victory to the Founding and Framing of our Constitutional Republic:
First off when we combine the numbers 119 (signifying the month and day of Donald Trump's victory) with 44 (signifying the week of the year) it gives us the five digit number 11944. Now if we turn 11944 into WEEKS then subtract it from the complete date 11-09-2016 something
seemingly or actually (however you want to see it) miraculous happens: it brings us the the date December 12, 1787. What is significant, astonishing and mind boggling about this date, and indicates that Trump's victory was no chance accident or mistake (or work of Russian hackers, or a James "Comey Effect" as Hillary Clinton believes) is that it was precisely when the great state of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia was our capital at the time) ratified the U.S. Constitution and entered the Union...the second state to do so (see, see and see).
Just write 11944 in the Weeks box (only three digits of the number will appear) hit Subtract, then hit Calculate New Date, and this is the result you will get:
FromWednesday, November 9, 2016 Subtracted 11,944 weeks Normalized to 83,608 days
President Trump in celebration of the last day of his very productive first 100 days (more productive that Ronald Reagan's) decided to skip the White House correspondents' dinner in Washington and be with his supporters in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; he did this to thank them once again for electing him president on 11-09-2016, and to celebrate his achievements.
Now Donald Trump's presidency which auspiciously began on the 70th year, 7th month and 7th day of his life (see), and whose 77th day in office, April 7th*, was the best of his first 100 days, ended that very productive period on Saturday, April 29th, the 7th day of the week. Amazingly, astonishingly and I believe providentially April 29th, when Trump was with his Pennsylvania supporters, was the 119th day of the year (see and see).
*On April 7th Syrian time President Trump ordered the bombing of Bashir Assad's air base as punishment for his chemical attack on innocent Syrian civilians. Moreover, April 7th was the day Neil Gorsuch was confirmed to the Supreme Court (see). BTW, 119 is a multiple of 7 17x.
OUT OF MANY ONE
In the above I established what I believe is a providential connection linking Donald Trump's election victory on 11-09-2016 to the historic day Pennsylvania ratified the Constitution and entered the Union. This was part of the process that turned 13 separate states into a unified nation. "OUT OF MANY ONE." Does this foreshadow Donald Trump unifying our terribly divided and turbulent country? The odds seem against it. But will Providence intervene sometime in the near future confronting us with an existential threat that will unite the country behind Donald Trump like it did with Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940s?
THE CONNECTION OF PRESIDENT TRUMP'S 11/9 VICTORY TO JULY 4, 1776
However, going further I will show you something equally astounding: the linking of President Trump's election to July 4, 1776, our nation's Founding Moment. This is how it's done:
Above I mentioned that when Donald Trump was sworn into office it auspiciously fell on the 70th year, 7th month and 7th day of his incredible life. That gives us the numbers 70 (7 X 10), 7 and 7. Now look at this: when I used timeanddate.com to calculate the exact number of days separating 7-04-1776 (a date encoded with three 7s) and 11-09-2016 it totals exactly (are you ready for this) 87,787 days - a number like the date of our Founding, and Donald Trump's age at his inaugural, encoded with three 7s (see).
From and including: Thursday, July 4, 1776
To and including: Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Result: 87,787 days
Anyone who thinks that all the above is the work of random, meaningless, chaotic, undirected chance, or mathematical trickery on my part, is greatly mistaken. Donald Trump, just like FDR his predecessor from New York is a Providential Man with a great national mission, purpose and destiny; part of which is to reverse 9/11 and reign utter, total, devastating havoc on our radical Moslem terrorist enemies. This, I believe, is supernatually indicated by the following:
PRESIDENT TRUMP'S 11/9 TRIP TO THE MIDDLE EAST
I began this article with an interpretation of Donald Trump's 11/9 victory as a sign of his destiny to completely reverse the 9/11 event which first struck New York City (where Trump was born) and then Washington DC (where Trump currently resides as president); and then there was the third terrible event of that day: the crash of United Airlines Flight 93*near Shanksville, Pennsylvania - the state that gave Donald Trump his victory on 11/9.
*As Trump won Pennsylvania on 11/9, the 44th week of the year, oddly there were 44 people aboard Flight 93 (including the terrorists) when it crashed (see).
Now here is where it gets profound. On Friday May 19th Donald Trump went on his first overseas trip as President of the United States. As you will see according to the signs it was the right trip, to the right place at the right time in history. Why? Because it was an 11/9 trip. Why do I say this? Because amazingly, incredibly, astonishingly it fell on the 119th day of Donald Trump's presidency (see and see).
Think about this: as 11/9 symbolically is the reverse of the terrible destructive terrorist attack on 9/11 (and signifies, I believe, Donald Trump completely reversing the fortunes of (turning the table on) our radical Islamic terrorist enemies, he began his trip on the 119th day of his presidency in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Osama bin Ladin's birthplace) where 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers originated.
And what did President Trump accomplish by that first and most important leg of his trip? He reasserted US power in the region after a period of intentional and deliberate retreat and decline by his predecessor where the terrorist states of ISIS and Iran filled the void wrecking havoc on the region; and Syria descended into a fratricidal civil war where 500,000 have died. Donald Trump on that trip united 54 Sunni Moslem nations* behind his leadership to end the financing, support and murderous existence of Islamic terrorism; an amazing historic achievement unprecedented for a nonMoslem head of state. Clearly the consequences of what he accomplished that day will long be remembered, as will his epoch making presidency for our nation.
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GENERAL JAMES MADDIS
As I wrote above General James "Mad Dog" Maddis who is President Trump's right hand man for completely reversing 9/11 and defeating our Islamic terrorist enemies became a general, and was given control of the US Joint Forces Command, on 9-11-2007; and 60 days later on 11-9-2007 he was upgraded to a 4-star general and took control of NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Transformation.
In what follows you will see God's hand at work in bringing together General Mattis and his commander-in-chief, President Trump. Above I wrote that Donald Trump on the day he became President was in the 70th year, 7th month and 7th day of his amazing life. Well, quite incredibly, when Trump kicked off his presidential campaign on June 16, 2015 General Mattis had been a four star general and NATO's Supreme Allied Commander for exactly 7 years, 7 months and 7 days. I'm not making this up:
From and including:Friday, November 9, 2007 To, butnotincludingTuesday, June 16, 2015
Result: 2776 days
It is 2776 days from the start date to the end date, but not including the end date
Or7 years, 7 months, 7 daysexcluding the end date (see).
Now if we include the end date in our calculations the number of days is increased by one giving us a total of 2777 days (see).
Now the question is what does the number 7 mean if it has meaning at all? Pythagoreans, Kabbalists and those who assign meanings to numbers tell us that 7 is symbolic of
VICTORY
THE TRIUMPH OF THE WILL
By the sheer force of his indomitable will and personality Donald Trump against titanic opposition and seemingly impossible odds became President of the United States; and is staying in power confident that nothing and no one can or will undo his election and bring him down.
And with the superb Mad Dog Mattis as Defense Secretary Donald Trump will accomplish legendary things as America is made great again rising phoenix like from the ashes of the Obama years to new heights of glory and achievement.
On May 6, 2016 the citizens of London wanting to show the Moslem world and its anti-Western extremists how tolerant they were of their faith made history: they elected in a landslide Labor Party candidate Sadiq Khan, a British born Moslem of Pakistani parents, mayor of their great city. Not only did this historic election make Khan London's first ethnic minority mayor, but he also became the first Moslem to head a major Western capital.
Now when Khan won I like many on the Right who'd been following Khan's career were alarmed and dismayed. For this was the man who was the legal consultant to 9/11 bomber Zacarius Moussaoui, shared platforms with and showed deference to anti-Western and Jew hating Islamist extremists like Azzam Tamini and Suliman Gani; and derogatorily referred to moderate Moslems as "Uncle Toms"- meaning that they were false Moslems and betrayers of the faith; and that only Islamists or Islamic supremacists (those who believe in Islamic world rule) were true Moslems worthy of the name.
Yet despite Khan's association with Islamists, and the fear and condemnation of him by the American and British Right when he became mayor Donald Trump going against the grain congratulated him saying during a New York Times interview:
“I was happy to see him elected mayor. I think it’s a very good thing, and I hope he does a very good job setting an example because frankly that would be very, very good (see) .”
And that should have been the end of it. But an ungrateful Mayor Khan rejecting Trump's congrats and well wishing chose instead to pick a fight with him over his proposed Moslem immigration ban and issued this tweet:
Responding, the presumptive Republican nominee said:
“He doesn’t know me, never met me, doesn’t know what I am all about. I think they are very rude statements. Frankly tell him I will remember those statements. They are very nasty. It is ignorant for him to say that.
“When he won I wished him well. Now, I don’t care about him. I mean it doesn’t make any difference to me. Let’s see how he does, let’s see if he is a good mayor.”
A spokesman for Khan then hit back, saying:
“Donald Trump’s views are ignorant, divisive and dangerous - it’s the politics of fear at its worst and will be rejected at the ballot box just as it was in London.”
But it wasn't rejected. Trump having the last laugh over Sadiq Kahn (and that other idiot Pakistani Khirz Khan who slandered him at the DNC) was elected POTUS by a nation hurting economically and rightly fearful of radical Islamic terror. And to worsen the humiliation and anger of both Khans the president of Pakistan together with 53 other Sunni leaders (representing 1 billion Moslems and caring nothing about his ban) embraced the "ignorant," "bigoted," "divisive" Trump in Saudi Arabia as a good, wise and courageous man - the leader uniting them in the war against ISIS, al Qaida and Islamonazi terrorist Iran.
Perhaps never in the history of the world have so many Moslem heads of state joined forces behind a leader of a powerful infidel country. It's unprecedented and awesome and will go far in crushing and demoralizing the scourge of violent Islamic jihad .
"Tell Khan I will remember his rude statements about me."
At a joint press conference at the White House on April 12th Jen Stoltenberg (NATO's Secretary General) praised President Trump for the measurable impact of his hardline stance on increasing NATO spending since his election. Stoltenberg said:
"Mr. President, I thank you for your attention to the issue of NATO's defense spending; we are already seeing the EFFECT of your strong focus on burden sharing in the alliance; and we agree that the alliance needs to redouble the effort they pledged in 2014..."
Indeed, as you will see from the evidence below SecGen Stoltenberg wasn't merely flattering the president with words, but genuinely praising him for lighting a fire under the NATO members who, despite a 2014 agreement to boost spending, were greatly underspending when he took office . But since, NATO has been spending substantially more - now well over the $10 billion Stultenberg cites at the press conference. What I posted below from news stories documents this achievement from shortly after the election to just days before the president's trip to Brussels. As you will see, the Trump Effect is very real and growing; and as a result NATO is stronger today in meeting threats from Vladimir Putin and Moslem terrorism than it was on November 8th when Donald Trump's election sent shock waves through the alliance.
SINCE THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, European members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have announced plans to buy everything from surveillance aircraft and drones, to new air defense systems and warships. The announcements come amid U.S. criticism that European countries are not doing enough to uphold their part of the alliance.
Germany, UNDER FIRE FROM U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP for not meeting NATO's defense spending goal, is boosting military budgets, but also wants Trump to map out a consistent foreign policy agenda, Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said.
Germany’s Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen announced today thatGermany will be deploying a substantial force of tanks and armored vehiclesto Lithuania, along the Russian border, where they will be joining the NATO anti-Russia force in the region, which already has upwards of 1,000 German troops involved.
While the timing would aim to directly link Germany’s military growth with its anti-Russia deployments, the reality is that the effort is also meant as a way to increase spending in an effort to PLACATE THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION...
The French Parliament has approved an EUR600 million increase to the country's defence budget above current-year levels.
In total the 2017 budget will sit at EUR32.44 billion, a 1.8% increase over 2016. This is the latest in upward revisions of the French defence budget, with the new 2017 figures about EUR1.1 billion higher than was envisaged by the 2014-2019 Military Programming Law (LPM) and EUR775 million higher than the revised LPM of July 2015. Approximately EUR250 million of 'exceptional income' is included in the new budget figures, set to be sourced by land and property sales.
Brussels is to unveil plans to “turbo boost” spending on cyber security, war ships and drone technology as part of a multi-billion euro European Defence Fund, which comes as US PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP presses Nato allies to significantly increase military spending.
BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovakia approved on Wednesday plans to spend 1.2 billion euros ($1.33 billion) by 2029 to replace the army's outdated armored personnel carriers, in the biggest defense modernization project in the country's history.
Slovakia is stepping up defense spending and its military presence in NATO missions after calls by U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP on allies to recommit themselves to the alliance.
A day after new US DEFENSE MINISTER JAMES MATTIS requested allied countries to increase defense spending to 2% of GDP, Croatian Minister of Defense Damir Krstičević stated that a decision on Croatian Air Force can help Croatia meet the target, increasing defense expenditure from current 1,23% of GDP. At this moment, only seven NATO members has no air force. Reaching the 2% target would mean increasing the defense budget by 400 million USD (2,8 billion HRK). Currently, United States are responsible for 70% of NATOs military capabilities. Mattis has also stated that “Americans cannot care more for the future of your children than you can”.
Lithuania is determined to increase its defense spending amid US calls to meet the alliance's 2 percent defense spending target, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius told reporters on Tuesday.
“Security is not cheap. Otherwise the price is the entire country,” Bergmanis said. “Latvia’s government is committed to increase the country’s defense budget to 2% of GDP next year. As Latvia’s defense minister, I will fight to ensure this decision is not changed.”
The former eastern bloc nation of 7 million people is revamping its military amid calls from U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP for NATO members to meet the alliance’s spending guidelines. The EU’s poorest country is worried about increasing threats from Islamic State and has raised concerns about potential calls for autonomy among ethnic Turks. Russia’s takeover of Crimea and the Ukraine conflict have rattled the whole region.
PRAGUE (Sputnik) – The deal, signed on the sidelines of the NATO defense ministerial in Brussels, Belgium on Wednesday, will ensure tight cooperation between the 4th Czech Rapid Deployment Brigade and the German 10th Armoured (Panzer) Division, Ceske Noviny said.
March 22, 2017WASHINGTON, Mar 21 — RIA Novosti. Turkey will increase defense spending in 2017, and thus closer to the goal to allocate 2% of its budget on defense, said Tuesday the Minister of foreign Affairs of Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu.
Romania has become the first NATO member since the election of pro-NATO Donald Trump to spend 2% of GDP on defense-bringing the number of 2% nations up to five.
Romania increased defense spending to 2% of GDP
Last week, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis signed into law Romania’s annual budget, which for the first time provides for a defense authorization share equal to 2% of GDP. The budget drafted by the Government of Romania had received prior approval by the Parliament and the defense authorization provisions have been unanimously supported by all political parties.....
Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged on Friday that he wants NATO to "fall apart," as he criticized President Trump for urging allies to increase their defense spending.
"[T]hey should completely be falling apart, that will help," Putin said during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. "But we don't see that falling [apart] just yet."
Europe and Canada will raise defense spending at the fastest pace for three years in 2017, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday, partly aimed at showing the United States they are committed to shouldering more costs.
WHERE ARE THE SNOWLESS NORTHERN GLOBAL WARMING WINTERS?
The freakish iceless August Arctic summers? Where's the gondolas sailing down Fifth Ave past Macy's, Saks and Trump Tower? Where's the rainlessness and devastating droughts wiping out forests, farmlands, plants and crops? Where are the coastal floodings displacing millions driving them up mountaintops? Where's the acidifying of the seas killing all fish, marine life, algae and sea weed? And desertification, what happened with that? turning soil into dry lifeless sand where nothing can grow to feed insects, animals or man?
Unless CO2 was drastically cut by 2016 millions were to perish from famines, heatwaves, floods and disease. What happened to all the destruction and death-the runaway extreme weather events-predicted expertly by doomsday scientists? Thank God they were wrong and Armageddon's not coming; and the world is thriving, greening and pleasantly warming.
The truth is this: Earth's complex climate is changing for the better; but not if you're a capitalist hating warmunist with a one world, eco-fascist, anti-oil agenda.
EX-NASA SCIENTIST JAMES HANSEN SAYS PARIS ACCORD IS "BULL SH*T" AND "FRAUD"
Hansen, arguably the leading scientific voice of the global warming movement, said that the Paris Accord was "useless for reversing human CO2 emissions because it's based on promises, and lacks an enforcement mechanism." Isn't that what Trump is saying coming from as different direction?
In other words, both men are agreed that the Paris Accord (with more signatures) is another worthless Kyoto; for like Kyoto it won't stop the massive growing use of fossil fuels - the cheapest, most efficient, and wealth creating form of energy known to man - especially in industrializing third world states that won't go green unless we pay them billions...which isn't going to happen.
This is both mind-boggling and shameful. Look at the NATO defense spending chart above and what country do you see just beneath the United States? You're not imagining it, it's Greece. Greece! Broken, busted, bankrupt socialist Greece. How could Greece of all countries be so high up in the chart above 26 of the 28 NATO states? Above so many with much bigger, healthier, stronger economies who aren't contributing their fair share to NATO defense spending? Countries like Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Canada, Turkey, etc....there are 23 of them, "deadbeats" as some derogatively call them. Greece, for God's sake, is in a deep, dire, dismal state of economic DEPRESSION, as bad if not worse than our devastating Great Depression of the 1930s (see).
Indeed, if there is any NATO country with a legitimate claim not to pay its fair share for the common defense it's Greece. With 25% unemployment and so many desperate, impoverished suffering citizens no one could reasonably blame Greece if it were at the bottom of the chart spending less than Luxembourg at .5%. But there Greece is with its staggering economic problems slashing wages and pensions but raking number two under the US spending more on its military as a percentage of GDP than Germany (1.1%) and Italy (1%) combined. Like I said "it's mind-boggling and shameful."
But why? Why is Greece spending .4% over the 2% minimum while Germany and Italy are underspending by .9% and a full 1% respectively? It's not because they lack the means to spend more and reach 2%-they both have multi-trillion economies the 4th and 8th largest in the world. It's because unlike Greece (with the 57th largest economy and broke) they lack political WILL. Where there's no will there's no way. And Germany, Italy, Canada and the other 20 NATO deadbeats who mooch off of the US simply refuse unlike Greece to give their shared defense obligations near budgetary priority. It's just not important to them as it is to Greece, the US, UK, Poland and Estonia who are the only members of the 2% club. The wealthy countries who are underspending should be ashamed themselves, deeply, miserably, pitifully ashamed.
MAKING NATO GREAT AGAIN!
Indeed, Donald Trump should invite the Greek prime minister to the White House with great honor and fanfare; and praising him to the skies for being an outstanding ally hold him up as an example for Merkel and the rest to emulate. President Trump wants to Make NATO Great Again and the strongest it has ever been to deter Vladimir Putin and put a powerful red line check on his neo-imperialist ambitions that he dare not cross. And Greece in its small way shows the way for achieving that.
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GREEK VS. GERMAN DEFENSE FORCES
This is embarrassing for Germany: statistics show that Greece's active army (with a far smaller population) is equal in size to Germany's, and that their active reserve force is larger. The stats show that Greece has a larger Navy than Germany's with more frigates and subs; and a far larger tank force than Germany's, and almost as large an air force. This is hard to believe but true. See for yourself:
THE BEGINNING OF THE TRUMP EFFECT ON NATO SPENDING STARTS WITH TRUMP'S ELECTION AS INDICATED BY THE FOLLOWING:
CNBC REPORTS:
"Since the U.S. presidential election, European members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have announced plans to buy everything from surveillance aircraft and drones, to new air defense systems and warships. The announcements come amid U.S. criticism that European countries are not doing enough to uphold their part of the alliance."
Exactly. The spending increases were underway before Trump took office, not because he took office. If anything, his soft spot for Russia is what's really behind our European allies rushing to beef up their own defenses faster.
Actually the facts are very different. In the two years prior to Trump's historic election NATO spending increases were lackluster and way below the 2% commitment that its 28 members made in 2014. Moreover, before the election NOBODY ever said what that 2% was supposed to buy - troops, tanks, aircraft, munitions, whatever; this was evidence that it was a weak, half-hearted smoke and mirrors commitment for most members. But that underwent a major change after the election as CNBC reports:
Indeed, it wasn't until December [a month after the election] that "NATO [finally] announced what it was going to buy....everything from surveillance a
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