http://thehill.com/opinion/white-ho...porter-has-gone-global-and-so-has-the-red-hen OPINION | WHITE HOUSE June 29, 2018 - 11:30 AM EDT The 'silent Trump supporter' has gone global, and so has the Red Hen udeau BY CURTIS ELLIS, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR67 The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill TWEET SHARE MORE The 2016 election gave us the “Silent Trump Supporter” — Trump voters who would not reveal their true sympathies to pollsters. This was a great mystery at the time, but seeing now how Trump supporters are routinely denigrated, harassed and vilified, their silence was understandable if not prescient. In 2018, the Silent Trump Supporter has gone global. Around the world, government officials and heads of state ritually denounce President Trump to anyone who will listen. But at the same time they are pursuing the game-changing policies the president has championed. Take this story from the European Union, please. “China and the European Union vowed to oppose trade protectionism in an apparent rebuke to the U.S., saying unilateral actions risked pushing the world into a recession,” reports the lede sentence in a recent Bloomberg story. However, European companies are complaining about the “lack of reciprocity between the access to China’s markets that they get, and the access Chinese companies get to Europe.” Brussels also has problems with China’s forced technology transfers, steel overcapacity, cyber espionage and investments targeting critical technology and infrastructure. And while Eurocrats genuflect to multilateral globalism, they acknowledge the World Trade Organization needs to be updated “to better equip it for the contemporary world.” How do we know all this? It’s in the same Bloomberg story, buried eleven paragraphs down. China’s non-reciprocal protection of its home market, its industrial espionage, forced technology transfer, deliberate overproduction of steel and aluminum, and the WTO’s inability to deal with Beijing’s flagrant serial violations– these are the issues President Trump has addressed after decades of diplomatic happy talk and no action. Count the Brussels bureaucrats as silent Trump supporters. By now we are all familiar with Justin Trudeau, Canada’s woke prime minister, he who preens and postures in public about not being pushed around by President Trump. Meanwhile, we learn the Canadian government is preparing a combination of quotas and tariffs to prevent a flood of steel imports from other countries including China. ”The moves follow similar ‘safeguard’ measures being considered by the European Union,” our friends at Bloomberg tell us. Add Justin Trudeau and his trade minister Chrystia Freeland to the basket of Silent Trump Supporters. You may want to put Toronto Mayor John Tory in that basket, too. While Trudeau gamely condemns the Trump administration’s immigration policies as “unacceptable,” Toronto’s mayor says his city can’t handle the huge number of refugees and asylum seekers entering Canada and is asking for help from Ottawa. And then there’s Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor and anti-Trump poster child. While her public pronouncements against President Trump’s America First agenda are as fierce as any MSNBC host’s, her actions tell a different story. Merkel wants to send some of the million recent immigrants to the other European countries they came through on their way to Germany. Her coalition partners want any more asylum seekers turned back at the border. Merkel recently had a photo-op at a Beirut refugee camp, and the European Commission is considering setting up centers in North Africa for migrants intercepted at sea on the way to Europe. These are precisely the policies President Trump is advocating when he says Mexico should deal with the migrants flowing through that country, asylum seekers should be dealt with at the border, and Middle Eastern refugees should be taken care of in their home region. Unlike the silent Trump voters of 2016 concerned about being bullied on social media or in public, the Silent Trump Supporters of 2018 are more cynical. They bring to mind the story of the Red Hen. Not the Lexington restaurant that refuses service on the basis of political opinion (one of the recognized grounds for seeking asylum, ironically), but the children’s story about the hypocrisy of those who refuse to make the bread but are more than ready to enjoy the product of someone else’s industry. President Trump did the hard work — he had the guts to discard the failed policies and conventional wisdom of the past. He’s charting a new course for an international system collapsing under the stress of decades of systemic imbalances in trade, production and employment opportunities. The lazy, sleepy and noisy are all too happy call President Trump names — even as they emulate his policies and eat the bread he baked. Curtis Ellis is senior policy advisor withAmerica First Policies. He was a senior policy advisor on the Donald J. Trump campaign
Sad Trump ball licker. "Not the Lexington restaurant that refuses service on the basis of political opinion" She was refused on her actions. But as you said, politicians don't matter so if you don't care that Trump is a pathological liar and exaggerator (5000 Judges he said) a little hypocrisy is hardly worth creating a thread for is it? But if you think Trump is changing your life, perhaps you would be interested in some products from this company. http://marigoaudio.com/tuning-dots/ Or the titanium power cable for $2995 6 ft. Suckers abound and when they group in herds, you have Trumpers.
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Declining to host a media event vs eating a private dinner with your family. Only a stupid fucking leftard would conflate the 2.
For only a dumb Con inbred would the TYPE of event be a difference instead of the REASON they were refused - if the fatass liar who went to Red Hen asked for a media event instead of a dinner, she would still have been refused for the same reason.
What a stupid deranged lying idiot you are. Although, it’s not surprising then, that you don’t see the monumental difference between Lying Joe walking in to buy a bagel vs. hosting a pompous camera circus in the bakery. This is why it’s important to not have these utter morons on ignore...you have to witness the stupidity in real time...it’s breathtaking.
Again, there is no fucking difference - and considering it's the REACTION that Trumpers are celebrating now, the event absolutely doesn't matter. Only a deranged inbred Con would intentionally refuse to acknowledge it. And I don't give a fuck if any of you baboons put me on ignore, if I wanted to have better rational conversations, I'd talk to my dog because animals make better arguments than Conservatives do.
It’s totally and completely different. No matter how many times you lie to yourself and anyone who will listen. anyone who isn’t easily misled by fake news knows it. Enjoy your echo chamber of moronic hysterical Libs.
Amen. Maybe we should set up a trading group with no cons allowed That would frustrate the hell out of them.