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The Official Thread Dedicated to "Trump Winning"

Imagine how the local economies around their US bases would improve if they came home. Works for me.
 
Make them all pay!


President Trump wants Germany, Japan and others to pay full cost plus a premium for US troops


STUTTGART, Germany — President Donald Trump is pushing a plan that demands allies pick up the full cost of hosting U.S. troops in their countries, plus a 50 percent premium for the privilege of American protection, according to a news report.

Called “Cost Plus 50,” the plan would cost five or six times more for countries like Germany, Japan and South Korea

It isn’t clear how close the Cost Plus 50 idea is to becoming official U.S. policy. Bloomberg reported that Trump’s advisers have pushed back against the idea. But the president’s interest in the proposal has nonetheless sent “shock waves through the departments of Defense and State,” it reported.

The plan would likely face fierce resistance from U.S. allies, especially Germany, which hosts about 32,000 American troops. Unlike South Korea, which relies on a large military presence as a line of protection against the north, the American forces in Germany don’t serve as territorial guardians.

While there were some 300,000 troops in Europe during the Cold War, there are about 70,000 in total on the Continent today. The contingent in Germany consists mostly of enabling forces and headquarters. The Army has just one infantry brigade in the country.

Still, with a more assertive Russia, allies in Europe have been eager for more U.S. forces, especially along NATO’s eastern flank, which could give the Trump administration leverage. Poland has offered $2 billion to establish a permanent U.S. base in its country.

Germany spends about $1 billion or roughly 20 percent of the cost of hosting U.S. troops at various installations in the country, according to Rand Corporation data. But Germany’s payments for U.S. troops are almost entirely in kind — the provision of services or facilities

https://www.stripes.com/news/report...ll-cost-plus-a-premium-for-us-troops-1.571839



Long overdue.
 
Make them all pay!


President Trump wants Germany, Japan and others to pay full cost plus a premium for US troops


STUTTGART, Germany — President Donald Trump is pushing a plan that demands allies pick up the full cost of hosting U.S. troops in their countries, plus a 50 percent premium for the privilege of American protection, according to a news report.

Called “Cost Plus 50,” the plan would cost five or six times more for countries like Germany, Japan and South Korea

It isn’t clear how close the Cost Plus 50 idea is to becoming official U.S. policy. Bloomberg reported that Trump’s advisers have pushed back against the idea. But the president’s interest in the proposal has nonetheless sent “shock waves through the departments of Defense and State,” it reported.

The plan would likely face fierce resistance from U.S. allies, especially Germany, which hosts about 32,000 American troops. Unlike South Korea, which relies on a large military presence as a line of protection against the north, the American forces in Germany don’t serve as territorial guardians.

While there were some 300,000 troops in Europe during the Cold War, there are about 70,000 in total on the Continent today. The contingent in Germany consists mostly of enabling forces and headquarters. The Army has just one infantry brigade in the country.

Still, with a more assertive Russia, allies in Europe have been eager for more U.S. forces, especially along NATO’s eastern flank, which could give the Trump administration leverage. Poland has offered $2 billion to establish a permanent U.S. base in its country.

Germany spends about $1 billion or roughly 20 percent of the cost of hosting U.S. troops at various installations in the country, according to Rand Corporation data. But Germany’s payments for U.S. troops are almost entirely in kind — the provision of services or facilities

https://www.stripes.com/news/report...ll-cost-plus-a-premium-for-us-troops-1.571839

I've been calling for this to be debated for years. There is no reason why we should be paying to protect other countries. I'd rather work with Poland than Germany anyway. **** Germany.
 
I know a little German

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Made me laugh Flu

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Lucy Gutteridge in Top Secret!

Nice.
 
Continuing my public service to Steeler Nation - I bring you an updated economic overview of the United States' economy, because the NYT, WaPo, ChiTrib, LAT, etc. refuse to do so. The news is good, as it has been basically throughout the Trump Presidency, explaining of course why we never see economic news on the failing, corrupt, (D) butt-licking mainstream media. To wit:

United States GDP growth still strong in January, at an annualized 2.6%, above the projected 2.4% and following the third quarter 4.2% growth and the fourth quarter 3.4% GDP growth:

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Manufacturing in the United States increased by 2.9% in January of 2019, continuing a steady upward trend that began right around the time a certain President was elected:

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Durable goods ordered also "unexpectedly" rose in January, contrary to forecasts calling for a decline in such orders.

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Meanwhile, inflation holds steady at a very low and sustainable 1.5%

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Unemployment remains extraordinarily low at 3.8%. In macroeconomics classes, I learned that an unemployment rate of less than 4% was essentially full employment, as a percentage of the working population who want to work will be out of a job for a brief span of time due to moving, or recent school graduation, or other factors having nothing to do with employment opportunities:

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Meanwhile, median wages in the United States grew 4.16% in January, 2019 - the 14th consecutive month with more than 4% median wage increase. That is a considerable turnaround from Bammy's last year in office, which saw wages stagnate and increase at barely more than 2%.

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Home ownership in the United States increased to 64.8%, continuing an upward trend that dates back to just before Trump's election:

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So to sum up the economic news for our great country:

  • Unemployment remains incredibly low.
    [*]GDP growth continues at a solid pace, expected to bump up in the 2nd quarter.
    [*]Inflation is a non-issue.
    [*]Median wages are increasing.
    [*]Home ownership is increasing.
    [*]Durable goods production is increasing.
    [*]Manufacturing production is increasing.

I am sure CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, WaPo, NYT, LAT, et al. will be all over this economic news. Just wait ...
 
The Toyota announcement is a total of $13 billion investment and includes expanded component part production in: Alabama ($288 million), Kentucky ($238 million), Missouri ($62 million), Tennessee ($50 million) and West Virginia ($111 million). Additionally, Toyota will open a new assembly plant in Huntsville, Alabama ($1.5 billion) and serious investments in several other areas.

Now if chamber of commerce president Mitch McCuckold would pass the USMCA we could have more winning.

https://theconservativetreehouse.co...omponent-manufacturing-in-al-ky-mo-tn-and-wv/
 
Breaking News

Trump vetoes resolution blocking border emergency declaration
President Trump on Friday issued his first-ever veto for a congressional resolution that sought to block his national emergency declaration at the border.
 
Breaking News

Trump vetoes resolution blocking border emergency declaration
President Trump on Friday issued his first-ever veto for a congressional resolution that sought to block his national emergency declaration at the border.

Looks like I might have to run for Senate. F'n Toomey....
 
Breaking News

Trump vetoes resolution blocking border emergency declaration
President Trump on Friday issued his first-ever veto for a congressional resolution that sought to block his national emergency declaration at the border.

OK but now what?
 
OK but now what?

Build more wall with the $3.9 billion that’s he included in his emergency declaration. That plus the $1.7 billion that POS congress gave him and he’s pretty much right where he wanted to be to begin with. Winning.
 
Remember that strange meeting between The Donald, Sessions, and Mueller the day before Mueller was appointed SC?

https://www.quodverum.com/2019/03/75/endgame-potus-trump-s-vindication-nears.html
ENDGAME : POTUS Trump's Vindication Nears
Leftists have long alleged that Donald Trump has conducted crimes with the mafia, as well as with Russian oligarchs. What they can never explain is why Trump has never been indicted. As REX explains, there may be a reason for that. And in 2019, it's all connected to POTUS Trump's masterful takedown of The Swamp.
by Rex | Sat, March 16, 2019

Opponents of Donald Trump have an absolute - some might say fanatic - obsession with Trump's alleged links with organized crime.

For example, Trump's critics have always referred to Trump's 'suspicious' relationship with the Five Families in 1980's New York. However, from 2015, they have of course focussed on Trump's 'extensive' connections to the Russian mafia.

Readers of the many articles on this topic will now be familiar with their tone. Often published with portentous images implying a Trump connection to money laundering, 'shady deals' , the Kremlin or the Sicilian mafia, these reporters objective is to create misleading scenarios, intended to stoke suspicion. Take this quote from an article 'Trump's Russian Laundromat' in The New Republic on July 13, 2017:

'Over the past three decades, at least 13 people with known or alleged links to Russian mobsters or oligarchs have owned, lived in, and even run criminal activities out of Trump Tower and other Trump properties. Many used his apartments and casinos to launder untold millions in dirty money. Some ran a worldwide high-stakes gambling ring out of Trump Tower—in a unit directly below one owned by Trump. Others provided Trump with lucrative branding deals that required no investment on his part.'

Gosh. And did you know that 'over the years, Trump and his sons would try …to build a new Trump Tower in Moscow?

There's one problem. The reporters don't tell you that of 'the thirteen people', almost all have been indicted and jailed, in the US or overseas. They also don't tell you that the Moscow project never happened.

Time and time again, leftist 'reporters' are able to connect dots between Trump and mafia associates. However, they're never able to find that elusive piece of evidence that they know must exist, revealing Trump's criminality.

And that's the point. Their intense hatred of Trump blinds them. It means that they are starting their investigations and research with the assumption that Trump must be a criminal, rather than asking, 'if Trump has been working with the Italian and Russian mob so much since the 1980s, why has he never been indicted with anything?'

Maybe they don't want to ask that question, because they suspect the answer doesn't fit their narrative. Far from working with organized criminals since the 1980s, Trump has been working with the FBI - to bring them down.

Trump Started Working With The FBI Since 1981

Older readers will remember the threat that the Mob posed to the United States in the late 1970s/early 1980s.

Five major criminal groups and New York families - the Gambino, Genovese, Lucchese, Bonnano & Colombo families - had managed to integrate under a strict hierarchy, creating an extremely powerful crime syndicate specializing in murder, extortion, corruption of public officials, gambling, infiltration of legitimate businesses, labor racketeering, loan sharking, tax fraud ,schemes, stock manipulation, schemes and drugs.

Their reach extended into every sector in the US economy, but especially real estate, construction and gambling. All these sectors have always been very attractive for sophisticated organized criminal syndicates. Buying and selling property is an ideal way to launder money. Also, construction projects are complex - to succeed, they require the supply of labor, multiple government permits, security, not to mention loans. As for gambling, casinos are an excellent money laundering vehicle, an easy way to make huge money, as well as a perfect venue to sell narcotics.

The FBI worked out that the only way they could bring down the Mob, was by using legitimate business people in these business sectors as informants, or bait. This form of human intelligence has always been extremely valuable but also dangerous, which explains why the FBI struggled to persuade patriotic Americans to help them.

Enter Donald J Trump. In this FBI memorandum dated 22 September, 1981 an FBI agent records his meetings with Trump and a 'source' (in my view, almost certainly Roy Cohn) to discuss Trump's plan to open casinos in Atlantic City. Trump notes his concern about organized crime and offers to become a confidential informant should he proceed with the project. He even proposed having undercover agents in his casino.

Everyone should read the memorandum in full. Notice how it is carefully drafted to create 'plausible deniability', to protect Trump. If anyone was to come across it, especially the Mob, they would never be able to know if Trump ever did become an informant to the FBI, or not.

Liberal reporters love celebrating the supposed failure of Trump's casino venture in Atlantic City, which started in 1981. They have also reported extensively on how the Mob there, led by psychopath Nicky Scarfo, was destroyed by the FBI and DOJ, by 1985.

But given he is now POTUS, they've missed the biggest story of all - Trump's role in the takedown.

FBI Vault

In October 2018, the FBI quietly released two files on the fall of Nicky Scarfo.

They provide a fascinating insight into how the FBI investigation went down, but more importantly for our purposes, stress the importance of protecting 'sources' and 'informants'. This was for good reason. On page 223 of Part 1, for example, we find this:
'Information provided by this informant has proven to be extremeloyaccurate and reliable and has never been found tube false. Information furnished to the FBI by this informant has been corroborated by independent investigation conducted by SAs pf the FBI on at east 25 separate occasions.The FBI has made at least 23 arrests and has obtained at least 9 federal convictions as a result of information supplied by this informant.'

On pages 49-50 of Part 2, we have reference to a source expressing 'grave concern over the corruption in the (redacted) area'. On page 76, there is reference to a source providing information about an employee in Atlantic City.

Given that Donald Trump had started purchasing properties along the Atlantic City boardwalk as early as 1980, had opened Trump's World Fair on April 14, 1981 and received a casino license on March 15, 1982, the timeline that starts with the original FBI memo explained above and the downfall of Scarfo, is entirely consistent with Trump and his people assisting the FBI.

And that isn't the only coincidence between Trump and the fall of organized criminals, operating in the US.

The Russians : Bayrock & Sater

Believe it or not, but the lamentable BuzzFeed produced a very good article in March, 2018 focussing on Felix Sater, one of Trump's longest business associates and an astonishing individual in his own right, as a US spy.

As per usual, the reporters (hacks Cormier & Leopold) produced the article, incorrectly thinking it was damaging to Trump. Why? They assumed that Sater, who they revealed has a long-standing relationship with 'at least six' of Mueller's SC team, was giving evidence against Trump.

This is extremely unlikely.

Reminder : Felix Sater was was a managing director of Bayrock Group LLC, as well as a senior advisor to Donald Trump and The Trump Organization when construction of the Trump SoHo began in 2006. He played a major role throughout the process of the building's construction, and remained managing director of Bayrock Group when the Trump SoHo project was completed in 2010. Bayrock partnered with the future president and his two eldest children, Donald Jr. and Ivanka, on a series of real-estate deals between 2002 and about 2011, the most prominent being the troubled Trump Soho hotel and condominium in Manhattan.

During the years that Bayrock and Trump did deals together, the company was also a bridge between murky European funding and a number of projects in the U.S. to which the president once lent his name in exchange for handsome fees. Icelandic banks that dealt with Bayrock, for example, were easy marks for money launderers and foreign influence, according to interviews with government investigators, legislators, and others in Reykjavik, Brussels, Paris and London. Trump testified under oath in a 2007 deposition that Bayrock brought Russian investors to his Trump Tower office to discuss deals in Moscow, and said he was pondering investing there.

Trump & Sater? Both had been FBI informants for years. Connect the dots - Sater was working & Trump were working for the FBI and using Bayrock, a legitimate business, as a honey pot/ bait for Russian money launderers and crooks. And they're still close, I suspect. Sater is loyal to Trump. Which Jerry Nadler may have just discovered - and why it's unlikely we will ever see Felix water testify, in front of his tinpot Home of Representatives 'enquiry'.

Oh, Bayrock? Who was the FBI Director all this time? Well, well, well.

Robert Mueller.

Incoming : The Storm

If you accept that Trump has been a very valuable source for the FBI since at least 1981, you can start to see his influence in major FBI/DOJ takedowns more clearly.

For example, in the early 1990s, the FBI was making a major push against the Mob in New York. The Gambino crime family in New York was brought down in 1992. The Mafia Commission between February 25, 1985 and November 19, 1986 broke up the Five Families. Each of these probes would have relied on valuable source informants, much like the Scarfo takedown in 1981.

Given the above and the Mafia's power in the construction sector, what are the chances that Donald J Trump was a valuable source for these investigations? Answer - in my opinion, very high.
Now consider these remarkable 'coincidences':

Who led the Mafia Commission prosecution? Rudy Giuliani.

Who led the Gambino prosecution? Robert Mueller, who was USAG for the DOJ Criminal Division between 1990-1993. Who was working for Mueller at DOJ, during this time?

Rod Rosenstein.

And who was the Deputy Attorney General between May 1990 and 26 November, 1992, before becoming the Attorney-General?

William Barr.

And how about this?

Barr's DAG in the 1990's was George Terwilliger. His son, Zachary, was Grassley's DOJ investigator for Judiciary. Zachary Terwilliger then became Rod Rosenstein's Chief of Staff, before being appointed United States Attorney, for the Eastern District of Virginia. Who did Zachary Terwilliger replace in Virginia?

Dana Boente. Ring a bell?

Boente is now the FBI Chief Legal Counsel

Someone tell Rex there are 2 other big connections. Barr's DAG was Terwilliger, his son was Grassley's DOJ investigator for Judiciary. He then became RR's Chief of Staff, then replaced Dana Boente when he left DOJ to become FBI Chief Counsel. 2. It wasn't just the mob it was BCCI https://t.co/1uoAsYupeH
— DawsonSField (@DawsonSField) March 11, 2019​

Ask yourself this - would these men know that Trump has been a long-standing patriot and FBI source, for decades? Answer - yes. Would any of these men work for Trump, if he was the traitor and Russian agent, that leftist journalists have been accusing him of?

Answer - no way.

2019 - Mueller is SC. Rosenstein is DAG. Barr is now AG.

And how about Donald J Trump, patriot, billionaire, FBI informant?

President of the United States of America.

Have any leftist reporters made these connections? No, of course not. They're still chasing shiny objects down endless information dead-ends, chasing that elusive piece of evidence that they know must exists, proving 'OrangeManBad'.

My advice?

Laugh and ignore them. As they've run around like headless chickens, we can see that Trump has assembled a mighty team to drain the Swamp. The strategy has been nothing short of genius and the execution, masterful.
It is now far too late for the enemies of The Republic to respond. Taken by complete surprise, their fates are sealed.

Buckle up. The Storm is upon us.

The stage is set, for Trump's hammer to fall.


Note - Rex would like to thank Sgt Friday @sgtfriday (twitter @Knowita47918362) & @DawsonSFields (twitter) for their research into Trump's history with Sater, as well as the FBI & organized crime probes.
 
we dont need no ******* wall.

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/illegal-alien-pleads-guilty-to-repeatedly-raping-child/



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An illegal alien living in Texas has received a 40-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to repeatedly raping a girl for four years, beginning when she was only 10 years old.

“[Julio Cesar] Leon was convicted of continuous sexual abuse of a young child for engaging in various sexual acts with a girl when she was between 10 and 14 years old,” according to The Weatherford Democrat.

Leon, 41, will not be eligible for parole. Since he is an illegal alien, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has placed a detainer on him. He will be deported after completing his prison sentence.

“As is often the case, the victim did not make her outcry of abuse until a few years later,”Assistant District Attorney Jeff Swain reportedly said.
 
Build more wall with the $3.9 billion that’s he included in his emergency declaration. That plus the $1.7 billion that POS congress gave him and he’s pretty much right where he wanted to be to begin with. Winning.

I believe it has to go through the court system, lawsuits and all that rigmarole...probably ending up in the SCOTUS.
 
MDLA! Make Deportation Legal Again

https://casetext.com/case/nielsen-v-preap-2

SCOTUS ruled in favor of the administration today and reversed the ahem, previous consideration of you guessed it, our 9th Circus making deportation legal once again. While this is justifiable and Winning, it fails to consider the possibility that sanctuary communities won't alert ICE when they've captured an illegal(s), and making this a waste of the high courts time imo. Hopefully the court will be reviewing the legality of sanctuary city status as it relates to federal law sometime in the not too distant future.

Take some time to read some of the stuff at scotusblog.com Eye opening just how much a spider web our laws are in the U.S. and just how brilliant these scholars really are.
 
Ha ha, screw you Fake News!

Last place CNN’s already humiliating ratings nosedived by double digits last week.
Even more than usual, some ten days ago the far-left CNN launched a 24/7 jihad against President Trump, going so far as to question his mental health, his patriotism, blaming him for a mass murder in New Zealand, and serial lying about his response to Charlottesville. But this unhinged hate campaign obviously turned off a considerable number of Americans.

When compared to this same week last year, CNN lost -16 percent of its primetime viewers and -17 of total day viewers; young people ran away screaming: In the advertiser-coveted 25-54 age demo, CNN shed an incredible -31 percent of those viewers during primetime and -29 percent in total day.
 
Ha ha, screw you Fake News!

Last place CNN’s already humiliating ratings nosedived by double digits last week.
Even more than usual, some ten days ago the far-left CNN launched a 24/7 jihad against President Trump, going so far as to question his mental health, his patriotism, blaming him for a mass murder in New Zealand, and serial lying about his response to Charlottesville. But this unhinged hate campaign obviously turned off a considerable number of Americans.

When compared to this same week last year, CNN lost -16 percent of its primetime viewers and -17 of total day viewers; young people ran away screaming: In the advertiser-coveted 25-54 age demo, CNN shed an incredible -31 percent of those viewers during primetime and -29 percent in total day.

Being how graphs work n'all, at what point does NNƆ reach zero? Aside from the propaganda broadcasts in airports and other 'public' areas, who is their audience?

Speaking of which, that's among the reasons I avoid flight at this point. Stepping into an airport is a psychological assault to a free citizen. Between being physically assaulted as if I were a criminal by 'TSA" and psychologically assaulted by the propaganda, flight just isn't a very good option at this point. It'll be better when they replace all that unpleasantness with choo-choos. Catchin' the 5:15 to Paris! Yessiree Bob.

Speaking of which, why are Americans shaken down just because they want to travel and all manner of ..... is allowed to pass unfettered across our border? Something is amiss.
 
2 steps back....

Winning is good but when the odds are overwhelmingly against you, it's tough.
Border Patrol says detention centers are full — and starts releasing migrants

MCALLEN, Texas

The Border Patrol released 50 recently apprehended migrants here Tuesday, the first of several hundred border-crossers who officials say will soon be freed because there is no room to hold them.

Normally, the Border Patrol would transfer the migrants to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be “processed” and in many cases placed in detention facilities. But officials said that both agencies have run out of space due to a recent influx of Central American families.

Many more migrants remain in detention awaiting court hearings on asylum claims. Record numbers of asylum seekers have contributed to a backlog of 830,000 cases.
https://pilotonline.com/news/government/nation/article_b47a4ead-d1f4-541b-9167-c80121d65c04.html


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Ha ha, screw you Fake News!

When compared to this same week last year, CNN lost -16 percent of its primetime viewers and -17 of total day viewers; young people ran away screaming: In the advertiser-coveted 25-54 age demo, CNN shed an incredible -31 percent of those viewers during primetime and -29 percent in total day.


Well, to be fair here Indy, when a station has 20 viewers and only three of them change the channel, the numbers are going to show it.
 
2 steps back....

Winning is good but when the odds are overwhelmingly against you, it's tough.



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No link, just listening to the radio. Here in the great state of AZ about 300 "migrants" are showing up at the boarder each day with hands raised, surrendering to the boarder patrol. What happens next you ask? Information about their plight is requested and finger prints are taken, then they are held in overflowing detention centers for up to 20 days, where a hearing date is scheduled for them that may be up to a year away. Then they have the option of being taken to a private volunteer shelter, the Greyhound bus station, or just released to wander on their own.

Does anyone really expect them to show up a year from now to determine their fate? They'll be gone in the wind.

Problem is all the R's want the cheap labor, and all the D's want the future voting block, and no one gives a damn about the rest of us.
 
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