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HALF-FULL REPORT 08/30/19

rowers-following-the-leaderThe World is Lining Up in Trump’s Direction

The recent G7 summit went well for President Trump and the United States. There is a growing acceptance among allies that Trump means business and China is a problem.

They are no longer just China, but Fentanyl China, the destroyer of corporate brands that fail to disengage from the Middle Kingdom’s culpability with 60,000 opioid overdoses per year.

We have a hurricane inbound and it might cause some economic damage. It certainly can cause political damage.

Mass media is having some problems and James Comey is off the hook. For now.

The Great Awakening continues to grow as more Americans come to understand that there are two justice systems in America. One for the elite and one for the plebes.

And let’s talk about leadership. The left doubles down on a single strategy. They employ it everywhere. Conservatives use a palate of styles and we have been known to reject talent because we prefer a different style. TTPers are uniquely brilliant leaders, so let's talk leadership on the Forum. How should Conservatives lead?

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BERNIE AND THE ANGRY DEMS: AS DUMB AS IT GETS

In case you missed it, or are exclusively a reader of the New York Times, late last week Bernie Sanders tweeted this nugget: "Fossil fuel executives should be criminally prosecuted for the destruction they have knowingly caused."

No, that wasn't The Onion or The Babylon Bee. It was the real deal. The always-furious Vermont senator wants to incarcerate the very people who are responsible for keeping the lights on and the air conditioners running in the operating rooms of almost every hospital, not only in America but across the globe. And that's just the beginning of the myriad necessities of human life provided for at this point in human history by these supposed criminals in the eyes of the self-described democratic socialist of the multiple houses and private jets.

Crazy, no? Crazy, yes. Crazier than the proverbial hoot owl. And mighty angry.

Was Bernie always this way? More or less.

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JOE NEEDS RESCUING DR. JILL

crazy-joe-aint-toughMost of us who have reached the age range that Joe Biden has have already watched our own parents age, decline, and suffer the indignities that invariably come with advancing age.  We know we too will endure certain ailments or infirmities and hope we will be able to face them with courage and grace.

Now, for reasons no one outside the Democratic Party understands, Joe Biden is being put through the ringer as a presidential candidate, an undertaking for which he clearly is not prepared, mentally or physically.

Biden has always had problems with honesty and the truth.  He plagiarized part of a speech by Neil Kinnock during his run for president in 1987–88. He lied often during the Obama/Biden campaign and about his academic career.

Google "Biden gaffes," and you will get a long list of outright lies and countless injudicious remarks, many of them quite racist.  Those who never stop claiming they are not racists usually are exactly that.

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THE MCCABE–CNN HOOKUP

andrew-mccabe-and-cnn-flingThe ongoing affair between the nation’s top law enforcement agency and the news media resulted in another hookup last week when CNN announced the hiring of Andrew McCabe, the former deputy director of the FBI.

McCabe, a vocal Trump foe who opened a criminal investigation into the sitting president of the United States in May 2017 during his short stint as acting director, was fired by the FBI last year for lying to federal investigators.

He played a key role in concocting the Trump-Russia collusion hoax; wrote a book filled with animus toward the president; and remains under a grand jury investigation. Last week, McCabe’s lawyers met with federal prosecutors who are deciding whether to indict him for perjury.

So, of course, CNN hired him last week.

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PROGRESSIVE DEMS HATE THEIR FORMER SELVES

progressive-dems-hatingNot long ago, the current presidential contenders opposed open borders, sanctuary cities, and federal funding for abortion. Now they can’t move left far and fast enough.

All politicians are “flexible.” If they are in politics long enough, many reinvent themselves ideologically several times over — given the perceived volatile mood of 51 percent of their constituency.

But rarely have we seen an entire primary field of candidates scrambling to renounce all their past identities and agendas — and to do so unapologetically, abruptly, and vehemently.

Apparently, they believe, at least in the primary, that the electorate will either identify as nonwhite, or far left, or both — and thus resent deeply any who are not.

To win the nomination, almost all the leading candidates on the Democratic debate stage now believe that they must renounce almost everything they once stood for — at least for a while. Given that most are white or affluent or children of privilege, or all three, sometimes the metamorphosis becomes low comedy.

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HALF-FULL REPORT 08/23/19

david-koch-smileToday’s HFR is the story of an honorable man and his stolen dream.

David Koch was a brilliant engineer with a fleet of magnificent factories. He made great wealth and generously donated to causes such as the fine arts, cancer, especially prostate cancer, research, and the preservation of dinosaur skeletons.

He applied his engineering mind to social problems but learned some hard lessons. Political science is not a science at all.

Koch’s application of probability theory to technology made him the 11th richest man in the world.

However, his methods known as stochastic analysis, were coopted by the fake news media and are now used to gain and control power. Instead of controlling the production of commodities, the methods control the production of terrorists.

Stochastic terrorism means using search engine results, social media, and the fake news industry to excite individuals to commit terrorist acts. The idea moves most of the news these days.

Sadly, the man that introduced stochastic methods passed away today. David Koch’s vision was liberty for all. He put his money, where his passion was.

He failed to account for the evil people that will use any tool, any idea, to acquire power.

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WARREN IS THE WORST OF THE WORST

elizabeth-warren"Hi, I’m Elizabeth Warren. Even though I’m as white as library paste, I pretended to be an American Indian to get preferment. My research on medical bankruptcies was as fraudulent as the way I gamed the racial spoils system. So you should totally trust me when I say I’m “capitalist to my bones”!

The above quotation is from Armed & Dangerous...how each of the candidates would introduce themselves if they were honest.

There is an imaginary intro for each of them and they are all spot on, but because Warren is allegedly "surging," and because she is  the panderer-in-chief,  her gross dishonesty must be exposed.

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THE (NOT SO) GREAT PRETENDER OF REAL CLEAR POLITICS

nytimes-is-fakeOnce upon a time in a universe far far away, the New York Times was known as "the newspaper of record." They purported to report "All the News That's Fit to Print."

That was never true — like all such outlets it was written by humans, ergo biased — but it was a tiny bit more accurate than today, even with notorious contributors like Stalin-apologist Walter Duranty and Castro-apologist Herbert Matthews. The late Abe Rosenthal at least made an effort.

Now the paper is little more than a left-wing propaganda sheet — and not a very good one, notwithstanding its seemingly unbreakable and unremitting influence on the mainstream media who still check the Times before they check themselves.

These days the paper almost feels run by idiots.

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PELOSI HANDS OVER THE DEM PARTY TO JEW-HATERS

pelosi-jew-haterA historic transition of the American political landscape is underway, as the older of our two parties is embracing antisemitism and moving away from support of Israel, driven by the personal ambition of a craven politician clinging to power.

Nancy Pelosi's desire to remain speaker of the House is why she is surrendering the Democrats' party to the Jew-haters, with the highly visible, openly antisemitic Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib becoming the real face of her party.

No fewer than seven of Pelosi's key political allies are facing primary challenges, just as did her close, long-serving ally Joe Crowley in 2018, birthing the political career of a comely former bartender, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.  All of these senior Democrats realize that in low-turnout primaries, a highly motivated faction can deliver the nomination to a challenger.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES, TRUMP-HATE DRUG LORD

ny-times-trump-hate If Russian collusion has been the opiate of the Trump-hating masses for more than two years, the New York Times was one of its biggest suppliers.

Since late 2016, desperate to drown their sorrows over Donald Trump’s shocking win, political junkies on the Left and NeverTrump Right eased their inner pain with a daily collusion fix injected courtesy of the Gray Lady. With one click on the front page or opinion section, Times’ readers could satisfy their anti-Trump addiction while making them feel, if only for a few fleeting moments, powerful and in control.

Pain would give way to rage, then a false sense of hope. Surely the man installed by Vladimir Putin would never serve out his term, they would say to themselves while feeding their insatiable craving. And just as the high wore off, the Times would offer another hit, provoking hallucinations about Trump and his corrupt family being hauled out of the White House in handcuffs by Robert Mueller.

So, in a way, you can’t blame the Times for obsessively covering the fabricated Trump-Russia collusion storyline. It’s what successful drug dealers do—keep their customers hooked on a steady drip of dope and desperate for more.

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COSMIC INJUSTICE

The Massive Vatican Walls – symbol of the Pope’s Cosmic Hypocrisy

The Massive Vatican Walls – symbol of the Pope’s Cosmic Hypocrisy

One of the weirdest characteristics of our global politicians and moral censors is their preference to voice cosmic justice rather than to address less abstract sin within their own purview or authority.

These progressive virtue mongers see themselves as citizens of the world rather than of the United States and thus can impotently theorize about problems elsewhere when they cannot solve those in their own midst.

Big-city mayors are especially culpable when it comes to ignoring felonies in their midst, preferring to hector the misdemeanors of the universe. Notice how New York Mayor Bill De Blasio lords over the insidious deterioration of his city while he lectures on cosmic white supremacy.  He’s one example of a great many.

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TRUMP IS RIGHT ON GOOGLE

google-vote-manipulation On Monday morning (8/19), President Donald Trump shared the results of a study showing that Hillary Clinton's margin of victory in the popular vote in the 2016 election could be explained by Google bias.

The study's author, Ph.D. psychologist Robert Epstein, was himself a Clinton supporter in 2016, but he is concerned about Google's power to manipulate elections.

Trump's tweet likely referred to a 2017 white paper published by the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology (AIBRT) suggesting that Clinton's popular vote margin was almost entirely attributable to pro-Clinton bias at Google.

I myself became aware of Epstein's study last September at a screening of the film The Creepy Line, which heavily features Epstein's research.  Watch the trailer below.

In an interview with Epstein, he commented, “Google is not a problem for conservatives, it is a problem for humanity. Who gave a handful of executives in Silicon Valley the right to decide what billions of people around the world can see and cannot see? Who gave them that power?"

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A STUNNING DAY OF ECONOMIC GASLIGHTING

booming-economy-trump-tweet YIELDS FLASH RECESSION WARNING! BANK STOCKS SINK!  DOW DIVES!  These were the hysterical banner headlines on Drudge Wednesday morning (8/14).

A “negative yield curve“;  a pending “economic recession“.  These are the current obtuse and ridiculous proclamations of the Mainstream Corporate Media.  So let’s take a moment to discuss how stunningly -intentionally- disconnected they are.

Always remember, there are trillions of dollars at stake; and these media entities have a vested interest in maintaining the Wall Street position, adverse to Main Street USA.

Here’s what’s really going on – and feel free to laugh out loud when you find out.

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RACISM IS SHMACISM

racism-is-shmacismIt should be clear to all Americans by now that the word the Left loves to spew indiscriminately — “racism” — often now means nothing, absolutely nothing.  That word is meant to be an accusation of the worst order, an epithet that is supposed to destroy all those so charged.

But now it's used so frequently that it has no meaning at all, no more than “shmacism.”

It's like the F-word, overused and merely a sign of one's lack of a wider vocabulary.  Like the overused F-word, calling someone a "racist" is a sign of sloppy, uncritical thinking.  The word "racist" now means nothing more than any other bit of profanity hurled at those whom lefties have been directed to hate.

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CHINA’S CHIEF CHICOM LOOKS DAZED AND CONFUSED

chicoms-dazed-confusedIt wasn’t supposed to be like this.

When Xi Jinping effectively crowned himself emperor at the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress in 2017, consolidating his power by ending a practice of term limits, China was supposed to be ready for its next stage of his meteoric rise.

In a triumphal speech, Xi heralded a “new era” of Chinese power and predicted the nation would become a “mighty force” under his control.

But as the summer of 2019 drags on, Xi and the government he leads look increasingly weak and lost.

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EPSTEIN DEATH NEWS – SHOCKED FACE EDITION

clintons-shocked-facesHappy Hump Day, patriots. I’m sure you’ve noticed by now that every news cycle is a carnival freak show.

The first 24 hours or so after Jeffrey Epstein was discovered to have become a non-problem for a certain wine-swilling failed presidential candidate and her occasional husband were filled with people condemning anyone who floated a conspiracy theory.

In fact, at this point one might run the risk of actually spraining something while trying to avoid a conspiracy theory. Another few days of coincidences piling up the way they have been since Saturday and investigators are going to have to wear hazmat suits to wade through the toxic b.s.

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TRUMP’S PUBLIC CHARGE RULE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE

protect-us-public-benefits-from-non-citizensLast week’s mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, has sent public discourse about immigration off the rails.  It has allowed radicals to frame as racist normal law enforcement activities and immigration rules.

In the Left’s telling — and it’s increasingly hard to distinguish the hard left from the soft — the administration and those who support it are no better than the insane supposed “white nationalist” who committed the El Paso atrocity.

Similar hysteria has greeted a new Trump administration regulation governing legal immigrants’ access to public welfare. The New York Times depicted the new rule as part of an effort by the president and his hard-line immigration adviser, Stephen Miller, to “shift” the demographic makeup of newcomers to the country.

News flash to the Left:  This has nothing to do with race.

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WHAT LGBTQ ORGANIZATIONS ARE DOING TO SOCIETY

Weightlifter Gavin Hubbard who now claims to be a woman named Laurel

Weightlifter Gavin Hubbard who now claims to be a woman named Laurel

Virtually every week, there seems to be another issue that preoccupies the country.

But while our attention is focused on President Donald Trump, Google, Charlottesville, Russia, impeachment, Jeffrey Epstein, the next elections, racism, a trade war with China, the #MeToo movement or something else, LGBTQ organizations are quietly going about their work dismantling ethical norms, making a mockery of education, ruining innocent people's lives and destroying children's innocence.

If you think this is overstated, here are some examples:

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QUENTIN TARANTINO’S AMAZING FILM PORTRAYING WHITE MASCULINITY AS GOOD

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The stifling conformity of the Great Awokening has now driven even Quentin Tarantino to the subversive right.

His immensely enjoyable buddy comedy Once Upon in a Time…in Hollywood, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt at their considerable best, has The New Yorker fulminating that it’s “obscenely regressive.”

Critic Richard Brody complains, “Tarantino delivers a ridiculously white movie” that “celebrates white-male stardom (and behind-the-scenes command).”

Well, Hallelujah…

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CIVIL WAR AS ENTERTAINMENT

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Universal Pictures has produced a film called The Hunt (originally titled Red State vs. Blue State), which begins with rich liberals capturing ‘deplorables’ from red states to hunt down and murder.

If you lived in Dayton, Ohio, you might consider this a realistic premise, although I don’t think that is what the filmmakers had in mind. The video above is the official trailer; if I interpret it correctly, the ‘deplorables’ fight back and win what looks like a civil war.

In that respect, one might say that the film is realistic.

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IGNITING CIVIL WAR

burning-flagGovernment sponsorship of violence against opponents or complacency in the face of incitement to violence is a powerful tool of political repression. Regimes such as Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Nicaragua, China, and other tyrannies have used such tactics to great effect.

When mobs attack anti-government demonstrators, for example, the police either disappear or stand by watching. In American cities run by Democrats and on the U.S. college and university campuses, the authorities increasingly have been standing by as radicals do the dirty work of beating up or silencing conservatives.

In societies riven by mutual hate, the people who control the police and public communications make all the difference.  When societal hatred or the partiality of authorities results in deaths, long-smoldering cold civil war can blaze into holocaust.  We Americans are now facing the danger of a civil war thus ignited.

We do not think of civil war this way because our Civil War from 1861 to 1865 was less a conflict within society than it was a highly organized war between states. What we face now is worse.

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THE DEMOCRAT MAELSTROM OF HATE FOR AMERICA

dems-hate-americaAfter denouncing hate on Sunday, Democrats went back on Monday to calling for violence against conservatives.

In Kentucky, Mitch McConnell is convalescing at home after breaking a shoulder. Nancy's Army went to his house to harass him. He's 77.  A video of the protest shows them demanding he be stabbed in the heart.

We have to start taking the Democrats’ creation of a maelstrom of hate very, very seriously.

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WHY ARE THE DEMS CREATING THE “WHITE SUPREMACY” HOAX?

white-supremacy-hoaxThe anti-Trump forces, now stripped of their Russian collusion ammunition, have invented another imaginary threat they hope to weaponize against the president: The public menace posed by “white supremacist” terrorism.

Much like the collusion conspiracy theory—which relied on random incidents, fictional villains, unconvincing evidence, and the Bad Orange Man in the White House—there is little substance to this purported danger.

Unironically, the whole ruse is being pushed by the same people who foisted the Russian collusion hoax on the American people for three years in the hopes of prompting President Trump’s impeachment and removal.

The “white supremacy” canard is intended to further demonize Trump; falsely defame his supporters as white supremacists; and pressure nervous voters into defeating Trump and Republican candidates next year. The strategy is as cynical as it is pernicious.

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MASS MURDERERS AND DEMOCRAT DERANGEMENT

once-upon-a-time-in-hollywoodAnyone over the age of sixty-five was most likely put off by the original trailer for the newest Quentin Tarantino film because what at first seemed a lighthearted story about a couple of aging television stars was going to go dark and murderous.

The quick shot of Charles Manson was then removed from the trailer so the Manson aspect of the film sneaks up on the viewer.  Charles Manson was the man of our nightmares in 1969–70, especially for those of us who then lived in Los Angeles.

Yet the group that Manson assembled at the Spahn Ranch in Chatsworth were as disconnected from reality as were the mass murderers in Gilroy, El Paso, and Dayton.

But what was shocking then is now practically an everyday event, particularly in cities long governed by Democrats.  More deaths occur in Chicago and Baltimore every month than the number lost in El Paso and Dayton.  It is the Democrat Party that has brought us to where we are today.

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HALF-FULL REPORT 08/02/19

leftist-racist-rant

Mike Ryan is covering for Jack Wheeler while he attends the funeral of TTPer and dear friend, Alex Alexiev.

Conservatives had a great week as the Democrats told the nation their plans to spend $130 trillion if elected to build their utopia.

Racism! Became the new Russia! Moreover, Baltimore’s Elijah Cummings misplaced $13 billion. Oops!

We have been waiting for recess. Let the recess appointments begin!

Let’s talk a little about MMT, the financial theory behind the new left.

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DEMS PULL “A REAGAN”

10 Dem candidates agreeing to give free health care to illegal aliens

10 Dem candidates agreeing to give free health care to illegal aliens

Ronald Reagan famously said, "I didn't leave the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party left me."

Now it's left the rest of us.

If every candidate on stage raising their hands for free healthcare for illegal aliens during the first MSNBC debate wasn't enough to brand the party and its faithful as a collection of virtue-signaling lemmings, the subsequent CNN debates should have finished the job.

Or should I say debates or game shows? They were basically contests for who could go the furthest left.

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DEMS ROUND 2: AND THE WINNER – GABBARD’S PANTSUIT

white-pantsuitNight Two of the second round of Democratic presidential primary debates was expected to be a fireworks display between former Vice President Joe Biden (D-Del.) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), and CNN did its best to light the fuses early on. Sadly -- for the viewers who didn't want to be bored, anyway -- all of those fuses were duds.

The following is my assessment of the painful display, using some of my live tweets from the evening rather than having to type more. Thank you in advance for indulging me, dear readers.

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THE PRESIDENT’S ANTI-RACISM IS SHIFTING THE OVERTON WINDOW

trump-triumphantAs Brit Hume pointed out recently, “People discerning a racist motive for Trump’s attack on Elijah Cummings are missing a key point: Trump attacks those who criticize him and his administration, black or white.”

Hume follows up with an amusing and color-coordinated list of people Trump has put in their place (Bernie Sanders: crazy, Elizabeth Warren: total fraud, Justin Amash: loser, Joe Biden: low IQ, Harry Reid: insane, etc., etc.).

Beyond the elements of political calculation and polemical style, however, Donald Trump’s recent tweet fests suggest that he may be on the threshold of shifting the Overton Window on race.

Public discourse in America has long been held hostage to a species of racist moral blackmail that has made it almost impossible to tell the truth about many central social realities.  The President is trying to liberate us from it.

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WOKE RACISM

nazi-accuseWell before Sigmund Freud formalized the idea of “projectionism”—the defense of one’s own shortcomings and sins by attributing them to others—it was a common theme in classical literature and the New Testament: the ridiculing of the mole on someone else’s nose to hide one’s own boil.

The term projection more or less sums up much of the woke identity politics movement, in which obsessions with racial privilege and tribal exceptionalism are justified by accusing others of just such bias.

For example, the new racism is epidemic among those in the so-called squad, the self-referenced nickname for four media-obsessed, first-term congressional representatives, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), who without their daily charges of bias largely would be unknown back-benchers laboring away in obscurity.

They have all taken Joseph Goebbels’ advice.

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TRADE WAR WITH CHINA? NO, IT’S WORSE!

china-trade-warFor the past several months now, the US media is obsessed with dire predictions of a calamitous trade war between China and the US, following numerous statements by President Trump that the Chinese trade surplus is intolerable.

Indeed, at $506 billion of Chinese exports against only $130 billion of US ones, it does look very unfair. However, things look a bit different if looked at from a different angle.

For the problem with China is, thus, not its surplus per se, but rather the economic system that produces it and here it is the Communist system and not free trade that are clearly to blame.

Trade is just a way of increasing the power of the Chinese Communist Party. Everything that contributes to its aggrandizing is fair and widely practiced – technology theft, discrimination against foreign companies, preferential loans/subsidies to state-owned enterprises, currency manipulation etc.

It is a fool’s paradise though with China’s economy beset with problems that defy easy solutions.

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THAT’S ALL FOLKS! MUELLER DISASTER DOOMS DEM IMPEACHMENT HOPES

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Among his talents, Donald Trump has a special gift for driving his detractors so crazy that they do really stupid stuff. The decision by Democrats to force Robert Mueller to testify before Congress yesterday (7/24) is Exhibit A.

Bumblin’ Bob was a train wreck of epic proportions. The fallout is immediate, starting with this: impeachment is no longer an option.

It had a slim chance before Wednesday’s painful slog and no chance after it.

Mueller was that bad, seemingly hard of hearing, often confused and contradicted himself several times.

Although Mueller’s general demeanor was disturbing – he was a stammering, stuttering mess – it was also instructive. He did not project the mental and physical vigor of someone capable of leading the complex two-year probe into Russian meddling, possible Trump collusion and obstruction of justice.

More likely, the 74-year old former FBI director was something of a figure-head for an investigation that was carried out by the team of zealots he ­assembled.

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CHINA’S TECH SECTOR IS IN TROUBLE

china-tech-in-trouble[Note by JW:  This “must-read” by Rothschild & Della Rocca offers strong evidence of the geopolitical genius of President Trump.]

Perched precariously atop electric motorbikes, swarms of e-commerce couriers zip through China’s cities. For upwards of 10 hours each day, they race to deliver packages and hot meals.

In high-rise office buildings, tech-company programmers are toiling just as hard. Coding frantically to meet a deadline, they hunch over keyboards well into the night.

Although they pull long hours, these workers are the lucky ones. At least they have jobs. Amid a protracted slump in China’s once white-hot tech sector, tech firms are resorting to layoffs and hiring freezes.

Many thousands of young college graduates and blue-collar workers, who used to count on tech-sector employment, are now scrambling to find work.

Just two years ago, the rise of China’s tech sector (often termed its “new economy”) looked unstoppable. Between 2014 and 2017, Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei doubled its revenue, and a whopping 34 Chinese tech startups topped $1 billion valuations. By one forecast, the new economy was on track to create over 1 million jobs annually.

But today, the once-prolific sector has reversed course: startups and tech giants alike have been reeling the past year.

What is going wrong?

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WHO IS BRITAIN’S NEW PRIME MINISTER

prime-minister-boris-johnsonToday (7/24),  Boris Johnson became Britain’s prime minister.  But who is he, what’s he like and what can we expect?

By weird coincidence, he happens to be the second prime minister with whom I was friends at Oxford University. And the first reassuring news I can bring is that he is going to be a considerable improvement on his predecessor-but-one, David Cameron.

Cameron was a managerial, Nanny-knows-best prime minister, whose main aim was to stay in power for as long as possible by not rocking the boat.

Boris, by contrast, is a mischief-maker and a fun-lover. Whatever else goes wrong during his time in office, of one thing we can be sure: it will be royally entertaining – like the Restoration of the libertinous, libidinous court of Charles II (r. 1660-1665) after years of dreary puritanism.

I like Boris. He’s funny, witty, scatty, shambolic with a very sharp brain whose cogitations you can almost see as he talks to you.  I think he’s going to get along very well with President Trump.

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WHY PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS THE MORAL HIGH GROUND OVER THE DEMS

trump-tweet-071419I'm tired of hearing conservative friends apologize for President Trump's "go back to where you came from" tweets about the likes of Ilhan Omar.

The president has the moral high ground, and the weasel war dance of the mainstream media shouldn't distract us from this fact.

Even his worst enemies (e.g. ex-conservative David Frum) concede that Trump's attacks on the anti-American extremists in the Democrat Party are smart politics.

But this isn't about trolling the Democrats. It's about principle.

President Trump has a gift for asking the obvious questions that the elites avoid, for example: What idiot let Omar into the United States in the first place? Come to think of it, why should we admit immigrants who hate us and hate everything we stand for?

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SCIENCE’S UNTOLD SCANDAL

global-warming-scandalWhen Tom and I started our careers, it was considered an honor to be a member of professional societies that helped practitioners keep up with the latest developments in their fields through relevant meetings and publications. I had the privilege of leading one of these societies long ago.

But things are different now. Whether it be chemistry, physics, geology or engineering, many of the world’s primary professional societies have changed from being paragons of technical virtue to opportunistic groups focused on maximizing their members' financial gains in support of the climate scare, the world’s greatest science fraud.

In particular, they continue to promote the groundless hypothesis that carbon dioxide emitted as a result of mankind’s use of fossil fuels is leading to environmental catastrophe.  Why?

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DEM DOT COMS VS. TRUMP’S SAILORS & STEEL WORKERS

Politics has its style and its substance. Style requires the 2020 candidates to stump in New Hampshire diners and eat corn dogs at Iowa fairs. These stylistic rites of passage in American politics are on the verge of irrelevance as the kingmakers in California push up their primary and as the effort to eliminate the electoral college gains traction among the 2020 Democrats and, more importantly, their donors.

Forget the New Hampshire diners and Iowa corn dogs, the truth can be found if you follow the money.

The 2020 race is all about touting the democracy of small donors with a 130,000 donor threshold for the third Democrat debate. But certain zip codes keep coming up for the top Democrat candidates. The 100XX zip codes of Manhattan, the 90XXX zip codes of Los Angeles, the 94XXX zip codes of San Francisco, the 98XXX zip codes of Seattle, the 20XXX zip codes of D.C. and the 02XXX zip codes of Boston.

These are the core zip codes of the Democrat donor base. They are the pattern that recur in the campaign contributions lists of the top Democrats. And they explain the politics of the 2020 race.

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SELF-SERVING BENEFICIARIES OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

ilegals-on-the-moveMany people benefit from the lawbreaking: The Mexican and Central American governments, the Democratic party, employers, ethnic activists, rich progressives, and the illegal border crossers themselves.

Almost every party invested in open borders proves utterly selfish, without regard for the legitimate interests of others or of the law itself.

The Illegal Immigrant: The immigrant is the pawn of Latin American governments who view him as inanimate capital, someone who represents thousands of dollars in future foreign-exchange remittances, as well as one less mouth to feed at home — if he crosses the border, legality be damned.

Mexican and Central American Governments: Some $30 billion in remittances are sent back by mostly illegal aliens to Central American governments and roughly another $30 billion to Mexico.

The Ethnic Industry: America is increasingly becoming not so much a nonwhite nation as an assimilated, integrated, and intermarried country.

The Democratic Party: Democrats once were exclusionists — largely because they feared that illegal immigration eroded unionization and overtaxed the social-service resources of their poor citizen constituents. What changed?

Employers: Employers over the past 50 years learned fundamental truths about illegal immigrants.

The Elite Caring Progressive: Wealthy progressives favor open borders and illegal immigration for a variety of reasons.

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PROGRESSIVE MEAT-EATING CANNIBALS

progressive-meatThe Obama-era Democratic Party bears little resemblance to the themes embraced just 11 years ago by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton during the 2008 primaries.

The parameters of marriage, in Obama’s words “between a man and woman,” has now transmogrified beyond gay civil unions to legal gay marriage to transgendered fixations.

Obama once protested that he was no king who could open the border and grant amnesties by fiat. Yet his view of immigration has metamorphosed well beyond DACA and Dreamers into Democratic candidates going into Mexico to escort aliens unlawfully into our country, and 500 sanctuary jurisdictions in which federal immigration law is all but null and void. An American citizen convicted of using a fake Social Security Number and phony ID is a felon who is all but unemployable; an illegal alien who commits the same crimes learns quickly that these are not deportable offenses and mostly never prosecuted.

In a nanosecond, Betsy Ross’s iconic colonial flag, which once emblazoned the backdrop of the 2012 Obama inauguration ceremony, have become racist icons...

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DEMS ARE JUST WRONG ABOUT RACISM

dems-speak-on-racismTo say that the Democrats are obsessed with race these days is the equivalent of saying the sky is blue.

I'm a racist. You're a racist. Donald Trump's a racist. Nancy Pelosi was a racist until she attacked Trump for racism. Your neighbor's a racist. Your insurance broker's a racist. Your dentist's a racist as well as your periodontist. All white males are racist. Some white females are racists, especially those married to white males. Everywhere a racist.

Never mind that many of those people have no history of racism. It doesn't matter. Never mind that their families came here in 1923 to flee the Armenian Holocaust or mass starvation in Ukraine, they owe reparations for slavery. It's all about racism—yours.

The Dems' presidential campaigns are based around proving the other man or woman is more of a racist and vice versa, or about showing you're not so racist as people say you are, even if you are or even if you pretended to be a race you weren't. And don't you dare criticize Ilhan Omar or you're a triple-racist even if her ideas are more racist than anyone else's. Got it?

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TRANSFORMATIVE THEORY IS DESTROYING THE LEFT

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Replacing leadership development with indoctrination for a quarter century was a terrible idea.

Instead of developing bold new leaders, the left has produced angry and violent youth within a sea of sad little unicorns.

They believe that peer assessment determines one’s fate.

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