"I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system" - George W. Bush
Meanwhile, millions of homeowners were destroyed, along with their jobs, their savings, and their hoped-for futures, never to return.
Updated link:
Sunday, February 17, 2019
Peggy Noonan is blind about conservatism
Republicans Need to Save Capitalism:
I’ll go whole hog here. We need a cleaned-up capitalism, not a weary,
sighing, acceptance-of-man’s-fallen-nature capitalism.
Weary sighing acceptance? Try the eager jubilant over being given free reign to exploit man's fallen nature capitalism.
Reagan "conservatives" preached that the Reagan tax cuts and free-trade would usher in a period of investment at home, in a word, that if you just let people have more of their own money they'd know what to do with it and they would do the right thing.
They didn't.
"Conservatives" exported our jobs and invested abroad, creating middle classes in poor countries where there were none before, at the expense of the middle class at home. They drove the opening to China, enriched it and created a monster which now robs us blind and threatens world peace. The libertarians have sold China the rope the communists hope to hang us with.
If Republicans and conservatives had properly understood human nature they wouldn't have made this mistake. The doctrinaire among them showed themselves to be liberals, not conservatives, possessed of a foolish optimism based on the idea that people are basically good. They are not. People do what's best for number one, as they always have. Screw thy neighbor, and thy country if necessary. Are we not a nation of immigrants?
Only conservatism with its roots in the transcendent moral order has been able to curb this false individualism and mistaken enthusiasm. Both were routinely attacked in church in former days, but nobody seems to go there anymore, and when they do go the preacher turns out to have joined the wrong side.
The "conservative" rubes out there still believe this stupid myth of libertarianism, while the billionaire class of both parties which got rich off it only hopes they continue to do so.
They care about nothing but themselves and their right to privacy, the penumbra of our collective deviancy.
People who rushed to judgment on the Smollett "hate crime" shouldn't have access to the nuclear codes
Here Are All The Politicians Who Rushed To Judgement On The Smollett ‘Hate Crime’
Cory Booker
Kamala Harris
Nancy Pelosi (Speaker of the House becomes president if president and vice president cannot)
Joe Biden Gaffe Machine: Tells Germany we're embarrassed by kids in cages, too bad it was under his watch
Yep, we're embarrassed alright, by Joe Biden. Not getting off to a good start there, Joe, if you really want to win the White House. Be yourself, not Obama. And please refrain from the skinny dipping, and no more groping, either. Sheesh.
Biden cages children:
Saturday, February 16, 2019
Trump admits to "a little disappointment" for the first 1.5 years, but for the remaining 2.5 we're getting A LOT
He promised over and over again, "I will never disappoint you". Should have been a red flag that he would major in it.
If the Angel Moms story of the last few days is true, it's more evidence Trump is fenced in (!) and manipulated
It only takes a spark to get a gaslight glowing ...
Or does he just not know what he has signed into law?
He signs two major pieces of legislation which do the opposite of what he wants?
And then there's the case of the Angel Moms . . ..
Tim Burchett, TN-2, voted no for the border deal and its orgy of foreign spending
One of the good guys.
Yesterday showed us that Trump is in fact 25th Amendment material
He didn't remember he let the drug dealers out of prison by just recently signing the criminal justice reform bill when he was riffing on executing them in the Rose Garden yesterday.
That means even if he read what was in the border deal, it didn't penetrate, didn't register, and didn't matter to him. Nothing was going to get in the way of signing the bill.
This denial of reality is religious fanaticism level stuff, courtesy of Norman Vincent Peale but grown especially virulent in this unique DNA combination known as Donald Trump.
What he needs is deprogramming, but the best thing we can do is depend on the sturdiness of our institutions, the separation of powers and the ensuing gridlock to sequester him until the voters do the intervention in 2020. This is the gift of the founders and we should embrace it and thank them for it.
Unfortunately, expect Democrats to have no mercy, but to press their advantage against crazy King Ludwig. If Republicans know what's good for them, they'll refrain from any more big compromises, but they should work with Democrats to give Trump some nice shiny objects to stroke his vanity in the meantime and keep him distracted.
Friday, February 15, 2019
This is a reversal from earlier: Still possible Trump did not know even if White House did
Fact of the matter is the contents of the spending bill are counterproductive of stated Trump goals. If no one told him that directly he wouldn't know it otherwise. He didn't read the bill, neither did the Representatives who voted on it. It was too long and there wasn't enough time. But it does suggest Trump doesn't really care enough about the issue to warrant it being his signature issue.
No way to run a country, except that's how it always is with these giant bills.
Regular order ought to involve funding one department only, every month on a schedule, but fat chance.
No one wants the responsibility of the hard work required. Everyone in Washington shoves it off on whomever they can and then blames whomever they can. Same in Michigan, where all controversial issues go to referendum.
Smoking pot isn't healthy, but now it's decriminalized here.
Trump 2020 is toast: He's screwed the immigration agenda pooch and has no icky Hillary to run against
Hillary doesn't register on any of the polls, where its Biden, Sanders and Harris in the top three with Biden in front by 18 points and Harris trailing Sanders by 6 at Real Clear Politics.
Recent California poll by Change Research has Biden tied with Harris in her own state and Sanders in third.
Joe can be the affable, non-threatening candidate of a return to "normalcy" if he works at it. But it will take work, especially by refraining from taking Trump's non-stop baiting while eschewing an extreme agenda.
So far though Democrats can't seem to help themselves in the extremes department.
Mike Lee of power hungry Legislative ignores power ceded by Trump to localities and courts in border spending deal
Plus presidents are term-limited. Senators and Representatives are not. Power of Legislative over individuals only grows with growing population because representation is fixed at 435 in the House, 100 in the Senate.
Stupid president just ceded more power and Legislative complains! GTFO! The people have to hope for one Saviour to fix everything in eight years, which is impossible, especially when we get a Trump who doesn't know what the hell he is doing.
It's why we hate you!
#Repeal22ndAmendment
Ann Coulter appeared just now on The Savage Nation
Savage took the Trump bait and is focused only on the Emergency Declaration and knows nothing about the spending bill.
Mr. National Disaster totally chokes like Mitt Romney, signs border bill instead of using veto POWER
I mean he’s so blatantly stupid.
He’s a punk.
He’s a dog.
He’s a pig.
He’s a con.
A bullshit artist.
A mutt who doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
He doesn’t do his homework.
He doesn’t care.
He thinks he’s gaming society.
Doesn’t pay his taxes.
He’s an idiot.
Colin Powell said it best. “He’s a national disaster.”
He’s an embarrassment to this country.
It makes me so angry that this country has gotten to this point that this fool. This bozo. Has wound up where he has.
#metoo
Not even Mark Levin, Mr. Constitution, can bring himself to tell the president to veto this damn bill
What the hell is political power for, photo ops?
Are you starting to see a pattern here folks?
None of these so-called conservatives have the fire in the belly.
Rush is full of it, saying Trump has no leverage
Trump has POLITICAL POWER. It's called the veto. He should use it! Make the Congress own this piece of shit border deal.
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE CONSTITUTION you boob, you dog, you spineless weasel, you limp dick sex drug profiteer.
Limbaugh can spend most of the opening telling us how bad this bill is but can't say "veto"
He's useless. The big mouse on the right.
The plan here must be to spin and spin and spin until Limbaugh comes on at noon
Then Rush can 'splain it to you, Lucy.
Like he says, "I'll tell you what to think".
Trump doesn't know what's in the bill (his Twitter must be broken)
Hope the football that guy carries for him works better.
Trump can't even remember he just let all the drug dealers out of jail, now he wants them executed
The guy is senile.
#25thAmendment
Border deal US Senate roll call vote 84-15
Here.
Question:
On the Cloture Motion
(Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Conference Report to Accompany H.J. Res. 31
)
Vote Number: 25
Vote Date: February 14, 2019, 03:31 PM
Required For Majority: 3/5
Vote Result: Cloture Motion Agreed to
Vote Counts:
YEAs84
NAYs
15
Not Voting
1
Border deal roll call vote US House 300-128
H J RES 31 YEA-AND-NAY 14-Feb-2019 8:59 PM
QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Conference Report
BILL TITLE: Making further continuing appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for fiscal year 2019, and for other purposes
QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Conference Report
BILL TITLE: Making further continuing appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for fiscal year 2019, and for other purposes
| Democratic | 213 | 19 | 3 | |
| Republican | 87 | 109 | 1 | |
| Independent | ||||
| TOTALS | 300 | 128 | 4 |
Here.
Trump is probably still unaware of what's wrong with what he's signing, which is all on him
The Emperor of Haste rules an Empire of Waste.
The point of the veto is political, to make Congress override the veto and own the border deal, otherwise Trump does
Simple point Laura Ingraham overlooked last night. Don't call into your own show under the influence of alcohol.
This is when you want a politician in office instead of someone like Trump. A politician would understand he doesn't need to sign it, shouldn't sign it, and would win by not signing it despite the override.
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Not just Tucker, all of conservative talk radio was missing in action today (Jews talking about AOC mostly, goyim about McCabe)
Only the women were trying: Laura Ingraham (podcast) and Ann Coulter (Twitter, radio).
Trump is fundraising tonight, just got another robocall asking me to pay for a brick for Nancy Pelosi
They really do think we're stupid.
The McCabe story has sucked all the oxygen out of the Trump immigration betrayal story today on conservative talk radio
I don't believe in conspiracies, but . . ..
They'd rather talk about anything but the self-immolation of their president.
They'd rather talk about anything but the self-immolation of their president.
If Angel Moms can't count on Trump, can the country when it's under attack by nukes?
#25th Amendment, Section 4.
#Trail of Tears
#One term president
Like Dan Bongino on Levin last night, Limbaugh is conceding on the border deal, fearing a shutdown
Spineless cowards, as always.
Drudge joins Trump in gaslighting on The Wall, shows picture of a wall but not the levee fence mentioned in the story
From the news release by US Customs and Border Protection last November:
This project includes the construction and installation of tactical infrastructure including a reinforced concrete levee wall to the height of the existing levee, 18-foot tall steel bollards installed on top of the concrete wall, and vegetation removal along a 150-foot enforcement zone throughout the approximately eight miles of levee wall system. The levee wall system will include detection technology, lighting, video surveillance, and an all-weather patrol road parallel to the levee wall.
GDP per capita in Trump's GREATEST ECONOMY EVER is less than half of what it used to be
Something went terribly wrong after the year 2000, and no one has fixed it, least of all The Golden Boy.
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Trump is gaslighting his supporters about wall "being built" and Limbaugh is his talk radio Gauleiter
Ann Coulter
BREAK GROUND, NOT PROMISES
January 23, 2019
Several months into the Trump administration, I started running a daily
"Border Wall Construction Update" on Twitter, announcing how many miles
of the wall had been completed that day and how many miles since the
inauguration. It was always the same numbers: 0 and 0, respectively.
I was immediately attacked by people in the Trump base. You're being unfair, he hasn't had enough time, there's a legislative process, he's doing the best he can.
As days turned to weeks and weeks turned to months and months turned to years, and not 1 inch of the wall was built, the "3-D chess" crowd dwindled.
Sometimes Trump would concede he hadn't built any part of the wall. Sometimes he would fib and claim it was being built. There's no way to sugarcoat it: That was a lie.
Drug dealers, drunk drivers, criminals, welfare dependents and low-wage workers driving down American wages continued to flow across our border.
We are now past the midway point of Trump's first term, maybe his only term. If Trump couldn't come up with a legislative fix when he controlled both houses of Congress, he's sure not going to now that he's lost the House.
We are headed for another failed Republican presidency.
I was immediately attacked by people in the Trump base. You're being unfair, he hasn't had enough time, there's a legislative process, he's doing the best he can.
As days turned to weeks and weeks turned to months and months turned to years, and not 1 inch of the wall was built, the "3-D chess" crowd dwindled.
Sometimes Trump would concede he hadn't built any part of the wall. Sometimes he would fib and claim it was being built. There's no way to sugarcoat it: That was a lie.
Drug dealers, drunk drivers, criminals, welfare dependents and low-wage workers driving down American wages continued to flow across our border.
We are now past the midway point of Trump's first term, maybe his only term. If Trump couldn't come up with a legislative fix when he controlled both houses of Congress, he's sure not going to now that he's lost the House.
We are headed for another failed Republican presidency.
The occasional fib that the wall was being built has now become the refrain, but it's still a lie.
And Rush Limbaugh is endlessly repeating it on his show today. What a joke, and it's on you.
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