Posted on 08/14/2015 8:19:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In what may be the most important development in the 2016 Presidential race to date, Donald Trump has announced, and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) office has confirmed, that the GOP front-runner is consulting with the Alabama Senator in crafting his immigration plan for the future of America.
The real estate mogul’s announcement will send shock waves through Washington D.C. and all across primary states.
Trump, whose campaign has focused primarily on issues of immigration and trade, has seen a meteoric rise since entering the race, with throngs of supporters across the country rocketing him to the top of every single poll, despite an extraordinary effort of establishment Republicans to take him down. Republican pundits have lobbed every imaginable accusation at Trump. Yet these same pundits, while seemingly furious at the man, have demonstrated no similar concern, angst, or passion about the dissolution of our southern border, the rampant exploitation of guest-worker programs, the collapse of middle class wages, and the growing illegal immigrant crime wave.
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I think the problems started when W put the State Dept in charge after the invasion, rather than the military.
Trump just landed at Iowa fair in his helicopter...Press there ...said that he just “Nabisco” is moving their plant to Mexico”.....
Just naming ‘Nabisco’ they may very well change that route as ‘Ford’ did in scrubbing their plans to open in Mexico and instead building in the US now.
Trumps getting things done WHILE he’s on the road! Pretty amazing the influence he’s having on companies already.
The difference, if course, is that you are not running for Pres.
DT knows how the world works...the naysayers trap themselves in negativity which blinds them to the possibilities.
Trump has spent a couple of decades talking about what he believes. Most of it is in his books. As I understand, he's written over half a dozen.
No, Trump didn't spend the last four to six years traversing the country, speaking to audiences, as Reagan did before 1980, but his thoughts and positions on issues and politics are well known.
Maybe they have their own plans, like maybe being at the top of the NWO like they are currently in "Europe".
Beautiful, isn't it? I can hardly think of a better way for Trump to draw a clear distinction between himself and the rest of the field - including the Democrat side.
I'm gonna have to throw $25 his way just to be counted in his supporter tally.
As for Reagan...I was thinking of his time as spokesman for GE, before his Governor gig.
I agree with you.
It’s going to be a wild ride.
The illegal immigration nightmare began when none other than Carter was President. Reagan attempted to stop it, but dims did not follow through on enforcement after the amnesty (the enforcement they agreed to in order to get amnesty they claimed were unfair, inhumane...) and it has become progressively worse.
...........and without a TelePrompTer!!! I hope and wish and pray that he is the genuine article.
The left used Obamacare as the opening salvo to achieve Single Payer.
It’s whole, and singular purpose was to take over 1/5th of the us economy, and use it like a tool to control the vote.
“If you don’t vote for Dems you wont get that bypass you need.”
“We don’t like the fact you drink Pepsi, quit or no healthcare for you.”
I can smell it on the wind like rotting fish.
Yup....and some people are shocked when they see the rise of a Donald Trump. He, or someone like him, was inevitable.
I thought Trump already had a plan: build the wall, get Mexico to pay for, ship the bad Mexicans home and assuming some are good people let those stay.
There was a meeting before the war when two sides made their case: Rumsfeld wanted a “small footprint” and others wanted a large one. Rumsfeld won over Bush’s ideas on the subject. They called it “shock and awe” but when you have to name something with a scary name, it’s kind of a giveaway that it isn’t as scary as it could have been.
The war did not go well at first, because Bush chose the wrong side at that meeting.
McCain went over in 2006 and talked with the generals. Acting on their advice created the “surge,” which was originally called “the McCain surge” before the media realized he was running for president and that was way too complimentary.
I don’t remember the State Department having anything to do with it. Obama promised his base that we would leave Iraq by 2011, and so we did, so that he could be elected once again. The rest is the sad story of vacuum and the vile ISIS rushing in to fill it.
That same story of creating a vacuum and the bad guys rushing in to fill it was repeated in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia until the military put a stop to it, and—still in the works—Syria.
Alas, I have to admit to sharing a campfire with the treacherous neocons. Despite the tremendous esteem I have for your opinion, and my fervent desire not to insult you personally, I think your analysis of the Iraq war and its aftermath is a capitulation to the domestic forces that engineered it.
I do not believe our failures in Iraq can be properly understood apart from the systematic undermining of the Bush administration by the duplicity of the Democrats, and the complicity of the Media. Indeed, I believe the Democrats went so far as to deliberately use classified information to craft accusations against the administration that would have exposed sources and method to adequately refute.
Furthermore, the "advertising campaign" run by the media was so pervasive that to this day the claim that the Bush administration linked blame for the September 11th attacks to Saddam Hussein is an open question in the minds of many Americans.
Far from the game of checkers you allude to, the Bush plan, had it been effectively implemented, would have had us flanking each of the most troublesome Muslim nations of the Middle East. Syria, between Israel and us (in Iraq). Iran, between us (in Iraq and Afghanistan). Pakistan, between us (in Afghanistan) and India. All the while, we would be sitting right at the border of the increasingly disdainful (of us) Saudi Arabia.
Our moves in the Middle East were not predicated on "checkers" but chess. And to borrow a George Friedman (of StratFor) analogy, people mistakenly believe there are twenty some opening moves in chess, but a true student of the game knows there are only about six moves that do not quickly lead to defeat against a skilled player. I believe THAT more truly represents the background to our Middle East failures.
In my opinion, the Bush Administration failed to "manage" the Democrats and the Press such that they were able to present a whole list of "opening moves" as valid to an uninformed populace, and thereby innovate the practice of brinksmanship from the foreign to domestic policy.
I see no reason to engage in prolonged self-flagellation in an effort to "understand" what happened in Iraq. Our failures with Islam are no more complicated than our failure to achieve domestic tranquility with our own black sub-culture; it is the failure of timidity in the face of opportunists.
There were a few ‘Unicorns’ in the State Dept. Very few. One of the biggest problems with Bush’s State Dept, was having Rice as the SecState and a bunch of people below her, career diplomats, that weren’t with the program. I saw her on many visits to Baghdad. It was like she spent a lot of time, putting the boots to the diplomats to do their jobs.
All they want to do is get drunk, do drugs, swap wives/husbands/boyfriends, and go to dinners at all the other embassies.
“I was reading an old New Yorker magazine interview with Trump. People who knew him even then said his thing was to speak in grand, sweeping generalities when he made his promises, and usually fail to deliver.”
That sounds exactly like someone who has amassed a great fortune /s
I have sent money to The Don, and to Ben. I will also send money to Ted. These are the Three...Go guys...
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