--Winston Churchill
the press is on the verge of distinction because of new ways to communicate. Readership and viewership is down. I wonder why?
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Yes Fox news leans Republican, but they at least allow liberal viewpoints.
Trump is the most powerful man in the world. Surely, if leadership means anything meaningful, it means that it is up to him to set the better example.
He appears to see himself as the bully-in-chief, and it enrages him that he can't get away with pushing the press around, as he is accustomed to doing with his servants and flunkies, or the sycophants he is surrounding himself with at the White House. No other president has gotten away with it, and neither will he I don't believe.
Many people respond really well to powerful bullies...they like to see a strongman who really gives it to people who are less powerful. It fills some void in their miserable, mediocre lives, I guess.
The rallies at Nuremburg drew huge crowds who cheered their fuehrer deliriously as he would incite them against those rotten juden, who he told them were responsible for all the ills of Germany. I would like to think that I would not have been one of the crowd, but what do we really know about each other and what we are capable of? Sometimes, just looking the other way is enough to let a guy like the Don get away with whatever he is planning to get away with in his fetid cesspool of a mind.
I am willing to wait until tomorrow night to see what the Don has planned for his next step. Let's see If he still has the reporters who are forced to cover his events herded into a cage. These are just people who are made to be there to do their jobs, the working people the Don professes to care so much about. Let's see if he incites the crowd against them, as he routinely did at his campaign rallies across the Fatherland.
I think I know the answer, but I am willing to give your hero 24 more hours. I will say, that if Trump stays true to form, then I hope that CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, and all the rest of his/your whipping boys give it to him twice as hard every time he bends over.
He did a particularly poor job in addressing the Jewish reporter who wanted to ask what the government could do to stop anti-Semitic bombings. Plus, he lies about small things for no reason, such as claiming he had the biggest electoral college win since Reagan, or that three million illegal votes cost him a popular victory. He needs to understand he won.
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Even you cannot be this stupid.
I'm capturing your post so it is saved for all time - "you need to learn the definition of a lie. those are lies--maybe untrue but not lies"
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I appreciate your measured tone and will try to respond in kind going forward.
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MANY Canadians know a lot about America.
They watch American television. They read American magazines. But until a few years ago most Americans didn't know much about Canada. There was the colorful Calgary Stampede, of course. There were the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. There was Sergeant Preston - and his loyal dog, King. But that, as far as most knew, was it.
The situation has now been simplified. There is only one thing anyone has time to know: The events of last year prove that if enough Canadians, with the help of enough Americans, don't act soon enough to prevent it, Canada in a very short time will be a totalitarian dictatorship of the kind in Cuba.
The story starts with Prime Minister Pierre-Elliott Trudeau who, as your newspaper has told you, is irresistibly charmant. By now you know that those admitted to his presence leave forever enchanté. His wit is like champagne, his learning immense. He adores pretty girls. They adore him. His overpowering masculinity may well destroy the Women's Liberation Front.
Trudeau had an unhappy childhood, as a man of the people should. True, he did like being driven to school in a Rolls Royce. He was glad his father was a millionaire. Money came in so handy. But he became unhappy because so many other fathers were not millionaires. He decided to become "socially conscious."
Pierre Trudeau is now about fifty-one years old. As with so much else about him, his exact age is a mystery. In 1939, Hitler and his ally Stalin signed their Non-Aggression Pact, started World War II and divided Poland between them. And Lucky Pierre apparently became two years younger - less vulnerable to the Canadian draft.
He opposed the war, he explained, because,
"Like most Quebecers, I was taught to keep away from imperialistic wars."
Stalin also called it an "imperialistic war," and sabotaged our side - until Hitler attacked him, which made the war "patriotic" - but this doesn't prove anything. After all, Joe may have gotten the term from Pierre.
During the "imperialistic war," Pierre spent some time in the Canadian Officers Training Corps, but was kicked out for what he says was "lack of discipline" - which was a shame. His overwhelming masculinity would have terrified the Nazis. He also spent some time in the Communist-backed Bloc Populaire, helping to undermine the war effort.
Like the Communists at the time, he apparently believed Hitler wasn't that bad.
In 1947, Trudeau was a student at the London School of Economics, founded by the Fabian Socialists to train Marxists and spread Marxism. Professor Harold Laski, then head of the Fabian Society, was publicly advocating violent revolution at the time.
Almost twenty years later, Trudeau, about to become Prime Minister, reflected on his training and told reporter Norman DePoe that Laski is,
"the most stimulating and powerful influence he has encountered."
For instance, Trudeau was also a student in Paris, where, apparently under the influence, he was arrested with other demonstrators but escaped from the police. Then come a mystifying couple of years, during which, we are told, Lucky Pierre was a vagabond. Money comes in so handy.
Apparently, he visited Communist Yugoslavia. He was in the Middle East during the first Arab-Israeli war. He was in Shanghai when Mao Tse-tung took over. He had many dangerous adventures. He fought bandits. He fought pirates - all of whom his overwhelming masculinity helped him overwhelm.
Then the young millionaire came home, dressed like a hippie, sporting a beard. In 1949, he got a job as an economic advisor to the Privy Council in Ottawa. Igor Gouzenko, the Soviet Embassy official who exposed Communist espionage activities in Canada after World War II, says Trudeau got that job with the help of Robert Bryce, who was Clerk of the Privy Council at the time.
Bryce had earlier served in Washington, says Gouzenko, where he belonged to a Communist study group and was a close friend of Soviet spy Alger Hiss.
While in Paris, Pierre had spent some time with Canadian Gérard Pelletier, who was then with World University Service, he says,
"giving American money to countries that were about to go Communist."
(Maclean's, February 24, 72.)
Now, in Montreal, in 1951, Trudeau and Pelletier began to publish a magazine they called Cité Libre, in which they carried the commentaries of various distinguished intellectuals.
There was Professor Raymond Boyer, for instance, who earlier had been exposed by Gouzenko and convicted of Soviet espionage. There was frequent contributor Pierre Gélinas, Quebec Director of Agitation and Propaganda for the Communist Party. There was Stanley B. Ryerson, leading theoretician of the Communist Party and editor of Marxist Review.
Toronto Star editor Peter Newman, a Trudeaucrat, wrote in 1968 that Cité Libre did not publish Ryerson. As you see on Page 15, the table of contents says it did.
Also in 1951, the Communist World Peace Council, and the Communist World Federation of Trade Unions, then run by V.V. Kuznetsov of Soviet Intelligence, began planning an international economic conference to be held the next year in Moscow.
Indeed, so obvious was the nature of the· forthcoming conference that in December, 1951, then-Canadian Justice Minister Stuart Garson warned all Cabinet Ministers that it was a Communist operation, and advised that government employees should not attend.
The conference was held in April, 1952. Of the 471 delegates, 132 were from officially Communist countries. Observers at the time estimated that 300 of the remaining 339 were known or suspected Party members - which left 39 or so for window dressing.
Marcus Leslie Hancock, one of the six delegates from Canada, says the Canadian delegation was organized by the Canadian Communist Party, which also paid the delegates' bills. Hancock, then a Communist, says that everyone else he knew in the delegation was also a Party member.
The report of that conference, printed in Moscow, is now very hard to get. All copies in Canadian libraries have disappeared. You see a part of that report reproduced on Page 3. As you see, one of the delegates was Pierre-Elliott Trudeau. Indeed, the fact that Trudeau's name appears first means he headed the Communist delegation.
Hancock says he didn't know Trudeau, who stayed at a different hotel. Millionaires, after all, don't mix with peasants. It's outré.
Trudeau apparently was inspired in Moscow. He couldn't wait to get home, where he began writing pro-Soviet articles. He couldn't understand why Le Droit (Ottawa) and L'Action Catholique (Quebec City) began calling him a Communist.
All he had done was attend a Communist meeting in Moscow as a guest of the Communist Party at the head of a Communist delegation. All he was doing now was publishing his thanks.
He couldn't understand why in 1953 he was barred from entry into the United States.
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The Eisenhower Administration was then getting ready to admit some Soviet secret policemen to attend a meeting of the World Council of Churches - but poor Pierre they kept out. Why? Pierre later explained that while in Moscow for the conference he actually threw snowballs at Stalin's statue - and remember that Stalin was still alive. Isn't the man's overwhelming masculinity overwhelming?
But Toronto Telegram correspondent Peter Worthington checked the meteorological records and found that there was no snow in Moscow during that conference in April, 1952. Worthington published that fact, and for some reason Pierre has since been angry at him.
During the next few years, Trudeau clashed frequently with the Quebec Provincial Police, published various Communist articles and organized Le Rassemblement, a political front so communistic even the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation - now the Socialist New Democratic Party - refused to join. He applied several times for a teaching job at the University of Montreal, but his Communist activities led Paul-Emile Cardinal Léger to reject him.
Pierre apparently had developed a taste for leading delegations to Communist countries. In 1960 he led another - to Communist China. He participated in a Communist "victory celebration."
He met his idol, Mao Tse-tung. He collaborated on a book called Two Innocents In Red China. (Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1968.)
Trudeau describes his meeting with the Communist leaders like this:
"...It is a stirring moment: these greybeards, in their ripe old age, embody today the triumph of an idea, an idea that has turned the whole world upside down and profoundly changed the course of human history."
Of the greybeard who has murdered more than 30 million Chinese, Trudeau says:
"...Mao Tse-tung, one of the great men of the century, has a powerful head, an unlined face, and a look of wisdom tinged with melancholy. The eyes in that tranquil face are heavy with having seen too much of the misery of men."
You don't believe he said it. I know. Neither did I. Get the book. Notice that the typical Trudeau sarcasm and condescension are gone. Now the Lord Protector of the Realm fawns and scrapes.
Indeed, says Trudeau:
"Everyone knows that the Communists summarily rushed to the gallows or to jail many of the great landed proprietors. It was the genius of Mao Tse-tung to realize the extent to which his revolution must depend on the peasants, and he mercilessly suppressed the class that inspired in these peasants awe, respect, and submissiveness towards outworn traditions."
This you still may not believe, even if you read the book yourself. Here, Trudeau not only justifies Mao Tse-tung's mass murders - he applauds them. They are good, he says. They are necessary. They prove Mao's genius.
Lucky Pierre loves to travel. He was in Ghana when Communist Kwame Nkrumah took control. We don't know why. Pierre won't say. He was in Algeria when Communist Ahmed Ben Bella took over. We don't know why. Pierre won't say. Early in 1961, at about the time of the Bay of Pigs, the U.S. Coast Guard picked him up.
Pierre was paddling a canoe to Cuba from Key West. We don't know why. Pierre won't say. The Coast Guard deported Pierre to Canada, but he did get to Cuba in 1964, after all. He doesn't say what happened there. Neither does Fidel.
"When a question is tough or Mr. Trudeau wishes to avoid it, he goes into an elaborate performance," writes Peter Worthington.
"His hands start gesturing, the shoulders wriggle, the eyebrows squirm, the mouth puckers and after some groping for appropriate words Mr. Trudeau invariably says something that is often irrelevant, usually amusing and always evasive. His listeners laugh or giggle as is their individual wont, and the moment is past. Next question."
By 1962, traditionalist Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis was dead, and Trudeau finally became a professor at the University of Montreal, overcoming the usual protests. He went right to work turning out Fidelistas. Indeed, the school is now teeming with them. Apparently he admires Castro as much as Mao.
And in 1963, he campaigned vigorously with the Marxist New Democratic Party against the Liberals, who roughly correspond to the Democrats in the States. Trudeau called the Liberals "idiots" because they had decided to use nuclear weapons for defense. The Liberals, he said, were "a spineless herd."
So much for Trudeau's biography. What about his ideas? What's behind his policies?
Thoughts Of Chairman Trudeau
"...The drive towards power must begin with the establishment of bridgeheads," says Trudeau (Federalism And The French Canadians, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1968)," since at the outset it is obviously easier to convert specific groups or localities than to win over an absolute majority of the whole nation."
So Trudeau isn't simply trying to govern Canada. He isn't just trying to protect the realm, as he should. What he is really doing is using his powerful position as a weapon.
What he really wants, like his idol, Mao Tse-tung, is power.
Indeed, says Trudeau,
"the experience of that superb strategist Mao Tse-tung might lead us to conclude that in a vast and heterogeneous country, the possibility of establishing socialist strongholds in certain regions is the very best thing..."
It's unnecessary and infeasible to establish Socialism all at once, he says.
In a big country like China, or like Canada, the best way to impose Socialism is to manipulate group after group and seize region after region. He says,
"Federalism must be welcomed as a valuable tool which permits dynamic parties to plant socialist governments in certain provinces, from which the seed of radicalism can slowly spread."
Notice the crucially important fact that Trudeau's famous opposition to separatism isn't based, like Lincoln's, on a desire to keep his country together. Federalism for Trudeau is like everything else a tool - with which to impose Communism on Canada.
Socialism in one province will seep into another, he says. But if the separatists are successful - if a Socialist province becomes a foreign country - then that seepage is made more difficult.
On the other hand, without the degree of provincial autonomy federalism allows, Trudeau says, he would be faced with the difficult task of imposing Socialism at once. Federalism allows it to be done province by province. That is why he wants just enough autonomy - but not too much. What about specific tactics?
Trudeau explains that,
"in terms of political tactics, the only real question democratic socialists must answer is, 'Just how much reform can the majority of the people be brought to desire at the present time?' "
People are "brought" to desire what Pierre wants. They are manipulated.
The Socialism is slyly slipped over on them.
and I'm not a fan of his politics but I do like that he signed a trade deal with Europe this week and he's a supporter of Keystone. So I can hate on some of the things he's done while acknowledging he is not entirely dogmatic like his papa.
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and the MSM just don't like it when your targets don't sit there passively like George W or McCain.
The fake news needed to be challenged. His toughness is necessary for the job at hand. it's one of the reasons many of us voted for him.
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The Don has done nothing but push people around and try to intimidate them his entire public life. He never intentionally has done anything to benefit anyone in the world other than himself. And he is proud of it.
Everybody around him in every photo I've ever seen, including with his family, never cracks a smile. I never have seen that poor 10-year-old son of his look like anything but the most miserably unhappy kid in the whole world. He probably would be better off as a human being if his mother would spirit him away to Slovenia in the middle of some dark night, and the sooner the better.
It does not surprise me even a little bit that the Don is your hero.
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Watch the press conference yesterday. He was on attack mode from the beginning, and was met with nothing but professionalism.
He is a boy's idea of a man.
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After all, Trump's Electoral College victory was the largest since Reagan. Believe me.
based on objective truth. It's all a matter of power, opinion, and what I say. Wash, rinse, and repeat.
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so be it. I can live with that, no problem.
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I haven't ever met a person who hasn't lied, so would you like to rephrase that question into something a little more specific?
(going out on some errands - will reply thereafter in a bit once you come up with a legitimate question that can be answered fairly).
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If I were asked, "Does it bother you that Rooney lies", i would have to say, "i am not surprised that he lies. I think it is a fault that everyone displays from time to time. What lie are you referring to that Rooney said".
Should you be a little concerned that you are incapable of answering simple yes or no questions?
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He plainly told the governor that any further incursions into Indian lands would mean war. Harrison insisted that the land had been acquired legally. (Fake News)
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--President Harry S. Truman
first. get used to it. the passive target days of the past are gone. We finally have a fighter.
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and call it whatever you like. Neither Trump nor I will stop calling you & yours out for bearing false witness when it happens.
And while you throw insults, Trump is keeping all of his promises (which was my big concern - was he sincere).
I couldn't be happier. #MAGA.
out. In other words, whining..............constantly in fact.
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stories and spin against Trump?
if so, then your answer, like with CNN, would be yes.
But I don't watch him because he comes on before i get home usually. I will tell you that I have seen enough to know that he leans to the liberal & doesn't deny it. Is working for FoXNews supposed to grant extra leeway in your mind?
What I have heard from him is straight news reporting. I'm sure he has a point of view but it doesn't permeate his reporting.
He's a mainstream reporter at a conservative network. The fact that someone like that is calling your hero out should tell you something. As should Harward turning down the NSA job.
Your boy is a loon, plain and simple.
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I tend to doubt it.
Trump has done this since his very first rally, using the reporters covering his events as a prop to get his audience steamed up.
Let's see how he handles them tomorrow night. I hope he takes a step in the right direction, but, as you say, I tend to doubt it.
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and rolls in it like a pig.
A free media/press