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Chuck Schumer was caught with his pants down and Republicans are furious
DC Daily Journal
April 16, 2024
Every politician has had their embarrassing moments. But Chuck is wishing he could crawl under a rock.
Because he was just caught with his pants down and Republicans are furious.
Democrats are mercenaries at their core.
They will flip their beliefs in an instant if it means they will score brownie points with their base or leaders.
Sometimes, the leaders and the base disagree, and you have to choose one. The only way out is to face your own hypocrisy.
When Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) expressed support for Israel amid an Iranian drone and missile attack this weekend, his Republican colleagues promptly pointed out how the Democrat-led upper chamber had rejected legislation to offer aid to the U.S. ally.
“As Israel is under attack from Iran, we stand with Israel and its people, and the United States will do everything we can to support Israel’s defense against Iran,” Schumer said in a post to X on Saturday.
Multiple Republican senators responded by pointing out how the Senate opposed a House-passed bill that would have granted $14.3 billion in emergency help to Israel while cutting the same amount of cash for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
“Good! [Schumer],” cried Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).
“Then let’s vote on Monday on the emergency military aid for Israel bill that YOU blocked! And every single Dem senator voted with you. Let’s make it 100-0, that we all stand united with Israel.”
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), who joined Cruz and other Republicans in attempting to move the IRS offset measure in November but was blocked by Democrats, also criticized Schumer.
We brought aid for Israel to the Senate floor FOUR TIMES since the unprovoked, brutal attacks on Oct 7th. Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats blocked our efforts every single time.
Actions speak louder than words. https://t.co/AvhYAnGM0m
— Dr. Roger Marshall (@RogerMarshallMD) April 14, 2024
“We brought aid for Israel to the Senate floor FOUR TIMES since the unprovoked, brutal attacks on Oct 7th,” Marshall said, referring to the attacks by Hamas on Israel last fall.
“Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats blocked our efforts every single time. Actions speak louder than words.”
Schumer pushed on with another plan that aims to offer help to Israel as well as other countries like Ukraine and Taiwan.
That plan, worth approximately $95 billion, cleared the Senate in February but has yet to be taken up by the Republican-controlled House.
“It’s been 163 days since [the House GOP] sent Chuck Schumer a standalone aid package to support our ally Israel. As the Biden White House appeases terrorists and undercuts Israel, Schumer is not just complicit, but has also refused to take up this aid package, emboldening Iran to unjustly attack Israel,” said Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-TX).
It’s been 163 days since @HouseGOP sent Chuck Schumer a standalone aid package to support our ally Israel. As the Biden White House appeases terrorists and undercuts Israel, Schumer is not just complicit, but has also refused to take up this aid package, emboldening Iran to… https://t.co/rapXX0KAUd
— Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne (@RepBethVanDuyne) April 13, 2024
“Senator Schumer, as sirens are sounding in Israel, when will you stop holding aid to Israel hostage to your petty politics?” she added.
https://dcdailyjournal.com/congress/chuck-schumer-was-caught-with-his-pants-down-and-republicans-are-furious/
Mornin' Al. Gee, I wonder if the thug will be released again? (sarcasm)
White House Calls In Elmo To Help Explain Latest Global Conflict To President
WASHINGTON, DC — In an effort to educate President Biden on the details of the latest global conflict, Whitehouse staff called in beloved muppet and vaccine advocate Elmo to help break things down and explain things in terms the President would understand.
"Hello, Mr. Biden sir!" Elmo explained enthusiastically while standing in front of a large crayon diagram of Iranian missile launch sites. "Elmo is so excited to teach you about the turmoil in the Middle East! Ha ha ha! Today, we're going to learn about the letter "H"! Do you know what starts with "H"? Hezbollah! Good, Mr. President!"
President Biden was seen nodding along energetically to the red muppet's presentation. At times, he would doze off and a member of his team would gently poke him and offer him a little snack to keep him awake. Staffers invited Elmo to visit the President in the Situation Room after traditional attempts to explain the Iranian missile strikes into Israel failed.
"Let's work on our numbers! Elmo loves the number six. Iran now has six billion dollars! Can you count to six? Close enough!"
Elmo spent over seven hours with the President and worked on colors, numbers, shapes, international law, rules of engagement, foreign diplomacy, and animal sounds. Elmo got stuck at one point trying to explain that the West Bank is actually on the east side of Israel.
As of publishing time, the President's team announced he had mastered the letter "I" for Iranian-backed terrorism and was able to count up to "3" for WWIII.
https://babylonbee.com/news/white-house-calls-in-elmo-to-help-explain-latest-global-conflict-to-president?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email
White House Calls In Elmo To Help Explain Latest Global Conflict To President
WASHINGTON, DC — In an effort to educate President Biden on the details of the latest global conflict, Whitehouse staff called in beloved muppet and vaccine advocate Elmo to help break things down and explain things in terms the President would understand.
"Hello, Mr. Biden sir!" Elmo explained enthusiastically while standing in front of a large crayon diagram of Iranian missile launch sites. "Elmo is so excited to teach you about the turmoil in the Middle East! Ha ha ha! Today, we're going to learn about the letter "H"! Do you know what starts with "H"? Hezbollah! Good, Mr. President!"
President Biden was seen nodding along energetically to the red muppet's presentation. At times, he would doze off and a member of his team would gently poke him and offer him a little snack to keep him awake. Staffers invited Elmo to visit the President in the Situation Room after traditional attempts to explain the Iranian missile strikes into Israel failed.
"Let's work on our numbers! Elmo loves the number six. Iran now has six billion dollars! Can you count to six? Close enough!"
Elmo spent over seven hours with the President and worked on colors, numbers, shapes, international law, rules of engagement, foreign diplomacy, and animal sounds. Elmo got stuck at one point trying to explain that the West Bank is actually on the east side of Israel.
As of publishing time, the President's team announced he had mastered the letter "I" for Iranian-backed terrorism and was able to count up to "3" for WWIII.
https://babylonbee.com/news/white-house-calls-in-elmo-to-help-explain-latest-global-conflict-to-president?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email
If the real crime is committed, Trump sentenced to prison, how will the Secret Service protect him?
THE WHITE HOUSE
Obama restores lifetime Secret Service for former presidents
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-restores-lifetime-secret-service-for-former-presidents/
The dimwitted libs will fall for both sides of this crap.
Tuesday's Energy Absurdity: Your Legacy Media in Action
David Blackmon
Apr 16, 2024
The funny people at X account @NotTheBee gave us the bit of irony in the photo atop this piece on Monday.
Is global warming causing the earth to spin too fast, or is all the alleged melting ice causing it to spin too slowly? No one seems to know, but the two stories from CBS News and NBC News, respectively, containing 180-degree opposite claims were published on the exact same day.
Whether the Earth is spinning too slowly or too fastly [um, is that word?], the propagandists at the former news operations say it’s having the effect of distorting the very time in which we live. But since the “science” of all of this can’t seem to get itself, in Al Gore’s word, “settled,” I suppose it doesn’t really make any difference at all, does it?
So, why was this “news” at all? Simple: Because it helps create alarm in the pubic’s mind about the deadly effects of this ever-evolving beast for which the science was supposedly “settled” back in 2005. And the diametrically opposite conclusions reached by the respective stories is fine, too, in the propaganda media’s hive mind. Those opposing conclusions help to create confusion in the public’s mind, and where does confusion about a supposedly deadly phenomenon invariably lead, but to fear?
Fear is good, if you’re a climate alarm propagandist working at CBS or NBC.
Know this: These fake news operations literally get paid big bucks for writing completely false stories like these by foundations run by billionaires like the Gettys, the Rockefellers, the Gates’s, the Bloombergs, the Soros’s, and more.
This is the world in which we now live.
Thanks to podcasting partner Tammy Nemeth for tipping me off to this gem.
That is all.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/tuesdays-energy-absurdity-your-legacy?publication_id=712558&post_id=143635633&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Tuesday's Energy Absurdity: Your Legacy Media in Action
David Blackmon
Apr 16, 2024
The funny people at X account @NotTheBee gave us the bit of irony in the photo atop this piece on Monday.
Is global warming causing the earth to spin too fast, or is all the alleged melting ice causing it to spin too slowly? No one seems to know, but the two stories from CBS News and NBC News, respectively, containing 180-degree opposite claims were published on the exact same day.
Whether the Earth is spinning too slowly or too fastly [um, is that word?], the propagandists at the former news operations say it’s having the effect of distorting the very time in which we live. But since the “science” of all of this can’t seem to get itself, in Al Gore’s word, “settled,” I suppose it doesn’t really make any difference at all, does it?
So, why was this “news” at all? Simple: Because it helps create alarm in the pubic’s mind about the deadly effects of this ever-evolving beast for which the science was supposedly “settled” back in 2005. And the diametrically opposite conclusions reached by the respective stories is fine, too, in the propaganda media’s hive mind. Those opposing conclusions help to create confusion in the public’s mind, and where does confusion about a supposedly deadly phenomenon invariably lead, but to fear?
Fear is good, if you’re a climate alarm propagandist working at CBS or NBC.
Know this: These fake news operations literally get paid big bucks for writing completely false stories like these by foundations run by billionaires like the Gettys, the Rockefellers, the Gates’s, the Bloombergs, the Soros’s, and more.
This is the world in which we now live.
Thanks to podcasting partner Tammy Nemeth for tipping me off to this gem.
That is all.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/tuesdays-energy-absurdity-your-legacy?publication_id=712558&post_id=143635633&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Still Think It's a Conspiracy Theory? Look at What Germany's Government is Threatening Now.
David Blackmon
Apr 15, 2024
A couple of weeks back, I published a piece reminding everyone that the real goal of the climate alarm movement related to cars is not to force you all into an electric vehicle, but ultimately to force you to quit driving entirely. In response, I received a raft of emails and nasty comments on X and LinkedIn calling me a “conspiracy theorist” for having the temerity to point out what is simply an unarguable fact of life.
So, imagine my delight today when I read this story at Politico.eu:
That’s right: It isn’t a full ban on driving, but Germany’s transport minister, an authoritarian brute named [checks notes] Volker Wissing, is threatening to use the considerable powers of his office that the German people stupidly conferred to him to make driving on the weekends illegal “indefinitely” because he isn’t getting his way in the energy and climate policy debate.
Note to dumbasses: A Conspiracy isn’t a “Theory” when it is standing in front of you slapping you in your stupid faces.
Here’s an excerpt from that story:
Germany’s transport minister is threatening to ban driving on weekends to meet climate goals if the ruling coalition does not pass reforms to the Climate Protection Act by July.
“The fact that the amendment is still not in force leads to considerable legal and factual uncertainties,” liberal politician Volker Wissing wrote in a letter to the parliamentary group leaders of the coalition, German outlet BILD reported Thursday.
“This serves neither the climate nor the reputation of the federal government," he said.
A reduction in traffic to help meet the climate goals would only be possible through measures that are difficult to communicate to the public, such as “comprehensive and indefinite driving bans on Saturdays and Sundays,” Wissing added.
[End]
Ok, is it clear to everyone now? All Mr. Wissling is doing here is seizing on an excuse to force Germans to stop driving, even if it is on an incremental basis. The very fact that he has any power to do this serves as a shocking warning to the system to anyone who, like the average German, believes they still live in a “free” society and enjoy rights we have all taken for granted.
Rest assured, authoritarian ghouls like Wissling are only too willing to demonstrate just how wrong you are in that belief. Also rest assured that authoritarian ghouls just like Minister Wissling are currently ensconced in powerful positions in every western government today. Who do you think John Podesta and Pete Buttigieg and Stephen Guilbeault view as role models, if not guys like Wissling?
This is not a theory. It is a warning. Take it seriously. Stop behaving like braindead sheep.
That is all.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/still-think-its-a-conspiracy-theory?publication_id=712558&post_id=143010025&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Still Think It's a Conspiracy Theory? Look at What Germany's Government is Threatening Now.
David Blackmon
Apr 15, 2024
A couple of weeks back, I published a piece reminding everyone that the real goal of the climate alarm movement related to cars is not to force you all into an electric vehicle, but ultimately to force you to quit driving entirely. In response, I received a raft of emails and nasty comments on X and LinkedIn calling me a “conspiracy theorist” for having the temerity to point out what is simply an unarguable fact of life.
So, imagine my delight today when I read this story at Politico.eu:
That’s right: It isn’t a full ban on driving, but Germany’s transport minister, an authoritarian brute named [checks notes] Volker Wissing, is threatening to use the considerable powers of his office that the German people stupidly conferred to him to make driving on the weekends illegal “indefinitely” because he isn’t getting his way in the energy and climate policy debate.
Note to dumbasses: A Conspiracy isn’t a “Theory” when it is standing in front of you slapping you in your stupid faces.
Here’s an excerpt from that story:
Germany’s transport minister is threatening to ban driving on weekends to meet climate goals if the ruling coalition does not pass reforms to the Climate Protection Act by July.
“The fact that the amendment is still not in force leads to considerable legal and factual uncertainties,” liberal politician Volker Wissing wrote in a letter to the parliamentary group leaders of the coalition, German outlet BILD reported Thursday.
“This serves neither the climate nor the reputation of the federal government," he said.
A reduction in traffic to help meet the climate goals would only be possible through measures that are difficult to communicate to the public, such as “comprehensive and indefinite driving bans on Saturdays and Sundays,” Wissing added.
[End]
Ok, is it clear to everyone now? All Mr. Wissling is doing here is seizing on an excuse to force Germans to stop driving, even if it is on an incremental basis. The very fact that he has any power to do this serves as a shocking warning to the system to anyone who, like the average German, believes they still live in a “free” society and enjoy rights we have all taken for granted.
Rest assured, authoritarian ghouls like Wissling are only too willing to demonstrate just how wrong you are in that belief. Also rest assured that authoritarian ghouls just like Minister Wissling are currently ensconced in powerful positions in every western government today. Who do you think John Podesta and Pete Buttigieg and Stephen Guilbeault view as role models, if not guys like Wissling?
This is not a theory. It is a warning. Take it seriously. Stop behaving like braindead sheep.
That is all.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/still-think-its-a-conspiracy-theory?publication_id=712558&post_id=143010025&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
This is good but not quite as good as taking it a step farther with the motorists saying.. "opps, sorry I ran you over, I didn't see ya."
Pro-Hamas protestors tried blocking roads in Florida today and were dragged to the sidewalk almost immediately
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) April 15, 2024
We don’t tolerate road blocking here in Florida
In fact, it’s now a felony punishable up to 15 years in prison
pic.twitter.com/RnrnpzKJFy
Your idea is better than this one, although this one apparently is in effect!
Pro-Hamas protestors tried blocking roads in Florida today and were dragged to the sidewalk almost immediately
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) April 15, 2024
We don’t tolerate road blocking here in Florida
In fact, it’s now a felony punishable up to 15 years in prison
pic.twitter.com/RnrnpzKJFy
If the Secret Service is suppose to protect Presidents even after leaving office, how would they do that if the president is in prison?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-restores-lifetime-secret-service-for-former-presidents/
My wife and I feel the same.
Crib Notes for the Trial of the Century
“Once someone determined Trump was so bad it was okay to lie about him, it set the precedent that the only thing that mattered was a subject’s politics.” — Matt Taibbi
James Howard Kunstler
Apr 15, 2024
What fascinates us about sex, I suppose, is that most everyone wants it and seeks it, driven by irresistible natural impulses, and yet the act itself is such an affront to civilized decorum that it inspires both comedy and horror, two states of consciousness that are themselves irresistibly compelling. Add lawyers to all that and you find yourself entering the realm of opera bouffe, which is to say, kitsch, human expression reduced to its most self-consciously ridiculous.
Enter Stormy Daniels, that notorious pair of cumulous clouds attached to a person, who made a career in the sex industry and later on, at the age when sex workers generally face retirement, had a fresh start as a political gadfly buzzing around the mystifying hair-do of President Donald Trump. Stormy first encountered Mr. Trump in 2006 when he was a mere TV star who played in a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe. She was hanging out there with two porn-star girlfriends. Golf nuts all, must’ve been.
But once Mr. Trump jumped into the 2016 presidential primaries and began to terrify the establishment by winning one contest after another, Stormy finagled $130,000 hush-money payment through Trump attorney Michael Cohen to keep her big yap shut about their doings. By 2018, she hitched herself to California lawyer Michael Avenatti (now in prison) and filed a lawsuit against then-President Trump attempting to invalidate the non-disclosure agreement that came with the hush-money. Stormy also engaged a publicist, and, what do you know, The Wall Street Journal published a story about the alleged romance. By then, Stormy had launched a “publicity tour” and got herself booked on Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show to discuss the allegations.
In December 2018, Stormy lost a defamation suit against President Trump filed by Mr. Avenatti, and was ordered to pay over $300,000 to Mr. Trump. Five years later, an appeals court ordered her to pay an additional $122,000 to Mr. Trump to cover his legal fees. By then, Michael Avenatti, her lawyer, was in jail in California for embezzling client funds. Various letters had emerged allegedly signed by Stormy stating that she hadn’t engaged in sex with Mr. Trump, along with Facebook conversations on her account saying the same thing.
Also, in 2018, Mr. Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen was busted by the FBI for tax evasion and eventually plead guilty. He was interrogated by the Mueller special counsel operation which, by a convoluted route, earned Mr. Cohen a conviction for perjury in congressional testimony. Stormy Daniels then sued Mr. Cohen for defamation but the case was dismissed. Mr. Cohen eventually served a year in prison but was released to home confinement due to the Covid-19 event.
These doings did not go unnoticed by the politicized Southern District of New York office of the DOJ and by then Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance, Jr. Both tried to construct some kind of case against President Trump on all this monkey business, but gave up because the payment of hush-money was itself not illegal between consenting parties and they could not torture the facts into a theory that would make it a crime. Also, by then, their chief witness, Mr. Cohen, had been disbarred and was officially branded a perjurer and liar.
Fast-forward to the 2020 election. “Joe Biden” manages to charm swing-state voters from his basement hide-out, moves into the puppet-theater known as the White House, and unleashes the dogs of lawfare on former president Trump so as to knock him off the political game-board for once and for all. “JB’s” Attorney General, Merrick Garland, sends Deputy AG Matthew Colangelo to work in DA Alvin Bragg’s office, to construct some kind of case out of the Stormy Daniels / Michael Cohen debris.
The result is an improbable farrago of 34 counts of falsifying business records relating to the Stormy Daniels hush-money payments, converted from misdemeanors to felonies on the theory that the falsifications were intended to conceal other election law crimes, including “influencing the 2016 election.” Each count for which Trump is convicted could result in a prison sentence of up to four years, to be served consecutively, meaning 136 years in jail.
Mr. Trump thus becomes the proverbial ham sandwich that an ambitious DA can convince a grand jury to indict. Now, Mr. Bragg has to persuade a trial jury to convict, in a courtroom presided over by one Judge Juan Merchan, Democratic Party activist and donor, whose daughter, Loren, has raised $93-million in campaign money for Democratic candidates in this November’s election. The Judge has, so far, refused to recuse himself.
The DA’s chief witness will be Michael Cohen. Donald Trump will be the first US president indicted on criminal charges. He’ll be in the courtroom many days as the trial proceeds, likely into June. Even if the trial becomes a dumpster fire for the prosecution, Mr. Trump could be convicted by a Trump-deranged New York jury. Then it’ll be onto the appeals courts. Then, the three other lawfare cases await in Georgia, Florida, and DC. Do you suppose that Americans actually take comfort in the re-election of “Joe Biden”?
https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/crib-notes-for-the-trial-of-the-century?publication_id=2076970&post_id=143600860&isFreemail=true&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Crib Notes for the Trial of the Century
“Once someone determined Trump was so bad it was okay to lie about him, it set the precedent that the only thing that mattered was a subject’s politics.” — Matt Taibbi
James Howard Kunstler
Apr 15, 2024
What fascinates us about sex, I suppose, is that most everyone wants it and seeks it, driven by irresistible natural impulses, and yet the act itself is such an affront to civilized decorum that it inspires both comedy and horror, two states of consciousness that are themselves irresistibly compelling. Add lawyers to all that and you find yourself entering the realm of opera bouffe, which is to say, kitsch, human expression reduced to its most self-consciously ridiculous.
Enter Stormy Daniels, that notorious pair of cumulous clouds attached to a person, who made a career in the sex industry and later on, at the age when sex workers generally face retirement, had a fresh start as a political gadfly buzzing around the mystifying hair-do of President Donald Trump. Stormy first encountered Mr. Trump in 2006 when he was a mere TV star who played in a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe. She was hanging out there with two porn-star girlfriends. Golf nuts all, must’ve been.
But once Mr. Trump jumped into the 2016 presidential primaries and began to terrify the establishment by winning one contest after another, Stormy finagled $130,000 hush-money payment through Trump attorney Michael Cohen to keep her big yap shut about their doings. By 2018, she hitched herself to California lawyer Michael Avenatti (now in prison) and filed a lawsuit against then-President Trump attempting to invalidate the non-disclosure agreement that came with the hush-money. Stormy also engaged a publicist, and, what do you know, The Wall Street Journal published a story about the alleged romance. By then, Stormy had launched a “publicity tour” and got herself booked on Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show to discuss the allegations.
In December 2018, Stormy lost a defamation suit against President Trump filed by Mr. Avenatti, and was ordered to pay over $300,000 to Mr. Trump. Five years later, an appeals court ordered her to pay an additional $122,000 to Mr. Trump to cover his legal fees. By then, Michael Avenatti, her lawyer, was in jail in California for embezzling client funds. Various letters had emerged allegedly signed by Stormy stating that she hadn’t engaged in sex with Mr. Trump, along with Facebook conversations on her account saying the same thing.
Also, in 2018, Mr. Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen was busted by the FBI for tax evasion and eventually plead guilty. He was interrogated by the Mueller special counsel operation which, by a convoluted route, earned Mr. Cohen a conviction for perjury in congressional testimony. Stormy Daniels then sued Mr. Cohen for defamation but the case was dismissed. Mr. Cohen eventually served a year in prison but was released to home confinement due to the Covid-19 event.
These doings did not go unnoticed by the politicized Southern District of New York office of the DOJ and by then Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance, Jr. Both tried to construct some kind of case against President Trump on all this monkey business, but gave up because the payment of hush-money was itself not illegal between consenting parties and they could not torture the facts into a theory that would make it a crime. Also, by then, their chief witness, Mr. Cohen, had been disbarred and was officially branded a perjurer and liar.
Fast-forward to the 2020 election. “Joe Biden” manages to charm swing-state voters from his basement hide-out, moves into the puppet-theater known as the White House, and unleashes the dogs of lawfare on former president Trump so as to knock him off the political game-board for once and for all. “JB’s” Attorney General, Merrick Garland, sends Deputy AG Matthew Colangelo to work in DA Alvin Bragg’s office, to construct some kind of case out of the Stormy Daniels / Michael Cohen debris.
The result is an improbable farrago of 34 counts of falsifying business records relating to the Stormy Daniels hush-money payments, converted from misdemeanors to felonies on the theory that the falsifications were intended to conceal other election law crimes, including “influencing the 2016 election.” Each count for which Trump is convicted could result in a prison sentence of up to four years, to be served consecutively, meaning 136 years in jail.
Mr. Trump thus becomes the proverbial ham sandwich that an ambitious DA can convince a grand jury to indict. Now, Mr. Bragg has to persuade a trial jury to convict, in a courtroom presided over by one Judge Juan Merchan, Democratic Party activist and donor, whose daughter, Loren, has raised $93-million in campaign money for Democratic candidates in this November’s election. The Judge has, so far, refused to recuse himself.
The DA’s chief witness will be Michael Cohen. Donald Trump will be the first US president indicted on criminal charges. He’ll be in the courtroom many days as the trial proceeds, likely into June. Even if the trial becomes a dumpster fire for the prosecution, Mr. Trump could be convicted by a Trump-deranged New York jury. Then it’ll be onto the appeals courts. Then, the three other lawfare cases await in Georgia, Florida, and DC. Do you suppose that Americans actually take comfort in the re-election of “Joe Biden”?
https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/crib-notes-for-the-trial-of-the-century?publication_id=2076970&post_id=143600860&isFreemail=true&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Thank goodness for streaming news. I live in what's know as the southern tier of NY. There are Trump signs, flag and posters all over and liberals are in the vast minority. Unfortunately, as we all know, the well populated liberal big urban areas, probably less than 8% of the land area of NY, carry the vote for the brain dead libs.
Lots of people I know, myself included, wish they had the means to move just across the border to PA.
Devine: New poll shows Biden closing gap on Trump — but that’s where good news ends for Democrats
By Miranda Devine Published April 14, 2024, 10:27 p.m. ET
Don't let the first part of the title turn you off to reading this.
As Donald Trump shows up to a Manhattan court this week for his latest lawfare flogging from Democrats, Biden boosters are doing their best to trumpet a poll turnaround for the president, after what they claim was his electrifying performance at the State of the Union.
“Is Joe Biden the Favorite Now?” begged Newsweek.
It’s true that the latest New York Times-Siena poll over the weekend showed Biden has closed the gap with Trump nationally, producing a statistical tie of 45% to 46%.
But that’s where the good news ends for Democrats.
It’s not just in the battleground states that Biden consistently lags behind his nemesis, including in a recent Wall Street Journal poll showing Trump ahead by up to eight percentage points in six of seven crucial states.
On the economy and foreign relations, two areas Biden claims are his forte, he was smashed by Trump in the NYT-Siena poll.
On whether his presidency was good or bad for America, Trump wins hands down: 42% of registered voters say the Trump years were “mostly good for America,” while just 25% say the same for Biden’s time in office.
In fact, 46% think the Biden presidency has been “mostly bad for America,” compared to 33% for Trump.
Poor marks
Even on his pet topic of defending “democracy,” Biden ties with Trump. Turns out voters don’t think trying to lock up your opponent and censoring free speech are terribly democratic.
Both Trump and Biden scored 31% on whether they are “good” for democracy, which must just kill the Biden team, since Trump’s “unique threat” to freedom and democracy is the centerpiece of the president’s campaign.
Apart from January 6 blah blah blah, he never explains exactly why. We are supposed to just feel the vibe.
Maybe it’s the jokes. Trump trickily uses laughter to “normalize his behavior,” a weirdo at Politico wailed recently.
But jokes are less a threat to democracy than to Biden’s stature because he’s the butt of them all around the world.
He’s “too old to be an effective president,” agreed 69% of registered voters.
For Trump, just four years younger at 77, that figure dropped to 42%.
Immigration is a big drag on Biden, with an estimated 13 million illegal migrants having strolled across the border on his watch, giving him a 64% disapproval rating from voters on how he’s handled the issue.
Bad news for Biden as well on his handling of foreign conflicts, with 61% of voters giving him thumbs down, compared to 45% for Trump.
That has to cut deep for the president, since he fancies himself a foreign affairs maven after 34 years on the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, including a decade in which he was chairman or ranking member.
What’s left? Dead fetuses are Biden’s last hope. The Siena poll is silent on abortion, but Trump has blunted the Democrat attack by insisting the issue is a matter for the states now that the Supreme Court he shaped has overturned Roe v. Wade, so he doesn’t plan to impose his view with federal meddling.
Considering he won evangelicals in Iowa after slamming Ron DeSantis’ six-week abortion ban as a “terrible mistake,” sitting on the fence won’t hurt him.
Voters have wised up to the economic gaslighting coming from the White House, too.
Almost 80% of voters rate economic conditions as poor (52%) or fair (27%), including a majority of Democrats. Biden has 63% of voters disapproving of his handling of the economy, with 34% approving. That’s the MSNBC or ultrawealthy cohort.
For months, Biden and his economic henchmen have insisted he’s brought down inflation, even while we can see from our own shrinking bank balances that prices at the grocery store and gas pump keep rising.
Inflation has not gone away. It’s gone up every month for the past six, as the latest figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show, for an annual rate of 3.5%.
That’s less than the 9% peak in 2022, but it’s cumulative — an increase on top of past increases.
Biden has no answer other than lying and throwing more taxpayer billions on the inflation bonfire to win over young voters with student debt bribes.
Voters speak
But there are signs his self-delusion is running out of steam.
The reality of life under Biden intruded last week into MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Biden’s favorite TV show. (Does he think it’s named after him?)
A panel of eight undecided voters from Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, were asked to rate Biden and Trump in a focus group conducted by 2WAY platform. The answers caused an outbreak of severe cognitive dissonance among the hosts and guest analysts, who looked either stricken or aghast as their bubbles burst.
Asked if Trump’s policies on the economy “would be better for your family personally,” every single voter raised their hand.
Biden “has been absolutely disastrous on the economy,” said one man.
“We have areas in Pennsylvania which are just at a standstill,” said Virginia. “Interest rates are way too high.”
The panelists laughed when the moderator said, “President Biden argues that his record on the economy has been very good.”
Gigi from Pennsylvania: “I feel like he doesn’t even take accountability at all with what’s going on in the economy … like he’s in denial that it’s happening.”
Omar from Michigan, who voted for Biden in 2020: “The point is he needs to hear the people because when he’s talking about the economy, he’s talking about the stock market. He’s not looking at homelessness or joblessness. He’s not thinking how much it costs to go to the grocery store. He’s gaslighting literally everyone in the process.”
You could almost smell the panic at MSNBC.
It’s hard to believe the best chance the Democrats have to score a criminal conviction against Donald Trump is the dog’s breakfast being served up by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg this week: a “hush money” case involving a porn star named Stormy Daniels with a convicted felon and serial perjurer as the star witness.
Former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy has the best line on this farce: Bragg “turns an uncharged misdemeanor into 34 felonies [but] when dealing with violent crime in Manhattan, he turns felonies into misdemeanors.”
https://nypost.com/2024/04/14/opinion/new-poll-shows-biden-closing-gap-on-trump-but-thats-where-good-news-ends-for-democrats/
Devine: New poll shows Biden closing gap on Trump — but that’s where good news ends for Democrats
By Miranda Devine Published April 14, 2024, 10:27 p.m. ET
Don't let the first part of the title turn you off to reading this.
As Donald Trump shows up to a Manhattan court this week for his latest lawfare flogging from Democrats, Biden boosters are doing their best to trumpet a poll turnaround for the president, after what they claim was his electrifying performance at the State of the Union.
“Is Joe Biden the Favorite Now?” begged Newsweek.
It’s true that the latest New York Times-Siena poll over the weekend showed Biden has closed the gap with Trump nationally, producing a statistical tie of 45% to 46%.
But that’s where the good news ends for Democrats.
It’s not just in the battleground states that Biden consistently lags behind his nemesis, including in a recent Wall Street Journal poll showing Trump ahead by up to eight percentage points in six of seven crucial states.
On the economy and foreign relations, two areas Biden claims are his forte, he was smashed by Trump in the NYT-Siena poll.
On whether his presidency was good or bad for America, Trump wins hands down: 42% of registered voters say the Trump years were “mostly good for America,” while just 25% say the same for Biden’s time in office.
In fact, 46% think the Biden presidency has been “mostly bad for America,” compared to 33% for Trump.
Poor marks
Even on his pet topic of defending “democracy,” Biden ties with Trump. Turns out voters don’t think trying to lock up your opponent and censoring free speech are terribly democratic.
Both Trump and Biden scored 31% on whether they are “good” for democracy, which must just kill the Biden team, since Trump’s “unique threat” to freedom and democracy is the centerpiece of the president’s campaign.
Apart from January 6 blah blah blah, he never explains exactly why. We are supposed to just feel the vibe.
Maybe it’s the jokes. Trump trickily uses laughter to “normalize his behavior,” a weirdo at Politico wailed recently.
But jokes are less a threat to democracy than to Biden’s stature because he’s the butt of them all around the world.
He’s “too old to be an effective president,” agreed 69% of registered voters.
For Trump, just four years younger at 77, that figure dropped to 42%.
Immigration is a big drag on Biden, with an estimated 13 million illegal migrants having strolled across the border on his watch, giving him a 64% disapproval rating from voters on how he’s handled the issue.
Bad news for Biden as well on his handling of foreign conflicts, with 61% of voters giving him thumbs down, compared to 45% for Trump.
That has to cut deep for the president, since he fancies himself a foreign affairs maven after 34 years on the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, including a decade in which he was chairman or ranking member.
What’s left? Dead fetuses are Biden’s last hope. The Siena poll is silent on abortion, but Trump has blunted the Democrat attack by insisting the issue is a matter for the states now that the Supreme Court he shaped has overturned Roe v. Wade, so he doesn’t plan to impose his view with federal meddling.
Considering he won evangelicals in Iowa after slamming Ron DeSantis’ six-week abortion ban as a “terrible mistake,” sitting on the fence won’t hurt him.
Voters have wised up to the economic gaslighting coming from the White House, too.
Almost 80% of voters rate economic conditions as poor (52%) or fair (27%), including a majority of Democrats. Biden has 63% of voters disapproving of his handling of the economy, with 34% approving. That’s the MSNBC or ultrawealthy cohort.
For months, Biden and his economic henchmen have insisted he’s brought down inflation, even while we can see from our own shrinking bank balances that prices at the grocery store and gas pump keep rising.
Inflation has not gone away. It’s gone up every month for the past six, as the latest figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show, for an annual rate of 3.5%.
That’s less than the 9% peak in 2022, but it’s cumulative — an increase on top of past increases.
Biden has no answer other than lying and throwing more taxpayer billions on the inflation bonfire to win over young voters with student debt bribes.
Voters speak
But there are signs his self-delusion is running out of steam.
The reality of life under Biden intruded last week into MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Biden’s favorite TV show. (Does he think it’s named after him?)
A panel of eight undecided voters from Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, were asked to rate Biden and Trump in a focus group conducted by 2WAY platform. The answers caused an outbreak of severe cognitive dissonance among the hosts and guest analysts, who looked either stricken or aghast as their bubbles burst.
Asked if Trump’s policies on the economy “would be better for your family personally,” every single voter raised their hand.
Biden “has been absolutely disastrous on the economy,” said one man.
“We have areas in Pennsylvania which are just at a standstill,” said Virginia. “Interest rates are way too high.”
The panelists laughed when the moderator said, “President Biden argues that his record on the economy has been very good.”
Gigi from Pennsylvania: “I feel like he doesn’t even take accountability at all with what’s going on in the economy … like he’s in denial that it’s happening.”
Omar from Michigan, who voted for Biden in 2020: “The point is he needs to hear the people because when he’s talking about the economy, he’s talking about the stock market. He’s not looking at homelessness or joblessness. He’s not thinking how much it costs to go to the grocery store. He’s gaslighting literally everyone in the process.”
You could almost smell the panic at MSNBC.
It’s hard to believe the best chance the Democrats have to score a criminal conviction against Donald Trump is the dog’s breakfast being served up by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg this week: a “hush money” case involving a porn star named Stormy Daniels with a convicted felon and serial perjurer as the star witness.
Former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy has the best line on this farce: Bragg “turns an uncharged misdemeanor into 34 felonies [but] when dealing with violent crime in Manhattan, he turns felonies into misdemeanors.”
https://nypost.com/2024/04/14/opinion/new-poll-shows-biden-closing-gap-on-trump-but-thats-where-good-news-ends-for-democrats/
Sad, sad story Trinz. Sorry for you losing such a good friend.
Good morning Bull ..I doubt we'll hear the liberal media ever mention anything discussed in this article.
Joe Biden’s Signature Achievement Is His List Of Broken Promises
Despite Biden’s colossal policy failures in his first term, he will undoubtedly make more outlandish promises as he runs for reelection.
President Joe Biden’s Energy Department canceled its plan to purchase millions of barrels of oil to refill the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). The cancellation means the Biden administration is unlikely to fulfill its promise of fully replenishing the SPR by the end of the year, and the SPR will remain at a historically low level after the administration depleted it in 2022.
The depletion of the SPR was caused by the Biden administration’s own failed energy policy. Shortly after he came into office, President Biden issued a series of anti-fossil fuel energy policies, including canceling the Keystone XL Pipeline project and halting leasing on federal lands for oil and gas production. Biden’s energy policies strangled American energy production and supply and caused energy prices to soar. According to the Heritage Foundation, “from January 2021 to January 2022, crude oil prices increased 45 percent, blowing past records set in 2008. Gasoline and diesel prices are the highest on record since the Energy Information Administration started keeping track in 1993.”
Rising energy prices inflicted economic pain on Americans but were a gift to Russia, the world’s largest natural gas exporter and one of the leading oil suppliers. Revenue from the energy sector has helped Russia’s Putin build up his foreign exchange reserves and enabled him to finance his invasion of Ukraine. President Biden conveniently blamed the Russia-Ukraine war rather than his energy policies for rising energy prices.
Seeking to appease American voters before the midterm elections in 2022, the Biden administration sold off more than 40 percent of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in 2022 in a futile effort to help limit energy prices from rising too high too fast. The administration’s action did little to lower energy prices meaningfully but left the SPR at its lowest levels since the 1980s.
The Biden administration promised to refill the reserve by the end of this year by buying oil from private companies. But it has frequently put those purchases on hold, claiming oil prices were higher than its $79-per-barrel target. The administration cited high oil prices again as the reason for its most frequent cancellations of oil purchases. The SPR remains depleted for the time being, which presents a national security risk because it leaves the United States vulnerable to respond to geopolitical events resulting in significant oil supply disruptions.
Unable to refill the SPR isn’t Biden’s only broken promise. When he signed the misleading Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in 2022, he promised that the IRA’s new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) funding would only empower the agency to crack down on wealthy tax evaders, leaving the middle class alone. Biden’s Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen insisted that the additional IRS funding from the IRA “shall not be used to increase the share of small business or households below the $400,000 threshold audited relative to historical levels.” Additionally, IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig reassured the U.S. Senate that the 87,000 new IRS agents he would hire (funded by the IRA) would “absolutely not” increase audit scrutiny on small businesses or middle-income Americans.
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that the most recent IRS audit shows, “As of last summer, 63 percent of new audits targeted taxpayers with incomes of less than $200,000. Only a small overall share reached the highest earners, while 80 percent of audits covered filers earning less than $1 million.” In other words, the IRS indeed stepped up its audit scrutiny against small business owners and middle-income Americans, contrary to what President Biden and his cabinet officials promised.
Biden’s other broken promises include vowing to “deliver economic relief for working families.” Yet his administration’s excessive spending sparked inflation rates to rise to a four-decade high in 2022. Although the growth of inflation rates has slowed since then, the prices of many items remain elevated. Food inflation hit working families especially hard, as “prices for hundreds of grocery items have increased more than 50 percent since 2019,” according to The Wall Street Journal.
On the foreign policy front, Biden promised to end wars in the Middle East and restore respect for America internationally. Yet the United States’ humiliating and chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, which left 13 U.S. servicemen and women dead and billions of dollars’ worth of military equipment behind, significantly damaged our nation’s prestige and emboldened our adversaries.
The Biden administration restarted the nuclear negotiation with Iran, promising to curb Iran’s nuclear ambition and bring peace to the Middle East. The U.S. released billions of dollars to Iran and removed Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen from the global terrorist list without asking for anything in return. Flushed with cash and weapons supplied by Iran, Hamas launched the worst attack against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel was forced to respond militarily. Iran-backed Houthis launched missiles and drones against Israel and U.S. targets and terrorized shipping traffic in the Red Sea, causing disruptions in international trade. It is fair to say that under President Biden, America’s global image is diminished, and the Middle East is on fire.
Despite Biden’s colossal policy failures and broken promises in his first term, he will undoubtedly make more outlandish promises as he runs for reelection. The American people will be wise not to forget those broken promises when casting their votes in November.
https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/15/joe-bidens-signature-achievement-is-his-list-of-broken-promises/
Joe Biden’s Signature Achievement Is His List Of Broken Promises
Despite Biden’s colossal policy failures in his first term, he will undoubtedly make more outlandish promises as he runs for reelection.
President Joe Biden’s Energy Department canceled its plan to purchase millions of barrels of oil to refill the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). The cancellation means the Biden administration is unlikely to fulfill its promise of fully replenishing the SPR by the end of the year, and the SPR will remain at a historically low level after the administration depleted it in 2022.
The depletion of the SPR was caused by the Biden administration’s own failed energy policy. Shortly after he came into office, President Biden issued a series of anti-fossil fuel energy policies, including canceling the Keystone XL Pipeline project and halting leasing on federal lands for oil and gas production. Biden’s energy policies strangled American energy production and supply and caused energy prices to soar. According to the Heritage Foundation, “from January 2021 to January 2022, crude oil prices increased 45 percent, blowing past records set in 2008. Gasoline and diesel prices are the highest on record since the Energy Information Administration started keeping track in 1993.”
Rising energy prices inflicted economic pain on Americans but were a gift to Russia, the world’s largest natural gas exporter and one of the leading oil suppliers. Revenue from the energy sector has helped Russia’s Putin build up his foreign exchange reserves and enabled him to finance his invasion of Ukraine. President Biden conveniently blamed the Russia-Ukraine war rather than his energy policies for rising energy prices.
Seeking to appease American voters before the midterm elections in 2022, the Biden administration sold off more than 40 percent of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in 2022 in a futile effort to help limit energy prices from rising too high too fast. The administration’s action did little to lower energy prices meaningfully but left the SPR at its lowest levels since the 1980s.
The Biden administration promised to refill the reserve by the end of this year by buying oil from private companies. But it has frequently put those purchases on hold, claiming oil prices were higher than its $79-per-barrel target. The administration cited high oil prices again as the reason for its most frequent cancellations of oil purchases. The SPR remains depleted for the time being, which presents a national security risk because it leaves the United States vulnerable to respond to geopolitical events resulting in significant oil supply disruptions.
Unable to refill the SPR isn’t Biden’s only broken promise. When he signed the misleading Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in 2022, he promised that the IRA’s new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) funding would only empower the agency to crack down on wealthy tax evaders, leaving the middle class alone. Biden’s Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen insisted that the additional IRS funding from the IRA “shall not be used to increase the share of small business or households below the $400,000 threshold audited relative to historical levels.” Additionally, IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig reassured the U.S. Senate that the 87,000 new IRS agents he would hire (funded by the IRA) would “absolutely not” increase audit scrutiny on small businesses or middle-income Americans.
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that the most recent IRS audit shows, “As of last summer, 63 percent of new audits targeted taxpayers with incomes of less than $200,000. Only a small overall share reached the highest earners, while 80 percent of audits covered filers earning less than $1 million.” In other words, the IRS indeed stepped up its audit scrutiny against small business owners and middle-income Americans, contrary to what President Biden and his cabinet officials promised.
Biden’s other broken promises include vowing to “deliver economic relief for working families.” Yet his administration’s excessive spending sparked inflation rates to rise to a four-decade high in 2022. Although the growth of inflation rates has slowed since then, the prices of many items remain elevated. Food inflation hit working families especially hard, as “prices for hundreds of grocery items have increased more than 50 percent since 2019,” according to The Wall Street Journal.
On the foreign policy front, Biden promised to end wars in the Middle East and restore respect for America internationally. Yet the United States’ humiliating and chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, which left 13 U.S. servicemen and women dead and billions of dollars’ worth of military equipment behind, significantly damaged our nation’s prestige and emboldened our adversaries.
The Biden administration restarted the nuclear negotiation with Iran, promising to curb Iran’s nuclear ambition and bring peace to the Middle East. The U.S. released billions of dollars to Iran and removed Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen from the global terrorist list without asking for anything in return. Flushed with cash and weapons supplied by Iran, Hamas launched the worst attack against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel was forced to respond militarily. Iran-backed Houthis launched missiles and drones against Israel and U.S. targets and terrorized shipping traffic in the Red Sea, causing disruptions in international trade. It is fair to say that under President Biden, America’s global image is diminished, and the Middle East is on fire.
Despite Biden’s colossal policy failures and broken promises in his first term, he will undoubtedly make more outlandish promises as he runs for reelection. The American people will be wise not to forget those broken promises when casting their votes in November.
https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/15/joe-bidens-signature-achievement-is-his-list-of-broken-promises/
Yeah, I saw that ... Maybe some sort of code!?
I am interested to know how Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels will explain this.... pic.twitter.com/mYGP0T3nzX
— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) April 14, 2024
I am interested to know how Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels will explain this.... pic.twitter.com/mYGP0T3nzX
— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) April 14, 2024
Perfect!!!!
I have a question. If what is said is true, have the politicians in attendance asked the Hispanic lady to testify at a hearing.
That's right. Instead of shaking their fists, thumping their chests, making demands and forming investigative committees they need to show results not just bluster!!
Kamala Harris warns this may be the last democratic election
By Eric Utter
In fact, 2016 might have been the last democratic election the United States will ever see, as since then Democrats have done everything possible-- including attempting to jail their leading political opponent and disenfranchise non-leftist American voters — to force permanent one-party rule on the republic.
It is one thing to be one of the dumbest people ever to trod the earth. But when world-class disingenuousness and projection is added to the idiocy, the result is truly breathtaking.
And repulsive.
Vice President Kamala Harris is the latest to simultaneously exhibit all three traits.
Harris recently appeared on a podcast I’d never heard of, titled “I’ve Had It,” during which she agreed with the hosts that the upcoming 2024 presidential election could be the last democratic election ever held in the United States.
This could in fact be the case, but what the Venn diagram-loving moron didn’t say is that this would be because her administration — and her party -- won’t allow them any longer.
In fact, 2016 might have been the last democratic election the United States will ever see, as since then Democrats have done everything possible-- including attempting to jail their leading political opponent and disenfranchise non-leftist American voters — to force permanent one-party rule on the republic. Just to be sure of their primacy, they also bribed and coerced the giant social media companies to act in their favor-- and threatened to eliminate the filibuster, pack the court, and grant statehood to Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico. And don’t forget the perpetually open southern border.
I’ve had it … with Democrats’ lying, gaslighting, projection, virtue signaling, bullying, coercion, threats, disdain for the Constitution/opponents/rule of law, ruinous policies … and rampant amorality.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/kamala_harris_warns_that_this_may_be_the_last_democratic_election.html
Kamala Harris warns this may be the last democratic election
By Eric Utter
In fact, 2016 might have been the last democratic election the United States will ever see, as since then Democrats have done everything possible-- including attempting to jail their leading political opponent and disenfranchise non-leftist American voters — to force permanent one-party rule on the republic.
It is one thing to be one of the dumbest people ever to trod the earth. But when world-class disingenuousness and projection is added to the idiocy, the result is truly breathtaking.
And repulsive.
Vice President Kamala Harris is the latest to simultaneously exhibit all three traits.
Harris recently appeared on a podcast I’d never heard of, titled “I’ve Had It,” during which she agreed with the hosts that the upcoming 2024 presidential election could be the last democratic election ever held in the United States.
This could in fact be the case, but what the Venn diagram-loving moron didn’t say is that this would be because her administration — and her party -- won’t allow them any longer.
In fact, 2016 might have been the last democratic election the United States will ever see, as since then Democrats have done everything possible-- including attempting to jail their leading political opponent and disenfranchise non-leftist American voters — to force permanent one-party rule on the republic. Just to be sure of their primacy, they also bribed and coerced the giant social media companies to act in their favor-- and threatened to eliminate the filibuster, pack the court, and grant statehood to Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico. And don’t forget the perpetually open southern border.
I’ve had it … with Democrats’ lying, gaslighting, projection, virtue signaling, bullying, coercion, threats, disdain for the Constitution/opponents/rule of law, ruinous policies … and rampant amorality.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/kamala_harris_warns_that_this_may_be_the_last_democratic_election.html
Oh, to be a fly on the wall when Fani Willis met Kamala Harris ...
By Monica Showalter
Was the garbage prosecution of President Trump in Georgia something Kamala Harris cooked up with her best bud Fani Willis?
That's what congressional investigators are seeing.
According to Raw Story, citing Newsweek:
Embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis met with Vice President Kamala Harris before she indicted Donald Trump in his election interference case, according to a lawyer who shared White House records during a Georgia Senate hearing.
The meeting, according to Attorney Ashley Merchant's testimony, took place on February 28, 2023, just months before Willis indicted Trump in August of that year, Newsweek reported.
Well what a coincidence. Since when does the vice president of the United States meet with a lowly district attorney over anything, really, given the separation local, state and federal jurisdictions? It sounds like the pair giggled their way into it together.
But it's just like Harris to be involved in something of this sort.
Back in California when she was state attorney general, she plotted with everyone from the Los Angeles Police Department to get free police protection even when she went out partying, to the governor's office, conspiring to keep prisoners in prison past their terms in order to ensure that they served as firefighters for the coming fire season.
She wiped out critical evidence in a death penalty case and threw dozens of petty drug offenders in prison in order to get the Democrat governor's soft-on-crime polling numbers up.
After that, she gave many indications of being in on the Jussie Smollett racial hoax in a bid to smear MAGA and Get Trump.
Seems she's always in on some colorful plot, and who better for the purpose this time than Fani Willis herself, a running joke as a prosecutor in her own right.
One wonders what the depth of the friendship was, given how much the pair had in common, mixing business with pleasure.
Harris slept her way to the top with political kingmaker Willie Brown and partied with the Pacific Heights set in San Francisco, apparently selling her 'wares' for power, while Willis slept around with traffic attorney Nathan Wade as a sort of toyboy tool, taking cruises, and then promoted him to chief prosecutor of President Trump to Get Trump, mixing business with pleasure again.
Both have viewed the law as something to be abused, Harris with pot smokers thrown into prison for long terms and others, Willis with her complete garbage prosecution of President Trump.
Both had communist fathers active in the intellectual and radical activist communities of their times. Both have zero scruples and flexible morals.
Willis, though, seems stupider than even Harris, though that's arguable, raising questions as to whether this was a girl's night out affair, or Harris finding and directing someone even more stupid than she is? We don't know. We do know they should be answering some questions about this.
How about it, Congress and mainstream media?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/oh_to_be_a_fly_on_the_wall_when_fani_willis_met_kamala_harris.html
Oh, to be a fly on the wall when Fani Willis met Kamala Harris ...
By Monica Showalter
Was the garbage prosecution of President Trump in Georgia something Kamala Harris cooked up with her best bud Fani Willis?
That's what congressional investigators are seeing.
According to Raw Story, citing Newsweek:
Embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis met with Vice President Kamala Harris before she indicted Donald Trump in his election interference case, according to a lawyer who shared White House records during a Georgia Senate hearing.
The meeting, according to Attorney Ashley Merchant's testimony, took place on February 28, 2023, just months before Willis indicted Trump in August of that year, Newsweek reported.
Well what a coincidence. Since when does the vice president of the United States meet with a lowly district attorney over anything, really, given the separation local, state and federal jurisdictions? It sounds like the pair giggled their way into it together.
But it's just like Harris to be involved in something of this sort.
Back in California when she was state attorney general, she plotted with everyone from the Los Angeles Police Department to get free police protection even when she went out partying, to the governor's office, conspiring to keep prisoners in prison past their terms in order to ensure that they served as firefighters for the coming fire season.
She wiped out critical evidence in a death penalty case and threw dozens of petty drug offenders in prison in order to get the Democrat governor's soft-on-crime polling numbers up.
After that, she gave many indications of being in on the Jussie Smollett racial hoax in a bid to smear MAGA and Get Trump.
Seems she's always in on some colorful plot, and who better for the purpose this time than Fani Willis herself, a running joke as a prosecutor in her own right.
One wonders what the depth of the friendship was, given how much the pair had in common, mixing business with pleasure.
Harris slept her way to the top with political kingmaker Willie Brown and partied with the Pacific Heights set in San Francisco, apparently selling her 'wares' for power, while Willis slept around with traffic attorney Nathan Wade as a sort of toyboy tool, taking cruises, and then promoted him to chief prosecutor of President Trump to Get Trump, mixing business with pleasure again.
Both have viewed the law as something to be abused, Harris with pot smokers thrown into prison for long terms and others, Willis with her complete garbage prosecution of President Trump.
Both had communist fathers active in the intellectual and radical activist communities of their times. Both have zero scruples and flexible morals.
Willis, though, seems stupider than even Harris, though that's arguable, raising questions as to whether this was a girl's night out affair, or Harris finding and directing someone even more stupid than she is? We don't know. We do know they should be answering some questions about this.
How about it, Congress and mainstream media?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/oh_to_be_a_fly_on_the_wall_when_fani_willis_met_kamala_harris.html
Good morning Al. This paragraph pretty well sums up the Biden administration dictatorship.....
Student loan forgiveness: Taxation without representation
By Gary Aminoff
Just because the administration forgives $153 billion in debt, it doesn’t just disappear. Someone has to pay it, and that someone is the middle- and lower-income taxpayer.
In a desperate attempt to win votes in the upcoming presidential election in November, President Biden has transferred $153 billion in wealth from middle and lower income-earners to the rich. How has he done that? Student loan forgiveness is the answer.
In January 2022, Forbes conducted a study that found that a significant portion of student debt belongs to high-wealth households. Additionally, an article from Brookings emphasizes that student loan forgiveness tends to be regressive, which benefits higher-income individuals more than lower-income ones. Some studies indicate that students from high-wealth families owe at least 60% of the total student debt.
Students from wealthy or affluent families can qualify for student loans more easily than those from less affluent families. In the past few years, Biden has forgiven $153 billion in student loans, mainly benefiting high-wealth households.
As the November election approaches, the Biden administration has been eager to show how much student loan debt it has canceled, making new announcements about debt relief roughly once a month and sending emails directly to eligible borrowers. Earlier this week, Biden announced a new group of student debt relief proposals that could go into effect this fall. This unconstitutional debt forgiveness is a desperate attempt, and likely a successful one, to get the families of students who hold student debt forgiven by Biden to vote for him and to become supporters of the Democrat party.
Just because the administration forgives $153 billion in debt, it doesn’t just disappear. Someone has to pay it, and that someone is the middle- and lower-income taxpayer.
This student loan forgiveness is a massive transfer of debt from the affluent to the less affluent for political reasons. Naturally outraged, lower- and middle-income taxpayers justifiably complain that Biden is transferring the cost of student tuition to those who chose not to attend college or who have already paid for it. They also say he is circumventing the Supreme Court, which knocked down Biden’s signature student loan forgiveness program last year. The Supreme Court ruled that the administration’s student loan forgiveness plan was unconstitutional, but that doesn’t stop Biden.
So long as we have an authoritarian, Constitution-ignoring dictatorship running this country, we will have no control over our financial well-being. The Constitution provides that our elected officials rule with the consent of the people. I didn’t give my consent, nor did my representative in Congress, nor did anyone’s representative in Congress. This is an authoritarian act solely by President Biden without the consent of the Legislative or Judicial Branch of government. So much for checks and balances.
This administration continues to add more debt for us to pay and spends our money without limitation, increasing inflation and the national debt with every dollar spent. Remember, the government has no money of its own. What it spends is money it collects from the American taxpayer in the form of taxes. It just spent $153 million without consulting Congress, which the Supreme Court has ruled is unconstitutional.
In pre-Revolutionary times, the people declared that taxation without representation was tyranny. Will America wake up?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/student_loan_forgiveness_taxation_without_representation.html
Student loan forgiveness: Taxation without representation
By Gary Aminoff
Just because the administration forgives $153 billion in debt, it doesn’t just disappear. Someone has to pay it, and that someone is the middle- and lower-income taxpayer.
In a desperate attempt to win votes in the upcoming presidential election in November, President Biden has transferred $153 billion in wealth from middle and lower income-earners to the rich. How has he done that? Student loan forgiveness is the answer.
In January 2022, Forbes conducted a study that found that a significant portion of student debt belongs to high-wealth households. Additionally, an article from Brookings emphasizes that student loan forgiveness tends to be regressive, which benefits higher-income individuals more than lower-income ones. Some studies indicate that students from high-wealth families owe at least 60% of the total student debt.
Students from wealthy or affluent families can qualify for student loans more easily than those from less affluent families. In the past few years, Biden has forgiven $153 billion in student loans, mainly benefiting high-wealth households.
As the November election approaches, the Biden administration has been eager to show how much student loan debt it has canceled, making new announcements about debt relief roughly once a month and sending emails directly to eligible borrowers. Earlier this week, Biden announced a new group of student debt relief proposals that could go into effect this fall. This unconstitutional debt forgiveness is a desperate attempt, and likely a successful one, to get the families of students who hold student debt forgiven by Biden to vote for him and to become supporters of the Democrat party.
Just because the administration forgives $153 billion in debt, it doesn’t just disappear. Someone has to pay it, and that someone is the middle- and lower-income taxpayer.
This student loan forgiveness is a massive transfer of debt from the affluent to the less affluent for political reasons. Naturally outraged, lower- and middle-income taxpayers justifiably complain that Biden is transferring the cost of student tuition to those who chose not to attend college or who have already paid for it. They also say he is circumventing the Supreme Court, which knocked down Biden’s signature student loan forgiveness program last year. The Supreme Court ruled that the administration’s student loan forgiveness plan was unconstitutional, but that doesn’t stop Biden.
So long as we have an authoritarian, Constitution-ignoring dictatorship running this country, we will have no control over our financial well-being. The Constitution provides that our elected officials rule with the consent of the people. I didn’t give my consent, nor did my representative in Congress, nor did anyone’s representative in Congress. This is an authoritarian act solely by President Biden without the consent of the Legislative or Judicial Branch of government. So much for checks and balances.
This administration continues to add more debt for us to pay and spends our money without limitation, increasing inflation and the national debt with every dollar spent. Remember, the government has no money of its own. What it spends is money it collects from the American taxpayer in the form of taxes. It just spent $153 million without consulting Congress, which the Supreme Court has ruled is unconstitutional.
In pre-Revolutionary times, the people declared that taxation without representation was tyranny. Will America wake up?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/student_loan_forgiveness_taxation_without_representation.html
I guess we are all ‘racistas’ now
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
For a long time, a Hispanic was accused of treason and racism (“racista”) for supporting border enforcement or respect for immigration laws. Well, he was accused by left-wing Hispanics who favor open borders. The same is true for those of us who opposed sanctuary cities.
That was then, and this is 2024. According to Byron York’s post, a little “cambio” or change is going on:
GROWING LATINO SUPPORT FOR BORDER WALL, STRICT ENFORCEMENT. A new poll by Axios and Noticias Telemundo found that 42% of Latino Americans support building a wall or fence along the entire U.S.-Mexico border. When pollsters asked the same question in December 2021, the number was 30%. That’s a significant increase as the border crisis created by President Joe Biden’s policies worsens.
It’s also a more severe action than virtually anyone is now proposing. The border is about 2,000 miles long, but some of that is physically impassable and does not need a wall. Former President Donald Trump proposed building a wall on about 1,000 miles. That was enough for many Democrats to unite in hysterical opposition. Now, the Latino voters polled say they would like to see a wall or fence along the entire 2,000-mile border.
The new poll also found that 64% of those surveyed support “giving the president the authority to shut U.S. borders if there are too many migrants trying to enter the country.” And 38% of those surveyed support “sending all undocumented immigrants in the U.S. back to their country of origin.” In 2021, that number was 28%.
Honestly, this is not a shock to me. Let me tell you why.
First, most of us came here legally, and that includes non-Hispanics such as Europeans fleeing communism and Indians who came to work in the tech sector and others. These immigrants understand why people want to live in the U.S., but they further understand that the rule of law is what separates the world from the American way.
Second, the border Hispanics are seeing firsthand the insanity of chaotic immigration. Just spend a day or two in El Paso, Nogales, or Tucson. Ask Hispanic police chiefs what they think of the chaos. Don’t be surprised if they sound like Trump.
Finally, is this why Hispanic support for Trump is growing? It feels that way, although don’t overlook the economy and growing Democrat fascination with wokeness.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/i_guess_we_are_all_racistas_now.html
I guess we are all ‘racistas’ now
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
For a long time, a Hispanic was accused of treason and racism (“racista”) for supporting border enforcement or respect for immigration laws. Well, he was accused by left-wing Hispanics who favor open borders. The same is true for those of us who opposed sanctuary cities.
That was then, and this is 2024. According to Byron York’s post, a little “cambio” or change is going on:
GROWING LATINO SUPPORT FOR BORDER WALL, STRICT ENFORCEMENT. A new poll by Axios and Noticias Telemundo found that 42% of Latino Americans support building a wall or fence along the entire U.S.-Mexico border. When pollsters asked the same question in December 2021, the number was 30%. That’s a significant increase as the border crisis created by President Joe Biden’s policies worsens.
It’s also a more severe action than virtually anyone is now proposing. The border is about 2,000 miles long, but some of that is physically impassable and does not need a wall. Former President Donald Trump proposed building a wall on about 1,000 miles. That was enough for many Democrats to unite in hysterical opposition. Now, the Latino voters polled say they would like to see a wall or fence along the entire 2,000-mile border.
The new poll also found that 64% of those surveyed support “giving the president the authority to shut U.S. borders if there are too many migrants trying to enter the country.” And 38% of those surveyed support “sending all undocumented immigrants in the U.S. back to their country of origin.” In 2021, that number was 28%.
Honestly, this is not a shock to me. Let me tell you why.
First, most of us came here legally, and that includes non-Hispanics such as Europeans fleeing communism and Indians who came to work in the tech sector and others. These immigrants understand why people want to live in the U.S., but they further understand that the rule of law is what separates the world from the American way.
Second, the border Hispanics are seeing firsthand the insanity of chaotic immigration. Just spend a day or two in El Paso, Nogales, or Tucson. Ask Hispanic police chiefs what they think of the chaos. Don’t be surprised if they sound like Trump.
Finally, is this why Hispanic support for Trump is growing? It feels that way, although don’t overlook the economy and growing Democrat fascination with wokeness.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/i_guess_we_are_all_racistas_now.html
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