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Monday, December 9, 2019
Trump and Congress are spending us blind
There is no Great Financial Crisis as in 2008, but Trump & Co. are in the process of racking up trillion dollar deficits same as then as we speak.
Tax cuts for corporations, military-industrial complex spending and goodies for The Swamp are just some of the main reasons.
Trump has a veto pen, but refuses to use it.
Debt to the Penny is currently $23.091 trillion.
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Paid family leave for federal government's already Affluent White Female Liberals (AWFLs) likely to cost taxpayers $6 billion over ten years
Some Democratic aides think the proposed federal benefits package
would cost about $3 billion, though there is disagreement about whether
those costs would span five or 10 years. The expansion would give
federal employees a rare victory after the Trump administration has
sought to cut their benefits for three years. Many of them also endured
the longest-ever government shutdown under the current administration
roughly one year ago.
Your average US federal worker in 2017 already made $80,000 a year, 67% more than the raw average US wage of $48,000 in 2017.
But no, they need more money to stay home with baby.
Times of Israel reporter tweet-cucks the goy president of Israel
Maybe Trump would be more respected in Hymietown if he ditched the orange for blackface.
Sunday, December 8, 2019
Trump is just awful: Supports deal giving Federal workers 12 weeks PAID family leave
Making the swamp stronger. Spending money we don't have.
What a joke this guy is.
Government of Javanka, by Javanka and for Javanka.
The must-pass bill includes a provision that would allow more than 2
million federal government workers to take paid leave to care for a new
baby or for an adopted child. Parental leave was a priority for
high-ranking Democrats, including Schumer and House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi.
The provision is a victory for federal workers, who would face
benefit cuts under the Trump administration’s budget submission. Under
the current federal law, civilian workers are eligible for 12 weeks of
unpaid leave.
Employment discrimination against the old: More than 50% over 50 get fired, almost all end up in low-wage jobs from then on
Sudden and harrowing downward mobility:
According to the Urban Institute, more than half of all workers over 50 in the U.S. eventually lose their jobs involuntarily, and 90 percent of those workers get consigned to lower-paying work for the rest of their careers.
Saturday, December 7, 2019
These payroll headlines boosting Trump are embarrassing: Trump is way underperforming the hype
We've had exactly 19 months in 19 years where payrolls hit 300,000 or better, and they are crowing about 266,000 this month.
For crying out loud, Jimmy Carter racked up 18 such 300k+ months in just 4 years in office.
266,000 is ridiculous and pathetic given that 41,300 were strikers returning to work.
How come the Democrats are too stupid to figure this out?
Neither party cares about American jobs. All they care about is selling the country out to the highest bidder and profiting themselves and their friends off the deal.
YOU ALL MAKE ME SICK.
Friday, December 6, 2019
Republican Thomas Massie's KY-4 ladies and gentlemen: Kinky Kenton County female judge, 38, turns private chambers into group sex venue
Libertarianism in action:
According to an investigation by the Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission, she flirted with attorneys over Snapchat,
put pressure on them to sleep with her and, in one case, asked a female
attorney to join her in a threesome with her former church pastor
turned lover. ... Family Court Judge Dawn Gentry has been hit with nine misconduct charges by the Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission. ... Gentry serves as a family court judge for Kenton County which is south of the Kentucky-Ohio state line near Cincinnati.
Growth of US GDP since 2007 underperforms the Great Depression by 42%, the post-war by 51%
Yet the lunatics on TV and radio call this a booming economy.
B E H A P P Y I N Y O U R W O R K!
Full-time jobs fall 605,000 in November, 50.388% of population employed full-time on average through November in 2019
Part-time jumped 483,000.
The 2019 average percentage of the population working full-time remains unchanged from October, despite the 605,000 drop in November.
If 52.2% still had full-time jobs as in 2006 and 2007, there would be 4.7 million more working full-time in 2019 than are, on average.
We live in an economy which has shrunk.
Thursday, December 5, 2019
Very ugly Biden meltdown in Iowa last night, calls an older man "fat" and "too old to vote" for him
Challenges him to an IQ test, and a push-ups test.
Video here.
The insecurity lurks not far from the surface.
Remind you of anyone?
2020: Battle of Tiny Titans
Biden in the cat bird seat: Just as Bernie tanked after promising criminals will get to vote, Warren has tanked after hedging on Medicare for all
Ezra Klein, here:
One lesson of the past few weeks is that the Medicare-for-all debate has become a minefield for Democrats — and it’s not clear that any candidate has a safe path through it.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has dropped 14 points since October 8, when she briefly led the Democratic field in the RealClearPolitics polling average. Most attribute her decline to her handling of Medicare-for-all — the financing plan she released made her the target of attacks from the moderates, and then the transition plan she released, which envisions a robust public option in the first year of her presidency and only moving to Medicare-for-all in year three, left single-payer advocates unnerved about her commitment to the cause.
The Democrat left has been its own worst enemy.
In addition to alienating working people by going soft on crime, the people who bear the brunt of it, Bernie has notably lost ground with the working class by flipping on immigration restriction. Every new immigrant drives down their wages when immigrants are not taking their jobs outright.
For her part, on top of hedging on Medicare for all, Warren has rolled out a veritable cornucopia of crazy in this campaign, including a ban on all fracking in the US and ending the Electoral College. Combined with the recent lying about the little details of her life, voters justifiably doubt her sincerity on these larger issues and suspect that she cares about little except getting the power into her hands.
Hence the default candidate still on top, Joe Biden.
America's political institutions are still so structured that even when radicals like Obama do win, those institutions frustrate their aims. The upside of this is that harmful radicalism is usually stopped in its tracks. The downside is that mediocrities and grotesques are produced.
Just as Obama was content to let his Clinton retreads handle the Great Financial Crisis resulting in the still poor full time employment, moribund GDP, unaffordable housing and low interest rates catastrophic to income portfolios of the present time, Obama provided zero leadership on healthcare reform. This resulted in the competing Democrat House and Senate versions which consumed his first year in office, and eventually produced the Affordable Care Act camel, a horse designed by a committee. He sure did enjoy watching basketball in the private residence, though, and went on to make the Bush tax cuts permanent after winning re-election in 2012. Some radical, huh?
The same thing has happened with Trump. Although promising us the moon about immigration, healthcare reform and foreign wars, he instead delivered tax reform mostly for the corporations and huge spending increases for the military industrial complex, which is the basic consensus of the Republican caucus in Congress, foolishly hoping that they would give him a little somethin' somethin' in return.
Nothing doing. Even trade realignment will disappear when Trump does.
Trump's problem is that he never had a political faction holding any seats in Congress to drive his agenda. He just assumed the existing members would adopt his positions, which is pretty damn naive considering how he attacked and alienated them all throughout 2015-2016. Instead, Trump has steadily moved away from his own positions and adopted theirs, for his own political survival.
Trump's porous bollard fencing instead of the real wall he promised is simply the most public symbol of this, going back as it does to the George W. Bush administration.
The only radical realignment we have seen is the realignment of the radicals with their respective parties, and Election 2020 will be the same old, same old fight between them.
Those who won't realign get discarded.
This is the tyranny of the legislative. And the only way to remedy this is to repeal the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, the great mistake of 1951. Only the threat of a Trump or an Obama perpetually in the White House will restore the balance of power between the three branches of government and advance the interests of the people who vote for the president.
As things stand, the best we can hope for is a president desperately stacking the courts to increase his power in a tyranny of the judiciary, which is hardly the remedy intended by the founders and is unacceptable to Americans loyal to the constitution and the nation as founded. The three stooges of the law schools on display at the impeachment hearing yesterday are proof enough of that.
Betsy's right: High crimes and misdemeanors means offenses committed while in high office
It's not the severity of the crime which makes it high, but it damn well better be a crime. Democrats haven't been able to come up with one despite turning themselves and the country into pretzels.
And Trump's tax returns from the past and his dalliances from the past and why he named his son "Barron" are all completely irrelevant, as is everything else he's done while not in office. Those things matter only at election time.
Here's Betsy:
At the 1787 Constitutional Convention, the framers considered grounds for impeachment. On Sept. 8, George Mason suggested that bribery and treason were too narrow, and proposed adding "maladministration." But James Madison objected, explaining that "so vague a term will be equivalent to" saying the president serves at the pleasure of the Congress. The framers did not want to duplicate the British system, which made the executive dependent on Parliament. Mason's idea was dropped, and the framers instead agreed to the more specific term, "high crimes and misdemeanors," where "high" meant offenses committed while in high office, such as embezzling public funds.
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Whaddayamean we don't have a king?
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| King of Shitty GDP |
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| King of Unemployment |
Or was it the other way around, I can't remember now.
Libertarianism means strengthening Chinese communist totalitarianism with every purchase
Kentucky's 4th Congressional District, ladies and gentlemen, Karl Marx's favorite Republican vacation spot.
Free movement of peoples to the US will destroy it, same as free trade
Generally speaking, the protectionist system today is conservative, whereas the Free Trade system has a destructive effect. It destroys the former nationalities and renders the contrast between proletariat and bourgeoisie more acute. In a word, the Free Trade system is precipitating the social revolution. And only in this revolutionary sense do I vote for Free Trade.
-- Karl Marx, Appendix to Elend der Philosophie, 1847.
I dunno, I think motion-activated machine guns in the no man's land in-between Trump's new fences would be more effective than electrifying them
This one got across before the Border Patrol could catch him.
You don't want to electrify the Mexican side of the fence. That just wouldn't be civilized.
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
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