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Kindly take a moment and try to explain what you feel is the relationship between my quote and the pic you posted. I'm just curious how you made that comparison at all. Especially since the more apt comparison is between your antifa thugs and the nazi brown shirts. Hence the people carrying the guns would be more in line with real Americans believing in free speech and law and order. TIA
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Bugging Out by Stilton Jarlsberg
To the surprise of absolutely no one, Democrat Kamala Harris has dropped out of the presidential race. Harris had previously complained that she couldn't get traction because voters weren't willing to support a "strong woman of color." Which is another way of saying that she believes Democrat voters are sexist and racist - the only point she made on the campaign trail that we can't disagree with.
FLASHBACK (EMPHASIS ON "FLASH") - August 4, 2014
With Joe Biden's swimming memories in the news ("I got hairy legs where the hair turns blond in the sun, and the kids would reach into the pool to rub that hair..."), it seemed a good time to share this memory from five years ago...
According to the new book "First Family Detail," vice president Joe Biden enjoys swimming in the nude - much to the disgust and dismay of his female Secret Service agents, many of whom will never again be able to eat a vienna sausage.
"Little Joe," the appendage which is only a heartbeat away from being the leader of the free world, is frequently turned loose in the waters of the vice presidential residence in Washington DC, at Biden's home in Delaware, and other bodies of water which present a target of opportunity.
Sure, this sounds like no big deal - but consider this: on July 24th, Biden went to Ohio to give a speech. Now 400,000 Ohio residents are without drinking water because something (or someone) toxic got into the water supply. Coincidence? We think not.
Until further notice, residents are being told not to brush their teeth using the water, not to let children bathe in it, and not to let pets drink it. And considering that most pets spend a lot of their free time licking their private regions, that says a lot.
Hope n' Change sincerely hopes that the veep will reconsider what he considers "see-worthy" in the future and don appropriate swimwear.
Until then, our hearts and support go out to the brave female Secret Service agents whose blood runs cold every time they hear Uncle Joe shout "Thar she blows!"
Secret Service agents shouldn't have to throw themselves on this.
http://stiltonsplace.blogspot.com/
Quite a long list. eom
It's really sad when it's thought to be cowardly for wanting to have the tools necessary to defend life, liberty and family from thugs trying to do them harm.
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Oh sorry, I didn't realize antifa thugs had any brain cells. But then again they know the areas where they can and can't get away with their tactics, so they can't be totally brain dead.
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When Impeachment Fails, Can Voter Fraud Be Far Behind?
On Tuesday, December 3, 2019
“DESPERATE TIMES CALL FOR DESPERATE MEASURES”
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2019
(Dec. 3, 2019) — OK, as the Volksgerichtshof continues to metastasize on Capitol Hill, this time “shifting” – à la WWF tag-team – to the House Judiciary Committee and Jerrold (“No-Neck”) Nadler, it is time to microwave some more popcorn. Despite the persistent but false reassurances from the Democrats’ propaganda operatives at CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC and NBC – and not to mention at the Gray Trollop and Washington (“this-is-way-worse-than-Watergate”) Post – instead of producing a single scintilla of probative evidence of anything supporting the impeachment of Donald Trump, the “Schiff Flop” is now blossoming into the “Nadler Nothingburger.”
The list of Nadler’s initial witnesses was revealed on Monday, Dec. 2, 2019, barely two days before the hearings were scheduled to begin. The first four witnesses – Noah Feldman, Pamela Karlan, Michael Gerhardt and, oddly but interestingly, Jonathan Turley – are all law professors and constitutional “experts.” It is rumored that their testimony will not address the factual elements of the July 25, 2019 “quid pro quo/bribery” phone call between President Trump and Ukranian President Zelensky. Instead, it is anticipated that they will address the historical and constitutional standards for determining what constitutes “treason,” “bribery” or “other high crimes and misdemeanors” as the Founders intended. Turley thinks the Democrats’ impeachment gambit is doomed.
With the exception of Professor Turley, it is expected that the other three “experts” will conclude… hang on to your hats… that grounds exist to impeach President Trump in the House and forward the matter to the Senate for his removal. Memo to Nadler: you feckless D’s might get to first base, but you will be thrown out at second…, and it won’t even be a close call.
In addition, if the rumors are true, the bulk of the Nadler phase – at least as to three of the four initial witnesses – would seem to promise little more than a discussion of intellectual goo concocted to “prove” that, whatever the Founders meant when they fashioned the criteria for impeachment, President Trump has violated those criteria. One is reminded of the new, plant-based “no meat” hamburgers being marketed by Burger King… which, BTW, are in your humble carnivore servant’s opinion actually not all that bad. Much better than the nothingburger sous chef Nadler (Executive Chef Pelosi reigning over the House kitchen/mess hall) will be serving up to the electorate.
While it may be premature to suggest that the House of Representatives – after recovering from its collective laughter over the Schiff Circus and the boredom of the upcoming Nadler Yawn – may not even take a vote on articles of impeachment (Chef Pelosi making that call), it is not premature to ask: what might be next? With the virtual lead-pipe certainty of the Senate refusing to convict even if the House voted out a bill of impeachment, the Democrat leadership in the Congress will simply turn to another tactic. After all, impeaching President Trump simply gets them President Pence, sooooo…, what might that different gimmick be? Hmmmm….
Wait… wait… why not fall back on a tried-and-true mechanism: voter fraud? Sure, why not? That could be just the ticket, but this time, on a far greater scale than ever attempted before. This would have to be the ultimate “insurance policy.” Consider that if the popular vote in the 2020 general election in “swing” states could be manipulated “just enough” to ensure the capture of that jurisdiction’s electoral votes, President Trump could be defeated no matter who the Democrat candidate was. After all, if enough red or purple swing states could be identified where the 2016 popular vote was close enough such that in 2020, sufficient fraudulent votes could be stealthily injected into the count, that could be just the “bump” needed to make a difference.
Moreover, if those swing states had election officials who were loyal “Orange-Man-must-be-defeated-no-matter-what” Democrats, the likelihood of them remaining “unaware” of or “uncaring” as to fraudulent votes might be elevated. And that fraudulent votes could become the next weapon of choice for the Democrats – all of their other efforts falling flat – is only underscored by developments like this addressing New York’s “Green Light” law for illegal aliens. As Rensselaer County New York Republican County Clerk Frank Merola observes, the state’s “Green Light” law allowing acknowledged illegal aliens to obtain New York driver’s licenses “is more about voting than it is about driving.”
Short tutorial: in order to cast a vote for president of the United States, one must be a citizen of the United States. See 18 U.S.C. § 611(a). In this regard, one of the most frequently used documents to provide prima facie “proof” of one’s “citizenship” is a driver’s license. That is because in most jurisdictions, in order to get a driver’s license in the first place, one must provide an original, certified copy of one’s birth certificate…, unless, of course, one is the Second Usurper of the United States of America. BTW, and just as an aside, while we have all seen videos of Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. driving a golf cart (off highway) or riding a bicycle…, has anyone ever seen him driving a car? Does he even have a driver’s license?
But I digress. As long as one presents a valid (i.e., non-fraudulent) driver’s license at the polling place, identifying himself/herself as claimed, and appears on the rolls as having registered to vote (frequently when simultaneously applying for a driver’s license under many states’ “motor-voter” registration laws), ninety-nine times out of one hundred, the person will be allowed to cast a ballot, oftentimes without it being questioned or isolated as a “provisional” one.
Thus, the potential exists – admittedly, a long shot, but that has never stopped looney Democrats in the past – for thousands if not scores of thousands of illegal aliens, armed with driver’s licenses purporting to prove they are “citizens” not disqualified by the restrictions of 18 U.S.C. § 611(a), to vote in “swing states” and tilting the electoral vote “just enough” to shift the state from red or purple to navy blue. Voilà! The Democrat gets 270+ electoral votes and President Trump is toast.
Memo to faithful P&E readers: if you think the potential for the Democrat apparatus, aided and abetted by sympathetic Deep State actors flirting with sedition, to carry out such a proposed assault on President Trump is tinfoil hat material…, think again. To the Democrats, desperate times call for desperate measures, and the times for them are getting more desperate with each passing day. Think “insurance policy.” Accordingly, faithful reader, consider asking your secretary of state and/or county or parish election official what he/she is doing to ensure that people who show up to vote on November 3, 2020 are not in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 611(a). Eight to five odds says most will respond: “Huh?” Sad.
https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/12/03/when-impeachment-fails-can-voter-fraud-be-far-behind/
Nancy Pelosi's worst nightmare slowly comes to life
By Monica Showalter
Nancy Pelosi fought a lot with her far-left socialist extremist "Squad" members, primarily over the issue of impeaching President Trump.
"It's just not worth it," she tried to tell the far leftists in her camp, trying to bat off their yipping and yapping.
What the wizened old grande dame of the Democrats feared was a replay of 1998, the Republican bid to impeach Bill Clinton, which left that party out on its ear. She knew that it would be the same for Democrats, and the latter would lose big. She knew, and for that she fought those far leftists from low-turnout solid blue districts who were too young to remember that lesson and too arrogant to learn it.
It's pretty obvious she's ruing this turn of affairs, given that what she expected is exactly what's happening now.
Here's the observation of a Washington Post reporter, describing the sentiment now on the left side of the aisle:
"I think what we're starting to see, you know, is when the impeachment inquiry was first announced and [Democrats] started to do these depositions, a lot of people were asking, 'Can Nancy Pelosi peel off any Republicans?'" Bade asked "But I increasingly think the question is becoming does [Nancy Pelosi] lose more Democrats? Because Republicans have really unified behind the president, and although two Democrats voted against the impeachment inquiry rules that they voted on a couple of weeks ago, we are hearing behind-the-scenes there are moderates getting cold feet. And it comes back to these ads and people being afraid for being punished for voting to impeach the president."
Seems Peggy Noonan's neat declaration that Democrats have proven that Trump is guilty, "the case has been clearly made," impeachment is a done deal, everything is clear...is not such a done deal after all. The Democrats are the ones now on the defensive.
Nancy Pelosi is actually losing Democrats, which has got to be painful right there. She after all is a politician known for her political muscle power in forcing all Democrats to get into line, as she did with Obamacare way back in 2010. Even top Squad member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told interviewers early in her congressional tenure that she was scared of Pelosi's political muscle.
Apparently, that didn't last.
What seems to have really happened is that the Deep State's CIA arm got together with Rep. Adam Schiff, an older, wilier, squad-like leftist; promised him and Pelosi results from a host of Ukraine accusations; gave her a list of angry ex-Trumpers who'd seal the deal though testimony; and then set off the impeachment inquiry in the secretive Capitol basement to prove their case to Pelosi. After a host of selective media leaks that made the case seem airtight, Pelosi caved, ignoring every inch of her lifetime's political wisdom based on the promise from them that they had the goods.
They didn't.
It kind of reminds me of Juan Guaidó's promise to the U.S. that he had the Venezuelan military ready to defect, or Ahmed Chalaby's promise to then-president Bush that the Iraqis would flock to democracy once U.S. troops liberated Iraq. Big promises, wishful thinking, bad predictions, nightmare result. This impeachment fiasco has approximately the same kind of look, which was premised on something that not only was wrong, but left the other side stronger.
Polls are showing growing strength for Trump among voters, for one, with few minds changing in the wake of Schiff's hearings.
Black voters are flocking to President Trump in unprecedented numbers. Roger Simon has an excellent piece on that here. Wisconsin voters are moving sharply toward Trump in the primary, as I noted here. Now political rock star Salena Zito is reporting that swing voters are moving hard toward Trump. It's all bad news for Pelosi
It's the nightmare she knew was going to happen.
Today, Pelosi's Democrats don't even have a strategy. They're so befuddled by how things have not turned out the way they wanted them to turn out, and all the brave talk about getting this over by the end of the year has evaporated. Today, impeachment is the only "narrative" Democrats have even as the border goes unguarded, medical costs need attention, an important free trade deal with Canada and Mexico needs ratification, the budget needs attention...all they have is impeachment. Here's where it gets even more nightmarish: Pelosi is now talking about extending the whole impeachment matter to the lost horizon of no-idea-when-it-will-end, a possibly implicit admission that she expects Trump to be re-elected and herself to keep at it even into his second term. Bottom line: There will be no closure at all, not a great election pitch.
The irony here is that the Guaidó and Halaby stuff were the work of faulty intelligence and forecasts by the CIA. Hmm...and this impeachment effort is the same kind of faulty intelligence and forecasts...coincidentally, by the CIA, the very same people who blundered earlier in Iraq and Venezuela. Sound like the same people? Seems Pelosi was as vulnerable to their nonsense as previous Republican presidents were.
Now she's living the result, and it's about as nice as life in Fallujah after sundown.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/11/nancy_pelosis_worst_nightmare_slowly_comes_to_life.html#ixzz673htdVOD
New Restaurant Sign Has Gun Control Supporters Up In Arms
This restaurant’s new sign has gun control supporters going crazy, but those who know the truth realize this is one of the safest places to bring your family for a meal in the country:
http://www.stationgossip.com/2019/12/new-restaurant-sign-has-gun-control.html
Lisa Page doesn’t want you to think aboout FBI wrongs in Trump probe
By David Harsanyi December 2, 2019 | 7:37pm | Updated
No matter how poorly you believe President Trump treats women, no matter how inappropriate you find his tweets and no matter how excessive you find his accusations of “treason,” there are serious unanswered questions about Lisa Page’s conduct at the FBI.
The former FBI lawyer is, at the very least, someone whose unprofessional behavior compromised the integrity of an investigation into the president.
Yet her canonization is fully underway this week, led by liberals who were once concerned about law-enforcement abuse.
Page surfaced on Twitter this Sunday to announce: “I’m done being quiet.” She then offered her followers a link to an interview with writer Molly Jong-Fast at The Daily Beast.
Page claims that she only decided to speak out after Trump’s “sickening” impression, delivered at a recent rally, of her text-message exchanges with her lover and then-FBI deputy counterintelligence chief Peter Strzok.
“I had stayed quiet for years hoping it would fade away, but instead it got worse,” she told the Web site. “It had been so hard not to defend myself, to let people who hate me control the narrative. I decided to take my power back.”
Page has reason to be aggrieved by Trump’s mockery. However, nothing she says in The Daily Beast article assuages concerns about her unprofessional and partisan conduct. Not in the least. Not once does Page attempt to explain why she had exchanged highly partisan text messages with Strzok while investigations into two presidential candidates were ongoing. Not once does she apologize or even acknowledge any of her unethical behavior.
Of course, Page shouldn’t feel abused or scared in public. But it’s possible for someone to both feel aggrieved by presidential mockery — and to have wrongly broken the public trust while in a high-powered position.
It wasn’t Trump, after all, but the FBI’s internal investigation that found Page had inflicted damage to the agency that went “to the heart of the FBI’s reputation for neutral fact-finding and political independence.”
It was the inspector-general report, not the meanies at a pro-Trump Web site, who found the text messages between the two had “potentially indicated or created the appearance that investigative decisions were impacted by bias or improper considerations.”
It was special counsel Robert Mueller, not Attorney General Bob Barr, who fired Strzok and Page after he learned of the text messages, because he feared they would further compound the perception that the investigation was prejudiced against Trump.
It was Page who asked: “[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!”
It was Strzok who replied: “No. No, he’s not. We’ll stop it.”
Their liberal fans ask us to believe that Strzok and Page were chaste investigators for the FBI, who never let their opinions undermine their professional duties. But would anyone in the world trust a law-enforcement agent who had said it was his mission to “stop you”?
The duo shared another dozen or so texts demonstrating political prejudice of the kind. Would you consider investigators who behaved this way even minimally reliable?
What does seem rather suspicious about all of this — and so many of the other preemptive leaks and defenses of those involved in the early days of the surveillance operation against Trump’s 2016 campaign — is that the Department of Justice’s internal-watchdog report is set to arrive soon.
As that report radiates through Washington, there’s no plausible argument to be made that the public should ignore this animosity for Trump.
There is also no plausible scenario in which Page, who had been involved in the investigations into Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server and Trump’s “collusion,” is merely an innocent, upstanding professional.
No matter what the Justice report says, Page isn’t blameless in the situation.
David Harsanyi is a senior writer at National Review. Twitter: @DavidHarsanyi
https://nypost.com/2019/12/02/lisa-page-doesnt-want-you-to-think-aboout-fbi-wrongs-in-trump-probe/
LOL, no. I wonder why the antifa terrorists won't go near a crowd like that and attack. Any guesses?
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FBI says Black Friday gun purchase background check numbers are second-largest single day in program history
By
The Daily Sheeple | Sean Walton
Published on December 2, 2019
The FBI fielded more than 200,000 background checks on Black Friday gun purchases, continuing a steady surge this year following a series of mass shootings that have renewed calls for more restrictive gun laws.
In all, the bureau posted 202,465 checks Friday, an 11% increase from last year and falling just short of the single-day record: 203,086 in 2017.
While background checks, required for purchases at federally licensed firearm dealers, are not a measure of actual gun sales, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System is a way to gauge market demand. The number of firearms sold Friday is likely higher because multiple firearms can be included in one transaction by a single buyer.
Black Friday traditionally has been one of the busiest for FBI analysts, but this year’s one-day number comes amid rising monthly volumes that are approaching the one-year record of 27.5 million in 2016.
Some of the biggest spikes came in August and September after attacks in El Paso and Odessa, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, that left 38 people dead.
Past spikes in background checks have been driven by fears that lawmakers would tighten gun laws.
For the first time since the bureau began conducting checks in 1998, the number of monthly checks has not fallen below 2 million this year.
https://www.thedailysheeple.com/fbi-says-black-friday-gun-purchase-background-check-numbers-are-second-largest-single-day-in-program-history/
New Greta On The Shelf Doll Will Track Your Climate Sins
December 2nd, 2019
U.S.—A fun new "Greta on the Shelf" doll will watch you every day and fly back to the UN each night to report your climate sins to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The doll is equipped with eye sensors programmed to detect activities that are harmful to the environment.
"Greta sees you when you're sleeping, she knows when you drive your SUV to the store instead of taking public transportation," the manufacturer said. "She knows if you've been bad or carbon-neutral, so be carbon-neutral for goodness' sake!"
One couple in Portland proudly displayed their new doll and lectured their children on the true meaning of Christmas: fighting climate change. "We're gonna play a fun game for the holidays this year -- try to be good little carbon-neutral children, or Greta will tell on you!"
"How dare you!" the doll chanted as the kids of the household left the door open while the heater was on. "You have stolen my dreams and my childhood." The doll then blasted off toward UN headquarters using its jet engines to report on the naughty children, who will receive coal in their stocking. They will be snitched on again, however, if they burn the coal for warmth.
Greta is programmed to detect activities including these:
Leaving the light on when you exit a room
Leaving the fridge open
Driving an SUV
Parents participating in illicit activities that may lead to the creation of more humans
Using a plastic straw instead of sticking your face in a beverage and slurping
Forgetting your reusable grocery bags at home
Getting a cut-down Christmas tree
Getting a carbon-heavy plastic Christmas tree
Turning on any electric appliances
Using the heater instead of rubbing two sticks together for warmth
Children have responded enthusiastically to the doll so far, saying things like, "Mommy, I'm scared," and "Make the bad girl go away."
https://babylonbee.com/news/fun-new-greta-on-the-shelf-will-track-your-climate-sins
“OK, Boomer”? Pay The Bills, Support A Family, Then We’ll Talk
Authored by Dave Huber via The College Fix,
A recent op-ed in the Princeton University student paper The Daily Princetonian takes issue with criticism of the trendy phrase “OK, boomer.”
The expression is sort of a payback for derision of the Millennial Generation, but especially its successor, the centennials (those born in 1996 and after). It’s intended as a judgment of boomers’ alleged mishandling of everything from the economy to the climate.
(In case you’re unaware, “Boomer” is short for “baby boomer,” those born in the post-World War II years of 1946 to 1964. They’re the progeny of the Greatest Generation, aka those who — literally — saved the free world just scant years prior.)
I’ve been subjected to “OK, boomer” here and there even though I’m actually a member of Generation X (if barely). The remark doesn’t bother me in the least; indeed, it gives me a good chuckle since it typically comes from someone who’s never paid a bill, raised a family, or planned and made sacrifices for retirement.
In my experience, centennials like op-ed author Anna McGee are the worst culprits.
You want boomers and Gen Xers to take you seriously?
You forget yours is the generation…
Of grade inflation.
Of minimal discipline, in and out of school.
Of being carted around to sports and social functions by helicopter parents who cater to your every whim.
In college, you run and cry to “bias response teams” when the slightest little thing offends you.
Then you demand “safe spaces” and other measures to make you feel “welcome” and “wanted” … like therapy animals, etc.
Not to mention, you want to sell us on the fact that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Greta Thunberg, and the Parkland, Florida activists are heroes of the modern age? That so-called “democratic socialism” is the answer to the country’s ills? People like AOC and Thunberg aren’t “discriminated against” because of their youth, as McGee claims; they’re ridiculed — because they’re stupid. There is a reason, after all, why age restrictions exist in society.
Centennials have more available to them than any other generation before. Even the American “poor” are the envy of the world. Try enjoying it, centennials! Cheer up! The world isn’t going to end in a dozen years because of climate change, and Donald Trump isn’t going to throw you in an internment camp.
Now get off my lawn.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2019/12/02/ok-boomer-pay-the-bills-support-a-family-then-well-talk/
Left claims Zelensky saying ‘no quid pro quo’ means Trump’s extorting him
By
M. Dowling -
December 2, 2019
Democrats want to overturn an election for a “crime” which no one actually saw or can give testimony to — bribery or extortion or quid pro quo (Dems won’t say which). Not only did no one observe it, but the person in the best position as a first-hand witness — Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky — says it never happened.
President Zelensky said it again. How many times does he have to say it??? Are Democrats DEAF?
THERE WAS NO QUID PRO QUO
Ukraine’s president says in a new interview that he never discussed a “quid pro quo” with President Trump, but criticized any blocking of U.S. security aid for his country at a time when it is at war with Russia.
We don’t blame him for wanting aid and wanting it as soon as possible. They are fighting for their lives. Barack Obama gave them nothing but humanitarian aid.
During the interview in his office in Kyiv, the comedian-turned-president denied, as he has done in the past, that he and Trump ever discussed a decision to withhold American aid to Ukraine for nearly two months in the context of a quid pro quo involving political favors, which are now at the center of the impeachment inquiry in Congress, Time reports.
“I never talked to the president from the position of a quid pro quo. That’s not my thing,” Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with Time published Monday.
“I don’t want us to look like beggars. But you have to understand. We’re at war,” he said. “If you’re our strategic partner, then you can’t go blocking anything for us. I think that’s just about fairness. It’s not about a quid pro quo. It just goes without saying.”
The left loves conjecture and hanging someone for thoughtcrimes.
TRUMP RESPONDS
President Trump responded in a fiery Twitter post, slamming Democrats. He wrote:
Breaking News: The President of Ukraine has just again announced that President Trump has done nothing wrong with respect to Ukraine and our interactions or calls. If the Radical Left Democrats were sane, which they are not, it would be case over!
LEFTISTS ATTACK
President Trump was not careful with his words since the President of Ukraine didn’t say he did nothing wrong. He said there was no quid pro quo and it’s not his “thing,” which is essentially the same thing.
The leftists’ comments about this which are trending on Twitter as #ThePresidentofUkraine, are vile. They claim Zelensky said he doesn’t trust Trump, but what Zelensky said was, he doesn’t trust anyone in response to a question about trusting Putin.
They claim the President of Ukraine is still being “extorted” by the President, and so on. Zelensky has no choice but to claim there is no “quid pro quo,” but he doesn’t mean it — it’s extortion by the President.
Maybe the left should also mention that Obama gave Ukrainians nothing but blankets and water and such while Russia was taking over Crimea and threatening the entire country. Perhaps they should mention that Zelensky has no choice but to stick up for his country when he complained that the aid was blocked.
The left wants people to believe Zelensky is in a tough spot and has to say there is no quid pro quo, but the truth is Zelensky knows Obama gave him nothing and he’s afraid that will happen again.
Democrats are responsible for Zelensky’s fears. They are the ones that made sure he knew the aid was held up and they cast shadows over why it was held up.
Bill Mitchell has a different take on all of it:
Everyone in Ukraine is confirming Burisma is corrupt and Hunter Biden was on the take.
Everyone in Ukraine is confirming Hunter only got the job because of his dad.
Everyone in Ukraine wants the Bidens investigated.
No one in Ukraine believes Trump bribed Zelensky.
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) December 2, 2019
https://www.independentsentinel.com/left-claims-zelensky-saying-no-quid-pro-quo-means-trumps-extorting-him/
Certified genius Schiff T. Coyote demonstrates the meaning of insanity in his relentless pursuit of the elusive Trump Runner.
These tires never go flat.
https://twitter.com/DigitalTrends/status/1201153982472839168/video/1
The Trump Economy Defies the “Experts” Yet Again
December 1, 2019 by David Blackmon
This damn Trump economy just refuses to cooperate with all the “experts.” – This Black Friday was, at least according to all the “experts” quoted by cable news operations an the nation’s other corrupt media outlets, supposed to be a down year. According to their joint narrative with the Democrat Party, the Trump Economy was supposed to be lurching along into a new recession, one that would arrive just in time to impact President Trump’s chances for re-election in 2020.
Given that 2/3rds of U.S. Gross Domestic Product – GDP – is derived from consumer spending, this media/Democrat/”experts” narrative meant it was necessary for Black Friday’s spending to be down from last year and the year before that. Thus, those were the predictions we were getting from people on MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg and on and on throughout the fake, corrupt, narrative-driven media.
But the problem with this narrative is a fundamental one: It is not true. The Trump economy is not bumbling along to another recession at all, as evidenced by third quarter jobs numbers and economic growth estimates having been revised upwards by over 10% in recent weeks. Those revisions would have been taken by real “experts” as warning signs that they were promoting a false story to the American public. But when the “experts” are fake, the warning signs go unnoticed.
The next big warning to the purveyors of fake news should have come when Adobe, which surveys 80 of the top 100 retailers in the U.S., announced early on Friday that Thanksgiving Day online sales had come in at a record high $4.2 billion, a 14.5% increase over 2018. In that same report, Adobe said that Black Friday’s online sales had already reached $600 million by 9:00 ET, a whopping 19.2% rise from 2018, which put it on a pace to reach $7.4 million for the day, far and away a record for any Black Friday, and the second-highest online sales day in history, behind last year’s Cyber Monday total.
Adobe confirmed that $7.4 billion Black Friday total in a follow-up report on Saturday, and now projects that Cyber Monday sales could reach a phenomenal $9.4 billion, almost 20% higher than last year’s record $7.9 billion. And finally, “small business Saturday” sales were projected by Adobe to reach $3.0 billion, up 18% over the record set in 2018.
These are not indicators of an economy limping along towards the contraction the “expert” narrative engineers prefer. While these double-digit jumps in online sales were partially offset by about 6% lower foot-traffic sales at malls and brick-and-mortar stores, per an initial estimate by ShopperTrak, the overall picture this massive consumer spending paints is one of a vibrant and very healthy economy.
Just a personal anecdote about that foot traffic: It may be down slightly across the country, but in Las Vegas it is wall-to-wall people. The little wifey and I touched down here on early Friday afternoon, and everyone we have spoken with is stunned by the masses of people flowing through this city’s casinos and high-end shopping centers this weekend.
It’s just one city, but it makes us wonder if we won’t see those ShopperTrak estimates quietly revised upwards in the coming days. This low-ball estimate followed by a quiet upwards revision process has, after all, become an integral part of the anti-Trump narrative, after all. Why stop now?
In any event, this record Thanksgiving consumer weekend is just one more instance of an agenda-based, narrative-driven media and group of “experts” trying to influence the public into creating a slowing economy based on fear and fear alone. The big problem they have at this point is that they have played the boy who cried wolf so many times now that the public no longer pays any attention to them.
God Bless America and its’ President, Donald J. Trump.
https://dbdailyupdate.com/index.php/2019/12/01/the-trump-economy-defies-the-experts-yet-again/
Disgusting ‘Refugee’ Says Raping Children Is His Culture… Judge Has EPIC Reply
December 1, 2019 IMlllcntcK
A refugee who was on bail for sexually abusing two young girls raped another two teens.
The fed-up judge has a perfect response to his horrible excuse.
Zohair Tomari, 20, who claimed to be from Morocco but is believed to be from Syria, invited his 17-year-old victim and her 15-year-old friend to his flat in August 2014 after befriending them.
He invited his 17-year-old victim and her 15-year-old friend to his flat in August 2014 after befriending them.
Once there, the twisted attacker plied the older girl with alcohol before slapping and punching both and pulling out a knife.
He demanded that the terrified teen open her legs and, as he undid his belt, told her that the more she cried, the more he would hit her, before proceeding to rape her.
Police arrived at the scene after the youngest girl was reported missing, at which point the other informed them of the incident in private.
Unfortunately, the rapist was granted bail and Of course, Tomari celebrated his freedom by raping 2 more white British girls aged 13 and 14, as they walked to a friend’s home in the early hours of the morning in August last year.
The pair were enticed into the car – in which Tomari was a passenger – and given drink and cigarettes before being led to a flat in Foleshill, Coventry, where he sexually assaulted them.
Part of Tomari’s “culture” and religion is having sex with young girls, including prepubescent children. The Islamic prophet Muhammad modeled that pedophilia is not sinful in Islam and is, in fact, a reward from Allah. By wedding his closest companion’s 6-year-old daughter, Aisha, 50-year-old Muhammad set the standard in Islam for child brides. Since he waited until the severely ill child reached age 9 before consummating their marriage, Muhammad’s union prompted Islamic Sharia law to mandate that 9 is the legal age to marry off girls.
As for rape, Tomari is divinely endowed with the Islamic right to rape as many non-Muslim women and girls as he desires. Waging many battles against unsuspecting and typically peaceful tribes in his time, Muhammad became just as successful in combat as he was in recruiting worshipers. With the promise of unlimited sex slaves, the prophet enticed men to rape captive women and children by quoting Quran 4:24 as religious justification. Muhammad even chastised his men for being worried about impregnating their non-Muslim sex slaves in front of their captive husbands. To ease their concerns he explained that getting their captive women pregnant would result in more Muslims being born for the sake of Allah.
As absurd as it is for Muslims to think that claiming cultural and religious differences will exempt them from our laws, this is exactly what liberals are enabling. By alleging that all cultures and religions should be respected and tolerated, they are legitimizing all of the violent and oppressive fundamentals of Islam and Sharia law.
Tomari was found guilty of rape, in relation to the incident involving the 17-year-old girl, at Warwick Crown Court, and jailed for a total of 12 years and nine months for both incidents.
The court heard how Tomari had been jailed at Coventry Crown Court in January this year after being convicted of trafficking for child sexual exploitation and sexual assaults in relation to the other incident.
He will also have to serve an additional seven years on licence, and has been ordered to register as a sex offender for life.
In relation to the first attack, Judge Andrew Lockhart QC, sentencing, told Tomari: ‘Behavior of this nature is abhorred in virtually every civilised country on this earth.
‘Sadly, then you were granted bail, and you committed other offences for which you are now in prison.
‘I am driven to conclude you are dangerous. I can see no end to the danger you pose.’
Tomari was handed a nine-and-a-half year sentence for child sexual exploitation and sexual assaults in relation to the that incident and, once half that sentence has been served, an extended sentence of eight years for the rape of the 17-year-old will begin.
Speaking after sentencing, a Home Office spokesman confirmed they would consider deporting Tomari.
He said: ‘Foreign nationals who abuse our hospitality by committing crimes in the UK should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them and we have removed more than 37,000 foreign offenders since 2010.
‘More than 6,100 foreign national offenders were removed from the UK in 2016/17.’
He added that all foreign nationals given a custodial sentence were considered for removal.
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Schwab Abandons High-Tax San Francisco For New $100 Million Mega-HQ In Dallas
by Tyler Durden
Sat, 11/30/2019 - 22:00
Charles Schwab's $26 billion deal to acquire TD Ameritrade will result in the relocation of its San Francisco-based headquarters to Dallas-Fort Worth, reported The Wall Street Journal.
Schwab gave no timeframe on the transition to Westlake, a suburb of Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. The region is considered one of the fastest-growing financial hubs in the country at the moment. The merger is expected to be completed in 2H20 and could take 12 to 36 months to integrate both firms completely.
Schwab's new Dallas-Fort Worth campus will cost around $100 million, covers 70 acres with 500,000 square feet of office space.
Schwab chairman and founder Charles Schwab noted that one of the drivers in the move out of California was the high cost of doing business in the state, "...the costs of doing business here are so much higher than some other place."
Schwab expects the merger could produce 20% savings, or about $2 billion.
"With this transaction, we will capitalize on the unique opportunity to build a firm with the soul of a challenger and the resources of a large financial services institution that will be uniquely positioned to serve the investment, trading and wealth management needs of investors across every phase of their financial journeys," Schwab President Walt Bettinger said in a statement.
The Journal notes the brokerage house will pay significantly fewer taxes in Texas:
"The Lone Star State imposes a 0.75% franchise tax on business margins (total revenue minus compensation), which is substantially less than the corporate tax rates in California (8.84%) and Nebraska (7.81%), where TD Ameritrade is currently headquartered. The city of San Francisco also imposes a 0.38% payroll tax and a 0.6% gross receipts tax on financial service companies.
Texas has no individual income tax, while the top rate on income and capital gains in California is 13.3%, and the Lone Star State's housing and energy costs are substantially lower. The average monthly rent in San Francisco is $3,870 compared to $1,200 in Dallas. Schwab workers and executives can have a higher standard of living, and more after-tax income, at the same salaries."
Schwab said it would keep a "sizeable corporate footprint" in San Francisco, but the brokerage house will likely wind down operations in the state through 2025.
With the cost of doing business significantly less in Texas, the move has become a no brainer. It has also become favorable with employees, who will soon enjoy affordable housing and a cheaper cost of living. They will also enjoy city streets free of epidural needles and human feces, makeshift tent cities, and no rolling blackouts from the local power company.
The great corporate exit of California will be a devastating trend for the state. Other companies will likely follow suit in the years ahead.
Everyone leaving NY and CA for TX and in 5 years TX will be the same. Then where do they all move? pic.twitter.com/oYv8vFiWbm
— Hipster (@Hipster_Trader) November 30, 2019
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/charles-schwab-abandons-san-fransisco-new-100-million-mega-headquarters-dallas
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