HALF-FULL REPORT 09/20/19
Note: HFR Update -- Two explosive must-reads on the Whistleblower Fake News hysteria that came in after HFR posted last night are now provided.
EATING CHICKEN SPITEFULLY
A Canadian publication, The Star, has printed an unintentionally hilarious editorial, “Chick-fil-A Is Ideologically Opposed to My Existence,” by a very disgruntled LGBTQWTF writer, Andrew Wheeler (no relation whatever to Jack Wheeler!).
Mr. Wheeler is very upset. His outrage and dismay have been caused by your love of delicious chicken from Chick-fil-A. How dare you??? In his rant, Wheeler rails against the insensitivity of people who love chicken and waffle fries because it hurts his feelings, or something.
But his rant is more than laughable. It contains the whole reason why the LGBTQWTF mafia is never going to win over rational people.
TRUMP’S NON-STOP CULTURE WAR ON THE LEFT
President Trump is waging a nonstop, all-encompassing war against progressive culture, in magnitude analogous to what 19th-century Germans once called a Kulturkampf (“culture struggle”).
As a result, not even former President George W. Bush has incurred the degree of hatred from the left that is now directed at President Trump. For most of his time in office, Mr. Trump, his family, his friends and his businesses have been investigated, probed, dissected and constantly attacked.
Certainly, Mr. Trump’s agenda of closing the border, using tariffs to overturn a half-century of Chinese mercantilism and pulling back from optional overseas military interventions variously offends both Democrats and establishment Republicans, aka RINOs.
Yet, the real source of Trump Derangement Syndrome – TDS – is his desire to wage a multifront pushback — politically, socially, economically and culturally — against what might be called the elite postmodern progressive world. Let’s count the ways.
SAILING THE CARIBBEAN DREAM
Who hasn’t dreamed of sailing in a billionaire’s magnificent yacht to magic islands in the Caribbean? This January you can, at an astonishing price.
I have made arrangements with the owners of a 180-foot dream yacht to sail to a half-dozen Caribbean paradises. We get there in style with a professional crew – Skipper, first mate, mechanic, bosun, cook and 4 stewards – catering to your every need.
We stay away from crowded resorts and beaches full of giant cruise ship hordes, berthing instead at secluded bays and small fishing villages to experience true Caribbean culture.
This is the Caribbean Dream come true.
KAVANAUGH BREAKS THE DEMOCRATS
Do Democrats not see what’s happening?
Rarely does a story implode as spectacularly as the New York Times’ latest effort to resurrect the claim that Justice Brett Kavanaugh was a teenage sexual predator.
By now, you know the facts: The Times published an excerpt from a forthcoming book alleging that another woman suffered the same form of abuse and objectification from Kavanaugh that was alleged by another accuser, Deborah Ramirez.
No sooner had the universe of liberal political observers and politicians worked themselves up into a frenzy than the story fell apart.
Ms. Ramirez herself doesn’t even remember the experience that was supposedly so traumatizing—a revelation that was inexplicably omitted from the Times’ original draft. Inexplicably – yeah, right.
TRUMPED OUT – REALLY??
Google the phrase “Trump weariness” or “Trump exhaustion” and dozens of progressive articles pop up suggesting that Trump’s base is worn out by Trump’s antics. Are Trump supporters then weary? Are they tired of winning?
The August jobs report “unexpectedly” reminds us that never have so many Americans been at work. The 3.7 percent unemployment rate continues to be the lowest peacetime unemployment figure in 50 years. Black and Hispanic unemployment remain at record lows.
Workers’ wages continue to rise. Talk of recession is belied by low interest, low inflation, low unemployment, and a strong stock market. The result is that millions of Americans enjoy far better lives than they had in 2016.
Yes, that’s really exhausting, isn’t it?
CRACKERS AND FRACKERS – THE KEYS TO 2020?
Marcellus shale gas-drilling site, Lycoming County PA
Monaca, Pennsylvania -- All Darrin Kelly wanted for the energy workers in Western Pennsylvania was that the Democrat presidential hopefuls would talk to them before going to war against shale.
That opportunity slipped away when Elizabeth Warren joined Bernie Sanders in calling for a total fracking ban.
"On my first day as president, I will sign an executive order that puts a total moratorium on all new fossil fuel leases for drilling offshore and on public lands. And I will ban fracking -- everywhere," Warren tweeted on Sept. 6.
"The natural gas industry employs well over 40,000 people just in this region alone," Kelly said. "Countless more indirectly, providing economic opportunity for generations of families and communities that had been hollowed out by the demise of manufacturing and coal in this area."
Donald Trump won Pennsylvania with just over 40,000 votes in 2016.
HALF-FULL REPORT 09/13/19
I’m confident you managed to avoid watching the Dems’ circular firing squad last night (9/12), so Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale was kind enough to sum it up for you:
The highlight of the whole affair was POTUS trolling it by Team Trump flying a huge banner over Houston that you see above. It’s absolutely true, of course. Okay, we’re off on a MAGA HFR!
HOW BETO GOT HIS NAME
This is the true story of how young Bobby O’Rourke got his childhood nickname.
Robert Francis O’Rourke was a silver spoon baby with wealthy parents in El Paso. His father, Pat O’Rourke, a local Irish-American politician, married into one of El Paso’s wealthiest families, with his wife (maiden name Melissa Martha Williams) running the business. As you can see following in the O’Rourke and Williams genealogy, there is not a drop of Hispanic blood in Bobby.
Born in 1972, Bobby grew up in El Paso being taken care of by the family’s Hispanic servants who nicknamed him “Beto,” short for Roberto, Robert in Spanish. It was a joke among them, for the servants also spoke English, the language of the O’Rourke-Williams families.
Bobby’s parents never got the joke, nor noticed their Hispanic staff quietly laughing among themselves by addressing young Robert as… “Master Beto.”
So his folks started calling him Beto themselves. But for the servants, he’ll always be Master Beto, as he should be for all of us.
FIVE TAKEAWAYS FROM NORTH CAROLINA
In the swing state of North Carolina, it was happy-dance time for the beleaguered Republicans. Two hotly contested congressional races both went solidly into the GOP camp, helping the Republicans in the crazies-run House.
State senator Dan Bishop won in the 9th District, and Greg Murphy won in the 3rd District, and both will now get the opportunity to tell Reps. Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that they are out to lunch. It was a conservative blowout.
Five things stick out about it now. You’ll like them all.