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Another sunshine conservative

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Andrew Bolt has a column behind the Murdoch paywall on Buffoon Trump is just the symptom Here’s what you can get at the link:

THE question now isn’t whether Donald Trump is just a moron or an outright menace who could blow up the world.

The question is why a braggart, buffoon, liar, narcissist and sexist with almost no political principles came so close to becoming president of the world’s greatest power.

Meanwhile, the top fifteen comments.

1) Hillary Clinton takes tens of millions of dollars in donations from the rich Sunni Arab States and wants to increase islamic immigration to the USA by around 550% even when she acknowledges in leaked emails that security cannot be guaranteed and there are large very large problems with integration… she also wants this unfettered Islamic migration for the rest of the world … She also believes in open borders for the USA and in economic and governmental Globalization… basically a world government along the lines of the EU… Frankly I really don’t care how crass Donald is

2) The reason is because he is the ONLY person prepared to confront the mind numbing political correctness that is turning our society into a herd of dull obedient sheep.

3) Donald maybe crass but Hilary is evil

4) I thought it was only the left that threw insults (according to Bolt). Just shows Bolt is no different from the rest. Use personal abuse when you can’t argue the facts. Bolt is entitled to his view but he is just another talking head who has become a legend in his own lunch box. I have followed his stuff since he started his blog and although I have disagreed with him on quite a few issues that he got on his hobby-horse with,

But this, and his many, anti-Trump rants is the end for me. I stuck with the Liberals for 50 years and look what that has done. I am out of here and to hell with the Republicans, Democrats, Liberals and Socialists.

5) I see you have taken the same bus as the anti-Trump air pirates. Trump did this, trump did that, ad nauseum. Nothing about the avalanche of material against Clinton, enough in fact to put her in jail if she wasn’t running for Presidency, unlike Trump who said some nasty words but did nothing illegal. Oh well let the establishment get their next puppet. The Americans must love the status quo, which in effect means the slippery decline into chaos and destruction. Don’t get me wrong I don’t like either candidate but under Trump at least the US has a chance no matter how small to slow down the decline. With Clinton there is no chance – in fact she will accelerate it. Hmmm. Perhaps that’s why we should hope for Clinton to become President – to get it over and done with ASAP.

6) Andrew if you jump on the bandwagon with left in condemning writing off Trump …be careful your popularity doesn’t go in the same directions as Turnbull’s Libs…A huge number of people both here and in the States still are right behind him

7) So you’re happy to see hillary stack the supreme Court and have it attack free speech and gun ownership?

8) You know why Andrew, because the people are sick and tired of all this PC BS the media is running. We know when the United Nations comes out and says “don’t vote for Donald’ that is exactly what we will do.

9) Same reason Hansen is back, Farage in the UK, Le Pen in France, Wilders in the Netherlands, Golden Dawn in Greece, AFD in Germany, Establishment politicians stopped listening years ago but now they are actually going out of their way to provoke us with identity politics, eco twaddle, micro managing, abject failures and immoral trough gobbling parasites in every layer of govt.

10) You haven’t gone all leftie on us have you Andrew? I heard your PC rubbish on 2GB last night. I get the feeling you’re playing for a TV contract and neglecting your other paid gigs. I’ve worked with CEOs that speak just the way Trump did….10 years ago! I’ve heard women being just as forthright and crude about blokes. Why should Trump be barred from seeking election just because of words he uttered 10 years ago? Let the voters decide. Wasn’t that what you were championing once?

11) The media destroyed Tony Abbott, now it’s Trump’s turn.

12) The world will be a lot safer place with Trump as President then it would be with Clinton as leader.

13) No politician is prepared to say what Donald Trump says when he explains the dirty details the politicians and the establishment renters use to keep themselves in power at the expense of the ordinary folk. And the people are listening.

Donald Trump knows too much for his own good. I wouldn’t be surprised if one morning the headlines read he has had an “accident”.

The whole Ruling System stinks like a dead snake. I don’t care if he said “naughty” words privately about a beautiful woman – he didn’t turn around and rape her! Every red blooded man has said or thought these things.

He has given the people hope and they have become a Movement. He is a listener. As President, he will be very careful to get all facts first from the operators on the ground and advisers like Pence, Giuliano, Sessions and dozens more good people around him who have the American people at heart.

14) Even Clinton’s Democrat leader Obama doesn’t trust her. Obama said she will say anything and deliver nothing!

15) looks like Bolt has been bought. he is now investing his families future in the new world order, obviously been given a ticket for the bus to the shelter. Hope you have a plan B Mr Bolt because if your dream outcome doesn’t eventuate you will be held to account, like all Elites ( @ French History 101 ) if you do get your outcome it wont matter as the world war Clinton will start will finish the known world. lost respect for you, now a bona fide “Aussy Journo” who writes what they’re told to.

Throwing Hillary into the briar patch

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Oh, please don’t throw me into the briar patch, cries Hillary, please no more of these terrible rape accusations about Bill, our former president and my loving husband. Oh please, let us not sidetrack ourselves, she pleads. Let us instead look at the real issues and not these minor matters, although the ones that apply to Donald Trump really are serious and should disqualify him from ever being president.

The latest from The New York Times: As protesters accuse her husband of rape, Clinton blasts Trump’s ‘scorched earth’ tactics. Ouch, ouch, this is killing me, she says.

Here’s the thing. Whatever else you might think, if Americans weren’t disgusted enough about Bill Clinton when he was president to ensure he was removed from office, it will not prevent his wife from winning this time round. It is only to the advantage of the Democrats the dwelling on Bill as a rapist. My beliefs on that have been reinforced in steel by this latest supposed sexualised video of Obama from 2008. But here is the key sentence:

The video, originally shot by CNN cameras, emerged Tuesday on Twitter, where it spread quickly.

CNN is known as the Clinton News Network for good reason. This would only have found its way into the world if it works for Hillary. There are no new votes based on how depraved Bill is or how Hillary had done all she could to cover it up. It may all be true, but so what? The election will be won or lost on the issues. This diversion will see Hillary president. A return to the issues that matter is the only thing that might still make Trump president.

And in case you don’t know about B’rer Rabbit and the briar patch, you can read the story here.

Read this now while there is still time

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This is the incredible Introduction to a book by Paul Hellyer written in 1999. Hellyer had been a Liberal Party cabinet minister from the days before I left Canada when the Liberal Party was the party of business. The title is Stop Think, and given its message could have been written this morning on behalf of Donald Trump. It is the most accurate and prescient writing I have ever come across on anything. It may only just explain what now cannot be stopped, but there is still the possibility that Trump will win. This will help you understand how essential it is that he does. And to repeat, this was written in 1999.
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Have you ever tried to write a column or a book to say to the vast majority of economists and opinion leaders that they have got it all wrong; that they have set the world on a collision course with disaster? It is presumptuous, of course, but those of us who are dissenters, and our ranks are growing daily, have a moral obligation to ourselves to sound the alarm before it is too late.

We seem to be hell bent toward a world without borders. Someone has decided to eradicate the nation state as an effective political entity and to rob it of much of its power by moving back to the corporatism of the medieval society; this is not forward-looking but a wish to move back to the pre-democratic era. Decisions that have been the prerogative of national governments are being transferred to outsiders including the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and transnational corporations.

Apart from the dubious merit of such a massive transfer of power is the undeniable fact that it is being done without the advice or consent of the people whose lives are being affected. They, whoever they may be, are re-engineering the world without asking for our opinions and without giving us the opportunity to express them in any tangible way through the ballot box.

To add insult to injury, globalization is being pushed down our throats without the courtesy of any vision of what the world will look like when the revolutions has run its course. Who will be in charge? To whom will they be accountable? How will changes be effected? What recourse will there be for the people who believe they have been seriously disadvantaged in the process?

A skeptic might conclude that there are no satisfactory answers to these questions because globalization is, in reality, a smoke-screen for the biggest power grab in history. The wealthiest, most powerful, people in the world have become impatient with democracy which sets standards of conduct and taxes wealth to provide services for the common good. To paraphrase, their battle hymn is Arthur Christopher Benson’s immortal line, “God who made us mighty, make us mightier yet.”

This can be achieved by shackling the nation states; by taking away their right to determine the conditions upon which direct foreign investment is welcome; by insisting that they must admit goods produced under the most despicable of circumstances; by requiring that their land and assets be “for sale” to foreigners; and that their central banks be immune to political control.

The aim of the game is a world where nation states are powerless to protect their citizens from external shocks and developments; where governments are mere pawns in the hands of international banks, supranational corporations and world bureaucracies accountable to no one. To an extent considered inconceivable to many, the globalized world would be a world dominated by power and greed.

No one would deny that there are benefits to international action. Treaties to ban the use of land mines and a World Court to try persons accused of crimes against humanity may be steps in the right direction. Similarly there can be benefits to liberalized and freer trade, but only if it does not undermine the viability of national economies and if the rules include acceptable safeguards and standards in areas such as labor and environmental protection.

Those standards to not yet exist, and the transnational corporations sponsoring globalization are determined that they never will exist, except on a purely voluntary and consequently ineffective basis. No mandatory restrictions on their freedom of action are on the negotiating table.

If liberalized trade may ultimately bring about some positive results the same cannot be said about globalized financial services and unrestricted capital flows. They/ are a recipe for international instability and chaos and there is no existing or potential financial watchdog that can prevent it. The principal beneficiaries of such a system are the parasitical currency traders and short-term money lenders who, like vampires, live by sucking the life-blood from one target of convenience after another.

Yet this kind of system has been the object of the negotiations for a Multilateral Treaty on Investment under the OECD, the proposed Free Trade agreement for the Americas, the Article IV Amendments being pushed by the International Monetary Fund and other venues. They lead to a dead end that is difficult, almost impossible to reverse. Still, the trend must be reversed!

The claim that globalization is the road to nirvana for a desperate world is false. It is the road that will lead inevitably to another financial meltdown, the impoverishment of millions of innocent people and the death of democracy in any meaningful sense. This book is dedicated to alternatives that would lead to a world of greater justice and opportunity for all.

It is not intended to be anti-American because, in truth, it is not. Yet it is impossible to write about globalization, and the imposition of a neo-classical economic system with a track record of failure, without holding the coach accountable for a game plan resulting in injuries to most of the players.

Readers familiar with my work will note that some of the arguments have been borrowed from earlier books. Everyone will find a certain amount of repetition. This is not inadvertent. Some of the principal points need to be emphasized over and over again.

Finally, it must be admitted that I am of a generation unschooled in the niceties of political correctness and inclusive language. I hope that I may be forgiven for expressing my hopes without fear or favor.

Please share immediately

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Normal political ad, right? Well then, read this: YouTube Hides and SLAPS WARNING on New Trump Ad About Hillary’s Health. Then go to the video at Youtube itself and there you really will see just those words when the video has finished:

“This video is unlisted. Be considerate and think twice before sharing.”

They don’t care what you think because they feel they have the 51% locked up. And if she wins, it will only get worse.

MURDOCH PRESS ADDITION: Another Murdoch shill, this time Janet Albrechtsen showing the same judgement she used in supporting Turnbull for PM: Hillary Clinton versus Donald Trump II was a debased freak show. The top comments do, however, remain a source of solace since common sense still prevails somewhere. Here is the first one. You can go to the link to read the others:

You are absolutely correct Janet. The disenchantment with ‘the establishment’ or sneering political class will still be there, if not swell to anger. You can feel it now. Here in Australia too.

But all this talk of seeking to understand us ‘deplorables’ (I’m a professional female and post grad qualified) smacks of patronizing condescension. Are we to be ‘fixed’ through more of the same? More spin, more dishonesty, what the left like to call communications and the rest of us recognise as PC propaganda. Of course ‘they’ know what’s best for ‘us’.

You know, I put myself in that “bucket” not because I necessarily support Trump but can appreciate his disruptive role. In the bigger context we have something of a social rebellion underway. This wave of disenchantment hasn’t peaked yet.

The media is part of the problem. They have played an active role in the US election, more so than Putin, I would argue – if indeed he even is behind the hacking but wasn’t it good to know the truth about Clinton thanks to her own emails?

The utter hypocrisy of the predominantly left media has been something to witness. Trump is fair game but not the equally repugnant Clinton. Such one sidedness can only propel the momentum of this social uprising.

You’re right however in picking that the self satisfied smugness of those who mistakenly think they’re superior beings will endure, for now.

I was thinking along the lines of sanctimonious swill as I read Janet, but “self satisfied smugness” will do just as well.

Welcome home, Mark, all is forgiven

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This is just to let you know Mark Steyn is back. His new post is dated October 9 and titled, As I Was Saying…. And what is it he’s saying? The picture above might give you a clue. This is from his post.

P*ssygate? Sorry, I decline to play by Washington Post rules. Every GOP nominee is a sexist pig: last time round, it was poor blameless Mitt with his “binders full of women” and his long track record of giving cancer to laid-off workers’ wives. The fact that this particular nominee for once actually is a vainglorious sexist is not even interesting in a media stopped-clock kind of way – because Trump has more or less been advertising the fact on the Howard Stern show for a quarter-century. So the story is chiefly of note as a near parodic example of the ludicrously lop-sided standards applied to Democrats and Republicans: I mean, the alternative to a Trump victory is the restoration to the White House of a credibly accused rapist and serial abuser, accompanied by the woman who has gleefully trashed his victims for 40 years. This race would be very different if Juanita Broaddrick and “You might want to put some ice on that” had received a thousandth of the media coverage given to Alicia Machado and “Miss Piggy”.

And to get down to brass tacks, Mark has left off where he was when he went:

Meanwhile, there’s a gazillion-and-one emails piled up demanding to know what I make of Trump vs Hillary in the final stretch. My view of Hillary hasn’t changed in decades (she’s the stinkingly corrupt enabler of a depraved sexual monster) and my view of Trump hasn’t changed since I wrote about him a couple of weeks after he entered the race.

You can read what he said then, but even if he says his view hasn’t changed, if you ask me what he believed then he believes now to the power of ten.

Summer soldiers and fair weather friends

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I am now not one, but two posts behind at Quadrant Online. This is from today which begins:

We know who doesn’t want Trump to win. Hillary for one, along with the Democrats in general, the 47% who have probably grown to around 55% by now, to which, strangely, you can add many if not most of the wealthiest financial institutions across the world. There is then the media, and not just the journalists and reporters but the owners who are all-in for Hillary. And there’s a large proportion of the Republican Party which must include the #NeverTrumps who are the supposedly right-side conservative writers, bloggers and columnists, but who are part of the political establishment with no obvious allegiance to small government and the preservation of the American Republic. And, of course, there are the dead citizens and non-dead non-citizens who will also be lining up to vote her in, along with those who vote early and often. Not to mention those who will vote for her because she is a woman irrespective of any other considerations whatsoever.

And then there was my post yesterday which discusses what I call “sunshine conservatives”. It is a take on Tom Paine’s opening lines in his 1776 Common Sense which was one of the sparks for the American Revolution:

“THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

Sunshine conservatives are those windbags who are forever wringing their hands about the problems we face but will nevertheless support Hillary in this crisis because Donald Trump lacks perfection. To them nothing is owed but contempt.

My take on the second debate

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We know who doesn’t want Trump to win. Hillary for one, along with the Democrats in general, the 47% who have probably grown to around 55% by now, to which, strangely, you can add many if not most of the wealthiest financial institutions across the world. There is then the media, and not just the journalists and reporters but the owners who are all-in for Hillary. And there’s a large proportion of the Republican Party which must include the #NeverTrumps who are the supposedly right-side conservative writers, bloggers and columnists, but who are part of the political establishment with no obvious allegiance to small government and the preservation of the American Republic. And, of course, there are the dead citizens and non-dead non-citizens who will also be lining up to vote her in, along with those who vote early and often. Not to mention those who will vote for her because she is a woman irrespective of any other considerations whatsoever.

Formidable. Almost impossible odds. And the fact is that even after a flawless presentation against his Obama-clone opponent, in which he took Hillary apart in every phase of the debate in spite of every effort by the laughably “impartial” moderators, the bad news is that Donald Trump remains no better than 50-50 to win. But that is also the good news. He has not yet lost and might yet win.

And why that is so is because he represents the last chance for the United States to save itself, and approximately 51% of the voting American public know it.

The supposed killer issue was a 2005 tape made of Trump discussing in crude terms his approach to women. And possibly in anyone else’s hands, this would have been the death blow that it may even still turn out to be. But for Hillary Clinton, married to a genuine sexual predator, this is an issue that can only be used carefully since the blow back is so enormous. Whatever Trump has done is as nothing in comparison with what Bill Clinton has done, who was protected by Hillary in quieting the many and various “bimbo eruptions” (her term). I regret to have to deal with this, but since you’d have to have been born before 1980 to have an active memory of any of it. I will deal with only one, the story of Paula Jones, and I will include it only at the end.

I find all this repulsive, and the Paula Jones story which is summarised below is the least disturbing among the stories that surfaced at the time, and it is plenty disturbing since it was only one instance of what must have been more common at the time. But what is more repulsive is listening to others go on about Trump, as if Clinton were not orders of magnitude worse. But what is actually significant is that bringing that tape to light has enraged Donald Trump so that we ended up with the single most devastating, one-sided debate in American political history, since with Bill’s past in everyone’s mind, Hillary could not truly exploit the tape to the full extent. Trump’s was a cold anger, but it was devastating.

Donald Trump had two tasks before him. The first was to demonstrate Hillary’s immense hypocrisy in even bringing the tape into the conversation. Trump said that his misdeeds were words but Bill Clinton’s involved deeds. Whatever Hillary might say about Trump, applied with immensely more force to her husband.

The second task was to insist that all of the above was a distraction from the real issues a presidential election should be about. He then forced Hillary to deal with policy issues and on each of these, the substance of the argument was entirely with Trump. There was not an issue that at the end of the debate one could say Trump had not shown a better understanding of the complexities, and that the policies he intended to put in place were not superior. This, in particular, I found quite remarkable. It is Trump speaking.

“These are radical islamic terrorists and she won’t even mention the word, and nor will President Obama. He won’t use the term ‘radical Islamic terrorism’. Now, to solve a problem, you have to be able to state what the problem is or at least say the name. She won’t say the name and President Obama won’t say the name. But the name is there. It’s radical Islamic terror.”

And just as Trump had said, she would not use those words. But irrespective of the words one chooses, there was no denying, as Trump repeatedly pointed out, that Hillary was deeply complicit in creating the problem we now face in ISIS, and Trump made that point very well. In discussing the Middle East, and the “stupidity” of our military strategy, what may have been the most remarkable part of the debate was Trump disagreeing point blank with his running mate, Mike Pence, over the use of the American military in Syria. Pence thought America should. Trump’s reply: “He and I haven’t spoken and we don’t agree.” Not only did he show decisive leadership, it was an answer that ought to quieten at least some of those who worry about Trump leading the US into war. It was also the right answer politically, since the controversy that has occurred since has been over the disagreement with Pence, not whether Trump had the better answer.

What must, of course, be included is this, which is for the ages:

Hillary: You know, it’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.

Trump: Because you’d be in jail.

What he said is that he’d appoint a special prosecutor to look into the many scandals that have surrounded her time in politics, not least the email server she illegally used during her time as Secretary of State. There is much more that could be said, but at the end, what matters is that Trump is back. The obstacles are formidable, but at least it is possible. And there is still the third debate to come.

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A BRIEF OUTLINE OF THE PAULA JONES SAGA

Let me quote from Paula Jones’s written deposition and then the events that led to Bill Clinton resigning his licence to practise law. First the Paula Jones deposition:

13. We talked for a few minutes. Mr. Clinton asked me about my job. He told me that Dave Harrington (who at that time was in charge of the AIDC) was his “good friend.”

14. Mr. Clinton then unexpectedly reached over to me, took my hand, and pulled me toward him, so that our bodies were close to each other. I removed my hand from his and retreated several feet.

15. Mr. Clinton approached me again, saying “I love the way your hair flows down your back” and “I love your curves.” While saying these things, Mr. Clinton put his hand on my leg and started sliding his hand toward my pelvic area. I did not consent to him doing this. He also bent down to kiss me on the neck, but I would not let him do so.

16. I exclaimed, “What are you doing?” and escaped from Mr. Clinton’s reach by walking away from him. I was extremely upset and confused and I did not know what to do. I tried to distract Mr. Clinton by asking him about his wife and her activities, and I sat down at the end of the sofa nearest the door. Mr. Clinton then walked over to the sofa, lowered his trousers and underwear, exposed his penis (which was erect) and told me to “kiss it.”

17. I was horrified by this. I jumped up from the couch and told Mr. Clinton that I had to go, saying something to the effect that I had to get back to the registration desk. Mr. Clinton, while fondling his penis, said: “Well, I don’t want to make you do anything you don’t want to do.” Mr. Clinton then stood up, pulled up his pants and said: “If you get in trouble for leaving work, have Dave call me immediately and I’ll take care of it.” As I left the room, Mr. Clinton detained me momentarily, looked sternly at me and said: “You are smart. Let’s keep this between ourselves.”

Was he guilty? He has, of course, never owned up to a thing, but the eventual result was that Bill Clinton was disbarred from practising law in the State of Arkansas. The details are at Wikipedia: Clinton v. Jones. The outcome:

The Arkansas Supreme Court suspended Clinton’s Arkansas law license in April 2000. On January 19, 2001, Clinton agreed to a five-year suspension and a $25,000 fine in order to avoid disbarment and to end the investigation of Independent Counsel Robert Ray (Starr’s successor). On October 1, 2001, Clinton’s U.S. Supreme Court law license was suspended, with 40 days to contest his disbarment. On November 9, 2001, the last day for Clinton to contest the disbarment, he opted to resign from the Supreme Court Bar, surrendering his license, rather than facing penalties related to disbarment.

Sunshine conservatives

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“These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer blogger and the sunshine conservative will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”

This has been a fearfully clarifying election. There are people who declare themselves on the right side of politics, who are in truth sham defenders of freedom and our way of life, and who will be forever shunned by those of us who stood for saving the American Republic and the Western world at this moment of great peril.

The American election will determine the fate of the West. An America with open borders, unprepared, unwilling and unable to defend our freedoms from predators of every kind, from Islamic terrorists, from economic vandals, from those who masquerade their profound ignorance as concern for the environment, it is from these we must defend ourselves against or our way of life will be lost. It is now we must take our stand or see it go forever. The American Republic as it has been since 1776 will disappear. We will live to see our own fall of Rome.

Sunshine conservatives: those who pretend to represent freedom, individual rights and personal responsibility, but who refuse to stand with the only person who could make a difference. They are people whom history will recognise as the enemies of freedom, who refused to stand for the right when the moment arrived. It is Donald Trump alone, the most improbable candidate in American political history, who provides even this sliver of hope. He is elected or Hillary is. There is no other possible outcome.

The mounting hostility among those supposedly on his own side is a disgrace. The array of enemies who have been uncovered from within what is nominally his own side of politics has demonstrated better than anything else might have, that the Republican Party as it has become is a rotting curse on everything it is supposed to represent.

Those who stand with Hillary in this dark hour will have revealed they cannot be trusted and their counsel is without value. They are enemies of freedom. If you support Hillary Clinton in this election, nothing you write and say will from this time forward be worth the slightest attention. Your judgements will have been revealed as eternally worthless.

Donald Trump has not yet lost this election. If anything, this latest attempt to distract voters from the genuine issues which confront us may finally have focused the election on what actually matters. No one defends Trump’s words, or his attitude to women, least of all Donald Trump. This was his own assessment.

Let’s be honest, we’re living in the real world. This is nothing more than a distraction from the important issues we’re facing today.

We are losing our jobs, we are less safe than we were eight years ago and Washington is totally broken. Hillary Clinton and her kind have run our country into the ground. I’ve said some foolish things, but there’s a big difference between the words and actions of other people. Bill Clinton has actually abused women, and Hillary has bullied, attacked, shamed and intimidated his victims. We will discuss this more in the coming days.

The American election is not about who has lived the most blameless life. It is about who can best protect our collective interests. Trump has been from the very beginning the only person running in this election who has understood the nature of the times in which we live and the actions that must be taken. You are either a sunshine conservative, or are instead prepared to fight this to the very end which means supporting Donald Trump for president.

The American election and the fate of the West

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What you would have hoped the American election would be based on: determining who can best handle these kinds of issues. All are from Drudge right now:

ISIS to send ‘serial killers’ to the West in bloody new terror tactic…

Debt Under Obama Up $9,000,000,000,000…

SEPTEMBER JOBS: +156,000…
Unemployment rate climbs to 5%…
94,184,000 NOT In Labor Force…

Russia Nuke Surge…
Russian Military considers return to Cuba, Vietnam…

Experts said Arctic sea ice would melt entirely by Sept ’16…
They were wrong…

G20: Populist political foes of globalization pose serious risk…

Hacked emails show excerpts of paid Hillary speeches…
She Dreams Of ‘Open Trade and Open Borders’…
2,000 Messages From Podesta Exposed…
Campaign Coordinating With Soros Organization…

Study: Non-Citizens Voting In Virginia By The Thousands…

What the election will actually be based on. All these are also from Drudge right now:

HOT MIC: TRUMP ON THE PROWL
HILLARY SHOCKED BY SEX TALK!

OCTOBER SPOOK: GHOSTS OF BILL’S PAST…
MORE CLINTON ‘RAPIST’ SIGNS, PROTESTS…

RACE TURNS CATTY!
Gennifer Flowers: Bill Clinton Told Me ‘Hillary Had Eaten More Pussy Than He Had’…

What’s that old proverb: if you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.

TRUMP’S APOLOGY: This is from Scott Johnson at Powerline.

I’ve never said I’m a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I’m not. I’ve said and done things I regret, and the words released today on this more than a decade-old video are one of them. Anyone who knows me knows these words don’t reflect who I am. I said it, I was wrong and I apologize.

I have traveled the country talking about change for America, but my travels have also changed me. I’ve spent time with grieving mothers who’ve lost their children, laid-off workers whose jobs have gone to other countries, and people from all walks of life who just want a better future. I have gotten to know the great people of our country and I’ve been humbled by the faith they’ve placed in me. I pledge to be a better man tomorrow, and will never, ever let you down.

Let’s be honest, we’re living in the real world. This is nothing more than a distraction from the important issues we’re facing today.

We are losing our jobs, we are less safe than we were eight years ago and Washington is totally broken. Hillary Clinton and her kind have run our country into the ground. I’ve said some foolish things, but there’s a big difference between the words and actions of other people. Bill Clinton has actually abused women, and Hillary has bullied, attacked, shamed and intimidated his victims. We will discuss this more in the coming days. See you at the debate on Sunday.