HALF-FULL REPORT 08/25/17

Little illustrates better why the effort to smear President Trump as a racist has backfired than ESPN’s removal of Asian-American Robert Lee from the broadcast booth for the University of Virginia’s first football game.

“I’m sitting here blown away by the ESPN Robert Lee story,” said black sports journalist Jason Whitlock. “You can’t make this (feces) up. Ron Burgundy is running ESPN.”

Finding itself in a hole, ESPN kept digging.

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Though they started the riot in Charlottesville, Antifa and Black Lives Matter were not responsible for the violence, because they were confronting neo-Nazis and White Supremacists, said Democrats, journalists, and – to their everlasting shame – Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio.

Antifa thugs are just like the American soldiers who stormed the beaches at Normandy, implied CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg, former Hillary aide Brian Fallon.

Antifa was in Boston Saturday throwing rocks and bottles of urine to shut down a Free Speech rally at which no neo-Nazis were present, in Phoenix Wednesday to hassle supporters of President Trump, none of whom were brandishing swastikas, or wearing white sheets with pointy hoods.

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Normals dislike both Nazis and Communists, CNN found out.

The New York Times set out to find evidence Trump is a racist, found the opposite. To appreciate the lengths the Times went to avoid admitting that, you have to read the story.

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Phoenix cops handled Antifa very cleverly, gave us this must see video:

Once is not enough to watch an Antifa thug get smacked in the nads. So here are five popular remixes.

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As President Trump predicted, leftists are going after George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. And Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. It isn’t just Confederates and slave owners they hate. It’s America.

So too, evidently, do Democrats and the Lying Swine.

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Have you noticed how leftists oppose America’s enemies only after they’ve been defeated?

They oppose the Confederacy, defeated in 1865, and Nazi Germany, defeated in 1945.

As for present day threats from North Korea and Iran, not so much. Kim Jong Un is a more responsible leader than President Trump, said Rep. Keith Ellison, D-MN, deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee.

Leftists denounce “Islamophobia” more frequently and fervently than they do Islamist terror attacks.

While Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II were (peacefully) winning the Cold War, Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass, sent an emissary to Moscow to ask the Soviets to help him defeat Reagan.

Hillary Clinton was for a “reset” of relations with Vladimir Putin’s Russia – until she needed an explanation for her defeat other than incompetence and unpopularity.

Let this photo of Jane Fonda on an NVA anti-aircraft gun remind you of which side most leftists were on during the Vietnam War.

“Breathes there the man with soul so dead, who never to himself has said: ‘this is mine own, my native land,’” asked Sir Walter Scott.

There sure are, Sir Walter. The Democrat party, the MSM, university faculties are filled with such dead souls. As Jeanne Kirkpatrick said: “they always blame America first.”

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Neo-Nazis are odious. But one can oppose them with little fear of retribution, because there are so few.

Back when George Lincoln Rockwell paraded about in Sturm Abteilung regalia, the FBI estimated membership in the American Nazi Party at less than 100.

The National Socialist Movement (which is what the American Nazi Party renamed itself after Rockwell was murdered), is the largest neo-Nazi group, with about 400 members nationwide, the Southern Poverty Law Center estimated in 2011.

The Southern Poverty Law Center doesn’t underestimate the size of right wing extremist groups.

If we double the SPLC estimate for the NSM to account for other neo-Nazi groups, double it again to account for sympathizers who haven’t left their mother’s basements, then double it once more to be certain we haven’t missed anybody…

There’d be maybe 4,000 neo-Nazis in a country of more than 325 million. That’s one neo-Nazi in 81,250, 0.00001231 percent of the population.

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The Democrat attack on Confederate statues is hysterical and hypocritical (as mayor of Baltimore, Nancy Pelosi’s dad dedicated statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson), and very stupid politics.

A large majority of Americans – including a plurality of blacks – think the statues should stay.

Not only is the Democrats’ belated crusade against the Confederacy unpopular, it’s trivial. President Trump protects us from Islamist terror. Democrats protect us from seeing statues.

If you vote Republican, you’re a racist, probably a neo-Nazi, prominent Democrats say. That’s sure to win friends and influence people.

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Democrats are having trouble raising money. So desperate is the DNC, it sent out a fund-raising letter that looks like a collection notice. Which backfired.

Despite their desperation, I don’t suppose the Dems will be holding any more Jefferson-Jackson Day fund-raising dinners.

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Larry Schweikart has been keeping track of changes in voter registration since the election. In all but three states, Republicans are up, Democrats down. On the day of the president’s visit to Phoenix, Arizona Republicans registered 30,000 new GOP voters.

It’s kinda fun to watch Dems nail the lid shut on their coffins.

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The Lying Swine went stark, raving mad after the president  said the MSM is filled with “sick people, very dishonest people,” who promote division, lavish attention on extremists, hate America.

Leftie journos dish it out, but can’t take it.

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There was important news in President Trump’s speech Monday (8/21) announcing a new Afghanistan policy.

We should have left Afghanistan when al Qaida did, I’ve argued for lo these many years.

Instead, President Bush installed a corrupt Pashtun turd, Hamid Karzai, as Afghanistan’s president, stuck around to “nation-build.”

BEEG mistake. Our allies in the Northern Alliance don’t like Pashtuns. And if we had all the money and time in the world, I doubt we could “build” a Western-style democracy in what may be the most primitive country on the face of the earth.

Things got exponentially worse under President Obama, who handcuffed our troops with idiot rules of engagement.

When he was a candidate, President Trump didn’t think Afghanistan was worth the bones of another American soldier. He offered three good reasons for changing his mind.

Mattis, Kelly and McMaster may be responding emotionally rather than strategically, worries our friend Ralph Peters. They don’t want the 2,192 soldiers and Marines killed in Afghanistan to have died in vain.

That’s a legitimate concern. But the strategy President Trump laid out is clear-eyed, comprehensive, as much diplomatic and economic as military.

“If you’re worried about Trump’s approach to Afghanistan, don’t be,” said Sundance at Conservative Treehouse. “There’s a pattern he uses that seems to always work.”

First, no more nation-building. American troops will kill terrorists, period.

Second, the president rightly fingered Pakistan as the main enemy. (The Taliban was created by Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence Agency.)

(We dropped the MOAB on roughly 500 Pakistani Islamists – and dozens of their ISI handlers – at Tora Bora in April. When this president makes a threat, our enemies have reason to believe he means it.)

Third, Trump invited India to help – an even faster way to get Pakistan’s attention than economic sanctions.

Pakistan already is squirming. India may send 15,000 troops to Afghanistan, say both Indian and Pakistani sources.

Amazing progress has been made against ISIS in Syria and Iraq since Jan. 20^th. If we (finally!) let the military do what makes military sense, maybe things can be turned around in Afghanistan too.

Keep your fingers crossed.

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Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa) is putting together another Obamacare repeal/replace bill.

It may pass because the bribery trial of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) has begun. If he’s forced to resign, Gov. Chris Christie will appoint his replacement. One less D, one more R.

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Vice Admiral Joseph Aucoin was relieved of duty as commander of the 7^th Fleet two days after the destroyer John S. McCain (named after Maverick’s father and grandfather) collided with an oil tanker off the coast of Singapore.

This was the 4^th mishap since January, the second fatal collision in two months. The USS Fitzgerald, also a guided missile destroyer, collided with a container ship off the coast of Yokosuka, Japan June 18.

Both collisions took place in highly congested waters.

“You need to think of that particular area of the sea as an eight-lane highway, at night, with ships moving at speed, but no traffic lanes,” said retired Admiral James Stavridis. “Any sudden, erratic move by another ship poses an extreme risk, with little time to react, exactly as if a car just ahead of you on the highway suddenly turned around.”

Human error is the chief reason for collisions at sea. VADM Aucoin wasn’t on the bridge of either the John S. McCain or the Fitzgerald when the collisions occurred. By making scapegoats of senior officers whose responsibility is merely formal, the Navy may be covering something else up.

Because the fleet is so small, sailors may be overtired and undertrained. Maintenance of critical equipment often has been deferred.

“The Navy’s overall level of readiness has reached its lowest level of readiness in many years,” the Vice Chief of Naval Operations told Congress in February.

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Fifteen were killed in an Islamist terror attack in Spain last week. It could have been prevented.

“Anyone who shouts ‘Allahu Akbar’ in the city will be shot by snipers,” said the mayor of Venice, Italy Thursday (8/24).

A capital idea. I hope it catches on.

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No one in Washington D.C. may be more out of touch with reality than establishment Republicans who think they can remain standing if President Trump falls.

I think more highly of Mitch McConnell than do most TTPers. But he had to be out of his mind when he told an audience in Kentucky the president has “excessive expectations” about getting bills passed in Congress.

Excessive how, Mitch? In expecting Republicans in Congress to keep their word? In expecting Republicans in Congress to accomplish anything?

McConnell has a point. There are too few Republicans in the Senate, too many of them are squishes, to expect much of significance to pass in the face of unanimous Democrat obstruction. It’s a miracle Mitch could get everyone on board to nuke the filibuster for judicial nominees.

But he ought never to have said that in public. Americans generally, Republicans in particular, blame Congress, not Trump, for failing to pass the president’s agenda.

The Senate Majority Leader and the president do have significant differences of opinion. Trump wants McConnell to nuke the filibuster altogether, but Mitch (and many other old bulls) regard it as a hallowed Senate tradition.

Way too many Republicans have been watching Trump govern rather than helping him govern.

Sen. Jeff Flake (Ariz) has made a fetish of sticking his finger in the president’s eye. On Wednesday, Trump returned the favor. We must dump Flake in the primary, pour encourager les autres.

And Dean Heller (Nev), the only one of the seven Judases up for re-election next year.

We must convince the recalcitrant that if they don’t hang with the president, we will hang them separately.

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The hero of the week is, of course, the cop who nailed the Antifa thug in the cojones.

“Greatest thing about the Antifa pepperball video is that now at every protest every cop will be skeet-shooting some Antifa douchebag’s nuts,” said actor James Woods.

Because we can never watch it too often, here’s that video again.

That’s a wrap, folks. Have a great weekend