Obama and Trump: a simple comparison

Simple comparisons are often best. 

"Donald Trump continues to repair the racist and other damage Obama did and continues to do, while Obama’s flailing attempts to remain relevant continue to drive him and his legacy into much-deserved obscurity, even as his bizarrely ugly presidential library that isn’t a library at all looms over the Chicago skyline."

"Here, we can not only easily compare the abilities, priorities, and fiscal responsibility of the Republican and Democrat parties, but also see the lack of honesty of the media. 

"Barack Obama, “The One,” “The Lightbringer,” he who stopped the rise of the oceans and healed the planet, was a community organizer who admitted he couldn’t tell his friends what he did for a living. Apparently, organizing communities has no particular pay structure, no actual qualifications, and requires no actual labor or accomplishments. On the basis of that, he became a U.S. senator who did nothing and a two-term president whose primary accomplishment was “soaring rhetoric” that accomplished nothing. He did, however, do enormous damage to race relations, our medical insurance structure, international relations, and America in general." . . .

. . . "Trump is also building the White House ballroom presidents have wanted for a century and more, and he and donors are paying for it. For that, Democrats and their propaganda media are savaging him, despite the probability that he’ll never get to use it. It is, of course, much more than a ballroom, encompassing needed expansions of office space and substantially adding to White House security.

"And the reflecting pool? He finished it in less than three weeks for only $13 million dollars. 

"We don’t have to guess about which state of affairs the media cried and is crying." . . .More

 40 US troops vs 500 fighters – and it was a massacre; Obama left office and Trump took over.

LA firefighters turn up on Karen Bass's doorstep with demands and warning

NY Post   

"Pratt seems like he has the smarts to divert funds from programs that benefit illegal alien causes and needle give-a-ways to druggies to legitimate programs like Police and Fire protection." Reader comment.

"Furious Los Angeles firefighters have dumped hundreds of thousands of signatures on City Hall, demanding it raises sales taxes to cover chronic shortages across the Los Angeles Fire Department.

"LAFD bosses have warned for months they are desperately overstretched with a massive cash shortfall, and some staff are even going unpaid while pulling mammoth 48-hour shifts fighting the flames.

"But in her budget last month, Mayor Karen Bass refused to raise their funding, despite a deadly wildfire wiping out large swathes of the city last year.

"Dozens of firefighters on Tuesday morning turned up at the City Clerk’s office and handed over boxes stashed with 200,000 signatures for a ballot measure to hike the city’s sales tax.

"They want to bring the tax up by half a cent to fund more firefighters, ambulances, fire trucks, and fix up crumbling, decades-old stations.

"Firefighters say the campaign has become a last-ditch attempt to stop response times from slipping even further in the second-largest city in the US." . . . More...

Karen Bass's city

Mike Pence, Pretend Lifeguard of Conservatism—Voters Already Left His Pool

  Steve Cortes › American Greatness  

"A movement that failed to defend those things for decades cannot credibly lecture Americans about conserving the country now."

Remember this old dating joke?

"Mike Pence anointed himself to stand athwart the populist Right with a whistle in his mouth, screaming for conservatives to “get out of the pool.”

"The imagery fits him perfectly.

"Pence increasingly resembles that obnoxious childhood lifeguard we all remember—the self-important scold, high on perceived power, perched way above everyone else. As such, Pence is convinced that enforcing his rules matters more than understanding why people jumped into the water in the first place.

"From his perch at CNN studios and establishment think tanks, Pence now lectures conservatives about “traditional principles,” warning Republicans against populism and urging a return to the old GOP orthodoxy. He has given obnoxious interviews recently, pushing this theme, trying to sell his irrelevant new book, presumably to Democrats who hate the America First movement.

"But there’s one glaring problem with Pence’s sermon: the voters already rejected the system he represents. Specifically, Pence demands that Republicans engage in “soul-searching” over populism. Fine. Let’s do exactly that.

"What exactly did the old Republican establishment “conserve”?

"For 30 years, establishment Republicans insisted mass migration was good for America—good for GDP, good for business, good for “growth.”

"But good for whom?

"American workers faced relentless wage pressure. Small towns watched their identities change seemingly overnight. Schools, hospitals, and public services absorbed enormous strain. And corporate America got precisely what it wanted: an endless supply of cheap labor, all while generational Americans lost their nation.

"Meanwhile, Republicans in Washington perfected the same political scam cycle: promise border security now, but actually deliver massive loopholes and labor importation later.

"Thankfully, Americans realized they were being conned. That realization—not personality, not rhetoric, not “tribalism”—is why the populist Right rose so powerfully inside the Republican Party." . . .More...

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Kamala Harris’ Dangerous Brainstorm; If it weren’t for bad ideas our former Vice President wouldn’t have any ideas at all.

 The American Spectator  

"As constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley writes in The Hill: “The American Constitution was a rejection of the “bad ideas” that politicians (called demagogues in Ancient Greece) have historically used to marshal the power of the mob.” And there can be little doubt that Harris and the Democrats want a “mobocracy.'”

"For a sense of how bereft the Democrats are of credible leaders and sensible policy ideas all one has to do is listen to the remarks of former Vice President Kamala Harris on the Win with Black Women podcast. She proposed a “no bad ideas brainstorm” in which Democrats would discuss “What we need to do, and think about doing, around the Electoral College … expanding the Supreme Court … statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C.” Harris, whom most polls of Democrat voters show as the front-runner for their party’s 2028 presidential nomination, said this as if she were offering fresh ideas. They are, in reality, shopworn tropes that can be heard every time a far left Democrat gets in front of a microphone.

"They are not merely bad ideas, they constitute a clear and present danger to the republic. Indeed, they suggest that the Democratic Party can’t be trusted with real power until it is divested of the radical leftists who now control its agenda. All of the braying about “our democracy” notwithstanding, it could hardly be more obvious that the Democrats want to eliminate the constitutional foundations of the Republic so they can establish one-party rule. This is why Harris speculates about what we “need to do” about the Electoral College. She and her fellow travelers believe that it impedes genuine democracy, but obviously don’t grasp the consequences of dumping it. As historian Allen C. Guelzo writes at National Affairs:

Abolishing the Electoral College now might satisfy an irritated yearning for direct democracy, but it would also mean dismantling federalism. After that, there would be no sense in having a Senate (which, after all, represents the interests of the states), and eventually, no sense in even having states, except as administrative departments of the central government. We structure everything in our political system around a federation that divides power between states and the federal government … abolishing the Electoral College would point toward doing away with the entire federal system.

"Just as Harris and her ilk don’t understand the damage that would be caused by getting rid of the Electoral College, they are completely clueless about the consequences of meddling with the Supreme Court." . . . More...

Are there really 'no bad ideas' when it comes to 'saving our democracy'? - Eric Utter   . . . "As for the notion that there are no bad ideas? How about “Let’s kill all the Jews” or “Islam is totally compatible with a free, democratic republic?” Or even, “I’ve only had 10 rum and cokes, I think I’ll take a nice drive in my car?” And let’s be honest, Kamala doesn’t have brainstorms, she has perhaps a mild squall or minor dust-up on occasion, maybe even a moderate gust of wind, but no brainstorms.

"So, Democrats, just continue to call conservatives Nazis. Keep trying to imprison all your political opponents. An assassination or two might be needed here and there to, you know, “save our democracy.” (The problem is that Democrats actually think the country is their democracy, and that no one else has a right to govern it.)

"Kamala may still have her mind set on Running for President Under the Influence (RPUI), but it is hard to see any current likely Democrat heading a ticket the equal of Vance-Rubio or vice-versa. As sure as water is wet, Democrats will resort to their time-tested tactics of slander, libel, lies, gas-lighting, projection, and cheating." . . .