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He's a shrewd investor turned philanthopist who made a fortune gaming the stock markets. He's a capitalist hero. The fact he's a liberal, so what? I don't see you raising hell about the Koch brothers or Rupert Murdoch et al. The fact the right demonizes Soros is something everyone knows and understands. He's a real boogeyman for you guys. So what, who cares?
Generally speaking, I do. He's donated millions of USD towards universities and pro-democracy institutions around the world. Supports fair elections and opposition media (in authoritarian countries first and foremost) and has donated the majority of his money to NGO's and to charity. If you hate Soros, might as well hate Bill Gates and every other philanthropic billionaire. The general view of Soros has been deeply skewered by the right, along the lines of what they did to Obama - remember birther conspiracies, implementing Sharia law and confiscation of guns, et al?
No I'm not okay with that but don't think Soros pays for or supports anything like that. If I'm wrong, point that out to me and I'll amend my statement.
You have Soros mixed up with Russian hackers backing Trump and the GOP. But that's okay, you must be fatigued doing all your net neutrality homework.
If you read my posts I'm the one generally typing the words. Your statement is a double negative, does no good in a public forum like this.
In prison for what? He's an 'evil ****' for what reason? If you have your reasons, please share them. To be imprisoned one must have commited a crime. What crime(s) has Soros committed in your view?
For the 10,000th time I was born and raised in California. Grew up in the valley in LA and lived in Long Beach. My family's ancestry is Hungarian, no doubt about that. My parents and the rest of their generation left Hungary in the 1950's and have literally spread around the world. I have family in Germany, Slovakia, France and Canada. My brother lives in Houston and my sister in Trenton. I have two aunts in Pittsburgh, relatives in Cleveland. My cousin from Boston lives and works in the Antartica as a line cook, no joke. I presume you'd call her a 'Hungarian' as well, though she doesn't speak a word of the language. Whatever you think you know about me, you don't. Besides the fact I currently reside in Central Europe and spend too much of my time posting on this board.
Looking at 2017 objectively, this year has been an unmitigated disaster for the United States. The fallout of which will be long and hard.
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So funny. Tibs is delusional. Get your spit rag for Gorka’s shoes, you ****.
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IndySteel, yet again, wipes the drool from his mouth, grabs his crayons and chimes in... with drawings of three-legged giraffes, cars with square wheels and aeroplanes with a big propeller on each wing. Someone get a bib on this big boy, he's dribbling all over himself.
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The Official Thread Dedicated to "Trump Winning"
Tibs, I finally agree with you!
You do spend too much time posting here.
Take a break--come back when Trump is gone .
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Tibs, I finally agree with you!
You do spend too much time posting here.
Take a break--come back when Trump is gone .
Sent from my iPhone using Steeler Nation mobile app
Oh I know. He's hiding somewhere. Doesn't France have an arrest order on file for him? How does so much of his money get here then?
Soros is a Nazi abetting, swindling, traitor. How can you not find someone who stripped Jewish people of their belongings before sending them off to the concentration camps as abhorrent and yes, an evil ****? Do you advocate what he Did? That he calls it the best time of his life? Ok whatever.
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President Trump is on a roll
President Trump is approaching the end of his first full year in office with an impressive and growing list of achievements.
Sadly, you may have missed this because of his incontinent tweeting, the apocalyptic warnings of the Democrats and the #resistance, and the escalating brawl between the White House and big media outlets.
Trump on Monday issued his official National Security Strategy which stated accurately, “We crushed … ISIS terrorists on the battlefields of Syria and Iraq, and will continue pursuing them until they are destroyed.”
On Tuesday, the president is expected to applaud the passage of the biggest tax reform in 30 years which, assuming it passes, he will sign, lowering taxes for almost everyone.
One of the narratives of 2017 has been that Trump and Republicans on Capitol Hill have failed to achieve anything substantive. This has always been untrue, but in recent weeks it has become a ridiculous fiction. Amid drama, protest, miscues, and unprecedented political vitriol, real conservative victories are being achieved for America.
First, and perhaps foremost in the long term, Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. He should be regarded not simply as a conservative “vote” on the high court, but as a man committed to restrained, textualist jurisprudence and a top-tier intellect on crucial issues such as religious liberty. We suspect that Gorsuch will set precedent that lasts for generations.
When Trump was running for office, and after he was elected, many conservatives said he could not be trusted to nominate textualists, was a liberal at the core, and would, to avoid fights, stack the bench with "pragmatists" ready to make the law up as they went along.
This idea has been turned, literally, into a joke by the administration, as Trump has also stocked lower courts with fine justices, appointing more appellate nominees in his first year than any president before him. These men and women are almost all superbly qualified, will do good work, and are filling a reservoir of talent for the next Supreme Court vacancy.
The president's foremost role is as commander in chief of the armed forces. In this, Trump had promised to “kick the [tar] out of ISIS,” and he has generally delivered. By unleashing his commanders, the president accelerated the destruction of the terrorist organization’s control of territory.
The tax cut will be another major win. Cutting the corporate tax rate by 40 percent is a massive boost to American commercial competitiveness. Doubling the standard deduction for individual filers is also a huge reform. It reduces distortions and will materially improve the finances of millions of families.
The bill also, at last, opens up the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration, a move long overdue.
And it repeals Obamacare’s oppressive individual mandate, which forced millions of people to buy insurance they didn't want and could not use.
Trump has rolled back costly and intrusive regulations. Most recently, the Federal Communications Commission, headed by Trump-appointed Ajit Pai, voted to undo the Obama administration’s ham-fisted net neutrality regulations.
The administration has also moved to broaden safe harbors from the birth control mandate. Nuns whom Obama tried to force to buy medications that their faith abhorred have reason to cheer.
Other economically destructive regulations have also been unwound, and Trump has started the process of extricating the U.S. from the Paris climate accord.
Arcane though some of these accomplishments seem, they are crucial to economic health and to starting the long process of scaling government back to its proper role.
But even limiting oneself to contemplation of the most obvious accomplishments, Trump should be credited, in his first year, with cutting taxes, nearly wiping a potent foreign enemy off the map, and placing excellent jurists on the federal bench.
The wails of his opponents, most comically and hyperbolically represented by the cry of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., that the tax bill is "Armageddon" and "the end of the world," amply demonstrate that Trump, far from having no accomplishments, is getting rather a lot done.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-is-on-a-roll/article/2643877
President Trump is approaching the end of his first full year in office with an impressive and growing list of achievements.
Sadly, you may have missed this because of his incontinent tweeting, the apocalyptic warnings of the Democrats and the #resistance, and the escalating brawl between the White House and big media outlets.
Trump on Monday issued his official National Security Strategy which stated accurately, “We crushed … ISIS terrorists on the battlefields of Syria and Iraq, and will continue pursuing them until they are destroyed.”
On Tuesday, the president is expected to applaud the passage of the biggest tax reform in 30 years which, assuming it passes, he will sign, lowering taxes for almost everyone.
One of the narratives of 2017 has been that Trump and Republicans on Capitol Hill have failed to achieve anything substantive. This has always been untrue, but in recent weeks it has become a ridiculous fiction. Amid drama, protest, miscues, and unprecedented political vitriol, real conservative victories are being achieved for America.
First, and perhaps foremost in the long term, Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. He should be regarded not simply as a conservative “vote” on the high court, but as a man committed to restrained, textualist jurisprudence and a top-tier intellect on crucial issues such as religious liberty. We suspect that Gorsuch will set precedent that lasts for generations.
When Trump was running for office, and after he was elected, many conservatives said he could not be trusted to nominate textualists, was a liberal at the core, and would, to avoid fights, stack the bench with "pragmatists" ready to make the law up as they went along.
This idea has been turned, literally, into a joke by the administration, as Trump has also stocked lower courts with fine justices, appointing more appellate nominees in his first year than any president before him. These men and women are almost all superbly qualified, will do good work, and are filling a reservoir of talent for the next Supreme Court vacancy.
The president's foremost role is as commander in chief of the armed forces. In this, Trump had promised to “kick the [tar] out of ISIS,” and he has generally delivered. By unleashing his commanders, the president accelerated the destruction of the terrorist organization’s control of territory.
The tax cut will be another major win. Cutting the corporate tax rate by 40 percent is a massive boost to American commercial competitiveness. Doubling the standard deduction for individual filers is also a huge reform. It reduces distortions and will materially improve the finances of millions of families.
The bill also, at last, opens up the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration, a move long overdue.
And it repeals Obamacare’s oppressive individual mandate, which forced millions of people to buy insurance they didn't want and could not use.
Trump has rolled back costly and intrusive regulations. Most recently, the Federal Communications Commission, headed by Trump-appointed Ajit Pai, voted to undo the Obama administration’s ham-fisted net neutrality regulations.
The administration has also moved to broaden safe harbors from the birth control mandate. Nuns whom Obama tried to force to buy medications that their faith abhorred have reason to cheer.
Other economically destructive regulations have also been unwound, and Trump has started the process of extricating the U.S. from the Paris climate accord.
Arcane though some of these accomplishments seem, they are crucial to economic health and to starting the long process of scaling government back to its proper role.
But even limiting oneself to contemplation of the most obvious accomplishments, Trump should be credited, in his first year, with cutting taxes, nearly wiping a potent foreign enemy off the map, and placing excellent jurists on the federal bench.
The wails of his opponents, most comically and hyperbolically represented by the cry of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., that the tax bill is "Armageddon" and "the end of the world," amply demonstrate that Trump, far from having no accomplishments, is getting rather a lot done.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-is-on-a-roll/article/2643877
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President Trump Lays Out His National Security Vision: America Will Win
Speaking from the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington D.C. Monday afternoon, President Trump officially laid out his National Security Strategy focused on four specific areas guided by America first principles.
"Our new strategy is based on a principled realism, guided by our vital national interests and rooted in our timeless values. This strategy recognizes that whether we like it or not, we are engaged in a new era of competition. We accept that vigorous military, economic, and political contests are now playing out around the world," Trump said.
"We know that American success is not a forgone conclusion. It must be earned and it must be won. Our rivals are tough, tenacious, and committed to the long term. And so are we. To succeed, we must integrate every dimension of our national strength – and we must compete with every instrument of our national power," he continued. "With the strategy I am announcing today, we are declaring that America is in the game and America is determined to win."
The four pillars, with a special focus on immigration and boosting the economy, will guide Trump's approach to national security. They are the following:
I. PROTECT THE HOMELAND: President Trump’s fundamental responsibility is to protect the American people, the homeland, and the American way of life.
II. PROMOTE AMERICAN PROSPERITY: A strong economy protects the American people, supports our way of life, and sustains American power.
III. PRESERVE PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH: An America strengthened, renewed, and rejuvenated will ensure peace and deter hostility.
IV. ADVANCE AMERICAN INFLUENCE: As a force for good throughout its history, America will use its influence to advance our interests and benefit humanity.
During his remarks, President Trump also recalled his experience and results driven meetings around the world this year during significant foreign trips to NATO headquarters in Brussels, Asia and the Middle East.
"Following my trip to the Middle East, the Gulf states and other Muslim-majority nations joined together to fight radical Islamist ideology and terrorist financing. We have dealt ISIS one devastating defeat after another. The coalition to defeat ISIS has now recaptured almost 100 percent of the land once held by these terrorists in Iraq and Syria. Great job...We have a great military. We're now chasing them wherever they flee, and we will not let them into the United States," he said. "Our efforts to strengthen the NATO Alliance set the stage for significant increases in member contributions, with tens of billions of dollars more pouring in because I would not allow member states to be delinquent in the payment while we guarantee their safety and are willing to fight wars for them. We have made clear that countries that are immensely wealthy should reimburse the United States for the cost of defending them. This is a major departure from the past, but a fair and necessary one -- necessary for our country, necessary for our taxpayer, necessary for our own thought process."
On North Korea, Trump touted tough talk and sanctions as successful, but noted more has to be done to denuclearize the regime.
"Our campaign of maximum pressure on the North Korean regime has resulted in the toughest-ever sanctions. We have united our allies in an unprecedented effort to isolate North Korea. However, there is much more work to do. America and its allies will take all necessary steps to achieve a denuclearization and ensure that this regime cannot threaten the world," Trump said. "This situation should have been taken care of long before I got into office, when it was much easier to handle. But it will be taken care of. We have no choice."
Further, Trump noted Russia and China as adversaries and the official NSS document acknowledges Russia's efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election through propaganda.
Many are praising the new strategy as Reaganesque and a much needed departure from President Obama's foreign policy ideology.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katie...nal-security-vision-america-will-win-n2424163
Speaking from the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington D.C. Monday afternoon, President Trump officially laid out his National Security Strategy focused on four specific areas guided by America first principles.
"Our new strategy is based on a principled realism, guided by our vital national interests and rooted in our timeless values. This strategy recognizes that whether we like it or not, we are engaged in a new era of competition. We accept that vigorous military, economic, and political contests are now playing out around the world," Trump said.
"We know that American success is not a forgone conclusion. It must be earned and it must be won. Our rivals are tough, tenacious, and committed to the long term. And so are we. To succeed, we must integrate every dimension of our national strength – and we must compete with every instrument of our national power," he continued. "With the strategy I am announcing today, we are declaring that America is in the game and America is determined to win."
The four pillars, with a special focus on immigration and boosting the economy, will guide Trump's approach to national security. They are the following:
I. PROTECT THE HOMELAND: President Trump’s fundamental responsibility is to protect the American people, the homeland, and the American way of life.
II. PROMOTE AMERICAN PROSPERITY: A strong economy protects the American people, supports our way of life, and sustains American power.
III. PRESERVE PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH: An America strengthened, renewed, and rejuvenated will ensure peace and deter hostility.
IV. ADVANCE AMERICAN INFLUENCE: As a force for good throughout its history, America will use its influence to advance our interests and benefit humanity.
During his remarks, President Trump also recalled his experience and results driven meetings around the world this year during significant foreign trips to NATO headquarters in Brussels, Asia and the Middle East.
"Following my trip to the Middle East, the Gulf states and other Muslim-majority nations joined together to fight radical Islamist ideology and terrorist financing. We have dealt ISIS one devastating defeat after another. The coalition to defeat ISIS has now recaptured almost 100 percent of the land once held by these terrorists in Iraq and Syria. Great job...We have a great military. We're now chasing them wherever they flee, and we will not let them into the United States," he said. "Our efforts to strengthen the NATO Alliance set the stage for significant increases in member contributions, with tens of billions of dollars more pouring in because I would not allow member states to be delinquent in the payment while we guarantee their safety and are willing to fight wars for them. We have made clear that countries that are immensely wealthy should reimburse the United States for the cost of defending them. This is a major departure from the past, but a fair and necessary one -- necessary for our country, necessary for our taxpayer, necessary for our own thought process."
On North Korea, Trump touted tough talk and sanctions as successful, but noted more has to be done to denuclearize the regime.
"Our campaign of maximum pressure on the North Korean regime has resulted in the toughest-ever sanctions. We have united our allies in an unprecedented effort to isolate North Korea. However, there is much more work to do. America and its allies will take all necessary steps to achieve a denuclearization and ensure that this regime cannot threaten the world," Trump said. "This situation should have been taken care of long before I got into office, when it was much easier to handle. But it will be taken care of. We have no choice."
Further, Trump noted Russia and China as adversaries and the official NSS document acknowledges Russia's efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election through propaganda.
Many are praising the new strategy as Reaganesque and a much needed departure from President Obama's foreign policy ideology.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katie...nal-security-vision-america-will-win-n2424163
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President Trump’s New National Security Strategy Is A Rejection Of Obama’s
Renewed Focus On Islamist Terrorism
Trump’s new national security strategy places an emphasis on stopping Islamist terrorism and calls it out by name. Obama’s 2015 national security strategy referred to Islam just twice: once because it’s part of ISIS’ name and once to say the administration rejected “the lie that America and its allies are at war with Islam.”
The new national security strategy explicitly links Islamist ideology to jihadist terrorism.
Dumping Climate Change As A ‘National Security Threat’
Obama’s 2015 national security strategy prioritized climate change as a national security threat. Obama’s strategy devoted more space to the threat posed by climate change than to the threat posed by North Korea. “
Trump’s national security strategy reverses that approach and does not identify climate change as a national security threat. In fact, it goes one step further.
“U.S. leadership is indispensable to countering an antigrowth energy agenda that is detrimental to U.S. economic and energy security interests,” the new strategy states. “Given future global energy demand, much of the developing world will require fossil fuels, as well as other forms of energy, to power their economies and lift their people out of poverty.”
The 2015 strategy noted that the administration was “working toward an ambitious new global climate change agreement,” which became the Paris Climate Accords.
Trump withdrew the United States from the climate deal last summer, denouncing it as a threat to American sovereignty.
In what appears to be a reference to the Paris deal, Trump’s new strategy states that “it should be clear that the United States will not cede sovereignty to those that claim authority over American citizens and are in conflict with our constitutional framework.”
Iran — Not Israel — Is The Threat To Peace In The Middle East
In perhaps the sharpest contrast to Obama’s national security strategy, Trump’s new strategy takes a hardline stance on Iran, which it describes as “the world’s most significant state sponsor of terrorism.” Obama’s strategy emphasized the need to protect the Iran nuclear deal — a pillar of his legacy as president.
Trump’s strategy notes that Iran “has taken advantage of instability to expand its influence through partners and proxies, weapon proliferation, and funding. It continues to develop more capable ballistic missiles, intelligence capabilities, and it undertakes malicious cyber activities.”
Trump’s strategy states that — despite Obama officials’ claims to the contrary — the Iran nuclear deal has done nothing to stop any of the above activities.
“These activities have continued unabated since the 2015 nuclear deal,” the document states. “Iran continues to perpetuate the cycle of violence in the region, causing grievous harm to civilian populations. Rival states are filling vacuums created by state collapse and prolonged regional conflict.”
Trump’s national security strategy explicitly blames Iran, rather than Israel, for conflicts in the Middle East.
Immigration: Ending Chain Migration, Increasing Vetting, Tougher Border Security
Obama’s 2015 national security strategy placed an emphasis on giving amnesty to illegal immigrants by giving them a “pathway to citizenship,” while paying lip service to the need for border security.
Trump’s strategy frames the immigration issue in terms of sovereignty, saying the U.S. “affirms its sovereign right to determine who should enter our country and under what circumstances.”
The document emphasizes the importance of knowing and controlling who enters the country through tactics like increased vetting, ending chain-migration, ending the Diversity Visa Lottery program and increasing border security.
“The United States affirms its sovereign right to determine who should enter our country and under what circumstances. The United States understands the contributions immigrants have made to our Nation throughout its history. Illegal immigration, however, burdens the economy, hurts American workers, presents public safety risks, and enriches smugglers and other criminals,” the Trump strategy states.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/18/f...l-security-strategy-is-a-rejection-of-obamas/
Renewed Focus On Islamist Terrorism
Trump’s new national security strategy places an emphasis on stopping Islamist terrorism and calls it out by name. Obama’s 2015 national security strategy referred to Islam just twice: once because it’s part of ISIS’ name and once to say the administration rejected “the lie that America and its allies are at war with Islam.”
The new national security strategy explicitly links Islamist ideology to jihadist terrorism.
Dumping Climate Change As A ‘National Security Threat’
Obama’s 2015 national security strategy prioritized climate change as a national security threat. Obama’s strategy devoted more space to the threat posed by climate change than to the threat posed by North Korea. “
Trump’s national security strategy reverses that approach and does not identify climate change as a national security threat. In fact, it goes one step further.
“U.S. leadership is indispensable to countering an antigrowth energy agenda that is detrimental to U.S. economic and energy security interests,” the new strategy states. “Given future global energy demand, much of the developing world will require fossil fuels, as well as other forms of energy, to power their economies and lift their people out of poverty.”
The 2015 strategy noted that the administration was “working toward an ambitious new global climate change agreement,” which became the Paris Climate Accords.
Trump withdrew the United States from the climate deal last summer, denouncing it as a threat to American sovereignty.
In what appears to be a reference to the Paris deal, Trump’s new strategy states that “it should be clear that the United States will not cede sovereignty to those that claim authority over American citizens and are in conflict with our constitutional framework.”
Iran — Not Israel — Is The Threat To Peace In The Middle East
In perhaps the sharpest contrast to Obama’s national security strategy, Trump’s new strategy takes a hardline stance on Iran, which it describes as “the world’s most significant state sponsor of terrorism.” Obama’s strategy emphasized the need to protect the Iran nuclear deal — a pillar of his legacy as president.
Trump’s strategy notes that Iran “has taken advantage of instability to expand its influence through partners and proxies, weapon proliferation, and funding. It continues to develop more capable ballistic missiles, intelligence capabilities, and it undertakes malicious cyber activities.”
Trump’s strategy states that — despite Obama officials’ claims to the contrary — the Iran nuclear deal has done nothing to stop any of the above activities.
“These activities have continued unabated since the 2015 nuclear deal,” the document states. “Iran continues to perpetuate the cycle of violence in the region, causing grievous harm to civilian populations. Rival states are filling vacuums created by state collapse and prolonged regional conflict.”
Trump’s national security strategy explicitly blames Iran, rather than Israel, for conflicts in the Middle East.
Immigration: Ending Chain Migration, Increasing Vetting, Tougher Border Security
Obama’s 2015 national security strategy placed an emphasis on giving amnesty to illegal immigrants by giving them a “pathway to citizenship,” while paying lip service to the need for border security.
Trump’s strategy frames the immigration issue in terms of sovereignty, saying the U.S. “affirms its sovereign right to determine who should enter our country and under what circumstances.”
The document emphasizes the importance of knowing and controlling who enters the country through tactics like increased vetting, ending chain-migration, ending the Diversity Visa Lottery program and increasing border security.
“The United States affirms its sovereign right to determine who should enter our country and under what circumstances. The United States understands the contributions immigrants have made to our Nation throughout its history. Illegal immigration, however, burdens the economy, hurts American workers, presents public safety risks, and enriches smugglers and other criminals,” the Trump strategy states.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/18/f...l-security-strategy-is-a-rejection-of-obamas/
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So much winning! I'm not sick of it yet.
Ya gotta love it! Trump calls out Islamic terrorism for what it is and removes bogus climate change from the list of threats to American security. Awesome times. What a great change of direction from the former ***** in chief Obama.
Dude, you're simply a blind hero worshipper. No different than a Patriots fan view of the over ruling the James TD catch. No different.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/14/beware-the-george-soros-zombies/
Soros funds all forms of groups from Antifa to these nasty organizations that caused all the riots during election time, the paid protesters, etc.
Serious face palm dude. Get your lips off of the man's ****. He's vermin.
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I thought the global security strategy speech was very good. Really on point with what I think America wants (if they would actually stop listening to the propaganda news against all things Trump). Makes complete sense to me on all points. I think he has Russia/China pinned exactly right.
One of the best speeches of his Presidency in my opinion.
One of the best speeches of his Presidency in my opinion.
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Here's a link to the transcript and a partial cut and paste.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/trump-transcript-america-security-speech-171218205011166.html
When the American people speak, all of us should listen. And just over one year ago, you spoke loud and you spoke clear. On November 8, 2016, you voted to make America great again. You embraced new leadership and very new strategies, and also a glorious new hope. That is why we are here today.
But to seize the opportunities of the future, we must first understand the failures of the past. For many years, our citizens watched as Washington politicians presided over one disappointment after another. Too many of our leaders - so many who forgot whose voices they were to respect and whose interests they were supposed to defend - our leaders in Washington negotiated disastrous trade deals that brought massive profits to many foreign nations, but sent thousands of American factories, and millions of American jobs, to those other countries.
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In new security plan, Trump hits out at Russia, China
Our leaders engaged in nation-building abroad, while they failed to build up and replenish our nation at home. They undercut and shortchanged our men and women in uniform with inadequate resources, unstable funding, and unclear missions. They failed to insist that our often very wealthy allies pay their fair share for defence, putting a massive and unfair burden on the US taxpayer and our great US military.
They neglected a nuclear menace in North Korea; made a disastrous, weak, and incomprehensibly bad deal with Iran; and allowed terrorists such as ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) to gain control of vast parts of territory all across the Middle East.
They put American energy under lock and key. They imposed punishing regulations and crippling taxes. They surrendered our sovereignty to foreign bureaucrats in faraway and distant capitals.
And over the profound objections of the American people, our politicians left our borders wide open. Millions of immigrants entered illegally. Millions more were admitted into our country without the proper vetting needed to protect our security and our economy. Leaders in Washington imposed on the country an immigration policy that Americans never voted for, never asked for, and never approved - a policy where the wrong people are allowed into our country and the right people are rejected. American citizens, as usual, have been left to bear the cost and to pick up the tab.
On top of everything else, our leaders drifted from American principles. They lost sight of America's destiny. And they lost their belief in American greatness. As a result, our citizens lost something as well. The people lost confidence in their government and, eventually, even lost confidence in their future.
But last year, all of that began to change. The American people rejected the failures of the past. You rediscovered your voice and reclaimed ownership of this nation and its destiny.
Translation: **** off Obama. You are the worst president in the history of America.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/trump-transcript-america-security-speech-171218205011166.html
When the American people speak, all of us should listen. And just over one year ago, you spoke loud and you spoke clear. On November 8, 2016, you voted to make America great again. You embraced new leadership and very new strategies, and also a glorious new hope. That is why we are here today.
But to seize the opportunities of the future, we must first understand the failures of the past. For many years, our citizens watched as Washington politicians presided over one disappointment after another. Too many of our leaders - so many who forgot whose voices they were to respect and whose interests they were supposed to defend - our leaders in Washington negotiated disastrous trade deals that brought massive profits to many foreign nations, but sent thousands of American factories, and millions of American jobs, to those other countries.
READ MORE
In new security plan, Trump hits out at Russia, China
Our leaders engaged in nation-building abroad, while they failed to build up and replenish our nation at home. They undercut and shortchanged our men and women in uniform with inadequate resources, unstable funding, and unclear missions. They failed to insist that our often very wealthy allies pay their fair share for defence, putting a massive and unfair burden on the US taxpayer and our great US military.
They neglected a nuclear menace in North Korea; made a disastrous, weak, and incomprehensibly bad deal with Iran; and allowed terrorists such as ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) to gain control of vast parts of territory all across the Middle East.
They put American energy under lock and key. They imposed punishing regulations and crippling taxes. They surrendered our sovereignty to foreign bureaucrats in faraway and distant capitals.
And over the profound objections of the American people, our politicians left our borders wide open. Millions of immigrants entered illegally. Millions more were admitted into our country without the proper vetting needed to protect our security and our economy. Leaders in Washington imposed on the country an immigration policy that Americans never voted for, never asked for, and never approved - a policy where the wrong people are allowed into our country and the right people are rejected. American citizens, as usual, have been left to bear the cost and to pick up the tab.
On top of everything else, our leaders drifted from American principles. They lost sight of America's destiny. And they lost their belief in American greatness. As a result, our citizens lost something as well. The people lost confidence in their government and, eventually, even lost confidence in their future.
But last year, all of that began to change. The American people rejected the failures of the past. You rediscovered your voice and reclaimed ownership of this nation and its destiny.
Translation: **** off Obama. You are the worst president in the history of America.
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There is no doubt when you look at the changes in the world from 2008-2016 you really realize how ****** up things were a year ago.
I mean, Russia and China had almost unmitigated internet spying going on (we did nothing to stop them). They stole state secrets, infiltrated e-mail accounts, released propaganda in almost every western first world country. We were bombing 7 different countries with drones in the Middle East. Our fight with ISIS was moving like molasses. Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia were all in MAJOR civil wars causing mass migration and humanitarian crisis. Iran and Turkey and Saudi Arabia were all playing game of thrones in the Middle East funding these civil wars. Russia was invading Crimea and backing Syria (which Obama backed down from). China was building islands in the Sea of China.
The list goes ON and ON and ON about the ****** things that happened under Obama's "Diplomatic Strategy". And during all this Obama said our greatest threat is climate change. He really said that. He appeased to all the socialistic globalization ideologies played "friends" with anyone that would agree with him on his New World Order (no matter if they were warmongers on the side).
His whole diplomatic agenda was a joke.
And yet we're being told by Tibs and those liberal news outlets that Trump's agenda, which is one of the most straight forward and TRUTHFUL descriptions of diplomatic reality I have ever heard from a politician, is pushing America out of a leadership role in the world.
That's bullshit. Plain and simple. What Obama did is weaken our country, play havoc on the world stage, and cause suffering to millions around the world. No amount of "street credibility", which is what Obama craved on the world stage, covers up his inadequacies of actually seeing problems and solving them. The world order might have LIKED Obama better, but the world was not a better place.
The policies Trump has laid out, if enacted, will make the world a better place. It will save lives. It will reduce the overall suffering in the world. And it places the United States back on the summit of examples for countries to aspire too.
I think this is the proudest I've been of Trump during his Presidency so far.
I mean, Russia and China had almost unmitigated internet spying going on (we did nothing to stop them). They stole state secrets, infiltrated e-mail accounts, released propaganda in almost every western first world country. We were bombing 7 different countries with drones in the Middle East. Our fight with ISIS was moving like molasses. Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia were all in MAJOR civil wars causing mass migration and humanitarian crisis. Iran and Turkey and Saudi Arabia were all playing game of thrones in the Middle East funding these civil wars. Russia was invading Crimea and backing Syria (which Obama backed down from). China was building islands in the Sea of China.
The list goes ON and ON and ON about the ****** things that happened under Obama's "Diplomatic Strategy". And during all this Obama said our greatest threat is climate change. He really said that. He appeased to all the socialistic globalization ideologies played "friends" with anyone that would agree with him on his New World Order (no matter if they were warmongers on the side).
His whole diplomatic agenda was a joke.
And yet we're being told by Tibs and those liberal news outlets that Trump's agenda, which is one of the most straight forward and TRUTHFUL descriptions of diplomatic reality I have ever heard from a politician, is pushing America out of a leadership role in the world.
That's bullshit. Plain and simple. What Obama did is weaken our country, play havoc on the world stage, and cause suffering to millions around the world. No amount of "street credibility", which is what Obama craved on the world stage, covers up his inadequacies of actually seeing problems and solving them. The world order might have LIKED Obama better, but the world was not a better place.
The policies Trump has laid out, if enacted, will make the world a better place. It will save lives. It will reduce the overall suffering in the world. And it places the United States back on the summit of examples for countries to aspire too.
I think this is the proudest I've been of Trump during his Presidency so far.
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I think it's one of the best speeches of any Presidency. The entire thing is magnificent.
7 things about Trump's economy that the fake news media will not tell you.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/12/19/nolte-7-facts-trumps-economy-media-dont-want-know/
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/12/19/nolte-7-facts-trumps-economy-media-dont-want-know/
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The manufacturing jobs fact must really sit in Obama's (and liberals) crawl.
16,000 LOST manufacturing jobs in 2016 vs. 171,000 GAINED manufacturing jobs in 2017.
I am really starting to like Trump's magic wand that Obama talked about. Seems to be doing just fine.
Yeah baby!
The House on Tuesday approved a massive tax overhaul that would usher in steep rate cuts for American companies, double the deduction millions of families claim on their annual returns and make a host of other changes as part of the biggest rewrite of the tax code since the Reagan administration.
The bill passed on a 227-203 vote.
More on this: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...bill-as-trump-eyes-major-legislative-win.html
The House on Tuesday approved a massive tax overhaul that would usher in steep rate cuts for American companies, double the deduction millions of families claim on their annual returns and make a host of other changes as part of the biggest rewrite of the tax code since the Reagan administration.
The bill passed on a 227-203 vote.
More on this: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...bill-as-trump-eyes-major-legislative-win.html
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Senate Passes Sweeping Tax Reform, President Trump Poised to Sign Historic Bill Into Law
By a 51-48, strictly along party lines, the US Senate has passed a GOP-backed tax reform package that will cut taxes for more than 80 percent of all Americans (raising taxes on a tiny, disproportionately wealthy fraction), benefit small businesses, and make America's extraordinarily high corporate tax rate -- both statutory and effective -- far more internationally competitive. All Democrats, including every alleged "moderate." voted 'no,' while every Republican voted 'yes.'
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybe...ded-to-presidents-desk-for-signature-n2424775
By a 51-48, strictly along party lines, the US Senate has passed a GOP-backed tax reform package that will cut taxes for more than 80 percent of all Americans (raising taxes on a tiny, disproportionately wealthy fraction), benefit small businesses, and make America's extraordinarily high corporate tax rate -- both statutory and effective -- far more internationally competitive. All Democrats, including every alleged "moderate." voted 'no,' while every Republican voted 'yes.'
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybe...ded-to-presidents-desk-for-signature-n2424775
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As with everything in government, I'll wait and see what the long term impact is. I'm happy, but just like I criticize all the over the top sky is falling bullshit the left has become over the last 13 months, I'm not going to call this the best law ever. I'm sure it has a lot of stupid pork in it that helps lobbyists.
But that said, as a conservative, any law the drastically reduces the amount of revenue the federal government will get over the next 10 years (and maybe more) is a good start in my opinion. They have to learn to make do with what they have. They need to tighten their belts like Americans do. Decide which programs are important and which can be cut. For too long, while Americans and their incomes have stagnated, government has enjoyed revenue growth in the 3-4% range. There is no reason for that not be adjusted.
But that said, as a conservative, any law the drastically reduces the amount of revenue the federal government will get over the next 10 years (and maybe more) is a good start in my opinion. They have to learn to make do with what they have. They need to tighten their belts like Americans do. Decide which programs are important and which can be cut. For too long, while Americans and their incomes have stagnated, government has enjoyed revenue growth in the 3-4% range. There is no reason for that not be adjusted.
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President Trump’s Whirlwind Year
In the end, his 2017 was quite a success. Those who are still predicting that Donald Trump will be impeached and removed from office are now like exotic and endangered creatures. It is like an absurdly slow dance, in which the steps are so infrequent and tentative that it is hard to remember how far participants have come since the music started. Two years ago, virtually the entire commentariat, and most of its readers and listeners, were splitting their sides at the gigantic impending farce of the Trump candidacy for the Republican nomination.
Eighteen months ago, those same people had almost entirely shifted their immense mirth to the mighty Hillary Clinton avalanche that was already starting to rumble down whatever it was that President Obama renamed Mount McKinley. The BBC was asking itself (i.e., its viewers, including any Americans watching its World Service) whether Trump was going to pull out then, to avoid the unprecedented thrashing he was about to receive at the polls (which none of the polls, even the more rabidly anti-Trump polls, then predicted). Wacky leftist filmmaker Michael Moore, with the unshakeable confidence in mind-reading that seems never to desert such people, announced that Trump would quit because he never wanted or expected to be nominated, and it was all a joke that had got out of hand.
These were not unrepresentative opinions. Trump was attacking the entire political establishment, the whole Washington sleaze factory, all factions of both parties, all the Bushes, Clintons, and Obama, the national media, the lobbyists, Wall Street, Hollywood, and the limousine Left from the Hamptons to Silicon Valley. Of course the Trump campaign was insane and impossible, and was doomed to be a ludicrous fiasco, a gigantic, comical clown act that misfired horribly. On Election Night, Nobel prize–winning (for economics) New York Times columnist Paul Krugman said the stock market would “never recover” from the Trump victory. (It has set a new all-time high more than 90 times since.)
The alarms about effective Russian intervention in the election and the confected creation of the Trump collusion myth were born with indecent haste. The ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner of Virginia, was soon solemnly announcing that there had been a thousand Russian agents actively assisting the Trump campaign in key swing states and that they had delivered Wisconsin, a complete fabrication (if he really believed this whopper, I have some oceanside property in Oklahoma to sell him).
A year ago, efforts were still underway on recounts, especially in Wisconsin (which resulted in increasing Trump’s margin of victory by 131 votes), and there was national television advertising, costing millions of dollars, directed at the 306 people who had been chosen to cast Electoral College presidential votes for Trump, to break their pledges. (Seven electors did so and voted for third candidates, but five of the defectors were from Mrs. Clinton.)
Plans were underway to disrupt the inauguration, and engage in widespread civil disobedience; the new Democratic National Committee chairman pledged “scorched earth” obstruction; Bruce Springsteen, singing to bemused Antipodeans in Perth, Australia, crooned, “We are the Resistance!”; Madonna (who had generated a slight rise in Trump’s poll numbers by promising to fellate wavering male voters who went for Hillary) spoke of wanting to “blow up the White House.”
Veteran black-activist congressman John Lewis said Trump was “illegitimate,” and the ancient and unfeasible congresswoman Maxine Waters screamed “Impeach 45,” for causes that would become apparent as the process proceeded. Talk shortly turned to that option. As the president and his wife and party left Washington on May 19 for Saudi Arabia, Israel, the Vatican, and Brussels, ABC political commentator Nate Silver rated the chances of impeachment at 25 to 50 percent, and David Gergen — a former assistant to Presidents Reagan and Clinton, and a very knowledgeable man until he joined CNN and was infected by acute Blitzeritis – said, “We are moving into impeachment country.” A long sequence of crises was fanned by the Trumpophobic media: Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and the Statue of Liberty were (according to Schumer) weeping over the fate of Yemenis and Libyans not allowed onto aircraft bound for the United States.
The president’s expressed thought over the Charlottesville riot — that Antifa and the extreme section of Black Lives Matter that applauded the killing of white policemen might be as odious as the Klan and American neo-Nazis — was proof that Trump was a quasi-genocidal racist and apologist for slavery. Trump virtually dismantled NATO by not specifically mentioning the collective-security clause in his speech there; was signing the death warrant of the planet when he pulled out of the asinine Paris Climate Agreement; was going to blow up the world with Kim Jong Un; and so forth, ad nauseam.
And all the while, the Russian-collusion fraud festered and grew, born of Clintonian denial and frenzied finger-pointing, and reinforced by the Steele dossier — a pastiche of scurrilous gossip and malice from the most dubious sources, including in the Kremlin, cited by Mrs. Clinton in her absurd memoir of the election as proof of her opponent’s treason. She writes how she was betrayed by the country and most people in it, but not by the husband with whom she has enjoyed a storybook Pleasantville marriage.
It only emerged after the publication of her book that Mrs. Clinton’s campaign had commissioned the Steele dossier, and had spent $10 million on it from Democratic campaign funds. (According to former party chair Donna Brazile, Mrs. Clinton had rigged the nomination from her rival Bernie Sanders.) The Clinton campaign desperately shopped the Steele dossier to the American media in the last days of the campaign. This was the all-time dirty trick of U.S. political history, and when the rock was lifted and she was exposed as the sponsor of it, Mrs. Clinton instantly switched gears and called it “campaign information.”
This last year, after the year of his nomination and election, has been the second round of Donald Trump’s war to crush and expel the American political establishment. This year he has won over the congressional Republican party, which had almost entirely opposed him, to toil in the enactment of his program. Together they have achieved the greatest tax reform and reduction in over 30 years, largely emasculated Obamacare, put a rod on the backs of those states that elect incompetents like Jerry Brown and the Cuomos and lay the resulting state income taxes off on the whole country, repatriated trillions of dollars of corporate profit, exonerated over half the people from personal income taxes, reduced the return of 80 percent of taxpayers to a postcard, and produced conditions for 4 percent GDP growth next year. The Obama apologetics that a flatlined economy with a shrunken work force and a burgeoning multitude of Medicaid-sedated idleness was the new normal has been debunked; it is the abnormal recent past.
Donald Trump was a joke until nominated, unelectable until elected, incompetent until he succeeded on most fronts, and about to be impeached until he debunked the collusion nonsense; he has had a very successful year. His enemies have been weighed in the balance and they have been found wanting. They shall have their reward. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all readers, especially the president and Mrs. Trump.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454754/donald-trump-2017-successful
In the end, his 2017 was quite a success. Those who are still predicting that Donald Trump will be impeached and removed from office are now like exotic and endangered creatures. It is like an absurdly slow dance, in which the steps are so infrequent and tentative that it is hard to remember how far participants have come since the music started. Two years ago, virtually the entire commentariat, and most of its readers and listeners, were splitting their sides at the gigantic impending farce of the Trump candidacy for the Republican nomination.
Eighteen months ago, those same people had almost entirely shifted their immense mirth to the mighty Hillary Clinton avalanche that was already starting to rumble down whatever it was that President Obama renamed Mount McKinley. The BBC was asking itself (i.e., its viewers, including any Americans watching its World Service) whether Trump was going to pull out then, to avoid the unprecedented thrashing he was about to receive at the polls (which none of the polls, even the more rabidly anti-Trump polls, then predicted). Wacky leftist filmmaker Michael Moore, with the unshakeable confidence in mind-reading that seems never to desert such people, announced that Trump would quit because he never wanted or expected to be nominated, and it was all a joke that had got out of hand.
These were not unrepresentative opinions. Trump was attacking the entire political establishment, the whole Washington sleaze factory, all factions of both parties, all the Bushes, Clintons, and Obama, the national media, the lobbyists, Wall Street, Hollywood, and the limousine Left from the Hamptons to Silicon Valley. Of course the Trump campaign was insane and impossible, and was doomed to be a ludicrous fiasco, a gigantic, comical clown act that misfired horribly. On Election Night, Nobel prize–winning (for economics) New York Times columnist Paul Krugman said the stock market would “never recover” from the Trump victory. (It has set a new all-time high more than 90 times since.)
The alarms about effective Russian intervention in the election and the confected creation of the Trump collusion myth were born with indecent haste. The ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner of Virginia, was soon solemnly announcing that there had been a thousand Russian agents actively assisting the Trump campaign in key swing states and that they had delivered Wisconsin, a complete fabrication (if he really believed this whopper, I have some oceanside property in Oklahoma to sell him).
A year ago, efforts were still underway on recounts, especially in Wisconsin (which resulted in increasing Trump’s margin of victory by 131 votes), and there was national television advertising, costing millions of dollars, directed at the 306 people who had been chosen to cast Electoral College presidential votes for Trump, to break their pledges. (Seven electors did so and voted for third candidates, but five of the defectors were from Mrs. Clinton.)
Plans were underway to disrupt the inauguration, and engage in widespread civil disobedience; the new Democratic National Committee chairman pledged “scorched earth” obstruction; Bruce Springsteen, singing to bemused Antipodeans in Perth, Australia, crooned, “We are the Resistance!”; Madonna (who had generated a slight rise in Trump’s poll numbers by promising to fellate wavering male voters who went for Hillary) spoke of wanting to “blow up the White House.”
Veteran black-activist congressman John Lewis said Trump was “illegitimate,” and the ancient and unfeasible congresswoman Maxine Waters screamed “Impeach 45,” for causes that would become apparent as the process proceeded. Talk shortly turned to that option. As the president and his wife and party left Washington on May 19 for Saudi Arabia, Israel, the Vatican, and Brussels, ABC political commentator Nate Silver rated the chances of impeachment at 25 to 50 percent, and David Gergen — a former assistant to Presidents Reagan and Clinton, and a very knowledgeable man until he joined CNN and was infected by acute Blitzeritis – said, “We are moving into impeachment country.” A long sequence of crises was fanned by the Trumpophobic media: Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and the Statue of Liberty were (according to Schumer) weeping over the fate of Yemenis and Libyans not allowed onto aircraft bound for the United States.
The president’s expressed thought over the Charlottesville riot — that Antifa and the extreme section of Black Lives Matter that applauded the killing of white policemen might be as odious as the Klan and American neo-Nazis — was proof that Trump was a quasi-genocidal racist and apologist for slavery. Trump virtually dismantled NATO by not specifically mentioning the collective-security clause in his speech there; was signing the death warrant of the planet when he pulled out of the asinine Paris Climate Agreement; was going to blow up the world with Kim Jong Un; and so forth, ad nauseam.
And all the while, the Russian-collusion fraud festered and grew, born of Clintonian denial and frenzied finger-pointing, and reinforced by the Steele dossier — a pastiche of scurrilous gossip and malice from the most dubious sources, including in the Kremlin, cited by Mrs. Clinton in her absurd memoir of the election as proof of her opponent’s treason. She writes how she was betrayed by the country and most people in it, but not by the husband with whom she has enjoyed a storybook Pleasantville marriage.
It only emerged after the publication of her book that Mrs. Clinton’s campaign had commissioned the Steele dossier, and had spent $10 million on it from Democratic campaign funds. (According to former party chair Donna Brazile, Mrs. Clinton had rigged the nomination from her rival Bernie Sanders.) The Clinton campaign desperately shopped the Steele dossier to the American media in the last days of the campaign. This was the all-time dirty trick of U.S. political history, and when the rock was lifted and she was exposed as the sponsor of it, Mrs. Clinton instantly switched gears and called it “campaign information.”
This last year, after the year of his nomination and election, has been the second round of Donald Trump’s war to crush and expel the American political establishment. This year he has won over the congressional Republican party, which had almost entirely opposed him, to toil in the enactment of his program. Together they have achieved the greatest tax reform and reduction in over 30 years, largely emasculated Obamacare, put a rod on the backs of those states that elect incompetents like Jerry Brown and the Cuomos and lay the resulting state income taxes off on the whole country, repatriated trillions of dollars of corporate profit, exonerated over half the people from personal income taxes, reduced the return of 80 percent of taxpayers to a postcard, and produced conditions for 4 percent GDP growth next year. The Obama apologetics that a flatlined economy with a shrunken work force and a burgeoning multitude of Medicaid-sedated idleness was the new normal has been debunked; it is the abnormal recent past.
Donald Trump was a joke until nominated, unelectable until elected, incompetent until he succeeded on most fronts, and about to be impeached until he debunked the collusion nonsense; he has had a very successful year. His enemies have been weighed in the balance and they have been found wanting. They shall have their reward. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all readers, especially the president and Mrs. Trump.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454754/donald-trump-2017-successful