Could These Bold And Quirky Quotes Be Tops Among Donald Trump’s Legendary Sayings?

posted by Albin Sadar at American Thinker 

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

Can anyone deny that these emphatic words spoken by President Ronald Regan in his speech at the Berlin Wall were some of his most notable (among many) from his stellar two terms in the White House? And, if you thought about it, wouldn’t President Richard Nixon saying, “I am not a crook,” seem to be the words that spring to mind to sum up Nixon’s days in office? One president rises at Brandenburg Gate; the other falls from Watergate.

Before Nixon, who will ever forget President John F. Kennedy’s powerful expression, “Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country”?

Words from our presidents, whether simple phrases or entire speeches, paint a picture of the man in America’s highest office and can, rightly or wrongly, be used to label them either a good or bad leader. President Nixon, for example, accomplished much good for this country during his tenure, but the Watergate scandal, which by today’s barometer might appear tepid, marked the event that chased him from the Oval Office.

So, with Donald J. Trump’s triumphant return to the White House and with many of his words still fresh in our collective consciences, what can we pare down as possibilities for his most memorable quotes?

Trump is nothing if not a showman. Even those who don’t like him or didn’t vote for him have to admit that, because his actions demanded so much attention, he was constantly foisted, willingly and unwillingly, onto center stage, both nationally and internationally. And more so than in any of the other two times Trump ran for the presidency, this time around, merchandise related to Trump—from T-shirts to buttons to bobblehead dolls to even a shot glass complete with bullet—went flying off the internet shelves. Many of these items, of course, contained his most memorable phrases. Plus, what president is responsible for creating a worldwide dance craze?

Setting aside Trump’s iconic campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again”(which he first revealed in an interview as far back as 2013, three years before he rode down the Trump Tower escalator), and his powerful additional tagline specific to 2024, “Too Big to Rig” (a reminder of what were the obviousshenanigans back in 2020), Trump has been dropping meaningful expressions unabated, like a busted gumball machine.

Here, then, is a partial list of Trump Quotes, keeping in mind that some of my choices and their order of appearance here are based on a bit of whimsy and a dash of snarkiness:

“They’re not after me; they’re after you—I’m just in the way.”

Trump tweeted this out back on December 18, 2019. This defiant blast came along with a black-and-white photo of the president pointing his finger and indicating that people’s attention should be focused on what was really going on behind the impeachment proceedings at the time.

“Fight! Fight! Fight!”

Perhaps Elon Musk summed it up best when he talked about this moment from Trump’s life-on-the-edge-of-death experience on July 13, 2024. It was his natural, kneejerk response to a bullet that shaved off part of his ear and missed killing him by a hair’s breadth. This was pure defiance, not the desire to hide or flee.

Many who watched the moment live, either in-person or on television as did I, reacted with starkly mixed emotions: Initially, we were filled with fear that Trump had been wounded or killed; then, when he raised his fist in defiance and shouted as a leader victorious in battle, we had a relieved feeling not only for our candidate but because we suddenly thought this must surely be the moment that the race, with almost four months yet to run, was won.

“Do you want fries with that?”

Okay, maybe McDonald’s-employee Trump didn’t actually say these words as he leaned through the drive-through window at the fast-food restaurant that’s as American as mom and apple pie. However, when the jolly old grandpa who has been compared to Hitler can pull this one off, followed by sitting in the co-pilot’s seat of a garbage truck, what unknown person in the future won’t be fooled by this application to President #45 and #47? (Future me is already saying, “I’m lovin’ it!”)

“As I was saying....”

In Trump’s return to Butler, Pennsylvania, anyone with half a brain could see this one coming. He opened his speech with these words, signifying that nothing was going to stop him from getting his message out—not even the bullet that this opening remark seemed to swat away like a fly. Of course, our once and future president properly paid tribute to the brave soul, firefighter Corey Comperatore, who lost his life protecting his family during Trump’s first trip to that small western Pennsylvania town.

“Down the hall and to the left.”

Who can ever forget this one—especially around this Christmasy time of year? That’s the one line Trump had when Macauley Culkin, in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, asked Trump where to find a restroom in the Plaza Hotel. (Okay, okay, I did warn you that some of these best-quote suggestions would be a tad snarky, didn’t I?)

Finally, here is the quote that I think received the most traction because it hit the mark on so many levels:

“They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats... They’re eating the pets of the people that live there.”

During Trump’s one and only debate with the hapless Kamala Harris, many crazy things were said—and many of these were baseless, even previously debunked, lies from the rambling thoughts of candidate Harris. The only real issue of substance to come from the long-winded and cantankerous contest was Trump’s assertion that Haitian migrants were doing unspeakably unsavory things to people’s household pets—a claim that proved true.

Trump’s utterance could easily have been turned into mockery, but somehow memes (even a song with a catchy tune) soon appeared depicting Trump as savior of cats and dogs. Later, when bureaucrats in New York Stateexterminated P’Nut the squirrel and Fred the raccoon, this heartless trend of animal cruelty became the brush swiped across anyone who was part of the current ruling class. (Had the “snuffed out” squirrel been a tenant's pet in Trump Tower, and the execution enacted by a vicious doorman there, would Trump have fared so well?)

Well, that is my very short and narrowly focused collection of Trump verbiage, both as president and as a candidate. With his return to the White House for another four years, we can only anticipate additional witticisms to add to his already colorful verbal palate. (I mean, Trump has not even retaken his seat behind the Resolute Desk and he’s gifted the world already with “Canada could become the 51st state.”)

We might even speculate that what the incoming president has promised to be a Golden Age of America could be the dawn of brand-new maxims that might very well be...

“Yuuuuuuuge!”

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How Trump Can Leverage the Hunter Biden Pardon

posted by John Green at American Thinker 

Joe Biden just gave his son his Christmas present — a 10-year “get out of jail free” card.  And apparently, he’s still caught up in spirit of giving.  Politicoreports that Joe is considering a raft of pardons for a rogue’s gallery of federal miscreants.  It seems our “nobody is above the law” chief executive realizes that those who have undermined our Constitution in service to the Democrat party may need a bit of legal protection from the incoming Trump administration.

The list of pardon candidates includes such “public servants” as

• Anthony Fauci, who funded the research that likely created a lethal pandemic and then lied about the science to cancel our civil liberties in an election year.
• Adam Schiff, who would go into anaphylactic shock if he ever told the truth.  He shared confidential information and complete lies with the press to trigger a special counsel investigation — which drove the country into conflict for three years, and found nothing.
• Liz Cheney — who placed her hatred above patriotism and her oath of office.  She used her position on the January 6 committee to hide exculpatory evidence and build an anti-Trump narrative that was used to criminally prosecute supporters of MAGA.
• A list of DoJ lawfare practitioners too long to list.  They have used their positions as sworn defenders of the Constitution to undermine the civil rights of concerned parents, pro-life protesters, limited government advocates, and political opponents.

A move by Joe Biden to pardon such bad actors would be highly destructive to the rule of law in general and the political fortunes of the Democrat party in particular.  Not that the latter troubles me.

To be accurate, Politico says this is currently only “a vigorous debate.”  But as Joe himself would say, “C’mon, man!”  We’re talking about Joseph Robinette Biden.  It would be shockingly out of character for him to do anything that’s in the best interest of the country.  Of course he’ll do it.

According to Pew Research, nearly 80 percent of Americans no longer trust the federal government to do the right thing.  A big contributor to that distrust is the weaponization of federal law enforcement, which was overseen by Joe Biden and his head of the secret police, Merrick Garland.  Donald Trump’s standing with the public went up each time Garland’s lawfare practitioners indicted him.  That’s because each attack drew more attention to the extent of DoJ corruption.

That we now have a two-tiered justice system is no longer an allegation.  It is an observable fact.  A Biden pre-emptive pardon package of his henchmen would amount to a presidential declaration and endorsement of a system that applies the law based on political affiliation.  It would be a presidential middle finger to the those gullible enough to believe that the federal government is still a force for justice.  For those who have harmed the country to escape accountability, it would be highly corrosive to the confidence in our institutions, and it would ultimately undermine the ability of those institutions to function.

However, there is something far more important than having Anthony Fauci spend time behind bars, performing domestic duties for his cellmate.  It’s important that the thousands of other federal miscreants know they are being watched and are at risk of real consequences.  Pre-emptive pardoning of their leaders would shine a spotlight on their activities and leave them wondering if they have the name recognition necessary to garner “the big guy’s” mercy.  Given human nature, pre-emptive pardons might trigger a flood of whistleblowers, seeking to point fingers in any direction but their own.

Politically speaking, pre-emptive pardons would also be a huge assist to the Trump transition team.  President-Elect Trump ran on a promise to attack government corruption, and he has nominated people to leadership positions to ruthlessly do just that.  Just one month after receiving a mandate from the American public, senators from both parties are working to prevent him from fulfilling his promises by blocking his appointees.  However, pre-emptive pardons from Biden would shine an uncomfortable light on the obstructionists.  Blocking confirmation of Trump’s appointees could be perceived by the public as passivity in addressing the problem.

Within 24 hours of Joe Biden issuing any pre-emptive pardons, President-Elect Trump should address the nation hitting the following points:

• The pre-emptive pardons issued by Joe Biden reveal the extent of the cancer in the federal government that must be excised.
• We cannot remain a self-governed country with a government that actively works against the will of its people.
• Time is short.  The corruption must be attacked before it metastasizes any further.
• His leadership appointees are admittedly radical choices.  But they were chosen because they will ruthlessly impose the will of the people on the departments they will lead.
• He should then demand an up-or-down vote on his leadership selections so that each senator’s constituents will know whether they stand with the people or the Deep State.

When Joe Biden pardoned his son, he showed us that Democrat claims that “nobody is above the law” were always a cheap political lie.  If he pre-emptively pardons those who have undermined our Constitution, he’ll be showing us that “equal justice under law” is similarly inoperative.

I have no doubt that Biden will use his remaining days in office to commit of any number of acts in service to himself rather than his country.  He will then retire to his estate in Delaware — which was paid for by Russia, Ukraine, and China — safe from prosecution and without a care in the world about the damage he has done.

Any Republican candidate who fails to remind the public — for the next decade — what the closing days of Biden’s administration revealed about the Democrat party will be guilty of political malpractice.  I suspect Joe’s actions will be seen by history as more damaging to a political party than any action by a politician in generations.

Scumbag Adam Schiff Is Worried About Kash Patel

Derek Hunter reporting for Townhall 

That Congressman Adam Schiff (Scumbag – CA) is headed to the United States Senate is a testament to just how awful Democrats are and why anyone sane left in California needs to get the hell out ASAP. He is not a good man who deserves whatever bad things come his way. To this day, he shamelessly lies about Russian collusion with a straight face and does not care that Joe Biden pardoned his degenerate son for everything Schiff claimed Trump was trying to quid-pro-quo Ukraine over – meaning Joe does not want consequences for his family over what Schiff said never happened. So, yes, he’s a scumbag (for lack of being able to call him what he truly is, in the interest of decency).

Being a scumbag from California, Schiff squeaked to a victory with only 59 percent of the vote. They deserve him. 

You’d think that someone with that margin of victory would pump the brakes on fundraising for a minute, or at least take their foot off the gas, to allow donors to take a breath and pay off some of the high-interest credit cards they maxed out due to panicked fundraising emails sent during the campaign, but that’s not who Schiff is. 

He raised more than $47 million and will have the cash pouring into him over the next 6 years simply because he’s a shameless man who’ll happily whore himself out to any left-wing cause seeking to influence him. But it’s not enough; it’s never enough.

Why would he need more money? He’s afraid of someone who has intimate knowledge of just how big of a corrupt liar he is in a position to hold him accountable. 

His latest fundraising emails are all about his fear of Kash Patel becoming Director of the FBI. It opens, “Last weekend, Donald Trump nominated Kash Patel as FBI Director.  And while you might have thought Matt Gaetz, Tulsi Gabbard, or Pete Hegseth were the most inflammatory nominees Trump could pick, I promise you Kash Patel raises even the same or greater alarm bells.”

Why is he worried about Patel? Kash was a staffer on the House Intelligence Committee when Schiff leaked classified material and lied about what they’d found about Donald Trump. Wouldn’t you be afraid of someone who knows how corrupt you are and how you break the law, being the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation? 

The email continues, “For starters, he’s spread dangerous, false conspiracy theories about a ‘deep state”’ that is unfairly persecuting the MAGA world. He’s calling for a ‘comprehensive housecleaning’ of professionals at the Justice Department, and he said he’ll close down the FBI headquarters and turn it into a ‘museum of the deep state’ on his first day.  While I served on the House Intelligence Committee, Kash Patel was a major part of the efforts to sabotage a thorough investigation of Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election — and for his work, he was rewarded with a post in the Trump Administration.”

That last big Schiff wetting is Depends. Kash Patel knows where the bodies are buried, and as FBI Director, he will have a massive shovel. 

Scared Schiff writes, “Strangest of all — but not surprising, given his close allegiances with Donald Trump: Kash Patel wrote a children’s book titled The Plot Against the King — featuring characters such as ‘King Donald,’ ‘Hillary Queenton,’ and one particular ‘shifty knight.’ Who, you guessed it, is supposed to be me, Adam Schiff.  Literally repackaging the Big Lie about the 2020 election into a children’s book.  There’s more — Kash Patel hosted a children’s event to promote his new book, which featured a castle, a catapult, and watermelons adorned with, you guessed it, my face.  If it sounds ridiculous, it's because it is. However, it also demonstrates how completely disastrous Kash Patel would be as director of the FBI. He should stick to his strengths and remain an internet troll.”

Adam has no problem with trans-kiddie porn in elementary school libraries, but Patel’s book is a bridge too far.

Before begging for more money, Schiff closes, “Again, this is someone who has called for the arrest of journalists, politicians, and anyone who stands up to Donald Trump. There’s no end to the damage he could cause.”

Adam Schiff is afraid, and he deserves to be afraid. Kash Patel knows him and how he hides his corruption behind a thin veil of legitimacy. There are many reasons to confirm Kash Patel as FBI Director, but maybe none is greater than that one. 

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In Nuclear Apocalypse, How Safe Is Your State?

Ward Clark reporting for RedState 

I have always reckoned that, in the event of a global nuclear war, the best place to be would be at ground zero of a multi-megaton nuke; a real crowd-pleaser. May as well get it over with right away, and being vaporized sure beats dying weeks later of radiation sickness, starvation, or thirst — or all three.

As the Bard said, if the thing t'were be done, best it be done quickly.

As a child of the Cold War, I remember very well the "duck and cover" drills we practiced in elementary school classrooms, which gave the notion that there was some positive outcome to be had in surviving a major exchange of city-busting nukes. The small local city of Waterloo, Iowa, we were told, was on the Soviet Union's first-strike list, as the massive John Deere Waterloo Tractor Works, Engine Works, Foundry, and Experimental Farm were all located there in those days and major industrial sites like that were expected to draw some nuclear attention if that balloon ever went up. That never happened, of course, but there are still plenty of nukes out there, which begs the question: How safe are you, given the likely target list?

The answer? Not very.

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst investigated wind and weather patterns to predict the timeline of nuclear fallout, including the paths through which radiation would spread throughout the country. 

Experts agree that the Midwest, where 450 ballistic missile silos are stored — particularly Montana, North Dakota and Nebraska — would be the most likely primary target as detonating just two of those storehouses could cause an explosion equal to 100,000 tons of TNT, per Scientific American.

Exposure to radiation poisoning from a nuclear attack would guarantee death for an estimated 300 million Americans within four days of detonation. 

There's a major flaw in this map: It assumes that only nuclear missile siloes will be hit. That seems a rather stunning underestimation. One would expect centers of government, military bases, and even major cities and industrial sites to be vaporized as well. That means buh-bye to Washington, to much of Northern Virginia; to New York, Boston, Atlanta, Miami, Chicago, Denver (the city with the second-largest federal presence after Washington), Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego. Add to that the various Army, Marine, Navy, and Air Force bases around the United States, including those in Alaska and Hawaii, and you'll be seeing a lot more purple on that map.

It's like Albert Einstein supposedly said; "No matter how World War 3 is fought, World War 4 will be fought with rocks and sticks." That is, if anyone's left to fight it.

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There's just no happy ending for anyone in the event of a major nuclear exchange. It would be a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions, and could well spell the end of humanity. Of course, consider the time scales the earth moves on; in 10 or 20 million years, an eyeblink in geologic time, the planet will have recovered and be once more brimming with life — but we won't be among them. That life, indeed, may not be in any form we would recognize.

So, yes, the only way to win a global nuclear war is to not fight it. An old gag from those not-so-long-ago Cold War years applies as much today as it did then; that gag stated that, in the event of a nuclear bomb detonation, one should "bend down, put your head between your legs, and kiss your a** goodbye." So, forget that map and its guesstimations; in the event of a major nuclear war, we're pretty much all screwed no matter whether you're in New York, Wyoming, San Francisco — or Alaska.

Sen. Grassley: FBI Director’s ‘Orwellian Conduct’ Has ‘Shattered My Confidence’

In a scathing letter to the FBI chief, the Iowa senator says it’s time for Wray and his deputy to ‘move on to the next chapter.’

Matt Kittle reporting for The Federalist

FBI Director Christopher Wray and his deputy have lost the confidence of a key member of the U.S. Senate. 

In a scathing letter, U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, rebuked the corrupt director and laid out a laundry list of reasons why he has lost confidence in his leadership and that of his deputy director, Paul Abbate.

“For the good of the country, it’s time for you and your deputy to move on to the next chapter in your lives,” Grassley, ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, wrote in the letter, sent to Wray on Monday.

Some of Wray’s sharpest critics have argued that his “next chapter” should be a prison sentence for weaponizing America’s top law enforcement agency against political enemies and destroying whatever remained of Americans’ faith that no one is above the law. 

Trump has nominated ally Kash Patel to replace Wray as FBI director. The president-elect, appearing Sunday morning on “Meet the Press,” said that Wray’s agency invaded his home amid one of many abusive investigations into the left’s hated political enemy. 

“I’m suing the country over it. He invaded Mar-a-Lago. I’m very unhappy with the things he’s done,” Trump said. 

Grassley blasted Wray’s refusal to release reams of records sought by congressional committees, among the director’s many failures over his seven-year tenure at the FBI’s helm. 

“I’ve spent my career fighting for transparency, and I’ve always called out those in government who have fought against it. For the public record, I must do so once again now. I therefore must express my vote of no confidence in your continued leadership of the FBI.” 

‘Shattered My Confidence’

In his scathing 11-page letter, the senator noted how he presided over Wray’s nomination hearing as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Wray was confirmed to be just the eighth FBI director upon the nomination of President Trump, and Grassley said he hoped that Wray would “bring needed change to the FBI after the politicization and scandal presided over by” his predecessor, Director James Comey. Grassley reminded Wray of what he told him at the time, that an FBI director’s 10-year term is “a ceiling, not a floor” and that he expected Wray would comply with congressional oversight requests and protect whistleblowers. 

“As we stand at the threshold of a new Congress and a new administration, with seven years of water under the bridge, you’ve failed in these fundamental duties as director,” the senator wrote. 

“These failures are serious enough and their pattern widespread enough to have shattered my confidence in your leadership and the confidence and hope many others in Congress placed in you,” he added. 

Interestingly, Grassley noted that even President Joe Biden, who has long denied that he weaponized his administration against Trump, has acknowledged that (in Grassley’s words) “political bias has indeed infected law enforcement.” Iowa’s senior senator referred to Biden’s recent sweeping pardon of his criminal son, Hunter, for the federal felonies he’s committed or likely has committed over more than a decade. In a statement last week, the president whined that his boy — a middle-aged man who should have known better — was treated differently under the law. 

“No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son — and that is wrong,” the elder Biden wrote. 

‘Some of the Most Egregious, Orwellian Conduct’

While the FBI pushed a psyop that the Hunter Biden laptop story that broke before the 2020 election was “Russian disinformation,” Grassley noted the FBI’s “failure to investigate bribery allegations against former Vice President Joe Biden, while strictly scrutinizing former President Trump.” 

“You’ve repeatedly claimed you would ensure the FBI does justice, ‘free of fear, favor, or partisan influence,’” Grassley wrote. “The FBI under your watch, however, had possession of incriminating information against President Biden for three years until I exposed the existence of the record outlining those allegations, but did nothing to investigate it.”

He noted the oversight work that he and colleague Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., did in exposing the phony Steele dossier and the FBI’s role in peddling the false narrative that the Kremlin colluded with the Trump campaign. Grassley called it “some of the most egregious, Orwellian conduct” he’s witnessed in his nearly half-century in Congress. 

‘Promises Made, Promises Broken’

Grassley went into detail about the FBI’s disparate system of law enforcement and accountability on Wray’s watch — and lapses that have put Americans and the nation at risk.

The senator addressed concerning whistleblower disclosures of allegations that “hundreds of FBI employees had retired or resigned to avoid accountability” in a sexual misconduct scandal. He noted the FBI’s failure to properly vet Afghanistan refugees prior to being relocated to the United States. More than 50 evacuees were believed to present “potentially significant security concerns.” Wray’s response to Grassley at a Judiciary Committee oversight hearing “left the impression” that the director “hadn’t even looked into the matter” and that his agency clearly couldn’t account for the security risks, the senator wrote.

“You didn’t live up to your word. Promises made, promises broken has become a recurrent theme under your leadership,” Grassley scolded.

Conrad Black: Biden about to be relegated to the dustbin of history where he belongs

 Most of the current international problems in the world are directly traceable to the vacuous ineptitude of the superpower. 

Despite the remarkable development story of China, there is only one superpower and for the past four years the United States has been somnambulating through a nightmare of millions of desperate illegal immigrants streaming across the border. Despite warnings even from his own supporters, the senescent outgoing president poured gasoline on the fires of inflation and allowed the United States to fall behind China and Russia in the development of hypersonic weapons (though it remains in other respects the world’s greatest military power — that couldn’t be so quickly squandered). 

U.S. President Joe Biden’s ambiguity about Russian designs on Ukraine was an invitation for a Russian invasion and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, who should have been court martialed for incompetence and insubordination, confidently told lawmakers that the Russians would capture Kyiv within a few days.

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President Biden graciously offered the Ukrainian president and his family asylum, and when it became clear that Ukraine was going to resist Russia seriously, he promised to support Ukrainians for “as long as it takes,” without ever providing the necessary weapons or approving rules of engagement that could bring the conflict to a relatively swift and satisfactory end. 

There has never been an exit strategy, except to assure that Ukraine is armed but under-armed, so it can fight to the last Ukrainian. The policy in Gaza has been dictated by a failed ambition to retain Jewish votes without losing Islamic votes in the recent election. The formula has been the coy bromide that “Israel has a right to defend itself,” which is defined in practice as meaning that it can expel the barbarous Hamas invaders who inflicted the greatest Jewish bloodbath since the liberation of the Nazi death camps, but cannot take comprehensive countermeasures against the Hamas terrorist organization itself. 

Israel was not engaging in a tit-for-tat response following a border incident; it has been making war after enduring what was — and was intended to be — a clear act of war. The Biden formula, mindlessly endorsed by the Canadian government and many others, is a recipe for the continuous resupply of Hamas and the endless provocation of Israel by terrorists who have made it clear that they will never accept the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state.

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While the United States election last month was reasonably close, it was also a decisive rejection of wokeness, racial atomization and collective self-hate on grounds of falsely perceived systemic racism, the green terror based on fears of planetary destruction unless fossil fuel use is terminated and a general moral abdication in favour of appeasing America’s enemies abroad and the domestic forces of lawless protest, theft and vandalism.

It is a delicious spectacle to see the advocates and apologists for the abdication of America from its rightful and long-held position as the premier nation in the world fumbling in confusion and denial, still babbling their malicious, ignorant nonsense of Trump-hate like Neanderthals who have wandered out of their caves into the modern world self-consciously mumbling their gibberish. 

According to Shannon Gormley in the pathologically anti-American Toronto Star, Donald Trump “is an avowed racist, a proven rapist and a de facto Russian asset who calls for the use of force against migrants, women, sovereign states, political opponents and critics.” His proposed cabinet “is violent.… But that’s the least of it.… A full frontal attack on the United States Constitution” has been promised, and it will “tear through American society with the inherent threat of violence.… Trump has mainstreamed misogyny.”

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Trump-hate is in fact collapsing. Instead of the monster of Gormley’s imagination, he has emerged as a courageous underdog. Despite being greatly outspent in the late election and rabidly opposed by 95 per cent of the national political media (which has virtually committed suicide and Gormley is an example of it), and being subjected to an avalanche of perverted politicized prosecutions as the Justice Department has become an arm of the dirty tricks division of the Democratic National Committee, Trump has won a clear mandate in a fair and peaceful election to clean up the cesspool of American government and American declinism, institutional incompetence and official self-loathing. He is enjoying the normal honeymoon of an incoming president with an approval rating of nearly 55 per cent.

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Joe Biden, as the most incompetent and corrupt American president in U.S. history blunders into history and dementia as the figurehead of an anti-American government and the genuine head of a third-rate crime family, he has violated his sanctimonious claptrap about no one being above the law by pardoning his son, largely to prevent being implicated himself in his shabby influence-peddling. The civilized world will soon have good reason to rejoice that the vacuum in Washington has been filled. 

The war in Ukraine will end on a satisfactory basis very quickly: Russia has some historic rights that will be recognized by modest territorial acquests and Ukraine’s status as a legitimate sovereign state will be universally recognized, and Russia will gradually depart the potentially smothering embrace of China and recognize that the culture of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky belongs in the West and not the Orient. Iran will be prevented from becoming a nuclear military power and terrorists will cease to govern in Gaza, and Israel and Saudi Arabia will compose their few remaining differences. There will be no more talk of Chinese strangulation of Taiwan, or of China surpassing the U.S. economically, than there is now that Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election.

The dust-bin of history will overflow

https://www.thegraphicleader.com/opinion/columnists/conrad-black-biden-about-to-be-relegated-to-the-dustbin-of-history-where-he-belongs

Could Setbacks in Iran Lead to the Eviction of the Ayatollahs and Their Repressive Regime? Conrad Black

 As Syria Collapses, the rush is on to gain nuclear military capability before Trump’s second inauguration.

It is clear that Iran is rushing toward the most advanced stage of nuclear military capability it can achieve in the seven weeks before the second inauguration of President Trump. There is also a good deal of jockeying in Ukraine and complacent assurances from the retreating Democrats that the incoming president’s promises to end that war in one day will soon be disclosed as simply more bravura from a tiresomely familiar source. 

Hamas appears to have been abandoned to its well-deserved fate of outright extinction and the complete annihilation of this formidable terrorist apparatus, when the cant and histrionics and fatuous anti-Semitic charges of genocide subside, will be seen as a heavy defeat for Iran and a great victory for Israel. Now, added to the complexity of these matters is the sudden and generally unexpected collapse of Syria. 

No one will lament the fall of the Assad regime, which has been a bloody dictatorship imposed by an ethnic minority since 1971. The West could also be quite consolable at the spectacle of the Russians and Iranians being unceremoniously bundled out of the divided country. Yet some sort of international consensus should be patched together quickly to prevent Syria from becoming an outright terrorist state.

Life is difficult enough in the Middle East with entrenched terrorist groups in Lebanon and Gaza, thanks largely to President George W. Bush’s inspired notion of promoting democratic elections in those areas, unmindful of the fact that sometimes anti-democratic forces are the democratically preferred option. Iran is a horrible nuisance as a petroleum-exporting and terrorism-sponsoring state. 

Yet an outright sovereign state of terrorists in Syria is something that the neighboring countries should unite to prevent. Israel, Jordan, Turkey, and even Iraq, if it can act with any coherence, should, with the support of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Russia, America, and the European Union, establish some sort of a protectorate in Syria, to protect the Syrians from factional terror and the whole region from the high explosive dangers of a sovereign terrorist regime in its midst.

There should be time to deal with Iran’s nuclear ambitions, as President Trump promised to do in his last debate with President Biden, and Prime Minister Netanyahu also promised to do when he last spoke to the Congress in late summer. What are needed are fissile material, a suitable delivery rocket and launcher, and a warhead.

The Iranians have the missiles and they are bringing the fissile material up to the conditions necessary for a nuclear weapon, but the warhead is the most complicated part and there is no evidence that they have developed that or can do so before January 20. 

At that point, there is every reason to believe that the new government of America with the explicit or tacit support of most governments in the world, will inform the government of Iran that the deployment of nuclear weapons by Iran is not acceptable and that it will be interdicted, if necessary, militarily. This will be another richly deserved and entirely benign, bone crushing strategic defeat for the horrifying bloodstained pseudo-theocracy in Tehran, on the heels of the expungement of Hamas and its expulsion from Syria.

It seems likely that the returning Trump will soon advise the Russian government, if he has not done so already, that if the Kremlin does not stand back somewhat from its present occupied areas in Ukraine and accept those as an accretion of Russian territory, provided the population in those areas is free to move into Ukraine in its new borders if it wishes, it will be the policy of the American government to arm Ukraine with weapons that will bring the war that Russia initiated home to the Russian people, as the Kremlin has happily inflicted upon the civilian population of Ukraine. 

In those circumstances, it is hardly conceivable that President Putin will insist on continuing the war, and President Zelensky would be in no position to reject such terms, especially if the high quantity of military assistance that Ukraine has been receiving from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is quickly converted into economic development assistance.

As part of the agreement to end the war, Russia and all of NATO would guarantee the revised frontiers of Ukraine in terms that would make it clear that these guarantees were reliable and not the worthless assurances Ukraine was given when it and Belarus and Kazakhstan decommissioned the nuclear weapons that they had inherited from the Soviet Union.                                       

In these circumstances, Ukrainian membership in the North Atlantic Treaty is almost academic but it could be admitted to NATO without much controversy in the context of a simultaneous nonaggression pact between NATO and Russia. All that would be standing in the way of such an agreement would be some understanding concerning Georgia and Moldova.

Belarus is already a Russian satellite, and NATO doesn’t much care what happens to the former Muslim republics of the USSR as long as they don’t become terrorist states. Armenia and Azerbaijan are not under threat and the West has no interest in their border dispute. 

It is not beyond hope that the setbacks envisioned for Iran would induce the eviction of the ayatollahs and their repressive regime by the long-suffering Iranian population. There would be no remaining significant issues between Israel and the Arab powers. All indications are that a sensible and determined stance by the Trump administration could advance the cause of peace in Eastern Europe and in the Middle East quickly and quite painlessly.

https://www.nysun.com/article/could-setbacks-in-iran-lead-to-the-eviction-of-the-ayatollahs-and-their-repressive-regime