Category Archives: General Interest

August 28, 2016 · 10:19 pm

America’s moral compass?

One of my sons told me I had to watch this video a couple weeks ago and while Trump supporters will say it’s just trying to make Trump supporters look bad and liberals will say they are bad, most people will laugh and forget about this video, which was after all done for laughs.

The thing I really am wondering about is if these people were really Trump supporters, who volunteered to review these ads (fake ads). I also wonder how many Americans, with the angry rhetoric about illegal immigrants being spewed to drum up political support, would respond like these people and if they do, we have a very SERIOUS moral crisis in America. The women in this video were way more frightening than the men – the one woman proposing tricking them with vaccinating them with something (at 6:06). She is proposing biological warfare and smiling about it – totally clueless to the magnitude of what she is blithely proposing.

No one spoke up and said any of this stuff was wrong. If Americans can be led along with ideas like this, as part of a political ad campaign, believing these are good ideas, something is very, very wrong with America’s moral compass.

I wonder how many Americans could that easily be led to committing war crimes?

And on the left we have BLM and all the way to the White House, excusing their anarchist movement and making excuses for their “anger”.

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August 27, 2016 · 10:53 pm

What is the alt-right?

Hillary devoted an entire speech to Donald Trump’s “alt-right” supporters. Here’s an article by Walter Hudson, which offers some background to the origins of the alt-right movement and identifies some of the main leaders and shapers of alt-right political beliefs. Hudson explains:

“The alt-right rejects mainstream conservatism as known and pursued by the vast swath of traditional Republicans. Using familiar-sounding rhetoric, evoking lofty images of American greatness, they nonetheless reject the ideas upon which this nation was founded. Alt-right leader Richard Spencer makes this explicit in remarks chronicled by The Nation’s Joan Walsh:

When I [Walsh] try to argue that equality and pluralism are central to the nation’s founding documents, [Spencer] looks disgusted. “When I look at Thomas Jefferson’s writings, the Declaration of Independence, it makes me want to vomit. The idea that a ‘creator’ made all human beings equal? That’s ridiculous. The idea that all human beings are equal is such an appalling sentiment. We’re here on this earth for such a short period of time. The idea that we would dedicate ourselves to something as stupid as ‘equality’ or ‘democracy’ is morally insulting to me.”
Spencer’s comments are not an aberration. This is the man who coined the term “alt-right,” a recognized thought leader within the movement, saying that the Declaration of Independence makes him nauseous.

It’s critical to note Spencer’s meaning here. Some conservatives may be tempted to join Spencer in a criticism of democracy. The United States is a republic, after all, and that is a meaningful difference. However, that is not the point which Spencer is referencing. For him, democracy is bad, not for the reasons which the Founders articulated, but because it threatens the nation’s racial identity.”

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/08/26/6-chilling-facts-about-the-alt-right/1/

Hudson explains the group as promoting a white tribalist belief system, predicated on rejecting not only multiculturalism, but also individual rights,  in favor for a system based on a white nationalist collectivism ( a white tribe).   They reject constitutionalism and opt for a race-based populism.

Everything they claim to champion, I adamantly reject.

I believe in America as a land dedicated to our founding principles.

I believe in protecting and defending The Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic.

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August 25, 2016 · 8:40 pm

The “alt-right” around every corner….

The alt-right is the new broad brush the Clinton meme-makers want to hype to paint Trump as a “fascist”. That Trump hesitated to disavow white nationalists early on and made very incendiary comments falls on Trump’s own shoulders, but I think it’s important to be careful not to buy into the idea that every person who voted for Trump in the Republican primary is a rabid, closet alt-right racist.

Certainly, white nationalists have merged to vocally support Trump, in fact, I witnessed alt-right attacks a few times on Disqus comments at National Review, where a group of alt-right commenters showed up and were posting anti-Semitic and racist stuff non-stop for hours, completely shutting down any conversation by other commenters. The moderators after one attack said they had deleted thousands of posts during that attack. And the attacks at National Review that I witnessed were in the comment section for Jonah Goldberg’s column, with many of the anti-Semitic comments aimed directly at Goldberg.

So, while I think it’s important to denounce white nationalists and any other hate-mongering groups, like Black Lives Matter, it’s also important not to buy into the Clinton SPIN machine’s GROSS exaggerations.

Here’s my cautionary note about Hillary and her alt-right fear-mongering. The Clintons (and Democrats) love to paint conservatives, Evangelical Christians, people who own guns, former soldiers, people who talk about The Constitution too much (more than they prefer) and anyone who refuses to embrace their Lefist agenda as part of some nebulous army of “vast, far-right extremists”.

During the 1990s the Clinton administration hyped the
“right-wing militia” threat way out of proportion, while dangerously downplaying Islamic terrorist threats, even after Islamic terrorist attacks against American interests and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. There was Oklahoma City, so yes, there were some dangerous militia groups, although if my memory is correct, it was only a few people who were behind the OKC bombing, I think, not some vast army.

I believe the Clinton administration grossly exaggerated the “right-wing militia” threat for their partisan political purposes.

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August 25, 2016 · 3:21 pm

The Clinton Juggernaut Tries to Score a Knock-out

Just a reminder: This is the Clinton information warfare experts (their WAR room) at work, trying to bury Trump in the fascist memes, which they set-up for the last year with their “GOP Insurgency”.

Trump is being buried alive by the Clinton juggernaut.

Bill Clinton is probably the most brilliant political strategist in America today.

The Clinton machine has been planning these ads for months.

Trump’s Potemkin campaign has no ground game, endless campaign chaos and disorganization, only now is planning ads. He believed his “great” persona would garner him billions of dollars of free media in the general election and did not plan for any real campaign structure – he wanted to do it on the cheap.

Trump can not defeat their mass media saturation/scorched earth strategy.

This entire 2016 election was RIGGED by the Clinton machine.

The only hope for America is NOT either Trump or Hillary.

The ONLY hope for America is that the WHOLESALE PUBLIC CORRUPTION BE EXPOSED!!!

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August 25, 2016 · 3:07 pm

More emails

More emails, nothing to see here…

Time to move on…

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August 25, 2016 · 2:18 pm

Another Trump Word Salad

“He’s hasn’t changed his position on immigration, he’s changed the words he is saying.”

Deport them ALL. They have to go back.

Now:

Words matter… or at least they should!

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August 25, 2016 · 11:11 am

While America watches the 2016 Reality TV Show….

Iran vessels make ‘high speed intercept’ of U.S. ship: U.S. official

America is completely distracted by this endless Presidential Reality TV Show.

The thing I’m most concerned about in this election is how far hostile foreign countries have infiltrated America’s government and political process. That is how I started watching the media coverage and the Clinton spin machine so closely since 1992.  So, while I believe Trump is a con man and Hillary a crook, it’s the people surrounding them that I am more concerned about.

I’m watching how Trump has surrounded himself with shady people who have close ties to Russia and now Bannon, a man who has been reported to revere Lenin. Trump is corrupt and can easily be bought and manipulated.

For decades I’ve been watching the Clinton sewer rats and their SPIN, which looks like sophisticated information warfare, in the old KGB-style. And there were all the Chinese, Arab, and other money ties, plus Huma, a MB agent, firmly attached to Hillary’s side. The Clintons were easy marks for foreign infiltrators – they were corrupt and could be bought and easily blackmailed all along.

Then there’s the media itself – FOX (foreign-owned) has been a bizarre festival of Trumpmania, where the pundits and coverage was so obviously biased toward Trump and FOX has not pivoted to running the Clinton scorched earth. Drudge smells like a foreign front operation – mainstreaming InfoWars, Breitbart and other bizarre sites and Trump trying to mainstream the National Enquirer (another likely paper with foreign infiltration, imo). CNN and MSNBC going all in for Trump’s GOP Insurgency was bizarre (American liberals own those). Tracking the timelines of events with how the liberal media got the fascist meme thing to resonate was a messaging marvel. I believe that entire thing was deliberately set-up by Clinton and Soros operatives.

And beyond all the presidential politics, I’ve been watching the complete, deliberate dismantling of the US military by Obama – he even wants to screw with our nuclear arsenal before he leaves office. The Russians and Chinese have been escalating military aggression against US ships and aircraft operating in international waters. There was another report Tuesday of an Iranian move against an American ship. Obama sits on his hands. MB types now are overseeing our military’s training to fight Islamic terrorists. Obama has a cabinet filled with people who have long histories of radical, anti-American views and who spend their days busily dismantling the American military and writing “narratives” (LIES) to sell the American people.

I keep wondering what military moves Putin might try between now and November – this is his perfect opportunity. America is caught up in an endless Presidential Reality TV show, the Republican Party entrenched in in-fighting, Hillary entrenched in doing damage control as Wikileaks prepares to unload (Wikileaks is believed to be a Russian front by many serious US intelligence experts), and Obama is golfing. That’s my main concern – as we sit here distracted and unaware of the outside world.

America’s enemies are moving.

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August 21, 2016 · 11:50 am

A Smell the Leather Moment

This is one of those “smell the leather” moments.  In the early 80s, my husband and I had our oldest daughter’s baby pictures taken at a portrait studio. We were sitting there looking over the proofs and the salesman was trying to work in those tie-in sales, like a lovely photo album.

Being young and trusting, the salesman, seeing an easy mark, held the photo album up and said to me, “It’s real leather, here smell it.”  My husband sat there stone-faced and the salesman, addressed every sales pitch at me, while nervously glancing at my husband occasionally.

I obediently complied, but my husband had had enough and he told the salesman, we just wanted the portrait package I had picked out. In the car, my husband kept saying, “It’s real leather, smell it” and giving me this look of pity.

Of course, I thought my husband was overreacting, but as I thought over the incident later, I realized that salesman had figured out that I was the easy mark and that’s why he focused his efforts on me and not on my husband.

I became a tougher judge of obvious cons after that, but you can never live down stuff like that, so he still mentions that occasionally, when my bleeding-heart tendencies obstruct cold, hard reality

We are now approaching Trump’s “smell the leather” moment, where even most of his most ardent followers are going to realize they’ve been conned by the “great” Trump.

Trump met with Hispanic leaders yesterday, Univision reports:

“Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump plans to present an immigration plan in Colorado Thursday that will include finding a way to legalize millions of undocumented immigrants, according to three people who attended a meeting between the candidate and Hispanic leaders on Saturday at Trump Tower in New York.”

http://www.univision.com/univi…

Can’t wait to see what Trump announces Thursday.

Last night Trump had a rally in Fredricksburg, VA and played to his base (at 34:33 in the above video) and cheered, “Build That Wall” along with the crowd.

Imploding soon…. either the hordes revolt at being played or they remain 5th Avenue Loyalists and follow Trump over the cliff….

It’s still a slow motion train wreck, but no one can look away.

 

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August 20, 2016 · 1:09 pm

Glass bridges

This BBC story reports on a China opening the highest and longest glass bridge in the world.  Definitely won’t be adding that to my bucket list of things to experience, but it is amazing.

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August 18, 2016 · 3:16 pm

New diapers?

The sanctimony, perhaps acrimony is the better term, expressed in these articles blaming #NeverTrump for Trump’s self-inflicted wounds, grows daily, as more and more of the Trump followers look for someone else to blame for this vile fraud’s problems.  

At PJ Media, Michael Walsh wrote another blistering attack:

“The time for opposition was during the primaries. But now, for better or worse, the issue is settled. Increasingly sounding like leftists, the “never Trumpers” appeal to a higher morality to justify their electoral sabotage, but the fact is their stance is profoundly immoral; sore losers, they demand a rules change after the game is over, and refuse to accept the results.”

https://pjmedia.com/michaelwalsh/2016/08/17/the-moral-cowardice-of-the-nevertrumpumpkins/

Well, a commenter wrote the most succinct response, in the comment section and here’s the deal, Trump used the Clinton-style scorched earth in the primary and as I endlessly repeated, that takes a lot of media collusion to pull off.  Now  

Trump is being buried alive by that same liberal media running the Clinton scorched earth and it is brutal (just like his 24/7 “GOP Insurgency” was brutal).  I believe these scorched earth campaigns are corrupt and unethical, but I don’t know if it’s illegal for mass media elites to collude with politicians to manipulate media coverage, to allow one candidate to dominate the 24/7 news cycle for 8 months, to the tune of several billion dollars in free media coverage.  It sounds to me like it should be illegal, but I am not a legal scholar.  That said, Trump is helping the Clinton scorched earth, by making endless incendiary comments.  The following commenter rebutted Walsh’s tirade against #NeverTrumpers, so with his permission, here is his response:

jcambro1 • 21 minutes ago

” Increasingly sounding like leftists, the “never Trumpers” appeal to a higher morality to justify their electoral sabotage…”

Oh really? Who sounds like leftists here?

I haven’t heard this kind of mindless devotion to an unqualified candidate since 2008.
And Trump himself is already doing what we conservatives supposedly revile – He’s playing the victim. “It’s not fair. The system is biased against me. The debate schedule isn’t the way I want it. Hillary is getting illegals to vote. If I lose, it’s everyone else’s fault. They cheated.”

Game recap: Trump 1,000,000 excuses
Personal responsibility ZERO!

Trump and his army of Trumpanzees charged into this election on a tidal wave of boasts and braggadocio. They told us that we needed someone “tough.” They told us Trump “tells it like it is!” We need a hard-as-nails deal maker and businessman!” They said.

Now he’s down in the polls and the Trumpanzees and their candidate are squealing like a herd of stuck pigs!

“The media is biased against us!”
“The GOP is not loyal to us!”
“Conservative Never-Trumpers are betraying us.”
“Our panties are too tight. We have menstrual cramps. Megyn Kelly was mean to us! George Will isn’t being nice. Mexican judges aren’t fair. Boohooo!

Sounds like a pack of simpering liberals waiting for “hope and change.” Sounds like the change they need is for some new diapers.

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