Intro

It's time for a reality check ...

Maybe we’ve reached the point of diminishing astonishment.

But I suspect that much of what we’re hammered with every day really doesn’t make much of an impact on most of us anymore. We’ve heard the same stories too often. We’ve been exposed to the same issues for so long without any meaningful resolution. We recognize that reality is rapidly becoming malleable, primarily in the hands of whoever has the biggest microphone. How else can we explain a society where myth asserts itself as reality, based entirely how many hits it gets online?

We know that many of the “issues” as defined are pure crapola, hyped by politicians on both sides pandering to “the will of the people,” which is still more crapola. Inevitably, it’s not the will of all the people they reflect, but the will of relatively small groups of people with disproportionate political influence.

Nobody wants to face up to the realities of the issues. Nobody wants to say what’s right or wrong – even when it’s obvious and there are numbers to back it up. Most of us are afraid to bring up the realities for fear of being accused of being insensitive or downright mean.

So we say nothing. Until now.

It’s time for a reality check on the fundamentals – much of which is common knowledge to many of us, already. But it might be comforting to know you are not alone …

Friday, September 16, 2016

That’s old news …

As Hillary continues to fall in the polls, she’s reaching back in time to come up with something to support her case that Trump’s a monster. 

For a long time Trump questioned whether Obama was born in the United States. So did a lot of other people.  It was understandable given Obama’s strange lineage and where he at times lived as a child and with whom. Plus, he and his campaign kept a tight lid on details of his background, including his college admissions and academic records.

It’s all still somewhat suspicious to me.

That Trump and other so-called “birthers” questioned where Obama was born, and whether he was actually a naturalized U.S. citizen, was seen by the liberal media and Democrats as racist. That was only because Obama was black. Obama finally did produce a birth certificate from Hawaii and for most folks the issue was dead.

Yet Hillary just brought it back. And she added that anyone who questioned whether “our first black President” was a U.S. citizen is unfit to be President of the United States.

Call me cuckoo but anyone caught repeatedly lying to the FBI, to Congress, to grieving parents, and who obstructs justice by intentionally destroying evidence after it is subpoenaed is the one actually unfit to be President. I’m not even going to go into the shady commodities deals, Whitewater, the Rose Law Firm papers, Benghazi, the mysterious deaths of key witnesses … nope, don’t need to. 

Hillary and her supporters consider all that “old news.” Which means, to them and their liberal media lackeys, been there, done that, already addressed and not relevant anymore.

The classic example was when Bernie Sanders said to Hillary in front of a cheering Democrat crowd that “nobody is interested in your damn emails.” Old news, in other words.

It’s a standard Democrat ploy that instantly reminds you of someone dismissing the deaths of four Americans in front of a Congressional panel by saying: “What difference does it make now?”

Yet think about this for a minute: Hillary’s supporters are going pretty far into the way-back machine to find something to trash Trump. 

Some in the fawning media, and the usual far-left online trolls, recently tried to make the case that Trump’s current wife – Melania – entered and worked in the U.S. illegally in 1995; they also republished photos of Melania from  a GQ shoot in 2000, well before she became Mrs. Trump.  Melania Trump’s immigration lawyer issued a letter that debunked the first claim; the second attempt to smear Trump also may have backfired. (She is undeniably hot.)

Somehow all this is fair game to Hillary and the Democrats. And “new” news, worthy of investigation to raise doubts about Trump’s fitness. 

They are still dredging up past bankruptcies, interviews on Howard Stern, disgruntled former vendors and employees and anyone – or anything – they can use to destroy Trump’s credibility. They’ve even made a TV ad with clips taken from the Republican primary debates – indeed a nasty slugfest – to make a claim that even Republicans hate Trump. 

All of which happened in the past – the “distant past” by Democrat standards (longer than a few weeks). But there are obviously different standards when fighting Republicans.  

The whole birther resurrection came from a Washington Post interview yesterday with Trump.  Once they had it back on the front burner, the media went to town, as did Hillary’s campaign. The Trump campaign quickly responded that Obama was born in the U.S. But for some reason Trump himself didn’t say that – and that gave the media and Democrats (pretty much the same) all the room they needed to fire up the old charges of racism. 

Today, Trump was scheduled for an event at his new hotel in D.C.  The press salivated over this opportunity to grill Trump on the birther issue and keep the flame alive; practically every cable and online news show speculated on how he would handle the “controversy.” 

Instead, Trump trotted out a series of Medal of Honor, Bronze and Silver Star recipients, and retired generals and admirals, who gave testimonials why Trump should be the next President. When Trump finally came up at the end, he simply said that Obama was "born in the United States, period."

That was that. But on online and cable news shows immediately afterward, spokespuppets for the Hillary campaign insisted that Trump had done something wrong. They simply would not accept what they had been demanding – Trump’s acknowledgement of Obama’s citizenship. 

Tough shit, folks. That’s now old news. 

So what’s next from the Hillary camp?  Who knows.  Maybe an old 8mm home movie of Trump they can edit and take out of context? Some old girlfriend he broke up with in high school? Maybe an interview with one of the wives he divorced?     

Hey, if they want to continue to play that game maybe Republicans could respond in kind.  Like pulling up the records of why Hillary was kicked off the Watergate Committee. Playing the tape of her laughing about how she got a rapist acquitted. 

Or getting former White House Secret Service staff to do a Swift-Boat type of commercial about what Hillary is really like. From published accounts, that would be fun. 

Personally, I’d like to have a paternity test run on Bill and Chelsea to see who her real dad is.  Not because that has any bearing whether Hillary is qualified to be President – I think I’ve already established how I feel about that – but just to start a rumor she has to constantly deal with.  I think that's only fair after her minions have gone after Melania, and just about as relevant to running for the Presidency.

I’d like a full investigation into where her ugly pantsuits are made and by whom – I’m thinking Sears or JC Penney based on style and color – but I’m betting those stores don’t have any clothing in the $15,000 price range.   

Oh yeah, I’d also like to see a parade of Bill’s bimbos Hillary publicly dissed as “trailer trash.”     

Hillary started this. I think she’s going to regret it. She has as many if not far more skeletons in her closet than Trump. However in her favor is that people who can prove her misdeeds often disappear. 

But that’s old news, right? 

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