A “basket of deplorables”

I know you shouldn’t raise such issues about someone as ill as Hillary obviously is, but this business about Trump’s support base is quite extraordinary.

She claimed that half of Trump’s supporters nationally—millions of people—were a “basket of deplorables” who were “irredeemable” and “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic.”

Hillary and the truth are almost total strangers, but this story about HILLARY’S LSAT LIE from John Hinderaker at Powerline is worth having a look at. It’s worth reading it all, but this is his conclusion:

The real Hillary is a small, unoriginal, not very talented woman who was fortunate enough (in some respects) to marry Bill Clinton. Pretty much everything else is a lie.

You might also be interested in knowing that she had failed the DC bar exam and was only eventually able to become a lawyer by passing the exam in Arkansas. What is truly deplorable is that this is a story you may not have come across in the normal course of events.

False economy

Interest rate policy has been setting us up for potentially the most devastating “correction” in history. Among those who are plugged into the news is Donald Trump. This is from an editorial in The New York Sun titled, The “False Economy. I must tell you he seems to get it in a way almost no one else I read does.

With Donald Trump’s use over Labor Day of the phrase the “false economy” we finally have a candidate who is getting to the bottom of the so-called Obama recovery. On the one hand the President’s approval ratings are above 50%. On the other hand, vast majorities think the country is moving in the wrong direction. Official unemployment is below 5%, but because the job participation rate is at its lowest point in decades. The government has racked up more debt than all previous administrations combined. Yet it has eked out growth of less than 2%.

To millions of Americans this is just unreal — and Mr. Trump, in the most important and even radical feature of his demarche, lays the blame at the clay feet of the Federal Reserve. The GOP nominee, speaking to newspapermen on his campaign plane, accused the Fed, as Reuters paraphrased him, “of keeping interest rates low to help President Barack Obama.” He’d been asked about interest rates. Said The Donald: “They’re keeping the rates down so that everything else doesn’t go down. We have a very false economy,” he said.

I will just say to you that if you are interested in a different perspective on interest rates, you should spend the $8.90 and buy the latest issue of Quadrant. Some significant proportion of our economies across the world have no solid support for their structure of production. Low interest rates are the only prop which even gives them the appearance of growth. The readjustments necessary to put the economy on a solid base are massive and I have to tell you the thought of what is required is frightening. I wonder if he, or anyone, really appreciates what is about to hit the world’s economy.

Ending the insanity

This is insane. This is the mark of a party, a society, a country, a people, a civilization that wants to die. Trump, alone among candidates for high office in this or in the last seven (at least) cycles, has stood up to say: I want to live. I want my party to live. I want my country to live. I want my people to live. I want to end the insanity.

From The Flight 93 Election. Needs to be read in full.

Murdoch is open borders and closed to Trump

An old story but not yet reported on or confirmed till now: Rupert Murdoch instructed Fox News to take down Donald Trump. The link takes you a quote from an article in NY Mag.

Murdoch was not a fan of Trump’s and especially did not like his stance on immigration. (The antipathy was mutual: “Murdoch’s been very bad to me,” Trump told me in March.) A few days before the first GOP debate on Fox in August 2015, Murdoch called Ailes at home. “This has gone on long enough,” Murdoch said, according to a person briefed on the conversation.

Murdoch told Ailes he wanted Fox’s debate moderators — Kelly, Bret Baier, and Chris Wallace — to hammer Trump on a variety of issues. Ailes, understanding the GOP electorate better than most at that point, likely thought it was a bad idea. “Donald Trump is going to be the Republican nominee,” Ailes told a colleague around this time. But he didn’t fight Murdoch on the debate directive.

On the night of August 6, in front of 24 million people, the Fox moderators peppered Trump with harder-hitting questions. But it was Kelly’s question regarding Trump’s history of crude comments about women that created a media sensation. He seemed personally wounded by her suggestion that this spoke to a temperament that might not be suited for the presidency. “I’ve been very nice to you, though I could probably maybe not be based on the way you have treated me,” he said pointedly.

Trump goes to Mexico

If, by now, you do not see Donald Trump as someone who might actually achieve many of the things that you who might pretend to be on the right side of politics want, then you might as well own up to being an open-borders socialist at heart. If this isn’t “presidential” – as in agenda setting and developing policies to achieve your ends – then I don’t know what is.

MEXICO CITY: TRUMP LAYS OUT FIVE SHARED GOALS…
PROMOTES RIGHT TO BUILD WALL…
MEX PREZ: ‘OPEN AND CONSTRUCTIVE’ CONVERSATION…
Willing to Deal on NAFTA…
Hillary Hits Donald Hard…
YORK: Big gamble…
RAMOS GOES LOCO…
WASH POST LEAD THURSDAY: Some Mexicans angry at their own president for meeting…

In politics – in life – you don’t get everything you want. But it doesn’t come much closer than this. For our time, he may be the Winston Churchill of the West. And there is no one else who could possibly do what needs to be done. He may not succeed, but at least he wants to and seems to have the skills and savvy to do it.

In praise of a tasteless, publicity‐seeking, coarse, billionaire, reality TV star

coulter in trump we trust

There has always been one trouble for me with the books Ann Coulter writes. No sooner do I start one than I have reached the last page. No one, and I do mean no one, writes like her. And while there may have been, now and then, something she has written I didn’t quite agree with, nothing of that kind comes to mind at the moment. Her latest is In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome! from which you can find an excerpt here. This section of the book, I’m afraid, truly made me laugh. Go to the link but I will put up the premise she begins with and then you can see what she does.

If we were in the laboratory, designing the perfect presidential candidate, it’s unlikely we would have produced a tasteless, publicity‐seeking, coarse, billionaire, reality TV star.

Ha! Look at how wrong we were. It turns out, that is exactly what we needed.

Now go and read it all, and if you still want to vote for Hillary after that, then do your worst you sour misbegotten fool. I’ll let you know what I thought of the whole book when I finally have had it in my hands plus the one additional day I will need to read it.

Will talking sense work?

This is Donald Trump talking directly to America’s black communities:

Republican Donald Trump made his most direct appeal yet Tuesday for black voters in the presidential race, pushing forward an agenda to restore law and order and revitalize inner-city neighborhoods that he said suffer from years of misguided Democratic policies.

In a speech delivered not far from Milwaukee neighborhoods rocked by anti-police riots, Mr. Trump laid the blame for urban despair and conflict between police and minorities at the feet of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

“I am running to offer you a much better future,” Mr. Trump said in a speech in West Bend, Wisconsin. “Crime and violence is an attack on the poor and it will never be accepted in a Trump administration.”

He said the policies holding back minority neighborhoods were part of the “rigged system” led by Mrs. Clinton, who he said pandered to black voters but didn’t really care about their suffering.

“The political class that Mrs. Clinton has been a part of for 30 years has abandoned the people of this county. They only care about themselves,” he said. “I am going to give the people their voice back.”

And there’s more at the link. There is also no doubt he means it. What has disappeared into history is that the entire Ku Klux Klan was Democrat. This really does look like America’s last chance, but it’s a genuine one.

Meanwhile, there is only +/-2% in it. And Hillary is not a well woman.

Hope and change

trump controversies and hillary scandals

I don’t know if others have worked it out yet but if Trump doesn’t become president then Hillary does. It also does seem to me that there are far too many independent minds who are locked into the left-media narrative and seem to repeat almost verbatim the things they find in The New York Times, handily repeated for them by The Oz and Fairfax Press. And what does get me is that with Hillary you will get nothing you say you want – not a single thing – other than a continuation of the Obama years which Hillary’s stint as Secretary of State has well and truly prepared her for.

You like open borders, she’s your woman. You like unrestricted immigration, then you know who to vote for. Want spending even more undisciplined than now, then that’s the way to go. Want the sleaziest and most corrupt administration in history – one guaranteed to be sold to the highest bidder – then just keep plugging Hillary.

Trump is unusual, truly never been tested with high office. OK, but why is it an advantage that Hillary has been, when everything she has done, to the extent that she has done anything at all, has turned to ashes. A candidate without a single accomplishment to her name, other than name recognition. The funny thing is that Trump really does offer Hope and Change. He may not deliver, but he might. I know what he wants to do and my wish is that he is actually able to do it.

I thought Romney was the last hope for the West, and maybe he was. But there is now Donald Trump. (1) He is not Hillary. (2) He knows something about balancing a set of books. (3) He might even be able to close the American border. (4) He loves America and the American way of life – that is, our way of life.

You don’t see it so you don’t see it. But let me tell you, if you don’t see it, you have nothing to tell me about who to vote for in the American presidential election in November.