Author: Patrick

Short Bio: I started blogging about politics in 2006, as a populist, skeptical left of center type, with a blog called simply, "The Populist."I suspect, but cannot prove; that my blog might have been hacked by some evil neoconservatives. I cannot prove that at all and also too, around the same time. Hackers from China where attacking wordpress blogs. I believe either the Neocons or the Chinese got my site. I don't know honestly know which.Either way, by 2007, I began to see that I really did not fit within the Democrat Party and liberal circles and after my blog was hacked; I created a blog called "Political Byline" and I kept writing; first as a Centrist and then as a Conservative PopulistFor my long bio, see the "About Me" section on this blog.

Donald Trump sics lawyers on liberal blogger for blogging about a rumor

Now, at first blush, I would normally say, “Ha Ha! He’s a liberal, he gets what’s coming to him!” However, in this case, I will refrain from much nonsense. This below is a perfect example as to why I simply refuse to blog about rumors, gossip and such.

From the Liberal Blog, called Liberal America:

Just so we’re being completely transparent here, you should know this:

This is being written under duress because I don’t have enough money to fight a legal battle against the Trump machine. Yesterday, I wrote a story based on Melania Trump allegedly having been an escort or paid sex worker when she arrived in New York. A few hours later, the owner of Liberal America received an email threatening us with legal action if we didn’t do as the Trump attorneys instructed — remove the “false statements.” So this is my apology.

First of all, I’m very very sorry that I wrote an article about the past of Melania Trump. I got my information from reputable sources and reported on what was being reported there, but apparently that isn’t good enough to pass muster in the version of American freedom of the press envisioned by Mr. Trump and his team of legal vultures.

Additionally, I’m also sorry that the personal image of the wannabe first lady is so insecure that she feels the need to send her legal hell-hounds chasing after small, independent journalists such as me. I had no idea I was such a threat to the Trump campaign or family. Imagine my surprise.

Andrew Bradford goes on:

But most of all I’m sorry that in Donald and Melania Trump’s view of how this republic works, they think it’s in keeping with the spirit of the First Amendment to threaten, intimidate, and harass reporters. Just the fact that they immediately felt the need to get lawyers involved proves that they don’t believe in preserving, protecting, or defending the Constitution, even though every President has to make a pledge to do so when he or she takes the oath of office. In Donald Trump’s world, the Constitution only applies to those who can afford to hire expensive legal mouthpieces.

It is quite telling about Trump isn’t it?

Here’s the official document:

It is going to be a long election season folks. 🙄 I do not recall Ronald Reagan threatening to sue anyone for something that was said, that he did not like.

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If Donald Trump wants to win, he needs to dump Joseph Schmitz NOW!

This does not look good at all:

Trump Foreign Policy Adviser Joseph Schmitz

Allegations of antisemitism have surfaced against one of Donald Trump’s foreign policy advisers, raising further questions about the guidance the Republican presidential nominee is receiving.

Joseph Schmitz, named as one of five advisers by the Trump campaign in March, is accused of bragging when he was Defense Department inspector general a decade ago that he pushed out Jewish employees.

The revelations feed two themes that his opponent Hillary Clinton has used to erode Trump’s credibility: That he is a foreign policy neophyte, and that his campaign, at times, has offended Jews and other minorities.

Schmitz, who is a lawyer in private practice in Washington, says the allegations against him are lies. All three people who have cited the remarks, including one who testified under oath about them, have pending employment grievances with the federal government.

Daniel Meyer, a senior official within the intelligence community, described Schmitz’s remarks in his complaint file.“His summary of his tenure’s achievement reported as ‘…I fired the Jews,’ ” wrote Meyer, a former official in the Pentagon inspector general’s office whose grievance was obtained by McClatchy.

Meyer, who declined to comment about the matter, cited in his complaint another former top Pentagon official, John Crane, as the source and witness to the remarks. Crane worked with Schmitz, who served as inspector general between April 2002 and September 2005. – Source: Donald Trump foreign policy adviser accused of anti-Semitic remarks | McClatchy DC

Donald Trump had better dump this guy and I mean quick. Because as you all well know, there is an Unwritten rule in politics and it is best described like this:

Thou shalt not speak ill of the Jews, thou shalt not do anything to harm the Jews, and thou shalt not even mention the Jews. 

Otherwise, Thou shalt not have a political career and thou shalt be destroyed by the political left and the political right.

If Donald Trump is even remotely wise at all when it comes to politics and running a presidential campaign, he will dismiss this guy, as his foreign policy advisor and put as much distance between his campaign and this man.

Otherwise, I’ll be sitting here sometime next year bemoaning the fact that Hillary Clinton is now president as well as most of the Republican Party and Grassroots conservatives.

Antisemitism; whether perceived or real, is considered the third rail in politics and it is not acceptable in general quarters any longer.

I just hope and pray that Donald Trump is smart enough to know this.

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Gawker.com finally bites the dust

It appears that Gawker.com has finally bitten the dust. Here is the story from Gawker.com themselves:

After nearly fourteen years of operation, Gawker.com will be shutting down next week. The decision to close Gawker comes days after Univision successfully bid $135 million for Gawker Media’s six other websites, and four months after the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel revealed his clandestine legal campaign against the company.

Nick Denton, the company’s outgoing CEO, informed current staffers of the site’s fate on Thursday afternoon, just hours before a bankruptcy court in Manhattan will decide whether to approve Univision’s bid for Gawker Media’s other assets. Staffers will soon be assigned to other editorial roles, either at one of the other six sites or elsewhere within Univision. Near-term plans for Gawker.com’s coverage, as well as the site’s archives, have not yet been finalized.

I have a lot I’d like to say about this and I decided to dictate it using speech to text.

This lawsuit and closure of gawker.com ought to be a textbook example of what happens when a news site starts trafficking in gossip and slander and someone decides to fight back.

I have experience with being slandered here on the internet myself. As you all know I am not a neoconservative. But, rather a Paleoconservative or someone who simply believes that war should only be used as a last resort. I am also someone who is mildly concerned with interference with our government, our financial institutions and our media Outlets by those who I refer to as Israeli-firsters. Fox News channel is a perfect example of such.

As a result of this, I have been slandered as an anti-semite and because of my position on blacklivesmatter and because of my issue with media bias, when it when it comes to murders that are committed by African-Americans against whites; as opposed to murders that are committed by whites against blacks and the media bias that surrounds that, I have been labeled a racist bigot.

So, I know a little something about media slander and slander that happens on the internet.

In this case here, someone decided to fight back and yes it took lots and lots of money. But, the person who decided to fight back achieved his goals and that was the shuttering of a so-called news site that trafficked in slander.

I commend Peter Thiel for his efforts to shutter this site. As I once was linked to by them and labelled racist bigot many years ago on my old blog.

Furthermore, I think the bloggers should stand up and take notice of the fact that this man who was slandered by this site decided to stand up and put some of his money on the line to defend himself from these slanderous accusations against him and against his unwanted outing as homosexual.

Because if this happens with gawker.com, who’s to say that someone who gets slandered by a Blog whether in a posting or in the comments section wouldn’t decide to stand up and sue the owner of the blog?

The way I see it, I have grounds for a lawsuit against David Horowitz for his slanderous article on me; by two women who are out to get me, because I dared to stand up against the Israeli-firsters who were causing trouble in New York City.

This is something I would seriously like to do, if I decided to do this I would spare no one. Everyone that wrote anything about me negative on their blogs would be targeted for that lawsuit.

Now am I actually going to go out and do this? The answer to that is basically no; because for one thing to bring that sort of lawsuit in an American Court, you must have lots and lots of money something that I simply do not have and furthermore the justice system in this country runs incredibly slow and the slower it runs, the more money you put out. So, in this case I think will simply allow people to come and view my blog look at my archives and decide for themselves whether I am an anti-Semite or a racist bigot and see that what was written about me was nothing more than sensationalized bull-crap

Essentially, what I am saying is the people who brought these slanderous charges against me in the past are simply not worth spending that sort of money time and effort to bring a lawsuit against them.

Most of the ones who made those accusations against me are really not even in the blogging scene any longer, a lot of them mysteriously disappeared a few years back and I haven’t heard from them or seen them in a long time, not to mention the fact the two women that brought those slanderous accusations against me, are no longer employed by David Horowitz.

I guess slandering some of his friends have consequences.

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I’m really worried about Trump’s chances

In case you all haven’t noticed, I really haven’t been writing about politics at all, here as of late.

Quite frankly, I am totally burned out on Politics as a whole. I guess the burnout started after 2012, when Mitt Romney lost and it’s not really gotten any better.

Quite honestly, I really don’t know if Donald Trump even has a chance at winning in 2016. What with hiring of the guy, who basically runs the conservative version of Pravada; also known as Breitbart. I just don’t see how people are going to take him seriously.

Then there’s his statement about the American intelligence system. Can you think of a more boneheaded statement to make if you’re running for president? “I want to be your president, but, I don’t trust the American intelligence system”;that has to be the most tone-deaf, ignorant, statement that anyone could make who was running for president.

Then, there’s that every Republican who has any sort of influence in the party, is basically blasting Trump and then endorsing Hillary Clinton. Sorry, but that’s a death sentence for a campaign, when your own people do not trust your ability to lead the country and endorsed someone, who is basically the sworn enemy of the Republican Party.

Then there’s the media, now we all know that the media; except maybe for Fox News channel, is biased against Donald Trump. That’s a given in politics, I totally understand that.

However, I happen to believe that the movements of the Trump campaign here in the last few months, combined with the Republican Party establishment’s literal turning on Donald Trump left and right….I just don’t think he has the ability to win the presidency and that my friends is a depressing thing and makes me not really want to blog at all.

As an independent Baptist and as a Christian and as someone who used to vote Democrat and finally threw up my hands in disgust and walked away and joined the ranks of Pat Buchanan, Chuck Baldwin and many of the other people who still believe in this country: I have to say there are dark days ahead. I just hope we can survive them. 😔😟

Donald Trump mentions “Second Amendment People” and leftist media gets the vapors.

Well, it seems the media is wetting its pants over this statement here:

Here’s the leftist NYT getting the vapors over it: (To be fair some on the right are too...)

WILMINGTON, N.C. — Donald J. Trump on Tuesday appeared to raise the possibility that gun rights supporters could take matters into their own hands if Hillary Clinton is elected president and appoints judges who favor stricter gun control measures.

Repeating his contention that Mrs. Clinton wanted to abolish the right to bear arms, Mr. Trump warned at a rally here that it would be “a horrible day” if Mrs. Clinton were elected and got to appoint a tiebreaking Supreme Court justice.

“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks,” Mr. Trump said, as the crowd began to boo. He quickly added: “Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.”

Oblique as it was, Mr. Trump’s remark quickly elicited a wave of condemnation from Democrats, gun control advocates and others, who accused him of suggesting violence against Mrs. Clinton or liberal jurists. Bernice A. King, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., called Mr. Trump’s words “distasteful, disturbing, dangerous.”

Mrs. Clinton’s running mate, Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, expressed disbelief. “Nobody who is seeking a leadership position, especially the presidency, the leadership of the country, should do anything to countenance violence, and that’s what he was saying,” Mr. Kaine said in Austin, Tex. He called Mr. Trump’s remark “a window into the soul of a person who is just temperamentally not suited to the task.”

And Dan Gross, the president of the Brady Campaign and Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which has endorsed Mrs. Clinton, said Mr. Trump’s statement was “repulsive — literally using the Second Amendment as cover to encourage people to kill someone with whom they disagree.”

“For Trump, violence has become a standard talking point, a common punch line, and even a campaign strategy,” Mr. Gross said.

Paul D. Ryan, the Republican House speaker who has had a tense relationship with Mr. Trump, told reporters on Tuesday night that the remarks sounded “like a joke gone bad.”

He added: “You should never joke about that. I hope he clears it up quickly.”

Mr. Trump and his campaign did not treat his remark as a joke; instead, they insisted he was merely urging gun rights supporters to vote as a bloc against Mrs. Clinton. “The Second Amendment people have tremendous power because they are so united,” he told a CBS affiliate in North Carolina late Tuesday.

Here’s the video of Trump explaining himself:

The really funny party is that Hillary Clinton said the same very thing about Obama in 2008. Here is Keith Olbermann talking about it:

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I wonder if the media will bring this up? Don’t count on it.

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Ya know, it’s pretty freakin’ bad when……

I actually start agreeing with Commentary Magazine. 🙄

Quote:

In most electoral campaigns that go sour, the panic-driven fission doesn’t achieve critical mass until the mid-to-late autumn. Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is already there, and it’s only August.

Trump has shown himself to be incapable of strategically retreating from losing fights, and his feud with a Gold Star family of a Muslim Bronze Star recipient followed this pattern. As the terrible news cycles mounted and Trump’s Republican allies began openly expressing their dissatisfaction with the course on which their party’s presidential nominee was set, the Trump campaign began to reveal how unstable a compound it was.

That’s Noah Rothman, who used to work for HotAir.com. Noah’s not wrong about that either. This is bad. Trump either needs to get his act together or turn it over to Mike Pence and get out of the race. Because there are alot of people; myself included that wanted to see Trump turn America around and he is doing idiot nonsense like this. It is asinine and it is going to cost us in November.

It is just pretty darned bad, when a committed Neocon and a populist conservative/paleocon type agree on something. 🙄

Brutal Video: Donald Trump rallies uncensored

Folks, I am not going to lie to you. I have serious concerns about November. 🙁 I knew stuff like this was going to happen. Trump pressed all the right buttons and exploited the Nation’s anger and now, we get this below. I will be voting for Trump. But, I can almost assure you; that he will not be elected. Trump could have taken the high road and ran a Reagan-like campaign. Instead, he ran an New York City brawler campaign and this is the result. Enjoy 4 to 8 years of Hillary. Because that’s what we’re getting, I am afraid. 🙁

Via Source: Voices From Donald Trump’s Rallies, Uncensored – The New York Time

Mr. Trump’s supporters often chant vitriolic, even violent slogans at his campaign events. New York Times reporters documented examples over several weeks. Source: Voices From Donald Trump’s Rallies, Uncensored – The New York Times

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American Muslim Khizr Khan who’s Son died in Iraq in 2004, gives stinging rebuke to Trump

I hate to say this; but, this guy, gave Donald Trump a huge black eye.

The Video: (H/T to WaPo)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ery-Zgo5ALs?rel=0

Skip to 3:35 in the video and just watch… 😯

The money clip in this video, happens at 4:22 and continues to the end. I mean, what can the right honestly say, in response to this; without sounding like a bunch of racist bigots?

Well, one such person did just that, and failed utterly miserably.

Listen to a one Sandy Rios of the American Family Association spittle all over herself:

(H/T Right Wing Watch…(Yes, I know, I used them and I have no shame in that. You spew hatred in the name of Christ or Christian values, you get called out on this blog. Period, End of discussion… 😡 )

Quote:

“From my perspective, it is the responsibility of Mr. Khan to distinguish himself from Islamists, from the Muslim Brotherhood whose treatise is to destroy us from within,” Rios said. “If he is a patriotic, loyal, American-Muslim, then we want to hear that, that’s great, and we grieve with them over the death of their son. But do not disparage Americans or Donald Trump for having concerns about Muslims in our midst.”

She continued, “And if you are so concerned, Mr. Khan, if you’re an American first, then distinguish yourself and condemn Islamists, condemn the Muslim Brotherhood, then we will listen to you, and stop waving the Constitution. As far as I can tell, Islam, truly, supporters of Islam and the Quran, cannot embrace the Constitution. Now, if you have a different view, then explain that to us and then maybe we can be persuaded, but don’t shame America for having genuine and rightful concerns about Muslims in our midst when we have no idea who they are or what they really believe, and we’re not even sure about you, sir, because we know about taqiyya, which is the practice of lying to the infidel in order to advance the Muslim cause.

“So I’m sorry, we’ll not be shamed. I’m sorry for the loss of their son and I hope he is a loyal American, but I think a loyal American Muslim would be more like Zuhdi Jasser, who is very clear about where he stands, who was very patriotic and loyal and totally distances himself from Islamism, so if that’s the case for this gentleman, then he should’ve said that on the platform rather than shaming us for having concerns about Muslim immigration.”

Hey, Sandy Rios, I am not sure about you either. Whether or not you are really a born-again Christian or not; Because the Bible does truly say this:

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. – (Matthew 5:44-48 KJV)

Furthermore, I am equally troubled that the American Family Association has given this two-bit nitwit to espouse her obvious blind hatred of American Muslims. The real kicker? This hateful woman is the AFA’s director of governmental affairs, that my friends is very troubling.

Now, I know that I do support Donald Trump and I also know that he has made these comments about Muslims; that is the part that I really do not feel comfortable with and how he would use the office of the President to abuse freedom of religion in this Country. Because if he did this with Muslims; who is to say, a Democratic Party President would not do so….with Christians.

So, my open message to Sandy Rios is this: You do not speak for me bitch, not as Christian, not as a Baptist, nor as a Conservative American. 😡

I also want to add this: I have no quarrel with Muslims, who have moved here; so that they may be free, those who have embraced our Country, our values and our way of life. This man obviously had, and Sandy Rios is a perfect example as to why the Conservative Christian has never truly gotten a seat at the table of the Republican Party. I hope it says that way too. Christian dominionism is a dangerous thing and we constitutional minded conservatives, must keep it out of Government at all costs. This Sandy Rios is a perfect example of as to why it must be.

 

 

Texas D.A. drops charges against pro-life filmmaker

Some good news for a change:

On the night the head of the Planned Parenthood abortion company is slated to speak to the Democratic National Convention, the man behind the undercover videos has been vindicated. Again.

As LifeNews reported last month, a Harris County, Texas judge dismissed the bogus misdemeanor charge against David Daleiden for allegedly trying to buy body parts from the Planned Parenthood abortion business he was exposing for selling them as a part of the Center for Medical Progress’ undercover investigation.

Today, Harris County District Attorney’s office on Tuesday dismissed all charges against Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, the pro-life advocate who worked with him on the groundbreaking videos – Source: D.A. Dismisses All Bogus Charges Against David Daleiden for Exposing Planned Parenthood | LifeNews.com

In the end, the truth always wins out. 🙂

I have a theory on the shooting in Munich, Germany

As you all might have heard, there’s been a mass shooting in Munich, Germany.

I suspect far-right wing German Nationalists. Here’s why:

Via the Daily Mail in the U.K.:

Witnesses said that the gunman screamed ‘I’m German’ and ‘f*** foreigners’ before shooting.

And this:

That’s not a Arab or any other sort of foreigner. That’s a white guy.

I tend to think that it is some sort of far right-wing, German Nationalist group.