A "brutal cull" not seen in 60 years.
Bush 41 did the same and ultimately failed because he betrayed Ronald Reagan, so we'll see, now won't we?
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
The guy held over 300 rallies in 2015 and 2016 where he pretty much kept saying the same old thing over and over again, so he became tiresome long ago to anyone who was paying serious attention
The pissing off came early and comes often because he's not delivering and now in fact is doing the opposite of what he promised.
His signature issue lies in ruins even as he's about to sign a spending bill the likes of which he promised he'd never sign again.
And we used to joke that Obama's statements all came with an expiration date. Trump's statements evaporate like self-destructing phone messages.
Actually he's a bigger moral trainwreck than Trump will ever be, so there's that
The once free world deserves these two.
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Newsweek's communist spin machine calls Bernie Sanders' cutting the hours of staff in order to pay $15 an hour "better hours"
Bernie Sanders Campaign Responds to $15 Minimum Wage Controversy with Better Hours for Staff:
Bernie Sanders will limit the amount of time his organizers can work to guarantee that no one is making less than $15 per hour
Message for Squad members: Just being born here won't protect you from execution if you commit treason
These two, executed in 1953 by electric chair, were both born in Manhattan:
10 years after Santelli's rant against Obama's proposed bailout of your neighbor's mortgage, National Review pretends it was about deficit spending
You will search in vain in this article for the word "mortgage".
If the Tea Party had been about any one thing, it was about the moral hazard of bailouts. A sizeable minority of the American people perceived that bailouts made them chumps, dutifully following the rules and accepting their obligations while bankrupt businesses and bankrupt homeowners did neither.
If the Tea Party had been about any one thing, it was about the moral hazard of bailouts. A sizeable minority of the American people perceived that bailouts made them chumps, dutifully following the rules and accepting their obligations while bankrupt businesses and bankrupt homeowners did neither.
By Brian Riedl, long-time research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, the article illustrates better than anything how the interests of establishment conservatism co-opted the Tea Party movement in 2011, just as establishment Republicanism co-opted Trumpism in 2017.
"Let's steal this energy and make it about something else".
Every. Damn. Time.
Horrified by Washington spenders, CNBC’s Rick Santelli stood on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on February 19, 2009, and called for a “tea party” to end the bailouts, stimulus payments, and red ink. Grassroots tea-party groups formed — further enraged by the later enactment of an expensive new Obamacare entitlement — and helped Republicans capture the House in 2010 with a stunning 63-seat pickup and also pick up seven Senate seats.
Trump thinks winning a war is about killing people when it's about killing their ability to make war
Afghanistan could have been over and done with before the end of 2001 by destroying all the infrastructure: roads, water projects, dams, electric power stations and grid, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, nuking the poppy fields on the way out.
Not one American life need have been sacrificed, nor 10 million Afghan lives, not that we should care about the rag-headed heathen bastards.
But we are not a serious country.
Venezuela north: 230,000 still without power in Michigan as of Monday morning and many will be until Thursday
The massive outages seem to mostly be affecting DTE customers in the east side of the state as Consumers Energy is reporting only about 35,000 customers currently without power.
Monday, July 22, 2019
Latest estimates put more than 800,000 without electric power in immediate aftermath of Michigan storms
At one point in the immediate aftermath of Friday night and Saturday’s storms, nearly 600,000 DTE customers lost power [in Southeast Michigan]. Consumers Energy had about 67,000 homes and businesses still without power [Sunday night], compared to the 220,000 of its customers affected overall [in West Michigan]. ... DTE officials called the multiple storms one of the worst events its crews have ever dealt with. ... Since Friday, DTE says it has receive [sic] reports of more than 2,000 downed wires.
Temperatures in Grand Rapids, MI collapsed from 85 to 71 after 1:53am Saturday July 20th as storms knocked out power to thousands in West Michigan
The Sams Club in Kentwood lost power in the early morning storm, closing down the store and gas station for the day Saturday, which is quite unusual.
Workers there were observed after 1:00pm at the rear of the building tossing no longer refrigerated and frozen foods.
Consumers Energy crews were observed near the intersection with the store attempting to restore power in the sweltering heat.
The heat index not much later soared to 108 by 2:53pm.
A second round of storms after 4:00pm Saturday crashed actual air temperatures from 89 to 74, complicating the on-going power restoration efforts.
While there are outages across the state, the Southeast Side of Michigan has the highest concentration. DTE Energy this morning said 375,000 of its customers remain without electricity after what it called the “worst storm” its line workers have dealt with this year.
" ... The weather event downed 1,100 power lines, making this the worst storm our region has experienced this year and one of the largest since the March 2017 wind storm," the utility said. ...
In West Michigan and the central part of the state, Consumers Energy was reporting about 122,000 customers without power today. Great Lakes Energy added to the tally with nearly 5,000 outages, mostly in Lake, Oceana and Osceola counties. ...
While there were strong wind gusts across the Lower Peninsula on Saturday, the most damaging happened in the areas of Kent and Ottawa counties [in West Michigan], the National Weather Service said. The damaging winds that took the house apart in the Jenison area were described as a “microburst.”
Sunday, July 21, 2019
Just a reminder that Obamacare is doing what it intended: Squeeze the middle class
Making healthcare more expensive for the middle class is intended to eliminate the middle class, eventually. Obamacare in its gradualism is an example of Fabian socialism.
But it's classic Marxism nonetheless, wherein the middle class is seen to be the greatest enemy, not the rich. The middle class stands in the proletariat's way in its contest against the rich. The middle class must be reduced and absorbed by the proletariat in order to end the possibility of the middle class getting wealthier and rising up the economic ladder.
Instead the middle class must be forced down the economic ladder.
We are living it, but the masses hardly notice as they are anesthetized by libertarian phantoms in fake news, entertainments, drugs and assorted excesses of appetite. The effect of it all is an equality! How could that be bad!?
The enemy proceeds with utter seriousness, corrupting the body politic, while seriousness can hardly be found in anyone else.
Obamacare sucks for working stiffs: 66% making under $40,000 a year struggle to pay for healthcare
As recently as 2006, the average deductible for individual coverage in job-based plan was just $379, adjusted for inflation, according to KFF. ... The average deductible has more than tripled, to $1,350. More than a quarter of workers have plans with a deductible of at least $2,500.
Phone and internet have been down in Grand Rapids, MI for many people since 2:00 AM Saturday
Because of severe thunderstorms. NOAA gave us about 30 minutes warning in an email, while we were asleep. The weather radio never went off.
Just now got back up, despite having power and A/C the whole time.
Civilization as we know it hangs by a thread, but we simply undertook useful tasks and our customary simple entertainments instead.
Friday, July 19, 2019
Trump won't stop illegal aliens, Amash won't vote for impeachment, Sanders won't pay $15/hour to his own campaign staff
Pattern development. Trump is run by Javanka, Amash was kicked out by Javanka in a different form, and Sanders is Javanka.
Communist Jews (aka Antifa) are mobilized on behalf of open borders and illegal aliens like never before
No borders, no wall, no USA at all.
JEWISH CURRENTS: July 15, 2019 Posted by Greg Afinogenov [teaches at Georgetown!]
The fact that American Jews are mobilized on behalf of migrants like never before is an important step in the right direction. ...
[I]s there such a thing as a border that is both strong and just? The historical record and present-day realities suggest that there is not, and that what we need is not immigration reform, but open borders. ...
[C]enter-left immigration arguments—which on the surface appear compatible with the pro-migrant politics of progressive Jews—rest on the same foundation as those made by the right. ...
Obama and Clinton permitted most of the same abuses as Trump, if not with the same overtly racist glee. ...
The borders between Israel and Palestine exist definitively for the have-nots, not the haves; ...
[A]n open-borders perspective is not just a tactical intervention in a debate about immigration, it is a new vision of a more just society. ...
[W]e should look to the radical alternatives that large numbers of Jews once supported in Europe and in immigrant communities across the world. ...
Jewish activists in the anarchist and internationalist socialist tradition argued that the answer was not to build a Jewish state, but to seek Jewish emancipation as part of a broader anti-capitalist movement. ...
The vast majority of Jews had more in common with Latvian, German, or Russian workers than they did with the few wealthy and powerful members of their own community, and Jews joined revolutionary socialist parties in the Russian Empire in disproportionate numbers. Even in a specifically Jewish socialist party like the Jewish Labor Bund, nationalism was anathema. ...
Many of these Jewish radicals, whether anarchists, communists, or socialists, retained their loyalty to the international working class when they immigrated to the United States. ...
Jewish immigrants came together with other foreign-born groups in organizations like the Industrial Workers of the World, helping to create one of the cornerstones of the American left. These left-wing Jews were among the earliest targets of the first Red Scare that followed the Russian Revolution. Woodrow Wilson’s Palmer Raids swept across the country, deporting immigrants who refused to abandon solidarity and internationalism in their new country. ...
The way out of the nationalist trap in which Jews have been caught since World War II goes through Jewish cosmopolitanism, but not in the form that antisemites have imagined. The idea that Jews are more loyal to Jews in other countries than to their fellow citizens should be replaced . . ..
Xi Jin Ping has made millions of enemies among dispossessed Chinese elites and their clients
The exact number of "tigers" toppled by Xi's anti-corruption campaign -- in other words, officials who were once part of the designated elite whose jobs had to be cleared through the Party's central personnel system -- is not easy to calculate. The best estimates put it around 300 to 400, including scores of generals. The officials who have been prosecuted and jailed include members of the Politburo, ministers, vice-ministers, the heads of state-owned enterprises, provincial party leaders and governors, and mayors.
In each of those cases, the investigations don't just hit the individual official who has been targeted and detained.
Literally, hundreds of thousands of people who are tied into and rely on that single person for their income are effectively swept up with them. Their livelihoods, and all that they have invested in clawing their way through the system, can evaporate with the stroke of a pen. Some members of the patronage networks are often arrested themselves.
Xi has made enemies of them all. "Xi has destroyed millions of people in the elite who now all hold a personal grudge against him," said a China-based businessman, who asked not to be named, earlier in 2019. "These people are not a bunch of uneducated peasants from the sticks in Henan. They had skin in the game."
Thursday, July 18, 2019
Pure insanity: 20% of total global bond market pays negative interest
Some $13 trillion in bonds are paying negative interest rates, which
means bondholders actually pay for the privilege of holding an issuer’s
bonds. That represents more than 20% of a total global bond market value of $55 trillion,
according to Bloomberg. Other bonds are paying positive rates so low
they carry a real (after inflation) negative yield as well. ... Some civilizations, like the early Roman Catholic Church and Islam, were
opposed to charging interest, but negative rates just didn’t happen, as
far as Sylla knows, until the modern era. Now 14 European countries,
including France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain, have negative interest rates on their two-year bonds.
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Like immigration-do-nothing Trump, Amash talked a good game about impeachment but voted against it when the time came
I'm sure the excuse was that he had to vote to table the bill because it wasn't perfectly in accord with the constitution.
Wack job Ilhan Omar is now quoting wack job Jesse Ventura
Must be something in the air up there, probably wafts in from Canada.
Global flight to US safety: Foreign holdings of US Treasury securities soar $105.5 billion month over month, $324 billion year over year
Japan is up year over year $52 billion, the UK $58 billion, Luxembourg $21 billion, the Caymans $30 billion, Singapore $31 billion, France $35 billion, Norway $49 billion . . ..
Rush Limbaugh just reassured us that telling someone to go back to the country of origin isn't racist
😬
Well, I guess Donald Trump, Helen Thomas, Barack Obama, Injuns, Abbas Hamideh, Rashida Tlaib and the rest of The Squad are all off the hook then.
Wow, the new publisher of Human Events has aged dramatically in the last 12 hours after CNN tirade
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Richard Spencer was on CNN just for you, Frank, just for you
"Turns on Trump" like it was just recently or something.
Rumor has it that Planned Parenthood has the fully intact body parts of an organization president for sale on the dark web
I did NOT learn this from Project Veritas.
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Incredible footage of Joe Biden in Iowa repeating the same lie Obama repeated: If you like your plan you can keep it
Millions of Americans lost their private plans because of Obamacare and were forced to choose more expensive plans, in effect forcibly subsidizing the poor through their higher premiums. They were mostly self-employed, entrepreneurial and small business people, singled out for punishment.
To this day they have no voice in Washington, not in Congress, not in the Judiciary, and not in the White House.
And not in the Democrat Party.
Monday, July 15, 2019
Liberals used to call conservatism a collection of "irritable mental gestures", now progressives elevate racism to "authentically reactionary impulses"
Wow, racism is now an authentic impulse. You heard it here first, courtesy of progressivism.
Apparently Joe Biden's not really upset about the deportations themselves, just the terror announcing them causes
Better to sneak up on them like his boss did over the Christmas holidays in 2015.
"Merry Christmas! This is an ICE raid! Pack your shit, it's time to go!"
LOL POLITICO January 2016: Opponents of family deportations under Obama leaked raid info to WaPo
Johnson said the batch of deportees were among immigrants who crossed
the southern U.S. border illegally since May 2014. That's when the U.S.
began experiencing a surge of families and unaccompanied children from
El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Officials say such crossings
decreased by early last year, but began to pick up again in recent
months. ...
The proposals to increase deportations appear to have stirred some
dissent within the Obama administration. Just before Christmas, unnamed
"people familiar with the operation" disclosed the plans to the Washington Post — a highly unusual leak about planned law enforcement actions. ...
Both Earnest and Johnson said DHS remains focused on deporting
"felons, not families" — a curious talking point given that families
were the targets of the weekend sweep. ...
Democrats in Congress — which is currently in recess — have been mostly quiet on the raids.
On the opposite end of the political spectrum, GOP poll leader Donald
Trump — whose candidacy has been characterized by hardline rhetoric
against immigrants here illegally — took credit for the raids in his
typical flair.
“Wow, because of the pressure put on by me, ICE TO LAUNCH LARGE SCALE DEPORTATION RAIDS,” Trump tweeted when news of the planned raids broke. “It's about time!”
The fact that Trump was proudly taking credit for the raids wasn’t
lost on advocates, who used that point to draw comparisons between the
real estate billionaire and Obama’s immigration policies."The president's actions are far more harmful than Trump's demagoguery,”
said Pablo Alvarado, the executive director of the National Day Laborer
Organizing Network. “While Trump's dangerous rhetoric stigmatizes our
loved ones, President Obama actually deports them.”
See how this works, folks? Biden creeps left, Biden crawls left, he's the epitome of moderation!
In 2009 the public option was toxic leftism. In 2019 it's the epitome of moderation compared to the other radicals running for president. Every. Damn. Election.
Creepy Uncle Joe reveals BFD 2.0
BFD 1.0 wasn't such a BFD after all then, now was it?
His proposal sounds an awful lot like the public option plan passed by Nancy Pelosi's US House in 2009, which the US Senate rejected in favor of its plan, which is what we have now, Obamacare.
The problem with the public option plan was that it threatened to undercut private insurance through unfair competition with its immediate access to the limitless deep pockets of the Federal Treasury.
Joe's a Fabian socialist, not a revolutionary, slow walking the country to the guillotine.
LOL HuffPo August 2015: Hillary defends her position to deport migrant children
Hillary Clinton Defends Call To Deport Child Migrants:
“Specifically with respect to children on the border, if you remember, we had an emergency, and it was very important to send a message to families in Central America: Do not let your children take this very dangerous journey,” Clinton said.
Now that the border crisis has largely passed, however, Clinton said U.S. immigration authorities should focus on expediting the deportation cases of children and people locked in family detention.
“Now I think we have a different problem,” she said. “Because the emergency is over, we need to be moving to try to get people out of these detention centers, particularly the women and children. I think we need more resources to process them, to listen to their stories, to find out if they have family in this country, if they have a legitimate reason for staying. So I would be putting a lot of resources into doing that, but my position has been and remains the same.”
NRO's David French is no conservative and no American, doesn't give a damn about us, the founders' posterity
"We the People of the United
States, in Order to . . . secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and
our Posterity . . .."
Sunday, July 14, 2019
Farmers' market pest Abby Ang worries her picture's on 8chan when it's already on Twitter
While the city deliberates, locals like Ang plan to keep handing out “Don’t Buy Veggies from Nazis” buttons in the market. But those activists know there’s a risk. On multiple recent weekends, Schooner Creek Farm supporters passed out flyers of their own at the farmers’ market.
“We had a couple people counter-flyering,” Ang said, “saying we were just defaming [Dye and Mackey’s] good name.”
Since penning an open letter condemning Schooner Creek Farm this spring, Ang has received an email with racial slurs, and had her picture posted on the troll hotbed 8chan, along with suggestions of violence against her, she said.
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