Posted on 01/16/2017 3:04:38 PM PST by Kaslin
Sigmund Freud’s famous quote, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar,” was to clarify that not everything a patient said or did was somehow symbolic of a deeper psychological issue. That’s almost never the case with politics, when almost every action is really about what’s behind the act itself.
That’s why I’m presenting this article a “Guide to the Perplexed Liberal” for all the activities they’ve been buzzing about since Donald Trump won the election.
Tweet! Tweet!
Liberals are furious with President-Elect Trump’s tweets. They say it is evidence that he is an unhinged narcissist with his finger of the nuclear button – which you’ll recall, they believe nobody is overseeing anymore.
It’s certainly true that prior to Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway joining the campaign, President-elect Trump’s tweets were utterly undisciplined. Now, since a cigar isn’t just a cigar, they are being used in a unique and powerful way. Tweeting is a way for President-Elect Trump to speak instantly and directly to the American people.
Think about it. Prior to Twitter, responses would have been issued via a press release, statement, or direct address. Now, President-Elect Trump can just tell people to eff-off.
That’s exactly what he did, and rightly so, to Rep. Lewis. This man may have been a civil rights champion, but he’s not above criticism. So for him to go on national television and claim that President-elect Trump isn’t a legitimate president, then he is fair game. So Trump punched back, embarrassing Lewis for the Congressman’s truly disastrous job of running his district (which also tells you how stupid Democrats are, to continually put the same losers back in office for thirty years. Can you say Hank “Guam Will Tip Over” Johnson?)
It’s also the best revenge on Twitter’s private war on conservatives, which has helped torpedo any chance of it being acquired. What’s the company going to do? Ban the president?
“You’re Fake News”
Oh, what a delight. Never have I been so happy to see how President-elect Trump beat down Jim Acosta of CNN, and the dishonest network itself. Neil Cavuto drives the knife in so perfectly.
Liberals are all upset that somehow this shows that President-Elect Trump is a fascist! He doesn’t want a free press! Silly people.
CNN and BuzzFeed were utterly and completely humiliated in one of the greatest come-uppances in media history after reporting a completely false story, one without any evidence, with the clear intent to smear President-elect Trump. To think that they would get away without being challenged demonstrates the elitist attitude the Left holds for its vaunted mainstream media.
President-elect Trump could have completely ignored the matter and not given it the dignity of being addressed. That’s one strategy. However, just like with Lewis, that would be a missed opportunity to lay down the law.
President-elect Trump was already a pugilist. Thanks to Bannon and Conway, he’s now been upgraded to a master of the surgical strike. The message – the non-cigar if you will – is that the media had better get their houses in order and start reporting honestly. If not, they will be subjected to the same treatment in return. You reap what you sow now, mainstream media.
The Obama-Fail-Care Repeal
Technically, this wasn’t a move by President-elect Trump – at least on the surface. However, I imagine he was involved in Congress’ move to repeal Obama-fail-care. Once again, the Left lurches into hysterics without realizing what’s really going on.
First, instead of a straight up-down vote, the GOP ran the repeal through the same way the Democrats rammed this disastrous legislation down our throats – through budget reconciliation. This is a direct eff-you to the Democrats. What’s good for goose, and all that.
Why not just nuke the filibuster rule, the same way the Democrats did under the treadmill-challenged Sen. Harry Reid? Because they’re waiting for the Supreme Court nomination from President-elect Trump before they do that – a massive middle finger to the Democrats that will come at the worst possible time. Grab the popcorn.
Yet, even now, Democrats think that by repealing Obama-fail-care that somehow it means everyone will lose their healthcare instantly.
As opposed to Fake News FB meme going around that you'll only be able to put money into an HSA to pay for health care, which will likely be one option to help finance healthcare for those who choose to do so, people are not going to lose access to insurance because the insurance lobby is one of the most powerful lobbies in the country. They want your money. They want you to buy insurance.
A repeal of Obama-fail-care does not mean your healthcare gets taken away. It means insurance companies will fall back into some form of the previously regulated model. There is a 99 percent certainty that the companies will either self-impose a ban on exclusion of pre-existing conditions, or any replacement will contain that ban.
The reason for this is because it is political suicide for the GOP to not include this clause. Their constituents need that clause, too. They'll be thrown out in 2018 if they dropped it.
As for what else might occur, I don’t see what the problem is here.
We have to pass the repeal to find out what’s in it.
In today’s email
Fight mental illness
Do You Know Someone Suffering From “Trump Unacceptance & Resistance Disorder” (TURD)?
Know the signs, spot the symptoms, and save a life.
TURD is a pattern of pathologically dissociative and psychotic behavior, first observed in the late hours of November 8th 2016, and increasing in severity with passing time.
Sufferers of TURD often exhibit pronounced cognitive dissonance, sudden bouts of rage, rioting, and uncontrollable crying.
People with TURD are characterized by a persistent unwillingness to accept that Donald Trump is going to Make America Great Again.
TURD is caused by the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States of America. For many, both in America and worldwide, this was a shocking and unexpected outcome; their preferred news sources having failed to inform them that the alternative candidate was a criminal parasite in such ill health she got chucked into the back of a van like a kidnap victim.
Research is ongoing, but TURD appears to correlate closely with the following environmental and behavioral factors:
Membership in the Democratic Party
Identifying as a Feminist
Currently enrolled in college, and/or Possession of a Liberal Arts college degree
Living in a densely populated metropolitan area
Massive student debt
Spotty or non-existent work history
Patients with TURD are very resistant to treatment, and dangerous in large groups. Any possibility of treatment requires that they be separated from their hive-mind support apparatus; they cannot begin the process of accepting reality in the presence of encouragement towards delusion and irrationality. Separation may require the assistance of law enforcement.
If you have a friend or loved one suffering from TURD, urge them to seek treatment. Together we can beat this scourge, and Make America Great Again.
I think we all need to hand out mental illness pamphlets to liberals. We gotta do our part. For their sake.
“There is a 99 percent certainty that the companies will either self-impose a ban on exclusion of pre-existing conditions, or any replacement will contain that ban.”
Sometimes an industry develops systemic problems, knowing customers are suffering but costs of doing right can be outweighed by the profits of doing wrong. Nobody can practically “forgive” pre existing conditions until they all do. Short of the industry solving it all at once, commerce clause empowers imposing a narrow solution.
Let’s show the Left how to solve such problems right.
The press is livid that they can’t filter the news anymore. SCREW THEM.
And big time
How true.
“According to Ms. Lewinsky, the President telephoned her at her desk and suggested that she come to the Oval Office on the pretext of delivering papers to him. She went to the Oval Office and was admitted by a plainclothes Secret Service agent. In her folder was a gift for the President, a Hugo Boss necktie,” said the Starr report.
“In the hallway by the study, the President and Ms. Lewinsky kissed. On this occasion, according to Ms. Lewinsky, ‘he focused on me pretty exclusively,’ kissing her bare breasts and fondling her genitals. At one point, the President inserted a cigar into Ms. Lewinsky’s ______, then put the cigar in his mouth and said: ‘It tastes good.’ After they were finished, Ms. Lewinsky left the Oval Office and walked through the Rose Garden.” ...”
The humidor was very humid.
I had forgotten how disgusting and perverted Slick was.
From this I learned that Trump has a finger “of the nuclear button.”
He might want to get that looked at.
Right. The finger is deadly, if twitter is connected to nukes! Yikes! : )
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