Bernie renews his immigration restrictionist views from 2015: The world's full of poor people, we can't let them all in here

Bernie Sanders Says U.S. Can't Have 'Open Borders' Because Poor People Will Come 'From All Over the World':

“Oh my god, there’s a lot of poverty in this world, and you’re going to have people from all over the world. And I don’t think that’s something that we can do at this point. Can’t do it,” the senator added.

 

In Beto's America everyone will have just one shirt

Rush Limbaugh wonders how people can call a Jewish person a white nationalist

Good point, El Rushbo!

They are innoculated against everything.

Ilhan Omar, who is from a shit-hole country, joins the shit-posters, tweeting the year-ago-debunked "animals"

Loser in Georgia gubernatorial contest Stacey Abrams says her vote was suppressed while taking credit for turnout surge

Ding dong.

Abrams Complains Race Was Stolen Through Voter Suppression, Boasts of Huge Turnout Increases in Same Interview:

"I ran a race where … we tripled Latino turnout, Asian-Pacific Islander turnout, increased youth participation rates by 138 percent, increased black turnout by 40 percent, and I got the highest share of white voters in a generation," she said. "It is not a zero-sum game, and we have to remember that winning elections is about building the largest coalition possible." ...

"I'm not saying I absolutely know I would have won, but we know that thousands of Georgians had their voices stolen because they were not able to cast ballots and they cannot be guaranteed that their votes will be counted in 2020 if we don't do this right," she said.

Georgia voter turnout surged from 43 percent in 2014, the last governor's race year in the state, to 57 percent in 2018. ... Abrams lost by less than 55,000 votes but failed to force a runoff as Kemp continued a Republican state-wide winning streak. However, Abrams has refused to officially concede she lost, saying "we won," accusing Kemp of systemic voter suppression tactics, and saying the race was "stolen" from the voters of Georgia.

They didn't win their wars fair and square, AND they stole everybody's food, too

PEW says 68% say openness to the world is essential to who Americans are, GALLUP says Americans overwhelmingly also want a free lunch of low taxes and high infrastructure spending

I want a horsey.

Timeline for resignation of DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen shows Ryan James Girdusky of One America News Network is well connected

The Trump presidency is like a broken slot machine: The numbers keep coming up 777 but no cash ever comes out

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.

 

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.

Dan Rather 2017: Trump's an animal; Dan Rather 2019: Calling people animals is despicable

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.

 

CNN, the Censorship News Network

Déjà Vu Boo Boo, 'cause they're not journalists but advocates

AP deletes tweet on Trump's 'animals' comment: 'It wasn't made clear he was speaking' about MS-13

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.

Could mean trouble ahead: Layoffs in 1Q2019 almost as high as in 1Q2008

Average hourly earnings are up 3.4% two quarters in a row for 80% of workers, but still fall short of pre-Great Recession highs

The longest previous expansions of full-time jobs each lasted six years, this one has finished seven and may be over without achieving Reagan-era levels

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.