The following link is for an article that rightly points out the Trump’s foreign policy is what is best for America, and for the World. This was argued over and over again here on these pages during the Blogmocracy Civil War that pitted Trump’s supporters versus the wanna-be elitist/globalist Chickenhawk faction. Another defeated faction in this fight is the Bill Kristol Battalion of War Mongers. Their false bravery and willingness to send every one else’s kids off to die for no good reason won’t be missed. Globalism and Transnational Progressivism are one in the same. They are vehicles for a Marxists future where the non-elite are simply wards of, and subject to, ‘The State’. Our own elitists in the GOP were all for this. This struggle permiates the need for Trump’s ‘Principled Realism’ versus Bush’s “Freedom Agenda”.
Pleas go here for the Original Article.
All the elements of the Trump doctrine are revealed in this maiden speech. This includes reversing military decline (“We will spend what we need to rebuild our military”); an emphasis on economic strength and “technological superiority” in geo-political competition; confronting the threats from China, North Korea, Iran and radical Islam; opposing nation-building; reversing Obama’s ambivalence with strong support for Israel; ending illegal immigration; and “strengthening and promoting Western Civilization.” Finally, the candidate rejected the “false flag of globalism” and declared, “The nation-state remains the true foundation for happiness and harmony.”…He makes the moral argument that ultimate political authority resides in the people of a nation, not in transnational global elites nor in the always “evolving” notions of international (essentially transnational) law.
Good morning. MAGA!
This is really good. An animated graphics report from WSJ (no paywall) on the rise of China.
https://www.wsj.com/graphics/china-emergence-of-a-trade-leviathan/?mod=article_inline&mod=hp_lead_pos5
“GM is leaving Canada, and we’re not going to let them,” [union head Jerry] Dias told reporters. “We are going to waste General Motors over the next year. Waste them.”
yeah, that’ll work, Jerry, you sic ’em buddy.
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2018/12/union-set-to-waste-general-motors-in-canada/
@ eaglesoars:
I’ve never owned a GM, never will.
Makin some Rock Star Carne, SD style.:)
@ coldwarrior:
I bought a Saturn in 2007. I thought they were made in the U.S. but after purchase I saw they were made in Mexico. This was after GM acquired the line, which was originally built in, I believe, Tennessee. Swore after 2009 that I’d never purchase another car from Government Motors, and I’ve always been fond of Chevy.
They’re deserving everything they get. My HYUNDAI was built in the U.S. – in Alabama.
@ The Barbarian:
I was gonna get a Bama Mercedes…welllll….Stutgart. I tried.
Sidney Powell shows that DOJ/FBI are still up their old Brady tricks:
https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/16/mueller-destroyed-evidence/
What the HELL does it take to disbar these dirtbags.
@ The Barbarian:
@ coldwarrior:
I got a hell of a CPO deal…
@ The Barbarian:
The corruption is endemic. The only way to stop it is for serious jail time.
Or SHR.
Can AJ Fernandez make a bad cigar? No.
New World paired with a Casamigo’s Reposado…yes..and grilling Carne.
Life is good.
The Barbarian wrote:
one honest judge
I remember John Sirica
The Barbarian wrote:
IRS receipts showing they donated to candidate Donald Trump…
@ eaglesoars:
Judges, alas, cannot disbar them. That has to be done by the Disciplinary Committees of the state(s) where they are admitted to practice. Even after the Stevens prosecution and the revelations in the Arthur Andersen and Merrill Lynch post Enron trials, these scumbags kept their licenses.
But I would love to see orders from Judge Sullivan to their State Bars, asking for investigations into their unethical practices.
@ The Barbarian:
No, they can’t. But they can imprison them and impose on them circumstances that make practicing very difficult. They can say nasty things about them in opinions, such as “I believe the Defendant has grounds to pursue a civil action against X on grounds of prosecutorial misconduct…” etc. etc.
We really need to change the legal system around.
I’m just going to leave this here
Red Francis: Western World Has “Moral Responsibility” to Let in More Migrants
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/12/red-francis-western-world-has-moral-responsibility-to-let-in-more-migrants/
VATICAN REFUSES TO OFFER ASYLUM TO ASIA BIBI
(she’s the Christian woman who had been sentenced to death in Pakistan for blasphemy)
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/vatican-refuses-to-offer-asylum-to-asia-bibi
Shocking letters delivered to Clinton, Bush and Obama at 41’s funeral.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=107&v=4dL3oJcB0BU
@ eaglesoars:
One thing we know about Red Francis, he is not a Christian, nor is he one of God’s own. He will be one of those to whom Christ will say at the judgment after they say, “Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?” and he will say to them, “I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!”
@ doriangrey:
I’ve seen just a few seconds of that clip somewhere, just of Jeb’s face seeing something and falling. The problem I have with that kind of thing is that I’ve seen how it can be manipulated. I remember one clip that purported to show Trump dissing Melania at the inauguration and you could see she was just crushed.
Until you found out that they had run the few seconds backwards and when you saw the actual film, it was a completely different story
sometime today Mueller did finally turn over to Sullivan what he says is the ‘original’ 302 of the Flynn interview. I gather it’s largely redacted.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/17/robert-mueller-releases-michael-flynn-memo-detaili/
Why it wasn’t included in last Friday’s turnover I have no idea
HAR!!
Kentucky radio station plays ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’ on repeat for 2 hours straight
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/421704-kentucky-radio-station-plays-baby-its-cold-outside-on-repeat
yeah, well, we sort of figured it out, but thanks for getting it out formally
British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who wrote the Democrat-financed anti-Trump dossier, said in a court case that he was hired by a Democratic law firm in preparation for Hillary Clinton challenging the results of the 2016 presidential election.
He said the law firm Perkins Coie wanted to be in a position to contest the results based on evidence he unearthed on the Trump campaign conspiring with Moscow on election interference.
His scenario is contained in a sealed Aug. 2 declaration in a defamation law suit brought by three Russian bankers in London. The trio’s American attorneys filed his answers Tuesday in a libel lawsuit in Washington against the investigative firm Fusion GPS, which handled the former British intelligence officer.
In an answer to interrogatories, Mr. Steele wrote: “Fusion’s immediate client was law firm Perkins Coie. It engaged Fusion to obtain information necessary for Perkins Coie LLP to provide legal advice on the potential impact of Russian involvement on the legal validity of the outcome of the 2016 US Presidential election.
“Based on that advice, parties such as the Democratic National Committee and HFACC Inc. (also known as ‘Hillary for America’) could consider steps they would be legally entitled to take to challenge the validity of the outcome of that election.”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/12/christopher-steele-hillary-clinton-was-preparing-t/
The Most Terrifying Horror Movie for a Southerner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qjk7QdFA4w
http://tennesseestar.com/2018/12/17/senator-lamar-alexander-will-not-seek-re-election-in-2020/
eaglesoars wrote:
Greg Jarrett is saying that today Judge Sullivan issued something a called a ‘minute order’ telling Mueller to hand that 302 over NOW. I don’t know what a minute order is but…
Sara Carter is noting that Mueller STILL hasn’t turned over the raw notes of the interview.
It appears there are some issues with the 302 – plural, I think, that Mueller turned over today
“It’s completely a coincidence we have two identical drafts at three different dates; not at all because we re-edited original version. Also, a coincidence we didn’t record it, asked for no lawyer to be present, lost original handwritten notes & hide one of the agents involved.”
https://twitter.com/Barnes_Law/status/1074836242267684864
lobo91 wrote:
Is this the WaPo story that was conveniently – and illegally – leaked?
I think the dates on the 302(s) are still way past the 5 day deadline
what the actual fuck?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/16/boys-can-have-periods-schoolchildren-taught-latest-victory-transgender/
Here is Sullivan’s ‘minute order’. It was filed just after 6 pm EST
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/12/boom-jude-emerson-orders-mueller-to-release-original-302-report-on-flynn-interrogation-on-eve-of-sentencing/
rain of lead wrote:
This crap WILL stop and it will be ugly
Warning…..
In 2019 the Red Arrows are going to invade the USA for nine weeks.
If you can go see them.
You will experience something that you will remember forever.
@ eaglesoars:
Hard to believe that’s Robert Duvall…
@ lobo91:
He will always be Gus McCrea to me
Here are the docs Mueller turned over today. I’m too tired to read them but you guys go right ahead
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5633264-12-17-18-Redacted-Flynn-Interview-302.html?platform=hootsuite
@ Possum:
I hope they’re going to be somewhere I can make it. I love the Thunderbirds and Blue Angels but have see them many times.
@ lobo91:
one of my favorite lines in any film.
…some day this war’s gonna end…
perfect.
it started three days ago:
maybe there should be another brexit referendum…
i knew that the globalist and eu bureaucrats would never let brexit happen
coldwarrior wrote:
America’s Democrats learned the “Recount until we get the outcome we want” from Europe’s Marxists.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/12/millennial-ocasio-cortez-announces-shes-taking-a-week-off-for-self-care-before-congressional-session-even-begins/
@ Gateway Pundit
Occasion Cortez has to take a week off for self care before the start of the term.
A week of from what? She has not even started her job. What is self care?
She is an uber ditz.
@ coldwarrior:
@ doriangrey:
thousands protest the EU open bordersin Brussels. It’s Infowars, but I’m liking Alex Jones a lot more than the msm these days. REAL news.
https://www.infowars.com/thousands-protests-open-borders-outside-eu-headquarters-in-brussels/
More Alex. 🙂
https://www.infowars.com/outraged-trump-claims-19000-missing-strzok-texts-would-have-exposed-mueller-probe-hoax/
@ RIX:
shaming of someone doing a face mask while financially stressed
yeah, they’re like 3 bucks at the grocery store.
It’s telling that she’s so convinced everything she does is at the center of the universe.
@ RIX:
That woman is like Megan Markle who got Prince Harry to marry her. The more she gets, the more she wants and needs. Another ‘pushy princess’. They destroy everyone in their path and never think the rules apply to them.
A great Trump graphic.
http://ninetymilesfromtyranny.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-real-target-is-you.html
CAIR holds ‘open mosque day’ in Ohio. Nobody show up except token dhimmi.
http://barenakedislam.com/2018/12/18/ohio-what-if-you-hold-an-open-mosque-day-and-virtually-nobody-shows-up/
@ yenta-fada:
WHY do all these women insist on the little girl voice? She even had some ‘uptalk’ in there.
Gov Ducey will appoint Martha McSally to McCain’s seat
Is this a good thing or not? I forget the book on her
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2018/12/18/martha-mcsally-named-doug-ducey-kyl-mccain-arizona-senate-seat-lost-sinema/2277884002/?fbclid=IwAR2_hs_O6ru8f5uffrAOLreicEL335UAKsBh00ejLkf9hYgc53UM5k33w3E
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s an OK thing. McSally is establishment, but she does get most things right. Still PO’d though that the Republicans haven’t raised more a stink over the election. The senate race had more votes than the governor’s race? Really? … and deep red Maricopa went for Sinema? Really?
AZfederalist wrote:
Our side is stretched pretty thin. Every time we turn around, the bastards are cheating.
gotta hop. later
@ AZfederalist:
So, just to back up my opinion with facts:
In the Senate race, there were a total of 2,383,742 votes counted, Sinema won by 55,900 votes
In the Governor’s race, there were a total of 2,325,204 votes counted. Lo and behold, the difference in votes counted between the Governor’s race and the Senate race was 58,538 fewer votes in the Governor’s race than in the Senate race. … and of that fewer votes, 55,900 of them went to Sinema. Wow! Isn’t that an amazing coincidence!
Now, another interesting factoid, I looked at the other state races. The two other main races (AG and Sec of State) differed in numbers from the Governor’s race by 7300 and 3000 votes. Even the Superintendent of Public education was only 26,000 votes less counted compared to the Governor’s race.
I just don’t understand. Wasn’t it Sullivan who scheduled the sentencing for today? Now he sez Oh maybe you want to wait until the case is over?
I smell a rat
eaglesoars wrote:
According to zerohedge, the judge told Flynn he could delay sentencing if Flynn was willing to co-operate more with Government.
“After confirming that Flynn would still cooperate, the judge’s statements took a harsh turn, with the judge accusing Flynn of having ‘sold out his country.’
“All along you were an unregistered agent of a foreign country while serving as the national security adviser of the president of the United States…Arguably that undermines everything that flag over here stands for. Arguably, you sold your country out.”
He then asked prosecutors considered charging Flynn with treason, to which they hesitated before replying that it wasn’t considered.
•ARGUABLY, YOU SOLD YOUR COUNTRY OUT,’ JUDGE TELLS FLYNN
•AGGRAVATING CIRCUMSTANCES ARE `SERIOUS,’ JUDGE TELLS FLYNN
•JUDGE AGAIN OFFERS FLYNN MORE TIME TO COOPERATE BEFORE SENTENCE
•JUDGE ASKS IF FLYNN MIGHT HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH TREASON
•PROSECUTOR SAYS `HESITANT TO ANSWER’ BUT NOT SAME AS FARA
According to the Hill, Flynn’s sentencing will be a “milestone” in the Mueller probe, which has spanned 19 months. As he approached the courthouse in Virginia, Flynn waded through what one journalist described as a “mosh pit” of demonstrators.
Flynn’s appearance in D.C. federal court before U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan will be viewed as a key milestone in an investigation that has prodded along for 19 months amidst high public intrigue and increasing vitriol from the president.
It was expected that Flynn wouldn’t receive significant jail time thanks to his “substantial assistance” to Mueller (the special counsel recommended a lenient sentence). Though Flynn was facing up to six months in prison. As a reminder, Flynn has sat for 19 separate sessions with the special counsel amounting to 60 hours of questioning.”
@ eaglesoars:
I’ve been in lots of unions. I know thousands of union members. A more entitled bunch of self servers you won’t meet in the world. That’s not even getting to the teachers unions. Collective bargaining is probably necessary. My first encounter with negative and dangerous group think was via unions.
We are so fucking doomed.
“Abandon Hope” a SPAM-based tiki cocktail created at Acacia on Carson St in Pittsburgh… so good for something sooo wrong!
https://twitter.com/drgilliland/status/1075202752186380289
I’m depressed. going to bed