1/20/2017: THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN

By Jonathan E.P. Moore, and Friends of America!
1/20/2017: THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN, AND RIDING HIGH ON MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

This was to be the first time in history that the ‘Will’ of the American People were willing, and being funded by an outsider non-politician who believes in only one thing, and that’s “let’s make America great again!!’……Do you really think if the American people didn’t take that leap of faith and jump at this once in a lifetime opportunity that we would ever have that chance again? We didn’t even know that we had to free ourselves from ourselves and that our very own elected officials, who were pushing this unsuspecting globalist, open border agenda chaos upon us, without out even conferring with the American people, their bosses, and by doing so, creating a naiveté open door invitation to transform America into something we never were, or consciously, never would be doing!

Acclaimed Reagan biographer Craig Shirley described GOP frontrunner Donald Trump as “a breath of fresh air” and explained that in Trump’s candidacy “We might be witnessing a new form of American conservatism emerging.”

Trump wasn’t the perfect man for the job, but he became the symbol of what this country needs. We have lived through both parties screwing the American People for decades, and America needed a new symbol of hope and change that wasn’t the Obama version, but the outsider Trump’s version of a 69-year-old businessman billionaire who’s not a politician, but delegator who gets things ‘done’ with whatever he self-assigns himself to do! Trump has stepped up to the plate to go to bat for the American People, and we should all be grateful!

Trump’s rogue approach to politics indirectly mocked the political correct minions of both parties who thought they were above it all! Trump, through common sense and a little celebrity status, called out the status quo of the two-political party’s lies and deception that occurred during the primaries and exposed the corruption to the American people and the fact that the American people didn’t really have a say in the selection process when choosing the nominee for President of the United States!

The ‘New’ Socialist Party of America, which was last known as the old guard Democratic Party, are losing their minds over Donald Trump winning the Presidency, and with good reason. Our elected politicians on both sides of the aisle have created themselves a “Political Class”. Trump threatens to put a big dent in how this has been built and run, and after him observing both political parties Trump sees how there is not much of a difference between how both parties operate.

Trump is probably the overall least conservative of the bunch and will take on the stagnant Congress, continue with his Tweeting, and saying things that make politicians uneasy and cringe, but the American basket of deplorables love it and encourage the blunt honesty he provides. People have grown tired of the politically correct status quo and would rather switch their attention to doing what’s right for our country by not having to worry about job preservation, putting food on the table, and just about everything else that occurred in every day American’s lives before the Obama administration came to town hiding his intended socialist transformation of America, and destroying America from within!

The Establishment in America was, and still is comprised of a loose coalition of self-serving Democrats, Republicans, bureaucrats, corrupt politicians, members of the press, media, their sponsors, and lobbyists, donors, bankers, and “money changers” on Wall Street that have taken good care of themselves, friends, families, and under-the-table business associates and foreign contacts, and continuing,  unfortunately, at the expense of  ordinary Americans and the economic and national security interests of the United States of America!

Back before Trump won the election the establishment was terrified that American voters were willing to accept the worst that Trump had to offer, and hoped that his best will in fact make America great again. This is called a “TRADE-OFF” and Trump supporters (Americans) “didn’t care” anymore what the Establishment said about Trump.

The Establishment was also terrified that Trump, as president, will “knock some heads around” and over his 4-8 years as President will replace a lot of incompetent government employees with competent “Can Do” Americans who are sick of watching “bums” and “stupid” people destroy our country.

The specific members of the status quo establishment that have the most to lose, because Trump was elected president, are the corrupt politicians, members of the press and media, their sponsors, Wall Street, incompetent federal employees, bureaucrats, and most anyone that aggressively attacks Trump with an obvious unfair, political agenda, and if you remember a couple of weeks ago about how GOP’ers were trying to eliminate the self-established ethics committee to oversee their actions, which Trump torpedoed and reversed when he heard about it. Now you know that the comments above are more than accurate and true!

Americans have a lot to lose if irresponsible Establishment "players" are not held to the same standards as they demand of Trump.

Trump is an Outsider and that's what Americans want!! He is not a member of the 'Garden Party Insiders’ club, but gave all of these insider’s opponents a chance to beat him down, which none of them were able to accomplish! He doesn't preach the status quo or held to any of the demands that his affiliated party bosses bitch about.... He was the only one to hang out with the Press after his Speeches and answer every question.......He played by his own ‘primary’ leading 'outsider' rules, and ignored these high fluting elitist snobs and insider' rules......and as Sinatra sang, “I did it my way!”

Trump wasn’t held to the same standard of an insider, and wouldn’t play the same political game that the status quo had been playing for years. Trump’s a quick understudy, and because of that will figure out what the hell is going on in this country, and by doing so, getting us back on the same track our founding fathers and the Constitution had us on from the beginning......! ~~

As Donald Trump takes the oath of office today as our 45th President, there is a broad spectrum of odd reactions, a far different scene than if any of his Republican rivals had prevailed.

Trump will still have the media attacks, the insulting hectoring of Cabinet appointees, and the general revulsion from big names in the popular culture. But there has been something different all along during the ascendancy of Donald Trump. It has elicited a special level of enthusiasm from some, and a special level of annoyance from others.

No other GOP President-elect would have drawn this level of slander from Democrats, nor this kind of neurotic convulsions from some Republicans. It might have been close. Liberals would have had a conniption fit if Ted Cruz had won; conservatives would be wringing their hands if Jeb Bush had succeeded.

But as Trump takes office, his opponents on the left are screeching with a viciousness that is excessive even for them. On the right, skeptics jarred by the audacity of his victory are struggling with their perceptual disorders. Some have come to terms with why they were so wrong, others never will.

The reason so many were so wrong about Trump’s chances is that they saw this election through the lens of the familiar; they expected that even with its large and unprecedented cast of characters, 2016 would play out according to the usual rules, the usual behavioral standards, the usual voter tendencies.

It was clear early on that this was not going to happen. Events that would have destroyed other candidates barely grazed Trump. Some moments perceived as gaffes or missteps by the smart kids were actually helpful days for him, a fact that evaded analysts, pundits and consultants on both sides who never looked outside their own bubbles.

So as talking heads interviewed fellow talking heads about what the other talking heads were saying, real people were figuring something out: that an opportunity for real change was at hand.

It wasn’t in the shape of Ted Cruz, one of our sharpest conservative minds; it wasn’t in the shape of Marco Rubio, one of our most promising political talents; and it surely wasn’t in the shape of Jeb Bush, who excited many in the chattering classes but almost no actual voters.

The prospects for real change came in the form of Donald Trump, a man with no elected office experience, a frequent lack of rhetorical discipline and a private history pockmarked with land mines. But one thing made all of that irrelevant: He is a genius.

He dispatched a large and talented field of fellow hopefuls. He lassoed and corralled the media tormentors who would be making any other Republican’s life hell right now. And he beat Hillary Clinton, which I continue to believe no other Republican could have done. That’s right, the taunt from the summertime conventions—that Republicans managed to elevate the only candidate Hillary could beat—was 180 degrees wrong every day.

Voters wanted change, and wanted it so urgently that they were willing to overlook large elements of what is usually a downside: ideological blurriness, multiple marriages, a thin grasp of some issues.

Didn’t matter. He’ll learn, we said. He’ll grow, we said. He’ll figure out how to govern, we said. Now, he gets the chance. And just as surely as Trump was the only candidate who promised the degree of change voters hungered for, that degree of change was always going to hit us like an asteroid.

If we were sitting around on Inauguration Day saying “Okay, this is cool. A Republican won

instead of Hillary. Now we can see what would have happened if McCain or Romney had won, and work through the usual channels to move America back the other way—” that would be a virtual guarantee of insufficient change.

This is not 1980. We are not a nation in need of a remedy after four years of Jimmy Carter. We are a nation in need of a defibrillation after the heart-stopping pathology of thirty years of leftward lurch since Reagan left. From the broken “no new taxes” pledge of the first Bush to two terms of the Clintons to two well-intentioned but big-spending terms of the second Bush to the eight poisonous years of Barack Obama, our ills are exponentially worse than when Reagan took office. In terms of fiscal woes, social rot, global jihad, porous borders, educational decay and a host of other crises, this election correctly posed the question of whether America as we knew it could actually survive if voters did not rescue it.

Well, we did. And the fact that everybody is freaking out is a superb indicator that the correct magnitude of change is at hand.

It has taken decades to screw America up this badly. It cannot be turned around in one Trump term, or even two. But his leadership can correct our course with a vigor that suggests the kind of wake-up call that has been in the making for decades.

This is not a time for blue-ribbon panels or ten-year projections or hand wringing from the usual suspects about how hard change is. We needed a force of nature, a nuclear reactor of change energy that will upset countless apple carts and raise countless eyebrows. And we got it.

Trump sees issues as a negotiation. He opens with a position that may seem absurd, then dials it back, seeming more reasonable and measured in the process, pleased to reach what looks like a compromise but was really what he wanted all along. If that seems like a haphazard way to govern, it is worth reviewing whether any other way has been worth a flip for the last few decades.

So here it is. Real change. Bringing with it real nervousness, real opposition, even real hysteria from some. But if President Donald Trump can surprise us in office as thoroughly as he did on the way to that office, the future may hold something that has become a ridiculed concept hijacked in the bombast of the era of Obama: real hope. ~~By Mark Davis, a Friend of America!

OBAMA STARTED WITH AN APOLOGY TOUR FOR AMERICA’S PAST PERFORMANCE ON THE WORLD STAGE, BUT DIDN’T CHOOSE TO END IT WITH A WELL-EARNED APOLOGY TOUR TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!

Obama has been on a months-long goodbye tour. He visited the United Nations for a speech in September and has given countless "farewell" interviews since. He gave a final address to the nation on Jan. 10.

Obama will leave office Jan. 20 when Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th president.

My fellow Americans,

It's a long-standing tradition for the sitting president of the United States to leave a parting letter in the Oval Office for the American elected to take his or her place. It's a letter meant to share what we know, what we've learned, and what small wisdom may help our successor bear the great responsibility that comes with the highest office in our land, and the leadership of the free world.

But before I leave my note for our 45th president, I wanted to say one final thank you for the honor of serving as your 44th. Because all that I've learned in my time in office, I've learned from you. You made me a better President, and you made me a better man.

Throughout these eight years, you have been the source of goodness, resilience, and hope from which I've pulled strength. I've seen neighbors and communities take care of each other during the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes. I have mourned with grieving families searching for answers — and found grace in a Charleston church.

I've taken heart from the hope of young graduates and our newest military officers. I've seen our scientists help a paralyzed man regain his sense of touch, and wounded warriors once given up for dead walk again. I've seen Americans whose lives have been saved because they finally have

access to medical care, and families whose lives have been changed because their marriages are recognized as equal to our own. I've seen the youngest of children remind us through their actions and through their generosity of our obligations to care for refugees, or work for peace, and, above all, to look out for each other.

I've seen you, the American people, in all your decency, determination, good humor, and kindness. And in your daily acts of citizenship, I've seen our future unfolding.

All of us, regardless of party, should throw ourselves into that work — the joyous work of citizenship. Not just when there's an election, not just when our own narrow interest is at stake, but over the full span of a lifetime.

I'll be right there with you every step of the way.

And when the arc of progress seems slow, remember: America is not the project of any one person. The single most powerful word in our democracy is the word 'We.' 'We the People.' 'We shall overcome.'

ANOTHER PARTING ‘SHOT’ BY THE MASTER OF THE BLAME GAME, BARACK OBAMA!

President Obama admitted on Wednesday that he will not be able to follow through on his promise to close Guantanamo Bay by the time he leaves office. But, he did not go so far to admit it was his fault. In a parting letter to Congress, Obama put the blame on Republicans for the failure to shutter the prison.

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