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inhis_service
14-Feb-20, 19:18

2020 Election
"Donald Trump Smashes Incumbent President Primary Record in New Hampshire"

President Donald Trump earned historic support in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, easily beating the vote tallies of four recent incumbent presidents in the state.

With 90 percent of the vote reporting on Wednesday, Trump won 123,629 votes in the Republican primary, despite not having a serious challenger

President Donald Trump in 2020: <123,629
President Barack Obama in 2012: 49,080
President George W. Bush in 2004: 52,962
President Bill Clinton in 1996: 76,797
President Ronald Reagan in 1984: 65,033

www.breitbart.com
pawntificator
15-Feb-20, 08:31

www.youtube.com
inhis_service
15-Feb-20, 11:35

@Isityoustand
Couldn't watch the entire video - he wasn't very entertaining IMO


However, he did start making a VERY GOOD POINT approaching the 5 minute mark.

The Democratic Party has nobody - NOBODY - whole has a snow ball's chance, as is said - to best President Trump.

Everyone is a Socialist, and running against Trump's record of accomplishments for what? Pie in the sky?

It's going to be a (all capital letters and underscored) landslide!

In the meantime, and I mean this seriously, we can expect to see a lot more violence and mayhem!

The Left ALWAYS acts out when they don't get their way.

inhis_service
25-Feb-20, 20:00

"Bernie Sanders praises socialism while Cuba suffers daily"

While Democrats such as Bernie Sanders preach the virtues of socialism, remember the wisdom of a respected leader still suffering under it.
Sanders has repeatedly defended his decadeslong admiration for the authoritarian communist regime in Cuba. At the same time, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, human rights leader, and former political prisoner Oscar Elias Biscet was being detained by Cuba’s state security at his home in Havana.

www.washingtonexaminer.com

Democrats live in fantasy land.

"Cuba: Fidel Castro’s Record of Repression"

(Washington, DC) – During his nearly five decades of rule in Cuba, Fidel Castro built a repressive system that punished virtually all forms of dissent, a dark legacy that lives on even after his death.
During Castro’s rule, thousands of Cubans were incarcerated in abysmal prisons, thousands more were harassed and intimidated, and entire generations were denied basic political freedoms. Cuba made improvements in health and education, though many of these gains were undermined by extended periods of economic hardship and by repressive policies.

“As other countries in the region turned away from authoritarian rule, only Fidel Castro’s Cuba continued to repress virtually all civil and political rights,” said José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch. “Castro’s draconian rule and the harsh punishments he meted out to dissidents kept his repressive system rooted firmly in place for decades.”

www.hrw.org
pawntificator
25-Feb-20, 20:16

Watching the end of the democrat debate and they did and exit debate poll and the picture they showed of Buttigeig looks exactly like Alfred E Newman.
inhis_service
25-Feb-20, 20:21

Isityoustand . . .
Come November can you imagine voting for any one of these candidates?

Honestly.
pawntificator
25-Feb-20, 20:32

I voted for Obama one time. And Trump one tine. My choice is clear.
thumper
26-Feb-20, 00:28

I didn't vote for either one.
inhis_service
26-Feb-20, 09:06

@Thumper
"You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice " - Freewill by Rush

Those who says that they don't vote are "choosing none of the above" may be or may not be your rationale.

However, in not choosing a candidate who endorses Christian values ( traditional marriage and is pro life ) you have empowered an Anti Christian candidate.

As American citizens, and as Christians we are accountable for the choices, or non choices we make IMO.
thumper
26-Feb-20, 09:39

iHs
I didn't say that I didn't vote. I said I didn't vote for either Obama or Trump.

Not choosing 'your' candidate doesn't mean I'm empowering an anti Christian candidate. You should know me well enough by now to know not to use that arguing tactic.

I'm not an elector so my vote for Presidential choice A, B or C doesn't actually put that person into office. My home State of Washington's electors always cast their votes for the Democrat. The last time they voted for a Republican was 1984.
inhis_service
26-Feb-20, 10:05

@Thumper
Again, your indefinite and incomplete post left the reader (myself) presuming something which was not true.

Like a salesman who fails to disclose the full ramifications of a contract which prospective buyers should know before signing said contract.

Guess I will just have to ask you for clarification on your posts before making comments on them, won't I?
thumper
26-Feb-20, 10:21

iHs
I was simply and briefly responding to Isityou's comment that he had voted for Obama and then for Trump.
inhis_service
26-Feb-20, 10:39

My poor habit of jumping to conclusions does't help find points of common ground, either, does it?

Thank for the clarification.
thumper
26-Feb-20, 10:48

NP. We all have our quirks, idiosyncrasies and 'faults'. Believe me, I have plenty of my own to work on.
inhis_service
26-Feb-20, 12:10

Trump's Solid Performance and Foundation Sets the Stage For November
"State of the Union Reveals Bankruptcy of Democrats' Opposition to Trump"

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's ripping-up of the president's State of the Union message as he left the podium is the perfect encapsulation of the rout of the Democrats.

On adjoining days, we had the fiasco of the caucuses in Iowa, where the count of a few thousand Democratic votes -- which could have been done by hand in two hours -- was still uncertain and incomplete a day after the caucuses finished voting, the State of the Union message, and the end of the disgraceful farce of the impeachment trial.

For the first time, the Democrats have to face President Donald Trump with no available pretext to claim his moral turpitude and notorious corruption deprive him of the right to be president. Whining like a broken washing machine, the Democrats continue to claim that the people are suffering and the 1 percent of the rich are pocketing obscene speculative gains on the stock market, while the toilers of America, especially non-whites, are grimy and downtrodden mockeries of the country club Republican oligarchy, despite the statistics that Trump emphasized.

There are more positions to fill than unemployed people, and with taxes lowered, the tax threshold raised, and almost 80 percent of illegal immigration eliminated, the fastest rising income group is the unskilled, the non-graduates of secondary school, and the lowest 10 percent of the income scale in general.

All the statistics for minorities are sharply improved, and Trump stuck to his campaign of three years ago and continued to run up the backs of the preceding administrations of both parties. Where the number of food stamp users had increased by more than 10 million under President Obama, it has declined by more than 7 million in the past three years, as 7 million net new jobs have been added, oil imports have been eliminated, and standards of living of lower-level income-earners have jolted sharply upwards for the first time in decades.

Like a mass of sleep-walkers, the Democrats have plodded on in darkness, denouncing Trump’s unspecified corruption. He was an outsider, he was outrageous. If he didn't usurp the presidency, he at least had to be a freakish non-recurring occupant.

Everyone knew he was a crook and all that had to be done was keep repeating that in the oppressive, Trump-hating echo chamber of the national media. Then, when the monstrous fraud of the Trump-Russian collusion hoax collapsed, it was time to impeach him. The echo chamber would whip up opinion as it had with Nixon, and even if Trump wasn’t removed, his reputation would be so grievously assaulted, he would be a sitting, lame duck in the election campaign.

Before the U.S. Senate and a live television audience and with the chief justice of the United States presiding, Schiff said he didn't know who the supposed whistleblower was and had nothing to do with the preparation of his complaint, assertions every informed person in the world knows to be untrue.

MORALITY PLAY ENDED

As the president proceeded swiftly through his lengthy recitation of the accomplishments of his administration, introduced an unprecedented number of worthy people who featured in heartwarming or heartwrenching stories, and was interrupted for applause 129 times, (all but a few by Republicans only), it emerged ever more clearly what an unenviable task awaits the Democrats.

Their unctuous morality play has come down around them like the speaker's shredded copy of the text of the president's remarks, reduced almost to confetti. Apart from reciting his administration's accomplishments and introducing an array of personalities, Trump also hung around the necks of the Democrats their opposition to the barrier he is building along the southern border, their opposition to ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), the support of some Democratic candidates for compulsory, government-administered medical care, their espousal of sanctuary cities, their incitement of non-compliance with the country's immigration laws, and the Democrats' support for unlimited medical care for illegal migrants and toleration of partial-birth and other late-term abortions.

His espousal of independent schools and prison reform would have resonated with tens of millions of voters.

There's no longer any supposition of corruption or any integrity gap the Democrats can smugly invoke, no pending inquiry, and even the Gallup Organization, one of the most anti-Trump polls, has recorded a 10-point rise in the president's job approval since October 2019, to 49 percent.

NO EXCITING CANDIDATE

Sen. Bernie Sanders has almost killed off Sen. Elizabeth Warren over her $52 trillion coercive health care plan and her problems with the truth (starting with the canard about being an American Indian), and a combination of the Ukraine imbroglio and Joe Biden's own miscues seems to have caused that very tired campaign to founder.

The peculiar upstart former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg, will vanish after the New Hampshire primary on Feb. 11. That will leave the ancient, raving, arm-waving Marxist Sanders, the unexciting but unfrightening Sen. Amy Klobuchar who is finally climbing into the Biden vacuum of comparative moderation, and the supreme moneybags of American political history, Michael Bloomberg.

But does Bloomberg have any appeal to the voters? We will have to wait another four weeks until Super Tuesday on March 3, when 15 states -- including California and Texas -- vote, to find out. No one could dispute his competence, and his political opinions are generally reasonable, but a great deal of his message appears to be the same old Trumpophobia that is all that has fueled the Democrats for the past three years, and what attracted Bloomberg to the Democrats four years ago.

The Democratic conundrum is that, unlike Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, they have no exciting candidate in sight, and the incumbent has a record that is almost impossible to attack. The morality play has ended, and when it revives, it will be for the report of U.S. Attorney John Durham and the possible indictment of a number of prominent Obama administration and Clinton campaign officials.

As the histrionics ended at the Capitol late on Feb. 4, it was possible to discern in the faces of some prominent Democrats a hint of the consternation that is almost certain to grip that party as this election year unfolds. Pelosi's churlishness in her terse introduction, silly gestures, and general agitation in the background, and Tarzan-imitation at the end, are a metaphor for the overwhelming inadequacy of the Democrats.

On the issues, Trump has the high ground, and anyone who saw him harangue the Congress for 87 minutes -- even someone who found him and his message nauseating -- could attest that he is a human tornado. The complacent supposition that he would be easy to defeat has vanished with the charges against him.

www.theepochtimes.com



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