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Kamala puts on her Republican skinsuit
By Monica Showalter
It just goes to show how fake and phony she was, a problem she's always had. That she went so overboard with the mom-and-apple-pie act sounded like the lady that doth protest too much. What's worse, once's she's elected to the presidency, if God forbid that happens, she's revert to her customary form and values.
A San Francisco program to produce black male teachers instead threw away taxpayer money
By Andrea Widburg
If what happened in San Francisco had occurred in the private sector, people would get fired and, if there was fraud, they’d be arrested. However, this is the government. Nobody, whether in San Francisco’s bureaucracy or at UEA, will pay a price for wasting taxpayer money on a foolishly conceived and managed initiative.
James Carville repeats the Democrats’ history of projecting race hatred onto others
By Helen Louise Herndon
With the coming election, one could easily ask, “What next?” What will be added to the many hateful accusations already being hurled back and forth? Well, the latest sordid accusation is incredible and unimaginable—beyond words. And it’s all over the Internet.
James Carville, political strategist for the Democrat party, recently hurled a hateful, racist accusation against Republicans. Before describing it, however, it’s worth saying that the Democrat party has long relied upon racial divisions as a campaign strategy.
It was in this context that Carville recently said, “And the reason I suspect that most of these people describe themselves as pro-Israel is because the Jews are whiter than the Palestinians, which I think drives a lot of what they are.” Mediate summed this up by saying that Carville claimed that “Republicans are more likely to be pro-Israel than Democrats because Jews have a lighter complexion than their Arab neighbors.”
It is worth noting that both Jews and Arabs, including Palestinians, have a variety of skin, eye, and hair colors, ranging from fair to dark. As one who has resided in Arab North Africa and traveled in Israel with a Palestinian tour guide, I have observed such diversity. Furthermore, Israel is our sole reliable ally in the Middle East.
Carville’s decision to drag race into the Israel=Hamas war is not only extremely ignorant, but it’s also an ironic statement coming from the political party that has oppressed blacks since the party’s inception in 1828. Since then, it was responsible for slavery, the Jim Crow laws, segregation policies, fighting against the Civil Rights Movement and, of course, the Ku Klux Klan that lynched not only blacks but also Republicans.
It was a Republican president who appointed two blacks to the high-ranking office of Secretary of State—Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. That cabinet position put them fourth in line to be appointed president if the current president died or became incapacitated.
The many times Democrats cry “racist” to accuse innocent parties of racism is past tedious and tiresome. It’s not just name-calling, either. It’s either libel or slander, it’s deceptive, and it’s genuine hate speech. It’s time to publicly denounce this libelous practice and hold them accountable. Such hateful, libelous, and slanderous speech will not stop until a majority of people on all sides politically denounce it for what it is.
As for James Carville, he owes an apology to the innocent parties who were objects of his personal hatred and racial obsessions.
It’s long past time for those in positions of leadership or power to model civility and decency vis-à-vis all others, even those with whom they disagree or rival politically. This pertains especially to political candidates and their operatives in all political parties.
Let’s secure the words racist and racism for the genuine racists regardless of their race. By using the word accurately and rarely, its impact and power will return to the level of honesty and truthfulness. As an Independent voter with no allegiance to any political party, I submit these thoughts equally to all.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/james_carville_repeats_the_democrats_history_of_projecting_race_hatred_onto_others.html
Hard to understand what the protesters want
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
Joe Biden said that the protesters outside the Democrat convention had a point. What point is he talking about? Sorry, but it's hard to defend people who want Hamas to win.
I agree with Eli Lake:
President Joe Biden, in his Chicago swan song, offered a sop to the forces that seek to spoil the Democratic National Convention. In a section of his speech calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, Biden said, “Those protesters out on the street, they have a point. A lot of innocent people are being killed on both sides.”
Really? Maybe some protesters are genuinely concerned with the toll the Gaza war has taken on both Israelis and Palestinians. But the leaders of the organizations trying to cause trouble this week are concerned only with the casualties on the Palestinian side. We know this because the groups behind the agitations since October 7 have praised the bloody massacre that kicked off the war.
To take one of dozens of examples, just peruse a letter sent to Columbia University’s administration on October 9 from its chapters of Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine. It said, “Yesterday was an unprecedented historic moment for the Palestinians of Gaza, who tore through the wall that has been suffocating them in one of the most densely populated areas on Earth for the past 16 years.”
That’s certainly one take. But most American voters after October 7 felt nothing but contempt and scorn for the perpetrators of the mass murder of 1,200 people in Israel that day. In this respect, it’s just wrong to say the masked troublemakers screaming about “genocide” in Gaza are anti-war. They are not. They want Hamas to win.
Yes, they have. In fact, many of them want Hamas to win! They are shameless and could care less about the kids who were killed or the young women raped.
No, the protesters do not have a point. They make me sick.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/hard_to_understand_what_the_protesters_want.html
CNN: democrat men are weenies
By Mike McDaniel
And when they hear people like Bash, Tapper and Reid identify Democrat men as “low-T,” they laugh, because they know it’s true and those low-T “men” would think it a badge of honor. And they know, if this is truly “21st century masculinity,” this century will be America’s last.
Broken glass on the way to work
By John M. Grondelski
Then came the woke Left and Soros prosecutors who -- like the Democrats’ unelected presidential nominee -- decided to “reimagine” crime. Instead of going after criminals, they go after “root causes” (usually with your tax dollars). Current crime rates demonstrate the utility of this approach.
Girl to be fined for defending herself against would-be rapist? Welcome to Europe!
By Eric Utter
In a sane world, the West would regain its confidence and mojo. And its cojones.
And cut off the cojones of those who would rape young girls.
New Biden-Harris program brings less border security, more marriage fraud
By Matt O'Brien
So, in order to accommodate trespassers, our current political leaders have deliberately undermined two of the key institutions upon which American society is built – respect for the rule of law and marriage. But they’re ignoring a fundamental rule that every parent, teacher, corporate manager and law enforcement professional knows intuitively – if you reward bad behavior, you’re only going to encourage more bad behavior. And we should all be asking, just how many more badly behaving foreigners can the U.S. handle?
Sadly, no.
Tim Walz: Joe Biden 2.0
By Eric Dawe
Can anyone seriously envision Kamala Harris and Tim Walz standing up to these challenges, facing down America’s enemies with any kind of strength or resolve? The Biden-Harris administration has been an abysmal failure on every front.
The Democratic Party was Never Democratic
By Douglas Schwartz
RFK Jr. recently lamented:
The Democratic party I grew up with, the party of Robert and John Kennedy, was fighting to make sure that Americans, every American, could vote for the candidates that they chose to vote for. And this Democratic party is doing everything in its power to make sure Americans are disenfranchised.
Democrats abhor democracy and project their sins onto opponents. Is this new? Certainly not during the party’s founding or at any point in between.
The Democratic party began in 1828 as a southern phenomenon to elect Andrew Jackson, famous for exploits in Indian wars. Jacksonian “democracy” excluded certain races. Jackson’s Removal Act of 1830 focused on clearing the South of 50,000 remaining Indians to prepare for slave plantations. The Trail of Tears, which herded 15,000 Cherokee west and killed 3-4,000, was not a voter registration drive. Native Americans finally attained citizenship under Coolidge in 1924.
Democrats started the Civil War to prevent all Americans from enjoying citizenship. 800,000 dead later they surrendered. In subsequent generations Democrats sought to undo their loss through Jim Crow and similar segregationist de jure and de facto lawfare techniques that continued past WWII. Republican Abraham Lincoln freed Democrats’ slaves. School desegregation finally began under Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower. He deported over a million illegal immigrants, rectifying another Democratic mess. Republican Richard M. Nixon concluded Democrats’ Vietnam fiasco.
Biden represented the final congressional remnant of Jim Crow, the last of his political breed. Representing Delaware, a slave state, in Congress, he was mentored by figures such as Ku Klux Klan exalted cyclops Robert Byrd. Byrd, eulogized by Biden as someone who “elevated the Senate,” was Senate President Pro Tempore, third in line of presidential succession. Bill Clinton’s mentor was segregationist Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright. Al Gore Jr.'s father joined Byrd, Fulbright, and other segregationist senators in voting against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Senator Biden spent 36 years insulting the intelligence of all racial, ethnic, and class interest groups by transparently pandering to any voting block greater than 0.5% of the electorate.
Democrats’ 1960s Great Society programs built on the New Deal’s socialist momentum, making minorities wards of the state and incentivizing destruction of families. Democrats have never practiced democracy. They only work to enfranchise some when it provides partisan benefit. Everyone else they seek to disenfranchise. Ask RFK Jr. or Biden’s 14 million primary voters. Democrats never met a right they didn’t want to suppress against their opponents. Hypocrisy is their strong suit. The party that sponsored slavery pivoted to supporting reparations.
The Democrats’ Jim Crow era has been superseded by their communist flirtation, initially introduced by Bill and Hillary Clinton, then more thoroughly under Obama. Controlling Blacks and Indians expanded into controlling all. Communism's essence is acquisition of power via fraud if elections fail. The party’s current polyamorous marriage -- between “progressives,” Muslims, globalists, foreign enemies, and various useful idiots employed as political muscle -- is no advertisement for democracy. They project onto their opponents the label of anti-democratic. Their lawfare represents a tactical subversion of democracy, a judicial coup.
None of this would have surprised the founders. Realists and students of history, they foresaw democracy's inevitable conclusion, and crafted a republic to postpone the inevitable. Washington repeatedly opposed political parties, and continued preaching their evils in his farewell address:
However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Washington wasn’t alone. Alexander Hamilton was the principal author of the address, assisted by James Madison. Today's GOP lags only Democrats in dysfunctionality. Both function as status quo guardians, blocking usurpers from entry. Trump pulled off the impossible with a GOP hostile takeover. RFK Jr. failed to breach Democrats’ layered defenses. Trump appeals to the majority, a unifier. Democrats seek to divide their subjects.
Hamilton, Madison, and Washington used the latter’s retirement to emphasize the necessity for patriotism, the welfare of the whole rather than specific interest groups, the need for “continuance of the Union as a primary object of Patriotic desire.”
The Unity of Government which constitutes you one people... is a main Pillar in the Edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very Liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee, that from different causes & from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly & insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union, to your collective & individual happiness... and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
As was “easy to foresee,” this happened. Kamala Harris is merely the most recent instance of Democrats being Democrats. No anomaly, she represents the norm. A party hack anointed in a back room. At the DNC convention, Obama eulogized Biden and his party:
What I came to admire most about Joe wasn't just his smarts, his experience. It was his empathy and his decency... we needed a leader with the character to put politics aside and do what was right at a time when our economy was reeling... we needed a leader who was steady and brought people together. And was selfless enough to do the rarest thing there is in politics: putting his own ambition aside for the sake of the country. We'll remember Joe Biden as an outstanding president who defended democracy at a moment of great danger.
Nobody believed any of this. Smarts, empathy, decency, leader, character, selfless, defender of democracy are code words for their converse. Tyranny is now called democracy. The 13 Abbey Gate Gold Star families would especially dispute Biden’s alleged empathy. As George Orwell foretold in his 1984, “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
From their founding, Democrats required only 32 years to tear asunder the “Unity of Government” and “tranquility at home;” and another 57 years to wreck “peace abroad.” “Cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men” then refined their despotic tactics in the subsequent century and into the present. FDR assumed office, and a month later confiscated everyone’s gold, facilitating almost a century of inflation. Then he tried packing the Supreme Court.
227 years after Washington bequeathed a republic, we possess a decrepit democracy. 35%, 16 of our 46 presidents, were Democrats. Having established their inability to govern, we’ve likely seen the last.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/08/the_democratic_party_was_never_democratic.html
The Culture of Death Returns
By David Prentice
The current DNC represents an ethos that is grotesque. It’s violent. It’s deviant. It’s beyond the edge of sanity.
GM posh-
And it ain't the Babylon Bee either-
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$5 Trillion List of Tax Hikes Kamala Harris Just Endorsed
Posted on Thursday, August 22, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris wants to extract a $5 trillion tax increase from American households and businesses, her campaign confirmed on Monday.
The Harris campaign officially endorsed the laundry list of new and higher taxes included in the Biden-Harris administration’s fiscal year 2025 budget, a plan that would increase taxes by $5 trillion over ten years.
The burden of Harris’s tax increases will hit households in the form of diminished wage growth and higher costs of goods and services. These Harris tax increases will make the U.S. less competitive vs. our adversaries.
Harris also endorsed further increasing the size and power of the already-supersized IRS and erode taxpayer rights by watering down procedures designed to protect taxpayers from abusive and dishonest IRS agents (details below.)
Kamala Harris’s tax increases include:
Small business tax rate hike to 39.6%
Small business owners pay business taxes on their individual tax return. The Harris endorsed budget raises the top marginal income tax rate to 39.6% from the current 37%.
Corporate tax rate higher than the EU and communist China.
Kamala Harris wants to hike the current 21% federal corporate income tax rate to 28%, higher than communist China’s 25% and the EU average of 21%, her campaign said Monday.
The Kamala Harris federal 28% rate is higher than the Asia average corporate tax rate of 19.8%, the EU average of 21%, the world average of 23.5%, and the OECD average of 23.7%. (See the Tax Foundation’s comprehensive listing here.)
The Harris federal 28% rate is also higher than Canada (26.2%), the UK (25%) Sweden (20.6%), and even Russia (20%), Afghanistan (20%), and Iraq (15%).
After adding state corporate income taxes, the combined federal-state tax burden in most states will easily exceed 30% under the Harris plan.
The Harris rate hurts the USA vs. China with its 25% rate. And note: Industry sectors of strategic use to the Chinese government pay an even lower rate of 15%.
American workers will bear the brunt of Harris’s corporate tax increase.
The non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation affirmed in congressional testimony that corporate tax rate hikes hit “labor, laborers.” A study compiled by the Tax Foundation found that “labor bears between 50 percent and 100 percent of the burden of the corporate income tax, with 70 percent or higher the most likely outcome.”
Capital gains and dividends tax more than twice as high as communist China
Here is a direct quote from the Biden-Harris budget: “Together, the proposals would increase the top marginal rate on long-term capital gains and qualified dividends to 44.6 percent.“
Yes, you read that correctly: A Kamala Harris capital gains and dividends tax rate of 44.6%
China’s capital gains tax rate is 20%. Is it wise to have higher taxes than China?
Under the Harris plan, the combined federal-state capital gains tax exceeds 50% in many states. California will face a combined federal-state rate of 59%, New Jersey 55.3%, Oregon at 54.5%, Minnesota at 54.4%, and New York state at 53.4%.
Unconstitutional wealth tax on unrealized gains
The Harris-endorsed budget calls for an annual 25 percent minimum tax on the unrealized gains of individuals with income and assets that exceeding $100 million. Once in place, it won’t be long before the threshold is lowered to hit more and more Americans.
Americans overwhelmingly oppose taxes on unrealized gains, by a factor of three to one, including 76% of independents. Americans know that a “gain” isn’t “real” until it is actually realized, in hand.
This Harris tax is similar to the wealth taxes pushed by radical progressives such as Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
Capital gains taxes should only be paid when a gain is realized. Harris’s wealth tax would break with current tax policy and impose tax Americans based on the value of an asset on a particular arbitrary date.
This unprecedented tax would give even more power to the IRS, encourage taxpayers to move assets overseas, and will only expand to hit millions of Americans over time.
A second Death Tax by taking away stepped-up basis when parents die
Harris wants to impose a second Death Tax by taking away stepped-up basis when parents die. This would result in a mandatory capital gains tax at death — separate from, and in addition to — the current Death Tax.
This will impose a steep tax increase and paperwork nightmare for small businesses, farms, and families.
The Biden-Harris administration has been pursuing this for a while. In a piece titled “This Biden Tax Hike Hike Will Hit Mom & Pop Hard” tax lawyer Robert W. Wood writes:
Under current tax law, assets that pass directly to your heirs get a step-up in basis for income tax purposes. It doesn’t matter if you pay estate tax when you die or not. For generations, assets held at death get a stepped-up basis—to market value—when you die. Small businesses count on this.
Wood notes the “proposal would tax an asset’s unrealized appreciation at transfer. You mean Junior gets taxed whether or not he sells the business? Essentially, yes. The idea that you could build up your small business and escape death tax and income tax to pass it to your kids is on the chopping block.”
As reported previously by CNBC:
“When someone dies and the asset transfers to an heir, that transfer itself will be a taxable event, and the estate is required to pay taxes on the gains as if they sold the asset,” said Howard Gleckman, senior fellow in the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.
Harris’s proposal to take away stepped-up basis has already been tried, and it failed: In 1976 congress eliminated stepped-up basis but it was so complicated and unworkable it was repealed before it took effect.
As noted in a July 3, 1979 New York Times article, it was “impossibly unworkable.”
NYT wrote:
“Almost immediately, however, the new law touched off a flood of complaints as unfair and impossibly unworkable. So many, in fact, that last year Congress retroactively delayed the law’s effective date until 1980 while it struggled again with the issue.“
As noted by the NYT, intense voter blowback ensued:
“Not only were there protests from people who expected the tax to fall on them — family businesses and farms, in particular — bankers and estate lawyers also complained that the rule was a nightmare of paperwork.“
Global tax cartel with 21% minimum tax rate
Harris wants to yoke the U.S. to an international tax cartel and impose a 21% global minimum tax on American businesses. This would be a devastating blow to U.S. competitiveness and sovereignty and eliminate healthy tax competition between countries.
The Biden-Harris administration has for years pursued a misguided international tax regime under the control of the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD). The OECD wants to stamp out tax competition.
Harris’s plan would go well beyond the OECD’s framework for a 15% global minimum tax and instead increase the rate to 21%. And the tax rate will only go up from there since bloated governments won’t have to compete.
Donald Trump had wisely kept the U.S. away from the tax cartel.
Quadrupled tax on stock buybacks — a Harris tax that will hit every American with a 401K or IRA or union pension
Democrats imposed a 1% stock buyback tax in the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act. Now, the Harris endorsed budget calls for quadrupling the tax, the burden of which hits every American with a 401k, IRA, or union pension.
A record share of 401(k) account holders took early withdrawals from their accounts last year for financial emergencies including preventing foreclosures, evictions and paying medical and tuition bills, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Raising taxes and restricting buybacks would further harm the 58 percent of Americans who own stock and more than 60 million workers invested in a 401(k). An additional 16.14 million Americans are invested in 529 education savings accounts.
Quadrupling the buyback tax, would stifle U.S. employers and put Americans at a competitive disadvantage vs. China, which does not have a buyback tax.
30% federal excise tax on electricity used in cryptocurrency mining
The Harris-backed budget imposes a 30% excise tax on the cost of electricity used to mine digital assets. The Treasury Department’s claims that mining has “negative environmental effects and can have environmental justice implications as well as increase energy prices.” Another excuse to raise taxes. It also neglects the fact that private sector innovation is already reducing any preexisting de minimis emissions by switching to “proof of stake” instead of “proof of work” consensus mechanisms.
Applies the wash sale rules to digital assets
The Harris-backed budget would apply the wash sale rule to digital assets. Under current IRS rules, a wash sale occurs when an investor sells “stock or securities” at a loss, and either 30 days before or after the sale, purchases a “substantially identical” stock or security. The IRS prohibits the deduction of losses when a wash sale occurs. The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) estimates that this change would increase the tax burden on digital asset transactions by roughly $17 billion.
$37 billion tax on American energy
The Harris-endorsed budget calls for a host of new taxes on oil and gas companies totaling $37 billion. This includes the repealing of expensing for intangible drilling costs (IDC), the use of percent depletion for oil and gas well and additional excise taxes on crude oil production. These tax hikes will be passed on to consumers in the former higher gas prices and energy bills. This tax hike on American energy comes on the heels of Democrats passing roughly $20 billion worth of new energy taxes included in the Inflation Reduction Act.
32% increase to Medicare taxes
Harris endorsed raising Medicare taxes from the current rate of 3.8 percent to 5 percent for individuals making over $400,000 per year, roughly a 32 percent tax hike. The plan reportedly broadens the Net Investment Income Tax (NIIT) to apply to non-passive business income and Harris would also increase the hospital insurance (HI) payroll tax from 0.9 percent to 2.1 percent for individuals earning over $400,000.
Carried interest tax on capital gains
Harris would tax carried interest as ordinary income for individuals earning over $400,000. While the Left labels carried interest as a “loophole” it is actually based on longstanding tax principles. Raising taxes on carried interest capital gains should be rejected. It is a terrible tax policy that would harm economic growth, reduce jobs, and reduce the returns of public pension funds across the country.
Even Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) rejected Democrats’ attempt to raise taxes on income from carried interest by blocking this proposal from being included in the Inflation and Reduction Act.
This tax hike would hit private equity, venture capital, real estate partnerships, and their portfolio companies which together account for over 25 million American jobs. In response, firms would downsize and decrease investment, causing both a loss of jobs and a reduction in the returns investors see.
$24 billion retirement tax
The Harris proposal calls for capping the retirement plan benefits of certain individuals. The White House projects this limitation on retirement benefits will raise $24 billion in taxes from individuals with retirement account balances above $10 million and earnings above $400,000.
Real estate tax hike on Like-Kind exchanges
Harris backs raising taxes on capital gains from real estate transaction by limiting what are knows as 1031 Like-Kind Exchanges to $500,000 in gains.
Under current tax rules, real estate investors can exchange real property used for business for similar real property and defer capital gains tax. Harris’s proposed changes to this tax treatment will hurt individuals and farmers.
An even further-supersized IRS
If you thought Harris and congressional Democrats had already supersized the IRS enough, think again. The Harris budget plan shovels another $104.3 billion to the agency.
Erodes taxpayer rights by making it easier for IRS agents to stack up questionable penalties against taxpayers
Last year the Biden-Harris IRS got caught illegally backdating penalty documents and signatures in U.S. Tax Court in order to run up the bills on taxpayers. The court caught the IRS lying. U.S. Tax Court is generally very deferential to IRS neglect but in this case the court was rightly furious.
While testifying to congress in late 2023, IRS Commissioner Werfel declined to say whether anyone has been fired for this practice. It is suspected the backdating incident was not an isolated occurrence within the IRS. Another indication that the IRS has a severe accountability problem that is only going to get worse.
Due to reforms enacted by Republicans in 1998, IRS agents are currently required to get written approval from their immediate supervisor before imposing penalties on taxpayers. This is designed to protect taxpayers from agent chicanery.
Congressional investigators discovered years of abuse by IRS agents running up the penalty score as an intimidation tactic against taxpayers. Agents would use the threat of penalties as a bargaining chip. The IRS has a history of targeting people who do not have the means to fight back, and unethical agents at employee review time could point to all the penalties they imposed on people who perhaps did not deserve it. So, in 1998 congressional Republicans enacted a taxpayer protection (Section 6751) which requires agents to get personal written approval from their immediate supervisor before sending written penalty letters to taxpayers.
But the Biden-Harris budget allows IRS agents to shop around for sympathetic supervisors anywhere in the building. Harris also wants to scrap the written approval requirement altogether for many penalty scenarios. Agents will abuse this and taxpayers will be the victim.
From the Biden-Harris budget: “In addition, the proposal would expand approval authority from an ‘immediate supervisor’ to any supervisory official, including those that are at higher levels in the management chain or others responsible for review of a potential penalty.”
Won’t be long before agents just go directly to the taxpayer-hostile supervisor on, say, the fourth floor who will sign off on anything. Good luck to taxpayers without the resources to defend themselves in court against an agency with a near-unlimited budget.
Reprinted with permission from Americans for Tax Reform by Mike Palicz.
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Holy Moly: Kamala’s brother-in-law fleeced taxpayers for billions to give to left-wing groups and lawyers
By Daniel Huff and Clark S. Judge Published Aug. 23, 2024, 4:18 p.m. ET
Bet this gets buried by the LSM. A picture's worth a thousand words...
Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, may be the current world-class champ of presidential-family shady dealings, but not for long.
If Kamala Harris wins the White House, her brother-in-law, Tony West, who is married to her sister Maya, is poised to claim the crooked crown.
Like Hunter, West learned his craft in the Obama years.
Then head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division, he invented a new form of what 19th-early 20th centuries Tammany boss George Washington Plunkett famously called “Honest Graft.”
It was simple.
Until 1977, Congress had to approve any settlement of a civil suit against the Federal government over $100,000.
This preserved the Constitutional requirement that Congress control the government’s purse.
But in that year, seeking relief from the burgeoning volume of suits to review, Congress removed the cap, handing the Justice Department a permanent blank check to pay settlements unilaterally, in any amount, out of an account known as the Judgment Fund.
Run by the Treasury Department, the Judgment Fund’s secrecy is so complete that our often-penetrated CIA might study it for lessons.
The limited data released omits recipients, the facts underlying the case, and often the lawyers involved.
By statute, attorneys’ fees awarded need not be disclosed.
A Government Accountability Office study concluded that “no one knows the number of claims processed by the federal government each year.”
Still, for three decades, the integrity of Justice’s officials sufficed to prevent abuse.
Then, in 2009, Tony West took over the department’s Civil Division, the division that litigates and settles lawsuits.
Once West arrived, his deputy emailed colleagues asking “can you explain to Tony the best way to allocate some money toward an organization of our choosing?”
Settlements became the vehicle for paying off political allies.
For example, in late 2010, after a Supreme Court victory, DOJ lawyers were on the cusp of winning a decade-long fight against discrimination claims by 91 Hispanic and female farmers.
That’s when West intervened and, as The New York Times put it, “engineered a stunning turnabout.”
DOJ agreed to a $1.33 billion settlement which included thousands of farmers who had never claimed bias.
The deal was made over the “vehement objections” of the department’s career lawyers.
The Times’s investigative report described West’s settlement as a “runaway train, driven by racial politics . . . and law firms that stand to gain more than $130 million in fees.”
The projected settlement size ballooned to over $4.4 billion as additional plaintiffs were added, including Native American farmers.
The government’s statistical expert was appalled: “‘If they had gone to trial, the government would have prevailed . . . It was just a joke. . . . I was so disgusted. It was simply buying the support of the Native Americans.’”
This dirty deal also inflated the number of claimants, creating a $60 million windfall for the plaintiff’s lead lawyer, a member of the Obama/Biden transition team.
But West did not just bilk taxpayers. He shook down corporations, too.
In a series of bank settlements, his team added increasingly aggressive provisions requiring the institutions to make nearly a billion dollars in mandatory donations to Democrat-supporting activist groups.
Donations were given double credit against required targets, incentivizing these payments over direct relief to victims of the housing crises.
West’s team specifically structured the terms to ensure that they would benefit only their political allies while leaving conservative groups ineligible.
An internal email shows West deputies rewording a settlement’s donation provisions to ensure the bank could not select a “conservative” property rights organization as a recipient.
Over time, West grew even more brazen.
A 2016 Volkswagen settlement required the company to fund a $2 billion White House electric car initiative that Congress had specifically rejected.
The largesse delighted liberal groups.
An email circulated saying they ought to build a “statue” to West and “bow down to this statue each day after we receive our $200,000+.”
In this legal shakedown, California’s attorney general at the time, Kamala Harris, was an active participant, cosigning the agreements for her state.
The Biden-Harris Administration has continued West’s “Honest Graft” tactics to reward political allies on the taxpayers’ dime.
In 2021, a billion-dollar settlement with illegal immigrants claiming emotional distress was scotched only after public outcry.
Even then, DOJ quietly agreed to pay attorneys’ fees to the ACLU lawyers in the long-running case.
Recently, the Department agreed to pay $2 million to FBI Agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page for releasing their anti-Trump texts to Congressional investigators worried about political bias.
The pair claimed a violation of the Privacy Act, but the messages were sent on their government-issue phones which contain clear banner warnings that users lack any reasonable expectation of privacy.
DOJ had ample basis to litigate this case to completion before surrendering hard earned tax dollars to the disgraced FBI agents.
This form of civic corruption is not bipartisan.
At the start of his administration, President Trump’s Attorney General banned settlement slush funds, while one of the early acts of the Biden-Harris DOJ was to rescind that ban.
Democrats have used this year’s convention to cry that Donald Trump is in this race only for himself, though not one of their many court cases against him charges misdirected government funds.
Meanwhile, the Tony West-invented, Biden-Harris operated “Honest Graft” machine pours taxpayer billions into left-wing activist groups, and West is said to be Harris’s White House counsel-in-waiting.
Hunter Biden step aside.
A new “Big Guy” is coming to town. Kamala, with the help of Tony West and his cronies, will show you how Honest Graft is really done.
Daniel Huff is a former counsel to the Senate and House Judiciary Committees. Clark S. Judge is managing director of the White House Writers Group, Inc.
https://nypost.com/2024/08/23/opinion/kamalas-brother-in-law-fleeced-taxpayers-for-billions-to-give-to-left-wing-groups-and-lawyers/
Trump vows to release JFK assassination docs as RFK Jr. makes rally debut hours after endorsing GOP nominee
By Victor Nava and Cameron Arcand Published Aug. 23, 2024 Updated Aug. 23, 2024, 9:45 p.m. ET
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made his first appearance at a rally for former President Donald Trump Friday hours after ending his campaign and endorsing the Republican nominee.
Trump, 78, described the 70-year-old scion of the Kennedy political dynasty as an “incredible champion” for American values and a “highly respected” and “great person” before bringing him out as a surprise guest at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Ariz.
“Bobby! Bobby! Bobby!” Trump supporters in the packed arena chanted as he walked out on stage.
“For the past 16 months, Bobby has run an extraordinary campaign,” Trump said.
“I know because he went after me a couple of times — I didn’t like it.”
“His candidacy has inspired millions and millions of Americans, raised critical issues that have been too long ignored in this country and brought together people from across the political spectrum in a positive campaign grounded in the American values of his father, Robert Kennedy, a great man, and his uncle, President John F Kennedy,” the former president continued.
“And I know that they are looking down right now, and they are very, very proud of Bobby. I’m proud of Bobby.”
“One of the issues that he talked about was having safe food and ending the chronic disease epidemic,” the Democrat-turned-independent said.
Kennedy explained that in his initial conversations with Trump – after the July 13 assassination attempt in Butler, Pa., — the two discussed “not the things that separate us, because we don’t agree on everything, but on the values and the issues” they share.
“Don’t you want healthy children? And don’t you want the chemicals out of our food? And don’t you want the regulatory agencies to be free from corporate corruption? And that’s what President Trump told me that he wanted,” Kennedy revealed.
“Don’t you want a president that’s going to make America healthy again?” he asked the raucous crowd.
Kennedy also touted Trump’s vows to keep the US out of foreign wars, end censorship and protect “America’s freedoms” from “totalitarianism.”
After Kennedy’s brief remarks, Trump predicted that his former rival would have a “huge influence” on his campaign — “much bigger than you’d see in the polls.”
“Bobby and I will fight together to defeat the corrupt political establishment and return control of this country to the people. And all who supported Bobby’s campaign, I very simply ask you join us in building this coalition,” Trump said.
Kennedy bowed out of the 2024 race earlier on Friday and decried the Democratic Party for holding a “sham primary” and installing Vice President Kamala Harris “without an election.”
He called the decision to suspend his campaign and back Trump “agonizing,” in his hour-long speech in Phoenix, during which Kennedy also rattled off several grim medical statistics and seemingly expressed interest in a role as Health and Human Services secretary under Trump.
The 45th president slammed the “Harris-Biden administration” for denying Kennedy — who lost his father, the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and uncle, former President John. F Kennedy, to assassinations and faced numerous death threats during his campaign — Secret Service protection until after the Butler, Pa., rally shooting.
As a “tribute” to RFK, Trump announced that if elected he would establish a commission on assassination attempts that would release all federal records related to JFK’s murder.
“They will also conduct a rigorous review of the attack last month,” Trump noted. “But I tell you, I have never had more people ask me, ‘Please, sir, release the documents on the Kennedy assassination,’ and we’re going to do that.”
Trump also repeated his pledge to establish a panel of “top experts working with Bobby” that would investigate the cause of a “decades-long increase in chronic health problems and childhood diseases.”
“We want every child in America to grow up and to live a long and healthy life,” the GOP nominee declared.
‘Joining like wildfire’
Before bringing Kennedy on stage with him, Trump described his political movement as being “welcoming” to Democrats.
“Our movement is not about Democrat versus Republican,” he said. “It’s about patriotism and common sense.”
“That’s why we’re welcoming support for millions and millions of disaffected Democrats,” Trump claimed. “And they are joining like wildfire now.”
“We’re welcoming the support from millions of disaffected Democrats, independents, moderates, old fashioned liberals who still believe in things like little things like borders.”
Several Trump fans at the rally told The Post that they were supportive of the ex-president’s olive branch to Kennedy and the potential of having the environmental lawyer in Trump’s cabinet.
Brett Munroe, who works in sales in Scottsdale, described the Kennedy endorsement as “amazing” and “awesome” and he was eager to see the ex-Democrat “work alongside” Trump.
“I believe his policies along with Trump’s policies, a lot of them align and I think they can come to fair ground,” Munroe told The Post, noting that he wouldn’t be surprised if the two pols “headbutt on some couple things.”
Jason Marshall, a retired veteran from Phoenix, indicated that he was pleased Trump welcomed Kennedy into the fold.
“You know, the more the merrier. Anything that will help us, man, we just don’t want what we’ve had for the past four [years],” Marshall said.
“We’ll take whatever we can get.”
Arizona state Sen. Anthony Kern told the Post that he expects Kennedy’s endorsement to bring a big boost to the Trump campaign.
“We’re going to win this thing,” Kern said.
“That 5-8% is going to help Trump,” he added, referencing Kennedy’s recent polling numbers as an independent.
https://nypost.com/2024/08/23/us-news/rfk-jr-makes-his-trump-rally-debut-hours-after-endorsing-gop-nominee-im-proud-of-bobby/
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al44: A wild guess as to who might be funding those nonprofits. George Freaking Soros?
His ear has miraculously healed! Praise be...
Everything isn't so great, for example...
Women dying from unmanaged miscarriages
Women dying from botched reproductive rights procedures when non-invasive meds are safe and effective
Women dying because Doctors are living in fear of prosecution in the backward states
Kids full of bullet holes from crazy gun holders (#1 cause of child deaths these days)
Homeless people in tent cities while the richest send relatives into space flight joyrides
Tax bases blown up by HUGE tax cutes to the least needy
Tax burden falling on the middle class to defend American values now under right wing assault
Social safety nets destroyed by lack of funds...$ now rerouted to the most rich to buy super yachts and too many homes
Educating the population that trickle down economics is a farce
Housing availability torpedoed by mega funding entities buying single family houses by the thousands the jacking rents
Young girls forced to carry daddy's child to term
ad nauseum...
But there is a new hope that change will make some of the above, and more, better...See: Democratic Convention themes
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Democrats always put everything into division and identity politics, while counting on economic illiteracy from their voters. It works great when you have the propagadanda/censorship/gaslighting powerhouses of Big Tech, Big Entertainment, and Mainstream Media. Virtually every billionaire, celebrity, and career politician is liberal and anti-Trump, yet someone they still are able to convince the public that Trump represents the rich, while the Left stand up for the little guy. Nearly everyone in attendance at the DNC Convention flew in on private jets and sit in boxes that sell for $500,000 or more each, while they cheer on yet another candidate who was SELECTED, not elected.
It will always work with 45 percent of the country until the propaganda powers can be broken and the leftist brainwashing foundations of the public education system can be cracked. That is starting to happen, but we’re unfortunately in the early stages. We’ll get there eventually.
Why are nonprofit groups setting up voter registration booths outside of driver’s license offices in Texas?
By Olivia Murray
Every time I’ve ever applied for a new driver’s license while also being involved in the voting process (Arizona, Tennessee, and now Alabama), I’ve registered to vote while I was in the DMV getting my picture taken. Now apparently that process is true for Texas too—which makes this story all the more odd, unsettling, and condemning. From a report out yesterday by Natalia Mittelstadt at Just the News:
Texas AG Ken Paxton launches probe of groups allegedly registering non-citizens to vote
The AG’s Election Integrity Unit found that multiple nonprofit organizations have opened booths outside Texas Department of Public Safety Driver License offices to assist with voter registration. U.S. citizens have the opportunity to register to vote at the offices when they are being issued or renewing their driver’s license or identification card.
First of all, if my experience is any indicator of what the paperwork is like in Texas too, registering to vote is basically as simple as checking a “yes” or “no” box—even a first-grader could figure it out—and as long as you speak and read English at even the most basic levels, it’s not a confusing process. Even more so when you consider that there’s someone right across the counter from you who could answer any questions if they arose. But, if you’re an American and you can’t figure out how to properly fill-out a government form that’s about as straightforward as it gets, maybe you’re not exactly competent enough to have a say in public policy and representation.
So, it strikes me as very strange indeed that nonprofit voter registration groups would wait outside the DMV, “helping” people register to vote. Seems a bit redundant, right? I mean, only if you’re not registering illegals though, because all those legals would have just had the opportunity to register while in the Texas DMV.
But if your target demographic isn’t the American citizen…? Then it makes perfect sense.
Looking at Texas’s eligibility requirements for a driver’s license, it’s obviously more rigid than handing them out like candy from a pedophile’s van, like they do in Democrat-run states, but it’s hardly difficult for illegals to obtain one; “refugees and asylees” can procure one with one single document… a work permit, also known as Employment Authorization Document, or EAD. Yes, that’s the only documentation needed, while I need a birth certificate, my previous driver’s license, utility bills in my name, three letters of recommendation, and my kindergarten grades (slight exaggeration). And yes, the same work permit that Joe Biden handed out by the millions; in “record numbers” in fact. Here’s this, from Chicago Business:
The Resurrection Project and other nonprofits are helping migrants apply for work permits in Chicago. Migrants are eligible for a permit if they have temporary protective status, parole status or have been in the country 150 days after filing a petition for asylum.
While Mittelstadt’s report didn’t identify the names of the nonprofits “assisting” with voter registration outside the Texas DMVs, I have to wonder if any of them are affiliated with The Resurrection Project.
And, as of March of this year, “refugees” don’t even have to apply for a work permit, instead being automatically enrolled for one the moment they break into our nation and cross our borders illegally—it’s “streamlined” as they say. From the Utah Supreme Court’s immigration legal services publication:
Refugees to Receive Work Permits in Just 30 Days Under New USCIS Process
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a new streamlined work authorization process for refugees in the U.S. Refugees will now have to wait only 30 days to receive their Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) after being admitted to the country. This significantly reduces wait time for work authorization (down from several months), so refugees can begin working in the U.S. soon after arriving.
Under the new system, as soon as a refugee enters the U.S., USCIS will digitally generate Form I-765 (Application for Employment Authorization) for them. Once approved, refugees will typically receive their EAD within one to two weeks by mail. Additionally, USCIS will now electronically provide the Social Security Administration with the necessary information to assign Social Security numbers and send Social Security cards to refugees so they can begin working.
With a Texas driver’s license, an illegal is not permitted to register to vote… in the office at least. What happens when they get that license and exit the building, only to be greeted by a friendly nonprofit worker that speaks Spanish, telling them all about the wonder of the Democrat party, or the “free” stuff they’re set to receive if they just vote blue, no matter who, or how evil anti-immigrant Donald Trump is?
Any guesses as to who might be funding these nonprofits?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/why_are_nonprofit_groups_setting_up_voter_registration_booths_outside_of_driver_s_license_offices_in_texas.html
The pragmatic reality of the November election
By Matthew G. Andersson
When retail politics takes center stage in mass public attention, as the political party conventions do, nearly everything but the facts tends to be laid out clearly for voters. These conventions are surely American in how they are corporate marketing events, and they are meant to entertain and generate feelings rather than thinking. Much marketing and many theories of mass psychology are brought to bear. In that way, they underscore how professional politicians view their constituents: with general low regard, as mere “consumers.”
But here are a few vital facts that need to be kept in mind as November approaches, if your view of the Republic is more enlightened or at least more aspirational.
The DNC established more than election irregularity in 2020. It created an “off balance sheet” voting system by three primary means:
First, by lifting the discipline and oversight function of the voting event itself by subjecting it to an open-ended periodicity — that is, rather than an organized and controlled method, it is now an unorganized and uncontrolled “season” that can stretch for many days, weeks, or longer, and thereby escape statistical quality control, numerical verification, and qualification standards.
Second, the definition of eligibility has been so expanded to unqualified, unidentified, unknown, or uncertain persons as to citizenship, residency, or registration that voting no longer captures voters, but merely bodies, or even virtual ones.
Third, over the last four years, up to 25 million (perhaps more) unknown illegal invaders have established a presence on U.S. soil and have been strategically transported by private charter aircraft, bus, and rail to key state locations and converted into voting bodies. As the previous election showed, all it takes to assert a victory in vote-counting is at most a few hundred thousand extra ballots. Twenty to thirty million illegal but voting aliens, spread out over just a dozen swing states, means that each such state, like Arizona, or Wisconsin, or previously stable “red” states like Texas and Florida, may have up to two million new “strategic voters,” established with identity documents, to be “counted” by any means of voting assertions, including of course absentee, mail-in, delayed counting, drop-off, and more.
Moreover, the Fourth Estate, or the media (in reality the “Fifth Column”) provides the digital voting results in major media outlets, and this too is subject to enormous irregular opportunism.
J.D. Vance was right when he recently stated that the DNC is running a fraudulent campaign — that is, its entire platform is itself a deception layered on top of a voting deception. This started over four years ago in technical means and, at the beginning of the first Obama administration, in ideological terms.
This is why Trump is more than a GOP candidate: his platform stands out even more, if you focus on facts and policy, as a fundamental conviction on national security in terms of maintaining a sovereign country defined in Western culture.
The DNC has, by contrast, been so radicalized that it is not an actual American party; it is a global network of international interests that seeks to effectively acquire the United States in terms of natural resources, manufacturing, education, defense, banking, agriculture, media, and even general population control and demographics.
And the DNC is willing to sell it, or even give it away, as Trump vitally called to everyone’s attention years ago. This continues to be the great dividing line between Trump and the radical left: a U.S. president acting as a U.S. chief executive and U.S. civilian commander of a sovereign American nation, or a foreign proxy deception that has contempt for American history, American independence, and especially the American people.
The DNC itself is a foreign invader.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/the_pragmatic_reality_of_the_november_election.html
It may be possible to stop Democrats from creating post-election votes for Kamala
By Andrea Widburg
One of the things that deeply worries those who are planning to vote for Donald Trump is the possibility of election fraud. The fraud that worries them most is that corrupt precincts will wait to see how the wind blows before finalizing their vote counts. If the honest vote count shows that Kamala Harris won their state, they’ll call it. However, if an honest vote count shows that Donald Trump won, they’ll start manufacturing votes. There may be a simple answer to this problem. Read on to learn.
None of us can forget how, on election night, heavily Democrat precincts in the six swing states shut down for several hours after it appeared Trump was winning. When they re-opened, Joe Biden had magically taken the lead.
Democrats assured us that this was because they were finally getting to all the mail-in and drop-boxed ballots, which leaned Democrat. Trump supporters had their doubts. They also had doubts when the votes were still being counted for days after the election, again ostensibly because of those magical mail-in ballots.
After seeing that voter rolls are riddled with non-existent voters—dead people, relocated people, illegal aliens, etc.—they concluded that what actually happened was that the Democrats manufactured ballots after the fact to push Biden over the top.
Little has been done since 2020 to address these concerns. The courts were useless. They were afraid to touch the substantive claims and relentlessly dismissed election fraud lawsuits on procedural grounds.
Under Ronna McDaniel’s aegis, the Republican National Committee, which should have been all over this like white on rice, was inert.
At the state level, most efforts to push back against fraud by going to paper ballots, cleaning up voter rolls, and stopping mail-in voting, ballot harvesting, and drop boxes were unavailing. Only recently did Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin suddenly, and to his great credit, announce that the election will use paper ballots and electronic counting machines that aren’t connected to the internet.
That’s a step in the right direction, although electronic counting machines are still inscrutable black boxes. In my state of South Carolina, we vote at electronic stations that print out paper ballots showing our votes in English and an inscrutable QR code. The counting machine ignores the English and reads the QR code—and we have no idea what it says.
Just today, the courts took steps to help election integrity. The United States Supreme Court stopped (for now) a lower court ruling allowing people to register without proving they are citizens. Also, the Fifth Circuit ordered an immediate hearing on a ruling from a federal district court in Mississippi that allowed absentee ballots to be counted as long as five days after the election.
The above are all important steps, but they’re slow-moving and require action through courts, legislatures, and high executive offices. My friend “Jonathan Gault,” however, emailed me a suggestion that can be implemented in every county in America—especially every Republican-leaning county: No precincts should release vote counts until every vote is counted across the state.
The beauty of this is that it makes it harder for Democrat-run precincts to manufacture after-the-fact votes to overcome a Republican lead. Currently, if a Republican precinct quickly and efficiently counts its votes and then announces that Trump won in that precinct by, say, 200 votes, a Democrat precinct in the same state can suddenly shut down and manufacture 210 votes for Kamala. However, if the Republican precinct sits on its final vote count until every precinct is ready to disclose results, that cheating is impossible.
Of course, the Democrat precinct can still preemptively manufacture fake votes for Kamala. Still, the whole system is harder to manipulate when the Democrats have no idea what kind of lead they need to overcome.
All that this proposal takes is discipline. If Democrat precincts take days to count votes, Republican precincts across America must sit tight until that counting ends.
And for those Democrats who cry foul...well, they shouldn’t. They also claim that they are worried about cheating, and this proposed system provides equal protection for them. If all the players show their hands simultaneously, all is fair.
If you think this is a good idea, please share this post. Maybe we can start something here.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/it_may_be_possible_to_stop_democrats_from_creating_post_election_votes_for_kamala.html
Patrick Howley Tells Paul Harrell: Kamala Harris Has A MASSIVE Child Sex Trafficking Scandal On Her Hands
What will come out next in National File's THE KAMALA FILES?
by Patrick Howley July 26, 2024 in News
https://nationalfile.com/patrick-howley-tells-paul-harrell-kamala-harris-has-a-massive-child-sex-trafficking-scandal-on-her-hands/
Sarah Palin Claims Kamala Harris ‘Prostituted’ Herself For The VP Nominee Position [UPDATED]
By Andrea Jefferson
August 19, 2020
https://www.politicalflare.com/2020/08/sarah-palin-claims-kamala-harris-prostituted-herself-for-the-vp-nominee-position/
https://beforeitsnews.com/strange/2020/08/hollywood-loves-prostitutes-kamala-harris-and-cuties-2476123.html
STAR NEWS - LEAKED FOOTAGE OF KAMALA HARRIS
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The Enormity of What is Coming Will Shock The World!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/tYZHyhKGKB4L
Sarah Palin Claims Kamala Harris ‘Prostituted’ Herself For The VP Nominee Position [UPDATED]
By Andrea Jefferson
August 19, 2020
https://www.politicalflare.com/2020/08/sarah-palin-claims-kamala-harris-prostituted-herself-for-the-vp-nominee-position/
https://beforeitsnews.com/strange/2020/08/hollywood-loves-prostitutes-kamala-harris-and-cuties-2476123.html
STAR NEWS - LEAKED FOOTAGE OF KAMALA HARRIS
https://rumble.com/v561v4l-leaked-footage-of-kamala-harris-as-prostitute-.html
https://amg-news.com/exclusive-report-former-prostitute-kamala-harris-is-a-double-agent-intent-on-destroying-the-united-states-of-america-matt-wallace/
The Enormity of What is Coming Will Shock The World!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/tYZHyhKGKB4L
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. suspends campaign, backs Trump for president
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-endorse-trump-president-court-filing-shows
Fake News: Judy Woodruff does a Dan Rather
By Monica Showalter
It's a disgrace to news, and a good reason why the public doesn't trust the media at all. The apology was bad, the finger-pointing at others was bad, the effort to distract was bad, and the bias under the color of news was the worst.
NEWS
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) August 21, 2024
PBS’ Judy Woodruff has issued a clarification and an apology for her remarks in this clip which went viral.
“I want to clarify my remarks on the PBS News special on Monday night about the ongoing cease fire talks in the Middle East.
As I said, this was not based on my… pic.twitter.com/4nIhczmpj5
A Seattle museum’s Israel-hating staffers force the removal of an exhibit on antisemitism
By Andrea Widburg
Seattle used to be a nice place. Now, not so much. The city itself is still a lovely collection of buildings located on the beautiful Pacific, but the denizens are so leftist that they’ve abandoned human decency. Certainly, that’s the case for the employees at the Wing Luke Museum, which forced a Jewish group to withdraw an exhibit on antisemitism that the museum had allowed it to mount there. The problem, of course, was that the exhibit dared to paint Jews, not so-called “Palestinians,” as victims.
The Wing Luke Museum is dedicated to the history of Americans with roots in the Asian Pacific. However, as is true for all museums, it will host special exhibits that tie, even tangentially, into the museum’s core mission. According to the JTA, in the case of the Wing Luke Museum,
The Jewish Historical Society had spent 18 months crafting the exhibit alongside the Black Heritage Society and Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum. Modeled after a World War II-era American Jewish Committee anti-hate campaign, the exhibit first opened at the Wing Luke in late May and included descriptions of how all three ethnic communities have experienced hate over the years.
The Jews—most or all of whom I assume are Democrats given the Seattle locale (see below)—naively believed that they had a bond with other groups that have been victimized over the years. They were probably even gracious enough not to point out that, unlike anti-black and anti-Asian victimization in the West, or anywhere for that matter, Jewish persecution spans millennia, empires, and continents.
What leftist Jews cannot seem to wrap their head around is that their persecution over the last century comes from the left. Marx built antisemitism into his theories. In every country that embraced socialism, the governments grafted Marx’s antisemitism onto whatever antisemitism already existed, leading to pogroms, the Holocaust, and the USSR’s relentless Jewish persecution and support for Israel’s enemies.
Nor can leftist Jews grasp that, just as Hitler loved Islam, so do leftists—and for the same reason. They like its muscularity, and they love its hatred for Christians and Jews. Marxists hate the Biblical faiths because they speak of a Supreme Being and a morality more powerful than either the government or each individual’s “self-actualization.” Muslims, meanwhile, Muslims hate the Biblical faiths because they know that Allah and Islam are poor photocopies. The differing roots of their hatred don’t matter. What matters is that the enemy of my enemy is my friend and all that.
Lacking these insights, leftist Jews are perpetually shocked when their fellow leftists turn on them—and that’s exactly what happened at the Wing Luke Museum when museum staffers, inflamed by Hamas’s suffering after it raped, tortured, and slaughtered over 1,200 Israeli civilians (including children and babies), demanded in May, complete with the slightly edited image, above, that the exhibition on antisemitism be removed:
A collective of Wing Luke Museum workers participated in a walkout on Wednesday, May 22, and have been withholding labor in protest of Zionist language in the new exhibit “Confronting Hate Together”.
We love the Wing Luke Museum and are consistently honored to steward the stories of our community members, many of whom have experienced the destructive harm of white supremacy, genocide, and violence that parallels the experience of Palestinians today. Our solidarity with Palestine should be reflected in our AA/NHPI institutions. It sets a dangerous precedent of platforming colonial, white supremacist perspectives and goes against the Museum’s mission as a community-based museum advancing racial and social equity.
We invite you to send an email to the Wing Luke Museum’s Executive Leadership to show your support for our cause, to emphasize the significant negative impact that platforming Zionist ideology has on our communities, and the Wing Luke Museum’s credibility as a museum representing marginalized communities.
What ties that Marxist gibberish together is deep and abiding antisemitism. For these feral people, (1) Jews are colonizers, even though they are Israel’s indigenous people going back almost four thousand years, while Muslim ties to the land are barely out of diapers; (2) Jews are white supremacists, even though they are the ultimate “other” who’s been hated and persecuted by the whites whom leftists hate so much; and (3) Jews shamefully dare to point out that they are the victims of the biggest single genocide in world history, a moral high ground leftists claim they’ve lost because Israel is fighting a careful defensive war against an enemy that is open about its genocidal desires.
The Jewish groups behind the boycott tried to work with these truly worthless, vicious, genocidal, antisemitic, amoral, Marxist losers, which was a mistake. They should have gone on the attack, but leftist Jews react as all Stockholm Syndrome victims do by embracing their persecutors’ alleged victimhood. Now, having failed to placate those who wish them dead, the Jews are retreating (or the museum is forcing them to retreat). Again, from the JTA report:
Months later, the Jewish groups are still planning to mount a version of the exhibit, called “Confronting Hate Together.” But they will do so without their original partners, the Black Heritage Society of Washington State and a museum dedicated to Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander heritage. Instead, the Jewish groups say the exhibit will be housed in a Jewish space.
The groups cited “circumstances out of our control” and said that the experience had left local Jews feeling isolated at a time of great need.
“Immense harm has been caused to the Jewish community by not being able to show the exhibit,” the Washington State Jewish Historical Society and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Seattle said in a joint statement. “Antisemitism today is at its highest levels in over 40 years, and more allyship is needed to help meet the moment.”
(That word “allyship” in the last sentence tells you why I say these Seattle Jews are leftists. Only leftists use that word.)
My friend Robin M. Itzler repeatedly says that Democrat Jews are building the cattle cars that will take them to the gas chambers. She’s right.
Whether it’s Chuck Schumer embracing the Squad while crying crocodile tears about antisemitism, Doug Emhoff pretending to know a damn thing about his Jewish religion and culture, or the various “Jewish” groups that seek Israel’s destruction, no one hates Jews with the passion of a Jew who hates the Torah (the first five books of the Bible, including the Ten Commandments, that serve as the moral basis of Western culture and values).
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/a_seattle_museum_s_israel_hating_staffers_force_the_removal_of_an_exhibit_on_antisemitism.html
It ain't Trump, babe
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
Day 3 and Trump is the word. How can many times have you heard the word? I am not counting, but it is a lot.
Let's check this out from Matt Margolis:
If you've been watching the Democratic National Convention this week, one theme stands out above all others: hatred of Donald Trump.
When it comes to the issues that matter to people, the Democratic Party is curiously silent -- so much so that a Democratic Chicago Councilman even blasted the DNC for not talking about the issues.
Cheer to Scott Jennings over at CNN for pointing this out on the air. I don't usually watch that channel but keeping track of Scott's common-sense contributions is worth the click.
This anti-Trump madness reminds of the old expression about going to the witchdoctor to get something out of your head.
It got more insane when Governor Tim Walz (the VP nominee) attacked Senator J.D. Vance for going to Yale. Didn't former President Clinton and others go to Yale? To my knowledge, Sen. Vance got in on merit.
So the "vibes" are vibing and everyone is happy. I guess they will keep on vibing until they see that the polls' "vibes" are back to Trump.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/it_ain_t_trump_babe.html
I vote for what Clinton calls 'Chaos'
By Ned Cosby
Listening to Bill Clinton’s speech at the DNC convention reminds me that he is older, but not wiser. I wonder if he can define what the word ‘is’ means yet.
Clinton, along with the Obamas, wants to see his party, the so-called Democrat Party, retain power after the upcoming November election. He and his old buddy James Carville see how bad the economy is. He sees the flood of illegals coming across our southwestern border. He knows that most of the country believes we are headed in the wrong direction. He has witnessed the unrelenting sewer wash Pelosi, Biden, Obama, and Hillary have sprayed at Donald Trump since 2015. He won’t admit it, but he stands in awe of Trump’s ability to withstand their attacks. Clinton spoke for thirty minutes, yet there was a lot that Bill ‘I Got Rich in Politics’ Clinton did not say last night.
He did manage to accuse former President Trump of creating chaos with his MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN campaign. It must stick in Bill’s craw that MAGA is a repudiation of much of his own legacy as president. Hearing Trump call the NAFTA treaty stupid again and again must echo in his skull.
So, Bill came out swinging and called Trump a maker of chaos. Chaos means complete disorder and confusion. Many of us look at the Obama/Biden years and the Biden/Harris years as times of confusion caused by “leading from behind” leadership. For us Biden’s exit from Afghanistan is the very picture of chaos.
Many of us long for the Trump/Pence years when Americans could afford to buy groceries, fill up their cars, and take vacations.
I side with former President Trump. If draining the swamp means chaos, I will vote for chaos.
If expecting public schools to teach and encourage patriotism is chaos, I will vote for chaos.
If going after Biden and any other politicians who make deals with the devil (China) is chaos, I will vote for chaos.
If calling for honest one-day elections using paper ballots is chaos, I will vote for chaos.
If recapturing the idea of public service, not grifting, is chaos, I will vote for chaos.
If affirming free speech and disavowing disinformation or hate speech creates chaos, I will vote for chaos.
If bringing manufacturing and industry back to America creates chaos, I will vote for chaos.
If tapping the energy resources that God has given us creates chaos, I vote for chaos.
If leading the world in demanding restitution from China for the Wuhan Flu creates chaos, I vote for chaos.
If agreeing with Trump that the Green Movement is a scam creates chaos, I vote for chaos.
What Slick Willie calls chaos, I call common sense.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/i_vote_for_what_clinton_calls_chaos.html
Trump is entitled to not turn the other cheek
By Peter Olsson
In typical flamboyant style, Donald Trump jokes at recent campaign rallies about whether he should be nice to political opponents or not, even taking a live voice poll with the rally audience. The being nice option usually loses. Perhaps, Trump like Leo Durocher of baseball fame, thinks that nice guys come in last in the pennant race.
In a North Carolina rally with the Rev. Franklin Graham present, Trump expressed admiration for Franklin and his father Billy Graham. Trump said that his father Fred Trump Senior admired Billy Graham and had taken Donald to Billy Graham rallies at Yankee Stadium. Trump quipped that Billy Graham, like Trump, liked big crowds which drew chuckles from the rally audience. Franklin Graham had written a letter of support to Trump but urged Trump not to curse during his speeches. Trump thanked Franklin Graham for his support but playfully rejected the advice about cussing.
Trump has been mellowly reflective -- even theologically contemplative -- after the assassin’s attempt on his life. However, Trump clearly rejects turning the biblical other cheek or embracing of the morally majestic Golden Rule when it comes to the relentless, politically calculated, and vicious personal attacks on him by Biden, Harris, the Obamas, the Clintons, and Democrats.
Trump states hyperbolically that he had rejected pushing for prosecution of Hillary Clinton after her destruction of evidence that had been duly subpoenaed by congressional investigators. Such kindness and respect toward Hillary Clinton has never been acknowledged by her or the mainstream media. The elite media that helped protect Biden and family in the 2020 election, Biden during his cognitive floundering, and now continues to protect Harris from vigorous questioning about her flip-flopping about domestic policy and silence on foreign policy details.
Trump went on to stoutly list his grievances about the baseless Mueller investigation against him, the two bogus impeachments, the inappropriate FBI raid on his home, and the politically motivated trials and prosecutions by attorneys general who ran for office touting their motivations to bring Trump down via the courts.
No! Trump will not heed his gentler advisors to heed the Golden Rule or turn the other cheek toward his vicious Democrat opponents for phony political purposes. No Mr. nice guy for Trump when it comes to the likes of Obama-Biden-Harris-Walz.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/trump_is_entitled_to_not_turn_the_other_cheek.html
Economic prosperity and environmental protection
By Joseph Ford Cotto
the Biden-Harris administration’s environmental policies have been defined by regulatory overreach and economic disruption; their approach to climate change and environmental protection has often been characterized by stringent regulations and ambitious goals that have led to increased energy costs and economic uncertainty. These policies have placed undue burdens on businesses and working-class Americans, who have borne the brunt of higher energy prices and reduced economic opportunities.
America Unburdened by What Has Been
By Phil D'Agostino
Every farmer, and most country people, know the insidious problem posed by rodents. The most common of these pesky rodents are, of course, mice and rats. And, because their nature is to hide and invade by night, they create a need for more devious means of eradication than mere trapping. The solution is to feed them a poison they won’t fear eating, so others will also ingest it and die.
Blood thinners are, by far, the most commonly used for this purpose. They usually require multiple feedings and do their work over a period of several days, allowing others to be comfortable with the environment and taking the bait for themselves. It all works very well, but how? Over a period of time, the blood is rendered unburdened by what it was meant to do. The platelets and other coagulants are similarly unburdened by their original purpose and the rodent dies without knowing why or what hit it.
To unburden someone or something of what “has been” is to unburden it from the lessons learned or the discoveries made that cumulatively create what we might call knowledge or wisdom. To “re-imagine” something is to reject it as it is, and find a replacement which may very well be inferior. But the current group of people who make up the Biden-Harris administration find “what has been” America, a burden. They look at the United States as a blank canvas as one may roller-paint the Mona Lisa with ceiling white and start over.
The political philosophies of Engels, Marx, and Hegel are the rat poison of a country. Call it by whatever form it takes (Marxian Socialism, Bolshevism, Communism, Socialism, Fascism, Nazism, etc.), because built into each iteration are the same characteristics of the blood thinners of rat poison; that is, it is palatable at first, drawing you back again and again for more, taking you out in pieces without your knowing why, or what hit you. It unburdens you from the wonderment that was created by others and leaves you to re-imagine what lies in front of you like a whitewashed Da Vinci.
Capitalism
The problem we have with capitalism isn’t what it is, it’s the title of what we now call it. By calling it capitalism, it is taken to be an alternative “-ism.” It is not an ism. In fact, it isn’t anything. The word, most likely traced back to about 1855 or so, is simply a word for referring to what people do to make money, and nothing more. From the Oxford English Dictionary:
The first use of the English word ‘capitalism’ can be found in William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel The Newcomes (1855, vol. 2: p. 45), where it seemed to refer to money-making activities and not an economic system.
There really isn’t a system we can reliably call capitalism. So, what is it? It is very simply the activity of people who have freely exchanged something of value to another for something of value to themselves. For example, if I have a knack for making arrows but can’t grow a stalk of corn to save my life, I might exchange my arrows for corn that someone else grew, and who is in need of reliable arrows for hunting. I may even make a bunch of arrows and keep them in storage to use as the need to trade comes up with others.
Today, we still trade things for things, or time for time, or job for job, or any combination of those and other things. We refer to it as trade or bartering. To accumulate a lot of what someone wants is a way of creating the ability to trade more and thereby have more. In most civilized societies, we accumulate money as a common exchange so we can increase the number of things for which we can barter. But, it’s still a trade of what I have for what you want, and vice versa.
Such trade is determined of value to the people in that exchange. For example, if I want you to mow my lawn for whatever reason, you may agree but you will want something in exchange. The most common, but not the only currency of exchange, is money. So, I want you to mow my lawn (time, work, output, or a job if you prefer) and I have nothing you would want from me, therefore we would agree to an amount of money which you can then use for what you do want from someone else. That is commonly called free trade; that is, you work for me mowing the lawn, and I work for you fixing toasters (or whatever I do for work) but handing you dollars as the currency. It’s called “free-trade” because we are free to determine all the elements of that exchange.
Socialism
Socialism, on the other hand, is an “-ism.” It is artificially created by others to superimpose onto a culture or society rules of engagement making our “trading” not free, but regulated according to some scheme. Like the rat poison, it seems palatable at first as it is usually packaged with the wrappings and trappings of fairness and equality (or worse, equity) as determined by that scheme as interpreted by a handful of Master Minds. Some examples of those who have interpreted and played master would be most famously: Vladimir Lenin, Mao Tse Tung, Ho Chi Minh, and North Korea’s Kim Il-Sung.
Inherent in this system is that all must participate. You must take only according to your need as determined by these “Master Minds,” and give according to your ability, again according to them. In the U.S., powerful Democrats believe they know what your ability to give is, as well as what you need, so they want to tax (take from) you what they think is equitable, and give it to those who they think have unmet needs. If you do not participate (i.e. pay whatever level of taxation they deem fit for you) you are deprived of your liberty or possessions by being imprisoned and/or having your possessions seized. This is deemed fair, as in “you’re paying your fair share.”
This unburdens us from the lessons learned by our founders, and centuries of testing their ideas across many countries and cultures. This allows the “Master Minds” to roller paint our history with white paint and makes our country a new canvas to be painted with whatever picture they envision it to be. It unburdens them from the lessons of history and allows them to see us, not as we are or what we want to be, but as they see we can be—if coerced and cudgeled enough.
To unburden us from what has been would be to make America a world in constant renewal, a kind of “Groundhog’s Day” world that never ends. But that isn’t what they mean when they say “unburdened by what has been.” What they mean is to unburden themselves from the limits and confines of the Constitution and to burden us instead with their dream of a New Utopia right here and right now. To make us become their version of John Lennon’s Imagine:
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one.
These words are the rat poison of our world; no borders, no God, nothing to kill or die for, and the world will be as one. But whose one? Whose world would it be as one? It sounds so palatable, so fair, so equitable. But what it is is poison. It poisons your freedom to think and act as you choose to think and act. It poisons your motivation to create or do whatever it takes to achieve your dreams, whatever they may be, for to do so would be inequitable. We don’t all “start at the same place” so your dreams may put you in a different place from another, thus requiring these Master Minds to take from you, the “privileged,” the fruits of your labors, and give it to others. It unburdens you from being charitable because they have already taken from you to give to others. It deprives you of being anything more than another brick in their edifice, all theirs and designed by them. They would deprive you of the burden of deciding what to do, where to live, what to drive, what to eat, or even what to drink. All the while they get to sit atop Mt. Olympus clinking their glasses as they toast each other for the wonderment they’ve created for us, their ant farm on Earth.
What “has been” is not a burden to Americans, not real Americans. What “has been” is a gift that is renewable each and every day. A gift of freedom to fail and the freedom to succeed, for without the freedom to fail, there is no such thing as success. No. The burden is on those who wish to impose their will and vision for that which “has been” has stood the test of time and remains that light which both starkly shows the flaws of their design, and continues to make us “that shining city upon a hill.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/08/america_unburdened_by_what_has_been.html
Senator Schumer Accuses Trump of Anti-Semitic Tropes While Promoting Al Sharpton
By Civis Americanus
Tell you what, Senator Schumer. When I hear Donald Trump call David Duke a civil rights leader, and depict the Ku Klux Klan as an organization “which fights for one standard of justice, decency, and equal opportunities for all people,” I may take you seriously. Until then, you, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, and many other prominent Democrats are the ones who posed with a race hustler and/or appeared at the National Action Network.
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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.
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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...
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