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    Planes, Steak & Water: Defending Donald J. Trump
    Planes, Steak & Water: Defending Donald J. Trump
    Planes, Steak & Water: Defending Donald J. Trump
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    Planes, Steak & Water: Defending Donald J. Trump

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    Racist, sexist, fascist, unqualified” are just some of the hate-speech epithets your friends may have used to describe Donald Trump. But in the privacy of the ballot box you’re going to vote for The Donald anyway. Isn’t it about time you learned how to defend the choice you know in your heart is the right one? This book arms Trump supporters with anecdotes and information they can use to refute the disinformation spread by Anti-Trump forces on the Left and Right. Planes, Steak & Water shatters the elite’s lies about the fall of the GOP, Trump’s past with women, his attitude toward African-Americans, his business dealings, and his supposed racism. Trump supporters will gain confidence and a build a solid foundation for persuading friends, families, and foes alike to climb aboard the Trump Train._x000D_
    When a void in leadership exists, it is up to each one of us as American patriots to step forward and take point. This book is my attempt to temporarily fill that void. I offer commonsense reasoning in order to bring about honest discourse in an effort to create a unified purpose among ALL American citizens of every social class. We are all pink on the inside and we are all brothers and sisters in arms. We are concerned liberals and conservatives. We are red and we are blue. We are white, black, yellow and every color in between. Most of all, we are ALL Americans. WE are the only solution to OUR problems. It comes down to honest and forthright effective leadership, renewed national pride among our citizens, tolerance and respect of others, and a renewed effort to collaborate in order to win. Don’t be a mindless sheep preyed upon by those who would rather divide us for their own personal gain. We are America and we will show the world what we can do.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGatekeeper Press
    Release dateSep 16, 2016
    ISBN9781619845572
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      Planes, Steak & Water - Autry J. Pruitt

      Planes, Steak & Water

      Defending Donald J. Trump

      Autry J. Pruitt

      COPYRIGHT

      TITLE: PLANES, STEAK, & WATER

      SUBTITLE: DEFENDING DONALD J. TRUMP

      COPYRIGHT © 2016, AUTRY J. PRUITT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

      NO PART OF THIS DOCUMENT MAY BE REPRODUCED OR TRANSMITTED IN ANY FORM OR BY ANY MEANS, ELECTRONIC, MECHANICAL, PHOTOCOPYING, RECORDING, OR OTHERWISE, WITHOUT PRIOR WRITTEN PERMISSION OF URREPUBLIC PRODUCTIONS AND AUTRY J. PRUITT, EXCEPT BY A REVIEWER WHO MAY QUOTE BRIEF PASSAGES IN A REVIEW.

      REQUESTS FOR PERMISSION TO MAKE COPIES OF ANY PART OF THE WORK

      SHOULD BE SUBMITTED TO:

      URREPUBLIC PRODUCTIONS

      ATTN: PLANES, STEAK & WATER

      7600 Chevy Chase Drive – Suite 300

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      books@urrepublic.com

      COVER AND DESIGN CREDIT: ALAN HEBEL--THE BOOK DESIGNERS

      EDITOR CREDIT: SHELDON

      AUTRY J. PRUITT, AUTRYPRUITT.COM

      PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      FIRST PRINTING: SEPTEMBER 2016

      HARDCOVER ISBN: 9781619845558

      PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781619845565

      EBOOK ISBN:            9781619845572

      LCCN:                         2016952936

      Library of Congress Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2016952936

      THE MATERIAL IN THIS BOOK CANNOT SUBSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL ADVICE; FURTHER, THE AUTHOR IS NOT LIABLE IF THE READER RELIED ON THE MATERIAL AND WAS FINANCIALLY DAMAGED IN SOME WAY.

      Table of Contents

      CHAPTER 1—A CHANGE IS GONNA COME

      CHAPTER 2—ALL THE PRESIDENT’S WOMEN

      CHAPTER 3—SOME ARE GOOD PEOPLE

      CHAPTER 4—FULL CAVEMAN

      CHAPTER 5—PLEASE DON’T FEEL SO STUPID

      CHAPTER 6—BUTTINSKY

      CHAPTER 7—THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FLIP-FLOP

      CHAPTER 8—PLANES, STEAK, & WATER

      CHAPTER 9—KEVIN WILLIAMSON

      Acknowledgements

      NOTES/SOURCES

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Miscellaneous

      I am always & forever grateful.

      This work is formally dedicated to Emma, Audrey, Leonid, Margarita, Larisa, and Lovelynn.

      If they put Donald Trump in, try to put him in office, if that’s what the people want, you are going to see an end to the Republican Party. It will just be over, there’ll just be nothing left.

      —Megyn Kelly, The Kelly File, December 16, 2015

      CHAPTER 1—A CHANGE IS GONNA COME

      The young singer stepped up to the microphone, inhaled the smoky atmosphere, and gazed out over the crowd. The stage lights caught the faint glistening of sweat below his hairline. It was the early sixties in Harlem, and the packed venue wasn’t air-conditioned. People furiously fanned themselves with whatever they had on hand. The singer could make out a few familiar faces, some black and some white. All were there for the same reason—to see a gospel artist sing a pop song.

      He’s already legendary, someone toward the front whispered, and that made the handsome man on stage bite his lip to stifle a smile.

      He grabbed the microphone, listened for his lead-in, and let his powerful, smoky voice work its magic. The mesmerized audience leaned forward on their barstools.

      From the start, everywhere this man went, his following grew. The church stage became the local club, which in turn led to larger venues and then television appearances. His voice—somehow smooth and edgy, vulnerable and manly at the same time—soon led fans and critics alike to crown him the King of Soul. Although it was the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Sam Cooke seemed to show nothing but promise.

      In late 1963, after finishing a set at a local nightspot, Sam Cooke and his band strolled into the Holiday Inn of Shreveport, Louisiana. They approached the front desk and made no effort to tone down their laughter or to stifle their boisterous attitude. It had been a great night, and they were going to enjoy it. One of them smiled and nodded to the night auditors at the front desk before giving their names.

      Instead of the fawning reception to which the band had grown accustomed, they were met with blank stares from the hotel clerks. A shadow fell over Cooke and his band as each of them realized what was happening. They were being turned away. The people behind the counter didn’t know who Sam Cooke was and, frankly, didn’t care. They didn’t rent rooms to blacks, and that policy was not going to change.

      Cooke lost his cool. He went off on the people at the front desk and refused to budge. His wife, Barbara, stepped in and with a gentle touch of his arm said, Sam, we’d better get out of here. They’re going to kill you.

      "They’re not going to kill me! I’m Sam Cooke!"

      He held his head proudly, chin up, until Barbara whispered, No, to them you’re just another ‘you know.’

      A month or two after the incident, Sam wrote A Change Is Gonna Come, the composition of which, he later said, came easier to him than any other song had. His lyrics were an example of the patience his people had to have while waiting for change:

      "It’s been a long time, a long time coming

      But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will."

      The bridge of the song reminds us just how difficult change can sometimes be:

      "Then I go to my brother

      And I say brother help me please

      But he winds up knockin’ me

      Back down on my knees, oh."

      Cook didn’t rely upon oblique references and esoteric metaphors when crafting the lyrics to A Change Is Gonna Come. The message about bigotry and discrimination was plain, stark, and powerful. This is perhaps why the song has transcended the civil rights era and remained potent and vital even in today’s world. On the 50th anniversary of the song’s release, Bill Flanagan of VH1 noted the following: It adapts to changing circumstances while remaining constant. It promises progress while admitting that progress comes slowly and with great sacrifice.

      The message of this song may as well have been written for the Republican Party.

      Republican Party 1861–2015

      The Republican Party has long been known as the GOP, an abbreviation that stands for Grand Old Party. It was born in the 1850s out of the disaffected former members of the Whig and Free Soil parties. Founded as an abolitionist party, the Republicans have gone through myriad incarnations over the years, because in politics, as in life, change is inevitable. Yet the question remains: How much change can the GOP accept before it no longer recognizes itself?

      Even more to the point, was the nomination of Donald J. Trump necessary for the party to remain viable?

      For most of their history, the Republicans have been focused on the preservation of the United States as a nation, which meant reminding voters of our constitutional values. They revered Thomas Jefferson (even though he and other Founding Fathers despised all political parties) and worked to limit the size and scope of the federal government, while enabling states to determine their own path. Over the decades, they faced serious opposition from the Democrats, who were never as intent on preserving national unity as they were on expanding government and increasing the size of the social safety net. The Republicans traditionally viewed themselves as the group that anchored us to our founders’ ideals.

      However, somewhere along the way, the Republicans started to lose their focus. Instead of attempting to preserve the United States according to its founding principles, the party began to attempt to preserve the status of its party elders and party seats. The apparatus slowly became infested with apparatchiks, party hacks, men without chests—the type of uninspired boors who make statements such as remember to go along to get along and don’t upset the apple cart and wait your turn, young man. It became a party of old men who had forgotten why they were there.

      To many observers, the official death knell for the party occurred on June 26, 2015—the day the United States Supreme Court legalized gay marriage. If ever there was an epitaph to be chiseled on the tombstone of the Republican Party, it is the words of Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote: [Homosexuals’] hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.

      This monumental decision brought a number of responses from Republican Party standard-bearers. Former Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal summed it up for the old-guard, noting that marriage between a man and a woman was established by God, and no earthly court can alter that. These reactions were, for some Republicans, a gross over-exaggeration, but for many party traditionalists, heartfelt. Many Republicans fretted for the nation’s very soul, concerned that tomorrow’s America would resemble yesterday’s Sodom and Gomorrah. Other, perhaps more strategically adept, party members were more pragmatic, asking themselves important questions about identity.

      The problem: few mainstream Republicans offered any solutions that bridged the divide. Granted, this was a Supreme Court decision, but it was also the culmination of many years of political neglect. The ruling was especially hard to accept because social conservatism was the only plank remaining in the party, since fiscal restraint had flown out the window almost 35 years earlier.

      Let’s look at that in plainer terms. To protect our founding American ideals, the Republican Party has historically championed all policies that benefit the family—and that includes any policy that helps families keep more of their own money. Thus, Republicans have always demanded fiscal restraint on the part of the government. Under this model, both money and power should be kept as close to the family as possible. As the distance from the family grows—to local government, then state government, then finally to federal government—the power government’s institutions have over families should drastically decrease.

      For Republicans, a country that is deep in debt and that commits itself to foreign obligations ultimately will erode the family. This is because both will raise taxes upon the common people, reducing the family’s ability to support itself. In this scenario, eventually the family will cease to rely on itself and will instead become reliant upon the government. At that point, the family unit will break down. Some would argue this is the case now.

      This is the foundational reason behind the GOP’s traditional belief in fiscal restraint. The principle of balanced bookkeeping tells us that the government should spend only the money that

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