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Her name is Kristi NOEM
She kills Puppies! And Bears. And Goats. And horses. Kristi Noem is a psycho and MAGAts want her to be Trump's VP. When Trump strokes out, she'll become president.
She kills things she hates and deems “worthless.”
— Lakota Man (@LakotaMan1) April 26, 2024
Some Native communities saw bears as our coequals.
My heart breaks for this innocent bear and the poor little 14 month old puppy this sick, twisted woman murdered in cold blood. pic.twitter.com/h9aEo369pB
WHAT CONGRESS JUST DID MUST BE STOPPED!!
https://rumble.com/v4rq978-what-congress-just-did-must-be-stopped.html
SOROS AND ROCKEFELLER ARE FUNDING LEFT WING STUDENT RADICALS AT NATIONWIDE PROTESTS AGAINST ISRAEL!!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/XGLgGMu0sw8j/
ARE WE RULED BY SEXUAL PREDATORS?
https://rumble.com/v4rq9h6-game-over.html
PRAYERS TIA - About one in five mail-in ballots in the last election was fraudulent
https://twitter.com/i/status/1783979370811724167
Supreme Court justices discuss Trump’s presidential immunity claim
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SOROS AND ROCKEFELLER ARE FUNDING LEFT WING STUDENT RADICALS AT NATIONWIDE PROTESTS AGAINST ISRAEL!!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/XGLgGMu0sw8j/
ARE WE RULED BY SEXUAL PREDATORS?
https://rumble.com/v4rq9h6-game-over.html
PRAYERS TIA - About one in five mail-in ballots in the last election was fraudulent
https://twitter.com/i/status/1783979370811724167
Supreme Court justices discuss Trump’s presidential immunity claim
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Do you also shoot misbehaved dogs like Krist Knoem does? #SICK
One of Donald Trump's potential running mates is facing criticism for sharing a story in her memoir about how she killed her dog.
Kristi Noem, 52, the governor of South Dakota, wrote in her soon-to-be released memoir that the dog, Cricket, was "untrainable" and "dangerous".
After deciding she needed to be put down, Ms Noem led the dog to a gravel pit and shot her.
"It was not a pleasant job," she wrote. "But it had to be done."
The memoir, titled No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward, is due for release on 7 May, though an excerpt was obtained by The Guardian.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68909801
Of course I haven't watch football since the management and owners started to allow the taking of the the knee and kissing the asses of the BLM and other fringe groups.
You know who also hates football? Yep, your Trumpty does! lolololol
Biden wants voters to know Trump thinks football is 'boring as hell'
NEW AD: Trump says football is “boring as hell” and “nobody cares” about it.
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) April 25, 2024
So we’re airing this during the NFL draft for football fans to see. pic.twitter.com/KpimgYvLru
ARE WE RULED BY SEXUAL PREDATORS?
https://rumble.com/v4rq9h6-game-over.html
PRAYERS TIA - About one in five mail-in ballots in the last election was fraudulent
https://twitter.com/i/status/1783979370811724167
Supreme Court justices discuss Trump’s presidential immunity claim
Good Morning America
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About one in five mail-in ballots in the last election was fraudulent
About one in five mail-in ballots in the last election was fraudulent, handing Biden the presidency. We know this because the people who committed the fraud have admitted it in a new poll. pic.twitter.com/fxHL9hT4sw
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) April 26, 2024
Supreme Court justices discuss Trump’s presidential immunity claim
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The turtle neck sweater belongs to McConnell.
US & Israel's Victory has been Proven! Iran witnessed the power of Israeli F-16 Jets! Iran Accepted This!
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Sick MAGAts
This is beyond sick. Kristi Noem shot and killed the family's 14-month puppy because it couldn't be trained as a hunting dog.
'I hated that dog': Kristi Noem recalls gunning down family's 'worthless' pup
"South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) is facing a firestorm of criticism for boasting in her new book that she shot and killed her family's 14-month old puppy because it was “less than worthless … as a hunting dog”.
On Friday, the Guardian reported the incident that Noem recalled in her book "No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward," published as her name is being bandied about as a possible Donald Trump 2024 running mate.
In the book, the Republican lawmaker wrote about trying to train the dog, Cricket, to hunt with other dogs. Instead, the puppy went “out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life."
https://www.rawstory.com/noem-dog/
She is a piece of garbage, just like the racist, sexist, bigoted party she belongs to.
Trump shares court sketch of him sitting next to Jesus at fraud trial
Supreme Court Poised to Agree with Trump: Former Presidents Are Immune from Some Prosecutions
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/25/supreme-court-poised-to-agree-with-trump-former-presidents-are-immune-from-some-prosecutions/
WASHINGTON, DC–A majority of Supreme Court justices sympathized with Donald Trump’s attorneys’ arguments that a president
does enjoy some level of immunity that endures past the term of office.
The court heard oral arguments regarding if Trump is immune from prosecution on charges of attempting to overturn the results
of the 2020 election, as Special Counsel Jack Smith claims.
Trump finds sympathy among justices for some immunity >
https://americasvoice.news/justthenews/thurule-ages-trump-finds-sympathy-among-justices-some-immunity/
Doomed Americans Forgot “We Are Made By History” -
“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) was one of the most prominent Black leaders in the American civil rights
movement until his assassination in 1968.
https://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index.htm
.Special Report from Sister Ciara
WORLD NEWS - The Case for THE GOLD STANDARD:
Steve Forbes Suggests We Take A Closer Look at U.S. Monetary Policy Options
4/26/2024
Adam Schiff’s Luggage, Clothes Stolen in San Francisco
JOEL B. POLLAK 26 Apr 2024 2:1
U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) had his luggage stolen in San Francisco, California, on Thursday, leaving him without a suit as he addressed an audience that evening.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported:
Hello to the city, goodbye to your luggage. That was Senatorial candidate Adam Schiff’s rude introduction to San Francisco’s vexing reputation for car burglaries Thursday when thieves swiped the bags from his car while it sat in a downtown parking garage.
The heist meant the Democratic congressman got stuck at a fancy dinner party in his shirt sleeves and a hiking vest while everyone else sat in suits. Not quite the look the man from Burbank was aiming for as he rose to thank powerhouse attorney Joe Cotchett for his support in his bid to replace the late Dianne Feinstein in the U.S. Senate.
“I guess it’s ‘Welcome to San Francisco,’ ” Cotchett’s press agent Lee Houskeeper, who was at the dinner, remarked dryly.
Democrats are struggling to face the consequences of their own policies, as “criminal justice reform” has turned San Francisco and other California cities into havens for petty crime and smash-and-grab thefts.
At the state level, Democrats are trying to pass laws to toughen penalties for property crime — but without touching Proposition 47 of 2014, which reduced penalties for theft and other crimes.
Opponents of Proposition 47 announced last week that they have enough signatures to qualify reforms to the measure for the November 2024 ballot.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/26/adam-schiffs-luggage-clothes-stolen-in-san-francisco/
Supreme Court Poised to Agree with Trump: Former Presidents Are Immune from Some Prosecutions
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/25/supreme-court-poised-to-agree-with-trump-former-presidents-are-immune-from-some-prosecutions/
WASHINGTON, DC–A majority of Supreme Court justices sympathized with Donald Trump’s attorneys’ arguments that a president
does enjoy some level of immunity that endures past the term of office.
The court heard oral arguments regarding if Trump is immune from prosecution on charges of attempting to overturn the results
of the 2020 election, as Special Counsel Jack Smith claims.
Trump finds sympathy among justices for some immunity >
https://americasvoice.news/justthenews/thurule-ages-trump-finds-sympathy-among-justices-some-immunity/
Doomed Americans Forgot “We Are Made By History” -
“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) was one of the most prominent Black leaders in the American civil rights
movement until his assassination in 1968.
https://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index.htm
.Special Report from Sister Ciara
WORLD NEWS - The Case for THE GOLD STANDARD:
Steve Forbes Suggests We Take A Closer Look at U.S. Monetary Policy Options
4/26/2024
Doomed Americans Forgot “We Are Made By History” -
“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) was one of the most prominent Black leaders in the American civil rights
movement until his assassination in 1968.
https://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index.htm
.Special Report from Sister Ciara
WORLD NEWS - The Case for THE GOLD STANDARD:
Steve Forbes Suggests We Take A Closer Look at U.S. Monetary Policy Options
4/26/2024
Despite the doctor's education, she/he/it is a moron.
These little girls will be sent for "re-education" so that they can become good little woke zombies.
Go woke.
Go broke.
Listen to Creepy Joe
Watch those profits go.
Away.
The Case for THE GOLD STANDARD:
Steve Forbes Suggests We Take A Closer Look at U.S. Monetary Policy Options
4/26/2024
Emergency-O-Rama
“We’ll certainly never forget the dark days of June 6– January 6th, excuse me.” — President “Joe Biden”
James Howard Kunstler
Apr 26, 2024
The plum blossoms are ready to pop here. You can feel your blood rising. The evening sun lingers a little longer every day. Normally you’d celebrate, but not this year of roaring portents and evil juju. History doesn’t stop to catch its breath for a moment. The tiny glowing diode deep in “Joe Biden’s” brain dims a bit more each day (pause) while low men and women in high places trifle with the fate of the nation. Everyone dreads what’s coming.
Which, judging by events of the week just past, looks like a worse summer of civil chaos than 2020 was. Some entity — say, the checkbook of George and Alex Soros, maybe? — has funded the spring mustering of student mobs in support of Hamas seeking to drive wicked Israel into the choppy Mediterranean. What you’re seeing, though, is probably not what you think you are seeing in all that. The kids are mere digits in a cultural algorithm playing out as New Age dumbshow.
I doubt that three-quarters of them actually give a flying fugazy about the Palestinians, and even fewer could find Gaza on a map if you water-boarded them. They affect to be intersectional victims of the universal oppressor, but in so far as many of the rioters are girls of the Ivy League, or comparable redoubts of privilege— little blue-eyed, blonde-haired muffins raised on pony club, Hermes, and artisan granola — there must be something else going on. That something else is probably sex, which is so problematical now in any traditional frame of a man getting it on with a woman that the American birth-rate is going to zero.
How does a young woman get it on with so many collegiate men vying for gay brownie points these days, or going for the grand prize in transitioning? Why, it’s a non-starter. So, instead, you go slumming among the savages, those hairy, dumb brutes on twerk-alert, dripping testosterone — illegal aliens, student third-worlders, BLM alumni, hardcore hoodlums. They don’t know nuthin ‘bout no pony club, but they will rut like Bilberry rams until the ladies fall away crosseyed. Affecting to be a lesbian only makes the game more piquant. And if you forgot your birth control, for some reason, there’s always the abortionist.
Any time there are brownie points at stake, you know the game is actually for status, and where status is the game, fashion is the currency. Thus, the dress-up in Arab keffiyehs, the charming head-scarf denoting allyship with Hamas. Beats the heck out of those flitty N-95 masks from the 2020 Covid nights of roistering in the Seattle CHOP and trying to burn down the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse in Portland.
Rioting gives young men of the toxic persuasion opportunities to flaunt their moxie in acts of derring-do, brawling with the cops, dancing on top of cars, ripping down chain-link fences, flinging gasoline bombs. So much the better for getting the ladies’ attention. Look what I can do! And the keffiyeh accessorizes well with black bloc riot garb. For the muffins, wearing it is great practice for the utopia-to-come when they must don burkas under submission to Sharia. Will Hermes put out a burka?
So far, the spring rioting has mostly been fun for the rioters. Unlike the J-6-21 “paraders,” locked up in the putrid DC jail for years pending trial, the Hamas frolickers are at near-zilch risk of any serious consequences. Few will even be suspended from school. They are doing exactly what the schools trained them up for: destroying Western Civ, one acanthus leaf at a time. According to the shadowy stage-managers behind “Joe Biden,” this will save our democracy.
That and stuffing Donald Trump in jail for the rest of his natural life. Alas, the lawfare cases cooked up toward that end appear defective to a spectacular degree. It really says something about the true authors of these beauties brought by Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, Fani Willis, and Jack Smith. I speak of the behind-the-scene blob lawfare ninjas Norm Eisen, Andrew Weissmann, Matt Colangelo, and Mary McCord, who wrote the scripts for all four of this year’s big elephant trap cases against the former president. You have to wonder how that bunch made it through their law boards. The current extravaganza in Manhattan that centers on alleged book-keeping errors in furtherance of an unstated federal offense is due to go on a few more weeks. The howling errors of both the prosecution and Judge Juan Merchan are so extravagant that the proceeding looks like it was cribbed from the pages of Lewis Carroll.
Yet, there is near unanimous sentiment that the Trump-deranged New Yawk jury will convict, no matter how much more idiotic the case turns out to be. By then, we will be verging on summer. The college campuses will be shuttered and the youth-in-revolt action will necessarily move to the regular streets. Whichever way the verdict goes in the Alvin Bragg case, epic looting and rioting will commence.
Sometime this summer, I predict, the Mar-a-Lago documents case will get tossed on something like malicious prosecution. Jack Smith’s DC case, kneecapped by SCOTUS, won’t start before the November election (or maybe ever) and ditto the Fani Willis fiasco in Atlanta. George and Alex Soros will pour millions into box lunches for the kids burning down what’s left of the cities and the demure gals of the Ivy League Left will find plenty of love in the ruins.
The two major party conventions in July (Republican) and August (Democrat) are sure to out-do the 1968 lollapalooza in Chicago (I was there) in mayhem and property damage. “Joe Biden” — really the blob behind him — will ache to declare a national emergency, perhaps even a second emergency after the recently unveiled “climate emergency” supposedly pending any day. The USA will be in an historic horror movie you could call Emergency-O-Rama. If you think the financial system, and the US economy that has become the tail on the finance dog, can survive all this, you will be disappointed. The army may have to step in and put an end to these shenanigans. Don’t think it can’t happen.
https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/emergency-o-rama?publication_id=2076970&post_id=144039321&isFreemail=true&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
New Poll: Nearly 9-in-10 New Yorkers say rising cost of food is outpacing their incomes
By Olivia Murray
Terrorists delighted at campus student protests
By Monica Showalter
Disinformation's 'Mary Poppins' is back, and boy, does she want payback
By Monica Showalter
Harvard turns the sprinklers on its pro-Hamas protestors.
By Monica Showalter
How do you handle antisemites who won't get off your lawn?
Well, leave it to the woikin' stiffs in hardhats at Harvard University to figure this one out. They turned the sprinklers on. Doing routine maintenance gardening work just like the union contract says meant they had to turn the sprinklers on to maintain the grass, with the programmed switch going off at 2:00 a.m. just like it was supposed to do.
Snowflakes ran running. Who knew all it took was some rain to melt the snowflakes, who as one may imagine, whined and complained mightily.
According to Breitbart News:
Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian, and pro-Hamas protesters who camped out in Harvard Yard on Wednesday received a rude awakening overnight as automatic sprinklers switched on, soaking tents and sending the activists into a panic.
The Harvard Crimson reported that sprinklers began to turn on after 2:00 a.m. in 36º Fahrenheit weather. It later noted at 4:05 a.m. ET:
As protesters spend their first night in the Harvard Yard encampment, the biggest threat to their stay has not come from administrators or Harvard University police officers, but the Yard’s sprinklers.
Two more sprinklers turned on at the edge of the encampment near Massachusetts Hall. The sprinklers began to hit tents on the edge of the camp before protesters rushed over to covered the sprinklers with buckets and sit on them.
Harvard closed the gates of Harvard Yard to all but Harvard ID holders on Sunday, hoping to avoid the encampments that hit other universities. But there were enough Harvard students among the anti-Israel radicals to set up tents.
Serendipity hits hard at Harvard.
Turns out it was kind of embarrassing. The protestors who didn't run screaming from the sprinklers found themselves throwing overturned buckets over the sprinkler heads as the water spewed out, creating puddles all around them, spraying and spraying, according to tweets on Twitter.
The greatest challenge The Harvard protestors will face are the sprinklers https://t.co/f5uGYU881h pic.twitter.com/aHqPKX2HgN
— Karlyn Borysenko, the modern day Yuri Bezmenov (@DrKarlynB) April 25, 2024
All we need now is Benny Hill music.
Every day brings more evidence that it’s time to repeal the 19th Amendment
By Andrea Widburg
No camping in Texas
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
Don't try setting up a camp in Texas unless you are on camping grounds or private property. Don't try it at the university grounds because we don't put it up with it in the Lone Star state.
For the record, no heads were cracked, but some protesters found out that our law enforcement means it when they tell you to get out of the way.
A good friend teaches at the school. I spoke with him last night and he thought that law enforcement acted correctly and proportionally. He mentioned that most of the students and staff were happy that UT did not turn into Columbia. As my friend said, we have classes going and most of the students want to study rather than support causes.
I think that this post from Karen Townsend summarized things correctly:
In summary, the students were warned of what would happen in advance if the protest went off as planned. The university was prepared to maintain security. A show of force was used to enforce university rules. Some protesters were arrested. The encampment was not set up on the South Lawn. The governor supported law enforcement.
This is how student protests should be handled on college campuses that promote antisemitic messages and potential violence. The grown-ups have to remain in charge.
God bless Texas.
Yes, thank you for having a governor who understands the difference between protests and lawlessness. Yes, adults made sure that out-of-control "students" didn't destroy things or deny students their opportunity to take a class.
Again, no heads were cracked or tanks sighted. It was law enforcement keeping order and most rational people applauding it. Of course, some are trying to equate what we saw in Austin with Tiananmen Square, but that just shows you how ignorant the critics are.
There are lots of camping and picnic opportunities in Texas. Just don't try it on the university grounds. You might be greeted by some strong dudes on horseback. (Beautiful horses, by the way.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/no_camping_in_texas.html
Another stain for the U of Alabama
By Sam Underhill
An evening among the Kool-aid drinkers
By Allen Roth
Last Monday night, 22nd of April, I attended a Passover seder at my friend J's house. Most of the guests, along with J and her husband, are liberal reform Jews. I learned some interesting things I did not know towards the end of the evening. The political conversation began as the members debated a recent 11% property tax increase for the Town of Amherst, an upscale suburb of Buffalo.
1. The reason for the border crisis is because the House did not pass the RINO/Dem immigration bill, giving Biden the power to regulate and close the southern border. Trump had no power over the border and did as bad, or worse a job as Biden.
2. The main reason to hate Trump, apart from him being a crook and a scallywag, is his abortion policies -- taking away Roe v Wade. That issue, "trumps" all others.
3. During the arguments about the 11% increase, crazy ideas were proposed to try to justify the highway robbery -- they all knew it was wrong, but since the town supervisor, a Dem, proposed it, everybody seemed locked in pretzels trying to justify the mugging. In East Amherst, 10K or more is the average property tax, so 11% is a huge increase. I think my hosts, J and her husband, pay closer to 15K already.
4. When I meekly mentioned Oct 7th, all agreed that that was bad, but not a soul added any further comment, they seemed relieved to move back to more Trump Derangement Syndrome arguments.
5. I also learned that the present economy is great, in fact, better than any years during the Trump administration. And that everyone at the seder is better off than during Trump's time.
Evan Sayet might describe the evening as a perfect example of his theory that the Left is always wrong, in fact, 180 degrees opposite from the truth. It was as though instead of Elijah being welcomed to the seder, we got Rod Serling instead.
As the great Milton Himmelfarb opined, some 60 years ago, "Reform Jews earn like Episcopalians and vote like Puerto Ricans."
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/an_evening_among_the_kool_aide_drinkers.html
The Left’s panicky Tantrump
By M.B. Mathews
With each passing day, the Left’s Tasmanian Devil hysteria about Donald Trump’s still-thriving candidacy grows. It’s now a full-blown tantrum. So far, the Democrats, Marxists, communists, and Department of Justice have conjured and exhumed every conceivable legal but laughable machination to kill Trump’s chances of not only winning in November, but of surviving the campaign at all.
Every stop is being pulled out to stop the increasingly popular Trump. Obscure laws, old prohibitions, legal creativity, and silliness are being used to make certain that Trump not only doesn’t win, but doesn’t run. He is their Kryptonite and with each attack against him, he seems to grow in size and power. Traditional Democrats such as blacks and Hispanics, and now even many women, are finding safety and prosperity in Trump’s Republican policies, almost as though they never knew what their own Democrat party’s policies have been all these years. Dawn is breaking.
Make no mistake: Trump will not see the inside of the White House ever again if the corrupt and weakened-by-cowardice-and-graft Congress and DOJ get their way. Hillary has already declared — in her addled and hateful state of decrepitude — that if elected, Trump will destroy America. Trump is too late for that: Democrats and their perverse totalitarian speech policies and cultural nose-ring deviancies have already done that job. What remains is how to put those grand mal mistakes back in the bottle, if possible.
Democrats have conjured up crimes that Trump supposedly committed. He didn’t. They have pulled out people like Old Serpent-head (James Carville) to sound the alarms against Trump. They have shot Biden through with uppers, then shoved him in front of cameras to sound the teleprompter’s alarm about Trump’s imagined dangerousness.
But something is happening: Blacks and Hispanics and women are finally beginning to understand Trumponomics because their household and other bills have almost doubled (or more) under Biden. They have suddenly realized that for decades they have been treated like mushrooms by the Democrat Party — kept in the dark and fed bull____. The great awakening of the Democrat rank-and-file is happening and the DOJ is majorly cheesed off. Even political opportunists like Bill Maher are calling out cultural rot promoted and embraced by the radical Left. (He will still vote Democrat, though, so he’s not really honest about his alleged chagrin.)
The American public is now seeing what happens when evil is permitted to roam free in the land. They are scared.
Too many incidents since Biden’s “win” in 2020 are now birthing their ungrateful offspring: No more energy independence, high gas prices, very high food prices, men supposedly becoming women, DEI incompetence everywhere, airplanes that come apart in flight, saber-rattling in the Middle East with Iran threatening Israel AND America with nukes, medical schools hiring based on race, our open border where terrorists come in without being stopped, tens of thousands of new IRS agents, rampant crime in the cities and suburbs, rape, murder, increased taxes, anti-Semitism, no jail-time for criminals, racial hatred, and a reduced standing in the world have all come together to paint a dark and hopeless mural for honest, decent, hardworking people who just want to be left alone to raise their families without government interference and without them having to watch their every word.
The Left’s nocturnal dreams will all come true if Biden is reelected. So far, only most of them have. Trump can stop that in its tracks and reverse it, so Trump must be stopped.
Where the Left’s Tantrump goes toward keeping Trump off the ballot in November is anyone’s guess. But because I am anyone, I will venture a guess: Donald J. Trump, because he is now viewed as our underdog, persecuted David to the communist Goliath, will be back in the White House come January. And the gates of hell will not prevail against him.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/the_left_s_panicky_tantrump.html
Democrats Have Deliberately Shattered The Ties Binding America
By Allan J. Feifer
Another Climate Folly: Carbon Capture and Storage
By Pete Colan
Democrats Need To Be Held To Account For Denying Trump’s Due Process Rights.
By Wolf Howling
We Won't Live By Your Wokeness
By Patty Knap
Tennessee Lawmakers Go All-in on Guns and Arming Teachers
After last year’s Covenant School shooting, Democrats pushed for more gun control – they’ll get more guns, instead.
by James Fite | Apr 26, 2024
Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill on Tuesday, April 23, that will let teachers carry firearms to school. After the Covenant School shooting of last year, Democrats and anti-gun advocates called – as they generally do after such tragedies – for stricter gun control. The GOP-controlled legislature, however, delivered the opposite, and overwhelmingly so. The bill to arm teachers passed the Tennessee Senate 26-5 and the House 68-28, and numerous attempts by Democrats to amend it failed.
Arming Teachers, and More
Per the new legislation, teachers and other members of school staff who wish to carry concealed on campus must have an enhanced carry permit, get written authorization from the school’s principal and local law enforcement, and undergo both an FBI background check and 40 hours minimum of handgun training.
Additional bills moving through the legislature this year would change school fire alarm protocols to take into account shootings, create a pilot program to give teachers wearable alarms, increase safety training for school bus drivers, and digitize school maps so first responders can more rapidly access school layouts to minimize confusion and response time. Another would require “age-appropriate” gun safety training for students – an idea that may seem more outlandish to residents of urban areas than it really is in rural schools, some of which to this day maintain shooting teams and offer hunter education courses including firearm safety components.
The bill just passed by the General Assembly is touted as 100% permissive, as schools will neither be forbidden nor required to allow armed staff. It does not, however, allow any district to opt out entirely, forcing an individual review of every application, even if the end result is that all applications are denied.
It was also veto-proof thanks to the overwhelming majority who voted for it and the fact that, in Tennessee, all that is required to overturn a veto is a majority of those elected to both houses of the legislature. Republican Governor Bill Lee, who has yet to veto any bill, made it clear Thursday that he wouldn’t start now. “I think it provides a valuable option to public schools who want to participate,” Lee said.
Democrats Cry Hypocrisy – How Ironic
Some Democrats are calling this bill hypocritical and anti-parent choice. “I’ve heard so many times about parental consent, that it’s a parent’s responsibility to raise their child,” said Tennessee state Rep. Justin Pearson, who called the bill “absolutely insane” Tuesday. “I also think it’s a parent’s job to know if their child is being put at risk by having someone in the classroom with a firearm that another child could find, that could be discharged and actually harm them or other kids.”
The bill doesn’t allow anyone but the school’s administration and law enforcement to be informed which teachers are – or may be – carrying. This secrecy clause seems to some to run counter to the idea of parental rights so often touted by Republicans. But so long as parents are aware that teachers could be armed, then they are still informed. As for choice, parents do have the choice to send their children to public schools, private schools, or to homeschool. While finding an alternative option may not be easy or even feasible for many, a choice it remains. Allowing teachers to be armed in public schools, however, is no more or less a violation of parental rights than requiring transgender sex education or teaching critical race theory would be.
Identifying specific armed teachers, however, does not give parents any more real choice in whether their children are in the presence of armed staff, though it would negate much of the tactical advantage in a shooting. Defense of self and others is reactionary by nature – the aggressor always acts first and, often, has the benefit of the element of surprise. This is the same for any violent attack, whether in school or out. Having the ability to shoot back when being shot at beats just sitting around waiting to be shot any day – but openly carrying a gun, or, in the case of armed teachers, having the school’s administration announce who’s armed, paints a target on the defender’s back. Democrats talk a lot about common sense when it comes to gun laws. Here’s some actual common sense for you: If school shooters know which staff members are armed, they know what classrooms to avoid in order to carry out their killing sprees unmolested – or, worse, they know who to kill first.
Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing
Despite the overwhelming majority of votes the bill received in the legislature, it was far from bipartisan or universally accepted. Republicans control the state Senate 27-6 and the House 75-24. While not exactly matching the General Assembly’s demographics, the 26-5 and 68-28 votes were mostly party line. Democrats opposed the bill as best they could and attempted multiple times to amend it, but the Republican majority was too strong to overcome.
This soon-to-be law allowing armed teachers isn’t the only blow to Democrats and the anti-gun left. Earlier in the month, Democrat-sponsored bills to broaden background checks and require so-called safe storage failed, being dismissed without discussion. Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti recently expanded the 2021 permitless carry law to apply to 18- to 20-year-olds, and the next step seems to be extending it to include long guns, as well. In short, for all that Democrats hoped to use the tragedy of school shootings to flip the Volunteer State on gun control, their efforts clearly backfired.
https://www.libertynation.com/tennessee-lawmakers-go-all-in-on-guns-and-arming-teachers/
Campus Meltdown: Biden’s ‘Very Fine People on Both Sides’ Moment
The president faces his own Charlottesville.
by Tim Donner | Apr 26, 2024
As the left protects democracy by trying to imprison and bankrupt the leading candidate for president, the same logic in a world turned upside-down has driven increasingly menacing anti-Jewish campus protests across the land. Hundreds have been arrested from among the mobs aligning with an openly terrorist organization that flaunts its murderous history and calls for death to Jews and to America itself. In troubling times such as these when the nation is gripped by crisis, the people turn to the president to exercise leadership and provide moral clarity. So where does Joe Biden stand?
In one of his shouted answers as he was rushing past the media this week, Biden stated: “I condemn the antisemitic protests. That’s why I’ve set up a program to deal with that. I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians.” In one sentence, he decries hatred of Jews. In the next, he excuses it in the vaguest terms (“what is going on with the Palestinians”). God forbid he say anything to offend those pesky left-wing voters.
If this sounds like a mirror image of 2017 or a reversal of fortune, it should. Of all the false representations underpinning the left’s claim that Donald Trump is evil, the one that jumps to the top of the list is Charlottesville, and Trump’s statement that “you also had people that were very fine people on both sides” of an explosive debate. By purposely omitting the fact that he was referring not to rioters but to the legitimate debate over the toppling of historic statues, and ignoring the 45th president’s condemnation of violence by neo-Nazis in the same speech, the left and its handmaidens in big corporate media created a narrative so false, and yet so powerful, that Joe Biden claims it was the impetus for him running for president for the third time in 36 years.
But now, the Middle East tinderbox is Joe Biden’s own “very fine people on both sides” moment.
Joe Biden and Moral Equivalence
Based on what we have witnessed from Ivy League presidents testifying before Congress this year – two of whom subsequently resigned – we would expect administrators in the grip of wokeness at elite universities to surrender to the haters. The craven president of Columbia University, Minouche Shafik, all but affirmed the legitimacy of the radicals’ demands this week by negotiating with them instead of dispersing them, and then she apologized for the one thing she did right: summoning the police. We might also expect the unspeakable horrors and de facto declaration of war by Hamas on October 7 to be forgotten over time or subjected to revisionist history of the kind that denies or minimizes the Holocaust.
But we should also expect the president of the United States to be able to distinguish between right and wrong, friends and enemies, good and evil. We should expect any president to lay out the stakes of the conflict. In this case, the stakes are Western civilization itself. Will we affirm and uphold a world epitomized by the US and Israel, or by Gaza and Iran? Is it really so difficult to choose between a thriving democratic ally or a terrorist enemy calling for the extinction of that ally and our own country?
For Joe Biden, the answer is somehow too difficult. The mobs carry on in large part because this president has done or said nothing to stop them and nothing to distinguish between the offensive actions of Hamas that started the war and the defensive response of Israel. But even more importantly, the radicals carry on because neither Biden nor anyone else with standing has told them they are not just wrong but dangerously wrong. Biden was strong in his vocal support for Israel on October 8, but has been backtracking, prevaricating, and increasingly critical of Israel ever since, providing just the kind of opening the mob continues to exploit, even as they call the enfeebled president supposedly defending their cause “Genocide Joe.”
It seems Joe Biden has boxed himself into a corner on the Middle East and his re-election campaign. He needs the votes of two historically Democrat-leaning constituencies, Jews and Arabs, both of whom are dissatisfied or infuriated with Joe Biden. This 46th president will not be able to settle a dispute decades or even centuries in the making. But at the very least, he can use the bully pulpit of the presidency to actually defend democracy and fight tyranny abroad, even if he does the opposite at home. Yet by claiming some kind of moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas, saying there are essentially very fine people on both sides, he has lost faith on all sides.
https://www.libertynation.com/campus-meltdown-bidens-very-fine-people-on-both-sides-moment/
Supreme Court Grapples with Trump’s Immunity Claim
Seismic implications for presidents past, present, and future.
by Liberty Nation Authors | Apr 26, 2024
On Thursday, April 25, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments regarding the election interference case brought by Jack Smith, a Department of Justice special counsel, against former President Donald Trump. In doing so, it ventured, perhaps reluctantly, onto a path rarely traveled. The principal issue is the extent to which a former president can be held criminally liable for actions taken while in office as well as where the line can be drawn between official actions and those that are taken for purely personal gain – a question that determines the extent to which the chief executive enjoys immunity.
The Court’s eventual ruling and the outcome of a possible trial will have far-reaching implications for the office of the presidency.
Liberty Nation Legal Affairs Editor Scott D. Cosenza, Esq. breaks down the pivotal questions tackled by the nation’s highest court.
Graham J. Noble: The popular portrayal of this decision before the Supreme Court is that former President Donald Trump is claiming absolute immunity – that is, a president cannot be prosecuted for any action they take while in office. Is that really the case, though? Trump’s attorney, John Sauer, did not appear to be making that extreme argument.
Scott D. Cosenza, Esq.: It isn’t Trump’s position that he can go carjack someone without criminal liability. Mr. Trump’s legal position is that a president engages in some private and some official conduct. It is the official conduct for which he has immunity from prosecution unless he is convicted first by the US Senate after being impeached by the House of Representatives. Mr. Sauer mentioned the lower court ruling in the case, and one judge’s reasoning that actions “plausibly connected to the president’s official duties are official acts.” Sauer said the Court should adopt that understanding, and further, “if it’s a close case or it appears there’s considerations on the other side, that also should be treated as immune.”
Graham: Sauer told the panel that this determination should be made by a lower court prior to the commencement of the trial proper. He said a DC circuit court should determine the issue. Given what appears to be a distinct bias in DC against Trump, isn’t that dangerous for the former president? Could that lower court simply decide that everything Trump did was for personal gain and, therefore, subject to prosecution?
Scott: The short answer is yes but with a giant caveat. The trial court judge is Barack Obama’s appointee, Judge Tanya Chutkan. While we should expect her to rule against Trump and support his prosecution, such a process would delay any trial beyond the November elections. There would be hearings and appeals on these issues, likely forcing things well into 2025. Given that the impetus behind this and other prosecutions of the former president seems designed to frustrate his campaign for the White House, it would still be a win for Trump.
Graham: Justice Elena Kagan gave the hypothetical example of a president using the military to stage a coup to remain in power. Later, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson suggested that a sitting president has no immunity because, if they did, they could get away with any criminal act. The special counsel’s attorney, Michael Dreeben, also appeared to argue that the scope of presidential immunity is exceptionally narrow. Is that true? It seems to be the case that every former president – even the ones who were impeached – enjoyed comprehensive immunity against criminal prosecution.
Scott: Graham, the immunity or culpability of former presidents to any crime seems to only rest on the willingness of prosecutors to file charges against them, per Dreeben’s arguments! Chief Justice John Roberts asked Mr. Dreeben about this, saying, “the court of appeals below, whose decision we’re reviewing, said, ‘A former president can be prosecuted for his official acts because the fact of the prosecution means that the former president has allegedly acted in defiance of the laws.’ Do you agree with that statement?” Dreeben did agree, and Roberts said the statement “concerns me,” and “As I read it, it says simply a former president can be prosecuted because he’s being prosecuted.” You can bet dollars to donuts; if Trump is found liable for prosecution, we will see indictments against the other four living former presidents before too long, as well.
Graham: Speaking for the Department of Justice, Dreeben based much of his argument on the accusation that Trump’s actions after the 2020 election were criminal because they were taken for personal gain, i.e., remaining in office. Justice Neil Gorsuch pointed out that all incumbent presidents are motivated by the desire to get re-elected. This moves us to the big question of whether a president – or anyone else – should be criminally prosecuted based on perceived personal motivation. If that became an acceptable standard, would not every future chief executive be in legal jeopardy?
Scott: Gorsuch said, “every first-term president – everything he does can be seen through the prism, by critics at least, of his personal interest in re-election.” It’s hard to understand how a judge unmotivated by political bias would fairly divine the purpose of any act to determine the real motivation. Did a president offer a student loan forgiveness program to remedy a social ill and correct lousy policy, or did he do it to buy votes in a future election?
Graham: Did you get a feel for where the Court is going on this case, or is it too speculative to draw conclusions about what the justices are thinking based on their respective lines of questioning?
Scott: Some cases seem easy to predict, while others are a black box. It’s a fool’s errand, however, to try and divine exactly where any justice will come down on a case of first impression, where a new standard must be written. Here, it seems like Trump will get a win on the calendar first. That is to say, I doubt the Court will issue a ruling in this case very soon. Even if Mr. Trump loses his immunity bid in full, if that defeat is announced at the very end of June, a trial by November will be hard to manage. Between that timing and the possibility that they will send the case back down to the district court to rule on official vs private acts, Trump has an excellent chance of beating the clock to the election, free from this criminal trial.
https://www.libertynation.com/supreme-court-grapples-with-trumps-immunity-claim/
NY union leader reveals massive political swing within the ranks: Democrats pushed us to the other side
April 25, 2024 | Vivek Saxena
A top New York union leader revealed on Thursday that his union members aren’t feeling the Democrats anymore.
Speaking with the media after having met with former President Donald Trump, Steamfitters Local 638 boss Bob Bartels said his union workers are looking to support Republicans in the 2024 race because they’re sick of the Democrats’ policy prescriptions.
“In the past, we are basically Democrats, all of us,” he said. “And after what’s happened in the last four years in this country, the Democrats are basically pushing everybody to the other side. We’re a very patriotic group, and we love our country, and we want the best for America.”
“We’re tired of immigration, we’re tired of our tax dollars going to immigration, we’re tired of the crime. We need to put a handle on things in this country and bring it back to how it should be,” he added.
Listen:
NEW: New York union leader Bobby Bartels says most of his Union workers are Democrats but they are supporting Trump in 2024.
Bartels said he conducted a poll of his 9,000 members and Trump is leading Biden 3 to 1.
“In the past, we are basically Democrats, all of us. And after… pic.twitter.com/eOSx2jhjhK
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 25, 2024
Appearing later on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends,” he revealed the results of an internal Trump/Biden poll he’d taken.
“I put out a poll in my union,” he said. “President Trump is leading Joe Biden 3 to 1 on my presidential poll out of my 9,000 members right now. We are very tired of the situation with groceries, inflation, gas prices, illegal immigration, crime. We’re living it every day in New York City.”
Listen:
Steamfitters Local 638 manager: “It was great to see the president come and engage with the blue collar worker of New York City…I put out a poll in my union, President Trump is leading Joe Biden 3 to 1…we are very tired of…inflation, gas prices, illegal immigration…” pic.twitter.com/Te9aYlHdRG
— MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) April 25, 2024
One of the construction workers at the site where all this happened pretty much summed up how he and all his colleagues feel about current President Joe Biden.
Asked by a reporter if he had a message for Biden, the union worker said, “F– you.”
Listen (*Language warning):
NYC UNION WORKER TO BIDEN: “Fu*k you!”
pic.twitter.com/Ofu74u0CIG
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) April 25, 2024
All this comes after Trump visited a Manhattan construction site Thursday, prompting massive cheers from thrilled union workers.
Trump greeted the throngs of supporters at the site, shaking hands and giving autographs. He received an amazing outpouring of affection and took questions from reporters before heading to court.
Watch:
JUST IN: Donald Trump announces he is going to try to win the state of New York during a visit with Union workers at a construction site in Manhattan.
The workers could be heard saying “We Love Trump” as he made the announcement.
“We’re very close in New York. I understand…… pic.twitter.com/5hqItz5JyH
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 25, 2024
Because of all the love he received, Trump was convinced that New York is now in play in the 2024 race.
“I’m going to make a play for New Yorkers,” he told reporters. “They said, I just heard, there was a very good poll that came out. Normally, a Democrat will win New York.”
“Biden is the worst president in history. We have some very bad people here, but we have the greatest people and they’re right behind me. They all want us to run, and we’re going to run very hard in New York,” he added.
While at the construction site, Trump reportedly handed out a document to union workers titled, “Union Workers Paying the Price for Biden’s Failed Economic Policies,” that claimed Trump will ban Chinese and foreign ownership of critical US infrastructure if he’s re-elected. It also said he’ll cancel President Joe Biden Biden’s electric vehicle mandate.
The electric vehicle mandate in particular has enraged union workers nationwide — and justifiably so.
In an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal published last August, Linda McMahon of the Center for the American Worker and James Sherk of the Center for American Freedom argued that the mandate will “kill union jobs.”
“Forcing Americans to buy electric vehicles means that many [union]-represented parts and assembly plants will close,” they wrote. “Those that remain will employ far fewer workers. These job losses have already begun. Stellantis (which owns Chrysler) recently announced layoffs for thousands of union jobs as part of its electric transition.”
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/04/25/ny-union-leader-reveals-massive-political-swing-within-the-ranks-democrats-pushed-us-to-the-other-side-1455168/
EXCLUSIVE: West Virginia Girls 'Step-Out' Of Track & Field Meet To Protest Transgender Competitor
Dan Zaksheske
PublishedApril 18, 2024 10:31 PM EDT|UpdatedApril 19, 2024 8:03 AM EDT
How To Subvert Subversion with Laughter
Why laughter is the most powerful form of protest and the many reasons why we laugh at the demoralized naked emperor commissars
Yuri Bezmenov
Apr 21, 2024
Commissars: Laughter is the most fun way to subvert subversion.
A day without laughter is a day wasted. Laughter is the best medicine and the most effective antidote to woke tyranny. That is why fascists around the world are trying to censor free speech. We have seized the memes of production, so the commissars want to ban them.
When reason fails, ridicule prevails. Mockery subverts subversion by turning trendy into cringey. Cool into lame. Stunning and brave into fake and craven. Laughter will always be a universal human desire. Everyone wants to laugh. They want to have fun laughing together with others. And they don’t want to be laughed at.
The left projects that conservatives are full of hate, but they are the ones fomenting it. I have only encountered personal animus from disagreeing with a leftist, but not conservative or moderate. We don’t hate the libs. However, we do have reams of evidence that they are misguided and pushing policies that make all of our lives worse. The far left is too demoralized to reason with (<10% of the population). They no longer respond to facts, data, and logic because they are operating under a new religion with different morals and narratives. For everyone else (>90% of the population), laughter works. Subversive writing, memes, and movies are mightier than the sword.
https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/subversive-laughter-mock-cringe-commissars?publication_id=617396&post_id=142678600&isFreemail=true&r=9833w&triedRedirect=true
Jamie Raskin Is Getting Sued!
Tony Bobulinski, a former associate of Hunter Biden, filed a $20 million defamation lawsuit against Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) yesterday. Bobulinski, the witness for the Republican impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, has filed several lawsuits against Democrats over their commentary about him. According to Bobulinski, Rep. Raskin has refused to comply with multiple requests to retract and delete allegedly defamatory remarks, necessitating the lawsuit.
Raskin, the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, often criticizes the Republican impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden‘s son, Hunter. The Democrat lawmaker has repeatedly questioned Bobulinksi’s credibility. The lawsuit alleges Raskin published “false statements” online to undermine Bobulinski after his testimony before the impeachment inquiry.
The legal filing also accuses Raskin, in an MSNBC interview, of insinuating that Bobulinski engaged in spying and other criminal activity, thus damaging his integrity. In the same interview, Raskin ridiculed the GOP impeachment witnesses, accusing Bobulinski of maintaining ties to sanctioned Russia-based energy magnate Viktor Vekselberg. Several corporate news outlets subsequently picked up these accusations, further damaging the witness’s reputation.
Bobulinski’s lawsuit alleges that Raskin defamed the witness by suggesting he may have lied to Congress to gain favor with former President Donald Trump. The filing states that he possesses no affiliation with Trump’s presidential campaign. These comments by Raskin, the suit claims, have contributed to a “defamatory social media blitz.”
In addition to Raskin, Bobulinski has also filed lawsuits against former Trump aide-turned-Democrat ally Cassidy Hutchinson and Fox News‘s Democrat commentator Jessica Tarlov.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/04/23/jamie-raskin-is-getting-sued/
GDP Growth Misses Estimate by 64 Percent, Recession Fears Real
By Lee Barney | Thursday, 25 April 2024 10:18 PM EDT
The latest GDP numbers released Thursday sent shock waves among economist and traders with the data indicating the economy is seriously slowing.
The Commerce Department reported Thursday that U.S. gross domestic product in the first quarter rose just an anemic 1.6%, while analysts had predicted GDP of 2.4% for the first quarter — a miss of 64% from the estimate.
The GDP contraction suggests a recession could be in the offing. A recession is defined as two consecutive quarters of growth below 2%.
Meanwhile, inflation is still higher than expected.
Personal consumption expenditure inflation for the first three months came in at 3.4%, and core PCE, excluding food and fuel, was 3.7% — far above the Fed's 2% target.
"This report was the worst of both worlds: Economic growth is slowing and inflationary pressures are persisting," Chris Zaccarelli, chief investment officer of Independent Advisor Alliance, told Bloomberg.
"The Fed wants to see inflation start coming down in a persistent manner, but the market wants to see economic growth and corporate profits increasing," Zaccarelli said.
"We know inflation can be a self-fulfilling prophecy, in which expectations for a higher prices can lead to higher inflation," economist Lauren Henderson of Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., told Morningstar. Even if Fed policymakers are worried they are losing control of inflation, Henderson added, "they wouldn't voice it because they would do everything they can to ensure market participants that inflation will be in control with the appropriate policy."
Shortly after the bell Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down by 660 points and the Nasdaq had declined by 1.96%, though stocks clawed back those declines to close with the Dow shedding the most, 0.96%, for the day.
Wall Street had been crowing about the consistent decline in inflation in the second half of last year and the potential for a "soft landing," whereby the U.S. economy could avoid a recession and mass layoffs.
Economists are now not only beginning to worry about a recession, but a worse scenario: stagflation.
Stagflation is the worst of all possible outcomes, economists say, because it is far harder to address — and may require the Fed to increase interest rates at a time when growth is weakening.
In a recession, the Fed can cut rates to help the economy rise over time.
Surprising to many is the economy has been extremely sluggished despite President Joe Biden's stimulus efforts — amounting to over $10 trillion since he took office.
Typically such spending primes the economy for serious growth. But today's GDP numbers show the spending may be having an opposite effect.
"Economic growth has been boosted for the last two years mainly from the federal government's huge deficit spending," Stockton University Finance Professor Michael Busler told Newsmax.
But U.S. national debt exceeds $34 trillion and the annual deficit is mounting — near $2 trillion a year as the U.S. Treasury rolls over maturing debt to bonds currently paying 2% annual interest to 4% annual interest.
Busler argues these interest payments will make it "nearly impossible for the federal government to increase government spending to stimulate the economy and avoid or end a recession."
"The Fed may even be forced to raise interest rates maybe as early as this summer," Busler added. "That means the government cannot take either monetary or fiscal policy actions to stimulate growth. Inflation increases as higher energy prices and wage inflation continue. That leads our economy to stagflation."
While warnings of stagflation periodically have popped up each year since 2021, only to be quickly quashed down in the face of a strong labor market and consumer spending, Thursday's economic data upended that belief.
"Stagflation chatter will surely pick up in the wake of these figures," said Ian Lyngen at BMO Capital Markets.
"The day the music died," Pimco co-founder Bill Gross posted on X.
He continued: "10 year Treasury moving to 4.75%. Why own bonds? Stick to value stocks, avoid tech for now."
On top of this, earlier expectations of three rate cuts by the Fed starting in June have morphed into one rate cut possibly as far out as December, or possibly none in 2024.
Options on futures for the Secured Overnight Financing Rate show a 21.4% probability of a Fed rate hike by December, up 17% from Wednesday.
Investors are now looking to the price data for March the Commerce Department is releasing on Friday.
The data Thursday suggests the figures for January and February will be revised higher and annual PCE could come in at 2.8%.
Consumers are at the end of their spending splurge, said Jeffrey Roach, chief economist at LPL Financial.
Decreased spending will decelerate the economy in the months ahead, he said.
"The path to the Fed's 2% target still looks a long ways off," Roach said.
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/gdp-recession-federal-reserve/2024/04/25/id/1162489/?ns_mail_uid=110c4f27-b39e-4490-8c9e-becd156886f8&ns_mail_job=DM615111_02262024&s=acs&dkt_nbr=0101044hprsw
Friday's Energy Absurdity: Ford's EV Q1 Losses Are Truly Impressive
David Blackmon
Apr 26, 2024
In case you missed it, Ford Motor Company reported this week that it somehow managed to lose an impressive $132,000 per EV sold during Q1 2024. That is almost double the per-unit loss the company reported in Q2 2023, as calculated by our friend Robert Bryce.
That is not a typo, and I swear I am not making it up. Hell, even the Biden propagandists over at CNN have noticed the carnage at Ford caused by CEO Jim Farley’s EV incessant virtue-signaling and seemingly insatiable seeking of government rents.
Here’s an excerpt from that story:
Ford’s electric vehicle unit reported that losses soared in the first quarter to $1.3 billion, or $132,000 for each of the 10,000 vehicles it sold in the first three months of the year, helping to drag down earnings for the company overall.
Ford, like most automakers, has announced plans to shift from traditional gas-powered vehicles to EVs in coming years. But it is the only traditional automaker to break out results of its retail EV sales. And the results it reported Wednesday show another sign of the profit pressures on the EV business at Ford and other automakers.
The EV unit, which Ford calls Model e, sold 10,000 vehicles in the quarter, down 20% from the number it sold a year earlier. And its revenue plunged 84% to about $100 million, which Ford attributed mostly to price cuts for EVs across the industry. That resulted in the $1.3 billion loss before interest and taxes (EBIT), and the massive per-vehicle loss in the Model e unit.
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Note the fact - which I’ve highlighted - that Ford’s EV revenue was down 84% from the previous quarter due not only from plummeting sales, but also from deep price discounts. Those deep price discounts were required due to falling demand, which in turn resulted in huge inventories of unsold cars sitting not only at Ford’s plants but also in the lots of its hundreds of dealers around the country.
Note also the highlighted part about Ford being the only legacy carmaker that is brave - or perhaps a better word is ‘stupid’ - enough to break out its EV results as a separate line item in its quarterly results. Thus, while GM reported fairly strong results for Q1 this week, we can’t know how big its own EV-related losses are. GM did give us a clue when it said its quarterly profit was a result of ongoing strong demand not for EVs, but for its legacy internal combustion pickups and SUVs.
Oh.
Even before it announced these terrible results, Ford and Farley said in early April that it was shifting its strategic vision away from all-electric cars to introducing a new line of hybrid models going forward. Carney and his team had better hope the company’s board and investors are willing to swallow the folly they’ve already created with their EV virtue-signaling disaster, and wait to see if they do any better by basically playing copy cat to Toyota.
That is all.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/fridays-energy-absurdity-fords-ev?publication_id=712558&post_id=144032300&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Special Report from Sister Ciara
My Dearest Friends:
With articles appearing in the United States today like “Anti-Israel Agitators Continue Nationwide Disruptions With Escalations At USC,
Harvard And Columbia” and “Elite Universities Breed The New Hitler Youth”, I couldn’t help but remember the overwhelming socialist
Democrat Party and leftist media indoctrination drumbeat of propaganda during 2020 that headlines such as these were assured if
President Donald Trump won reelection.
https://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index.htm
Calling white women "Karens" is a form of reverse discrimination, imo.
Excuse me, but why wasn't the young "lady" arrested for indecent exposure? Society in decay. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13351925/Utah-Karen-sexual-battery-girls-skirt-steakhouse.html
Immunity again! I'm sure all the MAGAt Justices will agree.
I know how we can end this presidential immunity bullshit argument right right now
One of the lawyers should ask, so if the president gets totally immunity, then when this hearing is over, if Joe Biden decides to kill all the Republicans Supreme Court Justice, he couldn’t get in trouble, correct?
Because that is how fucking ridiculous this hearing is
I know how we can end this presidential immunity bullshit argument right right now
— WTFGOP (@DogginTrump) April 25, 2024
One of the lawyers should ask, so if the president gets totally immunity, then when this hearing is over, if Joe Biden decides to kill all the Republicans Supreme Court Justice, he couldn’t get in…
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NOTE: What is meant by "pure politics" as stated in this boards' iBox decriptiion is just that.., it has no real ties to the economy and is mainly a composition of political innuendo. As I assume most of you know, it is difficult at times to separate politics from the economy due to the fact that politics plays a very large part in our everyday lives; be it on an economical, personal or other level altogether. Therefore this has created problems in the discernment of which posts should stay or go due to their leaning too far toward the political side and are slight on economic issues. As hard as my assistants and I try, we cannot please everyone. But we do what we do and want to be fair, we do want what should stay as part of this forums curricular. Everyone has an opinion and/or wants to be heard and I will do whatever I can to help ensure that is what takes place and hopefully most will not feel as though they are being targeted or alienated.
In the end all I can ask is that you be patient if a post of yours has been deleted, yet it has economic undertones that state otherwise and you feel should remain. If you feel you have been wronged - relax, sit back and PM me and I will make a final judgement. I am rather liberal, therefore more times than not I most likely will restore your post if it has merit and/or fallen between the cracks. Things happen or are interpreted differently and sometimes incorrectly, we are human. So do NOT throw a hissy fit nor become a foul mouth fool. Also PM harassment is frowned upon and should carry a level of disciplinary action, but I will leave that up to iHub Admin. Besides all that life is too precious to spend in a tirade. These types of behavior will get you no where except a closer view of the exit.. Treat people as you would like to be treated and we can work through most issues. It all starts with civil dialogue, respect for another's opinion even if not agreed upon. An agreement to disagree is the way I like to see things conclude when minds cannot meld. Just because an agreement cannot be reached does not mean we automatically have to trash another for their views and/or opinions. Let's face it, we all want better, we all want to be part of something bigger than ourselves and we all want to gain an edge in the game of life. This cannot be accomplished without an open mind and a certain level of tolerance for all that speak out.
As a matter of fact I encourage as many of you as possible to post, even if it is just once a month. You don't have to take the world by storm, it could be about something as simple as a neighborhood observation such as more homes up for sale than in months past or how empty the parking lots are at a traditionally known hot spot. Post an article or commentary that hits close to home, test the waters and see if others have seen similar events around the country. We have at our fingertips virtually 100s of libraries of information and cyber chat connections we can use to find out how different aspects of the economy are doing all around the nation. I truly believe we all have a lot to contribute and share and while we all will never see eye to eye on every subject or then again maybe none at all, but different points of view may enhance our own outlook or the way we see and do things. Right or wrong, the world is constantly evolving and technology will begin to pick up speed by leaps and bounds So we could serve each other better if we take what is posted for face value instead of an opportunity to lambaste someone that sees things in a different light than our own preconditioned mindset. When opposing views are met with hostile impositions it is of no service to anyone. I certainly would not want a cult following or a bunch of "yes" men setting the tone for this forum, I want diversity !!! Variety is the spice of life !!! You cannot expand your horizons if you automatically shut down and feel as though you have it all figured out. I got news for you, you don't and you won't until you are lying on your death bed. I do not care who you are or how worldly and educated you may be, we never stop learning unless we hold ourselves back with preconceived notions. Knowledge IS Power...
AND if you should feel the need to post on an otherwise different, yet similar stage:
Your Economy OT - Conspiracy, Politics, Religion, Terrorism, War (whatever else you can think of) (YE2OT)
It's open and ready for business. Over there you can post whatever you like to your hearts content, especially political/economic articles and commentary that does not quite fit in at YE1. So now you have 2 boards - One for economics, markets, trends, data, news, commentary, etc. - a more serious site for those who want the straight dope. And now the YE2OT board for everything else. I will play Moderator, but I am taking applications for an assistant who would control 90%+ of the interaction over there.
If people choose, they can travel between boards if they need a fix of some controlled chaos at YE2OT and then want some cold hard facts as (YE1) was intended.
I want everyone to have a voice, now you have a choice .. enjoy
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