I’m Working On A Shithole Awareness Ribbon

President Trump uses language ordinary Americans use.  The media daily demonstrates its virulent disdain for the President and is now hypocritically freaking out because he’s the only person willing to tell the truth.  The President has denied having used the term “shithole” but confesses he used “tough language” in a meeting at the White House on DACA.  Sen. Dick Durbin is emphatic the term was indeed used.  But, but…Dickie is a known liar.

At Tuesday’s politically charged National Board of Review Awards, Robert De Niro lambasted President Trump with an expletive-laden tirade.  While introducing Meryl “The Shrew” Streep, De Niro went into a defiant sidebar: “Today the world is suffering from real Donald Trump. Come on. You know. What are we talking about? This fucking idiot is the president. It’s the Emperor’s New Clothes—the guy is a fucking fool… Our baby-in-chief—the jerkoff-in-chief, I call him—has put the press under siege, ridiculing it through trying to discredit it through outrageous attacks and lies.”

Oh yeah, it’s a far, far better thing for Americans to allow celebrities to dictate our political beliefs.  After all, some of these people have GED’s from Beverly Hills High School.

if i were president i would try to introduce a new shocking word every week just to force chris cuomo to say it,

— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) January 12, 2018

Can someone whisper the word "twatwaffle" in Trump's ear? https://t.co/uN9eenPIB6

— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) January 12, 2018

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox said, “…your mouth is the foulest shithole in the world.”  That’s a ballsy statement coming from a guy who left his country in the hands of savage drug cartels and has decapitated bodies hanging like gruesome tree ornaments from bridge overpasses.  If his country weren’t a shithole, millions of its citizens wouldn’t defiantly break our immigration laws to flee it. 

A month ago, during the special election between Doug Jones and Roy Moore, liberals couldn’t stop talking about how Alabama was a shithole state.  During the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton said at a New York fundraiser with liberal donors and Barbra Streisand, "You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic—you name it.  And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric. Now some of those folks, they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.”  That cost the old hag the election.  That and the Wisconsin thing.

The Center for Immigration Studies included a quote from Sen. Ted “I Killed Mary Jo Kopechne” Kennedy on the 1965 Immigration Act:

"The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs." (U.S. Senate, Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization of the Committee on the Judiciary, Washington, D.C., Feb. 10, 1965. pp. 1-3.)

It paved the way for all three things to happen.

Now for comparison:

A little over three years ago, an anonymous Obama Administration official called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “chickenshit”. The quote appeared in an article from The Atlantic’s Jeffery Goldberg, who described the relationship between America and Israel as “now the worst it’s ever been.”

“The good thing about Netanyahu is that he’s scared to launch wars. The bad thing about him is that he won’t do anything to reach an accommodation with the Palestinians or with the Sunni Arab states. The only thing he’s interested in is protecting himself from political defeat. He’s not Rabin, he’s not Sharon, he’s certainly no Begin. He’s got no guts.”

Netanyahu responded to the report thusly:

CNN Was Doing Its Best “This Is The Day Trump Truly Became President" Again

CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer heaped praise on President Trump and his administration for opening an immigration reform meeting to the press on yesterday.  Blitzer spoke with Marc Short, White House Director of Legislative Affairs saying, “Thank you for allowing that meeting today to be open to our TV cameras.  I think it was very important, very productive.  Glad that we got to see the President and the Republicans and Democrats in action.  Keep doing it.”  Short affirmed, “We’ll keep doing it, Wolf.”

What was supposed to be a pool spray at the beginning of the meeting turned into a 55-minute discussion between Democrat and Republican lawmakers as the press watched.

Some journalists remarked they couldn’t remember a president ever inviting members of the press to watch negotiations before.  Steve Peoples who covers politics for The Associated Press and Paul Singer, an editor/reporter for USA Today tweeted:

Trump smart for opening immigration discussion to press. Public gets to see deal making POTUS at his best.

— Steve Peoples (@sppeoples) January 9, 2018

Also: I have covered Washington/politics for 2 decades. I have NEVER seen a president invite the press in to film negotiations with Congress.

— Paul Singer (@singernews) January 9, 2018

Former toadie and Senior Advisor for Strategy and Communications for The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer, Dan Pfeiffer, became super pissed and fired off a tweet at the suggestion his “master” had not been adequately credited with the same transparency.

Obama did this with the House GOP conference in 2010 on health care on live TV. He would have done it every year, but the GOP refused to let cameras back in ever again https://t.co/eGP5y76WoT

— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) January 9, 2018

Pfeiffer conveniently forgot during the 2008 campaign Obama often promised to put health care reform negotiations on C-SPAN so the public could see and comment on the demands made by various players.

Perhaps what Pfeiffer is directing our attention to is the so-called 2010 Health Care Summit at the Blair House located across from the White House.  It was there he indignantly squabbled with John McCain.

McCain complained of "unsavory" deal making to get Obamacare passed in the Senate, including promises to give special deals to residents of Louisiana, Nebraska and Florida.

He pointed to several issues, including the PhRMA deal and a provision mandating $100 million for a Connecticut hospital, asking "why should that happen?"

"People are angry. We promised them change in Washington and what we got was a process that you and I both said we would change," McCain said.

A visibly annoyed Obama immediately responded saying, "We can spend the remainder of the time with our respective talking points going back and forth. We were supposed to be talking about insurance. We're not campaigning anymore," he told McCain. "The election's over." 

 

After weeks of denials from the White House that the health care reform effort failed to exhibit the transparency Obama promised on the campaign trail, he conceded locking the public out of key discussions was a “mistake.”

“We had to make so many decisions quickly in a very difficult set of circumstances that after a while, we started worrying more about getting the policy right than getting the process right. But I had campaigned on process—part of what I had campaigned on was changing how Washington works, opening up, transparency. ...The health care debate as it unfolded legitimately raised concerns not just among my opponents, but also amongst supporters that we just don't know what's going on. And it's an ugly process and it looks like there are a bunch of back room deals.”

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer in a statement yesterday on the immigration meeting:

“Today’s meeting at the White House was a positive step forward in that everyone in the room agreed that we must take action on DACA immediately; however, the statement issued by the White House is inaccurate. Republicans put forward their four priority areas, but our priority remains the same:  ensuring that DREAMers can remain in the only country they’ve ever called home. I was pleased that the President agreed that we need to address DACA now, and I hope that we can come together to quickly reach an agreement on legislation that will pass the House and Senate and be signed into law."

A Bill Clinton-appointed federal judge, William Alsup, issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday night following the meeting President Trump held earlier in the day ordering DHS to resume accepting renewal applications from people already protected under DACA (Obama’s name for amnesty).

"I'm appealing to everyone in the room to put the country before Party, and to sit down and negotiate and to compromise, and let's see if we can get something done."─President Trump January 9, 2018

“A Nation Of Sheep Will Beget A Government Of Wolves”

Regular readers of this blog may have noticed that blogging has been very light this week.  There’s a good reason for my absence.

I have been working at the local “Victory” office of North Carolina senatorial candidate Thom Tillis passing out bumper stickers, buttons and campaign yard signs, making phone calls and walking neighborhoods all in an effort to help him unseat incumbent Democrat Senator Kay Hagan.

North Carolina has 100 counties, of which 30 are blue.  I live in one of those blue counties.

On Wednesday, October 22nd, Thom made a campaign stop at Wingate University with Congressman Paul Ryan

Noting that circumstances are eerily similar to what the nation was facing in 1980—an energy crisis, rising gas prices, hostages being taken in the Middle East and Russia “going anywhere it wanted to go”—Tillis said that “Reagan created a vision of optimism and the emergence of America being great again.”

 

He said he is running because the students are owed the same opportunity to believe in America and the American Dream.

At one point Tillis referred to the debate on Tuesday night that Hagan did not participate in.  The “debate” featured an empty chair next to him.  Tillis said, “In fairness, I think it was her best performance yet.”

Early voting begins today in my state and I have been selected as a poll watcher. Judicial Watch discovered a scheme by Rev. Dr. William Barber to urge those attending the 71st Annual North Carolina NAACP Conference to “take unregistered voters to vote during the Early Voting period and to engage in get-out-the-vote activities on Election Day.”

NAACP’s leaders appear willing to risk the confusion and disenfranchisement of their own members in order to deceive a Court about common sense election integrity laws.

If the underhandedness of the North Carolina NAACP were not enough to cause alarm, The Winston-Salem Journal is reporting that 145 potential illegal voters appear on the State Board of Elections voting rolls.  Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) beneficiaries can obtain drivers licenses but are not legally permitted to vote.  SBOE believe more ineligible people may still remain on the voting rolls.

Jay DeLancy, Executive Director of the Voter Integrity Project wants to know how such a large number of non-U.S. citizens were ever registered to vote in the first place.”  Speaking to Watchdog. org DeLancy said, “There is clearly a system failure here and we need the Board of Elections and the DMV to help the Legislature and the public understand where the problem lies.”

My job as poll watcher will be to challenge any voter believed to be not qualified to vote in that precinct.  Judges will determine whether or not the challenge is valid.