"This is all symptomatic of modern journalism’s great moral and intellectual failing: its unbearable smugness.
Had Hillary Clinton won, there’s be a winking “we did it” feeling in the press, a sense that we were brave and called Trump a liar and saved the republic."
The mainstream media is in large measure simply an extension of the Democratic Party.
They know it and don't care, and an unbearable smugness exudes.
The 2016 campaign has been very heated, reflecting the pulse (pun intended) of our nation.
The GOP is very divided, deservedly so. Elected GOP representative think they are part of a production of Animal Farm, turning into the legislators we sent them up there to defeat.
A strong field of GOP contenders set out to gain the nomination. Marco Rubio, Rand Paul and Scott Walker could have easily won my vote. I chose Sen. Ted Cruz, who had a vibrant history of fighting the establishment
However, Donald Trump won the race.
Unlike many, I did not take the #NeverTrump route, which I considered juvenile.
Donald Trump, who no doubt loves America, does not meet many of the principles and positions I as a proud member of the Reagan Revolution champion.
However, as we enter a version of The Fourth Turning, a historical and cyclical period of turmoil which places the continuance of our nation at risk, our nation will require exemplary leadership during this period. As Jim Quinn of The Burning Platform notes in researching The Fourth Turning, "The Grey Champion doesn’t necessarily have to be a good person, but they must lead and display tremendous confidence in their cause and path. Franklin, Lincoln, and FDR have many detractors, but during their Fourth Turnings, they most certainly led, casting aside obstacles (sometimes illegally) and enduring dark days and bleak prospects for success."
In my mind, Donald Trump fits perfectly the characteristics of a Grey Champion.
His opponent?
Hillary Clinton is an arrogant hypocrite, an intellectual progressive operative with disdain for the blue collar working families she professes to support, an individual who dreams of squelching free markets through taxation and regulation championing crony capitalism in support of self promotion and her political advocates all the while welcoming opportunities to abuse power.
In no way, shape or form is this an individual we should even remotely consider for our highest office. She is a champion of distortion and failure.
The nation, due in large measure to the progressive policies engaged upon during the Obama administration, is in great peril. Things will worsen, at least in the short term, no matter who wins.
Should Hillary Clinton win, our nation ceases to exist as founded, and freedom and liberty retract measurably as the world enters deeper levels of violence, darkness and despair. Yes, that bad.
Donald Trump offers hope, championing individualism and patriotism. We may not wish the Grey Champion to come, but come he must, and come he will.
He is here, his name is Donald J. Trump, and America desperately needs him to become the 45th President of The United States of America.
"Never in American history has anyone as unfit and undeserving as Hillary Clinton run for U.S. President.
While she stands on the threshold of being elected to the White House, she quite literally belongs in a prison cell. This article lays out the case against her, chapter and verse."
James Comey has reversed field again, signaling nothing has changed with respect to the position of the FBI with regard to Secretary Clinton.
In our view, this does not significantly change things, as it further emphasizes the system if rigged as Donald Trump has indicated.
Julian Assange of Wikileaks eerily predicted this avenue would be traveled, noting the following:
“My analysis is that Trump would not be permitted to win. Why do I say that? Because he has had every establishment off his side. Trump does not have one establishment, maybe with the exception of the Evangelicals, if you can call them an establishment. Banks, intelligence, arms companies, foreign money, etc. are all united behind Hillary Clinton. And the media as well. Media owners, and the journalists themselves."
However, it should be noted that none of the emails released thus far by Wikileaks are those of Secretary Clinton. Wikileaks has indicated they have those, so it would be reasonable to conclude a release from Wikileaks is imminent.
"Most Trump supporters don’t want the government to do something for them; they want the government to quit doing things to them. They viscerally revile the elite—it’s personal—and they want no part of that class or its government. They know how to take care of themselves, and many know the government hurts the most those whom it ostensibly protects."
Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.--Ronald Reagan
Remember that giant sucking sound Ross Perot warned you about?
Well, thanks in large measure to NAFTA, the jobs have indeed been extracted from America, most notably in rust belt along the Ohio River.
"The death of the steel industry had devastated not just the economy of the city, but had destroyed a sense of security and torn at the fabric that had maintained blue-collar communities for decades."
Our people are hurting. It is time to awaken our industrial giant and Make America Great Again!
We have been wondering about the whereabouts of the wife of the Orlando mass murderer Omar Mateen.
I drove by the Pulse Nightclub, the scene of the horrific, event this morning. It still hurts.
However, Orlando is picking up the pieces very nicely, and I am very proud of our community.
Although without question they were significantly impacted, there appears to be an overreach to the LGBT community. We disagree that the terrorist act was planned and plotted as an attack on the LGBT community, as we consider the event a terrorist act against The United States of America which took the lives of many of our beloved citizens, most of whom in this case, were LGBT and/or Latino.
The New York Times has located Noor Salman, and has presented a story attempting to make us sympathetic to her plight as the loved one who had no clue about the evil her husband was about to inflict.
I don't buy it for one minute.
“It’s possible she didn’t know because he was not confiding in her, but she does have every incentive in the world to retell this story as a different kind of victim,” said Mia Bloom, a professor at Georgia State University. “I am not trying to minimize the experience she had in a domestic abusive relationship, but it doesn’t give her a free pass as a bystander to not come forward.”
The "I was unaware" excuse has run it's course. They all know.
She should be considered an accomplice, and charged accordingly.
BAHL is a REALTOR, Real Estate Investor and Residential Real Estate Appraiser in Orlando. He holds a BS degree in Economics from Florida State University.
