Trump's lack of decorum, dignity, and statesmanship

The author is unknown, but knows how to say what we all realize.

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My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t think his tweets are “beneath the dignity of the office.” 

 

Here’s my answer: 

 

We Right-thinking people have tried dignity.  There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency.

 

We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney? 

 

And the results were always the same. This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.

 

I don’t find anything “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper” about Barack Obama’s lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the Democratic Party. I don’t see anything “dignified” in lying about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover your tracks. I don’t see anything “statesman-like” in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy your political opponents and any dissent. Yes, Obama was “articulate” and “polished” but in no way was he in the least bit “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper.” 

 

The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of the Children of the ‘60s. To them, it has been an all-out war where nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale. It has been a war they’ve fought with violence, the threat of violence, demagoguery and lies from day one – the violent take-over of the universities – till today. The problem is that, through these years, the Left has been the only side fighting this war. While the Left has been taking a knife to anyone who stands in their way, the Right has continued to act with dignity, collegiality and propriety. With Donald Trump, this all has come to an end. Donald Trump is America ’s first wartime president in the Culture War.

 

During wartime, things like “dignity” and “collegiality” simply aren’t the most essential qualities one looks for in their warriors. Ulysses Grant was a drunk whose behavior in peacetime might well have seen him drummed out of the Army for conduct unbecoming. Had Abraham Lincoln applied the peacetime rules of propriety and booted Grant, the Democrats might well still be holding their slaves today. Lincoln rightly recognized that, “I cannot spare this man. He fights.”

 

General George Patton was a vulgar-talking, son-of-a-bitch. In peacetime, this might have seen him stripped of rank. But, had Franklin Roosevelt applied the normal rules of decorum then, Hitler and the Socialists would barely be five decades into their thousand-year Reich.

 

Trump is fighting. And what’s particularly delicious is that, like Patton standing over the battlefield as his tanks obliterated Rommel’s, he’s shouting, “You magnificent bastards, I read your book!” 

 

That is just the icing on the cake, but it’s wonderful to see that not only is Trump fighting, he’s defeating the Left using their own tactics. That book is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals – a book so essential to the Liberals’ war against America that it is and was the playbook for the entire Obama administration and the subject of Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis. It is a book of such pure evil, that, just as the rest of us would dedicate our book to those we most love or those to whom we are most indebted, Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer.

 

Trump’s tweets may seem rash and unconsidered but, in reality, he is doing exactly what Alinsky suggested his followers do. First, instead of going after “the fake media” — and they are so fake that they have literally gotten every single significant story of the past 60 years not just wrong, but diametrically opposed to the truth, from the Tet Offensive to Benghazi, to what really happened on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri — Trump isolated CNN. He made it personal.     

 

Then, just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule which Alinsky described as “the most powerful weapon of all.” ... Most importantly, Trump’s tweets have put CNN in an untenable and unwinnable position. ... They need to respond. This leaves them with only two choices. They can either “go high” (as Hillary would disingenuously declare of herself and the fake news would disingenuously report as the truth) and begin to honestly and accurately report the news or they can double-down on their usual tactics and hope to defeat Trump with twice their usual hysteria and demagoguery. The problem for CNN (et al.) with the former is that, if they were to start honestly reporting the news, that would be the end of the Democratic Party they serve.   

 

It is nothing but the incessant use of fake news (read: propaganda) that keeps the Left alive. Imagine, for example, if CNN had honestly and accurately reported then-candidate Barack Obama’s close ties to foreign terrorists (Rashid Khalidi), domestic terrorists (William Ayers), the mafia (Tony Rezko) or the true evils of his spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright’s church. Imagine if they had honestly and accurately conveyed the evils of the Obama administration’s weaponizing of the IRS to be used against their political opponents or his running of guns to the Mexican cartels or the truth about the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the Obama administration’s cover-up.  So, to my friends on the Left — and the #NeverTrumpers as well — do I wish we lived in a time when our president could be “collegial” and “dignified” and “proper”? Of course I do. These aren’t those times. This is war. And it’s a war that the Left has been fighting without opposition for the past 50 years. So, say anything you want about this president - I get it - he can be vulgar, he can be crude, he can be undignified at times. I don’t care. I can’t spare this man. He fights for America!

Establishment Psychology of The Swamp

Psychology

Start with a cage containing four monkeys, and

inside the cage you hang a banana on a string, and

then you place a set of stairs under the banana.

Before long a monkey will go to the stairs and climb

toward the banana.

You then spray ALL the monkeys with cold water.

After a while, another monkey makes an attempt. As

soon as he touches the stairs, you spray ALL the

monkeys with cold water.

  

Pretty soon, when another monkey tries to climb the

stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.

Now, put away the cold water. Remove one monkey

from the cage and replace it with a new monkey. The

new monkey sees the banana and attempts to climb the

stairs. To his shock, ALL of the other monkeys beat

the crap out of him. After another attempt and

attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the

stairs he will be assaulted.

Next, remove another of the original four monkeys,

replacing it with a new monkey. The newcomer goes

to the stairs and is attacked. The previous

newcomer takes part in the punishment - with

enthusiasm - because he is now part of the "team."

Then, replace a third original monkey with a new

monkey, followed by the fourth. Every time the

newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked.

Now, the monkeys that are beating him up have no

idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs.

Neither do they know why they are participating in

the beating of the newest monkey. Having replaced

all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining

monkeys will have ever been sprayed with cold water.

Nevertheless, not one of the monkeys will try to

climb the stairway for the Banana.

Why, you ask? Because in their minds, that is the

way it has always been!

This is how today's House and Senate operates, and

this is why from time to time, ALL of the monkeys

need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME!

DISCLAIMER: This is meant as no disrespect to monkeys.***

Russian Collusion Apparently Confirmed - Not Trump

I've long believed that the media narrative is serving a duel purpose; distraction and misdirection, the core strategies of any magician practicing his/her craft. Distraction is used to present enough plausible information to the public such that, after repeating it for six months or more, people who don't get information from any alternative sources than the alphabet soup networks actually believe it to be true.The misdirection involves putting blame on their target; in this case with the "Russian / Trump Collusion" story it's been the man who "stole" Hillary Clinton's presidency.
 
It seems, from the evidence gathered thus far by a veteran CIA agent's research, that there actually is a Russian effort to influence the U.S., but not when it comes to the election. Instead, its efforts are to impact the U.S. energy policy regarding fracking.

Why? Use this link to not only read the article, but to watch a brief and concise video clip from the Tucker Carlson Show with guest reporter Kevin Mooney to learn the details. The dots between Russia and U.S. Environmental groups being funneled millions of dollars to protest and lobby to stop fracking in the U.S. is clearly and convincingly explained.

Obscured in the Fog of Media Misdirection

I've been following national politics for decades. Does that make me an expert on the subject? Not by a long shot! However, I have acquired a reasonably decent education despite the efforts of the colleges and universities I've attended over those decades and my parents taught me well to recognize a smoke screen when I encountered it.

What's going on today with the protests at various venues - mostly on the east coast - has revealed with all the more clarity what's really going on. As I've stated in previous posts here, and as I've been following details of information here and there from an array of sources, the current reaction to the nation electing a man who clearly intends to "drain the swamp" of its infestation and putrid odors has forced the globalist elites to engage at a more intense, in your face, level in order to push back.

Just who is "Antifa"? Where do they come from? Who funds them? Obviously they are coordinated through the Internet on various platforms of social media and are organized to move about the country quickly in order to utilize their assets of thugs who are willing to do their bidding in various regions. Reading this article provides us with some interesting perspectives and revelations on this issue, and, more interestingly, reveals just how the media provides them cover when public reaction to their violence begins to heat up. Anyone with a modicum of common sense can see right through the B.S. that seeking peace through violence is double speak and clarifies to us their mantra, "By any means necessary!"

IMHO, this example clearly illustrates some revelations which much of the public is oblivious to. The media is clearly leftist oriented. This has been proven multiple times over the past decades, but has been focused sine the election. The media is a tool which is being used by the globalist elites to lie and cover for their "boots on the ground" of which many are cowardly in that they wear scarfs over their faces to hide behind while attacking their targets. I don't believe for one second these "Antifa" thugs are grassroots. I seem to recall the previous president stating, "I want a civilian security force, just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded." Why do you think his administration engaged in "Fast & Furious"? It irks the Left that the nation already has a national civilian security force; it' called the millions of 2nd amendment advocates they've been trying so hard to neuter for decades. The media is engaging in full-on propaganda in an effort to deceive and confuse consumers who are ignorant of the truths and facts behind their true agenda.

Why Pres. Trump has yet to launch an investigation into this is perplexing to me. But then, it's clear from what's transpired over his first nine months in office, that he's got his hands full with the diversions and insurrection by the media of destroying key cabinet members and advisors in the "swamp". The corruption is clearly so pervasive there - especially from the previous administration members and his campaign opponent - that it seems to me Trump is having to carefully and strategically pick which battle in the war is dealt with next. 

It's clear to me that this is a struggle of epic proportions for our nation's future existence. Leftists, having had control of the agenda for decades, are now pulling out the stops to deal with what they know to be a rising up and resisting of the shrinking middle-class fighting back against their agenda of bigger government and greater regulatory control of our lives in every respect.

A Lesson In Prosperity

A modern parable on the effectiveness of socialism:

An economics professor at a local college made a statement to his colleagues that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama's socialism was a good idea, that no one would feel bad, and they looked forward to to a society where no one would be poor or rich, but that everyone one would be equal and happy.

The professor told the class, "Okay, let's conduct an economics experiment in this class and see how well Obama's plan works." After the initial stir of excitement from the class, he explained that all grades for the class will be averaged and that everyone will receive the same grade, so that no one will fail and no one will exceed by getting an A grade (substituting grades for dollars - something closer to home for the students and more readily understood).

After the classes first test, the grades were averaged and the class was told that everyone got a B. The student who studied hard were a bit upset and the students who hardly studied - if at all - were pleased. (These students were confident socialism was a good thing.) As the second test was taken, the students who studied very little had studied even less for the test, and the ones who studied hard on the first test, resentful of what had happened on the first test, wanted a free ride, so they studied even less than before.

The second test average was a D! No one was happy with this outcome. When the third test rolled around, the class average was an F. As the tests came and went, the average score for the class never improved. Bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in negative feelings towards other classmates, and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.

To their great surprise, at the end of the course all failed and the professor told them that socialism applied in the real world as an economic model would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to put any effort to succeed into their work.

The following five sentences are possibly the most important ones anyone will ever read and all apply to the lesson of this class's experiment:

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the rich out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anyone anything that the government did not take from someone else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of providing financial support for them, and when the other half realizes that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they worked for, then that point is the beginning of the end of any nation. 

For a current, real world, example of how well socialism works, just take a look at the country of Venezuela.

Socialism is nothing more than a con on the ignorant!

Dropping Like Flies

It's not looking good... the darkness seems to be looming over the horizon.

Over the past several months the President Trump's people chosen to assist him in making policy decisions has been consistently resigned, or been fired for various reasons. I don't recall this many, although there were a few here or there, in previous administrations; especially the democrat ones.

What's going on? As always, there are different ways to look at this. One way is that those who've left had skeletons that were outed from the closet which were damaging enough to force them out either through a request to resign, or not skilled adequately for the demands entailed in the position. Another is that the political opposition is digging into their background and using the media to do one of two things; expose questionable character issues about them, or manufacture them, promote them through the media - "people have a right to know" - long enough to damage their credibility to the point of them bowing out.

The latest is Sabastian Gorka, (the people's comments are most interesting in this article) preceded by Steve Bannon, Anthony Scaramucci, Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer, and Preet Bharara. One can't help but wonder how many more will be ousted in the coming months. 

The media narrative is that Trump's administration is in chaos. The loyalists who still support him see it from another perspective; the establishment in D.C. who don't want to see their control of a global agenda modified are patiently working behind the scenes to strip from the staff of those who would advise the President on policy decision and effectively isolate him to the point of ineffectiveness regarding his campaign promises. The elite currently in control view it as threatening their ability to maintain the status quo that's been in place for decades.

Some might say, "But, Trump's flip-flopped on the Afghanistan situation!" To those who pay attention to the media spin on everything regarding his administration which has only been in for nine months will buy it hook, line and sinker. For those who listened to Trump explain why he changed his tune from the campaign and understand that as a candidate limited knowledge and understanding of what's actually going on and at stake, will realize he's making a more informed and appropriate decision. If it were Obama suddenly reversing his Afghanistan policy for whatever reason, you could be certain that the media would've supported him with devotional accolades.

What I am disappointed about Trump's dealing with the media opposition is that he's not utilized the resources available to him like Pres. Reagan did. I believe he would be much more effective if he were to make occasional outreach messages to the country explaining in specifics what and why he's doing what he's decided to do on a particular policy decision. Get the country informed directly rather than allowing the press to spin it.

If he doesn't incorporate at least some level of this proven approach, I tend to feel that the current tactics from the likes of Waters, Schumer, Pelosi, and McConnell will neutralize his ability to remain the President for long. The rhetoric and hype of the social justice faction in the country are gaining too much momentum with their statues take-downs, reactions to the SDSU's president asking the Muslim Student Assoc. to condemn the recent Barcelona attack, and forcing opposition groups to cancel their rally, like freedom of speech advocate groups in San Francisco today.

They Know Not of What They Support

The youth of today who, because of their insatiable desire to be "cool", "with it", and "in the know" about what's considered acceptable in their circles today, are philosophically jumping on the band wagon of socialist ideals, mainly because they've not been exposed to the basics of economics and the benefits of a free enterprise system. Thus, they are convinced that those ideals will actually result in something better than what they're currently enjoying while indulging in the most affluent society ever known to man. 

How can, and why do, I say this? Just watch Ami Horwitz's short video of "Man on the street: Income Inequality" and listen to how they respond to his questions/points he shares with them and it will become obvious. 

If this trend doesn't get turned around, I personally predict the country doesn't have more than 30 years, tops, to become like Venezuela. Maybe sooner!