Man Explains why He’s Walking Away from the Left

From: Constitution.com

By The Common Constitutionalist July 5, 2018 

A rather remarkable thing has begun in America. It’s an awakening of sorts. Check that. It’s not “of sorts.” It is an absolute awakening. It’s been dubbed as #Walkaway.

As most know, I, the Common Constitutionalist, was not, am not, and will never be an “Ever-Trumper.” I wholeheartedly support the president when I believe he is right and constitutional on policy, and call him out when he strays. As the saying goes: “It’s not personal – it’s just business.” Being a Never-Trumper or Ever-Trumper is just silly and irrational.

But thank heavens for president Trump and the many things he has accomplished thus far. Most have been well publicized as good or evil, but known to most nonetheless. And most leftist campaigns against him have been equally well publicized.

However, one campaign may not – at least not yet. It’s called the #Walkaway movement, and I don’t think it would have begun without Trump being elected.

Up until this last presidential election, Ronald Reagan was the most hated Republican president. Reagan was labeled as the amiable dunce by the left, and to be sure, was hated by them. But as much as they disliked Reagan’s policies, the left didn’t suffer from Reagan Derangement Syndrome. Nor did they of either George Bush.

The reason was two fold. Despite his conservative bona fides, Reagan was a likeable guy. He was quick-witted and self-effacing, or as much as the leader of the free world can be. “W” was also likeable and developed a self-deprecating sense of humor. The other reason was that most liberals of that era weren’t full-on lunatics. And if they were, they were forced to remain in the closet, as it were.

But today, most on the left, and many on the right, see Trump as the opposite, and it grates on them. They hate his policies and don’t see him as even a likeable guy. This is how Trump derangement began. Even some on the right can’t separate the man from his policies. Admittedly, it does take some discipline – not a strong suit of the left.

But as the left becomes more unhinged, some liberals are waking up to the lunacy. Some are reaching the Red Line of “you’ve gone too far,” and refusing to cross.

You may have heard of the #Walkaway movement. I hadn’t, but I have now and it’s darned exciting. The movement was begun, just recently, by now former leftist, homosexual New York hair stylist, Brandon Straka. His only knock is that he is white. Can’t have everything I suppose.

He explains, clearly and concisely, why he has divorced himself from modern liberalism. No spin, no name-calling and no scripted talking points. And the movement is spreading fast.

 n his wake have appeared dozens of other accounts from women, blacks – former liberals from all walks of life, all denouncing the fallacy of leftism. It’s a beautiful thing to see liberals have their eyes opened for the first time.

So what, you may ask, could this mean for the upcoming elections? Well, maybe nothing – maybe something. My first thought is really – how many people will actually be affected by this, to the point of leaving the democrat Party. Maybe not enough to affect this election cycle.

Most leftist phony virtue signally campaigns catch fire due to force-feeding by the media, burn bright for a short period and then flame-out. In other words, they have no staying power. It’s why they constantly have to uncover the next boogeymen to “stand” against. They do so because there is no underlying substance. There is nothing beyond the slogans and talking points.

But Brandon’s movement is different. It has what liberal movement’s lack – substance and thought. For a solid six minutes, Brandon uses logic and reason to explain, point by point, why he left the democrats and abandoned leftism. Because of this, he and many like him will likely never return to the left.

Enjoy the video. And don’t forget to like and subscribe. Someone as brave as Brandon needs all the support we can muster.




God bless,
JohnnyD



 

Is President Donald Trump God’s Olive Branch Extended To America?

From: Eagle Rising

by Greg Holt - July 2, 2018



Amos 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD

(The Olive) Amos 8:11 has never been more true than today – America has by and large become a godless nation. God has been thrown out of schools, kicked out of Christmas, removed from statehouses, and denigrated in every available medium.  Even the Church itself plays fast and loose with the truth of the Gospel, denying the truth and making it up as they go along. Read approval of same-sex marriage, and ordaining homosexuals and lesbians as “pastors” here, this ought NOT to be.

Barack Obama downplayed the importance of God instead encouraging the edification of the people with regard to Islam.  Obama effectively removed support for marriage as being between one man and one woman – this one move opened the floodgates wide for the advancement of the homosexual agenda, transgenders etc. Christians and Christianity were objects of scorn and derision, while the all-important fake god of Islam was venerated.

“Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation; at least not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, and a Buddhist nation, and Hindu nation, and a nation of non-believers.” 

Barack Obama – June 2007 speech

Lets not kid ourselves, the American culture and our personally held beliefs have been circling the toilet bowl for years now – then along came Obama, and he flushed the toilet.  Under Obama’s reign of destruction, Islam was to be interwoven into the fabric of the Unites States as an important and critical tool used to bring down the U.S. while Christianity was attacked, maligned, marginalized, and destroyed – without outright admitting that this was exactly what was and IS going on.

Do your homework, see for yourself how many Muslim men were appointed to positions of power in the U.S. government by Obama – men that have ties to radical Islam – this was no accident.

Obama and his leftist, socialistic cronies, AKA the Deep State, did incalculable damage to this country – economically, socially, politically, spiritually, to our beliefs, our values, our foreign interests, and the military to name a few.

Then along came Donald Trump as a candidate for president. The Obama/Clinton crime machine went into super-overdrive.  The leftist progressive socialists under the direct supervision of Obama and Hillary decided to be proactive – they decided to do everything possible to stop Trump from being elected as president.  After Trump shockingly won the election, the left determined that Trump’s presidency must be undermined and destroyed by any means necessary.  The left is still attempting to accomplish their most treasured goal; the complete and utter ruination and destruction of President Donald Trump – (as well as all Trump supporters), this is the ONLY purpose of the Mueller investigation.

The U.S. as a whole has fallen so far into the cesspool of evil one has to wonder if this country will ever regain a moral base again.

In ancient times prophets were sent to Israel to warn them of impending judgment – said warnings were usually ignored.  Then proceeded the judgment of God against Israel.

Many including this writer have written of the judgment against America for our many sins and continuing slide ever further down into the cesspool of satanic filth that constitutes the greater portion of our society.  This is of course not a popular position to take, but my writing is not based on popularity – but truth – truth is truth after all.

Lets look at the evidence before us:

• Same-sex marriage is now the law of the land
• Sex is ok and acceptable at anytime, anywhere, and between any number of persons regardless of gender
• The U.S. is a HUGE distributor of porn
• Millions of children have been murdered; their dismembered and butchered bodies being sold for profit
• Men are trying to become what they cannot, women, and vice versa with the women.
• Kindergarteners are taught about sex, homosexuality, transgenders etc.
• Christianity which has its basis in love absolutely must not be taught and expounded on in schools – yet the so-called religion of peace that is built on murder and violence is now taught in many American schools.
• Mass shootings are the new norm
• Vaccinations are dangerous and are more about population control then medicine
• Natural medicine (which actually works without the dangerous side affects) practitioners are being murdered in droves
• Our food is actually engineered to kill us and cause disease and psychiatric problems – Yes REALLY. (GMOs)
• Actors and other celebs openly make violent threats and death threats against Trump
• Democrats advocate disarming the American people, (better known as gun control) why? Because a disarmed people are easily controlled people
• Democratic policies are geared towards the collapse of the U.S. and loss of U.S. sovereignty to bring about the inclusion of the U.S. into a One World government and society. Can you say United Nations anyone?
• Democrats and their backers are openly advocating violence as a tool to achieve their politically correct, socialistic goals
• Democratic corruption and lawlessness has reached stunning levels never before seen

This writer believes that Barack Obama was a judgment against the U.S. from God. I also believe that Donald Trump is the olive branch if you will, sent by God.  No I’m not saying Trump is to be equated with any of God’s prophets; that would be stupid.  But I am saying that it strikes this writer that America has been offered another chance to change for the better by God, (just as Israel was) and Donald Trump is a big part of that.

To all the naysayers I know are out there chomping at the bit to refute this statement – this writer would remind you of King Nebuchadnezzar, one the most evil men there ever was in the ancient world, and yet God used him mightily.

Nor am I here saying that Trump is even a Christian, I do not know that and neither does anyone else. That in no way precludes God from using Trump to move America in the right direction.

Under the Trump administration Christians and Christianity are respected and protected.  Donald Trump may not always say all the right things, or tweet the right things etc., but he IS trying to do what is best for America.  Why else do you think the political left hates him and we his supporters so much?

Under Trump America is slowly growing again and prospering.  The U.S. is again respected on the international stage after years of being laughed at under Obama’s wimpy leadership.  Trump has the moral courage to stand up to nations like Iran and North Korea.  ISIS was defeated in a year; Trump does not play games and handcuff the military like Obama did.  The military will be rebuilt after Trump’s predecessor weakened and gutted it.

So yes, this writer firmly believes Donald Trump is being used of God for the good of this country, God’s olive branch to America – another chance for America to turn and repent of her sin and wrongdoing.  We can, under Trump’s leadership seek to root out the evil in America and combat it, in government and society, or we can sit back and do nothing and watch America die – if we as a nation choose to do nothing, America WILL die.

2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.


God bless,
JohnnyD

The Liberal Meltdown Is the Greatest Show on Earth

From: Western Journalism

By Angela Box - June 26, 2018



Do you smell that, patriots?

Kick aside the dirty needles and piles of human feces you find on the quaint streets of Seattle and San Francisco. Make your way past the tattooed and body-pierced non-binary, genderqueers of Berkeley and Brooklyn. Hold your nose as you step over an able-bodied millennial who is choosing homelessness #BecauseAntifa.

You’ll find that littered among the fetid armpits and unwashed hair of liberals, there is an underlying and deeper scent: the scent of desperation and fear.

The full liberal meltdown is now on full display.

Every week there’s another reason for these exceedingly unhappy lumps of flesh to lose what’s left of their minds.

An elected official like Rep. Maxine Waters (whose wig glue seems to be seeping into her scalp) is calling for violence and aggressive harassment of Trump administration officials. Sen. Cory Booker and others Second That Emotion.

To wit:

Stephen Miller, Trump’s most trusted aide on immigration, had his personal phone number released into the sewer of Twitter by a liberal group.

Occupy Wall Street has told fellow cockroaches how to murder ICE agents — and the Twitter post still exists.

Department of Homeland  Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was attacked in a Mexican restaurant by leftist thugs — including an Obama holdover from the Department of Justice.

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi was chased out of a Mister Rogers documentary.

Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and her family were kicked out of a Virginia restaurant because the owner took a poll of her idiot workers and they all agreed to make Sanders leave (and then proceeded to harass her family at another restaurant).

Never-relevant Peter Fonda publicly called for Barron Trump to be kidnapped from his mother, the first lady, and thrown into a cage with pedophiles.

Kathy Griffin — she of the Trump severed head skit — has excoriated comedian Kevin Hart for not bashing Trump.

Bill Maher wants a recession, so Trump’s (and Normal America’s) policies will be proven wrong.

The examples of the collective left’s serious mental breakdown are endless. (I didn’t even mention how insane the media is!)

Imagine the hatred they must feel every day for their fellow Americans. That is what the left is: Pure and unbridled hate — from the arbiters of “peace,” “love,” and “tolerance.”

Their philosophy is unworkable, and their policies are not supported by the majority — so they resort to fascist tactics (and the leftist judiciary) to get their way. That’s enough to put anyone in a bad mood!

And what has caused the latest liberal meltdown?

The leftists’ latest tantrum is caused by President Trump enforcing current immigration law, and then using an executive order to keep illegal alien families together — as they await deportation.

Leftists are even using fake photos of crying little girls and children in cages taken during the Obama administration to gin up outrage! (Side note: if Trump is so awful, why does the corrupt media have to invent illegal alien sob stories?)

The Democrat Party, which supposedly used to be the party of working-class Americans, wants to import uneducated and illegal foreign nationals and elevate them over American citizens.

They think Normal America is the enemy – not foreign invaders.

They think Trump’s tweets that illegals should be immediately sent back from whence they came – a sentiment which is shared by a vast majority of Americans – is a sign that he is Adolf Hitler.

Naturally, calling any Republican Hitler is nothing new, but the frothing of the mouth these psychotics are engaging in over Trump is really something to behold.

They are completely melting down.

When the media lament the lack of civility in America right now, who else are we to blame but them?

After all, they are the ones who have insisted on 90 percent negative media coverage for the Trump administration — and refuse to highlight anything positive at all.

Even with all of these cards stacked against him — in addition to the Obama administration and his FBI, DOJ, and CIA minions trying to fix an election for Hillary Clinton and allow her to get away with numerous crimes while trying to destroy her opponent — Donald Trump is winning.

He is winning because his policies are commonsense solutions supported by a growing majority of the American people.

Trump’s stance on immigration reflects what the American people want.

We have been screaming from the rooftops for 20 years to build a border wall and fix the system that allows illegals and their progeny to be placed above American citizens. We’ve begged our leaders stop the practice of funding sanctuary cities, welfare to illegals, or sending aid to nations that send their poorest and most uneducated illegally over our border.

 Leftist elites don’t care about these people streaming over our border – the invaders who expect American taxpayers to take care of them and their children.

Elites want to make sure they are stocked with nannies and gardeners in Santa Monica, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Manhattan, East Hampton, Martha’s Vineyard, and Loudoun County — and anywhere else they gather.

Elites never have to deal with the actual ramifications of illegal immigration.

Ramifications like the American children who can’t get an education because the teacher’s time is spent remediating and teaching English as a Second Language.

The American construction worker who can’t find a job because business owners hire illegal workers on the cheap.

The American mothers and fathers who have lost children because an illegal alien decided to drive drunk, murder, rape, assault, or traffic their beloved child.

The American taxpayer who is on the hook for all of it.

No, elites don’t care about any of that. They are perfectly fine with importing more invaders and amassing more power among the true one percent.

Donald Trump and his supporters have upended all of that. Trump did not come into this job as a textbook conservative or ideologue — but he is governing as one.

We’ve had one Civil War already in our history. The next Civil War seems to be quickly approaching.

But considering liberals would rather go to feminist marches and scream at the Twitter CEO for eating a chicken sandwich at Chick-fil-A, I’m not too worried about our chances.

And for the record, it will be leftists who fire the first shot – either figuratively or literally.

Normal America will be there to answer them.


God bless,
JohnnyD

Progressive Ethics

From: TownHall

by - John P. Warren - June 23, 2018

One of Charles Krauthammers’ precepts is to speak bluntly about Things that Matter. As the 2018 election season begins, one that’s bedeviled the American voter for nearly a hundred years is the notion of Progressive Ethics. 

Like the phrases, honest politician, genuine imitation, and perfect child—each of which is joined by words with mutually exclusive meanings—evidence suggests that Progressive Ethics has a place all its own in the Hall of Oxymorons. 

Progressives may be devoid of ethical constructs because they are political amnesiacs. They promise one thing, then disavow their words when it becomes convenient to forget their inconvenient truths. Here are just a few examples:

1. In the early 1930s, Democrats made a play for Black voters, who until WWI and shortly thereafter, had usually voted Republican in memory of their putative savior, Abraham Lincoln. What happened next? FDR’s massive government projects denied work to Black laborers and mechanics because they were not members of craft unions as required by the Davis-Bacon Act. FDR’s rejection of anti-lynching legislation permitted ongoing, unspeakable brutalities toward Blacks for another three decades. FDR’s refusal to integrate the armed services kept Black men in mostly menial positions until Truman remembered his courage. 

Blacks were forgotten until needed for the Great Society welfare experiments which dismantled millions of Black families and made them welfare dependent. Except for throwing billions more into the stewpot of bureaucratic incompetence, Progressives have walked away from it all.

2.  In the 1970s, with Roe v. Wade, Progressives made their play for women voters under cover of a woman’s right to terminate another life on demand—forgetting their decades of opposition to abortion, given the religiosity of their ethnic constituents. Their true assertion of a woman’s place in the world occurred in the Clinton Administration when the president and his wife monstrously decried women who outed Bill’s ongoing predatory behavior. That Clinton has become the poster boy for #MeToo is no surprise.

3. Progressives’ amnesia continued when the LGBTQ community garnered enough support to push the Clinton’s into abandoning the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) right after President Obama did the same. They were all for it until they were against it.

4. In 2008, Obama promised to solve the immigration problem once in office. Except for record numbers of deportations during his eight years, he did no such thing. Instead, he promptly trashed his promises to Latinos, squandering his House-Senate, two-year majority to force The Affordable Care Act down the throats of all Americans (say, “Aahh!”).  Not least, he forgot his promise to “keep your doctor.” 

5. Didn’t Obama promise a new, high level of respect amongst nations, then gave us a feckless foreign policy in Russia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Israel, just to name a few—all anchored by the humiliation of Benghazi, a low point in modern American diplomacy?

6. Isn’t it now becoming clear that Obama broadly manipulated DOJ/FBI investigative actions to help assure a Clinton victory in 2016—forgetting the elegant words about his presidency being emblematic of integrity?

7. Progressives’ behavior toward CIA Director nominee Gina Haspel underscores their courage to forget. When Obama nominated John Brennan for that position in 2013, Democrats had no problem confirming him by a wide margin, despite a 2007 CBS interview in which he stated that waterboarding gleaned useful intelligence information and “saved lives.” With near total amnesia, only six Democrats could vote for Haspel’s confirmation in May 2018, despite her repeatedly declared disavowal of the use of torture. 

8. We come full circle to 2018, a damning memory for Progressives, given their intransigence in solving the immigration issue once and for all, despite showings a strong majority of Americans are willing to support a DACA solution and a defined, non-amnesty path to citizenship for many illegals, in trade for strong border security and merit-based immigration. Their banal cruelty creeps into sunlight when decrying the separation of children from their families at the border while furthering the number of American family units torn asunder by poverty, drugs, and illiteracy with their policies of big government, welfare dependency, and free stuff. 

For a group that has done much to further one-parent households all across America, to rob our culture of unifying behaviors (standing for the anthem?), to make religious freedom its own oxymoron, Progressive promises for our future are as empty as their memories. With them, we can count on one thing: They will run from one constituency to another, promising everything, all the while dividing us and stripping us of our rights.

With Progressives, it’s nothing new. In The Benedict Option (p89), author Rod Dreher reminds us of de Tocqueville’s belief that democracy in America “could not survive the loss” of its religious faith, that “self-government required shared convictions about moral truths,” or else, the nation, “falls prey to inordinate individualism, materialism, and democratic despotism,” all precursors “for servitude.” No thanks.

Americans should know what to do about Progressives. From now on, forget them.


God bless,
JohnnyD

Liberalism is a Mental Disorder – the Solution Has Been Found

From: Eagle Rising

Written by Greg Holt

Yes folks the solution for the incurable disease known as liberalism has been found. It has actually been right under our noses the entire time.

 

California.

 

You read that right; California is the solution to the liberal problem. First however, we need to make a few simple changes:

1. California will immediately be renamed Libfornia.

2. Libfornia will immediately become a U.S. territory. No voting rights that way you see. The former state of California’s Senators and Representatives will be removed from Washington and sent home.

3. All liberals will be rounded up and sent to Libfornia effective immediately. What liberal would want to miss the opportunity to live in the land of their own making?

4. All illegal border crossers will henceforth be sent to Libfornia, after all, liberals want open borders.

5. MS-13 gang members that are caught crossing the border or are in police custody will be sent to Libfornia – liberals seem to think that their daughters should date MS-13 members rather then Republicans and think that MS-13 members are only misguided so they will be Libfornia’s problem from now on.

6. As liberals hate America, America will not be responsible for Libfornia’s problems.

7. Libfornia’s new capitol will be poop central, San Francisco. After all, what liberal could resist the city destroyed by their own stupidity. Covered in human feces, dirty drug needles, and a huge homeless population – all brought on by liberal Democrat policies.

Analysis:

Libfornia will likely become the Mecca of political correctness and the world bastion of liberal thought. It is also anticipated that medical care will be free for everyone, and a college education will cost zero. Residents of Libfornia will almost assuredly be able to apply for and receive a Universal Basic Income in the very near future.

The fallout from these decisions will be swift and sure. Libfornia will very likely collapse in the near future. Free college, free medical care, and free money – who will pay for this, where does the money come from? Maybe Google, Facebook, and Elon Musk will chip in. Rational thought is not part of the liberal platform.

Conclusion:

After Libfornia implodes completely – the U.S. can reenter the territory taking control, and reestablish the sane rule of law. Maybe a few liberals will even abandon liberalism…


God bless,
JohnnyD

Dear America, The LEFT Has Declared War On You

From: TownHall

by -Kevin McCullough | June 24, 2018


While you’ve been busy enjoying your new jobs, improved wages, lower taxes, and less government interference in your life the left has decided that all of those things are immoral. They must be undone. And those who enjoy them must be made to understand that they are not good American citizens, but some sort of participant to hurt others. They would love to say it makes you a racist, except that African Americans and Hispanics are enjoying the best economy they’ve ever known in American history. They would love to say your lack of desire to give government more and more of what you earn makes you an elitist, except that you aren’t. You’re creating new companies, hiring more people, and taking control back of your personal choices. This leaves less capital for them to make choices for you and run your life with. Therefore when all options have been exhausted their desperation leaves them with only two options—conform to the new energy transforming life, business and people in America, or destroy it. 

In the past week public mobs—always organized by leftist groups—have taken to public harassment of women who merely work for the current administration. Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was literally shouted at until she left a dinner at an eatery near the White House. Press Secretary Sarah Sanders just Friday evening was told she would not be served (nor her family) at the Red Hen eatery of the Shenandoah Valley in Lexington, Virginia. She was told she was refused service was because she works for the President. Secretary Nielsen has had additional groups camped outside her house playing loud speakers, disturbing the peace of she and her neighbors. Entitled leftist celebrities like Robert De Niro bogart awards shows encouraging viewers to sexually violate the President. Washed up former TV stars like Tom Arnold claim they will harass the First Lady at her son’s school. And true Hollywood losers like Peter Fonda claim that Sarah Sanders’ as well as Melania Trump’s children should literally be raped by pedophiles and sex traffickers. 

 There is an obvious purpose in the illegitimate behavior that they are engaging in. Taking the primary methods of the losers from the “Occupy” movement they believe there is no moral barrier stopping them from doing any thing at all (in their way of thinking) “necessary” to take back power. They believed they had finally launched America onto its great socialist enlightenment under dear leader Obama, and they all but believed they had eight more years with the Hillary Clinton presidency. The only problem turned out to be that she was a horrible candidate, and Trump understood the people of this country better than she did. That’s why he routed her. In a contest of states 33 to 17 is a spanking by any measure.

That they had control of extended reach into law enforcement, justice, the judiciary, and all of the media and entertainment elite allies they enjoy, the left never believed that they would ever see the tornado of activity that has occurred in the first eighteen months of the Trump administration. A Supreme Court Justice who will reliably remove power from the hands of government, twenty-four appellate court judges, and seventy-one additional judicial appointments that all reflect that same judicial temperament add up to a limited window of time before much of the anti-constitutional hackery that has taken place over the last few decades is toast. But they are content to undo as much of what is true just and good as they can on any level. This week Gubernatorial candidate for New York—Cynthia Nixon—openly advocated for the elimination of Immigration & Customs Enforcement. She claimed they had gone adrift from their mission. Yet their mission is to do nothing but enforce immigration and customs law. 

Their activist agents in the FBI (at least five of them identified in the report released by Inspector General Horowitz) demonstrated that their was no filter governing their approach to investigation. Agent Strzok volunteering in texts to sympathizers they he/they had the power to stop a lawfully executed election and that they would. The slimy behavior of Comey, Lynch, McCabe and Dr. Rice, their willingness to countenance, cover the backside for, and go the extra mile to mislead everyone only demonstrates this idea that they have no responsibility to respect the process of our republic. They feel entitled not only to disagree with us, but to rig the system against us in an attempt to force our conformity.

That they were willing to threaten the children of the First Lady, the Press Secretary and joking or otherwise suggest molestation as a way to even the score against their opponents, is sick. That they literally seem unmoved by the fact that smugglers and human traffickers will thrive if we re-adopt their catch & release procedures is even worse. Yet even in the debate over such policy they lied in using pictures from 2013-14 to justify their rage They were just fine with TIME magazine lying through its teeth on this week’s cover, and they have no perception of the danger endless catch & release has on our neighborhoods, hospitals, and schools. All of which indicates their unwillingness to literally care for America as opposed to many others who wish to come here without a commitment to “be” American.

Follow any number of left leaning celebrities, pundits, politicians, public figures & elected officials on Twitter (as I do) and you will easily see that everything I have argued here is already happening. The desperation at the loss of power, the open & undeniable hostility towards traditional America, their mockery making of our elections, laws, and public servants, their use of any and all tactics to fight back regardless of how gutter-prone they may be all pale in comparison to what they believe about their own beliefs. No longer interested in a pluralistic society with many different world-views competing in generations’ long struggle over ideas. They have had enough. They are not interested in hearing opposing viewpoints, much less allowing them to prosper. This is why they want no church to teach that abortion is taking a human life, many sexual behaviors are literally unhealthy, or that people should choose to do good vis-a-vie their earnings vs. being forced to at the government’s point of a gun. 

Every one of these points was illustrated on some level. They have declared a war on America. What America is. What she stands for. What she believes. They are angry. They are fueled by hate for everyone who disagrees with them—though many may describe it as piously as a law professor claiming to see a court case from all sides. They are bitter. And they are ticked that America is prospering, making more money, doing more good, and getting better sleep than they do.

War has been declared, and we can only hope that America responds in the best way she knows how—under God, with Liberty & Justice for all.


God bless,
JohnnyD

Dick Morris: Winning the Trade War with China

From: The Western Journal

By Dick Morris - June 19, 2018


The current stock market selloff is a key part of a test of wills between Beijing and Washington that President Donald Trump must win. And we must support him while he battles.

The fact is that the U.S. sells the Chinese only $130 billion of goods and services and buys $505 billion from them (2017 data).

The trade deficit of $375 billion with one country (China) accounts for three-quarters of the total U.S. trade deficit of $515 billion. Most of the rest is for oil.

We cannot let this subsidy of China stand.

To do so would be to agree to the creation of a rival economic — and eventually military — power subsidized by our consumers.

Getting off dependence on Chinese low-cost imports is a bit like kicking a drug habit: tough but necessary.

Doing so will cause short-term pain as stocks drop, partly because certain sectors are especially vulnerable and partly because the Chinese are trying to deter Trump by selling stocks on Wall Street.

But the U.S. can, must and will win a trade war.

With over $500 billion in imports we can punish and only $130 billion in exports they can limit, the math works strongly in our favor.

We need to back Trump and remain patient while the market reacts.

This trade war is a battle for our economic independence. It is the cold turkey we must undergo to end our addiction to Chinese imports.

The political risks Trump incurs by angering the Midwestern farmers and other exporters will be slight in comparison with the incredible economic and political harm he can inflict on China.

The Chinese political structure is predicated on its wealth. If China falters economically, it falters politically.

Beijing maintains a huge state sector in its economy that is totally unproductive and exists only because of government subsidies. Its purpose is political — to give tens of millions of people jobs doing stuff they can deceive themselves into believing is real work for real wages.

This chimera will collapse quickly in the face of a trade war.

China is totally dependent on exports and cannot survive politically without it.

In reaching a settlement after the dust has settled, we must be mindful of China’s bottom line. It needs its exports and it requires its trade surplus to survive politically.

But it doesn’t need to be a $375 billion annual surplus. It can be a third of that and still satisfy Beijing’s political needs.


God bless,
JohnnyD