Friday, May 31, 2024
We must make these miscreants pay for what they have done
Josh Hammer, here:
The imperative of this late hour of the American republic, in order to even attempt to rebalance our wildly off-balance pendulum, is to respond to the Left as it has acted toward us: by wielding political and prosecutorial power to reward friends and punish enemies -- to reward our side's forces of civilizational sanity and punish their side's forces of civilizational arson -- within the broad confines of the rule of law.
If we want to get back to "neutrality," at this perilous point, it's going to first take bloodying up some noses. That is unfortunate for those Americans who actually do value and cherish neutral enforcement of the rule of law. But yet again, here we are.
Above all, it is imperative that the Right not bat an eyelash. Do not be intimidated by this blatant show of crass thuggery masquerading as a legal proceeding. It's now full steam ahead through November. We must make these miscreants pay for what they have done.
Frankly, sympathetic as I am, I don't see how that will change anything. It will simply validate lawfare, the weaponizing of the legal system for political ends.
Democrats have crossed the Rubicon.
Escalation seems inevitable, but then there will be more escalation after that, and more after that.
That's what this means.
There has to be a better way.
Thursday, May 30, 2024
Nominal GDP for 1Q2024 was revised down $28.6 billion in the second estimate today: What's the big picture?
Nominal GDP came in at a revised $28.255 trillion.
Sounds like a lot, right?
Here's the big picture.
From 1947 to 2000, nominal GDP grew at a compound annual rate of 7.26%.
From 2000 to 2024, nominal GDP grew at a compound annual rate of 4.42%, 39% lower.
The year 2000 marks the US opening to China, and the great wealth transfer out of the US from the middle class under globalism, creating new middle classes there and elsewhere.
We are poorer for it, but we have lots more billionaires now and you can read all about it on your Apple iPhone made by slave labor while you eat your 40% more expensive hamburger from McDonalds since 2019.
It's amusing to read Fox News quoting NeverTrumpers @redsteeze and @bonchieredstate attacking Jill Biden
'History of anger problems': Jill Biden mocked for hyping president as 'calm' and 'steady'
The comment drew immediate criticism on social media from conservatives skeptical of the portrayal of Biden as "calm" and "steady."
"This doesn't work this time. Does anything feel calm?" conservative commentator Stephen L. Miller posted on X.
"Narrator: He's incredibly weak, has a history of anger problems, and has so little integrity that he can't give a simple speech without telling multiple, already-debunked lies," Red State writer Bonchie posted on X.
They're selling their brands that's all. These two are mere children who pretend that adults should never have to choose the bad Trump over the worse Biden.
Their ilk pretended over the weekend, for example, that Donald Trump made Memorial Day all about himself and his troubles, which, if you hadn't noticed, are unprecedented no matter how much he has brought them on himself.
The decline of religion in America has made America uglier and more vulgar on both sides, both incapable of showing mercy and of practicing self-examination. To do so is a gotcha, the specialty that provides the clicks and the revenue.
It's still all about the Benjamins.
That half the country still supports Trump is symbolic of its former better self and says less about Trump than it does about what is still right with us.
That should calm things down: Dr. Jill Biden says half the country is evil
Those polls are going to turn, I'm confident of it because as time goes on and as people start to focus a little more on what's at stake and start to become educated on the issues and the differences between the two men, I believe that Americans are going to choose good over evil.
Here.
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
How could Trump's private business records possibly be intended to deceive VOTERS when the records were kept private all along?
It's the stupidest damn trial of the century.
Joe Biden's stupid Gaza pier lasted 12 days until the sea took it apart
Expert opinion says the military tried to warn him it wouldn't work in that environment, but Biden persisted.
Most of the aid which was delivered got stolen anyway.
Complete boondoggle, with one critically injured in an accident, but no fatalities as in Biden's disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal.
A purely political prosecution of Trump: Hillary underperformed Obama 2008 in 39 states in 2016 because she was a terrible candidate but what REALLY won it for Trump was paying Stormy Daniels $130,000 in hush money
Prosecutors claim that Trump, by falsely recording the reimbursements to Cohen as legal expenses, had criminally covered up their true nature, which was to protect his then-reeling campaign from losing the 2016 election to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
CNBC here.
The mother of Emily Baden, Barbara Baden, was a long time executive with PBS, thought her daughter's vulgar signs in front of her house were OK
Explains a lot.
Her mother Barbara Baden, a former PBS executive, said her daughter's "Fuck Trump" sign, placed "near where children wait for the school bus", was "made with good intent".
The daughter and her boyfriend stayed in the house with her mother during COVID.
They are proud liberals and BLM-ers and readily admit they called Mrs. Alito a cunt.
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
New evidence reveals Hunter Biden WeChat messages from his iCloud account to Chinese oil giant CEFC involve his father, contradicting his sworn testimony
Story here.
'Hunter Biden lied about the recipient of a WhatsApp message sent with the apparent intention to threaten a business associate and demand payment,' committee chairman Jason Smith claimed Wednesday.
'In the message, Hunter Biden twice mentioned he was with his father. In the deposition, Hunter Biden sought to dismiss the message, claiming that he was either 'high or drunk' when he sent it, and in that state, had sent it to the wrong Zhao, and not actually the one affiliated with the Chinese energy company, CEFC.
'Hunter claimed under oath that the recipient, 'had no understanding or even remotely knew what,...I was even...talking about,' Smith added.
'However, phone records in front of the Committee today show Hunter Biden sent the message to the correct Chinese businessman by the name of Raymond Zhao who not only was affiliated with CEFC, but knew exactly what Hunter Biden was talking about.'
Monday, May 27, 2024
Sunday, May 26, 2024
Even while telling the truth they lie
Mediaite won't say "distress signal":
Justice Alito Claims His Wife Hung Coup Flag Distress Signal Because Neighbor Called Her a C***
And WaPo says "insulting language on yard signs" but won't say "cunt":
Wife of Justice Alito called upside-down flag ‘signal of distress’
Drudge is so frustrated with a Trump who won't die lol, he editorializes the content he links to when he links to it at all
THE DON LOSES CONTROL actual story Trump loudly heckled at Libertarian National Convention says the only thing out of control is drugs in Colorado and Oregon, giving even some libertarians pause.
TRUMP MOVIE SHUT-OUT... links to ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
Maybe Drudge is on drugs?
Reuters: Trump was undeterred in front of Libertarians
Undeterred, Trump poked fun at the crowd, saying if they did not back him, they would continue to garner just a tiny portion of voter support in national elections.
More.
Trump is showing how tough he is, follows up gutsy Bronx rally appearance with raucous first ever appearance by a president at Libertarian Convention
Trump did great in the Bronx, attracting mostly minorities, and held his own in front of the Libertarians, telling them repeatedly to stop settling for being national losers and to endorse him.
Drudge thinks Trump lost control, but the video showed no such thing. Trump did great in front of a very hostile audience deeply divided amongst themselves.
They didn't like RFK Jr either, like that's news. Libertarians hate everybody and can hardly agree about anything.
And they would have eaten Joe Biden alive, but not Donald Trump.
See for yourself.
Saturday, May 25, 2024
California insurrectionists have been flying the Appeal to Heaven flag in the Civic Center Plaza's Pavilion of American Flags in San Francisco since 1964
Maybe The San Francisco Chronicle should investigate.
-- San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department, February 2017, here.
Friday, May 24, 2024
Critic of McDonald's food dies of cancer aged 53, Wisconsin man aged 70 still eats a Big Mac every day and has since 1972
Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, who skewered fast food industry, dies at 53
Spurlock made a splash in 2004 with his groundbreaking film “Super Size Me,” which was nominated for an Academy Award. The film chronicled the detrimental physical and psychological effects of Spurlock eating only McDonald’s food for 30 days. He gained about 25 pounds, saw a spike in his cholesterol and lost his sex drive. ... He returned in 2019 with “Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!”
Wisconsin man's lifetime Big Mac consumption hits 34,128
Gorske, who has saved the receipt and package from every Big Mac he has eaten, first tried McDonald's signature burger on May 17, 1972. ... Gorske said he hasn't suffered any ill health effects from his unusual diet, and he maintains his physique by abstaining from French fries.
Google's AI Overviews has comparable problems to Gemini lol: Use glue on pizza, OK to stare at the sun up to 30 minutes if you have dark skin, geologists recommend eating one small rock per day, 1919 was 20 years ago
Thursday, May 23, 2024
Why Joe Biden's release of 1 million gallons of gasoline to reduce prices is ridiculous
Americans used 376 million gallons of gasoline PER DAY last year.
What this country most needs
From The Last of Menckenians here:
What interests me most is the historical example of Mencken: once, in the United States, a writer shunned dogmatic responses, pushing readers to think more shrewdly and to challenge even themselves, and readers turned to him. So I’m glad for the continued publication of Menckeniana and for the Mencken Society no matter how small its membership. The society’s work reminds me that this country and its democracy require that, in every era, a writer step up and think skeptically in the best sense, to seek favor with no one, to accept being wrong in pursuit of truth, and to do so with wit and whatever in that moment constitutes eloquence.
The best thing about James Piereson's review of Jacob Heilbrunn's book attacking Trump is that Heilbrunn was instrumental in elevating Trump in the first place
Here:
It is strange, then, in light of this background, for Heilbrunn to waste reams of paper attacking conservatives for supporting Donald Trump and his ideas about Russia, when he was as instrumental as anyone in promoting them. There were few conservatives in Trump’s corner at that time; indeed, most supported Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, or Jeb Bush while keeping a safe distance from a candidate whom they judged to be incapable of winning a national election and whose views on foreign policy they generally rejected. Yet there was Heilbrunn, providing a platform for Trump’s speech while sitting attentively nearby as he delivered it.
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Nigel Farage: the most farcical general election launch in history
Rishi Sunak calls July 4 UK general election
Prime minister gambles by triggering vote when polls suggest heavy defeat
But you said stocks were making all-time highs!
S&P 500
Average Real Return, dividends reinvested April 2000-April 2024: 4.65% per annum April 1976-April 2000: 10.45%
Dershowitz: Judge Juan Merchan in Trump trial is totally biased against Trump and is out to get him, but there are no TV cameras to show it
He seemed automatically to be ruling against the defendant at every turn. Many experienced lawyers raised their eyebrows when the judge excluded obviously relevant evidence when offered by the defense, while including irrelevant evidence offered by the prosecution. ...
I observed one of the most remarkable wrong-headed biases I have ever seen. The judge actually threatened to strike all of Costello’s testimony if he raised his eyebrows again. That of course would have been unconstitutional because it would have denied the defendant his Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses and to raise a defense. It would have punished the defendant for something a witness was accused of doing. Even if what Costello did was wrong, and it was not, it would be utterly improper and unlawful to strike his testimony — testimony that undercut and contradicted the government’s star witness. The judge’s threat was absolutely outrageous, unethical, unlawful and petty. ...
I am one of the few witnesses to his improper conduct who remained behind to observe his deep failings.
More.
Joe Biden buys 160k more votes with public money
Biden administration to forgive $7.7 billion in student debt for more than 160,000 borrowers
The Biden administration has so far excused the debt of 4.75 million borrowers, totaling $167 billion in aid.
He's a shoo-in!
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Michael Cohen admits under oath to stealing from Trump, feds never prosecuted Cohen for it and Cohen kept the dough
These people are shit.
Here:
In 2017, the Trump Organization owed technology company Red Finch $50,000 for a using algorithms to boost Trump’s performance in a poll, according to Cohen. Cohen, who helped facilitate the transaction, asked for a $100,000 reimbursement, "grossed up" to account for taxes, from the Trump Organization.
However, on the stand Monday, Cohen admitted that he stole from Trump, only paying $20,000 to Red Finch and pocketing the remaining $60,000 for himself.
"So the $50,000 that you got back from Red Finch ... you only paid the Red Finch owner $20,000, right?" Blanche asked Cohen.
"Yes sir," Cohen replied.
The lawyer clarified that Cohen pocketed the $60,000 difference and confirmed this was stealing.
"You did steal from the Trump Organization based upon the expected reimbursement from Red Finch?" Blanche asked.
"Yes sir," Cohen replied, according to CNN.
CNN Legal Analyst Elie Honig called these new revelations a “bomb dropped in the middle of the prosecution's case.” CNN’s analyst Laura Coates agreed and was surprised that the prosecutors did not address this sooner in the trial to “take the sting out” of the revelation.
LOL: Keep the overseer of sexual harassment at FDIC until they can find a replacement who isn't a Republican, because a Republican would be worse
These people are so damn perverse it makes your head spin.
FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg to Resign Following Report Detailing Sexual Harassment at Agency
Gruenberg plans to stay until successor is confirmed, avoiding scenario that would leave a Republican as acting chairman
Monday, May 20, 2024
Alito sold Bud Light stock and bought Coors
Stupidest story yet:
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/20/supreme-court-alito-sold-bud-light-stock-bought-coors-boycott.html
Democrats are defending this Biden whopper by saying he's referring to the 2009-2010 H1N1 "swine flu" epidemic, which officially killed 3,433 people
I don't remember it being called a "pandemic" much at the time, but I do remember the hype to take the vaccine, which the authorities bungled so bad it wasn't widely available until the flu had already burned itself out.
Anyway, here's grandpa talking about a really bad pandemic when he was VP, which was way back when I was in 'Nam:
Here.
Update:
I'm so glad we could clear this up.
When he nukes Muncie instead of Moscow I'm sure Indiana will understand.
Sunday, May 19, 2024
The obscenity of US national debt at $34.5 trillion notwithstanding, the value of grand total foreign ownership of it is up almost $529 billion year over year in March 2024 to a record high of . . .
. . . $8.091 trillion.
An almost 7% increase.
Here.
Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio told the Financial Times a few days ago that he is concerned the soaring U.S. debt levels will make Treasurys less attractive “particularly from international buyers worried about the US debt picture and possible sanctions.”
So far, that hasn’t been the case: Foreign holdings of U.S. federal debt stood at $8.1 trillion in March, up 7% from a year ago, according to Treasury Department data released Wednesday. Risk-free Treasurys are still seen as an attractive place to park cash, but that could change if the U.S. doesn’t rein in its finances.
On an average monthly basis, yields on all UST peaked for this cycle last October, save for 1Y which peaked last September.
What, me worry?
Saturday, May 18, 2024
If you like the obscene 27% increase in electricity prices under Joe Biden, vote Democrat in November
Have fun paying the A/C bill this summer.
Biden restarts Obama's war on new coal leasing ended by Trump . . . just in time for the election
In one of its biggest steps yet to keep fossil fuels in the ground, the Biden administration announced Thursday that it will end new coal leasing in the Powder River Basin, which produces nearly half the coal in the United States.
Climate activists have long pushed
the Interior Department to stop auctioning off leases for coal mining
on public lands, and they celebrated the decision. It could prevent
billions of tons of coal from being extracted from more than 13 million
acres across Montana and Wyoming, with major implications for U.S.
climate goals. ...
Last year, the Powder River Basin generated 251.9 million tons of coal, accounting for nearly 44 percent of all coal produced in the United States. Under the bureau’s [Bureau of Land Management] determination, the 14 active coal mines in the Powder River Basin can continue operating on lands they have leased, but they cannot expand onto other public lands in the region. ...
The Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign estimates that 382 coal-fired power plants have closed down or proposed to retire, with 148 remaining. ...
Trump ... pledged to immediately end the Biden administration’s freeze on permits for new liquefied natural gas exports
in a second term . . .. He also pledged to
start auctioning off more leases for oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
and to lift restrictions on drilling in the Alaskan Arctic.
Friday, May 17, 2024
Big day for Elon Musk as twitter.com disappears and redirects to x.com for the first time
And of course he ruined it with everything now in black background.
Thursday, May 16, 2024
Biden's chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers, Jared Bernstein, doubles down on inflation being 9% when Biden took office, a statement now fact-checked to death since Biden incorrectly stated it
Jared Bernstein is emblematic of the malarkey in the Biden administration.
He's called an economist, but has no economic credentials. Bernstein took his college degrees in music and social work.
Neil Cavuto savages Bernstein here.
Separately, this short Q&A with Bernstein about printing money and lending it is just epic.
It was all inflation, running at 3.4%: Advance retail sales in April up 3% year over year, but flat from March to April
You're just shelling out more for the same stuff, not buying new stuff.
“Today’s retail sales report reflects a pullback in consumer spending that retailers have called out in recent earnings reports,” said Claire Tassin, retail and e-commerce analyst at Morning Consult.
Compared with last April, sales were up 3%, but the Census Bureau doesn’t adjust the data for inflation, which came in at 3.4% on an annual basis in April, according to the latest consumer price index report. That suggests that the sales gains from a year ago are “entirely attributable to inflation, not increased consumer demand,” Tassin said.
Barron's, reproduced here.
Two days after the May 14th primaries Democrats are way behind Republicans counting all the votes because they're counting mail-in votes
Even Maryland Republicans are ahead of Democrats.
It's a recipe for fraud in November.
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
McDonalds stages value theater, in partnership with Coca-Cola lol
McDonald’s $5 value meal is coming in June — and staying for just a month:
Coca-Cola added marketing funds to the equation to make the deal more appealing, CNBC reported Friday. In a statement, Coca-Cola said: “We routinely partner with our customers on marketing programs to meet consumer needs. This helps us grow our businesses together.”
The continuing price gouging by US natural gas utilities is astounding
Look at all that daylight between what utilities charge and the gas actually costs.
Permanently higher food prices and still climbing at 2.2% in April 2024
The last time we had any actual food price deflation was in late 2016 for a few months.
Core CPI inflation came in at 3.6% year over year in April 2024 in this morning's report, still 83% worse than under Trump
Core CPI inflation averaged 1.96% under Trump.
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