Friday, October 13, 2017

Has it really been this long?

I have not posted in 15 months.  What a 15 months it has been!

The big news is Trump crushed 17 other GOP Nominees and then trounced Crooked Hillary to steal the White House right out from under the establishment.  It was an incredible thing to watch.  I did not believe The Donald would win against Crooked Hillary.  Right up until the establishment media called the race for The Donald. I thought the democrats would find a way to cheat enough to win.  They're so good at it after decades of polishing the steal.  The biggest surprise was the way the American people fought back the lies from the establishment mainstream media.  Trump was able to right over the MSM's heads directly to the people via Twitter, of all things.  

Now that The Donald is not The POTUS, he's still managing to stick it to the establishment, both the political and media establishments and both inside the GOP and the dems.  Political historians will be analyzing this era for decades to come.  If they do it fast enough, they might even stick us with a president Oprah in 2020 or 2024.  

But, what has fascinated me most about all of this is how The POTUS has exposed the MSM as complete an utter frauds.  Now we have Project Veritas and it's newesexposé, American Pravda.  It's another in a long line of under cover journalism ala 60 Minutes circa 1970's.  

In addition to Project Veritas, there is also ousted investigative journalist, Sharyl Attkisson's, Full Measure, an honest to God Sunday Morning investigative news show from a completely unbiased viewpoint.  (The same cannot be said of Project Veritas, despite how much I enjoy them outing the hypocritical leftists.) 

The left is crumbling and they know.  That is why their tactics are getting so aggressive.  The antifa is a far more violent version of 'occupy' democrats.  Democrats have lost over 1,000 seats since 2008.  Currently there are:

39 Republican Governors vs 15 democrats (1 independent)........................................78% GOP
32 Republican State legislature vs 14 democrats (3 are slit/tied - 1 is non-partisan)...64% GOP
52 Republican Senators vs 46 democrats (2 independents)..........................................52% GOP
240 Republicans in the House of Representatives vs 194 democrats (1 vacant)..........55% GOP

So, why?

In my opinion, it's because the democrats went to far left too fast.  The U.S. was not ready for Obamacare.  It was not ready for homosexual marriage.  It was not ready to lose its standing in the world by 'leading from behind'. 

What are we to take away from all this?  Trump was elected as counter balance to the leftist activism that went unchecked for 8 (some would argue longer) years.  Look at Trump's promises:

1) Border wall (i.e., secure the borders - specifically the SW border): Illegal immigration down 61%
2) Repeal & Replace Obamacare - Lost at the hands of Mitch McConnell
3) Get us out of Iran Deal - Almost there as of 10/13/17
4) Renegotiate NAFTA - Not officially started, but the talk are beginning.
5) Deal with North Korean - Again, he's working on it.
6) Tax Reform - He has laid out his blueprint of what that would look like.  Congress needs to act.


All in all not bad considering he has dealt with 3 major hurricanes and a mass shooting since he was sworn-in in January. 

Oh,  Here's some nuggets I left out:

The stock market has gained 25% since his election (about %5.2 trillion in value).
Consumer confidence is at the highest level since 2004.
Unemployment at 4.2% the lowest since march of 2001.

Like I said, not bad for a guy every MSM journalist believes is a moron.  Reminds me of how they trashed Bush 43.