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Cotton has introduced a bill to make children of illegal immigrants, terrorists, and foreign spies ineligible for BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP
🚨BREAKING: Sen. Tom Cotton has introduced a bill to make children of illegal immigrants, terrorists, and foreign spies ineligible for BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP.
Do you support this?
YES OR NO? pic.twitter.com/VvKXSaYf5v
— Ivanka Trump - Parody (@ivankatrumpo) September 20, 2024
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The Ukrainian leader is scheduled to be in the US to attend the UN General Assembly
https://www.rt.com/news/604269-trump-harris-meet-zelensky/
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No Larry, they haven't. But anyone with half a brain can see it plainly. That says a lot about the leftists that deny it.
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Bombshell Transcripts Reveal Trump, in Fact, Ordered National Guard for January 6th — General Milley Confirms Trump Urges Top Pentagon Officials to Deploy’ Guard, or Soldiers, Active Duty Soldiers’
by Jim H?ft Sep. 20, 2024 11:40 am
A groundbreaking report from Steve Baker has unveiled crucial transcripts proving that President Donald Trump did indeed request National Guard deployment to ensure a peaceful protest on January 6th, 2021.
These newly surfaced transcripts, which were previously concealed, reveal the truth that many in the mainstream media have ignored.
According to the documents, General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, confirmed that President Trump expressed concern about the potential for unrest and proactively ordered the necessary precautions.
On January 3, 2021, just three days before the protest, General Milley recalled the president saying, “Hey, look at this. There’s going to be a large amount of protesters here on the 6th. Make sure that you have sufficient National Guard or Soldiers to make sure it’s a safe event.”
Trump reportedly added, “I don’t care if you use Guard, or Soldiers, active duty Soldiers, do whatever you have to do. Just make sure it’s safe.”
These damning revelations fly in the face of the narrative propagated by the mainstream media and Democrats who have continuously blamed Trump for the chaos that unfolded on January 6th. The president’s clear directive to deploy the National Guard days before the event highlights his intentions to maintain law and order during the protest.
The transcripts also reveal that other Pentagon officials failed to act on Trump’s requests. Chief Steven Sund of the U.S. Capitol Police made an urgent plea for the National Guard on January 6th.
However, according to Sund, the Secretary of the Army’s representative denied the request, citing concerns about the “optics” of having National Guard troops stationed at the Capitol. This hesitation contributed to the delayed response, exacerbating the situation.
Further complicating matters, Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller acknowledged that Trump had commented on the need for 10,000 troops to ensure security. However, Miller dismissed the president’s request as mere “banter.”
Subcommittee Oversight released the following transcript:
GENERAL MARK MILLEY, CHAIRMAN, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF:
“[January 3, 2021] The President just says, ‘Hey, look at this. There’s going to be a large amount of protesters here on the 6th, make sure that you have sufficient National Guard or Soldiers to make sure it’s a safe event.” *
“[POTUS said! ‘Hey, I don’t care if you use Guard, or Soldiers, active duty Soldiers, do whatever you have to do. Just make sure it’s safe.
CHRISTOPHER MILLER, ACTING SECRETARY OF DEFENSE:
• “The President commented that they were going to need 10,000 troops the following day… I interpreted it as a bit of presidential banter or President Trump banter that you all are familiar with, and in no way, shape, or form did I interpret that as an order or direction.
“[On January 6, 2021] everyone was like, “Did you listen to the President’s speech?” I’m like “The guy speaks for 90 minutes it’s like Castro or something.?” No, I’ve got work to do.”
“I was cognizant of the fears that the President would invoke the Insurrection Act to politicize the military in an anti-democratic manner. And, just before the Electoral College certification, 10 former Secretaries of Defense signed an op-ed piece published in The Washington Post warning of the dangers of politicizing and using inappropriately the military. No such thing was going to occur on my watch.”
“There was absolutely – there is absolutely no way I was putting U.S. military forces at the Capitol, period.’
“The operational plan was this, let’s take the D.C. National Guard, keep them away from the Capitol.”* CHIEF STEVEN SUND, U.S. CAPITOL POLICE:
“I’m making an urgent request for the National Guard. We are being overrun. I gave a quick rundown of what we had going on and that officers out there are fighting for their lives. We were about to be taken over.
The representative from the Secretary of the Army said, “I don’t like the optics of National Guard standing in a line with the Capitol in the background.” *
“I explained to them that the building is being breached. I need their assistance immediately. He [General Piatt] said, “My recommendation to the Secretary of the Army is to not support the request.”
COMMANDING GENERAL WILLIAM WALKER, D.C. NATIONAL GUARD:
“My thoughts are that there has to be something else at play here. Why is there such a concern about proximity to the Capitol? We hadn’t had that before?” *
“[General Piatt said| at 2:42pm “It would not be his best military advice to send the National Guard to the U.S.
Capitol at this time…Military presence could make the situation worse and the optics were bad.”
COLONEL EARL MATTHEWS, D.C. NATIONAL GUARD:
“The D.C. Guard could’ve gone in right away. But the Secretary of the Army did not give us the approval.”
“There was concern about being anywhere near the Capitol because of perception that the military would be involved, that there would be militarization of the electoral process.
“We were seeing the Congress of the United States being overrun, and the Guard – and the Capitol Police, the MPD need help. We had people at the D.C. Armory who are able to help, and they’re not moving. And they’re not allowed to move. They’re not allowed to go down there.”
“It’d be like, if there’s a five-alarm fire and you’re telling a volunteer fire company, “Don’t go respond to the fire. Go to trees and pull cats or dogs out of trees to free up firemen to respond to the real fire.” I mean, it’s ridiculous.
COMMAND SERGEANT MAJOR MICHAEL BROOKS, D.C. NATIONAL GUARD:
“They were ready to go, and they just couldn’t understand why they were still sitting there. Literally sitting on a bus, just waiting to drive to the Capitol and do the best they could do to support Capitol Police.”
“People were like, “Why weren’t you there?” We were. We were waiting.”
“We repeatedly told them, “We know what we’re doing. We just need you to give us the authorization”
BRIGADIER GENERAL AARON DEAN, ADJUTANT GENERAL, D.C. NATIONAL GUARD:
than proming most sroper vete caged about optics when it comes to, you know, saving
“The lull time between that 2:30pm call and 5 o’clock, just nothing. It was like, that’s a little odd – very odd.
It put us in a bad situation, because we wanted to respond but we couldn’t. So we were just left there waiting on word.”
GENERAL WALTER PIATT, DIRECTOR OF ARMY STAFF:
“What we were afraid of is that military assets would be employed without military command, and that weighed in heavily when forces were requested in support of January 6.”
CHRISTOPHER RODRIGUEZ, D.C. HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT:
“So it kind of shocked me, because we had a situation where the Metropolitan Police Department had been on the scene at the Capitol for over an hour at that point, and we couldn’t get any additional support from DoD.”
Below is a copy of the transcript:
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Earlier this year, a transcript obtained by The Federalist suggests that the sham January 6 Committee, chaired by former Rep. Liz Cheney, might have suppressed evidence indicating that President Donald Trump had authorized National Guard troops to be on standby during the Capitol protest.
Transcript from a key witness, Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony Ornato, reveals that contrary to the committee’s claims of having “no evidence,” there was substantial proof that the White House had been proactive in its approach to securing the Capitol.
According to Ornato, he overheard conversations where then-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows urged D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to request additional National Guard support, emphasizing that President Trump was prepared to authorize up to 10,000 troops.
The committee’s final report, however, did not reflect these discussions, instead stating that President Trump “never gave any order to deploy the National Guard on January 6th or on any other day.”
Nancy Pelosi later refused to turn over her communications surrounding January 6. And Democrats later destroyed evidence from their interviews with officials involving the January 6 riots.
For context, Kash Patel, the Former Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense, joined The Epoch Times for an interview on the security planning and protests on Jan. 6 at the US Capitol in Washington DC.
During his interview, Kash admitted that Mayor Muriel Bowser turned down thousands of National Guard troops at the Capitol on January 6 for political reasons.
Chris Wray’s FBI also refused to notify the Trump administration and his cabinet secretaries that they believed there could be a situation like the mass protests at the Capitol that took place.
Nancy Pelosi also refused the National Guard at the US Capitol due to politics.
In a WaPo interview with the Washington DC police chief, Steve Sund, The National Pulse reports the outgoing police chief “believes his efforts to secure the premises were undermined by a lack of concern from House and Senate security officials who answer directly to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate leader Mitch McConnell.”
President Trump also reiterated during an interview with Sean Hannity that he authorized the National Guard to be in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021.
In June, new footage was released from the House Oversight Committee of Nancy Pelosi taking responsibility for the January 6, 2021, protests and rioting at the US Capitol.
Nancy Pelosi: “I take responsibility.”
Since January 6, 2021, Nancy Pelosi spent 3+ years and nearly $20 million creating a narrative to blame Donald Trump.
NEW FOOTAGE shows on January 6, Pelosi ADMITTED:
“I take responsibility.”
WATCH: pic.twitter.com/95a0totTWB
— Oversight Subcommittee (@OversightAdmn) June 10, 2024
Last month, a new video was released showing Nancy Pelosi again regretting the presence of the National Guard at the US Capitol on January 6. Pelosi earlier refused their deployment despite President Trump’s request for thousands of troops to protect the US Capitol.
“We’re calling the National Guard now? They should have been here to start out.”
“We have totally failed. We need to take some responsibility for not moving to secure…”
BREAKING.
“We’re calling the National Guard now? They should have been here to start out.”
In previously unreleased footage, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi takes blame for the J6 security disaster.
“We have totally failed. We need to take some responsibility for not moving to… pic.twitter.com/DweuMleiqH
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) August 28, 2024
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/bombshell-transcripts-trump-fact-ordered-national-guard-january/
Kamala Harris Ignores Open Border Crisis Question, Gives 3-Min Word Salad Answer
Wendell Husebø20 Sep 2024
4:37
Vice President Kamala Harris rambled off 441 words in about three minutes to ignore a question about “specific” policy solutions to secure the southern border, during a Thursday interview with Oprah Winfrey.
“When you become president, what would be your specific steps to strengthen the border?” a man, Justin, from the audience asked Harris.
Kamala is incapable of answering a question and after 3 minutes of nonsense Oprah had to save her. pic.twitter.com/ZnbWeUDtZD
— Kate Hyde (@KateHydeNY) September 20, 2024
Never denied they were space aliens, either!
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House unanimously passes bill enhancing Trump’s Secret Service protection after attempted assassinations
By Josh Christenson Published Sep. 20, 2024 Updated Sep. 20, 2024, 11:52 a.m. ET
The House unanimously passed a bill Friday enhancing former President Donald Trump’s Secret Service protection level after two assassination attempts against the Republican nominee 64 days apart.
By a 405-0 vote, lawmakers directed the Secret Service to apply uniform standards of protection “for determining the number of agents required to protect Presidents, Vice Presidents, and major Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates.”
The bill was voted under suspension of the House rules, meaning it needed two-thirds approval to pass.
The legislation also requires the Secret Service to issue a report on the effectiveness of its protection for presidents, vice presidents, former presidents and major presidential and vice presidential candidates, who are designated to be “major” protectees by the Homeland Security secretary and congressional leaders.
Reps. Mike Lawler (R-NY) and Ritchie Torres (D-NY) introduced the bill the day after Trump’s first brush with death, when would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, shot him in the ear at a Pennsylvania campaign rally on July 13.
It was brought up for a vote this week, five days after Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, set up a sniper’s nest off the sixth hole at Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach in Florida.
Ousted Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle admitted that the Pennsylvania attempt was the agency’s “most significant operational failure” in decades, but her successor took no responsibility for the thwarted second attempt.
Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe later told Trump, 78, that a major increase was needed in security resources and coordination if he wanted to keep playing golf.
At a Monday press conference, Rowe told reporters that Routh “did not have line of sight to the former president” and “fled the scene” after being fired upon by a Secret Service agent on advance patrol at the course.
“He did not fire or get off any shots at our agents. With reports of gunfire, the former president’s close protection detail immediately evacuated the president to a safe location,” Rowe explained. “The protective methodologies of the Secret Service were effective.”
Republicans and Democrats in Congress also called for heightened security protocols in the aftermath of Sunday’s near-tragedy, though it’s unclear whether that could only be achieved through further funding or merely by executive action from President Biden.
But former federal law enforcement officials told The Post earlier this week that more funds weren’t needed.
“The resources dedicated to his protection should be commensurate with the threats,” said ex-Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan, noting that in addition to two immediate assassination attempts, Trump had faced a foiled assassination plot by a suspected Iranian agent.
“Trump is perhaps the most threatened person in the world, with threats from both domestic and foreign adversaries, including an Iranian assassination plot to avenge the death of Iran General [Qassem] Soleimani during Trump’s presidency,” added former Department of Homeland Security acting deputy chief of staff Lora Ries. “He should be protected to the maximum level based on that threat.”
The Senate Homeland Security Committee and a House select task force are both investigating the assassination attempts, with the former expected to issue a report on the first attempt in the coming days.
Senate committee members voted earlier this week to release all documents related to the shooting at the Butler Farm Show grounds after Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) accused the Department of Homeland Security of “stonewalling” their investigation.
House Task Force Ranking Member Jason Crow (D-Colo.) told reporters on Wednesday that “unlike the Butler situation, which very obviously had some failures, it does appear as those security processes and protocols were followed and the system worked as designed.”
“It appeared to be the same security package that was provided to former President Trump at that site, doing the activity as he actually received when he was the president,” Crow said of the Sunday golf outing. “It was commensurate with presidential-level security.”
https://nypost.com/2024/09/20/us-news/house-unanimously-passes-bill-enhancing-trumps-secret-service-protection-level-after-two-attempted-assassinations/
Media Worried That Constant Trump Assassination Attempts Might Distract From Plight Of Illegal Immigrants
NEW YORK, NY — Sources within several major media and news networks recently confirmed that most legacy mainstream media head editors are now "pretty worried" that the news of the latest Trump assassination attempt might distract from the plight of illegal immigrants around the country.
According to sources at the Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, Huffington Post, and the Economist, newspaper higher-ups are absolutely terrified that giving space to covering something as routine and commonplace as the Trump assassination might distract from how terrible life for illegal immigrants in the US is.
"Quite frankly, this is really concerning," said CNN host Jake Tapper. "Just think — if people start reading about how there was yet another ordinary assassination attempt on Donald Trump, they'll forget about all of the hoopla and racist bigotry that illegal immigrants have to endure day after day! I mean, did you know that it takes an illegal immigrant as much as an hour and a half to get a driver's license and registration to vote in American elections at the DMV? It's absolutely disgraceful — it's only a third as long as legal US citizens' wait times!"
News chiefs in writers' bullpens across the country have committed to rectifying the possible wrong by posting as much as they possibly can on illegal immigrants' struggles due to white cisgender powerstructures and also by ignoring assassination attempts, as long as they're just on Trump.
At publishing time, all major mainstream news sources had finally agreed to cover Trump's assassination, as long as they could be assured that it would happen.
https://babylonbee.com/news/media-worried-that-trump-assassination-story-might-detract-from-plight-of-illegal-immigrants
'Pizza, Ravioli, Spaghetti, Mamma Mia!' Says Kamala Harris In Mario Hat And Mustache While Addressing Crowd Of Italians
PHILADELPHIA, PA — Yet another campaign audience was treated to a speech specially tailored to relate to them, as Vice President Kamala Harris adopted a pitch-perfect accent and image while addressing a crowd of Italian American voters.
Harris's campaign speech to a group of supporters at a local chapter of the Italian Heritage Club was punctuated by a special outfit she wore specifically for the event, consisting of a familiar red plumber's cap and a bushy, cartoon mustache.
"Pizza, ravioli, spaghetti, mamma mia!" Harris loudly proclaimed to the crowd. "When-a the moon hits your eye like a big-a pizza pie, that's amore, am I right, folks? I was born in a middle class family, and that's one spicy meat-a-ball! HAHAHA! In all seriousness though, let me make you an offer you can't refuse. Vote-a for me! I make-a your dreams-a come true, capisce? Marinara! Salami! Here we go! WOO HOO!"
Though some rally attendees seemed put off by Harris's sudden change in speech, others found the vice president quite relatable. "She sounds just-a like-a us!" said one Italian American voter. "I've never heard her speak-a this way before, but I'm-a so glad to have a candidate who talks-a like meeeeee! I'm sure it's not just some stunt that she repeated with crowds of other people groups. Spaghetti!"
At publishing time, Harris's speech to the Italian crowd had concluded with her Tony Soprano-like pledge to keep working to make sure someone would eventually "whack" Donald Trump.
https://babylonbee.com/news/pizza-ravioli-spaghetti-mamma-mia-says-kamala-harris-in-mario-hat-and-mustache-while-addressing-crowd-of-italians
California Police Raid Seizes Over 2,000 Memes
LONG BEACH, CA — In an immediate sign that Governor Gavin Newsom's crackdown on memes is taking effect, the Long Beach Police Department announced that a special tactical unit executed a raid of a private residence today and seized over 2,000 memes.
The bust took place at an unsuspecting location, reportedly the home of what was described by neighbors as a nice, quiet family. In all, authorities seized over 2,000 of what a department spokesman categorized as "pure, uncut memes."
"This is a historic day and a historic bust," said Long Beach Police Sargeant Ray Thorson. "Governor Newsom made it very clear that this trash has no business being out on the streets. We received a tip from one of the neighbors that someone in this residence was engaging in illegal meming. We executed a search warrant and quickly discovered the largest meme stockpile any of us had seen."
Witnesses on the scene said one rookie officer ran out of the home vomiting after seeing the memes. "He was horrified," a police insider said. "He's clearly not used to seeing humor of this caliber. You just never expect to find this stuff in a calm, suburban neighborhood. There are families that live around here. Kids play in the streets. And inside, you find this type of dangerous material. It's disturbing."
At publishing time, officers had transported multiple cases of memes to police headquarters for analysis, with Sergeant Thorson declining to comment on whether this may lead to taking down a much larger internet meming cartel.
https://babylonbee.com/news/california-police-raid-seizes-over-2000-memes
Study: Electric Vehicle Batteries Make Cars Too Heavy to Be Stopped by Safety Guardrails
OLIVIA RONDEAU 19 Sep 2024 4:30
A new car safety study has proven that electric vehicles (EVs) are too heavy to be restrained by guardrails that line roads in case of accidents, researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln said.
As the amount of EVs such as Teslas and Chevrolet Bolts take over the roads amid concerns over the environmental impact of gasoline-powered vehicles, one of the lead researchers from the university’s Midwest Roadside Safety Facility (MwRSF) warned that there needs to be “some urgency to address this issue.”
In a study sponsored by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) and partnered with Auburn University’s Transportation Research Institute, MwRSF conducted a “first-of-its-kind crash test” of an EV pickup truck in October 2023.
The test used a 7,148-pound 2022 Rivian R1T truck that was sent at a barrier at a speed of 60 mph, with footage showing the heavy EV completely blasting through the guardrail and launching over the concrete wall while sending chunks of it flying:
No One Notices As Entire Cast Of 'The View' Replaced With Shrieking Feral Pigs
MANHATTAN, NY — All three people who watch The View were completely unaffected by the talk show's recent decision to replace their entire cast with shrieking feral pigs.
According to Matylda Männer, an unemployed 45-year-old Kamala voter and antique hoarder, the show swapped out Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, and the rest of the cast for a newborn brood of clamoring pigs, but it hasn't actually changed anything about the show.
"I plopped down to hear some wisdom from Whoopi Goldberg," Männer said. "And then I realized — there was no Whoopi Goldberg. So I watched the show through anyway. Not bad. The new squallers were unusually quiet compared to the normal hosts and they were a little easy on Trump today, but I'll survive."
According to the estate of Barbara Walters, the show's creator, the decision to switch to feral pigs was "nothing personal, just good business."
"I mean, I like Joy and Sara, don't get me wrong — they're just a little repetitive and loud sometimes," a spokesperson for the Walters estate said. "These porkers actually bring a little bit more to the table — figuratively speaking, that is. And they look better, too. I'm fine with the decision, all around."
The View's new hosts were unavailable for comment, though several oinks and squeals were able to be heard through a locked door marked "View Makeup Stye."
At publishing time, MSNBC had also added squealing feral pigs to their talk show, nearly doubling their viewership to an all-time high of five.
https://babylonbee.com/news/no-one-notices-as-entire-cast-of-the-view-replaced-with-shrieking-feral-piglets
Labor Dept. data: Urban rent surges 23% in just three years of Biden-Harris
By Olivia Murray
According to the government’s own number crunchers, the average cost of urban rent surged 23% in just three years of Biden-Harris, with the housing cost increase impacting “midwestern cities slightly worse” with a 24% rise.
Here’s the story, from a report at Breitbart:
The nationwide rent average has shot up by 23 percent under the Biden-Harris administration, new Consumer Price Index (CPI) data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows.
After President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took office in January 2021, the CPI across all urban renters rose slightly by February. By August 2024, the index gained 79 points — a 23 percent increase from 342 to 421.
Well, when the politicians in charge of the nation are adhering to the Cloward-Piven strategy and importing impoverished welfare recipients so they can use them as a political weapon—in this case dropping “illegal alien bombs” on American cities and towns—a surge in the cost of housing is entirely expected. (Credit to a random online commenter for the great analogy.)
As I mentioned initially, the areas that are hit the hardest are the “midwestern” cities, or in other words, urban locations in many of the states that largely support… President Trump.
Think Springfield, Ohio and Charleroi, Pennsylvania, with tens of thousands of Haitians swarming their streets and eating their wildlife… and pets?
Think Whitewater, Wisconsin, where sexual assault and unlicensed drivers skyrocketed after an influx of illegals.
Think Chicago, which isn’t red (but Illinois is), and its own surge of 35,000 illegal migrants just in the past year, creating a scenario where almost 20,000 people in the city don’t even have a permanent bed in which to sleep. From a report in June:
The number of Chicagoans living in city shelters or on city streets tripled between January 2023 and January 2024, according to the annual survey used by federal officials to track homelessness, city officials announced Friday.
…
That is an increase of more than 200% in the past year, driven largely by the arrival of 35,000 migrants from the southern border….
(Illegal alien children now account for about 1/4 of the students in the Chicago public school system, and don’t even speak English.)
Think Minnesota, which is now home to the largest Somali population in the world, outside of Somalia proper.
Think Dearborn.
Now of course, you know who’s not worried about surging prices in the housing and rental market? Illegals! As Breitbart also highlighted:
In New York City — one of the most expensive places to live in the U.S. and the world — officials are giving $5,000 in grants and gift cards to illegal migrants to help rent their own apartments, Breitbart News recently reported.
Oh, and they’re also not stressing about the rising cost of baby formula, because they’ve got WIC for that; they’re not concerned with the grocery store prices, increases which Harris and Co. blames on “price gouging,” because they’ve got an EBT card for that; they certainly don’t lose any sleep over the cost of school tuition because our public school system has them covered; they don’t fret over medical and dental bills, because they have “free” healthcare; and they definitely don’t have to worry about Uncle Sam kicking in their doors to see if they’re hiding any spare nickels or dimes under the mattress that haven’t been taxed for the umpteenth time, because they’re working under the table.
Democrats are so bad for the American people that at this point, it actually makes financial sense to renounce American citizenship.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/09/labor_data_urban_rent_surges_23_in_just_three_years_of_biden_harris.html
The Haitian taste for domestic pets isn’t just driven by poverty
By Christopher Garbacz
Haiti is a very poor country—the poorest by far in the Western Hemisphere. The US has provided Haiti with large doses of foreign aid. In fact, the Clintons were given control of large amounts of aid money to improve Haiti through their foundation. That didn’t work out very well as funds were siphoned off to who knows where but not much to the benefit of the ordinary Haitians.
Development economists have concluded that a poor country cannot be saved by foreign aid. They must want to develop their country themselves. At this point, Haiti has no prospects for significant change. Arbitrarily admitting large numbers of Haitians into America will have no effect on Haiti and a chaotic effect on America, especially if small-town resources are overwhelmed.
So, what’s for dinner?
Haitians living are known to eat cats for dinner in Haiti. (See, e.g., here, here, and here.) Ohio Governor DeWine is oblivious to this, as well as the overall impact of illegals in Ohio. Meat is meat when you are hungry, but over time, you develop a taste for certain types of meat. One of the major gang leaders in Haiti has the nickname “Barbecue”—and this wasn’t because of his taste for livestock or even cats. Once Haitians arrive in the USA, we should not expect them to change their dining habits. Pets are not available at the grocery store.
But there’s something important to note about Haitians’ fondness for domestic pets. It’s not just poverty or food culture. Instead, what comes with Haitians is Voodoo worship, and what comes with Voodoo worship is small-animal sacrifice, which is often torturous in its practice. In Haiti, estimates are that up to half the population practices voodoo, no matter the other faiths they profess. Some of their dinner items are related to these Voodoo rituals.
In New Orleans, 10 percent of the population is estimated to have a Voodoo connection. Voodoo shops on Bourbon Street, a Voodoo museum, Voodoo ceremonies, and veneration for Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen, live on not just as tourist attractions. If Biden/Harris wanted to import Haitians, they should have sent them to New Orleans.
You can compare Haitian eating habits to other countries without justifying the perverse essence of Haiti’s food desires. In China, they eat dogs without a sacrificial process. If you are eating on the street and ask what kind of meat is in your dish, the response is often “just meat.” So, if you have traveled extensively in China, you have probably eaten dogs. You see cute little puppies in cages on the street. They are not pets.
In France, they eat horses and various types of animal innards. Other foods around the world are tuna eyeballs, fruit bat soup, haggis, and monkey brains, to mention a few. In Mexico, there is fish head soup. Many stores in New Orleans sell turtle soup, although Westerners dislike it. Chicken feet are sold at the Chinese grocery store. Pig ears and snouts, pickled pig’s feet, squirrel brains, calf brains, and eggs are available for breakfast.
“De gustibus non est disputandum,” or there is no accounting for taste. You might be tempted to say this. But that is not so in this case. There is a good explanation for Haitian food tastes, and it’s not just poverty at work.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/09/the_haitian_taste_for_domestic_pets_isn_t_just_driven_by_poverty.html
Fed chair Powell says illegals are why unemployment is rising
By Monica Showalter
Democrats don’t support women and girls
By Jack Hellner
Komrade Kamala's minions insist she's no Marxist, but she sure does draw glowing endorsements from actual communists
By Monica Showalter
A few days after President Trump called Kamala Harris "a Marxist" after the last presidential debate, Newsweek put on its "journalism" cap and attempted to debunk that claim, saying they decided to ask some "real" communists from the Communist Party U.S.A., a depleted husk of an organization which must have maybe 100 members.
They asked Joe Sims, a longtime CPUSA functionary who now serves as the "co-chairman" of the operation, and who is probably the only one allowed to speak to the press. He came to the phone for Newsweek easily.
So is Kamala a Marxist?
"We don't see anything in the platform or statements of the current or former Democratic Party standard bearers—Biden, Obama, Harris, etc., that indicate they are Marxist," Sims said. "What we do see is the standard GOP charge of 'socialism' used by Mitch McConnell, Trump et al. going all the way back to Joe McCarthy. No surprise here!
"Again, we've seen this script before—overt racism, alongside vague allegations of 'Marxism' deployed to divide and divert working-class people from uniting and bettering our situation.
"Donald Trump's red-baiting and racism are old and tired divide-and-conquer devices. Trump used both last night. But the American people know better. It didn't work against Obama and it won't work now."
So there you have it: Joe says Kamala is not a Marxist. Therefore, Trump lied.
That was what Newsweek thought it "proved" as it consulted all those real communists, meaning, just Sims.
It's nonsense. What Newsweek didn't do was go look through the easily found archives of the Communist Party U.S.A.'s public documents, which shows quite a bit of approval of Comrade Kamala and her doings. They defend her. They advocate for her. They praise her Marxist outlook.
Here's a May 2024 piece written by Juan Lopez, another longtime functionary who now runs the San Francisco Bay Area branch of the CPUSA. The topic of his discussion was whether the Democrats were left-wing enough ahead of their 2024 convention to make the communists happy. Juan brought up the 2020 convention to argue that they were. I boldfaced the money quotes:
The day before the 2020 Democratic National Convention (DNC) leading progressive women’s groups held a summit aimed to ensure women’s perspectives were front and center at the Democratic convention.
The summit’s stated aim was to elevate women’s voices, especially women of color who have been a crucial voting bloc, to ensure that issues especially affecting women, including access to abortion, paid family and sick leave, pay equity among many others, were uppermost in the conversation.
Mindful of majority public sentiment at the time and the general view of delegates, then vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris warned of the damage of “structural racism,” which she said leads to “injustice in reproductive and maternal health care, excessive use of force by police, and our broader criminal justice system.”
That's a pretty good Marxist argument right there, with a nice use of Marxist language and reasoning that you find in those quarters.
But it gets better:
These clearcut facts, I believe, show the “lesser of two evils” characterization of the Democratic Party holds no water.
For the viable left, including the Party, it is important to recognize the symbiotic relationship in fashioning strategy and tactics now, when the country is facing a fascist danger represented by Trump and Republican Party, and the necessity to build a peoples united front to defeat it.
I can only suppose the battle between labor and its strategic allies on the one hand and capital on the other over control of the Democratic Party will intensify, if we manage to win and secure the November elections and subsequently to isolate and incapacitate far-right/fascist political and economic power.
Who is this "we" you speak of, Kemosabe as you talk of winning elections? And note that they've got big plans for us conservatives once they "win" the coming election.
That's about all you need to know about CPUSA support for Harris, and their plans to "win" the election with her, followed by plans to punish their opposition, the way communists always do.
But this is far from all of it.
In 2020, they urged their members to get out there and vote for Biden and Harris because they like the Democrat party's slide leftward along its Bernie Sanders lines:
The progressive changes in the Democratic Party will continue. Bernie Sanders’ clear message to his supporters is that their campaign made progress in bringing vital issues like the $15 minimum wage, Green New Deal, and Medicare for All into the mainstream, but to continue and win those fights it is urgent to defeat Trump by voting for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Anita Waters, an elderly, but probably not longtime, functionary from Ohio, (who ironically looks like a classic childless cat lady in the video that follows below), has lots of grievance politics to attach to Kamala in her 2020 piece:
While women in general do not vote as a bloc, African American women have emerged as a potent force in electoral politics. In 2016, for example, 98% of Black women voted Democratic. The following year, U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama won his seat with 98% of Black women’s votes. This year, African American women helped propel Biden to the nomination, probably as strategic voters, then issued a powerful challenge to the presumptive nominee demanding that he select a Black woman for vice president. On August 11, he announced his selection of California Senator Kamala Harris.
She's quite approving of that in her piece, adding:
The selection of Kamala Harris no doubt brought joy and enthusiasm to a number of constituencies, including HBCU (historically Black colleges and universities) alumni and citizens of Jamaican and of Indian heritage, and the all-important bloc of Black women voters. They feel vindicated with Biden’s choice, and with a 77-year-old white man at its top, the ticket is less likely to suffer from the benevolent and hostile sexism that was experienced by Clinton in 2016.
Another reaction to 2016 was an acute awareness of sexism in media coverage of women candidates. Even before Harris was selected, women’s organization leaders issued a memo entitled, “We Have Her Back,” addressed to “News Division Heads, Editors in Chief, Bureau Chiefs, Political Directors, Editors, Producers, Reporters and Anchors,” warning against the sexist scrutiny and stereotyping that has long plagued all women candidates, and is especially amplified for Black and Brown women.
Biden’s selection of Harris was so widely predicted that it seems “safe”—polls had shown Harris to be the favorite of intended voters—but having an African American woman on the Democratic ticket does represent a breakthrough in U.S. electoral politics.
In another piece that ran as an article on their site, by someone named Adam Keller, an Israeli "peace" activist celebrating Prime Minister Netanyahu's electoral defeat in 2020, was quoted as congratulating Harris in 2020, as reprinted from the People's World, which is the CPUSA paper:
Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace Bloc, congratulates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for their hard-fought victory and their impending entry into the White House. This is a great day for the whole world. We congratulate American democracy, which managed to shake off and oust a president who trampled on the most basic of democratic norms and still persists in futile efforts to cling to his fading power.
Meanwhile, get a load of this 2020 video of Sims and his minions (his Politburo?) discussing the morning papers and the communist life together the way Gus Hall used to do years ago -- with high words of praise for Kamala, and note the section where the group collectively goes 'ooh' at the mention of Comrade Gus, a Minnesota Man who was curiously like Tim Walz:
New study: 20% of children have ‘few to no’ pals
By Olivia Murray
Children can save us, but it’s our turn to save them.
— 🖤⚔️ 🪽𝑩𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒍🌹𝑾𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒓 ⚔️🖤 (@Btchen_n) September 19, 2024
This world has become an extremely hostile for children, their physical and mental health are under attack, not to mention pedophilia and human trafficking.
We are nothing as humans if we do not protect what is sacred.💯 pic.twitter.com/V5mk0vs2TP
The masks slips: Kamala Harris scowls and gets nasty with black journalists when she thinks no one is looking
By Monica Showalter
I keep telling yall about Kamala! Now look for yourselves.
— Vernon Jones (@VernonForGA) September 19, 2024
Kamala at the end of her interview with the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ). She couldn’t get out of there fast enough. Kamala left frowning (She’s a mean woman).
I swear they were limited in their… pic.twitter.com/VbLEvUb8dh
Trump takes a clear lead among New York State’s Jewish voters
By Andrea Widburg
Siena College’s latest poll had some interesting results, especially from Jewish voters, long one of the Democrat party’s most reliable demographics. It turns out that Jewish voters don’t like what they see. The poll generally asks like/dislike questions and specific questions about the economy and immigration, but I have to believe that Jews are also worried about the Democrats’ antisemitism problem and Kamala and Biden’s efforts to save Hamas (a Nazi-like terrorist organization) from extinction.
You can see the Siena poll here, but it’s in microscopic font with a bewildering number of rows of information. I’ve broken out the massive shift in Jewish support for Trump and some interesting general findings.
Preliminarily, up to and including 2020, Jews have consistently voted for Democrats—and, as this WaPo report shows, they’ve done so by huge margins. The only exception was for Reagan when long-time Democrat Jewish voters (like my father) were frightened by Carter’s weakness in the face of Iran and his lukewarm support for Israel. And no, it’s not that American Jews put Israel before America. It’s that they know that Israel is the tip of the spear when it comes to Islam’s pressure against the West. If Israel goes, that won’t end things; it will be the beginning. Democrats voted for Reagan again in 1984 because of the stunning economic recovery on his watch.
Just four years ago, in 2020, when Siena conducted a poll of New York voters, that blue state (which last voted for a Republican in 1984) loved Biden. Chief among the Biden supporters were the Jews, who gave Biden a 77% favorability rating while giving Trump only a 20% favorability rating. When asked for whom they’d vote, 74% said for Biden.
A lot can happen in four years. Here are the Jewish voting numbers now:
As of this week, 52% of Jews have a favorable view of Donald Trump, compared to 48% with an unfavorable view.
If the election were held today, 54% of Jews would vote for Trump, with 44% voting for Kamala.
On the economy, 58% of Jewish voters favor Trump compared to the 39% favoring Kamala.
On abortion, 49% of Jews still favor Kamala compared to 44% favoring Trump.
On immigration, 58% of Jews favor Trump compared to only 33% for Kamala.
On democracy in the abstract, despite all the talk about Trump being an existential threat to democracy, Jews favor Trump (53%) over Kamala (45%).
On Biden’s job performance, only 41% of Jews approve, while 55% disapprove.
Two more things: First, Jews vote. Currently, 73% are certain to vote in November, and 23% are very likely to vote, for a probably 95% turnout. No wonder Trump is actively seeking the Jewish vote.
Second, for those who say that New York’s Orthodox Jewish community votes conservative, that’s true. However, they’re only about 40% of the Jews in New York. The fact that Trump now leads in the state means non-Orthodox Jews are shifting.
Generally speaking (that is, not focusing just on New York’s Jewish voters), New Yorkers aren’t happy with the status quo. While Democrats still like the direction in which the country is heading (49% compared to 35% who are unhappy), nobody else is very pleased. The poll shows that 88% of Republicans think the country is on the wrong track, a view shared by 76% of Independents and others. If these unhappy New Yorkers understand that Kamala is that status quo, that’s bad news for her. Even if they tell pollsters they’re voting for Kamala, we might see a shy Tory effect.
What’s fascinating about all this is that, for decades, abortion was the one flag that Democrats had to wave to get out the vote. That issue, more than any other, drove voters to the polls. I certainly saw that in the community in which I raised my children. My neighbors worked hard, believed in marriage and family, opposed crime, disliked drug use, wanted low taxes... Indeed, in all ways, they were conservative, except on abortion. Say “abortion,” and they were off to vote for the Democrat.
Knowing this, Democrats have been insisting that Trump wants to ban abortions. They say this even though (a) the Dobbs decision means that the federal government no longer has a say in abortions, (b) Trump has explicitly disavowed seeking to ban abortions at the federal level because he says it’s a state matter now, and (c) Trump has explicitly disavowed Project 2025, which seeks stronger abortion laws. Politically, abortion is a dead federal issue, no matter how much the Democrats flog it.
If the data about Jewish voters are to be believed, the Jewish Democrats’ long-standing (and embarrassing) support for abortion is being overridden, temporarily, at least by more pressing concerns about their survival at home and abroad (they’ve witnessed what’s happened at Columbia and NYU), the economy, and open borders. If Israel is the tip of the spear when it comes to Islamic depredations against the West, maybe Jewish voters in New York are the tip of the spear when it comes to Americans’ concern about where Biden has taken this nation and where Kamala will continue to take it.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/09/trump_takes_a_clear_lead_among_new_york_state_s_jewish_voters.html
You are not my type, Kam
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
NYC’s COVID tsar had sex parties even as he effectively imprisoned New Yorkers
By Andrea Widburg
I honestly don’t even know where to begin with Steven Crowder’s expose of Jay Varma, New York City’s COVID tsar. This is the man who imposed on New York some of the most draconian COVID rules in America: extreme lockdowns, the end of church attendance, family gatherings, and travel, and instituting policies that made people’s lives so miserable that they were effectively forced to get vaccinations to function.
However, a honey trap has revealed that, even as this was going on, Varma was having drug-fueled sex orgies and fully understood that vaccines weren’t necessary for those who had acquired immunity through actually having COVID. He’s a public health tyrant, a hypocrite, a sexual deviant, and a Harvard “educated” person who uses the word “like” all the time, in infantile teenage fashion. He is, in a word, revolting at every level and quite evil.
The video is embedded below, but here are some of the highlights, which I’m quoting from Steven Crowder’s website:
Dr. Jay Varma, Former Senior Advisor for Public Health, NYC Mayor’s Office: “I had to be kind of sneaky about it [sex party] ... I was running the entire Covid response for the city…we rented a hotel...we all took like, you know, Molly [Ecstasy/MDMA] … 8 to 10 of us were in a room...like just being naked with friends…”
Dr. Varma: “We went to some like, underground dance party…underneath a bank on Wall Street…We were all rolling…”
Dr. Varma: “This was not Covid friendly.”
Dr. Varma: “I did all this deviant, sexual stuff while I was, you know, like on TV [press conferences] and stuff…”
Dr. Varma: “I actually was the one who convinced the Mayor [De Blasio] to make it [Covid Vaccine] a mandate.”
Dr. Varma: “So, the way we do it in public health is we make it very uncomfortable to be unvaccinated…They [the public] didn’t get vaccinated because they heard it’s safe, they gave in because it was really hard.”
Varma also boasts about forcing Kyrie Irving out of playing basketball over Irving’s refusal to be vaccinated. The arrogance he shows when speaking about Irving and the venomous political bias about those who opposed mandatory vaccinations all show an indecent man.
Watching the video is worse than those quotations imply. Standing alone, they don’t capture how sleazy Varma is. He speaks like someone hopped up on speed (and I’m not saying he is, just that he speaks that way) and peppers his speech with the mindless teenage interjection of “like.” The overall effect is of a drug-addicted, motor-mouthed evil scientist who is deeply stupid but doesn’t realize it.
I cannot tell you how disturbing the video is. Nevertheless, I urge you to watch it and share it because he is the living embodiment of the Democrat party. They are leftists who love power and they showed their true colors during COVID. They also showed their disdain for normal people and their belief that they are special, so that the normal rules—whether moral rules or the rules they impose on Americans—don’t apply to them.
‘MAGA,’ Crosses, prayer not allowed; burning pregnancy center A-OK?
By Eric Utter
Buttigieg claims pace of BIL-funded EV charging station construction is actually ‘on track’
By Olivia Murray
A Dramatic Tax Pounding Come 2026
By Bruce Willey
It’s a matter of debate as to whether or not the future of democracy is at stake in this year’s presidential election. But the future of your tax bill certainly is. And the differences for successful business owners could be dramatic depending on who wins.
Although Democrat nominee and current vice president Kamala Harris has offered few new tax policy specifics, she did roll out a grab bag of expensive tax credits, including $25,000 grants for first-time homebuyers. In addition, The Wall Street Journal reports that she’s expected to hew closely to Joe Biden’s tax philosophy. And she did re-emphasize that she will stick to President Biden’s “no tax increases for earners under $400,000” pledge.
With billions of dollars in proposed new tax credits and no new taxes for those below a $400,000 income threshold, a Democrat administration will by definition be coming after higher-income taxpayers full force.
There have been enough public statements and published policy proposals from both sides to be able to compare a successful business owner’s likely tax bill under a Harris presidency compared to a second Trump presidency. The differences are stark.
Trump Tax Legacy: Cuts and Jobs Act incentives
The defining tax policy of Donald Trump’s presidency was the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), which combined significant personal and corporate tax cuts with features that encouraged more aggressive business investment.
The TCJA lowered most individual tax rates; adjusted tax bracket thresholds upward; adjusted various personal tax credits; and limited state and local tax deductions, mortgage interest deductions, and charitable giving deductions.
On the business front, the TCJA lowered corporate tax rates dramatically, taking the U.S. from one of the highest corporate tax rates in the industrialized world to about the average rate of the nations belonging to the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD). It also allowed accelerated depreciation for investment in many kinds of business equipment while closing several corporate tax deductions and loopholes.
For successful small business owners, a key feature of the TCJA was its qualified business income deduction for up to 20% of the income of pass-through entities like S-corporations, sole proprietorships, and others.
But a critical feature of the TCJA was that key provisions of it would sunset — expire — in 2025. Why would Congress make such a critical thing as our fundamental tax policy, in effect, temporary? Essentially, because it couldn’t have passed any other way, and the sunset provisions allowed the bill to overcome objections and legislative blocking mechanisms.
Donald Trump has said (no surprise) that his administration will renew and make permanent all of the TCJA’s provisions.
The Biden/Harris administration (also no surprise) has said they’ll let most of the TCJA’s provisions expire, other than the expanded Child Tax Credit and a few other individual tax provisions. The administration’s determination to scrap most of the TCJA forms the foundation for the dramatic divergence in tax outcomes for business owners under Democrats versus Republicans starting next year.
Harris reiterated last week that no one who makes under $400,000 would face a tax increase — though the devil is in the details. Since every income group saw a reduction in its tax rate in 2017, allowing the provisions to expire would seem to logically impose a tax rate increase for everyone.
In addition, the 2021 Inflation Reduction Act contained a massive increase in funding for IRS auditors, and the IRS’s own data show that 63% of 2023 IRS audits targeted taxpayers with incomes under $200,000. So the idea that there’s some kind of legal fence around sub-$400,000 earners is illusory.
The Biden/Harris administration has also proposed hiking corporate tax rates by 33%, raising rates on high earners, and setting a minimum tax rate for them regardless of other tax considerations.
Kamala Harris further tax background
Historically, Kamala Harris has staked out very progressive taxation policies with aggressive marginal rates on high income earners and corporations. As a presidential candidate in 2020, she advocated for the full repeal of the TCJA — not simply waiting for it to sunset.
Highlights of her previously stated plans:
Raising corporate taxes 66% to a marginal rate of 35%
Pushing the top income tax rate to 39.6%.
Taxing capital gains and dividends at ordinary income tax rates.
She would also give huge tax credits to middle- and low-income families that are estimated to cost the federal government more than $2 trillion over the next decade.
Finally, she has in the past proposed “Medicare for All,” one of the most costly policies ever proposed at roughly $3 trillion annually. Harris suggested a surtax of 4% on all incomes above $100,000 to pay for it.
The effects on a successful small business taxpayer
To look at the effect of who’s in the White House for the next four years, let’s examine what a sample successful small businessperson’s tax return might look for the exact same amounts of income this year versus in 2026, when the bulk of the 2017 Trump tax cuts expire, under both Trump’s and Harris’s stated or affirmed tax plans.
This analysis focuses on a successful small businessperson who is reporting combined income from all sources of just under $750,000. The numbers in the example are drawn from an actual 2023 return and anonymized. We can assume the same nominal income from all categories for 2026.
IRS data suggest that about 1% of all taxpayers reported more than $500,000 in income, so with roughly 167 million taxpayers, there would be roughly 1.67 million taxpayers whose returns might look like this — or worse.
Conclusions
What the sample data and calculations suggest is that the hammer will come down hard on high-income taxpayers if Kamala Harris is elected president and Congress doesn’t have enough votes to override her likely vetoes of any legislation that perpetuated the 2017 Trump tax cut.
A taxpayer making $750,000 with relatively straightforward deductions and business investments could see his tax bill leap from about $150,000 under a Trump administration’s stated policies to $217,000 under a Harris administration’s proposed and inferred policies.
That’s an increase of almost 45% in total tax dollars paid.
That painful outcome for the successful taxpayer under Harris would largely be a result of two factors: a reversion to pre-2017 top marginal tax rates and the removal of the Qualified Business Income Deduction.
And all that is before considering that the Biden/Harris administration let a budget footnote slip that indicated that it would seek a gigantic doubling of the capital gains tax.
Our national tax policy and how it affects successful economic contributors will swing wildly on the hinge of this November’s election. High earners will need to prepare for the possibility that the tax door may hit them square in the wallet.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/09/a_dramatic_tax_pounding_come_2026.html
A Target on His Back -- Trump as the New John Wick
By Eric Dawe
Mad to the Max
“I don’t understand why it’s so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is.” — Hillary Clinton
James Howard Kunstler
Sep 20, 2024
If anything like civil war ignites in this country, the sides will not be the political Red and the Blue but the sane and the insane. Now it happens, unfortunately, that the insane are driving the engine of government. They have been at war with the people of this land for years, depriving them of livelihoods, stuffing them into prison, breaking the social contract, wrecking the country’s relations with the rest of the world, and belaboring the peoples’ minds with one insulting absurdity after another.
They comprise a bizarre coalition of the permanent bureaucracy, the Democratic Party, and the news media. The permanent bureaucracy includes its own machine for making war on citizens: the intel blob, whose tentacles reach into other agencies: Homeland Security, the State Department, the so-called Justice Department, the Pentagon, the myriad Public Health offices, and the shadowy clique that stands-in for a disabled president in the White House.
You can tell they are insane because they are driven by a single motivation: to remain in power for no other purpose than to escape responsibility for their many crimes against the people. This is insane behavior because it depends on the proposition that reality does not matter, that reality is optional, that there is no such thing as truth, and if it happened to exist, to be a thing, it would have no greater value to the human project than its opposite, untruth.
The greatest absurdity of the moment, is the idea that Americans might desire to continue under the rule of this evil coalition devoted to unreality and untruth, that is, to vote for candidates of the Democratic Party. Its greatest crimes, of course, are the lawless measures taken to pervert the very elections that might allow them to retain power in office.
Some of it is well-hidden and abstruse, such as the machinations of election lawfare manager-in-chief, Marc Elias, who for many years has used the courts and the state legislatures to fiddle election rules that make it impossible to account for who is actually casting the votes. This, you understand, is insane. What sovereign people would seek to institutionalize election fraud?
Some election crime is just in your face. The open border policy may have many nefarious angles, but an obvious one is stuffing the voter rolls with live bodies that have names attached, which can be bundled and harvested in ballot form like so many sheaves of oats. No one is fooled by this. Yet the Democratic Party has its heavy hand on the lever of power that controls entry to the country. Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security allows this to happen and bullshits Congress in open committee hearings. Congress has impeached him for this affront and the Democratic majority Senate has declined to hold the attendant trial — because stuffing the voter rolls with illegal immigrants allows them to remain in power.
The remedies for this dastardly mess are pretty simple and straightforward: return to paper ballots cast on one election day, requiring voter ID that amounts to proof of citizenship. Everything else — computerized (hackable) ballot-counting machines, mail-in ballots, early voting, automatic voter registration by means of other government transactions that have nothing to do with elections (motor-voter acts) — only insures election fraud. Sane people do not seek to defraud themselves.
It is widely suspected by the not-insane that even the attempt at massive voter fraud may not avail to put over the paramount candidate of the insane: Veep Kamala Harris. Nobody believes that she is capable of being president. But the insane don’t seek a capable president — in fact, the opposite. They want a president who can only function with direction and management of the blob, by the blob, and for the blob. The blob’s motives, besides seeking to avoid responsibility for its prior crimes, are a license to commit new crimes, especially crimes that expand the many perquisites and privileges of being in power. These include the fortunes to be made in control of the nation’s wealth, and the sadistic pleasure derived from punishing and humiliating their not-insane opponents. For instance, running the insane Ukraine war, with its fabulous kickbacks for the military contractors and office-holders. . . and making you witness more drag queen story hours.
Due to the possibility that sane citizens, despite calculated election fraud, might elect Mr. Trump, who opposes all that psychotic, criminal nonsense, the coalition of the permanent bureaucracy, the Democratic Party, and the news media appears to have few options left besides murdering Mr. Trump. The first two would-be assassins show a train of association with the intel blob. Thomas Crooks (or, at least one of his many cell phones) traveled repeatedly to a downtown DC building adjacent to the FBI HQ; Ryan Wesley Routh has alleged links to the Arlington, Va., Maximus Company, a CIA cut-out — perhaps explaining how the otherwise indigent Routh funded his global travels. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla) disclosed yesterday that the DHS knows of five assassination teams targeting President Trump, three connected with foreign governments, two domestic.
The most mystifying element in the coalition of the insane is the news media — that is, the cable news networks plus The New York Times / WashPost axis —who have tirelessly broadcast the mantras that Mr. Trump seeks to quash our democracy and that he is a new Hitler who must be stopped at all costs. The inflammatory barrage has had an obvious effect. But the mystery is: what’s in it for these news companies to go along with their insane and desperate partners: the blob and the Dems?
What’s in it for Joe Khan, Executive Editor of The Times? His paper lies and spins unreality incessantly. He surely makes a comfortable salary, but he can’t be getting rich. . . that is, really rich. . . millions. Apparently, he publishes unreal stories because he’s insane. He believes things that are not true. Nor are his reporters getting really rich. They just appear to be blinded by sheer hatred — rising to insanity — and perhaps also by the lurking fear that their many published lies, dating back to RussiaGate, will eventually disgrace them professionally if allowed to be pursued and revealed by the sane.
The temperature is rising in this political crucible. Something is going to melt down. It’s looking pretty clear now who can take the heat, and who can’t.
https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/mad-to-the-max?publication_id=2076970&post_id=149150189&isFreemail=true&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Allegations Against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Released >
https://civildeadline.com/allegations-against-sean-diddy-combs-released/
Escalating conflict: Israeli airstrikes hit Lebanon >
https://thethaiger.com/world/news/606117/
Trump News Secret Service Whistleblower Comes Forward in Second Shooting Attempt
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Democrat Donor Arrested for Threatening to Kill 6 Supreme Court Justices: DOJ
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Fani Willis Hit with Contempt of Court Motion After Defying Subpoena
https://truthpress.com/news/fani-willis-hit-with-contempt-of-court-motion-after-defying-subpoena/
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It is Your Economy .. yours, mine, our family, friends and neighbors -- EVERYONE to some degree is touched by the markets and their behavior. So we should be aware of the various mechanisms that make the markets and our economy tick. We live in a new era where politics, rumor, weather and just about anything you can think of effects the markets and our economy in some way, shape or form. Like it or not we are globally tied at the hip and in this new era where the advent of technology and the internet pushes information to the edge of the envelope, we can only hope to keep up with the many challenges ahead and the speed at which they develop. Technology is a double-edged sword and unfortunately can be used for good as well as evil, it just depends on who is holding the sword. This board was created to follow news, markets, stocks, cycles, trends, indicators and most of all to communicate and share ideas. Humor and Cartoons are welcome here, it breaks up the monotony from time to time and I am alays game for a good joke. I enjoy data mining, especially for info that the MSM (Main Stream Media) fail to or are not allowed to report. We must see things from all angles and aspects in order to verify what is true and what is false, basically becoming more atune to separating the wheat from the chaff. Hopefully in the long run this will help us all to make better and more sound decisions. This board is/was basically an information board, but all are welcome to post, (actually I encourage it because looking through another's eyes gives more perspective on issues). We can never learn too much about these ever changing times and the economy at hand.
* I have only a couple of rules and that is if you should post; NO PURE POLITICS or RELIGION and as always expected, please PLAY NICE !!!
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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
WSJ MARKET DATA CENTER: http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/marketsdata.html
PEARCE FUTURES CENTER: http://sites.barchart.com/pl/pearce/default.asp?code=XPEARCE§ion=indices
KITCO PRECIOUS METALS: http://www.kitco.com/
BIOSPACE:: http://www.biospace.com/Default.aspx
MAJOR WORLD MARKET GRAPHS: http://forbestadvice.com/Money/Investing/Graphs/WorldMarketsDaily.html
INVESTOPEDIA: http://www.investopedia.com/
WORLD-O-METERS: http://www.worldometers.info/
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