HALF-FULL REPORT 05/27/16

It’s good to be back in the HFR saddle again.  I’m so appreciative of the wonderful job my buddy Rod Martin did in my absence.  Thanks, Rod!

I have to admit I’m writing this with a huge smile of gloat.  For a year now – since the HFR of May 22, 2015 – I’ve been predicting the Dem nominee will not be The PIAPS but SloJoe Biden.  As I said back then:

“I’m all in for Joe Biden – he’s my guy.  I’m definitely maxing out donating to Draft Biden 2016.  I’m putting a I’m Ridin’ With Biden bumper sticker on my car.  I mean, he looks so cool with the shades, behind the wheel of a Corvette.  So it’s Go SloJoe! for me.”

This was followed by the HFR of July 3, 2015:

As The Donald is the Dems’ dream clown Pub candidate, so SloJoe is ours.  Funny thing, though – he’s also Zero’s.

We all know of the multitude of gaffes and idiocies perpetrated by SloJoe, any of which would have Dan Quayle-ized any Republican.  But I can’t keep his performance in the 2012 VP debate out of my mind.  While Paul Ryan was trying to have a serious discussion on important issues, all Biden did was laugh, roll his eyes, and smirk in derision like an obnoxious horse’s ass in front on the entire country.

I couldn’t make myself believe the voice in my head telling me at the time, ‘He knows the fix is in – the election’s rigged.’  The greatest political shock of my life was when Romney lost – but not for Biden.  Will 2016 be a repeat of 2012?”

In January (01/08/16), Trump Hysteria and President Biden outlined Zero’s game plan:

“First, his team encourages Trump Hysteria at every possible opportunity. He sees Trump as the way to destroy the Republican Party, just rip it apart…

Second, Zero realizes that in addition to his personal hatred of Hillary, she is the one Dem candidate that could be defeated by most any Pub candidate… she is a ghastly candidate, immensely unlikeable whom no one trusts and everyone views as a liar.

TTP has been predicting for many moons now that Zero wants Biden to run, not Hillary, who will protect his ‘legacy’ while the PIAPS will destroy it.  Further, Zero believes firmly that Biden would defeat Trump in a landslide – and in that, he’s very likely right.”

What makes this prescient are two bombshells this week.

On Wednesday (5/25), the State Department’s Office of Inspector General issued a report disclosing the extraordinary degree to which Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State violated federal law and flouted US national security.

Within hours that same day, the Washington Post issued a scathing denouncement in an official editorial:  Clinton’s Inexcusable Willful Disregard for the Rules.

The WaPo’s White House correspondent Chris Cillizza chimed in with: Hillary Clinton’s Email Problems Just Got Much Worse.  Even the lefties at MSNBC like Mika Brzezinski are saying now, “She’s Lying Straight Out.”

The day before, Tuesday (5/24), I had a lengthy talk with a close friend who’s far higher up on the Forbes List than Trump and has vast political connections.

Multiple sources, he told me, are confirming that an FBI recommendation of indictment of Hillary is pending, that the media is being primed to demand she quit her campaign once the FBI announcement is made, and that the DNC (Democrat National Committee) is planning how to replace her with Biden.

Evidently, Trump is privy to the same information – thus the second bombshell of the week: Trump Says Joe Biden Could Come Back Into The Race.

Yes, he sure could and it’s looking more likely by the day.  All these polls claiming His Hairness is pulling even with Her Shrillness are not due to him becoming more popular but to her popularity falling off a cliff.

Since there’s no way the Dems are going to let Crazy Bernie be their nominee, they are going to parachute SloJoe in with Zero’s blessing.  The instant that happens, Biden will be treated as a messiah by the media, the savior of America from Clinton sleaze and Trump insanity – and countless millions of voters will agree.

The polls will turn on a dime and never look back, the media will nuke Trump, and SloJoe will be a shoe-in in November – especially with massive Dem vote fraud ensuring it.

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That’s the way it’s shaping up and that’s the way to bet.  The big however is that more obituaries have been written about the Clintons than Mark Twain, all to no avail.  Hillary for utterly mysterious reasons has more political lives than innumerable clowders of cats.  So hold off on any bets.  Just don’t be surprised if the SloJoe scenario unfolds as described above.

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On Tuesday (5/24), Zero gave a speech in Hanoi, Vietnam (full text in the link).  You only wish he’d praise capitalism, entrepreneurship, and economic opportunity for Americans as he did the Vietnamese.  All in all though, it was a very good and important speech.

When he said, “Over the centuries, your fate was too often dictated by others.  Your beloved land was not always your own,” his speechwriter knew the Vietnamese wouldn’t think of us or the French – they’d understand Zero was referring to the Chinese, who ruled them for a thousand years.

When he talked about “ensuring our mutual security.. (with) training and equipment to your Coast Guard to enhance Vietnam’s maritime capabilities… (and) to fully lift the ban on defense sales, (so that) Vietnam will have greater access to the military equipment you need to ensure your security” they knew he was talking about their security against the Chicoms.

When he said, “Nations are sovereign, and no matter how large or small a nation may be, its sovereignty should be respected, and it territory should not be violated.  Big nations should not bully smaller ones,” they knew he was talking about the Chicoms.

Then he went explicit:

“In the South China Sea… we will stand with partners in upholding core principles, like freedom of navigation and overflight… the United States will continue to fly, sail and operate wherever international law allows, and we will support the right of all countries to do the same.”

The Vietnamese knew exactly what Zero was doing:  he was publicly giving the finger to the Chicoms.  He was announcing America was joining the Anti-Chicom Alliance emerging between Japan, the Philippines, Australia, Singapore, India, and Vietnam that TTP has been advocating for years, such as Where Chicoms Must Stop Being Children (June 2015).  Good for Zero.

It’s faint praise, however, to be thankful for what he didn’t say in Hiroshima, Japan today (5/27).  He didn’t apologize for America nuking Japan into surrender in WWII.  Yes, he gave the boilerplate blather about a “nuclear-free world,” but he didn’t say he was sorry we forced Japan to be a peaceful prosperous democracy.  Time to consider re-reading Runway Able (October 2010).

His Hiroshima visit came after two days (5-26/27) of the G7 Summit in Japan, where he and the other leaders signed off on maintaining sanctions on Russia and possibly increasing them regarding Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

That’s gotta hurt.  Last week (5/16), Morgan Stanley announced: Things Can Only Get Worse for Russia’s Battered Economy.  Yesterday, Stratfor issued a report on how screwed Russia is: The Russian Economic Revolution That Never Was.

TTPers on the Forum are asking what this might mean militarily.  It means, frankly, that Putin is all hat and no cattle.  Let’s take a look at Ukraine to see why.

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Here’s a map of the military situation in Eastern Ukraine today (5/27):

Putin continues to hold about 2/3rds of Donetsk Oblast and less than 10% of Luhansk – that’s after over two years since his invasion of March 2014.  Ukraine is a big place – almost the size of Texas.  Look at the country map in the circle – you can see how small is the patch of red Putin has seized, and he can’t expand beyond it.  Not even to the port of Maripol.

See that patch of pink in the country circle sticking into the blue?  That’s Crimea, seized entire by Putin in the spring of 2014.  Note the blue area between Crimea and the red patch of eastern Donetsk.  That’s an arm of the Black Sea called the Sea of Azov.  Note all the land in between is Ukraine’s, not Putin’s.

And note there is gap of blue between Crimea and the brown of Russia proper.  That’s the Kerch Strait into the Sea of Azov.  Let’s take a look.

There is no bridge across the Kerch.  Russia has no land border with Crimea, everything must be brought in by boat.  To solidify his control over Crimea, Putin either has to seize by armed force the entire north shore of Azov (about 80 miles) – or build a bridge.

Turns out it will cost at least $4 billion – and likely twice or thrice that – to build the four auto lane/two track rail line Putin wants.  Construction has started and is running into huge problems with Kerch’s deep muddy bottom and fierce currents – compounded by Putin giving the contract to his oligarch buddy Arkady Rotenberg, whose company, StroyGazMontazh, only builds gas pipelines and has never a bridge.

Which means Pooty-poot would rather spend mucho billions and years (earliest completion date is late 2019) building a bridge rather than sending his massive invincible earth-shaking Red Army on a stroll down the coast of Azov that should be able to brush away the puny weakling forces of bankrupt Ukraine in a week at the most.

Which means Putin has a Potemkin Army and that he’s no actual military threat to Europe.

NATO is well aware of this, having placed troops near Russia’s borders in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland.  Last week (5/19), NATO formally welcomed Montenegro as its 29^th member state.  Who’s afraid of Putin now?

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The real threat to America is not external, but internal.  Every day now our country becomes more insane.  Not metaphorically but literally, actually, clinically for real insane.

On Wednesday (5/25), the WashTimes reported that a fifth grade teacher in Oregon won a $60,000 settlement from its school district because other teachers refused to address it as “they.”  The teacher claims it is neither a man nor a woman.  Since it is a “transgender” – meaning it needs to be treated in a psychiatric ward and not allowed within the grounds of any school whatever – you aren’t allowed to call it “he” or “she,” but rather “they.”  As you see, I prefer “it.”

Not nuts enough for you?  How about the Commie Mayor of New York’s NYC Commission on Human Rights issuing on Tuesday (5/24) a list of 31 “gender identities” protected by the city’s anti-discrimination laws – meaning you can be prosecuted and fined into bankruptcy if you use the “wrong” pronoun to refer to a customer or employee.

Mentally disturbed denizens of Manhattan and other boroughs can now “self-identify” as either gender bender, genderqueer, gender fluid, pangender, agender, nongender, two-spirit, androgyne, and a plethora of other confusions.

And people had the temerity to criticize Ted Cruz for lampooning New York values?

Is there any sanity to be found amidst this?  Yes.  Turns out that Target has lost $9.2 billion in market cap since instituting its policy of bathroom perversion.  Doesn’t that make you feel warm all over?

And on Wednesday, 11 states – Texas, Alabama, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Utah, Georgia, plus the Arizona Department of Education and the governor of Maine – issued a lawsuit against  the US government, a number of fed agencies, and federal officials personally for forcing their bathroom perversion policy upon their schools.

If there’s anything America needs, it’s states and their citizens refusing to obey unconstitutional – not to mention completely insane, immoral, and fascist –  federalie edicts.

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We close with the HFR Hero of the Week.  I hope you’ll pardon me, but it’s personal.  I got back home this week to celebrate my 30^th wedding anniversary with my wife Rebel.  It’s simply heroic how she’s put up with me all these years.  She’s the hero of my life, the mother of my sons, I love her more than ever, and I am eternally grateful to Providence for blessing me with her.