News from the Swamp - National News Media Sinks to new lows over phony Recession Claims and Trump Alabama Weather Tweet – and then there is the on again off again twisted, distorted and highly confused state of the Democratic Party managing their own Dump Trump rebellion!

Try as they might to hide the fact, the national news media has demonstrated their hatred of the US president by spending far more energy trying to harpoon the president than tell the truth about both the Hurricane debacle and the media falsely reporting the US is in, or entering a recession.

Recession

Sometimes it seems as if the media is attempting to create a disaster against the president in hopes it will destroy him in the polls and upcoming election.  The efforts to light a fire to generate a recession is perhaps the strongest indication yet the media could care less about the harm such reckless reporting can do to the people of America and the nation.

CNN, MSNBC, NBC, Yahoo News and CBSN have violated every concept of journalism integrity in their obsession with destroying Trump including blindly trying to create a groundswell of fear in the economic and financial universe that a recession was being kept hidden from the public that could bring down the president.

Several weeks of economic uncertainty followed, fueled by ominous claims from reporters, anchors and anti-Trump “unbiased” guests on these news programs to reinforce the downward spiraling economy.  In the end no one bought the dastardly and false claims of our media.

It never seemed to occur to the media that it was their false claims and radical bias that was fueling recession talks and had nothing to do with economic principles nor reality.  Why should a news media receive constitutional protection when the news media is working to undermine the economy and presidency and threaten the livelihood and hard-earned savings and pensions of the public?

An economic downturn would be devastating not only to business and consumer confidence, but it would undermine the value of homes, property, small businesses and even retirement savings for all Americans, Democrat, Republican and Independent alike.

Union pension plans would be destabilized, interest rates would increase, inflation would skyrocket and homes would be lost for the sole purpose of helping the news media destroy the presidency.

The radical elements of the news media are attached at the umbilical cord to the Democratic party so one can only assume neither cares much about the constituents they serve, even those elected to serve all Americans, let alone their own party base.  It is hard to distinguish at times whether the media is the puppet master of the Democratic party establishment or vice versa.

Regardless, it is a very unholy alliance with no regard to the damage they can do to their own base.  The people’s reaction to the fearmongers is to push the stock markets to record highs by today.  Yet the same media keep trying to instill fear about a recession.

Weathergate

As for the Alabama Tweet on September 1, a Sunday morning, by the President, in which he said Alabama was in the path of Hurricane Dorian, what are the facts?  From August 24 – August 30 the National Hurricane Center issued alerts showing that Dorian could hit Alabama, contrary to what the media seemed to claim.  The charts are shown in this story.

On August 31, a Saturday, the NHC showed for the first time that the path was shifting and Alabama might not be included although hurricane tracking is always difficult to project, especially this one.  The NHC still showed the hurricane affecting Alabama in a separate chart that day released with the spaghetti model.

The next morning, Sunday, Trump issued his statement urging people to heed the warnings and mentioning Alabama could still be in the path.  Well it certainly seemed possible based on the August 31 NHC release but September 1 the NHC dropped any reference to Alabama being involved.

Note just the day before Trump's Tweet the National Hurricane Center still said there was " higher than usual" uncertainty about the path.  Six days later the news media lead story on the channels still mentioned how Trump fabricated the Alabama exposure to the hurricane.

Even the Washington Post, no friend of Trump, warned their fellow media members they were contributing to making the news media look like the villains in their death struggle with Trump.  As of today, September 13, stories are still being carried about the weather forecasting.

And then there is Impeachment

Finally, there is the effort by the Democratic members of the House to impeach President Trump or not impeach Trump.  Since it has been the main purpose for the Democrats since Trump’s election it is not going away.

Yesterday, September 12, the House Judiciary Committee took firm action on impeachment, according to Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY).  Oddly, even the partner in pushing the impeachment, the same news media that seems to be running the Democratic National Committee, were left confused.

This latest flip flop by the Democrats has confused rank-and-file members and caused mixed messages between Democrats on the Judiciary panel and in the House leadership, according to Newsweek.

Normally politicians pay attention to polls.  The Democrats are no longer normal, I guess.  The most recent polls on impeachment paint a far different picture.  SSRS conducted a poll for CNN from March through May which showed impeachment favorability increasing slightly from 36 to 41 percent.

The Mueller report was released in March. The former special counsel himself testified before Congress in July, but a Politico/Morning Consult poll showed little change, with 37 percent support for an impeachment inquiry. A Monmouth University poll last month found that 59 percent of people opposed having him impeached.

Polls also show 55% of Democrats oppose Impeachment.  With nearly 60% of the public opposed to impeachment, what is wrong with the House Democrats?

Here is the most current Gallup tracking poll on Congress.

Do you approve or disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job?

2019 Aug 1-14          Approve 17%            Disapprove 79%

What about the news media credibility?

According to The Hill, in 2018 seventy-two percent of Americans believe "traditional major news sources report news they know to be fake, false, or purposely misleading," according to a poll from Axios and SurveyMonkey.

The poll of nearly 4,000 adults shows that 92 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents "say that traditional news outlets knowingly report false or misleading stories at least sometimes," a finding in line with other recent polls conducted by Pew Research and Gallup.

It found the sentiment extends to those who identify as independents and Democrats, with 79 percent of independents also saying traditional outlets knowingly report false or misleading stories at least sometimes. Democrats agree by a slight majority of 53 percent.

Presidential debate September 12

As for the latest indicator of public interest in the politics in America, here are the preliminary Nielsen overnight ratings for the September 12 Democrat Presidential debate.

Total Viewers (in millions): ABC: 11.22 million, CBS: 3.86, Fox: 2.03, NBC: 1.66, CW: 0.63.

Okay, about 17 million people tuned in.

 

According to the US census Bureau the current population of the United States of America is 329,275,423 as of Wednesday, July 31, 2019.  People 18 and over (eligible voters), are 77.6% of the population.

Thus, in this first-time debate for all leading Democratic candidates for president shown on multiple networks, about 5% of the eligible voters took time to watch.  Which also means about 95% of the eligible voters did not watch.

By the way, record highs in the stock markets are happening today.  More indications the Democrats and their news media outlets are way too far out on the limb of self-delusion.

The Melchizedek Chronicles - What to do about Trump! What is the right thing to do about Trump!

Like him or not, Trump was elected President of the United States of America and he deserves a fair chance to fulfill his destiny as all presidents have been given.

America is a beacon of light to the world because it has never wavered from the underlying principles upon which it was founded, freedom, equal opportunity, individual liberty and justice for all.

It is a nation of diversity in religion, culture, race and opportunity whose strength is found in a divinely inspired ability to demonstrate to the world that our Republic transcends special interests and seeks out fair compromise.

We are competitive, yet will always accept the will of the people in the end, because standing as one is always stronger and serves the greatest good for all.

Throughout our history there have been many hard fought and derisive presidential elections, but in the end the people of America come together and support the winner in order to honor the will of the people.

Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt are a sampling of those presidents who overcame tremendous opposition, division and disruption in order to help heal our nation and keep it on track during dangerous times in our history.

Divine destiny guides this nation, thrusting the most unlikely of people into roles they never expected to play to preserve the Republic and give hope to the world.

Sadly, our recent presidential election came at a time when darkness was beginning to shroud our principles and empower those whose own interests overshadowed the interests of the people.

Hatred and animosity between political parties, philosophies, the news media and bureaucracy were clouding the actions and judgments of people and assured there would be no healing after the election.

Twenty days before the presidential election, when Trump looked like there was no chance to stop the Clinton machine, I posted an article as a contributor on the most liberal of all media outlets, the Huffington Post, and it described what would happen election night with Trump finally winning in the middle of the night to the shock of the media, the candidates, the political pundits, the nation and the world.  On election day it happened almost exactly as I wrote it would.  Ironically, on the morning of election day the Huffington Post declared to the world Hillary Clinton would win.

Sometimes there is no explanation for destiny.  Sometimes there are divine interventions to keep the world on track.  Sometimes, as Melchizedek says, we have to look for the good in adversity.  President Trump’s election victory may very well be one of those moments.  You do not always have to be the good guy to get good things done, and there is little doubt that America faced a dark future if things did not change.

Polarization was becoming a dark, powerful force on the political horizon before Trump got elected.  The previous Administrations sold out the people to appease special interests, as in financial, banking, defense, pharmaceutical drugs and health care interests.

Our Constitutional government was being undermined by a series of selfish and greedy actions to protect the wealthy at the expense of the people.  Things were not improving, they were getting worse and politicians were in the middle of a firestorm.  Campaign finance laws were thrown out, thus opening the floodgates to unlimited money flowing to the political campaign committees.

As jobs were lost, health care did not improve, but the cost of health care, and prescription drugs spiraled out of control.  Home mortgages were fraudulent, college tuition costs exploded, jobs were moved out of the country, unnecessary wars were being fought, draconian government acts hurt the people, and billions upon billions of dollars flowed into the coffers of a very small group of very wealthy people.

Corruption came to a head when the Bill Clinton administration regulatory reforms, on top of the Clinton NAFTA trade agreement, triggered the ENRON disaster and the subprime mortgage crisis nearly destroying the nation’s economy in 2008.

The Obama administration recovery program and Obamacare signed into law March 23, 2010, his only major legislative accomplishment, opened the door further to protecting financial and auto corporations and the pharmaceutical industry price increases among other consequences.

Of course, throughout the Bush and Obama administrations, war after war further fueled the military industrial complex and drained the economy.

From 1996 (Clinton) to 2008 (Obama) the cost of the presidential campaigns more than doubled and Obama broke the billion-dollar glass ceiling on his way to a job that paid $400,000 a year.  Money, power and prestige now controlled the presidency, shielded corruption, protected special interests, made the rich a lot wealthier, made middle class former presidents multi-millionaires, and seduced the media because of the billions and billions of dollars pouring into political campaigns.

That brings us to the 2016 election and Hillary Clinton, the heir apparent to the political machine built by Bill Clinton and Barack Obama with access to huge wealth thanks to Goldman Sachs and others deeply imbedded in the Clinton and Obama organizations, and the ability to implement special interest regulatory reforms.

All was good for the long-term future of the new political Establishment and to the media it was just a matter of anointing Hillary Clinton queen.  No one could stand up to the Clinton – Obama machine.  Things looked quite rosy for the liberals, progressives, the new Establishment, the media parasites, financial manipulators, endless special interest groups throwing money at the politicians, and the bureaucratic structure responsible for maintaining the cozy relationship and keeping their jobs.

After the Bush years followed by the Obama Hollywood presidency a Clinton ordination was imminent.  Who was left to defend the people and oversee the new Establishment when that Establishment included all the former watchdogs and protectors of the public interest?

To anyone with a clear head it was blatantly obvious the media, once protector of the people, changed sides and was now engaged in destroying anyone who might threaten the Hillary dream machine.

Ask Bernie Sanders if the deck was stacked against him and what it was like to be a threat.  He had no chance of a fair primary against Hillary thanks to the Obama super delegates secretly pledged to Clinton, the fundraising monopoly of the Obama/Clinton Establishment, and the secret buyout of the supposedly independent DNC by the Clinton campaign.

All the special interests were involved and protected and even the bureaucracy was on board since the Obama appointees effectively controlled the wheels of justice and would remain in control under the Clinton succession.  Self-preservation of jobs for thousands of high-paid government appointees was a strong incentive to bend over backwards to protect your patron.

Perhaps there is no greater threat to the American democracy than when the Fourth Estate, the Constitutionally protected defenders of freedom of speech, give up their objectivity and take sides in an election.  The Bill Clinton and Obama years proved too strong a seduction for the free press to remain free.

There was a strange conglomeration of events coming together which forever changed the face and action of the media.  Huge corporations began buying up the 25,000 media outlets in America and applying profit demands on the news groups.  The news reporters, long free of the pressure to make money for their organizations, suddenly became the avenue for survival with their access to the politicians who were fast becoming the biggest spenders in media.

With the broadcast and cable news consolidations there was no way to go back.  When the Internet suddenly exploded beginning during the Clinton years but rapidly overtaking all traditional media in the Obama years, the same special interests that controlled the politicians could compromise the independence of the media.

Former media measures of integrity like objectivity, independence, and investigative reporting became tools to protect the establishment by using them as opposition weapons for the political campaigns.  It was now possible for the news media to become the makers of news rather than reporters, and for the reporters to become celebrities and news makers.

With the Internet news dominating the minds of the public twenty-four hours a day, they were free to inject bias, unregulated, unethical and immoral news content to a mesmerized public.  Preservation of the Clinton/Obama Establishment was the core of the hypnotic messaging coordinated throughout the broadcast, cable and Internet news services.

For the first time in our history most of the independent media took sides, with a constant and coordinated campaign to preserve the Establishment fueled by the never-ending billions of special interest dollars.

Such mass messaging with the hypnotic consistency of constant repetition while no effort is being made to validate facts, and autonomous sources now dominate the news, is a recipe for disaster.  Of course, anyone against that Establishment whether moderate or conservative is the enemy.

No professional politician could challenge the control of the money brokers, special interests and media because they were products of the same Establishment.  If America was ever to get back to the political center where it was most comfortable, it would take a total outsider to make the challenge.

Such an outsider would have to be meaner, tougher, stronger, more independent and non-political while being far removed from the political and financial establishment controlling our nation.  At the same time, they would have to be indifferent and unafraid of the news media sworn to protect the status quo and destroy opposition.

Finding a disrupter of that magnitude seemed impossible.  Then along came Trump swaggering down the sweeping escalator of the swank and mysterious Trump Tower, cocky, a true non-politician, yet an ivy leaguer and quite rich.  Not a politician but well experienced in the entertainment media he had no fear of the power of the press.  In fact, Trump used the Internet for his own direct media connection to the people through the use of Tweets.

Wealthy enough to not need to make money if he was elected, he did not trust the stock markets so he was not beholden to most of the financial sector.  Choosing to largely ignore the media and political parties, he was confident he could improve the lives of others because he knew, as a businessman, how the game was played.

As a result of these things he was free to do or say whatever he wanted and there were no strings attached.  Most likely to his surprise, and certainly to the shock of Obama, Clinton, the news media, the wealthy, the Establishment, the nation and rest of the world, he beat all the odds and the morning after the election, November 9, the world awoke to the astonishing news that Donald Trump would be the forty-fifth president of the United States.

Nothing like the forty-four presidents who preceded him.  Cocky but not particularly polished. No politician, Loyal to neither political party.  Suspicious of the news media.  Could care less what the media or professional politicians thought of him.

Oh, he has his faults but somehow, he connects to people, never talking over their head.  He speaks a truth they understand, says what is on his mind that others would never dare say.  Sometimes he is loose with the facts, but most politicians are that way.

Upsetting – yes.  Lacks diplomacy – sometimes.  Demonstrates anger – sure when warranted.  Not a polished statesman – never said he was one.  Has regrets – hardly.  Fears failure – has no idea what that means.

Trump is Trump.  What you see and hear is what you get.  A rock-solid patriot.  A protector of all people.  A defender of American values.  Champion of American greatness.

My next article will address what is being done to lift the shadow of darkness enveloping America through Trump, in spite of the refusal by much of the media and establishment to accept him as president.  What is the role of divine intervention and destiny in the reign of President Trump?  Finally, what are the consequences for those dedicated to denying him his rightful destiny.