HUGE: Black Support for Trump Surges After Convention https://pjmedia.com/news-and-
Like he said: "what have you got to lose."
If only white liberals understood that as well but they are too busy hating and denying riots are burning our country down.
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Deplorables are angry too but for a different reason and they are going to speak by voting not burning the nation down.
Thinking outside the box is often better than being boxed in by political tradition.
The door-to-door army that helped Trump win in 2016 is ready for battle
By Salena Zito
Click here for the full story.
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Trump made history by discarding Obama's approach
Why has Trump's plan, out of all other plans, drawn the Arabs closer to Israel?
This week the first official flight from Israel to Sudan took place, with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on board. He probably had a good reason to travel all the way there. The African country, no longer under the rule of a brutal oppressor, has been trying very hard to find its path forward despite its many challenges.
Apart from abolishing Sharia Law and announcing an election that would take place in two years, the provisional council that has been governing the country wants closer ties with the US and Israel. If and when Jerusalem and Khartoum announce a peace deal – US officials believe this could be very soon – it will encapsulate the entire region's history for the past 53 years.
It was in Khartoum that the Arab League famously declared, following the Six-Day War, "no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it."
There was another condition: no to relinquishing the rights of the Palestinians. And here we are in 2020, and that very Khartoum now all but recognizes Israel, it is willing to talk to it (it's interim leader met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu several months ago) and it is engaging Israel despite a Palestinian-Israeli peace accord not being any closer.
The historic shifting of sands can be attributed to a whole host of reasons but chiefly among them is the Trump Doctrine.
During the eight years of the previous administration, then-President Barack Obama was eager to appease the worst regimes. He fueled the Iranians with billions of dollars and gave the ayatollahs legitimacy; he embraced Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey, and pro-Islamic Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, who was briefly in power, as well as the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood.
He also took the Holocaust-denier and terrorist-funder Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas under his wings. The result was chaos: The moderate regimes collapsed, the Islamic State terrorist group grew, the Iranian evil powers thrived, and the Palestinian Authority became moribund.
President Donald Trump turned this approach on its head. He has crippled Iran, hit Erdogan hard, and has insisted that the PA get its act together. He also had no qualms about traveling directly from Riyadh to Jerusalem, in what is an unmistakable message. And finally, Trump published the most realistic plan ever on a peace deal between the Palestinians and Israelis.
This peace plan but did away with the 1967 borders and no longer automatically accepted the Palestinians' demands. It also agreed that Israel could extend its sovereignty to areas in Judea and Samaria even before a peace deal. So why has this plan, out of all other plans, drawn the Arabs closer to Israel?
Perhaps because Trump and his peace team have refused to let the propaganda and deceit dictate their moves. Reality, truth and loyalty to allies – chiefly among them Israel – are the values that have guided them. This is how you make history, and in the coming days we will likely hear history being made again.
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This needs to be re-posted because it is one of the most honest assessments of Trump I have ever read and it parallels what I try to get Trump Haters to focus on but they are consumed by their hate shaped by the repetitive bias they swallow hook line and sinker from the mass media.
The Trump Disruption
His policy record is better than he and his opponents have made it sound.
The Editorial Board
When Donald Trump won the Presidency four years ago, half of America gnashed its teeth or cried and even supporters who cheered weren’t sure what to expect. Four years later our verdict is that he has been better on policy than we feared but worse on personal behavior than we hoped. Whether Americans re-elect him depends on how they assess that political balance sheet.
We realize that even considering the Trump Presidency in these conventional terms is offensive to some readers. Don’t we get that he’s a would-be authoritarian, a Russian plant, or at least so deeply flawed as a human being that he can’t be trusted with power? Yet our democracy survives, and the Constitution’s checks and balances are intact. Americans who heard him ask for a second term Thursday night were trying to make sense of what has been a raucous and disruptive Presidency.
This week’s virtual GOP convention has spent hours educating voters about Trump Administration successes, and many are real, starting with the pre-Covid-19 economy that we examined this week. The political irony is that this success was due to Mr. Trump’s adoption of conventional GOP economics, not his trade or immigration agenda.
The President contracted out tax reform to Congress, especially Paul Ryan in the House and Pat Toomey in the Senate, and they delivered. Mr. Trump also hired a cast of deregulators who liberated the economy from burdens on energy and more. The economy kicked into higher gear, and the resulting tight labor market produced strong wage gains for lower-skilled workers left behind by the Obama-Biden years. Note that this happened without the income redistribution schemes favored on the left and increasingly the right.
Mr. Trump’s tariff onslaught in 2018 hurt what was a boom in new manufacturing jobs as supply chains were upset, input costs rose, and uncertainly increased. But he has avoided the full-scale trade war we feared. His battles with China achieved less than advertised with tariffs, but more on Huawei and attention to Chinese cyber and IP theft.
Mr. Trump is also the first President since Ronald Reagan to try to rein in the administrative state. This can seem like an abstraction but it has real consequences in people’s lives. Betsy DeVos’s repeal of Joe Biden’s “guidance” for handling sexual assault cases on campus will spare many young people from unfair ruin. The repeal of the Waters of the U.S. rule will spare farmers and property owners from bureaucratic harassment.
These policies are more likely to be sustained by the more than 200 conservative judges Mr. Trump has appointed. These judges are more attentive to the abuses of the regulatory state, harm to the separation of powers, and limits on religious liberty. The latter explains the enduring support for Mr. Trump from evangelicals and church-going Catholics.
Mr. Trump failed to repeal ObamaCare and has now defaulted to promoting drug price controls that would limit the development of new cures. He also failed on what could have been a landmark immigration reform, trading some legalization for more border security. His televised naturalization service this week clashes with his often harsh limits on even legal immigration.
Foreign policy was one of our biggest fears, and his record is mixed. His disdain for convention led him to useful decisions that no other GOP President would have made—withdrawing from the Potemkin Paris climate accord and Iran nuclear deal, and moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. That latter two have contributed to a breakthrough in Arab-Israeli relations that eluded the last five Presidents.
Yet his bullying and impulsiveness have needlessly soured relations with allies, especially Germany, and raised doubts about U.S. commitments. Most offensive is his personal courtship of dictators, such as Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and for a while Xi Jinping. He seems to think he can charm these hard men, and he has little to show for his pursuit.
Which brings us to character. Americans knew when they voted for Mr. Trump that he wouldn’t adhere to convention, but they also hoped his manners would rise to the respect due the office. They too often haven’t. He is needlessly polarizing, luxuriates in petty feuds, and trashes aides who served him well as they walk out the door. He seems not to care if what he says is true, which has squandered his ability to persuade in a crisis.
He often hurts himself by crashing through proper norms as with his near-invitation of the Taliban to Camp David and his threat to withhold aid if Ukraine didn’t investigate Joe Biden. Both were stopped by advisers, but the latter got him impeached.
His narcissism is his own worst enemy, which the public has seen to its worst effect in the pandemic. Mr. Trump brawled with governors and the press and bragged relentlessly about his success when Americans wanted candid realism. His Administration’s anti-Covid record is better than Mr. Trump has made it sound.
Yet it’s impossible to assess Mr. Trump’s behavior outside the context of the often unhinged opposition. We will never know how his Presidency might have gone without the Russia collusion accusations. But we do know the FBI, and the Obama Administration, knew early on that there was no evidence for the claims. They nonetheless fed the media stories to cripple him.
Before Election Day in 2016, we wrote that the biggest gamble of a Trump Presidency wasn’t the fantasy that he was a Mussolini from Manhattan. It was that he’d face a hostile press and bureaucracy that his inexperience and erratic management would be unable to navigate. So it has often been, and in 2018 the resulting tumult cost Republicans control of the House.
Americans now know Mr. Trump isn’t going to change, but then he isn’t running only against himself. He has a chance to win another four years if voters conclude that his disruption is less risky than the Biden-Sanders Democratic agenda.
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Lynn asked a cogent question. She does not understand why Trump does not address the rioting that is going on now. If re-elected what will change to allow him to act then and not now?
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Lynn asked a cogent question. She does not understand why Trump does not address the rioting that is going on now. If re-elected what will change to allow him to act then and not now?
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The Mayor of Portland Just Got a Dire Warning Letter
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Rolland Golden was a superb artist. We own two of his works. Over 50 years Rolland and his wife, Stella,became dear friends and I was, to a large degree, responsible for the current show of Rolland's "Katrina Series" being shown at GMOA.
We are going 12 September to see, not only Rolland's modest show but also the rest of the exhibits.
I am posting an e mail from Stella pertaining to his works. Bill Eiland, our Director, will be walking us around and act as our docent. You are welcome to join us.
Dear friends,
We are going 12 September to see, not only Rolland's modest show but also the rest of the exhibits.
I am posting an e mail from Stella pertaining to his works. Bill Eiland, our Director, will be walking us around and act as our docent. You are welcome to join us.
Dear friends,
For all of you who have been in the path of Hurricanes Laura and Marco, we hope you and your family did not sustain serious, physical problems nor property damage. I thought
for sure the 2 hurricanes would criss-cross over us - just a few days before the15th anniversary of Katrina.
We hope the Coronavirus has not adversely affected you and your family. Lucille and I have been "hunkered down" in Folsom - so far, so go By this time, we thought the new
design of our website: www.rollandgolden.com would be completed. Lucille had been working on it for many weeks; just couldn't finish before her 2nd cervical discectomy surgery,
which on the 20th. It was a very difficult, painful surgery. Our eldest daughter, Carrie, stayed with her in hospital the whole time. Now, Lucille is recuperating in our Folsom home.
On the 22nd of this month, the Georgia Museum of Art opened an exhibition of Rolland's Katrina series, which consists of unsold and a few borrowed works. It is in commemora-
tion of the15th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and will hang through October 18th. Because of the Coronavirus, there wasn't a reception. To learn more, you can go to their
web site: Georgia Museum of Art Rolland Golden Katrina Exhibition. Below the 1st image is a statement; scroll down; wait & some of other images will appear. Scroll down again;
to read one of the newspapers articles. Although it was very good coverage, the article read, that besides Rolland being an artist, he also had an art school throughout the rest of
his career. Don't know where the newspaper got this info. Never in his 6 decades as an artist, was this ever in print nor on T.V.
Some of you may already know that the MacGryder Gallery in New Orleans closed last March, due to the Coronavirus and other matters. Am glad they did well in selling Rolland's
work; now, the rest are in our Folsom home. Although our web site is "Under Construction", there is much to see on the present site: www.rollandgolden.com - so, click your way
around. At the top of the home page are categories, including images of different works: Watercolors, Canvases and Themed Categories (including KATRINA ). Click and there will
be an array of different paintings and lithographs, which should include sizes and prices. If there is something that you remembered and had liked, that isn't on the site, it could be
sold. However, I'll be glad to check and provide you with information on anything that interests you. Do remember that we still offer terms with just a deposit, while you have the art.
The editor of "OFF BEAT" magazine asked permission to include one of Rolland's Katrina paintings on line and I gave my approval. Looking on our web site, she selected
In our Natchez home/studio, Rolland created most of his Katrina paintings, as well as his Mississippi River series. When ready to put on the market, we will provide a link to our
website and send on face book.
Meanwhile, be safe. All the best,
Stella
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