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The leaders of the EU, Germany, France, Spain and England are no longer allies of the United States of America. Time to cut our losses. No doubt many of the people there are still our friends.  Their politicians are not our friends.  We can leave citizens and subjects there to decide their own political battles. It is past time for the United States to bring our military home. Our system is not designed or suited to empire.

Discussions of inequality often take it as a given that inequality is rising. They proceed from there to explain what is happening. The data show increase in some places, but declining inequality in just as many. “It’s a mistake to think that inequality is rising everywhere. Over the last 25 years, inequality has gone up in many countries and has fallen in many others. It’s important to know this. It shows that rising inequality is not ubiquitous, nor inevitable in the face of globalisation, and suggests that politics and policy at the level of individual countries can make a difference.”

https://ourworldindata.org/income-inequality-since-1990

“It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, …[you are] enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.

“In the name of God, go!”

“Ye sordid prostitutes, have you not defil’d this sacred place, and turn’d the Lord’s temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices?” the future Lord Protector said.  “Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation.”

~ Oliver Cromwell, speaking to the English Parliament in 1653

Four Weeks from Oblivion, GOP Congress Slumbers On

By Michael R. Shannon —— Bio and Archives—November 21, 2018

“Donald Trump Wants “Total Freedom Of Press” After Ordered To Return Jim Acosta Badge”

Headline and story here

Yet, another verification that activist courts and judges are a big problem. Judicial power has gone to their heads. Specifically the separation of powers between the branches of government is far out of balance. Try to do in the Supreme Court or any court what Acosta did in the White House. Acosta would be arrested immediately for contempt of court and dragged out if he did not immediately sit down and shut up.

The court has no business telling any President how to run a meeting in the White House. Imagine a President trying to tell the Supreme Court to allow a member of the press to get on his soapbox in the courtroom. That is how ridiculous this judge’s ruling is. Laughable really. #WhiteHouse

What’s next? Is a judge going to require that turkey to be served for Thanksgiving at the White House must be sourced by open public bid, so that turkey farmers get due process? This ruling was beyond frivolous.

Part of New York is now represented in the U.S. Congress by this profoundly ignorant person. Here is her full quote: “And so I do think that right now we have this no-holds-barred, Wild West hyper-capitalism. What that means is profit at any cost. Capitalism has not always existed in the world, and it will not always exist in the world. When this country started, we were not a capitalist [nation], we did not operate on a capitalist economy.”

The truth and history is that in 1776 and prior to that Adam Smith and Thomas Jefferson and other founders were in direct communication. Adam Smith is the author of THE seminal book of capitalism, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, generally referred to by its shortened title The Wealth of Nations. That book is available for free online and in almost all U.S. libraries, or you can read the very large size original first edition in giant font at the Scottish National Library in Edinburgh, Scotland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations

The real cause of WWI was the German Archduke who wanted to unify Europe, a continent of feudal nations that had been warring among themselves for over 2000 years. But, they are at it again.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6384785/Angela-Merkel-calls-creation-real-true-European-army.html

The fundamental philosophical differences between the leaders of the United States and France have spilled out into a full-blown public rhetorical spat. On Tuesday, President Trump fired back at French President Emmanuel Macron following the latter’s rhetorical shots directed at the America-first policies of the Trump White House.

In a tweetstorm this morning, the president unleashed a series of messages directed at Macron’s government:

Emmanuel Macron suggests building its own army to protect Europe against the U.S., China and Russia. But it was Germany in World Wars One & Two – How did that work out for France? They were starting to learn German in Paris before the U.S. came along. Pay for NATO or not!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 13, 2018

On Trade, France makes excellent wine, but so does the U.S. The problem is that France makes it very hard for the U.S. to sell its wines into France, and charges big Tariffs, whereas the U.S. makes it easy for French wines, and charges very small Tariffs. Not fair, must change!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 13, 2018

The problem is that Emmanuel suffers from a very low Approval Rating in France, 26%, and an unemployment rate of almost 10%. He was just trying to get onto another subject. By the way, there is no country more Nationalist than France, very proud people-and rightfully so!……..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 13, 2018

……MAKE FRANCE GREAT AGAIN!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 13, 2018

Surely, the legacy media will denounce President Trump for his attack on the legitimacy of the elected President of France and his promotion of Macron’s nationalist rivals in Paris. However, it’s important to note that POTUS is merely counterpunching here, following the French president’s passive-aggressive attack this weekend.

Over the weekend, Macron delivered a speech at the Armistice Day anniversary (a ceremony recognizing the soldiers of World War I) in which he denounced the concept of nationalism. The denunciation was widely interpreted as a not-so-veiled shot at President Trump’s political philosophy.

“Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism,” Macron proclaimed, adding, “By saying, ‘Our interests first, who cares about the others,’ we erase what a nation holds dearest, what gives it life, what gives it grace and what is essential: its moral values.”

The two world leaders have had a complicated relationship since President Trump took office. They have for quite some time maintained somewhat cordial personal relations, even though they remain at odds over major policy issues, such as the Iran nuclear deal, the Paris climate accords, tax and tariff policies, and their personal political philosophies. It appears their political differences have finally morphed into a fiercely personal clash.

Macron’s “globalist” political philosophy, which denounces nationalism as a force for evil, accurately represents the progressive movement in Western Europe, which seeks to continually centralize power in the bureaucratic behemoth that is the European Union. Macron has anti-nationalist allies in several progressive Western European nations. Today, one of Macron’s staunchest ideological allies, Germany’s Angela Merkel, called for an EU-backed joint army, which would wholly undermine the NATO alliance and the transatlantic alliance with the United States.

Macron’s campaign against nationalism comes in the heat of a legacy media and progressive political smear campaign against the tenets of nationalism. Many are weaponizing the term and smearing nationalism as a “white supremacist” philosophy akin to the Nazi regime’s ideology.

Simply put, nationalism is the preference for one’s country over another, while patriotism can be defined as having immense pride in one’s country. For conservatives, both nationalism and patriotism are healthy forces when focused in a state that advances and protects the individual rights of its citizens. Those two forces provide for a more stable world, in which sovereign states can treat each other with mutual respect and dignity.

~ Jordan Schachtel · November 13, 2018

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/trump-v-macron-defines-the-clash-of-nationalism-against-european-progressivism/