Posted on 07/19/2017 5:03:41 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
It's "Made In America" week in Washington, D.C. You'd think this would be cause for bipartisan celebration. Who could be against highlighting the ingenuity, self-reliance and success of our nation's homegrown entrepreneurs and manufacturers?
Enter Bill Kristol.
The entrenched Beltway pundit ridiculed a festive kickoff event on Monday at the White House, where President Donald Trump hosted companies from all 50 states to showcased their American-made products.
"Maybe it's just me," killjoy Kristol tweeted, "but I find something off-putting about turning the White House into an exhibition hall for American tchotchkes." (That's the Yiddish word for useless trinkets).
"Tchotchkes"?
Tell that to the engineers at Hytrol, the Arkansas-based conveyor manufacturer that brought a mechanical display of its technology to the State Dining Room. Hytrol's late founder, Tom Loberg, started out as a gopher at an electronics parts factory during the Great Depression, worked his way up to designing Navy turbines, hydraulic pumps and cylinders, and entered the conveyor belt business after perfecting bag-transporting machinery for seed, grain and tobacco farmers.
Hytrol's state-of-the-art products are now used by companies ranging from Amazon.com to Office Depot to leading pharmaceutical, retail, food and publishing conglomerates around the world. A pioneer in the materials handling industry, Hytrol employs 1,300 high-skilled workers and will rake in revenues of more than $200 million this year alone.
"Tchotchkes"?
Tell that to the employees of Wisconsin's Pierce Manufacturing, which displayed one of its 30,000 custom-built fire trucks on the White House front lawn. Pierce started out as an auto body shop operating out of a converted church and now boasts a 2,000-person workforce. The company produces the iconic aerial tillers, pumpers, tankers and rescue trucks driven by first responders across the country every day.
"Tchotchkes"?
Tell that to Iowa-based RMA Armament's founder Blake Waldrop, a former Marine and police officer, who was inspired to manufacture stronger body armor after losing a comrade in Iraq to an IED attack. His ceramic plates, also featured at the "Made in America" event on Monday, have been purchased by police departments in Baltimore, Los Angeles and Waterloo, Iowa. Waldrop is working on partnerships to bring his products to the U.S. military and overseas.
"I always tell people I didn't invent armor any more than Steve Jobs invented the computer," Waldrop told the Des Moines Register earlier this year. "I just found a better way to do it, just like he did."
"Tchotchkes"?
Delaware's ILC Dover participated in President Trump's "Made in America" exhibition, too. Its trademark trifling bauble? The space suit worn by every U.S. astronaut since Project Apollo. Prolific inventor-turned-industrialist Abram Spanel, a Russian-born son of Jewish garment workers, spun off the company from his giant latex conglomerate that manufactured everything from girdles and swimwear to canteens and lifeboats.
ILC Dover produced high-pressure suits and helmets for the Air Force before winning a contract to design suits for NASA. In addition to displaying spacesuits used on the Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs, the company brought to the White House its DoverPac Flexible Isolator System used by pharmaceutical companies in their manufacturing processes; its Sentinel respirator used in the health care industry; and its SCape escape respirator used to protect U.S. government officials around the world from carbon monoxide, chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear contaminants.
It's a crying shame D.C. is infested with effete talking heads whose only successfully manufactured product is condescending hostility toward the real movers and shakers in America. Patriotism is gauche and "off-putting" to incurable Trump-bashers like Bill Kristol, who supported Hillary Clinton and her foreign-subsidized pay-to-play cash machine over Donald Trump's unapologetic nationalism.
Could Trump and his family's own companies do better in hiring American and manufacturing in America? Sure.
Could the White House be doing more to freeze foreign worker visas at both ends of the wage scale and truly put American workers first? Undeniably.
But to nastily deride the makers and job creators proudly showing off their wares in the nation's capital at the invitation of our commander in chief takes a special level of anti-Trump lunacy and arrogance.
"Maybe it's just me," Kristol snarked as he heaped scorn on "Made in America" week.
Yes, it is just you, Kristol, and the rest of your Beltway Swamp "schmendricks" who turn their noses at the "tchotchkes" that help save lives, move mountains and break barriers across the galaxy.
The rest of us give praise and thanks.
Bill Kristol needs to be deported to Mexico.
Bill Kristol has morphed into a snide, clownish little man.
Bill Kristol is in the Sore Loser Hall, along side Gore and Hillary.
I had to scrape some dog kristol off my boot yesterday.
Bill Kristol, the globalist who never disappoints.
Kristol et al were
Bill Kristol is a liberal who doesn’t like paying taxes. Like the rest of the GOPe.
A much needed reply to Kristol’s sordid dreck by our Joan of Arc, Michelle Malkin.
I would rather see: “Made in USA”
“America” is too broad, dilutes USA’s borders.
I have to wonder, just who is Bill Kristol’s audience anymore? The left derides him as a neocon and they not-so-secretly hate Jews, especially those who are not in their ghetto. Is there a sufficient number of free traitors left on the right to form a base for this total horse’s ass? Why does he even have a platform for his irrational utterances anymore?
Kristol is a dick face.
Self-loathing Jew Bill Kristol? No!!
Good point; Kristol and his fellow neocons are without a party; the last presidential election proved that the nationalists in the Trump party neither want nor need them and the globalists in the Dem party despise them. So they sit on the sidelines and carp, criticize and propose new wars for US involvement.
I tried to find numbers on the readership decline of the weekly standard but found none.
What I found was a host, many in fact, Weekly Standard articles on the decline of just about everything. That is, except of course the Weekly Standard.
Hear that, American craftsmen? The fruits of your labors are nothing but trivial trinkets. You’re little more than organ-grinder monkeys. Betcha thought more highly of yourselves, didn’t ya? Well, that was before Mild Bill put you in your place! Best not get uppity with your betters!
The fall of Communism and the end of the Cold War exposed the truth of Eisenhower’s Farewell Address.
Kristol and his cohorts haven’t really had an audience since the early 1990s. They might have taken up the battle against Islam, but they were too PC and settled on a nonsensical ‘War on Terrorism’. That ultimately furthers their irrelevancy.
Maybe Bill Kristol has a “blood clot” in the brain, too.
And his brother Bill started out as a chipmunk, while his dad had started out as a hamster.
The right word is "gofer" as in "Hey, kid, go fer my cup of coffee."
I tsedted Krisrallnacht and reminded bkm bis hero Alexander Hamilton did EXACTLY the same thing in 1791 when be had manufacturers bring goods & machines to Convress to belp pass the tariff.
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