Sunday, March 24, 2019
Trump's Chair of the Council Economic Advisors, Kevin Hassett, wants to DOUBLE the number of immigrants into the US
David Bossie: An ‘America First’ immigration policy looks like this [no, it doesn't, Mr. Citizens United]:
As President Trump’s Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors
Kevin Hassett pointed out in a 2013 paper for the American Enterprise
Institute, the United States could add half a percentage point to
economic growth by doubling the number of immigrants it lets into the
country, especially if they come on employer-sponsored visas. President
Trump’s chief economist continues to make the case that "for a country
that has long thought of itself as a nation of immigrants, the U.S.
falls far behind almost all the other countries in the number of
immigrants it admitted relative to its population size.”
New Zealand fools evacuate concert over someone's "right wing tattoo" while drinking Confederate bourbon distilled by Germans
Meanwhile German carmakers accounted for 9.3% of New Zealand auto sales in 2018, including 4,048 Volkswagens, Hitler's people's car.
Matt Taibbi: The press has now handed Trump the mother of campaign issues heading into 2020
It's official: Russiagate is this generation's WMD:
The Russiagate era has so degraded journalism that even once “reputable” outlets are now only about as right as politicians, which is to say barely ever, and then only by accident. Early on, I was so amazed by the sheer quantity of Russia “bombshells” being walked back, I started to keep a list. It’s well above 50 stories now. As has been noted by Glenn Greenwald of the Intercept and others, if the mistakes were random, you’d expect them in both directions, but Russiagate errors uniformly go the same way. ...
Nothing Trump is accused of from now on by the press will be believed
by huge chunks of the population, a group that (perhaps thanks to this
story) is now larger than his original base. As [Peter] Baker notes [in the New York Times], a full
50.3% of respondents in a poll conducted this month said they agree with Trump the Mueller probe is a “witch hunt.” ...
The biggest thing this affair has uncovered so far is Donald Trump
paying off a porn star. That’s a hell of a long way from what this
business was supposedly about at the beginning, and shame on any
reporter who tries to pretend this isn’t so. ...
CNN
told us Trump officials had been in “constant contact” with “Russians
known to U.S. intelligence,” and the former director of the CIA ["former" communist John Brennan], who’d
helped kick-start the investigation that led to Mueller’s probe, said
the President was guilty of “high crimes and misdemeanors,” committing
acts “nothing short of treasonous.” ...
[N]ews outlets once again swallowed a massive disinformation campaign,
only this error is many orders of magnitude more stupid than any in the
recent past, WMD included. Honest reporters like ABC’s Terry Moran
understand: Mueller coming back empty-handed on collusion means a “reckoning for the media.” Of
course, there won’t be such a reckoning. (There never is). But there
should be. We broke every written and unwritten rule in pursuit of this
story, starting with the prohibition on reporting things we can’t
confirm. ...
The Russiagate era has so degraded journalism that even once “reputable” outlets are now only about as right as politicians, which is to say barely ever, and then only by accident. Early on, I was so amazed by the sheer quantity of Russia “bombshells” being walked back, I started to keep a list. It’s well above 50 stories now. As has been noted by Glenn Greenwald of the Intercept and others, if the mistakes were random, you’d expect them in both directions, but Russiagate errors uniformly go the same way. ...
We’ve become sides-choosers, obliterating the concept of the press as an
independent institution whose primary role is sorting fact and fiction.
Ten shit-hole rivers in Asia and Africa responsible for 90% of plastic polluting the world's oceans
Seven of the ten are communist with Chinese characteristics:
Yangtze River, China (1.5 million tonnes annually and worst offender)
Hai he River, China
Yellow River, China
Mekong River, China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam
Pearl River, China and Vietnam
Indus River, China, India and Pakistan
Ganges River, India and Bangladesh
Amur River, Russia and China
Nile River, eleven countries including Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya
Niger River, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Benin and Nigeria
Just 10 rivers carry 90% of plastic polluting the oceans
Saturday, March 23, 2019
Failed Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke hopes to win something by giving driver's licenses to illegal aliens
I think he win another failure.
Sí, I do think so.
Left-wing scam artist set up fake political action committees for Bernie, Beto and kept the dough for himself
California con man set up bogus websites for Bernie Sanders, Beto O'Rourke to defraud donors, prosecutors say:
A notorious California con man has been charged with
defrauding donors out of more than $250,000 sent to sham political
groups and websites for Beto O'Rourke, Bernie Sanders and other
prominent Democrats, prosecutors said Tuesday. ... The court papers say that nearly all of the more than 1,000
donations to the scam PACs and websites were in fact pocketed by Dupont.
47-year-old Italian citizen of Senegalese origin torches school bus, tries to kill kids in retaliation against Matteo Salvini
Driver hijacks, sets ablaze school bus in Italy, children flee unharmed:
An unnamed girl was also quoted as saying that Sy blamed deputy prime
ministers Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio for the deaths of African
migrants at sea.
As of June 2018 over 1 million illegal aliens have final deportation orders but they're still here
The unstated answer is incompetence and opposition at the highest levels of government.
Italy's Matteo Salvini actually does the job Donald Trump only talks about doing
Spell check to aisle seven.
Trump is catching 'em alright, and releasing them into the USA at a rate of 1,337 per day for the last three months
They are storming the border because they know Trump is all talk, no action, and incompetent. By signing the funding bill to end the shutdown he actually signed a bill which reduced facility space to hold detainees, meaning he has to release more than before by law.
He's his own worst enemy and has made the problem worse.
John DeStefano, in charge of Trump's 4,000 personnel appointments in 2017, was John Boehner aide
White House personnel official described Trump GOP nomination as 'end of the world':
Fear about a bias toward establishment picks emerged in 2017, when
Trump selected DeStefano to lead the PPO. He had worked as an aide to
former House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, before leading Data Trust.
Eyebrows raised with appointees with views at odds with some of Trump’s,
such as former national security adviser H.R. McMaster, former foreign
policy adviser Dina Powell, and Venezuela envoy Elliott Abrams. ...
A former White House official said DeStefano, 39, set the tone for
the PPO with an “us versus them” mentality, often referring to Trump
backers as “the MAGA people.” ...
Trump is said to have grown angry with DeStefano at times, including
upon finding that a National Security Council official, Jordan Kelly,
had not been dismissed from her role as a cyber expert more than a year
after he requested it, according to a source.
Friday, March 22, 2019
Nature accomplishes in a matter of days for free what Green New Deal only dreams of doing in years costing trillion$
$1 billion in losses estimated in Nebraska alone last I checked. Your hamberder is going to cost a fortune now.
You want cheese wit dat? That'll be extra.
Thursday, March 21, 2019
President Donald Kushner to recognize Israeli sovereignty over Golan Heights
It would be nice if we had sovereignty, too, over America's 500 cities giving sanctuary to illegal aliens.
I guess we have to go to war to do that now.
I guess we have to go to war to do that now.
Beto's already spending your gas money contributions on parking tickets and tacos
And John F. Kerry who served in Vietnam never stopped for stop signs when he was behind the wheel.
Stop signs, like No Parking signs, are for little people.
Beto be big people now, especially when he stands on tables.
Just got a Trump robocall inviting me to his 3/28 visit to Michigan, boasting of all (12,000 of) those new manufacturing jobs
Might as well be October 2006, thirteen years ago.
No V-shaped recovery here, or anywhere, just another L-shape.
The first Democrat debate of Election 2020 ends with Kamala Harris skeet-shooting Klobuchar's binder thrown at Beto
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| "Spread your legs" |
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| "I think ... I'm goin' ... to get me a beer" |
h/t @the_bernie_bro
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| "I have high expectations for this country, loser" |
Joe Biden to Heidi Heitkamp at swearing-in in 2013: Drop your hands to your sides? Spread your legs, you're going to be frisked!
Here.
Despite all the new-found wealth, Joe really does remain just another vulgar mutt.
Run Joe, run!
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Rush Limbaugh doesn't know what he's talking about when he says there are more job openings than workers
Total nonfarm job openings: 7,581,000
A: Unemployment level: 6,235,000
B: Not in labor force want a job now: 5,222,000
C: Not in labor force age 25-54: 22,015,000
A is the official unemployment level. To be counted in it you have to be counted in the labor force.
B is the number of people in addition to the unemployed who are unemployed but aren't counted as such because they are not in the labor force. These are the people unemployed longer than one year who say they still want a job when they are surveyed.
C is all the people of prime working age who aren't in the labor force and aren't counted as unemployed. Some of B are included in this number. This group averaged 21.3 million in both 2006 and 2007, before the shit hit the fan, and got as high as almost 24 million in 2015. It averaged 22.7 million last year. The data goes back only to 1982 but shows that in the 1980s and some of the 1990s that this group shrank during jobs recoveries just as it is shrinking now. There is lots of potential labor here sitting on the sidelines.
In any event, A + B means at least 11.5 million jobless with 7.6 million openings.
Advantage: employers.
P. S. I have seen the very same jobs with the very same companies advertized for years on end. How do they never get filled, hm?
Meanwhile John Podhoretz says Andrew Yang is anti-Semitic to be against circumcision
Not all Jews are disgusting like John Podhoretz.
My Jewish pediatrician had zero problem with leaving my son unshorn, and we enjoyed a wonderful relationship for many years, getting the best of care from him.
He was a mensch in more ways than this.
Mommas don't let your babies grow up to be John Podhoretz.
Momentous political hubbub of the day: Andrew Yang accused of deleting circumcision tweets under pressure from Jews
Except Yang hasn't deleted them.
They are still there, today.
The anti-circumcision crowd is disappointed that Yang has clarified that he won't advocate outlawing the practice pure and simple, but that is hardly inconsistent with Yang's position that he's against circumcision.
Yang is a Christian of the Reformed tradition, apparently. His Pastor is Mark E. Mast of New Paltz, NY. It is a gay-friendly, environmentalist wacko church with female as well as male leadership, so not your granddad's Calvinism.
Australia's Fraser Anning unashamedly stands for preserving the European ethnic composition of the population
Similar to Hungary and Poland and Czech Republic.
Theory of replacement migration is a thing at the UN, but The New York Times calls it racist, sexist and right-wing
Gee, whoever thought getting rid of the UN would become a bipartisan idea?
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
National Popular Vote passes in Colorado: First you drug the people, then they give away their freedom without a care
You lose your country by degrees. Colorado is the 12th to go.
Although Colorado has trended more solidly Democratic in recent elections, the state represents the first traditional swing state to join the effort. Every other state in the compact has voted for the Democratic presidential candidates in every election since at least 1992. ...
The other states that have signed on since 2007 are California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and the District of Columbia. ...
Among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, only 19 percent supported changing the system, down from 54 percent in 2011.
Democrats were a mirror image, with 81 percent supporting an amendment to switch to a national popular vote, up from 69 percent five years earlier.
Monday, March 18, 2019
Maybe because there's a culture of corruption swirling around Beto
Here.
Not only did his campaign misuse funds, he misused them to aid the illegal Honduran immigrant caravan.
"if we got caught . . ."
Dem Senatrix Kirsten Gillibrand, running for president, is dumb as a rock about guns
Same as FBI's James Comey.
Just found out my neighbors raise funds to provide clean water in drought stricken Zimbabwe
You know the place, where Robert Mugabe spent 37 years turning it into a Maoist hell after white Rhodesians had turned it into a prosperous exporting nation.
We have terrible water problems right here in Michigan, like in Flint but also in many other places affected by PFOS, but my lunatic Christian home-schooling neighbors decided to help the lunatic fringe communists a continent away instead. They're even going there to run a marathon (!) in celebration of the project.
We are doomed.
Germany rebuffs Trump, reverses pledge to increase NATO spending as economic growth slowdown looms
The government has yet to endorse the draft, which will be put to the cabinet on Wednesday. It will again approve the final plan in early summer before parliament has the last word.
Yet while this means the figures aren’t cast in stone, an economic slowdown, its expected impact on tax revenues, and the reluctance of both parties in Ms. Merkel’s coalition to fight for unpopular military spending or appear to appease Mr. Trump, make a reversal unlikely.
Wow, WaPo's Glenn Kessler almost becomes Rush Limbaugh, doubts Bernie's $1 trillion bailout claim
If anything, Bernie underestimates the scope of the secret loans during the financial crisis ten years ago. The Freedom of Information Act inquiry which brought them to light went all the way to the Supreme Court. Ben Bernanke only relented at the last second.
Discount Window lending behind the scenes during the crisis period soared into the multi-trillions of dollars by the time it ended in 2010 while everyone was fixated on the shiny object known as TARP ($700 billion, about a tenth the size of the generally accepted figure of $7.7 trillion). That's probably why TARP was undertaken to be honest: Oh look! A deer!
The DW loans were made to all kinds of entities for whom normal lending had disappeared. In too many cases very questionable collateral was put up. The loans were ultra-cheap, at rates unavailable to homeowners defaulting on their comparatively much more expensive mortgages because they had lost their jobs. Many of the loans rolled over and over and over again for protracted periods to keep the entities from going under, while Bush & Co. and then Obama & Co. did nothing for Joe Six-pack. Many millions lost their homes while businesses which should have gone bankrupt did not.
Hard to believe this clueless so-called fact checker still has a job.
Unlike Obama Beto's doing his apology tour BEFORE he gets elected, and right here in the USA instead of abroad
Meanwhile, a person who doesn't "know that anyone is born for an office or a position" followed by "I certainly am not" might possibly be open to the legitimacy of hereditary kingship.
George Washington would have skipped the cherry tree and come after this guy with an axe.
Joe "Middle Class" Biden edging AWAY from the working class because he's gotten rich: He used to be "Lunchbox Joe", but POLITICO seems to know nothing about it
‘Middle-Class Joe’ rakes in millions POLITICO 3/18/19:
He’s repeatedly referred to himself as “Middle-Class Joe” on the campaign trail and in speaking engagements as he publicly mulls whether to run for president. ... “I know I’m called Middle-Class Joe. It’s not meant to be a compliment. It means I’m not sophisticated. But I know what made this country what it is: ordinary people doing extraordinary things,” Biden said in Kentucky last year, a refrain he’s used repeatedly for years, including when he floated a potential presidential run in 2017.
5 things Biden pick says about Obama POLITICO 8/23/08:
4. He’s more worried about Lunchbox Joe than Bubba. Obama was not persuaded by arguments that Democrats for the past 60 years have won the presidency only when they've had a Southerner on the ticket. He seems confident he can put a few states in the Old Confederacy in play by stoking African-American turnout. Perhaps. But he also is calculating that his more urgent concern is working-class whites, especially those in the industrial Midwest. Hillary Rodham Clinton clobbered him in these areas — and white men remain very skeptical of him, if you believe the polls (and his people do). At the public unveiling of the ticket Saturday at Springfield, Ill., Obama called Biden a “scrappy kid from Scranton.”
Sunday, March 17, 2019
Scott McConnell of The American Conservative voted for the enemy in 2008 and votes for him now too
Dreher advocates for peace and for praying for the Muslim victims.
In 1776 the American preachers advocated for war and actually killed Christian Redcoats.
Two different religions but you're only here thanks to one of them.
"Journalist" Wajahat Ali has inadequately corrected his date for the Battle of Vienna and still asserts that Europe only "apparently" stopped the Muslim invasion of Europe in 1683
This is the invader speaking.
He is emboldened to lie because The New York Times and The Guardian welcome him to do so.
The use of "apparently" is meant to cast doubt on the fact of the European victory against the Turks in 1683.
This is using language for jihad.
You are meant to doubt the truth of your past.
You are meant to have no pride in it.
You are meant to doubt Christian Europe did or could unite to defeat the Muslim foe.
You are meant to have no hope now of stopping the current invasion.
And there it is from Ruben Navarrette, in USA Today two days ago, saying Beto is a cultural appropriator
For Latinos, 'Beto' O'Rourke is just another privileged white guy trying to manipulate them:
. . . Latinos . . . refuse to go loco for Beto. They’re concerned that Robert Francis O’Rourke, 46, who on Thursday joined an already-crowded field of 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls, is trying to put one over on Latinos by tricking them into thinking he’s one of them. ... Patrick O’Rourke — Robert Francis’ father — once explained that he was
the one who gave his son the nickname in the first place and the reason
had a lot to do with politics, as well as geography. According to The
Dallas Morning News, the patriarch reasoned that if
his son ever ran for office in El Paso, the odds of being elected in
that largely Mexican-American city were far greater with a name like
Beto. When told of his father’s words, O’Rourke shrugged them off, calling his father “farsighted.” I’d use different words, like cynical and dishonest and manipulative.
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