Donald J Trump 8/27/20

In the Left’s backward view, they do not see America as the most free, just and exceptional nation on Earth. Instead, they see a wicked nation that must be punished for its sins. Our opponents say that redemption for you can only come from giving power to them. This is a tired anthem spoken by every repressive movement throughout history, but in this country, we don’t look to career politicians for salvation. In America, we do not turn to government to restore ourselves. We put our faith in almighty God.

Funny how a simple paragraph can sum up the last half century.  It's all been leading up to this.

Much as Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream speech, given 8/28/63, summed up the century before.

Sometimes somebody says something and it just hits you. Or you see an actor in a small part and you know he/she's going places (had that reaction first time I saw Robert Duvall, also Eddie Murphy).

Also funny how dates can resonate. Did you know June 4 is a very important date in WWII? In 1940, the Dunkirk evacuation was completed. In '42, we won at Midway. In '44, we took Rome.

Not sure if I've said this here before, but I think Donald Trump may well turn out to be the most significant, consequential President since Andrew Jackson and for a similar reason

Not saying this because I'm a Trump fan, and you know I am.

I'm saying this because there seems to be one of those coming together moments that hits the country when it needs it. All the lies, all the puffery, are bringing the country into focus. The aristocracy is about to fall and said aristocracy has been pushed for better than 80 years.

Yes, the Left will still hate him, but the vainglory of this year has had an effect.

They are real...

An apparent Obama supporter turned Trump supporter?

There could be other possible scenarios explaining the seemingly incongruous image.

Maybe you can think of one.

"Murder is easy. Comedy is hard."

100,000 people making cracks about Trump's hug of Suzuki. 95,000 about groping his breasts, 4999 about the scene from Titanic, and only ONE GUY hits the proper joke:

Trump gets to 2nd base. pic.twitter.com/iRtz5ub6bN

— Renna (@RennaW) November 4, 2019

Mueller Drops

"The illegal effort to destroy the 2016 Trump campaign by Hillary Clinton campaign’s use of funds to create, disseminate among court media, and then salt among high Obama administration officials, a fabricated, opposition smear dossier failed.  So has the second special prosecutor phase of the coup to abort the Trump presidency failed. There are many elements to what in time likely will become recognized as the greatest scandal in American political history, marking the first occasion in which U.S. government bureaucrats sought to overturn an election and to remove a sitting U.S. president."

Link to more from "Autopsy of a Dead Coup" by Victor Davis Hanson via Instapundit.

I dare you to not bop your head to this. pic.twitter.com/xHbyF2gXAk

— The Faction (@TheFaction1776) March 22, 2019

WSJ: The Politicization of Everything

Via Instapundit:  Healthy democracies have ample room for politics but leave a larger space for civil society and culture that unites more than divides. With the politicization of the National Football League and the national anthem, the Divided States of America are exhibiting a very unhealthy level of polarization and mistrust.

The progressive forces of identity politics started this poisoning of America’s favorite spectator sport last year by making a hero of Colin Kaepernick for refusing to stand for “The Star-Spangled Banner” before games. They raised the stakes this year by turning him into a progressive martyr because no team had picked him up to play quarterback after he opted out of his contract with the San Francisco 49ers.

The NFL is a meritocracy, and maybe coaches and general managers thought he wasn’t good enough for the divisions he might cause in a locker room or among fans. But the left said it was all about race and class.

All of this is cultural catnip for Donald Trump, who pounced on Friday night at a rally and on the weekend on Twitter with his familiar combination of gut political instinct, rhetorical excess, and ignorance. “Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now, out, he’s fired. He’s fired,’” Mr. Trump said Friday.

No doubt most Americans agree with Mr. Trump that they don’t want their flag disrespected, especially by millionaire athletes. But Mr. Trump never stops at reasonable, and so he called for kneeling players to be fired or suspended, and if the league didn’t comply for fans to “boycott” the NFL.

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KLEM TV

Watch the historic inauguration here at Lem's on YouTube:

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'America Must Unite The Whole Civilized World In The Fight Against Islamic Terrorism'

Those are Trump's words from a few months ago -- echoed by Sam Harris' words. I'm reposting a clip from several months ago:

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And Sam Harris is no fan of Donald Trump.

What Trump said today was:

Today there were terror attacks in Turkey, Switzerland and Germany – and it is only getting worse. The civilized world must change thinking!  These terrorists and their regional and worldwide networks must be eradicated from the face of the earth, a mission we will carry out with all freedom-loving partners.  

Trump: no more foreign adventurism; strengthen military; destroy ISIS

"President-elect Donald Trump laid out a U.S. military policy on Tuesday that would avoid interventions in foreign conflicts and instead focus heavily on defeating the Islamic State militancy.

In the latest stop on a "thank you" tour of states critical to his Nov. 8 election win, Trump introduced his choice for defense secretary, General James Mattis, to a large crowd in this city near the Fort Bragg military base, which has deployed soldiers to 90 countries around the world.

"We will stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn't be involved with," Trump said. "Instead, our focus must be on defeating terrorism and destroying ISIS, and we will."

Trump's rhetoric was similar to what he said during the election campaign when he railed against the war in Iran.

In Fayetteville, he vowed a strong rebuilding of the U.S. military, which he suggested has been stretched too thin. Instead of investing in wars, he said, he would spend money to build up America's aging roads, bridges and airports.

Even so, Trump said he wants to boost spending on the military. To help pay for his buildup, Trump pledged to seek congressional approval for lifting caps on defense spending that were part of "sequestration" legislation that imposed cut spending across the board.

"We don't want to have a depleted military because we’re all over the place fighting in areas that we shouldn't be fighting in. It's not going to be depleted any longer," he said.

Trump said any nation that shares these goals will be considered a U.S. partner."We don't forget. We want to strengthen old friendships and seek out new friendships," he said. He said the policy of "intervention and chaos" must come to an end.

While U.S. armed forces are deployed in far-flung places around the globe, they are only involved currently in active combat in the Middle East, specifically Iraq and Syria for the most part."We will build up our military not as an act of aggression, but as an act of prevention," he said. "In short, we seek peace through strength.""

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-military-idUSKBN13W06L

"Donald Trump finally concedes that Obama was born in the U.S."

"President Barack Obama was born in the United States. Period. Now we all want to get back to making America strong and great again," he said, then walked offstage after a 30-minute event consisting mostly of praise for him from veterans and Medal of Honor recipients."

.@realDonaldTrump DT says HRC started the Birther Controversy in 2008 & I finished it. BHO was born in U.S. PERIOD.. pic.twitter.com/CwGi3QsOIV

— eo (@TrueEO) September 16, 2016

I don't think the press is just going to leave it alone. Even though it takes a logical stretch to connect the birther allegation to therefore it means Trump is a racist. It's a stretch, but they are going to try. Like the song says, they are in too deep.
If the media persist attacking him on this issue, after Trump's acknowledgment, that, yes Obama was born in the United States, it may do more damage to them, if that is even possible.

A Tale of Two Cities

"NY Times: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are virtually tied"

With less than eight weeks before Election Day, Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton are locked in a tight contest, with both candidates still struggling to win the confidence of their respective bases, the latest New York Times/CBS News poll finds.

LA Times: Donald Trump is ahead 47% to Hillary 41%.

Trump lands in Mexico

Washington Post: U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump landed here in his private jet Wednesday for a hastily arranged meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, according to local media reports, marking Trump’s first formal international trip as the Republican nominee to a country where he is broadly despised for his vilification of illegal immigrants.

No word of a gun fight yet... stay tuned.

"Problem: Trump Not on the Minnesota Ballot, and It Looks Like He Can't Get On It"

Via Ace: He has until the 29th to put his name on the ballot, but Minnesota rules require the names of ten electors, and ten alternate electors, be submitted as well.

Minnesota didn't officially elect alternate electors.

And some guy says there's not enough time to call a snap convention to elect them.

Renewing suspicions of Trump's seriousness about running... is he really running or not?

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Nigel Farage's Speech In Mississippi

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Femenist condems naked Donald Trump statues.

Femenistng: The Daily Show mode of liberal politics has encouraged us all to succumb to mockery when we no longer have the refuge of logical argument; of a political opponent that understands neither reason nor empathy; of a political space so tragically fragmented there can be no dialogue, only derision. There’s a temptation to exert power over the oppressor by telling him he is nothing but a joke to us.

But when we laugh at naked Donald Trump in Union Square, tug at his penis, stare, point, and mock, who are we really laughing at? Are we laughing at Donald Trump because Donald Trump is naked, and fat, standing in front of us? Are we mocking the fact that anyone who has cellulite or a gut or a figure that’s not valued by a capitalist, health obsessed, body-shaming society dares to be nude in a public space? Are we laughing at Donald Trump because we believe that men should be manly, and that manly means to have a big penis, and that anybody who doesn’t fit into that violent, cissexist masculinity is worthy of contempt?

Are we really turning the tables on the oppressor, or are we continuing to stomp on the oppressed? . . .

Nothing is being said by the piece that is difficult for one in the current political climate to say – that Trump is a joke, or that fat people must be shamed, or that male bodies that don’t conform to masculine notions of genitalia deserve scorn. Indeed, the real naked emperors seem to be the installation’s smug audience instead, parading around in seeming robes of progressive politics, which actually, upon closer inspection, are their own naked delusions of open minded, non-oppressive grandeur.

David Horowitz: Trump gives the speech I have spent 20 years trying to get a Republican to give

I skipped up to the part when he begins the speech  

What Is Your Greatest Fear in a Trump Presidency?

[Insert fears here]

I shall return later to post mine.

"Hillary drafts illegal 'Dreamers' to get immigrants to vote"

The Washington Examiner:  Hillary Clinton's campaign on Sunday announced a program to recruit undocumented "Dreamers" into a voter registration army even though they are not allowed to vote.

Celebrating the four-year anniversary of President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, Clinton launched "Mi Sueno, Tu Voto" (My Dream, Your Vote), to rally and "secure commitments" from immigrants who can vote.

The DACA program created so-called "Dreamers," the children of illegal immigrants who the president has offered renewable two-year work visas and deportation deferral. The goal for many in the program is amnesty.

Meanwhile at the Daily Beast: Why Donald Trump Is Haunting Your Dreams

“What I’ve learned, in every election, is that the frequency of appearance in people’s dreams is an index of people’s charisma—interpersonal dynamism. That’s the hypothesis,” says Bulkeley.

In 2008, people “dreamed like crazy about Barack Obama,” he says. “Particularly with the first campaign, there was a messianic quality. The dreams were in these magical settings and people were having these really wonderful, profound, intimate feelings. These dreams reflected dramatic, emotionally rich settings.”

Trump says 'Second Amendment People' could stop Clinton

CNN Jake Tapper suggests Trump's remarks may have been incitement to violence against Hillary.

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Link to The Hill coverage. 

What a time to be alive

What a time to be alive.

Trump asked a question

CNBC:  Donald Trump asked a foreign policy expert advising him why the U.S. can't use nuclear weapons, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said on the air Wednesday, citing an unnamed source who claimed he had spoken with the GOP presidential nominee.

"Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on the international level went to advise Donald Trump. And three times [Trump] asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked at one point if we had them why can't we use them," Scarborough said on his "Morning Joe" program.

Scarborough then asked a hypothetical question to Hayden about how quickly nuclear weapons could be deployed if a president were to give approval.

"It's scenario dependent, but the system is designed for speed and decisiveness. It's not designed to debate the decision," Hayden said.

CNBC reached out to the Trump campaign via email and was awaiting a response.