As part of Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, the Small Business Administration (SBA) is opening the application process by which owners of restaurant, bars, and other venues can apply for federal relief to help make up for the loss of revenue as a result of economic lockdowns spurred by the Chinese coronavirus crisis.(snip)
The relief, though, is being prioritized based on race, gender, and whether or not business owners are considered “socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.” White men, for example, who are not Veterans of the United States Armed Forces, are not eligible for “priority period” processing and funding. Under the guidelines of the RRF, the SBA is giving priority processing and funding to “small business owned by women, veterans, or socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.”
Now it's one thing to claim discrimination as a matter of social standing or even claim systemic racism as a means to explain why some races of people do better than others. But it's an entirely different thing to put into law the idea that you can discriminate for government money solely on the basis of color.
Here is the reality. People who are socially and economically disadvantages can be distinguished by their social and economic status. Plain and simple. If two people live next door to each other, have the same issues, make the same money, suffer the same issues, then they are of the same social and economic status.
For decades, this country has fought to treat every person from every race fairly. While this has been a struggle at time, the MLK sentiment about judging people by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin has been a driving force. Seems live over the past few years that this has all gone out the window, and a new generation of thinking has emerged. This thinking includes segregation, separation, and a focus on race. Today we discriminate AS a matter of fairness or so goes the argument.
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Blogger Roger Amick said...
The reason why the huge increase in assaults on Asian women is the former President called it the Asian virus.
So BLACKS that have been beating Asians way before Bad Orange Man and since are doing it because of Trump
Get help you psychotic fool
There are more job openings in the U.S. this spring than before the pandemic hit in March 2020,!!!!!!!!
MONTECITO, CA—From his cool, air-conditioned mansion, famed genius and internet inventor Al Gore held a press conference today where he officially banned Donald Trump from the internet.
"As the inventor of the internet, I hereby declare Trump banned for life," Gore said solemnly. "He's not allowed on Twitter, Facebook, Angelfire, MySpace, Geocities, AOL, Google, Tinder, TikTok, anything. If it's on the internet, it's under my domain."
Many people aren't aware that Gore invented the internet, but the claim is true, having been fact-checked as "double-plus true" by Snopes. One urban legend claimed that Bob Internet invented the internet in 1995, but he turned out to be a fraud. The true story is that Gore was sitting around at a White House mixer in late 1996 and was "pretty plastered." "You know what would be totally rad?" he said, according to several witnesses. "A global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite to communicate between networks and devices."
The DJ suddenly stopped playing "Wannabe" by the Spice Girls and the room fell silent. "That's... that's genius!" shouted Bill Clinton, his arms around two interns. "Let's make it happen!" Everyone cheered and the Spice Girls song resumed. And so the internet was invented.
With Gore's latest declaration, Trump will no longer be allowed to be within 1,000 feet of any device that has the internet, which includes smartphones, computers, and now most toasters and refrigerators.
"Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a private flight to catch," he concluded as he walked out the backdoor to his private hangar and airstrip to board a flight to his next speech on climate change.
She may have saved the United States of America from Former President Trump.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) was the organizer of an open letter by all living former Defense Secretaries against the military intervening in election disputes.
The revelation was made to Susan Glasser of The New Yorker by Eric Edelman, a friend of Cheney's who served as an advisor to her father.
I wouldn't be surprised if her Father Dick Cheney wasn't behind it.
"Cheney's rupture with the House Republican Conference has become all but final in recent days, but it has been months in the making. Edelman revealed that Cheney herself secretly orchestrated an unprecedented op-ed in the Washington Post by all ten living former Defense Secretaries, including her father, warning against Trump's efforts to politicize the military," Glasser reported.
"The congresswoman not only recruited her father but personally asked others, including Trump's first Defense Secretary, Jim Mattis, to participate. 'She was the one who generated it, because she was so worried about what Trump might do,' Edelman said. 'It speaks to the degree that she was concerned about the threat to our democracy that Trump represented.' The Post op-ed appeared on January 3rd, just three days before the insurrection at the Capitol," she reported.
It wasn't the only action she took.
"Little noticed at the time was another Cheney effort to combat Trump's post-election lies, a twenty-one-page memo written by Cheney and her husband, Phil Perry, an attorney, and circulated on January 3rd to the entire House Republican Conference. In it, Cheney debunked Trump's false claims about election fraud and warned her colleagues that voting to overturn the election results, as Trump was insisting, would 'set an exceptionally dangerous precedent.' But, of course, they did not listen. Even after the storming of the Capitol, a hundred and forty-seven Republican lawmakers voted against accepting the election results," Glaser wrote.
The joint letter was signed by Ashton Carter, Dick Cheney, William Cohen, Mark Esper, Robert Gates, Chuck Hagel, James Mattis, Leon Panetta, William Perry and Donald Rumsfeld.
Scott will call her a traitor
The erosion of political comity was on display for the entire world on Jan. 6, when a mob invaded the Capitol in a bid to overturn the results of a free and fair election. Not since the British burned Washington in the War of 1812 had our institutions of government suffered so direct an assault. The events of Jan. 6 weren’t simply an attack on a building, but an attack on democracy itself.
At the same time, we have seen a number of peaceful protests that have evolved into riots and destruction of private property, many times adversely impacting small-business owners, ignoring the rule of law and respect for others properties. These types of incidents weaken our democracy as well.
What led us to this point? Over the past few decades, an alternative political playbook has emerged. The new playbook short-circuits the role of consensus building in American politics and replaces it with partisanship, power politics and, at times, outright hostility toward the opposition. In retrospect, we’ve seen the building blocks of this new brand of politics fall into place, piece by piece, over the last few decades.
Gerrymandering, once frowned upon, created congressional districts that are little more than party strongholds. With the winner of the dominant party’s primary destined to win the general election, candidates have little incentive to reach out beyond their political base to broaden their appeal.
At the same time, we’ve seen the Voting Rights Act, a cornerstone of our participatory democracy, eroded by the courts and by state-level voting restrictions. After years of talk, campaign finance reforms meant to reduce the influence of money in politics still await enactment. All the while, both Republican and Democratic candidates continue to take full advantage of the unprecedented and virtually unrestricted flow of cash pouring into their campaigns.
While the political institutions supporting our democracy were being undermined, America’s free press — a vital check on government overreach and corruption — was being demonized. Simultaneously, the splintering of the national conversation, enabled by cable television and social media, made it easier for Americans to retreat into echo chambers of their own choosing. Long gone are the days when families nationwide gathered each evening to hear Walter Cronkite tell us, “That’s the way it is.” Now, we can cherry-pick the news we receive, without ever having to be exposed to different views.
At the national level, the impact on our country has been deeply disheartening. In a polarized climate, elected leaders may feel that cultivating common ground is a risk they can’t afford. Yet retreating to opposing camps helps no one. For our democracy to be revitalized, it must be reformed: by norm, by law and by leaders willing to put the common good ahead of partisan gain.
President Joe Biden has called for unity. But that alone won’t be enough. Our leaders need to be incentivized to do the right thing. And that’s where we the people come in.
A poll by Ipsos and FixUS last year revealed that while Americans remain divided and mistrustful at the national level, we largely share the same fundamental hopes and values for ourselves, our families and our communities. This implies that political reform needs to begin at the grassroots, and that’s where much of the action is today.
In towns, cities and states across the country, bipartisan groups are rallying around commonsense reforms to reinvigorate our democracy. I hope you’ll find one in your area and get active. If good governance is to become good politics again, we the people are going to have to lead the way.
Mack McLarty is the chairman of McLarty Associates and served as chief of staff to President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1994.
Strong Expected Job Growth in April Set to Propel EconomyEconomists forecast that a million jobs were created last month following 6.4% growth in first quarter
Businesses are seeking workers to meet a surge in spending.
PHOTO: MARY ALTAFFER/ASSOCIATED PRESS
By
Sarah Chaney Cambon and
Gwynn Guilford
May 7, 2021 5:30 am ET
Employers likely added jobs at a robust pace for the second straight month in April, signaling a speedy economic recovery from last year’s historic downturn.
Economists expect payrolls grew by one million in April after rising by 916,000 in March. They project the unemployment rate fell to 5.8%, down from 6% in March and a record-high 14.8% last April when the pandemic struck.
Higher vaccination rates, fiscal stimulus and easing business restrictions are converging to support an economic boom across the U.S.
So BLACKS that have been beating Asians way before Bad Orange Man and since are doing it because of Trump
Precisely.
In NYC, Blacks beating Asians AND the JOOS is like a fucking sport. The two top targets of the "knockout game."
Blogger Roger Amick said...
There are more job openings in the U.S. this spring than before the pandemic hit in March 2020,!!!!!!!!
No shit, alky.
And because you fucking clowns made it more profitable to stay home and jerk off rather than work, no one wants those jobs. They're making more suckling off the public tit. Just as you guys intended.
Here in NY, the eviction moratorium has been extended to fucking AUGUST. Landlords are owed tens of thousands, with their own bills to pay, and no one cares.
Brilliant.
These spontaneous african american airport celebrations are a sight to behold:
https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1390331090842394625
What a spirited people!
Source: U.S. Employment and Training Administration via St. LouisFedNote: Seasonally adjusted.
Pre-pandemic record: 695,0002019 weekly average: 218,000May 1, 2021498,000July 2020'210.000.250.500.751.001.251.50Jan. 30, 2021x0.837 million
“That’s much better than just over a year ago, but that’s still double what there was pre-crisis,” she said. “It would be [considered] bad in a normal recession, let’s just put it that way.”
While the number of new applications has been declining, the level of Americans receiving unemployment benefits remains elevated and businesses can’t find enough people to hire.
With more than two-fifths of U.S. adults now fully vaccinated, Americans are spending on restaurant meals, travel and other services that they had shunned over the past year due to fear of Covid-19 and business restrictions. At the same time, government stimulus is boosting economic activity more generally.
Economists are closely watching unemployment-claims numbers for signs that companies are holding on to workers as businesses scramble to keep up with the upswing in demand.
This improvement will likely be captured in the Labor Department’s April employment report, which the department will release Friday. Economists forecast that the U.S. economy added one million jobs last month, compared with a gain of 916,000 in March, and project that the jobless rate ticked down to 5.8% from 6% a month
The latest economic news, analysis and data curated weekdays by WSJ's Jeffrey Sparshott.
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Strong Expected April Job Growth Set to Propel Economy
Employers likely added jobs at a robust pace for the second straight month in April, signaling a speedy economic recovery from last year’s historic downturn.
WASHINGTON (AP) — With viral cases declining, consumers spending again and more businesses easing restrictions, America’s employers likely delivered another month of robust hiring in April, reinforcing the economy’s steady rebound from the pandemic recession.
Economists have forecast that the nation added 975,000 jobs last month, according to a survey by FactSet, after adding 916,000 in March, and that the unemployment rate slipped from 6% to 5.8%. The size of such job gains was essentially unheard-of before the pandemic.
The government will issue the April jobs report at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time Friday.
Yet most of the hiring represents a bounce-back after tens of millions of jobs were lost when the pandemic flattened the economy 14 months ago. Even if economists’ estimate for April hiring proves accurate, the economy would remain about 7 million jobs short of its pre-pandemic level.
What a spirited people!
The racist douche bag rides again!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Fake as usual.....LOLOLOLOLO
Behold, Slow Joe's dedication to CRT; Critical Retard theory:
HEATHER MAC DONALD:
Diversity Over Discovery. Biden’s war on merit puts America’s scientific edge at risk. “His candidate to head the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the largest funder of the physical sciences in the U.S., is a soil geologist at the University of California, Merced. She has no background in physics, the science of energy, or the energy sector. She has never held a position as a scientific administrator.”
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe is, however, a black female who has won “accolades for her work to promote diversity in science,” as Science puts it. Berhe would be the first black woman to head the $7 billion office, and that is reason enough, according to the diversity mantra, why she should oversee X-ray synchrotrons, the development of nuclear weapons, and ongoing research on nuclear fusion. Her nomination requires Senate confirmation; if Berhe will not commit to hiring and grantmaking on the basis of scientific expertise alone, irrespective of race and sex, senators should vote her appointment down.
Previously, this office was typically headed by a physicist with managerial experience in a major physics lab. But then, none of her predecessors could boast of co-authoring an article titled, “A critical feminist approach to transforming workplace climate in the geosciences through community engagement and partnerships with societies.”
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/448617/
The next time democrats tell you that they're "the party of science!!!" just laugh at them and tell them to get fucked.
LOL.
The racist douche bag rides again!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Fake as usual.....LOLOLOLOLO
Racist, BWAA?
I applaud these people and their cultural display as they spontaneously break into their native dance.
They should be an inspiration to us all.
From the newspaper of record:
HAMPTON FALLS, IA—White liberals gathered in the town of Hampton Falls were shocked and astonished as local black man, accountant, and father of three Michael Sparkton walked right into a DOT office and acquired an ID without any assistance from liberals whatsoever.
"It was amazing -- he was smart, clean, and articulate enough to walk right in and acquire the ID without consulting us white people at all," said anti-racist activist Chloe Ryder to reporters. "He walked right in and got the ID, no questions asked. We thought it would be way above his intelligence level because, well. You know what I'm saying, right? Yeah. You know."
Reporters said they did not know, and Ryder was forced to whisper, "because he's black and I don't think he's capable of doing it!"
At publishing time, the liberals were amazed to see he had walked up to a vending machine and purchased a bottle of water all by himself.
https://babylonbee.com/news/white-liberals-watch-in-stunned-amazement-as-black-man-acquires-id
Heh:
The right-wing Proud Boys are getting a huge wave of support from Asian Americans who fear Antifa and Black Lives Matter want to bring Communist rule to the US, according to a new investigation.
Recent fundraising efforts for the Proud Boys saw as many as 80 percent of the donations coming from people with Chinese surnames, according to a review of leaked information obtained by USA Today.
The data — as well as a series of experts and supporters — show “significant support” specifically from the Chinese American community as well as expats in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the paper said.
“You have to understand how we feel – we came from Communist China and we managed to come here and we appreciate it here so much,” Rebecca Kwan, who recently donated $500 to the group, told the paper.
Her support came specifically because the Proud Boys “are fighting Antifa,” she said. “And can you see anything good that Antifa did except destroy department stores and small businesses?”
Others expressed alarm at the extreme left-wing ideology of BLM, which co-founder Patrisse Cullors has said formed the “ideological frame” behind the “black liberation movement.”
[...]
In one fundraiser for Proud Boys members who were stabbed during violent clashes in Washington in mid-December, almost 1,000 people with Chinese surnames gave about $86,000 — more than 80% of the $106,107 raised, the paper said.
Joohn Choe of the Intuitive Threat Assessment also examined the data and said it showed the funds came from “real people – real estate agents, scientists. Just Chinese American boomers.”
“This isn’t a surprise for us,” said Kaiser Kuo, host and co-founder of the Sinica Podcast, which discusses current affairs in China.
https://nypost.com/2021/05/05/proud-boys-receiving-huge-asian-american-support-report-says/
FOX NEWS:
Graham Says GOP Can’t Go On Without Trump
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Fox News that the Republican Party can’t grow without embracing former President Donald Trump.
Said Graham:
“Can we move forward without President Trump? The answer is no.”
He added: “I’ve always liked Liz Cheney, but she’s made a determination that the Republican Party can’t grow with President Trump. I’ve determined we can’t grow without him.”
AXIOS:
“Republican officials are rendering an unequivocal verdict: They want to cement former President Trump’s politics and policies into the foundation of the GOP for many years to come.”
Fox article linked at politicalwire.com
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JAMESNEWLEAF:
BIG MISTAKE. HUGE.
Trump is the albatross hanging around the GOP'S NECK, AND IT'S GOING TO KEEP STINKING AND STINKING AND STINKING EVEN MORE.
I see Jamie is spreading hate speech.
🚫Press Questions for Biden
"Reparation are not going to happen"
Clueless Roger
It has since LBJ and With Obama and now with Biden.
Lydia was/is right about you Roger.
Deedless Roger.
Tired of the partisan crap being
put here by ChUN-Truth/Scottie
and rrb (rabid rat bastard)?
Then go to May 6, 11:29 PM above
and read a balanced, reasonable
bipartisan opinion piece.
"Panamanian asshole like kputz go fuck a goat"
So I am of "Panamanian" decent?
Nope, French-canadian
And Italian.
When a economic illiterate attempts to post .
Why is this True. Tell us the Why ?
Jamie, take a swing at the answer, help your boi out.
"Roger AmickMay 6, 2021 at 9:37 PM
"There are more job openings in the U.S. this spring than before the pandemic hit in March 2020,"
What's wrong with the article
at 11:29PM above?
Take a swing at it.
Nope, French-canadian
And Italian.
A trifecta of losing assholes!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Probably means you are short, hairy and fucking dumb!!!!!!!!
New nickname for Cum-Allah:
"Veep Throat."
LOL.
h/t: AoS
The Secret Papers of Lee Atwater
Jane Mayer:
“An infamous Republican political operative’s unpublished memoir shows how the Party came to embrace lies, racial fearmongering, and winning at any cost.”
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All stuff rabid rat bastard (rrb) loves and practices.
AND there's a lot more good stuff at politicalwire.com this morning and from last night.
JamesNewLeaf said...
there's a lot more good stuff at politicalwire.com this morning and from last night
Let me guess. You posted more from the pedophile friendly Lincoln Project co-founder?
You apparently couldn't get enough
Or was it CNN, NYT or Washington Post or some other disgraced MSM ?
Well frankly, we don't give a shit.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Never seen anyone closer than the "pastor" and the pedophile sourcing political_lire
Uncomfortably close
But on Wednesday, in the fourth month of his own presidency, Biden offered a more flummoxed, less confident assessment: “I don’t understand the Republicans.”
That really doesn't surprise me since the drooling fuck needs a note card to tell him what day it is and where he is, and his handlers will probably be calling "a lid" long before noon today.
"I don't understand why the GOP won't support Liz Cheney since she chooses to caucus with the democrats."
Well fucking DUH. Sane rational people have no difficulty in understanding this.
So for the imbeciles among us let's review:
@Mollie:
That anyone is talking about Cheney is proof of her failure. Her job is to raise $$ (she doesn't), stay on message (HA!), and not undermine caucus (it's all she does). If you're pretending this is only about joining with media/Pelosi for impeachment, you're not serious.
Yes, we know she seethes with hatred for Trump as much as she loves decades-long interventionist wars without exit strategies or metrics for success. Good for her. But that's not what her job is, and, in fact, her twin obsessions have repeatedly led her down the wrong path...
E.g., not only was she not a needed truth-teller in pushing back against media/Democrats' false and dangerous 2016 election conspiracy theory about Russia, and its many attendant problems, she was also the prime pusher of the discredited, anonymously sourced Russian bounty story.
Just to keep the obvious points coming, WashPo, et. al, aren't all-hands-on-deck helping out Liz Cheney because they like Republicans, ok? They run Dem propaganda. They're trying to keep her and her unpopular ideas prominent in the GOP because she hurts the GOP.
Why do media NeverTrumpers who led messaging of the right during Bush-Cheney era support her so much? Likely just true believers who want party dragged back to unquestioning support of wars w/o exit strategies, corporatism, belief that truly fighting lefty media is gauche, etc.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1390097882049622020.html
Andy Ngô
@MrAndyNgo
“F— you Chinese people, I hate you.”
The DC Metropolitan Police Department are trying to identify a black male suspect who was recorded on CCTV punching an Asian store owner in the face in a possible hate crime. #StopAsianHate https://nbcwashington.com/news/local/asian-jewelry-store-owner-attacked-in-dc/2662628/
When a economic illiterate attempts to post .
Why is this True. Tell us the Why ?
Jamie, take a swing at the answer, help your boi out.
"Roger AmickMay 6, 2021 at 9:37 PM
"There are more job openings in the U.S. this spring than before the pandemic hit in March 2020,"
Jamie was smart enuff to avoid this economic topic, brought her by Deedless Roger.
The DC Metropolitan Police Department are trying to identify a black male suspect who was recorded on CCTV punching an Asian store owner in the face in a possible hate crime. #StopAsianHate
If only there was some sort of pattern besides the obvious that most of these attacks are perpetuated by democrats
New nickname for Cum-Allah:
"Veep Throat."
How fucking idiots amuse themselves in their shit hole lives!!!!!!!
The DC Metropolitan Police Department are trying to identify a black male suspect who was recorded on CCTV punching an Asian store owner in the face in a possible hate crime.
But only so Mayor Bow Wow Wowser can give the guy the key to the city on Black LIES Matter Plaza.
anonymous said...
New nickname for Cum-Allah:
"Veep Throat."
I missed that.
Thanks !!!
Ex-Ron DeSantis Staffers Form ‘Support Group’
PLAYBOOK reports:
“A ‘support group’ of former DeSantis staffers meets regularly to trade war stories about their hardship working for the governor. The turnover in his office and among his campaign advisers is well known among Republicans: In three of his five full years in Congress, he ranked in at least the 70th percentile in terms of highest turnover in a House office, according to data compiled by Legistorm. In the governor’s office, he has only two staffers who started with him when he was a junior member of Congress.
“Within six months of taking office as governor in 2019, DeSantis fired five staffers. One was a 23-year-old scheduler who’d been with him since the beginning of his gubernatorial race. Shortly after she was sent packing, an unnamed member of DeSantis’ administration was quoted in a Florida blog trashing her performance. A month later, his deputy chief of staff left, prompting Florida reporters to press him about the rapid churn in his operation.
“Another story relayed to us by five former staffers: At the beginning of his administration, DeSantis directed the Florida Republican Party leader to fire a party official who had cancer — on that person’s first week back from surgery.”
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AND some people (Repugs) want THIS guy for President?
No, we've already had a taste of a president who couldn't keep even his own staff loyal.
Pope Lindsey Graham is the First Pope of The Church Of Trump Scientology.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Fox News that the Republican Party can’t grow without embracing former President Donald Trump.
Said Graham: “Can we move forward without President Trump? The answer is no.”
He added: “I’ve always liked Liz Cheney, but she’s made a determination that the Republican Party can’t grow with President Trump. I’ve determined we can’t grow without him.”
Axios: “Republican officials are rendering an unequivocal verdict: They want to cement former President Trump’s politics and policies into the foundation of the GOP for many years to come.”
Amen
JamesNewLeaf said...
Ex-Ron DeSantis Staffers Form ‘Support Group’
Let's see...
Anonymous sources..... check
political_lire sourced.... check
FAKE NEWS.... check
POS "pastor"..... check
ROFLMFAO !!!
Any more stories from your pedophile friendly Lincoln Project co-founder today or are you still waiting ?
You are so eager to run over anything from that blog and get on your knees in praise.
Regardless of thread topic.
And now posting political_lire as Jesus Trump
What a POS "pastor"
HOWLING !!!
“The Supreme Court has held that voter ID as a concept is constitutional. And the issue is what, in any individual cases [sic], the record shows about whether it deprives certain groups protected by the 14th Amendment right to vote.”
Garland’s Civil Rights division now is getting involved in the ongoing audit of votes in Maricopa County, Arizona. The head of the division sent a letter to the Arizona Senate president expressing concern about the “security of ballots and potential voter intimidation” related to the review.
The “Big Lie,” of course, isn’t that the 2020 election was stolen; the “Big Lie” is that it was fair and lawful.
Thecoldheartedtruth! Lead the way!
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