All posts by Dick Toomey

Stand Down.

With a modicum of history education, you learned that most of the world’s people, those you criticized for being mindless sheep, allowed themselves to suffer under dictatorships. Well, get busy eating your presumptuous and insolent opinions, because now you know how and why that happens. In this, a free society, witness the gibberish that emanates from the mendacious mouth of an individual who could very well slam and nail shut the open American coffin. Hillary Clinton said the United States should not adopt a policy that calls for surveillance of Muslim neighborhoods because it is “not only offensive, it’s too dangerous.” She wants all of us, including the Muslim communities, to work together to solve the terrorist threat. ” . . . we want everybody to feel together on our common defense against terrorism.” Targeting these communities for special attention, she suggests, would be an affront to them and an invasion of their protected civil rights. Besides, militant action on our part would only incite them to commit more violence. Time out while you lose a boiled egg and assorted fruits. You are stupefied that this foul-mouthed old lady can muster one vote, let alone millions; and that you must be forced to share the planet with her adoring imbeciles. This is a woman whose incompetence and callous disregard allowed four Americans to die a needless death at Benghazi. This is a woman who broke sensitive cyber security laws, putting American lives and national security at grave risk. This is a woman who, as Secretary of State and with the approval of her Muslim sympathizer boss, implemented a foreign policy that gave rise to ISIS and the convulsion of the Middle East. This is a woman who has not constructed one accomplishment as a private citizen or as a pubic leech, and who served as the enforcer to silence her sleaze husband’s accusers. This is a woman who stole White House furnishings and may own more murdered friends and associates than the late John Gotti. Yet, incomprehensibly, this woman says she’s qualified to be Commander in Chief of the U.S. Military. Let that sink in. If this duplicitous dragon ever stands in front of God and the American people to recite the Oath of Office, you have two words for every man and woman in uniform. Stand down. How many lies, how much deceit and how much failure will the people stomach before you say, “No more?” You would prefer to believe her reaction to Brussels was a case of simple stupidity. Not the case. She personally has been part of crime activities long enough to know that U.S. Law Enforcement always targets people where they hide. They could be Italian, Greek, Irish, African, Cajun, Puerto Rican or God forbid, Muslim. Surveillance and undercover activities are the cornerstones of crime prevention — essential tactics that save lives. Dirty Harry didn’t patrol the stunning vistas of Sea Cliff. Likewise, something tells you that Woodley Park, Georgetown or Park Avenue aren’t the ripest hunting grounds for Muslim terrorists. Something tells you that peaceful Muslims would certainly welcome a law enforcement presence in their neighborhoods. Wouldn’t they? Wouldn’t they? Well? Talk to a room of 5th graders, and they will agree that terrorists are indistinguishable among their general Islamic population, free to plot their next atrocity in the name of Allah. Hillary knows the drill all too well. By now an expert at risking other people’s lives, she is more than willing to speculate on further innocent life than hazard her political standing with her party and her base. Predictably, right on cue, she attacks Cruz and Trump for “treating American Muslims like criminals . . .” We can’t trust this world to trigger happy hawks like them. No, we must have a strong leader, a steady hand, an able Commander in Chief. Hillary Clinton has hung out in Washington DC for 24 years. You offer one question: Is America a better, stronger and safer place for her having been there? You know of many people who would like to answer that question, but they’re dead now.

Tipping Point.

Won’t be long now. In a few months, Obama’s transformation of America will either take permanent root, or a restoration of America will recover its lost soul. Optimistically, you want to believe that a majority of Americans of every race and economic class still believes in America’s founding principles — those enduring precepts that unleashed a whirlwind of freedom from sea to shining sea. Pessimistically, you see a growing population that has no knowledge of, or attachment to, those principles, and worse, no gratitude for the ingenuity, industriousness, character and countless acts of courage of those who came before — those who toiled in good faith to carry and pass along the torch of that freedom. Whatever the outcome of the 2016 Presidential Election, history will record two things: One, that in 2008 and 2012, the American people, either naively or stupidly, placed their beloved country into the hands of a Marxist, fulfilling Nikita Khrushchev’s prophecy:

We can’t expect the American people to jump from capitalism to communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have communism . . . . . .  we will destroy you from within. . . . .

Two,  history will also record whether or not the American people in 2016, did in fact, knowingly and willingly, choose Socialism over Free Enterprise Capitalism. Thanks to Trump, expert pundits, politicians and think tanks are as busy as a flock of agitated starlings to explain what’s going on. In a sort of controlled frenzy, they report and comment on Establishments, Outsiders, Special Interests, Polls, Brokered Conventions, etc. But, curiously, they fail to see the forest for all those knotty trees. As they obsess over Trump, they fail to see the elephant in the room. As they squabble over who will control the GOP, they fail to see the Enemy at the Gate. As they, and a gullible public, continue to treat the 2016 contest like a Super Bowl or American Idol, they fail to see or accept that America has reached the notorious Tipping Point. Even Trump fails to get it. He and everyone else thinks that protests and violence are a reaction to his brash personality and pugnacious attitude. Forget it. When you see Bill Ayers of Weatherman Underground fame at a Trump rally, you know he’s there for only one reason. For decades, since the 60’s riots, he and the Radical Socialist Left have revolted and hammered their way to power, personified in the rule of Marxist Barack Obama. With his coronation, they finally arrived. This very day, they occupy the hallowed halls of Washington DC. So don’t kid yourself. They not only run the show; they also have bullied and emasculated the fickle and feeble GOP into submission. After tasting the sweet wine of success for eight years, after all their sacrifice, they are not about to let anyone take away the keys to their Socialist kingdom. Like the GOP Establishment, they have everything to lose. Donald has to go down. Accordingly, the 21st century Brown Shirts are poised and mobilized. You know them by other names: Acorn, Black Lives Matter, CCDS, MDS, SDS, PSL and others. They share a common purpose — seek the overthrow, dissolution or transformation of all American institutions — primarily capitalism. Trump is their worst nightmare. With Trump on the stump, the Left is spooked. With his every victory, you will see a corresponding escalation in hostility and turmoil and violence. Meanwhile, GOP fat cats connive and scramble to keep their precious jobs and Conservative purists nitpick over a candidate that doesn’t measure up to their lofty, moral standards of behavior. And the vaunted Media fixate on personalities and politics to boost their ratings.  All the while, America hangs in the balance, teetering at The Tipping Point.

Underbelly.

Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Prize. Unfortunately, no category exists for his achievement. The Academy proffers awards only in Literature, Medicine, Peace and Physics. The time has come to add the Nobel Prize for Politics. Donald doesn’t merit this honor for anything as mundane as winning a nomination or an election, assuming either one happens. His accomplishment goes much deeper if neither one does. Trump has marched himself into the Washington DC gated community and blown it sky high. Like Caddyshack’s Carl Spackler, aka, Bill Murray, Trump has the inhabitants scurrying madly, attempting to avoid the latest bomb. No other politician (he isn’t one)in anyone’s memory could pull off this achievement — finally exposing the underbelly of the GOP. For decades, the dumb peasants thought the GOP was an opposition force, battling courageously against the forces of Big Brother Government, against erosion of capitalism, against the creep of socialism, against stifling regulation, against suicidal spending, against crony capitalism and against pernicious taxation. For years, every GOP candidate pulled out the RNC playbook to recite the game plan and talking points and to promise action — if elected. Sorry to be profane, but it was, and is, bullshit. Without even trying, Trump has “pulled the mask off that old Lone Ranger”(thanks Jim Croce). The GOP and Democrat Parties are kissing cousins and perhaps more. Both couldn’t care less who becomes President as long as it isn’t Trump. They prefer Hillary — at the very least, she will keep the gravy train chugging, chugging right along. They could even tolerate the hated Cruz since he’s a member of the Club and does have political self interest and ambition. But Donald? He’s a wild card, a firebrand, a (gasp) reformer. He won’t dance the Washington Two-Step. He doesn’t need the influence peddlers. Get it? And the mask is also off other special interests. With Trump, The Media Elitists lose their precious leverage because all these self important commentators and pundits care about is celebrity status and consulting fees. The Establishment feeds them. He doesn’t like, fear or need them. Good for him. The majority of Evangelicals claim to covet conservative principles. Don’t look now but they’re out of the closet, too, with only one true goal — a theocracy — ironically like those they condemn who espouse Sharia. No group bashes Trump more than moralistic, virtuous Christians whose single issue is a religious litmus test. They close their eyes and listen to Ted — and easily imagine sitting in the front pew. Along came Trump, and out of the back alleys and other big city streets come professional Socialist Mobs whose ancestors rioted in 1930’s Berlin and dozens of other fascist countries across the globe. Recently, you saw them in Ferguson and Baltimore and on college campuses. Freedom haters never go away.  Trump, a capitalist poster boy, is their five-star enemy. Foreign leaders also can’t seem to contain themselves. Could it be they worry Trump might visit the value of U.S. foreign aid? In 2017, one of two things will happen. America either regains Her Constitutional footing to achieve health and prosperity, or She submits to European style Socialism. It’s a clear choice. But, thanks to Trump, win or lose, the American people forever see the two-party Establishment for what it is — one party rule. And they will not be fooled again.