TRUMP IMITATION SYNDROME
New York Gov. Cuomo and New York City Mayor De Blasio
The malady known as Trump Derangement Syndrome is marked by a sudden explosion of crazy talk and sometimes actions coming from people formerly regarded as sane.
Think of the threats of impeachment before Trump was even inaugurated. Or the fantasies of unhinged celebrities such as Kathy Griffin, Robert De Niro and Madonna that the president or his family suffer violence and maybe death.
Yet now, two years into a Trump presidency, a new malady is emerging, one that reflects a less hostile view of him. It is an implicit recognition that the most unlikely commander-in-chief has not only survived, but is thriving in some ways.
I think of this new disease as Trump Imitation Syndrome because its sufferers are behaving in ways that are downright Trumpian.
New Yorkers — aren’t we lucky? — are getting a double-dose of it, courtesy of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio.
THE LESSON OF THANKSGIVING
America’s First Thanksgiving – Plymouth Rock 1623
Today, Thursday November 22, is Thanksgiving in America. A celebration of a bountiful Autumn harvest is an ancient tradition in many cultures.
The Romans celebrated Ieiunium Cereris, dedicated to Ceres, the goddess of agriculture. The Chinese have been celebrating Zhōngqiū Jié (Mid-Autumn Festival) for millennia. In Japan it’s Jugoya. For the Hindus of India, it’s Sharad Purnima. The Celts of the British Isles celebrated Lughnasadh which is the Harvest Thanksgiving in England and Canada today.
The origin of Thanksgiving in America is traditionally that of the Mayflower Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock. Yet the Kindergarten school plays all over the country this week, with five year-olds portraying the noble Indian, Squanto, teaching the helpless Pilgrims how to feed themselves, is not how it happened.
So here’s the real history of America’s First Thanksgiving, the extraordinary lesson to be learned from it, followed by a very personal lesson I have learned this year.
OBAMA GETS UGLY
Obama showed his true self in comments about President Donald John Trump on Monday (11/19).
It was not pleasant. Unable to articulate a reasoned argument using facts, Obama attacked the president in a manner that if it were the other way around would be deemed racist.
Maybe it is. Anybody out there think Barry is an anti-white racist?
Obama said, “The reason we don't [invest in climate change policies] is because we are still confused, blind, shrouded with hate, anger, racism — mommy issues.”
Mommy issues?
THE DEPRAVITY OF AN OBAMA JUDGE
Judge Jon S. Tigar is back in the news.“This was an Obama judge, and I’ll tell you what, it’s not going to happen like this anymore.”
--President Trump, Nov. 20, 2018
I wrote about him nearly two years ago:
“A federal judge ruled recently that an inmate serving a life sentence for murder in California must receive sex-reassignment surgery at taxpayer expense.
The inmate was Rodney James Quine, 57, twice married and the father of two daughters. I write ‘was’ because while in prison he changed his name to Shiloh Heavenly Quine. Quine began living as a woman in 2008, when prison officials authorized hormone treatments at taxpayer expense. Quine then began pushing for a sex change operation, to be paid for by California taxpayers like everything else in prison.
Enter Barack Obama. In 2013 Obama appointed Jon Tigar to the federal bench. Tigar, who evidently shares Obama’s fascination with the world of the transgendered, assigned himself to Quine’s case and appointed a team of San Francisco lawyers and the Transgender Law Center to represent Quine.
The result of Tigar’s ruling in Quine’s favor is that the state of California must now provide sex reassignment surgery for prison inmates.
WHY ARE DEMOCRATS DETERMINED TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY?
On November 6, it seemed the Republicans might hold their majority in the Senate and in the House. Sadly, they lost their majority in the House. The mystery is why so many Democrat candidates who are so obviously ethically challenged won in races that should not have even been close.
How and why do Democrats continue to vote for unqualified, dishonest candidates? Elizabeth Warren, Andrew Gillum, Krysten Sinema, Stacey Abrams, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – they and so many others are hard-left socialist-fascists whose goal in life is to control your life like a totalitarian monster.
They are a blight on the Constitution and the guaranteed freedoms of US citizens. Yet tens of millions of Democrats voted for them. Why?
THE DUMB COURTSHIP OF AMAZON
Would you vote for a politician who promised to both increase traffic congestion and increase your taxes — and yes, I wrote “increase.”
For those of us who live in Northern Virginia that is precisely what happened last week, when our state and local government officials announced with considerable fanfare that they had bribed Amazon — with billions of taxpayer money — to build one of its new headquarters in Virginia.
With great pride, they also told us that they paid a much smaller bribe to Amazon per promised new job than did the New York governor and mayor. (Virginia Motto: “We are not as dumb as New Yorkers.”)
New York politicians — notably Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio — are even worse than the Virginians. They have not only paid more per promised job, but are giving Amazon benefits not available to existing businesses in New York. How is that for fairness?
No wonder New Yorkers are protesting vociferously. How dumb is it to give bribes to businesses if they move into the state, which are financed by higher taxes on the workers and businesses that already live there?
THE LEFT WILL NEVER STOP TRYING TO RUIN EVERYTHING
IT’S UP TO US TO MAKE THEM STOP
HALF-FULL REPORT 11/16/18
As California goes, so goes the nation – into a Democrat sewer
Kathmandu, Nepal. I’m back from Wheeler Expeditions’ 6th Himalaya Helicopter Expedition – a mind-boggingly memorable experience all of us will treasure for the rest of our lives.
I was hoping that this week’s news might be better than that of the last. That hope has been dashed to the degree it’s given me a wide-awake nightmare. Let’s start with how last week’s HFR (11/09) began:
“Obviously, the majority of voters failed their IQ test on Tuesday (11/06). My initial reaction is: forget all the silver lining, Trump-really-won Pollyanna happy talk. This turned out really badly.What we’ve got at the end of this week is the realization of just how much we have to fight to avoid that submission, how deeply entrenched the cultural and moral corruption of the Left’s Fascism has become throughout our country.
It shouldn’t have been close, it shouldn’t have been remotely close. The Left, the flat-out Fascism that has taken over the Democrat Party, needed to have the hell beaten out of it electorally. Now a preponderance of voters – your fellow citizens – gave the green light for that fascism to flourish.
And of course, whenever it’s close, the Dems will use every filthy trick they know to cheat their way into victories they didn’t earn. Already provisional ballot boxes are being discovered in the trunk of someone’s car, recounts are demanded, suddenly losers like Arizona’s Enema surge ahead, and in many other states as well.
What do we do? We fight. There is no other choice, other than submission to being slaves of the Left.”
EUROPE NEEDS MORE NATIONALISM NOT LESS
…and freedom and sovereignty
The French say many silly things, along with a few wise ones, although since the death of Voltaire (1694-1778), not lately.
One of the silliest came out of the mouth of M. le President, Emmanuel Macron, at the centenary observance of the end of World War I on November 11. Calling nationalism a “betrayal of patriotism,” the fey popinjay went on to caution the world against “old demons coming back wreak chaos and death.”
The media, of course, loved it, promptly casting Macron’s words as a “rebuke” to (who else?) Donald J. Trump and his soul mate, Vladimir Putin, who were both in attendance.
Far from fighting for the survival of the French nation in 1914, said Macron, the French soldiers were fighting for the “universal values” because—get this—“patriotism is exactly the opposite of nationalism.”
This of course is the exact opposite of the truth. The French were fighting not for “universal values” but for national pride and the very existence of their nation.
The notion that “nationalism” is a form of racism (where all roads the Left doesn’t like lead to now) illustrates the linguistic mechanism by which cultural Marxists subtly change the color of our political discussions.
PUTIN MOVES TO MAKE LIBYA A COLONY OF RUSSIA
Moscow is deepening its military involvement in Libya while denying to its own people and the world that it is doing so, thus repeating the pattern that the Kremlin has followed in Syria and the Central African Republic.
Libya, with its oil and geographic location, is far more important to Moscow as a counter to the West than even Syria, where the Russians have been deeply involved in the local civil war.
During the Cold War, as Moscow military commentator Pavel Felgenhauer pointed out recently, “Libya was an important link in the USSR’s [Union of Soviet Socialist Republics] global conflict with America and its allies.”
Today, given that Moscow views “the collective West” as “much worse” than it was in the Cold War days, Felgenhauer argues, the Kremlin again is looking to Libya as a base for countering and undermining Western influence (Novaya Gazeta, October 11).