J. D. Vance, the man with a thimble full of principles, says Republicans have to violate the Posse Comitatus Act before the Democrats do

 

Vance: "We Cannot Be Afraid To Do Something Because The Left Might Do It In The Future, The Left Is Already Going To Do It"

We already accept that we can vote only where we are registered, so why do we allow campaign contributions from people and entities who can't vote where we are registered?

 The next thing you know the U.S. military won't be yours, either. It'll belong to Mellon heir billionaire Timothy Mellon.

 

... Here's a reform that would change everything: You can only donate to candidates and political organizations in the state where you are registered to vote.

Not where you own property. Not where you have business interests. Not where you "care deeply" about the issues. Where you are registered to vote – the place where you've committed to being a citizen and living with the consequences of governance.

This single rule would fundamentally reshape American politics.

 ... Change the incentives by changing where the money comes from, and you change what kind of people can succeed in politics – and what kind of Congress they create.

It's time to return politics to the people who actually have to live with the results.

 

Lindsay Mark Lewis, here. 

Who needs to run if elections are suspended in yet another phony national emergency?

Trump is not allowed to stop spending money which was lawfully appropriated by the Congress for specific purposes, or to spend it on other things, but that's exactly what he's doing anyway.

He's illegally taxing every American with his tariffs under a phony emergency power granted him by our servile Congress. 

He's not allowed to shake down and detain citizens on the pretext that they may be illegally present, but that's exactly what he's done. He's made a mockery of citizenship.

He's not allowed to search without a warrant, but he's doing it anyway. You let him do it every time you fly, so what's the big deal if now he's invading homes and businesses without warrants in search of illegal aliens? You don't care.

He uses his bully pulpit literally to bully people, to suppress their speech. He threatens investigations of his opponents, and makes good on them with actual probes and charges. Some in Congress admit they are afraid of him.   

No one made him the judge, jury, and executioner, but that's who he thinks he is. He is in fact murdering non-combatants pure and simple every day, and Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio are his accomplices, as is the U.S. military, to its everlasting shame.

Trump is the greatest . . . violator of civil rights and the rule of law since Lincoln.

He's made an ass of the law.

He's flooded the zone with illegality, impropriety, personal corruption, crime, and ugliness. 

And Congress just lets him. The courts just let him. The people just let him.

They all just shrug. They're the French, and he's their Napoleon. 

 

Trump: "It's Pretty Clear, I'm Not Allowed To Run" For Third Term

ROFLMAO: Israel votes during J. D. Vance visit to annex the West Bank

 Vance Slams "Very Stupid" Israeli Vote To Annex the West Bank

Tucker Carlson is still blaming the Larry Finkelsteins of the world for making houses too expensive for the kids to buy

 

Tucker Carlson vs. Student: Why Attack People Not Central To What's Happening? "Why Aren't You Protesting Larry Fink?"

Too late, Newt, he already agreed he's better than them all

 

Gingrich: Trump Has A Real Shot At Becoming Number 3 In The Pantheon Of American Presidents

 

 

 

Delusional Mollie Hemingway says murderer Donald Trump is hungry for peace

 

Hemingway: We Often Have Presidents Who Focus On Waging War, Trump "Seems To Have A Hunger For Peace"

 

 

 

Guess which of these two headlines is up at Real Clear Politics this morning

 Trump Is Weaponizing the Government Against His Enemies. It Doesn’t Mean He’ll Succeed.

Biden's Disturbing Weaponization of DOJ

 

 

 

 

Nutball Tucker Carlson: We have to have an authoritarian crackdown in order to prevent a totalitarian takeover

 

Tucker Carlson: This Country Is On The Brink, Restoring Order Is The Only Way To Prevent Totalitarianism

Senator Ron Johnson squeals like a pig for the Gang of Nine

 ...  none of us were ... targets of this investigation. There's no predicate. ...

Ha ha ha. 

Here.

Johnson is not telling the truth about his role in the fake elector scheme.

 

Disapproval of Trump is at the highest level of his second term at 53.1%

 

These fools have the temerity to double down on progressives' flight from reality while their guy is madder than a hatter

 

The Progressive Flight From Reality

Peder Zane, RealClearPolitics

 

 

 

Do you not see what's happening here? The Trump administration is declaring everything it doesn't like to be terrorism in order to justify autocratic repression of it using the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force

The run of the mill narco smugglers from Venezuela suddenly are terrorists under Trump, so they blow them up.

Suddenly the left wing Charlie Kirk critics are being transformed into terrorists, too, so they say they will also destroy them.

Who's next? Where will it end? 

J. D. Vance once wanted to stop this underlying basis for neo-con adventurism. Now the chameleon is part of its expansion to include unconstitutional domestic repression.

These people must be stopped. 

Stephen Miller: We Will Dismantle And Destroy "Terrorist Networks" That Led To Charlie Kirk Assassination

 

 

 

There's a lot of BS and fear-mongering being circulated about the preliminary total nonfarm payrolls benchmark revision of -911,000 from two days ago

It all betrays an inability to think. 

Bloomberg here said:

... The number of workers on payrolls will likely be revised down by a record 911,000, or 0.6%, according to the government’s preliminary benchmark revision out Tuesday. The final figures are due early next year. ...

No, it's not at all likely.

It's a preliminary number for crying out loud, the size of which reflects more on the increasing difficulty BLS is having gathering the monthly data in more or less real time than it does on the data itself. 

Bloomberg then followed that up with a scary chart of previous preliminary benchmark revision estimates, as if those represented reality, too. And then people who should know better repeated the scary chart.

This story went particularly hysterical about it: The BLS Hallucinated a Million Jobs. The Fed Can't Fix This. 

But we've known since February what the BLS really thinks the final numbers are, in thousands, and all these irresponsible sources just leave that out, because . . . clicks:

2024: -598, not -818

2023: -187, not -306

2022: +506, not +462

2021: -7, not -166

2020: -121, not -173

2019: -489, not -501

2018:  -16, not +43

2017: +135, not +95

2016: -81, not -150

2015:  -172, not -208.

 

But what does it all mean, Bertie? 

 

Over ten years BLS is saying it overestimated in its regular monthly total nonfarm payrolls reports by a net 1.03 million jobs, not by 1.722 million as in the preliminary benchmark revision reports.

 

The reality's not even 9,000 jobs a month too many, in a payroll universe where nearly 160 million people are working, but I'm supposed to be scared because they thought it might have been more like an overestimate of 14,000 a month?

 

C'mon, man. 

 

They're doing a damn good job at BLS, and it's time more people said "thank you" for a change.

 

If you want to politicize the February benchmark data, they show Biden's record over four years had a net 286,000 fewer jobs in reality, but Trump I had 491,000 fewer.

 

But you won't hear that from this flock of idiots. 

 

  

 

 

 

This isn't news this morning at Real Clear Politics

 There wasn't one single story about it.

 

In early February Trump was +6 in the CBS News poll, now he's -12, with Democrats +3 in the generic 2026 Congressional ballot, but Real Clear Politics keeps telling us Democrats are less popular now than in Trump's first term

 

Kornacki: Unlike In Trump's First Term, Democratic Party Less Popular Than Republicans

Treasury Secretary Bessent tells a whopper

 

Bessent: Tariff Income And Fiscal Improvement Have Made The U.S. Bond Market The Best Performing In The Developed World

 

These jokers have added $1.2 trillion to the national debt in TWO months.

 

The 10-year US Treasury has returned 1.013% nominal in the last twelve months, -1.419% real. 

Meanwhile at Real Clear Politics, Democrats are hemorrhaging voters but consistently continue to win the generic ballot lol

 

Real Clear Politics rewrites headlines to make Trump look better

 

 

 

Appeals Court Rules Against Some Tariffs But Leaves Them in Place takes you to  Most Trump tariffs are not legal, US appeals court rules lol.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/most-trump-tariffs-are-not-legal-us-appeals-court-rules/ar-AA1LvGU7

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/most-trump-tariffs-are-not-legal-us-appeals-court-rules-2025-08-30/ 

 

 

 

The Treasury Secretary is such a kiss-ass and knows damn well that the Fed's so-called full employment mandate was a set of handcuffs put on the Fed in 1978

And why did the Congress do that to the Fed?

So the Congress could evade responsibility for high unemployment as well as for high inflation, that's why.

A bunch of cowards six ways to Sunday they are.

Besides, core personal consumption expenditures is the Fed's key metric, as everyone knows, and that is an inflation metric, not an employment metric. 

And The Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act specifically recognizes that reducing inflation is the Fed's main job, actually mandating ZERO inflation, not 2% inflation as widely misinterpreted. 

Meanwhile there is another report of employment besides the total non-farm payrolls report which the Fed can consult, and it shows employment continues near all-time highs in July.

No change to DFF was the appropriate response of the Fed to persistent core inflation way above 2%.  

 

Bessent: How Can The Fed Set Rates When Jobs Data Is This Broken? "This Was A Five Standard Deviation Mistake"