Removing a security clearance once someone’s no longer in public office was s-o-p in the past, but to hear the panties-in-a-bunch crowd whining now, you wouldn’t know it.

NBC News op-ed headline…“Trump’s threat to revoke Obama-era security clearances is a brazen attempt to silence critics, not protect national security”

The opinion article tries to make the case that those who still have security clearance didn’t ‘monetize’ that status…but ignores the fact such status puts them in-demand.

Not to mention that, who in their right mind believes news commentators or contributors should have access to classified info, especially where national security is involved?

These guys have proven Trump-Derangement-Syndrome beats that issue, every time.

Finally, when it comes to the Left…removing clearances doesn’t ‘silence critics’…

…it takes more than that to shut ’em up.

Don’t worry, FakeNews – they’ll still be available for speaking engagements.

Tariffs, a form of taxation on goods, are used as economic policy by European nations to make U.S. products less affordable, and EU products more affordable in comparison.

Republicans are anti-tax, and pro-free market, which means they’re anti-tariffs.

Fine.

But there’s a difference between the EU using tariffs as standard economic policy, and President Trump using tariff threats against Europe to get them to drop THEIR tariffs.

Trump’s tariff threats are a negotiating tool…not intentional long-term policy. They drop their ‘standard economic policy’ use of tariffs, President Trump will back off tariff threats.

Intentionally conflating use of ‘tariff threats’ with ‘standard economic policy’ is deceitful.

The Left does it, because they hate him and are trying to make Trump look bad.

Why Republicans conflate the two is inexplicable.

Breitbart headline…“VICE Admits: Twitter Is Shadowbanning Conservatives, Mainstream Republicans” (And they claim Russians were our big concern?)

Shadowbanning consists of stealthy efforts to hide certain account types by blocking them from drop-down searches, etc…thereby making them more inaccessible.

And, as opposed to puny Facebook ad-buys, this affects millions of users DAILY.

“A new report published on Wednesday by VICE News details the ongoing censorship of conservatives on social media. This time, the offender is Twitter. Through an objective analysis, VICE News reporter Alex Thompson concluded that Twitter is hiding the accounts of certain high-profile conservatives from its users…Democrats are not being “shadow banned” in the same way, according to a VICE News review. McDaniel’s counterpart, Democratic Party chair Tom Perez, and liberal members of Congress — including Reps. Maxine Waters, Joe Kennedy III, Keith Ellison, and Mark Pocan — all continue to appear in drop-down search results.” (emphasis added)

Whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or whatever – shadowbanning one political group, but not the other…interferes with our political process on a HUGE scale…

…that makes what some claim Russia’s $46,000 worth of Facebook buys did miniscule.

The REAL undermining of our election process is going on daily by DEMOCRAT/LEFT operatives – and that effort’s been relentless…for decades.

Pre-digital age, Left-leaning news groups ‘hid’ the other Party by obscurity-banning, i.e, not reporting on a fair-and-balanced scale that provided views on issues by both sides.

Obscurity-banning, shadowbanning…it’s all the same – to favor one Party over another.

When it comes to election-process tampering…Democrats OWN that chicanery.

RESIST WHAT?

Unemployment’s at an 18-yr low. Minority unemployment’s at an all-time low. Median Household Income’s at an all-time high, small business optimism’s at a 30-yr high…

…RESIST WHAT?

Are they angry because, with a booming economy, they can’t whine about not being able to find a job; or whining about the fact, with this prosperity…they have a job?

The economy is booming with Trump’s de-regulatory actions and GOP tax cuts.

America’s economic growth more than doubled the previous 8-yr Obama average in 2017, and could triple or more in 2018, with some economists predicting 4%.

RESIST WHAT?

With this kind of economic boom…what reasoning person wants SUB-PAR back?

It begs the question: Seriously – why the anger? Why the rage?

Let’s take off the gloves – what IDIOT can justify activism, protests, and boycotts of…

…SUCCESS?

(And please…with Bill Clinton’s track record of personal failure, don’t bring up Trump’s.)

YOU.CAN’T.MAKE.THIS.STUFF.UP.

“Liberal 2020 hopefuls quote Bible in call to reject Judge Brett Kavanaugh“

“Liberal 2020 presidential hopefuls quoted from the Bible Tuesday, saying the responsibility of the Senate to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court is a moral choice.”

Moral choice? Since when did they become experts on moral choice?

These are the same Democrats who fervently support KILLING the unborn.

(UPDATED)

Think about it…the entire basis of surveilling Trump’s campaign was built on the dirt-dossier claim that he (Page) was meeting-&-colluding with Russian heavies…

• Carter Page allegedly was in ‘collusion’ contacts with Russia, but…
• He wasn’t hired for the Trump campaign…he ‘volunteered’;
• He’s worked for the FBI in the past to spy against Russians;
• He wasn’t noted as having that FBI relationship in the FISA app;
• He’s NEVER been charged by the Mueller special counsel gang.

Just seems like there are some dots no one is connecting here. Could be something, could be he just volunteered in the wrong place – but at the right time…for the FBI.

The just-released FISA app will be problematic for Obama-era and deep-state officials.

1. Was there any other basis for ‘Russian contact’ info…besides the dirt-dossier?
2. Was there a credible reason NOT TO NOTE the dossier was Democrat-created?
3. Was there a legitimate cause for FISA judges not asking for source-verification?
4. Was there an honest reason why the app and renewals certify as FBI-VERIFIED, even though – to this day – none of the dirt-dossier claims have been verified?

So far, judging by this heavily-redacted FISA app, the answer’s NO.

But, why would an embattled FBI, with its reputation in tatters, NOT show anything of an informational value that serves to push back against their detractors, if they could?

How can you not admire a President that sticks it right IN THEIR FACE?

Today’s latest Trump Tweet…“I’m very concerned that Russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming Election. Based on the fact that no President has been tougher on Russia than me, they will be pushing very hard for the Democrats. They definitely don’t want Trump!” (emphasis added)

In one Tweet, President Trump…

• Acknowledges Russia meddles with elections;
• Positions himself as ‘nobody’s been tougher’ on Russia;
• Positions Democrats in high-beams of THEM benefitting from Russian meddling.

Brace yourself – Leftie heads will be exploding shortly.

National Review Online reports the obvious…”Just when you thought politics in 2018 could not get any more bizarre, four states are now suing the federal government in hopes of mandating a $650 billion tax cut, of which 57 percent would go to the richest 1 percent of families. Rather than push for conventional legislation, the states are asserting that the U.S. Constitution requires this tax cut for the rich. One other thing: The lawsuit was filed by Democrats, not Republicans.” (emphasis added)

The lawsuit filed by attorneys general from New York, Connecticut, Maryland, and New Jersey, is direct condemnation of Democrats pandering to the rich…but then…

…what’s new in that story?

Long story short…

…GOP tax-cuts capped allowances for deducting state taxes, which means the rich in states with high state-taxes will be forced as a result to pay more federal tax.

Don’t you just love it when the Left’s REAL agenda is exposed?

We understand that Liberal Elites are not happy losing power – after all, access to the government coffers…with its endless supply of taxpayer cash…is a powerful draw.

But they need ‘boots on the ground’ to keep the masses fired up and reactionary, which brings us to Obama’s Legion of activists…the Organizing-For-Action foot soldiers.

Makes you wonder how stupid or gullible these folks are, considering their activism and visceral hatred to date is directed at a booming economy, jobs, and security at borders?

What manner of idiot, at that point, can’t recognize they’re being used irrationally?

Trump Derangement Syndrome is unhinged. He’s uncouth…but Crazy-aunt Maxine and Samantha Bee/Bill Maher/Robert DeNiro/Kathy Griffin/(add latest crazy here) aren’t? 

North Koreans aren’t playing with nukes, Iranians aren’t harassing American warships, and Russians aren’t invading Baltic States (any more than we know of, anyway).

As Victor Davis Hanson notes “If the tax cuts, immigration policy, or NATO and Russian summits are equal to killing 3,000 Americans, what is left to the imagination? If talking sloppily about Putin is tantamount to the Holocaust, then what exactly was the Holocaust, a bad press conference? And if we are to believe that anything Trump has done is equivalent to starting a war that killed 65 million people and engineered the Final Solution, then among our 325 million fellow Americans perhaps a few dozen will watch CNN or MSNBC talking heads lecturing on the Führer, and conclude the only patriotic thing to do is to eliminate this new incarnation of Hitler.” (emphasis added)

Read Mr. Hanson’s article – it’s a devastating condemnation of the unreasoning Left.

Honestly, how do reasonable people say that more jobs, higher pay, stronger border security, calming foreign policy, and loyalty to our U.S. Constitution…is riot-worthy?

Unless stability ANGERS and THREATENS the Left? 

Which seems to be the source of the problem, so buckle up…

…’cuz if America’s SUCCESS causes unrest, there’s a lot more to come.

(Developing)