A whistle blower files a report against Donald Trump about a conversation he had with the President of Ukraine. This could be the death knell for the Biden campaign (hint: things ain’t going well for Biden in Iowa). And the democrats finally pull the trigger (sort of).
Trump and Ukraine
This story broke last week but we didn’t know much about it. Guess what? We still don’t know much about it. The story involves a whistle blower complaint that Donald Trump was speaking to the newly elected President of Ukraine. We’re still guessing as to what may have happened but there are two things that could have happened: Trump divulged classified data to a foriegn leader or Trump made a quid pro quo (you know, you scratch my back and I’ll scratech yours) offer to the President.
Of course, President Trump vehemently denies the allegation. He says that it was only a congratulatory call to the Ukrainian president for winning his election. He said there are transcripts, witnesses and recordings and he is looking into releasing them along with the actual complaint. Trump dismisses it as another attempt at his enemies trying to drum up a new narrative. Trump did admit to talking about Biden because of the scandal that is going to dog Biden from here on out. But that doesn’t matter. Dems are now screaming for impeachment…again.
Trump is going on the offensive. He has decided to attack Joe Biden about his own little indiscretions with Ukraine.
This one could be big. It might be the final blow to knock Biden out of the race. But let’s finish this story first.
This is really a non-story. Trump is President of the United States. He’s going to talk to other leaders. He has to talk to other leaders. He’s constatntly with people and being monitored. His calls are recorded. Trump may not be smart but he’s not stupid. He’s not going to say anything that’s going to get him into trouble especially since it is one investiggation after another.
But here’s the other thing: the vitriol of the left is just so expected. No one know what’s in this complaint (an anonymous complaint at that). And then we find out tonight that the guy who issues the complaints wasn’t even present during the conversation. Trump says he’ll release whatever he has to but he shouldn’t. His conversations with other leaders should be private and he should not cowtow to the complaints from a groups of people that are always going to complain.
The democrats want to impeach, go for it.
Biden’s Problems Might Be A Bigger Issue
I knew this was going to come out. I heard about it from Dan Bongino about a year ago. Listen to his podcast and read his books, they are extremely informative. His books Spygate and his latest, Exonerated are so packed with information about this Trump conspiracy mess that it might take a couple of readings to understand.
This story has been around for a long time. Back in 2014, Hunter Biden got put on the board of a gas company called Burisma. He was earning $50,000 a month. He had no experience with energy much less gas. An attorney there started investigating Burisma for corruption. Joe Biden, who was dealing with a loan of $1.4 billion to Ukraine, said he would not release the money unless this attorney doing the investigating was fired. Ukraine fired the attorney.
Now, this is kind of open news. This wasn’t something covered up. If fact, here’s Biden at a press conference bragging about having the attorney fired:
Is this a sign of a quid pro quo deal between Biden and Ukraine? Who knows? The attorney in Ukraine was known for corruption and many believed he should have been fired. Maybe Biden wanted a corrupt politician fired, not for a conflict of interest, but because he didn’t want to drop $1.4 billion on a corrupt country. It’s possible.
Where there needs to be an investigation is to find out where the smoke is coming from. This wasn’t the first time Hunter, who could never hold a job and was kicked out of the Navy because of drugs, got some high level position. He also got a high paying “job” in China. Coincidentally, Joe Sleepy, Creepy Joe was also working with the Chinese at the same time. It’s definitely very suspicious.
What Do I Think?
Trump shoots his mouth up. He ain’t the most professional speaker. I bet a dollar he also shot his mouth talking to the newly elected President of Ukraine. Was it a quid pro quo: a Biden investigation for $400 million dollars? I doubt it. Why? a few reasons. The anonymous whistleblower wasn’t even in the room when the conversation took place. Sounds like swamp politics to me. Trump is willing to release the transcripts of the conversation with the President of the Ukraine. He’s not hiding anything. Finally, the democrats don’t want to see the transcripts (which is what I want to see) they want to see the complaint. Why would they not want to see transcripts? Because accusations are far more important to democrats than evidence. Especially evidence that doesn’t lead to anything.
To gain proof that Trump is being targeted, he’s bringing up Biden’s malthisians. And it’s hitting the target. Biden is stressing out. And He’ll have a lot to answer for in the next debate.
As far as Biden goes, there is, again, no evidence he did anything. There’s a lot of smoke and a lot of coincidences. But no evidence. Should we investigate? Probably, he’s running for President. If he wasn’t I wouldn’t care less. But this is going to kill Presidential bid whether he’s innocent or not. His gafs are one thing but the image of him being corrupt might be the final straw. As of this week, Elizabeth Warren is winning in the polls in Iowa. I think Biden’s run is done and Elizabeth Warren will be the nominee.
Democrats Do What The Democrats Do
Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, just dropped a MOAB of the democrats chances of winning the presidency for 2020. Listen.
Yep, they’re starting an inquiry of impeachment. It was kind of hard to understand because Nancy’s dentures kept rolling around. Nancy got together with all the other House democrats and they decided to go for it.
Sort of.
What an impeachment inquiry means is they are going to do a bunch of investigations (which will take six months to a year) where they are doing nothing else. Then, they will see if they have enough votes for impeachment (which, as of now, they don’t). Once that’s done, they’ll send this to the House Judiciary Committee which will vote. They will hold more hearings and vote. If it gets through that, it will then voted on the floor of the House. If it passes the House vote (only a majority is needed) it will go to the Senate for a trial. The senate won’t convict because the trial would be crap.
The House is wasting time and are doing nothing during all these investigations. They will lose the House, Senate and Presidency in 2020. By a landslide.
And that may mean there might not be another democratic President for twenty years because Mike Pence will run and win. He’s smart and likable. Then Nikki Halley will win because she’s smart and likable. I we still have Ben Crenshaw.
The Brett Kavanaugh thing is falling apart and the Dems seem to be getting quieter. Iran makes a bold move but Trump thinks patience is the key.
Brett Kavanaugh’s Saga Continues
The Brett Kavanaugh New York Times debacle continues. I probably should have given this a couple of days before publishing this story. It’s getting juicer. Just as a reminder, the New York Times published an article last Saturday that stated that there was another accuser. Remember? Someone push Kavanaugh’s junk into some woman’s hand. The accuser, Max Stier, who I said was a Clinton supporter, was actually on Clinton’s legal team during Clinton’s impeachment hearings.
You notice that all the accusers are heavy democrat supporters? Hmm.
Not only did the New York Times not point that out, they forgot to mention that no one at the party remembered the event, including the “victim.” The “victim” refuses to be interviewed.
They have been getting a plethora of crap from everyone including the left wing media.
CNN’s Oliver Darcy writes:
“It was the latest in a series of high-profile blunders that has caused embarrassment to James Bennet since he was appointed in 2016 as the editor overseeing The Times’ Opinion section. Bennet’s tenure has been marked with several mishaps that have generated controversy, drawn criticism, and spurred at least one lawsuit … While the Opinion section has unquestionably produced strong work in the years since Bennet took over, it has also been culpable for some of the biggest journalistic black eyes at The Times during that period.”
CNN’s Brian Steltzer said:
“Times turmoil take disciplinary action in the wake of this embarrassing episode.”
The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple said:
“The roar from the Internet left the New York Times with some explaining to do. How did this piece land in the Sunday Review section? What was going on here?”
Further, it has been reported that the Washington Post and the New York news division refused to run the story because it was unverified. What I didn’t know was that the story was run in the Review section of the New York Times.
Well, the authors, Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly, in attempt at saving a little face, when on The View and did what all left wingers do: throw someone else under the bus. Watch:
Of course Trump is going to sat something. And, you know something, what he said pretty much follows the democratic model: Cancel Culture. This is when someone screws up, there’s outrage, he apologizes, the outrage grows, then he’s either fired or resigns in disgrace. This happens all the time now. Trump says we should do the same thing:
Yep, that should happen. There should be consequences for bad reporting. These people should be fired and Brett Kavanaugh should sue the New York Times. But it’s not going to happen. But, what is happening is the left’s attempt to influence the a judge’s decisions, especially when it comes to that crappy law of Roe vs. Wade. I’ve talked about Roe vs. Wade in a previous podcast so I won’t bring that back up again. But, as a reminder, privacy is not more important than a human life.
But the real news story that is not being brought up by the media is the fact that this whole thing with Kavanaugh was a political hit job. No one; not CNN or MSNBC or CBS of ABC or NBC brought this up.
That’s right! The whole Brett Kavanaugh-thing was crap. We shouldn’t be surprised. If they can kill babies, is it a shock they would kill the reputation of an honored judge? Why are they doing this? Because they are trying to shame Kavanaugh into doing what they want. It’s horrific.
But there’s more. Blasry Ford’s best friend, Leland Keyser, reportedly did not believe Blasey Ford! She refused to testify. She says she was threatened to have her reputation ruined if she didn’t testify. And it’s in the book that the times based this story from! And the NY Times ignored it! This book that tried to throw Kavanaugh under the bus just proved that Kavanaugh was targeted.
And none of the left wing media reported it. I hate the term “fake news,” but it fits. Our news media has an agenda.
California is working very hard to screw itself completely to Hell. There are gay penguins in a London zoo and the zoo has decided to be diverse. And Monopoly has decided to correct its original patriarchal board game.
Oh, and there was another democratic debate.
California Is On Fire!
California continues to screw its citizens by implementing the dumbest laws while ignoring the real problems.
The first law is AB 5 which states that companies can no longer “misclassify” workers as independent contractors has passed the California senate and is expected to be signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsome. This law will mostly effect companies like Uber and Lyft. Employers will now be on the hook for overtime, health insurance and retirement benefits. This will also allow employees who have been “misclassified” will have the ability to unionize.
Tyranny is alive and well in California. But I’m happy about that this law will just make things worse in California. Then, maybe, people of this state will begin to see the incompetence of the left in California and vote them out. This law s going to make California worse.
Uber and Lyft, which were the companies targeted, will simply stop service in California. This will cost the citizens the loss of a great service which is very affordable. It will also cost thousands of people who are in between jobs or need extra money to lose that easy opportunity to drive and make a few extra bucks.
In another ingenious move to try to create housing for the homeless, the state legislature passed a bill that would allow a statewide rent control. This law would limit rent increases to 5% after inflation. It also disallows evictions without cause which is what Newsome believes is the problem with the homeless.
I have three problems with this. First, the cities and state already regulate the hell out of landlords. That’s why rent is expensive. My family used to own apartment buildings that were under rent control. They never made any money because they were bled by the bureaucracy. They couldn’t wait to get rid of the apartments but, because everyone knew about it, had a hard time selling.
Second, this will have the reverse issue and will cause a greater housing crisis. People are not going to build apartments if they cannot be profitable.
And finally, the state is assuming that the reason people are on the streets because they cannot find a place to live. That’s just not the case. Most, not all, are living on the street because they are unable to function well enough to be able to afford an apartment. They are drug addicts. They are mentally ill. Or they just don’t want to hold a job and want to live on the street. Even if the theory would work and people build more apartments, for whatever reasons, these people will still be on the street.
This is another way that California is avoiding the problem.
California has one of the worst education systems in the United States. Kids that come out of California schools don’t know how to read, or write, or science, or math. They learn about climate change, diversity, the 63 different pronouns and how to have anal sex. Well, they may not be able to get in a college and get good jobs but at least they’re entitled.
I am on Twitter all the time (@RunninFewl) and, almost every day, and there is always a video of some brat yelling at a teacher because he’s not allowed to play Angry Birds on his iPhone X. At that point, at least the teacher could kick him out. Now they can’t.
Our kids are way too entitled and not at all disciplined. Oh, and I forgot uneducated, have no work ethic and are completely unprepared, not only for getting a job, but also for facing the difficulties of day-to-day life.
A London aquarium has announced that two lesbian penguins will resist traditional sexual stereotypes while raising their adopted chick. Four-month-old baby Gentoo will be “the world’s first penguin to not have its gender assigned,” Sea Life London exulted.
General Manager Graham McGrath said, “While the decision may ruffle a few feathers, gender neutrality in humans has only recently become a widespread topic of conversation, however, it is completely natural for penguins to develop genderless identities as they grow into mature adults.”
The Sea Life London announcement recalls a similar episode 15 years ago, when The New York Times fêted two allegedly homosexual penguins at the Central Park Zoo. “Roy and Silo, two chinstrap penguins at the Central Park Zoo in Manhattan, are completely devoted to each other,” wrote the Gray Lady. “For nearly six years now, they have been inseparable. They … have sex. Silo and Roy are, to anthropomorphize a bit, gay penguins. When offered female companionship, they have adamantly refused it.” The zoo even went so far as to take an egg from a normal penguin couple and let the “gay penguins raise it. The baby penguin was born and taken care of but the story had a sad ending. Roy and Silo hooked up with female penguins. And no one saw the two ever have sex as was reported. Oops.
Have we gotten so stupid? This isn’t a study. These idiots are trying to raise a “gender neutral” penguin chick. This reminds me of when biologists in Santa Monica, California were given a grant to find out how many gay seagulls there were. They dsaid that up to 60% of the seagulls could be gay. I never heard what happened with the report. What a waste of money.
Hasbro has decided to go woke with their next version of Monopoly! They are making a Monopoly game that will pay women more when they pass Go because of the “historical” gender wage gap.
“Unlike the classic game, women will collect 240 Monopoly bucks when they pass ‘go,’ while male players will collect the usual 200. The idea is to create a game where women make more than men, the first game to do so, according to Hasbro,” CNN reports.
It’s “a fun new take on the game that creates a world where women have an advantage often enjoyed by men,” the company said in a statement emailed to major news organizations.
This is so stupid it’s awesome. I want to buy this game. I want to play a woman. It might be the first time I play monopoly and have fun with the game. I’m not sure who said it on a Daily Wire podcast (subscribe) but men have nothing to lose when they play Monopoly. I hate Monopoly when it’s fair because I always lose on an even field (well, not always). If I play Ms. Monopoly, I’m suppose to lose. But, if I win, I am superior. Nice! I wish they’d do something like that wish chess.
Far More News
This week, we had the democratic debates. I watched a couple of hours. Biden won but he sounded old and he needs to get better denture adhesive. He tried to be a moderate but appeared a tad dishonest when asked a tough question.
Bernie came in second but he looks crazy so he might have lost.
Elizabeth Warren sis not answer one question and her dishonesty will cost her. But she got third.
In forth…who cares. The rest are done.
Beto and Julian Castro came in last. Beto wants to break into our houses and steal our guns. Castro is a meanie to old people.
Donald Trump cancels a secret meeting with the Taliban. Ahead of 9-11. Oops. A Swedish scientist has a not-so-insane way to end the climate “crisis.” Pierce Brosnon, a former James Bond, says it might be time for a female James Bond. And the gun control debate is still going hot and heavy. Let’s talk about “red flag” laws and the idiotic terms like “weapons of war” and “assault weapons.”
Baseball season is coming to a close and football season starts up. Love this time of year!
Trump and the Taliban
Donald Trump might have stepped in it last week. He was planning to hold a summit at Camp David. Who was he going to try to make peace with? Negotiators from the Taliban. That’s right. The same Taliban that ran a fascist regime in Afghanistan, participated in the planning of the 9-11 terror attacks and hid the mastermind of the attacks, Osama Bin Laden.
The meeting was meant to be secret, probably because it was not going to be a very popular meeting. Unlike North Korea, China and Russia, the Taliban has been directly involved in terrorism that has killed Americans and are guilty of massive human rights violations. It was announced yesterday that the talks were cancelled because of a bombing in Afghanistan that the Taliban took credit for. That bombing killed an American soldier. Here is Trump making that announcement:
Well, I guess Trump was able to bring us together in his way. Trump was condemned by the left and left wing media but his judgement was also questioned by the right wing media. The below stories are from one left wing publication (USA Today) and the other from the New York Post (traditionally right wing).
The stories are similar. And they should be. There were sixteen soldiers killed in Afghanistan this year. The Taliban was responsible for all of them. They are our true enemy. They are still ruling parts of Afghanistan with an iron fist, committing all sorts of atrocities. The other problem is that the meeting and any agreement would give the terrorist organization validity, not unlike what Obama did with Iran. This could cause the legitimate government, led by Ashraf Ghani, problems in the future.
Listen, I know why Trump was trying to do this. I get why he treats China, North Korea and Russia with respect (that is until they don’t do what he wants). But this is a group of barbaric thugs that should be wiped off the face of the earth. Everything they do is for power and they will lie to get it.
Does Everything Have to Be Political?
The Huffington Post reports that Pierce Brosnon said, “I think we’ve watched the guys do it for the last 40 years, get out of the way, guys, and put a woman up there…I think it would be exhilarating, it would be exciting.”
I don’t know why we can’t just leave our cultural icons alone. Why do we need a gay couple in a Disney cartoon? They have been doing cartoons for decades and no one cared before. Why do we need a gay couple in one of the Star Wars films? Sexuality has never been an issue in the Star Wars films before. Why do Captain America and Ghostbusters have to be remade with an all female cast? Why do DC and Marvel feel the need to add gay characters? Isn’t the asexuality of super heroes is what gives them their invulnerability to time and flaws of humanity as described by Umberto Eco in his article, “The Myth of Superman?”
Why can’t they just make offshoots of these films with new, female characters? Why does anyone need to be gay or trans?
San Francisco Just Blew It for Red Flag Laws
With the onset of several mass shootings over the past year, there has been a real push for some sort of gun control laws that limit those who may have mental problems cannot get a hold of a gun or would have guns already owned by a mentally unstable individual taken away until an evaluation is done on this individual. Even Donald Trump, who is a strong supporter for the Second Amendment, is open to some out-of-the-box solutions for monitoring those with mental health problems. This is a voluntary program and would using existing technology to monitor these people. You can read about the proposal below.
This proposal goes a little short of the “red flag” laws that the left has been pushing over the past few months. In case you’re wondering, red flag laws would allow people to report people who may be acting erratically. It is then that the authorities can confiscate guns or prevent the purchase of guns by these individuals.
This has had a luke warm response from pro Second Amendment folks. And after what the San Francisco city council did, any warmth for the idea got a lot colder. The San Francisco city council voted to declare the National Rifle Association a domestic terrorist group and is requesting that the federal government do the same.
Yeah, suddenly I’m going to be real supportive of red flag laws. looking at the aggression of the city of San Francisco, I’m sure they will not abuse the red flag laws and take away guns from law abiding citizens.
The reality is we need to stop attacking the tools of the mentally ill but focus on the mentally ill themselves. I’ve talked about this in a past podcast. But there is no way to implement gun control and there is no way taking guns away from law abiding citizens is going to end mass shootings. All it is going to do is take away their ability to protect themselves.
Maybe They Should Worry More About This
The “leaders” of California are really running this state into the ground and they seem to be doing nothing about it. We have banned straws, banned plastic bags, call manholes “peopleholes,” call felons “justice involved individuals,” have gas prices that are $2 higher than any other state to protect us from climate change and have declared the NRA a terror group.
But we seem to ignore the homeless problem, the drug problem and the diseases that come from it. We already have had bouts of typhus and hepatitis to deal with. Well, we now might have a new problem, leprosy. That’s right, a disease that is only in the worst countries and has been all but eliminated for over a hundred years in the modern world.
According to Dr. Drew Pinsky, we are very close to a bubonic plague outbreak if it has not already out there. Listen to Drew Pinsky:
I had to actually look this story up to verify it wasn’t a joke. And it’s not. It’s just another example of a radical professor and social justice warrior being absolutely insane.
The professor is Magnus Soderlund, an economics professor from the Stockholm School of Economics. He said in a conference last week that there is one way that we could combat climate change: cannibalism. Yep, no kidding. Now, he didn’t mean we should actually go out and kill people. Not that…not yet anyway. He meant we should eat the dead.
He said “conservative” taboos against cannibalism can change over time if people simply tried eating human flesh. Then we could just kill all the cows and their farts will not pollute the air. OK, I made that up because the article did not exactly say why eating dead people would save the earth.
When asked if he would eat human flesh he said, “I feel somewhat hesitant but to not appear overly conservative … I’d have to say … I’d be open to at least tasting it.”
Well, if I had any liberal in me before it’s all gone at the thought I am closed off because I won’t eat a dead person. I won’t eat dog either.
But one can tell that this is an economics professor and not a medical doctor. Apparently there is a protein in human flesh that can kill you. A tribe in Papua New Guinea actually stopped being cannibals because of a disease called Kuru, also known as Laughing Death.
Maybe Prof. SJW should talk to the really educated before he comes up with something insane like that again.
The New York is showing its true colors. Donald Trump wants to make a real estate investment and that seems to send Rachael Maddow off the deep end. Rashida Tlaib hates her grandma. And AoC wants to blow up the Constitution again.
A lot of awesome stuff to talk about. None of it is really life-changing but it is interesting.
The New York Times Takes a Stand
One has to be completely head-in-sand to believe that the New York Times is an unbiased. Just a couple of weeks ago, the Times ran a headline when Trumo commented abut the El Paso attack. At first, the headline was “Trump Urges Unity Vs. Racism.” Oh this wasn’t good. Twitter was all a fire with condemnation of the New York Times actual reporting. That’s right, the headline was pretty accurate. The leftists flipped. A few hours later, the times rewrote their headline, stating, “Assailing Hate But Not Guns.”
Wow. It only took a couple of Tweets from the left for the New York Times to run away with tail between its legs and change from actual journalism to the sensationalism that the left expects.
But it get worse for them. Apparently, Slate leaked a statement from executive editor Dean Baquet stating that the Times depended on the Mueller investigation. But that was over and Trump is innocent. So not the Times needs to find another narrative. And they did. Want to guess what it is? That’s right: RACISM!
“We built our newsroom to cover one story, and we did it truly well. Now we have to regroup, and shift resources and emphasis to take on a different story,” said Baquet. His “vision” for how to cover Trump for “the rest of the next two years”: How America has “become so divided by Donald Trump,” particularly when it comes to race.
So, the the NY Times has decided to call out what the “news” would be for the next two years. Nice. And they started with a bang.
The New York Times Magazine just released a piece made up of several essays called “The 1619 Project.” This crap-show is a group of essays by New York Times writers that say the country did not start in 1776 with the implementation of the Declaration of Independence but started in 1619 when he first slaves were brought to the country. The purpose of this project is to “celebrate” the 400 year anniversary of the first slaves being brought to the United States. Throughout the essays, the writers discuss how all aspects of American society, from capitalism to imprisonment to healthcare, were created from the sweat and suffering of African slaves. It also explains how the system in this country is still against black people. Below is a video released by the NY Times. It’s really long so read by blog first then you can watch this:
I agree that we should acknowledge slavery. It was a dark point in our history and it should never be forgotten. But slavery happened long before the United States was established and was not the basis for this country by any stretch. In fact, it was the founding of this country that ended slavery. You know, that little spat called the Civil War. A war started and fought by white men to end slavery. I understand that the New York Times needs to create another narrative to defeat Trump next year. But this is garbage. Our country did not start because of slavery. The capitalist economy is not on the back of slavery. In fact, slavery proves America is great because we ended slavery and systemic racism.
This country is the greatest in human history. We discovered the Internet, cell phone and computing but all the media can do is talk about our past. It’s infuriating.
Greenland
President Trump found out that he had the power to buy Greenland. This was something that, apparently, came out in a meeting. Because Greenland is in a strategically good area and is rich in resources and Denmark, which holds Greenland, is spending vast amounts of money to keep the territory afloat, Trump thought it might be worth holding a meeting with the Prime Minister to discuss buying it.
Now, this is nothing new. The United States has always wanted Greenland and has made offers before. And it’s not like we haven’t bought territory from the Danes before. The Virgin Islands was purchased from Denmark in 1917. So this shouldn’t be that big a deal. If Denmark wants to give away Greenland, great. If they don’t, great. But why not ask.
Rachael Maddow at MSNBC thought it was a big deal. This broad has been a dime short of a dollar for years. But listen to this meltdown.
Poor thing. We need to start another Russia conspiracy to give her life more purpose because she is obviously losing it. Trump, who probably wasn’t really all-in on pushing for a Greenland deal posted an awesome meme on his Twitter account when he saw that this story was becoming “controversial” (not really sure why but whatever).
Fun stuff. Anyway, Denmark said no (and not in the most polite way) and Trump got pissed. He cancelled a trip to Denmark that was scheduled for next month. Now Denmark is ticked. The media is calling it an “international incident.” I’m not exactly sure why. What are they going to do? Throw tulips at us? Stop exporting those wooden shoes to the United States? I have to laugh because this is Trump trollery at it’s finest.
The Squad
And they’re back!
Last week, we talked about how Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar were not allowed in Israel because their itinerary said they were visiting “Palestine” and now Israel (there is no Palestine, by the way), they supported the anti-Semitic BDS movement, they were being funded by a group that were openly anti-Semitic and supporters of terrorism and had no intention of meeting with anyone in the Israeli government but instead were going to meet a bunch of pro-Palestinian groups. Basically this trip was going to be for tearing into Israel. So Israel said, “no.” Makes sense. We would, and have, done the same thing with people who meant nothing but the worst for this country. Israel has a right, maybe even an obligation to its people, to keep these people out.
But Tlaib wasn’t finished. She put in another request to go to Israel. This time to visit her 90-year-old mother. Israel took the request and approved it with the condition that Tlaib not bash Israel while she was there. Well, she couldn’t do that. So she decided not to go. And, with crocodile tears, she explained why during a news conference.
That’s right. She hates Israel more than she hates her mom. Nice! But we always knew she was that kind of quality person.
Of course, how can we talk about the squad without talking about old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? While taking a trip across an empty rural area, she sarcastically told her followers to look at the electoral college. Take a look.
I didn’t play the whole video but you get the idea. She believes the electoral college is a scam and, of course, racist. She says,
“The Electoral College has a racial injustice breakdown. Due to severe racial disparities in certain states, the electoral college effectively weights white voters over voters of color, as opposed to a ‘one person, one vote’ system where all are counted equally.”
She doesn’t believe such sparsely populated areas like the Midwest states should not have as much influence in the election and the elections should be based on the popular vote. Unfortunately, a lot of people take this position, especially on the left. The Founding Fathers knew what they were doing. That means a lot more than what some thirty year old moron thinks. They wanted to make sure that the entire country, even the states with sparse populations, would be represented.
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The news cycle is getting hot and it’s not all good news. Protests in Hong Kong are heating up and the Chinese military might be preparing to stifle it. The stock market plummets on Tuesday and the reason why might be very bad news for President Trump. And the heated Rhetoric about ICE has prompted another attack on an ICE facility in San Antonio.
We are fighting a war on two fronts: a civil war pitting two unyielding ideologies and a cold war against China. Not good.
The True China is Beginning to Show Itself
Here’s the story. Hong Kong started as a British settlement for 150 years. In 1997, Britain handed Hong Kong back over to China. Since then, Hong Kong has maintained its own legal system, based on the British system, its own currency and Constitution which is called Basic Law. China said that they would allow Hong Kong to run their own government’s basic law for fifty years after the transfer. But China has begun to infringe on Hong Kong sovereignty twenty years before China’s fifty year promise. One of the ways that China has infringed, and one of the main reasons for the protests, is China’s assertion that China has “complete jurisdiction” over Hong Kong. This means that laws would be settled in Chinese courts and not courts in Hong Kong. Because China has been known to be a little short on human rights, Hong Kong does not want its people tried for crimes, including political crimes, in China.
That was declared by China a few months ago and that’s when the protests began. To this point the protests have been huge but peaceful and it did not interfere with the day-to-day life of its citizens. But on Sunday, the protests intensified. Protesters decided to shutdown the Hong Kong airport, one of the busiest and most profitable in Asia. The Hong Kong airport makes up about 5% of Hong Kong’s GDP. And they got violent. Windows were broken and police clashed with protesters.
Both the governments of China and Hong Kong condemn the protests along with the business elite in Hong Kong. The protests are disrupting business. China is Hong Kong’s biggest trade partner and trade has been significantly affected. That probably explains why the government and the wealthy businessman are condemning the protests: because they are risking very little. The average citizen in Hong Kong sees what is happening and do not want to lose what they have. And what they have is freedom. The ability to make something of themselves. That’s probably why a lot of them are waving the flag of the freest country in the world. That’s right, they’re waving the flag of the United States. And they’re not even burning it.
China, who is already struggling economically because of the Trump tariffs, does not need this crap. They’ve decided, “OK, we own this place. It’s time to put them in line.” That’s not a quote. I made that up. I’m pretty sure the entire country of China said this.
That’s right! China is deploying their military on the border of Hong Kong. There are major fears, right now, that China is going to suppress this protest by the only way they know: through force. There are many memories of the Tienanmen Square massacre invading the memories of those who were alive. Hong Kong police are sympathetic to their citizens protest to the point that one officer was attacked and all he did was pull his gun and threaten the protesters until he could be pulled away. Good for him. I suspect the Chinese military will not be so sympathetic.
Of course, President Trump weighed in, as he should. His first Tweet was kind of annoying but I understand it. The president of China, Xi Jinping, blamed the United States for these protests. Well, he’s actually the dictator of China. And he’s right. The Unites States is to blame.
We have free markets, defined human rights in our Constitution and freedom. The Hong Kongers, as they refer to themselves, see this and want this to continue. They don’t want a totalitarian government controlling their every movement as China does to their own people. So that was a message to the Chinese “President” and not necessarily the leftist press in this country.
But later he gave Xi Jinping another message. And this one could be taken as a little more of a threat.
This might be more of a threat. It could be Trump’s way of drawing a red line. The key word in that statement is “should.” Trump is clumsy with his language, but this might be directed to Xi telling him not to challenge the United States.
I have a feeling not a lot is going to happen here. But, if one person does, things could go south very quickly.
Welcome to the New Cold War
The stock market dropped 800 point yesterday. This happened because the bond yield was projected to invert in the near future. What does that mean? It means that the return from binds is expected to drop after two years on a ten year bond. So if I buy a ten-year bond at a 10% yield, that 10% may drop to 9% in the future. That’s bad. The last time the bond yield inverted was in 2007, right before the Great Recession. So this is not good news ahead of the 2020 election.Let’s take a look at what could be causing this.
I was born in 1968. At the time, at least a decade before I was born, the United States was in a cold war with the Soviet Union. For those who don’t know, a cold war is defined as “a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare” (Google Dictionary). The Cold War started between 1945 to 1949 and ended in 1989. It was terrible. We worried about nuclear war and a ground war. It never happened. But I remember diving under my desk during nuclear attack drills. It was something we did a few times a year. I remember reading Time and Newsweek articles that compared Soviet nuclear weapons with the of the United States. I also remember debating in high school that we couldn’t give up our weapons due to “mutual assured destruction.” What that means is that they won’t launch their missiles because we will launch ours and both countries will be in shambles. I won the debate. Everyone said I won the debate. But my teacher was an anti-war paciest who believed in disarmament. I got a “D” on the debate. Sound familiar?
We ended up winning the Cold War. Turns out Soviet communism does not do well, economically, against capitalism. The Soviet Union couldn’t afford to keep up the Cold War. And I have talked about Reagan’s awesome “tear down your wall” speech. China and the United States are now in a cold war. We are not threatening each other with war. This is an economic cold war.
Over the last year, China and the United States have been trying to negotiate a trade deal. That deal, for the most part, involved more fair trade practice on the part of China and limit China from stealing our technology. China, as they have always done, has cow-towed to our demands and continued business as usual. So Donald Trump did something he has always threatened to do and placed tariffs on $650 billion dollars on Chinese goods. Likewise, China decided to put tariffs on about $250 billion on our exports, mostly on agricultural goods like soy.
I am not a big fan of tariffs. They are just a tax on the people. When a tariff is placed on an import, that tariff raises the price of the product and that is passed on to the buyer. The idea behind tariffs is that we will collect the tariff that we can use within our economy and that raising the price of foreign goods will make US goods more competitive. All it really does is raise the cost of all goods and could lead to a recession as consumer confidence drops.
Listen, China has been hosing us for years. Something had to be done. They were never going to negotiate. Though I am not a fan of tariffs, they may have been the only way to get China to cooperate. We do have a much stronger economy than China and the tariffs are definitely having an affect. Companies are moving out of China, exports are down and they are looking like they are heading to recession. There are two incidents that indicate this. The crackdown on Hong Kong, which has one of the strongest economies in Asia, looks much like what Russia did with Crimea. They need Hong Kong to be successful and crushing the resistance might be the only way to keep it going. China also weekend their dollar. This would make their exports cheaper, countering the tariffs. Of course, this really shows the world what China thinks about their people. China basically raised the prices on their own people to allow for cheaper exports to other country. Finally, reports this week state that the Chinese GDP is the lowest it’s been in decades. I’m not sure how long China can hold out.
But the United States is also feeling the pain, though not to the extent China is. Along with bond yields being inverted, the stock market has been very unstable and we are finally seeing higher prices on goods including large goods like cars. But who’s really feeling it is agriculture. The United States exported a lot of grain and soy to China. Now, with Chinese tariffs on agriculture goods and the weakening of their currency, less is being exported. This is taking a toll on the farmers. But they are still supporting the president, for the most part and think that China will cave in the near future.
For the most part, I think this trade war is necessary. Like I said, China has been screwing us for years.I just wish President Trump would have been realistic about it instead of saying how great things are going to be. He should have said that there was going to be some pain from the beginning. He should have played up our economic strength and and extenuated the brittleness of the Chinese economy. He needed to tell us that our economy would take a hit and recession was not out of the question. He actually showed this earlier this week by delaying tariffs on products such as smart phones, televisions and video game consoles so that people would not suffer from higher prices over the holidays. That’s great and all, but it all shows what happens with tariffs. He has done a great job before. He should ride in on that and be honest about what he is doing and how it is going to affect the country.
The Civil War Has Begun
Another ICE facility was attacked this week in San Antonio. Some nut-job decided to shoot at a building holding ICE officials. The FBI is investigating. And the news media’s reaction. Yep, nothing. The democrats don’t seem to care or want to talk about it. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doubled-down on her “concentration camp” crap.
I guess we’re just going to have to wait until an ICE agent is shot and killed before anyone on the left will tone down their hateful rhetoric.
You know, I always question some of the things I have said in previous podcasts. That includes saying that we are close to a civil war. Well, let’s see. A white supremacist shoots up a Walmart in El Paso. A socialist shoots up a bar district in Dayton. An ICE facility is shot up in San Antonio. Antifa is planning to close Portland this weekend and the white nationalist Proud Boys are planning to counter protest. The left is calling everyone a racist. The right is bitching about movies.
We are a mess. The temperature is high. It is only a matter of time before something pops.
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California and Oregon have decided to damn the Constitution of the United States. Because they’re stupid. A new law is going to make it harder for freeloaders to get their Green Cards and the left is throwing a fit. And Hollywood pulls the movie, The Hunt, because it is about a bunch of white, elitist liberals hunting conservative “deplorables” from the south. That is a huge mistake. And Campus Reform is at it again, making our colleges’ Social Justice Warriors look stupid.
Let’s get back to some of the mundane stories of the week.
If at First You Don’t Succeed, Cheat!
The Huffington Post is reporting that the governor of Oregon wants to sign into a law that would ban Presidential candidates from appearing on the ballot if they do not release their tax returns. Gov. Kate Brown said she would definitely sign a bill stating, “We have to hold our elected officials accountable. I think this is just one way of doing it.”
This comes on the heels of Gov. Gavin Newsom, the idiot governor from California, signing a law that would require the release of tax returns in order to be put on the ballot in California. It took about eight minutes for two lawsuits to be filed and against the state for the law and there is very little chance that this law is going to go anywhere. In fact, leftist former California governor Jerry Brown vetoed the same law in 2017 because he did not think it had a chance of holding up in court.
And it doesn’t. There is nothing in the Constitution that allows a state governor to manipulate a ballot against someone he doesn’t like. This law is going to be overturned and overturned big. If this gets to the Supreme Court, this will probably be a unanimous ruling. But I think it is something more than just overzealous governors that will do anything to be gnats in the face of President Trump, annoying him.
This is just another way to cheat the system and make sure there is never another republican politician becoming President again. Don’t forget, democrats have introduced lots of policies that would affect republican votes. The democrats want felons to vote, even if they are still in prison. Mind you, it’s against the Constitution but why worry about that. They give illegal aliens IDs and drivers licenses. That’s bad enough, but they also auto-enroll “citizens to vote. This is what’s happening in California. You think there might be a paperwork snafu that would allow illegal aliens to vote? Noooo.
Then there are the voter ID laws. Democrats don’t want it because it ts…wait for it…racist. In New York, you have to have seventeen different types of identification (I’m not kidding here) to register for a gun. But we don’t need ID to vote? What crap. Then there are the states, democratically controlled, that want districts to pick up ballots for voters. Gee, nothing corrupt could come of that.
Democrats want power. Nothing more. They will do whatever they can to win.They don’t care how they do it, don’t care about ethics and have no trouble cheating. Remember: “the end justify the means.” This was a quote used by AoC when asked about why she has not been honest a lot of the time.
It Is a Privilege to be Here
The Huffington Post reports that the Trump administration is changing the rules when applying or renewing a green card or visas. This law would make changes to something known as the “public charge” rule. Basically, what this rule states that if a person is on a visa or green charge and is a public charge (which is someone who is on some monetary assistance, that can be considered when renewing the visa or green card. The Department of Homeland Security has decided that they wanted to add non-monetary service such as Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) programs.
So, basically, the government thinks that, if you are here as immigrant, you should not have access to these programs. I don’t see a problem with this. But the Huffington Post does.
They first point out that medicaid and SNAP programs are non-monetary programs that should not be bundled up into the welfare programs. They also say that these also are weighed along with English proficiency, income and health conditions. They also state that 8.3 million children, who depend on these programs and are American citizens might be affected and lose their benefits. Of course, the fail to mention why.
Of course the article goes on with nonsensical reasons. Somehow, only the rich would get visas and green cards and those applying might withdraw their applications. The economy will tank and, of course, it’s racist.
I read the article and knew it would be infuriating. And I’ll say it again: I wish the United States would take the immigration policy from the Mexican Constitution, convert it to English and make it the 28th Amendment to the Constitution. Listen, if someone comes to our country, they should acclimate to our country, its values and its language. And you should come into this country with something to offer us. No foreigner has a “right” to be here. It’s a privilege. And we, like every other country in the world, have the right to chose who lives here. Mexico has that exact law in their Constitution. So does most of Central and South America.
And that also goes with governmental benefits. Illegal aliens cost this country between $140 and $200 billion a year. We’re not even sure how much it costs because we don’t know how many illegal aliens we have. I don’t think it’s unreasonable that someone comes to this country should be self-sufficient and not need to take our resources that are reserved for our populace. Now, I’m not saying that someone with a green card and has been working for ten years, loses his job and shouldn’t expect help from the government. I’m talking about the people that come to this country, do the minimum and then go on every form of political assistance. Those leaches need their visas and green cards pulled away and sent back.
I Would Have Seen it
There was a movie released that had all the conservatives going crazy. It was an ultra-violent film about a group of rich leftists that kidnap a bunch of southern, working class “deplorables.” The movie was sold as a satire to the political climate of today. Needless to say, the right went nuts and spent all week last week whining about how terrible the media is to the right. They mentioned that this is another language about the incitful language of the left. Here’s the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8IifEu67yU
OK, everyone calm down. It’s a movie and not even the first of its kind. Hell, it’s not the first of its kind this decade. Does anyone remember The Hunger Games? Pretty sure the premise was pretty much the same. The other thing that kind of trips me out is that this seems like the kind of movie that leans on he conservative side. This movie isn’t complicated. The heros are probably going to be successful and these “deplorables” are easy to sympathize with while the bad guys look like evil sociopaths. I actually wanted to see the movie.
This is what the left does: ruin things for everyone else. I hope the right doesn’t go down the same road.
I Love It When Stupid Is On Purpose
The group, Campus Reform, just released a video showing just how our college students have been indoctrinated into the SJW belief system. For those who do not know who Campus Reform is, they are a conservative student organization that has committed to fighting the left wing policies that our colleges are pushing on to our youth.
One of the things Campus Reform will do is confront our college SJW students with satirical questions. They have been known to say they are quoting Barrack Obama and then we find it is Donald Trump quoted. The when the students find out what was said came from Trump instead of Obama, their reaction is typically priceless. You can watch their videos on YouTube and I suggest you do. Some of them are hysterical.
In this bit, the Campus Reform student asked students and faculty of George Washington University, one of the most liberal universities in the country, asking to replace the white male that is used in the walk/don’t walk signs at street corners. He had a picture suggesting twelve different victim group to replace the white man including a man in a rainbow pattern, a woman, a brown person and a handicap person. Watch the video below:
At the end of the video, there were only two that really said this was not doable. One said it would be really expensive, but signed the petition anyway. The other just waved the guy off and said he was interested in this garbage. But Campus Reform reported that most of the students and one faculty member actually signed the petitions.
So, good job to our universities in teaching our students.
The News is Going South
Tomorrow we are going to need to talk about a couple things that are not good. First, China is having a big problem with Hong Kong. Apparently the citizens of Hong Kong do not like being oppressed by China. So far, the protests have been warm as far as the violence goes but things are beginning to ratchet up.
The U.S. economy got some real bad news today. Could we be heading toward a recession? Wall Street believes so.
Finally, another ICE facility was attacked last night. Nobody was hurt but officials are sure that ICE officials were being targeted. All this is because Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s comments about ICE facilities being concentration camps. In an interview, AoC doubled down and held to her statement that the facilities were concentration camps. I wonder how the media is going to react when an ICE officer is actually killed because the left supports these attacks.
Folks, this is what a modern civil war is going to look like in this country and it is only getting worse.
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I saw both debates last week and I did not talk too much about them. That is because everyone else did. I think it is more important to talk about the subject matter of the debates. The actual issues. You guys have to love me after this. I actually had to watch six hours of the most boring, irrelevant crap again. But I’m trying to be a pod-caster so I got to do what I got to do.
Let’s have some fun!
Introduction
I watched the debates last week and then watched them again this week so I could do this article. I have no interest in rehashing the debate. I do not see the point since everybody seemed to have been doing it. Not to mention, I do not think much of any debate right now because of the sheer number of candidates. There are around fifteen hundred candidates and I want to see the stragglers disappear first. I also know that, right now, these people are just trying to get votes from left’s base. None of them, right now, are worried about winning a general election. Centrists on both sides of the aisle never vote in primaries. All these people are pander bears and are just trying to get nominated. Once nominated, they will go wildly centrist to appease independents and never-Trumpers (which will probably not go well with the left’s base).
So let us not look at the candidates. To be honest, I do not know half of them. Let us look at the issues. Because I think that is going to determine who is going to win in November of 2020.
Climate Change
I was a little surprised here. The talk of climate change was very moderate. I think some did not even bring it up and the moderators never really pushed it. It was brought up by the candidates but all they said was that there is a problem but offered no solutions. All everyone basically said, to standing applause is, “…and we need to address climate change!” There were a couple of mentions about the Green New Deal, but no one really committed to it. They said they liked some of it but would not commit to any part of it.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez really screwed her party for 2020. Nancy Pelosi might as well pack up the rest of her dentures and leave Washington D.C because she is no longer relevant in politics. That is a bad thing. These dem candidates are going to have to take a stand on the Green New Deal. If they do not, they will get killed in a general election. Unfortunately for them, science and economics are on the side of Trump when it comes to climate change. According to NASA, the average temperature have gone up .8 degrees in the last hundred years. We need to go up by two to three degrees before we have to worry about this.
Economists Paul Romer and William Nordhaus won the Nobel Prize is economics this year. They wrote a paper called Integrating Innovation and Climate with Economic Growth. I guess if you just put “climate” in a paper you will be up for Nobel Prize and loved by the media. Unfortunately, when someone read the paper, which I did, things are not as disastrous as they were made out to be. According to the paper, climate trends point that we will not have an issue until 2100 and it would only cost 4% of GDP from each country to correct the the problem. Of course, that is only if we blame everything on man-made climate change. We would have to ignore the Earth wobbling and we would have to ignore some astrophysics that this is normal Earth.
And then there is this thing that is always ignore and seems pretty scientific. We probably have 150 years of climate history out of millions years of actual climate history and they are making absolute claims about it. I just am not sure spending trillions of dollars for something we do not even know about is something the voters are going to go for. Especially when China, India, Mexico and a bunch of African countries are doing nothing to curb their emissions.
Oh, yeah. The Green New Deal will cost $93 trillion over ten years. That is going to require a huge increase in taxes. Good luck with that.
Medicare for All
This is also going to be a real tough sell for voters.
The democrats, especially Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, want to replace all private health insurance that people get from work. Instead, we are all going to get stuck with federally funded solution. Which means we are not going to have any healthcare. This is a bad system and it has never really worked. It is going to cost trillions of dollars and will destroy the healthcare industry. Doctors are going to get stuck with a standardized fee. This will discourage well qualified people from trying to become doctors and patients will be seen by less qualified people like nurse practitioners and physician’s assistants, which means healthcare will be rationed like it is in other federally funded healthcare..
Here is the thing about universal healthcare or any government run service. It does not work. That is because the government sucks at everything. And they are going to suck at healthcare. Look at how the government messed up the VA hospitals. People were dying because they could not see a doctor in a timely fashion. In Canada, the universal healthcare program is rationed. You will not get to see a doctor right away when one is needed and the service is bad. The public administrators will even recommend to patients that they get some sort of supplemental insurance, which Canada allows, and see a private doctor. Steven Crowder, who was born in Canada, did an undercover investigation about the Canadian healthcare system. Take a look:
The left will point to Sweden and Norway, stating that these countries have universal healthcare and it works and works well. And they would be kind of right. Kind of. But not completely. They have panels in Sweden and Norway that will approve certain treatments and procedures. So if one has a rare form of cancer and his life depends on a non approved treatment. Good luck. These are better known as death panels. Kind of an extreme term but it does exist. The other issue that explains why these countries kind of succeed is there population. Sweden has just under 10 million people and Norway has just over 5 million. The United States has 330 million citizens and anywhere between 15 and 40 million illegal aliens. And that does matter with universal healthcare.
Oh, yeah. It will cost about $7 trillion a year. That is going to require a tax increase.
Socialism
No, no, no. Not going to happen.
No one wants socialism except for the left. It has never succeeded and it has always lead to poverty, suffering, death and tyranny. Democrats want to lose the next election, keep pushing socialism.
Gun Control/Confiscation
This is going to be a tougher one for republicans. Not only do leftists support gun control but so do liberals. A lot of left-of-center liberals believe our gun laws are too loose. And, with electronic media plaguing the world, we hear about every bit of violence, no matter what the story is or if we even have the story, and go on social media and politicize the story immediately. There are morons like Swalwell and Warren that want to confiscate our guns, limit the number of rounds one can buy and raise the gun age to twenty-one. So a soldier can shoot a weapon in the army at eighteen but cannot buy a gun. Oh, yeah! And we have to have background checks, even if a father wants to give a son a gun.
There are going to be some huge problems for democrats. First off, most in the country do not believe in gun control. Even some of the liberal states like Vermont, Massachusetts and Colorado are against gun limits or some heavy-handed gun control. In fact, 38 of the 50 states believe in gun rights. That’s why the Second Amendment has never been seriously challenged with repeal. We already do have stringent background checks and waiting period for handguns. Those background checks check military history (dishonorable discharge is disqualifying), criminal record (domestic violence is disqualifying), citizenship and mental capacity. To sit back and say that gun regulations are non-existent is just untrue. And, by the way, if we make it criminal to have a gun, only criminals will have guns. It’s a cliche, I know. But it’s true. I would even go so far as to say these gun-free zones is basically inviting criminals. I think schools should allow teachers who want to be armed to be armed. I guards should be armed and very trained. They should expect someone to attack and always be prepared. Not like that garbage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida last year.
But here’s the kicker and will guarantee nothing will be done to overthrow these rights: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” That is the Second Amendment. I know a lot of people come of with many different reasons to make the amendment seem outdated. Only the government can create a militia (that’s garbage, the revolutionaries were not soldiers). The Second Amendment to apply to assault rifles. Dumb argument. There is no definition of an assault rifle or weapons of war. But I will go a step further: the amendment does protect your right to have an “assault” rifle. The amendment wants you to have a rifle to defend from the tyranny of an overbearing government, not for hunting. Damn, the muskets of the 18th century were weapons of war!
This is a bad policy for democrats to stand on.
Illegal Immigration/Healthcare off Illegal Aliens
This is a loser for democrats. The country, or at least the sane branch of it, does not want open borders. They do not want illegal aliens getting free healthcare, food stamps, low income housing and a pathway to citizenship. Most people do not care that these people are put in a jail from breaking the law and that those jails may suck. Jails suck, don’t break the law, you won’t end up in jail.
This is a loser for democrats and we are going to see them turn. This is an issue that show the true nature of the democrat party. Right, democrats have to pander to the Antifa and Ocasio-Cortez left to get through a primary. But this policy is suicide in a general election. If the democratic candidate actually went and backed these policies, I would say Trump wins 45 states, maybe 48. California, Washington State, Oregon and New York and they are getting killed with poverty, homelessness, disease and high taxes. And they want to support want to support people who are now allowed to be here?
Yeah, good luck with that.
Racism
If I am spending some time on Twitter and I am not called a sexist, bigot, homophobe, misogynist, alt-right, xenophobe that hates children, I lost the debate I was having. I mean, misogynist is a clinical term of hate. Anything that ends with -phobe means you have a mental problem.
These terms have been overused and I hold a badge of honor because it tells me I won the debate. Well, you know that already. Spent an entire podcast on how to debate.
Abortion
This has become another hot point for the democrats. And they are burying themselves over it. It all started over this statement by Ralph Northam, governor for Virginia.
This statement launched the infanticide debate where some people and the left has embraced it. Now, all the democratic candidates are embracing abortion up until the moment of birth. I am not exactly sure how we got from, “legal, safe and rare” led to abortion when the baby is fully developed.
The is a disaster for the democrats. Their position, which was tolerated by the right, is now seen for what it is: genocide. The anti-abortion push has been extreme. More people today are against abortion than ever before. And, what’s worse, there does not seem to be any limits. I do not see the difference between killing a baby three days before a baby is born and killing a baby three days after it’s born. I think that’s the problem a lot of people who are neutral when it comes to abortion are having a problem with. This is just too much and where is the limit? This extreme will get a candidate past the primary but sticking to this will not get someone elected in a general election.
I have a podcast on my thoughts on abortion if you want to check it out.
Free College
I was pretty smart. I wanted to go to college at UCLA or UC Berkley. I didn’t. Cause I couldn’t afford it. I went to Cal State Northridge. After I graduated, I wanted to go to law school. I didn’t. Because I had two kids and a wife that couldn’t work and I couldn’t afford the $200,000 tuition. I took a job teaching computer networking, got paid well, sharpened my skill and have a career. I worked full time and am proud of my degree even if I did not use it. I bought my books, paid off my moderate loans, worked hard and have a degree I never used until now.
She is so stupid. This speech, by itself, proves she should not be a government official. Bad language alert: Fuck you, AoC.
Let me point a couple of things out in this little diatribe of hers. She told a 17-year-old to take out $250,000 in student loans? I hope she was going to be a doctor and not study Lesbian Dance Theory because she will never be able to pay that off otherwise. AoC might as well told her to buy that Rolls Royce she always wanted! This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard! College taught my fiscal responsibility, logic and the value of hard work. For a degree I do not use!
But the big thing in her little speech is that she has student loan debt she’s having trouble paying! She is a United States congressman (no I didn’t say congresswoman or congressperson) earning $175,000 a year and she can’t pay her school debt? And I’m suppose to trust this broad to create laws that will determine the course of our economy? Fuck that! She should be kicked out of Congress just because of that stupid speech. She’s fiscally irresponsible. Her Green New Deal proves that.
Listen, just to kill college debt today will cost $4 trillion dollars. It’s not sustainable and college is not a right. We should spend more time teaching our kids to be fiscally responsible and there are consequences. Not to mention, this could open the flood gates for far worse decisions such as paying off credit card debt, car payments and mortgages. Just a really bad idea.
Insanity
Ben Shapiro said it best. All democrats have to to do is not be crazy. I am paraphrasing it, that’s why I’m not quoting it. Well, there was some crazy on that stage.
Let look at with Robert Francis, I mean, Beto:
He spend a minute and nine seconds answering that question, forty-five of it in Spanish, and he never answered the question! In fact, the moderators even pointed out he did not answer the question. Beto is done.
But, crazy of the night came from “writer” Marianne Williamson. She had like three questions all night, this was the most awesome, but it was not the only awesome question. The chick is absolutely crazy!
This gal is awesome! I hope she wins the nomination. Can you imagine her debating Trump? And the funny nicknames he’d come up with? Sanitarium Mary, Mad Mary, Mental Case Mary, Weird Williamson. I could not find a lot of synonyms for crazy that started with a “W” but I’m sure Donald T. will figure something out.
Such fun stuff!
Who Won?
Trump won. I think Fox News sums it up really well.
These people looked insane. Sorry, they did. The democratic base has gone so far left, 75% is like, what the fuck? Here is the problem they are going to have, especially because there are going to be, at least, two more debates: They are going to have to commit to weird stuff and people are going to hear it. If they decide to stick with those positions, 75% of the population is going to think they are crazy and will not vote for them. If they decide to back off those positions, they are going to be seen as inauthentic and lying. And they will lose big.
The alt-Left group, Antifa, and the alt-Right group, the Proud Boys clash in Portland this weekend. And, as usual, the innocent are the ones that get hurt. Conservative journalist, Andy Ngo, was assaulted and hospitalized when he was reporting from the protest. Three Antifa rioters were arrested.
Andy Ngo
The Proud Boys are an alt-Right racist group. Their founder, Gavin McInnes, is a well known racist and fascist. There is no question that this group is bad and should be rejected by civilized society. They are a terrible group. The media pushes this image of the groups and they should.
But Antifa is a different story. For some reason, the news media refuses to condemn this violent group that has done nothing but disrupt daily life and assault those they do not agree with while pushing to try to overturn the United States government. Most of Antifa hold the same basic beliefs: the United States a a racist, sexist and unfair government that needs to be shut down. People who say things they do not agree with must be shut down at any cost, including through violence if necessary. What is ironic is that, though they accuse everyone else of racist,including blacks like Candace Owens, most members are twenty-something white people.
So, why does the media defend them? Let’s listen to dumbass Don Lemon give a stupid reason to defend Antifa:
This stupidity is exactly what CNN has been peddling. Chris Cuomo said the same thing. Well, Antifa is a hate group, terror organization and promotes fascism. But I think we need to know what fascism is and how it compares to communism and socialism. Are Trump, his supporters and conservatives really fascists?
Political vs. Economic System
One thing I want to go over is the difference between a political system and an economic system. A political system is how a government is run. Our government is a democratic republic. That mean we have the ability to vote for representatives in the House, Senate and for President (that’s the democracy part) and those representatives create and vote on laws (that’s the republic part). Contrary to popular belief we are not a pure democracy. Our economic system is capitalism. Capitalism is basically a free market of lightly regulated economy. So we are a democratic republic with a capitalist economy.
So why do I bring this up? For two reasons. First, because all my definitions define each of these as an economic and political system. That’s just not true. When we talk about Hitler and refer to him as a fascist, that does not mean he ran a fascist government (i’m not sure there is such a thing as a fascist political system). Nazi Germany was a dictatorship with a fascist economic system. It’s important to see the difference. The next reason is because it will clarify terms that are being thrown around like “democratic socialist”. Basically, a democratic socialist believes that the government should have a democratic political system, where people vote, and a socialist economic system, where the government controls the means of production and all business.
Fascism
Vocabulary.com defined fascism as, “Fascism is a way of ruling that advocates total control of the people.” Fascist governments believe in the collective over the individual and are typically dictatorships. Speech is suppressed, they are typically atheist and are militaristic. Those that do not fall in line face imprisonment or worse. What is different about fascist governments from socialist governments is that the economics system still remains private but heavily regulated. Also, race may or may not be a factor. Germany was a fascist country that was heavily racist but Italy did not persecute other races or religions until after it had allied with the Nazis.
It was mistakenly believed that Nazi Germany was the first fascist. Government. But that’s just not true. Germany was a socialist country that became fascist. Italy was the first fascist country under dictator Benito Mussolini. In his book, The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left, Dinesh D’Souza describe Mussolini as “half-assed” when it came to implementing a socialist system. Mussolini was a socialist but thought that nationalizing business in Italy would be way too hard to do and way too unpopular to stay in power. So he decided just to allow businesses to be privately run and just placed heavy regulation.
Hitler was a socialist. He wanted to nationalize business so they were all government run. But he saw how well the fascist regime in Italy was doing and decided to do the same thing. The United States under Franklin D. Roosevelt also leaned toward fascism. One of the agencies established by the New Deal was the National Recovery Administration (NRA). The goal if this was to eliminate the “vicious” competition of capitalism. It was suppose to set codes of “fair practices” (regulations) and set prices. Companies that abide by the regulations and set prices were made a member of the NRA and could put a sticker in their windows. Businesses that were members of the NRA were sponsored by the government and citizens were suppose to be encouraged to frequent those businesses. This is a prime example of a fascist policy. The U.S. Supreme Court thought so to. They unanimously found to be unconstitutional in 1935 because the declared the government infringed on the separation of powers.
In conclusion, fascism is an economic system that allows for private industry that is heavily regulated by the government.
Socialism
Merriam-Webster.com defines socialism as, “any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods. 2a : a system of society or group living in which there is no private property.” Essentially, socialism does away with private business and the concept of the individual. The collective or the community is what owns and controls business (whatever that means).
Essentially, all business is controlled by the government as a proxy to the people. In a true socialist economy (impossible), money is collected from the businesses run by the central government and then being redistributed in the form of money and services. No one in a socialist economy is, theoretically, above anyone else (we know that’s not true). There are only a few truly socialist economies in the world and they are not healthy. Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea are the main examples that come to mind. And we see just how terrible those places are.
Socialism is a great idea on paper but can never work. Why? Because of people. Human beings aren’t robots. People are competitive animals that want to be rewarded when they succeed. Socialism takes the competition away. That’s socialist economies do not innovate. They create nothing and what they do create is trash. Look at the disaster that was the Soviet Union. The economy, even with all the resources it had, was not much richer than Italy. That’s why the United States was able to choke them out and force their collapse. The Nordic countries that lefties point to as socialist models are actually not socialist. Countries like Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands are actually free markets with distributive (socialist) policies. But even those countries are beginning to feel the bite of the nanny state and are dialing back on re-distribution. China, which for the longest time was a socialist economy when Mao took over, has started embracing private industry since the 70’s and 80’s. Private companies open factories their and sell to the Chinese. You can find a McDonald’s, a KFC, Taco Bell and other United States businesses operating in China. The remaining socialist’s policies still make the country far weaker economically than the United States.
In conclusion, socialism is an economic system where the means of production and business is controlled by the government. The government controls distribution of wealth, market prices and production.
Communism
Quora.com defined communism as, “a political and economic system in which the major productive resources in a society—such as mines, factories, and farms—are owned by the public or the state, and wealth is divided among citizens equally or according to individual need.” Sounds familiar, right? When some asks the difference between communism and socialism, the common answer is a firing squad. And that’s what it is.
Communism is a totalitarian government. People own nothing and any property, from land to a bike is property of the government and can be taken for whatever reason. Those that resist in any way including talking bad about the government, religion or even reading the wrong book can lead to arrest, imprisonment, torture or worse. The citizens are not seen as people but as commodities that can be assigned tasks which must be completed. If those tasks are not completed as expected, you can be sure a punishment is on the horizon.
In conclusion, communism is a political and economic system that in totalitarian in nature. The government controls all production and can seize, forcibly if necessary, all property for the good of the state.
So What’s This Got to Do With Antifa?
Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin did not do it alone. That had a strong, violent force. Hitler had the Brown Shirts. Mussolini had the Black Shirts. Stalin had the NKVD. These secret and personal police worked outside the local police and the army. They were the strong arms of these tyrants. These people would imprison, torture and kill any dissenters, whether they were guilty or not. They would break up any protests with extreme violence.
The left has the same force: Antifa. And it’s in the guise of being an anti-fascist group. Well, it’s not. The discourage debate. They shout down opposition. And they are militant and violent. They are the left’s Black Shirts. They are the left’s Brown Shirts. The are the left’s NKVD. And they are being encouraged to continue. In Seattle and Portland, Antifa is not restrained in any way for fear police intervention will increase tensions and violence. Well, let’s look at what happened to Andy Ngo and ask ourselves if police would have made things worse.
But we continually see this. At UC Berkeley, Antifa disrupted a speech by Milo Yiannopoulos. The police were told to stand down and Antifa did a $1 million in damage. And as usual, the media throw half-hearted condemnation and then, in the same sentence, justify the violence as a counter to “hate speech”. Listen to another video by Fleccas talking to a bunch of Antifa and you’ll get an idea of the thought process of these people.
Not only do these people want to shut down speech and thought and want to eliminate opposing idea through violence, the cease to be a group that protests. They are now a fascist hate group trying to control their opponents through fear.
So, Is Trump a Nazi or Fascist?
Nope. He’s not.
He can’t be a fascist because he’s a capitalist. He doesn’t control the media (Obama did). They can say whatever they want and they do. He doesn’t regulate business. In fact, he’s cut regulation and government interference in business (democrats increased regulation). He doesn’t jail his foes (Obama did).
Is Trump a Nazi? Well, Nazis were socialists that became fascists. So no for the same reasons as above.
This is a bigger problem. It means that the political left and the moderate right is growing farther apart. This means less discourse. Less reason. We are now talking about open boarders, medicare for illegal aliens, socialism, gun confiscation, the destruction of religion, the addition of infinite pronouns and abortion to the moment of birth and beyond. Donald Trump is only going to be President for another six years but this fight is going to be here for much longer. And we need to hold our ground. Because we are on the right side.
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