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.
A new report, the Juncker report, went out today telling all the capitals of Europe that they must move expeditiously to build up the border on the exterior of the European Union, if they wish to keep the Schengen free-circulation-of-people-in-Europe alive.
That is, if you want to keep having no borders within the Union, you need to build up the fences and interdiction efforts at its frontiers.
"Fox News political executive director, Bill Sammons, is the father of Marco Rubio’s national spokesperson, Brooke Sammon. The agenda has been transparent from the outset" Hat tip: Conservative Treehouse
That moment when you realize you wife has cheated on you, and you just can't like her anymore, even if you want to
Politico: Prominent Republican hawks are debating whether to hold their noses and vote for Clinton instead.
Donald Trump calls the Iraq War a lie-fueled fiasco, admires Vladimir Putin and says he would be a "neutral" arbiter between Israel and the Palestinians. When it comes to America’s global role he asks, “Why are we always at the forefront of everything?" Even more than his economic positions, Trump's foreign policy views challenge GOP orthodoxy in fundamental ways. But while parts of the party establishment are resigning themselves or even backing Trump's runaway train, one group is bitterly digging in against him: the hawkish foreign policy elites known as neoconservatives. Story Continued Below In interviews with POLITICO, leading neocons — people who promoted the Iraq war, detest Putin and consider Israel's security non-negotiable — said Trump would be a disaster for U.S. foreign policy and vowed never to support him. So deep is their revulsion that several even say they could vote for Hillary Clinton over Trump in November. “Hillary is the lesser evil, by a large margin,” said Eliot Cohen, a founder of the Project for a New American Century, a neocon think tank which promoted a muscular U.S. role in the world. Trump's election would be “an unmitigated disaster for American foreign policy," Cohen said, adding that "he has already damaged it considerably.” Cohen said he would "strongly prefer a third party candidate" to Trump, but added: "Probably if absolutely no alternative: Hillary." In a March 1 interview with Vox, Max Boot, a military historian at the Council on Foreign Relations who backed the Iraq War and often advocates a hawkish foreign policy, said that he, too, would vote for Clinton over Trump. "I'm literally losing sleep over Donald Trump," he said. "She would be vastly preferable to Trump." A group of Republican foreign policy experts plan to publish a blistering letter attacking Trump on Thursday, according to the Financial Times. They include Cohen; Peter Feaver, a former senior national security aide in George W. Bush's White House; Robert Zoellick, a former deputy to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; and Dov Zakheim, a former Bush Pentagon official. Several other neocons said they find themselves in an impossible position, constitutionally incapable of voting for Clinton but repelled by a Republican whose foreign policy views they consider somewhere between nonexistent and dangerous — and disconnected from their views about American power and values abroad. "1972 was the first time I was old enough to vote for president, and I did not vote. Couldn't vote for McGovern for foreign policy reasons, nor for Nixon because of Watergate," said Elliott Abrams, a former national security council aide to George W. Bush who specializes in democracy and the Middle East. "I may be in the same boat in 2016, unable to vote for Trump or Clinton." Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, something of a dean of Washington neoconservatives, said he would seek out a third option before choosing between Trump and Clinton.“If it's Trump-Clinton, I'd work with others to recruit a strong conservative third party candidate, and do my best to help him win (which by the way would be more possible than people think, especially when people — finally — realize Trump shouldn't be president and Hillary is indicted),” Kristol wrote in an email.
No going back after that Bill. You can't just write in a name and STFU?
Kristol and Abrams have advised Florida senator Marco Rubio, the preferred choice of several neoconservatives, who admire his call for "moral clarity" in foreign policy and strong emphasis on human rights and democracy. Alarm brewing for months in GOP foreign policy circles burst into public view last week, when Robert Kagan, a key backer of the Iraq War and American global might, wrote in the Washington Post that a Trump nomination would force him to cross party lines. “The only choice will be to vote for Hillary Clinton,” Kagan warned. “The party cannot be saved, but the country still can be.” In an interview, Kagan said his opposition to Trump "has nothing to do with foreign policy."
Trump is outside label definition because each issue has it’s own solution
So on trade he is absolutely NOT C
On the border he is HARD C
On the Military he is C
On China he is diamond hard C
On Israel he is in Disneyland
etc.
And this is driving the Jesuit Society of Conservatism into scrotum tightening fits.
And has the Rove’s and Thiessen’s and Hayes’s and Krauthammers thinking Mussolini has to be stopped.
Worse still, they are sincere. Every last fucker BELIEVES.
This is why Trump can NEVER ‘take over’ the GOP although it can be destroyed if they are all stupid, venal and arrogant enough.
The
ideological conservatives in the GOP MUST take this 'Trump interregnum’
to make certain they have a clue about the REAL WORLD of REAL PEOPLE
who are not going to jump in, learn C#, use the Android SDK, invent
financial service products for China Merchants Bank, and need a job they
don’t hate which will last past the next financial cycle screwed up by
the the Columbia School of Economics, or Cato or Brookings advised
banks.
THIS IS LONG but this is SOME of the hard detail of
Free Trade vs Fair Trade, and THIS is going to be a big fat center of
attack
TRADE:
For instance, if the
Conservatives cannot let go of free trade then they have to have a path
for high school graduates to have challenging, meaningful
middle>upper middle class careers, NOT JUST JOBS in an growing
economy.
An economy which then can support SOCIAL PROGRAMS.
Military expansion.
Govt grants for R&D, for instance to make renewable energy cheaper than fossil.
Sound interesting?
THEY DO NOT have any path. PERIOD. The free market, free trade experts have no vision of how this happens.
I believed in free markets.
I was a schmuck. I accepted this idea ideologically. It was something PURE.
These
folks have 2 arguments for what has happened, automation is more
responsible for job loss than any globalization, and globalization
cannot be resisted (and is MORAL..Bernie, are you listening, because
they are at Goldman and Morgan Stanley?).
This is one of
Cato’s ACTUAL responses to my query about solutions which I posed as
some critical thinking when I pointed out all they were doing was
spouting criticisms of Trump’s ideas on this and were they recommending
nothing:
“Certainly not nothing. Just not immoral, counterproductive protectionism. See, eg, http://thefederalist.com/2015/08/18/why-donald-trumps-immigration-plan-empowers-political-elites/ …”
So I did and here is the recommended read:
Michigan
voters finally booted Gov. Granholm. According to Weigel’s piece,
Michigan’s current governor, Rick Snyder, seems to understand that the
way to real economic salvation comes not from a bitter, ignorant and
immoral combination of statism and nativism, but from an optimistic
embrace of free markets and the **** inevitability of globalization
****, similar to what Texas and other states implemented long ago.
By contrast, Trump stands in the middle of the ocean and, instead of
building a boat, promises to make the waves stop. Sadly, there are many
Americans gasping for air, so desperate for hope and failed by their
leaders that they’re willing give Trump a try. They’ll inevitably
discover, however, that his xenophobic, anti-market policies will not
only cause them to sink even further, but let their leaders get away
with tethering them to the ocean floor.
Solution? Okay so what’s this Wiegel ref?
READ IT, if you want to understand.
I found NOTHING.
Again,
my hypothesis is that jobs went overseas to the lowest cost, for MODEST
price gains (perhaps really - lower price INCREASES) in exchange for
the hollowing out of the American manufacturing, engineering, and now
R&D infrastructure.
The gains realized went to the corporate
coffers, perhaps to benefit certain funds, retirement among them, but
for many workers they lost these benefits because their jobs
disappeared. It made for great balance sheets.
When I asked if
one free trade supporter was ready to have their children selling
insurance to each part time while studying to be social service
counselors I was snarkliy reminded by them that their kids were into
STEM(science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) - when I asked
if their advanced degree would be taken in Shenzen, they responded the
kids were taking MANDARIN, since they were planners.
OKAY?
Do we get it?
Everyone enjoying their RCA, Zenith, and Westinghouse TV’s?
We
can’t tell a former Pontiac assembly technician, ‘here is 12 months of
extended unemployment and a 6 week school in entering medical data’
(that’s the TAA, btw) and then see this person working at McD’s and
Dunkin’ part time with no end in sight.
Now that’s a stereotype,
but we have NO DATA RELEASED which makes that untrue. I wish I could
find data either proving this wrong or right, but in its absence….
Cato
and others quote THEIR data that automation is responsible for the vast
majority of all this job loss, and Trump’s solution will hurt the low
income voter:
After spouting the usual, already-debunked nonsense about China,
U.S. trade deals, currency manipulation, and the trade deficit, Collins
(Trump person) responds to an excellent Chuck Todd follow-up about
what, as basic economics teaches us, would happen to U.S. consumers if
President Trump were to impose prohibitive tariffs on imports: Todd:
And what happens when everybody’s cost of living goes up? I mean,
that’s been the threat of this, that if this happens, then there’s trade
wars, there’s tariff wars, and then suddenly a pair of shoes costs, you
know, three times what it costs today, clothes cost three times what it
costs today, somebody walking into a Walmart is gonna find out that
their bill is three times what it was. What do you say to that person if
that’s what ends up happening in a trade war with China? Collins:
Well, there’s exaggeration there. Here’s what I will tell you. It is my
belief from experience that China has been stealing our jobs at a 15 to
30 percent price differential by manipulating their currency, so
there’s no question, we want those jobs back. And for every
manufacturing job that comes back to the United States, there are six
other jobs created. That’s the magic of manufacturing, it’s why China
stole those jobs, it’s why every governor in the United States is
fighting for manufacturing jobs.
And you are correct there could be
a, a very small 10 or 15 percent inflationary impact over a period of
time. But I’ll also tell you this, the United States needs some level of
inflation. Just speak to the Federal Reserve. You can’t withstand where
we’ve been at 0 percent inflation. A 2 and 3 and 4 percent inflation
rate is healthy for the economy, and frankly the twenty trillion dollars
that we’re saddled with in debt, with a 3 or 4 percent inflation, would
be paid back with cheaper dollars, and that’s a benefit for our
children and grandchildren.
BTW the reference
to ‘already debunked‘ in that is the author referring to his own opinion
earlier published. Not that he is wrong, just pointing it out as NOT
SETTLED SCIENCE.
So Cato is saying Trump is an asshole and
he knows his plan to get jobs back here is a tariff which will make
everything more expensive especially for poor Americans. And their
counter plan?
Learn Mandarin?
Brookings TOTALLY disagrees on causes of job loss:
Despite
the installation of far more robots between 1993 and 2007, Germany lost
just 19 percent of its manufacturing jobs between 1996 and 2012
compared to a 33 percent drop in the United States. Korea, France, and
Italy also lost fewer manufacturing jobs than the United States even as
they introduced more industrial robots
Let’s be clear, there can be no doubt that automation by increasing productivity alone will take jobs away and reduce costs.
But then why is all that automation in Shenzen?
And why are their workers incomes so rapidly rising and not ours?
Free traders maybe able to point to their own reasons why, but offer no solutions.
This is analogous to listening to all the politicians telling us why a
wall, or real border security is impossible but offer no solutions.
We keep hearing reasons to do nothing.
We MADE this situation. Our tax laws allow this situation.
We have to TRY things.
Much
lower corporate tax rates. Tax exemptions for startups. Insisting on
FAIR TRADE. Support for the growth of unions in Vietnam, or China.
Conservatives
who cling to Free Trade must have a realistic, BELIEVABLE solution set
all can understand, not a series of what amounts to excuses as to why we
are screwed, while all can see huge corporations reaping the benefits
via the reasons we are screwed.
Even last night they still don't get it. Britt Hume on Fox (The Party's official channel and member of the elite themselves now. I mean they are still actively trying to knock Trump down. Even people I used to respect like Dana Loesch who I now have nothing but contempt for.) was trying to figure out what in Trump's message is getting through. Is it the immigration? No only 10% say that is a factor for them. The economy? No only 15-20% say that is the top issue for them. National security? Education?
THEY CANNOT WRAP THEIR HEADS AROUND THE IDEA THAT WE JUST DON'T WANT THEM ANYMORE. THAT WE WOULD RATHER TAKE A CHANCE ON ANYBODY RATHER THAN SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN IN THE GAME FOR ANY AMOUNT OF TIME.
After Jeb couldn't get any traction, Rubio became the GOP management’s anointed one.
Super Tuesday Primary results: a big thumb-in-the-eye of the GOP management (Karl Rove et al). And with record-setting, voter-turnout numbers for a primary, too.
The Party's management is still in denial.
In fact, these maniacs ensconced in the Party's management would rather Hillary Rodham Clinton win the November 2016 National Election than relinquish a scintilla of their power.
WE THE PEOPLE will have to wrest the power from their grasp.
...Rove is like a one-man wrecking crew for solid constitutionalist Republicans who buck the party establishment over which Rove presides.
[...]
Yet there is Rove, night after night getting paid to spew political conventional wisdom on Fox News Channel. There he is doling out hundreds of millions of dollars from his super-PAC in 2012 – not to all Republican candidates chosen by their constituents, but only to those who genuflect to Karl Rove and the party establishment....
Donald Trump provided a magnificent display of conceptual leadership during his remarks tonight.
He stated he is a “Truth Teller”. His ability to identify and speak strongly regarding weaknesses in our governance is astounding.
The Middle Class: We have been forgotten
Corporate Inversion: He will work to reverse it
Trade deficits: He will call to account.
Illegal immigrants: “Either we have a country or we don’t. Either we have borders or we don’t.”
Planned Parenthood: Yes, fund for women’s health. Defund for abortions.
Islamic radicalism: A disaster everywhere you look – he will negotiate with the Gulf States to fund safe zones inside Syria for Syrian refugees. He noted that strong and powerful young adult Muslim (refugee) males do indeed present as a problem within Europe.
Our aging infrastructure: We look like a third world country
U.S. Military: It will be strengthened. No one will threaten us. Period.
Common Core: He will get rid of it. Our children deserve smart education.
Hillary Clinton: Other individuals have paid a high price for lesser offences than her own. He also noted that the problems she complained about are the ones she had an opportunity to work on in the prior decade.
I think this is a very good summation of the CONTENT of a Donald Trump speech.
Trump appearances are so much about spectacle that the content gets lost.
When you break down what he says, it is clear why he is resonating with so many Americans who rightly feel their political leaders have betrayed them.
Knowing fill well the history of Trump refusing to run in the Reform Party because of Duke's presence in 2000.
But that Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz never thought twice about joining with the media in the latest political attack. Since the Nevada Caucus the NetRoots on the left have been pushing, building a Trump KKK internet straw man.
How far will The Huffington Post go to legitimize and whitewash Palestinian terrorists, dehumanize their Jewish victims, and incite hatred against Israel?
See for yourself in this explosive new documentary video, produced by SaveTheWest.com.
SaveTheWest’s examination revealed five key facts:
(1) Of the 105 Palestinian terror attacks during this period, HuffPost ignored 94 of them, meaning they never appeared on either its front page or World page, its two highest-traffic pages that deal with international news.
(2) Of the 11 stories concerning attacks that HuffPost did cover – all of which were wire service reports from the AP or Reuters – in 9 cases it manipulated either (a) the provided headline copy, to blur the distinction between Palestinian terrorists and their Jewish victims, or (b) the headline imagery, to evoke sympathy for Palestinians.
In one case, it falsely implied that Israel was the aggressor. In another, it insinuated that Israeli Jews are murderous racists.
