Showing posts with label Donald Trump 2018. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Donald Trump 2018. Show all posts
Thursday, November 29, 2018
VP Mike Pence overcomes Republican Jeff Flake alliance with Democrats to advance nomination of Thomas Farr to NC US District Court post vacant since 2005
The judgeship is just one of 136 current federal court vacancies. Authorized positions in 2018 are north of 860.
Senators typically veto nominees they don't like in their jurisdictions by returning a negative blue slip on the individual.
North Carolina is a playground for Supreme Court intervention in representation decisions involving race through the 1965 Voting Rights Act, making judicial appointments there radioactive. Both US Senators from North Carolina have been Republicans since 2014 when Tillis defeated Hagan. Burr was re-elected in 2016.
Barack Obama lets one go: "Suddenly America's like the biggest . . . gas, that was me, people"
Here.
Whooooooweeeeee, that one smells:
The blocked rule would not have affected most fracking operations in the United States, since it would have applied only to fracking on federal lands. The vast majority of fracking in the United States — almost 90 percent — is done on state and private land and is governed by state and local regulations. The rule was unlikely to have stopped most new fracking on public lands, although oil and gas companies complained that it could have slowed operations by creating burdensome paperwork.
Monday, November 26, 2018
Sunday, November 25, 2018
The number of doofusses taking Hillary's recent immigration comments seriously is truly astounding
It's self-evident that Hillary's "new" view about immigration is nothing more than immigration reform as a means to an end, namely the center-left's election to power in order to defeat populism and the right.
Her response to the situation of her defeat is completely in keeping with Marx, who viewed the embrace of the free-trade doctrine of unalloyed capitalism as an accelerant for The Revolution. The important thing is not that the left is wrong about "late stage capitalism". The important thing is that they are insincere about what they say they believe in common with us.
Yet everywhere I go otherwise sane people are talking shit about this. Ooh everyone's coming around to Trump's way of thinking, and so on.
Like Obama who lied about his own mother's health insurance in propounding Obamacare, Hillary will use anything and anyone to get where she wants to go.
Friday, November 23, 2018
Under my proposal Chief Justice John Roberts' appointment to the Supreme Court would have expired in 2017
Do you think Trump would have reappointed him to four more years?
If only Democrats realized that the easiest and cheapest way to get rid of Donald Trump is to give him his damn Wall
What's he going to run on after that, huh?
In the lame duck Pelosi in the House and Schumer in the Senate could allow just enough Democrats to go along with it that they could arguably still blame it on the Republican controlled 115th Congress.
But they are mean bastards. They'd rather inflict us with him for eight years instead of four.
In the lame duck Pelosi in the House and Schumer in the Senate could allow just enough Democrats to go along with it that they could arguably still blame it on the Republican controlled 115th Congress.
But they are mean bastards. They'd rather inflict us with him for eight years instead of four.
Thursday, November 22, 2018
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em: Hillary now laughably blames fear of immigrants for her loss, says Europe must curb immigration, thinks the people crave tyranny!
Now we're sure she's a drunk.
Both Clintons used to say this crap about immigration to America back in ancient times when they ruled in Washington, even as they did NOTHING to reduce the levels of legal immigration into the United States, levels which were dramatically ramped up by their predecessor, George Herbert Walker Bush.
They don't give a damn about Americans. Immigration is only a problem to them because it puts the wrong people in power.
“I think Europe needs to get a handle on migration because that is what lit the flame,” Clinton said, speaking as part of a series of interviews with senior centrist political figures about the rise of populists, particularly on the right, in Europe and the Americas.
“I admire the very generous and compassionate approaches that were taken particularly by leaders like Angela Merkel, but I think it is fair to say Europe has done its part, and must send a very clear message – ‘we are not going to be able to continue provide refuge and support’ – because if we don’t deal with the migration issue it will continue to roil the body politic.” ...
Clinton urged forces opposed to rightwing populism in Europe and the US not to neglect the concerns about race and identity issues that she says were behind her losing key votes in 2016. She accused Trump of exploiting the issue in the election contest – and in office. ...
“The whole American system was designed so that you would eliminate the threat from a strong, authoritarian king or other leader and maybe people are just tired of it. They don’t want that much responsibility and freedom. They want to be told what to do and where to go and how to live … and only given one version of reality.
Senator Chuck Grassley joins President Trump in piling on Bush's Chief Justice John Roberts over Obama's judges
The track record of presidents' judicial appointees is effulgent with political consequence, which is why liberals don't want you to think about the court that way and try to mask it with the myth of judicial independence.
Liberals impose their will by judicial fiat because they can't get their policies through the ordinary democratic way by winning elections.
Hurrah for Grassley!
Chuck Grassley to Chief Justice John Roberts: You Rebuked Trump — but Sat Silent Through Obama’s Abuse
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
One term president happy to keep digging his own grave, cares for nothing but money and glory
It would be so easy to develop more oil here in the USA, but there's another promise out the window. All in the hope of getting a piece of paper declaring peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
The United $emites run this country.
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
One term president sells out our values to keep a foreign relationship, says it's business as usual with Saudi Arabia despite unacceptable, horrible crime by MBS
What a disgusting spectacle!
This guy knows a thing or two from personal experience about transgressing values in order to have relationships!
MBS, along with every other foreign dictator, including Erdogan, now has a license to kill courtesy of the president of the United States.
Utterly revolting.
"It's a complex issue, it's a shame, but it is what it is," Trump said. "It is America first to me, it is all about America first." "I'm not going to destroy the world economy and I'm not going to destroy the economy for our country by being foolish with Saudi Arabia," he went on. “Representatives of Saudi Arabia say that Jamal Khashoggi was an “enemy of the state” and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, but my decision is in no way based on that – this is an unacceptable and horrible crime,” Trump said in his statement issued earlier Tuesday. “King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman vigorously deny any knowledge of the planning or execution of the murder of Mr. Khashoggi,” Trump said in the statement. He went on: “Our intelligence agencies continue to assess all information, but it could very well be that the Crown Prince had knowledge of this tragic event – maybe he did and maybe he didn’t!” ... "The idea that it goes all the way to the top is blindingly obvious," said the State Department official, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
Young whites are fleeing the Republican Party under Trump: Down 11 points in 18-29 since 2014, 10 points in 30-44
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| 2018 CNN exit poll |
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| 2014 CNN exit poll |
Myth of the white supremacy surge: Rather than a 4-point decline in the white vote for Republicans from 2016 to 2018 per the NYT, a better comparison is 2018 vs. 2014 showing a 6-point decline
It's better to compare midterm election with midterm than it is midterm with general.
Whatever Trump and the Republicans have been doing, it's not causing the white majority to vote for Republicans in greater numbers when Trump most needs them to do so to advance his agenda.
Arguably every racial group is running away from what Republicans stand for under Trump.
Contrary to Richard Spencer who says Trump has made inroads with minority communities, Trump has alienated minorities from the Republican Party since 2014, the black vote by 1-point, the Latino vote by 7-points, and none more than the Asian vote, by a whopping 27-points, partly a function no doubt of Trump's (correct) anti-China rhetoric.
Trump's prospects for reelection in 2020 do not look good at all. Whatever "movement" he thinks he had was nonexistent, and instead of growing his support it's going the other way.
Election 2016 remains The Revulsion Election, and if Trump's not careful he'll be on the receiving end of the revulsion instead of Hillary come 2020.
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| CNN 2018 exit poll |
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| CNN 2014 exit poll |
Julie Kelly entertainingly calls David French's warnings about a "white supremacy surge" hysterical
Reminds me of when Ann Coulter called National Review a collection of girly-boys.
Also, nice to see some of the old Takimag commenters showing up in reply.
There Is No ‘Surge’ in White Supremacy:
Also, nice to see some of the old Takimag commenters showing up in reply.
There Is No ‘Surge’ in White Supremacy:
So, despite the hysterical warnings from French and his collaborators in the media, there was only a small increase in hate crimes last year and those numbers dropped significantly in the first half of the year. This means there is no “surge” either in hate crimes or white supremacy. (The synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh last month singularly will change that forecast for the year. Trump also has been blamed for that massacre by French’s NR colleague, Jonah Goldberg, even though the shooter did not vote for Trump and criticized the president for being “surrounded by kikes.”)
Monday, November 19, 2018
Looks like Richard Spencer is taking the NYT as seriously as Ann Coulter
2018 support from whites fell to 54%. Trump has suppressed the white vote.
Where all da white wymyn at? Cuckin' der men, dats where.
Two years on 67% of The Astrology Party says the Russkies tampered with 2016 vote totals to elect Trump, just 17% of The Stupid Party, and 41% of the nitwits in between
Well, it was question 26C. Maybe they were tired and confused by that time, or on to their third beer.
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