I have received a lot of push back and criticism, some of which borders on real anger, with name calling, and attacks on my intelligence, and not only my loyalty to the GOP, but the very nation, all because I have serious concerns about our current President. Well let me remind all of those people of one fact. If I am wrong about the real danger President Trump poses to the American people, to our Liberties, and to our securities, if I am wrong, well then I am just a grumpy old crank. I have been wrong in the past, I was wrong about the ability of the American people to look the other way and to elect this man.
But for all of those people, who not only voted for Donald Trump, for that is their right, but who continue to apologize, and look the other way, who refuse to hold him accountable for his actions, which is their duty as citizens. If you are wrong, then you are culpable as accomplices in his actions.
Our responsibilities as citizens do not end when we pull back the curtain, and walk out of that voting booth, they only begin, if we abdicate those responsibilities, then we have chosen to take part in whatever corruption, or deceit our elected officials choose to perpetrate.
I can accept if I am wrong, can you?
you have no intelligence
Your insightfulness and introspection impresses me almost as much as your ability to say: “I don’t have an answer for that.” Now, if we can just mature your counter-part by a decade (or two) we could rule the world!
Odd thing this President. I voted for him by the way, but not for the reasons you may think. I voted for Trump because we had tried everything else, and it only sort of worked. The thing I find most amusing about his term is that the other side of the political pendulum is shouting the same doom and gloom and impeachment rhetoric that was aimed at Obama. This president is also facing many hurdles during his first days, just like Obama. Obama had a democratic house and senate and had nothing but trouble with everything. Now Trump is facing the same thing with a all republican house and senate. What does this mean to us lowly members of the republic? Until the swamp that is the govt. is truly drained and reforms are in place to keep it from refilling, we are doomed no matter who is the sitting potus. The other point of irony is that for all the people who claimed that Obama was going to ruin us all and turn the nation muslim, the end result was that we as a nation and a people survived. The same will be said of Trump. No matter where this leads us, we as a nation will continue.
Thanks, Frank. And I see your NCCo troll has reappeared.
This president is also facing many hurdles during his first days, just like Obama. Obama had a democratic house and senate and had nothing but trouble with everything.
There is one major difference. Obama had sixty votes in the Senate and Trump does not. Obama spent his first two years on Obamacare, and with its passing ushered-in socialized medicine. And in so doing, cemented his “legacy” as the most important “progressive” since FDR.
You really can’t compare the opposition that Obama faced to that of Trump’s. Obama never faced the all encompassing subversion that’s being aimed at the Trump presidency.
It is clear to me who holds the true power in this country, and those people and organizations who hold this power and drive the agenda have no intension of letting something like an election influence the blueprint….. The people who voted for Trump just need to suck it up.
If Trump is going to have a chance, I think he does have to “clean house” like the rumors are saying.
He made a big mistake in my mind by treating his office like a family run restaurant in the Catskills….Yes it’s nice to have your family by your side, especially in your golden ages, but like I said, this isn’t a mom and pop shop. The circle is too large, and compromising. He has to send the kids and their spouses packing.
“He has to send the kids and their spouses packing.”
Who are you to tell him who he should hire? He only hires the best people.
He has to send the kids and their spouses packing.
Starting with that jerk son-in-law of his, Kirchner or whatever.
Followed by the subversive bureaucrats at CIA, DOJ and State.
” Obama had sixty votes in the Senate and Trump does not. Obama spent his first two years on Obamacare, and with its passing ushered-in socialized medicine. “ – rick
People who want to say something meaningless, say “socialized medicine”.
Delaware now has only one Obamacare provider. What happens when they quit?
Socialized medicine.
Of course, if you like AMTRAK and the USPS (poor service and billion$ annually in losses), you’ll love government healthcare.
Trump is “grotesque.” That’s Ann Coulter talking. She gave an interview to The Daily Caller and said: “Everyone who voted for him knew his personality was grotesque.” Everybody but Rick and FBH. And yeah, and Arlett.
“Where is the great negotiator?” she wonders. And she–like some of you–doesn’t like Trump hiring daughter Ivanka and husband Jared. “Americans don’t like that. I don’t like that. That’s the one fascist thing he’s done. Hiring his kids.”
She goes on: “I’m not very happy with what has happened so far. I guess we have to try to push him to keep his promises. And then she adds that he he doesn’t, “I’m out.”
Well, Frank. I guess some of those in Sussex who were angry with you will also be pissed at Coulter, huh?
Actually, I tend to agree with Coulter. Trump is vacillating. He has surrounded himself with a cacophony of disparate voices with little or no continuity or unanimity of purpose.
On the legislative front, the Senate Dema are obstructionists, and without sixty votes there’s not much Trump can do, but that’s okay with the propaganda wing of the Socialist-Democrat Party, aka, the press.
Speaking of the press, this story about the murder of a DNC staffer has been on the back burner for a while. Why? It has all of the earmarks of a paid hit;
click here
What with all the job vacancies in the tRump administration–ones that have never been filled but also ones that are vacant because of firings and resignations since tRump was installed in office–you’d think that Arlett would have been offered the presidential appointment he thinks he deserves.
They are all there to cash in on Russian oil, weapons sales or money laundering
And have you ever known a university hating, uneducated, angry conservative to say “oh, I better employ critical analysis and re-evaluate my position because I could be wrong” lol
Maybe Arlett could show them how to them how to gut zoning requirements and make sure nothing is required from any crooked developer or bank so the can maximize their profits by milking the tax payer
“Speaking of the press, this story about the murder of a DNC staffer has been on the back burner for a while. Why?”
I love how Rick doesn’t know the names of the two most powerful people on the White House staff – Kusher, Rick – but he’s all up on the latest conspiracy theory.
Here’s what happened, Rick. A so-called private investigator contacted the family and “offered” to help. He then insinuated himself into the story, so that he could spin a tale:
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Rod Wheeler, the private investigator “offered” to the family, said he was told by a unnamed source within the DC police department there is evidence on Rich’s laptop to suggest he was emailing with Wikileaks, which many credit as a many disruptive force during the presidential campaign for its leak of purported Democratic National Committee emails. WTTG’s initial report suggested Wheeler was “hired” by the family.
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Are you saying the family is “in on it”, Rick?
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But Rich’s family have blasted the investigator who was apparently not authorized to speak to the press about the investigation, according to a family spokesperson.
“As we’ve seen through the past year of unsubstantiated claims, we see no facts, we have seen no evidence, we have been approached with no emails and only learned about this when contacted by the press,” the spokesperson said. “Even if tomorrow, an email was found, it is not a high enough bar of evidence to prove interactions as emails can be altered and we’ve seen that those interested in pushing conspiracies will stop at nothing to do so.
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“It has all of the earmarks of a paid hit;”
Ah, Rick knows all about the “earmarks of a paid hit”!
List them, Rick.
Okay first of all, I think this is the first time Rick has come close to being critical of anything Trump has done. And look what it is? The Jewish guy.
Second , I am sure Rick’s conspiracy theory is that the guy was killed as revenge by the Clinton’s.
Here’s another, we know Roger Stone has a close back channel friend at Wikileaks. What if the guy was killed to make sure he couldn’t talk about who was involved in the hacking and leaking?
I love how Rick doesn’t know the names of the two most powerful people on the White House staff – Kusher, Rick – but he’s all up on the latest conspiracy theory.
I said “Kushner or whatever.” Thanks for supplying the whatever.
Here are two facts; he was shot in the back at 4 a.m. and wasn’t robbed. Facts.
Now Rick has taken the page right out of the Trump playbook.
Rick originally said, “Starting with that jerk son-in-law of his, Kirchner or whatever.”
When challenged for not knowing the son in law’s name he said, “I said “Kushner or whatever.”
No Rich you didn’t, and you added the “whatever”.
And maybe he was the inside guy at the DNC supplying info to the Russians, the Trump campaign, and WikiLeaks.
Rick originally said, “Starting with that jerk son-in-law of his, Kirchner or whatever.”
When challenged for not knowing the son in law’s name he said, “I said “Kushner or whatever.”
No Rich you didn’t, and you added the “whatever”.
Huh? Read what you said I originally said. Do you not see the word “whatever?”
What I did do was spell Kushner’s name differently. Whatever. I still think he- however you spell his name (you do know who he is-correct?)- should go.
Fish Bites-
Wheeler, a former DC homicide detective, was on Hannity last night. He was hired by the family and has a contract to prove it. A third-party paid for his services. Although Rich wasn’t robbed, his computer is missing (although it is unknown but unlikely if it was in his possession when he was shot), and both the DC police and the FBI claim they don’t have it.
First of all, why is the FBI involved in the investigation? I thought it was just a routine “botched robbery.” Second, Wheeler says that an FBI operative that he has known for years said that the FBI has the computer and that he has seen the e-mails Rich sent to Wikileaks. Third, Wheeler says that a “high-ranking” DNC operative called the Rich family after Wheeler had made inquiries at the FBI, and this operative was the one having a contentious relationship with Rich at the DNC.
Wheeler also said that yes, it could have been a simple botched robbery, but that it is somewhat unlikely due to all of the associated circumstances, including the fact that at 4am they would likely have had time to steal his wallet, watch and phone. In any case, Wheeler says that in homicide investigations, all possibilities must be persued, and that it appears that the DC police and the FBI are attempting to stonewall the investigation and the evidence.
Of course, since it involves “liberals,” it is of no interest to the public- right?
Perhaps he worked for Trump….a much more plausible conspiracy than mere revenge was he was murdered to prevent him from flipping on Trump.
“He was hired by the family and has a contract to prove it. A third-party paid for his services.”
Yes, the family was offered his services and figured “why not” since someone else was paying for it. They didn’t know they were being taken for a ride.
Notably, you are not the least bit curious to know who this “third-party” was. Just some Good Samaritan with no agenda, right?
I mean, that’s what people do, they just pay PI’s to go work for other people.
They didn’t know they were being taken for a ride.
They probably are being “taken for a ride.” But not by a former DC homicide detective, but by the federal government and the DNC.