All of us, every single man, woman, and child on the face of the Earth were born with the same unalienable rights; to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And, if the governments of the world can't get that through their thick skulls, then, regime change will be necessary.
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Showing posts with label the Trump Administration. Show all posts
Even as the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday heard crucial testimony from pivotal witness Gordon Sondland, the Senate voted to confirm Trump’s latest appointee to the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a regional appeals court handling cases from Georgia, Alabama and Florida.
The action represented a new milestone in Trump’s dramatic reshaping of the federal judiciary, with Republican-appointed judges now in the majority in the 11th Circuit, whose majority before Trump took office in January 2017 had been Democratic appointees. Republican-appointed justices tend to be conservative, while Democratic-named judges tend to be liberal.
This marks the third time that Trump has been able to engineer the ideological “flip” of one of the nation’s 13 federal appeals courts, which exert considerable power one level below the U.S. Supreme Court. The other two to “flip” were the Manhattan-based 2nd Circuit and the Philadelphia-based 3th Circuit, both of which also had Democratic-appointed majorities when Trump became president.
For this little stunt upon opening the impeachment inquire at the House Intelligence Committee:
For three years now, Democrats have threatened to impeach President Trump for not taking seriously enough the efforts by foreign governments to meddle in our 2016 elections.
Then evidence surfaces revealing Mr. Trump’s earnest effort to confront a foreign government and pressure them to investigate and turn over information about their meddling in the 2016 elections.
Now Democrats want to impeach Mr. Trump for that.
In other words, Democrats today want to impeach Mr. Trump for doing what they say they have wanted him to do for three years.
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The whole thing quickly devolved into another comical farce when Rep. Adam B. Schiff, California Democrat and “intelligence” chairman, kicked off the hearing by setting aside the just-released transcript of the telephone call between Mr. Trump and the president of Ukraine. He chose instead to read an entirely made up, fraudulent and fabricated transcript of a call that never occurred....
...Adam Schiff misled congress and the American people today when he read his own version of the transcript filled with lies and mischaracterizations of President Trump's conversation. Democrats are now openly lying about what Trump said in an effort to get him impeached.
...More people in the UK voted for Brexit — some 17 million — than have voted for anything at any time in the country’s history....
and
...Back by the Rio Grande, the people most affected are desperate for the wall to be built and for our immigration laws to be enforced. After pursuing other avenues and having been stymied, President Trump finally declared a national emergency to siphon funds from elsewhere to build the wall. The caterwauling over that would have been comical had it not been so obviously cynical. Between 2001 and 2013, various presidents have declared national emergencies 18 times and have diverted funds without Congressional appropriate to various projects. It’s different this time because it’s Trump....
So, what are WE THE PEOPLE supposed to be when we are regarded as peasants beyond the moat, peasants who, according to the oligarchy of all political parties, are incapable of understanding what we want for today and for our future?
I submit that we in the West are at a turning point: it's now or never for the future of our nations as representative governments.
She should! And her apology was a backhanded one and insincere.
President Trump on Rep. @IlhanMN: "Her lame apology, and that's what it was, it was lame, and she didn't mean a word of it was just not appropriate. I think she should resign from Congress." pic.twitter.com/6rbPUDdFuz
The kumbaya Obama disciples, deniers of the militant geopolitical goal of Islam, must be furious with our POTUS because of this this particular Tweet:
....after 18 long years. Syria was loaded with ISIS until I came along. We will soon have destroyed 100% of the Caliphate, but will be watching them closely. It is now time to start coming home and, after many years, spending our money wisely. Certain people must get smart!
Soad Tebrizi, an Iranian-American psychotherapist from California went back to visit her native Iran. Watch what she has to say about the Sharia law advocates in the U.S. and what she hopes @POTUS@realDonaldTrump could do to help the Iranian people. pic.twitter.com/69bZmuCV0M
...Any vacancy prior to 2020 would almost certainly be filled by Trump, and a rules change adopted by Republicans during the Gorsuch nomination fight enabled the Senate to confirm supreme court justices with a simple majority vote....
This battle isn't about issues ranging from women’s reproductive health to LGBT rights, as mentioned in the Guardian article. Those mentions are scare tactics to divert attention from what is really at stake.
Trump EEOC Gets Settlement for Muslim Security Guard Discriminated by Co.’s Grooming Policy
Keeping with an Obama practice of pursuing American businesses that won’t accommodate Muslims, the Trump administration sued a security company for refusing to modify its grooming standards. This constituted religious discrimination, according to the government, because the Muslim employee requested the grooming exemption in accordance with his “sincerely held religious beliefs.” In a settlement reached this month between the company and the government, the security guard gets $90,000 in damages and the firm must hire an equal employment monitor and revise its religious accommodation policies.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the bloated federal agency that enforces the nation’s workplace discrimination laws, filed the lawsuit in December against Allied Universal in United States District Court for the Southern District of California. Allied is a national company with more than 150,000 employees that protect tens of thousands of clients across the country. The plaintiff, William Webb, was hired as a security guard to work in the San Diego area. After getting hired, he asked for the grooming exemption and the company refused. The EEOC, which filed dozens of similar lawsuits during the Obama administration, alleges in its complaint that Allied’s conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits religious discrimination and requires employers to make reasonable accommodations to employees’ sincerely held religious beliefs.
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...This month’s settlement in the lawsuit against the security company indicates the Trump administration will not put an end to the deranged Obama policies.
This blogger has what could well be important observations.
Excerpt:
Politicians not clapping once at a SOTU, horrible gossip about Trump that affects Melania’s feelings. Mrs. Obama humiliating Melania NOW instead of when would have been more normal, soon after Melania gave the Tiffany box to Mrs. Obama on inauguration day. It’s timing…the right timing for this ‘revelation’ was now, apparently, not when it all went down and the media was clamoring for what was in the Tiffany Box. And the ugliness goes from one Trump to another, and it’s concerted….ABC, NBC, CNN, all say the same memes, all about Eric Trump. Then a few days later, his wife. Then Donald Jr, everybody weighing in on the same things…then Tiffany Trump….then Ivanka and Jared…..odd that all channels harp on one at a time…..they GOT THE MEMO, TRUST ME! They lay off Baron only a little more because there’s kind of an unwritten rule about young presidential kids, but he’s suffered his bumps, too.
Sure, they slam Trump…(again, who the heck kept that tape from Access Hollywood from about 10 years ago and why?), they do the normal slamming of his political decisions, though much worse than I’ve seen it in my whole life other than Nixon, maybe?...
Either there’s a concerted effort or the Left is having a meltdown of desperation. I can’t tell which because I’m so fed up with the Enemedia that I avoid watching and reading too much of what the Left is advocating. Too much going on here on the home front! We’re again caught in the medical loop because Mr. AOW needs all sorts of pre-op tests for cataract surgery during the busiest quarter of the school term.
Anyway, back to your observations, Z….You could well be correct. I just asked Mr. AOW; he agrees with you, and he’s usually spot on because he watches more TV news than I do.
How the Dems behaved during the SOTU was horrible. And they and those who align with them think that the Dems are on the moral high road to save our republic. Pffffffft.
President Donald Trump's and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's tête-à-tête on Tuesday — after a summer of sniping between the two — lifted Republican hopes that the GOP was finally back in sync ahead of a brutal fall of fiscal deadlines.
Not 24 hours later, the president cut a deal with Democrats on a short-term debt ceiling increase opposed by McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan. Just Wednesday morning, in fact, Ryan had scoffed at the Democratic offer that Trump accepted minutes later....
Well, GOPe, in your hurry to go on yet another of your recesses, you didn't fulfill your promise to repeal ObamaCare. And you are dragging their feet on tax reform and, of course, the Wall. Did you really expect President Trump to wring his hands and do nothing?
...President Trump stated on Tuesday, August 15, 2017, that some of the torch bearers in Charlottesville were good people. The MSNBC report included the word torches in quotation marks.
I went to YouTube and listened to the entire speech:
Did President Trump state what MSNBC reported as mentioned in the first paragraph of this blog post?
TRUMP:...If you take a look at some of the groups, and you see – and you'd know it if you were honest reporters, which in many cases you're not – but many of those people were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. So this week it's Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down. I wonder, is it George Washington next week? And is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop?
But they were there to protest -- excuse me, if you take a look, the night before they were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee....
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Reporter: Who are the good people? Sir, I just didn’t understand what you were saying. You were saying the press has treated white nationalists unfairly? I just don’t understand what you were saying.
TRUMP: No, no. There were people in that rally -- and I looked the night before -- if you look, there were people protesting very quietly the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. I’m sure in that group there were some bad ones. The following day it looked like they had some rough, bad people -- neo-Nazis, white nationalists, whatever you want to call them. But you had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest, and very legally protest -- because I don’t know if you know, they had a permit. The other group didn’t have a permit. So I only tell you this: There are two sides to a story. I thought what took place was a horrible moment for our country -- a horrible moment. But there are two sides to the country....
Read the entire transcript HERE at the Washington Post.
The words torch and torches were not included in any words uttered by President Trump.
Questions now arise in my mind....
1. On Friday night, August 11, were there people quietly protesting the removal of the statue andnot carrying torches, or was the only group there that evening the torch bearers a la the KKK?
2. Does anyone here know the exact route of those carrying torches on Friday night?
3. Does anyone here know if there were people surrounding the statue on Friday night so as to protect it from possible vandals? I ask this because in 2006, I participated in a protective ring around the Vietnam Veterans Memorial when Code Pink came to Washington, D.C., in a stated attempt to vandalize the Wall.
In the wake of yesterday's speech, I'm looking for the answer to either of the questions below:
1. Did a single Congress critter voice support of President Trump's Warsaw Speech? 2. Did a single Congress critter condemn President Trump's Warsaw Speech?
I caught the last ten minutes or so of President Trump's speech today at Krasiński Square, the site of a monument commemorating the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis in Warsaw, Poland.
WOWZER!
What a statement of the importance of national borders and of limited government!
But it was the words I cited in the title of this blog post that jumped out at me:
"The West will never ever be broken."
We no longer have an apologist POTUS. Instead, we have a POTUS who stands strong for the West — and without any mealy-mouthed whimpering about colonialism-based guilt (Zinnism).
Below, I have, more or less, cued up the portion of the speech that made me want to stand up and cheer. Worth your time.
Yes, President Trump uttered the words "radical Islamic terrorism."
Note: the full transcript of the speech is HERE. Check out those last several pargraphs. WOOT!
And should continue to Tweet (HERE and HERE, two different Twitter accounts).
The Democrats, the establishment GOP, and the media want President Trump to stop Tweeting because his Tweets are interfering with and eroding the narrative.
This comment appeared to the opinion piece "This Wasn't a Speech About Islam" by Mustafa Akyol and Wajahat Ali (New York Times, May 21, 2017):
TDurk Rochester NY
I am not a supporter of Donald Trump. I find the man to be repugnant and his proposed domestic policies to be injurious to the interests of the American people.
That said, his speech focused on the responsibility of the Muslim people to stamp out Islamic terrorism. He correctly laid the issue at the feet of the states, the clergies and the money who have, either through benign neglect or quiet support, allowed barbarians to use religious fervor as an excuse to commit barbarous acts upon innocents. He correctly stated that the problem is not the problem of the US or of Europe to solve, although the west may need to eradicate the terrorist structures, root and branch.
A “speech on Islam” could have included some references to the faith, an acknowledgment that Islam is a great religion with values in common with Judeo-Christianity, and with a history of pluralism and tolerance. A “speech on Muslims” could have also been richer, with perhaps examples of how Muslims have contributed to the world, including to American society. This was a more modest, narrow and pragmatic speech, mostly appealing to Muslim leaders — in fact, only Sunni ones — for more cooperation against terrorism. But given Mr. Trump’s earlier views on Islam, it could have been worse!
Mr. Akyol is correct: Trump's Riyadh speech wasn't nearly as sycophantic as the 2009 Cairo Speech spewed by Apologist-In-Chief Barack Hussein Obama.
