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Jul 23 2020

You Simply Cannot Imagine the Amount of Abject Misery in this Place — So Sad!


Posted originally on the Conservative Tree House on July 23, 2020 by 

You cannot explain it.  Pure unadulterated misery in every corner. It’s a million times worse than you could fathom.  The most singularly depressing town in the entire universe. And if you know anyone who enjoys it here, that tells you just how far disconnected they are from the rest of our nation.   There is nothing here except misery and functionaries, human robots, carrying through with their duties without any idea why.

When I say this is a lifeless soulless place.  You must imagine my new context to really understand it.   Staying in a hotel with only one, perhaps a handful, of other guest(s) is a rather remarkable sense of living amid misery in real life.

Yes, it’s like a living example of The Shining, sans the death-knock of the twins in the middle of the night.   That is correct.  Trump International DC – and NO GUESTS.  It’s a desolate, depressing, empty dystopian hotel nightmare hidden from all normal people in America including me.  I had no idea the metastasized rot had already spread to the central nervous system.   Eric needs to sell this place, and fast – it’s over.

Restaurants closed.  Everything closed.  Lights out.  DARK. Want to eat, go to the grocery store and hope for bologna and some bread.  Everything on television/internet is a lie.  I know, I’m here.  They must import stand-in’s for POTUS visits to this place.

From what I can tell the DC mayor has targeted her closures in a manner as to inflict the maximum damage on Trump properties and holdings.  I would estimate Trump International DC is bleeding around $100k per day currently/ perhaps more… depending on how much air conditioning they shut down.

DC as a whole is the same.  An 8:00pm walk and you see nothing… a city completely devoid of life…. no cars… no people…  nothing.   A few rats scurrying from sidewalk to planter shelf, and a few scooters laying sideways in the middle of the sidewalk with ever dimming green circles as the batteries pulsate and run out.

I mean this town is dead.

The word misery is so far removed from the depressed stares amid the soulless eyes, that it would take a thousand years of bliss for a glimmer of hope to reappear.   This place is an abhorrent Potemkin village of what appears on the nightly news about it.

This is my first visit as a non-tourist.   So I am able to see the people who are attempting to manage their way through this nightmare.  It is far, far worse than anything you can imagine.

Be thankful for your local debate about schools opening, wearing masks and assorted nuance.  This is not that.

This town is the hollowed carcass of a cockroach still moving from the maggots that have taken the remaining source of nutrition.   Every eye behind the mask shows misery, fear, and disconnection from the world we know… you know.

It’s bizarre and even though I have been here many times before, this time I simply cannot describe it adequately.  DC is lost.  Lost not because it has fallen ill to some COVID-19 infection, but literally lost to the premise of our nation’s capital.

There are no people here.  There are robots trying to reach the charging stations.

For the first time in my life I’m not sure I want President Trump to win another term.   Who in their right mind would wish this on anyone.

More later….

Maybe

 

Jul 23 2020

Can Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum Ever Be Trusted?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Climate

Re-Posted Jul 23, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: Marty,

The Eugenicists/bioethicists/climate change/population reduction activists just won’t quit. The Actors of today are continuing the great work started long ago by their predecessors. They are allowed to practice their religion, while any religion that directly challenges and undermines their authority is now being shutdown along with any business that can compete with theirs. After all, John D Rockefeller has been credited with saying, “Competition is a sin”.

They believe in the survival of the fittest, but they know they’re not the fittest if push comes to shove. So they have to create the illusion they’re the fittest to maintain control, while trying to eliminate those that would beat them in order to survive. They got a jump start, but can they last?

Best,

E

REPLY: Klaus Schwab is a very dangerous man, and a typical academic who thinks talking to the average person on the street is pointless since we are all stupid. Schwab, who is the founder of the Davos World Economic Forum, now has the audacity to warn that a failure to tackle the deep-rooted ills of our society in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic could exacerbate the risk of “violent shocks,” such as conflicts and revolutions. In other words, we MUST accept his Great Reset. He is in league with Bill Gates and others and sees no problem with destroying jobs and sharply reducing the food supply all to further his nonsense to stop global warming when CO2 is only 0.04% of the atmosphere.

There is no way to avoid civil unrest, global economic disputes, and the risk of international war all because Schwab and his friends are so arrogant that they think their delusions can redesign the world economy.

Jul 22 2020

The Case Against Revolution With Ayaan Hirsi Ali


interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Posted from Uncommon Reason originally posted Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Recorded on June 25, 2020

As the United States and the world embark on fraught conversations about race, history, law enforcement, and the underpinnings of our very civilization, Ayaan Hirsi Ali joins Peter Robinson for an enlightening conversation.  A refugee from Africa, Hirsi Ali fled to Europe to escape an arranged marriage, becoming an activist, (now former) member of the Dutch Parliament, and now a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.  With a different set of life experiences and perspectives from American-born Blacks, Hirsi Ali discusses how, as a Somalian, she views America as the best place on earth for minorities to grow up and achieve their potential.  While acknowledging the hardships and miseries that American Blacks have endured and that racism still exists in many quarters of American society, Hirsi Ali emphatically believes that America is more than capable of solving racial inequalities, provided it preserves the institutions that ultimately ended slavery and empowered the protest movements of the 1960s that birthed the Civil Rights Movement. As she wrote in a recent column for the Wall Street Journal, an opinion she reiterates on this show, “There will be no resolution of America’s . . . problems if free thought and free speech are no longer upheld as sacrosanct. . . . Without them, honest deliberation, mutual learning, and the American ethic of problem-solving are dead.”

To view the transcript of this conversation, click here

Jul 22 2020

Dem Pols welcome Red Guards to occupy their cities


Granted, the foundation of America’s Red Guards and the Cancel Culture Movement is not as easily traced as is the CCP’s sponsorship of Mao’s Cultural Revolution

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Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and Archives—July 21, 2020

Dem Pols welcome Red Guards to occupy their cities

America’s Cancel Culture Revolution has flourished in Big Blue Cities –—most notably Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington —where local and state politicians show their support of America’s Red Guards by dismissing the seriousness of their criminal activities, and ordering their police forces to stand-down.

Previously on this site, the behavioral characteristics of America’s Red Guards were compared to Mao’s Red Guards. The parallels are too obvious to ignore.

China’s Cultural Revolution was not a bottom-up spontaneous movement. It was initiated by the Chinese Community Party (CCP).  Here are six quotes from one of the main documents that chronicles their birth.

Marxism-Leninism

Excerpts are from the “Circular of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution,” that was “initiated and led personally by Comrade Mao Zedong,” dated May 16, 1966, [present compared to past]:

  1. “Our country is now in an upsurge of the great proletarian Cultural [Cancel Culture] Revolution which is pounding at all the decadent ideological and cultural positions still held by the bourgeoisie [white supremacists, Occupy Wall Street 1%ers] and the remnants of feudalism [capitalist slavery].”
  2. “Comrade Mao Zedong has often told us that the ideological struggle against the bourgeoisie is a protracted [8/2014, Michael Brown, Ferguson, MO riots; 4/2015, Freddie Gray, Baltimore riots] class struggle which cannot be resolved by drawing hasty political conclusions.”
  3. “Just when we began the counter-offensive against the wild attacks of the bourgeoisie, the authors raised the slogan: ‘everyone is equal before the truth’[All Lives Matter]. This is a bourgeois slogan. Completely negating the class nature of truth, they use this slogan to protect the bourgeoisie and oppose the proletariat, oppose Marxism-Leninism, and oppose Mao Zedong’s thought.”
  4. “Chairman Mao often says that there is no construction without destruction. Destruction means criticism and repudiation; it means revolution [’fundamentally transform America,’ ‘Don’t let a crisis go to waste’].  It involves reasoning things out, which is construction. Put destruction first [Defund the Police], and in the process you have construction. Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong’s thought, was founded and has constantly developed in the course of the struggle to destroy bourgeois ideology.”
  5. “Our country is now in an upsurge of the great proletarian Cultural[Cancel Culture] Revolution which is pounding at all the decadent ideological and cultural positions still held by the bourgeoisie, and the remnants of feudalism[slavery, inequitable wealth distribution].
  6. “The basic Marxist thesis is that all class struggles are political struggles.” 

America’s Cancel Culture Movement

Which links into this document:

In May, 2007, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) released a 92pp. report, dated 6 October 1967, entitled “Mao’s Cultural Revolution: Origin and Development,” that chronicles the early years (65-67) of China’s Cultural Revolution.

Its thesis was this:

“This working paper of the DD/I Special Research Staff is an attempt to reconstruct the history of China’s ‘great proletarian Cultural revolution.  It presents the thesis that China’s ‘cultural revolution’ is in reality a political revolution designed by Mao Zedong to test the entire apparatus of power (party, government and army) in Communist China and to purge it of all found guilty of opposing his leadership and his programs”

A similar effort to reconstruct the history of American is driving the current political revolution that is America’s Cancel Culture Movement, street-led by America’s Red Guards, who self-admittedly present a combined effort of two groups driven by Communist ideology. That make no effort to hide that bias.

Cancel Culture is no more about the death of George Floyd than Ferguson was about Michael Brown’s death, nor the riots in Baltimore were about the death of Freddie Gray—riots to which then Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s response meant she “Gave Those Who Wished to Destroy Space to Do That.”  She had the Baltimore PD stand-down. Likewise, Mao retrained his police.

The parallels between Mao’s Cultural Revolution and America’s Cancel Culture movement are not all hard-wired, but they do exist.

Mao used his Red Guards the same way the American Progressive Left is using today’s BLM/Antifa rioters

The 1967 CIA study concluded that the Cultural Revolution was the “final test of the loyalty and trustworthiness of his old ‘comrades-in-arms’…Mao apparently decided at this time to initiate a rectification-purge campaign of a new type—directed at ‘old comrades’ and ‘high-ranking cadres’ holding positions of authority, designed to make the Chinese party, the government apparatus, the military and ultimately the Chinese people once more responsive to his will…The time had come to initiate a massive rectification-purge of the Chinese Communist party as a whole, a purge more extensive and violent than any since the founding of the Chinese People’s Republic in 1949.”

Mao used his Red Guards the same way the American Progressive Left is using today’s BLM/Antifa rioters: To create chaos, disorder and destruction.

Quoting from the CIA 1967 study:

“The Red Guards were in certain respects well suited to discharge the most important task assigned them, that of serving as a combat force, as the army of Mao’s cultural revolution…The very same qualities—of pugnacity, naivete and fanaticism—of its youthful members, however, would soon split the Red Guard organization, gravely impairing its effectiveness as an instrument for purging the party.”

Today’s Democrats are using rioters more disciplined and manageable than were Mao’s. But they can go too far.

For example, the long ordeal in Seattle subsided, not because the Seattle Police Department was released to enforce the law. Not because of pressure from the Seattle citizenry to bring order. It subside only after protestors marched to Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s house.  That made Jenny mad. And Chad/Chop/Chaz was closed down.

Granted, the foundation of America’s Red Guards and the Cancel Culture Movement is not as easily traced as is the CCP’s sponsorship of Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

But, given the vitriol against the current American President. Given the animosity toward anyone who supports him. Given the Cancel Culture support from Blue State governors, attorney generals, and mayors. All, coincidentally, happening in the midst of a pandemic, on the cusp of a November General Election. When taken together, it suggests that this episode in American history was not planned, funded, and directed by the Knights of Columbus.

Jul 22 2020

Revealing the Moral Bankruptcy of BLM


Where’s the moral outrage over this senseless murder? Yet, defunding the police is the answer from the BLM terrorist gangs

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Re-posted from The Conservative Tree House By  —— Bio and Archives—July 21, 2020

Revealing the Moral Bankruptcy of BLM

The blatant violence in a majority of cities in the United States in the wake of the murder of George Floyd was supposed to be the moral foundation for protesting the wrongful murder of George Floyd. But, this is an illusion. A horrible illusion. If all Black Lives Matter, where are the serious nationwide protests over the 20 million+ black babies that have been killed since the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision? There is no one in the Black Lives Matter terrorist organization that has even uttered any credible concern over the genocide of aborting black babies. Likely, they would not because both Black Lives Matter and Planned Parenthood are funded heavily by George Soros, and even an evil house divided cannot stand. But, this is an absolutely blatant hypocrisy and it demonstrates zero moral integrity.

If all black lives do not matter to Black Lives Matter members and supporters (yes supporters, as in those corporations that donate to BLM) then the name is as fake as the cause. It is quite possible to justify a lie by stating that the opposition to your cause is “conservative,” or “white hate speech,” or “corrupt white privilege advocates,” or “Nazis,” or whatever the buzz words may be that are designed to initiate an emotional distrust, or outright hatred of the “opposition.” It is not actually a justification of the lie, but rather a justification for lying by marginalizing one’s opponents—clever communist tactic. If all black lives, or all lives do truly matter, why leave anyone out? If all black lives do not matter to Black Lives Matter members, the name is as   fake as the “cause.”

Additionally, at the beginning of this month, the nation celebrated the Independence Day holiday, but there was a killing spree of young people, black and white, over that weekend because in many cities across the nation, the police had their hands tied by their autocratic Democrat Overlords. Where were the serious widespread protests over the 10 innocents who lost their lives then? Will four year old Carson Walker be remembered? He was four years old! The suspect in the shooting on July 4th is a young black man. Because a black baby lost his life, it does not matter. Because the alleged shooter was black? The silence from BLM is overwhelming!

Who went to the BLM protest over the killing of six-year-old Jace Young of San Francisco, California? No one went to such a protest because there was none. That did not fit into the narrative that Black Lives Matter when a black man happens to be killed by a white police officer. There is no moral consistency here. Jace Young was six! He was shot in an act of senseless violence while watching a fireworks display in a Bayview neighborhood. Local   media carried the story and quoted his dad, Jason Young, in an interview after the killing: “Y’all don’t understand how hard it is in this city, how hard it is in these Black communities to have to get up and have to pick one of your loved ones up and pick your families up after this stuff happens to your family…

“This ain’t right,” he said. “My son was different. My son was different. He was going to be somebody.”

According to his aunt Ayofemi Bryant, “He was the most perfect child. He was so sweet. He loved to read. He loved computers. He just loved learning.”

Of course, the lame mayor of San Francisco, London Breed, took the opportunity to speak of the incident and had the audacity to mention BLM during the efforts the family made to seek justice over the death of their innocent little boy. Breed questioned: “Where is the outrage? If this boy was not Black, it would’ve been a whole other story. Let’s remember that when we talk about Black Lives Matter, this boy’s life mattered,”  .

Indeed, where was the outrage expressed from representatives of BLM at this public forum? There was no representative, no chants, no marches, no violence on Jace Young’s behalf.

Yet, Mayor Breed became dramatic at the event: “No more funerals, no more death, no more destruction in the Black community. We have a chance to do something different.”

Yet, the “doing something different” is the BLM answer: defund the police. And, recently in mid-July, Mayor London Breed has called for partially defunding the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) and reinvesting the money back into San Francisco’s Black community. She intends to replace SFPD officers with unarmed trained “professionals.” Insanity runs like a virus through the Democrat Party. It is unlikely masks will help. This is another demonstration of a genuine absence of morality when politics devolves into a blind mantra devoid of good common sense.

How many thousands attended the BLM protests for seven-year—old Natalie Wallace, who was fatally shot in the head on July 4th? The answer is that BLM members have probably no idea   of who this little girl was—nor does it matter to them. She was not killed by a white policeman. She was another innocent victim of a senseless shooting in Chicago over the July 4th weekend. The reports were that Natalie was simply standing on the sidewalk outside her grandmother’s home when the murder suspects got out of a car and just started shooting.

Where’s the moral outrage over this senseless murder? Yet, defunding the police is the answer from the BLM terrorist gangs.

Another damning horror story involving BLM and their intolerance of those who question their mantra or their morality is the incident in which a 24-year-old mother of a young child was shot in the head on July 5th in Indiana. Jessica Doty Whitaker was shot dead in Indianapolis simply because she had the audacity to stand up to BLM supporters and claim that “all lives matter.” So, where was the outrage from the white community? Where were the marches? Where were the protestors in Indianapolis, or in any cities across America because of such a senseless murder? No White Lives Matter movement? No. Conservatives and Christians don’t rampage through city streets, destroying other people’s property, or tearing down statues of Malcom X,  or killing people senselessly.

Americans are being bullied – Americans of all skin colors are being intimidated by BLM bullies. They will get in your face, they will get nasty and insult you, they will harass you, they will march and protest, but not peacefully, they will permit the anarchists and the looters to run wild through the city streets. They will allow, will inspire, or will perpetrate indiscriminate violence, no matter who gets in their way. This is immoral, no matter what lame excuse or defense can be offered to protect them. BLM is simply a name. BLM portrays itself as one thing, but they are entirely not what they portray themselves to be – even defenders of Black lives would be worth it. But, their leaders do not demonstrate that all Black lives matter. It is a fake name and a fake cause.

The real radical was Jessica Doty Whitaker. Whitaker had the audacity to exercise her God- given freedom of speech. In a highly symbolic act, she gave her life to reveal the rest of us the genuine moral bankruptcy of BLM. She is a true martyr in the fight to hold onto our God-given freedoms.  Jessica Whitaker was absolutely right. All lives matter – always!

Jul 22 2020

DOJ Spox Kerri Kupek: “We Are Going To Enforce Federal Law” – Not Backing Down From Operation Legend in Portland…


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on July 21, 2020 by 

DOJ Spokesperson Kerri Kupec appears for an interview with Melissa Francis to discuss the ongoing DOJ and DHS operation in/around Portland, Oregon.

Ms. Kupec is a wolverine.

Jul 21 2020

If Joe Only Had A Brain


‘Without a brain, Joe Biden simply cannot reign’

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Re-posted from the Canada Free Press By  & Kelly O’Connell—— Bio and Archives—July 20, 2020

If Joe Only Had A Brain

The Democrat Donkey Race heading down the trail for Election 2020 is off to a start with Joe Biden, former bartender Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and a badly reconfigured Kamala Harris are now ‘Off to See The Wizard, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Their campaign theme song should be a full-throated ‘If Joe Only Had a Brain’.

The entire electorate will soon hear Joe singing:

…”I could while away the hours
Dreamin’ of new powers
Watch America circlin’ the drain.

“Kamala’s hair I’ll be sniffin’
while common sense I’m missin’
If I only had a brain”….

With the Straw Man’s refrain droning non-stop through our tired-of-mask-wearing heads, some of us are singing, ‘Without a brain, Joe Biden simply cannot reign’.

But Straw Man Joe’s only the center of this comical little trio now skipping ‘Off to see the Wizard’.

Kamala Harris (yes, that’s really who debuted her ‘new look’ during Saturday’s interview with the Rev. Al Sharpton!) is barely recognizable in a new plastic surgery makeover that seems to outdo Lizzy Warren’s cherished high cheek bones, but even with that freaky new look, underneath all her rearranged skin, Kamala’s still really the same old, same old.

Much of Brainless Joe’s campaign platform is AOC’s, but with the Squad leader’s full support,  he didn’t have to plagiarize something not really his this time.

Some of us will go on singing that ‘Without a brain, Joe Simply Cannot Reign’.

If Kamala can have jaw-dropping plastic apples inserted in a facelift, why can’t Biden have a Brain Transplant?

While singing the refrains to ‘If I Only Had A Brain’, can’t someone out there kick off a Go Fund Me Just Fund for a Biden Brain Transplant?

Puulease, Pretty Puulease?

Do it for the Children while the Biden/Harris/AOC trio makes its way along the crazed Yellow Brick Road.

Meanwhile, here’s an updated list of Joe Biden gaffes proving he really needs a brain transplant:

Time: Top 10 Joe Biden Gaffes
RationalWiki: Full List of Joe Biden Gaffes

BIDEN UNITY PLATFORM

—From The Rose Garden White House Transcripts

Last week, Joe Biden released his unity platform, developed with socialist Bernie Sanders, describing what he would do if elected President.  The Biden-Sanders agenda is — agenda is the most extreme platform of any major party nominee, by far, in American history.  I think it’s worse than, actually, Bernie’s platform; it’s gone so far right.  And he’s doing that because he’s begging for their vote.

But one of the things I just asked my people to do is just draw up for me, just quickly, some of the things that we’ve been hearing about over the last couple of weeks.  And these are actual key elements of the Biden-Sanders unity platform:

  • Abolish immigration detention
  • Stop all deportation
  • End prosecution of illegal border crossers
  • Support the deadly sanctuary cities
  • Incentivize illegal-alien child smuggling
  • Expand asylum for all new illegal aliens
  • Cancel all asylum cooperation agreements in the Western Hemisphere
  • Taxpayer-funded lawyers will be given to all illegal aliens
  • Abolish immigration enforcement against illegal workers
  • Grant work permits for illegal aliens
  • Provide taxpayer subsidies and welfare for illegal aliens and new immigrants
  • Federal Student Aid and free community college for illegal aliens
  • Sign new immigrants up for welfare immediately
  • End requirement for immigrants’ self-sufficiency and maximize their welfare
  • End all travel bans
  • Grant mass amnesty
  • Vastly expand low-skilled immigration to the United States
  • Increase refugee admissions by 700 percent
  • Abolish law enforcement as we know it
  • End cash bail
  • Abolish completely the death penalty
  • Appoint social justice prosecutors in order to free violent criminals
  • End mandatory minimums
  • Incentivize prison closure
  • Abolish our police departments
  • End solitary confinement
  • Free federal housing for former inmates
  • Rejoin Paris Climate Accord
  • Mandate net-zero carbon emissions for homes, offices, and all new buildings by 2030
  • Mandate zero carbon emissions from power plants by 2035
  • Mandate net-zero carbon emissions by 2050
  • Mandate all 500,000 school buses and all 3 million government vehicles be changed to zero-emission vehicles within five years
  • Install 500,000 taxpayer-funded charging stations nationwide
  • End school choice
  • End tax credit scholarships serving disadvantaged students in 26 states
  • Oppose 14 million Americans with education savings accounts and get rid of school choice, having to do with school choice
  • Eliminate school choice in Washington, D.C.
  • Abolish all charter schools
  • Ban funding for charter schools in poor neighborhoods
  • Abolish educational standards
  • Enforce Obama-Biden’s radical AFFH

PEOPLESHEEP

— Tony Mangan, CFP’s Cowboy Poet

Some people tend to stand and wait
For someone else to spring the gate.
They stand and mind the things they keep,
Some people tend to be like sheep.

Politicians despots all,
Lead the sheep as they bawl
The sheep they follow, like they “oughta”
Alas, I fear, to final slaughter.

They put their heads down
And follow the leader
Reacting to the dogs
Who are setting the meter.

Ambling along without even a clue,
Believe they’re in tune with all that’s new,
Walk, eyes cast down, just like a snail
There’s nothing ahead–except somebody’s tail!

Jul 21 2020

Renewing, Recovering, Restoring, Rebuilding


Some see the election of Donald Trump in 2016 as nothing less than a miracle

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Re-posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and Archives—July 20, 2020

Donald Trump

Make America Great Again Again!  He did it once and he can do it again.  By taking the shackles off the American people and our economy President Donald Trump in three short years led us from the doldrums of Obama’s New Normal to the greatest economic boom the world has ever seen.  Record growth, record unemployment, and corporations returning from overseas by every metric America was taking off like a rocket.  Then came the Social Security Flu and the plandemic.  Then came the outrage in Minneapolis and the 1619 revolution.

Like a one-two punch these twin catastrophes have America reeling on the edge of the abyss.  The Democrat Party is all in with BLM and ANTIFA.  They cheer as the outrages and demands grow into the shrill cries of America-as-we-have-known-her hating revolutionaries on the barricades of autonomous no-go zones.  Labeling anyone who gets in the way of their takeover as racists, these black shirted thugs operate as the military arm of the socialists attempting to remake America in the image of their revered Cuba and Venezuela.

America First Agenda: immigration, China, big tech censorship, Democrats push for voting by mail, and the radical left’s war on America’s heritage and monuments

Most Republicans shake in fear of the broad-brush ad hominin attacks of the democrats who identify as journalists.  In stark contrast to this toothless and despicable abdication,  President Trump boldly stands almost alone trying to rally the forces of civil society in the face of anarchy and rebellion.  The rising crescendo of attacks, accusations, investigations, and who knows maybe even another manufactured impeachment debacle fall like hammer blows.  Never has one politician stood up under such a relentless daily attack.

Think about it. If Hillary had won where do you think we would be right now?  If the socialists manage to drag Old Joe and whoever they really want to be president over the cheat-by-mail finish line where do you think we will be in a year from now?

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.  All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.  Our President is sounding forth the trumpet that shall never sound retreat.
President Donald Trump staked out some major positions of his re-election campaign during a powerful speech in the Dream City Church in North Phoenix at an event organized by Students for Trump and Turning Point Action.  In this speech our President didn’t equivocate or evade.  He forthrightly addressed the big issues of our times outlining major themes of his America First Agenda: immigration, China, big tech censorship, Democrats push for voting by mail, and the radical left’s war on America’s heritage and monuments.

To thunderous applause he said, “This is a choice of two futures: the left’s vision of disunity and discord or our vision of equal opportunity and equal justice.  We will never cave to the left-wing and the left-wing intolerance. We will never surrender to mob violence, and we will uphold American freedom, equality, and justice for every citizen of every background,”

The president pointed out that we are engaged in a relentless fight against a radicalized left.  And that they use their almost complete control of the media, entertainment, and academia to suppress free speech saying, “Anyone who dissents from their orthodoxy must be punished, canceled, or banished.  Democrats have embarked on a mission to tear down existing American traditions and institutions, no matter what the cost.  We’re not going to take moral lectures from the same left-wing ideologues who oppose school choice, who support deadly sanctuary cities, who want to defund our police – defund and abolish our police.  Think of it: Defund and abolish is now their theme.”

The illegal efforts to destroy and deface America’s monuments and statues by the 1619 rebels shows how much they want to fundamentally change everything about our country.

The President said, “They’re tearing down statues, desecrating monuments, and purging dissenters.  It’s not the behavior of a peaceful political movement; it’s the behavior of totalitarians and tyrants and people that don’t love our country.”

Turning to the Democrat push for universal mail-in voting which amounts to changing the rules in the middle of an election year, without any reliable vetting procedures in place,  the President observed, “This will be, in my opinion, the most corrupt election in the history of our country.”

Not one to leave foreign policy out of his equations President Trump reminded the crowd that previous leaders allowed China to rip off the United States.  He is the first president in decades to stand up to the communist behemoth. Warning that, “A vote for Biden in 2020 was a vote for China.  They get in, China will own this country” the President brought his audience to their feet.

Immigration wasn’t forgotten in this speech either as the President pointed to the progress on the wall on the southern border and his curtailing of visas in favor of American workers.  He thundered from the podium, “We took historic action to block the entry of foreign workers into our nation.  We believe that companies should hire American workers and American students first.”

The Masters of the Universe tech giants didn’t escape President Trump’s target

The Masters of the Universe tech giants didn’t escape President Trump’s target as he warned of their efforts to censor the free speech of anyone who doesn’t toe the Liberal-Democrat-Socialist line.  “As everyone knows, they’re using their enormous power to silence conservative voices.  You know that. It’s not even close. I don’t even think they’re hiding it anymore,” he said.

The president spoke about the righteous defiance of those who made America free in the first place and who stood up throughout our history to keep the light of liberty alive.  He repeatedly urged Americans to keep the fire of freedom burning.  Noting that we are in a spiritual battle,  the President said, “It’s the same spirit that compels each of you to stand strong against the dull, mindless, soul-crushing conformity mandated by far-left pundits, professors, and liberal politicians.  They’re taking our country in the wrong direction.”

Seeing his opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, as merely a straw man, a cat’s paw the left are exploiting to regain the power they lost when he was elected President, Trump noted, “If ever he became President, this country would be a mess. They would rip down everything … He wouldn’t call the shots.  He would have nothing to do with it. The left would only lock him in the Oval Office so they could do as they pleased.”

Some see the election of Donald Trump in 2016 as nothing less than a miracle.  Whether the President believes that or not I don’t know.  Keeping his remarks to a more secular turn the President attributed his surprise election to the fact that Americans weren’t happy with the way the country was headed under former President Barack Obama and his Vice President Joe Biden.  Looking directly into the cameras he said, “I’m only here because of President Obama and the job he did, and Sleepy Joe Biden and the job that he didn’t do.  People were very unhappy. The fake news doesn’t report it. There was tremendous dissent, tremendous anger.”

Keep the faith.  Keep the peace.  We shall overcome

What does all this mean to us?  Those of us who support President Trump must soldier on.  We may have relatives and friends shun us.  We will see our standards, goals, and beliefs disparaged daily in the media.

We may face discrimination and reprisals at work, at school, and at home.  But we cannot waver. We must do all we can to preserve truth, justice, and the American way.

As Thomas Paine told us at the beginning of the American experiment when we dared to face off against the most powerful country in the world, “These are the times that try men’s souls.  The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.  What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.  Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.”

Keep the faith.  Keep the peace.  We shall overcome.