“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!
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.
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.”
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.
Filed under Culture Wars, General Interest, Politics, Public Corruption
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.
Filed under General Interest
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:
” 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.
Filed under General Interest, Politics, The Media
Another Donald Diatribe
As I’ve mentioned before, I comment on politics at a few conservative sites and since the TrumpNation populism fueled to life, the Republican camp still seems very divided, where even the term “frenemies” seems too mild for the rancor. Trump and his “GOP Insurgency” can be blamed for the escalation and the cynical use of his “GOPe conspiracy theories” to divide and conquer the Republican Party. He has been completely successful at laying waste to the GOP as a functioning political party, in a critical election year.
Lately, the charge against #NeverTrumpers centers on railing at them about how if Trump loses in November, their refusal to get on the Trump Train caused it. Trump is losing this race on his own and he set himself up to fail from the beginning. Now I do believe that Clinton operatives had rats inside the Potemkin Trump campaign, to feed Trump advice and lead him into bad campaign decisions, but ultimately if you are a dupe, you only have yourself to blame in the end. That said, an angry Trump follower challenged me and asked what I would suggest, so first I will relate what I think the GOP’s only chance in November is and due to the lateness in the game, it’s a long-shot and then he asked what I would do if I were running, so here goes:
The GOP Last Ditch Option
The best thing to do would be get a Republican (moderate) out there and jump behind him and let Trump self-destruct. Doing that would catch Americans’ attention and if enough Republicans actually rallied to save the Republic – Hillary could be defeated.
Trump is a lost cause – he is heading back to his scorched earth from the primary – attacking the GOP. Let him go! That is my advice. Get someone competent out there, back him and ignore Trump like a child throwing a temper-tantrum.
Focus all the attention on having a positive American message and countering Hillary. The more Trump spews, the more he will lose voters, who will then be looking for another choice in the middle. Right now Hillary has staked out the middle – challenge her hold on the middle ground with someone competent and in the (middle).
Desperate times call for desperate measures – Trump really is a LOOSE CANNON, that’s the truth and he will do what he set out to do – burn the GOP to the ground. Republicans should take away his matches.
Then, we move on to what I said I would do, if I was hypothetically running:
My campaign strategy
If I were running, I would be out there with a positive American message, organized speeches and trying to be able to speak knowledgeably about most of the world’s hot spots and domestic issues. I would have the humility to know I don’t know a lot and rather than bluster my way through like Trump does, I would say I need to do more research to speak confidently to that issue. I would be spending every spare minute compiling coherent policies and researching issues.
I would NOT be blaming everyone else for my mistakes and I would NOT be on Twitter ranting.
And I would NOT be demonizing and spewing endless demagoguery constantly.
All he knows how to do is pathetic character assassinations or play at pitting one group against another. His own campaign staff is a prime example of his toxic leadership. Just about any of those real Republicans in the primary would fare better against this Witch of Chappaqua. Trump makes her look better every single day. He stayed on message 2 days and that cramped his style too much – so it’s back to the LOOSE CANNON, let Trump be Trump. She’s out there sounding upbeat and Reaganesque and he is stomping back into the weeds.
PS: I am a lifelong recovering stutterer, so I will never seek any job that requires public speaking….. I learned to write, to have a voice:-)
So, now that the magical thinking options are dispensed with, because the GOP does not have the leadership to unite for a common purpose and in the second case, I am terrible at public speaking, which is a critical skill in politics. You can add on that I am a very private person, avoid cameras always, lack any desire for a public job and hate confrontations in real life. Funny that, because I am fine arguing about politics online writing out my arguments, but in real life having to verbally present them, well let’s just say I quickly become a stuttering mess.
With my prognostications on Trump’s campaign shake-up (meltdown, perhaps), let me go on record as reminding everyone of my August 2nd blog post, “Burning the GOP to the ground”:
“During the past day Trump started alleging that he is sure the election in November will be rigged against him. Republicans leaders should be worried, because that is Trump preparing to jump ship before November and leave the GOP hanging. Whether that was his plan all along or it’s an escape route to avoid a crushing defeat, who knows, but Trump will bail, just like he bailed on the debates when Cruz and Rubio made him look like the imbecilic clown, he is. Trump will not stick around until November if his polls numbers continue to dive and he continues to come under fire from all sides. His campaign remains a chaotic mess, because Trump is in charge and there is no other calm head or hand to grab the steering wheel from him, to avoid this train wreck.
If Trump does bail, he will rail about how the Republicans treated him so badly and unfairly…. you can count on that.”
https://libertybellediaries.com/2016/08/02/burning-the-gop-to-the-ground/
Politics does indeed make strange bedfellows, because now, my “crackpot” theory is gaining steam with several conservative pundits and in some very odd locations. Michael Moore wrote an opinion piece, at The Huffington Post, laying out his theory that Trump entered the race to gain leverage in his reality TV deal with NBC, never intending to be successful in the race. Moore believes that once Trump started winning and had these huge crowds, the fame and attention went to his head. In the end here is Moore’s theory on what he believes Trump plans on doing and assuredly it’s a safe bet he never reads my blog, lol:
“But, let me throw out another theory, one that assumes that Trump isn’t as dumb or crazy as he looks. Maybe the meltdown of the past three weeks was no accident. Maybe it’s all part of his new strategy to get the hell out of a race he never intended to see through to its end anyway. Because, unless he is just “crazy,” the only explanation for the unusual ramping up, day after day, of one disgustingly reckless statement after another is that he’s doing it consciously (or subconsciously) so that he’ll have to bow out or blame “others” for forcing him out. Many now are sensing the end game here because they know Trump seriously doesn’t want to do the actual job — and, most importantly, he cannot and WILL NOT suffer through being officially and legally declared a loser — LOSER! — on the night of November 8th.
Trust me, I’ve met the guy. Spent an afternoon with him. He would rather invite the Clintons AND the Obamas to his next wedding than have that scarlet letter (“L”) branded on his forehead seconds after the last polls have closed on that night, the evening of the final episode of the permanently cancelled Donald Trump Shit-Show.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-moore/trump-self-sabotage_b_11545026.html
Trump doesn’t want to be bothered with having to “act presidential”, which requires studying policy issues and paying close attention to current events and details. He prefers to schmooze and be adored by his fans. So, it will be back to Trump the LOOSE CANNON campaign style. He does NOT like to pay attention to details and he always leaves himself wiggle-room to slither out of his professed policy positions or beliefs….. everything in Trump’s world is negotiable, no values or principles are sacrosanct, meaning, he can be bought and sold. That’s the truth. I expect him to bail before November, but rest assured, in the process his goal won’t be to attack Hillary, it will be inflicting as much damage as possible on the GOP as he can. His lovely life will be back in NYC hobnobbing with the elite liberal crowd (his lifelong friends) .
Filed under General Interest, Politics
Trump is deliberately throwing the race
The Trump chaos marches on. In recent days, Paul Manafort, the de facto Trump campaign manager, after Corey Lewandowski’s firing, has been hit with a barrage of media attacks about his connections to the deposed Ukrainian president, Victor Yanukovych…… million dollar under-the-table payment, etc.
Trump now is lowering Manafort’s profile and has promoted the clueless, Kellyanne Conway and Breitbart News executive, Stephen Bannon, to run his campaign. The leftist news site/blog, The Daily Beast, reports that:
“According to The Washington Post, the decision is intended to curtail Manafort’s efforts to temper Trump’s campaign style. Trump had reportedly begun to feel “boxed in” and “controlled.” Manafort will remain part of the team, but his role will be internally diminished. The decisions, essentially, are a way for Trump to return to former aide Corey Lewandowski’s style, which was “let Trump be Trump.””
You can read that as Trump doesn’t want to “act” presidential or be bothered with policy details. He is throwing the race to Hillary Clinton. He is a total fraud. No ground game, no ads yet, and a bevy of bimbos and bozos surrounding him.
He is sure to go down in flames rapidly with this ditz Conway running his campaign. “Trump being Trump” is Trump acting like a LOOSE CANNON and proving the Clinton caricature right, day after day. What a nightmare, where this “GOP Insurgent” is deliberately throwing the race for the Witch of Chappaqua and the RNC leadership still wanders around in circles without any plan or guts to ditch this con man.
Filed under General Interest, Politics, Public Corruption
U.S. Airborne Day, 16 August
“Airborne All the Way” Author unknown These men with silver wings Troopers from the sky above In whom devotion springs What spirit so unites them? In brotherhood they say Their answer l…
Source: U.S. Airborne Day, 16 August
Filed under American History, Military, Uncategorized
The Clinton Scandal Survival Strategy
Hillary’s email scandal remains a stubborn stain, that despite every stain removal remedy known to her crew of scandal white-washers, still keeps reappearing every time she thinks the latest SPIN cycle has washed it away. (SPIN is orchestrated LYING by government officials to deceive the American people and to manufacture opinion cascades)
That this woman is above the law disgusts me. It’s bad enough that the Leftist partisans, to include some Democratic hack, high-ranking retired generals, who assuredly know her email server jeopardized national security, keep going in public and lying for the Clintons, but now many so-called Republican foreign policy experts have joined the Clinton bandwagon too. They all know her setting up a home-brew server was such a reckless, deliberate, grossly negligent action, that she should face criminal charges, but they’re so entrenched in their own careers and the politicking, that they’re willing to throw their support behind the horse that looks like it’s going to win in November. Their actions are about their own personal careers, NOT about principles or national security.
I am disgusted with the “Republican foreign policy elites” who have come out and backed Hillary and my disgust has nothing to do with Trump at all. They are unfit to work in foreign policy positions in the United States, if they could follow the facts about her handling of highly sensitive information on her home-brew server and still support her.
She is not fit to ever handle any sensitive information and should be prosecuted.
All of them, having years of experience with handling classified information, know this.
I can understand not supporting Trump on foreign policy, but to ignore her email scandal speaks to moral bankruptcy.
“Move On” is an integral part of the Clinton Scandal Survival Strategy. We all know how they wage scorched earth and create endless strawmen to light ablaze, as the cause of these never-ending, mean, “vast, right-wing conspiracies”, you know the ones, like those dastardly Koch Brothers or their evil, arch-nemesis Karl Rove or heck, anyone who tries to stand up for the rule of law, when the Clintons trample it. The Clintons behave like the kids in that comic strip, whom when their parents confront them about wrong-doing, all blurt out, “Not ME!” “Not ME” is Hillary’s constant refrain.
James Comey is in their sights now, as Bill Clinton, a perjurer, will now work to destroy Comey’s credibility and reputation. Before caving to the Clinton/Obama pressure, Comey exacted a desperate Hail Mary pass effort to expose Hillary Clinton in the “court of public opinion”, since every avenue to expose her in a “court of law” was cut off by Loretta Lynch. Comey will now receive the Ken Starr treatment from the Clinton Crime Family.
Everyone who enters into the Clinton orbit becomes corrupted and the longer they remain “Clinton friends”, the more they sacrifice all their principles, because assuredly, as the Clintons grasp for more money and power, their lawlessness escalates. With the Clintons, they will always need their water-carriers to keep trying to put out the flames on their never-ending scandals and they need their talking points messengers repeating, ” TIME TO MOVE ON!”, so hey, the Clintons turn out to be lifetime employment for these gutless, immoral sycophantic lowlifes…… Who knows, perhaps the Clintons should give out annual “Lanny Davis Awards” for their best sycophantic sewer rats….
Kevin Williamson penned a very interesting piece on the Clinton’s “Move On” motto:
“Move on” is of course the Clinton family motto. If the Clintons had a family crest, the Latin at the top would read: “movete!”
In fact, you can quickly get a read on a particular individual or organization’s dedication to kissing Clinton ass by noting how quickly it deployed “move on!” and how deeply it is dedicated to that motto.
The gold standard there for many years was MoveOn.org. For you youngsters out there, MoveOn.org is a self-described progressive group that was founded in 1998 in response to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, who committed perjury and suborned perjury in the course of trying to cover up his sexual exploitation of White House intern Monica Lewinsky, a crime for which he eventually was disbarred, though Senate Democrats ensured that his impeachment did not end in conviction and removal from office. Once he had exhausted every possible avenue of dishonesty, Clinton issued an angry denunciation that nearly took the form of an apology, and his minions immediately began demanding that the country “move on!”
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/439023/hillary-clinton-family-motto-move-on
Their Clinton Scandal Survival Strategy follows the same steps always:
- Demonize those calling for the investigation and those tasked with the investigation as right-wing partisans and the investigation as another “vast, right-wing witch hunt”
- Stall the investigation by any means possible, to include obfuscation, obstruction of justice, intimidation of witnesses, etc.
- Destroy the reputation of any and all witnesses, who do step forward.
- Toss out endless streams of diversionary talking points to confuse the legal issues involved in the investigation
- After the investigation appears stonewalled and the talking points messaging has permeated for months, demand an end to “just another vast, right-wing witch hunt”
- Send out the “TIME TO MOVE ON” choir,
When you hear the “Move On” choir reach crescendo pitch, you can be assured that the Clintons believe they have successfully killed another investigation into their Clinton Crime, Inc. family business and believe the final nail in the investigation has been driven home. This email server scandal keeps refusing to die, because since the House Benghazi hearing last October, the Clinton “Move On” choir now sounds like croaking frogs and the scandal just keeps rising haunting them ….. trails of email pop up everywhere, new facts keep making it to reporters’ desks and people just aren’t buying the Clinton lies as easily as they used to. It’s like more and more people are so sick of the Clinton’s BULL, that more and more are refusing to go along with the emperor’s new clothes storyline and seeing the naked truth…. and it ain’t pretty.
Bill Clinton’s public attack on James Comey was a warning shot, that he, being ABOVE THE LAW, like his coattail-riding wife, and being a former US President believes he holds all the power. Jonah Goldberg often refers to the Clintons as the Medici of the Ozarks….. That is an understatement.
More Bill Clinton strong-arm moves?
In the past couple days news stories started percolating that the Clinton Foundation is under investigation for corruption, in several states, by FBI field offices and US Attorneys. The Daily Caller reported it first:
“Joint investigations by the FBI and various U.S. Attorneys of Clinton Foundation activities are most likely underway in Little Rock, Arkansas, Washington, D.C. and New York, according to a former assistant director of the FBI.
“To me, those would be the three most logical cities,” Ron Hosko told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “Discrete information has made its way to local field offices and is being shared with their counterparts at the U.S. Attorney offices.”
Hosko is a 30-year veteran of the FBI and was the second highest ranking official behind director James Comey when he left the bureau in 2014.
Hosko was responding to TheDCNF report Friday that multiple FBI field offices and U.S. Attorneys in various cities are leading investigations about possible corrupt practices among Clinton Foundation officials, foundation donors, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and inner circle of aides during her years as America’s chief international diplomat.
Last week Hillary kept repeating lies about what FBI Director Comey said about her email server in his public statement. Okay, no biggie, when you consider every time Hillary Clinton makes a public statement she LIES. There were also reports that the FBI is deliberating whether to release the official report of Hillary’s three and a half hour interview with the FBI to Congress.
That sets the stage for my next amateur analysis of how the Clintons operate. Some odd things have occurred with both, Bill and Hillary’s comments in recent days. Bill Clinton started making statements yesterday asserting that James Comey is serving up a load of bull. Lest you think he’s senile or crazy, let me expound on how the Clintons and Obama use public comments to intimidate people.
A few months back Obama was putting the screws to General Petraeus about his retirement pay. I believe Obama wanted Petraeus to do something for him, that Petraeus was reluctant to do. I am sure when Petraeus’ scandal was settled with only one misdemeanor charge – they have a lot more serious charges that they dropped. The ones reported are serious – his mistress had hundreds of classified documents on her unsecure laptop, and his black books. Petraeus hired the Clinton lawyer, David Kendall, so you know Kendall knows where all the Clinton bodies are buried. A few days later, Ash Carter announced that they weren’t going to mess with Petraeus’ retirement benefits.
With this FBI investigation, several months ago, Obama commented on the ongoing FBI investigation into Hillary’s home-brew server and stated that it was careless, but not criminal. Bam, when Comey made his announcement he stated that her use of this unsecured server was “extremely careless” and gave a laundry list of serious findings, but then he caved and stated that while her actions were “extremely careless”, it wasn’t “criminal”. This is how the sending signals works.
These public shots across the bow are vintage Clinton tactics too. So, when I heard Bill Clinton so boldly saying what Comey said was “bull” – that was a challenge. Bill Clinton is the one behind the scenes strong-arming everyone from Obama on down to clear the path for Hillary. I believe the Clinton dirt-diggers found something on Comey and let him know they have it. Comey’s statement about the investigation looked like a hostage video. In front of Congress he made an odd off-hand comment, that he cares about his family and reputation most. As the FBI director testifying, he should have cared most about protecting and defending The Constitution. Oh, well time will tell….
Filed under General Interest, Hillary's Email Scandal, Politics, Public Corruption
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