Month: April 2016

Internal Trump Campaign Memo proves that he’s a blowhard who should not be President

The Memo:

The story via The Washington Post:

In a private document that was circulated over the weekend and obtained by The Washington Post, Trump campaign senior adviser Barry Bennett revealed the mounting frustrations among the billionaire’s top aides as they closed what had been a tumultuous week.

Entitled “Digging through the Bull [expletive],” Bennett’s memo urged Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski — who was charged with battery last week for allegedly yanking a reporter — and others to ignore critics who have questioned whether Trump’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination has waned.

“America is sick of them. Their idiotic attacks just remind voters why they hate the Washington Establishment,” Bennett wrote, citing tracking poll data favorable to Trump.

[….]

The “internal campaign memorandum,” addressed to “Corey and Team,” was given to the Post by a Republican familiar with the campaign who requested anonymity to pass on a communication from within Trump’s inner circle.

When reached by phone, Bennett confirmed that he wrote the memo and sent it to his colleagues in the campaign.

“Personally, it’s been a very hard time. You’ve got Republicans in Washington saying they’re keeping lists of people who work for Mr. Trump, who say you’ll never work in this town again,” Bennett said in a brief interview. “My point is that people should be pumped that the establishment is spinning.”

When asked whether his ire was directed more at the national media or the GOP’s establishment wing, Bennett said, “Both.”

“All of that is the establishment,” Bennett said. “The press is printing the narrative that the Republican establishment is setting. What’s necessary — what I’m saying here — is that we can’t let that influence how we see ourselves.”

A veteran of Republican campaigns, Bennett previously served as campaign manager for former Trump rival Ben Carson and made his way into Trump’s orbit in late January.

Sorry Bennet, But, when your boss decides to allow one of his friends, that being the National Enquirer smear a very well-known conservative voice and then your campaign manager promotes that smear; you lose me.

See here:

https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/714557519587188736

The offending tweet:

This, my friends, is why I stopped supporting Donald Trump. Oh, yes, he does have some good promises on illegal immigration, trade and foreign policy. But that is about all they are — promises. Which most likely are lies being told to get elected, knowing Trump. Others have said it, and I will say it too; the guy is nothing more than a Authoritarian centrist, who will get elected and proceed to change nothing in Washington D.C. and will basically be as bad, if not worse than Obama and Bush combined.

This is why I am voting third party this time around. Because Ted Cruz is dangerous; but Donald Trump? He’s worse.

A perfect example of why I keep my distance from 9/11 Truthers, Haters and such

I make no bones about it; I am not a fan of Wilsonian foreign policy and neoconservatives — because it is what brought us the Iraq War and its ultimate failure. However, these people, as outlined in the blog posting below, go well beyond, what I, as a blogger, am against. The entire idea of the wholesale hatred of Jews is just not my cup of tea. As a Born-Again Christian of 35 years, I am not a person who hates people, because of who they are.

Check out : A Deranged Anti-Semite Accuses Me of Libel | Power Line

This is what these people are, natural born hatemongers. They combine hatred with conspiracy theories to buttress their hatred. It is a self-supporting system; a sort of infinite feedback loop, so to speak. This sort of a thing, my friend, is not my cup of tea.

This is why you will not see me constantly linking to Alex Jones or his websites. Because Alex Jones likes to traffic in conspiracy and I simply do not delve into that sort of stuff. This is what has bothered me about the Conservative media as of late. They, in some aspects, have hit the fifth rail, when it comes to the media and whom they offer up as factual reporting, and more importantly, reliable sources for information.

Now, to those of you, who would point out, that I do actually have Alex Jones links in my sidebar and to other such sites — I realize that I do. I also have a very large and obvious disclaimer, letting my readers now, that I do not endorse the stuff and that the reader’s mileage might vary as to the truthfulness as to what is written there as well.

As a blogger, and as a citizen journalist, as a political pundit of the internet sort, I like to deal with true, reported, and proven facts and then, give my take on it. As a Christian of 35 years, I happen to know who is behind all of the evil things that are happening here in America; and that is the prince of darkness himself: Satan. It matters to me not, who is being used as the instrument of that evil. I feel, that being wrapped up into whom the person or persons that is influenced by Satan to do these evil things simply is a distraction to the truth and the complete broad picture.

Therefore, this is why I keep a safe distance away from people of this sort. Do I believe that cultural Marxism is a real thing? Yes, I do. I believe that it is a tool of Satan himself, to destroy the Christian foundations that this Country was founded. It matters to me not, whom the people were, that were behind it; where they were from or their ethnicity. This, to me, is trivial.

What does matter to me is that there is a cultural war in this Country. There are truly evil people, who are, for the most part, a part of the political left in this Country; who wish to change the very foundation of which this Country was founded. They wish to stamp out the Christian morals and very fabric that this Nation was founded upon. They wish to see Churches, especially Fundamentalist Churches, closed and their Pastor’s jailed, because of hate speech; a creation of the Marxist left.

These people are the ones that created political correctness, as not only a term, but also a tool of control. They use this tool against those of whom they disagree and they wish to silence those who dare to dissent to their worldviews. This has really become apparent under the administration of Barack Obama; this is not a kooky conspiracy theory, this is factual truth.

This is why I created this blog and why I decided that I wanted to continue blogging, even after the Bush administration.  Because once I figured out that the Democratic Party was nothing more than a giant smoke screen and basically a party that is based upon a false premise, that somehow or another, everyone is entitled to everything and that capitalism is looked down upon and that people, like myself, who hold to Christian morals and compass, are somehow a threat. I left that side of the political fence and decided to join with those who defend that sort of a thing and this Country as a whole.

Not that I believe the conservatives or Republicans are perfect, far from it. However, I believe that defending the Republic and defending the values, of which this Country was founded is a noble cause and it is one that I do fight for here on this blog.

However, fighting for that sort of a cause does not entail, not for me anyway, embracing this sort of hatred, or peddling these sorts of conspiracy theories. It is foolishness and it misses the broader picture.

Sorry for the length of this, but, I really wanted to make this clear. I fight here on this blog for America and its values, not against any one person, ethnic group, or religious group.

 

Trump does a NYT interview with Modow

It’s your typical ego stuff too.

NYT:

WASHINGTON — YOU could hear how hard it was for Donald Trump to say the words.

“Yeah, it was a mistake,” he said, sounding a bit chastened. “If I had to do it again, I wouldn’t have sent it.”

I was telling him he lost my sister’s vote when he retweeted a seriously unflattering photo of the pretty Heidi Cruz next to a glam shot of his wife, Melania.

He repeated his contention that he didn’t view the Heidi shot “necessarily as negative.” But I stopped him, saying it was clearly meant to be nasty.

Trump also got into his schoolyard excuse of “he did it first” and “that wasn’t nice,” insisting that Ted Cruz wrote the words on the digital ad put up by an anti-Trump group aimed at Utah Mormons; it showed Melania in a 2000 British GQ shot posing provocatively and suggested that it was not First Ladylike. Cruz denies any involvement.

Truth be told, Trump said he “didn’t love the photo” of Melania. “I think she’s taken better pictures,” he said, also protesting: “It wasn’t a nude photo, either. It wasn’t nude!”

It’s ridiculous how many mistakes Trump has made in rapid order to alienate women when he was already on thin ice with them — and this in a year when the Republicans will likely have to run against a woman.

You see why I decided against voting for the guy? This here and Amanda Carpender‘s smearing was it for me.

Needless to say, he won’t be getting my vote. No sir. Not me.

Others: Washington Post, RedState, The Right Scoop, NBC News, Politico, Raw Story, The Resurgent, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Guardian, Fire Andrea Mitchell!, Mother Jones, CNN and Page Six (Via Memeorandum) 

Video: “Park it anywhere!”

It’s all fun and games, until someone hits the deck…..or in this case, the dock.

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Ouch.

The story via LA Times:

A tourist’s video posted online shows the confused, then panic-filled moments when a whale-watching ship rammed into its dock at San Diego’s Embarcadero, injuring seven passengers, Thursday afternoon.

The 49-second YouTube video shows the 150-foot ship coming in to dock but failing to stop until it smashes into the dock’s wood planking and a railing with a thunderous crunch.

As the Adventure Hornblower approached the dock and a line of new passengers watched, waiting for the next tour to board, light-hearted chatter can be heard on the video.

“Park it anywhere!” a person shouts to laughter.

But a moment later, the man shouts something else: “I wouldn’t stand in front of it guys!”

The ship blasted its horn and then smashed into the dock, its hull digging several feet into the structure.

Seven passengers suffered minor to moderate injuries. Of those, three were sent to hospitals with neck, back or leg injuries, said San Diego Fire-Rescue Battalion Chief David Gerboth. The others were treated by medics and released.

There were 144 people aboard the ship at the time, although it was not clear whether that included the crew members.

Mike and Deb Ellis, from the Phoenix area, had come to San Diego to celebrate her 60th birthday. During the cruise Thursday they said they saw two waterspouts and a lot of dolphins. Deb Ellis was in the rear of the boat on the top deck when it crashed.

“It felt like we were coming in a little hot,” she said. “Then the boat hit the dock. The next thing I heard was four blasts of the horn …. We hit pretty hard.”

Mike Ellis said that people waiting in line at the dock ran to get out of the way as the bow slammed into the walkway.

Tables, chairs and people on the top deck of the boat fell down.

Also on the top deck were Osmond DeSousa, his wife and teenage son, who were visiting from New Jersey.

“I saw it coming in fast. It hit the dock, bounced off and continued too fast to stop. The woman next to me fell, she was hurt pretty bad,” DeSousa said.

“The crew were walking on the deck yelling, ‘Brace yourselves or hold on to something.’”

Allow me to make a mental note:  If I, by some miracle, I happen to find myself in California and someone asks me to go for a boat ride; say no way and run like heck in the other direction. 😆