Monday, November 11, 2019

Will It Blow Up In Schiff Head's Face? Israel Under Attack. Moyer Concerned.




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Schiff head's investigation, in my humble opinion,  is going to blow up in his face because when you lie, as he consistently does, it eventually boomerangs. (See 1 below.)

And:

Kamala Harris the pre-imminent  campaigner . (See 1a below.)
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Lynn bought me two books recently. One is "Triggered."  Have not begun to read. (See 2 below.)
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 Israel continues under attack from Hamas. (See 3, 3a and 3b below.)

And:

If you believe America has self serving politicians Israel tops us hands down. (See c below.)
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Trump should call the Democrat's hand/hypocrisy/insanity with this strategy. (See 4 below.)

And:

Moyer concerned about republic's survival. (See 4a below.)
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Dick
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1)Ambassador Sonderland Testifies He was Unaware of Any “Quid Pro Quo”


Last week’s testimony from E.U. Ambassador Gordon Sondland backed up what President Trump has said from day one: there was no “quid pro quo” between POTUS and Ukraine President Zelensky.
However, Democrats are trying to twist the testimony to say the opposite.
Transcripts of Sonderland’s testimony reveal he never had any firsthand knowledge of any “quid pro quo” involving U.S. military aid traded for Ukraine investigations.
Fortunately, a small Republican counsel was able to enter Schiff’s secret basement hearings and ask Sonderland questions like this: “To the best of your knowledge, do you know about any preconditions on the aid?”
Sonderland replied, “No.”
Sonderland revealed in his testimony a phone call on September 9, 2019, when he called the President and asked him what he wanted from Ukraine.
Trump replied“I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo. I want Zelensky to do the right thing.”
Sonderland said he replied, “What does that mean?”
POTUS responded“I want him (Zelensky) to do what he ran on.”
Two days after this phone call, the foreign aid was unfrozen, and Ukraine didn’t have to do anything to get it.
Of course, the Democrats are trying to twist the testimony to fit their narrative by focusing on a small portion of Sonderland’s testimony where he told an aide to
Ukrainian President Zelensky that resumption of U.S. aid “would likely not occur until Ukraine provided the public an anti-corruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks.”
North Carolina Republican Rep. Mark Meadows attended Sondland’s testimony and took to Twitter to point out the Democrat’s lies on what Sondland testified.


1a)

Did Anyone Notice What Kamala Harris Just Said About Democrats?

I haven’t been able to shake this comment from my mind since she made it a couple weeks ago. Maybe it’s because Kamala Harris was my confident early prediction for the Democratic presidential nomination, maybe it’s because I still struggle to understand how someone can be so bad at running a national campaign as she […]
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2)Trump Jr. Goes On The Offensive, Democrats EXPOSED

Speaking on Fox News’ “Life, Liberty & Levin” to promote his new book, “Triggered,”  Donald Trump Jr. spoke directly to the American people, asserting that they realized in 30 seconds that when the Democrats chose Special Counsel Robert Mueller it was “one big joke,” that it was part of a “witch hunt” designed to target his father, President Donald Trump.

Speaking on Fox News’ “Life, Liberty & Levin” to promote his new book, “Triggered,”  Donald Trump Jr. spoke directly to the American people, asserting that they realized in 30 seconds that when the Democrats chose Special Counsel Robert Mueller it was “one big joke,” that it was part of a “witch hunt” designed to target his father, President Donald Trump.SpeakingSpeaking on Fox News’ “Life, Liberty & Levin” to promote his new book, “Triggered,”  Donald Trump Jr. spoke directly to the American people, asserting that they realized in 30 seconds that when the Democrats chose Special Counsel Robert Mueller it was “one big joke,” that it was part of a “witch hunt” designed to target his father, President Donald Trump.

Trump Jr, stated, “They’re trying to, you know, reverse the results of an election that they didn’t agree with, though the American people obviously agreed.” He said of Mueller, “Obviously, they only brought him in because he was the former head of the FBI and he was a decorated Marine. So he’s above reproach. Trump cannot possibly attack him … Then, they were going to get him, finally — they were going to get Trump. We’re gonna put him on the stand. And, within about 30 seconds, the American public realized that this thing was one big joke, that they used Robert Mueller simply because of the credentials and … the fact that he was beyond reproach because of his resume. They realized this guy had no idea what he’s even talking about.”

Trump Jr. noted Mueller’s remarks from the July Congressional hearing in which he stated that allegations against ex-MI6 agent Christopher Steele were a subject “beyond my purview,” followed by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) retorting, “No, that’s directly in your purview, Mr. Mueller and here’s why. Either Steele made this whole thing up and there were never any Russians telling him of this vast criminal conspiracy that you didn’t find, or, Russians lied to Steele.”
Trump Jr. commented, “It was a joke. And I do believe that despite the media attacks, the American people get it … They see the nonsense. They see the witch hunt.”
Trump Jr. posited that that the president has served as an example of how Republicans should counter Democrats, saying, “And I think it’s been a great thing in the sense that it’s shown conservatives that you can actually fight back. You don’t just have to turn the other cheek We’ve done that for 50 years and all we’ve done to cede ground to the lunatic fringe of the left and their policies.”
Last Thursday, as The Daily Wire reported, Trump Jr. told radio show host Rush Limbaugh:
We’re at war, and we’re at war for our freedoms. We’re at war for our culture. You know, this is the largest divide between the two political parties in the history of the country. You know, I write a lot in the book about socialism and communism, ’cause my mother escaped from it. You know, I grew up with grandparents that lived through that stuff. You know, I spent summers in what was then communist Czechoslovakia. I can tell you those bread lines that Bernie talks about are not nearly so wonderful.”
Trump bashed the media recently, telling The Daily Wire, “The hypocrisy of the Left, the hypocrisy of the mainstream media, and their sort of unabashed willingness to just disregard the notion of fairness — the notion that they are there to report the news and just be a cheerleader for one side and that’s obviously what they are. They are the marketing wing of the DNC.”
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3) HONEST REPORTING
Dear Marilyn and Richard,
Today, millions of Israelis (including some of our own staff) were awakened by 
rocket sirens.
Why?
Early this morning, Israel killed the notorious Palestinian Islamic Jihad senior commander Baha Abu al-Ata in Gaza, with a strike so precise that it damaged only the part of the building that he was in. Terror groups in Gaza responded with 
dozens of indiscriminate rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, reaching from southern Israel to as far north as Tel Aviv. 
Within hours, our MediaCentral team held a press conference call to make sure the media would get the story right: it was attended by The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, Voice of America and more. Our press event has already produced a noticeable improvement in today’s coverage, with quotes in The New York Times and others. 
As I write this, our YouTube team has just completed a video that will be released today in our IsraBite roundup, and also to young adults on social media. Meanwhile, Dov Lipman (former Member of Knesset and now our Senior Manager 
of Community Outreach) and I are preparing a livestream presentation on Facebook (be sure to watch on our Facebook page at 8:00 AM EST). You’ll 
be able to share comments and ask us questions in real time! 
I’m so proud of our whole team: most of us were hard at work even before leaving home this morning, and we’re not done yet! 
This is a critical news day, and we’re doing everything we can to make sure 
the media gets it right
We have the resources to respond instantly and effectively thanks to your generous donations. Thank you so much: for caring about Israel, and for making it possible for us to put that emotion into action!

With best wishes from Jerusalem,
Sincerely,
Daniel Pomerantz
Executive Director

3a)

The Gaza strike and what it means for Iran, 

Hamas and Gantz - Analysis

By YAAKOV KATZ
The early morning Israeli airstrike on Tuesday that killed a top Islamic Jihad commander in the Gaza Strip carried with it a number of messages addressed to Hamas, Iran and Syria. 
Just minutes after the Air Force bombed the home of Islamic Jihad’s Baaa Abu Al-Atta in Gaza, killing him and his wife, another explosion took place in Damascus at the home of the deputy 
head of Islamic Jihad, whose headquarters are located in the city. Israel did not take credit for the Damascus bombing, and it was unclear whether Akram Al-Ajouri was killed or wounded in the strike.
Either way, Israel was saying very clearly: All of Islamic Jihad is in our sights and is a legitimate target. No one is beyond Israel’s reach. 
Al-Atta has been at the top of Israel’s target bank since September when Islamic Jihad fired 
rockets at Ashdod, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was addressing a rally of Likud supporters in the run-up to the general election. As the rockets were making their way to Ashdod, Netanyahu’s security detail came on stage and – in front of the cameras - quickly escorted him 
to a nearby secure room. 
It was Al-Atta who again last Friday night launched about a dozen rockets into Israel. It was 
only a matter of time before Israel settled the score with him.
What happens next will depend on Islamic Jihad and Hamas. If Islamic Jihad continues to fire rockets into Israel and Hamas joins the attacks, Israel will escalate its own operation. It has, over the last few years since the Gaza War of 2014, accumulated an impressive list of potential targets that it could strike in the event that this round of violence escalates into a major confrontation. 
Then, there is Iran. Israel has been on edge in recent months over the possibility that Tehran will launch an attack against with cruise missiles and killer drones similar to the one that it carried 
out against a Saudi oil refinery two months ago. Iran’s aggression went without response from Saudi Arabia or the US, and Israel felt that the Islamic republic might try to do something 
similar against the Jewish state. 
What Israel showed on Tuesday is that it is not simply waiting, and is not paralyzed in fear of 
what Iran might or might not do. Islamic Jihad’s primary patron is Iran, and most of its financial support comes from the Ayatollahs in Tehran. Killing one of its top field commanders in Gaza 
and striking – allegedly – at the same time in Damascus, shows that Israel is willing to take risks
 to keep its citizens safe. 
And then there is the political situation in Israel. Blue and White leader Benny Gantz was 
updated about the al-Atta targeted killing just before it took place. He still has eight days before 
his mandate to form a coalition expires. If Israel embarks on a large-scale operation in Gaza, 
what will that mean for coalition talks? Can Gantz even negotiate with other parties while 
rockets are landing and airstrikes are being launched? 

3b)(Live updates) Several Israelis injured as
 rockets pound Jewish state
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israel came under heavy rocket fire Tuesday morning after the Air Force bombed a building in 
the Gaza Strip in a targeted strike which killed Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Leader Bahaa 
Abu Al-Ata.

Rocket sirens sounded in Israeli towns surrounding the Gaza Strip including Ashkelon, 
Ashdod and Gedera as two different barrages of rockets slammed into Israel. As of 1 p.m. 
Israel time, 
more than 150 rockets were launched and more than 50 intercepted, according to the IDF.

Several Israelis have been injured, including an eight-year-old girl who collapsed while 
running for shelter in Holon. She was evacuated to Wolfson hospital in serious condition.

The following is a list of red alerts and rocket interceptions in real time:
13:00 Sderot, Ibim, Nir Am, Mefalsim, Gavim, Sapir College

12:50 Erez, Yad Mordechai, Nativ HaAssara
12:49 multiple rockets fired toward Erez

12:47 multiple rockets fired toward Netiv HaAssara

12:24 Nachal Oz

12:23 Nachal Oz

11:58 Kfar Silver, Nir Israel, Mishan, Hodaya, Bat Hadar, Berekhya, Beit Shikma, Beer 
Ganim

11:57 Ashkelon Northern industrial zone, Ashkelon Southern industrial zone, Ashkelon, Nir 

Ganim, Beer Ganim, Nitzanim

11:54 multiple rockets fired toward Sderot, Ibim, Gavim, Sapir College, Mefalsaim, Nir Am

11:49 Kfar Azza, Alumim, Saad, Nachal Oz, Sderot, Ibim

11.46 Nir Am, Mefalsim, Gavim, Sapir College, Sderot, Ibam, Yakhini

11.36 Nachal Oz

11.35 Nachal Oz, Alumim

11:20 multiple rockets fired toward Ein HaShlosha, Nirim, Kissufim

10:58 Kfar Azza, Nachal Oz, Saad, Alumim

10:31  Netiv HaAssara, Yad Mordechai, Karmia, Erez

10:30 Yad Mordechai, Erez, Modi'in - Ishpro Center

10:20 Modi'in - Ishpro Center, Modi'in, Azaria, Mishmar Ayalon

10:17 Beit Hashmonai, Beit Uziel, Gezer, Kfar Bin Nun, Kfar Shmuel, Karmei Yossef, 
Mishmar Ayalon, Azaria

10:16 Modi'in, Modi'in - Ishpro Center, Bnei Darom, Nir Galim, Ashdod - Northern Industrial Zone and port

10:10 Rocket directly hits home in Netivot

10:08 Sa'ad, Alumim, Shokda

10:07 Be'eri, Alumim, Kfar Maimon and Tushia, Maagalim Givolim Melilot, Zimrat and Shuva, Nachal Oz

10:04 Kfar Maimon and Tushia, Maagalim Givolim Melilot, Shokeda, Tidhar, Sharsheret, Yoshivia, Netivot, Beit HaGdi, Tkuma and Havat Izra'am, Tkuma

10:01 Kissufim

09:54 Karmia, Netiv HaAssara

09:53 Ashkelon, Ashkelon Southern Industrial Zone, Zikim

09:28  Gan HaDarom, Gan Yavne, Shtulim, Tzohar and Ohad

09:27 Gavim, Sapir College, Nir Am, Sderot, Ibim, Mefalsim and Nir Am Shooting Range

9:22 Havat Shikmim, Mefalsim, Dorot, Sderot, Ibim, Gavi, Sapir College, Beit HaGdi, Shokeda, Kfar Maimon, Tushia, Netivot, Eshbol, Zimrat, Shuva, Nachal Oz

9:21 Kfar Maimon, Tushia, Zimrat, Shuva, Eshbol, Yoshiva, Zrua, Mabuim, Nachal Oz, Saad, Netivot, Alumim, Talmei Bilu, Tkuma Havat Izraam, Tkuma, Beeri

9:12 Rishon LeZion, Nitzan, Ashkelon Industrial Area

9:11 Bat Yam

9:09 Holon

8:51 Zimrat and Shuva, Beit HaGdi, Netivot, Kfar Maimon and Tushia, Shoked

8:36 Kfar Mimon, Shokdah, Netivot, Zimrat and Shuva

8:33 Beer Ganim, Nir Yisrael, Ashkelon

8:32 Industrial Area of Halum, Ashdod, Mitcham Bnei Darom,

8:31 Nitzan, Nitznim

8:25 Saad, Kfar Oz, Zimrat and Shuva

8:23 Palmahim, Raim, Kfar Mimon, Saad, Tkuma, Beit Hagadi, Nahal Oz,, Alumim

8:18 Nahal Oz

8:16 Ashdod and Yavneh

8:09 Kissufim

8:06 Iron Dome intercepts rocket from Gaza

7:54 Kidron, Beit Hilkia, Ganei Yochanan, Hatzav, Mazkeret Batya

7:52 Yad Binyamin, Kiryat Ekron, Mazkeret Batya

7:49 Hatzav, Achvia Yanun, Kfar Ahim

7:48 Sderot, Ivim

7:45 Sderot, Ivim, Nir Am

7:44 Gaza region

7:43 Gaza region

7:42 Gaza region

7:40 Gaza region

7:38 Sderot

7:30 Gavim, Sapir College, Nir Am

7:29 Holon

7:28 Gan Sorek

7:22 Rishon LeZion - West

7:20 Holon

7:19 Gan Sorek

7:18 Palmachim

7:10 Hof Ashkelon

7:04 Hof Ashkelon, Ashkelon, Shaar HaNegev, Sderot,  Holon, Gan Raveh, Rishon LeZion

6:57  Ashkelon , Shaar HaNegev, Sderot

6:51 Sderot, Ibim, Erez, Nir Am, Sderot, Havat Shkmim

6:39  Netiv HaAssara

6:38  Netiv HaAssara, Zikim, Karmia

6:35  Ashkelon, Beer Ganim

6:30 : Nir Am, Sderot, Ibim

6:29 : Nir Am, Sderot, Ibim, Gavim, Sapit College, Mefalsim

6:19  Nachal Oz, Saad, Kfar Azza, Alumim

6:18 : Kfar Azza, Saad,

6:05  Nitzanim, Nitzan, Zikim, Ashkelon, Karmia

6:04  Zikim, Ashkelon,

5:51 Kidron, Gdera, Beit Elazari, Ashdod

5:50  Ashdod


3c) Who will blink first?

Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Lieberman probably never imagined that his attempt to force the creation of a national unity government would create the worst electoral crisis in Israel's history.

The main question that underpins the political crisis that emerged in the wake of the Sept. 17 elections has been who will blink first: Will it be Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who pledged to keep the 55-MK block comprising Likud, the national-religious parties and the ultra-Orthodox together no matter what, or Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, who promised to 
pursue a unity government with the Likud but without Netanyahu.
Without one of them relenting, Israel will soon be heading for its third general elections, full-
speed ahead.
On Saturday night, it became clear that the one who plans to cave in was none other than Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Lieberman, the man whose petty politics got us here in the first place.
In an interview with Channel 12 News, a hysterical Lieberman showed his hand, saying that to prevent a third run at the polls, he would be willing to share the government table with  both 
the "ultra-Orthodox and Messianic" parties and the Joint Arab List, whose lawmakers he has 
often castigated an "the enemy within."
Lieberman's zigzagging has shuffled the deck as the fact he was suddenly willing to join 
anyone has shown them that maybe – just maybe – third elections are avoidable.
It seems chances are increasing that Lieberman would join Gantz, thus teaming with the Left 
and the Arab parties to form a minority government, but Yisrael Beytenu's leader has been 
known to surprise.
Lieberman's hatred for Netanyahu dictates he will team with anyone to oust the prime minister, 
but if he stopped to think about his political future, he may change his mind.
Supporting a minority government with the Joint Arab List could backfire spectacularly for Lieberman, but Gantz is not without his options.
Blue and White, Labor and Meretz together make up 44 mandates. If Lieberman joins the government, the coalition will number 52 seats. In this case, all it would take is for nine out of 
the Joint Arab List's 12 MKs to back the government for Gantz to secure his premiership and 
oust Netanyahu by the end of the month.
Another option for Gantz to secure Lieberman's support without partnering with him. This 
would create a 44-MK coalition that will have a broad safety net from Lieberman and the 
Joint Arab List, which may give help it survive for a few weeks or months until Netanyahu's 
legal situation is determined
Joining the right-wing bloc is, of course, much simpler for Lieberman, although it seems far 
away at the moment. If Lieberman returns to his natural home he could become a part of a 63-member coalition whose members know each other well, warts and all.
And if all that fails – third elections are always an option.
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4)





When one tries to “reason” with a Democrat, 
remember you are dealing with a person who believes that a man can be a woman and a woman can be a 
man and that such a delusion should be encouraged, not discouraged. Discouragement of the delusion is considered immoral and bigoted. Thus, our society 
has unnecessary dilemmas concerning bathrooms, athletic competition at all levels, and “pronoun” controversies subjecting ourselves to all manner of laws, rules, regulation and more needless 
government control.

Here is a suggestion to break the left’s ridiculous 
gender ideology and denial of biological reality.

President Trump should make a declaration that he 
is identifying as a woman. The left will have to admit
 the absurdity of their gender ideology or accept and celebrate “Donna Trump” as the first woman 
President, thus beating Hillary, Liz Warren, Amy Klobuchar, Kamala Harris and Kirsten Gillibrand to 
the glorious goal of one of their “female firsts”.

Furthermore, if he remains married to Melania, he will also be the first gay president and the first lesbian president. He will also be the first lesbian
 president married to an immigrant! What a most glorious event for the democrats to celebrate.


4a)

The Looming ‘1984’ Election Like it or not, 

2020 is going to be a plebiscite on an American version of Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty-Four. 

By Victor Davis Hanson

Posted By Ruth King
Posted By on November 11th, 2019

For a variety of reasons, the 2020 election is going to be a referendum beyond Donald Trump’s 
record and his Democratic opposition.
The furor that Trump has incurred, and the radical antithesis to his agenda and first term, have redefined the looming election. It is becoming a stark choice between a revolutionary future 
versus American traditionalism.
The choice in reductionist terms will be one between a growing, statist Panopticon, fueled by 
social media, a media-progressive nexus, and an electronic posse. Online trolls and government bureaucrats seek to know everything about us, in Big Brother fashion to monitor our very
 thoughts to ferret out incorrect ideas, and then to regiment and indoctrinate us to ensure elite 
visions of mandated equality and correct behavior—or else!
In other words, the personality quirks of a Trump or an Elizabeth Warren or a Bernie Sanders 
will become mostly irrelevant given the existential choice between two quite antithetical ideas 
of future America. In 2020 we will witness the penultimate manifestation of what radical 
progressivism has in store for us all—and the furious, often desperate, and unfettered pushback 
against it.

Targeting Traditional America

We are also well beyond even the stark choices of 1972 and 1984 that remained within the 
parameters of the two parties. In contrast, the Democratic Party as we have known it, is extinct
for now. It has been replaced since 2016 by a radical progressive revolutionary movement that 
serves as a touchstone for a variety of auxiliary extremist causes, agendas, and cliques—almost 
all of them radically left-wing and nihilistic, and largely without majority popular support.
When Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and a number of Democratic 
presidential candidates sympathize with the New York subway jumpers who openly threaten the
 police, then  what or who exactly is the alternative to such chaos?
When the media proves 90 percent partisan according to its own liberal watchdog institutions, 
or reports things as true that cannot be true but “should” be true, what are the forces behind that?
When the violence of Antifa is quietly—or sometimes loudly—condoned, who are those who 
empower it and excuse it?
If a late-term abortion results in a live baby exiting the birth canal only to be liquidated, who 
exactly would say that is amoral?
If the leading Democratic presidential candidates openly embrace the Green New Deal, 
reparations, abolishing the Electoral College, welfare for illegal aliens, open borders, amnesties, 
wealth taxes, a 70-90 percent income tax code, Medicare for all, and legal infanticide—what is 
the alternative vision and who stands between all that and a targeted traditional America?

Californication Ahead!

In California, the nation’s largest utility preemptively shuts off power to multibillion-dollar 
and two-million customers, given its ossified grid and over-regulated operations, and the 
deliberate policy of the state not to clean up drought-stricken dead forests and underbrush that 
are ignited by
wind and antiquated transmission cables. So, who or what then in 2020 would oppose all that?
In a state where half the nation’s homeless use the streets as open sewers and receptacles for 
refuse, incubating medieval diseases and public hazards, who exactly says that is unacceptable? 
The California attorney general openly boasts that he believes the state is the home for 10 
million illegal aliens; is there any pushback to that agenda? If not, would 20 or 30 million illegal aliens be acceptable for Californians? Why not 50 to 60 million additional illegally residing foreign 
nationals?
Can even a leftwing Facebook, Google, or Apple operate within a landscape that cannot ensure 
reliable power to run its businesses? Do the progressive masters of the Silicon Valley want to 
hand over millions per year in wealth taxes on money that has already been taxed—but which is considered by the Warrenites and Sandersites as veritable public property given their own past 
use of state roads and infrastructure to build their businesses? Do these billionaires really think conservative state policies encouraged tens of thousands of homeless people to sleep in cars and
 streets near their businesses?
On the social front, we are bombarded with celebrities dreaming of various methods of 
assassinating the current president. Who speaks out against such incendiary smears? Did 
Hollywood stars do the same to then-President Barack Obama?
In professional sports, Colin Kaepernick’s circus of not standing up during the national anthem 
has transmogrified into something far more serious—the National Basketball Association’s 
wholesale appeasement of the dictatorial communist Chinese government, and the leveraging of 
U.S. free speech in return for access to the lucrative Chinese market. Who is more likely to speak 
out against that?

Will Campus Culture Replace Our National Character?

Our universities effectively have eroded the First Amendment and the due process protections 
of the Fifth in matters of sexual assault allegations. Higher education is now controlled by a 
revolutionary clique. It institutionalizes racially segregated dorms and safe spaces, matter of 
factly promotes censorship, and either cannot or will not prevent students from disrupting 
lecturers with whom they disagree. What or who exactly say not to all that? Who would dare 
say that America in its third century is not going to change its use of English pronouns or decide 
that there are not three and more biological genders?
When a progressive mom takes her kids to walk and play in a California municipal park and, 
instead of relaxing comfortably with her fellow mom friends, finds blood-tainted needles sticking 
up out of the grass, what sort of policies does she imagine allowed that? When a small business 
owner in San Francisco finds vagrants defecating near his breezeway or mobs of shoplifters 
swarming his store, what sort of politics and ideologies will he consider led to that?

Who Is Sovereign Here?

On the national level, what or who created a landscape in which the highest echelons of the FBI, 
, and Justice Department sought to surveil American citizens, undermine a presidential campaign, 
and abort a presidential transition and then a presidency? If Hillary Clinton had won in 2016, 
would anyone have objected? Do any object today that she hired a foreign national to work with foreign sources to discredit and smear her political opponent?
Who or what is behind the constant remonstrations that the American people are racist, sexist, homophobic, nativist, xenophobic, and oppressing the transgendered? Who lodges such charges? 
Who believes them to be true?
Why is gasoline reaching $5 a gallon in coastal cities, when states like California have huge
untapped sources of oil and natural gas? Why is lumber sky-high in stores while the state 
mandates that millions of harvestable drought-stricken dead trees instead slowly rot to serve as 
kindle for deadly wildfires?
What is wrong with 3.5 percent unemployment? Is there a Democratic plan to lower it to 2.5 
percent?
Who exactly wishes to pack the court, to repeal the Electoral College, to nix the difference 
between residency and citizenship, to promote identity-politics tribalism over collective affinities, 
to nullify federal immigration law, to hunt down and disrupt political opponents as they eat and 
sleep—and who not?
Whose ideologies logically lead to promoting iconoclasm and statue-toppling, the Orwellian 
renaming of streets and buildings, the defacing of public murals?

The Orwellian Jacobins or America First

The new progressive party is Jacobin. It sees politics in all-inclusive French revolutionary terms—encompassing every aspect of American life from entertainment, sports, academia, religion, and 
family matters to politics, foreign policy, and individual rights.
In his own way, Trump also fights back in 360-degree fashion, from the existential to the trivial, 
railing against Colin Kaepernick, tit for tatting Hollywood stars, weighing in on radical abortion, 
open borders, power outages, the homeless and subway jumping. The result is not just that there 
looms a choice between two different agendas, but two quite different American lifestyles and experiences—and histories.
Like it or not, 2020 is going to be a plebiscite on an American version of Orwell’s Nineteen-
Eighty-Four. One side advocates a complete transformation not just of the American present but
 of the past as well. The Left is quite eager to change our very vocabulary and monitor our 
private behavior to ensure we are not just guilty of incorrect behavior but thought as well.
The other side believes America is far better than the alternative, that it never had to be perfect 
to be good, and that, all and all, its flawed past is a story of a moral nation’s constant struggle 
for moral improvement.
One side will say, “Just give us more power and we will create heaven on earth.” The other says
 “Why would anyone wish to take their road to an Orwellian nightmare?” The 2020 election is 
that simple.

4b)

Legendary Journalist Bill Moyers Says He Fears For The Nation For The First 

Time In His Life

“Society, a democracy, can die of too many lies — and we’re getting close to
 that terminal moment,” he warns.

Veteran journalist Bill Moyers said Sunday that for the first time “in my long life”— including the Depression and World War II — he fears for the nation’s survival.
A “society, a democracy, can die of too many lies — and we’re getting close to that terminal moment unless we reverse the obsession with lies that are being fed
around the country,” Moyers told Brian Stelter on CNN.

Hope rests in citizens paying careful attention to the televised impeachment hearings beginning this week on Wednesday and Friday in the House, noted Moyers, who
served for two years as President Lyndon Johnson’s press secretary. He has
urged PBS to rebroadcast the hearings during prime time so that they more easily
be seen by working people.

“Do facts matter anymore?” Moyers asked, referring to the impeachment
investigation. “I think they do. I think they mattered in the Watergate hearings, in the Clinton hearings, and I think they’ll matter this time, too.” 
last month in Louisiana.
“They believed everything he said,” Moyers noted. “I’m hoping only 10% of those
people watch the hearings ... They will see it is not a witch hunt, and they will begin
to doubt their master. And they will begin to break off and maybe become a citizen
again.”
Moyers believes Trump still has a “pretty good” chance of winning the 2020 election,
but that only a “slight shift” in people who “begin to doubt” could make a significant difference.
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