Rush Limbaugh from the opener: "They’re all snakes, and you can’t trust anything that they do"

Here.

You mean like this guy? You know, the guy who read a story about a snake at every campaign rally in 2016? Takes one to know one, right Rush?

It's almost like Trump orchestrated the Covington kids episode to keep his amnesty betrayal out of the news cycle

Trump just robo-called me, asking for a donation, wants me to send a brick to Nancy Pelosi so she knows we are serious

Serious? Are you kidding? The politics of immigration ended when we elected you. You are the president, idiot. You already have the power. We already showed that we are serious. Put it up or shut it up, pal.

Your next president drives drunk, stoned . . . not so much

Now that Trump has foolishly telegraphed a future amnesty, expect new hordes at the borders and points of entry

And Homeland Security is shut down, not getting paid.

Way to go, Brownie.

Washington DC Injuns to Catholic kids: "White people go back to Europe, this is not your land"

Here.

Fellow tribalists Rashida Tlaib, Helen Thomas, Barack Obama, and friends: "Jews get the hell out of Palestine, go back to Poland, Germany and America."

Miller's just upset the Catholic kids don't wear Conservatarian hats and swear like sailors

Native American Nathan Phillips has a history of seeking out confrontation over race

He's been around a long time and has a Wikipedia page, which is up to date with the latest incident in Washington, DC where he gets in the face of some easy marks, a bunch of unsuspecting Catholic kids.

Just one previous example, at Eastern Michigan University in 2015 when he went looking for trouble:

Native American claims racial harassment by EMU students dressed as indians.

Gaslighting on a civilizational scale began with just one tribe convincing eleven other tribes to cough up their best animals in exchange for their sins

Clean water flows only from white privilege (and places it subdued in 1945, 1953 and 1973)

Whites want smaller government because they're tired of the privilege of having to pay for all of it

Donald Judas Trump: We'll trade immigration amnesty, not right now but for something bigger

Turns out Nancy Pelosi represents a shit-hole district

Add in AOC's 70% marginal income tax rates and it all just adds up to old-fashioned rape and pillage

Marco Rubio is already gloating over Trump defeat

If the next Trump move after the Democrats' rejection isn't declaring a border emergency, then he's most certainly. . .

. . . if he's not already.

Ann Coulter does The Trump New Immigration Math

The week in a nutshell: Two trains crashed killing everyone on board, in separate incidents

Smart politics: Marco Rubio horns in on Trump's action, introduces legislation against non-compete agreements

Rubio Debuts Bill to Block Non-Competes in Low-Skill Industries

Speaking of Michigan's clusterf*ck of white trash and wealthy white trash . . .

Libertarian Michigan, USA, where's it's still not OK to say "black trash" and "poor black trash"

George W. Bush finally delivers on something, too bad it's not The Wall

Bush calls for end to shutdown, delivers pizza to Secret Service

There were just 7 votes in the House against making the deep state permanent

The 7 Republicans who voted against back pay for furloughed workers:

But seven lawmakers — all House Republicans — opposed the measure. Those "no" votes came from Reps. Justin Amash (Mich.), Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Paul Gosar (Ariz.), Glen Grothman (Wis.), Thomas Massie (Ky.), Chip Roy (Texas) and Ted Yoho (Fla.). ... Gosar issued a statement after the vote saying the bill removes an incentive to resolve the shutdown swiftly. "This ill-conceived legislation takes away a useful tool in holding government accountable," he said. "Shutdowns have historically served to push both parties to compromise and resolution.  This bill eliminates the impact and urgency a shutdown creates and rewards bureaucrats and swamp dwellers." Massie made similar remarks in a statement saying the bill "guarantees retroactive pay for every possible future shutdown, which will only make it easier for politicians to cause future shutdowns." "This is irresponsible and I want to prevent future shutdowns from happening," he said.

Despite the shutdown, divided Congress and Trump agree to guarantee 2.8 million federal paychecks, but not The Wall

The Deep State takes care of its own.

Congress approves back pay for workers affected by current shutdown, future ones :

The House on Friday [1-11-19] cleared a bill that would ensure back pay for federal workers missing paychecks as a result of the partial government shutdown, as well as guarantee payment for employees affected by any future closures. The measure passed with broad bipartisan support, 411-7 [in the US House]. ... President Trump has indicated he would sign the bill, which the Senate passed unanimously on Thursday.

Laugh of the Day: Trump really blew it canceling Pelosi's government flights

He should have waited until she was IN Afghanistan.

And since Nancy's House is never going to agree with McConnell's Senate, Trump should adjourn them both . . .

. . . indefinitely.

As president Trump can convene both houses of Congress whenever the hell he wants

The caller to Mark Steyn is correct.

Article II, Section 3, Constitution of the United States:

"He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in case of disagreement between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper;" 

Nanny Nanny Boo Boo.

Our so-called friends the Israelis sold management of Haifa to China for 25 years for $2 billion

Israel-China port deal triggers U.S. Navy pushback:

While the Israeli Transportation Ministry struck the agreement with SIPG — a company in which the Chinese government has a majority stake — back in 2015, the Jerusalem Post reported Saturday that the deal is now coming under interagency review.

Citing Chinese state-run media reports, the Post noted the deal granted SIPG control over Haifa for 25 years in exchange for a commitment by the company to invest $2 billion in a project to transform Haifa’s bay terminal into the largest harbor in Israel.

The catch is that Haifa, Israel’s largest port city, regularly hosts joint U.S.-Israeli naval drills and visits from American vessels — a situation the Post claimed has triggered concern among U.S. officials.

 

Federal employment is the same in Dec 2018 as it was when Trump was elected

Actually it's up 1,000.

Cry me a shutdown river: Average federal salary was $84,913 in 2017, 76% more than the average W-2 employee at $48,251.57

Office of Personnel Management here, Social Security here.

Mark Levin goes nuclear . . .

. . . calls AIPAC a bunch of quislings.

Pat Buchanan call your office.

Trump gave away 75% of federal spending as a shutdown bargaining chip over immigration in Sept. 2018, so before Sept. 2019 his only other chip is the debt ceiling

Flashback to September 28, 2018:

Trump signs spending bill, preventing shutdown:

President Trump on Friday signed an $854 billion spending package that will avert a shutdown by keeping the federal government open into the new fiscal year, which begins Monday.

The measure fully funds most parts of the federal government through fiscal 2019, pushing off a deadline for a partial shutdown — and showdown over funding for Trump's proposed border wall — until early December. 

“The signing of this legislation marks a drastic turnaround in the way we have funded the government in recent years," said Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) in a statement announcing the signing. "As of today, 75 percent of the government is funded — on time and through an open, bipartisan process.” ...

As Shutdown Stretches on, Debt Ceiling Questions Loom:

[A]fter March 1, the government will need to take "extraordinary measures" to avoid defaulting, and those measures will last for a few months. Ordinary investors should be aware that in 2013, the last time it looked as though Congress might not raise the limit, the market avoided Treasury securities that matured around the dates when the government projected it would exhaust the extraordinary measures.

So, looking ahead, ordinary investors shouldn't be surprised if we see an increase in rates and a decline in liquidity if it looks like the debt ceiling fight is going to be dramatic again. The current state of the shutdown may presage such drama.

Hm, just after the nick of time 1.5 million ineligible voters removed from LA County rolls

Let's see. Hillary won California with 8.75 million votes, minus 1.5 million = 7.25 million. Rinse and repeat for every other California county and see how many it takes to erase the other 2.75 million votes Hillary stole the election by in that state.

Muslim Ilhan Omar gets elected to MN-5 and homophobia runs rampant on Capitol Hill

We need a General Sherman to march on Minneapolis/St. Paul and burn the place down.

Laugh of the Day No. 2: Pelosi cancels Trump's State of the Union, Trump cancels government flights for Pelosi

Laugh of the Day: German industrial production tanks 4.7% in November, Reuters calls it a tentative sign of slowing growth momentum

The signs were tentative in H1 and worrisome since then. November was a disaster.

Global economy is headed for recession:

[T]here were tentative signs of slackening momentum in the United States and Germany in November.

FBI arrest of White House terrorist is just public relations, another case of standard M/O of entrapment and inducement

They never catch the real threats. The FBI has to help these marks become terrorists by using an agent to pose as another terrorist. The FBI suborns terrorism. Otherwise neither the terrorist mark nor the FBI would "succeed". They had been working on this guy for nine months. Meanwhile the real threats have no resources committed to them because that rarely results in anything, including no press conference where the FBI can pat itself on the back.

Total PR for the low IQ crowd, which is lapping it up like milk.

Georgia man plotted attack on White House, authorities say:

“All potential threats have been neutralized and were under control from the inception of this case,” said U.S. Attorney Byung J. “BJay” Pak, who added that authorities would take no questions on the investigation, which is ongoing.

Contra Richard Spencer, it's not a question of the efficacy of the constitution but of the efficacy of its heirs

The constitution's heirs clearly aren't worthy of it. To slaves it is meaningless, a trifle to be dispensed with. Only already free people could write it, and only still free people can love it.

Like all liberals, Beto O'Rourke is mistaken about human nature

Beto O'Rourke's immigration plan: No wall but no specifics:

"I trust the wisdom of people. And I'm confident - especially after having traveled Texas for two years - people are good, fundamentally, and if given the choice to do the right thing, they will. To do the good thing, they will," he said, referring to his unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign while giving a walking tour of El Paso and its Mexican sister city, Juarez.

People are not fundamentally good. Nor are they basically evil. Human nature is irreducibly mixed. If people were fundamentally good we wouldn't need laws or government at all, or lawyers, judges, courts and prisons. If they were basically evil the possibility that is America never would have presented itself to history, and monarchy would still be called for. America is the gift of English dissenting Protestantism.

All our political problems remain spiritual ones. There is no freedom without self-control.

Already there, Senator

Said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., “The shutdown will eventually take us to a place where the average American is angry at and sick of all of us.”

 

 

Oswald Spengler to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio: Left is, finally and above all, lack of respect for property

De Blasio pitches plan to seize private property of problem landlords, opponents cry ‘communism’:

[W]e will seize their buildings and we will put them in the hands of a community nonprofit that will treat tenants with the respect they deserve.

British Prime Minister Theresa May's soft Brexit, agreed to by EU, defeated in Parliament 432-202

UK leader Theresa May suffers resounding defeat on her Brexit divorce deal: 

May’s proposed “Withdrawal Agreement” was agreed with EU leaders in November last year. ... It’s reportedly the largest defeat for a sitting government in U.K. political history. Despite the result, and expressing a defiant tone, May told lawmakers that she wanted to show those who voted leave the EU that it was her “duty to deliver” on Brexit. ... On June 23, 2016, voters in the U.K. favored leaving the EU by 51.9 percent. The U.K. is legally set to leave the political and trading bloc on March 29.

In 1930 each Congressman decided the fates of 283,000 Americans . . .

. . . and now in 2019 754,000.

Don't talk to me about growing executive power, Justin Amash. If you really cared about the original constitution, you'd give the president more cats to herd.

Says Justin Amash, whose party stopped the growth of Congressional representation in the 1920s, consolidating legislative power in ever fewer hands (his)

The president is term-limited, you are not.

Nicholas Bakalar for The New York Times can't figure out that 69.4 inches is 5' 9.4"

 The Times is also absolutely certain that Steve King is a white supremacist.

You’re Not Getting Much Taller, America. But You Are Getting Bigger.:

Among all men, age-adjusted mean height increased to 69.4 inches (about 5 feet 8 inches) in 2005 from 69.2 inches in 1999, and then decreased to 69.1 inches by 2016.

Glenn Greenwald thinks the FBI is overreaching and abusing its power

The FBI’s Investigation of Trump as a “National Security Threat” is Itself a Serious Danger. But J. Edgar Hoover Pioneered the Tactic:

If Trump’s foreign policy is misguided or “threatening,” that’s a matter for the Congress and/or the American public, not the FBI. However “threatening” one regards Trump’s foreign policy relating to Russia, the FBI’s abuse of its powers to investigate an elected official due to disagreement with his ideology or foreign policy views is at least as dangerous, it not more so, and the fact that those policy disagreements are characterized as “national security threats” does not make those actions any less threatening or abusive – whether for Trump, Henry Wallace or George McGovern.

It’s certainly possible, as the always-smart Harvard Law Professor and former Bush DOJ official Jack Goldsmith wrote at Lawfare, that the FBI had far more grounds that is currently known for opening this investigation. But based on what we do know, Goldsmith adeptly argues, there is a potentially disturbing incident of serious overreach of the FBI’s role and grave abuse of its vast investigative powers. While Goldsmith is clear that he is not yet adopting this view – in part because some facts are unknown and in part because the Constitutional issues are murky – he lays out what the potential dangers are . . ..

Teen use of marijuana just once or twice interferes with normal sculpting of the brain

But our foolish politics is making marijuana use more likely, not less.

Even a little marijuana may change teen brain, study finds:

“At the age at which we studied these kids (age 14), cortical regions are going through a process of thinning," he said, suggesting that this is a “sculpting” process that makes the brain and its connections more efficient. "So, one possibility is that the cannabis use has disrupted this pruning process, resulting in larger volumes (i.e., a disruption of typical maturation) in the cannabis users. Another possibility is that the cannabis use has led to a growth in neurons and in the connections between them."

It's not the first research to find that cannabis use may cause changes to the teen brain.

A recent study found that teen brains are more vulnerable to the effects of marijuana than alcohol. And in June, University of Pennsylvania scientists discovered that young people who used marijuana frequently were more likely than nonusers to have slightly lower scores on tests of memory, learning new information, and higher-level problem solving and information processing.

House Oversight Committee Chair Elijah Cummings Plans To Hit The Ground "Flying"

House Oversight Committee Chair Elijah Cummings: We've Got To Hit The Ground "Flying"

 

 

 

 

 

Works for me.

Much smaller than first thought to be, the gig economy lies prostrate before the great wall of state capitalism

"The Gig Economy Increasingly Defines Late-Stage Capitalism

Annie Lowrey, Atlantic" is how Real Clear Markets links to:

The Truth About the Gig Economy

Uber and similar companies aren’t driving huge changes in the way that Americans make a living.

Real Clear Markets' libertarian headline writer completely missed the point of the article, which is that the gig economy is as much as 80% smaller than we first thought. A capitalism disintegrating into a chaos of millions of small holders in risky circumstances, careening into the ditch, is a complete myth. The leftists who still long for this resemble no one so much as the Christian millenarians.

Clearly Marxism-light thoroughly infects economic thinking at the popular level in more places than just The Atlantic, blinding us to where we really are, which is in the golden age of fascism. Here tax reform for the individual is an afterthought, a necessary piece of propaganda in the big scheme of things having to do with state capitalism and its myriad forms of corporate welfare. What really matters is the relationship between government and business, protecting their mutual interests.

The West's version is little different from China's. China exercises top down control through the corrupt Communist Party, but we increasingly have the same thing from the bottom up through the unjust hand of Political Correctness, populated through the right schools and the revolving door of Washington where the regulators become the richly rewarded regulated.

The extension and consolidation of control by this globalist fascist system since the Reagan Revolution is responsible for all the failure lately attributed to capitalism by the coddled generations of children of the post-war Baby Boom. It couldn't be otherwise in a world where everything has been organized to feed the corporation through the glorification of the job. You must go to school, you must get good grades, you must get a college degree in order to get hired, you'll need loans to make this happen, and for the car to get to work, and good credit, and . . .. And then they've got you. It's called preying on human nature.

The declarations of independence of our former youth often used to take the form of getting out of Dodge as soon as they turned eighteen. Now those declarations are a mere shadow of their former selves, taking the form of tattoos on that creature that still lives in your basement in his twenties . . . or thirties.

The risk-taking of capitalism has been expunged, and the consequences of rebelling against the new rigidity have been amplified. Stenosis has set in, and if the barbarians finally do overtake us they will find that the bones break easily.     

Future ICE agent: 11-year old uses Full Metal Jackets on intruder, makes him cry like a little baby

Next time use hollow points, boy.

Here. Here.

Flashback Helen Thomas: Jews should get the hell out of Palestine, go back to Poland, Germany, America

Here in 2010.

Helen Thomas lives: Democrat Rashida Tlaib (MI-13) brings the Intifada to the US House, welcomes Abbas Hamideh who wants Israeli Jews to go back to Poland

Jim Acosta has gone to The Wall, now visits The Aquarium

While the government is shutdown Democrat Senator Bob Menendez is hard at work in Puerto Rico inspecting the local fauna

Walls don't work, except in Israel, the Vatican, at Pelosi's house, Obama's, Paul Ryan's, and . . . prisons

"Russian collusion" has always been about Democrats' attempts to criminalize Trump's politics

If you can't beat 'em at the ballot box, get judges to overturn the will of the voters (the default position of Democrats since FDR). When that's no longer enough to satisfy your lust for power, weaponize government and drum-up law enforcement to investigate your political enemies for "crimes". The better educated public of the past wouldn't have put up with this sorry spectacle.

Screw the shutdown, screw the emergency, just build the wall already

"All cultures are equal"

FL Governor Ron DeSantis signs executive order removing Sheriff Scott Israel

Gov. DeSantis Removes BSO Sheriff Scott Israel From Office; ‘I Have No Interest In Dancing On His Political Grave’:

Governor Ron DeSantis said on Friday afternoon that he has signed an executive order removing embattled Broward Sheriff Scott Israel from office.

Governor Ron DeSantis was at the Broward Sheriff’s Office headquarters where he delivered a short statement saying he has suspended the Sheriff. DeSantis was joined by parents of victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre.

To Donald Trump pussy is free, and so is liberal immigration policy

Trump's imbecilic shutdown over immigration ends paychecks for immigration enforcers

As we said would happen.

Dumb.

Sad!

The art of the stupid.

Border security workers miss paychecks because of shutdown over border security

Tulsi Gabbard throws her hat in the ring

She would be a great future candidate, but needs to run for governor, win and serve before she runs for president. Not knowing this shows she's not such a great candidate.

Tulsi Gabbard to run for president

Trump tweeted about a path to citizenship for H-1B visa holders today, but Rush Limbaugh said . . .

. . . not one word about it.

They are not on our side.

 

Rashida Tlaib's (Democrat, MI-13) Muslim heritage means wiping Israel off the map

So much winning . . .

One term president flip-flops on H-1B visa holders

In March 2016 Trump didn't think too highly of H-1B visa holders, now he wants to make them citizens

#InvasionOfTheTrumpBodySnatchers

Hey Doug Jones, D-AL, in 2018 YOU diverted $500 million of our money to build a wall in Jordan

Exclusive: Pentagon prepares options to build border wall as Trump weighs emergency declaration:

Sen. Doug Jones, D-Ala., a member of the committee,  said Thursday that he hopes Trump doesn’t declare an emergency and divert military money to build a wall. “Congress is concerned about the overreach, and I think the American public is concerned about the overreach of the executive branch of government right now,” Jones said.

Russia is just the other side's QAnon, kept Hillary out of Wisconsin for 105 days

 "Russians reading Real Clear Politics is cyber Pearl Harbor".

Mental illness is pandemic.

QAnon virus swallows everything: Trump orchestrated outing of Bezos' affair

Like he didn't have better things to do.

Exhibit 329,097,425 for our failed education system

You ought to be more discreet, people might start to think they are conspiring to destroy our civilization

Some people are wondering why it took a supposed intellectual ten months to figure out a friend was an enemy

Nothing personal, just business.