7-15-19 in New Jersey

Guess whose coming to New Jersey:

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is expected to return to his Bedminster golf club on Friday, marking his second weekend jaunt his year to New Jersey....

Since taking office, the president has spent several summer weekends and a working vacation each August in Bedminster, before returning to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, during the colder months.

Trump has spent 74 days at Bedminster during his presidency, second only to Mar-a-Lago among his properties he visits when not at the White House, according to NBC News.

We're a mere ten minutes from Trump National, nestled in the wooded hill country of north central Jersey. Bedminster is horse country, the National Equestrian Museum is there. We used to live one town over in Peapack, right across the street from the park. Jackie O lived there for a time and her kids used to ice-skate on the pond.* Every once and a while one would spot Christie Todd Whitman at the local coffee shop, Coco Luxe.

We were at Coco Luxe a few weeks ago. An old friend of ours manages the joint. We met back in the early 2000's when she managed a coffee shop in Bedminster, The Daily Grind. It was here that we wrote a Line throught the Desert. Our friend actually shows up in Blooms.

We know a guy who knows a guy as they say, who used to work at Trump National. Our guy says his guy said that Trump once freaked out because the concierge garbage can was a cheap plastic job and not the finest, classiest alabaster, or whatever.

*Go ahead. And guess what anniversary is tomorrow.

Trumped Up and out of the Bushs

So this whole 'Russian' narrative about President Trump has blown up in the Media's (the pervs) face, eh?

This weekend President Trump looked at this emerging scandal and came to the obvious and only possible conclusion: Barry bugged Trump tower.

Now this blog is not really interested in dissecting the day's political happenings per se, but we will note that we're having a great time watching the lying pedophile apologists in the Media have to either disavow their own reporting or confirm what President Trump already knows. Say it again: Barry bugged Trump Tower.

Had this happened during the Bush Admin, and lets even imagine that Jeb! was somehow president, there'd be furious denials, earnest recaps of how no one in the campaign had any dealings with the Russians, Jeff Sessions is just the best.... etc....etc...

You get what I mean.

Instead of hemming and hawing, President Trump simply stated the truth, once more: Barry bugged Trump Tower.

Narrative changed.

This story is now about the communist Media and Barry, did I mention he bugged Trump Tower?

Watergate this, Motherfuckers.

Dear Media: it's not your business model that sucks, its you that sucks...

...so said my mentor, my guiding light, the man for whom I openly wept when he died, Andrew Breitbart.

This clip, a couple of weeks old now, is breathtaking:

That's CNN's Brian Stelter, media critic, interviewing Michael Wolff himself a journalist and media critic. Wolff really let's him have it. And rightly so. Stelter is a pig. A man with no real journalism experience, sorry writing media columns is not journalism, slamming President Trump for not revering the media. Stelter at one point tries to argue that we live in extraordinary times that require the likes of himself lecturing the president. Wolff is not impressed. In fact everything Wolff says is true. 'The media does not need defending by the media,' Wolff says and, 'The media will be fine.' After Stelter tried to argue that we live in extraordinary times Wolff, who unlike Stelter has the benefit of years of experience, says, 'I think all new presidencies are unusual.'

Just so.

Brian Stelter actually brings Wolff on air to take about...Brian Stelter.

Look folks, there's a reason why my novels are peppered with journalists known only by a sobriquet; Bloviating Hair Maniac, Red Dye Job, Aggressive Blonde, etc, etc. Except Rafael Gould of course. 'Gonzo' as he is nicknamed is out in the field, you know, reporting.

Calm down Stelter, you're not that pretty, you're not that special.

The Great Unraveling

Well, we're three weeks into the Trump Administration and the other side is in complete freak out mode. Right now we have a Civil Cold War, I think John Derbyshire coined the phrase, with flair ups of violence. These of course happened at President Trump's inauguration, at the Milo-Berkeley event, at Gavin McInnes' NYU talk and several other places. Incidents of violence against Trump supporters are legion, just look it up on Youtube.

I myself have been walking around in a Red MAGA hat for a couple of months now, but being 6 feet and displacing about 250 lbs generally immunizes one from attacks by skinny jeans wearing anarcho-fan boys.

Far more troubling is the unraveling or sorting of the culture. Macys and Sears dumb Invanka Trump's clothing line. Kellogg's stops advertising on Breitbart. Audi runs its now infamous Super Bowl ad. All these moves are going to or have cost these companies business, yet they don't seem to care. This analysis of the Audi ad is brilliant and explains why the ad is so troubling.

For the most part we on the right have been enduring these assaults. That said action by various groups has and is being taken behind the scenes. One thinks of the undercover exposes of James O'keefe, and the Oath Keepers. Gavin McInnes has thrown a few punches. One wonders how much longer.

Here is Berkeley Antifa thug Yvette Felarca assaulting a Trump supporter:

Bitch, I'll fuck you up.

But that's the subject of another post.

Donald Trunmp Says the Media Sucks

So yesterday Donald Trump assembled the media in Trump Tower and berated them. Good.

“It was like a f–ing firing squad,” one source said of the encounter.

Too bad it wasn't just 'like' a firing squad.

Here is yet another article, this one at The Atlantic, about why the media sucks. Basically the media is run and staffed by ambitious young women, preening beta male college boys and homosexuals.

This is of course a transition (pun intended) from the old style media of coffee drinking, cigarette smoking, donut eating fat guys.

When I worked at the Wesley College Whetstone the paper was run by a guy like that. He was a 30 year old army and air force vet who loved news. God he might as well have been my father. 30 years old!

When I worked at CNN Inside Politics the office was filled with young women hired by the middle aged director. Ok not everyone was young. Ahhhh Sasha Johnson. She was cute, athletic etc. She once inadvertently flashed me, getting out of a cab, a moment I will take to my grave.  I never liked Kate Albright-Hanna or my boss Jane Caplan. Bear in mind the later, while writing on gun control, used to work for the Brady Campaign. Interestingly we were all about the same age. The difference was these were up and coming go-getters, I was some dumb schlub brought in to do scutt work, like run to FEC and get the list of contributions to the Elizabeth Dole campaign. I was less important than the interns.

For a while the polling director took me under his wing. Nice man, very smart, and a baseball fanatic as all good pollsters should be. Thank you, Keating Holland.

My father worked at NBC Nightly News from 1968 till 2005. He was one of the guys you could see in the newsroom behind Tom Borkow. There he is, right over Tom Brokow's shoulder:

My sister and I used to like to call him up during the broadcast and try to get him to scratch his ear or something. He wouldn't.

He saw the transition first hand. By the time my old man left the office was filled by hyper-educated young professionals who worked out during lunch and didn't expect to have to work after hours. These were hyper-successful fastidious types. As me old man said, 'I remember when we used to stub out our cigarettes on the newsroom floor and now I have to go outside to smoke.'

So President-Elect Trump is dead on hear. Don't be nice to them. Don't treat them with respect. They'e the enemy.

BTW, lots of media badmouthing in Israel Strikes: War of the Red Sea. There's a character named Martin, based on the terrorist sympathizer, misogynist, homosexual Martin Bashir.