Troops out of Syria, the Wall Shutdown, Blind Justice? Trump Impeachment, Masked Democrats
12/22/18
Troops out of Syria
As I acknowledged during the 2016 election, Trump may be a
bit of a loose cannon, but at least they sometimes shoot in the right
direction, as opposed to one constantly pointing in the wrong direction
(Hillary). And that has definitely
proven true with his surprisingly many shots in the right direction. He’s had good instincts and/or surrounded
himself with, and heeded the advice of, good advisors.
I also said at the start of his presidency that I would criticize him when I felt that is warranted, to make sure he keeps to a conservative and wise path -- back then we were not sure how often he would. While I have acknowledged his brash style and shortcomings in articulateness, I have felt that the Democrats and Left have that well-covered. In fact, they seem to focus more on that, and unfounded conspiracy theories, than his policies. His policies have generally been quite conservative and to my liking. But this week he seems to have deviated. And I hear that I’m hardly alone among conservatives in thinking so.
His sudden, unexpected announcement of a total troop
withdrawal from Syria apparently precipitated General Mattis’ resignation as
Secy of Defense, and at least one other advisor. Apparently the decision was made counter to
his advisors, and the rational is unclear, except that he has said we’re not
the world’s policeman (listening too much to Ivanka?). But he did ramp up the effort to destroy ISIS’
caliphate, which he basically accomplished.
The problems seem multi-fold.
First, with us out of the equation, the Iranians, Syrians
& Russians have more of a free hand in the region. And the Turks as well – they, as well as the
others, want to destroy our Kurdish allies, who we’re basically abandoning on
the ground, at least (we were acting as advisors, and somewhat a deterrent to
their enemies besides ISIS). Further, ISIS
is not completely destroyed (and is present across North Africa and elsewhere
in the Middle East, and in cyberspace, as evidenced in ISIS-inspired attacks in
the U.S. & Europe), and seems to metastasize and resurface whenever and
wherever there’s a vacuum, which we’ve in part created. The same situation that we condemned Obama
for – precipitously withdrawing from Iraq against the advice of all his
advisors, leaving ISIS to grow its caliphate.
We need to be consistent in our condemnations, and learn from the errors
of others. The price is much heavier to
have to fight our way back in than to leave at least a small, stay-behind
force. We had only 2,000 troops there –
advisors, not in combat – and air power.
Compared with 5,000 in Iraq and 15,000 in Afghanistan. I would note, however, that Democrats
condemning Trump for this are disingenuous – inconsistent, and only doing so in
their constant search to find fault with anything Trump does because they don’t
like him personally, and still begrudge him defeating their darling Hillary.
The Wall Government Shutdown
Which brings up the other issue he apparently did reverse
himself on (it takes a pretty big man to do that – I don’t recall Obama ever
doing it) – standing firm (in the face of a government shutdown) on the border
wall. He apparently caved initially to
the Dems, then saw the disgust by his base, and recalled that this was his
signature issue and promise, which his base elected him to accomplish. I’m well aware that some (e.g., Michael Medved)
think it a pointless or even self-destructive exercise to shut down the
government. But others note that this is
about the only remaining leverage he has, and last chance before the Dems take
control of the House in January. And a
chance to stand on principle. While he
said he’d be willing to take blame for the shutdown, it takes two to tango, and
the Dems have shown their unwillingness to compromise – at all – to get things
done -- something the public is growing weary of, which is why Congress’
approval ratings are much lower than Trump’s.
They previously had even offered over a billion for the wall (short of
Trump’s & the House’s latest bill asking 5 billion), but now Schumer says
not a penny. Which proves that their
argument over concern for the cost is disingenuous – especially in light of the
hundreds of billions they’re willing to spend on all kinds of other things that
Republicans think unnecessary. And
despite the return on investment – savings of expenses for millions of illegals
that would be prevented from entry. They
claim it would be ineffective, but that denies the facts of the proven 95%
effectiveness in multiple sectors where walls exist. They do work in conjunction with the other
methods like UAV’s, border patrol, etc.
No, the reason they’re against the wall is because Trump is
for it – and many of their statements belie this, saying that Trump won’t get
his wall. They’re every bit as
infantile, if not moreso, than what they claim Trump to be. But that is in keeping with their frequent
tactic of attacking someone personally, rather than addressing the issue. Even presidents Clinton & Obama &
other Dem leaders have argued in the not too distant past for immigration control,
including walls. And their crocodile
tears for the workers affected by a shutdown are political hogwash – the 25% of
the government that would be affected will receive basically a paid vacation at
the holiday season – they get paid later.
And these are less critical services they provide.
Justice not Blind
And to show that the current justice system is not blind,
look at how the Trump Foundation has been treated compared with the Clinton
Foundation. Or accusations of Flynn selling
out the country, compared with the “Clinton Cash,” Obama’s $150B to Iran or his
doubling the national debt (adding $10 Trillion). Or the Lies of McCabe, Brannon, Abadin, Rice,
etc. with no consequences, compared to perjury traps in the Mueller investigation. Or the entire Mueller investigation going
after Trump & anyone associated with him to find Russian collusion,
ignoring the offenses of Hillary, Comey, McCabe, Strzok & their Russian
dossier. Or the offenses of the Deep
State in the IRS & FBI.
And just today a saw several clips from MSNBC & CNN of
talking heads like Chris Matthews suggesting going after Trump’s kids in court
to have leverage to get Trump to resign to get them off. Now that it’s appearing there’s no Russian
collusion or anything else substantial from the Mueller investigation to
warrant impeachment. But this is just
the same tactic of the Mueller investigation that Comey succeeded in
instigating – go after Trump’s closes associates & find dirt on them. And if none of it implicates Trump, it will
scare anyone else away from associating with or serving Trump, thereby
isolating and bringing him down. These
are despicable people misusing our justice system, and they themselves should
be locked up for frivolous or political lawsuits.
12/15/18
Trump Impeachment?
At the gym, 2 trainers & their clients were talking
politics, and one trainer said, after the recent Cohen convictions (like sharks
smelling blood in the water), that now it looks like Trump will get his parade
– in honor of his impeachment, and he’d (the trainer) be right there marching
in it. I didn’t break in, but should
have said I hate to rain on their parade, but don’t get your hopes up too high
– even if the new House Dem majority can find dubious grounds for impeachment,
and actually impeaches, it won’t go any farther than Clinton’s
impeachment. Realistically, even then
the Senate GOP majority (now even larger) will prevent conviction and removal
from office.
And on the even slimmer chance that serious charges from the
Mueller investigation or other hearings convinced the Senate to remove Trump,
Pence would become president, resulting in no real net change in policy – only
style. I doubt they would be
significantly happier with that.
Especially in light of the Texas federal judge’s ruling that Obamacare
is unconstitutional, after the individual mandate was eliminated by Congress
last year, and that was the only thing the Supreme Court previously found
making it constitutional – as a tax. The
last stake in its heart, hopefully.
I think 8 or 9 of Cohen’s convictions/guilty-pleas were
completely unrelated to Trump – Cohen’s other business dealings. And Cohen and the media would have us believe
that Trump was the cause of Cohen’s downfall, and is implicated himself in some
felony. The problem is, the Stormy
Daniels payment was not a campaign finance violation, even according to liberal
legal expert Alan Dershowitz – it was made out of personal funds, and not
necessarily related to the campaign – but even if it was, the precedence of Jim
Edwards not guilty after an even larger than $1M payment to a mistress during
his campaign , would exonerate him. And no one talks of
Obama's campaign violations, or Hillary's collusion with Russians, etc...
Dershowitz points out that, as Trump has also said, special
prosecutors get witnesses to sing or “compose” (fabricate) in order to reduce a
sentence on other charges. And Cohen
knew they really wanted dirt on Trump, and did get his sentence cut in
half. He claimed Trump made him do
something illegal, but as Trump points out, you pay a lawyer to know the law
and keep things legal. Dershowitz is
certain that if Cohen had had the guts to contest the Daniels payment count in
court, it would be thrown out – no more a felony than collusion with Russians
would be (if indeed there was any, which there’s still no evidence of). The Manafort convictions were also related to
his business dealings years before the campaign. And the Flynn count was on a perjury trap
unrelated to Trump.
In the Oval Office conference w. Trump, Chuck and Nancy
seemed intent on blocking $5B for the Wall.
They claim we can’t afford it, and it wouldn’t be effective – both
disingenuous reasons to cover their petty desire to simply be politically
obstructionist and spite Trump personally, whose signature issue he ran on and
was elected for, was the Wall. I.e., not
just slighting Trump, but all of us who elected him, and the majority of
Americans who support the Wall and greater border security – especially after
the debacle of the recent Central American caravans confrontations and
unnecessary hardships.
No money for the Wall???
So, we can’t afford $5B for national security (several terrorists and hundreds of criminals in the caravan), but we can afford to double the national debt – by $10T under Obama, or fund proposed college for all and Medicare for all to the tune of many hundreds of billions (ostensibly by finding waste in the DoD budget!?)??? No, disingenuous. And keeping out millions of illegals, and funding their education, health care, etc. would more than pay for the wall. Similarly, the border wall has proven effective as a deterrent, and would have simplified dealing with the caravans, etc., since the Dems didn’t like how it was dealt with. The wall has been extremely effective in Israel. And Obama, Clinton & others have previously advocated and built portions of the wall already. No doubt Dems are against it now simply to spite Trump – between anger for Hillary having lost, and their disgust of Trump personally.
I just discovered the Deplorable Choir – here’s one of their
great YouTube videos. I also like the
one on build the Wall.
Masked Democrats/Leftists
The militant arms of the Democrat Party have always masked themselves -- whether in black or white. And for the same purposes -- to enforce their political/social vision by violence & intimidation rather than rational debate & democratic processes. And the very fascism they decry is what they practice and promote -- projection. See this article comparing real historical fascism with their philosophy and methods.
https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/mussolinis-description-fascism-sounds-lot-antifa
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