As I sit here at 4 am EST watching President Trump answering questions about the talks after a long day with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un I’m reminded of the ‘Never Trump’ push to take down this first time President of the United States who believes in results, and not the preparedness that most Presidents in the past have relied on, but failed due to being too prepared and less personal. Like Mueller and his investigation the Mainstream Media’s intentional undertones and hidden meaning of their carefully orchestrated questions are proving, at least me, that the left’s intent and interpretation will be front and center in the upcoming days, and that anything positive will be changed through unfounded innuendos, half-truths and lies to make this make America first and great again President look bad at all cost.
What I’m witnessing is a leader of a Nation, who at the age of 26, was thrust into the limelight of the world with a set of one sided facts that were left to him by the death of his father, and then having to trust his father’s hand picked hand holders and mentors that swore to his father that they would keep his son in line with his father’s vision and commitment for the future of North Korea!
What I take from this historical moment is that there is actually a chance, even with the press hanging and blaming the past for the future possibilities of peace, that the difference being today’s technical advances when looking back in time, and that the the phrase about ‘History repeating’ itself has run its course and become the trap that these over the hill reporters have beat to death for decades! Can you just imagine how long it would have taken for the demeaning comments by Canada’s Justin Trudeau’s after President Trump left the G-7 to be finally revealed to the President without today’s technology, and how how those comments were front and center for the world to hear and see within minutes after uttering them, and then the President hearing about them at the same time while on his to the summit with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un?
North Korea’s past lies and shake downs should no longer be a major issue, and you can thank the eye in the sky technology that today is being used to confirm the words that matter to the world, and the parties involved in the negotiations. To question the past is justified, but when being able to confirm the physical commitments by both sides, it helps to see what’s going on in the heart of the opposition at the same time by just observing his actions! When it comes to the major questions about North Korea’s commitment I’m reminded of the good faith gestures that North Korea’s Kim Jong-un has presented to show his true intentions. I also have to believe that former North Korea detainee Otto Warmbier ‘didn’t die in vain’ because his death brought these talks to fruition, and I have to believe that Kim Jong-un’s eyes were opened when he heard about the death of Otto Warmbier, and more than likely the reason for the firing of his top 3 father’s pick to mentor his son!
I have to believe that Kim’s father’s henchmen were not only the ones responsible for the death of Otto Warmbier, but for the poisoning of Kim’s possible replacement should the need arise. I have to also believe that by Kim Jong-un’s firing of his fathers overseers, a.k.a. top 3 Generals, and releasing America’s 3 hostages, that Kim Jong-un is on board with the needed change, peace, and the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula for the sake of North Korea and its people.
What’s sad is that President Trump is being doubted about his ability to handle this face to face summit with the 26 year old leader of North Korea whose strings for his entire life were being pulled by his father’s past while his father’s Gestapo kept the brutality alive and well, and kept the nations reputation for violating the rights of its people in place! For the naysayers negating the potential positives coming out of this President Trump meeting with a 26 year old man who was in line to take over the reigns of North Korea, while being forbidden to see what the outside world had to offer for not only himself, but for the people that his father brain washed over the years by using fear as the motivational factor for them to do what they were told, and to believe what they were taught to believe about the outside world, is pretty amazing when you think about it!
To draw any conclusion from this first meeting of what I believe to be one if many is not only disingenuous, but the constant continuation of the Progressive left beating that same dead horse as Mueller is doing to that same proverbial horse when it comes to proving any collusion between the Russians and the Trump Campaign!
WILL THE PAID FOR MAINSTREAM MEDIA HELP MAKE THE WORLD SAFE AGAIN, OR KEEP AMERICA FROM BEING FIRST AND GREAT AGAIN, OR BOTH?
We have the mouth pieces of the Mainstream Media attempting to create a ‘gotcha moment’ by asking questions that borderline undermining the purpose of these historical talks, and we have these prime time procrastinators who deliver the news using carefully orchestrated questions being relayed to them on teleprompters instead of, like President Trump, shooting from a sixth sense that’s been acquired from years of one on one encounters where the man sitting across the table, like in a poker game, figures out the ‘tell’ that gives away even the best and worst hand, and that’s made this outsider non-politician President and his self proclaimed master of the ‘Art of the Deal’ the driving force on the world stage for the future of America, and its needed more than ever after Obama, on the world stage!
What should be a major concern for the the American people is knowing when, if ever, the Democrats will start rooting for America instead of rooting against it’s future potential and possibilities! The American people also want to know when the ‘Paid to Report’ Mainstream Media will go back to the times where integrity and truth meant more than ratings and profit? We sit here today with the President of the United States going head to head with the biggest little big man in the world that believes in what his father believed, persecuted his people like his father did, listened to the generals who believed in what his father told them to believe, but for the first time in his life getting out to see what the real world has to offer with the possibility of not wanting what his father wanted for him and his country moving into the future.
What we have today is a failure to communicate, and a lot of this failure comes from our elected officials that decided that they wanted to take America down a different path other than the one their constituency sent them to Washington to follow! There are more than a lot of things to be happy about in America today, and that happiness has nothing to do with what’s being generated by the status quo ‘Swamp’ that believes that their version of the future for America has no room for what our founding fathers came to America for in the first place to create. They also believe, like Obama, that we should surrender our sovereignty for the greater good of the rest of the world whose leadership under Socialist reform has deserted its people, and now looking to change direction and cash in on the success of our founding father’s blueprint using the Democrats Progressive lawlessness and political correctness to advance their transformation of America agenda, and with the reason being just because we should!
Progressive Democrats call what’s going on in America today Populism, Nationalism, and Deplorable, but I call it abandoning the status quo, draining the ‘Swamp,’ and making America first and great again, and believing that even North Korea’s Kim Jong-un wants a big piece of it for his people, and for the economic future of his country even though Progressive Democrats want nothing to do with it when it comes to America’s future.
It also amazes me that these G-7 countries, that I hope become the G-6 countries, have been taking advantage of the American Taxpayer and the feckless foreign policies of past administrations that put America’s needs at the back of the line in favor of what the world needs now, and at the expense of the world’s leading economy. The world is in a precarious place in time, and with mass immigration flooding the countries of the European Union to the point of where these individual cultures, religions, and ideological governance are being eliminated by the naysayers of the ‘Rule of Law’ and religious beliefs, are stripping these countries of their uniqueness and exceptional traditions that make them stand out on the international stage! ~~~
‘Why Do Democrats Want to Sabotage North Korea Talks?’
Amazing how partisan politics shape this country’s foreign policy. Seven Democratic senators have written the president urging that any agreement signed with North Korea must be permanent; must be subject to “anywhere, anytime” inspections of all nuclear-related sites and facilities; and must include the dismantling and elimination of all of the regime’s ballistic missiles and programs. (One thinks of Mike Pompeo’s demands on Iran to renegotiate the Iran Deal by making infinite concessions.)
It is a tit-for-tat for the solid Republican opposition to the JCPOA in 2015. Five of the seven senators (Durbin, Warner, Feinstein, Leahy, and Brown) had voted for the Iran agreement while two (Schumer and Menendez) had been among a mere four Democrats to (expressing devotion to Netanyahu) vote against. So, this is a display of Democratic unity towards the end, not of bringing permanent peace to the Korean peninsula, but to make it as difficult as possible for an unpopular beleaguered president to score a diplomatic triumph (which could shift momentum to the Republicans in the interim election).
There are Democrats (and some Republicans alike) praying for failure in Singapore, worried, they imply, about an ill-prepared impetuous commander-in-chief giving up the family jewels over bulgogi and kimchee. At the same time due to calculation (Bolton) or dumbness (Pence) top Trump administration officials (plus his personal lawyer Giuliani) have worked to sabotage the summit by deliberately insulting Kim Jung-un and the DPRK in the weeks leading up to it.
The big picture is that the United States under Trump abruptly entered a period of aggressive exceptionalism involving unilateral withdrawal from treaties; provocation of trade wars; broadcast of insults against close allies; harsh measures against undocumented immigrants and the imposition of discriminatory rules on Muslim entry into the U.S.; and a general tendency to reflect the sentiments of a benighted political base. This has alienated Europe in general, as well as Mexico and Canada, the U.S.’s top two trading partners.
Meanwhile, it has positively alarmed many in the (truncated) State Department and in the U.S. polity as a whole. The “mainstream media” incessantly attacks Trump’s “foreign policy.” That is, the U.S. is in a situation we might call naiyu gaikan (troubles within and without). This is how Japanese historians describe Japan in the early 19th century, when the regime of the shogun faced both internal dissent and weakness and challenges in foreign relations. In part the latter resulted from a policy of what we might call isolationism. This period resulted in the toppling of the regime.
The U.S.’s external troubles now involve the fraying of alliances; Emmanuel Macron has actually suggested that G-7 could become G-6. The internal troubles include the Russia investigation, Trump’s (other) legal problems and the prospect of impeachment, massive disillusionment of youth by the very nature of the capitalist system, widespread if not universal contempt for Trump among women due to his manifest misogyny, widespread indignation among African-Americans at Trump’s obvious racism, widespread opposition from Mexican-Americans and other Hispanics due to Trump’s crazy wall plan and related issues, and not least the president’s inability as a manager to put together a disciplined team. Part of the problem is that the chaos which is Trump’s mind is reflected in the chaos in the White House West Wing.
In this context, seven Democratic senators—reflecting both external and internal troubles—address the president demanding that any deal he makes with Kim meet (unrealistic) specifications for their approval. They see the world they’ve known toppling around them due to Trump’s iconoclasm, and they want to do some smashing too. And because they feel no responsibility to the planet, but merely to their own re-elections, they abet the national decline relative to the world.
Practically the only good thing the world sees in Trump is his unexpected openness to talks with North Korea, the prospect of a successful summit delights most people, including the leaders of China, South Korea, and Russia. That Feinstein & Co. should already be throwing cold water on any results shows how out of touch they are with the world, and how much they overestimate the extent of U.S. power. There seems to be a bipartisan embrace of idiocy. All the congressional bickering and the media’s incessant harping on Trump (to the exclusion of attention to matters such as war in Yemen, Italian elections, mass protests against Macron’s policies in France, horrible events in Gaza, Amnesty International’s report on the bombing of Raqqa, etc.) are a cacophony of sounds as pathetic as the strains of the Titanic ensemble as the ship went down.
You hear in those sounds two (bipartisan) choruses of discordant voices that cumulatively tell the world, “Yes, we’re sinking. But we don’t know it, or we don’t care, and if it happens we’ll take others down.” There is no principle or decency but rather sheer opportunism. This could lead to either to an apocalypse or to ongoing imperial decay. One must hope for the latter.
by Gary Leupp ~~~
I’ve been Sitting somewhat on the sidelines rooting for the ‘Rule of Law’ and Constitution and all the potential perks that might arise from this opportunity for the Liberals to put their foot in their mouth again, and trust me, they haven’t disappointed me, and shouldn’t have disappointed you if you’re not a ‘Never Trumper!’ One of the perks is just watching how unhinged the Left has become over another Trump success and ‘checked off’ promise that the liberal left and Mainstream Media are trying to explain away, and the other stand out perk is how these Progressive Liberals are still trying to cover-up their overwhelming involvement in the collusion and behind the scenes corruption that the leadership of the FBI, DOJ, and CIA in order to prove that it was Trump, and not themselves who are actually the ones doing the collusion and corruption in their attempt to take America ideologically down from within, and behind the backs of the American people!
Do the Progressives still believe that the American people are supposed to believe that this outsider non-politician had the where with all to beat 16 Republican combatants at their own game, compile a list of possible cabinet nominees who were Russian related informants while supposedly putting together a plot to undermine America’s election process to win an election against the biggest Socialist ‘crook’ in the history of this country who filled her coffers with false promises and guaranteed paybacks when she became President? How about her having her side business of selling America’s top secrets to hackers of at least 5 other countries after receiving their Clinton Foundation donations, and then telling them which bathroom to hack to get the information they paid for off her unsecured server.
Are we also to believe that Julian Assange was used as an excuse by the Russians to hack the DNC, or should we believe the co-workers at the DNC IT department who witnessed Seth Rich corresponding with Wikileaks which coincidentally stopped when Rich was found dead from being shot in the back in the commission of a robbery at 4 am in the morning with nothing being found missing? Are we supposed to believe that the Russians chose President Trump over Hillary to support in the 2016 elections when Hillary was Secretary of State under Obama, and OK’d the sale of 20% of America’s Uranium to the Russians? How about when Obama told the Russian President to pass on a message to Vladimir Putin that his hands would no longer be tied due to his Presidential two term limit, and that he could be free to help out with something else if needed by the Russians, and probably at a great price! Are we supposed to believe as Brennan and Clapper do that it was a good thing that they had spies in the Trump Campaign and transition team to make sure the Russians weren’t messing around with our election process, but felt at the same time that no similar actions were needed in the Clinton Campaign when all common sense was telling you that Putin would have favored Hillary after all the favors the Democrats and Hillary did for the Russians!
Are we finally supposed to believe that President Trump got over every one of the 17 agencies that were in charge of our national security who were supposed to be the best of the rest in the world? Are we supposed to believe that with all of Obama’s non-existent scandals that these same 17 agencies weren’t in the bag when the Obama AG Eric Holder wouldn’t answer questions on ‘Fast and Furious!’ How about the continued trust Obama had in Holder when Holder received the honor of being the first AG in American history to be ever held in contempt of Congress. The charges stemmed from his stonewalling and lying to Congress as he scrambled to keep investigators away from any evidence that might link a major Obama administration scandal directly to the White House.
The Justice Department with Mr. Holder at the helm dropped a lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation, refused to prosecute Lois Lerner when it was revealed that her division of the IRS was targeting Tea Party and other conservative organizations for ideological and political reasons, and blocked the “Fast & Furious” gun walking investigation that resulted in more than 60 deaths and earned him his contempt of Congress citation.
The former attorney general confided to those tuning in over the weekend that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is a close friend who has already decided to indict President Donald Trump for obstruction of justice but is waiting because he doesn’t yet have the evidence yet. That’s certainly the way Mr. Holder’s Justice worked and he no doubt believes Mr. Mueller approaches investigations looking for evidence to support conclusions already reached.