Recently, I’ve been one to opine that nothing Trump does today will singlehandedly win or lose him the 2020 election. And while that holds true for the most part, what he does with regards to the economy is, indeed, something that could win or lose him in 2020, at least that’s what economists predict.
 
In a story on Politico, written by people who 100% do not want Trump to win again and try and tell their audience “it’s okay, because even though he’s likely to win in 2020, a number of mess ups and his unpopularity (which are really only featured in MSM polls) could derail his chances,” a number of economic experts, some of whom do not like Trump themselves and others who predicted his victory in 2016 all agreed that the strong economy will likely lead Trump to a huge victory in 2020.
 
Donald Luskin, chief investment officer of TrendMacrolytics, a source that predicted Trump’s 2016 victory, said: “The economy is just so damn strong right now and by all historic precedent the incumbent should run away with it.” He also mentioned that the economy “would have to slow a lot to still be not pretty good.”
 
According to Politico: “Luskin’s current model – which looks at GDP growth, gas prices, inflation, disposable income, tax burden and payrolls – has Trump winning by a blowout margin of 294 electoral votes.”
 
Again, that’s a MARGIN. If Trump is going to win by a margin of 294, then that means he’ll receive 416 total electoral votes (538 total votes in the electoral college). The way this was calculated is taking T (for Trump) to be = D (Democrat) plus the estimated 294. D = 538 (total possible votes) – T. So calculating T = D + 294, you replace D with 538 – T so the formula reads T = 538 - T + 294. Moving the two variables to the same side gives us T + T = 538 + 294. So 2T (or T + T) = 832. Dividing both sides by 2 gives us T = 416. 538 – 416 gives us 122, which is what the Democrat will get. 416 -122 = 294, the margin Trump is predicted to win by.
 
Sorry for the (sort of) short math lesson, but I felt it was important to note just how exactly we arrived at that number. While the Politico article doesn’t specifically mention how many votes Trump is predicted to get, I felt it was necessary to try and calculate this to get a bit more of a clear picture around this.
 
Yale economist Ray Fair, who also predicted Trump’s 2016 victory, said something similar: “Even if you have a mediocre but not great economy – and that’s more or less consensus for between now and the election – that has a Trump victory and by a not-trivial margin.” Fair said that, if the economy remains to be this strong (and while economists predict it will slow down significantly, I don’t see much reason for it to do so), Trump will likely win 54% of the vote.
 
Another economist, Mark Zandi, used 12 different economic models to predict the 2020 election. Trump won in every single one of them, with him winning relatively closely in only “three or four” of them, according to Zandi.
 
Something else that might help Trump is the fact that the Fed announced last week that they would hold off on raising interest rates, something they promised they would do last year, which helps in keeping the economy growing at a good rate. Trump himself says that had they not done so at least as often in the past, we’d likely have around a 4% GDP per year right now, but even with those continual rate hikes, the economy still grew by 3.1% for last year, which Trump celebrated as being the best number in 14 years (and yet another reason I doubt the economy will come to the grinding halt so many “experts” predict).
 
Now, like I said, the writers of this Politico article definitely do not want Trump to succeed. They cite everything from what other economists are saying about the future of the economy (again, not much reason for it to stall like they predict) to citing MSM polls that say Trump’s approval numbers are not great, around the low 40%.
 
But regardless of what kind of message they may want to portray, economic models tell the story that Trump is on track to destroying any opposition he meets based on the state of the economy alone.
 
Of course, these are estimates that are most likely not going to be 100% accurate in everything they show, but the trend seems to be that Trump’s strong economy (which is so strong the Left tries to connect it with Obama but no one’s buying what they’re selling) will likely be enough to ensure him victory, barring any major scandal (which the Left will try to promulgate, but the Russian collusion narrative is dying and they’re doing their best to revive it now that Mueller found no collusion) or the economy absolutely tanking (again, no real reason it should).
 
These people could NOT have been happy to report these models. Kind of surprised they did in the first place. Not that it’s all that likely that other MSM sources will report on it, even a little. Any good news for Trump has to be buried as much as possible.
 
1 Corinthians 15:57
“But thanks be to God, who gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
 
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I always love sharing good and happy news, particularly the kind that really bring a smile to my face, and this article has such news.
 
In a recent Siena College poll asking New Yorkers a number of questions, such as whether they think New York is on the right track or headed in the wrong direction (43 and 46% respectively, interestingly enough), the poll asked how New Yorkers viewed a number of people ranging from Chuck Schumer (51% approval), to Kirsten Gillibrand (43% approval) to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bill de Blasio and President Donald Trump.
 
And this is where we find the best part of the entire thing. President Trump has a 36% approval rating in the state of New York. Now, that’s not exactly ground-breaking, although higher than I honestly expected, but not all that high either. It’s a reasonable amount, all things considered.
 
However, current New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is two points BEHIND Trump at 34% and freshman Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was touted as being the future of the Democrat Party, is at an embarrassing 31% approval, with 44% disapproving.
 
This is downright HILARIOUS to see. But wait, there’s more. A plurality of New Yorkers (38%) view her as the villain responsible for 25,000 New Yorkers not getting new jobs after the Amazon deal fell through.
 
Now, this is not the first poll to signal AOC’s unpopularity. Last week, Gallup found Ocasio-Cortez’s popularity taking a tumble, even finding that the more people get to know her, the less she is liked.
 
At least that’s something that she has in common with Hillary.
 
But due to these numbers, AOC went on a tirade online, blaming everything from Fox News to racism and sexism and bigotry for her poor numbers.
 
“[P]eople know more [about me] bc Fox News has turned into ‘AOC TMZ’ (no offense to TMZ), so awareness is growing w/GOPers,” the unpopular lunatic tweeted on Friday.
 
To which I would say the following: GOPers already know about you, you dimwit. We abhor the things you stand for and know for a FACT that they don’t work and would bring about the destruction of the United States. It’s not like she has been a silent, out-of-nowhere Congresswoman or even a candidate. Her defeat of Crowley in the primaries was a big surprise and her notoriety, not to mention popularity, rose since then. She has been EXTREMELY loud about her insane rhetoric since even before she won her race, so it’s not like Republicans were not aware of her.
 
Not that this amount of logic exists within her mind. No, she instead chose to pull the “racist” and “sexist” cards:
 
“When ‘centrists’ care more about the GOP base than the Dem base, bigotry gets legitimized. This is *the* playbook. GOP does it w/ virtually every Dem figure who isn’t a white male: otherize, demonize + splinter. It’s vital that we adapt & dismantle this approach, not cow to it.”
 
Yeah, I don’t even know where to start with that considering how this is so incoherent you’d think a 2nd grader wrote this.
 
But let’s give it a shot. Perhaps it’s important to note this is a reply to a tweet that read: “It’s interesting to see centrists suddenly downplay or ignore the effects of racism, sexism and Fox News targeting when discussing AOC’s overall approval ratings.”
 
Yeah, that’s too great a leap in logic for me to follow. How is it that she was fairly popular in the past (not by that much, but she wasn’t in this much of a hole) but all of a sudden, because Fox News is reporting on her unpopularity, she’s unpopular and it’s because she’s a female minority? What exactly changed here?
 
Not to mention neither the original tweet nor the AOC lunatic and victim reply do anything to answer just why she’s LESS POPULAR THAN TRUMP IN HER OWN STATE!
 
Did the people that elected her (and she received less votes than someone typically does for winning nearly 80% of them at barely over 100,000) all of a sudden become racists and sexists? Is that what we ought to believe here? Because AOC is saying she’s only unpopular now because Fox News is talking about her more (don’t know how that would negatively affect her like this, but sure, let’s go with that excuse) and because people are racist and sexist. So does that make her constituents racists and sexists?
 
I would argue her killing 25,000 jobs for New Yorkers and costing the state billions of dollars in tax revenue are at least some of the reasons people are unhappy with her. Or maybe the fact that she essentially defended Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitism by making HER the victim of Islamophobia, which is adamantly ridiculous.
 
Either way, I don’t imagine her little tirade will do much in the way of regaining some of her popularity. It certainly doesn’t help to try and blame Fox News. It wasn’t a Fox News poll that initially showed these results. It was Gallup, which has Trump’s approval rating at only 39%, which is ludicrous.
 
But to the Left, they would be happy to see such numbers for Trump, but all of a sudden, when it comes to AOC, the data is flawed or bigoted?
 
And it’s not like you can even make the same argument for me. Yes, I take Gallup’s approval rating of AOC more legitimate than of Trump’s but that’s because it’s backed by even a New York poll that shows similar numbers.
 
That’s not to say that Gallup is 100% trustworthy, but it does appear to come to agreement with EVEN ANOTHER LEFTIST POLL, which actually tried to casually bury those numbers. If you look at the datasheet of the poll, which has 36 questions total, the question about Trump’s approval rating, de Blasio’s approval rating and AOC’s approval rating are a bit further down in the poll.
 
And by the way, the poll says that the sample had 47% Democrat registered voters and 21% Republican, so even with that sort of disparity between parties, Trump is STILL MORE POPULAR THAN DE BLASIO AND AOC!
 
Granted, part of that may be the fact that you’re more likely to find Democrats than Republicans in that state, but that doesn’t take away the fact that Trump is still more popular.
 
If you divide things down party lines, it shows that Trump’s favorability with Democrats sits at 15%, but with Republicans it sits at 79%. De Blasio’s favorability with Dems sits at 48%, but only 14% with Reps and AOC’s favorability with Dems sits at 47% with only 6% of Reps favoring her.
 
But even with much of the Democrat Party favoring AOC and de Blasio, both still fall short of Trump by a few points. And again, this is with a 47% Democrat sample compared with only 21% of Republicans. Which means that Independents also disapprove of both.
 
The sample had 26% Independents, with 40% favoring Trump, 29% favoring de Blasio and 22% favoring AOC.
 
Overall, it is fantastic to see Republican President Donald Trump polling better (if slightly) than Bill de Blasio and even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is essentially the face of the Democrat Party (sorry, Nancy).
 
This is the sort of thing that puts a smile on my face.
 
Proverbs 16:7
“When a man’s ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.”
 
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Earlier this past week, President Donald J. Trump and North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un had their second historic summit to discuss the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. Unfortunately, the talks fell apart when Kim Jong-un made a proposition that Trump thought was simply not good enough, prompting the President to walk away from the deal.
 
In specific, what the North Koreans wanted was full removal of all U.S.-led sanctions in exchange of shutting down nuclear facilities in Yongbyon, but not outside of that area. President Trump in a presser later said he was not willing to make a deal without the Norks committing to giving up their other secretive nuclear facilities and their missile and warhead programs.
 
“I’ve been saying very much from the beginning that speed is not that important to me,” Trump said before the summit. “Speed is not important to me. What is important is that we do the right deal.”
 
After the talks fell through, he again noted the importance of making the right deal, saying: “It wasn’t a good thing to be signing anything. We had some options, and at this time we decided not to do any of the options, and we’ll see where that goes… Sometimes you have to walk, and this was just one of those times.”
 
However, many (though surprisingly not all) on the Left criticized Trump for this and began calling the summit a collapse in talks and a disaster. Some on the Right also expressed criticism, though it’s very asinine to criticize Trump for NOT caving to Kim Jong-un.
 
Still, the Left makes it a point to call this summit an absolute failure, Trump a complete buffoon for failing to make a deal with the Norks (which they would’ve criticized had he made a bad deal with them anyway, so he can’t possibly win with them), and overall, they are repeating history.
 
Let’s not forget that President Ronald Reagan also held talks with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986, in which Gorbachev demanded Reagan give up his Strategic Defense Initiative, a plan proposed by Reagan in 1983 of a missile defense system in space to counter nuclear weapons launched by the Soviet Union targeting America.
 
Gorbachev knew full-well that the Soviet Union’s economy simply couldn’t compete with America’s economy, so the Soviet Union couldn’t compete with Reagan’s “Star Wars” program. However, Reagan knew this as well and decided to walk away from the table, for which he was soundly criticized by the Left and the fake news media (before they were called the fake news media, but the name still applied).
 
The fake news media said Reagan messed up, that he was an idiot, that he was a national security threat, that those talks were a massive failure, etc. They are doing the exact same thing with Trump.
 
Now, there are some major differences that need to be pointed out between the Reagan-Gorbachev talks and the Trump-Kim talks.
 
First, there basically was a third, non-present party at the Hanoi summit this past week: China and Russia.
 
On its own, North Korea’s economy would absolutely collapse. They barely have anything as it is, only managing to stay afloat thanks to trades with Iran, Russia, and particularly China, because North Korea is essentially China’s puppet state.
 
The Reagan-Gorbachev summit featured a Soviet Union that essentially stood alone and was 5 years removed from completely collapsing (and the SDI is actually accredited for having been what finally destroyed the Soviet Union. The Communists couldn’t match the SDI and sank trying to). I don’t think North Korea will collapse in the next 5 years, especially if they are essentially being subsidized by China and Russia.
 
Second, and really the only thing that I can even remotely excuse the fake news media for, we are under no threat from North Korea in these talks, unlike with the Soviet Union. I can realistically see the fake news media being afraid of the Soviets launching nukes at America if Reagan is seen making some sort of mistake. Of course, they thought his entire presidency was a mistake, but Reagan walking away from a bad deal with the Soviets could realistically be seen as a scary thing, particularly if Gorbachev was furious with Reagan afterwards, as the media was reporting.
 
While Reagan, like Trump, very much had the upper hand going into the summit, the Soviet Union still posed a nuclear threat to America. North Korea, on the other hand, barely does. They JUST figured out how to keep their rockets from exploding mere seconds after launching them and do not have the nuclear capability America has.
 
Notice how all the threats from Kim Jong-un stopped pretty soon after Trump pushed back against him? Notice how North Korea stopped testing their nukes less than a year into Trump’s presidency (or around that time. It’s been over 400 days since North Korea tested a missile according to multiple sources)?
 
And another thing to notice is the fact that China outright said that they would not support North Korea if they made the first move against America.
 
So North Korea does not present anywhere close to the same threat that the Soviet Union presented. As a result, while I can realistically see why the fake news media might’ve been afraid of a Gorbachev retaliation of sorts, there is no reason for the fake news media to think that this summit essentially puts us back in square one with the Norks or this “failure” by Trump could present any sort of threat to the country.
 
Not that I’m seeing much of that from the fake news media, but it should be noted that the stakes are lower in these talks than they were in the Reagan-Gorbachev talks.
 
Finally, there is the Otto Warmbier tragedy in place in this summit. I do not know if the Soviet Union ever had a case similar to Otto Warmbier in which an American student was arrested in the Soviet Union and horrendously mistreated to the point that he was in a coma and died as a result. But that’s what the North Koreans did and something that was discussed at least somewhat in the summit.
 
The one criticism I have of Trump in this summit is his defense of Kim Jong-un when the dictator said he was not aware that this happened. However, I can absolutely understand why Trump wouldn’t outright attack or accuse Kim Jong-un in this situation.
 
Trump is trying to get the Norks to denuclearize. And while I do not like Trump’s defense of Little Rocket Man, who very much reminds me of Obama when he said he did not know about Hillary’s e-mails until he learned from the newspapers, what exactly is Trump supposed to do here?
 
Kim Jong-un doesn’t trust America and Trump all that much because he’s been raised not to trust Americans. Trump wants to get Kim Jong-un to trust him so that they can get deals done that are mutually beneficial. In order to do that, he wouldn’t call Kim a liar to his face (or even to the media), risking derailing and setting these talks back significantly over this issue, bad as it is.
 
In order to get anything substantial done with North Korea, as he promised during the campaign trail, he has to do things even he himself might not like. I seriously doubt he takes pride and pleasure in saying that he believes Kim Jong-un when he says that he was not aware of the Otto Warmbier situation. No person in his right mind would believe Kim Jong-un here, but Trump has to play nice if he wants to get things done. It’s what he often has to do when dealing with foreign leaders like Putin or Xi Jinping, etc. It may not be a pretty sight to see the President of the United States cozying up to them, but the alternative is nothing positive gets done at best and things worsen at worst.
 
If you want to get things done, you don’t attack the one other person who can help get things done, much as they might deserve it.
 
And it’s not like Kim Jong-un is not willing to appease Trump either. In a rare interview with press that is not North Korea’s, Kim Jong-un, through a translator, of course, said that he wouldn’t be in that summit if he wasn’t willing to give up his nukes.
 
Both sides want to make progress, obviously, so it’s not like Kim Jong-un is yanking Trump’s chain on this.
 
Now, one final thing I want to mention is that Trump himself is an intelligent businessman. He knows how to negotiate and knows when to walk away from a bad deal. Reagan was smart to walk away from that SDI deal and Trump is smart to walk away from this sanctions deal.
 
Because let’s be honest, had Trump signed a bad deal, as was honestly expected from the Left, he would’ve been attacked just as much for that as he is for having walked away, or maybe even more so. He simply cannot win with these people.
 
If he cured cancer, the Left would attack him for putting millions of doctors out of a job. The Left will always find a way to make a good move by Trump appear to be catastrophically bad for him. He will never win them over no matter what he does and he knows that pretty well at this point.
 
Better to have walked away from a bad deal than sign a bad deal just to make “progress”.
 
Joshua 1:9
“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
 
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Earlier this week, Univision’s anchor Jorge Ramos, who is famous for repeatedly calling Trump a racist (though that’s the rest of the Left as well, but he particularly tries to call him a racist as often as he can), held an interview with Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro.
 
However, Jorge Ramos made the mistake of pointing out the horrors of Maduro’s regime, specifically a video of a group of children looking for food inside trash trucks.
 
Due to this, Maduro ended the interview, and had Ramos and his crew detained in the presidential palace for two hours. All of their equipment, including their own cell phones, were confiscated and never returned.
 
And recently, Jorge Ramos recalled in detail what it was like to experience that.
 
“So it is Monday night,” Ramos began explaining in a Facebook video. “We are already in the hotel in Caracas, Venezuela. And what happened is that I conducted an interview with Nicolas Maduro. I asked him if I can call him either a ‘president’ or a ‘dictator’ because, you know, millions of Venezuelans don’t consider him a president.”
 
“Then we discussed the fraud [election] that happened here in May 2018, also the reports of torture and human rights abuses and political prisoners. And at the end, I showed him a video that I personally took last Sunday of three kids behind a trash truck – looking for food. And he just couldn’t stand it. He didn’t want to continue the interview, he wanted to close my iPad – where I showed him the video – and then he said the interview was over.”
 
“It was about 17 minutes of interview. After that, their minister of communications, Jorge Rodriguez, told us that they didn’t authorize the interview. And they confiscated all of our cameras, all our video, all of our cell phones, and we were thrown out of the presidential palace.”
 
“But before I left the palace, they took me into a security room with producer Maria Guzman, and they asked for our cell phones. I didn’t want to give them my cell phone, so they turned off the lights in the room, and a group of agents came in. They took, forcefully, my backpack, my cell phone. They did the same thing with Maria’s. And they forced us to give them our pass codes for the cell phones.”
 
“We didn’t know what was going to happen to us back then, nor what was happening to the rest of the group, who were about seven journalists. And after about two hours of being detained – because we couldn’t leave the palace – two hours of being detained, they allowed us to leave the presidential palace.”
 
“They didn’t give us our equipment, nor our material, and still at this point we do not have a cell phone or the interview. I think we will never have that interview – they don’t want the world to see what we did [see].”
 
Ramos also noted that the incident was “a violation of freedom of expression and a violation of human rights, a violation of all the principles of journalism.”
 
He’s right, but here’s the thing: there’s no such thing as freedom of expression, freedom of the press, or even human rights in a socialist country.
 
The only things you are allowed to express are what the government approves of. If the government doesn’t like what you are saying, and considers you a threat as a result (and can make up any excuse to consider you a threat, as they made up that the interview was not authorized, giving themselves permission to steal Univision’s equipment and their cell phones), they will shut you down in any way they feel is necessary.
 
Truth be told, Ramos is lucky to be from America. I doubt a Venezuelan journalist would’ve gotten off that easy.
 
But in any case, the point I’m trying to convey here is that these people, particularly Ramos, could not hope to even try and call Trump a dictator now (though they most likely still will). For as much as Trump may dislike the fake news media (for good reason), he won’t do anything to restrict their freedoms. He won’t shut them down, won’t violate their constitutional or human rights. Why? BECAUSE HE’S NOT A DICTATOR!
 
But you can plainly see how a dictator truly acts. If he feels the least bit offended, insulted, or simply doesn’t like the direction a conversation is going, every right the person supposedly offending the dictator has goes out the window. They are no longer “authorized” to interview the dictator; they are no longer allowed to record anything; they are not even considered a fellow human being.
 
Again, Ramos got off easy. A Venezuelan journalist would’ve been subjected to whatever punishment Maduro wanted, whether that’s imprisonment or execution. Because that’s just how dictators operate. The only reason Ramos is in America now is because this is his home (much as he might dislike that). Had Maduro punished Ramos with prison or worse, that would’ve created an international incident. And despite what Trump may think of Ramos, as the President of the United States and a decent human being, he wouldn’t have accepted such treatment of an American citizen at the hands of a foreign dictator.
 
Now, I don’t think anyone on the Left will look at this situation and reconsider calling Trump a dictator. They know very well that it’s not true, but the narrative that he’s a dictator has to remain, facts be damned. But at the very least I hope that Ramos and whoever else was involved in this nightmarish situation where they were at the mercy of a socialist dictatorship come to reconsider the definition of a dictator in their own minds.
 
They just experienced what it was like to be subjected to a dictator. They were detained for just two hours and could see the sort of evil Maduro is. He doesn’t care about the starving children, doesn’t acknowledge political prisoners, doesn’t care about human rights abuses and violations. He’s burning humanitarian aid trucks trying to enter his country for crying out loud!
 
The entire world can clearly see what a dictator looks like. And this is what socialism brings about.
 
Do you think Kim Jong Un is any better? Or Raul Castro? Or that Stalin was any better? Or Mao Zedong? Or Adolf Hitler? Or Benito Mussolini? Or Raul’s brother Fidel? What all of these people have in common, apart from the fact that they all are or were dictators, is that they are/were dictators of socialist/communist nations.
 
Matter of fact, they were dictators precisely BECAUSE they led socialist/communist nations. That’s just what those systems of government bring about: centralized government with one person at the helm ruling however they want (and because man is naturally evil, they tend to rule with an iron fist).
 
Not that I think Ramos will make the connection between Maduro being a dictator and socialism being the cause of it, but it’s plain and clear to see for anyone who has eyes.
 
Maduro is a dictator because that’s what socialism brings. There has never been a country in the history of the world that has succeeded because of socialism/communism. But there are plenty of examples of socialism destroying countries.
 
And in the process of that destruction, there is one individual who lives like a king, like the 1%. The one responsible for the death and despair of an entire country lives in riches and fancies himself a great and wise leader.
 
This is what happens every single time socialism is tried anywhere in the world. Trump literally advocates AGAINST socialism as often as he can now, and like I said, he won’t deny the media their 1st Amendment rights, much less their human rights.
 
It’s an insult to call Trump a dictator, while seeing the horrors of socialism in Venezuela and wanting to bring that here. That’s not just stupid, not just tone-deaf, but outright detestable and evil.
 
Mark 7:21-23
“For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
 
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I have often said, just about anytime I talk about the fake news media that they, at the end of the day, are a bunch of propagandists for the Democrat Party. The fact that 92% of the media coverage of Donald Trump is negative is a testament to that fact.
 
But it’s one thing for me, a conservative kid who has never worked in the media, to tell you, and it’s an entirely different thing for someone who actually used to work in the media to tell you the same thing.
 
Enter Lara Logan, former CBS journalist, in an interview with retired Navy SEAL Mike Ritland on his show “Mike Drop”.
 
In what she later admits is “professional suicide” for her, she rails against the media not simply for being left-wing biased, but for dropping all pretense of objectivity.
 
“The media everywhere is mostly liberal, not just in the U.S. But in this country, 85% of journalists are registered Democrats – that’s just a fact. No one is registering Democrat when they’re really a Republican. So, the facts are on the side that you just stated: most journalists are Left, or liberal, or Democrat, or whatever word you wanna give it,” said Logan.
 
That statistic, alongside the 92% negative coverage of Trump, further goes to show the bias that exists in the media, that has been there long before Trump even arrived in the political scene. The fake news media has been fake news long before Trump branded them as such.
 
She continues: “How do you know you’re being lied to? How do you know you’re being manipulated? How do you know there’s something not right with the coverage? When they simplify it all and there’s no gray. There’s no gray. It’s all one way. Well, life isn’t like that. If it doesn’t match real life, it’s probably not – there’s something wrong.”
 
Indeed, there are a lot of things that can be said about the Trump administration, both positive and negative. The media chooses to stick with the negatives (I admit I also tend to stick with the positives, but then again, I’m not 24/7 news coverage so there’s only so much I can talk about and I try to push back against that constant negativity against him when I talk about him at all. I tend to be objective).
 
While the media chooses to stick with hoax stories of Russian election interference, or Stormy Daniels, or campaign finance issues, etc., they ignore the millions of jobs created, the booming economy, the attempts at peace with North Korea, the near complete defeat of ISIS, etc.
 
I’ve often said that the media does not report on reality but attempts to alter it for those who watch or read what they have to say. Glad to see a former CBS journalist (don’t quite know if she herself is a Republican or a conservative, but she definitely is smarter than most people in the media) acknowledging the fact that the media is so left-wing biased that they are basically propagandists.
 
In any case, she continued: “So, for example, all the coverage on Trump all the time is negative… That’s distortion of the way things go in real life, because although the media has historically always been left-leaning, we’ve abandoned our pretense, or at least the effort, to be objective today.”
 
“We’ve become political activists, and some could argue propagandists, and there’s some merit to that.”
 
She also mentioned that it is pretty much impossible to get the Right’s side of the story unless you yourself search Breitbart to find the other side of the story.
 
All in all, I am glad to see Ms. Lara Logan saying all of these things. And I do certainly think this is professional suicide for her. Being a journalist, she just exposed the media for what they are. When someone exposes you for what you truly are, if what you are is a bad thing, chances are you are not going to like that person, and definitely wouldn’t consider hiring them for anything.
 
Truth be told, she has more bravery for this than Dr. Christine Blasey Ford did for lying about Brett Kavanaugh. Ford got something out of her deceit: tons of money and fame. Logan will probably find it hard to land a job anywhere in the mainstream media now.
 
Of course, her chances of landing a gig with a conservative news network went up, but there’s almost no chance of landing a job with CNN or NBC, etc. if she were to look for employment there.
 
But I am glad she had the bravery to say this. It’s 100% true, everything she said.
 
The media are a bunch of political activists. She didn’t want to go as far as to call them propagandists, simply saying that the argument could be made for that, but I have no qualms about calling them out for it: they ARE propagandists.
 
Consider the way they covered Obama. They thought everything that came out of his mouth was gold and everything he did was perfect. They were so enamored with him that they didn’t mind, or notice, when he fooled them regarding the Iran nuclear deal. He could lie to them all day and the media would pass it all off as the inarguable and absolute truth.
 
Regarding Hillary, it was much the same (for the time that she was relevant, at least). They adored everything she did, even when she was blatantly racist (“I don’t feel no ways tired” or Hillary “always” keeping hot sauce in her purse because that apparently will draw in black people).
 
Contrast that with everything they have to say about Trump: that he’s a racist, sexist, bigot, etc. That he’s a national security threat, that he’s unfit for office, that he’s a lunatic, blah blah blah.
 
So Ms. Logan is completely right when it comes to the media coverage of Trump and when it comes to what the mainstream media is. They are propagandists who don’t even care to pretend to be objective, just claiming that they are every now and then.
 
What Ms. Logan did here is important. She is exposing the evil of the Left, at least the Left-wing media. This, at the cost of her own career, is unique.
 
Like I said earlier, I do not know if she herself is a conservative or a Republican at any capacity. However, with this knowledge in her mind, I hope she will continue down the right path towards conservatism (if she’s not already there) and will come to find Christ as well (again, if she’s not already there).
 
Here’s hoping she will be able to find Christ and that we’ll be able to fight back against a news media that is hell-bent on distorting reality and making lies into truths.
 
John 16:13
“When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.”
 
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Truth be told, this does not really come as much of a surprise to me. However, what is at least somewhat surprising is the fact that this poll comes from an MSM source. Of course, there have been plenty of other polls from the MSM that do not really paint things all that favorably for Democrats, but whenever the Left talks about the special counsel, or impeachment, or the Russia investigation in general, they tend to pretend everyone and their grandmothers are on their side.
 
But in reality, the vast majority of people really are not on their side.
 
And don’t misunderstand my explanation that the MSM sometimes shows bad things for Democrats to be any sort of praise for them. The title for the article in which the poll is shown is: “Americans support investigating Trump, but many are skeptical that inquiries will be fair, new poll finds.”
 
That is an MSM title in a nutshell. Some of the biggest points of this poll are either minimized or ignored completely on the headline (it doesn’t even mention impeachment) and makes the claim that Americans support investigating Trump, which alludes to saying pretty much every single American supports that.
 
Now, let’s look at what the poll and article have to say.
 
“The American people have mixed feelings about investigating President Trump…” Hold on, I thought you just said that Americans support it. Now they have mixed feelings about it?
 
In any case, let’s move on: “… with clear majorities wanting newly empowered Democrats to dig into his personal finances and foreign ties but most believing that Congress should not begin impeachment proceedings…”
 
Now, regarding what the poll said about people trusting Mueller, it says that “half of Americans report they have ‘just some’ confidence or none at all that the Mueller report will be fair and evenhanded, and 43 percent say they have at least a good amount of confidence in its fairness.”
 
Keep in mind that this survey was conducted before Mueller made a spectacle of the Roger Stone arrest in which the FBI sent a bunch of heavily armed officers and agents to arrest the 66-year-old on charges of perjury (that didn’t even have anything to do with Russia) among other process crimes.

Moving on to investigating Trump, the poll says that “six in 10 adults support the party using its congressional authority to obtain and release Trump’s tax returns…”
 
First, I doubt that. Second, adults or likely voters? Because there exists a significant difference there. An adult constitutes anyone 18 or older, but not everyone is likely to vote in an election. Third, Democrats were promising to do that on Day 1 of being sworn in to the House. It’s been a little less than a month since then and they still haven’t done that.
 
Of course, you have to assign people to certain things, but if that was a promise from the Democrats, you’d think they would move to place someone in charge of that ASAP and retrieve every little thing they can from Trump. And yet, I haven’t really heard much except for just talks surrounding that topic.
 
The article continues: “Similar majorities support Democrats investigating suspected financial ties between Trump and foreign governments, the president’s relationship and communications with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as possibly collusion in the 2016 campaign.”
 
Again, I doubt that, considering both everything else this poll says about Mueller and his likelihood of being fair and the fact that the Russian collusion narrative has been in use for a couple of years now, has resulted in zero evidence but plenty of conspiracy theories, and has been run through the Mainstream Media so much that it’s worn people out and has been dying as of late.
 
If there was clear evidence of collusion, as the Left likes to pretend there is, Trump would’ve been kicked out of the White House ages ago.
 
And interestingly enough, despite the poll supposedly finding so many people wanting Trump investigated, 46% say that Democrats will likely “go too far” in their investigations of the President.
 
So they want investigations into Trump but largely think the investigators will “go too far” or otherwise be unfair to Trump?
 
I’m not saying it’s not possible. There certainly could be people out there who think there might be something to the Russian collusion story (despite all the lack of evidence to support it) while also wanting to be fair to Trump and not absolutely investigate everything including his own personal body.
 
What I am saying, however, is that such a finding by the poll is pretty bittersweet, mostly bitter, for Democrats. People want them to investigate Trump but also don’t trust them to be fair to him. Democrats definitely want to utterly destroy Trump with everything they have and will not hesitate to “go too far” in doing so. So unless they 100% uncover some incredibly well-hidden diabolical plan where Trump is in cahoots with Putin to rule the United States of America, I think most people will be pretty ticked off with the Democrats in any investigation of Trump.
 
Moving on to one of the biggest points in this poll that is largely diminished by the MSM headline, support of impeachment of Trump has dropped drastically since August of 2018, around the time that Michael Cohen plead guilty to several charges made against him by the counsel. Back then, the poll found that 49% “said Congress should begin impeachment proceedings that could lead to Trump being removed from office, while 46 percent said Congress should not.”
 
Once again, I highly doubt it was that high, particularly since his approval ratings were particularly great at that time. However, I can definitely understand if support for it definitely was fairly high around that time. While the charges against Cohen were not going to lead to Trump’s impeachment for various reasons, the narrative made by the Left certainly didn’t help him.
 
However, let’s assume the number was correct. Since then, the number of people who support impeachment has completely plummeted.
 
“In the new survey, a smaller 40 percent support impeachment proceedings, while a 55 percent majority oppose them.”
 
They went from +3% in favor of impeachment to -15% against impeachment, an 18 point drop since last summer.
 
And that is, at least in part, another reason I doubt it was ever that high. Trump hasn’t done all that much more since then that would have people almost completely drop the idea of impeaching him. Yeah, the fallout from the Cohen guilty pleas subsided, but this is a massive drop that does not tend to happen to someone who is considered an “unpopular” president.
 
But again, let’s assume they’re right. This is a massive drop that, you would think, would at least make some headlines for them. If they were fair and balanced and not their fake news selves, they would take notice of the massive drop from 49% in favor and 46% opposed to only 40% in favor and 55% opposed.
 
Now, there are other things in this poll, such as dividing party lines regarding investigating into Trump, which should not surprise anyone that Democrats largely support investigating Trump while Republicans largely oppose it, so there is not really any need to further look at those.
 
The larger points remain that, while people MIGHT (not very confident in the MSM’s findings regarding this) largely support investigating Trump, they still largely distrust Mueller’s and the Democrats’ fairness regarding this whole thing.
 
And perhaps most importantly, large numbers of people mostly oppose impeaching Trump at this time, in stark supposed contrast to last summer when Cohen was pleading guilty to any charges that went his way and showed himself to be a detestable snake.
 
Not that this is going to make the Democrats or the media reconsider a darn thing. The media will still report as though 99% of the country supports them and agrees with them, with the only exceptions being “uneducated” “hillbilly” “MAGA-hat-wearing racists” and whatever else they will say about us, but reality is far from that.
 
There is good reason Trump’s approval numbers didn’t shift at all during the government shutdown. There is good reason they had only been growing since he proved to be an effective, America-first president who keeps his promises (even if he doesn’t always articulate things very well). And there is a reason we won’t abandon Trump any time soon.
 
We largely support Trump, which is a nightmare for the Left. A bigger nightmare is that we continue to support him despite every attack thrown his way by a heavily biased “news” media and bloodthirsty Democrats.
 
I pray that God will continue to guide Trump’s steps and that we can continue to push back against the evil that is the Left.
 
Psalm 37:4-6
“Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in Him, and He will act. He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.”
 
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​The government shutdown lasted for about five weeks, with little appearing to have come out of it except for the media blaming Trump for it, as usual, and the Democrats actually being to blame for it (I’ll explain momentarily).
 
The Democrat Party, the fake news media and college students all come to the agreement that the President was responsible and the one to blame for the government shutdown.
 
However, that train of thought changes once people start to learn some information that is not shared by the fake news media.
 
CampusReform’s Cabot Phillips went to George Mason University to ask some of the students who they blame for the then-current government shutdown.
 
As I stated previously, and completely unsurprisingly, the students all unanimously agreed that Trump was to blame for the shutdown.
 
So Phillips followed up that question with a pretty interesting and important one.
 
After asking the students who they blamed for the shutdown, Phillips asked them whether or not Democrats should agree on a compromise if Trump were to offer added protection for Dreamers, $800 million in funding for humanitarian aid and a slew of new judges to get immigration cases moving along faster.
 
Every single student that said they blamed Trump for the shutdown said that Democrats should compromise if Trump were to make that offer. Of course, that doesn’t matter at this point, but the kids thought they should’ve taken such a compromise.
 
What they didn’t know is that Trump actually DID make that offer earlier last week.
 
Suffice to say that the students were pretty surprised at that revelation.
 
One of the girls Cabot interviewed even went as far as to say she was “pleasantly surprised” that Trump offered that deal.
 
When asked if the Democrats should’ve taken Trump’s offer, all of them agreed that they should have, with one of them saying it was “the wrong move” for Pelosi to turn it down.
 
Then, Phillips asked them what the students had to say to Pelosi regarding this. One of them told Pelosi: “Compromise, compromise, compromise.”
 
Another said: “Just get the Democrats to, you know, budge…”
 
One girl said that Pelosi should “have a more open mind”, which is outright hilarious to me, considering how often the Left touts themselves as being open-minded and tolerant of everyone who is different from them, which is a complete fallacy.
 
Again, this doesn’t really matter at this point, but it’s good to see these kids appearing far more reasonable than the Democrats… or maybe that’s a bad thing, actually. These kids are more reasonable than the people in Washington. May God help us all.
 
Joking aside, by the end of the video (below), one student summarized the reason for the shutdown pretty well: “It’s the Democrats not giving in to the Republicans. So they don’t want to fund the wall at all. That’s why the shutdown is currently happening.”
 
I don’t know if that kid knows this, but that’s actually a pretty great summary of the situation that really should open his and anyone else’s eyes.
 
The kid realized for that moment that the ONLY reason the government was shut down for this long is not because of Trump being some sort of crybaby asking for money for a racist wall, but because Democrats are so petty they will turn down a good deal just so Trump doesn’t get his wall.
 
This much is emphasized when the Senate decided not to vote on bills that would open the government and Senator Tim Kaine, who would’ve been Hillary’s Vice President had she won, was visibly celebrating the fact that the government would continue to be shutdown, at least until Trump and Congress reached a deal to reopen it for three weeks (and I fully expect it to close again and Trump will have to declare a national emergency because the Democrats don’t want to negotiate on border security, open government or not).
 
But the fact that Tim Kaine celebrated an effort to reopen the government being killed certainly is interesting. I thought the Democrats really wanted the government to reopen and help those poor federal workers to actually be paid.
 
But when it comes to putting your money where their mouth is (yes, I’m making a joke about them taking your tax money), they refused to vote or pass anything that would get the government opened again.
 
Aside from the Tim Kaine celebration, something else that won’t be on the news is the fact that last week, there were multiple votes regarding back-pay for the “suffering” federal workers in the House.
 
According to Rep. Lee Zeldin, one January 17th, only 6 Democrats joined every single House GOP member on a bill to pay federal workers. The bill failed 195-222. On January 23rd, there was another vote on a similar bill but only 10 Dems joined Republicans on it and the bill failed 200-215. And on the following day, yet another bill that would pay fed workers was voted on, with only 13 Democrats joining Republicans, leading the bill to fail 200-214.
 
Literally all Republicans wanted to help these “suffering” and furloughed federal workers to get payed and the Democrats killed every bill that would've helped them. And then, they had the audacity to turn towards a CNN camera (because they are apparently everywhere there is a major story, if Roger Stone is any indication) and say Republicans were keeping the government shut down and were causing 800,000 federal workers to suffer WHEN IT’S LITERALLY THE OPPOSITE CASE IN REALITY!?
 
But these college students answering Phillips’ first question, the one about who was to blame for the shutdown, in the manner that they did does not surprise me in the least bit. It is yet another case of the media being disingenuous about who was to blame for the shutdown.
 
Trump offered them a good deal (that is honestly better for them than for him) and they were so fixated (and still are) on not letting Trump have his wall that they refused his offer. Nothing short of a promise of resignation as part of the deal would make the Democrats happy and even then, I could very well be wrong.
 
And not simply because Democrats are incapable of feeling joy being the soulless machines that they are.
 
But the fact remains that, upon learning some things and being given some good information, people can find out the truth. That kid at the end, while he might’ve later gone on to continue blaming Trump, did come to the reasonable conclusion that the only reason the government was shut down, particularly for as long as it was, is because Democrats refused to compromise.
 
And if more people come to the same conclusion, that is bad for the Democrats. Like I said, pretty much every single student in that video urged the Democrats to take the deal and thought it was a mistake for Pelosi to not go through with it.
 
This is the necessity of informing the public. There are a lot of people who are either uninformed or misinformed about things. These kids were largely uninformed (can’t blame them since the media they consume won’t tell them what Trump is doing unless it involves Russia or trolling people on Twitter) before Phillips let them know that the reasonable hypothetical offer from Trump was an actual offer from him.
 
So there are two major things to take away from this article:

1) it is uniquely important to give people the information necessary for them to arrive to their own conclusions. Like I said, the student at the end actually summarized the reason for the shutdown pretty well. Phillips didn’t tell him that, but gave him the tools to let him come to that conclusion.

2) the Democrats and the media are disgusting liars. This much we’ve known for a very long time, but it’s always important to note particularly when Democrats shed crocodile tears regarding the unpaid workers and proceed to kill any bill that would actually get them paid just so they can continue their sorrowful narrative.
 
There is a meme out there on the internet of this guy shooting someone on a couch, turning around and asking “why would someone do this?” as though he was not the reason for it (pretty great example right below).

This tends to be the case with pretty much everything they do, to be honest. You could literally replace the guy with AOC, have the victim as New Yorkers living in poverty and have the text say: “why would billionaires do this?”
 
There are a number of situations that would perfectly describe what the Left does with this meme, but getting back on track, this meme also shows what they were doing regarding the shutdown/federal workers not being paid.
 
They killed bills that would reopen the government or at least allow for federal workers to be paid, turn around and blame Trump and Republicans for the shutdown and workers not being paid.
 
It is the epitome of hypocrisy and outright deception. And if the CampusReform video is any indication, it’s working for a lot of people.
 
Those kids had NO idea that Trump offered a compromise to the Democrats who went on to reject it. This lack of information, or the outright consumption of misinformation, is the only reason Democrats are even capable of winning any election or even being relevant.
 
If everyone knew the truth about them, they’d know the Democrats were the ones who fought to keep their supposed “right” to own slaves, were split on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, founded the KKK and did not allow for a black person to attend a Democratic National Convention until the mid-1920s, their first official Democrat President, Andrew Jackson, went on to slaughter the Native Americans that they go on to claim were killed by simply white people, and they inspired Hitler’s Nuremberg Laws with their own segregation laws.
 
There is a TON more that I can point to as to why the Democrat Party is the worst party in world history, tied with any country’s communist party, but that would make this article as long as an entire series of volumes of books.
 
But what should largely be taken away from this article is the fact that it is imperative that we share the right kind of information. Of course, that’s nothing new, but it is always important to remember to do this.
 
The only reason Democrats are even close to being as prominent and powerful as they are is because they are workers of deceit just like Satan.
 
Romans 16:18
“For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naïve.”
 
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I have no idea just how this actually started, but the Left seemingly is beginning to be convinced that making the “OK” sign is somehow a new symbol equal to the Nazi salute.
 
I think it may have started around the Kavanaugh hearings, but it’s really stupid and, if I’m honest, will probably be legitimately seen as a hate symbol in the very near future, but not before it is made fun of for a long while.

Now, allow me to give you some context for the reason for me to be writing about this at all.
 
Recently, soulless human being and c-list comedienne Kathy Griffin posted a picture on Twitter (picture above) which she later deleted for reasons that will soon be made clear, doubling down on her attacks on Covington Catholic high school students.
 
Instead of admitting fault and apologizing for demanding people dox these kids, she chooses to double down and tries to continue smearing these kids, or at least anyone who attends that school, as racists.
 
The picture she showed is the one above, where a bunch of Covington Catholic basketball players are seemingly making the “ok” sign.
 
Kathy Griffin, in all her glorious ignorance, took that to be an actual “ok” sign, which the Left is trying to make into a hate symbol, as I stated previously.
 
Now, there are two major points I want to make regarding this symbol.
 
Point number one: it’s not an “ok” symbol in the context of basketball. It’s a symbol for a successful three-pointer. Just about everyone who plays basketball makes this symbol.

​Look at anyone from the Golden State Warriors, who time and time again refuse to visit the White House because they are convinced in the Leftist narrative that Trump’s racist. The Warriors are among the best three-point shooting teams in the league and have Stephen Curry (picture below), who is more-than-likely going to be remembered as the best three-point shooter in NBA history by the end of his career.
 
Whenever someone makes a three, that player or his teammates will make that same exact symbol. Does that mean that the Warriors are Nazis? Or how about when LeBron James, one of the most notorious Trump-haters in basketball makes that symbol? Is he a Nazi? How about Dwyane Wade, James Harden, Anthony Davis, Allen Iverson, Carmelo Anthony, Michael Jordan?

​LITERALLY ALL OF THEM MAKE OR HAVE MADE THAT SIGN!
 
But since Kathy Griffin is just that ignorant, she sees this symbol that her friends in Hellywood are trying to equate to a Nazi salute and assumes these kids are racists for no other reason than they are white and are from a Catholic school. And once she realizes the colossally dumb mistake she made, she opted to delete the tweet, but without apologizing for making assertions that these kids are racists.
 
And it’s not just Kathy Griffin that is showing that level of ignorance. Other people on Twitter looked at that picture and thought the exact same thing.
 
Point number two: even if that wasn’t the symbol for a three-pointer, WHY IS THE “OK” SYMBOL CONSIDERED THE SAME AS A NAZI SALUTE BY THESE NUT-JOBS!?
 
It literally makes no sense how making that hand gesture is beginning to be considered a racial affront to people.
 
Again, I don’t quite know how it got started. All I know is that this is a relatively new thing and it’s insanely ridiculous. Ten years ago, if you said that the “ok” symbol would be considered racist, people would probably laugh at you. I was going to say the same for five years ago, but with how much else is considered racist and it’s been this way for some time, I think people could’ve legitimately believed that symbol could eventually be considered racist. Soon enough, white people simply existing will be considered racist by these nut-bags.
 
In any case, something else I want to focus on is just how heartless and actually deranged these people are.
 
Take Kathy Griffin as our prime example here. Aside from picturing herself holding a makeshift decapitated head of Donald Trump, for which she has apologized and doubled down multiple times on and off, she is now doubling down on her hatred for kids who were maligned by a bloodthirsty media.
 
And do you want to know what else is kind of sad about her? She isn’t this crazy only against conservatives.
 
She might actually be a deranged person. According to The Wrap, Griffin and her 18-year-younger boyfriend named Randy Bick were sued by their neighbors last summer for invasion of privacy.
 
The Wrap reported last July: “According to the suit, Griffin and Bick ‘undertook a campaign of secret electronic surveillance and recording almost immediately after taking up residence,’ first with their iPhones, then with an audio-video surveillance system that was pointed directly into the Mezgers’ (their neighbors) backyard ‘in order to spy on and record them.’ The suit says that Griffin and Bick ‘illegally captured hundreds of hours of audio and video from the Mezgers’ back yard’ and that the Mezgers only learned about it in September 2017, months after the secret recordings began, when Griffin and Bick leaked one of the recordings to the media.”
 
This, combined with the fact that she literally asked for these kids’ names, indicates that you can hardly tell me this woman is of any sound mind.
 
Another prime example of outright deranged behavior is actor Jim Carrey.
 
We all know and maybe have even seen at least some of his outright vomit-inducing paintings depicting Trump and other conservatives as demons and other things. Regarding the Catholic Covington kids, the guy, once again showing his sick artistic skill (not a good “sick”), showed Nick Sandmann as a cocky kid with a mocking smug on his face wearing a red hat that says “hate again” and the other kids appearing malicious when nothing of the sort was shown to be the case in the full story of the event.
 
In debuting his painting, the guy called the kids “baby snakes”, yet again showing his deranged nature.
 
By the way, that painting and subsequent tweet was released on January 22nd, so the full story had already been made available at that point in time.
 
Jim Carrey, being an outright psychopath, doesn’t care and continues with the now-debunked narrative that these kids are the bad guys.
 
But that’s just these sickos following a trend. Even after the kids were shown to have been victimized by the Black Hebrew Israelites and Nathan Phillips, who outright slandered them, they are still seen as the bad guys by a sick and twisted Left.
 
Some have apologized, or at least semi-apologized, but many refuse to apologize and choose to double down on this hatred against the kids, even going so far as to signify that anyone making the “ok” symbol is a Nazi.
 
This is how sick and twisted many on the Left are. It’s reprehensible what the media did to these kids, but the fact that we know the full and actual story, have the evidence to see that the kids are the victims, and still some people choose to villainize them and their school shows the height of their stupidity, hatred and maybe even evil.
 
These kids, by virtue of being white, Christians and Trump-supporters, even when proven to be the victims of hate, are seen by a hateful political group of people as the aggressors and bad guys.
 
Kathy Griffin, Jim Carrey, and anyone who continues to spread the bullcrap that these kids are the villains are truly disgusting people.
 
And that pains me to say for multiple reasons: 1) that there are people this evil and depraved in general and 2) that Jim Carrey, an actor whom I used to really like in the past, is part of this depraved action.
 
These people truly need more help than any psychiatrist could possibly provide them. Their problem isn’t simply a twisted mind, but an evil heart.
 
How else can you explain Kathy Griffin posing with a paper-mache figure of what is supposed to be Donald Trump’s decapitated head? How else can you explain Jim Carrey spending tons of time and money painting portraits that are as disgusting as they are?
 
 
How else can you explain the effort by the Left to try and brand the “ok” sign as a Nazi symbol? It’s almost Orwellian what these people are trying to depict as “wrong”. Even the simple act of smiling in an uncomfortable situation is seen as a sign of aggression by the Left.
 
These depraved people, I am beginning to think, are honestly demon-possessed. Not like in the horror movies where little girls are possessed by a demon that causes them to float, turn their heads 180 degrees, spit vomit bile, etc. but actual depraved actions that one cannot believe a human being could be capable of doing and can only believe a demon would be capable of doing.
 
We all need Jesus, but if there are any people I can point to as truly and unequivocally needing Jesus, it’s these people.
 
People like Kathy Griffin, Jim Carrey, (and the evil s.o.b.’s that passed a bill in New York allowing for abortion to happen even up to birth and celebrate that as some sort of achievement and not a moment of shame) all truly need Jesus in their lives.
 
Of course, whether they receive Him or not is an entirely different matter, but the need still exists.
 
I am someone who believes in predestination (and there is plenty in the Bible that backs up that belief), so I am fully aware that there will be people who are simply not meant to be saved. However, that need for Jesus, for God, exists within every single one of us. We all need Him, whether or not we receive Him or are predestined to receive Him.
 
That is why I so often say that people on the Left need Jesus. That need is always there, no matter what.
 
I can only hope that at least some of these people come to Christ.
 
Proverbs 3:5-6
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths.”
 
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This past Saturday, very many people from both sides of the aisle took aim and lambasted a group of kids from Covington Catholic High School.
 
In a short and edited video, kids from the school are seen wearing MAGA hats surrounding a group of Native American protesters and chanting things.
 
From that video, and one Native American protester named Nathan Phillips who was banging the drums in one of the kid’s faces (picture above), the situation looks as though the kids were the bad guys, were harassing minorities and overall being threatening because they are white and are wearing MAGA hats.
 
The Mainstream Media drove this story because they saw the perfect narrative: white, Christian, Trump supporters, albeit underage, were seemingly being threatening towards a group of minorities. There were claims that the children were also chanting “build that wall”.
 
And conservatives who are seemingly in a rush to appear to be the good guys in the Left’s eyes (why attempt to please man instead of pleasing God?) were rebuking the kids as not actually being conservatives or Christians, etc., making sure to distance themselves as far from the raging fire as humanly possible.
 
Threats were made against the kids and their families, with people on the media and celebrities like Kathy Griffin (oh, look, there is the soulless monster again), asking that the kids get doxed (their private information be made public) so that they can be even more threatening to the kids in retaliation.
 
Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) even “joked” that he is “calling for a total and complete shutdown of teenagers wearing MAGA hats until we can figure out what is going on. They seem to be poisoning young minds.” He said that in a thread where he went on to say that the incident represents a deeply-rooted problem of racism in our country, so I’m not buying that he was “joking” about this.
 
The media, because they had the perfect anti-Trump narrative - white kids appearing threatening to minorities while wearing MAGA hats - did not care to do further investigative journalism to discover the full story because there wasn’t any more that they wanted or needed to hear.
 
They had their story and they ran with it. “Who cares if the kids’ lives are destroyed by this blatant smear and outright libel? Getting Trump is our main goal regardless of the bodies we leave behind.”
 
That was basically the mindset of all of this.
 
Fast-forward 24 hours and we see more information made available. The kids were not surrounding minority groups. They were being called derogatory terms such as “f**gots” and other things by a black radical cult called Black Hebrew Israelites.
 
The Native American group was not surrounded by the kids – they made their way towards the kids. Their exits were not blocked by the kids. The kids weren’t chanting “build that wall” (which is not offensive even if they did chant it). They were chanting pep-rally cheers to drown out the hateful comments by the Black Hebrew Israelites.
 
The kid that was shown smiling at Nathan Phillips, the man banging the drum in his face, was not being cocky. He was trying to remain calm and diffuse the situation and, according to his own account on the events that unfolded, said a silent prayer that he would be able to diffuse the situation with inaction.
 
Eventually, the kids’ bus arrived and they left.
 
That is what happened, not what the media claimed happened and not what everyone from Hellywood to D.C. to MSM propagandists to supposedly conservative journalists believed happened.
 
And do you want to know what is one of the saddest things about this? Apart from the fact that these kids probably have been scarred to some extent by the level of hatred they received just because they are Christians, mostly white, and Trump supporters, this is the second time in 48 hours that a major news story broke by the MSM that turned out to be a complete hoax.
 
Earlier in the week, everyone on the Left and the Right was raving about a Buzzfeed story that said they had proof Trump instructed Cohen to lie to Congress. Buzzfeed, aka the site where you can take a quiz of what Harry Potter character you should marry and what your favorite snack says about your personality, broke this story.
 
Then, after a day of talking about it, it was discovered that that story, among the countless others that insisted this was finally the end of Trump, was yet another hoax and nothing but fake news.
 
Earlier last week, people had egg on their faces for talking about a hoax as though it was real and over the weekend, they did it again.
 
The difference between the Buzzfeed story and the MAGA Kid story is that the only threat that was made against Trump was impeachment (which has been made pretty much every day for the past 2 years). Not to mention that the target was Trump, who is the target of the fake news media every single day.
 
But the MAGA kid story included CHILDREN. Children who were not doing anything but were lied about as having been racist demons that harassed minorities. Children whose lives have likely been changed by this. Children whose futures were in jeopardy because the media was anxious about painting a story about white Trump supporters being racist, even if those supporters are kids.
 
No one is safe from the media, not even children. You can literally be a high school kid visiting the Lincoln Memorial, happen to be white, which is not something you have control over, and the fact that you are 1) a Christian and 2) a Trump supporter will set you up as a target of the Left.
 
The kids weren’t bothering anyone. The Black Hebrew Israelites were protesting something else entirely, according to Nick Sandmann (the smiling kid pictured above), when they noticed the group of white kids with MAGA hats and began to insult them.
 
Through the magic of editing and one Native American protester having a history of provoking and lying about white people, these innocent kids were made out to be demons of white supremacy and a symbol of Trump’s racism infecting young people’s minds.
 
The media, and many other people, wanted blood. They wanted universities not to accept these kids, their current school to expel them, and the kids to never be able to show their faces in public again.
 
And if any of them wound up committing suicide as a result of this, it would be seen not as a tragedy but as a great thing and that kid doing the right thing in some form of reparation for his own racism.
 
The narrative was the only important thing to them. And others, not wanting to appear racist in their silence, piled on and rebuked these kids as being racist when nothing could be further from the truth.
 
The fake news media has been trying to destroy Trump’s life for years now. But I have never seen them be this despicable.
 
It’s not like these Trump supporters were adults. They were kids with their whole futures jeopardized by an uncaring media that is more focused in driving a narrative than discovering the truth.
 
And this sort of thing happens ALL THE TIME. When a huge story breaks, that story gets a lot of attention. When that story is discovered to not have been true, the discovery garners less attention than the original fake story.
 
But again, these are kids we’re talking about. The media was more than glad to go after kids if the narrative demanded it.
 
And that’s exactly what happened.
 
Some people think that Donald Trump calling the media “the enemy of the people” is a bit excessive. Well, what else can we possibly call them at this point?
 
The enemy wishes to destroy you. The media wished to destroy these kids. The enemy uses any lie they can to hurt you. The media used any lie they could find to hurt these kids. The enemy will ignore the truth. The media ignores the truth. The enemy does not care who gets hurt if you ultimately fall. The media does not care who gets hurt if it can ultimately make Trump fall.
 
There is a very good reason I so often compare the Left to Germany’s Nazi Party. The Nazis sought the destruction of their enemies through any means necessary, regardless of who was hurt in the process.
 
The Left, given the chance, would undoubtedly do the same thing Hitler did to Jews, Gypsies, gay people, and anyone not considered optimal in their eyes. In other words, anyone that disagrees with them is made to suffer even if they did nothing wrong.
 
I find it sadly ironic that they seem to be going down the road of anti-Semitism, further emulating the Nazis.
 
But as it stands right now, the media is the enemy of truth. They did not care about the full story of the kids and the protesters. They only cared about the narrative the situation afforded them.
 
They were excited when the story broke out and undoubtedly were highly disappointed that it turned out to be fake news.
 
They were ready to shed some young, Christian, Trump-supporter blood, but were left with black protesters being hateful towards the white kids and the Native American protesters looking to escalate things.
 
Instead of the minorities being the victims, like the Left wants them to be, they were found to be the aggressors while the supposedly racist white kids who happen to support Trump and also be Catholics were found not to be the aggressors but the victims. The complete opposite of what the Left wanted.
 
The media, the Democrat Party, Hellywood, and overall Left are the enemy of the people. That much is clear.
 
1 Peter 5:8
“Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.”
 
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We’ve likely all seen Jim Acosta’s video of him at the border, pointing out that there doesn’t seem to be a crisis or emergency like Trump is talking about, but failing to realize that he is walking right next to steel slats much like Trump wants to build in much of the Southern Border. That gaffe has been rightly called a self-own.
 
But once in a while, you get a self-own so magnificent, you wonder if the person responsible for it has any idea what he or she has done.
 
While Jim Acosta made a short video about his own opinions on the state of the border, Vanity Fair writer T.A. Frank unwittingly made perhaps one of the best cases I’ve ever seen against Obama and Leftist policies.
 
Now, before you ask: yes, T.A. Frank is, himself, a Democrat.
 
Vanity Fair is one of the most Left-leaning sites out there, and that’s saying a lot. Which is why it’s so surprising to see them write the following piece and publish it on their site.
 
Frank’s article is titled: “Hope vs. Change: Why Some Democrats Are Turning On Obama’s Legacy.”
 
Pretty juicy and interesting title.
 
But it’s what he says next that is even juicier:
 
“Obama was a visionary who gave us the Affordable Care Act, DACA, and the Paris deal, but many of the country’s most ominous trends also proceeded apace under his watch…”
 
That was his subhead.
 
Now, I won’t go over everything in the article. He begins by talking about this difference in Washington between what is considered the establishment, which wishes to maintain the status quo (I would argue somewhat differently, but fine), and the radicals on both the Democrat and Republican parties.
 
Frank says that, while much of Obama’s rhetoric was more on the radical Left of the spectrum, much of his actions were fairly establishmentarian.
 
He argues that when the establishment told Obama to send more troops to Afghanistan, he did just that. When “they told him to keep the records of detainee abuse under Bush concealed,” he “hid them”. When “they said that nationalizing the banks or prosecuting the executives would be too risky”, he “avoided it”. When “they said that our trade agreements enriched the nation”, he “promoted them”. And when they “called him callous when he originally refused to intervene in Libya”, “he toppled its leader”.
 
Basically, Frank argues that Obama was at the beck and call of the Washington Establishment and he would do pretty much whatever they told him to do, even though Frank also argues that Obama was not, himself, an establishment President.
 
Remember the days when the media would not dare attack or challenge Obama in any way whatsoever? They would stick up for him no matter what, so for this guy to be saying these things, even if Obama has not been President for two years, is pretty fascinating and unexpected.
 
Now, the reason Frank argues for saying these sorts of things is that 2020 Democrat candidates have to look at how to tackle Trump, whom he says is a wild card of a candidate. (He also says Trump is failing in countless ways, which I would strongly disagree with, but to each their own).
 
He argues that since Obama was so rooted in establishmentarianism, Dem candidates may want to look at what might be best for them. He says Elizabeth Warren might want people to think she’s a radical and Joe Biden wants people to consider him the establishment choice.
 
As far as Warren goes, I don’t think she has much hope of winning the nomination, if I’m honest. That DNA test result that she stupidly claimed proved her heritage when it did the exact opposite has seriously derailed any chances she may have had at becoming the Dem nominee.
 
Biden, on the other hand, might have the best shot out of anyone to be the Dem candidate, even if he is more of an establishment guy and many other Leftists seek a radical.
 
But here’s the thing: like I said before, Frank makes the best case against Leftism as well.
 
There are two paragraphs I want to point towards, where he makes the best case against Leftist policies, even if he does not outright make any connections between a cause (Leftist policies) and effect (the negative things I am about to share with you).
 
Without further ado, here are the two paragraphs I’m talking about:
 
After talking about the differences between the establishment and the radicals in both parties, he writes: “Where does this leave us (Democrats), and what does it portend for Democrats in 2020? On the one hand, it’s unfair to call Barack Obama an establishment president with all the status-quo overtones of the term. He gave us the Affordable Care Act, the stimulus, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform, an executive action for Dreamers, the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, a nuclear deal with Iran, diplomatic relations with Cuba, a climate deal in Paris, a New START treaty, a reform of student-loan programs, and two liberal Supreme Court appointments. On the other hand, many of the country’s most ominous trends proceeded apace under his watch. The financialization of the economy kept increasing (whatever that means). Student debt kept exploding. Trade policy kept its same priorities. Opioid addiction kept spreading. Suicide numbers kept rising. Disparities in life expectancy between rich and poor kept widening. Union membership kept declining. Illegal border-crossers kept coming. Our defense commitments kept growing. In towns like Jasper, Indiana, and Mebane, North Carolina, factory workers – a hundred here, a couple of hundred there – kept losing their middle-class jobs, outcompeted by giant Chinese mills with appalling conditions.”
 
“The concise and indispensable new book The Nationalist Revival, by the left-leaning John B. Judis, contains one especially haunting statistic: 3.4 million jobs lost to the growth of trade with China since 2001, when China joined the World Trade Organization. For many of these forgotten Americans, Obama’s final State of the Union address lauding a manufacturing surge rang hollow, and so did his vision of making ‘change work for us, always extending America’s promise outward, to the next frontier, to more people.’ They had already heard, many times, that ‘they may have to retool, they may have to re-train.’ It was Bill Clinton, still a canny reader of the public, at times, who had to observe that ‘millions of people look at that pretty picture of America he painted and they cannot find themselves in it.’”
 
That is an awful lot to go through and I cannot possibly go through everything and still keep this article at standard length.
 
One of the main things I want to point out is that, in the first paragraph, as I have stated previously, Frank unwittingly makes the best case against Leftism.
 
He recognizes all the things that Obama was doing. And he also recognizes many of the ominous things that were happening in pace with the things Obama was doing. But he still somehow does not make the connection between the two of them.
 
What Obama was doing was choking the American economy and allowing for other countries to make deals with us where we would be utterly screwed. The Paris deal, as an example, is not something we needed to be a part of at any point. We were spending a ton more money as part of the deal in “fighting” climate change. However, with Trump pulling us out of the deal, we still manage to meet the expectations and requirements of the Paris deal WITHOUT HAVING TO PAY RIDICULOUS AMOUNTS OF MONEY FOR IT!
 
Another thing I want to point out which is interesting to me is one of the negatives he lists in the first paragraph. “Illegal border-crossers kept coming”.
 
Not only am I surprised that he is using the term “illegal” because those who consider themselves to be “woke” would never use that term, but I am also surprised that he sees that as any sort of problem at all.
 
Given the current rhetoric of many on the Left, the idea of an America with open borders is enticing. And yet, Frank notes that this unlawful act is a negative associated with the Obama administration.
 
You don’t see that very often. And, funny enough, it’s yet another reason I cannot believe the guy is not making a connection between the things Obama was doing and the negative things that came along with those things.
 
Notice how many of the negatives he listed are slowly but surely getting resolved now that Trump is President. Trump, as many on the Left will note, is undoing pretty much everything Obama set out to do and actually managed to do.
 
Trade policy is different now than with Obama. Obama made sure other countries got the better end of the deal while the U.S. paid for it. Trump makes sure the opposite is true: we get the better end of the deal.
 
Illegal border-crossing, while that’s still an ongoing thing and continues to escalate, is something Trump has literally based his entire campaign around. He won on the Wall. Even Chuck Schumer said that people voted for the Wall before he caught himself and rephrased it as “some people” voted for the Wall.
 
Trump won on the issue of addressing and fixing illegal immigration. And while Obama was dubbed the “deporter-in-chief”, he hardly helped secure the border all that much more (even though he used to be in favor of building walls).
 
Wherever there is a wall at the southern border, such as San Diego, there is considerably less illegal border-crossing than wherever there are no walls. Jim Acosta himself showed that, as I mentioned in the beginning, where there is a wall, there is no crisis.
 
It’s funny what happens when you get rid of the cause of some effects. The economic policies Obama enacted killed jobs, while the policies Trump has enacted have created them.
 
This is why I say Frank makes the best case against Leftism. Everything Obama did was Leftist policy. All of it. And what was the result? Jobs gone, people suffering, and America declining. Take away all those Leftist policies and what do you get? Jobs returning, people prospering, and America surging.
 
I have gone as far as to bookmark that article on Chrome to make sure to come back to it and point out that even one of the Left’s own journalists has noted Obama’s supposed accomplishments and the things that came with those accomplishments, even if he does not recognize their cause-and-effect relationship. According to the Logical Law of Causality, every effect must have a cause. Obama's policies were the cause. And indebtedness, joblessness, etc. were the effect. By eliminating Obama's policies (cause), you get the opposite results of more jobs, more prosperity, etc. (effect), which is exactly what President Trump is doing.
 
Thank you, Mr. Frank, for the truly great gift you have bestowed upon us. Here’s hoping that if you’re smart enough to recognize the bad things that came along the things Obama did, you will be smart enough to recognize the cause and effect of Leftist policies.
 
Proverbs 18:15
“An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.”
 
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