Liberty's Advocate Loc: Cedar Rapids, IA

“Give me an asshole who can play …”

This is a famous quote from iconic drummer, Buddy Rich. Buddy only wanted the best on stage with him. He didn’t care about their “moral character” or if they were pleasant to be around. He didn’t even care if he, himself, liked them. He hired only guys who could burn the room down with him … not boy scouts who were mediocre. Hence, the famous quote.

President Donald Trump appears to be in trouble. A series of confessions and convictions, of and by people around him, are casting a strange, dark light on his presidency at the moment. There is a perception (at least) that shady stuff has gone on around this guy. And when shady stuff constantly goes on around someone in charge, you have to conclude that the guy in charge is okay with shady stuff.

Has he hung around tax evaders and money launderers? Clearly. Did he pay off porn stars and Playboy Playmates to keep their dalliances quiet? I think we can safely conclude that he did. Is he a petulant child in the Twitter-verse? One hundred percent. Does he say things in public my mother would slap me for saying? Literally, every day. Did he conspire with a foreign power to win an election? Maybe. Will any of this make a difference to his supporters? That’s a complicated answer.

Let me explain …

I have a theory that all presidential elections are reactions to the sitting president at the time. I’m old enough to remember Jimmy Carter getting elected (in large part) because he was a wholesome, moral breath of fresh air in an atmosphere of corruption and scandal created during the Nixon years. I was only a kid, but I distinctly remember entire churches being excited to go out and vote for an openly Christian man for president. Then, after four years of that disaster, I remember those same people breaking speed limit laws to get to the polls to vote for Reagan as fast as they could.

The conditions that created a “president Trump” kind of started with Bill Clinton, who led to George W Bush … who led to Barack Obama.

By the time we got to him, Mr. Obama was going to be the antidote to incompetence and corruption and war mongering and, yes …even racism. But a very strange thing happened during Mr. Obama’s presidency. Racism didn’t end. Corruption didn’t end. Wars didn’t end. And incompetence might’ve actually gotten worse. My full day of talking to the customer service agent at the newly created healthcare exchange, did NOT leave me confident.

And what was discovered during Mr. Obama’s 8 years, was that in a free market nation, over-taxing, over-regulating and a leader who constantly berates the business community and supports policies that place more emphasis on celebrating the “diversity” of people groups than on law and order for every individual, and foreign policies that take everything but the nation you’ve been elected to lead into account, simply doesn’t work.

What was also exposed in those 8 years was how feckless and weak Republicans had actually become in their opposition to such things. And with candidates literally talking openly about socialism and nationalizing private institutions, a guy like Trump comes along and promises to re-set the foundation of the nation the way Americans understand it … and the way they want it. Is he really that much of a surprise?

I talk occasionally about the fourth revolution. And Donald Trump is the leader of it.

If you’re appalled at the lewd behavior of your president, you’re behind. That ship sailed when one was getting blow jobs by an intern less than half his age, in the Oval Office … AND NOBODY CARED.

If you wish your president was decent and measured and refused to return fire at his critics, you’re behind. We already had that guy and he was called a war criminal, who should be tried at the Hague (Rosie O’Donnell’s public announcement) and “retarded” (Chris Rock’s word – DEFINITELY not mine), someone who should force his daughters to go to war (Matt Damon’s suggestion) a monster who deliberately broke the levies in New Orleans to drown black people (Spike Lee’s claim) and on and on and on … AND NOBODY CARED.

If you wish your president was upstanding and righteous and said all the right things, you’re behind. Mitt Romney already ran, AND NOBODY CARED.
If you wish your president was a humble and honorable true public servant, without moral blemishes, you’re behind. Bob Dole (a man who gave his right hand to his country) and John McCain (a man who gave both arms to his country) already ran, AND NOBODY CARED.

Donald Trump was the last branch to grab before the nation hit the ground. But he has changed the game in some ways. Nobody believes a nice guy can get it done, anymore. We’ve had nice guys … and nothing changed.

Cutting taxes and repatriating a trillion dollars was the right thing to do. And it’s working. And only a guy who doesn’t give crap about what people think of him could’ve gotten it done. Moving the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem was the right thing to do. It sends a message to the rest of the Middle East and, in turn, creates a stability hard to quantify. Presidents on BOTH sides of the aisle have promised to do it. It should’ve been done decades ago. But only a guy who doesn’t give a crap about what people think of him could’ve gotten it done.

Taking Kim Jong Un on … head on … is looking like it was the right thing to do. But only a guy who doesn’t give a crap about what people think of him would’ve even attempted it.

While Mr. Trump’s lawyers and campaign people were perp-walking in and out of ivory towers, a teen aged girl in Iowa – as middle-America a place as you can find – was being murdered by someone in the country illegally. That creates real world fear for Americans everywhere. We have enough fear of our own citizenry, breaking our own laws. And reasonable Americans don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask people wanting to come to our country …to sign the hell in. They don’t see how that makes them racists. It simply doesn’t compute. And the only elected leader giving them any cover is the flawed president.

So, did Donald Trump collude and conspire with Russians to win an election? Probably not but, what the media and his opponents (and even a lot of Republicans) STILL don’t or can’t or won’t understand is that it doesn’t matter. He didn’t have to collude with anybody. He was going to win either way. He had millions of Americans at “build a wall” and “cut your taxes” and especially at, “I don’t give a crap what people think.”

Donald Trump may get impeached or arrested or disgraced or unseated or whatever. But what people had better realize is that if he’s gone, a large percentage of the population will be looking for something or someone JUST like him … to replace him. There’s too much at stake; too many socialists on the horizon, too many empty suits looking for lifetime political gigs, too many “nice guys” with great smiles and weak spines, to take any more chances.

We just want an “asshole who can play”. And with the economy roaring and North Korea neutralized and ISIS basically contained and defeated, it appears that despite all the weirdness that surrounds him, he can, indeed, play.

From Regie’s Blog (whoever the hell that is …)

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I Don’t Care, Just build my F**king WALL !

Liberty's Advocate Loc: Cedar Rapids, IA

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Trump is running out of time and excuses.

Liberty's Advocate Loc: Cedar Rapids, IA

GMAFB !! Why are you in such a big hurry? And what "excuses" does he use to explain away any lack of success? Half of the electorate voted for Hitlery and, but for the Grace of God and the Electoral College, we would have HER as President and STILL be mired in and slogging through the muddy road toward a Socialist oblivion.

The painfully partisan, bigotedly biased news media, which first supported Trump during his Primary hunt for the Republican nomination with 96% positive coverage against the other 16 members in the field, turned aggressively anti-Trump with 92 - 95% continuously NEGATIVE coverage following his selection at the convention that continues today ... 2 1/2 years later!!! A lessor man would be distracted and dismayed by this constant negativity, as well as the total LACK OF COVERAGE of the massively successful policy initiatives of his administration.

The only things making me the slightest bit impatient are #1: The constant negative media drumbeat (proving that lies told often enough become truths in the minds of the targeted audience ... which would be anyone with a mind weak and indiscriminate enough to be able to discern indoctrination from valid information) and #2: The less-than-total dedication to principle and support for Trump initiatives being displayed by many Republicans in Congress. It is that lack of support along with the mixed messages they send that cost the Republicans control of the House in these mid-terms.

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Brilliant,couldnt of said better myself!!!!!

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That’s an interesting explanation but then there’s this:

The Stupid Low Information Hispanic voter
Asian Voter
Muslim Voter
Illegal voters

Liberty's Advocate Loc: Cedar Rapids, IA

Without interjecting a Racial component to this election cycle, one would have to admit that there is a more-than-adequate supply of "Stupid Low Information" Caucasian voters who participated in this last election, too (most have the party designation "D" on their voter registration cards). I will agree that the Illegal voters you've brought up should be a decidedly worrisome concern to ALL American citizens ... NOT just Republicans.

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That’s a valid point but there’s more stupid of the other categories who voted for the Democrats and took the districts, house and or fraudulently.

Liberty's Advocate Loc: Cedar Rapids, IA

Look, you can break the vote down seven ways from Sunday and make all the claims you want about the intelligence levels of the various voting blocks. It makes little difference in your analysis if you don't include a perspective detailing the state of public education that has created the mindset that makes it possible to manipulate the minds of the voting public so easily.

The degradation of education began in the early half of the 20th Century with the implementation of Progressivism, but really got a shot in the arm when the Hippies of the 1960's rejected social and moral norms and restrictions on decent behavior, exchanging them for all forms of radicalism, the embrace of Communism and freedom from responsibility. Any person with an ounce of intellectual curiosity, common sense and critical thinking ability could have shot holes in that type of thinking immediately. No one did. Perhaps the seductive appeal of "sex without consequences" which was offered by a new development called "The Pill" was too strong to resist and appealed to older adults, too. It should be obvious that there can be NO FREEDOM without the acceptance of personal responsibility.

Whatever the reasons, Conservatives and Republicans (when confronted by Hippies and other moral relativists with the verbal challenge to any attempt to maintain a basic level of morality or inculcation of standards in our student youth) had no answer to the frequently asked question, "Whose values are you going to teach? Yours?" Consequently, over two generations of people have grown up with no moral guide posts with little ability and less desire to tell right from wrong. This has played a major role in the decline in intellectual quality of adults today.

Hollywood and all facets of the entertainment industry with its appeal to the weak-minded is another thing to consider. Rather than improve the quality of education, educators and politicians alike embrace new technologies and entertainment media, using them as a channel to communicate with kids on their level instead of demanding they grow up and communicate like adults. The amount of self-absorption, moral destruction and media focus cannot be denied when you see a group of people more interested in filming a drowning for posting on YouTube than in saving the drowning individual. Sickening ...

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That’s a fantastic Post Liberty, Thank You.
I agree.
Valid points and factual.
Yes I’ve watched this societal decay like you for years...
we know who the perpetrators are, we’ve exposed them in many places, forms and collectives.

It continues to this day even under Trump’s watch ...

Why does it continue and how do we reverse course is the top 10 questions of our day ?

Trump is not the guy in my analysis, he’s just the Bell Ringer and I welcome that becuase it mean we the people, the True Bloodline heirs of this land will have to make the next move.

Trump has until around April Fools to show his true colors and drop the hammer or we’re calling it in.

Stay in the fight please, spread the word.
Militias, Vets, Patriots are waking up and on the move.

Liberty's Advocate Loc: Cedar Rapids, IA