Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

There wasn't a LIVE thread up yet, so here you go.
Though not likely to reply much, I'm sure looking forward to reading everyone's take on tonight's festivities.

May God bless America, our stalwart President, his family, and all our fellow patriots who hired him for this job !

1 posted on 01/30/2018 2:21:34 PM PST by tomkat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100 ... 161-167 next last
To: tomkat

FLOTUS is stunning.


378 posted on 01/30/2018 5:58:31 PM PST by TomGuy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: tomkat

I’ll freak out if he reads that memo and declares “corruption ends now” DOH!


405 posted on 01/30/2018 6:01:23 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (The remoulade was a trifle tart, but the souflee for dessert more than made up for it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: tomkat

Melania just entered the gallery and once again I am just stunned!!!


409 posted on 01/30/2018 6:02:05 PM PST by sageburn
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: tomkat

CSPAN2 No overtalk


415 posted on 01/30/2018 6:03:20 PM PST by Varsity Flight (Extortion-Care is is the Government Work-Camp)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: tomkat

400 posts in, and Trump hasn’t even shown up yet.

FReeperholics, the whole lot of you! LOL

This will be a treat.


417 posted on 01/30/2018 6:03:50 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: tomkat

Wha????

Who is that guy?

Where’s Prez Hillary? {snicker - giving a speech at her book club.}


458 posted on 01/30/2018 6:06:50 PM PST by TomGuy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

Apparently Juan Juilliams is on FNC 24/7. Maybe he’s Rupert’s slave!


472 posted on 01/30/2018 6:07:54 PM PST by clintonh8r (I've been banned from TheHill.com. #Proud)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: tomkat
Trump's lack of decorum, dignity, and statesmanship:

My Leftist friends constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t think his tweets are “beneath the dignity of the office.”

Here’s my answer:

We Right-thinking people have tried dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency.

We tried statesmanship. Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized “collegiality” as Ronald Reagan?

We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney?

And the results were always the same. This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.

I don’t find anything “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper” about Barack Obama’s lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the Democratic Party.. I don’t see anything “dignified” in lying about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover your tracks. I don’t see anything “statesman-like” in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy your political opponents and any dissent. Yes, Obama was “articulate” and “polished” but in no way was he in the least bit “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper.”

The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of the Children of the ‘60s. To them, it has been an all-out war where nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale. It has been a war they’ve fought with violence, the threat of violence, demagoguery and lies from day one – the violent take-over of the universities – till today. The problem is that, through these years, the Left has been the only side fighting this war. While the Left has been taking a knife to anyone who stands in their way, the Right has continued to act with dignity, collegiality and propriety. With Donald Trump, this all has come to an end. Donald Trump is America ’s first wartime president in the Culture War.

During wartime, things like “dignity” and “collegiality” simply aren’t the most essential qualities one looks for in their warriors. Ulysses Grant was a drunk whose behavior in peacetime might well have seen him drummed out of the Army for conduct unbecoming. Had Abraham Lincoln applied the peacetime rules of propriety and booted Grant, the Democrats might well still be holding their slaves today.. Lincoln rightly recognized that, “I cannot spare this man. He fights.”

General George Patton was a vulgar-talking, son-of-a-bitch. In peacetime, this might have seen him stripped of rank. But, had Franklin Roosevelt applied the normal rules of decorum then, Hitler and the Socialists would barely be five decades into their thousand-year Reich.

Trump is fighting. And what’s particularly delicious is that, like Patton standing over the battlefield as his tanks obliterated Rommel’s, he’s shouting, “You magnificent bastards, I read your book!”

That is just the icing on the cake, but it’s wonderful to see that not only is Trump fighting, he’s defeating the Left using their own tactics. That book is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals – a book so essential to the Liberals’ war against America that it is and was the playbook for the entire Obama administration and the subject of Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis. It is a book of such pure evil, that, just as the rest of us would dedicate our book to those we most love or those to whom we are most indebted, Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer.

Trump’s tweets may seem rash and unconsidered but, in reality, he is doing exactly what Alinsky suggested his followers do. First, instead of going after “the fake media” — and they are so fake that they have literally gotten every single significant story of the past 60 years not just wrong, but diametrically opposed to the truth, from the Tet Offensive to Benghazi, to what really happened on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri — Trump isolated CNN. He made it personal.

Then, just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule which Alinsky described as “the most powerful weapon of all.” ... Most importantly, Trump’s tweets have put CNN in an untenable and unwinnable position. ... They need to respond. This leaves them with only two choices. They can either “go high” (as Hillary would disingenuously declare of herself and the fake news would disingenuously report as the truth) and begin to honestly and accurately report the news or they can double-down on their usual tactics and hope to defeat Trump with twice their usual hysteria and demagoguery. The problem for CNN (et al.) with the former is that, if they were to start honestly reporting the news, that would be the end of the Democratic Party they serve.

It is nothing but the incessant use of fake news (read: propaganda) that keeps the Left alive. Imagine, for example, if CNN had honestly and accurately reported then-candidate Barack Obama’s close ties to foreign terrorists (Rashid Khalidi), domestic terrorists (William Ayers), the mafia (Tony Rezko) or the true evils of his spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright’s church. Imagine if they had honestly and accurately conveyed the evils of the Obama administration’s weaponizing of the IRS to be used against their political opponents or his running of guns to the Mexican cartels or the truth about the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the Obama administration’s cover-up. So, to my friends on the Left — and the #NeverTrumpers as well — do I wish we lived in a time when our president could be “collegial” and “dignified” and “proper”? Of course I do. These aren’t those times. This is war. And it’s a war that the Left has been fighting without opposition for the past 50 years. So, say anything you want about this president - I get it - he can be vulgar, he can be crude, he can be undignified at times.

I don’t care. I can’t spare this man. He fights for America!

483 posted on 01/30/2018 6:08:20 PM PST by Osage Orange (Watch your six.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: tomkat

Was there ever a more graceful, beautiful First Lady?

Melania looks great!


484 posted on 01/30/2018 6:08:24 PM PST by Bon of Babble (In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: tomkat

Did Ryan just almost say “preventing” the POTUS?


493 posted on 01/30/2018 6:09:10 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: tomkat

LOL - just switched off of ABC - Stephanopoulos is choking over there!!

On Fox now...


502 posted on 01/30/2018 6:09:31 PM PST by Bon of Babble (In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: tomkat

Ryan choked on his words.


504 posted on 01/30/2018 6:09:45 PM PST by McGruff
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: tomkat

Crummy Demon Rats won’t clap.


513 posted on 01/30/2018 6:10:27 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

Ryan: Preventing to you...

Oops. Freudian slip?


517 posted on 01/30/2018 6:10:56 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: tomkat

Thanks, dear Tomcat!

I just tuned into TV late. Is Melania in a mood, or did I miss earlier smiles and pride from her?


521 posted on 01/30/2018 6:11:19 PM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public education & academia= the farm team for mNoore Marxists coming, infinitum.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: tomkat

He honored a white lady. Why not a black lady? Ah ha! White supremacy!


569 posted on 01/30/2018 6:14:14 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (The remoulade was a trifle tart, but the souflee for dessert more than made up for it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: tomkat

Where are the rest of the Supreme Court Justices? like Alito or Clarence Thomas?
Are they protesting something I’m unaware of?


581 posted on 01/30/2018 6:14:48 PM PST by nakutny
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: tomkat

Disrespectful that the supreme court is not fully attending.


584 posted on 01/30/2018 6:14:55 PM PST by Reno89519 (PRESIDENT TRUMP, KEEP YOUR PROMISES! NO AMNESTY AND BUILD THAT WALL.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: tomkat

Pelosi is chewing her cud.


608 posted on 01/30/2018 6:17:00 PM PST by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: tomkat

Speaks of unity.

Camera scans sourpus faces of Dems.


610 posted on 01/30/2018 6:17:02 PM PST by TomGuy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100 ... 161-167 next last

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson