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- Tweets. Just when you think it is a nice, quiet weekend, President Trump pulls the pin of a grenade and rolls it into the body politic where it goes off and all Hell breaks loose.\u00a0 Such was the case at 5: 27 AM July 14 when he loosed a three Tweet barrage on the Squad of House freshmen democrats<\/a>.\u00a0 The exact verbiage of the Tweets follows:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
So interesting to see \u201cProgressive Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly \u2026..<\/p>\n
\u2026.. and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run.\u00a0 Why don\u2019t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.\u00a0 The come back and show us how \u2026..<\/p>\n
\u2026.. it is done.\u00a0 These places need your help badly, you can\u2019t leave fast enough.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The political carnage was glorious to behold, with the entire democrat and media establishment along with no small number of horrified Republicans joining into the fun, all with the charge that Trump was racist (more on this in a following section), going after Representatives Ilhan Omar (D, MN), Rashida Tlaib (D, MI), Alexandria Ocasio \u2013 Cortez (D, NY) and Ayanna Pressley (D, MA) for their anti-American hatred and bigotry.\u00a0 Telling someone to go home is as American as apple pie.\u00a0 I have been hearing it since the early 1970s.\u00a0 Here in Alaska, the way to rank yourself against your neighbor is by how long you have been in state.\u00a0 Of the 4, Omar is a naturalized citizen originally from Somalia.\u00a0 Cortez is second generation with a parent from Puerto Rico.\u00a0 Tlaib is a second-generation Palestinian who wrapped herself in the Palestinian flag after her election in 2018.\u00a0 Pressley is more interested in being a black separatist than anything else<\/a>, as she has Michelle O\u2019Bama\u2019s angry black woman schtick down cold.<\/p>\n
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- Politics. So, what is really going on with all of this?\u00a0 Trump is attempting to drive democrats together and make the Squad of Harridans the face of the democrat party for the next year and a half.\u00a0 While he may not be an experienced politician, he is an expert on the media, and is playing them like a Stradivarius.\u00a0 Trump is throwing their words and positions right back at them.\u00a0 He had a raucous rally in NC midweek, where he gleefully continued to go after them.\u00a0 The crowd broke into a chant of \u201csend them home\u201d for 13 seconds which the media grabbed to continue their assault on Trump.\u00a0 He managed to bait the squad into responding<\/a> with a really \u201cinteresting\u201d press conference.\u00a0 Rep. Al Green (D, TX) brought articles of impeachment to the floor of the House where they were tabled with a 332 \u2013 95 vote.\u00a0 By week\u2019s end, it was clear that Trump had won the point, forcing every single democrat to defend, protect and apologize for the Squad, effectively turning them into the face of their party for the foreseeable future.\u00a0 The best description of this was a meme making the rounds that states \u201cA friend has figured it all out.\u00a0 Here\u2019s what she opined:\u00a0 Twitter is Trump\u2019s laser pointer and Democrats (and their media enablers) are all cats.\u201d\u00a0 This is what fighting back is all about.\u00a0 This is why Trump was elected, because he is a bare knuckled brawler.\u00a0 It is why the Republican establishment hates him.\u00a0 It is why he terrifies the democrats.\u00a0 It is also why he is winning.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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- Racist. Predictably, the Squad members responded by calling Trump and his Tweets racist.\u00a0 Their thought process is that any criticism of a freshmen member of congress is racist, especially if they are self-described \u201cwomen of color\u201d, something they made sure everyone knew.\u00a0 As the week continued, the accusation of Trump racism was deafening, consistent, and unrelenting.\u00a0 And the never-Trumpers joined right on in the fun.\u00a0 Racism has been the 20-megaton nuke used by the political left for decades.\u00a0 Unfortunately like all large caliber weapons, the more you use it, the less effective it becomes, kind of like drug use.\u00a0 Over time, you have to use more of it to get the same impact.\u00a0 And democrats have been using it early and often, most recently on one another \u2013 the Squad vs Pelosi a week ago, Kamala Harris using it on Joe Biden during the debate a couple weeks ago.\u00a0 Trump was never a racist until he decided to run for president.\u00a0 There is a photo of a young Trump, with Mohammed Ali and Rosa Parks as he was given a racial unity award decades ago.\u00a0 Scott Adams believes that Trump may be on the verge of defanging the racism weapon, that the charges while constant and loud, aren\u2019t carrying the same weight or power that they once did, which is a positive development for all of us.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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- Diversity. The Women\u2019s National Soccer Team calls itself an inclusive, caring, diverse operation.\u00a0 But they are not all that diverse.\u00a0 A year ago, one of the best young players in the US, Jalene Hinkle was called up to the team to play with them for the summer.\u00a0 She found out that the team would be wearing rainbow uniforms to celebrate LGBTQWTF and declined the invitation as a practicing Christian.\u00a0 She was not invited back afterwards.\u00a0 Not being content with freezing her off the squad, team member Ashlyn Harris, also a LGBTQWTF took the opportunity to rip Hinkle for being intolerant and homophobic<\/a>.\u00a0 She went on to say \u201c\u2026 our team is about inclusion.\u00a0 Your religion was never the problem.\u00a0 The problem is your intolerance, and you are homophobic.\u00a0 You don\u2019t belong in a sport that aims to unite and bring people together.\u00a0 You would never fit into our pack or what this team stands for.\u201d\u00a0 Apparently inclusion in the LGBTQWTF \u00a0world these days excludes Christians.\u00a0 And the women\u2019s soccer team doesn\u2019t stand for competitive excellence, but for lockstep enforcement demanding continuous celebration of LGBTQWTF lifestyle choices.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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- Slaves. One of the cottage industries in the race baiting wars in recent years has been for reporters to trace genealogy of candidates back long enough to find whether or not they had slave holders in their backgrounds.\u00a0 This is a bit like the old Jim Crow game of finding black blood in the lineage of people who were claiming to be white and after doing do, discarding their legitimacy.\u00a0 Interestingly enough, it all comes from the same side of the political fence \u2013 democrats.\u00a0 A week or so ago, someone figured out that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (D, KY) had a slaveowner in his background, shoved a microphone in his face and asked the question.\u00a0 McConnell smiled, laughed, and acknowledged his heritage, which puts him and former President Barack O\u2019Bama in the same boat<\/a>.\u00a0 Similarly, democrat Presidential candidate Kamala Harris (D, CA) also has some of this from her father\u2019s side of the family in Jamaica.\u00a0 Given that slavery was a fundamental economic condition in humanity up to 200 years or so ago, I expect anyone (everyone) can be tracked back to one or the other.\u00a0 Better yet, anyone who is a Muslim is practicing a religion that still takes, buys and sells slaves in the Middle East and Africa.\u00a0 Right now.\u00a0 Today.\u00a0 I don\u2019t expect that question to be asked of any members of the Religion of Continuous Outrage any time soon.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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- Census. Looks like the Trump administration has an alternate approach to the citizenship question, that of querying various federal databases to extract the data.\u00a0 President Trump issued an executive order last week<\/a> ordering every department and agency to provide Commerce with all data on the number of citizens and noncitizens in the country.\u00a0 Expect the majority of the information to come from Social Security.\u00a0 At the same time, they will continue to pursue the court case.\u00a0 Polling on this has the majority of all races supporting the citizenship question.\u00a0 Leftist opposition and lawfare is going to put the federal courts in a very difficult position.\u00a0 Best guess is that there are perhaps 15 congressional seats and Electoral Votes that will change due to resolution of this question.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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- Gisbon\u2019s. Gibson\u2019s Bakery was awarded $6.5 million in attorney\u2019s fees<\/a> and expenses last week, giving them a total award of almost $32 million.\u00a0 For their part, looks like Oberlin College is still in complete denial about what took place and why.\u00a0 They are expected to appeal to every possible superior court in Ohio, stretching out the festivities for another 3 \u2013 5 years.\u00a0 Large court awards in Ohio start a clock that pays post-judgment interest of 5% on any award during the time between when it was awarded to when it is finally paid.\u00a0 In this case, Oberlin is on the hook for nearly $4,400\/day.\u00a0 Oberlin doesn\u2019t want Gibson\u2019s to get paid by seizing bank accounts, buildings, equipment, property, etc.\u00a0 The next court fight will be over the requirement for Oberlin to post a bond while the case winds its way through the appeals process.\u00a0 Oberlin obviously doesn\u2019t want to post one, as they think they can simply wait the Gibson\u2019s out by slow-rolling the process.\u00a0 The Gibson\u2019s legal team knows the game and is arguing for a bond.\u00a0 Oberlin has brought this on themselves with their promise to continue the appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court.\u00a0 Bond writers do not want to take any risk, so any bond posted on this judgment will require liquid assets equivalent to the total judgment against Oberlin.\u00a0 Stay tuned.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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- Ryan. Former House Speaker Paul Ryan is quoted in a book by Tim Alberta as continuing his private criticism of President Trump in public.\u00a0 Ryan took particular offense at Trump\u2019s pot shots at Stormy Daniels and her mouthpiece Michael Avenatti.\u00a0 Ryan talked about his frustration with Trump, claiming he didn\u2019t know anything about government, wanting to scold him all the time.\u00a0 Ryan showed himself singularly unable to help Trump pursue his priorities, most infamously begging Trump not to veto the omnibus budget deal in return for wall funding.\u00a0 Ryan got his budget.\u00a0 Trump never got his wall money, something he never forgot.\u00a0 Ryan was one of the beltway Republicans (along with both of Alaska\u2019s US Senators) that abandoned Trump after the Access Hollywood video was released in October 2016.\u00a0 Always the counterpuncher, Trump went after Ryan last week<\/a> following release of details of Ryan\u2019s criticism in the soon to be published book.\u00a0 He ripped Ryan in several statements and Tweets last Thursday.\u00a0 Not wanting to be ignored, Mittens Romney (D, UT), jumped into the food fight with a stirring defense of Ryan.\u00a0 OF course, if Mittens had ever fought this hard against O\u2019Bama, he might have become president.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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- Ryan. Former House Speaker Paul Ryan is quoted in a book by Tim Alberta as continuing his private criticism of President Trump in public.\u00a0 Ryan took particular offense at Trump\u2019s pot shots at Stormy Daniels and her mouthpiece Michael Avenatti.\u00a0 Ryan talked about his frustration with Trump, claiming he didn\u2019t know anything about government, wanting to scold him all the time.\u00a0 Ryan showed himself singularly unable to help Trump pursue his priorities, most infamously begging Trump not to veto the omnibus budget deal in return for wall funding.\u00a0 Ryan got his budget.\u00a0 Trump never got his wall money, something he never forgot.\u00a0 Ryan was one of the beltway Republicans (along with both of Alaska\u2019s US Senators) that abandoned Trump after the Access Hollywood video was released in October 2016.\u00a0 Always the counterpuncher, Trump went after Ryan last week<\/a> following release of details of Ryan\u2019s criticism in the soon to be published book.\u00a0 He ripped Ryan in several statements and Tweets last Thursday.\u00a0 Not wanting to be ignored, Mittens Romney (D, UT), jumped into the food fight with a stirring defense of Ryan.\u00a0 OF course, if Mittens had ever fought this hard against O\u2019Bama, he might have become president.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
- Gisbon\u2019s. Gibson\u2019s Bakery was awarded $6.5 million in attorney\u2019s fees<\/a> and expenses last week, giving them a total award of almost $32 million.\u00a0 For their part, looks like Oberlin College is still in complete denial about what took place and why.\u00a0 They are expected to appeal to every possible superior court in Ohio, stretching out the festivities for another 3 \u2013 5 years.\u00a0 Large court awards in Ohio start a clock that pays post-judgment interest of 5% on any award during the time between when it was awarded to when it is finally paid.\u00a0 In this case, Oberlin is on the hook for nearly $4,400\/day.\u00a0 Oberlin doesn\u2019t want Gibson\u2019s to get paid by seizing bank accounts, buildings, equipment, property, etc.\u00a0 The next court fight will be over the requirement for Oberlin to post a bond while the case winds its way through the appeals process.\u00a0 Oberlin obviously doesn\u2019t want to post one, as they think they can simply wait the Gibson\u2019s out by slow-rolling the process.\u00a0 The Gibson\u2019s legal team knows the game and is arguing for a bond.\u00a0 Oberlin has brought this on themselves with their promise to continue the appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court.\u00a0 Bond writers do not want to take any risk, so any bond posted on this judgment will require liquid assets equivalent to the total judgment against Oberlin.\u00a0 Stay tuned.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
- Census. Looks like the Trump administration has an alternate approach to the citizenship question, that of querying various federal databases to extract the data.\u00a0 President Trump issued an executive order last week<\/a> ordering every department and agency to provide Commerce with all data on the number of citizens and noncitizens in the country.\u00a0 Expect the majority of the information to come from Social Security.\u00a0 At the same time, they will continue to pursue the court case.\u00a0 Polling on this has the majority of all races supporting the citizenship question.\u00a0 Leftist opposition and lawfare is going to put the federal courts in a very difficult position.\u00a0 Best guess is that there are perhaps 15 congressional seats and Electoral Votes that will change due to resolution of this question.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
- Slaves. One of the cottage industries in the race baiting wars in recent years has been for reporters to trace genealogy of candidates back long enough to find whether or not they had slave holders in their backgrounds.\u00a0 This is a bit like the old Jim Crow game of finding black blood in the lineage of people who were claiming to be white and after doing do, discarding their legitimacy.\u00a0 Interestingly enough, it all comes from the same side of the political fence \u2013 democrats.\u00a0 A week or so ago, someone figured out that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (D, KY) had a slaveowner in his background, shoved a microphone in his face and asked the question.\u00a0 McConnell smiled, laughed, and acknowledged his heritage, which puts him and former President Barack O\u2019Bama in the same boat<\/a>.\u00a0 Similarly, democrat Presidential candidate Kamala Harris (D, CA) also has some of this from her father\u2019s side of the family in Jamaica.\u00a0 Given that slavery was a fundamental economic condition in humanity up to 200 years or so ago, I expect anyone (everyone) can be tracked back to one or the other.\u00a0 Better yet, anyone who is a Muslim is practicing a religion that still takes, buys and sells slaves in the Middle East and Africa.\u00a0 Right now.\u00a0 Today.\u00a0 I don\u2019t expect that question to be asked of any members of the Religion of Continuous Outrage any time soon.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
- Diversity. The Women\u2019s National Soccer Team calls itself an inclusive, caring, diverse operation.\u00a0 But they are not all that diverse.\u00a0 A year ago, one of the best young players in the US, Jalene Hinkle was called up to the team to play with them for the summer.\u00a0 She found out that the team would be wearing rainbow uniforms to celebrate LGBTQWTF and declined the invitation as a practicing Christian.\u00a0 She was not invited back afterwards.\u00a0 Not being content with freezing her off the squad, team member Ashlyn Harris, also a LGBTQWTF took the opportunity to rip Hinkle for being intolerant and homophobic<\/a>.\u00a0 She went on to say \u201c\u2026 our team is about inclusion.\u00a0 Your religion was never the problem.\u00a0 The problem is your intolerance, and you are homophobic.\u00a0 You don\u2019t belong in a sport that aims to unite and bring people together.\u00a0 You would never fit into our pack or what this team stands for.\u201d\u00a0 Apparently inclusion in the LGBTQWTF \u00a0world these days excludes Christians.\u00a0 And the women\u2019s soccer team doesn\u2019t stand for competitive excellence, but for lockstep enforcement demanding continuous celebration of LGBTQWTF lifestyle choices.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
- Racist. Predictably, the Squad members responded by calling Trump and his Tweets racist.\u00a0 Their thought process is that any criticism of a freshmen member of congress is racist, especially if they are self-described \u201cwomen of color\u201d, something they made sure everyone knew.\u00a0 As the week continued, the accusation of Trump racism was deafening, consistent, and unrelenting.\u00a0 And the never-Trumpers joined right on in the fun.\u00a0 Racism has been the 20-megaton nuke used by the political left for decades.\u00a0 Unfortunately like all large caliber weapons, the more you use it, the less effective it becomes, kind of like drug use.\u00a0 Over time, you have to use more of it to get the same impact.\u00a0 And democrats have been using it early and often, most recently on one another \u2013 the Squad vs Pelosi a week ago, Kamala Harris using it on Joe Biden during the debate a couple weeks ago.\u00a0 Trump was never a racist until he decided to run for president.\u00a0 There is a photo of a young Trump, with Mohammed Ali and Rosa Parks as he was given a racial unity award decades ago.\u00a0 Scott Adams believes that Trump may be on the verge of defanging the racism weapon, that the charges while constant and loud, aren\u2019t carrying the same weight or power that they once did, which is a positive development for all of us.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
- Politics. So, what is really going on with all of this?\u00a0 Trump is attempting to drive democrats together and make the Squad of Harridans the face of the democrat party for the next year and a half.\u00a0 While he may not be an experienced politician, he is an expert on the media, and is playing them like a Stradivarius.\u00a0 Trump is throwing their words and positions right back at them.\u00a0 He had a raucous rally in NC midweek, where he gleefully continued to go after them.\u00a0 The crowd broke into a chant of \u201csend them home\u201d for 13 seconds which the media grabbed to continue their assault on Trump.\u00a0 He managed to bait the squad into responding<\/a> with a really \u201cinteresting\u201d press conference.\u00a0 Rep. Al Green (D, TX) brought articles of impeachment to the floor of the House where they were tabled with a 332 \u2013 95 vote.\u00a0 By week\u2019s end, it was clear that Trump had won the point, forcing every single democrat to defend, protect and apologize for the Squad, effectively turning them into the face of their party for the foreseeable future.\u00a0 The best description of this was a meme making the rounds that states \u201cA friend has figured it all out.\u00a0 Here\u2019s what she opined:\u00a0 Twitter is Trump\u2019s laser pointer and Democrats (and their media enablers) are all cats.\u201d\u00a0 This is what fighting back is all about.\u00a0 This is why Trump was elected, because he is a bare knuckled brawler.\u00a0 It is why the Republican establishment hates him.\u00a0 It is why he terrifies the democrats.\u00a0 It is also why he is winning.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n