op ed review 7/21
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
President Trump stokes firestorm over ‘go back’ tweets, says
Dem freshmen 'hate' America. Media
headlines scream “racist Trump”, even though there was nothing racial about the
tweet.
CNN and MSNBC used the word "racist" more than
1,100 times from Sunday to Tuesday
Immediate reaction from some conservatives: “A Blunder of Epic Proportions”
Trump Triples Down: 'If You're Not Happy Here, Then You Can
Leave'
But wait! Republican
support for Trump rises after “racially charged tweets”.
“Trump’s strategic attack on ‘The Squad’ unfolding as he
planned.”
Montana Senator: ‘I Stand with’ Trump; ‘Montanans Are Sick
and Tired of Listening to…Radical Democrats Trash Our Country’
Liz Cheney rolls out laundry list of anti-American policies
espoused by ‘freshman 4’ in brutal take down.
Off the record, House Dems tell CNN’s Tapper that Trump was
‘brilliant’, snookering Dems into letting The Squad become their symbol.
Anarchist and antifa warrior from Washington State fatally
shot by police while trying to firebomb an ICE detention center in Tacoma. Sympathetic
stories appear in the mainstream media.
Protesters Dump Buckets Of Fake Blood At ICE Building in
Portland.
Liberals cheer as antifa violence escalates
Democrat Internal Poll of Swing Voters Is Leaked and the
Results Are Brutal
NYT worries: “Trump’s Electoral College Edge Could Grow in
2020, Rewarding Polarizing Campaign”
When will this madness end?? “Trans Woman Shutters
Immigrant’s Business For Refusing To Wax Male Genitalia.”
Head of Planned Parenthood fired for being not political
enough…“Wen emphasized the importance of healthcare over politics and sought to
expand the organization's services outside of abortion..”
Trump abortion rule deals 'devastating blow' to Planned
Parenthood, group says.
Miss World America strips Trump supporter of her Miss
Michigan title over Tweets: “refusal to try on a hijab in 2018, my tweet about
black on black gun violence, and "insensitive" statistical tweets.”
Kamala Harris Pledges to Bypass Congress via Executive Gun
Control
Elizabeth Warren pledges to create commission to investigate
'crimes committed by the United States against immigrants'.
Bernie Sanders’ campaign workers complaining, fleeing over
‘poverty wages’
Buttigieg Writes Off Donald Trump Supporters as 'Committed
Racists'
Ocasio-Cortez: Nobody Is 'Heartbroken' by the Prospect of
Losing Private Health Insurance’
Rep. Ilhan Omar introduces resolution to boycott Israel.
Rep. Omar says she loves America more than naturally born citizens
because “I am ashamed of (it’s) hypocrisy."
Wielding machetes and baseball bats, MS-13 carried out
‘medieval’ killings in Los Angeles.
Twice-Deported Illegal Alien Charged With Three Murders —
Two Were Children
Brooklyn man who entered America through the “diversity
lottery” turns out to be a high ranking ISIS sniper.
Migrant families separated by U.S. sue government, demand $3
million each
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/11/illegal-immigrant-families-separated-us-sue-govern/
Majority of Mexicans Support Deportation of Central American
Migrants in Mexico.
23 percent of U.S. foreign-born population are here
illegally.
Citing higher minimum wages in Seattle, Portland, and SF,
West Coast restaurant chain files for bankruptcy.
Pastor returns from imprisonment in Turkey, is 'astounded'
by growing hostility to Christians in America.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/12/pastor-imprisoned-turkey-astounded-growing-hostili/
Facebook Bans St. Augustine Quote as 'Hate Speech'
New York Times fudges sales data to torpedo ranking of
conservative books, and promote ranking of liberal books.
Wes Pruden, Washington Times editor and conservative columnist,
dies at 83 after remarkable six-decade career.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/17/wes-pruden-washington-times-editor-and-columnist-d/
This
was his last column, dated the day he died:
“The four noisy horseladies of the Apocalypse”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/15/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-her-squad-have-taken-over/
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Sheriff David Clarke (ret)
7/19
“Shock and Awe, Trump Style”
President
Donald Trump delivered a haymaker to the bully freshman House of Representative
class of Democrats when he told them to shut up or get out. He took an old
political phrase and served it with blue-collar articulation—half-cooked and
cold. You know the phrase, “America, Love it or Leave it.” Remember when it was on bumper stickers and
buttons? It was a phrase to remind Anti-American subversives who were at
the time not just critical of America but were intent on destroying the very
fabric of our country. Well, sadly, they are back and will destroy our
county—if we let them.
A
group of malcontent snotty-nosed freshmen lawmakers in the House of
Representatives are pushing an anti-American agenda. But they are up against an
opponent who hits back. In a series of
recent tweets, President Trump unleashed—let’s say—the MOAT (Mother Of All
Tweets). Then he doubled down on it the next day. Any other GOP politician
would have walked it back, apologized and gone into seclusion until the
backlash subsided. Not Trump. These America haters are up against a president
who loves America and defends and praises the U.S. everywhere he goes, and at
every chance he gets, to do so.
What
these freshmen brats forget is that Trump is not afraid to color outside the
lines of traditionally defined behavior for presidents that go back to the
founding of this nation. He has redefined the office of the president. He has
reformulated what it means to be a Republican and a conservative. Trump fights
back like no Republican ever has. When the left throws rocks at him, he picks
those rocks up and hurls them right back. He fights with very few reliable
fighters on his side on Capitol Hill. Most GOPers are still afraid of the left
and choose to stay close to the shore and roll over. They say they are not a
"Trump-kind-of-Republican." Someone
needs to remind the left that Trump doesn’t just counterpunch, he punches first
when strategically advantageous and forces Democrats to respond to him. People
love it, and Trump knows it.
Consequently,
the left has defined new rules of engagement for themselves about what they can
get away with—what they can say or do in the political arena and with impunity.
They get plenty of cover from their accomplices in the liberal media. The
editorial boards of The New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today and
the anchors of CNN and MSNBC and network television carry their water. They
control the language. It has given them an advantage in political discourse.
They can say whatever they want about whoever they want and without political
liability.
These
folks on the left refuse to denounce the use of political violence by Antifa.
Really? As if it is that difficult to see the violence these miscreants
routinely use. The left has also called Trump Hitler, accused him of criminal
behavior where there is no evidence, Democrat Representative Rashida Tlaib
twice said at rallies, …we are gonna impeach that mother- (then dropped
an f-bomb) referring to Trump. Since the
day Trump was elected, the left has engaged not in traditional political
opposition but downright raw resistance. They have mistreated his family and
lie that he puts kids in cages at detention facilities. From the day he was
sworn in as the 45th president, he has fought back and in unconventional ways.
And he is winning. He knows the enemy, and he identifies it to the American
people. Then he goes after them. His
never-back-down style has Democrats and the left pulling their hair out. I love
it. None of the tactics they have used in the past to get rid of political
opposition or Republicans has worked. They can’t get rid of him. He never tires
of the fight and he won’t. Not only has his base had it with the constant
aggression against Trump; there is no doubt in my mind that even people not
politically active have had it too. They are tired of hearing about white privilege,
reparations and the myth of their implicit bias against minorities. It’s Trump’s turn to feed the beast like the
left does with their rabid base when they call every American not swallowing
their agenda, a racist, homophobe, Islamaphobe, xenophobe or misogynist. And he
did not disappoint with his tweets. What the left does not understand about
Trump’s base is that they live vicariously through him. When they see him
mistreated, they feel mistreated. It’s that basket of deplorables moment all over
again. In other words, we are all Trump.
Silently
many Trump supporters understood Trump’s blue-collar way of telling those who
hate America to love it or leave it. Politically only Trump could say it the
way he did and not lose voters. Many of his supporters nodded to themselves in
agreement.
There
is an emotional connection between President Trump and his supporters that
mirrors the emotional support between black voters and Obama. Good, bad,
indifferent and whether Obama was wrong on something or not, black voters were
not abandoning Obama. As with Trump supporters, we won’t leave him either.
There is nothing you can do to change that; he’s our guy. Are we clear?
Longer, but excellent read:
“Trump Troll Level: Grand Master” by Scott McKay “I’m sometimes a little slow to catch on to the ways
of America’s 45th president. After all, back in the 2016 GOP primary cycle I
was a Ted Cruz guy. Cruz was the most aggressive conservative playing within
the bounds of “acceptable” politics, and I figured that was the best chance to
stop the nation’s cultural and political rot and correct the ship of state’s
dangerous list to the left. But along came Donald Trump, who chewed the cover
off the political rulebook.…I
didn’t initially buy into this business about how Trump’s often-unorthodox
tweets and actions are part of a political 3D chess game he’s playing while the
rest of the country is playing checkers. But I do now…”
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“[Willem] Van Spronsen died … while attempting to firebomb
an immigration center in Tacoma, Washington. Van Spronsen embraced Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez’s claims that these centers are concentration camps. … There is a
great deal of talk on the left and in the media about a violent, out-of-control
‘alt-right’ in this country. But James Hodgkinson came from the left. He came
from the same movement that inspired Floyd Lee Corkins in 2012 to attempt the
mass murder of Christian activists at the Family Research Council. Actually
paying attention to both and what antifa has been doing could cause any
rational person to predict Van Spronsen’s actions. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
said there were concentration camps, and a man is now dead. Democrats said
Republicans would kill people with health care reform, and six people nearly
died in a mass assassination attempt as a result of those claims. But Donald
Trump tweeted something mean, so he must be held accountable. Our moral betters
behind the anchor desks and keyboards of American newsrooms have rarely met a
violent progressive they did not want to excuse. They will go to their graves
covering for the growing violence on the left while condemning mean tweets from
the right.”
-Erick
Erickson
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BOOKS
‘50 Things They Don't Want You to Know’ by Jerome Hudson. Here are a few: Black and Hispanic students are more underrepresented at
America’s top colleges and universities than before affirmative action…..Hispanics
constitute over half of Border Patrol Agents….The U.S. settled more refugees in
2018 than any other nation on earth ….Half of federal arrests are immigration-related….Amazon
paid $0 in taxes on $11.2 billion in profits in 2018….Taxpayers doled out $2.6
billion in food stamps to dead people in less than two years……
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LEFTIST WATCH
At celebration for US Women's Soccer Championship win, radical
lesbian star Rapinoe drops F-bomb in front of children, tweets 'Gays Are Better
Than Straight'.
Dem Presidential candidate Jay Inslee Floats Rapinoe as
Potential Secretary of State.
Lefties start to arm themselves. The Tacoma ICE bomber belonged to this
organization: The Puget Sound John Brown
Gun Club.
Meet AOC’s Brain: Saikat Chakrabarti “Hostile takeover of Democrat
party”
New York Times article praises the old Soviet Union for diversity
in losing space race: “How the Soviets
Won the Space Race for Equality”
American
space achievements such as the Apollo 11 Moon landing mean nothing because they
were racist and sexist, while the Soviet Union practiced diversity. A
ready-made Russia Times article? Nope: New York Times and Washington Post. “NYT declares
USSR ‘won space race’ for wokeness.”
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GLOBALONEY
Prince Charles at it again: Issues new 18-month climate
tipping point after previous ‘100 month’ deadline expires.
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ARTICLES
You Can Disagree With His Language, but Trump Is Right About
'The Squad'
President Trump Highlights Democrat Activist Hypocrisy – “Flee
to America, and Demand We Change it…”
Dennis Prager: ‘No Good Country Can Survive When Its People
Have Contempt for It’
Video: the secrets of Ilhan Omar.
The Religious Moment on The Moon NASA Never Wanted You To
See
‘Racism’: A Cliché Fastened to a Dying Animal
The Left’s Demonization of Conservatives Becomes Dangerous
Lara Trump: Why Are Dems Trying to Undo the President's
Success for Women?
‘Mainstream media say we don’t exist’; women for Trump rally
at national kickoff campaign in King of Prussia
Nolte: Lack of Bigotry in America Forces Media to Invent Hoaxes
How Bureaucrats Ruin Everything From Dishwashers To Gas Cans
To Cars
How Trump Actually Won on the Citizenship Question. Here’s the problem: Using the low estimate of 11 million illegal
aliens, America would seem to have 13.6 to 15.9 congressional districts
reserved just for illegal aliens.
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WISE
WORDS
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the
minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their
industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness,
abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every
capacity, faculty, and virtue.”
-John
Adams
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