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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Rich Lowry & Co. - A Study in Bloated Arrogance

Will Rich Lowry (editor of the National Review) and his cronies blow up what remains of the Political Right in this country? They're working hard on doing just that. Based on all that I've seen and heard in the past months, particularly in recent weeks, it looks like it. Particularly now that Mitt Romney - a sock puppet of the Republican Establishment - is going to come out and make some sort of speech no one cares about and no one but the media will listen to.

They have their noses so firmly planted against the tree trunk of their ideology, they don't see the rest of the forest is on fire.

First, they banded together and wrote a bunch of hit pieces in their political magazine - dedicated an entire edition to them. Twenty or so pointy headed arrogant wannabe despots wrote scathing articles about someone just because he threatens their position in the World of Washington. They're afraid, and rightly so, that their moneyed influence will go straight through the U-bend of life because they won't have a grip on this person. He will not be malleable to their way of thinking.

After that, and after having their front men and women talking about it around the networks (which they drive, too), they fussed and fussed about the fact that we American people are still too stupid to recognize that they know what's good for us better than we do. We're not falling in line. The sheep aren't paying attention to the shepherd or his sheepdogs. We're going our own direction and it's infuriating the shepherds.

Jeb Bush, the marionette they picked to be our president flamed out in spectacular fashion after just a few weeks.

They looked around, discarded the other governor in the race - Kasich - and decided to rally behind a new guy - Marco. He looks like a nice guy. I used to think he's a nice guy, but he's a guy who looks like the perfect candidate for a Good Humor ice cream ad. In the days since the last debate, he's been routinely embarrassing himself, showing that he has the temperament of a petulant four-year old. His donors, no doubt the same people who are staring at the ideological tree trunk, pushed him to attack the front runner. Well, guess what? Those attacks make him look and sound like a spoiled brat.

He's ridiculing the Alpha candidate. He's not attacking the Alpha candidate's platform or policies. He's talking about physical aspects and the spray-on tan. It's embarrassing to have this man running around saying he wants to be president.

As rough-around-the-edges as the Alpha male in this fight might be, at least he has the capacity to act like a reasonable adult. He showed that in South Carolina and on Super Tuesday when he held press conferences. Not only did he act like a reasonable adult, even detractors in the media said he looked and sounded presidential.

Still, these arrogant ideologues are foisting their choice on America through well-funded Super PACs.

Rubio's super PAC is Conservative Solutions led by J. Warren Tompkins. He and his buddy Chris Mottola brought us two versions of the Bush family, ending with Hank Paulson and the economic debacle of the mid-2000s. Thanks a lot, guys.

Then they offered up the milquetoast of John McCain for president in 2008, against Barack Obama. That was an embarrassment. Whatever fire McCain once had has been sublimated by immersion in the Washington cesspit.

And now they're working hard to undermine Trump's candidacy so they can bring us more of the same.

The super PACs are out there spreading outright lies and half-truths - like the one about Trump banning disabled vets from Trump Tower. Not true, folks.

Trump asked the city to move street vendors, some of whom had disabled vet permits, from the sidewalk in front of his property. Instead, the ad makes it sound as if Trump barred the doors and prevented disabled vets from the building itself.

There are other lies, but the volume of the hate-filled ads shows the desperation of the Right-wing establishment. Now they're trotting Mitt Romney out of the closet to blast Trump in another hate-filled dissertation. To me, it looks like desperation.

What's astonishing to me, and to others who are paying attention to this, is that these self-righteous arrogant bloated egos don't see what they're doing.

The American people are the ones who are called out in the Founding documents. We The People, as I've said before, isn't just an idea or words on a piece of parchment. It's bigger than an idea - it's an ideal, and it's what the Founders promised: a government of, for and by the people.

Rich Lowry, George Will, Erick Erickson and all the other arrogant pinheads give lip service to the Founders but their actions shout that it isn't about the Founders or the dream the Founders had for a United States of America. Instead, it's all and only about them, about power.

As I see it, one of three things can come of this:

1) The Republican party will shatter like a mirror dropped from the top floor of Trump Tower. It will break along factional lines - The People who support Trump and those who don't.

Rich Lowry & Co., and by that it's all inclusive of everyone who is bucking what the people want for themselves, will hold their control of our government. They will put a person into the White House who is a puppet - an empty suit, just as George Bush I and George Bush II were empty suits and just as Barack Obama is an empty suit, owned by George Soros, Warren Buffet and the left.

2) The American people will rise up and push Trump into the White House. The Republican Establishment will have apoplexy and implode (God! Do I hope that happens!!!). We'll have four years of a real representative democracy - as the Founders intended.

If that first four years is successful - if Trump does at least some of what he's said he'll do - we could get eight years and a lot of forward movement toward what this country should be but isn't because of policies pushed and enacted through puppetry.

3) Rich Lowry & Co. will, by virtue of their resistance, turn off the people they need to get a right-wing candidate into the White House and we'll end up with at least four-years of George Soros and Warren Buffet fronted by Hilliary Clinton.

I'll say it right here and right now: If Trump is not the nominee of the Republican party come summer, I will not vote in November. There won't be any point in voting in November and I am genuinely willing to wager my life that a lot of other people will feel the same and will stay home, giving the left a de facto win because I will NOT vote for someone I don't believe in.

If Rich Lowry & Co. want to destroy the United States of America, they are on the right path. They are doing a fine job of it with Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush and the other sock puppets.

I believe in Donald Trump. I do not think he's perfect. I do not think he's as self-serving as he's being made out. I do think that he's honest and that he does want to make America Great again.

For what it's worth, that's my take on it this morning.

Have a wonderful day.

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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Brainiacs in a Vacuum

That's what they sound like if you read the bitching, moaning and whining about Donald Trump from the so-called 'pundits' in Washington about the current election cycle.

Bill Kristol hates him. George Will hates him. Erick Erickson hates him. And the list goes on - boring in its sameness.

These people say to the rest of us 'we are the Conservatives and you should listen to us.'

I want to know, 'who died and appointed you God?'

These people say 'Donald Trump is not a Conservative because...' Pick your reason (it's all crap by the way).

I demand to know, 'who died and appointed you sole arbiter of what makes a Conservative'?

Is it any wonder the American people are disgusted with Washington?

These 'insiders', and others like them who have written for the National Review, the Weekly Standard and all of the other inside the Washington Beltway political rags, are so brain dead that they don't see the writing on the wall. They have sucked all of the oxygen out of their rarefied little enclave. They are in the last stages of intellectual asphyxiation and don't even recognize the symptoms.

Symptom 1: Iowa. Even Ted Cruz talking about eliminating corn subsidies and the ethanol mandate won the state. Republicans had higher voter turn-out there than the Democrats (180,000 to 171,109, respectively). Cruz was first and Trump was a solid second.

Symptom 2: New Hampshire. Donald Trump blew out the "palatable" candidates - Kasich, Rubio and Bush.

Symptom 3: South Carolina. Donald Trump won forty-four of forty-six counties. The "homeboy" Jeb! got next to zero support despite being the "Establishment" darling and the one candidate these inside the beltway Zombies thought was going to win everything.

Symptom 4: Entrance polling from Nevada. The electoral - the sheeple - are pissed off, fed up, disgusted, angry, you name it. They cast their ballots yesterday and Trump walked away with a twenty point lead over the second place finisher, Marco Rubio.

We, the American people, are shouting at the Washington Zombies: we do not want you to tell us who we should vote for. We are not children. We can and do think for ourselves and we do not want politics as usual.

So now, what do you suppose these brainiacs are saying? They want a third party. They won't support the Republican nominee chosen by the People.

What does this say about them, about their character, their belief in the Founding Principles and Documents - the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights they have purported to support and hold dear all these years? How about:






That, right there is what it says. They are empty suits. They have no honesty. They have no integrity. They have no values. They have no character. They have and they are nothing.

If they don't get their way, if they don't agree with what the citizens of this country want in place of what we're told to want, they act like spoiled babies. They'll pick up their marbles and go elsewhere.

Well, I've got news for them. They don't drive this country as much as they like to think they do. Neither does the donor class of which they are fringe members.

We the People is far more than just words on a piece of parchment. It is an idea and an ideal, and it is coming home to roost.

We the People are fed up - utterly and completely - with the crap and nonsense flowing out of Washington. We have put up with it for thirty years, since Ronald Reagan, and we are done.

We the People did not want Obamacare - but it was shoved down our unwilling throats by the Washington Elites and by Congress. This is payback.

We the People do not like the lies and cover-ups and constant scandals that flow through Washington DC like a river of sewage. This is payback.

Although we're supposed to be 'tired' of hearing about Benghazi, I can tell you I'm not. I don't think many others in this country are, either. I think we know precisely what was done.

Hilliary Clinton and her boss got in over their heads with Libya. When the shit hit the fan they didn't have the first clue what to do and didn't have the brains God gave a chicken to figure it out. They left people to die even though there were others there in country, on the ground and willing to risk it all to save those in the embassy.

When it was all over, with four men dead and others badly wounded, they circulated through the morning shows and pumped up a lie about a stupid video. For days they passed that around, hoping we the people would be just as stupid as they are. But we weren't. We demanded answers so Congress held hearings. In those, the left stonewalled and whitewashed and covered up, just as they always do and the right caved, just as it always does.

Nothing happened, and that pisses me and a lot of other people off. This is payback.

Now we've got the e-mail server mess. Most of the country is paying attention, praying for an indictment or at least a series of subpoenas to move the investigation forward, but it's being stonewalled again.

Trump has said that he will go after Hilliary big time if he's elected. This is payback.

What is going to be sweet music to me and to others who think like me is Trump going after Hilliary. He will be unrelenting, and she will go down in flames because it will all come out.

Comey will wait. Honestly, I think that is why the FBI seems to be dragging its feet. They have enough to pin her to the wall for the rest of her life. I know they do - just based on what's been talked about in the media. But he won't request an indictment. Not yet, because if no crime has been named, if Hilliary doesn't stand formally accused of anything, Obie-One has no grounds for a pardon. She'll be vulnerable - a sitting duck and it is going to be a beautiful day in America when that lights up.

So Bill and Erick and George and all the rest, get over yourselves. You are not at all important or even that interesting out here.

Have a lovely day out in the hinterlands - it's where the real people live.

Best~
Philippa

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