Tag: 2016 Presidential Election

Open Letter to President Trump

 

Dear President Trump:

You probably won’t ever see this, but my fellow Ricochet members will. Today I was on my way to a major dental appointment (all went well), and had the radio on. I heard Rush Limbaugh say that they are trying to make you (the Progressives) physically sick – in addition to piling on the stress of making you emotionally sick. I already considered that, before Limbaugh said it, because this latest impeachment bull has made me physically sick. I felt sick when I heard the “hypothetical” from Adam Schiff. I want to tell you, as an average American, just a few things as follows:

– When I went to the polls in 2016, I never gave the Russians a second thought. I originally liked Ted Cruz. When you became the nominee, that was it. There was no way in hell that I would color in the circle next to Hillary Clinton’s name. The reason being that it had nothing to do with Russia, or the stupid wikileaks emails or Hillary’s complete and total ineptness. My vote was 100% against the continuation of the Obama administration – Hope and Change – that transformed my country into something I didn’t recognize. That made me sick, but he was our president for eight (long) years and I respected that and him. I respected his time in office, I was happy that our country was color-blind to race when he was elected, and I hoped that he would have done great things. He did not.

Dear President Romney,

 

Thanks for doing a great job as President. Please hang tough.

It’s sad that two years into your presidency, the MSM and FBI/DOJ is still investigating your campaign and other activities. I’m trying to keep score, so to speak, here are the big ones:

– Full financial forensics analysis of the Mormon Church because you visited tabernacles at most campaign stops. Where is the outrage from Congress?

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  At San Diego Comic-Con (an event that used to be a convention for comic book fans that has mutated into Hollywood’s most bombastic marketing tool) last night, FX revealed the title for its seventh installment of its American Horror Story anthology series – American Horror Story: Cult. For months, the interwebs have been rife […]

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On Wednesday, February 15, Hollywood superproducer-slash-director-slash-writer-slash-host of superexclusive fundraisers for Our Former Glorious Sun King Barry I Ryan Murphy announced that the theme of the next season of his popular anthology series American Horror Story would be… the last presidential election. So the show that has seen people terrorized by ghosts, demons, ex-Nazi doctors, aliens, witches, voodoo […]

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President Barack Obama ordered a full-scale investigation of so called campaign-season cyber-attacks by the Russians for the purpose of creating doubt and confusion among the American voters, and questioning the safety of our election system as a result. News headlines state that not only has the CIA has found evidence of Russian tampering, through the […]

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The Central Intelligence Agency of the United States of America would like everyone to know that Vladimir Putin is to thank for giving America exactly the leader it needs to bring about the greatest American revival the world has ever seen. So… Thank you, Mr. Putin. Thank you for listening to the American electorate and […]

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Richard Epstein shares his reaction on learning that Donald Trump will be the 45th president and provides recommendations for the new administration’s policy agenda.

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Here’s another interesting exit poll result.  If you slice the electorate into “White Evangelical or Born-Again Christians,” on the one hand, and “Everybody Else,” on the other, Trump’s success in 2016 is entirely explained by better performance among White Evangelicals. White Evangelicals were 26% of the electorate in 2008, 2012, and again in 2016. Preview […]

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Paul Krugman is a standout among NY Times columnists.  Even in such generally deplorable company – Ross Douthat excepted — I find Krugman exceptionally wrongheaded and despicable. The Times had barely acknowledged Trump’s victory before posting Krugman’s prediction of financial catastrophe.  The highlights: Preview Open

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… A Government by the People, for the People

 

Before this election (long before this election), I moved here from Canada to live in the greatest country on Earth, and despite who wins tomorrow, it will still be the greatest country on Earth. Maybe not as great as we thought it was in the past, but there is still no place I’d rather live. I’m here here by choice, not by birth, and no matter who wins tomorrow, I will still chose to call this country home, because some things are worth fighting for.

America is not defined by who leads us, it is defined by the people who live here and call it home. Remember that as you look at your friends on Wednesday and the choices they made. This election has been so contentious because both sides see the other side as the cause of all that’s wrong in this country, when in reality, there is nothing in America that is not created by Americans.

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 I watched a focus group on 60 Minutes, gathered by an independent researcher with 20 years of experience, bring all segments of society to voice their concerns during this election. He has never seen things this bad, yelling and talking over each other. The reasons emerged as extreme anger, actual suffering, job losses, companies shipping […]

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I wanted to share at this critical hour, some important news and thoughts directly from the Nov. 4 Hal Lindsey Report in Hal Lindsey’s words: “Arguably, the most critical election in America’s history just days away, our current President, Barack Obama, may be on the verge of a test like few other world leaders have […]

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  Well, we’ve almost reached the end of this agonizing election season, and it seems that the bizarre developments are likely to keep coming even in the last few days.  After following this crazy saga for well over a year, I still find it difficult to understand what much of the public will find persuasive […]

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Whenever I feel a bit down about the choices in this election, I remind myself that one of our two chief tormentors will lose the election. One of them on November 8th will suffer a magisterial humbling at the hands of the electorate. If Hillary loses, we will see the backs of the Clintons forever (or […]

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We listened to the Nightly News with Lestor Holt while I served up a nice Italian pasta with spicy sausage, grilled peppers and fresh herbs. You would think as President Obama prepares to exit the Oval Office, and a new president will soon take his place, that the State of the Union would be well. […]

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Hi Everybody! I just found a crystal ball at Goodwill; when I got it home and polished it up, I discovered that I could actually look into it and see the future. Unfortunately, it’s a little cracked and foggy, so all I can see are some newspaper headlines and scraps from a few articles. More […]

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If you are voting for Hillary… then you are, first of all, utterly oblivious to her corruption, her pathological dishonesty, and her disastrous tenure as Secretary of State under Obama. The Democrat Media Complex have done their job well, reducing all of these to an “email scandal,” which to most LIV’s amounts to, “Hillary accidentally […]

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