Posted on 11/13/2017 11:36:06 AM PST by drewh
President Trump returned from one of the longest and most successful overseas trips by a president since President Reagan returned from Reykjavik without giving Gorbachev a treaty in 1986.
President Trump just averted nuclear war with North Korea -- which oddly didn't fire so much as a cap pistol while he was in the region.
President Trump just oversaw China agree to a quarter-trillion in investments in the United States.
President Trump just helped South Korea warm up a little more to Japan.
President Trump just landed (at that time) in the Philippines -- a place where Barack Obama was persona non grata last year.
Instead Disney's ABC went on and on about an unsubstantiated allegation about a senatorial candidate in Alabama.
When they finally talked about the trip it was not about North Korean nukes, or China's investment, or Japanese-Korean relations, or even about the Philippines.
Democrats get away with it because the people these channels hire are not very bright.
And even when Reagan was president, the news media parroted the Democratic Party line.
They said Reagan failed at Reykjavik.
Five years later, Gorbachev was gone -- and the people of Eastern Europe had swept the Soviet Union into the dustbin of history.
Journalists should all be ashamed. They are just pushing propaganda for Fascism and Tyranny. Meanwhile, the POTUS is making the world safer and more prosperous, and the journalists just want to focus on helping a failed Progressive agenda in Congress.
Democrats get away with it because the people these channels hire are not very bright. ................................ I also wonder about those who watch them for news.
I still remember the Cuban missile crisis 55 years later. I was eleven in October of 1962. Our teacher tried to reduce the tension about what was going on, but I very clearly remember the thought of the possibility there would be nuclear war and people I loved, perhaps myself would die. The idea the Soviet Union would ever simply dissolve was foreign to me at the time, and certainly until the time it actually did.
I don't think any of us saw it coming. One day it just did.
Reagan was such a difference night and day to Jimmy Carter.
I said thank you God when Reagan replaced Carter. I say thank you God that Trump has followed on Obama now.
What the press will never show is how much respect president Trump was shown everywhere he went. He is truly considered a world leader.
As a young kid in the 80s, I didn’t see it either. Especially after that damn TV movie they had students watch.
I only thought it was only going to end with us all dead.
What the press will never show is how much respect president Trump was shown everywhere he went. He is truly considered a world leader.
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Think Conrad Hilton with a little more power even through restricted...
How long before the Libs claim he is actually touring the world on OUR DIME so he can flood the world with ‘Trump Towers’
HILTON: I will have a little bit of American in any city an American visits....Think of the BIG PICTURE Don, not just New York & Philadelphia..
(NOT A QUOTE BUT CLOSE TO COMBINED REAL LIFE/TV SHOW)
Of course HRC & BO traveling the world to ‘shake it down’ and fill their own personal coffers, is just ‘a way of doing business’ which those two or very ‘good’ at.
SOUNDS LIKE RICO time to me...
Don’t you wonder how those Asian nations view our hateful and dishonest MSM? Glad other people from much older cultures than ours got to see the strength, fairness, leadership skills and just plain goodness in our President and our wonderful First Lady. The First Daughter was awesome, as well. So proud of them.
Why do we want China “investing a quarter trillion dollars”, which is $250 billion, by the way, in America.
Don’t they already own a good chunk of the country?
I love the way Trump says “China.”
The idea the Soviet Union would ever simply dissolve was foreign to me at the time, and certainly until the time it actually did. I don't think any of us saw it coming. One day it just did.
Same here. I used to joke that the USSR was the world's most powerful Third World country only because of the Bomb, and thought they'd go on a lot longer than they did. What was funny was that about the time it went down, I had just watched a spy movie where the turncoat said that he went Red because "Capitalism is going to collapse."
I’m amazed I didn’t fixate on it more being 11 years old. I do remember being concerned over it, but I dismissed it because I couldn’t do anything about it anyway.
If it happened, it did. If I didn’t, great.
I can see some kids being very disturbed over this.
The Cold War was a very big deal. I don’t think kids today realize how big a deal it was.
Reagan’s policies resulted in close to one billion people in Europe, Asia, and the U. S. being more safe and or independent of the old U. S. S. R. That’s a massive number of people freed up and lives improved by rejecting Jimmy Carter’s second term.
I forget how many now, but as many as twelve fledgling Communist states turned toward the West.
China was so impressed, it went a long way toward open Capitalism too. I’m not here to say there weren’t problems with that, but the proof of Capitalist superiority has to go no farther than in China, to be proven an amazing economic system.
I don't think any of us saw it coming. One day it just did.
I remember as a youngster in the 80's, under President Reagan, coming self aware of the communist-type push in our own country. I recognized it from the stories my Grandmother told us surviving a Marxist push in the early 1900's in the country of Mexico or read my bio. The tyranny and the stories she told trying to survive that period was tremendous and I came to understand the realities of these terrible ideologies, at an early age.
The amazing thing is Americans back then could see the U.S.S.R. and the dangers of communism but they could not recognize the same push was happening in our own country. It has been a stealth traitorous movement for some time and many Americans refuse to acknowledge that it was happening here.
Even though the JFK files were scheduled to be released, I seriously doubt they would have ever been released until President Trump come along. I do believe President Trump released them as a prelude to exposing this traitorous movement that has been happening in our own country.
President Kennedy was very anti-communist and this movement in this country could most likely not go forward if he continued to be President. The infiltration of so many institutions of influence in this country has happened and all the pieces of this traitorous movement are slowly being exposed.
Americans are going to have to wake up and realize the left in this country have slowly erected an Iron Curtain here. I do hope and pray one day, as we witnessed in the 80's of the Soviet Union's Iron Curtain falling, we live to see that here as well. Continued prayers for our country and for the safety of our President Donald J Trump.
CGato
We had a John Phillips Souza record of his marching music.
During that period I used to get to school about an hour early, and play that record. I sortof created my own propaganda. LOL
Yes, the old argument was that Communism would bury Capitalism.
Today it has been proven to be better for 100 years or more, and some folks still want it. Even China abandoned Communism, at least as an economic model.
I understand the dynamics you’re referencing.
When I hear talk of McCarthy being wrong, I take a good look at our nation. Our Leftists in power, or MSM, our K-12 grade schools, our universities,...
McCarthy was exactly right. That’s the real reason they try to vilify him to the extent they do.
Was he perfect? I doubt it. Did the nation suffer because all Communists weren’t rooted out? It’s undeniable.
I still remember the Cuban missile crisis 55 years later. I was eleven in October of 1962. Our teacher tried to reduce the tension about what was going on, but I very clearly remember the thought of the possibility there would be nuclear war and people I loved, perhaps myself would die.
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I was sixteen at the time, and a junior in high school. I believe most of us felt a great almost overwhelming terror about this. A very few years later I was in a special military unit working directly with the NSA, and saw documents that indicated to me that the “crisis” wasn’t nearly as dire as the public was led to believe, intentionally.
Many of those documents have since been declassified and are available online. George Washington University has a wealth of documents, https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/docs.htm, and many more are on the CIA website.
There really was no crisis as we perceived it at the time. All three players gained in this little game. As much as JFK is practically worshiped in many circles, he was not a strong president, and was totally blistered politically after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. He need a major face-saving way out. This he got. Khrushchev held the position of power, and he was well aware of Kennedy’s dilemma. Castro was at the mercy of Khrushchev, but neither of them were willing to give up Cuba.
Kennedy saved face by taking the world from the “brink” of nuclear war and became an eternal hero. Khrushchev removed his missiles from Cuba AFTER Kennedy agreed to remove US missiles from Turkey. Castro gained better security than he had before by an agreement between Russia and JFK that the US would never invade Cuba, nor would we allow anyone else to invade that country either. JFK thus made the US the de facto protector of Cuba. Khrushchev could afford to remove his missiles because there was no longer any danger of US invasion. The terrified public was fed a story that Kennedy saved the US and the world, Khrushchev kept his mouth shut about the deal, and Castro kicked back to a lifetime dictatorship, safe and secure from all outside interference.
The Cold War was another story. That had the real potential for worldwide destruction which the Missile Crisis only pretended.
Thanks for the recitation.
I was aware of most of that, the exception being that the U. S. wouldn’t allow other nations to take on Cuba.
I agree with your take on it, but I have to say we have folks on our side who gladly feed their beliefs too.
This constant talk of crony capitalism, feeds right into the anti-Capitalist mentality. No, not everything is done right. We still need corporations, and the Capitalist system is still best even with it’s flaws.
We need to think long and hard how we curse capitalist tenets, and that means we don’t toss massive criticism around, when we know many folks won’t get the nuances.
We basically have children in the house. We have watch what we say.
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