Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Trump ups the ante with Democrats, proposes eliminating taxes on Social Security benefits paid by senior citizens, which about 40% of them now do, contrary to the original intention of the reforms in 1983
About 40% of people who get Social Security must pay federal income taxes on their benefits.
More.
As originally intended in the 1983 reforms, taxes were designed to affect just 10% of recipients:
By the time the law was first amended in 1993, about 18% of Social Security beneficiaries had some tax liability (compared to about 10% when the law was originally enacted).
Meanwhile, back in the everyday world of what's for breakfast this summer, let's talk about eggs
In June 2019 a dozen eggs averaged $1.20 vs. $2.72 now . . . up 127%.
In other words, the price has more than doubled in five years.
Yesterday I paid $3.39 at my local grocery, for one of the last two cartons available. The place was cleaned out!
I save 50 cents on a dozen there, if I remember to download their coupon. But that's still $2.89/dozen, not $2.72.
Sam's Club's equivalent is $2.19/dozen . . . but they're . . . ALL OUT.
So I pay a fat membership fee at Sam's for the privilege of paying 83% more for eggs than I did in 2019.
But not this week.
This illustrates why half of the country, which makes less than $41,000 per year, is still PISSED.
Biden's radical, Supreme-Court-packing, power-grabbing proposals sound like somebody else entirely wrote them, because he once opposed them all quite publicly and vehemently
Is Biden another "Body Snatchers" president?
Speaker of the House Johnson says Biden's Supreme Court proposals are DOA in the House, President Biden says the Speaker is DOA
The Party of Violence, ladies and gentlemen.
The assassination attempt on Donald Trump was on July 13th.
If Republicans talked this way about Democrats it would be non-stop news.
"One law for me, another for thee".
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Oh gee, what a surprise, Kamala Harris has a radical black anti-American, anti-semitic pastor named Amos Brown, just like Barack Obama had Jeremiah Wright
The guy's so bad Senator Diane Feinstein walked out on him, as did Governor Gray Davis, both Democrats:
At a memorial service for victims of the 9/11 terror attacks held just six days after al Qaeda murdered nearly 3,000 Americans, Brown used the occasion to point the finger at the United States in remarks that, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, "set a lot of people’s teeth on edge" and "left politicians stunned."
"America, is there anything you did to set up this climate?" Brown asked the audience. "Ohhhh—America, what did you do?"
"America, what did you do two weeks ago when I stood at the world conference on racism, when you wouldn't show up?" Brown continued, referring to his participation in the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, which the United States and Israel boycotted citing concerns about anti-Semitism.
Brown’s diatribe jarred a mostly liberal audience, the Chronicle reported, noting that the late California senator Dianne Feinstein (D.) and former California governor Gray Davis (D.) left during his remarks. ...
Brown’s radical politics have also veered into anti-Semitism. He served as a delegate to the 2001 United Nations World Conference Against Racism held in Durban, South Africa, and best known for equating Zionism with racism. The United States and Israel walked out of the conference over that resolution, expressing dismay that a conference ostensibly devoted to combating hatred had devolved into a hate fest. ...
He serves on the California Reparations Task Force and has called for cash payments to the descendants of slaves from "billionaires in San Francisco," according to the New York Times. The pastor held a "Solidarity for Reparations" event at his church in 2022 and told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2021 that "America is a racist country." ...
He has visited Harris at the White House at least twice and told Religion News Service this week Harris remains a "dues-paying member" of his church. "For two decades now, at least, I have turned to you," Harris said of Brown in her remarks to the National Baptist Convention 2022.
The story is here.
Canadian pollster no one ever heard of headlines Drudge lol
https://angusreid.org/game-change-invigorated-young-democrats-give-harris-slight-lead-over-trump/
Democrats still excelling at white-identity politics after all these years lol: White Women for Harris raised ~$11 million, White Dudes for Harris . . . not so much
"Only we get to be racist".
Imagine the firestorm over "White Dudes for Trump".
This story wants you to know lol:
Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, are both white.
Meanwhile . . .
Grassroots organizers raise millions online for Harris in first week
The back-to-back calls motivated activist and Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts to follow suit. She organized a group, dubbed "White Women: Answer the Call." The impromptu effort, sparked by a 5 a.m. X post last Tuesday, broke a record for the largest Zoom call in history. It crashed the site with nearly 200,000 women and raised more than $11 million. ...
"I am here tonight embracing myself, in your incredible, profound white women midst, because we got a f***ing job to do y'all," said actress Connie Britton on the call.
Monday, July 29, 2024
The global total fertility rate has fallen to 2.25, just above the 2.1 rate considered replacement level for developed countries, because the world has grown wealthier
I don't know why it shocks some people that as people get wealthier they have fewer children, but it does.
Global tfr is down 53% since 1950 to 2.25 in 2023 as global gdp per capita is up 80% since 1990.
The developed world (just 17%) replacement rate is 2.1 vs. ~1.47 actual tfr.
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper
Trend for peak performance
1950: 24.0%
1959: 16.6% (9 years)
1984: 11.3% (25 years)
1997: 7.8% (13 years)
2010: 6.3% (13 years)
2021: 4.7% (11 years)
Sunday, July 28, 2024
Democrats' biggest problem is loss of trust: 73% of independents believe Kamala Harris was central to the cover-up of Joe Biden's deteriorating faculties
According to a YouGov/Times of London poll of 1,170 registered voters . . . Overall, 68% say she had ample knowledge of Biden’s deterioration,
with 78% of Republicans, 73% of independents, and 82% of self-identified
conservatives believing the VP was central to the coverup . . . A staggering 92% of respondents who believe there was a coverup think
Harris knew at least a little bit about the president’s progressive
deterioration . . ..
More.
The MedBed quackery, straight out of chiropractic: As long as you believe, and your mind and body are in alignment with the right frequencies
“Wow, it can really correct all this?” Michael asked.
“Over time, it’s possible,” Andrea said. “As long as you believe, and your mind and body are in alignment with the right frequencies.”
Here.
Idiotic US Sun calls US Senator J. D. Vance a state senator for Ohio
Here:
Vance currently is a state senator for Ohio and beat out many others for the position as Trump's running mate.
The conventional wisdom of Democrats 18 months ago was that Kamala Harris was a failed vice president
David Brooks, here:
Because the Kamala Harris of 2020 was a terrible, terrible candidate. and, frankly, if you go back to the Democratic conventional wisdom about Kamala Harris 18 months ago, it was failed vice president. How do we get her off the ticket? And so the Democratic Party has shifted.
Saturday, July 27, 2024
CNN October 2020: Mike Pence correctly noted that Senator Kamala Harris favors a fracking ban
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/08/business/ban-fracking-biden-trump-job-jobs/index.html
Now Harris has reversed herself, just in time for the election:
Vice President Kamala Harris will not seek to ban fracking if she’s elected president, an official with her campaign told The Hill on Friday.
Harris’s position not to support a ban on fracking differs from where she stood when she was running for president last cycle.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4795337-kamala-harris-fracking-ban-stance/
Friday, July 26, 2024
The affluent white female liberals are upset about being called cat ladies by JD Vance
Meanwhile the Hamas wing of their party just yelled "Puto!" at America.
Commie Broadcasting System wants you to know Kamala Harris herself never gave any money to bail out 2020 rioters, looters, and arsonists, even though she promoted giving donations for just that purpose
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| https://tcbmag.com/riots-destroy-30m-affordable-housing-project/ |
What they're not saying: Core pce inflation actually ticked up in June to 2.63% yoy from 2.62% in May 2024
Looks like we're skidding into a "soft-landing" of significantly higher inflation than under Trump.
The 1H2024 average was 2.8%, still much higher than under Trump, and not in evidence since the early 1990s.
Seven months of the measure below 3% starting in Dec 2023, but we're stabilizing at 2.6%?
C'mon man.
Progress has been GLACIAL.
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| inflation in 2024 still as bad as the early 1990s |
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| 10-year comparison |
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Kamala Harris wants to build the middle class by throwing $3,000 rent-subsidies at people instead of making this an economy which provides full-time jobs at potential
53% working full time today would mean 8 million more people working full time than do.
Full time jobs are the indispensable key to homeownership.
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| 53% worked full time in 2000 |
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| 49% worked full time in 2024 |
CNN: Kamala Harris repeatedly supported the violent "Defund the Police" movement in the streets in June 2020 on the radio, MSNBC, The View, and Good Morning America, and then clammed-up about it
She's the violent threat to democracy they claim Trump to be.
“This whole movement is about rightly saying, we need to take a look at these budgets and figure out whether it reflects the right priorities,” Harris said on a New York-based radio program “Ebro in the Morning” on June 9, 2020, adding that US cities were “militarizing police” but “defunding public schools.”...
In an interview a day earlier, Harris also lauded Los
Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti for his decision to slash $150 million from
the police budget and move it into social services. ...
“We need to have this conversation and critically examine and understand this is not working,” Harris said on “Ebro in the Morning.” “It’s not working. So, this is an important conversation and not just a conversation – cause to your earlier point, can’t just be about talk. It has to be about forcing change.”
“And this is why, you know, I was out there with folks and we’ll, any movement, any progress we have gained has been because people took to the streets,” Harris added.
A day before her “Ebro in the Morning” radio interview, Harris appeared on MSNBC where she explicitly called to “demilitarize police departments” and said it was “backward” to think more police officers created more safety.
“Part of what we have to do here is also look at the militarization of police departments and, and the kind of money that is going to that. And we need to demilitarize police departments,” Harris said. “At its core, one of the issues that I think we should all agree on is that it is old thinking. It is outdated and is actually wrong and backward to think that more police officers will create more safety.”
In another interview on “The View” on June 8, 2020, Harris engaged in an exchange on defunding the police where she directly suggested the funding for police could be used in other social programs.
“In many cities in America, over one third of their city
budget goes to police. So, we have to have this conversation. What are
we doing? What about the money going to social services? What about the
money going to helping people with job training? What about helping with
the mental health issues that communities are being plagued with for
which we’re putting no resources?”
Also on June 8, 2020, Harris praised the mayor of Los
Angeles for removing money from police and investing it in social
services in an interview on “Good Morning America."
“I applaud Eric Garcetti for doing what he’s done,” she said. ...
After June 2020, Harris rarely if at all mentioned the
“defund the police” movement. The Biden campaign later tried to clarify
after adding her to the ticket that she supported funding the police. ...
James Piereson: Trump will win by six points and both houses of Congress
Notwithstanding the euphoria today, Trump will win the election by six points—forty-nine to forty-three percent—winning 339 electoral votes, including all of the so-called swing states, plus the Democratic-leaning states of Virginia, Minnesota, and New Hampshire. Republicans will pick up three or four seats in the Senate and perhaps twenty seats in the House, giving them safe majorities in both chambers. This will give Trump the margins he needs to implement a good piece of his agenda in 2025 and 2026.
For The New Criterion here.
Thursday, July 25, 2024
What a hoot, man: 46% of U.S. EV owners claimed they were likely to switch back to internal combustion engine vehicles, well above the 29% global average
In addition to the McKinsey data on current EV owners, a recent Gallup poll found fewer non-EV owners in the U.S. saying they might consider an EV purchase, down from 43% in 2023 to 35% in 2024. The percentage of American adults who do not intend to buy an EV went up from 41% to 48% year over year.
More.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/25/ev-owners-want-to-buy-gas-cars-again.html ✔
Trump says he's still against the electric car mandate, Musk says he's giving money to promote Trump, just not $45 million a month
“I have a good relationship with him, I think he’s a nice guy,” Trump said of Musk during a call-in interview on Fox News.
“Somebody
told me he was going to give me 45 million [dollars] a month. I said,
‘That sounds like a lot, even for Elon, that’s a lot,’” the Republican
presidential nominee said.
But Musk “never told me he was giving [$45 million],” he said.
“But
he did say, ‘I strongly endorse you,’ despite the fact that I’m against
the electric car mandate,” Trump said, referring to the Biden
administration’s policies aimed at prioritizing electric vehicles over gas-powered vehicles. ...
But Musk, in an interview with conservative public figure Jordan
Peterson, said the figure reported by the Journal was “simply not true.”
“I’m not donating $45 million a month to Trump,” Musk said in that
interview, which was posted Monday on X, the social media site he owns. ...
In an X post Tuesday night, Musk wrote, “I am making some donations
to America PAC, but at a much lower level.” He asserted that most
Republicans align with the PAC’s key values of “supporting a meritocracy
& individual freedom.”
More.
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