HALF-FULL REPORT 11/18/16

We have to preface this HFR with an urgent notice.  The dates of Rendezvous XV have been changed.

They are now one week later, Friday January 27 to Sunday January 29.  That’s because so many TTPers (myself included) will be in Washington for the celebratory presidential inauguration of President Trump on January 20.

RXV a week after DJT’s ensconcement in the Oval Office is an ideal time to discuss how we move forward into the Trump Era.

However – we cannot commit to the major expense of a Rendezvous until we know how many of you will attend.  This is not a profit-making venture, we operate it on a break-even basis as an opportunity for TTPers to gather together personally.

Thus we are offering a discount price of $395 for Rendezvous XV for the next 10 days, that is until Monday November 28 – after which the price will be $425.

So – please call or email Miko now to confirm your attendance at what will be the most exciting and joyful Rendezvous ever!  Call Miko at (202) 656-3008 or email him at [email protected].  It’s a good idea to do it now.

************

OK, here we go.  Thanks so much to Rod Martin for his marvelous HFRs while I was in the Himalayas.  On Wednesday the 9^th 10 hours ahead of east coast time, I was at 16,237 ft on the shore of the world’s highest lake, Lake Tilicho, and coming unglued with anxiety.

We got a satphone message saying Trump had carried Ohio, North Carolina, and Florida.  Suddenly it was much harder to breathe in the thin air and I began to hyperventilate.  I had to embrace my friend Jerry Finn next to me to hold myself up, exclaiming in wonderment, “Oh my God, oh my God, he might actually win!”

It wasn’t until we had reached the Hidden Kingdom of Lo later in the day that we learned that he had.  I shed tears of gratitude to Providence.

Since then there has been a constant deluge not so much of actual news but speculation heavily laced with enemedia lies and misinformation.

So much so that the default position must be now to mistrust anything the enemedia reports – they must be assumed guilty until proven innocent of lying.

Right now (11/18), we know nothing about most of Trump’s cabinet picks; we just know who’s been going in and out of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue.  It’s all speculation so far, some of it terrific, some of it terrible.

The worst so far is this morning’s Fox headline: Trump Offers Flynn Post of National Security Advisor.  Pray this isn’t true, or that DJT will withdraw the offer when he realizes that retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn is a paid lobbyist for the sponsor of ISIS, the Islamofascist dictator of Turkey Recip Erdogan.

On election day, Nov 8, The Hill (newspaper of Capitol Hill) published an op-ed written by Flynn under his own byline: Our Ally Turkey Is in Crisis and Needs Our Support.  It is disgustingly dishonest, paid bootlicking of arguably the Number One Enemy of America among world leaders today.

Flynn actually writes that Erdogan “is really our strongest ally against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), as well as a source of stability in the region.”  It is impossible for anyone with access to intel like Flynn to believe this.  He’s not really bright but he’s not stupid either.  Therefore, he’s lying through his teeth and being paid to do so.

On Nov 11, the Daily Caller disclosed who Erdogan was using as a cutout to pay off  Flynn – a Turkish crony businessman named Ekim Alptekin via a Dutch shell company called Inovo BV.

Oh, by the way, in addition to providing ISIS a sanctuary via the Azaz Corridor[i], engineering the mass invasion of Moslem “refugees” to Islamicize Europe, and destroying democracy in Turkey, Erdogan’s latest antic (11/10) is his support for fellow dictator Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela.

On Wednesday (11/16), Trump announced that lobbyists will not be allowed in his administration.  Flynn would be disqualified as NSC Director by that alone.  Let’s hope he is.

************

Now let’s talk about Rudy.  He was of great help and guidance to Trump during the campaign – for which Trump thought he deserved and would make a great Attorney General.  Rudy agreed, even being quoted when queried, “No one know the Justice Department as good as I do.”

Suddenly, however, over the last week, Giuliani has decided AG is beneath him, that he deserves the Cabinet’s Crown Jewel of Secretary of State.  Trump is getting very tired of Rudy yelling, “You owe me! You owe me!” regarding his new demand.

As a result, there are more SecState candidates than you can fit in a Trump Tower elevator.   There’s John Bolton, Nikki Haley, Bob Corker, Mitt Romney, among others – and even one of my best friends on the planet for five decades, Dana Rohrabacher.

Naturally I’m rooting for Dana.  But Bolton would be fantastic as well.  Corker is too much of a buffoon. He’d pick Haley to have the two-fer of a minority woman on the cabinet.  Romney as SecState looks to be a head fake.  It’s my understanding that their discussion yesterday (11/17) was about Treasury Secretary.

But he might pick Rudy after all.  With Donald, you never know until he says it, no one else.

************

And what did The Donald and TC discuss when closeted together on Wednesday (11/16)?  My understanding is that Trump dissuaded Ted regarding AG as that was going to Jeff Sessions – and that he needed Cruz where he was in the Senate, to hold Pub squishes’ feet to the Trumpian fire.

“There’s no one else like you in the Senate,” Trump schmoozed Ted.  “I need you there.”  And SCOTUS for Ted?  The implication was there’s time for that after the Trump legislative agenda was steaming down the track.

************

What’s getting my heart pumped are the folks being mentioned for Energy and the EPA.

This Monday (11/14) headline will bring a grin of schadenfreude to your face:  After Trump’s Election EPA Employees Were in Tears.

As well they should be with my dear friend Myron Ebell coming after them.  You can’t get a better guy to drain the EPA swamp.  Myron is a ten-strike.  Check out this Daily Mail headline (11/12):  Trump Looking for Fast Ways to Quit Climate Agreement.  He’ll do it with Myron.

Then there’s this impossibly awesome possibility:  Oil Mogul Harold Hamm Tops Trump List for U.S. Energy Secretary.

What’s a screaming monster nightmare for the greenies is an absolute dream come true for us.  Harold Hamm is the Father of Fracking.  He’s the greatest capitalist hero of modern times – you can read about him in The Frackers: The Outrageous Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters.

Talk about making greenie heads explode.  Granted, Rick Perry is also being suggested for Energy, and that would be okay – but Harold Hamm at Energy would be a fantasy come true.

Vastly less exciting is the possibility that GW’s NSC Director Steve Hadley could be tapped for SecDef.  Please not.  He’s just not smart enough, and certainly not tough enough to clean political correctness out of the Pentagon.

The bottom line so far:  a lot of good news but brace yourself for disappointments now and then.  Flynn, however, is worse than disappointing – he’s a disaster.

************

You might have noted that Mr. & Mrs. Trump went meet Mr. & Mrs. Zero at the White House the day after Hillary conceded (11/10). They met separately, not all four together.  A lot of eyebrows were raised over the Zeros refusing to have the traditional photo op of the incoming and outgoing First Couples.

Why?  Because they are very proud and sensitive regarding their height.  At 6-1 he stands above most leaders, while she at 5-10 most certainly does above their spouses.  But Trump is close to 6-3, while Melania is 5-11.  Michelle refused to have a picture of her and Zero shown to be smaller than the Trumps.  How small can you get?

************

And the winner for the most hilariously idiotic headline of the week – from today (11/18):  Michelle Obama Is Best Bet for Democrats for 2020.  Hope you weren’t drinking any coffee or something when you read that.

************

This could get your attention: President Trump Can Turn Off California’s Illegal Alien Magnet.  Excerpt:

“[There is] a direct correlation between the immigration flow and California’s generous welfare benefits, which are 89 percent larger than those in Illinois, and 280 percent greater than those offered by Texas. Fully 45.4 percent of recent U.S. immigrants receiving welfare now live in California.

 

According to Pew Research, 1 out of every 12 newborns in the United States each year is an “anchor baby,” a U.S.-born child of an illegal alien. But for the 3 million illegal aliens in California, 1 in 5 newborns are “anchor babies.”
President Bill Clinton passed the “Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996,” which denies illegal aliens access to “appropriated funds of the United States” for “federal public benefits,” including health, welfare, food assistance, housing assistance, unemployment, retirement, postsecondary education and hundreds of other programs.

 

President Trump can turn off California’s illegal immigration magnet on his first day in office simply by enforcing existing federal law.”

Further, realize that until current law is changed, an “anchor baby” may be a US citizen – but the mother is not  She, as does the father, remains an illegal subject to deportation.  She must be sent back to her home country, either with the child, or having the child be with relatives who are bona fide citizens.

Kris Kobach, DJT’s immigration advisor and perhaps his head of Homeland Security, will see to this.

************

Before we close, I need to pass on some exceedingly valuable advice from Skye, TTP’s Sage of the Forum.  I encourage you consider it – and act on it:

We have just begun to fight and have a long hard road ahead of us.  So far, mighty good.

A modest suggestion as to how to fight back:  Don’t feed the alligators.

Deprive our would-be rulers of financial support whenever possible.

Do not use Facebook or Twitter or Google.  They make money off of you every time you use them by selling ads and information on you.

Even if you don’t use them, they still harvest money from selling information on your movements around the internet by planting cookies on your computer.  Get a browser tool like Cookie Controller and delete cookies from Facebook, Twitter, and Google.

They will keep popping up, even if you never visit their websites, so check for them daily and delete these selected cookies daily.  Don’t be a sucker.  Don’t cooperate.  Don’t be a Quisling.  Cut off your enemies’ food and ammunition whenever you can, and you can do so every day.

Get the NoScript browser tool.  Never allow Javascripts from Facebook, Twitter, Google, Washington Post, New York Times, or any other foe.  Cut off your enemies’ food and ammunition.  If you feed and arm them, it’s your own fault.

Use https://duckduckgo.com instead of Google.  Set this as your default search engine.  They don’t compile a dossier on you.  They make their money in a very straightforward way:  the first search item returned (based on that particular search only – no permanent record) may be sponsored, and if so, is marked as such.

More here: https://duckduckgo.com/about  Do it NOW.

If you buy from Amazon, go there via this URL – put it into your browser history now by clicking on it:

https://www.amazon.com/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=ur2&tag=s0cc7-20

Amazon will then pay a commission on ALL your purchases made through this URL to the Second Amendment Foundation.  It won’t cost you a cent.  Use it every time you go to Amazon.

Make the progressives running Amazon cry with every purchase by making them support a very effective Second Amendment litigator.

Get the browser tool HTTPS Everywhere.

This will force your communications with all properly equipped websites to be encrypted.  Run up NSA’s electrical bill!  Ditto for the

FSB (the KGB with slightly smaller hats), GRU, etc.

Get your friends who share your values to do the same.  Cut off as much of your enemies’ food and ammunition as you can.  If you feed and arm them, it’s your own fault.  They will keep coming back for more.  The freedoms you protect will be your own.

No, this isn’t all that needs to be done, not by a long shot, but this does need to be done, starting right now.  You don’t have to bow your head, pull your forelock, and toss them a coin every time they pass by your browser.  Really!

–Skye

************

We close with a big shout-out to my wonderful friend of 30 years and long-time TTPer, Big John Perrott, who has just published his third book: Six Continent Odyssey.  Congratulations, amigo!

Big John has led an extraordinary life and he recounts it with gusto.  I’m hoping he’ll be a RXV for a book signing – yes, Big John?

************

A last note – you may be wondering who the HFR Hero of the Week is.  Fact is, there are too many individual choices right now.  But what comes up for me as obvious is:  the American People.

Up on that Himalayan lake at 16,000 feet, I confess – I had a panic attack.  I told Finn-san that I was afraid it was going to be three strikes and America is out.  He said, ever the Marine, “No, just two Jack, in 2008 and 2012.  The next pitch, America will hit it out of the park.”  And he was right.

The American people did something truly heroic last week.  They went to the polls to vote peacefully and honestly.  A majority of them (okay, not counting all the illegals in California) voted with valor to change our country for the better.

But equally praiseworthy, those that voted for the status quo accepted the election results decently – save for a tiny number whose violent puerility is being megaphoned by the enemedia.

This is a time to be prouder than ever to be an American.  The American people are the HFR Heroes of the Week.

______________________

[i]  From HFR 04/01/16:  Here’s a map of the Azaz Corridor, the gray Safe Zone for ISIS –

“The corridor is how Turkey’s Islamist leader Recip Erdogan provides protection, supplies, weapons, and medical aid to ISIS, and how ISIS transports its oil to Turkey.  ISIS could not exist without Erdogan’s sponsorship, which is made possible via the Azaz Corridor.”