"Sometimes
you have to walk" Trump said, and it is true. The consensus on the
Conservative (non-Globalist, non-Chamber of Commerce/GOPe) blogs I'm
seeing is that Kim of N. Korea wanted sanctions removed for shutting
down one test site and Trump and Pompeo surprised him by revealing they
know precisely where his other sites are and wanted them closed too.
"Nice try, [beep]" is a classic comment in this regard.
Trump
-- despite the endless baying by the Left in the US and Europe -- is
not a fool. He'll not hesitate to walk away from something bad whereas
the standard US President would, à la Bill Clinton bending over so
far backwards for the Palestinians that he ended up standing on his
face, go to absurd links for some sort of "agreement". Remember how
Obama gave the Iranian thugs pallets full of cash?
Also,
this Trump walkaway sends a no-nonsense message to the ChiComs
(Chinese): Trump won't hesitate to hurt 'em financially if they don't
behave. (And remember, it is the Chinese who control North Korea: Kim is
their puppet.) For example, see this Conservative Treehouse review:
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the Democrats were beclowning and befouling themselves with the Cohen hearings.
An excerpt:
After hours of
questioning, Democrats were unable to find the smoking gun they were looking
for.
As someone who
faces jail time for past lies, Cohen is certainly an unreliable narrator.
Republican lawmakers questioning him today were sure to make that known,
calling him a “pathological liar,” among other names.
Cohen’s testimony
was mostly boring and uninformative, but did confirm some details exonerating
President Trump. Among other key takeaways, Cohen was unable produce any
evidence for any of the following: Collusion with Russia, a directive from
Trump to lie under oath, or that Cohen ever went to Prague.
Total fail, it seems. And remember, the Democrat
House leadership have every intention of bringing an Impeachment vote
against Trump. That's going to be harder now.
Roger L. Simon asserts -- and Simon backed Trump early and consistently
predicted Trump would in -- that the Democrats just got Trump re-elected
president.
One Commentator here, FloMac, wrote that:
I didn't watch any of the grandstanding or the rat's testimony, I just heard the condensed version afterwards of the big nothing.
Between live birth abortions, open borders, Jew hatred from certain freshman house members, reparations, free college, 90% tax rates, the same old Trump hatred, the New...Green Deal (as McConnell puts it) -.we should win in a landslide.
Another, Menachem Ben Yakov, wrote:
Watching Michael Cohen testify was reminiscent of watching Christine " Not afraid to fly, not afraid to lie " Ford testify in the Kavanaugh hearings.
Cohen is a symptom of how far the rot has traveled and how disengaged from morality the Democrat Part has become.
Yep, that pretty much sums it up. This was a recent opinion piece in the Bezos WaPo by Richard Cohen (Richard, not the Michael Cohen testifying).
As
ever, I find it
so odd. Otherwise intelligent people have to assert that President Trump
is, as
the Richard Cohen, the WaPo author of this piece asserts, a “rotten
president, divisive, unpopular
president…”. Actually, Trump’s approval has generally been higher that
Obama’s
at this two-year-in stage in their respective administrations. But they
have to keep hitting on how Trump is
“divisive” – as if the Clintons or Obama wasn’t "divisive"! Anyone
remember the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman affair? C'mon. And then,
along with all that
the same writer can make common sense with the following obvious
observations:
An excerpt:
WASHINGTON
-- I don't quite know what a handbasket is, but the Democratic Party is heading
in one to electoral hell with its talk of socialism and reparations. Given a
Republican incumbent who has never exceeded 50 percent in Gallup's approval
ratings poll and who won the presidency thanks to a dysfunctional electoral college,
the party is nevertheless determined to give Donald Trump a fair shot at
re-election by sabotaging itself. In fact, it's veering so far to the left it
could lose an election in 1950s Bulgaria.
Democratic
socialist ideas appear to be making significant headway in the party. The
Democratic part is fine, the socialism part is not. It suggests a massive
government intrusion in the economy that has not worked elsewhere -- post-war
Great Britain or that contemporary mess called Venezuela -- and that, in a cultural
sense, is un-American. Time and time again, the American people have shown they
want nothing to do with socialism. While socialist movements have at times been
politically strong in Europe, such has not been the case in America. This, in
fact, is one of the original meanings of the phrase "American
exceptionalism."
If
Americans are not about to embrace socialism, they certainly are not about to
support reparations. This proposal, which seems to have come out of nowhere,
has the support of Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Julian Castro and Marianne
Williamson. This supposed redress for slavery -- nothing can
redress slavery -- polls abysmally. Sixty-eight percent of Americans oppose
making payments to descendants of slaves, and 72 percent oppose paying
reparations to African-Americans in general. Among whites, 81 percent oppose
payments to descendants of slaves.
…
The problem for the Democrats at the
moment is that much attention is being focused on political novelties such as
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who espouse both socialism and reparations. She
is ferociously telegenic, infectiously likable and clearly inexhaustible. She
is also political poison, the product of a freak election in a New York City
district where the past has taken root -- socialism and a lot of rot about the
evils of capitalism. She cheered Amazon's decision to forsake New York for
friendlier climes, taking at least 25,000 jobs with it. (Amazon Founder and CEO
Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.) For a mere first termer, this is quite an
accomplishment. It usually takes much more seniority to do this much damage.
Ron again: I like that line: "Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez who espouse both socialism and reparations...She is
ferociously telegenic, infectiously likable and clearly inexhaustible.
She is also political poison."
Yep.
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