Dr. Jack Wheeler
HALF-FULL REPORT 11/25/16
A Tale of Trump in Two Charts.
The first is Low Priced Stocks vs. the S&P 500 over the last 22 years. The first shaded section is the early 2000s dotcom crash, the second is the Lehman 2008 collapse. But the key data point here is the fork-in-the-road divergence starting in early 2013, with the S&P rocketing up and the low caps racing for the basement.
What happened? The SEC launched its enforcement of Dodd-Frank, particularly its making stock brokers and investment advisors criminally liable for recommending high-risk shares to clients. The obvious consequence is that brokers abandoned any high-risk/low-priced company.
The second chart is that of the Russell 2000 (the bottom 2000 stocks in the Russell 3000) since Trump’s election. It closed last night (11/23) at 1342.09, a record high with a win streak of 14 consecutive sessions, the longest in over 20 years.
What’s the connection? Trump has pledged to repeal Dodd-Frank.
There’s so much more – this Thanksgiving HFR is going to be one of the most enjoyable you’ve ever read. I guarantee it….
Join the forum discussion on this postTHANKSGIVING IS AMERICA’S CELEBRATION OF CAPITALISM
On Thanksgiving Day, Americans gather with their family and friends to celebrate the blessings that Providence has bestowed on their beloved country.
A deep appreciation of these blessings involves understanding that they were earned. It is to understand the awesome truth of how “God helps those who help themselves” applies to the Mayflower Pilgrims and their First Thanksgiving at America’s birth.
This is an appreciation and understanding of which those on the Left are incapable – for it would mean celebrating the capitalist freedom that made that original Thanksgiving possible. That made America possible.
This no liberal, no Democrat, no leftie can do. Thus they must distort history instead.
The distortion starts in Kindergarten, with the childish make-believe of your kid's school play portraying the noble Squanto teaching the helpless Pilgrims how to feed themselves. So let’s drop the curtain on the distortion and watch the real thing.
The real history of the Mayflower Pilgrims was recounted by their leader, William Bradford (1590-1657) in his book Of Plymouth Plantation, completed in 1647. It is as effective a refutation of socialism and affirmation of capitalism as there has ever been. Here it is entire.
Little more than three weeks ago, our freedom and abundance was threatened as never before by a Fascist Left determined to destroy it.
With Donald Trump, Americans chose the embodiment of capitalist abundance over being impoverished wards of The State.
Churchill defined Marxism, be it Socialism or Fascism, as “the gospel of envy.” It is the gospel that Obama, Hillary, the Enemedia, and all Democrats preach. It takes extreme moral courage to reject it.
Yet that moral courage is exactly what a majority of American voters demonstrated on November 8th. Only American voters could be so envy-free to elect so opulent a capitalist businessman who proudly flaunts his earned wealth rather than apologizing for it.
Now more than ever is the time to focus anew on all that we love about our country, to know that Providence has always smiled upon it - for we, like the Pilgrims have chosen capitalist freedom over socialist slavery.
HALF-FULL REPORT 11/18/16
We have to preface this HFR with an urgent notice. The dates of Rendezvous XV have been changed.
They are now one week later, Friday January 27 to Sunday January 29. That’s because so many TTPers (myself included) will be in Washington for the celebratory presidential inauguration of President Trump on January 20.
RXV a week after DJT’s ensconcement in the Oval Office is an ideal time to discuss how we move forward into the Trump Era.
However – we cannot commit to the major expense of a Rendezvous until we know how many of you will attend. This is not a profit-making venture, we operate it on a break-even basis as an opportunity for TTPers to gather together personally.
Thus we are offering a discount price of $395 for Rendezvous XV for the next 10 days, that is until Monday November 28 – after which the price will be $425.
So – please call or email Miko now to confirm your attendance at what will be the most exciting and joyful Rendezvous ever! Call Miko at (202) 656-3008 or email him at [email protected]. It’s a good idea to do it now.
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OK, here we go. Right now (11/18), we know nothing about most of Trump’s cabinet picks; we just know who’s been going in and out of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue. It’s all speculation so far, some of it terrific, some of it terrible.
The worst so far is this morning’s Fox headline: Trump Offers Flynn Post of National Security Advisor. Pray this isn’t true, or that DJT will withdraw the offer when he realizes that retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn is a paid lobbyist for the sponsor of ISIS, the Islamofascist dictator of Turkey Recip Erdogan.
On election day, Nov 8, The Hill (newspaper of Capitol Hill) published an op-ed written by Flynn under his own byline: Our Ally Turkey Is in Crisis and Needs Our Support. It is disgustingly dishonest, paid bootlicking of arguably the Number One Enemy of America among world leaders today.
On Nov 11, the Daily Caller disclosed who Erdogan was using as a cutout to pay off Flynn – a Turkish crony businessman named Ekim Alptekin via a Dutch shell company called Inovo BV.
On Wednesday (11/16), Trump announced that lobbyists will not be allowed in his administration. Flynn would be disqualified as NSC Director by that alone. Let’s hope he is.
BEETHOVEN AND TRUMP
There is no word in the English language for schadenfreude – a German word that translates to “joy in the misfortune of others.”
British writer Alistair Cooke calls schadenfreude "an unworthy emotion, which may be why we don't admit to it by having a word in English."
Yet only saints don’t feel or enjoy schadenfreude. This is particularly so when we feel the misfortune and misery of others is deserved. That’s why audiences cheer when the villain in a movie gets his in the end.
Or how about this news: Oregon Official Who Persecuted Christian Bakers Loses Election. Don’t you feel like shouting, “Hallelujah!”?
That’s why it’s fun to see celebrities and college crybabies going bananas protesting Trump’s landslide victory. They hate America, want to see it ruined, and fully deserve all the heartache and despair they’re feeling.
Right? However…
Even though schadenfreude is fun to feel, we don’t want it to linger in our hearts. The longer it lingers, the more corrosive it is to our souls. Okay, laugh at the losers, but then start feeling something better. What would that be?
Let’s look to Beethoven for the answer.
AN ILLEGITIMATE PRESIDENCY
Kathmandu, Nepal. By the time you read this, I’ll be at Mount Everest Base Camp. I’ll be getting election results by satphone.
If I were a betting man, I’d bet that Donald Trump will win the presidency on Tuesday.
That’s if the election is honest, which it very likely is not. On Friday (11/04), the famous hacker known as “Guccifer 2.0” reported that software installed in Federal Election Commission computers has been rigged for the Democrats.
This may be done via a technique known as Fraction Magic within GEMS election systems which counts about 25% of all votes cast throughout the US.
So what happens if Hillary wins the presidency illegitimately? We will have a treasonously corrupt criminal as president, whose chief aide and lesbian lover of 20 years is a Radical Moslem spy for Saudi terrorists. We will have a Second Civil War.
HALF-FULL REPORT 10/28/16
When one of the world’s best financial analysts and I find ourselves agreeing with one of the world’s most repulsive SJWs (social justice warriors), you know things are getting über-weird 12 days out from November 8.
Last night (10/27), over two fingers of Ardbeg neat (you don’t insult the best Islay single malt with water or ice), financial guru Michael Markowski and I discussed the bottom line consequences of who wins the White House.
We agreed that hell is coming to breakfast for the stock market no matter who wins. The complete unsustainability of negative or near-zero interest rates is just one example (see Michael’s video on this below).
If Trump wins, his policies of eliminating regulatory hamstrings, raising interest rates instead of taxes, cutting spending, repatriating corporate offshore trillions, etc. will result in a V-shape recovery similar to that of Ronald Reagan’s in the early 80s.
If Hillary wins, her policies of more government regulation and taxes will result in a flatline L-shape anti-recovery similar to that of FDR’s in the 1930s, prolonging the Great Depression. The scariest part of this scenario is that the only way we finally got out the Depression was with World War II.
Hillary, in other words, will use the coming inevitable crash as all Lefties traditionally use crises – as a rationale to expand government power and control over our lives. Trump, on the other hand, will use it to expand economic freedom and opportunity which ends the crisis quickly instead of prolonging it and possibly ends in war.
And now for the fun cover story of today:
WHY DEMOCRATS DO NOT BELIEVE IN DEMOCRACY
President George Bush denounced what he called an “Axis of Evil” in his famed 2002 State of the Union Address little over 4 months after 9/11: Iraq, Iran, North Korea. That it was – but another Axis of Evil had risen in America itself.
The Marxist Left in the Democrat Party had morphed into being unvarnished Fascist – seeking power not for any ideological purpose or rationale, but simply for power itself. What they retained of Marxism was its morality – that the end justifies the means.
Since their end was power for the sake of power, then any means to get it and keep it, any lie, any dirty trick, any hypocrisy, any threat, any violence, any corruption they could get away with, is the moral thing to do. The only thing wrong in their eyes is getting caught – which their Enemedia allies were dedicated to preventing.
Under Barack Obama – a treasonous hate-filled racist president dedicated to weakening America and strengthening her enemies in every way possible – the Democrat-Fascist/Enemedia Axis of Evil has reached an epitome of power.
And just like a dictator in a banana republic or African hellhole – like Maduro in Venezuela, Mugabe in Zimbabwe, or the Castros in Cuba – they will do anything, perpetrate any depravity or dishonesty, to keep it.
HALF-FULL REPORT 10/21/16
“Either we are going to win this election or we are going to lose this country.”
That sums it up, doesn’t it? Either/Or. It’s a binary choice. Trump made this clear in an extraordinary speech yesterday (10/20) in Delaware, Ohio. I strongly encourage you watch it entire.
When the Pub candidate race began some 18 months ago, I was repulsed by Trump. I still was when he gained the nomination, and very grudgingly supported it only because the alternative of Hillary was a nightmare from which we might never wake up.
Now he’s causing me to think of Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975). For many years, the 12 volumes of his monumental A Study of History has occupied a pride of place in my library. (The link is to Wikipedia not Amazon, as the latter only offers abridged versions, not the entire set which sells for over $1,000 on Ebay.)
Toynbee’s thesis on the rise and fall of civilizations is one of “challenge and response.” Civilizational success is determined by the extent of using challenges as opportunities to grow; failure comes when that ceases.
Yet Toynbee’s thesis applies to the lives of individuals as well. They can grow and succeed as moral human beings in response to personal challenges. As I watched the third debate Wednesday night and his Ohio speech yesterday, it dawned on me that this has happened to Donald Trump. This is not the same man of yesteryear.
FROM THE MOST RACIST TO THE MOST SEXIST
“Such a nasty woman.”
Truer words have never been spoken about Hillary Clinton. Yet they may cost Donald Trump the presidency.
Trump’s offhand observation came near the end of the third debate last night (10/19). His potentially fatal error was using the word “woman” instead of “person.” Because of it, millions more women may now vote for the nastiest and most vile candidate for president since Lyndon Johnson for no other reason than – she’s a woman.
If that isn’t sexist, what is?
On Monday (10/17), the non-partisan psephologists at FiveThirtyEight analyzed the “gender gap” between men and women voting Democrat since 1952, concluding that, “Men Are Treating 2016 as a ‘Normal’ Election; Women Aren’t” –
“Men are favoring the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, in typical numbers, but a historically overwhelming share of women say they will vote for the Democrat, Hillary Clinton… women are winning this election for Clinton.”
Eight years ago, American voters engaged in the most racist election in their country’s history. Are we about to engage in the most sexist?
The gender gap is now larger than we’ve ever seen. Here’s what it looks like as 538 mapped it out by electoral votes:
HALF-FULL REPORT 10/14/16
That’s the question of the week, isn’t it? “Important for whom?” is the follow-up question. It’s critically important for the Pub Elite because “We’ll control the rubble,” as I wrote about on Wednesday (10/12).
But is it important for the rest of us? The Pubs will say it is, so their majorities in Congress will block her lawlessness and Scotus appointments. The riposte is, you didn’t stand up to Zero for 8 years, so how can we possibly believe you’ll stand up to her?
We are now 25 days away from knowing whether America has a future or not. Right now it’s looking like the latter.
The entirety of the corporate media has abandoned the slightest pretense of any objectivity whatever and is waging an all-out war of Trump, with every lie, smear, and distortion they can dream up.
“There is nothing the political establishment will not do — no lie that they won’t tell, to hold their prestige and power at your expense,” said Trump yesterday (10/13). Their pathological perfidy is directed at him because, “our campaign represents a true existential threat like they haven’t seen before.”
“This is our moment of reckoning as a society and as a civilization itself.” Trump said that last night, and he is right.
“BUT WE’LL CONTROL THE RUBBLE”
Tirana, Albania. Welcome to the most pro-American country in the world. From groups of young college kids to now-elderly former political prisoners of Communist dictator Enver Hoxha, you won’t find a country that loves America more.
To Albanians, America is the world’s beacon of hope, the nation that epitomizes freedom from tyranny. We Americans, under “the great Ronald Reagan,” are the people that won the Cold War, who liberated them and so many others from the curse of the Soviet Union.
Which is why they are puzzled and scared today that the man who represents America to Albania, Ambassador Donald Lu, is completely in bed with the criminal gang that currently runs the government of their country.
Yesterday (10/11), The Hill (the newspaper of record for Capitol Hill in Washington) ran a story detailing how Prime Minister Edi Rama and his Interior Minister Saimir Tahiri are in effect business partners with gangsters and ISIS terrorists who have turned Albania into Europe’s greatest drug haven.
There is no more rule of law in Albania today because Rama has used hundreds of millions of drug dollars to put police chiefs, customs inspectors, judges, and a myriad of politicians and other officials on his payroll. And of course journalists, making the Albanian Enemedia his poodle.
Albanians are losing hope for their future. The one hope they are clinging to right now is that Donald Trump will be our next president. “He is a strong man, not a weak man like Obama,” I was told over and again. “We do not trust Mrs. Clinton to be any different than Obama, while we are sure that Mr. Trump will be Obama’s opposite.”
Unspoken was their deepest fear – that a Hillary Presidency will be a criminally corrupt conspiracy that will end the rule of law in America as it has been ended in Albania.
And with the extinguishing of America as the world’s beacon of hope, what chance do the small powerless countries of the world have?
Indeed, what chance do we in America have?
This is why Republicans in Congress abandoning Trump for locker room talk 11 years ago is so monumentally cowardly and stupid it is they who should quit their races for elective office, not Trump. Then again, what they’re doing could be far worse than just cowardice.
CELEBRATING COLUMBUS
Christopher Columbus
October 12 is for celebrating the 524th anniversary of Columbus’ discovery of America, for on that day in 1492, the Great Admiral landed on Guanahani (now known as San Salvador or Watlings) island in the Bahamas.
We commemorate this as a true discovery in contrast to all the claims of Vikings, Chinese, Irish, and others who supposedly came earlier – for once and only after Columbus discovered America, it stayed discovered.
Unfortunately, Columbus Day is for most Americans just an excuse for a three-day weekend – which is why it’s a holiday today, Monday October 10.
What it should be is a commemoration and celebration of Western Civilization – which is why the Left hates Columbus and his holiday.
So there will be the usual spectacle of American Indians using the holiday to denounce the White Man and his genocidal war-mongering culture-destroying earth-murdering imperialism, blah blah blah – with White Liberals joining in, masochistically condemning their own civilization.
If it’s your misfortune to run into any of these folk bemoaning the nightmare and tragedy of our coming here, you might suggest to them that they abandon every vestige of the civilization they hate as so evil.
HALF-FULL REPORT 10/07/16
Ladies – you’re sure to be the biggest hit at your friends’ upcoming Halloween costume party wearing the Sexy Saudi Burka.
Made by the Yiwu Angel Garment Factory in Zhejiang, China, it was available on Amazon until yesterday (10/06), when a firestorm of protests yelling “Racist!” and “Islamophobic!” caused it to be “no longer available.”
That of course is an incentive for TTP ladies to wear it for sure. And since a woman’s best accessory is a well-dressed man, be certain he’s appropriately attired in a kaffiyeh headdress, sports a long black beard, and wears a simulated suicide vest. The Sexy Saudi Burka remains available at foreverfancy.com.
Last week was awful for The Donald. Not this week. Here’s why…
In about 48 hours, we’ll have the Second Debate. In anticipation, yesterday (10/06) the Huffington Post ran a must-read asking “Was the First Presidential Debate Rigged Against Trump?” Yes, HuffPo…
We have fun news breaks, gratifyingly hilarious news, congratulations to Pope Francis, International Heroes of the Week, hope for November – plus one of the absolute best reason to vote for Trump. Here we go…
OPENING THE DOORS OF ISLAM
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The threat of Islamofascism – whether in the form of murderous terrorism by such groups as ISIS, the acquisition of nuclear weapons by the Mullahs of Iran, or invasion of Moslem “refugees” orchestrated to Islamize the West by Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan – has become one of the gravest national security threats to Western Civilization.
Islamofascism is a barbaric ideology, motivated by a fear of the modern world and a desire to return to the medieval Dark Ages of the 7th century. Ultimately, defeating Islamofascism cannot be imposed upon Islam from without. The solution to Islamofascism or “Radical Islam” must be a competing ideology replacing it within Islam itself.
Thus it is argued that what Islam requires today is a Reformation with an Islamic Martin Luther. This is the absolute last thing Islam needs now, the triumph of faith over reason with resultant bloodshed and sectarian slaughter lasting over a century (ca. 1520-1648) and costing the lives of millions. That horror was the Reformation. What Islam needs instead is an Enlightenment. It turns out there is a term in Arabic for enlightenment, for analysis and interpretation through reason, that has an honorable tradition in Islamic jurisprudence and thought. Get to know the word, for it is the salvation of Islam: Ijtihad.
TRUMP WIMPS OUT
As Charlie Brown would say, “Rats!” Now we have to go back to just voting against the nightmare of Hillary.
Conservative pundit John Podhoretz summed it up: “Trump’s Debate Incompetence a Slap in the Face to His Supporters.”
The best editorial page in the country, that of Investors Business Daily, put it this way, “Trump and Clinton Debated, But It’s the Nation that Lost.”
And what’s with all the whining on the right about Lester Holt being pathologically biased? Of course he was – and the sun rises in the east. Trump was surprised by this? He let some hack Clintonista moderator take charge of the debate and steamroller him?
After the debate, Trump tweeted how it was an outrage that Holt didn’t ask about the Clinton Foundation or Benghazi. Say what?? It’s Politics 101 that if you’re asked a question you don’t want by some schmuck reporter, you give the answer to the question you do want.
It's Trump's fault, not Holt's, that there was no discussion of Benghazi, of Syria, of Obamacare, of the Clinton Foundation, of immigration, of the four recent acts of Moslem terror, of the rioting in Charlotte and Hillary's effective endorsement of the rioters.
His new nickname should be “Holding Back” Trump. Last night (9/27) in Orlando, he claimed he was “holding back” because he didn’t want to “embarrass” Mrs. Clinton. Anyone who believes that should be easy to sell a bridge to. Is there a Trump supporter on earth who wanted to see him “hold back” in the Monday night debate and not embarrass her to the moon?
THE WORLD’S OLDEST WAR
Marcus Aurelius – Hapsburg Palace, Vienna
Vienna, Austria. This is a particularly apt place to discuss the world’s oldest war. It’s been continuously running for almost 14 centuries, and it’s getting worse today.
First, however, let us note that Vienna has more history, beauty, charm, class, and friendly people than just about any city in Europe. It leaves Paris in the dust.
Just one example. Vienna was founded by the Romans as Vindobona in 15 BC on the south bank of the Danube. On March 17, 180 AD, Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius was in his ornate tent in the center of the Vindobona fortress, having just won a victory over marauding Germanic tribes.
For many centuries, the street in Vienna along the traditional location of that tent has been called Schwertgasse – Sword Street. That’s because on that day in 180, the Emperor’s son, Commodus, murdered his father with a sword thrust. In the movie, Gladiator, Commodus smothers him – but nonetheless, the movie depicts real history.
Aurelius to this day is revered by Austrians. That’s why there’s a huge statue of him in the courtyard of the Hapsburg Palace or Hofburg in the center of Vienna.
For the next thousand years, the people south of the Danube adopted and lived by Christianity, oblivious to the war that had emerged in the Middle East, Asia Minor, North Africa, and Spain between their fellow Christians and people calling themselves Moslems.
HALF-FULL REPORT 09/16/16
Are we having fun yet? You certainly should be so we might as well. Let’s kick this week off with Rick Perry on Dancing with the Stars..
Yes, this was on Monday (9/12). Rock on, Rick. God bless Texas…
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We’re just getting started. Here’s happy news guaranteed to make you smile. On Wednesday (9/14), the New York Times to its chagrin pronounced Hillary’s book, Stronger Together, “a flop,” selling only 2,912 copies in its first week on sale.
What’s freaking out all the libtard presstitutes at the New York Times is that the entire presidential campaign of Illary, HilLIARy, Shrillary, Her Shrewness, The PIAPS, is becoming a flop.
More on that later. Meanwhile, let’s enjoy this news bulletin (9/14): John Kerry caught funneling $9 million of State Department money to his daughter Vanessa. How’s that for a Hahahaha of the week?
And there’s more… so much more.
SEPTEMBER TWENTY-SIXTH
His name is Zdenek Gazda. He’s from a small Moravian village called Lednice in the Czech Republic. Twenty-four years ago he emigrated to America and lives in Manasquan, New Jersey where he’s a huge fan of the NHL Devils. Three days ago, completely by accident, he changed history.
Zdenek loves America. On Sunday (9/11) he went to witness the ceremony at Ground Zero, taking selfies, photos, and videos with his cellphone like many others in the crowd. He noticed that Hillary Clinton was suddenly leaving unexpectedly.
Curious, he followed – and of all the pro journalists and tv cameramen, of all the horde of onlookers that follow her around, he happened to be the one guy in the right place at the right time to by chance have his cellphone video on and filming when she collapsed getting into her Caddy SUV.
Somehow, no one else noticed. Not a single reporter or cameraman. It was only when Zdenek posted his 20-second video clip on his Twitter page and began going viral that anyone in the media noticed. Her collapse was filmed and twittered at 11:31am. It wasn’t until 3:48pm that the world knew, via the huge siren-blaring headline on the Drudge Report: HILLARY FAINTS AS SECRET SERVICE RUSHES HER OUT OF 911 MEMORIAL
Without Zdenek Gazda, the Enemedia would have been able to continue their criminal coverup of Illary’s maladies – and their demonizing of anyone who shines a light on them (like Dr. Drew Pinsky). You might consider thanking him on Zdenek’s Facebook page.
It is thanks to Zdenek that, now more than ever, America’s fate rides on what happens on September 26.
HALF-FULL REPORT 09/09/16
In the picture-worth-a-thousand-words department, this sums up the stakes in November:
Which brings us to January. No matter what the outcome in November, you want to be at TTP Rendezvous XV in Vegas, January 20-23.
We’ll have a stellar selection of speakers to discuss all the most likely possibilities of America’s future with the next president and Congress. Plus you get to see your old TTP friends and make lots of new ones.
You cannot not be there! To be in Vegas with us, email Miko, [email protected], or call us at 202-656-3008.
Now for the Funniest News of the Week. Hands down it’s this: We now have absolute proof that Zero is a parasitic worm.
TRUMP NEEDS TO KNOW THAT THE KEY TO ECONOMICS IS NOT ECONOMICS
Yesterday (9/07) in Philadelphia, The Donald gave a rousing speech on building up our military. Heavens knows we need that after 8 years of Zero trying to ruin it. But certainly what’s not needed is just more stuff.
Take the trillion-dollar F-35 boondoggle, for example, “the greatest white elephant in US military history.” The good old F-16 eats its lunch. The new innovative technology like General Atomics’ railgun leaves most big-ticket extravaganzas like aircraft carriers and manned bombers in the dust. Manned bombers? How 20th Century can you get?
The military’s resistance to obsoleting innovation is but one example of legions shot through our entire economy. People are afraid of the new. People are afraid of their jobs ending up making buggy whips. People want to stifle competition, demanding a “divine right to stagnation.” People are envious, they want to “eat the rich.”
Trump can talk all he wants about how to make America “great” again, how he wants to create jobs, how he wants better trade deals, how he wants to bring manufacturing back to the US from overseas. Fine, go for it. Almost anything he does will be better – as in gargantually better – than Hacking Hillary who will do her best to make it worse (except for her cronies).
I believe that Trump’s heart is in the right place, while Hillary’s is in a deep dark hideous hole. Nonetheless, there’s something he needs to understand about economics – namely, that the key to it, the key to whether a society prospers or pauperizes, has nothing to do with economics.
HALF-FULL REPORT 09/02/16
Pantelleria, Strait of Sicily, Italian Mediterranean. Welcome to Europe’s hidden ultimate hideaway for the rich and famous. No matter who you are, nobody cares. It’s totally laid back. No big fancy resorts, no tourists, no paparazzi, no autograph hounds, you’re left alone in peace, solitude, and private luxury.
There’s just one little problem, right on the horizon you see in the distance. It provides a useful perspective on the main story of the week in America – Trump vs. Clinton on illegal immigration.
This has been a news week of mind-numbing global intensity. There are events you should know about in 15 countries on five continents. Let’s see how many I can get to – starting obviously with Mexico.
The most surprised guy on the planet late last week was Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. He issued a pro forma invitation to both Trump and Hillary for a meeting/discussion as a diplomatic nicety. He got the reply he expected from her office, thanking him, will do our best to rearrange the busy schedule, our people will be in touch with your people, blah blah.
He fell out of his chair with Trump’s reply: Muchas gracias, I’m on my way, I’ll see you tomorrow! You can imagine the freakout in the presidential chambers: “QUE??? Hay-soos Crees-toh!!!” And however you say WTF!! in Mexican.
It was the very last thing he expected. But when the shock subsided, here’s what Nieto told his aides:
HILLARY IS GOING TO LOSE
What does she stand for? What are the genuine accomplishments in her life? What new innovative ideas does she have to change the current direction of the country that two-thirds of voters think is wrong?
Then there are questions of ethics and morality. Ereyesterday (8/28), Roger Simon laid out the stakes:
“The truth about the Clinton Foundation is already clear: a medium to leverage Hillary Clinton's position as Secretary of State for personal enrichment and global control by the Clintons and their allies. To my knowledge, nothing like this has ever been done in the history of the United States government.
This means quite simply, that the United States of America has abandoned the rule of law. The election of Hillary Clinton—our own Evita—will make the situation yet more grave. Consider something so basic as how you raise your children in a country where the president is most probably an indictable criminal and most certainly a serial liar of almost inexhaustible proportions. What does this say about our basic morality and how does that affect all aspects of our culture?”
It’s been a long hot political summer, with the Lying Swine Media in a 24/7 feeding frenzy to demonize Trump and coronate Hillary as having already won before the campaign really begins. As always, summer froth abates over Labor Day weekend, with campaigns beginning in earnest the day after – one week from today, Tuesday September 6th.
So with the LSM predicting the race for the White House is over before it begins, I figure I might as well join in. My prediction is: Hillary is going to lose. She is going to lose, as Dick Cheney would say, “big time.”
Of course I’m going to caveat that big time – I’ve been wrong too many times before not to do that. But let’s set the caveats aside for now. Let’s first count the abundance of ways she’s going down for the electoral count.
HIMALAYA HELICOPTER EXPEDITION
“Scoundrel’s View” of Mount Everest – Tibet North Face on left, Nepal Southwest Face on right
Can you imagine what it is like to actually be at Mount Everest? Or any other Himalayan giant – like Kanchenjunga, Annapurna, or Dhaulagiri – the greatest mountains on earth? To be in the presence of any one of them is a life-memorable experience.
To reach any one, you must trek for many days, over extremely rough mountainous terrain at very high altitude. You must be in exceptional physical condition to do so.
Which is why almost no one, even the most ambitious trekker, has ever been to all of them. Last May, I created an alternative: to the base camps of all eight 8,000 meter peaks in the Himalayas by helicopter, piloted by the most experienced mountain rescue pilots in the world.
Here’s our high altitude AS350 B3 coming in to land at the Khumbu Ice Fall on Mount Everest at 17,500 ft.
What we did in May was so astoundingly spectacular I can’t resist doing it again this November. Would you like to come with me?
HALF-FULL REPORT 08/26/16
Good grief. What a disastrous, horrible, no-good lousy week this has been… for The PIAPS.
I’m sure you need cheering up after this depressing news, and if listening to a masterful British orator won’t do it, nothing will:
Nigel Farage, however, was the least of Shrillary’s worries this week. On Wednesday (8/24), the New York Post’s cover story was A Nation for Sale under Hillary Clinton. But this isn’t a Post scoop – this is an exposé of the Clinton Foundation’s naked criminality by the media’s gold-standard flagship, the Associated Press itself. Every newspaper in the country uses an AP newsfeed. As such, it cannot be ignored by the Libtard Media and it is utterly devastating.
Trump was fully justified to declare that, “It is now clear that the Clinton Foundation is the most corrupt enterprise in political history.”
Jack Kelly had a marvelous column this week on Journalists as Presstitutes. They are intentionally biased for the left, willful propagandists and shills for the Democrats.
There is another way they presstitute themselves that you should know about, for it will give you a deep insight into how journalism really works. We use a current story about Turkey in the New York Times as a prime example.
How’s this for a headline in this morning’s (8/26) London Daily Express: Favorite to be Next Dutch Prime Minister Vows to Ban the Koran and Close All Mosques. Yep, that’s Geert Wilders. He and his Dutch Freedom Party lead every poll there is by double digits, and the election is soon.
We have the HFR’s favorite judge, favorite Olympian, and Hero of the Week. Here we go.
WHERE THE SOVIET UNION STILL EXISTS
Tiraspol, Transnistria. Lenin lives. At least he still does here in the strangest country in Europe, as it insists on pretending it is a part of the Soviet Union.
We are in a landlocked and isolated sliver of Moldova that wanted no part of the breakup of the USSR in the wake of Berlin Wall falling in November 1989.
This is where the Soviet Union still exists – and where the people consider themselves Soviet citizens. They idolize Putin – and thus idolize Trump for being Putin’s friend.
HALF-FULL REPORT 08/19/16
He did it again! Just last night!
Yesterday (8/18) in Not Never Trump, I described three game-changing events this week providing positive reasons to be for a Trump Presidency rather than merely being against the nightmarish evil of a PIAPS Presidency.
Now there’s a fourth. In Charlotte, North Carolina last night, Trump delivered what is being called his New American Future speech. (The link is to both the full text and full video.)
It is no accident, comrades, that we are witnessing the transformation of Daffy Donald into Presidential Donald before our very eyes this week. Who else but Kellyanne Conway could have effected this?
Meanwhile, our current Pathetic POTUS was playing golf with some comedian yesterday. He interrupted his Martha’s Vineyard vacation to do a fundraiser for Hildebeast, but wouldn’t for the devastated people of Louisiana.
So where will both Trump and Pence be today? In Louisiana while Zero laughs through another 18 holes. Even the Associated Press (see the link) couldn’t ignore the brilliant (for Trump) and ghastly (for Zero) optics.
And where is Hillary? Not in Louisiana nor anywhere else public. She’s, ah… resting. Poor old gal runs out of gas easily these days.
Evidently it’s much worse than “exhaustion” from the brutal pace of campaigning. Her coughing fits, seizures, and bizarre behavior are now at a point where it’s legitimate to question her physical and mental fitness for office.
On Wednesday (8/17) at Trump campaign headquarters in the Trump Tower on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, campaign policy director Steve Miller convened a round table of 16 folks to discuss how to defeat political and terrorist Islam. I wasn’t there as I’m in Sofia, Bulgaria this week with my family.
Kellyanne was there, and let’s suppose – just suppose, for this is only a thought experiment – that she asks me to attend the next such meeting. What would I say?
NOT NEVER TRUMP
All TTPers know that I am not Donald Trump’s biggest fan. That I think he’s a seriously flawed candidate and that primary voters had some kind of mental breakdown choosing him over Scott Walker or Ted Cruz.
Now it’s time for the other shoe to drop. I am not a NeverTrumper. The principal reason, at least so far, is this bottom line: whatever his flaws, Trump is not evil, and Hillary Clinton is.
Trump has no lengthy history of espousing conservative principles with which to govern so we don’t know what he’d do as president. But we do know what Hillary would do – and that it would be vastly worse for America. The odds are very substantial that whatever Trump would do, it would be vastly better than what she would do.
Which means that I have no choice but to want him to win in November. My fear is that he won’t for three reasons: his flaws as a candidate, the overwhelmingly massive bias of the Lying Swine Media against him, and equally massive Democrat voter fraud. That’s a triple whammy which may prove impossible for him to overcome.
Nonetheless, we must soldier on and hope he wins, but I must admit such hope for me was – until this week – without enthusiasm. That is, I want a candidate for whom I can be passionately for, like Ronald Reagan. Rather, his opponent is someone I am passionately against, thus he’s the only alternative.
Suddenly that has changed. Within the last 72 hours, three events occurred providing reason to be positively for a Trump Presidency.
HALF-FULL REPORT 08/05/16
We start with a prayer. A year ago, we learned TTP’s Jack Kelly was diagnosed with multiple myeloma cancer and had but a few months to live. We asked you to pray for him. Jack is alive and well today.
This week we learned that TTPer Edd Forke’s wife Dona has been diagnosed with Stage IV pancreatic cancer. You know Edd through his many marvelous comments on the Forum. He has become a personal friend to many, including me. Let’s put prayer to work for him and Dona. You can be sure they’ll read and appreciate any expression of support on the Forum. Thanks…
Laughter is considered the best medicine, and is also often the most effective criticism. The Laugh of the Week took place in the tiny hamlet of Arcadia, Iowa – population 460, halfway between Des Moines and Sioux City. It’s also an exposure of naked vulnerability – that the Lying Swine and the Democrats can dish it out, but they can’t take it…
Yesterday (8/04), NBCNews reported, “Trump Pushes Republican Party to Breaking Point.” I’ve been privy to private emails between heavy Pub hitters that say exactly the same thing. These are guys who desperately want Trump to win and prevent a PIAPS Presidency.
Trump’s behavior is so maddeningly frustrating to them especially now, with the Lying Swine making herculean efforts to magnify every Trump gaffe in order to cover up Obama-Clinton scandals.
The revolting spectacle of Dem operative and Sharia law advocate Khizr Khan, with his wife in a hijab silently next to him like a wooden Indian, was handed to Trump on a platter – as pointed out by USMC vet Chris Mark in a blistering take down of Khan…
There’s lots more in this HFR, lots of funny stuff too. And you won’t surprised at all who made our day as HFR Hero of the Week.
WHITE TRASH AND BLACK GIMMIDATS
Last Saturday (7/30), the New York Post published – next to a side bar with old photos of a naked Melania Trump – Why ‘White Trash’ Americans Are Flocking to Donald Trump.
Two days later on Monday (8/01), the New York Times published Black Lives Matter Coalition Makes Demands. Treating the OBLM – Only Black Lives Matter – with deference and respect, the libtards at the Times would be horrified at the suggestion their article should be entitled Why ‘Black Gimmidats’ Are Flocking to Hillary Clinton.
“White trash” is a racial slur on a par with the Forbidden N-word. If you Google it, you’ll get over 9 million hits. You’ll find thousands of articles arguing that Trump’s core supporters are “white trash.” The term is an overt sneer referring to “poor white people.”
On the other hand, you never see the term “black trash” referring to “poor black people.” Google has a lot of hits for it, but the vast majority of them refer to buying or supplying plastic black trash bags. Let’s substitute, then, the term “Black Gimmidats” for the OBLM crowd.
As we all know, from Hollywood movies to television series to books, academia, the media and pop culture, the one group of people it’s politically correct to be racist towards is whites.
So let’s state the obvious: the greatest and most destructive racial problem in America today is anti-white racism. Particularly so because of what such racist hatred is doing to whites themselves. It is causing them – from white limousine liberals to “check your privilege” white college kids to working-class whites who are now dying younger – to be auto-racist, racist towards themselves.
It is hard to think of anything that would improve life in America more than a cure for white auto-racism.
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/29/16
So it’s come to this. The most powerful, the most moral in its founding principles, the most prosperous and successful nation in the history of humanity has to choose between an egomaniacal buffoon and an evil crook to lead it.
Kafka himself couldn’t dream up the irony. We are forced to choose between two lunacies and it’s a no-brainer. We have to take a chance with the buffoon in order to stop the evil.
Just how evil is the person who has so justly earned the sobriquet of PIAPS – Pig In A Pants Suit? Let me tell you a story….
The bottom line here is that Trump is an amateur, a piker, a nobody in the scandal department compared to Hillary. No matter how much dirt she and the media dump on him over the next three months, it’s a molehill next to the Mons Olympus of Clinton Corruption.
There’s Benghazi-gate and Email-gate among so many others, but the real jaw-dropper is the Clinton Foundation combining treason and greed to a level beyond belief. Here’s a summary from Wednesday (7/27) on the current IRS investigation of the Clinton Foundation….
In my Stillicide article yesterday (7/28), I pointed out that “the best thing Trump has going for him is a lack of fear of envy.” That’s why he’s not intimidated by guilt-mongering and doesn’t pay obeisance to political correctness. It’s the most necessary, albeit not fully sufficient, condition for standing up to the Left.
And Islamofascism. On Tuesday (7/26), two piles of Islamic excrement butchered a Catholic priest in his church in Normandy, France in the name of Allah. In response, French President Hollande vowed to “wage war by every means” upon the Moslems of ISIS. With a Moslem population of 10% (6.3 million out of 63 million) in France, brave words by lily-livered French weenies mean nothing.
It’s worse in Germany because Angela Merkel is the world’s poster child for the fear of being envied. Elsewhere in Europe, however, a revolt against Islamofascism is growing. You’ll be stunned by this photo-essay depicting it…
We close with the morally magnificent achievement of our Hero of the Week.
THE LEFT’S STILLICIDAL STRATEGY TO DESTROY AMERICA
Let me introduce a new word into your vocabulary, a word that encapsulates the Left’s strategy to demolish every institution of American culture and the traditional values of American society.
The word is stillicide. The dictionary definition has nothing to do with politics, nor does it refer to some form of killing like suicide, genocide, homicide et al. It refers rather to a physical process derived from the Latin stillicidium: stilla, drops, plus cidium, a declension of cadere, to fall.
Stillicide, stilliciduous, stillicidal thus refer to “a continual dripping of water falling in drops.”
How about that for a light bulb going on in your head?
It sure explains, just to take one example, why race relations in America have gotten worse, far worse, after Zero’s election in 2008.
Why have Zero and his minions in the media done everything they could to divide us on race instead of uniting us, culminating today in the fascist thuggery of Only Black Lives Matter and the murder epidemic of white cops?
Because the hideous secret hidden in every Leftie soul is….
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/22/16
Back in the HFR saddle again. I can’t thank Jack Kelly enough for his great HFRs while I’ve been gone. Thanks, Jack!
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One takeaway from the GOP convention – Donald’s speechwriter sure is a lot better than Melania’s. It was delivered strongly with every word clearly articulated, and hit a lot of good notes. The best line was contrasting Hillary’s slogan for her followers, “I’m with her,” with his “I’m with you.”
Here’s the full text as prepared for delivery.
The trillion-dollar question is, Can we trust him to keep all the promises he made – especially when he provides no specifics on just how he’s going to achieve them?
Reuters is reporting that Trump is considering Harold Hamm as his Energy Secretary. Finally, a positive reason and a very good one to vote for Trump, rather than just as a vote against Hillary. Trouble is, there are almost no others. Here are two immediate examples…
Thus it should come as no surprise to you who the HFR Hero of the Week is…
The 2016 Republican Party Platform is 66 pages and worth reading. It even says the Ninth and Tenth Amendments are “the foundations of personal liberty” (p. 22). What Trump needs to pay laser-focus attention to is “Honest Elections and the Right to Vote” (p. 23)…
Libtards never cease to amaze with yet another example of looney tunes fascism. On Wednesday (7/20), we saw the emergence of their latest cause: use government guns to force us to eat less meat, with the audacity to blame our obesity epidemic on it instead of garbage sugar foods…
We close with the Question of November millions of voters must answer for themselves. And then, an enjoyable Best News of the Week.
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
This is the Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone. It’s not in some exotic remote place in the world, but right here in America.
You don’t get this view of it from the walkway along side. I was able to take it from a helicopter. Such a view helps you realize how beautifully spectacular America is. It’s that view I’d like to give you now, away from being flat on the ground surrounded by all the garbage of the latest newspaper headlines.
I’ve been asked by a friend whose kids have been raised in Europe to show them the American West, about which they know next to nothing. Their view of the US has been limited to places like downtown Manhattan and Palm Beach. My friend wanted them to experience the staggering grandeur of the West, its extraordinary history – plus the thrilling patriotism and cheerful friendliness of the people who live there.
The kids had the time of their lives, with an appreciation and love for America they’ll never forget. I’d like to share what we saw with you. It will refocus on what America really is – as beautiful, as glorious, as historical, with as decent a people, as any country that has ever existed in human history.
We have every right to be proud of our country, to be proud to be Americans. Let’s experience this together. Enjoy.
DRAKE AND THE SULTAN
Ternate, Spice Islands of the Moluccas, present day Indonesia. I am here in the place that started the Western exploration of the world.
The Spice Islands
It was the goal of Columbus in 1492 to get here – which of course he never did with the American continents getting in the way. Vasco da Gama decided to try the other way around Africa – which he did, reaching the southwest coast of India in 1498.
By 1512, Vasco’s fellow Portuguese made it all the way – to the fabled Spice Islands, the only source on earth for nutmeg, mace, and cloves. Since the Middle Ages, they were esteemed by Europeans for their medicinal and culinary properties.
As such, they were fantastically expensive, especially because the Arabs had a monopoly on the overland trade routes. Breaking the monopoly with sea routes meant unbelievable profits. So the Portuguese cashed in. A pocketful of nutmeg seed pods could buy you a home. Imagine what an entire shipload was worth.
Ferdinand Magellan convinced Portugal’s rival, Spain led by Charles V, that he could break the Portuguese spice monopoly by sailing west – for by now (1518) everyone knew there was an ocean on the other side of the Americas but no one had crossed it. Magellan did it, but was killed in the Philippines in 1521 before he got here.
So the Portuguese got to keep the Spice Islands, where they built their first fort – called Kastela – here on Ternate in 1522. The Spanish found there were almost unimaginable amounts of gold and silver for the taking in their new colonies along the west coast of South America and forgot about the Pacific Ocean.
Fifty years later, history was about to shift.
A BORNEO FOURTH
For me, this is an exceedingly cool way to celebrate the Fourth of July – handing a banana to a wild orang utan along a river in Borneo.
I’ve been on a houseboat on Borneo rivers for the past few days. This photo was taken earlier today.
I am here doing what I’ve loved to do my whole life – explore and have adventures in remote places in the world. I’ve been able to do this because I’m an American.
Sure, people from other countries are able to have the life they want, including one devoted to adventure – but it’s more difficult to do so.
It’s easier to do so in America than any other place on earth – because of the founding principles of our country that we celebrate today. Thus today for me is a celebration of the moral essence of our existence as Americans.
THE DEMOCRAT DEATH CULT
Tana Toraja, Sulawesi, Indonesia.
There couldn’t be a more appropriate and exotic place to discuss death cults than here. In the distant highlands of central Sulawesi undiscovered by any Westerner until little over a century ago, are a people called the Toraja who take propitiation of their deceased ancestors to a limit unmatched anywhere else.
Yet most interestingly, the Toraja have combined their ancestor worship with a devout Christianity. Tana Toraja (the Land of the Toraja) is a Christian haven within the world’s largest Islamic population. Churches here are as plentiful as mosques elsewhere in Indonesia, while a giant statue of Christ towers above Tana Toraja high on a mountaintop.
The Toraja are a people with deep pride and confidence in the worth of their culture. If there were anyone among them who lacked that pride and confidence, who felt ashamed and apologetic of their culture, they would be despised. If that someone felt so ashamed and apologetic that they wished and worked for their culture’s destruction, they would be regarded as demented.
There are such people among us, among our fellow Americans. There is a name for these people: Democrats. And it is critically important to understand something fundamental about them.
IDYLLIC ISOLATION
Kanton Atoll, Phoenix Islands, Pacific Ocean. You don’t get more isolated than this. The nearest inhabited island is over 1,000 miles away. The only visitors are via a private yacht about once a year or so or a Kiribati patrol boat bringing supplies once every six months.
We are the first private plane (our chartered King Air) to land here in years. 30 Kantonese islanders live here. You can imagine how happy they are to see us.
Neither you nor I could imagine living here. There is no radio, television, internet or cell phones, and hardly any electricity – a diesel-powered generator is fired up only occasionally. The only water is rainwater caught in cisterns. They subsist on fish, crabs, and coconuts, plus rice and other staples the patrol boat brings which has to last for six months or more.
They live in disintegrating ramshackle homes amidst colossal rusting wreckage – for this was once a flourishing airbase built by the US government during WWII and subsequently by Pan American Airways in the 50s. The base has been abandoned since the 70s, collapsed, rusting and forgotten.
So here we are, in a King Air 200 I managed to charter, all by ourselves with a handful of Kantonese in their utter isolation and what we would consider utter poverty. You’d think they would be full of anger and resentment for their lives – like so many Inner City Americans who enjoy a prosperity unimaginable to Kantonese – but the opposite is true.
The people here are genuinely and truly happy. Here’s how and why. And yes, with photos.
LOST IN FUN
Funafuti, Tuvalu. Welcome to FUN.
As you most likely know, airports around the world have a three-letter code in capital letters. Los Angeles for example is LAX, while Istanbul is IST. This place has the best airport code on earth: FUN. I’m lost in it again.
You first learned about Tuvalu (too-vah-loo) back in October 2013: Serendipity in the South Pacific, which I hope you can take the time to read again.
You learned how Tuvaluans persevered over incredible British vindictiveness, while maintaining a wonderful cheerfulness, rather than succumbing to anger and bitterness.
They still have that positive attitude, they haven’t succumbed, and they are still getting screwed. Here’s the situation – and the lesson for Americans.
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/03/16
What was it that Henry Kissinger said about the war between Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iran (1980-1988)?
“It’s a pity both sides can’t lose.”
That’s exactly the way I and millions of my fellow Americans feel right now. We want a pox on both the Pub and Dem parties – and their voters insistent on shoving the two worst presidential candidates of our lifetimes down our throats.
The only time either His Hairness or Her Shrillness ever tell the truth is when they are lambasting each other – as they did yesterday (6/02).
I remain convinced there will be what Jack Kelly calls today the Biden Switcheroo. He has his doubts, while I have far fewer. You may be surprised why.
We have the pathological madness of the week, the headline laugh of the week, a startling Hero of the Week, and we end with marvelously good news that’s thanks in large part to TTPers. Here we go….
HALF-FULL REPORT 05/27/16
It’s good to be back in the HFR saddle again. I’m so appreciative of the wonderful job my buddy Rod Martin did in my absence. Thanks, Rod!
I have to admit I’m writing this with a huge smile of gloat. For a year now – since the HFR of May 22, 2015 – I’ve been predicting the Dem nominee will not be The PIAPS but SloJoe Biden. What makes this prescient are two bombshells that dropped this week.
On Tuesday (5/24), Zero gave a speech in Hanoi, Vietnam (full text in the link). You only wish he’d praise capitalism, entrepreneurship, and economic opportunity for Americans as he did the Vietnamese. All in all though, it was a very good and important speech. Here’s why.
There are new reports on Russia. TTPers on the Forum are asking what this might mean militarily. It means, frankly, that Putin is all hat and no cattle. Let’s take a look at Ukraine to see why.
The real threat to America is not external, but internal. Every day now our country becomes more insane. Not metaphorically but literally, actually, clinically for real insane. This week we couldn’t have two clearer examples. Is there any sanity to be found amidst this? Yes.
We close with our Hero of the Week. Forgive me, but it’s personal.