Nom de plume: Rivrdog

Vladimir Putin KNOWS public relations

Here's the best example of an old pro doing PR that you will ever see.

Are you POLITICAL? Do you follow political PR campaigns? You should, and you should follow them wherever you can find them, Left or Right.

 

THIS is how an old PR-pro, Vladimir Putin, does PR: Recent floods inundated the St Petersburg area. The city had to be restored quickly, big foreign-exchange money comes in from St. Petersburg.

 

Problem: Families didn't want to evacuate the flooded zones so re-constitution could be done. There were about 6,000 young children living in the upper floors of flooded-out apartments.

 

Solution: Russian State Tourism controls/owns many resorts all over Russia. Putin wrote an executive order that all those resorts take St Petersburg flood-evacuees in as priority guests. Transportation to the resorts was also ordered, free to the evacuee-families.

 

Result: In 36 hours, most of the families WERE moved to the resorts, and arrangements made for the rest of them. Re-constitution crews are working safely and more efficiently to restore St Petersburg now.

 

Putin took a major PITA and made it into a tour-de-force victory for his government. Neighboring countries then jumped on the bandwagon and offered THEIR resorts for St Petersburg evacuees.

 

Putin then staged a news-conference in a government palace, in a large room full of well-behaved kids & their parents. He read out the statistics of the kids saved by relocation. He read out the timing this was all done in. It was all in Russian on R/T, of course, but you can watch it on YouTube's "Russia Insight" channel, which is subtitled in English.

 

Russia SHOULD be Trump's biggest worry, not China. The Russian handling of this issue, turning a potential tragedy into a PR victory he can RIGHTLY boast about, is why we need to worry about Putin.

 

Read it yourself, I'm sure you will agree.

JPFO strikes out on gun control

It's Thursday, and a usual ally in the gun-control fight just tripped on their Richard, and since you HAVE and WILL hear this wrongful message elsewhere, I present it now.

In this article, JPFO fails by falling into a gun-controller's trap, even while trying to beat down that trap. BTW, Jews for Protection of Firearms Ownership is a FAR better advocate for the freedom to K&BA than the NRA. Let's look at their FUBAR, though.

Sorry JPFO, in YOUR dreams, it might be enough to say gun control of AR-15s fails because it doesn't accurately describe "assault rifles", and you are TECHNICALLY correct, but that doesn't get it in this fight, does it? It's a sound-bite fight, isn't it, JPFO?

 

Want to knock out the "assault rifle" canard with one punch, JPFO?

 

Simply point out that "bearing arms" was meant by the Founders as a general statement. In that day, "bearing arms" meant bringing the same weapons to the fight as the enemy did.

 

The "enemy" in the Founders' day wasn't street punks on dope, it was GOVERNMENT, which could and did buy all the latest MILITARY weapons, just as they do today. Smarter thinkers than you, JPFO, have suggested that if there was ANY limit on "arms" in "bearing arms", it would be that the arms mentioned were INFANTRY weapons.

 

Yes, Infantry Weapons of today include select-fire (full-auto capable) rifles, mortars, belt-fed full-auto machine guns and grenades, so the NFA-34 is un-Constitutional on it's face, as I'm sure was pointed out back when FDR rammed it through Congress, dancing in the blood of the victims of tommy-gun armed gangsters such as John Dillinger and Ma Barker, Pretty Boy Floyd and Al Capone.

 

Yes, blood-dancing for Gun Control isn't a new tactic, either.

 

On average, JPFO, you do a good job, but getting sucked into the Kamel-Toe's gun-hate belies that. Get smarter on this issue, unless you want to be the NRA, and God help you if you DO want that, Jehovah won't help you.

This will not end well

Dept of "This can't end well":

 

Does anyone else, especially veterans and students of History, see that the Democrat Party is pumping themselves up to engage in a Civil War?

 

You might have read this here before, but these pronouncements by the Hard Left "squad" of harridans seem to be well-designed as war-propaganda. No, you say? Well, they certainly AREN'T negotiating positions to discuss anything with the GOP, are they?

 

Nope, this is war-fever, pure and simple. The best previous example of this was found in Japan in the 1930's. The cabal of Japanese Nationalist war-mongers who brought the war to the Pacific used these exact same tones to whip up enthusiasm for war.

 

So the D-party is doing a fine job of war-preps, but they seem to have forgotten something: their army. They don't have an army. Oh, sure, they can probably whip up the inner-city criminal gangs to do some violence at the Party's bidding, but all that violence will be in the hell-holes that are already run by the Asses, so that gains them no ground in their coming war. If those same gangsters try to move out of their slums and tear up some territory, they will be killed when and where they try.

 

Meanwhile, the Patriot army is equipping. #TenMillionRifles will be waiting, lacking only a short organizing push to meet the gangster threat. I'm guessing that when real hostilities start in the hell-hole cities, real Militia will be mustered and will engage in a week or so.

 

If President Trump has an ounce of smarts, he won't stand in the way of the mustering process.

 

We, the Nation that is this USA, are very close to, if not past the point where Civil War HAS to start, because the Hard Left seems to have decreed that already. See yesterday's RNC press release for details of those commie promises.

 

This reminds me: I need some new boots.

The Swamp is everywhere...

The "Swamp" is everywhere.

 

Scratch most "conservative" broadcasters, and you will find at least a little bit of Swamp.

 

Case in point, Fox-Business' Maria Bartiromo. She just finished a long, glowingly-fawning interview with a guy named Chandra, who is CEO of a new-ish company called Poshmark.

 

Poshmark is in the retail fashion business, and their Business Plan involves selling their customer's fashion lines for them. Consider the very name here: posh-MARK. Chandra sells stuff HE says are luxury goods, whether they are or are not. HE, Chandra, MARKS them as "posh". His plan is succeeding, and he has five MILLION fashion-line clients he is repping to fifty MILLION online customers.

 

Okay, the guy took an idea, made it work. Bully for him, right? If you say so, but Chandra knew that not all the goods he would market ACTUALLY were "posh" (a Brit slang term for luxurious). He markets just enough actually-posh lines to make all his end-users, middle-class women, BELIEVE that everything they buy from him is the very best quality and they are also getting a good deal on the price.

 

Bottom line on Poshmark is Buyer Beware. Back to Maria Bartiromo. She has a reputation for being Mizz Savvy Business Analyst. I did MY due dilligence researching Poshmark for this post, and guess what JUMPED off the page at ME?

 

Poshmark, currently privately held by Chandra, is planning an Initial Public Offering of stock this Fall. Maria Bartiromo never mentioned that, but asking the IPO question on googe brought me that answer.

 

Getting a little "insider" help from Chandra, are you, Maria Bartiromo? Remember what happened to Martha Stewart, in almost the same position as you are in?

 

The Commie Prosecutors in the Southern District of NY would LOVE to indict your pro-Trump tushie, Maria, and cover it with an orange jumpsuit.

 

My advice? Everyone, stay out of the Swamp. Yeah, you will get rich, but the money ain't worth it.