As you know Meg Heap is one of my favorites and she has been a fabulous district attorney taking over a mess and turning her department into a class act for which she was given state-wide praise and recognition. She was defeated by Holder and Soros who pumped money into her opponent's campaign who happened to be fortunate for being a black American. She may make a good district attorney but I seriously doubt she can measure up to Meg and certainly does not have the resume or experience.
While I am on the subject of identity politics, Trump was accused, from the day he came down the escalator, of being a racist. Democrats love to put the bad mouth on their opponents. Ironically blacks, Hispanics and Jews did not get the word because they increased their support of Trump.
In the case of Hispanics their interests seemed aligned with American culture. They focus on the economy, are entrepreneurs and believe in law and order. They are generally conservative and are church oriented.
Blacks, on the other hand, seem to me to be more Pavlovian and less independent because they have lived on the liberal plantations and are more susceptible to the siren song of entitlements. As Trump cajoled: "what have you go to lose?"
What Trump has done for Republicans is create a true reformation in who they now have as their supporters. Republicans are joined at the hip with "deplorables" and were it not for Trump's boorishness they would also have retained favor with female moms and won the election walking away.
As for Democrats, they still seem able to keep black's dependent on their hypocrisy, continue to appeal to the elites who have college degrees and pretty much comprise the swamp creatures Trump aimed his second amendment weapons at as well as the billionaire class and assorted radicals.
America remains a bar bell nation with California and New York on the ends of the bar and I see no end of this configuration occurring.
There is a schism within the Republican Party as well which is comprised of The Rino Establishment who never accepted Trump and are glad he no longer hangs around their neck. They too have their own cult of intellects like George Will. However, they lack the financial heft of the technology billionaires who willingly spent hundreds of millions on desperate candidates like Bloomberg gladly did in Florida.
In my humble opinion, history will record Trump was a transformational president unlike Obama who will prove to have been a total failure.
Time will tell but I will not live to see my forecast prove correct.
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And:
This is the president The Trump Haters loved to smear. They believe he wants to stay in office because he is an evil dictator.
What I’m about to tell you is of the utmost importance.
I believe the American People deserve to have full transparency into all vote counting and Election certification, and that this is no longer about any single Election.
This is about the integrity of our entire Election process.
From the beginning, we have said that all legal ballots must be counted and all illegal ballots should not be counted, yet we have met resistance to this basic principle by Democrats at every turn.
We will pursue this process through every aspect of the law to guarantee that the American people have confidence in our government.
I will never give up fighting for you and our Nation.
Waters Will “Never, Ever Forgive” Black Trump Supporters
It will never cease to amaze me how some people can somehow think that being of a certain race or background obligates a particular kind of vote. You know, like how Joe Biden and many white liberal elites feel that all black Americans are or have to vote Democrat as if people blacks are individuals with their own personalities, thoughts, and political viewpoints.
But what amazes me, even more, is that some politicians have bought so much into this idea that, even though they are black themselves, they can’t begin to understand why a black American would stray from the Democratic Party.
Enter California Representative Maxine Waters. Like many Congress members, Waters has been too long in office claiming to give a voice to those in her community or district. However, her recent rant on why black Trump supporters were “shameful” only proves she is far from in tune with the people she is supposed to be representing.
On Friday, she made a guest appearance on SiriusXM’s “The Joe Madison Show” to discuss the election and what many would call the black vote.
She told Madison that she couldn’t begin to even understand “where any blacks would be coming from that would be voting for Trump” and that it “hurts me so bad to see blacks talking about supporting Trump.”
She said, “I don’t know why they would be doing it. I don’t know what’s on their minds. But if we don’t turn out this vote and turn it out huge, this man could end up winning again. And this country would go backward. The divisiveness that this deplorable human being has caused, the confrontation, the dog-whistling to the right-wing, the white supremacists, the KKK, and they are coming alive.”
Now, given this rant, you’d think that she was unaware of just how many blacks and particularly young, male blacks are supporting Trump or the why behind it. But as she continues to explain to Madison, she knows all about this. In fact, she even cites a recent poll taken in Florida, which shows an unprecedented amount of support from the black community for a Republican president.
In what seems to be the last attempt at convincing these “traitors” that Trump is not to be supported by blacks, Waters claims the ever-present Democratic talking point of Trump being racist.
She said, “(Trump is) a racist. He does not have any appreciation for black people and black women in particular. He talked about us so bad. He talked about (the late) John Lewis so bad. He talked about (the late Elijah) Cummings so bad. He has no respect for us. He is not doing anything for us.”
However, she once again seems to be ignoring some key facts here.
First of all, is why, in fact, would Trump talk “bad” about Cummings or Lewis. Could it be that it was their political views and Democratic ideology that he had a problem with and not their skin color?
Secondly, I can’t think of a president who has done more for blacks than Trump. Like the rest of her party, Waters conveniently has forgotten about the record low unemployment rates Trump ushered in for both the black and Hispanic communities before the pandemic. They also seem to forget about the unprecedented projects like the “Platinum Plan,” which will seek to empower the black community further and give them a more equal foothold in our economy.
And of course, we can’t forget about the many times Trump has denounced far right-wing groups such as the KKK and white supremacists.
But to Waters, a black person supporting Trump is “absolutely unconscionable. It is shameful, but if they would spend some time with us, we would help them to know what we’re struggling for and how they would be able to help us in this struggle.”
I think she’s pretty much preaching to the choir here. I mean, she claims to know all about the “struggle” that blacks face just about everywhere, and yet, her well-known, want-for-nothing lifestyle proves she has no idea.
Take her $6 million mansion in Los Angeles, for example. Not only is it obviously luxurious and extravagant, but as such, it is far removed from any neighborhood that knows what “struggling” is.
Besides, it’s not even in her own district, you know, the one she claims to be a voice for, as her opponent so wisely points out.
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Tobin goes out on a limb as well as an Israel MInister:
What a Biden administration could mean for Israel
There are good reasons to worry about the chances for greater tension, but as Netanyahu showed Obama, the Jewish state knows how to say “no.”
For some supporters of President Donald Trump in both Israel and the United States, the prospect of a President Joe Biden is a scenario they never wanted to contemplate. And while the outcome of the presidential election isn’t yet decided, if the protracted vote count continues to move in Biden’s direction, both the Israeli government and the pro-Israel community are going to have to adjust to a new reality.
The question now is not so much whether they can do so with good grace, but whether they avoid overreacting to any shifts in American policy unless or until it is necessary to do so.
Four years ago, most Israelis had little doubt that either of the two major-party presidential candidates would be an improvement on the outgoing Obama administration. It had been eight years of Obama’s desire for more “daylight” between the two democracies, constant spats, increasing pressure and American stands on both the Palestinian issue and threat of a nuclear Iran that seriously undermined the alliance.
And to accentuate just how much the trust between the two governments had broken down, in its last weeks the Obama administration chose not to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution that basically labeled the Jewish presence in Jerusalem as illegal.
All that changed once Trump took office. To the shock and amazement of even some of his supporters, U.S. Middle East policy underwent a dramatic shift. Trump embraced Israel and a year later began the process of moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem after recognizing the city as the capital of the Jewish state. Other moves, both symbolic and tangible, soon followed. Trump recognized Israeli sovereignty on the Golan Heights, sought to hold the Palestinian Authority accountable for its support for terrorism and withdrew America from the disastrous 2015 Iran deal.
Just as important, although Trump’s ambition to broker the “ultimate deal” between Israel and the Palestinians fell afoul of the latter’s refusal to make peace, the administration pivoted to a more productive endeavor. Unlike Obama and former Secretary of State John Kerry, who effectively gave the Palestinians a veto over normalization between the Arab world and Israel, Trump helped broker three normalization deals with the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Bahrain and Sudan, with more perhaps to follow.
Under the circumstances, it’s unsurprising that most Israelis were rooting for Trump to be re-elected. But if, as it appears at the moment, they were backing the losing side in the election, hysteria about what will follow would be counterproductive.
True, some concern about a possible Biden administration is warranted.
It’s a certainty that those who would fill positions at the State Department and the National Security Council will be Obama administration alumni or share their opinions about the Middle East.
It’s equally certain that, at a minimum, his foreign-policy team would re-enter the Iran nuclear deal and likely seek to revive the moribund U.S. relations with the Palestinian Authority, which were downgraded due to its refusal to stop funding terror or to even discuss Trump’s ideas about Middle East peace.
But there is still the chance that, as Biden’s top campaign foreign-policy spokesperson Anthony Blinken (the current favorite to be his National Security Advisor) has hinted that the United States would maintain the sanctions put in place against Iran by Trump. That means the most important task for both Israel and Jewish groups in the upcoming months will not be to refight the political battles of 2015. Rather, it should be to seek to persuade Biden that he not be tempted into simply erasing the last four years of progress made towards pressuring Iran to renegotiate the nuclear deal so as to strip it of the sunset clauses that put Tehran on a certain track towards achieving its nuclear ambitions.
Similarly, on the Palestinian issue, it would be wise for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and pro-Israel Americans to assume, rightly or wrongly, that Biden doesn’t consider himself bound to take up the cudgels for Obama policies that he knows were abysmal failures.
Biden’s support for Israel has always been conditioned by his insistence that he knew better than the Jewish state’s leaders what was best for their country. As infuriating as that can be, it’s also true that he has a warmer feeling for the country than Obama ever did. It would be best to keep that in mind instead of assuming that Biden will rewind American Middle East policy to that awful moment when Obama stabbed Israel in the back at the United Nations on his way out of office.
Even if Biden was to be so foolish as to waste precious political capital on policies predicated on pointless demands that Israel surrender its rights and security as Obama did or on another round of appeasement of Iran, Israel doesn’t have to bow to U.S. pressure.
As Netanyahu proved during the eight rocky years of the Obama administration, Israel can always say “no” to the United States any time it believes that it must defend its interests against misguided American policymakers.
The alliances with the Arab states that have been forged with Trump’s help will become stronger, not weaker if Biden were to choose policies that would strengthen Iran. The Arab states that have embraced Israel have not done so as an act of charity or out of a sentimental attachment to Zionism; they did it in order to strengthen their security. And if Biden repeats Obama’s mistakes in the Mideast, they will need Israel as much if not more than ever.
Similarly, Israel is both economically and militarily stronger than it was in 2009, and while the friendship of its sole superpower ally is still necessary, it need not quail before Biden any more than it did before Obama. It still has many friends in U.S. politics, and it can and should point to the principles of Trump’s “Peace to Prosperity” plan as the only solid foundation for a path to a possible resolution to the conflict with the Palestinians.
It’s only sensible to prepare for the worst, though that’s not the only possible outcome. A Biden administration would have more than it can handle dealing with problems relating to the coronavirus pandemic, the economy, infrastructure and other crucial issues. A stubborn refusal on the part of Obama veterans to admit that they were wrong about the Palestinians the last time they were in power would be an unforced error on Biden’s part that will do him no good.
Trump’s possible exit from office creates challenges for Israel. Still, it isn’t the end of the alliance or a harbinger of Israel’s destruction. And it’s vital that Israelis and those who care about the Jewish nation remember that as they prepare for the next chapter in this vital relationship.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS—Jewish News Syndicate. Follow him on Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS.org and a senior contributor
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Israeli Minister Warns of War if Biden Returns to Iran Pact
By Jeffrey Rodack | Friday, 06 November 2020 10:38 AM
Joe Biden’s intention to return to the controversial nuclear deal with Iran, if he is elected president, could lead to war between Israel and Iran, according to Israeli Settlements Minister Tzachi Hanegbi.
His comments came during an interview on Channel 13 is Israel. They were detailed in a Wednesday story in The Jerusalem Post.
“Biden has said openly for a long time that he will go back to the nuclear agreement,” Hanegbi said. “I see that as something that will lead to a confrontation between Israel and Iran.
“If Biden stays with that policy, there will, in the end, be a violent confrontation between Israel and Iran.”
Newsweek said that President Donald Trump withdrew from the deal in May 2018 with the support of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Trump had criticized the Iran deal, as the “worst” ever. He had complained it didn't address threats from the country’s ballistic missile program or its involvement in regional conflicts.
Biden wants to rejoin the deal that was negotiated by the Barack Obama administration, when Biden was the vice president. But Newsweek noted that many in Israel fear this would be a strategic mistake and present a threat to Israeli national security
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