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And he’s not even president yet
From Drudge, right now:
Trump Says Ford Called to Say It’s Keeping SUV Plant in Kentucky
Dollar Sees Record Winning Run Versus Euro on Trump Policy View
In Trump Era, Israel Sees Opportunity to Shift Iran Approach
Trump fears push nations at Morocco talks to call climate action an ‘urgent duty’
Kanye West: I would have voted for Donald Trump, if I had voted Chaos and projectile shoes at concert as rapper gives hour-long pro-Trump speech
MAGA!
A taste of the president to come
We have heard that the Malcolm Turnbull has had a conversation with Donald Trump, just as Trump has noted that he spoke to Malcolm as one of the 29 world leaders he had talked with. What was said and the tone of the conversation was not, however, mentioned. This is from David Archibald, in an article he titles News from the Cone of Silence to emphasise what we do not know about what was said.
Our own langorous leader decided to join the good and the great in having a telephone conversation with someone they so recently despised in public. To do so he reprised Maxwell Smart in going to the cone of silence to make the call. In this case it was the ASD crypto-centre in Canberra to make the secure call to the private number of Trump, which had been provided by Joe Hockey, Australia’s ambassador to the United States.
Turnbull had the call on speaker. On good report, everyone in the room was surprised when Greg Norman answered the mobile number. Mr Norman patched the call through to President-elect Trump who was not rude but made it plain in telling Turnbull what the new rules were and that Trump would be using Greg Norman as a filter as he would be very busy.
It is important and very interesting that President-elect Trump is said to have said, “Let’s start by you getting your navy up here to take part in Freedom of Navigation patrols, then we can talk about our relationship.”
Apparently Turnbull was somewhat nonplussed and said, “Well, we need to discuss climate change and the TPP…” Trump peremptorily dismissed both issues with “Not a priority, but talk to Greg. He is a great Aussie who has been part of my team for 30-years and he is the advisor I trust.” It was a shock to Turnbull to engage with someone who didn’t want to hear his waffle, as most in this country do far too politely.
The other interesting conclusion is that Hockey is out of the loop with respect to the Trump administration, as someone who is useless and stupid. It is also evident that Trump is aware of the enormous task ahead of him and is not wasting a moment.
Trump is clearly a man who has his eye on the ball, knows what he wants and is not prepared to pussyfoot around with idiots. What a change is in store for us all.
Savouring the election for just a bit longer
The two best, most reliably accurate writers on the politics of our time, with columns on the election just published, with a bit from each. First Ann:
In the modern Democratic Party, out-of-work coal miners are constantly denounced for their “privilege” by half-black girls at Yale — who wouldn’t have gotten in without the black half — and who will be paid a quarter-million dollars as the “diversity coordinator” at some Fortune 500 corporation.
Apparently the new method of developing opinions is to figure out what’s trendy and allowing celebrities and comedians to act as your personal shoppers.
And then Mark:
To be honest, I’d be mildly impressed were any of the #NotMyPresident types to hold up a sign accusing Trump of “Pecksniffian disingenuousness” and “shabby bluff”, but it doesn’t seem to be Miley or Katy’s bag, and Pecksniffian uses up too many Twitter characters for a viable hashtag. That said, Donald Trump is pachydermatous on a nuclear scale and clearly relishes l’honneur d’être une cible (look it up, snowflakes). So you’re gonna need something new. Like maybe try refuting Trump’s positions rather than labeling the millions of voters who support them. Oh, and while we’re at at it, you might politely suggest to Messrs Oliver, Colbert and Noah that there’s never been a better time to embark on a mid-life career change and move into comedy. If the object is to win the next election, sneering is not a substitute for argument, or entertainment.
These are but samples. Go to the entire columns. We can at least have a good time for now before having to endure the deranged opposition to what the majority of Americans appear to want.
The video is from Powerline. From reports, Hillary outdid Hitler on her own election-night rant.
Mark Steyn and Ann Coulter discuss the election
The two best, most reliably accurate writers on the politics of our time, with columns out today with a bit from each. First Ann:
In the modern Democratic Party, out-of-work coal miners are constantly denounced for their “privilege” by half-black girls at Yale — who wouldn’t have gotten in without the black half — and who will be paid a quarter-million dollars as the “diversity coordinator” at some Fortune 500 corporation.
Apparently the new method of developing opinions is to figure out what’s trendy and allowing celebrities and comedians to act as your personal shoppers.
And then Mark:
To be honest, I’d be mildly impressed were any of the #NotMyPresident types to hold up a sign accusing Trump of “Pecksniffian disingenuousness” and “shabby bluff”, but it doesn’t seem to be Miley or Katy’s bag, and Pecksniffian uses up too many Twitter characters for a viable hashtag. That said, Donald Trump is pachydermatous on a nuclear scale and clearly relishes l’honneur d’être une cible (look it up, snowflakes). So you’re gonna need something new. Like maybe try refuting Trump’s positions rather than labeling the millions of voters who support them. Oh, and while we’re at at it, you might politely suggest to Messrs Oliver, Colbert and Noah that there’s never been a better time to embark on a mid-life career change and move into comedy. If the object is to win the next election, sneering is not a substitute for argument, or entertainment.
These are but samples. Go to the entire columns. We can at least have a good time for now before having to endure the deranged opposition to what the majority of Americans appear to want.
Helping write Obama’s legacy
Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt and just assume he’s merely delusional
Soon he’ll be gone and his views will be as significant as those of any past president, maybe even less. But this really does turn my stomach since in no moment in the last eight years has he acted on any of it: Obama warns against ‘a crude sort of nationalism’ taking root in the U.S.. Take a couple of seasick tablets and then go read this:
President Obama warned Tuesday that Americans and people around the world “are going to have to guard against a rise in a crude sort of nationalism, or ethnic identity, or tribalism” taking root amid the populist movements that are gaining currency around the world. . . .
“We are going to have to guard against a rise in a crude sort of nationalism, or ethnic identity or tribalism that is built around an us and a them, and I will never apologize for saying that the future of humanity and the future of the world is going to be defined by what we have in common, as opposed to those things that separate us and ultimately lead us into conflict,” Obama said. . . .
“In the United States we know what happens when we start dividing ourselves along the lines of race or religion or ethnicity. It is dangerous. It is dangerous, not just for the minority groups that are subjected to that kind of discrimination, or in some cases in the past, violence, but because we then don’t realize our potential as a country when we are preventing blacks or Latinos or Asians or gays or women from fully participating in the project of building American life,” he said. . . .
“Globalization, combined with technology, combined with social media and constant information, have disrupted people’s lives, sometimes in very concrete ways,” he said. “But also psychologically, people are less certain of their national identities or their place in the world. It starts looking different and disorienting.”
“And there is no doubt that has produced populist movements, both from the left and the right, in many countries in Europe. When you see a Donald Trump and a Bernie Sanders, very unconventional candidates, have considerable success, obviously there’s something there that’s being tapped into,” he said. “I think at times of significant stress, people are going to be looking for something, and they don’t always know exactly what it is that they’re looking for, and they might opt for change, even if they’re not entirely confident what that change will bring.”
The most divisive president in history, completely delusional if not totally off with the fairies, lecturing us on how we ought to come together with him leading the way. His approval ratings in positive territory matched against the election results are the most certain recent example of the Bradley Effect I know.
The 1980’s are no longer asking for their policy back
Trump and Putin vow to tackle ISIS together as they hold breakthrough talks after billionaire’s election
President-elect Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin have vowed to tackle ISIS together after holding breakthrough talks on the telephone.
Less than a week after the billionaire’s election, the Kremlin said Putin called Trump yesterday to begin negotiations over how best to tackle to terrorism.
The Russian is reported to have said he is ready for dialogue with the US “on the basis of mutual respect, non-intervention into each other’s internal affairs”.
According to the news agency Kremlin, Putin and Trump have agreed to “work to channel bilateral relationships into constructive cooperation, to combine efforts to tackle international terrorism and extremism, and to continue contact by telephone and to work towards meeting in person”.
“The importance of creating a solid basis for bilateral ties was underscored, in particularly by developing the trade-economic component,” the Kremlin said in its statement.
It added that the countries should “return to pragmatic, mutually beneficial cooperation, which would address the interests of both countries as well as stability and safety the world over.”
The two men will maintain contact by phone and seek to meet each other in person, the statement said.
Obama really is going to be gone really soon. And on top of everything else, the 1980s really will no longer be calling and asking for their foreign policy to be returned. How have we endured the past eight years?
There are Moore idiots than you would believe
A very disturbing video but one that is easily associated with the left and their ways of doing things. There will be four relentless years of anti-Trump reporting across the media, as disproportionate in its presence as the absence of any serious anti-Obama reporting over the last eight. What is the meme of the moment is that Hillary erred in assuming she would win the industrial north-east. If only she had listened to Bill and not her advisors etc. The new authority on the anti-Trump wagon is Michael Moore whom I discussed a couple of days ago under the heading, Michael Moore’s idiot’s agenda. Idiots’ agenda or not, he is now featured in both The Australian and The Age. Here from The Oz yesterday we have Michael Moore: the rust-belt prophet which is reprinted from The Times. Can’t get more establishment than that.
Michael Moore is the rust belt prophet. The documentary maker and author was almost the only commentator in America who predicted that Donald Trump would become the 45th president. Having come from the Michigan wilderness, the son of a car assembly-line worker, he understands middle America. He might be seen as part of the liberal elite but he has been warning for years that too many have been left behind. “I live in what they call the flyover but I like the Bob Dylan line, ‘the country I come from is called the Midwest’,” he says.
Last July he posted “five reasons why Trump will win”. He now feels vindicated, though not smug. “I have been trying to warn people for many months. I was in the UK in the week leading up to Brexit and I saw the fake bubble that the establishment were in. The day after the vote I went on TV and said: “‘I am from one of the Brexit states’, and they said, ‘You aren’t even from England’, and I said, ‘I live in that part of the US that is filled with the same anger I heard in Britain’. It was clear they wanted to send a message they didn’t like what was happening to them.”
See, what a genius he is, a true man of the people, a working class guru to help forge a new consensus. And then we get the same from The Age today, When inclusiveness isn’t: how Hillary Clinton and the Democrats got it so wrong, this one also from The Times, but the New York variety. And if you go to the link you can play a video which comes with this caption:
How Michael Moore predicted Trump’s win…
… and what he now thinks of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party.
Meanwhile, let me repeat, the central issue of the election was open borders. It wasn’t the only issue but it was the most important. If Trump had proposed amnesty in any form, he would not have won. Try to find that in any paper anywhere. With Trump, we have a reprieve on so many issues, but not some kind of permanent victory. I can only hope those who understand what’s at stake will be able to bear up under what will be a relentless campaign from the media who will now notice that the economy is in a mess, America’s international allies are abandoning her, and health care is an impossible expense.
Voter fraud in the United States is not an accident
It is the deliberate policy of the Democratic Party. What other interpretation do you have for this: REPORT: THREE MILLION VOTES IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAST BY ILLEGAL ALIENS?
Although some states require some form of ID before voting, California, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Washington, D.C. all require no identification before voting.
What would stop me from voting if I showed up and asked for a ballot in any of these places? Putting an end to this must be added to the Trump agenda.
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