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.
I don’t know which is worse on a smartphone, autocorrect on or autocorrect off, lol.
Kristol is so disliked that he can only get an occasional gig on MSNBC. And when he does appear, he is so obnoxious that one wonders how (or why) the Weekly Standard continues to publish.
Bill Kristol never had a REAL job in his life.
I guess you do not come to Free Republic very often. least 50% are globalists off shoring Free trading apologists.
Krystal is just an a-hole. I noticed in the picture l saw Trump had lined up some excellent Gibson guitars behind him. It was great to see it. For those who have forgotten or never knew, early in Obongo’s term a bunch of his goons raided Gibson. They trashed the place and removed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of materials. The cited an obscure import law. Martin who uses far more of the disputed materials was left alone. The difference? Martin contributes to Rats.
Something Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard said a couple of days ago seems to be flying under the radar. It seems old Billy boy (the disgrace of Irving Kristol) is working on disposing of Trump and Trumpism. Notice Kristol’s tweet:
Bill Kristol, GOP members & donors are in grip of quiet desperation. Task of anti-Trump Republicans isn't to say I told you so, but chart path forward. Follow Bill Kristol ? @BillKristol Several of you have asked, What IS path forward? Well, we're working on it. Disposing of Trump & overcoming Trumpism can't be done in a day. .... “we’re working on..” so who’s the we? Kristol and Evan McMuffin? Maybe Dianne Powell and Reince Priebus?
DISPOSING OF TRUMP----sounds like a threat to me. The Secret Service needs to pay Bill Kristol a visit.
As this demonstrates, it’s not just the media and Democrats trying to sabotage Trump at every turn. His own party, the GOP is actively plotting with Democrats, media hacks and Never Trump “Republicans” to cause all the chaos and stop his agenda.
The Weekly Standard, like National Review have become a joke since the Trump election, and many of their hack writers have really revealed themselves to be the true globalist scum they truly are. They are all just big government Republicans who are really Democrat lite. This is treason and sedition. (Excerpt) Read more at fireandreamitchell.com ...
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COMMENTS---Looks like Kristol is under pressure......he got his marching orders from Neocon Godfather, Richard Perle.
Trump needs to shape-up......or else.... according to Perle.
Trump is in their way.......the neocons got plans....BIG plans.
Perle still needs zillions to put the finishing touches on the oil company he started w/ his war profiteering from the Iran war.
The senseless war the calculated warmongering neocons duped GwB into...that cost US taxpayers several trillion dollars and rivers of young blood.
Course, Perle stays above the fray----dining in fine Paris restaurants on tuffled squab in Armagnac Sauce ...quaffing crystal flutes of chilled Châteauneuf-du-Pape of impeccable Southern Rhône vintage.
Kristol's being nudged along......he better hurry up.....Perle needs the war profiteering zillions.
He is representative of the final state of the entire Buckley wing of faux-conservatives. Having come to the point where they agree on 99% of everything the Progressives want, they find they have nothing left to "conserve", not even America itself. They just want the elite to keep on living the good life in DC, with the creature comforts and lots of them. And of course, armed guards.
Well, at least Kristol speaks in his native tongue! Kristol is just another Kapo like his soul mate, George Soros.
“Kristol and his fellow neocons are without a party”
Yeah, their “ride like remoras” on the RNC “fish” is over, so they are looking for something to attach themselves to again. Ditto for the US Chamber of Commerce (Communists).
Today’s Yiddish Lesson:
Schmendrick
Noun, a guy who thinks that money, fashion sense, and the proper affectation equals coolness.
origin-Yiddish (a stupid person)
related words- Poser, Poseur
I prefer using the Yiddish term Schmuck as in the US Congress and MSM are made up of Schmucks!
“Schmuck” or “shmuck”, in American English is a pejorative term meaning one who is stupid or foolish, or an obnoxious, contemptible or detestable person or
Yiddish shmok, penis, fool, probably from Polish smok, dragon; akin to Bulgarian smok, grass-snake; perhaps akin to Russian smoktat’, to suck (since folk tradition holds that snakes suck milk from livestock), of imitative origin.]
They are all “pantloads” no matter whose ethnic pejorative slang term you use to describe them. In Spanish, they are pinche chilons!
A case of Viagra wouldn’t help the limp ones in Congress and in the MSM, wanna bet?
Send them all to Afganistan to prove they have nads. Wanna bet there are no takers in DC?
All talk; no action; never any action. They’re not worthy of licking Trump’s shoes or our troops boots.
Actually, if McConnell actually forces the entire Senate to vote on the Repeal Bill from 2015 he claims to be reintroducing, it will be interesting to see what the “Three Tw@ts” do. Already there are groups who say they will be funding opponents for those who are up for re-election next year.
I actually love DC. I lived there when I was very young,worked at the Pentagon,and met and married my Jewish hubby there. These creeps need to move all the congressional offices out to the true center of the US Lebanon KS. Leave all the wonderful historic buildings intact,and stop the blasphemy being perpetrated on it.
Bill Kristol is a jerk. I will never read anything of his again...I refused to renew Weakly Standard because he is part of it...
Bill Kristol Meth..
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