Author: Poetrooper

There is much dissension within the Democratic Party in this summer of 2017. The surest proof of that is the huge drop-off in contributions, leaving the Democratic National Committee “broke” in June, according to multiple reports. That should surprise no one in the least, as the latest leader of that organization, Tom Perez, has proved to be more of a scatology-spouting disorganizer than a uniter of dissenting factions. Potty-mouth Perez may think it gives him street cred to sprinkle his speeches with oratorical ordure, but apparently the more genteel among the party contributors find Perez’s profane pleas for party unity off-putting, leaving them sitting on their checkbooks.

Running out of other people’s money has Perez down in the dumps – literally. From the Observer:

DNC Chair Tom Perez recently sent out a fundraising email to supporters claiming, “I know garbage when I see it,” citing that he once worked on a dump truck. It’s ironic that he referred to the GOP health care bill as a “flaming dumpster fire” because he has been presiding over the disaster that is the Democratic National Committee. The organization reported that May 2017 was its worst fundraising month since the Iraq War in 2003, and April 2017 was its worst fundraising month since 2009. In May, the DNC also reported that it has $1.9 million in debt. Despite the fact that former Secretary of Labor Tom Perez was recruited by Barack Obama to appease the party’s donors, lobbyists and PACs, even they have refused to prop up the failing brand.

The Observer goes on to report that party fat cats, unhappy with the message the party establishment is putting out, are either tucking their bucks into their own organizations or spreading it among local political entities. Wherever those dollars are going, it’s not into DNC coffers, and the reason is clear: they don’t like the direction Perez is taking the party. These divergences within the party of diversity are numerous, with the rift created by the hard-left, full-on socialist “Bernie” faction being the biggest problem. Impending financial crises in many Democrat-ruled domains, Illinois being the most immediate threat, are also creating tensions that may explode into a party-rending financial crisis. Moreover, it doesn’t help with fundraising that the summer’s most visible faces of the party are Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer, with the two female leaders providing a constant cornucopia of cuckoo quotes and Chuckie a steady stream of Trump porn.

But, and oh what a but this is, there is one issue where you find near solid agreement (with the rare exception) across all party lines and that is the issue of voter ID and registration reform. The Democrats are united in their unyielding opposition to this single issue. While Democrat-ruled bureaucracies across the nation have no qualms requiring photo ID-supported government regulation of every imaginable human activity, they have carved out this singular glaring exception, with only the weak excuse that voting is a sacred (this from the party of atheism) constitutional right. And if you point out to them the inconvenient truth that there are all these other requirements for photo ID, they will haul out the old racisss!!! blunderbuss and blast you with that.

Crossposted at American Thinker

The USS GERALD R. FORD, the lead ship in a new class of ten supercarriers, also called Ford Class, was conducted this week, presided over by President Donald Trump. I was waiting for someone, perhaps an old political sailor, to point out both the justice and the irony of that. I’m referring to the relentless pounding in the liberal media of both presidents for exaggerated physical attributes. With Trump it’s that unique reddish-blonde mane and his supposedly tiny hands, which, of course is a snarky jab at the then proportionately-presumed small size of his manhood.

With Ford, a favored target of media derision after he pardoned Nixon, it was his supposed mental slowness, as was fallaciously evidenced by his slow, measured speaking delivery. More frequently the left derisively mocked him for being a stumbling klutz, whose constant clumsiness led to frequent trips and falls, and whose sporting ineptitude came from his occasional driving of golf balls into the gallery, once actually hitting a woman in the head, or on another occasion driving a ball into his tennis partner’s head. Ford’s most egregious tormenter for all these inflated bumblings was a comedian, Chevy Chase, whose “Saturday Night Live” skits featured pratfall scenes and comedic monologue in which the Ford character appeared mentally deficient, much as Trump is portrayed there today.

Actually, Gerald Ford always had the last laugh on his detractors during his presidency, laughing along with all the goofy portrayals for the simple reason that Ford was a good sport. Unusual among our presidents, Ford was a skilled athlete, an Eagle Scout, football captain, and an all-city selection from his Grand Rapids high school football team; then he became an all-star and championship football player at the University of Michigan helping them as a linebacker and center through two undefeated seasons and to two national championships. Ford received offers from both the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers but turned them down to become the boxing coach and assistant football coach at Yale while he attended law school to add to his undergraduate degree in economics.

When that first Ford Task Force ventures forth from Norfolk Naval Base to begin its far-reaching patrols of the world, it will demonstrate the continuing military supremacy of the Navy in which Ford served as a lieutenant commander on a carrier in WWII. And the name Gerald R. Ford will be embarking on a 50-year global journey during which it will be viewed with awe, respect, and sometimes fear, in far-flung ports and across all the world’s oceans. So our sitting president, who is regularly mocked on SNL by a very unfunny actor, should take heart. It just may come to pass that the lead ship of the next class of carriers, being built in the 2040s to replace the aging carriers of the Ford Class, will be christened the USS Donald R. Trump.

Crossposted from American Thinker

With the news that John McCain has a likely terminal form of brain cancer, the media is falling all over itself to heap sympathy, best wishes and praise on the octogenarian solon. While I am just as sympathetic to his family as I would be any other, I cannot play the hypocrite and act as if I do not feel a sense of relief at McCain’s future absence from our nation’s capital. McCain has always been a wild card, more truly a Joker, with unpredictability as his premier trait, a political capriciousness that did not endear him to many like me who served in the same war as McCain.

Many have forgotten that McCain’s BFF in the Senate was John Kerry before Kerry left to become Secretary of State. That totally inexplicable friendship, except as two rich guys, who married right, sharing their good fortunes, left me cold. John Kerry is to me the single most despicable thing that came out of the Vietnam War with his lying denunciations of his fellow servicemen for purely personal political aggrandizement. Jane Fonda was a traitor but at least she didn’t use her treachery to build a political career, which is precisely what John Kerry did.

That McCain could embrace this oily traitor was proof enough to me that McCain’s judgment was clearly impaired. I tried to credit that to his horrible treatment while a captive in North Vietnam but that line of credit ran out when McCain, as a supposed conservative Republican, time and again displayed a too eager willingness to cave to the liberal opposition and grant them their way. Again and again I tried to rationalize away his abandonment of our conservative principles with the excuse that he still was one of us Vietnam vets so that deep down, he held our best interests at heart.

That belief was totally crushed in 2004, when John McCain attacked the Swift Boat Veterans as “Dishonest and dishonorable,” in a deplorable attempt to defend that Stolen Valor candidate for president, John Fraud Kerry. Any former senior naval officer like McCain, who had achieved the rank of O-6 Captain, a wing commander, could have taken one look at Kerry’s Vietnam records and heard alarm bells going off all over the place. Instead he chose to ignore the obvious fraud, the manufactured fiction, and turn his back on his fellow Vietnam vets. That’s when I turned my back on John McCain, a political opportunist who had his finger in the political wind, hoping for a high appointment from a President Kerry, a shoe-in for the office, until the Swiftees launched their fact-based, evidence-supported assault on the would have been Stolen Valor President.

That folks, is why ol’ Poetrooper isn’t a wailing, teeth-gnashing, self-flagellant at the news that John McCain’s allotted time on this planet is soon coming to an end. While I can extend my sympathies to his loved ones, I cannot find it in my heart to bewail the fate of this betrayer of his battlefield brothers. Some here at TAH will disagree, considering me crass and disrespectful.

We are now weapons free: Fire at will.

This is an open appeal to our media-besieged and much beleaguered President to exercise the power he possesses as Commander in Chief of our armed forces to be the ultimate determiner, as George W. Bush might have called him, in limiting matters of military insanity. The folly at hand is the reported move by the Defense Department to require all our military services to bend over so far to accommodate transsexuals within the ranks that the leadership of our various services appears to be viewing reality through their nether parts.

According to a very sincere, young, ex-Army captain appearing on Tucker Carlson’s show recently, the Army is disseminating directions to commanders on how to deal with issues arising from the presence of transsexuals of both genders in latrines and shower stalls in military barracks. From my own long ago experiences in such environments I can’t really envision any problems in male barracks where a female confusedly thinking she’s a male enters a barracks shower with only soap in hand. If forbidden by regulations to comment on the soldier’s lack of a male appendage, you can damn well bet that all eyes of her fellow soldiers will be focused on the triangle that is there in its place. This applies equally to the transsexual soldier’s mammary attributes. If that soldier isn’t flat-chested as hell, there’s going to be a lot of sidewise glances directed that way with every soldier in that shower stall thinking about soaping up those suckers, most especially if they happen to be a pair of youthful pointers. You can tell a young soldier all day to ignore those boobs and I promise you it is going to fall on deaf ears. Or deaf somethings.

On the distaff side, things may be a chance more problematic, particularly if the transsexual soldier in the shower room happens to be well-endowed and still hasn’t undergone the hormone therapy to reduce his natural testosterone driven reaction to naked female bodies in very close proximity. My seven decades of living have taught me, much to my chagrin at times, that as long as that male organ is just hanging there flaccid, it’s fairly easy for the opposite sex to ignore. However, and this is the big however, when that reproductive appendage is sticking out there in full present arms, as it very well could be in the scene set above, it is very difficult for females to ignore. I can imagine that in the case of one erection in a shower room of young female soldiers in sexual full bloom, it would be only natural for them to be wondering which one among them it was who was triggering that stand-out performance. I can also imagine that some of the more liberated of those female soldiers just might be thinking about soaping up that sucker as well.

Mr. President, our armed forces as they have traditionally existed have long had to contend with hormonal-generated problems, and the last thing they need is a social experimentation program concocted by the Obama Administration to add to the complexities of dealing with the problems nature hands them. You, Sir, have the singular power to stop this nonsense in its tracks by simply countermanding the ridiculous Obama order.
So, Mr. President, please just stop it!

Crossposted from an edited version at American Thinker

Want to know what a stranger’s political leanings are? There is a simple question that may yield that information: Ask them what the term Swiftboating means.

They don’t even have to provide a well-formed, grammatical definition; rather, the answer you seek lies in the sense of whether it represents something positive or negative to them. If they respond with something like this: “a harsh attack by a political opponent that is dishonest, personal, and unfair,” which is the Wikipedia definition, then you should suspect you are dealing with someone whose politics lean left, at least to the extent that they get their news from the alphabet mainstream media.

If the person responds that the term describes the public exposure of a politician’s claims to phony war heroism and undeserved medals, then you can be fairly certain you’re talking to a conservative who gets his news from Internet sources and perhaps FOX News. You are also likely talking to a veteran. That second definition is mine, by the way, because there is no positive dictionary definition of the term, as all dictionaries appear to be compiled by liberals.

If ever there were a clear exception to the truism that “Victors write history,” it is the concept of Swiftboating which has been appropriated by the losing Left and twisted into an epithet which when directed your way by the liberal media, immediately labels you as some sort of especially treacherous turncoat. We should learn a lesson from this: The liberal movement and specifically the liberal media know the value of controlling the language. They took a term, Swiftboating, which should describe honorable behavior involving self-sacrifice by American veterans and twisted it into something foul and fraudulent, the Scarlett “S” of the 21st century, a bright burning brand on the brows of those brave men who gave up their private lives to save America from a Commander-in-Chief that they personally knew to be a fake, a phony, a Stolen Valor fraud.

With the mainstream media dropping all pretense of being objective in the recent election and in the current campaign to unseat President Trump, we no longer have to question just how the treatment of the Swift Boat veterans came about. From their first press conference, where the MSM discovered that the intent of these sailors was to attack John Kerry and his phony war record, the full wrath and fury of the elite liberal media institution turned on these small-boat sailors. The media, in full sucking support of John Kerry, Democrat, first attempted to bury the Swiftees. Then when that didn’t work, they leveled the big guns and did their very best to dishonor and discredit some very honorable combat veterans, depicting them as malcontents and men of no standing to challenge Kerry’s lies.

I know I’m engaged in a Sisyphean effort here because of the massed forces of the liberal media and the natural fading interest of the public. We tend to forget the past dishonesties of those reprehensible jerks, who laughingly purport to provide the “News” to a country they betray every day. They perpetuate the lies they have imposed upon our history simply because they control the public discussion and recorded events. So what I’m calling for is that those of you who agree with me that the term Swiftboating has been so dishonestly turned upon its head to mean its opposite, will agree that it should be taught to our children as a term of high honor among those of us who refute the collectivist, leftist views of America’s despicable mainstream media. May I offer this description for Swiftboating:

An honorable attempt by brave men of loyal military service to identify one of them, who served among them, as not worthy of high elected office.

Sweet and simple, and as honest as it can be. Tell it to Wikipedia.

Think about how naïve so many conservatives were back then in believing that the media was objective.

Crossposted at American Thinker