The state of the Union speech last week had both sides up in arms. Perhaps never has the nation been so divided since Lincoln, whose party was soundly under attack by the Democrats. President Trump, enjoying a surge in popularity since creating jobs and having a record high stock market - with a record low in black unemployment - went from strength to strength as he took on an issue that the reporters at MSNBC claim to not have even heard of: MS 13. In the audience were parents of two teenage girls who were killed brutally by MS 13, which likes to kidnap girls for weeks, torture them, rape them and sometimes sacrifice them to the devil.
Joy Reid of MSNBC took umbrage at the inclusion of this issue, stating publicly on record that no one except those who watch Fox News had ever heard of MS 13. As if 10,000-50,000 satan worshipping rapists can parade around and not attract the least bit of attention. Maybe MSNBC does not pay heed to them, but most people do. The New York Times has covered this issue on the front page. El Diario La Prensa, the New York Daily News, The New York Post, Newsday, Newsweek, you name it, any serious journalistic organ has ran more than just a byline on this group.
Reid then leaves us a question mark to ponder; does she hate Trump so much that she is blinded to reality? Like so many politicians who refused to clap at the speech?
So bad was their effect that even the liberal New York Daily News had letter after letter condemning the Democrats. The 3 Feb, 2018 issue reads like an indictment, with the leading missive, sent in by Barry L. Goldblatt, stating"...it's time for the Democrats to line up and do what they were elected to do - work for the people of hte United States without acting like spoiled children and obstructing justice for all."
From Nantucket, Michael Velsmid wrote that Trump "demonstrated strong leadership"; Joseph Valente of Staten Island told the readers that the "only impediment to my enjoyment was when the cameras focused in on Nancy Pelosi's twisted lips and scowling face."
Gerald Manley, of Oakland Gardens, went on to ask the paper if they wanted "criminals and thugs to go unchecked."
Brooklyn resident Lydia DeBello then opined that the Democratic Party ought to be ashamed of itself.
From just outside of the city, in Tarrytown, Carol Culkin likened the Democrats to petulant children.
In the right wing New Pork Post, Andrea Peyser was at her usual form, taking the libs to task as 'Hero Bashers' for having bad words about the beautiful adoption of a black baby born to a drug addict. Officer Ryan Holets of New Mexico warmed most hearts that evening, at least those to whom young black lives matter.
So we get the message. Black lives don't matter if they are being helped by people you don't like, protected by law enforcement, or not useful to your agenda. I get it loud and clear. Trump was not the only one sending a message to the nation last week.
