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He's A Remorseless Wrecking Ball That Has The US Begging Russia & OPEC For Energy Assistance, Even As Ordinary Murkuns face a Winter of Soaring Heating Bills ...
His Approval Ratings are Underwater in Every Battleground State.

Several House & Senate 'Crats are Retiring rather face almost Certain Defeat in the '22 Mid-Terms.

Everybody has a bedtime routine. Turn off all the lights, turn off all electrical appliances, check that all the doors and windows are closed and securely locked, and only then brush your teeth. But there's one more important thing you should always do before getting into bed: Check underneath to make sure you haven't got a communist lurking.

Do the Right thing.

For a few months now I've been hearing the phrase "defund the police" and the first time it was someone who feared it (literally) meant taking away money appropriated for police, as in dismantling the police force. Woooo ~~~ so scary!
Yes, it sounds that way as it comes out it the light of current protests.

The TV was on and I was watching some talk show videos on YouTube explaining the purpose of defunding was to be proactive and develop community programs to help resolve issues BEFORE it escalates into a problem for the police to handle. That makes sense. In the case of domestic abuse. By the time police are called, it's too late for something that counseling may have helped avoid a confrontation.

My attention was steered to an ad on TV in the other room... a political ad. I missed the visual. By the time I entered the room the ad was ending and Donald Trump endorsed it.

15 minutes later the ad played again. It showed protest/riots and claimed you won't be safe in Joe Biden's America. The ad depicted a darkened unmanned police department and a single light flashing on the phone that was playing a recorded message. The recording instructed several options for the caller and if you leave a message, someone will get back to you within a week!

I'm thinking the season for dirty politics is in full swing.

Now this is interesting given the bill that has recently passed that allows confiscation of farmland without compensation. If I understand the story correctly Julius Malema was the one pushing the ANC really hard for this bill and saying the whites stole the land from blacks.

Now this is where it gets interesting. It seems blacks are still moving to South Africa from other less fortunate countries in Africa, and not being welcomed in by some of the blacks that are already there. In fact some are being murdered because their accent gives away their origins. Well Julius Malema is trying to stop the murders and grow his political support by gathering these newcomers into his camp. In an effort to do so he is trying to get the blacks that have been there from attacking the newly immigrated. Which leads to this. He recently gave a speech admitting that all the Bantu people there were not native to that part of Africa.

Instead of me rambling on about a subject I have only heard about, I'll provide a link to an interesting video on the subject. I admit I don't know much about Willem Petzer who makes videos on youtube, but he uses actual footage of Ju;ius Malema speeches to make his point. I doubt this will have much effect on the new law, but it is worth watching IMO.

As president of the United States of America, Donald Trump puts his life and family on the line every day. Trump and his family are repetitively threatened with death and various other sorts of harm – not only by operators on foreign soil, but by seeming lunatics inside America itself.

He is under constant threat by those who state they want him dead or torn to pieces, that they want his family kidnapped, raped, beaten, or killed.

A few prominent names of those expressing stated dislike of Donald Trump are Robert De Niro, Tom Arnold, Maxine Waters, Don Lemon, Van Jones, LeBron James, Eminem, Madonna, Cher, Michael Moore, and many others too numerous to list here. Why do they seem to feel this way – and liberals, all?

Leftists call his wife a "whore", and run around with signs saying "rape Melania". They hold up his bloody and severed head as a "joke", call for his assassination as a "joke", call his 10-year-old son a rapist and autistic and a homeschool shooter, and they are suddenly claiming the moral high ground? ...

And the more he fights back, the more the Left rages...and the more the media exposes themselves as being utterly corrupt, and how truly hateful the Left has become. Nor is this a fringe element. This is the Left. They are putting on a show for all to see, and are too stupid to realize that everyday Americans are paying attention.

What most people outside of Kentucky don't realize is that Republicans swept all the state offices except for governorship. For the for time in 26 years, a Republican won Attorney General in Kentucky. A black conservative Republican beat a career politician, a political democrat hack.

What most outside the state also don't realize is that a third party candidate (a libertarian) was involved in the governors race. This libertarian took almost 28,500 of the vote. Most of these nearly 28,500 votes were siphoned from the Republican (Bevin). That's why the democrat won by a little over 5000 votes. (0.4%) I'm sure a recount will be held, but I hear Bevin will have to pay for this recount.

Another little known fact was this Republican wasn't well liked by most people, and only had an approval rating of around 32%. If anything, Trump's rally helped him gain support the night before the election, but not enough to overcome it.

That's the full story, something liberals almost always leave out!

Btw, speaking of Virginia, wasn't Virginia already blue for the most part? Now they have it all. No great lose there!

Everything is pointing to Trump,
Rising like a Phoenix,
after the ways,
he had been treated...

Open for discussion...

The challenge is to turn the colour yellow to red.

Wonder if anyone will recognize any of my attempts at caricature (I shall be adding one per comment) and as I am a bit dof I would of course welcome better caricatures.

This is equal-opportunity offensiveness, so you can leave the hate at home.








Naturally the poking starts close to home. My political awareness is very limited (like my skill at satire) so it won't be many comments unless others join in.

Trump signed an order to safeguard our safety by issuing extreme vetting of refugees.

I hope this will in fact make sure we're safe as hoped.

The question is, with the border still the same, how safe are we? Really? Terrorists are smart. They can avail themselves for an easy entry there not as refugees but illegal migrant.

With the blog below, maybe there is more to understanding the causes of terrorism and why Trump is bent to stop these acts to destroy and or harm us.

For the last 30 days or so there has been little blogs about muslims and terror.

When will people look back at history to see why we are where we are, and who is really at fault ? Oil. That is what the modern Middle Eastern geopolitics have usually been about. Given the vast energy resources that form the backbone of western economies, influence and involvement in the Middle East has been of paramount importance for the former and current imperial and super powers, including France, Britain, USA and the former Soviet Union.

Prior to the discovery of oil, the region had been a hotbed for religious conflict and wars over other rich resources and land. The declining Ottoman Empire paved way for the rising European imperial and colonial powers interested in securing various territories and controlling access to Asia. In more recent times, interest in the region has been due to the energy resources there.

As a result, for centuries, western populations have been acclimatized to a type of propaganda and vilification of the Arab and other people of the Middle East, and of Islam in general. This was especially so during the European colonial times, as so vividly examined by Edward Said, in his well-respected book, Orientalism. This negative stereotyping has served to provide justifications for involvement and to ensure stability for the national interests of the powers that want to be involved in the region.

This cultural stereotyping and racism has occurred in the modern times too. Often, especially in the 1980s, war films depicting an Arab or Islamic group as the bad guys were common place, sometimes reflecting prevailing turmoils at the time. Even in the 1990s, those ideas continued, where the bad guy was often a despotic Arab from one of the rogue states and as a result of the terrorist attacks against the US in September 11, 2001 and the resulting War on terror, such imagery is likely to continue. Over such a long time then, such boundaries of discourse about the Middle East have already been framed. To overstep those boundaries is to be labeled anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi, anti-West or some other equally negative label. For most journalists in the mainstream then, self-censorship is often the course, sometimes unknowingly.

To maintain superiority, control and influence over the region, the West has placed corrupt Arab leaders into positions of power and supported the overthrow of those that are not seen as favorable. This has also served to keep their populations at bay, in return for militarization, power and personal wealth of the elite. Sometimes this has been done in the name of fighting communism. The common theme underlying it though has been the struggle to control access to important resources such as oil.

The Middle East is the most militarized region in the world and most arms sales head there. A suppressed people that sees US influence as a major root cause of the current problems in the Middle East has led to a rise in Islamic militancy, acts of terrorism and anti-west sentiment, anti-US in particular. When looking at some of the actions of the US, it can often be seen why this is unfortunately so.