- understands business...
- understands human nature...
- is a problem solver...
- isn't lazy...
- understands that the fourth lowest growth rate in history is unacceptable...
- actually seems to care about the concerns of average people...
- actually seems to care about the inner cities...
- has already pushed companies to bring jobs to the US...
- has pushed Europe to start getting their act together on defense...
- is the first one since the rise of China to stand up to them...
- has a classy first lady...
- is the first President since Reagan to get Reaganomics...
- has shaken up some very sacred cows in need of shaking...
All before he was even inaugurated. And we are losing a President who...
- handed out reset buttons to Russia, bowed to Saudi princes, begged China to buy our debt, and let everyone else (including Honduras) walk all over us...
- only cared about disasters when they happened in liberal areas...
- got nothing done except a crooked financial bill and a destructive health care bill...
- spent his time trying to rule by executive order...
- spent a fortune taking his family on vacation...
- scared the crap out of New Yorkers...
- had an AG who thinks the civil rights laws only apply to blacks...
- made billions of bad loans to his friends...
- let GE pay no taxes on record profits...
- never came close to 3% growth in any year (first President ever... so he was historic!)...
- started more wars...
- expanded droning without review, tried to destroy the civil rights of PWOs, and did all the things he smeared Bush for...
- abandoned Poland and Georgia to Russian bullying...
- abandoned Israel to Arab bullying...
- created a deal to let Iran get the bomb...
- sold guns to Mexican drug lords...
- helped Wall Street skate by untouched for the financial crisis...
- made it harder to get a home...
- did jack for education, retirements or employment...
- punted on environmental protection...
- dabbled in race baiting when he needed votes...
- insulted our friends in Europe...
- let "too big to fail" become "WAY too f*cking huge to fail!"...
- let his DOJ create a false-rape epidemic on college campuses...
- created more debt than every prior President combined...
- etc.
Be thankful, my friends. It's over.
BTW, is that Ruth Bader Ginsberg on the right in the front in that photo?
ReplyDeleteBut, but, but… How can you say anything good about Trump!? He uses naughty words!!! And he uses racist dog whistles!!! Which are secret codes for his followers, but I can decipher them, though I'm totally not a racist, I swear! Oh, and he makes fun of the press; textbook fascism! (Not that I'd ever read a textbook on fascism!) And his hair and his face and the way he talks! A president should be dignified. He probably has a small penis.
ReplyDeleteHad an interesting thought. The theme the left is using to save Obamacare is "these five people would have died without it!" This isn't particularly effective, nor is it being pushed hard enough to really get any traction. In the old days, this idea would have been beaten into you with every network and paper running constant stories about every person who will suffer if the evil Republicans get their way. Not this time.
ReplyDeleteSo why not?
I think the left has over-extended themselves. They are busy refusing to dress Melania, trying to shoot down each nominee, protesting Trump's buildings, lamenting Trump-Putin, telling bizarre urine jokes, throwing pro-life women out of their rallies, getting their vagina's tattooed, refusing to perform at the inauguration, whining about recounts and electors, looking for fake news, etc. They've spread themselves too thin. LOL!
Nicely done, idiots.
NeverTrump, Don't forget that he's going to round up Muslims, deport all immigrants, give Putin oral sex on television, use the White House to get rich(er), begin a golden age of rape, pee on Alec Baldwin, somethingsomething racism, somethingsomething hates gays, somethingsomething hates women, somethingsomething evil Jews, will Tweet rather than go through the approved media, reads fake news, won't tattoo his wangdoodle, uses harsh language, probably not born in the USA, has ignorant blue-collar white supporters, HE DIDN'T CAUSE ANY OF THOSE COMPANIES TO BRING JOBS TO THE US!!! And so on.
ReplyDeleteHe did stay married and cared for his family providing a role model for young black men. It is ok to have a job, a family, and not show your underwear and still be a proud black man. I borrowed this idea from Peggy Noonan but I agree.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Obama moments were all the times he made himself the corpse at every wedding. Or something like that. You get the picture.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I really hope Trump gets his wall, for a number of reasons. There's the thumb in the eye to everyone who says it can't be done. Also, it won't prove to be a magnet for SMOD or a perch for Cthulhu. It'll just be a long, presumably tan wall.
In seriousness, I hope he can heal race relations. Things look really bad on that front. When I was a kid, racism was just a silly backwards idea that was rightly and safely relegated to the past. Now, it's a menacing threat lurking around every corner that needs to be viciously attacked if even a hair of it is seen. You tell me which attitude is healthier?
Koshcat, On a personal level, I actually like Obama. He seems decent. He seems like he's a good father and probably a decent husband. He's not Presidential material, but he doesn't seem like a jerk as a person. And lately at least, he seems to acting rather graciously. I will give him that.
ReplyDeletetryanmax, That would be a good thing. I've said before that I think overall, race relations are improving. It's just the politics of race (and the political class) that is getting increasingly nasty.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to see Trump bring back the people the last 20 years have cost the GOP, the Reagan Democrats -- moderate women and minorities, white working class males, and young professionals.
BTW, Media shamelessness has begun. Perhaps you recall how Obama solved the student loan crisis somewhere around the second year of his first time. Since that time, there have only been crickets when it comes to the media discussing the student loan crisis.
ReplyDeleteYesterday, the media decided to make one more random check of student loan numbers and they discovered a crisis: more students have defaulted than anyone knew and they have more debt than anyone could have guessed.
So the "student loan crisis" is back... right on cue.
Next up, homelessness, aid, veteran suicides, ???.
Andrew, I agree race relations were improving at the street level until we had 8 years of the president supporting racist myths. I wouldn't say Obama stoked racial tensions, but he came out saying very uninformed things whenever the news media raised a thug to martyrdom. That's where his mediocrity really shone through. Obama had the race credential, the platform and the access to information to speak a narrative in line with the facts and get otherwise shut-up ears to listen. Instead, he echoed paranoia back to the schizophrenics.
ReplyDeleteIt's a great day for America, Andrew.
ReplyDeleteSo I have read several news articles over the last weeks and a few today about the path one has to take to emigrate to Canada. Not a very easy if even possible for many. But I have read no such articles about emigrating to Mexico...
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Tryanmax - THAT...IS...FABULOUS!!!
ReplyDeleteDitto on what Bev said! Tryanmax, that is fantastic! :)
ReplyDeleteLL, I feel very optimistic. I think we're in for a real correction that will set us back on the right course.
ReplyDeleteBev, Excellent observation. Sounds like racism to me.
ReplyDeleteY'all can tweet that if you like.
ReplyDeleteAnd so it begins...VP Michael Pence was just sworn in by Justice Thomas.
ReplyDeleteAnother interesting thought on Trump v. Obama. When Obama took over, he did his best to wipe out his competitors within the Democratic Party. He pulled many challengers in and appointed them to dead end jobs (like Hillary at State) or he let the wheels of justice run over others (Edwards). He left some out in the cold to wither and die (Cuomo).
ReplyDeleteThe end result was that within a year or so, there were few genuine "up and coming" Democrats in the party at the national level. Then in 2010, when he did nothing to help anyone, the rest of their princelings got wiped out as punishment for Obamacare. So come 2012 and 2016, there simply was no one left. Even now, they have no future. Biden? Warren? Schumer? Pelosi? Jerry Brown? Corrupt Cuomo? Give me a break. Their entire leadership is geriatric and disgraced. And who else is there?
Trump, by comparison, pulled his team from people who will do well, but who won't be missed in the future. In other words, he left in place this whole field of princelings who can run in the future. He didn't hand over any states either by yanking away governors who would now be replaced by Democrats. He does have a war with Ryan, but that's really been Ryan's fault and will likely be fixed soon. Aside from that though, it strikes me that Trump has left in place a very strong party with a strong future.
Yet another interesting comparison.
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And now is it complete..officially President Donald Trump. May God Have Mercy On Our Souls.
ReplyDeleteTryanmax - OMG! That is even better!!!
ReplyDeleteAndrew - That is a very interesting point. Trump has also appointed "non-politicians", yet seasoned executives with skill sets to negotiate and look at an agency from a different perspective than just bureaucratically.
ReplyDeleteI'll be honest, his speech is quite Reaganesque. (at times)
ReplyDeleteDecent speech, though I still find his voice annoying. Didn't go on for an hour like his RNC speech.
ReplyDeleteNow, do I wish the president's success? It depends on what you mean by "success." If it means he is successful at implementing each of his policies then I would say no. For example, I hope his efforts to pass high tariffs fail.
But if you mean "Do I hope he is a good president who makes the country a better place?" then I say "yes." Which means, while I hope he does not pass high tariffs I hope whatever he does results in a stronger economy for the US and a better position on the world stage.
I hope he leaves this country much better off than how he found it.
By the way, it seems somebody has not read anything the Never Trump conservatives have written in the past 3 months.
ReplyDeleteThough it seems they've seen a lot of what Hannity and Judge Pirro have said about them. ;-)
Bev, It's going to be fascinating to see what he does. He's really doing this differently than others and it sounds like he's going to achieve a lot.
ReplyDeleteKit, If he does half of what he's planning, then he will be an amazing President. Pretty much everything he's said for weeks now, and his nominees, have been excellent ideas. It's all very much Ronald Reagan II.
ReplyDeleteTo Peggy Noonan by way of Chris Rock, you want a bleepin' medal?!?! You're supposed to do that shit!
ReplyDeleteIn terms of the NeverTrumps, honestly, most people stopped listening.
ReplyDeleteI see Trump as a deeply insecure narcissist who feels the constant need to prove his strength and I think his presidency will be a scandal-ridden mediocrity at best but I desperately hope I'm wrong.
ReplyDeleteEP, Trump definitely won't be getting any medals from leftists for anticipatory greatness, like Obama got. Or medals for God-know-what like Biden got. Or medals for sycophancy like Obama handed to everyone in Hollywood who visited.
ReplyDeleteKit, We are aware.
ReplyDeleteLet me toss this out there though... (1) narcissists don't surround themselves with competent people, like Trump does, and (2) Trump has been scrupulous about avoiding scandals and ridding himself of people who become wrapped up in it.
Again, I hope I'm wrong.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I need to put out a rant on the media:
ReplyDeleteA lot of reporters imagine being the next Woodward or Bernstein and being played by Robert Redford in the movie so they chase eagerly after any (Republican) scandal. The result is often sloppy reporting and a deep-seated cynicism towards the media.
What everyone forgets is that Woodward and Bernstein, as well as their editor, strenuously fact-checked, verified, and confirmed just about everything they reported about the Watergate break-in. They followed leads that intrigued them.
The story started because one of those arrested, James McCord, Jr., had worked as a Republican Party security aide and working for the Committee to Re-elect the President at the time of the arrest. That raised some questions about who else was involved in the break-in. So they kept digging and found a lot more connections between the Nixon campaign and the burglars until things started snowballing.
They want to be the next Woodward or Bernstein without displaying the patience and discipline those two showed.
Kit, Let's hope.
ReplyDeleteI could do other rants about them but I need to do other things right now.
ReplyDeleteBill Kristol tweets, "I'll be unembarrassedly old-fashioned here: It is profoundly depressing and vulgar to hear an American president proclaim "America First.""
ReplyDeleteSo which nation should the American president put first?
Kit, Agreed. And making it worse, the line between rumor and fact has been blurred by the internet culture where being first is more important than being right.
ReplyDeleteThe good news, Kit, is now the MSM and social media will again be the ones who will be defining what a "scandal" is rather than the WH like the last 8 years or so. The NYT and WaPo make it so. Remember their the ones who did that mea culpa about maybe not being "investigative enough" with Obama and Clinton, but NOW they promise to be "investigative" with Trump...
ReplyDeleteExpect lots and lots of front page unfounded accusations and very few back-page retractions 'cause "it coulda' happened!".
Yeah, I know...it's "they're", not "their"...;-)
ReplyDeletetryanmax, That is one of the many reasons I've never liked Bill Kristol. He has always been a RINO in the true sense -- ivory tower, happiest when attacking his own side, worried about procedures and rhetorical flourishes rather than substance.
ReplyDeleteTyranmax,
ReplyDelete"America First" was the slogan of the isolationists of the 1930s, which opposed helping the Lend-Lease programs. In fact, the central organization was called the "America First Committee."
Kit, Trump has been anything but specific in his tariff talk, which gives us only his demeanor to go by. Now, if find Trump appalling or scary, you've probably also determined that his demeanor is unpredictable. That's a reverse rationalization. Yes, people fear what they don't understand, but generally it's not because the thing is not understandable. Trump is no exception.
ReplyDeleteTrump is a goal-setter and he unleashes at anyone who stands in the way of those goals. In all his vagary, Trump has not described setting tariffs as a goal, but as a means to reign in unfair trade. Not very specific, but a lot more specific than "he's just gonna raise tariffs willy-nilly!" At present, the threat of tariffs alone seems to be pretty effective at keeping manufacturers from relocating their factories out of the country. We'll have to wait and see how things go with China and Mexico. In the latter's case, I think tariffs are going to play a part in paying for the wall.
And the America First Committee had a lot of communists (who left in June 1941) and were praised in Nazi Germany. Also, Lindbergh, while he wasn't the ravenous anti-semite he's been made out to be, seemed to have a weird admiration for the Nazis born partly from seeing their Luftwaffe* and his own personal anti-communism.
ReplyDeleteThat is why people like Bill Kristol and I get unnerved when we hear "America First."
*Celebrities adoring foreign tyrants is nothing new. Do a Boolean search of "Little Rascals" and "Mussolini" and brace yourself for the weirdness.
Kit, that's pretty damned old-school for a guy born in the 50s!
ReplyDeleteI am seriously exhausted by the smug, political-elite notion that every word, symbol, or turn of phrase must be permanently interpreted by it's worst historical context. It plays straight into making the expression of ideas impossible.
Further, combine the America First stuff with the derogatory comments about NATO, promises of pulling back, and the weird Putin-love and you have something that is at lest somewhat alarming.
ReplyDelete"that's pretty damned old-school for a guy born in the 50s! "
ReplyDeleteWell, for the past 70 years no one dared used the term "America First."
Tyranmax,
ReplyDeleteHe promised a 35% tariff on China. If that ain't a goal I don't know what is.
And when you leave something on the shelf for 70 years, it gets forgotten. Things reset. "America First" sounds like what it says again, instead of some oblique inference taken from a failed movement.
ReplyDeleteKristol needs to do the hard but rewarding work of finding out what people actually mean when they say something, instead of assuming everything is a secret code alluding to some largely forgotten dark piece of the past, and that he's the erudite interpreter who sees through the nefarious dog whistles.
It's frankly a cowardly and underhanded thing to do, to take people at your own meaning instead of theirs, especially when that meaning is the worst you can conjure.
Kit, you force me to say it, but if that's what you think, you do not know what a goal is.
ReplyDeleteKit, This is a great example of the silliness surrounding the attacks on Trump by the NeverTrumps.
ReplyDeleteFirst, I doubt there are more than a handful of people alive from that era. Nor is this an historically memorable slogan like "Auslander Raus." So the idea that anyone in the public will recall this for having negative connotations is paranoia/wishful thinking.
Further, this slogan gets used all the time today and no one ever complains until Trump does it. The Democrats routinely talk about "putting workers (or something else) first". Companies advertise like this all the time: "At __, we put our customers first." "Putting people first." "Putting you first." Etc.
Trump is echoing a very modern usage of a modern idea... we will treat our stakeholders with the respect due membership. That's it.
To try to turn this into something bad by echoing it back to a long forgotten slogan is fake worry/outrage.
When someone says he wants to pass a 35% tariff on China I generally assume he favors a dramatically increased tariff on China. How is that assumption wrong?
ReplyDeletetryanmax, The other interesting thing I've noticed with the tariff talk is that it's all verbal threats. There doesn't seem to be a plan to put one in place. Instead, the threat is the tool he's been using to get companies to invest many billions in the US. I would suspect he won't actually do a tariff.
ReplyDeleteThe one thing he might do is kill the Asian free trade treaty, but that's not even in place yet. We'll see.
I'm not as up in arms as Kristol is about it. But when you connect that statement to other statements he has made and attitudes he has expressed (re NATO and Russia) as well as a number of the unsavory folks he has hired in the past (see, Manafort) it raises a number of alarm bells in my head.
ReplyDeleteI don't think he's going to be a Nazi and send Muslims to death camps*, (though some of you seem to believe I do). I think he'll be a bad president. We've had them before.
I will say this: if Mike Flynn gets canned soon then a lot of my worries will be immediately eased.
*I like to joke that at worst he'll ship them all off to internment camps in the middle of the desert, like this liberal Democratic President did against the advice of both J. Edgar Hoover and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Kit, You're a smart guy. Take a step back. Evaluate what you see fairly. I think you will be surprised how different Trump is than what is being presented in NeverTrumpland.
ReplyDeleteAnyways... hurray! Obama is gone. Trump is here. Today, is a great day for America. :)
ReplyDeleteKit- Trump has made many advantageous deals...the one lesson is always ask for the moon, but have a bottom line. That is called "negotiation". Politicians used to do this too. They used to put all sorts stuff in pending legislation that they could bargain away for what they really wanted and for what was really needed...that's called "statesmanship". But now it's called "caving". Both used to be really good qualities in business AND politics.
ReplyDeleteSo Bev, what are you hoping Trump will achieve?
ReplyDeleteKit - Another way of looking at it. Trump is using his words to signal to the world that he will not be a pushover and that if you want to negotiate they will have to come to the table ready and willing to bargain and ready to be held accountable.
ReplyDeleteBtw, Bev, you're right. As a lawyer, you find out what your client wants and then you tell them you will ask for more so you have something you can give up:
ReplyDelete"You want $10? Ok, I'll ask for $15 and a pony, and we'll give up the pony and the extra $5 in negotiations."
But you can't do that in public or the other side knows. Sadly, these days, people aren't smart enough to get that. So they start whining that you gave up the pony when you never expected to get it.
Andrew - That I have some security in believing that at least our elected officials don't openly despise us. That is really all I want. And for our federal, state, and local goverments be accountable to the taxpayers and constituents.
ReplyDeleteAnd that maybe the price of butter in NYC not be $8 a pound.
But mostly I want for them to leave me the frig alone! I can actually get through the day without needing to hear from the President or about the President or about anything to do with government (local state OR federal) We don't need a non-stop commentary every single second of the day. Ah for the days before instant/constant information.
ReplyDeleteTrump is a populist sybarite in the vein of Berlusconi.
ReplyDeleteLike Berlusconi he regularly fellates Putin abroad and is in bed with some nasty characters domestically, but like Berlusconi he isn't going to start murdering his enemies Putin style because the public won't stand for it. Their scandals are/will be more generic (sex, bribery and minor abuses of powe).
Andrew,
ReplyDeleteI'm still in a wait-and-see mode, I'm just very pessimistic. So here are two things I'm looking for right now:
Who is the first foreign leader he will meet? The UK's Evening Standard said that "Trump and his transition team told British officials" that he would be meeting Putin in Iceland first. Sean Spicer denied this. So, I'll just file this as a rumor. Given some of the nimrods his transition team has on it (looking at you, Charles Johnson) this could easily have been someone jumping the gun.
Will his administration repeal the Dep. of Education's Dear Colleague letter? As a "college man" this is sort of a pet issue of mine. The letter was probably one of the most disastrous things Obama did as it helped spur nearly all of the campus craziness we see today. Doing this wouldn't fix everything but it would be a major step to restoring sanity to our colleges.
Obamacare, trade, and other things will have to wait because those will take time.
Kit, I would like to see him rescind that letter too. I haven't heard anything either way on it, but I hope this is on his list.
ReplyDeleteIn terms of which country he meets first, I don't think it matters. What will matter is how he treats each country. So far, it sounds like he will support the Brexit to make it work -- he seems to view Britain as special to us, he's looking to focus on Mexico (trade, immigration), he's looking to adjust Chinese currency and stand up to them militarily and on Taiwan, he's looking to work something economic out with Putin (vague), and he wants NATO to spend more money and take a great share of its own defense to hold Russia in check.
That's a lot of foreign policy stuff for a guy who is written off as isolationist.
Bev, Food prices are getting ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteI want to say that I do doubt the meeting Putin in Iceland first story for several reasons:
ReplyDelete(1) A meeting in a place like Iceland takes time to set up.
(2) If I recall, a President's first meetings are typically inside the United States with foreign leaders coming to Washington to meet with him.
Betsy Devos looks promising for those hoping for a rescinding of the letter.
ReplyDeleteDC protests have gotten ugly. Filthy beasts are running around hitting and spitting on people.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/20/inauguration-protests-turn-violent-car-torched.html
– Inauguration Day protests turned violent late Friday morning, as spectators reported being attacked and a police official said demonstrators were vandalizing property and even torched a car.
The police official confirmed protesters “have crow bars and are vandalizing,” after demonstrators were seen smashing windows downtown, including at a local McDonald's and other locations.
Sources told Fox News that at least three police officers were taken to the hospital. Their injuries were described as minor.
At one security checkpoint near the Capitol that was shut down for hours earlier Friday morning due to protesters, a couple from Kansas also told FoxNews.com they were attacked by demonstrators.
Celeste Sollars, who said she and her husband came to town from Kansas to see the inauguration, said they were spit on and her husband was put in a chokehold by protesters.
"The cops wouldn't do anything,” she said, crying. “This is not how it was supposed to be -- assault is not a First Amendment right.”
Anthony, This isn't surprising. The left is held together by mutual hate. Hate is a bad thing. It's why they have a history of this. Remember OWS and their crime/rape problems? How about the 60's radicals who blew things up? How about the G-20 protestors who used to torch cars? Race rioters burning Compton. Peace demonstrators throwing stones at Army recruiters. The thugs on the Mall when the Brown Baggers tried to counter the Tea Party. It's in their ideological makeup.
ReplyDeletere the DC protests: I hope all of you Trump supporters will join me in condemning these fake anti-Trump protestors who are trying to tar the left with mindless street violence. I mean, it's so obvious these guys are posing as anti-trumpets because anybody with half a brain would know such antics would only work to help make Trump more popular.
ReplyDeleteAs Solzhenitsyn said, "Live not by lies."
*Anti-Trumpers* not "anti-Trumpets". Damn you, spell-check!
ReplyDeleteBoomer Father: "Who the hell taught you to riot and protest, boy? To brazenly disrespect property and to spend your youth trashing this country?"
ReplyDeleteMillennial son: "I learned it from watching you, Dad! I LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOU!"
Kit, nice 80s War on Drugs reference!
ReplyDeleteWell, Kit, why don't we let the police sort it out and let us know. Let's let this be a new beginning in reporting the truth rather than sensationalized speculation.
ReplyDeleteBe wary...but every time a Trumpster has been accused of committing violence, it turned out to be a complete fabrication or a staged leftist eventw with someone "trying to start a conversation".
"Kit, nice 80s War on Drugs reference!"
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I actually learned about that commercial from Scrubs.
I will now hang my Millennial head in shame...
Good news: George H.W. Bush is "off ventilator, watching the inauguration" says USA Today.
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David Frum tweets, "The worst human being ever to enter the presidency, and I include all the slaveholders."
ReplyDeleteA. Really good news for the Bush family!
ReplyDeleteB. re: David Frum...it's going to be like for the next 4 years, isn't it?
C. I got no "C". I guess this is payback for the last 8 years.
Bev and tryanmax, Frum is a turd. MSNBC said the speech was "Hitlerian." Pathetic. Yahoo said his speech "demanded loyalty." Idiots.
ReplyDeleteAs an interesting aside, to show the derangement... one of my wife's idiot friends is on Facebook blaming Trump for getting Wendy's to stop giving apple pieces as part of their kids meals. The fact that Wendy's never did give apple pieces (she's at the wrong restaurant) and that Trump had nothing to do with it never even crossed her pathetic little mind. Trump is her boogieman.
I am worried, however, that Trump lost Shia Labeouf. I'm worried because I know important the support Trump gets from violent meth-heads is. This bodes poorly for him if he's lost their king. //rolls eyes
Andrew.......I was a Cruzer until he dropped out. I always liked Trumps' brash style and not backing down from the idiots on the left and the media (abut I repeat myself), so when he ended up last man standing, I got on the Trump train full time.
ReplyDeleteAs the months went on, and his policies became known (how many in the media ever went to his website to check them out?), I found myself drawn to this guy who was so outside the usual candidates. If he would only do half of what he promised we'd be a far different country than the way we've been going.
As a 50's boomer, I was becoming more and more frustrated with what I saw as a never ending slide into hard leftism, as manifested by Obama's actions, his words, and the clowns he surrounded himself with. We were almost to Euro style governance by our betters and I didn't see anyway out of the slide, as I was sure the fix was in for Clinton and more assaults on our traditions.
So when Trump won, I had a feeling of relief more than anything, that maybe he could stop the slide and bring back decency, personal respect and accountability. Not in him of course, but in the way we as Americans interacted with each other. Reading some of the naked hate and vitriol from the left after his win, was quite revealing. All the hate was coming from the left yet was being reported as from Trump supporters.
My hope is that Trump and Sessions will begin enforcing our laws fairly and not based on your party affiliation, race, gender or immigration status. We need to start arresting these rioters (they are not protesters) for destruction of property and name and shame them. Start publicizing who is paying them to riot and why. I see no difference between these destructors and the brown shirts. Both bought and paid for by a political party insistent on gaining no retaining power. We need to stop it now, by every legal means possible. It has led to BLM and increased cop killings, witch trials on campus and accusations of every ism and phobia against those that attempt to disagree with them. LOok what they are doing to Milo and Ben Shapiro on campuses. They won't even let them speak. This is not good for our country.
So, I am liking Trumps cabinet choices....I like his aide choices....and I love the fact that he has started the negotiations with foreign entities by his outlandish pronouncements.
I work in a Middle Eastern country and I can tell you that the leaders respect Trump as they never did Obama or Clinton. They recognize he's looking out for HIS country as they do for theirs. Remember the old saw of the "strong horse?" Who is the strong horse when you put Obama and Trump side by side?
I think Trump will usher in a new era, where it will be possible to love and be proud of your country again. With two sons in the military (USMC and USA) no one wants to see another conflagration in any region of the world like Obama did in the ME more than me. One son, the Marine, served in Al Anbar during the recent unpleasantness and he has seen all his and his brothers-in-arms hard work and sacrifice pissed away by Obama.
Sorry for the long post, but I've been away from the site for a while and wanted to make my position known. Still have a great site with the regular commenters providing some good insights.
Maybe Trump will make one of them "media?!"
Bob
Yawn... U.S.A. Today reports that Trump took down the $29/month mortgage supplement. "He's grinding down the poor!" I don't get it, really, if you have a risk of a budget fluctation as small as 29 dollars threatening your mortgage payments monthly, you should try a cheaper mortgage. At least that is as far as I understand it.
ReplyDeleteWatch out if you visit DC today. There are reports of a few thousand angry women whining about not being groped or something. Be warned, you might get gang nagged if you run across some of them.
ReplyDeleteBen, My wife has run across this already. Some of her leftist friends are freaking out of this. Even when she tells them that she knows something about this and that they are wrong, they won't back down. She's starting to see the left for what they really are.
ReplyDeleteI am speaking from personal experience. When selecting a new townhome, we looked at a genuine "buffer" to fall back on when buying it. The buffer we chose in affording the mortgage payments was in the hundreds of dollars per month. People need to anticipate their finances and have a buffer.
DeletePatriot, Thanks for the comment! I feel the same. I wasn't sure about him at first because he seemed kind of random, but over time his views have become better known (especially through his cabinet picks) and I'm actually very excited to see what he does.
ReplyDeleteThe things he espouses (except the trade thing) is very much an echo of Reagan at his best. He's also awash in energy, efficiency and a desire to get this stuff done fast. I am looking for a tidal wave of conservative, common sense reforms to start hitting in vast numbers repairing mistakes that have been made over the past 100 years. It's exciting.
I'm also happy that he's speaking directly to and for middle America. He's not a Big Government guy. He's not an ideologue with narrow interests. He's also surrounded himself with excellent people. That bodes well. And right now, it looks like he's won the respect (or fear) of the rest of the world and I think he's even going to push the rest of the world to be better. In fact, his foreign policy seems to be "be our friend or we will cut you off" and that seems to have brought out the "cooperative" in everyone else so far. That's good.
Wow. So the "Womyn's March" not only doesn't list Hillary as an honoree, but some of the speakers have taken shots at her because she attended the inauguration.
ReplyDeleteAt the same time, their list of honorees includes a drag queen, a man who turned himself into a woman, the former President of the Philippines for some reason, a Muslim woman who praised Osama bin Laden in 2003, the academic leader of the Communist Party, and a bunch of women you have never heard of. What a joke!
Ben, Very true. If your finances can't handle a $29 swing, then you have done it wrong and need a serious rethink.
ReplyDeleteBut even more to the point, these people have no idea what they are talking about. They are just looking for something to whine about.
Funny that these same people whining about $29 increase were thrilled with the ACA. They think nothing about my personal out of pocket costs that went up $6000+ per annum.
ReplyDeleteNot only that Bev, companies replaced full-time jobs with cheaper part-time jobs to escape a great deal of the increased insurance costs for the employee. That happened at the major retail stores over here near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, and I am pretty sure that area is not alone in terms of the bringing in the part time and cutting the full-time employees. My own realtor recommended I have a buffer of at least $200 on mortgage payments, almost 10 times the $29 there is.
ReplyDeleteso many to choose from. Perhaps his scolding of SCOTUS in the State of the Union, perhaps his staff finding a way to spin immigration after he himself, a so called constitutional scholar, stating he did not have the power to do so, perhaps his claiming "nothing to see here folks" after the dog ate the IRS's homework. The most important thing, probably, is to get lucky on SCOTUS. By this I mean RBG resigns being to ill to continue, AND Kennedy retires since he is pretty old himself. The point is, replace three justices with strict constructionists and lock-up the court for a generation. But also, I would like to see him reverse immigration policy from 1965 while keeping out illegals, and two ram home some tough federal voter i.d. laws designed to make it much tougher to manufacture fraudulant ballots in big cities.
ReplyDeleteBen and Bev, Don't forget, that the $29 thing was only announced a few days ago, so it didn't even exist before Trump cancelled it. So all the whining is over something that hadn't even happened yet being cancelled.
ReplyDeleteJed, Agreed on all points!
ReplyDeleteGot to vent. Okay, YEY first amendment with the "Wymen's" protest today. A success in numbers. But I have to say that as a former "Tea Party" member, when we staged our "peace protests" to march against fiscal irresponsibity" of our government, we were resoundingly ridiculed and branded as being "astro-turfers". Flash forward to 2016...yeah. All Hail the Power of the Protest!!!
ReplyDeleteBev, That's the way the left is. They smear their opponents as a matter of course and aggrandize themselves. Trust me, within a few years, each of these womyn will talk about how they braved arrest and and murder to be there today.
ReplyDeleteSome thoughts...
ReplyDeleteSo is these women wearing "pussy hats" like a man being a dickhead?
The US Attorney is apparently charging the rioters with a felony, which has a potential jail term of 10 years and a $25k fine. That's fantastic! These idiots thought they could do this and the worst that would happen would be disorderly conduct with a 30 day suspended sentence. Now they are facing genuine prison and a true threat. Good.
I posted on Facebook:
ReplyDeleteGiven the crassness of Donald Trump and the profusion of profanity and crudeness seen at the Women's March in DC (even from politicians!) I think it's safe to say that American political rhetoric is quickly becoming an Andrew Dice Clay routine.
By the way, did anyone notice that Madonna telling Trump to "suck a d*ck" was anti-gay? Yes, it was. Using gay sex as an insult (like calling someone a "cocksucker") has been classified by the left as an expression of homophobic hate. So when will Madonna apologize?
ReplyDeleteI'm also enjoying the numbers game. In the morning, "thousands" of women showed up. Then it became 200,000 in DC and worldwide. Then it became 500,000. Then 750,000. Then it was 2 million worldwide. Now it's 2.5 million across the US and millions more worldwide.
What a joke.
And in any event, let me add this little point: 2.5 million is 4% of Hillary's voters... 0.7% of US citizens... 0.0004% of the world's population. So if the world were a football stadium, 26 of the people in attendance would be protesting. Kind of puts that in perspective, doesn't it?
Some neo Nazi got sucker punched on live tv.
ReplyDeleteNothing that could possibly happen to such a person would bother me in the slightest, but the fact it happened in America and is not the first such attack in recent times is disconcerting.
Unfortunately unlike the goons that tortured the Trump supporter on camera the attacker was bright enough to mask his identity, but maybe he'll brag about it and get caught.
If the only thing Trump got was a major overall of the tax code, it would be a positive administration.
ReplyDeleteThe Feds have screwed up health care so much that it might be better to let it all burn and start over. However, there may be some opposition to that.
I want you all to know that I'm ready to be proven wrong about Donald Trump.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, what the hell is an alternative fact?
What the hell is an alternative fact?
ReplyDeletePrecisely!