HALF-FULL REPORT 09/16/16

Are we having fun yet? You certainly should be so we might as well. Let’s kick this week off with Rick Perry on Dancing with the Stars..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB9Ko3Cd8lU

Yes, this was on Monday (9/12).  Rock on, Rick.  God bless Texas…

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We’re just getting started.  Here’s happy news guaranteed to make you smile.  On Wednesday (9/14), the New York Times to its chagrin pronounced Hillary’s book, Stronger Together, “a flop,” selling only 2,912 copies in its first week on sale.

What’s freaking out all the libtard presstitutes at the New York Times is that the entire presidential campaign of Illary, HilLIARy, Shrillary, Her Shrewness, The PIAPS, is becoming a flop.

More on that later.  Meanwhile, let’s enjoy this news bulletin (9/14):  John Kerry caught funneling $9 million of State Department money to his daughter Vanessa. How’s that for a Hahahaha of the week?

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To say this has been a bad week for Mrs. Piaps would be the understatement of the year.  It began last Friday night (well after the HFR was posted) at the Hillary Victory Fund LGBT Gala in Manhattan.  LGBT stands for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender.

You can’t find a tinier group of people in numbers that wields a more malevolently powerful culture of intolerance in our country than these folks.

The definition of a “gaffe” in politics is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.  What she said that night was no gaffe – it was scripted in her speech on purpose:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiT-mUMXcMc

She said this with CNN cameras rolling, knowing her insulting tens of millions of Americans as a “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic basket of deplorables” would quickly be broadcast on national television.

She and her campaign team of geniuses actually thought this was brilliantly clever.  So did the Enemedia.

Big mistake.  Backfire City.  Within hours, Trump had an ad bashing her as Deplorable:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBbtCvUGweo

Trump told Sean Hannity on Fox that her “basket of deplorables” insult was Hillary’s 47% moment although far worse.  Romney’s doomed his campaign, Hillary’s may doom hers.

And then, less than 40 hours after her LGBT pronouncement, on Sunday morning (9/11) came her now world-famous collapse leaving her shoe in the street.

What has since collapsed is any remaining shred of believability in anything she says, given her coverup and lying about the state of her health.  What has collapsed as a result of these two incidents is her poll ratings versus Trump.

RealClearPolitics’ poll aggregator shows that a week ago (9/9), the LA Times Tracking Poll had Clinton +1.  Today (9/16) it has Trump +6.  In state after state now via a variety of polls, Trump is in the lead: Colorado +4, Iowa +8, Ohio +5, Florida +3, Georgia +6, Missouri +13.  He’s even pulled even with her in North Carolina, and is only 3 points back in Virginia and Michigan.

All of these are “battleground” or “swing” states crucial to winning the electoral vote for either party.  If Trump were to carry those in which he leads now, he wins going away.

Of course, that’s an infinitely large “if” in political time with Nov. 8^th 53 very long days out.  Chris Cillizza at the WaPo on Wednesday (9/14) bemoaned the obvious:  Don’t Look Now – Trump Has All the Momentum.  For how long?  Who knows?

The next Make or Break Day, as I described yesterday (9/15), is ten days from now, September Twenty-Sixth.   There’ll be a whol’ lotta recalibration after that.

Other events this week suggest we do some reassessing now.

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While I remain absolutely convinced that Illary would be astronomically worse in the White House than Trump, I still remain skittish about him.

That term above on how much she’s worse is not hyperbole.  Just take this comment by Skye on the Forum:

“It is worth about $200,000,000,000 (not a typo, 200 with a B) per year to Russia, and another roughly $200 gigabucks per year to the Saudis, if Hillary wins because she will stop fracking in America, and the price of oil will at least double.

 

Both have supported the Clintons with big bucks and both expect to make a return of over 100,000% (not a typo) per year on their investments.

 

That is more than enough to buy a lot of corruption.  And a lot of war and terrorism.

 

Trump doesn’t have to be either smart or conservative to save us from that, but he does have to win.”

He can save us from that, but won’t from everything.  Should we be uneasy over what seems to be straight-out pandering when on Tuesday (9/13), he advocated government paid maternity leave for women?

Is it smart like The Federalist argues, as it tweaks state unemployment insurance rather than another taxpayer mandate?  Or is it a slippery slope to another wholly unconstitutional federal ripoff of taxpayers?

That it’s infuriating libtards like at HuffPo is a good sign – he’s stealing a Dem pet issue, no fair!  (Believe it or not, HuffPo’s in a tizzy because his maternity leave plan doesn’t include men.  They actually say this.)

Also on Tuesday (9/13), Trump seemed to take back his stand that “climate change is a hoax.”  That’s worrisome to many, including me – but hedging on it being a hoax is, again astronomically, better than being full-bore for the hoax.

Yesterday (9/15), Trump released his latest tax plan.  A lot of folks including me got very excited about it as it, among other things, allows full business expensing – which would incredibly increase our GDP.  But wait – it turns out, as Forbes notes, Trump’s plan only allows full business expensing in very limited circumstances.  Forbes zeroes in on other problems; you should consider taking a close look.

The bottom line on all this sort of stuff:  go all out to defeat The Piaps, look forward to the promise and prospect of a Trump Presidency – but don’t set yourself up for disappointment by regarding him as a messiah-savior with a silver bullet for all that ails America.

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On the upside, he sure is getting more likeable.  Last night (9/15), he was on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.  Here’s what happened:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0BYqzdiuJc

Suspicions run high this was Kellyanne Conway’s idea.  Yep, she’s a political genius.  This video clip will make him lovable to millions who didn’t think he was..

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Before he was on air with Fallon, Trump delivered an address to the prestigious New York Economic Club (full text in the link).  The money quote was:

“It used to be cars were made in Flint and you couldn’t drink the water in Mexico. Now, the cars are made in Mexico and you can’t drink the water in Flint.”

Great laugh line, but the substance of it was so good that the New York Post’s opinion is that Trump Should Give This Speech Every Day to Nov. 08.

Meanwhile, the latest news in HillaryLand is that her campaign has been ripping off her poorest donors:

“The Hillary for America campaign will overcharge small donors by repeatedly charging small amounts such as $20 to the bankcards of donors who made a one-time donation. However, the Clinton campaign strategically doesn’t overcharge these donors $100 or more because the bank would then be obligated to investigate the fraud.”

Wonder how CNN or MSNBC will cover that story….  Nonetheless: drip, drip, drip.

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That drip, drip, drip started to turn into a downpour this week.  So savor this week.  We’ve got seven more to go.

And who might the Hero of Week be?   The HFR’s vote goes to Zdenek Gazda.  An ordinary decent nice guy American with a cellphone camera who made history on his lonesome.  Read about him in September Twenty-Sixth.  Thanks, Zdenek.  Trump should invite you to lunch at the Trump Tower.