Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is essentially threatening terrorist attacks if Europe doesn't give him what he wants. “If you continue to behave like this, not a single European, not a single Westerner will be able to take a step on the road safely anytime in the world,” Erdoğan said at a press conference adding: “We as Turkey are calling on Europe to respect human rights and democracy.”
Several points:
1. Note the overwhelming hypocrisy of threatening terrorist attacks if Western Europe doesn't "respect human rights". Not only is that self-contradictory, but please tell me which Western European nation isn't light years ahead of Turkey in both human rights and democracy.
2. Note that even the president of Turkey takes it for granted that when Muslims don't get their own way, they resort to terrorism. And he clearly believes they have a right to do so. Erdoğan and his ilk have no idea how to work with civilized humans. "Give me MJ own way or ... terrorism!" And he assumes this is the norm for how Muslims behave.
3. The left in the west will ignore this, as always, thus emboldening this kind of behaviour and guaranteeing more terrorism.
4. Erdoğan is just proving that Trump is right about limiting Muslim immigration.
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Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Friday, March 10, 2017
Trump to-do list
Trump has made a great start but here's what needs to get done:
1. Withdraw the US from the Paris climate treaty.
2. Kill the hysterical environmental regulations that are smothering US businesses and enriching the left.
3. Fire Obama's and Kerry's holdovers.
4. Pass a truly conservative repeal and replacement of Obamacare. Anything short of that will betray those who voted for him. Worse than that, it will fail (because liberal policies don't work) and now it will be the Republicans who bear the blame for it.
5. Kill the Iran deal.
1. Withdraw the US from the Paris climate treaty.
2. Kill the hysterical environmental regulations that are smothering US businesses and enriching the left.
3. Fire Obama's and Kerry's holdovers.
4. Pass a truly conservative repeal and replacement of Obamacare. Anything short of that will betray those who voted for him. Worse than that, it will fail (because liberal policies don't work) and now it will be the Republicans who bear the blame for it.
5. Kill the Iran deal.
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Saturday, March 04, 2017
Nevertrumpers - I get it, but...
I understand being unhappy about the times Trump has been crude.
I understand he's not the completely principled conservative we would love to have.
But he's the President and he is intent upon implementing more conservative policies than any president since Reagan. For the first time in memory, we have a Republican taking on the corrupt, leftist MSM and making headway. He wants to roll back government and dismantle the administrative state more than any successful Republican in decades.
So I don't understand the behaviour of Nevertrumpers. Or, worse, I understand them all too well.
It increasingly seems to me that the Nevertrumpers had some legitimate concerns about Trump and mixed in a bunch of concerns that proved to be illegitimate. But now, rather than admitting that they went too far, they're eager to pounce on anything that would justify their previous hysteria.
So rather than support him and the plethora of truly conservative policies he wants to implement. And rather than join him in seeing victory after victory over the left and the MSM (but I repeat myself), the Nevertrumpers are hoping to see him fail. Not for the good of the country, not for the good of the conservative cause, but just to save face.
There are some excellent people among the Nevertrumpers. But I'm finding that they're becoming petty and self-serving.
We have a chance to see untold damage done to the left and untold good done for the country. Please ... stop trying to prove you were right and join the greatest deconstruction of the left that we've seen.
I understand he's not the completely principled conservative we would love to have.
But he's the President and he is intent upon implementing more conservative policies than any president since Reagan. For the first time in memory, we have a Republican taking on the corrupt, leftist MSM and making headway. He wants to roll back government and dismantle the administrative state more than any successful Republican in decades.
So I don't understand the behaviour of Nevertrumpers. Or, worse, I understand them all too well.
It increasingly seems to me that the Nevertrumpers had some legitimate concerns about Trump and mixed in a bunch of concerns that proved to be illegitimate. But now, rather than admitting that they went too far, they're eager to pounce on anything that would justify their previous hysteria.
So rather than support him and the plethora of truly conservative policies he wants to implement. And rather than join him in seeing victory after victory over the left and the MSM (but I repeat myself), the Nevertrumpers are hoping to see him fail. Not for the good of the country, not for the good of the conservative cause, but just to save face.
There are some excellent people among the Nevertrumpers. But I'm finding that they're becoming petty and self-serving.
We have a chance to see untold damage done to the left and untold good done for the country. Please ... stop trying to prove you were right and join the greatest deconstruction of the left that we've seen.
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