Trump thinks winning a war is about killing people when it's about killing their ability to make war

Afghanistan could have been over and done with before the end of 2001 by destroying all the infrastructure: roads, water projects, dams, electric power stations and grid, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, nuking the poppy fields on the way out.

Not one American life need have been sacrificed, nor 10 million Afghan lives, not that we should care about the rag-headed heathen bastards.

But we are not a serious country.

Venezuela north: 230,000 still without power in Michigan as of Monday morning and many will be until Thursday

More than 230,000 in Michigan still without power after weekend storms:

The massive outages seem to mostly be affecting DTE customers in the east side of the state as Consumers Energy is reporting only about 35,000 customers currently without power.

Latest estimates put more than 800,000 without electric power in immediate aftermath of Michigan storms

After more than 800,000 lose power across Michigan, some won’t be restored until mid-week:

At one point in the immediate aftermath of Friday night and Saturday’s storms, nearly 600,000 DTE customers lost power [in Southeast Michigan]. Consumers Energy had about 67,000 homes and businesses still without power [Sunday night], compared to the 220,000 of its customers affected overall [in West Michigan]. ... DTE officials called the multiple storms one of the worst events its crews have ever dealt with. ... Since Friday, DTE says it has receive [sic] reports of more than 2,000 downed wires.

Temperatures in Grand Rapids, MI collapsed from 85 to 71 after 1:53am Saturday July 20th as storms knocked out power to thousands in West Michigan

The Sams Club in Kentwood lost power in the early morning storm, closing down the store and gas station for the day Saturday, which is quite unusual.

Workers there were observed after 1:00pm at the rear of the building tossing no longer refrigerated and frozen foods.

Consumers Energy crews were observed near the intersection with the store attempting to restore power in the sweltering heat.

The heat index not much later soared to 108 by 2:53pm.

A second round of storms after 4:00pm Saturday crashed actual air temperatures from 89 to 74, complicating the on-going power restoration efforts.

More than 500,000 without power in Michigan a day after ‘worst storm’ of the year:

While there are outages across the state, the Southeast Side of Michigan has the highest concentration. DTE Energy this morning said 375,000 of its customers remain without electricity after what it called the “worst storm” its line workers have dealt with this year.

" ... The weather event downed 1,100 power lines, making this the worst storm our region has experienced this year and one of the largest since the March 2017 wind storm," the utility said. ...

In West Michigan and the central part of the state, Consumers Energy was reporting about 122,000 customers without power today. Great Lakes Energy added to the tally with nearly 5,000 outages, mostly in Lake, Oceana and Osceola counties. ...

While there were strong wind gusts across the Lower Peninsula on Saturday, the most damaging happened in the areas of Kent and Ottawa counties [in West Michigan], the National Weather Service said. The damaging winds that took the house apart in the Jenison area were described as a “microburst.”

Just a reminder that Obamacare is doing what it intended: Squeeze the middle class

Making healthcare more expensive for the middle class is intended to eliminate the middle class, eventually. Obamacare in its gradualism is an example of Fabian socialism. 

But it's classic Marxism nonetheless, wherein the middle class is seen to be the greatest enemy, not the rich. The middle class stands in the proletariat's way in its contest against the rich. The middle class must be reduced and absorbed by the proletariat in order to end the possibility of the middle class getting wealthier and rising up the economic ladder.

Instead the middle class must be forced down the economic ladder.

We are living it, but the masses hardly notice as they are anesthetized by libertarian phantoms in fake news, entertainments, drugs and assorted excesses of appetite. The effect of it all is an equality! How could that be bad!?

The enemy proceeds with utter seriousness, corrupting the body politic, while seriousness can hardly be found in anyone else.   

Obamacare sucks for working stiffs: 66% making under $40,000 a year struggle to pay for healthcare

Rising health insurance deductibles fuel middle-class anger and resentment:

As recently as 2006, the average deductible for individual coverage in job-based plan was just $379, adjusted for inflation, according to KFF. ... The average deductible has more than tripled, to $1,350. More than a quarter of workers have plans with a deductible of at least $2,500.

Phone and internet have been down in Grand Rapids, MI for many people since 2:00 AM Saturday

Because of severe thunderstorms. NOAA gave us about 30 minutes warning in an email, while we were asleep. The weather radio never went off.

Just now got back up, despite having power and A/C the whole time.

Civilization as we know it hangs by a thread, but we simply undertook useful tasks and our customary simple entertainments instead.

Trump won't stop illegal aliens, Amash won't vote for impeachment, Sanders won't pay $15/hour to his own campaign staff

Pattern development. Trump is run by Javanka, Amash was kicked out by Javanka in a different form, and Sanders is Javanka.

50 years after a drunk Ted Kennedy killed Mary Jo Kopechne, AP still can't tell the truth about it

The car did it.

Communist Jews (aka Antifa) are mobilized on behalf of open borders and illegal aliens like never before

No borders, no wall, no USA at all.

JEWISH CURRENTS: July 15, 2019 Posted by Greg Afinogenov [teaches at Georgetown!]

The Jewish Case for Open Borders:

The fact that American Jews are mobilized on behalf of migrants like never before is an important step in the right direction. ...

[I]s there such a thing as a border that is both strong and just? The historical record and present-day realities suggest that there is not, and that what we need is not immigration reform, but open borders. ...

[C]enter-left immigration arguments—which on the surface appear compatible with the pro-migrant politics of progressive Jews—rest on the same foundation as those made by the right. ...

Obama and Clinton permitted most of the same abuses as Trump, if not with the same overtly racist glee. ...

The borders between Israel and Palestine exist definitively for the have-nots, not the haves; ...

[A]n open-borders perspective is not just a tactical intervention in a debate about immigration, it is a new vision of a more just society. ...

[W]e should look to the radical alternatives that large numbers of Jews once supported in Europe and in immigrant communities across the world. ...

Jewish activists in the anarchist and internationalist socialist tradition argued that the answer was not to build a Jewish state, but to seek Jewish emancipation as part of a broader anti-capitalist movement. ...

The vast majority of Jews had more in common with Latvian, German, or Russian workers than they did with the few wealthy and powerful members of their own community, and Jews joined revolutionary socialist parties in the Russian Empire in disproportionate numbers. Even in a specifically Jewish socialist party like the Jewish Labor Bund, nationalism was anathema. ...

Many of these Jewish radicals, whether anarchists, communists, or socialists, retained their loyalty to the international working class when they immigrated to the United States. ...

Jewish immigrants came together with other foreign-born groups in organizations like the Industrial Workers of the World, helping to create one of the cornerstones of the American left. These left-wing Jews were among the earliest targets of the first Red Scare that followed the Russian Revolution. Woodrow Wilson’s Palmer Raids swept across the country, deporting immigrants who refused to abandon solidarity and internationalism in their new country. ...

The way out of the nationalist trap in which Jews have been caught since World War II goes through Jewish cosmopolitanism, but not in the form that antisemites have imagined. The idea that Jews are more loyal to Jews in other countries than to their fellow citizens should be replaced . . ..   

Xi Jin Ping has made millions of enemies among dispossessed Chinese elites and their clients

The backlash is growing against Xi Jinping in China and around the world:

The exact number of "tigers" toppled by Xi's anti-corruption campaign -- in other words, officials who were once part of the designated elite whose jobs had to be cleared through the Party's central personnel system -- is not easy to calculate. The best estimates put it around 300 to 400, including scores of generals. The officials who have been prosecuted and jailed include members of the Politburo, ministers, vice-ministers, the heads of state-owned enterprises, provincial party leaders and governors, and mayors.

In each of those cases, the investigations don't just hit the individual official who has been targeted and detained.

Literally, hundreds of thousands of people who are tied into and rely on that single person for their income are effectively swept up with them. Their livelihoods, and all that they have invested in clawing their way through the system, can evaporate with the stroke of a pen. Some members of the patronage networks are often arrested themselves.

Xi has made enemies of them all. "Xi has destroyed millions of people in the elite who now all hold a personal grudge against him," said a China-based businessman, who asked not to be named, earlier in 2019. "These people are not a bunch of uneducated peasants from the sticks in Henan. They had skin in the game."

Pure insanity: 20% of total global bond market pays negative interest

Opinion: We haven’t seen interest rates this low since before Hammurabi, so what bonds should you buy?:

 

Some $13 trillion in bonds are paying negative interest rates, which means bondholders actually pay for the privilege of holding an issuer’s bonds. That represents more than 20% of a total global bond market value of $55 trillion, according to Bloomberg. Other bonds are paying positive rates so low they carry a real (after inflation) negative yield as well. ... Some civilizations, like the early Roman Catholic Church and Islam, were opposed to charging interest, but negative rates just didn’t happen, as far as Sylla knows, until the modern era. Now 14 European countries, including France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain, have negative interest rates on their two-year bonds.

 

Too bad his presidency will never be as good as his campaigning

Audience at Trump rally in North Carolina shouts "Send Her Back!"

New Chant Erupts At Trump Rally

Like immigration-do-nothing Trump, Amash talked a good game about impeachment but voted against it when the time came

Roll call vote.

I'm sure the excuse was that he had to vote to table the bill because it wasn't perfectly in accord with the constitution.

Wack job Ilhan Omar is now quoting wack job Jesse Ventura

Must be something in the air up there, probably wafts in from Canada.

Global flight to US safety: Foreign holdings of US Treasury securities soar $105.5 billion month over month, $324 billion year over year

Japan is up year over year $52 billion, the UK $58 billion, Luxembourg $21 billion, the Caymans $30 billion, Singapore $31 billion, France $35 billion, Norway $49 billion . . .. 

Rush Limbaugh just reassured us that telling someone to go back to the country of origin isn't racist

😬

Well, I guess Donald Trump, Helen Thomas, Barack Obama, Injuns, Abbas Hamideh, Rashida Tlaib and the rest of The Squad are all off the hook then.

Democrat from Michigan Rashida Tlaib's good buddy Abbas Hamideh wants the Jews to go back to Poland, too

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Injun to Covington Kids: White people, go back to Europe where you came from, this is not your land

You Want To MAGA White People Go Back To Europe-This Is Not Your Land:

 

I guess everybody's forgotten that Barack Obama was cool with Helen Thomas, who wanted the Jews to get the hell out of Palestine and go back to Poland and Germany

Video.

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Wow, the new publisher of Human Events has aged dramatically in the last 12 hours after CNN tirade

July 16th 4:05pm

July 17th 4:45am

Richard Spencer was on CNN just for you, Frank, just for you

"Turns on Trump" like it was just recently or something.

Rumor has it that Planned Parenthood has the fully intact body parts of an organization president for sale on the dark web

I did NOT learn this from Project Veritas.

Yes, thank G-d Jake Tapper maintained his ritual purity by NOT actually interviewing Richard Spencer on CNN

True dat: If we're going to have government of the shiksa, by the shiksa and for the shiksa, we should at least get a little side boob now and then

Head of Planned Parenthood aborted in third trimester

Just a clump of cells.

Thread.

More.

US House Speaker Pelosi ruled out of order, Planned Parenthood fires unwoke president, where will it all end?

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New name for WaPo is WyPipoPo

I mean, Ralph Northam still writes there, amirite?

Squad member Ayanna Pressley has really let herself go since effectively winning her seat in Congress just 10 months ago

September 2018

July 2019

Joe Biden word salad on The Squad: They are really smart, but they're the exception in the Democrat Party!

No kidding.

Somebody broke the OFF button on the gaffe machine.

Video.

Kamala Harris is the snake Trump warned you about in 2016, biting the hand that feeds her

The police win one for the counterrevolution, refreshing the tree of liberty with the blood of anarchists

Wypipo wrote the code to go to the moon in 1969

Incredible footage of Joe Biden in Iowa repeating the same lie Obama repeated: If you like your plan you can keep it

Video.

Millions of Americans lost their private plans because of Obamacare and were forced to choose more expensive plans, in effect forcibly subsidizing the poor through their higher premiums. They were mostly self-employed, entrepreneurial and small business people, singled out for punishment.

To this day they have no voice in Washington, not in Congress, not in the Judiciary, and not in the White House.

And not in the Democrat Party.

 

 

Barack Obama 2014: Coming from a bad neighborhood, poverty and economic need are not a basis for asylum claims, which should be made in their home country, not at our border

Video.

Liberals used to call conservatism a collection of "irritable mental gestures", now progressives elevate racism to "authentically reactionary impulses"

Wow, racism is now an authentic impulse. You heard it here first, courtesy of progressivism.

 

Apparently Joe Biden's not really upset about the deportations themselves, just the terror announcing them causes

Better to sneak up on them like his boss did over the Christmas holidays in 2015.

"Merry Christmas! This is an ICE raid! Pack your shit, it's time to go!"

LOL POLITICO January 2016: Opponents of family deportations under Obama leaked raid info to WaPo

Obama administration kicks off family deportation raids:

 

Johnson said the batch of deportees were among immigrants who crossed the southern U.S. border illegally since May 2014. That's when the U.S. began experiencing a surge of families and unaccompanied children from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Officials say such crossings decreased by early last year, but began to pick up again in recent months. ...

The proposals to increase deportations appear to have stirred some dissent within the Obama administration. Just before Christmas, unnamed "people familiar with the operation" disclosed the plans to the Washington Post — a highly unusual leak about planned law enforcement actions. ...

Both Earnest and Johnson said DHS remains focused on deporting "felons, not families" — a curious talking point given that families were the targets of the weekend sweep. ...

Democrats in Congress — which is currently in recess — have been mostly quiet on the raids.

On the opposite end of the political spectrum, GOP poll leader Donald Trump — whose candidacy has been characterized by hardline rhetoric against immigrants here illegally — took credit for the raids in his typical flair.

“Wow, because of the pressure put on by me, ICE TO LAUNCH LARGE SCALE DEPORTATION RAIDS,” Trump tweeted when news of the planned raids broke. “It's about time!”

The fact that Trump was proudly taking credit for the raids wasn’t lost on advocates, who used that point to draw comparisons between the real estate billionaire and Obama’s immigration policies."The president's actions are far more harmful than Trump's demagoguery,” said Pablo Alvarado, the executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. “While Trump's dangerous rhetoric stigmatizes our loved ones, President Obama actually deports them.”

 

I'd love to go back to my home country, except things have kind of gone downhill since Neanderthal remains were discovered in 1856

Merkel muss weg!

See how this works, folks? Biden creeps left, Biden crawls left, he's the epitome of moderation!

In 2009 the public option was toxic leftism. In 2019 it's the epitome of moderation compared to the other radicals running for president. Every. Damn. Election.

Creepy Uncle Joe reveals BFD 2.0

BFD 1.0 wasn't such a BFD after all then, now was it?

His proposal sounds an awful lot like the public option plan passed by Nancy Pelosi's US House in 2009, which the US Senate rejected in favor of its plan, which is what we have now, Obamacare.

The problem with the public option plan was that it threatened to undercut private insurance through unfair competition with its immediate access to the limitless deep pockets of the Federal Treasury.

Joe's a Fabian socialist, not a revolutionary, slow walking the country to the guillotine.

Story.

LOL HuffPo August 2015: Hillary defends her position to deport migrant children

Hillary Clinton Defends Call To Deport Child Migrants:

“Specifically with respect to children on the border, if you remember, we had an emergency, and it was very important to send a message to families in Central America: Do not let your children take this very dangerous journey,” Clinton said.

Now that the border crisis has largely passed, however, Clinton said U.S. immigration authorities should focus on expediting the deportation cases of children and people locked in family detention.

“Now I think we have a different problem,” she said. “Because the emergency is over, we need to be moving to try to get people out of these detention centers, particularly the women and children. I think we need more resources to process them, to listen to their stories, to find out if they have family in this country, if they have a legitimate reason for staying. So I would be putting a lot of resources into doing that, but my position has been and remains the same.”

 

NRO's David French is no conservative and no American, doesn't give a damn about us, the founders' posterity

"We the People of the United States, in Order to . . . secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity . . .."

Nothing shows the impoverishment of the middle class better than the decline in owning your own home since the year 2000

Farmers' market pest Abby Ang worries her picture's on 8chan when it's already on Twitter

Farmers’ Markets Have New Unwelcome Guests: Fascists:

While the city deliberates, locals like Ang plan to keep handing out “Don’t Buy Veggies from Nazis” buttons in the market. But those activists know there’s a risk. On multiple recent weekends, Schooner Creek Farm supporters passed out flyers of their own at the farmers’ market.

“We had a couple people counter-flyering,” Ang said, “saying we were just defaming [Dye and Mackey’s] good name.”

Since penning an open letter condemning Schooner Creek Farm this spring, Ang has received an email with racial slurs, and had her picture posted on the troll hotbed 8chan, along with suggestions of violence against her, she said.

Thomas Homan takes AOC to immigration school

Link.

Axis of Shevil: I think this editor for the Newspaper of Blackface just called Donald Trump a girl

And you thought white men couldn't get along.

LOL: Papist John Zmirak fired by arbitrary power blames anybody but the arbitrary power

American history is complicated, especially for a Canadian

When there are so many Democrat candidates, it's almost impossible to tell who picked whose pocket

And #MeToo is aptly named.

Climbers gonna climb.

So fragile are they, one little word can fell them

Police kill rifle-toting antifa attacking Tacoma, WA, ICE facility, who left behind manifesto, but you wouldn't know it from the headline

Armed man attacking Tacoma’s ICE detention center killed in officer-involved shooting :

Police said Van Spronsen tossed lit objects at vehicles and buildings, causing one car fire, and unsuccessfully tried to ignite a propane tank. ... Deb Bartley, a friend of Van Spronsen’s for about 20 years, described him as an anarchist and anti-fascist, and she believes his attack on the detention center was intended to provoke a fatal conflict. “He was ready to end it,” Bartley said. “I think this was a suicide. But then he was able to kind of do it in a way that spoke to his political beliefs … I know he went down there knowing he was going to die.” She and other friends of Van Spronsen got letters in the mail “just saying goodbye.” He also wrote what she referred to as a manifesto, which she declined to discuss in detail but predicted would be taken by authorities.

The Seattle Times really shtruggled with the headline:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/tacoma-police-armed-man-throwing-incendiary-devices-shot-outside-ice-detention-center/

Power outage Manhattan: 42 is the answer to everything

BIG ZAPPLE New York power outage grinds Manhattan to a halt stopping subways and Broadway shows EXACTLY 42 years after 1977 blackout:

It comes exactly 42 years to the day - and very nearly to the hour - since a famous blackout plunged New York into darkness on July 13, 1977.

I'm only calling you "they" if you have multiple personality disorder

I mean, it only stands to reason.😏

WOW, good thing the House Democrats preserved this picture of the Capitol before they decided to burn it down last night, shows they really are conservatives at heart

LOL: You are NOT on the team unless you spell "goombah" correctly

LOL: Justice Democrats sniff out injustice wherever it may occur