Trump's First Year...

Trump's 1st year:

Record year for stocks
Tax cuts, including corp. rate, passsed
Record low unemployment for Blacks and Hispanics
GDP growth from private sector highest in a decade
Regulations actually being reduced 22 for every new 1
ISIS kicked out of Syria and Iraq
U.S. embassy moving to Jerusalem, the capital of Israel
Obamacare mandate gone
Freed the internet from gov't mandated "net neutrality"
Record appointments to the federal courts
Neil Gorsuch on the SCOTUS
North Korea and Iran no longer being coddled
Ended Obama's war on business
Passed VA reform
Rebuilding the DOD
Fired Omarosa.  Again.
Ended Obama's war on conservative Americans
No more corruption and politicization in every branch of government
Power being returned to the States and the People
Illegal immigration down significantly
Corruption at FBI and DOJ exposed
Travel ban instituted from un-vet-able countries
Chain and lottery migration about to be ended
Introduced the term "Covfefe"
America is respected once again by our enemies and competitors
Standing up to the jackals at the UN
And much, much, more...

...Including the Left's heads exploding.  Every. Single. Day!

And he did all that while fighting off a concerted coup d'etat by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, the entire Democrat party, the FBI, DOJ, CIA, the pop media, and just about every deep state bureaucrat in the federal government.  So far he has been winning, armed with nothing more than a Twitter account, a Diet Coke habit, and a pair of gold plated cajones. 

And while the goal is to Make America Great Again for the people, in order to do that Trump has had to undo eight years of Obama which was making America weaker, poorer, and less respected around the world.  Here's how that's been going: 

Double Standard - Number 20 Trillion

(For some reason the number 20 trillion rings a bell, but never mind...)

Today's double standard has to do with how the politicization of Robert Mueller's team is being dealt with.

In addition to the obvious conflicts of interest like what's been revealed in the Stzrok/Page emails, or the Ohrs connections to Fusion/Steele, or the conspiracy hatched by FBI/DOJ for "insurance" against Trump winning, or Mueller's right hand man attending Hillary's "victory" party,  tens of thousands of dollars were donated to Democrats and Hillary by Mueller's team!  In fact, 100% of the money given to presidential campaigns went to Hillary's.  0% went to Trump.  What are the odds of that happening randomly?  If money talks, what is it saying about this so-called independent investigation?

So what is the response by the Left now that we know Robert Mueller has assembled a team of Hillary supporting / Trump hating Democrats to investigate everything Trump?  Answer:  "Hey, everyone has political opinions, but that doesn't mean they can't do their job!"   

Remember the name Stanley McChrystal?  Barack Obama was famous for never firing anybody, no matter how incompetent as long as they were of the Left, but that didn't apply to General Stanley McChrystal.  He ran Obama's Afghanistan war and got fired when Rolling Stone attributed some negative comments about the administration to him.  Bam!  A stellar military career was cut short overnight for expressing opposing political beliefs.

The Left applauded this action.  Meanwhile, they spent this past weekend warning that any move against Mueller and his politicized team would lead to them taking to the streets.  The hypocrisy is breathtaking. 

In general (no pun intended), all government personnel who are not Leftists are held to a "zero tolerance" standard, while Leftists are held to an "infinite tolerance" standard.

The exemplary General David Patreus was forced to resign as Obama's CIA Director over a minor case of mishandling classified information.  Hillary Clinton, who was scheduled to be the Commander in Chief was given a pass for far worse.  Chelsea Manning and Bowe Bergdahl did incalculable damage to U.S. national security, yet both essentially got wrist slaps.  Michael Flynn, after decades of exemplary military service has had his life destroyed over a fraction of what every single member of the Hillary Clinton team was guilty of in spades.

The list goes on, and on, and on...

Those who oppose totalitarian Leftism are told to just accept the double standards and keep a stiff upper lip.  Move along.  And they wonder how a scrapper like Trump got elected!     

           

What Is Net Neutrality, Really?

[UPDATE]

FCC repeals Obama's net neutrality.  The Left goes apoplectic!      

[2nd UPDATE]

And from the FCC Chairman himself!:  

(NOTE:  The original link went bad most likely due to mischief by snowflakes at a content carrier trolling the FCC Chairman.  Incidentally, conservative content has been blocked continuously and routinely while "net neutrality" rules were in effect.  Prager University and others have lawsuits meandering through the courts as we speak for such actions.  Net neutrality has nothing to do with free speech like this.  Private companies run by leftists have been keeping conservative content from viewers all along, will continue to do so, will continue to be sued, and will lose based on existing public accommodation laws.)  

#MeToo = #GetTrump [Bumped & Updated]

As of today, four Democrat Senators have called for the resignation of Donald Trump over sexual allegations.  Is that not rich?  Has the party that made heroes out of murderer Ted Kennedy and rapist Bill Clinton suddenly discovered that character matters?  I wouldn't bet on it.  This is just more hypocritical politics from the party that makes everything, and I do mean everything, political and hypocritical.

It was obvious where this was going from the start, which is why I wrote the following before Al Franken "resigned"...


What's up with this sudden tsunami of sexual allegations? For answers we need to look at what causes tsunamis.  Tsunamis are usually caused by earthquakes, so to understand them we first have to find a seismic event.

Consider how the #MeToo thing got started:  The Weinstein case was the catalyst,  but it wasn't Harvey Weinstein who got the ball rolling, it was The New York Times who broke the story.  Why did the leftist Grey Lady suddenly publish the Weinstein story when they'd been sitting on it for an entire decade?

Similarly, Matt Lauer was another case everyone knew about for over a decade, yet it took leftist Vanity Fair to finally blow the lid off that story in 2017.

If you go back to any one of the now 30 or so prominent outings since the #MeToo movement started, you'll find many of them trace back to traditionally leftist media outlets who all sat on these stories for years.

Why would such stalwarts as The NYT, Vanity Fair, Time, NBC, CBS, CNN, WaPo, MSNBC, ABC, etc. suddenly pirouette and begin publishing sexual assault stories about members of their own power structure?

The answer, and the earthquake, was the election of Donald J Trump.

Much to the left's chagrin, Donald Trump was elected despite his own exposure on sexual predator charges.  It wasn't supposed to happen that way.  Gloria Allred teed-up a handful of female clients who came forward with salacious stories about Donald Trump.  Add to that, NBC thought they had a magic bullet with their Access Hollywood tape.  You remember, the one where Trump said women just let him "grab them by the pussy" because he's famous?  But instead of killing Trump, the bullets just bounced off!

Donald Trump taught the left that they can no longer hypocritically ignore the misdeeds of Clinton, Kennedy, countless others, and their allies in media and entertainment, and then credibly go after Donald Trump on lesser more dubious charges.  They also can't  credibly ask for Roy Moore's head and then allow Conyers, Franken, Menendez, et al to continue serving.

This is why the #MeToo movement is happening now.  After decades of blatant leftist hypocrisy, this tsunami is an attempt to wash away enough sins to "credibly" go after Donald Trump in 2020.

Plan "A" has always been to scream, "Russia, Russia, Russia!", get an independent counsel, and then  use it to impeach Trump.  But if that doesn't work, Plan "B" is to hang Trump on his alleged sexual predator past.  Only time will tell if either strategy works.       
  

Roy Moore and Reasonable Doubt

By now everyone knows the allegations against Roy Moore.  What they may not know is that he, like just about everyone in public life,  is more than what the media is telling you.  While I have no personal experiences with Roy Moore, it turns out a friend of mine does.  Bill Staehle served with Roy Moore in Vietnam and wrote the following letter (he also masterfully introduced him last night at his rally in Alabama - see below). 

Bill is as solid a guy as you've ever seen.  So while I am as concerned as anyone by the allegations against Roy Moore, I have the utmost confidence in Bill's credibility and judgement.
  

(Here's the link to the original letter in YellowHammer News)  

I served with Roy Moore in Vietnam in 1971-72, where I knew him to be an altogether honorable, decent, respectable, and patriotic commander and soldier. I have had no contact with him since. 

He and I were captains and company commanders in the 504th Military Police Battalion, stationed at the base camp called Camp Land, just west of Danang. 

I knew him well in my first four months in-country before I was re-assigned within the battalion to another location. During that time, I grew to admire him. 

I am Bill Staehle, residing in Asbury Park, New Jersey. I am an attorney, practicing law continuously for 42-years. I began my career as an assistant United States attorney, and for the past 32 years, I have been the managing trial lawyer for the staff counsel office of a major insurance company. 

Allow me to relate to you one experience involving Roy that impressed me. 

While in Vietnam, there came a time when another officer invited Roy and me to go with him into town after duty hours for a couple of beers. That officer had just returned from an assignment in Quang Tri Province north of Danang, and we were interested to learn of his experiences. 

I had not met him before, and I don’t believe Roy had either. On other occasions with other officers, we would go to the officers’ club at the air force base, but on this occasion, he told us he knew of another place in town. 

When we arrived at the place and went inside, it was clear to Roy and me that he had taken us to a brothel. That officer appeared to know people there, as he was greeted by one or two young women in provocative attire. 

The place was plush. There were other American servicemen there. Alcohol was being served. There were plenty of very attractive young women clearly eager for an intimate time. 

In less time than it took any of the women to approach us, Roy turned to me and said words to this effect, “We shouldn’t be here. I am leaving.” 

We told the officer who had brought us that we wanted to leave. He told us to take his jeep and that he could get a ride back later, which he did. Roy and I drove back to camp together. 

That evening, if I didn’t know it before, I knew then that with Roy Moore I was in the company of a man of great self-control, discipline, honor, and integrity. While there were other actions by Roy that reinforced my belief in him, that was the most telling. 

I reject what are obvious, politically motivated allegations against Roy of inappropriate dating behavior. What I saw, felt and knew about him in Vietnam stands in stark contrast to those allegations. 

I sincerely doubt that Roy’s character had changed fundamentally and dramatically in a few short years later. He deserves, in my view, to be heard on the issues that are important to the people of Alabama and our country. 

Roy was a soldier for whom I was willing to put my life on the line in Vietnam if the occasion ever arose. Fortunately, it did not. 

I was prepared to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with him then, and I am proud to stand by Roy now.
— William E. Staehle, Asbury Park, New Jersey

Obviously, Bill is not in a position to judge Roy Moore's entire life. All he knows is what he saw of Roy Moore for a brief time in Vietnam. And what he saw appeared to be a man of character in a setting known to test character.

Alabama voters should know this side of the man as they prepare to judge him at the polls.

[UPDATE]  Here's Bill introducing Roy Moore last night:

Is This Black Woman Crazy?

First of all, she's a woman!  Second of all, she's black!  How can she say these things?



(Maybe she's seen this, or this, or this, or this?  Just sayin'.. ;-) 
 

#MeToo = #GetTrump

Time magazine has named the #MeToo phenomenon as it's "Person of the Year".  What's up with this sudden tsunami?   

Tsunamis are usually caused by earthquakes.  So to understand a tsunami, you first have to find the seismic event.

Consider how the #MeToo thing got started:  The Weinstein case was the catalyst,  but it wasn't Harvey Weinstein who got the ball rolling, it was The New York Times who broke the story.  Why did the leftist Grey Lady suddenly publish the Weinstein story when they'd been sitting on it for an entire decade?

Similarly, Matt Lauer was another case everyone knew about for over a decade, yet it took leftist Vanity Fair to finally blow the lid off that story in 2017!

If you go back to any one of the now 30 or so prominent outings since the #MeToo movement started, you'll find many of them trace back to traditionally leftist media outlets who all sat on these stories for years.

Why would such stalwarts as The NYT, Vanity Fair, Time, NBC, CBS, CNN, WaPo, MSNBC, ABC, etc. suddenly pirouette and begin publishing sexual assault stories about members of their own power structure?

The answer, and the earthquake, was the election of Donald J Trump.

Much to the left's chagrin, Donald Trump was elected despite his own exposure on sexual predator charges.  It wasn't supposed to happen that way.  Gloria Allred teed-up a handful of female clients who came forward with salacious stories about Donald Trump.  Add to that, NBC thought they had a magic bullet with their Access Hollywood tape.  You remember, the one where Trump said women just let him "grab them by the pussy" because he's famous?  But instead of killing Trump, the bullets just bounced off!

Donald Trump taught the left that they can no longer hypocritically ignore the misdeeds of Clinton, Kennedy, countless others, and their allies in media and entertainment, and then credibly go after Donald Trump on lesser more dubious charges.  They also can't  credibly ask for Roy Moore's head and then allow Conyers, Franken, Menendez, et al to continue serving.

This is why the #MeToo movement is happening now.  After decades of blatant leftist hypocrisy, this tsunami is an attempt to wash away enough sins to "credibly" go after Donald Trump in 2020.

Plan "A" has always been to scream, "Russia, Russia, Russia!", get an independent counsel, and then  use it to impeach Trump.  But if that doesn't work, Plan "B" is to hang Trump on his alleged sexual predator past.  Only time will tell if either strategy works.       
    

A No-Lose Bet for Democrats

Top: Senator Bob Menendez (D) is accused of trading government favors and covering-up Medicaid fraud in exchange for lavish trips, gifts, and access to underage girls while he was a sitting U.S. Senator. Today, the judge declared a mistrial due to a hung jury.

Center: Judge Roy Moore (R) is running for Senate in Alabama and is accused of several instances of inappropriate behavior with young girls 40 years ago.

Bottom: Senator Al Franken (D) is pictured groping a women who also claims additional inappropriate sexual contact 10 years ago.



Here's a no-lose bet for Democrats:  I'll donate $10,000 to the charity of your choice if you can cite a national Democrat officeholder who is calling for the immediate removal of all three.

Here's another:  Same deal except instead of Menendez and Franken, how about a Democrat who called for the removal of Bill Clinton during his Presidency who is also calling for Roy Moore's head.

Here's another:  A Democrat who called for Ted Kennedy to resign who asks the same of Roy Moore.

I could go on like this all day.

Again, if you can name a single honest, fair, and consistent Democrat currently holding national office (there are hundreds to choose from!) I'll give $10,000 to a legitimate charity of your choice.  I'm pretty certain this won't cost me a dime.       

If I made the same deal with Republicans, I'd go broke instantly. 

While it's true that some Republicans are hypocrites on these matters, all Democrats are.  Every. Last. One. 

Why Democrats Won and Republicans Lost on Tuesday

Democrats won big on Tuesday in New Jersey, New York City, Virginia, and Washington.  Republicans lost.  The sweep led to commentary declaring a new dawn for Democrats and the end of Republicans in 2018.  Meh.  That said, there is a lesson Republicans should learn.

First, the meh:

New Jersey's out-going Republican Governor, Chris Christie, has an approval rating about equal to herpes.  Though he did an admirable job of the impossible - trying to be fiscally responsible in a state with a solidly Democrat legislature, powerful Democrat unions, and a balance sheet that would make Enron blush - he failed miserably at the politician's job of mastering public opinion.

But NJ is a remarkably blue state regardless.  NJ has voted for the Democrat in the last seven presidential elections.  The last Republican Senator from NJ was first elected in 1954.  NJ occasionally elects GOP Governors, but only to clean-up after unpopular and scandal-ridden Democrats.

Comrade Bill de Blasio's win in New York City is not even worth mentioning.  He's a popular leftist in a leftist city riding a wave of responsible Republican and Independent management for the last two decades.  He was reelected simply because four years wasn't enough time for him to completely undo twenty years of competent governance despite his best efforts. 

Virginia was a blue standout in the 2016 election.  It was the only state that voted for Hillary Clinton with both a strict voter ID law AND which does not issue driver's licenses to illegals.  That's not to say voter fraud doesn't exist in Virginia, because it does.  According to a report by The Public Interest Legal Foundation, thousands of illegal votes were found in Virginia.  But it does indicate that Virginia at least discourages voter fraud more than any other blue state.

2106 Election Results Map

          States that Issue Driver's Licenses to Unauthorized

                                          Immigrants 

States and Voter ID 

Despite anti voter fraud measures, Virginia voted Democrat in the last three presidential elections and three of the last four Governors races. Virginia's last GOP Senator served about a decade ago. Virginia is just true blue. 

In another example of a blue state voting blue, Washington state's legislature flipped to Democrat control.  Nothing surprising here. 

The bottom line is, elections by all logic should default to Democrats.  We really don't have a two party system anymore.  It's a one party system where the majority of everything - voter registration, media, academia, and entertainment - all lean heavily Democrat, or as I call it totalitarian leftist. The remainder are a hodgepodge of those in opposition who are NOT totalitarian leftists.  "Republicans" are just a subset of that opposition hodgepodge.  Donald Trump, who donned the banner but never got the GOP apparatus behind him, is but another part.       

So it's an uphill battle for the GOP or anyone not a totalitarian leftist.  Still, there's a lesson to be learned from why these races went the way they did: opposition candidates across the board went back to the pre-Trump playbook of how to lose elections! 

For the last several decades Democrats have embraced a strategy for winning elections based on the teachings of Saul Alinsky, who laid out his "Rules for Radicals" in 1971. The strategy worked flawlessly against "gentelman" GOPers like Mitt Romney, John McCain, Bob Dole, and countless others at the state level.  These losers studiously ignored the Alinsky rules and failed to come up with an effective counter-strategy.

Then along came Donald "Art of the Deal" Trump and the Alinsky rules hit an impenetrable wall. If you read the two books and compare them, they are in many ways similar. One is about winning political power and the other is about winning business power, but they both represent radical approaches that eschew politeness for the sake of victory.

Opposition candidates who want to win, better start reading these books and learning the lessons therein. That's not to say they have to embrace Trumpian politics, but they better understand what the Democrats are up to and what works against it.

"Scooter" Manafort

The last Special Counsel, Patrick Fitzgerald, had one job - prosecute the person who leaked the name of  CIA employee Valerie Plame.   It was a pointless exercise in the first place because: a) Valerie Plame was not a covert CIA operative in any danger from having her identity revealed, and b) the "leaker" was a person named Richard Armitage who Fitzgerald knew to be the leaker from the start. But that didn't stop Patrick Fitzgerald from his real job, which was to take-out the Bush administration, a job assigned to him by none other than his close friend, acting Attorney General James Comey.  Yes, that James Comey, close friend of Robert Mueller and nemesis of Donald Trump.

After an extensive four year investigation that gave Democrats false hope that George W Bush or Dick Cheney would land in prison, Patrick Fitzgerald indicted I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby for mistaking one moon faced TV commentator for another.  Though he had nothing to do with leaking Valerie Plame's name, Scooter Libby was criminally charged with perjury for confusing Tim Russert with Chris Matthews.  He was convicted and disbarred, though he won back his right to practice law nine  years later, in 2016.

Patrick Fitzgerald aimed for the King and shot a Pawn.

The indictments by Robert Mueller yesterday appear to be more of the same.

1) The charges appear to have nothing to do with Mueller's job, ostensibly investigating Russian interference in the election and possible collusion by Donald Trump. 
2) The charges appear to have nothing to do with even Donald Trump or Russia.
3) The charges appear to involve events preceding the Trump campaign by years.
4) The people indicted, with the exception of Paul Manafort, are minor players.  Even Manafort was only Trump's campaign chair for under three months.

Mueller's real job, like Fitzgerald's, is to go after the King.  Instead, it appears he got three Pawns.

But there is one BIG distinction between this investigation and the last one:  a Democrat named Podesta resigned from his eponymous lobbying firm yesterday as a result of the Mueller investigation.  Hmmm...Podesta...Podesta...where have I heard that name before?

Oh, I remember!  Tony's brother, John Podesta, ran Hillary Clinton's campaign, founded the left wing Center for American Progress,  was counselor to President Barack Obama,  is partners with his brother Tony, and is as embedded in Democrat politics as any man alive.

Of course it is impossible to know where this all leads, and Robert Mueller could be a thorn in Trump's side for the entirety of his Presidency, but so far this investigation has netted three Republican Pawns and one Democrat Rook.  For those of you keeping score at home, in chess terms that's -3R to -5D.