Its nice to have a President with balls

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Originally posted by Sigmanic:
Newt Gingrich: GOP could win big in November thanks to Democrats’ radical, unrealistic immigration stance


http://www.foxnews.com/opinion...igration-stance.html

Did you see the story on Drudge about Democrats registering 12 million more voters than the GOP? Someone has been doing a lot of genealogy getting those names

Even with those numbers I still agree with Newt.

Yes, I saw it.

And, frankly, it worries me. A Lot.

Voter fraud is key to democrat (C) victory, and their machine is running at full speed to produce that fraud.

There's much specificity in the embedded chart -- anyone interested will need to go to the link to see it. I've bolded the only potentially good news near the end of the article: LINK

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Washington Secrets
2018: Democrats lead GOP by 12 million registered voters, 40% D, 29% R, 28% I
by Paul Bedard
July 13, 2018 09:12 AM

Democrats hold a massive voter lead in states that require party registration, a gap of 12 million that could be key to whether the party takes control of the House and Senate in the fall midterm congressional elections, according to a new analysis.

Overall, 40 percent of voters in 31 party registration states are Democrats, 29 percent are Republicans, and 28 percent are independents, according to a new report of July numbers from the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. The states include several with key battles over House seats such as California, New York, Florida, and Pennsylvania.

The lead is significant, said Rhodes Cook’s analysis in Center Director Larry Sabato’s “Crystal Ball” newsletter, because in the past presidential election the majority party in 24 of the 31 states won, especially among Republican states.

In 2016, Trump won 11 of 12 majority Republican states, and took six of 19 Democratic states, said the analysis.

[State-by-state chart is embedded at this position in the article at the link]

Of note, some of the states with registered Democrat advantages, like Louisiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia, have been functionally Republican at the presidential level for at least 15 years, said Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of the Crystal Ball.

That could be good news for the Republicans in the upcoming election, a sign that just being majority Democrat does not mean voters are in lock step, said the report which highlighted the growth of independent voters.

But it also noted that as the nation becomes more partisan, declaring party membership is an affirmative political stand.

“With the growth in independents, many voters seem to be saying to the two major parties: ‘a pox on both your houses,’” wrote Cook.

“Yet it also can be argued that registering Democratic or Republican is far more of a statement than it once was. In the current age of sharp-edged partisanship, there is far more than a ‘dime’s worth of difference’ between the two major parties, so registering as a Democrat or Republican is a very intentional act of differentiation,” added the report.

This week I love Piers Morgan, next week I’ll hate him....it’s why I read him every week. Piers writes what he thinks; sometimes I agree, sometimes he pisses me off...but I appreciate that he is consistent.

PIERS MORGAN: Why do so many people hate Trump for telling truths? | Daily Mail Online

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...ans-supposed-to.html

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During the reception of President Trump by Her Majesty The Queen, at 3:58 and again at 8:58 in the video below, the Grenadier Guards Band played the theme from Band of Brothers.

Damn. DJT and the Queen walk too fast. Time ran out before the band could play Semper Paratus.

awesome

Hehehe



https://twitter.com/TheJordanR.../1017860472098340864

Two comments on the Mueller indictment of the 12 Russians for hacking the DNC:

In Rosenstein's announcement he said

1. He had earlier in the week told President Trump about the indictments. (so at least President Trump wasn't totally blind sided. One can still argue about the timing)

2. Rosenstein said the case would be transitioned from special counsel to the DoJ National Security Division "while we await the apprehension of the defendants".

Mueller is trying to run up a body count of indictments. He has spent over 20 million dollars. The investigation started two years ago in the FBI.

So Mueller (and the DEMs) will crow about the dozens of indictments that were made in the investigation of

"any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump"

(straight from Rosenstein's original tasking letter to Mueller.)

Any word on the indictments of Obama administration officials being filed by Israel?

Hey maybe after asking Putin to turn over the 12 Russians to Muller, he can ask Putin to not point those Nuclear missles at us.

Pretty outrageous that Russia tapped into Hillary's unsecured server and used Podesta's super secret password "password" to steal classified information.

And about those Facebook ads, Trump needs to really hammer Putin on those, as millions of Americans rely on Facebook to separate facts from lies and determine who to vote for.

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Re: “And about those Facebook ads, Trump needs to really hammer Putin on those, as millions of Americans rely on Facebook to separate facts from lies and determine who to vote for.”

If only the bamster has told Vlad to "Cut it out" sooner.

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Mueller is trying to run up a body count of indictments. He has spent over 20 million dollars. The investigation started two years ago in the FBI.

You mean the "OVER 2 DOZEN INDICTED" headline that will be trumpeted over and over by the Lamestream Media? With what is happening in the indictments of the companies (the we can't show or share the evidence in discovery), it will be interesting if they all get acquitted or the cases dropped.

Trump Is 'a Phenomenon That Foreign Countries Haven’t Seen'

Weekly Standard
Irwin M. Selzer

Veni, vidi, vici. That’s what Trump would have tweeted en route to a weekend of golf at his courses in Scotland had he not forgotten his high school Latin. Traditional diplomat Nicholas Burns, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, says “The president treated the NATO allies almost with contempt.” Delete “almost” and Burns has it right. But the tone of Trump’s tweets and comments are best understood as the exasperation of this American president who wants to succeed where his predecessors failed—ending that part of the post-World War II settlement that disadvantages America. And if that means abandoning traditional diplomacy in favour of ill-concealed contempt, so be it.

Start with NATO. Other than the United States, only 3 of the 29 NATO members (Estonia, Greece, the United Kingdom) spend 2 percent of their GDP (or a bit more) on defense. Germany, a rich country, manages to find only 1.22 percent that it does not need for its generous welfare state. Worse still: Chancellor Angela Merkel is willing to raise that figure to only 1.5 percent, and that not until 2024. The 2 percent promised by all members for 2025 will be reached, in Germany’s case, only at a distant, unspecified date yet to be determined. Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s secretary general, drily remarked that 1.5 percent is not 2 percent, while Trump prefers “IMMEDIATELY” to a date that is in fact “never.” But Merkel’s coalition relies on the continued support of the Social Democrats (SDP), who are opposed to the 2 percent target, preferring as they do to use the money to extend the welfare state. Which leaves Trump in a bit of a spot should he ease the pressure on Germany to meet its commitment: how to explain to American taxpayers that it is in their interest to spend money to defend a country that refuses to defend itself. Indeed, one that is strengthening the finances of the country that poses the greatest threat to NATO members.

Trump differs from his predecessors. He is “a phenomenon that foreign countries haven’t seen,” as Henry Kissinger describes him. First, he is unpredictable, a feature on which terrorists rely for their effectiveness. It was safe for Obama’s fellow leaders to rely on their favorite American president not to do anything if they would only listen politely to his elegant prose and then go about ignoring him. But Trump, as he proved by ratcheting up his trade war, means what he says—mostly.

Second, the president believes in what former British Prime Minister Tony Blair called “joined-up policy making and delivery.” Security, trade, energy policy, and, of course, the degree of respect shown him, personally, are all related. In the case of Germany, the charge sheet includes Merkel’s NATO cash shortfall; her dangerous reliance on Russia for a large portion of her country’s energy supply; and her willingness to shovel billions into Vladimir Putin’s sanctions-depleted treasury. In the case of the EU, some members are not only short-changing NATO, burdening American taxpayers, but erecting barriers to American imports, burdening American consumers.

Trump, who insists he persuaded Kim Jong-un to denuclearize the Korean peninsula, also claims that his NATO tactics are working. He claims that members have agreed to increase their previously-set contributions. But Italy’s prime minister Giuseppe Conte says he has no intention of increasing military spending. Neither does Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, who has “recommitted” to his existing spend. French president Emmanuel Macron has merely “reaffirmed a credible budget strategy that meets our needs.” Not exactly a bankable promise. Besides, when the bills come due in 2024, most of these leaders will be traveling the world flogging their memoirs.

Trump’s performance on his European trip demonstrates two other aspects of Make America Great Again. First, he knows how to pick his adversaries. Either they can’t do much to harm him should they resist (Canada, Mexico), or he has a grievance easily understood by his political base, and one to which many countries are (quietly) sympathetic. He picked a politically weak opponent (it took Merkel six months to cobble together a coalition after a disastrous election), and a country that has antagonized its partners with its wide-open immigration policies and its anti-growth austerity programs. He knows that almost all countries agree with him that Germany:

is not paying its promised share of mutual defense costs;
is damaging them by running a huge trade surplus that is hurting their economies;
is putting the NATO alliance at risk by becoming a hostage to Russian energy blackmail; and
is returning America’s generous financing of its post-war recovery with tariffs against U.S. cars.

As for China, Trump is engaged in a (trade) war with a country that is financially weak, cannot find enough stuff it buys from America to threaten comparable retaliation, and has antagonized not only American voters with its discriminatory trading practices and IP theft, but other nations as well. Indeed, China is so weak that it is printing money to shore up its debt-ridden economy, and shopping the world for allies in the trade war with America. Unfortunately for China’s president-for-life, Xi Jinping, his claim that China is the defender of free trade falls between implausible and a straight-out falsehood.


The second aspect of America First is Trump’s determination to have the old post-World-War II order yield place to the new one in which he deploys its financial and military power, and his negotiating skills, solely in America’s interests. The old order, as he sees it, was designed to deploy those assets in the interests of war-ravaged countries. That was then, this is now. No more nice guy. No more multilateral institutions, such as the European Union. Membership and Mrs. May’s soft Brexit, which Trump recommended against, means that America would be negotiating with the E.U., which would “probably kill the [trade] deal” with Britain. But he did tell a press conference on the lawn of Chequers, the prime minister’s country house, that he hopes a deal can be struck if Mrs. May negotiates the freedom to do just that on a bilateral basis.

Some call this taking a wrecking ball to the trading system anchored in the World Trade Organization, the security system anchored in NATO, the free movement of people anchored in the E.U., various international humanitarian organizations, and the United Nations. Trump knows something about wrecking balls from his days as a property developer—that they can either result in a pile of rubble or in clearing the way for new and better structures.

His critics say Trump will leave behind a pile of rubble, his defenders that he is replacing the old order with new structures more favorable to America. For now, it is off to Helsinki and Vladimir Putin, where he hopes to do better than Obama’s failed “reset.”

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Meekly Standard has occasional cracks in its generally NeverTrump editorial slant.

If he were only a Democrat, the MSM would be going on about how he "speaks truth to power". He would be lauded to the skies, and no criticism would be permitted.

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Re: “And about those Facebook ads, Trump needs to really hammer Putin on those, as millions of Americans rely on Facebook to separate facts from lies and determine who to vote for.”

All the discussion about negotiation reminds me of this poker clip. It was Obama and Kerry et al who were gullible in putting billions in on a mere lie.

Tony G mercilessly taunted, then humiliated, Helmuth as Tony G couldnn't believe just how gullible Helmuth was.

I could just see Iranian Mullahs and Putin taking the same view of this administration's predecessors.

It reminds me of how Bonaparte sold a lie to the US and couldn't believe we bought it on an embargo. For that act, Bonaparte became known as the "Prince of Lies."

President Trump will not sell out his/our position on the strength of sincere-looking promises. He has been around the block too many times.



If you watch to the end you'll see the humiliation when Tony G says many things to Helmuth and his coach including, "You guys are outclassed. You do not belong at this level."

Spies spy. Liars lie. And, to think that Russia will not continue its covert activities is naive.

Just a few short years ago something like this would have been on the Onion and gotten a good laugh. This is what the media in this country has been reduced to:

Leftist reporters might or might not be smarter than the average box of rocks, but to date no one has seen any evidence that they are.

my bet is on the rocks

Is it just me or was Putin avoiding eye contact with President Trump during their opening comments before the closed door session?