Category Archives: Donald Trump

Phyllis Schlafly, 1924-2016



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Teamsters Betray Trump, Endorse Hillary

Teamsters Endorse Hillary Clinton for President

Teamsters have the audacity to say Hillary “I will raise taxes on the middle class” Clinton would be best for the middle class. Yet Trump is the guy running against the “elite”, meaning largely against the wealthy. And his support base is Middle America.

Because the Teamsters support the Keystone Pipeline, it was thought they might endorse Donald Trump. But there’s more to it. Trump’s entire platform is built around expanding the middle class, growing America’s economy.

To highlight: Hillary has praised TPP numerous times. It is only Donald Trump (and Bernie) who made trade into an issue, and Trump has been talking on trade for decades.

Teamsters surely know that Hillary will not veto Obama’s three trade deals.

Trump Produces Brilliant Foreign Policy Speech

The text can be found here at Trump’s website. The actual speech is slightly different, because as always Trump improvised. No more Obama teleprompter reliance if Trump is president!

The speech is brilliant and something supporters can rally around. Previously we had been forced to cobble together our favourite statements, but that made for a rough advocacy of the candidate. Because it was said Trump says many things. With this speech, we have a solid, professional outline of Trump’s worldview and strategy.

My favourite parts:

“We left Christians subject to intense persecution and even genocide.”

Who would expect a president to dare defend Christians like that? How unPC; Trump is essentially saying Christians also matter!

Trump also focuses criticism on Obama-Clinton, not Bush. That is significant and highlights how he will go after Clinton in the main election.

“Many Americans must wonder why our politicians seem more interested in defending the borders of foreign countries than their own.


Wow! And Americans also matter. How unPC!


There’s plenty more to like in that speech. Trump has essentially gone Paleo/Populist and America-First in all the right ways.

On divisive social issues like abortion and “gay” marriage, Trump is for returning them to the states, not dividing over them. And I believe that to be the appropriate position for such a diverse America. On education, Trump again wants the states and localities to direct their futures.

In other news, TrumpASAP has predicted Trump will now win. This is a reversal from before. The South might be Trump territory, but the North is clearly the Trump homeland! We have an odd East-West divide in the GOP, with the West a little more interested in Cruz. If Trump wins Indiana, he’s in.

David Stockman likes Trump better than Hillary. Quoth Stockman:

“So is there any chance at all that Trump will make America Great Again by erecting trade barriers, a Trump Wall on the Rio Grande and an end to America’s imperial beneficence and meddling abroad?

Stayed tuned. There may be more to The Donald than meets the eye.”

And in the comments section there, a conservative supporter of Trump, named Protogonus, makes an appropriate assault on Stockman:

“Stockman is a CLOSET ANARCHIST who believes everyone ought to live quietly in his own bungalow like Bilbo Baggins and IGNORE THE WORLD TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE.”

That is hilarious. Stockman says government is a “necessary evil”, but business is also a “necessary evil”. Man is fallen. In the ideal, we want an appropriate government run by the best and most virtuous in the society. Libertarians call for less government; socialists call for more government; and conservatives call for appropriate government. That’s how it’s always been. Conservatives are just fine with “statism”. We simply want a society that functions well, based on tradition and the tried-and-true. And in Trump, we finally have a conservative hero to rally around, as with Pat Buchanan.

In closing:

Trump Can Make Mexico Pay for the Wall

James Kirkpatrick explains at VDARE how Trump really could make Mexico pay for the wall. Trump could threaten to block or tax remittance payments, and if necessary, he could use tax money from them to pay for the wall. More likely Mexico would just pay for it directly.

Kirkpatrick notes the US has already banned remittance payments to Somalia, due to concerns the money could end up with extremists within Somalia.

And he notes that Israel has proposed a law to ban remittance payments by “infiltrators” (Israel’s term for illegal aliens), resulting in harsh punishment:

The bill proposes that the penalty for transferring money abroad by infiltrators will be six months imprisonment or a fine of 29,200 shekels. The penalty for a person who will assist an infiltrator in transferring money aboard will be one year`s imprisonment or a fine of 29,200 shekels, or twice the amount he intended to help the infiltrator take out of Israel.

Kirkpatrick adds:

Note also that Trump’s plan to block remittances isn’t just an end in itself. The Republican frontrunner’s strategy was partially crafted by the great patriot Kris Kobach, who accurately noted the purpose of the plan is to give America an advantage in future negotiations with Mexico [Kobach: I helped write Trump’s border wall plan, by Eliza Collins, Politico, April 11, 2016].

Additionally, Ann Coulter recently noted: “– Building a wall: Cruz was against it, and now is for it.” And how will Cruz pay for the wall?

Trump continues to come up with these brilliant solutions, but he gets too little credit for them. Cruz’s BTT is smart, but it’s a regressive tax. Even Hartman’s original BTT was progressive, included rebates. What else has Cruz proposed that is praiseworthy? He otherwise just follows Trump along.

Trump ASAP Website

A new Trump website is up:
It’s full of neat information. These are my favourites.:

Total Delegates Won – Projected*
Trump: 758 1181
Not-Trumps: 891 1291

* based on current polling and state by state rules

Delegates Until Elimination: 82
Elimination Date: APRIL 26

* Once Trump wins 85 more bound delegates, Cruz will be eliminated from reaching 1237. Cruz needs 738 delegates of 823 remaining, to reach 1237.

It’s clear, however, that both Cruz and Kasich are aiming for a convention.

Trump has hired Paul Manafort to help him with delegates.

Manafort recently accused Cruz’s campaign of using “Gestapo tactics, the scorched-earth tactics” in Colorado, after an important loss there. I don’t know what he’s referring to, but I can agree that the Cruz team is despicable.

Eagle Forum Members Turn on Their Founder, Schlafly

Eagle Forum members seek to oust Schlafly over Trump endorsement:

Over the weekend, Eagle Forum president Ed Martin emailed the group’s members about a recently uncovered “scheme to push Phyllis Schlafly out of Eagle Forum.”

She praised Trump highly in December:

He does look like he’s the last hope [for America]. We don’t hear anybody saying what he’s saying. In fact, most of the people who ought to be lining up with him are attacking him.

And she fully endorsed Trump, March 11.

There should be no surprise in Schlafly’s rejection of Cruz after this. And from NumbersUSA:

Sen. Cruz, during an April 2015 speech, boasted of trying to raise H-1B visas five fold and said, “There is no stronger advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am.” Source:

Schlafly is a big deal. The Republican Party has struggled this year to figure just what conservatism is. We hear it’s pro-life. We hear it wants tax cuts. We don’t hear much else. Well, Schlafly is indisputably a conservative, one with substance. Like Senator Sessions, she’s chosen to endorse Trump, and that’s a problem for the fanatical Cruz Kool-Aid drinkers. Cruz has rightly praised both conservative heroes.

I’m likely repeating myself here, but Trump has 3 revolutions backing him: 1. immigration. 2. trade. 3. foreign policy. Some of his supporters emphasise one area or another. I’ve also seen excitement in how Trump is an end to “small government conservatism” which is seen as serving big business interests, not conservatism. I’d argue that Trump is focusing on the most important issues. And Trump does want to reduce waste in social security.

A quick list of some of Trump’s brilliant arguments and solutions: 1. End anchor baby interpretation of the 14th, which is against the amendment’s spirit. 2. NAFTA and similar trade deals are bad for America. 3. NATO is outdated. 4. The Iraq War, Libyan War, and similar excursions have been unnecessary, expensive failures. 5. America shouldn’t support so much of others’ defence (Germany, S. Korea, Japan, Saudi Arabia), nor so much of NATO. 6. NATO is outdated, should focus on terrorism. 7. US foreign policy has been especially unkind to ME Christians.

Perhaps I should say: Those are 7 taboos Trump has broken. Candidates are most certainly not supposed to speak any of those. Even Cruz with his deeply trade protectionist platform praises NAFTA and pretends to not realise he’s advocating for protectionism.

Also, as noted here previously, Trump has been right on trade though portrayed as wrong. Trade is his primary issue, and he understands it very well. A point I’ll add: Bring investment back to the US, tie businesses thusly to the fate of the US, and they’ll be more interested in America’s future (less inclined to support candidates like Cruz). Trade is important.

While Trump has made mistakes, most of the official mistakes have been largely media fabrications. Trump also has not really flipped positions, only made small adjustments, whereas Cruz has flipped a great deal (eg).

I’ll try to make a complete post soon on Trump and Cruz, or complete with the information I have readily at hand. So much information comes out with each day that it’s difficult to keep up. The media says Trump has no substance, but the truth is there’s so much substance now that it’s time consuming to argue a complete case. Part of that substance includes how much dirt there is now on Cruz. Thankfully we’re down to a mostly two-man race, so we can focus on just the two candidates.