It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => Politics/Legislation/Elections => Topic started by: Glock32 on April 09, 2017, 03:00:59 PM
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This has been quite a week. I was able to overlook some of the eyebrow raising choices Trump made for his senior staff, but when the Syria bombing occurred it was all too easy to see how it fit into the earlier news of Bannon being pushed out in favor of golden boy Kushner.
The news seemingly continues to only get worse: https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2017/04/09/of-course-9/
If I'm being honest, at this point I don't think we are going to see any of his main campaign promises even attempted, let alone come to fruition. There's not going to be a wall. There's not going to be any deportations. The system has managed to bring him to heel. The swamp ain't going nowhere, not until its denizens are literally hanged by mobs of the righteously angry.
The part that remains in doubt for me is whether this was his intent all along, or whether he was genuine and got scared straight by the Deep State and its goon squads. We'll probably never know.
This system is irredeemable.
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I have been a skeptic most of my life...but crap like this is straining that and I may be slipping into pessimism...but having said that if I had to lay money down on a) plan from the start or b) threatened by the DeepState...I think I would have to go with the later if for no other reason than the former presents so much more problems...not just the willing long-term commitment to lie to peoples faces 24/7 but in being able to keep this design from so many close confidants...sure its possible those closest to him like his own daughter could "in on it" but it has always been my experience that conspiracies are harder to keep a hold of if they are either too large and present containment failures or too small and lack the benefits of scale (like proper cleanup crews)...plus option "b'" fits the statist SOP template much better. That and it tends to get support from the goal of the entire Russia meme, which in itself being wrong is beside the point since it was never meant to be right but rather meant only to be a distraction from the mendacious depth of the shadow government to corrupt even an outsider and turn them...if not entirely into their puppet...into enough of their puppet to make sure their agenda remains preeminent.
Yes, it is quite possible, even inescapably likely we are well and truly fvcked...but then again...the point of putting Trump in office, an outsider, and still this level of control can be exerted upon him illustrates the nature of the beast we face in more stark terms, does it not?
If the usual milquetoast candidate or demonrat-du-juor was installed the puppetmasters would have remained more hidden to people.
In the end this is perhaps the best it, whatever it is, was going to be.
Latter Day America...
Now more people are realizing what it must have felt like in Rome before the barbarians ended the charade...
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This whole thing pisses me off to no end. The GOP won a majority for a reason. Trump was elected for a reason. Now none of that seems to matter. WTF????????????
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Pop a cold one...watch the show...
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Honestly right now I feel like Hillary may as well have won. Or ¡Jeb!
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There is now a NY Post interview with Trump where he refuses to state outright that Bannon has his confidence. His answers were very cagey. It seemed a lot like a mafioso kissing someone on the cheek.
Bannon will be gone by the end of the week. That's the final straw for me.
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Yeah...that crap about Bannon "coming on late" not part of the full victory...
WTF?!
Pure suicide...
Oh well, you want to side with statists over Liberty-centric folks...you sink with that side...simple as that.
It's hard for me to get to wound up over all this...I expect so little of Latter Day types that it hard to become truly disappointed...annoyed...pissed at times...but never surprised...I just don't get that invested in things which I don't have much if any control...
Welcome to the end my friend...
I heard that phrase somewhere...
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I think that something is going on on the inside that we can't see. There seem to be a lot of balls in the air and nobody knows where they land. I'm going to wait it out beyond 100 days. I don't even know what or who came up with this 100 day crap.
So far all I see id Trump cleaning up a mess Obama left, a conservative justice in place, a despot getting what should have been done by the spineless Obama, establishment dems and pubbies trying hard to stick it to him, a MSM that hasn't stopped even to take a breath yet.
And a cabinet that isn't in place yet, other than that he sucks.
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Heh. Yeah, that "mixed bag" I've mentioned before...but to G's point...I just never saw this level of caving in to the Establishment or so soon...whatever leverage they found, they used...
BTW, that 100 day BS goes back to some obscure quip by FDR that presstitutes ran with...supposed "optimal power" zone of newly minted leaders...it's all BS. And like everything in the D-MC it has two meanings - a time of triumph for a new libiot leader and a time to full-court press anybody else as a means of derailing their agenda...if they succeed in the latter then regardless what follows that presidency is perpetually referred to as a "failure"...
That the D-MC is gleefully reporting Trump's "centrist" maturation (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-takes-a-centrist-tack-on-economic-policy-abandoning-campaign-pledges/2017/04/12/95376192-1fc3-11e7-be2a-3a1fb24d4671_story.html) does not bode well for folks like us who are, perhaps not naively hopeful, hopeful enough to think there wouldn't be such a swift abandonment of pre-election positions...
The "mixed bag" is bulging more toward one direction of late...and it isn't toward us.
And at a time when he should be using the bully-pulpit against those feckless stooges in an ever-increasingly distrusted Congress (http://www.gallup.com/poll/208472/congress-approval-drops-down-february-high.aspx)...he instead seems to be playing right into their hands...
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He's reversing himself on virtually everything. Now China is not a currency manipulator. Now NATO is not an obsolete burden on America. What happened to "crooked Hillary" needing to be in jail?
Now that he's getting praise from the establishment, it will only hasten his jettisoning of our interests. We're no longer needed. The Deep State isn't winning, it's already won. The American people are not allowed to have any influence over government.
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He's reversing himself on virtually everything. Now China is not a currency manipulator. Now NATO is not an obsolete burden on America. What happened to "crooked Hillary" needing to be in jail?
Now that he's getting praise from the establishment, it will only hasten his jettisoning of our interests. We're no longer needed. The Deep State isn't winning, it's already won. The American people are not allowed to have any influence over government.
China is turning back coal ships from North Korea and NATO is paying their way and stepping up defence spending.
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But at what cost John?
What in the China deal are we not seeing?
Why are we fighting any of Europe's wars? Why is Turkey in NATO...or we with it with them in it?
What the heck is this [pathetic crap? (http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/13/politics/us-troops-somalia/index.html) That place should be a parking lot, period!
And throwing Bannon for the likes of this Cohn commie (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/within-trumps-inner-circle-a-moderate-voice-captures-the-presidents-ear/2017/04/13/7a7f87b0-1fa7-11e7-be2a-3a1fb24d4671_story.html) and Kushner and Powell? HTF does that benefit us? How if this madness is true (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-13/trump-may-send-50000-troops-syria) does this benefit us?
In Cost-Benefit terms...is our Liberty and all that that entails improved, about the same or worse?
I would argue only marginal above Obama/Clinton...probably not any better or perhaps slightly worse than under W.
Is that "good enough"? Perhaps for some, probably not for most...and even the most optimistic have to concede that if we are no better than treading water...that the status quo benefits the forces arrayed against us.
Maybe this will tilt back a better direction months from now...but I wouldn't expect much...
As I said many times already...the Trump Admin has exposed the depth of the Deep State's influence...as far as I am concerned that may be its sole accomplishment.
From our perspective nothing material has changed...we remain constant - hoping for the best, planning for the worst...and going about our lives and managing those things we have control of and ignoring those we don't.
Live Free my friends.
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Here's a little something I saw over at the Freepers:
The Rules Of Trump Club
April 13, 2017 by CH
The first rule of Trump Club is: Don’t believe anything the Leftstream Media reports about him.
The second rule of Trump Club is: DON’T BELIEVE ANYTHING the Leftstream Media reports about him.
The third rule of Trump Club is: Check Trump’s Twitter for news about his Presidency. Bypass the leftoid gatekeepers.
The fourth rule of Trump Club is: Trust Trump’s instincts. He wrote “Art of the Deal’; understand he will do some deal-making as President that won’t mean selling his supporters down the river.
The fifth rule of Trump Club is: Don’t expect Trump to govern like a Democreep or a Recucklican. He is a Jacksonian paradigm shift.
The sixth rule of Trump Club is: Be patient. The man has enemies on all sides. The war for national sovereignty against the Globohomo Bathhouse Alliance won’t be won overnight.
The seventh rule of Trump Club is: Trust YOUR instincts, and stay loyal to Trump. The media wants to sow dissension within Trump’s ranks and among his supporters. Refuse to take their bait. This doesn’t mean criticizing Trump is off-limits, but abandoning him to the jackals every time he makes a trivial move that violates some arcane alt-tenet will betray you, not Trump, as the untrustworthy party.
The eighth rule of Trump Club is: This is our first term in Trump Club. We have to fight.
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https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2017/04/13/the-rules-of-trump-club/
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Yeah...sure...all that obvious low-hanging fruit is what it is...obvious low-hanging fruit...where's the beef? It's ignoring those he has surrounded himself with, positions he's changed...and nation-building he's reversed course on. ?
But the "Trump Club" "Fight Club" analogy is clever...and this "The war for national sovereignty against the Globohomo Bathhouse Alliance won’t be won overnight." is hilarious!
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Ann goes off on Ivanka...
http://www.barnhardt.biz/2017/04/10/abu-ivanka-and-their-women-have-ruled-over-them/ (http://www.barnhardt.biz/2017/04/10/abu-ivanka-and-their-women-have-ruled-over-them/)
...aside from some leftist tendencies and renunciation of Catholicism...
...it should still be Donald calling the shots...
...his issues are his issues...
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I don't want national policy being set by pictures that make Ivanka hurt in her feelz. I don't recall electing her, or her Ivy League blazer-wearing husband to anything.
I've lost patience with the "he's playing three dimensional chess!" explanation. I think my attitude has soured because he reversed himself on so many positions in such a rapid time frame that it points to nefarious influences within the West Wing. Or that he's been outright threatened. Either way it's not good.
I don't really care about dead Syrian babies. I care about dead Kate Steinles.
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I don't want national policy being set by pictures that make Ivanka hurt in her feelz. I don't recall electing her, or her Ivy League blazer-wearing husband to anything.
I've lost patience with the "he's playing three dimensional chess!" explanation. I think my attitude has soured because he reversed himself on so many positions in such a rapid time frame that it points to nefarious influences within the West Wing. Or that he's been outright threatened. Either way it's not good.
I don't really care about dead Syrian babies. I care about dead Kate Steinles.
At for the babies the nationality of the babies means nothing to me either. But babies are babies and nobody should be targeting babies let alone with chemicals. But if that is the key to bombing the hell out of Assad it should be used and used to it's full benefit to justify our actions. Kate hasn't been abandoned by the White house there has been no moves to stop the wall or dumping illegals. Bids are being solicited for the wall and is going forward as we speak.
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FWIW - It's always the better policy to invest in ones self than in others who are not always trustworthy.
Time will tell on Mr Trump, he has to be responsible for his actions whatever they may be and however they are motivated.
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There are so many problems with the US today, no matter what Trump does, it's probably not going to be enough to halt the decline. The job is just that huge.
Just the reality of not being able to remove Obamacare, will make the job of trying to kick start the economy nearly impossible. It's such a huge roadblock to any economic activity today. It just sits there and smothers every idea there is. You can't even think about a business that has low margins, you can't make any money. The money just goes back out so fast, you can't keep up, let alone even make a living.
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L.I.B.
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Now he gives the ok to DACA amnesty:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/04/21/trump-says-daca-illegals-can-rest-easy/ (http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/04/21/trump-says-daca-illegals-can-rest-easy/)
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This wasn't the policy we were promised, not the leadership we wanted. If it were so, then any DemonRat would do.
But, it is in line with mainstream E-GOP/Chamber of Commerce/Club for Growth assholes...so....another acquiescence to the Establishment in return for something desirable...or continuation of a troubling trend?
Thank God I don't put much faith in politicians any more...or I could be butthurt beyond repair...
Plan B is still Plan A. ;)
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Another shining example that not everything is Trump's fault...I said from the get-go that the E-GOP could be the larger stumbling block...
Paramount for many Republican lawmakers is funding the government, as opposed to the wall specifically. If the government shuts down, they fear, voters could blame the GOP for failing to govern, and the party could suffer the consequences in the 2018 midterm elections.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/white-house-confident-of-averting-shutdown-as-trump-shows-flexibility-on-wall/2017/04/24/72aa945a-2923-11e7-be51-b3fc6ff7faee_story.html (https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/white-house-confident-of-averting-shutdown-as-trump-shows-flexibility-on-wall/2017/04/24/72aa945a-2923-11e7-be51-b3fc6ff7faee_story.html)
Jesus, Maria y Jose...I really hate those chickenshyt congresscritter belly-crawlin' bastards!
Frankly...eff 'em. I'd be happier with a shutdown! ::mooning::
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Unfortunately they long ago signaled loud and clear to the Democrat-Media Complex that the threat of a government shutdown is the way to make congressional Republicans do whatever is demanded of them.
In this instance it should be obvious that any government shutdown could only happen as a result of Democrat obstruction, but they've totally swallowed the premise that only Republicans can be blamed for that. We have the White House and both Houses of Congress. The only thing that could hold up funding is obstructionist tactics from the minority.
They are dumb MFers, I swear. Let it shut down. We run the White House now. There would be no closing of scenic overlooks and WWII monuments in the sort of petty vindictiveness we saw with the mocha faggot who sat in the Oval Office previously.
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Unfortunately they long ago signaled loud and clear to the Democrat-Media Complex that the threat of a government shutdown is the way to make congressional Republicans do whatever is demanded of them.
In this instance it should be obvious that any government shutdown could only happen as a result of Democrat obstruction, but they've totally swallowed the premise that only Republicans can be blamed for that. We have the White House and both Houses of Congress. The only thing that could hold up funding is obstructionist tactics from the minority.
They are dumb MFers, I swear. Let it shut down. We run the White House now. There would be no closing of scenic overlooks and WWII monuments in the sort of petty vindictiveness we saw with the mocha faggot who sat in the Oval Office previously.
Yep, masters of seizing defeat from the jaws of victory...
With friends like this...
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Unfortunately they long ago signaled loud and clear to the Democrat-Media Complex that the threat of a government shutdown is the way to make congressional Republicans do whatever is demanded of them.
In this instance it should be obvious that any government shutdown could only happen as a result of Democrat obstruction, but they've totally swallowed the premise that only Republicans can be blamed for that. We have the White House and both Houses of Congress. The only thing that could hold up funding is obstructionist tactics from the minority.
They are dumb MFers, I swear. Let it shut down. We run the White House now. There would be no closing of scenic overlooks and WWII monuments in the sort of petty vindictiveness we saw with the mocha faggot who sat in the Oval Office previously.
Yep, masters of seizing defeat from the jaws of victory...
With friends like this...
let it burn and wait for them to come back with a plan to end it and give them nothing!!!
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Unfortunately they long ago signaled loud and clear to the Democrat-Media Complex that the threat of a government shutdown is the way to make congressional Republicans do whatever is demanded of them.
In this instance it should be obvious that any government shutdown could only happen as a result of Democrat obstruction, but they've totally swallowed the premise that only Republicans can be blamed for that. We have the White House and both Houses of Congress. The only thing that could hold up funding is obstructionist tactics from the minority.
They are dumb MFers, I swear. Let it shut down. We run the White House now. There would be no closing of scenic overlooks and WWII monuments in the sort of petty vindictiveness we saw with the mocha faggot who sat in the Oval Office previously.
Yep, masters of seizing defeat from the jaws of victory...
With friends like this...
let it burn and wait for them to come back with a plan to end it and give them nothing!!!
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Good point...
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/trumps-border-wall-request-equals-0035-federal-spending (http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/trumps-border-wall-request-equals-0035-federal-spending)
And Ryan and McConnell see this as a bridge too far...no wonder they couldn't simply repeal ObutthurtCare...that's like several thousands of walls!!!
And it is a little kept secret sane tax policy is DOA (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-26/jpmorgan-trumps-tax-plan-will-be-virtually-impossible-pass-through-congress) with this Congress.
::outrage::
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Ivanka and Jared are doing all they can do to ensure Donald is a one-and-done...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-may-stay-paris-climate-accord-caveats-210305667.html (https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-may-stay-paris-climate-accord-caveats-210305667.html)
...and if this D-MC report is true...Perry isn't helping...
Wanna know how to renegotiate this pig in a poke?
Tear it up!
This -
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-27/trump-explans-why-he-flipped-nafta-if-no-fair-deal-we-will-terminate-nafta (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-27/trump-explans-why-he-flipped-nafta-if-no-fair-deal-we-will-terminate-nafta)
I don't see as a big deal yet...if renegotiated we'll have to see how it looks...having the leverage to blast it away may help that, I dunno...mark this one TBD...
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Head fake?
http://www.weaselzippers.us/336757-trump-considering-breaking-up-the-big-banks/ (http://www.weaselzippers.us/336757-trump-considering-breaking-up-the-big-banks/)
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Well I see in spite of controlling both houses of Congress and the White House, we essentially have the same sort of $1.1T budget we'd have had under Obama or Hillary.
Funding for The Wall? No.
Funding for Planned Parenthood? Yes.
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Well I see in spite of controlling both houses of Congress and the White House, we essentially have the same sort of $1.1T budget we'd have had under Obama or Hillary.
The f*&king RINO's just don't get it. They refuse to see WHY Trump was elected. ::pullhair::
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This is what repeatedly f**ked in the ass looks like!
I've had it with the E-GOP...they need to become extinct...and FAST!!!
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And we're hearing the SSDD: we need the CR now, but come September, we'll fight.
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This is the sound of me checking out.
*door-slams*
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And we're hearing the SSDD: we need the CR now, but come September, we'll fight.
::pullhair::
I HATE THEM!!!
::cussing::
This SCoaMF funding bill LOCKS IN PROG POLICIES! Any CR also LOCKS IN PROG POLICIES! Either way WE ALL GET EFFED!
They need to be beaten until no further movement can be detected, period! They are terminally stupid! They are incapable of leading anybody anywhere unless that destination is OFF A FRICKEN CLIFF!!!
God damn them all!!! They deserve nothing but oblivion!!!
Politicians!
There is only one sane thing to do with the lot of 'em!
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Are We Sane Yet?
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This is the sound of me checking out.
*door-slams*
I ain't gonna be far behind...Going Galt is the only option left...it is my retirement goal anyway...
In the meantime...
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This is the sound of me checking out.
*door-slams*
I ain't gonna be far behind...Going Galt is the only option left...it is my retirement goal anyway...
In the meantime...
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And that explains the purchase of N.C. land for me. Going Galt!!
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I'm thoroughly disgusted with all that has happened just in the past 4-6 weeks. The sudden reversal on so many of Trump's promises seems like more than the usual political bait and switch to me. I think he has seriously been cordoned off and neutralized by the Deep State. They're allowing him to remain for the purpose of appearance.
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMeBgcmTyKA#)
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Had a nice walk along the sea wall to Fisherman's Wharf in Tamsui, New Taipei City, Taiwan. Not once did I think about all the trash of the Washington swamp. Funny, the longer I'm bugged out, the more that is happening.
It's nice getting on the bus or train, and just being able to relax, knowing that a feral mob of animals isn't about to jump on in mass to rob or physically hurt people. It's good living in a civilized place.
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I'm trying not to check out.....but mentally, I'm toast. I'm trying to stay engaged, fight the good fight, so to speak, not for me but I do have a son and soon a grandbaby. But this country looks like its toast.
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This was the final confirmation that there will be no changing this system through the ballot box. Trump was the wrecking ball we wanted, and against all odds he actually won. 3 months after taking office and he's no different than what we would've had with Jeb.
The Republicans control the Federal government. They could force through anything they want. What we're getting out of them instead, well, that should tell us everything.
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Ann C. weighs in:
http://www.vdare.com/articles/ann-coulter-on-the-budget-its-swamp-people-47-trump-0 (http://www.vdare.com/articles/ann-coulter-on-the-budget-its-swamp-people-47-trump-0)
If this is the budget deal we get when Republicans control the House, the Senate and the presidency, there’s no point in ever voting for a Republican again.
Not only is there no funding for a wall, but—thanks to the deft negotiating skills of House Speaker Paul Ryan—the bill actually prohibits money from being spent on a wall.
At a CYA press conference on Tuesday, Trump’s ridiculously chipper budget director, Mick Mulvaney, described the bill’s prohibition on building a wall as a MAJOR win. (At least Mulvaney said it in English, unlike his all-Spanish 2014 townhall.)
I'm checking out. Done with anything political. We should've gone with the "worse is better" approach. The only thing good to come out of all this is an emphatic message that voters are not allowed any influence whatsoever over the government.
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My cares end at my driveway. Maybe a little further if I see a swat team, military or paramilitary force making its way down my road.
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What's this talk of government? I see no legitimate government no matter what horizon I stare at...
::upsidedownflag::
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Guess its back to more guns and ammo.
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On second thought, maybe this was still better than the "worse is better" strategy. If Hillary had been elected, people would continue laboring under the delusion that maybe if we just retrenched and got a decent candidate in 2020 or 2024 we could win. By electing the guy who tapped into our frustrations, only to immediately go business as usual, it should hopefully destroy whatever myth remains of victory through the political process.
There's no point in wasting any more of our time, money, or sanity on the political process. Our only engagement with the State should be as burdens on it. Find as many precious programs as you can and exploit them. If you become unemployed, use every last cent of unemployment compensation available. Work under the table whenever possible. Accept payment in goods or services rather than currency whenever possible.
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On second thought, maybe this was still better than the "worse is better" strategy.
I believe that it was a better strategy. If the Hildebeast had prevailed I would probably be dead or in jail right now. The antics of antafag are chump change compared to the firestorm I have in mind.
Our "leaders" have failed us - spectacularly. The pubbies have proven completely neutered and feckless. Our president putters around the fringes but he fools with crap that totally doesn't matter while ignoring things that need an immediate fix.
If they can't get their collective shyt together I don't recommend going Galt - I recommend burning it all to the ground.
In the nicest possible way of course. ;D
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The too far gone point has been passed. I doubt anyone can stop this all now.
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Well, actually burning it to the ground (Wyatt) is optional when Going Galt...so I don't see a problem there. :D
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H/T - WRSA
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Interesting read...
http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/14/ann-coulter-is-worried-the-trump-haters-were-right/ (http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/14/ann-coulter-is-worried-the-trump-haters-were-right/)
The money quote AFAIAC -
How much blame does Congressional leadership deserve?
I do of course blame Congress most of all. They are swine. They only care about their own careers. Who knows how much of it is corruption and how much of it is pure stupidity. People should start sending Paul Ryan bricks to indicate how much we want the wall.
They are the opposition party to Donald Trump. This is really something we’ve never seen before. The president stands alone, it’s his own political party, he’s Gary Cooper. All we have is millions of Americans behind him, but he doesn’t have anybody in Washington behind him.
Yes, Congress has been and is increasingly corrupt, spineless, useless...E-GOP stooges are barely different than their hardcore progressive pals in the DemoNazi Plantation.
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While I agree with Ann that keeping Trump's feet to the fire is our duty...frankly it means nothing at this point if his actions fail to live up to his promises...no matter how well-intentioned or how stymied he is by Congress. Those "millions" who supported him...could be better employed if he deputized them as US Marshall's...
At this point what difference does it make, eh?
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He will rue the day he ignored my warnings...
This thing has now gone full-retard...just like the D-MC and Deep State hoped.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-16/comeys-revenge-leaks-memo-nyt-saying-trump-asked-him-end-flynn-investigation (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-16/comeys-revenge-leaks-memo-nyt-saying-trump-asked-him-end-flynn-investigation)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-16/chaffetz-prepares-subpoena-i-will-get-comey-memo-if-it-exists (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-16/chaffetz-prepares-subpoena-i-will-get-comey-memo-if-it-exists)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-17/putin-ready-give-recording-conversation-between-trump-and-lavrov-us-congress (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-17/putin-ready-give-recording-conversation-between-trump-and-lavrov-us-congress)
Three ring circus.
Where did it all go wrong?
Easy.
1 - He ignored those to whom he made promises to and who propelled him into office - that being us.
2 - He gathered a weak core team - Priebus is out of his league...it is a poorly kept secret nobody fears him, respects him or gives one shat about him. But that was probably all by intent, since Ivanka and her DeonRat hubby seem to be in Trump's ear more than anybody else. And he margnalized our man Bannon. He should have played hardball from the start and not just with the DemonRats, with the E-GOP too. he should have realized that having no natural allies in Congress or the press he would have to treat them as hostile combatants, he didn't. He should have kicked the presstitutes out of the White House and invited in only non-enemies.
3 - He failed to embrace those foreign leaders he could have used to burnish his stature and flash his ass at his enemies both D's and R's.
4 - Now he is surrounded by idiots from within and without...the assclowns in Congress don't care if these ginned up scandals are BS or not, they'll see it as an opportunity to pimp themselves...there is only one play Trump has left, and that is to somehow marshal those who put him in...and because of the aforementioned blunders, the clock is ticking rapidly on that, if he fails to act swiftly and give Ivanka & hubby the boot and put Bannon in as COS and send Priebus packing and boot the presstitutes out he is toast for sure.
Frankly...his own ego and attachment to his daughter and son in law may ensure his demise.
Oh well...short of a war...
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Disappointing how Trump's WH is just as chaotic as the Obama regime was. Thought at least they would at least look more professional, something that never happened with Obama.
Not repealing Obamacare, and only replacing it with Ryancare could cost him the WH in 2020. Because Ryancare will hold the economy in a holding pattern just like Obamacare does. If the economy isn't much better then, he is toast.
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All this RinoCare and Fake News meme's did was take the steam out of Pubbie sails, invigorate the Rino's and kill any hopes of movement on taxes and regulation that would let natural forces lift the economy...
Time is on Prog/Rino side...
Thus, too late is soon or has already come and gone...
Probably gone, with this suicidal move (http://www.dickmorris.com/special-prosecutor-trump-russia-a-disaster/), these assholes never find what they are appointed to find, it's always a lesser perjury thing or noting at all. And the D-MC will feed off of it and Rino's will gleefully join in. What a joke...investigate a fantasy, when for 8 straight f**king years Hussein committed treason DAILY against people and nobody did a goddamned thing because of his dark ass and dirt-hiders in the cocksucking media!
Think the E-GOP isn't looking forward to ending Trump? Think again! (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html)
And again! (http://www.weaselzippers.us/339231-mcrino-calls-trump-presidency-like-watergate/)
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This is the Deep State cutting off all ties back to itself (https://straightlinelogic.com/2017/05/17/lets-connect-the-dots-by-robert-gore/), and they will do whatever it takes to make it happen. If the SP route fails, they'll flat out snuff him. But Trump isn't helping himself with scrapping the insider barrel for a FBI Director replacement...he should go outside for every key person...otherwise the Deep State just keeps winning...
Welcome to the end. If Trump had any balls he would deputize millions of supporters and lets just get on with the f**king real show already!
But no, slow stupid death march first, eh? Fine, f**k it! Make Pence your guy...think that will save the E-GOP? Pah!
Oh well...didn't change a damn thing from my point of view of where things are headed, so keep on planning accordingly...
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Trump's election was a giant middle finger to the lot of them: the permanent bureaucracy, the media, the Democrats, the E-GOP, all of them. Regardless of what happens, it was a success in that regard. They are mistaken if they think all they need to do is get rid of Trump and it's back to business as usual.
We are not going back to that.
Speaking for myself, I am post-political now. My priorities are entirely cultural and demographic at this point. Without putting up a fight in that arena, politics won't matter anyway.
Let this be a lesson to Trump and any other would-be outsiders though: trying to play ball with the swamp creatures gains you nothing. Look how the "Russian conspiracy" thing is front and center again. They backed off on him a bit when he agreed to play Neocon Adventurer by launching some missiles into Syria, but I guess he's overdue on another protection payment.
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I predict things will progress negatively in geometric fashion for the E-GOP, they are just stupid enough to think any of us GAFF about them anymore...off-year elections are always favor the opposition party (though in recent years more so against democrats more than the pubbies) but try to see what kind of power they are left with with millions of us not giving a damn about participating in this fraud any longer. And they will make it worse for themselves by blaming their trouncing on Trump and those who supported him...further alienating and isolating themselves. I then predict that if Trump is still around...they'll be pleading with him to do things to improve their fortunes before they once again fall back into their typical betrayal antics...it will be interesting to see if Trump is stupid enough to fall for it or if he takes a screw-me/screw-you attitude. If he is gone and Pence is their puppet what is left of anything called a "base" will be gone. Oblivion awaits the GOP and it's death is both long overdue and irrelevant anyway...
The Trump-Effect dropped the veil of the Deep State and revealed its horrid face for all to see, in the end that is all it could achieve, but it was a necessary step.
We should all be post-political now...politics like the republic, is dead, completely pointless. It is mere theatrics until the final contest is entered in earnest.
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Another rare moment when I agree with a liberal...
Dennis Kucinich: "Well, you have a politicization of the agencies. That is resulting in leaks from anonymous unknown people and the intention is to take down a president. This is very dangerous to America. It is a threat to our republic. It constitutes a clear and present danger to our way of life. What is the motive of these people? Who’s putting these leaks out? Why isn’t somebody coming forward to make that charge and put their name and their reputation behind it instead of attacking through the media and not substantiating their position?"
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/05/boom-democrat-dennis-kucinich-deep-state-trying-take-president-threat-republic-video/ (http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/05/boom-democrat-dennis-kucinich-deep-state-trying-take-president-threat-republic-video/)
Nothing short of a coup d'état by the DeepState/D-MC!
I bet that goes uninvestigated/unpunished...
::upsidedownflag::
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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/18/chaffetz-to-announce-early-departure-from-congress-238550 (http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/18/chaffetz-to-announce-early-departure-from-congress-238550)
Chaffetz did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday evening or Thursday morning. Multiple sources say he will leave Congress on June 30.
Chaffetz, 50, is chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the top investigative body in the chamber. He recently subpoenaed James Comey's memos, and invited the fired FBI director to testify next week before his panel.
Chaffetz told POLITICO last month he had begun exploring employment outside Congress. Several sources in the Capitol say Chaffetz has told his colleagues he will appear on Fox News.
Hmmmm .........
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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/18/chaffetz-to-announce-early-departure-from-congress-238550 (http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/18/chaffetz-to-announce-early-departure-from-congress-238550)
Chaffetz did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday evening or Thursday morning. Multiple sources say he will leave Congress on June 30.
Chaffetz, 50, is chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the top investigative body in the chamber. He recently subpoenaed James Comey's memos, and invited the fired FBI director to testify next week before his panel.
Chaffetz told POLITICO last month he had begun exploring employment outside Congress. Several sources in the Capitol say Chaffetz has told his colleagues he will appear on Fox News.
Hmmmm .........
Hard to ruin a guys reputation and have him run out of Congress if he is going to leave on his own accord...short of the Deep State Vince-Fostering him...as always the real obstruction of justice goes unreported by the Goebbels Media and the rest of the DemoNazi Plantation and their useful idiots in the E-GOP like McCain & Graham...
The Republic died a long time ago...it exists in name only...
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I didn't care for his never-Trumpism but Chaffetz was a useful member of the team otherwise. In truth I'd rather trade McStain for him any day.
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I didn't care for his never-Trumpism but Chaffetz was a useful member of the team otherwise. In truth I'd rather trade McStain for him any day.
I'd have traded him or Lindsey et al for a sack of scat and a kick in the groin! Anything to make them go away! ::outrage::
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Nothing is showing up in your post for me, Libertas.
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Nothing is showing up in your post for me, Libertas.
I can't figure out how to fix it or recall what it was...so I just whacked it.
Short-term memory issues, eh? ::facepalm::
Wait, where am I? ::whatgives::
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IMO if Bannon goes...
http://www.weeklystandard.com/inside-the-mcmaster-bannon-war/article/2009109 (http://www.weeklystandard.com/inside-the-mcmaster-bannon-war/article/2009109)
Well, it will mean the Trump Admin will look more like W's than the insurgency we were wisely cautiously hoping for...
And...in terms of the new general-heavy inner-circle...I wonder if this -
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-says-u-s-losing-afghan-war-tense-meeting-generals-n789006 (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-says-u-s-losing-afghan-war-tense-meeting-generals-n789006)
- is deliberate on Trump's part to keep the military engaged and not thinking of war with Russia?
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WTF?!
https://www.weaselzippers.us/351775-mcmaster-gave-susan-rice-continued-access-to-classified-info-she-still-has-clearance/ (https://www.weaselzippers.us/351775-mcmaster-gave-susan-rice-continued-access-to-classified-info-she-still-has-clearance/)
::facepalm:: ::outrage:: ::angry:: ::cussing::
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We got a win here:
Antifa = Alt Left (http://voxday.blogspot.com/2017/08/antifa-alt-left.html)
In one fell swoop, the God-Emperor changed the rhetorical game:
“What about the 'alt-left' that came charging at, as you say, the 'alt-right'? Do they have any semblance of guilt?” Trump said. “They came charging with clubs in their hands,” he said of the counter-protesters.
Trump effectively reopened the debate, despite insistence from politicians in both parties that white supremacists and other racists deserved to be singled out.
“You had a group on one side that was mad, and you had a group on the other side that was violent. Nobody wants to say that, but I’ll say that,” he said.
Trump defended the cause of those who gathered to protest the removal of a statue honoring Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederacy.
“Was George Washington a slave owner. So will George Washington lose his status?” he said. “What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? Do you like him? ... You’re changing history. You’re changing culture.”
While Trump condemned the driver who rammed the crowd and killed a counter-protester, he declined to label the action specifically as an act of terrorism.
That's the power of the bully pulpit. And that's the work of a master of rhetoric in action. Trump is right to decline to label the action of the driver as terrorism, because the chances are extremely good that he's never going to face trial.
This is not the first time someone has run over and killed protesters blocking the road. In previous cases, the drivers were found not guilty of any wrongdoing. No doubt the video of masked antifas smashing the car with metal bars is going to go a long way towards exculpating the killer driver.
In the face of the Fake News interrupting him as though he wasn't even the President, he changed the narrative. When he had "alt-right" thrown at him, he challenged them to define "alt-right".
Not too shabby, I say.
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Yes, I can give credit where credit is due, and since I started this thread I would say Trump has redeemed himself in many ways. I just hope he keeps it up. Surely he knows that the cacophony of phony outrage from the media is irrelevant. Those aren't the people who brought him to the dance.
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A Glock post! ::whoohoo::
As for this latest broadside on the leftist meme, yes, this is in Trump's wheelhouse...like with us, beating the Goebbels Media in the face is fun and necessary...
It's unfortunate the credit earned is offset by an inability to purge statists from government ranks (another indicator that "reform" is a fools errand...only ending agencies and departments wholesale or gutting them to a mere shadow of their former gargantuan stature will do!) and rollback all of the previous layers of tyranny left by Obama & Co and to be fair predecessors as well (which highlights the utter uselessness of the GOP in its current establishment-dominated contamination...like government department it needs to be ended...no amount of trimming will do!)...
That there is NO GOP stomach for this in the lest indicates something important, yes?
I would be much more appreciative of Trump if he just went total rogue...he has no allies as I alluded to back in the primaries...the Left will hate him because they know nothing else - they are raised to hate others not in their cult...the GOP hates him because he won't go along with their brand of fecklessness failure and incompetence or their version of Big Government...so WTF, why not go full rogue? Issue edicts, defy courts and congress...appeal only to The People and hang the rest!
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The GOP is done. If you can't even denounce political violence in all forms you will never have my vote. What pussies. Every last one of them.
As for Trump, I'm convinced he doesn't even want a second term and is going to go all out in this term. Because he is the only voice of sanity in this. He knows it and he doesn't care a whit what the trash in journalism writes about him.
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Yes, the GOP is done and good riddance. I often wonder how different our situation might be today if we hadn't effectively been wasting our money, time, energy, and votes on Republicans for the past 30 years. "This isn't the hill to die on" and "well it's either us or the Democrats, and they're even worse" were the two weapons they wielded. They have finally lost their power.
So let's see, during most of the Obama administration the GOP made repealing ObamaCare the centerpiece of their pitch to the American people. When was ObamaCare enacted, 2010? And I think the House portion was rammed through on Christmas Eve 2009, or somewhere around then.
At any rate they had a good 7 years of using it for propaganda and massive fund raising. We also gave them control over both houses of Congress largely on that issue. So you would think with Trump winning the White House, repealing it would be a slam dunk. But no. It's just like we discussed back in 2010, once a massive new bureaucratic apparatus is created, it never goes away. No matter which party created it, once the other party finds themselves in control of it they can't resist the temptation of holding that kind of power.
I am fine with most of what Trump has done, with the notable exception of Syria back in April. Every time the media clutches their pearls over his bombast, his crude dismissal of their sophistry, I laugh. Same goes for the Lindsey Grahams and John McTumors of the GOP.
We didn't send Trump there to play by their rules. We sent him there to be a bull in a china shop, with the full understanding that there might be unavoidable collateral damage.
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Yup, GOP is dead man walking...
Too stupid to realize it yet though...
(https://i.imgbox.com/huzXHitB.jpg)
My attitude in general to all tyrants is the same...
(https://i.imgbox.com/LkZooLdY.jpg)
And a traitors fate has only one end...
(https://i.imgbox.com/dnn6YfaA.jpg)
Tick...tock...
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I just heard that Steve Bannon is gone.
Not good.
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http://nypost.com/2017/08/18/steve-bannon-is-out-at-white-house/ (http://nypost.com/2017/08/18/steve-bannon-is-out-at-white-house/)
Yup, now there is no voice of ours in his ear...
::facepalm::
Oh well, good thing I have very low expectations, eh?!
My Plan A is still Plan A.
I hope this isn't same lame ass strategy for kissing up to E-GOP asshats in the hope that the latter is somehow going to suddenly become more cooperative with him...that crap is DOA!
:o
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Soap box
Ballot Box
Ammo Box
hmmm, my choices are diminishing...
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Soap box
Ballot Box
Ammo Box
hmmm, my choices are diminishing...
Sadly I sold all my guns and ammo. ::curtsy4::
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While candidate Trump correctly spoke of the Iraqi War as a disaster
and US Middle Eastern policy as a failure, he has done little to
alter course in the region,
but continues to follow and has, in some instances, escalated tensions.
You mean to tell me that Donald Trump is a fake and a con man?
Well I never…
LOL – the American People – more stupid than anyone on the planet. I’ve
talked to random people in other countries who know more about
what our country is up to than your typical fat ass, reality TV
watching, pig garbage-eating, dumb-faced American.
I’ll enjoy watching the American Empire dissolve under the current
mismanagement. It was going to anyway no matter who won the
election but now they’re pouring gas on the fire.
Well, it couldn’t have happened to a nicer country.
LOL
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Hi lafreedom. Do me a huge favor and GFY.
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Every country has the government it deserves.
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That depends on whose ox is being gored.