Our naturally developed mind-set and tendencies are opposite of God's ways. God told us that through Isaiah long ago. "'For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,' declares the Lord. 'For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.'" (Isa. 55:8,9).
As fallen, sinful persons we have all developed patterned tendencies to approach everything in life in particular ways. It is called the "flesh" in the New Testament Scriptures. We each have unique action and reaction patterns of selfishness and sinfulness in the soul. When we become Christians, we still have those patterned tendencies of the "flesh." Paul explains to the Galatian Christians that "the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another" (Gal. 5:17). To the Romans, Paul wrote, "I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin. ...I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the wishing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not" (Rom. 7:14,18).
These patterned tendencies of the "flesh" affect our individual approaches to living the Christian life. We have various patterns of thinking, with which we approach our Christian living.
Some Christians approach the Christian life as a "project." It is a task to be completed; a job to get done. They want to see results in everything. The objective in their mind is to get it accomplished. So they decisively implement the necessary activities to achieve the objective and to reach the goal. "What are we waiting for?" they ask. "Lets get the job done...now!" They want everyone to assist and to do their part. Focused and persistent, they take direct action to perform what is necessary, and to produce the desired end-product. Should they begin to relax, they feel guilty. They work so hard to achieve what they perceive to be the desired result. They want to do it, get it done, and make a significant change in things. The project called the "Christian life" must be accomplished and be completed.
But, what happens when they cannot accomplish the project of Christian living? What do they do when all their efforts are not enough, and their greatest fear of being a failure in getting the job done seems to be evident? It is then that they might conclude, "the Christian life doesn't work!" They often then respond by saying to themselves, "Maybe I haven't been decisive enough. Maybe I haven't been persistent enough. Maybe I haven't worked hard enough. Maybe I haven't buckled-down to get it done. Maybe I didn't attack it with enough effort and commitment." Back they go to approaching the Christian life as a "project" to be completed!
Other Christians approach the Christian life as a "promotional effort" to persuade everyone and to get everyone inspired. They want everything to be exciting. The Christian life is measured by the level of enthusiasm, energy and liveliness. These Christians thrive on spontaneity, emotion and zeal. They always want to be optimistic and up-beat. The objective is to be excited about being a Christian and living the Christian life, to be "on fire for Jesus." They want everyone else to get involved and to join in the exciting programs. Everyone should be personable, out-going and friendly. Everyone should feel good. Like cheerleaders at a pep-rally, they try to motivate and enthuse by being dramatic, entertaining and communicative. They want to whoop it up and be expressive. They conceive of the Christian life as a promotional effort for excitement.
But, what happens when life isn't always exciting? What do these Christians do when the energy level runs low, and when no one responds to the peppy promotion? It is then that they might conclude that "the Christian life doesn't work!" Their response is often to say to themselves, "I am unacceptable to God and to others," which is their greatest fear. "Maybe I haven't been zealous enough. Maybe I haven't been friendly enough. Maybe I haven't been personable enough. Maybe I haven't been convincing enough. Maybe I haven't been enthusiastic enough. Maybe I haven't been involved enough." Back they go to approach the Christian life as a "promotional effort!"
Other Christians approach the Christian life as a "panacea." They think that the Christian life should be pleasant and predictable. Their expectation is that the Christian life should cause everything to be peaceful and pastoral. With an aversion to conflicts and troubles, they think the Christian life should have no unexpected bumps and no curve balls. The Christian life should be consistent, conservative and traditional. For them security is found in that which is steady and stable and status-quo. In relating to others who are trying to live the Christian life, they want everybody to "get-along." They think that everyone in the church should be amiable, accommodating and cooperative like them. Everyone should be patient, loyal, faithful and contented, in order to work together as a family and a team. The objective is to have a safe environment of fun and fellowship, for the Christian life is viewed as a pleasant and predictable panacea.
But, what happens when their Christian life is not such a stable plateau? How do they respond when problems and conflicts arise, and when their greatest fears of an out-of-control chaos seem to be realized? It is then that they might conclude "the Christian life doesn't work!" Their response is often to say to themselves, "Maybe I haven't been loyal enough. Maybe I haven't been patient and accommodating enough. Maybe I haven't been faithful enough. Maybe I haven't been cooperative enough. Maybe I haven't been tolerant enough of others." Back they go to approaching the Christian life as the development of a "peaceful panacea!"
Other Christians approach the Christian life as "propriety." They view the objective of the Christian life as proper thinking and proper action, issuing forth in correct doctrine and correct morality. These Christians want to get everything figured-out accurately and analytically. They "study to show themselves approved." In their quest for truth and knowledge, they are conscientious about every detail. They think that if they can get everything down-pat and air-tight logically and systematically, then there should be precise procedures, techniques and formulas by which to lead an orderly and structured Christian life. In the process, they want everyone else to think like they do, and to agree and conform in thought and practice. The objective is to "do it right," "follow the rules," and "go by the Book." Then the Christian life will be proper, correct and right.
But, what happens when their Christian life doesn't go as planned and the tight structures fail? Inevitably they will find that everything isn't "proper" in their lives. It is then that they might conclude, "the Christian life doesn't work!" Their response is often to say to themselves, "Maybe I've been wrong." They hate to admit it. "Maybe I haven't understood it well enough. Maybe I haven't been studious enough. Maybe I haven't been disciplined enough. Maybe I haven't been exhaustive enough. Maybe I haven't been moral enough." Back they go to approach the Christian life as "propriety."
All Christians can see themselves in one or more of these misdirected approaches to the Christian life. We have all had a tendency to approach our Christian lives with a degree of self-effort. That is why the Christian life doesn't seem to work, because it will not work by our "works" of self-effort.
The Christian life works alright, but not because we try to make it work in a certain way according to our selfish propensities. The Christian life works only when Jesus Christ works in us. That is the way the life of Jesus worked on earth as a man. Jesus said, "the Father abiding in Me does His works" (John 14:10). In like manner, the Christian life works, for the writer to the Hebrews prays that "the God of peace...might equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ" (Heb. 13:20,21). The Christian life is Jesus working in us that which is pleasing in God's sight.
To the Philippians Paul wrote that they should "work out their salvation with fear and trembling" (Phil. 2:12). He did not mean that we should try to work out our Christian lives in accord with our self-oriented mind-set and approaches to life. Rather, those misguided ideas, approaches and orientations must be given up in order to recognize what Paul goes on to say, "God is at work in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure" (Phil. 2:13).
The Christian life does not work if we try to "pull it off" by our pre-conceived agenda of patterned perspectives and approaches. Paul wrote that "He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus" (Phil. 1:6). To the Thessalonians he indicated that "Faithful is He who calls you, and he will bring it to pass" (I Thess. 5:23). Who is going to bring our Christian lives to pass, and effect sanctification? God by His divine action! The Christian life is really God's business, not ours!
In his epistle to the Galatian Christians Paul notes that "it is no longer I who live..." (Gal. 2:20). It is not me trying to live the Christian life by my own self-expression, and my own expectations of what it should be. No one is going to be able to sing Frank Sinatra's song, "I Did It My Way," concerning their Christian life. Rather, Paul goes on to say, "Christ lives in me, and the (Christian) life I now live, I live by faith in the Son of God" (Gal. 2:20). The Christian life is our receptivity of His activity.
Christianity is Christ! The Christian life is the life of Jesus Christ lived out through our behavior. The Christian life is not a project. The Christian life is not a promotional effort. The Christian life is not a panacea. The Christian life is not propriety. The Christian life is a Person, Jesus Christ. The Christian life is effected by the ontological presence and activity of the Being and Life of the risen Lord Jesus.
The Christian life is a process of allowing the Person of Jesus Christ to be lived out in us. It is not a project to get completed and finished. It is not a panacea to arrive at. It is not a promotion to get a "high" of excitement about. It is not a propriety to be properly enacted. The Christian life is the salvation/sanctification process whereby we are "made safe" and "set apart" from the dysfunction of trying to live the Christian life by our own effort and expectations, in order to function as God intended by the indwelling dynamic of the life of the risen Lord Jesus, the Spirit of Christ.
The Christian life is not static. It is not accomplishable. It is not promotable. It is not a plateau of pleasantness. It is not a systematic belief-system. The Christian life is the dynamic manifestation of the life and character of Jesus Christ, who is "the way, the truth and the life" (John 14:6).
In John 15:5 Jesus is recorded as saying, "Apart from Me, you can do nothing." Apart from Jesus Christ and His activity in and through us, we can do nothing that will effect the living of the Christian life. We must give up our naturally patterned approaches, and rely only on Him. "Not that we are adequate in ourselves, to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God" (II Cor. 3:5). With His divine adequacy and empowering, "we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us" (Phil. 4:13). We can live the Christian life through Jesus Christ, as He lives through our behavior.
Our argument has moved from "why the Christian life doesn't seem to work," to the recognition that "the Christian life works" by the out-working of the life of Jesus Christ. Christians must give up trying to make the Christian life work by their own efforts and orientations, and allow the life of Jesus Christ to be lived out through them
Look what's coming
Here's looking at you kid
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
We Cannot Spare This Man, He Fights
My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t think his tweets are “beneath the dignity of the office.” Here’s my answer:
We Right-thinking people have tried dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency. We tried statesmanship. Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized “collegiality” as John McCain? We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney? And the results were always the same.
This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.
I don’t find anything “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper” about Barack Obama’s lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the Democratic Party. I don’t see anything “dignified” in lying about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover your tracks. I don’t see anything “statesman-like” in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy your political opponents and any dissent. Yes, Obama was “articulate” and “polished” but in no way was he in the least bit “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper.”
The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of the Children of the ‘60s. To them, it has been an all-out war where nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale. It has been a war they’ve fought with violence, the threat of violence, demagoguery and lies from day one – the violent take-over of the universities – till today.
The problem is that, through these years, the Left has been the only side fighting this war. While the Left has been taking a knife to anyone who stands in their way, the Right has continued to act with dignity, collegiality and propriety.
With Donald Trump, this all has come to an end. Donald Trump is America’s first wartime president in the Culture War.
During wartime, things like “dignity” and “collegiality” simply aren’t the most essential qualities one looks for in their warriors. Ulysses Grant was a drunk whose behavior in peacetime might well have seen him drummed out of the Army for conduct unbecoming. Had Abraham Lincoln applied the peacetime rules of propriety and booted Grant, the Democrats might well still be holding their slaves today. Lincoln rightly recognized that, “I cannot spare this man. He fights.”
General George Patton was a vulgar-talking, son-of-a-bitch. In peacetime, this might have seen him stripped of rank. But, had Franklin Roosevelt applied the normal rules of decorum, then Hitler and the Socialists would barely be five decades into their thousand-year Reich.
Trump is fighting. And what’s particularly delicious is that, like Patton standing over the battlefield as his tanks obliterated Rommel’s, he’s shouting, “You magnificent bastards, I read your book!” That is just the icing on the cake, but it’s wonderful to see that not only is Trump fighting, he’s defeating the Left using their own tactics.
That book is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals – a book so essential to the Liberals’ war against America that it is and was the playbook for the entire Obama administration and the subject of Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis. It is a book of such pure evil, that, just as the rest of us would dedicate our book to those we most love or those to whom we are most indebted, Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer.
Trump’s tweets may seem rash and unconsidered but, in reality, he is doing exactly what Alinsky suggested his followers do.
First, instead of going after “the fake media” – and they are so fake that they have literally gotten every single significant story of the past 60 years not just wrong, but diametrically opposed to the truth, from the Tet Offensive to Benghazi, to what really happened on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri – Trump isolated CNN. He made it personal. Then, just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule which Alinsky described as “the most powerful weapon of all.”
Everyone gets that it’s not just CNN – in fact, in a world where Al Sharpton and Rachel Maddow, Paul Krugman and Nicholas Kristof are people of influence and whose “reporting” is in no way significantly different than CNN’s – CNN is just a piker.
Most importantly, Trump’s tweets have put CNN in an untenable and unwinnable position. With Trump’s ability to go around them, they cannot simply stand pat. They need to respond. This leaves them with only two choices.
They can either “go high” (as Hillary would disingenuously declare of herself and the fake news would disingenuously report as the truth) and begin to honestly and accurately report the news or they can double-down on their usual tactics and hope to defeat Trump with twice their usual hysteria and demagoguery.
The problem for CNN (et al.) with the former is that, if they were to start honestly reporting the news, that would be the end of the Democratic Party they serve. It is nothing but the incessant use of fake news (read: propaganda) that keeps the Left alive.
Imagine, for example, if CNN had honestly and accurately reported then-candidate Barack Obama’s close ties to foreign terrorists (Rashid Khalidi), domestic terrorists (William Ayers), the mafia (Tony Rezko) or the true evils of his spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright’s, church.
Imagine if they had honestly and accurately conveyed the evils of the Obama administration’s weaponizing of the IRS to be used against their political opponents or his running of guns to the Mexican cartels or the truth about the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the Obama administration’s cover-up.
This makes “going high” a non-starter for CNN. This leaves them no other option but to ratchet up the fake news, conjuring up the next “nothing burger” and devoting 24 hours a day to hysterical rants about how it’s “worse than Nixon.”
This, obviously, is what CNN has chosen to do. The problem is that, as they become more and more hysterical, they become more and more obvious. Each new effort at even faker news than before and faker “outrage” only makes that much more clear to any objective observer that Trump is and always has been right about the fake news media.
And, by causing their hysteria, Trump has forced them into numerous, highly embarrassing and discrediting mistakes. Thus, in their desperation, they have lowered their standards even further and run with articles so clearly fake that, even with the liberal (lower case “l”) libel laws protecting the media, they’ve had to wholly retract and erase their stories repeatedly.
Their flailing at Trump has even seen them cross the line into criminality, with CNN using their vast corporate fortune to hunt down a private citizen for having made fun of them in an Internet meme. This threat to “dox” – release of personal information to encourage co-ideologists to visit violence upon him and his family -- a political satirist was chilling in that it clearly wasn’t meant just for him. If it were, there would have been no reason for CNN to have made their “deal” with him public.
Instead, CNN – playing by “Chicago Rules” – was sending a message to any and all: dissent will not be tolerated.
This heavy-handed and hysterical response to a joke on the Internet has backfired on CNN, giving rise to only more righteous ridicule.
So, to my friends on the Left – and the #NeverTrumpers as well -- do I wish we lived in a time when our president could be “collegial” and “dignified” and “proper”? Of course I do. These aren’t those times. This is war. And it’s a war that the Left has been fighting without opposition for the past 50 years.
So, say anything you want about this president – I get it, he can be vulgar, he can be crude, he can be undignified at times. I don’t care. I can’t spare this man. He fights.
We Right-thinking people have tried dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency. We tried statesmanship. Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized “collegiality” as John McCain? We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney? And the results were always the same.
This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.
I don’t find anything “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper” about Barack Obama’s lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the Democratic Party. I don’t see anything “dignified” in lying about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover your tracks. I don’t see anything “statesman-like” in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy your political opponents and any dissent. Yes, Obama was “articulate” and “polished” but in no way was he in the least bit “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper.”
The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of the Children of the ‘60s. To them, it has been an all-out war where nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale. It has been a war they’ve fought with violence, the threat of violence, demagoguery and lies from day one – the violent take-over of the universities – till today.
The problem is that, through these years, the Left has been the only side fighting this war. While the Left has been taking a knife to anyone who stands in their way, the Right has continued to act with dignity, collegiality and propriety.
With Donald Trump, this all has come to an end. Donald Trump is America’s first wartime president in the Culture War.
During wartime, things like “dignity” and “collegiality” simply aren’t the most essential qualities one looks for in their warriors. Ulysses Grant was a drunk whose behavior in peacetime might well have seen him drummed out of the Army for conduct unbecoming. Had Abraham Lincoln applied the peacetime rules of propriety and booted Grant, the Democrats might well still be holding their slaves today. Lincoln rightly recognized that, “I cannot spare this man. He fights.”
General George Patton was a vulgar-talking, son-of-a-bitch. In peacetime, this might have seen him stripped of rank. But, had Franklin Roosevelt applied the normal rules of decorum, then Hitler and the Socialists would barely be five decades into their thousand-year Reich.
Trump is fighting. And what’s particularly delicious is that, like Patton standing over the battlefield as his tanks obliterated Rommel’s, he’s shouting, “You magnificent bastards, I read your book!” That is just the icing on the cake, but it’s wonderful to see that not only is Trump fighting, he’s defeating the Left using their own tactics.
That book is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals – a book so essential to the Liberals’ war against America that it is and was the playbook for the entire Obama administration and the subject of Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis. It is a book of such pure evil, that, just as the rest of us would dedicate our book to those we most love or those to whom we are most indebted, Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer.
Trump’s tweets may seem rash and unconsidered but, in reality, he is doing exactly what Alinsky suggested his followers do.
First, instead of going after “the fake media” – and they are so fake that they have literally gotten every single significant story of the past 60 years not just wrong, but diametrically opposed to the truth, from the Tet Offensive to Benghazi, to what really happened on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri – Trump isolated CNN. He made it personal. Then, just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule which Alinsky described as “the most powerful weapon of all.”
Everyone gets that it’s not just CNN – in fact, in a world where Al Sharpton and Rachel Maddow, Paul Krugman and Nicholas Kristof are people of influence and whose “reporting” is in no way significantly different than CNN’s – CNN is just a piker.
Most importantly, Trump’s tweets have put CNN in an untenable and unwinnable position. With Trump’s ability to go around them, they cannot simply stand pat. They need to respond. This leaves them with only two choices.
They can either “go high” (as Hillary would disingenuously declare of herself and the fake news would disingenuously report as the truth) and begin to honestly and accurately report the news or they can double-down on their usual tactics and hope to defeat Trump with twice their usual hysteria and demagoguery.
The problem for CNN (et al.) with the former is that, if they were to start honestly reporting the news, that would be the end of the Democratic Party they serve. It is nothing but the incessant use of fake news (read: propaganda) that keeps the Left alive.
Imagine, for example, if CNN had honestly and accurately reported then-candidate Barack Obama’s close ties to foreign terrorists (Rashid Khalidi), domestic terrorists (William Ayers), the mafia (Tony Rezko) or the true evils of his spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright’s, church.
Imagine if they had honestly and accurately conveyed the evils of the Obama administration’s weaponizing of the IRS to be used against their political opponents or his running of guns to the Mexican cartels or the truth about the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the Obama administration’s cover-up.
This makes “going high” a non-starter for CNN. This leaves them no other option but to ratchet up the fake news, conjuring up the next “nothing burger” and devoting 24 hours a day to hysterical rants about how it’s “worse than Nixon.”
This, obviously, is what CNN has chosen to do. The problem is that, as they become more and more hysterical, they become more and more obvious. Each new effort at even faker news than before and faker “outrage” only makes that much more clear to any objective observer that Trump is and always has been right about the fake news media.
And, by causing their hysteria, Trump has forced them into numerous, highly embarrassing and discrediting mistakes. Thus, in their desperation, they have lowered their standards even further and run with articles so clearly fake that, even with the liberal (lower case “l”) libel laws protecting the media, they’ve had to wholly retract and erase their stories repeatedly.
Their flailing at Trump has even seen them cross the line into criminality, with CNN using their vast corporate fortune to hunt down a private citizen for having made fun of them in an Internet meme. This threat to “dox” – release of personal information to encourage co-ideologists to visit violence upon him and his family -- a political satirist was chilling in that it clearly wasn’t meant just for him. If it were, there would have been no reason for CNN to have made their “deal” with him public.
Instead, CNN – playing by “Chicago Rules” – was sending a message to any and all: dissent will not be tolerated.
This heavy-handed and hysterical response to a joke on the Internet has backfired on CNN, giving rise to only more righteous ridicule.
So, to my friends on the Left – and the #NeverTrumpers as well -- do I wish we lived in a time when our president could be “collegial” and “dignified” and “proper”? Of course I do. These aren’t those times. This is war. And it’s a war that the Left has been fighting without opposition for the past 50 years.
So, say anything you want about this president – I get it, he can be vulgar, he can be crude, he can be undignified at times. I don’t care. I can’t spare this man. He fights.
Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Remember When...
Remember when Donald Trump was business partners with the Russian government and his company got $53 million from the Russian government investment fund called Rusnano that was started by Vladimir Putin and is referred to as "Putin's Child?”
Oh wait, that wasn't Trump; it was John Podesta.
Remember when Donald Trump received $500,000 for a speech in Moscow and paid for by Renaissance Capital, a company tied to Russian Intelligence Agencies?
Oh wait,that wasn't Trump; that was Bill Clinton.
Remember when Donald Trump approved the sale of 20% of U.S. uranium to the Russians while he was Secretary of State which gave control of it to Rosatom the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation?
Oh wait, that wasn't Trump; that was Hillary Clinton.
Remember when Donald Trump lied about that and said he wasn't a part of approving the deal that gave the Russians 1/5 of our uranium, but then his e-mails were leaked showing he did lie about it?
Oh wait, that wasn't Trump; that was Hillary Clinton and John Podesta.
Remember when Donald Trump got $145 million from shareholders of the uranium company sold to the Russians?
Oh wait, that wasn't Trump; that was Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation.
Remember when Donald Trump accepted millions in donations from Russian oligarchs like the chairman of a company that's part of the Russian Nuclear Research Cluster, the wife of the mayor of Moscow and a close pal of Putin's?
Oh wait, that wasn't Trump; that was the Clinton Foundation.
Remember when Donald Trump failed to disclose all those donations before becoming the Secretary of State, and it was only found out when a journalist went through Canadian tax records?
Oh wait, that wasn't Trump; that was Hillary Clinton
Remember when Donald Trump told Mitt Romney that the '80s called and it wanted its Russian policy back. The Cold War is over?
Oh wait, that wasn't Trump; that was President Barack Obama.
Man, Trump's ties to Russia are really "disgusting!"
We Cannot Spare This Man...He Fights
He Fights by Evan Sayet
7/13/2017 1:57:00 PM - Evan Sayet
My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t think his tweets are “beneath the dignity of the office.”
Here’s my answer:
We Right-thinking people have tried dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency. We tried statesmanship. Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized “collegiality” as John McCain? We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney? And the results were always the same.
This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.
I don’t find anything “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper” about Barack Obama’s lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the Democratic Party. I don’t see anything “dignified” in lying about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover your tracks. I don’t see anything “statesman-like” in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy your political opponents and any dissent. Yes, Obama was “articulate” and “polished” but in no way was he in the least bit “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper.”
The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of the Children of the ‘60s. To them, it has been an all-out war where nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale. It has been a war they’ve fought with violence, the threat of violence, demagoguery and lies from day one – the violent take-over of the universities – till today.
The problem is that, through these years, the Left has been the only side fighting this war. While the Left has been taking a knife to anyone who stands in their way, the Right has continued to act with dignity, collegiality and propriety.
With Donald Trump, this all has come to an end.
Donald Trump is America’s first wartime president in the Culture War.
During wartime, things like “dignity” and “collegiality” simply aren’t the most essential qualities one looks for in their warriors. Ulysses Grant was a drunk whose behavior in peacetime might well have seen him drummed out of the Army for conduct unbecoming. Had Abraham Lincoln applied the peacetime rules of propriety and booted Grant, the Democrats might well still be holding their slaves today. Lincoln rightly recognized that, “I cannot spare this man. He fights.”
General George Patton was a vulgar-talking, son-of-a-bitch. In peacetime, this might have seen him stripped of rank. But, had Franklin Roosevelt applied the normal rules of decorum, then Hitler and the Socialists would barely be five decades into their thousand-year Reich.
Trump is fighting. And what’s particularly delicious is that, like Patton standing over the battlefield as his tanks obliterated Rommel’s, he’s shouting, “You magnificent bastards, I read your book!” That is just the icing on the cake, but it’s wonderful to see that not only is Trump fighting, he’s defeating the Left using their own tactics.
That book is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals – a book so essential to the Liberals’ war against America that it is and was the playbook for the entire Obama administration and the subject of Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis. It is a book of such pure evil, that, just as the rest of us would dedicate our book to those we most love or those to whom we are most indebted, Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer.
Trump’s tweets may seem rash and unconsidered but, in reality, he is doing exactly what Alinsky suggested his followers do.
First, instead of going after “the fake media” – and they are so fake that they have literally gotten every single significant story of the past 60 years not just wrong, but diametrically opposed to the truth, from the Tet Offensive to Benghazi, to what really happened on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri – Trump isolated CNN. He made it personal. Then, just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule which Alinsky described as “the most powerful weapon of all.”
Everyone gets that it’s not just CNN – in fact, in a world where Al Sharpton and Rachel Maddow, Paul Krugman and Nicholas Kristof are people of influence and whose “reporting” is in no way significantly different than CNN’s – CNN is just a piker.
Most importantly, Trump’s tweets have put CNN in an untenable and unwinnable position. With Trump’s ability to go around them, they cannot simply stand pat. They need to respond. This leaves them with only two choices.
They can either “go high” (as Hillary would disingenuously declare of herself and the fake news would disingenuously report as the truth) and begin to honestly and accurately report the news or they can double-down on their usual tactics and hope to defeat Trump with twice their usual hysteria and demagoguery.
The problem for CNN (et al.) with the former is that, if they were to start honestly reporting the news, that would be the end of the Democratic Party they serve. It is nothing but the incessant use of fake news (read: propaganda) that keeps the Left alive.
Imagine, for example, if CNN had honestly and accurately reported then-candidate Barack Obama’s close ties to foreign terrorists (Rashid Khalidi), domestic terrorists (William Ayers), the mafia (Tony Rezko) or the true evils of his spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright’s, church.
Imagine if they had honestly and accurately conveyed the evils of the Obama administration’s weaponizing of the IRS to be used against their political opponents or his running of guns to the Mexican cartels or the truth about the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the Obama administration’s cover-up.
This makes “going high” a non-starter for CNN. This leaves them no other option but to ratchet up the fake news, conjuring up the next “nothing burger” and devoting 24 hours a day to hysterical rants about how it’s “worse than Nixon.”
This, obviously, is what CNN has chosen to do. The problem is that, as they become more and more hysterical, they become more and more obvious. Each new effort at even faker news than before and faker “outrage” only makes that much more clear to any objective observer that Trump is and always has been right about the fake news media.
And, by causing their hysteria, Trump has forced them into numerous, highly embarrassing and discrediting mistakes. Thus, in their desperation, they have lowered their standards even further and run with articles so clearly fake that, even with the liberal (lower case “l”) libel laws protecting the media, they’ve had to wholly retract and erase their stories repeatedly.
Their flailing at Trump has even seen them cross the line into criminality, with CNN using their vast corporate fortune to hunt down a private citizen for having made fun of them in an Internet meme. This threat to “dox” – release of personal information to encourage co-ideologists to visit violence upon him and his family -- a political satirist was chilling in that it clearly wasn’t meant just for him. If it were, there would have been no reason for CNN to have made their “deal” with him public.
Instead, CNN – playing by “Chicago Rules” – was sending a message to any and all: dissent will not be tolerated.
This heavy-handed and hysterical response to a joke on the Internet has backfired on CNN, giving rise to only more righteous ridicule.
So, to my friends on the Left – and the #NeverTrumpers as well -- do I wish we lived in a time when our president could be “collegial” and “dignified” and “proper”? Of course I do. These aren’t those times. This is war. And it’s a war that the Left has been fighting without opposition for the past 50 years.
So, say anything you want about this president – I get it, he can be vulgar, he can be crude, he can be undignified at times. I don’t care. I can’t spare this man. He fights.
7/13/2017 1:57:00 PM - Evan Sayet
My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t think his tweets are “beneath the dignity of the office.”
Here’s my answer:
We Right-thinking people have tried dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency. We tried statesmanship. Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized “collegiality” as John McCain? We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney? And the results were always the same.
This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.
I don’t find anything “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper” about Barack Obama’s lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the Democratic Party. I don’t see anything “dignified” in lying about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover your tracks. I don’t see anything “statesman-like” in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy your political opponents and any dissent. Yes, Obama was “articulate” and “polished” but in no way was he in the least bit “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper.”
The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of the Children of the ‘60s. To them, it has been an all-out war where nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale. It has been a war they’ve fought with violence, the threat of violence, demagoguery and lies from day one – the violent take-over of the universities – till today.
The problem is that, through these years, the Left has been the only side fighting this war. While the Left has been taking a knife to anyone who stands in their way, the Right has continued to act with dignity, collegiality and propriety.
With Donald Trump, this all has come to an end.
Donald Trump is America’s first wartime president in the Culture War.
During wartime, things like “dignity” and “collegiality” simply aren’t the most essential qualities one looks for in their warriors. Ulysses Grant was a drunk whose behavior in peacetime might well have seen him drummed out of the Army for conduct unbecoming. Had Abraham Lincoln applied the peacetime rules of propriety and booted Grant, the Democrats might well still be holding their slaves today. Lincoln rightly recognized that, “I cannot spare this man. He fights.”
General George Patton was a vulgar-talking, son-of-a-bitch. In peacetime, this might have seen him stripped of rank. But, had Franklin Roosevelt applied the normal rules of decorum, then Hitler and the Socialists would barely be five decades into their thousand-year Reich.
Trump is fighting. And what’s particularly delicious is that, like Patton standing over the battlefield as his tanks obliterated Rommel’s, he’s shouting, “You magnificent bastards, I read your book!” That is just the icing on the cake, but it’s wonderful to see that not only is Trump fighting, he’s defeating the Left using their own tactics.
That book is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals – a book so essential to the Liberals’ war against America that it is and was the playbook for the entire Obama administration and the subject of Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis. It is a book of such pure evil, that, just as the rest of us would dedicate our book to those we most love or those to whom we are most indebted, Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer.
Trump’s tweets may seem rash and unconsidered but, in reality, he is doing exactly what Alinsky suggested his followers do.
First, instead of going after “the fake media” – and they are so fake that they have literally gotten every single significant story of the past 60 years not just wrong, but diametrically opposed to the truth, from the Tet Offensive to Benghazi, to what really happened on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri – Trump isolated CNN. He made it personal. Then, just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule which Alinsky described as “the most powerful weapon of all.”
Everyone gets that it’s not just CNN – in fact, in a world where Al Sharpton and Rachel Maddow, Paul Krugman and Nicholas Kristof are people of influence and whose “reporting” is in no way significantly different than CNN’s – CNN is just a piker.
Most importantly, Trump’s tweets have put CNN in an untenable and unwinnable position. With Trump’s ability to go around them, they cannot simply stand pat. They need to respond. This leaves them with only two choices.
They can either “go high” (as Hillary would disingenuously declare of herself and the fake news would disingenuously report as the truth) and begin to honestly and accurately report the news or they can double-down on their usual tactics and hope to defeat Trump with twice their usual hysteria and demagoguery.
The problem for CNN (et al.) with the former is that, if they were to start honestly reporting the news, that would be the end of the Democratic Party they serve. It is nothing but the incessant use of fake news (read: propaganda) that keeps the Left alive.
Imagine, for example, if CNN had honestly and accurately reported then-candidate Barack Obama’s close ties to foreign terrorists (Rashid Khalidi), domestic terrorists (William Ayers), the mafia (Tony Rezko) or the true evils of his spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright’s, church.
Imagine if they had honestly and accurately conveyed the evils of the Obama administration’s weaponizing of the IRS to be used against their political opponents or his running of guns to the Mexican cartels or the truth about the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the Obama administration’s cover-up.
This makes “going high” a non-starter for CNN. This leaves them no other option but to ratchet up the fake news, conjuring up the next “nothing burger” and devoting 24 hours a day to hysterical rants about how it’s “worse than Nixon.”
This, obviously, is what CNN has chosen to do. The problem is that, as they become more and more hysterical, they become more and more obvious. Each new effort at even faker news than before and faker “outrage” only makes that much more clear to any objective observer that Trump is and always has been right about the fake news media.
And, by causing their hysteria, Trump has forced them into numerous, highly embarrassing and discrediting mistakes. Thus, in their desperation, they have lowered their standards even further and run with articles so clearly fake that, even with the liberal (lower case “l”) libel laws protecting the media, they’ve had to wholly retract and erase their stories repeatedly.
Their flailing at Trump has even seen them cross the line into criminality, with CNN using their vast corporate fortune to hunt down a private citizen for having made fun of them in an Internet meme. This threat to “dox” – release of personal information to encourage co-ideologists to visit violence upon him and his family -- a political satirist was chilling in that it clearly wasn’t meant just for him. If it were, there would have been no reason for CNN to have made their “deal” with him public.
Instead, CNN – playing by “Chicago Rules” – was sending a message to any and all: dissent will not be tolerated.
This heavy-handed and hysterical response to a joke on the Internet has backfired on CNN, giving rise to only more righteous ridicule.
So, to my friends on the Left – and the #NeverTrumpers as well -- do I wish we lived in a time when our president could be “collegial” and “dignified” and “proper”? Of course I do. These aren’t those times. This is war. And it’s a war that the Left has been fighting without opposition for the past 50 years.
So, say anything you want about this president – I get it, he can be vulgar, he can be crude, he can be undignified at times. I don’t care. I can’t spare this man. He fights.
Monday, July 24, 2017
Thoughts Become Acts, Choose The Right Ones
The College Trend: "Dumbing-Down"By Bernard DozierToo many colleges are bowing to students' demand to beignorant of, and hostile to, the thinking of "old white men"whose struggles against ignorance produced civilization.I still believe that college should develop critical thinking,expand knowledge, promote receptivity to fertile ideas--re-gardless of their exponents' age, sex, or pigmentation--andencourage flexibility in considering diverse viewpoints.There seem to be three "perversities" going on at universities.There's something perverse about letting the "unlearned determine curriculum--which makes no more sense than doctors letting patients diagnose and prescribe for themselves. There's also something perverse about colleges charging ever-higher tuition for a watered-down product. But the worst odor of all rises from professors who, instead of sharpening young minds into incisive instruments, indoctrinate, propagandize, and robotize them while dulling their appreciation of and tolerance for creative ideas.
Institutions that betray "higher education's" devotion to ex-cellence by "Dumbing-down" their students are a disgrace.Parents who foot the bills should smell academic fraud oncethe Alma Mater changes t0 something like:No more Goethe, no more Plato,No Dante, Shakespeare or Galileo.No more thought or asking why,Here my mind just came to die."We have to fear for a society and its institutions that allowa bullying "political correctness," to negate and overrule thewisdom that guided humanity out of the Stone Age, and thatallow bias, rigidity, and prejudicial ignorance to suppress afree-minded, truth-speaking citizenry.Thankfully, though, I encourage the realization that theInternet is a gigantic "University." A universe of know-ledge is there., and if it's excellence we seek, all we have tois go to the Search Bar, and after typing in, "The Greatest,"follow with categories such as: Philosophers; Scientists;Non-fiction books; Writers; Poets; Novelists; Thinkers;Inventors; Educators; Entrepreneurs; Statesmen; Physic-ans; Explorers; Physicists; Astronomers, etc.Suppose we click on one of them and read for ten minutesevery a day for four or five years. Association with theworld's greatest minds can develop more discrimination, va-lues, inspiration, empowerment, and initiative--plus a broad-er, deeper. fuller, education than students get at some colleges.You may not end up with a diploma by doing this, but you'llhave a well-rounded, creative mind...and no student debt.Remember-Thoughts become things...choose the good ones!
Sunday, June 4, 2017
Where Is This Insanity Headed
Within the last few years, the frequency of terrorist attacks on innocent people worldwide have increased to the point that it now seems that every couple of days, and sometimes daily I read or hear about another terrorist attack somewhere in the world. And I am certain that there are dozens more that go unreported. Of all of these attacks, almost all of them are claimed by ISIS or some similar hate group which is copying the tactics of ISIS with beheadings, car bombs or suicide bomber attacks. This type of action by "terrorists" seems to be growing, and all have one thing in common. They all are part of or claim to be of Islamic orign.
Then there are the copycat actors who want to make a name for themselves who go into a public place where there might be a crowd of people and they just begin shooting people at random and praising Allah attempting to kill as many as possible before being shot, or captured themselves. And we get a reminder now and then that schools and colleges are not exempt from the same type of hate being spewed out in another shooting or bombing.
It seems to me as the statistics are accumulated, that these terrorist acts are being promoted and spread by individuals or groups who are associated with or who are a part of the Islamic faith. The perpetrators are Muslim or Islamic or they are sympathetic to the Muslim faith or the religion of Islam. And these acts are more prevalent in third world countries and in Europe, than anywhere else in the world. And now it seems to be happening more in Britain and France than in any other country.
The surprise isn't that Muslims are killing more innocent French or Brits, it's that the French and the Brits are surprised that Muslims are killing their innocent citizens. Has no one read the Hadith and Koran? Has no one in EU read anything about 1400 years of a savage ideology called Islam? Brit authorities admit they have 23,000 Muslims under surveillance, yet the socialists want to let more in.
The US authorities aren't saying how many are being monitored in this country. You can bet if there's a mosque around there are terrorists inside. And those who aren't terrorists will support and protect those who are terrorists. Terrorists kill and moderates pave the way for them.
I swear if today's uninformed socialist liberals had been around in 1940 they'd be demanding we let Nazis immigrate by the thousands.
Our libs still cry and moan about FDR setting up camps for Japanese immigrants living here. And in many ways it was cruel, but not a one of them was free to recruit terrorists nor to spread hatred and death across America. They were housed, fed, educated and protected from Americans who sought revenge for Pearl Harbor. Some were even allowed to join the military and serve in Europe during WW2.
A travel ban against Muslims is a good start, but our congress needs to pass laws prohibiting the practice of Islam in America. The same way in the past we prohibited Nazis, Facists, Communists and other groups openly advocating the overthrow of the US. Islam is an evil ideology that makes these groups look like "the JV team".
Wake up America. Flush your “Politically Correct” mentality down the sewer where it belongs, and start protecting this country before it goes the way of Europe. And soon vanishes under the insane ideology of Islam. Reminder; There are already two cities in the United States of America under sharia law, They are Dearborn Michigan and Frankfort Texas. This is Frightening.
Then there are the copycat actors who want to make a name for themselves who go into a public place where there might be a crowd of people and they just begin shooting people at random and praising Allah attempting to kill as many as possible before being shot, or captured themselves. And we get a reminder now and then that schools and colleges are not exempt from the same type of hate being spewed out in another shooting or bombing.
It seems to me as the statistics are accumulated, that these terrorist acts are being promoted and spread by individuals or groups who are associated with or who are a part of the Islamic faith. The perpetrators are Muslim or Islamic or they are sympathetic to the Muslim faith or the religion of Islam. And these acts are more prevalent in third world countries and in Europe, than anywhere else in the world. And now it seems to be happening more in Britain and France than in any other country.
The surprise isn't that Muslims are killing more innocent French or Brits, it's that the French and the Brits are surprised that Muslims are killing their innocent citizens. Has no one read the Hadith and Koran? Has no one in EU read anything about 1400 years of a savage ideology called Islam? Brit authorities admit they have 23,000 Muslims under surveillance, yet the socialists want to let more in.
The US authorities aren't saying how many are being monitored in this country. You can bet if there's a mosque around there are terrorists inside. And those who aren't terrorists will support and protect those who are terrorists. Terrorists kill and moderates pave the way for them.
I swear if today's uninformed socialist liberals had been around in 1940 they'd be demanding we let Nazis immigrate by the thousands.
Our libs still cry and moan about FDR setting up camps for Japanese immigrants living here. And in many ways it was cruel, but not a one of them was free to recruit terrorists nor to spread hatred and death across America. They were housed, fed, educated and protected from Americans who sought revenge for Pearl Harbor. Some were even allowed to join the military and serve in Europe during WW2.
A travel ban against Muslims is a good start, but our congress needs to pass laws prohibiting the practice of Islam in America. The same way in the past we prohibited Nazis, Facists, Communists and other groups openly advocating the overthrow of the US. Islam is an evil ideology that makes these groups look like "the JV team".
Wake up America. Flush your “Politically Correct” mentality down the sewer where it belongs, and start protecting this country before it goes the way of Europe. And soon vanishes under the insane ideology of Islam. Reminder; There are already two cities in the United States of America under sharia law, They are Dearborn Michigan and Frankfort Texas. This is Frightening.
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Where Was The Liberal Media Then
Sent: May 26, Dear Leftist,Good-for-Nothings who are enjoying the freedom that millions of our military men and women have fought and died for, so you can gripe and moan free of charge without fear of intimidation or repression "our" media: Listen up you nit wits!
1. You said nothing when Obama used drone strikes to execute people abroad.
2. You said nothing about Russia for 50 years until Trump was inaugurated.
3. You said nothing about Hillary's campaign manager's brother being paid
$175,000 to lift U.S. sanctions on Russia.
4. You said nothing when Obama engaged in military interventionism in Libya
without Congressional approval.
5. You said nothing when Obama greatly expanded presidential power through
the use of Executive Orders.
6. You said nothing when Obama filled his White House with lobbyists after
he said he wouldn't.
7. You said nothing when Obama gave 47 of his fundraisers Administration
jobs.
8. You said nothing about the murders and rapes at the hands of illegal
immigrants.
9. You said nothing when Hillary's net worth rose over $100 million as
Secretary of State, in part, because her husband took money from foreign
governments.
10. You said nothing after Obama's net worth rose over $10 million as
President.
11. You said nothing when Obama's Justice Dept. wiretapped/surveilled
reporters such as James Rosen and the AP.
12. You said nothing when Obama restricted immigration 6 times with
Executive Orders.
13. You said nothing when Obama set a record for deportations.
14. You said nothing when Bill Clinton met Loretta Lynch on the airport
tarmac during the Clinton investigation.
15. You said nothing when Hillary was fed debate questions.
16. You said nothing when Obama and Hillary lied about a video and Benghazi
17. You said nothing when Obama's IRS abused the rights of taxpayers.
18. You said nothing when Obama's White House held meetings with lobbyists
in coffee shops near White House to avoid disclosure requirements.
19. You said nothing when Eric Holder sold the guns you hate to criminals
and some were used to kill Americans.
20. You said nothing when the Clinton's took White House property.
21. You said nothing when Hillary laughed off defending a child-rapist.
22. You said nothing when Hillary lied about her private use of a private
email server as Secretary of State.
23. You said nothing when Janet Reno, under Bill Clinton, used a tank to
kill the Branch Dividians.
24. You said nothing when, on May 13, 1985, a bomb was dropped on a row
house in Philadelphia to uproot the black liberation group known as Move,
resulting in a fire that eventually burned down 61 houses, killed 11 people
(including five children) and injured dozens.
25. You said nothing when Elian Gonzales was forcibly deported using guns.
26. You said nothing when George Soros paid protesters to burn parts of
Ferguson.
27. You said nothing about states' rights until Trump's Executive orders on
immigration.
28. You said nothing about Obama's smoking. (probably pot smoking too.)
29. You said nothing about the record numbers of people on government
assistance. (More than doubled by Obama) including free cell phones and carriers for them.
30. You said nothing about the number of part time and low paying jobs under
the Obama recovery.
31. You said nothing when Obama had SWAT teams raid a Gibson guitar factory
and seize property, on the purported basis that Gibson had broken India's
environmental laws-but no charges were filed.
32. You said nothing when Obama claimed that the Fort Hood shooting was
"workplace violence" rather than terrorism.
33. You said nothing when Obama ended some terror asylum restrictions, by
allowing asylum for people who provided only "insignificant" or "limited"
material support of terrorists.
34. You said nothing when the national debt doubled under Obama.
35. You said nothing when 9 times the Supreme Court unanimously overturned
Obama's expansive use of Executive Power.
36. You said nothing when Obama dismissed charges filed by the Bush
Administration against New Black Panther Party members who were videotaped
intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling station during the 2008
election.
37. You said nothing when Obama released Guantanamo detainees who then went
back to kill Americans.
38. You said nothing when Obama unilaterally changed Congressional law by
Executive Order.
39. You said nothing when Obama fired an inspector general after
investigating an $850,000 AmeriCorps grant received by a nonprofit run by
former NBA star and Obama supporter Kevin Johnson.
40. You said nothing about the 36 Obama's executive office staffers that
owed $833,970 in back taxes
41. You said nothing when Obama Killed four
Americans overseas in counter-terrorism operations without a judicial
process.
So NOW,you are voicing your objections about three months of Trump, I'm
sorry... we can't hear you because you said NOTHING before!!! This was
copied and shared...keep it going, not mine but I agree.
1. You said nothing when Obama used drone strikes to execute people abroad.
2. You said nothing about Russia for 50 years until Trump was inaugurated.
3. You said nothing about Hillary's campaign manager's brother being paid
$175,000 to lift U.S. sanctions on Russia.
4. You said nothing when Obama engaged in military interventionism in Libya
without Congressional approval.
5. You said nothing when Obama greatly expanded presidential power through
the use of Executive Orders.
6. You said nothing when Obama filled his White House with lobbyists after
he said he wouldn't.
7. You said nothing when Obama gave 47 of his fundraisers Administration
jobs.
8. You said nothing about the murders and rapes at the hands of illegal
immigrants.
9. You said nothing when Hillary's net worth rose over $100 million as
Secretary of State, in part, because her husband took money from foreign
governments.
10. You said nothing after Obama's net worth rose over $10 million as
President.
11. You said nothing when Obama's Justice Dept. wiretapped/surveilled
reporters such as James Rosen and the AP.
12. You said nothing when Obama restricted immigration 6 times with
Executive Orders.
13. You said nothing when Obama set a record for deportations.
14. You said nothing when Bill Clinton met Loretta Lynch on the airport
tarmac during the Clinton investigation.
15. You said nothing when Hillary was fed debate questions.
16. You said nothing when Obama and Hillary lied about a video and Benghazi
17. You said nothing when Obama's IRS abused the rights of taxpayers.
18. You said nothing when Obama's White House held meetings with lobbyists
in coffee shops near White House to avoid disclosure requirements.
19. You said nothing when Eric Holder sold the guns you hate to criminals
and some were used to kill Americans.
20. You said nothing when the Clinton's took White House property.
21. You said nothing when Hillary laughed off defending a child-rapist.
22. You said nothing when Hillary lied about her private use of a private
email server as Secretary of State.
23. You said nothing when Janet Reno, under Bill Clinton, used a tank to
kill the Branch Dividians.
24. You said nothing when, on May 13, 1985, a bomb was dropped on a row
house in Philadelphia to uproot the black liberation group known as Move,
resulting in a fire that eventually burned down 61 houses, killed 11 people
(including five children) and injured dozens.
25. You said nothing when Elian Gonzales was forcibly deported using guns.
26. You said nothing when George Soros paid protesters to burn parts of
Ferguson.
27. You said nothing about states' rights until Trump's Executive orders on
immigration.
28. You said nothing about Obama's smoking. (probably pot smoking too.)
29. You said nothing about the record numbers of people on government
assistance. (More than doubled by Obama) including free cell phones and carriers for them.
30. You said nothing about the number of part time and low paying jobs under
the Obama recovery.
31. You said nothing when Obama had SWAT teams raid a Gibson guitar factory
and seize property, on the purported basis that Gibson had broken India's
environmental laws-but no charges were filed.
32. You said nothing when Obama claimed that the Fort Hood shooting was
"workplace violence" rather than terrorism.
33. You said nothing when Obama ended some terror asylum restrictions, by
allowing asylum for people who provided only "insignificant" or "limited"
material support of terrorists.
34. You said nothing when the national debt doubled under Obama.
35. You said nothing when 9 times the Supreme Court unanimously overturned
Obama's expansive use of Executive Power.
36. You said nothing when Obama dismissed charges filed by the Bush
Administration against New Black Panther Party members who were videotaped
intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling station during the 2008
election.
37. You said nothing when Obama released Guantanamo detainees who then went
back to kill Americans.
38. You said nothing when Obama unilaterally changed Congressional law by
Executive Order.
39. You said nothing when Obama fired an inspector general after
investigating an $850,000 AmeriCorps grant received by a nonprofit run by
former NBA star and Obama supporter Kevin Johnson.
40. You said nothing about the 36 Obama's executive office staffers that
owed $833,970 in back taxes
41. You said nothing when Obama Killed four
Americans overseas in counter-terrorism operations without a judicial
process.
So NOW,you are voicing your objections about three months of Trump, I'm
sorry... we can't hear you because you said NOTHING before!!! This was
copied and shared...keep it going, not mine but I agree.
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