Fellow American:
The failure of Democrats to denounce the ongoing riots in cities across the country has become a HUGE political problem for them.
"I think Democrats are ignoring this problem, are hoping that it will go away. And it's not going to go away," said CNN's Don Lemon.
He's not right very often, but he's right about this.
This issue is showing up in polling and focus groups - people know the Democrats can't be trusted to protect Americans from violent criminals.
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Green Bay Police: Antifa Member with Flamethrower Cried in Fetal Position When Caught
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WELCOME TO "DEFUND THE POLICE" AMERICA
Here is a video of an Amazon delivery driver trying to make
a delivery in the Los Angeles area. Hard to believe this stuff
is going on in broad daylight.
And:
Is the Kennedy brand no longer appealing?
A Kennedy lost an election: Senator Ed Markey fended off a challenge from Joe Kennedy, the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, in the Massachusetts Democratic primary. BOSTON.COM
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Perhaps this is repetitious but I believe it needs to be repeated.
Every contemporary president, as those before, leaves his mark on our nation that causes our nation significant change. In some ways for the better and in others not. I do not believe I have presented my thoughts,regarding this approach, in a comparable manner.
I will begin with FDR;
FDR: probably did more to speed our march towards Socialism than any president since Wilson and now, Obama.
I am reading Lynne Olson's: "Citizens of London" and it is quite possible FDR's reticence in providing leadership towards America entering the Second World War possibly prolonged the war and thus,increased the number of ultimate casualties. FDR moved slowly because the mood of the nation was against our entry, corporate America was reluctant to shift factories to a war mode, our own army was considered totally inept and needed equipment which Britain desperately sought.
Yet, when it came to addressing The Great Depression, FDR was more responsive. That said, he was also accused, in a scathing book by Amity Shlaes entitled :The Forgotten Man" of coming up with programs that prolonged the Depression.
In the end, FDR, because of the Depression and War, surely laid the foundation for government intrusion into the private sector in ways that impact us to this very day.
Truman's decision to drop "The Bomb" brought us into the nuclear age. He was one of our greatest presidents because he was courageous, decisive, made mostly right decisions and understood where "the buck" stopped.
Eisenhower was the first to be challenged by segregation issues and was deemed slow to respond. He also presided over a halcyon period of economic stability.
Kennedy did not livelong enough to make a significant mark but he made some memorable speeches. His reduction in taxes did give our economy a lift. His eventual confrontation with Russia over Cuba was a highlight of his term in office. He too was challenged by Southern Governors in de-segregating our schools etc.
Johnson,did more to further socialism with his "War on Poverty" programs. Trillions were spent on attempts to resolve thorny Civil Right's issues but they proved costly and were mostly failures. He was driven out of office for his policies in Viet Nam, which he inherited and expanded by heavy handed directives from the White House.
The '60's launched anti-government and authority attitudes and actions which have engulfed our nation to this very day.
Nixon ended the war in Viet Nam by following the dictates of Kissinger and, in my opinion, established the concept that losing a war was acceptable for America. Nixon also took us off the gold standard, introduced price controls and laid the groundwork for China becoming the economic and military might it is today and the pre-imminent nation which ultimately is challenging the world for control of the Pacific commercial sea lanes
If truth be told we were within weeks of winning the war but Walter Cronkite took the wind out of Nixon and America's sail.
Nixon was driven out of office by Watergate.
Ford ran an organized administration, sought to calm the waters by pardoning Nixon and got us through a difficult post Nixon period. His presidency was not known for anything significant but inflation began to rise during his tenure.
Carter brought us malaise, the failed Iranian Hostage situation, hyper inflation and established The Department of Education. Many consider him our worst modern day president.
Reagan 's election was a response to Carter's failures. He brought common sense to The Oval Office, stared the Russian's down, defied the feckless mass media and set the tone for Trump's election in my humble opinion.
He survived an assassination attempt and governed our nation.with a sense of humor.
Bush "41" was probably the most qualified bureaucrat to become president in the modern era. He magnificently orchestrated the Gulf War, some say ended it prematurely, and defeated himself by asking us to "read my lips."
Clinton is best known for the "Blue Dress" but actually was an effective president once he realized he needed to embrace some of Newt's common sense policies. He presided over a balanced budget.
GW Bush became president after a contentious victory over disputed Florida"chad." I fear this historic chapter will set the stage for the 2020 election which could be fraught with claims of fraudulent voting and further rip our nation apart.
GW presided over the first serious attack on our nation, the terrorist destruction of "The Twin Towers" and his response by driving Saddam out of office in The Iraq War. His administration was consumed by this war and his appointments, in my opinion, were among the worst in terms of the war.
I do not believe GW understood the tribal nature of Middle East Nations.
Obama became president, not because of his qualifications but because of his "coolness and skin color." We thought , by electing him, he would heal the wounds caused by GW's failed Iraq War. Instead, in my opinion, he divided us even more with his apologies, feckless responses to challenges by Islamist Terrorism, his background
association with those who hated our nation and his belief America was a Colonialist oriented Nation.
He introduced crippling legislation and red tape which prolonged the serious economic downturn, increased our deficit enormously and laid the foundation for furthering the division between the races by the way he handled rioting. He told radicals they should bring guns when others bring knives, his wife had a chip on her "privileged" shoulder and told us she had serious issues with our nation.
Again, in my opinion, I believe history will record Obama was either the worst contemporary president or tied with Carter.
In a report yet to be released, I believe we will discover Obama was the first president to spy on his predecessor and appointed those who corrupted federal agencies by using their powers against his "enemies." I am referring to The IRS, The FBI, The CIA and The Justice Department, The EPS among others.
He also told the president of Russia to tell Putin he would be more pliable after his re-election.
Trump's election was a response to a poorly run campaign by an arrogant elitist woman named Hillary who told half of America they were deplorable.
Trump is the first true non-politician- businessman, billionaire to become president.
Trump has brought to the Oval Office un-orthodox management styles, boorish/combative style behaviour and the use of Tweeting to overcome the bias of the mass media as a way of communicating.
He is the first to openly state he will put America First in contrast to his predecessor who had more empathy for Muslims and Islamist causes etc.
Trump basically undid most of what Obama had done and our economy responded beyond his detractor's most dire predictions. He has unwound our involvement in endless unwinnable wars and engagements though his Haters told us he would do the reverse. For the moment, he aggressively attacked Jihadist elements and defeated them unlike his predecessor who drew red lines in the sand.
He has re-ordered trade priorities in quest of returning higher paying manufacturing jobs to America that were previously located in China and elsewhere.
He seems to have brought a semblance of peace between Israel and it's Arab neighbors through common sense methods of diplomacy and unlike virtually all of his predecessors he implemented all of his campaign promises against every kind of impediment possible, including being impeached.
He has also addressed the issue of protecting our borders and the moral impact of illegal immigration.
Everything Trump has accomplished has been impacted by a Chinese Virus and rioting as a result of questionable police reactions and pursuits of resisting criminals.
He is seeking a second term against a compromised candidate whose Party has been radicalized.
And this bring me to my wrap up comments.
During this span of 87 years the attention of presidents has been brought to bear on a variety of circumstances, both domestic and foreign, such as depressions, inflation bubbles,wars, Civil Rights, Embassy penetrations, introduction of nuclear weapons in a renegade nation close to our shores, terrorist attacks on prominent domestic structures etc.
While this has been occurring and occupying presidential time more subtle happenings/ tides and changes have under-girded our republic. Our Universities have been taken over by radical professors who embrace anti-American themes and who are inculcating/indoctrinating their youthful/impressionable students with negative impressions of our nation.
Presidents have allowed out nation to become flooded with illegal immigrants seeking work and all of the consequences that emanate from this disregard of our laws and efforts to secure borders.
We have allowed the anti-war activities of the '60's to allow contempt for law and order to rule as cowardly mayors mistakenly tolerate demands by bullies and anarchists.
When it comes to Civil Right Reforms we have made enormous progress but those who demand it fully in their lifetime grow impatient when they conclude it has not been delivered or deem themselves justifiably aggrieved and take to the streets in constitutionally protected protests which quickly become riotous and unlawful..
Finally, failed policies of "do good" progressives have laid the foundation for discontent as black families have become broken, living conditions have been taken over by drug dealers and roaming gangs, connections to churches have been disrupted and/or mocked , economic progress has failed to float all ships and, most important of all, solid education has either been denied and/or watered down to mush.
All of the above have bred the rich soil for growing anti sentiments which are driving our nation into chaos.
I have tried to link the connections and could go on but yield to brevity.
Trump may not be the saint-like president we would prefer to occupy The Oval Office but he is the one, the only one, who has altered the course of conducting our affairs of state and proven more effective. This is why his re-election, in my opinion, is critical and, were Biden and K to be elected, I believe we will revert back to the ways of failure and I seriously doubt our republic will survive.
The changes that have occurred leave me querulous as to whether it is already beyond redemption.
Stay tuned and pray like it means something.
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Marxist- Democrat getting hard to tell the difference except for their skin color
https://thefederalist.com/
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For history buffs and world travelers -- enjoy.
Directions:
Just click on the photo anywhere and it will become 2014. 70 years later.
Click again and it will go back to 1944.
Read the notes below each photo.
Scroll down for next photo.
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Is America isolated on the world stage?
Compared to Obama, Trump is disliked by most of the world. But the Israel-UAE agreement illustrates that being admired by European allies seems highly overrated.
Among the many complaints about President Donald Trump is that he’s not just embarrassing America on the world stage, he’s also left the country more isolated than ever before. But the question Americans should be asking in the wake of the opening between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, which was marked this week by a historic first flight of an El Al plane from Ben-Gurion International Airport to Abu Dhabi, is whether the isolation that the United States is currently undergoing is actually a healthy development rather than a calamity.
To the extent that foreign policy is even mentioned in the Democratic campaign, that’s the refrain sounded by the campaign of former Vice President Joe Biden. Official surrogates like former Secretary of State John Kerry have spoken of the contrast between the love and admiration that President Barack Obama generated from European allies and Third World nations alike.
Some of this dismay with Washington is expressed in ways that have more to do with Europeans and others expressing their personal contempt for Trump. The notion that Americans feel shame about his conduct is more about culture and class than policy. There is much about Trump’s demeanor, public comments and tweets that are worthy of criticism. But these attitudes are for the most part merely a new variant of an old story in which Europeans and Americans who aspire to a sophisticated mid-Atlantic global identity look down on the mores and foibles of Americans and their leaders.
A better question to ask is whether his policies justify the anger at him in foreign capitals. Just as important, it is fair to ask whether America is as isolated as his critics claim, and whether or not the opprobrium with which U.S. foreign policy is viewed in some quarters indicates that Washington is doing the right thing rather than blundering.
A discussion of America’s alleged isolation must begin with the Israel-UAE agreement that breaks a 25-year-old logjam in the effort to bring peace to the Middle East.
Primary credit for the accord that is leading to normal relations between the Jewish state and the Emirates belongs to the expert diplomacy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But it is also true that the breakthrough in which much of the Arab world has made it clear that it will no longer allow intransigent Palestinians to veto efforts to normalize relations with the State of Israel is due to a shift in American policy.
Under Obama, the United States was primarily interested in two things in the Middle East: pressuring Israel to make concessions to the Palestinians in a doomed effort to entice them to make peace; and appeasing Iran with a weak nuclear pact in order to effect a rapprochement with the West. The former was a fool’s errand that only served to strengthen the rejectionism that lies at the core of Palestinian political culture. The latter was equally futile, though also had the unintended effect of pushing the Arab states—that are rightly more afraid of Iranian aggression than they ever were of Israel—into the arms of the Jewish state.
The Trump administration reversed both of these mistaken policies. It not only made clear to the Palestinian Authority that its fantasies about pushing Israel back to the 1967 lines and then eliminating the country altogether needed to be abandoned, but also held it accountable for subsidizing terror. The long-overdue recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was a much-needed wake-up call for Israel’s opponents without causing the regional unrest the “experts” had predicted.
Though he had no qualifications for the job, senior adviser and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner has handled the Middle East peace portfolio more successfully than the peace “experts” in prior administrations. He deserves credit for putting forward a more realistic blueprint for peace than his predecessors. Kushner also played a key role in advancing the Israel-UAE agreement. He may be overly optimistic with his prediction that all 22 Arab countries will move forward on normalization with Israel. But only those who actively support Israel’s isolation or elimination can denigrate what he’s achieved in brokering this accord.
As for Iran, it is only the hope that a more pliant Democratic administration will take office next January that keeps them from conceding that it must renegotiate Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal. Eliminating the foolish sunset clauses that ensured that Iran will get a nuclear weapon must be a Western priority. The same is true of the need to force Tehran to back down on illegal missile-building and support for terrorism.
That the Europeans oppose or are unenthusiastic about Trump’s efforts on Middle East peace and Iran says more about the craven nature of their approach than about the president’s alleged foolishness.
Seen from that perspective, it ought to be obvious that the increased closeness between the United States and Israel, as well as the Arab states that also felt slighted by Obama, deserves applause as opposed to criticism.
Trump has not abandoned NATO but strengthened it by forcing allies to invest in their own defense. And although he is widely depicted as a puppet of Russia, U.S. policy towards Russia has actually been much tougher than that of Obama. Trump gave military aid to Ukraine that Obama refused and placed sanctions on Moscow. It should also be remembered that in 2012, Obama famously mocked opponent Mitt Romney for his insistence that Moscow was America’s chief geopolitical foe.
As Obama proved, the admiration of Europeans and intellectual elites did nothing to enhance American security or that of our allies, let alone advance the cause of peace. Trump engages in sometimes-foolish discourse about foreign policy and foreign despots. Yet in practice, his deeds have advanced traditional U.S. goals while acknowledging that most Americans don’t wish to be dragged into more unwinnable wars. And as the criticism of his efforts to isolate Iran from people like Fox News host Tucker Carlson indicates, his “America First” philosophy is not truly isolationist, but instead embodies a smarter and more cautious exercise of U.S. power than of those previous presidents, whose approach was cheered by establishment figures who have been wrong about virtually every issue for decades.
Despite his obvious shortcomings, Trump has proved that it’s better for America to be loved in Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi than in London, Paris and Berlin. That won’t change the minds of those who look down on him; still, a return to applause from the establishment will be bad news for American interests and those of Israel. If America’s current predicament is isolation, then it’s preferable to a return to Obama-style popularity.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS—Jewish News Syndicate. Follow him on Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin
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Tide turning and not the P and G detergent kind?
https://www.reuters.com/
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Tide turning and not the P and G detergent kind?
https://www.reuters.com/
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