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The Events of the Week -- Featuring:
The Coddled Generation That
Wasn’t Taught to Grow Up
by Michael Brown
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Donald Trump Boosts
Europe's Anti-Establishment Movement
by Soeren Kern
by Soeren Kern
Anti-establishment politicians in Europe have embraced
Donald Trump and hope his rise will inspire European voters
to turn out to vote for them in record numbers
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Donald Trump's electoral victory has come as a shock to Europe's political and media establishment, which fears that the political sea change underway in the United States will energize populist parties in Europe... Anti-establishment politicians, many of whom are polling well in a number of upcoming European elections, are hoping Trump's rise will inspire European voters to turn out to vote for them in record numbers. Commenting on Trump's victory, Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders, wrote: "America has just liberated itself from political correctness. The American people expressed their desire to remain a free and democratic people. Now it is time for Europe. We can and will do the same!"... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9309/trump-europe
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Open Border liar-nObama Rolls Out Welcome
Mat With “Pronto-Processing”
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The invaders from south of the Border know that they need to get while the gettin’s good. Once January 20th rolls around they’re not going to be able to waltz into America as they currently do under the pretend ‘president.’... The push for fundamental transformation of America into a microcosm of the world ends on that day and so does the campaign for fundamental transformation through population replacement. Soon, under Donald Trump, America will be a country again, one possessing the associated borders that all real countries have. A mad dash is being made for the border that is spiking already elevated levels of intrusion. The liar-nObama regime recognizes that time is short as well, time available for them to force upon the American people the social and financial burdens of importing a dependent class of foreigners. liar-nObama has responded to the increase in traffic in South Texas by removing agents from patrolling the border in Arizona, California and elsewhere and reassigning them to the Rio Grande Valley. Agents will be pulled from another section of Texas as well... http://rickwells.us/open-border-obama-rolls-out-welcome-mat-pronto-processing/
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World Pressures Trump – Don’t Walk, Take US Money,
Self-Destruction Out Of Climate Scam
by Rick Wells
The Despicable Collection of Self-Serving Morons Gathered To
Lead Us To Destruction At COP22 Being Amused By A Shiny Object
Lead Us To Destruction At COP22 Being Amused By A Shiny Object
{rickwells.us} ~ China knows the same thing that those derided as “flat-earthers” in the United States know. The climate hoax is nothing more than a scam, one which cripples their chief competitor, the United States... Whether Hussein liar-nObama was working with them or simply wants to cripple America for his own reasons is immaterial. Donald Trump works for America; the “climate” deals are melting. The Chinese don’t like the idea of losing their unfair advantage the liar-nObama-dictated suicide pacts imposed any more than their ability to manipulate their currency and other attacks on the United States and world markets. They’re making it known, an indicator Donald Trump is doing what’s best for us. The Financial Times reports that “China has warned Donald Trump that he will be defying the wishes of the entire planet if he acts on his vow to back away from the Paris climate agreement after he becomes US president next January.” China is not a spokesperson for the planet and couldn’t care less what the other nations think, it’s about them...
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liar-nObama's goodbye gift: Executive orders,
pardons, and midnight regulations
{conventionofstates.com} ~ Look out for the executive orders, the “midnight” regulations and, perhaps most controversially, the pardons... As President liar-nObama runs out the clock on his eight-year tenure, analysts say, he still has plenty of business left undone, and they expect him to follow the lead of other presidents and issue a series of rules, to add to his list of executive orders, to continue his record-setting pace of commutations and perhaps add a controversial pardon or two into the mix. “I do think a pardon for Huma and Weiner might happen,” said Michael McKenna, a Republican lobbyist, referring to Huma Abedin and her estranged husband, Anthony D. Weiner, whose emails are being scoured by the FBI for wrongdoing...
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hanoi-Kerry Sending “Refugees”
From Australian Prison Camps
To American Neighborhoods
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ John hanoi-Kerry is always looking for new and innovative ways to expand the number of “refugees” he’s importing into the United States... Now he’s agreed to “consider” and sent the associated induction personnel to process Muslim boat people from Indonesia and elsewhere in the South Pacific region. They have been confined to Australia-funded Pacific island camps on Nauru and Papua New Guinea since being denied entry into their country. A tough policy of refusing admittance to Australia to any potential asylees traveling by boat was adopted in July of 2013, which led to the creation of the camps. The camps are rough, inhumane places, and some of the detainees have spent years inside. There are numerous reports of abuse and self-harm amongst detainees, including in camps which house children. More than 2,000 incidents of sexual abuse, assault and attempted self-harm have been reported over the past two years at the Nauru detention center alone. Of course his family won’t be affected nor will the liar-nObamas or other elites. None of them will come into contact with these individuals. They’ll send the hardened lawbreakers, many of them ruthless perverts and criminals, to live among us, the peasant citizens, the nobodys, in our neighborhoods. We can support them with our state and local tax dollars...One of these days he will be affected by one of those “refugees”.
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The Coddled Generation That
Wasn’t Taught to Grow Up
by Michael Brown
{townhall.com} ~ There are millions of fine young people across America today, people of character, people of principle, people of discipline, people of maturity. But there are millions of others who have been coddled all their lives, almost never taught to lose or be put in their place or take full responsibility for their actions. It is some of those young people who are protesting on the streets and being comforted by their professors as they cry on college campuses in the aftermath of the elections.
Just consider this scene from our campuses on the day after the elections, as reported by the Wall Street Journal: “At Tufts University, arts and crafts were on offer. And the University of Kansas reminded students via social media of the therapy dogs available for comfort every other Wednesday.”
Arts and crafts to comfort grieving college students? Therapy dogs?
And then this, from the University of Michigan: “There was a steady flow of students entering Ms. Boynton’s office Wednesday. They spent the day sprawled around the center, playing with Play-Doh and coloring in coloring books, as they sought comfort and distraction.”
Need I add the standard caveat: “I am not making this up!”?
To be sure, there were many things said and done by candidate and now president-elect Donald Trump that have caused concern, and I do understand why some Muslim or Mexican young people or others would be alarmed, fearing the worst.
“Am I going to be deported? Will my family be kicked out of the country? Am I really welcome here?”
Again, I understand why they would be concerned, especially the way the media has portrayed Mr. Trump’s remarks, to the point of working people into a hysteria.
But it is the nature of the reaction to Trump’s shocking election that I’m focused on, along with the way these students are being treated.
Really now, even though millions of conservative Christians would have been terribly upset had liar-Hillary won, do you think that students on Christian campuses would be sitting with therapy dogs and coloring books to comfort them in their grief?
But none of this should not surprise us in terms of the anti-Trump reaction on at these colleges and universities.
These are the same campuses with “safe zones” and with guidelines against “microagressions.”
And these are the same young people whose number one rule sometimes appears to be, “You shall not offend me or hurt my feelings!”
In her book Generation Me, author Jean M. Twenge, Ph.D., painted a picture of many of today’s young people using the description of a woman named Linda, who was born in the 50s, and whose “youngest child, Jessica, was born years after Whitney Houston’s No. 1 hit song “Greatest Love of All” declared that loving yourself was the greatest love.”
Prof. Twenge writes, “Jessica’s elementary school teachers believed that they should help Jessica feel good about herself. Jessica scribbled in a coloring book called We Are All Special, got a sticker on her worksheet just for filling it out, and did a sixth-grade project called ‘All About Me.’ . . . She dreams of being a model or a singer, takes numerous ‘selfies’ a day, and recently reached her personal goal of acquiring 5,000 followers on Instagram. She does not expect to marry until she is in her late 20s, and neither she nor her older sisters have any children yet. ‘You have to love yourself before you can love someone else,’ she says.”
Again, to repeat, there are many, fine young people today, and they are committed to helping others and making a positive difference in their world. Some of them put their elders to shame.
But the picture painted by Prof. Twenge is all too common, which is why there are elementary schools and middle schools across America that do not keep score in the children’s sports events, since everyone has to win or, conversely, because no one can lose.
How does this prepare them for the realities of life, where, every day, some people win and some people lose, where every day, there is disappointment and pain, where every day, some things go our way and some don’t, where every day, life is not always fair?
A friend of mine in the business world told me that it’s common now for college and university grads to have trouble on their jobs, but not because they lack intelligence or the necessary academic training. Instead, it’s because they can’t take correction, having been shielded from it during much of their upbringing and education. “You may be my boss, but you’re making me feel bad, which makes you a bad person, since I’m a good person and therefore a good employee.”
I may be exaggerating the sentiments, but not by much.
In the end, the problem is not with an age group as much as it is with a mindset, and it is a mindset that simply doesn’t work in real life – unless you want to be playing with Play-Doh to ease your pain when you’re married with kids and grandkids.
Just consider this scene from our campuses on the day after the elections, as reported by the Wall Street Journal: “At Tufts University, arts and crafts were on offer. And the University of Kansas reminded students via social media of the therapy dogs available for comfort every other Wednesday.”
Arts and crafts to comfort grieving college students? Therapy dogs?
And then this, from the University of Michigan: “There was a steady flow of students entering Ms. Boynton’s office Wednesday. They spent the day sprawled around the center, playing with Play-Doh and coloring in coloring books, as they sought comfort and distraction.”
Need I add the standard caveat: “I am not making this up!”?
To be sure, there were many things said and done by candidate and now president-elect Donald Trump that have caused concern, and I do understand why some Muslim or Mexican young people or others would be alarmed, fearing the worst.
“Am I going to be deported? Will my family be kicked out of the country? Am I really welcome here?”
Again, I understand why they would be concerned, especially the way the media has portrayed Mr. Trump’s remarks, to the point of working people into a hysteria.
But it is the nature of the reaction to Trump’s shocking election that I’m focused on, along with the way these students are being treated.
Really now, even though millions of conservative Christians would have been terribly upset had liar-Hillary won, do you think that students on Christian campuses would be sitting with therapy dogs and coloring books to comfort them in their grief?
But none of this should not surprise us in terms of the anti-Trump reaction on at these colleges and universities.
These are the same campuses with “safe zones” and with guidelines against “microagressions.”
And these are the same young people whose number one rule sometimes appears to be, “You shall not offend me or hurt my feelings!”
In her book Generation Me, author Jean M. Twenge, Ph.D., painted a picture of many of today’s young people using the description of a woman named Linda, who was born in the 50s, and whose “youngest child, Jessica, was born years after Whitney Houston’s No. 1 hit song “Greatest Love of All” declared that loving yourself was the greatest love.”
Prof. Twenge writes, “Jessica’s elementary school teachers believed that they should help Jessica feel good about herself. Jessica scribbled in a coloring book called We Are All Special, got a sticker on her worksheet just for filling it out, and did a sixth-grade project called ‘All About Me.’ . . . She dreams of being a model or a singer, takes numerous ‘selfies’ a day, and recently reached her personal goal of acquiring 5,000 followers on Instagram. She does not expect to marry until she is in her late 20s, and neither she nor her older sisters have any children yet. ‘You have to love yourself before you can love someone else,’ she says.”
Again, to repeat, there are many, fine young people today, and they are committed to helping others and making a positive difference in their world. Some of them put their elders to shame.
But the picture painted by Prof. Twenge is all too common, which is why there are elementary schools and middle schools across America that do not keep score in the children’s sports events, since everyone has to win or, conversely, because no one can lose.
How does this prepare them for the realities of life, where, every day, some people win and some people lose, where every day, there is disappointment and pain, where every day, some things go our way and some don’t, where every day, life is not always fair?
A friend of mine in the business world told me that it’s common now for college and university grads to have trouble on their jobs, but not because they lack intelligence or the necessary academic training. Instead, it’s because they can’t take correction, having been shielded from it during much of their upbringing and education. “You may be my boss, but you’re making me feel bad, which makes you a bad person, since I’m a good person and therefore a good employee.”
I may be exaggerating the sentiments, but not by much.
In the end, the problem is not with an age group as much as it is with a mindset, and it is a mindset that simply doesn’t work in real life – unless you want to be playing with Play-Doh to ease your pain when you’re married with kids and grandkids.
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