Posted on 01/01/2019 8:18:23 AM PST by DollyCali
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We LOVE our Melania!!!!--CLICK
POTUS 18 DAY WorkCation at Mar-a-Lago was deep-sixed and he ended up all at Whitehouse. NO pay, grief from Media and Left, but loving and serving - we the people.
BETTER THAN SANTA!
FIRST COUPLE VISITS TROOPS CHRISTMAS DAY IN IRAQ AND GERMANY (12-25-18)
MEDIA NOT HAPPY BUT ARE THEY EVER WITH POTUS?
Keep the Truth coming Mr. President
Keep on Tweeting!
Good thing you got home before it started. We are NOT expecting snow tonight. But it might actually rain.
Thanks. I remember one time I got gas in Asheville. The station was scamming unsuspecting Californians, I guess. I looked at my receipt and he was charging me 5 cents a gallon more for service. Yet I had no choice whether I wanted the service or not. Needless to say, he he took the charge off.
I heard about that on the radio.
Thanks for posting! I posted last month that Trish Reagan had reported that this would happen on January 10. Guess she had good sources.
Its hard to believe that the president is having to fight fellow Americans to try and keep the country safe.
It truly, and sadly, is.
I wake up, every day, and ask myself how this could even be an issue....that half (??) of the country doesn’t care about our safety....as long as what....they continue to get their free stuff???
Really disheartening.
All the more reason I pray even harder, each day, for our dear POTUS.
I posted a thread about this:
Report: Immigration loophole OKd 8,686 child marriages, some children just 14
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3719150/posts
Very glad to see this, on Venezuela.
What took so long? Waiting for his inauguration?
Interesting that Trish Regan had the story, last month, that this would happen now.
Prayers up for the poor Venezuelans who are under this forced dictatorship.
Thanks for posting. Prayers for Israel. I’m glad that now, with Obama gone, they are free to defend themselves.
On Venezuela, Where Are Liberals?
Scour the Web and youll find a handful of reports of anti-Maduro protests or teach-ins at universities in recent years, usually organized by Venezuelans living in the U.S. And most politically informed people are more-or-less aware of Venezuelas political and economic disorders. No doubt they dont like what they see, and no doubt they wish it were otherwise.
Every generation of campus activists embraces a worthy foreign-policy cause: Ending apartheid in South Africa; stopping ethnic cleansing in the Balkans; rescuing Darfur from starvation and genocide. And then theres the perennial and perennially unworthy cause of freeing Palestine, for which there never is a shortage of credulous campus zealots.
Then there are the humanitarian causes young activists generally dont embrace, at least not in a big way. Cubas political prisoners. Islamist violence against Christians in the Middle East. The vast and terrifying concentration camp that is North Korea. Where are the campus protests over any of that?
The case of Venezuela ought to be an especially worthy one for college students. It is urgent. It is close by. Its victims are fighting for democracy, for human rights, for the ability to feed their children.
Nor is the outrage in any way obscure. The Timess Nicholas Casey has for years provided an unforgettable chronicle of human tragedy in the form of Venezuelan parents burying their starving children, of hospital patients dying for lack of basics such as antibiotics or oxygen tanks, of yet another generation of boat people risking their lives on the high seas to flee their socialist paradise. Nearly three million Venezuelans one-tenth of the total population have now fled the country, according to The Wall Street Journal, creating a refugee crisis comparable to that of the Rohingya in Myanmar.
So why the relative silence? Part of the reason is that campus activism is a left-wing phenomenon, making it awkward to target left-wing villains.
A larger reason is that, until a few years ago, the Venezuelan regime was a cause of the left, cheered by people like Naomi Klein, Sean Penn and Danny Glover. Left-wing publications such as Glenn Greenwalds The Intercept have gone out of their way to make excuses for the regime and treat its critics as Washington stooges. Jeremy Corbyn, who could yet be Britains next prime minister, memorialized the late dictator Hugo Chávez in 2013 for his massive contributions to Venezuela & a very wide world.
Even today, the criticism is amazingly muted. If Klein has seriously come to terms with Maduros tyranny or Venezuelas catastrophe, she has not done it in The Nation, The Guardian, or anywhere indexed by LexisNexis or Factiva. Corbyns response to Maduros repression has been to voice his condemnation of the violence thats been done by any side, by all sides a piece of obfuscatory equivalence worthy of Donald Trumps Charlottesville remark. Penn and Glover seem to have moved on to other causes, like bashing Trump. Such courage
It would be nice to suppose that Venezuelas agonies will soon be at an end, on the theory that it cant go on like this much longer. People said that about Syria several years ago, too. How many more Venezuelans have to starve or drown before Western liberals do something more than merely shake their heads?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/15/opinion/venezuela-maduro-liberals.html
I’m not Catholic, but my friend and I visited a monastery several months ago. The monk that was there for us told us that the priest that founded the monastery was an exile from Cuba. The conversation went from Cuba to Venezuela, and the evil of communism.
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“Trump should tweet out the he wants every American to ask themselves if they would rather have a drone alert them that there is a MS-13 gang member in their house, or would you rather have a wall preventing him from getting to your house in the first place?”
I love that. Please email him that.
“I wake up, every day, and ask myself how this could even be an issue....that half (??) of the country doesnt care about our safety....as long as what....they continue to get their free stuff???”
Actually if half care we are doing much better than before. When w was in office, only a handful of us cared, the Minutemen on the southern border. But the GOP vilified them, and even Free Republic was pro-amnesty. I think there was only a handful of senators and congressman that tried to get the issue across, Tom tancredo being one of them, and he was told not to darken the door of the White House again.
I saw the issues just as clear then as I do now, having been born and raised in Texas and then living in California, I have lived with the Invasion my entire life.. But I was definitely a minority.
So I’m very happy today to be joined by quite a few other Patriots! And especially our president.
“.I think I’ll go sit on the porch and watch the snow come down. “
That sounds beautiful. I hope it is enclosed
That’s a good article. What is Sean Penn saying about Venezuela today? Liberals have an uncanny way of just pretending like they were never for something when it doesn’t work out.
Do you think maybe your calcium/magnesium is a little off?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/15/opinion/venezuela-maduro-liberals.html
https://faustasblog.com/2018/01/venezuela-where-was-sean-penn/
Could go on and on
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