Headlines

Senate Dems ready tactics to muck up Supreme Court confirmation

Supreme Court to face major cases on Obamacare and religion

Former Trump economist: Biden tax plan would kill 3 million jobs

Sharpton: ‘I was glad’ Barrett’s children attended the ceremony ... ‘because I didn’t see too many people of color’ in audience’

North Korea accuses South Korea of illegally crossing boundary

U.S. has a ‘long way to go’ before herd immunity with less than 10% showing coronavirus antibodies

Tens of thousands attend Prayer March 2020 led by Franklin Graham

[Lindsey] Graham: Confirmation could get to the Senate floor ‘around’ October 26

Poland looks to toughen already stringent abortion laws

The September market swoon accomplished much of what market corrections are supposed to do

Latest Flynn document dump poses threat to Dems

Coney Barrett mentored first blind female Supreme Court clerk in U.S. history ...

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Trump’s Boneheaded Moves?

A DEN comment on a previous blog post (Why?) outlined what is alleged to be President Trump’s boneheaded moves (surprisingly, DEN didn’t call him a RACIST!)  I reproduce them below with my rebuttals in bold type. Doing this under the comments section would have been impractical.

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-Unilaterally abandoned a treaty with Iran that they were complying with.
Again it is NOT a treaty and, even in 2017, Iran was NOT complying ... see:  Center for Security Policy and, more recently, Iran is 3.5 months from A-bomb

-Started a trade war with China and others which has cost jobs, ruined farms and raised prices for Americans.
In February, a year after tariffs were installed and before Covid, unemployment rate was 3.5%, the lowest in history, see: CNBC Report ... and inflation is still a tiny 1% compared to the Fed’s target of 2%  ... see: Inflation Rate Calculator.

- destroyed our prestige and trust with other nations that were allies, made a laughing stock out of America, but mainly himself. No one except Putin wants to deal with him.
Panhandlers (like much of the EU) always love a sucker  ... and they don’t like to be called freeloaders ... but the head of NATO praises Trump ... see: USA Today article ... and he is a hero in much of the Middle East, Japan, the Ukraine, South America, the U.K. and now, Serbia and Kosovo. The only reason Putin sucks up to Trump, despite all the sanctions that have been imposed on Russia, is because he is rightfully scared of China. Trump is putting a stop to our being the world’s police force. Is this not a good thing?

- Gave a phony tax cut that mainly benefited large corps and rich people. 
First, they were real, not phony ... and, specifically, the corporate cuts did boost the economy. If they benefitted the wealthy it was only away from high-tax states like California, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, etc, ... see: Washington Times article. Why are so many plutocrats moving out of these states? (Even after Gov. Cuomo offers to cook them dinner?)

- Has fired anyone who disagrees with him, gutting the competence of government leaders.
Trump has lived through a lot of Deep State leaks and subterfuge. He obviously tolerated a lot of disagreement but when subordinates actively worked against his policies (and they were rife) then they are shown the door. If anything, he has been too slow in this housecleaning.

- Put up a phony wall that can be breached with a power saw.
Sour grapes. Cutting through the wall with a saw takes a lot more time than stepping over a line. And there are sensors in the wall that alert authorities to any breach so that they can counterdict. There have now been build 216 miles of real (not phony) wall ... see: FoxNews Story ... with 700 more to go.

- Failed to take the pandemic seriously, proffered snake oil solutions. Never assumed responsibility for anything.
 Were you watching any of the Covid press conferences? It WAS the Trump administration, namely Fauci et al, who screwed the pooch by being on both sides of every issue. Trump is a natural optimist ... not a scientist and he made the mistake of putting too much faith in these incompetent bureaucrats ... and often had to cover for them. The CDC and NIH performed badly before and during this pandemic ... but Trump marshaled private industry and the drug companies only like a real businessman could. If you believe Biden could have done any better, you are a DNC ventriloquist’s dummy.

- Pulled troops out of Syria and betrayed Kurdish allies.
Did pulling out 50 US military advisors in northern Syria allow Turkey to destroy the Kurds there? Absolutely not! Biden is not raising this issue because it doesn’t exist. You need to read and study more. See: NY Post article.

- ignored Putin's bounty on US servicemen.
More silly fake news like The Atlantic canard ... designed to peel away military votes. Why on earth would he do this? Because Russia loaned his company money back in 1992? 

- encouraged supporters to vote twice, hired a guy with no experience to reduce USPS capabilities.
Not true. He said if North Carolina voters voted well in advance by mail, they should check to see if the their votes had been tallied. He didn’t single out Republicans. And the new head of the USPS is a logistics expert (see: Wikipedia Entry) ... and the post office is primarily a logistics business ... which badly needs to innovate.

- Solicited foreign influence. Bribed the Ukranian leader to dig dirt on Biden (this was proven but would not vote to impeach) Has undermined confidence in elections.
If anyone bribed the Ukrainian leadership, it was Biden. The Democrat impeachment case against Trump didn’t even charge that he had colluded ... don’t you remember? If Trump was charged with colluding and proven guilty, would any discussions between foreign leaders ever be possible in the future?

- refuses to show his taxes which would reveal chummy relations with Russians
You are guessing again. If there is anything illegal in Trump’s tax returns, it is for the tax courts and maybe the NY DA and grand jury to decide ... not the corrupt American media.

- could not find a replacement for ACA but would have dumped millions of people off health care just to spite Obama.
So far Trump has only eliminated the unfair individual mandate and penalty in Obamacare ... a very popular move. His other reforms were scuttled by a spiteful John McCain. Can you honestly say that your health care has gotten better or cheaper after ACA was passed? I certainly can’t.

Headlines

Pence attributes coronavirus spike to young Americans ‘disregarding’ Covid guidance

Starbucks is the latest company to pause advertising across social media

Trump administration asks SCOTUS to dismantle Obamacare

Poll: Trump losing ground with whites, not gaining with minorities

Andrew Cuomo: Trump is ‘in denial’ about coronavirus

Coronavirus cases worldwide top 10 million, with nearly half a million deaths —- and 25% are in the US

Breaking: Minneapolis unanimously approves of abolishing police force

Rolling Stones threaten to sue Trump for using their songs

Pelosi on Trump: ‘With him, all roads lead to Putin’

Florida reports second consecutive day of record coronavirus cases

Senate confirms Trump’s 200th judge

BLM protesters storm Beverly Hills neighborhood: ‘Eat the rich!’

Why Trump Won

- He is genuine in thought and action

- He is a patriot and loves his country

- He identified many issues* that were being ignored by our betters

- He promised to fix them ... and the voters believed him

- He said he would make America great again

- He knew that Washington was corrupt to the core

- And promised to “drain this swamp”

- He identified our fake media ... something that many suspected

- He wasn’t Hillary

* uncontrolled immigration, unfair trading pacts, anemic economic growth, Chinese hegemony, pointless international nation building, tolerance of terrorism at home and abroad, NATO slackers, climate change hoax, Obamacare disaster, liberal courts, insane Iran nuclear deal, North Korea nuclear and missile problems

Headlines

Coronavirus drives health insurers back to Obamacare

Coronavirus updates: Trump says military will distribute vaccine, CVS to offer drive-thru tests

Resentment builds as reopening rules apply to some, but not to others ...

Gretchen Whitmer lashes out at Michigander protesters,: lockdown ‘not optional’

Appeals court green lights emoluments suit against Trump

Dismal jobs report offered a sign that some people may be returning to work

Jobless claims total 36.5 million ...

Mayor Eric Garcetti: L.A. won’t completely reopen without virus ‘cure’

New Jersey may face $10B budget shortfall through FY 2021

Delta to retire Boeing 777’s as pandemic dims outlook for international travel

Judge asks whether Flynn should be held in contempt for perjury ...

Powell warns of a possible sustained recession from pandemic

Hostile Media

President Trump gripes that the fake-news’ constant nipping at his heels is impeding what he can get done. This may or may not be the case. And by this I mean just the “nipping” not the “fake news.”

Let’s be real ... the deep state and most of the hostile media hate Trump with a white-hot passion. Although this makes his job much more difficult ... in a way, it is a good thing ... for it requires him to perform well in every situation .... like in the current COVID-19  outbreak.

In the heat of the moment, it is difficult to gauge how well he is handling this health crisis, but, to me, I think he is managing this crisis almost as well as possible. Sure, he has made a few missteps. But, like any good manager, he is driven not by ideology, but to produce results and can pivot on a dime to do so.

When the national media is in love with a president, like with our former “chosen one,” gigantic mistakes are not focused on nor corrected ... in fact they are résumé enhancers ... such as Obamacare, the rise of “ISIL,” the Iran nuclear deal, the Paris Climate Accord, the swine flu response, TARP and the Afghanistan “surge” among many other Obama boners.

So, dear reader, although our national media is grossly biased and dishonest, they may be performing a useful purpose ... keeping Trump walking the line ... and will likely give themselves lots of kudos for such.

Headlines

Cracks start to show in Taliban peace deal

After testing a 5G phone for a week, I’m not sold on the 5G revolution

Virus may have spread unedited for 6 weeks inside USA ...

California poll:  Bernie maintains significant edge over Biden

Klobuchar rally in Minnesota canceled amid protests

Coronavirus live updates: New York Auto Show still on for April, Saudi Arabia confirms first case

Jack Welch, former CEO and chairman of GE, dies at 84 ...

SCOTIS to hear case that could scrap Obamacare

Sanders defends attacks on Israel’s Netanyahu

WHO says coronavirus cases outside China 9 times higher than inside

NKorca fires ‘short-range ballistic missiles’ ...

Taliban ends ‘peach deal’ with U.S. after Afghan president balks

Headlines

First case of deadly China virus identified in U.S.

Boeing doesn’t expect regulators to sign off on 737 Max until June or July ...

2A activists: Media smearing VA protesters as ‘white rednecks’

Chaos as rock-throwing caravan migrants push into Mexico

Voters giveTrump’s job performance low marks

Housing market falling short by nearly 4 million house as demand grows

[Hillary] Torches Bernie: ‘Nobody likes him’ ...

Breaking bombshell: Warren’s son-in-law produced film fund by Iran

Supreme Court won’t fast-track Obamacare case

Swiss police believe Russian spies posed as plumbers to bug Davos

Fed pumps $90 billion more ...

Black Guns Matter Founder blasts ‘Governor Blackface’

Biggest Presidential Lies

Our presidents tend to prevaricate. Here are the biggest whoppers of our last four:

- Bill Clinton: I never had sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky ... not a single time.

- George W. Bush: Saddam Hussein was involved with the  9/11 attackers.

- Barack Obama: If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance.

- Donald Trump: I never shtupped Stormy Daniels. (Just one of a claimed 16,000+ lies. What he doesn’t achieve in the seriousness of his lies, he supposedly makes up for in their numbers.)

Headlines

The Fed could face a possible ‘inflation scare’ in 2020 with commodity prices on the rise

3 years in, no sign of Trump’s replacement for Obamacare ...

Pete Buttigieg knocks Joe Biden’s support of the Iraq war

Bill De Blasio calls NYC ‘the safest big city in America’

The battery decade: How energy storage could revolutionize industries in the next 10 years

GALLUP: Obama, Trump tied as most admired man ...

Barack Obama picks his own documentary among favorite movies of 2019

Hunter Biden owed $113,000 in unpaid taxes for year he served on Burisma board

Ivanka Trump may not return to the White House if her father wins in 2020

Shooting at church in Texas ... Gunman shot dead by parishioner ...

Suspect arrested, drenched in blood, in Hanukkah machete attack ...

CBS reporter says Trump’s record with minorities is one ‘any president after 3 years would want to claim’

Headlines

Trump warns Syria , Russia,  and Iran against killing ‘innocent civilians’ in Idtib Provence

New rule would make it possible to track and identify nearly all drones flying in the U.S.

ChinaRussinIran navy drills ... Growing alliance

IG Report shock: Steele funneled claims through John McCain after FBI dropped him as source

Democrats seize on anti-Obamacare ruling to steamroll GOP 2020

Trump stock market  rally is far outpacing past US presidents

Trump already searching for his next Secretary of State

Lisa Murkowski ‘disturbed’ by coordination vow between Senate and White House

Democrat insiders: Bernie could win the nomination

China races to build its own Tesla as economy slows and subsidies dry up

Americans retiring to Vietnam, for cheap healthcare and decent living standard.... Monthly expenses rarely exceed $2,000

Michael Moore: Trump will not debate Democrat candidate

Headlines

Judge delays Roger Stone’s sentencing until Feb, 20

Trump signs bills to avoid government shutdown, scrap Obamacare taxes and raise tobacco buying age

Millions sickened across America as flu season heats up ...

Franklin Graham: My father Billy Graham ‘voted for Donald Trump’

Pelosi invites Trump to deliver State of the Union on Feb. 4

Trump and Xi sparked a year-end rally that should extend into new year

EXODUS: California population growth slowest since 1900 ...

Sen. Rick Scott: If Pelosi doesn’t send articles, we won’t deal with impeachment

Gabbard lays low after voting ‘present’ on impeachment

Why we don’t have electric planes yet

Massive M-13 bust: 96 members charges in Long Island takedown ...

Harvard Law Professor: Trump not impeached until articles transferred

Obama’s Piss Poor Presidency

A commenter asked on Presidential what I meant by Obama’s “piss poor” presidency. I gave it short shrift and it deserves better ... so here is more — the urine that the “chosen one” managed to spread around during his pampered eight years:

- His initial apology tour ... disparaging his country
- Gutting our military
- Significantly deepening the domestic racial divide
- Doubling our notional debt burden by $10 trillion
- Spending $1 trillion on [non] “shovel-ready jobs”
- Cash for clunkers
- Attempting to destroy our coal and oil industries
- Relying on monetary and not fiscal levers for economic recovery
- Tens of billions lost on Solyndra and other crony  “investments”
- The stupid Paris Climate Accord
- Oblivious to huge trade deficits with China, Mexico and the EU
- Frequently disrespecting Israel
- The Benghazi debacle
- Allowing Hillary’s private email server
- Politicizing our intelligence agencies
- Obamacare which is slowly being fixed by Congress and the courts
- The Iranian nuclear deal giving it $150 billion and  $1.6B in hard cash
- Giving lip service to defeating ISIS ... possibly even arming them
- Reneging US commitment to put missiles in Poland
- Colluding with the Muslim Brotherhood and Black Lives Matter
- Unconstitutional DACA executive order
- Pardoning spy Chelsea Manning
- Swapping deserter Bowe Bergdahl for five senior Taliban bad guys
- “Fast and Furious” gun running to Mexico cartels
- IRS discrimination against Tea Party groups
- Spying on political opponents and the media
- Selling 20% of US uranium to the Russians
- Russian reset including allowing them to annex Crimea
- Not arming the Ukraine with anti-tank missiles against Russia
- Not making NATO countries meet their committed military spending
- The very expensive Afghanistan “surge” producing nothing
- Not confronting North Korea’s for its bad behavior

Enough? And I’m sure I forgot quite a few!

The Trump Doctrine

MAGA!

A country without borders is not a country

Free trade is not necessarily fair trade

The US is not the world’s police force

Nationalism over failed globalism

This country will never be socialist

America needs to be energy independent

Bring manufacturing back to the United States

We must have the world’s premier military force

Be careful who you pick for your enemies ... and for your friends

Immigration should be welcoming but selective ... aim for contributors

We must take care of our veterans

Repeal and replace Obamacare

Strong economic growth and full employment across all ethnic groups

Our cities should be clean and crime-free

Alliances should be lived up to ... by all parties

Love of country and pride in country

Headlines

Trump and Bolton offer conflicting accounts on his White House exit

Oil falls after Trump says he fired national security advisor John Bolton

Soros praises Trump ...

Dem Rep. Clyburn: ‘Not too sure’ the Bill of Rights would pass today

Poll: Biden, Sanders top Dem field among Latinos

Cramer: Wall Street executives are saying Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 bid has ‘got to be stopped’

Poll: Most now have unfavorable view of Dem party ... Majority say recession likely ...

Mitt Romney: ‘Very unhappy’ with John Bolton’s firing

Number of uninsured Americans rises for first time since Obamacare

Jamie Dimon says JP Morgan is preparing for the risk of zero rates in the US

Poll: Gun control support slipping ...

Federal Judge: Facebook’s view on privacy is ‘so wrong’

Obamanations

Since the Democrat candidates have sullied former President Obama in their recent debate, I guess it’s now OK to join the fray. It's only been 31 months since the worst president of our lifetime has left office into hyper-wealth ... and the outline of his legacy is beginning to be written by historians ... and far-left Dems. Let me help them with my thoughts of his, can I use the word, obamanations? Here are a few of my cringe-worthy recollections:

- A fake $831 billion “stimulus” package ... no real “shovel-ready jobs”

- Obamacare ... in all its gory

- The Iran nuclear deal which gave it hundreds of billion dollars in which to sponsor terrorism in the Middle East, cooperate with North Korea in its drive toward an atomic Armageddon, and still pursue its own nuclear/missile ambitions.

- Inviting the Muslim Brotherhood to the White House multiple times ... the MB is a Muslim terrorist organization

- Conveniently ignoring China’s unfair trade practices ... and pushing the TPP

- An eight -year neglect of our anti-missile technology development ... leaving us seriously unprepared for Kim Jong Un's madness.

- Allowing US manufacturing to die a slow death — no “magic wand”

- The exchange of five highest-level Taliban commanders for that Army deserted, Bowe Bergdahl

- The Paris Climate Accord in which the US carried almost the entire responsibility

- Continually demeaning the US and our potential

- Sham "surge" in Afghanistan for political purposes. It did nothing ... mainly because of inane rules of engagement.

- Refusing to recognize domestic radical Islamic terrorism

- The hollowing out of our armed forces.

- Treating ISIS as the JV team ... using more inane rules of military engagement.

- Weaponizing US intelligence agencies against the Trump team

- The commuting of Chelsea Manning's 35-year sentence for treason.

- His opening to Cuba ... for which we got damaged diplomats and more problems with Venezuela.

- The paying of at least $1.6 billion in cash to Iran for two hostages

- And a whole lot more ...

Now no president can accumulate this many screw-ups without some winners. Unfortunately I can't recall any.

Headlines

Trump tells Democrat Congresswomen: Go back where you came from

The Fed could be about to disappoint the market, warns Wells Fargo Securities

Pelosi emerges as unexpected villain at Netroots ...

Amnesty architect declares victory with green card giveaway

Republicans ready to dive off a cliff on Obamacare

Biden, Sanders and Warren lead Trump in 2020 election match-ups: Poll

Rep. Omar questions patriotism of American-born citizens ...

Police: Man with rifle, ‘incendiary devices’ attacked migrant center

French President booed at Bastille Day celebration

The Zoom bug that could’ve let hackers spy on video meetings tapped into people’s tech fears

The night the lights went out on Broadway ... 5 hours of darkness ...

Bernie Sanders: Pelosi being a ‘little bit’ too tough on AOC

Headlines

Mulvaney presses Trump to dump Acosta amid mounting outrage

Lighthizer, Mnuchin spoke with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He on Tuesday

Tommy Robinson seeks political asylum in America, says he will be murdered in U.K. prison ...

Elizabeth Warren: I will end Israeli ‘occupation’

Kudlow: Trump won’t submit trade bill until Pelosi gives ‘green light’

The housing market is about to shift in a bad way for buyers

Pelosi says Trump trying to ‘Make America White Again’ with census

Mexican human smugglers arrested with 228 immigrants in Pepsi truck

Appeals court skeptical Obamacare can survive

Jill and Joe Biden made more than $15 million in two years after leaving the White House

Iran threatens to sink US warships, destroy army bases ...

Poll: 76% of conservatives don’t trust Facebook

Slow Walk

“There are no golden moments.” — Tom West


It seems that almost everything is in a slow walk these days:


USMCA (NAFTA 2.0) ratification

North Korea and Iran denuclearizing

China trade deal

Fully fixing (or replacing) Obamacare

Securing our Mexico border and immigration reform

European trade dealings

Reduction of the national deficit


Some of this sloth is politically inspired by next year’s election. However, President Trump seems to have taken most of these delays in stride. He is showing remarkable patience and little frustration. Remarkable!

Perhaps building skyscrapers always involves frustrating delays ... so Trump has gotten used to the perpetual slow walk ...

Headlines

Senate passes border funding package, setting up fight with House

Democrats take aim at big business, spar over health care at the first 2020 presidential debate

She [Gabbard] is most searched name during debate — Google ...

Cory Booker: We need to talk more about transgender Americans

Reddit cracks down on pro-Trump channel over ‘repeated rule breaking’

Huawei says it doesn’t cooperate with Chinese military — after report says its employees did

Trump [on debate]: Boring ...

De Blasio: Yes, Democrats are for 70% tax rate, free college

Appellate court raises new threat to Obamacare

Trump campaign shells out on YouTube ad to draw more views than Democrat debate

ISIS threatens to bomb New York ahead of Fourth of July ...

20 times Breirbart reported migrant deaths during Obama-Biden