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Message 1878684 - Posted: 17 Jul 2017, 4:52:40 UTC

Here's a little something to stir the Trump Pot.............From TOWNHALL
https://townhall.com/columnists/evansayet/2017/07/13/he-fights-n2354580
by Evan Sayet Posted: Jul 13, 2017

My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t think his tweets are “beneath the dignity of the office.” Here’s my answer:

We Right-thinking people have tried dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency. We tried statesmanship. Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized “collegiality” as John McCain? We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney? And the results were always the same.

This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.

I don’t find anything “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper” about Barack Obama’s lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the Democratic Party. I don’t see anything “dignified” in lying about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover your tracks. I don’t see anything “statesman-like” in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy your political opponents and any dissent. Yes, Obama was “articulate” and “polished” but in no way was he in the least bit “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper.”
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The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of the Children of the ‘60s. To them, it has been an all-out war where nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale. It has been a war they’ve fought with violence, the threat of violence, demagoguery and lies from day one – the violent take-over of the universities – till today.

The problem is that, through these years, the Left has been the only side fighting this war. While the Left has been taking a knife to anyone who stands in their way, the Right has continued to act with dignity, collegiality and propriety.

With Donald Trump, this all has come to an end. Donald Trump is America’s first wartime president in the Culture War.

During wartime, things like “dignity” and “collegiality” simply aren’t the most essential qualities one looks for in their warriors. Ulysses Grant was a drunk whose behavior in peacetime might well have seen him drummed out of the Army for conduct unbecoming. Had Abraham Lincoln applied the peacetime rules of propriety and booted Grant, the Democrats might well still be holding their slaves today. Lincoln rightly recognized that, “I cannot spare this man. He fights.”

General George Patton was a vulgar-talking, son-of-a-bitch. In peacetime, this might have seen him stripped of rank. But, had Franklin Roosevelt applied the normal rules of decorum, then Hitler and the Socialists would barely be five decades into their thousand-year Reich.

Trump is fighting. And what’s particularly delicious is that, like Patton standing over the battlefield as his tanks obliterated Rommel’s, he’s shouting, “You magnificent bastards, I read your book!” That is just the icing on the cake, but it’s wonderful to see that not only is Trump fighting, he’s defeating the Left using their own tactics.

That book is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals – a book so essential to the Liberals’ war against America that it is and was the playbook for the entire Obama administration and the subject of Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis. It is a book of such pure evil, that, just as the rest of us would dedicate our book to those we most love or those to whom we are most indebted, Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer.

Trump’s tweets may seem rash and unconsidered but, in reality, he is doing exactly what Alinsky suggested his followers do.

First, instead of going after “the fake media” – and they are so fake that they have literally gotten every single significant story of the past 60 years not just wrong, but diametrically opposed to the truth, from the Tet Offensive to Benghazi, to what really happened on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri – Trump isolated CNN. He made it personal. Then, just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule which Alinsky described as “the most powerful weapon of all.”

Everyone gets that it’s not just CNN – in fact, in a world where Al Sharpton and Rachel Maddow, Paul Krugman and Nicholas Kristof are people of influence and whose “reporting” is in no way significantly different than CNN’s – CNN is just a piker.

Most importantly, Trump’s tweets have put CNN in an untenable and unwinnable position. With Trump’s ability to go around them, they cannot simply stand pat. They need to respond. This leaves them with only two choices.

They can either “go high” (as Hillary would disingenuously declare of herself and the fake news would disingenuously report as the truth) and begin to honestly and accurately report the news or they can double-down on their usual tactics and hope to defeat Trump with twice their usual hysteria and demagoguery.

The problem for CNN (et al.) with the former is that, if they were to start honestly reporting the news, that would be the end of the Democratic Party they serve. It is nothing but the incessant use of fake news (read: propaganda) that keeps the Left alive.

Imagine, for example, if CNN had honestly and accurately reported then-candidate Barack Obama’s close ties to foreign terrorists (Rashid Khalidi), domestic terrorists (William Ayers), the mafia (Tony Rezko) or the true evils of his spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright’s, church.

Imagine if they had honestly and accurately conveyed the evils of the Obama administration’s weaponizing of the IRS to be used against their political opponents or his running of guns to the Mexican cartels or the truth about the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the Obama administration’s cover-up.

This makes “going high” a non-starter for CNN. This leaves them no other option but to ratchet up the fake news, conjuring up the next “nothing burger” and devoting 24 hours a day to hysterical rants about how it’s “worse than Nixon.”

This, obviously, is what CNN has chosen to do. The problem is that, as they become more and more hysterical, they become more and more obvious. Each new effort at even faker news than before and faker “outrage” only makes that much more clear to any objective observer that Trump is and always has been right about the fake news media.

And, by causing their hysteria, Trump has forced them into numerous, highly embarrassing and discrediting mistakes. Thus, in their desperation, they have lowered their standards even further and run with articles so clearly fake that, even with the liberal (lower case “l”) libel laws protecting the media, they’ve had to wholly retract and erase their stories repeatedly.

Their flailing at Trump has even seen them cross the line into criminality, with CNN using their vast corporate fortune to hunt down a private citizen for having made fun of them in an Internet meme. This threat to “dox” – release of personal information to encourage co-ideologists to visit violence upon him and his family -- a political satirist was chilling in that it clearly wasn’t meant just for him. If it were, there would have been no reason for CNN to have made their “deal” with him public.

Instead, CNN – playing by “Chicago Rules” – was sending a message to any and all: dissent will not be tolerated.

This heavy-handed and hysterical response to a joke on the Internet has backfired on CNN, giving rise to only more righteous ridicule.

So, to my friends on the Left – and the #NeverTrumpers as well -- do I wish we lived in a time when our president could be “collegial” and “dignified” and “proper”? Of course I do. These aren’t those times. This is war. And it’s a war that the Left has been fighting without opposition for the past 50 years.

So, say anything you want about this president – I get it, he can be vulgar, he can be crude, he can be undignified at times. I don’t care. I can’t spare this man. He fights.

Evan Sayet is the author of The KinderGarden of Eden: How The Modern Liberal Thinks. His lecture to the Heritage Foundation on this same topic remains, some ten years later, by far the single most viewed lecture in their history. Evan can be reached at contactevansayet@gmail.com.

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Message 1878706 - Posted: 17 Jul 2017, 7:45:46 UTC

What a load of utter crap. :-(

No cheers there.
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Message 1878708 - Posted: 17 Jul 2017, 7:59:44 UTC

So, to my friends on the Left – and the #NeverTrumpers as well -- do I wish we lived in a time when our president could be “collegial” and “dignified” and “proper”? Of course I do. These aren’t those times. This is war. And it’s a war that the Left has been fighting without opposition for the past 50 years.

So, say anything you want about this president – I get it, he can be vulgar, he can be crude, he can be undignified at times. I don’t care. I can’t spare this man. He fights
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Message 1878761 - Posted: 17 Jul 2017, 16:54:02 UTC - in response to Message 1878658.  
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The ruling class of DC is necessary but must be contained (limited).

Our ruling class in DC is supposed to be contained (limited). They've escaped over the last 100 years. The swamp creatures are running wild. The tyranny of progressivism is growing stronger and stronger. The ruling class of DC must be re-contained.

We have a way to do it.

CONVENTION OF STATES.


Except that DC itself is not directly the 'ruling class'. The money driving DC, that money is coming from the *real* ruling class.

Politicians are mostly puppets. That's why I have great respect for the few that stand by their guns, the few that can't be bought, the few that are really there because they've achieved great things or because they truly want to.


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and No, Guy, I'd not blame *you* for not paying your fair share of taxes. Not unless you're a billionaire. Otherwise you are probably paying *more* than your fair share.

Progressive taxes aren't robbery. They are a way to keep the big money, the ruling class, in check, while making sure their success benefits THE NATION.

Otherwise they might just take all the money, keep it, and let the rest struggle. Oh wait....
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Message 1878762 - Posted: 17 Jul 2017, 16:55:37 UTC - in response to Message 1878706.  

What a load of utter crap. :-(

No cheers there.


Ditto.
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Message 1878767 - Posted: 17 Jul 2017, 17:28:34 UTC - in response to Message 1878766.  

Let's see if we understand raving lunacy ...
1) Fire experienced workers and hire incompetent replacements
2) legislate that emergencies can't happen
3) change the dictionary
4) remove the office of president
5) fire all police
6) Sunset penal codes so murder becomes legal
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Message 1878769 - Posted: 17 Jul 2017, 17:49:45 UTC - in response to Message 1878767.  

Insightful
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Message 1878770 - Posted: 17 Jul 2017, 18:11:25 UTC - in response to Message 1878769.  

Insightful

Well the gimmie its all mine types want their greed to be legal so they can feel smug. Makes their bully tactics easier to implement.
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Message 1878779 - Posted: 17 Jul 2017, 19:42:27 UTC - in response to Message 1878761.  

The ruling class of DC is necessary but must be contained (limited).

Our ruling class in DC is supposed to be contained (limited). They've escaped over the last 100 years. The swamp creatures are running wild. The tyranny of progressivism is growing stronger and stronger. The ruling class of DC must be re-contained.

We have a way to do it.

CONVENTION OF STATES.


Except that DC itself is not directly the 'ruling class'. The money driving DC, that money is coming from the *real* ruling class.

Politicians are mostly puppets. That's why I have great respect for the few that stand by their guns, the few that can't be bought, the few that are really there because they've achieved great things or because they truly want to.


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and No, Guy, I'd not blame *you* for not paying your fair share of taxes. Not unless you're a billionaire. Otherwise you are probably paying *more* than your fair share.

Progressive taxes aren't robbery. They are a way to keep the big money, the ruling class, in check, while making sure their success benefits THE NATION.

Otherwise they might just take all the money, keep it, and let the rest struggle. Oh wait....


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And, from the post you're responding to, does this mean Guy thinks we still have a swamp???
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Message 1878783 - Posted: 17 Jul 2017, 20:37:16 UTC - in response to Message 1878781.  

$200T of existing unfunded government promises by the loony left

Yeah, the unending war on terrorism since 9/11 with the Republicans refusing to pay for it in taxes, truly the loony left.
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Message 1878786 - Posted: 17 Jul 2017, 20:47:33 UTC - in response to Message 1878784.  

Clyde, yes.
Guy won't let facts interfere with his perception of reality.
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Message 1878787 - Posted: 17 Jul 2017, 21:00:03 UTC

JaundicedEye...

Unlike the silly and childish hijacking of this important subject, by those posting above.

Your post is both mature and intellectually interesting.
I have used Mr Filter to relieve myself of having to wade through their drivel, I don't see it other than blank posts which I think of as flies landing on a fresh cow patty......

Too bad there is, at this time, no other alternative to Trump.
Pence is close but too much of a 'Swamper'.

Since the childish thinking and words of the above poster's have been dismissed. The Democrat Party is becoming Nationally Irrelevant. The Fraud Alt Left News Media has worse credibility than Trump. The Republican Party is just as bad, but is only winning in response to the deranged Democrat Party, Corrupt Hillary, Alt Left and Fraud News Media.

Do you really see a viable and able to win, Alternative Party and/or Candidates for Elected Office?

I don't.
Mia Love? Nicki Haley? Put THAT in your Glass Ceiling pipe and smoke it Hillary........." : >

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Message 1878802 - Posted: 17 Jul 2017, 22:03:25 UTC
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Conundrum,
How can Trump products be the best in the world, when they are not made, in the country that produces the best products in the world?
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Message 1878803 - Posted: 17 Jul 2017, 22:09:19 UTC - in response to Message 1878802.  

Conundrum,
How can Trump products be the best in the world, when they are not made, in the country that produces the best products in the world?

Facts are lies.
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Message 1878806 - Posted: 17 Jul 2017, 22:15:48 UTC - in response to Message 1878803.  

Conundrum,
How can Trump products be the best in the world, when they are not made, in the country that produces the best products in the world?

Facts are lies.

But which are the facts and which are the lies?
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Message 1878807 - Posted: 17 Jul 2017, 22:17:25 UTC - in response to Message 1878806.  

Conundrum,
How can Trump products be the best in the world, when they are not made, in the country that produces the best products in the world?

Facts are lies.

But which are the facts and which are the lies?


This all sounds doubleplusungood to me.
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