Hillary's Snowflakes & Trump's Inauguration & 1st Week

Hillary’s Loss & the Snowflakes

12/13/16

The Left/Dems are apoplectic about Trump’s election and want to blame it on anything but themselves – always the victims.  Among the excuses they are grasping for their surprise loss:  fake news, Russian hacking, voter fraud (Trump actually gained votes in the recounts), the evil electoral college, the Alt Right, etc., etc.  And after the Obama administration interfered with the Israeli election, they have no room to talk about the Russians.

Part of their lashing out is to delegitimize and neutralize Trump (if not overturn his election) and the GOP agenda, and stem the GOP’s promised overturning of many of the Obama measures like Obamacare, executive orders, etc.

1/10/17

Many on the Left are inappropriately comparing Trump w. Hitler (that makes Hitler look way too good).  A more appropriate comparison would be Hillary with Evita Peron – “Don’t cry for me, minority of Americans.”

“Fake News” is just one of the scapegoats for Hillary’s loss, with the assertion that conservatives promulgated it.  And how about the CNN/Buzz Feed defamatory story on Trump?  Or that Trump was mocking a reporter’s disability (there’s a whole collection of videos of Trump mocking others using the same gestures – gestures that the reporter’s disability don’t make, and Trump was mocking the reporter changing his story when it supported Trump’s assertions.  Or that Trump is racist – he didn’t say all Mexicans are rapists, etc.  Or Hillary landing under fire in Kosovo, the Benghazi video, “Hands up, don’t shoot,” “systemic racism” (Ferguson, etc.), “if you want to keep your doctor, or plan, you can”.  As Prager says, for the Left, truth is not a value – for them the ends justifies the means.

1/5/17

Russian Hacking

Regarding the claim that Russia’s Putin was actively working to defeat Clinton & get Trump elected, Mark Levin wondered, as have I, why Putin would not want Hillary president.  He got all he wanted when she was secretary of state, and Obama & the Dems in general.  She never stood up to him or anyone (except the GOP).  Not in Ukraine/Crimea, or Syria, or Libya, or Egypt, or Iran,…..  Trump, on the other hand, has selected some pretty hard-nosed generals for Secy. Of Defense & Homeland Security & National Security Advisor, who’ve recognized and spoken strongly against the threats Russia & China pose.

And after personal data on some 22 million people with government clearances was hacked a couple/few years ago and there were no loud protests by the administration, NOW suddenly they’re incensed about the Russians probably hacking the Democrat Party emails.  NOW they are suddenly supposedly the party more concerned about those Russkies than the GOP president-elect/party.  NOW they criticize Trump for wanting better relations with the Russians, after their failed reset.  And after their failure to do anything about Russia invading Ukraine & taking Crimea, going into Syria, etc.  NOW suddenly we’re supposed to believe that suddenly the Dems are the tough guys on Russia after all these years of inaction, and only a cowardly, last-minute token ejection of some Russian “diplomats” (spies), as Obama heads out the door?  Yes, they’ll take a little action at least when the Democrat Party is attacked, but not when millions of cleared workers have identity theft, or many thousands of Syrians are killed and hundreds of thousands of refugees flood the West, along with many terrorist plants.  Or when Ukraine is invaded.  We can see their priorities – political, vs the good of America and her allies.

1/19/17

Within weeks of Hillary’s loss, the Clinton Foundation is closing.  Is anyone surprised, with no more political influence to sell?  That shouldn’t leave much doubt in anyone’s mind as to the corruption there.  And I note that Obama didn’t pre-emptively pardon her, and the investigation continues.

The Trump Administration 

The inauguration day was another great, orderly transfer of power in a great tradition of a great nation.  And as Trump said in his speech, not just a transfer of power from one president or party to another, but from Washington back to the people.  It was a very thoughtful and important speech, deserving of re-reading.  It can be found at http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/20/politics/trump-inaugural-address/.   I couldn’t help but think that Obama (and Congressmen of both parties) was squirming in his seat when Trump said “We will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action -- constantly complaining but never doing anything about it.

“The time for empty talk is over. Now arrives the hour of action.”

Trump is not generally as articulate as Obama, but is much more a man of action.  Give me effective action over hollow words any day.  The Left seems to prefer the former.  A scripture comes to mind:  “…shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.

…But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?” (James 2:18, 20)

I also liked “The forgotten will be forgotten no longer.”  And “This American carnage stops right here and right now.”  And “A new vision will govern our land – ‘America first.’”  “I will fight for you with every breath in my body, and will never, never let you down.”  “We will eradicate radical Islamic terrorism from the face of the earth.”  “We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement and, most importantly, we are protected by God.” (There were 3 other invocations of God).  “When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, ‘How good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity.’”  And finally, “Together we will make America great again.  We share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny.”

The first family was also stellar. 

1/20/17

Inaugural Boycotts, Marches, Protests & Critics

A full third of the Democrats in the House are boycotting the inauguration – so much for their sincerity in previously expressed desires for healing and bringing people together.  Apparently the last time there were that many Democrats (or anyone) boycotting an inauguration was for Lincoln’s 2 inaugurals.  Their party hasn’t changed much, has it?

Then there is the women’s march the day after the inauguration.  Were they so concerned over Hillary’s character & corruption?  And then the protesters that got violent during the inauguration.  Yes, we’ve long ago got the message about your concerns with Trump.  But if you keep pushing harder before giving him a chance, you’ll only alienate the majority of Americans more, and I don’t think you’ll like the results.  You need to learn more from the election.  You complained that we didn’t give Obama the respect of the office, etc., but we never did anything like what you’re doing.

I heard a number of motivations for the marchers – some for Planned Parenthood & abortion rights, some against Trump’s language or supposed misogyny (a misuse of the term), maybe some for Obamacare or immigration rights (open borders, really – they never think that through, completely), and anti-bigotry.  And since it was a women’s march, I suspect that another motivation may have been sour grapes for their dashed hopes of Hillary being the first woman president.  Again, never mind what a miserable representative of her gender she’d be, much like Obama being such a miserable representative of his race.  All that doesn’t matter to them as much as the symbolism of the first.  And this jumble of motivations became apparent in some of the basically incoherent speeches, especially of some celebrities like Ms. Judd, and Madonna speaking of her fantasy of blowing up the White House.  And some real foul mouths.  Yes, these are the role models that are so superior to Trump?  They speak of love, but practice hate.

Here is an article with photos by a woman who attended both the women’s march and the annual March for Life a week later, contrasting the two.  Interesting.  http://ijr.com/2017/01/788280-i-am-a-woman-who-went-to-the-womens-march-and-the-march-for-life-the-differences-were-stunning/?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=morning-newsletter&utm_medium=owned

For liberals/Leftists critical of Trump’s immigration stance, perhaps they can reconcile this 84 second clip from a Bill Clinton speech from 1995.

 https://www.c-span.org/video/? c4351026/c 

The Left has really gone berserk.  And the media headlines are about the "Muslim ban," notwithstanding it being by countries, only covering 12% of Muslims in the world.  Maybe not perfectly executed, or with inadequate time to prep people (or bad guys).  There are non-Muslims in those countries, too.  They're the same countries Obama's administration singled out for special attention (sponsors of terrorism, other concerns), and it's only temporary until they can figure out a better vetting system.  I'm sure there were political considerations w. Egypt & Saudi Arabia being more or less allies (few that we have in the region) and/or strong trading partners.  But Saudi Arabia has some serious problems sponsoring the radical madrases, etc.

1/19/17

CNN talking heads called out Trump on his calling the CIA leak of a false story about him like Nazi Germany, saying he needs to learn about the real Nazi Germany.   Of course numerous on the Left have been calling Trump Hitlerian, fascist, like Stalin (NYT) etc., and they still don’t see their own hypocrisy staring them in the face.  They are truly uninclined or incapable of introspection or self-blame (secularism is often devoid of that) – always preoccupied with finding fault elsewhere.  They see themselves as morally superior (not xenophobes, sexists, bigots, etc.), and it is their moral duty to straighten out those with all those shortcomings. 

I occasionally wonder if Trump with some of his off-the-wall statements isn’t intentionally tweaking and throwing something out to make the Left/media apoplectic (in addition to publicity, which was part of his former profession), especially because they can’t stand to be called something they view as the ultimate insult.  Countering them with their own tactic and basically putting a mirror in front of their face.  Like the 3 million illegal voters for Hillary – countering their charges of his illegitimacy & her claim of winning the popular vote).  And the Left is so prone to hyperbole & exaggeration like Nazi, rape, holocaust, etc. -- by their overuse & misuse they alter the meaning and thereby lessen the significance of the original.

Trump’s First Week

Trump truly hit the ground running – actually even before taking office, meeting with businesses and arranging keeping their jobs here.  The media & libs are obsessed with the election, and don’t want to cover (or think about, or keep up with) Trump’s barrage of executive orders so rapidly undoing Obama’s.  The pipeline, TPP, Obamacare, federal hiring, abortion funding, mtgs. with federal agencies (CIA, Homeland Security, etc.), unions, business leaders, foreign leaders etc., etc. – all in his first week. 

Trump has a real work ethic – for a 70-year-old he’s showing a lot more diligence than the much younger but laid back Obama.  As Wikipedia says, “Elected at age 70, he is the oldest and wealthiest person to assume the presidency (Washington is second wealthiest); the first without prior military or governmental service; and the fifth elected with less than a plurality of the national popular vote.”  He said this week that he feels as if he were in his 30’s, and is certainly acting that way with his work ethic, which his children attest to.

Someone noted that the Left is getting a taste of their own medicine when they would just barrage us with one thing after another, giving us no time to counter or focus.  I see some other similar tactics like some calling anti-Trumpers “alt-Left,” countering their new favorite put-down of “alt-Right.”  And Trump’s use of “fake news” applied to the CNN story of dirt on him & his staff, the story of the MLK bust being removed from the Oval Office, etc., countering their attributing his win in part to his/GOP’s fake news.  They’re really hung up on this, grilling Sean Spicer (new Trump press spokesman) as to whether he intends to tell the truth.  As if Josh Earnest (now there’s an appropriate oxymoron) and the media never spun things or perhaps occasionally unknowingly passed on something false, without adequately vetting it.  Sean came out swinging in his first appearance the day after the inaugural, taking on the press’ lack of integrity & objectivity.  There’s a new sheriff in town.

Trump also showed humility and willingness to delegate.  He was supportive of his cabinet nominees speaking their minds during their confirmation hearings, and not just trying to echo him.  And he says he will honor their expertise, for instance when he disagrees with Gen. Mattis on waterboarding, he will defer to Mattis.  He has picked some of the best people available to surround himself with, and will take advantage of their expertise.  He has the makings of a great leader.

Some of Trump’s harshest critics on the Right before the election, like Levin & Medved, have been praising Trump for his first days of executive orders, his cabinet picks, and the apparent finalists for Supreme Court nominee to be made public next week, calling them solidly conservative.  He does appear to be rising to the office, despite some lingering tweeting.  Overall, I give Trump an A for accomplishment & effort – keeping campaign promises. 

Miscellaneous

1/3/17

Progressives want to transform America & its 3 values on the coins – from “E Pluribus Unum” to fractionating and dividing us by interest groups (ethics, sex, class, etc.), from “liberty” to more government central control, and from “in God we trust” to “in secular progressivism we trust.”

1/10/17  Prager hr. 2 – police interrogated a gang leader who says gangs have access (through friends, spouses, etc. employed in government) to records of anyone with registered firearms – and now ammo, in California.  And many robberies have been targeting those homes for weapons.