That was a ridiculously short editorial, whose OPINION is attributed to no one by name.
The editorial ignores : * that Trump ordered up to 20,000 National Guard troops to protect the Capitol, four days in advance. * It ignores that Trump, in that "three hours and seven minutes" period, Twitter-posted roughly every 30 minutes urging his supporters to remain peaceful, and then gave a video statement in the late afternoon urging all his supporters to go home. Which they immediately did, and police who routinely control Washington DC political crowd demonstrations (large protest rallies literally occur in DC virtually every day, and they have organized police surveillance of crowds who manage each of them daily) were astonished how quickly the crowd disbursed at Trump's command. * It ignores that the worst offenders on Jan 6th were not even Trump supporters, that the worst violence and vandalism was orchestrated by undercover FBI agents *DISGUISED* as Trump supporters (i.e., at least 20 "un-indicted co-conspirators" as described in the FBI's own January 6th investigation reports), as well as around 20 "Antifa Salt Lake City" agents provacateur*DISGUISED* as Trump supporters, who openly boast in their videos they planned to do acts that would be blamed on Trump supporters, and gloated they would trick Trump supporters into following them into violence. NONE of this is mentioned in the above OPINION editorial. An editorial that was unsigned.
Clearly N Y Post is a generally conservative publication. And I commend them for posting a dissenting unaligned opinion. ( A minority opinion to be sure at the N Y Post, but certainly an opinion widely held among the rabid Trump-hating majority among the rest of the far-Left mainstream media. ) But there was no factual case cited to back up this opinion editorial.
While WSJ perhaps appears more conservative than most of the hyper-partisan Leftist mainstream media, the WSJ has been drifting left over the last decade. Above this linked editorial is a video clip of the thoroughly discredited Cassidy Hutchinson's "January 6th committee" testimony . Whose testimony made many Secret Service agents rush forward pressing to testify how absurdly untrue her testimony was (her alleging Trump jumped from the back of the limousine to grab the steering wheel, and allegedly grabbed one or two Secret Service agents in a steel vice-grip that bruised the clavicle areas of their chests, in Trump's pulp-hero alleged efforts to commandeer the vehicle, to allegedly try and force agents to drive the limo to the Capitol instead of the safe location they were driving Trump to. Laughably and cartoonishly, like a scene out of a cheap action movie. The agents dismissed her account as absolutely false. Your above-linked WSJ editorial opened with this little fluffy corsage pinned to its chest.
2014 Pew Research Survey found that 41% of the Wall Street Journal’s audience is consistently or primarily liberal, 24% Mixed, and 35% consistently or mostly conservative. This indicates that a more liberal audience slightly prefers them. Further, a Reuters institute survey found that 46% of respondents trust their news coverage and 27% do not, ranking them #4 in trust of the major USA news providers.
So WSJ's editorial is just pandering to their audience.
Again, without facts to support their allegations, and ignoring the exculpatory fact that Trump ordered 20,000 National Guard troops who would have prevented any possibility of even the most minor rioting, the minor rioting that ended up actually occurring thanks to Pelosi, Schumer, and DC mayor Muriel Bowser, ALL THREE refusing National Guard troops ordered by Trump. Why are these three not the ones "unworthy of further office", in this editorial hit piece? They, not Trump, are the ones who incited, and then obstructed deployment of police protection. They are still inciting violence against justice Brett Kavanaugh, sitting House member and N Y governor candidate Lee Zeldin, the baseball game attacks on Republican House members where Rep. Steve Scalise was almost killed and spent months recovering from his bullet wounds, attack and intimidation of Sen Mitch McConnell in a crowded restaurant while just having dinner, the attack in a movie theatre on former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi, threats against Rep. Matt Gaetz by a recorded caller to his office to "blow off your head like a watermelon from a mile away, anytime", on and on. Incitement of very real violence against Republican members apparently doesn't matter. Only what can be weaponized by the DNC against Republicans. One-sided justice.
But this WSJ editorial is at best a Republican-establishment hit piece on Trump, yet another in an endless series of hit pieces on Trump over the last 6 years, and on 74.3 million Trump supporters like myself , who plainly see the lack of facts presented by WSJ, and so know to discard it like the other partisan hit pieces against Trump over the last 6 years. It was particularly funny when the Republican-establishment globalists brought out Mitt Romney and George W. Bush to criticize Trump in 2016 , and for years after throughout Trump's four years as president. Guys who never once criticized Barack Obama's bolshevik revolution and erosion of freedoms any time during big O's nation-destroying 8-year presidency.
So... we (the actual Republican-conservatives, or populists, or Tea Party, or Freedom Caucus, or Reagan-conservatives, or Paleo-Conservatives, whatever term you prefer) know where this latest bit of propaganda is coming from. Not from anyone truly conservative, just from the GOP hijackers like Liz Cheney, Romney, and the Bushes all losing their power over the party, desperately trying to crush Trump's support by any half-baked rationalization.
Everything consertive outlet that disagrees with me is establishment RINO.
::rollseyes::
When lifelong Republicans are called RINOs or GOP hijackers by a guy who touts his Nader vote in 2000 as a signal of his not being a cult member, the terms have been completely untethered from reality.
Everything consertive outlet that disagrees with me is establishment RINO.
::rollseyes::
When lifelong Republicans are called RINOs or GOP hijackers by a guy who touts his Nader vote in 2000 as a signal of his not being a cult member, the terms have been completely untethered from reality.
You can't even spell conservative.
I voted Ralph Nader for reasons clearly stated at the time and since, for over 20 years on these boards. Nader, while to the left of my own politics, has spent a lifetime in Washington fighting for the interests of the average man against the Washington swamp machine. While Nader has never held public office, he had up till that time (2000) about 40 years of experience dealing with the beltway politics of both parties, from the inside, while himself remaining an outsider. In some ways similar to Pat Buchanan, who was ostracized when the Republican neo-cons took power in 2000 of all three branches. Buchanan wrote a book in 2004 titled WHERE THE RIGHT WENT WRONG, where he criticized the Republican party for abandoning Reagan-conservative principles, and for the new GOP's embracing of big-government Republican policy. His predictions of that hurting the GOP came true in the 2006 and 2008 elections. If I had a better understanding of Pat Buchanan at the time(that I later got from his books, beginning with DEATH OF THE WEST), I would have voted Buchanan in 2000. Not that it would have changed the outcome.
I've also explained that while in 1992, 1996 and 2000 I voted independent to try and push the GOP to have more conservative candidates in future elections, I ultimately decided that was only helping to elect even worse Democrats, and so I don't vote independent anymore. Donald Trump pulled the ultimate trick, he is essentially a Pat Buchanan-variety independent, who ran as a Republican so he could actually win, and not just get 1% or 2% of the vote as all others have. Trump was elected on the issues Pat Buchanan has championed for 30 years, and Trump's entering as he did in 2015 bypassed the mainstream-establishment wing that's controlled the GOP since Ronald Reagan left as president. The RINO wing.
Yes, they are RINOs and GOP hijackers, because people voted for them to defend conservative-Republican interests, and they have over and over betrayed, caved in, and sold out to the Democrats. John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, Lisa Murkowski, Pat Toomey, Susan Collins, John Thune, John Barasso, Roy Blunt, Joni Ernst. These are people who campaigned to repeal Obamacare, for example, in 2010, 2012, and 2014. And over and over once again elected, each instead voted to fund it !
Even when Trump became president after 2016, McCain in particular, betrayed not just Trump, but his own Arizona voters by maliciously casting the deciding vote IN FAVOR OF Obamacare, that prevented its complete repeal. Just to spite Trump. And McCain at that time and in at least the decade prior, was quietly an ally who received contributions and traded favors with George Soros. The McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill is what allowed Soros to fill the void of excluded Democrat large donors, and seize control of the Democrat party in 2004. A campaign finance reform bill that McCain drafted and co-sponsored. And the Democrat party has gone more increasingly lunatic-Bolshevik-Left every two years since then.
Soros has allies within the GOP, but as David Horowitz says in THE SHADOW PARTY, it is the Democrat party that is the chosen instrument for Soros and other Marxist-Globalists to destroy and overthrow the United States. But as several big-legislation votes have proven, they have just enough Republican turncoats who allow the craziest Bolshevik legislation to pass. Likewise the Kitanji Brown-Jackson confirmation to the Supreme Court. This nutcase is so far left and un-tethered from Constitutional law that she can't even define a woman ! But because a few RINO Republican senators crossed over, she now sits for life on the Supreme Court, to destroy from within.
Likewise with the Biden legislation in 2021-2022. Even with a 50-50 Senate and V P Kamala Harris as the tiebreaker vote, Democrats should NOT have been able to pass ANY of that legislation. The "firewall" and all that. The conservative pundits assured us each piece of legislation was dead on arrival, that it would never pass. But then each time at the last minute, these RINOs by the purest definition voted with the Democrats to allow the most insane trillions of waste and hyperinflation-causing spending to go through, with 3, 4, 10, 12 Republican senate votes on various pieces. Not one of these RINOs should be re-elected.
And ultimately Mike Pence's betrayal on Jan 6 2021, giving final approval to the elector votes of a fraudulent election. He had full authority and justification to delay certification of the electoral votes, to open up several weeks of joint-session debate, that would have been covered in those weeks on national television, in a way that the liberal media could not filter and hide the truth. The evidence would have persuaded the majority of the public that the election was fraudulent. What Pence did was allow the media to dismissively cover up election fraud, and allow Facebook, Twitter and the mainstream media to block it from even being discussed. Pence enabled the aggressive Democrat-Bolshevik purge that, as I said in another topic, is a reign of terror that began the moment Trump conceded after Pence's decision on January 6th.
These RINOs are responsible for what has happened to the country in the last 19 months, they are as responsible as Biden. They have enabled it with their legislative votes. And with those legislative votes they have done THE OPPOSITE of what their own voters in their respective states elected them to do. That's betrayal. That's being a RINO and a GOP hijacker, pure and simple.
. Trump's speech today, defining Biden and the Democrat/Left's incompetence, and how a real president would resolve the problems Biden and company have created.
FULL SPEECH: President Donald J. Trump at AFPI Policy Summit in Washington D.C. on July 26, 2022
What Monica Crowley a few weeks ago called the Democrats' "controlled demolition of the United States".
This is not mere incompetence, or an accident. This is deliberate transformation of the United States, away from a Constitutional republic, and into an impoverished vassal state.
Although at this point I don't see it as mere incompetence. But as deliberate destruction of the United States. Whether out of Cultural Marxism, selling out as a modern Benedict Arnold for tens of millions in payoffs from Communist Chinese government, or because through the vulnerability of Hunter and Joe Biden to blackmail, either way they are selling us out both economically and in terms of weakening U.S. national security to favor China, Biden is "compromised", as the mainstream media, even Fox and Newsmax, euphemistically phrase it.
Or as Monica Crowley termed it above, the Democrats' "controlled demolition of the United States".
Carlson cites that we had about a 25 day supply left. And that was 6 days ago. Which means that at the very least, the price of everything is about to go up even more. If not a capitulation and surrender of the West to to the Russians over Ukraine. Or possibly an even worse scenario, the complete overnight stall and collapse of our economy.
This is the fourth I've watched of Hawley exposing these Biden nominees for the demented hyper-partisan nutjobs that they are.
It's terrifying that any of these fanatic leftists could be given power. And yet many of them are, under a Biden presidency. Remember that Biden was elected as a moderate, but the very first day in office, Biden quickly revealed himself to be an immediate enabler of the most radical Bolshevik elements in the Democrat party.
Liberals who bemoan discrimination, intolerance, restraint of Constitutional freedoms, and promotion of hatred toward various abberant minorities, have absolutely no problem with discriminating against, being intolerant of, restricting Constitutional freedoms of, and directing hate-filled scapegoat rhetoric against conservatives.
EXACTLY what they accuse Republicans/conservatives of doing, is EXACTLY what liberals/Democrats do themselves, to those who oppose their beliefs.
Almost all of the U.S. Republican governors have signed on a statement backing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in his bitter fight against the federal government over border control.
The statement released Thursday on the Republican Governors Association website criticized the Biden Administration and said the state of Texas has the constitutional right to defend itself. This week, Texas officials and the Department of Homeland Security sparred over barbed wire along the Rio Grande. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal agents can cut through the razor wire the state installed to deter people from crossing.
“We stand in solidarity with our fellow Governor, Greg Abbott, and the State of Texas in utilizing every tool and strategy, including razor wire fences, to secure the border," the letter, signed by 25 Republican governors. "Because the Biden Administration has abdicated its constitutional compact duties to the states, Texas has every legal justification to protect the sovereignty of our states and our nation.”
The White House addressed the governors' statement at a press briefing Friday.
“I would say to them that if they truly want to help with the issue at the border, with the immigration system, that they need to talk to the congressional members, the senators in their state," said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. "They need to ask them to make sure that they have the resources they need within their respective states to take action to actually deal with a broken system."
More: Texas gov transforms immigration from a border issue to a backyard one. Dems aren't happy.
Governors from the following states signed the statement supporting Texas Gov. Greg Abbott:
Alabama
Alaska
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Indiana
Iowa
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Utah
Virginia
West Virginia
Wyoming
Vermont Gov. Phil Scott is the only Republican governor who did not sign onto the statement to support Abbott.
That map is remarkably reminiscent of... the Confederate States seceding in 1860. The only one not part of that former 1860 map is North Carolina.
Except that now there's a lot of Northern states that align with and are supporting those Southern states.
What would happen if Texas state Department of Protective Services (DPS) were to get in a shooting fight with Federal troops trying to cut down that Texas-border barb wire? A second civil war?
Then Biden would have the excuse to call his opposition "insurrectionists". Although he has been calling them that already for 3 years, without a shooting war between Republicans and Democrat-Bolsheviks.
About 2 months ago now, but these remarks by Kamala Harris for me are a prime example of the ineffectiveness and lack of substance of not just of Kamala Harris, but of the entire Biden administration.
Originally Posted by Vice President Kamala Harris, during interview by NBC reporter Craig Melvin
“It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day. Every day it is time for us to agree that there are things and tools that are available to us to slow this thing down”
One generally has to crack open a fortune cookie to read something that pseudo-philosophical and utterly meaningless.
Pete Buttigeig also makes similar profound-sounding but ultimately meaningless word-salad type comments all the time. When he's not just being insultingly elitist and out of touch in his comments, from his Soviet apparatchik seat of entitlement: https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1501304323761836034/photo/1
LET THEM EAT CAKE !
It underscores that the Biden administration as a whole has no plan, is hiding behind meaningless and obviously untrue public comments, in the absence of any plan or actual substance. Oh... AND they clearly hate America. To them, America is the problem, and its economic independence, energy independence, and strong military are all intentionally being destroyed, to make us all subservient to the planned globalist/socialist government. To them, the United States is the problem that has to be destroyed. And terrifyingly, these Democrat Bolsheviks are running the government, have absolute control of the country they want to destroy. With the Democrat-occupied IRS, FBI, and other intelligence agencies and federal law enforcement branches eagerly doing their bidding, to help them do it. Labelling and arresting /harassing the patriots trying to save the country as "treasonous", "radical", "right-wing", and "White supremacists". And since Biden became president, a similar purge of patriots in the U.S. military, replacing them with more Democrat-Bolsheviks who will help the Democrats further consolidate power.
Led by a Joe Biden presidency that has sold out to the Russians for $3.5 million from the Moscow mayor's wife (i.e, from Putin), and another $1.5 BILLION from the Bank of China (i.e., from the Chinese Communist Party). Look up the term "elite capture". Biden is the Benedict Arnold of our time. And his Bolshevik administration. And we're stuck with them for another 2 years and 8 months, if the nation survives that long.
Only 4 months now.
It's hilarious that they dragged Biden over the finish line with a rigged election in Nov 2020, thinking they could jettison Biden, and then move into 2022 and 2024 with Kamala Harris as the new president. But Kamala Harris is EVEN MORE unpopular than Joe Biden, so now the Democrats are screwed.
And so are the rest of us, if Biden were die, and Harris actually became president.
And the country is especially screwed if Russia, China, Al Qaida, Iran, or the Taliban were to attack the United States, and the rudderless ship that is the Biden White House had to deal with it, while Biden wanders off like a 4-year-old with attention deficit disorder, and White House staffers run around like headless chickens not knowing what to do without a competent executive that SHOULD be in the White House, and just minutes to respond to nuclear missiles in the air, about to strike U.S. military bases, and major cities and population centers naionwide. If we can avoid that situation for another 5 months till inauguration on Jan 20 2025, we can all breathe a sigh of relief we dodged a major bullet.
And amazingly, about 42% of the country will have voted to re-elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. What planet are these people living on? The rest of us have to live on THIS planet.
It's an absolute fact that Kamala Harris had a longtime extramarital affair with the speaker Willie Brown of the California state assembly, and that she was handed the district attorney job in the San Fancisco area as a direct result of that. And then California state attorney general. And that same exramarital relationship got her picked and fas-tracked to be Senator for California. It's just a fact that she would never have been selected as candidate for any of those jobs without that extramarital affair.
Before that, Kamala Harris was having an extramarital affair with talk show host Montel Williams.
The point is, she is not an accomplished person, she did not earn these positions. And when she ran for president in 2020, that incompetence became readily apparent, even to her former proponents on the Democrat/Left, and in the liberal media, who initially praised her, but then aftter a series of unforced errors by Harris, ultimately let her crash and burn on her own. In the 2020 Democrat presidential primaries, Kamala Harris had less than 1% support in the polls even in her own state of California, when she dropped out before the first primary to avoid further humiliation. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, in one of the Democrat candidate debates that year, just before she Harris dropped out, completely eviscerated and humiliated Harris.
And then Joe Biden (or more accurately, Biden's puppetmasters) pulled her out of the trash heap, and appointed her as Vice President on the 2020 ticket. Where she has been humiliating herself at every turn ever since.
Harris was appointed immigration czar to solve the border crisis, where she has done absolutely nothing. Monica Crowley described Harris as "hiding in the bathroom, waiting for Biden to die, so she can become president."
Feel free to name any accomplishments by Kamala Harris I might have missed. She is a political disaster for the Democrats. And poll after poll shows that, as unqualified and unpopular as Joe Biden is, the public has an even lower opinion of HER ability to be president.
It's also hilarious to me that in another 2020 primary debate, Harris called Biden a racist who opposed bussing (which he did), to "prevent a little girl from riding the bus to school, and that little girl was me" (race card). When in fact, Harris might have briefly ridden a bus AFTER segregation ended when she was in kindergarten, but is half black and half indian (India-indian, and actually Jamaican black, not African-American)) and she came from wealthy parents and attended school mostly in Canada, and went to exclusive private schools. I'm amazed she is not called on this utterly untrue debate talking point more than she is. Jill Biden is well known to despise Kamala Harris, and strongly opposed the puppetmasters' appointment of Kamala Harris as Joe Biden's VP in 2020.
Yeah. Look, I don't know. There's a culture gap I am having trouble traversing. We do politics here differently. Someone's private life here is private, even if you're a public figure. The only time something private has come out in recent years in Australian politics was the conservative Deputy Prime Minister who campaigned on family values, and then announced he had left his wife and moved in with a staffer who had fallen pregnant to him. Otherwise, I can think of one senior conservative politician here who had a longstanding affair - used to bring her along to functions in Canberra while his wife was back home - but the press didn't report on it.
I read a Bob Woodward book, can't remember the title, which talked about how until Richard Nixon the press in the US gave no airtime to politicians' affairs. (I anticipate back in the day such infidelities were endemic in the political class.) Once Watergate broke, the press started paying a lot of attention to politicians' private lives, which culminated in Clinton's impeachment.
I've no doubt cronyism and nepotism is rife across the political spectrum. Many political operatives are very intelligent and ambitious, and the only differentiator they have are contacts and benefactors. The thing I object to though is tying that to sexual promiscuity. If someone chooses to fuck like a rabbit, it does me no harm and good luck to them.
Which leads me to this question: Can I safely suggest that you have the view that Trump's infidelities have no proof? Wondering how you reconcile that with Clinton's extra-marital affair. Or, as a matter of facts they are beyond controversy but it doesn't matter because of his other merits?
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