Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Monday, January 27, 2025
Ugly Americanism is not the way
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
A Democrat moves to the center: Ritchie Torres (NY-15) calls out AOC (NY-14) and Governor Hochul
Here:
“I’m a controversial figure in Democratic politics,” he says. His affection for the Jewish state makes him “particularly radioactive to the far left. There’s no issue on which I face more hate, harassment, and even death threats.” Mr. Torres says there is “a deep strain of antisemitism on the far left.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who represents the neighboring 14th District, has repeatedly accused Israel of “genocide.” ... On Jan. 16, two days after Gov. Kathy Hochul delivered her State of the State address, Mr. Torres accused her of failing to support the state’s Jews. “Antisemitic hate crimes have risen to historic highs in New York,” he tweeted. “Yet when I searched the Governor’s State of the State for the word ‘antisemitism,’ nothing came up.” He tells me the next day that “the governor had a 140-page policy document and there was not a single mention of antisemitism. Never mind that Jews are the target of more hate crimes than everyone else combined. None of that mattered to her.”
Sunday, January 26, 2025
The Trump administration is no different than the Bush 43 administration: You're either with us or against us
The oh so precious little commie Alex Soros fears the Trump bullies when it's the GOP Senate which Trump still can't completely intimidate.
Alex is worried that Marx was wrong about the tragedy coming first lol.
Don't worry, Alex. It's only Farce, part deux.
Real return from stocks was better under Trump I than under Biden
S&P 500 average real return, dividends fully reinvested
Nov 2016--Nov 2020: 13.18% per annum
Nov 2020--Nov 2024: 9.97% per annum
On a nominal basis it was a draw, that's how bad inflation was for stocks: Trump 15.33% per annum vs. Biden 15.39% per annum.
Although the Reagan Bull from July 1982--August 2000 was spectacular, yielding 18.99% nominal and 15.28% real, the actual Reagan era itself was still a huge battle with inflation
Nov 1980--Nov 1984: 10.5% nominal, 4.9% real
Nov 1984--Nov 1988: 17.06% nominal, 13.22% real.
Saturday, January 25, 2025
I don't trust either of these guys as far as I can throw them
In 2016 J. D. Vance and Pete Hegseth were both conventional NeverTrumpers, and had not been particularly religious.
Hegseth was for Marco Rubio in 2015-16 originally, and then for Ted Cruz before acquiescing to Trump. Vance didn't come around to Trump until 2021, whom he needed in his run for US Senate in 2022 from Ohio.
Pete supposedly had a religious transformation in 2018, according to new Wikipedia information, which however contradicts itself:
"He has said that he underwent a religious transformation in 2018 following his marriage to his third wife" but
"Hegseth and Rauchet, who has three young children from her first marriage, married on August 16, 2019."
Oops. Sounds like it was more like 2019, but who really knows? Wikipedia only found out yesterday that Hegseth was born on June 6, 1980. How does this country approve a SECDEF without knowing until now when he was even born?
Meanwhile J. D. converted to Catholicism in 2019, what a coincidence, but was an atheist roughly until he was in law school at Yale during the first Obama administration. His "faith" is primarily intellectual by his own admission.
And now look at the two of 'em lol.
Phony baloney plastic banana good time rock 'n rollas who lick their fingers, stick them in the air, and check whichaway the wind comin' from uh huh.
Friday, January 24, 2025
Pete Hegseth is confirmed to SECDEF 51-50, VP Vance breaks 50-50 tie
Republican Senators Murkowski, Collins, and McConnell voted against Pete Hegseth, necessitating the tie-breaking vote from Vice President J. D. Vance.
Hell of a hill for Vance to die on.
Sad!
Trump pardons 23 pro-lifers convicted under cockamamie Freedom of Access to Clinics (FACE) Act, at least 10 others named are still in the slammer
Trump pardons 23 pro-life activists convicted of FACE Act violations
Many are still incarcerated. Lauren Handy, a Catholic convicted for her participation in a 2020 abortion clinic blockade in Washington, has been serving the longest sentence: 57 months.
According to a list maintained by Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, Handy is currently in a federal prison in Florida. Idoni is incarcerated in Florida; Marshall and Goodman in Connecticut; Darnel and Calvin Zastrow in Illinois; Hinshaw in Massachusetts; Geraghty in Pennsylvania; Calvin Zastrow in Illinois; and Williams, who was arrested for protesting outside an abortion clinic in New York City, in Alabama.
Repealing the 22nd Amendment is a great idea, but not Republican Andy Ogles' (TN-5) idea of revising it to allow Trump a third term but not Clinton, Bush 43, nor Obama
Constitutional amendment to allow Trump third term introduced in the House
Ogles' idea that Trump was denied the power inherent in two successive terms is an admission that the 22nd Amendment limits the power of the executive.
Is the Congress so limited? No.
Is the Judiciary so limited? No.
The 22nd Amendment is an unfair limitation on the power of the executive.
That is why we have dueling tyrannies, one of the legislative, and one of the judicial.
The one has put us $36 trillion in debt because it has the power of the purse. The other has jammed a code down our throats from time to time because in Marbury vs. Madison the Supremes arrogated to themselves the final say on the meaning of the constitution.
The founders intended the three branches to be separate, contending, equal powers.
The 22nd Amendment prevents the executive from contending beyond two terms, and so we are condemned to focusing unnaturally on who will be president every four years, which has the ironic effect of exalting the presidency to the point that there is all this hubbub all the time about the imperial presidency when our real masters are others, a neat trick those masters work like mad to pull and pull and pull.
Term limit everybody, or term limit no one.
Al Hunt and James Carville laughably pretend that Obama didn't dominate Washington by flooding the zone with shit like Trump is doing
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| Hey Obama! Guess where I'm calling from! |
Al Hunt:
And [Trump] dominates today like no other president I've seen. And he
dominates with a reckless disregard for truth and more importantly, for
the rule of law.
James Carville: The Democrats are depressed . . ..
It's comic how these old farts don't remember 2009-2010, how civilian employment crashed by 6 million, how 6 million homes went into foreclosure, how housing wealth evaporated, how hundreds of banks failed, and how Obama was content to hand off all these problems to Democrat gangsters from Wall Street to bail out their cronies and prosecuted no one, all while providing zero leadership to a divided Democrat Congress preoccupied with . . . Obamacare, as if people losing everything in this situation had healthcare as their number one priority.
And then Democrats promptly handed everyone healthcare they couldn't afford and couldn't use.
Talk about depressing.
Talk about shit.
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Ronald Reagan appointee blocks Trump's birthright citizenship executive order
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| It is good that warriors such as we meet in the struggle of life... or death. |
Federal district court judge temporarily blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order
... “Ample historical evidence shows that the children of non-resident aliens are subject to foreign powers — and, thus, are not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and are not constitutionally entitled to birthright citizenship,” Rosenberg wrote.
Ultimately, the case is likely to be appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Native Americans were not made citizens by the 14th Amendment of 1868. It took an act of Congress in 1924 to do that.
It is good that this will be decided by the Supremes, maybe, once and for all, maybe.
S&P 500 new record high close: 6,118.71
The benchmark finished the day at 6,118.71, surpassing its prior all-time closing high of 6,090.27 recorded in early December.
Hegseth advances to a final vote with 51-49 vote to end debate, with Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins voting against him
Pete Hegseth’s nomination to lead the Pentagon clears a key hurdle in the Senate
I find myself in small company agreeing with two of the most liberal Republicans in the US Senate, but that's what's become of the men.
Amateur hour 2.0: Trump thinks he can tell the bond market what to do when not even the Fed can do that lol
Welcome to the party, pal.
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| yippee-ki-yay mofo |
President Donald Trump says he’ll ‘demand that interest rates drop immediately’
Does this dope pay attention? Oh, that's right, he doesn't pay anyone.
Anyway, the Fed cut rates by a full point since the September meeting, and rates on bonds and notes soared anyway.
The Fed can't demand anything, but President Goofy Nuts pretends it can, and he can.
OK, she's right, good for her
Sen. Lisa Murkowski to vote against Hegseth, first Republican to oppose a Trump Cabinet pick
... senators have remained doubtful of his experience and abilities and the alleged behavior that could lead to reprimand or firing for military personnel he would now be expected to lead. ...
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