ProgDems Threaten Us with Violence, but They Cannot Defeat Us As Long We Stand with President Trump to Make America Great Again

TODAY'S NEWS -- THE FIGHT TO CLEAR THE SWAMP IS FAR FROM OVER. The Progressives, the Democrat Party, their Deep State, and the propagandist media that supports them unswervingly, are alive and well and flourishing in Washington. What will happen to Hillary and Holder for their "almost calls" for violence against Trump and his supporters? We know the answer to that question is "Nothing...Nada." Why? Because we Americans do not yet own our federal government and the Washington elite Swamp Creautres that feed on it. Will we ever own the Swamp completely? Here is a look at the current situation. • • • VIOLENCE IS ON THE RISE. Fox News reported on Wednesday that Senator Rand Paul is warning us about an "assassination" peril after the Kavanaugh confirmation. Senator Paul said : "I really worry someone is going to be killed, and that those who are ratcheting up the conversation...they have to realize they bear some responsibility if this elevates to violence." Paul's wife, Kelley, revealed in a Breitbart News interview on Friday that she sleeps with a "loaded gun by my bed," has updated her home's security system and has "deadbolts all around my house." Kelley also wrote an op-ed published by CNN in which she called on Senator Cory Booker, the New Jersey Democrat Spartacus, to tone down his rhetoric -- in June, Booker suggested his supporters “get up in the face of congresspeople.” enator Paul agrees with his wife : "When people like Cory Booker say get up in their face...What he doesn't realize is that for every 1,000 persons who want to get up in your face, one of them is going to be unstable enough to commit violence." Senator Paul knows something about violence -- last week, he was chased and verbally harassed by anti-Kavanaugh activists at Washington's Reagan National Airport; last fall, he was attacked and beaten in his yard in Kentucky by his neighbor in an episode that a Kentucky Democrat joked about earlier this year; he was also attending the congressional softball practice last summer when a gunman opened fire, hitting House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., in the hip and injuring two Capitol police officers and an aide. The Senaotr said of the softball attack : "When I was at the ballfield and Steve Scalise was nearly killed, the guy shooting up the ballfield, and shooting I think five or six people, he was yelling, 'This is for health care"....When I was attacked in my yard and had six of my ribs broken, and pneumonia, lung contusion, all that -- these are people that are unstable, we don't want to encourage them." Senator Paul added : "We don't want this to be the standard, that anyone can accuse anybody of anything....You are presumed to be innocent. I just feel really sorry for Kavanaugh and his wife and his children for having to go through that." • Hundreds of protesters have been arrested by Capitol Police in the past three weeks, with some briefly staying in jail, as Kavanaugh's confirmation was marked by unproven sexual misconduct allegations and luies form the accusers. Kavanaugh, his family, his accusers and lawmakers all received death threats during the process. • One bit of evidence of the lack of restraint on the ProgDem side is that a 27-year-old Democrat congressional intern was arrested last week and accused of posting the personal information of at least one Republican Senator during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Kavanaugh. The intern, who has since been fired, was denied bail on Tuesday. • In a radio interview on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he was proud of his Republican colleagues for standing up to what he called "mob tactics" during the Kavanaugh confirmation battle : "I think they overplayed their hand." • House Democrat minority leader Nancy Pelosi slamed GOP as 'patriarchal cowards' last week, and absurdly decried what she sees as Kim-Putin echoes in Kavanaugh. Pelosi was speaking to activists about the Supreme Court confirmation debate over Brett Kavanaugh. At a rally at the Supreme Court on Wednesday evening, Pelosi accused Republicans supporting court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of being "cowardly, patriarchal people" who want to "undo the 'Me Too' movement." The 78-year-old Californian told demonstrators that women should be believed by "default," and charged that the Senate GOP "hid" from interviewing Christine Blasey Ford, the California professor who has made an uncorroborated claim that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her more than three decades ago.Judiciary Committee Republicans made numerous outreach efforts to Ford, who falsely claimed that her fear of flying prevented her from promptly traveling to Washington, and then testified that she had not understood [or was not told by her lawyers] the Committee investigators' repeated, public offers to fly out to meet her in California. (In a letter obtained by Fox News, Ford's ex-boyfriend contradicted Ford's testimony and said she seemingly had no fear of flying when they dated for several years.) Pelosi then appeared to compare Kavanaugh to some of the country's biggest geopolitical adversaries. Referencing President Trump, Pelosi said : "I guess there's a similarity that people have with the people that they respect. [Trump] is crazy about [Vladimir] Putin, in love with Kim Jong-un, and thinks Kavanaugh is a great, outstanding person. Well, you know what? He doesn't even know what he is talking about." • And, there is the Special Education teaching assistant in Rosemount, Minnesota, who has been placed on paid leave while she is investigated for a tweet posted Saturday that called for newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to be killed, according to reports. The tweet, which was taken down by Twitter before the poster’s account was deleted, read : “So whose gonna take one for the team and kill Kavanaugh?” The Website Heavy.com has identified the teacher as Samantha Ness, who is an employee at the Alliance Education Center in the Rosemount School District. Though her tweets have since been deleted, a web cache of her Twitter account reveals that she later followed up with a subsequent tweet : “Brett kavanaugh will be dealing with death threats for the rest of his life being on the Supreme Court. I doubt my mid-west ass is a real threat” The Dakota County Sheriff’s Office posted a statement to Twitter that the FBI is “aware” of the threat would “follow up as appropriate.” • • • HILLARY'S WORDS ADVOCATE FOR MOB VIOLENCE. BizPac Review put it bluntly : "Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called for civil war and mob violence against Republicans this week, and the media silence is deafening. The media constantly accuse President Trump of stoking unrest despite the fact that violent leftist Antifa are the ones who routinely assault Trump supporters, block traffic, and vandalize public property. Yet the press refuses to condemn Hillary’s open encouragement of civil war -- and their complicity could have catastrophic consequences. • BizPac Review was talking aobtu what Hillary said this week : “You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about. If we are fortunate enough to win back the House and/or the Senate, that’s when civility can start again. But until then, the only thing that the Republicans seem to recognize and respect is strength.” • The New York Post‘s Michael Goodwin, shocked that the mainstream media have not condemned Hillary’s bombastic propaganda, said : “There you have it -- a declaration of war and a license for violence. Where is the media outrage? Clinton knows we are already in the danger zone when it comes to the political temperature. Her comments, then, are as reckless as bringing a can of gasoline to a bonfire. She’s stoking trouble to gain a foothold in the 2020 race -- and damn the consequences. Her claim that civility can return when Dems have power is an admission that the ends justify the means.” • The ProgDems keep telling everyone to chase down Trump supporters where they eat, work, and live. These are not the idle threats thatthe ProgDem lapdog media report them to be. They are rallying a nationwide mob. And, they undoubtedly mean to use it. • Senator Heidi Heitkamp, the North Dakota Democrat in a very tough fight for her Senate seat, rejected Hillary's assertion that liberals should do away with civility until after they beat Republicans at the ballot box : "Well, that's ridiculous," Heitkamp told CNN's Anderson Cooper. "I can't imagine how you get anything done if you don't bring civility back into politics." • GOP chairwoman Ronna McDaniel responded to Hillary Clinton’s shameless rhetoric by saying the Democrats’ entire platform is based on destruction and division because they have nothing else to offer : “This is what Democrats do : They try and divide our country. They try to incite anger. It is just shameful to say ‘Republicans do not care about women.’ I am a woman and the mother of a 15-year-old daughter. Please don’t go there. But that’s where they’re going because [their strategy is to] ‘destroy, destruct, divide our nation’ and ‘let’s make women angry.’ But women are smarter than that.” McDaniel told Fox News she believes the American public can see through leftist propaganda and will vote for Republicans in the November 6 mid-term elections because they want a strong economy and a safe country : “We’re delivering results at the Republican party : 3.7% unemployment -- the lowest in history for African-Americans and Latinos. And a 65-year low for women. We are a party that is making lives better for families across the country. So Democrats are going to continue the politics of destruction, and Republicans are going to continue the politics of results.” Meanwhile, wrote BizPac Review : "Here’s a reality check for violent leftists. The people in blue want a revolution. The people in red have 95% of the guns." You can find the graphic at < pic.twitter.com/i5NviImyMS >. • • • ERIC HOLDER RAISES HIS OBAMA DEEP STATE VOICE. The Washington Free Beacon's Andrew Kugle wrote on Wednesady : "Former Attorney General Eric Holder said over the weekend at a campaign event in Georgia that when Republcans go low, 'we kick them.' The former Obama administration official, in comments first reported by NTK Network, reminded the crowd of when former First Lady Michelle Obama famously said that when Republicans 'go low,' Democrats 'go high.' 'No. When they go low, we kick them,' Holder said. The crowd erupted in applause and shouts of 'fight, fight, fight.' • Kugle quoted Holder saying : "That's what this new Democratic Party is about. We're proud as hell to be Democrats." • Holder blasted Republicans and said it was time for Democrats to become as "tough" as them : "They have used the power they have gotten for all the wrong things. They want to keep themselves in power. They want to cater to the special interests. It is time for us as Democrats to be as tough as they are, to be as dedicated as they are, to be as committed as they are." • THAT is a real inversion of the truth -- any American can see that it is the Democrats who are "catering to special interests" and resorting to calls for violence not "to keep themselves in power" but to get their power back. Holder is considered a potential 2020 candidate and said in the past he is "seriously thinking" about a run. As we used to say about Hillary -- "Run Holder Run !" • • • BLOOMBERG JOINS THE MOB-AGITATING DEMOCRAT PARTY. Rejoins actually. Former New York City mayor -- and a very good one who ran as a Republican and then as a NY Independent Party ticket -- Michael Bloomberg announced Wednesday he had re-registered as a Democrat. The Washington Free Beacon reported that Bloombergn, in a post on Instagram and to his Twitter account early Wednesday morning, warned against "those who threaten our Constitution," and the need for "Democrats to provide the checks and balance our nation so badly needs." There has been speculation for months about a Bloomberg 2020 presidential run. Bloomberg, the founder of Bloomberg L.P., switched to the Republican party before winning his first two terms as NYC mayor, and won his third term after switching to the NY Independent Party. Bloomberg, who has a net worth of some $50 billion, plans to spend $80 million supporting Democrats in the November mid-term election, according to Reuters. Bloomberg wants to flip control of the government to the Democrats. He joins fellow billionaires Tom Steyer and George Soros in heavily backing Democrat candidates and causes. Bloomberg founded the gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety in 2014. He then spent over $65 million in the 2016 elections, in large part towards PAC efforts for gun control. Bloomberg is widely considered a centrist candidate, in large part because of his fiscally conservative views and hawkish foreign policy. BUT, on major domestic issues, like same sex marriage and abortion, Bloomberg agrees with the ProgDems. He spoke at the Democratic National Convention in support of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign. Unlike Steyer and Soros, Bloomberg has publicly distanced himself from Trump impeachment efforts : "To be clear : I have plenty of disagreements with some Democrats," he wrote in an op-ed, "especially those who seek to make this election about impeachment. Nothing could be more irresponsible." In April, Bloomberg acknowledged the possibility of running against Trump in 2020. Yet, last June, Bloomberg predicted Trump was likely to win reelection, and said that if the economy remained strong, Trump’s odds would only improve. The Labor Department reported Friday that the US unemployment rate fell to 3.7% in September, the lowest since 1969. • It's time for another bumper sticker -- "Run Bloomberg Run !" • • • IS THE DEEP STATE BEHIND THE FED RATE HIKES? President Trump says the Federal Reserve has "gone crazy" by continuing to raise interest rates : "I think the Fed is making a mistake. They are so tight. I think the Fed has gone crazy," the President said as he descended from Air Force One in Erie, Pennsylvania. The US central bank has raised interest rates three times this year and is largely expected to hike once more before year-end. Fears about rapidly rising rates helped cause the Dow Jones Industrial Average to drop more than 800 points Wednesday. Trump said : "Actually, it's a correction that we've been waiting for for a long time, but I really disagree with what the Fed is doing." CNBC says the most recent September rate hike drew criticism from Trump at the time, who said he was "worried about the fact that they seem to like raising interest rates, we can do other things with the money," he said. Market expectations for a December rate hike were at 76.3%, according to the CME Group's FedWatch tool. • President Trump's comments on the central bank Wednesday came a day after he said he did not like what they were doing in terms of monetary policy. On Tuesday, Trump noted : "We don't have to go as fast." He also said he did not want the economy to slow "even a little bit" when there are no signs of inflation. CNBC says : "Interest rates have been on the rise over the past several weeks, with the benchmark 10-year Treasury note -- a barometer for corporate debt and mortgages rates -- climbing to its highest level in more than seven years." • Following the central bank's move to hike rates a third time this year, Fed Chair Powell said in an interview with PBS that US monetary policy is "far from neutral," suggesting front-end rates have further room to rise. "Interest rates are still accommodative, but we're gradually moving to a place where they will be neutral," Powell said, adding, "We may go past neutral, but we're a long way from neutral at this point, probably." Powell said at the Fed's latest press conference that he had not discussed interest rates with the President. • Why ask whether the Deep State is involved in this? Well, consider who is supporting Powell. CNBC also reports that : "International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde said Thursday she 'would not associate' US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell 'with craziness....No, no, he comes across, and members of his board, as extremely serious, solid and certainly keen to base their decisions on actual information, and decide to communicate that properly." Lagarde used two heavily loaded phrases -- "base their decisions on actual information," and "decide to communicate that properly." The inference there is that President Trump -- and by association Treasury Secretary Mnuchin -- are making decisions based on somethign other than facts, and communicating iùproperly. And, that is not exactly a "proper" communication from the head of the IMF. • CNBC's Jim Cramer agrees with the President. Cramer ripped the current Fed in a similar fashion to his famous, 'They know nothing,' rant of 2007 : "The fact is, I do have a better handle on the situation than the Fed does, just like in 2007," said Cramer. Eleven years ago, Cramer sounded off on then-Fed Chair Ben Bernanke for ignoring signs of the impending financial crisis. Cramer slams the current Fed for not looking more closely at the economic data before announcing its lockstep interest rate hike plans : "Oh, I hate to show such hubris on this show, or anywhere or at home. But I am sick and tired of a Fed that reverts to a non-rigorous, non-homework-oriented approach every time things look good. It's like they unlearned all the lessons of the Great Recession." CNBC noted that : "Cramer, in recent days, has been stepping up his criticism of the current Fed, blaming Powell and other policymakers for not looking more closely at the economic data before announcing its lockstep interest rate hike plans. Powell's remarks last week about monetary policy being a 'long way' from neutral signaled a possibly more aggressive path for rate hikes, sparking a spike in bond yields to seven-year highs and applying pressure on stocks. On Wednesday, Wall Street took at real plunge, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping nearly 832 points, or 3.15%, in its worst one-session decline since February." • CNBC's Rick Santelli -- famous for starting the Tea Party -- also sided with President Trump. Santelli said the Fed and his coleagues at CNBC are part of a 20-year fear of inflation because that's all they know. Santelli pointed out thatt here is no correlation between interest rates and inflation over the past 100 years, and that raising interest rates in the name of combatting the present non-existent inflation will do nothing positive. • So, I have to wonder if the Deep State has found a new attack tool to destory President Trump -- that is, by raising interest rates and thus killing his great economy and jobs. I put nothing beyond the reach and malice of the Deep State. • • • TRUMP VS THE PROGDEMS. On Fox & Friends, President Trump responded to former Attorney General Eric Holder's "when they go low, we kick them" remark about Republicans. Trump, in a Thursday morning interview rebuked Eric Holder for his call to “kick” Republicans and spurn civility, saying the Obama attorney general’s comments were “disgusting” and “dangerous.” The President said : “He better be careful what he’s wishing for. That’s a disgusting statement for him to make.” Holder's fiery remarks came after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told CNN in an interview, “You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for." When asked about Holder's possible presidential run in 2020, Trump said : "I think the primaries would gobble him up.” • President Trump spoke to Fox News on the heels of another rally in Trump country, speaking Wednesday night to supporters in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he again blasted Democrats for their efforts to derail now-Justice Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court bid. He called their actions a “disgrace” and said he “never even thought” about abandoning Kavanaugh in the face of several sexual misconduct allegations. Trump said he now sees a potential backlash brewing against Democrats, however, for their role in the chaotic confirmation process and has doubled down on efforts to condemn them, hoping it pays dividends at the mid-term polls. He has been increasingly visible on the campaign trail, holding near-daily rallies to whip up GOP support while boosting Republican candidates and assailing their Democratic rivals. He even published a rare op-ed Wednesday attacking Democrats for their “Medicare for All” health care plan -- accusing the Democrat Party of slipping into socialism. He warned the plan could hurt seniors. And, ahead of a White House meeting Thursday with Kanye West and NFL great Jim Brown, Trump also stressed that he is picking up support in the African-American community, citing economic gains. And he backed calls from both icons for criminal justice reform : “It’s very unfair right now. It’s very unfair to African Americans, it’s very unfair to everybody,” he said Thursday. In a pointed response, he said when asked about Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ well-known resistance to prison reform, “If he doesn’t [support it], then he gets overruled by me. Because I make the decision, he doesn’t.” Separately, Trump would not comment on a report that he had internal discussions about replacing Sessions, saying he wants to get through the election and then “we’ll see what happens.” • • • DEAR READERS, as is often the case, American Thinker's editor Thomas Lifson gets it totally right. On Thursday he wrote : "Unless sobriety suddenly and miraculously returns to Democrats driven insane by their unexpected loss to Donald Trump, the United States is headed for a downward spiral of political violence of the sort that has destabilized democratic regimes (Weimar Germany and Taisho Japan) and led to fascism and world war. Only by the grace of God and the bravery of the Capitol Police was a mass assassination of the House Republican Caucus avoided. That is the context in which we must understand the irresponsibility and reprehensibility of Hillary Clinton's statement to CNN's Christiane Amanpour during an interview in Britain. 'You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for.' The use of the word 'destroy' is a deliberate attempt to portray violence as justified. If she had used the more appropriate term 'oppose,' the thuggish intent would be less clear. Elections are -- or least have been up to the present moment -- the way we determine which party's policies are followed and which are 'destroyed.' But now that Hillary lost her precious lifelong goal, that bulwark against might-makes-right politics is to be discarded." • Lifson outlines the increasing Democrat violence and calls to violence -- Maxine Waters and Cory Booker calling on their followers to harass people they disagree with; Senator Rand Paul hospitalized with several broken ribs at the hand of a neighbor of Progressive bent; Antifa thugs roaming the urban landscape, the "youth wing of the Democratic Party" as Tucker Carlson correctly labels them, attacking as they wish with ineffective to no pushback in liberal enclaves like Berkeley and Portland, Oregon. • Lifson asks : "Are there any Democrats with a sense of decency remaining, aside from Alan Dershowitz? The Washington Post pompously proclaims that 'Democracy dies in darkness,' but in fact, democracy dies in violence replacing elections as the determinant of politics. The WaPo, shamefully, now is a denier of leftist mob violence, instead blaming the right : 'An angry mob' : Republicans work to recast Democratic protests as out-of-control anarchy and shift attention from an unpopular president. My latest with @costareports: https://t.co/EQT7aNQpXY — Matt Viser (@mviser) October 9, 2018.' The memo apparently went out, as lesser minds parroted the Party Line defined by Bezos's minions : Maxine Waters; Don Lemon; and, unintentionally hilariously, Brooke Baldwin : 'Does driving people out of restaurants and banging on the Supreme Court walls sound 'pretty mobby' to you?' • Thomas Lifson is not one prone to extreme statements. So his conclusion is all the more chilling : "We already are so far down that path that the unthinkable is possible: the loss of our constitutional republic to armed conflict." • The astounding successes notched up by President Trump in less than 2 years in office has perhaps dulled our senses to the fact that the Deep State lives. The ProgDem and #NeverTrump hatred of President Trump lives. The Washington elites are slightly more shaky in their Swamp, but they live, too.And, the work to defeat and dislodge them is not over -- it is just beginning. • As President Trump reminded us in his Acceptance Speech in July 2016 : "My sole and exclusive mission is to go to work for our country -- to go to work for all of you. It’s time to deliver a victory for the American people. But to do that, we must break free from the petty politics of the past. America is a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics. Remember: all of the people telling you that you can’t have the country you want, are the same people telling you that I wouldn’t be standing here tonight. No longer can we rely on those elites in media, and politics, who will say anything to keep a rigged system in place. Instead, we must choose to Believe In America. History is watching us now. It’s waiting to see if we will rise to the occasion, and if we will show the whole world that America is still free and independent and strong....My pledge reads: “I’M WITH YOU – THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.” I am your voice. So to every parent who dreams for their child, and every child who dreams for their future, I say these words to you tonight: I’m With You, and I will fight for you, and I will win for you. To all Americans tonight, in all our cities and towns, I make this promise: We Will Make America Strong Again. We Will Make America Proud Again. We Will Make America Safe Again. And We Will Make America Great Again." Trump, surrounded by the elite of Washington establishment, also promised to "no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action, constantly complaining but never doing anything about (it)." • Again, in his Inauguration Address on January 20, 2017, President Trump told us : "The time for empty talk is over. Now arrives the hour of action....Washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered, but the jobs left and the factories closed. That all changes starting right here and right now. We citizens of America are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and restore its promise for all our people. Together we will determine the course of America and the world for many, many years to come." • In May 2017, the President told the Liberty University graduates : "Never stop fighting for what you believe in and for the people who care about you. Carry yourself with dignity and pride. Demand the best from yourself and be totally unafraid to challenge entrenched interests and failed power structures. Does that sound familiar by the way? The more people tell you it's not possible, that it can't be done, the more you should be absolutely determined to prove them wrong. Treat the word 'impossible' as nothing more than motivation. Relish the opportunity to be an outsider. Embrace that label -- being an outsider is fine, embrace the label -- because it's the outsiders who change the world and who make a real and lasting difference." • That is who we Deplorables and Dregs are -- the outsiders -- the Americans who believe that we can Make America Great Again, and who believe that with President Trump as our leader, we will succeed. But, Donald Trump never told us it would be easy. Defeating the Swamp and its Deep State, and the Obama leftovers who keep it alive, will take time. That time begins anew every day, and for now it leads us to the milestone of November 6 mid-term election day. The Democrats may threaten us with violence, but they can never defeat us if we remain committted. Never lose sight of the goal. Drain the Swamp. Make America Great Again.