Thursday, June 13, 2024
Trump has learned nothing, floats wacko bird pie-in-the-sky elimination of income tax
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.
That didn't take long: White House floats commutation of Hunter Biden sentence after saying it wouldn't pardon him or commute it
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.”
Hilarious: Biden signs "10-year" security pact with Ukraine for which there are not 67 votes in the US Senate
Will either Joe Biden or this deal survive even 10 months?
Imagine writing "Every little Allied victory hardens the hearts of the Nazis"
The Jerusalem Post is mentally ill.
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Democrats will just love, love, love this Zero Percent seasonally-adjusted month-over-month inflation chart, again lol
Hey, where'd that 9% inflation from June 2022 go lol?
That low spot in between there is Trump
Obama-Biden, Biden-Harris, have two things in common: Biden and high gasoline prices. OK, three things: Democrat Party. OK, four: tokens of the group most hurt by high gas prices.
No one is above the law except for some of us, like Hallie Biden and the US Secret Service: Yesterday Hunter Biden was convicted of gun crimes, Joe Biden minutes later says families must be held accountable
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.
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Video long suppressed by Democrats shows Nancy Pelosi admitting on January 6th that responsibility for Capitol security was hers
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.”
After Marine Le Pen trounces Macron in EU Parliament elections, the French Republican leader Ciotti backs alliance with Le Pen
"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."
More.
Yeah, because they'll lose Alberta when it joins The Great American Redoubt in Idaho lol
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.
There's video everyday since late 2022 on the site formerly known as Twitter showing Joe Biden completely out of it, but this finally makes it up at Drudge lol?
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.
Monday, June 10, 2024
Sunday, June 9, 2024
The Israeli and American hostages of Hamas are in the Palestinians' own homes and apartments in Gaza
This one was a so-called journalist for Al-Jazeera and the US-based Palestinian Chronicle.
Beltway Republican David Winston for Roll Call wants 2016 to have been about the economy when it was about illegal immigration
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.
On Senility
"You can tell it's still a completely male-dominated society because no one today ever speaks of anility."
-- Imam John
Saturday, June 8, 2024
There was a big drop in the Oceanic Nino Index reading for March-April-May 2024
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.
Friday, June 7, 2024
Native born Americans aren't getting the jobs over the last five years, foreign born workers are
Native born employment is up 0.97 million in 5 years in May 2024, foreign born employment up 3.21 million.
Full time employment appears to have stalled in May 2024
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.
Thursday, June 6, 2024
Chicago Tribune Editorial Board wrings its hands over 450k Illinoisans with concealed carry permits now firing back, calls the right to self-defense "taking the law into your own hands"
Worryingly, we’re seeing more signs of that phenomenon in Chicago, with three separate episodes over the last weekend in which would-be victims proved to be both armed and willing to fire at their assailants. Four people who police said were attacking these concealed carry holders were shot and wounded, all of them critically, according to a report by Block Club Chicago.
More.
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?
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Dwight David Eisenhower: Peak America on this day in 1944, and Peak $SPX Return in 1969 when he died
America also landed on the moon in 1969.
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Breaking from AP Hamas: Biden to slow illegal immigration to 1 million a year from 2 million by executive order!
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.
Nate Cohn of New York Times/Siena College Poll: This time around, Joe Biden has become the broadly unlikeable one
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.
More.
Monday, June 3, 2024
Greek historian Victor Davis Hanson, born in 1953, flips his lid, laughably blames every single problem in America today on the Baby Boomers in a wildly insane rant, my favorite being . . .
. . . 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.
LA Times editorial board lol: You’re not alone if it seems like your electric bill is getting too damn high
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.
Pure fascism: Utility sector is profiteering off the federally subsidized green energy push
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.
Judicial overreach drives Trump critics within the GOP to support him, including Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins, and Mike Pence
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.
More.
Democrat fools like Jennifer Granholm retired 108 gigawatts of coal electric capacity 2011-2021, now say we need 200 gigawatts new capacity by 2050
It took 16 years to get this reactor operational, 15 for Unit 3. Each of these new units are rated for net summer capacity of 1.1 gigawatts.
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!
Says the guy who let in 10 million new illegal aliens
In the old America, this son of a bitch would have been impeached, tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail.
Sunday, June 2, 2024
Emerson College Polling: Trump ahead of Biden in New York among independents by 10 points
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.
More.
Saturday, June 1, 2024
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