I cannot believe what I am seeing underway on the “Memo War”
Trump and his crew of Counter Insurgents have set up the Nunes committee memo for weeks, letting it percolate. The media other than Fox and such ignored it.
Now we are treated to a show of FBI ‘fighting” the release and such and the media falls for it and begins covering the memo release as a typical Washington food fight.
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My diagnosis on the SOTU address.
The messaging was tasked to emotionally convince both men and women in different ways that they belong to a group, Americans, who do heroic things, who have empathy, who help the needy, who nurture the babies, who lay down their lives for others as an act of love. We act together, we grieve together and we fix things together.
He showed people, not faceless government as the engine of virtue.
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This one takes the cake for showing just how arrogant and cloistered the elites are. I meet lots of Americans every day that I will match up against any Dreamer you care to name, but none of them come from the circles Mr Brooks travels in.
I do believe “And the horse you rode in on (if you could ride a horse)” is a partial proper response to this unmitigated twit.
Why.
Oh, why
is this news?
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/28/politics/jose-andres-ivanka-trump-cafe-milano/index.html
Mass media is the Opposition Party.
I was listening to NPR talking about Davos over the past few days. They made a point of telling us, with their distress clear in their voices, that President Trump received a warm reception there. They said he was treated like a “rock star,” with contempt on their lips. Of course, I think the President of the United States of America should be treated well wherever he goes no matter the circumstances. I saw other journalists were similarly outraged that the American President was treated like an American President.
On the first day one of the economics masters of ceremonies observed that Trump has received shabby treatment by the media. There was more outrage at that, but now I cannot find it … Continue reading
Here is an interesting take. It’s from an allegedly hidden conservative in CA. You can take that with a grain of salt, but I think the piece embodies many of my feelings about Trump.
Marshall Kamena is a registered democrat and was elected mayor of Livermore, CA.. He ran on the democratic ticket as he knew a Bay Area city would never vote for a republican. He is as conservative as they come. He wrote the following and it is a good read:
Trump’s lack of decorum, dignity, and statesmanship
My Leftist
friends (as well as many ardent #Never Trumpers) constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t think his tweets are “beneath the dignity of … Continue reading
It is that time of year. One of the biggest events on the political calendar. The President of the United States will give the State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress and the American People (how I so loath that term, but…). I have an observation about this event that might strike some of you as iconoclast, but I hope that you will at least get something from it that will prompt you toward a more local outlook of politics instead of slouching toward Gomorrah.
For the past four months, I have been working as a defense contractor at the Office of General Counsel for the Secretary of Defense. Basically, this office looks at everything from amendments to current treaties or defense agreements, requests … Continue reading
