A friend sent this over the transom and because it has “Common Sense” as a theme, perhaps it is relevant to our discussion on this topic.
The Trump of Europe: Catching Up with Italy’s Matteo Salvini, the New Strongman of Europe
Matteo Salvini’s Common Sense
Matteo Salvini, the deputy prime minister and minister of Interior of Italy, is the head of the centre-right, Lege political party, and the most important ‘rising star’ in European politics. His polls have skyrocketed since taking office and he is universally viewed as the new strongman of Europe. His nickname is Il Capitano.
Meeting with informal advisor, and long time friend, Ted Malloch in Viminali Palace in Rome, Salvini boasted about Malloch’s new book Common Sense Business on common sense business and economics, suggesting we need to reorient our thinking to prudence and markets and away from the peril of globalism and crony capitalism.
In a wide-ranging discussion with Malloch and his colleague, Federico Arata, a strong supporter of the new government, Salvini stressed four things demonstrating his sheer command of issues and as the most common sense political leader since Ronald Reagan.
Salvini is nothing less than the Trump of Europe.
First, he controversially said Italy would back the Theresa May government in the UK as it leaves the European Union. He stated that the EU is not to be trusted and had “swindled” (the Italian word translates as “screwed”) the UK as it had others in various negotiations.
Salvini, who was previously a EU MEP in the Europe of Nations and Freedom faction, of that body knows well that the EU transgresses on national sovereignty and has a philosophy that contradicts the values of the majority of the peoples of Europe. Salvini said he wants a new kind of EU, one that is smaller, less bureaucratic, and that devolves power back to member nation states.
Second, Salvini suggested that the immigration crisis is paralyzing Europe and changing its very nature. He has set out a policy to change that and is now sending ships with illegal immigrants back to Libya and deporting illegal persons from the streets of Italy. He is in the same vein also committed to a pro-family policy to insure that Italy repopulates itself. With a weak birth rate, he thinks the family needs to be at the core of decision-making and will be the real legacy of this government.
Third, the dynamic and charismatic politician has made ending crime a highest priority for his ministry. His administration is striking out to curtail organized crime, human trafficking, and narcotics. He is calling a first ever summit in the heart of Calabria next month to launch a series of efforts to coordinate activities to vigorously go after the mafia.
Finally, Salvini is firmly committed to a 15 per cent flat tax, which was his party’s rallying cry in the recent election. Trying to revive the Italian economy and its enterprises, Salvini wants to go down in history as a pro-market, enterprise friendly politician and believes the best way to achieve this is by instituting a flat tax. This would make the world take notice and incentivize capital markets to do business in Italy. It would benefit Italy’s important SME sector, while creating jobs and stronger economic growth.
(I haven’t read all of Q’s latest posts yet, so if this is one of his links..... oh well! LOL!)
My same friend, as in my post 28 has apparently had time to read, and keeps sending me these wonderful articles which I then find MUST be posted!
This is another!
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/08/this_isnt_culture_war_its_worse.html
This isn’t culture war. It’s worse.
By Richard Jack Rail
Progressives continue to astonish normal people with their complete incomprehension of normals (as Kurt Schlichter calls them) as human beings. Perhaps that’s because they don’t see us as human beings. They call us unsavory names – deplorables, bitter clingers, toothless, plus every dirty word they can think of. They throw nasty, biological things. They spit on people. They shove people, break windows, start fights, and go out of their way to ensure that everybody has a bad day.
Today’s normal was a fifties liberal and, in many cases, a sixties liberal. In those days, you could be a conservative Democrat or a liberal Republican, and it raised no eyebrows. Today’s prog, or extremist lefty, thinks all normals are extras from the movie Deliverance. Yet most of the time we dress about as they do, take the same public transportation, shop in the same supermarkets, and live in the same neighborhoods. If we really were toothless and illiterate, it would immediately stand out. It doesn’t.
In the almost 70 years since 1950, normals haven’t changed much. We still believe in God, pay taxes, get up and go to work, and keep to ourselves. We’re raising families, after all, and that matters more than anything else. Unlike the prog caricature of us, we’re responsible people. When we gather in large numbers, you almost can’t tell we were ever there because we clean up behind ourselves. We speak quietly and respectfully, treat our women like ladies, and control our kids. Nobody fears normals because nobody has any reason to.
This contrasts starkly with progs, who gather in large numbers to riot, scream obscenities, carry signs, and trash the place. They get up in others’ faces and scream and rage as if out of control, sometimes putting a normal person in fear for his life. All this is intended to communicate public unhappiness over this issue or that, but all it really puts across is that a bunch of wilding lunatics are loose again.
Liberals, similar to but reputedly more reasonable than progs, always notice the single MAGA hat in a crowd but never the destructive prog behavior raging all around them. And it’s liberals who write the columns and tweets next day, dripping venom about the hateful normals. Yet any objective, disinterested observer would notice that it’s progressives who regularly run out of control in angry, violent spasms of incivility and ugliness.
This isn’t “culture war.” Culture has nothing to do with it. It’s war on normality by Brownshirts, incited or paid for by the likes of George Soros and Tom Steyer. It has now graduated from street-fighting to trying to take down the U.S. government.
I will never understand these people’s hatred of America. They are unreachable by reason. It seems clear that they are trying to provoke a heavy, violent reaction from us so they can then haul out the artillery. They missed their big chance with Barama in the saddle but had been biding their time right along. They’ll just continue that until their next big chance. They need to be able to declare martial law.
Be ready.
My friend has been busy reading... and lurking on the Q threads apparently! In the last one I just posted and in this one as well, there is mention of Tom Steyer.
O’Keefe Catches Antifa ‘Fight Instructors’ Teaching Activists How To Inflict Pain on Their Targets
By Debra Heine
A new undercover video from James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas features Antifa “fight instructors” teaching activists how to incapacitate political enemies by violently attacking them.
“If you get a good liver or kidney shot, it’s pretty much crippling them,” the Antifa instructor said. “They’re going to be pretty much doubled over and in a lot of pain.”
The instructor also recommended breaking one of the floating ribs to cause maximum pain in a victim. “It’s hard to move after that — to catch a breath,” he added helpfully. He told the activists that once the target is incapacitated, they can either run away or “really put a beating on them” if they want to “make it personal.”
The instructor said if they don’t knock the victim out, they should punch him in the nose or poke him in the eyes.
The video also introduces Andy Zee, an organizer for Refuse Fascism, a project of the Revolutionary Communist Party, talking about a possible meet-up with Democrat donor Tom Steyer.
“I don’t know if we took the meeting today. We were meeting with his main advisor on impeachment,” Zee told the Project Veritas undercover journalist. “Tom Steyer’s been retweeting some of our stuff,” Zee added proudly. He said the group was hoping to raise $2M to $5M to organize massive protests in major cities against President Trump.
“You’re actually going to sustain millions of people, hundreds of thousands on the streets in certain cities,” Zee explained.
Keep that in mind the next time you see a massive demonstration against President Trump. Communist groups bankrolled by sugar daddies like Tom Steyer and George Soros are throwing “$50 at the cannibals who are out there” (as Zee put it) to participate in anti-Trump “grassroots” protest movements.
Some of the footage is featured in filmmaker D’Souza’s new film Death of a Nation, premiering in theaters nationwide on August 3.