Trump "walks" and the Democrats in Congress make themselves look idiotic

"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.

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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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Race Riots, North Korea Backs Down (for now), and General Chaos

I generally don't get too involved in politics on this site, but some important things are happening and perhaps a general comment won't go astray.

The riots in Virginia: we're still investigating (or I hope they are) exactly what happened, and how. But in general, it looks like the Left took advantage of a protest by the White Race Extremists (to call them something besides Extreme "Right', since in the U.S. context, the extreme "Right" is Libertarians/Leave-Me-Alone types; Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, in other words, whereas Neo-Nazis are Fascists, a different monster altogether).

• It's just a propaganda move, and very old hat, at that:
• Stage a riot...
• Make it big news...
• Use it to pillory your political enemies...
• Drum up some very negative "narrative" on them (to use a modern word, "narrative" for propaganda). 
• Actually, as this is all in Saul Alinsky, one just needs to read him for the details.

As for the "White Supremacists, the Neo-Nazis and KKK kind of groups in the U.S., they exist, but are small, crazy, and have more than a few FBI agents in them. (That's what happened to the Klan back in the '60s, it was totally infiltrated and castrated.) On the other hand, the Antifa and BLM (Black Lives Matter)-type groups thrive. For now. "Far-stretching, endless time brings forth all hidden things and buries that which once did shine...". Sophocles

Meanwhile, sympathy for "white fringe" groups — or at least some of their arguments — is growing and NOT decreasing, mainly I suppose because in the manner of large numbers of people who have been lied to for decades, the average Joe and Jane Americans, especially in the Rust Belt states (many of them being very ethnic themselves, as in being Irish, Polish, and so on) simply are not "buying it", i.e., not believing what they're told to buy: the "narrative". (NO ONE buys that now except maybe the U.S.'s very, very badly educated university students and old-Left hangers on.) And let's not forget tens of millions of white Southerners who are not racists but who are disgusted at the removal of their history, a sort of "1984" kind of thing that removing all these statues represents. That angers a lot of people, indeed. People who are armed to the teeth, btw.


I actually know something about that because I worked for years in textbook editing, being a writer, editor, proofer, and so on for a number of companies, one of them huge. It was probably the most wicked work I ever did (and at various times I had to take jobs in sales, mind you). After reading one of our middle school-level textbooks' sections on the American Civil War, you'd think the South fought for slavery, yes, and only that, while the northern armies were made up entirely of freed Blacks and women (honestly, we reported on a number of women who dressed as men and volunteered). Space in a textbook is a premium, and remember that most of the pages were taken up with pictures and maps.

Also, Robert Mueller's investigation into "the Russian Connection" is falling apart; see:
https://www.thenation.com/article/a-new-report-raises-big-questions-about-last-years-dnc-hack/
(and everyone please note that that is The Nation reporting this!), and foreign events (the Norks just backed down from launching missiles at Guam, as of today, at least) along with good domestic economic news, is all threatening to make President Trump look good (horrors! /sarc :) so any ol' thing that the Left can blow up is something they'll try to do.

As for Charlottesville, no matter what Trump says, it'll never be enough: https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/08/14/what-do-the-media-really-want-from-trump/ precisely because these other things are making Trump look somewhat good, the Left is all the more desperate to make him look bad. They'll grasp at anything now to do that.

In other words, another day, and more of the same, more or less.

But what it represents — most importantly — is the slow corrosive acid that is breaking apart the social contract in the U.S. Martin Luther King (a Republican btw) was after getting American Blacks admitting fully into that contract; modern Black (and Left) radicals simply want to destroy it altogether. And unfortunately, the eight years of President Obama merely poured a eight-years worth of acid down into the cracks that were already there.

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