One would have thought that a 90-day suspension of immigration from seven countries with minimal economic ties to the United States would be minor news. It has to be the best thing an American president has done since Ronald Reagan told Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall, because [of] it all the people I dislike have gone bat-guano crazy.
The mainstream press is blaming Trump for everything including a down day on the stock market.
...Then we have Starbucks, Lyft, and the whole Silicon Valley circus denouncing Trump for cutting off their labor supply--as if they employed Somalis or Yemenis.
It's just fake news, folks. Fake news has metastasized from the gossip columns (vicious personal attacks against Trump family members) to the political columns (scurrilous slanders against Trump team members like Gen. Mike Flynn and Steve Bannon, to the financial page.
...The biggest piece of fake news is that Trump is isolationist. It's true that the catchphrase "America First" originated with isolationists. In the 1930s, Charles Lindbergh's "America First" movement opposed intervention against the Nazis. De facto it was an instrument of German foreign policy.
By sharp contrast, President Trump has promised to "eradicate" the contemporary equivalent of Nazism, namely radical Islam terrorism. That means to eradicate it anywhere in the world. It's the polar opposite of Lindbergh's isolationism: It means that America is going use all of its power all over the world to stamp out the present-day version of Nazism. Radical Islam is a lineal descendant of Nazism. See Paul Berman's book The Flight of the Intellectuals for documentation of the common history of Nazism and modern Islamism.
That isn't isolationism. It's an activist foreign policy. It happens to be the kind of activism that the Democratic Party and the McCain wing of the Republican Party don't like. What Trump means by America First is that America will not sacrifice the blood of its soldiers and the security of its citizens in a Utopian quest to save other countries and cultures who, sadly, insist on destroying themselves. Instead, we will insulate ourselves from their failure and take measures to protect ourselves from their hatred and rage against us.
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Enjoy the show, and don't believe what you read in the papers.
The author argues that describing Trump's foreign policy as "isolationism" is fake news. It's not that it's an unfair description or even it may be a misguided interpretation - no its fake. And for good measure he goes on to tell you what to believe. We witnessed this level of organized hyper ass-kissing with last administration and we're not even two weeks into the new one.
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In the 1930s, Charles Lindbergh's "America First" movement opposed intervention against the Nazis.
We didn't no matter how hard FDR tried to drag us into Europe's second suicide attempt. It took the Germans and Italians declaration of war on the US days after the Japanese attack to get us involved.
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Morning news, every other segment was a Trump bash, concern face and everything. Hadn't seen something so poorly done since I was in grade school performing in Stone Soup.
Republicans hoped he would turn out to be a conventional conservative. Democrats hoped he would not do anything too drastic, and maybe even strike a few deals.
But the best guide to what Donald Trump would do as president appears to be what he said he would do as president.
..."People are just not prepared for the fact that we’re not dealing with a regular Republican-versus-Democrat battle here, we’re dealing with an administration that in its first week has demonstrated that it doesn’t have much respect for the rule of law," Schneiderman said. "We’re in for a bigger challenge to our constitutional fabric than we’ve faced in a very long time in this country." Of course we know that people like Schneiderman invent "the Law" as they go along
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Obama was the first president who did not feel bound by the rule of law. Trump is actually being very careful to follow the rules, but he has the advantage of running an executive branch that the Dims spent 8 years weaponizing.
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“As Americans, we have to call out the con early, and actively push back on attempts to demonize undocumented people and to constrict the rights of citizens,” Ellison said.
Attaboy Keith! You don't see a conflict between letting in undocumented people and constricting the rights of citizens? Has it occurred to you the more undocumented people there are, the less of everything is left over for the citizens?
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This whole Trump is FDR! deal was pitched to me a couple days ago by someone I actually have some opinion about, so the astroturf has been incubating for a few days now.
I find it interesting, trashing FDR to trash Trump.
Like smashing the statue of Jupiter for a casting of Mormo.
#5
He made a promise to us the voters. He promised to do what he says he would do and not be like the normal politician that blows with the wind. We voted for him and I expect, no I demand he keep his promise. So far he has proven to be a man of his word.
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[Wash Times] NBC’s Chuck Todd confessed that he and others in the mainstream news media played down just how despised Hillary Clinton was in the heartland due to the fear of appearing "sexist." Forgive me father. It has been 57 years since my last confession.
What’s more, he admitted, the mainstream media failed to "tell the stories of all Americans."
"Where I think political correctness got in the way of what we all knew as reporters and didn’t fully deliver was how hated the Clintons were in the heartland," the "Meet the Press" host admitted Thursday to former Bush White House press secretary Ari Fleischer in a interview for the "1947" podcast.
"And I think it was a fear of, ’Oh, is it going to look like it’s sexist, anti-woman if we say that?’" he added, pointing out that on the hustings he saw numerous "Hillary for Prison" signs adorning the front yards of rural America.
"I think we underplayed it a little bit out of political correctness fears," Mr. Todd said. "No member of the press corps wants to look like they’re singling out a group and making a group feel bad, right, whatever that [group] is.
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So Chuckie admits they slant the news according to their own political beliefs. They sure pulled one over on Clinton telling her she didn't need to campaign in Wisconsin and Michigan.
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No member of the press corps wants to look like they’re singling out a group and making a group feel bad, right, whatever that [group] is. unless they're white, male or Christian."
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No member of the press corps wants to look like they’re singling out a group and making a group feel bad, right, whatever that [group] is.
If this were true, there would be no press. Reporting is supposed to focus conflict, change and trend. As for groups, it's "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
This not a case of poor news judgement, it was clearly propaganda.
Worse, they're doubling down again.
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[The Hill] Drudge slams GOP Congress for making Trump 'do everything alone' Drudge Report founder Matt Drudge slammed the GOP-led Congress in a rare tweet Monday, accusing the party's lawmakers of hanging President Trump "out to dry" on issues like taxes and ObamaCare.
"Congress hanging The Donald out to dry. Making him do everything alone! Despicable. No tax cuts, no Obamacare repeal. NOTHING," wrote Drudge, an ardent Trump supporter.
A few minutes later, Drudge took Republican lawmakers to task for not yet repealing ObamaCare, despite holding majorities in both houses.
President Trump has moved at a blistering pace since taking office 10 days ago with a series of executive actions that have ranged from an immigration order that imposed a 120-day suspension of the refugee program and a 90-day ban on travel to the U.S. from citizens of seven countries, to withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, to reviving the Keystone XL pipeline and Dakota Access pipelines, among many others.
Repealing ObamaCare and tax cuts, however, cannot be done via executive order and require action from Congress. While lawmakers are expected to repeal ObamaCare at some point through the budget reconciliation process, Republicans worried at their congressional retreat last week that a rushed repeal would hurt the party in the 2018 elections.
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Notice the guy with the Make America Great Again hat? The flipped the image so you wouldn't notice he was a trump supported. Check the sign in the background - it's reversed, too.
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Sec. 2. Exceptions. (a) No individual who is serving in an office listed in section 1 of this order in an acting capacity, by virtue of so serving, shall act as Attorney General pursuant to this order.
That part? Sally can't be Acting AG?
Trump fired her for failing to enforce the law, I believe.
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Nah, he has been doing things like this for years.
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Many years ago AD unleashed a righteous rant about the Jew haters who claim to only be against Israel NOT against the Jews. He ripped their moral relevancy argument / double standard into shreds and left them on the floor.
Yes, he is a flaming lib on most issues but this is not new by a long chalk.
h/t Instapundit
After the election, Democrats could not explain the inexplicable defeat of Hillary Clinton, who would be, they thought, the shoo-in winner in November. Over the next three months until Inauguration Day, progressives floated a variety of explanations for the Trump win--none of them, though, mentioned that the Clinton campaign had proven uninspired, tactically inept, and never voiced a message designed to appeal to the working classes.
When a particular exegesis of defeat failed to catch on, it was mostly dropped--and then replaced by a new narrative. We were told that the Electoral College wrongly nullified the popular vote--and that electors had a duty to renege on their obligations to vote for their respective state’s presidential winner.
Then followed the narrative of Trump’s racist dog-whistle appeals to the white working classes. When it was reported that Barack Obama had received a greater percentage of the white votes than did either John Kerry in 2004 or Hillary Clinton in 2016, the complaint of white chauvinism too faded.
Then came the allegation that FBI Director James Comey had given the election to Trump by reopening the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails just days before Election Day. That fable too evaporated when it was acknowledged that Comey had earlier intervened to declare Clinton without culpability and would so again before November 8.
Then came the trope that Vladimir Putin’s hackers stole the election--on the theory that the Wikileaks revelations had turned off the electorate in a way the Clinton candidacy otherwise would not have. That storyline then evolved into the idea of Russian propagandists and Trump supporters variously peddling "fake news" to websites to promulgate myths and distortions--as a grand plan to Hillary Clinton and give Trump the election.
More specifically, it was alleged that Trump’s exaggerations and fabrications--from his allegations about Barack Obama’s birth certificate to rumor-mongering about Ted Cruz’s father--had so imperiled journalism that the media in general was forced to pronounce there was no longer a need to adhere to disinterested reporting in the traditional sense.
...Yet all politicians fib and distort the truth--and they’ve been doing so since the freewheeling days of the Athenian ekklesia. Trump’s various bombastic allegations and claims fall into the same realm of truthfulness as Obama’s statement "if you like your health plan, you can keep it"--and were thus similarly cross-examined by the media.
Yet fake news is something quite different. It is not merely a public figure’s spinning of half-truths. It is largely a media-driven, and deliberate attempt to spread a false narrative to advance a political agenda that otherwise would be rejected by a common-sense public. The methodology is to manufacture a narrative attractive to a herd-like progressive media that will then devour and brand it as fact--and even lobby for government redress.
...No one has described the methodology of fake news better than Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security advisor for Barack Obama and brother of the president of CBS News, David Rhodes. Ben Rhodes cynically bragged about how the Obama administration had sold the dubious Iran deal through misinformation picked up by an adolescent but sympathetic media (for which Rhodes had only contempt). As Rhodes put it, "The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing."
...In sum, fake news is journalism’s popular version of the nihilism of campus postmodernism. To progressive journalists, advancing a leftwing political agenda is important enough to justify the creation of misleading narratives and outright falsehoods to deceive the public--to justify, in other words, the creation of fake but otherwise useful news. Don't remember who said it - probably some Russian. "The main difference between Russia and USA is that in Russia Stalin exterminated all the true believers.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
One would have thought that a 90-day suspension of immigration from seven countries with minimal economic ties to the United States would be minor news. It has to be the best thing an American president has done since Ronald Reagan told Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall, because [of] it all the people I dislike have gone bat-guano crazy.
