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What to Tell Your Children About Trump
by Peggy Noonan
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Jumping on the Recount Bandwagon
On Saturday, liar-Hillary Clinton joined Green Party candidate Jill Stein in calling for a vote recount in Wisconsin. Despite the lack of any credible evidence of voter fraud — even the liar-nObama administration stated that "the federal government did not observe any increased level of malicious cyber activity aimed at disrupting our electoral process" and that "we believe our elections were free and fair from a cybersecurity perspective" — Stein has pushed to have recounts in the states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania on the basis of "concerns" over Russian hacking of the voting machines.
liar-Clinton has also conceded that there was no "actionable evidence of hacking or outside attempts to alter the voting technology." So why join Stein in the push for a recount? Does this not smack of absolute hypocrisy since it was liar-Hillary who chastised Donald Trump before the election for declining to say he would accept the election results? While the explanation may be as simple as liar-Hillary being a sore loser, it's a safe bet that this is yet another attempt to delegitimize Trump's presidency. It also may be a continued push by the Left to justify the "need" to eliminate the Electoral College.
Speaking of Trump, however, on Sunday, he tweeted that millions of illegal immigrants had voted and, had they not done so, he would have also won the popular vote. While undoubtedly there were many illegal votes, to suggest that there were millions of fraudulent votes is an unfounded and speculative claim that doesn't help his case. As president-elect, Trump would do better to refrain from commenting and continue to focus on choosing his team. If anything, this move by liar-Hillary may cause Trump to re-evaluate whether or not to further investigate her. ~The Patriot Post
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Another DNC Party Leader with Radical
Racist and Islamist Roots?
Debbie Wasserman Schultz was ousted as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee earlier this year after allegations surfaced that she rigged the system in favor of liar-Hillary Clinton. But whatever level of corruption she brought to the job could pale in comparison to the trouble her replacement frontrunner would bring to the table.
As we recently reported, House Democrats, despite a disappointing performance on Nov. 8, appear unwilling to abandon their increasingly leftist views and, in fact, are doubling down: "Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, a radical black Muslim member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, has launched a credible campaign to be the next DNC chair. Ellison launched his career as a member of the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam, and he's a man who likened 9/11 to the Nazis' Reichstag fire — in other words, an inside job meant to create a pretext for going after Muslims. And Democrats are considering putting him in charge of the party."
Even by some Democrat standards, Ellison is radical (although he's a natural extension of liar-nObama's radical roots). But a deeper look at his profile paints an even more alarming picture. According to The Washington Free Beacon, "The House Ethics Committee opened an investigation into Rep. Keith Ellison (D., Minn.) after he failed to disclose that a group founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood paid for him to make a pilgrimage to the Islamic holy site of Mecca in Saudi Arabia."
The 2008 trip was paid for by the Muslim American Society, which the Beacon explains was "founded by Muslim Brotherhood members in 1993 to act as the 'overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States,' according to federal prosecutors in 2007." Make no mistake: Ellison is a dangerous man. That Democrats are even considering him for a leadership role speaks volumes about where the party is and where it is going. And it's not good. They evidently learned nothing on Election Day. ~The Patriot Post
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Fences Going Up In Europe Following Turkey
3 Million Terrorist Threat
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Increasingly European nations are recognizing that a response of appeasement to the invasion of Islamists into their continent will be no more successful than it was for Neville Chamberlain... Whether the aggressors are terrorists labeled as refugees or rogue dictators calling themselves presidents, passivity breeds hostility. Aggressors don’t become docile in response to victory, they seek out more victories. Europeans have turned the other cheek to their anti-Christian would-be conquering invasion under the duplicitous leadership of Angela Merkel with disastrous results. Now that Turkey’s President Erdogan is threatening to unleash a 3 million person tsunami of Islamic “humanity” upon their continent, some spines are beginning to sprout up. Erdogan got his feelings hurt that the Europeans don’t want him or his barbarian nation in the EU, so he’s threatening retaliation... http://rickwells.us/fences-going-europe-following-turkey-3-million-terrorist-threat/
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Tying Up 46 Electoral Votes – Forcing
Congress To Act The Clinton Stein Goal?
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ The recount in Wisconsin, even if the impossible were to take place and somehow Trump comes out the loser in that election, would still not invalidate his victory... In fact, as noted in the American Thinker, a successful recount from the liar-Clinton/Stein reformulated and regurgitated Democrat opposition would still do nothing to change the outcome. The margin of victory is substantial enough and equally important, the control of the House and Senate are in Republican hands, to prevent any political mischief from turning the election towards someone else. Whatever Crooked liar-Hillary, her puppet Jill Stein, and her financier, “Globalist George” Soros have up their sleeves, unless it’s absolutely brilliantly devious, has no chance of working. An anti-Trump outcome in Wisconsin, combined with the two other unlikely changes in the results in Michigan and Pennsylvania, would still not be enough to throw the election to liar-Clinton. But there is another possible goal that they could achieve, which, while not accomplishing the supposed objective of reversing the delegates awarded to Mr. Trump, would still deprive him of them... http://gopthedailydose.com/2016/11/28/tying-up-46-electoral-votes-forcing-congress-to-act-the-clinton-stein-goal/
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Israel Battles ISIS on Golan Heights
{israeltoday.co.il} ~ Israeli soldiers operating along the border between Israel and Syria on Sunday came under attack from terrorists affiliated with ISIS... The soldiers were conducting a mission in the buffer zone between the two countries, but still inside Israeli territory, when they came under small arms and mortar fire. Israel Air Force aircraft quickly responded, destroying a pick-up truck with a mounted machine gun and its four passengers...
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Palestinians: The 'Wall of Shame'
by Khaled Abu Toameh
by Khaled Abu Toameh
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ It is no secret that Arab countries have long mistreated their Palestinian brothers and sisters, governing them with inhumane laws and imposing severe restrictions on their public freedoms and basic rights... Building a wall around a Palestinian community to prevent terrorists from entering or leaving, however, has raised the bar on such infringements. This is precisely what is happening in Lebanon these days. The construction of a security wall around Ain al-Hilweh, the largest Palestinian refugee camp with a population of nearly 120,000, has drawn sharp criticism from Palestinians and revived memories of the abuse they regularly receive at the hands of their Arab brethren. The Lebanese authorities say the Palestinians have left them no choice but to build the controversial concrete wall. The Palestinians, they say, refuse to cooperate against terrorists who have established bases within their camps. Yet that problem raises the question: "What has Lebanon done in the past half-century or so to help the Palestinians who fled to that country?" The answer: "Nothing."...
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American Islamist Group Preps
for Jihad Against Trump
by Martin Mawyer & Ryan Mauro
{clarionproject.org} ~ Multiple confidential sources inside of a powerful jihadist group within the United States have informed the Christian Action Network and the Clarion Project that members have been told to arm themselves in anticipation of raids by the Trump Administration... Gilani, told top MOA officials (known as “khalifas”) to order all unarmed members to obtain firearms, licenses and hunting permits in order to resist raids on the group’s approximately 22 compounds that they expect to happen under the Trump Administration. Additional “security” was also called up and assault rifles have been mentioned as desirable. The group now expects the FBI “to reopen its cases against them as a homegrown terrorist organization,” one of the confidential sources told Martin Mawyer of the Christian Action Network and Ryan Mauro of the Clarion Project...
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What to Tell Your Children About Trump
by Peggy Noonan
{peggynoonan.com} ~ Eight points and two anecdotes as we continue to digest this astounding election.
You don’t know a tree is hollow until you push hard against it and it falls. The establishments of both parties did not know, a year ago, that they were hollow trees. They thought themselves strong because they always had been, and people think what has been true will continue. Then suddenly the tree is pushed and falls. To me that is the symbol, the image of 2016: the hollowed trees and how easily they fell.
Election night 2016 was not like 1980. That year produced an outcome fully within the political norms: a former two-term governor won the presidency. This year’s outcome went beyond all previous norms. Twenty-sixteen was like nothing in our lifetimes. In the future people will say, “Where were you that election night?” the way they do for other epochal moments.
Much of the mainstream, legacy media continues its self-disgrace. Having failed to kill Donald Trump’s candidacy they will now aim at his transition. Soon they will try to kill his presidency. Any journalists who are judicious toward Trump, who treat him fairly or even as a human being, are now accused of “normalizing” him. This is a manipulation: It is a way of warning your colleagues to approach the president-elect with the proper hostility or be scorned. None of this will do our country any good.
The left is in enraged mourning. A better way forward would be: reflect, absorb, gather your strength as the opposition, constructively oppose. Lose the hissing rancor. Use that energy to rebuild your party.
Right now 60 million people are very happy, and hopeful. They haven’t taken to the streets in elation, so we can’t see them. They haven’t broken car windows in their joy. Respect their happiness.
This is my fear: The question we ask after every national election is, “Can we come together?” The question this year is more, “Do we even want to come together?” Have the two nations within our nation reached a point of permanent estrangement? If the cultural left eases up and the economic right loosens up, maybe things can be soothed.
I think many people intuitively sense this: The Trump era either really will work or really won’t. It’s going to be something good or a disaster, but it won’t be a middling thing.
This big, burly country can take it either way. The proper attitude now? Give him a chance, watch close, wish well. Cheer what’s sound, criticize what isn’t.
And this: trust America.
Five days after the election I met an Ethiopian immigrant on a street in Washington. We got to talking. He spoke of how bad it was in his old country, all the killing. He’d been here 15 years. “I love America,” he said. “It gave everything to me.” But he was deeply concerned by the election. He has two sons, 8 and 6. The younger got up Wednesday morning, saw the TV and burst into tears. Trump won! The boy calls Trump “the mouth man.” How could a bully be president? “He wept,” said the Ethiopian. “How do I explain it to him?”
I thought. Finally I said, “Tell him to trust America.” Tell him that we are the world’s oldest democracy, that we are a good people, that we’ve been through shocks and surprises, and that we have checks and balances. “If it turns out good,” I said, “we’ll be happy. If it turns out really bad, America has a way of making your stay in the White House not too long. But tell him to trust America as you did, and it gave you everything.”
He said he’d tell his son that. We warmly shook hands.
This isn’t the first story of frightened children I’ve heard since the election. It’s the third. When I told it to a friend, also foreign-born, and so America-loving that he chokes up when he quotes past presidents, he told me that his 5-year-old woke up after the election and sobbed at the news.
Trump supporters feel that the left did this, demonizing Mr. Trump and making him monstrous. There’s some truth in that. But even truer is that Mr. Trump himself scared the children of America for a solid year with his loud ways and rough manner—“the mouth man.”
What a great thing it would be if Donald Trump would take a day off from the presidential transition, go to a series of schools, bring the press, and speak to children, telling them that he has nothing in his heart but the desire to do good and help people. “I have children and even grandchildren,” he might say. “I love them. I will do my best, and I love you.”
Mr. Trump’s people seem to me right now proud, exhausted and painfully aware that they emerged victorious despite the daily pummeling from the establishment and elite media. No one gave them a break.
And they’re right. It was that way.
But it’s not sissy-ish to respect peoples’ anxieties. It doesn’t legitimize your foes’ criticisms to show sensitivity. All presidents since Washington, “the father of our country,” have been seen as a national father figure. It grates on conservatives to think like that. It grates on me. But that’s inevitable for kids who see the president on TV all the time in an un-parented country.
They need to see a little gentleness and good intent. Their parents would appreciate it. And it’s needed before the inauguration. Impressions will have hardened by then.
I end with a related personal note. I never interviewed Donald Trump throughout this year’s campaign. From the beginning he reminded me of men I grew up with, Trumps with no money—loud, unsmooth, rough opinions. Where you came from and who you were surrounded by has a bearing on your loyalties and can bend your thinking. I judged that I’d see Mr. Trump most clearly from a middle distance. So I didn’t go, talk, interview. Six weeks ago I called a Trump staffer I’d interviewed to check a quote. She returned my call from Trump Force One. We spoke, and then suddenly the phone seemed to drop and I heard, “Who’s that?” Then I heard, “Peggy, this is Donald.”
I won’t quote exactly what was said. No one put it off the record, but it felt off the record, and some of the conversation was personal. But I can describe it. He was dignified, hilarious and modest. He told me that I’d sometimes been unfair to him, sometimes mean, sometimes really, really mean, but that when I was he usually deserved it, always appreciated it, and keep it up. He spoke of other things; he characterized for me my career.
I’d heard of his charm offensive, but I’d be lying if I didn’t say how charming, funny and frank he was—and, as I say, how modest. How actually humble.
It moved me. And it hurt to a degree a few weeks later when I wrote in this space that “Sane Donald Trump” would win in a landslide but that the one we had long seen, the crazed, shallow one, wouldn’t, and didn’t deserve to.
Is it possible there are deeper reserves of humility, modesty and good intent lurking around in there than we know? And maybe a toolbox, too, that can screw those things together and produce something good?
Where there’s life, there’s hope. He’s lively. Let’s hope.
But whatever happens, trust America. She has a way of weathering through.
You don’t know a tree is hollow until you push hard against it and it falls. The establishments of both parties did not know, a year ago, that they were hollow trees. They thought themselves strong because they always had been, and people think what has been true will continue. Then suddenly the tree is pushed and falls. To me that is the symbol, the image of 2016: the hollowed trees and how easily they fell.
Election night 2016 was not like 1980. That year produced an outcome fully within the political norms: a former two-term governor won the presidency. This year’s outcome went beyond all previous norms. Twenty-sixteen was like nothing in our lifetimes. In the future people will say, “Where were you that election night?” the way they do for other epochal moments.
Much of the mainstream, legacy media continues its self-disgrace. Having failed to kill Donald Trump’s candidacy they will now aim at his transition. Soon they will try to kill his presidency. Any journalists who are judicious toward Trump, who treat him fairly or even as a human being, are now accused of “normalizing” him. This is a manipulation: It is a way of warning your colleagues to approach the president-elect with the proper hostility or be scorned. None of this will do our country any good.
The left is in enraged mourning. A better way forward would be: reflect, absorb, gather your strength as the opposition, constructively oppose. Lose the hissing rancor. Use that energy to rebuild your party.
Right now 60 million people are very happy, and hopeful. They haven’t taken to the streets in elation, so we can’t see them. They haven’t broken car windows in their joy. Respect their happiness.
This is my fear: The question we ask after every national election is, “Can we come together?” The question this year is more, “Do we even want to come together?” Have the two nations within our nation reached a point of permanent estrangement? If the cultural left eases up and the economic right loosens up, maybe things can be soothed.
I think many people intuitively sense this: The Trump era either really will work or really won’t. It’s going to be something good or a disaster, but it won’t be a middling thing.
This big, burly country can take it either way. The proper attitude now? Give him a chance, watch close, wish well. Cheer what’s sound, criticize what isn’t.
And this: trust America.
Five days after the election I met an Ethiopian immigrant on a street in Washington. We got to talking. He spoke of how bad it was in his old country, all the killing. He’d been here 15 years. “I love America,” he said. “It gave everything to me.” But he was deeply concerned by the election. He has two sons, 8 and 6. The younger got up Wednesday morning, saw the TV and burst into tears. Trump won! The boy calls Trump “the mouth man.” How could a bully be president? “He wept,” said the Ethiopian. “How do I explain it to him?”
I thought. Finally I said, “Tell him to trust America.” Tell him that we are the world’s oldest democracy, that we are a good people, that we’ve been through shocks and surprises, and that we have checks and balances. “If it turns out good,” I said, “we’ll be happy. If it turns out really bad, America has a way of making your stay in the White House not too long. But tell him to trust America as you did, and it gave you everything.”
He said he’d tell his son that. We warmly shook hands.
This isn’t the first story of frightened children I’ve heard since the election. It’s the third. When I told it to a friend, also foreign-born, and so America-loving that he chokes up when he quotes past presidents, he told me that his 5-year-old woke up after the election and sobbed at the news.
Trump supporters feel that the left did this, demonizing Mr. Trump and making him monstrous. There’s some truth in that. But even truer is that Mr. Trump himself scared the children of America for a solid year with his loud ways and rough manner—“the mouth man.”
What a great thing it would be if Donald Trump would take a day off from the presidential transition, go to a series of schools, bring the press, and speak to children, telling them that he has nothing in his heart but the desire to do good and help people. “I have children and even grandchildren,” he might say. “I love them. I will do my best, and I love you.”
Mr. Trump’s people seem to me right now proud, exhausted and painfully aware that they emerged victorious despite the daily pummeling from the establishment and elite media. No one gave them a break.
And they’re right. It was that way.
But it’s not sissy-ish to respect peoples’ anxieties. It doesn’t legitimize your foes’ criticisms to show sensitivity. All presidents since Washington, “the father of our country,” have been seen as a national father figure. It grates on conservatives to think like that. It grates on me. But that’s inevitable for kids who see the president on TV all the time in an un-parented country.
They need to see a little gentleness and good intent. Their parents would appreciate it. And it’s needed before the inauguration. Impressions will have hardened by then.
I end with a related personal note. I never interviewed Donald Trump throughout this year’s campaign. From the beginning he reminded me of men I grew up with, Trumps with no money—loud, unsmooth, rough opinions. Where you came from and who you were surrounded by has a bearing on your loyalties and can bend your thinking. I judged that I’d see Mr. Trump most clearly from a middle distance. So I didn’t go, talk, interview. Six weeks ago I called a Trump staffer I’d interviewed to check a quote. She returned my call from Trump Force One. We spoke, and then suddenly the phone seemed to drop and I heard, “Who’s that?” Then I heard, “Peggy, this is Donald.”
I won’t quote exactly what was said. No one put it off the record, but it felt off the record, and some of the conversation was personal. But I can describe it. He was dignified, hilarious and modest. He told me that I’d sometimes been unfair to him, sometimes mean, sometimes really, really mean, but that when I was he usually deserved it, always appreciated it, and keep it up. He spoke of other things; he characterized for me my career.
I’d heard of his charm offensive, but I’d be lying if I didn’t say how charming, funny and frank he was—and, as I say, how modest. How actually humble.
It moved me. And it hurt to a degree a few weeks later when I wrote in this space that “Sane Donald Trump” would win in a landslide but that the one we had long seen, the crazed, shallow one, wouldn’t, and didn’t deserve to.
Is it possible there are deeper reserves of humility, modesty and good intent lurking around in there than we know? And maybe a toolbox, too, that can screw those things together and produce something good?
Where there’s life, there’s hope. He’s lively. Let’s hope.
But whatever happens, trust America. She has a way of weathering through.
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