Weird and wonderful — nay, disturbing — stories of the week get the full treatment from Stephen Green, Bill Whittle and Scott Ott. Right Angle flight 909 is now boarding emotional-support horses.
Tag: President Trump
A prize-winning study of political psychology highlights people who have a need for chaos that drives them to spread misinformation (fake news) to create havoc for the political elites. Thomas B. Edsall in The New York Times says there’s a correlation between the need for chaos, and Trump supporters, as well as Bernie Sanders supporters…but not Hillary Clinton backers.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam agrees to withdraw the extradition bill that drove massive crowds to the streets for the past three months, but the protesters almost immediately say she concedes too little, too late. They have four more demands and a commitment to hang in there until they get them.
President Trump Tweet-Trolls the Iranian regime using a satellite photo of a “catastrophic accident” involving its Safir SLV missile at Semnan Launch Site One. The American Left goes ballistic, accusing Trump of leaking the classified image.
Despite President Trump’s punitive tariffs on Chinese imports to the U.S., American businesses seem bullish on China, with profits up, and few interested in moving manufacturing out of the People’s Republic. But Bill Whittle sees trouble down the road for China’s long-running economic surge.
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee launch probe into allegations that President Trump violated campaign finance law with 2016 hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal, both of whom alleged affairs with the Donald J. Trump. Will this Democrat effort succeed where the Russia collusion case failed? Can it lay the groundwork for impeaching Trump before, or after, the 2020 election?
Sen. Elizabeth Warren dances a two-step to win the party nomination as she woos Progressives in the revolutionary style of Bernie Sanders, and comforts the rank-and-file faithful Democrats like Joe Biden does. Is she a political master, or merely setting herself up for President Trump’s charges that she’s two-faced, unstable, dishonest…in other words — a politician!
Former FBI Director James Comey gets busted by a new Inspector General report from the Justice Department, for taking home classified documents related to President Trump. The report says Comey knowingly violated FBI rules and his employment agreement, setting a bad example for 35,000 Bureau staffers. So far, no criminal charges. Bill Whittle says this story is much worse than it looks.
Donald Trump is as destructive as Hitler, Stalin or Mao and is responsible for more deaths: this from psychiatrist Dr. Allen J. Frances, author of “Twilight of American Sanity: A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump.”
Bill Whittle Now analyzes the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats offered by the Democratic presidential candidates now locked in a 3-way tie for second place (first in the hearts of their Democratic countrymen). Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, and former Vice President Joe Biden, each come to the challenge of winning the Democratic presidential nomination with different advantages and handicaps.
Women now occupy more top positions in Democrat presidential campaigns, and at equal pay, than at any time past. Why has it taken so long for Democrats to treat women with fairness? Does the presence of women in the top echelons of presidential campaigns reshape the competitive landscape for 2020? How can Trump, a known sexist, compete?
John Blake at CNN says that President Trump has been better for Progressives than Barack Obama ever was. Not only have the 45th president’s policies and Tweets generated a ‘Trumplash’ that drives women, Blacks, Latinos and Asians into the arms of the Democrats, but he’s actually reinforced the idea that big government can be good.
President Trump comes under fire for saying, “In my opinion, you vote for a Democrat, you’re being very disloyal to Jewish people, and you’re being very disloyal to Israel.” Did Trump’s effort to attack Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Rep. Ilhan Omar conjure an anti-Semitic trope and poison his efforts to win Jews to the Republican Party? How have Republicans failed to attract a group of voters who should love the party’s view of Israel?
While President Trump says the economy is great, and the coming Chinese trade deal will be great, White House talk of a payroll tax cut lends credence to the media’s recession narrative. Democrats running for president in 2020 would love to neuter the incumbent’s best campaign issue. Could Trump turn the tide by lifting the punitive tariffs against China to boost the economy and bring much-needed relief to U.S. farmers?
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-MI, said it would “kill a part of her” to visit the West Bank, and see her 90-year-old Palestinian grandma, if she had to a sign a promise to avoid calling for a boycott of Israel while in the country.