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Trump meets with Netanyahu

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This communique is found at Powerline under the heading, Bibi calls on Trump and Clinton.

Donald J. Trump met privately today with Prime Minister Netanyahu for over an hour at Mr. Trump’s residence in Trump Tower. The two have known each other for many years and had the opportunity to discuss many topics important to both countries.

Mr. Trump and the Prime Minister discussed the special relationship between America and Israel and the unbreakable bond between the two countries. The topics of military assistance, security and regional stability were addressed. Mr. Trump agreed that the military assistance provided to Israel and missile defense cooperation with Israel are an excellent investment for America. Mr. Trump said that under a Trump administration, there will be extraordinary strategic, technological, military and intelligence cooperation between the two countries. Mr. Trump recognized Israel as a vital partner of the United States in the global war against radical Islamic terrorism.

They discussed at length the nuclear deal with Iran, the battle against ISIS and many other regional security concerns.

Mr. Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu discussed at length Israel’s successful experience with a security fence that helped secure its borders. They discussed Israel’s burgeoning hi-tech and biotech economy and how it has made stunning advances improving and saving lives around the world. In particular, Mr. Trump noted Israel’s emergence as a world leader in cyber defense and security and its cooperation with the United States in this regard.

Mr. Trump recognized that Israel and its citizens have suffered far too long on the front lines of Islamic terrorism. He agreed with Prime Minister Netanyahu that the Israeli people want a just and lasting peace with their neighbors, but that peace will only come when the Palestinians renounce hatred and violence and accept Israel as a Jewish State.

Finally, Mr. Trump acknowledged that Jerusalem has been the eternal capital of the Jewish People for over 3000 years, and that the United States, under a Trump administration, will finally accept the long-standing Congressional mandate to recognize Jerusalem as the undivided capital of the State of Israel.

The meeting concluded with both leaders promising the highest level of mutual support and cooperation should Mr. Trump have the honor and privilege of being elected President of the United States.

For Clinton’s summary of the discussion you can go here.

One of the many many many things she doesn’t understand

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I often ask the same question, but with the names reversed:
Clinton asks why she isn’t beating Trump by 50 points. “Fierce”, by the way, is apparently the new word for “stupid”.

Hillary Clinton gave voice Wednesday to a question on the minds of many of her fiercest advocates in her race against the controversy-prone Donald Trump: Why isn’t she way, way ahead?

The Democratic nominee raised the issue here during an address via video conference to a gathering in Las Vegas of the Laborers’ International Union of North America.

The former secretary of state ticked off her pro-union positions, including investing in infrastructure, raising the minimum wage and supporting collective bargaining.

“Having said all this, ‘Why aren’t I 50 points ahead?’ you might ask?” Clinton said. “Well, the choice for working families has never been clearer. I need your help to get Donald Trump’s record out to everybody. Nobody should be fooled.”

“Nobody should be fooled”! That’s my wish as well, but with the media the way it is, not much hope of that.

Is Obama the biggest jerk ever to be president?

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If he isn’t the dumbest, least informed, least capable president in history, he must come close. Reading almost anything he says or does is a trial on the nerves. How do others take it? A sample from today:

Obama at U.N.: A walled-off nation ‘imprisons itself’

At United Nations, Globalist Obama Condemns ‘Crude Populism’ Sweeping the Planet

Obama won’t acknowledge terrorism — and it’s great news for Trump

Days after attacks, Obama pitches more refugees

Obama led the world downward into chaos

88 senators press Obama to uphold US policy to veto one-sided UN resolutions

White House: ISIS Doesn’t Represent Islam In Fight Against West

Armed forces chiefs confirm sense of Obama distrust

Obama Admin ‘Laundered’ U.S. Cash to Iran Via N.Y. Fed, Euro Banks

It’s hard to work out whether his ignorance is more significant than his lack of intelligence, or whether it is the other way round. But whichever it is, he cannot be gone soon enough. In ’08 I thought anyone but Hillary, so this was the answer and I learned my lesson. Although not much better, she would have been better. That he is still the apple in the eye of the media is all you need to know about the American media, which is as ignorant and unintelligent as Obama.

I HAVE RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING COMMENT ON THIS POST: Source unknown, but entirely apt:

“The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their president.”

In the never never

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Victor Davis Hanson, writing in the #NeverTrump National Review, puts his own point of view in an article titled, Never NeverTrump. Note the double negative. Here’s the point, but it is worth reading end to end:

In sum, if Trump’s D-11 bulldozer blade did not exist, it would have to be invented. He is Obama’s nemesis, Hillary’s worst nightmare, and a vampire’s mirror of the Republican establishment. Before November’s election, his next outburst or reinvention will once again sorely embarrass his supporters, but perhaps not to the degree that Clinton’s erudite callousness should repel her own.

In farming, I learned there is no good harvest, only each year one that’s 51 percent preferable to the alternative, which in 2016 is a likely 16-year Obama-Clinton hailstorm.

It may be discomforting for some conservatives to vote for the Republican party’s duly nominated candidate, but as this Manichean two-person race ends, it is now becoming suicidal not to.

I don’t think he could be more clear.

If Hillary wins

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I originally linked to the post on The Flight 93 Election here which is a post you really ought to read. The writer, who goes under the pseudonym Publius Decius Mus, has now written a follow-up which is even better since because of the wide circulation of the original, has attracted an immense amount of criticism. This he titles, Restatement on Flight 93 where he picks up the various criticisms of the first article and replies to them one by one in ascending order of importance. This is where the article leads, but all of it should be read:

If Hillary wins, there will still be a country, in the sense of a geographic territory with a people, a government, and various institutions. Things will mostly look the same, just as—outwardly—Rome changed little on the ascension of Augustus. It will not be tyranny or Caesarism—not yet. But it will represent, in my view, an irreversible triumph for the administrative state. Consider that no president has been denied reelection since 1992. If we can’t beat the Democrats now, what makes anyone think we could in 2020, when they will have all the advantages of incumbency plus four more years of demographic change in their favor? And if we can’t win in 2016 or 2020, what reason is there to hope for 2024? Will the electorate be more Republican? More conservative? Will constitutional norms be stronger?

The country will go on, but it will not be a constitutional republic. It will be a blue state on a national scale. Only one party will really matter. A Republican may win now and again—once in a generation, perhaps—but only a neutered one who has “updated” all his positions so as to be more in tune with the new electorate. I.e., who has done exactly what the Left has for years been concern-trolling us to do: move left and become more like them. Yet another irony: the “conservatives” who object to Trump as too liberal are working to guarantee that only a Republican far more liberal than Trump could ever win the presidency again.

It is a depressing article but what do you know that makes what he describes seem anything other than the most likely outcome we face?

Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia

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Who’d have thought that 1984 was an instruction manual? I thought I would have a look at what the papers said about Hillary’s health and there is not a negative word about the entire episode in The Herald Sun, The Age or The Australian. The blogs have been virtually wiped clean of any such mention. It has been a one-day wonder, allowed to occur, it seems, only because of the video evidence that could not be suppressed, at least not here on the net. A spot of pneumonia which she will be over in a tick and that is that. Just a quick reminder of what you were told yesterday before it went down the memory hole.

In The Australian:

Hillary Clinton says she feels better after falling illat a 9/11 memorial ceremony, insisting she never lost consciousness and that her pneumonia diagnosis was too insignificant to disclose before hand.

On the other hand, if you are looking for an anti-Trump story, nothing finer than Trump for dummies: hes’s immoral, dangerous and anti-conservative – the headline found in the paper but not online.

From The Age:

Put enough nonsense out there and some of it might just collide with a fact – and thats what happened on Sunday when Hillary Clinton’s apparent kerbside collapse in New York became a video that can be run as an endless loop with internet claims about every real and imagine ailment that must surely disqualify her from the presidency.

The Herald-Sun ran a mini-story on page 2 under the heading Clinton Health Scramble, but really, that so-called right of centre columnist, Rita Panahi, put it perfectly under the heading “Hillary can’t handle her own truth”. The point is that because Hillary is such an inveterate liar whose word can never be trusted, she gets caught out on those odd occasions when she is actually telling the truth:

Despite the myriad conspiracy theories about her health issues it is possible that she is perfectly healthy and that the occasional episode of ill-health are normal for a 68-year-old woman taking part in a gruelling campaign.”

That she might actually be ill, as well as ill-prepared to be president, there is not a word. But just to remind you what we read yesterday on Drudge, where, I might note, there is no follow-up of any kind today. Here is yesterday’s news which has really, for all practical purposes, disappeared.

PAPER: HILLARY MYSTERY ‘NURSE’…
ON-SITE NEUROLOGICAL TEST?
Clinton Admits She Has Passed Out ‘A Few Times’…
Can’t Remember…
Campaign Avoided ER To Conceal Details of Medical Treatment…
FLASHBACK: FAINTS DURING SPEECH…
FLASHBACK: HEAD FIRST BOARDING PLANE…
FLASHBACK: SCARY COUGHING FIT AT BENGHAZI HEARING…
FLASHBACK: SURGERY TO REPAIR ELBOW FRACTURED IN STATE DEPT FALL…
Allies grow angry over secrecy…
MORE DOCTORS SOUND ALARM…
Three blood clots, a concussion, deep vein thrombosis…
DEMS READY FOR KAINE…

If even a tenth of this applied to Trump, the stories would be all front page and endless. Amazing to have seen. Interesting to understand the times in which we live. Here is the video one more time which you can look at until it finally also disappears for good.

A political scandal of the highest order

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Is this not one of the most obscene scandals in American political history? If they knew she had these mental conditions, problems that make her unfit to take on the role of the president, why would anyone concerned about the future of the United States cover it up?

PAPER: HILLARY MYSTERY ‘NURSE’…
ON-SITE NEUROLOGICAL TEST?
Clinton Admits She Has Passed Out ‘A Few Times’…
Can’t Remember…
Campaign Avoided ER To Conceal Details of Medical Treatment…
FLASHBACK: FAINTS DURING SPEECH…
FLASHBACK: HEAD FIRST BOARDING PLANE…
FLASHBACK: SCARY COUGHING FIT AT BENGHAZI HEARING…
FLASHBACK: SURGERY TO REPAIR ELBOW FRACTURED IN STATE DEPT FALL…
Allies grow angry over secrecy…
MORE DOCTORS SOUND ALARM…
Three blood clots, a concussion, deep vein thrombosis…
DEMS READY FOR KAINE…

Most people seem to treat this as just what you would expect as part of politics, but I cannot believe it is. There are other Democrats who can serve as president. Why risk having someone elected who cannot fulfil the duties of office? If they actually knew she was this unwell, and it is certain they did, she should have been made to withdraw long before now. Someone needs to explain why this has been allowed to continue to within two months of the election.

This irreversible decision

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The quiet that surrounds Obama’s mismanagement of every aspect of American society may have reached a moment of resistance in a rare agreement between Republicans and Democrats. You may not even know the internet is in need of saving, but this a story that is worth pondering, not just for what it says about the issue itself, but about the governance of the United States when in the hands of Democrats. The story from The Wall Street Journal: Congress Can Save the Internet which comes with the sub-heading, “The White House will end U.S. oversight at month’s end, unless lawmakers step in.” We are used to the freedom of the internet but that is not a future given.

President Obama wants this to be the last month of an open, uncensored internet guaranteed by the U.S. government. His plan to end American stewardship would hand new power to authoritarian governments offended by the internet as we know it. . . .

“This irreversible decision could result in a less transparent and accountable internet governance regime or provide an opportunity for an enhanced role for authoritarian nation-states.” . . .

The broader point is that the internet ain’t broke and doesn’t need fixing. Icann’s stakeholders—developers, engineers, network operators and entrepreneurs—are free to operate an open internet because U.S. protection prevents Moscow, Beijing, Tehran and other authoritarian regimes from meddling. The Obama administration may not be comfortable with American exceptionalism, but the internet fosters free speech and innovation because it was built in the image of the U.S.

Obama will do as much damage as he can before he is finally on his way. If you are interested in freedom of speech, you have to be interested in this.