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Senator John McCain passed away today at the age of 81.
1936 - 2018 may he rest in peace...
Some people liked him and some didn't.
It doesn't matter as he's gone now.

"You will hear very little about the extraordinary success of the Trump economic program. What a shame. What a media disgrace. Because prosperity is the glue that will bind America together again. And so far, that is President Trump’s outstanding success." —Varney & Co.

The Lincoln Model

Today there are many Republicans who blame Trump for the de-Reaganization of the Republican Party and wistfully pine for the 1980s era of gentleman’s politics. This is, by the large, the main source of anxiety about Trump in some Republican quarters, and it is also the driving momentum of the so-called “Never Trump” movement.

I came of age in the Reagan area, and I too prefer a more civil political climate. But that is not the America we live in now. Reagan’s policies and style were perfectly calibrated to deal with the specific problems and specific political environment of the late 1970s. Today, however, a good deal of Reaganism is obsolete. Not only has stagflation disappeared and the Soviet Union collapsed but Reagan himself would be a fish out of water in the dark, roiled currents of today.

But Lincoln wouldn’t. His political environment was even more roiled than the one we have now. And Lincoln would have seen that, in this environment, an environment made by a gangster clan of Democrats like Obama and Hillary, you don’t get very far with Reagan’s gentlemanly style. In short, Trump is the man of the hour, not Reagan. Trump has the chance to do what Reagan never even dreamed about, taking a page from Lincoln and smashing the Democratic plantation.

When we consider Trump’s two big Republican “heresies”—his positions on trade and immigration—we can see that they might be heresies from Reagan’s point of view, but they were not heresies from Lincoln’s point of view. As Gabor Boritt shows in Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream, Lincoln’s GOP was unabashedly protectionist and viewed tariffs as a necessary and valid economic strategy to protect American workers and American industry from mercantilist competition from European powers.

And while many progressives as well as conservatives insist that tariffs have never worked, Trump seems to be making them work, as evidenced by the recent agreement with the EU to lower its tariffs. Historically, Boritt shows that America had tariffs from Hamilton’s time through the end of the 19th century, and it was during this period that America grew most rapidly and became the largest economy in the world, surpassing Great Britain.

On immigration, too, Trump and Lincoln can be seen as generally aligned. This point is hardly obvious, but we get a vital clue about how Lincoln would have thought about today’s immigration debate but considering the position Lincoln actually took on extending civil rights—the right to full citizenship, the right to vote, the right to serve on juries—to blacks. Lincoln basically held that it is wrong for any people, anywhere, to enslave another people because slavery is wrong or, to put it philosophically, against natural right.

But natural rights are not the same as civil rights. Civil rights are the product of living in a particular community. The community is a social compact between the citizens who have formed that community. These existing citizens have the right to decide who gets to be a member of their club, and on what terms.

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As The Amazing Lucas explains, in NO uncertain terms, exactly how You - Yes YOU - are gonna re-elect The Don in '20!


NAILED IT, LUCAS

Don't forget to scroll down & check out the comments on the vid.
Some of them are as good as the vid - maybe better, even!!!

A third party is overseeing the Trump/Biden debate. Trump has consented to being checked for any transmitter/ear piece device, but Biden has declined. That speaks volumes in itself.

Taiwan is situated in the vicinity of China, just about 130 kms. away. She is not even the member of the WHO. But her performance in tackling the COVID-19 excels the whole world.
Just 449 infected cases and only 7 casualties.

Now the question arises as to why the media not highlighting the success story of Taiwan ? Why are they hiding it ?

The one and only inference can be drawn that they don't want the exposure of the failures of the political dispensations of the current regimes running the countries.

A federal judge granted former President Donald Trump’s request for a special master to be appointed to review documents taken from his Mar-a-Lago home during an FBI raid last month.

In some countries such as Russia, China, North Korea, people go about their daily lives accepting the system that is imposed on them and appear to be quite happy. Disagreement with any rules imposed on them is never an option, because the state would immediately clamp down on any opposition and punishment would be severe. But in that system the governing body would be able to carry out its policies much easier than in a democracy and so life can go on in a smooth undisturbed manner.
Does this system appeal to you?
:confused

Election Scandal deepens as new allegations of fraud emerge.

According to a White House source, an unspecified number of prayers for the removal of Trump, made by non-Christians, who are not entitled to pray in this election, have been uncovered. Demands for an investigation into this “blatant move to influence the will of God” have been called for. Experts are looking into the Book of Revelation for clarification.

Laughs the loudest

The election hasn't been decided, folks. The electoral college decides that. And in the meantime there will be multiple lawsuits to determine which ballots can be counted, and which not, as well as recounts

It's laughable really, the same people who just recently were saying under no circumstances could Trump declare victory until the full process played out, and all legal avenues pursued - are now trying to say that Biden has won, and that the process shouldn't be played out, and legal recourse should be denied

Of course no one should be surprised that this happened. If you're afraid of how the process might play out - and what might be revealed - you rush to declare victory early. That the corrupt institution known as the Associated Press should 'declare' Biden the winner is laughable in its transparency. They know they don't get to determine outcomes. And they've shown their cards over the last 4 years with their clearly slanted bias. Maybe the weak-minded folk at the AP just think they couldn't handle another 4 years of Trump - wouldn't surprise me. Trump has helped show the world how many irredeemably corrupt and sad individuals make up a large portion of large media organisations. They're irrelevant now, early.

Let them enjoy their premature victory lap though. They've shown their hand early. In the end, I believe Trump wins, and a LOT of people are going to jail for provably corrupt actions. In the meantime, prepare for a storm. The strong will be separated from the weak. This is no time for the faint of heart.