Posted on 05/11/2017 12:49:11 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
Wednesday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” conservative political commentator Pat Buchanan said White House chief strategist Steve Bannon was correct when he said the media was the opposition party. He added that just like they took down President Richard Nixon, they are attempting to “bring down” President Donald Trump.
Buchanan said, “There is a cultural left and a political left and a media if you will, are a conglomerate. It’s not a conspiracy but it is collusion, and they were determined to break and bring down Nixon from the day he was nominated. They were determined, tried to break, and they succeeded. Tried to break and bring down Reagan over Iran-Contra. I was in the White House then. And the same forces, similar forces are trying to break and bring down Trump. And it’s transparent. It’s right in front of us. You can’t watch those briefings and things, watch TV cable TV and the rest of it without seeing there is a real animus. I mean it’s the White House correspondents’ dinner. Steve Bannon was dead right when he said one thing, the media are the opposition party.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
“He said that despite the youth of the administration, we are already “pretty far along” in a major battle between Trump and “the Deep State and the incumbent forces of media culture are really determined to bring him down.””
Pat is Right.
“I don’t know what’s going to happen in coming months and coming weeks, but it’s hard to see this level of intensity continuing in terms of the struggle in Washington, D.C. for very much longer without some kind of collision or collusion that I can’t right now foresee,” Buchanan ventured.
Pat is spot-on as usual. If Pat was elected in the 90s it would have saved the United States a lot of heartache.
Let’s face it. The “opposition” is primarily the following corporations: Disney, Comcast, Time Warner, and CBS.
I usually watch Fox and Friends each morning and was doing work around the house and left FNC on for background noise.
There is nobody more intent to bring Trump down than the mascara boy. He really has an agenda to grind and anything he can grasp to shed Trump in a negative way, he does it, always.
WHY ARE WE STILL PAYING ATTENTION TO THEM?
TRUMP SHOULD STOP TALKING TO THEM
Media had a LOT more power back then.
Nixon voters weren’t nearly as fanatical in their love of him.
Social media wasn’t around.
They are playing a dangerous game cause unless they have a picture of Trump drowning kittens in a bag, I’m STAYING WITH HIM.
Hang on.
This isn’t going to get any better - only worse.
They are out to get him.
The Opposition Party for 8 years is going to go after Trump, and his family, HARD! For anything, and everything.
They are creating lies and deceptions, and they know it. They are the Opposition Party and enemy of the state.
It is going to be this way for 8 years.
8 years of constant, non-stop Obstructionism and #FAKENEWS
The Opposition Party are #FAKEAMERICANS
The Opposition Party will continue their lies, distortions, and obstructionism. It is what they do. Make it as difficult on their enemy as possible.
They are at war with conservatives. If you are not a leftist and one of them, then you are their enemy.
One of the tactics of war is deception, deceiving, and lying. The Opposition Party lies because it is one of the war tools. Get used to it. And come to realize that we are at war. They know they are at war. So we better act like it also.
Watch Spicer at the WH Press briefings. He knows he is at war. That is why he treats them with such disdain and ridicule. He really needs to close up the open WH Press briefings. Invite only. Don’t let the enemy - the Opposition Party inside. The Opposition Party can then learn what is going on from their fake anonymous sources and Trump tweets - good luck with that.
The leftist Opposition Party is:
- msm (CNN #FAKENEWS, NBC, etc)
- Democrats
- GOPe/RINOS (such as McCain, etc)
- Hollywood
- Education (universities, colleges, etc)
- intelligence community
That’s what we need...a nice little list to ID the enemy. Good work.
They tried like hell during the election and failed. President Trump is his own man, nobody owns him. This election has shown us just how corrupt D.C. and the media really are. I think the bad guys are going to bring themselves down. It is going to be to watch.
SO MUCH WINNING. :)
BUCHANAN'S RIGHT!
If Cankles had managed to secure the office, the next step would have been to go to Single Payer, as BarryDon’tCare imploded, and one by one the insurers left, right? I mean, in other words, wasn’t this the plan from Day 1 of this nightmare? To have it fail and force total government run medical on us?
From Orwell's 1984 (some emphasis added):
p234 "Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness; only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?"
Winston was struck, as he had been struck before, by the tiredness of O'Brien's face. It was strong and fleshy and brutal, it was full of intelligence and a sort of controlled passion before which he felt himself helpless; but it was tired. There were pouches under the eyes, the skin sagged from the cheekbones. O'Brien leaned over him, deliberately bringing the worn face nearer.
"You are thinking," he said, "that my face is old and tired. You are thinking that I talk of power, and yet I am not even able to prevent the decay of my own body. Can you not understand, Winston, that the individual is only a cell? The weariness of the cell is the vigor of the organism. Do you die when you cut your finger-nails?"
He turned away from the bed and began strolling up and down again, one hand in his pocket.
"We are the priests of power," he said. "God is power. But at present power is only a word so far as you are concerned. It is time for you to gather some idea of what power means. The first thing you must realize is that power is collective. The individual only has power in so far as he ceases to be an individual. You know the Party slogan 'Freedom is Slavery." Has it ever occurred to you that it is reversible? Slavery is freedom. Alone-free-the human being is always defeated. It must be so, because every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures. But if he can make complete, utter submission, if he can escape from his identity, if he can merge himself in the Party so that he is the Party, then he is all-powerful and immortal. The second thing for you to realize is that power is power over human beings. Over the body-but, above all, over the mind. Power over matter external reality, as you would call it-is not important. Already our control over matter is absolute."'
For a moment Winston ignored the dial. He made a violent effort to raise himself into a sitting position, and merely succeeded in wrenching his body painfully.
"But how can you control matter?" he burst out. "You don't even control the climate or the law of gravity. And there are disease, pain, death-"
O'Brien silenced him by a movement of the hand. "We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. You will learn-by degrees, Winston. There is nothing that we could not do. Invisibility, levitation-anything. I could float off this floor like a soap bubble if I wished to. I do not wish to, because the Party does not wish it. You must get rid of those nineteenth century ideas about the laws of nature. We make the laws of nature."
"But you do not! You are not even masters of this planet. What about Eurasia and Eastasia? You have not conquered them yet."
"Unimportant. We shall conquer them when it suits us. And if we did not, what difference would it make? We can shut them out of existence. Oceania is the world."
"But the world itself is only a speck of dust. And man is tiny- helpless! How long has he been in existence? For millions of years the earth was uninhabited."
"Nonsense. The earth is as old as we are, no older. How-could it be older? Nothing exists except through human consciousness."
"But the rocks are full of the bones of extinct animals-mammoths and mastodons and enormous reptiles which lived here long before man was ever heard of."
"Have you ever seen those bones, Winston? Of course not. Nineteenth-century biologists invented them. Before man there was nothing. After man, if he could come to an end, there would be nothing. Outside man there is nothing."
"But the whole universe is outside us. Look at the stars! Some of them are a million light-years away. They are out of our reach forever."
"What are the stars?" said O'Brien indifferently. "They are bits of fire a few kilometers away. We could reach them if we wanted to. Or we could blot them out. The earth is the center of the universe. The sun and the stars go round it."
Winston made another convulsive movement. This time he did not say anything. O'Brien continued as though answering a spoken objection:
"For certain purposes, of course, that is not true. When we navigate the ocean, or when we predict an eclipse, we often find it convenient to assume that the earth goes round the sun and that the stars are millions upon millions of kilometers away. But what of it? Do you suppose it is beyond us to produce a dual system of astronomy? The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them. Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? Have you forgotten doublethink?"
Winston shrank back upon the bed. Whatever he said, the swift answer crushed him like a bludgeon. And yet he knew, he knew, that he was in the right. The belief that nothing exists outside your own mind-surely there must be some way of demonstrating that it was false. Had it not been exposed long ago as a fallacy? There was even a name for it, which he had forgotten. A faint smile twitched the corners of O'Brien's mouth as he looked down at him.
"I told you, Winston," he said, "that metaphysics is not your strong point. The word you are trying to think of is solipsism. But you are mistaken. This is not solipsism. Collective solipsism, if you like. But that is a different thing; in fact, the opposite thing. All this is a digression,"' he added in a different tone. "The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men." He paused, and for a moment assumed again his air of a schoolmaster questioning a promising pupil: "How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?"
Winston thought. "By making him suffer," he said.
End of quote.
Control of all healthcare is a powerful way to make people suffer, either directly or through their friends and families.
A takeaway: The left and Democrats did not see Orwell's 1984 as a warning. They saw it as a game plan.
And in fact still do...
Even if they DO, I'm staying with him.....LOL
It might slow down “might” after some swamp creatures are imprisoned. That’s of course why they are so upset about Comey.
This is about the Democrat party and leftists in America refusing to tolerate a Republican president EVER! This started in Bush’s 2nd term and it will happen whenever or if ever we elect a Republican president. This is serious stuff and our Republican pundits and the braver of our legislators need to explain to the American people that this is what is going on and that we must fight back on all fronts. It is a war.
And Steve knows it.
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