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Friday, September 15, 2017

Trump Not Getting Support From Ryan

BREAKING: Paul Ryan Issues Nasty Message To Trump

September 14, 2017 Frank Spear

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), has shown on multiple occasions that he has no regard for President Donald Trump. Most recently, he made a bold statement that is an insult not just to the president, but to every American who voted for him as well.

Former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO), and multiple other sources, informed Breitbartthat during a private dinner Ryan made a bold claim about Trump’s border wall. He stated that only “one member” is interested in building the wall, possibly referring to President Trump himself. In effective, Ryan was saying that the wall isn’t going to happen. This statement occurred on the evening after the House passed two important immigration bills, namely Kate’s Law and a bill that enacted reforms on sanctuary cities.

Tancredo explained to Breitbart News exactly what happened. According to the former House representative, “Ryan told a group of Republicans he met with…that only one person wants a wall.”

As most people are aware, there are far more people than just President Trump who want this border wall to go up. “I know several people in Congress who want a wall, and I know that there are millions of Americans who want a wall,” Tancredo said.

The battle against illegal immigration has been ongoing since before President Trump made it into office. However, once Trump made it into office, one of his primary goals was to stop people from coming into this country without legal documentation.

Republicans had insisted it was their mission, at least before Trump was elected, to crack down on immigrants illegally entering the country. Now that President Trump is in office it seems that many have experienced a change of heart, including Ryan.

“The Chamber of Commerce doesn’t want a wall…the pressure is greater from the Chamber of Commerce than it is from the members,” Tancredo said. During his years working in the House, he had plenty of experience trying to secure the borders and knows how other people in these positions feel about the subject.

Another unnamed member of the GOP told Breitbart that essentially the comment was taken out of context. The House member reasoned that Ryan was trying to summarize the voice of the GOP caucus.

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There is a problem with this argument, however. The members of the GOP have spoken firmly against illegal immigration and favoring secure borders.

The people and the president want the wall, but Paul Ryan — not so much. Is Ryan disloyal to his party?

Is Paul Ryan a disloyal leader of his party?

There are only a handful of people in the GOP who have opposed these bills, and generally speaking, Ryan couldn’t have been talking about the varying opinions of the GOP. The way that it was explained, and the fact that the person who made the statement wanted to remain hidden, makes it sound more like an excuse.

Simply put, President Trump and Congress are supposed to advance and codify the will of the people. The people made it very clear during the rallies, primaries, and through their voting decisions that enforcement of our border laws and immigration policies is what they want.

Instead of honoring the American people, politicians like Ryan are taking the low road and supporting their donors and the Democrats. The complete disregard has not gone unnoticed and the longer they put off funding the wall, the more people are going to clamor, and perhaps rightfully so.

Hateful Anti Trump Vandals Destroy Float

BREAKING Trump Unity Bridge

Attacked by Vandals [VIDEO]

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BREAKING Trump Unity Bridge Attacked by Vandals [VIDEO]

The "Trump Unity Bridge" and "Trump Mobile" owned by Rob Cortis
was attacked this morning in Alexandria, VA outside of the Quality Inn
(see video below).

The property was defaced in broad daylight.

Here's a list of the damage inflicted according to the video:

-Nazi signs drawn on the car
-Foreign objects stuffed in the gas tank
-Ripped the Statue of Liberty's Arm Off
-Slashed tires
-An unknown white substance was found on the car
-All cables on the trailer were cut
-License plate(s) stolen
-Destroyed bald eagle statue
-A foreign object was stuffed in the tailpipe
-Over $500 worth of brand new "Made in America" American Flags stolen

Mr. Cortis was en route to the White House according to his video testimony.
The incident likely took place between 8 AM and 9 AM on Friday morning.

At the time the video was published Mr. Cortis was still waiting for the police
to arrive. This will likely strand him in Virginia as he was traveling to the
Washington, DC area from Livonia, MI, according to his Facebook profile.

Read more at http://trumptrainnews.com/articles/breaking-trump-unity-bridge-attacked-by-vandals-video#meUOet9cOpwGUU0A.99

There Isn't A Clinton For Whom Comey Has Not Done "Favors"

JUST IN: Comey Busted In Major Criminal Cover-Up

September 14, 2017 Mark Prvulovic

Unfortunately for former FBI Director James Comey, it seems that more puzzle pieces are beginning to fall into place regarding his past involvement with the Clintons. Now the picture is getting clearer, as Comey’s history of covering for their crimes goes even deeper than first believed.

A new Twitter post is showing a newspaper dating back to July 21, 1996, in which James Comey closed a clemency probe related to a top supporter of Bill Clinton. It seems that as far back as 20 years ago, Comey has been covering up for Clinton scandals.

The newspaper proceeds to mention that federal prosecutors had closed their investigation concerning Bill Clinton’s grant of clemency to four men accused of bilking the government of millions of dollars.

James Comey, who was the US attorney for the case, said that they ended their investigation with no charges filed. “We thoroughly investigated it and it wasn’t appropriate to bring charges against anybody in the case,” he said.

Comey continued, saying, “I can’t really go into it because it was an investigation that didn’t result in charges. That may be a frustrating answer, but that’s the one I’m compelled to give.” Comey refused to provide any further elaboration into his decision.

The case in question involved the misappropriation of tens of millions of dollars in federal aid intended for education, housing, and business in the Rockland County Hasidic community of New Square. The men in question were accused of using the money to enrich their community as well as themselves.

The missing link in the matter is that the village leaders had aggressively courted Bill and Hillary Clinton, and the community had voted demonstrably in favor of Hillary Clinton’s Senate election – winning 1,400 of New Square’s 1,412 votes. This has raised questions as to whether Clinton pardoned these four individuals as a favor in exchange for their support of his wife’s political career.

In the investigation, the Rockland County Democrat Party records were confiscated, and many politicians and community members testified before a grand jury. Although no specific crimes were specified, legal experts speculated that charges would have included bribery and voter fraud.

The mastermind of the group, Chaim Berger, 76, ended up pleading guilty and was sentenced to six years in prison as well as ordered to pay more than $11 million in restitution.

Comey has been covering for Clintons for decades. Will THIS revelation finally make DOJ take action against him?

Will this revelation finally make DOJ take action against Comey?

What this means in 2017 is that Comey’s supposed record of impartiality is far from stainless. This revelation comes in addition to a previous scandal which revealed that Comey had begun drafting an exoneration letter for Hillary Clinton in her e-mail server investigation months before he even interviewed her. Now that his long-standing history of supporting the Clinton family has come to light, his decision not to prosecute her makes all the more sense.

“The fact is, evidently, he already made up his mind three months before the investigation really got underway, so this whole thing was a fraud on the American people,” said one lawyer about the entire ordeal, aptly summing it up.

The truth is slowly coming to light, and as Americans continue to learn more about how deep the rabbit hole goes, Trump is appearing to have been ever more justified in his decision to fire the FBI director.

Is This The End Of Free Speech (Free Thought) World Wide?

The Thought Police Strike Again

by Giulio Meotti
September 15, 2017 at 5:00 am

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10388/thought-police

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This politically correct nonsense highlights even further the infantilization of our culture -- such as the demand for "safe spaces" and "trigger warnings". It may look like a comedy, but its effect is deadly serious.
Groupthink is a debilitating force. in any civilization. It undermines one's ability to resist the real enemies of democracy and freedom: it makes us blind to radical Islam and jihadi terrorism, and it gives the impression that our society is a joke.
Instead of being intellectually diverse, universities are trying their utmost to impose homogeneity of thoughts and ideas. So-called "right wing newspapers" are banned from certain universities. Recently, at the City University of London, the student union, devoid of irony, fascistically voted to ban some conservative tabloids in order to "oppose fascism".

Headlines every day proclaim the new religion: political correctness, cultural vandalism and censorship -- not from Islamic emirates such as Saudi Arabia, but in Western cities right here.
The Writers Union of Canada, for instance, recently apologized for a magazine editorial that defended the right of novelists to create characters from a backgrounds other than their own.
Just think of that: a writer defending the right to use one's imagination?! What an insult! At least, to "the new Stalinists" it is.
"In my opinion anyone, anywhere, should be encouraged to imagine other peoples, other cultures, other identities," Hal Niedzviecki, who was the editor of the union's magazine, Write, defended freedom in an editorial. The Union then announced that Niedzviecki had resigned.
Another journalist also fell victim to this new religion. Jonathan Kay also recently resigned as editor of the magazine The Walrus. Defending Niedzviecki's right to use his imagination cost Kay his job.
Their unspeakable crime was, it appears, "cultural appropriation" -- one of the new "groupthink" expressions that the theologian Paul Griffiths condemned as "illiberal and totalitarian". Griffiths, too, had to resign from Duke University after criticizing his colleagues for a "diversity program" that "provides foundational training in understanding historical and institutional racism."
Every revolution needs to master a new "language" to achieve uniformity of expression and thought. George Orwell, in 1984, called the replacement language "Newspeak".
Cardiff Metropolitan University, one of the largest in Britain, compiled a list of 34 words that it "encouraged" teachers and students to stop using, and replaced them with "gender-neutral" terms. "Fireman" should be replaced by "firefighter"; "mankind" should be replaced by banned "humanity", and so on. Princeton University also expunged the word "man" in its various uses, in favor of supposedly more "inclusive" expressions. City University of New York decided to ban "Mr." and "Mrs." California State University replaced commercial terms such as "businessman", "mailman", "manpower" and "salesman" to avoid that horrendous, forbidden word.
While at it, why not also purge Christianity's religious language? Some of the most famous theological universities, such as Duke and Vanderbilt, invited professors and staff to use "inclusive" language even when they are referring to God, because the masculine pronouns are "a cornerstone of patriarchy".
This politically correct nonsense highlights even further the infantilization of our culture -- such as the demand for "safe spaces" and "trigger warnings". It may look like comedy, but its effect is deadly serious. British philosopher Roger Scruton has said that a kind of "moral obesity" is crippling Western culture.
Groupthink is a debilitating force. in any civilization. It undermines one's ability to resist the real enemies of democracy and freedom: it makes us blind to radical Islam and jihadi terrorism, and it gives the impression that our society is a joke.
That is why Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, whose novel 2084 depicted a dystopian state governed by religious law, said "literature and arts are not playing a big role in this struggle against barbarism". Those writers are, instead, far too busy implementing political correctness.
Universities in Britain are now even holding workshops to "deal with right wing attitudes in the classroom". Instead of being intellectually diverse, universities are trying their utmost to impose homogeneity of thoughts and ideas. So-called "right wing newspapers" are banned from certain universities. Recently, the at the City University of London, the student union, devoid of irony, fascistically voted to ban some conservative tabloids in order to "oppose fascism".
Dozens of personalities, conservative and liberal alike, have been prevented from speaking on many U.S. campuses. This is just a short list: Milo Yiannopoulos, Janet Napolitano, George Will, Condoleezza Rice, Madeleine Albright, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Henry Kissinger, Christine Lagarde, Charles Murray and Jason Riley.
First, students asked to limit freedom of expression to a specific place on campus. Then they started issuing declarations about no rights to free speech. Finally, in a crescendo of hysteria, they ended up throwing firebombs. How can we pretend that freedom of expression in the West is protected -- from fascism, Islamism, anything -- when we restrict it in our universities?

When the "politically incorrect" commentator and writer Milo Yiannopoulos was due to speak at the University of California, Berkeley on February 1, 2017, a mob of 150 people proceeded to riot, smash and set fires, causing more than $100,000 of damage. (Image source: RT video screenshot)

A few weeks ago, the 2017 Whitney Biennal in New York opened with a protest in front of a painting by the American-born artist Dana Schutz. The picture depicted Emmett Till, a boy lynched by racists in Mississippi in 1955. More than 25 black artists signed an open letter, written by the artist Hannah Black, to the Whitney's curators and staff, asking that the painting be removed from the Biennial, allegedly because "the painting uses black suffering for "profit and fun'". Ms. Black also asked that the painting be "destroyed and not entered into any market or museum".
That request not only aimed at censoring different ideas, but, like the Grand Inquisitor, of destroying the "wrong thought". The new religion -- featuring political correctness, cultural vandalism and censorship -- is dismantling the West.

Giulio Meotti, Cultural Editor for Il Foglio, is an Italian journalist and author.

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