{"id":79296,"date":"2020-10-01T05:17:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T02:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/trump-is-a-pit-bull-fighting-for-america-devine\/"},"modified":"2020-10-01T05:17:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T02:17:39","slug":"trump-is-a-pit-bull-fighting-for-america-devine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/trump-is-a-pit-bull-fighting-for-america-devine\/","title":{"rendered":"#Trump is a pit bull fighting for America: Devine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a37321a1d00f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a37321a1d00f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/trump-is-a-pit-bull-fighting-for-america-devine\/#Columbus_fan_far_more_than_just_a_vic\" >Columbus fan far more than just a vic<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Trump is a pit bull fighting for America: Devine<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/trump1-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n                        Quick! Get out the smelling salts for all the faint hearts hyperventilating about President Trump\u2019s \u201clack of decorum\u201d at Tuesday night\u2019s debate.<\/p>\n<p>Did they really expect him to play by Marquess of Queensberry rules?<\/p>\n<p>Jake T<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>er on CNN lamented that a friend\u2019s sixth-grade daughter \u201cburst into tears, had to run to bed\u201d because she was \u201cso appalled\u201d by Trump\u2019s behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Debate reviews by <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> bien pensants were summarized in a Joe Biden campaign e-mail Wednesday morning, entitled, \u201cTrump Blew it, Bigly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It quoted columnists at The Washington Post and The New York Times excoriating Trump\u2019s \u201cnihilism,\u201d \u201cnorm-busting\u201d and \u201cnasty, unsettling meanness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Never Trumper Max Boot was typical: \u201cTrump showed no respect for time limits, human decency or the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frank Bruni\u2019s take at the Times was: \u201cAfter that fiasco, Biden should refuse to debate Trump again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Entertainer Bette Midler took to Twitter to call Trump \u201ca pig\u201d and demanding \u201ca kill switch on the microphone or there\u2019s no reason to do this again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bob Woodward told MSNBC Trump \u201cis assassinating the presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mika Brzezinski was apoplectic: \u201cWhy in the hell should [Biden] get back on stage with that fool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced Wednesday that future moderators will be given a kill switch to cut candidates\u2019 microphones.<\/p>\n<p>But if Democrats are so certain their man won, why are they so anxious for him not to participate in more debates, and why do they want a kill switch to control the \u00addebaters?<\/p>\n<p>As for all the sad sacks in the \u00admedia lamenting Trump\u2019s trampling of \u201cnorms,\u201d what have they been doing the past four years but trashing norms by promoting rancid lies about the president, lies pursued by the FBI and CIA to strangle his presidency at birth.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the Democratic candidate supposedly running a \u201cdecorum\u201d ticket let loose a string of Tourette\u2019s-style schoolyard insults, calling the president a \u201cliar,\u201d \u201cfool,\u201d \u201cclown,\u201d \u201cracist\u201d and \u201cstupid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShut up, man,\u201d said Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s goading succeeded in ripping off Biden\u2019s \u201cnice guy\u201d mask and forcing him to fight in the \u00adgutter.<\/p>\n<p>Instinctively, or deliberately, the president engaged in a winning fighting strategy deployed by the best national rugby team in the world, New Zealand\u2019s All Blacks. They come out hard in the first phase of the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>, using sheer brute violence to probe their opponents\u2019 weaknesses. It\u2019s not pretty but it\u2019s effective if your goal is to win.<\/p>\n<p>So if Biden gives it his best effort in the next two debates rather than using Trump\u2019s lack of decorum as an excuse not to engage, then you\u2019ll see the president calibrating his \u00adattacks to zero in on Biden\u2019s vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, the debate was a chaotic mess. But the emotional takeaway was this: In a turbulent world with circling predators like Chinese President Xi Jinping, who do you want defending America? An aggressive pit bull who will do anything to win, or a smirking milquetoast hurling schoolyard insults.<\/p>\n<p>This view probably is behind the fact that 66 percent of Spanish-speaking viewers of Telemundo judged Trump the winner of the debate, the opposite result of similar insta-polls on CNN and CBS <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After all, if you\u2019ve lived through a socialist dictatorship or MS-13 tyranny, you appreciate a tough leader to protect you.<\/p>\n<p>Americans voted for Trump in 2016 precisely because he is a pit bull, a barbarian, a gun-slinger they hired to fight the dirty left, drain the swamp, bring back their jobs from China and stand up for the flag, family and common sense.<\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t care that he doesn\u2019t act \u201cpresidential\u201d as long as he fights for them.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it would have been better for the president to tone down the interruptions and give Biden enough slack to lose his train of thought and say something ridiculous, as he usually does when talking without a teleprompter.<\/p>\n<p>But we should not be surprised by the rancor of the debate.<\/p>\n<p>It reflects the rancor tearing apart this country, pitting neighbor against neighbor, children against parents, friend against friend.<\/p>\n<p>You can see it in the street in Scranton, Pa., where Biden spent his first 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>At first sight, tree-lined North Washington Avenue is an all-Democrat enclave, with a \u201cBiden 2020\u201d or \u201cScranton Loves Joe\u201d yard sign in front of about every third house.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not because Trump supporters don\u2019t live on the street. It\u2019s because their signs get stolen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people here are under the radar,\u201d says financial planner Tom Moran, 61, whose Dutch Tudor home down the road from Biden\u2019s childhood home is adorned with a giant Trump flag.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know at least 25 people on the street who are Trump supporters, but they don\u2019t have signs up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He has lost three signs and neighbors down the road have lost two. The only other Trump sign on the street is tucked safely behind a window.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a constant battle and when you have the signs out there\u2019s an intimidation factor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The animosity between Trump\u2019s and Biden\u2019s supporters is like nothing he\u2019s seen before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy wife and my 3-year-old daughter have been outside, and guys have driven by and rolled their window down and yelled obscenities. It\u2019s disgusting but it\u2019s just the kind of crappy stuff that\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy daughter\u2019s been isolated from the neighbors\u2019 kids. Last summer they were all playing together. This summer they won\u2019t play with her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is mean. I can\u2019t explain it but this is the behavior we\u2019re seeing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As we speak, a neighbor walks by with his dog, raises his fist and yells, \u201cTrump all the way. Biden is a loser.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the fault of the president or Biden or moderator Chris Wallace that Tuesday\u2019s debate was an acrimonious shambles.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the way the country is right now.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Columbus_fan_far_more_than_just_a_vic\"><\/span>Columbus fan far more than just a vic<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Readers have written in all month to sing the praises of John Cartafalsa, the 91-year-old veteran whose beloved Christopher Columbus statue was stolen from the lobby of his Upper West Side co-op.<\/p>\n<p>His neighbor, Mount Sinai doctor Sean Morrison, has been charged with stealing the statue, apparently destroying it for ideological reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Mount Sinai President David Reich has yet to respond to questions about Dr. Morrison\u2019s conduct and his use of the hospital letterhead to write a quasi-apology to Cartafalsa, who, coincidentally, was hospitalized at Mount Sinai recently.<\/p>\n<p>Friends and family, like Sandy Cohen, of Florida, who used to work with Cartafalsa, don\u2019t want him remembered as just the elderly victim of a cruel theft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is not the 90-year-old in a walker but a vibrant patriot,\u201d Cohen wrote. \u201cHe was a bright, aggressive trial lawyer, well respected in the Queens courthouse . . . He was a retired service member\u201d who went to NATO meetings in Europe. \u201cHe was well over six feet tall and an imposing man. Very sad at the end of his life to be treated this way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cartafalsa\u2019s son, John Jr., also an attorney, filled in the blanks: \u201cHe came from Sicily as an infant. He didn\u2019t learn English until he went to school; grew up in Brooklyn, went to Grover Cleveland High School and the City College. He graduated in 1953 and got his commission through the ROTC. He married my mom and was heading to the War in Korea when the armistice was signed. He was sent instead to Hokkaido, Japan, with the 7th Cavalry. He came home and went to NYU Law School on the G.I. Bill. He stayed in the Army Reserve JAG Corps for 30 years and reached the rank of full Colonel. His entire career he was an insurance defense lawyer. He was the Village Justice for the Village of Roslyn Harbor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John Cartafalsa died at home over the weekend. He was well-loved and admired, and that\u2019s what matters in the end.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more News articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/09\/30\/trump-is-a-pit-bull-fighting-for-america-devine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Trump is a pit bull fighting for America: Devine&#8221; Quick! Get out the smelling salts for all the faint hearts hyperventilating about President Trump\u2019s \u201clack of decorum\u201d at Tuesday night\u2019s debate. Did they really expect him to play by Marquess of Queensberry rules? 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