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Buriram Province - General Category => International News clippings => Topic started by: urleft on January 26, 2017, 10:06:07 PM
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Love, hate, fear, waiting, etc. Trump is here, he is real, and he is impacting the world.
Trump is actually doing what I expected, he is leading. Make no mistake, what happens now from the USA Government is Trump, he is driving the train. While some Repubs may say otherwise (e.g., McCain) Trump is making the US Agenda.
So here is my migration thread from the election thread. I plan to only post here and stop posting on the elections thread because Adam asked really nicely.
Yes Adam, we both know that is not true.
From a US Military view (majority, not all), they are excited to have a real Commander In Chief again, this is even more so than when Reagan took over from Carter.
After 3 days of President Trump, I am personally more hopeful for America that I have been since Saint Ronald. Damn the Torpedoes and full ahead. I believe he is on the right (correct) track. Yes I will not agree with all he will do, but so far he is doing fine by me.
Build the Wall.
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Whoa: State Department’s entire senior management team resigns
By Dan Calabrese —— Bio and Archives January 26, 2017
This is going to be one of those stories that’s either awesome or horrifying, depending on your predilections. If you’re a creature of Washington who believes in the sage wisdom of “nonpartisan” career bureaucrats, then you’re horrified that these fine, experienced public servants feel they can’t serve under the wild-eyed lunatic Donald Trump. If you’re interested in draining the swamp, on the other hand, it’s hard to get more drainy than this:
The State Department’s entire senior level of management officials resigned Wednesday, The Washington Post reported.
Patrick Kennedy, the agency’s undersecretary for management who had served in the role for nine years, resigned unexpectedly along with three of his top officials
Assistant Secretary of State for Administration Joyce Anne Barr, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Michele Bond and Ambassador Gentry O. Smith, director of the Office of Foreign Missions, resigned as well, the report said.
All of them served under both Democratic and Republican administrations.
They join a number of other officials who have departed since President Trump took office last week.
The State Department’s entire senior level of management officials resigned Wednesday, The Washington Post reported.
Patrick Kennedy, the agency’s undersecretary for management who had served in the role for nine years, resigned unexpectedly along with three of his top officials
Assistant Secretary of State for Administration Joyce Anne Barr, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Michele Bond and Ambassador Gentry O. Smith, director of the Office of Foreign Missions, resigned as well, the report said.
All of them served under both Democratic and Republican administrations.
They join a number of other officials who have departed since President Trump took office last week.
http://canadafreepress.com/article/whoa-state-departments-entire-senior-management-team-resigns# (http://canadafreepress.com/article/whoa-state-departments-entire-senior-management-team-resigns#)
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EPA Employees ‘Coming to Work in Tears’ Because of Trump Win
'The mood remains dark'
BY: Elizabeth Harrington
January 26, 2017 11:52 am
Environmental Protection Agency employees have not accepted Donald Trump’s victory and are still “coming to work in tears” more than two months after the election.
“At EPA headquarters, the mood remains dark,” ProPublica reported Wednesday. “A longtime career communications employee said in a phone interview Tuesday that more than a few friends were ‘coming to work in tears’ each morning as they grappled with balancing the practical need to keep their jobs with their concerns for the issues they work on.”
Trump’s victory has been tough for bureaucrats. The State Department held stress workshops after the election so they would not “become paralyzed by fear.” EPA employees were caught crying before, just after the election, as were White House aides. Energy Department employees were granted counseling. Sobbing staffers greeted Hillary Clinton on Capitol Hill a month after her loss.
EPA employees are upset that the new president will take a different approach than the Obama administration. ProPublica called Trump’s nomination of Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general who has sued the EPA over its climate change regulations, to lead the agency “dramatic.”
The Trump administration froze all EPA grants and contracts to make sure new grants are in line with the new administration’s objectives. They also asked for the schedule of all planned meetings and presentations by the agency through mid-February.
Doug Ericksen, the EPA’s communications director for the transition, told National Public Radio that “we’ll take a look at what’s happening so that the voice coming from the EPA is one that’s going to reflect the new administration.”
Employees are also scared that the climate change part of the EPA’s website will be removed.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/epa-employees-coming-work-tears-trump-win/ (http://freebeacon.com/politics/epa-employees-coming-work-tears-trump-win/)
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Outrage Dilution
Posted January 26th, 2017 @ 8:24am in #Trump #Whenhub
I’m having a fun time watching President Trump flood the news cycle with so many stories and outrages that no one can keep up. Here’s how the math of persuasion works in this situation:
1 outrage out of 3 headlines in a week: Bad Persuasion
25 outrages out of 25 headlines in a week: Excellent Persuasion
At the moment there are so many outrages, executive orders, protests, and controversies that none of them can get enough oxygen in our brains. I can’t obsess about problem X because the rest of the alphabet is coming at me at the same time.
When you encounter a situation that is working great except for one identifiable problem, you can focus on the problem and try to fix it. But if you have a dozen complaints at the same time, none of them looks special. The whole situation just looks confusing, and you don’t know where to start. So you wait and see what happens. Humans need contrast in order to make solid decisions that turn into action. Trump removed all of your contrast by providing multiple outrages of similar energy.
You’re probably seeing the best persuasion you will ever see from a new president. Instead of dribbling out one headline at a time, so the vultures and critics can focus their fire, Trump has flooded the playing field. You don’t know where to aim your outrage. He’s creating so many opportunities for disagreement that it’s mentally exhausting. Literally. He’s wearing down the critics, replacing their specific complaints with entire encyclopedias of complaints. And when Trump has created a hundred reasons to complain, do you know what impression will be left with the public?
He sure got a lot done.
Even if you don’t like it.
In only a few days, Trump has made us question what-the-hell every other president was doing during their first weeks in office. Were they even trying?
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For a fun party trick, ask your most liberal friends if they think the Federal government should have a say in whether a woman gets an abortion or not. When they say the Federal government should stay out of that decision, inform them that President Trump shares their opinion. He doesn’t want the Federal government to be in the business of making health care choices for women. He prefers leaving that decision to the woman, her doctor, and state laws.
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/156399716951/outrage-dilution (http://blog.dilbert.com/post/156399716951/outrage-dilution)
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Trump is doubling down on voter fraud, this should be a great opportunity for libs to stick it to him egging him on as there is nothing to see.
Why Do Democrats Fear Trump’s Probe of “Fake” Voter Fraud?
http://townhall.com/columnists/deroymurdock/2017/01/28/why-do-democrats-fear-trumps-probe-of-fake-voter-fraud-n2277853
Deroy Murdock
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Posted: Jan 28, 2017 12:01 AM
NEW YORK — Three days into President Donald J. Trump’s action-packed first week in office, he promised “a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD,” as he explained Wednesday morning, via Twitter. This will include “those registered to vote in two states, those who are illegal and even those registered to vote who are dead (and many for a long time). Depending on results, we will strengthen up voting procedures!”
This impending probe follows Trump’s private remarks to congressional leaders Monday night that some 3 to 5 million illegal ballots cost him the popular vote last November 8.
Democrats, in response, are foaming at their mouths, although one wonders if they have any foam left. How odd. They should welcome this examination. If voter fraud really is a fevered, baseless, Right-wing fantasy, as they reliably insist, this investigation will vindicate them and make Trump look like a cranky, paranoid conspiracist. Liberals should smile and egg Trump on.
Instead, Rep. Adam Schiff (D–CA) warns, “Our new president is doing deep damage to himself and to our country.” Regarding Trump’s plan, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) insists: “Fight it NOW!”
Democrats and their sentinels in the Old Guard media unconvincingly argue that Trump offers “no evidence” of voter fraud, so don’t investigate. This total non-sequitur is akin to a doctor looking into a patient’s eyes and saying, “I see no evidence of lung cancer, so let’s skip that chest x-ray.”
In their hearts, the Left knows Trump is right, at least on the existence of voter fraud. And that’s what terrifies them. His investigation will highlight the fraud that exists and, furthermore, show whether these problems are as pervasive as Trump believes.
Indeed, registration irregularities are disturbingly routine. According to a 2012 Pew Center for the States report, 1.8 million dead Americans were registered to vote. Also, 2.75 million Americans were enrolled in two states each, while 68,725 were enrolled in three. Indeed, Pew found, “24 million — one of every eight — active voter registrations in the United States are no longer valid or are significantly inaccurate.”
And, yes, Virginia. Voter fraud happens.
CBS2 Los Angeles found 265 dead voters in southern California last May. Many cast ballots “year after year.”
Ohio Democrats cheered Melowese Richardson at a May 2014 Cincinnati-area rally, as Townhall’s Guy Benson recalls. Richardson was convicted of voting twice in 2012 and casting ballots in three earlier elections on behalf of her comatose sister.
North Carolina announced in April 2014 that 13,416 dead voters were registered, of whom 81 recently had voted. Among 35,750 North Carolinians also registered in other states, 765 voted in the 2012 general election both inside and outside the Tarheel State.
South Carolina’s attorney general determined in January 2012 that 953 people “were deceased at the time of their participation in recent elections.”
In Fairfax County, Virginia, Heritage Foundation scholar Hans von Spakovsky discovered 278 non-citizens registered to vote in 2011, of whom 117 had voted in state and federal elections.
If these five examples seem paltry, check out the Heritage Foundation’s non-exhaustive sample of 742 criminal convictions for vote-fraud.
Media Matters ridiculed vote fraud concerns as “a series of myths that right-wing media have pushed for years.” And yet it keeps taking place.
It would help if Democrats, Left-wing activists, and the hyenas in America’s newsrooms explained just how “widespread” voter fraud must become before they consider it an injustice. Every ballot cast by a cadaver or an illegal alien negates a ballot completed by a legitimate voter. How many such genuine votes is it OK for fraud to obviate? Is it 100? How about 1,000? Maybe 10,000 — or ten times that figure?
How many on the Left who attack Trump on this issue would sign up to have their votes erased by invalid ballots? Every Leftist who screamed, “Count every vote!” during the 2000 Florida Bush v. Gore meltdown should empathize with the Right’s parallel imperative: “Protect every vote!”
While the world patiently awaits that development, America’s 45th president may pursue this issue as energetically as his predecessor concealed it.
“President Trump’s decision to renew the federal government’s interest in enforcing laws against election fraud and the procedures that work to prevent such activities is important,” said J. Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation and former federal prosecutor in the Justice Department’s Voting Division. “The Obama Administration had the tools to fight voter fraud but let them gather dust. Because of that neglect of their duties, aliens got on the rolls, people voted multiple times, and lawlessness took hold of our elections.”
In Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department, Adams chronicles the mercifully departed Obama Administration’s hostility to ballot-integrity laws. Indeed, former attorney general Eric Holder sued Florida in 2012 when state officials tried to remove 51,308 dead people and other ineligibles from voter rolls, as required by the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002 and the federal National Voter Registration Act of 1993, signed by President Bill Clinton!
Adams recommends a machete that would help Trump chop quickly to the center of much of this fraud.
The Homeland Security Department’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database lists all non-citizens in America. These include green card holders, foreign tourists, exchange students, and those on work visas as well as illegals who have broken the law or otherwise surfaced on Uncle Sam's radar. Adams tells me: “This is the ultimate alien database.”
Comparing SAVE’s names with registered and actual voters should demonstrate, rather swiftly, the extent of non-citizen involvement in America’s election system. It also would identify violators, who should be punished.
“If that federal database were used to scrub the state databases,” Adams predicts, “all sorts of illegals would pop out. That’s what the Left fears the most. It would reveal rats everywhere.”
Obama barred state election officials from SAVE since, as he might have said, Let me be clear, vote fraud is a myth, so why measure it? When Florida successfully sued to access SAVE, DHS did not hand Tallahassee these records. Instead, Florida officials had to ask DHS to scrutinize each suspicious name individually. This slowed things to a trickle.
Trump should open SAVE’s spigots so every state may compare its voters against this massive database. States led by Republicans, who cherish ballot integrity, most assuredly will embrace these records.
In contrast, California, New York, and other Democrat strongholds likely will spurn SAVE.
Luckily, Adams observes, there is a statute for that. Then-U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy used 42 U.S. Code §1974b to acquire election-related documents from southern states that blocked blacks from voting in the early 1960s. What sweet justice for Trump to deploy the same duly enacted federal law that RFK harnessed to demand the voter rolls of intransigent Democrat states and determine if they are awash in illegal aliens and other non-citizen voters.
After Trump’s inquiry, the scale of voter fraud may or may not reach his claim of 3 to 5 million bogus ballots. By now, however, the Left should know better than to underestimate him. Trump has a gravity-defying knack for confounding his critics and landing on his feet.
Trump’s analysis almost surely will show that voter fraud is greater than zero, which is the number that Democrats claim it to be. And that’s the point. Americans should have zero tolerance for voter fraud. How sad that this problem is among the few things that reputedly tolerant Democrats actually tolerate.
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Going to try to post after BE had connection issues. They continue to have display issues based on the characters on the above post (screen capture should be below).
The real shocker: Trump is a politician who delivers on his promises
http://nypost.com/2017/01/28/trump-is-a-politician-who-delivers-on-his-promises/
By Michael Walsh January 28, 2017 | 9:25pm
Here we are, barely a week into the Trump administration, and half of the country that opposed him during the election is quivering with rage. He?s building the wall! He?s banning immigration from some Muslim countries! He?s wrecking ObamaCare! He?s sacking top officials at the State Department! He?s threatening sanctuary cities! What?s going on here?
It?s called: keeping his campaign promises.
The answer is simple: we?ve become so inured to politicians lying to us to get elected that we find it hard to believe that the new man in the White House actually meant what he said ? and can?t wait to get on with it.
Not since the heyday of Ronald Reagan have the Democrats been in such shock and disarray. First, they ? and their ?never Trump? collaborators on the right ? said he?d never get the nomination. When he did, they assured themselves there was no way he could beat the Hillary Clinton juggernaut so beloved of the media, the insulated superrich and the dependent class.
Whoops!
That all changed on Nov. 8. Of course, they?ve reacted to the upending of their fantasy world with petulance, threats, marches, actual violence and lawfare. Indeed, a few dead-enders calling themselves the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed suit last week charging the nation?s First Businessman with violations of the emoluments clause in the Constitution, which forbids US office holders from accepting things of value from foreigners.
Never mind that with that provision the Founders were trying to prevent officials from profiting from high office via bribes or blandishments; or that Trump has relinquished control of his real-estate businesses; and that his income prior to becoming president had nothing whatsoever do with the presidency. If it?s emoluments you?re seeking, check out the Clinton Foundation.
Even for some conservatives, the vigorous pace at which Trump is taking action is disorienting.
George H. W. Bush squandered the fruits of the Reagan revolution and the end of the Cold War in his pursuit of a ?new world order? and a duel with Saddam Hussein. His son talked a good game about immigration and terrorism but finished neither the fence Congress explicitly authorized in 2006 nor the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Even Reagan never abolished the education or energy departments, as he promised.
While Trump?s actions so far are mainly symbolic ? he still has to flesh out his Cabinet, push Congress to appropriate monies to begin construction and hire the diggers and masons for the wall ? he?s already given his supporters hope that this time, things just might be different.
And that?s what has everyone in the country in such an uproar. After 65 years of government by the congressional Permanent Bipartisan Fusion Party, Americans now confront the brave new world of a president who will cut through the red tape and make change happen.
Half of America ? the coasts and the big cities ? is apparently shocked by Trump?s eagerness to start delivering on the promises that got him elected in the first place. They?re not used to a politician who not only means what he said on the campaign trail, but also is not dissuaded by the usual recalcitrant Washington bureaucracy, media nitpickers and congressional back-scratchers.
Doesn?t he know how the game is played? That the rule is to wink at the rubes who make up your base, then quickly join the insider?s game. After all, Republicans like the horse-trading majority leader Mitch McConnell and senator John McCain have fashioned entire careers out of promising their constituents one thing and delivering their big donors something altogether different. Surely, D.C. will corrupt Trump the way it has most everybody else.
Worst of all, they can?t believe the other half of America is actually cheering Trump on as, on one hot-button issue after another, he?s giving them exactly what they voted for, at warp speed.
First signs are they like it. Decisiveness has always been a prized quality; a recent Rasmussen poll put Trump?s approval rating at 59 percent and rising (although others have him as low as 36). The cries of ?You can?t do that!? are beginning to abate as Americans realize that, in fact, yes we can.
So what?s next? Look for the new Pentagon chief to quickly begin hitting ISIS harder. Look for a humane but effective evaluation of Obama?s permissive policy toward ?Dreamers? ? children of illegal aliens whose sob stories have passed their sell-by date. Look for sanctuary cities to come to heel as Trump?s threats to cut federal funds start to bite. (On Wednesday, Miami-Dade?s mayor announced a new policy of cooperation with Homeland Security regarding so-called ?detainer? requests, which the county up until now had been refusing for financial reasons.) Look for more housecleaning at State and elsewhere as the swamp drains and the number of undersecretaries dwindles.
And maybe, just maybe, look for a new attitude from the media if it wants to stay relevant: tough but fair.
What do you mean, he can?t do that?
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And for a little more relevance to some:
Donald Trump set to negotiate new trade deal with Australia
The Australian
11:33AM January 30, 2017
One of US President Donald Trump?s top trade advisers has raised speculation the US will attempt to negotiate a new free trade deal with Australia.
Peter Navarro, director of Mr Trump?s White House Trade Council, named Australia and New Zealand as two nations the Trump administration will seek bilateral deals with.
Australia already has a free trade agreement with the US, signed in 2004, but Mr Trump has repeatedly said he will look at every trade deal the US has signed and renegotiate them if he can get a better deal for American workers.
Professor Navarro, in an interview with FOX News in the US on Sunday, slammed Trump administration critics who argue the decision to pull America from the Trans-Pacific Partnership with Australia, New Zealand, Japan and eight other nations will empower US trade rival China.
?They?d be right if we weren?t going to go right to Japan and Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Thailand and negotiate bilateral deals,? Professor Navarro told FOX News.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is holding out hope a TPP deal might still survive without the US.
Mr Navarro however described the TPP as ?flawed?, the ?biggest bogus argument in the world? and absurd that the ?kingdom of Brunei would have had the same vote? as the US.
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Thursday in Los Angeles there has been no indication from the Trump administration their agreement would be renegotiated.
?The Australia-US free trade agreement works very much in the US favour in the sense that there is a significant trade surplus,? Ms Bishop told reporters.
?We have a trade deficit with the US and there certainly has been no indication at all that the administration is looking to renegotiate the US-Australia free trade agreement.? Prof Navarra said ?nobody in Asia wants to deal with China?. ?They?re afraid of China,? Prof Navarro said.
?Right now China is bullying Taiwan, China is bullying Japan, China is using its economic power basically to have its way with the rest of that region and these countries that are subject to that - which is every country in that region - loves to be with America because we represent democracy, freedom, economic growth, prosperity and we don?t hold a gun to their head and try to make them do whatever we want to do.
?We reach out and say, ?Hey, look let?s work together strategically economically?.? Prof Navarro said the TPP was flawed because it was a multi-lateral deal. ?That?s not what the Trump administration is going to do,? he said. ?The problem with multilateral deals is we reduce our bargaining power and surrender our sovereignty.
?In a TPP the kingdom of Brunei would have had the same vote as the United States of America.
?That?s absolutely absurd.?
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/foreign-affairs/donald-trump-set-to-negotiate-new-trade-deal-with-australia/news-story/fdf7a3c37e03642ded9b1f9aa373b559 (http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/foreign-affairs/donald-trump-set-to-negotiate-new-trade-deal-with-australia/news-story/fdf7a3c37e03642ded9b1f9aa373b559)
BTW, often when you try a link you get their subscription page. What seems to work is google the title and link that way, seems to by-pass the subscription requirement.
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OK, I admit I am a Trump fan. That is because I have been the big boss and forced my views upon those that did not believe. However, my boss took me out because I did not say what he wanted.
Trump has no big boss other than will of the American people. And having lived in the heartland of Trumps winning, I cannot help but agree with him.
Want some more, just go back to all those that said Trump could not win:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAPv3zIbzmk
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Well interesting day, Trump fired the Acting AG for saying the DOJ would not defend Trump's immigration Order and the Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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WHY TRUMP WON: CLINTON SECRET REVEALED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdYr21zAPqE
Regards
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Wow, what an idiot GVT the USA has. Now I have no urge to try Haggis, but if others want to partake it would be fine with me.
How does that saying go, one man's feast is another man's Famine.
Haggis and black pudding US ban ?could be lifted?
Traditional Scottish haggis has been banned in America since the 1970s.
But now, along with black pudding, Scottish lamb and beef, the dish could be back on the menu stateside.
The US Department of Agriculture has long objected to one of the key ingredients in the Scottish delicacy ? sheep?s lung.
No food for human consumption, whether made locally in the USA or imported from overseas, can contain the animal organ.
http://www.scotsman.com/business/companies/retail/haggis-and-black-pudding-us-ban-could-be-lifted-1-4353500 (http://www.scotsman.com/business/companies/retail/haggis-and-black-pudding-us-ban-could-be-lifted-1-4353500)
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mm, hopefully when we get calves soon, that well known Isaan delicacy placenta stew with cow shit sauce will be on the menu again.
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mm, hopefully when we get calves soon, that well known Isaan delicacy placenta stew with cow shit sauce will be on the menu again.
I understand Urleft uses 'bullshit' to make it!!
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I have been reading about posts going missing on some threads. Shame some don't disappear from here.
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I have been reading about posts going missing on some threads. Shame some don't disappear from here.
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I was going to post the same, but this is his thread and he can do with it what he pleases. I glance when there is a new copy and paste, but I don't read what it says as it is not his words.
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Well the Donald has filed with the Federal Election Commission for 2020.
Trump Files With FEC For 2020 Election Bid, Outmaneuvers Nonprofit Organizations
A document (http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg?_201701209041436569+0) from the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) indicates that Donald Trump took steps last week to outmaneuver nonprofit organizations, leaving them unable to officially campaign against him over the next few years of his Presidency.
Filed on January 20th, 2017, the letter states that, while not an official announcement for reelection, Donald Trump has filed an FEC Form 2 in order to ?ensure compliance with the Federal Election Campaign Act.? This is an unprecedented, although legal, move for the President to make. Barack Obama did not file for his 2012 re-election bid until April 2011. Having filed (even if not formally announcing a bid) as a candidate, Trump would be able to coordinate with PACs and other similar organizations.
More importantly, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations would no longer be able to engage in ?political speech? which could theoretically affect the results of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election without running the risk of losing their nonprofit status. The move effectively bars interest groups from creating nonprofits which they could funnel money into for the purposes of opposing Trump?s initiatives. This will likely create chaos for political opponents of Trump such as George Soros (http://archive.is/T9UCp), who has sunk significant amounts of money into various nonprofit groups with the intent of opposing Trump?s government. How 501(c)(3) organizations will comply with the FEC?s regulations when participating an actions which qualify as political speech remains to be seen.
http://disobedientmedia.com/trump-files-with-fec-for-2020-election-bid-outmaneuvers-nonprofit-organizations/ (http://disobedientmedia.com/trump-files-with-fec-for-2020-election-bid-outmaneuvers-nonprofit-organizations/)
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Do you have one original thing to say?
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Trump, he may be a dumb SOB but he ain't stupid.
The funny thing about him is that he believes he will still be alive in 2020 Ha ha
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Do you have one original thing to say?
Several and I have stated some on this thread, like on post 1.
Here are some others. Many have said that Trump is unqualified because he never served the US GVT. I say great because he had to deal with the US GVT hindering him from doing business, he will know which agencies to hammer back to reality, like the EPA.
Great to see him publicly fire Yates, there needs to be more. Especially at the mid grade bureaucrat level. The incompetence I had to put with at the GS 13/14 level was inconceivable. I had a GS 14 ask me after bringing in soldiers from the field to air their complaints on the system if I had made recommendations to fix them. I said about 80% I identified during development. He then asked me if I could source those and give a report. I said sure as I had it all documented, however the report will show the GVT refused to accept the advice of their expert and went with the contractor. He did not have me do the report.
And Trump is not believing you have get along. He is leading and causing people to change as in Walk Tall and Carry a Big Stick. Trump is the leader of the Senate and House Republicans, Obama was mouthpiece for Reid and Pelosi.
I was amazed at MSNBC they were almost headed towards being unbiased on the Yate's Firing basically saying that if she really had an issue with the legality of the Trump's executive order she would have stood up to Obama's flagrant disregard for the law in his orders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f96zOVtlzns (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f96zOVtlzns)
Unanimous Supreme Court Rules Against the Obama Administration?s Unconstitutional Power Grab
https://www.myheritage.org/news/unanimous-supreme-court-rules-against-the-obama-administrations-unconstitutional-power-grab/ (https://www.myheritage.org/news/unanimous-supreme-court-rules-against-the-obama-administrations-unconstitutional-power-grab/)
In addition I believe the protests are total BS. They are bought and paid for, and the main stream media instead of looking into that is trying make it seem like the protests are mainstream.
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Everything you have said is spot on. Trump is proving to be a man of his word, a rarity in politics. The US Federal Reserve is a privately owned Central bank and should be returned to the control of the US Government. Eliminate the Bankster's and you eliminate the problem.
Regards
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:D :D :D :D :D I love you urleft :D :D :D :D :D
Even your original thoughts comes with a link!! :D :D :D You are truly special. I like it. icon_heart icon_heart
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:D :D :D :D :D I love you urleft :D :D :D :D :D
Even your original thoughts comes with a link!! :D :D :D You are truly special. I like it. icon_heart icon_heart
So if you state things without giving a source, NO GOOD.
If you give a source, NO GOOD.
Complaining about government having no business experience: GOOD
Complaining about government having no political experience: GOOD
The information explosion seems to have left everyone unscathed.
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Perhaps we can shelve Trump for a while until he gets himself, if possible, in even more of a mess.
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Donald Trump steps out of the White House in the dead of winter. Right in front of him, on the White House lawn, he sees ?Donald Trump Sucks? written in urine across the snow.
Well, he's pretty ticked off. He storms into his security staff?s HQ, and reads the security guys the riot act, while they stay silent and stare ashamedly at the floor.
Trump hollers ?Well dammit, don?t just sit there! Get out and find out who did it! I want an answer, and I want it tonight!?
Later that evening, the chief security officer approaches Trump and says: ?Well Mr. President, we have some bad news and we have some really bad news. Which do you want first??
Trump says ?Give me the bad news first.?
The officer says ?Well, we took a sample of the urine and tested it. The results just came back, and it was Mike Pence?s urine.?
Trump says ?Oh my, I feel so... so... betrayed! My own vice-president! Damn. ...well, what?s the really bad news??
The officer replies ?Well, it?s Melania?s handwriting.?
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Perhaps we can shelve Trump for a while until he gets himself, if possible, in even more of a mess.
IB I'd go along with you 100% on that.
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Perhaps we can shelve Trump for a while until he gets himself, if possible, in even more of a mess.
IB I'd go along with you 100% on that.
I would tend to agree.
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Be careful guys, if Trump hears about this he will, well he will, tweet about you!!
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A question for urleft.
I do not know or care about the rights or wrongs, although it appears that the judge is upholding the constitution (neither here nor there).
urleft, do you think that it is appropriate for The Donald to tweet about this?
Is that what the minority of Americans voted for? (Sorry low blow (and just a joke) of course 50% of Democratic votes were from dead people (again a joke)).
Are you happy that your President The Donald is washing dirty laundry in public?
Please, I only want your opinion on the tweeting, not on the issue. Please do not add a link.
Thanks and have a nice day.
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I suspect that the success that Trump had by tweeting during the Presidential campaign is self evident. He won the election despite the MSM relentless lies and bad mouthing a candidate who was not one of their selected war mongering crooked bunch. The Main Street Media continues relentlessly to bad mouth him as he is not part of the vile entrenched politicians. To hope the lying Main Stream Media (MSM) will become unbiased is pie in the sky dreams. It won't happen. Trump tweets direct to the American public bypassing biased fake news. Of course those who denigrate Trump for tweeting should not be surprised that Trump is distancing himself from the entrenched Bankster's and their propaganda machine. Can anyone with some modicum of intelligence really imagine what the state of the earth would be in now if crooked vile Hillary won the election? Radiation?
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Be careful guys, if Trump hears about this he will, well he will, tweet about you!!
I was referring to the boredom of seeing the name all over this forum, rather than the subject himself.
Like him or loathe him, you cannot fault his honesty.
All he is doing is what he promised during the election campaign.
What other ex president can boast the same9
I agree with Tassie.
Look No links. 5555
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First I believe it is obvious that tweeting was effective for him during his campaign, so why should he stop. Take a look at this youtube vid on what Trump contended with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahkMA6JPOHU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahkMA6JPOHU)
Two, it gets the message he wants out directly to the people without the media filter, or the media ignoring it.
Third it drives the MSM nuts. Not only does it blatantly bypass them, the media has to respond to the tweets, they can't help it. So Trump is effectively driving the media, sometimes taking them off their intended target.
Forth, Normally a President is allowed a "Honeymoon" period in office where he is given a chance to get his administration running, they started in on Trump in December.
Fifth, Trump doesn't drink that means his 3am tweets are not alcohol induced. And while it can be said these tweets are unpresidential, well Trump is redefining what it is to be President. And a lot of people are cheering, for example there is a current flap going on about a Navy SEAL convoy in the USA driving on the highway with TRUMP flag on their military vehicle.
And despite what all the Trump haters are saying, he is a master strategist, a hard working driven individual, and appears to be trying to do what he said he would do on the campaign trail. So not only are his supporters cheering on him and his tweets, he is actually gaining support.
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First I believe it is obvious that tweeting was effective for him during his campaign, so why should he stop. Take a look at this youtube vid on what Trump contended with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahkMA6JPOHU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahkMA6JPOHU)
Two, it gets the message he wants out directly to the people without the media filter, or the media ignoring it.
Third it drives the MSM nuts. Not only does it blatantly bypass them, the media has to respond to the tweets, they can't help it. So Trump is effectively driving the media, sometimes taking them off their intended target.
Forth, Normally a President is allowed a "Honeymoon" period in office where he is given a chance to get his administration running, they started in on Trump in December.
Fifth, Trump doesn't drink that means his 3am tweets are not alcohol induced. And while it can be said these tweets are unpresidential, well Trump is redefining what it is to be President. And a lot of people are cheering, for example there is a current flap going on about a Navy SEAL convoy in the USA driving on the highway with TRUMP flag on their military vehicle.
And despite what all the Trump haters are saying, he is a master strategist, a hard working driven individual, and appears to be trying to do what he said he would do on the campaign trail. So not only are his supporters cheering on him and his tweets, he is actually gaining support.
Not bad. Shame about the link.
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Well done urleft as Starman says shame about the link, but it wouldn't be a urleft post without one would it 2guys
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What's going on in the USA now is very similar to a business introducing a change programme and a militant Union opposing every strategy for the sheer hell of it.
On the Tweet side of things, the Press are the Union who hate and oppose any direct commication from management to the workers. Everything must go through them.
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Well done urleft as Starman says shame about the link, but it wouldn't be a urleft post without one would it 2guys
So, if I understand correctly, your latest whinge is that by providing sources urleft is showing what informs his opinions? Uninformed is better?
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I am not having a whinge KhunG, if you see it as such, I would kindly ask you not to interact with me. 90% of what I post is in jest and if you cannot see that then you need to chill out and get a life.
I honestly couldn't give a flying you know what about The Donald Trump does as long as it doesn't directly affect me, he can do what he likes.
I urge everyone to get as much information from every source that they want to.
Then make up their own mind, rather than blindly copy and pasting somebody else's opinions.
Sorry I do not have a source for the above statement as it is ALL my own work.
Smoke a chubby, drink a beer and relax. Life is too short to worry about what I or anyone else says!
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Thin skinned, too.
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Yep, I cried myself to sleep last night.
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Either Patriots or Falcons to lift the superbowl trophy today.
Yes, an American team will become WORLD CHAMPIONS - President The Donald Trump - making America grate again.
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080129122030AApL7p7
http://www.elvisfoundalive.com/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/05/donald-trump-repeats-his-respect-for-killer-vladimir-putin
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/11/01/the-kkks-official-newspaper-has-endorsed-donald-trump-for-president/
http://en.mediamass.net/people/donald-trump/deathhoax.html
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Interesting interview with Bill O'Reilly on Fox, there was this exchange:
During Putin's years in power, a number of prominent Russian opposition figures and journalists have been killed.
In the interview, Trump says, "I do respect him," and then is asked why.
"I respect a lot of people, but that doesn't mean I'm going to get along with him. He's a leader of his country. I say it's better to get along with Russia than not. And if Russia helps us in the fight against ISIS, which is a major fight, and Islamic terrorism all over the world ? that's a good thing," Trump said, using an acronym for the Islamic State group. "Will I get along with him? I have no idea."
O'Reilly then said about Putin: "But he's a killer, though. Putin's a killer."
Trump responded: "There are a lot of killers. We've got a lot of killers. What do you think? Our country's so innocent?"
https://www.yahoo.com/news/asked-putin-trump-says-us-isnt-innocent-140508161.html (https://www.yahoo.com/news/asked-putin-trump-says-us-isnt-innocent-140508161.html) or you can view it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nf15FN6yHA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nf15FN6yHA)
And then consider this exchange from "The Godfather" movie:
Michael Corleone:I'm working for my father now Kay. He's been sick, very sick.
Kay Adams:But you're not like him Michael. I thought you weren't going to become a man like your father. That's what you told me.
Michael Corleone: My father is no different than any other powerful man, any man who is responsible for other people, like a senator or a president.
Kay Adams:You know how naive you sound?
Michael Corleone: Why?
Kay Adams: Senators and presidents don't have men killed.
Michael Corleone: Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?
Sounds to me like Trump is being his usual politically incorrect self by being forthright and truthful.
And there is this:
Speaking at a press conference on Friday, President Obama was asked to comment on the rising death toll in US drone strikes in the Middle East and beyond.
"In the past, there was legitimate criticism that the legal architecture around the use of drone strikes wasn't as precise as it should have been," he said, as cited by AP.
"There's no doubt that civilians were killed that shouldn't have been."
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/watch-barack-obama-admitted-killing-innocent-civilians-hellish-drone-program/#lolEOPlXhobr639W.99 (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/watch-barack-obama-admitted-killing-innocent-civilians-hellish-drone-program/#lolEOPlXhobr639W.99)
So was Obama a Killer?
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Is the following article true?
A simple question to ask is did the Berkley Riots against the RW author support free speech?
The Left Hates You. Act Accordingly.
Kurt Schlichter
Posted: Feb 06, 2017 12:01 AM
They hate you.
Leftists don?t merely disagree with you. They don?t merely feel you are misguided. They don?t think you are merely wrong. They hate you. They want you enslaved and obedient, if not dead. Once you get that, everything that is happening now will make sense. And you will understand what you need to be ready to do.
You are normal, and therefore a heretic. You refuse to bow to their idols, to subscribe to their twisted catechisms, to praise their false gods. This is unforgivable. You must burn.
Crazy talk? Just ask them. Go ahead. Go on social media. Find a leftist ? it?s easy. Just say something positive about America or Jesus and they?ll come swarming like locusts. Engage them and very quickly they will drop their masks and tell you what they really think. I know. I keep a rapidly expanding file of Twitter leftist death wish screenshots.
They will tell you that Christians are idiots and vets are scum.
That normals are subhumans whose role is to labor as serfs to subsidize the progressive elite and its clients.
That you should die to make way for the New Progressive Man/Woman/Other.
Understand that when they call Donald Trump ?illegitimate,? what they are really saying is that our desire to govern ourselves is illegitimate. Their beef isn?t with him ? it?s with us, the normal people who dared rise up and demand their right to participate in the rule of this country and this culture.
They hate you, because by defying them you have prevented them from living up to the dictates of their false religion. Our rebelliousness has denied them the state of grace they seek, exercising their divine right to dictate every aspect of our puny lives. Their sick faith gives meaning to these secular weirdos, giving them something that fills their empty lives with a messianic fervor to go out and conquer and convert the heathens.
And the heathens are us.
Oh, there are different leftist sects. There are the social justice warriors who have manufactured a bizarre mythology and scripture of oppression, privilege, and intersectionality. Instead of robes, they dress up as genitals and kill babies as a blasphemous sacrament. Then there are the pagan weather religion oddballs convinced that the end is near and that we must repent by turning in our SUVs. Of course, the ?we? is really ?us? ? high priests of the global warming cult like Leonardo DiCaprio will still jet around the world with supermodels while we do the ritual sacrificing of our modern comforts. Then there are the ones who simply worship themselves, the elitists who believe that all wisdom and morality has been invested in them merely because they went to the right college, think the right thoughts, and sneer at anyone living between I-5 and I-95.
But all the leftist sects agree ? they have found the revealed truth, and imposing it upon the benighted normals like us is so transcendently important that they are relieved of any moral limitations. They are ISIS, except with hashtags instead of AKs, committed to the establishment of a leftist caliphate.
You wonder why the left is now justifying violence? Because they think that helps them right now. Today it?s suddenly OK to punch a ?Nazi.? But the punchline is that anyone who opposes them is a ?Nazi.?
You wonder why they ignore the rule of law, why they could switch on a dime from screaming at Trump for refusing to preemptively legitimize a Hillary win and then scream that he is illegitimate the moment she lost? Because their only principle is what helps the left win today. That?s why the media gleefully, happily lies every single day about every single thing it reports. Objectivity? When that stopped being a useful thing, it stopped being a thing at all.
They are fanatics, and by not surrendering, by not kneeling, and by not obeying, you have committed an unpardonable sin. You have defied the Left, and you must be broken. They will take your job, slander your name, even beat or kill you ? whatever it takes to break you and terrify others by making you an example. Your defiance cannot stand; they cannot allow this whole Trump/GOP majority thing to get out of control. They must crush this rebellion of the normal, and absolutely nothing is off the table.
We?ve seen them burn UC Berkeley and how the police controlled by the leftist state government of California stood by and watched as Americans were beaten by the mob. Why? Because the government of the State of California approves of the violence. Do you think it?s a coincidence that California is doing everything it can to disarm its normals?
The Left won?t say it out loud ? at least not yet ? but make no mistake. If violence is what it takes for the Left to prevail, then violence we will have. You saw it, and you were meant to. Berkeley was a message about the price of dissent where leftist hold sway. And they seek to hold sway everywhere
How to we respond?
The first step is to end the denial. Open your eyes. See what is happening. Don?t allow yourself to be deluded by false nostalgia for a past period of cultural peace that existed only because, at that time, the Left was winning. They hate you. Look at Twitter. Look at Facebook. Try and tell yourself that leftists are just nice people who disagree with you on a few policy details. Stop fooling yourself.
Understand that this must get much worse before it can get better. We may wish to stop the cultural/political struggle, but they can?t stop. Their religion tells them we are greedy, racist, sexist, homophobe morons who hate science and love Hitler. How could they tolerate us? How could they ever allow us power?
They can?t. Their sick ideology and false theology requires that we be enslaved or exterminated ? we can?t be tolerated, and we certainly can?t be allowed to hold the reins of power. I hoped that my novel People?s Republic, about what lies at the bottom of this blood-soaked slippery slope, would be rendered moot by the GOP?s victory in November. I was wrong. The Left has redoubled its efforts.
So the only outcome is that one side wins and the other loses. There?s no truce to be had, no possibility of a tie. And the frightening thing is that the Left is so foolish, so stuck in its bubble that it has no understanding that it can only push so far before the people with all the guns and all the training push back. That?s the problem with kids who were raised on participation trophies and who never got into a fistfight ? they don?t consider the possibility that they will lose, and lose hard.
We must ensure they do. Understand your enemy. Understand that the Left will exploit your principles and morals to make you disarm yourself ? figuratively and literally. Don?t play their game; don?t fall for their manufactured outrages. Never concede their lies, never take their side against the people defending your liberty. Most of all, accept the truth that if we let them win we will spend the rest of our lives on our backs with a giant Birkenstock pressed into our collective face.
They hate us. And however they come at us, we need to be prepared to fight.
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Trump will be barred from speaking in Parliament
Adam Payne, Business Insider UK
LONDON ? House of Commons Speaker John Bercow has announced that he intends to block US President Donald Trump from addressing Parliament when Trump visits the UK later this year.
It is customary for visiting presidents to address MPs and members of the House of Lords in Westminster Hall when making state visits to Britain.
As speaker of the House of Commons, however, Bercow is one of three people who has the authority to block visiting figures from doing this.
http://www.businessinsider.com/john-bercow-cancels-donald-trump-parliament-visit-2017-2 (http://www.businessinsider.com/john-bercow-cancels-donald-trump-parliament-visit-2017-2)
Wonder if he will actually stop Trump from doing so. Seems dumb to me.
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Is the following article true?
A simple question to ask is did the Berkley Riots against the RW author support free speech?
The Left Hates You. Act Accordingly.
Kurt Schlichter
Posted: Feb 06, 2017 12:01 AM
They hate you.
Leftists don?t merely disagree with you. They don?t merely feel you are misguided. They don?t think you are merely wrong. They hate you. They want you enslaved and obedient, if not dead. Once you get that, everything that is happening now will make sense. And you will understand what you need to be ready to do.
You are normal, and therefore a heretic. You refuse to bow to their idols, to subscribe to their twisted catechisms, to praise their false gods. This is unforgivable. You must burn.
Crazy talk? Just ask them. Go ahead. Go on social media. Find a leftist ? it?s easy. Just say something positive about America or Jesus and they?ll come swarming like locusts. Engage them and very quickly they will drop their masks and tell you what they really think. I know. I keep a rapidly expanding file of Twitter leftist death wish screenshots.
They will tell you that Christians are idiots and vets are scum.
That normals are subhumans whose role is to labor as serfs to subsidize the progressive elite and its clients.
That you should die to make way for the New Progressive Man/Woman/Other.
Understand that when they call Donald Trump ?illegitimate,? what they are really saying is that our desire to govern ourselves is illegitimate. Their beef isn?t with him ? it?s with us, the normal people who dared rise up and demand their right to participate in the rule of this country and this culture.
They hate you, because by defying them you have prevented them from living up to the dictates of their false religion. Our rebelliousness has denied them the state of grace they seek, exercising their divine right to dictate every aspect of our puny lives. Their sick faith gives meaning to these secular weirdos, giving them something that fills their empty lives with a messianic fervor to go out and conquer and convert the heathens.
And the heathens are us.
Oh, there are different leftist sects. There are the social justice warriors who have manufactured a bizarre mythology and scripture of oppression, privilege, and intersectionality. Instead of robes, they dress up as genitals and kill babies as a blasphemous sacrament. Then there are the pagan weather religion oddballs convinced that the end is near and that we must repent by turning in our SUVs. Of course, the ?we? is really ?us? ? high priests of the global warming cult like Leonardo DiCaprio will still jet around the world with supermodels while we do the ritual sacrificing of our modern comforts. Then there are the ones who simply worship themselves, the elitists who believe that all wisdom and morality has been invested in them merely because they went to the right college, think the right thoughts, and sneer at anyone living between I-5 and I-95.
But all the leftist sects agree ? they have found the revealed truth, and imposing it upon the benighted normals like us is so transcendently important that they are relieved of any moral limitations. They are ISIS, except with hashtags instead of AKs, committed to the establishment of a leftist caliphate.
You wonder why the left is now justifying violence? Because they think that helps them right now. Today it?s suddenly OK to punch a ?Nazi.? But the punchline is that anyone who opposes them is a ?Nazi.?
You wonder why they ignore the rule of law, why they could switch on a dime from screaming at Trump for refusing to preemptively legitimize a Hillary win and then scream that he is illegitimate the moment she lost? Because their only principle is what helps the left win today. That?s why the media gleefully, happily lies every single day about every single thing it reports. Objectivity? When that stopped being a useful thing, it stopped being a thing at all.
They are fanatics, and by not surrendering, by not kneeling, and by not obeying, you have committed an unpardonable sin. You have defied the Left, and you must be broken. They will take your job, slander your name, even beat or kill you ? whatever it takes to break you and terrify others by making you an example. Your defiance cannot stand; they cannot allow this whole Trump/GOP majority thing to get out of control. They must crush this rebellion of the normal, and absolutely nothing is off the table.
We?ve seen them burn UC Berkeley and how the police controlled by the leftist state government of California stood by and watched as Americans were beaten by the mob. Why? Because the government of the State of California approves of the violence. Do you think it?s a coincidence that California is doing everything it can to disarm its normals?
The Left won?t say it out loud ? at least not yet ? but make no mistake. If violence is what it takes for the Left to prevail, then violence we will have. You saw it, and you were meant to. Berkeley was a message about the price of dissent where leftist hold sway. And they seek to hold sway everywhere
How to we respond?
The first step is to end the denial. Open your eyes. See what is happening. Don?t allow yourself to be deluded by false nostalgia for a past period of cultural peace that existed only because, at that time, the Left was winning. They hate you. Look at Twitter. Look at Facebook. Try and tell yourself that leftists are just nice people who disagree with you on a few policy details. Stop fooling yourself.
Understand that this must get much worse before it can get better. We may wish to stop the cultural/political struggle, but they can?t stop. Their religion tells them we are greedy, racist, sexist, homophobe morons who hate science and love Hitler. How could they tolerate us? How could they ever allow us power?
They can?t. Their sick ideology and false theology requires that we be enslaved or exterminated ? we can?t be tolerated, and we certainly can?t be allowed to hold the reins of power. I hoped that my novel People?s Republic, about what lies at the bottom of this blood-soaked slippery slope, would be rendered moot by the GOP?s victory in November. I was wrong. The Left has redoubled its efforts.
So the only outcome is that one side wins and the other loses. There?s no truce to be had, no possibility of a tie. And the frightening thing is that the Left is so foolish, so stuck in its bubble that it has no understanding that it can only push so far before the people with all the guns and all the training push back. That?s the problem with kids who were raised on participation trophies and who never got into a fistfight ? they don?t consider the possibility that they will lose, and lose hard.
We must ensure they do. Understand your enemy. Understand that the Left will exploit your principles and morals to make you disarm yourself ? figuratively and literally. Don?t play their game; don?t fall for their manufactured outrages. Never concede their lies, never take their side against the people defending your liberty. Most of all, accept the truth that if we let them win we will spend the rest of our lives on our backs with a giant Birkenstock pressed into our collective face.
They hate us. And however they come at us, we need to be prepared to fight.
I very rarely read one of these long winded articles but the more I read this one the more I continued reading... Is the article true? For the author it is.. As for the the rest of us it's all a matter of perception.. For many of us Americans (Yanks) as many call us... This is our reality.. The second American Revolution started with the election... This will get increasingly bloodier... The silent majority, as we are called, are no longer silent and will no longer bow down or put up with with the BS anymore.. If it takes blood then so be it... America was born in blood and, if necessary, will die that way...
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Trump will be barred from speaking in Parliament
Adam Payne, Business Insider UK
LONDON ? House of Commons Speaker John Bercow has announced that he intends to block US President Donald Trump from addressing Parliament when Trump visits the UK later this year.
It is customary for visiting presidents to address MPs and members of the House of Lords in Westminster Hall when making state visits to Britain.
As speaker of the House of Commons, however, Bercow is one of three people who has the authority to block visiting figures from doing this.
http://www.businessinsider.com/john-bercow-cancels-donald-trump-parliament-visit-2017-2 (http://www.businessinsider.com/john-bercow-cancels-donald-trump-parliament-visit-2017-2)
Wonder if he will actually stop Trump from doing so. Seems dumb to me.
As an American citizen, my personal answer to the UK Parliament is... Who Cares... I would imagine that our new President isn't very concerned with it either.. Personally, I wouldn't be bothered going to the UK at all.. No matter what we do we are hated world wide.. If we try to help, anywhere, or get involved internationally we're labeled as Imperialists... If we back off and stay out of the fray then we're called Isolationists... No matter whether they are our enemy or supposed allies.. It's the way of the world today and what we, as Americans, have gotten used to hearing.. We've gotten very used to the fact that when we show up in amost any country the attitude is... Welcome to our country... Just leave your money here and then get the hell out... So much for the New World Order.. There again this is just one Amercan's opinion and this forum is a way of venting that..
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This Trump Executive Order on immigration can get interesting as Trump is not a Lawyer, he seemly does not hold Judges is the esteem that lawyers are taught. In a meeting with Sheriffs he stated:
Standing at the lectern, Trump read aloud title eight, chapter 12 of U.S. Code which states: "Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or non-immigrants, or impose on entry of aliens any restrictions may deem to be appropriate."
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2017/02/08/trump-slams-courts-by-reading-federal-law-n2283094 (http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2017/02/08/trump-slams-courts-by-reading-federal-law-n2283094)
As a non lawyer I would pretty much say that gives the President Card Blanche on immigration. And provided he can get the courts to actually agree, I would not be surprised if the "so called judge" was impeached (removed from office). IMHO Trump should force that to put the courts on notice they need to cite the law, not their preferences.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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One of the lessons of war I've learned is to "pick your battles".
If your are going to lose, do it with fights that hurt the enemy the most. Do not spread your combat power out to the extent that you win nothing. Dems have been fighting everything Trump has done, and have yet to have a clear victory. While that my placate their base, it is questionable if it will win more support. Note that their base lost the election, they need additional support.
Trump is hammering them with seemingly common sense issues:
1. Use extreme vetting for those coming from highly dangerous nations.
2. Stop illegals from draining the welfare system and deport them.
3. Follow the law.
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Well Joy Villa wore a pro Trump dress to the Grammys, the result is that she currently has the #1 Album on Amazon:
Original Release Date: July 11, 2014
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Label: joy villa
Copyright: 2014 Joy Villa
Total Length: 15:54
Genres:
Alternative Rock
Miscellaneous
Pop > Adult Alternative
ASIN: B00M4LU7Y2
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars 49 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1 Paid in Albums (See Top 100 Paid in Albums)
Got a workable link to display the dress referenced as there are posting attachment issues that Mod mentioned.
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PRESIDENT TRUMP ANNOUNCES SALE OF CALIFORNIA TO MEXICO
WASHINGTON (AP) - at 12:15pm today President Trump disclosed that he has reached an agreement with Enrique Pena Nieto, President of Mexico, which provides for the sale of substantially all of the State of California to the country of Mexico . President Trump noted that this deal, which he claims "is his largest real estate deal ever" is a win-win for everyone involved. One of the benefits he says he will highlight during a prime time address from the oval office later this evening, will include using the proceeds received by the US from Mexico to 1) pay for the Wall (fulfilling yet another campaign promise), a wall which will now include the length of the eastern border of California, 2) fund all the infrastructure spending in the remaining 49 states and 3) pay to relocate the 67 Republicans that currently reside in California.
He also noted that Federal money saved from the reduction of California citizens on US social programs will allow those social programs to be cash positive in less than 3 years.
Mexican President Nieto announced that he has already introduced a bill to the Mexican Congress asking to change his country's name to MexiCal.
Other benefits President Trump intends to discuss during this evening's prime time address include:
California will now be able to act as a sanctuary state within MexiCal noting that there is much more room for the refugees who will find the climate in the State of California more desirable than the climate in US cities such as NYC, Detroit or Chicago .
The elimination of the existing border between Mexico and California will allow drugs to flow more freely between Mexico and the users in Hollywood . Drug tunnel diggers at the Tijuana boarder will now be able to use their skills to dig tunnels under Los Angeles to help ease congestion in that city and allow rioters to move about the city's universities more freely.
The U.S. taxpayer will no longer be on the hook for any future disaster relief required once the next megaquake hits California .
The space in the Capitol and other DC buildings vacated by representatives of California will be fumigated and turned into "time-out rooms" for the press as well as Liberty Centers where US citizens can meet with their congressmen to discuss the pursuit of economic freedom.
Nancy Pelosi released a statement stating that she looks forward to making the Mexican President's life miserable and prefers the year round weather in Mexico City to that of DC. Her office has already announced a schedule of fund raising activities for what is believed to be an upcoming campaign to run for President of MexiCal.
Papers released along with Trump's statement reveal that a newly incorporated real estate company, pmurT, Inc., which was intimately involved in the deal discussions, will receive a broker fee of $25 billion on the California sale. An anonymous pmurT, Inc. representative has revealed that the profits on the deal are HUGE and will be used to purchase, develop and convert all abandoned US Federal facilities in California into special high end retreats and resorts which will assist California residents with managing their euphoria and transition into the nanny state they have so long desired to be.
The exact northern border of the new MexiCal is still under negotiation. Apparently the White House is concerned that certain members of congress may be unwilling to give up California 's wine country and are suggesting that the northern border align with the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge .
California residents will be issued special blue cards to cross the border into the US so that the total number of California liberals entering the US can be tracked and at any point in time not exceed predetermined levels. Residents that remain in California after the effective date of the sale will not be allowed to seek refugee status in the US in the future.
Mexican President Nieto stated he is thrilled with the deal and is looking forward to declaring Spanish the national language for his newly acquired territory and opening SSL (Spanish as a second language) schools throughout California . He also noted that funding for the transaction would come from the Mexican drug cartels, which have agreed to provide low interest loans to Mexico so long as they are allowed to move their cash out of Switzerland and the Cayman Islands back into Mexico tax free. He also said he considers the fact that a Disney park will now be located within his country an added bonus.
White House representatives refused to confirm rumors that a similar deal was in the works for the sale of Northeastern states from NY through Maine, to Canada .
President Trump wrapped up his statement stating, "This deal is HUGE and will help
make America , albeit a little smaller, great again."
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:D
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Well Joy Villa wore a pro Trump dress to the Grammys, the result is that she currently has the #1 Album on Amazon:
Original Release Date: July 11, 2014
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Label: joy villa
Copyright: 2014 Joy Villa
Total Length: 15:54
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Alternative Rock
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Got a workable link to display the dress referenced as there are posting attachment issues that Mod mentioned.
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Well let's try adding the picture again:
(http://meredith.images.worldnow.com/images/13118859_G.png)
Kind of difficult to call her a racist, sexist, homophobic anti-immigrant as the dress was made by a gay immigrant.
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I think this is a really good article that a lot matches my view:
It's the Democrats, not President Trump, who are insane
Yet the media has failed to recognize this simple truth: That Trump supporters wanted change.
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(http://www.jewishworldreview.com/op-art/dem_media_no_difference.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/0kmsTJj.jpg)
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That they really want Mr. Trump to drain the swamp, and are thrilled he's mixing things up in Washington, D.C. That they don't give a darn about what Mr. Cohen has to say, because he is the establishment he's a swamp creature that after 26 years in power needs to go.
None of Mr. Trump's actions in his first three weeks should come as alarming. They're exactly what Mr. Trump promised he'd do on the campaign trail: build a wall, thoroughly vet refugees from terror prone nations, shut down sanctuary cities and enforce national immigration laws. If the media was listening, they'd understand this.
None of his executive actions have come out of left field, nor did his Supreme Court pick.
So how is any of this unhinged or deranged?
It?s not. The left and the mainstream media just doesn't like the policies Mr. Trump is putting forth ? or the fact that he was elected on them.
So instead of going to battle on ideological issues, they've resorted to calling him names. To challenging his mental health. To attempting to convince the American public they made a mistake.
They've done it before and it failed. Yet they're doing it again.
Isn't that the very definition of insanity?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/13/its-democrats-not-president-trump-who-are-insane/ (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/13/its-democrats-not-president-trump-who-are-insane/)
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Oh No, Trump is really going insane!!! He is not continuing to force transgender bathrooms onto the American people. Can this action derail his base support?
Trump administration won't pursue Obama transgender school bathrooms edict in court
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trump-administration-wont-defend-obama-transgender-school-bathrooms-edict-i (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trump-administration-wont-defend-obama-transgender-school-bathrooms-edict-i)
(http://heydidyahear.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/transgender-bathroom-650x276.png)
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Near Lampang...
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Wow, libs have no shame. The hypocrisy is on display and they don't care.
Here is local Miami:
President Trump's Mar-a-Lago Visits Cost $1.5 Million in Overtime Pay: Sheriff
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/President-Trumps-Mar-a-Lago-Visits-Cost-15-Million-in-Overtime-Pay-Sheriff-413706753.html (http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/President-Trumps-Mar-a-Lago-Visits-Cost-15-Million-in-Overtime-Pay-Sheriff-413706753.html)
Trump owns a home/business there, it was normal for him to go there before he became president.
Where was the outrage at flying Obama's dog?
First dog Bo is airlifted to Obama holiday home
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/10236302/First-dog-Bo-is-airlifted-to-Obama-holiday-home.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/10236302/First-dog-Bo-is-airlifted-to-Obama-holiday-home.html)
Or when Michelle had to have a separate flightsr:
Obamas take his and hers flights to LA
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/13/politics/barack-michelle-obama-los-angeles-flights/ (http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/13/politics/barack-michelle-obama-los-angeles-flights/)
One set of standards and rule for Dems, another set repubs.
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Sometimes it is just best to let the libs speak for themselves:
Schumer: Raids are snaring 'law-abiding' illegals
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2614688/ (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2614688/)
Wow, they are illegally in the USA, but are law abiding. Is that a lib oxymoron?
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Daily we are blasted by Urleft about President trump.
For you all who don't watch US or world News, here are a couple of trump items that caught my eye.
1. His National Security Advisor, Gen Mike Flynn was asked to resign after he lie to the vice president and others about phone conversations with the Russian ambassador, during which he told the ambassador not to worry about Obama sanctions about Russia's hacking of Democratic emails, trump will take care of this when installed.
2. The FBI warned trump and president Obama in Jan. that more and evidence was piling up concerning senior trump officials were in Constant Conversations with Russian intelligent agents. The Republican controlled Senate will investigate these allegations. Paul Ryan, Republican speaker of the house, said that his body would not have Republicans investigating Republicans. His putting party before the country shows how far out of touch with reality this guy is.
3. trump's only comment, so far, it that he is going to put a stop to leaks coming out of the government.
4. General Thomas, The commander of US Special Warfare, stated the "Our government continues to be in unbelievable turmoil.
trump has put America in a very dangerous position and all Americans must put country over party and look at these thing realistically.
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Daily we are blasted by Urleft about President trump.
For you all who don't watch US or world News, here are a couple of trump items that caught my eye.
1. His National Security Advisor, Gen Mike Flynn was asked to resign after he lie to the vice president and others about phone conversations with the Russian ambassador, during which he told the ambassador not to worry about Obama sanctions about Russia's hacking of Democratic emails, trump will take care of this when installed.
2. The FBI warned trump and president Obama in Jan. that more and evidence was piling up concerning senior trump officials were in Constant Conversations with Russian intelligent agents. The Republican controlled Senate will investigate these allegations. Paul Ryan, Republican speaker of the house, said that his body would not have Republicans investigating Republicans. His putting party before the country shows how far out of touch with reality this guy is.
3. trump's only comment, so far, it that he is going to put a stop to leaks coming out of the government.
4. General Thomas, The commander of US Special Warfare, stated the "Our government continues to be in unbelievable turmoil.
trump has put America in a very dangerous position and all Americans must put country over party and look at these thing realistically.
Obama knew about this long before January and did nothing.
The fact that Trump has announced that he is going to put a stop leaks is hardly to his detriment, is it? Probably the same guy as served as chief of staff at the White House as served under Obama, strangely enough. How about Hillary never successfully defending herself against the Wikileaks, instead just coming up with "The Russians dunnit".
Trump is being attacked both by the GOP, who have a lot to lose if business doesn't go on as usual and the increasingly irrational, anti-free speech and violent 'liberals'.
Russia (Commies, Reds under the beds or whatever) has long been the traditional excuse for intervening in legitimate governments all over the world since the Second World War as well as keeping the arms industries happy. An as yet unproven report that Russians may have intervened in the elections (ie telling the awful bloody truth about Hillary) has been seized on with hysterical fervour.
A proposed three month stop on immigration from a few countries, inept as it was in conception, was greeted with more hysteria. Never mind that Obama and other presidents/ have issued or tried to issue similar restrictions in the past. And never mind that 17 countries refuse entry to Israeli citizens.
Meanwhile members of a religion that supports Sharia (you can't be a Muslim and NOT support Sharia) which is antithetical to both the Constitution of the USA as well as general values in the West are continuing to flow into the West. Belgium will be majority Muslim in 15 years, other countries will follow. Great isn't it?
Saying stuff like this is illegal in some countries already and I get called a bigoted racist quite often. I'm not.
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Yes, the media needs to run with the vid of the Presidential candidate telling Russia he will have more flexibility to after the election.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsFR8DbSRQE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsFR8DbSRQE)
And less then a month into the Trump presidency there are demands for his impeachment.
Petition to have Donald Trump impeached has nearly 1,000,000 signatures
Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/15/petition-to-have-donald-trump-impeached-has-nearly-1000000-signatures-6449765/#ixzz4YoCX3N2n (http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/15/petition-to-have-donald-trump-impeached-has-nearly-1000000-signatures-6449765/#ixzz4YoCX3N2n)
And another call for Russian influence investigation:
Investigate Hillary Uranium Gifts To Russia, Not Michael Flynn (Guest Post) (http://www.floppingaces.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/HillaryUranium3.png)
Let us concede that short-lived National Security adviser and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency Gen. Michael Flynn did a dumb thing when he misled Vice-President Pence on whether he discussed sanctions on Russia in a conversation with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak fefore President Trump was sworn in January 20.
http://www.floppingaces.net/2017/02/15/investigate-hillary-uranium-gifts-to-russia-not-michael-flynn-guest-post/
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I have to say, WTF!!!!!
We are 3 weeks into Trump's presidency and already Watergate is being mentioned. Like or hate Trump, what is the real probability Trump did a Watergate in his 3 weeks? I am thinking less than Zero.
Is This Trump's Watergate?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-this-trumps-watergate-1487203208 (https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-this-trumps-watergate-1487203208)
A president?s blood is in the water and another White House staff can only look out the windows as the sharks arrive from miles off.
Dan Rather, who normally toils at explaining away his George W. Bush National Guard story for CBS years ago, swam toward the Trump White House Tuesday to posit that ?Watergate is the biggest political scandal of my lifetime, until maybe now.?
Like-minded trolls in the social-media village sent Mr. Rather's Facebook post viral. The Watergate 'meme' that attached itself instantly to Mike Flynn's firing over his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak was: What did President Trump know, and when did he know it?
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From the Washington Post:
Nine current and former officials, who were in senior positions at multiple agencies at the time of the calls, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/national-security-adviser-flynn-discussed-sanctions-with-russian-ambassador-despite-denials-officials-say/2017/02/09/f85b29d6-ee11-11e6-b4ff-ac2cf509efe5_story.html?utm_term=.43a4628c522e (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/national-security-adviser-flynn-discussed-sanctions-with-russian-ambassador-despite-denials-officials-say/2017/02/09/f85b29d6-ee11-11e6-b4ff-ac2cf509efe5_story.html?utm_term=.43a4628c522e)
As someone that formally had access to this type data I am incensed that liberals (to include our resident liberal) are fine with this intelligence data being illegally released against Trump but when Hillary emails were revealed it was all against those evil Russians and ignore the content.
Can we say hypocrisy at its finest!!
If content is the most important, than let's discuss what was said in Hillary's emails.
If the source is most important than let's discuss who is leaking Trump's Administration actions.
Pick one.
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Donald Trump and Barack Obama went to the same barbershop for a shave.
As they sat there, each being worked on by a different barber, not a word was spoken.
The barbers were even afraid to start a conversation, for fear it would turn to politics.
As the barbers finished their shaves, the one who had Trump in his chair reached for the aftershave.
Trump was quick to stop him saying, 'No thanks, if my wife smells that she will think I've been in a whorehouse,'
The second barber turned to Obama and said, 'How about you?'
Obama replied, 'Go ahead, my wife doesn't know what a whorehouse smells like.'
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Very good article by one of my heroes, Allen West. The leaks involving National Security and Policy making are unconscionable. The leaks can directly impact everyone in the world, for example Trump's phone conversation with Australia PM Turnbull was leaked and an Aussie even posted about it here. I am sure the leak came from the USA, not down under.
Folks, what I just witnessed in DC is TREASONOUS
By Allen West8:54am February 15, 201
http://www.allenbwest.com/allen/flynns-resignation-heres-think-trump-must-immediately (http://www.allenbwest.com/allen/flynns-resignation-heres-think-trump-must-immediately)
It started out as a normal week. I arrived at Washington DC Monday afternoon at 4:30pm ET. I met some dear military friends for dinner and got back to my Batcave around 8:30pm. I did my website writing for Tuesday and by 10:15pm hit the rack to rest up for a day of meetings with House members on Capitol Hill. As always, I awoke at 5:30am for my morning run up Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol and then I got them?about eight text messages.
The subject was the resignation of the Trump administration?s National Security Advisor LTG Michael Flynn, whom I know personally. Several folks had asked me about the issue surrounding LTG Flynn?s phone conversations with a Russian ambassador, and I confided that I didn?t believe he would be able to survive the week. Misleading, lying, to the vice president of the United States cannot be tolerated. That?s the type of behavior we expect from the Democrat Party, and saw in the Obama administration.
I flew back to Dallas yesterday and as I sat in Reagan National airport, reviewed many pieces written on the topic. Here is my assessment.
First of all, when you know the objective of your adversary, you have to be more savvy. The line of attack from the Democrat Party through the campaign was to tie Donald Trump to Russia, and that intensified after the election. As a former Head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, LTG Flynn should have displayed better situational awareness.
No one associated with the Trump campaign, or potential administration figures, should have had any contact with Russian officials. As well, having been in the intelligence community, LTG Flynn should have realized that the potential for someone listening in on conversations was high. That does lead to a very interesting point: did the Obama administration know and authorize the phone tapping involving an American citizen without their knowledge? As we know, the exact same thing happened with the Obama Department of Justice, under Eric Holder, investigating the sitting CIA Director, General David Petraeus, without his knowledge. Now, I wonder if the liberal ACLU has any issue with that?
Second, it would seriously behoove President Trump to remove the countless number of Obama holdovers that remain operating within his administration in key positions.
The pressure needs to be levied against Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer as this is further evidence of Democrat, progressive socialist efforts to undermine the peaceful transition of governance.
As reported by the Washington Free Beacon, ?The abrupt resignation Monday evening of White House national security adviser Michael Flynn is the culmination of a secret, months-long campaign by former Obama administration confidantes to handicap President Donald Trump?s national security apparatus and preserve the nuclear deal with Iran, according to multiple sources in and out of the White House who described to the Washington Free Beacon a behind-the-scenes effort by these officials to plant a series of damaging stories about Flynn in the national media.
The effort, said to include former Obama administration adviser Ben Rhodes?the architect of a separate White House effort to create what he described as a pro-Iran echo chamber?included a small task force of Obama loyalists who deluged media outlets with stories aimed at eroding Flynn?s credibility, multiple sources revealed.
The operation primarily focused on discrediting Flynn, an opponent of the Iran nuclear deal, in order to handicap the Trump administration?s efforts to disclose secret details of the nuclear deal with Iran that had been long hidden by the Obama administration.
Insiders familiar with the anti-Flynn campaign told the Free Beacon that these Obama loyalists plotted in the months before Trump?s inauguration to establish a set of roadblocks before Trump?s national security team, which includes several prominent opponents of diplomacy with Iran. The Free Beacon first reported on this effort in January.?
Here in lies the real story that the mainstream complicit liberal progressive media isn?t going to report.
Imagine if President George W. Bush set up a shadow effort to undermine the incoming Obama administration national security team? Heck, I recall the childish antics of the outgoing Clinton administration to remove all the ?W? keys from the computer keyboards. This is far more egregious ? nefarious ? and in my estimation, treasonous ? nothing new for the Obama flying monkeys.
And this is not going to stop, or end anytime soon, as the acolytes of Obama and the liberal progressive Democrat Party have declared war. And let me remind you of the maxim of one retired Marine 1st Sgt Jim Reifinger: ?if you ever find yourself in a fair fight, it?s because your tactics suck.?
This is not a fair fight and perhaps President Trump needs to put down the Twitter for a while and get focused. This is not about bravado, but going head to head with what can only be described as political evil.
President Trump must come to realize that this is a purposeful, well-planned operation against him. Sadly the left has now claimed two casualties from the White House National Security team: LTG Flynn and Monica Crowley ? and please, plagiarism? Ask Joe Biden about plagiarism.
Here?s the bold action I would take. I would announce critical position fills for individuals as number twos: deputies, and undersecretaries. I would send a message to Senator Schumer that as president of the United States, I will no longer be held hostage to your partisan undermining of my administration.
Here is a list of individuals that I?m placing into position. When you decide to do your job and stop being party to the insidious actions of delaying the transition of governance, we will send these individuals over for immediate confirmation hearings.
The media can whine and cry all they wish, but they are accomplices to this nefarious endeavor. We will not allow our national security to be obstructed due to partisan politics. Senator Schumer, I suggest you instruct your colleagues to attend committee hearings and cooperate with the process. I expect the US Senate to work everyday starting tomorrow to get all positions confirmed, but I will no longer succumb to being held hostage to the whims of the liberal progressive base of the Democrat Party.
Let me reiterate something, you NEVER win on defense, and that is exactly where the left is placing the Trump administration. And the last people who should EVER talk about constitutional governance, coequal branches of government, and checks and balances is the Democrat Party.
President Trump should tell them simply, ?I have a pen and a phone, and I?m calling up individuals and assigning them to the critical Senate-confirmed positions in my administration.?
No, that is not a constitutional crisis?abandoning Americans to die in a combat zone and lying about it?that is a constitutional crisis. Unleashing a government agency on American citizens ? the IRS ? that is a constitutional crisis. Purposefully and covertly releasing unlawful enemy combatants from GITMO against the NDAA you signed is a constitutional crisis. Undermining the peaceful transition of government IS a serious offense and a constitutional crisis.
It?s time we get dog fighting mad and tough with the party of violence, coercion, intimidation and threats ? the Democrat Party. This is a fight and it?s not a fair fight.
The Democrats lost the election of November 2016 and ponder, what would the media be saying if this was February 2009 and the roles were reversed? You?d be hearing cries of racism and other invectives?well, that certainly hasn?t changed. What would have happened if a Bush holdover acting Attorney General had defied an Obama executive order? Those of us who?ve been in the combat zones fighting against Islamic jihadists know they only respond to and understand two things: strength and might ? no different from the left. They don?t respect kindness, compromise or negotiation. They only want their way and your submission. We constitutional conservatives don?t need to lower ourselves to their violent manner or means, but we must not cower and be held hostage by them ? a coastal minority ? anymore.
President Donald Trump needs to take action, not advertise it, but go forward and do the job he was elected to do, be the president of the United States of America. The GOP House and Senate majorities need to bypass the infantile behavior of Schumer and Pelosi. Donald Trump won, get over it. If not, then the Party of the jackasses will be victim of a stampede of pachyderms.
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BTW, Trump gave a very good press conference today, worth watching IMHO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5FRUM-AK9k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5FRUM-AK9k)
Some reactions:
Stunned by today?s press conference? So were the broadcast and cable news network anchors who led special coverage. Here?s what they had to say right after Pres. Trump finished his remarks:
ABC: ?What a remarkable window into the state of mind of the President of the United States right there.? ? George Stephanopoulos, 2:12 p.m. ET.
CBS: ?Well, a remarkable news conference?? ? Scott Pelley, 2:12 p.m. ET.
NBC: ?Pres. Trump concluding an hour and 10 minute long session with reporters in the East Room?? ? Lester Holt, 2:12 p.m.
CNN: ?Wow, what an amazing an hour and 15 minute briefing by the President of the United States.? ? Wolf Blitzer, 2:13 p.m. ET.
Fox News: ?Wow. Well, all righty then, that was some press conference.? ? Melissa Francis, 2:12 p.m. ET.
MSNBC: ?Well, that was a doozy of a press conference.? ? Katy Tur, 2:12 p.m. ET
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The Trump haters are amazing. The are saying because Trump tried to tell a reporter to set up a meeting with Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Trump is a racist idiot.
What Trump is really saying is bring them to table and we will talk. This is after Nancy Pelosi stated there was nothing she could work with Bush. I am going to assume she meant Trump.
Elijah Cummings made a statement about drug prices, Trump called him saying lets work this. Trump is the president, Cummings if he really believed what he said should have been at the White House doorstep agreeing to meet. Instead the meeting never happened.
As usual, one set rules for Dems, another set for Rebus.
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Keith, I am assuming that you didn't look into these incredible quotes at all. These quotes were taken out of context by Fox news, here is the rest of the story.
CBS, Scott Pelley went on to say the presser was typical for trump in that it was based on "bluster, bravado, exaggeration, and a few loose facts."
ABC, George Stephanopolous went on to say, "Big goal of the press conference was to advance his campaign, delegitimize the mainstream media, and show his supporters that he is taking them on"
CNN, Wolf Blitzer, said he was stunned by what he had witnessed, Jake Tapper of CNN, press conference was "wild and unhinged, wow"
I think Fox is trying to get people to believe that the press is starting to realize the genius of trump, which is BS.
Yes, by all means watch the press conference.
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Keith, I am assuming that you didn't look into these incredible quotes at all. These quotes were taken out of context by Fox news, here is the rest of the story.
CBS, Scott Pelley went on to say the presser was typical for trump in that it was based on "bluster, bravado, exaggeration, and a few loose facts."
ABC, George Stephanopolous went on to say, "Big goal of the press conference was to advance his campaign, delegitimize the mainstream media, and show his supporters that he is taking them on"
CNN, Wolf Blitzer, said he was stunned by what he had witnessed, Jake Tapper of CNN, press conference was "wild and unhinged, wow"
I think Fox is trying to get people to believe that the press is starting to realize the genius of trump, which is BS.
Yes, by all means watch the press conference.
Ok so you, along with many other people, dislike Trump.
Who's fault is it that he got elected: the MSM thought he was an interesting joke and kept publicising him.
What was the alternative? Clinton? Whatever his deficiencies he has to be better, he has no political debts to pay off, doesn't participate in the newly resurrected Russophobic philosophy of the Dems, has declared his opposition to the USA's traditional policy of changing governments they don't like.
The Dems are desperately going on from one hopeless attack after another, Russian intervention, election invalid, change the election system, impeach Trump...every week a new one. No actual standing up and offering rational arguments, name calling and conspiracy theories seem to be about as far as it goes.
Clinton wanted to establish a no fly zone over Syria. The Russians wouldn't have appreciated that, and ISIS would still be on the offensive in Syria. She supported regime changes all over the Middle East and the result is that we have to support an invasion of refugees and others. She sold Uranium to Russia, who have suddenly become enemies again. ... and so on.
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Mike,
I stand by my comment:
"The BLACK what?" Donald Trump asks black woman SUPER racist question
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ogr6xZdAZw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ogr6xZdAZw)
And read the comments.
Trump accused of racism after exchange with black reporter at latest press conference
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/02/18/trump-accused-of-racism-after-exchange-with-black-reporter-at-latest-press-conference/ (https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/02/18/trump-accused-of-racism-after-exchange-with-black-reporter-at-latest-press-conference/)
BTW, you should have come to steak night, had Charles, Bruno, Martin and others, I believe a good time was had by all
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The MSM are liars and fraudsters. They never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
Regards
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only 2,999.999 more to go.
Green Card Holder Deported for Illegal Voting
https://www.bna.com/green-card-holder-n57982084023/ (https://www.bna.com/green-card-holder-n57982084023/)
but consider this article:
Illegal Aliens Really Do Commit voter fraud - and always for Democrats
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/illegal-aliens-really-do-vote-and-always-for-democrats (https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/illegal-aliens-really-do-vote-and-always-for-democrats)
And the libs saying that requiring voter ID is racist is total BS. That does not pass the common sense test.
Almost all voters in India now have a photo identity card
https://qz.com/197550/almost-all-voters-in-india-now-have-a-photo-identity-card/ (https://qz.com/197550/almost-all-voters-in-india-now-have-a-photo-identity-card/)
It is incomprehensible to me how requiring voters to prove their citizenship is somehow racist. I am more than willing to provide my citizenship voting qualifications.
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only 2,999.999 more to go.
Green Card Holder Deported for Illegal Voting
https://www.bna.com/green-card-holder-n57982084023/ (https://www.bna.com/green-card-holder-n57982084023/)
but consider this article:
Illegal Aliens Really Do Commit voter fraud - and always for Democrats
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/illegal-aliens-really-do-vote-and-always-for-democrats (https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/illegal-aliens-really-do-vote-and-always-for-democrats)
And the libs saying that requiring voter ID is racist is total BS. That does not pass the common sense test.
Almost all voters in India now have a photo identity card
https://qz.com/197550/almost-all-voters-in-india-now-have-a-photo-identity-card/ (https://qz.com/197550/almost-all-voters-in-india-now-have-a-photo-identity-card/)
It is incomprehensible to me how requiring voters to prove their citizenship is somehow racist. I am more than willing to provide my citizenship voting qualifications.
Same arguments used in the UK when they tried to introduce ID cards.
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Likes to hold large rallies.
Spouts nationalistic rhetoric.
Blames one religious group for all the worlds ills.
Has followers who believes every word he says and refutes all others.
Sound familiar?
I shall now duck before the red neck back lash.
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Are you saying those who favour Trump over crooked Hillary are all rednecks? Do you have any names that best describe Hillary supporters? A common name for them is Libtards. Do you agree with that characterization?
Regards
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A joke to lighten up the tension a bit :biggrin:
One of Trump?s assistants says to him, Sir, we're mining too many coal mines. Trump replies, Well, mine less.
A writer and grammar expert then turns to him and says, 'Mine FEWER!' Trump looks up and says, 'Yes?'
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One thing Trump has done is put pride and optimism back to working America. He is dealing and sometimes hammering big business such as Ford to keep jobs in the USA, to me that is a great thing. I also see why businesses are leaving because taxes and increasingly hostile government regulations, both Trump promises to fix.
Yes there has been missteps, probably the biggest was the mishandling of the Travel Ban. The incompetence of the Justice Department was on rampant display, along with petty antagonistic Democrat obstruction. Long time Senator Jess Sessions should have been confirmed on day 1 by his fellow senators, I dare say if he were in place it would have been an different justice department that handled the case.
And yes, Trump exaggerated his electoral win in the press conference, a lot of us cringed when he said that. There were several comments from the media about why is he even bringing that up. It's because the media and Dems have been trying de-legitimize his election since it happened. Between Hillary won the popular vote so more Americans want her policies or the Russians hacked the election. I have stated before that Russia never hacked the election, they may have hacked into the DNC (based on the DNC's incompetence), but they did not hack the election.
The Washington Post (aka Washington Compost), actually has a fairly decent article:
Trump supporters see a successful president ? and are frustrated with critics who don?t
By Jenna Johnson and David Weigel February 19 at 6:44 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-supporters-see-a-successful-president--and-are-frustrated-with-critics-who-dont/2017/02/19/496cb4b4-f6ca-11e6-9845-576c69081518_story.html?utm_term=.e92e3789cfb6 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-supporters-see-a-successful-president--and-are-frustrated-with-critics-who-dont/2017/02/19/496cb4b4-f6ca-11e6-9845-576c69081518_story.html?utm_term=.e92e3789cfb6)
MELBOURNE, Fla. ? Many of President Trump?s most dedicated supporters ? the sort who waited for hours in the Florida sun this weekend for his first post-inauguration campaign rally ? say their lives changed on election night. Suddenly they felt like their views were actually respected and in the majority.
But less than one month into Trump?s term, many of his supporters say they once again feel under attack ? perhaps even more so than before.
She blames the media for circulating ?fake? stories about the president ? like when she believed he was ?very cool, wasn?t yelling? at a Thursday news conference, yet a CNN anchor described his behavior as ?unhinged.?
?There?s such hatred for the man,? she said. ?I just don?t get it.?
It was a common sentiment at the rally in an airplane hangar here, flanked by Air Force One and attended by about 9,000 people. There were chants of ?CNN sucks!? and ?Tell the truth!? A pre-rally speaker gleefully announced that the president had given the media ?a spanking.?
And Trumps Florida Rally is also worth watching. Heads are exploding because Trump's wife actually started out with the Lord's Prayer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIo3lBkoceU
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Thank you urleft, that is the first time you have admitted that mistakes have been made. All I would like to see is a fair assessment, not this constant Trump is the King of Kings and everything else is fake news.
Thank you.
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I am not 100% behind Trump like Gene Huber (google him if you don't know him). Trump is going to do things I don't agree with, just as Obama announced some things I did agree. For example Obama was proposing cutting the military general/flag officers by 10% (I might be off here), my thought was he should have gone for 50% (not sure that happened).
However, when the other side is in total opposition I am going to back Trump. Remember Pelosi saying recently "There was nothing she could work with Bush", I believe she meant Trump. How can she not work with him on keeping American Jobs? That seems like a joint project for both parties.
And the almost total opposition to confirming Trump's cabinet. The Dems got a win there. They hamstrung Trump by not confirming a long time fellow senator that many that voted against him sponsored bills with him. And the Dem win continued with that Obama holdover at the DOJ refused to do her job and support Trump.
Trump says he wants to restore the inner cities, note that every ghetto is run by a Democrat. After Trump was elected he met with several inner city advocates (e.g. Jim Brown, Steve Harvey, MLK son) and all came out of the meeting with positive remarks, even if they didn't support Trump for president.
But I am willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt. There is a current twitter fight going on with the Obama Holdover Somalia ambassador giving their new president a "Make Somalia Great Again" Hat. I like to think that was done as a positive, but when I went to my conservative website of choice most were saying fire the Ambassador.
I think despite the best efforts of the Dems and Media Trump support is increasing as he continues to make good on his promises.
I also believe you can disagree without being disagreeable.
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As I have said before, I'm only playing.
I think Trump might well do many good things. I also think he might go off the rails!
I was going to ask how long do you think he will be President for?
2-4 years
4 years
4-6 years
8 years?
What will end his Presidency?
Assassination
Ill health
Voted out after 1 term
Impeachment
2 full terms.
I have no view, honestly, although it would not surprise me if an attempt was made on his life at some point (yet I thought that of Obama and he made it through!!)
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If Trump keeps his campaign promises I believe he will be re-elected in a Reagan type landslide, especially if all those jobs he supposedly brokered appear. In three years the effects of his presidency should be fully realized.
As far as assassination, yes that is always a possibility, but law enforcement agencies are probably around 98% on his side, the military is fully behind him, and the secret service is being treated with respect again. So I would rate the probably as low.
This big problem is that if Trump actually succeeds in what he says it will be apparent that Obama/Dems for 10 years took the USA down the toilet. So they have to stop Trump from succeeding at all costs.
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I just noticed there is something really wrong with this picture. What is missing?
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I just noticed there is something really wrong with this picture. What is missing?
Something interesting?
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I just noticed there is something really wrong with this picture. What is missing?
Maybe Obama worked harder ?
Maybe Trump has all these documents on his desk because his aides couldn't be bothered to clean up his desk ?
Maybe Obama was lazy ?
Maybe Trump is on the phone all day (or Tweeting) and doesn't have the time to read all these documents
Maybe Obama couldn't be bothered to have a Photographer come around when he was busy ?
Maybe Trump works really hard and this is to show that he does (or at least give the impression that he does ..) ?
etc etc etc
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I just noticed there is something really wrong with this picture. What is missing?
Maybe Obama worked harder ?
Maybe Trump has all these documents on his desk because his aides couldn't be bothered to clean up his desk ?
Maybe Obama was lazy ?
Maybe Trump is on the phone all day (or Tweeting) and doesn't have the time to read all these documents
Maybe Obama couldn't be bothered to have a Photographer come around when he was busy ?
Maybe Trump works really hard and this is to show that he does (or at least give the impression that he does ..) ?
etc etc etc
No, it's that neither has a computer on the desk. Have no idea how they cannot be computerized.
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Maybe because they are afraid it's getting spyware on it by an aide (for example) ??? The safest way is still Paper Documents.
Oke it's a report from the Mirror but an interesting read after Obama requested an iPhone and it was HEAVILY modified before he got it.
The President of the USA has revealed that his mobile is limited to receiving emails and browsing the internet.
And it absolutely cannot take photos, play music or make calls.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/barack-obamas-presidential-iphone-cant-9138307
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I thought maybe lack of pets
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Some Toons:
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Every once in the while the media actually messes up and speaks What they think:
Controlling "exactly what people think" is the job of the media, MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski boldly declared Wednesday morning.
While discussing President Trump's entreaties to the American people to remain skeptical of the press, Bzezinski worried that if the economy turns south, Americans may end up trusting him over the media.
"And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think," Brzezinski said. "And that, that is our job."
SCARBOROUGH: "Exactly. That is exactly what I hear. What Yamiche said is what I hear from all the Trump supporters that I talk to who were Trump voters and are still Trump supporters. They go, 'Yeah you guys are going crazy. He's doing -- what are you so surprised about? He is doing exactly what he said he is going to do.'"
BRZEZINSKI: "Well, I think that the dangerous, you know, edges here are that he is trying to undermine the media and trying to make up his own facts. And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think. And that, that is our job."
The comment failed to raise any eyebrows from her co-panelists. Instead, her co-host, Joe Scarborough, said that Trump's media antagonism puts him on par with Mussolini and Lenin.
https://news.grabien.com/story-brzezinski-our-job-control-exactly-what-people-think (https://news.grabien.com/story-brzezinski-our-job-control-exactly-what-people-think)
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Just some tidbits.
It seems Trump has his phone connected to the White House Switchboard so as calls come in he can randomly pick up and the caller will find themselves talking directly to the President. I think that is great.
There is new speak code, so from now on when you hear that Trump is removing "protections" for Americans, that means he is getting rid of regulations.
And the chaos in the White House, as defined by the media is that Trump does not have a "gate keeper", meaning there is not that single person that controls access to him. So numerous advisors can just walk in on him in the Oval Office when they feel the need, that is not how the media and elites believe it should be done, therefore it must be chaos.
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I would daresay that Trump has the support of the US military Officer Corps. While I am not special ops, I worked with them a lot to include being their Director of Operations.
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Took Future Green Berets into Oval Office in Q-Course First
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/24/trump-took-future-green-berets-oval-office/ (http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/24/trump-took-future-green-berets-oval-office/)
President Trump, in his third week in office, met with a class of Green Beret candidates and brought them into the Oval Office for the first time in the course?s history.
The 18 Army officers in the Special Forces Qualification Course, or ?Q-course,? were visiting the National Security Council in early February, as a normal part of the course.
But this time, Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka, who was scheduled to speak to the students, had suggested that they meet the president.
The plan was to take them into the Roosevelt Room in the West Wing of the White House, but Trump decided to invite them into the Oval Office, to take pictures with them for their families.
?Halfway through the discussion, [Trump] said, ?Hey ? we?re not supposed to do this but follow me, and he brought them all into the Oval Office, took a group photograph around the Resolute desk, and then ? throwing the schedules into a bit of a tizzy, said OK that?s not good enough,'? Gorka told Breitbart News in an interview.
I am 99.9% sure that the coup called for by the libs using the US Military will not happen.
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We have some complaint about this thread.
People say it is too much. People not interested.
Please answer this question. Is this time to close this?
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It should have been closed long ago.......the day it opened!
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Close it now.
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Close it, there is enough Trump on the news if one chooses to watch it.
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How about this, if you don't like the thread don't read it.
However, I would say this thread is gathering about 25% of the traffic on this forum.
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If you are so infatuated with your new president why don't you x off back home,perhaps he'll realise what huge potential you have & give you a job supervising the building of the wall!!
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Easy enough to guess where the objections are coming from. There are some that only react, generally negatively, to posts but rarely (never?) start new threads themselves. Sometimes they react more to demonstrate their superior knowledge, than to help
There are days when nothing at all turns up on the Expats forum, I for one never open the "daily briefing" and jokes threads which in their turn, anyone can find on the net without much trouble. I don't write to Mod asking for them to close, I just mark them as read.
I miss the shout box myself. Now that isn't a negative comment, it is a positive one, I'd like to see it back.
(Edit). I get tired of posts about "US dollar tanking " as well, come to that.
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If you are so infatuated with your new president why don't you x off back home,perhaps he'll realise what huge potential you have & give you a job supervising the building of the wall!!
So there we have it, some people don't like Trump, so in accordance with the new Democratic tradition, free speech must be done away with. Nothing to do with being bored with the thread.
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I will give you hope, maybe Trump will bring some sanity to the US Visa policy.
BTW, kind of hypocritical of you to say close this thread then continue to post. But then you never let that stop you in the past.
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Davu where have you been the Shoutbox has been back for several weeks
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We have some complaint about this thread.
People say it is too much. People not interested.
Please answer this question. Is this time to close this?
(https://cdn-webimages.wimages.net/051ac7446bdf8a2876269566c1903bd18f7ace-wm.jpg?v=3)
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One thing I very much object to, however, is the use of memes to get a point across. They don't invite a discussion as evidenced by the responses URright is getting.
Nookiebear: I have no shout box. Thanks for the heads up, I'll see what I can do about that. Maybe I got banned!
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If you are so infatuated with your new president why don't you x off back home,perhaps he'll realise what huge potential you have & give you a job supervising the building of the wall!!
So there we have it, some people don't like Trump, so in accordance with the new Democratic tradition, free speech must be done away with. Nothing to do with being bored with the thread.
Nothing to do with free speech but everything to do with constant cutting and pasting of drivel. This from a member who also makes snide comments about pictures not appearing, even though an announcement has been made about memory issues.
This is a forum. Forums are for discussion. The past few posts aside, there has been no discussion. Just one bored man talking with himself.
Democracy is alive though, hopefully. I say close the thread. 4-0 to close.
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Why close the thread?
Nobody is forced to read this or any other topic, if you don't like it don't read it.
There is nothing rude or abusive in it so why take offense.
If topics were to be closed because of personal dislikes of the subject matter it would indeed be a very sad day for the forum
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Not sure who has written to Mod to complain about this thread as davureborn assumes in #107.
I certainly haven't.
I did however mount a protest yesterday evening by bumping several ancient threads and followed up with a plea from the heart in the Shoutbox.
Like davureborn I don't open threads that have no interest for me; but I find it frustrating when I turn to this forum for a little light reading to discover that the recent post list is 60% or more "Trump".
This has nothing to do with personal dislikes.
The constant cutting and pasting of 'trumpcentric' drivel is not free speech, it's nothing short of propaganda.
Thankfully the similar 'cut and paste' extravaganza which was the global warming thread has died a natural death and hopefully this will do the same.
Then we can get back to reading about Pichai or Nookie's latest offerings, someone's lawn, bikes and houses for sale or rent, requests for advice or assistance et al.
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I certainly didn't report it, perhaps the reporter would like to come forward!!
Come on don't be shy swordfight.
But I too would like to see an end to this thread, as stated it is annoying when all the recent posts are this thread.
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One thing I very much object to, however, is the use of memes to get a point across. They don't invite a discussion as evidenced by the responses URright is getting.
Nookiebear: I have no shout box. Thanks for the heads up, I'll see what I can do about that. Maybe I got banned!
Go to the Forum main page where the shot box shows up, it does not come up for me when viewing threads.
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Go to the Forum main page where the shot box shows up, it does not come up for me when viewing threads.
+1. It (the Shoutbox) will only show on this page http://www.buriramexpats.com/forum/index.php which is front page of the Forum.
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For those who want to close this thread
I am not american, just an amused Brit
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I am flying to USA in an hour or so, I hope he doesn't let me in!!
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Don't worry, urleft will probably have a word so you will be ok
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We have a saying in the US, "Be careful what you ask for, you might just get it"
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Facts make an interesting thread not ridicule, nastiness and immature sarcasm which is now evolving on this subject between some members.
Regards
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I would not mind if I got my wish urleft, I go to the US less and less each year, which suits me fine. I have a Visa which is my 3rd (totaling 20 years), and each time I had to go for an interview at the US Embassy.
I have entered the US probably in excess of 50 times Yet when I enter I am ALWAYS pulled aside for a secondary inspection (average time of detention 1 hour), the reason they give is because I am a seaman. Well yes, US Immigration I am holding a seamans visa. Makes no sense., especially when most of the immigration officers struggle to speak English.
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I like the thread.
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I didn't report anything about the thread, but I completely agree with Dimple Joe's, and other negative comments, concerning it.
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Trump gave his 1st speech to congress, you can hear it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S02SNC8xpzU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S02SNC8xpzU)
Wow, I think he did a very good job. However, I do think he would have been better served weasel wording some things like the 94 million out of the work force based on Obama's policies. While I believe he was correct, it is sometimes best not to lay blame, even if deserved.
But what is really worth watching is his speech at the Governors' Ball. Terry McAuliffe, GOV Virginia and president of the Governors' association got up and laid out common ground issues. Those should be at the forefront of Trump's agenda as most seemed like the Donald's campaign promises.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnIjJ5rB12U
But Nancy cannot find anything she can work with Trump.
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Delivery and method not withstanding, I thought a good speech to congress. Some of that needed in the UK.
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Well the US Media and Dems are going Batsh!t that the Attorney General Sessions did not disclose his meetings with the Russian Ambassador while he was a US Senator, of course this could be because he was not asked that question. No Al Franklin did not ask that, he specifically asked about Trump campaign contacts, not senate contacts.
But the dems are calling for Sessions to resign and a special prosecutor be assigned. I hope Trump calls a press conference and appoints a special prosecutor into Russian interference in US Politics. It should start with the US Secretary of State allowing 20% of US Uranium being sold to Russia, and the corresponding "donations" to the Clinton Foundation.
And Trump may just do that, he is already tweeting Nancy about her saying she never met with the current Russian Ambassador:
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Woooo, looks like Trump just blew the fake Russia scandal out of the water. He is accusing Obama of a Watergate level scandal by US Government wiretapping Trump Tower during the campaign.
Of course the MSM is saying there is no evidence, funny how that standard did not apply to supposed Trump Russian connection.
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Back by popular demand:
BTW, here is a roll up of the evidence of the Obama Wiretaps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nq281kieVw
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After Trump has come into office the #1 best seller on Amazon is: Reasons To Vote For Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide Paperback
https://www.amazon.com/Reasons-Vote-Democrats-Comprehensive-Guide/dp/1543024971/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1489088568&sr=8-1&keywords=Reasons+to+Vote+for+Democrats (https://www.amazon.com/Reasons-Vote-Democrats-Comprehensive-Guide/dp/1543024971/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1489088568&sr=8-1&keywords=Reasons+to+Vote+for+Democrats)
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This may be the first time I actually agree with Nancy Pelosi on anything. Too bad she refused to abide by that standard when she was in charge:
From Nancy in the letter to Speaker Ryan:
Dear Speaker Ryan,
This week, the Committees on Energy & Commerce and Ways & Means will be marking up Republicans? long-feared bill to dismantle affordable health care. The GOP legislation will have life or death consequences for tens of millions of families across America, and extraordinary impacts on state and federal budgets long into the future.
The American people and Members have a right to know the full impact of this legislation before any vote in Committee or by the whole House.
Hypocrisy is thy name.
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Now as opposed to the Obaminites way of doing things and creating Government jobs, the Trump effect is focused on private sector jobs, which means more taxpayers not funded by the US Government:
Private Sector Reports Stronger-Than-Expected Boost to Payrolls in March
Private payrolls across the nation rose by 263,000 last month
https://www.wsj.com/articles/private-sector-reports-stronger-than-expected-boost-to-payrolls-in-march-1491397601 (https://www.wsj.com/articles/private-sector-reports-stronger-than-expected-boost-to-payrolls-in-march-1491397601)
Companies added 263,000 jobs for the month, ADP and Moody's Analytics said. That was well above the 185,000 expected from economists surveyed by Reuters and also better than the 245,000 reported for February.
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Some Cartoons:
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LOL,
Trump goes after tax returns protests: 'The election is over!'
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/329015-trump-goes-after-protest-groups-calling-for-him-to-release-his-tax (http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/329015-trump-goes-after-protest-groups-calling-for-him-to-release-his-tax)
and Americans citizens alike called on the president throughout the campaign to release his tax returns, leading to swirling questions as to what he could be hiding. Every major-party presidential nominee has released their returns for nearly 40 years.
There is no legal requirement for Trump to release his Tax Returns.