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Rage Is All the Rage, and It’s Dangerous
by Peggy Noonan
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. liar-nObama Fights to Preserve His
liar-nObamaCare Lie
Barack liar-nObama has a habit of making statements that just aren't true. Remember this doozy from his final press conference as president: "I want to be quiet a little bit and not hear myself talk so darn much," insinuating that he would follow the example set by George W. Bush and refrain from political criticism and discourse. Less than two weeks later liar-nObama weighed in on the political dustup over Trump's travel ban executive order. But honestly, with his track record, did anyone really believe liar-nObama?
With Senate Republicans' releasing their version of a bill to repeal and replace the "Affordable" Care Act on Thursday, liar-nObama once again took up the mantle of Lecturer in Chief by posting a 939-word message on Facebook slamming the GOP's plan. liar-nObama wrote, "Simply put, if there's a chance you might get sick, get old or start a family — this bill will do you harm." In typical leftist hyperbole he continued, "[It is] a massive transfer of wealth from middle-class and poor families to the richest people in America." That's rubbish, though liar-nObamaCare was just the opposite.
After blasting the GOP bill for its "fundamental meanness," liar-nObama pivoted and hypocritically defended liar-nObamaCare as not a partisan issue, before characterizing Republicans as only interested in "notching a political win" not working "to make people's lives better."
There is so much wrong with liar-nObama's comments that it's difficult to know where to begin. First, liar-nObama conveniently ignores the fact that the ACA is failing and that has nothing to do with Republicans. After all, he also ignored the fact that not a single Republican voted for it. liar-nObamaCare is his and the Democrats' disaster alone. It's quite simply despicable to suggest that the Republicans' motivation for repealing and replacing a ticking time-bomb disaster of a law is due to partisanship.
Second, it's flat out false to imply that liar-nObamaCare made people's lives better. liar-nObama sold his socialist pipe dream to the American public on one lie after another. "It'll save you money." False. liar-nObamaCare has doubled and tripled the cost of health insurance for the vast majority of Americans. "You can keep your plan. You can keep your doctor." False and false. Insurance companies had to scrap old plans in order to comply with the law's increased coverage demands. Doctors in turn were forced to adjust which insurance they would and could accept, as they don't work for free.
Finally, the original problem of increasing health care costs was only compounded by liar-nObama and the Democrats, as they simply took advantage of a real problem as an excuse to justify forcing greater government control onto the American people. liar-nObamaCare has not cut costs or liberated Americans from health concerns; it has done the exact opposite. And liar-nObama has the gall to blast Republicans for daring to actually deal with the problem of health care costs without robbing Americans of their Liberty. Shame on him.
~The Patriot Post
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Trump signs VA reform bill,
following through on campaign promise
by Barnini Chakraborty
{foxnews.com} ~ President Trump on Friday signed Veterans Affairs reform legislation meant to protect whistleblowers while making it easier to fire problematic employees at the department... The Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act passed by Congress earlier this month streamlines the process to remove, demote, or suspend VA employees for poor performance or misconduct. In addition, it authorizes the VA secretary to recoup any bonuses awarded to employees who have acted improperly. “Veterans have fulfilled their duty to this nation and now, we must fulfill our duty to them,” Trump said. “So to every veteran who is here with us today, I just want to say two very simple words, thank you.”... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/06/23/trump-signs-va-reform-bill-following-through-on-campaign-promise.html
Sharia Opposition Unifies America
by Brigitte Gabriel
{actforamerica.org} ~ America is a divided nation. Countless political issues fragment our nation, while race, gender, and religious identification enhance division even further... But there is one issue that has brought Americans of all backgrounds together in opposition to it, the barbarism of Sharia law. Issues such as gay marriage, affirmative action, medicinal marijuana, and others may bring out our differences, Sharia law is an enemy that all rational citizens unify against. Sharia legitimizes and encourages behavior all rational human beings should find appalling. It allows a husband to beat, rape, and even kill his wife as he pleases... http://www.actforamerica.org/sharia_opposition_unifies_america?utm_campaign=breitbart2&utm_medium=email&utm_source=actforamerica.
Senate Bill Addresses Flaws in Iran Nuclear Deal
by Behnam Ben Taleblu
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ Late last week, the U.S. Senate passed a bill containing new sanctions against Iran. Entitled the “Countering Iran’s Destabilizing Activities Act of 2017,”... the proposed legislation includes measures requiring the U.S. to designate as a terrorist organization the entire Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the chief agent of Tehran’s subversive regional agenda. While the bill must win approval in the House and be signed by the president before becoming public law, its language and 98-2 passage signal a renewed U.S. determination to counter Iran’s non-nuclear threats with non-nuclear sanctions. The Senate’s overwhelming bipartisan vote to enforce arms embargos, impede Iran’s ballistic missile development, and impose human rights sanctions is consistent with the liar-nObama administration’s principle that Iran ought to remain subject to new sanctions for misbehavior unrelated to its nuclear program...http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/senate-bill-addresses-flaws-in-iran-nuclear-deal/.
Pyongyang’s Murder of U.S.
Student Shows Negotiating is Pointless
by Anthony Ruggiero
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ The death of American student Otto Warmbier was nothing less than a callous murder at the hands of North Korea’s Stalinist dictatorship... This crime should serve as a potent reminder that there is no prospect of meaningful negotiations with a regime that shows such contempt for American life and that of its own citizens. While Americans mourn Warmbier, they should not forget that three other U.S. citizens are still being held hostage in North Korea, two of them imprisoned earlier this year. Instead of recognizing such behavior as a sign of unremitting hostility, one advocate of engagement suggested that if North Korea releases the remaining Americans, it “could set up an atmosphere for potentially serious talks.” Such views reflect the uncritical embrace of dialogue rather than pressure as means of achieving progress...http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/anthony-ruggiero-pyongyangs-murder-of-us-student-shows-negotiating-is-pointless/.
FSM VIDEO
"If There Was A Mt. Rushmore For Speakers, Nancy Pulosi Would Be On It"
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White House Daily Briefing: Spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders - off camera (06-22-2017)
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVIr1KLNu24
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVIr1KLNu24
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Senator Kamala Harris and the hypocrisy of the female left
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Illinois congressman Kinzinger shares hateful tweets: "Too bad you weren't on second base"
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Rep. Liz Cheney on the need for increased military spending
VIDEO: http://video.foxnews.com/v/5480608820001
VIDEO: http://video.foxnews.com/v/5480608820001
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{peggynoonan.com} ~ What we are living through in America is not only a division but a great estrangement. It is between those who support Donald Trump and those who despise him, between left and right, between the two parties, and even to some degree between the bases of those parties and their leaders in Washington. It is between the religious and those who laugh at Your Make Believe Friend, between cultural progressives and those who wish not to have progressive ways imposed upon them. It is between the coasts and the center, between those in flyover country and those who decide what flyover will watch on television next season. It is between “I accept the court’s decision” and “Bake my cake.” We look down on each other, fear each other, increasingly hate each other.
Oh, to have a unifying figure, program or party.
But we don’t, nor is there any immediate prospect. So, as Ben Franklin said, we’ll have to hang together or we’ll surely hang separately. To hang together—to continue as a country—at the very least we have to lower the political temperature. It’s on all of us more than ever to assume good faith, put our views forward with respect, even charity, and refuse to incite.
We’ve been failing. Here is a reason the failure is so dangerous.
In the early 1990s Roger Ailes had a talk show on the America’s Talking network and invited me to talk about a concern I’d been writing about, which was old-fashioned even then: violence on TV and in the movies. Grim and graphic images, repeated depictions of murder and beatings, are bad for our kids and our culture, I argued. Depictions of violence unknowingly encourage it.
But look, Roger said, there’s comedy all over TV and I don’t see people running through the streets breaking into laughter. True, I said, but the problem is that, for a confluence of reasons, our country is increasingly populated by the not fully stable. They aren’t excited by wit, they’re excited by violence—especially unstable young men. They don’t have the built-in barriers and prohibitions that those more firmly planted in the world do. That’s what makes violent images dangerous and destructive. Art is art and censorship is an admission of defeat. Good judgment and a sense of responsibility are the answer.
That’s what we’re doing now, exciting the unstable—not only with images but with words, and on every platform. It’s all too hot and revved up. This week we had a tragedy. If we don’t cool things down, we’ll have more.
And was anyone surprised? Tuesday I talked with an old friend, a figure in journalism who’s a pretty cool character, about the political anger all around us. He spoke of “horrible polarization.” He said there’s “too much hate in D.C.” He mentioned “the beheading, the play in the park” and described them as “dog whistles to any nut who wants to take action.”
“Someone is going to get killed,” he said.
That was 20 hours before the shootings in Alexandria, Va.
The gunman did the crime, he is responsible, it’s fatuous to put the blame on anyone or anything else.
But we all operate within a climate and a culture. The media climate now, in both news and entertainment, is too often of a goading, insinuating resentment, a grinding, agitating antipathy. You don’t need another recitation of the events of just the past month or so. A comic posed with a gruesome bloody facsimile of President Trump’s head. New York’s rightly revered Shakespeare in the Park put on a “Julius Caesar” in which the assassinated leader is made to look like the president. A CNN host—amazingly, of a show on religion—sent out a tweet calling the president a “piece of s—” who is “a stain on the presidency.” An MSNBC anchor wondered, on the air, whether the president wishes to “provoke” a terrorist attack for political gain. Earlier Stephen Colbert, well known as a good man, a gentleman, said of the president, in a rant: “The only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin’s c— holster.” Those are but five dots in a larger, darker pointillist painting. You can think of more.
Too many in the mainstream media—not all, but too many—don’t even bother to fake fairness and lack of bias anymore, which is bad: Even faked balance is better than none.
Yes, they have reasons. They find Mr. Trump to be a unique danger to the republic, an incipient fascist; they believe it is their patriotic duty to show opposition. They don’t like his policies. A friend suggested recently that they hate him also because he’s in their business, show business. Who is he to be president? He’s not more talented. And yet as soon as his presidency is over he’ll get another reality show.
And there’s something else. Here I want to note the words spoken by Kathy Griffin, the holder of the severed head. In a tearful news conference she said of the president, “He broke me.” She was roundly mocked for this. Oh, the big bad president’s supporters were mean to you after you held up his bloody effigy. But she was exactly right. He did break her. He robbed her of her sense of restraint and limits, of her judgment. He broke her, but not in the way she thinks, and he is breaking more than her.
We have been seeing a generation of media figures cratering under the historical pressure of Donald Trump. He really is powerful.
They’re losing their heads. Now would be a good time to regain them.
They have been making the whole political scene lower, grubbier. They are showing the young what otherwise estimable adults do under pressure, which is lose their equilibrium, their knowledge of themselves as public figures, as therefore examples—tone setters. They’re paid a lot of money and have famous faces and get the best seat, and the big thing they’re supposed to do in return is not be a slob. Not make it worse.
By indulging their and their audience’s rage, they spread the rage. They celebrate themselves as brave for this. They stood up to the man, they spoke truth to power. But what courage, really, does that take? Their audiences love it. Their base loves it, their demo loves it, their bosses love it. Their numbers go up. They get a better contract. This isn’t brave.
If these were only one-offs, they’d hardly be worth comment, but these things build on each other. Rage and sanctimony always spread like a virus, and become stronger with each iteration.
And it’s no good, no excuse, to say Trump did it first, he lowered the tone, it’s his fault. Your response to his low character is to lower your own character? He talks bad so you do? You let him destabilize you like this? You are making a testimony to his power.
So many of our media figures need at this point to be reminded: You belong to something. It’s called: us.
Do your part, take it down some notches, cool it. We have responsibilities to each other.
Rage Is All the Rage, and It’s Dangerous
.“March Against Sharia”
by Peggy Noonan{peggynoonan.com} ~ What we are living through in America is not only a division but a great estrangement. It is between those who support Donald Trump and those who despise him, between left and right, between the two parties, and even to some degree between the bases of those parties and their leaders in Washington. It is between the religious and those who laugh at Your Make Believe Friend, between cultural progressives and those who wish not to have progressive ways imposed upon them. It is between the coasts and the center, between those in flyover country and those who decide what flyover will watch on television next season. It is between “I accept the court’s decision” and “Bake my cake.” We look down on each other, fear each other, increasingly hate each other.
Oh, to have a unifying figure, program or party.
But we don’t, nor is there any immediate prospect. So, as Ben Franklin said, we’ll have to hang together or we’ll surely hang separately. To hang together—to continue as a country—at the very least we have to lower the political temperature. It’s on all of us more than ever to assume good faith, put our views forward with respect, even charity, and refuse to incite.
We’ve been failing. Here is a reason the failure is so dangerous.
In the early 1990s Roger Ailes had a talk show on the America’s Talking network and invited me to talk about a concern I’d been writing about, which was old-fashioned even then: violence on TV and in the movies. Grim and graphic images, repeated depictions of murder and beatings, are bad for our kids and our culture, I argued. Depictions of violence unknowingly encourage it.
But look, Roger said, there’s comedy all over TV and I don’t see people running through the streets breaking into laughter. True, I said, but the problem is that, for a confluence of reasons, our country is increasingly populated by the not fully stable. They aren’t excited by wit, they’re excited by violence—especially unstable young men. They don’t have the built-in barriers and prohibitions that those more firmly planted in the world do. That’s what makes violent images dangerous and destructive. Art is art and censorship is an admission of defeat. Good judgment and a sense of responsibility are the answer.
That’s what we’re doing now, exciting the unstable—not only with images but with words, and on every platform. It’s all too hot and revved up. This week we had a tragedy. If we don’t cool things down, we’ll have more.
And was anyone surprised? Tuesday I talked with an old friend, a figure in journalism who’s a pretty cool character, about the political anger all around us. He spoke of “horrible polarization.” He said there’s “too much hate in D.C.” He mentioned “the beheading, the play in the park” and described them as “dog whistles to any nut who wants to take action.”
“Someone is going to get killed,” he said.
That was 20 hours before the shootings in Alexandria, Va.
The gunman did the crime, he is responsible, it’s fatuous to put the blame on anyone or anything else.
But we all operate within a climate and a culture. The media climate now, in both news and entertainment, is too often of a goading, insinuating resentment, a grinding, agitating antipathy. You don’t need another recitation of the events of just the past month or so. A comic posed with a gruesome bloody facsimile of President Trump’s head. New York’s rightly revered Shakespeare in the Park put on a “Julius Caesar” in which the assassinated leader is made to look like the president. A CNN host—amazingly, of a show on religion—sent out a tweet calling the president a “piece of s—” who is “a stain on the presidency.” An MSNBC anchor wondered, on the air, whether the president wishes to “provoke” a terrorist attack for political gain. Earlier Stephen Colbert, well known as a good man, a gentleman, said of the president, in a rant: “The only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin’s c— holster.” Those are but five dots in a larger, darker pointillist painting. You can think of more.
Too many in the mainstream media—not all, but too many—don’t even bother to fake fairness and lack of bias anymore, which is bad: Even faked balance is better than none.
Yes, they have reasons. They find Mr. Trump to be a unique danger to the republic, an incipient fascist; they believe it is their patriotic duty to show opposition. They don’t like his policies. A friend suggested recently that they hate him also because he’s in their business, show business. Who is he to be president? He’s not more talented. And yet as soon as his presidency is over he’ll get another reality show.
And there’s something else. Here I want to note the words spoken by Kathy Griffin, the holder of the severed head. In a tearful news conference she said of the president, “He broke me.” She was roundly mocked for this. Oh, the big bad president’s supporters were mean to you after you held up his bloody effigy. But she was exactly right. He did break her. He robbed her of her sense of restraint and limits, of her judgment. He broke her, but not in the way she thinks, and he is breaking more than her.
We have been seeing a generation of media figures cratering under the historical pressure of Donald Trump. He really is powerful.
They’re losing their heads. Now would be a good time to regain them.
They have been making the whole political scene lower, grubbier. They are showing the young what otherwise estimable adults do under pressure, which is lose their equilibrium, their knowledge of themselves as public figures, as therefore examples—tone setters. They’re paid a lot of money and have famous faces and get the best seat, and the big thing they’re supposed to do in return is not be a slob. Not make it worse.
By indulging their and their audience’s rage, they spread the rage. They celebrate themselves as brave for this. They stood up to the man, they spoke truth to power. But what courage, really, does that take? Their audiences love it. Their base loves it, their demo loves it, their bosses love it. Their numbers go up. They get a better contract. This isn’t brave.
If these were only one-offs, they’d hardly be worth comment, but these things build on each other. Rage and sanctimony always spread like a virus, and become stronger with each iteration.
And it’s no good, no excuse, to say Trump did it first, he lowered the tone, it’s his fault. Your response to his low character is to lower your own character? He talks bad so you do? You let him destabilize you like this? You are making a testimony to his power.
So many of our media figures need at this point to be reminded: You belong to something. It’s called: us.
Do your part, take it down some notches, cool it. We have responsibilities to each other.
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