Take a deep breath. Exhale slowly. Relax. President Trump is NOT going to attack Iran. He doesn’t have to. As even this Bloomberg News writer acknowledges, the president is winning already.
The most true part of Trump’s explanation for why he called off a retaliatory strike after Iran shot down a reconnaissance drone is when he said: “I’m in no hurry.”
Progressives do not see the United States as an exceptional uniter of factions and tribes into a cohesive whole—each citizen subordinating his tribal, ethnic, and religious affinities to a shared Americanism, emblemized by our national motto e pluribus unum. Instead, they prefer e uno plures: out of one nation arise many innately different and separate peoples.
Progressivism’s signature brand is now tribalism: all of us in different ways are victims of a white male Christian heterosexual patriarchy—or a current 20 percent hierarchy that past and present has supposedly oppressed anyone not like themselves. In contrast, our differences define who we are, and are not incidental to the content of our characters.
The salad bowl, not the melting pot, is the new national creed. America is to be a conglomeration of competing tribal parties in the fashion of the Balkans, Rwanda, or contemporary Iraq.
How does the relative victimhood work politically?
It would seem tantamount to insanity to suggest that Donald Trump could win, or even make a sizable dent in, the African-American vote in 2020, but I submit that it's not quite as crazy as it sounds and he should give it a serious shot.
He should go into the black community as often as possible and make his case. This would be using identity politics in order to destroy it. (A noble task. Good riddance.)
Trump clearly has a good case to make — black and Hispanic unemployment are at their lowest numbers ever. By contrast, over the last few days, we have seen the Democrats go race crazy, outbidding each other with asinine proposals. Reparations are back, ratified by nearly all the candidates to one degree or another.
That is insane. And racist. Many, many blacks know full well it is and resent it.
Volodymyr Zhukovskyy is what happens when you stop enforcing all the laws, for all the people. The photo of him above is at his arraignment in Springfield Mass. on Monday (6/21).
He’s 23, here from Ukraine on a green card. Here’s a timeline of his driving history provided by WMUR radio news. It’s a timeline of the horrific consequences of what happens when our politicians and judges define deviancy down.
It’s easy to see why criminals should be prioritized for removal. But those who say all illegal aliens are criminals, by definition, have a fair point, too. If that’s too much to ask, then violent criminals, certainly.
But there is another group, more toxic to the body politic than most: the haughty, self-described “Undocumented and Unafraid” clique.
I mean the “undocumented” activists, organizers, and political operatives who have reaped the generosity of this country, only to spit in its face. Even before those to be deported for not showing up at their asylum hearing, these need to be kicked out of our country, unafraid no more.
A new escalation in the long-running conflict between Russia and Georgia happened almost by chance last week (starting on June 20), but it answered the anxious desire in the Kremlin to move Russia proactively from the path of gradual decline.
Russian President Vladimir Putin likely suspects that the real economic situation in his country is worse than the officially registered sluggish growth and that the erosion of his popularity goes deeper than the slight decline reported by semi-official pollsters (Carnegie.ru, June 20).
The sudden quarrel with Georgia thus provided the policy-manipulators in the Kremlin with a perfect opportunity to produce a distraction from these unhappy domestic developments. This is unlikely to end well for Russia’s dictator.
In the news this week:
*To the consternation of Democrats, Never Trumpers and the Lying Swine, President Trump did NOT order a military strike against Iran, but at the same time scared the mullahs (spitless).
*The president formally announced his campaign for re-election before by far the largest crowd in the history of American politics.
The overflow for the event Tuesday (6/18) was larger than all the “crowds” to date for all the Dem presidential candidates combined.
*The head of a sex cult tied to prominent Democrats was convicted on charges likely to put him away for life.
*On the eve of the first Democrat “debates,” Gaffetastic Sleepy Creepy Joe Biden stepped in it yet again.
There’s more news, mostly good news. Let’s get to it.
For some time now, I have been watching with growing concern the increasing viciousness of the Left attacking any conservative website that attracts their attention and ire.
Once that happens, not only is the site ruined but those who run the site are personally demonized, with the Left determined to ruin their lives. This is only going to get worse and more demented as we approach and enter the coming election campaign. Any pro-Trump site will be targeted and diabolically so.
So we are going to be proactive and preempt this before it happens to us. Here is what we are going to do.
*Close down the TTP Facebook and Twitter pages. These are the two primary culprits in conservative demonization via social media. We’re out. We will closing them by June 30.
*Discontinue the Free List. There are thousands there, so many with made-up spam names I can’t count them. Our article alerts are going out to far too many people we don’t know, and it’s now too dangerous to do so.
I will be sending out an email alert to the Free List to notify them that if they want to get TTP they are welcome to subscribe. However, the Free List will terminate on June 30.
*Discontinue article sharing. There are members who are sending out our articles, even the HFR, to hundreds of people who are on their mailing list each week. This again is now too dangerous to continue. TTP will now be Members Only as it was intended to be.
*Put a Login Page in front of the Home Page for Members to enter their username/password, with an automatic Password Reset and Contact Us (i.e., Miko) links if there is a problem. Once Members do this, up comes the real home page as usual for them – without having to login again, so the Member Menu will show them logged in.
This will take effect on Sunday June 30 so everyone will have had adequate notice. After that date, no one will be able to access the TTP Home Page without logging in as a Member first.Hope this is all clear. We must do this proactively to protect TTP and its Members. Thanks…. Jack
Welcome to the Door to Hell. Otherwise known as the Darvaza Gas Crater in the Kara Kum Desert of Turkmenistan.
Possessing one of the world’s largest reserves of natural gas, when Turkmenistan was part of the Soviet Union in 1971, Soviet engineers discovered a massive gas pocket in the Kara Kum. The drilling rig collapsed into a huge cavern 230 feet wide, releasing gas into the air. The engineers ignited it, expecting the gas to burn off in a matter of days.
The gas in the crater is still burning to this day, 48 years later – as you can see. I took the picture above earlier this month.
It’s a memorable experience, driving for hours across an empty desert wasteland after crossing the border from Uzbekistan, and suddenly there it is.
The twenty thousand people in the arena, along with the thousands of people outside watching on jumbo screens were all on the same page: He has been a great President these past two and a half years and they want more of the same.
The crowd was excited, happy, and phenomenally supportive of the President, much to the chagrin of the Angry Left. And boy are they angry.
Their anger is why Trump's rally last night in Orlando, if they deigned to watch, will have left them quivering in their boots with shock. Most probably did not watch, like the scene in Rocky when Apollo Creed is too busy to look at the video of Rocky in the meat locker when his trainer tries to get him to pay attention.
Donald Trump is many things. But one thing he is not is a defender of the 2009-2016 status quo and accepted progressive convention.
Since 2017, everything has been in flux. Lots of past conventional assumptions of the Obama-Clinton-Romney-Bush generation were as unquestioned as they were suspect. No longer.
Like it or not, now lines are drawn. Trump so unhinged the Left that it finally tore off its occasional veneer of moderation, and showed us what progressives had in store for America.
One way is to see this as a collision between Trump, the proverbial bull, and the administrative state as a targeted precious china shop—with all the inevitable nihilistic mix-up of horns, hooves, and flying porcelain shards.
But quite another is to conclude that what we recently used to think was abjectly abnormal twenty years ago had become not just “normal,” but so orthodoxly normal that even suggesting it was not was judged to be heretical and deserving of censure and worse.
The media outrage is itself outrageous.
President Trump’s renewed pledge to deport huge numbers of illegal aliens is inspiring anger, but it's hardly righteous.
If, as a Homeland Security adviser has explained, the targets of Trump’s deportation plans will be those illegal aliens who have failed to show for their assigned court hearings, then Trump is morally, ethically, and legally justified in deporting them.
The tut-tutting chorus might as well spare us their faux moral histrionics.
The aliens Trump is targeting are people who have broken American law not once but twice.
I left Los Angeles for Nashville slightly over a year ago. When I call friends back in my former home (for 50 years), most of them tell me I got out just in time.
Actually, they're wrong. I should have gotten out ten or even fifteen years before. The handwriting was on the wall. "California dreamin'," pace Mama Cass, "was no longer a ray-al-it-tee." It hasn't been for a long time.
Now everybody knows about the 36,000 homeless on the streets of LA, over 60,000 in the county, replete with human feces and syringes littering the sidewalks, along with rats, typhus and even rumors of bubonic plague.
And those figures are what we're told. The real numbers could be three or four times the number. Why are they here?
The saga of Russia’s only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, has lurched from one embarrassing episode to another.
The vessel (technically classified as a “heavy aircraft cruiser” to be able to adhere to Montreux Convention restrictions on aircraft carriers passing through the Turkish Straits) is currently undergoing repairs and retrofitting .It will not be replaced with a more modern carrier for at least another 15 years—and quite possibly never.
The situation brings to mind Richard Hough’s classic 1958 study, The Fleet That Had to Die, about the failure and destruction of the Russian naval fleet in 1905 at the hands of the Japanese. Like that long-ago event, which culminated in the disaster at the Tsushima Straits, the current history is replete with bold promises of breakthroughs but marred by malfeasance, corruption and incompetence.
Not only does all this highlight Russia’s decline as a naval power, it also underscores the problematic natures of the Russian defense establishment and political system.
