Trump Derangement Syndrome

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After One Year of Trump, Democrats Are Delusional
Townhall.com ^ | January 19, 2018 | Dennis Lennox
Posted on 1/19/2018, 8:46:27 AM by Kaslin



Not much has changed in the one year since President Donald J. Trump took the oath of office at the west front of the Capitol.

By that I mean the Democrats haven’t learned anything from the epic 2016 presidential election in which Trump slayed a who’s who of the Republican establishment to claim the party’s nomination before conquering Bill and Hillary Clinton. Then there’s the chattering class, which still thinks Trump Democrats in Saginaw will be swayed by whatever “Morning Joe” is saying.

To this day, they are in a state of delusion.

Democrats have done nothing to show they have learned anything from Trump’s victory, when he moved Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin to the Republican column.

The Democratic Party is now the party of the hard-left, led by the likes of Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. The few traditional Democrats that remain in the party — the recusants of flyover country, which is populated mostly by middle-class and working-class whites — have been marginalized to the point where they have become an object of media curiosity, as evidenced by a recent must-read piece in Politico Magazine entitled “Heartland Democrats to Washington: You’re Killing Us.”

As a result, Democrats have gone all-in on obstructing and delegitimizing Trump. Even if some in their heart of hearts aren’t inclined to support the so-called #Resistance they also don’t want to become the next Joe Lieberman — the now-former senator from Connecticut and 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee who was purged by the hard-left for heresy in the primaries of 2006.

That would explain why Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the Democrat whip, undermined the sausage making that occurs during backroom negotiating.

Durbin and the minority Senate Democrats were under intense pressure from the hard-left not to cut a permanent deal with Trump. To do so would be capitulation.

The handful of Democrat senators from states won by Trump — the likes of Debbie Stabenow in Michigan or Claire McCaskill in Missouri — also voted against the sweeping tax reform. That’s because a vote with Trump and majority Republicans wouldn’t just create internal party problems, but it could result in a loss of funds from their patrons in the donor-class.

Notwithstanding, Trump has achieved a great deal in his first year at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue despite relentless partisan warfare from Democrats that at times has blurred the lines between legitimate political disagreement and subversion.

Atop the list is the booming economy.

Case in point is the Dow Jones industrial average, which, at the time of writing, is up 42.5 percent since Trump’s election.

Of course, the stock market’s performance isn’t the sole indicator of economic growth. For working-class voters, including the 56 percent of union members that defied union bosses to vote for Trump, it’s all about jobs and wages.

Not only are there more jobs, but workers are taking home bigger paychecks thanks to the raises and bonuses that Nancy Pelosi, the House Democrat leader, dismissed as “crumbs.”

To keep majority after November’s mid-term election Trump and Republicans need to stay the course and remain committed to a program that puts America and American workers first.

Democrats who continue resisting will do so at their own peril.

[Yamcha]

[Dos Equis]

Scarborough: Only ‘Very, Very Stupid’ People Think Obstruction Charges Not Imminent
By Bill D'Agostino | January 29, 2018

On Monday, Joe Scarborough ratcheted up the rhetoric against President Trump’s supporters and allies who question the validity of the Mueller investigation.

In an emotional outburst the likes of which Morning Joe viewers have come to expect from the show’s host, Scarborough explicitly insulted those who might question the efficacy of the case against the President:  “Anybody that writes an op-ed and suggests that Donald Trump has not put himself directly in the target of an obstruction charge is just fooling themselves and some very, very stupid, ill-informed readers.”

Scarborough’s agitation may have been due to the upcoming vote in the House Intelligence Committee on whether to release the controversial memo written by Committee Chairman Devin Nunes. In light of the possibility that the memo might be made available to the public as soon as Monday evening, the show’s panelists spent most of the morning attempting to get out in front of whatever information the memo might contain.

During the first segment, Scarborough issued a plea directly to House Speaker Paul Ryan, asking him to somehow prevent Congressman Nunes – whom Ryan appointed as Chairman for the Select Committee on Intelligence – from releasing the memo, and perhaps remove him from the Committee entirely.

“Why is Devin Nunes still in charge of the Intel Committee when he made an absolute fool of himself several months ago claiming he had information that he didn’t have?” Scarborough complained.

He continued: “Paul Ryan, if you’re listening, or somebody in your staff is listening, and I know they are, listen, the Intel Community, the Justice Department said it would be incredibly reckless to release this memo.”

Scarborough and his co-host and fiancé Mika Brzezinski have taken the position that the Nunes memo is little more than a distraction designed to interfere with what they believe to be bulletproof obstruction of justice charges against the President. However, the lines between opinion and fact were blurred on Monday when Scarborough referred to the memo as “cherry-picked and misleading and false.”

He was likely paraphrasing House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Adam Schiff, who recently alleged that the information contained in Nunes’s memo was cherry-picked. However, one might wonder how Joe Scarborough, who has not yet seen the memo, can be so confident that the memo is false that he’s willing to label it as such on live television.

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/bill-dagostino/2018/01/29/scarborough-only-very-very-stupid-people-think-obstruction

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Democrats’ Hatred of Trump Is Going to Bring Them Down
Frontpagemagazine ^ | February 1, 2018 | David Horowitz
Posted on 2/2/2018, 7:08:50 AM by SJackson

Reflections on the State of the Union.

Donald Trump’s State of the Union address was perfectly pitched for the political moment. He spoke to and for the American people – for all Americans of whatever race, color or creed. He spoke for the poorest and most vulnerable among us, who are the chief victims of the Democrats’ determination to welcome millions upon millions of illegal aliens, who are mainly low wage laborers and who include predatory criminals, to pour into our country; to defy federal law with their “sanctuary” states and cities, and to effectively declare our border and immigration policies null and void. Trump did not use the word “sedition” to describe the law-breaking and Constitution-negating actions of his Democratic predecessor or the Democrats assembled in the chamber of the House. He provided instead an opening to them to abandon their “resistance” – resistance to the expressed will of the American voting public which has led to a relentless sabotage of the democratic process. In sum, he offered a hand to his Democratic haters, and they slapped it away.

When Trump summarized the successes of his first year in office, he emphasized how the prosperity of his first twelve months impacted the lives and hopes of ordinary Americans, wage laborers and others whom the eight years of the Obama presidency had left behind. In doing so he exposed the Democrats in the most dramatic way imaginable. Under his policies, he boasted, black and Hispanic unemployment are record lows. As he said this and the Republican side of the house rose to its feet in applause the TV camera panned to the morose members of the Democrats’ Black Caucus, sitting on their hands and showing America that the last thing they care about is their black constituents. What they care about is their hatred for Trump, and about not disturbing the biggest lie of the political season: that the White House is the headquarters of a “white supremacy” movement intent on keeping black Americans down and making them suffer.

This was the Democrats’ reaction throughout the evening. When Trump made eloquent appeals on behalf of the men and women who serve this country in arms; when he praised his newly appointed Veterans Administration chief for firing VA officials who did not have the love for these American heroes that the American people do, the TV camera panned on Republicans rising to their feet and applauding and then to the Democrats reclining listlessly in their chairs and consulting their cell phones. What the images showed was that the Democrats’ hatred of Trump overwhelmed the most patriotic instinct – to care for the people who risk their lives to care for us.

. Images like this which continued throughout Trump’s speech tell you everything you need to know about the Democratic Party today. Its representatives rejected – to a man and woman – a tax reform that put money in the pockets of millions of Americans, and is bringing industries and dollars back to the United States. Democrats demanded and support a “sequester” plan that has hog tied America’s military in the face of greater threats than the country has ever faced. Democrats shut the door on Trump’s offer to amnesty 1.8 million illegals in exchange for border security, because keeping the borders open and hatred of Trump are more important to Democrats than the actual DACA “dreamers” whom they claim to care about.

And that’s the bottom line that Trump’s artfully sculpted speech exposed. The Democrats are running on hate – and it is pretty much all they are running on. Their hate has blinded them to the interests of constituencies that used to be theirs; it has blinded them to the interests of the country at large, particularly as pertain to security and jobs; and it has narrowed their base of support to maybe 30% of the electorate, ensuring that come November they will have nowhere to go.

[Dos Equis]

Democrats’ Hatred of Trump Is Going to Bring Them Down
Frontpagemagazine ^ | February 1, 2018 | David Horowitz
Posted on 2/2/2018, 7:08:50 AM by SJackson

Reflections on the State of the Union.

Donald Trump’s State of the Union address was perfectly pitched for the political moment. He spoke to and for the American people – for all Americans of whatever race, color or creed. He spoke for the poorest and most vulnerable among us, who are the chief victims of the Democrats’ determination to welcome millions upon millions of illegal aliens, who are mainly low wage laborers and who include predatory criminals, to pour into our country; to defy federal law with their “sanctuary” states and cities, and to effectively declare our border and immigration policies null and void. Trump did not use the word “sedition” to describe the law-breaking and Constitution-negating actions of his Democratic predecessor or the Democrats assembled in the chamber of the House. He provided instead an opening to them to abandon their “resistance” – resistance to the expressed will of the American voting public which has led to a relentless sabotage of the democratic process. In sum, he offered a hand to his Democratic haters, and they slapped it away.

When Trump summarized the successes of his first year in office, he emphasized how the prosperity of his first twelve months impacted the lives and hopes of ordinary Americans, wage laborers and others whom the eight years of the Obama presidency had left behind. In doing so he exposed the Democrats in the most dramatic way imaginable. Under his policies, he boasted, black and Hispanic unemployment are record lows. As he said this and the Republican side of the house rose to its feet in applause the TV camera panned to the morose members of the Democrats’ Black Caucus, sitting on their hands and showing America that the last thing they care about is their black constituents. What they care about is their hatred for Trump, and about not disturbing the biggest lie of the political season: that the White House is the headquarters of a “white supremacy” movement intent on keeping black Americans down and making them suffer.

This was the Democrats’ reaction throughout the evening. When Trump made eloquent appeals on behalf of the men and women who serve this country in arms; when he praised his newly appointed Veterans Administration chief for firing VA officials who did not have the love for these American heroes that the American people do, the TV camera panned on Republicans rising to their feet and applauding and then to the Democrats reclining listlessly in their chairs and consulting their cell phones. What the images showed was that the Democrats’ hatred of Trump overwhelmed the most patriotic instinct – to care for the people who risk their lives to care for us.

. Images like this which continued throughout Trump’s speech tell you everything you need to know about the Democratic Party today. Its representatives rejected – to a man and woman – a tax reform that put money in the pockets of millions of Americans, and is bringing industries and dollars back to the United States. Democrats demanded and support a “sequester” plan that has hog tied America’s military in the face of greater threats than the country has ever faced. Democrats shut the door on Trump’s offer to amnesty 1.8 million illegals in exchange for border security, because keeping the borders open and hatred of Trump are more important to Democrats than the actual DACA “dreamers” whom they claim to care about.

And that’s the bottom line that Trump’s artfully sculpted speech exposed. The Democrats are running on hate – and it is pretty much all they are running on. Their hate has blinded them to the interests of constituencies that used to be theirs; it has blinded them to the interests of the country at large, particularly as pertain to security and jobs; and it has narrowed their base of support to maybe 30% of the electorate, ensuring that come November they will have nowhere to go.

Absolute truth.

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After One Year of Trump, Democrats Are Delusional
Townhall.com ^ | January 19, 2018 | Dennis Lennox
Posted on 1/19/2018, 8:46:27 AM by Kaslin



Not much has changed in the one year since President Donald J. Trump took the oath of office at the west front of the Capitol.

By that I mean the Democrats haven’t learned anything from the epic 2016 presidential election in which Trump slayed a who’s who of the Republican establishment to claim the party’s nomination before conquering Bill and Hillary Clinton. Then there’s the chattering class, which still thinks Trump Democrats in Saginaw will be swayed by whatever “Morning Joe” is saying.

To this day, they are in a state of delusion.

Democrats have done nothing to show they have learned anything from Trump’s victory, when he moved Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin to the Republican column.

The Democratic Party is now the party of the hard-left, led by the likes of Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. The few traditional Democrats that remain in the party — the recusants of flyover country, which is populated mostly by middle-class and working-class whites — have been marginalized to the point where they have become an object of media curiosity, as evidenced by a recent must-read piece in Politico Magazine entitled “Heartland Democrats to Washington: You’re Killing Us.”

As a result, Democrats have gone all-in on obstructing and delegitimizing Trump. Even if some in their heart of hearts aren’t inclined to support the so-called #Resistance they also don’t want to become the next Joe Lieberman — the now-former senator from Connecticut and 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee who was purged by the hard-left for heresy in the primaries of 2006.

That would explain why Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the Democrat whip, undermined the sausage making that occurs during backroom negotiating.

Durbin and the minority Senate Democrats were under intense pressure from the hard-left not to cut a permanent deal with Trump. To do so would be capitulation.

The handful of Democrat senators from states won by Trump — the likes of Debbie Stabenow in Michigan or Claire McCaskill in Missouri — also voted against the sweeping tax reform. That’s because a vote with Trump and majority Republicans wouldn’t just create internal party problems, but it could result in a loss of funds from their patrons in the donor-class.

Notwithstanding, Trump has achieved a great deal in his first year at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue despite relentless partisan warfare from Democrats that at times has blurred the lines between legitimate political disagreement and subversion.

Atop the list is the booming economy.

Case in point is the Dow Jones industrial average, which, at the time of writing, is up 42.5 percent since Trump’s election.

Of course, the stock market’s performance isn’t the sole indicator of economic growth. For working-class voters, including the 56 percent of union members that defied union bosses to vote for Trump, it’s all about jobs and wages.

Not only are there more jobs, but workers are taking home bigger paychecks thanks to the raises and bonuses that Nancy Pelosi, the House Democrat leader, dismissed as “crumbs.”

To keep majority after November’s mid-term election Trump and Republicans need to stay the course and remain committed to a program that puts America and American workers first.

Democrats who continue resisting will do so at their own peril.

Trump has taken away all their talking points on policies and shifted it to his own benefit.

And he is a master of setting the media frame and in the words of Scott Adams, “persuasion”

He talked about shutting down the TPP in his SOTU speech and zero applause from the Democrats. For a large portion of their constituents that is a huge deal and they did nothing.

He brought up the solid black unemployment numbers, again they didn’t even care.

He set them up and they walked right into it. Horrible optics.

And I’ll say it from here to likely up to November, the Democrats STILL do not have a coherent message besides rank Trump Derangement Syndrome. How is that going to play in the red leaning states in that Trump carried PLUS his poll numbers are HIGHER now than before he won the election?

Btw, speaking of David Horowitz, I would recommend anyone here to check out his interview with Dave Rubin. That guy has been one of the biggest warriors against The Left for decades now.

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California professor calls Trump 'white supremacist,' 'orange reality star' in class syllabus
Caleb Parke By Caleb Parke   | Fox News

Dr. Brooke Mascagni, a professor at California State University-Dominguez Hills, called President Trump a "white supremacist" in her class syllabus.

A California political science professor reportedly called President Trump a “white supremacist” and an “orange reality star” in a syllabus for her class, and at one point asked how students "will explain" the current political era.

Dr. Brooke Mascagni, who teaches “American Political Institutions” at California State University-Dominguez Hills, rails against Trump in the “shortened version” syllabus, according to Campus Reform.

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“Future generations will wonder how the greatest democracy in the world elected a white supremacist, misogynist, narcissistic, volatile, belligerent, uninformed, stubborn, failed businessman and orange reality star to the highest office,” Mascagni wrote under a section titled “Why is this class important?”

She continues by asking “How will you explain it?”

The course description does not read like a standard political science course.

“The President of the United States won the 2016 election by appealing to bigotry and hatred,” wrote Mascagni. “Just about everyday, a new scandal breaks or evidence of corruption emerges. Moreover, the Republican Party controls the executive and legislative branches of government, yet couldn’t manage to keep the government running on the one year anniversary of Trump’s inauguration.”

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California State University-Dominguez Hills is a public university located in Carson, California.  (Google maps)
The political science professor continued: “And, oh yeah, Russia interfered with the U.S. electoral process and our president is under investigation for obstruction of justice.”

“How did we get here? What facilitated Trump’s rise to power? How is California challenging these threats to democracy?”

ENGLISH PROFESSOR ‘PLEDGES’ SHE WON’T DISCLOSE IMMIGRANT STATUS OF HER STUDENTS

Mascagni writes that students, by the end of the class, will know “how Americans form their political beliefs,” “how democracy is threatened when it is taken for granted,” why politics matters” and be able to “understand how U.S. government and political processes promote – and constrain – liberty, equality, and popular sovereignty.”

A student in Mascagni’s class told Campus Reform about the “unbelievable blatant” liberal bias in the syllabus, adding that while the student has had liberal professors before, this class represented the most extreme case.

FROM ANTI-TRUMP PROFESSORS’ MOUTHS, 2017’S MOST EXPLOSIVE QUOTES

The document “was designed to provoke thought and classroom participation and was not meant to discourage any particular beliefs,” the university told Fox News. “This university respects the right to academic freedom, critical analysis and research, and healthy debate on all sides of a subject.”

On her website, Mascagni boasts of teaching and researching “The American Presidency and Congress” and “U.S. Politics and Government.” She also teaches feminist studies and social movements, as well as researching Title IX and campus violence.

CSUDH touts their “academic excellence” on their website along with “well-balanced curriculums that build well-rounded knowledge.”

Mascagni did not return Fox News’ request for comment.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/05/california-professor-calls-trump-white-supremacist-orange-reality-star-in-class-syllabus.html

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CNN’s Chris Cillizza slammed after mocking Trump’s eulogy to mom who lost son to opioid crisis
By Brian Flood   | Fox News

CNN politics reporter and editor-at-large Chris Cillizza used an emotional story about a mother who lost her son to the opioid epidemic as political fodder against President Trump in a Monday morning tweet.

“Fox & Friends” featured a segment about Sue Kruczek, who joined the morning show to explain why she sent a letter to the president detailing her son’s opioid overdose. She lost her son four years ago when he was 20 years old.

“Through our broken hearts, we wanted to show the president our love,” Kruczek said before reading an excerpt of the letter she sent Trump.

“I can walk away the lucky one now. I was privileged to be Nick’s mom for 20 years and I got to hear, ‘I love you, Mom,’ every single day,” a teary-eyed Kruczek read from the letter on live television.

The president was apparently watching the interview, or at least informed of the tragedy, and took to Twitter to offer kind words for Kruczek.

“Thank you to Sue Kruczek, who lost her wonderful and talented son Nick to the Opioid scourge, for your kind words while on @foxandfriends. We are fighting this terrible epidemic hard,” Trump tweeted on Monday morning. “Nick will not have died in vain!”

Cillizza quoted the president’s tweet and mocked him for watching television.
 
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"But I don’t get to watch much television. Primarily because of documents." -- Donald Trump https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/963033580107653120 …

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“’But I don’t get to watch much television. Primarily because of documents.’ -- Donald Trump,” Cillizza wrote.

Back in November, Trump told reporters that he doesn’t get to watch much television because he spends so much time reading documents. “I actually read much more -- I read you people much more than I watch television,” he told reporters on Air Force One at the time.

CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker has seemingly installed an anti-Trump programming strategy at the increasingly liberal network. Anchors Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo, Brooke Baldwin and Senior White House Correspondent Jim Acosta are some of the network’s stars who have been vocal about their disdain for the president. This past weekend, CNN was slammed for publishing a glowing puff piece about North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister appearing at the Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea — with a headline claiming she was “stealing the show.”

Some observers think CNN is now the official cable news leader in anti-Trump content. Media Research Center Vice President Dan Gainor called Zucker’s network the “TV home for the resistance,” while others criticize CNN for failing to admit what it has become.

“It seems to me that MSNBC sort of owns its own liberalness in that they don't shy away from it, while CNN still makes this attempt to call themselves unbiased despite their coverage often being slanted,” Mediaite columnist Joseph Wulfsohn told Fox News.

Meanwhile, President Trump has vowed to fight the opioid crisis that is plaguing America, regularly saying, “We will prevail.” Cillizza criticizes Trump on a regular basis, often calling him a hypocrite, and he recently accused the president of spending his day watching taped episodes of the Fox News morning show. 

Cillizza’s claim to fame is that Trump once called him “one of the dumber and least respected of the political pundits,” which the CNN star quotes on his Twitter bio.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/02/12/cnn-s-chris-cillizza-slammed-after-mocking-trump-s-eulogy-to-mom-who-lost-son-to-opioid-crisis.html

[Soul Crusher]

Sick bastard

[polychronopolous]

His opinion means alot to me.

[Dos Equis]

His opinion means alot to me.

lol

[Dos Equis]

Anti-Trump Harvard Law prof Laurence Tribe falsely claims dossier source killed in Russia plane crash
By Samuel Chamberlain   | Fox News

A liberal Harvard Law School professor falsely claimed on Twitter Monday that a source for the infamous Trump-Russia dossier was killed when a Russian passenger plane crashed over the weekend.

Laurence Tribe alleged that one of the crash's 71 victims was a man called Sergei Millian, according to The Daily Caller. Tribe, who has taught at Harvard for five decades, claimed Millian "is said to be behind one of the most salacious claims in the dossier on Trump's involvement with Russia."

"Probably just a coincidence," Tribe added sarcastically.

The tweet, which Tribe deleted but was preserved by the Daily Caller in a screenshot, included a link to a Washington Post report from last year that claimed Millian had told dossier author Christopher Steele that the Kremlin is blackmailing President Trump.

The Daily Caller reported that online conspiracy theorists had circulated rumors that Millian was on board the doomed flight under the alias "Sergei Panchenko."

Late Monday morning, Tribe walked back his claim that Millian was on the flight, tweeting that "So far, the only sources confirming that Millian was among the dead are ones I can’t vouch for."

THIS MAY HAVE BEEN A DIFFERENT SERGEI, not an uncommon Russian name. So far, the only sources confirming that Millian was among the dead are ones I can’t vouch for. So maybe not even a coincidence — just a case of misreporting. Sorry if I rang a false alarm, @RepSwalwell. https://t.co/y8C3tpfEWe

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) February 12, 2018
"Sorry if I rang a false alarm," Tribe added.

The professor, who was part of Al Gore's legal team during the Florida recount drama following the 2000 presidential election, has repeatedly hammered Trump and Republicans on social media and in traditional media.
 
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Yes, he is. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/opinion/devin-nunes-obstruction-justice.html …

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Representative Devin Nunes, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, at the Capitol in January.
Opinion | Is Devin Nunes Obstructing Justice?
Lingering questions about his memo hang over how he runs the House Intelligence Committee.

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On Monday, The New York Times published an opinion piece co-written by Tribe arguing that House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., was engaging in obstruction of justice by releasing a memo alleging federal wrongdoing in carrying out surveillance of former Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/12/anti-trump-harvard-law-prof-laurence-tribe-falsely-claims-dossier-source-killed-in-russia-plane-crash.html

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Great commentary.

This Isn't Normal
Ben Shapiro
Posted: Feb 14, 2018

You've heard the phrase over and over again: "This isn't normal." We've heard it about President Trump's rhetoric, and his Twitter usage. We've heard it about his attacks on the media, and we've heard it about his legislative ignorance. We've heard it about his running commentary on the Mueller investigation, and we've heard it about his bizarre stream-of-consciousness interviews.

There's some truth to all of this. Trump has said some incredibly awful things (e.g. his comments on Charlottesville, Virginia, and Haitians). He's not a predictable, stable genius.

All of this "non-normality," however, has resulted in ... a relatively normal situation. The economy's booming. We're on more solid foreign-policy ground than we were when President Obama was in office -- by a long shot. The Constitution hasn't been torn asunder. The structures of government are still in place. Trump may be toxic rhetorically, but his presidency hasn't annihilated the norms that govern our society.

The same can't be said, however, of the media institutions that seem so consumed with saving the republic from the specter of Trump. Like self-appointed superheroes so intent on stopping an alien monster that they end up destroying the entire city, our media are so focused on stopping Trump that they end up undermining both their credibility and faith in American institutions.

Take, for example, the media's coverage of North Korea at the Winter Olympics. Suddenly, the worst regime on the planet has been transformed into a cute exhibit from "It's a Small World." Those women in red forced to smile and cheer on cue? Just an example of the brilliance of revolutionary North Korean "juche" ideology. Kim Jong Un's sister, a member of the inner cabinet of a regime that imprisons thousands of dissenters and shoots those who don't properly worship the Dear Respected? She's an example of Marxist humility and stellar diplomacy.

It's not just the media. This week, we learned that former FBI Director James Comey, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, former national security adviser Susan Rice, former Vice President Joe Biden and former President Obama held a last-minute meeting at the White House to discuss the possibility of Trump-Russia collusion. At that meeting, Rice wrote in an email, Obama reportedly asked whether there was any reason "we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia." That means that Obama asked his top staff, including the FBI, whether he could hide intelligence information from the incoming Trump team.

That amounts to a massive breach in the constitutional structure. The FBI is not an independent agency. It is part of the executive branch. The incoming Trump administration was duly elected by the American people and had every right to see all intelligence information coming from the FBI and the CIA. Yet it was the supposedly normal Obama White House exploring means of preventing that transparency.

Trump isn't a normal president. But the threat to our institutions doesn't reside only at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. -- or even primarily there. It resides with those who are willing to side with any enemy and violate every rule in order to stop the supposed threat of Trump.

https://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2018/02/14/this-isnt-normal-n2448648

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Great commentary.

This Isn't Normal
Ben Shapiro
Posted: Feb 14, 2018

You've heard the phrase over and over again: "This isn't normal." We've heard it about President Trump's rhetoric, and his Twitter usage. We've heard it about his attacks on the media, and we've heard it about his legislative ignorance. We've heard it about his running commentary on the Mueller investigation, and we've heard it about his bizarre stream-of-consciousness interviews.

There's some truth to all of this. Trump has said some incredibly awful things (e.g. his comments on Charlottesville, Virginia, and Haitians). He's not a predictable, stable genius.

All of this "non-normality," however, has resulted in ... a relatively normal situation. The economy's booming. We're on more solid foreign-policy ground than we were when President Obama was in office -- by a long shot. The Constitution hasn't been torn asunder. The structures of government are still in place. Trump may be toxic rhetorically, but his presidency hasn't annihilated the norms that govern our society.

The same can't be said, however, of the media institutions that seem so consumed with saving the republic from the specter of Trump. Like self-appointed superheroes so intent on stopping an alien monster that they end up destroying the entire city, our media are so focused on stopping Trump that they end up undermining both their credibility and faith in American institutions.

Take, for example, the media's coverage of North Korea at the Winter Olympics. Suddenly, the worst regime on the planet has been transformed into a cute exhibit from "It's a Small World." Those women in red forced to smile and cheer on cue? Just an example of the brilliance of revolutionary North Korean "juche" ideology. Kim Jong Un's sister, a member of the inner cabinet of a regime that imprisons thousands of dissenters and shoots those who don't properly worship the Dear Respected? She's an example of Marxist humility and stellar diplomacy.

It's not just the media. This week, we learned that former FBI Director James Comey, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, former national security adviser Susan Rice, former Vice President Joe Biden and former President Obama held a last-minute meeting at the White House to discuss the possibility of Trump-Russia collusion. At that meeting, Rice wrote in an email, Obama reportedly asked whether there was any reason "we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia." That means that Obama asked his top staff, including the FBI, whether he could hide intelligence information from the incoming Trump team.

That amounts to a massive breach in the constitutional structure. The FBI is not an independent agency. It is part of the executive branch. The incoming Trump administration was duly elected by the American people and had every right to see all intelligence information coming from the FBI and the CIA. Yet it was the supposedly normal Obama White House exploring means of preventing that transparency.

Trump isn't a normal president. But the threat to our institutions doesn't reside only at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. -- or even primarily there. It resides with those who are willing to side with any enemy and violate every rule in order to stop the supposed threat of Trump.

https://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2018/02/14/this-isnt-normal-n2448648

Indeed.

[mazrim]

I wish I knew how to post pics with my phone but there is an fb page called "Fox News the FB Page" that has a picture of Pence and a supposed quote in it with him talking about Porter and that God allows us to get knocked around a little bit so he is sure that that was all Rob was doing with his women. Has almost 20,000 shares and 80% of the comments are people believing it. Scary world. All you have to do is scan the page for one second and see it is a mock page. My liberal sister commented on it so that was how I saw it. People are so brainwashed/lack any desire to check things out.

[Dos Equis]

I wish I knew how to post pics with my phone but there is an fb page called "Fox News the FB Page" that has a picture of Pence and a supposed quote in it with him talking about Porter and that God allows us to get knocked around a little bit so he is sure that that was all Rob was doing with his women. Has almost 20,000 shares and 80% of the comments are people believing it. Scary world. All you have to do is scan the page for one second and see it is a mock page. My liberal sister commented on it so that was how I saw it. People are so brainwashed/lack any desire to check things out.

I see those fake quotes all the time.  Some posters on this board have been duped by them too. 

[Dos Equis]

People really suck sometimes.  

Anti-Trumpers Savage Father Of Parkland Victim – Simply Because He Was Wearing A Trump 2020 Shirt
BENNY JOHNSON
Reporter At Large
02/16/2018

Seething leftists on Twitter attacked the father of a slain student because he was wearing a “Trump 2020” shirt.

Many parents sought answers in the wake of the tragedy at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida this week. 17 families lost children when a deranged gunman rampaged through the school with an semi-automatic rifle. Reporter Alexandra Seltzer told the stories of the grieving families this week. She tweeted this photo of Andrew Pollack, who was holding up a photo of his missing daughter, Meadow Pollack, one of the 17 deceased.



Mr. Pollack also happened to be wearing a “Trump 2020” shirt. Some commenters online still could not leave the man alone, even in the wake of unspeakable grief he must’ve been going through. A left-wing horde began attacking the father, saying that Pollack “deserved” this because he probably voted for Trump.
 




Thankfully, one twitter user made this common sense declaration.


 
God be with Mr. Pollack and his grieving family.

http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/16/twitter-savages-father-parkland-victim-trump-shirt/

[Dos Equis]

Sarah Sanders Torches The Washington Post For Criticizing Trump’s Visit To Injured Children
BENNY JOHNSON
Reporter At Large
02/17/2018

http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/17/sarah-sanders-torches-washington-post-trumps-visit-hospital/

[polychronopolous]

I cannot stress this enough....The non-urban, non bi-coastal, midwestern Democrat is quickly becoming a thing of the past.

That Democrat that could go into rural areas of West Virginia and Pennsylvania and maybe even win a Senate seat in Montana or one of the Dakotas....that is quickly becoming a thing of the past. Their message is just toxic and completely opposed to those peoples values.

[Dos Equis]

I cannot stress this enough....The non-urban, non bi-coastal, midwestern Democrat is quickly becoming a thing of the past.

That Democrat that could go into rural areas of West Virginia and Pennsylvania and maybe even win a Senate seat in Montana or one of the Dakotas....that is quickly becoming a thing of the past. Their message is just toxic and completely opposed to those peoples values.

I agree.  I've been spending time in the heartland and that is exactly what I'm seeing. 

[Dos Equis]

MSNBC Freaks: ‘Lying’ Trump’s ‘Strange’ Speech Was Like Dictators from Cuba, Venezuela
By Scott Whitlock | February 23, 2018

MSNBC hosts Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle on Friday suffered a total meltdown after Donald Trump’s CPAC speech, foaming that the “strange,” “lie”-filled address was reminiscent of brutal dictators such as Fidel Castro and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ruhle labeled certain comments “absurd across the board.”

Velshi fumed, “There were a lot of lies in the speech... It was a remarkable speech. It was lie to new topic to another lie. It was very strange speech.” How often were MSNBC hosts concerned about the big lies told by Barack Obama during his two terms? Immediately after the “truly sprawling, meandering” speech ended, Velshi compared Trump to thug dictators:


A sprawling, truly sprawling, meandering speech by the President. The likes of which — I was saying to Stephanie —  I'm used to having heard from Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro or Erdogan. President Putin gives something like this every year, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used to give speeches like this.

As an aside, Ruhle snapped: “Historically, the amount of lies the President has told, and this administration, over the last year, that is unprecedented.”

Velshi was clearly angry that the President called out the media during the speech. He seethed that journalists really just want to help Americans: “[Trump] keeps pointing to the back row, all the media, how they're against us. No, we're trying to keep you honest because you're lying to the crowd in front of you.”

A partial transcript of the February 23 segment is below. Click on “expand” to read more: 

MSNBC Live
2/23/18
11:30

ALI VELSHI: Okay. A sprawling, truly sprawling, meandering speech by the President. The likes of which — I was saying to Stephanie —  I'm used to having heard from Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro or Erdogan. President Putin gives something like this every year, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used to give speeches like this. By our executive producer's conservative count, he touched on 31 at least 31 different topics in the speech. None of which were Russia, by the way. Russia didn't come up.

STEPHANIE RUHLE: Absolutely no mention of Russia. When, remember, last Friday, 13 Russians were indicted. The President made no mention of it. If the White House is watching, I would like to ask you, the President said over and over about these great trade deals that this administration is renegotiating.

VELSHI: Yeah.

RUHLE: We cover that every day here.

VELSHI: I don't know of any.

RUHLE: Please, let us know what they are. And to the audience, we couldn't see the audience, only President trump, when they were cheering about when President Trump was talking about leaving TPP, unless the audience was filled with Chinese people, I have no idea — 

VELSHI: Chinese factory workers in particular.

RUHLE: I have no idea why they'd be cheering. Leaving TPP has absolutely not done anything for America or the American worker.

VELSHI: He keeps talking about NAFTA, which he talked about in the election. They also still haven't done anything about that. Remarkable. This was a remarkable speech.

RUHLE: Touching on voter fraud there. We know the President's voter fraud commission that was put together was, of course, disbanded. When he was talking about the stock market, he said he liked the fact there was that correction. He'd been saying, hey, isn't it going to go down? That’s just absurd. Absurd across the board. He continued to say nothing has ever been done like this historically. Historically, the amount of lies the President has told and this administration over the last year, that is unprecedented.

VELSHI: There were a lot of lies in the speech, including the stuff you mentioned about trade, but talking about the fact that wages are finally going up. They hadn't gone up before his administration. Wages started going up —  it was true that it stagnated for a while after the recession. 2015 was the year that wages started to go up. They went up in '15, went up in '16 and and went '17, and we think they're going up. It was a remarkable speech. It was lie to new topic to another lie. It was very strange speech.

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2018/02/23/msnbc-freaks-lying-trumps-strange-speech-was-dictators-cuba

[Soul Crusher]

https://ntknetwork.com/clinton-white-women-voted-for-trump-because-their-husbands-told-them-to


 

[Dos Equis]

https://ntknetwork.com/clinton-white-women-voted-for-trump-because-their-husbands-told-them-to


 

How incredibly offensive is this.  Thank God that woman is not POTUS.

“[Democrats] do not do well with white men and we don’t do well with married, white women,” Clinton explained. “And part of that is an identification with the Republican Party, and a sort of ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should.”

[Dos Equis]

Holy smokes.

Former New York Times Editor Carries ‘Little Plastic Obama Doll’ in Her Purse for ‘Comfort’
BY: David Rutz   Follow @DavidRutz
March 10, 2018

Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson revealed in a column last week that she carries a plastic Barack Obama doll in her purse as a way to comfort herself in the Donald Trump era.

At the conclusion of a Guardian column expressing hope for a Democratic wave in 2018 and beyond in response to Trump, Abramson revealed the extent of her Obama fandom.

"It’s easy to look at what’s happening in Washington DC and despair," she wrote. "That’s why I carry a little plastic Obama doll in my purse. I pull him out every now and then to remind myself that the United States had a progressive, African American president until very recently. Some people find this strange, but you have to take comfort where you can find it in Donald Trump’s America."

Abramson also wrote in the piece it was "thrilling" to see the signs of a Trump rebellion beginning in Texas after Tuesday's primary results and pierce the GOP's hold on the south, where she said "religion, racism and love of guns have advantaged Republicans since Richard Nixon’s election in 1968."

Her conclusion was curious, given the night was a disappointment for Democrats who have long dreamed of Texas turning blue. Republican primary voters in the gubernatorial and Senate races far outpaced Democratic ones; Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) got roughly twice as many primary votes as Democratic challenger Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D., Texas).

During her tenure as the New York Times‘ executive editor, Abramson often waved off accusations of its reporting having a liberal tilt. The first woman to have the job, she lasted from September 2011 until her firing in May 2014.

It is unclear when she purchased the Obama therapy doll.

http://freebeacon.com/politics/former-new-york-times-editor-carries-obama-doll-purse/

[Soul Crusher]

https://pagesix.com/2018/03/15/matt-damon-moving-family-to-australia-because-of-trump


Ha ha ha ha!!!!