Saturday, April 9, 2016

THE DESTRUCTION OF DONALD TRUMP FOLLOWING UP ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEA PARTY: THE DESTRUCTION OF "WE THE PEOPLE"



                                                      The TRUMP Tea Party

The Tea Party was a spontaneous movement of Americans horrified by the election and inauguration of President Barack Obama. The instant impetus was a call by the CNBC television editor of its Business News Network on June 14, 1999, against Obama’s Homeowners Affordability and Stability Plan (HASP). It proved to be a ineffective program with a goal of giving away $75,000,000,000 in taxpayers’ money to help those homeowners whom he thought were cheated by greedy and dishonest bankers. Banks were to forgive principal and reduce monthly payments to 31% of a homeowner’s gross monthly income (disincentivizing success) dictating that banks chip in some and taxpayers the rest. There was no study of why homeowners couldn’t make timely payments only that the burden of guilt was on Obama’s perception that business people are dishonest and that only the federal government is capable of making it all right, and easy on homeowners. (When HASP didn’t work out, in 2009 came HAMP with its HHF – Hardest Hit Fund under TARP, the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and part of Obama’s MHA, Making Home Affordable thing -- and HARP – Home Affordable Modification Program and Home Affordable Refinance Program – to help near-underwater homeowners refinance mortgages after home prices plummeted after 2007 – which didn’t work so HARP 2.0 was dictated the end of 2011 to eliminate any limit of negative equity in refinancing. Yes, HASP HAMP HARP HHF MHA and TARP all were a TRAP. And that trap enraged many Americans who had been rational, careful and prudent and vehemently disagreed with their hard-earned tax money being used to bail out those who had not been rational, careful or prudent. Many held that Obama’s inexperience and lack of much contact with the world of commerce led him to want to give bank and taxpayer money away immediately rather than taking the time and intellectual effort to understand the problems, the causes and improvise some lasting solutions.

The people’s lack of any control over the president’s unilateral and wrongheaded expenditures of hundreds of billions of THEIR dollars, led to their forming various entities under the banner of the Tea Party. It was chaotic, with no central leader, formal structure or agreement on issues other than a desire for a smaller, more customer(taxpayer)-friendly government. In March, 2009, the Taxpayer March on Washington was held as similar protests arose in cities around the country. Ranges of attendee estimates were from 75,000 by the left-leaning media punditry to 800,000 by the conservative FreedomWorks which organized it. People gathered at the Freedom Plaza and marched, speaking, singing, chanting and waving the American Flag, to Capitol Hill, where speakers included present and former members of Congress. It was a wake-up call to the Progressive Democrats who then began to systematically destroy the Tea Party. Paul Krugman, chief Nobel barker of the Megaphone of the Left, the New York Times, described its “pathological meanspiritedness.” On the Alphabet of Propaganda, NBC, CBS, ABC, AP, CNN, NPR, PBS and “who’s watching” msnbc and its ilk came, “cheap demagoguery,” “racism,” “War on Women,” and the capper, “the American Taliban.” Except for a further ultimate disgust attributed to President Obama: “tea bagger,” a deeply derogatory unpresidential sexual quote. To enrage his members before a speech by that same hate-monger, President Obama, late 2011 in Detroit, Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa, Jr., had some dangerously violent comments about the Tea Party: “Let's Take These Sons of Bitches Out!” And gaining steam, the Progressive Democrats greatly damaged the Tea Party leaving it listless. Though it did leave remnants in some policies of the conservative Republican Congress and Speaker of the House of Representatives and former vice president nominee, Paul Ryan. The mind- and truth-less Huffington Post ran a detailed piece blaming the devils themselves, the Koch Brothers, employer to over 75,000 Americans, for financing the very birth of what the Left had already ground into becoming simply an annoyance with no political threat.

But then came 2015 and the initial jousting for the presidential candidacy. And the outsider’s outsider, Donald J. Trump, speaking forcefully and unrehearsed for the white working class feeling left behind by the politicians. It was the angry, voiceless Tea Party suddenly with a leader. The elites, the establishment both Democrat and Republican, were once again awakened – threatened – by a spontaneous uprising but this time by a man with charisma and money. And a devil-may-care disdain for their very establishment comfort and power.  Millions of Americans were moved to action once again and voted for him as their leader, their candidate for the president of the United States. Trump was no read-the-Teleprompter Obama or stringently rehearsed and practiced Hillary (“The Bitter Old Biddy with Baggage” – my description). He was authentically outspoken.

A surprisingly strong and vocal “We the People” once again threatened the establishment…from the President of the United States of America to Wall Street banks to union bosses, trial lawyers to Congressional patronage with cushy jobs including hundreds or perhaps thousands of lobbyists. The easy stasis of expropriating trillions from taxpayers to retain power was at risk. They needed to emasculate the man.

The anti-Trump rhetoric is intense, repetitive and follows the Progressive playbook of personal denunciation of every aspect of the man. But “We the People” who have not been cowed or brainwashed by its effective propaganda still believe that the country can be taken back by the people. But up against them are the government workers implanted by Obama, union bosses who command Obama, trial lawyers who finance the Left, the entertainment industry, the afore-mentioned non-Wall Street Journal, non-Fox media, the educational establishment from pre-K through Ph. D. and the administrators. But more troubling are the Venezuelan-like people who depend on the unsustainable deficit spending of the federal government in so many ways.

In all likelihood the next president of the United States will be a woman who gives off the appearance of corruption and has, under the umbrella of her husband’s blackness (dishonest-wise, not racial) and his name, been given the unearned pedestal. She is desperately needed by the President of the Democrats, Barack Obama, to spin into a beneficial “legacy” his abject failure; his self-acknowledged abuse of power causing a flat domestic economy where competitiveness and the American Dream have been replaced by the easy political correctness of diversity, free stuff and monetizing all aspects of life, destroying the (right from the Declaration of Independence) pursuit of individual happiness and denouncing all the United States of America has accomplished for the world and most everyone in it. And to alter the perception of the fact that his international cowardness has created an unstable world threatened by Islamic terrorism and ISIS.

Or a socialist.

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