Government in Exile

Has "Mad Dog Mattis" Turned on Trump?

"Manx"" has some thoughts on General Mattis.

Today the media is reporting on General James “Mad Dog” Mattis, Ret. Today’s reports share a common theme referring to Mattis’ op-ed in the Wall Street Journal this morning.

His op-ed has been grabbed by the media in just the past few hours and transfigured into an indictment of Trump. Perhaps there’s another Mattis writing floating around today that I missed. Having read the WSJ piece I can say it makes for interesting reading especially for one who might be interested in Mattis’ autobiography and reminisces about his forty years in the Corps as well as some broad philosophical views. Innuendos about Trump? Sure. Unimpeachable accusations? Not so sure.

The op-ed includes thoughts about believing in oneself, doing the right thing and not falling into situations that Mattis commented on such as “I drew no energy from the turmoil and politics that animate our capital”. A respectable comment considering it comes from a person who has fallen into predictable lockstep with so many others given his upcoming book due for release next week.

2020 DNC Platform

"Ernie" has some thoughts about the 2020 DNC platform.

   Looks like the theme for the liberal left in 2020 will be blaming Trump for creating hate, racism and white supremacy.  This is what’s dividing the country and creating a new level of domestic violence. (i.e, he’s responsible for Dayton and El Paso).  To believe this you’ve got to completely ignore Islamist Obama and how he was the anti-American who turned blacks against whites, cops and America.  He’s responsible for Antifa and BLM.  Hes responsible for bringing in thousands of Islamic “refugees” who are quickly forcing Sharia law and Islamic culture onto Americans. And it’s working!  Look at the House and hundreds of local, state elections.  He’s the one who turned foreign countries against us by going round the world blaming America for all the problems of the world.  The infamous “apology tour”.    None of these lies from the left will ever be mentioned by today’s lying Socialist media.  (The Goebbels  wing of the DNC). No, the focus will be Trump is the guy causing all the violence in the country.

  The theme for 2020?  It’s clear as a bell.  Trump = white supremacy = Hate = racism = domestic violence. When a liberal democrat wakes up in the morning, the first word out of his/her/it’s mouth is RACIST!! 

Why Trump Will Lose

"Legion" has some thoughts on Trump.

There will be polls and more polls from now until November, but there are some pertinent, "behind the camera", factors that I think will push Hillary over the finish line.

1. The media will play the major role in deciding who will be president. Social, Twitter, Facebook, Main Stream and blog sites.
2. A corrupt liberal propagandized educational system that has given us today's dumbed down millennials who hate republicans.
3. The LGBT and other related activists.
4. The Black Lives Matter and other black revolutionaries/terrorists.
5. Climate Change activists.
6. Anti Wall Street protesters.
7. Pro Muslim money from the Mideast, and from activists groups such as CAIR.
8. The far left entertainment industry.
9. The GOP establishment forces.
10. The US Census bureau now says millennials outnumber baby boomers 75M to 74M.

(1) The media (main stream) and social media will be unrelenting in their attack on Trump and the Republican party as a whole. No matter what negative factors are destroying this once great nation, they will blame everything on republicans.

(2) Anyone graduating from high school after 1990 has been brain washed beyond belief. America is bad. America is responsible for all the world's ills. America is not deserving of its image as the dominant influence in the world. Democrats are supposedly for the "little guy" and Republicans are for Wall Street, big oil, and the 1%ers. These groups will try and disrupt every Republican campaign stop.

(3) The LGBT crowd has gained unbelievable power during Obama's "divide America" term in office. They will be loud, violent and protesting at every Republican gathering between now and Nov 8th. Remember, its the Republican conservatives were spoke out against same sex marriages, and against opening up restrooms to transgenders. Never mind that Hillary was against those same things just a few short years ago.

(4) Violent black terror groups will be a constant threat throughout the country. Look for riots, looting, burning and killings all across the country in support of Hillary and in opposition to Trump.

(5) Democrats have bought into global warming lock, stock and barrel. Why? Because of the millions of dollars and votes that will flow to them for "caring". Meanwhile those "Wall Street" Republicans will keep drilling for oil, mining for coal, shipping oil by rail and vessel, building pipelines and maintaining nuclear power plants.

(6) It was the Democrats who organized a highly successful Occupy Wall Street travesty. They will be back in full force (financed in large part by the George Soros groups), and yet, once again, it will be the fault of the "1%ers" and their republican enablers.

(7) The far left "compassionate" PC groups will be demanding that we bring in millions of displaced Muslims without bothering to vet them properly. Who cares that thousands of terrorists may well be among the immigrants arriving from the most violent anti-American nations in the world. Hey, it's working in Europe, isn't it?

(8) TV and Hollywood will become propagandist machines. Watch for more quickie movies and documentaries touting the compassionate Democrats while demonizing Republicans.

(9) RINOs haven't given up on destroying the Trump campaign. With Hillary their positions and lifestyles will continue. With Trump they might actually get exposed for the frauds they really are.

(10) The GOP establishment has "liberalized" their platform so as to attract this growing population. One positive is that historically younger millennials don't get out and vote in as large numbers as boomers. However these numbers don't include the growing number of immigrants, who will most likely vote for Democrats.

And forget about Benghazi, illegal emails, taking bribe money from countries that hate us, and Hillary's endless lies. For over 25 years the millennials have been educated to hate Republicans, and that education is now influencing their parents. These younger groups still think they're going to get everything they want for free, and those 1%ers will pay for it all.
Bottom line. They would rather have Hillary with all her faults than those dastardly, cold hearted Republicans.

Is 60 Minutes Biased?

"Manx" has some thoughts about 60 Minutes.

Sixty Minutes (SM) is a worn out liberal tabloid hell-bent on keeping itself contemporary not through current events but rather through promoting self-loathing, disdain for big business, white guilt and whatever else might appeal to followers of “New York Times,” “Mother Jones,” NPR, PBS news and the like.

When’s the last time a matronly woman in a cotton print dress from JC Penney presented a story? A story something like a farmer in Nebraska who teaches kids how to plow fields and plant seeds. Don’t recall? Neither do I. Instead SM promotes staffers like the one in a too-short leather skirt who should be hiding rather than flaunting those boney knees. Someone who repeatedly presents similar stories on the line of inner city “youth” playing Bach or Vivaldi on Stradivarius violins donated by something similar to a Soros offshoot foundation.

Then there are the exposes such as those of people who travel the world to places in defiance of State Department restrictions or warnings, get in a jam in some third world cesspool, then are indignant they weren’t rescued by Uncle Sam.

Evil pharmaceutical companies? Count on SM to pull out those tearjerkers on a slow news night.

Now SM is jumping on a bandwagon that is only going to gain momentum as this country approaches the end of the Obama debacle. An end where Obama will make Janet Reno, her then henchman Eric Holder and their majordomo Bill Clinton look like pikers with their get out of jail free cards also known as presidential pardons. And one pardon in particular. A pardon that fans of Che Guevara and Mao have been pushing for. A burning desire for a posthumous presidential pardon for Ethel Rosenberg. Yes, Ethel Rosenberg, the conspirator in that treasonous cabal to aid Stalin with our national secrets.

Rosenberg has now become a cause célèbre for history revisionists. Those revisionist folks who hate history, tradition, values and just about anything that has been accepted as the norm by the majority. And how does SM fit in? It’s now being reported a “forthcoming segment of ‘60 Minutes’ that will endeavor to show Ethel received an unfair trial and never should have been executed.”

So expect a SM segment with someone like Charlie Rose at his hangdog best giving a heart-rending performance in a massive attempt to solicit pity and thereby support and virtually a demand that Obama pardon someone who didn’t give a damn about her fellow citizens.

By the way, I never liked Andy Rooney either – a liberals’ lib disguised as a grandfatherly curmudgeon.

Are Progressives Communists?

"Ernie" has some thoughts on Putin and the direction that America's headed.

 It appears Obama and Putin don't like each other.  Sorta like Obama and Netanyahu except the former are technically both on the same side.  At least it seems that way to me.  Go all the way back to Kruschev pounding his shoe on the table at the UN announcing that Russia would bury the US, if not militarily then economically.  As I look around at todays dismal state of America, one could make an argument that Kruschev's promise has come true.

 

     Leninists (liberal social democrats) have quietly been taking over our country.  The process began as far back as Woodrow Wilson who loved the idea of turning a democratic US into a powerful state run, state controlled socialist government.  His goal gained tremendous speed under FDR with government run health care, retirement programs, education to name just a few.  After all, it was FDR who said he didn't have anything against communism.  Some of his best friends were communists.  While these and other lefties of both parties laid the ground work and started the ball rolling, it's Hussein Obama who's made the "transformation" almost complete.  By destroying the military, our alliance with Israel, our religious values, our economy, our culture, our borders, and our exceptionalism, he has made Putin a happy man.

 

     What is this groundwork I mentioned that started in the early 1900's?  Consider what the Leninists have accomplished:

 

1.     They have taken over our labor unions.  In other words, they have "united the workers".  And our "progressive" politicians have passed law after law to make them more and more powerful.  Thanks to unions and democrats we have cities like Detroit; states like California, empty manufacturing facilities, unemployment, a failed educational systems and an out of control bureaucracy that rewards poor performance with laws that make it impossible to fire the deadbeats.

 

2.     They have taken over the educational system.  Over 80% of college instructors and faculty are admitted extreme leftist liberals.  It's nearly impossible for a conservative to be hired, and even more impossible to get tenured (the death trap of education).  They respond by turning out far left liberal lawyers, teachers, environmentalists, and maybe something even more disasterous, thousands of so called journalists. 

 

3.     Thanks largely to left wing universities, they have taken over congress, the judiciary, the media, the entertainment industry, and so called environmentalism.  They have imposed political correctness on us, making it virtually impossible to say anything that disagrees with liberal theology.  (It really is a religion to those who practice it).

 

4.     And even worse, they have put supporters of their ideology in the Oval office.  I give you one Hussein Obama.  He's not only destroying our religious values, he's destroying the public practice of Christianity.   But he's taken Kruschev one step further.  He's aligning us with his beloved Islamic brethren.  I think Putin has already shown he's not afraid of Muslims.

 

5.     Obama has weakened our military to the point nobody (especially Russia) fears us.  Consequently our international influence has suffered accordingly.  I would venture to say that we have no allies left who feel they can rely on us.

 

6.     Finally, thanks to liberals in both parties, Obama has spent us into bankruptcy.  We're on the verge of seeing the dollar lose all its influence and value.  We're $19T in debt and Obama, Hillary, Sanders, Pelosi, Reid and the RINO gang just keep on spending.

 

     Yes, Kruschev can finally rest in peace and Putin can continue to gloat and flex his muscles while continuing his plan to restore  Russia to the once powerful Soviet Union.  Yes, I would argue they've won.  The Leninists are running the country.  And sadly no one who supports our liberal socialist democrats has any idea what's happening because unfortunately our forementioned educational system no longer teaches American nor world history.  I doubt 10% of those under 40 years of age even know who Kruschev  was nor anything about the savage isms that plagued the world throughout history.  Communism, Nazism, Marxism, Leninism, Maoism, Socialism, Fascism, and probably others.

 

     If you watched the democrats debate last night, you should have no doubts that a victory for any of them would be the final blow to democracy.  It's too late to make a complete reversal in the direction our country has taken, but not yet too late to change our dismal leadership so as to put the process of change into motion.  

 

 

Will Hillary Clinton be Indicted?

Peter has some thoughts on Hillary Clinton.

NO WAY OUT!

Hillary Clinton has no way out of a criminal indictment.

Under both Title 18 of the U.S. Code, and the Federal Code of Regulations, anyone with a security clearance has an affirmative obligation to immediately report to the FBI:

     Any unauthorized disclosure of classified information

     Any movement of classified information to an unsecure location, such as a private computer

     Any unauthorized use of classified information

     Any unauthorized destruction of classified data

The FBI is then required to undertake an assessment of each violation to determine who or what unauthorized persons or entities may have received or had access to the classified information.

Since Hillary Clinton and some of her staff used her private email server for official State Department business, and since much State Department business is automatically classified - such as information or data exchanged with foreign governments - then classified information and data found it's way onto Hillary Clinton's private computer server.

Hillary Clinton and her staff, along with many others who exchanged email with them, had an affirmative legal obligation to report this glaring breech of security to the FBI. None did so. When the problem was exposed during the Benghazi hearings, Hillary Clinton initiated a "wipe" of her server.

The FBI is now attempting to do a security breech assessment to determine what persons or entities may have accessed the data on Hillary Clinton's private server. The assessment may prove to be impossible because of the corruption of the hard drive during the "wipe", which brings up more obvious criminal violations - obstruction of justice and destruction of evidence.

 

There is NO WAY OUT!

Great Lines from the Republican Convention

"Peter" recorded some great lines from the GOP Convention.

Transcript of Mitt Romney's speech at the RNC | Fox News

 

The soles of Neil Armstrong's on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls.

 

... we went to bed at night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world

 

Tonight, that American flag is still there on the Moon. And I don't doubt for a second that Neil Armstrong's spirit is still with us -- that unique blend of optimism, humility, and the utter confidence that, when the world needs someone to do great things, you need an American.

 

First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking advantage of our oil, are coal, our gas, our nuclear, and renewables.

 

Second, we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow.  When it comes to the school your child will attend, every parent should have a choice, and every child should have a chance.

 

Third, we will make trade work for America by forging new trade agreements, and when nations cheat in trade, there will be unmistakable consequences.

 

Fourth, to assure every entrepreneur and every job creator that their investments in America will not vanish, as have those in Greece, we will cut the deficit and put America on track to a balanced budget.

 

And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them.  It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small businesses the most, and it means we must rein in skyrocketing cost of health care by repealing and replacing Obamacare.

 

Transcript of Paul Ryan's speech at the RNC | Fox News

 

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.

 

none of us have to settle for the best this administration offers, a dull, adventureless journey from one entitlement to the next, a government planned life, a country where everything is free -- but us

 

here is our pledge.
   We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.
   We will not spend the next four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.
   We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles.

 

Transcript of Marco Rubio's speech at the RNC | Fox News

 

Our problem is not that he is a bad person.  Our problem is that he is a bad president.

 

under Barack Obama, the only change is that hope is hard to find

 

he stood behind the bar all those years so that one day I could stand behind a podium, in the front of the room

 

Let us make sure they will write that we did our part. That, in the early years of this new century, we lived in an uncertain time, but we did not allow fear to make us abandon what made us special. That we chose, not more government instead of more freedom; we chose the principles of our founding to solve the challenges of our time.  We chose a special man to lead us In a special time. We chose Mitt Romney to lead our nation and, because we did, the American miracle lived on for another generation to inherit.

 

Transcript of Clint Eastwood speech at RNC | Fox News

 

we own this country

 

It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it.  Politicians are employees of ours

 

when somebody does not do the job, we've got to let them go

Go ahead.
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