Pence: ‘Et Tu Brute?’
Nobody Wins
Americans are not used to seeing Congressmen Gold Medal Ceremonies, but we saw the whole ceremony today as Bob Dole received his Gold Medal.
Bob Dole, doesn’t have much longer on the planet so at least he deserves it more than…oh say, all those medals Obama gave to his movie star buddies: Spielberg, Hanks, Oprah, DeGeneres, etc.
Anyway, you got the feeling our great Congressional “leaders” were trying to shore up their terrible image. After all, it’s President Trump who is pretty much doing everything. Sure, they passed tax reform, but since Congress really does answer to the corporations, that wasn’t such a hard thing to do now was it?
But it was Trump that pushed it. None of them would have even brought it up.
I never got too excited about Bob Dole, or John McCain when they ran for President.
I remember at the time I always wondered WHY the GOP would run such ancient and obviously crippled men against democratic men who were young and virile. That may sound cruel, and we all know that even though FDR was crippled, NOBODY knew that FDR was crippled, the government hide that fact from the America people.
Think about that. Just how long so MANY people in our government and our newspapers kept that a secret from every American…and kept it for YEARS.
Thousands of government employees and reporters did. Thousands
Nobody EVER brings that up…talk about the media and the government being one and the same.
But, in this day of digital camera’s…hiding physical disabilities is not possible.
Everybody could see Dole and McCain were…just plain boring. Besides their courage in war, nobody could think of anything that they promised to do, or even had done. It was as if they were ‘anointed’ by their party to run…the people certainly didn’t pick either one of them.
Bob Dole has a GREAT sense of humor, and yet, nobody in America saw that wit until AFTER he lost the election. I remember seeing him on Late night talk show and was laughing so hard, and I was blown away that Bob Dole kept that wonderful sense of humor away from all Americas when he was running.
Looking back now, it was as if…both men were picked by their own party to lose.
Today, everyone made nice speeches and nothing was said to even HINT at President Trump…until this moment.
Go to 1.56 and watch:
It was like the warning from Shakespeare when Mike Pence throws out the thing he admired the very most about Bob Dole is that he ran and decided to give up his seat in the Senate if he lost.
REALLY? What? And here’s the ‘warning’.
Pence admired Bob Dole because Bob Dole knew when to step down from power: “He put his country first.” To this nobody it was as if Pence was delivering the message to the President: 
When the time comes…you should STEP DOWN.
I took it as a clear warning to the President who was sitting right there. And the look on President Trump’s face as he left the ceremony, and the look on Pence’s face…Hey, I’ll be surprised if President Trump keeps him as VP.
The President got up and delivered the speech that Bob Dole deserved.
But, as you know, and as we’ve all suspected, many of the Rino’s in Congress would rather have Mike Pence as President. And most of them want amnesty for all illegals, and Trump is standing in the way.
President Trump, must have them all really frustrated that their ‘coup d’ tat’ is not working out as they’d hope.
You might think I’m reading too much into this: But I digress. The hatred for this President is DEEP.
Just tonight, I was watching the “X-Files” and FOX Mulder said to Scully that Trump was taking the FBI down with the county— in a pillow talk scene.
Seriously?
After an excellent bill of health, CNN is saying Trump will have a heart attack.
And John McCain, the ultimate flake, supports Flake News.
What we all wonder is if the love fest after the tax reform was real? Or is THIS what the deep state hope will come sooner than later…if President Trump would just…step…down.

President Pence
VP Ryan?
Nobody’s Perfect: Dirty Dickie Durbin
Nobody’s Perfect
President Trump rightly pointed out the winner of the Nobody’s Perfect Award for the week;
Dirty Dickie Durbin.
It was all set to be finished: Immigration reform. The trade-off? DACA for sanctuary cities, chain migration reversal, and the lottery ended.
It was a good fix, until Dirty Dick…the minority democratic Senator whip from Illinois, threw it out the window because HE says President Trump said, that he didn’t want more people from shit hole countries.
“Then we went on and the president started commenting on immigration from Africa,” Durbin said. “And that’s when he used those sickening, heartbreaking remarks, saying ‘Those shitholes send us the people they don’t want.’ He repeated that. He didn’t just say it one time.”
For the record, many senators at the meeting did not hear him say any of this.
As usual, us deplorable nobody’s out here in the deplorable middle of the country don’t pay much attention to Illinois politics. Chicago is a rich city…except if your poor.
But Senator Dickie is from East St. Louis.
Tell me, how does a young white boy from all black East St. Louis, one of the biggest shit holes in the country, end up in Georgetown?
He graduated from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and Georgetown University Law Center.
It reminds me of Bill Clinton going to lunch with David Rockefeller when he was 17, Dickie must have met the right guy.
Anyway, Senator Durbin, whose main talent is keeping a life long job in Congress despite not doing anything for Illinois, and who seems to have no talent whatsoever, has been handed the most prestigious jobs in Washington D.C: democratic minority whip.
Al Gore once wanted to make him his running mate.
Why was Durbin so offended when President Trump seemed to point to Africa as a “shit hole?”
(He didn’t…Dickie just said he did.)
And by the way, many parts of it are.
Nobody Wonders what Dick gets from THIS sweet deal:
In March 2007, Durbin introduced the African Health Capacity Investment Act of 2007 to the Senate. The bill was designed so that over a three-year period, the U.S. would supply over $600 million to help create safer medical facilities and working conditions, and the recruitment and training of doctors from all over the continent.
(What about the health care in your OWN state Dickie?)
In December 2007, Durbin and two other senators co-sponsored Senator John Kerry’s Nondiscrimination in Travel and Immigration Act. Also, in March 2007, Durbin joined thirty-two other senators to co-sponsor the Early Treatment for HIV Act of 2007.
Dickie’s liberal leanings are just as bad as Pelosi or Feinstein, or any of the other socialist who want to flood the country with illegals.
So, it’s par for the course.
I don’t’ know about you, but you have to wonder if all these top liberal Senators don’t go to cocktail parties and draw straws to see whose going to be the next guy to cause trouble for Trump.
In the meantime, it’s back to the old “racist” card.

Durbin country
The biggest racist here is Dirty Dick himself. East St. Louis is STILL a shit hole. You take your life in your hands if you even go near it. I know.
I’ve been there.
Whose the bigger racist? A man who is getting jobs for blacks for the first time in 20 years? Or the Senator who hasn’t done a thing for the people in his home town of East St. Louis even though he’s been their Congressmen for years and years?
East St. Louis..an all black population.
What is it Dickie? Don’t you like black people? Only the ones who live in Africa?
Illinois gave us Obama.
And both Obama and Dickie Durbin help put in the strictest gun control laws in the county in Illinois.
Which is why, Illinois is the only state where the death count is higher than the middle East.
So, Congratulations Dickie! You win the Nobody’s Perfect Award for just being the reason so many of us will go out and elect Trump in 2020.
Keep up the good work! Illinois is just loving it!
Take Cover Hawaii! We Just Pushed the Wrong Button. Sorry.
Nobody’s Opinion
So, how many people out there in never-never land believe that some poor dweeb last week, hit the wrong button which told everyone listening in Hawaii that they were going to be hit by a nuclear attack and to take cover? 
I smell an Obama attack. Seriously. Or the ‘deep state’ of which he is a big part, which is still trying to get rid of the President.
As you all know, this nobody believes that the “left” is at war with America.
And Obama was the biggest scam of all. Obama’s birth records were brought forward very suspiciously by an Hawaii official, who later somehow, was the only person not to live after the small plane she was on crashed.
So typically, Clintonesque operatic.
Obama is VERY familiar with Hawaii. Those politicians are completely devoted to him. 
Most military people will tell you that for one person to ‘push the wrong button’ is almost an impossibility. There are safeguards of two to five steps to prevent that. And if the democrats in Hawaii did NOT have those steps, it was on purpose.
But…let’s not believe Delta Forces or any of the generals, no…let’s believe the democratic politicians who say that Opps. Sorry. Just a little mistake, and by the way, in true democratic fashion, we won’t fire that person.
No doubt, he got a million-dollar bonus.
So, why would anybody do such a thing?
Why liberals would—to scare the population into believing that President Trump is a dangerous man.
Right away the liberals went into fear mongering:
From the New York Times;
But Mr. Trump and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, remain locked in 1983, issuing provocations and threats of nuclear strikes on push-button alert, gambling that their luck, and ours, will continue to hold.
Oh, and poor Jim Carrey, scared out of his big mansion on the beach:
“I woke up this morning in Hawaii with ten minutes to live,” Carrey wrote on Twitter Saturday, apparently referencing a Emergency Alert System (EAS) message sent to citizens of Hawaii warning them to “seek immediate shelter” from a “ballistic missile threat.”
“It was a false alarm, but a real psychic warning,” Carrey continued, adding of Trump,
“If we allow this one-man Gomorrah and his corrupt Republican congress to continue alienating the world we are headed for suffering beyond all imagination. ”
Well, Mr. Carrey, I remember a very REAL threat between Jack Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis. I was in the Southern tip of Florida at the time. We got up every day thinking it might be our last.
At least Kennedy had the decency to go on TV and tell the people. Kennedy was…a democrat, who did NOT heed Eisenhower’s warning about Russia before he went into office. In fact, Eisenhower had to pull him out of that mess, by telling him how to handle it.
(Shhhh…don’t tell anybody)
Our FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, reacted with logic:
The false emergency alert sent yesterday in Hawaii was absolutely unacceptable. It caused a wave of panic across the state — worsened by the 38-minute delay before a correction alert as issued. Moreover, false alerts undermine public condense in the alerting system and thus reduce their effectiveness during real emergencies
In other words…more people will die if Hawaii is ever really attacked.
Good god. You and I can correct an error on our computers in a few minutes. So, clearly, they let this go on to get people good and scared. To get people upset about President Trump.
To scare us all.
If this was a planned ‘false alarm’ (Which I think it was.) then it might backfire on them.
Knowing that they would do something so insidious…well, President Trump will make sure they can’t get by with it again.
But, here’s the real worry. Obama and the liberals have so many of their devoted fans inside the government, could there be another ‘false’ alarm attack to try to get our President to actually launch a missile?
Just so they can claim he is a mass murderer?
No matter what they do, President Trump keeps on ticking with focus, determination, and truth.
They’ve use ‘race’, ‘sex’, Russia, and Oprah….and none of that is working.
So, I think they are getting to just good old-fashioned fear. And they think that Americans are so brainwashed all they must do is push our buttons.
I say we push a few of our own. 
IZ Still Sings to the Rainbow in All of Us
Nobody Flashes a Beautiful Spirit on a Sunday.
Who sings to the gods still.
Nobody’s Email: BIG HOLES
Nobody Gets Email:
Okay…this is just a twist on an old joke, but, truth be told, it never gets old.
And I’d like to dedicate this to President Trump, for obvious reasons of this week in the news.
Enjoy!
(Thanks to Tom Beebe)
The Biggest Holes
These holes are not only amazing, but some are really terrifying! The sheer scale of these holes reminds you of just how tiny we are.
Kimberley Big Hole – South Africa
Apparently the largest ever hand-dug excavation in the world, this 1097 meter deep mine yielded over 3 tons of diamonds before being closed.
Glory Hole – Monticello Dam, California

A glory hole is used when a dam is at full capacity and water needs to be drained from the reservoir. It is the largest spillway of this type in the world and consumes 14,400 cubic feet of water every second.
Great Blue Hole, Belize

This incredible geographical phenomenon known as a blue hole is situated 60 miles off the mainland of Belize. There are numerous blue holes around the world, but none as stunning as this one.
Sinkhole in, Guatemala

This photo is of a sinkhole that occurred in Guatemala. The hole swallowed 2 dozen homes and killed at least 3 people.
SHIT HOLE, Washington D.C.

This hole swallows trillions and trillions of U.S. Dollars annually!
The money that falls into this hole is rarely heard from again, nor do we see much good come from it.
It is reported to be filled with hundreds of “ass holes.”
TRULY AMAZING!
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Hey, I’d Settle for a Few More Sweds: Germans, English….Buddists….
Nobody Reports
President Trump excited all the racist bigots in the world today by saying this during a meeting on immigration:
“Why do we want all these people from Africa here? They’re shithole countries … We should have more people from Norway.”
(The sad thing about Haiti is it would be such a sh*thole if the Clintons would not have stolen money from Haiti relief to pay for Chelsea’s wedding.)
Makes sense to me. And it should make sense to black people here who live in American neighborhoods where your child can be killed sleeping in his or her bed by a bullet some Somalian drug lord who decided to try out his gun.
This happens EVERY year in St. Louis. Kids getting shot in their sleep.
Just this week, a young black girl was sleeping in her bed and got hit by a bullet in the leg.
Imagine if you will, if this same neighborhood was filled with Norwegians. Would their children be shot while sleeping in their own beds?
Everyone from Vicente Fox to Larry Williams took offense; Why America…it is her duty to TAKE the poor and downtrodden.
Uh…with the authority of our Constitution you idiot.
On the other hand, it’s okay for a ‘colored’ man who is a top engineer at Twitter to ban Twitter accounts of conservatives:
Twitter direct messaging engineer Pranay Singh admitted to mass-banning accounts that express interest in God, guns, and America, during a Project Veritas investigation.
Shadow banning is the act of banning a user from a platform without them realizing. Shadow-banned users will typically be removed from the public eye, so other users cannot see or interact with them, however since the user is not alerted to the shadow-ban, they will not understand why their posts suddenly receive no engagement.
So, all these years, because I never got more than one or two comments a year on my blog, after writing since 2000, could it be that maybe WordPress does the same thing?
Nah…that would be a conspiracy theory Joyanna. Nobody Cares.
Nobody Wonders what kind of world we live in, when a President makes a sensible comment about who he wants to come into the country and he is called racist names.
Do they call Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada a racist for not letting the Hispanics and El Salvadorans into Canada?
Of course, they don’t.
Some rulers are just more equal than others.
Haiti IS a hell hole, and God Bless President Trump for just saying what makes sense to anyone with a brain. 
And I’m GLAD it’s Friday, aren’t you?
Nobody Cares About the Gravitational Wave of Progressive Redistribution
Nobody Cares
…About the gravitational wave of Progressive redistribution.
Or call it the ripple effect; the ever-ending Marxist revolution; the stealth invasion of the NAFTA snappers; the continuing saga of the Davos Satanists: Take your pick…this is going to be a strange Nobody rant.
This morning I received a belated Christmas card from an old friend in Naples, FL, where I grew up. She has a very modest home, where she and her husband, who was a judge, are both retired. She told me that Irma hit them. While many homes were left standing, she told me that HER house had been hit by one of the many twisters that had come in last’s year hurricane. Their roof still has a tarp on it, and it won’t be fixed until March.
And I thought I had it bad. I wonder how many people in Texas from Harvey, and California from her fires, are still waiting on supplies?
When my basement was destroyed by a heavy uncharacteristic weeklong rain in March 2017, ONE of the reasons we had so much trouble getting supplies at our local Home Depot was because Home Depot had sent many of its employees and contractors TO Florida and Texas, putting the rest of the country on hold for many items.
I don’t think I remember such a year full of weather disasters as 2017.
I remember reading Bill Clinton’s Memoir. “My Life” LONG before Katrina, where he wrote extensively about New Orleans. Who knew Bill Clinton had such strong feelings for New Orleans? Could he have known about the upcoming storm?
Sorry, but a party that will try to flood their own country with foreigners, just to keep in power, I wouldn’t put it past them, if they COULD manipulate the weather, to try to destroy conservative areas of the country, and fill it with future democratic votes.
Think I’m crazy?
How many of the people from New Orleans MOVED to Texas after Katrina? Quite a few. That put a lot more democrats in the state.
I just read that Puerto Rico was going to be hit by a Tsunami, this AFTER Hurricane Maria pretty much destroyed the whole island. As if a silent finger of God said.” You WILL move to Florida and you WILL vote democrat!”
Last night I was viewing some videos on the building of massive apartments going on in Southern California. Apartments built next to train stations, so no one will have to have car. Getting ready for the millions of illegals. This is called “sustainable development” and it’s been going on for quite a while.
And what about all these fires? How many people are going to stay in California after all these fires and mudslides, which were caused by unnatural weather events?
Here’s the thing: all over Youtube people are taking video’s and talking about the unnatural weather events that they have never witnessed in their lifetimes.
And even if you don’t believe in weather modification or weather wars, you must admit, for all of this to happen in the first year of a President that the ‘deep state’ hates with a passion…it doesn’t take a conspiracy nut to say, well, there are other ways to skin a cat.
If ‘progressive’ COULD fundamentally change the voting map of the United’s States with weather, would they?
Of course, they would!
And now, we get to immigration: Americans were seeing their neighborhoods being filled up with foreigners. Never Australians, or Germans, or Italians, like in the old days: no, the West has become little Mexico, and the rest of the country is being filled with Muslims.
I was thinking about this today. I love my house. When the democratic politicians transferred the blacks of the city into the Northern suburbs bank in the 1970’s, most white families moved across the Mississippi. But not me. Why should I move just because “black” people move next door?
Stupid.
Nevertheless, what I didn’t see, and they hide very well, was that the property owners ended up paying for the blacks to move. And since Ferguson, our property taxes have skyrocket, while the worth of our homes…have plummeted. The white people who stayed in North County paid big time to help the blacks. Now they want to give every black child a good $20,000 when they turn 18, courtesy of the taxpayers. Of course, Muslims and Hispanics will get that too.
If you haven’t heard about this new program being pushed…you will.
It’s the good old gravitational wave of progressive redistribution and taxation.
Muslims are overtaking my city. Down the street, they have taken over a very tiny church. If I drive by there on certain nights, over 600 cars are parked outside. I have no idea how many Muslims are here.
Because of this, the blacks, who since Ferguson and the election of Trump, have changed.
They get it now.
They are so nice to the white people it’s almost like being on a different planet.
So, we are rebuilding our house. And then I ask myself: Why should I put all the money in this house, when someday I might not even want to walk outside due to the Muslims?
Obama placed THOUSANDS of Muslim refugees in the middle of conservative states. All over, and in every state.
That’s another little trick to get votes. Those Muslims will multiply and become democratic voters.
And then…there’s this: Did you know that the Catholics and Lutheran organization are getting PAID to bring Muslims to their neighborhoods? Yes, by the taxpayers. About $1,000 a head. (Read the book Stealth Invasion) And unlike illegals, they get green cards and a path to citizenship.
Was that why George W. Bush made it clear that the churches could accept money from the government? Remember that?
Let’s follow that progressive dot to the Pope himself. Is he, and the Vatican getting paid big taxpayer bucks by the various governments of the world to promote Muslims into the West?
Wanna bet that he is?
Are they making us pay for our own destruction and we don’t even KNOW it?
President Trump knows it. He wanted to stop all Muslim immigration, and Paul Ryan, with the help of many democratic judges stopped him.
So, when I heard all the conservatives tonight freaking out that President Trump was going to give in to DACA, I say…
Just wait. And..you know, he COULD use help from us?
How, I’m not sure. But one thing that’s I believe
The gravitational wave of progressive New World Order, Agenda 21, is already in motion, and it’s going to take more than one man to stop it.
Now, if weather wars are real, like Secretary Cohen said…(They HAVE removed that video) then…
We might need to get a bigger boat.
Oprah: “Make America Screwed Up Again!”
Nobody Wonders
Will Oprah really get the democratic nomination? Was last night’s speech at the Golden Globe Awards her launch-off for getting into the Oval Office? 
Does the earth still rotate around the sun?
You want to know what I think? Here’s what I know: I watched that whole Oprah speech at the Award show. Imagine my surprise when the very next morning, on MSNBC, I saw a whole segment of that speech that was NOT shown here in middle Missouri. The part where she pleaded for the lives of poor immigrants, who just pick our crops, and clean our houses, and have the babies of Arnold. (Okay, she didn’t say that last thing.) She was attacking Trump for his views on immigration.
Clearly, they had edited that part out for the people in my area of Missouri, which means that all throughout America, various sections of the country saw various versions of Oprah’s coming out speech.
That had to take some editing and planning…county by county. They wouldn’t go to that much trouble if it wasn’t a coming out Presidential speech. 
The democrats want CONSERVATIVE and Independent women to vote for Oprah, and it might have pissed them off (Not to mention the blacks here) if they as heard her big plea for the illegals.
Remember Hillary complaining that women didn’t vote for her because of their husbands? Democrats really believe that if more women voted then the democrats would win the next election.
Who better to run, than a famous BLACK woman?
Why the heck do you think they are making such a BIG deal about sexual perverts and women, women, women right now?
It’s all about the votes. 
The pure and noble Oprah, had to bring up a story about a ‘white’ man raping a young black girl a long time ago. Disney would have been rolling over in his grave. The whole night was rigged for Oprah’s big speech. Everybody wearing black. Staged. Act I.
Oprah will use the race card AND the gender card, cover it in gold BS, and wear wigs that do not look African. She will go to Ohio in a smart white woman’s suit…just like Michelle wore Gingham to Ohio, to look like Rebecca of Sunny broke Farm.
And speaking of Michelle Obama…did you read that her own daughter called 911 and had her arrested a few days ago? Yeah…you didn’t, did you? (Obama got her out of it.)
THAT’s how much they control what you see.
Nobody Wonders, if that famous gathering of Spielberg, Oprah, Obama, and Tom Hanks on that famous producers’ yacht last year was all about planning this very moment. 
It sure looks like it. Really…they know they have nobody to beat President Trump. Joe Biden? Please. There are pictures and videos all over the internet of Joe grabbing just about every little girl he can get close to. And he would not beat Trump.
They need a woman. And since Oprah got Obama elected, she’s been planning to run for office for some time: She’ probably quit her TV show to get ready for this.
From Infowars:
Oprah Winfrey met in secret with George Soros and other billionaires to discuss a plan to depopulate the world.
The 2009 meeting in Manhattan, organized by Bill Gates, was so discreet that the billionaires’ aides were told to treat it as a “security briefing,” and attendees also included the late David Rockefeller, Warren Buffett, Ted Turner and Michael Bloomberg, in addition to Oprah and Soros.
And then there’s that video where she claims older white people (men) must just die.
They’ve also been playing a video of Trump saying he would like her as his VP, which MEANS…Trump knew she wanted to be President someday too.
Smart man.
And just for the record, I’ve never been an Oprah fan. What has she done? Promoted some books? Given away bed sheets? Made a few films about how badly blacks were treated? (Never mentioning that it was by democrats.)
Her talent is…she can be very amiable while being a talk show host.
I didn’t like her when she went to Africa to build a school there, instead of here. That’s proof right there…that she could care less about America.
Some democratic pundit today was claiming that Oprah came up from NOTHING and made herself what she is today. All by herself. Trump, on the other hand had his father give him money.
If you have lived in this world, you know that Oprah had probably hundreds of white men (and women) helping her every step of the way: with money, (Weinstein) with jobs, (Spielberg, Gates)
And like Hillary, she will expect the American public to just roll out and vote for her…because she is the great omniscient giver of cars… And she will give you everything! Just like Bernie!
Except, she will be just like Obama. She will take whatever you have.
Oprah…Lover of expensive bed sheet. And so full of her own bullshit even her own bed sheets probably have to be replaced every night.
Oprah might have worked harder than Hillary, but if she got into the White House, she would be more concerned about the parties, (Just like Obama was…remember all those parties he had?) and photo-ops, and like Obama, she will continue to carry out the U.N. Agenda 21. then doing anything for the country.
She will be Obama’s term that Hillary never got to finish.
Besides, something tells me the ‘deep state’ is getting to LOVE the stock market. Giving that gravy train up, even for globalization, will be something they might want to rethink.
The rich might rule the world, and want to bring in slave labor…make a one world government, but President Trump will show them a better way..
A way in which they can get even richer.
And that’s why our President will beat her.
Nobody’s Fool: Alan Dershowitz
Nobody’s Fool
This morning I saw some x GOP Senator from New Hampshire on MSNBC pleading for the cabinet to use the 25th amendment and take out President Trump.
The man himself was insane.
And this nonsense is going on all over MSNBC, CNN and your daily on the hour radio news flash.
In-between of course the media pushing Oprah for President.
Because of that, I thought this week’s award should go to Alan Dershowitz, who didn’t even vote for Trump, but explains that trying to take out the President by claiming he’s insane, is done in Russia, China, and just about every communists country you can think of.
So, Congratulations Alan! You win the Nobody’s Fool Award for the Week!
It’s good to know there’s at least ONE sane democrat still living. Now, get the other nut/jobs to start thinking like you.
A big task I know, but, even if you can get to a few hundred, that is all we can ask.
How Is He Doing?
Nobody’s Opinion
It’s not a secret that I LOVE the British People. I love to hear their voices–especially the proper way they speak the beautiful English language.
So today, instead of posting MY usual rant, I got permission from my Australian/British global warrior against all insanity buddy- in- arms to repost here, a piece he wrote on his blog from Australia.
He goes by the name of amfortas.
Not only is his a voice of reason, true and strong, I have had the pleasure of listening to his REAL voice, which, I can only compare to dipping a big bite of hot lobster tail into hot delicious butter.
So, enjoy! The great mind of amfortas…my most honored and British friend of heart and mind:
He writes his wonderful blog called The Knight and the Drummer here:
So, next time you listen to all these people saying President Trump is: not fit, crazy, moronic, not Presidential, a madman…read this list again….
Nobody but a genius could have accomplished all that with so much going against him.
(Thanks to amfortas.)
For an old chap like me to be offering a critique of President Donald Trump is a bit like some peasant in Hispania Citerior in AD very small speaking about Julius Caesar. The Donald is a very long way away and is in charge of a nation that is not of immediate importance to my Tavern. But others, almost everywhere, are apt to put a foot in their mouth and give a view, which saves me having to. And boy do I hear those views.
They come from customers in the bars – sound critique, encouragement, warnings, please, evasions even – and from the howls of invective from over the hedge. The News – print and TV- even in Oz, has nothing good to say about The Donald, nor even about his fine-looking and seemingly very presentable wife.
It is a source of amusement to see and hear all the nonebrities in America who threatened to leave for distant climes were he to win. I have yet to hear of one who did leave. No apologies either.
The Donald is a far more pleasant chap than I, it seems, as were I in his position I would be hauling their arses into the White House for one final gawp before handing them a ticket on a tramp steamer from Baltimore to Liberia.
But the Donald has a swampful of real nasty blighters to rid himself of, who are struggling to evade his nets, and he is taking his good time watching them scatter and howl. They predicted the end of the world: the sky was going to fall in: the stock market would crash: Trump would be a Dictator !! Cats and dogs would be sleeping together. The last bit was nearly right.
From we poor folk out in the Provinces of the Rest of the World, what we saw over the past near decade under the piebald muslim B.O. was a Great Nation steering toward the rocks and going at great speed. The Donald has his work cut out turning this great ship before it founders and takes many other nations down with it.
Enough of the small Oz gloat, though. Personally I see him doing pretty well, so far, with a deft touch here and there and a very big tweet record that leaves many cringing. But my opinion matters little. What have other people to say?
The Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal sit at their own table (leased, of course) in the US Room bar, whenever they can speak in past the Bouncer, and were working on a ‘statement’. In typical fashion they were as reticent and guarded with any praise as they are with paying their bar tab. One does not have to consult the runes to know which side of the hedge they are meant to be on.
About That Trump ‘Autocracy’
Remember all those progressive predictions of looming fascism?
As Donald Trump heads into his second year as President, we’re pleased to report that there hasn’t been a fascist coup in Washington. This must be terribly disappointing to the progressive elites who a year ago predicted an authoritarian America because…
Mr. Trump posed a unique threat to democratic norms.
But it looks like the U.S. will have to settle for James Madison’s boring checks and balances.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/about-that-trump-autocracy-1514839233
“How to stop an autocracy,” said a Feb. 7, 2017 headline on Vox, ruminating on a zillion-word essay in The Atlantic on how Donald Trump might impose authoritarian rule.
Academics and pundits mined analogies to Mussolini, Hitler and Vladimir Putin.
Four political scientists even formed something called Bright Line Watch—with the help of foundation money— to “monitor the status of democratic practices and highlight potential threats to American democracy.”
Readers won’t be surprised to learn that the only graver threat than Mr. Trump is the Republican Congress that refuses to impeach him.
One of the Bright Line Watch founders, University of Rochester professor Gretchen Helmke, wrote in the Washington Post on April 25, “Could Trump set off a constitutional crisis? Here’s what we can learn from Latin America.”
A year later, where are we on the road to Venezuela?
Far from rolling over Washington institutions like a tank, Mr. Trump seems as frustrated as other Presidents with the limits of his power. He achieved one major legislative goal in tax reform but failed on health care. His border wall isn’t built and he may have to legalize the “Dreamer” immigrants if he wants Congress to approve money for it.
Mr. Trump’s political appointees still aren’t close to fully staffing the executive branch. He’s making more headway on judges, but that’s partly due to former Democratic leader Harry Reid’s decision in 2013 to eliminate the Senate filibuster for judicial nominees. The press cheered on that partisan, mid-session change of Senate rules to pack the courts.
Mr. Trump’s rhetorical attacks on the media are excessive. But for all of his bluster, we haven’t seen a single case of Trump prosecutors seeking warrants to eavesdrop on journalists to discover their sources.
Barack Obama’s Justice Department surreptitiously did that to the Associated Press and James Rosen of Fox News in violation of Justice guidelines.
As for legal checks and balances, progressive judges in the lower courts have overturned three versions of Mr. Trump’s travel ban. Their legal analysis is dubious given the Constitution’s grant of authority to the political branches on immigration and national security, and our guess is that the Supreme Court will eventually overrule the lower courts.
But the point is that judges are hardly deferring to the Trump Administration.
Oh, and since when do tyrants deregulate to take power away from the administrative state?
Mr. Trump is also facing a special counsel investigation with essentially unchecked power to investigate him and his family.
Robert Mueller is ostensibly charged with looking into ties between Russians and the 2016 Trump campaign, but Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appears to have given Mr. Mueller carte blanche.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russia probe and seems unable to exert any discipline over the FBI. The Justice Department ultimately reports to Mr. Trump. Yet he can’t even get his nominees at the FBI and Justice to tell Congress what they used as evidence to get a FISA warrant against Trump campaign officials in 2016.
Who is the unaccountable authority here?
The real story of the past year is that, despite the daily Trumpian melodrama, the U.S. political system is working more or less as usual. Mr. Trump has sometimes broken with familiar presidential decorum, especially in his public statements and attacks on individuals. But he is paying a considerable political price for that excess with an approval rating below 40% less than a year into his term.
Voters rejected his preferred Senate candidates in Alabama twice. Republicans were routed in Virginia’s elections as Democrats came out in droves, and on present trend the GOP will lose its House majority in November. In other words, we are watching the typical back and forth of American democracy.
Hmmmm. I suspect we are watching the typical democrat voters rising from the graves, as they have traditionally done for most left-wing parties everywhere. It is the walking dead, life imitating art.
Democratic institutional norms are worth defending, which is why we called out the Obama IRS for bias against the tea party. We’ll do the same if Mr. Trump exceeds his constitutional power. But the lesson of the past year is that progressives should have more faith in the American system—whether they’re in power or not.
Losing an election isn’t the same as losing a democracy.
Friends Romans and countrymen. We come to damn with the faintest praise and a complete lack of any note of achievements.
The Washington Reporters pull out everything to try to smear the Donald. Even seeking his tax returns (which are confidential twix him and the IRS, of course). They ask questions they never asked from Obama.
At a recent press conference, a reporter with MSNBC hollered from the press corps,
“Where is President Trump hiding his tax returns?”
Press Secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, astutely responded, “We’ve found a very secure
place and I’m certain they won’t be found.”
“And just where is that?”, said the reporter, sarcastically.
Mrs. Sanders grinned sardonically and said, “They are underneath Obama’s college records, his passport application, his immigration status as a student, his funding sources to pay for college, his college records, and his Selective Service registration.
“Next question?”
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist filled in a few gaps for us.
Year One List:
81 major Trump achievements,
11 Obama legacy items repealed
With the passage of the GOP tax bill this week, the Trump administration has scored 81 major achievements in its first year, making good on campaign promises to provide significant tax cuts, boost U.S. energy production, and restore respect to the United States, according to the White House.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/year-one-list-81-major-trump-achievements-11-obama-legacy-items-repealed/article/2644159
And along the way, President Trump even outdid his own expectations and slashed at least 11 major legacy items of former President Barack Obama, including cracking down on the open border, slowing recognition of communist Cuba and effectively killing Obamacare by ending the mandate that everyone have health insurance or face a tax.
According to the White House, the 81 accomplishments are in 12 major categories and include well over 100 other minor achievements.
The unofficial list helps to counter the impression in the mainstream media and among congressional Democrats that outside the approval of Supreme Court Neil Gorsuch and passage of the tax reform bill little was done.
Administrations typically tout their achievements broadly at the end of each year, but Trump plans to list jobs added, regulations killed, foreign policy victories won, and moves to help veterans and even drug addicts.
And in a sign of support for conservatives, the White House also is highlighting achievements for the pro-life community.
Below are the 12 categories and 81 wins cited by the White House.
Jobs and the economy
Passage of the tax reform bill providing $5.5 billion in cuts and repealing the Obamacare mandate.
Increase of the GDP above 3 percent.
Creation of 1.7 million new jobs, cutting unemployment to 4.1 percent.
Saw the Dow Jones reach record highs.
A rebound in economic confidence to a 17-year high.
A new executive order to boost apprenticeships.
A move to boost computer sciences in Education Department programs.
Prioritizing women-owned businesses for some $500 million in SBA loans.
Killing job-stifling regulations
Signed an Executive Order demanding that two regulations be killed for every new one creates. He beat that big and cut 16 rules and regulations for every one created, saving $8.1 billion.
Signed 15 congressional regulatory cuts.
Withdrew from the Obama-era Paris Climate Agreement, ending the threat of environmental regulations.
Signed an Executive Order cutting the time for infrastructure permit approvals.
Eliminated an Obama rule on streams that Trump felt unfairly targeted the coal industry.
Fair trade
Made good on his campaign promise to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Opened up the North American Free Trade Agreement for talks to better the deal for the U.S.
Worked to bring companies back to the U.S., and companies like Toyota, Mazda, Broadcom Limited, and Foxconn announced plans to open U.S. plants.
Worked to promote the sale of U.S products abroad.
Made enforcement of U.S. trade laws, especially those that involve national security, a priority.
Ended Obama’s deal with Cuba.
Boosting U.S. energy dominance
The Department of Interior, which has led the way in cutting regulations, opened plans to lease 77 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling.
Trump traveled the world to promote the sale and use of U.S. energy.
Expanded energy infrastructure projects like the Keystone XL Pipeline snubbed by Obama.
Ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to kill Obama’s Clean Power Plan.
EPA is reconsidering Obama rules on methane emissions.
Protecting the U.S. homeland
Laid out new principles for reforming immigration and announced plan to end “chain migration,” which lets one legal immigrant to bring in dozens of family members.
Made progress to build the border wall with Mexico.
Ended the Obama-era “catch and release” of illegal immigrants.
Boosted the arrests of illegals inside the U.S.
Doubled the number of counties participating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement charged with deporting illegals.
Removed 36 percent more criminal gang members than in fiscal 2016.
Started the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program.
Ditto for other amnesty programs like Deferred Action for Parents of Americans.
Cracking down on some 300 sanctuary cities that defy ICE but still get federal dollars.
Added some 100 new immigration judges.
Protecting communities
Justice announced grants of $98 million to fund 802 new cops.
Justice worked with Central American nations to arrest and charge 4,000 MS-13 members.
Homeland rounded up nearly 800 MS-13 members, an 83 percent one-year increase.
Signed three executive orders aimed at cracking down on international criminal organizations.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions created new National Public Safety Partnership, a cooperative initiative with cities to reduce violent crimes.
Accountability
Trump has nominated 73 federal judges and won his nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
Ordered ethical standards including a lobbying ban.
Called for a comprehensive plan to reorganize the executive branch.
Ordered an overhaul to modernize the digital government.
Called for a full audit of the Pentagon and its spending.
Combatting opioids
First, the president declared a Nationwide Public Health Emergency on opioids.
His Council of Economic Advisors played a role in determining that overdoses are underreported by as much as 24 percent.
The Department of Health and Human Services laid out a new five-point strategy to fight the crisis.
Justice announced it was scheduling fentanyl substances as a drug class under the Controlled Substances Act.
Justice started a fraud crackdown, arresting more than 400.
The administration added $500 million to fight the crisis.
On National Drug Take Back Day, the Drug Enforcement Agency collected 456 tons.
Protecting life
In his first week, Trump reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy that blocks some $9 billion in foreign aid being used for abortions.
Worked with Congress on a bill overturning an Obama regulation that blocked states from defunding abortion providers.
Published guidance to block Obamacare money from supporting abortion.
Helping veterans
Signed the Veterans Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act to allow senior officials in the
Department of Veterans Affairs to fire failing employees and establish safeguards to protect whistleblowers.
Signed the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act.
Signed the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act, to provide support.
Signed the VA Choice and Quality Employment Act of 2017 to authorize $2.1 billion in additional funds for the Veterans Choice Program.
Created a VA hotline.
Had the VA launch an online “Access and Quality Tool,” providing veterans with a way to access wait time and quality of care data.
With VA Secretary Dr. David Shulkin, announced three initiatives to expand access to healthcare for veterans using telehealth technology.
Promoting peace through strength
Directed the rebuilding of the military and ordered a new national strategy and nuclear posture review.
Worked to increase defense spending.
Empowered military leaders to “seize the initiative and win,” reducing the need for a White House sign off on every mission.
Directed the revival of the National Space Council to develop space war strategies.
Elevated U.S. Cyber Command into a major warfighting command.
Withdrew from the U.N. Global Compact on Migration, which Trump saw as a threat to borders.
Imposed a travel ban on nations that lack border and anti-terrorism security.
Saw ISIS lose virtually all of its territory.
Pushed for strong action against global outlaw North Korea and its development of nuclear weapons.
Announced a new Afghanistan strategy that strengthens support for U.S. forces at war with terrorism.
NATO increased support for the war in Afghanistan.
Approved a new Iran strategy plan focused on neutralizing the country’s influence in the region.
Ordered missile strikes against a Syrian airbase used in a chemical weapons attack.
Prevented subsequent chemical attacks by announcing a plan to detect them better and warned of future strikes if they were used.
Ordered new sanctions on the dictatorship in Venezuela.
Restoring confidence in and respect for America
Trump won the release of Americans held abroad, often using his personal relationships with world leaders.
Made good on a campaign promise to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Conducted a historic 12-day trip through Asia, winning new cooperative deals. On the trip, he attended three regional summits to promote American interests.
He traveled to the Middle East and Europe to build new relationships with leaders.
Traveled to Poland and on to Germany for the G-20 meeting where he pushed again for funding of women entrepreneurs.
Here in Oz, our Leader the Great Turdball has managed to introduce and legislate Same Sex Marriage.
And he has been on the toilet a lot longer than Trump. But that’s not all of course. He has totally buggered our power industry and rid us of all facility for manufacturing. Not a great record.
I could go on, but there are many a thirsty customer waiting and I have pints to pull. I shall have to seek more views another time.
Drink up.
Pax.
Tech Guru’s Speak Out: They’re…Sorry…opps
Nobody Flashes
Here’s a video that you might want to take a look at while your huddled in your chair away from the cold:
All the inventors of the ‘social media’ apps: Like Facebook, and such, are warning the world that…what they invented, they are not really proud of…
They knew they were getting people ‘hooked’, but they didn’t care.
Now…they do.
Hey, I thought Zuckerface was dangerous when he had the whole college ‘rate’ girls…now THAT’s sexist, and mean.
He didn’t care.
I’m not on Facebook. Or Instagram. I do Twitter…but so does President Trump.
Anyway, there’s a problem, but do any of these inventors have any solutions?
No, they want somebody else to fix it.
The key here is to get a life. And keep your kids from getting addicted.
Typical.
Remember: Obama and the Stealth Invasion
Nobody Remembers
—That Donald Trump ran on the promise to stop the flood at our borderless borders.
Soon, the immigration question will be coming up for a vote…the democrats are crying out for amnesty.
And if President Trump refuses to grant it, then it really won’t matter, because Obama and the democratic mayors and governors will just refuse to obey. They are doing that now.
States don’t have to ‘secede’ anymore. They can just disobey and ignore the law.
They have already declared the whole state of California a “sanctuary” city. They also legalized the use of marijuana, against the federal laws.
The ‘lawlessness’ of the liberals who are in control of many parts of the country…will continue to disobey Congress, and the President.
This is how they will shred the Constitution. Obama knew this was all in the plan five days before he won the Presidency:
So, let’s go back a few years, and read how this great transformation of the United States, a crime committed by our last America President…started:
From Stealth Invasion by Leo Hohmann:
Obama unveiled the “White House Task Force on New Americans” plans in April 2015. The plans were to ‘integrate’ millions of new immigrants and refugees into ‘welcoming communities’ across the United States. The cochair of the task force, Obama’s domestic policy adviser Cecilia Munoz, said her focus would be on making sure Obama’s historic immigration policies get “institutionalized” so they will live on long after she and her boss are gone from the White House.
Obama created the task force November 21, 2014, when he announced his plan to unilaterally grant amnesty to more than 5 million illegal immigrants and child migrants. His adminstration brought in 85,000 to 110,000 refugees per year from some of the world’ most dangerous countries—Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Burma, Sudan, and Syria.
The April 2015 conference was titled “The New National Integration plan: Making the Most of a Historic Opportunity.” It was opportunity all right, — an opportunity to transform the demographics of city after city across America by infusing Middle Eastern refugees with radically different values than those who have lived and worked in many of these towns for generations.
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If an area is ‘too white” Obama’s U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development can now force the city to rewrite its zoning laws to allow more low-income housing projects to rise in the midst of affluent suburban neighborhoods.
The United States now has more than three hundred sanctuary cities, and the Obama administration was unleashing a plan that would encourage and threaten more cities to join the fray of lawlessness.
Yes, Obama in stealth, put thousands of immigrants into cities all over the country. The towns, had nothing to say about it. THIS is going to be President Trump’s greatest task: stopping the flow, containing the flow, and bringing the states that disobey federal law, BACK into the Constitution.
Governors, Mayors, and companies, who ignore the law, should be prosecuted. It’s that simple.
I think that’s one of the reasons Trump chose Jeff Sessions: he swore to be vigilant on immigration.
It will be up to the American people to decided if they want to keep their country, by voting in President Trump for a second term, and voting in people who will help him get this done, because he can’t possibly do anything in his first term…
Or can he?
What’s important is that it was Obama who wanted the whole country to be…fundamentally changed…into a nation of socialists slaves.
And what are we all talking about? Obama is going to be David Letterman’s first guest on his new show:
Where Obama’s will continue to push his great American ‘transformation’.
I suggest…we ignore it. 
When The People Are Replaced By Robots: What Then?
Nobody Wins
Well, the future is here. The future that Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Stephen Hawkins have been warning us about. 
We all will be replaced by robots and sooner than we think. Just when everybody was getting excited about getting a better job with a raise, we are being warned–don’t get used to it…because the robots will be able to do whatever you do, and do it better.
(In the case of Rachael Maddow, we can only hope.)
This was in the Drudge report:
• South Korean tech giant LG Electronics said Thursday it will showcase three new “concept robots” at next week’s consumer electronics show in Las Vegas
• A McKinsey report released in November said that up to 800 million workers could be affected globally by automation and the rise of artificial intelligence
• Tech companies are testing robots to carry out various tasks that could affect the services industry, which employs nearly 50 percent of the global workforce, according to the International Labour Organization
Clearly this is a win/win for the big global tech companies and Wall Street. It’s much like how they took away ‘cash’ and now we are almost a cashless society. Good or bad, the individual is at the mercy of their online accounts, which can disappear with the push of a button. 
Okay. Let me get this straight. If 50 percent of the global workforce disappears, doesn’t that mean that governments will be collecting 50 percent less in taxes?
Right now, our government is $21 trillion in debt. How are the future generations going to pay off that debt if they can’t get a job?
Or was that all just a joke from the start?
Since America is one big strip mall with the same multinational stores in every town, what happens when the KFC’s, McDonald’s, Targets, Wal-Marts…when all the service jobs are replaced by ….robots?
If nobody has a job, then NOBODY will have the money to even spend at the stores.
Have they thought this stuff out? Do they think welfare and food stamps are just given out of free air?
Obviously, they do. And the money, keeps, going to the top.
Mark Zuckerberg, of Facebook, sees this coming, and he thinks everyone should just sit at home and enjoy themselves. You know, get a welfare check from some tech company and live in a two-bedroom apartment, and have the time to do whatever— like get stoned while ordering pizza online, where it will be delivered by drone.
Wow. Einstein really DID see this coming.
Thanks, but no thanks.
It was reported today that Sears is closing 100 more stores, and Macy’s is laying off 5,000. And still, the computers are made overseas…so how is this a good thing?
Frankly, this is a bigger worry than ISIS. We had the industrial revolution, and the tech revolution, but now, they want the robot revolution, to replace the people.
Everyone will have a sex robot, so we can’t reproduce.
They think of everything, don’t they?
You might argue, well. That’s progress Joyanna. This nobody doesn’t like it one bit. They’ve decimated the middle class in America, and now they are going after the only jobs left to those who can’t afford college?
And they think President TRUMP is nuts?
If progress is putting half the world out of a job—
Nobody Wins but the pathological few.



