HALF-FULL REPORT 01/31/20

“Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”  — Albert Einstein, 1940

No day is more appropriate than today – January 31, 2020 – to reflect on these words of transcendent wisdom of Einstein’s.  For what words could more presciently apply to President Donald Trump and those mediocre minds so suffused with deranged hate for him?

Today, their attempt to impeach and remove him from the presidency ends – but their derangement will not. It will continue unabated, and it will be their Living Hell.  They will go to their political graves with it and because of it this November Third.

We are living in very strange times.  We are entering the fourth year of one of America’s most successful presidencies in history regarding our economy, national security, and foreign policy – and one of our two major political parties is engaged in a masochistic spasm of self-destruction over it.

A masochistic spasm in the face of this domestically:

And of this regarding national security and foreign policy:  According to the Jerusalem Post, President Trump gave “The Speech of the Century” on Tuesday (1/28).

When you read or watch it up on TTP today (1/31), try to wrap your brain around the Shampeachment Dems’ torrent of hate on the floor of the Senate at the very same time this speech was delivered, announcing the sincerest attempt ever to bring real peace to the world’s most war-torn region.

Note that after POTUS’ speech and release of his Peace to Prosperity plan, the governments of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar praised it.  The government of Iran denounced it as “satanic.”  What’s more so is the satanic hatred of Democrats for their president and their country.

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So the Shampeachment ends in temper-tantruming farce – epitomized by Teapot Nadler stealing the podium from Schifty for the last question of the night.  Watch as Schifty pleads, “Jerry, Jerry, Jerry,” to stop and let him speak – as if a total of 60,000 words (yes, 60,000) of his in the last three days hadn’t been enough.  Watch to 1:05 – afterwards, Williams’ sidekick blathers on.

Wags are now calling it Nadler’s “speed waddle” in beating Pencil Neck to the podium.  Teapot is five-three, same height as Lenin, whose waistline is an order of magnitude wider than his shoulders, and has a penchant for hiking his pants up to his armpits.  He is arguably the most revolting flat-out Anti-American Fascist in the House.  This sums up the HFR’s opinion:

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So have countless voters had it with him and Democrats in general.    The primary season begins in three days (2/03) in Iowa.  What’s going on there this week is, well, you can’t make this stuff up.

Bloomie is running ads promoting “transgender rights” – including taxpayers paying for tranny sex-surgeries and so much unbelievably more.  In Iowa.

Fauxcahontas announces that as president, her choice of Education Secretary would have to be first approved by a transgender child.  In Cedar Rapids.

Quid Pro Joe informs a small group in Clinton, Iowa that He Needs a Strong VP Because He’s Old and May Die on Office.

John Nolte has a must-read about Biden’s Meltdown in Iowa.  In sum:

“The fact that this two-time presidential loser is even in contention only reveals how awful the rest of the Democrat field is.  Joe is too corrupt, too old, too enfeebled, too senile and too yesterday… And when the pressure is on, he melts down like a little girl who just had her pigtails pulled.  Presidential material he is not.” 

Meanwhile, as Burisma Biden’s biggest crowd of the week was less than 300 in Des Moines yesterday afternoon (1/30):

POTUS held a monster rally in Des Moines yesterday evening (1/30) to some 10,000, including 2,000 willing to stand in freezing cold watching video screens outside.  He explained why the crowd difference, that included a shot of the Des Moines crowd last night:

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Old Joe is melting down because Bernie Sanders is torching him in Iowa and New Hampshire polls.  In fact, Real Clear Politics’ aggregate of betting sites of people betting real money on who will be the Dem winner has Bernie way out in front today (1/31):

So, please, someone tell Peter Schweizer to shut up about this:  Bernie is Bernie’s Biggest Charity.  Nothing to see here, folks, move along.  The last thing we should want is to torpedo Bernie prematurely.

POTUS knows that Dems have to nominate somebody – and his top pick is Bernie.  The Dem Establishment Is Freaking Out Over a Sanders Nomination, bleats a scared Vanity Fair on Wednesday (1/29).   On Tuesday (1/28), Dem journo Jonathan Chait wrote in New York Magazine: Running Sanders Against Trump Would Be an Act of Insanity.

The HFR’s opinion is that “winning” Dem primaries is a very relevant term.  This is something that Mrs. Clinton can’t seem to understand.  On Monday (1/27), she told the press, “The person who gets the most votes should win.”  She was talking about the Electoral College, which means she has no understanding of the Constitution and why the Founders created electoral votes.

But note that no reporter had the brains to ask her, “What about the Democrat primaries?  Delegates are parceled out proportionally, the candidate who gets the most votes never wins all the delegates in any state’s primary.”

Even with a reduced field (or perhaps because of one, as a candidate must receive at least 15% of the votes to get any delegates), the odds remain high that no candidate, however much he gains a plurality of votes in the primaries, will gain a majority of delegates such that he or she will win the nomination on the first ballot.  Brokered Convention City.

Could Mike Obama or The PIAPS then be helicoptered in?  Anybody’s guess.  POTUS would prefer Bernie, as he would be shooting-a-duck-in-a-barrel easiest.  But he’s confidant that no matter whom, it will end up like this:

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It’s starting to get late as we’re waiting for Senators to figure out what to do as the vote for more witnesses failed 51-49 with Murkowski and Alexander voting no (Rinos Romney and Collins voting yes with all the Dems).  Schumer is trying to weasel out more delays for an inevitable vote to acquit.

So let’s take a moment to go to Britain.  Oxford University is composed of 39 colleges, such as Balliol, All Souls, and Trinity.  The one with the largest endowment is St. John’s.  This morning (1/31), The London Times reported that students demanded the college bursar, Andrew Parker, divest St. John’s $10 million of fossil fuel stocks (BP and Shell) and declare a “climate emergency.”

The students weren’t expecting Professor Parker’s response:

“I am not able to arrange any divestment at short notice. But I can arrange for the gas central heating in college to be switched off with immediate effect. Please let me know if you support this proposal.”

The student protestors complained:

“This is an inappropriate and flippant response by the bursar to what we were hoping would be a mature discussion. It’s January and it would be borderline dangerous to switch off the central heating.”

To which the professor answered:

“You are right that I am being provocative but I am provoking some clear thinking, I hope. It is all too easy to request others to do things that carry no personal cost to yourself. The question is whether you and others are prepared to make personal sacrifices to achieve the goals of environmental improvement (which I support as a goal).”

That’s the Touché of the Week.

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Britain’s Mega Touché of this century so far is, of course finalizing Brexit at 11pm tonight (6pm our east coast time).  The Daily Mail’s jubilant headline: The UK FINALLY leaves the EU as Britons celebrate in jubilant scenes across the nation when the clock hits 11pm – from Nigel Farage in Parliament Square to ordinary people up and down Britain.

Happiest guy in the UK is Nigel Farage: “Brexit Is a Historic Day for United Kingdom, Europe, and the Western World.”

Yes it is.

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So it is we end this week with a simultaneous two-fer.  Within minutes of each other — 5:42pm the Senate votes 51-49 to pave the way for the President’s acquittal, 6pm Brexit is official – two great victories for freedom over the forces of leftist tyranny.

It’s getting late and time to close.  It’s 7pm with the Dems in a quandary – Schumer wants to drag out a vote to acquit with time-wasting procedural votes meaning nothing, for the sheer vindictiveness of denying Trump a victorious SOTU (State of the Union) Tuesday night.

While Sanders, Warren, and Klobuchar want to stop wasting time and get back to campaigning in Iowa over the weekend.

Acquittal is now 100% inevitable and all made-up delays are infuriating everyone except Schumer and his toadies.  Hopefully, McConnell will force a vote to acquit later tonight or tomorrow, as a few days of delaying the inevitable is totally pointless.

We’ll see, but right now it’s adieu for the night.

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Enjoy Super Bowl LIV on Sunday!  Most of us will be rooting for Middle America’s Chiefs over Nancy Pelosi’s 49ers.  The Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes is being hailed as the “next Tom Brady,” and may well be.  Here’s a highlights clip:

One thing to notice, however, in this clip and others is how much time Mahomes has to count the house.  The question of the game may well be, how’s he going to get away with that with six feet four inches and 264 pounds of quick-as-a-cat Nick Bosa in his face?  Watch:

And remember, Bosa the Barbarian is also nicknamed “MAGA Nick” for his support of President Trump.

Bottom line for SB-LIV:  Who wins the Bosa-Mahomes matchup wins the game.

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Last notice:  you only have a few days to let us know if you want to be a part of our Africa Dream Safari.  Everyone with an ounce of adventure in their soul dreams of going on a life-memorable safari in Africa.  Now’s your chance, with your fellow TTPers.  We only have room for three, four at the most, of you.  Write to me at [email protected]  to let me know.

Better decide fast.  Someone may figure out there couldn’t be anything better than to take their grandchildren on a safari they will tell their grandchildren about when they get old – and then there will be no more room for you to go.  Carpe diem!