The federal government now needs about $6 trillion in revenue annually for the budget, social security, and medicare.
Imports of goods and services last year were valued at $3.83 trillion. You'd have to tariff all that at 160% or so to come up with $6 trillion. When pigs fly.
Trump promised big cuts to spending and to the size of the government workforce in 2016. Never happened.
This won't either.
The White House isn’t ruling out a potential commutation for Hunter Biden after his conviction
The position from the White House is a shift from what it said in September, when Jean-Pierre was asked whether the president would “pardon or commute his son if he’s convicted.” The press secretary responded at the time that “I’ve answered this question before. It was asked of me not too long ago, a couple of weeks ago. And I was very clear, and I said no.”
Will either Joe Biden or this deal survive even 10 months?
The Jerusalem Post is mentally ill.
Hey, where'd that 9% inflation from June 2022 go lol?
Apparently Hallie Biden won't be charged in any of this.
Nor the US Secret Service, which swooped in to try and get Hunter's falsified background check paperwork for the gun purchase and make Hunter's little problem go away:
Secret Service agents approached the owner of the store where Hunter bought the gun and asked to take the paperwork involving the sale, according to two people, one of whom has firsthand knowledge of the episode and the other was briefed by a Secret Service agent after the fact.
The gun store owner refused to supply the paperwork, suspecting that the Secret Service officers wanted to hide Hunter’s ownership of the missing gun in case it were to be involved in a crime, the two people said. The owner, Ron Palmieri, later turned over the papers to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, which oversees federal gun laws.
Read the whole thing from Politico, March 25, 2021, here.
The Secret Service made the White House cocaine problem go away just last summer.
Here.
“We have responsibility, Terri. We did not have any accountability for what was going on there. And we should have. This is ridiculous. You’re going to ask me in the middle of the thing when they’ve already breached…that, should we call the Capitol Police? I mean the National Guard? Why weren’t the National Guard there to begin with?…They clearly didn’t know, and I take responsibility for not having them just prepared for more.”
"I think the country has never been so right-wing," Ciotti said. "It expects the right, it expects right-wing action. We can no longer rely on impotence, on communication, on a form of immobilism that has led us to where we are now."
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The story never mentions that most Canadians hate Trudeau, same as Trump does.
Why Canada Is Worried About a US Civil War...
Donald Trump’s policies and personal behavior toward Canada — including trashing Trudeau after a previous G7 meeting in Quebec — have left a painful mark.
Video of Biden Appearing to Freeze at Juneteenth Event Raises Questions...
This is completely unfair. Watch the video and you'll see a black guy in the row behind Biden and to his left just about as stiff as Joe.
The alarming stuff is the gibberish coming out his mouth here here and here.
This one was a so-called journalist for Al-Jazeera and the US-based Palestinian Chronicle.
This slight-of-hand reasoning is how Trump got co-opted by the GOP in 2017 in the first place, and it's how they're going to co-opt him again should he win. Beltway Republicans love, love, love immigration, so the top issue cannot, must not, be that.
In 2016, the economy was the top issue, just as today . . ..
Here.
Trump's controversial 2015-2016 message was immigration, immigration, immigration for 14 straight months, until Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway got a hold of him in August 2016.
Trump barely won.
Trump's unfavorables were indeed high, but not because Hillary drove them there as Winston says. People forget that Trump did that all by himself. He ended up underperforming John McCain 2008 in 12 states and DC.
Trump was an insurgent candidate who exploited division within the GOP to capture the nomination. The 2016 primary popular vote for Cruz, Rubio, and Kasich exceeded Trump's 13.3 million.
That division has subsided, but it has never gone away, and Winston is one of the other side's smooth operators who still want to change the subject to anything else but the issue staring everyone in the face, from working class Americans now competing with 8 million new illegals for wages to upper class suburban denizens of Massachusetts being told to cope with hordes of new students in public schools they never designed to accommodate this flood.
That's the issue confronting voters, not Trump's Kangaroo Kourt Konviction, about which David wrings his hands.
If there's any vengeance in American politics about which we should be upset in 2024, Joe Biden's open southern border is surely it.
"You can tell it's still a completely male-dominated society because no one today ever speaks of anility."
-- Imam John
From 1.2 to 0.8.
The current El Nino has persisted for twelve consecutive measuring periods, averaging an anomaly of 1.358, a moderate event according to the scale (1.0-1.4).
There are two periods left in the current 2023-2024 season.
Native born employment is up 0.97 million in 5 years in May 2024, foreign born employment up 3.21 million.
Full time as a percentage of civilian population appears to have stalled in May 2024 at 49.73.
Jan-May average 49.43, lowest since 2021.
Level is 2.46 million down from Jun 2023 peak.
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Yeah, citizens doing the job the cops and the courts won't do is horrible.
Hey, concealed carry holders, go back to the range and improve your aim, will ya?
America also landed on the moon in 1969.
The only true sentence in this story from AP Hamas:
Biden’s order is aimed at trying to head off any potential spike in border encounters that could happen later this year, closer to the November elections.
Biden's scores of executive orders on Day One of his administration created this catastrophe of 10 million illegal aliens in the first place, as even AP Obama knows but won't say:
Administration lawyers have been planning to tap executive powers outlined in Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which gives a president broad authority to block entry of certain immigrants into the U.S. if it is deemed “detrimental” to the national interest. It is the same legal rationale used by Trump to take some of his toughest actions on migration as president.
Donald Trump has never been popular. He’s still not popular. His unfavorability rating is just as high today as it was heading into Election Day 2020. This group of disengaged voters doesn’t like Donald Trump, and never did. What’s changed, to my mind, is that Joe Biden went from being a broadly appealing person — they didn’t necessarily love him, they didn’t necessarily even like him, but he was acceptable — to someone who many voters do not find acceptable anymore.
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. . . the Baby Boomers destroyed the southern border . . ..
Here.
Immigration policy in the United States was forever radically altered in 1965, by no one born in the Baby Boom.
The average age of a US Representative in 1965 was 51.4, the Congress of which overwhelmingly passed the destructive reform 320-70, which ended the American commitment to social homogeneity prevailing from the 1920s.
This was an act of American hubris, born of victory in WWII. One would think Hanson would know about that.
Their average birth year puts them in 1914, children of the mentally-ill Progressive Era (1896–1917) which gave us the income tax (1909), popular election of senators (1913), prohibition of alcohol (1919), and women's suffrage (1920), all of which were sufferable as long as their was social stability. Well, except for the prohibition.
The biggest problem affecting Baby Boomers is a lazy attention to our own history, and perhaps self-hatred.
From the story here, slightly edited for clarity:
State greenhouse gas reduction Fascist government policies are pushing forcing residents to adopt
electric cars and appliances that will only increase their electricity
consumption.
Utility stocks are on fire — here are Wall Street analysts' top picks :
The S&P 500 Utilities ETF (XLU) is up more than 12% year to date in a reversal from last year when investors soured on the sector due to expensive projects and high interest rates. ...
Constellation Energy (CEG) is the largest owner of nuclear plants in the US. The Baltimore-based company has been a beneficiary of the government's push to transition to green energies and growing power demand from data centers. Constellation shares are up more than 85% year to date as the company forecasts base earnings to grow by at least 10% annually through the decade. ... The analyst highlights that Constellation produces power at roughly $25 per megawatt hour, while the government's Inflation Reduction Act allows for a selling price floor of $45 per megawatt hour, providing a minimum of $20 margin per megawatt hour. ... Constellation has been operating as a standalone energy provider since 2022 after a spin-off from utility giant Exelon (EXC). The company has been buying back shares and recently upped its dividend ahead of its earnings due on Thursday. ...
NextEra Energy (NEE): The $147-billion-market-cap company is one of the largest electric
power generators in the country. While NextEra owns a regulated utility
in Florida, investors are more interested in its non-regulated part of
the business, NextEra Energy Resources, which involves developing
renewable energy in the US. ... "The re-domestication of industry in the US supported by public
policy will drive the need for more electricity," CEO John Ketchum told
analysts in April. The stock is up about 20% year to date. ...
Among the regulated utilities, Southern Company (SO) is one of the best performers inside the Utility sector year to date, with shares up more than 10%.
It's great to be a Democrat.
Even former Trump Vice President Mike Pence, who has refused to endorse Trump, called the verdict an “outrage.” ...
“He might win in a landslide,” said Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) last month about the political impact of a guilty verdict on Trump’s chances in the general election. “It looks so awful.”
Paul noted that New York’s statute of limitations had expired on Trump’s falsification of business records, which forced Bragg to combine them with campaign finance violations to bring his case forward.
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By 2028 alone it is estimated the US will need 38 gigawatts of new peak demand capacity.
Waynesboro, GA
May 31, 2024
Startup of Unit 4 makes Vogtle the largest source of carbon-free power on U.S. electric grid:
To reach our goal of net zero by 2050, we have to at least triple our
current nuclear capacity in this country. That means we’ve got to add
200 more gigawatts by 2050. Okay, two down, 198 to go!
In the old America, this son of a bitch would have been impeached, tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail.
Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, noted that independents in New York are backing Trump by a significant margin.
“Independent voters in New York who traditionally vote for Democrats,
according to exit polling, have flipped to lean toward Trump by a
margin of 10 points, 43% to 33%,” Kimball said in a statement. ...
Last week, the presumptive GOP nominee held his first campaign rally in New York — his birth state — since 2016.
The South Bronx event, permitted for 3,500 attendees, drew a crowd of between 8,000 and 10,000 people, law enforcement sources told The Post. ...
The Emerson College poll surveyed 1,000 New York voters between May 28 and 29. It had a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
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Josh Hammer, here:
The imperative of this late hour of the American republic, in order to even attempt to rebalance our wildly off-balance pendulum, is to respond to the Left as it has acted toward us: by wielding political and prosecutorial power to reward friends and punish enemies -- to reward our side's forces of civilizational sanity and punish their side's forces of civilizational arson -- within the broad confines of the rule of law.
If we want to get back to "neutrality," at this perilous point, it's going to first take bloodying up some noses. That is unfortunate for those Americans who actually do value and cherish neutral enforcement of the rule of law. But yet again, here we are.
Above all, it is imperative that the Right not bat an eyelash. Do not be intimidated by this blatant show of crass thuggery masquerading as a legal proceeding. It's now full steam ahead through November. We must make these miscreants pay for what they have done.
Frankly, sympathetic as I am, I don't see how that will change anything. It will simply validate lawfare, the weaponizing of the legal system for political ends.
Democrats have crossed the Rubicon.
Escalation seems inevitable, but then there will be more escalation after that, and more after that.
That's what this means.
There has to be a better way.
Nominal GDP came in at a revised $28.255 trillion.
Sounds like a lot, right?
Here's the big picture.
From 1947 to 2000, nominal GDP grew at a compound annual rate of 7.26%.
From 2000 to 2024, nominal GDP grew at a compound annual rate of 4.42%, 39% lower.
The year 2000 marks the US opening to China, and the great wealth transfer out of the US from the middle class under globalism, creating new middle classes there and elsewhere.
We are poorer for it, but we have lots more billionaires now and you can read all about it on your Apple iPhone made by slave labor while you eat your 40% more expensive hamburger from McDonalds since 2019.
