by Pat Buchanan
{ townhall.com } ~ "It is time for this war in Afghanistan to end," said Gen. John Nicholson in Kabul on his retirement Sunday after a fourth tour of duty and 31 months as commander of U.S. and NATO forces.
Labor Day brought news that another U.S. serviceman had been killed in an insider attack by an Afghan soldier.
Why do we continue to fight in Afghanistan?
"We continue to fight simply because we are there," said retired Gen. Karl Eikenberry who preceded Gen. Nicholson.
"Absent political guidance and a diplomatic strategy," Eikenberry told The New York Times, "military commanders have filled the vacuum by waging a war all agree cannot be won militarily."
This longest war in U.S. history has become another no-win war.
Yet, if the 14,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan were pulled out, the regime would fall, the Taliban would take over, and the massacres would begin.
So America stays in and soldiers on. For how long?
The 17th anniversary of 9/11, now imminent, appears a proper time to take inventory of our successes and failures in the forever wars of the Middle East into which America was plunged in this new century.
In Afghanistan, the Taliban presence is more pervasive in more provinces than at any time since the regime was overthrown in 2001.
In the seven-year Syrian civil war we helped to ignite by arming rebels to overthrow President Assad, the conflict appears headed for its largest, bloodiest and most decisive battle.
The Syrian army, backed by Russia and Iran, is preparing to attack Idlib province. Three million people live there and 70,000 rebels are encamped, including 10,000 al-Qaida fighters.
In a Monday tweet, President Donald Trump warned Syria against attacking Idlib, and warned Iran and Russia against joining any such attack: "The Russians and Iranians would be making a grave humanitarian mistake to take part in this potential human tragedy. Hundreds of thousands of people could be killed." America and Russia both have warships in the Eastern Med.
National Security Adviser John Bolton has warned that Syria's use of gas in Idlib would trigger a U.S. military response. This is an invitation for the rebels in Idlib to conduct a false-flag gas attack to lure U.S. air power to their side.
Monday in Damascus, the Iranian foreign minister said the time had come to eradicate the terrorist enclave in Idlib. If the Syrians, Russians and Iranians are not bluffing, and the U.S. warnings are serious, we may be headed for a U.S.-Russia clash inside Syria.
Yet, again, what vital interest of ours is imperiled in Idlib province?
On Monday, Saudi Arabia admitted to having made a mistake when, using a U.S.-made fighter-bomber, a school bus was attacked on Aug. 9, killing dozens of Yemeni children in that humanitarian horror of a war.
The Saudi campaign to crush the Houthi rebels and return the previous regime to power in Sanaa could never succeed were it not for U.S.-provided planes, missiles, bombs and air-to-air refueling.
We are thus morally responsible for what is happening.
In Libya, where we overthrew Moammar Gadhafi, rival factions now control Benghazi in the east and Tripoli in the west. August saw fighting break out in the capital, threatening the U.N.-backed unity government there.
In Iraq, which we invaded in 2003 to strip of weapons of mass destruction it did not have, and to bring the blessings of democracy to Mesopotamia, rival factions are struggling for power after recent elections saw pro-Iranian and anti-American forces gain ground.
Meanwhile, the Iranian currency is sinking as a November deadline approaches for Europe to choose between cutting ties to Iran or losing U.S. markets. While the Tehran regime has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz if its oil is denied access to world markets, it faces economic strangulation if it does not submit to U.S. demands.
When one adds up the U.S. dead and wounded from the wars we have launched since 2001 with the Arab and Muslim wounded, killed, orphaned, widowed, uprooted and turned into refugees, as well as the trillions of dollars lost, what benefits are there on the other side of the ledger?
Now we appear to be moving to confront Russia in Ukraine.
In an interview with The Guardian last week, U.S. special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker said Washington is ready to build up Ukraine's naval and air defense forces, given Russia's continued support for separatists in the Donbass. The administration is "absolutely" prepared to supply new lethal weaponry, beyond the Javelin anti-tank missiles delivered in April.
But if a Ukrainian army moves against pro-Russian rebels in Luhansk and Donetsk, and Russia intervenes on the side of the rebels, are we really prepared to come to the aid of the Ukrainian army?
President Trump has yet to withdraw us from any of the wars he inherited, but he has kept us out of any new wars -- a record worth preserving.
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Globalism Undermines Patriotism
Political legitimacy is a loaded term. Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s administration had a penchantfor politically legitimizing certain industries and companies that aligned with its ideological agenda, even when it proved utterly disastrous for Americans. Taxpayers were left holding the bag for “clean” energy companies like Solyndra, and nothing drove up the costs of health care — and insurance company profits — more than scumbag/liar-nObamaCare.
The Trump administration also plays the political legitimacy game, but in a different manner. His America First agenda may be equally intrusive, but it smacks of the moral legitimacy to which Chapman refers. While the 2016 election was about many things, what helped push Trump over the top were “flyover country” Americans disgusted with corporate multinationalism, a.k.a. globalism. These were the Americans whose jobs were outsourced and their futures marginalized, even as they endured bicoastal elitist lectures about the “net plus” of such a system.
While this was occurring, members of the nation’s globalist-dominated Ruling Class also made it crystal clear that they are calculatingly indifferent to both the ravages of illegal immigration and unchecked legal immigration. As recently as last week, 146 suspected illegals were arrested at the Fresh Mark meatpacking plant in Ohio. The same plant was sued — in 2001 — for knowingly hiring illegals.
E-Verify has existed since 1996. Last June, the latest effort to make it mandatory for every employer was rejected by the GOP-controlled House after members bowed to the “concerns” of the agricultural lobby that claimed it would produce a worker shortage.
A combination of higher wages and conditional welfare for able-bodied Americans to address that shortage? Not part of the equation. Moreover, businesses willing to hire illegals seemingly have a government ally: According to the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), there were as many as 39 million cases where names on W-2 tax forms did not match corresponding Social Security records — meaning millions of Americans have had their identities stolen, potentially by illegal aliens.
This gargantuan level of mismatches occurred during the last four years of the scumbag/liar-nObama administration, and one is left to wonder whether the Social Security Administration was grossly inept — or quietly complicit.
The legal immigrant part of the equation? While commie-Bernie Sanders’s muddle-headed “Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies Act,” (Stop BEZOS Act) would force companies like Amazon to fully fund federal welfare programs used by their low-wage workers — ultimately incentivizing those companies not to hire anyone from low-income families — it cannot be ignored that the retail giant has been one of the foremost champions of H-1B visas, importing more foreign tech workers in 2017 than Facebook and Google combined. And while American STEM workers languish, research by the Seattle Times reveals that 71% of Silicon Valley tech workers are foreign born.
In stark contrast to scumbag/liar-nObama, Trump’s “Buy American, Hire American” executive order has limited the use of H-1B visas. No doubt by sheer “coincidence,” America’s warehouse workers, including those who toil for Amazon, have won a 9.7% wage increase between February 2017 and April 2018.
Regardless, the globalist agenda, and the seeming lack of patriotism that attends it, remains alive and well. Last May, shares of Boeing Airlines dropped when Trump announced America was withdrawing from the nuclear deal with Iran. The company had a $20 billion deal to sell jetliners to the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism. Boeing claimed the deal would support 100,000 American jobs.
Providing America with jobs and cheap consumer goods, along with the idea that we can de-escalate tensions, is the rationale behind trading with communist China — while tolerating its tariffs, currency-manipulation, and intellectual property-stealing proclivities. That rationale is a globalist-minded status quo Trump is addressing, much to the globalists’ consternation.
And well he should. In 2017, America’s trade deficit with China was $375 billion. In 2018, an increasingly belligerent China’s military budget is $175 billion. Money is certainly fungible, cheap consumer goods are attractive, and additional jobs are welcome. But is any of it a “reasonable” tradeoff for what amounts to facilitating a suicidal national security policy?
The innumerable benefits of One World-ism in general, and free trade in particular, have been communicated to Americans with an almost religious fervor. Shouldn’t the potentially disastrous pitfalls get an equal hearing?
Americans should also be more fully informed about behind-the-scenes corporatist machinations. Those wondering why a company like Nike would potentially alienate half of its American customers with its Colin Kaepernick branding campaign might be surprised to learn that Nike fits in with Apple, Starbucks, and Boeing as being among a number of multinational corporations that could have as much as $158 billion at risk in a trade war with China. That would be the same China “increasingly using North Korean factories to take advantage of cheaper labor across the border,” Reuters reports.
Nike’s potential loss of American customers is nothing compared to the loss of a supply chain that includes slave labor. Moreover, Levi-Strauss has jumped on a customer-alienating, anti-gun bandwagon, just as the NFL has jumped on an equally antagonistic anti-police bandwagon. The common thread? To defeat the Trump trade reset by supporting anti-Trump domestic policies that obscure that horrible PR optics openly siding with China would engender.
Who abets the multinational elitists’ efforts? “At the present rate, America will soon resemble the dystopias of novels such as 1984 and Brave New World in which all aspects of life are warped by an all-encompassing ideology of coerced sameness,” writes columnist Victor Davis Hanson, who rightly holds the nation’s censorship-abetting tech titans, and their corporate media allies to account. Hanson further notes that “some $3 trillion in global capitalization is pledged to ensure that the nations’ computers, pads, and smartphones will not be polluted by traditionalist thinking.”
Few things are more traditional than patriotism. “Despite origins steeped in sovereign favor and national interest, the modern corporation has increasingly seen its capacity for civic duty and engagement diminished,” columnist Yishai Schwartz explains. “Over time, concern for the national interest has been squeezed out by the twin forces of profit maximization and cosmopolitanism.”
Cosmopolitanism? A lack of moral legitimacy that fuels increasing calls “fundamental transformation” is more like it. A lack of moral legitimacy that has produced repugnant reactions. “Fear of nuclear war, violent revolution and pandemics has seen San Francisco’s finest start commissioning multi million pound underground bunkers in New Zealand,” The Sun reports.
Better post-apocalyptic isolation than rediscovering patriotism and morality? If that contemptuous worldview doesn’t change, it won’t be the communists or any other external enemy that hangs capitalists with the rope they’ve sold them.
More likely they’ll be hanging themselves.
~The Patriot Post
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{ dctribune.org } ~ It’s hard to imagine how life could get much worse for Republicans in advance of the 2018 midterm elections, but we here at DC Tribune think we might know of one... and it comes from the same source that’s been the scourge of the Trump administration since May 17th, 2017: The dirty cop-Robert Mueller Special Counsel investigation. And honestly, what could possibly be worse news for the GOP than to find out that one or more of their leaders were being focused on as part of that investigation? We already know almost as a matter of course that dirty cop-Mueller is looking into statements made in private between members of the House GOP leadership, joking about fellow Republicans and even the President being on Vladimir Putin’s payroll. That’s not the type of discussion that doesn’t make it into a final report about who knew what and when. But really, that is the only question that needs answering when it comes to complicity in Trump’s arrangement with the Russian government that was ostensibly finalized in Trump Tower: Who knew what and when they knew it... http://dctribune.org/2018/09/09/mitch-mcconnell-likely-under-investigation-by-bob-mueller-over-ties-to-russias-hacking-of-2016-elections/
scumbag/liar-nObama Reminds Americans Why Trump Won
This charge of division was ironic given the fact that scumbag/liar-nObama himself was a highly polarizing figure whose popular moniker of “Divider-in-Chief” among conservatives was well deserved. Notably, whilescumbag/liar-nObama’s divisive rhetoric and policy actions benefited him, they came at the cost of decimating the dummycrats-Democrat Party.
Few can spin a yarn like scumbag/liar-nObama; indeed, it’s one of his greatest talents. But as is so often the case, scumbag/liar-nObama’s version of events never quite matched up to the reality on the ground.
Take the economy. For eight long years Americans suffered under a near-stagnant economy, much of it due to scumbag/liar-nObama’s leftist agenda that imposed greater government control over the economy via increased regulations. Now that the economy is booming because of Trump’s deregulation and the Republican tax cuts (which scumbag/liar-nObama ignored), the former president insisted, “By the time I left office, household income was near its all-time high and the uninsured rate had hit an all-time low and wages were rising and poverty rates were falling. I mention all of this just so when you hear how great the economy’s doing right now, let’s just remember when this recovery started.”
scumbag/liar-nObama also suffers from selective memory on scumbag/liar-nObamaCare — specifically how his and the dummycrats-Democrats’ massive tax, laughably titled the “Affordable Care Act,” was foisted upon the American people without a single Republican vote. He chastised Republicans for passing tax cuts that benefit all Americans by labeling that reform a danger to our democracy. scumbag/liar-nObama asserted, “Republicans in control of Congress and the White House, without any checks or balances whatsoever … provided another trillion in tax cuts to people like me who, I promise, don’t need it, and don’t even pretend to pay for them.”
Meanwhile, scumbag/liar-nObama promoted the dummycrats-Democrats’ newest hard-left policy proposal of Medicare for All, stating, “dummycrats-Democrats aren’t just running on good old ideas like a higher minimum wage, they’re running on good new ideas like Medicare for All, giving workers seats on corporate boards, [and] reversing the most egregious corporate tax cuts to make sure college students graduate debt-free.” No, it’s just socialism repackaged.
Back to division. scumbag/liar-nObama called out Trump for “capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years — a fear and anger that’s rooted in our past, but it’s also born out of the enormous upheavals that have taken place in your brief lifetimes.” scumbag/liar-nObama would more accurately have referenced himself here. Few politicians preyed upon and encouraged peoples’ fears as did scumbag/liar-nObama, as he ironically seems oblivious to having done in this very speech.
As an example, consider this excerpt from his speech: “This Congress has championed the unwinding of campaign-finance laws to give billionaires outsized influence over our politics. Systemically attacked voting rights to make it harder for the young people, the minorities, and the poor to vote. Handed out tax cuts without regard to deficits. Slashed the safety net where it could. Cast dozens of votes to take away health insurance from ordinary Americans. Embraced wild conspiracy theories, like those surrounding Benghazi, or my birth certificate.” He concluded, “Because, in the end, the threat to our democracy doesn’t just come from Donald Trump or the current batch of Republicans in Congress or the Koch Brothers and their lobbyists” but from people failing to vote for dummycrats-Democrats.
Actually, scumbag/liar-nObama’s speech served as a great reminder of why so many Americans voted for Trump. As Courtney Alexander, a spokeswoman for the Congressional Leadership Fund, observed, “Nothing would be better than the scumbag/liar-nObama-Pulosi team traveling the country nonstop until November, reminding voters of the failed scumbag/liar-nObama-Pulosi days of higher taxes and increased government spending.” Or as Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) noted, “The best explanation of President Trump’s victory are the ‘results’ of thescumbag/liar-nObama Presidency!”
~The Patriot Post
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{ investigativeproject.org } ~ A Syrian-American lobbyist who pushed the scumbag/liar-nObama administration to support Syrian jihadists met with National Security Council (NSC) staffers Thursday afternoon... Mouaz Moustafa, executive director of the Syrian Emergency Taskforce (SETF), noted the meeting on his Facebook page. A NSC source confirmed that the meeting took place. Moustafa frequently lobbied the scumbag/liar-nObama White House to support Syrian rebel groups against ISIS and the Assad regime. He pressured Congress and the scumbag/liar-nObama administration to support a train-and-equip program that saw American weapons end up in the hands of al-Qaida and ISIS. The Trump administration canceled the operation. The NSC meeting focused on Syria's last remaining jihadist stronghold, Idlib province, Moustafa wrote. He did not detail what he said about it. Iran, Russia and the Assad regime reportedly are planning an assault on the province to eliminate this last pocket of Sunni jihadist resistance. Turkey has troops there. President Trump warned last week that the operation could be "a grave humanitarian mistake" which could claim hundreds of thousands of lives. Moustafa is best known for bringing U.S. Sen. rino-John McCain to Syria in 2013, where rino-McCain met with Free Syrian Army (FSA) leader Gen. Salem Idris. Many FSA factionshad jihadist ideologies. Idris tweeted his support for al-Qaida's Syrian affiliate in 2015....
{ sultanknish.blogspot.com } ~ “Like most American Jews, I was raised with the delusion that Israel was a safe haven for me,” Julia Salazar wrote on Mondoweiss, an anti-Semitic hate site, while denouncing the Jewish State.
Salazar’s rant had appeared on a racist site whose creator had complained that his publication had been banned from DailyKos because of “my repeated insistence on talking about the large Jewish presence in the American establishment and the importance of Jewish money in the political process” and one of whose editors had declared, "I do not consider myself an anti-Semite, but I can understand why some are."
In reality, Salazar had been baptized as a Catholic, her uncle was a Jesuit priest, and her brother made it clear that no one in the family was Jewish. The Jewish part of her past was as fake as the rest.
And it was this biography that the dummycrats-Democratic Socialists of America candidate was running on. Thedummycrats-DSA had been hoping to turn Salazar into the next comkie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, with the support of radical lefties like Cortez, Cynthia Nixon and Zephyr Teachout by playing up her imaginary biography.
But Salazar, a socialist candidate running for the State Senate in New York, had lied about that, and nearly everything else. Caught on video, claiming, “I immigrated to this country when I was little,” she had actually been born in Miami to an Italian-American mother and a Columbian immigrant father. Despite growing up in a mansion, she claimed to have a working class background. Her mother and her brother between them tore up most of her fake biography of a hardscrabble, immigrant life.
But it was the original expose by The Tablet of Julia Salazar’s lie about her Jewishness that started the flood. And the response from Salazar and her supporters was to accuse the Jewish community of racism.
Salazar, who had her own anti-Semitic history on Twitter, accused the Jewish publication that had exposed her appropriation of Jewish identity for anti-Semitic purposes of practicing, “race science.” The socialist candidate and her supporters insisted that as a “woman of color”, she was a victim of Jewish racism. The dummycrats-Democratic Socialists of America backed their candidate and repeated her anti-Jewish slurs.
Salazar's campaign had put out a statement claiming that the "fact that, as a woman of color, I am facing accusations that my deeply held identity is a false one says more about the politics of Jewish identity" and was an example of Jews practicing the "bigoted policing of the identity of Jewish people of color".
New York City DSA co-chair Bianca Cunningham echoed Salazar's anti-Semitic smear by dismissing outrage in the Jewish community as a question of "whether or not a woman of color can practice that religion."
Instead of apologizing for her misrepresentations and exploitation of the Jewish community, the dummycrats-DSA’s socialist candidate had accused her Jewish critics of racism. And the dummycrats-DSA took up Salazar’s smear.
Salazar’s meltdown wasn’t the first time that thedummycrats-Democratic Socialists of America had backed anti-Semitic candidates and then stood by them no matter how ugly their bigotry became.
On the other side of the country, dummycrats-DSA-LA continues to back Maria Estrada for California State Assembly District 63 despite her praise for Farrakhan, accusations that Jews were exploiting the Holocaust, and attacking a Jewish dummycrats-Democrat for not keeping “your party, your religion and your people in check.”
"Anyone who believes they are one of ‘God’s chosen people’ automatically feels superior and justified in all they do," Estrada ranted.
Estrada’s racism was criticized by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, reported on in numerous Jewish publications, and yet the dummycrats-DSA and commie-Bernie Sanders’ Our Revolution, refused to withdraw their support. When contacted about her hateful views, both the local and national dummycrats-DSA, as well as the local and national Our Revolution organizations, failed to condemn Estrada.
Estrada’s accusation that the Jews exploit the Holocaust was echoed by her fellow racist in New York. "These people exploit Holocaust for their hot takes," Salazar had tweeted.
The anti-Semitic rhetoric of dummycrats-Democratic Socialists of America candidates like Estrada and Salazar may be inevitable. The dummycrats-DSA views Corbyn’s Labour, with its embrace of anti-Semitism, as its political model.
The dummycrats-DSA’s 2017 convention featured a speaker from the Momentum movement within Labour, a subset which has been linked to much of the harassment of Jews in Labour. At his appearance, the dummycrats-DSA faithful burst out cheering for Jeremy Corbyn, an anti-Semitic bigot and terrorist supporter.
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, the former Chief Rabbi, described Corbyn as an “existential threat” to British Jews, who gives “support to racists, terrorists and dealers of hate, who want to kill Jews and remove Israel from the map" and uses “the language of classic prewar European anti-Semitism.”
"Anti-Semitism has returned to mainland Europe within living memory of the Holocaust,” Rabbi Sacks warned.
This is the bigot whose name the dummycrats-DSA conference met with unrestrained applause on the same day that it voted to support BDS. Is it any wonder that thedummycrats-DSA has refused to condemn Estrada’s anti-Semitism or Salazar’s malicious smears of Jews?
The Labour speaker invited to the dummycrats-DSA conference was Marcus Barnett, who had cheered Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro. In addition to murdering protesters, seizing power and presiding over a country where there’s no drinking water, power or food, Maduro had at one point demanded that "the Jews that live in our lands" do something to stop Israel.
Also at the dummycrats-DSA convention was a representative from Melenchon's France Insoumise. Melenchon’s blatant anti-Semitism, was so bad that it was even condemned by members of the dummycrats-DSA’s Jewish Caucus.
But instead of insisting that the dummycrats-DSA end its ties to an anti-Semitic movement, Lane Silberstein, adummycrats-DSA and If Not Now member, weakly argued that, "Jewish socialists have had to contend with one of history’s most egregious eras of antisemitism— from which the left was not immune in promoting — and yet they continued to proudly identify as socialists… we will carry on that tradition and not shy away from working with the left.” The technical term for that is collaboration with anti-Semites.
Much as when D.C. Council member Trayon White accused the Jews of controlling the weather, the same leftist activists who rushed out to defend Salazar, Women's March's Sophie Ellman-Golan and If Not Now's Rafael Shimunov, came to his defense. White makes frequent appearances in editions of the Washington Socialist, the house organ of the MDCDSA, which has been able to lobby the D.C. racist.
It’s not only Julia Salazar who fundamentally misrepresented her background. Salazar, like commie-Ocasio-Cortez, is a bid at humanizing radical leftists and making their movements appear more approachable.
But what’s behind the scenes is an ugly alt-left.
The same year that Corbyn's man showed up to be hailed by the dummycrats-DSA in Chicago, Bhaskar Sunkara, a former dummycrats-DSA vice chair and Jacobin Magazine publisher, ran a GoFundMe fundraiser to "Internationalize the dummycrats-DSA Convention".
Bhaskar's goal was to cover airfare for "members of Jeremy Corbyn's staff, Momentum, France Insoumise". The fundraiser's banner included the Soviet flag waving from a rifle barrel.
That’s the same flag under which countless Jews were arrested, tortured, imprisoned in camps and murdered. It’s the same flag under which Judaism and Hebrew were effectively outlawed. It’s the flag of the regime that spread its anti-Semitic propaganda through the left at home and around the world.
After the Julia Salazar scandal broke, Bhaskar Sunkara announced that he was so outraged by a Jewish magazine’s expose of the Socialist scammer that he would be donating to her campaign.
The dummycrats-DSA’s anti-Semitism isn’t accidental or sloppy. It’s not just about Israel. It’s ideological.
The dummycrats-Democratic Socialists of America attract anti-Semites for the same reason that Corbyn does. And, like Corbyn’s Labour, it ignores the problem, attacks Jewish critics and covers for its hateful allies.
The media has made much of the rise of socialism. But the rise of the dummycrats-DSA won’t just be dangerous for freedom and civil rights in this country. It will pose a threat to the safety and security of American Jews.
The dummycrats-DSA threatens to ‘Corbynize’ thedummycrats-Democrats into an anti-Semitic political movement.
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By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio
The fake news mainstream media propagandists are at it again, this time going after
Florida gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis and trying to label him a racist.
True to form, any time liberals are losing an argument on merit, they cry “racism” and hope that the mere accusation is enough to brand their opponent as unworthy of the position.
Last week, DeSantis won the Republican node in the primary to run against liberal, and socialist, Andrew Gillum who as the Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida has an abysmal record regarding both the economy and crime.
After his primary victory, DeSantis was doing an interview with Fox News when he made a comment that liberals, and his opponent, who happens to be black, seized upon as racist.
Here’s how the liberal fake news mainstream media is portraying it…
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{ americanthinker.com } ~ The arrogance of the man who lied to the parents of the Benghazi dead in front of their sons' caskets as they were returned to the country they fought for is mind-boggling. As he attempted to rewrite many chapters of his failed presidency in a speech at the University of Illinois, he called the accurate and documented reports of the criminal negligence of secretary of state liar-Hillary Clinton and himself during the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on our Benghazi compound a mere "conspiracy theory."
Conspiracy theories don't produce body bags, sir, but perhaps you don't remember that night all too well because you spent the time four brave Americans were being killed under your command in Libya readying up for a Las Vegas fundraiser.
Kris Paronto, former Army Ranger and CIA contractor who fought with his colleagues on the roof of the CIA annex in Benghazi, remembers that night and tweeted his response to the then-president's arrogant and dismissive ridicule of their sacrifice and your incompetence:
Benghazi is a conspiracy @Barackscumbag/liar-nObama ?! How bout we do this,let's put your cowardly ass on the top of a roof with 6 of your buddies&shoot rpg's&Ak47's at you while terrorists lob 81mm mortars killing 2 of your buddies all while waiting for US support that you never sent
scumbag/liar-nObama and liar-Hillary had plenty of warnings that the security at Benghazi was woefully inadequate, that the compound was swimming in an ocean of terrorist training camps. They ignored these warnings, and when the attack happened, they did nothing when a rescue mission could have been mounted. Instead, stand-down orders were given to would-be rescuers, and following the attack, the infamous video lie was concocted and spread over the airwaves, with President scumbag/liar-nObama repeating it no fewer than six times in a speech before the United Nations.
Hicks, the last man to speak to Ambassador Chris Stevens, has exposed the video lie, documenting how he told liar-Hillary's State Department what was happening in real time that fateful night and how her State Department ignored warnings from Chris Stevens and others about the gathering terrorist storm and the woeful lack of security.
Now retired, private citizen Hicks goes farther, telling Fox News liar-Hillary Clinton broke laws while condemning four Americans to death at the hands of terrorists:
Just as the Constitution makes national security the President's highest priority, U.S. law mandates the secretary of state to develop and implement policies and programs "to provide for the security ... of all United States personnel on official duty abroad."This includes not only the State Department employees, but also the CIA officers in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012. And the Benghazi record is clear: Secretary liar-Clinton failed to provide adequate security for U.S. government personnel assigned to Benghazi and Tripoli.The Benghazi Committee's report graphically illustrates the magnitude of her failure. It states that during August 2012, the State Department reduced the number of U.S. security personnel assigned to the Embassy in Tripoli from 34 (1.5 security officers per diplomat) to 6 (1 security officer per 4.5 diplomats), despite a rapidly deteriorating security situation in both Tripoli and Benghazi. Thus, according to the Report, "there were no surplus security agents" to travel to Benghazi with Amb. Stevens "without leaving the Embassy in Tripoli at severe risk."
Patricia Smith, mother of Sean Smith, who fought and died for his country at Benghazi, spoke of liar-Hillary's callousness at the 2012 GOP convention. Smith focused in her riveting convention speech on liar-Hillary's disregard for the families of the Benghazi dead:
I know a few things could've been done to prevent it. But nobody's admitting to anything. Right now, my understanding is liar-Hillary didn't do a damn thing. And I wonder what she did as Secretary of State, because she disavows everything. She disavows the fact that she even got any call for security[.] ... If this is her Department, she certainly doesn't know how to run the Department. And she lied the whole time. She lied to me and called me a liar on TV.
The movie 13 Hours is based on the book, in which the three CIA contractors, Kris Paronto, John Tiegen, and Mark Geist, who fought at Benghazi, tell the tale of the battle they fought with Glen Doherty, Sean Smith, and Tyrone Woods in the terrorist attack that claimed the life of Ambassador Chris Stevens, whose name liar-Hillary could not remember.
It confirms that Benghazi was not a spontaneous demonstration gone bad due a video, despite liar-Susan Rice repeating that lie on five Sunday talk shows, and President scumbag/liar-nObama repeated six times before the United Nations. liar-Hillary Clinton knew that it was a lie, telling the truth to daughter Chelsea and an Egyptian diplomat before she lied to the parents of the Benghazi dead. It confirms that rescuers were told to stand down.
liar-Hillary and her State Department had warnings, including from Ambassador Stevens himself, that Benghazi was an unsecure trap in the face of a growing terrorist threat. As Investor's Business Daily editorialized on documents unearthed by Judicial Watch:
The documents describe Libya as hardly the poster child for the Arab Spring, and echo warnings sent to State by Stevens himself. He was aware of an attack on a convoy carrying the British ambassador to Libya and a June 2012 attack where an improvised explosive device blew a hole in the Benghazi consulate wall. Nowhere in the 486 pages is mention of or concern for the effects of a video.On Aug. 8, 2012, Stevens sent a two-page cable to the State Department entitled "The Guns of August: Security in Eastern Libya" and noted a dangerous "security vacuum" in and around Benghazi, as well as the presence of terrorist training camps. He was ignored.The documents reveal that, early on the day after the attack, the Pentagon received intelligence briefing slides detailing that the June 6, 2012, attack was tied to al-Qaida-linked terrorists seeking an Islamic state in Libya and who threatened to attack U.S. interests there. It also said the June 6 attack "came in response to the 5 June 2012 drone strike on senior al-Qaida leader Abu Yahya al-libi."That Sept. 11 was a terrorist attack was known before, during and after it took place."I personally ... think the U.S. Africa Command very quickly got to the point that this was not a demonstration, this was a terrorist attack," Gen. Carter Ham, head of the Command, testified behind closed doors in June 2013 before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
And that, Ham said, was the "nature of the conversation" he had with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey moments before a 30-minute meeting withscumbag/liar-nObama prior to the president resting up for his fundraising Las Vegas trip.
liar-Hillary Clinton ignore the pleas for added security at Benghazi, the terrorist threat that was building, and then let pleas for a rescue fall on deaf ears. Could a rescue attempt have been mounted? According to Hicks, yes, it could have:
Hicks says he believes "if we had been able to scramble a fighter or aircraft or two over Benghazi as quickly as possible after the attack commenced" – around 9:30 p.m. that night – "I believe there would not have been a mortar attack on the annex in the morning because I believe the Libyans would have split. They would have been scared to death that we would have gotten a laser on them and killed them."
Hicks, who was in Tripoli that night, relates how the Libyan prime minister called and told him that the U.S. ambassador had been killed, after which "the Libyan military agreed to fly their C-130 to Benghazi and carry additional personnel to Benghazi as reinforcements."
A Special Forces team was ready to go along but was forbidden from doing so by the U.S. Special Operations Command in Africa.
When Patricia Smith testified before Congress, most dummycrats-Democrats walked out of the room, turning their backs on the mother of one of those patriots abandoned by scumbag/liar-nObama and liar-Hillary at Benghazi, refusing to hear her grief as she condemned what scumbag/liar-nObama now calls a mere "conspiracy theory":
With the exception of ranking member scumbag-Elijah Cummings, D-Md., and Jackie Speier, D-Calif., 12 other dummycrats-Democrats on the Committee shamefully left the room and refused to listen to the testimony of Smith ...
Mrs. Smith testified how President scumbag/liar-nObama, Vice President loose lips-Joe Biden and Secretary liar-Clinton, among other top administration officials, approached her at the casket ceremony when her son's body was returned to the U.S.
"Every one of them came up to me, gave me a big hug, and I asked them, 'What happened, please tell me?' And every one of them said it was the video. And we all know that it wasn't the video. Even at that time they knew it wasn't the video. So they all lied to me."
Judging from scumbag/liar-nObama's speech, they're still lying.
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by Cal Thomas
{ townhall.com } ~ Since Robert Bork's "borking" 30 years ago, Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for a high court nominee by a Republican president have become predictable.
dummycrats-Democrats, who favor a "living Constitution," meaning whatever they think the founding document ought to say, are pitted against "originalists," who believe the document speaks for itself and should be taken as something only slightly less compelling than holy writ.
The hearings for Brett Kavanaugh are following the script with one addition. dummycrats-Democrats, who know they are unlikely to block Kavanaugh's confirmation, are using it to stimulate their base ahead of the November election.
Time was when a "well qualified" endorsement by the American Bar Association, which Judge Kavanaugh received, was enough for most senators to vote in favor of a nominee. Not in a day when politics has invaded even funerals.
It's amusing to read and watch how the media have tried to set up the hearings. A New York Times story worries that President Trump could "flip" the Supreme Court and slow down or reverse its move in a liberal direction. That's the point of elections, isn't it?
dummycrats-Democrats may also rue the day they got behind former Senate Majority Leader Harry dinky-Reid's successful effort to invoke the "nuclear option," allowing federal judges to be confirmed by a simple majority vote, rather than 60 votes, which had been the previous marker. dinky-Reid's efforts did not include Supreme Court nominees.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell last year broadened the rule to include them. The Republican majority likely has enough votes to confirm Kavanaugh and might even get a dummycrats-Democrat or two on board, especially those who face tough re-election bids in states that Trump won.
If "impeccable" defines anything, it defines Judge Kavanaugh's record as a jurist. While dummycrats-Democrats and the secular progressives who have recently organized demonstrations against his confirmation will try to paint him as a die hard, right-wing ideologue, his record says otherwise.
Kavanaugh issued more than 300 opinions as a judge on the D.C. Court of Appeals, most of which appeared non-controversial at the time. That he read the law correctly can be seen in the Supreme Court's endorsement of his positions -- 13 in the cases that were appealed to that bench. While dummycrats-Democrats on the Judiciary Committee complain they haven't received all the documents they wanted -- clearly a slowdown tactic -- their staffs have reviewed more documents than any previous nominee to the Supreme Court.
The real focus of these hearings for dummycrats-Democrats will be on social issues and whether Kavanaugh believes all Supreme Court rulings are sacrosanct and must be respected. Primarily that means abortion, same-sex marriage and the remnants of scumbag/liar-nObamacare.
Using that argument, the Dred Scott decision that decided African-Americans had less value than whites and Plessy v. Ferguson, which said separate but equal facilities were OK by the Constitution, would still be the law of the land. When one is headed in the wrong direction, the worst decision is to keep going, instead of turning around.
Will Sen. Dianne Fein-stein (D-Calif.) allude to Kavanaugh's Catholic faith during the hearings? She did at last year's confirmation hearing for Amy Coney Barrett to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. Feinstein employed an old anti-Catholic stereotype that claims Catholics are unable to separate church and state because they place their religious allegiances before their oath to the Constitution.
Favorite lines on opening day: "The Senate is the conscience of America," uttered by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.). Say what? And Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), claiming that people in his state ask him, "Are we going to be all right?"
Kavanaugh enjoys bipartisan support outside the Senate, but that won't matter. It's all about politics now, not the Constitution or the law. Kavanaugh is likely to win confirmation, but the behavior of some senators may further sour the public's view of Washington.
Whether the hearings will affect voter turnout in November is unknown. Pollsters predict doom for Republicans, but their record of failure with past forecasts note the 2016 election does not give them much credibility.
{ townhall.com } ~ Question: What is more cringe-inducing than a celebrity funeral?
Answer: Two back-to-back celebrity funerals.
The ghoulish twin spectacles last week memorializing Aretha Franklin and rino-John McCain brought out the worst in family, friends and frenemies. No matter your partisan affiliation, these vulgar exercises in self-indulgence should serve as object lessons on how not to depart with dignity.
There was the nation's most infamous anti-Semite, Louis Farrakhan, smiling like the Cheshire cat onstage with hate crime hoax godfather scumbag-Al Sharpton and shakedown con artist Jesse Jackson, who exploited his honored platform to threaten funeral attendees: "If you leave here today and don't register to vote, you're dishonoring Aretha."
There was lascivious 72-year-old liar-Bill Clinton ogling 25-year-old Ariana Grande, who was wearing slightly more fabric than she normally wears, roughly equivalent to two 12- by 12-inch lace doilies, as she warbled "Natural Woman." liar-Clinton's latest public display of asininity closely rivaled his indecent conduct at his former Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's funeral, where the master media manipulator fake-cried after news videographers captured him yukking it up after the National Cathedral service.
There was boorish Bishop Charles H. Ellis III copping a side-feel of Grande's barely covered bosom in the name of "friendliness."
There was Atlanta pastor Jasper Williams hijacking the Detroit dais to share his unsolicited views on crime and parenting.
And there was Georgetown professor Michael Eric Dyson taking a somber moment to honor Aretha Franklin's transcendent talent by wallowing in Trump Derangement Syndrome. Dyson called the president a "lugubrious leech," "dopey doppleganger of deceit and deviance," "lethal liar," "dimwitted dictator" and "foolish fascist."
A-plus for alliterative abomination!
Not to be outdone by the disrespectful requiem for the Queen of Soul, the five-day, three-city rino-McCain processional marathon featured a vindictive blacklist reportedly devised by the decedent himself; passive-aggressive eulogy swipes at President Trump by Meghan rino-McCain, loose lips-Joe Biden, Barack scumbag/liar-nObama and George W. Bush; and a hyperbolic media declaration about how the late Arizona senator's passing augured "the death of political courage" itself.
Spoiler alert: Political courage survived.
The fact that President Trump is living rent-free in the heads of so many camera-ready mourners says more about the Hollywood and D.C. swamps than it does about anything else. Outside La-La Land and the polarized realm of the Resistance, sane Americans live grounded and healthier lives defined primarily and centrally by family, faith, hard work, quiet charity, devotion to community and self-improvement.
And you, dear politicians, entertainers and bitterly clinging entourages, are not at the center of it.
We've seen this graveyard narcissism intertwined with crass partisanship during televised death rituals before. The late dummycrats-Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone's funeral, after he perished in a plane crash, reeked of electoral opportunism before the 2002 midterms. In front of 21,000 Minnesotans who had gathered to pay tribute to the man, his family and other aides who died in the tragic accident, dummycrats-Democratic leaders gracelessly turned the memorial into a 3.5-hour campaign rally to elect Wellstone's stand-in. Campaign treasurer Rick Kahn led a chorus of boos directed at then Sen. Majority Leader Trent Lott, who had traveled from Mississippi to pay his respects, and former GOP Sen. Rod Grams.
Then-Governor Jesse Ventura, an independent, condemned the circus and said the dummycrats-Democrats' grandstanding "drove the first lady Ventura's wife, Terry to tears;" the couple walked out in protest. GOP senatorial candidate Norm Coleman went on to defeat Wellstone's replacement, the dinosaur Walter Mondale, in what political observers from both sides of the aisle agree was a passionate voter backlash against the funeral fecklessness.
But the main reason for self-restraint, of course, is not electoral self-preservation. It's soul preservation. Sniping about partisan politics on any pulpit or any platform after anyone of any stature has died is just plain petty. Such unhinged diatribes diminish the ranters more than the targets of the rants.
The deeds of the dead should speak for themselves. All else is futile sound and fury, grotesque pomp and theater, meaningless dust in the made-for-TV wind.
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{ americanthinker.com } ~ Social media entered our world with a promising offer: you can communicate here – with virtually everyone on Earth... For years, a wide range of views were tolerated, and every popular voice enriched the creators of the platforms by drawing millions of eyes and ears. These platforms fast eclipsed other means of communication specifically because they offered such an open and effective means of reaching out to others. But now social media have a near monopoly on public discourse, and the age of censorship has arrived. Ideas and messages that once were tolerable are now forbidden. Users have spent a decade or more building their audience with a consistent message – and thus filling the platform-owners' pockets – and now find themselves banned when their message hasn't changed. In no other arena of commerce would owners be considered justified in arbitrarily changing the rules to exclude certain customers, particularly if the reasons were amorphous, largely unexplained, and applied to a certain type of customer and not to others. Something sinister is afoot. Understanding and dealing with it responsibly is essential to preserving the free exchange of ideas – a bulwark of our civic culture and a foundation of American exceptionalism. The argument is made that these platforms are private firms with a right to determine their own policies. But that raises the real questions, which are these: 1. Have social media in fact become the public soapbox? The answer here is undeniably "yes," and certain facts about this reality are undeniable. First, in America, the soapbox has a uniquely revered position; it is supposed to be a level platform on which any can stand. Our right to speak freely has some limitations, but those limits are spelled out by centuries of experience and jurisprudence. The idea that anyone outside law enforcement can stand next to the soapbox with a cudgel is alien to the American experience. Second, is it remotely possible that private property rights can apply to the public soapbox? The platform-owners did an amazing job of building their businesses into the modern soapbox, but can that fact remove the right of people to use it in ways that have always been considered legal?... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/09/the_broken_soapbox.html
Amazon, commie-Sanders, and the Socialist Family Feud
Most Americans likely agree that workers deserve a fair wage, and that CEOs like Amazon’s billionaire socialist Jeff Bezos (owner of The Washington Post) are paid too much money, but in a free-market system the wages and salaries of workers are determined by the value of labor within the system, not by bureaucrats or polls. And this prompts the question: Should the federal government force companies to pay higher wages?
commie-Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator from Vermont, thinks so. And he’s got an even bolder plan. Along with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), commie-Sanders has drafted a bill called the Stop BEZOS (Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies) Act, which would tax large corporations at a rate equal to the amount of federal benefits their employees receive from the government.
(Did we mention that Sanders owns three homes, including a $600,000 lake house?)
commie-Sanders relies on bogus research that, as Investor’s Business Daily notes, lumps in with regular workers “those putting in as little as 10 hours a week, 27 weeks of the year. It’s hardly surprising that some of these part-time, transient workers rely on government benefits, but that’s not Amazon’s fault.”
Emily Stewart writes at Vox, “How the commie-Sanders/Khanna legislation would be implemented is not clear. Sanders’s office says that the IRS would have to consult with the United States Department of Agriculture, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to issue regulations to make it work. They haven’t offered more specifics.” No surprise there. The devil is always in the details.
And don’t think for a second that if this bill ever becomes law it would be the last stage in the process. Imagine if dummycrats-Democrats had the power to nationalize health care again or guarantee other government services for every citizen. Corporations would then be forced to cover the social costs of all their workers, not just those at the lower end of the economic ladder.
But this plan is pure political theater to motivate the dummycrats-Democrat base in the midterms. After all, a recent poll revealed that they now prefer socialism to capitalism. And if dummycrats-Democrats take back Congress in November, look for a bill like this to come up for a vote.
commie-Sanders’s proposal to tax corporations is yet another “feel good” progressive solution that solves nothing.
In fact, it causes other problems that we’re already seeing in certain industries. One of the side effects of the Stop BEZOS proposal includes companies replacing workers with automation or raising consumer prices in order to pay for the tax. They may also be more likely to find loopholes in order to avoid the taxes. And since there are plenty of middle-class Americans who receive government assistance in one form or another, companies may be hesitant to hire low-income workers in the first place. This is the slippery slope of socialism trying to ride on the back of capitalism, and it ends up hurting workers and consumers every time.
As for the notion raised by some on both the Left and the populist Right that we’re already subsidizing employees of these companies, the American Enterprise Institute’s Michael R. Strain writes, “Walmart, Amazon and McDonald’s are not being subsidized by taxpayers because some of their employees receive assistance from safety-net programs. Instead, employers of lower-wage workers are surely reducing safety-net rolls.”
Nonetheless, dummycrats-Democrats are portraying this issue as the rich taking from the poor. And this, of course, is their go-to strategy for mobilizing working-class and poorer voters to support various progressive schemes. But the reality is far more complex, and the government is simply not capable of replicating the value of work in a free-market system.
The Stop BEZOS Act is only the first step, but instead of penalizing corporations, we need to focus on the root causes of wage stagnation and poverty. We should be looking to expand the economy and raise wages through free-market solutions rather than oppressive taxation. Doing so can help us ensure that fewer of our fellow Americans will need a social safety net in the first place.
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/58117?mailing_id=3723&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3723&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
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Who Sacrificed Everything, Nike?
Kyle’s first long-range kill was against an Iraqi suicide bomber who was walking toward a group of Marines with a hand grenade. Of that kill, he said, “The woman was already dead. I was just making sure she didn’t take any Marines with her.”
During his four combat tours as a SEAL sniper, he recorded 160 confirmed kills and 95 probables, and became known as the “Devil of Ramadi” by al-Qa'ida and other Iraqi insurgents. His longest shot was taken in 2008 near the Baghdad slum of Sadr City, where he arrested an RPG-carrying insurgent at more than 2,000 meters.
Over the course of his 10-year military career, Chris was shot twice and survived six IED explosions. He earned two Silver Stars, five Bronze Stars, the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, and two Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals.
We recall Kyle’s heroism and sacrifice because his widow, Taya, so thoroughly took down Nike over the company’s disgraceful ad featuring unemployed former NFL quarterback and social justice warrior Colin Kaepernick. In a blistering public letter to Nike, Taya Kyle wrote:
At best, that is all Colin sacrificed… some money and it’s debatable if he really lost his career over it. Maybe he sacrificed the respect of some people while he gained the respect of others. Or maybe he used one career to springboard himself into a different career when the first was waning. I don’t know. What I do know is, he gained popularity and magazine covers he likely wouldn’t have gotten without getting on his knees or as you say, “believing in something.” I’m also thinking the irony is that while I am not privy to the numbers, it’s likely he gained a lucrative Nike contract. So yeah… that whole “sacrificing everything” is insulting to those who really have sacrificed everything.
You want to talk about someone in the NFL sacrificing everything? Pat Tillman. NFL STARTING, not benched, player who left to join the Army and died for it. THAT is sacrificing everything for something you believe in.
How about other warriors? Warriors who will not be on magazine covers, who will not get lucrative contracts and millions of followers from their actions and who have truly sacrificed everything. They did it because they believed in something. Take it from me, when I say they sacrificed everything, they also sacrificed the lives of their loved ones who will never be the same. THAT is sacrificing everything for something they believe in.
Indeed, the one who sacrificed everything isn’t the ingrate millionaire who hates his country despite his success and who turned a failing football career into social justice martyrdom and a lucrative ad campaign. It’s America’s Patriot Armed Forces and their families — particularly the ones who lost their lives serving the country they love. It’s men like Pat Tillman and Chris Kyle.
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/58115?mailing_id=3723&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3723&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
Please Read Part 82:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 81)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On August 23, 2018:
The following recent thought-provoking article revealed that the ‘Deep State' is real and that they are the ones that have walked away from every criminal act while others were blamed or imprisoned. These individuals in the ‘Deep State’ have walked away unscathed from Benghazi, Uranium One, the DNC Server scandal, the Clinton server scandal, unmasking and spying on Americans without cause and, if not stopped, they are on their way to walking away from a political scandal of such proportions that likely involves hundreds.
It also revealed that, if President Trump had not won the election, Americans would have remained ignorant, sadly many of them by choice, of the truth and we would remain under the control of a vast criminal cabal, which is something the majority of Americans could not envision happening in the land of the free. The cabal is real, runs deep and has allegedly been that way for as far back as you care to look with figurehead Presidents and a charade of 'government by and for the people' for far too long.
Additionally, it also revealed that maybe it was divine intervention that they are now being exposed to the light and 'Evil' cannot exist in the light and that even the complicit media will not be able to keep the growing mountain of evidence from the people for too much longer. As a result, this is war and political persecution has already started and opposing voices are being silenced by major media propaganda and blackout, along with social media black listing. When this war ends, either the cabal will be crushed or the 'Constitutional Republic' known as the 'United States of America' will no longer exist. Whether we are active participants or not, we are literally in a fight for our own existence because, if the deep state wins, it will no longer be the ‘Deep State,’ but the 'State' and it will be more brutal than any other in the history of nations. If True-What’s wrong, but not surprising about this picture?-You Decide:
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The Deep State Is Real!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By J.D. Pendry-On August 25, 2018:
https://newswithviews.com/the-deep-state-is-real/
Note: I believe that the disturbing information revealed in the following website, articles and videos relates to and/or further supports the information revealed in the above thought-provoking article regarding the ‘Deep State’-You Decide:

Video: Former CIA Officer Exposes the Deep State/Shadow Government (Parts 1-3)!-By Kevin Shipp:
https://www.fortheloveoffreedom.net/

Is the Deep State Winning? ‘The stakes if it is’!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Bruce Thornton-On August 29, 2018:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271142/deep-state-winning-bruce-thornton
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Then-CIA Director John Brennan endorsed Trump dossier, Bob Woodward says!-Posted on The Washington Times-By Rowan Scarborough, The Washington Times-On September 11, 2018:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/11/john-brennan-endorsed-anti-trump-steele-dossier-bo/

Video: Ex-FBI Agent & Former CIA Station Chief Expose John Brennan!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Tim Brown-On September 7, 2018:
https://freedomoutpost.com/ex-fbi-agent-former-cia-station-chief-expose-john-brennan/
Gallup: Americans Reject Idea Trump Acted Illegally in 2016!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Cathy Burke-On September 11, 2018:

Senator Cassidy: Shut It Down, Mueller!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Daily Caller-On September 12, 2018:
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/bill-cassidy-mueller-investigation/

Lisa Page: FBI Still Lacked Evidence When Rod Rosenstein Appointed A Special Counsel in May 2017!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Elizabeth Vaughn-On September 16, 2018:

Video: Tom Fitton: Mueller’s Investigation Into President Trump Is ‘Built On A Sand Of Corruption’!-Posted on Judicial Watch-On September 13, 2018:

Hannity Talks “Deep State” Corruption: “Irreparable Damage”!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On September 14, 2018:
https://www.thepostemail.com/2018/09/14/hannity-talks-deep-state-corruption/

Is The US Engaging In Propaganda Against Its Own People?-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Tim Brown-On September 5, 2018:
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Video: U.S. Can Legally Propagandize Its Own Citizens!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Ben Swann-On August 14, 2018:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IR8ZUnsO_k
Article posted with permission from Sons Of Liberty Media
Continue Reading:
https://freedomoutpost.com/is-the-us-engaging-in-propaganda-against-its-own-people/

New York Times Publishes Evidence of a Deep State 'Resistance' Inside the Trump Administration!-Posted on PJ Media-By Tyler O'Neil-On September 5, 2018:

Trump Suggests Changing Libel Laws in Response to ‘Fabricated’ Woodward Book!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Chris Agee-On September 5, 2018:
CNN Publishes Letter Reportedly Stolen off Trump’s Desk!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Savannah Pointer-On September 7, 2018:

Video: NY Times is a propaganda organ for the anti-Trump radical: Ted Malloch!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Fox Business-On September 6, 2018:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Y4HgHb5Zk

Video: Gingrich slams 'junk' anonymous White House op-ed!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Fox News-On September 6, 2018:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV7Ievqqdak
Democrats Use Anonymous Trump Official’s NYT Op-ed To Push 25th Amendment Fantasy!-Posted on The Political Insider-By By Peter Hasson, Daily Caller-On September 5, 2018:
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/democrats-impeach-op-ed/
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Elizabeth Warren calls for Trump's removal from office under 25th Amendment: 'It's time': ‘Goes all-in, making similar arguments in CNN interview, in fundraising letter, on Twitter’!-Posted on The Washington Times-By Victor Morton, The Washington Times-On September 6, 2018:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/6/elizabeth-warren-calls-donald-trumps-removal-offic/

NBC’s Brennan Hails ‘Courageous’ NYT Op/Ed Author Attacking ‘Unfit’ Trump!-Posted on MRC News Buster-By Kyle Drennen-On September 6, 2018:
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John Kerry: 'We don't have a president'!-Posted on The Washington Times-By Jessica Chasmar, The Washington Times-On September 6, 2018:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/6/john-kerry-we-dont-have-president/

Kerry Admits to Secret Nuke Negotiations: ‘His book-tour confession fits in with his lifelong habit of undermining American interests’!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Nate Jackson-On September 14, 2018:

Kerry Should Be Prosecuted For Illegal Iran Meetings!-Posted on Investor’s Business Daily-On September 13, 2018:
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/john-kerry-iran-meetings-prosecute/

Video: Netanyahu Delivers New Bombshell About Iran at UNGA!-Posted on Christians United For Israel-On September 27, 2018:
https://www.cufi.org/full-israeli-prime-minister-netanyahu-addresses-the-un-general-assembly/

Sayed Mohammad Hosseini: Meet The Iranian "Donald Trump" Who Wants To Bring 1776 To Iran!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Tim Brown-On October 5, 2018:

Trump Admin: ‘Severe Penalties’ for Companies Who Circumvent Iran Sanctions!-Posted on Money and Markets-By JT Crowe-On November 6, 2018:
https://moneyandmarkets.com/severe-penalties-trump-iran-sanctions/

Trump: ‘Unelected Deep State Operatives Who Defy the Voters to Push Their Own Secret Agendas’ Are a ‘Threat to Democracy’!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Melanie Arter-On September 7, 2018:

Deep State Mole in White House Boasts of Sabotaging Trump!-Posted on The New American-By Alex Newman-On September 6, 2018:

Washington Post Reporter Implies NYT Anonymous Author Not a Significant Administration Official!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Jim E-On September 7, 2018:
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/new-york-times-op-ed-anonymous/

Trump Vs. Sleeper Cell Op-ed: ‘The president fights back’!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Matthew Vadum-On September 7, 2018:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271265/trump-vs-sleeper-cell-op-ed-matthew-vadum

President Trump vs Traitors, Liars and Cowards: Who Will Win the Championship Rounds?-Posted on The Western Journal-By Terry Ray-On September 8, 2018:
The Effort to Overthrow the Democratically Elected President!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Patrick Buchanan-On September 7, 2018:
https://www.newsmax.com/patrickbuchanan/trump-york-investigation-democrats/2018/09/06/id/880618/
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A frightening week in the war to overthrow Trump!-Posted on WND.com-By Larry Klayman-On September 7, 2018:
https://www.wnd.com/2018/09/a-frightening-week-in-the-war-to-overthrow-trump/#ZoH0hZ6QJbdFd38J.99

Trump Top Ten To-Do List: An “Unprecedented Political Threat”!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Jeff Crouere, Trump Delegate, LA Co-Chair, Talk Show Host-On September 7, 2018:
https://www.thepostemail.com/2018/09/07/trump-top-ten-to-do-list/

Lindsey Graham: Trump-trashing op-ed is a clue-filled ‘signal’ from Mueller. Here’s what it means …!-Posted on BizPac Review-By Vivek Saxena-On September 9, 2018:

President Trump May Be Preparing A Little Surprise Of His Own!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Elizabeth Vaughn-On September 9, 2018:
https://freedomoutpost.com/president-trump-may-be-preparing-a-little-surprise-of-his-own/

Video: Justice With Judge Jeanine 9/8/18 | Justice With Judge Jeanine Fox New September 8, 2018!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Barbara Worthington-On September 8, 2018:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQzhS8vUHNM

Steve Bannon floats unique theory on ‘coup’ behind NY Times op-ed: Much broader than people think!-Posted on BizPac Review-By Tom Tillison-On September 11, 2018:
Video: Author Allan Lichtman Believes Multiple Grounds For Impeachment | Morning Joe | MSNBC!-Posted on YouTube.com-By MSNBC-On September 10, 2018:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7accY-w8VDY&app=desktop

Scarborough celebrates somber day by fear-mongering, says Trump is ‘far graver threat’ to America than 9/11!-Posted on BizPac Review-By Samantha Chang-On September 11, 2018:
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Rush Limbaugh: N.Y. Times possibly 'made up' anti-Trump op-ed with 'composite series of opinions': Radio host: 'There is a coup, a silent coup, going on'!-Posted on The Washington Times-By Douglas Ernst, The Washington Times-On September 11, 2018:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/11/rush-limbaugh-new-york-times-possibly-made-up-trum/

Violence Against Right Escalates as Media Amp up Hate-Rhetoric Against Trump!-Posted on Breibart.com-By John Nolte, Editor-at-Large-On September 12, 2018:

Steve Scalise Makes Powerful Statement That Only He Can!-Posted on Constitution.com-By Andrew West-On September 13, 2018:
https://constitution.com/steve-scalise-makes-powerful-statement-that-only-he-can/

Woodward's 'Blue Wave' Launch Pad: Fear Crazy Trump! "[Trump] is doing what he campaigned on. Some policies may not work out, but they're not 'crazy.' —Brit Hume!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Mark Alexander-On September 12, 2018:

Woodward Book Proves 1 Thing Liberals Fear: Trump Isn’t Breaking, the Deep State Is!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Brandon Weichert-On September 17, 2018:

The World Is Waging War Against Globalist Elites – Could This Save the West?-Posted on The Western Journal-By Giuliano Maciocci-On September 14, 2018:

Video: Trump Issues National Preparedness Advisory!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Operation Freedom-On September 4, 2018:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7Mv7zuzYXA

New Internet Channel Interviews “Deep State” Opponents: “Trying To Make It Legal Secretly”!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On September 15, 2018:
https://www.thepostemail.com/2018/09/15/new-internet-channel-interviews-deep-state-opponents/
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Trump authorizes sanctions against foreign governments that interfere in US elections!-Posted on The Hill-By Jacqueline Thomsen and Jordan Fabian-On September 12, 2018:

Video: Trump's September Surprise is a Doozy!-Posted on American Intelligence Media-On September 13, 2018:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zWWJ1BzKgI

Video: Hillary's PRISON PLANET Unlocked!-Posted on YouTube.com-By American Intelligence Media-On September 17, 2018:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLlfnh6st9U

Hillary Clinton Wants To Silence The Right Under The Guise Of Saving Democracy!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Ann-On September 17, 2018:
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/hillary-clinton-silence-the-right/

Video: YourVoice™ Steel Truth (9/17) "Intelligence Community Roundup!"-Posted on YouTube.com-By Bill Mitchell-On September 17, 2018:
https://www.yourvoiceamerica.tv/st-9-17-18/

Project Veritas Vows To Expose Deep State Individuals!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Jack Davis-On September 17, 2018:

State Department bureaucrat caught plotting 'deep state' resistance: Project Veritas!-Posted on The Washington Times-By Rowan Scarborough, The Washington Times-On September 18, 2018:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/18/stuart-karaffa-state-department-bureaucrat-caught-/

New Video Shows State Dept. Employees Doxing Trump Admin Officials!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Matt, Contributor-On September 19, 2018:
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/james-okeefe-deep-state-video/

O’Keefe Outs Another Deep State Dolt, This Time from IRS!-Posted on Constitution.com-By Andrew West-On September 25, 2018:
https://constitution.com/okeefe-outs-another-deep-state-dolt-this-time-from-irs/

Video: Tom Fitton’s Weekly Video Update-Topics: Clinton/Weiner Laptop Lawsuit; NEW Strzok/Page Docs; JW Files Ethics Complaint against Corey Booker; and JW Exposes Obama’s Benghazi Dishonesty!-Posted on Judicial Watch-On September 14, 2018:

9/11 Inside Job Conspiracy Blown Wide Open With Hard Evidence Indicting The Usual Perps!-Posted on The Millennium Report-On September 11, 2018:
http://themillenniumreport.com/2018/09/9-11-inside-job-conspiracy-blown-wide-open-with-hard-evidence-indicting-the-usual-perps/

Video: 9/11: What 17 Years of Lies Have Done to Us (Richard Dolan Intelligent Disclosure)!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Richard Dolan-On September 11, 2018:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aXVzLMVdWM

Video: Richard Dolan Show with Andrew Johnson!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Richard Dolan-On October 8, 2018:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMtuUTiNMw4

Video: Flight Attendant sheds new light on 9/11!-Posted on YouTube.com-By MrChrillemannen-On September 11, 2017:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7md2QzNsAe4

Nearly Two Decades Later, The Cover-Up Continues!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On September 11, 2018:
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/nearly-two-decades-later-the-cover-up-continues/

Here’s How Safe We Are 17 Years After 9/11!-Posted on The Daily Signal-By David Inserra / @dr_inserra-On September 10, 2018:
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/09/10/heres-how-safe-we-are-17-years-after-9-11/

MICHELLE MALKIN: The post-9/11 cycle of cynicism!-Posted on Conservative Institute-On September 12, 2018:
https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/opinion/post-cycle-of-cynicism.htm

The FBI still hasn’t found these 9/11-era terrorists!-Posted on New York Post-By Paul Sperry-On September 8, 2018:
Note: I believe that the disturbing information revealed in the above thought-provoking articles and videos relates to and/or further supports the information revealed in my following blog from the recent past regarding this extremely disturbing issue-You Decide:
9/11 TRUTH SEEKERS: THE ‘LUNATIC FRINGE’ IS WHOM?-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On May 25, 2014:
http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/9-11-truth-seekers-the-lunatic-fringe-is-whom

September 11: Political Islam's Long War on the West: ‘All throughout history, September 11 has been a key date in Islamic jihad’!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By William Federer-On September 11, 2018:
https://freedomoutpost.com/september-11-political-islams-long-war-on-the-west/

Historical Record Refutes President Bush's Claim after 9/11: “Islam is peace!”-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Robert Spencer-On September 11, 2018:

UK: Muslims Demand Franklin Graham Be Banned From Country For Criticizing Islam: Would anyone be calling for the banning of Graham from the UK if he had called Christianity “evil”?-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Robert Spencer-On September 10, 2018:

Leftists & Islamic Apologists Are Rewriting History To Manipulate You Into Favoring Their Modern-Day Policies!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Robert Spencer-On September 8, 2018:

Seventeen Years After ‘The Falling Man’!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Frank Salvato-On September 12, 2018:
https://freedomoutpost.com/seventeen-years-after-the-falling-man/

Memories of Leftist Glee About 9/11: ‘How progressives saw poetic justice in planes plunging into U.S. buildings packed with innocents’!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Jamie Glazov-On September 11, 2018:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271297/memories-leftist-glee-about-911-jamie-glazov

Facebook Lifts Frontpage Editor Jamie Glazov’s 9/11 Ban!-Posted on on Front Page Magazine-By Frontpagemag.com-On September 14, 2018:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271324/facebook-lifts-frontpage-editor-jamie-glazovs-911-frontpagemagcom
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Why Confront Islamism?-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Amil Imani-On September 15, 2018:
https://newswithviews.com/why-confront-islamism/

Relax: California Muslim with IEDs in Car Has 'No Ties' to Terror Orgs: Go back to sleep. Who doesn’t drive around with IEDs in the car?-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Robert Spencer-On September 27, 2018:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271431/relax-california-muslim-ieds-car-has-no-ties-robert-spencer
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The Islamization Of America’s Schools!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Amil Imani-On September 18, 2018:
https://newswithviews.com/the-islamization-of-americas-schools/

Video: CAIR Infiltrates Public Schools: Why is a Hamas-linked group indoctrinating our children?-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Sean Fitzgerald-On September 24, 2018:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271409/video-cair-infiltrates-public-schools-sean-fitzgerald

Video: Robert Spencer Gives Three Lessons From Islamic History for Today’s Policymakers!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Frontpagemag.com-On October 2, 2018:
Propagandists Attempts to Debunk Muslim Brotherhood Subversion of US Memo - Fail Miserably!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Tim Brown-On October 4, 2018:

ISIS Warns of Knife Attack 'Surprises' at Concerts!-Posted on PJMedia-By Bridget Johnson-On October 5, 2018:
https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/isis-warns-of-knife-attack-surprises-at-concerts/

Media Silent as Senate Unanimously Votes to Declassify Docs on Saudi Arabia’s Role in 9/11!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Matt Agorist-On October 6, 2018:
Note: I believe that the information revealed in the above article regarding ‘Saudi Arabia’s Role in 9/11’ relates to and/or further supports my following blog-You Decide:

Saudi Arabia Implicated In Bankrolling of Extremist Terrorist Movements Around The World!!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 16, 2017:

Federal Court: Hamas-CAIR Must Stand Trial For Fraud!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Pamela Geller-On October 6, 2018:
https://freedomoutpost.com/federal-court-hamas-cair-must-stand-trial-for-fraud/

New York Grants Hundreds Of Thousands Of Taxpayer Dollars To Islamic Terror-Tied Organizations!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Pamela Geller-On October 6, 2018:

‘Together We Are An Army’: The BLP Interview with Pamela Geller!-Posted on Big League Politics-By Seth Segal-On October 7, 2018:
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/together-we-are-an-army-the-blp-interview-with-pamela-geller/

University Lecturer Under Fire for Saying Muslims Commit Terror Attacks: ‘At universities today, reality is unwelcome’!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Robert Spencer-On October 8, 2018:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271548/university-lecturer-under-fire-saying-muslims-robert-spencer

FBI Arrests Iraqi Refugee in Tucson for Building Car Bomb, Teaching Others!-Posted on PJ Media-By Patrick Poole-On November 2, 2018:

Hezbollah in America: ‘Unit 910’ Exposed in Court Proceedings!-Posted on PJ Media-By Todd Bensman-On November 2, 2018:
https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/hezbollah-in-america-unit-910-exposed-in-court-proceedings/

Prosecution Gives Remarkable Glimpse of Hezbollah Inside America -- and Media Yawns!- Posted on PJ Media-By Todd Bensman-On October 22, 2018:

9/11 Breakthrough: Interview With AIA's Richard Gage & Barbara Honegger Reveals That After 17 Years, The Dam Is About to Break!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Jim White-On December 9, 2018:

Trump Delivers Powerful Message at 9/11 Memorial: ‘America Will Never, Ever Submit to Tyranny’!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Jack Davis-On September 11, 2018:

Remembering 9/11 in the Age of Trump: At last, beyond denial and fatalism?-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Bruce Bawer-On September 11, 2018:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271292/remembering-911-age-trump-bruce-bawer

Suspending the Constitution: In America Today, the Government Does Whatever It Wants!-Posted on Restoring Liberty-By John W. Whitehead-On September 17, 2018:
Please Read Part 83:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 83)- Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On September 18, 2018:
Note: I also believe that the extremely disturbing information revealed in the above website, articles and videos relates to and/or further supports my following blogs-You Decide:
Letter to our NM U.S. Representative Michelle Lujan-Grisham (re: Shadow Party’s alleged agenda to take down America)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On February 13, 2015:
http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-u-s-rep...
Obama is the Manifestation of a Multi-Generational Soviet Plot to Destroy America!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On April 2, 2014:
http://teapartyorg.ning.cohttp://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/obama-is-the-manifestati...
When A U.S. President IS Muslim Brotherhood!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On August 17, 2014:
http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/when-a-u-s-president-is-...

CIA-Columbia Cover Up!-Posted on WordPress.com-On April 28, 2010:
https://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/cia-columbia-obama-cover-up/
Why did a black preacher from Harlem have a 'hit' placed on his life?-Posted on WordPress.com-On October 19, 2010:
https://weroinnm.wordpress.cooinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/why-has-a-black-preacher-from-harlem-received-a-%e2%80%9chit%e2%80%9d-on-his-life/
http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/was-obama-selected-groom...
Obama: Submit to Globalism or Face War, Death, Destruction!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 17, 2016:
http://teapartyorg.ning.com/forum/topics/obama-submit-to-globalism-...

Investigators Find That Obama's Online Birth Certificate Presented To The American Public Is 'Fake'!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On December 15, 2016:
http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/investigators-find-sourc...

Not Since JFK, Has a President Spit Into the Face of the Globalists, Until Now!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 21, 2016:
http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/not-since-jfk-has-a-pres...

The MSM conglomerates are the most prolific and insidious "fake news" propagators in the marketplace of ideas!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 30, 2016:
http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-msm-conglomerates-ar...
Note: The following videos wholeheartedly share my sentiments regarding what we are currently experiencing in America today-You Decide:
A Republic, If You Can Keep It!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGL8CiUtXF0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBAzLCA3DQc
When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukzd_vRFpms
“Food for Thought”
Hello: Are Americans Going To Wake Up and Take a Stand Against The Deplorable Obstructionists That Are Doing Their Utmost To Take Down Our Democratically Elected President, His Administration and Ultimately Destroy our Country/Republic?-God Bless America!
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The BIG Lie: Fein-stein on 'Deaths From Illegal Abortions'
The most outlandish bout of political theater on abortion this week occurred while Sen. Dianne Fein-stein (D-CA) was lecturing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh — an originalist whose jurisprudence doesn’t bode well for judicial despotism like Roe v. Wade. On Wednesday, Fein-stein ridiculously asserted, “In the 1950s and ‘60s, the two decades before Roe, deaths from illegal abortions in this country ran between 200,000 and 1.2 million. … So, a lot of women died.”
These numbers were supposedly obtained from the Guttmacher Institute, but as the Washington Examiner’s Becket Adams reveals, Fein-stein was spewing fake news: “The Guttmacher Institute has reported no such thing. What Sen. Fein-stein claimed during Wednesday’s hearing is either her own ignorant misreading of the institute’s reporting or it’s an intentional, outright lie.”
Instead, Guttmacher reports, “Estimates of the number of illegal abortions in the 1950s and 1960s ranged from 200,000 to 1.2 million per year. One analysis, extrapolating from data from North Carolina, concluded that an estimated 829,000 illegal or self-induced abortions occurred in 1967.” Fein-stein is conflating two very distinct things — the estimated number of unlawful abortions every year before they became legal, and maternal deaths. So her assertion this week that up to 1.2 million mothers died because abortion wasn’t yet legal — and therefore hazardous to the mother — is a fabrication.
Yet she does unintentionally make a very important point. A huge number of people diddie every year during that period. In fact, a life is taken every time an abortion occurs, regardless of whether or not abortion is legal. Legality makes no difference. Remember, 60 million babies have been terminated since abortion was legalized. Fein-stein told Kavanaugh, “How you make a judgment on these issues is really important to our vote as to whether to support you or not. Because I don’t want to go back to those death tolls in this country.” The truth is, even if abortion procedures went from hazardous to “safe,” those death tolls never actually went away.
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scumbag-Booker's 'Spartacus' Circus Act
Before nominating him for an Academy Award, there’s just one problem: Soon after the performance was over, the claims of scumbag-Booker’s “rebellion” quickly began to fall apart.
First, regarding the “confidentiality” of the emails, a representative from the George W. Bush library records, Bill Burck, stated, “We cleared the documents last night shortly after Senator scumbag-Booker’s staff asked us to.” He added, “We were surprised to learn about Senatorscumbag-Booker’s histrionics this morning because we had already told him he could use the documents publicly. In fact, we have said yes to every request made by the Senate dummycrats-Democrats to make documents public.” And the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmed that “restrictions were waived before 4 a.m. this morning and made ready for release. The senators were notified of this before speaking began this morning.” So, in short, the emails were not confidential and scumbag-Booker was fully aware of this fact before he introduced them as such.
Second, scumbag-Booker’s claim that the emails seemingly revealed that Kavanaugh had expressed racial bias by having approved of the practice of “racial profiling” proved to be unfounded — in fact, they showed exactly the opposite. In commenting on racial profiling following the government’s response to national security issues after the 9/11 attacks, Kavanaugh wrote, “The people who favor some use of race/natl origin [sic] obviously do not need to grapple with the ‘interim’ question. But the people (such as you and I), who generally favor effective security measures that are race-neutral in fact DO need to grapple — and grapple now — with the interim question of what to do before a truly effective and comprehensive race-neutral system is developed and implemented.” Clearly, Kavanaugh was concerned about race in profiling.
Finally, the real reason behind scumbag-Booker’s theatrics is his posturing for a 2020 presidential run. In an interview on Fox News, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) observed, “That’s not the Cory scumbag-Booker that I know that I watched on television. That is someone that is trying to position himself as the frontrunner so he can take on Donald Trump.” This explains why in a CNN interview,scumbag-Booker continued to stick to his demonstrably false narrative, repeatedly insisting, “I am breaking the rules. … I am breaking the sham rules.” You see, he needs to maintain his “street cred” as a resistance warrior or risk losing his leftist base.
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/58119?mailing_id=3723&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3723&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/cory-bookers-dishonest-stunt
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{ americanthinker.com } ~ The investigation that was ostensibly initiated to ascertain if the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians to affect the 2016 election has been ongoing for twenty-seven months. Seventeen months of which have been in the hands of Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his dummycrats-Democrat phalanx of investigators and prosecutors spending in excess of $1.4 million a month. This prolonged inquisition has produced no evidence or indictments supporting the collusion allegation. Yet the investigation marches on with no end in sight.
But is there, in fact, an end game? Is that end game waiting until late October to impact an election in order to switch control of Congress to the dummycrats-Democrats? Is it to make certain Trump cannot run for re-election in 2020? Or is it both?
The upcoming mid-term election is perhaps the most consequential since 1932 when the dummycrats-Democrats won 97 House and 12 Senate seats, setting in motion the big-government agenda of Franklin D. Roosevelt as well as nearly 62 years of dummycrats-Democrat dominance of Congress. Were the current iteration of the dummycrats-Democratic Party to regain control of Congress, the impeachment of Donald Trump would be inevitable. Further, there would be a cessation, perhaps permanently, of any effort to undo the damage inflicted on the nation by Barack scumbag/liar-nObama and todays unabashedly socialist dummycrats-Democratic Party now steeped in cultural Marxism.
In 1992 a special prosecutor also investigating alleged collusion with a foreign nation by another presidential administration took it upon himself to deliberately impact an election in the last week of a campaign thus assuring the election of liar-Bill Clinton.
The so-called scandal was the Iran-Contra Affair and the President originally in the cross-hairs was Ronald Reagan. The charge: the Reagan Administration colluded with Israel and Iran to sell arms to Iran in an effort to obtain the release of American hostages and divert the proceeds to fund an insurgency in communist Nicaragua in an alleged violation of an arcane amendment to a spending bill. The unwritten objective in the investigation was to permanently damage Reagan’s popularity and legacy as well as undermine his potential Republican successor in the election of 1988.
Lawrence Walsh, appointed in 1986 as Independent Counsel, spent six years and $75 Million adjusted for inflation leaving no stone unturned in his attempt to ensnare Reagan but he failed to discover any evidence of criminality on the part of the White House. Yet Walsh refused to end the investigation instead he pursued other administration officials during Reagan’s last two years in office and throughout the entire four years of the Bush administration.
Given six years and an unlimited budget, Walsh, in the manner of the monomaniacal Inspector Javert in Les Misérables, indicted six former Reagan officials on dubious and evergreen perjury and obstruction charges-- none served any prison time and all were later pardoned. Two others, Oliver North and John Poindexter, were convicted on a number of counts, but both had all convictions overturned on appeal.
There was never anything after six years of painstaking and dogged investigation linking the then Vice-President George H.W. Bush to the Iran-Contra Affair.
In June of 1992, a presidential election year, Walsh indicted Caspar Weinberger, Reagan’s former Secretary of Defense, on two counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice. In September, the obstruction of justice count was dismissed for technical and jurisprudence reasons. Yet, on October 30, 1992, four days before the election, Walsh filed a reindictment of Weinberger on one count of making a false statement.
In the reindictment Walsh included, for the first time, notes from Weinberger’s diary that briefly mentioned George Bush’s attendance at a meeting that appeared to contradict something Bush had previously said, but not in a way that was meaningful or had any legal significance. Further, the reindictment was filed after the statute of limitations had expired, as a judge later ruled, and should never have been filed or made public.
In late October 1992 the polls were tightening dramatically pointing to a Bush victory despite the presence of Ross Perot. In a suspicious turn of events, on October 28th, liar-Bill Clinton reversed his campaign tactics and began to aggressively accuse George Bush of being an inveterate liar and maliciously untrustworthy. Not coincidentally, two days later the reindictment of Weinberger and the fleeting mention of Bush in his diary was made public.
That same evening during a live appearance on Larry King’s show Bush was confronted with the Weinberger reindictment reference and his supposed prevarications as King had pre-arranged for George Stephanopoulos, liar-Clinton’s communications director, to call into the show. Thus, the story was national front-page news the next day.
As C. Boyden Gray, former White House Counsel to George H.W. Bush wrote hat tip: American Conservative:
The media and the liar-Clinton’s seized upon the indictment to bludgeon Bush. The Associated Press claimed the indictment “contradicted President Bush’s claim he never knew that arms were being traded for hostages in the Iran-Contra affair or that two Cabinet members were opposed to the deal.” In the New York Times, Anthony Lewis pummeled Bush, asking. “How does George Bush live with the knowledge of his disregard for the truth,” The indictment monopolized the news the weekend before Election day, and Bush’s upward trend in the polls came to an abrupt end.
Lawrence Walsh disingenuously feigned cluelessness in his memoirs attempting to convince others that he thought the Bush reference in Weinberger’s diary would not be newsworthy but that he, as independent counsel, was astonished how his inadvertence changed the course of history by affecting the outcome of an election.
Fast forward to today. Based on his insistence that Trump testify in what is obviously a perjury trap, the innumerable leaks emanating from Mueller’s office, the conviction of Paul Manafort on unrelated charges and the coerced guilty plea by Michael Cohen again on unrelated charges, Robert Mueller appears to have a much greater animus toward Donald Trump than Lawrence Walsh toward Ronald Reagan or George Bush.
While Reagan was disliked by the Washington Establishment Bush less so, Trump is loathed not only by the Washington Establishment but by almost the entirety of the media/entertainment complex. During the Bush presidency the mainstream media leaned overwhelminglydummycrats-Democratic, however, 40% of the coverage of George Bush was generally favorable as compared to just 10% with Donald Trump.
Therefore, Mueller has at his disposal a veritable army of like-minded foot soldiers prepared, on a strategically timed basis, to promote leaks, false stories and innuendos as well as the fine print in any indictment or plea bargain.
Two week or less before November 6, 2018, Mueller can do what Walsh did and imbed an implication of wrongdoing by Trump in an indictment or, as has already happened, a plea bargain, such as the Michael Cohen coerced guilty plea vis-a-vis legal campaign contributions. Which was done solely to implicate and embarrass Donald Trump.
Further, Mueller’s henchmen could, in collusion with the many willing accomplices in the dummycrats-Democratic Party and the media, plant a series of dubious leaks and incriminatory insinuations about Trump or his campaign. There would not be enough time for the Trump administration to successfully refute the incessant media drumbeat of scandal as every Republican candidate for Congress would be forced to answer for the charges. Thereby shifting the advantage to their dummycrats-Democrat opponents.
The fact that Mueller did not wrap up the investigation prior to Labor Day of 2018 and displays no intention of doing so in the near future insinuates the very real possibility that he or his dyed-in-the-wool dummycrats-Democratic prosecutors may well make a play in October to rid the nation of Donald Trump and the Republican Congress. There is little doubt that this strategy has been thought of and is being contemplated by the diehard anti-Trump cabal within the Ruling Class.
Therefore, if the Mueller team has not issued a final report on alleged Russian collusion by the middle of September, Donald Trump, the individual Republican candidates as well as the Republican National Committee must go on an unbridled offensive relentlessly alerting the citizenry to the very real possibility of sabotage and collusion by pointing to history and the behavior to date of the Mueller inquisitors.
{ meforum.org } ~ In 2017 the Gulf emirate of Qatar, home to a large US military base, found itself suddenly isolated by its neighbor Saudi Arabia and Riyadh’s allies in the UAE, Egypt and Bahrain... Doha was worried about losing allies in Washington, especially in the Trump administration. So it set about recruiting lobbyists and allies who provided it with a list of 250 “Trump influencers,” according to a new article. At the same time people in Qatar were concerned that a documentary Al Jazeera had made in 2017, featuring footage from an undercover investigator supposedly exposing the “Israel lobby,” might be used against Al Jazeera to force it to register as a “foreign agent.” Now bits of that documentary have been leaked at the same time as the list of 250 influencers has come to light. Taken together the two incidents are embarrassing for the emirate and also show the lengths it went to in the US to find favor in Washington. On August 29 The Wall Street Journal published a report that Qatar had “targeted 250 Trump ‘influencers’ to change US policy.” The report covers some familiar names, such as New York restaurateur Joey Allaham and Nick Muzin, a former deputy chief of staff to US Sen. Ted Cruz. “Mr. Allaham’s and Mr. Muzin’s lobbying firms earned at least $3 million from their work for Qatar,” the article says. Part of their strategy was to come up with the names “250 people Mr. Allaham says he and his lobbying-business partner, Nick Muzin, identified as influential in President Donald Trump’s orbit.” Qatar was going big in lobbying in 2017 to salvage its position in Washington, spending $16m. Among the 250 influencers were two dozen who were sent on trips to Qatar, including former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, as well as Alan Dershowitz. Some of those targeted say they didn’t know the reason for the trips. “If I had known their purpose with me was maybe to impact the president, I would not have gone,” Dershowitz told the Journal. Huckabee got a “$50,000 honorarium” for the visit. The chief executive of Newsmax Media was also on the 250 list... https://www.meforum.org/articles/2018/qatar-the-israel-lobby-and-the-secret-list?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=95afd0c37f-FRANTZMAN_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_07_12_34&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-95afd0c37f-33703665&goal=0_086cfd423c-95afd0c37f-33703665
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Kavanaugh Handshake Snub Was a dummycrats-Dem-Created Setup
But it’s difficult to label a man as evil if nothing in his history supports such a conclusion, so dummycrats-Democrats and their Leftmedia cohorts must manufacture a smear with the hope that it will taint a good man’s reputation enough to promote their own agenda.
A classic example of this smear campaign was demonstrated at Kavanaugh’s first day of hearings on Tuesday. After being delayed by several leftist protesters, the hearing was interrupted numerous times by protesters randomly shouting statements against Kavanaugh and Trump. As we previously noted, it was a circus. So, within this obviously hostile environment, a designed moment was staged to rattle Kavanaugh. As the hearing broke for lunch, a man suddenly jumped up to shake Kavanaugh’s hand, but Kavanaugh, clearly unfamiliar with who the individual was, did not return the shake in part because he was turned around by security and escorted out.
The scene was captured by a press photographer (just as intended), and it went viral on social media. The stunt man wrote, “Just walked up to Judge Kavanaugh as morning session ended. Put my hand to introduce myself as [Parkland victim] Jaime Guttenberg’s dad. He pulled his hand back, turned his back to me and walked away. I guess he did not want to deal with the reality of gun violence.” So Kavanaugh is really not a nice guy, you see, and he doesn’t care about “gun violence.”
Once again there is much more to the story that reveals both motive and who was behind this whole smear. Fred Guttenberg, the father of a victim of the Parkland attack, was invited to the hearing by none other than Demo gun-grabber extraordinaire Dianne Fein-stein. After the hearing, she bragged, “I invited Fred Guttenberg to sit in the audience at today’s hearing because the Supreme Court affects the lives of real people. He knows firsthand how Brett Kavanaugh’s extreme views on guns could lead to more massacres. Thank you Fred, for honoring your daughter.”
And Guttenberg himself was no mere gullible pawn of the dummycrats-Democrats. On Monday, Guttenberg wrote, “I will be at Kavanaugh hearings and I hope to play a role in ensuring that this man does not become the next Supreme Court Justice.” Play a role, indeed. This whole event was a classic dummycrats-Democrat setup, orchestrated to smear Kavanaugh.
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/58091?mailing_id=3721&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3721&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
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That Anonymous White House 'Resistance' Insider
Profiles in courage right there. Or at least profiles in good marketing. Consider The Washington Post’s leaks of Woodward book excerpts and this NYT op-ed as the Leftmedia’s one-two punch on Trump, which just happened to come during the week of Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Frankly, this op-ed utterly lacks credibility until we know who wrote it. If it’s a Cabinet-level secretary, that’s one thing — and a very big problem. If it’s some third-tier staffer who doesn’t even interact with Trump but does have a Napoleon complex, well, that’s something else. We don’t doubt this person’s identity will be revealed (and we’ll bet Woodward knows who it is), but there’s at least one thing already known beyond the shadow of a doubt: Whoever this is clearly thinks a lot of himself.
The author reveals three overarching and important things. First, Trump has accomplished an awful lot. “Many of [the administration’s] policies have already made America safer and more prosperous,” he writes. Those accomplishments include “effective deregulation, historic tax reform, a more robust military and more” — all things important to Trump’s base and all conservatives.
So why the complaints? Well, that’s the second thing. Trump is, the author alleges, driven by “misguided impulses,” “amorality,” and “not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making.” We in our humble shop have written these very criticisms, but voters chose him knowing it all full well because he was precisely the man to send to drain the swamp. Again, that’s a job he’s capably doing, too.
Yet that brings about the third thing. The author confesses to working with other “adults in the room” to save Trump from himself. They allegedly remove papers from his desk, hear him give instruction and then do something else, and are secretly working “to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office.” The author even speaks of “early whispers … invoking the 25th Amendment,” the process for removing a president mentally or physically unfit for office.
“This isn’t the work of the so-called deep state. It’s the work of the steady state,” the author insists. Wrong. That’s precisely the definition of the deep state — a cabal of unelected bureaucrats, officials, and career staffers who are working to undermine the president of the United States. It’s what David Harsanyi calls “electoral sabotage.” And this pathetic op-ed is not so much “Never Trump” as “Never America.”
Finally, the good news about this post is that it puts Trump’s international adversaries on notice – both in terms of national security and trade. If the administration wanted to float a strategic warning to our adversaries, and at the same time embolden Trump’s political base, this “insider perspective” would fit that order!
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by Judge Andrew Napolitano
{ townhall.com } ~ Last week, I was intrigued by all the fanfare attendant upon the national farewell to the late Sen. rino-John McCain. I have written in this space that rino-McCain and I were friends who spoke many times, but generally only about the issues upon which we agreed -- abortion, immigration and torture.
On those issues, he often stood at odds with most of his Republican colleagues in the Senate. They are opposed to abortion in name only they will not lift a finger to stop or slow it, prefer judging the moral worth of individuals on the basis of where they were born, and think that torture is wrong unless the victim is a bad guy or a foreigner or has information the government wants.
Moral relativism is the coin of their realm.
On those issues, rino-McCain stood steadfast, no matter the political or personal consequences. For that steadfastness, and with respect to those issues, his behavior was heroic. A hero does not lack fear. He or she proceeds into its face nevertheless, heedless of the consequences to self.
For reasons he has never adequately explained, President Donald Trump rejected rino-McCain's heroism and mockedrino-McCain's time of torment in a North Vietnamese prison. That mockery was brought to full measure at rino-McCain's funeral by the senator's daughter, my friend and former Fox News colleague Meghan rino-McCain. She told the members of the Washington establishment who had gathered, sans the president, at her father's funeral at the Washington National Cathedral -- why the federal government founded a cathedral is another question for another time -- that her father manifested greatness and that Trump manifests cheapness.
Then the two men who each in his own way personally stopped rino-McCain's efforts to become president -- George W. Bush in the Republican primaries in 2000 and Barack scumbag/liar-nObama in the general election in 2008 -- delivered similar accolades of rino-McCain, complete with veiled rebukes of Trump.
On its face, the audience in that government-founded church, establishment to the core, was adoring rino-McCain's memory and mourning his loss. But the establishment is filled with hypocrites.
This is the same establishment that gave us the unguarded borders and airways of 9/11 and blamed its failures on foreigners. It gave us the useless, fruitless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the human and monumental destruction they wrought.
It gave us the secret torture of foreign captives and their indefinite incarceration without trial. It gave us warrantless spying on innocent Americans -- at first in secret and then openly and under color of law -- in direct defiance of the Fourth Amendment. It gave us the 2008 financial crisis, which it cured by borrowing billions of dollars and giving the money to those who had caused it. And -- as if all that were not enough -- it gave us a $13.5 trillion collective increase in government debt during the Bush and scumbag/liar-Obama years and the secret but repetitive use of drones to assassinate foreigners and Americans overseas.
Has any of this enhanced your life, liberty or property?
As much as I appreciated the kind words about my late friend and the polite reception those words received, it made me think about how dangerous to life, liberty and property the government has become, how unfaithful to the Constitution have been those in whose hands we have reposed it for safekeeping and how unashamed of their misdeeds are those who have caused all this.
Nearly all of the present assaults to liberty can be laid at the feet of the Republicans and dummycrats-Democrats who were sitting in that government-founded church in the nation's capitaland listening to the praise of rino-John McCain.
But that establishment crowd also gave us another event it would rather forget and for which it will never accept blame or claim credit -- the election of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States. He ran as the anti-establishment candidate, and he ran against the collective mindset of those proud of themselves in that "national" church. He condemned the wars they caused. He mocked their borrowing and spending. He attacked the secretive mindset of their intelligence and law enforcement communities. And the voters rewarded him.
Yet he, too, uses drones and missiles to kill and does so in foreign lands without any declarations of war. He, too, has borrowed money and spent it at nearly a wartime rate. And he, too, has continued the spying on innocent Americans. In those respects, he has become what he condemned -- the government establishment proud of itself sitting in a government-founded church.
Add to this, he has mocked the rule of law, praised those charged with and convicted of violating it, tormented those charged with enforcing it, distorted tales about his personal behavior, and wreaked havoc on innocent farmers by making the sale of their goods too expensive for foreign consumers.
His presence was in that church as powerfully as if he had physically been there.
The bitterness about Trump was silently expressed by those who brought him to power and now cooperate with his behavior or pretend that they don't. The mindset of the establishment continues to be that the government can right any wrong, regulate any behavior, borrow and spend any amount of money, and build a church in utter defiance of the First Amendment, the Constitution -- which is supposed to limit the government, not unleash it -- be damned.
So, who caused more harm to the republic, rino-McCain and his admirers or Trump and his enablers? Republicans or dummycrats-Democrats? Is there a difference?
Ultimately, we are responsible for the folks we have elected and the things they have done, whether secretive, hypocritical or in our faces. Ultimately, we have the government we deserve. Will we change this before it is too late?
Politico adds: “Local health providers say they’ve received panicked phone calls from both documented and undocumented immigrant families demanding to be dropped from the rolls of WIC, a federal nutrition program aimed at pregnant women and children, after news reports that the White House is potentially planning to deny legal status to immigrants who’ve used public benefits. Agencies in at least 18 states say they’ve seen drops of up to 20 percent in enrollment, and they attribute the change largely to fears about the immigration policy.”
The forthcoming policy is even said to be dangerous, as it “could put more babies who are U.S.-born citizens at risk of low birth weight and other problems — undermining public health while also potentially fueling higher health care costs at taxpayer expense.” (More on the citizenship angle below.) Politico explains that existing green-card holders and immigration applicants will be the most affected, while at the same time the policy “could also affect undocumented immigrants if they want to seek legal permanent residency in the future.”
The Politico report also includes this interesting fact: “WIC has been largely immigration-blind since it was created in 1974, [and] most of the infants it serves are citizens born in the U.S. regardless of their parents’ immigration status. Despite that, providers say parents’ fear of deportation may also be driving declining enrollment in WIC.” Does this not strike the Leftmedia as remarkably ironic?
For decades, the government in general has been immigration-blind, which has enabled border-crossers to game the system. Pregnant women breach the border and give birth, at which point leftists can say say “most of the infants [WIC] serves are citizens born in the U.S.” In other words, Americans are now victims of immigration enforcement. That’s called having your cake and eating it too. But now that we have an administration that wants to enforce the law, noncitizens and media alike are apoplectic.
The extent of federal aid even among citizens is contentious and financially burdensome, but providing aid to immigrants is downright controversial. The bottom line is that our borders must be secured. A sovereign nation draws a firm line on benefits between immigrants (both legal and especially nonlegal) and citizens. Becoming a citizen is a privilege, not a right. The Left wants to erase that distinction.
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/58040?mailing_id=3718&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3718&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
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{ fixthisnation.com } ~ It appears that one of two things are true: Either liberals are so caught up in their own bubble that they’re unaware of the intense censorship concerns swirling in the conservative zeitgeist right now... or they are aware and simply don’t care. Seeing as how the de-platforming of Alex Jones, Ann Coulter, Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, Charles Murray, Milo Yiannopoulos, and others has been extensively covered by mainstream liberal pundits and reporters, we can only conclude it’s the latter. The left is fully cognizant that a great many Americans are disturbed and distressed with this war on free speech, and they are absolutely fine with that. Even with a growing chorus of dissent from within the liberal sphere of influence – Sam Harris, Bill Maher, to name a couple – Resistance, Inc. has decided they’re going to keep pushing conservative views off the stage, off the air, and into the darkness. This, they’ve determined, is their best path to victory. No doubt, the New Yorker’s David Remnick is abreast of the situation, which makes it a little surprising that he would invite Steve Bannon to attend his New York festival in the first place. Remnick was surely watching when The Atlantic hired, and then quickly fired, Kevin D. Williamson after the online universe exploded in ghastly horror at the prospect of a pro-life writer joining such an esteemed, elite publication. He may have reasoned that his liberal readership would be mollified by the knowledge that he would in theory brutalize Bannon on stage with his morally superior, academically-grounded, stick-and-move strategy aided immensely by a live audience ready to cheer his every “gotcha”. But he miscalculated the extent to which a certain, terrifyingly large percentage of the left has internalized the belief that anyone with an (R) next to their name – much less someone who actually worked with President He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named – is a literal Nazi....
Time to End USPS Subsidies for Chinese Competition
On the trade front, President Trump has been busy indeed. Through a variety of negotiating tactics, including threats of retaliatory tariffs, Trump has brought America’s global trading partners back to the table and forced many to submit to fairer trade deals.
In June 2016, Barack scumbag/liar-nObama mocked Trump at a town hall forum for claiming he would create millions of jobs and bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. scumbag/liar-nObama smugly declared, “Some of those jobs of the past are just not gonna come back! When somebody says … that he’s going to bring all these jobs back, well, how exactly are you going to do that? What are you going to do? There’s no answer to it. … He just says, ‘I’m going to negotiate a better deal.’ Well, how? How exactly are you going to negotiate that? What magic wand do you have? And usually the answer is, he doesn’t have an answer.”
As it turns out, slashing taxes, eliminating regulations, and demanding fair trade results not only in millions of new jobs, but the most manufacturing jobs created in a quarter century. Additionally, Trump has renegotiated NAFTA with Mexico in order to help American companies compete on equal footing. Canada, Germany, and other nations are next on the list.
However, one area that has flown under the radar but should be acted on immediately is the abuse of a little-known United Nations agreement called the Universal Postal Union (UPU), which regulates how much countries can charge consumers for delivery mail originating in foreign countries. In essence, this agreement forces developed countries to subsidize the shipping costs of companies in developing nations.
The problem is that China, with the world’s second-largest economy, is included in that list of “transition” nations, and therefore the American taxpayer is subsidizing shipping costs for Chinese companies that are competing directly with American companies, including Chinese companies making counterfeit versions of American goods.
Of course, if the American consumer gets a defective Chinese product and wants to return, the consumer must pay the full cost of shipping the product back. With the return shipping cost often more than the costs of the actual goods, in practice, Chinese companies get away with selling defective products. The counterfeit-goods trade is a staggering $1.7 trillion dollars annually, larger than the illegal drug trade, so this is a huge and growing problem.
To put this in perspective, under the UPU, in many cases it costs American companies more to ship domestically than it costs Chinese companies like e-commerce behemoth Alibaba, which sells three times more than Amazon, to ship to the U.S. And since the U.S. Postal Service must ship Chinese goods at below cost, American taxpayers and consumers end up covering the losses.
As American small businessman Jayme Smaldone, owner of Mighty Mugs, explains, American consumers are increasingly expecting free shipping for online purchases. That forces his business to either absorb the cost of shipping or lose sales to Chinesecompanies that get free or deeply subsidized shipping costs due to the UPU. If he absorbs the shipping costs, then that means lower profits, which means layoffs of his employees, fewer jobs for truckers who transport his goods, an inability to invest in R&D or expanding manufacturing, etc.
China has an enormous economic advantage as it is, paying workers a fraction of the wages that American companies pay their workers, leading to significantly lower labor costs for Chinese companies. Additionally, China has virtually no regulations on its manufacturers, while American manufacturers must bear the costs associated with tens of thousands of pages of federal regulations, at a cost of roughly $2 trillion a year. Advantage: China.
President Trump has been working tirelessly to force an end to unfair and inequitable trade practices with America’s trading partners, including efforts to reduce or eliminate tariffs. Regarding the UPU, he has issued a memorandum to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, and the DHS Secretary, Postmaster General, and Chairman of the Postal Regulatory Commission, calling on them to press for “a system of fair and nondiscriminatory rates for goods that promotes unrestricted and undistorted competition.” Unfair and discriminatory is an understatement for a policy that costs American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars each year.
President Trump is right to seek an end to this egregiously unfair trade practice that costs American consumers money and American workers their jobs. If necessary, he should withdraw from the agreement and have the USPS negotiate bilateral deals with the postal services of our trade partners.
Americans deserve better.
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/58062?mailing_id=3718&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3718&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
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Socialism and Race Drive Another dummycrats-Demo Upset
Two things stand out to us. The first is the more obvious: Pressley didn’t just duplicate the commie-Ocascio-Cortez upset by the numbers; she’s a socialist in the mold of commie-Bernie Sanders. Indeed, commie-Ocasio-Cortez endorsed Pressley and congratulated her “sister in service” for the win. The party as a whole is shifting significantly left.
Second, this is about dummycrats-Democrat race-baiting. For years now, the party has promoted identity politics tied to the color of skin. Pressley, a 44-year-old black woman, was too attractive to a minority-majority district for a 66-year-old white guy to hang on. Todummycrats-Democrats, straight white guys are just the worst, and the only thing Capuano had going for him is that he isn’t a Southerner.
“It’s not just good enough to see the dummycrats- Democrats back in power. It matters who thosedummycrats- Democrats are,” Pressley told her own supporters. “While our president is a racist, misogynistic, truly empathy-bankrupt man, the conditions which have made [this district] one of the most unequal in America were cemented through policies long before he ever descended the escalator at Trump Tower.” The rest of the old white guys leading the dummycrats-Democrat Party best look over their shoulders.
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/58063?mailing_id=3718&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3718&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body


