B-Man Posted July 5, 2020 Posted July 5, 2020 At Mt. Rushmore, Trump Scoops the Democrats New York Sun, by Editorial Original Article With a rousing Independence Day speech at Mount Rushmore, President Trump certainly laid down the principles on which he will now go to the hustings. His choice of a setting put him before the famed monument to four presidents — each of which is a target of the movement that has been seeking to besmirch or destroy statues of our national leaders. Mr. Trump left no doubt in respect of which side he is on. Had the President left any such doubt, the morning papers cleared them up. The Times led with a long geschrei about how Mr. Trump had sent a “discordant” message. 1 1
B-Man Posted July 5, 2020 Posted July 5, 2020 ROGER KIMBALL: Looking back on the 2020 election, historians will say the Mt. Rushmore speech was the moment that Donald Trump won reelection. 1 1
Cinga Posted July 5, 2020 Posted July 5, 2020 1 hour ago, B-Man said: ROGER KIMBALL: Looking back on the 2020 election, historians will say the Mt. Rushmore speech was the moment that Donald Trump won reelection. Really good read! Quote “We believe in equal opportunity, equal justice, and equal treatment for citizens of every race, background, religion, and creed. Every child, of every color—born and unborn—is made in the holy image of God.” Again, can you imagine any Democrat saying that—any of it? It has often been pointed out that black lives do not matter to the Black Lives Matter movement, which is really just a gigantic machine for hoovering up money from left-wing donors and despoiling the institutions and emblems of our civilization. It is a sad irony indeed that Black Lives Matter is explicitly dedicated to the destruction of the nuclear family—it’s part of their mission statement—since the ruination of the black family, actively abetted by the Democrats’ welfare policies, is largely responsible for the continuing plight of black Americans. The gospel of the radicals assailing our society today is a gospel of self-abasement. The president preaches a different message: “We stand tall, we stand proud—and we only kneel to Almighty God.” 1 1
B-Man Posted July 5, 2020 Posted July 5, 2020 Looking back on the 2020 election, historians will say the Mt. Rushmore speech was the moment that Donald Trump won reelection.
bilzfancy Posted July 5, 2020 Posted July 5, 2020 12 minutes ago, BillStime said: Remember when Ayatollah Obama bowed down to his Muslim rulers? No American president should ever bow to any ruler, but Barry did 1
B-Man Posted July 5, 2020 Posted July 5, 2020 JULY 5, 2020 — JOHN HINDERAKER FROM THE LAND OF THE FREE There is a big recreational lake a few miles from my home town, where I spent summers growing up. We had dinner at a nice restaurant (excellent meats) there Friday night. There, and most places, we saw flags. The flag-to-mask ratio was huge: My home town has a surprisingly good zoo. Unfortunately, my pictures didn’t do it justice. This is a jaguar: We visited my 98-year-old father, the main purpose of our trip, and then shopped for fireworks at what must be the country’s biggest fireworks emporium: You push a shopping cart up and down the aisles and select from a vast array of explosives. For a few hundred dollars, you can put on a display roughly equivalent to what a town would do. And many people do. As it turned out, with several of us shopping separately, we wound up with more fireworks than we had time to detonate, and had to save some for next year. Almost everything we bought would be illegal in Minnesota. (As a clerk at the drive-through window of a liquor store in South Dakota once put it, everything is illegal in Minnesota.) Then it was back to the lake, where one of my brothers lives, for a pontoon boat ride, dinner and fireworks. My granddaughter with a sparkler: Fireworks are hard to photograph, but this is a fountain that shot colored sparks eight feet or so in the air: Neighbors on both sides shot off lots of fireworks, and we had, among other things, a 24-shot reloadable mortar. All around the lake, you could see fireworks exploding in the sky. Again, impossible to photograph, but here is an attempt: A lot of people are leaving blue states, both to escape from their oppressive conformity and to seek better job and investment opportunities. I f you are in that category, South Dakota is an option you should consider. 4 1 2
B-Man Posted July 5, 2020 Posted July 5, 2020 I hesitate to identify a highlight. Do take in the whole thing. It is a blast of truth that is particularly needed this year. As to the hysterical responses by the Left/Media. We can infer several things: 1) Trump was effective. 2) “Dark” means he spoke about things the Left would prefer that voters not focus on. 3) The Left thinks it will lose the culture war. . 2 1 1
BillStime Posted July 5, 2020 Posted July 5, 2020 25 minutes ago, bilzfancy said: Remember when Ayatollah Obama bowed down to his Muslim rulers? No American president should ever bow to any ruler, but Barry did Whataboutism at its finest - I expected it of course cuz you Trumpholes are so predictable. Remember when Trump appeared to "curtsey" while receiving a gold medal from the king of Saudi Arabia? Some might even call it a bow. Trump mocked Obama for bowing to a Saudi king. And then he … Imagine if Fox covered Trump like they did Obama with this bow? And I know you freaks are selective when it comes to tradition and history but for what it is worth: Bowing to the Saudis Is a Presidential Tradition That Goes Back to FDR But you know what really stands out - and who is beyond submissive to Saudi Arabia? Once again - Trump looking out for others - and not Americans. In Extraordinary Statement, Trump Stands With Saudis Despite Khashoggi Killing
Chef Jim Posted July 5, 2020 Posted July 5, 2020 54 minutes ago, BillStime said: Whataboutism at its finest - I expected it of course cuz you Trumpholes are so predictable. Remember when Trump appeared to "curtsey" while receiving a gold medal from the king of Saudi Arabia? Some might even call it a bow. Trump mocked Obama for bowing to a Saudi king. And then he … Imagine if Fox covered Trump like they did Obama with this bow? And I know you freaks are selective when it comes to tradition and history but for what it is worth: Bowing to the Saudis Is a Presidential Tradition That Goes Back to FDR But you know what really stands out - and who is beyond submissive to Saudi Arabia? Once again - Trump looking out for others - and not Americans. In Extraordinary Statement, Trump Stands With Saudis Despite Khashoggi Killing Awesome. You give someone crap regarding whataboutism and you triple down on it. You’re really something you know that.
B-Man Posted July 6, 2020 Posted July 6, 2020 Senator Duckworth and Most of the Press Are Lying about Trump’s Speech by Charles C. W. Cooke Original Article Senator Tammy Duckworth says that, during his address at Mount Rushmore on Friday, President Trump “spent all his time talking about dead traitors.” This is a flat-out lie. It is entirely untrue. It is invented from whole cloth. You can read the speech here and see for yourself. One doesn’t have to like President Trump — or to have enjoyed his speech — in order to acknowledge that Duckworth is lying. One needs only to read what was said. Trump’s two references to the Civil War came in passages praising Lincoln and condemning slavery 1
B-Man Posted July 6, 2020 Posted July 6, 2020 Leftist's never need explain....... Patriotism Wasn’t Racist When Obama Celebrated Independence Day. 2
B-Man Posted July 7, 2020 Posted July 7, 2020 Trump’s Mt. Rushmore Speech Is What We’ve All Been Waiting For. .
BillStime Posted July 7, 2020 Posted July 7, 2020 3 minutes ago, B-Man said: Trump’s Mt. Rushmore Speech Is What We’ve All Been Waiting For. . You mean Tucker's speech?
B-Man Posted July 7, 2020 Posted July 7, 2020 LONGTIME TRUMP CRITIC QUIN HILLYER: Trump’s Rushmore speech was monumentally splendid. Despite so much media drivel about President Trump giving a “dystopian” or “dark and divisive” or out-and-out racist speech at Mount Rushmore, his Friday speech, as written, was the single finest of Trump’s presidency. It featured realistic, entirely justified pushback against civilization’s despoilers. And it married that with an appropriate, much-needed celebration of the essential goodness of the United States and its history, along with plenty of unifying thoughts and proposals. . . . First, let’s be clear on who is waging the “culture war” for which the media blames Trump. Trump did indeed blast the “cancel culture” that is “driving people from their jobs, shaming dissenters, and demanding total submission from anyone who disagrees” so that “in our schools, our newsrooms, even our corporate boardrooms, there is a new far-left fascism that demands absolute allegiance. If you do not speak its language, perform its rituals, recite its mantras, and follow its commandments, then you will be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted, and punished.” Trump here is just speaking the truth. There has long been an established, deeply admirable civic culture in this nation; it is the radical left who now wages war against it. All over the country, people are being fired for the mere utterance of inconvenient or unwanted thoughts, even anodyne thoughts. People are being physically (and dangerously) hounded from public forums. And it is an utter assault on the rule of law itself to deface or destroy public art, as opposed to removing it through legitimate representative processes. To defend the civic culture against such assaults is not an affront, but a duty. Moreover, as Trump said, it is a duty rooted not in suppression but in a commitment to continued expression of the values and virtues that have “rescued billions from poverty, disease, violence, and hunger, and that lifted humanity to new heights of achievement, discovery, and progress.” Since when is a rejection of such destruction, married to concrete achievements and aspirational themes, somehow “dystopian?” Only an establishment media and corporate culture that are morally twisted, themselves committed to the destruction, could somehow treat a defense of decency as if it were an affront. Well, to them it is, because they’re on the other side. Related: Byron York: Distorting Trump’s Words. “That much news coverage is biased against President Trump goes without saying. But every now and then there comes an episode of bias so egregious that it deserves attention. The coverage of the President’s July 3 speech at Mount Rushmore is one of those episodes.” Think of the press as a psychological warfare operation against normal Americans and you won’t go far wrong. The full text of Trump’s speech is here. Read it and make up your own mind. 1 1
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