67 Replies to “Conrad Black: Massive Trump Victory in 2020”
It is simply amazing how the Democrats constantly write off Trump as stupid to their own peril. He is one of the shrewdest who ever held the office. By next November’s election, voters will have heard over 5 years of invented stories about Trump yet the US will, economically, be the strongest in history. Crypt keepers Biden, Pelosi, and Sanders are going to watch over the destruction of the Democratic Party. Honorable, patriotic Democrats are going to have to split from the lunatic Marxist left to gain any traction. If the choice is Trump or a lying fake Indian like Warren, it could be Trump by 20.
A prediction: A new slightly left/centre party will emerge once the current Democratic party goes up in flames. The phony impeachment issue will bring them down.
Not sure what it is about modern society and it’s inhabitants, but, essentially, our populace is filled with shallow thinkers, who fall for sweet nothings from our leaders, so long as they keep smiling, speak slowly and emotively, and pretend to be kind.
They could tax you out of your socks, but they sure are nice.
Obongo, Trudeau. They lie and distort constantly, but the populace LOVES to be lied to and told what they think they want to hear, no matter the cost to our economy. Canada only is rolling along for three reasons, massive government deficit spending, proximity to the US and their robust economy, and low interest rates. This is not genius territory, this is a parasite government.
TRUMP is a throwback, and it’s a shock to the Beta boy’s, feminists, and far left Nazis that have been running unopposed for many years. TRUMP is akin to the stern dad, who knows what he’s doing, saying NO to the spoiled brats.
He will survive and he will thrive, but has to navigate this joke of a Schiffstorm. As said by others , this issue makes EVERY conversation of a POTUS forever, a national security risk, if complaints can be made only on hearsay. This is the ultimate, potentially LEGAL LEAK, based on distortions and hearsay. It is dangerous beyond words.
I don’t really like quoting Bible verses … but there is nothing new under the sun…
2 Timothy 4:3-4 NIV
3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
the ramifications of what you say dan, scary esp in the long term.
Im sad for Canaduh.
critics of the Donald point to the bankruptcy.
I say ya? HE KNEW HOW TO UNDO IT as well.
a skill necessary to steering an entire nation with civilization record level DEBT.
The political world is full of corruption and deceit. I think many people simply do not want to face that reality. For example, if you don’t believe in climate change, you must believe that there is a hidden agenda and our leaders are lying. That is what I believe, but I think it is a bridge too far for a lot of people who prefer to believe in fuzzy bromides and banalities from simpletons like Trudeau. Reality is not for the faint hearted.
The “impeachment” shows to the world the Dementoccrats have nothing better to doi thatn froth at the mouth over losing an election. The current Congress will have done NOTHING, no achievements, by November 2020.
LindaL, I don’t think so. Democrat party is the great catch basin for all American political crackpots. Got some kind of problem? Boy, do we have the party for you. Want government to do something specifically for you? Boy, do we have the party for you. Want American government to go beyond clearly delineated constitutional enumerated powers? Boy do we … And so on ad infinitum. It is the oldest political party on earth second to British Torys. It might change a bit, but I believe it is here to stay because political crackpots are permanent.
Not so for Republican party. They’re already experiencing massive readjustment. Trump is another symptom of that, not the cause. Tea Party types working through the Republican party preceded Trump’s decision to run.
“the US will, economically, be the strongest in history.”
A complete fairy tale. Business investment is in decline. Trump never got the US economy close to where it was under Reagan.
You are a fairy tale.
You don’t read much.
That’s hard to do against a judiciary that believes the Constitution was originally designed to facilitate gender confusion.
A traitorous gaggle of unelected and unaccountable government agencies picking winners and losers in Congress and the White House isn’t helping either.
I think that if Trump gets 40% of the African-American vote, the Democrat Party will cease to exist. It will splinter apart into 2 or 3 rump parties. The Republicans will form the one-party state, all because of the absolute lunacy the current Democrat Party is showing daily. Also, Hispanics will probably vote for Trump in increasing numbers, prosperity and growth tend to have positive effects on voter satisfaction.
I think if we can put horns on horses they will be unicorns. More likely than Conrad Black being lucid.
UnMe is a Russian Bot.
Nah, I think he is just a broke-@$$ public policy grad student stuck in some dipshit university no one cares about, starting his 9th consecutive year of “working on his PhD thesis” or something…
Pity him. At 45 he’ll finally get his first job, working for $45,000 a year (if he’s lucky) and then spend his remaining 20 years of working life unable to make ends meet, living paycheck to paycheck, railing against the capitalist economy that screwed him over, while he blows all his disposable income on lattes, the latest MacBook Air, and donations to Elizabeth May…
The Democrats may have to change their strategy from exclusively trying to overturn the results of the last presidential election while parroting socialist nihilism to, perhaps working for the benefit of the real public, particularly after Trump wins the next one. A sane, less evil candidate would also help.
Black did accurately read the sentiments of Canadians who satisfied their Obama-envy itch by electing the Spawn. The big question is are they still brain-dead enough to repeat that act of national suicide.
Unless the CPC can get near 40%, that will happen, assisted by either Meethead and his commies, or the Greentards with the Cat Lady Lizard. Justin is running a somewhat successful campaign against the devil incarnate, as far as Morontariowe/Cheranna residents are concerned.
Either of those two at Dummy’s side, will ensure the end of the Canadian economy as we know it, through spiralling inflation (massive deficits to fund their deceitful green dreams) with the cost of everything rising as a result of that and massive tax increases, and the destruction of the resource economies, as mining, forestry, ranching, and the O&G industry will be punished by government, with massive land transfers to the natives. The Natives will be able to pursue those industries, regardless of the negative environment factors, because NATIVE!)
Both parties will also insist on legislated PR from now on, ensuring socialism forever in Canadastan
Expect massive devaluation in the dollar, spiralling interest rates, high unemployment, just a perfect socialist shitstorm.
I see a low turnout amid the lack of enthusiasm. A lot of protest voting; good times for MAX and the PPC to get a start. If Scheer were so dim and also had not alienated 50% of the conservative voters, he’d be waaaay ahead by now. As it is, a left wing coalition is likely. Thanks Andy, the 2% solution.
“The United States worships success, and practices it, rather than being envious of it.”
Politicians, media and regulatory agencies (CSA) have made a fortune extolling envy and hatred of the USA.
“read every word”
Hard pass. I only need to read a few to know that Conrad Black has completely lost his mind and likely lost it a long time ago. Thank God the NP isn’t owned by this loon anymore. Furthermore, CB has no grasp of ethics. This is the guy who thinks Nixon didn’t do anything wrong and didn’t bother to mention that he was pardoned by the president he’s blathering about. I prefer lucid experts like Nate Silver.
Yes, 5 three-or-more-syllable words in the first sentence alone. No wonder you find it unreadable.
Worse yet, it was all words. No pictures for him to colour in.
LOL so true 🙂
About as prescient as those who predicted HER “landslide” victory? HER impenetrable “blue State firewall”?
Go ahead … repeat the self deluded mistake
uhuh there unmebot.
and lookit whut happened to NP after he let go of it.
I dont know if Black has lost his mind or not but I agree that when it comes to ethics, Black is flexible.
As I was saying at a political thing last night, the best and brightest in the English speaking world go into business. (The French worldview is that the best and brightest go into politics, and should not be shackled by rules because they’re better and brighter. This results in all former French colonies being basket cases because leadership is never held to account.) Politics is a job for the left-overs (or retirees after a successful career).
That’s why the Democrats and Republican leadership are poleaxed by Trump, because they’ve never before been up against a successful top-level businessman at the top of his game.
But he’s not successful. He got a bunch of money from dad and blew it on one failed venture after the other. Further the Dems aren’t ‘poleaxed’ by Trump at all they’re going to be power forever largely thanks to him. They own the future now. Pelosi has her job back thanks to Trump and right now the only way she’s unhappy at Trump is because he’s basically impeaching himself and she wants him around to get her buddy Harry Reid his job back too, and then take the WH. You see you’re problem is that you live in a tiny little bubble. You are disconnected.
…and it’s a future no one wants…..they have become the party of obstruction and impeach
..and yes, they have passed a few things…but it does them no good…the only thing the media has reported is one impeachment after the other…and that’s what everyone’s impression is
“they have become the party of obstruction and impeach”
That’s what they were elected to do! That’s why they won in 2018 on big turnout!
Nonsense! The (D’s) took the House on the PROMISE they would NOT spend all their time haranguing PDJT. A few radical outliers like Talib Shaleeb are rage filled hate mongers … meh. The House is full of ghetto districts like hers
Kenji, I have little confidence or faith in the intellect of the average voter, American or Canadian. Heads full of gimmie, gimmie, gimmie are prone to sloth and ignorance and tend to vote for the criminal who will or can steal the most from their fellow citizens. The world has been steadily moving to the lowest common denominator intellectually and it does not bode well for the survival of future generations.
True OWG … but those same slugs put DJT into the Oval Office. Hope springs eternal … but, then it has to for me … cause I am just a slight bit younger than you, and need our society to hold together JUST a little bit longer. After that? Sorry, my kids are on their own. But unlike the leftist dipshits, I raised them right, so I don’t have “think of the children” … they’ll do just fine.
“The (D’s) took the House on the PROMISE they would NOT spend all their time haranguing PDJT”
What? Where did you get that?
No the French think the best and brightest go into the state bureaucracy.
Trump by 20 points? I hope so, but the bad guys have plenty more tricks up their sleeves.
Election betting markets put Trump’s odds right now at just over 40 percent. Allowing for the chance he “leaves office early,” currently assessed at 20 percent, that puts his odds at 50/50. Better than anybody gave him in 2016, but it won’t be a cakewalk.
Consider that none of the groups of parasites who turned out for Hillary in 2016 is likely to change their minds this time. Workers are doing better, but every effort will be made to persuade them to stay home and/or that Obama is responsible for their current prosperity, not Trump.
Want to know how this bunch thinks they can win over Trump in 2020? Just check out UnMe’s posts for your answer.
The US is not successful, Trump is a failed billionaire and whatever other unsubstantiated fantasy can be marched out.
Peck away with unsubstantiated, parodied remarks, that don’t pass the smell test, to keep the argument off balance.
The problem is UnMe and the DeMarxists are playing political poker trying to bluff the electorate with all the cards on the table.
Read every word. No thanks, same old obfuscatory BS, different day. You have, and they will fail, again like you, badly.
…that’s a great report…when you read it without the spin they tried to put on it
He said right after putting spin on it.
Even a small decline is very bad and portends for a very bad future. Business investment has to be increasing for future economic growth to happen. Instead it’s declining. US GDP growth is already mediocre. Reality is real, you lose.
Ah yes, the “less than expected” kiss of death. Ignore everything else for that. Like I said Demunbecile.
That’s a bizarre way of admitting you’re wrong.
So you are admitting that the Dems and the FBI have managed to destroy the business investment environment with their ongoing obsession with destabilising the US politically. Good. Glad we are on the same page.
So the Biden clan are busy filling their pockets and suddenly the entire voting public are just gonna roll over and give the nod to Fauxcahontas. Sure, in what alternate universe? So who is projecting here…?
Meanwhile, the US economy continues to grow at a 2% clip
People might take UnMe’s contributions more seriously if they had an ounce of reality to them.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
“the US economy continues to grow at a 2% clip”
Which is tragically subpar.
Thus the 1% growth rate under the Obama-Nation™ would be regarded as an apocalyptic failure.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
“BUT OBUMMBER!!1”
Yes Dem I mean UnMe, cherry picking one stat defines you and makes my argument. Project that.
Brilliant analogy Sham! It’s all FAKE. It’s all a BLUFF. Trump has already PROVEN that the political class are worthless masterbaters. Trump has delivered on every promise except locking HER up … but that ain’t over …
Ah the ‘just believe and say it’s so’ approach. Worked for Peter Pan.
You worked for Peter Pan? Talk about begging your own question.
Like Dems, you accuse others of what you are.
’20 points in 2020′
I like the sound of that.
I like the sound of ‘President Donald Trump’s 2nd term’ as well.
Ive grown to respect Conrad Black more, a flawed human who is making a difference.
Salient points of the article (Note to Unbecile, not irrelevant and unsubstantiated ones):
“I will not engage in another effort to invite Canadian readers to contemplate the fact that just because Trump repels most Canadians as a caricature of a boorish and boastful and loutish American, that does not mean that he is unlikely to be successful.”
And
“The United States worships success, and practices it, rather than being envious of it. The United States, by the standards of most other advanced countries, is garish and corrupt; it’s not what many Americans and most Canadians want, but it is a democracy and Americans can run their country as they please.”
Unlike the other “advanced nations.”
dRumpf is a moron! If he had to run against our sexy PM, Justin would DESTROY him!
You think Juthtin Turdeau would win a US election against Trump? lulz…
Okay, this is a Canadian site, so I held my nose and suffered “every word” of the diatribe against my beloved country.
I guess Mr. Black’s point is President Trump is a boorish, selfish, loudmouth American, like all Americans, at least those who are successful at surviving the jungle, and since he somehow turned the economy around, there will be enough boorish, selfish, loudmouth Americans to vote for him to make it a landslide.
I had no idea of the depth of sibling rivalry induced hatred in the Canadian bosom, at least in the pseudo-intellectual Canadian bosom, for all things American. I believe the worst part of it is most Americans aren’t even aware of it, or care if they are aware. I believe most Americans think of Canadians as brothers, as they are neighbors and (mostly) speak the same language.
How lightly the greatest political documents in history are dismissed on the grounds that Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner. Mr. Black commits the all too common error of applying the zeit geist of our age to the late eighteenth century. Okay, the Constitution did not give the vote to women, or specified the rights of alternative genders either. But more than that, Mr. Black is woefully unaware of what that slave owner actually believed and did. Jefferson introduced a bill in the legislative house of Colonial Virginia to ban slavery. That it failed only demonstrated the zeit geist of his time. He personally freed those slaves he thought had mastered a trade (such as blacksmith) and could survive better outside of the plantation. That he thought most could not was perhaps paternal (a bad word these days) but realistic for his time. I would just add that slaves were a small fraction of the population at the time of independence, but was a majority in Athens in the Age of Pericles.
I should have stopped reading the diatribe at that point, but I soldiered on. A century after the civil war the majority of African Americans could not vote? What a dastardly lie. The U.S. justice system is totally corrupt? Another dastardly lie, though it has been corrupted by the “liberals”, with whose politics I am sure Mr. Black finds more resonance.
I confess I am abysmally ignorant of Canadian history, politics, and laws, and have only read what had been written on this site. Canadians here tell me there are no equivalent rights as detailed in the Bill of Rights, held sacred at least by us strict constitutionalists. My general feeling about lawyers is a pox on all their houses, so I cannot tell you whether the charge that the U.S. is, apparently, the most corrupt legal system in the world, at least as compared to Canada, has merit. But if “there is a threadbare safety net and more than 30 million people live in poverty”, it is a wonder that people from all over the world are trying to get in to avail themselves of that threadbare safety net.
All I can tell Mr. Black, and Robert who highlighted his diatribe here, is that I was accepted into the United States as a poor teenage boy of color, with just the clothes on my back. I was later accepted into the public higher education system that that dastardly slave owner Jefferson pioneered, to promote what he called meritocracy. For that reason the university of Virginia has a special place in my heart, whatever has befallen it, and when I attended it, the University of California, at Berkeley and UCLA, had achieved the highest global standing. The University of California gave me an opportunity, as Jefferson intended, and allowed me to be a contributor to that great society that was the U.S. My brother became a renowned neurosurgeon, and he always marveled that someone of our social status could have risen so high. there is a threadbare safety net and more than 30 million people live in poverty. Comparative absence of class prejudices indeed! My brother was a much better example of the American success story. He worked almost from the time he disembarked, and all through high school and college. He held three jobs simultaneously in the summers to get through medical school, and gave me part of his hard earned money to have some discretionary spending. He joined the navy and was the ship’s doctor on a nuclear submarine, which remained submerged for months at a time.
And all I can tell Mr. Black is, we had no influence at all, and did not have to fight in any jungle. All we had were our intellect and hard work. And in the United States then, that sufficed for two poor immigrant boys (of color!) to make their ways in the world.
But thankfully I do not believe that Mr. Black represents how I believe the average conservative Canadian feel, as I have found many kindred spirits here, any more than the average libtard in the U.S. represent conservative American belief. Perhaps I should just pretend I never read the article, but I just cannot stand my beloved country being so vilely attacked, and in my life the one thing I had been known for is being outspoken, perhaps more often than not to be disadvantage. So be it.
Black has strange biases and you are bang on with your critique of them. He seems to have a blind spot when it comes to FDR but one can understand his not entirely inaccurate read on the US justice system after being show-trial prosecuted for numerous non crimes.
Thomas Sowell has a good explanation for the relatively unique nature of slavery and racism in America within a backdrop of a history of multi-racial slavery everywhere else, in his book, “Black Rednecks and White Liberals”.
Just pretend you never read the article is the best advice I can offer.
And go easy on that “…but I just cannot stand my beloved country being so vilely attacked…” rhetoric. Your beloved country was vilely attacked on 9/11 as I recall.
Yes, my beloved (no irony there at all) country was vilely attacked on 9/11. Thank you for scratching that scab. And were I president (which I cannot be constitutionally) I would have reacted quite differently, to make sure Saudi Arabia would never sponsor such terrorist activity ever again.
What is your point?
I’m 91 (as I never tire of saying because I am upright, cooking my own meals, etc.). One thing I’ve learned is nothing you read in the newspaper can kill you. Actually, nothing anyone says about you or your country can hurt you unless you allow it to so why waste a good life being upset by something a columnist has written. And maybe, just maybe, never read that columnist again. That’s good advice I think and the person who wrote that long piece obviously needed a bit of good advice. It was free and held no malice towards anyone.
The 9/11 attack was only mentioned as a reminder to us all of what a real “vile attack” is like. And a reminder that another one could happen at any time, which is why I said go easy with the rhetoric. For some reason I don’t understand, verbalizing something seems to make it happen. All the rhetoric one hears today makes me wonder if the suggestion that the US is headed towards another civil war might not come about in real time.
One practices one’s vileness how one can.
For a columnist, whose raison d’etre is political dialogue, that attack is as vile as he can get. That is especially true when he has the audacity to call his opinion “fact”.
In essence, he dismisses our most revered documents, which we regard as the pillars of our republic, as at best hypocritical writing of a slave owner. Apparently he has no knowledge at all of the actual Thomas Jefferson, as I pointed out, to so lightly dismiss him. “With only public spiritedness as my motive, and in total impartiality,” (yes, I am mocking Mr. Black), I do not think Mr. Black is fit to wash the feet of Thomas Jefferson. He reviles our judicial system, which I believe often bends over backwards to be just, as nothing more than a “Kangaroo court.” He derides our social welfare as “threadbare.” Any less threadbare and it would “take care” of every citizen cradle to grave. That is not what our republic is all about. It is about giving a citizen the opportunity. While Mr. Black recognizes we have succeeded in that, far better than any other country (with a due nod towards my ignorance of Canada) he demeans it as a “jungle”. He mouths the usual socialist tripe about competition grounding people to powder, when in fact the United States is the best society ever for the common, ordinary person, the blue collar workers, the service personnel. Were Gibbon still alive, he may modify his anointing of the Age of Antonines as such. Before the socialists took over Hollywood, which Mr. Black said then had the facade of façade of Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney, there was a very popular TV series called “the Life of Riley”, which gave rise to the use of the title as a life of ease, as it so resonated with so much audience. Most of Americans believed what it depicted was true to life to their lives. Riley was an auto worker. Another popular show, The Honeymooners, showed residents of New York in all its grittiness, and yet portrayed the characters as hopeful, not ground to powder. Ralph Kramden was a bus driver.
If you excel, you can succeed in America. But American society does not ask for excellence, only competence, at whichever level you find yourself. And as those shows pointed out, at that level of competence, you still have a very good life.
The globalists and socialists have tried to destroy that America. If President Trump wins reelection, it is because he has almost single handedly tried to bring that America back.
I have never heard of this columnist until Robert brought his work here as a “superb column,” every word. It did not “hold no malice towards anyone.” There was plenty of malice towards my country. Be sure I’ll never read his tripe again But if we were not upset by a column, we won’t be posting here.
IMHO Black is the best world columnist. Read any of his numerous books. They are superb. He is not denigrating America, he is denigrating the plea bargaining system which fills the “for profit” prisons with a greater % of citizens than any non-despot country. He was the best news paper builder ever In Canada in the last 50 years.
He , hopefully a weekly columnist, is the sole reason I also subscribe to the National Post. To read his ideas, which appear nowhere else, is a weekly treat I look forward to receiving.
I used to have a lot of respect for Conrad. Not anymore. Trump is going down. I said 2.5 years ago that he would not make it through his first term. Forget ideology. His admin is the most corrupt in the 20th / 21st centuries. Reps are starting to turn on him. He is actually losing it mentally. I fear that once it is certain that all is lost, he will still not resign for the good of the country. The man is dangerous. Hard to sleep knowing that he can have his finger on the nuclear button.
Hey Racist Handle,
I hope you have perpetual sleep deprivation.
You cannot make something true just by stating as though it were true. The truth is, his admin is the most anti-corrupt in the 20th / 21st centuries. He is trying to drain the swamp, that’s why the swamp creatures, whether labeled D or R, are doing everything in their power to get rid of him.
Pelosi is way overstepping her constitutional limits in asking for more transcripts of President Trump’s conversations with foreign heads of state. That is entirely within the constitutional duties of our head of state. In isn’t mentioned anywhere that in discharging his duties he is subject to review by the Legislative branch. Especially when what he is doing is asking for help in investigating corruption in the previous administration, in openly tying billions of dollars up with quid pro quo requests.
Last I heard, the PotUS does NOT report to Congress, nor they to him. They are (by design, thank God, the framers knew what they were doing) INDEPENDENT branches of government. Got that? Congress does NOT sit above the President, nor he above them. Question: is it possible that Congress is now utterly dysfunctional, and has gone rogue, and needs to be stopped? What would a rogue Congress look like? How would they be dealt with?
Same way you deal with the President. Elections.
The Barr-Durham investigation into Democrat-Media-Bureaucracy coup attempts in 2017-2019 is going to lead to actual charges. Maybe even treason. Handcuffs. Perpwalks. Guantanamo Bay even.
The DNC knows this. The American voter knows it. And the military knows it. This impeachment circus will crash and burn when people like Trump, Giuliani and the Army Chiefs of Staff tell Schiff and his crochet circle to go pound sand. Remember when McCarthy finally collapsed? When people stopped going along with it. BEST CASE scenario (for Schiff et al) is the US military has already assessed that this Congress is utterly dysfunctional, and has already let Trump know they stand squarely behind the Constitution, and their Commander-in-Chief (remember, the PotUS does NOT, repeat NOT, report to the US Congress. He is an INDEPENDENT branch of the executive arm of the US Govt.)
WORST CASE (for Schiff et al) the US Army is preparing to move against a widespread Deep State conspiracy that threatens the survival of their Constitutional Republic. That will end in at least a few dozen badly broken heads, and is of course a last resort, edge case.
If I was a DNC slappy, right about now I’d be shitting bricks… Barr and Durham are out for (legal) blood and guts. And the US Army stands behind them.
It is simply amazing how the Democrats constantly write off Trump as stupid to their own peril. He is one of the shrewdest who ever held the office. By next November’s election, voters will have heard over 5 years of invented stories about Trump yet the US will, economically, be the strongest in history. Crypt keepers Biden, Pelosi, and Sanders are going to watch over the destruction of the Democratic Party. Honorable, patriotic Democrats are going to have to split from the lunatic Marxist left to gain any traction. If the choice is Trump or a lying fake Indian like Warren, it could be Trump by 20.
A prediction: A new slightly left/centre party will emerge once the current Democratic party goes up in flames. The phony impeachment issue will bring them down.
Not sure what it is about modern society and it’s inhabitants, but, essentially, our populace is filled with shallow thinkers, who fall for sweet nothings from our leaders, so long as they keep smiling, speak slowly and emotively, and pretend to be kind.
They could tax you out of your socks, but they sure are nice.
Obongo, Trudeau. They lie and distort constantly, but the populace LOVES to be lied to and told what they think they want to hear, no matter the cost to our economy. Canada only is rolling along for three reasons, massive government deficit spending, proximity to the US and their robust economy, and low interest rates. This is not genius territory, this is a parasite government.
TRUMP is a throwback, and it’s a shock to the Beta boy’s, feminists, and far left Nazis that have been running unopposed for many years. TRUMP is akin to the stern dad, who knows what he’s doing, saying NO to the spoiled brats.
He will survive and he will thrive, but has to navigate this joke of a Schiffstorm. As said by others , this issue makes EVERY conversation of a POTUS forever, a national security risk, if complaints can be made only on hearsay. This is the ultimate, potentially LEGAL LEAK, based on distortions and hearsay. It is dangerous beyond words.
I don’t really like quoting Bible verses … but there is nothing new under the sun…
2 Timothy 4:3-4 NIV
3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
the ramifications of what you say dan, scary esp in the long term.
Im sad for Canaduh.
critics of the Donald point to the bankruptcy.
I say ya? HE KNEW HOW TO UNDO IT as well.
a skill necessary to steering an entire nation with civilization record level DEBT.
The political world is full of corruption and deceit. I think many people simply do not want to face that reality. For example, if you don’t believe in climate change, you must believe that there is a hidden agenda and our leaders are lying. That is what I believe, but I think it is a bridge too far for a lot of people who prefer to believe in fuzzy bromides and banalities from simpletons like Trudeau. Reality is not for the faint hearted.
The “impeachment” shows to the world the Dementoccrats have nothing better to doi thatn froth at the mouth over losing an election. The current Congress will have done NOTHING, no achievements, by November 2020.
LindaL, I don’t think so. Democrat party is the great catch basin for all American political crackpots. Got some kind of problem? Boy, do we have the party for you. Want government to do something specifically for you? Boy, do we have the party for you. Want American government to go beyond clearly delineated constitutional enumerated powers? Boy do we … And so on ad infinitum. It is the oldest political party on earth second to British Torys. It might change a bit, but I believe it is here to stay because political crackpots are permanent.
Not so for Republican party. They’re already experiencing massive readjustment. Trump is another symptom of that, not the cause. Tea Party types working through the Republican party preceded Trump’s decision to run.
“the US will, economically, be the strongest in history.”
A complete fairy tale. Business investment is in decline. Trump never got the US economy close to where it was under Reagan.
You are a fairy tale.
You don’t read much.
That’s hard to do against a judiciary that believes the Constitution was originally designed to facilitate gender confusion.
A traitorous gaggle of unelected and unaccountable government agencies picking winners and losers in Congress and the White House isn’t helping either.
I think that if Trump gets 40% of the African-American vote, the Democrat Party will cease to exist. It will splinter apart into 2 or 3 rump parties. The Republicans will form the one-party state, all because of the absolute lunacy the current Democrat Party is showing daily. Also, Hispanics will probably vote for Trump in increasing numbers, prosperity and growth tend to have positive effects on voter satisfaction.
I think if we can put horns on horses they will be unicorns. More likely than Conrad Black being lucid.
UnMe is a Russian Bot.
Nah, I think he is just a broke-@$$ public policy grad student stuck in some dipshit university no one cares about, starting his 9th consecutive year of “working on his PhD thesis” or something…
Pity him. At 45 he’ll finally get his first job, working for $45,000 a year (if he’s lucky) and then spend his remaining 20 years of working life unable to make ends meet, living paycheck to paycheck, railing against the capitalist economy that screwed him over, while he blows all his disposable income on lattes, the latest MacBook Air, and donations to Elizabeth May…
The Democrats may have to change their strategy from exclusively trying to overturn the results of the last presidential election while parroting socialist nihilism to, perhaps working for the benefit of the real public, particularly after Trump wins the next one. A sane, less evil candidate would also help.
Black did accurately read the sentiments of Canadians who satisfied their Obama-envy itch by electing the Spawn. The big question is are they still brain-dead enough to repeat that act of national suicide.
Unless the CPC can get near 40%, that will happen, assisted by either Meethead and his commies, or the Greentards with the Cat Lady Lizard. Justin is running a somewhat successful campaign against the devil incarnate, as far as Morontariowe/Cheranna residents are concerned.
Either of those two at Dummy’s side, will ensure the end of the Canadian economy as we know it, through spiralling inflation (massive deficits to fund their deceitful green dreams) with the cost of everything rising as a result of that and massive tax increases, and the destruction of the resource economies, as mining, forestry, ranching, and the O&G industry will be punished by government, with massive land transfers to the natives. The Natives will be able to pursue those industries, regardless of the negative environment factors, because NATIVE!)
Both parties will also insist on legislated PR from now on, ensuring socialism forever in Canadastan
Expect massive devaluation in the dollar, spiralling interest rates, high unemployment, just a perfect socialist shitstorm.
I see a low turnout amid the lack of enthusiasm. A lot of protest voting; good times for MAX and the PPC to get a start. If Scheer were so dim and also had not alienated 50% of the conservative voters, he’d be waaaay ahead by now. As it is, a left wing coalition is likely. Thanks Andy, the 2% solution.
“The United States worships success, and practices it, rather than being envious of it.”
Politicians, media and regulatory agencies (CSA) have made a fortune extolling envy and hatred of the USA.
“read every word”
Hard pass. I only need to read a few to know that Conrad Black has completely lost his mind and likely lost it a long time ago. Thank God the NP isn’t owned by this loon anymore. Furthermore, CB has no grasp of ethics. This is the guy who thinks Nixon didn’t do anything wrong and didn’t bother to mention that he was pardoned by the president he’s blathering about. I prefer lucid experts like Nate Silver.
Yes, 5 three-or-more-syllable words in the first sentence alone. No wonder you find it unreadable.
Worse yet, it was all words. No pictures for him to colour in.
LOL so true 🙂
About as prescient as those who predicted HER “landslide” victory? HER impenetrable “blue State firewall”?
Go ahead … repeat the self deluded mistake
uhuh there unmebot.
and lookit whut happened to NP after he let go of it.
I dont know if Black has lost his mind or not but I agree that when it comes to ethics, Black is flexible.
As I was saying at a political thing last night, the best and brightest in the English speaking world go into business. (The French worldview is that the best and brightest go into politics, and should not be shackled by rules because they’re better and brighter. This results in all former French colonies being basket cases because leadership is never held to account.) Politics is a job for the left-overs (or retirees after a successful career).
That’s why the Democrats and Republican leadership are poleaxed by Trump, because they’ve never before been up against a successful top-level businessman at the top of his game.
But he’s not successful. He got a bunch of money from dad and blew it on one failed venture after the other. Further the Dems aren’t ‘poleaxed’ by Trump at all they’re going to be power forever largely thanks to him. They own the future now. Pelosi has her job back thanks to Trump and right now the only way she’s unhappy at Trump is because he’s basically impeaching himself and she wants him around to get her buddy Harry Reid his job back too, and then take the WH. You see you’re problem is that you live in a tiny little bubble. You are disconnected.
…and it’s a future no one wants…..they have become the party of obstruction and impeach
..and yes, they have passed a few things…but it does them no good…the only thing the media has reported is one impeachment after the other…and that’s what everyone’s impression is
“they have become the party of obstruction and impeach”
That’s what they were elected to do! That’s why they won in 2018 on big turnout!
Nonsense! The (D’s) took the House on the PROMISE they would NOT spend all their time haranguing PDJT. A few radical outliers like Talib Shaleeb are rage filled hate mongers … meh. The House is full of ghetto districts like hers
Kenji, I have little confidence or faith in the intellect of the average voter, American or Canadian. Heads full of gimmie, gimmie, gimmie are prone to sloth and ignorance and tend to vote for the criminal who will or can steal the most from their fellow citizens. The world has been steadily moving to the lowest common denominator intellectually and it does not bode well for the survival of future generations.
True OWG … but those same slugs put DJT into the Oval Office. Hope springs eternal … but, then it has to for me … cause I am just a slight bit younger than you, and need our society to hold together JUST a little bit longer. After that? Sorry, my kids are on their own. But unlike the leftist dipshits, I raised them right, so I don’t have “think of the children” … they’ll do just fine.
“The (D’s) took the House on the PROMISE they would NOT spend all their time haranguing PDJT”
What? Where did you get that?
No the French think the best and brightest go into the state bureaucracy.
Trump by 20 points? I hope so, but the bad guys have plenty more tricks up their sleeves.
Election betting markets put Trump’s odds right now at just over 40 percent. Allowing for the chance he “leaves office early,” currently assessed at 20 percent, that puts his odds at 50/50. Better than anybody gave him in 2016, but it won’t be a cakewalk.
Consider that none of the groups of parasites who turned out for Hillary in 2016 is likely to change their minds this time. Workers are doing better, but every effort will be made to persuade them to stay home and/or that Obama is responsible for their current prosperity, not Trump.
Want to know how this bunch thinks they can win over Trump in 2020? Just check out UnMe’s posts for your answer.
The US is not successful, Trump is a failed billionaire and whatever other unsubstantiated fantasy can be marched out.
Peck away with unsubstantiated, parodied remarks, that don’t pass the smell test, to keep the argument off balance.
The problem is UnMe and the DeMarxists are playing political poker trying to bluff the electorate with all the cards on the table.
Read every word. No thanks, same old obfuscatory BS, different day. You have, and they will fail, again like you, badly.
That’s a whole lot of projection right there. Meanwhile, in the real world, business investment declines: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/26/us-gdp-q2-2019-final.html
barely declined….and everything is up
…that’s a great report…when you read it without the spin they tried to put on it
He said right after putting spin on it.
Even a small decline is very bad and portends for a very bad future. Business investment has to be increasing for future economic growth to happen. Instead it’s declining. US GDP growth is already mediocre. Reality is real, you lose.
Ah yes, the “less than expected” kiss of death. Ignore everything else for that. Like I said Demunbecile.
That’s a bizarre way of admitting you’re wrong.
So you are admitting that the Dems and the FBI have managed to destroy the business investment environment with their ongoing obsession with destabilising the US politically. Good. Glad we are on the same page.
So the Biden clan are busy filling their pockets and suddenly the entire voting public are just gonna roll over and give the nod to Fauxcahontas. Sure, in what alternate universe? So who is projecting here…?
Meanwhile, the US economy continues to grow at a 2% clip
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-growth
People might take UnMe’s contributions more seriously if they had an ounce of reality to them.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
“the US economy continues to grow at a 2% clip”
Which is tragically subpar.
Thus the 1% growth rate under the Obama-Nation™ would be regarded as an apocalyptic failure.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
“BUT OBUMMBER!!1”
Yes Dem I mean UnMe, cherry picking one stat defines you and makes my argument. Project that.
Brilliant analogy Sham! It’s all FAKE. It’s all a BLUFF. Trump has already PROVEN that the political class are worthless masterbaters. Trump has delivered on every promise except locking HER up … but that ain’t over …
Ah the ‘just believe and say it’s so’ approach. Worked for Peter Pan.
You worked for Peter Pan? Talk about begging your own question.
Like Dems, you accuse others of what you are.
’20 points in 2020′
I like the sound of that.
I like the sound of ‘President Donald Trump’s 2nd term’ as well.
Ive grown to respect Conrad Black more, a flawed human who is making a difference.
Salient points of the article (Note to Unbecile, not irrelevant and unsubstantiated ones):
“I will not engage in another effort to invite Canadian readers to contemplate the fact that just because Trump repels most Canadians as a caricature of a boorish and boastful and loutish American, that does not mean that he is unlikely to be successful.”
And
“The United States worships success, and practices it, rather than being envious of it. The United States, by the standards of most other advanced countries, is garish and corrupt; it’s not what many Americans and most Canadians want, but it is a democracy and Americans can run their country as they please.”
Unlike the other “advanced nations.”
dRumpf is a moron! If he had to run against our sexy PM, Justin would DESTROY him!
You think Juthtin Turdeau would win a US election against Trump? lulz…
Okay, this is a Canadian site, so I held my nose and suffered “every word” of the diatribe against my beloved country.
I guess Mr. Black’s point is President Trump is a boorish, selfish, loudmouth American, like all Americans, at least those who are successful at surviving the jungle, and since he somehow turned the economy around, there will be enough boorish, selfish, loudmouth Americans to vote for him to make it a landslide.
I had no idea of the depth of sibling rivalry induced hatred in the Canadian bosom, at least in the pseudo-intellectual Canadian bosom, for all things American. I believe the worst part of it is most Americans aren’t even aware of it, or care if they are aware. I believe most Americans think of Canadians as brothers, as they are neighbors and (mostly) speak the same language.
How lightly the greatest political documents in history are dismissed on the grounds that Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner. Mr. Black commits the all too common error of applying the zeit geist of our age to the late eighteenth century. Okay, the Constitution did not give the vote to women, or specified the rights of alternative genders either. But more than that, Mr. Black is woefully unaware of what that slave owner actually believed and did. Jefferson introduced a bill in the legislative house of Colonial Virginia to ban slavery. That it failed only demonstrated the zeit geist of his time. He personally freed those slaves he thought had mastered a trade (such as blacksmith) and could survive better outside of the plantation. That he thought most could not was perhaps paternal (a bad word these days) but realistic for his time. I would just add that slaves were a small fraction of the population at the time of independence, but was a majority in Athens in the Age of Pericles.
I should have stopped reading the diatribe at that point, but I soldiered on. A century after the civil war the majority of African Americans could not vote? What a dastardly lie. The U.S. justice system is totally corrupt? Another dastardly lie, though it has been corrupted by the “liberals”, with whose politics I am sure Mr. Black finds more resonance.
I confess I am abysmally ignorant of Canadian history, politics, and laws, and have only read what had been written on this site. Canadians here tell me there are no equivalent rights as detailed in the Bill of Rights, held sacred at least by us strict constitutionalists. My general feeling about lawyers is a pox on all their houses, so I cannot tell you whether the charge that the U.S. is, apparently, the most corrupt legal system in the world, at least as compared to Canada, has merit. But if “there is a threadbare safety net and more than 30 million people live in poverty”, it is a wonder that people from all over the world are trying to get in to avail themselves of that threadbare safety net.
All I can tell Mr. Black, and Robert who highlighted his diatribe here, is that I was accepted into the United States as a poor teenage boy of color, with just the clothes on my back. I was later accepted into the public higher education system that that dastardly slave owner Jefferson pioneered, to promote what he called meritocracy. For that reason the university of Virginia has a special place in my heart, whatever has befallen it, and when I attended it, the University of California, at Berkeley and UCLA, had achieved the highest global standing. The University of California gave me an opportunity, as Jefferson intended, and allowed me to be a contributor to that great society that was the U.S. My brother became a renowned neurosurgeon, and he always marveled that someone of our social status could have risen so high. there is a threadbare safety net and more than 30 million people live in poverty. Comparative absence of class prejudices indeed! My brother was a much better example of the American success story. He worked almost from the time he disembarked, and all through high school and college. He held three jobs simultaneously in the summers to get through medical school, and gave me part of his hard earned money to have some discretionary spending. He joined the navy and was the ship’s doctor on a nuclear submarine, which remained submerged for months at a time.
And all I can tell Mr. Black is, we had no influence at all, and did not have to fight in any jungle. All we had were our intellect and hard work. And in the United States then, that sufficed for two poor immigrant boys (of color!) to make their ways in the world.
But thankfully I do not believe that Mr. Black represents how I believe the average conservative Canadian feel, as I have found many kindred spirits here, any more than the average libtard in the U.S. represent conservative American belief. Perhaps I should just pretend I never read the article, but I just cannot stand my beloved country being so vilely attacked, and in my life the one thing I had been known for is being outspoken, perhaps more often than not to be disadvantage. So be it.
Black has strange biases and you are bang on with your critique of them. He seems to have a blind spot when it comes to FDR but one can understand his not entirely inaccurate read on the US justice system after being show-trial prosecuted for numerous non crimes.
Thomas Sowell has a good explanation for the relatively unique nature of slavery and racism in America within a backdrop of a history of multi-racial slavery everywhere else, in his book, “Black Rednecks and White Liberals”.
Just pretend you never read the article is the best advice I can offer.
And go easy on that “…but I just cannot stand my beloved country being so vilely attacked…” rhetoric. Your beloved country was vilely attacked on 9/11 as I recall.
Yes, my beloved (no irony there at all) country was vilely attacked on 9/11. Thank you for scratching that scab. And were I president (which I cannot be constitutionally) I would have reacted quite differently, to make sure Saudi Arabia would never sponsor such terrorist activity ever again.
What is your point?
I’m 91 (as I never tire of saying because I am upright, cooking my own meals, etc.). One thing I’ve learned is nothing you read in the newspaper can kill you. Actually, nothing anyone says about you or your country can hurt you unless you allow it to so why waste a good life being upset by something a columnist has written. And maybe, just maybe, never read that columnist again. That’s good advice I think and the person who wrote that long piece obviously needed a bit of good advice. It was free and held no malice towards anyone.
The 9/11 attack was only mentioned as a reminder to us all of what a real “vile attack” is like. And a reminder that another one could happen at any time, which is why I said go easy with the rhetoric. For some reason I don’t understand, verbalizing something seems to make it happen. All the rhetoric one hears today makes me wonder if the suggestion that the US is headed towards another civil war might not come about in real time.
One practices one’s vileness how one can.
For a columnist, whose raison d’etre is political dialogue, that attack is as vile as he can get. That is especially true when he has the audacity to call his opinion “fact”.
In essence, he dismisses our most revered documents, which we regard as the pillars of our republic, as at best hypocritical writing of a slave owner. Apparently he has no knowledge at all of the actual Thomas Jefferson, as I pointed out, to so lightly dismiss him. “With only public spiritedness as my motive, and in total impartiality,” (yes, I am mocking Mr. Black), I do not think Mr. Black is fit to wash the feet of Thomas Jefferson. He reviles our judicial system, which I believe often bends over backwards to be just, as nothing more than a “Kangaroo court.” He derides our social welfare as “threadbare.” Any less threadbare and it would “take care” of every citizen cradle to grave. That is not what our republic is all about. It is about giving a citizen the opportunity. While Mr. Black recognizes we have succeeded in that, far better than any other country (with a due nod towards my ignorance of Canada) he demeans it as a “jungle”. He mouths the usual socialist tripe about competition grounding people to powder, when in fact the United States is the best society ever for the common, ordinary person, the blue collar workers, the service personnel. Were Gibbon still alive, he may modify his anointing of the Age of Antonines as such. Before the socialists took over Hollywood, which Mr. Black said then had the facade of façade of Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney, there was a very popular TV series called “the Life of Riley”, which gave rise to the use of the title as a life of ease, as it so resonated with so much audience. Most of Americans believed what it depicted was true to life to their lives. Riley was an auto worker. Another popular show, The Honeymooners, showed residents of New York in all its grittiness, and yet portrayed the characters as hopeful, not ground to powder. Ralph Kramden was a bus driver.
If you excel, you can succeed in America. But American society does not ask for excellence, only competence, at whichever level you find yourself. And as those shows pointed out, at that level of competence, you still have a very good life.
The globalists and socialists have tried to destroy that America. If President Trump wins reelection, it is because he has almost single handedly tried to bring that America back.
I have never heard of this columnist until Robert brought his work here as a “superb column,” every word. It did not “hold no malice towards anyone.” There was plenty of malice towards my country. Be sure I’ll never read his tripe again But if we were not upset by a column, we won’t be posting here.
IMHO Black is the best world columnist. Read any of his numerous books. They are superb. He is not denigrating America, he is denigrating the plea bargaining system which fills the “for profit” prisons with a greater % of citizens than any non-despot country. He was the best news paper builder ever In Canada in the last 50 years.
He , hopefully a weekly columnist, is the sole reason I also subscribe to the National Post. To read his ideas, which appear nowhere else, is a weekly treat I look forward to receiving.
I used to have a lot of respect for Conrad. Not anymore. Trump is going down. I said 2.5 years ago that he would not make it through his first term. Forget ideology. His admin is the most corrupt in the 20th / 21st centuries. Reps are starting to turn on him. He is actually losing it mentally. I fear that once it is certain that all is lost, he will still not resign for the good of the country. The man is dangerous. Hard to sleep knowing that he can have his finger on the nuclear button.
Hey Racist Handle,
I hope you have perpetual sleep deprivation.
You cannot make something true just by stating as though it were true. The truth is, his admin is the most anti-corrupt in the 20th / 21st centuries. He is trying to drain the swamp, that’s why the swamp creatures, whether labeled D or R, are doing everything in their power to get rid of him.
Pelosi is way overstepping her constitutional limits in asking for more transcripts of President Trump’s conversations with foreign heads of state. That is entirely within the constitutional duties of our head of state. In isn’t mentioned anywhere that in discharging his duties he is subject to review by the Legislative branch. Especially when what he is doing is asking for help in investigating corruption in the previous administration, in openly tying billions of dollars up with quid pro quo requests.
Last I heard, the PotUS does NOT report to Congress, nor they to him. They are (by design, thank God, the framers knew what they were doing) INDEPENDENT branches of government. Got that? Congress does NOT sit above the President, nor he above them. Question: is it possible that Congress is now utterly dysfunctional, and has gone rogue, and needs to be stopped? What would a rogue Congress look like? How would they be dealt with?
Same way you deal with the President. Elections.
The Barr-Durham investigation into Democrat-Media-Bureaucracy coup attempts in 2017-2019 is going to lead to actual charges. Maybe even treason. Handcuffs. Perpwalks. Guantanamo Bay even.
The DNC knows this. The American voter knows it. And the military knows it. This impeachment circus will crash and burn when people like Trump, Giuliani and the Army Chiefs of Staff tell Schiff and his crochet circle to go pound sand. Remember when McCarthy finally collapsed? When people stopped going along with it. BEST CASE scenario (for Schiff et al) is the US military has already assessed that this Congress is utterly dysfunctional, and has already let Trump know they stand squarely behind the Constitution, and their Commander-in-Chief (remember, the PotUS does NOT, repeat NOT, report to the US Congress. He is an INDEPENDENT branch of the executive arm of the US Govt.)
WORST CASE (for Schiff et al) the US Army is preparing to move against a widespread Deep State conspiracy that threatens the survival of their Constitutional Republic. That will end in at least a few dozen badly broken heads, and is of course a last resort, edge case.
If I was a DNC slappy, right about now I’d be shitting bricks… Barr and Durham are out for (legal) blood and guts. And the US Army stands behind them.