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Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman

I have one thing to say about the smart mouthed, arrogant, third party hear-say, so called witness, Trump hater Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman. The Lieutenant serves under our Commander and Chief, President Trump and is subject to reassignment by his superior, that same Commander.

I suggest that President Trump reassign Lt.Vindman where he could serve his country better. Like the Bering Straits or Aleutian Islands to protect us from Russian invasion, or maybe Antarctica for security of the research facility there! Then maybe he could gain something that obviously his military service has not taught him, respect for the chain of command, and humility. 

Bribery or Quid Pro Quo?

The Democrats are trying to impeach President Trump based upon the presumption of a Quid-Pro-Quo, or bribery as they are trying to change the linguistics. Unfortunately, interaction that The State Department, The Office of Foreign Affairs, or any other agency does, that concerns a second party, or foreign country, can be considered a Quid-Pro-Quo.

 For example: The United States will send troops to a foreign nation if that nation has a cease-fire and is unable to thwart off a national threat. Our troops cost The American taxpayers money, therefore it is a Quid-Pro-Quo for The U.S. to send troops, and that action must be directed either by The President or Congress. So, I guess, under the current standards for impeachment, every military intervention to give assistance to a foreign country should have prompted an impeachment hearing. 

Here’s  another example: In order for foreign nations to rely on N.A.T.O. they are expected to pay The U.S. a small percentage of their G.D.P. Guess what? This is a Quid-Pro-Quo! These types of deals happen all the time, and frankly, both The U.S. and the nations that these deals are made with would be in a world of hurt without them.

 What do you think every trade deal with every country we do business with is? Answer: A Quid-Pro-Quo! As a matter of fact anything that is traded, sold, or bartered, if it is of any measurable value to one party or another, is A Quid-Pro-Quo!

Medicare For ALL

Medicare for all sounds great, except for at least one very expensive consideration: When a Medicare claim is processed the billing structure is totally different for Medicare than that from any doctor to a private insurer. Anyone who is on Medicare, and once had private insurance should know this for a fact. The bill for any procedure can be anywhere from 20% to 525% higher for Medicare in comparison to that of a private insurer. 

 Rather than give carte blanche to the healthcare industry to overbill all Americans in the form of taxation, wouldn’t it be better to reform or reign in the insurance billing standards?

 These standards are excessive because of Medicare, because The Federal Government has allowed it! After all, it’s not The Government’s money it’s spending, it’s ours! For example, let’s just say a Hernia procedure bill from the doctor is twenty thousand dollars. That bill is what the acceptable set standard is by the private insurance industry, however, the bill to Medicare; I can assure you is much higher form the doctor, because that standard is not applicable for Medicare billing.

 Not only that, but The Federal Government has the poorest track record of any entity, business, or industry, of accountability for anything. What makes anyone think that this would be any different? Unless and until The Federal Government can set the standard pricing for every doctors office visit, and every medical procedure, eliminate the private health insurance industry, and enforce those billing standards, it is a complete impossibility to tell the American people what it would cost.

Medicare and Social Security are insolvent now. Let’s try adding sixty plus percent of Americans to the broken system and see what happens. 

So the problem with “paying for it” can’t be accurately measured. These so called estimates are just propaganda. These illusionists are simply adding the estimated sixty to seventy percent to the existing costs. Heck, what’s to stop a doctor from billing Medicare for a heart transplant procedure, when he actually performed a tonsillectomy?  Like all the other Socialist programs that are already written into law, they are all unsustainable because there is no accountability for spending when there is  one payer and that one payer is the government.

Eventually, those that pay for it all, get tired of paying for those that refuse to and the walls come tumbling down, as all socialist governments eventually do.

Trump and Turkey

In the last few weeks I have seen and heard a ton of chatter on regular and social media, chastising President Trump about his decision to pull back a couple dozen troops from The Syrian border. The claims are that he is abandoning our Kurdish allies in the region. Let’s get things straight.

First of all, the Turkish incursion in northern Syria, with approximately fifteen thousand troops was inevitable. Our fifty or so support troops would have been left in harm’s way, in a foreign country that they have no business being in the first place. 

Secondly, we have already lost over two thousand good American lives in the region, and three trillion dollars in the past twelve years. 

Third, it is the Democrats that have put us there to begin with, through a series of blunders. It was under John Kerry’s advice (Democrat Secretary of State) serving under President Bush, that we invaded Iraq under false pretences. Where, by the way, The Kurds ran away like rabbits, rather than help the U.S. military. Then, under Hillary Clinton’s tenure, during the Obama administration, our military was used to assassinate Momar Qudafi in Libya, creating a power vacuum to allow I.S.I.S. to gain a foothold in the region, not to mention the whole Benghazi failure and tragedy.

The fourth thing, I didn’t see this kind of outrage when President Obama suddenly withdrew thousands of troops from the region, leaving not only The Kurds, but left behind millions of dollars of military equipment, including M-1 Abrams tanks, giving I.S.I.S even more leeway and the equipment to kill even more of our soldiers, as well as The Kurds, when the group captured the dam and set fire to the oil fields.

Then there was “The Red Line” ultimatum that President Obama gave to the Syrian leader Assad warning him not to use chemical weapons and that “Red Line” was crossed. Nothing was done about it, at the expense of thousands of Syrian’s lives.   

When I see and hear this kind of absolutely foolish outrage about President Trump actually doing something to protect our troops for a change, it’s beyond laughable, it’s pathetic. Seeing people’s posts on social media embracing the MSNBC propaganda machine is so sad. They are so desperately trying to be part of the imposed narrative of the Trump hater crowd, that they lose their own rational free will of thought. I have even seen postings of these pathetic rants from Gold Star Family members.

I suggest everyone takes a good look at how we got here, before they leap onto that MSNBC bandwagon!

Warren’s Worker Party

The Socialist Elizabeth Warren is shouting at the top of her lungs “I’m for the working people”. Unfortunately, the last Socialist to make those claims started The National Socialist Workers Party. In other words, The NAZI Party. These so called “Progressives” are really just plain old Socialists, under a different name. They all have the same common denominator. They boast of income inequality, social justice, and prosperity for the working class.

Unfortunately the easy money confiscated from those they deem as “enemies of the state” or have too much “income inequality” corrupts even the well intentioned, eventually. It’s very simple, really, as tons of cash pours into the already swollen government, more government employees are needed to regulate it. As more of these employees get access to the cash cow, corruption and improprieties increase with them. As this increase occurs, so does the jealousy of those who bear witness, and like a virus, it eventually is caught by the entire population. There become those who work for the government and everyone else (the poor and less fortunate). All one needs to do is open a historical reference book.

It’s always the same, and always ends the same way, in every country, everywhere, at every time in history. First they disarm the population, then they begin selectively stripping wealth from those evil rich people, then the cycle unfolds. We as a nation don’t need “Robin Hood” to be our president!

The “I” Word -Part 2

Let’s face it folks. President Trump’s communication as far as Twitter and even publicly at times, can be downright offensive. He comes across as a bully, is arrogant as hell, and even sometimes insensitive.

The problem most people seem not to understand though is that none of us, regardless of party affiliation have to be his friend. Apparently these negative personal attributes are not affecting his job performance. Isn’t that what’s important when it comes right down to it?

The U.S. has the hottest economy on the globe. His economic policies are spot on. Impeaching this president would literally be like shooting oneself in the foot. One doesn’t smash their G.P.S. when one is hopelessly lost. A person doesn’t fold in a high stakes poker game with a straight flush, because he hates the person he is playing against.

Who gives a crap about The President’s personality? Do you know anyone that is having regular social interactions with him? I don’t care if he cusses like a sailor, farts like a pig, spits at people in public, drinks like a fish, or even makes lewd comments to women. I don’t even care if there is a quid-pro-quo as long as it is in our country’s best interest. It’s called a treaty or agreement in polite terms.

Is he making our country and its citizens safe and prosperous? Those are the questions we should be asking, not searching for the most inappropriate thing he has done or said. Remember, the Democrats and Republicans dug deep into Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s personal and professional lives before the election. The body count for Hillary was 4 dead in Benghazi and Donald Trump’s dead body count ZERO.

Rule Changed?

Someone in The Intelligence Agency had to authorize the rule change that allowed this whistleblower complaint to move forward. There must be a paper trail with one or more signatures; otherwise the rule change essentially is not a rule change.

 This person or persons should immediately have their security clearance revoked, with disciplinary action to follow. A serious crime has been committed. This is a planned attempt to try to have the President impeached, in other words, treason. Whoever is responsible for this “set up” should appropriately be charged with treason or espionage. I know, the government has an extremely poor track record of policing itself, but this shouldn’t be that hard to nail down, even for them.

The so called “whistleblower” should also be charged with similar charges if found to be involved in the scheme. If those involved are found not guilty, then so be it. Since this obviously was a set up, then all the evidence gathered, including the phone call transcript, should be held for use at the trial or trials of those implicated in the crimes. All the accusations that are related to the impeachment in The Congressional hearings should then be postponed, on that basis, until the initial charges of the individuals is resolved. 

The trial outcomes then become the evidence for or against impeachment, rather than the speculation of the intent of a phone call, based on the interpretation of the transcript of that call. If the individuals involved are found not guilty, then there may be more solid grounds for an impeachment. This is the appropriate process, not the trial by public opinion, as Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, and all the other angry Democrats would prefer.

We have a system of laws and procedures, and they don’t include public circus acts in politically bias theatre, such as these Congressional Committees that are run by the afore-mentioned angry Democrats. Let’s not forget, The Congressional Committees can’t charge anyone with a crime, arrest anyone, or try or convict anyone for anything. They can only make recommendations to The Inspector General.

Take the Vote NOW!

The Whistleblower Law clearly states that the whistleblower must have eyewitness account of the incident to be considered “credible”, as I suspected since the beginning of this witch-hunt. Mysteriously the rule changed right before the complaint was filed. I submit therefore that whoever the Inspector General was that deemed the information given by this whistleblower to be credible to The Director of National Intelligence, is a mole acting on behalf of Democrats to take Trump down. They should resign to save face now, or be fired immediately for failing to follow the letter of the law.

The Director was also told by the Inspector General that the whistleblower followed the law, and he expressed that adamantly in the hearing. Guess what? That was also misinformation given to the Director. The whole thing stinks, and not only the complaint, but the process should be investigated. 

In light of this new revelation, anything the Director of National Intelligence said in response to questions in the Congressional Committee hearing should be stricken from the record, and any future subpoena issued to anyone from the committee, based on the whistleblower’s report be deemed null and void.

 I want to know how these Congressional Democrats can be punished for this travesty of justice. Are there no repercussions for rogue behavior of these congressmen and women? I thought they were all supposed to be attorneys. This whistleblower report is nothing more than trash to be discarded in the waste paper bin, like yesterday’s newspapers.

 I think Republicans should bring impeachment to the floor now, and force a vote now. This way we can put all this nonsense to bed. I don’t know why they have to wait for Democrats to hold their hand for everything they do. GROW A PAIR!!!

The ‘I’ Word -Part 1

President Trump needs to be less transparent. There was no need to release any transcript unless Congress goes through the appropriate steps to obtain it. Any risk to national security, is because the transcript was released bypassing the proper procedural request.

The Democrats are now calling President Trump a liar because they claim that “there is no evidence” to support his claims about  former Vice President Biden and his son, with regard to the former Vice President making a direct threat to shake down the former President of The Ukraine, in exchange for foreign aid. The only reason there is no evidence is because of the failure of The D.O.J., The D.N.I., The C.I.A., and The F.B.I to investigate Biden or Obama about the Ukraine shenanigans concerning Biden and his son’s affairs there.

Anyone that thinks Obama had nothing to do with it, or knew about what went on, really must think Obama was the biggest dummy ever to be born. Biden boasted about the deal publicly. My advice for the President – MAKE YOURSELF A LOT LESS TRANSPARENT! Anything you say or do needs to be reviewed by your counsel. Wake up! There is an open impeachment investigation. In other words, Mr. President, you are being accused of a crime. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REFUSE TO ANSWER ANYTHING YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO HAVE AN ATTORNEY PRESENT BEFORE ANSWERING QUESTIONS. Anything said will be turned around to incriminate you.

President Obama hid all kinds of stuff with no press conferences, the $150 billion to Iran, The Dream Act, Solyndra, ‘keep your doctor’, and only after these things were put into motion, did the press get informed.

 Let the Democrats beat this dead horse for the next twelve months. If you keep giving them fodder, regardless of your innocence, they will prolong the accusations. It’s of no consequence now, but next September it could come back to bite you.

There are a lot of idiots that by the bull crap the Liberal media outlets and social media are selling to them.

 A little less arrogance, a little more poise might serve you well, President Trump, at least for the time being. I know, it’s not getting past The Senate, but let’s get there first.

Independence Lost

There is already mounting evidence that there is a shortage of skilled trades workers. The shortage is also evident in teachers, and by the looks of it from the Epstein incident, prison guards.

This is a direct result of Democrat policies. After all, why should someone work if they can live off all the various government dole-outs? This entitlement society being created by the Democrats is a clear and present danger to our nation and national security. If any one of the candidates running for office on the Democratic platform gets elected, with maybe the exception of Chelsea Gabbard, you can eliminate the concept of Independence Day, and start celebrating “Dependence Day”.

As the Democrats push this nation towards complete government dependency, our nation becomes weaker. Anyone or anything that is dependent is naturally weaker than anyone or anything that is self reliant. It is like a snowball rolling into the fires of hell.

As more and more people become dependent, less have the incentive to support them. The effects are exponentially cumulative, corrosive and unsustainable, and will destroy this nation as we know it from the inside out.