Climate and energy are becoming more topical in the presidential election.
Here are a few articles that I’ve recently spotted:
Why this could finally be the election where climate change matters [link]
Remaining Contenders Differ Radically on Climate, Fuels [link] …
Hillary Clinton’s climate and energy policies explained [link]
Meet Donald Trump’s energy advisor [link]
@wrmead wrote one of the best essays about @realDonaldTrump in January: [link]…
Donald Trump reading list [link]
Taxes: one of the bright lines distinguishing Trump from Clinton [link]
Trump and the Latin-Americanization of U.S. politics [link]
JC note: I have one more extremely busy week, then I will be able to focus on the blog and post more new material. For the past several months, I’ve been able to do little more than keep up with current events.
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An interesting tweet:
Trump called her “Pocahontas”. A kill-shot. She’s out.
==> “Does Warren not live in a $5.4 million mansion?”
Yet more class warfare from rightwingers…
Yeah so? What exactly is wrong with class warfare?
There is nothing wrong with class warfare. It’s an age-old American tradition that the wealthy have been winning so easily that the rest of us don’t have a chance. Nearly all of our congressmen fit that category.
However, it is incredibly hypocritical to cry about Elizabeth Warren’s $5.4 million home while supporting Trump.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/politicians/warren.asp
FWIW — Warren’s home is worth less than $5.4 million and she never gained advantage from her “Native American” status. Harvard placed her name on a minority faculty list of which she was unaware.
The only hypocrite is Pocahontas.
Write that down.
She gets all the Bernie supporters who couldn’t care less about this typical Republican dogwhistle BS.
No she doesn’t. I certainly hope Hillary picks her but Warren I’m afraid doesn’t even rise to the level of useful idi0t and Hillary’s smart enough to know that.
Hillary won’t pick her. You won’t have two New Yorkers on the Dem ticket. It’s just another unfounded Republican fear that makes them vent like this.
Argue the facts Jim.
Does Warren not live in a $5.4 million mansion?
Did she not claim Native American status to get a paid teaching spot?
I’ll be teaching a class of 6th graders this week for Junior Achievement – “Global Marketplace” – except unlike Warren, I’m not getting paid a dime. If I was able to collect $350,000 for teaching one course, I might be able to retire after the first year.
Funny thing is I’ll bet I could do a better job of it then Senator “Pocahontas”.
Hillary is really a carpetbagger from Arkansas and not a New Yorker so it isn’t as big a problem as the “Pocahontas” label.
What does the Pocahontas label mean to you?
This is an answer to the questions which are the same ones from a few years ago.
http://www.snopes.com/Politics/politicians/warren.asp
This is on Warren’s family and Native American ancestry claims. An idea there is that DNA nowadays can answer that question, even if not very specifically. Either way, It is family lore that goes back to her childhood, so she did not make it up for convenience.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/05/is-elizabeth-warren-native-american-or-what/257415/
https://www.google.com/search?q=warren+pocahontas&espv=2&biw=1072&bih=711&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj77NKGneDMAhXD1IMKHc_vAvIQ_AUIBigB
ROFLMAO!
Kill shot. Talk about something that might actually happen not some 1960’s retread.
JimD she is not a New Yorker. She is the Senior Senator from Massachusetts.
OK, yes. That might make it more likely.
Jim D – “She gets all the Bernie supporters…”
No, she doesn’t. According to the right wingers at CBS (?), 44 % of the Bernistas in WV take their ball and vote for Trump:
http://www.salon.com/2016/05/13/bernie_supporters_wont_vote_hillary_a_chilling_new_development_in_the_clinton_campaign_partner/
Bernie is downright lovable compared to the chilly Clinton.
With Warren, she would get a lot of Bernie voters because Warren is very much in the Sanders mold in terms of populism. Bernie would also endorse that ticket very easily. The only better VP choice on that side may be Bernie himself.
timg56. Did she claim Native American status to get a paid teaching spot? Please use a citation because my memory is that being part Native American and she put that fact on her undergrad form. Any evidence you can provide will be appreciated.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/politicians/warren.asp
Penn State and Harvard won’t release her personnel record but both listed her as a Native American faculty member. She has never proven she’s got any Indian in her either. Both Penn State and Harvard both need to meet affirmative action minority quotas so it’s up to you to decide whether they hired her to fill a quota.
Daniel,
I’m not arguing the points, the poster is. I’m simply asking Jim D to argue the same points, not whether they are accurate or not.
Interesting that apparently Trump got a tax credit in New York that you can only get if earn less than $500,000 a year.
Yes, to the tune of $302 each year. As one newspaper put it, this is how the rich get richer. OMG, I wonder if he hired a team of tax attorneys to squeeze this one out.
Apparently the state errored in carrying over the tax credit after they changed the tax code. Do you think he was losing sleep over this problem?
The candidates on nuclear energy.
Hillary:
Trump:
http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/20/heres-where-the-2016-candidates-stand-on-nuclear-power/
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Good information. Trump makes sense.
Under Bill Clinton’s administration (with Al Gore as VP) a fast breeder project called the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) was shut down. James Hansen mentions this in his book, Storms of My Grandchildren. In the movie Pandora’s Promise, starting at about one hour in, they describe how they tested the IFR by actually pulling the plug on all the auxilary power and cooling pumps to make sure it couldn’t melt down:
I talk about Trump’s climate/energy policy today at MasterResource: https://www.masterresource.org/trump-donald/trumps-demotion-of-climate-alarmism-sounds-good-to-me/
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Good article Rob. Trump is all about common sense. I like that. He should have a sit-down with Bjorn Lomborg they would have much in common.
After spending untold barrels of ink trying to paint Donald Trump as having “authoritarian” tendencies, look who emerges as being pretty darned authoritarian themselves:
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You’re just repeating yourself. You already made a huge deal of this with lots of pictures in the previous thread.
For once I agree.
They gotta choose between Clintoncatatonia and Bernezuela. Hmmm…what to do, what to do…?
Nevada Democratic Convention: The Videos You Need to See
http://heavy.com/news/2016/05/nevada-democratic-convention-raw-video-videos-full-replay-sanders-delegates-election-fraud-jason-llanes-periscope-youtube/
As a Canadian I thought the show in the US with Trump was amusing. Then I find out my government (Ontario) wants to phase out natural gas for heating homes, and go all electric. The price of electricity has already doubled in the last few years because of feed in tarriffs for useless wind and solar projects. And they want to get rid of gas powered cars. All by 2030. I hope Trump doesn’t build a northern wall, I might need to cross over just to stay warm.
How much is gasoline in Toronto? Still so expensive it has to be packaged by the liter instead of the gallon I imagine. Last time I crossed the border into Canada was 1991 and I recall how expensive it was buy gas there and the novelty of buying it by the liter.
Isn’t Canada Metric? what else would they sell a fluid by? Now if they start charging by the Mililiter…
Decalitre.
We just got Conservatives in Manitoba (Hurrah!) after multiple terms with our NDP. The throne speech included some interesting stuff about a carbon tax. Since they have to do something or the Feds (Thanks Ontario) will force it on us, they are going to have some kind of a consultative process with citizens and then come up with a carbon tax appropriate for Manitoba. Hopefully the whole process will take long enough for the Dauphin, Sir Selfies a Lot, to be gone from Ottawa by the time they finish.
http://berkeleyearth.org/temperature-reports/april-2016/
Man-made global warming takes on a whole new meaning. This year the manufacturing of it involved redefining the temperature of the ocean which was inconveniently low before a new adjustment regime was invented and applied.
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too funny.
we use HadSST
not the karl adjustments
I don’t sense the laughter.
Jesus Christ that’s is very scary Steven. Why aren’t people here worried / terrified by this. Denialism explains Trump.
Huh?
1. There is no evidence if you use credible sources that the CO2 level will reach 500, Fuel supply based estimates predict 460 PPM. We are falling rapidly below the RCP atmospheric CO2 levels. Given the RCPs were updated in 2011 we shouldn’t have fallen from RCP8.5 to RCP4.5.
2. The forcing estimates are converging toward 1°C.
3. The IPCC and warmers deliberately ignore the benefits of CO2.
4. The 1.5 and 2.0 points are lines in the sand with about as much justification. You can draw the lines anywhere you want because it is sand. Further modern crops have more heat and drought tolerance, partly by design and partly because of most CO2. A number of yield vs field condition studies have proven this.
5. The BESTie graph is sort of a worse case that incorporates land use, instrument aging, UHI, and a number of other biases unrelated to CO2. The BESTie temperature would be going up if CO2 wasn’t a factor.
6. Since 1960 the top 700 meters of ocean have warmed about 0.2°C.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1950/mean:12

7. HadCrut isn’t nearly as scary. And at this time next year won’t be scary at all.
There are some predictions out there that it is going to start cooling.
It’s an El Nino year. If the temperatures are at record levels next May – be concerned. Otherwise it is just weather.
The NY Times’ largest stockholder, and the man who threw the newspaper a financial lifeline a few years back when it got itself in financial trouble, is pictured here on the right.
He is the Mexican oligarch Carlos Slim Helú.
Obama knocks Trump at Rutgers: ‘Ignorance is not a virtue’
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/15/politics/obama-donald-trump-rutgers-university/index.html
I see Obama is speaking from experience.
Hopefully he will be the last “trained on the job” president.
He has mightily resisted any training.
‘Ignorance is not a virtue’
But it helps to get Obamacare passed…according to the authors.
Yeah! THANKS OBAMA!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/obamacare-uninsured-rate-2015_us_5739d280e4b077d4d6f37d99?section=australia
My private health insurance premium increased 100% between 2014 and 2016. F*ck Obamacare, f*ck the horse it rode in on, and f*ck the boots it’s wearing.
David,
Fortunately for me, living in Mexico I can get an exemption from Obamacare and the penalities I would normally have to pay for not enrolling.
The Cost of Obamacare
http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-cost-of-obamacare/article/2002427
Trump is already making enemies of both major political parties in the UK. Soon his only friends will be Putin and Kim Jong-Un, the ones he is careful not to insult.
Trump to David Cameron: “It Looks Like We’re Not Going To Have A Very Good Relationship”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/16/trump_to_david_cameron_it_looks_like_were_not_going_to_have_a_very_good_relationship.html
Why would Trump want to have a good relationship with Cameron? Politically, they have nothing in common:
When you got nothing, just resort to making things up Jim.
It’s not just Cameron, but London’s new mayor, Sadiq Khan, who is from the opposite political wing to Cameron. That is the point. He may get friends in UKIP, however.
You might be shocked, shocked to discover that few people in the US care what Sadiq Khan thinks, except maybe this:
http://thefederalist.com/2016/05/09/londons-new-muslim-mayor-is-suspiciously-friendly-with-islamists/
I think Khan’s religion is a malignant tumor on humanity for the misogynist demands alone. It needs to be destroyed. Radiation, chemo, surgery, whatever. Just kill it.
Trump has massive support amongst the British public, who are as tired of professional politicians as the US citizens are. The Mayor of Londonistan’s views are of little to no concern of anybody outside the capital & having a short tern ban on Muslim imigrants is very popular, as is chucking out a whole load of the ones who wish to establish a Sharia state in the UK. Don’t confuse the spoutings of left wing politicians with the views of the majority of the British working class. Given half the chance, they’d chuck Khan & Corbyn out, with all their cronies. Given half the chance, many Conservatives would do the same to Cameron & his cronies. Two cheeks of the same arse.
UKIP supporter?
Yay! One I didn’t see on CNN, MSNBC, or FOX already.
Many talk about Jihads being extremists, about most Muslims being moderates. But it seems incredibly bizarre to me that a person who adopts a religion based on rape, murder, pillaging, a supremacist world view, that routinely lies and treats half the population as little better than slaves and traffics in sex slavery should be considered ‘moderate.’ You might say that, ‘Well, the moderates don’t do these things.’ And you may be right. But the moderates take, within the eschatology of Islam, Muhammad’s life, to be the supreme exemplar of what it is to be a good and correct Muslim. This is a man who preached for 10 years in Mecca and had all of 150 followers. Mostly friends and family. He moved to Medina and adopted an entirely new philosophy of rape and conquer. Rape is legitimized by Muhammad. This is a man who beheaded a woman’s husband in front of her, covered her in her husband’s blood, dragged her into his tent and raped her. This is what Muslims hold up as a moral exemplar? Springer is right. Islam is a foul, filthy, vile, nasty religion. Anything good in it comes from the goodness of the person practicing it. But how does any human with any ‘goodness’ in them adopt such an authoritarian, racist, fascist, ugly, supremacist religion? These are the foundational elements of Islam. Take them away and you have nothing left over. And that very authoritarian, collectivist, fascist nature is why the Left resonates so much with it. And why Obama has such difficulty naming it. And why third wave feminists support it.
“But the moderates take, within the
eschatologyscatology of Islam, Muhammad’s life, to be the supreme exemplar of what it is to be a good and correct Muslim.”Fixed that for ya!
Glenn, Since you have already done the ex-pat thing why do you even care about this crap? Do you still get to vote?
Judith must have been looking for article in the gutter this week because the list in the OP is pretty much pure trash.
She said she’s busy.
Glenn,
How about links instead of embedded video? You do slow things down after a while.
He just can’t stop himself for love or money.
Dem Sen. Sherrod Brown: “Working Class Audiences” Will Reject Trump’s “Shallow Words”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/15/ohio_senator_working_class_audiences_will_reject_trumps_shallow_words.html
http://therightscoop.com/rep-sherrod-brown-d-mediscare-idiot-or-dishonest-ideologue/
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Mediscare): Idiot, or dishonest ideologue?
The first article I found on Sen. Sherrod Brown is not a ringing endorsement for the value of her opinion.
The first article you found on Sherrod Brown was from a right wing NJ publication. Why didn’t you just Google him?
I don’t use google, I use duckduckgo. They don’t track you.
“Idiot,
orand/or dishonest ideologue?”Fixed that for ya!
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1605/15/sotu.01.html
Jake Tapper pwns Sherrod Brown – that he should really be a Trump supporter.
And what? Lock you up in FEMA camps?
In reply to PA
Another great example of erroneous conclusions reached in other disciplines — in geology (twitter link) an in economics (Paul Krugman’s article about ‘mathiness’ in previous post) — that parallel the problems we see in the science of climatology to be drawn from the problems of ‘mathiness’ are enlightening.
Here’s a long interview with the two NY Times reporters who wrote the hit piece on Trump.
They slapped the bear with their tabloid piece in the NY Times, but it looks like they weren’t entirely prepared for the bear’s reaction.
So now, instead of a pattern of “unwelcome romantic advances, unending commentary on the female form, a shrewd reliance on ambitious women, and unsettling workplace conduct,” we have:
Let’s not forget one of the main “debased” women has come out and disputed what the paper said, announced that they spun it to make him look bad, and she’s angry with them for lying to her. In other words, NYT lied to make Trump look bad. The only thing surprising here is if anyone was surprised by this.
What post no link?
The bogus NYT article, or is that redundant?
http://time.com/4336792/rowanne-brewer-lane-donald-trump/
I thought since it was all over FOX CNN Time and Donald’s Twitter and Facebook we didn’t need it but thank you for providing it.
According to the ‘victim’, the NYT spun the story to make it ‘more negative’. Looks like the NYT stepped in some.
Donald Trump is not yet the nominee.
Powerful forces, that lack even the slightest respect for the ordinary citizen, are dedicated to stopping him.
That’s just the Republicans.
The machine on the other side is little different.
This election, is not, and will not be decided by a referendum of the people.
One need only follow the established press and the respectable class to see that if they had to choose between Trump and the nullification of representative governance, nullification wins.
George Clooney knows what’s best for us all.
Clinton, Clooney, and Chris Mooney…
I forget the rest…
U forgot the Moonies.
“Donald Trump is not yet the nominee.
Powerful forces, that lack even the slightest respect for the ordinary citizen, are dedicated to stopping him.
That’s just the Republicans.”
If they succeed, they may be wishing they had introduced significant gun law reform first…. It seems US citizens do NOT like being told that are not allowed to vote for someone.
@ rebelronin Typical conspiratorial ideation from a denier.
Journolist proved the coordination of the MSM and the Democratic party.
Conspiratorial idealization only applies where there is no conspiracy.
That would be the Journolist that was disbanded nearly 2 elections ago.
“Powerful forces, that lack even the slightest respect for the ordinary citizen, are dedicated to stopping him.”
Much like countries voting to be in or out of the EU. Powerful forces = vested interests.
Someone should write a play about the American Revolution, updated to be swimming in the context of the Politically Correct Left.
“Give me Liberty or Give me Death,” could be “Give me a Safe Space or I’ll scream and shout and call you a racist.”
“I have not yet begun to fight,” could be “I want what I want though I’m not prepared to fight for it. Perhaps tomorrow. Or the day after.”
““Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here,” could be “Don’t fire even if fired upon for we know we are the cause of this unpleasantness and we should try harder to all get along.”
“Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families,” could be “Patriotism is a stain on virtue for justice is when one is lost in the mob and makes no distinctions that might offend another.”
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it,” could be “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom are racists cause freedoms just another word for oppressor.”
And last, but not least, “A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader,” could be “A general dissolution of principles and manners will liberate us from the tyranny of moral obligation to make distinctions between that which is good and that which is evil and as any wise person knows, if you don’t make the distinction, it doesn’t exist.”
Really, I don’t get the Hillary appeal.
I know that up to $75 million Australian tax dollars have made their way into the Clinton Foundation (for HIV in Asia or whatever, which monies must have needed to go through the Foundation because Australia can’t find Asia).
Clearly, Mrs Clinton appeals to some. It’s not just Australian Labor governments and outfits like Boeing. Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar have all shown their appreciation. (Not that she’ll be silent on their failure to combat the naughty people…Those Boeing F-15s the Saudis bought aren’t just for looks.)
Cranky, corrupt and a hawkish neo-neocon who loses her wars. That’s Lyndon Baines Clinton. And she’s very cashed up.
From the article:
…
Human Rights
FBI Reaching Out About Female Genital Mutilation
05/13/16
More than 500,000 women and girls across the country—most of them living in metropolitan areas—are at risk of undergoing female genital mutilation, a procedure that has long been practiced in many African and Middle Eastern countries as a cultural custom but has been illegal in the U.S. since 1996.
A report showing the number of women at risk was published in January by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the figure was much higher than previously estimated. A separate report last year by the non-profit Population Reference Bureau (PRB) determined that women and girls most at risk were concentrated in major cities like New York, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., where large diaspora immigrant communities have coalesced.
…
https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2016/may/fbi-reaching-out-about-female-genital-mutilation/fbi-reaching-out-about-female-genital-mutilation
Billary is trying to invoke her husbands economic mojo based on the fact that he lucked out in the 90’s. Fat chance he can do squat to fix this hot mess we have now. Of course, she is trying to juxtapose Billious against Trumps proven ability to make billions. Fat chance that’ll work. From the article:
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Campaigning at a rally ahead of the primary, Ms Clinton made her case why she thought he could help.
“My husband I’m going to put in charge of revitalising the economy because, you know, he knows how to do it,” she told the crowd.
“And especially in places like coal country and inner cities and other parts of our country that have really been left out.”
She also emphasised her commitment to supporting workers in the coal industry, after comments she made in another coal state, West Virginia, went down very badly.
Hinting at bad times ahead for the coal mines alienated many workers in that state and cost her votes in the West Virginia primary.
…
http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-36300300
When Trump refers to making America great again, maybe he is referring to the 90’s Clinton administration, but he hasn’t been very specific about it, so we don’t know what “again” means. Has someone asked that? Maybe he prefers the debt-ballooning and amnesty of the Reagan era. Remember he used to be lefty, so his idea of what used to be “great” may be a bit different from his supporters.
It was the Republican Congress responsible for the good economy, not Clinton.
“In the 1992 presidential election, Clinton defeated incumbent Republican president George H.W. Bush to become the first Democratic president since Jimmy Carter left office in 1981. Clinton took office with Democratic majorities in both houses, and attempted to pass an ambitious health care reform bill. Republicans took control of both houses of Congress in 1994 and retained that control throughout Clinton’s presidency, but Clinton won reelection in 1996. ”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Bill_Clinton
So is Trump going to praise the 90’s as the time he wants to return to? I suspect his typical voter won’t see the subtlety that you try to suggest. But, they will also not see that both times the Republicans were in power since 1980, they tried their trickle-down economy and it failed both times.
Specifically it was the author of this leading a Republican congress.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America
He’s probably going to be Trump’s VP. Already volunteered for the job. I like Newt. A lot. He’s cerebral and knows more about US government and legislating than any two or three other people. Compliments Trump the street smart bully. A great combination.
From the article:
It was in the spring of 1994 that the U.S. economy finally reached “escape velocity”: GDP growth surged and the number of jobs created (3.85 million) set a record that has yet to be surpassed as of 2015. But 1995 would bring a pause in economic growth, primarily because the Federal Reserve raised interest rates from 3% to 6% beginning in late-1994 to prevent inflation from rising after such rapid growth along with two government shutdowns that slowed the economy. The pause was short-lived, however, as the economy adjusted and the surge of investment in the Dot-Com bubble would jumpstart the economy beginning in late-1995. 1996 saw a return to steady growth, and in May 1997 unemployment fell below 5% for the first time since December 1973.
This prosperity, combined with the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 and Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 (which raised taxes and restrained spending), allowed the federal government to go from a $290 billion deficit in 1992 to a record $236.4 billion surplus in 2000. The reduction in government borrowing freed up capital in markets for businesses and consumers, causing interest rates on loans to fall creating a cycle that only reinforced growth. Government debt increased from $5.02 trillion in 1990 to $5.413 in 1997 and flatlined, barely increasing to $5.674 in 2000.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s_United_States_boom
It started before Republicans controlled Congress and it involved raising taxes during Bush I and the first two years of Clinton when Democrats controlled Congress.
The Republicans crashed it all when Bush got in and they lowered taxes and decided to fight a bunch of poorly conceived and unfunded wars. The deficit rose. The economy stalled and collapsed.
It was computers and wide area networks responsible for the good economy. Massive improvements in supply chain management made businesses more efficient. Not Clinton and not congress. They were just along for the ride. Recall the Four Horsemen of the Nasdaq that were behind it: Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, and Dell.
You’re welcome #DaveFromDell
IMO you’d also have to add huge valuations for a massive number of new enterprises. This substantially increased the money supply.
The downside of that is that the real value of more traditional bricks-and-morter operations declined. But nobody noticed. They kept at least part of their (generally) high values for almost a decade before the excrement hit the ventilator.
And by then the housing/derivatives bubble was pumping up the (illusory) money supply, till it crashed in ’08.
James
The Clinton increases of the top marginal tax rates did not balance the budget.
The Bush decreases of the top marginal tax rates did not create the massive deficits.
Of the $925 Billion increase in tax revenue from FY92 to FY00 only $75Billion was from raising the top marginal rates. The balance was from increased revenue in Social Security taxes, Corporate Taxes, Misc Taxes, Capital Gains in the Gore Invented Internet Bubble, and the Explosion in Income Inequality with those making more than $200,000 going from 900,000 tax filers to 2.8 million tax filers and those making more than $1 million going from 68,000 tax filers to 240,000 tax filers.
The Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) during the Clinton years increased by 75%. The Adjusted Gross Income under Bush went up by 30%.
If AGI under Clinton went up by 30%, even with the tax increases, he would not have balanced the budget. If AGI under Bush went up by 75%, in spite of his tax cuts and the increase of $300 Billion in Defense spending, he would have balanced the budget.
No one in the campaign is talking about the problem with the increasing Debt Held by the Public. That has gone up since 2000 from $ 3.4 Trillion to $14 Trillion at the end of this Fiscal Year. Since FY 2000, spending on Social Programs has increased by nearly $2 Trillion per year, while spending on Defense has increased only $300 Billion. Social Programs spending is anticipated to increase by $600 Billion by FY 2020 per the Obama budget. Just the increase in spending on Social Spending in 4 years is as great as the entire Defense Budget at $600 Billion.
Let’s go back to the good old days of the 91% top marginal tax rate, some say. OK. Increasing the effective rate on the top 1% back to those good old days will only increase tax revenue by $150 Billion per year. The FY 2016 deficit is $615 Billion, which is to decrease for a couple of years and then will begin to increase. Tax increases are chump change compared to the spending increases that are going to hit by 2020.
AK reduction in operating costs from vastly improved supply chain management applies to brick and mortar as much or more as anything else. Even brick and mortar making became more efficient. I’ll need to see a link to some data to support your contention that brick and mortar declined in the 1990’s because the data I’m looking says that didn’t happen until after the dot-com bubble had already burst.
“It was the Republican Congress responsible for the good economy, not Clinton.”
+1
Hard to know if the Left is just ignorant or willfully ignorant. That people talk about Clinton as synonymous with the 90’s economy and obliterate and obfuscate Gingrich’s Contract with America is stupefying, but ideologically par for the course.
Trump Is Now Running to the Left of Sanders on Federal Debt
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-05-11/trump-is-now-running-to-the-left-of-sanders-on-federal-debt
We were all smart enough to just have the two kids because we knew it was going to cost us $450,000 each to rear, we just were not informed that all we really would be doing is make room for illegal immigrants, even abortions did not help with congestion in the cities. Glad that we raised them when we did because today it will cost you nearly a million a head.
Jim D,
Reagan, Clinton and Bush II rode the wave of balooning private debt.
Poor Bush I and Obama, who happened to be president during times of debt contraction or stagnation.
The problem with the unprecedented debt expansion is that much of the money created by the debt was malinvested:
Or, from an Australian perspective:
Or also from the Australian perspective:
Oligarchy is a form of power structure in which power effectively rests with a small number of people. These people might be distinguished by royalty, wealth, family ties, education, corporate, religious or military control.
Glenn,
Here’s a favorite quote of mine: “[One] cannot help but wonder (and fear) how many more such economic disasters
it will take before it becomes clear that socialism of all shapes, sizes, and
degrees, is unrealizable, unbearable, and unforgivable.” Carmen Elena Dorobăț
Yes, one wonders at the Left and it’s genuflection to the Platonists, the busy bodies, the micromanagers with a gun behind them in case you don’t like their preferences which they wish to impose. One wonders that a large portion of the world still believes that wealth is a zero sum game instead of something that is dynamically created. One wonders at the people on this list who have had all the advantages of being born in the greatest nation on earth, who live in wealth and opportunity but adopt the mental attitude of thugs, mystics and misanthropes and think ‘control’ is the magic, that a top down, command and control economy that the Clintons would work hard for, that Obama has pushed, that the EU is all about is the way to go. Empirical evidence is all around us that says Sanders is a mental midget on matters of wealth, equality, justice and prosperity but there are people who clamor for him for whom the phrase, ‘free stuff’ does as much damage to their brains as long term cocaine use. The only difference with Clinton is that she’s far more of a thug and cynical.
The idea that Bill Clinton or anyone in the administration was responsible for the economic growth of the 90’s is absurd. The role of the government in the economy is to get the hell out of the way and guarantee the rule of law. It is not to churn out mountains of rules and regulations so that one needs an army of lawyers to move, to start a business. Post WWII England is an example of what happens when a mountain of rules and regulations are created. Post WWII Germany is an example of what happens when that same government sweeps away that same mountain.
In the end there seems to be nothing to do about the constant tendency for oligarchies to form except eternal vigilance. In this the Conservatives have, since William F. Buckley, been asleep at the wheel. They have capitulated and appeased at every turn. The Left, with their poisonous ideology, dominates media, academia, the arts and non-elected government.
Liberty has been betrayed by the very people who now want us to believe that they have the inside track on reality as they join the Not Trump noise. Not because they didn’t write clever and intelligent articles in the abstract but because they so egregiously misunderstood what the elements are in a society that keep it strong, prosperous and free.
Or, there are social forces in the world that operate beyond our understanding, and we are mere pawns to these forces.
The current president who claims not to be a moslem and claims to be a US citizen has done more to destroy the US than arguably any president in history.
All Trump has to do is go golfing to exceed the economic performance of Obama. Nothing (Eastwood’s empty chair) would have been better than Obama.
Perhaps they should have run Eastwood. Trump can barely run a beauty pageant.
I kind of like Bernie but I disagree with his political positions.
Trump isn’t perfect but is more of a fit for the current problems.
If the candidates were Hillary and The Wicked Witch of the West, my choice would depend on stated positions of the wicked witch, and I would read the Wizard of Oz to get a sense of the positions of other candidate.
This labor force participation rate is complete red herrings.
It refers to the ratio of people working or looking for work to the whole population with some exemptions for prison populations and students.
It was always projected to go down due to demographic shifts – people (boomers) retiring primarily. It was high during the Reagan years because the boomers were at their peak participation in the workforce and women were taking up careers. At the margin there might be some people in a bad economy who might stop looking that would lower the rate but that wouldn’t affect the overall trend that is primarily accounted for by demographics.
It wouldn’t change fundamentally under Trump or Romney or any other Republican and the decline started under Bush.
Cross – wages are stagnant and have been for many years.
Jim D Sez:
“When Trump refers to making America great again, maybe he is referring to the 90’s Clinton administration,”
Perhaps he is referring to the remarkable US growth due to the internet.
Outside of NAFTA, which really didn’t do much of anything for a number of years, what did Bill Clinton actually do? Don’t ask, don’t tell? Gingrich had some luck stopping federal government growth, I suppose.
Jim D,
If you are going to talk about debt ballooning there really is only contestant – the guy currently in the White House.
Of course I’m referring to the real world. In Jim D world, who knows.
All indications are prior Presidents would have done exactly the same things. Obama, like Bush, used Bernanke and Geithner.
Yes, which is why the establishment goons on both sides are being rejected by the voters. Unfortunately for the libtard the process was rigged too well to allow an anti-establishment winner to emerge. I say fortunately because otherwise Bernie might have been the next president instead of Trump. The republicans screwed up and made the primary process a tad too fair, the voters rebelled in record-smashing numbers, made the anti-establishment underdog the winner, and here we are about to dismantle the two-party system. Trump is no republican. This is simply the beginning of the end of bipartisan politics.
Trump might very well turn out to be a useful idi0t. The key word is useful. He’s a man on a mission. Bust up the elite establishment cartel that took over Washington, D.C. Trump’s no idi0t when it comes to stirring up sh*t and getting attention focused where he wants. That’s his super-power.
The recession caused a lot of debt. The trend has been deficit reduction for the last 8 years, opposite to the trend from 2000-2008, but Republicans prefer not to look at deficit trends, because they come out in a bad light the last few times they ran the economy (attempted to at least).
From the article:
…
More details are being released about the anonymous expose of Washington D.C. corruption and largesse that confirms why Americans hate their national government and have rallied to anti-establishment presidential candidates like Donald Trump. As NYPost reports, the 65-page manifesto called ‘The Confessions of Congressman X’ is based on years of transcribed private discussions, which the congressman last November gave editor Robert Atkinson, says more time is spent fundraising than reading bills and calls Washington a “sinkhole of leeches,” where money ‘corrupts’ and House members are “puppets” to lobbyists who bankroll their campaigns.
“Like most of my colleagues, I promise my constituents a lot of stuff I can never deliver,” he admits.
“But what the hell? It makes them happy hearing it . . . My main job is to keep my job.”
…
The title of one chapter sums up his view of congressional leaders: “Harry Reid’s a Pompous Ass,” he says of the Senate Democratic leader.
“We spend money we don’t have and blithely mortgage the future with a wink and a nod. Screw the next generation. It’s about getting credit now, lookin’ good for the upcoming election,” he says.
He said he and his colleagues often lie to try to be all things to all people instead of tackling the nation’s problems.
…
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-05-16/were-running-fking-casino-congressman-admits-dc-sinkhole-leeches
Yeah, but Harry Reid saved the Cowboy Poetry Festival. If not for Harry it would have been sort of a broke-back budget crisis for the festival.
http://www.factcheck.org/2011/03/reids-cowboy-poetry-puffery/
Yeah, but Harry Reid saved the Cowboy Poetry Festival.
http://www.factcheck.org/2011/03/reids-cowboy-poetry-puffery/
From the article:
…
In a recent fundraising strategy session with his campaign team and allied lobbyists, which was recorded, Gov. Herbert discussed meeting with rounds of lobbyists one-on-one in kind of “speed dating” to discuss policy issues.
“However we want to do this — if we want to have multiple meetings or we sit down and talk and you give us a check later or before. However you would like to do it,” Herbert said in a recording obtained by the Salt Lake Tribune. “I’ll just say, I’m available. I’m Available Jones.”
Herbert’s campaign finance director, Liv Moffat, laid out the basics of the fundraising strategy based on a recent event with prominent Utah lobbyist Doug Foxley.
“We gave [Foxley] two hours, we paraded seven clients in at [Foxley’s] office, we went to [his] office, 20 minutes, collecting checks and talking specifically about their issues,” Moffat explained in the recording. “We’re not going to do that for $1,000. But that’s something. We’ll schedule it, you can come have 15 to 20 minutes with the governor.”
…
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/05/16/utah-gov-speed-dates-lobbyists-will-meet-anywhere-anytime/
Mark Cuban…
God please spare me from another 1990’s one-trick pony who thinks he’s a genius because he was lucky enough to start and sell ludicrously over-valued internet companies before the dot-bomb went off. Cuban is such a gaaywad…
God please spare me from another 1990’s one-trick pony who thinks he’s a genius because he was lucky enough to start and sell ludicrously over-valued real estate…
Trump’s a long way from a one-trick pony and you’re a stone’s throw from an imbecile.
James Cross, I was pleased to read of your change of heart and a new found faith in God.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/670781/There-IS-life-after-DEATH-Scientists-reveal-shock-findings-from-groundbreaking-study
No fear.
James, One more thing, if it is a one trick pony that is smart enough to sell at the top it does have its advantages, wouldn’t you say?
God please spare me from another 1990’s one-trick pony
No, he pretty clearly has several tricks, perhaps a full repertoire.
And he doesn’t appear to be a pony.
PA, you’re right. I’m wrong.
He has more than one trick, probably a few hundred at least.
James Cross, what tricks does our current President have in your opinion?
Why we are sick of Washington (DC):
http://victorhanson.com/wordpress/?p=9295#more-9295
Reason tries to educate millenial socialist wannabes on Venezuelan stupidity:
http://reason.com/blog/2016/05/16/hey-kids-dont-be-suckers-for-socialism
http://reason.com/blog/2016/05/16/venezuela-spends-dumb-things-collapse
Will Venezuela pull through for China?
http://dialogochino.net/will-venezuela-come-through-for-china/
It appears that those production goals have not been met:
Chris Wallace to Bob Woodward: Does Wash Post Also Have 20 Reporters Investigating Hillary Clinton?
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/15/chris_wallace_to_bob_woodward_are_you_making_an_equal_effort_investigating_clinton.html
Burying the White Working Class
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/05/white-workers-bernie-sanders-clinton-primary-racism/
Glenn Stehle,
I’ve posted a comment to you here: https://judithcurry.com/2016/05/15/week-in-review-energy-and-policy-edition-25/#comment-784755
I’d be very interested in your comments on the linked article.
Hi Glenn,
You didn’t provide any in-depth comments on the paper “Why carbon pricing will not succeed”. I posted on the Energy Policy thread (the appropriate place for policy for discussion of this). I was hoping you might consider it in depth, perhaps even check that you can reproduce my results, consider the assumptions and what I said about the default key inputs in DICE-2013R leaning on the alarmists’ side of the ‘consensus’ central estimates.
I’d like to see versions of my chart (20 2100) with these inputs:
ECS = 2.5, 2. 1.75, 1.5
RCP6 and RCP4.5
‘Damage Function’ run with justifiable, defensible central estimates
Realistic, defensible Participation rates
Discount rates (appropriate for a century and justifiable on the basis of long term historic discount rate that are actually used for infrastructure investment decisions)?
Can you run the GAMS version of the DICE-2013R model and run optimisation http://www.econ.yale.edu/~nordhaus/homepage/ ?
Peter Lang,
Just as a note of personal interest, I have a twenty-something year-old second cousin who is a nuclear engineer. He was a brilliant student and won a full scholarship to Texas A&M University, where he studied nuclear engineering. I thought it to be an odd career choice since I saw it as an industry with perhaps even a bigger black eye than my industry, which is oil and natural gas. Nevertheless, he is all gung ho about nuclear energy and speaks glowingly of its future.
Speaking of the “social cost of carbon,” I stake out a much more hard-line position than either you or Nordhaus. I believe it to be a chimera created out of whole cloth by a bunch of fanatics on a veritably messianic political mission, who are convinced they can “transform” human nature and the world. They of course dress up their stealth religion as “science.” So in dealing with these religious fanatics, my preference is to cut any talk of the “social cost of carbon” off at the knees, and to not even acknowledge it.
Here’s my underlying belief: Without abundant and cheap energy, there is nothing.
There indeed may be other ways of organizing a culture, society or civilization where that statement is not true, but not in the modern, industrialized, capitalist, consumerist society that we have.
Like dispensationalist Christians waiting around for Armageddon and the second coming of Christ, Marxists have been waiting around for the demise of capitalism for 150 years. Most recently they have hitched their hopes to the belief that capitalism cannot survive the advent of expensive and scarce energy. And who knows, they may be right. But regardless of the accuracy of their prediction, Marxists of various stripes are certainly doing everything in their power to make energy as expensive and scarce as possible.
And in this war on abundant and cheap energy, Marxists are joined by others: ascetics, animists, primitivists, nature lovers, etc.
Global government is another perennial yearning of Marxists. But, as Robert Hughes pointed out in Culture of Complaint,
So returning back to your article: given that the immediate ecconomic costs of putting a tax on carbon are so high, and the benefits are so iffy and so far in the future, I agree that the chances of realizing the degree of internationalist cooperation necessary for global governance — necessary “to achieving the modelled net benefits” — are slim to none. The rewards for cheating are just too great.
For a great discussion on the difficulties and possiblities of solving collective action problems — and realizing the “very high participation rate” that “is key to achieving the modelled net benefits” — you might like this:
Dan Kahan is the ultimate optimist, but I believe his optimism may not be very realistic. Historically speaking, man has never been able to solve his collective action problems on a scale sufficiently grand to achieve one-world government.
Furthermore, from what I see going on around me, we seem to be going in the opposite direction. The uni-polar world the United States achieved after 1989 is fracturing into a multi-polar world with at least three major zones of influence: the United States, Russia and China.
I see less cooperation in our future, not more.
It’s conspiracy? What about the science that says the future impacts of climate change is a problem? That has nothing do with it? They, like you, know climate change won’t be bad?
Joseph,
Did you miss the next sentence?:
Please don’t confuse CAGW with science. That dog don’t hunt.
Glenn – ” … man has never been able to solve his collective action problems on a scale sufficiently grand to achieve one-world government…we seem to be going in the opposite direction.”
You are correct. Sovereignty, both personal and national, is very important to most people. Throw in linguistic, religious, and cultural identification and it gets even more challenging.
Management genius Peter Drucker, in his book “Management Challenges of the 21st Century”, wrote “…The world economy is increasingly becoming global…at the same time, political boundaries are not going to go away…the trend has been toward increasing splintering…there are national and local realities, which are both economic, but above all political.”
Glenn, you didn’t answer any of my questions.
Here is something to think about. I believe that climate change is serious problem and the science I have seen indicates that there are a lot of risks associated with continuing BAU. Why isn’t it possible that other people on the left believe the same thing? How do you know that they don’t? Are you a mind reader?
Glenn,
See my comment here: https://judithcurry.com/2016/05/15/week-in-review-energy-and-policy-edition-25/#comment-784821
I posted my comment in the wrong thread. Could you please respond on the Energy Policy thread and please respond to my comment at the top of the tree (with comment with the chart) so I am notified by WordPress of your comment and so I can respond to you below your comment.
Well done to your cousin. Wise choice. Smart guy.
Joseph | May 17, 2016 at 4:49 pm |
Here is something to think about. I believe that climate change is serious problem and the science I have seen indicates that there are a lot of risks associated with continuing BAU.
The problem with the left is they think their beliefs change reality.
This belief is incorrect.
1. Estimates of ECS are converging on 1 not 3.
2. Estimates based on fossil fuel availability indicate a peak CO2 level of 460.PPM. The higher estimates are not reality based.
3. Since 2011 the atmospheric CO2 level has dropped from RCP8.5 to RCP4.5. The emissions are still in the RCP8.5 range.
4. The “riskers” discount the fact that we get 40% of our food from more CO2 and some of them claim there is no benefit from more CO2. This is a flat statement that feeding poor people is harmful.
5. When 7 GT/Y of carbon (25GT CO2) is being absorbed by the environment and about 20% of the atmospheric CO2 is replaced every year every year, the statement that CO2 has a 100 year lifetime is a sad joke.
Until there is a factual basis of solid evidence that some harm is outweighing the huge benefits of more CO2 and cheap energy, we should do nothing. Well, not nothing but only cheap things that increase resilience against multiple climate outcomes. The crippling costs of drastic emissions cuts now simply can’t be justified.
To take drastic action given the current state of knowledge simply rewards the dishonest and unethical for being dishonest and unethical.
Joseph,
The reason you believe it is a problem is that you lack the skill to recognize good science from poor science. Instead you rely on press releases and comments by politicians and the media.
Yesterday’s Seattle Times had an article telling readers how climate change is going to destroy the Dungeness crab fisheries in the PNW, according to a study out of NOAA. They didn’t publish a link to the paper, but they made sure to use the right words, like ocean acidification and how CO2 concentrations are the highest in 800,000 years. Guess saying they are the highest in 80 years isn’t scary enough. Here’s the research in a nutshell. Scientists filled three tanks with seawater (technically it was water from Puget Sound), each with varying pH (8.0 , 7.5, 7.1). They then introduced crab larvae. Their results, at lower pH levels, crab larvae could experience issues with shell formation. Of course they had to run models to get pH levels down to levels low enough where the problem might start to present itself. And we will leave aside the part about scientists inability to actually determine the source of increased CO2 concentrations in the waters off the PNW.
So there we have the sort of science that has Joseph believing the world is facing destruction.
“Burying the White Working Class.” Not to worry. Things are going swimmingly under Obama’s astute leadership. How do I know? Warren Buffett told me so!
Here’s the money quote from the video:
Venezuela says better oil loans deal reached with China
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-economy-idUSKCN0Y71VB
The Hidden Workforce Expanding Tesla’s Factory
Let’s see if Trump jumps all over this…
Interesting.
My maid’s husband has been to the United States twice on temporary work visas. Before that he went mojado.
He’s uneducated and has no trade or special skills. But if you have a corporation in the United States willing to sponsor you, it doesn’t seem to be any problem getting the temporary work visa.
It seems to me that Trump would not object to this practice, since the immigrants go legally, and the distinction between legal and illegal seems to be one which he places a great deal of emphasis on.
But there’s also the old notion from Adam Smith about the supply and demand of workers, and how a greater supply would drive down the price of wages.
So is Trump going to be the champion of the working class, or the champion of the business and entrepreneural class that wants a plentiful and cheap supply of labor?
Are you worried about the cost of maids going through the roof?
Arch Stanton,
Well actually, with the devaluation of the Mexican peso relative to the US dollar, the price of maids’ wages here in Mexico, denominated in US dollars, has fallen drastically over the past two years:
Read “Elites Support Mass Illegal Immigration While The Working Classes Suffer”:
http://victorhanson.com/wordpress/
The way I remember it…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_American_debt_crisis
We swapped them 0% 30 year Treasury Bonds and took their junk. Things are different though.
justinwonder,
That’s pretty amazing. Hanson really knows his stuff. For a great read on how these class and ethnic relationships have played out over the centuries, there’s David Montejano’s Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836 – 1986.
The only point of contention I have is the following, although I believe it does not take away from the subtext of Hanson’s essay:
I don’t believe remittances, but proceeds from the illegal drug trade, are the No. 1 source of foreign exchange for Mexico.
I’m taking these figures off the top of my head (I could hunt down sources and more exact figures if needed), but I think a study by the U.S. Treasury pegged the amount of dollars flowing from the U.S. to Mexico due to the drug trade at about $75 billion a year.
Very little of this money, however, stays in Mexico. Most of it is laundered by the big money-center banks (Wells Fargo, Santander, Bank of America, HSBC, etc.) and flows back out of Mexico (to the tune of over $50 billion a year). Mexico is the third largest source of illicit money in the world, being surpassed only by China and Russia.
The United States is the No. 1 destination for this illicit money, with an estimated 18-20% of it ending up in the United States.
Glenn,
I think you are right about the drug trade. Also, the US is the worst place to park money, except for all the other places. Chinese elites have been trying to protect their assets by investing in the US, even while the communist government tries to block such activity.
Regarding Mexico again, another big benefit for the oligarchy in Mexico is the exportation of the poor. Instead of instituting reforms to create jobs or paying entitlements, Mexico is able to export the problem to the US and gain remittances in the process. It’s a good deal for them.
Clarification: I actually believe that immigration from Mexico into the USA is a good thing. It used to trouble me, but not anymore.
justinwonder,
Immigration is certainly a double-edged sword, and I suppose one has to examine their own situation to determine where they come down on the issue, My own self-interest dictates a more open-border immigration policy for two reasons:
1) The demographic situation in the United States. The United States has an aging population, and there aren’t enough native-born young people entering the workforce to keep the wheels of production turning. I need more young people entering the workforce, working and producing, bringing up that workers to retired ratio, so they can produce enough to provision the retirement of an aging population, including me.
2) As Hanson points out, immigration to the United States operates as a safety valve. A lot of ambitious and discontented Mexicans escape across the border to the north. Without this escape valve, the Mexican plutocrats may not be able to keep a lid on things. I have a very good life here in Mexico, and if things blow up I most likely would have to leave.
I think this is the major fear the Mexican oligarchs have of Trump: his stance on immigration and other policies might so destabilize Mexico that they run the risk of losing control.
Of course if I were still young and in the U.S, workforce, I might look at things differently.
Unemployment in the US is highest among the unskilled primarily because factory jobs have dried up.
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-blue-collar-jobs-are-dissapearing-2012-1
And Windbag Stehle in a display of pure unadulterated stupidity thinks we need to import unskilled workers from Mexico as a “safety valve”.
Wrong again, David.
What are you batting now, 0 for 20? 0 for 100?
Of all the countries in the world, the demographic crisis in the United States is shaping up to be one of the worst. As the Scientific American article notes: “The downward slopes” of the potential support ratios, “more like cliffs, are striking.”
Paul Ryan is part of the problem not the solution. This is unacceptable.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/01/05/us-employers-can-now-bring-more-foreign-workers-seasonal-jobs/78258802/
Trump hires them at his resorts. Says it’s hard to get seasonal help. Yeah? Not if you offer more money. I used to know lots of seasonal workers, US citizens, where I grew up in upstate NY that worked at the ski resorts in the winter. We should end this practice completely not expand it.
As it turns out Trump agrees with me on importing foreign workers – raise the prevailing wage.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2970928/it-outsourcing/donald-trump-zingers-and-all-emerges-as-sharp-h-1b-critic.html
Glenn,
RE: “Of all the countries in the world, the demographic crisis in the United States is shaping up to be one of the worst.”
Not even close. The fact is from a demographic standpoint the US is in far better shape than any of the competition.
Piece of advice – don’t use Scientific American as a source. They are neither Scientific nor American these days.
AK,
Slovenia is not an “improvised” country.
You mean “impoverished”? Wiki says they’re worse off than Greece.
Ignoring that you are relying on wiki, exactly how do you arrive at them being worse off than Greece? Not even close.
Why should I care? That’s what the person who wrote the story said. Just because I linked to it doesn’t mean I vouch for it. She probably consulted Wiki also.
I went to the second table, labeled “Eurostat family”, and clicked on the column header for gross income. That sorted it into order by ascending gross income. Slovenia was right above Greece.
If you’re not happy with her statement, why not come up with links to demonstrate it’s wrong. If I cared, I might have verified that the numbers represented the same units, but really I don’t. The question is whether it’s OK for impoverished people from other countries to come here and compete with Americans who have a higher standard of living.
Mark Steyn guest-hosting the Rush Limbaugh show again this morning. He’s worth listening to. Very funny.
A possible future for the USA – Berniezuela!!!! :)
https://www.aei.org/publication/blog/carpe-diem/
The Sandernistas plan to liberate your pocketbook, right after the free lunch.
And yet another instance — a parallel from politics this time showing it’s futile to expect the reporting of truth facts the Left’s real agenda about global warming — the NYT hit 20-page piece about gentleman Trump’s supposed mistreatment of women was ragged-on by the NYT’s supposed source: “They spun it to where it appeared negative. I did not have a negative experience with Donald Trump,” Rowanne Brewer Lane told “Fox & Friends.” Surprising? Newt Gingrich says the NYT has been steadily steering ever harder to the Left over the last 40 years. Like global warming alarmists, the NYT does nothing but engage in any hoax and scare tactic that will help prop-up the Leftist propaganda machine.
Well… yeah. This is so obvious it is sad it actually has to be stated.
The Journolist Scandal, which featured hundreds of members of the MSM coordinating with the Obama campaign, basically signaled the end of any value that the MSM brings to any story with a political element.
That kind of bias and unethical behavior indicated that the MSM had moved from news to being a propaganda organ of the left agenda. The Post has 20 reporters digging dirt on Trump and 0 (zero) digging dirt on Hillary.
There is a big opening for a conservative to neutral newspaper of national interest. Nobody is filling the void and printing the accurate news the majority of Americans want.
Charles Krauthammer, who is about as much of an anti-Trump neocon as they come, is bemoaning the NY Times story:
Krauthammer on NYT’s Trump Story: If This Is The Best The Media Can Do, “It’s Time To Plan For The Inauguration”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/17/krauthammer_on_nyts_trump_story_if_this_is_the_best_the_media_can_do_its_time_to_plan_for_the_inauguration.html
1. Krauthammer is sharp.
2. That is the best the media can do.
2. I do live in the area an can be a resource for people planning for the Trump inauguration.
How Donald Trump turned the tables on The New York Times
http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/16/media/trump-nyt-news-cycle/index.html
The best thing about Trump’s run for high office is that the feet of the otherwise venerable Charles Krauthammer are as it turns out, made of the same clay as the political jabbertalkies that run the gamut from Chris Matthews to Glenn Beck.
It would be hella funny to set up the NYT with some false flags.
or just inundate them with phony trump stories..
chaff
Hannity tonight had two more of the women who the NYT used in the hit piece protesting that the Times totally twisted what they said and had nothing but praise for Trump, how he treated them, and how he’s helped hundreds or thousands of women advance their careers.
One of the ones from last night (Res) said she would vote for Hillary.
“One of the ones from last night (Res) said she would vote for Hillary.” Which would make her story yet more convincing.
Jim D,
I see your candidacy for “most clueless” is right on track.
Who any of the women interviewed plan on voting for is not relevant to the story. The story is about the NYT misrepresenting the facts to the point the subjects are coming out to state the misrepresentation.
So you don’t care if Trump misrepresents facts, but you do if newspapers do.
From Jim D:
“So you don’t care if Trump misrepresents facts, but you do if newspapers do.”
How old are you? Five? You can’t distinguish between someone running for political office and a news organization? Perhaps by the time you reach adulthood you will have learned that politicians always misrepresent things. It is their bread and butter. Particularly when they are running for office. I pretty much knew by the 6th grade that one shouldn’t get too worked up about what they say, as it’s all BS to one degree or another.
Newspapers on the other hand are supposed to present factual information. I gave up expecting impartiality a long time ago. However willful distortion is not acceptable. Except perhaps to you.
It would be hella funny….they don’t need any help.
The Clinton’s can prove how much they really loathe the military by taking on John Kerry as VP…
No their anti-military bonafides are solid, Kerry would be redundant.
They will look for a black & mexican illegal moslem terrorist to firm up support in the rest of their base.
Since it has already been proven that the MSM will accept a forged birth certificate he’ll pass muster.
Maybe, Reverend Wright chanting, ‘Death to America!’
I-80 Truckers: Trump Will Win Ohio-Pennsylvania Corridor
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/17/i-80_truckers_trump_will_win_ohio-pennsylvania_corridor.html
Hillary Shrugs When Asked About Nevada Convention Chaos: “What Happened?”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/17/hillary_shrugs_when_asked_about_nevada_convention_chaos_what_happened.html
Democratic Party badly divided in the swing state of Nevada:
Maddow on Dem Chaos in NV: “Ugly, Ugly Stuff Coming Out Of Democratic Party in Nevada”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/17/maddow_on_dem_chaos_in_nv_ugly_ugly_stuff_coming_out_of_democratic_party_in_nevada.html
It is interesting to see the MSM parade the Dem Party line about “concern over violence” and how the entire affair was the fault of Saunders followers.
Anti-Trump Republicans Really Want Mark Cuban to Run for President
http://nymag.com/betamale/2016/05/mark-cuban-draft-president.html
But if he thinks Trump reduces to ‘all that’ then he is an idiot and you are known by the friends you keep.
If techno-triumphalists like Mish Shedlock are right, there won’t be any need for workers in the near future:
Goodbye TAs: Georgia Tech Professor Reveals Online Assistant “Jill Watson” Was a Robot
https://mishtalk.com/2016/05/16/teachers-assistants/
Readers aren’t buying it though, and Shedlock gets considerable pushback in the comments.
Don’t miss Megyn Kelly/Donald Trump interview coming on at 7pm central time on FOX tonight!
Can’t wait to see what the ratings are going to be.
Don’t know if anyone brought it up (this thread is HOT!) , but SHOTS FIRED at Bernie’s Nevada HQ.
The Weekly Standard (beware, Bill Kristol) reports some apartments where his staff are staying were ransacked. From the article:
…
A bullet hole was discovered in a storefront window at the Bernie Sanders campaign headquarters in northwest Las Vegas on Thursday morning, the same day the Democratic presidential candidate was on site, Metro Police said today.
Officers responded just before noon to the campaign office at 815 South Rainbow Blvd., near Alta Drive, authorities said. Police said it appears a bullet went through the window but declined to comment on whether a shot had been fired.
…
http://lasvegassun.com/news/2016/jan/08/bullet-hole-found-at-sanders-campaign-hq-on-day-ca/
This is why the ultra-rich fear Trump. Trump is threatening to take the punch bowel. From the article:
…
When Gregor Lesnik left his pregnant girlfriend in Slovenia for a job in America, his visa application described specialized skills and said he was a supervisor headed to a South Carolina auto plant.
Turns out, that wasn’t true.
The unemployed electrician had no qualifications to oversee American workers and spoke only a sentence or two of English. He never set foot in South Carolina. The companies that arranged his questionable visa instead sent Lesnik to a menial job in Silicon Valley. He earned the equivalent of $5 an hour to expand the plant for one of the world’s most sophisticated companies, Tesla Motors.
Lesnik’s three-month tenure ended a year ago in a serious injury and a lawsuit that has exposed a troubling practice in the auto industry. Overseas contractors are shipping workers from impoverished countries to American factories, where they work long hours for low wages, in apparent violation of visa and labor laws.
…
http://extras.mercurynews.com/silicon-valley-imported-labor/
Trump knowing about abuses and doing something about them are two different things. I believe he can effectively use the bully pulpit, like few who have gone before, to fix a lot of broken stuff in 8 years if the American people give him the opportunity. For me it’s a matter of trust. Can I trust him to do what I know needs to be done? I know I can’t trust Cr00ked Hillary and she’s a globalization fangirl anyhow so even if she was trustworthy her global village crappola is not something I’m interested in.
What do you think about the trust issue, Jim?
Fair question and not being a mind reader, I can’t answer with IPCC certainty. My gut tells me he has our country’s best interest at heart. If that is correct, that’s enough policy detail for me.
He is fiercely independent and I don’t think he will bend even though he will have to take money for the general election. The Dimowits have already accumulated a billion dollars, so he has no viable alternative.
He had a feel-good meeting with Megyn Kelly on her show last night. But even then, he said the argument they had before could happen again. He knows exactly what he is doing when it comes to intimidation. He sees it as a valid tool, and it is. It will come in handy on The Hill.
From the article:
…
Johanna Shelton, Google’s director of public policy — in effect, the company’s top lobbyist — has visited White House officials 128 times since President Barack Obama took office in 2009.
To put that in perspective, senior lobbyists for other companies in the telecommunications and cable industry — including Comcast, Facebook, Amazon, Oracle and Verizon — have visited the White House a combined 124 times in the same span. (That data goes through October 2015.)
The Google Transparency Project, the work of Campaign for Accountability, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works to expose corporate influence on government, identified policy pushers for the 50 biggest lobbying spenders and counted how many times they appeared in the White House visitor logs.
Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, spent $16.6 million on lobbying in 2015. That was the twelfth most of any company, and the most by a technology firm, just above AT&T’s $16.4 million and Comcast’s $15.7 million.
…
http://watchdog.org/265252/visitor-logs-google-white-house/
Google has been very savvy in how they operate. They are using political influence and the lure of billions in economic growth brought about by their plans to deploy high speed fiber to circumvent jurisdictional processes and property rights. They approach mayors, city councils, state houses and governors, sell them on Google’s view of the future and then get to run over anyone in their path. In Kansas City they got the politicians to force KCP&L to allow them on their poles on Google’s terms, not those of the pole owner. Even better, for Google, they made the utility responsible for paying for much of the cost of replacing poles and performing make-ready work in order for Google to add their fiber. In Louisville the got the city to pass an ordinance allowing automatic transfer of all parties on a pole. An action which has landed the city in court.
In my world, Google is the 8,000 lb gorilla. One who gets invited to dinner with the Governor. And apparently the President.
Look! The Republican establishment knows how to do identity politics too!
Bush on Trump’s taco tweet — ‘It’s like eating a watermelon and saying: I love African-Americans’
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/17/politics/jeb-bush-donald-trump-taco-bowl/index.html
GW Bush is rapidly rising in my sh*t list along with the rest of the neocons who took over and ruined the Republican party. At this point the neocon and neolib charade of being concerned about the vast majority in America is exposed, mortally wounded, and bleeding out as we speak.
Y’all know I went down hard for my part, mostly because of loyalty to the team I supported in the past, but there comes a time when I have to admit that the team wasn’t loyal to me. Paraphrasing a neocon imbecile born with a silver spoon in his mouth: Scorn me once, shame on you; scorn me twice and you can’t scorn me again.
Looks like the neocons misunderestimated Trump, eh?
Former Trump Employee Drops Truth Bomb About Old Boss. “I Can No Longer Remain Silent.”
http://thoughtfulwomen.org/2016/05/03/former-executive-trump/
+1
Trump’s employees as far as can be determined are fiercely loyal to him.
And everyone who knows him seems to think he loves America.
I can’t think of better qualifications for a President.
VIDEO – Louise Sunshine – Former Female Executive at Trump Org Defends Donald
https://www.longroom.com/discussion/68750/video-louise-sunshine-former-female-executive-at-trump-org-defends-donald
+1
And here’s a former female Trump executive who blasts Trump:
Ex-Trump Employee Speaks Out on His Treatment of Women
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/ex-trump-employee-speaks-out-on-his-treatment-of-women-20160329#ixzz490UD6RkE
Follow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook
Are those eyebrows on Res or have barn swallows built nests there?
So Rolling Stone essentially resorts to office gossip in an attempt to tarnish the Donald.
Guess I should be surprised that they include the line about campaign manager mistreating reporter. You know, the guy who the prosecutor dropped all charges against.
Establishment Republicans circle the wagons around Clinton:
Reid blames Sanders’ ‘people’ for Nevada convention chaos
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/16/politics/nevada-convention-chaos-bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton/
Just like as is happenng with the Republican Party, the Democratic Party is ripping itself in two with infighting between the grassroots and the party’s economic royalists, as FDR called them:
Dems’ new fear: Sanders revolt could upend Democratic convention
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/17/politics/democrat-bernie-sanders-revolt/
The contagion is spreading. To quote an old departed buddy of mine, Dr. JA Davison, Emeritus Professor of Biology, University of Vermont: “Hard to believe, isn’t it? I love it so!”
Nevada Dem Party Leader: “High Level” Sanders People “Incited” Violence At Convention
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/17/nevada_dem_party_leader_high_level_sanders_people_incited_violence_at_convention.html
The “malefactors of great wealth,” to use another phrase coined by FDR, are circling the wagons around Clinton:
DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz: What Happened At Nevada Convention Was Unacceptable, Sanders “Added Fuel To The Fire”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/17/debbie_wasserman_schultz_what_happened_at_nevada_convention_was_unacceptable_sanders_added_fuel_to_the_fire.html
More “paid liars and bumsuckers of the lords of capital” as Orwell called them, circling the wagons around Clinton:
Joy Ann Reid on NV Dem Chaos: “Sanders Irregulars Don’t Play By The Rules”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/17/joy_ann_reid_sanders_irregulars_dont_play_by_the_rule.html
The blowup at the Nevada state convention is all over the news today. But both Bernie and Hillary are doing a Seargent Schultz act:
Back to Videos
Sanders Dodges Question About NV Convention Disturbance
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/17/sanders_dodges_question_about_convention_disturbance.html
Hillary Clinton ‘Super PAC’ to Air First Attack Ads Aimed at Donald Trump
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/18/us/politics/ad-super-pac-clinton-trump.html?_r=0
Trump: I’m ‘Misquoted’ In Pro-Clinton Ad Featuring My Remarks On Women (VIDEO)
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-bashes-priorities-usa-women-comments-ad
Notice how the entire Obama spiel is about messaging, style and form, and nothing about content.
Obama to Help Clinton Make Case Against Trump
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/05/18/obama_to_help_clinton_make_case_against_trump_130596.html
Glenn –
==> Notice how the entire Obama spiel is about messaging, style and form, and nothing about content.
Confirmation bias?
Not sure what “entire spiel” you’re referring to, but consider this:
This is not merely about style and form. In fact, it is a direct statement that style and form are not what people should be focused on – and is an appeal that people should be focused on content.
Joshua,
When I talk about “content,” here’s what I’m talking about:
He missed with the opportunity to talk about challenging ‘climate correctness’.
Obama should know. Ignorance may be the only virtue he has going for him.
Obama is an empty suit…
Why are you demanding content from him?
If a first term senator whose range of experience was smoking marijuana, abuse of affirmative-action quotas, community organizing, terrorist befriending, and otherwise playing his half-black genetics to the hilt then I’m sure Trumps much broader range of real-world experience isn’t going to present a problem.
Bucket list for USA:
[x] black president with no CEO experience
Been there, done that. Move along folks.
Surely also on the bucket list is female President with suspect past?
Tonyb
America loves an underdog. The more the libtards pile onto Trump the more followers he gets. This has happened over and over and over now. There’s too much of it. It looks contrived and desperate. Once again there’s a lesson from the most famous physicist in the world that describes this:
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” ~Albert Einstein
A millennial slacker with a resting bitch face throwing shade. Great icon.
What are these people thinking?
That’s Harlan Ellison, dimbulb and the quote you’re reaching for is “The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity”.
Write that down.
The quote you’re reaching for is
“The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity”. ~Harlan Ellis0n
Write that down.
James Cross, You sir, are no Einstein, obviously.
Is Einstein voting for Trump too?
One of the new followers Springer thinks are flocking to Trump.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
Dead voters are a Democrat thing, Jimbo. You are projecting, obviously.
Maybe that is why Trump is doing so well?
Finally there is a guy running for office who talks like everyday normal people talk. That is, people who are not afraid to give their true opinion in life every now and then, even if that might offend somebody. A guy who calls it like he sees it and does not constantly cloak his real opinion in PC language like a politician.
And because of that he runs the risk of sometimes saying the wrong thing or offend someone.
To me, your video of all the wrong things he has said just reinforces that image of a man who speaks his mind. Offending sometimes yes, but honest at least.
I like that. I think it is refreshing.
It’s scary. I was a city councilman in my hometown. One of my fellows on council, a dear friend and political ally who together with me did amazing things like lowering property taxes 25% in one budget meeting taking everyone by surprise as we negotiated with other council members on the fly to get a majority, with the audience looking like proverbial deer in the headlights “What just happened????”… anyhow, he’s not a Trump fan and told me months ago “Dave, making Trump president would be like making YOU president.” And I said “Exactly. What’s your point?”
==> “Finally there is a guy running for office who talks like everyday normal people talk.
This is one of the things I find so fascinating about Trump supporters – they actually think that “normal people” talk like Trump.
You know, like calling people fat pigs, bimbos,… talking about them bleeding out of their “whatever,” mocking people’s disabilities, etc.
Oh yeah, he talks just like “normal people.”
Exactly what I expected from you J0shu@.
Mrs. Holier-than-thou.
Maybe you are one of those people who pretends never to say a bad word about anybody or anything. Ever. To anybody.
But if someone was to put all the crappy stuff you have said in your life together in a one minute segment it would give another impression entirely. And that would be perfectly fine imo. It would show you as a human being. And that is my point. That is what makes Trump appealing imo. He says what he thinks, not what he thinks they wanna hear.
And nice labeling and jumping-to-conclusion job by the way.
Who says I am a “Trump supporter”?
“You know, like calling people fat pigs, bimbos..”
Just Rosie :)
wijnand2015 –
==> “And nice labeling and jumping-to-conclusion job by the way.”
Fair enough. Usually when people bite on the “Trump is a straight-talking truth teller saying what he thinks” public relations con job hook, line, and sinker, they’re a supporter, but I was wrong to make that assumption.
==> “Maybe you are one of those people who pretends never to say a bad word about anybody or anything. ”
What? Huh? OK, let’s turn around the fallacious reasoning here. I don’t “pretend never to say a bad word about anybody or anything.” But I don’t go around calling people “fat pigs” or “bimbos” as a matter of course. I don’t mock people for their disabilities. And I don’t think that “normal people” do that, either. At least not in my experience. And when they do screw up on the rare occasion, they show some accountability rather than doubling down to explain that they only do it as a “counterpunch” because they’re tough guys.
==> “But if someone was to put all the crappy stuff you have said in your life together in a one minute segment it would give another impression entirely. ”
Once again, this is a regular part of his repertoire. He flat out says that he employs that kind of rhetoric strategically. He uses it because it achieves the goals he wants: (1) intimidation and, (2) popularity – presumably with, among others, people who apparently consider that as “normal” behavior.
And one more point.
I am also tired of the crafted imagery and phoniness of most politicians. I think of how smarmy Bill Clinton is with his faux “I feel your pain.”
But there are not only two options. Just because most politicians are phony doesn’t mean that I support demagoguery and juvenile behavior as an alternative, and it certainly doesn’t mean that I am fooled into thinking that Trump’s public persona is any less crafted for his own personal/political expediency.
==> “He says what he thinks, not what he thinks they wanna hear.”
This is what I find so amusing. How do so many people, some of whom self-identify as “skeptics” (are you one of those?) actually fall for this nonsense (not to say that all “skeptics” do). They exempt Trump from the dynamics of expediency and self-interest that they’d assume in pretty much just about everyone else – and certainly to other politicians, or other members of the elite who were born with a silver spoon in their mouth.
His rhetoric is crafted for effect. He weighs the effect and responds accordingly. A lot of people like his insults and his demagoguery, and so he continues with it because it helps him to advance towards his goal.
Maybe he wants to be more beloved at the end of his term than George Washington ever hoped to be? It would fit his ego more terrifically too.
You do know these ads are targeted at the uninformed and terminally stupid.
“That’s the message Clinton favored this month, hammering Trump as a “loose cannon.”…”
Yeah that’s working. Not. I *want* a loose cannon and evidently so do a great many others. A heretofore silent majority of others. People pay close attention to loose cannons. Middle class apathy is gone. An electoral rebellion is underway. Trump’s responsible for that. I want more of it.
More phallic images from James.
What are you trying to tell us, Jimbo?
Sometimes a pipe is just a pipe but we see where your head is at.
Yeah but sometimes a cigar isn’t. ROFL
You’re making this too easy, Jimmy.
A libtard has the gaul to show a cartoon of Trump firing a missile when Hillary’s model whose policies she will continue will go down in history known as Commander In Drone. Not that there’s anything wrong with that except if you’re a libtard, you can’t talk about it.
James Cross has a woody for Trump. Must be the tiny hands. Isn’t that just precious? The scuttlebutt in high school was don’t bend over in the shower room to pick up soap with James in the vicinity.
Next you might want to show us his birth certificate? It is photo shopped too.
The presidential race has been remarkable already, but let’s make it more interesting.
https://www.quora.com/Can-Bill-Clinton-become-Vice-President-when-Hillary-Clinton-becomes-President-in-the-next-election
But that’s not my suggestion, I have a different one: let Donald Trump take Bill Clinton as his running mate.
With a wink and a nod, the dream ticket today would be Donald & Bernie, balance.
Jimmy must be laboring under the mistaken belief that Bernie lives in NY. President and VP can’t live in the same state. He’s from Vermont, dufous. Close but no cigar. Just a cigar.
Some other libtard dimwit (JCH?) yesterday thought Pochahontas Warren was from New York instead of Massachusetts. What’s up with that? Can we please, if such a thing exists, get some smarter libtards in here to insult?
Springer,
Let’s show some understanding. When there are 53 states, it is easy to get mixed up now and then.
Not eligible. Constitution 101.
Imbecile.
The question is Bill Clinton becoming Vice President.
He is not eligible because he would need to be eligible to become President and he is not eligible to become President because he has already served two terms.
There is also the State problem with Hillary and Trump.
Sorry, I see you were objecting to Slick Willy as VP on constitutional grounds not Bernie. But you’re still wrong. Constitution forbids electing a president to more than two terms. It is silent on whether a former two term president can be in the path of succession to the office as that is not being put there by election.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States#Selection_process
Sounds a lot like the argument over the natural-born status of a child whose mother who is a US resident but bore the child overseas.
See you and Trump have more in common than you thought!
The following is a test:
1) Where was Obama born?
2) Was 9/11 an inside job?
3) Was the moon landing staged?
4) Was the Lewinsky cigar an illegal Cuban cigar?
Enquiring minds want to know.
From the article:
…
Following his call with Reid, Sanders released a statement regarding what happened in Nevada. However, the statement was probably not what Harry Reid was hoping for—as it revealed the gunshots and more about the infighting in Nevada, including a break-in months ago at his campaign staff’s living quarters.
“Within the last few days there have been a number of criticisms made against my campaign organization,” Sanders said. “Party leaders in Nevada, for example, claim that the Sanders campaign has a ‘penchant for violence.’ That is nonsense.”
Sanders went on to add, “when we speak of violence, I should add here that months ago, during the Nevada campaign, shots were fired into my campaign office in Nevada and apartment housing complex my campaign staff lived in was broken into and ransacked.”
As the statement progressed Sanders began to lay out his argument against what happened in Nevada.
“The chair of the convention announced that the convention rules passed on voice vote, when the vote was a clear no-vote. At the very least, the Chair should have allowed for a headcount.
…
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/05/18/nevada-battle-sanders-clinton-camps-breaks-open-war-gunshots-fired-bernies-state-campaign-office/
Reid ‘surprised’ by ‘silly statement’ from Sanders
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/280259-reid-surprised-by-silly-statement-from-sanders
Is the worm beginning to turn?
MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski Calls For DNC Chair To Step Down Over Bias Against Sanders
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/18/msnbcs_mika_brzezinski_calls_for_dnc_chair_to_step_down_for_bias_against_sanders.html
“Morning Joe” Panel: Appearance That Primaries Are “Rigged” Is Hurting Democratic Party
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/18/morning_joe_panel_appearance_primaries_are_rigged_hurting_democratic_party.html
Democrats fall in love. Republicans fall in line. Scorned, abused, mistreated Bernie voters, getting a taste of the rigged establishment system, will flock to other anti-establishment candidate who shares their concern and grief over the rigged system. Trump was a Democrat before he was a Republican anyway, and for longer. This distresses the conservative right but Cr00ked Hillary was never a Republican so Trump is still at least the lesser of two evils in their view. Cr00ked Hillary is toast. I’m just rooting for her to not die or be indicted before it’s too late to replace her. Hang in there Hilly, we luv ya hon.
Pretty bad when your daughter has to defend you as not a groper.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/05/17/ivanka-trump-nyt-story-pretty-disturbing/84510738/
At least she’s not a phallic symbol like missiles and beefcake that you posted today.
The following is a test:
1) What do the stone parrots in the picture appear to be doing?
2) Are the parrots first cousins or closer?
3) Are the parrots one female and one male?
4) Can the parrots use the same bathroom regardless of the how you answer any of the above?
Enquiring minds want to know.
1) They’re “fighting” as my daughter used to say about ducks at the lake when she was five years old.
2) They’re parrots it doesn’t matter.
3) Ditto
$) They go wherever they like – maybe even on your head.
Odd picture to use of his daughter. Ivanka is 34.
I know, right? There’s worse. Let’s ask James if he thinks the baby looks a little bit too much like its grandfather.
James never looked so good before.
I kill me sometimes!
Awe… I photo-shopped James’ head onto Ivanka. He must have complained to IMGUR. Both photos are public domain, Jimbo. Just like the one you posted with Trumps’ head photo-shopped on a different body. You’re a twat, James, and you need a douche.
Joseph, did you vote twice for Bill Clinton, once?
“they’re fighting”
Ah. So you have the mind of a five year old girl. That explains a few things. What do you want to be if you grow up?
If you think your daughter is hot, she has good genes and you did a good job of raising her.
So it’s ok for me or anyone else to say they thought their child was “hot” and wouldn’t mind dating (if not for that pesky incest taboo)? You think that is normal? Would you say it?
Trump dates the most eligible women in the world. Ivanka knows that. It was the highest compliment Trump could give and I’m certain Ivanka understands and took it that way. He’s a very proud daddy and has an adoring daughter that anyone would be proud to have. Get your mind out of the gutter, Joseph.
He didn’t call it “pesky”, Joseph. That’s just you wanting to make it look sick. Yes it’s perfectly normal and I’ve said it to both of my smart girls.
That you have said they are “hot” and that you would probably be dating her, if she weren’t your child?
Actually no. If I were an unrelated boy near my daughters age they’d be out of my league. But I’m sure I’d try.
I see you’re still putting words in the mouths of others. You’re one phucked up piece of sh*t. Of course you know that already.
*plonk*
If you’re going to throw mud why not start with the big clumps?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3589628/Report-Bill-Clinton-jumped-aboard-disgraced-sex-offender-Jeffrey-Epstein-s-Lolita-Express-plane-junkets-26-TIMES-just-three-years.html
Apparently Trump is also a friend of Epstein.
Throw it at all of them. Anyone actually involved should be burned. International trafficking of underage girls as young as 12 for the purposes of prostitution is sick enough to where I don’t care who spends the rest of their life in prison.
From the link:
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been accused of socializing with Epstein.
But sources at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida said the billionaire banned him from the premises years ago after he was seen hitting on a teenage girl.
Trump declined comment on that development when DailyMail.com asked him about it.
But Trump’s attorney, Alan Garten, told Fox News that ‘there was no relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump.’
‘They were not friends and they did not socialize together.’
Defending him from who? The Dimowit lefties who give Billous a free pass? Right.
Gawd these politics threads are cancer…
I’m not sure they’re that good.
Does spark interest though.
Only if you take them seriously and aren’t a new yawker.
“Hard to believe, isn’t it? I love it so!” ~Prof. John A. Davison
http://www.uvm.edu/~jdavison/
Write that down. ~ibid
These threads keep the ‘cancer’ away from the other threads. Next week I will have time for more substantive posts. In the midst of crazy travel.
Sometime in the early Jimmy Carter years circa 1978. Archie was a Republican loading dock foreman. Trump, as a hands-on NY developer whose father was the same, evidently imprinted on these people. They were the folks in the trenches. Lower management level in the construction industry in New York. Bigot that he was Archie had a heart of gold and never really meant half of what he said. You saw it here first. Archie on Democrats.
yes, its all been very entertaining so far, but when are the real Presidential candidates going to enter the race?
tonyb
Let me be absolutely clear, Archie was a prophet.
What part do you not think is real? We’ve never had a billionaire or female head of state before. You’ve had nothing but that for centuries.
It looks like there’s trouble in paradise.
Wounded Hillary Limps to Kentucky Win:
In a razor-thin victory, Clinton won the Kentucky primary. But she was handily beaten in Oregon and just can’t shake Bernie Sanders.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/18/wounded-hillary-limps-to-kentucky-win.html
Clinton, Democrats Confronting Dangerous Divisions Within Party
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-05-18/clinton-democrats-confronting-dangerous-divisions-within-party#media-1
To Win in November, Hillary Clinton Will Need Bernie Sanders’s Voters
http://www.thenation.com/article/to-win-in-november-hillary-clinton-will-need-bernie-sanderss-voters/
Can Hillary Win?
http://www.wsj.com/articles/can-hillary-win-1463511010
Amid Democratic infighting, polls are improving for Trump
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/280283-amid-dem-infighting-polls-are-improving-for-trump
“Morning Joe” Panel: Bill Clinton’s Connection To Billionaire Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Will “Blow Up” Campaign
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/18/morning_joe_panel_clintons_connection_to_billionaire_pedophile_jeffrey_epstein_will_blow_up_campaign.html
I’m surprised the epstein story made it past the MSNBC censors. Talk about enabling the “war on women”. How a former President could associate with such low life is beyond me.
I can’t imagine any Republican candidate making more graphic allusions to this despicable revelations than Trump. As for Hillary, they may come up with some new psychobabble for her obvious complicit involvement in this kiddie war on women. Maybe second degree derivative enabling enabler. But given some of the distasteful talk around the campfire on conservative blogs, it makes one wonder if she was enjoying the flights herself.
Sen. Barbara Boxer on NV Dem Convention: “If I Didn’t Have A Lot Of Security, I Don’t Know What Would Have Happened”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/18/sen_barbara_boxer_on_nv_dem_convention_if_i_didnt_have_a_lot_of_security_i_dont_know_what_would_have_happened.html
Clinton Spokesman: Democrats Will Unite, Nevada Chaos Is “Much Ado About Nothing”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/18/clinton_spokesman_democrats_will_unite_nevada_chaos_is_much_ado_about_nothing.html
James Cross is trying to out-trump Trump. I think it’s pure unadulterated jealousy. Pathetic.
It’s okay James. I’m a big fan of Si fueris Rōmae, Rōmānō vīvitō mōre. We just need to work on your delivery is all. It’s really hard finding a libtard that’s a good sport and you’re showing promise.
Y’all let me know if I’m playing too rough with our new toy. I hate when they break right away.
Bomb shell lawsuit!
Wonder how much Trump had to pay to make this go away?
He probably gets dozens of these every year. He can’t help it, he’s a stud and we want stud president like Putin. The more “you people” play this sort of thing up, the higher he will go in the polls. The persecution of Bill Clinton’s peccadilloes got him 70% approval ratings. I’m sure you don’t know where this will lead, but it’s not to another Clinton in the WH.
Wasn’t that the same year Hillary had Vince Foster snuffed because he knew too much and body dumped in Fort Marcey Park with a bad attempt to make it look like a suicide?
And you’re going to compare that to Donald Trump getting what appears to be a frivolous lawsuit asking for $100M from a beauty contestant? A suit that was unceremoniously dismissed? Or maybe you want to compare that to the admitted and Cr00ked Hillary-forgiven action not long after that her husband was rubbing cigars in the bare bottom of a young female office intern in the oval office no less? Or the stained dress. Illegal Cuban cigar no less.
Give me a frickin’ break. You cannot possibly come out ahead dredging up the past when the Clintons are on the block for the comparative side. I’d LOL but it isn’t really funny on the Clinton side.
If the Clinton campaign makes character the issue Trump may as well start organizing his transition team.
Bush lost election because he didn’t engage the Clintons. As his deputy campaign manager noted, he “never called Bill Clinton a lying, skirt-chasing, tax-raising, drug-using, draft-dodger”..
Unlike Bush Sr., Trump will engage the enemy, gleefully. And at least he hasn’t killed anyone.
The “Trump is almost as bad as we are” theme is not a wise one for the Clinton campaign. Particularly as the current president may have to pardon Hillary so she can take office.
She voluntarily dropped the suit. You can speculate all you like, but you got nothin’.
Does Sanders have a chance? Surely not, right?
Right?!?
;)
Larry Sabato: Imagine The Things Sanders Could Demand With 40% Of Delegates To DNC Convention
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/18/larry_sabato_imagine_the_things_sanders_could_demand_with_40_of_delegates_to_dnc_convention.html
Hillaryious. The democratic convention is going to be the circus while the republican convention goes off smooth as a Miss America pageant.
Hard to believe isn’t it? I love it so!
Trump’s Minority Share
http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/trump-minority-vote/
Nice.
Interesting that David was impressed, even though Trump’s numbers with Blacks are polling marginally better than McCain’s and Romney’s turnout (+3 and +1, respectively, running against a Black candidate), and worse with Hispanics (-8% and -4%, respectively).
In this case May follows September and December. Recompute .
That’s cute… compare (putative) favorability ratings with past shares of the vote, as if the favorability is directly transferable to share of the vote.
From the recent Fox News poll (which has Trump ahead overall, within the margin of error).
Is Trump clever enough to hire people like James Cross to frame and enable comparisons to Clinton scandals? That’s some target rich territory in the age of information at your fingertips (you’re welcome). For any Trump scandal that can possibly be dredged up you can take that date and find something worse about the Clintons. I sh*t you not. You heard it here first.
It looks like the sensitivity Gestapo may be in trouble.
When Bill Clinton was running for president he stood with Hillary and said you get a two-for-one deal implying Hillary was co-president or some sh*t. Now they seem to be running as a couple again. I guess we need term limits for this situation. The constitution evidently has some loopholes in it.
Did somebody ask to hear from First Ladies? Who’s asking to hear from potential First Lady Bill Clinton?
Trump May Yet Claim Latinos
His immigration rhetoric was tough, but Hispanics aren’t hostile to his ideas
http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/trump-kids-no-kardashians/
Oops!
Here’s the right link:
http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/trump-may-yet-claim-latinos/
Ivanka turns 35 in time to be sworn in as VP. That would be a hoot. First woman in the white house. First Jew. Youngest ever by about a year. I’d rather her than Sarah Palin you betcha. I’m thinking it’s Newt Gingrich though. Trump makes a deal. A contract with America to make it great again. Fantastic. Better than fantastic. I’m tellin’ ya.
Wednesday, May 18
Race/Topic (Click to Sort) Poll Results Spread
General Election: Trump vs. Clinton FOX News Clinton 42, Trump 45 Trump +3
Race/Topic (Click to Sort) Poll Results Spread
General Election: Trump vs. Clinton Gravis Clinton 48, Trump 46 Clinton +2
That last one was from Friday, May 13
Feinstein Worried About Sanders: “I Don’t Want To Go Back To The ’68 Convention”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/18/feinstein_worried_sanders_supporters_i_dont_want_to_go_back_to_the_68_convention.html
Bucking Trends, Trump Sends Teams to Democrat-Leaning States
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/05/18/bucking_trends_trump_sends_teams_to_democrat-leaning_states_130600.html
WOW!
Sanders is reading Clinton the riot act.
Sanders Challenges DNC: “Open Your Doors,” “Let The People In”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/18/sanders_challenges_dnc_open_your_doors_let_the_people_in.html
Mitt Romney ends recruiting efforts for an independent candidate
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/18/politics/mitt-romney-never-trump-independent-2016-campaign/index.html
The big difference is that Clinton has 56% of the popular vote and the majority of delegates to match, while Trump is getting the majority of the delegates with only 40% of the popular vote. Which side is rigged?
The Democrats had a 2 person race. The fact that super delegates exist is kind of is counter democratic.
The selection process belongs to the party. It prevents a Trump-type person taking over on the Dem side, which is a safeguard. The Republicans will probably implement this type of system in the future having learned their lesson. They allowed a celebrity candidate that does not stand for their ideals, and had no way to stop him even though he got less than half their vote. It was an extremely vulnerable system.
Put it this way. If Trump went into the convention with 40% of the delegates to match his popular vote, what would have happened? He lucked out precisely because the system is not proportional.
You’re mistaken. Trump “lucked out” because a record-smashing number of voters flocked to the Republican primary polls and he smoked 17 other candidates and will still have easily gone over 50% of the popular vote and the delegates before the convention meets. I see you’re in denial already, Jimmy D. The democratic party is the one that fractured. Split almost down the middle. The disaffected half is starting to riot and going for the other, surviving outsider who beat the rigged system.
Jim D:
“They allowed a celebrity candidate that does not stand for their ideals, and had no way to stop him even though he got less than half their vote.”
So when I get my say in the Republican party I will say, I will vote for the voters ideals. What does the party establishment represent if not the voters? The question was whose primary is this? The voters said it was theirs. When I get my say in the Republican party I will say, I will vote for my ideals, not the ideals of you who put me here, my ideals. Stopping him is stopping their voters. To prove what point? The same thing goes for Sanders. The fact that the super delegates are going 10 to 1 for Clinton would make me ashamed to be in the Democratic party.
Who got a significant number of votes? Trump, Cruz, Rubio, Kasich. I find it easy to understand why he only got 40% without going down the rigged path.
The Republican base has dwindled so much that those who only vote based on name recognition, or those who didn’t previously feel someone represented their extremist views in the Republican party, are now coming out of the woodwork for Trump. There are some people there that you would not want to share your party with.
Trump defeated 17 other primary candidates. How many did Hillary go up against? The super-delegates are establishment stooges. The popular race was so close if 3% of Hillary’s votes went to Bernie it would be a tie. No one is showing up at the libtard conventions while Trump broke the record for most votes ever with 25% of the ballots still left to be cast. He’s now dead even in national polls with Hilly and has the momentum. More Bernie voters are going to Trump than to Hillary so it just gets worse from here until he’s dead meat. Bernie isn’t a global village whackjob and the establishment hates him. Trump was a Democrat longer than he’s been a Republican. The general election is over before it begins.
The popular vote is about 56-44 for Hillary. They are running out of states. It’s done.
==> “More Bernie voters are going to Trump than to Hillary..”
Right. And non-citizens can’t serve in the military.
Hillary might be done too, Jimbo.
http://time.com/4337518/hillary-clinton-emails-judicial-watch-civil-lawsuit/
It’s not a huge win in the popular vote for Hillary is the point. If one democrat out of every sixteen changed their vote to Bernie he’d be winning instead of her.
It doesn’t work that way, Joshy. Just because permanent residents with green cards can enter military service in addition to established citizens, and I didn’t know that, doesn’t make me wrong about anything else in particular. That makes your retort lame as sh*t. A non sequitur. Feel free to try again if you can get it through moderation.
http://www.salon.com/2016/05/13/bernie_supporters_wont_vote_hillary_a_chilling_new_development_in_the_clinton_campaign_partner/
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to show that Bernie voters in West Virginia are radically unlike Bernie voters elsewhere in that when Bernie gets the boot twice as many will jump ship to vote for Trump as will switch to Hillary.
Good luck. You’ll need it.
David –
What I think was informative was how absolutely certain you were about an opinion that was completely wrong. It isn’t like it’s the first time. No, I can’t therefore assume that you’re wrong about everything, but I can assume that you can be very sure of opinions that are absolutely wrong.
The fact that you seem to think that the information you provided in your follow-up comment somehow proves your statement that “More Bernie voters are going to Trump than to Hillary..” is hilarious.
“The big difference is that Clinton has 56% of the popular vote and the majority of delegates to match, while Trump is getting the majority of the delegates with only 40% of the popular vote. Which side is rigged?”
Let’s see. Clinton had essentially no competition, and she is having a hard time closing the deal. No way Clinton could have won if Biden had run.
Trump, on the other hand, put down 17 contenders, including Jeb!, the Clinton equivalent.
Of course, you do have the media on Hillary’s side, for all the usual reasons. But I think it is going to be a bit different this time. In terms of the negative stuff, every Trump foible is outweighed by serious stuff on Hillary’s side. NYT’s runs a hit piece against Trump, with the opening “Trump offered a woman without a bathing suit at a pool party a bathing suit.” Compare that to “Juanita Broaddrick accuses Bill Clinton of rape rape.”
I believe you Juanita!
It’s going to be a lot of fun. The media can’t ignore Trump. They will try to distort his message, like they did with bathing suit woman, but they will fail. At each point of attack by the MSM, Trump will point out the far worse stuff on Hillary’s side. He will do it effectively.
I think it’s going to be very hard for the media to put Trump down.
Trump has a growing set of discredited things he just keeps on saying. It doesn’t make them true, but he does have believers who will blindly accept anything he utters as truth.
Trump Threat to Renegotiate UN Climate Deal Causes Dismay Abroad
http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/144590/Trump_Threat_to_Renegotiate_UN_Climate_Deal_Causes_Dismay_Abroad/?pgNum=1#sthash.A8o3FAiI.dpuf
Isolate the United States around the world.
And we care… why? Seems to me the world needs the US a fat f*cking lot more than the US needs the world.
Or maybe not. The US doesn’t seem to have a lot to offer the rest of the world. Lots of lawyers and hedge funds. Lots of unsolicited free advice. Lots of threats, remote controlled assassinations in foreign countries without benefit of the accused to face their accusers. Interference in the internal affairs of other countries. Winning hearts and minds by mindlessly killing anyone who disagrees.
Yep. The rest of the world really needs the US.
Are you dreaming?
Cheers.
@Flynn
Even better if the world won’t miss our interference in their sovereign affairs. I’ll sleep better knowing that. The entire point remains; we’ll get along better without the burden of living up to “leader of the free world”. Some else’s turn. Europe – tag you’re it. Good luck. Hasta la vista, baby.
@F1ynn
Even better if the world won’t miss our interference in their sovereign affairs. I’ll sleep better knowing that. The entire point remains; we’ll get along better without the burden of living up to “leader of the free world”. Some else’s turn. Europe – tag you’re it. Good luck. Hasta la vista, baby.
Mike Flynn,
You left out a couple of things.
At the top of the list – opportunity
followed by freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom to travel, etc
Then there is the world’s most reliable currency (though our current President is doing his best to negate that one).
How about education? Seems like more nations send their young to the US for college and post grad than the reverse.
I’m not saying Australia lacks these things. But in the overall scheme of things Australia is like those little birds who ride on the back of the elephant.
Meet Trump’s new energy advisor. Trump needs a good energy advisor and Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) will probably suffice for the campaign. Coming from N Dakota gives him a specific background on fossil fuels but he’s a “luke warmist” on climate having supported carbon taxes earlier. He doesn’t have the background or creds to be Energy Secretary. I would prefer an exceptionally strong individual to head Energy – preferably not a PhD in Physics, as Obama has done with Stephen Chu and Ernest Moniz – in part to provide “appeal to authority” (a logical fallacy) for photo ops; but a highly capable administrator with background in government and policy.
I’m sure Senator Inhofe, the chair of the senate committee on energy and environment, will have some other choices for Trump to consider. The head of the EPA will certainly be on the receiving end of “You’re Fired!” with all due haste and the new one will have marching orders to stand down. Congress can make a finding that CO2 is plant food not a pollutant, Trump signs an executive order supporting that finding and directing agencies under his control to modify their policies accordingly, and we can all get back to the business of making America great (great for Americans) again.
Hard to believe, isn’t it? I love it so!
I’m thinking Rick Perry, the longest serving governor of Texas ever, would made a damn fine energy secretary. Rick knows how to make deals in gov’t bureaucracies and he knows the energy industry inside and out. Hell Rick even oversaw the largest and most successful emplacement of wind energy anywhere in the nation if not the entire world. He’s perfect. I think I hear him volunteering for the job right now – he lives just down the street from me by Dell’s new headquarters in Round Rock. Pack your bags Rick you’re going to Washington.
You lost me on how good Mead’s essay is. Specifically, I lost it here:
“Jacksonian sentiment embraces a concept of the United States as a folk community and, over time, that folk community was generally construed as whites only.”
Perhaps some people feel this way, but I don’t. I don’t like the US immigration policy. The US should bring in highly qualified individuals into the country regardless of race. The latest policy seems to be to bring in cheap unskilled labor predominately.
There are many problems with bringing in cheap, unskilled labor. Here are some:
1) They compete for jobs teenagers used to do, such as fast food. I have seen many career fast food employees.
2) What they produce in tax revenues is lower than what they consume. To wit, 50% of CA K-12 population is Hispanic. That’s over $30B right there, for state taxes alone. And, CA’s per student funding is dropping. Shared resources become more scarce when there isn’t replenishment, in this case more tax revenue. CA is now the number one state in per capita welfare.
3) It’s bad for global warming (one of those contradictions in liberal thought: we are opposed to global warming, so let’s make more Americans who have a big carbon footprint)
4) Cheap labor is an impediment to automation.
5) Most are Democrats.
6) Many do not share the US’s constitutional views on women’s rights, or other rights, and are comfortable with a large state.
7) Most are not assimilating, and by that I mean generation to generation college matriculation, increased salaries (hence value add), and eschewing gang affiliation, dropping out of high school, etc.
8) The wink and nod to illegal immigrants weakens the rule of law.
As a taxpayer, illegal immigration is not in my interests. I have little interest in subsidized hamburgers. I would rather pay the price for the hamburger, or vegetables, move agriculture to Mexico, or have a better guest worker program, than subsidize big AG, and cheap fast food. Aren’t we fat enough? We do not need to subsidize our eating habits.
Meanwhile, bring in the best and brightest. This undoubtedly has had an effect on my salary, and competitiveness, but those are the breaks. I would rather the US become a haven of highly skilled people.
It has nothing to do with race. It has everything to do with the future culture of this nation. I like Western Civilization. It’s worth preserving, and not ruining on behalf of axiomatically inconsistent multi-culturalism, and big government and its attendant control.
Do a little research on that $30B claim for brown kids in California public schools. Most of those students are American citizens who happen to be Hispanic. That’s purely f*cked up to single them out as scapegoats. The actual burden of undocumented kids in California schools is a small fraction of the claimed $30B.
Keep sending libtards to Sacremento, Ed. That’ll solve all the state’s problems with unproductive residents and burdensome green energy policies. Businesses will soon be leaving Texas to take up residence in California instead of the other way around before you know it.
Oh wait… I think I got that backward.
Springer:
“That’s purely f*cked up to single them out as scapegoats.”
1) I’m not singling out the US citizen brown kids as scapegoats. I’m pointing out the failure in our immigration policy. Those brown US citizens who consume far more in US taxes than they provide wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for US immigration policy.
2) It’s the truth. Sometimes the truth isn’t pretty. Acknowledge the truth, and do something about it, or be its victim.
3) Regarding demographic assimilation, there was a series of articles a number of years ago bemoaning the stubborn lack of integration at the third and fourth generation of Hispanics in the San Jose Mercury News. Readers were promised an ongoing series, but it was dropped, probably because of people who thought it was f*cked up to talk about it.
I agree, it’s f*cked up. I don’t blame illegals for what they are doing. I blame our government officials, the ownership class donors wanting their subsidized labor, and politically correct jerks who make it so we cannot have an honest discussion about what all this illegal immigration is doing to this country.
Fortunately, you can still speak the truth in this country. Your brand of political correctness hasn’t destroyed that, yet. But, under Obama, the attacks against free speech are mounting. Progressives and leftists have the first amendment in their sights.
Feminism is Bigger Than Gender: Why I’ll be Happy in Hell Without Hillary
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/16/feminism-is-bigger-than-gender-why-ill-be-happy-in-hell-without-hillary/
Why Trump Must Make Gains Among Women Voters to Win the White House
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/why-trump-must-make-gains-among-women-voters-win-white-n575456
I’m always impressed by the sincere, helpful advice of NBC in how the GOP can start winning again.
Oh wait… the GOP already has majorities in both houses of congress. Maybe turnout is the problem. A GOP presidential candidate that bring people out of the frickin’ woodwork to vote for him in record smashing numbers might make up for the very small disparity in gender politics. Trump has a larger lead in male voters than deficit in female voters. Males that never came out to vote before. Now they have time since so many of them are under-employed. My comeback to NBC is: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Relying on 2012 voting patterns to predict 2016 patterns… how’s that been working out so far?
Here’s the untold story for 2016 according to National Review:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433596/hillary-clintons-low-ratings-among-women
Cr00ked Hillary has baggage. A lot more of it than Trump. Knocking her down is like shooting fish in a barrel. Establishment politicians are out of favor this election cycle. That’s really the long and short of it right there. Hillary is establishment. Trump isn’t.
David Springer said:
Yep.
How Donald Trump is drawing in Democrats
Black voters and other Democrats hurt by the Obama economy may rethink party allegiance
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/18/monica-crowley-how-donald-trump-is-drawing-in-demo/
But the sensitivity Gestapo, which wants to make it all about identity politics and nothing about pocketbook issues, is striking back.
As Yves Smith said, “Sanders was supposed to show his belly and throw his supporters under the bus. Bad Sanders!” Clinton Inc. is demanding “that he operate by the Marquis of Queensbury rules.”
Bernie Bros out of control: Explosion of misogynist rage at Nevada’s Dem chairwoman reflects terribly on Sanders’ dwindling campaign
Sanders backers have been flooding Roberta Lange with sexist abuse because of the loss of 4 delegates
http://www.salon.com/2016/05/17/bernie_bros_out_of_control_explosion_of_misogynist_rage_at_nevadas_dem_chairwoman_reflects_terribly_on_sanders_dwindling_campaign/
No end in sight for higher Obamacare premiums
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/obamacare-716214-percent-california.html
The Cost of Obamacare
http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-cost-of-obamacare/article/2002427
I’m a statistic. My private health care premiums doubled since 2014.
How do you know it had anything to do with Obamacare?
Joseph, That has to be one of the stupidest comments I’ve ever read.
ordvic –
Comments?
http://www.factcheck.org/2014/02/aca-impact-on-per-capita-cost-of-health-care/
Fair question Joseph. I don’t know it was because of Obamacare. It’s sort of like climate change. CO2 is blamed because you can’t find anything else to blame.
Here’s what I know:
1) nothing about me changed since 2014 except I’m two years older
2) no benefits changed – same plan, same co-pays, same deductables
3) the company I buy it from didn’t change
4) I shopped around each year and couldn’t find a better deal
But hey it’s okay. I can’t blame Obamacare for me cancelling my private health care and enrolling in VA Health Care this year. Now I don’t pay a dime the US gov’t is footing the whole bill saving me about $1000/mo. in premiums, deductables, co-pays, prescriptions, etc.
Funny thing is this is more than the gov’t paid me per month while I was actually in the military from 1974 – 1978. Thanks buddy.
My brother had the same experience, with higher deductables and poorer coverage.
As for dumbass Joe – simple. The health care insurance providers dropped their existing plans precisely because of the ACA. They are not run by people with your ability to grasp facts. They understand that if they are required to offer coverage to people without it, they are going to have to raise premiums on their existing customers.
Trump: Bill Clinton a Rapist
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/18/trump_bill_clinton_committed_rape.html
In the interview Trump blasts the NY Times for its dishonesty and pro-Clinton bias.
The NY Times is the newspaper of record for liberal America, and is the voice for the .00000001% — the global plutocracy — and no one else.
It is important to remember that the NY Times biggest stockholder and white knight, who threw the newspaper a lifeline a few years ago when it got itself in dire financial straits, is the Mexican plutocrat Carlos Slim.
The Mexican oligarch Carlos Slim (right) with Bill Gates (left)
Girl without swimsuit offered one at pool party, good example of a guy’s misogyny. Now that’s front page news. Woman accuses a man of saying did someone put a pube in my coke, and try to tar and feather the guy.
Grope a woman on the day she learned about the death of her husband, trot out “NOW.” Spin up “It’s a vast right wing conspiracy.” Talk about the “Politics of personal destruction.” Report on this in the press, widely.
Woman credibly accuses sitting president with rape, ignore it and sweep it under the rug.
Do not investigate or report upon current front runner’s complicity in trying to destroy women who are the object of the president’s sexual dalliances and offenses.
I think people have stopped trusting the institutions as being in their best interests. That includes the press, the police (#blacklivesmatters), our financial institutions (thank you goldman sachs), the government, and sadly, even Universities and science is under attack.
I suspect this has happened is the country is running in open loop since the collapse of the soviet empire, with the threats very hard to visualize and understand. So, we invent problems.
ed –
==> “I think people have stopped trusting the institutions as being in their best interests. ”
As a “skeptic,” I’m sure that you’d only formulate such an opinion on the basis of empirical evidence. As such, I’d like to know how you reconcile that evidence with the following empirical evidence?
and
J*shua.
Science aint an institution.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/183593/confidence-institutions-below-historical-norms.aspx
http://www.gallup.com/poll/1597/confidence-institutions.aspx
First look at explosive Hillary documentary, ‘Clinton Cash’
http://nypost.com/2016/05/17/first-look-at-explosive-hillary-documentary-clinton-cash/
Trump unveils his potential Supreme Court nominees
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/18/politics/donald-trump-supreme-court-nominees/index.html
Glenn, you have stated that your residence is now located in Mexico and if you sold your home in CA to make the transition I’m OK with that too. The question I asked yesterday was honest, do you still get to vote in US elections? Are you now able to vote in the Mexican elections, where you currently pay your state taxes?
His home of record is in Texas. Of course he can vote – absentee ballot. Gringos can’t vote in Mexico nor can they own land within 50km of a coastline or 100km of an international border.
Arch Stanton,
I’m still very much a United States citizen and vote in Texas.
In order to obtain my Mexican permanent residency visa, I had to demonstrate that I receive sufficient passive investment income from the United States to live on.
Mexico does not issue visas for people to come in who have to work, as they don’t want foreigners competing with their domestic labor force.
I am not a Mexican citizen, so cannot vote in Mexican elections.
Furthermore, I cannot participate in political discourse in Mexico, much less political campaigns. I cannot donate money to any candidate running for public office, nor can I write and publish an article giving my opinions, for instance, on Mexican immigration laws, which, despite some recent changes, are still much harsher than U.S. laws dealing with immigrants.
Thank you for your response, Glenn. Everything you explained makes very good sense to me. The Mexican Government acts very responsibly to protect their people and their borders. Enjoy your weather.
Arch Stanton,
An outstanding movie about the plight of central American immigrants in Mexico:
LA JAULA DE ORO (THE GOLDEN DREAM)
http://www.roxie.com/ai1ec_event/la-jaula-de-oro-the-golden-dream/
More women come out to vouch for Donald;
What it’s like working for Donald Trump: We talked to four of his current and former executives.
http://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/05/18/donald-trump-employee-interviews-origwx-allee.cnn/video/playlists/donald-trump/
Very interesting interview:
Inside the thinking of Trump supporters
A group of Donald Trump supporters sat down with CNN’s Drew Griffin to give their insight into the Republican presidential candidate, and why they intend to vote for him.
http://edition.cnn.com/videos/us/2016/05/19/inside-thinking-of-trump-supporters-pkg-griffin-ac.cnn/video/playlists/donald-trump/
Compare what the blacks in the group had to say to the following, as pragmatism reasserts itself in American politics:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/16/feminism-is-bigger-than-gender-why-ill-be-happy-in-hell-without-hillary/
Cr00ked Clintons
http://nypost.com/2016/05/17/first-look-at-explosive-hillary-documentary-clinton-cash/
The payola goes deep with these creeps.
Clinton discloses millions in book royalties, speaking fees
https://www.yahoo.com/news/clinton-discloses-millions-book-royalties-speaking-fees-012047278–election.html
NY Times says Bernie’s campaign workers are “disheartened” by his willingness “to Harm Hillary Clinton” and by his not being sufficiently “devoted to achieving Democratic unity,”
“Current and former campaign workers” charge that the campaign’s message has “devolved into a near-obsession with perceived conspiracies on the part of Mrs. Clinton’s allies,” reports the NY Times:
Bernie Sanders, Eyeing Convention, Willing to Harm Hillary Clinton in the Homestretch
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/us/politics/bernie-sanderss-campaign-accuses-head-of-dnc-of-favoritism.html?_r=0
Go Sanders!
If someone cares to read this entire page at some point in the future. Let it be said that as the Establishment is threatened, the Press is not to be believed, the People around the world are not to be listened to; that none of the anger would have been possible without the release of the Climategate emails. That is what I think got this Ball Rolling, to get going.
Are you still one of the unwashed as they liked to say?
I was reading some journolist’s take on why the #neverTrump campaign failed. He listed as one of the reasons to oppose Trump that he is a vaccine “truther.”
So, I thought I recalled Hillary on that side of the issue, and sure enough:
As a U.S. senator and presidential candidate in 2008, Hillary Clinton expressed support for the theory that childhood vaccinations contribute to autism, writing in a campaign questionnaire that she was “committed” to finding the causes of autism, including “possible environmental causes like vaccines.”
This is the problem when Science is flaky. People don’t discount positions like “Vaccines are bad”. Flaky science fuels the distrust. People do not see individual studies, they probably don’t even see “Climate Change.” They see “Scientists” and “Science.”
Every publicized study that turns out wrong, especially those that lead to an increase in government control of our lives, weakens the public’s belief in science.
So, better be correct when you publish. Better make certain your results are properly portrayed by the press. And better make certain your fellow scientists are publishing high quality stuff.
Or, you will have more vaccine truthers like Trump and Hillary, which leads to more bad decisions and a weaker, more superstitious, society.
John Horgan’s article about skepticism is pretty interesting, especially when applied to global warming research –e.g., when you’re losing the game because despite the elegance of AGW theory, the scientific method cannot distinguish your science from pseudo-science, you try to change the rules. Unfortunately, in the war between the Left and the right over the validity of the AGW hypothesis, global warming researchers — who essentially have become nothing more than an extension of progressive government — also have tried to change the facts.
This is a good read: Camille Paglia on Trump
http://www.salon.com/2016/05/19/camille_paglia_pc_feminists_misfire_again_as_fossilized_fearful_media_cant_touch_donald_trump/
That was better than any of the links in the OP. I’m not past the first two paragraphs and I’m laughing and loving it. Thanks.
That was extraordinarily enjoyable. I laughed so hard I nearly cried at the end. Best take down piece ever.
You must be in the mood for this then.
http://heatst.com/politics/breaking-burlington-college-board-member-has-heard-feds-have-been-asking-questions-about-jane-sanders-loan-deal/
Goldman to another rescue?
I’m not in the mood for a nap. That almost did it but I made it through to the end without quite losing consciousness.
Paglia is always a great read. She is also a terrific interview. Unfortunately she’s never on TV anymore. The world could do with a little more Paglia.
Now there’s a woman who thinks for herself and
can put pen to paper. And she likes Harold Bloom. )
Hey, the faculty reduced ‘ by formula ‘n regulation ter
serfs’… ‘biology removed from gender studies, class-
room advocacy,’ she’s hot! ‘No-sense-of-history,’ OMG!
Bernie’s Ode to Billary …
Matt Taibbi is already administering last rites for the GOP.
R.I.P., GOP: How Trump Is Killing the Republican Party
Donald Trump crushed 16 GOP opponents in one of the most appalling, vicious campaigns in history. His next victim? The entire Republican Party
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/r-i-p-gop-how-trump-is-killing-the-republican-party-20160518
This isn’t, however, the first time we’ve heard this.
Trump soothes the right with list of Supreme Court picks
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/280381-trump-unveils-list-of-11-potential-supreme-court-nominees
White House smacks down Trump’s Supreme Court list
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-supreme-court-list-response-223334#ixzz495uIIicH
Clinton campaign slams Trump Supreme Court list
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/whitehouse/the-latest-clinton-campaign-slams-trump-supreme-court-list/2016/05/18/2c3ba20a-1d73-11e6-82c2-a7dcb313287d_story.html
What will the great and almighty Trump do for taxicab drivers? Deport them or shut down Uber. We used to be great at taxcabs. Yellow ones, various colors. Now Google is making self driving cars and has a glue patent that acts like flypaper to make hit pedistrians safer. We used to be great at driving our own cars. Kids these day aren’t so great at that. Taking buses or whatever. We used to great at air travel. Now it’s often a short or mid term hell for passangers. It’s so bad, Greyhounds are looking better. We used to be great at Greyhounds and greasy spoon diners. Where are the diners? We used to be great at non-chain food. Will Trump do anything about that? Will imigrants get to ride the Greyhounds? Will they be allowed to work as janitors at Target field? I know a white boy that could use that job. We used to be great at picking up trash. Selling popcorn and Frosty Malts too.
Jeez Ragnaar,
Keep this up and you may be eligible for a stay at the Smithsonian. With the rest of the fossils.
What’s the problem with Uber? It’s faster, more responsive and less expensive than any taxi service. That’s a problem how? And as a bonus, the driver who picked my wife and I up from SeaTac a couple weeks ago had a better grasp on why Trump is leading the ticket than any pundit or columnist I’ve read. Imagine that.
As for air travel – sure everyone complains, but when you account for inflation, airfares haven’t changed that much. And do you really think airline food was soooo good that we should bring it back, rather than carrying on our own refreshments?
And Greyhound is so last century. Try Bolt.
Bad Bernie.
The junkyard dog won’t abandon the junkyard to the porch-climbers.
Liberal media turns on Sanders
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/280453-liberal-media-turns-on-sanders
Feel the Bern, baby!
Go Bernie!
From the article:
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Of course, this sort of thing is nothing new and occurs all across the web and beyond. MIT and Oxford published a study this week that revealed that Twitter location tags on only a few tweets can reveal details about the account’s owner, such as his/her real world address, hobbies and medical history. Another recently released study by Stanford shows that phone call metadata can also be used to infer personal details about a phone owner.
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/05/19/232216/google-is-a-serial-tracker
http://spectator.org/the-thinking-mans-guide-to-donald-trump/
by Don Surber
–more at link above
https://twitter.com/atensnut?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Good reading.
Quelle Surprise! US Big Business Prefers Clinton to Trump by 2:1 Margin
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/05/quelle-surprise-us-big-business-prefers-clinton-to-trump-by-21-margin.html
“We’ll see soon enough how well Trump contends with this apparent fundraising obstacle.”
Money is not speech and corporations are not people. Corporate free speech favors the establishment and will try to keep Trump out.
Sanders and Class Struggle in the Democratic Party
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/05/sanders-and-class-struggle-in-the-democratic-party.html
Shadow Banks Clinton Flags as Risky Put Millions Into Her Run
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-19/shadow-banks-clinton-flags-as-risky-put-millions-into-her-run
And here’s what our great champion of democracy and slayer of violence has to say to California voters. Clearly, Clinton knows that the fix is in with the Democratic Party’s super-delegates, and the people’s votes mean nothing:
Clinton to Californians: Your Votes Will Not Affect the Democratic Primary Whatsoever
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-abramson/clinton-to-californians-y_b_10053848.html
Hillary’s Support Among Democrats Fades As Party Crisis Looms
http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/dont-look-now-but-the-democratic-party-is-in-the-midst-of-an-existential-crisis/
And of course it’s all Bad Bernie’s fault, and has nothing to do with anything Clinton Inc. has done.
Here’s the part that is most germane to followers of Climate Etc.:
Tom Steyer has been a model investor. He invested in as much coal as possible for as much profit as possible…but as far from home as possible. Like Indonesia and Australia, the world’s largest exporters of the stuff, when the prices were climbing along with volume. And we didn’t even notice (or pretended not to).
Tom’s an inspiration to all green billionaires and subsidy barons.
mosomoso,
I think, however, that Trump’s got Steyer’s number. H/T to Daniel E Hofford back up the thread.
Donald makes a good point.
I think we should also take back using lead paint on toys from China. China does it, so we should do it too.
Joshy doesn’t mind children in Chinese sweat shops making his sneakers. Go Nike!
Now watch, if the twerp responds at all, he’ll dodge the point.
Rift Between Labor and Environmentalists Threatens Democratic Turnout Plan
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/us/politics/democratic-turnout.html?_r=0
Snopes: The Chair Thrown ‘Round the World
http://www.snopes.com/did-sanders-supporters-throw-chairs-at-nevada-democratic-convention/
ESTABLISHMENT COLLECTIVELY STUNNED TO SEE CITIZENS REJECT RIGGED DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY
https://shadowproof.com/2016/05/19/establishment-collectively-stunned-see-citizens-reject-rigged-democratic-primary/
Clinton’s Hawkish Admirers
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/clintons-hawkish-admirers/
Republicans Want Their Party to Unify Behind Donald Trump, Poll Shows
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/20/us/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-poll.html?emc=edit_th_20160520&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=28115200&_r=0
The elites have to keep up the barrage of propaganda in order to convince the serfs how good they’ve got it:
As US politicians romanticize doomed manufacturing jobs, the new working class is suffering
http://qz.com/687506/as-us-politicians-romanticize-doomed-manufacturing-jobs-the-new-working-class-is-suffering/
Here’s where Tamara Draut goes off the tracks, though:
Labor and environmentalists are enemies, not allies.
Bill Nye: Why I Choose to Challenge Climate Change Deniers
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-nye/why-i-choose-to-challenge_b_10048224.html
Who Are the Real Deniers of Science?
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435634/global-warming-transgenders-liberals-deny-science-when-it-suits-them
Tucker Carlson: Democrats Talking About Transgender Bathrooms And Global Warming Instead Of Real Economic Issues
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/20/tucker_carlson_democrats_talking_about_transgender_bathrooms_and_climate_change_instead_of_economy_jobs.html
This is how fascism comes to America
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-how-fascism-comes-to-america/2016/05/17/c4e32c58-1c47-11e6-8c7b-6931e66333e7_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-b%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
Donald Trump’s anti-Semitism problem seems to be getting louder
http://theweek.com/speedreads/625463/donald-trumps-antisemitism-problem-seems-getting-louder
Journalist faces barrage of anti-Semitic attacks after profiling Melania Trump. But why?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/29/journalist-faces-barrage-of-anti-semitic-attacks-after-profiling-melania-trump-but-why/
From the article:
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There are many reasons to vote for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton on Election Day.
But I believe one being missed too often is the importance of restoring and enhancing the critical relationship between the United States and Israel. If this is something you endorse, Donald Trump is the clear choice.
There are at least five aspects of the crucial US-Israel alliance that Trump understands better than Clinton:
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http://nypost.com/2016/05/19/donald-trump-is-the-clear-choice-for-pro-israel-voters/
Robert Kagen would have everyone believe we could live in a mob rule democracy form of government if Trump were elected. Well, without Trump breaking a whole bunch of laws, we can’t. Though we live by democratic principles, we live in a Republic, which was formed specifically with checks and balances to prevent exactly what Kagen scare mongers. If Trump were to make it to the white house, he would have to navigate the same checks and balances as all other presidents. Our republic was formed specifically to protect the rights of the minority within a majority run system. It has been tested over time and it has proven over that time to overcome the rule of the majority to defend the rights of the minority. It is not perfect, but womans rights, black civil rights and LGTB rights advancements are examples of our republic at work. Trump would have to totally take over the system of government and replace it with something different to achieve what Kagen fears could happen. Not likely.
You’re forgetting that if he wins then the Republicans probably will win big and they have already shown they are going to lay down. So many of the checks and balances of the Congress will be gone.
From the article:
What these people do not or will not see is that, once in power, Trump will owe them and their party nothing. He will have ridden to power despite the party, catapulted into the White House by a mass following devoted only to him. By then that following will have grown dramatically. Today, less than 5 percent of eligible voters have voted for Trump. But if he wins the election, his legions will likely comprise a majority of the nation. Imagine the power he would wield then. In addition to all that comes from being the leader of a mass following, he would also have the immense powers of the American presidency at his command: the Justice Department, the FBI, the intelligence services, the military. Who would dare to oppose him then? Certainly not a Republican Party that lay down before him even when he was comparatively weak. And is a man like Trump, with infinitely greater power in his hands, likely to become more humble, more judicious, more generous, less vengeful than he is today, than he has been his whole life? Does vast power un-corrupt?
I read that part and its BS. I’m not a Trump supporter. To be clear, I am not arguing this from the POV of wanting him in the oval office. But clearly Kagen is lost wrt how our government works and what the president can get away with. Trump would have to answer to our constitution, congress and the Judiciary. A majority led congress means nothing with regard to his or your fears. A conservative led Supreme Court either. What Kagen wrote is nothing more than scare mongering drivel. Reminds me of all the conservative talk show scare mongering about Obama turning our country into an Islamic state. You probably forgot all that.
Having the Redimowits “lay down” for Trump will solve the “grid lock” problem that the press and Dimowits have been whining about. As long as Trump is making government smaller, regulations less of an impediment; then a cooperative Congress is just what the Dr. ordered.
Thanks jim2 for making my point.
But who said anything about making government smaller?
Trump Wants to Make Government Huge Again
From the artticle
But on issue after issue, Trump vows to use government as a tool to improve the lot of his supporters, and address their anxieties. He’d interfere in free markets, imposing tariffs to punish companies that move factories offshore, and countries with abusive trade practices. He’s pledged to preserve Social Security. He’s proposed, at various times, registering Muslims and banning them from entering the country.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/trump-government-ethnocentrism/473538/
He himself said he will make government smaller. Implementing fair trade in place of free trade won’t have a noticeable effect on the size of government or its interference in our lives. More jobs in the US would be a good, no not good, a GREAT thing.
Cross,
So you are worried about Trump establishing some sort of dictatorship, but have no problem with the President of the “most transparent administration ever” circumventing the Constitution almost every week?
“…so many of the checks and balances will be gone”
So will the Senate abolish the filibuster? Are there going to be enough Republican votes to invoke cloture. Will there be even enough Republican votes to support Trump’s agenda?
Those bofoes can’t even get tax reform passed and every member of Congress is in favor of changing the tax code but nothing happens. In terms of public policy proscriptions Trump is all over the board. He has taken contradictory positions on issues, sometimes in a matter of a few seconds. I have listened to many of his interviews and at times just shook my head and thought “what the …. did he just say?”
I did not start out favoring Trump, but just the thought of all these liberal ninnies nearly driven to mass psychosis is too delicious a spectacle to pass on. If nothing else this will the most hilarious campaign ever.
John Carpenter –
Consider Trump’s reaction to the situation with Eobla:
–snip–
The U.S. cannot allow EBOLA infected people back. People that go to far away places to help out are great-but must suffer the consequences!
9:22 PM – 1 Aug 2014
Follow
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
The fact that we are taking the Ebola patients, while others from the area are fleeing to the United States, is absolutely CRAZY-Stupid pols
6:55 PM – 2 Aug 2014
Ebola has been confirmed in N.Y.C., with officials frantically trying to find all of the people and things he had contact with.Obama’s fault
10:24 PM – 23 Oct 2014
–snip–
Now imagine him as president, leading the charge, along with Congress, to institute legislation and authoritarian government overreach because of a wild and emotion-based over-reaction (cynically exploiting fear-mongering), in opposition to the recommendations of people with expertise in the matter.
Not to excuse fear-mongering, but there is much that could happen, short of Trump completely reorganizing our governmental structure.
Joshu-a
Joshu-a
Pearl clutching duely noted.
A much more accurate assessment Jim Cross is this is how a rich guy gets to influence a wide audience with his own views on whatever subject he wants to.
Nothing new. Been the case since they first started printing newspapers.
What is interesting is you haven’t figured it out. Or you have and are simply trolling.
From the article, what Bill Clinton said about trade with China. Keep in mind, China just physically threatened one of our spy planes and is verbally threatening our country.
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And of course, it will advance our own economic interests. Economically, this agreement is the equivalent of a one-way street. It requires China to open its markets — with a fifth of the world’s population, potentially the biggest markets in the world — to both our products and services in unprecedented new ways. All we do is to agree to maintain the present access which China enjoys.
Chinese tariffs, from telecommunications products to automobiles to agriculture, will fall by half or more over just five years.
For the first time, our companies will be able to sell and distribute products in China made by workers here in America without being forced to relocate manufacturing to China, sell through the Chinese government, or transfer valuable technology — for the first time. We’ll be able to export products without exporting jobs.
Meanwhile, we’ll get valuable new safeguards against any surges of imports from China. We’re already preparing for the largest enforcement effort ever given for a trade agreement.
If Congress passes P.N.T.R., we reap these rewards. If Congress rejects it, our competitors reap these rewards. Again, we must understand the consequences of saying no. If we don’t sell our products to China, someone else will step into the breach, and we’ll spend the next 20 years wondering why in the wide world we handed over the benefits we negotiated to other people.
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https://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/030900clinton-china-text.html
McManus says Trump takes lying to a whole new level
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/opinion/guest-opinions/2016/05/19/trump-lies-brazenly/84619464/
““You can’t con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don’t deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on.”
Looks like we are testing this.
Trumpistas. guess who said that?
Tricky Dick, Clinton?
Try again.
Oh, it must be Clinton.
Billary is a pompous bag of lies and corruption. Obummer lied like a yellow dog before and during his presidency. Dimowits live on lies. It’s a staple food for them.
All politicians lie or exaggerate. Trump just happens to be a bigger liar than most.
Billary is about 10 times the liar than Trump. Even Obummer lies more than Trump.
Where did you pull those numbers from, jim?
Trump Responds to Robert Gates Criticism: “Because We’re Doing So Well Under His Foreign Policy?”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/20/trump_responds_to_robert_gates_criticism_because_were_doing_so_well_under_his_foreign_policy.html
Yep.
Trump’s got Gates’ number. Gate’s is a neocon war profiteer par excellence.
From the article:
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A strong majority, 56 percent, believe Trump is running for President to benefit himself, but even more, 57 percent believe Hillary is simply running to benefit herself. Moreover, voters say Hillary is more corrupt than Trump by a 12 point margin. Another characteristic where Trump enjoys a strong advantage over Clinton is on being a “strong leader.” A solid 59 percent of voters say trait describes Trump, but only 49 percent say the same about Clinton.
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http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/05/20/donald-trump-grabs-clear-poll-edge-over-hillary-clinton-in-early-campaign/
Donald Trump Grabs Clear Poll Edge Over Hillary Clinton in Early Campaign
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/05/20/donald-trump-grabs-clear-poll-edge-over-hillary-clinton-in-early-campaign/
Yep.
It looks like just about anything is possible come November.
Trump’s challenge is to make the election about economics and foreign policy, and not about identity politics and tabloid trivia. He appears to be having some limitied success.
Latinos divided over Trump’s immigration stance
http://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/05/01/latino-activists-divided-on-trump-nick-valencia.cnn
How gender could win Trump the White House
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/20/opinions/trump-can-win-women-martha-pease/index.html
Women for Trump
https://www.facebook.com/WomenforTrump/
NeverHillary
https://twitter.com/hashtag/neverhillary
Bimbo Eruptions: “Who is going to find out? These women are trash. Nobody’s going to believe them.” —Hillary Rodham Clinton (first lady, 1993–2001), during the 1992 presidential campaign, commenting on her
http://bloodonherhands.com/quotes-by-hillary-clinton/
This brings up an interesting question: Even if the campaign is fought out on the battleground of identity politics and tabloid trivia, can Clinton Inc. win?
Trump is certainly no schmuck when it comes to fighting those battles, and Clinton Inc’s past gives him lots of ammunition.
From the article:
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The rising cash holdings of U.S. corporations are increasingly in the hands of a few U.S. companies, with just five tech firms having grabbed a third of it. And nearly three-quarters of cash held by non-financial U.S. companies is stashed overseas, outside the long arm of Uncle Sam.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2016/05/20/third-cash-owned-5-us-companies/84640704/
Trump should allow these companies to bring the cash back to the US tax-free. I think they’ve already paid tax in other countries, anyway. If tax law and regulations can be simplified, as in extremely simple, we could attract back a lot of businesses, rich people, and capital. Of course the left-wing-nuts would say he is kowtowing to business, but they haven’t a clue where jobs come from. They are idi0ts.
The idiots, AKA Economic Illiterates (EI) froth when the Bern reinforces the general perception on the left that Corporations and Businesses are evil. This dovetails nicely with the evil moniker being placed on profits, the rich, Wall Street, Big Banks, Big Insurance, Big Pharma and Big Oil.
The Socialist stated in a speech that Corporations paid in 1953 30% of Federal tax revenue but only pay 10% now. The pitch fork armed mob growled at the evilness of it all.. Bernie was correct. But just like Paul Harvey used to say “Here is the rest of the story”.
In 1953, besides the Corporate Income Taxes they also paid $3 Billion in Social Security payroll taxes. Today, Corporations and businesses pay over $500 Billion in Social Security payroll taxes. Also, the tax code was reformed in 1986 to allow S corporations to file under the Individual Income Tax provisions, thus those taxes that formerly showed up in the Corporate Tax column are now shown as part of the Individual Income Tax IRS reports.
Given that some of the 30% is now shown in the Individual Income tax total and that Social Security Payroll Taxes dwarf the payment of Corporate Taxes, Sanders’ charge is misleading and comparing apples and oranges.
But the unruly got their red meat.
How the Democratic Party Became Undemocratic: The History of the Superdelagates
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/05/how-the-democratic-party-became-undemocratic-the-history-of-the-superdelagates.html
The NY Times is also doing hit pieces on Bernie:
First, Do Some Harm: How to Smear a Disfavored Candidate on NYT’s Front Page
http://fair.org/home/first-do-some-harm-how-to-smear-a-disfavored-candidate-on-nyts-front-page/
KING: Here’s why I’m leaving the Democratic Party after this presidential election and you should too
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/king-leaving-democratic-party-article-1.2644307
Hillary Clinton’s Neocon Resumé
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/20/hillary-clintons-neocon-resume/
She is a noxious, arch-authoritarian “elite” herself. Why is this surprising?
Feel the burn, Bernie … from the article:
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Venezuela: how the socialist paradise turned into debt and hyperinflation hell
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/05/21/venezuela-how-the-socialist-paradise-turned-into-debt-and-hyperi/
The LibTard media will go down fighting … from the article:
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But instead of focusing on Trump’s surge, the Post highlighted the feeling among the unfavorable view voters have of both candidates, and that Clinton is more qualified.
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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/begrudging-wapo-poll-trump-46-clinton-44/article/2591982
Besides being too early, you also need to factor in the Libertarians who are running in all 50 states, and polling at 10%, so head-to-head isn’t the full story. Their presumptive candidate and his running mate or both ex state governors, and in interviews they project some relative sanity compared to Trump, which is not difficult. Their main difference from Republicans is keeping the government and religion-based ideology out of individual choices.
Trump is more Libertarian than Dimowit or Redimowit. Noticeably lacking in him is the evangelical Christian aspect. So he is socially more liberal, but a fiscal conservative. I wouldn’t count my Libertarian chickens before they hatch, there JimD.
==> “but a fiscal conservative.”
Right. A fiscal conservative, who advocates building walls that will cost ???? Deporting 10 million that will cost ????
A fiscal conservative who has no spending cuts in his platform.
Yup. Now that’s a fiscal conservative
Libertarians are like Republicans but without the bible-bashing Christian wing. This is actually more like Trump, who fails to look evangelical, try as he may, but Libertarians criticize him for his anti-Mexican and anti-Muslim stances, so they will fail to pull the “nationalist” elements from Trump. It’s an interesting triangle: Republicans, Libertarians and Trump-style Nationalists. Different overlaps on different policies.
Yes, Trump is not a fiscal conservative. His budget is not balanced (even Fox News challenged his numbers in one of the debates) and is basically a list of talking points, as with all his policies. He admits the talking points like tax cuts are just opening bids up for negotiation, probably because they don’t hold together in any coherent way. He is making it up as he goes along, and any interview pushing on details reveals that.
bible thumping not bible bashing, genius
If Trump merely could get the debt to stabilize, that would be a major accomplishment after a series of M0r0ns-in-Cheif, certainly including the current one.
How could anyone not vote for this guy:?
–snip–
Phoning in to “Fox & Friends” Sunday, Trump contradicted himself multiple times when asked to respond to Clinton, saying, “I don’t want to have guns in classrooms, although in some cases teachers should have guns in classrooms, frankly,” because “the things that are going on in our schools are unbelievable.” Then, he said, “I’m not advocating guns in classrooms, but remember in some cases … trained teachers should be able to have guns in classrooms.”
–snip–
I mean after all, the guy isn’t being politically correct when he says completely contradictory things in subsequent sentences. He’s just speaking his mind.
Too funny.
He is speaking casual English, Josh. I know that’s problematic for you, so let me interpret. “Generally speaking, there shouldn’t be guns in classrooms. But in some cases, in schools with a know problem with violence, exceptions should be made.”
Thanks for translating for the common folks, jim.
I mean it couldn’t be that his public relations platform is (1) incoherent, (2) contradictory, and (3) cynically intended to fear-monger for the sake of political expediency. Nope. That couldn’t be. Of course, that would be true of any other politician, but not Trump. He’s been excluded from the “skepticism” that would be applied to other candidates.
So he says that he wouldn’t advocate for guns in classrooms, but some teachers having guns is ok. So where isn’t it OK? Oh, right, he isn’t advocating that students have guns in classrooms? Is that it? He isn’t advocating that 8 year-olds have guns in classroom? Well, that’s a relief. One thing we wouldn’t is all those other candidates who advocate that 8 year-olds have guns in the classrooms. Oh, and notice how specific he is about which teachers should be the ones who are packing. Yeah, why with such specificity about the criteria he’d use to determine which teachers should have guns in classrooms, what could possibly go wrong?
And by the way, Jim, maybe you could also translate for me, you know on the behalf of the common folks, what it means when he says that women who have abortions should be punished but that they shouldn’t be punished?
and jim…while you’re at it… I was hoping that you could translate for me how calling for a Muslim immigration ban isn’t calling for a Muslim immigration ban and saying we should have a massive tariff on Chinese goods isn’t actually saying that we should have a massive tariff on Chinese goods. Thanks in advance
The translation is common sense (Trump) to libtard (Joshy).
Guns in school: Local decision, not federal.
Punishment for providing illegal abortions: provider punished
Abortion: State matter, not federal
Ban Muslims entering country: executive starting position for negotiation; president should not act without consent of congress
Massive tariff on Chinese goods: I wasn’t aware he’d backed away from import tariffs and it wasn’t just China. It appears you just made that flip flop up out of thin air, Joshy. I knew you made up “massive” without needing to look it up. That’s got you building a straw man written all over it.
http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Donald_Trump_Free_Trade.htm
He’d threaten them with high tariffs to leverage concessions in currency manipulation and other unfair trade practices.
Thanks for asking!
Trump Said He Didn’t Want a 45% Tariff On China. He Lied.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/2646/trump-said-he-didnt-want-45-tariff-china-he-lied-hank-berrien
Want and should are not synonyms Joshy. You’re conflating them to build a straw man. Neither you nor the times have quoted Trump saying “I want a 45% import tariff”. He said “the tariiff should be 45%”. He gave a conditional statement in context “if there was a tariff it should be 45%”. That’s not the same as wanting a 45% tariff. What he wants is China to stop manipulating their currency and other unfair trade practices.
I know this is subtle and possibly goes over the top of your pointy little head but I keep holding out an increasingly forlorn hope that you’ll embrace honest discourse someday.
Want and should are not synonyms. Write that down.
I don’t want you in moderation, Joshy. What I want is for you to stop being a nasty little troll. But you if can’t do that you should be in moderation. Get it?
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And what he told the commission in early 1988 was that he wouldn’t use a type of loan called a junk bond. And a bond, of course, pays people loaning the money a certain amount of interest rate in exchange for loaning the money. Junk bonds are called junk bonds because they’re very high-risk, and, as a result, they pay a much higher interest rate than a traditional loan or, let’s say, a mortgage would pay. So junk bonds were available to a whole host of developers and entrepreneurs back in the ’80s.
The problem, of course, is the more interest you take on, the higher the risk of the failure of the project because it means you have to make more money to pay off the loans. Now, at the time, junk bonds were very common. But Donald Trump appeared before the commission, and he made a very, very stark promise. And he did it in a way that has similarities to some of his statements today. He did it with disdain, and he did it in an unequivocal way. And he said, for example, that he would get loans from regular banks not junk bonds, and he said junk bonds are ridiculous. He said the funny thing with junk bonds is that junk bonds are what make – what made the companies junk. And he said – he just flat out said he would not use them, and that was in February of 1988.
–snip–
How’d that work out, David?
We were talking about a 45% tariff Joshy. You decided to not respond to me on that point and instead changed the subject to Trump and junk bonds.
First admit you lost the point on the 45% tariff and I’ll then engage your new attempt to make a point.
=>> ” Neither you nor the times have quoted Trump saying “I want a 45% import tariff”. He said “the tariiff should be 45%”
Lol! Thanks for the laugh.
Let’s see if you can come up with a rationalization for his claims about junk bonds that’s on a similar scale of lameness.
Trump has said these things should be left up to individual states, Joshy. He’s not an advocate of abortion on demand but at the same time doesn’t think it’s the business of the US government to regulate.
Is that too complicated for you or just not something you want to accept because you can’t criticize it?
Like any other child Joshy shouldn’t be allowed to play with matches given all the highly combustible straw men he manufactures in pursuit of a point.
+100
Well, about the 2nd or 3rd time a teacher is beat up or raped a reasonable person says “maybe she should have a gun”.
The only people who don’t follow this reasoning are some left-wing anti-gun extremists and we can ignore them because they are left-wing anti-gun extremists who want to disarm everyone for no reason.
Their rationalization, like the climate cult, is religious and not reasoned.
” Then, he said, “I’m.
not advocating guns in classrooms, but remember in some cases … trained teachers should be able to have guns in classrooms.”
Q: are you advocating, pushing for, demanding that there be guns in every classroom?
A: No
Q: what the?
A) They should be allowed in some cases under some circumstances
Not a contradiction. A fair reader can quickly see what he means.
Good follow up questions would have clarified as well.
That said, people dont want Trump because of his policy. They want him inspite of his policies
As usual. Including many cases where, for some reason, you don’t.
“They want him in spite of his policies”
Yes, the want government to work, deals to be made in a constitutional ledgeslative kinda way. You know, “Yes, I’m only a bill.
And I’m sitting here on Capitol Hill…” (Schoolhouse Rock).
BTW, Steven, a climate expert named Ken Gregory from “Friends of Science” posting on Clive Best agrees with me we should investigate UHI with DTR here
A quote from Clive hits the nail on the head:
Numerous papers have shown that the UHIE contaminates the instrument temperature record. A study by McKitrick and Michaels 2007, summary here 6, showed that almost half of the warming over land in instrument data sets is due to the UHIE. A study by Laat and Maurellis 2006 came to identical conclusions. Note that the IPCC dismissed the overwhelming evidence of UHIE contamination by falsely claiming “the locations of greatest socioeconomic development are also those that have been most warmed by atmospheric circulation changes”. That is, our cities were built where there is the most natural warming, a nonsensical claim. Climate models do not show such correlation which refutes the claim.
And there you go.
If almost half the land warming is UHIE why do global warmers falsely claim it is AGW? Are they “Enemies of Science”?
PA, “If almost half the land warming is UHIE why do global warmers falsely claim it is AGW? Are they “Enemies of Science”?”
UHIE would be part of AGW which makes it an interesting problem. If you back out city UHI, you only have about 0.05 C of adjustment. Back out land use change and you have another 0.10 to 0.20 C for land only which might be amplified by CO2 particularly in the 30N-60N range. It could be more, but land use started a long time before instrumental so you only have the the more recent screw ups to use as a baseline. In any case, the shift in DTR range and the amplification in 30N-60N aren’t part of the CO2 driven game plan.
In any case, the shift in DTR range and the amplification in 30N-60N aren’t part of the CO2 driven game plan.
How much of the post 1900 warming is related to CO2? A third, a fourth, even less?
Less CO2 won’t eliminate natural warming or make the cities and asphalt go away.
Until the attribution is clarified, all global temperature trends tell you is CO2 probably has a warming effect. They don’t tell you anything useful about how strong the effect is.
PA, “How much of the post 1900 warming is related to CO2? A third, a fourth, even less?”
I don’t believe there is any way in hell to figure that out. About have is as good a guess as any.
btw, using just the oceans, sensitivity to CO2 is about 0.8 C per doubling because latent offsets a portion of the increase. Where that energy ends up would determine what “global” sensitivity happens to be and it can have both a warming and slight cooling impact depending on where and when. Gives us another fifty years of data and we might be able to narrow things down :)
“BTW, Steven, a climate expert named Ken Gregory from “Friends of Science” posting on Clive Best agrees with me we should investigate UHI with DTR here”
He is wrong as you are wrong.
See Thorne and Rohde 2016
Ron.
As an example DTR increases from 1850 to 1900
These 3 people just tore apart the Democratic Party
By unfairly maligning Sanders supporters, they broke open a permanent rift
View at Medium.com
The “Democratic Party” has clearly become a socialist snakepit. The tactics used by Clinton are typical of Lenin’s, as are those of Sanders.
At this point they’re competing to “guilt trip” their opposition, but it’s clear that our country can only avoid descending into a Communist Hell if the “Democratic Party” goes.
While the same can’t (quite) be said of the “Republican Party”, it has its own problems. Most likely, the 2-party system in this country is dead, just refusing to be buried.
What do you think the chances are that Obama will suspend the elections? And proclaim himself “dictator forever” or the modern equivalent?
Obama would be perfectly happy subverting the constitution, again.
But I think he is tired of the job.
If Trump loosens the grip the establishment “White RINOs” have on the Republican party that would be beneficial. We don’t need two parties that mindlessly serve the interests of the rich elites.
What makes you think he has a choice? AFAIK he’s a puppet at the mercy of his handlers.
We don’t need even one. But what makes you think the “rich elites” are all in one group.
My own studies of the history of the analogous times of the Roman “Imperium” would suggest to me that we’re seeing a typical division of rich “patrons” into parties with different agendas. This certainly doesn’t mean that either/any of them have any right to a voice (or to exist at all), but it also doesn’t mean that just because the people at the top of each “pyramid” are rich means they have the same agenda.
Commensurate with his trust in the Secret Service to keep him alive.
The power of POTUS is popularly blown way out of proportion. There are too many checks and balances. Obama has tested the limits with executive orders because he can’t get his libtard agenda through a Republican congress and his negotiation skills as a CEO are little to none.
Trump will be able to get a lot done and he’s promised he won’t abuse executive orders as his predecessors have. He’s promised to do it because he’s a master at the art of making deals. In fact, 30 years ago, he literally wrote the book on it.
http://www.amazon.com/Trump-Art-Deal-Donald-J/dp/0345479173
And if you believe that, I’ve got some bottom land to sell you. Just don’t ask what it’s on the bottom of!
Trump is respected by peers as being honest. Perhaps thinking about it might help.
http://spectator.org/the-thinking-mans-guide-to-donald-trump/
Democrats Can’t Unite Unless Wasserman Schultz Goes!
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/36991-democrats-cant-unite-unless-wasserman-schultz-goes
The Democrats’ Green/Blue Divide
•••• Increased labor support for job-killing environmentalism is alienating blue-collar union workers—and driving some to support Donald Trump
http://www.city-journal.org/html/democrats-greenblue-divide-14450.html
From the article:
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A new study documents that “regulatory drag” has eliminated about a third of economic growth in America since 1980, and explains why the top one percent’s inflation-adjusted share of income has tripled, while the middle class has lost income.
Mercatus Center at George Mason University performs studies regarding the “drag” on economic growth from federal regulations. The center’s latest report reveals that the annual cost to United States Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of expanding regulations since 1980 has averaged a negative 0.8 percent per year. On a per capita basis, that almost equals the entire one percent slowdown of economic growth in the period since 1980.
Income inequality shrank dramatically from 1946 to 1980, as the 60 percent of Americans who called themselves “middle class” saw wages grow by two percent faster than inflation. Poverty also fell from 19 percent to 13 percent during the period. The rich continued to get richer, but income inequality crashed, with the top one percent’s share of all income falling from 35 to 22 percent.
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http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/05/22/top-1-wins-middle-class-losses-regulatory-drag/
I have to say, Judith coming up with these presidential election discussion threads was a great idea.
It’s been positively hilarious watching all these self-described “skeptics” falling for Trump’s straight-talking rebel billionaire working class hero con job.
The awesome power of motivated reasoning exceeds even my expectations.
Does it really matter who is put in charge of rearranging the deck chairs (on the Titanic)?
Cheers.
A bit alarmist, Mike?
Your expectations have never been right so why would you have expected something different this time?
From the article:
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How the Pentagon punished NSA whistleblowers
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But if you want to know why Snowden did it, and the way he did it, you have to know the stories of two other men.
The first is Thomas Drake, who blew the whistle on the very same NSA activities 10 years before Snowden did. Drake was a much higher-ranking NSA official than Snowden, and he obeyed US whistleblower laws, raising his concerns through official channels. And he got crushed.
Drake was fired, arrested at dawn by gun-wielding FBI agents, stripped of his security clearance, charged with crimes that could have sent him to prison for the rest of his life, and all but ruined financially and professionally. The only job he could find afterwards was working in an Apple store in suburban Washington, where he remains today. Adding insult to injury, his warnings about the dangers of the NSA’s surveillance programme were largely ignored.
…
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/22/how-pentagon-punished-nsa-whistleblowers
New polls show Clinton and Trump neck-and-neck
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/22/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-polls/index.html
Graham privately urges Republicans to support Trump
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/22/politics/donald-trump-lindsey-graham-republican-party/index.html
Sorry folks, but you can’t sell ice to Eskimos by tweaking your style:
Taking on Trump
Jonathan Martin of The New York Times reports on Democrats’ call for Clinton to change her take-on-Trump strategy.
http://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/05/22/ip-jmarts-notebook.cnn/video/playlists/inside-politics-highlights/
You’d sell ice to Eskimos by getting Trump to make the pitch.
• Jeff Bezos blasts Trump for his tactics.
• Washington Post editor explains Trump investigation
• Does The Washington Post have 20 reporters to the Trump beat? Editor Marty Baron says Clinton is being covered with an “equal sense of accountability.”
http://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/05/22/marty-baron-on-covering-trump.cnn
The paid liars and bumsuckers to the lords of capital — also known as the mainstream media — have no crediblity with the public, that is with anybody except Democrats:
Clinton, Trump tailor messages to evangelical Christian Hispanics
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/21/politics/national-hispanic-christian-leadership-conference-donald-trump-hillary-clinton/index.html
Trump’s casual racism toward Native Americans
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/21/opinions/donald-trump-elizabeth-warren-native-american-moya-smith/index.html
Billary referred to some of Bill’s indiscretions as bimbos. Why can’t these people be fair and balanced? Oh wait, that’s right, Billary is a Dimowit.
Yep, Warren is an American Indian and I’m King of the Golden Unicorns.
Democrats’ demons: reason to fear convention chaos
http://nypost.com/2016/05/19/democrats-demons-reason-to-fear-convention-chaos/
The college debt crisis is even worse than you think
http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2016/05/18/hopes-dreams-debt/fR60cKakwUlGok0jTlONTN/story.html
Like so many other things (e.g. the correctional system – criminal courts, probation, and prisons) “higher” education is a self-sustaining racket. I tend to agree with Bernie that education through undergraduate school should be free. Nowadays it should also be mostly self-paced and done remotely through the internet.
Follow the money.
If that is what you decide to do, you will need to go to Spain, where most professors like to retire after giving their students the ‘full education’ they had been promised.
https://www.debt.com/solutions/student-loans/top-questions/are-student-loans-forgiven-if-you-declare-bankruptcy
Small villages in Italy, are also very popular.
Huh? I’m not deciding to do anything except stay retired. K-12 is no longer suffcient for the modern world and lifespans are so much longer that even if 4 more years were added to public education the length of time spent in the workforce could still be longer. In a nutshell increase public education by four years (K-16) and increase minimum retirement age by 8 years from 62.5 to 70.5. And make everything past 8th grade into home study programs to simultaneously reduce the cost of public education to society.
Obama agrees to sell weapons to Vietnam.
Are you sh*tting me? Motherf*cking assh0le.
We sell weapons to England, Germany and Japan. It’s part of our tradition. In Viet Nam, we won all the battles, lost the war and now have won the peace. Apparently, this Marine Corp officer was prescient.
Horst,
Unlike Germany or Japan, Vietnam is a communist country. Unlike Germany or Japan there are 1600 American POWs unaccounted for in Vietnam. What’s next selling weapons to Cuba? Unlike someone with a median IQ you’re an imbecile.
Obama just wants to put the finishing touches on the Democratic Party I guess. Put the final nails in Hillary’s coffin whose platform is continuing Obama’s policies. I can see the negative ads now. Twenty million US veterans and families, who vote in high percentage, are out the door.
The union will survive but his party and legacy won’t.
Hard to believe, isn’t it? I love it so!
From the article:
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The National Rifle Association endorsed Donald Trump for president at its convention today. Chris Cox, the executive director of the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action, made the endorsement immediately before Trump walked on stage. “Now is the time to unite. If your preferred candidate dropped out of the race, it’s time to get over it,” Cox said earlier in his remarks.
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http://americanactionnews.com/articles/breaking-trump-s-biggest-endorsement-yet
Brit Hume: Trump “Well On His Way To Pulling Nearly All Of The Republican Party Behind Him”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/22/brit_hume_trump_well_on_his_way_to_pulling_nearly_all_of_the_republican_party_behind_him.html
Newt Gingrich: By November, Trump Will “Consolidate” Support While Clinton “Continues To Stagnate”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/22/newt_gingrich_in_coming_months_trump_will_consolodate_support_while_clinton_continues_to_stagnate.html
All of the ladies in my family (wife, daughters and daughter-in-law and even the indoctrinated granddaughters) have said they are going to Canada if Trump is elected. I will join them if Gingrich is VP. Please say it ain’t so that the Newt is on the short list.
Ladies flee. Men stay behind and fight. I guess we know which category you belong in now. Good riddance to the lot of you. Stay gone.
Have any of the asshats who threatened to leave the United States actually done so? Many threatened if GW Bush was elected and unfortunately they’re all still here. These people just make these wonderful promises to vacate and then, unfortunately, don’t follow through. Perhaps I’m being unfair and they did try but no one else wanted them either.
Think of the ear full he will be getting once his whole extended family gathers together in Canada, to start their new life. He has got guts or he has not thought this thru.
You know Gigrich will not become the VP. Are you an attorney by any chance?
Very well written Mr. cerescokid, as you pointed out to me how wrong I could be, thank you sir.
Maybe I could get the ladies to move to Sault Ste Marie, Ontario and I will move to Sault Ste Marie, Michigan so I can just cross the bridge to visit them each day. Given the accents of the Yoopers and the accents of the Candadians, I wouldn’t be able to tell when I was in a foreign country either way.
What makes you think Canada will take any of you? Granted their standards are low but they do have some.
This is beautiful.
–snip–
Trump, May 5: Give me a little spray. … You know you’re not allowed to use hairspray anymore because it affects the ozone, you know that, right? I said, you mean to tell me, cause you know hairspray’s not like it used to be, it used to be real good. … Today you put the hairspray on, it’s good for 12 minutes, right. … So if I take hairspray and I spray it in my apartment, which is all sealed, you’re telling me that affects the ozone layer? “Yes.” I say no way folks. No way. No way. That’s like a lot of the rules and regulations you people have in the mines, right, it’s the same kind of stuff.
–snip–
http://www.factcheck.org/2016/05/trump-on-hairspray-and-ozone/
Is that the best you got – that Trump said he didn’t think hair spray he uses in his sealed apartment is going to make it outside and up to the ozone layer?
Of all problems you libtards have with Trump that one rates high enough up on the list for you to mention it speaks volumes about the quality of those complaints.
Trump overtakes Clinton in poll average for first time
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/280848-trump-overtakes-clinton-in-rcp-average
Poll: Election 2016 shapes up as contest of negatives
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/poll-election-2016-shapes-up-as-a-contest-of-negatives/2016/05/21/8d4ccfd6-1ed3-11e6-b6e0-c53b7ef63b45_story.html
Buried five paragraphs down:
California voter registration soaring as June 7 primary approaches
http://www.mercurynews.com/politics-government/ci_29922565/california-voter-registration-soaring-june-7-primary-approaches
If the Rapture, took place on a Sunday, would people still feel like voting come Tuesday? I don’t know that answer I guess?
Arch, if the Rapture took place on a Sunday I won’t be left behind on Monday to talk about it.
How happy are Californians with libtards running state gov’t?
How happy will they be when the establishment (read HIllary) squashes their boy Bernie? Will they swing to anti-establishment rebel Donald or establishment whore Hillary? LOL
Bernie Sanders turns up the heat on Democratic party machine:
Bernie Sanders Says He Supports Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Primary Opponent
Remarks escalate the fued between the Vermont senator and DNC chairwoman
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/05/22/sanders0522/
Hillary must pick Bernie for VP: She may even need him more than he needs her
Yes, it’s time for Democrats to unite, but also for Hillary to recognize she needs help with the progressive base
http://www.salon.com/2016/05/21/hillary_must_pick_bernie_for_vp_she_may_even_need_him_more_than_he_needs_her/?source=newsletter
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/historical-highest-marginal-income-tax-rates
The interesting thing about the top marginal tax rate may or may not be correlated with the effective tax rate (% of income paid on taxes.)
During the 1950s, when the top marginal tax rate was 91%, the effective rate was as low as 11 to 12%. The last year of 91% top marginal rate in 1963 had an effective rate of 13.8%.
Fast forward to 1988 when the top marginal
rate fell all the way
to 28%. That year had exactly the same effective rate at 13.8%.
Ted Weisberg, founder and president of Seaport Securities Corp., questions Cuban’s “crystal ball” and doubts if the sky will fall if Trump is electected.
To the contrary, Weisberg says the track record of a pure diet of monetary policy to stimulate the economy has not been that good. He says changes to fiscal and regulatory policy are needed to combat the sluggish economy, changes which Trump promises to make.
Mark Cuban: stocks would sink under Trump
http://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/05/23/exp-quest-meanst-business-paula-newton-ted-weisberg.cnn
Bernie Loses His Halo
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/bernie-sanders-loses-his-halo-213911
Hillary’s problem is that she has to make the election about the food fights. If it becomes about “matters of substance,” she loses.
How corporate America bought Hillary Clinton for $21M
http://nypost.com/2016/05/22/how-corporate-america-bought-hillary-clinton-for-21m/
Taking Trump seriously: His jump in polls against Hillary changes the media mindset
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/05/20/taking-trump-seriously-his-jump-in-polls-against-hillary-changes-media-mindset.html
Probably nowhere is the difference between Democrat and Republican more stark than when it comes to the nexus of energy and environmental policy, and the Democratic Party’s perennial war on cheap and abundant energy for America.
In the war on cheap and abundant energy for America, the Democratic Party is joined at the hip with the mainstream media. Perhaps that’s one of the reasons only Democrats trust the MSM, while independents and Republicans do not:
Oil and World Power
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/oil-and-world-power
Hillary Clinton Is the Jeb Bush of the Left
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/23/hillary-clinton-is-the-jeb-bush-of-the-left.html
LA Times: Vote for anyone but Trump in the California primary
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-republican-predicament-20160517-snap-story.html
Wheels come off the Dem machine
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wheels-come-off-the-dem-machine/article/2591858
Kornacki: Polls Show Republicans Have Coalesced Around Trump Since He Locked Up Nomination
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/23/kornacki_polls_show_republicans_have_coalesced_around_trump_since_he_locked_up_nomination.html
Donald Trump closing in on Hillary Clinton’s national lead, with two new polls showing him surpassing or matching her voter support
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/donald-trump-beats-matches-hillary-clinton-new-polls-article-1.2645768
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/2016_presidential_race.html
Tiny Hands Trump takes the lead against Cr00ked Hillary.
P.S.
Go Bernie!
Thanks Glen for not using a million graphics. I’ve been away from home for the past few days with no WIFI so have to connect my laptop through my cell phone to get connected. Speed isn’t a problem I can stream hi-def cable TV through my cell but it’s not unlimited bandwidth so if I exceed my monthly limit I have to pay more or quit using it.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/article79165287.html
“Hatred for Hillary Boils Down to Misogyny”
Many of the people who hate Hillary loved Sarah Palin. Is there a word for hatred of women who ride brooms?
This is why people who love Hillary are called libtards, They can’t recall the right’s love affair with Palin just a few years ago. For the rest of those who hate her it’s mostly because she abandoned the Benghazi ambassador and staff to die at the hands of our enemies, purposely committing multiple felonies to hide her state department emails on an unsecured bathroom server hidden in her home, and deleting mail from same in violation of even more laws, then the Obama justice department rumored to be uninterested in pressing any charges. Can’t wait to see the FBI investigation results made public. The democrats are in deep Bandini. Get used to President Trump and the destruction of both political parties.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/article79165287.html
“Hatred for Hillary Boils Down to Misogyny”
Many of the people who hate Hillary loved Sarah Palin. Is there a word for hatred of women who ride brooms?
This is why people who love Hillary are called libtards, They can’t recall the right’s love affair with Palin just a few years ago. For the rest of those who hate her it’s mostly because she abandoned the Benghazi ambassador and staff to die at the hands of our enemies, purposely committing multiple fel0nies to hide her state department emails on an unsecured bathroom server hidden in her home, and deleting mail from same in violation of even more laws, then the Obama justice department rumored to be uninterested in pressing any charges. Can’t wait to see the FBI investigation results made public. The democrats are in deep Bandini. Get used to President Trump and the destruction of both political parties.
P.S. Go Bernie! I love the guy. Don’t want him in Texas or federal gov’t but I still love what he’s doing to Cr00ked Hillary’s evil ambition. She’s melting like the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz.
Hard to believe, isn’t it? I love it so!
Who’s really winning presidential race?
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/23/opinions/sanders-clinton-trump-polls-kohn/index.html
This country was built by cock-sure workaholic industrious white men who tend to shoot first and ask questions later.
Which candidate does that best describe?
Why all the Hillary haters?
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/article79165287.html
Still panicked about Trump? Don’t be
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/05/23/still-panicked-about-trump-don/kJuFeFnQMMPwvAGvSXwHJO/story.html
Why Trump Might Win
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/05/24/why_trump_might_win_130653.html
Trump has somehow gotten more vile: It’s no wonder women don’t like him, and his new Hillary attack ad won’t help
http://www.salon.com/2016/05/24/trump_has_somehow_gotten_more_vile_its_no_wonder_women_dont_like_him_and_his_new_hillary_attack_ad_wont_help/
This Is What the Future of American Politics Looks Like —
This year, we’re seeing the end of a partisan realignment, and the beginning of a policy one — and U.S. politics is about to change big-time.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/2016-election-realignment-partisan-political-party-policy-democrats-republicans-politics-213909#ixzz49a6Uh8KN
“The Democrats of the next generation will be even more of an alliance of upscale, progressive whites with blacks and Latinos, based in large and diverse cities.”
Makes sense. The latter preying upon the guilt of the guilt of the former. Kind of a sick interdependency there, no?
Havana Hillary
You heard it here first.
Donald Trump is going to win: This is why Hillary Clinton can’t defeat what Trump represents.
People are rising up against neoliberal globalization. Trump represents capital, but also understands this reality
http://www.salon.com/2016/05/23/donald_trump_is_going_to_win_this_is_why_hillary_clinton_cant_defeat_what_trump_represents/
Hillary Clinton’s Energy Initiative Pressed Countries to Embrace Fracking, New Emails Reveal
https://theintercept.com/2016/05/23/hillary-clinton-fracking/
Bernie Sanders email raises $250,000 for Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s primary opponent
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/23/politics/debbie-wasserman-schultz-primary-opponent-fundraising/index.html
The Real Reason Neocons Are So Upset About Donald Trump.
The armchair warriors seem to be realizing that they could be frozen out of the corridors of power for the next four years.
http://www.thenation.com/article/the-real-reason-neocons-are-so-upset-about-donald-trump/
Saudi Market Share Takes A Hit As Russia Doubles Oil Exports To China
http://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Saudi-Market-Share-Takes-A-Hit-As-Russia-Doubles-Oil-Exports-To-China.html
On a College Campus? Don’t Try to Tell a Joke
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/23/on-a-college-campus-don-t-try-to-tell-a-joke.html
Protest Outside Trump Rally in New Mexico Turns Violent
http://gawker.com/protest-outside-trump-rally-in-new-mexico-turns-violent-1778568147
Trump protesters smash door, break through barriers
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/24/politics/donald-trump-albuquerque-protesters-police/index.html#
Unstereotyped: Why this black pastor supports Donald Trump
http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/25/news/economy/unstereotyped-black-donald-trump/index.html
Very good video on the history of racism in both parties.
Trump on the defense over Clinton’s housing market digs
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/24/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-housing/index.html
This is a really strange debate, given that:
1) It was Clinton and the Rubinite wing of the Democratic Party that, working hand-in-glove with the Republicans, ushered through the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act to repeal the Glass–Steagall Act of 1932.
Clinton signed Gramm-Leach-Billey into law in 1999. Many consider it to the the #1 cause of the credit bubble that, when it burst, caused the Great Financial Crisis and the housing bust which began in 2007.
2) Trump was clairvoyant enough to see the bursting of the credit and housing bubble coming, at the same time the Republicrat establishment and its mouthpiece, the Federal Reserve, were asleep at the wheel:
There are many more outrageous quotes from Bernanke in the linked article, but here is a sampling of the most germane to the housing bust: