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Tuesday, October 24, 2017
The eight completed border wall prototypes
If the barbed wire is ~electrified~ I'm going with this one.
One thing for sure.
We are the only one that is racist.
Jimmy Carter: Media tougher on Trump than any other president in memory
For once he's right.
Remember this?
Because of the optimism of a Trump presidency, the DOW is up 5,000 points. No president in our history has ever had this happen with less than a year in office!
Aside from FOX have you heard anything about this from the MSM? Of course not. They're preoccupied with a bigger story. Trying to twist a phone call to a fallen soldier's wife. Think about it. If Trump didn't care about La David Johnson giving his life for his country why would he have made the call? To be excoriated by the press?
In a time of unmasking Trump called out the MSM, pointed his finger, and shouted... you are just another arm of the Democratic party!
The first Republican president who had the balls to brazenly attack a bias media.
The first Republican president who had the balls to brazenly attack a bias media.
(((Bravo)))
Former President Jimmy Carter says the media have been tougher on President Trump than any other president he can remember. (REUTERS/Neil Hall, Kevin Lamarque, File)
Jimmy Carter, the liberal 93-year-old former president, surprisingly sided with President Trump when he told The New York Times that the media have been too hostile on the current commander-in-chief.
“I think the media have been harder on Trump than any other president certainly that I’ve known about,” Carter told The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd. The 39th president served one term from 1977 to 1981.
Carter added that he thought the media “feel free to claim that Trump is mentally deranged and everything else without hesitation.”
The former president also pushed back on accusations of Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential election, saying: “I don’t think there’s any evidence that what the Russians did change enough votes, or any votes.” He said his wife, Rosalynn, disagreed with him, before he added, “We voted for [Bernie] Sanders” in the primary.
Carter also doesn’t believe the current president’s “America First” strategy is out of step with the larger world, spoiling international relations. “Well, he might be escalating it but I think that precedes Trump,” he told the Times. “The United States has been the dominant character in the whole world and now we’re not anymore. And we’re not going to be. Russia’s coming back and India and China are coming forward.”
Carter also said he's willing to go to North Korea on a diplomatic mission amid the escalating tensions over nuclear weapons.
“I don’t know what they’ll do,” he said of North Korea. “Because they want to save their regime. And we greatly overestimate China’s influence on North Korea. Particularly to Kim Jong Un. He’s never, so far as I know, been to China.”
He called the North Korean dictator “unpredictable.”
In September, Carter expressed optimism that Trump might break a legislative logjam with his six-month deadline for Congress to address the immigration status of 800,000-plus U.S. residents who were brought to the country illegally as children.
Carter told Emory University students that the “pressures and the publicity that Trump has brought to the immigration issue” could even yield comprehensive immigration law changes that Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama could not muster.
He blamed both major parties for an inability to pass any major immigration law overhaul since a 1986 law signed by President Ronald Reagan.
“I don’t see that as a hopeless cause,” Carter said. He added that Trump’s critics, including himself, “have to give him credit when he does some things that are not as bad” as they are depicted.
Sunday, October 22, 2017
Deserter Bergdahl says Taliban more 'honest' than US Army
U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is expected to be sentenced Monday, one week after pleading guilty to deserting his post in Afghanistan in 2009.
Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. Army sergeant who pleaded guilty Monday to deserting his post in Afghanistan in 2009, says his Taliban captors were more “honest” with him than the Army has been since his release three years ago.
“At least the Taliban were honest enough to say, ‘I’m the guy who’s gonna cut your throat,’ ” Bergdahl tells British TV journalist Sean Langan in an interview with the Sunday Times Magazine of London headlined "The Homecoming from Hell."
Langan, too, is a former Taliban hostage.
Bergdahl, 31, from Hailey, Idaho, says he never quite knew where he stood with the Army as he performed “administrative duties” while awaiting his desertion trial.
“Here, it could be the guy I pass in the corridor who’s going to sign the paper that sends me away for life,’’ he says. “We may as well go back to kangaroo courts and lynch mobs.”
Bergdahl is expected to appear for sentencing Monday in a military courtroom in Fort Bragg, N.C., after pleading guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
He could face life in prison.
Bergdahl was freed from the Taliban in May 2014 in a highly criticized deal in which the Obama administration agreed that the U.S. would release five Taliban terrorists in exchange.
President Donald Trump harshly criticized Bergdahl during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Army Col. Jeffery R. Nance is the judge who will decide Bergdahl’s fate.
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This is a pretty brash statement to make and shows his total indifference for the 6 soldiers who lost their lives looking for this worthless deserter SOB.
I hope the presiding judge Army Col. Jeffery R. Nance who will decide Bergdahl’s fate read this article.
You have to wonder about the disconnect. Susan Rice an Obama loyalist said, "he served with honor and distinction". If that's true why did he plead guilty to deserting his post? Sounds quite a bit like the "workplace violence" bullshit they tried to cram down our throats, doesn't it?
Saturday, October 21, 2017
Truly Amazing
George W. Bush Emerges to Bash Trump, ‘Nativism’: ‘We Cannot Wish Globalism Away’
Let me see if I got this straight. Bush sat through 8 l-o-n-g years of a scandal-ridden, crime infested, Obama presidency and said not a word. The F&F scandal, the IRS scandal, Benghazi, didn't say boo. He sat through the horrific Iranian deal which was beyond stupid and said nothing. He watched the Clinton's involvement in selling uranium to the Russians, the Hillary email scandal unfold, and Bill meeting lardass on the tarmac... again crickets.
And now with Trump in office less than a year...he's going to criticize Trump?
One thing for sure. I'll NEVER vote for another Bush for as long as I live.
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Former President George W. Bush delivered a public repudiation of President Donald Trump’s political identity, suggesting many aspects of the current administration are fueling division in the United States and around the world.
The former president defended the ideas of globalism, free trade, and free markets as well as foreign interventionism around the world in a speech at the George W. Bush Institute.
“We cannot wish globalism away,” Bush said, noting that the United States must sustain “wise and sustained global engagement” for the future of the country.
Bush indirectly accused Trump of fueling dangerous ideologies that threatened the unity of the United States and global stability, spending a large portion of his speech complaining about social ills in the country.
“We’ve seen a return of isolationist sentiments forgetting that American security is directly threatened by the chaos and despair of distant places,” he warned.
Bush urged Americans to “recover our own identity,” citing a commitment to global engagement, free and international trade, and immigration.
“We’ve seen nationalism distorted into nativism, and forgotten the dynamism that immigration has always brought to America,” he lamented.
“Bigotry seems emboldened, our politics seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication,” he said. “There are some signs that support for democracy itself has waned especially for the young.”
But Bush’s criticism wasn’t merely on Trump’s “America First” political ideology. He also criticized the tone of the American political system led by Trump.
“We’ve seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty,” he lamented, noting that “argument turns too easily into animosity” and “disagreement escalates into dehumanization.”
He criticized the rise of “bullying and prejudice” in national politics, suggesting that the country lacked positive role models.
The former president looped in a condemnation of white supremacy as part of his speech, suggesting that it was a growing threat in Trump’s America.
“Bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed,” he said.
He called for a restoration of American norms in society.
“Our identity as a nation, unlike many other nations, is not determined by geography or ethnicity, by soil or blood,” he said. “Being American involves the embrace of high ideals and civic responsibility.”
Bush’s decision to publicly criticize Trump’s presidency is unusual after he made a point of rarely challenging President Barack Obama while he was in office.
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