Ugly American news

An American tourist, 40ish, destroyed two second century AD Roman statues at the Israel Museum because they violated the Torah.

Sad story.

OK who does that other than ISIS and the Taliban?

Average protein prices per pound August 2023 vs. 2019 annual average

Ground Beef: $5.076 / $3.807, up 33.3%

Pork Chops: $4.359 / $3.339, up 30.5%

Bacon: $6.502 / $5.613, up 15.8%

Chicken: $1.958 / $1.495, up 30.97%

Dozen eggs: $2.043 / $1.396, up 46.3%

Dried beans: $1.702 / $1.344, up 26.6%

Gallon milk: $3.927 / $3.036, up 29.3%

Cheddar cheese: $5.897 / $5.308, up 11.1%

Cup of yogurt: $1.576 / $1.115, up 41.3%

The White Nation picks up the torch of the Congressional Black Caucasians against Gavin Two-Faced Newsom

Why Barbara Lee Should Be a Senator

John Nichols, The Nation

 

The governor signaled that, while he was committed to naming a woman of color, he didn’t want to give Lee the advantage of appointed incumbency. This was a new standard, developed by Newsom since his last appointment of a senator in 2021, when he chose Alex Padilla to replace newly elected Vice President Kamala Harris. As an appointed incumbent, Padilla ran for and easily won a full term in 2022. This time, Newsom said, he wanted to make an “interim appointment”—indicating an apparent preference for a caretaker senator who would merely finish out Feinstein’s term and then leave the Senate.

It was an absurd calculus, offering the prospect of a brief rather than ongoing expansion of representation for Black women in the Senate, and Lee called him out for it. The representative said in a statement, “The idea that a Black woman should be appointed only as a caretaker to simply check a box is insulting to countless Black women across this country who have carried the Democratic Party to victory election after election.”

 

One mechanism was a foreign remittances tax, but Paul Waldman and Donald Trump just leave that out

 Here:

When he ran for president in 2016, few of Donald Trump’s promises thrilled his supporters more than his pledge not just to build a wall on the southern border, but to force Mexico to pick up the tab. “And who’s going to pay for it?” he’d say at his rallies. The crowd would shout back joyfully, “Mexico!” It wasn’t about the money; the point was to conjure a fantasy of America standing tall and dominating our neighbor; their humiliation would be our glory.

A fantasy is just what it was, as Trump now admits. At a speech in Iowa on Sunday, he blurted out the truth. “When you hear these lunatics back there,” he said, pointing at the news media, “say, ‘Trump didn’t get anything from Mexico,’ well, you know, there was no legal mechanism. I said they’re going to help fund this wall, but there was no legal mechanism. How do you go to a country, you say, ‘By the way I’m building a wall, hand us a lot of money.’”

Of course it was about the money. Everything is about the money.

It wasn't a fantasy to neoliberal Bush 43 pal Vicente Fox, who took it seriously enough at the time when Trump first proposed to make Mexico pay that he wouldn't pay.

This is revisionist history by Trump and by Waldman, which pretends there was no Border Wall Funding Act of 2017, nor serious elite opposition to its provision for a foreign remittances tax.

Trump would simply like to erase the history of his phony immigration promises, and Waldman would simply like no one to entertain seriously the particulars, which show there is a giant pot of money easily taxed to pay for border security.

Foreign remittances to the Latin South reached $142 billion in 2022, and Mexico's share was $60 billion.

The government of the United States farts away billions of dollars every minute of every day. Funding a $25 billion wall is a flea on that elephant's back. The fierce opposition to it is the thing of real size.

 

 

Nancy Mace has it both ways

 

CNN: Everyone elected to office from California is a Democrat

 

Police state: two-thirds of the FBI's current investigations are focused on Trump supporters

 

FBI Targets Trump Followers as the 2024 Election Nears

William Arkin, Newsweek

Richest man in England can't be a woman

 

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak: "We Shouldn't Be Bullied Into Believing People Can Be Any Sex They Want To Be, They Can't"

 

 

Wanting-it-both-ways DeSantis strikes again

 

Ron DeSantis: "I Was One Of the Guys That Opposed McCarthy Before It Was Cool" :

At the same time, though, I look at guys like Chip Roy, Tom Massie, Jim Jordan, and they’re basically saying there’s not a plan to go forward with whatever Matt Gaetz is doing.

Pope Chicken Little says the world is collapsing!

 

Pope Francis warns planet ‘is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point’

Republicans barely control one half of the legislative branch and eight of 'em decide to eat each other instead of to live to fight again in 45 days

 Brilliant, just brilliant.

McCarthy removed as speaker 216-210.

The roll call vote is here.

Eight Republicans joined 208 Democrats to depose McCarthy as Speaker.

the eight Republicans who voted to oust McCarthy as Speaker included that slut Nancy Mace

not even that Scrooge Thomas Massie voted to depose McCarthy

Nancy Pelosi had just enough class not to vote at all

 

It's a good thing California's new senator from Maryland was appointed because those voting machines, you know, are unreliable in her opinion

 

Multimedia journalism major with a minor in Spanish says it's a good time to buy bonds

It's a Good Time To Buy Bonds. Just Know What You're Getting Into

At least she doesn't have degrees in English literature and philosophy like that John B. Chambers bond expert who downgraded the USA from AAA for S&P back in 2011.

I mean, she's a Wall Street Journal Fellow after all, where they still have some standards.

Hunter Biden pleads not guilty to gun charges

 

How many Congressional Democrat carjackings have to occur in DC before they call it an insurrection?

 

Texas congressman carjacked in Navy Yard by 3 armed suspects, staff says 

There have been 750 carjackings in D.C. so far this year, according to police data. That is nearly double the number of carjackings at this time last year.

 

Julie Kelly points out that Matthew M. Graves has prosecuted 1,100 so-called insurrectionists, none of whom have been charged with it, and that his wife Fatima Goss is the left wing harridan your daddy warned you about

 

Activist Wife Networks at White House While Husband Jails J6ers

Julie Kelly, RCI

I hope California is happy with its new US Senator from Maryland

Newsom picks Maryland Resident Laphonza Butler for California Senator... 

First Black lesbian to serve in Congress...  

NY Gov Hochul brings her son Bart to the Statue of Liberty

 

LOL NY Governor Democrat Kathy Hochul doesn't want the huddled masses yearning to breathe free

 

NY Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul: We Need "A Limit To Who Can Come Across The Border, It Is Too Open"

Congressional Black Caucasians most hurt

Newsom selects EMILY'S LIST leader to fill Feinstein Senate seat... 
 

 

The Congressional Black Caucus had urged Newsom to appoint Lee, saying she was the "only person with the courage, the vision, and the record to eradicate poverty, face down the fossil fuel industry, defend our democracy, and tirelessly advance the progressive agenda.