FULL SPEECH: CHARMING! Mike Pence - Paul Ryan intro - Republican National Convention
In reading into the record the names of candidates to be placed into nomination, the committee entered only Donald Trump. Then they let the vote proceed. But from the very first state, it was clear that there was more towhat Ryan had said.
The chair on stage read out Alaskas vote as 28 votes, with 11 delegates bound.
The state chair, after giving the usual go-our-state rah-rah speech, read off the vote totals: 12 votes for Ted Cruz, 11 for Trump, 5 for Marco Rubio.
The secretary then read back the results: 28 votes for Donald Trump.
It happened again in D.C., where Trump received no delegates in the election, and was awarded 19 when totals were reada result that onlyrubbedsalt in the wound generated by aparty platform which also includes language not justdenying statehood for the capitall,but stripping away what little sovereignty its now allowed.
The altered votes also hammered two other states, both of which harbored known Never Trump members. In every case, the states found that no matter how smallor nonexistentTrumps delegate count may have been when announced from the floor, it was different on stage. He got everything.
At the end of the evening, Alaska protested the change in their announced vote totals, and the carefully-protected schedule took a small hit anyway as state and RNC officialshuddled. The secret, which fell to Reince Priebus to reveal, was that Ryan had decided to use old, never-before-deployed rules in which, if only a single candidate is entered into nomination, any unbound delegate is automatically counted as going to that single candidate. Then the RNC went through all the state rules, looking for states where delegates were considered unbound after a candidate suspected his campaign.
The RNC ignored Alaskas protest that they had suspended the rule about considering candidates unbound at their state convention. The count on the stage stood: Trump 28, Alaska Voters: 0.
The odd combination, in which some states were recorded as-read and others had their votes distorted out of recognition, came across as arbitrary and vindictive. Because it was. Ryan might have chosen to go with the bluntbut straightforward rule that only Trump votes would be counted. He might have accepted the votes from all states as-read. But by implementing arcane rules that affected only a handful of states, he generated the impression that the RNC was both violating the rights of states and padding Trumps lead.
Which was true.
Its likely that Ryan chose to impose the odd combination of never-used rules expressly to cut off any effort of delegates to vote their conscience. Any delegate voting against their primary resultsmight have been unboundand automatically tallied for Trump, no matter what name they declared. And in any case, yanking the votes from a few states helped pad out Trumps lead, making his win appear more decisive and better able to withstand any last-minute rebellion.
But what it all made clear was that Ryan was willing to say anything, do anything, and twist any rule not to generate real party unity, but to create the semblance of unity, as well as toinform the delegates that they dont count. That only the RNC counts.
Watch House Speaker Paul Ryan"s full speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention
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At a press conference held in front of Kenosha News, Wisconsin businessman Paul Nehlen demanded that House Speaker Paul Ryan take down his deceptive Wisconsin TV ads, in which Ryan claims hes trying to keep Islamic terrorists from entering the country.
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Nehlen blasted Paul Ryan for using open borders blood money from his globalist donors to fund the ad, which seemed designed to dupe Wisconsin voters into thinking that Ryan wants to curb Muslim migration.
Im here today to discuss Paul Ryans latest lie to the people of Wisconsin on behalf of furthering the interests of his donors, Nehlen said to reporters from one of the biggest newspapers in Wisconsins first congressional district. [Ryans] ad is a dishonest disgrace. It flies in the face of everything Ryan has done throughout his lifelong career in Washington. I am here today to call on Ryan to take the TV ad down immediately.
Nehlen explained that far from working to keep Islamic terrorists out of the country, Ryan voted to expand Islamic migration into the United States.Ryan voted tofund visas for nearly 300,000 permanent and temporary Muslim migrants in a single year.
Nehlen said that Ryans decision to lie to Wisconsin voters with his new ad is indicative of the disdain Ryan and his donors have for Wisconsin voters.
This 30-second TV ad embodies exactly what Paul Ryan thinks of his Wisconsin constituents. He thinks youre stupid, Nehlen said. He thinks he can betray us time and time again, and we will never catch on. He and his donors share a chuckle at our expense as they spend millions crafting ads to dupe us into re-installing a Congressman who will go right back to Washington and sell out our country and sell out our childrens futures.
Nehlen said that Ryans dishonest ads are being paid for by his open borders blood money:
Reports show that Paul Ryan has nearly $10 million cash on hand to spend on trying to dupe Wisconsin voters. Last week, Ryan had the audacity to send out mailers trying to pretend that he actually cares about securing our border.
Make no mistake about it, these ads are funded by Paul Ryans open borders blood money. This is the money his donors pour into his campaign as an expression of gratitude for the decades hes spent trying to dissolve our borders at their requests.
Paul Ryans open borders blood money is now funding his hawkish border security ads.
I am here today to call on Paul Ryan to take the TV ad down immediately. I am here to tell Paul Ryan to stop the lies, Nehlen added. The only thing more disturbing than Paul Ryans refusal to secure the border is the extent to which hes comfortable lying about it to his constituents.
If the issue of this election is about refugees, there is no doubt who you should vote for in this election, Nehlen said.
Nehlen explained:
Imediately following last years terror attacks Ryan sent President Obama a blank check to bring in Islamic refugees. Ryan pushed a proposal, which Sen. Jeff Sessions has said would allow the President to continue to bring in as many refugees as he wants from anywhere in the world. [] The world is on fire with terrorism, yet Paul Ryans budget approved 300,000 visas for migrants from the Muslim world in a single year.
And now Ryan has the audacity to come into Wisconsin homes through our televisions and lie to us, and tell us hes keeping Islamic terrorists out? Nehlen added. When Wisconsin voters said we wanted to curb Islamic migration, Paul Ryan smirked, looked down at us, and lectured us about how thats not who we are. Maybe what Ryan meant to say is, thats not who his donors are.
Its easy for Paul Ryan to put your family at risk when he has an armed guard 24 hours a day, Nehlen said. But the average American doesnt have 24/7 armed security, the average American doesnt live behind walls, we dont send our children to exclusive schools. But that doesnt mean we arent entitled to live in safe communities, have a secure job, and raise our children in peace.
Nehlen concluded by noting that on August 9th, Wisconsin has a historic opportunity to tell Paul Ryans donors something they have never heard from Paul Ryan. We can tell them No. We can tell them: No, our district and our representation is not for sale. No, we wont hand over our country and our sovereignty to the highest bidder. No, we will not tolerate one more death of an innocent American as a result of Paul Ryans relentless push for open borders.On August 9th, remind Paul Ryan that your one vote counts just as much as the vote of Ryans wealthiest globalist donor.
The campaign provided reporters with a transcript of Nehlens prepared remarks, which can be read in fullbelow:
Im Paul Nehlen and Im running for Congress in the first Congressional District of Wisconsin to take back our district from the global special interests who control Paul Ryan, and to stop Ryans betrayal of Wisconsin voters.
Paul Ryan is the most open borders, pro-Wall Street, anti-worker member of Congress in either party. Paul Ryan has never worked as hard for his constituents as hes worked for corporate America.
Im here today to discuss Paul Ryans latest lie to the people of Wisconsin on behalf of furthering the interests of his donors.
Yesterday, Paul Ryan launched his first television ad for his reelection campaign. In the ad, open borders Ryan says that he is working to keep Islamic terrorists from entering the country.
The ad is a dishonest disgrace. It flies in the face of everything Ryan has done throughout his lifelong career in Washington. I am here today to call on Ryan to take the TV ad down immediately.
If the issue of this election is about refugees, there is no doubt who you should vote for in this election.
Immediately following last years terror attacks, what did Speaker Ryan do?
Ryan sent President Obama a blank check to bring in Islamic refugees.
Ryan pushed a proposal, which Sen. Jeff Sessions has said, would allow the President to continue to bring in as many refugees as he wants from anywhere in the world.
Reports show that Ryans decision to expand the refugee resettlement program could potentially cost US taxpayers as much as $6.4 billion.
Ryans leadership team blocked the Babin amendment which would have temporarily halted ALL refugee resettlement in order to protect Americans from terrorist refugees
Ryans omnibus failed to fund the 700 mile double-layer border fence Congress promised the American people back in 2006 that would have closed our borders to the multitudes of terror connected individuals Border Patrol & Customs report could be walking across our southern border.
As recently as December, Ryan held a press conference to condemn a temporary pause on Muslim immigration
Ryans 2016 House Bill to pause the Syrian refugee program did no such thing. It actually weakened existing FBI, DHS & Department of Defense standards, thereby opening the door to an UNLIMITED number of refugees from an unlimited number of countries.
Ryan touts his so called SAFE Act, but that act only would have applied to just two of ISIS 27 countries to enter the US; keeping the United States doors wide open to immigrants from ISIS 25 other countries.
When Sean Hannity asked Paul Ryan about whether or not he would support curbs to Muslim immigration, Paul Ryan declared Thats not who we are.
In 2013, Ryan declared that the U.S. ought to have an open door system where foreign nationals can come and go as they please.
Ryan has a well documented 20-year career, both as a Congressional aid as well as a Congressman of supporting open borders and mass immigration. He has had every opportunity to secure our borders and block the flood of dangerous terror connected individuals from entering our country. Yet at every turn, Paul Ryan has chosen NOT to stop potential terrorists from entering America.
Numbers USA President Roy Beck says there are an additional 10 million immigrants in the country as a direct result of Paul Ryans work in the mid-90s.
And now Ryan has the audacity to come into Wisconsin homes through our televisions and lie to us, and tell us hes keeping Islamic terrorists out?
When Wisconsin voters said we wanted to curb Islamic migration, Paul Ryan smirked, looked down at us, and lectured us about how thats not who we are. Maybe what Ryan meant to say is, thats not who his donors are.
The world is on fire with terrorism, yet Paul Ryans budget approved 300,000 visas for migrants from Muslim world in a single year.
Its easy for Paul Ryan to put your family at risk when he has an armed guard 24 hours a day.
But the average American doesnt have 24/7 armed security, the average American doesnt live behind walls, we dont send our children to exclusive schools. But that doesnt mean we arent entitled to live in safe communities, have a secure job, and raise our children in peace.
Reports show that Paul Ryan has nearly $10 million cash on hand to spend on trying to dupe Wisconsin voters. Last week, Ryan had the audacity to send out mailers trying to pretend that he actually cares about securing our border.
Make no mistake about it, these ads are funded by Paul Ryans open borders blood money. This is the money his donors pour into his campaign as an expression of gratitude for the decades hes spent trying to dissolve our borders at their requests.
Paul Ryans open borders blood money is now funding his hawkish border security ads.
I am here today to call on Paul Ryan to take the TV ad down immediately. I am here to tell Paul Ryan to stop the lies.
The only thing more disturbing than Paul Ryans refusal to secure the border is the extent to which hes comfortable lying about it to his constituents.
This 30-second TV ad embodies exactly what Paul Ryan thinks of his Wisconsin constituents. He thinks youre stupid.
He thinks he can betray us time and time again, and we will never catch on.
He and his donors share a chuckle at our expense as they spend millions crafting ads to dupe us into re-installing a Congressman, who will go right back to Washington and sell out our country and sell out our childrens futures.
On August 9th, Wisconsin has a historic opportunity to tell Paul Ryans donors something they have never heard from Paul Ryan. We can tell them No.
We can tell them: No, our district and our representation is not for sale.
No, we wont hand over our country and our sovereignty to the highest bidder.
No, we will not tolerate one more death of an innocent American as a result of Paul Ryans relentless push for open borders.
On August 9th, remind Paul Ryan that your one vote counts just as much as the vote of Ryans wealthiest globalist donor.
Paul Ryan announces final vote tally at 2016 Republican National Convention
Maybe I picked the wrong week to quit smoking, because the Republican National Convention is all over my TV like Roger Ailes at a Swedish job fair. Even Netflix has a double-box of Trumps empty podium. On Tuesday night, though, MSNBCs mercifully amateurish convention coverage spared me the indignity of having to watch sitting Speaker of the HousePaul Ryanaddress the pasty throng, opting to relegate him to background noise for panel chat. This was a good decision for my soul, but a curious one for a news network to make, so curiosity got the better of me, and I checked out the speech online.
The speech was a snorefest, as expected, and the only newsworthy bit was that Ryan only mentionedthe textbook racist hes supporting for president once, when he promised to show up at the next SOTU and sit, on the rostrum with Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump.
That doesnt mean there werent highlights of a sort, though, and I think they perfectly illustrate why Ryan and the rest of his party are getting trampled by Donald Trump and the Trumpists. The first of these is Ryans remarkably awful Hillary Clinton analogy. In an era in which invoking Hitler barely gets you a Mediaite write-up anymore, heres what Ryan went with:
Its like weve been on hold forever, waiting and waiting to finally talk to a real person and somehow weve been sent back to the main menu.
There must be a subsection of Godwins law that says when you get to the main menu, Hitler gets to win. Seriously, Mr. Speaker? Your candidate directly accuses her of actual murder, and youre going with Comcast customer service? Actually, put it that way and it doesnt sound so bad.
This is just a further illustration of the fact that Trump isnt a departure from Republican politics, hesthe concentrated Balsamic reduction of it. Whereas Trump comes right out and says Mexicans are rapists and blacks are murderers and we need to ban Muslims, Ryan is still blowing weak-a*s dog whistles like these:
Watch the Democratic Party convention next week, that four day infomercial of politically correct moralizing, and let it be a reminder of all that is at stake in this election
Let the other party go on and on with its constant dividing up of people. Always playing one group against the other as if group identity were everything. In America, arent we all supposed to be and see beyond class, see beyond ethnicity or all these other lines drawn that set us apart and lock us into groups?
See, to the perceptive racists, those two talking points mean that they should be proud to say racist and offensive things, and that if anyone calls them on it, they should just claim that those people are the real racists. But that weak tea dont play in Trumps America, where you just come right out and says Mexicans are rapists and blacks are murderers and we need to ban Muslims.
Truth be told, I much prefer the b***s-out racism of the Trump Era to the shrinkingcold-watervariety thatsbeen handed down to Paul Ryan bythe likes of Ronald Reagan. Its nice to know who everyone really is.
Thats why I love this next bit so much, because it perfectly illustrates exactly what kind of weak messenger Paul Ryan is for a fiction that was always paper thin. Heres Ryan going into his big money-shot closing when he realizes just what it is hes loaded into his Teleprompter, and bobbles it:
If we dont hold anything back, if we never lose sight of the spakes, if we never lose sight of whats on table
Thats Paul Ryan realizing hes about to use steaks and on the table in the same sentence, an image that pretty much says it allabout the choice available to voters this November.
Last week, Congressman Paul Ryan—the current Speaker of the House of Representatives and third in line to the Presidency were something to happen to President Obama and Vice President Biden—gave a groundbreaking speech on the state of American politics.
Without naming any names or peddling in partisan politicking, Ryan put forth a vision of civility in American political discourse and leadership. In doing so, he exemplified a demeanor of hope and optimism that he himself has come to personify as a rising star on Capitol Hill.
Click HERE to read a transcript of Speaker Ryan's Speech
U.S. Capitol Building where Congressman Paul Ryan serves as Speaker of the House of Representatives
In his speech, Ryan reminded us that we can disagree with each other's ideas without impugning each other's motives. According to Ryan, the key to long-term political success lies in "Good Ideas" that are "passionately promoted and put to the test."
In his own words:
"America is the only nation founded on an idea—not an identity. That idea is the notion that the condition of your birth does not determine the outcome of your life. Our rights are natural. They come from God, not government.
"While it was a beautiful idea, it had never been tried before. Early on, as our founders struggled to establish a suitable order, they decided that we would not maintain this idea by force. In the first Federalist paper, Alexander Hamilton wrote that 'in politics,' it is 'absurd to aim at making' converts 'by fire and sword.' Instead, we would govern ourselves, with the people’s consent. ... There was no manual for how to do this. That’s why they call it the American experiment."
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A concern of Ryan's that led him to deliver this groundbreaking speech is the loss of faith and trust that many Americans have in institutions, and especially in government—and for good reason. Said Ryan:
"Our political discourse—both the kind we see on TV and the kind we experience among each other—did not use to be this bad and it does not have to be this way. Now, a little skepticism is healthy. But when people distrust politics, they come to distrust institutions. They lose faith in their government, and the future too. We can acknowledge this. But we don’t have to accept it. And we cannot enable it either.
"My dad used to say, if you’re not a part of the solution, you’re a part of the problem. So I have made it a mission of my Speakership to raise our gaze and aim for a brighter horizon. Instead of talking about what politics is today, I want to talk about what politics can be. I want to talk about what our country can be…about what our Founders envisioned it to be."
Freedom Focused does not endorse political figures or candidates. It does, however, endorse the United State of America as the greatest nation in the world—a nation that, as Abraham Lincoln once put it, is "The last best hope of Earth." As such, we enthusiastically endorse Speaker Ryan's non-partisan speech on political civility given last week in the chambers of the House Ways and Means Committee in the National Capitol in Washington D.C.
We endorse this speech because the principles set forth therein harmonize with our own comprehensive EDUCATIONAL vision of what America can be when INDIVIDUALS reign in their behavior with the bridle of self-discipline, self-restraint, and self-regulation rooted in the Universal Laws and True Principles that govern all human behavioral pursuits. These laws and principles are outlined in the Self-Action Leadership Theory & Model.
President Theodore Roosevelt served our Country as Commander-in-Chief for seven years, from 1901-1910. At 42, he was the youngest president in our nation's history. He ascended the office unexpectedly when President William McKinley was shot dead by an assassins bullet just six months into his second term. Despite his youth and relative inexperience, President Roosevelt is almost universally recognized as one of our nation's greatest Presidents. In fact, he is the only President who lived past the year 1865 to have his image engraved upon Mount Rushmore.
In 1910, Roosevelt traveled to Paris, France, where he addressed students and faculty at a world famous University—The Sorbonne. What would later become known as his "Citizenship in a Republic" speech, Roosevelt proclaimed that in a republic,"The quality of the Individual Citizen is Supreme." He went on to say:
"Under other forms of government, under the rule of one man or very few men, the quality of the leaders is all-important. ... But with ... us the case is different. With ... us ... in the long run, success or failure will be conditioned upon the way in which the average man, the average woman, does his or her duty, first in the ordinary, every-day affairs of life, and next in those great occasional cries which call for heroic virtues. The average citizen must be a good citizen if our republics are to succeed. The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation. Therefore it behooves us to do our best to see that the standard of the average citizen is kept high; and the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very much higher."
"The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women."
~ Queen Elizabeth II
One of the reasons we at Freedom Focused believe America is the greatest nation on Earth is because we have been blessed with a high concentration of the highest quality citizens and leaders throughout our 229 year history.
If the twenty-first century is to become a new American Century, leaders and citizens alike are going to have to elevate their game intellectually, morally, and practically speaking.
In order to focus firmly on the future, we must hearken back to the leadership examples of men and women like George Washington, Abigail Adams, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Jr., Barbara Bush, and Paul Ryan. Likewise, we must more firmly follow in the footsteps of citizens like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Tubman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Clara Barton, George Washington Carver, Amelia Earhart, and Rosa Parks.
Leaders and other high-profile role models have a duty to use the "Bully-Pulpit" to speak up and out about the importance of leadership & character development. More importantly, they have a responsibility to exemplify sterling character and honest leadership themselves.
Self-Action Leadership is a message that serves as a concrete tool for the development of QUALITY citizens and leaders. It is also aimed at urging leaders in business, politics, education, religion, the media, and pop culture to think more seriously about the impact their words and actions (and lack thereof) are having on those whom they lead and influence. Lastly, it is designed to serve as an invitation to these same leaders and high profile role models to creatively and strategically utilize their various bully pulpits to promote thoughts, speech, actions, and policies that contribute to the development of quality citizens and leaders.
Too often leaders and other high profile role models behave in ways that encourage their followers to speak and act in ways that prove detrimental—and even dangerous—to themselves and others. No amount of money, stardom, fame, or even charity or philanthropy can compensate for the damage caused by leaders, role models, or so-called "Stars" who influence bad behavior in others by their own narcissistic or hedonistic speech, actions, or so-called art. Theodore Roosevelt, in his speech at the Sorbonne, put it this way:
"It is a sign of marked political weakness in any commonwealth if the people tend to be carried away by mere oratory, if they tend to value words in and for themselves, as divorced from the deeds for which they are supposed to stand. The phrase-maker, the phrase-monger, the ready talker, however great his power, whose speech does not make for courage, sobriety, and right understanding, is simply a noxious element in the body politic, and it speaks ill for the public if he [or she] has power over them."
Eliciting a resurgence of American greatness can only occur as individual citizens—and the leaders that govern them—commit to self-purification. Our nation's outer image and standard can only be purified as individual citizens rise to the challenge of becoming quality people in what we each think about, say, do, and contribute.
Speaker Ryan's father was right, each individual citizen—by virtue of his or her thoughts, speech, and actions—is either part of the problem or part of the solution to any given challenge or dilemma. It is time for us to individually commit to leading ourselves in such a way that ensures we will be part of solutions rather than problems.
At Freedom Focused, we believe that America is a special country—a nation among nations. This belief does not spring from an arrogant notion that we are existentially superior to citizens of others nations. We are not! Our belief in merely an outgrowth of our recognition of the vital role we play as the current World Superpower endowed with the privileges of a singular geography, access to abundant natural resources, and a populace that ranks among the most diverse and educated on the planet. It has been said that where much is given, much is expected and required. In the United States, we have been given much! Our superior blessings necessitate we attend to our duty to lead morally and serve diligently.
In the history of the world, there has never been another superpower as benevolent and generous as the United States has been since our ascension to superpower status following World War II. Nor has any erstwhile superpower shown more imperial restraint than the U.S.A. has since defeating the Axis power with her allies in 1945.
We are not perfect—no nation is—but the future peace, opportunity, and prosperity of the rest of the world rests largely on the shoulders of the leaders and citizens of the United States. As we go, so goes the rest of the world. It therefore behooves us ALL to square our shoulders to the duties and responsibilities we have to rise to the stature of our calling as examples and leaders to the rest of the world.
At Freedom Focused, we believe the founding of America, including the irrevocable truths contained in our founding documents—The Declaration of Independence & Constitution—are divinely inspired. Moreover, we believe that individuals who construct their own lives according to similar principles of liberty, self-governance, and the rule of [natural] law, will be much more successful in the long-run than those who do not.
For this reason, we have established the SAL Theory & Model, which elucidate the comprehensive principles of personal leadership that every individual can study, internalize, and then apply in their lives to obtain predictably positive results in their lives, homes, careers, neighborhoods, and beyond. We also teach the value of drafting one's own Self-Declaration of Independence and Constitution to serve as guiding blueprints to the life construction you can intentionally engage—if only you will.
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