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Source: How, this time, Trump may actually have gone too far (+video) – CSMonitor.com

So this time, according to the article, Donald Trump may have gone too far…he’s crossed the rubicon.  Hmm.  Many will recall when Trump first announced his candidacy for the GOP nomination earlier this summer.  His stated advantage was that since he was more than financially secure, he was not beholden to anyone or any group’s influence.  This meant that he could say what he wanted without fear of antagonizing financial backers or satisfying the established status quo.

He proved that over the ensuing few months by insulting a broad spectrum of people starting with illegal immigrants from Latin America, notably Mexico which set off the Hispanic community.  He also cast the Chinese as, while being clever, also evil in their trade policies.  He crassly insulted Megyn Kelly when she posed a question to him after a debate.  He called Carly Fiorina not attractive.  He insulted a known war hero, John McCain and of course he calls out politicians  for being stupid and incompetent…and those are the ones on his side.   Oddly only his barber has been left unscathed by his biting remarks.

So in summary, he’s notionally offended Hispanics the world over, a few billion Chinese, all women, soldiers and most politicians, left and right.  But now, he’s insulted Muslims! Now the media gets mobilized with outrage to condemn him??  Therefore, while he’s heretofore ‘offended’ well over 80% of the world’s population up to now, it’s only when Muslims appear to be slighted that everyone gets all college student in their indignation.

Only now that the Muslim community is called out do we observe nations threatening to ban Trump from entry; his name being removed from commercial projects; his castigation as a first class racist and a cad to boot.   I think that if anything, this tells the other constituency of insulted groups that they have no pull.  Their PR machinery has nowhere near the kind of influence that Muslims do in protecting their brand.  While The Donald is certainly no slouch when it comes to media manipulation, apparently, neither are the Muslims.

Yet, none of this has really affected Trump’s appeal to his supporters, who presumably come from all sectors of the offended groups. If anything, he seems to grow in approval.  The appeal is not in the man.  It’s in his unvarnished attack on the crippling mentality of political correctness which has infected society at every level.  Whether you like him or not, ironically, Trump is the guy standing up for free speech…and free speech is about freedom to say what’s unpopular, not the ability to get Facebook likes.

UPDATE:  As if to prove Trump’s point, other nations are telling Americans how to behave: Saudi Prince weighs in

Source: Smyth: Canadian climate-change contingent, 383 strong, dwarfs Australias, UKs, USAs — put together

Seems to me that 383 people from Canada are hardly enough to spread understanding about the dire effects of global warming.  Even with all of the compelling and airtight evidence showing definitively that evil man has pushed the planet to the precipice of irreversible destruction, there may be the odd skeptic about the weather.  What do these fools think; that the sun comes up by itself?

A better solution would have been to send to Paris that group of residual skeptics to observe and listen to the greenhouse gases emitted by the speeches of the climate illuminati.  While they are dining on hors d’oeuvres and merlot, they can hear first hand just how harmful their actions are.   This group would include people employed in industries that contribute to the climate devastation heaped upon the hapless public.  By their actions, these people hasten the demise of all mankind.  We can exclude people who ride bikes and unicycles because they’ve already wised up.  But what of the other naysayers?  We can think of gas station attendants, who continue to push their toxins into cars.  Let’s include car dealers, those merchants of death by virtue of selling pollutant spewing machines of death.  For the SUV dealers, they can take their spouses, because they are doubly at fault.

Everyone employed in the pipeline, transmission and petroleum refinement industries should be sent.  Include engineers and their university teachers.  How about people in the shipping business  that cause pollutants by shuttling boats back and forth across the oceans.  What about evil airline pilots, stewardesses and the enabling ticket takers? Include truck drivers, Federal express and UPS deliverymen as well as cab and bus drivers.  People who sell and service hot tubs.  Let’s not forget farmers who have stupidly abandoned horse and ploughs for evil combines and tractors.  Don’t forget their flatulent cows.

But if the political contingent brought along photographers, assistants and assorted support staff, this group of skeptics should also be allowed to bring along their entourage.  So, you’d have to double the figure. Let’s see, add 3 million, carry the 3, multiply by 2…hmm, that amounts to about 8 million people who should have gone to Paris.  Now that’s showing commitment.