Monday, April 8, 2019
Trump was going to overturn Obama's illegal DACA executive order on day one, instead he's renewed 373,610 under it since January 2018
A whopping 373,610 illegal aliens have received DACA renewal just since January 2018:
During the presidential campaign, Trump promised
to “immediately terminate President Obama’s two illegal executive
amnesties in which he defied federal law and the Constitution.”
Fast-forward almost three years later, and we see that this very amnesty
created a global incentive to come here with children and obtain
immediate amnesty. The campaign promise is long overdue, and the
consequences of keeping the amnesty culture are intensifying by the day.
Sunday, April 7, 2019
I don't care if post-Boomers don't want to hear it, we are living in a country whose real rate of economic growth has shrunk by 47% since the Great Recession
We are in deep kimchi.
And please note that Trump hasn't fixed it. The year 2015 was better than 2018.
Saturday, April 6, 2019
CNN's Amanpour thinks it's the duty of journalists to keep certain things secret, like Hillary's health
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour Formally Comes Out as Pro-Hillary, Anti-Journalism:
Where it was their job to be adversarial, journalists instead [occasionally] chose collusion and the democratic process suffered.
Now Amanpour would have us do the same, but with
“sexism” as the excuse instead of privacy concerns. It’s not sexist or
wrong or intrusive for journalists to inquire about a presidential
candidate’s health after they’ve obviously fallen ill in a public
setting, or to demand transparency from public officials. It’s just
called journalism.
Suddenly Trump is channeling Bart Simpson on immigrants: Our country is full so turn around
Trump to Illegal Immigrants: The Country Is Full, So Turn Around:
I say, and this is our new statement, the system is full. We can't take you anymore. Whether it is asylum or anything you want, illegal immigration, we can't take you anymore. Our country is full. Our area is full. The sector is full. We can't take you anymore. Sorry, can't happen. So turn around, that's the way it is.
The context of the full remarks appears to be making the case that Border Patrol can and should stop following procedures under these new, extraordinary circumstances, but without real presidential backup apart from these words I think it highly unlikely that anyone will take the risk of acting independently. The president needs to intervene in an unconventional, convincing manner, and so far this looks like just more talk with no action of that kind likely to follow.
Friday, April 5, 2019
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Ann Coulter shows her hubris here, opining about unemployment which she understands little better than Rush Limbaugh
Yes, there was an effort in 2010 and 2011 to track Americans unemployed "260 weeks or longer", but that is irrelevant to the unemployment rate, which has declined so much because so many are no longer counted in the labor force, that's all. That would include the long term "unemployed", who aren't really unemployed because those people get kicked out of the labor force according to the definitions used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
You may not like that. You may not agree with that. But that's what happens. If you haven't looked for work in 4 weeks but have in the last year, you'll still be in the labor force, but after a year you are out if you've given up looking. And presto, when millions can't find work in this shrunken economy, they drop out by not looking any longer, so the labor force shrinks, and thus fewer people get counted as unemployed. It's as simple as that.
A better way to look at it is, How many people have full time jobs?
Since 1968 the average percent of the civilian noninstitutional population employed full time at peaks has been 51.2%. At troughs it has been 48.6%. In February 2019 49.9% had full time jobs.
At 51.2% in February 2019 instead of at 49.9%, however, we'd have about 3.46 million more working full time than we actually have.
That's what is wrong with the Trump economy inherited from Obama.
There remains no economic driver for a jobs boom.
Ann is still right, however. Why on earth would you import more people to America in a situation of labor slack like this?
It's insane, and perverse. It does active harm to people already here who can't find full time work.
Unfortunately, Donald Trump hasn't got a clue about this.
Like I said, we are well and truly screwed.
Trump withdraws threat to close the border, which will only create a bigger surge at the border
The quintessential boomer parent who doesn't know how to say No, doesn't really want to say No, and actually means Yes when he does say No.
What a disaster this guy is. The kids are already running wild, and it will only get worse.
Trump capitulates on border closure (ONE YEAR!), Ann Coulter was right when she called him a wimp
Ann Coulter takes victory lap after Trump backs down from border closure:
Trump recently scaled back his threat to close the border, saying that Mexico now has a year to get illegal crossings under control before Trump takes drastic action.
Incompetent Trump: Republicans will always support pre-existing conditions!
He means coverage for pre-existing conditions, not the conditions.
I think.
Incompetent CNBC: "MacKenzie shared that her and ex-husband completed the process"
That's how they talk around here in west Michigan. Not supposed to happen in New York.
LOL Incompetent WOOD Radio 1300 in Grand Rapids has run Wednesday's weather report today at 1230pm, 100pm and just now at 130pm
And then "Want to hear it again?" they advertize right after that.
Can't make this stuff up, but hey, it's the station of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity in Grand Rapids.
Wednesday's weather report was better anyway, sunny and windy. Today it's cloudy and less windy. I like how they help me remember yesterday.
Update 203pm: We're tracking a sunny but very windy Wednesday!
Update 232pm: We're tracking a sunny but very windy Wednesday!
Update 303pm: Fixed it! Chucky took over the microphone from Megan at 230pm and didn't like the tape he was hearing! "Hey, this is Thursday! Why are we playing yesterday's weather?"
Update 203pm: We're tracking a sunny but very windy Wednesday!
Update 232pm: We're tracking a sunny but very windy Wednesday!
Update 303pm: Fixed it! Chucky took over the microphone from Megan at 230pm and didn't like the tape he was hearing! "Hey, this is Thursday! Why are we playing yesterday's weather?"
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