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Don straitjackets! Trump makes liberals go nuts – WND.com

The left is losing its collective mind.

The tin foil industry is the next industry to see a boom thanks to President Trump, as the left brings the tin foil hat back into style.

Leftists are so unable to handle the fact that Donald Trump is president that they will literally believe anything to cope.

Democrats in denial are clinging to the conspiracy theory that President Trump and his campaign were working with Russian intelligence agents to rig the election against Hillary Clinton even though there is zero evidence that it ever occurred.

There is more evidence that Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster exist than for this wild conspiracy theory about Trump and the Russians.

Members of the mainstream media are so afflicted with this anti-Trump madness that they use the most creative wording to write unfounded stories about Trump-Russian election rigging.

The next lamestream media headline could read, Trump & Bigfoot collude to rig the vote against Hillary.

Watch out, National Enquirer! The tabloids have a new competitor with the kinds of stories being published by lamestream media rags.

My conspiracy theory is that the failing New York Times is trying to reach a new audience since its readership has plummeted in the past few years. Next we will see the New York Times on newsstands next to the National Enquirer.

We all have those friends or family members who tell about the latest wild conspiracy theories at the occasional get-together.

Politely, we quietly nod as they explain every detail of the latest wild story that is floating around.

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It was funny to see the lamestream media flip out when President Trump tweeted the accusation of President Obama spying on Trump Tower during the election.

Even the few right-leaning media analysts couldnt understand why President Trump tweeted something that no one believed was true.

Again, President Trump was playing 3D chess and is several steps ahead.

That tweet did several things.

First, it put Obama and his administration holdovers on the defensive when the former president and his minions were forced to publicly deny the accusation.

Also, it exposed the Trump-Russia vote rigging story for the ridiculous fake story that it has always been. If the Obama administration wasnt spying on Trump during the campaign, then the months of news reports detailing nonexistent investigations into collusion between Trump and Russia were exposed as fake.

If the Obama administration had been spying on Trump during the campaign, then that story would overshadow any baseless Russia vote rigging story.

That single tweet by Trump put Obama and his minions between a rock and a hard place.

There was no way out for them. All they could do was deny that our intelligence services were spying on Trump and discredit the entire case they have been building against Trump for months.

The next time you see the president do something puzzling or seemingly foolish, just remember that President Trump is smarter than we suspect, and that the left is wackier than we ever imagined.

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Mike Nahan on a jetski: The Liberals bizarre last-minute plan to save a doomed election – The West Australian

Mike Nahans role in the Fast Ferry Frenzy was to ride a jetski. Picture digitally altered.

In the death throes of the Barnett Government, a madcap scheme was hatched the Fast Ferry Frenzy.

The plan was to put the media on a vessel on the Swan River on Friday with Colin Barnett and his deputy Liza Harvey and showcase some of the achievements of the Government.

Ministers, playing action-man roles, would be used along the way to sell the message.

Obviously struggling to cut through the wall-to-wall One Nation coverage, party svengalis hatched the plan for an amphibious assault on the consciousness of West Australian voters.

By the way, this is all true. A script had been prepared and instructions given.

Fisheries Minister Joe Francis was to play a fisherman on a jetty and the boat would pull up to collect fisherman Joe.

As the boat tugged upstream Joe would spot a jetskier.

Isnt that Treasurer Mike Nahan, he would have bellowed.

With Dr Nahan safely on deck, the boat was to continue until another minister was seen on the water Environment Minister Albert Jacob in scuba gear.

Alas, the plan didnt happen because key players in the script decided to mutiny the day before.

The FFF plan and then the government were sunk.

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Letter: Marlette should jab liberals, too – Pensacola News Journal

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11:05 p.m. CT March 12, 2017

Marlette should jab liberals, too

I guess its too much to ask Andy Marlette to look at the big picture.

On February 26, his oversize cartoon, in full color, depicted Uncle Sam weighed down under the financial burden of Trump traveling to FLORIDA for some WORKING weekends while staying at his own property.

How much does a Trump trip to Florida cost the taxpayer?

Andy, for eight years, you never used one drop of ink to criticize Obama taking vacations to HAWAII, where the residence had to be rented all the while Obama was golfing and visiting the beach, not working for the benefit of America.

How much did the Obama trips to Hawaii cost the taxpayer?

If you are going to criticize via cartoon, lets do it across the board. Or is it too much to ask to criticize liberal actions?

Mike Adams, Pace

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Liberals ‘punished’ for Roe 8 go-ahead – The West Australian

Liberal leadership hopeful Joe Francis parliamentary future remained in the balance last night as a newly elected Labor MP accused the defeated Barnett Government of an act of bastardry in Perths south.

Terry Healy, who easily unseated incumbent Peter Abetz in Southern River on the back of a whopping 19.5 per cent swing, said from where he was sitting it was an election on Roe 8.

It seems like an act of bastardry, to go ahead and do all the things that he did before people had a chance to say what they felt about it, Mr Healy said.

Roe 8 just reinforced how they felt about Colin Barnett and Peter Abetz.

Southern River is one of four possible Labor Party gains in Perths southern suburbs, where former TV journalist Reece Whitby picked up the newly created seat of Baldivis.

Outgoing Treasurer Mike Nahan hung on in Riverton and Dean Nalder and John McGrath retained Bateman and South Perth for the Liberals.

Incoming Labor MP Lisa OMalley, who was consistently neck and neck with Liberal Matt Taylor in pre-election polling, believed strong opposition to Roe 8 and the Perth Freight Link had helped deliver her the seat of Bicton.

She said a 121 volunteer-strong grassroots campaign enabled her campaign team to doorknock almost every home in the electorate.

That gave people the opportunity to give their view, Ms OMalley said.

The theme underlying pretty much every conversation was Roe 8 and the Freight Link and then there was those personal issues of jobs, education.

For seniors it was cost of living and (the sale of) Western Power as well.

Both Mr Taylor and Mr Abetz did not return The West Australians calls yesterday. Labors Jandakot candidate, Yaz Mubarakai, also stayed silent, opting to spend time at home with his family as he awaited a definitive result.

The seat is on a knife-edge, with Mr Mubarakai sitting on 50.07 per cent of the two-party-preferred vote with 69.4 per cent of the vote counted.

Mr Francis told The West Australian on Saturday night he was likely to be a candidate for the Liberal leadership if he held on to his seat, but that did not necessarily mean he would take on the job.

I still have to discuss it with my family. I have a two-year-old daughter, who I love dearly and I have hardly seen, he said.

Mr Mubarakai took to Facebook yesterday to thank his supporters.

We are about 30 votes ahead right now, and have a lot of counting to go, Mr Mubarakai wrote.

Thank you to everyone who helped out. Stay tuned for more updates ... count resumes tomorrow afternoon, and might stretch out a few days.

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WA election: How the Liberals blew it – The Australian Financial Review

The Liberal knives were out before polls had even closed.

It gathered momentum as the quantum of the Liberal defeat stunned even those insiders who had realisedlong ago that the party was out the door.

Four ministers lost their seats as part of a massive 16 per cent swing against the Liberals, the biggest swing against a sitting government on record and a backlash that left some insiders stunned on Sunday.

Most expected to lose. But not by this much.

Ministers John Day, Albert Jacob, Paul Miles and Andrea Mitchell lost seats and Joe Francis was in doubt in Jandakot.Former ministers Tony Simpson and Murray Cowper and Speaker Michael Sutherland alsolost their seats.

There is deep regret and anger over the controversial preference deal with Pauline Hanson's One Nation a decision that hurtthe primary vote for both parties.

The dealderailed the Liberals' campaign by starving the party of oxygen the Premier faced questions over it right up until Saturday and it provided an effective line of attack for Labor, which argued a vote for One Nation was a vote for Colin Barnett.

Make no mistake, it played a role. It sent more people to Labor. But the preference deal was not the only culprit.It wasn't even the main one. It simply made a dismal performance worse.

The Liberals ran a terrible campaign.It lacked big policy initiatives beyond its signature item the partial privatisation of the state's electricity distribution network Western Power.

Privatisations are hard to sell even when premiers are popular.After making it the signature policy to repair the state's parlous financial position and fuel jobs and economic growth from a $3 billion infrastructure spend, the government played dead on the issue during the campaign.

There's was no massive pitch to voters beyond the sober lines of needing to sell half the asset to continue to "get the job done" .

Labor had a field day.On a near daily basis Labor leader Mark McGowan attacked the sale, warning power prices would go, the state would lose an income stream and only Labor would stop the sale.

The problem for the Liberals is that up until about six months ago Barnett was not just against privatising Western Power he was staunchly opposed to it.

It made it hard for the Premier to campaign for it when Labor had a thick file of quotes from Barnett arguing why it should be in government hands.

It's why Liberal insiders argue the sale should have been put forward at the 2013 election, when negative sentiment was running high against Labor due to former prime minister Julia Gillard's carbon and mining taxes.

It is also why some argue the party should have changed leaders a year ago.

But the party cannot escape the fact there were few viable options. Deputy Premier Liza Harvey was viewed as needing more time to develop while the man who made a ham-fisted attempt to steal the leadership, former transport minister Dean Nalder, had only been in office three years.

The Liberals ran a campaign based around trading off past glories (building stuff) and tried to spook voters that Labor couldn't be trusted with the finances, especially because the party refused to submit its costings to Treasury.

Ordinarily voters would be sceptical of an opposition bypassing Treasury.

But it didn't resonate. Largely because the Liberals were arguing they were the better fiscal manager only to have saddled the state with record debt and deficit despite a once-in-a-generation mining boom.

The boom is long gone and the biggest issue for voters was jobs. The state has the highest unemployment rate in the country, business investment is weak and house prices are falling. The economy was a big issue but Barnett was telling voters the economy was "basically strong". It didn't resonate.

The lack of big policies by the Liberals (nervous candidates retreated to minuscule local issues like campaigning to return post boxes to a local shopping centre) allowed the media to focus on the preference swap.

And it annoyed Barnett, who just like the Western Power sale, didn't have his heart in the deal. While he supported his party's position he confirmed he was "personally uncomfortable" with it.

The lack of any major new policies or direction failed to dampen the time for change attitude among voters.

Hindsight is a wonderful beast.

There will be plenty of reflection and finger pointing in the weeks ahead.

At the same time the focus will shift to who has to clean up the mess.

Barnett will go to the backbench. He has been grooming Harvey for the top job he intended to pass over the baton during a third term.

But Francis is widely expected to contest the leadership. Of course, he needs to win his Kalamunda seat first, which was too close to call at time of printing.

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