The Omen: Establishmentarian Paul Ryan Beats Rebel Paul Nehlen

Conservatism, Constitution, Donald Trump, Republicans

By caving to GOP pressure and supporting the Other Guy Who Never Built a Thing, Paul Ryan, Donald Trump helped return Ryan to the House.

The opponent, Paul Nehlen, 47 had “hard-line views on immigration. He espoused enthusiasm for Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and said a discussion on deporting some Muslims was in order.” (WaPo)

For Ryan’s critics, the speaker’s victory represented an opportunity lost. Though they have long acknowledged that Nehlen’s insurgency was more quixotic than competitive, they had hoped that he would have come closer than he did Tuesday, believing that a strong finish would perhaps show Republicans nationally that the party’s Trump-aligned bloc was gaining. (WaPo)

The key words in Ryan’s acceptance blather: We want unity (totalitarians don’t brook differences). We’ll restore the lost constitution.

I put the lie to that bit of fiction in the introduction to “The Trump Revolution: The Donald’s Creative Destruction Deconstructed,” titled “Welcome to the Post Constitutional Jungle.”

The Constitution is a dead letter. There is no bringing it back from the dead, buried as it is under rooms full of legislation, statute and legal precedent. The Constitution is the box Republicans check when they want to con their constituents.

More of why the Constitution is dead in “The Trump Revolution: The Donald’s Creative Destruction Deconstructed.”

France Overdue For Life-Saving Tourism Slump

Europe, Homeland Security, Islam, Terrorism

“France … has been hit hardest among European countries by Islamic State-inspired terrorism,” we are told by a Bloomberg correspondent.

That’s good.

French tourism is overdue for a slump, given the consistent treachery of the French government and its gendarmes. While the French Riviera, certainly Nice, is not as deserted as it should be; “[I]nternational flight bookings to Nice dropped 57 percent compared with the previous year from the date of the attack to July 23, while planned arrivals this month and in September were down by about a fifth for France as a whole.”

Here are a few revelations about the Bastille Day massacre in Nice not shared in my column, “The Expert Idiocracy Is More Dangerous Than Islam. Almost”:

After Nice there was but one expert who did not obfuscate, and was aware of his limited, crucial mandate as a security expert. Late at night, on CNN, Israeli security expert Aaron Cohen was clear and concise about what the American and English media were incapable of discerning, because they always absolve the state of responsibility for its only duty: Protect the citizenry.

Nice is already a breeding ground for extremism. Why not? Muslims have the run of Europe, so why not settle in the French Riviera? French police know Nice is how teaming with terrorists. Therefore they had Cohen’s contempt for erecting easily breached police checkpoints, from where the gendarmes casually waved the enormous truck by when its swarthy driver, Tunisian-born Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, told police he was delivering ice cream for the petits.

According to the UK Mirror, police allowed Nice killer Mohamed “to stay on the busy road for almost nine hours before the attack and failed to check his vehicle.” The pathetic, criminally culpable constabulary hadn’t even laid down spike strips or tire shredders. Anyone who watched the Frenchmen on scooters or foot, try to flag down the truck once it commenced its 2 mile mayhem, had to snort with contempt.

Tourism slump is sure to help reduce casualties from death by Muslim (and gendarme).

GOPers Want A Get-Out-Of-Jail Card From Trump

Democrats, Donald Trump, Foreign Policy, IMMIGRATION, Republicans, Russia

REPUBLICANS WANT A GET-OUT-OF-JAIL CARD FROM TRUMP. I analyze this aspect of the Trump candidacy in my book, The Trump Revolution: The Donald’s Creative Destruction Deconstructed.

The Republican establishment is as culpable as the Democrats in the state of this disunion. Their guilt as co-conspirators, Republicans must conceal from gullible voters. So the Republicans are vested in leveraging their power against Donald Trump with the goal of, first, deflecting from their crimes, and, second, focusing the attack dog, The Donald, on Hillary Clinton so that they, regimist Republicans, may retain their reputations and political perches.

To this end, Republicans and their supporters in media are making energetic use of the idiom of unity.

The people are being fooled. And Donald Trump is giving Republican establishmentarians their get-out-of-jail card.

Trump is caving on all but war with Russia. Small mercies.

UPDATED: What’s Islam Been Up To Lately?

Britain, Constitution, IMMIGRATION, Islam, Race

Update 8/6: When Machetes Attack (Aka Muslims screaming the name of their god):


When Knives Attack (Aka when a Muslim Immigrant attacks):


Needed: A Muslim Lives Matter Movement:


Migrating To Hungary:


“Khizr Khan’s Mystery Constitution”:


The Angry & Pessimistic Khans:


Not-So Candid Khan:


Un-American Gold Star Designation:


Learn To Love Being Lectured By Islam:


Waving The Constitution As Argument:


Learn To Lay Down Your Life For Islam:


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