HALF-FULL REPORT 12/16/16

Within 72 hours of this being written (early evening Monday December 19), this Watermelon Recount Russian Hack Fake News CIA Attempted Coup d’état Farce will be over.  Flipping Electors is a Dem hallucination.

By then, Electors will have met in their respective state capitals and voted for the candidate who received the most votes in their state.

The Electoral College vote will be in, with maybe one or two Pub “faithless electors” refusing to vote for Trump, and some Dems refusing to vote at all being so infected with libtard rage.

By this time 72 hours from now Donald Trump will officially and legally be the President-elect.  There’s a large part of me that wants the libtards continuing to be in denial.

They can try to disrupt the Archivist of the Senate’s receiving the Certificates of Ascertainment and Vote from each state by December 28.  They can try to disrupt the Archivist’s meeting with the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House to verify the vote by January 3.  They can try to disrupt the Joint Session of Congress counting the votes on January 6.

They will definitely do their best to protest and disrupt the Inauguration of the 45^th President of the United States at the Washington Mall on January 20.

They will continue to be as loud as they can in attempts to delegitimize Trump’s Presidency and bray incessantly for his Impeachment.

I really want them to do all of this – because if a tree in the forest falls and nobody’s listening, the sound it makes doesn’t matter.

The more noise they make, the more obnoxious they become, the more everyone tunes them out, and their impact decreases to the point of vanishment.

Donald J. Trump is not George W. Bush.  Bush never fought back at all the incessant attempts to delegitimize his presidency whom the Dems thought he stole from Algore.  Trump will run over them with a steamroller.

Two examples.  He made a deal with Mitch McConnell – in exchange for making his wife (Elaine Chao) Labor Sec, McConnell guarantees no filibustering of Trump’s nominees.  All will be quickly confirmed by straight majority vote.  And no endlessly contentious hearings, they’ll be done and dusted quickly.

On Sunday (12/11), Trump tweeted this:

Reince Priebus announced on Wednesday (12/14) that the White House Correspondents Association would no longer determine who attends and who sits where at White House press conferences – that it would be Trump’s West Wing.

These are thrilling shots across the media’s bow – that NBC and CNN or even WaPo, the NYT, much less Politico could be de-credentialed if they didn’t stop being members of the Fake News Media.

It’s going to be fun watching the Fake News Media trying their best to be good little boys from now on.  Oh, yes, from henceforth, Facebook will be known as Fakebook.

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If you watch Fox’s Wall Street Week, then you know who show host Antony Scarmucci is.  But you may not know just how totally cool he is until you learn that he, as a Trump Transition Team member, compared Climate Warmists to Flat-Earthers.

How awesome is that?  When you add that to anti-EPA Scott Pruitt heading the EPA, anti-Energy Dept. Rick Perry as Energy Secretary, and pro-drilling Ryan Zinke (whom greenies fear will open up 265 million acres to drilling and mining) at Interior, then you can be confidant that Global Warming is toast.

A further note on Zinke.  He’s a former Navy SEAL, Pub Congressman from Montana, a real hunting-fishing outdoorsman – and he despises the Endangered Species Act as a fascist tool by greenies to destroy private property rights.  Interior is in charge of listing and delisting of endangered species.  He’s denounced listing the sand grouse as a “federal land grab.”  He’s our guy.

By the way, the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) is an Interior agency.  It’s agents have a predilection for being land-stealing thugs – like they are now with Texas ranchers.

Frankly, I’d love to see BLM thieves treated the John Wayne way.  Here it is, one of my favorite scenes in any movie, from Red River.  We all might consider sending the link to Ryan Zinke:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9n-1mJjjhc

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In fact, the list of Trump appointees is becoming so astoundingly impressive that a lot of folks with long memories are saying it’s better than Reagan’s.

The only one that’s causing heartburn for some is T Rex.  Friends of mine like Tony Perkins can’t stomach Tillerson for his pro-abortion support of Planned Parenthood, his homosexualization (and ruination thereby) of the Boy Scouts, and other leftie causes.

Then there’s Russia.  According to the New York Times on Monday (12/12), Exxon-Mobil has a $500 billion deal with Russia that’s being held up by US sanctions (for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and Crimea).  Yes, that’s a ‘b’ for billion, a half-trillion.

Russia makes the world’s worst champagne, and a lot of it is being drunk in the Kremlin right now over a Tillerson State Dept. lifting the sanctions.  You couldn’t possibly get the world’s biggest conflict of interest more than that.

Which is why Tillerson’s confirmation hearing will be brutal – so much so that a lot of savvy insiders in DC believe he won’t be confirmed.

On the other hand, the sanctions issue gives Trump via T Rex enormous leverage to extract big time concessions from Putin.  Pull those missiles out of Kaliningrad, Vlad, pull out of the Ukraine and recognize its independence along with all of Eastern Europe, for starters.

Putin might think it’s all worth it to have sanctions lifted and have US oilcos help develop his fossil fuels.  It would be a good bargain for the West, especially since extraction costs in Russia will make its oil/gas non-competitive compared to US fracking.

T Rex will still have to have a come-to-Jesus moment on social issues though.

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Speaking of Trump appointees, how about this for a cool headline today (12/16): Trump picks hard-line attorney as Israel envoy, angering Jewish left.  Talk about a win-win, victory for Israel’s territorial sovereignty and misery for self-hating leftie Jews (excuse the redundancy).

At last, Israel will have its real capital back, Jerusalem.  No more two-state BS, no more complaints by Zero about “illegal settlements” in “Palestinian territory” – and no more labeling part of Israel as “Occupied West Bank.”  All of that and more is OBE – overtaken by events.  Plus, you can kiss the Right of Return goodbye.

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Staying overseas for a moment, in Holland, Geert Wilders was convicted of “hate speech” towards Moslems last week – which has resulted in him being more popular than ever.  The odds are higher now that he’ll be Prime Minister come next March.

In France, a women’s rights group, La Brigade des Mères, has decided to fight back from being banned on streets by Moslem men.  The HFR wishes them every success and offers this advice:

Get a gun, learn to use it, and do not hesitate to send any man who molests you to his whorehouse in the sky.

In Germany, the Minister of Defense is a lady, Ursula von der Leyen.  On a state visit to Saudi Arabia this week, she refused to cover her hair or wear an abaya, the hooded robe women are supposed to hide themselves with.  Saudis went nuts, with Twitter demands for her arrest.

Her response was a shrug:  “There are limits to the way I adapt to a country.  I do not put on a headscarf and I wear trousers. No woman in my delegation has to wear the abaya. Being able to choose your own clothes is a right for both men and women alike.”

She’s a mother of seven, by the way.  Somehow, I think she and Mad Dog Mattis are going to get along just fine.

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OK – time for gloating.

Isn’t this just the nicest picture of Hillary you’ve ever seen?  She’s still in total shellshock arriving at the party she held for her donors at The Plaza hotel last night (12/15):

Now we turn to Babs Boxer, the moronic Dem Senator from California.  She thinks a two-inch long bait fish known as a Delta smelt is more important than humans, especially farmers who need water to grow food to feed people.  She thought the Senate would vote this week to keep that policy in place.

Then at the last moment, Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) slipped in a rider that diverted water away from the bait fish and to the farmers instead.  She ended up having to filibuster her own bill, and lost anyway.  “It breaks my heart,” she sobbed.

But then, that’s what a libtard does, cries over tiny fishes rather than people.

The most delicious part of this tale is that McCarthy needed a Senator to co-sponsor the Senate version of the bill – and guess who?  DiFi!  Yes, Babs’ fellow California Dem, Diane Feinstein.  How’s that for a lump of coal in your Christmas stocking?

Lastly, we get to gloat over the bottomless bitterness of John Podesta.

Today it was announced that FBI Director James Comey has declared there is no evidence Russians hacked the US election.

Comey noted that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper agreed with the FBI’s assessment, while the only intelligence official pushing the Russian Hack Fake News story was the CIA’s John Brennan, who, Comey said, “takes his marching orders from President Obama.”  Ouch.

In response, Podesta wrote a screed in the WaPo this morning (12/16) about the FBI being broken.  Maybe, John, but you and Hillary and every other Dem losing schmuck in the country are still residing along that river in Egypt.  You can stay there and stew in your bile for as long as you want.  Meanwhile, Trump has a country to run.

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We close with truly inspiring news.  Peak Beer is a myth.  As the number of breweries in America kept exploding – there were over 1,500 in 2008, cynics kept predicting we would soon reach over-capacity – “peak beer.”

They were positive we’d reached peak beer by January 2015 with 3,500.  We had to a year ago with 4,100.  Not a chance.  There are right now 5,005 breweries in America – a record, and exceeds Germany’s by per capita.

What’s more, this means that America makes the world’s best beer.  The technology is so good and the choices so immense, that whatever your preference in suds, odds are a laydown that you’ll find your favorite made by one of those 5,005.

That’s what happens in an industry with permissionless innovation.  Now imagine what happens when an entire economy, the largest the world has ever known, gets permissionless innovation.  No Peak America, that’s for sure.

The more The Donald has a policy of permissionless innovation, the more he’ll make America great beyond imagining.