You can love them or hate them, but you cannot beat them – the US Women's World Cup Champions!

They were bold.

They were brash.

They were arrogant.

They were cocky.

They were outspoken.

They were irreverent.

They were Americans.

Oh yes, and World Cup Champions again!

Throughout the entire thirty-day length of the Women’s World Cup Championship over one billion fans from around the world watched in awe, sometimes horror, shock, and in the end respect for the US Women’s National Soccer Team.

In the final round of eight teams there were seven European teams versus the United States, the best competition the world had to offer.  Seven to one against you is just the kind of challenge Americans are born to thrive on.

Thrive they did by overcoming serious challenges on the pitch, along with wave after wave of controversy, condemnation, and consternation off the field.  In the end, the Americans let their actions on the field match their words and only the Americans were left standing at the end of the grueling battle.

You must have the skills to be champions, but you also must have the character to breath fire into your emotions to help you be the best in the world.  No one has ever done it better.  So now we know, you can love them or hate them but you cannot beat them.  For that they deserve the admiration of all those who questioned their actions on and off the field.

Can they help heal the Nation?

They defended the nation’s honor, perhaps they can help heal the nation as well.  As they return World Champions maybe they can help demonstrate those qualities that have been missing in our divided nation.

Partisan politics have dominated our landscape and driven millions into hatred, social chaos, fear, a lack of respect for others, and an unwillingness to work together to solve those problems.  In short, we no longer communicate.

If these champions are truly concerned with women’s rights, pay equality, and ending discrimination, they should know there is only one sure path to getting anything done to help their causes.

They need to be heard by the people who get things done in America, like the President.  If I were them, I would use the stage they earned as world champions to reach a greater stage like the President of the United States.  Rather than disrespecting the Office of the President they should agree to visit the White House so they can take their concerns to someone who can help them bring about change.

The Lesson of Speaker Pelosi

Maybe they can learn from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.  Last week she had her Democrat controlled House pass a spending bill for immigration which differed from the bill supported by the president.  Trump’s bill crushed her efforts and he had bi-partisan support which she did not.  It was a masterpiece of power politics that even the news media has tried to ignore.

If the US team refuses to meet with the president as expected, they will eliminate their only chance to convince him to be their ally on some pretty reasonable women’s causes.  They might even find some unexpected support from the First Lady and the President’s daughter, and it is nice to have powerful allies in the White House.

The AOC Minefield

If they spurn the president and refuse to meet and the outspoken critic of the president on the women’s team, Megan Rapinoe, goes ahead with her announced plan to meet with the radical Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, known as AOC, the rare opportunity to be a voice for women will be blown.

Why, because AOC, while being the darling of the news media, has done absolutely nothing in Congress and is on the verge of destroying the Democrat Party.  Rapinoe should take heed of the words of Speaker Pelosi about AOC this weekend.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi again dismissed freshman like Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, downplaying the amount of power they had amid a flurry of attention the media gave them.

“All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world,” Pelosi said of Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib, D-Michigan, and Ayanna Pressley, D-Massachusetts.

Her comments came during a New York Times interview, published on Saturday after those four voted against a Republican measure funding humanitarian assistance at the border – which was eventually backed by Pelosi.

Pelosi followed her Twitter comments, saying "But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people and that’s how many votes they got.”

The soccer team can be just another voice in the wilderness, or take their case to the highest authority.  Right now, they are pawns in a very dangerous game of credibility.   

Observations from the Swamp #2 – May Wrap up – Mueller musings

Report for May

The month of May ended in a tumultuous avalanche of opinions on the secret meaning of the Mueller report, which was aggravated when Special Prosecutor Mueller came out of his den for the first time in over two years to deliver his own strange public statement on his report.

Yes, there really is a Mueller and we found him indeed alive though a bit worn.

After his nearly ten-minute address in which he said everything he wanted to say was in his original report already released by Attorney General Barr, and everyone should read the 400 plus page document, we were left with our heads spinning.

Seriously, read over 400 pages of legalese that draws no conclusions, no further indictments, and yes, no Russia collusion.  I do not think Americas are that hungry for such an inconclusive document.

Nothing new, so why would we read it?

To those who ignore the report, here is a summary.  There are four competing versions of the report depending on your bias.

Mueller’s version

He said he could not find the president innocent of conspiracy to obstruct justice.  Whoa!  Here I thought our criminal justice system guaranteed we were innocent until proven guilty.  Of course, he did not say the president was guilty either.  Just what is he saying?

So, he then makes the statement that the criminal justice system has no way to solve this conundrum, but there are constitutional means to do this.  This from a prosecutor in the criminal justice system, who works for the criminal enforcement arm of the government, the Justice Department, the heart of the Executive branch of government?

The news media says that means he told the Congress to investigate which is not what he said.  He referred to other Constitutional means.  How in the world could a member of the executive branch make referrals to another independent branch of government, the legislative branch of congress?

It would seem that violates the very principle of the separation and independence of the three branches of government.  Nowhere does any law say the congress has the right to determine guilt or innocence under criminal statutes.  That would be an infringement of the congress, legislative branch, on the executive branch powers.

Democrat version

The second version of the analysis came from the Democrats in the House who are straining to keep from self-destructing.  The leadership, including the six committee chairmen whose committees are investigating the president, seem determined to investigate every single thread mentioning Trump, his kids, his parents, and everything that happened in his life that might reflect on what he is doing as president.

This has the makings of the biggest fishing expedition in the history of our country to find a legitimate cause for impeachment.  Which clearly means after two and a half years and tens of millions of dollars of investigations, they still cannot figure out how to get rid of Trump.

Under the orchestration of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her pit bull chairmen, their intent seems to use every trick in the book to paralyze the president, cripple his presidency, and send him into oblivion in the next election.

Thus, nothing has changed.

Republican version

Not to be left out in the cold, the Republicans have their own version of what the report means.  Most largely remain silent figuring enough politicians are making fools of themselves, why risk a career just to jump on the credibility of the strange report.  That has not stopped President Trump, target of all the investigations, from commenting.

He is a very mad person about what is taking place.  Perhaps he should be since every member of the Democratic leadership has ignored the innocent until proven guilty criminal justice principle.  Before any investigative committee held their first hearings the Democrats already declared him guilty of something and/or everything.

In the meantime…

The Democrats seem to be single-handedly continuing to undermine our criminal justice system which began with the Clinton presidency and his Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, HR 3355. 

The largest crime bill in the history of the United States was originally written by one Senator Joe Biden, consisted of 356 pages, and provided for 100,000 new police officers, $9.7 billion in funding for prisons and $6.1 billion in funding for prevention programs.  President Bill Clinton signed it into law.

The Center for American Progress says the following about the Clinton/Biden law.

Many consider the crime bill to be one of the cornerstone statutes that accelerated mass incarceration of minorities. But the law’s negative effects did not end there. States and localities were incentivized through a massive infusion of federal funding to build more jails and prisons and to pass so-called truth-in-sentencing laws and other punitive measures that simultaneously increased the number and length of prison sentences while reducing the possibility of early release for those incarcerated.

It has been well-documented that these policies were failures. Their cost to society came not only from the staggering amount of taxpayer dollars that were invested in enforcement, but also from the disproportionate incarceration of a generation of African American men in the name of public safety. Moreover, tough-on-crime measures—specifically longer incarceration sentences—have had at best a marginal effect on improving public safety.

If the presumption of innocence standard and the right to defend oneself against criminal charges are ignore by the Democrats, thus undermining our criminal justice system, we all should be concerned about the future because no one will be safe anymore.

News Media version

Last of the four versions of analysis is the News Media version.  Here the track record of reckless reporting, fake news, intense Trump hatred, and total disregard for professional journalistic principles and ethics were tossed out when Trump first became a threat to the darling of the news media, Hillary Clinton, in the 2016 campaign.

When it comes to Trump, the media long ago tossed out protections like presumption of innocence, right to fair defense, or anything that might leave the impression he is good in any way.  The good news is the media bias is well known to most Americans who know fair, balanced, honest, just or objective reporting is pretty much a thing of the past.

Few people really care what the media says, reports or claims, for their association with the swamp has long ago been established.  As for Trump, Washington insiders, also known as the Establishment, see him as the greatest threat to their power, ability to influence people, and efforts to control people.  When Trump says drain the swamp the media is in his crosshairs.

The Future

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News Flash – Nikki Haley resigns - The truth - Nikki Haley to be Vice President in Trump 2020 re-election!

News Media say Trump is considering daughter Ivanka to replace Haley – Another media lie.

The Headline!

Today one of Trump’s most trusted advisors, Nikki Haley, Ambassador to the United Nations, announced her resignation effective the end of the year.  She said she and the president discussed it almost a year ago.  Well the news media will never buy that because they have so many anonymous plants throughout the Trump administration no secret could be kept for a week, let alone almost a year, yet it was kept secret.

The Secret!

That is bad news for the media if Trump has finally figured out how to keep secrets in the White House.  Almost every story about Trump is the result of anonymous leaks from “supposed high-level sources” in the Trump administration.  Not this time, for one of the most important actions that might have a huge impact on the 2002 presidential election.

The lie!

Instead, CNNs Jim Acosta, and Wolf Blitzer, favorite targets of Trump for fake news stories, used the opportunity to run CNN breaking news segments saying Trump was considering his daughter to be the next Ambassador to the United Nations.  After two segments were broadcast, a notice was flashed that Trump said nepotism would prevent her appointment, which they did not report in the first two segments.

 

Typically, the left-leaning media follow each other with enhanced fake news.  This was no exception.  Why do they find it necessary to reinforce their own collapsing credibility with more distortions and lies?  As millions of people eliminate commercial and cable broadcast news because of the lies and distortions, the news media actually works to make Trump right, they are filled with lies and distortion.

The seismic story lost in the lies?

In the process they probably missed the truth, which could have a seismic impact on the 2020 election.  Since anonymous sources are standard operating procedure for the reporters of today, let me tell you what my anonymous source tells me is the back story behind the resignation of Nikki Haley.

Is it not odd that for the first time President Trump held a news conference to announce one of his top advisors was resigning?  Of course, it is.  Usually a Presidential Tweet makes such announcements.  As the President and Haley talked it was more like a “Woodstock” moment with each heaping praise on the other.  Remember, Nikki opposed Trump, endorsed another candidate in 2016, then became friends with Trump and eventually part of the inner circle of his tight knit trusted advisors.  She also won over many fans in the media and around the 

world.

You might say Nikki Haley was Trump's “Condoleezza Rice,” one of the most trusted and highly regarded insiders in the Bush administration.

So, what was behind the resignation?

According to my anonymous source, the result will be a blockbuster announcement that could insure the re-election of Donald Trump.  If true, our president will once again have outfoxed the news media and anti-Trump fanatics, and might have completely changed the 2020 election landscape.

Nikki Haley is one of the most effective and articulate people in the Trump cabinet.  With a tough midterm election in three weeks leading to the presidential race in 2020 her voice of reason would be a great asset to the Trump campaign.

There is a way to magnify that voice ten times over leading into the election.

What if Vice President Mike Pence, the loyal defender of all things Trump, also felt like he wanted a break from the political cauldron Trump and friends face?  It is certainly not too large a stretch.  That means Pence would be around through the 2020 election before needing to depart.

Nikki Haley, candidate for Vice President!

It also means a new VP must be selected before the primaries so they can be presented to the Republican National Convention in August of 2020.  What if Trump said Nikki Haley would be his new VP for the second term?

Suddenly, one of his most trusted cabinet advisors can join the campaign trail with Trump and Pence because she is now free of office, and she is heir apparent to the Office of the Vice President.  This move would send shock waves through the entire political world as she could give him the opportunity to help elect the first woman in history to the vice presidency.

I cannot even imagine the value she would be to the president’s campaign, the impact she could have on diminishing the message of many women’s groups opposed to Trump, and the fact her credentials are every bit as significant as those of Hillary Clinton, without the baggage of Bill or the Clinton Foundation.  In fact, if truth were told which is rare in presidential politics, this historic “shattering of the glass ceiling for women” would be Trump’s greatest achievement to date.

We all know the president likes the outrageous, and what a historic footnote in history that Donald Trump might be instrumental in getting the first female elected to one of the two highest offices in the nation.

Shattering the Second Glass ceiling!

The intent of the president in naming her vice-president is to help insure an overwhelming victory for his last term in office.  Yet Trump thinks everything through, which is why he can continually outfox the media and Democrats.  Trump knows after a president is finished, his legacy is still at risk.  The next Obama will come along and undo all the good Trump might have achieved.

There is only one way to protect a legacy, that is to make certain the next president is a loyal friend.  Trump will give Nikki Haley four years as vice president to prepare herself for election as the highly deserving first woman president of the United States in 2024, thus assuring a permanent Trump legacy.

My anonymous source says this might very well be the secret plan.  If so, he will have delivered on most all campaign promises, especially the one about “draining the swamp.”

Nikki Haley Quietly Visits Syrian Refugee Camp

Posted at 9:30 am on May 22, 2017 by Teri Christoph

Nikki and family

 Netanyahu calls Nikki Haley a 'tsunami of fresh air.'