Glenn Grifter Beck doesn't miss a beat to profit off the Covington Catholic Teens

Twitter suspends Beto's Journal @BetosBlog: You will not be permitted to mock the future president of the United States on this platform, buster

Personally I give zero f*cks about AOC, that lyin' commie traitor

Actually CNN allowed Nathan Phillips to claim he served in Vietnam without challenging him, which is why watching CNN is a complete waste of time; it's about advocacy, not news

"News erroneously reported that he was a Vietnam veteran"

CNN lets Phillips twice claim to have served in Vietnam, unchallenged

In 2016 Trump campaigned saying DACA was an illegal amnesty, now he says it's not

Here.

MLK Jr Day 2019: Record 12.6 million blacks not in labor force

AOC wants to rape and pillage the bedrock of American (white) wealth: housing

Ocasio-Cortez Compares America’s Past To Nazi Germany, Says US Should Pay Reparations Like They Did:

People think reparations is reparations for slavery, but really, economically speaking, reparations are for the damage done by the New Deal and redlining because that is where we saw a compounding of the existing inequity from the legacy of slavery, where we drew red lines around black communities. We said white communities will get home loans and they will get access to the basic bedrock of wealth in America and this will be your heirloom and we gave white America the heirloom that appreciated overtime — that people still benefit from today and we did not give to African-American and Mexican communities, Puerto Rican communities.

 

Uh oh, looks like Covington wasn't just a Trump op, but Trump COLLUDING with the Russians

We need another special prosecutor, stat!

Trump surrogates divert attention away from his amnesty betrayal, MSNBC befuddled

Better Red than dead, eh Miller?

Co-producer of Disney's 2017 Beauty and the Beast, Jack Morrissey, wants to be the gruesome killer we only dreamt Saddam Hussein to be

Like WMD, Saddam's shredder was a myth.

FYI: Twitter's other office addresses in the USA

FYI: Twitter's HDQ is located at 1355 Market St #900, San Francisco, CA 94103

Trump has been captured by the GOP immigration establishment, and boy are they happy about it

Trump's Immigration Offer Solidifies GOP Behind Him:

Republican support has shifted in his favor because Trump on Saturday changed not just his tone on immigration but the substance of his policies, GOP insiders say.

Even as Trump continues to alienate Speaker Nancy Pelosi with his taunts and slights, his latest proposal demonstrates a new willingness to give ground on major areas of immigration policy.

In three areas – the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the Temporary Protected Status program, and asylum for children in Central America – Trump had previously reversed Obama programs. On Saturday, he tamped down his negative rhetoric on immigrants while offering to reprise those programs – at least temporarily—and sign them into law, something Obama tried and failed to get from Congress during his tenure. ...

For taking on serious political risk when past Congresses and presidents have taken a pass on immigration, the president has earned the respect of influential Republicans.

Not just teenagers

Michael Savage is comparing Trump today to MLK Jr

Imperfect but great leaders, he calls them.

I'll say. The one betrayed his nonviolent followers ("a riot is the language of the unheard"), the other his strong borders voters (DACA was an unacceptable amnesty in 2016 before it became a bargaining chip in 2019). 

The Third Monday of January is the most depressing day of the year  

What a cohencidence.

Martin Luther King Jr Day is observed on the third Monday of January each year, which is around King's birthday, January 15

That's robocall No. 2 today from Trump asking me for a $35 donation so he can send Nancy Pelosi a brick to show I'm serious about The Wall

Funny, I pressed "9" on this morning's call to be removed from the list.

Works as good as Trump's 2016 immigration promises.

What was Trump's 10-point immigration plan during the 2016 campaign?

What is Donald Trump’s 10-Point immigration plan?:

5. Cancel President Obama’s executive actions

The GOP nominee would end the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration policy, better known as DACA, under which roughly half a million young people brought to the U.S. as children have received temporary legal status. Trump would also cancel President Obama’s DAPA program, or Deferred Action for Parents of Americans, which would give similar status to undocumented parents of American citizens. That program has been frozen as it faces court challenges.

 

Trump promised to end DACA, not bargain with it, characterized it as amnesty

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.