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Top of the page, dude.

And you don't need Twitter to follow Trump. Just get this app. It is only Trump tweets and nothing else. No trolling comments or anything else.

That is an android app link only FYI...

Yes. There is an iOS version as well I believe.

Thank you for the app info. That is so cool.

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Originally posted by flashguy: Then how have they stayed married? flashguy

Could ask Mary Matalin and James Carville the same question. Both have gone on record saying they don't talk politics at home.

Well, they say "opposites attract" but I thought there might be limits on it.

flashguy

few in the MSM are talking about the economy...

3 percent growth isn’t a fairytale, after all

For the first time in 13 years, America’s economy hit the 3 percent growth milestone for a calendar year, thanks to an expectations-beating fourth quarter in 2018.

GDP grew by 3.1 percent from the fourth quarter of 2017 to the fourth quarter of 2018. Because of the math behind how GDP growth is calculated, this time period is “a better measure of how the economy actually performed in 2018” than a year-over-year figure, according to former President Obama's top economist.

For two straight years, growth has matched or exceeded the Trump Administration’s own forecast. That result will come as a surprise to some of the President’s critics. “Apparently, the budget forecasts that U.S. economic growth will rise to 3.0 percent because of the administration’s policies,” one prominent liberal economist wrote in 2017.

“Fair enough if you believe in tooth fairies,” he added.

Those predictions haven’t aged well. In the real world, the Trump Economy continues to bust expectations across the board. Job growth in January 2019 reached 300,000, for example—compared to the Congressional Budget Office’s January 2017 projection of 71,000 per month. And for the first time in a decade, wages rose 3 percent.

This growth isn’t a continuation of the economy President Trump inherited. It’s an acceleration. Had the pre-2017 growth trend continued, economic growth would have been 2 percent in both 2017 and 2018. The actual 3.1 percent growth rate we got in 2018 represents $280 billion more in American economic output.

"The [GDP] report shows how Republican-backed tax cuts may have continued to aid growth and help bring the full-year figure to 3.1 percent, just above President Donald Trump’s 3 percent goal,” Bloomberg reports. Indeed, the 1.1 percentage point above expected growth “is almost exactly in line” with what economic research suggests would happen if a tax bill “of the same magnitude as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” took effect, the Council of Economic Advisers wrote today.

In others words, we have some bad news for pessimists on the American economy: It turns out pro-growth policies actually deliver growth. Who knew?

ART OF THE DEAL: Trump Calls Washington’s Bluff; Unveils TRILLION DOLLAR Cuts To The DC. Swamp

President Donald Trump is coming for big government in Washington, D.C., and has unveiled a plan to cut over one trillion dollars from the federal government over the next decade.

On Monday, the president released his budget proposal for fiscal year 2020, which calls for domestic spending cuts of 5 percent across the entire federal government.

The White House is not only calling for cuts across the board, they are also calling for a major increase in defense spending and an additional $8.6 billion to fund the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

The proposal would raise overall defense spending to $750 billion, up from $716 billion in 2019, while slashing non defense programs to $567 billion, down from the $597 billion allocated in 2019.

The proposed cuts to non defense spending would hit the departments of State, Agriculture, Education, Health and Human Services, Labor and Transportation, as well as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Acting White House budget chief Russ Vought said the cuts amounted to $2.7 trillion over a decade, which he called the largest proposed budget cut in the nation’s history. The 5 percent cuts proposed by the administration would not be evenly distributed, with some agencies targeted for deeper cuts.

The EPA would be cut by 31 percent, the State Department by 23 percent, Transportation by 22 percent, the Department of Housing and Urban Development by 16.4 percent, Agriculture by 14.8 percent and Education by 12 percent. The National Science Foundation would receive a 9 percent cut.

It would redirect some of those cuts to the Department of Homeland Security, which would get a 7 percent spending boost, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, which would increase by 8 percent.

The White House said those deeper cuts would allow the administration to invest in other priorities, such as $200 billion for infrastructure.At the same time, the administration proposed raising defense spending spectacularly — by $75 billion to $750 billion.

The budget also called for $1.9 trillion in cuts from automatic mandatory spending over a decade, including new restrictions on anti-poverty programs and food security programs.

The $8.6 billion would build or replace roughly 722 miles worth of the wall.

With the hundreds of miles of border wall already completed by the Trump administration, if Congress were to approve the $8.6 billion, that would mean Trump would get well over half the wall built by the end of his first term in office.

Congress must approve funding for fiscal year 2020 by Oct. 1.

Time will tell what happens next, but it appears another major fight is likely looming between Republicans and Democrats over funding the federal government and securing the border.

This was first written back in 2016 but is even more relevant today - if you want to understand why the democrats and socialists want to eliminate the electoral college, this should answer the question

The Electoral College Still Makes Sense Because We’re Not A Democracy

What appears to deprive the populace of its power to decide a president is the very mechanism that preserves its power. The Electoral College works that way because the United States isn’t a pure democracy.

The Electoral College has been on life support since a chad—specifically a “hanging” chad—tipped the White House to George W. Bush in 2000. The painful reality of how our Constitution works was never more apparent. The Gore/Lieberman ticket won the popular vote 50,994,086 to 50,461,092 but lost the electoral vote 266 to 271.

There was a lot more to it, but the punchline is that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Bush the winner because he won the electoral vote. It’s a tribute to the American national character that we weathered that cataclysm without civil war, but it left a bad taste in the electorate’s mouth.

During the 2016 Republican primary, when it looked as if Donald Trump would win the popular vote but still not reach the delegate threshold for nomination, that bad taste turned sour. Riding high on populism and “throw the bums out,” Trump complained that the election was rigged because the people wanted him, and whomever the people wanted, they should get. Fortunately for the country, Trump reached the delegate threshold, and we were spared a debacle that would have made 2000’s cataclysm look like a lemonade stand.

Cue the national election. No controversy, scandal, “info dump,” lie, corruption, defection, or dirty trick has been left unturned. Why would election night go smoothly? Frankly, the plane is going down no matter who wins; it’s only a question of water or land and how many survivors there will be. Chances aren’t looking good for the Electoral College.

“This is a democracy,” the people cry. “It should be one person-one vote, and that stupid Electoral College needs to go!” Poor Electoral College. So misunderstood. If the Electoral College has to go, it has to go, but we should at least buy it dinner first. While we’re at it, we might as well get to know it better.

Trust History: You Don’t Want Mob Rule

The sad lot of the Electoral College is that what you see isn’t what you get. Like the counter-intuitive fact that a tire blowout on the right requires a steering wheel correction to the left, the EC works backwards. What appears to deprive the populace of its power to decide a president is the very mechanism that preserves its power. It works that way because this isn’t a democracy; not a pure one.

“Pure democracy” is just another phrase for “mob rule.” Dictatorship of the majority means 51 percent of the citizenry rule the other 49 percent. That minority has no rights except those the condescending majority grants. It works well for those in the 51 percent, not so much for those in the 49. Plato knew it, and James Madison, who knew his Plato, did too. Plato and Madison both recognized that justice and liberty for the minority is possible only when power is shared between groups in society.

Plato’s “Republic” heavily influenced Madison and the other framers to devise a Constitution that protected the minority. Plato held that the ideal, i.e., just, form of government was one in which power was shared correctly between workers, warriors, and rulers. Madison held that the ideal, i.e., American, form of government was one in which power was shared correctly between judges, lawmakers, and rulers.

Inspired as it is, our Constitution protects the minority while preserving the best of democracy: we the people elect representatives to run the government (republic) and we do so by majority vote (democracy). Ergo, this is a democratic republic. Ergo, an Electoral College.
The Electoral College Balances Voting Power

The purpose of the Electoral College is to balance voting power across states so no one region of the country can gain too much control. If a president is elected by a simple majority of votes, a candidate who is wildly popular in one region (e.g., Ted Cruz in Texas, Mitt Romney in Utah) can ignore smaller regions and campaign only where large majorities are possible. Or a candidate who kills in California and New York can write off “flyover country” completely.

If, however, the Electoral College elects a president, a candidate who is wildly popular in one region must also prevail in a number of sub-elections to win. The Electoral College ensures a better result for the country as a whole than the democratic power play wherein 51 percent of us matter and 49 percent of us don’t.

Think of the Electoral College like the World Series. One person-one vote equates to the World Series Champions being determined by total number of runs scored. If the Dodgers win the first game 10-0, and the Yankees win the next four games 1-0, the Dodgers win the series. Even though the Yankees bested the Dodgers in four games, it doesn’t matter because the Dodgers scored 10 runs to their 4. One anomalous game decides the whole series. Without the Electoral College, a few heavily populated states decide the whole election.

So, the poor Electoral College sits condemned before its last meal because its power is misunderstood. How ironic—and tragic if no stay-of-execution arrives—that those who clamor for “one person-one vote” are seeking more power at the expense of power they already have.

Donna Carol Voss is a political commentator and the author of four books, including the recently released "Nothing to Apologize For: The Truth About Western Civilization."

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Top of the page, dude.

And you don't need Twitter to follow Trump. Just get this app. It is only Trump tweets and nothing else. No trolling comments or anything else.

That is an android app link only FYI...

Yes. There is an iOS version as well I believe.

The iThing version is available here: Trump Tweets. It has a rating of 4.9 (out of 5.0) on the Apple site.

nhtagmember, where's your link for your Art of the Deal post?

Guys, I want us to please cease with the "where's the app for my platform" stuff. Please. If you need to, go to email or even start a new thread. Either way, please keep it out of this thread.

President Trump saves the last tank factory in the Western Hemisphere

In 2012, the Obama Administration sought to close one of America’s premier defense facilities as part of mandated budget sequestration. Congressional Republicans managed to stop them, but the number of employees at the plant still plummeted to just 75.

“Enter President Trump,” writes White House Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Peter Navarro in The New York Times, “with a far different view of the role of a strong military in both defending our homeland and revitalizing our manufacturing base.”

Visiting the plant in Lima, Ohio, this afternoon, President Trump told its workers what they mean to our country. “It is here in Lima, right here, that American greatness is forged with American hands, with American heart, and with American pride,” the President said. He also announced the addition of 400 new jobs at the manufacturing facility.

America’s resurgence over the past two years is captured neatly by two numbers. The first is economic growth, which just cleared 3 percent for the first time in more than a decade. The second is Gallup polling that reveals 6 in 10 Americans are optimistic that today’s children will live better lives than their parents—up from just 44 percent in 2011.

The American dream is back because President Trump understands what so many experts do not: that restoring American greatness is bigger than any one policy. While Washington spent years tinkering with more regulations and more bureaucracy, towns across our heartland withered. Regaining their trust meant renewing their faith in our shared destiny as citizens, including our economy, our military, and our people.

Today, there are plenty of reasons for that trust. Manufacturing jobs are being created at six times the pace of the previous administration’s final two years. Blue-collar workers are on track to receive almost $2,500 more in annual wages. Our military members have received their largest pay raise in nearly a decade, and more than $700 billion is being invested this year alone to rebuild the strongest military on earth.

“We don’t know what challenges will come, what dangers we must face, or what opportunities we must seize,” President Trump told factory workers in Ohio today. “But we know that America will always be ready because of you.”

President Trump is making America secure by bringing back manufacturing.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/bri...rican-manufacturing/

I see that two very biases investigators have left the Mueller team, probably related to a letter complaining about their demonstrated bias sent by Congressmen Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows:

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Zainab Ahmad and Andrew Weissmann -- two top prosecutors on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team -- have left the team in recent days, sparking speculation that the Russia probe is wrapping up. One Republican congressman, however, thinks something else may have prompted their departures.

On Fox News Tuesday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) speculated that a letter he and Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) sent to Attorney General William Barr on March 1 may have prompted the pair's departures.

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This brings to mind that the relationship between the conservative Freedom Caucus and Trump has changed since the days or Ryan’s speakership. Trump recognized Jordan and Meadows by name at the CPAC speech IIRC. The Freedom Caucus used to be on the outs when the GOP had the majority; now they are the faithful allies that pushed the conservative agenda throughout their “dark days” under Ryan, and now the dark days under Pelosi.

I am so glad to see Trump becoming more outspokenly conservative and anti-socialist!

Wow, when you have The Obamico...errr I mean The Politico admitting this, that's pretty significant.

How Trump is on track for a 2020 landslide Economic models point to a Trump blowout in 2020. But a faltering economy or giant scandal could change everything.

NO WONDER the Democrats want the economy to go south!

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nhtagmember, where's your link for your Art of the Deal post?

Patriots Newsletter email dated March 13, 2019

You know the rules. Do not post anything you receive via email.

this is an email I subscribed to - not unsolicited - I think I saw the link to the newsletter on TownHall perhaps back in January

I won't post any more

OK, never mind then. You can post them if you wish.

Still hear Lefties or undecideds cite Trump's "fine people" statement on Charlottesville to "prove" he's a white supremacist?

Here' what he really said.

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Trump Didn't Call Neo-Nazis 'Fine People.' Here's Proof.
News anchors and pundits have repeated lies about Donald Trump and race so often that some of these narratives seem true, even to Americans who embrace the fruits of the president’s policies. The most pernicious and pervasive of these lies is the “Charlottesville Hoax,” the fake-news fabrication that he described the neo-Nazis who rallied in Charlottesville, Va., in August 2017 as “fine people.”

Just last week I exposed this falsehood, yet again, when CNN contributor Keith Boykin falsely stated, “When violent people were marching with tiki torches in Charlottesville, the president said they were ‘very fine people.’” When I objected and detailed that Trump’s “fine people on both sides” observation clearly related to those on both sides of the Confederate monument debate, and specifically excluded the violent supremacists, anchor Erin Burnett interjected, “He [Trump] didn’t say it was on the monument debate at all. No, they didn’t even try to use that defense. It’s a good one, but no one’s even tried to use it, so you just used it now.”

My colleagues seem prepared to dispute our own network’s correct contemporaneous reporting and the very clear transcripts of the now-infamous Trump Tower presser on the tragic events of Charlottesville. Here are the unambiguous actual words of President Trump:

“Excuse me, they didn’t put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group – excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.”

After another question at that press conference, Trump became even more explicit:

“I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned totally.”

As a man charged with publicly explaining Donald Trump’s often meandering and colloquial vernacular in highly adversarial TV settings, I appreciate more than most the sometimes-murky nature of his off-script commentaries. But these Charlottesville statements leave little room for interpretation. For any honest person, therefore, to conclude that the president somehow praised the very people he actually derided, reveals a blatant and blinding level of bias.

Nonetheless, countless so-called journalists have furthered this damnable lie. For example, MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace responded that Trump had “given safe harbor to Nazis, to white supremacists.” Her NBC colleague Chuck Todd claimed Trump “gave me the wrong kind of chills. Honestly, I’m a bit shaken from what I just heard.” Not to be outdone, print also got in on the act, with the New York Times spewing the blatantly propagandist headline: “Trump Gives White Supremacists Unequivocal Boost.” How could the Times possibly reconcile that Trump, who admonished that the supremacists should be “condemned totally” somehow also delivered an “unequivocal boost” to those very same miscreants?

But like many fake news narratives, repetition has helped cement this one into a reasonably plausible storyline for all but the most skeptical consumers of news. In fact, over the weekend, Fox News host Chris Wallace pressed White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney on why Trump has not given a speech “condemning … white supremacist bigotry.” Well, Chris, he has, and more than once. The most powerful version was from the White House following Charlottesville and the heartbreaking death of Heather Heyer. President Trump’s succinct and direct words:

“Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.”
Despite the clear evidence of Trump’s statements regarding Charlottesville, major media figures insist on spreading the calumny that Trump called neo-Nazis “fine people.” The only explanation for such a repeated falsehood is abject laziness or willful deception. Either way, the duplicity on this topic perhaps encapsulates the depressingly low trust most Americans place in major media, with 77 percent stating in a Monmouth University 2018 poll that traditional TV and newspapers report fake news. In addition, such lies as the Charlottesville Hoax needlessly further divide our already-polarized society.

Instead of hyper-partisan, distorted narratives, as American citizens we should demand adherence to truth -- and adherence to the common values that bind us regardless of politics. In the words of our president: “No matter the color of our skin, we all live under the same laws, we all salute the same great flag, and we are all made by the same almighty God.”

Steve Cortes is a contributor to RealClearPolitics and a CNN political commentator. His Twitter handle is @CortesSteve.

Link: Real Clear Politics

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Brandon Straka talked about this to some length in his sit-down interview with Mark Levin. He realized, after HEARING THE FULL CONTEXT, that Pres. Trump was no where NEAR being racist.

I loved that Straka interview. It was probably the most unpredictable of Levin’s interviews, the guy is really genuine. Boy I wish him well!
BTW IIRC it was an old babysitter who forwarded him the Trump video to watch for himself.

This may have already been mentioned earlier-

WA Senate passes Bill that would Keep President Trump off 2020 ballot unless he releases tax returns:

https://thehill.com/homenews/s...rump-off-2020-ballot


If this Bill goes through, I see other Blue states following WA lead.

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This may have already been mentioned earlier-

WA Senate passes Bill that would Keep President Trump off 2020 ballot unless he releases tax returns:

https://thehill.com/homenews/s...rump-off-2020-ballot


If this Bill goes through, I see other Blue states following WA lead.

New Jersey was the first to do this, though the bill has only passed the Jersey state Senate so far. So WA is following NJ's lead.

And this ridiculous move by the dems won't pass Constitutional muster if passed.

How is it that Mueller goes around in a cloud of sanctity? Reporters behave like models of respectfulness, and never scream questions at him, or block his path? They don't ask questions that are thinly veiled insults. In fact, they don't dare ask questions at all.

The POTUS, on the other hand, is treated by the press like he is some lowlife hustler.

How did we let that happen? Why do we suffer it to continue? Trump should ban them from the White House altogether, and hold just a few press conferences a year. The riff-raff like Acosta would be barred. Anybody in the conference who started yelling questions would be removed.

I'm not kidding, I think it's time. The whole country distrusts and hates the media. Let the lefties bitch and moan about it.

Enough of their shit. Just enough of it!