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Looks like Hollywood has run out of new ideas. I do like JRR Tolkien's books and the movies produced from two of them but who knows how this this will turn out.
Middle Earth fans:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/peter-jackson-is-making-a-new-lord-of-the-rings-movie-and-i-m-freaking-out/ar-BB1m6yUz
After all the whining by the shitgibbon about not being able to go to barron's high school graduation because of his fraud case.... he naturally skipped the graduation and went to a fundraiser. Grifters gotta grift. I imagine barron understands. He is back out of politics as Mercedes withdrew him as a delegate to the wing nut convention.
MAGA RALLY *LIVE* ~ Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,
will deliver remarks at a Rally in Wildwood, New Jersey,
on Saturday, May 11, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. EDT.
Watch LIVE on RSBN starting at 1:00 p.m. ET.
https://www.rsbnetwork.com/video/live-trump-holds-a-rally-in-wildwood-new-jersey-5-11-24/
Cuomo Vax Injury, Trump Trials Fail, Failing Banks Coming
By Greg Hunter On May 10, 2024 In Weekly News Wrap-Ups 14 Comments
https://usawatchdog.com/cuomo-vax-injury-trump-trials-fail-failing-banks-coming/
https://rumble.com/v4ub6n9-cuomo-vax-injury-trump-trials-fail-bank-failures-coming.html
Obama is determined to destroy America... The Battle is not over
https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/2016/11/23/donald-trump-truth-wahrheit/
MAGA NEWS Bombshell: A Wisconsin election official has been fired for allegedly copying over 64,000
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Bombshell: A Wisconsin election official has been fired for allegedly copying over 64,000 ballots
at City Hall during the 2020 election, all in favor of Joe Biden, in an effort to secure his win.
HOW MANY DEMS DID THE SAME FOR BIDEN TO WIN?
https://rumble.com/v4tw7b8-bombshell-a-wisconsin-election-official-has-been-fired-for-allegedly-copyin.html
Biden regime faces first-ever U.S. lawsuit over covid “vaccine” injuries, deaths
05/26/2023 // Ethan Huff // 16.4K Views
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-05-26-biden-first-lawsuit-covid-vaccine-injuries-deaths.html
700 Million Worldwide Will Die from CV19 Vax by 2028 – Dr. David Martin
By Greg Hunter On June 28, 2022 In Political Analysis 418 Comments
https://usawatchdog.com/up-to-700-million-worldwide-will-die-from-cv19-vax-by-2028-dr-david-martin/
First World Leader Facing Murder Charges For Pushing mRNA Vaccines on Public
Fact checked by The People's Voice Community
December 15, 2023 Baxter Dmitry News, World 9 Comments
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/first-world-leader-facing-murder-charges-for-pushing-mrna-vaccines-on-public/
Medicare death data proves the COVID vaccines are killing people. No more doubts.
The debate is over.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/12/12/medicare-death-data-proves-the-covid-vaccines-are-killing-people-no-more-doubts-the-debate-is-over/
A Critique of the “17 Million Deaths Caused by the Vaccines” Claim
BY DR TRACY BETH HØEG
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/01/22/a-critique-of-the-17-million-deaths-caused-by-the-vaccines-claim/
10,000 people A DAY being killed by covid vaccines; worldwide fatalities likely larger than the HOLOCAUST
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-08-18-10000-people-a-day-being-killed-by-covid-vaccines-worldwide-holocaust.html
Just some of the toxic ingredients in vaccines.......
(1) Formaldehyde ....causes cancer
(2) Aluminum....a potent NEUROTOXIN
(3) Mercury .....neurological damage including autism
https://www.facebook.com/WalksWithEagles774/posts/2166612873683071/?vh=e&extid=MSG-UNK-UNK-UNK-COM_GK0T-GK1C
COVID KILLER VACCINES NEED TO BE BANNED AND A RECKONING DONE!!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/LI9Sc85C02U8/
ALERT! AstraZeneca Covid BOMBSHELL, Boy Scouts go Woke, Zelensky bans Christians | Redacted Live
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REVEALED: Why U.S. Senators Prioritize Israel Over American Interests? | Redacted News
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RESTORED REPUBLIC VIA A GCR UPDATE AS OF MAY 8, 2024
https://rumble.com/v4ty63x-restored-republic-via-a-gcr-update-as-of-may-8-2024.html
Child Sexual Abuse and the Shadow World of Freemasonry, Satanism, Illuminati, and Jesuits!
13 BLOODLINES OF THE ILLUMINATI
https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Illuminati/child_sexual_abuse.htm
MAHA NEWS TIA - Freemasons and the Illuminati NEW WORLD ORDER
Freemasons and the Illuminati are the same.
Who controls the world? You may have heard of “the Illuminati”,
which is associated with conspiracy theorists.
Secret societies are real and very dangerous; they want you to believe they don’t exist and will do anything to protect their secrets.
Freemasons have been around for generations and will have you believe they are about love and helping humanity, but the the opposite is true.
Read this post until the end; it has a lot of info.
https://steverotter.com/freemasons-and-the-illuminati-control-the-world/
$500 TRILLION LAWSUIT AGAINST THE FEDERAL GOVT AND OVER 140 MONOPOLISTS
(REMOVED BY YOUTUBE IN 5HRS)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/QFcfDjifRl6u/
MAHA ALERT PRAYERS - BILL GATES ADMITS THE SHOTS CONTAIN NANOTECH!!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/EBPGXPAWPwPn/
Everything CHANGES for the US Dollar in 7 Days, and Putin knows it
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Replacement theory? Joe Biden calls illegals 'Hispanic voters'
By Monica Showalter
Joe Biden uses arms as a bargaining chip to force Israel to go soft on Hamas
By Jack Hellner
Trump explains the secret behind his astonishing emotional resilience
By Andrea Widburg
If you’re an American of a certain age, you remember a commercial for a toy called “Weebles.” Weebles were little, egg-shaped figures, and the slogan was “Weebles wobble, but they don’t fall down.” I often think of that slogan when I look at Donald Trump’s remarkable emotional resilience in the face of the slings and arrows the Democrats have relentlessly hurled at him since he rode down that golden escalator. No matter how they push him around, he bounces back...and he explained the other day why that is.
In the Art of the Deal, Trump had revealed that his response to attacks, always, is to fight back. This is a man who never backs down, no matter what, despite knowing that there are risks to this tactic:
When people treat me badly or unfairly or try to take advantage of me, my general attitude, all my life, has been to fight back very hard. The risk is you’ll make a bad situation worse, and I certainly don’t recommend this approach to everyone. But my experience is that if you’re fighting for something you believe in — even if it means alienating some people along the way — things usually work out for the best in the end.
Being a fighter is powerful, but it doesn’t mean that constantly fighting won’t make a person angry and embittered instead of ebullient and optimistic. Trump, however, while attacking his opponents in the Biden administration and the media, has remained a remarkably cheerful, happy person.
This is extraordinary given the war the progressive Democrat establishment (with significant help from RINOs and other Uniparty types) has waged against him. Trump has the honor of being the only president who has been impeached twice, who has been the subject of two sex trials, and who is the ongoing object of attempts to imprison him for non-crimes. And yet, like the Weeble, Trump will not fall down. (Or, to use another commercial analogy, he is that Energizer Bunny who keeps “going and going and going.”)
So, what’s Trump’s secret? It turns out that he’s a deeply philosophical man, although he presents that philosophy in basic terms. No academic jargon or psychobabble for Trump. He simply accepts the world as it comes:
The former president added that he doesn’t let his legal troubles bother him too much.
“If you care too much, you tend to choke. And in a way, I don’t care. It’s just you know, life is life,” he said.
There it is. If Trump were given to quoting the Bible, he might have said, “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” (Matthew 6:34.) At a visceral level, Trump understands that you take each day as it comes, dealing with that day’s needs and not worrying too much about the next day.
Again, this is astonishing. Every nation should be led by a man who loves it as passionately as Trump loves America and who has the emotional resources to stand up to the forces arrayed against him without becoming downhearted, bitter, or defeatist.
In his own way, Trump truly is a great man.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/trump_explains_the_secret_behind_his_astonishing_emotional_resilience.html
New Rasmussen Reports: Voters place more ‘trust’ in ‘Republicans’ to handle crime, a stat that continues to amplify over time
By Olivia Murray
Solar panel manufacturers in the West close without government intervention—they just can’t compete with China’s slave labor and coal-fired energy
By Olivia Murray
If only the absolute necessity of slave labor and “dirty” energy to compete in the solar panel marketplace were enough to convince the progressive Democrats that this isn’t a viable or ethical industry! Wishful thinking, I know.
If you’ve noticed, there are a few topics I tend to gravitate toward, one of which is the “clean” and “renewable” energy scam, for several reasons: one, because of the nauseating waste of real dollars we either earn, or pay for through devaluation; two, because it’s a conspicuous bait-and-switch for global communism, which I utterly loathe; three, because of the severity of the environmental destruction these schemes cause; and four, because the uneducated and ignorant arguments from the advocates of such initiatives is such an insult to anyone with a brain, I just can’t stand to bite my tongue—you don’t get to be that stupid and feel that superior without someone reminding you every so often of your place at the bottom of the intellectual totem pole.
So here am I again, with a hat tip to my friend John for sending me this story via the Jo Nova blog: German solar panel manufacturers are dropping like flies because without government intervention (taxpayer dollars), they can’t compete against China:
About 90% of solar panels installed in Germany come from China, and earlier this year one of the last solar panel manufacturers closed in Germany. Last week, what was left of the industry begged for mercy (and subsidies) which they didn’t get. Now another German solar panel manufacturer has closed down.
So why can’t Germany compete against China? Well, it’s a communist regime unbound by asinine agreements to cripple their own economy—China saturated the solar panel supply because it uses slave labor and “dirty” energy to get its product to the market in the most cost-effective way possible, human casualties be darned:
For some cruel reason German factories which are close to their customers, can’t compete with distant foreign factories which have access to slave labor, fossil fueled shipping and cheap coal fired electricity?
…
China generates 60% of its electricity with coal, while Germany uses 32% coal, and 30% solar-and-wind power. What should Germany do, bring back coal, or get some slaves?
…
Solar panels are now in the ‘top five’ worst slave industries in the world, yet still barely any of the morality-police care. They’re apparently too busy atoning for slavery they didn’t cause that doesn’t exist anymore to worry about slaves that are alive today.
Well, outside of bringing back coal or rounding up some slaves, there is a third option….
Now, while the mockery has been fun (it always is), the joke’s really on we the people (basically always true too) because these German solar panel companies, with failed products and business models, aren’t actually closing for good—they’re just packing up and heading for warmer water, aka a more favorable political climate. Care to wager a guess where that might be?
Well where else but the good ol’ U. S. of A, where corporate welfare handouts enrich even the most worthless “business” schemes of which you’ve ever heard; from Reuters last month:
Losing hope of rescue, some European solar firms head to US
European governments due to move to support their solar power manufacturers this week will be too late to stop solar panel maker Meyer Burger packing up a German factory to send production to the United States.
The plant in Freiberg in eastern Germany closed in mid-March with the loss of 500 jobs, as the Swiss-listed firm joined a growing list of European renewable energy manufacturing factories shutting down or moving. In the past year, at least 10 have said they are in financial difficulties.
Thought that economic refugeeism only referred to people? Well brace yourself, because here comes the stampede of failing corporations too.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/solar_panel_manufacturers_in_the_west_close_without_government_intervention_they_just_can_t_compete_with_china_s_slave_labor_and_coal_fired_energy.html
Now even leftists think putting Stormy Daniels on the stand trashed Alvin Bragg's case against Trump
By Monica Showalter
Stormy Daniels, gushing about sex and turds, was one heck of a mistake to put on the witness stand in the New York hush-money case brought by District Attorney Alvin Bragg against President Trump.
Asked if she knew what the case was about, and well, she didn't.
According to Victoria Taft, writing at PJMedia:
The Washington Post captured most of the dialogue between Necheles and Daniels.
Necheles asked Daniels if she had knowledge of Trump’s involvement in the payment made to her in 2016 to ensure she would not go public about their alleged sexual encounter.
“Not directly,” Daniels replied. “No.”
Necheles followed up, “You know nothing about what he does or does not know about the business records?”
“I know nothing about his business records,” Daniels said. “No, why would I?”
Daniels drew some laughter when Necheles asked if she knew about what the criminal indictment against Trump entailed.
“There’s a lot of indictments,” Daniels responded.
Why would she know if Trump knew about the payments, indeed? She admitted she hadn't spoken with him since 2007.
Taft then noted that the other thing that came out at trial was that she tried to extort him for cash, while the getting was good.
A recorded phone exchange revealed this:
Wow this transcript proves that Stormy and co were trying to EXTORT @realDonaldTrump.
TRUMP DID NOTHING WRONG — HE IS THE VICTIM! https://t.co/wyGXOE9hmr
— Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 (@alexbruesewitz) May 9, 2024
"You better settle this God damn story. Because if he loses this election, and he is going to lose, if he loses this election we lose all fucking leverage this case is worth zero. And if that happens, I'm going to sue you because you lost this opportunity," said Stormy's lawyer Keith Davidson to Trump's then-fixer Michael Cohen, who then badly advised Trump to pay the extortion money.
Sound like extortion? It does to anyone normal.
And that contradicted her claim on the stand that she wasn't interested in money, only in telling her story.
Lying comes easy to her, because it's what she does for a living. Her schtick, after all, is talking and acting dirty for cash.
That's not just the view of us normal people watching the case far from New York City.
Even leftists at the scene are saying she shouldn't have been allowed anywhere near the witness stand.
Fox News quoted a CNN legal analyst saying Daniels was a disaster for the prosecution:
CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said that the cross-examination of adult film actress and Trump trial witness Stormy Daniels after her testimony against former President Trump was a disaster.
While Honig said that Daniels' testimony about a sexual encounter with Trump in a hotel room in 2006 was "plausible," her responses under cross-examination by Trump's team called her credibility into question.
"Her responses were disastrous," Honig said, referring to the moment when Daniels admitted that she hates Trump.
"That’s a big deal," Honig said.
...
"When the witness hates the person whose liberty is at stake, that’s a big d--- deal!" Honig said. "And she’s putting out tweets, fantasizing about him being in jail. That really undermines the credibility."
Well, yeah. Whether it persuades the all-Democrat Trump-hating jury is another matter but for sure it will be out there for the rest of us.
Another leftist who seemed to think Daniels was a disaster was the justice himself, Juan Merchan, who otherwise keeps threatening to throw Trump in jail any time he tries to defend himself.
According to CNN, he chided Trump's lawyers for not objecting to Stormy Daniels's disgusting graphic testimony, which had nothing to do with the bookkeeping case.
Judge Juan Merchan called out former President Donald Trump’s defense team during their motion for a mistrial Thursday afternoon, telling them there were many times they could have objected to Stormy Daniels’ testimony, but did not.
For the second time this week, Merchan expressed surprise that Trump’s lawyers had not objected more when Daniels was on the stand. And for the second time this week, Merchan rejected their motion for a mistrial.
Well, whose courtroom was it, Justice Merchan? The guy did object to some of the toilet talk himself in one instance but way too much got out, it was like Fani Willis babbling from the stand all over again.
The prosecution put Stormy on the stand to embarrass Trump and damage his presidential run, of course, but didn't seem to understand that the audience in the courtroom and well beyond might just be onto him and his sleazy political game, which could render the legal case against him nil.
We all know what party the justice donates to, whose side he's on, and what he would like to do to Trump.
So the fact that Merchan complained about the Trump side not objecting enough, for example, on the matter of whether Trump used a condom, a sacred point to the left and a matter of no interest to most others, pretty well tells us that he could see that Daniels's recollections of porkings past was damaging to the prosecution, particularly as her contradictions and lies were exposed, one by one.
That's at least two on the left who see the case starting to go down in flames, and there have been others. Many others.
One hopes they are right, but there's no guessing what a Trump-hating jury might do. We all know what the O.J. jury did.
The bottom line here is that Bragg is bringing out lascivious testimony from known liars not to pursue his court case but to harm Trump's campaign because he doesn't have much of a case in the first place. He made the decision to put the very unprepared Daniels on the stand, and now that she's spewed her spew, the case is in tatters. But no matter, because Stormy looks like Plan B. Bragg would like to harm Trump on the public relations front with the public through sex talk if he can't win his claimed case on the bookkeeping grounds, which isn't what prosecutions are for.
Bragg campaigned on Getting Trump, and since he can't get him on authentic crimes, he's trying for the grossout factor from various prevaricators. Not even the left is fooled by this, and their consternation is now showing.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/now_even_leftists_think_putting_stormy_daniels_on_the_stand_trashed_alvin_bragg_s_case_against_trump.html
How to lose billions on EVs
By Mike McDaniel
Senator Sam Ervin said: “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money.” Our federal government has been talking trillions for some time now, but the Mummified Meat Puppet Administration’s (MMPA) push for electric vehicles has EV manufacturers talking, and losing, billions.
MMPA mouthpieces like Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm assure us EVs are the future and they’re pushing unconstitutional, unrealizable regulations to force that future down our throats. Unfortunately for them, economic reality is intruding, and Ford provides a disturbing example:
The recent figures are part of a trend of loss for Ford, with their Model e reporting a full-year EBIT loss of $4.7 billion on the sale of 116,000 units. This is an average loss of $40,525 per vehicle — and even that is just a third of the per-vehicle loss seen in the first three months of 2024.
Ford announced months ago it was cutting EV production in half. It took them well over a year, and a $4.7 billion dollar loss—I suspect it’s more—to finally, barely, acknowledge their fiscal responsibilities to their shareholders. What company can afford to sustain those kinds of losses, regardless of their fealty to the MMPA and it’s socialist/communist policies? It would now seem likely Ford is going to have to do more than halve their EV production:
Ford announced earlier this month [April] that the company will delay producing two new electric models, opting for hybrid vehicles instead.
The old aphorism “what can’t go on won’t go on” applies. Ford has possibly, belatedly, realized EVs aren’t going to be the future. As the average EV costs more than $60,000, they’re too expensive for most Americans. The wealthy who buy EVs as greenie street cred have already bought all they want, depleting the market, and the EV charging doom loop is eternal. Without a massive charging network across the country, widespread EV ownership is impossible. But without widespread EV ownership there’s no reason, financial or practical, to build chargers. Neither EVs nor chargers are profitable without huge government subsidies, in effect, forcing people who don’t want and can’t afford EVs to subsidize them for the virtue-signaling wealthy.
Driving the doom loop are wind and solar mandates, which include forcing the closure of reliable coal and natural gas electric generation plants, with no plans to replace them with anything reliable. We don’t have enough generation capacity now, and should the public be forced into EVs, that problem will dramatically, immediately worsen, forcing rolling blackouts across America.
Even better, there aren’t enough rare earths and other necessary materials anywhere on the planet, and most of those that do exist are controlled by China, or China dominates processing. And of course, the MMPA won’t let Americans mine or process those materials in America. They’re also preparing to allow China to flood the American market with cheap, Chinese government-subsidized EVs, the better to force Americans to buy them, and the better to eliminate the American automobile industry, which is finally recognizing economic reality and fiduciary responsibility.
The MMPA allocated billions for building EV chargers, but in a stunning display of federal government know how and efficiency, have, in a few years, built only a handful, and only on the East coast.
But let’s return to Ford and see how 2024 is shaping up:
Ford Motor Company reported a whopping $132,000 loss on each electric vehicle (EV) sold during the first three months of 2024, amassing a $1.3 billion loss.
That’s far more than the MSRP for those vehicles, and much, much more than Ford’s production costs.
The revenue for Ford’s EV car, the Model e, plunged by 84 percent to about $100 million, which the company blamed on EV price cuts across the auto 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,” the publication noted.?
Adding to the doom loop is customer’s realization that when Ford no longer produces any EV models, such as the electric Mustang or the electric F-150, parts supplies are going to dry up, and resale value will quickly drop into negative numbers. There will be no used EV market. Unfortunate EV owners will have to pay people to take their worthless EVs off their hands.
But other than all that, sure. EVs are the future—in some other, self-imagined elite constructed, reality.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/how_to_lose_billions_on_tvs.html
The emperor has no clothes -- and the public doesn't like what it sees
By Marc E. Zimmerman
A recent interview of a Biden Administration official illustrates how deep a policy hole this Administration has dug for us in a critical area. A newly recorded dialogue on the U.S. monetary system focused on the nature of money, borrowing, and debt. What was not revealed during this discussion was an acknowledgement that Biden’s economic programs have resulted in a massive inflationary spike during his tenure, with a serious erosion of U.S dollar purchasing power which impacts everyone, every day, when folks shop for food or fill their gas tanks.
The brief narrative presented by Biden’s Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors Jared Bernstein became completely disjointed when he attempted to explain how the Administration, by borrowing, contends with the shortages in tax revenues amounting to trillions of dollars every year to cover federal spending costs.
However, while listening to Bernstein’s dumpster fire of incoherence, a moment of clarity emerged in the midst of his curious interpretations: the presidential appointee had no clue what he was talking about. To wit:
The US government can’t go bankrupt because we can print our own money… well, um… the… uh… so the… I mean… again, some of this stuff gets… some of the language that the MM… some of the language and concepts are just confusing. I mean, the government definitely prints money and it definitely lends that money. Which is why, uh… uh… the government definitely prints money and it lends that money by uh… by selling bonds
Is that what they do? They… they… um… they… yeah… they… they… um… they sell bonds. Yeah. They sell bonds, right? Since they sell bonds and people buy the bonds and lend them the money. Yeah. So, a lot of times, a lot of times, at least to my ear with MMT, the language and the concepts can be kind of unnecessarily confusing, but there is no question that the government prints money and then it uses that money to um… uh… eh… uh… so… um… yeah… I… I… I guess I'm just… I don't… I can't really ta- I don't… I don't get it.
I don't know what they're talking about, like… cause… it's like, the government clearly prints money. It does it all the time, and it clearly borrows. Otherwise, we wouldn't be having this… this conversation. I don't think there's anything confusing there, Bernstein concluded.
From an objective perspective, based on Bernstein’s inscrutable attempt at clarifying a major fiscal tactic employed by the U.S. Treasury, the critical underpinnings of financing the U.S. budget and their effects on the domestic economy appears to be a complete mystery to him. Thus, his position serving as a skilled policy professional is miscast.
Although his educational background consists of a B.A. in music as well as a Master of Social Work degree from Columbia University, it seems it is time for a metaphysical shepherd’s crook to usher him off the economics stage. This type of preparation does not make him qualified to advise the president or anyone, for that matter, on the fields of economics and national budgets. As evidenced by the miserable conditions after three years at the helm, he should no longer have any voice in this arena, as his comprehension of sound methods and outcomes of U.S. economic policies have run afoul of the lofty goals of promoting stable prices, maximum employment of the domestic workforce, and the dependability of the U.S. dollar.
Upon reflection, he might be better suited for a temporary slot at the U.S. Department of Transportation. There he could railroad his disjointed musings over underlings who would likely be unable to track his thoughts but would certainly be kept diverted until being bounced out of office after the upcoming election.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/the_emperor_has_no_clothes_and_the_public_doesn_t_like_what_it_sees.html
Smells Like ‘68: Foreboding Parallels for Democrats in 2024
By William Sullivan
Voting Shenanigans in Michigan
By Eric Dawe
In the 2022 mid-term elections in Michigan, voters handed control of the Michigan Legislature to the Democrats, giving them a majority in both the Michigan House of Representatives and the Michigan Senate -- something that hasn’t happened for forty years. Since then, they’ve been working hand in glove with our notorious Democrat governor, Gretchen Whitmer, including passing a slew of bills that significantly transform election procedures in the State of Michigan and make it easier to commit election fraud, while at the same time making it harder to uncover it.
A little background on Governor Whitmer for the uninitiated is in order. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Whitmer transferred Covid-stricken seniors to nursing homes and long-term care facilities and prevented the removal of Covid-infected patients from these facilities, thus exposing the most vulnerable segment of the population -- those over age 60 and with pre-existing medical conditions -- to the dangers of this disease.
Thousands of seniors in these long-term housing and care facilities died, but clever manipulation of the statistics hid the magnitude of the deaths in these facilities -- until the Auditor General’s Report released in January of 2022. It documented that Whitmer’s administration underreported nursing home covid deaths by a whopping 42%.
Whitmer imposed Covid-19 restrictions on the state’s population that she regularly disregarded. During the Covid lockdown, Whitmer took a $40,000 flight on a private jet to Florida. She told the media it was to visit her ‘sick father,’ but there were no medical records to verify this. The duration of her trip was first reported as two days. Whitmer later admitted that her staff lied to the press; she was gone for four days. No one knows to this day who paid for the $40K flight or what she was doing in the Sunshine State.
Back to the story at hand. In November of 2022, Michigan voters also passed Proposal 2, a proposal to amend the voting procedures previously authorized in the State of Michigan’s Constitution. While the proposal passed with (ostensibly) 60% of the vote, the recent batch of bills purportedly written to implement the changes of Proposal 2 goes significantly beyond what was authorized by the voters.
The new legislation hands over verification of absentee ballots from an elected bipartisan board of inspectors to city or township clerks. They also significantly expand the powers of election clerks and the Secretary of State. For example, the Secretary of State can now dictate election procedures without going through the formal rule-making process. This greatly increases the potential for fraud and significantly reduces the safeguards against it.
Senate Bill 367 allows clerks in municipalities with at least 5,000 people to process and count absentee ballots eight days before Election Day. The eight-day, pre-election day window will make it very difficult for poll watchers to observe the handling and counting of mail-in votes. (What could possibly go wrong there?) Municipalities will work closely with the SoS, to whom the bill assigns the task of unilaterally “supervising the implementation and conduct of early voting for state and federal elections.” (God forbid that the SoS has entrenched political biases.)
According to Representative Ruth Johnson (R) Holly, MI, these bills remove every instance of the word ‘fraud’ in the previous law and replace them with the word, ‘error.’ Criminality of intent is thus effectively insulated from prosecution and the ability to address election fraud is stripped away. In fact, under Senate Bills 603 and 604, alleged fraud can no longer be used to request a recount.
Perhaps that’s the reason why Michigan Republican legislators were uniformly opposed to these bills. With a Democrat governor, attorney general, and secretary of state, might it not be wise to ask who stands to benefit from these bills that subtly, but significantly, change the state’s previous law and render voting fraud virtually immune from prosecution?
Michigan is a critical swing state in the upcoming presidential election, along with Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Wisconsin, Nevada, and North Carolina. After watching the shenanigans that occurred in the 2020 elections in many of these states -- voting stopped for several hours; mathematically impossible vote swings that surfaced out of nowhere when vote counting resumed; windows covered up so observers couldn’t watch ballot counters; boxes stuffed with ballots suddenly appearing from under tables and unloaded from the backs of vans; and much more -- it’s not unreasonable to expect that, with the outcome of the 2024 presidential election being even more critically important to the Obama-Biden-Radical Left machine, Democrats would be even more motivated to control the voting outcome than they were in 2020.
I don’t know what’s going on currently in swing states other than Michigan. I do know that in 2020, Democrats in Arizona and Wisconsin attempted to change voting regulations in the final days before the election. In Maricopa County, the largest Democrat County in Arizona, Recorder Adrian Fontes, a Democrat, announced that he was mailing early ballots to every Democrat voter who had not cast a ballot, whether the voter had requested one or not.
Kory Langhofer, a Phoenix-based lawyer with expertise in political and constitutional law, wrote:
“When courts or elections officials change voting procedures on the eve of an election, particularly in a manner that has disparate partisan impact, it has significant consequences. It creates widespread voter confusion -- most importantly among elderly voters, a vulnerable demographic that historically trends conservative -- and opportunities for fraud and voter disenfranchisement.”
According to the Washington Examiner, in 2020, 28 states changed their voting rules to boost mail-in ballots. In fact, for the first time in history, more people voted early by mail or in person than filled out a ballot at the polls on election day.
If the Democrat Machine is determined enough to whip up specious and convoluted lawfare suits against President Trump to keep him from office again, don’t think for a moment that they’re going to keep their hands off the voting process. Keep a sharp eye. Democrat voting shenanigans have already begun again in Michigan.
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.” (Attributed to Joseph Stalin.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/voting_shenanigins_in_michigan.html
Democrat Voter Triage
By A. Welderson
Independent Voters and the 2024 Election
For a growing number of Americans, the two-party system is losing its luster.
by Kelli Ballard | May 11, 2024
More people appear to be getting sick of the two-party system that seems to force them to pick one of just two options, regardless of how they actually feel about the official party nominees. Despite not having a candidate for president in this year’s election – or, for that matter, the fact that it isn’t quite a political party, strictly speaking, as a 501(c)(4) “social welfare organization” – the No Labels movement gained traction as voters felt frustrated and disillusioned by the standard choice between Republicans and Democrats. While independent voters are nothing new, the way they may be able to sway the 2024 presidential election just might be.
The Power of the Independent
Independent voters first outnumbered supporters of both political parties in 1991 and have, for the most part, continued to do so. “Over time, the increase in the percentage of independents has come more at the expense of Democrats than Republicans, which might be expected since Democrats were previously the largest political group,” Gallup reported in January. Furthermore, in 2023, independents comprised the largest political bloc, making up about 43% of the voting population. This group has remained at 40% or higher since 2011, except for in 2016 and 2020.
In Arizona and Nevada, the independent voter was the largest bloc of registered voters through most of this year. A Florida International University poll found that 13% of Hispanic voters didn’t think either of the two big parties represented their values, and one-in-five respondents considered switching their party last year: either from Democrat to Republican (38%) or to independent (23%). In New Hampshire, there isn’t an option specifically for independents, but there is an “unaffiliated” choice, which around 40% of the state’s voters chose. In the primary these voters cast 70% of their votes for Nikki Haley.
According to a Tampa Bay Times report, 42% of newly registered Hispanic voters in the past four years registered as no-party. “There’s a lack of confidence in political institutions generally,” Eduardo Gamarra, the co-director of Florida International University’s Latino Public Opinion Forum, told the outlet. “And they don’t see Democrats or Republicans as really providing them with an option.”
Registered independent voters still tend to lean either Republican or Democrat, and it has been pretty much consistently split between the two; independents polled by Gallup leaned Democrat by 45% and Republican by 44%. When Gallup asked respondents if they considered themselves Republican, Democrat, or independent, 41% said independent, 30% Republican, and 28% Democrat.
Will independents have an outsized effect on the 2024 presidential election? Fernand Amandi, a Democratic pollster and lecturer at the University of Florida, seems to think so. He told Tampa Bay Times: “They are the fastest growing segment of the electorate in Florida and they can prove decisive in a lot of races, particularly in those races that are going to be decided by less than 10 percentage points.”
A recent Harvard-Harris poll indicated that nearly 80% of independent voters want more choices than just Joe Biden or Donald Trump.
As we near Election Day, the parties are closely matched based on identification and leanings. “However, Democrats are clearly in a weaker position than they have been in any recent election year,” Gallup explained. Part of the reason is a new low percentage of adults identifying as Democrats and the advantage Republicans have been gaining. “In the past four presidential election years, Democrats had at least a five-point advantage in leaned party identification,” Gallup added. “independents will remain the largest, and arguably most persuadable, group of voters. In what is expected to be a close election contest, it is critical for each party, but especially Democrats, to nominate a candidate who can appeal to independent voters.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently won a spot on the ballot in California. He also secured access in Michigan and Utah and is expected to do so in another seven states. As an independent, he is gaining traction. For voters who want nothing to do with either Biden or Trump, Kennedy certainly has an appeal. Even if many do not opt for a third option, however, independent voters may well be the deciding factor come election day.
https://www.libertynation.com/independent-voters-and-the-2024-election/
Biden Admin’s New Asylum Rule Is Yet Another Presidential Pivot
Constant course changes raise a concerning question: Who’s behind the wheel?
by James Fite | May 11, 2024
The Biden administration announced a new rule Thursday, May 9, to reject more migrants earlier in the asylum process. Identifying which people are ineligible to enter the US in the initial “credible fear” interview will, according to the Department of Homeland Security, empower asylum officials to more rapidly deport those who aren’t going to be approved. And while it is an about-face on the issue of illegal immigration, it’s far from the first.
The president has reversed course on his public comments and the official policy of the United States on the southern border, Israel’s war on Hamas, and much more, seemingly driven by little more than knee-jerk reactions to public opinion. At this point, the near-constant switching of position has become the rule rather than an exception.
Time to Tighten Up – For Now
“The proposed rule we have published today is yet another step in our ongoing efforts to ensure the safety of the American public by more quickly identifying and removing those individuals who present a security risk and have no legal basis to remain here,” Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said. As explained in the DHS press release, federal law already prohibits people who pose a national security or public safety risk from asylum. However, that determination is typically made much later in the asylum process, well after the person in question has been in-country.
The new rule change moves up that determination to what’s called the “credible fear screening,” which is when – normally just days after an individual is first encountered – officials determine whether the applicant has a valid reason to seek asylum. DHS also passed the blame for and downplayed the severity of the influx of illegals, of course – so perhaps one can argue this pivot isn’t a total 180. “We will continue to take action, but fundamentally it is only Congress that can fix what everyone agrees is a broken immigration system,” Mayorkas said in the announcement. Already seeking to minimize negative publicity, the opening paragraph states that the rule will enable DHS to more quickly remove people “even though the number of migrants who are subject to these bars is small.”
“The Biden-Harris Administration has already taken numerous actions to address migration challenges in the region and at our border, while overseeing a historic expansion of lawful pathways,” the press release continues. That’s a far cry from how the administration handled the border crisis in the first few years of Joe Biden’s presidency: pretending it didn’t exist.
A Bad Look for Biden?
But even after the White House was forced to admit to a problem down south, the response was far from consistent. One may recall that, just days before DHS announced the new asylum rule, it was revealed that the Biden administration has been flying migrants up from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela in a mass parole program launched in early 2023. As Liberty Nation reported, more than 400,000 otherwise inadmissible aliens were flown into the country at more than 50 airports across numerous states and the District of Columbia. It was also recently revealed that, despite American citizens being required to show photo ID to get through TSA checkpoints for travel, illegals have been allowed to use actual arrest warrants to verify their identities. Let that sink in a moment: Illegals who are fugitives from the law have been allowed to travel across America using their warrants as IDs without being arrested! And while Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is hoping to pass a law to prohibit this, it has been going on since 2022.
So why the change? Could it be that secretly flying in migrants at night and using arrest warrants to verify identity for travel rather than incarceration makes Biden look bad in an election year? According to an April 2024 Gallup poll – released before these two issues dominated the headlines last week – respondents chose immigration as the most important problem facing the US, with the government in general coming in second nine percentage points down. This makes the third month in a row, which is the longest stretch for this particular issue in the past 24 years. Can the president’s latest pivot, this new DHS rule, massage public opinion enough by the time Gallup publishes May’s results to break the trend?
Directionless Diplomacy
Immigration may be the big news of the day, but it’s far from the only issue the president has allowed to be driven by public reactions. The administration seemed unified, initially, in “ironclad” support of Israel after the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. In fact, administration officials still use that term – ironclad – explicitly to refer to America’s support of Israel even when announcing a “pause” in weapon shipments.
The president’s “ironclad” support lasted about as long as it took for pro-Palestinian progressives both in and out of Congress and both on and off college campuses around the nation to turn on him. And what was his reactionary response? Call for a cease-fire, accuse Israel of not caring about civilian casualties, and halt the shipment of weapons and ammunition to an American ally embroiled in a war against an enemy that wants to eradicate them entirely.
The constant course corrections in this administration are enough to make one wonder who’s behind the wheel. The answer, it seems, is whoever happens to scream the loudest at President Joe Biden.
https://www.libertynation.com/biden-admins-new-asylum-rule-is-yet-another-presidential-pivot/
Judge Engoron Under Investigation Over Talk With Lawyer About Trump Case
https://truthpress.com/news/judge-engoron-under-investigation-over-talk-with-lawyer-about-trump-case/
The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct has launched a probe into a New York real estate attorney’s claim that he advised Judge Arthur Engoron in the case against former President Donald Trump.
Attorney Adam Leitman Bailey told WNBC-TV that he had a courthouse conversation with Engoron three weeks before the judge would slap Trump with a $454 million penalty for fraudulently inflating the value of his assets.
New York judges are barred from considering outside opinions in such a way when litigating a case, yet Bailey said he discussed the legal questions at length with the judge.
“I actually had the ability to speak to him three weeks ago,” Bailey said in an interview with the station on Feb. 16, just hours before the judge issued his ruling.
“I saw him in the corner [at the courthouse], and I told my client, ‘I need to go,’” he recounted.
“And I walked over, and we started talking … I wanted him to know what I think and why … I really want him to get it right,” the attorney continued.
Bailey said he knew Engoron after appearing before him “hundreds of times” in the course of his employment.
“He had a lot of questions, you know, about certain cases. We went over it,” the attorney said.
He said he “explained to” Engoron that ruling against Trump would have far-reaching implications beyond destroying the former president, including damaging New York’s economy.
If Trump were forced to pay a hefty fine and shut down his business, it would make other companies concerned about similarly being targeted at any time, even when there were no actual damages or victims, as in this case.
Trump’s legal team raised the same points, which Engoron ignored in his verdict.
In a later interview with WNBC, Bailey walked back his claims slightly, saying they “didn’t even mention the word ‘Donald Trump’” during their conversation.
However, the attorney admitted that it was understood exactly what they were discussing.
“Well, obviously, we weren’t talking about the Mets,” Bailey said.
According to the New York State Rules of Judicial Conduct, “a judge shall not initiate, permit, or consider ex parte communications, or consider other communications made to the judge outside the presence of the parties or their lawyers.”
While Engoron would be allowed to “obtain the advice of a disinterested expert,” it would require notice to everyone involved in the case with the chance to respond.
Al Baker, a spokesman for the state’s Office of Court Administration, denied that the judge had broken those rules.
“The decision Justice Engoron issued February 16 was his alone, was deeply considered, and was wholly uninfluenced by this individual,” Baker said in a statement, according to WNBC.
Bailey has said he’s not a fan of Trump, but that doesn’t necessarily mean he’s telling the truth.
After all, he’s the kind of attorney who had his law license suspended for allegedly telling a party in a case that they “should just kill themselves,” an appellate court found in 2019.
Still, everything about Engoron and how he applied the law was questionable, even without Bailey’s accusation.
It’s clear that anti-Trump zealots in New York, including Engoron and Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James, blatantly targeted the former president.
James brought the civil lawsuit, and Engoron dutifully imposed a ridiculous penalty that would have greatly reduced Trump’s wealth had it not been lowered to $175 million.
They did this without much to go on besides criminalizing a common business practice that is part of the dance between borrowers and lenders.
Engoron may or may not have acted on Bailey’s advice, but it’s crystal clear that the judge had a mission that had nothing to do with justice.
One of Alvin Bragg's paralegals admitted on the stand today in the Trump trial that his office deleted three pages worth of phone calls between Stormy Daniels' lawyer Keith Davidson and Michael Cohen.
Not only that but they submitted the call records into evidence but didn't mention to Trump's team that some of the files were deleted.
This trial becomes more insane by the day.
One of Alvin Bragg's paralegals admitted on the stand today in the Trump trial that his office deleted three pages worth of phone calls between Stormy Daniels' lawyer Keith Davidson and Michael Cohen.
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) May 10, 2024
Not only that but they submitted the call records into evidence but didn't… pic.twitter.com/dULE5vc0Sf
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Anyone committing a crime like that should be put down, trannie or not. Texas still has the death penalty. I hope they use it in this case.
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Hopefully, this insane animal will get the death penalty:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13406439/Steven-Anderson-killed-murder-car-transgender-texas-suspect.html
Jack Smith has admitted to violating the same law used against J6 defendants
By Andrea Widburg
Special Prosecutor Jack Smith has just admitted that he and other DOJ and FBI minions manipulated documentary evidence underlying the Mar-a-Lago case against Donald Trump. Everybody from Judge Aileen Cannon on down realizes this is bad. Still, I wonder how many people have noticed that Smith has admitted to doing what the J6 defendants are accused and have been convicted of doing: Violating 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2). The statutory charges against the J6 defendants are a specious abuse of the law but they perfectly fit Smith’s admitted conduct.
One of the main tools in the DOJ arsenal against anyone near the Capitol on January 6, 2021, is § 1512(c)(2), which the DOJ claims means imprisonment for a person who “corruptly...obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding...” That is what the DOJ claims happened when ordinary Americans (a) exercised their rights of free speech and (b) usually inadvertently, entered onto Capitol land after masked agitators had removed “no trespassing” signage and fencing and after the Capitol police had opened the building’s doors. The penalty is fines and/or imprisonment, with the latter potentially as long as 20 years.
The Supreme Court, though, is hearing Fischer v. United States, which sees one of the DOJ’s victims contesting the DOJ’s assertion about § 1512(c)(2)’s applicability to the J6. The argument is that § 1512(c)(2) manifestly applies to a very narrow fact set; namely, corruptly interfering with evidence in an official investigation. Heck, it’s in the statute’s title: “Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant.” Every section of the statute manifestly deals solely with efforts to destroy or otherwise manipulate evidence in a matter intended to lead to a criminal indictment.
Nevertheless, to imprison ordinary Americans, the DOJ came down hard on subsection (c)(2) of the statute because it contains the phrase “official proceeding.”
(c) Whoever corruptly—
[snip]
(2) otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so,
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
But while the DOJ is focusing everyone’s attention on subsection (2), they’re ignoring subsection (1):
(c) Whoever corruptly—
(1) alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding...
Does that remind you of anything? It certainly does me.
It reminds me of Smith’s admission to Judge Aileen Cannon about his and his minions’ handling of the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago, documents that then served as the basis for his decision to indict Donald Trump. (Ignore, for now, the fact that Trump, as president of the United States, had plenary power to do as he would with national security information, unhindered either by prior Executive Orders, administrative regulations, or legislation. But back to Smith’s admission:
Prosecutors admitted in a court filing on Friday that “there are some boxes where the order of items within that box is not the same as in the associated scans.” The prosecutors had previously told the court that the documents were “in their original, intact form as seized.”
As any litigator knows, maintaining documents in the order in which they’re seized or produced is enormously important. That’s because order itself provides important information about the chronology of events or a person’s intent or innocence. It’s also of particular concern in this case because these documents were apparently packed by the General Services Administration, which then told Trump to pick them up.
In addition, it’s now beyond question that the DOJ doctored the crime scene photos it publicized to the world to “prove” that Donald Trump had allegedly violated national security laws. (See my disclaimer above about Trump’s immunity from such a claim.)
Thus, we have two known instances in which the DOJ altered records, documents, and objects. Moreover, the staged Mar-a-Lago photo indicates that this was done to harm President Trump. That strongly implies both corruption and intention, two elements of a criminal cause of action.
When/if Trump returns to the White House, he needs to have his DOJ investigate the lead-up to how Smith and his minions altered and manipulated those documents. And if there’s reasonable evidence that they did so corruptly and intentionally, they must be prosecuted to the full extent of the actual laws, as written (as opposed to the Democrats’ “make it up as we go along” version of “law”). Our nation cannot survive with a partisan DOJ that is willing to violate the nation’s laws to destroy its perceived political opponents.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/jack_smith_has_admitted_to_violating_the_same_law_used_against_j6_defendants.html
Exaggeration and other loud leftist techniques
By M.B. Mathews
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. challenges Donald Trump to debate at Libertarian Convention
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has challenged Donald Trump to a head-to-head debate for when both address a Libertarian convention later this month, a move that comes as the presumptive GOP nominee has ramped up both criticism of Kennedy’s independent bid and demands that President Joe Biden meet him on a debate stage.
Arguing that he is “drawing a lot of voters from your former supporters,” Kennedy said to Trump in an open letter posted Tuesday to X that the Libertarian convention provides “perfect neutral territory for you and me to have a debate where you can defend your record for your wavering supporters.”
Trump has been bullish in calling on Biden to debate him ahead of the November general election but has shied away from other rivals’ previous debate entreaties. Trump skipped the 2024 GOP primary debates, saying it was unnecessary because voters know him and his record.
https://apnews.com/article/robert-f-kennedy-jr-trump-debate-libertarian-fb72b3da879e368aad055d0fc86861c9
After going out protesting, Columbia's law students demand a free pass on their finals
By Monica Showalter
New report finds that mass migration did not actually stimulate the economy as the left claimed it would do
By Olivia Murray
As a Breitbart New item described it, there’s been a “narrative collapse” on the left, because the open borders mass migration scheme embraced by the globalist politicians in the West “has not actually stimulated the economy” as they promised, and has also been found to be “a major drag on public services and the housing sector.”
No kidding?
Here are the details, from journalist Kurt Zindulka:
While globalist advocates of mass migration argue that it increases tax revenues and lifts overall GDP, thereby giving governments talking points, on an individual basis there is a different story.
According to data from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), while the United Kingdom’s GDP grew by 0.1 per cent last year — amid record levels of immigration — GDP per person fell by 0.8 per cent, drastically behind the G7 average of 1.2 per cent, despite the UK seeing the second-highest level of population growth, which has largely been driven by mass migration, The Telegraph reports.
The CPS report remarked: ‘If large-scale migration of the sort we’ve seen is really so great for the economy, we have to ask ourselves why we are not seeing this in the GDP per capita data’.
So, you mean to tell me that importing millions of people from failed cultures with no real job skills and no desire or compulsion to function in a modern Western world, doesn’t really bring a whole lot of economic benefit to the people of the host nation? And when these migrants land in the West, they turn out to be a massive drain on taxpayer-funded services, and stress out the housing sector? Weird, because that’s exactly what we conservatives have been saying this whole time.
Here’s this, from just the other day:
President Joe Biden’s migration crisis raises the mortgage rates that burden young couples and families, according to the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
‘While the long-run effect of increased immigration on inflation is unclear, immigrants nonetheless need a place to live, and their arrival in the U.S. has likely also increased demand for housing,’ said Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, said on May 7.
The home nations of these migrants aren’t, as President Trump once crudely (but aptly!) put it, “s–thole countries” because they’re just unlucky plots of land, they’re “s–thole countries” because of the culture and values (or lack of) of the people who inhabit them. Like I noted last week, there is no “magic soil” because nations are simply a “reflection” of those who live there.
And, modern “money theory” is all such a joke, because you never needed an economics degree or some advanced education to exercise a command of the obvious.
For a migrant to be an economic net positive in his host nation, that means he would be paying more into the system than he is taking out—yet, how many of the tens of millions of new migrants to the West are in this camp? Do they maintain honest private sector employment, or work under the table? Or, not work at all? Do they buy their own groceries, or are they on food stamps? Do they pay their own rents/mortgage, or do they receive housing vouchers, live “free” in hotel rooms, and get priority for rent-controlled spaces? Do they pay their own healthcare and education costs or enroll in Medicaid and throw their kids in public school? Do they pay taxes for the roads on which they drive and the emergency services they disproportionately use, or keep the cash they earn?
The impact of non-contributing people on a developed nation was always a no-brainer.
(It’s like when Javier Milei won the Argentianian presidency, and the naysayers scoffed at whether his economic policies would yield bankruptcy or prosperity—again, this was a given, because if you cut waste and eliminate welfare handouts, there’s going to be a lot more money rolling around.)
The “forgive-me-I’m-just-a-stupid-politician” excuse just doesn’t hold water anymore—this is an orchestrated invasion to intentionally topple the West—and it’s time we collapse the narrative that our electeds are just well-meaning idiots, too.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/new_report_finds_that_mass_migration_did_not_actually_stimulate_the_economy_as_the_left_claimed_it_would_do.html
Joe Biden says economy's great because Americans 'have the money to spend' on inflated prices of goods
By Monica Showalter
Joe Biden is finally out campaigning, and despite reports that he's dropped the term 'Bidenomics,' as a selling point with voters, still says the economy is doing great because Americans 'have the money to spend.'
Naturally, he gave an interview with CNN:
YOUR REACTION: CNN to Biden, "Grocery prices are up 30%+ ... that's a real day-to-day pain that people feel." Biden responds, "They have the money to spend." WATCH pic.twitter.com/h51mRuPzIA
— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) May 9, 2024
According to the Daily Mail:
President Joe Biden stubbornly refused to admit Americans' struggles with inflation might cost him the election in a rare interview Wednesday.
...
Biden, who was in Wisconsin to tout his record on the economy and to announce an investment by Microsoft to build a factory, defended his handling of inflation.
Polls show voters are nervous and critical of Biden's handling of the economy and anchor Erin Burnett reminded him that grocery prices are up 30 percent.
But Biden, in his interview with CNN, claimed the polls are wrong and Americans struggling with inflation have more cash in their pockets, saying: 'They have the money to spend.'
Was he mixing up the voters with himself? We all know he has more money to spend, just ask Burisma or the Chicoms who hand it to his family business.
Or was he just gaslighting the public into another solar system?
The idea that Americans have money to spend is nonsense all by itself, given the rise in grocery, gasoline, housing, consumer, medical, education and other goods they have no choice but to buy.
But even if they did have all that extra money to spend that he claims, does he really think that American like spending their extra cash on inflated prices of goods and services? Might they like to spend it on something else?
Here are the hard statistics:
Wages are down nearly 3% since he took office, while prices of groceries alone have gone up 30%.
According to Fox Business in an April 9 report:
The country's inflation-adjusted, or "real" average hourly wage, as of February 2024 is $11.11 per hour, a decrease of 29 cents from $11.40 in Jan. 2021, or minus 2.54%.
The first three months of Biden's term saw wages grow faster than inflation. But beginning in April 2021, American workers experienced 25 consecutive months of negative real wage growth, averaging -2.0%.
As for credit cards, well, one third of Americans are maxxing those out bigtime.
According to a report in Forbes, dated April 18, also citing Fox Business:
The increase in credit card debt signals that many Americans are struggling to pay for basic needs. Roughly 45% of Americans said that inflation and rising prices are why they've relied so heavily on credit cards, the Debt.com survey said. Nearly 9% of all respondents said they got a credit card to pay for a financial emergency. Moreover, 35% of Americans said they have maxed out their credit cards in recent years. Of those who had maxed out their credit cards, 85% said they were pushed to use their cards to the limit because of price increases from inflation. Approximately 22% of Americans said they now owe between $10,000 to $20,000 in credit card debt, and 5% have more than $30,000. [Fox Business]
How about those who've already maxxed their cards out, what do they do? Next stop, raids on 401(k)s for retirement. What do they look like under Bidenomics?
According to Investopedia, citing one major 401(k) provider:
As inflation and high interest rates pressure household budgets, more people are using their retirement plans as a kind of self-funded safety net, according to a new report.
Out of people with 401ks through Vanguard, 3.6% took “hardship withdrawals” in 2023, up from 2.8% in 2022, the financial company said in a report Monday. That was the highest level in at least the 19 years Vanguard has been keeping track.1
Does that sound like people who 'have the money to spend' as Joe Biden claims, proud of his 'accomplishments' on the economy?
Not to any American who has to live in his crappy economy. The man is profoundly out of touch with voters.
Here's the second half of his out-of-touch baloney, from the Daily Mail:
He blamed 'greedy corporations' for consumers' lack of confidence.
Would those be the same greedy corporations that donate to Democrats? Most corporate donations go that way. Maybe his Democrats can give back all those corporate donations so that corporations can restore prices to what they were?
Something tells me that's not something Joe's gonna propose.
But more to the point, the fundamental problem creating inflation is that Biden has expanded the size and scope of government to unsustainable levels. Inflation, as economist Milton Friedman has said, is "always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon." It doesn't come from oil. It doesn't come from egg farms. It doesn't come from corporate "greed" when companies are forced to raise their prices. It comes from Biden's compulsive spending. The national debt is growing by $1 trillion every three months, and interest payments from all that borrowing and money printing it takes to borrow now exceed defense expenditures.
That's money for nothing, money to service the debt, money that could go to something productive but not with the Biden ball-and-chain of unchecked spending and gaslighting going on in the economy. That's where inflation comes from, not from candy-bar sizes, but from monster money-printing going in an economy that doesn't produce enough growth to cover it.
He's shut the economy down, but kept the money printing, and taken America down the road to Argentina. Yet still he blames gas station owners and "greedy" corporations instead of himself for his own spendathons that fuel the inflation Americans must pay for. Then he says Americans have more money to spend. Note also that wealth is created by savings, not spending, something Biden, based on what he taught Hunter, wouldn't have the first clue about.
If this isn't economic idiocy of the most embarrassing sort, coming from the so-called leader of the free world, what is? One can only hope that Republicans are watching and can use this out-of-touch-old fool's campaign statements to the public in their own campaign ads instead.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/joe_biden_says_economy_s_great_because_americans_have_the_money_to_spend_on_inflated_prices_of_goods.html
Biden sides with terrorists over a U.S. ally *UPDATE*
By Andrea Widburg
What’s Katherine hiding from?
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
The N in NPR stands for National. I guess that Katherine Maher, CEO, does not know that because the leftist lady boss is avoiding a date with the “National” Congress. It would be like a corporate CEO avoiding a meeting with the shareholders who own a portion of the company. In the case of NPR, it’s the Congress that votes for the funding that keeps the network going. They have a duty to ask questions and Miss Maher has a responsibility to answer them. I think that they call it oversight.
This is the story:
Where the heck is Katherine Maher?
The NPR CEO has not made a single public appearance since April 9, when The Free Press published a bombshell exposé by Uri Berliner, a 25-year veteran at the network, alleging ideological bias at the institution.
Even today, when Maher was summoned by Congress to give testimony about whether NPR’s news reporting was ‘fair and objective,’ she was a no-show.
Her excuse? The night before the hearing, she announced she could not attend because of. . . a previously scheduled board meeting.
Instead, Maher submitted written testimony drafted in the prose style of brand management consultants. According to Maher, NPR is ‘bringing trusted, reliable, independent news and information of the highest editorial standards’ to tens of millions of listeners.
Dear Katherine: Some of us don’t think that you are bringing trusted and reliable news. It’s hard to do by just listening to your radio network obsessed with race, gender, and woke ideology. Many of us did not need that memo from Uri Berliner to reach the conclusion that NPR had gone off the rails a while back.
So get your act together and walk to Congress for a little chat with the people who will vote to fund your network. Don’t be surprised if many of them vote to defund you and compete in the real world with other stations.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/what_s_katherine_hiding_from.html
The Democrats could use a Donald Trump of their own
By Mark C. Ross
Protecting Property Rights from Squatters
By S.T. Karnick
Hamas Declares That It Will Make No Further Concessions ...
By John F. Di Leo
Reuters reports that “Hamas says it will not compromise further with Israel to win Gaza ceasefire.”
It’s just another headline about the heirs of Yassir Arafat; we know better than to take the statement seriously. Hamas will keep talking as long as they can, for obvious reasons.
The people engaged in negotiations, at least, if not their foot-soldiers, are safe while they’re at the negotiating table.
But there’s a different question that ought to be inspired by that quote: Why is any kind of compromise even an issue?
In a normal war, between two legitimate governments, one hopes for negotiations, discussions, compromises, whatever it takes to bring an end to hostilities.
This is not a normal war.
Israel has a legitimate government, and Hamas is a crime gang full of the most brutal of homicidal maniacs. This isn’t so much a war as it is a police action; Israel finally has the political will and the public support to wipe out a powerful criminal gang that has spent 35 years attacking and terrorizing Israeli citizens.
What does Hamas say, every time they return to the table? That they want Israel to stop shooting at them and give them lots of money and resources, which everyone knows Hamas will then use to make more rockets to shoot into Israel.
It’s what Hamas does. It’s what Hamas always does. It’s Hamas’s raison d'être.
Think for a moment about the most horrific crimes you can think of in American history.
Richard Speck was a violent drunkard and robber, who went on a crime spree, stabbing, raping and murdering at least eight innocent, defenseless women in 1966.
John Gacy was a child molester, rapist and Chicago Democrat party political activist who went on a crime spree, raping and murdering over thirty young men over a period of several years in the early 1970s.
Charles Manson was an arsonist, robber, pimp and drug abuser who organized a drug-driven death cult and engineered a notorious murder spree of at least seven people in August 1969.
How would the American press react if the police were working on finding and catching these criminals, and the criminals released statements to the press saying that they’ve already compromised as much as they’re going to, and the police are just going to have stop being so demanding? How would we, the American public, react if they haughtily insisted on an end to the pursuit once their hideouts were identified? Would we be open to the idea of leaving them alone, and setting them free, once we finally had these killers surrounded?
Of course not. The very concept is outrageous. Once you have identified vicious mass murderers, and pursued them to their lairs, you finish the job. There’s no question here. But the way the mainstream press reports the stories, we forget what’s really going on.
Please note: this is not about ethnicity at all. It’s not a blanket judgment of the people of the Gaza Strip, many of whom are just as terrorized by Hamas as the Jews, Christians, and Arabs of Haifa, Ashdod and Tel Aviv are. The innocent Arab population of the Gaza Strip – those who do not support Hamas – are victims of Hamas as well, and they deserve freedom from their local tyrants, too.
This is a judgment of Hamas, a huge, malevolent crime gang that has been documented – in fact, they have proudly documented themselves – committing the most ghastly of crimes, at least equal to the ones committed by the American mass murderers named above.
Both the Western press and the American Democrat party insist on treating Hamas as if they are a legitimate government in a normal war. They are anything but.
The Gaza Strip is not an independent nation, and Hamas is neither a legitimate government nor a legitimate army.
On October 7, Hamas partisans charged through the wall separating Gaza from an area of kibbutzes, and they started rampaging, attacking the innocent residents of the farmhouses in these undefended, communal farms, and the equally innocent revelers at a music festival.
Within hours, 1,140 innocents had been murdered, many of them raped and tortured first, not by one or two fringe outliers of the invaders, but by many of them – too many for these crimes to be considered an exception to the rule.
These Hamas terrorists burned people and places. They destroyed property. They raped children, adults, and seniors, both men and women, before torturing and killing them.
The press denied these extremes at first; saying there was no evidence.
But there is tape.
It turned out that Hamas militants, proud of their handiwork, high on their abuse of defenseless Jews, giddily filmed their war crimes, and shared the film with their cheering crowds back home.
And then those tapes got out into the world.
Even the New York Times had to admit it. Even the United Nations had to certify it. Even the most antisemitic, corrupt world bodies had to admit the truth, that the Hamas attacks on October 7 weren’t just quick, indiscriminate attacks, but personalized, dedicated, malevolent attacks including sexual brutality often too grotesque to write about.
No, it is no exaggeration to compare the Hamas attackers of October 7 with Speck and Gacy, or other monstrous criminals of old. Speck used knives to kill; Gacy used his hands, Hamas used motorcycles, knives and guns. There aren’t that many other differences.
But what of Charles Manson? He didn’t even commit the crimes himself. Where does he fit in this analogy?
Manson just stayed back at the headquarters and directed his “family’s” actions, keeping his own hands clean. He taught his followers to kill, gave the orders, and stayed home.
Not unlike the political leaders of Hamas.
Hundreds of miles away from the fray, the Hamas bosses sit at a comfortable negotiating table, talking with Egyptian and Qatari mediators, who then try to convince Israel to give these criminals a break, to stop the pursuit and let them live to fight another day.
What’s the difference between the crime boss who orders the hit from the corner booth at a fine restaurant, and the hit man who carries out the contract? Under US law, at least, we recognize that both are guilty.
And so it is in the Middle East today, as we are encouraged to negotiate with mass murderers who have spent their entire lives using their own people as pawns in a genocidal quest to seize the nation of Israel and wipe out its current inhabitants, “from the River to the Sea.” (Yes, that’s exactly what it means.)
Hamas is not a legitimate government. Their forces are not uniformed; they don’t subscribe to the Geneva Conventions. Hamas, which spent virtually every day of the 35 years since their founding in planning for the eventual destruction of Israel, merits none of the courtesies we give to real governments in peace talks. In fact, it is an insult to all the legitimate governments of the world, to grant the same status to Hamas.
So, how should we respond to the leaders of Hamas, when they insist on undeserved concessions?
Exactly the same way we would respond if the request came from Speck, Gacy or Manson.
Hamas tortured, maimed, raped and killed 1140 innocents on Oct. 7, 2023 alone.
The only difference between them is scale.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/hamas_declares_that_it_will_make_no_further_concessions.html
This Week in Open Borders America: Migrants in Denver Deliver Demands
The GOP wants transparency on number of illegals in the country – and more.
by Kelli Ballard | May 10, 2024
Migrants Give List of Demands
The City of Denver is struggling to house illegal migrants, and not just for lack of shelters. A group of immigrants set up camp on property owned by Union Pacific, the railroad company, and refused to leave and go to a shelter unless the city met their demands.
Topping the list is the ability to cook their own food with fresh, appropriate ingredients provided by the city instead of the premade meals given to all. They’re already receiving rice, chicken, flour, oil, tomatoes, onions, butter, and more – but there have been a lot of complaints that food has been spoiled and that children are malnourished.
Here are some of the other demands from the migrants that were shared with FOX31:
They want shower facilities available without time limits. Yet shelters are overrun, and water is not free. The migrants also require regular medical visits with connections for specialty care as needed. The demands continued, with free immigration lawyers and ongoing legal support for immigration document clinics, no 24/7 monitoring, and a meeting with the mayor and those involved in running the Newcomer program ASAP to discuss further improvements and ways to support migrants.
On May 8, a tentative agreement was reached after the city offered the campers 30 days of shelter – previously, the offer was just three days, which had been extended to seven.
Republicans Want True Number of Illegal Immigrants in the Country
Representative Chip Roy (R-TX) led a group of 17 Republicans to call on Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to provide “the total number of illegal aliens currently residing within the United States,” The Center Square reported. In addition, they wanted information on how many migrants were released into the interior, who received Notice to Report documents, how many were deported, the number of undocumented who were ordered to be removed by an immigration judge but still remained in the US, how many were ordered to be removed because they didn’t show up to their court hearings, and the number of immigrants who are considered fugitives by ICE.
New Banner - This Week in Open Borders AmericaThis request came a week after the Biden administration’s secret airport list for migrants was revealed, which showed more than 400,000 aliens have been transported into the US by skipping the border ports.
“The American people deserve an exact accounting of the number of illegal aliens residing in the country,” the letter to Mayorkas states, “especially if the federal government’s policies have caused that number to surge since the previous estimate.”
Immigration in the Polls
An Axios Vibes survey by The Harris Poll examined how the younger generation, especially young Republicans, view immigration compared to their older party comrades. Not surprisingly, Gen Z is more moderate than Gen X and the Baby Boomers, but they still feel illegal immigration is a problem in the US.
Less than half of the younger Republicans said they want mass deportations or to close down the border. Just 33% of this age group “strongly” agreed that illegal immigration is unfair to those who came to the US legally compared to 70% of the older generations.
When asked if the US should make legal entry easier for anyone seeking a better life, 61% of the Gen Z Republican population said yes while 45% of Gen X and Baby Boomers agreed. Would they support ending automatic citizenship for children born in the US? Forty-nine percent of young Republicans would, compared to 34% of older party members. “The Trump-led GOP has embraced a hardline stance on immigration, but younger party members are more skeptical of the GOP’s political narratives on the subject,” the survey explained.
Notable Quotes
The Biden administration is proposing a new rule to speed up asylum claims for some migrants while trying to crack down on border crossings by marking migrants with criminal records as ineligible for asylum in the US. In a letter, Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) said:
“We need to make sure that we are adjudicating those who are coming across just as quickly as possible, specifically around sort of administrative judges being down at the southern border. And I do think there’s a limit to the number of people who we can accept into our nation on an asylum claim. At the end of the day, we cannot have a border where an unlimited amount of people can simply cross.”
https://www.libertynation.com/this-week-in-open-borders-america-migrants-in-denver-deliver-demands/
Bracing for a Biden Impeachment over Israel Games
Does Democrat precedent lay the foundation?
by Mark Angelides | May 10, 2024
An attempt to impeach President Joe Biden is on the table after the commander-in-chief vowed to hold back weapons that would help Israel in its push to remove Hamas from Rafah. Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) announced Thursday, May 9, that articles of impeachment are being prepared over Biden’s decision to withhold military aid for what he alleges are political purposes.
“These are the same accusations made against President Trump, which resulted in his impeachment by Democrats. The same must happen for Joe Biden, which is why we’re drawing up articles of impeachment now,” Mills said. And while there are no doubt significant differences in the actions of the current and former presidents, Democrats set a precedent when they impeached Donald Trump over his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which they may come to regret.
Impeachment or Bust
Mills is not alone in his impeachment quest. Posting on X, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) wrote: “The House has no choice but to impeach Biden based on the Trump-Ukraine precedent of withholding foreign aid to help with reelection… Only with Biden, it’s true.”
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) expanded the theme, saying:
“Given Democrats’ Trump-Ukraine precedent, President Biden’s decision to withhold lethal aid to our ally, Israel, for political gain is undoubtedly an impeachable offense. Clearly, the nefarious motive behind our commander in chief’s move to condition U.S. aid to Israel is to appease radical leftists and Hamas sympathizers ahead of the 2024 election… The House must immediately open an impeachment inquiry due to the president’s disastrous decision to play politics with national security.”
Indiana Representative Jim Banks – who is still involved in his impeachment investigation into the Biden family influence scheme – pointed out that this was only made possible by actions taken against the former president. “The Democrats made their bed, and now they’re [lying] in it,” he argued. “This is just the latest on a long list of reasons to impeach Biden, including the deadline withdrawal in Afghanistan and allowing more than 9 million illegal immigrants to invade our southern border.”
The Democrat Narrative
Naturally, Democrats and their media advocates are involved in a full-court press to explain why Biden’s decision to withdraw aid that has been committed by the US House of Representatives was not only not political, but also a smart move.
White House National Security Adviser John Kirby set out the administration’s position, saying, “The president and his team have been clear for several weeks that we do not support a major ground operation in Rafah, where more than a million people are sheltering with nowhere safe to go.” He continued:
“We propose alternative methods of defeating Hamas that do not involve a major ground operation in Rafah. Those conversations with the Israeli government are ongoing. The president said [May 8] that if Israel in fact proceeds with a major ground operation in Rafah, he will not provide certain categories of weapons to support such an operation. The Israeli government has understood this for some time now.”
Kirby then took the narrative one step further, arguing that an attack on Rafah by the Israeli military would only be of benefit to the Hamas terrorists: “Any kind of major Rafah ground operation would actually strengthen Hamas’s hands at the negotiating table, not Israel’s. That’s our view.”
State Department spokesman Matthew Miller echoed Kirby’s position, arguing an assault on the region would “actually weaken … Israel’s security.”
But where would such a narrative be without the Fourth Estate to bolster it?
Former White House Press Secretary turned news host Jen Psaki argued on CBS that Biden should have stopped military aid even sooner. She told host Stephen Colbert, “I do think that there’s some leverage we’re all seeing being used. Should it have been used earlier? I think the answer is yes to that.”
Politics Is in the Eye of the Beholder
President Joe Biden is struggling in the polls; his approval ratings remain at a low ebb – with little sign of an improving flow – and attacks on his presidency are now coming from the left rather than just the right. The campus protests, the far-left progressives who claim the retaliation against Hamas is akin to genocide, and a significant chunk of traditionally Democrat-voting Muslim and Arab Americans are coming together to create an electoral danger zone for the incumbent.
If Joe Biden thought that chasing down Hamas was a bad idea, why would he have pushed so stridently for the aid package in the first place? That and other questions will need to be answered before Election Day. And if the impetus for impeachment increases, he may have to answer them a whole lot sooner.
https://www.libertynation.com/bracing-for-a-biden-impeachment-over-israel-games/
GOP Targets Non-Citizen Voting, While Dems Say It Isn’t an Issue
It’s a battle of the narratives – and they can’t both be true.
by James Fite | May 10, 2024 |
Republicans are pushing election security again, and as usual, the response from the left is to accuse the GOP of making up a problem to suppress the vote. A bill recently introduced to Congress targets non-citizen voting by requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration.
But non-citizen voting isn’t really happening, according to Democrats and the left-wing press, though one might wonder, if that’s the case, why they oppose any citizenship verification. Is this just a case of Republican politicians hoping to drum up support ahead of the election – or, worse, are they really trying to suppress the minority vote as progressives allege? Or are the Democrats hoping to gaslight America and rack up some illegal votes? It’s a battle of the narratives, and they can’t both be true.
Voting and the Law
Federal law forbids non-citizens from voting in national elections. That’s already the law, as Democrats often point out when conservatives bring up the issue. The question, however, is whether it’s the law in any meaningful sort of way. Consider a similar question on another issue: It has been a crime for felons to buy firearms since the Gun Control Act of 1969 – but there wasn’t really a way to stop a criminal who didn’t mind lying about it from doing so until the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, was created in 1998. Progressives don’t argue for the removal of this roadblock to criminals arming themselves, nor do they seem particularly enthused to remove the strict ID requirements when purchasing – or, for that matter, carrying – a firearm.
Yes, it has long been a crime for criminals to arm themselves, yet it’s understood across the board that many still do. This same logic applies to a bill recently introduced by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) and 48 Republican co-sponsors. The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act would require in-person verification of citizenship in order to register to vote, and states would then have to purge their existing rolls of any non-citizens.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA), Rep. Roy, and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) announced the legislation Wednesday, May 8, and said it will ensure that only US citizens are voting in US elections.
“Due to the wide-open border that the Biden administration has refused to close – in fact, that they engineered to open – we now have so many noncitizens in the country that if only one out of 100 of those voted, they would cast hundreds of thousands of votes,” Johnson explained. He conceded that, yes, that would be illegal already, but he countered that truth with three others:
Millions of illegals have crossed into the US under the Biden administration.
A growing number of progressive municipalities are extending the right to vote to non-citizens in local elections.
Democrats have expressed a desire to see non-citizens vote.
The Problem Isn’t Real – And If It Were, It Wouldn’t Be a Problem?
“Noncitizen voting isn’t an issue in federal elections, regardless of conspiracy theories. Here’s why,” reads one headline repeated, verbatim, throughout establishment media outlets like AP and ABC. “U.S. House GOP targets noncitizen voting, even though it’s rare,” according to the Missouri Independent. And from Votebeat: “The fear of noncitizen voting is as baseless as it has been for 200 years.”
Yet for all their demurring and dissembling on the topic, Democrats clearly do want “undocumented residents” participating in elections. Montpelier and Burlington in Vermont; Washington, DC; and San Francisco – deeply progressive cities, all – allow non-citizen voting in municipal elections, and New York City did, as well, until a judge struck it down. Similar efforts have been seen in Boston and Los Angeles, though they have so far been unsuccessful. A Democrat in Connecticut introduced a bill last year to allow non-citizens to vote in state elections.
“Our noncitizen residents are paying taxes, enrolled in school, working here in the District of Columbia, and involved in community affairs,” DC Councilmember Brianne Nadeau said. “And without this legislation, they don’t have a voice in our elections, which is essentially one of the most fundamental things in our country.”
In 2022, House Democrats killed a GOP effort to prevent non-citizens from voting in US elections, and leftist activists and Biden’s Department of Justice are presently tied up in litigation with the state of Arizona fighting a new law that sought to address this very issue. Under a federal voter registration law from 1993 and a consent decree from 2018, the state can’t stop people who use a federal voter registration form from voting in national elections – an application that does not require verification of citizenship. The Arizona fix was to go along with the established federal form but disqualify anyone from voting in state or local elections who didn’t fill out the Arizona version of the form and verify citizenship status. And now there are two tiers of voter registration in the Grand Canyon State.
How can Democrats prove that non-citizens aren’t voting? They can’t for the same reason that Republicans often can’t prove that they are. Unless someone gets caught, there’s no official record that they voted as a non-citizen if they’re never required to prove their status. Yet Democrats continue to demur and dissemble. So why do they fight so hard to stop the GOP from making sure?
https://www.libertynation.com/gop-targets-non-citizen-voting-while-dems-say-it-isnt-an-issue/
Bob Iger Insists Disney Stock Drop Not Caused By Failure Of Latest Movie 'Gay Black Pinocchio Protests For Palestine'
BURBANK, CA — As concerned shareholders sought answers, Disney CEO Bob Iger insisted the company's stock drop was not caused by the failure of the studio's latest movie Gay Black Pinocchio Protests for Palestine.
Despite the film's troubled production and poor word-of-mouth buzz due to an overwhelming majority of the viewing audience not being interested in seeing a film titled Gay Black Pinocchio Protests for Palestine, Disney leaders remained certain that it was not in any way to blame for the precipitous plunge of the company's stock value.
"Don't be ridiculous," said Disney CEO Bob Iger. "The fact that we're hemorrhaging money, customers, and stock value has absolutely nothing to do with any perceived unpopularity of our newest film about a flamboyantly gay, race-swapped Pinocchio standing up for the people of Gaza. This movie appeals to everyone."
Though industry insiders praised the film's premise for its bold representation of minority puppets that live alternative lifestyles and possess a strong desire to stand up for oppressed peoples, moviegoers were not enthusiastic. "Can't we just make fun movies anymore?" asked movie buff Jack Roberts. "Does everything have to have some social agenda now? Did we really need a gay puppet sex scene? I'll pass."
While the movie was a financial disaster, Disney executives vowed to not change anything they're doing in any way whatsoever. "The stock value will improve," Iger said. "Just wait until audiences get a look at our next project, Gay Black Lion King Protests for Changes To Title IX."
https://babylonbee.com/news/disney-insists-stock-drop-not-caused-by-failure-of-latest-movie-gay-black-pinocchio-protests-for-palestine
Biden Strikes Deal Where Hamas Gets To Keep American Hostages In Exchange For Fifteen Votes In Michigan
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In what the media hailed as a triumphant victory for diplomacy, President Joe Biden struck a deal where Hamas gets to keep all its American hostages in exchange for Biden receiving 15 votes in Michigan this November.
Political analysts cited the deal as a crucial element in Biden's re-election strategy, with the 15 additional votes he'll receive in Michigan adding to the several hundred thousand untraceable mail-in ballots to give him a sizeable advantage — all at the low cost of Hamas's American hostages.
"It's the product of masterful negotiation," one White House insider said. "The election is going to be a close one, so the president needs every vote he can get. Allowing Hamas to keep their American hostages in return for guaranteeing 15 votes in Michigan is a real coup. The president is confident that the Americans being held hostage by Hamas would be proud to sacrifice themselves to make sure he gets re-elected."
When asked to comment on the deal, President Biden downplayed its importance. "I didn't do that," he said. "Listen, folks. I will not make any deal that leaves American lives in the hands of terrorists. What I did was nod my head when someone asked me if I wanted 15 more votes in Michigan. And they also said I could have ice cream. I like chocolate chip ice cream. Anyway…"
At publishing time, the White House had confirmed reports that they also agreed to send a dozen pallets of cash to Hamas in exchange for assurances that Biden would win Michigan.
https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-strikes-deal-where-hamas-gets-to-keep-american-hostages-in-exchange-for-fifteen-votes-in-michigan
Biden inspired madness worsens every day. Let's visit those fine teachers in Chicago today.
Chicago Schools Crumble While Teachers Make Extremist Demands
Posted on Friday, May 10, 2024
by Tammy Bruce
Chicago Teachers Union logo displayed on top of a pile of 100 dollar bills of US currency
We hear all the time that whenever the left takes something over, nothing thrives. But that’s not entirely true. Three things thrive when the left is in charge: madness, chaos, and failure. Every day the Biden administration provides an example of this for the world to see, but let’s look at the latest gob-smacking illustration. The Chicago Teachers Union’s (CTU) bizarre, extreme, and detached from reality contract demands.
In leaked documents exposing their contract negotiations with the Chicago Public School System, the CTU’s demands include pay hikes, free abortions, housing for illegal aliens (whom they call ‘newcomers’), LGBT ‘training’ in schools, climate initiatives, and the right to close schools for remote zoom classes for any situation the teachers deem a “trauma.” The Daily Mail reported, “After any ‘traumatic event’ that happens at a school – which is not defined – the superintendent will be required to meet with the head of the teachers union to discuss closing the school for some time. ‘No school will reopen until all necessary supports, both physical and emotional, are in place,’ according to the contract.” Any closures of this type will also prevent teachers’ performance from being evaluated for that entire calendar year. How convenient.
And it doesn’t end there. They also demand school board policies that would prohibit being compelled to disclose to parents when a child declares they’re ‘transgender,’ and they want ‘gender-affirming care’ provided for all union members.
It’s one thing to negotiate for a reward or raise when you’ve been successful at your job. But the opposite is true for Chicago schools. Only 12.2 percent of low-income 3rd graders are reading at grade level, and only 21 percent of 8th graders are proficient at reading. Wirepoints reports, “They never tell parents the truth about how literacy has collapsed in Chicago Public Schools, particularly for black students. Only 2 of every 10 can read at grade level, according to CPS data. In many city schools, it’s 0 out of 10.” Moreover, the Illinois Policy Institute reports, “About three-quarters of Chicago Public Schools students cannot read at grade level on the Illinois Assessment of Readiness in 2023. Nearly 83% did not meet proficiency in math. Students in Chicago and statewide are still performing worse than they did before the pandemic.”
And what is the response by the CTU for this failure? They want a raise! “Union President Stacy Davis Gates’ audacious plan calls for members to bank at least 9% wage increases each year through fiscal year 2028. The average salary of a teacher in Chicago Public Schools is $93,182…Therefore, the average teacher’s pay will increase by half to $144,620 in the 2027-2028 school year… That figure would equate to more than double the median household income in Chicago, according to Census Bureau statistics,” reported Fox News.
The mendacity of this is shocking. The overall cost for the madness? 50 billion dollars. Or more specifically, “$50 billion and 3 cents” according to Union President Stacy Davis Gates who, as Fox News reported, declared: “We are asking you to give us an opportunity to tell our story,” Gates said in a speech in March referring to the union’s plans. “It will cost $50 billion and three cents… yes it will, and so what, that’s audacity.”
Actually, audacity is destroying young people’s lives by failing to teach the basics, and then pushing them out into society unprepared and illiterate. No teacher enters the profession hoping to destroy a student’s life. And yet, here is union leadership making preposterous demands about ‘social justice’ and political issues, all while the education of the children in their care is abandoned in favor of left-wing activism. Every teacher in every city who cares about their students should take note of what happens when you hand the control of your union, city, or country over to leftist agitators.
There is a method to their madness, however– the left relies on perpetual victimhood, and producing generations of functionally illiterate individuals, which will certainly keep the victim coffers full.
And why would they expect this, or any part of this chaos, to pass? “’ The Chicago Teachers Union spent nearly $2.3 million to get a union employee elected mayor, in large part because they want to legislate via their union contract. These demands read more like a political agenda than a serious contract intent on supporting teachers’ wages and benefits, and promoting the education of Chicago students,’ said Mailee Smith, Senior Director of Labor Policy at the Illinois Policy Institute. “These demands are far outside the scope of traditional bargaining, putting taxpayer dollars on the line in pursuit of more union power and social activism,’”
The destruction isn’t limited to Chicago: Wirepoints tells us, “In 2023, there were 67 Illinois schools where not a single student tested was proficient in math and 32 schools where no student tested was proficient in reading. What’s worse, officials in those schools graduated nearly 70% of their students. More than 12,000 students attend Illinois’ zero-proficiency schools. Every single one of those children will struggle in life because they lack basic reading and math skills.”
The madness, chaos, and failure unleashed in Illinois and Chicago’s schools immediately affects the families involved, but it also portends a disaster for America in general. We’ve seen the mess leftist activists have made of school boards and districts throughout blue states and cities. How much talent, passion, brilliance, and ingenuity are we losing when we allow students to be thrown into the leftist volcano? The CTU is an example of what the left has always done— co-opt an important issue and then parasitically invade organizations involved in work important to all Americans. The left then rides the issues to power and money, destroying everything it leaves in its wake.
What’s happening in Chicago and Illinois is also what’s happening at our universities—very few people are taking control of the environment to pursue their own failed, Marxist agenda, to the detriment of everyone else.
The leaked CTU negotiating document has not yet been released as their official bargaining stance, but no matter what they edit, soften, or re-write, all of this is part of the Marxist agenda which they fully intend to implement, no matter how long it takes.
Tammy Bruce, an Independent Conservative, has traversed a unique political journey that reflects her commitment to principles rather than party affiliations. She joined Fox News in 2005 as a Political Contributor, hosting her show “Get Tammy Bruce” on Fox Nation and providing insightful commentary on various issues for the Association for Mature Americans (AMAC).
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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
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