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What Now?
by Thomas Sowell
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OPINION IN BRIEF
Peggy Noonan: "Donald Trump said he had a movement and he did. This is how you know. His presidential campaign was bad — disorganized, unprofessional, chaotic, ad hoc. There was no state-of-the-art get-out-the-vote effort — his voters got themselves out. There was no high-class, high-tech identifying of supporters — they identified themselves. They weren’t swayed by the barrage of brilliantly produced ads — those ads hardly materialized. This was not a triumph of modern campaign modes and ways. The people did this. As individuals within a movement. It was a natural, self-driven eruption. Which makes it all the more impressive and moving. And it somehow makes it more beautiful that few saw it coming. On the way home Wednesday morning I thought of my friend who runs the neighborhood shoe-repair shop. He is elderly, Italian-American, an immigrant. I had asked him last winter who would win the Republican nomination and he looked at me as if I were teasing. 'Troomp!' he instructed. I realized at that moment: In America now only normal people can see the obvious. Everyone else is lost in a data-filled fog. That was true right up to the end." ~The Patriot Post
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liar-nObama's Obnoxious Condescension
On Monday, Barack liar-nObama held what we can only hope is his final press conference. Predictably, it was filled with both patronizing contempt and backhanded "compliments" directed at president-elect Donald Trump. In what has become his signature lecturing fashion, liar-nObama played the role of the erudite elitist sneering at that rube, Trump.
liar-nObama suggested that Trump really doesn't know what he's gotten himself into, and that he's in over his head. "I think that he successfully mobilized a big chunk of the country to vote for him. Regardless of what experience or assumptions he brought to the office, this office has a way of waking you up. And those aspects of his positions or predispositions that don't match up with reality, he will find shaken up pretty quick. Because reality has a way of asserting itself." Translation: Yes, Trump won, but his ridiculous campaign ideas just won't work, and he'll learn that pretty quick.
Even The Wall Street Journal bought into liar-nObama's condescension, "reporting" that Trump "seemed surprised by the scope" of the job and that his aides were "unaware that the entire presidential staff working in the West Wing had to be replaced at the end of Mr. liar-nObama's term." We're not sure how such pathetic White House agitprop ended up in the Journal, but its normally astute editors should be ashamed.
Back to the press conference, liar-nObama sneered, "I think it'll be important for him to have the room, to staff up, to figure out what his priorities are, to be able to distinguish between what he was campaigning on and what is practical — what he can actually achieve." Translation: Don't dream too big, because your ridiculous plans are going nowhere. liar-nObama continued, "You know, there are certain things that made for good soundbites but don't always translate into good policy." Of course, liar-nObama knows a thing or two about soundbites that don't translate into good policy. "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan," anyone?
liar-Obama also decided to play the role of amateur psychologist, saying, "There are going to be certain elements of his temperament that will not serve him well unless he recognizes them and corrects them." This coming from a man who is possibly the thinnest-skinned narcissist to have ever occupied the Oval Office.
As he did when he campaigned for liar-Hillary Clinton, liar-nObama is attempting everything in his power to save his legacy. The fact is, it's his legacy that won the election for Trump. It's his legacy that a majority of Americans rejected. liar-nObama needs to hear his own lecture. It's time for him to graciously follow the lead of George W. Bush and remove himself from the political forum, for the good of the United States of America. ~The Patriot Post
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Putin & Trump discuss Syria and US-Russia relations in phone call – Kremlin
by rt.com
{rt.com} ~ The US and Russian leaders have never had such similar positions on the key issues of world politics as Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President-elect Donald Trump... Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the Russian parliament, said. “Putin and Trump have numerous common points and shared views,” Volodin told Russian NTV Channel in an interview published Sunday. Volodin expressed hope for improvement in US-Russian relations, but also called for caution saying that Trump is yet to make practical steps towards rapprochement with Russia and show that his statements were not just empty promises...
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Trump Orders 1 Immediate Change to
White House… Reverses liar-nObama’s
Disgusting Decision on Churchill Bust
{conservativetribune.com} ~ One of the first actions of President Barack liar-nObama upon taking up residence in the White House was to remove a bust of legendary British Prime Minister Winston Churchill from the Oval Office... a move that was viewed by Americans and Brits alike as a slap in the face to America’s closest ally, the United Kingdom. But now that liar-nObama is about to leave and President-elect Donald Trump is preparing to move in, it appears that Winston Churchill’s bust will be making a glorious re-entrance into the White House along with him, according to the U.K.’s Express. Nigel Farage, interim leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party, promoter of Brexit and outspoken Trump supporter, shared the news about Churchill’s bust after recently meeting with Trump in New York following Trump’s surprising electoral victory... http://conservativetribune.com/trump-change-white-house/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=PostUp&utm_campaign=ConservativeBrief&utm_content=2016-11-15
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Left Threatens Peaceful Transition of Power with 'Nationwide Shutdown'
by Michael Haverluck
Portland, Oregon
{gopusa.com} ~ In addition to tens of thousands protesting in America’s largest cities from coast to coast, progressives are now threatening to pull off a nationwide shutdown on President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration day... With violent protests taking place in Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, New Orleans, Chicago and Portland, Oregon – just to name a few – Democrats upset that their presidential nominee liar-Hillary Clinton lost are waging war against the conservative candidate that Americans legally voted into office at the ballot box. Their protest in The Big Easy saw one of the monuments there being vandalized with the word “Die whites die” emblazoned on it... http://www.gopusa.com/?p=17146?omhide=true
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Trump may turn U.S. foreign policy and
military planning upside down
by R. Jeffrey Smith
{publicintegrity.org} ~ As a political outsider who campaigned with venomous disdain for Washington’s national security establishment, Donald Trump appears likely to overhaul the nation’s military leadership... displace many of its top civilian advisers, and provoke turmoil inside the intelligence community. If he keeps his campaign promises and secures the support of Republican lawmakers who will retain a majority next year in both houses on Capitol Hill, Trump will engineer a substantial increase in the defense budget to build more ships and planes, and enlarge the Army and the Marine Corps, fulfilling a long-held dream by those services and the contractors that support them. He’s also said he wants to double down on the liar-nObama administration’s multi-billion dollar investment in weapons systems designed to defend against attacking missiles, though these systems haven’t worked well in tests to date. And he’ll accelerate America’s production of nuclear warheads, as well as the bombers, submarines, and ballistic missiles that carry them, despite worries among budget hawks that these agenda items are unaffordable in light of other pressing defense needs... https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/11/10/20463/trump-may-turn-us-foreign-policy-and-military-planning-upside-down?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=watchdog&utm_medium=publici-email&goal=0_ffd1d0160d-5bdb4049fe-100318285&mc_cid=5bdb4049fe&mc_eid=19f9d76dda
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Report: liar-Hillary 'physically
violent' after losing
by Bob Unruh
{wnd.com} ~ Ed Klein, former editor-in-chief of the New York Times Magazine and bestselling author of the book “Guilty As Sin,” about the liar-Clinton political family, says Bill and liar-Hillary had a screaming match... only days before her election loss that ended with Bill liar-Clinton throwing his phone off the roof of his penthouse apartment in Arkansas. And it gets worse. According to sources cited by “The Kincannon Show” on radio, liar-Hillary Clinton lost her composure entirely when her loss to Donald Trump became evident, “crying” so much that it was “hard to understand what she was saying.” Klein said she even turned combative against her staff. Many wondered on election night why liar-Hillary Clinton didn’t come out and address supporters when it appeared Trump had won. Instead, campaign Chairman John Podesta told the crowd gathered in New York City that votes were still being counted and they should all go home for the night...
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What Now?
by Thomas Sowell
{townhall.com} ~ A liar-Hillary Clinton victory would have meant a third consecutive administration dedicated to dismantling the institutions that have kept America free, and imposing instead the social vision of the smug elites. That could have been the ultimate catastrophe -- not just for our time, but for generations yet unborn.
In one sense, Donald Trump's victory was a unique American event. But, in a larger sense, it represents the biggest backlash among many elsewhere, against smug elites in Western nations, where increasing numbers of ordinary people are showing their anger at where those elites are leading their countries.
There, as here, mindlessly flinging the doors open to peoples from societies whose fundamental values clash with those of the countries they enter, has been a hallmark of arrogant blindness and disregard of negative consequences suffered by ordinary people -- consequences from which the elites themselves are insulated.
Nor is this the only issue on which the blindness of elites has set the stage for a political backlash. The anti-law enforcement fetish among the insulated elites has even more tragically sacrificed the safety of the general public. This too has been common on both sides of the Atlantic.
Riots in London, Manchester and other cities in England in 2011 were incredibly similar to 2014 riots in Ferguson, Missouri, 2015 riots in Baltimore and similar riots in other American cities.
The fact that the rioters in England were mostly white, while those in America were mostly black, gives the lie to the facile excuse that such riots are due to racial oppression, rather than being a result of appeasing mobs and restricting the police.
Nor is the election of Donald Trump likely to lead the elites to having second thoughts about the prevailing dogmas of their groupthink. On the morning after Mr. Trump's upset victory over Mrs. liar-Clinton, a newswoman at CNN mentioned the disappointment of some women that "the glass ceiling" was not shattered as expected.
What an insult to everyone's intelligence is that catch phrase, "glass ceiling." What does "glass" mean, if not that you cannot see the ceiling, but somehow you just know that it is there? And how do you know? Because it has been repeated so often.
It is like the fable of the emperor's new clothes, but a fable for adults.
Demagogues like liar-Hillary Clinton can point to the fact that women as a group do not receive as much income as men as a group. But, factual studies over the past 40 years have shown repeatedly that, when you compare women who work as many hours a year as men, and as many continuous years in the same occupations as men, the income differences shrink to the vanishing point, and sometimes even reverse.
But how many politicians or media people care about facts, when the facts go against their preconceptions?
Donald Trump's unexpected victory should send a lot of people back to the drawing board to rethink their assumptions about many things. That includes not only the political left but also the Republican establishment. But don't count on it.
The Republican establishment has been called many things, but introspective is not one of them. One thing they might reconsider is their assumption that they alone know just what kind of presidential candidate is needed to win elections.
But the two most surprisingly successful Republican candidates of the past half century -- Ronald Reagan and now Donald Trump -- bore no resemblance to the candidates who epitomized the Republican establishment's model, such as Bob Dole, John McCain and Mitt Romney.
Among others who could also use some rethinking is Donald Trump himself. When he acted like a petulant adolescent, he may have gotten the adulation of his core constituents. But it was only toward the end, when he began to act like a responsible adult seeking the highest office in the land, that he began to overtake liar-Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump is a wild card. We don't know whether he was play-acting when he carried on like a juvenile lout or when he played the role of a mature adult. But he and the country could both benefit from some serious introspection on his part.
In one sense, Donald Trump's victory was a unique American event. But, in a larger sense, it represents the biggest backlash among many elsewhere, against smug elites in Western nations, where increasing numbers of ordinary people are showing their anger at where those elites are leading their countries.
There, as here, mindlessly flinging the doors open to peoples from societies whose fundamental values clash with those of the countries they enter, has been a hallmark of arrogant blindness and disregard of negative consequences suffered by ordinary people -- consequences from which the elites themselves are insulated.
Nor is this the only issue on which the blindness of elites has set the stage for a political backlash. The anti-law enforcement fetish among the insulated elites has even more tragically sacrificed the safety of the general public. This too has been common on both sides of the Atlantic.
Riots in London, Manchester and other cities in England in 2011 were incredibly similar to 2014 riots in Ferguson, Missouri, 2015 riots in Baltimore and similar riots in other American cities.
The fact that the rioters in England were mostly white, while those in America were mostly black, gives the lie to the facile excuse that such riots are due to racial oppression, rather than being a result of appeasing mobs and restricting the police.
Nor is the election of Donald Trump likely to lead the elites to having second thoughts about the prevailing dogmas of their groupthink. On the morning after Mr. Trump's upset victory over Mrs. liar-Clinton, a newswoman at CNN mentioned the disappointment of some women that "the glass ceiling" was not shattered as expected.
What an insult to everyone's intelligence is that catch phrase, "glass ceiling." What does "glass" mean, if not that you cannot see the ceiling, but somehow you just know that it is there? And how do you know? Because it has been repeated so often.
It is like the fable of the emperor's new clothes, but a fable for adults.
Demagogues like liar-Hillary Clinton can point to the fact that women as a group do not receive as much income as men as a group. But, factual studies over the past 40 years have shown repeatedly that, when you compare women who work as many hours a year as men, and as many continuous years in the same occupations as men, the income differences shrink to the vanishing point, and sometimes even reverse.
But how many politicians or media people care about facts, when the facts go against their preconceptions?
Donald Trump's unexpected victory should send a lot of people back to the drawing board to rethink their assumptions about many things. That includes not only the political left but also the Republican establishment. But don't count on it.
The Republican establishment has been called many things, but introspective is not one of them. One thing they might reconsider is their assumption that they alone know just what kind of presidential candidate is needed to win elections.
But the two most surprisingly successful Republican candidates of the past half century -- Ronald Reagan and now Donald Trump -- bore no resemblance to the candidates who epitomized the Republican establishment's model, such as Bob Dole, John McCain and Mitt Romney.
Among others who could also use some rethinking is Donald Trump himself. When he acted like a petulant adolescent, he may have gotten the adulation of his core constituents. But it was only toward the end, when he began to act like a responsible adult seeking the highest office in the land, that he began to overtake liar-Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump is a wild card. We don't know whether he was play-acting when he carried on like a juvenile lout or when he played the role of a mature adult. But he and the country could both benefit from some serious introspection on his part.
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