The Washington Elites Haven't Got A Clue

The asphyxiated pinheads in the bodies of Rich Lowry & Co., George Will, Bill Kristol, Erick Erickson et al. need to do at least a little fact finding before they thrust a stake in the ground and tie themselves to it. They've done this again and again by declaring that 'Donald Trump is not a conservative'.

Every week when he appears on Fox News Sunday, George Will pounds that drum - and today, he made it abundantly clear that he is a pinhead without the courage of his convictions.

When Chris Wallace asked in a round-about way if Will would vote for the Republican nominee even if it is Trump, Will said he would. Yet just a second before he said that nominating Trump at the convention would destroy the party.

Pick one side or the other George. Don't try to navigate the middle because there is no middle to find. This is a straight up-or-down, either-or choice. It is either another party cog - interchangeable with any other bought and paid for party cog and the 'R' or the 'D' after their name makes zero difference in the end - or an outsider who is speaking up for a lot of regular Americans.

In the past months - since expanding his political message beyond The Wall - Trump has talked about fair trade, getting deals in place between the US and our trading partners that work equally well for both parties. Well guess what - this is not a new position for him. He was saying the exact same thing twenty-seven years ago:

This doesn't sound like a 'liberal' to me. And don't take my take on it. How about Mary Alice Williams, a CNN political pundit at the 1988 RNC Convention who specifically said that Donald Trump is 'conservative'. A couple of minutes later, during this interview, Larry King described him as a 'Rockefeller Republican'.

So what is this lie being spread by the money men and their shills? (Yes, Rich and Bill and Erick and George, I am calling you and your talking pinhead buddies shills.)

The lie is being spread by the asphyxiated pinheads because Donald Trump scares the hell out of the Establishment.

If he does even half of what he says he'll do, that's going to strip power from the powerful and divert a whole lot of money away from Washington.

Programs sent back to the states where they belong will affect Energy and Education, Housing and Healthcare and that is as it should be. The Citizens of this country should wield the power over our own lives. We should not be the subjects of the politicians and lobbyists, the money men and their shills. We should not be satisfied with having them dictate to us how we should live our lives.

That is the movement behind Donald Trump. The idea that there is more, or that there should be more for those of us who are willing to work for it.

After all, just like millions of other Americans, I get up every morning and head out to work. I drive two hours per day to and from my job. I work my tail off when I'm there, and I haven't had a pay increase in years.

Instead, when I was laid off in 2012, in five minutes I went from making $30 per hour before benefits plus four weeks of paid time off, fully paid health and dental care - to living on $11.50 per hour in unemployment benefits. For five months after the watershed day of being told I was being let go after seventeen years, I took whatever temporary jobs came my way. Most paid just $14 and $15 an hour - and I counted myself lucky to get those because the competition for those jobs was so stiff.

Here I am four years later and, after working as a temporary employee for fifteen months, I was hired. I'm making 27% per hour less than I made before, with no employer paid healthcare and only two weeks of vacation. My life isn't better now than it was four years ago and my story is not at all unusual. I count myself lucky for finding a job - one for which I drive nearly eighty miles per day which costs me a lot of money in gas and wear and tear on my car.

I have been watching Trump since the fall. At first I wasn't thinking about who I would vote for. I just knew I wouldn't be voting for Hilliary. But listening to his message about illegal immigration and the wall, I began to pay attention. I began to feel hope - just a little - that this man might be the one to turn this country around.

This is why I like Donald Trump - what he's saying and what I think he'll do. I have hope when I listen to his message. It's hope that I haven't felt in more than two decades.

If American workers have good jobs with good companies that pay decent wages, we will all benefit.

If American workers aren't competing against low-wage illegals for jobs, if the wages go up for American workers, we all benefit. We'll have a stronger economy with more disposable income. If I had any disposable income - which I do not have at this time since every penny I bring home with me is allocated to paying my bills - I could go out for dinner occasionally. I could afford to buy new clothes occasionally. Maybe I could even afford a vacation - something I haven't had in nearly twenty years.

Yes, there are still a lot of brain-dead ninnies out here in the hinterlands. There are plenty of sheeple who like having things given to them. Sheeple who are willing to sit on their butts in some shabby little apartment because it's free or cheap instead of looking up and wanting more. But there are a lot of us who do want something more than we have, more than the government is willing to give to us.

That is what I want and what I think Trump can help be work for. Cruz won't. Cruz will be 100% interchangeable with Hilliary because he is owned by the lobbyists just as Hilliary is owned. Look for yourself. Here is what Ted has done - and look at the amount that has come from 'Super PACs and Others' - almost half of his money has come from lobbyists and special interests:

 Yet here is what Trump has done:

Only 7% has been raised from 'Super PACs and Other Groups' - and those other groups are not lobbying groups.

Based on this, which of these candidates do you suppose is beholden to the special interests?

Even Hilliary hasn't raised as much from the Super PACs and lobbyists as Cruz has:

What does that say about Cruz's independence if he's elected?

As far as the trade deals The Donald has been talking about for nearly thirty years, his position is one that sounds like a pretty good position to take. After all, why should two parties in a deal have two different standards to meet? Shouldn't both have the same standards and requirements? Shouldn't both reap the same benefits? If not, if one party has an advantage over the other, gains extra benefits at the expense of the other party, how is that fair? Shouldn't America's politicians who have responsibility for making these deals try to strike the very best deal for us? They haven't. Not once and that is neither fair nor right.

That is what Trump is saying he wants for America and that is what I want for America.


So George and Bill and Rich and Erick - get over it. You don't run us. You don't own us, and neither do the money class who own you to the last hair on your head. We are not listening to you any more because what you're telling us is good for us, isn't and we're waking up to that little fact.

Other than that, I hope your day is wonderful.

Best~
Philippa

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What the Right & Their Media Tools Don't Get

Straight out of the gate: I do not pretend to speak for anyone else. Not being in the mind or heart of anyone else, I can't. I speak for myself but being a writer, and an observer of human behavior, I can pretty well guess what's in the hearts and minds of at least some others.

With that said: The Establishment Right and the Media are colluding to blow this country apart and devolve it into a leftist / socialist state. If they do not stop working to undermine and subvert the will of the people, that is precisely what will happen. Not only will they gift wrap and bow tie the White House for Hilliary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, they will also guarantee at least a generation of leftist Supreme Court rulings that will utterly change the face of America forever.

Scalia's seat is open. Bader-Ginsberg is waiting to retire and will no doubt step down the second after Hilliary lifts her hand from the Bible after being sworn into office. It is likely that at least one or two other Justices will retire or die in the next four years - so it's going to be a critical time for the Supreme Court.

The so-called Right - the Establishment, Donor Class and Airhead Elites - would do well to bear this in mind.

Trump's following - the massive crowds at his rallies, the new voters registering with the Republican party, the cross-the-board blocs that are voting for him - are all indicative of a FACT.

FACT: For the first time in nearly thirty years people are enthusiastic about a candidate.

FACT: Despite the best efforts by the Elitists to bring this man down, to destroy his candidacy, he is still winning. Even bringing Mitt Romney out - a disgusting human being for willingly being a sock puppet of these Elitist morons - didn't completely stop Trump's momentum.

FACT: Trump won two of four states yesterday - not resoundingly, but by enough - and they were the two states with the highest delegate counts.

FACT: In Michigan this morning, the latest NBC/Marist poll shows Trump is leading Cruz by about twenty points.

FACT: The Annointed One v.1 in the form of Jeb!, despite the money class pushing him hard, went down in embarrassing fashion. In early February, he actually had to beg a "crowd" at one of his so-called rallies to clap.

FACT: The Annointed One v.2 has won one state - Minnesota. Given the fact that there have been nineteen caucuses and elections and he has managed one win does not bode well for his viability.

FACT: Donald Trump has won more states than Ted Cruz by a 2:1 margin (twelve states to six) and leads in the delegate count.

So, with all of those facts to hand, what does the donor class fronted by Mitt Romney, aided and abetted by the likes of Rich Lowry, George Will, Bill Kristol and the other Airhead Elites intend for the future of this country?

Do they really want to hand this election to someone who is a known criminal?

Just because Hilliary hasn't been indicted or convicted (and if either of those events was to happen this year, guess who would be at the top of Obie-One's pardon list) doesn't mean she's innocent. There is enough information out in the public realm to show that she is far from innocent - and I'm confident the FBI has at least five times as much that hasn't leaked.

If they mess around with a brokered convention and take the delegates away from the front-runner and hand them to someone We The People don't want, they will hand the general election to the left.

I, for one, won't rush out and participate in something that I know will destroy this country. That would be like joining the mob that's tearing down my house. 'Oh! No! What are you doing! *Oh, wait - there are more of them than of me, I guess I'll join in.*' That would be the equivalent.

If I do not believe in and trust the candidate to put America's interests first, I will not vote for them and I can state, as things are now, I will not vote for Ted Cruz. He is, in my honest opinion, a SLEAZE of the worst kind.

Talk about someone having a 'tenuous grasp on facts'. He is dishonest about other people (check out PolitiFact).

He is boring as dirt and he has all the appeal of a low-end used car salesman.

Apparently, despite his 'deep faith' he has not read the passages in the Bible that talk about people in glass houses or about bearing false witness.

Before he casts stones at Trump's glass house, he would do well to look to his own.

Before he makes didactic statements about Trump's beliefs and conservatism, he would do well to consider what the Bible says about 'one who breathes out lies, and sows discord among brothers'. When Cruz claims to know what is in Trump's heart and mind, he is stomping along the razor thin boundary of the Ninth Commandment.

I do think he would be a reasonable pick for AG or, perhaps, a member of SCOTUS, but not as president.

So, again, what is the Vapid Right's plan for this great country? I would really like to know, but they're not saying - which is dangerous.

Do I think Donald Trump is the be-all, end-all of perfection? Hell no! He has warts aplenty.

He doesn't know as much as he should about foreign affairs and policy, but I trust him to know what he doesn't know and to fill in the gap with someone over qualified. Do I wish, fervently, that he was stronger on that subject? Hell yes!

What I would like, more than anything, is for him to call in favors in the next day or two - to bring on board Trump One people who know what's what around the world and have them teach him. He's smart and I think he's a quick study so he could bone up on everything he needs to know immediately, before the next debate. He doesn't have to have a deep and profound understanding - just enough to be able to address the points well and in knowledgeable fashion. The deep and profound understanding can come later, with reliance on people who know more of the nuances.

I trust him on trade - because he's a trader and he knows other capable qualified people who are the same.

I trust him on immigration. He has been vocal about the wall and he has, apparently, scared the Bejeezus out of Mexico - they are reacting to him on the subject so we know he's hit a nerve.

What is Cruz's plan? What does the used car salesman plan?

He's parroting Trump on the wall, but I sincerely doubt he'll do anything. I think he's another insider who likes the status quo because until Trump started talking and catching the media's notice about the wall, he wasn't an advocate.

Immigration is a poison pill inside the Beltway, let's be clear. If you are anti-illegal immigrant, you're painted as a bigot, a racist, narrow-minded, you name it. Cruz, Rubio and the other pro-pols don't like that. Trump doesn't care what names he's called - he's made that clear.

So what plan do the Right - GOP / RNC and the Pointy Media Pinheads have for this country if they steal the election from Trump (assuming he doesn't gather enough delegates for a clear win)? I would really like to know but they're not saying.

So, given that status quo of disgusting hatred and silence from the Elites and Establishment, I will keep rooting for Trump. When the time comes that I have a chance, I will vote for him because of all the people in the field, he is the only one worthy of my vote.

Best~
Philippa

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George Will Says On 'Our' Terms, Not On Yours - Excuse Me?

Mitt Romney going after Donald Trump about his tax returns is a bit like this picture, although laid-back Mitt probably didn't bare his teeth (much) when he became a jerk.

from KimberlyCrumby.com

What has got the right so twisted up about Trump's candidacy?

I know, I know. That's a naive question. It's power and control, baby, power and control. The Donor Class and Elites are about to lose control of this country to the citizens, and they are scared spitless. What will a democratic republic with candidates chosen by the serfs look like?

I don't think it will change all that much, unless the people running for the other offices - all of the House of Representatives, and thirty-four of the Senators - pay attention to the climate this year. If they do, the face of America could change dramatically for the good for us, the people. We might actually get a representative government that represents us and isn't controlled by a dozen or so uber rich despots.

I hope and pray that all of the candidates or potential candidates recognize what's happening in the world out here, and accede to it, so we can have the kind of government the Founders intended. If they don't get it, they may well not get into office. Some will, but others won't because I also think what's happening is the American people are waking up. We are beginning to recognize our power, and we don't like what we're seeing.

I think what's being made crystal clear is that the normal folks don't like Washington and what goes on there. I don't think the folks like or appreciate the politicians and talking heads telling us what's good for us - it's too patronizing. We... Well, I don't like people like Mitt Romney, who seemed like a nice enough guy when he was running for the same office (using some of Donald Trump's money to get there), casting aspersions by all but saying that Trump has done something dishonest that will be revealed in his tax returns.

Honestly? Honestly? After all the crap and nonsense that's come out of Washington, all of the lies, dirty tricks, traitorous acts (leaving national security secrets wide open to foreign countries), and we're supposed to get excited about someone's tax returns?

If it wasn't so pathetic it would be laughable.

I don't care what's in Trump's taxes. I'm not voting for his 1040 long form. I'm voting for the man, for his ideas and what he says he can do for this country.

Disclosing taxes is meaningless to me. I don't want to look at my own documents, let alone some giant company's returns. Anyway, it's a recent invention - only since the 1970's - and, to me, it's meaningless.

Of course the lawyers and tax accountants get a thrill up their leg from it. It's income, revenue that goes into their pockets while with pore through the pages, looking for any little 'gotcha'. Said 'gotcha' being a dead bore to the rest of us. Unless, of course, it discloses that someone has fourteen distaff children to whom they're paying child support, or something else.

It's obvious. The Establishment are scared by Donald Trump. They're laughing at Bernie and holding their nose over Hilliary, but Trump actually has them worried.

In fact, George Will has said, 'our way or the highway you idiots'. He did exactly that on Fox News Sunday, August 9, 2015 when he said, "Trump supporters need to come into the Republican party on our terms, not theirs..."

Now I have to ask, how arrogant is that? 'My way or the highway', really? What happened to his appreciation of democracy - the will of the people?

There's a clip of this revealing moment on another blog site: conservativetreehouse.com and if you Google 'george will fox news sunday 08/09/2015' you can find it. (I can't link to it here, because I don't have permission.)

It is eye-opening and something that I missed until this kerfuffle all these months later. However, it's become a mantra on Fox and, I realize, it's why I've stopped watching Fox News. I'm disgusted by their partisanship to something that stinks to high heaven - the Republican party.

Now, I am a registered Republican - surprise! - and I am not planning on changing that affiliation because I don't want to get a bunch of distaff candidates who don't stand a chance in an election when I fill out my primary ballot. That said, I will vote for who I see fit when the time comes and I don't need people like George Will and the other Elitists telling me that I'm wrong. Imagine, if you will, a middle finger standing upright from amongst its brothers.

Okay, enough of that now. I'm going to get ready and go to work and do what I do every other day of the week.

Have a wonderful day.

Best~
Philippa

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