HALF-FULL REPORT 09/29/17

This has been a revelatory week.  Hours after the HFR was posted last Friday (9/22), the President denounced the “SOBs” who hate their country so much they won’t stand for our anthem while being paid absolute fortunes to play a game.

His specific words were not intemperately spontaneous, but chosen carefully to get exactly the reaction – from both his supporters and opponents – they got. We’re only just beginning to see, today one week later, just how yuge a win it is for him.  As in yuge.  This is pure political genius:

Simultaneously, this alleged political neophyte gets his entire base of tens of millions to jump to their feet in roaring support for him, lances the boil of the Left’s ruinous politicalization of sports, and exposes for all to see just how much Democrats and their Fake News propagandists really do hate America.

Soak in this headline from USA Today on Tuesday (9/26):  NFL Commits Suicide by Trump with Politically Correct Protests.

Focus in on that expression: “Suicide by Trump.”  This is Sun Tzu-level genius, goading and manipulating your enemies to destroy themselves, at no harm to yourself while increasing and expanding support from those on your side.  That’s how Ronald Reagan got the Soviet Union to destroy itself.

The “Suicide by Trump” strategy has wide application as we’ll see.  As for the NFL, its officials, coaches, and pathologically ungrateful players, we have a textbook case of how political correctness makes you masochistically stupid.

As explained often over the years in TTP – from Aeschylus in America (August 2004) to The Cost of Envy-Appeasement (November 2015), politically correct liberalism is nothing more than a pose by those afraid of envy.  Thus liberals are driven to ever more masochistic efforts of self-humiliation in attempts at envy appeasement.

What’s ironic in the NFL is that the front office suits like Goodell and the black players on their knees are placating the envious – the former regarding Lying Swine pundits peddling their envious Marxism, the latter regarding their black brethren envious of all the money they’re making.

TTPer Brant in the Forum put his finger on it:

“It’s all about envy-appeasement – of not offending the leftists who rule this country through academia and the mainstream media, and of the ‘black man as victim’ cultural motif adopted by black players in the NFL and NBA.”

You’re not going to get a more classic example of how envy-appeasement is masochistic than what is happening to the NFL.

As Hate America Fake Newsers like Keith Olberman are demanding that all fans sit in the stands during the anthem, and Hate America Democrats like Donna Edwards demand that all NFL players take a knee during the anthem, the public response has been crucifying.

NFL ticket sales have fallen off a cliff, as have TV ratings.  Kneeing players are losing endorsements, sponsors are pulling their ads, investors are shorting CBS stock.  Fans are actually burning their tickets and team fan gear, as on #BurntheNFL.    Other Twitter hashtags are growing exponentially, like #BoycottNFL, #BoycottNFLSponsors, and #RespectOurFlag.

The Fan Backlash will get worse, even as the Fake News tries to ignore it – all the networks refuse to show fans booing the kneelers, while last night (9/28) they lie about “fans linking arms” for the anthem at the Packers-Bears game.  Four guys link, thousands didn’t.

The backlash however is the least of the NFL’s worries now.  Last June, Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and James Lankford (R-OK) introduced a Bipartisan Bill to End Federal Subsidies for Sports Stadiums.

S.1342, Eliminating Federal Tax Subsidies for Stadiums Act of 2017 is the companion bill to Steve Russell’s (R-OK) HR811, No Subsidies for Stadiums Act.  The odds of this being passed and signed into law by Trump are now skyrocketing.

Far worse is what would demolish the NFL:  the repeal of its anti-trust exemption in the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961, which a bribed Congress passed to overrule a Supreme Court decision that the NFL violated anti-trust laws.  Expect bills to revoke the act to be dropped in both House and Senate shortly.

Jack Kelly thinks the owners will fire Goodell soon, but that’s only a band-aid on a gaping wound made by a hara-kiri sword.  The NFL is disemboweling itself.  The fans want a divorce.  Enjoy the death watch.

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By contrast, the future of NASCAR looks bright.  NASCAR team owners have the patriotism and spine that NFL owners don’t.  They issued a clear warning that any protest by a driver or pit crew member during the anthem before a race would be fired.

“That will get them a ride on a Greyhound bus,” said owner Richard Childress.  NASCAR icon Richard Petty said, “Anybody that won’t stand up for the anthem ought to be out of the country. Period.”

No wonder no one took a knee at races on Sunday (9/24).  Not too surprising, as guys who race cars going 200 miles an hour inches from each other have bigger huevos than most anyone, and patriotism to match.

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“Suicide by Trump.”  It’s not just putting our domestic enemies on suicide watch, but our international ones as well.  Or get one enemy to knock off another.  This headline from yesterday (9/28):  Beijing Orders North Korean Businesses in China to Shut Down.

The Chicoms are coming to grips with the fact that Trump really will get rid of Rocket Man if they don’t.  Ereyesterday, Jack Kelly told of his suspicion that the two supposed “earthquakes” that might trigger the collapse of the Norks’ Pungyye-ri nuclear site on Saturday (9/23) could have been the “secret kinetic option” SecDef Mattis alluded to a few days before (9/19).

Kelly thinks that would be the “Rod from God” Kinetic Energy Projectile (KEP) – a “weaponized meteor strike.”

It is with my distinct satisfaction that TTPers were apprised of this weaponry 15 years ago in “Playing Poker with Korea” (December 2002).

In the section “Spearing Yongbyon” (the Nork nuclear reactor), it describes how to destroy it “quietly, safely, stealthily and mysteriously”:

“With a spear.  A steel rod forty feet long and four inches in diameter, fin-stabilized, with a needle-sharp tungsten-carbide tip, equipped with a small JDAM guidance package including a GPS.  It is non-explosive;  there is no warhead.  You’ve heard of smart bombs.  This is a smart spear.

 

You take a half-dozen of these Smart Spears up in a high-altitude bomber, like a B2 or B52. and drop them over Yongbyon at 50 or 60,000 feet.  The Smart Spears have such a big sectional density that it will be like a vacuum drop — with no wind resistance, they will be going faster than the speed of sound when they hit their target.

 

Going so fast and with almost no radar signature, the GPS-guided Smart Spears will punch through the Yongbyon reactor and keep right on going, burying themselves in the earth several hundred feet deep.  The North Koreans won’t know what happened, and all there will be is some holes in the ground — plus a melted-down reactor.”

Now they’re solid tungsten spears dropped from space hitting Pungyye-ri at a meteor speed of Mach 35.  Goodbye Pungyye-ri and the Norks don’t know what the hell happened.  The Chicoms have an inkling.  They’d better enact their plans quickly to have Rocket Man suffer a tragic event, replacing him with their stooge who’d denuclearize Norkland – before a Rod from God comes down on Kim’s head.

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Now if Trump could only drop a Rod from God on the Establishment GOP in Congress to get his tax reform passed and save our economy.

Take octogenarian pussy Orrin Hatch whimpering on Wednesday (8/27) that tax reform is “almost impossible” without osculating the derrières of the Dems. What utter drivel.  All the Pubs have to do with a simple majority vote is eliminate the filibuster.

They whine that with it gone, they’ll never be able to pick the pockets of lobbyists once they’re back in the minority as their votes won’t count.  But they know full well that once the Dems are back in majority, they’ll nuke the filibuster in a New York second.

Still, Hatch and McConnell are such limp putzes they won’t force its elimination – and force means throwing off recalcitrant Rinos off Committee chairmanships.  Exactly what McConnell should have done to McCain, Collins, and Murkowski for voting No on Zerocare repeal.

What’s needed is Regime Change in the Pub Senate.  The wipe out of Luther Strange by Roy Moore in the Alabama primary on Tuesday, 55% to 45%, even with McConnell pouring in $30 million for his Rino buddy, is a harbinger.  The very day Luther was losing, fellow Rino Bob Corker announced his retirement.

Breitbart reports that it was bad advice from his son-in-law Jared Kushner that Trump backed Strange – and that has made the POTUS very unhappy.  Regardless, now is the time for Trump to take advantage of McConnell’s blatant weakness. As Dave Brat (R-VA) says, “The Senate Is Embarrassing and Mitch McConnell Is in Trouble.” Time to press for his replacement.

Who could that be?  Shame it can’t be Ted Cruz, too unliked.  Can’t be Rand Paul, too undependable.  Best would be Mike Lee of Utah.

After the Ocare Repeal Debacle, passage of Trump Tax Reform is absolutely crucial.  Economic disaster, and Pub political disaster await if it fails.  And already, Rinos are sabotaging it – idiotically balking at one of the best provisions, disallowing deductions for state income taxes.

The states with the highest rates are all Dem, you see, like California, Oregon, and New York.  Deduction for their tax ripoffs means their Dem corruption is paid for – no deduction shafts Dem bloated spending.

Watch how this develops.  Meanwhile, watch Newt Gingrich explain what a marvelous betterment of everyone’s finances Trump Tax Reform means.  He’s optimistic not just about the legislation, but how cooperative Pubs and Trump have been in creating it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pn7B4Zzq9M&t=428s

You owe it to yourself to take a look at the White House Framework for Tax Reform.  The President is bullseye correct in saying, as he did today (9/29), if this becomes law, combined with his regulatory reform, it will be “rocket fuel for our economy.”

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Yet already, we have this week in the Winning! Department:  Pew Research reports (9/28) Latino Unemployment Rate Is Back at Historic Low.  Maganomics, working for the Latino vote!

More Winning:  The NY Post reports (9/27): Trump to Allow Buying Insurance Across State Lines.  This was a key provision in Ocare Repeal, and now POTUS is enacting it via EO.

How big a deal this is was itemized in Health Freedom and Health Fascism (March 2017):

“One primary reason for the high cost of health insurance today is the monumental number of required benefits health insurance policies must provide imposed by state regulators.  Today there are over one thousand mandates on everything from hairpieces to marriage counseling.  As a result, insurers are legally prohibited from supplying low-cost basic health insurance.”

Trump’s EO will thus dramatically lower the cost of insurance for millions by allowing insurers to offer low-cost, basic health insurance policies with no state mandated benefits whatever.

Another beautiful consequence is that it bypasses opposition by the large major insurance companies, because it would result in competition from deregulated small insurance companies.  Winning!

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Quick Schadenfreude Break.  Convicted traitor Bradley “Chelsea” Manning has been banned from Canada.  Cool

And Reuters reports (9/23):  TIME Magazine is having a revenue collapse, has to sell off assets. So sad.

For the fun read of the week, enjoy John Hinderaker’s Supreme Court Grants Cert In Historic Employee Freedom Case.  A better title would be:  How the Democrat Party’s Cash Cow, Public Employee Unions, May Be Screwed.

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Now for the Joke Headline of the Week (9/26): Venezuela Prepares for War With U.S. With ‘Rifles, Missiles and Well-Oiled Tanks at the Ready’.

This is jaw-dropping funny.  Do you know the last time the Venezuelan military fought a war with another country?  It’s a trick question.  The answer is: Never.  Ever.  Not in the country’s existence since its creation in 1830.  You can hear the laughter coming out of the Pentagon from a dinner cruise boat on the Potomac.

Besides, the POTUS knows Napoleon’s advice well: “Never interfere with an enemy while he is in the process of destroying himself.”

This is no joke at all.  On Monday (9/25), 93% of Kurds voted for independence from Iraq.  Naturally, Turkey, Iran, and the Iran-backed regime in Baghdad freaked out.

The Kurds are the largest ethnic group on earth without their own country.  John Bolton is exactly right:  The US Should Support Kurdish Independence – They Deserve It, and besides, the State of Iraq Doesn’t Exist Anymore.

But what about Spain this Sunday, October 1^st?  That’s when the Catalans have their referendum on independence, and you won’t believe the incredible fascism coming out of Madrid to block it.  Fascism on the level of “Turkey, China, and North Korea,” say Catalan leaders.

An actual armed civil war may break out.  Mind you, Catalonia (think Barcelona) is not the only place wanting to escape Madrid’s clutches.  There’s the Basque region at the western end of the Pyrenees, and Galicia north of Portugal in the northwest.  Spain is fragile, it really could break apart.

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But not the US.  The Left is losing, we are winning with Trump.  We are getting our country, our America, back.

So we close with an exemplary example of why that’s true – a regular, ordinary, working class guy named Erich Nikischer.

On Sunday (9/24), he quit his job and walked off the site where he had worked for 30 years – New Era Field, the stadium of the Buffalo Bills.  After watching the Bills refusing to stand for the anthem, ‘I waited until the national anthem ended, I took off my shirt, threw my Bills hat on the ground, walked out,” he said.  “I will never step foot in the that place again, I will never watch an NFL football game again until this ends.”

 He posted this on his Facebook page:

Erich Nikischer is the HFR Hero of the Week.

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A Postscript.  I’m off on my Mysteries of the Gobi expedition for the next three weeks.  Jack Kelly will be manning the HFR ramparts in my absence.  Thanks, Jack!!