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Sadly, we are leaving very early tomorrow morning to attend the funeral, in Atlanta, of a dear friend who lived in our neighborhood. He died younger than he should have because he had breathing and heart issues. He had a good heart when it came to generosity but bad one when it came to living out his years. May his soul RIP. We shall return late tomorrow evening.
Tonight we shall watch the VP Debate but probably not have much time to comment. I have already scheduled memos to be sent Thursday and Friday.
I listened for about 15 minutes and concluded I was not going to learn anything. Harris criticizes because she feels compelled to and Pence responds because he is compelled to.
One day we might have debate using facts and expressing specifically how they would do things differently. Waste of time and I have to get up early.
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I leave it up to you to watch both videos:
CREEPY JOE! Cameras Catch Biden DROOLING Over Little Girls – This is a Campaign Ender FOR SURE!
Breaking: EVACUATE CA NOW: Gavin Newsom Signs Bill OFFICIALLY Making CA a Dangerous State for White People
And:
Subject: Social Security Taxing
Prior to 1983, social security payments were not taxable. In 1983, Joe Biden voted in favor of taxing 50% of social security payments - and it passed.
In 1993, Joe Biden doubled down and was the deciding vote in raising the percentage taxed on social security from 50% to 85%.
Joe Biden is not a friend to working folks - and certainly not to retirees. His voting record on social security over the years is one slap in the face to retirees after another.
Now he wants to tax our 401k's and IRA's (it's on page 78 of the Dems' platform) and he also wants to introduce a 3% annual tax on our homes. The record of Joe Biden shows he never misses an opportunity to raise a tax or introduce a tax to hurt the middle class and retirees.
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As noted previously, Soros, assisted by Eric Holder, actingon behalf of Obama, continues to fund attorney general races. Candidates he selects and funds are radicals and if they run successful campaigns you will see more disruptive decisions that are anti-American, anti-law and order and intended to perpetuate divisive decisions.
Soros Funds Campaign of L.A. Prosecutor Candidate who Vows Lock Up Fewer Criminals |
| Leftwing billionaire George Soros just donated $1.5 million to help the nation’s most populous county elect a Black Lives Matter-endorsed prosecutor who promises to lock up fewer criminals. The sizable contribution to former San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon’s campaign for Los Angeles District Attorney is part of a broader effort by Soros to place leftists in local prosecutors’ offices around the country. The philanthropist has donated generously to these types of candidates throughout California as well as in other states, including Florida, Virginia, Illinois, Texas and New Mexico. Earlier this year, a Soros-linked group called Missouri Justice Public Safety PAC gave St. Louis prosecutor Kimberly Gardner, who criminally charged a couple for defending their home against violent Black Lives Matter protestors, $78,000. Soros also helped fund Gardner’s 2016 campaign and his reelection support has not wavered even though she was investigated for abusing her power to pursue a bogus criminal case against a political nemesis and fined for campaign finance violations. |
| Read More +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sent to me by a dear neighbor friend and fellow memo reader who served this nation honorably:
Look, I get it. Joe is old and feebleminded. Trump is brash and a bully. But this election is not about the personality of the president, it’s about the health of our nation. The division and vitriol must end. But how did we get to this point and how do we get back to the wondrous experiment our Founding Fathers foresaw for us? How did our country get here? I’ve already known: 1) Silencing God from every public arena. 2) Destroying the traditional family. 3) Killing our unborn children. 4) Not having to work for food, shelter, basic needs. 5) Rampant materialism. Success tied to having the most, best stuff. 6) Dumbing down our children from everything that made our nation strong. (Would most young people even know what the Constitution says or how a republic works?) 7) Video games, (many violent), smartphones by the age of 8-10 full of ungodly photos and information, and constant noise from a leftist, agenda driven media. 8) The bullies winning the day in almost every arena of life. 9) No accountability or demand for the “rule of law” applied justly and fairly to everyone. 10) Loss of respect for authority of any kind. We cannot blame anyone or anything other than ourselves. It’s on us. We have had our eyes closed, either by choice, distraction or intimidation. The question now is, are we going to the logical end on this path of destruction or will we take a stand? Bruce Vana, Peoria My response to my friend: "Amen, been preaching the same stuff for 60 plus years. Began sending memos Feb. 1, 1960. Me +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Here comes the future:
5- Gas pumps will go away.
33- Electric cars will become mainstream about 2030. Cities will be less noisy because all new cars will run on electricity. 34- Cities will have much cleaner air as well. 35- Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean. 36- Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years, but you can now see the burgeoning impact. And it's just getting ramped up. 37- Fossil energy companies are desperately trying to limit access to the grid to prevent competition from home solar installations; but, that simply cannot continue - technology will take care of that strategy. 38- Health: "Tricorder X" will be announced this year. There are companies which will build a medical device (called the Tricorder from Star Trek) that works with your phone – taking your retina scan, your blood sample, and you breathe into it. It then analyses 54 bio-markers that will identify nearly any disease There are dozens of phone apps out right now for health. WELCOME TO TOMORROW! – some of it actually arrived a few years ago. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ My friend and fellow memo reader was one of the senior analysts at this superb organization and now retired. Cliff May heads the FDD and is smart as a whip. This is a very interesting article: McMaster and commander in chief The former national security advisor on the urgent need for “strategic competence”
This book covered released by HarperCollins shows “Battlegrounds” by Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster. more >
There was a simplicity to the Cold War. Free peoples, and those who aspired to that status, were threatened by communism, a totalitarian ideology aggressively propagated by the Soviet Union, an expansionist empire. The Cold War also was a “forever war”: No one knew when it would end.
And then, of course, it did end, the way a character in Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” describes having gone bankrupt: “Gradually, then suddenly.”
After that, Americans took a holiday from history, one abruptly brought to a halt on Sept. 11, 2001. Over the years since, other threats to the U.S. have emerged or, more precisely, been widely (though not universally) recognized. The response of American leaders has left much to be desired.
During the 13 months he served as National Security Advisor to the commander in chief, H.R. McMaster made a strenuous effort to bring what he calls “strategic competence” to the Rubik’s Cube that is national security in the 21st century.
He has now distilled his thinking into a book. It’s titled “Battlegrounds” (note his use of the plural), and subtitled: “The Fight to Defend the Free World” (note his conviction that there is, still, a Free World, and that it is worth defending).
Brief background: Lt. Gen. McMaster served 34 years in the U.S. Army (including deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan), picking up a doctorate in history along the way, and teaching at West Point. He’s currently the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Stanford University, and Chairman of the Board of Advisors at FDD’s Center on Military and Political Power (CMPP).
“Battlegrounds,” Gen. McMaster writes in the preface, “is not the book most people wanted me to write.” That book would have been a gossipy tell-all, focusing on Donald Trump’s unique persona.
Instead, his purpose was to “help transcend the vitriol of partisan political discourse and help readers understand better the most significant challenges to security, freedom, and prosperity.”
Gen. McMaster begins by identifying a serious flaw in much of that discourse: “Strategic narcissism,” which he defines as “the tendency to view the world only in relation to the United States, and to assume that the future course of events depends primarily on U.S. decisions or plans.” This can result in either “overconfidence” or “resignation,” postures that “share the conceit of attributing outcomes almost exclusively to U.S. decisions and undervaluing the degree to which others influence the future.”
Among the examples he cites: President Bush’s underappreciation of the risks of action when he invaded Iraq in 2003, and President Obama’s underappreciation of the risks of inaction when he withdrew all U.S. forces from Iraq in 2011.
The corrective to strategic narcissism is “strategic empathy,” defined as “the skill of understanding what drives and constrains one’s adversaries.”
It’s comforting to believe that our adversaries want security, freedom, and prosperity as much as we do; that they prefer compromise and cooperation to confrontation. But rarely is that the case. China’s rulers provide a vivid example.
One year after the Tiananmen Square Massacre, President George H.W. Bush declared: “As people have commercial incentive, whether it’s in China or in other totalitarian countries, the move to democracy becomes inexorable.” But it doesn’t.
Arguing that China be admitted into the World Trade Organization. President Bill Clinton asserted that Beijing “is agreeing to import one of democracy’s most cherished values: economic freedom.” But Beijing wasn’t.
President Barak Obama’s China polices, Gen. McMaster writes, rested “on the belief that engagement would foster cooperation.” But that’s not what happened.
Breaking with this tradition, the 2017 National Security Strategy, written under Gen. McMaster’s direction, and signed by President Trump, recognized that China’s rulers view themselves as our adversaries and rivals for global leadership.
Gen. McMaster also understood that Vladimir Putin’s Russia has been “pursuing an aggressive strategy to subvert the United States and other Western democracies.” Pushing a little button labeled “reset” was never going to change that.
Though the Islamic Republic of Iran has been implacably hostile to the United States since its founding in 1979, Ben Rhodes, one of President Obama’s top deputies, assured Americans that the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action would produce “an evolution in Iranian behavior” as the clerical regime became “more engaged with the international community.” That was a pipe dream.
One administration after another has either ignored or addressed ineffectively the metastasizing threat posed by the dynastic dictatorship in North Korea.
Lack of strategic competence has been on display in Afghanistan, too. There, Gen. McMaster writes, after the “military successes of 2001, a complex competition ensued with an unseated, but not defeated, Taliban; an elusive Al Qaeda; new terrorist groups; and supporters of those terrorist organizations, including elements of the Pakistan Army, a supposed ally.”
He describes what happened next: “Paradoxically, a short-war mentality lengthened the conflict. The war had lasted nearly two decades, but the United States and its coalition partners had not fought a two-decade-long war. Afghanistan was a one-year war fought twenty times over.”
I haven’t space here to summarize all the shifts in strategic thinking Gen. McMaster would recommend to any American commander in chief hoping to prevail on today’s multiple battlegrounds. Suffice to say he grasps that when America appears weak, America emboldens its enemies. He knows that enriching adversaries doesn’t appease them. He believes military strength can deter. And when deterrence fails, and conflict is inevitable, military strength becomes even more essential.
Gen. McMaster also cautions that isolationism – call it “restraint” or “responsible statecraft” or “opposition to forever wars” if you like – is a siren song. As Leon Trotsky almost said: You may not be interested in national security, but national security is interested in you.
Clifford D. May is founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and a columnist for the Washington Times. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Biden Diary Day 36 - 43 An entire week went by and I was diagnosed with Covid 19. I have been wearing a mask the entire time I have been in The White House but I am learning you cannot avoid contact with people and you do not know where they have been. I hate to admit but now that I am standing in Trump's shoes I have a greater appreciation of what he endured. The doc's at Walter Reed are superb and the care I received was excellent but It has really hit me hard. I have no energy. Kamala has been helpful and loves being president. My wife keep warning me she loves it too much but what can I do? I am just not up for the demands of the job. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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