A sort of amusing but scary reaction to Sinema shaking hands of Republicans after the vote
an example threatening violence
announced her decision to hear the high courtâs oral arguments from a remote location in order to protect herself from exposure to the U.S. Constitution.
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The tyrants of the 1/6 Inquisition and their extrajudicial investigations
The Congressional 1/6 Committee has been secretly obtaining private information about American citizens en masse : telephone records, email logs, internet and browsing history, and banking transactions. And it has done so without any limitations or safeguards: no judicial oversight, no need for warrants, no legal limitations of any kind.
Indeed, the committee has been purposely attempting to prevent citizens who are the targets of their investigative orders to have any opportunity to contest the legality of this behavior in court. As we reported in October, the committee sent dozens if not hundreds of subpoenas to telecom companies demanding a wide range of email and other internet records, and â without any legal basis â requested that those companies not only turn over those documents but refrain from notifying their own customers of the request.
In other words, lawyers for the committee and Loretta Lynch created a plot whereby JPMorgan would notify Budowich of its intent to hand over the documents right before Christmas, so as to purposely deny him time to seek a court ruling, and then used the fact that he was "too lateâ in filing as a ground for arguing that the court should shut its doors to him and refuse to even give him a hearing. The court agreed that Budowichâs request for an emergency injunction was âmootâ given that the bank already handed supplied the documents
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Wait! I think I remember her. Something about a secret meeting with Bill Clinton in an airplane on the tarmac . . . . where their discussion was limited to trading stories about their grandchildren . . . . even though Ms. Lynch has no grandchildren?
Something like that . . . working from memory here no Google. . . was it in Louisiana?
And wasnât Hillary under Justice Department investigation at the time?
Saying all Democrats are snakes is an insult and an affront to snakes.
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Arizona, if I recall correctly.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has sparked a fierce backlash for a comment where he distinguished between African American voters and Americans.
Oh good lord. How else can you determine disparate impact on a minority, than by comparing their rates to those of the whole?
A pretty fair âfact checkingâ of Bidenâs press conference, from CNN of all places, at least of the 6 claims they decided to address. It almost seemed like they were trying to call him on these things, but just couldnt quite bring themselves to throw him entirely under the bus.
Of course, they did not fact-check whether asking about the possibility of preemptive action in the Ukrane really is a stupid question.
McConnell, an older person, simply misspoke, omitting the word âotherâ. And the Democrats are crucifying him for it. Typical Democrat BS.
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I think an omitted âallâ was implied. He was comparing the African American voting rate with the voting rate of Americans as a whole.
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How Biden torched the Trump recovery
From The Hill:
By Liz Peek
The White House celebrated its first-year economic achievements by tweeting: âWhen @POTUS and @VP were sworn in, our economy was on the brink of collapse.â
That is a flat-out lie.
As Biden first set foot in the Oval Office a year ago, real GDP was growing at 6.3 percent, inflation was 1.4 percent, the price of gasoline was $2.39 a gallon and Michiganâs consumer sentiment index stood at 79. Today, real growth has slowed to just over 2 percent, inflation is at 7 percent, gas is up to $3.31 a gallon and the Michigan Index is 68.8.
In addition, real wages dropped 2.4 percent over the past year, with inflation overwhelming pay hikes after several years of gains under President Trump.
In just one year, Biden has managed to torch an economy that was recovering robustly when he took office. One bad decision after another, compounded, to be sure, by certain events beyond his control, have scuttled the turnaround that was well underway the day he became president.
His major mistakes? Depressing oilfield investment, reversing U.S. oil output and leaving us at the mercy of OPEC and higher gasoline prices; stoking out-of-control federal spending with the Democrat-only American Rescue Plan (ARP), sidelining millions of workers and fueling an ongoing labor shortage; delivering mask mandates that have exacerbated that worker shortage; ignoring the resulting inflation until voters rebelled, demanding the Federal Reserve take what may be harsh measures to change course.
Those are just the high points.
Biden apologists will claim that 1) the omicron variant is to blame for our slowdown, 2) growth a year ago was fueled by federal spending boosted by COVID-19 relief bills and 3) on the positive side, we have significantly lower unemployment.
Those points are correct, but they do not excuse the hash Biden has made of the Trump recovery.
First, the omicron variant is certainly causing a slowdown in growth. But consider that a year ago, delta â a much deadlier form of COVID-19 â was raging, causing 4,380 deaths in the U.S. on Jan. 20, Bidenâs inauguration day. Vaccines had just been introduced, people were scared and there were no known therapeutics.
Today, the seven-day average of deaths from COVID is running a little below 2,000. Omicron is dominant. Vaccines, which significantly lower the odds of serious illness and death, are widely available, while various therapeutics are emerging.
In other words, the threat from COVID has declined; why should omicron be a bigger problem for growth than the earlier delta variant? Could it be that the over-the-top mask and vaccine mandates and dire warnings of gloom from the Biden White House, faithfully rebroadcast by the media, have dampened Americaâs animal spirits?
Consider the course of consumer sentiment, which plunged in 2020 with the onset of the virus but had recovered much of its lost ground by the beginning of 2021 despite the ongoing challenges of the pandemic.
Under Biden, sentiment has slumped again, hitting levels recently not seen since the Great Recession. That is bad news; consumers need to feel optimistic to spend money. It is, of course, mainly consumer spending that drives our economy, and we recently felt the effects of that sentiment decline.
This past month, retail spending fell 1.9 percent, surprising economists looking for a 0.1 percent fall-off. Analysts attributed the decline to concerns about inflation. A year ago, in January 2021, retail spending jumped 5.3 percent, well above the 1.2 percent expectation.
As to the impact from federal relief bills, Congress passed a $900 billion aid bill in December 2020, in addition to the $2.2 trillion bipartisan CARES Act passed earlier, both of which propped up spending entering 2021. Millions of Americans received $600 relief checks in late 2020, and promptly spent them.
On the other hand, Democrats under Biden have kept the federal spigots wide open. In March 2021 they passed with no GOP votes the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan. Unlike the previous bills, however, the ARP was not primarily geared towards buoying spending or helping small businesses survive.
Instead, it directed hundreds of billions of dollars to Democratic supporters like the teacher unions and more hundreds of billions to bail out blue cities and states that had locked down their economies in response to the pandemic.
In addition, there was less urgency built into the ARP; the Congressional Budget Office estimated that some 40 percent of total outlays would go out between 2022 and 2030.
The only ârescueâ underway was for moderate Democratic politicians about to be tossed by voters disgusted with the partyâs far-left agenda.
Worse for the country, Democrats passed the ARP even as inflation had begun to rear its ugly head, and even as it was becoming clear that too many Americans were not returning to the work force. The ARP exacerbated these negative trends by extending unemployment and other benefits even as job openings soared.
Studies showed that millions of Americans were making more from the generous government payments than they would returning to their jobs.
Consequently, Joe Bidenâs party oversaw the worst of all worlds: more federal spending thrown on top of a red-hot economy, driving up demand even as supply bottlenecks proliferated, labor shortages worsened and inflation took root. Republicans were correct to boycott the damaging Rescue Plan.
Joe Bidenâs big claim to fame is the recovery in jobs during his first year. Of course, if you shut down businesses, tossing millions out of work, and then reopen them, the employment numbers will improve.
Actually, they had begun to improve when Joe took office; the January 2021 employment report showed a minor uptick in jobs. As the pace of reopening accelerated, so did employment.
To credit Biden with that inevitable turnaround seems idiotic, especially since almost three million fewer people are working today than when the virus hit in February 2020. But let him claim victory on that front; after all, itâs all heâs got.
Liz Peek is a former partner of major bracket Wall Street firm Wertheim & Company.
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A new Biden appointee will control the federal election commission.
https://www.axios.com/biden-lindenbaum-elections-fec-b7c22cd8-6172-4a4b-8556-9bd651aab5d1.html
Iâm sure theyâll find Trump was guilty of trying to run against the Dear Leader and therefore needs to be charged and disqualified. Anything less would be election interference and a grave threat to our democracy.
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According to a Pentagon report about what transpired that day, as rioters called for Vice President Mike Pence to be hanged, Pence himself made an urgent call for help to acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller, pleading: âClear the Capitol!â
Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) also desperately pleaded in a phone call with military leaders to deploy the National Guard
Is it just me, or does this sound like everyone was refusing to ask Trump for help, instead trying to get the support directly? And the military wouldnt, because, obviously, that isnt how the chain of command works. Itâs a stretch to claim you pleaded with military leaders, when you did not call the one military leader responsible for issuing such an order. I think it could be argued that trying to get troops deployed by bypassing the chain of command is in fact an attempted coup, much moreso than anything theyâve put so much effort into railing against.
Trump did not make a request for National Guard troops to secure the Capitol that day, according to Pentagon spokesman John Kirby. âWe have no record of such an order being given,â he told The Washington Postâs Fact Checker.
He did âapprove the activationâ of the Guard prior to Jan. 6, The Associated Press reported.
So, he did have troops ready. He never claimed to give the order to deploy, so Iâm not sure what theyâre âfact checkingâ here - he was prepared, but no one asked him to because they were too busy calling people who couldnt give that order. The whole thing almost seems calculated.
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The progressive racist playbook
The most common justification for the new segregation is that racial minorities suffer disparities that must be rectified through âpositiveâ discrimination, which is presented as a solution for Americaâs historical racismâŚ
How is this kind of policy even possible? As legal scholars have made clear, all of these programs are blatantly unconstitutional: they violate the Fourteenth Amendmentâs Equal Protection Clause and, additionally, the Civil Rights Actâs prohibition against racial segregation. Nevertheless, the new segregation is slowly embedding itself in every domain of public policy. The gambit, for the progressives who support it, is to establish a new status quoâso-called âantiracist discriminationââand to use their superior cultural power to intimidate the majority into acquiescence.
For now, they appear to be succeeding.
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As between the Pelosi/Schumer duo, and Trump:
They would never dream of asking Trump for anything. The duo and Trump were oil and water.
Now should they have done so? Technically and in light of the chain of command? Of course. But for Democrats politics and hate trump the chain of command every time. Schumer and Pelosi are two of the most despicable people in this country.
With the censure of Senator Sinema by the radical socialist/Marxist Democrats in Arizona, the following is posted for your information:
At the present time Democrat primary elections in Arizona are âsemi openâ. This means unaffiliated voters, and of course registered Democrats, may vote in the Democrat primary. However, voters registered in another party are not permitted to vote in this election.
Hence crossover primary voting could become a problem for Senator Sinema. Republicans wishing to support her would have first to re-register as Democrats in order to gain primary ballot access. Sinemaâs term does not expire until 2024 anyway. A whole lot can, and will, happen between now and then.
In a related matter, itâll be interesting to see whether or not Senator Kelly is able to hang onto his seat this fall. If he loses it will be a good thing for Senator Sinemaâs future prospects.
On a personal note I think the Gadsden Purchase, and especially Tucson, might have been a mistake. Tucson in particular should be returned to Mexico . . . . . . . GRATIS!!
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Ukraine uncertainties. Perhaps more truth to this than weâd like.
But that oil company pays Hunter $50K a month, and do you know how expensive art lessons are these days, Vlad? You lay one finger on Burismaâs boardroom, and so help me I will nuke Stalingrad.'"
Ukrainian officials were reportedly caught off guard, and a little perturbed, by President Bidenâs approval of them being invaded. âI thought we were friends. I gave him all that borscht,â said President Zelensky. âWhat even is a âminor invasionâ? Is this some American term I donât know? I thought I heard him say that before about a woman named Tara Reade. Get me my translator!â
In 2020, we had record turnout in an election that made voting far easier than at any time in history (and the GOP picked up seats in the House). If we are in a crisis of voter suppression, itâs a very strange one. The evidence that Republican vote-suppression tactics actually work in practice is absent; the assumption that higher turnout always benefits Democrats is highly dubious; and many Democratic states have appallingly cumbersome electoral systems, like New Yorkâs. Does that make Chuck Schumer a âwhite supremacistâ?
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As usual Sullivan is confused. What suppression tactics? You mean the return to the way we voted for decades?