But when the president talks about a coup, every decent person needs to sit up and pay attention.
Posted on 04/26/2019 12:12:03 PM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update, Part III (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Here’s one of the main reasons why Donald Trump was elected: Because he doesn’t mince words. – I knew Donald Trump would win the GOP 2016 nomination on the night of August 6, 2015 when, in a question in the first GOP debate , moderator Chris Wallace asked all 12 candidates on stage to give him a direct answer to a simple question.
I paused the TV, turned to my sweet wife, who was watching the debate with me, and said, “Watch this: Trump’s going to be the only person on stage who gives a direct answer. All the rest of them will bridge over to some canned talking point.” Sure enough, that’s exactly what happened – Trump answered the question that was asked directly, while the politicians on the stage all answered some other question that was not asked.
For all intents and purposes, the battle for the nomination ended right there. 2016 really was a very simple campaign to project, once you realized that the true mood of the American people was for change. Real, radical, undisguised, unvarnished, non-talking pointed change. Trump was the only candidate offering that during the GOP primary season, and he was also the only candidate offering that during the general election.
The true genius to Donald J. Trump is that, despite all of his accumulated wealth and privileged upbringing, he’s really just one of us. He’s an ordinary guy who loves his country to the exclusion of all other countries, and loves Americans to the exclusion of all other nationalities.
And – the real magic – he says exactly what is on his mind. Unlike pretty much every politician in Washington, DC, Donald Trump is not a captive to talking points monkeys and other members of the professional political class. Unlike his opponents in both parties, Trump doesn’t need focus groups or polls to determine what he believes and says – he knows all of that innately and expresses it each and every day.
So when he went to speak to the National Rifle Association’s annual convention on Friday, he said exactly what was on his mind, and in the process of doing so, correctly characterized what he has been put through by the Deep State over the past two years as a coup d’etat:
“They tried a coup,” the President of the United States said, “It didn’t work out so well.” The crowd went wild with applause, but he didn’t stop there. “I did not need a gun for that one, did I?… They were trying for an overthrow and I caught ’em.”
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Xeni ✔ @xeni Donald Trump at NRA today escalates “coup” smear against opposition party: "They tried for a coup, it did not work out so well. [Applause] I did not need a gun for that one, did I?... They were trying for an overthrow and I caught 'em." https://boingboing.net/2019/04/26/trump-claims-coup-against.html … via @atrupar @cspan
11 1:02 PM - Apr 26, 2019 See Xeni's other Tweets Twitter Ads info and privacy This is part of what makes Donald Trump so unique: While there is really no question whatsoever that he is 100% correct in his characterization of the efforts to depose him by the Deep State Cabal, no other president in our modern history would have possessed the courage to say what Trump said today. Not even Ronaldus Magnus, who told Gorbachev to “tear down this wall!” over the persistent objections to pretty much all of his advisors would have taken the fight to his U.S. political opponents quite this directly. Teddy Roosevelt might have done so. Maybe.
This plain-spoken bluntness, this refusal to become just another captive to the D.C. professional political class, is what separates Donald Trump from everyone who took him on in 2016, and from everyone of both parties who plan to oppose him in 2020.
This was the main reason why he won in 2016, and it’s the main reason why he will win a second term in office next year.
The day you hear President Trump sounding like just another talking-points parrot is the day you will know our country is well and truly lost. Be glad you haven’t reached that day and most likely never will.
That is all.
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The real difference is that what he says makes sense. Biden says what's on his min and it's generally nonsensical garble.
No wonder the First President of this Republic issued a grave warning for future generations on the "dangers" of the "spirit of Party"!
George Washington on the Baneful Effects of Political Parties
“Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party...”
Excerpts from George Washington’s Farewell Address
September 19, 1796
“... One of the expedients of Party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions & aims of other Districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies & heart burnings which spring from these misrepresentations. They tend to render Alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal Affection.
...
“All obstructions to the execution of the Laws, all combinations and Associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, controul counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the Constituted authorities are distructive of this fundamental principle and of fatal tendency. They serve to Organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force — to put in the place of the delegated will of the Nation, the will of a party; often a small but artful and enterprizing minority of the Community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public Administration the Mirror of the ill concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the Organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common councils and modefied by mutual interests. However combinations or Associations of the above description may now & then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People, & to usurp for themselves the reins of Government; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.“... in a country so extensive as ours, a Government of as much vigour as is consistent with the perfect security of Liberty is indispensable — Liberty itself will find in such a Government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest Guardian. It is indeed little else than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction ...
“I have already intimated to you the danger of Parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on Geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, & warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party, generally.
“This Spirit, unfortunately, is inseperable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human Mind. It exists under different shapes in all Governments, more or less stifled, controuled, or repressed; but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy.
“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissention, which in different ages & countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders & miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security & repose in the absolute power of an Individual: and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.
“Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight) the common & continual mischiefs of the spirit of Party are sufficient to make it the interest and the duty of a wise People to discourage and restrain it.
“It serves always to distract the Public Councils and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill founded Jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot & insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence & corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country, are subjected to the policy and will of another.
“There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the Administration of the Government and serve to keep alive the spirit of Liberty. This within certain limits is probably true--and in Governments of a Monarchical cast Patriotism may look with endulgence, if not with favour, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate & assuage it. A fire not to be quenched; it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest instead of warming it should consume."
quit bragging and arrest them
It worked out OK so far — none of the coup members are behind bars.
Mr President, maybe you should send a tweet asking for Bids to build a Gallows on the White House Lawn, just for fun of course.
A lot of Americans are competitive and just want their side to win an election. Irregularities? Hey, we’re just playing hardball so it’s OK!
But when the president talks about a coup, every decent person needs to sit up and pay attention.
I love Trump for all the reasons that the “professional politicians” hate him.
Do a little research and see how long Watergate took...
Then understand, Watergate is peanuts compared to what happened here.
What was intended to bring down the elected president by creating a lie and hoax on collusion has now seriously turned on Obama, hillary Brennan Clapper Lynch and Comey and the underlings like McCabe , Sztrok ,and page etc and is now their night mare as they look at prison for treason. Let the indictments BEGIN!!
Trump was very impolite to my favorite Cruz and I was incensed until Cruz replied. I saw in something like an epiphany that DJT had set up Ted Cruz to show that Mr. Cruz could not handle the crap that a President Cruz would take from the Democrats and the press. Ted co-operated by falling apart. After that I was pro-Trump all the way.
Exactly right.
From break-in to resignation...26 months
Newly-released Strzok-Page texts suggested using post-election briefing to gather information on Trump team.
The fact that these conversations occurred AFTER Trump took office, reinforces that this was not merely misdirected wrongful activity.
These people demonstarted a frightening animus toward a sitting president.
Other evidence might show that, given the order, they were ready to take him out.
They were so cocksure of themselves......they figured they’d never get caught.
They had no fear b/c Obama had “fixed” everything.
The only goal was to have the constant stream of “Orange Man Bad” news in the Mainstream Media, to beat people down day after day.
But when the president talks about a coup, every decent person needs to sit up and pay attention.
Failed coup attempt: Yep, no harm, no foul; my bad will suffice.
Please with the b/c! You are saving yourself the typing of four characters. This is not text messaging and not everyone sees because when you put b/c.
Please with the b/c! You are saving yourself the typing of four characters. This is not text messaging and not everyone sees because when you put b/c.
I’d bid a good amount to be allowed on the building team, even if it’s ‘just for fun’.
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