FBI Director Comey just gave us a quick rundown on Hillary Clinton’s private email server and concludes no reasonable prosecutor would bring charges.
He gave her a complete pass.
The fix was in all along and once again the Queen proves she is ABOVE THE LAW.
Filed under General Interest, Politics, Public Corruption
“What exactly would using this label accomplish? What exactly would it change? Would it make ISIS less committed to trying to kill Americans? Would it bring in more allies? Is there a military strategy that is served by this? The answer is none of the above. Calling a threat by a different name does not make it go away. This is a political distraction.”
Words matter.
Words give meaning to what we believe, think, hope, dream, in essence to who we are. Words matter a great deal in our interactions with others, but they matter infinitely more to political leaders, especially the one joined at the hip to his teleprompter.
I’m going to divide this post into two parts. This first part is just a short , okay on rereading this, I admit it’a lonnng, rambling commentary on Leftists in America defining events, creating phrases to alter perception of events, and editing out key information to alter official documentation of events, all to create a version of events that fits their political agenda. The second part, well, I want to discuss some things I’ve been thinking about in regards to leaders trying to control what people think.
Years ago, I read a book, “The Words We Live By: The Creeds, Mottoes, And Pledges That Have Shaped America”, by Brian Burrell, that I had signed out at my local library. A few years ago, I was thinking about that book and ordered it. Brian Burrell related how he began his journey into collecting and studying the history of “the words Americans live by” watching and then later helping his father collect the words and messages on public monuments, tombstones, on buildings, etc. His father’s interest in these words spurred an interest and hobby in Burrell as a young boy, which he pursued into adulthood and ended up writing a book about these words.
Above: A book my mother sent me when I was a young soldier in Germany in 1980. She added a four-leaf clover that my father found, because he was an expert at finding four-leaf clovers. As a child, when my brothers and sisters and I were crawling around on the ground in a clover patch searching for a four-leaf clover, my father stood there and within a few seconds he would lean down and find one. He said, “You need to stand back and look at the entire patch.” That is big picture/little picture;-)
I’ve been not only fascinated by words from my earliest memories, but intimidated by words. I admire great orators and people with perfect elocution. Being a life-long recovering stutterer, with bouts of sudden relapses, I stick to safe, easily pronounced words and avoid public-speaking at all costs, knowing the chances of turning into a blubbering mass of incoherent muck is very high. As a child I spent time almost every day studying the dictionary. I loved Eliza Doolittle in “My Fair Lady” and could relate to her joy at mastering, “The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.” One of my sons returned from a trip to PA recently where he had visited my family and he came bearing gifts, among them was a cookbook compiled by my childhood church and another old dictionary, which one of my sisters felt sure I’d like.
Growing up, our elderly pastor’s wife, a lovely Jewish lady educated at Columbia’s Teachers College, devoted a great deal of time trying to instill in me an appreciation of opera, classical music, the arts and learning in general. That a Jewish young lady from New York City could fall in love and marry a backwoods Protestant pastor and settle happily into a PA Dutch rural community is one of those quintessential American stories.
The parsonage was right across the road from my childhood home, making our pastor’s wife our next-door neighbor too. I felt like I had been blessed with another grandmother to have her as our neighbor growing up, with her treating my brothers and sisters as part of her family and her devotion to taking me under her wing, to teach and guide me. She kept reminding me that I needed to always pursue a classical liberal education. She let me borrow her copy of Bartlett’s Quotations many times and she often would hand me slips of paper where she had jotted down memorable quotes that she thought I would find interesting and like Burrell’s father and his notebook of American words, my pastor’s wife urged me to keep a notebook of quotes. I still have that notebook and I still jot down quotes often. I also listen carefully to the words political leaders use, but what you need to beware of always is the words they refuse to use and try to banish others from using.
Written words often stick in my mind for years and listening to President Obama and his entire administration explain their concerted purge of any mention of Islam and Jihad from the military and federal government terrorism training and the insertion of Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated “Islamic experts” into government positions to guide (control) the “narrative”, well, it’s obvious some words matter a great deal to President Obama too.
This book on words that shaped America came to mind when I listened to President Obama and Hillary try to trivialize the importance of the words we use to describe the radical Islamic terrorists, who have declared jihad on America. Of course, President Obama, CAIR and many others, who refuse to use the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism”, also rush to insist those engaged in committing murderous acts of terrorism against Americans, while proclaiming they are waging jihad, aren’t really Islamic. They say this, while, many revered Islamic scholars in the Muslim world praise these acts as totally in keeping with Islamic law.
Throughout the past seven years of the Obama administration, reports occur with alarming regularity about incidents of military training documents being purged of any references to Islamic terror, Christian evangelicals and former American soldiers being listed as likely potential “right-wing terrorists”, an actual act of Islamic terrorism at a US military installation being dubbed “workplace violence”, official documents and videos being edited, more than 50 intelligence analysts in Iraq claiming higher ups are altering their reports to feed the Obama “narrative“, WH administration staffers engaged in rewriting their version of events into a “narrative” to fit their political agenda, and even the administration sending the national security adviser to the Sunday morning talk shows to cast an American soldier, who deserted his unit in Afghanistan, as an “American hero”.
President Obama’s angry scold, about which words we use to describe the latest act of radical Islamic terrorism on June 12, 2016, at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando,FL., matters a great deal, because a full-court effort has ensued, with many leftist publications, pundits and the White House determined to cast doubt on this being a “radical Islamic terrorist” attack. When the DOJ tries to edit the 911 tapes, then rewrites the transcript, omitting the terrorists’s pledge of allegiance to ISIS and a full-court effort plays out where a new “narrative” is advanced, to deceive the American public, it’s obvious some words matter a great deal to President Obama.
In two weeks time the media, in collusion with the Obama administration muddied the information about the Orlando shooting to the point that reading many left-wing pundits and publications, it seems like they hold Christian haters responsible for the Orlando shooting and not the radical Islamic terrorist. The Obama administration could take a disgraced and dishonorable soldier, SGT Bergdahl, and with the full power of the commander-in-chief’s office, attempt to convince the American people this soldier served with “honor and distinction”. The bold-faced lying and rewriting the “narrative” (the official record) by the highest level of our government should alarm every American.
Years ago, many of us were dismayed by Obama’s “hope and change” and “fundamental transformation” hollow phrases gathering wings and lofting his rapt followers into flights of fancy and head-in-the-clouds euphoria. Over seven years later, hearing President Obama dismiss which words are used to describe “radical Islamic terrorist” attacks in America, it seemed not only disingenuous, but downright deliberately deceitful. His relentless “War about Words” during his tenure as President really has led to a “fundamental transformation” of America. We now have Americans firmly entrenched into tiptoeing through an ever-changing minefield of words that are dangerous to use in public and words you must use to avoid public ostracism. Washington DC initiated a new speech code for the workplace to show sensitivity to transgenders, with made-up words, like ze and zir that they insist workers use. Facebooks has over 50 gender choices to choose from and old relics, like me, still live in a world where gender is based on human biology. The insistence on specific new pronouns all workers in Washington DC should use, with the guide being for Washington DC employers to be the trainers and implementers of this new speech code, replete with examples of “best practices” to avoid offending transgender people offers an example of the brave, new world American leftists are imposing on Americans. The Leftist War about words blows hot across America.
Alas, many Republicans and conservatives aren’t immune from being easily conned by demagogues either. “How could so many supposedly smart, independent-minded Americans fall for Obama’s hollow rhetoric?”, many Republicans and conservatives lamented, then along came Donald J. Trump selling the American Dream encapsulated in the hollow phrase, “Make America Great Again!” In even greater dismay, many Republicans and conservatives began to see fellow Republicans and conservatives fall under the spell of Trump’s reality-TV style demagoguery, presented in fast-talking, brash NY street tough antics.
Trying to explain this dichotomy of Americans who boldly proclaim their principles and independent-thinking, then become devoted followers of obvious con men and demagogues, I remembered this book by Brian Burrell. He relates DeTocqueville’s observations on Americans from 1831 and perhaps this American characteristic still gets passed on in our cultural DNA. DeTocqueville identified the American reliance on “experts”, that still persists today:
“On his visit to the United States, Tocqueville noticed that the Americans he encountered tended to exhibit two opposing tendencies: they did not want to be told what to do or think, and yet their collective will could easily be rallied behind certain carefully chosen words, to which he gave a name. “In the United States, Tocqueville concluded, “the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of the individuals who are thus relieved from having to form opinions of their own.””
pages 4-5, The Words We Live By: The Creeds, Mottoes, And Pledges That have Shaped America, by Brian Burrell
This word game charade goes much deeper than President Obama and it goes far deeper than just the debate over what to call the terrorists who scream, “Allah Akbar!
Today, the FBI questioned Hillary Clinton for 3.5 hours according to the news reports and here again is a politician who plays endless semantics games. She’s married to the former President who turned parsing into a deluxe linguistics game of charades…… “that depends on what is, is”. Hillary has been at pains to explain the FBI investigation as a benign “security review” today. Here’s an ABC report on her campaign’s statement:
Hillary Clinton gave a “voluntary interview” to the FBI today regarding her email arrangements while she was secretary of state, her campaign says.
“Secretary Clinton gave a voluntary interview this morning about her email arrangements while she was Secretary,” spokesman Nick Merrill said. “She is pleased to have had the opportunity to assist the Department of Justice in bringing this review to a conclusion. Out of respect for the investigative process, she will not comment further on her interview.”
The political Left in America has been waging a war about words for decades. President Obama and Hillary Clinton didn’t invent this game, in fact, the strategy of people in power, to control what people do, think, write and say is part of the history of the world’s tyrants and it’s one that Americans took a stand against from the beginning of our republic. Americans refuse to bow to rulers and we refuse to allow the government to control our speech. Whenever people in power exert a great deal of effort into controlling which words, not only the government uses, but which words the media uses, which words students and teachers can and cannot utter, and even policing the words they deem as “hate speech”, beware!
Americans have been conditioned to believe they are so unique and safe from despotism, that they have no idea how quickly FREEDOM can be lost.
Americans need to be constantly vigilant about those in power creating their own version of history, as part two of this “War about words” will be about some of history’s lessons learned in the long record of those with power trying to control what other people not only do, but what they can say and think.
Finally, one of my favorite quotes is from the 1902 American novel, The Virginian by Owen Wister, that I’ve loved for decades, because it speaks to so many American themes that are near and dear to my heart, the battle between good and evil, the matter of seeking justice, the American scorn for elites and social snobbery, the American spirit of rugged individualism, the belief in pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps and our eternal optimism and can-do spirit. Plus, there’s a charming love story running through the novel too. And of course, The Virginian became the stereotype for the American cowboy and I just adore American cowboys, past and present;-) The quote goes to this warning about being careful what you let other people convince you to think and believe:
“When a man ain’t got no ideas of his own, he’d ought to be kind o’ careful who he borrow ’em from.”
The Queen acts more arrogant and insolent every day. She’s confident that now that the Benghazi committee’s report will end up gathering dust, her only obstacle left is the FBI investigation and truly who really believes that Loretta Lynch, the Obama sycophant extraordinaire, would dare move to indict Hillary, even if the FBI did recommend an indictment.
Hillary Clinton is above the law.
The Democrats deliberately moved yesterday to protect Hillary from political fall-out from today’s release of the House Select Committee on Benghazi report. The Democrats pulled another thuggish move by preempting the actual report of the committee with their own propaganda designed to sell their talking points:
“This is just a right-wing witch hunt.”
“This investigation wasted millions of taxpayers money.”
The Democrats on the Benghazi committee showed an amazing lack of interest in uncovering facts, gathering information, questioning witnesses or doing any sort of real investigation. This is par for the course and to see how incompetent and disingenuous the Democrats are, they mention the ARB report as proof positive no one was culpable for the gross failures of the Obama administration to even attempt a rescue of the Americans under attack in Benghazi.
Just remember that the ARB committee kept no record of their witness interviews or meetings and operated strictly off of their own memories or personal notes, all to assure they left no paper trail. That in and of itself is obscene and so blatantly indicative that their report was just a sham to provide cover for the Obama administration. And on top of that, the ARB committee never once interviewed Hillary Clinton.
There’s no point in rehashing all the issues or ranting about my disgust with how the Obama administration handled not only the Benghazi attack, but the obscene manner in which they tried to cover-up their grotesque incompetence in the aftermath.
The Democrats mastered a totalitarian form of information warfare, as I’ve repeated many times and it was a foregone conclusion that this investigation would lead no where, because the Democrats have the mass media colluding with their spin constantly. To watch elected officials participate in this vile talking points messaging (brainwashing), with not a hint of recognition that their behavior is an assault on The Constitution left me feeling not only sickened, but deeply saddened.
Four brave Americans died and no one in the American government did a single thing to try and save them.
That’s the TRUTH.
No one in the American government will do a thing to hold anyone accountable for this obscene failure. We all now know that the politicians’ partisan agenda matters more than Americans in harm’s way actually risking their lives for America. Hillary Clinton’s political future matters more than any other American citizen’s rights or justice
Here’s the link to the Select Committee on Benghazi’s report.
Filed under Culture Wars, Foreign Policy, General Interest, Politics, Public Corruption
Strange things still abound in the Potemkin Trump campaign. Trump fired Corey Lewandowski this past week, but just like Roger Stone before him, something is very off in this “firing”. Remember last August, when Roger Stone left the Trump campaign, where he had been the campaign manger and the Trump campaign said Stone was fired, but Stone said he quit. Despite no longer being the campaign manager, Stone showed up all over the place doing interviews and acting as a campaign manager, in fact, Stone seemed to be the only face of the Trump campaign besides Trump, until Trump hired Katrina Pierson in November 2015.
Corey Lewandowski took over as the Trump campaign manager and Lewandowski appeared to be the strongest advocate of the scorched earth campaign throughout the primary.
Roger Stone:
August 8, 2015- “Sources: Roger Stone quit, wasn’t fired by Trump in campaign shakeup”
February 23, 20916 – “CNN says it will no longer have Trump ally Roger Stone on air”
April 4, 2016 – “MSNBC Confirms That Trump Ally Roger Stone Has Been Banned From The Network”
From August 2015, until the present day Roger Stone continues to be in contact with Donald Trump and his long-time business partner, Paul Manafort, who joined the Trump campaign in April 2016, is now ostensibly leading Trump campaign operations.
Corey Lewandowski:
When did Trump hire Lewnadowski?
Answers:
December 2014 – Trump hires Corey Lewandowski.
February 2015 – “Trump moves toward candidacy; hires NH’s Lewandowski as senior political adviser”
Summer of 2015 – “Meet Donald Trump’s Alter Ego”
So, I’m not really sure exactly when Trump hired Lewandowski.
Now as to the strangeness that followed Lewandowski leaving the Trump campaign, well, he doesn’t act angry or act like he just got fired. From the Daily Beast (yep, leftist rag, I know):
“A day after falling from a weird sort of political grace, the former campaign manager showed up in Manhattan—with no press invited—to talk up the man who pushed him out.
A day after security escorted him out of Trump Tower, Corey Lewandowski kept a commitment he’d made weeks earlier, when he was still the manager of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
Lewandowski was set to speak Tuesday evening to the $1,000-and-up donors of the New York Republican Party’s Empire Club in a 10th-floor meeting room of the tony New York Athletic Club overlooking the Central Park Zoo. But the Empire Club didn’t list the event on its website and—what with Lewandowski having lost his job the day before—it wasn’t clear if he’d be there at all until he reconfirmed hours after he was fired.
But there he was just after 6 p.m. in the club, whose website offers members benefits including luncheons with presidential candidates and policy briefings with GOP state chair (and Richard Nixon son-in-law) Ed Cox, along with a pin and your choice of scarf or tie.”
So, newly, fired Lewnadowski still showed up to speak at this fundraiser for Trump. Then Lewandowski was on TV doing interviews and next thing you know CNN has hired him as a political analyst.
Well, I am not alone in wondering if this “firing” isn’t quite what it appears to be. At RedState. com blog, a poster, neulight, had similar thought to mine:
“Let me preface this post with the fact that I don’t have any evidence for this nor do I put a ton of weight behind what I’m about to say. However, I do want to throw this out there just in case it comes true ;)…
I feel like the “Firing” of Cory Lewandowski may have been a sham and that he is still working for the campaign as a surrogate. It sounds wacky but hear me out. After watching the glowing interview Cory did, constantly praising Trump on CNN it became apparent that he is not eating sour grapes. Then listening to Trump’s campaign reciprocate the same glowing messaging made me think something was up.”
Trump had no advocate at CNN, since Stone was banned. Fox appears to be holding strong for Trump and of course, Trump is having dinner with Rupert Murdoch in Aberdeen Scotland, before returning to the States.
MSNBC doesn’t have enough of an audience to worry about.
Filed under General Interest, Politics, Uncategorized
As I wrote late last night, I believe Trump’s response to Hillary’s speech, throwing everything including the kitchen sink at her, was totally misguided and completely played into Hillary’s hands. Trump doesn’t have the media selling his spin for him anymore and he and his campaign staff, such as they are, don’t quite grasp that the media that fawned all over him and gave him endless free media to attack 16 Republican candidates has switched sides now. He will be on the receiving end, while the media carries water for Hillary.
Politico ran a story about Lester Holt at NBC, which exemplifies why lobbing every bit of dirt on Hillary that they could muster backfired and this approach will dig Trump further into a hole. The same liberal media that helped bury Hillary’s email server for the last year, to run Trump’s 24/7 “GOP Insurgent Show”, is now playing the role of defending Hillary’s “honor”.
Anyone with a functioning brain knows that if the Russians, Chinese and several other foreign intelligence agencies were remotely competent (they are), they have all of Hillary’s emails from her unsecured server. Just a few days ago, the news reported that the Clinton Foundation computers are believed to have been hacked by the Russians, so it seems inconceivable that they would not have hacked into Hillary’s private unsecured email server. However, Trump came under attack from Lester Holt:
Donald Trump faced down multiple queries from NBC News’ Lester Holt in an interview airing Thursday over evidence that Hillary Clinton’s personal email server had been hacked, potentially by foreign governments.
“You also made the claim that her email, personal email server, had been hacked, probably by foreign governments, suggesting that,” Holt said in an excerpt released from the interview, as Trump interrupted, “Well, you don’t know that … it hasn’t been.”
Holt followed up, “What evidence do you have?”
“Well first of all, she shouldn’t have had a personal server, OK?” Trump responded. “She shouldn’t have had it. It’s illegal. What she did is illegal. Now she might not be judging that way because, you know, we — we have a rigged system. But what she did is illegal. She shouldn’t have had a personal server—”
Holt interjected, inquiring as to whether there is “any evidence that it was hacked other than routine phishing attacks.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/trump-clinton-email-server-224738#ixzz4CSkKFqwl
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Imagine if the liberal media had brought this level of investigative journalism to bear for the past year, actually hounding Hillary for answers about her home-brew email server…. She wouldn’t be the Democratic presumptive nominee and if Trump hadn’t been given billions of dollars of free media to throw the GOP primary into chaos, he likewise wouldn’t be the presumptive GOP nominee.
If Trump were even remotely a likable person, I would feel sorry for him being played like this, but he’s not and he and the Clintons deserve each other.
Filed under General Interest, Politics, The Media
Trump delivered his speech in response to Hillary’s speech today. He used a teleprompter and stayed on message. Yes, really, with Trump that’s the low-bar we’re reduced to – his mouthpieces think it’s a big accomplishment that he stayed on message. The speech struck me as a sledgehammer to clobber the listener, as much as Hillary, with an endless barrage about her history. She came out afterwards, in a speech in NC, and played the victim on another vast, right-wing conspiracy.
Today’s speech showed Trump is trying to improve at giving prepared speeches and that’s a plus, but Trump seems flat and bored reading speeches and staying on message, which bodes poorly for a President. His speeches should reflect more about him than be one long character assassination of his opponent. He needs to find some personality of his own, that moves beyond bragging about himself or name-calling.
The “let Trump be Trump” chorus have it all wrong here, because Trump needs to be presidential and his behavior should be to the level befitting the highest office in the land to even be considered for this position. Public decorum is a must and with that in mind, here’s where I differ with all the pundits who cheered his red-meat attack today. I think Trump could have done himself more good if he came out and talked in-depth about his vision for America, with some gibes at Hillary that were humorous or clever. Does he have any charming or witty stories to make him seem less of a vulgar jerk? This overloaded speech, with every piece of dirt on Hillary packed into one speech, detracted and actually trivialized the most serious ones, like her email server, which put national security at risk.
Trump’s speech played to her speech from yesterday and she has him dancing to her tune. He responded and that’s a defensive posture. Watching him deliver this speech, his followers cheered it as proof positive Trump can “act” presidential, but he seemed miserable “acting” presidential and that should concern his big name GOP enablers. I feel sure the old, real Trump will burst forth again and they will need to keep their slop buckets at the ready to do damage control and continuously clean-up after him.
Above is a video of a President delivering humor that made everyone laugh, even his political adversaries. Hillary delivered her speech perfectly and her speechwriter(s) had some clever lines, like the one about Trump writing many books, but they all end at Chapter 11. That was a very clever line and Hillary delivered it perfectly. She pulled it off, despite being a very humorless, wooden political hack, so she’s working to soften her image as “America’s Grandma”.
Trump seems most human talking about his kids and that’s where he seems genuine and he would come across much better if he quit with the relentless character assassinations, shared some amusing anecdotes and showed a bit of charm, wit, humor.
Filed under General Interest, Politics
Today, Hillary perfectly delivered a kick-ass speech on the economy. Yep, even though all her cringe-worthy policy ideas, in truth, remain as old and tired as she is, whomever wrote this speech masterfully hit a home run and perfectly advanced the Clinton triangulation strategy. She played the calm, doting America’s grandma, determined to keep America safe from that far-right, LOOSE CANNON, Donald J. Trump. Who could have seen Hillary playing Bill Clinton’s triangulation strategy ….perfectly?
FOX News, formerly the host of the 24/7 Trumpathon, broke in and covered her speech live and in its entirety. Ahh, yes, that glorious “free” media went to Hillary today. Trump will now be playing defense and he will be in the same position he put 16 fellow Republicans using the Clinton’s scorched earth for his now defunct “GOP Insurgency Show”. The only thing Trump will be doing is trying to defend himself against a barrage of media attacks. You can’t be “winning” if you are stuck playing defense.
The news that Trump fired Lewandowski yesterday, might give Trump’s big name GOP enablers hope that Trump can turn his disorganized, unprofessional, inept, clueless Potemkin campaign into a top-notch campaign, prepared to compete with the Clinton machine juggernaut, if anything was going right in Trump World. Today’s news heralds more bad omens, of Trump’s FEC campaign filing and the realization that his campaign is, ahem, prepare to be shocked…….. broke, a train wreck, filled with red flags to possible financial shenanigans. The Atlantic reports:
“Another excuse for poor fundraising is that Trump is wealthy enough to self-fund, so that his shortcomings in collecting other people’s money matter less. “If need be, there could be unlimited ‘cash on hand’ as I would put up my own money, as I have already done through the primaries, spending over $50 million dollars,” Trump said in his statement. In theory, that is true—though doubts persist about how much money he really has, and will continue until and unless he releases tax returns. Trump loaned his campaign more than $2 million to cover expenses, but that’s classified as a loan, rather than giving the money. In fact, one the most striking things about the report is how much money the campaign is paying to Trump-affiliated companies. The Mar-a-Lago Club, which he owns, received more than $432,000 for catering. Tag Air, which Trump also owns, got $350,000 for use of planes and helicopters. Even Eric Trump Wine Manufacturing pulled in $4,000. Trump Tower received rent for office space.
On occasions like this, it’s hard not to think of Trump’s comment in 2000: “It’s very possible that I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it.” Politico points out that Trump spent $208,000 on hats, while “by comparison, the campaign spent only $48,000 on data management and $115,000 on online advertising.” Those “Make America Great Again” hats are great merchandise, and useful for spreading the Trump brand. Data management? Not so much. But Trump has loaned himself more than $40 million now, and if he can’t ramp up his fundraising, he’ll never be able to pay himself back.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/trump-fundraising-bad/488003/
Yes, the great businessman, billionaire, only hired the best people, CON MAN Trump is exposing that the emperor has no clothes, yet one wonders how long his apologists will continue to be 5th Avenue Loyalists. His political hack big name GOP enablers will head for the lifeboats soon if the Trumptanic takes on much more water, I suspect.
The sinking feeling in my stomach, as I listened to Hillary’ calm, perfectly modulated speech, left me angry at the GOP leadership, those gutless wonders who stood by and let this fraud takeover the party and burn it to the ground. In fact, most of those GOP politicians in Washington were getting on board the Trump train, even as the large donors have been holding tight to their wallets.
My loyalty is to America and the Constitution before any political party, but with the Obama “fundamental transformation” moving at warp speed to destroy the US military and undermine the rule of law as much as possible in his last few months, it seemed like the only two institutions with any hope of protecting and defending America and the rule of law, were the US Armed Forces and the GOP, which still preached fidelity to the Constitution. Of course, the GOP feckless and hollow promises are why Trump’s “GOP Insurgency” even gained support in the first place.
Perhaps, the GOP leadership will orchestrate a counter-insurgency and dump Trump at the convention or perhaps Hillary’s campaign will be derailed by the email server fall-out.
“Perhaps”, we are doomed without a miracle.
Filed under Culture Wars, General Interest, Politics, Public Corruption, Uncategorized
Across the pond, the Brits will be voting in a few days on whether to leave the European Union. I saw JK had posted this video link in comments on another site, so I watched the entire video, which runs a little over an hour.
If you want to understand the views of the British people supporting BREXIT, this video explains it quite clearly.
If you ever wondered how does the EU really work, this video does a smashingly good job explaining the nightmarish bureaucratic maze that is the EU and how it doesn’t work.
If you want to know why Trump-style tariffs and a trade war with China would be disastrous for America, well, this video explains that too.
Filed under General Interest, Politics
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