Posted on 11/19/2016 5:01:16 AM PST by libstripper
President-elect Donald J. Trump moved quickly on Friday to begin filling national security posts at the top echelons of his administration, selecting a group of hawks and campaign loyalists who reflect the hard-line views that defined his run for president.
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EXACTLY.....
Wow, so Trump is actually beginning to follow through on his campaign promises and they think that's a bad thing? A refreshing change from the congress we elected in 2014 who took less than a month to break virtually every single promise they campaigned on.
Isn’t it a shame that Trump intends to govern according to the same principles upon which he was elected! Liberals do not understand such honesty.
I was the same way. I told people that if Trump could cobble together Florida and Ohio and maybe Pennsylvania we stood a pretty good chance. But in the end I knew there were a lot of "if's" in my prognostications. I was ready for the worst. Instead we're getting the best!
You will not see thousands of muslims marching against radical Islam. The reason is that all Muslims believe in Jihad. Jihad is organic to Islam, but not all Muslims believe in cutting off infidels’ heads. For them there are different degrees of jihad. However they cannot profess their true belief because they would be persecuted. The true radical Islamists are the ones who do not believe in the more militant jihadism.
Seems to me the Trump Train is gathering steam.
While I’ve never been one to believe President Elect Trump would adhere to conservative orthodoxy, thus far, he is turning out to be the most conservative President elected in my lifetime.
I’m sure he will do things that some of us do not like, but on matters of grave importance, he already has built up a great deal of political capitol with me.
It’s simply delicious reading the NYT having a breakdown over the fact Trump is actually appointing people that are sure to advance the positions he campaigned on, and his voters voted for. So refreshing.
“hard-line” = anyone who believes in actually enforcing existing laws
I am glad the pressholes at the NYT have decided to actually report the news again. Maybe the leftist propaganda will take a back seat to actual news. The new status quo.
Bulldoze Hamilton.
“President-elect Donald J. Trump moved quickly on Friday to begin filling national security posts at the top echelons of his administration, selecting a group of hawks and campaign loyalists who reflect the hard-line views that defined his run for president.”
I’m sure these three adjectives; “hawkish”, “loyal” and “hard line” were not intended to be flattering, but what other traits would you rather have for national security positions?
If hawks are objectionable then maybe doves or chickens would have been preferable for the bird category. And let’s recruit the backstabbers instead of the ones that were loyal. And of course instead of hard-liners we want softies in charge of national security.
Sheesh
Bulldoze the Status Quo
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Now that’s a goal we can all agree on!
Dismantle, demolish, and remove the old America weakening policies to make way for a new road to power, respect and strength.
Two paragraphs and three misdirections and one flat out lie. Done reading fake news. It is just a temper tantrum anyway.
And the cute 15-year-old girl next door wants to "show you something".....Oh happy days!
Lol I feel the same. What a Chang I feel when I wake up. It’s the Lord I thank.
Bulldoze
{snicker}
IIRC, it was Don Jr who said all of the Trump children knew how to operate heavy construction equipment.
I had thoughts they were holding off so that maybe the “calm” would help Hillary’s turn out at voting. the “calm” would help people forget we very much have a problem with terrorists in USofA.
We will know how committed he is if he asks for legislation to abolish vote fraud.
Can the US learn from relatively poor Puerto Rico? It has much stricter voter ID laws...
American Enterprise Institute ^ | 11/08/2016 | Mark J. Perry
Posted on 11/9/2016, 5:56:07 AM by cll
With permission, I am sharing an email below that I received from an American friend who recently moved to Puerto Rico and participated in his first election there today:Relating to the discussion about voter ID laws on a recent CD post featuring a video by filmmaker Ami Horowitz that investigated the commonly held belief by liberals in America that voter ID laws are racist and discriminate against the poor and uneducated, let me describe my first experience voting in a Puerto Rican election today.
First, you have to obtain a voter ID card before you are allowed to vote in Puerto Rico. The voter ID is a laminated photo ID with holograms and a bar code. It is a completely separate ID from your driver’s license. To get a voter ID, you go to a voter registration office with your birth certificate and another photo ID or your passport, as well as proof of being a Puerto Rican resident (e.g. a lease, property deed, or maybe a utility bill). The voter registration office is staffed by three people, one from each of the three major political parties so that all can watch one another.
Once you have your voter ID card, you can legally vote at your designated voting place. Before voting, they inspect your voter ID card, check the holograms under a black-light to verify it’s legal, and they scan the bar code. Then they scan your hands with a black-light to make sure you haven’t already voted (see below), and then you go in to the voting area to get your ballot. Before you get a ballot though, they first find your name on a list of registered voters. On the list, your name has your picture next to it, and they match this photo with the photo on your voter ID card. Then they then dip your finger in black-light visible dye (hence the earlier black-light scan) and only then do they hand you your voting ballot. The voting process in Puerto Rico is much more stringent than anything even proposed in the US, and is also effective at pretty much eliminating voter fraud.
So, if there were any real truth to the narrative that “voter ID laws harm vulnerable groups like the poor, the uneducated, and minorities” you’d think you would see it here in Puerto Rico with all these time-consuming procedures to first obtain a voter ID and then be thoroughly checked each time before voting. The median household income of $18,626 in Puerto Rico was about 67% below the US median household income of nearly $56,000 in 2015 (Census data here, see chart above). The high school graduation rate in Puerto Rico is 60% (compared to 83.2% in the US) and only about 18.3% of residents have a post-secondary college degree (compared to 42% in the US). And yet Puerto Rico has the highest voter turnout in the Americas. From 1972 through 1984, island turnout exceeded 80% of the voting-age population, and at one point more than 95% were registered. Between 1972 and 2000, Puerto Rico averaged 79% turnout in its national elections; only eleven US states had voter turnouts higher than 60% during that time, while 14 were below 50%. In 2012, voter turnout in the US was only 53.6%.
I have yet to meet anyone in Puerto Rico who thinks that the voter registration rules here are a bad idea or an undue burden. In contrast, there seems be to universal agreement among Puerto Ricans that the process is well worth the extra trouble and time to ensure fair elections.
One can only conclude that: a) those opposing voter ID laws are subtly racist/classist/elitist toward those they (incorrectly) view to be inferior and without the means and wherewithal to get a voter ID (see Ami Horowitz’s video), or b) the issue is just a smokescreen and those who oppose stricter voter ID laws really ultimately want to facilitate voter fraud and voting by non-citizens because they believe it benefits them politically in terms of obtaining and retaining power.
Cracking down on voter fraud is indeed something that should be high on the agenda.
I’m following with interest the Gubernatorial challenge in N. Carolina. If enough fraud is found there to overturn a 5k vote loss, Trump would have the perfect platform to pursue this nationally.
Muslims can’t denounce what is called radical Islam because that is Islam as was practiced and preached by Mad Mo.
Violence against everyone else on the planet until they submit has been a central feature of the so-called religion since 622 A.D.
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