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Trump Derangement Syndrome Will Consume the Democratic Party

Crazy is generally defined as mentally deranged or not mentally sound.  When being mentally deranged, which includes being crazed, insane, demented, unbalanced, and unhinged, is focused on behavior toward President Trump, we see what is commonly called Trump Derangement Syndrome or TDS.  This behavior existed before his election but burst forth into full bloom the evening of November 8, 2016.  Democrats were then, and have been unable to since, accept that their pre-written version of history did not come true and that the basic premise of the inevitability of socialism was false.  They have not reacted well.

Recent events have caused most of the known world, and possibly even some extra-terrestrials, to ask just how crazy the Democratic Party is.  That’s a tough question to answer.  Let’s examine it from both a definitional and a practical perspective.

The American Psychiatric Association has a standard reference manual for identifying and describing mental disorders.  That is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5).  In the section on Schizophrenia there should be an open section reserved for Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).  This is a prominent characteristic of many Democratic Party members, liberal media and certainly for elected Democratic officials in D.C.

How do observable behaviors comport with DSM-5?  Let’s see.  They are identifiable by extreme delusions, that is:

  • beliefs that conflict with reality [check],

  • hallucinations, seeing or hearing things that are not real [check],  

  • saying things that may be impossible to understand [check]. 

Additionally, observed behaviors are characterized by:

  • extremely confused thinking [check],

  • bizarre behavior [check], and

  • the inability to initiate plans [check].

So, in definitional terms, Schizophrenic derangement focused at President Trump is what we see with Democrats, in other words, TDS.

Then there is practical craziness.  This is ground level acting out, doing something that is likely to cause severe damage with little or no chance of positive outcome.  This is where Democrats really excel.  Current examples of practical craziness include, but certainly are not limited to:

  • virtually every platform proposal of all 25 presidential candidates with special focus on the Green New Deal and the very concept of anthropogenic climate change for their jaw-dropping stupidity,

  • electing the intellectually challenged bartender AOC to Congress and then letting her run the Democratic Party,

  • allowing the Sharia Squad to run Democratic foreign policy,

  • hoping the American public would believe in Robert Mueller and the Steele Report more than in Unicorns,

  • hoping any of the Kavanaugh witnesses would say anything truthful,

  • hoping Joe Biden won’t be destroyed by Ukrainian testimony,

  • thinking Comey and McCabe will not eventually take down both Clintons, and

  • trying to sell the idea that gender is a social costruct.

For two and a half years, TDS has raged within the Democratic Party like gangrene.  It festers and erupts.  It is ugly, it stinks and it will eventually kill the body. 

The Democrats have done nothing but hate the President while the President has been making America great again.  That just infuriates the Democrats more.  They cannot compete in the marketplace of ideas.  They are fighting themselves for the most unworkable socialist position while doing everything they can to smear the President with false and empty slander and accusations. 

The Russian hoax, the Kavanaugh and Gorsuch confirmation hearings, the various other concocted lies, are all beyond reprehensible and yet here we go again with an uncorroborated hearsay accusation about a phone call.  Hate and schizophrenia.  Hate is corrosive.  It seems to have already consumed any constructive thought capability in the Democratic Party.  We are left with the manifest derangement.  There is a very good possibility that complete meltdown and destruction will come if and when the party is crazy enough to actually try to impeach the President. 

History informs that the American people have very little tolerance for the removal of a President even for the most obvious and justified of reasons much less the fifth or sixth in a series of “cry wolf” concocted nonsense reasons.  Further, when it gets to rug cutting time, a lot of Democratic Congressmen will abandon their leadership in favor of getting elected again.  At that point, total internal and external meltdown will ensue. 

Crazy is generally defined as mentally deranged or not mentally sound.  When being mentally deranged, which includes being crazed, insane, demented, unbalanced, and unhinged, is focused on behavior toward President Trump, we see what is commonly called Trump Derangement Syndrome or TDS.  This behavior existed before his election but burst forth into full bloom the evening of November 8, 2016.  Democrats were then, and have been unable to since, accept that their pre-written version of history did not come true and that the basic premise of the inevitability of socialism was false.  They have not reacted well.

Recent events have caused most of the known world, and possibly even some extra-terrestrials, to ask just how crazy the Democratic Party is.  That’s a tough question to answer.  Let’s examine it from both a definitional and a practical perspective.

The American Psychiatric Association has a standard reference manual for identifying and describing mental disorders.  That is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5).  In the section on Schizophrenia there should be an open section reserved for Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).  This is a prominent characteristic of many Democratic Party members, liberal media and certainly for elected Democratic officials in D.C.

How do observable behaviors comport with DSM-5?  Let’s see.  They are identifiable by extreme delusions, that is:

  • beliefs that conflict with reality [check],

  • hallucinations, seeing or hearing things that are not real [check],  

  • saying things that may be impossible to understand [check]. 

Additionally, observed behaviors are characterized by:

  • extremely confused thinking [check],

  • bizarre behavior [check], and

  • the inability to initiate plans [check].

So, in definitional terms, Schizophrenic derangement focused at President Trump is what we see with Democrats, in other words, TDS.

Then there is practical craziness.  This is ground level acting out, doing something that is likely to cause severe damage with little or no chance of positive outcome.  This is where Democrats really excel.  Current examples of practical craziness include, but certainly are not limited to:

  • virtually every platform proposal of all 25 presidential candidates with special focus on the Green New Deal and the very concept of anthropogenic climate change for their jaw-dropping stupidity,

  • electing the intellectually challenged bartender AOC to Congress and then letting her run the Democratic Party,

  • allowing the Sharia Squad to run Democratic foreign policy,

  • hoping the American public would believe in Robert Mueller and the Steele Report more than in Unicorns,

  • hoping any of the Kavanaugh witnesses would say anything truthful,

  • hoping Joe Biden won’t be destroyed by Ukrainian testimony,

  • thinking Comey and McCabe will not eventually take down both Clintons, and

  • trying to sell the idea that gender is a social costruct.

For two and a half years, TDS has raged within the Democratic Party like gangrene.  It festers and erupts.  It is ugly, it stinks and it will eventually kill the body. 

The Democrats have done nothing but hate the President while the President has been making America great again.  That just infuriates the Democrats more.  They cannot compete in the marketplace of ideas.  They are fighting themselves for the most unworkable socialist position while doing everything they can to smear the President with false and empty slander and accusations. 

The Russian hoax, the Kavanaugh and Gorsuch confirmation hearings, the various other concocted lies, are all beyond reprehensible and yet here we go again with an uncorroborated hearsay accusation about a phone call.  Hate and schizophrenia.  Hate is corrosive.  It seems to have already consumed any constructive thought capability in the Democratic Party.  We are left with the manifest derangement.  There is a very good possibility that complete meltdown and destruction will come if and when the party is crazy enough to actually try to impeach the President. 

History informs that the American people have very little tolerance for the removal of a President even for the most obvious and justified of reasons much less the fifth or sixth in a series of “cry wolf” concocted nonsense reasons.  Further, when it gets to rug cutting time, a lot of Democratic Congressmen will abandon their leadership in favor of getting elected again.  At that point, total internal and external meltdown will ensue. 

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Wall Street Journal Columnist NUKES Democrat Talking Points On Ukraine Debacle

Kimberly Strassel of the Wall Street Journal has emerged as a trustworthy news source in the age of Trump.

When it comes to the Democrats and this ridiculous Ukraine thing, Strassel has positively destroyed their talking points.

Townhall reports:

WSJ Columnist Notes What The ‘Favor’ Trump Was Asking Of The Ukrainian President…Liberals Won’t Like This

In the publication’s op-ed section, columnist Kimberley Strassel, who has torched many of the liberal talking points peddled by the Left in their years-long crusade to impeach Trump, went on a lengthy Twitter thread dissecting the latest spate of nonsensical allegations lobbed at the Trump White House over this phone call.

One, Trump was asking Ukraine for assistance in a U.S. investigation into 2016 election meddling, and it was the Ukrainians that brought up Biden. This is another “non-smoking gun.” Also, it proved that everyone got this story totally and utterly wrong.

See her series of tweets below:

That’s a smack down for the ages.

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Trump’s UN speeches really beat Obama’s, don’t they?

Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly this week, President Donald J. Trump stood solidly on the side of those who believe in national sovereignty.

He said:

America is governed by Americans. We reject the ideology of globalism, and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism.

Around the world, responsible nations must defend against threats to sovereignty not just from global governance, but also from other, new forms of coercion and domination.

This is in stark contrast to the last U.N. General Assembly speech by his predecessor, President Barack H. Obama.  He said:

And so I believe that at this moment we all face a choice. We can choose to press forward with a better model of cooperation and integration.  Or we can retreat into a world sharply divided, and ultimately in conflict, along age-old lines of nation and tribe and race and religion. …

Here’s the most important fact: The integration of our global economy has made life better for billions of men, women and children.  Over the last 25 years, the number of people living in extreme poverty has been cut from nearly 40 percent of humanity to under 10 percent.  That’s unprecedented.  And it’s not an abstraction. It means children have enough to eat; mothers don’t die in childbirth.

President Obama spoke for the world’s billions of men, women, and children.  Trump spoke for millions of Americans.  He said:

The United States lost over 3 million manufacturing jobs, nearly a quarter of all steel jobs, and 60,000 factories after China joined the WTO.  And we have racked up $13 trillion in trade deficits over the last two decades.

But those days are over.  We will no longer tolerate such abuse.  We will not allow our workers to be victimized, our companies to be cheated, and our wealth to be plundered and transferred.  America will never apologize for protecting its citizens.

In a little over one year, Americans will go to the polls, choosing between these two views of their people in the world.

We know on whose side the current president is.

Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly this week, President Donald J. Trump stood solidly on the side of those who believe in national sovereignty.

He said:

America is governed by Americans. We reject the ideology of globalism, and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism.

Around the world, responsible nations must defend against threats to sovereignty not just from global governance, but also from other, new forms of coercion and domination.

This is in stark contrast to the last U.N. General Assembly speech by his predecessor, President Barack H. Obama.  He said:

And so I believe that at this moment we all face a choice. We can choose to press forward with a better model of cooperation and integration.  Or we can retreat into a world sharply divided, and ultimately in conflict, along age-old lines of nation and tribe and race and religion. …

Here’s the most important fact: The integration of our global economy has made life better for billions of men, women and children.  Over the last 25 years, the number of people living in extreme poverty has been cut from nearly 40 percent of humanity to under 10 percent.  That’s unprecedented.  And it’s not an abstraction. It means children have enough to eat; mothers don’t die in childbirth.

President Obama spoke for the world’s billions of men, women, and children.  Trump spoke for millions of Americans.  He said:

The United States lost over 3 million manufacturing jobs, nearly a quarter of all steel jobs, and 60,000 factories after China joined the WTO.  And we have racked up $13 trillion in trade deficits over the last two decades.

But those days are over.  We will no longer tolerate such abuse.  We will not allow our workers to be victimized, our companies to be cheated, and our wealth to be plundered and transferred.  America will never apologize for protecting its citizens.

In a little over one year, Americans will go to the polls, choosing between these two views of their people in the world.

We know on whose side the current president is.

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President Trump right on target about Cuba and Venezuela

In case you got distracted with the Ukraine phone call controversy, President Trump spoke at the UN about Cuba and Venezuela.   This is what he said:   

In his speech in New York, Trump sharply criticized the socialist policies of Maduro and his close ties to leaders in Cuba along with the practice of detaining political prisoners and reports of extrajudicial killings by death squads linked to leaders in Caracas.    

“According to a recent report by the United Nation Human Rights Council, women in Venezuela stand in line for 10 hours every day waiting for food, over 15,000 people have been detained as political prisoners, modern day death squads are carrying out thousands of extrajudicial killings,” Trump said.

He added: “The dictator Maduro is a Cuban puppet, protected by Cuban bodyguards, hiding from his own people, while Cubans plunder Venezuela’s oil wealth to sustain its own corrupt communist rule.”

Home to the world’s largest oil reserves, Venezuela was for decades an economic leader in the western hemisphere and, despite a massive gap between rich and poor, was a major destination for neighboring Colombians and other Latin Americans fleeing their less prosperous and more troubled homelands.

I loved it.  

Like President Reagan’s “evil empire” comment in 1983, it will be welcomed by dissidents and despised by the corrupt leaders.  It’s a clear sign that President Trump stands with them and will make life difficult for the two regimes.

I recall years ago talking to my father’s cousin, who spent 14 years in a Cuban political prison.  I asked him about the value of U.S. presidents talking about the Cuban prisoners.  He told me that it meant a lot.  At least, as he said, it reminded the men in prison that someone was thinking about them.

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In case you got distracted with the Ukraine phone call controversy, President Trump spoke at the UN about Cuba and Venezuela.   This is what he said:   

In his speech in New York, Trump sharply criticized the socialist policies of Maduro and his close ties to leaders in Cuba along with the practice of detaining political prisoners and reports of extrajudicial killings by death squads linked to leaders in Caracas.    

“According to a recent report by the United Nation Human Rights Council, women in Venezuela stand in line for 10 hours every day waiting for food, over 15,000 people have been detained as political prisoners, modern day death squads are carrying out thousands of extrajudicial killings,” Trump said.

He added: “The dictator Maduro is a Cuban puppet, protected by Cuban bodyguards, hiding from his own people, while Cubans plunder Venezuela’s oil wealth to sustain its own corrupt communist rule.”

Home to the world’s largest oil reserves, Venezuela was for decades an economic leader in the western hemisphere and, despite a massive gap between rich and poor, was a major destination for neighboring Colombians and other Latin Americans fleeing their less prosperous and more troubled homelands.

I loved it.  

Like President Reagan’s “evil empire” comment in 1983, it will be welcomed by dissidents and despised by the corrupt leaders.  It’s a clear sign that President Trump stands with them and will make life difficult for the two regimes.

I recall years ago talking to my father’s cousin, who spent 14 years in a Cuban political prison.  I asked him about the value of U.S. presidents talking about the Cuban prisoners.  He told me that it meant a lot.  At least, as he said, it reminded the men in prison that someone was thinking about them.

P.S.  You can listen to my show (Canto Talk) and follow me on Twitter.

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Fracking Ban Proposed By 2020 Dems Would Kill Millions of Jobs

A proposed fracking ban put forward by leading Democratic presidential candidates would have a devastating impact on U.S. jobs, energy independence, and even national security, according to several studies.

Reports from the American Petroleum Institute, Independent Petroleum Association of America, and U.S. Chamber of Commerce painted a stark picture of the economic fallout from ending fracking, a process which has transformed the United States into the top oil and natural gas producer in the world.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), and Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) are among eight remaining 2020 candidates who have called for an all-out ban on fracking, despite the fact that the drilling method has put the United States on a path to energy independence. The practice has also led to cleaner energy alternatives and lower carbon emissions, a key goal of climate change activists.

Fracking, also known as hydraulic fracturing, is a drilling and extraction method of releasing oil and gas from underground shale rocks, using high-pressure liquid to break them apart.

Environmental opponents argue fracking’s positives are offset by issues such as contamination of drinking water, air pollution, methane leaks, links to causing earthquakes, and the lowering of proximate property value.

‘A ban … would destroy more than 14 million jobs’

A 2016 report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce found the economy would suffer dramatically if lawmakers banned fracking.

"A fracking ban would be a disaster for the U.S. economy, exceeding the economic harm caused by the financial crisis, the housing bust, and the Great Recession—combined," the report said. "Those concurrent events cost the United States around 8 million jobs. A ban on fracturing would destroy more than 14 million jobs, all while raising costs for families and considerably reducing American energy security."

It explored how a theoretical ban would affect the American economy if begun on Jan. 1, 2017, and it concluded that over five years it would roughly double gas prices, raise natural gas prices by 400 percent, and raise electricity prices by 100 percent.

The spike in energy prices would raise the cost of living by $4,000 a year, and household incomes would drop by $873 billion. The report concluded the U.S. gross domestic product would be reduced by $1.6 trillion.

Texas (1,499,000 jobs lost), Pennsylvania (466,000), Ohio (397,000), and Colorado (215,000) would see more than a combined 2.5 million jobs lost from a fracking ban alone over that span, the report said, taking into consideration its effect on energy prices, incomes, manufacturing, and energy security.

President Donald Trump, a fracking supporter, won Texas, Pennsylvania, and Ohio in the 2016 election, and he lost Colorado by less than 5 points. Last month in Pennsylvania, he lauded fracking’s success and the country’s energy production.

"We have the greatest resources, which really came about over the last few years," he said. "Nobody knew this. Fracking made it possible. Other new technologies made it possible. And now we’re the number-one—think of it, as I said—the number-one energy producer in the world."

"They wanted to take away your wealth," he added. "They didn’t want you to drill. They didn’t want you to frack. They didn’t want you to do steel. They wanted to take away your wealth."

A spokesman for Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) told the Washington Free Beacon a ban on fracking would be devastating.

"The United States is currently the number one producer of crude oil and natural gas on the planet, surpassing both Russia and Saudi Arabia in crude oil production," Cruz’s spokesman said in a statement. "Texas is the leading U.S. producer of both crude oil and natural gas, producing more than one-third of the nation’s crude oil, and a quarter of the nation’s natural gas. This success is due in large part to the shale revolution. A fracking ban would be catastrophic to Texas and the United States as a whole—destroying jobs, wreaking economic havoc, and putting our nation’s security at risk."

Sen. John Cornyn (R., Tex.) and Sen. Cory Gardner (R., Colo.), both up for reelection in 2020, also told the Free Beacon a ban would be ruinous.

"This innovative technology has created tons of jobs, lowered utility bills, and established Texas as a global energy powerhouse," Cornyn said. "This would devastate our country’s leading economy."

"Radical policies like the Green New Deal and a federal ban on fracking would be devastating for Colorado—wiping out billions of dollars of the economy, destroying tens of thousands of jobs, and recklessly inducing an immediate recession," Gardner said. "These are some of the most irresponsible actions any leader can propose."

A separate report from the American Petroleum Institute concluded bans on fracking, fossil fuel production, and other "keep it in the ground" policies would cost 5.9 million jobs and a cumulative GDP reduction of $11.8 trillion. The trade group found the losses would stem from lower economic growth due to lower domestic energy production.

A 2019 report by the National Association of State Energy Officials found the natural gas industry employed 625,639 Americans, with more than a quarter of them (162,928) working in mining and extraction.

The report stated natural gas fuels employed 270,626 workers in 2018. That year, the market increased by 17,000 jobs, or about 7 percent. Mining and extraction jobs supported over 60 percent of the natural gas fuels industry.

The fracking boom has helped the United States become a world leader in natural gas production and consumption. An IHS Markit research firm report in 2018 estimated it would surge another 60 percent over the next 20 years, following a 60 percent increase with the advent of the shale boom in the late 2000s.

The Independent Petroleum Association of America found from 2007 to 2016 that advancements in fracking and horizontal drilling technology helped oil production and natural gas production spike 75 and 39 percent, respectively.

"The shale boom has reshaped the nation’s electric grid, fueled a petrochemical boom along the Gulf Coast and created a burgeoning U.S. industry in liquefied natural gas exports," the Houston Chronicle reported. "Of course, the shale oil surge wouldn’t have happened without the horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing techniques used to triggered the shale gas revolution."

Another analysis from the nonpartisan Rapidan Energy Group found oil production from shale formations would decrease by 3 million barrels per day over the first year of a ban beginning on Jan. 1, 2022. The advisory firm independently conducted the study for its clients and shared the findings with the media.

Representatives for Warren, Sanders, and Harris did not return requests for comment. Neither did Sen. Bob Casey (D., Pa.), Sen. Michael Bennet (D., Colo.), or Sen. Sherrod Brown (D., Ohio), the only Democratic senators from the four states in the study. Sen. Pat Toomey’s (R., Pa.) office pointed the Free Beacon to his tweet noting natural gas’s critical role in Pennsylvania, while Sen. Rob Portman (R., Ohio) did not reply.

Expert: Fracking ban a threat to national security

Asked for his thoughts on a proposed fracking ban earlier this month on CNBC, International Energy Agency executive director Fatih Birol said it was not a good idea, pointing to the security provided to global markets by the U.S. natural gas boom.

"Up to recently, before the U.S. shale gas revolution, Russia was the country which was dominating alone the gas markets, but the U.S. coming in the picture, there are options for consumers, better for [U.S.] security," he said. "Just banning this would not be good news, not only for Americans but also for Europeans."

"So essentially, then, an Elizabeth Warren presidency would be bad for U.S. national security," CNBC anchor Hadley Gamble said.

Birol replied he didn’t want to comment on U.S. politics, but he reiterated his point that upending the global markets with a fracking ban would be harmful.

Houston Chronicle columnist Chris Tomlinson, a proponent of battling climate change, criticized Democrats in a Sept. 13 piece for making "false or ignorant promises" in their calls for banning fracking.

"Fracking is what provides the U.S. with cheap gasoline," he wrote. "Fracking is what makes OPEC powerless. Fracking is what makes electricity affordable. Fracking is what makes it possible to shut down coal-fired power plants. Fracking is what gives Europe a choice besides Russian natural gas. A ban on fracking would reverse those things, send energy prices skyrocketing and crash the global economy."

Politically difficult

The fracking ban debate is likely academic. A Warren or Sanders administration could not ban the practice through executive fiat, although it could pursue a regulatory regime that would make it more difficult. With most fracking taking place on private lands, an act of Congress would be needed to outright banish the practice.

Campaigning on it could be hard, too.

"To say that you would ban fracking is a very difficult position to take in some key states," Democratic strategist Rick Ridder told the Associated Press. "There’s an extremely important distinction between local control and banning something."

Pennsylvania Democratic strategist Mike Mikus told the AP calls for banning fracking would make it "tougher" to win in the state. No Democrat has run statewide on such a platform.

"I can’t say it eliminates the chance of someone winning, but it makes it tougher," Mikus said.

The Obama administration supported fracking, pointing to natural gas as a cleaner energy alternative to coal, but it unsuccessfully pursued regulation of it. The Bureau of Land Management’s regulations in 2015 that were meant to protect water and force companies to disclose what chemicals they used were ultimately ruled unlawful after Wyoming and Colorado took the BLM to court, CNN reported.

Former Obama administration officials have cast doubt on the practicality and efficacy of the climate proposals by leading 2020 Democratic candidates, such as the sprawling Green New Deal.

Ernest Moniz, the former secretary of energy, said in February, "The idea we’re going to have by 2050 … a 100 percent renewable system is not realistic, straightforwardly, certainly at a reasonable cost."

Former Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Hayes testified in front of the Natural Resources Committee in July that it was "impractical and inappropriate to stop oil and gas drilling on our public lands and offshore waters right now."

"I believe that [keeping it in the ground] is not a good way to go," he said. "The reality is that we have a lot of infrastructure on our public lands to produce oil and gas. It’s providing an important contribution to our economy. The issue is not so much the fact that—and I think good points have been made that if there were not oil and gas drilling on our public lands we’d get oil and gas from somewhere else. This is not the majority of the oil and gas provided in the United States."

Hillary Clinton promoted fracking abroad while serving as Obama’s secretary of state. By the time she ran for president in 2016, however, she said she would impose enough conditions on the practice that it would likely be impossible.

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Communist newspaper drops a truth bomb about impeaching Trump

 

After Nancy Pelosi opened an impeachment inquiry into President Trump’s call to Ukrainian President Zelensky, People’s World, the official newspaper of the Communist Party, U.S.A., published its version of the latest “explosive whistleblower revelation” accusing President Trump of a quid pro quo to get dirt on Joe Biden.

The online publication of the newspaper formerly known as ‘The Daily Worker’ lists a litany of Trump’s “high crimes and misdemeanors” which is nothing but a mire of lies and propaganda. That’s standard fare for communist party sites and their Democratic Party comrades in D.C.  Earlier this year Congressman Al Green(D-Texas) showed that he and his fellow Democrats are in lockstep with the Communist Party U.S.A. when he stated, “I’m concerned that if we don’t impeach the President, he will get re-elected.”

The shocker comes at the end of the article when the author admits this Ukraine business most likely won’t lead to impeachment, but is a means to “stain” Trump’s image in the eyes of the voters all the way until next November.  In other words, one hoax is as good as any other as long as the Democrats have Trump in the crosshairs for another year.

From Peoples World:

The opening of an impeachment inquiry won’t necessarily mean that there will be a vote to impeach—i.e., to officially charge Trump with high crimes and misdemeanors. Though that looks more likely, it can’t be taken for granted. Some in the Democratic Party who oppose impeachment for reasons of political expediency surely hope that a long, drawn-out inquiry will be enough to get them to Election Day. Nor does it follow that the GOP-controlled Senate would convict and remove Trump if he is impeached; it almost certainly won’t.

But it will absolutely change the whole dynamic of the 2020 campaign. The unfolding of a formal case against Trump, the presentation of further damning evidence, and televised Congressional hearings will mark a permanent historical stain on his administration and leave him criminally indicted in the eyes of voters, perhaps many up to this point in Trump’s camp.

As of Wednesday night, 218 House Democrats are on board with the impeachment inquiry directed by the Speaker. The Democrats, along with their comrades in the Communist Party U.S.A. hope to finally achieve that nirvana moment they’ve been pining for ever since Trump announced his candidacy.

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After Nancy Pelosi opened an impeachment inquiry into President Trump’s call to Ukrainian President Zelensky, People’s World, the official newspaper of the Communist Party, U.S.A., published its version of the latest “explosive whistleblower revelation” accusing President Trump of a quid pro quo to get dirt on Joe Biden.

The online publication of the newspaper formerly known as ‘The Daily Worker’ lists a litany of Trump’s “high crimes and misdemeanors” which is nothing but a mire of lies and propaganda. That’s standard fare for communist party sites and their Democratic Party comrades in D.C.  Earlier this year Congressman Al Green(D-Texas) showed that he and his fellow Democrats are in lockstep with the Communist Party U.S.A. when he stated, “I’m concerned that if we don’t impeach the President, he will get re-elected.”

The shocker comes at the end of the article when the author admits this Ukraine business most likely won’t lead to impeachment, but is a means to “stain” Trump’s image in the eyes of the voters all the way until next November.  In other words, one hoax is as good as any other as long as the Democrats have Trump in the crosshairs for another year.

From Peoples World:

The opening of an impeachment inquiry won’t necessarily mean that there will be a vote to impeach—i.e., to officially charge Trump with high crimes and misdemeanors. Though that looks more likely, it can’t be taken for granted. Some in the Democratic Party who oppose impeachment for reasons of political expediency surely hope that a long, drawn-out inquiry will be enough to get them to Election Day. Nor does it follow that the GOP-controlled Senate would convict and remove Trump if he is impeached; it almost certainly won’t.

But it will absolutely change the whole dynamic of the 2020 campaign. The unfolding of a formal case against Trump, the presentation of further damning evidence, and televised Congressional hearings will mark a permanent historical stain on his administration and leave him criminally indicted in the eyes of voters, perhaps many up to this point in Trump’s camp.

As of Wednesday night, 218 House Democrats are on board with the impeachment inquiry directed by the Speaker. The Democrats, along with their comrades in the Communist Party U.S.A. hope to finally achieve that nirvana moment they’ve been pining for ever since Trump announced his candidacy.

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California shocked to find bill decriminalizing retail theft resulted in… more retail theft

A few years ago, California passed one in a series of bills aimed at emptying the jails and prisons. Proposition 47 carried the disingenuous name of “the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act and its stated purpose was to keep non-violent offenders out of jail. To achieve this goal, the state decriminalized a number of lesser offenses, including retail theft. The law raised the value of the amount of merchandise someone could steal while still only being charged with a misdemeanor to nearly one thousand dollars.

To the great surprise of the government, people noticed this change and began taking advantage of it. They have now recorded multiple years of steadily increasing, organized robbery. These plots are known as “mass grab and dash” thefts and they generally involve large numbers of young people all entering a store at the same time, grabbing armfuls of merchandise and dashing back out to their vehicles and hitting the highway. Not only are robberies on the rise, but arrests and prosecutions are down. Who could possibly have predicted this? (CBS Sacramento)

After searching police reports and arrest records, CBS13 found that while the rate of these grab and dash crimes is on the rise, the rate of arrest is down. We turned to law enforcement and the retail industry for answers. Both blame a California law intended to make “neighborhoods safe.”

“It’s a boldness like we’re seeing never before and just a disregard for fellow human beings,” said Lieutenant Mark Donaldson, Vacaville PD.

He explained these crimes have evolved into more than just shoplifting. It’s organized retail theft and he says it’s happening across the state. Cities like Vacaville, with outlets and shopping centers located near major freeways, tend to be a target for these organized retail crime rings.

Nobody is seriously contesting the numbers. The local and state police organizations blame prop 47. FBI crime data supports the contention. Retail sales organizations have tracked this trend and agree.

This is a trend that’s been building in a number of blue states and now it seems that the petty crime chickens are coming home to roost. The fact is that there are always going to be a certain number of people who will be willing to break the law if they don’t feel the risk of significant punishment is too high. An understanding of this fundamental principle is why the “broken windows” policies enacted in New York City and other municipalities in the 90s were so effective. If you crack down on even smaller crimes, you lower crime rates overall.

Sadly, liberal elected officials paint a picture of racism and inequity behind effective law enforcement initiatives. The people committing these thefts frequently end up being young black and Hispanic robbers because they are more likely to come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. This leads to laws like prop 47 hoping to keep more of them out of the “school to prison pipeline.”

But when you make it easier and less risky to steal larger amounts of goods, people will steal more merchandise. Did it really take a rocket scientist to figure this out? California basically incentivized crime and potential criminals answered the call. And since many of them were only getting the equivalent of a parking ticket for stealing 900 dollars worth of goods, police frequently didn’t expend much energy trying to catch them.

The ball’s in your court, California. Do you plan on doing something about this? Or will you essentially just legalize theft and tell the retailers that they’re on their own?

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According to the AP, it is dumb white Democrat men who think Democrat policies are too far left

To summarize the following article from AP, dumb, white Democrat males think Democrat policies have moved too far left and might vote for Trump. The highly educated, diverse group of people, especially women, are enlightened and will vote for the bold policies of the left.

The article further says that Trump lost Congress in 2018 “in part because Trump’s turbulent leadership style and divisive policies have alienated women”

Now, when Obama’s Democrats got stomped in 2010 and for the next six years, losing over 1,000 seats nationwide, we rarely if ever got stories that they lost because of Obama’s turbulent leadership style and because he alienated anyone. Usually it was because the people just didn’t understand how wonderful progressive Democrat policies are.

‘Way too extreme’: Some Democrats warn against moving left

The Democrats of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, crowded onto the steps of a local courthouse, dozens of union men protesting a looming power plant closure that would put their livelihoods at risk.

The crowd was overwhelmingly white and male, and few had college degrees. Left unsaid, at least from the podium, were broader concerns about a national Democratic Party many believe no longer represents them.

“Democrats are becoming way too extreme,” Shaun Majors, a 42-year-old high school graduate who has worked at the nearby Beaver Valley Power Station for almost his entire adult life, said before last week’s event began. “I voted for Trump last time, and I would again.”

A few days earlier, tens of thousands of Democrats crowded into a Manhattan park, cheering Elizabeth Warren’s calls for “Medicare for All,” a crackdown on gun violence and the end of the fossil fuel industry. The crowd was ethnically diverse, heavily female and highly educated — people like 41-year-old Kelly Hafermann of Brooklyn, who has a master’s degree and works at an Ivy League university not far away.

The highly educated urban Democrats may be the most vocal, particularly on Twitter. But it is the working class in places like Beaver County who may ultimately decide Trump’s fate.

None of the dozen or so union workers interviewed at a protest late last week had Twitter accounts. None had four-year college degrees.

Republicans suffered sweeping losses in the 2018 midterm elections in part because Trump’s turbulent leadership style and divisive policies have alienated women.

These highly educated people who support Democrats obviously:

  • Ignore the fact that they were lied to continuously on Obamacare and somehow believe Medicare for all will be wonderful. (They ignore the failures of the VA healthcare system.)

  • Believe big government, more regulations, high taxes and moving towards socialism are great ideas, despite the failures throughout history. 

  • Don’t care or don’t have a clue that previous doom and gloom predictions on the climate have been 100% wrong and the climate has always changed cyclically and naturally. 

  • Believe that if we just give bureaucrats trillions of dollars, they can control temperatures, sea levels and storm activity forever (and they are called highly educated?)

  • Don’t support women’s and girls’ right to privacy in locker rooms and restrooms. 

  • Believe that immigration laws are flexible and borders and walls are racist. 

  • Believe that the government built America instead of the people and entrepreneurs.

  • Believe that human life begins sometime after birth. These “highly educated” people seem to have no idea that science says that human life can only begin at one point. 

The dumb, deplorable, irredeemable white racists who support Trump obviously:

  • Understand that Trump’s tax and regulatory policies have greatly helped all races, genders and people of all levels of education. 

  • Understand that if the U.S outlaws fossil fuels that it would destroy the freedom, prosperity and way of life for all Americans and essentially make the U.S. a Third World country. 

  • Understand that the climate has always changed naturally and that fossil fuels have greatly improved the quality and length of life of everyone. They understand that water treatment and sewage treatment plants exist because of fossil fuels. 

  • Understand that immigration laws and borders are important. 

  • Understand that they were lied to on Obamacare and freedom of choice is a better idea for health care. 

  • Understand that life begins at conception. 

  • Understand that men and women are different. 

  • Understand that the 2nd Amendment is an important part of the Constitution. 

Why are Democrat policies called “progressive” when they would move the U.S backwards economically? They would make DC richer than it already is, and the rest of us poorer. There is nothing progressive about making more people dependent on government which is what all the Democrat proposals do.

Democrat policies should properly be called depressive, oppressive and regressive, which is what they are. They are clearly called progressive to intentionally mislead the public.

To summarize the following article from AP, dumb, white Democrat males think Democrat policies have moved too far left and might vote for Trump. The highly educated, diverse group of people, especially women, are enlightened and will vote for the bold policies of the left.

The article further says that Trump lost Congress in 2018 “in part because Trump’s turbulent leadership style and divisive policies have alienated women”

Now, when Obama’s Democrats got stomped in 2010 and for the next six years, losing over 1,000 seats nationwide, we rarely if ever got stories that they lost because of Obama’s turbulent leadership style and because he alienated anyone. Usually it was because the people just didn’t understand how wonderful progressive Democrat policies are.

‘Way too extreme’: Some Democrats warn against moving left

The Democrats of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, crowded onto the steps of a local courthouse, dozens of union men protesting a looming power plant closure that would put their livelihoods at risk.

The crowd was overwhelmingly white and male, and few had college degrees. Left unsaid, at least from the podium, were broader concerns about a national Democratic Party many believe no longer represents them.

“Democrats are becoming way too extreme,” Shaun Majors, a 42-year-old high school graduate who has worked at the nearby Beaver Valley Power Station for almost his entire adult life, said before last week’s event began. “I voted for Trump last time, and I would again.”

A few days earlier, tens of thousands of Democrats crowded into a Manhattan park, cheering Elizabeth Warren’s calls for “Medicare for All,” a crackdown on gun violence and the end of the fossil fuel industry. The crowd was ethnically diverse, heavily female and highly educated — people like 41-year-old Kelly Hafermann of Brooklyn, who has a master’s degree and works at an Ivy League university not far away.

The highly educated urban Democrats may be the most vocal, particularly on Twitter. But it is the working class in places like Beaver County who may ultimately decide Trump’s fate.

None of the dozen or so union workers interviewed at a protest late last week had Twitter accounts. None had four-year college degrees.

Republicans suffered sweeping losses in the 2018 midterm elections in part because Trump’s turbulent leadership style and divisive policies have alienated women.

These highly educated people who support Democrats obviously:

  • Ignore the fact that they were lied to continuously on Obamacare and somehow believe Medicare for all will be wonderful. (They ignore the failures of the VA healthcare system.)

  • Believe big government, more regulations, high taxes and moving towards socialism are great ideas, despite the failures throughout history. 

  • Don’t care or don’t have a clue that previous doom and gloom predictions on the climate have been 100% wrong and the climate has always changed cyclically and naturally. 

  • Believe that if we just give bureaucrats trillions of dollars, they can control temperatures, sea levels and storm activity forever (and they are called highly educated?)

  • Don’t support women’s and girls’ right to privacy in locker rooms and restrooms. 

  • Believe that immigration laws are flexible and borders and walls are racist. 

  • Believe that the government built America instead of the people and entrepreneurs.

  • Believe that human life begins sometime after birth. These “highly educated” people seem to have no idea that science says that human life can only begin at one point. 

The dumb, deplorable, irredeemable white racists who support Trump obviously:

  • Understand that Trump’s tax and regulatory policies have greatly helped all races, genders and people of all levels of education. 

  • Understand that if the U.S outlaws fossil fuels that it would destroy the freedom, prosperity and way of life for all Americans and essentially make the U.S. a Third World country. 

  • Understand that the climate has always changed naturally and that fossil fuels have greatly improved the quality and length of life of everyone. They understand that water treatment and sewage treatment plants exist because of fossil fuels. 

  • Understand that immigration laws and borders are important. 

  • Understand that they were lied to on Obamacare and freedom of choice is a better idea for health care. 

  • Understand that life begins at conception. 

  • Understand that men and women are different. 

  • Understand that the 2nd Amendment is an important part of the Constitution. 

Why are Democrat policies called “progressive” when they would move the U.S backwards economically? They would make DC richer than it already is, and the rest of us poorer. There is nothing progressive about making more people dependent on government which is what all the Democrat proposals do.

Democrat policies should properly be called depressive, oppressive and regressive, which is what they are. They are clearly called progressive to intentionally mislead the public.

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THE TIDE TURNS: Democrats FREAK OUT After Transcript Reveals POTUS Trump Is on Crowdstrike Trail — He’s Going After Origins of Russia Hoax!

On Wednesday the Trump Administration released the White House transcript of President Trump’s call with President Zelensky of Ukraine.

In the transcript released today President Zelensky brought up Rudy Giuliani and his investigations with President Trump.

It was Zelensky who brought up the Biden investigation and NOT PRESIDENT TRUMP!

President Trump then asked Zelensky to look into the 2016 election including information on Crowdstrike.

The President did not ask President Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden as was widely reported by the lying mainstream media.

The transcript sent shock waves through the Democrat Deep State.

The transcript revealed President Trump is going after the origins of the Trump-Russia witch hunt.

Trump is going after the Deep State — Trump said he was going to clean the swamp and he meant it.

Foreign Policy expert Tony Shaffer says this is what the left is most worried about.

Rush Limbaugh focused on this bombshell from the transcript on his Wednesday show.

Now, just a little bit more about CrowdStrike ’cause I have paid attention, there’s not a single — I haven’t seen a single report focus on CrowdStrike in this transcript. Now, I know why the Democrats are ignoring it. The Democrats are bent out of shape that Trump even knows about CrowdStrike. They think Trump’s an idiot. With Trump specifically zeroing in on CrowdStrike the Democrats have learned today, after reading that transcript, what Trump is really doing here.

Trump is soliciting assistance from allies all over the world to help Barr prove the scam run against him. That’s what’s going on. That’s what the Democrats have learned today with that word “CrowdStrike” being in the transcript. CrowdStrike, the founder of CrowdStrike is a Russian emigre who hates Putin with a purple passion. It seems to color CrowdStrike’s security work.

Prime example being when CrowdStrike claimed that the Russians had hacked the Ukraine artillery software during the time Russia was invading Ukraine. CrowdStrike claimed the Russian hack caused the Ukrainians to fire on their own troops, killing thousands of them. They were dead wrong about it! And that’s a massive thing to be wrong about. Because the only problem was Ukraine said there was no such hack and no such battle and there were no such casualties.

They said that CrowdStrike had made all of it up. And guess what? CrowdStrike withdrew its report and admitted that it was wrong. Now, this, whether it sounds like it or not, don’t doubt me, this is highly relevant to this entire Russian collusion story, which is why Trump was asking about it and why the Democrats don’t want the Ukrainians to reinvestigate it.

The reference to CrowdStrike, mark my words, is momentous in this transcript today. I know damn well the whistleblower didn’t tell the Democrats about that or they would have a different strategy laid out for this. Because another thing — don’t doubt me on this — what this really means, folks, is that Trump — he was asking for assistance on Biden, but it’s all related. What Trump actually was asking the president of Ukraine to do was to help the attorney general.

President Trump is going after the criminal deep state.
He’s going after the criminals who lied and put America through the Trump-Russia witch hunt.
President Trump is going to clean the swamp.

This has Democrats scared to death.

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EPIC! Devin Nunes Opening Statement on Whistleblower Report – “Hearsay Evidence” by Biased Operative – A Gross Spectacle (FULL STATEMENT)

Here is the opening statement by ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes at the House Intelligence Committee Hearing.

Nunes Opening Statement for Whistleblower Disclosure Hearing
September 26, 2019

I want to congratulate the Democrats on the rollout of their latest information warfare operation against the President, and their extraordinary ability once again to enlist the mainstream media in their campaign.

This operation began with media reports—from the prime instigators of the Russian collusion hoax—that a whistleblower is claiming President Trump made a nefarious “promise” to a foreign leader. The released transcript of the call has already debunked that central assertion, but that didn’t matter. The Democrats simply moved the goalposts and began claiming that there doesn’t need to be a quid pro quo for this conversation to serve as the basis for impeaching the president.

Speaker Pelosi went even further when asked earlier if she’d put the brakes on impeachment if the transcript turned out to be benign. She responded, “We have many other candidates for impeachable offenses.” So there you go—if their whistleblower operation doesn’t work out, the Democrats and their media assets can always drum up something else.

And what other information has come to light since the original false report of a “promise” being made? We’ve learned the following:

  • The complaint relied on hearsay evidence provided by the whistleblower.
  • The Inspector General did not know the contents of the phone call at issue.
  • The Inspector General found that the whistleblower displayed “arguable political bias” against Trump.
  • The Department of Justice investigated the complaint and determined no action was warranted.

The Ukrainian President denies being pressured by President Trump.
So, once again, this supposed scandal ends up being nothing like what we were told. And once again, the Democrats, their media mouthpieces, and a cabal of leakers are ginning up a fake story, with no regard to the monumental damage they’re causing to our public institutions and to trust in government, and without acknowledging all the false stories they propagated in the past, including countless allegations that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to hack the 2016 election. We’re supposed to forget about all those stories but believe this one. In short, what we have with this storyline is another Steele dossier.

I’ll note here that, in the Democrats’ mania to overturn the 2016 elections, everything they touch gets hopelessly politicized. With the Russia hoax it was our intelligence agencies, which were turned into a political weapon to attack the president. And today, the whistleblower process is the casualty. Until about a week ago, the need to protect that process was a primary bipartisan concern of this committee. But if the Democrats were really concerned with defending that process, they would have pursued this matter with quiet and sober inquiries, as we always do for whistleblowers.

But that would’ve been useless for them. They don’t want answers, they want a public spectacle. And so we’ve been treated to an unending parade of press releases, press conferences, and fake news stories.

This hearing itself is another example—whistleblower inquiries should not be held in public at all, as our Senate counterparts, both Democrats and Republicans, obviously understand—their hearing with Mr. Maguire is behind closed doors. But again, that only makes sense when your goal is to get information, not to create a media frenzy.

The current hysteria has something else in common with the Russia hoax. Back then, they accused the Trump campaign of colluding with Russians when the Democrats themselves were colluding with Russians in preparing the Steele dossier. Today, they accuse the president of pressuring Ukrainians to take actions that would help himself or hurt his political opponents. And yet, there are numerous examples of Democrats doing the exact same thing. For example:

  • Joe Biden bragged that he extorted the Ukrainians into firing a prosecutor, who happened to be investigating Biden’s own son.
  • Three Democrat senators wrote a letter pressuring the Ukrainian general prosecutor to reopen investigations it reportedly froze on former Trump campaign officials.
  • Another Democratic senator went to Ukraine and pressured the Ukrainian President not to investigate corruption allegations involving Biden’s son.
  • According to Ukrainian officials, Democratic National Committee contractor Alexandra Chalupa tried to get Ukrainian officials to provide dirt on Trump associates and tried to get the former Ukrainian President to comment publicly on their alleged ties to Russia.
  • Ukrainian official Serhiy Leshchenko was a source for Nellie Ohr, wife of Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr, as she worked on the anti-Trump operation conducted by Fusion GPS and funded by the Democrats.
  • And of course, Democrats on this very committee negotiated with people they thought were Ukrainians in order to obtain nude pictures of Trump.
    As you see, it’s a reliable rule of thumb in these information operations that whatever the Democrats accuse you of doing, they’re doing themselves.

People can reasonably ask why the Democrats are so determined to impeach this president when in just a year they’ll have a chance to vote him out of office. In fact, one Democratic congressman—one of the first to call for Trump’s impeachment—gave us the answer when he said, “I’m concerned that if we don’t impeach the president, he will get reelected.”

Yes, winning elections is hard, and when you compete you have no guarantee you’ll win. But the American people should have a say in all this, and they made their voices heard in the election. This latest gambit by the Democrats to overturn the people’s mandate is unhinged and dangerous.

They should end this entire dishonest, grotesque spectacle and get back to solving problems, which is what every member of this committee was sent here to do. Judging by today’s charade, however, the chances of that happening anytime soon are zero to none.

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