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Role Models, Marches and Celebrities, Oh My!

Donald Trump presidency………..D +11

There is one big advantage to being a grandparent.  We don’t have to raise any children!  We get to spoil the grandkiddies, visit when we want, and then go home to the peace and solitude of our home. How could it get any better?

The one thing that does concern me, however, is the role models being presented to our grand children, especially our granddaughters.  Grandma P and I have three granddaughters ages 16 and under.  They are young and they are impressionable.  Who should be their role models?

Case in point.  The million women’s march, specifically the march held in Washington D.C following the inauguration of President Trump.  What was the purpose?  As a man, I am totally confused.  Was it about Pro Choice?  Women’s rights?  Or was it just a rally protesting the election of Donald Trump?

The reason for my confusion were some speakers.  Specifically Madonna and Ashley Judd.  Let’s begin with Madonna.  Firstly, I will give her credit for at least having a written speech.  She needs to find another speech writer, however.  Three times during the speech, she managed to use the F – Bomb. Secondly, she stated that the country was now in a  “new age of tyranny.”  Thirdly, the intellectual Madonna said that she had given a lot of consideration for “blowing up the White House.”

What part of this had anything to do with Pro Choice or women’s rights?  Gosh.  If I didn’t know better, I would think this was strictly a Donald Trump hate speech.  But here is where it gets really confusing.  At the end of her speech, Madonna led the chant, “We chose love.”   On what planet do you equate F -bombs, tyranny and bombing with love?  Geez.  I hope my granddaughters were in school and missed this whole speech.   But Madonna is a celebrity and she made her feelings known.  The liberal media covered this speech without bleeping the F – bombs.  Is she a role model you want your daughters or granddaughter to emulate?

Not to be outdone, Ashley Judd spoke.  She referred to the new president as “a man who bathes in Cheeto dust.”  Yeah, I don’t understand it either, but I will assume it was not a compliment to our new POTUS.  Then she went on to infer the country was “turning rainbows into suicide.”  Another intellectual observation by Ms. Judd that has again gone over my head.  To demonstrate her knowledge of history, Ms. Judd proclaimed that she could “feel Hitler in the streets.”  This was another insane comment made in all places, our nation’s capitol.  Ms. Judd, do you realize that Adolf Hitler (I am assuming that is the Hitler you are referring to) was responsible for the deaths of over 60 million people worldwide by starting WWII?  The United States lost almost 600,000 people in WWII. Russia lost 25 million people and has not really recovered since.  Oh, and then there was that little event referred to as the Holocaust.  In your advanced knowledge of world events, just how in the hell do you equate Hitler with anything transpiring in Washington, D.C?

Oh, but Ms. Judd was not done.  To assure that there wasn’t any confusion as to the purpose of her speech, she crossed the line of civility about her comments about Donald and Ivanka Trump. Without specifically mentioning names, she said your “daughter being your favorite sex symbol.”  And, a “wet dream with your own genes.”  OK.  Ashley, you made a few comments I did not totally understand, but I certainly understand these comments.  So, unlike the liberal media that did not make comment about your speech, I, Grandpa T will make a comment….”Ashley, you are one, sick, demented, hateful bitch.”  You obviously drank some bad water in Mexico and have a worm boring a hole through your brain.  That “wet dream with your own genes” comment; where did that come from? Was that the way it was in your house? (With your vast knowledge of history, you must have forgotten about a past president getting ‘serviced’ by a White House intern under the Oval Office desk.  Why didn’t you mention him?)

When I heard that speech, I became furious!  Firstly, these two speakers may be celebrities, but they are both idiots.  Yet, they were both given full-on media coverage by the liberal media like many of the celebrities who live in LaLa land.   Secondly, it strengthened my belief that this march was not about Pro Choice or women’s rights, it was a Donald Trump hate gathering.  So, which one of these women would you want as a role model for your daughters and granddaughters?  Interestingly, both of these speeches are readily available on U-Tube, and when I viewed them again, both speeches had more dislikes than likes.

Don’t get me wrong, I realize there were many more marches in other cities and I assume most had purpose and took place in a peaceful and orderly manner.  But, those peaceful and orderly marches did not get the national media attention as the Washington D.C. march obtained.  So I am going out on a sexist limb when I say that I am not sure what the purpose of your marches were, but the speeches in Washington definitely detracted from it.  That D.C. march became a sham and stole your credibility.

One week later, there was another march in Washington, D.C.  This time, it was a Pro-life march. (Now don’t get me wrong, as a man, I am neither pro-life or pro-choice, and that is not the topic of this blog.  If I had my druthers, I would take the whole subject out of the federal government limelight, and send it to the states.)  The keynote speaker at this march was Vice President Mike Pence.  But being he is a man, we will discount him as a role model for my granddaughters.  One of the other speakers was Kellyanne Conway.  Now there is a role model I could approve for my granddaughters! Kellyanne is the senior adviser to President Trump.  I do not admire her as a role model because of her position in the White House, even though other women should, but how she got to where she is. She had a rather rough childhood.  Her parents divorced when she was three.  She was required to work for support during her high school years.  But through perseverance and determination, she received a political science degree and a law degree.  She is a paragon of becoming a self-made woman.  At the same time, she and her husband are raising a family of four children.

If you own a television, no doubt you have seen her many times.  She was the architect of the Trump campaign as its manager.  The first female to be a campaign manager.  She has been speaking on many of the news shows lately.  She is intelligent and articulate.

Then there is the woman who was the object of Ashley Judd’s incestuous comments, Ivanka Trump. I am not going to say that Ivanka was not born with a silver spoon in her mouth, or gold, or platinum, or plutonium, but she has made her own wake in the business world.  I became impressed with Ivanka during the presidential campaigns.  She spoke often, as did her siblings in support of their father.  But Ivanka was extremely articulate and poised during her speeches.  She has been a successful model, author, business woman and has held an executive position with Trump enterprises for ten years.  Now she, too, is an adviser to her father and is raising a family of three kids as well.

If you have followed my blog, you will know that I selected a Trump-Rubio dream team about 18 months ago.  At least I was one for two.  So I will now make another prediction.  If I were a liberal, I would be careful about lambasting Ivanka Trump.  You could very well be talking about the first female president of the United States.

So as parents and grandparents, you decide who you want as a role model for the young females in our families.  Do you want hair-brained celebrities with more media coverage than brains or would you rather have someone who is intelligent, ambitious and educated.  Kellyanne Conway comes to mind, but so does Condoleezza Rice.  Ivanka Trump is a good role model.  So are Kristin and Catherine.  Oh?  You have never heard of Kristin and Catherine?  These are my two daughters-in-law.  Both are educated, articulate and ambitious.  I am not exaggerating when I say they are both within the top 5% of the wage earners in the U.S.  They achieved this status with their own capabilities and determination.

Maybe I don’t have to worry at all about the role models for my granddaughters.  If they follow in their mothers’ footsteps and use them as their role models, everything should turn out just fine.

PS.  After writing this blog, one of my readers pointed out that Donna Hylton was also a speaker at the Washington D.C. march.  Donna, speaking for women’s rights, has spent time in prison for kidnapping, torturing and eventually killing a gay man.  She and her compatriots did the torturing over a 20 day period.  Google her for more information.  Wow!

How Far Will You Go to Protect a Legacy? (Even a Bad One?)

In eleven days, Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States, thus ending the eight year tenure of Barack Hussein Obama.  It has become apparent that all thoughts and efforts, as of the November election, have turned to preserving the legacy of the outgoing 44th President.  Secondarily, it has become apparent that the Democratic party is also trying to preserve some kind of legacy.

What exactly is Barack Obama’s legacy going to be?

Obama Care?  (The Affordable Care Act that was not so affordable?)

Quadrupling the national debt to a staggering $20 trillion, plus or minus a few hundred billion?

Overseeing the military response to Benghazi?

The picture of American sailors on their knees after being captured by the Iranian navy?

The picture of him kissing the ring of the King of Saudi Arabia?

“If I had a son, he would be just like Trayvon Martin.”

Placing the most people in US history on welfare and food stamps?

Overseeing 19 million people leaving the US work force?

Help me out here!  I am trying to come up with something positive for POTUS 44 to hang his hat on, and I am coming up short.  He will be the first black President, but that is obvious and now I may be branded a racist for pointing out the obvious.  He may very well be the first Muslim President.  This has never been confirmed by the liberal-biased main stream media.  Of course, any media outlet that would have the cajoles to speculate about his religious preference would immediately be branded as ‘Islamophobic.’   Ah, but there is something that can be attributed to POTUS 44.  Political correctness!  We have now been inundated with people being black, gay, lesbian, illegal alien, transgender and a host of other things as not only being equal to the citizenry of the United States, but being special!  If you do not buy into that program, you are automatically branded as a racist, xenophobe, Islamophobic or any other of a myriad of phobias with negative connotations.  So, I, Grandpa T, hereby declare POTUS 44 as the President of Political Correctness.  Ta  da!  I knew I could come up with something positive.

But, with all the baloney aside, have you noticed the efforts on the part of Obama and the Democratic Party to save Obamacare?  Let me provide a little history for edification.  In 2009, immediately after being inaugurated, and with control of both the House of Representative and the Senate, the Affordable Care Act was rammed down the throats of the country.  It was not so much of an issue of being passed, but how it was passed.  It was passed without anyone knowing what was in it as it was almost 2000 pages long.  It was passed without any input by the Republican party, regardless if they had ideas that would have improved the bill or not.  It was passed by the Democratic Party without anyone  reading the bill.  Do you remember those infamous words of March 9, 2010 by the vaunted Nancy Pelosi?  “We will have to pass this bill to find out what is in it.”  Say what?  This is how government works?  Even at the time, I was shocked that so stupid a statement by Nancy Pelosi and so stupid an action by our Democratic controlled government took place.  Instead of ‘shoot first, and ask questions later,’ our Federal legislature decided to ‘enact first and work out details later.’  At the time of enactment, the Democratic Party basked in the glory of having taken total credit for the Affordable Care Act without interference or input from the opposing party.

Now comes the election of 2016 and with it comes the the victor, the future Non-Political Correctness POTUS 45, Donald J. Trump.  Donald, being a successful businessman by all measures, knows the Affordable Care Act is too costly for the users and it is just not working.  The promises made, such as lowering health care costs and being able to keep you present physician, turned out to be false.

So now we get to the legacy of what the current Democratic Party will have for now and in the future. That legacy will include being whiners, criers, divisive, counter-productive, poor losers and not being able to grasp reality.

Beginning with the Affordable Care Act, the Democrats are saying (even before Trump is inaugurated) that the Republicans do not have a plan. In reality, there are about 15 different plans floating around, and hopefully, there will be constructive discussion about what is the best and most affordable plan for America, utilizing the best from each plan including some parts of the original Affordable Care Act.  Of course, the Democrats do not want to replace the Affordable Care Act because they dubbed it Obamacare.  And, by totally repealing it as the Republicans have promised, would tarnish the largest part of the outgoing POTUS’s legacy.  I do not see the Republican controlled legislature replacing Obamacare without discussion and input from both sides….something the Democrats did not do in 2009.  But I would also like to point out that if the Democrats would have taken the time and effort to improve, read, and cooperate concerning the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, it would not have to be repealed today.  You screwed up…all to buy votes.

As poor losers, the Democratic party is going all out to purvey that Donald Trump’s presidency as not being legitimate.  They cannot believe, or get over the fact that their candidate is not being crowned ‘Queen Hillary the First’ in eleven days.  Never mind that she never campaigned in the formerly blue states because of over-confidence in winning them.  Never mind that her opponent made three times more speeches and campaign stops than she did.  Never mind that her campaign palaver was based on poor versus rich, common people versus large, evil corporations or that the common American could not survive without the interference and support of a bloated federal government.

But Hillary, here is where you lost the election.  95% of my and Grandma P’s friends and acquaintances are either college graduates or military veterans, or both.  90% of them supported Donald Trump.  And you, Hillary, from the view of your ivory tower, determined that you were omnipotent and were justified in calling us and our friends, deplorable and irredeemable, because we supported Trump. All of this from a woman whose husband was a draft dodger.  All of this from a woman that allowed four Americans to be murdered in Benghazi.  Who is deplorable now?

The Trump presidency will be considered illegitimate because Hillary won the popular vote.  Hillary did win the popular vote. (Thank God for the electoral college!)  But if you subtract the votes from one state, California, Trump wins 49 states and Hillary will be the ‘Queen of California!’  We need to take a closer look at California.  California has a Hispanic population of 14,990,000.  It has a Caucasian population of 14,920,000, 5,736,098 Asians, 2,552,858 blacks, and 648,172 American Indians.  This gives California a total population of 39,487,345.  But here is where it gets interesting.  34% of the United States population receiving welfare, live in California even though California accounts for only 12% of the total US population!  To simplify, there are 23,113,200 welfare recipients living in California…over half its population!  So, if you subtract the votes received from both candidates that were cast in California, Trump wins!  Now I am going to speculate and put myself out on the ‘xenophobic’ limb; how many illegal aliens do you suppose voted in California?  If the United States required voter ID’s to vote, such as the picture ID’s with thumb print and hologram as required in Mexico to vote, how do you think the vote total would change?  Hmmm. (California needs to re-think the idea of ‘sanctuary cities.’  Without federal aid, it would be bankrupt in seconds!)

I forgot.  The Russians are responsible for skewing the election to Donald Trump.  Even though the US intelligence community has said numerous times that the Russkies did not directly affect the vote total, that is not what the Democrats want to purvey.  Never mind that John Podesta’s email account password was, well, ‘password’.  Those darn Russkies released all kinds of unsavory things that skewered the election.  Unsavory Clinton foundation illegal foreign contributions?  Paid demonstrators to disrupt Trump rallies?  What were those Russkies thinking?

Did you know that there are efforts in five states to keep Trump off the ballot in 2020?  Yup. Maryland, California (no surprise there!), Maine, Massachusetts and New York are all trying to take his name off the ballot if he does not release his tax statements.  I never knew one’s tax statements were a condition of running for office.  Talk about sore losers!

Of course, in true whiner, crier, divisive and counter-production form, the Democrats are already toting that they will fight against any supreme court justice nominee, and play devil’s advocate and fight most cabinet nominee appointments.  None of this was done by the Republican party in 2009 after Obama was inaugurated, but the Democrats, with their addled thinking, are justifying why they will do it now.

So what has the Democratic party become?  Do you remember any riots, protests, movie star bad-mouthing, politicians swearing non-cooperation when the incoming Obama was elected in 2008?  No?  That’s because there weren’t any!  Bad behavior, lack of respect, the use by celebrities to use their station in life to exacerbate lack of respect, the promise of non-cooperation by politicians now in the political minority are only traits of today’s Democratic party.  That is what the ‘ivory tower’ attitude, justified in their own minds, Democratic party has become.  With all of the Democratic machinations that have taken place since the election, Hillary really needs to reevaluate who the ‘deplorable and irredeemable’ really are.  It’s you.  And this will be the Barack Obama and Democratic party legacy.