Donald Trump

[Peter]

That was interesting, Michael about Trump sizing her up like a poker player at a casino. There were so many openings he did not take . . . but he was putting to rest criticisms he can now decline to answer in debates two and three. He will certainly bring up those lost attack opportunities in the next debate. I hope he is accepting criticism and learning. He does seem to have a blind spot about things that would bother anyone else.

I am in no way joking when I say Hillary was “augmented” in that first debate, either by handlers and/or with a computerized system. I instantly picked up on her looking at her lower right, and then occasionally at her lower left. I didn’t count the times but it could be in the hundreds. There had to be an “intelligence” behind the constantly changing writing and the synchronization of that written text and the words spoken during the debate. This is not that same as glancing at your notes. She was augmented possibly through her ear buds and by glancing at her “Watson” computerized note machine. It was masterfully done and it was CHEATING.  I hope this message will get out to a wider audience, to the Trump campaign and to several conservative columnist or even The National Enquirer. I wrote to Eric Trump about this issue but I am sure he gets thousands of emails.  

Peter

Speaker Paul Ryan just wrote me, “After the debate, one thing remains clear: Hillary is not fit to be your Commander in Chief. Her scandals alone should disqualify her from ever holding a political office. Yet despite all of Hillary's disqualifying scandals, the liberal media wasted no time in declaring Hillary the winner of the debate. But let me tell you this - I'm energized.” end quote

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

18 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

I suppose I am going to have to deal with Glenn Beck and Ted Cruz at sometime, but I just don't have the energy to do the links and everything.  

. . .

Frankly, I never thought I would say this about Glenn Beck, but there are more important things to talk about.

But then, this happens:

Glenn Beck Says Ted Cruz Endorsed Donald Trump Because He Lost Faith In Divine Providence

Dayaamm!

What's next, a holy war?

Michael

[moralist]

12 hours ago, turkeyfoot said:

I could dissect your preference for Trump. Since you really dont know what youre going to get except to say its not Clinton.

As a Conservative American businessman I'm not risk averse like you are, I deal constantly with uncertaint. That's because I'm familiar with unknowns as well as accepting their consequences. I know what Hillary is and am comfortable with assuming the risk of a Trump alternative.

It's emasculated liberals who are scared of risk and need their government to indemnify them against every possible contingency. It's why you're ok with Hillary. She represents your values. She's your mommie, not mine.

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In the aftermath of a Trump win maybe we would discuss how disappointed you were, maybe how utterly convinced you became over your choice having an undesired effect. If you wanted to discuss it at all.

You would only end up holding that discussion with yourself as my life has nothing to do with who happens to be President...

 ...because I designed it that way.

 

Greg

 

[BaalChatzaf]

14 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

But then, this happens:

Glenn Beck Says Ted Cruz Endorsed Donald Trump Because He Lost Faith In Divine Providence

Dayaamm!

What's next, a holy war?

Michael

I recall telling you that Glenn Beck was a clown  (back when you were In Like with Beck). 

I swear there is something about  show business and the media (particularly the t.v.  news networks)  that  attract the mentally inferior folks. 

[BaalChatzaf]

6 hours ago, moralist said:

As a Conservative American businessman I'm not risk averse like you are, I deal constantly with uncertaint. That's because I'm familiar with unknowns as well as accepting their consequences. I know what Hillary is and am comfortable with assuming the risk of a Trump alternative.

It's emasculated liberals who are scared of risk and need their government to indemnify them against every possible contingency. It's why you're ok with Hillary. She represents your values. She's your mommie, not mine.

You would only end up holding that discussion with yourself as my life has nothing to do with who happens to be President...

 ...because I designed it that way.

 

Greg

 

If a President gets the U.S. into a Real War   your life will have something to do with who is President.   The bombs will fall on the righteous and unrighteous alike.....

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

I only saw portions of this, but it's ugly.

Make no mistake about the intentions of those who want to suppress Trump support.

They mean it, and they mean it with violence.

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

2 hours ago, BaalChatzaf said:

I recall telling you that Glenn Beck was a clown  (back when you were In Like with Beck).

Bob,

And I recall telling you several times that time exists. Meaning people change.

Back when I supported Beck, he was exposing ACORN, Van Jones, the openly Marxist ideology of new cabinet members (including one who bragged about learning from Mao that political power stemmed from the barrel of a gun), the influence of George Soros, and on and on, even the Caliphate--which people thought was a real hoot back then.

Real clown stuff, huh? Now everybody knows this stuff and most of it is commonly discussed--including by you. Did they all, including you, turn into clowns like you claimed Beck was?

What happened to you all?

 

You often have great insights, but not when you are in Monday morning quarterback mode.

 

Michael

[moralist]

3 hours ago, BaalChatzaf said:

If a President gets the U.S. into a Real War   your life will have something to do with who is President.   The bombs will fall on the righteous and unrighteous alike.....

I've been in a real war so I know exactly what it is, Bob.

Obama is already getting the US into a real war because his feminized weakness has emboldened America's enemies.

 

Greg

[BaalChatzaf]

3 minutes ago, moralist said:

I've been in a real war so I know exactly what it is, Bob.

Obama is already getting the US into a real war because his feminized weakness has emboldened America's enemies.

 

Greg

So. You agree with my point.  A Real War kills the innocent, the guilty, the righteous and the unrighteous.  An HE bomb don't pay no mind, to who was gentle or who was kind, and it don't care 'bout the folks behind  

I was not permitted to fight in a Real War so I built Real Weapons that killed massive numbers of Real People.  I will bet I am responsible for more deaths than you are.

Which means I know Sin. 

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

49 minutes ago, BaalChatzaf said:

Which means I know Sin. 

Bob,

Knowing Sin doesn't make you a badass.

Anybody can know Sin.

Knowing Sin and choosing the Good in a way that makes the Good real makes you a badass.

Michael

[BaalChatzaf]

41 minutes ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Bob,

Knowing Sin doesn't make you a badass.

Anybody can know Sin.

Knowing Sin and choosing the Good in a way that makes the Good real makes you a badass.

Michael

But I do have blood on my hands...   If what I made deterred a Real War then maybe I did the right thing.

[Jonathan]

3 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Bob,

And I recall telling you several times that time exists. Meaning people change.

Back when I supported Beck, he was exposing ACORN, Van Jones, the openly Marxist ideology of new cabinet members (including one who bragged about learning from Mao that political power stemmed from the barrel of a gun), the influence of George Soros, and on and on, even the Caliphate--which people thought was a real hoot back then.

Real clown stuff, huh? Now everybody knows this stuff and most of it is commonly discussed--including by you. Did they all, including you, turn into clowns like you claimed Beck was?

What happened to you all?

 

You often have great insights, but not when you are in Monday morning quarterback mode.

 

Michael

There have always been two sides to Beck: The serious investigative journalist pundit, and the artiste/prophet/savior-wannabe. He has always been formidable at the first, but is said to hate doing it. He is an incompetent twit-buffoon at the second, but is said to adore doing it and to believe himself to be a virtuoso. Lately he's been abandoning the first and becoming much more of the second. Hopefully he'll be smart enough to switch back before his little empire completely crumbles.

J

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

3 hours ago, Jonathan said:

There have always been two sides to Beck: The serious investigative journalist pundit, and the artiste/prophet/savior-wannabe. He has always been formidable at the first, but is said to hate doing it. He is an incompetent twit-buffoon at the second, but is said to adore doing it and to believe himself to be a virtuoso. Lately he's been abandoning the first and becoming much more of the second. Hopefully he'll be smart enough to switch back before his little empire completely crumbles.

Jonathan,

There is a black, dark, nasty, shady, sleazy side of Beck's good side...

er...

hmmm...

Do I want to say this?...

I don't want to give Bob ammunition...

But what the hell, let me say it.

Glenn Beck is not the kick-ass investigative reporter he appeared to be when he was at Fox. He put on one hell of a great show, so he's a great showman, but most of it was not based on his own work, nor did it come from his in-house staff's research.

For example:

Beck's well-known rift with Breitbart started with the ACORN scoop. Apparently, Breitbart had a lot more to do with James O'Keefe than Beck did, but Beck got out in front and treated it as his scoop. I don't know all the murky details, but they are out there for anyone who wants to look. While Breitbart was alive, he and Beck never got friendly again. And the Breitbart organization still treats The Blaze as the leper of conservative sites.

Alex Jones has it on record, time-stamped and everything, that a crapload of info Beck made prominent was taken directly from Infowars and Prison Planet. Including information on George Soros. Jones--as an overtly zealous crusader against globalism (and sometimes overly fanatical conspiracy theorist  )--encourages people to use his info so there is no copyright violation. But Beck always gave the impression that his facts came from his own researchers. They did not. Many of them came from Jones and the people he has interviewed over the years.

Sarah Palin severed ties with Beck when he read a private email she sent him on his show (about the Gabby Giffords shooting). 

I remember seeing one show where Beck connected current events (at the time) to a difference in metaphors: Apollo represented by the 1969 Apollo 11 moon launch, and Dionysus represented by the outdoor Woodstock rock festival in the same year. Does that sound familiar? It should. It was the frame Ayn Rand used in her essay, "Apollo and Dionysus." I recall Beck taking many of Rand's insights wholesale and presenting them as his own. And did he say her name? Just once? He did not.

I've heard other negative stories over the years. Almost all of them of this nature. Glenn Beck's sin is not being a clown. It's a sin of bad character, the same kind of bad character Ted Cruz showed when he had his people tell Ben Carson's supporters that Carson had quit on voting night during the Iowa primary so they would vote for Cruz instead (as a fellow evangelical), knowing this was a lie. That's the kind of crap I'm talking about.

Glenn Beck is a cheater, not a clown. Now he is a prophet seeking his own cult. That fits perfectly with a "cheater" personality, I suppose...

(sigh... Now here comes Bob saying, "I told you so," again...  )

Michael

[Jonathan]

1 hour ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Glenn Beck is a cheater, not a clown.

Good point.

J

[Brant Gaede]

11 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

I only saw portions of this, but it's ugly.

Make no mistake about the intentions of those who want to suppress Trump support.

They mean it, and they mean it with violence.

Michael

Yeah, they mean it--in California.

Not in Arizona. We can pack guns. AZ is tops of the 50 states for owning, carrying and using weapons in self defense. Concealed carry needs no permitting. Open carry goes back--to before AZ was even a territory of the United States

And the police aren't wimps.

Wimpy PC California culture. Ugh.

--Brant

decades ago I knew a NYC cop who visited Tucson and marvelled at seeing some people packing handguns--a NYC felony.

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

This is laugh-out-loud hilarious.

Buzzfeed is a clickbait site, but it also leans pretty hard left when it leans.

They put up an online poll to see who their audience was voting for: Trump, Clinton, other or not yet decided.

Trump killed it at about 97% with about 12.5 million votes so far. Not scientific, granted, but still...

Now Buzzfeed corrected the poll to say it doesn't represent real people, but you can still vote in it.

BuzzFeed Hilariously Edits Its Own Poll Showing Huge Support For Trump

btw - If you want to vote in the poll, go here.

You don't need to guess very hard... you already know I voted.

 

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Thomas Sowell just came out for Trump and Ben Shapiro is not amused. He tries to keep a straight face, then make a quip, but if you look, you can see clear irritation.

Granted, after being a staunch anti-Trumper, Sowell is doing some blah blah blah to justify his change, but he's still voting for Trump.

I'll take that vote and his lukewarm endorsement.

Maybe he will convince some others to vote for Trump, too.

Michael

[moralist]

14 hours ago, BaalChatzaf said:

A Real War kills the innocent, the guilty, the righteous and the unrighteous.

The "innocent" who choose to live among the guilty share their fate when they get what they deserve.

Greg

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

The fact that Trump had to tweet the following is interesting.

Anytime you see a story about me or my campaign saying "sources said," DO NOT believe it. There are no sources, they are just made up lies!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2016

The question is, how do you combat a propaganda media that makes things up out of nothing? And keeps doing it nonstop?

I've seen so much in the media recently it's causing me a huge bad feeling inside. It's not fear or panic about imagining Trump will lose. I am about 99.99% sure he will not, and I've been fighting like hell to see that he wins, but in the end, if he loses, he loses. This is America. 

My feeling is total disgust wedded to disbelief the media would openly do what it is doing. It is so rare for me to feel disgust, it's surprising me. Disgust feels nauseating. It literally makes me want to vomit. For real. The last time I felt disgust this strongly was when Susan Rice went out on all the Sunday talk shows to say that the Benghazi debacle was due to a YouTube anti-Islamic video, then Clinton and Obama repeated it, Obama to the United Nations.

Not even Brazil during the military dictatorship (the part that I lived under) was this bad.

I'll be over this feeling soon. I believe this is exactly what the media wants Trump supporters to feel so they lose heart in the final lap. With me, that ain't gonna happen. 

I have a feeling I will be consuming a lot less mainstream media after the election. And I have a feeling I will not be alone.

Michael

[Jules Troy]

When Trump wins it will be interesting to see how fast msm does an about face and tries to suck up to him.

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Ha!

I wonder what the answer is...

A new law is needed?...

People don't speak in the correct jargon?...

Political connections?...

 

Michael

[BaalChatzaf]

8 hours ago, moralist said:

The "innocent" who choose to live among the guilty share their fate when they get what they deserve.

Greg

Schmuck!  When the bombs fall  far and wide  there is no hiding place.   When the gas and the bacterial agents are deployed there is hiding place.  When the crops are destroyed and you use  up your stored food,  there is only starvation.  

Are you one of these Survivalist  crackpots?????   You think you can escape modern warfare?   Even before modern the hundred years war in Europe (which lasted 116 years)  killed 15 percent of the population,  about half of what the bubonic plague claimed.  Good and Bad,  Guilty and Innocent   --- both died. 

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Interesting article on the backstage campaign surrounding the Alicia Machado media dust-up (by Mollie Hemingway in The Federalist on September 29, 2016)

Alicia Machado Is 2016’s Sandra Fluke, A Democratic Public Relations Scam
Democrats and the media work together seamlessly to push the idea that innocent, random young women are victimized by mean old Republican men.

Does anyone remember Sandra Fluke? She was the poor little victim who was having emotional stability problems because she couldn't get free contraceptives paid for by the government.

 

And she was one hell of a competent media manipulation campaign by SKDKnickerbocker. As the article says:

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A Lexis-Nexis search shows that the media ran too many stories in 2012 for the search to filter (more than 3,000) but a cursory search shows the Washington Post ran a whopping 139 stories on Sandra Fluke that year and CNN had 146 pieces dealing with Fluke. MSNBC (94), New York Times (63), Associated Press (49), NBC (23), Los Angeles Times (13), ABC (13), and CBS (11) also played their role in advancing this story.

The Fluke media blitz was managed by powerhouse public relations firm SKDKnickerbocker, and it continued throughout the year. The Washington Post‘s “health policy” reporter Sarah Kliff wrote more than 80 stories about her, the Komen foundation’s attempts to stop funding Planned Parenthood, and failed Senate candidate Todd Akin (and none on Philly abortionist and serial murderer Kermit Gosnell). Fluke’s media coverage far outweighed actual public interest in her, culminating with Time naming her a finalist for their “person of the year.”

One of the interesting things about the public relations blitz to make Sandra Fluke a household name in order to advance a key Democratic campaign theme was how everyone complying with the public relations blitz pretended it was organic. Very few journalists admitted they were running a story pre-packaged by the country’s most Democrat-aligned public relations firm...

Whatever happened to Sandra Fluke? Wasn't she supposed to be celebrity by now? She should have her own talk show, be a regular on Colbert, at least have someone say something about her. Anything... 

Anyway, the way the media Fluked up the American public at the time is what is happening with the Alicia Machado story. (Except, as Hemingway noted, with a bit of cost-cutting. SKDKnickerbocker is not involved this time around.) 

Clinton mentioned the Machado at the very end of the debate with Trump. Then:

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Almost immediately media outlets ran fully researched front-page and top-of-the-newscast stories quarterbacking this major Hillary Clinton campaign theme to prominence. That means they were already ready to go, more or less. There was no daylight between actual Hillary Clinton campaign talking points and the stories that ran on front pages across the land.

. . .

A check of Lexis-Nexis on Thursday morning, less than 72 hours after Clinton unveiled her campaign message, showed that CNN transcripts had 46 mentions of Machado, CNN.com another 27, and CNN Wire with another 23. The New York Times has already run 11 stories around Machado, the Associated Press as many as 17, the Los Angeles Times with five, the Washington Post with five, and more in the Chicago Tribune, NPR’s “All Things Considered,” the San Francisco Chronicle, the Arizona Republic, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Boston Globe, CBS News, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and even smaller papers such as the Tulare Advance-Register.

It was immediate and it was everywhere. That’s not a coincidence. That’s coordination.

There's a lot more in this article.

For those who like to see just how committed modern mainstream journalists are to being whores who deliver a thrill for their pimps, there it is. 

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

But they are discovering that not all Americans like to use whores.

  

Michael

 

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

One place, at least, in Ohio looks like it is in real trouble for the Clinton campaign:

Michael