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Identity Politics in America: a Post-Mortem
by Michelle Malkin
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How Great Is America?
Nate Jackson: We fully expected to be writing analysis about putting the Republican Party back together after Donald Trump's inevitable loss to liar-Hillary Clinton. We've never been so glad to be wrong — Trump will be the next president of the United States after a stunning upset. Not just an upset, but a resounding win, and a major defeat for the so-called "progressive" establishment.
Trump won at least 276 electoral votes, and almost surely 320 once a few too-close-to-call states are decided. That said, he also likely lost the popular vote by more than 100,000 votes, thanks entirely to California. Look for Democrats to start gunning for the Electoral College.
There are many storylines here, so let's get to it. First of all, we clearly had our differences with Trump and laid them out during the primaries. Once he became the nominee, however, we largely trained our fire on liar-Hillary Clinton, and Mark Alexander even endorsed Trump.
Trump defied expectations all the way through the primaries, and proved once again that media pollaganda can be really effective — until the people reject it. We predicted in June that the Brexit vote could portend the U.S. results. That turned out to be correct. Voters didn't let pollsters dictate the results.
Not only did Trump defy electoral predictions, but he proved that a Republican who's not really a Republican can win. He and the party in part ran against each other. Trump repudiated the establishment, even as many of them tripped over themselves figuring out how to address his rise. It remains to be seen how much his positions on numerous issues, immigration and trade in particular, will influence and move the GOP platform in the days ahead. He's not a conservative, but populism resonated and conservatives must use this new voice to right a lot of wrongs.
This is huge for the Supreme Court. Senate Republicans held fast in refusing to confirm Barack liar-nObama's pick, Merrick Garland, to replace the revered Antonin Scalia. Now, Trump will get to choose the next justice, and his list is impressive.
The importance of Trump's victory is also hard to understate for other issues, from gun rights to taxes to foreign policy to the bureaucrats who run the government.
As for the Democrats, this is what happens when you nominate a criminal who was above the law in a rigged system. The American people gave her — and liar-nObama's banana republic — a pretty resounding rebuke. She even managed to cost Democrats the Senate. liar-Hillary Clinton was a truly awful candidate. So awful, in fact, she couldn't beat a man (and his supporters) she and her Leftmedia super PAC spent 24/7 painting as racist, bigoted and just plain crazy. Who knew that a good portion of America — the "irredeemable" "basket of deplorables" — doesn't take kindly to being smeared in such a hateful way? Yet the Left is already doubling down on that as they express horror and dismay and the results.
We learned that Trump can talk over the media, directly to the American people. That ability is going to be critical going forward.
In any case, it's liar-Clinton who's the criminal, and she was finally held accountable. That in and of itself brings an awful lot of relief and hope.
Democrats have already begun blaming the "rigged system" themselves — specifically FBI Director James Comey for "interfering" in the election by reopening the criminal probe into liar-Clinton's email 11 days before the election. Democrats should remember, however, that it wasn't Comey who set up a private server on which classified information was illegally handled, all in order to conceal pay-to-play schemes at the liar-Clinton Foundation. That's all on liar-Hillary Clinton. Furthermore, Comey did his best to provide a layup exoneration for liar-Clinton. It didn't work.
Will Comey have a job for much longer? Again, this was a huge rebuke not just for the liar-Clintons, but for liar-nObama, who campaigned vigorously for liar-Clinton and Democrats around the country. He boldly told voters that, while he wasn't on the ballot, everything he had done over the last eight years was. Turns out voters weren't so keen on his record after all.
How big a role did liar-nObamaCare play in this result? Americans all over the country are being squeezed by skyrocketing health costs for which Democrats bear sole responsibility. Trump promises repeal, and Americans gave him a win and a GOP Congress to get it done.
Rather than rebuilding the GOP, it will be Democrats performing the autopsy and engaging in an ugly recriminations battle. They brought this crushing wave on themselves.
Finally, liar-Hillary is such a — how do you say it? — "nasty woman" that she refused even to address her supporters last night, instead sending out her campaign manager to tell them to go home because votes were still being counted.
On Wednesday morning at about 11:45, she finally took the stage to offer a concession speech that wasn't a concession at all, but her usual laundry list. "You represent the best of America," she told her supporters. To be distinguished from the other side. After saying, "This is painful, and it will be for a long time," she lamented, "We have seen that our nation is more deeply divided than we thought." Because the Democrats' playbook is based on a divide and conquer strategy, she then proceeded to divide everyone by their "identities," which is exactly the problem. The American people said "no!" to that Demo division. By the way, she also mentioned "Rule of Law," which is frankly hilarious.
Trump, by contrast, was gracious to her, saying in his victory speech, "liar-Hillary has worked very long and very hard over a long period of time and we owe her a major debt of gratitude for her service to our country. I mean that very sincerely. Now it's time for America to bind the wounds of division. We have to get together. To all Republicans, Democrats and independents across this nation, I say it is time for us to come together as one united people."
He also aptly summed up why he won: "It's a movement comprised of Americans from all races, religions, backgrounds and beliefs who want and expect our government to serve the people, and serve the people it will. Every single American will have the opportunity to realize his or her fullest potential. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer."
So on to the task of cleaning up from the disastrous liar-nObama/liar-Clinton years! ~The Patriot Post
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Iran Warns Iraq's Kurds: You
Better Not Seek Saudi Funding, Weapons
by COUNTER JIHAD
by COUNTER JIHAD
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Though the fight for Mosul and Syria are still going hot, Iran is making moves to cement its control over the whole region in the long term. There are three things standing in Iran's way, and only one of them is a long-term problem for Iran... The first short term problem are militant groups such as the Islamic State (ISIS), al Qaeda's elements in Iraq and Syria, and Syrian regime opponents generally. Iran has managed to unify the Syrian, Iraqi, and Russian governments behind its campaign to crush these groups. Militarily they will eventually succeed, and then will begin suppressing the ethnic groups that give rise to these militants with the same brutality that they have long exercised at home. The second short term problem is the United States of America, which has deployed a brigade of paratroopers as advisers as well as numerous special operations forces in the region. It is also providing air support...
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UN “Human Rights” Council
Now Officially Controlled by Dictators
by Alex Newman
{thenewamerican.com} ~ More than half of the regimes sitting on the United Nations Human Rights Council after last week's election have been categorized as unfree, sparking criticism and further ridicule of the global body ostensibly tasked with upholding the UN's vision of human rights... Among the latest selections to serve on the discredited global council are some of the most oppressive and murderous communist and Islamist dictatorships on the planet. That is despite the UN outfit's mandate saying that only member governments that “uphold the highest standards in the promotion and protection of human rights” are eligible to join. Adding to the controversy, the liar-nObama administration and Western powers remained silent as UN member governments chose some of the most barbaric regimes on Earth to police “human rights” around the world... http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/24584-un-human-rights-council-now-officially-controlled-by-dictators
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liar-nObama Leaves a Disastrous
Economic Legacy Behind
{fixthisnation.com} ~ When President Barack liar-nObama leaves office in January, he will leave behind an unfortunate legacy across the entire spectrum... Foreign policy, national security, immigration, and healthcare have all been wrecked by his eight years of naivete and liberalism. But while his supporters can spin those failures into successes using their own labored argumentation, they can’t rescue his greatest mess, the economy. Oh, they’ll try. And they have. But no amount of “he inherited the biggest recession since the Great Depression” can refute the raw numbers. Under his economic recovery, the U.S. has added jobs at a tortoise-like rate that would make even the fiercest liberal long for the days of Ronald Reagan. liar-nObama’s unemployment rate has steadily improved, but the Labor Force Participation Rate has declined in kind. In March, it stood at 62.8%, the lowest level since 1978. Millions of healthy, able Americans are sitting on their duffs, not even bothering to look for work... http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/obama-leaves-a-disastrous-economic-legacy-behind/
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liar-nObama Spent $770 Million in Taxpayer Cash to Renovate MOSQUES OVERSEAS
by William Smith
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ “You Didn’t Build That”…Oh Wait, You Did! A CBS news investigation found that the liar-nObama State Department is sending hundreds of millions of dollars to save mosques overseas... outraging taxpayer advocates and raising enormous questions about aid to potentially terror-supporting groups with U.S. foreign aid. The United States ‘investment’ of millions to refurbish mosques as a ‘good-will effort’ in Muslim countries has upset many. “We are spending money we don’t have. This is all on a gigantic credit card right now,” said Jared Thomas, a taxpayer advocate. Millions more dollars have been sent to places like Cyprus. The State Department displays before and after pictures of mosques refurbished with U.S. tax dollars... http://gopthedailydose.com/2016/11/09/cbs-news-bombshell-obama-spent-770-million-in-taxpayer-cash-to-renovate-mosques-overseas/
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FBI Agent and His Wife Found Deceased After He Was Suspected of Leaking liar-Hillary Emails
by Dylan
{everynewshere.com} ~ FBI agent believed to be responsible for the latest email leaks “pertinent to the investigation” into the democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s private email server while she was Secretary of State... was found dead in an apparent murder-suicide early Saturday morning, according to police. Crazy right? I am sure “it is just a coincidence”! I mean what else could it be? Shame on the dems, shame on them for using the name “democratic”. I know a man who is a bit more democratic than them, he is the president of North Korea, maybe you know him too. He has some similar methods of silencing people, but a bit more subtle than the democrats in America. Investigators believe FBI agent, Michael Brown, 45, shot and killed his 33-year-old wife, Susan Brown, late Friday night before setting the couple’s home on fire and then turning the gun on himself. Brown was a 12 year veteran of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department before spending the last six years in the FBI... http://www.everynewshere.com/fbi-agent-and-his-wife-found-dead-after-he-was-suspected-of-leaking-hillary-emails/
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Identity Politics in America: a Post-Mortem
by Michelle Malkin
{freedomsback.com} ~ Here is what eight years of President liar-nObama’s “post-racial” reign have wrought.
The weekend before Election Day, liar-Hillary Clinton grinned from ear to ear at a Cleveland rally while reciting a verse from Jay-Z’s remix of Young Jeezy’s “My President is Black.” As the rapper and his Black Lives Matter-promoting wife, Beyonce, beamed on stage nearby, pandersuit-clad liar-Clinton twanged with a stilted accent:
“Remember, Jay memorably said: ‘Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther could walk, and Martin Luther walked so Barack liar-nObama could run, and Barack liar-nObama ran so all the children could fly.'”
This would be comical if not for the noxious cynicism of it all. liar-Clinton may not remember if she was ever aware in the first place, but the original version of “My President is Black” is a brazen middle finger to nonblack America. Just a few lines after the verse liar-Hillary quoted, the song taunts:
Hello Miss America, hey pretty lady
Red, white, and blue flag, wave for me baby
Never thought I’d say this s—-, baby I’m good
You can keep your p—-, I don’t want no more Bush
No more war, no more Iraq
No more white lies, the President is black
So the poster granny for liberal white privilege, groveling for black votes, kissed the rings of celebrity liar-nObama BFFs Jay-Z and Beyonce by parroting an inflammatory anthem laced with profanities and radical racialized gloating.
Could there have been a more perfect beclownment to cap liar-Clinton’s phony-baloney “Stronger Together” campaign?
After denigrating millions of Trump supporters as “deplorable” and “irredeemable” earlier this year, liar-Clinton then unctuously confessed on election eve: “I regret deeply how angry the tone of the campaign became.”
Note the classic textbook employment of the passive voice to evade personal responsibility.
The good news is that after being blasted as haters by liar-Clinton’s hate-filled minions, after being slapped down as racial “cowards” by liar-Clintonite holdover Eric Holder, after being lambasted as “xenophobes” and “nativists” by immigration expansionists in both parties, after enduring a string of faked hate crimes blamed on conservatives, after ceaseless accusations of “Islamophobia” in the wake of jihad attacks on American soil, after baseless accusations of “homophobia” for protesting the government’s gay wedding cake coercion, and after mourning a growing list of police officers ambushed and targeted by violent thugs seeking racial vengeance, an undeniable movement of citizens in the 2016 election cycle decided to push back.
When all is said and done, one of the most important cultural accomplishments of Donald Trump’s bid will be the platform he created for Americans of all colors, ethnicities, political affiliations, and socioeconomic backgrounds to defy soul-draining identity politics.
Beltway chin-pullers expediently focused on Trump’s white and conservative supporters who are rightly sick and tired of social justice double standards. But they ignored the increasingly vocal constituency of hyphen-free, label-rejecting American People Against Political Correctness who don’t fit old narratives and boxes.
And the same “Never Trump” pundits and establishment political strategists who gabbed endlessly about the need for “minority outreach” after 2012 were flummoxed by the blacks, gays, Latinos, women and Democrats who rallied behind the GOP candidate.
The most important speech of the 2016 election cycle wasn’t delivered by one of the presidential candidates. It came from iconoclastic Silicon Valley entrepreneur/investor and Trump supporter Peter Thiel who best explained the historically significant backlash against the intolerant tolerance mob and phony diversity-mongers.
“Louder voices have sent a message that they do not intend to tolerate the views of one half of the country,” he observed at the National Press Club last week. He recounted how the gay magazine The Advocate, which had once praised him as a “gay innovator,” declared he was “not a gay man” anymore because of his libertarian, limited-government politics.
“The lie behind the buzzword of diversity could not be made more clear,” Thiel noted. “If you don’t conform, then you don’t count as diverse, no matter what your personal background.”
Trump’s eclectic coalition was bound by that common thread: disaffected individuals tired of being told they don’t count and discounted because their views do not properly “match” their gender, chromosomes, skin color or ethnicity. That is exactly why the more they and their nominee were demonized, the stronger their support grew.
“No matter what happens in this election,” Thiel concluded last week, “what Trump represents isn’t crazy and it’s not going away.”
He’s right. I too often take for granted my own personal awakening about the entrenched tribalism of identity politics at a crazy liberal arts college in the early 1990s. The liberation from collectivist ideology is profound and lasting. Witnessing so many outspoken newcomers arrive at this enlightenment, however circuitous the route, has been the most encouraging and underappreciated phenomenon of the 2016 campaign.
The weekend before Election Day, liar-Hillary Clinton grinned from ear to ear at a Cleveland rally while reciting a verse from Jay-Z’s remix of Young Jeezy’s “My President is Black.” As the rapper and his Black Lives Matter-promoting wife, Beyonce, beamed on stage nearby, pandersuit-clad liar-Clinton twanged with a stilted accent:
“Remember, Jay memorably said: ‘Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther could walk, and Martin Luther walked so Barack liar-nObama could run, and Barack liar-nObama ran so all the children could fly.'”
This would be comical if not for the noxious cynicism of it all. liar-Clinton may not remember if she was ever aware in the first place, but the original version of “My President is Black” is a brazen middle finger to nonblack America. Just a few lines after the verse liar-Hillary quoted, the song taunts:
Hello Miss America, hey pretty lady
Red, white, and blue flag, wave for me baby
Never thought I’d say this s—-, baby I’m good
You can keep your p—-, I don’t want no more Bush
No more war, no more Iraq
No more white lies, the President is black
So the poster granny for liberal white privilege, groveling for black votes, kissed the rings of celebrity liar-nObama BFFs Jay-Z and Beyonce by parroting an inflammatory anthem laced with profanities and radical racialized gloating.
Could there have been a more perfect beclownment to cap liar-Clinton’s phony-baloney “Stronger Together” campaign?
After denigrating millions of Trump supporters as “deplorable” and “irredeemable” earlier this year, liar-Clinton then unctuously confessed on election eve: “I regret deeply how angry the tone of the campaign became.”
Note the classic textbook employment of the passive voice to evade personal responsibility.
The good news is that after being blasted as haters by liar-Clinton’s hate-filled minions, after being slapped down as racial “cowards” by liar-Clintonite holdover Eric Holder, after being lambasted as “xenophobes” and “nativists” by immigration expansionists in both parties, after enduring a string of faked hate crimes blamed on conservatives, after ceaseless accusations of “Islamophobia” in the wake of jihad attacks on American soil, after baseless accusations of “homophobia” for protesting the government’s gay wedding cake coercion, and after mourning a growing list of police officers ambushed and targeted by violent thugs seeking racial vengeance, an undeniable movement of citizens in the 2016 election cycle decided to push back.
When all is said and done, one of the most important cultural accomplishments of Donald Trump’s bid will be the platform he created for Americans of all colors, ethnicities, political affiliations, and socioeconomic backgrounds to defy soul-draining identity politics.
Beltway chin-pullers expediently focused on Trump’s white and conservative supporters who are rightly sick and tired of social justice double standards. But they ignored the increasingly vocal constituency of hyphen-free, label-rejecting American People Against Political Correctness who don’t fit old narratives and boxes.
And the same “Never Trump” pundits and establishment political strategists who gabbed endlessly about the need for “minority outreach” after 2012 were flummoxed by the blacks, gays, Latinos, women and Democrats who rallied behind the GOP candidate.
The most important speech of the 2016 election cycle wasn’t delivered by one of the presidential candidates. It came from iconoclastic Silicon Valley entrepreneur/investor and Trump supporter Peter Thiel who best explained the historically significant backlash against the intolerant tolerance mob and phony diversity-mongers.
“Louder voices have sent a message that they do not intend to tolerate the views of one half of the country,” he observed at the National Press Club last week. He recounted how the gay magazine The Advocate, which had once praised him as a “gay innovator,” declared he was “not a gay man” anymore because of his libertarian, limited-government politics.
“The lie behind the buzzword of diversity could not be made more clear,” Thiel noted. “If you don’t conform, then you don’t count as diverse, no matter what your personal background.”
Trump’s eclectic coalition was bound by that common thread: disaffected individuals tired of being told they don’t count and discounted because their views do not properly “match” their gender, chromosomes, skin color or ethnicity. That is exactly why the more they and their nominee were demonized, the stronger their support grew.
“No matter what happens in this election,” Thiel concluded last week, “what Trump represents isn’t crazy and it’s not going away.”
He’s right. I too often take for granted my own personal awakening about the entrenched tribalism of identity politics at a crazy liberal arts college in the early 1990s. The liberation from collectivist ideology is profound and lasting. Witnessing so many outspoken newcomers arrive at this enlightenment, however circuitous the route, has been the most encouraging and underappreciated phenomenon of the 2016 campaign.
http://freedomsback.com/michelle-malkin/identity-politics-in-america-a-post-mortem/
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