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Trump cannot get direct credit for this, but the same spirit which calls American to reject the politically correct, atheist, total-control policies of Antichrist here at home, is beginning to breathe through Europe.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/understanding-the-results-of-the-european-parliamentary-elections/

1) The mainstream parties of the center-Left and center-Right (or so-called legacy parties) continue a decline that has now been going on, at different speeds in different countries, for several decades. Italy’s Christian Democrats fell apart in the 1990s; its post-Communist socialists more recently; Berlusconi’s once-dominant Forza Italia fell into single figures this time; and the socialists are still struggling, at 22 percent. In this election, Italy’s insurgent populist partners — the League and the Five Star Movement — got 51 percent of the total vote between them, and they’re not getting a divorce. It was a less happy story in Germany where the two main parties in the “Grand Coalition” — Angela Merkel’s CDU-CSU and the Social Democrats — both lost ground compared with their performance in 2014, scoring only 45 percent jointly when they would once have been in the high seventies. France’s traditional parties of government almost disappeared from the results, all scoring in single figures. And so on. The most dramatic collapse of the centrist parties was in Britain, where the governing Tories fell to below 10 percent. But that story will get fuller treatment elsewhere.

2) Where the center retreated, however, the populist Right did not always occupy the abandoned position. National populists (which is the approved non-hostile term for describing them) advanced moderately and consolidated their previous gains substantially in the elections. Victor Orban’s Fidesz won 52 percent of the votes in Hungary. Poland’s Law and Justice party held off a multi-party attack from an organized left-wing coalition and won a majority that suggests it will win the forthcoming national elections. France’s National Rally — the latest name for the populist Right party led by Marine Le Pen — narrowly defeated the populist-centrist party of President Macron in France. (Populist-centrism may be a novel concept, and it may prove to be an unsuccessful one, but it’s the best description yet coined of Macron’s ambiguous politics.) The political success of Italy’s populism we outlined above. And in the United Kingdom, the populist Euroskeptic party, titled with stunning simplicity the Brexit party, went from its foundation five weeks ago to become the largest U.K. party in the European Parliament, with 32 percent of the national vote and 29 MEPs. But it hopes to be leaving Parliament soon.

Populism suffered no major defeats anywhere

Whether or not this win can be credited to Trump, the leftwing papers in Australia credit Trump’s influence or inspiration with a win for conservatives in Australia.

Like Trump in America, Brexit in England, this is a huge upset, and a sign of the times. The Leftwing totalitarian global Pseudocracy (rule by professional liars) is crumbling.

Conservative Prime Minister Scott Morrison in Australia gained seats in an election pollsters announced he would most certainly lose. At least one bookmaker started paying out money to those who had voted against Morrison before all the votes were counted, because of that certainty.

But Mr. Morrison won, and won big.

The coalition was returned to power in a stunning result on Saturday night, after opinion polls and odds-makers had tipped the opposition Labor Party to win.

The outcome ranks as Australia’s biggest election upset since 1993, when Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating was returned to power.

With 76 seats in the House of Representatives needed for majority rule, figures from the Australian Electoral Commission on Monday showed 84% of the votes had been counted, with the coalition on target to win 77 seats — an increase of four after going into the election as a minority government.

The Labor Party was set to claim 68 seats, with independents and minor parties taking six.

Winning at least 77 seats would also allow Morrison’s coalition to appoint the house speaker from its own ranks, rather from among independent or minor party lawmakers.

The newspapers all trumpeted this as a referendum on Global Warming.  Like everything the Left says, this was make believe. What the election really was a referendum on, was whether or not the Labor party in Australia can turn its back on its traditional base of blue collar workers, farmhands, factoryhands, miners, construction workers, but pick up votes by pursuing far left wingnut cultists like the Greens.

So Labor, in effect, promised to shut down mines in Queensland, hike up taxes, and drive jobs away, and the average no-nonsense  Australian “Little Boy from Manly” workingman told Labor to get bent.

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You may or may not recall this story from not so long ago, but I certainly remember it. It was a gross and vindictive miscarriage of justice by the power mad creatures of the Left.

The Hammonds were just pardoned by Trump

Originally, federal prosecutors charged the Hammonds in 2010 with burning more than 45,000 acres of federal land near their ranch in Diamond, Oregon, in blazes dating back to the 1980s.

Dwight and Steven Hammond were ultimately convicted of setting a fire in 2001 that consumed 139 acres of federal property, while the younger rancher was also found guilty of lighting a “back burn” that spread onto an acre of public land in 2006.

A federal judge originally imposed prison terms of three months for Dwight Hammond and a year for Steven Hammond after finding the five-year mandatory terms required under federal law “really would shock the conscience.”

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned that decision and the ranchers were required to serve the full five years behind bars.

Their return to prison in early 2016 sparked protests that led to the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns.

While many of the Hammonds’ supporters didn’t approve of the takeover, they saw the Obama administration’s pursuit of longer prison sentences as vindictive. That sentiment was echoed in Trump’s pardon announcement, which called the appeal “overzealous.”

“I think the president recognized they’re good and decent men and got a raw deal on the sentencing,” said Nathan Jackson, a rancher and president of OCA. “The wheels of justice turn slowly but they do turn. … These guys were railroaded and now they’re getting out, and that is what is right and just.”

The Hammonds were charged under a federal anti-terrorism statute, which caused many in agriculture to question the judgment of the prosecutors.

My comment: one more little bit of federal corruption done by Obama, undone by Trump.

Missouri just passed a bill to outlaw abortions after eight weeks. Normally, I would link to a new article reporting this, but no Google search reveals anything other than Leftwing propaganda outlets reciting only the Democrat-party issued talking points on the issue.

Dear Culture of Death:

Kermit Gosnell, or so I hear, used to keep the wee little baby feet of certain children he had killed to adorn his abortion offices, as trophies. That is your world.

Officers of Planned Parenthood have been caught on candid mikes talking about harvesting the organs and selling them of the tiny dead babies. That is your world.

When a child on a bike found a huge pile of dead babies that had been dumped by the side of the road by a lazy truckdriver shipping the so called medical waste away from an abortion mill, the shocked townfolk agreed, at their own expense, to christen the babies, give them names, and bury them with proper ceremony beneath headstones at the local cemetery, whereupon the ACLU sued them in court to prevent the burials.  That is your world.

Your world must end. The Berlin Wall will fall once more.