WHEN THAT DID NOT WORK – TRUMP STILL STANDS
[Note by JW – Professor Hanson provides a masterful compendium of all twelve of the ways the pathologically fascist Democrats and media tried and failed to destroy the Trump Presidency, and then asks the crucial question at the end.]
Right after the 2016 election, Green Party candidate Jill Stein—cheered on by Hillary Clinton dead-enders—sued in three states to recount votes and thereby overturn Donald Trump’s victory in the Electoral College.
Before the quixotic effort imploded, Stein was praised as an iconic progressive social justice warrior who might stop the hated Trump from even entering the White House.
When that did not work….
PUTIN’S AMBUSH IN LIBYA
On Sunday (4/07), the New York Times reported: “US Military Pulls Out of Libyan Capital As Rival Militias Battle.”
Here’s the background, and what the Times doesn’t understand: that this is an ambush of Putin’s Russia on NATO and the US.
The meeting of 29 foreign ministers from member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), in Washington, DC, last week (April 3–4), marking the 70th anniversary of the North Atlantic Alliance, was not a joyful occasion for Russia.
During the celebration, Russia was duly identified as the main disruptor of regional security. The allies asserted unity in deterring Moscow’s provocative behavior and confirmed their resolve to increase defense expenditures accordingly.
Moscow’s urge to spoil the “hostile” celebrations of NATO’s lasting success was irresistible, but the readiness to directly challenge the security of the Alliance’s frontline states or even partners was clearly absent. So Putin found a near-perfect place for an ambush in Libya.
NESOPHILIA
Tristan da Cunha ©2019 Jack Wheeler
All right, I confess. I am a nesophile. I’m addicted to nesophilia. It’s not on any list of psychiatric disorders, however. The term was invented – a “neologism” – by one of the 20th century’s most eminent philosophers, Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) in 1938 while in Ireland.
When there, he combined the Greek word nesos – island, with philia – love, and declared he was a nesophile – a lover of islands. That’s me.
I suppose that’s obvious by now – for I’ve lost count of the number of islands I’ve written about on TTP
And there are so many more to go! Yet I’ll be writing only about ones that are interesting, not even if they’re famous. I just got back from Majorca and Ibiza, for example. Nice enough, pretty enough – but, frankly, boring. There’s no real there there, as Gertrude Stein said about Oakland, California.
So let’s take a quick look at some islands that would blow Gertrude Stein away – such as the one that has the bed Napoleon died in.
THE LEAST OF THEIR PROBLEMS
HALF-FULL REPORT 04/04/19
“It’s fun to watch Democrats cannibalize each other,” noted Jack Kelly in “The Hit On Creepy Joe” on Wednesday (4/03). Biden certainly has earned his sobriquet with all his pedophilic sniffing and groping on repeated YouTube display. There’s something mentally wrong with this guy.
That seems to be an occupational hazard of many if not most professional politicians. Since age 26, Biden has been nothing but – elected a City Council member in his local Delaware town in 1969, then a Senator in 1972 until Obama’s VP in 2008.
He’s never earned a real paycheck in his life. Instead, he’s spent his whole life trying to control other people’s lives. That’s what attracts people like him into politics, for there’s something not right with them mentally to begin with.
Yesterday (4/04), Patricia McCarthy explained that “The 2020 Democrat Candidates Are Psychotic.” To be psychotic is to be so delusional that you can’t determine what is real and not, and to lack any empathy for other real human beings.
If you have psycho delusions of grandeur, feeling you’re more important than anyone else with a compulsion to control other’s lives since you know what’s good for them and they don’t, what do you do? Become a politician.
THE 2020 DEMOCRAT CANDIDATES ARE PSYCHOTIC
There was a superb column at The Federalist recently (3/13) by George S. Bardmesser: "Every Time Democrats Talk, I Want to Vote for Trump Twice."
It is as hilarious as it is frightening. It is also a courageous confession, especially for a lawyer who lives in D.C. Let's hope he has personal security.
I am betting there are millions of us, many more millions than voted for Trump in 2016, who agree with the man. He was a reluctant Trump-voter but is now completely on board the Trump train. Why?
Because the current crop of Democrat candidates are moonbats all. Each of them is a thorough socialist nutjob. Each of them is trying to out-fanaticalize the others. Each of them is absolutely clueless about the American people outside the far-left bubbles all of them inhabit.
Every one of them.
CHINA NEVER HAS BEEN A SUPERPOWER – AND WON’T BE ANYTIME SOON
“After a 200-year hiatus—since the Qing dynasty began to weaken, in the early nineteenth century—China is returning to the world stage as a great power,” wrote Robert Kaplan in the Atlantic. “That may be usual for China, but it is unusual for the West.”
Kaplan, in his piece titled “China: A World Power Again,” maintained that the period of Chinese weakness was an aberration, merely an interlude between natural eras of tianchao—Celestial Kingdom—grandeur.
There are many contemporary reasons—contracting economy, collapsing demography, crumbling politics—why Kaplan is wrong and why Beijing’s challenge to America and the international system will almost surely fall short.
But history also suggests China’s path to glory is impassable. As an initial matter, the popular conception of China rests on a gross misreading of the past. The country, in short, has never been dominant on “the world stage,” as Kaplan and others put it. And it won’t be anytime soon.
THE HIT ON CREEPY JOE
It’s fun to watch Democrats cannibalize each other.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, who leads big in polls for the Democrat nomination for president, was preparing to throw his hat in the ring. So other Dems are trying to take him out.
Biden touched me inappropriately in 2014, Nancy Flores, a former Democrat state senator in Nevada, said in this article last Friday (3/29). That wasn’t the only time Biden has done that, the far left Webzine Vox chimed in later that day.
That’s for sure. Biden is by no means the only pervert sexual predator among prominent Democrat politicians, but he is the only pervert sexual predator stupid enough to molest his victims at public events.
These clips of “Creepy Uncle Joe” nuzzling, fondling, sniffing and kissing women and children, compiled two years ago by Richard Armande Mills, are sure to gross you out. His corruption, with his son Hunter for example, may gross out voters even more.
THE SURVEILLANCE ARMS RACE
The Eye of Sauron
As quite a few TTPers know, Cryptohippie has moved to routers for our services. What they may not know is why, and that’s simply because the surveillance arms race requires it.
Things have gotten much worse and we can’t provide serious protection without this upgrade. I’d like you to understand why.
Sauron Is On Steroids
I suspect that almost all of us are familiar with the Eye of Sauron from the Lord of The Rings Trilogy. In one place Tolkien called it, “the Eye piercing all shadows.” It makes a wonderful metaphor for mass surveillance systems, which now see through almost any shadow to surveil the billions of us at once.
The truth about mass surveillance is that it’s far worse than people understand.
“UNPLANNED” IS MY STORY AND YOU CAN’T UNSEE IT
I was awarded the Employee of the Year prize in 2008 and was one of the youngest clinic directors in the country, setting an example of how to run a clinic to churn out as many abortions – the biggest money maker – as I could. Then it all changed when I was asked to assist in an ultrasound-guided abortion.
Some images stick with you forever, images that you can’t unsee. The photo of the first responder carrying the limp child in his arms after the Oklahoma City bombing. The photos of the Twin Towers falling. These images burn in your mind, causing you to replay them over and over again. They are impactful.
That was what I saw on the ultrasound screen.