China's richest man outed as Communist Party member after pre-mature resignation announcement

Like these are unrelated developments, or surprising after the rise of Xi Jinping Pooh.

No one makes Jack Ma kind of money in China without the blessing of the Communist Party. And no one stops making Jack Ma kind of money without the urging of the Communist Party.

People do very well indeed under "communism".

Alibaba's Jack Ma is a Communist Party member, China state paper reveals:

Jack Ma, the head of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is a Communist Party member, the official Party newspaper said on Monday, debunking a public assumption the billionaire was politically unattached.

The People's Daily revealed Ma's Party membership in a list of 100 people it said had helped drive the country "reform and opening up" process. Ma is China's richest man with a fortune of $35.8 billion, according to Forbes.

If you thought Hawaii's Senator Mazie Hirono was a dingbat, its Senator Brian Schatz just proved he's fit to be her equally loopy consort

"Of course it helps that there are women on that committee. ... But really, guess who's perpetuating all of these kinds of actions? It's the men in this country. And I just want to say to the men in this country: Just shut up and step up. Do the right thing for a change."

 

"Not only do women like Dr. Ford, who bravely comes forward, need to be heard, but they need to be believed. They need to be believed," Hirono said alongside her Democratic colleagues Tuesday at a news conference on Capitol Hill.

Melania Trump inaugurates Christmas truce between warring Republican factions

They also stormed the southern border at Thanksgiving time 2013

Dramatic video of "border rush"

"Staged by a few instigators"

Hm.

Justin Raimondo knows Mexico is the real threat to America, but he's so against war he can't argue for it when he needs to

Forget the Russian ‘Threat’: Mexico Is Our Real Problem:

The cartels control our southern neighbor

[W]e hear almost nothing about the one country where journalists who report on official corruption are routinely killed, and in such numbers that the death toll makes Russia look like a utopian paradise – Mexico, where more than one-hundred reporters have been slaughtered by the drug cartels and their collaborators inside the Mexican government. The killers are rarely found, let alone punished:  as of 2012, 98% of homicides in Mexico went unsolved. ...

Some problems don’t have solutions, and this may be one of them. The accumulated stupidity and venality of the Mexican and US authorities over past decades has created such a toxic brew of social decomposition and political dysfunction that we can only await the coming explosion with a mixture of fear and hope – hope that our leaders will force their gaze away from the far horizons of the Middle East and focus on the rising crisis right here on our own southern border.

 

The number of doofusses taking Hillary's recent immigration comments seriously is truly astounding

It's self-evident that Hillary's "new" view about immigration is nothing more than immigration reform as a means to an end, namely the center-left's election to power in order to defeat populism and the right.

Her response to the situation of her defeat is completely in keeping with Marx, who viewed the embrace of the free-trade doctrine of unalloyed capitalism as an accelerant for The Revolution. The important thing is not that the left is wrong about "late stage capitalism". The important thing is that they are insincere about what they say they believe in common with us. 

Yet everywhere I go otherwise sane people are talking shit about this. Ooh everyone's coming around to Trump's way of thinking, and so on.

Like Obama who lied about his own mother's health insurance in propounding Obamacare, Hillary will use anything and anyone to get where she wants to go.

 

Obviously what's needed isn't a Wall with Mexico, what's needed is a War

Take over the Central Plateau and then push them into the seas east and west.

Under my proposal Chief Justice John Roberts' appointment to the Supreme Court would have expired in 2017

Do you think Trump would have reappointed him to four more years?

"There are too many people in prison"

Yeah like Harry Reid getting rid of the Senate filibuster rule for "Obama judges" wasn't called "the nuclear option" BY EVERYONE

If only Democrats realized that the easiest and cheapest way to get rid of Donald Trump is to give him his damn Wall

What's he going to run on after that, huh?

In the lame duck Pelosi in the House and Schumer in the Senate could allow just enough Democrats to go along with it that they could arguably still blame it on the Republican controlled 115th Congress.

But they are mean bastards. They'd rather inflict us with him for eight years instead of four.

Stephen L. Miller's Exhibit A for why all pie is garbage

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em: Hillary now laughably blames fear of immigrants for her loss, says Europe must curb immigration, thinks the people crave tyranny!

Now we're sure she's a drunk. 

Both Clintons used to say this crap about immigration to America back in ancient times when they ruled in Washington, even as they did NOTHING to reduce the levels of legal immigration into the United States, levels which were dramatically ramped up by their predecessor, George Herbert Walker Bush.

They don't give a damn about Americans. Immigration is only a problem to them because it puts the wrong people in power.

Hillary Clinton: Europe must curb immigration to stop rightwing populists:

“I think Europe needs to get a handle on migration because that is what lit the flame,” Clinton said, speaking as part of a series of interviews with senior centrist political figures about the rise of populists, particularly on the right, in Europe and the Americas.

“I admire the very generous and compassionate approaches that were taken particularly by leaders like Angela Merkel, but I think it is fair to say Europe has done its part, and must send a very clear message – ‘we are not going to be able to continue provide refuge and support’ – because if we don’t deal with the migration issue it will continue to roil the body politic.” ...

Clinton urged forces opposed to rightwing populism in Europe and the US not to neglect the concerns about race and identity issues that she says were behind her losing key votes in 2016. She accused Trump of exploiting the issue in the election contest – and in office. ...

“The whole American system was designed so that you would eliminate the threat from a strong, authoritarian king or other leader and maybe people are just tired of it. They don’t want that much responsibility and freedom. They want to be told what to do and where to go and how to live … and only given one version of reality.

One way to reform the federal judiciary

One way to reform the federal judiciary would be simply to appoint judges to serve for a period of twelve years but not after that but for the pleasure of the president.

That way any judge coming up on the end of his or her twelfth year would continue to serve only at the pleasure of the current president for four more years, and the president after him or her for four more years, and so on after that. Only new appointees to a court would enjoy the initial twelve year privilege.

The restriction would extend some accountability which now vanishes once one receives a lifetime appointment.

This way there is more hopefulness about the judiciary for both sides of the political spectrum. Both liberals and conservatives would have the reasonable expectation that the consequences of the political process would endure, but not for what might as well be forever, making all parties more accountable to the people.

Senator Chuck Grassley joins President Trump in piling on Bush's Chief Justice John Roberts over Obama's judges

The track record of presidents' judicial appointees is effulgent with political consequence, which is why liberals don't want you to think about the court that way and try to mask it with the myth of judicial independence.

Liberals impose their will by judicial fiat because they can't get their policies through the ordinary democratic way by winning elections.

Hurrah for Grassley! 

Chuck Grassley to Chief Justice John Roberts: You Rebuked Trump — but Sat Silent Through Obama’s Abuse

 

 

"Ten years ago I made over $22 an hour"

"Now I make $11."

"Thanks a lot."

And Stephen L. Miller reminds us it takes a bitch to know one

Too late, Representative Tulsi Gabbard says being Saudi Arabia's bitch is not America First

One term president doesn't understand the importance of not appearing to be Saudi Arabia's bitch

One term president happy to keep digging his own grave, cares for nothing but money and glory

It would be so easy to develop more oil here in the USA, but there's another promise out the window. All in the hope of getting a piece of paper declaring peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

The United $emites run this country.