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First off, let me say that I agree 100% with Trump's plan to ban bump stocks in this country. Any modification to any gun that is made to allow that gun to fire automatically like a machine gun should be outlawed. They are designed to kill multitudes of people, pure and simple. That's not to say such a band will mean anything; there are many bump stocks already out there and available and a simple law does not mean spit to a criminal or terrorist. But, I do agree with the idea of a ban.
Raising the age limit on long gun possession to 21 is the dumbest idea Trump has come up with, ever. That's not going to make it any more difficult for someone determined to get his hands on a long gun; they're in almost every gun closet in America. All you're going to do is to create a black market for them. At the same time, you're punishing the law-abiding and the innocent. You're taking away a father-son sport that has been around since guns were invented... hunting. The next logical step in this crazy thinking is to ban long guns anywhere in the residence of anyone who has someone under 21 living there.
Allowing volunteer school staff to carry concealed campus is an excellent idea. But, there needs to be some conditions; (1) must legally possess the firearm; (2) must obtain and maintain a concealed weapons permit; (3) must take and pass training in how to deal with mass shootings in schools and public places, and (4) must pass a competency qualification on the gun range.
I also believe that laws which prohibit concealed carry permit holders from being on school campuses or in other public places should be abolished.
That all having been said, we can't stop there. These are valid stop-gap measures. Talking to governors and other high muckety-mucks about what they think is not the answer; we need to pull together school teachers, administrators, law enforcement, the NRA, psychologists, social engineers and the military to discuss the root causes of gun violence and to study solutions. That's a medium-range objective. Finally, we need to come to grips with violence in general and eliminate the "need or desire" to commit any act of violence, and that is going to have to be a long-range objective.
Finally, we have to start acting like adults. This constant screaming, demanding and threatening... much like a kid throwing a tantrum in a sandbox... has simply got to stop. Is this the kind of example we want to show our children? Grow up.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
Anti-gunner socialists are just fine with the way the Parkland, Florida school shooting turned out. They're perfectly okay with the fact that no one in the school had a gun or the training to counteract Cruz.
You can tell that by the fact that they are not screaming bloody murder over the four cops who hid outside while the shootings were going on. The media, to the contrary, seems to be covering it up; they're downplaying that sad fact and instead, climbing on the "Blame the NRA" bandwagon. None of them want school teachers or staff members to be armed and trained.
Obviously, they would prefer to seize guns from legal and responsible gun owners than to defend their school children from sick, psychotic and evil criminals. They don't even want your children to pray while they're being shot, because they're in a public school!
And, you'd damned-well better make sure your kids attend school, danger or not; otherwise, you're going to go to jail for being an unfit parent.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
Mass shootings at schools, churches and other "no guns" venues has to stop. Shootings of cops has to stop. There is no one in the NRA who doesn't agree with the rest of the country that these things have to stop.
The other side of the story, that the left-wing socialists and Democrats in the country want to abolish the Second Amendment and totally get rid of guns in this country, is also true... but we all know that such an event would only leave the criminals and terrorists totally in charge of our destinies.
Nevertheless, the common denominator between the NRA membership and the anti-gunners is that we both desperately want gun violence to stop. The nation in its entirety, as a whole, needs to come to grips with the problem and solve it. There is absolutely no reason why law-abiding citizens should have to give up their Second Amendment rights in the process. They are not the ones to blame here.
So, how do we deal with the ones who are to blame? That is the question which both the NRA and the rest of Americans need to deal with. Why can't we all sit down at the table, cut out the name calling, and solve it? Don't be afraid of the issue; look it straight in the eye and find a way to come together and solve it.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
We're just learning that the Russians infiltrated our social media platforms and fed information to Americans designed to pit them against each other and create social unrest. They even organized public demonstrations, both for and against Trump, for and against Hillary. Obama and the intel people did nothing, because they mistakenly believed that the Russians were for Clinton and against Trump; the Russians, however, were against all of America and our political processes.
The mainstream media, wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Clinton cartel and the Democrats, pounced on anything and everything the Russians were doing for Clinton and against Trump and went trumpeting Russia's messages around the country like rabid animals, sowing further division and disruption among the populace; Hillary and Barry even started to think that Hillary's election was "in the bag."
When the election was over and Hillary lost, they were stunned. I doubt they ever realized that Russia was playing both sides against the middle. In fact, they're evidently still in denial.
And so it festered upon itself, like the hateful and spiteful lunacy that it has become. The Soros-inspired media is controlled by the Democrats and the Russians, the Dems are driven to greater depths of depravity and insaneness by what they read in the papers and hear in the media, and the whole cabal of idiots proceed, like crazy dogs, to think they were somehow cheated in their quest to take total control of America.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
Andrew Pollack lost his 18-year-old daughter, Meadow, in last Wednesday’s tragic Florida school shooting. A photo of Pollack holding a picture of his daughter went viral after the shooting; he's wearing a "Trump 20/20" t-shirt.
“I have zero sympathy. Notice the tee shirt he’s wearing. He helped murder his own daughter,” one person said.
“I am sorry he lost his daughter however he voted for Trump and is
suffering the consequences of his actions now,” another person said.
“The shirt I’m sorry I have to laugh,” one person added.
They're Democrats... just the kind of person you want to vote for in the November elections. All Democrats these days are alike. Someone needs to take them out in back of the barn and teach them some decency and respect.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
How dare you point the finger of blame at me and my fellow NRA members for what has happened in Florida, Columbine, Las Vegas, Sandy Hook or anywhere else in this country. To my knowledge, none of the shooters involved was a member of the NRA; they were all, like you, living on the very fringes of sanity.
You are the ones to blame. You are the ones who have torn at every fabric of American society. YOU have caused the family unit in this country to disintegrate. YOU have forced an economy on us that requires both parents to work, leaving someone else to raise our children. YOU have openly and shamelessly set about removing religion and its teachings from our daily lives. YOU have allowed illegals to come into our country, rape our women, kill our neighbors and drug our children. YOU have eliminated history and culture from our schools.
YOU'RE the ones who want heroin, cocaine and marijuana made universally legal. YOU'RE the ones who don't give a damn about our laws. YOU'RE the ones who don't respect our heritage or our borders. YOU'RE the ones who don't want the rest of us to speak plainly and openly... the ones who want to confine free speech to "protected zones" on school and college campuses. YOU'RE the ones who think it's fine to disrespect our flag and our National Anthem. YOU'RE the ones who ban prayer in public meetings and schools unless it's a Muslim prayer.
It's YOU who foments anger by seeking to divide us in every way: black vs. white vs. Brown; rich vs. poor; atheist vs; Christian vs. Muslim; vs. Jew vs. Hindu; cop vs. citizen; on and on.
My family has spilled its blood to protect and build this country since the mid-1600's. Virtually all of my friends in the NRA are just as patriotic and caring for this country as I am. Then, we have YOU... YOU don't have what it takes to be an NRA member. In fact, YOU don't have what it takes to be an American, because YOU do not believe in and respect this country the way WE do.
How DARE you blame ME when YOU are the ones to blame. And, don't try to change the conversation, either. May God damn you and all of your hypocritical left-wing seditious friends.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
SPECIAL POST
As I write this, the dust has not settled on the Florida High School shooting. I'm damned angry. I'm angry because this and other recent shootings might well have been prevented if we had not set up the scenes to make them into shooting arcades for deranged gunmen and terrorists who want to wreak havoc and death for whatever reason.
You can argue gun control; indeed, the scene was still an active crime scene when gun control advocates started pointing their bony fingers at me and countless other law-abiding gun owners across the country. But, I submit to you that it was against the law for the shooter to have a gun... any gun... on that campus. Yet, he did and making guns illegal would not change a thing; he'd still have found a gun and it would still be illegal.
There are then the arguments that we need to chase the terrorists out of the country, that we need to identify some social issues in our society or that we need to be more aware of those around us who are not acting "quite right." I agree with all of those sentiments. Yet, we've been at this problem for well over a decade and not one step has been taken, such as forming a commission to look into what the actual causes are and how to mitigate them. When will we start?
Let's talk about the Vegas shooter. There he was, armed to the teeth, in a high perch overseeing all of his potential victims, most of whom had no idea where he was shooting from; virtually none of them were carrying any kind of weapon with which to defend themselves. Take the schools: most school systems and states ban students from carrying weapons, and they also ban teachers, counselors and other employees as well. So, the students, like the concert goers in Vegas, become sitting ducks in a horrible arcade game.
Think about this: had there been 30 or so teachers and other school employees with concealed guns and training in how to deal with mass shootings in a school setting, why would any potential shooter walk into in that situation in the first place; and if he did, would the carnage have been as bad as it was in Florida? I'm inclined to wonder if the only reason such a preventative move has not already been done is that gun control activists actually want the massacres to continue until we agree to repeal the Second Amendment.
Knowing that things are not changing, are you willing to send your kids off to school tomorrow morning, and every morning for the next ten years while the politicians talk about it?
If you think that taking guns away from law-abiding citizens will make the violence stop, you're dumber than a post. Let's quit being dumb and start being smart and let's level the shooting field. Let's demand that school employees with concealed weapons permits and training be allowed to carry on campus.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
Late yesterday afternoon, information from the Senate Judiciary Committee was released that seem to show then president Obama was at least complicit in setting up the "Russian-Trump" investigation. Evidently, on January 5, 2017, Obama, Vice President Biden, then-FBI
Director James Comey, and then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates had a
meeting in the Oval Office about the fallout from the Russian
interference in the 2016 election.
The meeting also reportedly centered on the Steele dossier, which has since
been exposed as an "extensive opposition research project," a "hit-job," subsidized by
the Democrats, the Hillary Clinton campaign, the Russians and the FBI, and executed by Fusion GPS who hired a former British spy to get dirt on
Trump. The dossier was also used to obtain a FISA warrant on Carter
Page, a former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign.
Other portions are classified, but it seems as if Comey agreed to
keep Obama in the loop on the possible shielding of information on
Russia from incoming Trump officials.
My God, what a blow to American democracy! Everybody involved, including Obama, needs to go to jail and we need as many special prosecutors and inspectors general as it might take to to rout out this corruption... and all that needs to start today.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
The crimes, scandals and corruption in Washington just go on, on and on. They repeat, year after year, decade after decade... and nothing ever changes. Don't you want things to change? Let's be clear; WE have to change it, because it's obvious that they are not ever going to do so.
Understand one thing: If your favorite politician isn't doing anything about it and you keep reelecting him or her, things are not going to change. Ever.
The Republicans claim they want fiscal responsibility but... when it comes time to exert fiscal responsibility, they seem to be impotent and they quickly sign on to Democrat lavish and uncontrollable spending, like they just did. They control the House, the Senate and the White House, but they are powerless against the Democrats? Come on... that's either by design or it's due to flat-out incompetence.
We're faced with corruption and abuse of power unlike anything ever seen in the history of the nation. We have crooks and thieves ensconced in suites of high power in Washington who have seized control of government out of the hands of the people and asserted oppression and tyranny over the country, but yet the Republicans allow it to continue. Oh, they make a big show of it, investigating and squawking like banty roosters, but what are they doing about it? Those government suites remain occupied by the same despots and nobody is being removed, no actual charges are being filed and the same results go on and on...
It's all just a big game, an unholy charade designed to placate the citizens and keep them at bay. And we keep falling for it.
Don't you think it's time we did something about it?
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
What if Hillary had won in 2016?
Let's see... Taxes would be up, wages would be down, the economy would be in the toilet and all illegals would now be citizens. Comey would still be at the FBI and Lynch would still be in the Justice Department. We would never have heard the names Page, Wray or Strzok. The Russians would own 40% of our uranium and Bill would be making $1 million for speeches. Kerry would be vice president and Susan Rice would be Secretary of State. And, of course, Barack Obama would be on the Supreme Court in the seat now held by Neil Gorsuch.
North Korea and Iran would have their nukes, Putin would be giving orders to Hillary and China would control the South China Sea. Drugs would be surging across our southern borders, ISIS would be ruling Iraq and Afghanistan and MS-13 would be ruling our streets.
And all of those left-winger Hollywood types would not have been forced to renege on their promises to move to Canada.
Wouldn't life be so much better?
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
Senator John McCain has again taken leave of his senses, as if he ever had any. He's proposed a solution to the immigration problem that does NOT include building a wall on the Mexican border.
Like Barack Obama, he thinks it's just fine that illegals come across the border, commit crimes and vote for Democrats. Allowing MS-13 and the Mexican Drug Cartels to freely violate the border doesn't bother him a bit. The constant infusion of illegal and poisonous drugs into our society doesn't phase him at all. And, I'm sure the knowledge that terrorists groups have infiltrated that border doesn't keep him awake at night.
He's a jackass... and he's no American hero.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
If nothing else, the period leading up to the release of the House FISA memo and the period immediately thereafter should convince every realistic American beyond a doubt that the Democrats don't give a damn about this country. They definitely do not want you to know the facts about what is going in on Washington or within our government agencies, good or bad. Otherwise, there is no logical explanation for why they fought so hard against public disclosure of dirty laundry, high crimes and misdemeanors.
There is no reason why any law-biding citizen should put up with this behavior. We need to clean the scum out of the House and Senate in November.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
So, who do you think will have the first nervous breakdown today? Will it be Pelosi, Schumer, Clinton, Abedin, Comey, Lynch or Holder?
Will Wray resign? Will Mueller indict Trump? Will Soros leave the country? Will Obama play golf?
What do you think is going to happen when the memo comes out?
That's MY AMERICAN QUESTION, respectfully submitted.
The ink wasn't even dry yet on the President's new tax reform package before Democrats across the country started conniving on how to deny us the benefits. They simply cannot fathom the idea that we should be allowed to keep even a dime of our hard-earned money.
California has raised their gas tax. They now want to add a surtax of 10% on anybody who happens to make more than $1 million. Faced with a mounting deficit crisis that will soon blow the lid off of their state government, California legislators are scurrying to find ways to screw the public and glam onto their newfound Federal tax relief.
California is not alone in this quest. Not only are states across the union eyeballing that tax relief, but the Federal government itself has already decided it wants that money back; it is looking at raising gas taxes, national park fees, and other sources of revenue.
No, Mr. and Mrs. America... you're not entitled to any tax relief.
Remember who the enemy really is come the November elections; remember who refuses to quit squandering our money.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
One sentence covers it all: While the President knock it out of the park, the Democrats made utter fools of themselves by their stubbornly undignified conduct.
While all of the so-called journalists and pundits take it upon themselves to explain to you "imbeciles" out there what the President said last night, as if you are so stupid that you can't figure it out for yourselves, I've decided to use what has occurred over the last few weeks to provide proof to all of us that our real national enemy is not North Korea, China, Iran or Russia... it's the Democrat Party.
Bear with me for a moment. The new tax plan has caused companies throughout the U.S. to issue bonuses, raise wages and hire more people; yet, the Democrats call it "crumbs" and insist, I guess, that the tax pan be reversed, that the raises and bonuses be cancelled.
Investigations into the FBI conclude that there has been criminal and political abuse of the FISA system; the Democrats proclaim that we citizens do not have a right to know that.
Growing evidence suggests that there was an organized and wide-ranging conspiracy to guarantee Clinton's election and undermine Trump. When Trump defied odds and got elected anyway, that conspiracy morphed into a concerted effort to either remove Trump from office or to prevent his agenda from being implemented, whether the public wanted it or not. To that end, the Democrats engineered the appointment of Robert Mueller as Special Counsel with unlimited powers to convict Trump of something... anything they could use to get him impeached and thereby thwart the will of the people who elected him.
Prominent Democrats such as Obama and Kerry are running around on the national stage in an open and treasonous attempt to undermine the President's international policies.
Democrat bureaucrats within the State Department, the Justice Department and the FBI have refused to provide documents and evidence to investigators and have openly attempted to destroy those documents and evidence; in doing so, they have defied even the courts.
They seek to disarm us. They seek to silence us. They seek to destroy our religious values. They seek to abrogate our votes by flooding the country with illegals.
These are just a few examples of what I'm pointing out here. The enemy is sitting here right under our noses and defying our right to know what in the hell is going on with our country.
How can anyone reach any other conclusion than to say the Democrats are the biggest threat to our national security in existence?
Now then... what are we going to do about it?
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
The fact that three major government departments and agencies are openly and actively refusing to cooperate with various official investigators and with the Congress looking into crime and corruption within the government is not only disconcerting... it is downright scary. Our freedoms and liberties, our rights to free speech and freedom of religion... everything we believe in and stand for... everything is on the line like it has never been since the day our founders declared independence from Britain.
You, and only you and your knowledge and perseverance stand between them and us. If we fail, we lose everything.
Stand up or give up.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
The Reverend Franklin Graham says he thinks the U.S. may well be in the middle of an attempted coup d'etat. He thinks that, based on all of the evidence out there for us to plainly see, the left-wing Democrats, the "establishment" and the press are engaged in trying to remove Trump from office and take over the government.
Although I've alluded to that many times in my blogs, I don't recall that I've come right out and said it. Now, however, I am; I agree with Rev. Graham.
I think that it was the Obama administration that started the ball rolling nine years ago. It was Obama, Hillary, Holder, Emanuel, Mueller, Rice and Jarret, all working together in a concerted effort to put things in place which would allow such a coup to happen. The military was weakened, guns were purchased, millions of rounds of ammunition were purchased and mysteriously stockpiled, laws were changed and judges were put in position of power who would rule in their favor. Stalwart patriots in the FBI and Justice Department were systematically neutralized or removed.
I believe the plan was that Clinton would become president and continue the sinister plan from within the government while Obama organized radical groups, and initiated civil unrest and disobedience in the streets. In short... the plan was and still is to divide and conquer. Every Congressional Democrat and many Rino Republicans, the press and the media... are all in it and they're in in all the way.
That's why we continue to have lies and coverups within the DOJ and FBI. That's why top Republicans in the Congress continue to give impressive lip service to American issues while secretly working to undermine and eliminate Trump. That's why the Democrats continue with their incessant drumbeats about Trump insanity and Russian collusion. And that's why the DOJ has come out with a strongly worded letter to Congress asking hem not to release the now infamous four-page memo about FISA, the FBI and the DOJ.
Now, here's something to really think about. If Mueller comes out in a few weeks or months and charges Trump with some crime... what do you think is going to happen in this country? And, who just do you think plans to be there to pick up the pieces when the country explodes?
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
More and more, every hour of every day, increasingly putrid news about the swamp is coming to the surface... news that is damaging to the very foundations upon which our freedoms have been built. It's sad to say that every nasty word I wrote here and on other blogs about what was going on in Washington was... in fact... going on.
It is obviously not over.
We have earned that more electronic communications have mysteriously disappeared. Congressional committees are breaking off relations with the Department of Justice and the FBI because those agencies are flat-out refusing to cooperate with ongoing investigations. Yesterday, we learned that two FBI agents who were collaborating with Clinton and against Trump referred to a "secret society" where anti-American activities were being conducted. And we now have at least two State governments which have actively flipped their fingers against Federal immigration laws, (California and Washington).
I've said it before and I will say it again: Sinister groups of evil people are colluding to bring down the government of the United States and we, the people, are the only ones who can put a stop to it. No matter how ugly it gets, we have to do it.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
Things are running so much better with the government being closed...
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
Disband Congress for the rest of the year. Why saddle ourselves with a bunch of useless nincompoops?
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
The only questions regarding the health assessment of President Trump not asked at Tuesday's White House Press Conference were, "Why isn't he dying?" and, "Why shouldn't he be in a mental hospital?"
In years and decades past, when a president has undergone his annual physical, someone... usually the White House... has issued a terse statement outlining the results and health prognosis. This year, the White House trotted out Presidential Physician Ronnie Jackson to give a briefing and take questions from the Press Corps. After he described the tests and the results, he found Trump to be in excellent health both physically and mentally. Then, the bullshit questions started.
I won't go into details; there are plenty of sources for those on the Internet. But Jackson, who has now served four presidents, answered each and every question. The problem was that the press corps did everything possible to get the doctor to say something... anything... was wrong with the President's physical health or state of mind. One reporter actually pounced on the revelation that Trump's cholesterol level was "a little high," intimating that no President should be allowed to serve if his cholesterol level is high. I mean like, why is Trump allowed to eat a cheeseburger? Just how do you know Trump is not a raving lunatic?
What a bunch of downright, idiotic, disgraceful butt-heads. I anticipate the new rationale will be this: No president in history has ever been this healthy, which proves that he is not human and therefore must be removed.
Any company that buys advertising in those "news" outlets should be boycotted. They would do themselves well to crawl back into their shit holes.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
Maxine Waters, John Lewis, Frederica Wilson and a growing host of other Democrat dimwits are warning they will not attend President Trump's State of the Union Address. Like... who cares? Wah.
Is this walkout supposed to be the end of the world as we know it? Will America crumble and wither away because they refuse to grace us with their divine presence? Will the economy tank? Will the nation's toilets all flush? Will the missile warnings go off in Hawaii?
Frankly, it would suit me, and probably most of you, if none of the Democrats showed up. For that matter, Ryan, McConnell and the rest of the Rinos could all stay home as well. Above all, who in the hell needs the illustrious media there? A dead magpie would be more informative.
As far as I am concerned, the whole damned bunch of them would do America a huuuuge favor if they stayed at home and just nursed their hemorrhoids.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
Are we ready? Have we finally had enough?
Or, are we going to continue to allow the left-wingers, the Democrats and the "establishment" run this country into the ground?
Just askin'...
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
Since robocalling is against the law in most parts of the country, and since telephone carriers are zeroing in on numbers used to place robocalls, the sleazbags are now getting ugly. Here's how it works.
ABC Credit Card discount company calls Johnny Smith at 505-124-4567. Johnny doesn't answer. They try again two or three times; Johnny still doesn't answer. So, they figure Johnny is not at home and they can safely "borrow" his number.
Using their own number of 202-123-4567 to make the calls, ABC uses computers to make it look as if they are actually calling from 505-123-4567 and they start making robocalls around the country.
Mary Jones answers the call and gets the sales pitch. Bill Williams, on the other hand, turns ABC into the FCC or state authorities. When they investigate, they discover that 505-123-4567 has nothing to do with ABC and is the innocent victim. What's worse, George Jones notices he got called from a 505 area code number and calls it back. Johnny Smith answers and gets an earful from George about robocalls which probably includes some foul language.
In the meanwhile, ABC is in the process of setting up another "spoofed" number to use in starting another round of robocalls. They actually prefer to use spoofed numbers from your area code... even your own home town... to trick you into answering the phone. Furthermore, they don't give a hoot whether you are on the "Do Not Call" registry, have a cell phone or are on your death bed in the hospital.
These calls just keep on making the rounds, minute after minute, hour by hour... and nobody's doing anything about it.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
Steve Bannon, once thought to have the President's back and to be a critical player in the early days of Trump's administration, now exits "stage left" just about as disgraced as anybody can get. It certainly appears to me that he has broken any and all relationships of trust; at is alleged that, even going back before his days at the White House, Bannon was surreptitiously working to derail the Trump campaign.
When the word came out about Michael Wolff's book, it took Bannon almost two weeks to "express regrets" for the things he allegedly said. While finally insisting that he is an avid supporter of Trump, he has yet to make any apology for the book. Furthermore, if any of the words attributed to him in that book were actually not made or were falsified, Bannon has not denied he said them and has not taken any legal action against the book's author or publisher.
The backers of a great website started by Andrew Breitbart in 2007 have now stopped shipping money to support the site. Bannon, it's Chief Executive Officer, has reluctantly stepped down in an effort to save the site.
Based on these facts, we have to presume that Bannon is guilty as charged. The sad part is that there are still numerous actors in Washington who also profess to stand behind Trump but, in all reality, want desperately to see him fail. These are the people who don't give a damn about the will of the people who elected Trump... truly anti-Americans in every sense of the word. Hopefully, we Americans have learned something about Washington in this process and will take steps to prevent a repeat what was actually very close to an overthrow of our government.
As for Bannon and people like him, they will all hopefully rot in hell.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
The events of the past few days, with the Steve Bannon book now on the store shelves, proves beyond doubt that Trump has surrounded himself with treacherous and treasonous servants who don't give a damn about American history or the Constitution. Yet, Trump is by no means ignorant nor is he an imbecile; one therefore has to ask himself: "Why?"
We know by what we have seen that the Democrats, the liberals, the press and the media are all in one giant conspiracy to seize back the presidency which we, the people, "stole" from them. We also know by what is going on in the Trump administration and the "deep State" that just because Trump is in the White House does not mean that he is unencumbered from the shackles of "the establishment." And we know that, to our dismay, an uncomfortably large number of Republicans in the Congress are members of that "establishment;" the Republican franks are filled with people who are nothing but charlatans, pretending to back Trump while working behind the scenes to undermine him.
Certainly, by surrounding himself with disloyal mini0ns, Trump has played right into their hands. Whether that is deliberate or not remains to be seen.
One thing is clear: the struggle for power in Washington casts the "will of the people" to the side. We want truth, justice and the American way; they all want the power... no matter how high the stakes might be.
One would think that if Trump was really on our side, he would come out and say so and ask us for our help: he would ask us to turn out the scum in Congress in the 2018 elections; he would ask us to stand behind him in ridding the country of sanctuary cities; he would reach out to us and explain to us just how high the stakes really are.
He would ask us to stand behind and with him, but he has not. He speaks to us of what he is going to do for the country and has so far done an admirable job of doing so. Yet, he has not recruited from the ranks of the people who would stand with him, but instead has selected his team from members of the "establishment." To me, that speaks volumes. He has saddled himself with the likes of Jeff Sessions, for example, to the disservice of what he claims to be his agenda and to the dislike of those who want to see this country dig itself out of the cesspool of sharks it is now infested with.
And we, the pawns, don't have anything to say about it?
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
Utah Senator Orin Hatch has announced he will not run for reelection in 2018. I think that overall he's had a good 40-year run at it, but he's also been tainted by the "establishment," and it's time for him to go. Yet, the press and media are all now gushing that this will give the chance to Mitt Romney to run for the Senate. He's proven himself to be a Trump enemy and the main reason he hasn't been able to win the presidency is that he's a pansy ass and America doesn't like pansy asses; even the worst president in American history, Barack Obama was able to beat him.
I would also label Romney as another self-serving elitist who is firmly entrenched in the "establishment," just the kind of politician we have been trying to rid this country of. He'd be so much better off as an Ambassador for Disneyland.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
Every year
at this time, I pause to reflect on last year's resolutions and try to
outdo myself in predicting what will happen next year. Here are last year's predictions:
1. Obama and Clinton will both switch political parties.
2. Trump will make a Tweet.
3. Nobody from Hollywood will move to Canada.
4. Jill Stein will file a lawsuit against Melania Trump.
5. Kim Jong-un will get his legs stretched.
6. Donald Duck will divorce Daisy and marry Mickey Mouse.
7. Someone will get murdered in Chicago.
8. Megyn Kelly will get booted from FOX NEWS and replaced by Roseanne Barr.
9. California will go to pot.
10. Barack Obama will admit his Hawaiian birth certificate is a fake.
Well, I did better in 2017 than in 2016. Here I go for 2018:
1. A whole slew of Democrats will announce they intend to run for president in 2020, including: Michelle Obama, Roseanne Barr, Michael Moore, Pocahontas, Al Franken, Joe Biden and Kathy Griffin.
2. Trump will make another tweet.
3. The Democrats will get their butts kicked in the 2018 Congressional races and Hillary Clinton will blame the Ukranians for it.
4. Melania will divorce Donald and marry Prince Harry.
5. Kim Jong-un will cease to exist.
6. Clint Eastwood and Arnold Schwarzenegger will announce they're gay.
7. Someone will get murdered in Chicago.
8. Megyn Kelly will get booted by NBC and hired by CNN.
9. Hillary Clinton will get charged with high crimes and misdemeanors and pardoned by former president Barack Obama.
10. Loretta Lynch will admit that he meeting with Bill Clinton on her plane at the Phoenix Airport was really supposed to be a secret tryst.
I can't wait to see how I do.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
That's MY AMERICAN PREDICTION, respectfully submitted.
One thing is becoming more and more obvious every day: The United States is no longer united. When it comes to the term "America," people in this country are not of the same mind. We don't even believe in the same flag or what it stands for. Any spirit of nationalism or of standing together has long since been eliminated by the Obamas, the Spiros', the Clintons, the Waters, the Lees, the Pelosi's, the Schumers and the rest of the mean-spirited, spiteful and vindictive left created by those who are outright liars when they profess to want the best that can be had for this country.
Nothing... nothing... going on in this country today is going to instill in those who will hold the future of our country in their hands, the youth, with any sense of patriotism, of justice, of history, of right versus wrong. I honestly think Trump is trying to jerk the ship of state back around to its proper course, but he is fighting almost insurmountable odds. Not only have the leaders of the country abrogated their solemn, pledged obligations to follow our Constitution, but we Americans have allowed them to do so with a mere shrug of the shoulders and a feeling of resignation.
When you create a nation of sheep who don't care anymore, the conditions become ripe for the overthrow of the government; chaos and insurrection will always follow. The decision as to whether or not to allow that to happen is in our hands.
Please don't pull an NFL and fumble the ball.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
South Korea says North Korea is getting ready to launch a satellite into space. Given what we know about their nuclear weapons program, it is entirely possible that this "satellite" launch is a coverup for something far more sinister.
We already know that they have missiles capable of reaching the U.S. The only thing preventing their ability to use such a missile to send a nuke to U.S. soil is the ability to miniaturize a nuclear bomb to the point that it can be carried by that missile. The "full-speed-ahead" strategy for their program makes it entirely possible that they are close to that point. Therefore, this "satellite launch" could be a test to see if their missiles can successfully carry an object the size and weight of a miniaturized nuclear bomb.
The sanctions they are under prohibit missile launches and satellite launches, so this upcoming launch is another poke in the eye for the U.S. anyway and it signals that Kim Jong un doesn't care how many sanctions we put on his country, he is bound and determined to achieve nuclear launch capability early in 2018.
His next likely move would be to order the U.S. to get out of South Korea... or else. And we all know what his next likely move would be after that.
Forget all of the talk and the sanctions. They're not working and are not going to work. Kim has backed himself into a corner by his continued rhetoric; backing down would amount to losing face and could even lead to his overthrow. He is totally aware of that possibility and is therefore committed to proceeding, no matter how tough the going gets.
To his credit, Trump has no intentions of allowing allowing any tin-horn dictator to hold our country hostage.
This all leads to the inescapable conclusion that military action will take place in 2018. And my analysis of the probability that North Korea would start firing off artillery at Seoul is that it is a decision similar to the one Truman had about using the nukes on Japan to bring about the end of World War II: it would be a better proposition to risk the lives of 200,000 or more people in Seoul than the lives of a million in Los Angeles. Had not Truman acted, millions undoubtedly would have been killed before the end of WW II.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
This new tax bill does leave a lot to be desired. Tax simplification? Seven brackets? Investment tax credit? Forget it.
But, it's still better than nothing and maybe... hopefully... it's a start for better things to come.
I just don't understand why everybody is so gleeful about it.
All of this makes me wonder, of course... Does Santa Claus pay taxes?
See you next week and let's all pray that Kim Jong Umpf doesn't get missile toes.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
Intelligence sources indicate that both China and Russia are gearing up to attack the United States if we try to do anything militarily with their ally, North Korea.
What a fine kettle of trepidation Obama got us into, but then again... he thinks Chairman Mao was the cat's ass.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
The United States Department of Justice is infected with scum. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is an obstructionist who is stonewalling Congress on requests for documents and information; he hired Robert Mueller as Special Counsel to investigate alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, but that project has branched out and escalated into a full-fledged investigation of all top-level Trump employees and associates and is not confined to "Russian-Trump collusion."
It is has been evident from the start that the Office of the Special Counsel was not established to provide an even-handed, unbiased investigation. Instead of hiring experts with apolitical backgrounds, Mueller has hired a team of Democrat cronies and it is becoming increasingly evident that they all despise Trump as well as anyone associated with him. Some of them even forked for one or more of the Clinton operations. However, most of us expected that the investigation would be fair and actually looked forward to it.
The FBI has also proven itself to be a political organization of the Clinton-Obama machine. Their mission has morphed from investigating crime and providing justice in the good old American way to carrying out the political objectives of the Democrat regime and covering for the associated criminal activities.
Presiding over all of this is Attorney General Jeff Sessions. It appears to even the novice watcher that he is either part of the machine that seeks to unseat Trump or that he is incapable of being in the top leadership role in the department. Any man of responsible integrity would have ended the Mueller charade months ago.
Mr. Trump, it's time to clean house.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
When Presidential Assistant Omarosa Manigault-Newman resigned the other day, she did so quietly and privately in a meeting with Chief of Staff John Kelly in the Situation Room. The situation room is probably the most secure room in the nation, certainly in the White House, because of the nature of what goes on there. So, that anyone outside the White House knew that she had a meeting there with John Kelly in the first place defies imagination.
She says she only intended to work in the White House for a year and then to get on with her life. She has worked for and with Trump for over 14 years. She says she respects and admires John Kelly and indicates that he has made many positive changes in the White House. Nevertheless, she was "troubled about some things, which she will reveal after her notice is up and she leaves on January 20th.
Now then, CNN hits the headlines the very next day with a story about how she had been dragged out of the White House kicking and screaming after raising a public ruckus in a party with 600 guests and then tried to gain access to Trump's residence, supposedly to scream and yell at him. During all of this alleged conniption fit, Kelly supposedly fired her. Well, the Secret Service denies that version and says Manigault-Newman was not dragged out of anywhere and there were no "scenes" created. She also denies that version and one does have to wonder... with 600 guests in that party, why has not one picture or voice recording of the "scene" emerged?
CNN has proven for the umpteenth time that it is reckless, feckless, irresponsible and worthless.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
I've said it several times in my various posts over the last two weeks: The new tax plan about to be shoved down our throats and being misrepresented as the best thing since sliced bread is nowhere near as good as every Member of Congress and the President would like you to think it is. Furthermore, it now seems that more and more people, upon taking a closer look at what the fine print says, are agreeing with me.
- It does NOT make tax filing easier or more simple
- It does NOT reduce taxes for most middle income Americans
Yes, corporations will see some significant breaks and incentives, but you and I will not. What they give us with the one hand, they take away with the other.
It's a sham. It's an exact replica of what they tried to do with the repeal and replacement of ObamaCare: one great big tube of bologna.
If you don't believe me... check out the fine print.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
Just how many times have you heard Congressional leaders proclaim, "We'r going to call those culprits before a committee, grill them to the ends of the earth and get to the bottom of this?" And just how many such hearings have they had over the last eight or nine years... 100...500? And just how many times have they forced straight answers and "gotten to the bottom of this?"
ZERO.
The fact is that we're had countless government officials hauled into Congress over the years who have flipped Congress and the American people off and they've gotten away with it. Eric Holder did get held in Contempt of Congress and that was the end of that; no punishment, no sanctions, no firing. The new FBI guy, supposedly fair-minded and non-partisan, just refused to answer several key questions to a House committee and he got totally away with it. You've got the Department of Justice... the Department of Justice... and the FBI and the Department of State... refusing to answer subpoenas for documents or to even acknowledge that Congress wants answers.
But, nothing happens.
It's all one big smoke-and-mirrors charade. They're all in cahoots with each other against us and our Constitution. Nothing is getting done, the country is running adrift and the cultural politics of graft, crime and corruption continues unabated throughout government.
So, just whose responsibility is it to fix this, anyway? And, how do we do it if we just continue to ignore it? You know damned well that we're going to have to pay for our complacency sooner or later.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
How long has it been since Congress passed a full annual budget without resorting to half a dozen "continuing resolutions" in the process? Now they're down to passing a continuing resolution that only lasts for two weeks?
And we elect these worthless idiots and follow it up by paying them?
They're obviously all much too busy groping to get the job done.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
