deornwulf
4 hours ago
Lesson 42 on how to make a Snowflake meltdown
- Ask the snowflake if he, she, it believes in American Exceptionalism
- After the snowflake says "no," ask if America has any business interfering with the internal affairs of another country, using the US Military to achieve the goal.
- After the snowflake answers "No f'ing way," ask the snowflake to explain why it is wrong of President Trump to bring our troops home from these "endless war" deployments.
The snowflake will meltdown and sputter "...but, but, ORANGE MAN BAD!"
President Trump gave a compassionate, heartfelt answer to the grieving daughter.
President Trump’s geopolitical paradigm shift could possibly mean peace between Israel and the Arab World
But wait! There's more! //
Townhall.com
@townhallcom
President @realDonaldTrump says five to six additional countries will be "coming along" for more peace deals:
"You're going to see a lot of very great activity. It's going to be peace in the Middle East."
This decision would have never come from a panel with Obama and Hillary Clinton Appointees
To The Atlantic, the mere chance of President Trump holding the golden medal bearing the visage of Alfred Nobel was too much. ‘Better to shut it down.’
The experts all said it couldn't be done. //
Breaking911
@Breaking911
ANOTHER TRUMP PEACE DEAL: Bahrain will normalize ties with Israel, Bahrain Crown Prince will be in DC Monday. @realDonaldTrump is expected to make an offical announcement later Friday from the White House - Times Of Israel
9:48 AM · Sep 11, 2020
Three-fourths of the Arab countries normalizing relations with Israel in the past 50 years have done so in the past two weeks. Do the math.
Public universities could lose federal funding should they fail to give religious student groups the same rights as other campus organizations.
A joint statement released by the United States, the Kingdom of Bahrain, and the State of Israel announced the 'establishment of full diplomatic relations.' //
According to the joint statement, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani will sign the official “Declaration of Peace” on Sept. 15 at the White House.
The Trump administration has scrapped environmental policy that would have driven up energy bills on American families for no meaningful global impact.
[Note: This article is based on an actual letter. The recipient’s name and some minor details have been changed.]Aug. 5, 2020
Dear Zachary,
Thank you for your thoughtful, honest email explaining why you felt frustration and anger about my public support of Donald Trump. I'm glad that you wrote as you did rather than leaving the matter unspoken.
Thank you also for writing, as a long-time friend, to express your concerns that my support of Trump might jeopardize the reputation that I have built as a trusted professor of theology and ethics for the last 43 years, and that my pro-Trump stance undermines the credibility of the label “evangelical,” and even of the Christian gospel itself.
I take these objections seriously. I have pondered them for several days. Please consider the following twelve points of response:
- No consideration of policies
At the beginning of your email, you write, “This email does not concern policy.” The rest of the email concerns what you see as President Trump’s character flaws.
But that means that your email fails to address the entire reason for my support of Trump. In every column that I’ve published in support of Trump, I have explicitly registered my disapproval of his character flaws and previous immoral behavior. I support him because of the policies he has enacted and will enact, and in spite of his character flaws (which I don’t think rise to a level that would disqualify him from being president; more on this below).
The Atlantic's article is evocative, but it provides no named sources. Some who were there have disputed the claims on the record. Add one more to the list.
The idea that Mattis took the job as Secretary of Defense, requiring President Trump to ask for a Congressional waiver for him to do so, and then treated the man so shabbily behind his back makes me think one hell of a lot less about Mattis.
Secondly, Jim Mattis is Roman Catholic. The National Cathedral is also a) /pagan/ Episcopalian and b) nowhere near either the Pentagon, the White House, or Mattis’s quarters. The Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle is much closer to the White House than the National Cathedral if, indeed, he needed to unburden his soul for falling for the temptation of power.
The dark whisper about needing to “take collective action,” is concerning. It is one thing if a civilian cabinet secretary goes there. But if a recently retired Marine general starts talking about removing the president via “collective action,” it carries with it a whiff of Bonapartism and imagery more appropriate to Buenos Aires or Tegucigalpa than Washington, DC. It smacks of the classic thriller, Seven Days in May. (See Mike Ford’s excellent story on this that Woodward’s book has made relevant again, 7 or 8 Days in May. //
https://www.redstate.com/darth641/2019/02/16/7-8-days-may/
Assuming this story is true, it paints a shameful picture of Jim Mattis. He’s not the legendary “warrior monk,” he’s a disloyal and duplicitous man who took a job from a man he had no intention of serving to the best of his ability and then proceeded to sabotage him behind the scenes. Not a good look at all.
It's always been deeper than they let on. //
Take Trump’s recent triumph in garnering a deal between the UAE and Israel, which also lead to an avalanche of other normalization moves by Arab countries towards the Jewish state. The President has been nominated for a Nobel Prize for the success.
President Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for helping broker a peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, according to a report.
Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a member of the Norwegian Parliament and chairman of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, submitted the nomination, Fox News reported.
“For his merit, I think he has done more trying to create peace between nations than most other Peace Prize nominees,” Tybring-Gjedde told Fox News.
The deal that led to that nomination was by far the most significant move toward peace in the Middle East in decades. And that’s precisely why it drove the foreign policy establishment, dominated by the left and Never Trump types, so insane. For years we’ve been assured by their “expertise” that such a quasi-alliance between Israel and the Arabs was not only impossible, but not preferable because it would only inflame tensions with the Palestinians. They were wrong. Again.
Unfortunately for the country, they’ve been wrong many times before. They were wrong about China. They were wrong about Iraq. They were wrong about how to fight in Afghanistan. They were wrong about Libya. They were wrong about the Arab Spring. They were wrong about Iran. They were wrong about Russia. They were wrong about Syria. I could keep going for a few more hundred words just listing major foreign policy failures by those who are held up as our intellectual betters. //
Zaid Jilani
@ZaidJilani
Bill Clinton on what would happen when the U.S. granted China normal trade relations. "It will strengthen those within China who fight for higher labor standards, a cleaner environment, human rights, and the rule of law."
“The left’s agenda isn’t about protecting the environment, it’s about punishing America,” the president says. //
During the Florida speech, Trump noted that his policies have been effective, in contrast with liberals’ proposals that he said are “all talk and no action.”
“The left’s agenda isn’t about protecting the environment, it’s about punishing America,” the president said. “Instead of focusing on radical ideology, my administration is focusing on delivering real results, and that’s what we have.” //
“We now have the cleanest air we’ve ever had in this country,” Trump said, before putting a qualifier on the word ever.
“Let’s say over the last 40 years, because I assume 200 years ago it was probably better, what do you think? I do want to preface that, because the fake news is back there.”
Biden knows Jimmy Carter -- he should give him a call to prepare himself. //
Stony Brook Political Scientist Helmut Norpoth has created a Presidential Election prediction model which has correctly predicted the winning candidate in 25 of the last 27 Presidential elections, going back to 1912, the first year presidential primaries in the states were used in each party’s nominating process. The only two years the model was wrong were 1960, with Kennedy beating Nixon — although there are strong historical accounts that election fraud in Texas and Illinois delivered both state to Kennedy when, in fact, the voters of Texas and Illinois selected Nixon. If those two states had been declared for Nixon, they would have given him exactly 270 electoral votes, the number needed to win the election.
The other year the model was incorrect was 2000, when Bush prevailed over Gore after a court challenge which declared Bush to be the winnner in Florida by just a handful of votes, with Florida’s electoral votes needed by each candidate to declare victory.
Prof. Norpoth’s model predicts a 91% chance that Pres. Trump wins re-election, and gives him 362 electoral votes in the process. //
In playing around with an interactive electoral map, the way I get Pres. Trump to 362 electoral votes would put only the following states in Biden’s column:
Washington, California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Delewere, Maryland, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, and one vote from Maine.
I recognize the tune, but the lyrics have been changed. //
Goldberg’s article — based on anonymous sources — claims that the trip was possible, and the only reason Pres. Trump did not go was because he did not want to go and that he didn’t see any reason why it was necessary for him to visit cemeteries like these. Goldberg claimed he has four sources with first hand knowledge as to the reasons why the trip was scrubbed. But no fewer than four people who were in the room have gone on record stating that the Atlantic Story is false, the only reasons discussed for canceling the visit was the adverse travel conditions. //
The RealClearPolitics average of polls shows that immediately after the GOP Convention, starting on September 2, the race moved from dead heat to a 7% lead for Pres. Bush — 50-43 — as of September 8, the day Rather ran the Texas National Guard story based on phony documents.
The story came under immediate and sustained attack based on its irregularities, and the falsehoods that were quickly exposed. The purpose of the story was to paint Pres. Bush as someone who used political favors to avoid being sent to Vietnam as a fighter pilot. The goal was to juxtapose Bush’s avoidance of combat with Kerry’s service time in which he was “combat wounded” — although that story took a beating as well. //
The Atlantic story has the same purpose and was launched at the same point in time. //
Goldberg played a similar role here — except he’s just one small squeal of a cacophony of press organs lined up to oppose a second Trump term.
But just like Rathergate, the Atlantic Article has fatal flaws that have been exposed and undermine its central thesis. But it also serves as a bit of an inoculation against stories yet to come.
We’ve seen this movie before, and I liked the way it ended the first time. At this point in time, nothing suggests the ending to the 2020 version will be different.
The county paper predicted a crowd of 2,000-plus for President Trump's stop. There are more than twice that many vehicles by 4.
The Atlantic is still operating under the guise of anonymous sourcing.