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Today, after decades of delays, President Trump finally fulfilled a promise made way back in 1995 when Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act. Passed by an overwhelming bipartisan majority, the Act ordered the embassy’s construction to begin in 1996.
The left looks at the very existence of this administration as a personal failure. SHE was never supposed to lose. Come hell or high water, Hillary Clinton was going to become President – even if dragging her across the finish line required every single left-wing media talking head had to sing in unison.
Remember Tom Steyer? Sure you do. He’s the far-left billionaire activist who wasted mountains of cash trying to drag Hillary Clinton across the presidential finish line. When all was said and done, Steyer was the biggest individual spender of the entire 2016 election cycle – having dropped a massive $75 million.
In 2016 we all learned an object lesson about public polling. The merits of polls are debatable, they’re often (disastrously) wrong, and they’ve increasingly become nothing more than a way of pushing an agenda while manipulating media and public perception. At the same time, we watched as CNN destroyed what was left of its barely-existent credibility and descended into the depths of Democrat boot-licking hell.
Just minutes ago, Vice President Mike Pence tweeted that Mike Pompeo and the three captives who were being held by North Korea had landed safely in Japan. According to the Veep, they are in good health and are excited to be heading back to the states. The President and VP will personally greet them when they arrive at Andrews Air Force Base, sometime this evening.
There are a lot of reasons Democrats don’t deserve to govern. Their ideas are horrible, they trend toward the destruction of the constitution at every opportunity, your rights are an annoyance to them, they think they own everything you own – and you should be grateful for what you are allowed to keep, they hate borders, hate Trump, believe the United States is the planet’s arch enemy, and are salivating at the idea of fully embracing socialism if not outright communism. That’s who they are, and yeah, it’s pretty awful.
From time to time, I’ll refer to a mainstream media piece that contains good news for the Trump administration. Often, I’ll write something like: It must kill them to report this. That’s because we know how desperately the left wants this President to fail. A successful Trump is arguably the worst thing that can happen to the press, the DC swamp, or the old-guard political institutions that predicted his loss, and later, his implosion.
Michael Moore is in rough shape, and I’m not just talking about his physical condition. He’s a had a terrible couple of years. His Broadway show went down in flames, the man he considers to be one of the worst people on Earth demolished his political party, and his movies don’t enjoy the accolades (or box office receipts) that they used to. Add to that a virtue-signaling legal battle with his former friend and financial benefactor, Harvey Weinstein, and you’ve got quite the implosion.
A long time ago, when I was a barely-paid Detroit News contributor, I wrote a piece about the unarguable fact that the City of Detroit will champion any and all diversity, as long as it’s not ideological. Whatever sub-group you belong to, no matter how small, strange, or obscure, Detroit is a place that will welcome you with open arms and help you wave your banner. …Unless you’re a conservative. There is no room for conservatism in Detroit. Yes, you might get an article in a paper here or there, and you might get a slot on the radio from time to time, but the city as a whole will despise you. It’s simply a fact you live with if you’re born and raised in and around Motown.
The DNC has a problem. No, it’s not that they’re devoted to the minimization, diminishment, and eventual elimination of the U.S. Constitution. For the faithful, that’s a selling point. Their problem is that their party is split – fairly evenly – between run-of-the-mill Democrats and proud, self-proclaimed, socialists. We saw this divide play out in 2016, when the party worked with Hillary Clinton to crush Bernie Sanders.
OK, let’s do this one more time. It’s not Hillary’s fault that she lost the 2016 election. It was, in no particular order, the fault of white men, white women, misogyny, racism, Christianity, backwards states, low-info voters, deplorables, Barack Obama, James Comey, Jill Stein, Vladimir Putin, nefarious hackers, the media, Bernie Sanders, Bernie Bros, the DNC, Wikileaks, and her own staff.
If you have a news site on Facebook, you’d better hope it’s one that Mark Zuckerberg and his ant-army of moderators agree with. That’s because sites that cover current events – whether they’re opinion-based or comprised of hard news – have found themselves sent to the digital black hole if they don’t toe the Facebook-approved political line. Like most of Silicon Valley, Zuckerberg is a staunch leftist, and you that means right-leaning outlets are the enemy.
We talked a bit about the Boy Scouts of America last fall, when they first announced their plan to admit girls ‘into every level of the organization.’ Back then, I wrote:
“I’m supposed be screaming about how men are being marginalized, or how our traditions are being destroyed, or how liberals are ruining everything.
Democrats want Donald Trump impeached. No, they don’t have a good reason. They have a bunch of conspiracy theories, the unarguable fact that he said some unpleasant stuff in a bus, and a pile of white hot rage that seeps from their every pore and poisons everything they touch. Sorry lefties, those don’t qualify as either high crimes or misdemeanors.
Maybe Democrats haven’t been screaming “racism” loudly enough. Perhaps they haven’t pandered to just the right subsets of the country they’re trying to divide. It could be that all the free stuff they’ve been promising isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be. Whatever the reason, you can bet the following poll has caused someone in the murky bowels of DNC headquarters to hit a big red panic button.
If you’re still foolish enough to believe that Iran is honoring – or ever had any intention of honoring – the “nuclear deal,” well ….we pity you. Even if you ignore the Mullahs’ decades of terrorist sponsorship, hostage-taking, and lies, you have to know that they violated the agreement almost as soon as they signed it. So, it takes a special kind of head-in-the-sand person to think their word is still their bond.
Announcements of pending announcements are always weird. You want to get excited about what’s happening, but there’s quite a way to go before its official, and everything could fall apart before things are finalized. ….Just ask Frank Luntz. However, it certainly looks like The Korean War is finally about to come to an end.
Earlier, we talked a bit about how crestfallen the Democrats, the NeverTrumpers, and their media allies are. The possible end of the Korean War has ruined their day. Most of the usual press outlets are doing what they can to play down the President’s involvement in current historic events. Most are trying to make sure you know that they’re observing President Trump’s role in the Korean peace process with an intense degree of skepticism – a stance we know would never have been considered if Barack Obama had achieved, or even attempted, such a feat.
Women were supposed to vote for Hillary Clinton. It didn’t matter if they agreed with her, they were commanded by left-wing media and politicos to support their sex by voting for the woman. Republicans, we were told, are woman-hating mouth breathers. They’d love nothing more than to let people like Harvey Weinstein run wild, because that’s supposedly how the right-wing boys’ club works.
