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Kissinger take on Trump
Kissinger is now 95 years old. Recently, Henry Kissinger did an interview and said very amazing things regarding President Trump. He starts with:
"Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen before!"
The former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger gives us a new understanding of President Donald Trump's foreign policy and predicts its success:
"Liberals and all those who favor (Hillary) Clinton will never admit it.
"They will never admit that he is the one true leader. The man is doing changes like never before and does all of it for the sake of this nation's people.
After eight years of tyranny, we finally see a difference."
Kissinger knows it and he continues with:
"Every country now has to consider two things:
One, their perception that the previous president, or the outgoing president, basically withdrew America from international politics, so that they had to make their own assessments of their necessities.
"And secondly, that there is a new president who's asking a lot of unfamiliar questions. And because of the combination of the partial vacuum and the new questions, one could imagine that something remarkable and new emerges out of it."
Then Kissinger puts it bluntly: "Trump puts America and its people first. This is why people love him and this is why he will remain in charge for so long. There is not a single thing wrong with him and people need to open their eyes." When he boasts that he has a "bigger red button" than Kim Jung Un does, he so transcends the mealy-mouthed rhetoric of the past, thereby forcing a new recognition of American power.
Kissinger once wrote:
"The weak grow strong by effrontery – The strong grow weak through inhibition!" No sentence better captures the U.S.-North Korea relationship.
Trump is discarding the inhibitions and calling the bluff on North Korea's effrontery:
His point is that the contrast of American retreat under Obama and its new assertion of power under Trump creates a new dynamic that every one of our allies and of our enemies must consider.
Our allies grew complacent with Obama's passivity and now are fearful due to Trump's activism. And they must balance the two in developing their policies:
They realize that the old assumptions, catalyzed by Bush 43's preoccupation with Iraq and Obama's refusal to lead are obsolete. So, Trump is forcing a new calculus with a new power behind American interests. Those — here and abroad — who rode the old apple cart worry about it being toppled.
But, as Kissinger so boldly stated:
"Trump is the one true leader in world affairs and he is forcing policy changes that put America first!“
This is the most accurate statement of what the American Citizens who live outside of the swamp want and expect from their government. I like the list of 13 things that I, as a senior American citizen, want. Trump is at least talking about issues that most Americans are concerned about.
My mantra about Trump is this:
Truthfully, we are in agreement with most of what he says. We are getting older and our tickers aren't what they used to be, but what matters is that he covers most of the 13 things we as seniors want, at least I do for sure:
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An interesting Read on Trump
The mayor of Livermore California explains Trump’s popularity and success.
This is perhaps the best explanation for Trump's popularity
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:
Trump’s 'lack of decorum, dignity, and statesmanship' By Marshall Kamena, Mayor of Livermore, CA.
My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers ) 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 the office.”
Here’s my answer:
We Right-thinking people have tried dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency. We tried statesmanship.
Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized “collegiality” as John McCain?
We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney?
And the results were always the same. This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob. I don’t find anything “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper” about Barack Obama’s lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the Democratic Party.
I don’t see anything “dignified” in lying about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover your tracks.
I don’t see anything “statesman-like” in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy your political opponents and any dissent.
Yes, Obama was “articulate” and “polished” but in no way was he in the least bit “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper.”
The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of the Children of the ‘60s. To them, it has been an all-out war where nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale. It has been a war they’ve fought with violence, the threat of violence, demagoguery and lies from day one – the violent take-over of the universities – till today.
The problem is that, through these years, the Left has been the only side fighting this war. While the Left has been taking a knife to anyone who stands in their way, the Right has continued to act with dignity, collegiality and propriety.
With Donald Trump, this all has come to an end. Donald Trump is America ’s first wartime president in the Culture War.
During wartime, things like “dignity” and “collegiality” simply aren’t the most essential qualities one looks for in their warriors. Ulysses Grant was a drunk whose behavior in peacetime might well have seen him drummed out of the Army for conduct unbecoming.
Had Abraham Lincoln applied the peacetime rules of propriety and booted Grant, the Democrats might well still be holding their slaves today. Lincoln rightly recognized that, “I cannot spare this man. He fights.”
General George Patton was a vulgar-talking.. In peacetime, this might have seen him stripped of rank. But, had Franklin Roosevelt applied the normal rules of decorum then, Hitler and the Socialists would barely be five decades into their thousand-year Reich.
Trump is fighting. And what’s particularly delicious is that, like Patton standing over the battlefield as his tanks obliterated Rommel’s, he’s shouting, “You magnificent bastards, I read your book!”
That is just the icing on the cake, but it’s wonderful to see that not only is Trump fighting, he’s defeating the Left using their own tactics. That book is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals – a book so essential to the Liberals’ war against America that it is and was the playbook for the entire Obama administration and the subject of Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis.
It is a book of such pure evil, that, just as the rest of us would dedicate our book to those we most love or those to whom we are most indebted, Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer.
Trump’s tweets may seem rash and unconsidered but, in reality, he is doing exactly what Alinsky suggested his followers do. First, instead of going after “the fake media” — and they are so fake that they have literally gotten every single significant story of the past 60 years not just wrong, but diametrically opposed to the truth, from the Tet Offensive to Benghazi, to what really happened on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri — Trump isolated CNN.. He made it personal.
Then, just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule which Alinsky described as “the most powerful weapon of all.”... Most importantly, Trump’s tweets have put CNN in an untenable and unwinnable position. ... They need to respond.
This leaves them with only two choices. They can either “go high” (as Hillary would disingenuously declare of herself and the fake news would disingenuously report as the truth) and begin to honestly and accurately report the news or they can double-down on their usual tactics and hope to defeat Trump with twice their usual hysteria and demagoguery. The problem for CNN (et al.) with the former is that, if they were to start honestly reporting the news, that would be the end of the Democratic Party they serve. It is nothing but the incessant use of fake news (read: propaganda) that keeps the Left alive.
Imagine, for example, if CNN had honestly and accurately reported then-candidate Barack Obama’s close ties to foreign terrorists (Rashid Khalidi), domestic terrorists (William Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn), the mafia (Tony Rezko) or the true evils of his spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright’s church.
Imagine if they had honestly and accurately conveyed the evils of the Obama administration’s weaponizing of the IRS to be used against their political opponents or his running of guns to the Mexican cartels or the truth about the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the Obama administration’s cover-up.
So, to my friends on the Left — and the #NeverTrumpers as well — do I wish we lived in a time when our president could be “collegial” and “dignified” and “proper”? Of course I do.
These aren’t those times. This is war. And it’s a war that the Left has been fighting without opposition for the past 50 years.
So, say anything you want about this president - I get it - he can be vulgar, he can be crude, he can be undignified at times. I don’t care. I can’t spare this man. He fights for America!
( This data from sources on the Web )
Things to ponder this Memorial Day, on July 4th and Veteran's Day, and every other day of the year that you know freedom.
The Things They Carried....
In the beginning they carried swords and sabres, dirks, Brown Bess's and flintlock Pennsylvania rifles, fowling
pieces, bullet pouches and powder horns, cannon balls and anything else they could scrounge to help defeat the enemy. They dragged themselves and cannon through the mud and snow, the misery of slogging endless miles through the storms of winter and the stultifying heat of summer. They carried the wounded, the dying and the dead. They carried the sure knowledge that as long as one of them was alive the battle was not lost. They carried a dream of Freedom from despotic government, of the Liberty To Insure the Inherent God-Given Rights of all People of the Nation and their Posterity.
Later they carried P-38 can openers and heat tabs, watches and dog tags, insect repellent, gum, cigarettes, Zippo lighters, salt tablets, compress bandages, ponchos, Kool-Aid, two or three canteens of water, iodine tablets, sterno, LRRP rations, and K-rations stuffed in socks. They carried standard fatigues, jungle boots, bush hats, flak jackets and steel pots. They carried M-1's, then M-16's. They carried 60mm, 81mm and 4-deuce mortars. They carried ammunition and beer of all varieties. They carried tripflares and Claymore mines, M-60 machine guns, M- 79 grenade launchers, M-14's, CAR-15's, Stoners, Swedish K's, 66mm LAWs, shotguns, .45 caliber pistols and "grease-guns", silencers. They carried the sound of bullets in flight, rockets, and choppers, and sometimes the sound of silence. They carried C-4 plastic explosives, an assortment of hand grenades, PRC-25 radios, knives and machetes. Some troopers kicked them out the door during combat jumps.
Not all at once. Some carried napalm, CBU's and large bombs; some risked their lives to rescue others. Some escaped the fear, but dealt with the death and damage. Some made very hard decisions, and some just tried to survive. They carried malnutrition, malaria, dysentery, ringworms and leeches. They carried the land itself as it hardened on their faces and bellys and boots, if they had any. They carried stationery, pencils, and pictures of their loved ones - real and imagined. They carried love for people in the real world and love for one another. And sometimes they disguised that love: "Don't mean nothin'!"
They carried memories. For the most part, they carried themselves with poise and a kind of dignity. Now and then, there were times when panic set in, and people squealed or wanted to, but couldn't. When they twitched and made moaning sounds and covered their heads and said "Dear God", and hugged the earth and fired their weapons blindly and cringed and begged for the noise to stop and went wild and made stupid promises to themselves and God and their parents, hoping not to die.
They carried the traditions of the United States military, and memories and images of those who served before
them. They carried grief, terror, longing and their reputations. They carried the soldier's greatest fear: the
embarrassment of dishonor. They crawled into tunnels, walked point, and advanced under fire, so as not to die of embarrassment. They were afraid of dying, but too afraid to show it.
They carried the emotional baggage of men and women who might die at any moment, who know the terror and horror and futility of war.
They carried the weight of the world.
THEY CARRIED EACH OTHER, THEY CARRIED YOU AND ME!!
REMEMBER THEM TODAY, EVERYDAY!!!
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By Mike Huckabee
Don’t look now – seriously, the media really don’t want you to look – but Finland, the “Democratic” Socialists’ most favored nation, their example of the country America should emulate, just saw its government collapse and its Prime Minister and Cabinet resign due to the unsustainable costs of universal health care This happened last week. Did you hear about it in the news? Didn’t think so.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/...s-over-universal-health-care-costs-bernie2020 -hardest-hit/ This comes less than a year after Finland killed its experiment with a “universal basic income,” replacing it with mandatory job training and work requirements for people on government benefits.
There’s more at the link, along with a few ironic tweets from Bernie Sanders, lavishing praise on Finland. In one, he demands, “If Finland can provide everyone with health care, send everyone to college for free and provide affordable childcare, why can’t the US?”
Well, Finland can’t. Neither can you, Bernie.
Incidentally, I just checked Bernie’s two Twitter feeds, for Senator and Presidential candidate. As expected,
there was a lot of ranting against billionaires and millionaires (he is one of the latter, by the way, and somehow became one while he was a socialist “public servant,” as so many socialist public servants do), and about completing his mission to transform America with a lot of big government handout programs.
But strangely, not a word about the collapse of the government of Finland due to the exact policies he’s espousing. In fact, I scrolled all the way back to last week, and the word “Finland” never appeared – even though that’s obviously what he wants to transform America into. But at least he can take solace in knowing that with people like him in Congress, he’s already made a lot of headway in turning the US into a place where the cost of government is unsustainable.
THOUGHT THIS WAS INTERESTING
ONE MAN'S OPINION – The writer has a degree in Political Science, and is a card-carrying Libertarian.
I’ve been studying politics and political history for the past 30 years. My specialty is U.S. Presidents. That said, I hope that the House of Representatives impeaches Trump.
Let me tell you what will happen next.
1. The House can pass articles of impeachment over the objections of the Republicans, and refer to the Senate for trial.
2. The Senate will conduct a trial. There will be a vote, and the Republicans will vote unanimously, along with a small number of Democrats, to not convict the President. Legally, it will all be over at that point.
3. However, during the trial, and this is what no one is thinking about right now, the President's attorneys will have the right to subpoena and question ANYONE THAT THEY WANT.. That is different than the special counsel investigation, which was very one-sided. So, during the impeachment trial, we will be hearing testimony from James Comey, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Bruce Ohr, Glenn Simpson, Donna Brazille, Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, Christopher Steele, Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, James Clapper, and a whole host of other participants in this whole sordid affair and the ensuing coverup activities.
A lot of dirt will be dug up; a lot of truth will be unveiled. Finger pointing will occur. Deals will start being made, and suddenly, a lot of Democrats will start being charged and going to prison. All this, because, remember, the President's team will now, for the first time, have the RIGHT to question all of these people under oath - and they will turn on each other. That’s already starting.
4. Lastly, one more thing will happen – the Senate will not convict the President. Nothing will happen to Trump. Most Americans are clueless about political processes, the law, and the Constitution. Most Americans believe that being impeached results in removal from office. They don't understand that phase 2 is a trial in and by the Senate, where he has zero chance of conviction. Remember, the Senate is controlled by Republicans; they will determine what testimony is allowed -- and **everything** will be allowed, including: DNC collusion with the Clinton campaign to fix the election in favor of Hillary, the creation of the Trump dossier, the cover up and destruction of emails that very likely included incriminating information. They’ll incriminate each other for lying to the FISA court, for spying and wiretapping the Trump campaign, and for colluding with foreign political actors, especially George Soros.
After the Senate declines to convict the President, we will have an election, and Trump will win. It will be a backlash against Democrat petulance, temper tantrums, hypocrisy and dishonesty. Even minorities will vote for Trump, because, for the first time, they will see that Democrats have spent 2+ years focused on maintaining their own power, and not doing anything at all about the black murders in Chicago, the WALL WITH MEXICO, homelessness, opioids, and other important issues that are actually killing people. And, we will spend the following four years listening to politicians and pundits claim that the whole impeachment was rigged somehow.
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The time to organise resistance is not after censorship, but before it. The time to prepare resistance is when our ability to resist is being threatened. The time to begin resistance is when that threat has been upheld or ignored by the courts. The unalienable rights that safeguard our ability to resist are limited to those which, if not violated, allow us to plan and use all materials necessary for resistance. We submit that only the following meet that criteria:
• freedom of speech and of the press, and the right to peaceably assemble--so that we may advocate ideas, report and discuss news, and instruct others how to carry out resistance activities (1st Amendment);
• the right to keep and bear arms -- so that we may have appropriate force in our hands should we need it, and be trained to use such force as necessary (2nd Amendment);
• the right to be let alone -- so that we may be free of government intrusion in our lives, liberty, and property (3rd Amendment));
• the right to be secure in our persons, dwellings, papers, and property from unwarranted, unaffirmed searches and seizures -- so that our records, ideological materials, and weapons will remain in our hands (4th Amendment).
For the purpose of this discussion, we believe that no other rights are relevant because if every individual right other than those four were violated -- although it would be an unspeakably evil act on the part of the government, justifying immediate and unforgiving resistance -- their abridgement would not effect our ability to resist. If any of the first four amendments are infringed by legislation, enforced by executive power, and their abrogation is upheld or ignored by the courts, unremitting, forcible resistance, and aid and comfort to its citizen-soldiers, is a moral imperative for every single person who believes that life, liberty, and property are unalienable and self-existing, and not grants of government privilege.
"The United States should get rid of its militias." -- Josef Stalin, 1933
"The foundation of a free government begins to be undermined when freedom of speech on political subjects is restrained; it is destroyed when freedom of speech is wholly denied." -- William Rawle, LL.D. Philadelphia, 1825
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"When men enter into a State they yield a part of their absolute rights, or natural liberty, for political or civil
liberty, which is none other than natural liberty restrained by human laws, so far as is necessary and expedient
for the general advantage of the public. The rights of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of acquiring and
protecting reputation and property, and, in general, of attaining objects suitable to their condition, without injury
to another, are the rights of a Citizen; and all men by nature have them. Attendant with these rights is the
responsibility for maintaining these same rights for all other Citizens, the Defense of Liberty."
liberty, which is none other than natural liberty restrained by human laws, so far as is necessary and expedient
for the general advantage of the public. The rights of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of acquiring and
protecting reputation and property, and, in general, of attaining objects suitable to their condition, without injury
to another, are the rights of a Citizen; and all men by nature have them. Attendant with these rights is the
responsibility for maintaining these same rights for all other Citizens, the Defense of Liberty."
The Hunger Game books and movie that came out of your country was really bad. sorry.
Why not just make your swords into ploughshares and pruninghooks or something...you know, do something useful like grow plants in your urban wastelands. I heard that was what was done in the Bronx and it changed thousands of lives.
Why not just make your swords into ploughshares and pruninghooks or something...you know, do something useful like grow plants in your urban wastelands. I heard that was what was done in the Bronx and it changed thousands of lives.
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~I have waited to comment until the chaos wound down, and there was more clarity.
It now appears Trump lost, but it is not over yet. I thought he would just barely pull
it out with more of the black vote in GA and PA, and more Latino vote in AZ, and
NM, but seems not to be. While court challenges will continue for a bit, it seems
over. Trump has nobody but himself to blame. As I commented at the time, he
completely blew it in the first debate. Had he acted with restraint (not something he
can do), and just talked about his economic record vs Joe, and his foreign policy
achievements, especially in the Mideast, he likely would have won those marginal
voters who were on the fence. Had he listened early on 4 years ago and stopped the
personal twitter attacks, he would have swept, but he just refused to listen even to
his family. At least I was almost right vs the polls that were completely wrong again,
and I just went with my gut feeling. I do believe the pollsters and media work hand
in hand, and they are paid by the mainstream media, so it seems a concerted effort
to turn off independents and lower the Republican vote. How else do you explain the
absurdly wide margin the polls were off. One thing I learned in statistics at
Wharton was, give me the answer, and I will design a poll to prove it. The social
media, and especially Twitter, are blatantly biased, and should be regulated and
broken up. They have vastly too much power and zero liability. If you think about
what Trump faced, the Russia conspiracy, impeachment, blatant bias by the media
and Silicon Valley, and Pelosi refusing to do a stimulus deal, it is a wonder he
achieved what he did in the election. Few others could have withstood the constant
attacks for four years. What we need now is for Purdue to win in GA in January to
assure Republican control of the Senate. That is now essential.
~Wall St and many Trump haters can talk about defeating Trump as a wonderful
thing, and Wall St can think a massive stimulus and spend is great, but they fail to
understand all the ramifications of these things and a Dem control of the
government. Even Moody’s, which favored Biden strongly, and with whom I have
discussed this with, acknowledges that if Biden and the Dems get control and do all
of the economic things they want to do, the stock market will go nowhere good for
years, the ten year will rise to 4.5%, and over time the economy will have problems,
after a short term boost from massive spending. If you have any understanding of
the ramifications long term of what the Dem and Biden policies really will lead to,
you will realize this is a very bad scenario. Be prepared in January to find
alternatives if Purdue loses.
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~I have waited to comment until the chaos wound down, and there was more clarity.
It now appears Trump lost, but it is not over yet. I thought he would just barely pull
it out with more of the black vote in GA and PA, and more Latino vote in AZ, and
NM, but seems not to be. While court challenges will continue for a bit, it seems
over. Trump has nobody but himself to blame. As I commented at the time, he
completely blew it in the first debate. Had he acted with restraint (not something he
can do), and just talked about his economic record vs Joe, and his foreign policy
achievements, especially in the Mideast, he likely would have won those marginal
voters who were on the fence. Had he listened early on 4 years ago and stopped the
personal twitter attacks, he would have swept, but he just refused to listen even to
his family. At least I was almost right vs the polls that were completely wrong again,
and I just went with my gut feeling. I do believe the pollsters and media work hand
in hand, and they are paid by the mainstream media, so it seems a concerted effort
to turn off independents and lower the Republican vote. How else do you explain the
absurdly wide margin the polls were off. One thing I learned in statistics at
Wharton was, give me the answer, and I will design a poll to prove it. The social
media, and especially Twitter, are blatantly biased, and should be regulated and
broken up. They have vastly too much power and zero liability. If you think about
what Trump faced, the Russia conspiracy, impeachment, blatant bias by the media
and Silicon Valley, and Pelosi refusing to do a stimulus deal, it is a wonder he
achieved what he did in the election. Few others could have withstood the constant
attacks for four years. What we need now is for Purdue to win in GA in January to
assure Republican control of the Senate. That is now essential.
~Wall St and many Trump haters can talk about defeating Trump as a wonderful
thing, and Wall St can think a massive stimulus and spend is great, but they fail to
understand all the ramifications of these things and a Dem control of the
government. Even Moody’s, which favored Biden strongly, and with whom I have
discussed this with, acknowledges that if Biden and the Dems get control and do all
of the economic things they want to do, the stock market will go nowhere good for
years, the ten year will rise to 4.5%, and over time the economy will have problems,
after a short term boost from massive spending. If you have any understanding of
the ramifications long term of what the Dem and Biden policies really will lead to,
you will realize this is a very bad scenario. Be prepared in January to find
alternatives if Purdue loses.
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~Here are my concerns even with a Republican senate. Biden will send Kerry and
Wendy Sherman to Iran, and they will undo the sanctions and give Iran a new free
hand, and again save them from economic collapse, just as Obama did. This will
lead to major new problems in the Mideast. The Arabs will be furious, as will
Israel. Just as they were completing their peace deals with Israel, and setting a new
binding coalition with Israel and the US against Iran, Biden will destroy that, and
set back Mideast peace for years. It is beyond stupid. The only hope is the Arabs
and Israel scream out loud, and work to stop another disastrous accommodation
with Iran. The ramifications of what Biden says he will do are disastrous for the
world. Now the Palestinians will be led to believe they can hold out again, whereas
Trump had coalesced the Arabs into cooperation with Israel and the US and that
would have forced the Palestinians to concede. In Iraq, we may lose all influence
once they see Biden cozy up to Iran again. We may even be forced to withdraw
completely. In Syria, Iran will move in again, and it will be up to Israel to continue
to attack Iranian bases to try to keep safe. In Afghanistan, once Biden shows he
will befriend Iran again, there is little chance for a real peace deal, and we will
lose Afghanistan. Once Putin and Xi and Kim see all this the world becomes very
dangerous, exactly as it did after Obama did not enforce his red line in Syria. These
are the outcomes the Dems and far left do not understand, but for which we will all
pay a price.
~The really big risk is now XI will exert intense pressure on Biden, and will use
what he has on Hunter to force Joe to drop tariffs, and to go back to a policy of let’s
talk and accomplish nothing good. Taiwan is now at real risk, and Biden will not
defend them, and he may even cancel the weapons sales unless Trump can get it all
shipped before January 15.<x-apple-data-detectors://0>This is the real risk for the
world. China will test Biden very quickly, and if they think they can get him to stand
by, they will attack Taiwan, and then the world will be at massive risk if Biden does
nothing. There will be intense pressure on Biden and Pelosi to cut defense
spending and reallocate money to “social programs” for minorities and illegal
aliens who will again come in as the border is reopened. In short, we repeat 1940
all over again. China moves aggressively, and we cut military spend, and Joe thinks
he can just talk to them.
~He will not end fracking. He will just regulate it out of business. An absolute
disaster for the US and the world. We will lose energy independence and low cost
gasoline. That becomes a big tax on low income workers, and a drag on US
manufacturing profits and consumer spending. It then makes us more dependent on
the Arabs and Russia and Iran who will now be bale to raise prices for oil with no
sanctions. He can put in regulations, and the Senate will not be able to stop it. This
will be a true disaster for the US.
~There will now be a return to Warren attacks on lenders of all types. It will raise
costs for them and also raise risks as they are forced to make loans they would not
otherwise make. There will also be a major push to get affordable housing into nice
suburbs. Something Trump prevented. There will also likely be new regs on
residential development to have landlords forced to take 20% affordable in
multifamily projects, or something like that. A lot of other regs will be
reimplemented and costs will rise.
~If Purdue wins and the R’s hold the Senate, there will be no tax increase, no court
packing and no end to the filibuster. All key issues.
~The euphoria of the stock market has been wonderful. I got out of a material piece
of my portfolio three weeks ago, and then one week before the election and put it all
back on Wednesday morning<x-apple-data-detectors://1> before the open. Now I
will stay in for the moment, but if it appears Purdue might lose in Jan I am out big.
If the Dems get control of the senate all hell breaks loose, taxes go way up, spending
goes out of control, and all sorts of anti- il laws get passed. The market will tank
for a long period.
~The best hope is in 2022 election, there will be a major shift back to Republican
control of the House and Senate. In 2024 Haley becomes president, and
Republicans get control of Congress.
~There is a strong chance there will be no stimulus deal before January. McConnell
is not going to roll over for Pelosi, and Trump is not likely to do anything he thinks
will help Biden look good. Despite that and the surge in virus, the economy will
continue to improve. Unemployment improved even more than I expected at 6.9% vs
my 7.5% prediction. So long as there are no more major lockdowns this
improvement will continue for a while. It is now very clear that the total lockdown
in March was a massive error. Fauci may be the media hero, but his advice was very
wrong. Not only did the economy suffer terribly, but millions suffered medical and
psychological damage. Thousands of small and large companies died.
Unemployment skyrocketed doing real damage to many people. Millions of kids
have lost over a full year of good education, and poor minority kids have lost a
generation. We will pay a terrible price for this. The federal deficit is now out of
control, and this will cause a real drag on the economy in a few years when rates
rise. There is no way to tax our way out of it, and taxes is exactly the wrong remedy.
Growing the economy is how you make a dent in the deficit. If the Dems get control
of the senate, we will be in very serious trouble very quickly. Go back and read the
Moody report and you will see what happens in a few years. In the end Sweden had
it right.
~It is a shame Trump has the personality he does have, and that lost the election for
him. Many of the things he did were excellent, and another four years would have
led to a strong economy, and a safer world. The mantra that he is dangerous and
would be a dictator, and the other things the media and Silicon Valley pounded away
on and got many smart people to believe, would not have happened. Trump basically
is a very bad person which I said in Rants back in 2015, given what I know about
him from my former partner and others of my friends who dealt with him before
then. But he did accomplish many very good things, and the world is a much safer
place right now. Biden may be the president, but in two years or so it will be only as
the face not defacto. His mind is going, and his policies are weak and wrong in
many cases. Having Harris as VP is very scary.
~Durham will be out with indictments in 10 days<x-apple-data-detectors://2> or so
once the election mess is out of the headlines. Graham will pursue Hunter. Durham
will likely be named special counsel so Biden can’t quash the indictments. It will be
very upsetting when it all comes out and we see who did what. It will be interesting
to see who goes to jail. Hilary, as the initiator of the whole Russia scam should be
in jail for years but will not be. If Durham had been released in late September as
initially expected, the election would have ended differently.
(
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~Here are my concerns even with a Republican senate. Biden will send Kerry and
Wendy Sherman to Iran, and they will undo the sanctions and give Iran a new free
hand, and again save them from economic collapse, just as Obama did. This will
lead to major new problems in the Mideast. The Arabs will be furious, as will
Israel. Just as they were completing their peace deals with Israel, and setting a new
binding coalition with Israel and the US against Iran, Biden will destroy that, and
set back Mideast peace for years. It is beyond stupid. The only hope is the Arabs
and Israel scream out loud, and work to stop another disastrous accommodation
with Iran. The ramifications of what Biden says he will do are disastrous for the
world. Now the Palestinians will be led to believe they can hold out again, whereas
Trump had coalesced the Arabs into cooperation with Israel and the US and that
would have forced the Palestinians to concede. In Iraq, we may lose all influence
once they see Biden cozy up to Iran again. We may even be forced to withdraw
completely. In Syria, Iran will move in again, and it will be up to Israel to continue
to attack Iranian bases to try to keep safe. In Afghanistan, once Biden shows he
will befriend Iran again, there is little chance for a real peace deal, and we will
lose Afghanistan. Once Putin and Xi and Kim see all this the world becomes very
dangerous, exactly as it did after Obama did not enforce his red line in Syria. These
are the outcomes the Dems and far left do not understand, but for which we will all
pay a price.
~The really big risk is now XI will exert intense pressure on Biden, and will use
what he has on Hunter to force Joe to drop tariffs, and to go back to a policy of let’s
talk and accomplish nothing good. Taiwan is now at real risk, and Biden will not
defend them, and he may even cancel the weapons sales unless Trump can get it all
shipped before January 15.<x-apple-data-detectors://0>This is the real risk for the
world. China will test Biden very quickly, and if they think they can get him to stand
by, they will attack Taiwan, and then the world will be at massive risk if Biden does
nothing. There will be intense pressure on Biden and Pelosi to cut defense
spending and reallocate money to “social programs” for minorities and illegal
aliens who will again come in as the border is reopened. In short, we repeat 1940
all over again. China moves aggressively, and we cut military spend, and Joe thinks
he can just talk to them.
~He will not end fracking. He will just regulate it out of business. An absolute
disaster for the US and the world. We will lose energy independence and low cost
gasoline. That becomes a big tax on low income workers, and a drag on US
manufacturing profits and consumer spending. It then makes us more dependent on
the Arabs and Russia and Iran who will now be bale to raise prices for oil with no
sanctions. He can put in regulations, and the Senate will not be able to stop it. This
will be a true disaster for the US.
~There will now be a return to Warren attacks on lenders of all types. It will raise
costs for them and also raise risks as they are forced to make loans they would not
otherwise make. There will also be a major push to get affordable housing into nice
suburbs. Something Trump prevented. There will also likely be new regs on
residential development to have landlords forced to take 20% affordable in
multifamily projects, or something like that. A lot of other regs will be
reimplemented and costs will rise.
~If Purdue wins and the R’s hold the Senate, there will be no tax increase, no court
packing and no end to the filibuster. All key issues.
~The euphoria of the stock market has been wonderful. I got out of a material piece
of my portfolio three weeks ago, and then one week before the election and put it all
back on Wednesday morning<x-apple-data-detectors://1> before the open. Now I
will stay in for the moment, but if it appears Purdue might lose in Jan I am out big.
If the Dems get control of the senate all hell breaks loose, taxes go way up, spending
goes out of control, and all sorts of anti- il laws get passed. The market will tank
for a long period.
~The best hope is in 2022 election, there will be a major shift back to Republican
control of the House and Senate. In 2024 Haley becomes president, and
Republicans get control of Congress.
~There is a strong chance there will be no stimulus deal before January. McConnell
is not going to roll over for Pelosi, and Trump is not likely to do anything he thinks
will help Biden look good. Despite that and the surge in virus, the economy will
continue to improve. Unemployment improved even more than I expected at 6.9% vs
my 7.5% prediction. So long as there are no more major lockdowns this
improvement will continue for a while. It is now very clear that the total lockdown
in March was a massive error. Fauci may be the media hero, but his advice was very
wrong. Not only did the economy suffer terribly, but millions suffered medical and
psychological damage. Thousands of small and large companies died.
Unemployment skyrocketed doing real damage to many people. Millions of kids
have lost over a full year of good education, and poor minority kids have lost a
generation. We will pay a terrible price for this. The federal deficit is now out of
control, and this will cause a real drag on the economy in a few years when rates
rise. There is no way to tax our way out of it, and taxes is exactly the wrong remedy.
Growing the economy is how you make a dent in the deficit. If the Dems get control
of the senate, we will be in very serious trouble very quickly. Go back and read the
Moody report and you will see what happens in a few years. In the end Sweden had
it right.
~It is a shame Trump has the personality he does have, and that lost the election for
him. Many of the things he did were excellent, and another four years would have
led to a strong economy, and a safer world. The mantra that he is dangerous and
would be a dictator, and the other things the media and Silicon Valley pounded away
on and got many smart people to believe, would not have happened. Trump basically
is a very bad person which I said in Rants back in 2015, given what I know about
him from my former partner and others of my friends who dealt with him before
then. But he did accomplish many very good things, and the world is a much safer
place right now. Biden may be the president, but in two years or so it will be only as
the face not defacto. His mind is going, and his policies are weak and wrong in
many cases. Having Harris as VP is very scary.
~Durham will be out with indictments in 10 days<x-apple-data-detectors://2> or so
once the election mess is out of the headlines. Graham will pursue Hunter. Durham
will likely be named special counsel so Biden can’t quash the indictments. It will be
very upsetting when it all comes out and we see who did what. It will be interesting
to see who goes to jail. Hilary, as the initiator of the whole Russia scam should be
in jail for years but will not be. If Durham had been released in late September as
initially expected, the election would have ended differently.
(
And, this profound material will still leave many In The Dark!
An 'Awakening' shall perhaps be UNTHINKABLE! Q