A CRUDE PICTURE OR A THOUSAND WORD MASTERPIECE

U.S. Republican presidential candidate, real estate mogul and TV personality Donald Trump acknowledges supporters while formally announcing his campaign for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination during an event at Trump Tower in New York June 16, 2015.  ? Photo: Reuters 

I want to take you back to June 16, 2015. Let’s find ourselves in New York City at Trump Towers. I’m sure we can find examples long before this day, but it started without hesitation at the very beginning of Donald J. Trump’s speech announcing his candidacy for President. He declared,

“There’s been no crowd like this” 

Very much hyperbole considering he likely put the crowd together with help from the petty cash drawer. He had to start somewhere building that platform. No, not the one of policy, built with ideas and beliefs. The businessman turned entertainer had learned far earlier the advantages a thespian experience can offer. He played his role well, not only in his stage presence but luring the crowd into being full participants with paid parts. After acknowledging their existence, he bounced right into what now has become his most dynamic political weapon, attacking his early challengers with a nearly comedic insolent verve twenty-five seconds in, he audaciously declared,

“And I can tell you, some of the candidates, they went in, they didn’t know the air conditioner didn’t work, they sweated like dogs. They didn’t know the room was to big, because they didn’t have anyone there.”

Pausing for a moment…….

“How are they going to beat ISIS?”

Then shaking his head in the negative declaring,

“I don’t think it’s going to happen”.

Something else was not going to happen much to my dismay and disgust. They, whom I would have be President, they would not win. Not against that anyway. I grew so tired of that condescending, disrespectful at best, somewhat inarticulate style of speech my President-Elect would portray almost daily on the campaign trail. The way he referred to my first choices,

REALLY SORRY!!, (just give me a moment)

It really just pissed me off.

You would see him up on that podium in an airport some place in the country with that right arm,

you saw it,

winged out parallel with his body, from the shoulder downward at almost 45 degrees, the forearm back up at ninety degrees, his hand in a half fist with index finger pointing up and the thumb back at himself. There he stood, in the least eloquent, spitting out repetitive “sloganisms,” the few he could muster, bouncing that elbow off an imaginary trampoline.

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. However, what I did not like about this picture being painted early on was that it represented a thousand defamation’s pointed at some particularly upstanding folks I had a mind to vote for. I put away that picture, carefully wrapped it up and into the dark reaches of my mind, the day he was put forth as the Republican nominee. Maybe in the attempt to hide it from myself it became so much clearer and it was sure enlightening to watch him bring it out into full display during the general. While the thousand words that picture spoke in the first case were arrogant and related an inaccurate snapshot, in the second, concerning Hillary Rodham Clinton, it very well may have been a Vincent van Gogh.

And now, low-and-behold, not only sitting in advisory chairs as current participants in the process to set policy, those same men and women who were the objects of his obnoxious diatribes, now are contributors on a stage to defend against the socialist assailants in this impeachment fiasco. Can we all agree, as soon as possible, to put this whole debacle behind us!

In so doing, we must ignore what those early word pictures portrayed.

In the first, by example, those whom were denigrated, are showing a new picture. These men and women are painting a new reality and showing how to effect that reality, and to be honorable and committed to the country they love.

Now that’s a beauty!

In the second, can those who so “eloquently” have abused their power in a not so veiled attempt at dismantling The Constitution, return to the easel of bipartisanship. That would be an astounding development and the employment of gradient political techniques not witnessed in recent memory

That would be the back peddle of the century…….no painting required!

In the last week, we see that the easel has been set up in a new location with different landscapes and new portraits to sketch, to be filled in with magical colors and translated into a more diplomatic, thousand words. But will there be partners in artistry?

The ink on the China Trade Deal had barely begun to dry when former Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker criticized the deal as partial and ineffective.

And the worshipers at the alter of the “Natural God” certainly realize the religion has cast huge roadblocks on the agreement. A new strain of corona-virus, virtually unheard of a month ago, has struck thousands of people both in its “native” China and beyond, reaching the US earlier this week. More cases and deaths being reported by the hour is curtailing demand and interrupting supply chains. The worshipers will certainly claim it was the deal and not their god at fault.

It remains to be seen what lies in store for further negotiations on the China Trade Deal, but President Trump has not rested. The U.S. Senate this month overwhelmingly approved legislation touted as one of the most important and highly recognizable 2016 campaign promises titled The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The Mexican parliament has already approved the deal. While still to be ratified by Canada before it can take effect, President Trump signed the thing into law.

White House spokesman Judd Deere said, “The USMCA rebalances trade in North America, replaces the job-killing NAFTA, ends the outsourcing of American jobs, and invests in the American worker,”

Beautiful pictures abound.

Now consider the job market.

Looking back at the history of this President’s attempts at job creation, one might observe the paint of those pictures got itself all mixed into an unrecognizable medium. Many ultra-conservatives, (don’t you dare use “Alt” in conjunction with that terminology,) like myself felt betrayed by the job saving action concerning the Indiana based Carrier Co. a few years back, in that we do not believe in “crony capitalism.” That deal had all the ear marks of just that. It was Trump being Trump and while in totality, wound up not being much of a deal, it was not entirely an exercise in futility. Politics and policy maneuvers oft times require a bit of trial and error.

The next jobs report comes out on February 7th. With the Christmas annual up tic in retail and transportation jobs fully in the rear view mirror, one might expect a slight decline in job postings.

Not so! Consider construction of new homes, which is the field I work in as a Production Manager, when I’m not writing here to entertain my loyal readers, of course.

Demand for new homes and retail spaces is skyrocketing as California faces a housing shortage. However, local builders are facing a shortage of a different kind, Fox 40 NEWS has reported.

“We’re projecting a gap and a need for more than 7,000 workers a year in these various (construction) professions,” Trish Kelly, managing director of Valley Vision, said in an interview with the television station.

“More than 7,000 additional construction workers are needed in the Sacramento area every year through 2021,” according to a new report by Valley Vision in partnership with Los Rios Community College District.

Many of the workers in demand earn $30 to $40 an hour,” the report says. “You can’t go anywhere in this area without something being worked on,” said Jake Meehan, vice-president of the trade school, NorCal Construction Training. “Schools, highways, new homes, lots of new homes. So, I think there’s a job here for everyone in this area if they want to work hard and do it.”

And if that ain’t the most beautiful picture you’ve seen painted by words in years, just what are you looking at.

And that picture is not altogether un-tethered from the 2017 Tax Reform Law as reviewed by Townhall Magazine.

The way liberals have tried to paint the picture,

“The GOP-backed tax cuts are for “the rich,” and they’re blowing giant holes in the budget, depriving needy people of critical government services.”  

This is just anti-factual nonsense.

The truth is, the tax reform law passed in 2017 cut taxes for every income group of Americans, disproportionately benefiting the middle class.

You see, we believe in the phraseology, “across the board,” not as it pertains to taking from, but in the insistence of allowing people to keep that which is earned. That’s a picture of fairness and consistency. “The vast, vast majority of taxpayers received a tax cut, an empirical fact confirmed by every nonpartisan analysis. The lower rates helped fuel the strong economy and are not responsible for the federal government’s red ink.”

When the 2019 fiscal year ended on September 30^th, federal revenues increased by a whopping 133 billion, up 4 percent over the previous year, reaching the highest level in American history. President Trump and Republicans alone, without one vote from “their friends” on the other side of the isle, painted that beauty.

But without help from those gloom and doom antagonists, the beauty will fade fast due to the unrestrained spike in spending that fairly must be laid at the feet of both parties.  

Every company in the US should demand restraint by the political elite, considering the thousand words the masterpiece tax incentive has spoken to every local economy across the fruited plain. But we ALL must be held accountable in completing the picture for our beloved country as well as the sketch of our own lives where in we should demand of ourselves, full measure.

That picture would eliminate the need for “painters” who create sloppily cut in self-portraits of themselves, demanding wages socialist’s deem necessary. A thousand words could not be coupled together to make any economic sense out of a Federal Minimum wage. Natural increases in wage with pressure of supply on demand keeps all boats floating. With training and jobs paired together, they will remain buoyant for the foreseeable future.

I am not going to ignore the challenges and inconsistencies that complicate the viewing of the picture differently. I see a coming, soon to be, overwhelming support, for the commissioning of a priceless piece that cannot be completed until Mr. Trump‘s second term has been secured.

The acquittal, supported by public rejection of the impeachment hoax, a successful election, a second term Cabinet in place, and its advice and authority put into action in conjunction with a new House and Senate must take place. Then and only then will those parts of the picture, now being sketched, show a rendering of true wholesome American values. Applying those depictions will solidify a thousand-word masterpiece, a vision becoming ever clearer by the day.

I’m looking at that picture coming together. I’m much more interested in its complete orientation as it pertains to the message it communicates. Painter Trump has been quite the Rembrandt, but there is much artistry to complete. For now, I am going to read between the sketchy lines and fill in the thousand words.

Go ahead, stand back. Take a look.

Closer now, check detail, the linear aspects. Not ridged, but true

How could I have been so wrong in the beginning?

A very close friend gazed at it hopefully, then described it using his best Yoda from Star Wars impression:

“A very uncomfortable Rembrandt he is”

And I agree, but what see you?

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