Here’s the Obama administration DHS, whom you’re supposed to trust to keep Americans safe:
Monthly Archives: December 2015
The Class War in America
In numerous previous posts I’ve chronicled Donald Trump’s candidacy for President as a Republican ( here, here, here, here). In a post “He never means anything serious till he talks about justice and right”, there’s an analysis of the populist appeal of Trump. All that said, and with it being stated numerous times, that I will never support or vote for Donald Trump, let me explain that the people supporting Trump aren’t uneducated idiots, fools or white trash Walmart shoppers, as yesterday’s David Frum’s uppity commentary, “Donald Trump’s Walmart Candidacy”, at the Atlantic asserts:
“Which leaves the Republican race looking like American retailing: many specialized stores to serve the various wants and wishes of the well-heeled—and one vast Trump super-store dominating the down-market all by itself.”
Let’s talk about class in America. In our supposedly egalitarian republic, media elites, Hollywood elites, political elites and academic elites routinely dismiss Americans in the blue collar and below income bracket as trash, ignorant, as beneath notice. Finally, voters in the “Walmart class” as Frum labeled the less well-heeled, decided to take their business elsewhere and he can denigrate them with snide social snobbery, but frankly they’ve had enough.
The reason Donald Trump’s gained traction can be traced directly to decades of the GOP’s loyal conservative base being promised support for conservative issues, only to be repeatedly betrayed by the GOP political elite. Yesterday, after weeks of the House drama in late October over the speakership, where Ryan pretended to be a fiscal conservative to gain the support of the Freedom Caucus, he supported a $1.1 trillion dollar spending bill, that funded the Obama wish list. The GOP base betrayed again by its own party leadership and then GOP elites wonder why the GOP base is sick of the party elites and insiders??? Rush Limbaugh fumes;
“This was out-and-out, in-our-face lying, from the campaigns to individual statements made about the philosophical approach Republicans had to all this spending. There is no Republican Party! You know, we don’t even need a Republican Party if they’re gonna do this. You know, just elect Democrats, disband the Republican Party, and let the Democrats run it, because that’s what’s happening anyway. And these same Republican leaders doing this can’t, for the life of them, figure out why Donald Trump has all the support that he has? They really can’t figure this out?
Repeated stabs in the back like this — which have been going on for years — combined with Obama’s policy destruction of this country, is what has given rise to Donald Trump. If Donald Trump didn’t exist and if the Republican Party actually does want to win someday, they’d have to invent him. It’s just mind-boggling when you figure out everything that has been granted Obama. All the money, the tax increases, the Cadillac plans in Obamacare. All kinds of punitive things in Obamacare, delayed yet again so that people will not be made aware of the pain and suffering Obamacare’s gonna cause.”
Here’s a clue for the elitist snobs in America, who belittle, mock, denigrate and underestimate the millions of hard-working Americans, many of whom shop at Walmart – Americans, by the millions, are fed-up with Washington! While all of the GOP elites who chat amongst themselves at their fancy cocktail parties, but also hobnob amongst the Democrat elites in New York, LA, DC and the Hamptons, the base of the GOP has risen in revolt. These elites recoil in horror at the anger and disdain directed their way and wander around dazed and confused, while the Democratic Party elite celebrates, but beware, the Democratic Party is not immune from the same populist anger as the BLM and other economically disadvantaged in their party foretell. America has lost faith in its leadership. And for the media – America does not trust you to report the truth!
I got sick of the Boehners and McConnells and McCains of the party years ago, so I commend those who stuck it out longer. And to David Frum, former GWB speechwriter, well, we, the peons, although lacking your Harvard education, your keen intellectual insights, and being mere lowly, uneducated Walmart shoppers, still know that in America, WE are THE PEOPLE and WE get the last word to say, “YOU’RE FIRED!”
Filed under Culture Wars, General Interest, Politics
Some good reads
Sorry don’t have time for a thoughtful blog post, but I’ve read a few interesting pieces that I would like to throw up the links to share them.
Here are two excellent foreign policy analyses by G. Murphy Donovan:
John Derbyshire dissects PC culture:
Andrew McCarthy at National Review dismantled the Obama administration flimsy rationale for not looking at social media content of prospective immigrants:
Tashfeen Malik’s Jihadist Social-Media Posts Were Deliberately Ignored by the Feds
And last, an interesting piece Malcolm Pollack posted on his waka, waka, waka blog, which brought back memories of the Cold War era analyzing photos and broadcasts of Soviet leaders. This article looks at how Putin and several Russian leaders walk:
Filed under Culture Wars, General Interest, Islam, Military, Politics, Terrorism
Top secret information was on Hillary’s private email server
Before this story gets buried by the liberal media, today FOX News reported:
“EXCLUSIVE: An intelligence community review has re-affirmed that two classified emails were indeed “top secret” when they hit Hillary Clinton’s unsecured personal server despite a challenge to that designation by the State Department, according to two sources familiar with the review.
The sources described the dispute over whether the two emails were classified at the highest level as a “settled matter.”
The agencies that owned and originated that intelligence – the CIA and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency or NGA – reviewed the emails to determine how they should be properly stored, as the State Department took issue with their highly classified nature. The subject matter of the messages is widely reported to be the movement of North Korean missiles and a drone strike. A top secret designation requires the highest level of security, and can include the use of an approved safe.
The sources, who were not authorized to speak on the record, told Fox News that while the emails were indeed “top secret” when they hit Clinton’s server, one of them remains “top secret” to this day — and must be handled at the highest security level. The second email is still considered classified but at the lower “secret” level because more information is publicly available about the event.”
So, when the Clinton spinmeisters twist and turn, to deflect and confuse the issue – she did receive TOP SECRET information on her unsecured private email server in her home.
Filed under General Interest, Politics, The Media
My review of the GOP field
Time to gauge where I’m at with the GOP primary, other than wishing it was over and done with. Very tired of the manufactured drama, starring Donald Trump. As I’ve written many times, I will never vote for him and I do harbor suspicions that he is a dupe (not a plant) of the Clintons, because as I’ve watched Hillary Clinton go from the stiff, robotic candidate in the Spring, to the smiling hipster, cracking jokes and yukking it up on late night TV, it’s obvious dramatic changes took place within her campaign. I believe that unlike her 2008 campaign, where she kept one of America’s true political geniuses at bay, in the early months of this campaign, where it looked like she might not survive to the Fall, in desperation she turned to him. I strongly suspect that he set in motion the strategy that has worked miracles for him over the years. Yes, I see the Bill Clinton triangulation strategy playing out, with far-left kook Bernie on the left, Trump sounding more and more like a fascist on the right and there’s “love and kindness Hillary, appearing as moderate and centrist. I’ve mentioned my suspicions many times ( here, here, here).
In the GOP camp, Donald Trump creates drama, chaos and endless controversy. Assuredly, on the big issues he champions, he mouths many home truths that are inconvenient for the DC cocktail party crowd to hear and acts like gasoline tossed on the liberal press and pundits’ self-righteous, politically correct pieties. He’s reduced their arguments to a heaping pile of ashes and for that alone, we should all cheer. However, there are several “buts”, like, but he doesn’t have a clear grasp of The Constitution and his cures often come without clear plans and overstep constitutional bonds. Of course, those who believe in his great business acumen, don’t harbor the doubts that I do – they see the great American success story, while I see the yuge glowing red warning sign of toxic leadership.
I left my job at a retail store earlier this year, where I worked for a man, whom I believe was the most talented merchandiser I have ever seen. Along with that talent came a huge ego and the worst people skills I have ever seen in my life, that is, until I’ve watched Donald Trump brag, insult, bash and mock his GOP rivals. This man threw anyone under the bus to make himself look good and he bragged as much as Trump. He loved to fire people, very much like Trump. One tirade too many right on the sales floor and I decided to put in my two-week notice, after working there many years. He was my 8th store manager and I had never had a single problem with any of the others. YUGE relief is what I feel not having to deal with him anymore!
The only team The Donald is on, is his own. He does not care about the GOP party or causes per se, they’re just the vehicle he is driving to become President, where he believes his dynamic business acumen will single-handedly “make America great again”. He’s right on many issues – even in his latest kerfuffle about Muslim immigration, on the main points he’s right – it doesn’t make sense to be bringing in Muslim immigrants from several countries that are hot beds of Islamist terror and where the collapse of government in many of these regions makes adequate vetting impossible. And he nailed the alarming truth that the Obama administration doesn’t know what the hell is going on with their own immigration policies. A pause makes perfect sense.
Time will tell if the Carville/Begala campaign modus operandi, that I strongly suspect is playing out in the Trump campaign, is true or just a nutty conspiracy theory. For me, it doesn’t take much imagination to envision Bill Clinton calling Trump when he caught wind that Trump was considering running. Trump and Bill Clinton golf together and have known each other for years. Trump was a yuge Clinton supporter. So, the phone call could have been as simple as this:
Bill Clinton calls Trump : Hi Donald, I hear you’re thinking of throwing your hat into the 2016 race?
Trump: Yes, I am.
Bill Clinton: Well, you know I believe Hillary is the best candidate for 2016, but I wish you good luck and you know, Donald, the one bit of advice I’ll give you is you’ll need great political advisers. A national race is really complicated.
Trump: Well thanks for that advice. I am still putting a campaign staff together.
Bill Clinton: No problem Donald, you know I am already taken (laugh, laugh), but the best political advisers are Carville and Begala. Those GOP political advisers don’t have the guts to run a tough race.
Trump: Thanks, you know me, I want the best political advisers. You know I’m going to fund my own campaign, if I jump in. Do you think Carville and Begala would work for a GOP candidate.
Bill Clinton: I can’t speak for them, but you know, business is business, so you’d have to talk to them yourself.
Set-up done. It could have been that easy for Bill Clinton to manipulate the downfall of the GOP primary. Carville and Begala easily could have advised Trump to keep the business relationship secret, because Republicans go into derangement mode about them. It’s obvious Bill Clinton threw his weight around and called in all sorts of favors within the Democratic party to bury this email server scandal and the Benghazi committee investigation to get her campaign on track.
The other GOP field, except for Rubio and Cruz, lies like dying fish washed up on shore, gasping their last breath. Fiorina seemed to have so much potential – smart, well-prepared, excellent public speaking skills, but then she turned into a scorned feminist, who played the victim card at every turn – whining her way to main debate stage. Her “well-prepared” quickly became boring repetitive, rehearsed diatribes and there didn’t seem a hairbreadth’s difference between her shrill, angry “I am woman, hear me roar” harangues than Hillary’s. The rest of the GOP field, many having crystal clear conservative principles and records, due to The Donald’s monopoly of the press and pundits attention, fell to the wayside. Dr. Carson, the other outsider, still seems like a very nice man, who wants to make a positive change. Unfortunately, his contemplative pauses, lack of foreign policy cred and string of odd remarks have doomed his chances.
I could happily vote for Ted Cruz, even though I doubt he can win in the general election. His pitfalls are he always appears as if what he’s saying now is a careful tactical move in some political grand strategy , which on an intellectual level, I admire, but on a more human level, it comes across as cold and calculating. His other main drawback centers on how he speaks with such overblown rhetoric that it feels as if he’s talking down to people. Rubio has boyish good looks and an engaging personality, but I feel he’s misguided on foreign policy and easily led by “military and think tanks experts”, unfortunately it sounds like all of his are neocons, whom I disagree with on most policy issues. I still like him, but it would take a lot of soul-searching for me to support him. Chris Christie comes across well in debates, but here again, as a conservative, I have a hard time with Republican-lite candidates
Filed under Culture Wars, Foreign Policy, General Interest, Politics, Terrorism, Uncategorized
Blog note
We had one of our dogs put to sleep Friday. He was my former daughter in-law’s beagle and I thought he was 13, but my son told me that when he informed her of his death, she said he was 15 years old. He was an obese beagle, who had a cranky streak, but he loved me and followed me wherever I went in the house. He was always laying on the floor near me when I’m on the computer.
The past few months have been a downward spiral – heart problems, COPD, then he tore an ACL tendon in his left back leg. Due to his medical problems and the obesity, he wasn’t a candidate for surgery. He seemed to be doing much better lately. He’d lost some weight and was moving more. Although the 8 medications he was on were tiresome to administer, I was hoping he’d be around for a long while yet. Thursday morning he couldn’t stand up and when I helped him up he was wobbly and kept falling on his left side. I sat on the floor and fed him canned dog food Thursday and carried him outside to do his business that day, but he needed help to even stand up for that.
The vet told us he had injured his right leg and hip and he was trying to shift his weight to the left side. She said he was in a great deal of pain and he was already on a pain medication. We decided to have him put to sleep and that’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever done.
Sure, there are 5 other dogs here, but I still miss him. Let’s see 2 were my oldest daughter’s dogs and one was my youngest daughter’s dog and 2 belong to my husband and me – all of them old dogs and some with serious medical problems, so I’ve spent quite a bit of time crying the past few days and worrying about going through this again in the near future. I’ll try to get back to blogging this week.
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What he should have said
Here’s what President Obama should have said on Sunday night. Sen. Ben Sasse from Nebraska articulates who we’re fighting and what we are fighting for. (H/T Truth Revolt.org)
A niggling incongruent bit of information
Tashfeen Malik, erstwhile jihadi bride of Sayed Farhood and Islamist terrorist has been reported on since the San Bernadino terrorist attack last week. There are many things we know and many things we don’t know and then there are things the press reported that make no sense, if you are to believe the facts as presented. The FBI affirms that both Malik and Farhood were radicalized for some time before this terrorist attack. They’re following all sorts of leads, but one lead they should look into is how this online marriage came about.
Muslim women raised in Western countries have been surrounded by a culture where women interact with men outside their family, without supervision or social stigma. Malik was born in Pakistan and raised in Saudi Arabia, so why would this “devout Muslim” woman, whom Farhood’s family claims that they never even saw her face, look for an American husband or for that matter chat online with a male stranger? Somewhere in this mess are middlemen matchmakers, perhaps jihadist family members or a jihadist group, who arranged this marriage. It seems incomprehensible that a devout Muslim woman, with her background, would hook-up with an American, Muslim or not – it just makes no sense, unless she was sent to carry out a terrorist attack or their families arranged this marriage. The press just blithely reported this meeting online, no questions asked, but there’s more to it – more men involved in this.
Filed under Foreign Policy, General Interest, Islam, Terrorism
Words matter, so keep your dictionary handy
Here are my observations on President Obama’s Oval Office speech Sunday night. His narrative writers carefully chose those words, to serve as propaganda, to sway public opinion after seeing devastating poll numbers on how Americans feel about the President’s response to ISIS and Islamist terror. For them, this wasn’t meant to be an actual change of course, only a change in word choice. The Obama administration does have a strategy, however that strategy is not to defeat ISIS, but to fundamentally transform (revolution) America. If you pay attention to the Obama agenda and the things that inspire this president to get passionate and animated, you’ll discern it has nothing to do with fighting Islamist terrorists, heck, he’s planted Islamist sympathizers and enablers in the US military and throughout his administration to insure Muslim sensitivities aren’t offended rather than find a strategy to defeat Islamist terror. That’s the truth! Now, if you juxtapose that with his actions to attack the police, while championing black thugs who get into altercations with the police, the Van Jones plan hits you in the face: it really is top down, bottom up, inside out – they are working to fundamentally transform (revolution) America.
President Obama knew his speech would incite a reaction from the political far-right and actually they’re trying to create more divisiveness and that’s why they descend on these police/black clashes, Al Sharpton has an open invitation to the White House, the military has been cut and being the last bastion where an Alpha male ethos survived, they effectively neutered the US military – where our Secretary of Defense warbles on about transgenders and females in combat jobs making us stronger. The White House reaction to this latest terrorist attack on American soil was meant to antagonize the political right – they want the racists and bigots to react, so they can justify confiscating guns from private citizens – they want to incite a race war in America – that is the truth!
Donald Trump, whom more and more Americans fed-up with Obama’s non-response are supporting, is there to incite the worst among the far-right. I still believe Trump is a Trojan Horse set in motion by the Clinton political machine, but have no proof. To understand Trump’s appeal, refer to my post, “He never means anything serious till he talks about justice and right.” His rabble-rousing feeds Obama’s strategy and will insure a GOP defeat in 2016. And in the midst of all this, there’s big money from George Soros and leftists funding Obama’s fundamental transformation (revolution), from BLM movement, to the Islamist apologists, to the Syrian refugee invasion.
I’ve written about it many times:
Building trust: The high road for America
The Obama/Black Grievance Community/Arab money connection?
Donald Trump’s response isn’t the problem
At this point, we’ve got Donald Trump, ostensibly a very recent conservative convert (Trojan Horse or dupe of the Clintons) inciting the far-right to act out and you’ve got the far-left (ensconced in the White House, with the power of the executive branch, using executive power to subvert The Constitution and fundamentally transform (revolution) America). The far-left wants to incite the far-right to violence, so they can then use the levers of executive power to advance their revolution.
You can read the Van Jones plans in his STORM Handbook, but just like Malik Shabazz went from being a leader of a reviled hate group in America to the National President of Black lawyers for Justice, Jones these days isn’t a radical subversive, nope, he’s the clean-cut, well-spoken political analyst on CNN and the president of Rebuild the Dream…. what could sound more benign….
America, the Republic, is being redefined out of existence, but really the far-left wants the far-right to react violently, so that President Obama can use the power of the Presidency to strong arm his fundamental transformation (revolution) with a national police force, widespread gun confiscation from private citizens and a flurry of executive orders to quell free speech. Loretta Lynch signaled that, by warning Americans she will prosecute hate speech. Words matter, so keep your dictionary handy!
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