Wow Lil Schitty thinks this is a win.....I call it FUCKING stupid!!!!!!! Nothing like wasting resources and time to pass idiocy in which all Americans should participate for the common good!!!
THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTS: Omicron Wave Heads for the U.K. December 9, 2021 at 6:32 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 20 Comments
“With cases of the Omicron variant doubling every three days and the government doing an about-face on restrictions it had long resisted, Britain is bracing for a new coronavirus surge, unsure if it will be a relatively minor event or a return to the dark days of earlier pandemic waves,” the New York Times reports.
“Early evidence in Britain backs up tentative findings elsewhere, notably in South Africa, where the heavily mutated new variant is already widespread: It appears to be the most contagious form of the virus yet, a previous case of Covid-19 provides little immunity to it, and vaccines seem less effective against it. But it also seems to cause less severe illness than earlier variants.”
CAN'T BLAME THAT ON BIDEN, CAN YOU?
I AM SO GLAD IT'S NOT SEVERE, BUT RATHER THAN ENCOURAGE VACCINATIONS AND SENSIBLE AVOIDANCE OF CROWDS, AND WEARING MASKS, THE LOONEY TRUMPSTERS RESIST PRECAUTIONS, BITING OFF THEIR NOSES TO SPITE THEIR FACES.
HISTORIANS WILL BE SCRATCHING THEIR HEADS FOR A LONG TIME OVER THIS.
Trump Goes Trump on Ridiculous Claim That Media Is Harder on Joe Biden.
Donald Trump might have a fondness for baseless claims — he has for decades, and he always will — but his response to a recent ridiculous claim that the “mainstream” media is harder on Joe Biden than it was on him could not be more spot on. I mean, you don’t even have to be Donald Trump to figure that one out.
We’ll get to Donald’s comments in a minute.
His comments were in response to a moronic Washington Post opinion piece by columnist Dana Milbank last week, titled: The media treats Biden as badly as — or worse than — Trump. Here’s proof. Needless to say, the op-ed is nonsensical from the outset, beginning with the ROTFL headline.
Even better, Biden organ-grinder monkey (chief of staff) Ron Klein tweeted a link to Milbank’s goofy op-ed, along with “For your consideration.”
Milbank’s op-ed was hilarious in its purposeful delusion.
We need a skeptical, independent press. But how about being partisans for democracy? The country is in an existential struggle between self-governance and an authoritarian alternative.
“Skeptical”? Please. And, “democracy”? What, you want even more Democrat control? And the silly “existential” thing? You lefties have beat that to death, have you not? (See: “Climate change, the existential threat of our time,” et al.) Please sit down.
Here’s a bit more silliness from Milbank before we move on to reality:
After a honeymoon of slightly positive coverage in the first three months of the year, Biden’s press for the past four months has been as bad as — and for a time worse than — the coverage Trump received for the same four months of 2020.
Think about that. In 2020, Trump presided over a worst-in-world pandemic response that caused hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths; held a superspreader event at the White House and got covid-19 himself …
[He] praised QAnon adherents; embraced violent white supremacists; waged a racist campaign against Black Lives Matter demonstrators; attempted to discredit mail-in voting; and refused to accept his defeat in a free and fair election, leading eventually to the violence of Jan. 6 …
And yet Trump got press coverage as favorable as, or better than, Biden is getting today.
Sure, Biden has had his troubles, with the delta variant, Afghanistan and inflation. But the economy is rebounding impressively, he has signed major legislation, and he has restored some measure of decency, calm and respect for democratic institutions.
Can’t make it up, don’t have to. Except Dana Milbank did — but he doesn’t matter.
In an exclusive, new interview with Breitbart, Trump responded, calling Milbank’s op-ed “laughable.”
Excerpts, as transcribed by Breitbart:lollipop
We’ve done things that nobody has ever done. Peace in the Middle East — we would have had that also, but we had four countries sign. We would have had peace—the Abraham Accords, it’s called.
So many different things. I will say, in the end, people are starting to see we did a massive amount of work, whether it was military or taxes or all the different things we did.
We had a great economy with no inflation. I did it twice because I had to rebuild it after COVID hit the world. The world was hit actually relatively harder than us.
I think it’s not even a contest. I think they’re treating him with kid gloves. You know why? There’s so much damage that has been done to our country, and this new bill, this Build Back Worse bill, is just a disaster — a disaster for the country.
Listen, as anyone who has followed me for a while knows, I have had my share of issues with Donald Trump. I still do. I always will. I’m sure he’d have his issues with me, but I digress. But Trump is right as rain here and Milbank and leftist loons like him couldn’t be more TDS-riddled wrong. It really is that simple.
Trump continued, blistering one of his favorite targets, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Excerpts:
I got him elected because when I endorsed him and helped him with his commercials and other stuff, I got him elected. I regret I didn’t run somebody in the primary against him because he’s been terrible.
He’s now giving it away with the debt ceiling. He could have used the debt ceiling to get rid of ‘Build Back Worse.’ He could have used it, and he would have won. It’s a powerful thing. He gave it away today for nothing. He got nothing from it.
Also, breaking up the bill was a disaster because it made it much easier to get this catastrophe that’s getting ready to come—they’re not going to be able to be stopping it. If you kept it together, it was tougher to get the votes. Then, of course, he gave them a two-month extension. What was that all about? That gave them time to get their act together, and they did.
With the ‘Unfrastructure’ bill — that’s the infrastructure bill, but because there’s very little infrastructure, I call it the ‘Unfrastructure’ bill. There’s only 11 percent infrastructure — but they could have said just for the asking, ‘We’re not going to give you those 19 votes.’
They gave them 19 votes. What a shame, including McConnell. He should have said, ‘You got to finish the wall or we’re not going to do it, and they would have done it.’
Vladimir Putin looks at our pathetic surrender in Afghanistan - leaving behind dead Soldiers, American citizens, and $85 billion worth of military equipment - and then he looks at Biden.
PUTIN IS NOT WORRIED BECAUSE BIDEN IS WEAK. Sleepy Joe is unfit to be President and I am calling on him to RESIGN in DISGRACE.
I can certainly blame Biden for not having any response.
We now know that the variant is very resistant to the current vaccine... so we demand everyone get vaccinated anyways? That is our plan?
I am a troubleshooter by trade. I see this all the time. The same person will continue to submit the same report or follow the same steps but they get the same error. They insist that they understand the problem, know how to fix it, but what they are doing simply doesn't work. They refuse to try anything else and eventually come to me to fix it. But funny how they demand that what they are doing should work, even as it doesn't.
Biden is one of those people. They start off honestly confused as to why their solution doesn't work. Then they get a little bit frustrated. Then they get defensive when someone else tells them to try another solution. Eventually they can become downright hostile and start to point fingers at everything and everyone else.
You see... it's not their solution that is wrong. It's just everyone else and everything else that is the problem. Never their fault!
Sound familiar? Certainly does for me.
Then again... you write books that nobody buys for a living. Not sure how relevant those qualifications make you to solve problems.
Personally it should have been obvious that the American public would not fully submit to vaccinations. Heck there are only a handful of countries right now with a fully vaccination rate over 80% and we do not have a single State right now at even 75% fully vaccinated.
It should have been obvious to the Biden Administration that we were not going to get to 85-90% no matter how hard they pushed. It should have been equally obvious that mandates would not be popular.
But apparently what is totally and completely obvious to people like ME escapes the attention of Biden and his cronies.
I wouldn't want to work with this Administration and try to talk any sense into them. They are just tooo far gone and tied to their one and only solution... which they will try again tomorrow for the upteenth time in a row, expecting somehow it will be different.
William Hartmann, one of two Republican election officials from Michigan who initially refused to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election in Wayne County, where Joe Biden had trounced Donald Trump, died on Nov. 30 at a hospital near Detroit,” the New York Times reports.
“About two weeks before Mr. Hartmann’s death, which was confirmed by the Michigan Republican Party, his sister, Elizabeth Hartmann, wrote on Facebook that he was ‘in ICU with Covid pneumonia and currently on a ventilator.’”
“Mr. Hartmann had been outspoken in his opposition to Covid vaccines.”
So just last week I just got a recognition award at work for exceptional performance.
I was asked by four different co-workers for help today in resolving their issues. I took over two different Zoom calls with clients and was personally requested on another issue.
You know why I am so strong at my job?
Must be my cognitive decline you so often speak of.
WASHINGTON—A federal appeals court rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to deny the special House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol access to records from his presidency.
In a decision released Thursday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to block the National Archives from turning over some of Mr. Trump’s papers sought by the House special committee. Mr. Trump had claimed the papers were privileged and asked a court to block their release.
“On the record before us, former President Trump has provided no basis for this court to override President Biden’s judgment and the agreement and accommodations worked out between the Political Branches over these documents,” concluded the three-judge panel that heard the case, referring to the executive and legislative branches of the government.
“Both Branches agree that there is a unique legislative need for these documents and that they are directly relevant to the Committee’s inquiry into an attack on the Legislative Branch and its constitutional role in the peaceful transfer of power,” the judges wrote.
Lawyers for Mr. Trump didn’t respond to a request for comment. They earlier indicated they would likely appeal a judgment against the former president to the Supreme Court.
A congressional exercise in the peaceful transfer of power devolved into deadly chaos when a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol. Hours after the riots, Congress reconvened and certified President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. Photo: Carol Guzy/ZUMA Wire (Video from Jan. 7, 2021)THE WALL STREET JOURNAL INTERACTIVE EDITION
Select committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D., Miss.) and Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) said in a statement: “We applaud the court’s decisive ruling, which respects the select committee’s interest in obtaining White House records and the president’s judgment in allowing those records to be produced. Our work moves ahead swiftly. We will get to the truth.”
The case began earlier this year when Mr. Trump brought suit to stop an array of records from his time in office from being turned over to the House select committee. The panel was established by House lawmakers in a June vote almost entirely along party lines after Senate Republicans blocked an earlier effort to set up a bipartisan independent commission to probe the attack on the Capitol. The panel is composed of Democrats and two Republicans who have been critics of Mr. Trump, a Republican.
The House select committee has sought records related to communications about Mr. Trump’s speech to his supporters before they converged on the Capitol to try to prevent the certification of Mr. Biden’s election victory, as well as the response within the White House once violence began to unfold, among other things.
A district court in Washington ruled against Mr. Trump last month, with U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan writing: “The public interest lies in permitting—not enjoining—the combined will of the legislative and executive branches to study the events that led to and occurred on January 6, and to consider legislation to prevent such events from ever occurring again.”
The records in question belong to the U.S., not Mr. Trump personally. Lawyers representing Mr. Biden have determined that Congress should get the records and declined to assert executive privilege, a doctrine allowing the White House to shield some of its records from scrutiny to preserve the candor of advice.
Appeals court rules against Trump’s bid to block records from Jan. 6 probe Yahoo News CAITLIN DICKSON December 9, 2021, 6:00 PM
A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected an effort by former President Donald Trump to shield White House records from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that “there is a unique legislative need for these documents and that they are directly relevant to the Committee’s inquiry into an attack on the Legislative Branch and its constitutional role in the peaceful transfer of power.”
Trump sued the select committee and the National Archives to prevent the White House from turning over records related to the Jan. 6 attack, claiming executive privilege, but President Biden, as the current office holder, has so far waived those executive privilege claims for documents relevant to the select committee’s investigation. Last month, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled that Biden’s authority in this matter supersedes Trump’s.
“Former President Trump has provided no basis for this court to override President Biden’s judgment and the agreement and accommodations worked out between the Political Branches over these documents,” the appeals court concluded in its ruling Thursday.
The federal appeals court had previously granted a request from Trump’s attorneys for a temporary injunction to delay the release of the first batch of requested documents by the National Archives. According to the Associated Press, the appeals court decided Thursday that the temporary injunction “will expire in two weeks, or when the Supreme Court rules on an expected appeal from Trump — whichever is later.”
All three of the appeals court judges who heard the arguments in this case were nominated by Democrats: Judge Patricia Millett and Judge Robert Wilkins were both appointed by former President Barack Obama, while Ketanji Brown Jackson, the third judge on the panel, was appointed by Biden.
According to court documents, the National Archives has said that the documents Trump has tried to keep secret include daily presidential diaries, schedules, visitor logs, activity logs, call logs, drafts of speeches, “handwritten notes concerning the events of January 6” from the files of former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, and “a draft Executive Order on the topic of election integrity.”
Meadows is also attempting to challenge the select committee’s subpoenas in court. The former Trump aide filed his own lawsuit against the panel on Wednesday, hours after he failed to appear for a scheduled deposition with the Jan. 6 committee. The committee has said it will now move ahead with the process of holding Meadows in contempt of Congress, making him the third Trump ally to face a referral for possible criminal penalties for refusing to cooperate with the Jan. 6 probe.
You told three totally wrong story. You accomplished that you showed me that you are getting demented Syndromes. They were false.
You have been indoctrinated...
Every single words are false allegations.
1 We know as a matter of fact, that the last rally (supposedly in support of the Jan 6th prisoners) was made up of mostly undercover law enforcement, who we know as a matter of fact again... ended up arresting each other for carrying weapons.
2;We know as a matter of fact, that the FBI coordinated the planning and failed execution of the kidnapping of Governor Whitmer. That is a matter of public information.
3:We can be certain to at least a 95 percent degree that multiple FBI agents have been identified as being "part" of the Jan 6th riots, some in prominent position during the riot. Men were seen on video, never charged, and identified by people as related to or part of the FBI.
Unfortunately, there is no treatment for dementia.
Because you don't believe anything but what your mind says.
On October 8, 2020, Michigan’s Attorney General revealed that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies had thwarted a plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor, Gretchen Whitmer. In the midst of the pandemic, in which Michigan had some of the highest infection rates in the United States, Whitmer, who had declared a state of emergency and instituted a “stay-at-home” order, became the focus of considerable ire from those opposed to her response to the unprecedented public health crisis. Former President Donald Trump publicly disparaged “the woman in Michigan” because her efforts to combat coronavirus contradicted his own desire to “open up” the United States, which helped fuel a wave of protest. This culminated in a group of armed men storming the Capitol building in Lansing, Michigan, on April 30, 2020, an event with clear parallels to the storming of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021. The alleged plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer—14 defendants are currently awaiting trial, though one has already pleaded guilty—which began in early 2020 and coalesced over that summer, took place within this wider polarized political context. The case itself highlights the continuing evolution and complexity of the domestic violent extremism (DVE) threat landscape as well as its decentralized and amorphous nature. It also underscores the importance of encrypted digital technology and operational security measures as an increasingly integrated part of DVE activity.
On October 8, 2020, Michigan’s Attorney General Dana Nessel held a press conference with colleagues from the state’s Eastern and Western Districts as well as state police and the FBI to announce that a “serious, credible threat to public safety” had been averted.1 The previous evening, the FBI and Michigan State Police had arrested six men, five in Michigan and one in Delaware, who they had charged, in a federal complaint, with conspiring to kidnap Michigan’s governor, Gretchen Whitmer.a Simultaneously, the State of Michigan had filed additional charges, pursuant with its Anti-Terrorism Act, against another seven men connected to a little known militia group called the Wolverine Watchmen.b In addition to being involved in the conspiracy to kidnap Whitmer, this group was also alleged to have targeted local law enforcement officials, made threats of violence intended to instigate a civil war, and planned and trained for an operation to attack the Capitol building in Lansing, Michigan. An eighth alleged member of the Wolverine Watchmen was charged the following week, bringing the total number of individuals charged to 14.2 c
"Seventy-six percent of American adults said President Joe Biden’s coronavirus child tax credit program “did not help at all,” a Thursday NPR/Marist poll revealed."
Will we see and expected deep.drop in inflation in the reports tomorrow?
Robert Shapiro: “While many people are uncomfortable communicating bad news, Democrats have a problem these days talking about good news, especially on the economy.
“Based on the data, President Biden and the Democratic Congress are set to preside over the strongest two-year performance on growth, jobs, and income in decades—so long as the current cycle of inflation eases, and the Omicron variant does not trigger another round of shutdowns. The future paths of inflation and the pandemic are large and important unknowns—-but if they break right, everything else points to a Biden boom through 2022.”
House Approves Curbs on Presidential Power December 9, 2021 at 9:59 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 55 Comments
“The House on Thursday passed a sweeping package of constraints on presidential power, which Democrats framed as a response to Donald Trump’s norm-busting presidency and Republicans unanimously opposed for the same reason,” the New York Times reports.
“By a nearly party-line vote of 220 to 208, the House approved the Protecting Our Democracy Act, which would impose new curbs on executive power. Proponents of tighter government ethics have long sought many of the measures, and Republicans have supported them, but they have been recast as partisan issues because of their association with Mr. Trump.”
IN OTHER WORDS, THERE WAS A TIME WHEN NO REPUBLICAN WOULD HAVE QUESTIONED THESE MEASURES. BUT BECAUSE OF TRUMP... WELL, WE MUSN'T UPSET DER FUEHRER.
Reuters: “The bill will now head to the Senate, where it is not expected to surpass the chamber’s 60-vote threshold to move forward.”
Democrats are faced with a sticky problem: The economy is nearing full employment after businesses added 210,000 jobs in November, labor force participation climbed to its highest level since the pandemic and wages are rising across many industries kputz. Yet most voters are increasingly pessimistic about President Biden’s economic stewardship.
“I’m not exactly sure why what’s happening isn’t being characterized as a booming recovery from a worldwide shutdown,” Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz (D) mused in a tweet last month. The answer involves a bit of Democratic over-optimism and a whole lot of Republican messaging the Biden administration has been slow to counter.
Schatz is largely right: Under Biden, the American economy has recovered from its Trump-era lows with remarkable speed. Just a year ago, the unemployment rate sat stubbornly at 6.7 percent. Today, only 4.2 percent of Americans are out of work. Similar economic recoveries have normally taken three times as long. The Biden administration is delivering on the fastest sustained economic recovery in American history, yet its messaging struggles to tell that story.
More important for Democrats is that this isn’t a “paper recovery,” where unemployment rates fall because more Americans simply give up looking for work. Much to Democrats’ relief, the opposite is true for the Biden recovery. The labor force participation rate, the percentage of Americans 16 and older who are working or actively looking for work, just hit pre-pandemic levels. That’s a hugely reassuring development for analysts who initially feared the global pandemic would be a drag on the labor force rate for years to come.
But a surging economic recovery doesn’t mean that all is well for regular Americans, and if Democrats want to make jobs and the economy a 2022 campaign issue, they’ll need answers for some of the recovery’s potholes. Chief among them? Inflation.
A CNBC All-America Economic Survey released this week found that while Americans plan to spend 13 percent more this holiday season — great news Biden’s media surrogates should be shouting from — it also found that more Americans are concerned about rising inflation than about the pandemic. While that’s a promising sign that we’re moving forward from the coronavirus, Democrats are now faced with rising prices and unhappy consumers.
CNBC’s survey found 4 in 10 Americans are pessimistic about where the economy is headed, but it should concern the White House that 7 percent more Americans think the economy is getting worse today than did a year ago at the peak of the third coronavirus wave. Not only is that incorrect, it points to Democrats' biggest problem: a conservative media machine pumping out economic disinformation on a 24/7 production schedule.
Republicans want voters to think of their economic gains as temporary and the inflation pinch as permanent. They get the story exactly backwards. That hasn’t stopped some conservative outlets from crafting the bogus narrative that inflation is a result of Democratic spending priorities — not a side effect of an economy rapidly expanding after a year with its head held underwater. They also fail to mention that wages recently rose by the largest amount in two decades, and American workers will still be pocketing those gains when our post-coronavirus economic supercharge wears off and inflation drops back to regular levels.
If the conservative media’s framing is wrong, it’s also ruthlessly effective in scaring Democrats away from discussing all of the good happening in our economy since January. And like clockwork, skittish moderate Democrats and independents are taking the GOP bait.
“We urge additional action by the House of Representatives to further address the disruptions and higher costs our constituents are experiencing,” a group of centrist House Democrats, including over a dozen in vulnerable 2022 races, wrote in a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) last week. If Democrats can’t get their economic messaging together to convince their own moderates, how do they intend to persuade voters?
A D.C. federal appeals court denied Trump’s attempt to block the Jan. 6 investigation, allowing a subpoena for White House records about the Jan. 6 insurrection to proceed.
Trump is expected to appeal the ruling, issued Thursday afternoon after the court held oral arguments on Nov. 30.
The decision allows three tranches of documents identified by the National Archives to be released to the committee.
It was a unanimous decision from the three-judge panel. Judges Patricia Millett, Robert Wilkins, and Ketanji Brown Jackson gave Trump a 14-day stay in order for the former President to appeal the issue to the Supreme Court.
Millett wrote the opinion, offering a blistering description of the stakes of the investigation — and of Trump’s claim that he could contest a sitting president’s assertion of executive privilege.
In her conclusion, she cited Benjamin Franklin’s quote that the founding generation had bequeathed a republic — “if [we] can keep it.”
“The events of January 6th exposed the fragility of those democratic institutions and traditions that we have perhaps come to take for granted,” the 68-page opinion reads.
“Former President Trump has given this court no legal reason to case aside President Biden’s assessment of the Executive Branch interests at stake, or to create a separation of powers conflict that the Political Branches have avoided.”
Trump’s case rested on the claim that, as a former president, he could contest — and possibly override — Biden’s decision as a sitting president to say that records sought by the Jan. 6 committee were not subject to executive privilege, a brand of secrecy meant to allow the president to receive candid advice.
Legal experts saw his claim as quintessentially Trumpian: a ludicrous and likely-to-fail attempt to delay the investigation, but also a potentially grave threat to presidential accountability, should a court expand the privilege to former presidents.
The appeals court recognized that Trump had a right to press the claim of executive privilege, but kept with earlier precedent in saying that it’s the interests of the republic, and not any one president, that are at stake.
Trump, Millett wrote, wants a court to “intervene and nullify” Congress and Biden’s agreement to give the records to the investigation. “But essential to the rule of law is the principle that a former President must meet the same legal standards for obtaining preliminary injunctive relief as everyone else. And former President Trump has failed that task.”
The ruling offers one of the earliest higher court opinions dealing with both the insurrection and Trump’s role in it.
Millett wrote that “there is a direct linkage between the former President and the events of the day.”
That view colors the entire opinion. Millett described some of the records sought, including “a draft Executive Order on the topic of election integrity” and “presidential activity calendars and a related handwritten note for January 6, 2021.”
Biden’s decision to waive privilege on the records comes “at a time of pressing national need,” the opinion reads.
“Lives were lost; blood was shed; portions of the Capitol building were badly damaged; and the lives of members of the House and Senate, as well as aides, staffers, and others who were working in the building, were endangered,” Millett wrote. “They were forced to flee, preventing legislators from completing their constitutional duties until the next day.”
Millett also described the White House as “the hub for intelligence about threats of violent action against the government.”
Apart from understanding “intelligence failures,” Millett wrote, the panel has “sound reasons for seeking presidential documents in particular” as part of the probe.
The appeals court managed to rule on the issue largely without weighing in on Trump’s claim that his rights as a former President should equal those of Biden’s, as a sitting president. Rather, the court found that Trump failed to state any real concern that they could rule on.
“But we need not conclusively resolve whether and to what extent a court could second guess the sitting President’s judgment that it is not in the interesting of the United States to invoke privilege,” the opinion, issued lightning-fast in appeals court time, reads.
Millett added that per the tests “advocated by former President Trump, the profound interests in disclosure advanced by President Biden and the January 6th Committee far exceed his generalized concerns for Executive Branch confidentiality.”
In February, Sky News Australia host Cory Bernardi told viewers, “Never before has the leader of the free world been so cognitively compromised. It’s clear to me at the least that U.S. President Joe Biden is struggling with dementia and is clearly not up to the task he’s been sworn in to do.”
Biden’s mental decline has become too obvious for Democrats to hide.
When will his party finally admit that the emperor has no clothes?
Trump Blasts Netanyahu for Disloyalty December 10, 2021 at 6:53 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu were the closest of political allies during the four years they overlapped in office, at least in public. Not anymore,” Axios reports.
“The final straw for Trump was when Netanyahu congratulated President-elect Biden for his election victory while Trump was still disputing the result.”
Said Trump: “I haven’t spoken to him since. Fuck him.” ________
“Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu were the closest of political allies during the four years they overlapped in office, at least in public. Not anymore,” Axios reports.
“The final straw for Trump was when Netanyahu congratulated President-elect Biden for his election victory while Trump was still disputing the result.”
Said Trump: “I haven’t spoken to him since. Fuck him.”
LONDON — A British High Court ruled Friday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to the United States to face charges of violating the Espionage Act. The 50-year-old Australian will remain in London’s Belmarsh prison, where he has been held since April 2019 after the Ecuadoran Embassy revoked his political asylum. Assange’s lawyers probably will file a final appeal to the British Supreme Court, which could either reject hearing the case or take it — if the highest court sees in the appeal a point of law “of general public importance.” That process could take weeks or months. If the court declines to hear Assange’s final appeal, he could seek a stay of extradition from the European Court of Human Rights. [The story behind Julian Assange’s extradition case and legal saga] The High Court ruling on Friday brings Assange one step closing to being turned over to U.S. marshals for a flight to Washington, where he would stand trial in federal court in Northern Virginia. December 10 at 2:34 AM PST By William Booth and Rachel Weiner In January, a British judge ruled that Assange should not be extradited to the United States because he would be at high risk of suicide. The U.S. government appealed that decision. Assange was charged under the Trump administration with violating the Espionage Act, the first time U.S. federal prosecutors have targeted not just the source but the publisher of classified information.
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu were the closest of political allies during the four years they overlapped in office, at least in public. Not anymore. "I haven’t spoken to him since," Trump said of the former Israeli prime minister. "F**k him."
What he's saying: Trump repeatedly criticized Netanyahu during two interviews for my book, “Trump’s Peace: The Abraham Accords and the Reshaping of the Middle East." The final straw for Trump was when Netanyahu congratulated President-elect Biden for his election victory while Trump was still disputing the result.
"The first person that congratulated [Biden] was Bibi Netanyahu, the man that I did more for than any other person I dealt with. ... Bibi could have stayed quiet. He has made a terrible mistake."
— Donald Trump
Why it matters: Now opposition leader, Netanyahu is waging a continuous campaign to win back the Prime Minister's Office while on trial for corruption.
One of his primary political calling cards is his close relationship with key players in U.S. politics, and with one man in particular who remains hugely popular in Israel: Trump.My interview with Trump will feature in a new season of Axios' "How It Happened" podcast, to be released on Monday. Subscribe.
The big picture: For domestic political reasons, both Trump and Netanyahu cultivated the public perception that there was no daylight between them as they worked closely together on key issues. But by the end of his presidency, Trump had concluded that Netanyahu didn’t really want peace with the Palestinians and was using him on Iran.
Trump also felt he'd helped ensure Netanyahu's political survival, but didn't get the same in return. He positively fumed about the video in which Netanyahu congratulated Biden.“I liked Bibi. I still like Bibi. But I also like loyalty. The first person to congratulate Biden was Bibi. And not only did he congratulate him, he did it on tape," Trump told me, referring to Netanyahu by his nickname.
Reality check: Netanyahu was far from the first world leader to congratulate Biden. In fact, he waited more than 12 hours after the U.S. networks called the election.
But Trump claimed he was shocked when his wife Melania shared Netanyahu's video with him: "He was very early — like, earlier than most. I haven’t spoken to him since. F**k him."
The former president was fixated on the fact that while the likes of Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Russia's Vladimir Putin held off — “they felt the election was rigged," Trump claimed — Netanyahu acknowledged Biden's win.
Well now, I'm sure rrb will not object if we look a little more deeply into what rrb calls "the fakest fake news we'll read here today."
AXIOS: Trump blasts Netanyahu for disloyalty: "F**k him" Barak Ravid author of from Tel Aviv
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu were the closest of political allies during the four years they overlapped in office, at least in public. Not anymore. "I haven’t spoken to him since," Trump said of the former Israeli prime minister. "F**k him."
What he's saying: Trump repeatedly criticized Netanyahu during two interviews for my book, “Trump’s Peace: The Abraham Accords and the Reshaping of the Middle East." The final straw for Trump was when Netanyahu congratulated President-elect Biden for his election victory while Trump was still disputing the result.
"The first person that congratulated [Biden] was Bibi Netanyahu, the man that I did more for than any other person I dealt with. ... Bibi could have stayed quiet. He has made a terrible mistake." — Donald Trump
Why it matters: Now opposition leader, Netanyahu is waging a continuous campaign to win back the Prime Minister's Office while on trial for corruption.
One of his primary political calling cards is his close relationship with key players in U.S. politics, and with one man in particular who remains hugely popular in Israel: Trump.
My interview with Trump will feature in a new season of Axios' "How It Happened" podcast, to be released on Monday.
The big picture: For domestic political reasons, both Trump and Netanyahu cultivated the public perception that there was no daylight between them as they worked closely together on key issues. But by the end of his presidency, Trump had concluded that Netanyahu didn’t really want peace with the Palestinians and was using him on Iran.
Trump also felt he'd helped ensure Netanyahu's political survival, but didn't get the same in return. He positively fumed about the video in which Netanyahu congratulated Biden.
“I liked Bibi. I still like Bibi. But I also like loyalty. The first person to congratulate Biden was Bibi. And not only did he congratulate him, he did it on tape," Trump told me, referring to Netanyahu by his nickname.
Reality check: Netanyahu was far from the first world leader to congratulate Biden. In fact, he waited more than 12 hours after the U.S. networks called the election.
But Trump claimed he was shocked when his wife Melania shared Netanyahu's video with him: "He was very early — like, earlier than most. I haven’t spoken to him since. F**k him."
The former president was fixated on the fact that while the likes of Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Russia's Vladimir Putin held off — “they felt the election was rigged," Trump claimed — Netanyahu acknowledged Biden's win.
“For Bibi Netanyahu, before the ink was even dry, to do a message, and not only a message, to do a tape to Joe Biden talking about their great, great friendship — they didn't have a friendship, because if they did, [the Obama administration] wouldn't have done the Iran deal," Trump said. "And guess what, now they're going to do it again."
Setting the scene: Those remarks came during a 90-minute, face-to-face interview at Mar-a-Lago in April, during which Trump repeatedly contended that he'd done more for Israel and for Netanyahu than any other president.
He cited his decisions to withdraw from the Iran deal, move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, keep troops in the region and recognize the occupied Golan Heights as part of Israel. He noted that he announced the Golan Heights move "right before the election" in April 2019, when Netanyahu had been trailing in the polls. "He would have lost the election if it wasn't for me."
Reality check: It's unclear whether the move actually swung the result of the election, which ended in a deadlock, but a poll conducted ahead of the vote by the Israeli Institute for Democracy found that 66% of Israelis thought Trump's decision strengthened Netanyahu’s stature.
Netanyahu featured Trump on his election billboards.
18 months later, when Trump held an on-camera call with Netanyahu 10 days before the U.S. election to mark the normalization agreement between Israel and Sudan, Trump asked Netanyahu whether "Sleepy Joe" could have cut such a deal.
"Mr. President, one thing I can tell you is we appreciate the help for peace from anyone in America," Netanyahu replied cautiously.
Trump bristled.
There were also more substantial disagreements between Trump and Netanyahu over Iran, Netanyahu's plan to annex parts of the West Bank, and Trump's desire for a peace deal with the Palestinians.
Even as he criticized Netanyahu, Trump expressed some admiration for him as a politician. He also showed great interest in Netanyahu's legal troubles, though he said he'd never discussed them with Netanyahu himself.
I spoke to Trump again in July, this time on the phone, after Netanyahu had been ousted from power after 12 years.
"Well, I like him, but he has been there a long time," Trump said when asked about Netanyahu's exit.
Trump repeated his grievances with Netanyahu, albeit in a milder tone. “I can tell you that people were very angry with him when he was the first one to congratulate Biden," he said. "The video was almost like he's begging for love. And I said, 'My, my how things change.' So, you know, I was disappointed. That hurt him badly with the people of Israel. As you know, I'm very popular in Israel. I think it hurt him very badly." ______ This reporting comes from “Trump’s Peace: The Abraham Accords and the Reshaping of the Middle East," available Friday morning in Hebrew. _______
Yeah, there sure is a lot of fakery there, coming from the oral cavity of Trump.
Bidennomics has set an all time high economic recovery in history.
Under Biden, the American economy has recovered from its Trump-era lows with remarkable speed. Just a year ago, the unemployment rate sat stubbornly at 6.7 percent. Today, only 4.2 percent of Americans are out of work. Similar economic recoveries have normally taken three times as long. The Biden administration is delivering on the fastest sustained economic recovery in American history.
The alky repeatedly has told us that the super smart set among us always vote democrat because they're so super smart. Like really, really smart.
The Gallup annual mental-health self-assessment released Friday indicated that Americans are struggling with the aftermath of COVID-19, with just 34% rating their mental well-being as “excellent,” the same as last year and a 21-year low for the survey.
Those reporting the best mental state were the faithful: 44% of weekly churchgoers said their mental health was “excellent,” more than any subgroup tracked by Gallup and the only one to register higher levels of emotional health in 2021 than in 2019, before the pandemic.
Bringing up the rear were low-income earners and Democrats. Only 28% of Democrats said they had “excellent” emotional well-being, even though the survey was conducted Nov. 1-16, a year after Joseph R. Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential race.
By contrast, 42% of Republicans and 33% of independents reported “excellent” mental health. Both were well below the pre-pandemic 2019 ratings of 56% for Republicans and 44% for independents.
“The wellbeing of most groups mirrors the national trend, with their mental health scores worsening last year followed by little to no improvement this year,” said the Gallup analysis. “However, Democrats’ mental health rating has been steady at a relatively low level since 2019 while frequent churchgoers’ has been steadily high.”
Indeed, just 29% of Democrats reported “excellent” emotional well-being in 2020, almost the same as their pre-pandemic rating of 30% in 2019.
“Democrats’ ‘excellent’ rating of their emotional wellbeing has consistently been the lowest among the three major party groups, ranging from 28% to 30% over the past three years,” Gallup said.“Meanwhile, 44% of U.S. adults who attend religious services weekly rate their mental health more positively than do those who attend about monthly (38%) or seldom or never (29%).”
As the pandemic wears on, Americans' rating of their mental health, which fell to a new low last year, remains below the 21-year average for the trend. Mental health ratings among women, lower-income earners and Democrats are particularly low. Americans who attend religious services weekly are notably more emotionally resilient than those who are less religious.
rrb's latest rant only shows that Democrats are more worried than Republicans about where our nation is headed due to the fact that one of our major political parties is too chicken to stand up to Trump and stop lying for him.
Only the smallest of small thinkers immediately leap to indict a source alky.
Especially when the source is accompanied with the background produced by Gallup itself.
You are Juicy Alky Smo-lee-aye.
LMAO.
PRAVDA!
SQUAWK!
Btw, Juicy Alky... nothing says PRAVDA! like a media that feels compelled to coordinate it's reporting "messaging" with the white house.
Straight from Tater's "newsletter:
White House quietly tries to reshape economic coverage
The White House, not happy with the news media's coverage of the supply chain and economy, has been working behind the scenes trying to reshape coverage in its favor. Senior White House and admin officials — including NEC Deputy Directors David Kamin and Bharat Ramamurti, along with Ports Envoy John Porcari — have been briefing major newsrooms over the past week, a source tells me.
The officials have been discussing with newsrooms trends pertaining to job creation, economic growth, supply chains, and more. The basic argument that has been made: That the country's economy is in much better shape than it was last year. I'm told the conversations have been productive, with anchors and reporters and producers getting to talk with the officials...
>> Related: Dana Milbank was on CNN Monday to talk about his column. He told Brianna Keilar that the news media needs to "do soul searching and see what we are delivering to people..."
Among politics’ strangest alliances are those between the elite and the mob. They don’t happen often. The few times they have occurred produced devastating effects. The most notable of them was the rise of the Nazi party, which recruited its original and most loyal adherents from the outcasts of society.
When the Nazis became mainstream, Hitler himself remarked how he missed the passionate street fighters of old who had been replaced by political opportunists and office seekers.
There is a method to this odd partnership. It is built on mobilizing the periphery, creating chaos, and enhancing chaos where it already exists.
The Nazi example finds its parallel much earlier in the coup of Louis Bonaparte, the nephew and pretender, who overthrew the French Republic in 1852 and became the last emperor of France. Bonaparte created, from the dregs of the socio-economic system, the foundation of a mass movement. He called it the Society of December the 10th. He just as well could have called it the Brownshirts. Hitler would have easily recognized it.
Revolutionary mobilization of the periphery does not occur in a day. And, in a legitimate democratic society, it will most likely bring chaos, dislocation, and division, but it will not bring about major political change. Nonetheless, for those committed to an ideological view of the world where chaos is the paving stone to revolution, means are significant.
That brings us to the January 6th Insurrection act and of course the big lie.
The former President is following the same path towards facism American style.
Unless we the people stop him, we will follow him down the escalator.
FROM YESTERDAY The Biden Boom December 9, 2021 at 5:32 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 117 Comments
Robert Shapiro: “While many people are uncomfortable communicating bad news, Democrats have a problem these days talking about good news, especially on the economy.
“Based on the data, President Biden and the Democratic Congress are set to preside over the strongest two-year performance on growth, jobs, and income in decades —so long as the current cycle of inflation eases, and the Omicron variant does not trigger another round of shutdowns.
The future paths of inflation and the pandemic are large and important unknowns—-but if they break right, everything else points to a Biden boom through 2022.
THE GUARDIAN REPORTS: Iran Nuclear Talks Rescued at Last Minute December 10, 2021 at 7:50 am EST By Taegan Goddard 1 Comment
“Efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal have been hauled back from the brink of collapse as Tehran revised its stance after pressure from Russia and China and clear warnings that the EU and the US were preparing to walk away,” The Guardian reports.
Meanwhile, the US military commander for the Middle East told the Financial Times he has a “very robust range of military options” to deter Iran.
The unemployed useless goat fucker again posts his own style of gibberish!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! His only wealth came from what his mommy left behind.....LOLOLOO
Oh the billionaires and millionaires are doing quite well thank you. They have profited from the pandemic.
Time to share.
And nothing says "time to share" like restoring the SALT deduction (average $38,500.00) for those billionaires and millionaires who are doing quite well, thank you.
MILLIONAIRE Bernie Sanders needs that SALT deduction.
MILLIONAIRE Nancy Peloshee *hic* needs that SALT deduction.
MILLIONAIRE John François Kerry needs that SALT deduction.
No wonder the white house needs the MSM to spin the news faster and harder as Brandon is sticking it to the middle class faster and harder -
US inflation hits 6.8%: reaction American inflation is now its highest since Ronald Reagan’s first term in the White House.
And that puts more pressure on the Federal Reserve to wrap up its asset-purchase scheme more quickly, experts says.
Dan Boardman-Weston, CIO at BRI Wealth Management, says strong demand and supply chain disruption pushed up inflation (plus, there’s a ‘base effect’ as some prices were dampened by the pandemic last year):
“US inflation came in at 6.8%, up from 6.2% in October and in line with forecasts. The reading which is the highest level in nearly 40 years comes as little surprise to the market due to the ongoing supply chain issues, robust consumer demand and base effects from last year kicking in.
This is likely to add further pressure to the Fed to quicken the withdrawal of quantitative easing and raise interest rates sooner than expected. There could be hesitancy from the Fed due to the potential impact that Omicron may have on the economy in the coming months but it’s unlikely this will significantly alter the growth trajectory of the economy.
The US economy is in rude health and doesn’t require crisis levels of quantitative easing or interest rates and so it remains our view that policy will become tighter.
It is important to note that whilst inflation is high and getting higher, the supply chain issues, the high levels of demand and base effects are likely to prove transitory and we continue to believe inflation will move lower over the coming year.”
Greg Daco of Oxford Economics warns that inflation will get worse early next year, before cooling.
We're already getting the media news stories about Biden's "great economy" right on cue as instructed by the Whitehouse. Drudge now has several at the top of the page.
So much for them being harder on Biden than Trump.
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Oh the billionaires and millionaires are doing quite well thank you. They have profited from the pandemic.
Time to share.
And nothing says "time to share" like restoring the SALT deduction (average $38,500.00) for those billionaires and millionaires who are doing quite well, thank you.
MILLIONAIRE Bernie Sanders needs that SALT deduction.
MILLIONAIRE Nancy Peloshee *hic* needs that SALT deduction.
MILLIONAIRE John François Kerry needs that SALT deduction.
More Nevada Democrats Switching Parties Than GOP December 10, 2021 at 9:23 am EST By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments
Nevada Independent: “More than two and a half times as many Democrats have switched their voter registrations to Republicans as vice-versa during the last three months, a statistic with ominous portents for Democratic candidates.
“The numbers since September also show that one and a half times as many Democrats switched to nonpartisan as did Republicans – numbers also reflected in how many major party voters would rather be members of ‘The Jedi Party’ or some other minor or essentially nonexistent party.”
Jon Ralston: “Yes, it’s early and only three months of data. But if this pattern continues well into 2022, it could presage a red wave here.“
ONCE THERE WAS A TIME, BUT NO MORE: Flashback Quote of the Day December 10, 2021 at 9:21 am EST By Taegan Goddard 4 Comments
“Well, there’s some Republicans now in the party who don’t, you know, don’t want to cross the aisle work with the Democrats. They don’t really want to do much of anything. I mean, they’re got some in the House that their primary goal is to get rid of John Boehner as speaker. I don’t know, I thought I was a conservative. But what I believed in was getting things done working with Democrats.” — Former Sen. Bob Dole (R-KS), in an interview with MSNBC.
Biden’s Handling of Economy, Covid Takes Another Hit December 10, 2021 at 8:58 am EST By Taegan Goddard 30 Comments
A new CNBC poll finds President Biden’s overall approval rating stabilized at a low level of 41%, about the same level as former President Donald Trump’s, compared to 50% who disapprove.
But Biden’s approval rating on handling the economy and dealing with the coronavirus both declined.
The Economy Is In Rougher Shape Than Many Admit December 10, 2021 at 8:56 am EST By Taegan Goddard 59 Comments
David Leonhardt: “Offices remain eerily empty. Airlines have canceled thousands of flights. Subways and buses are running less often. Schools sometimes call off entire days of class. Consumers waste time waiting in store lines. Annual inflation has reached its highest level in three decades.
“Does this sound like a healthy economy to you?
“In recent weeks, economists and pundits have been asking why Americans feel grouchy about the economy when many indicators — like G.D.P. growth, stock prices and the unemployment rate — look strong.
“But I think the answer to this supposed paradox is that it’s not really a paradox: Americans think the economy is in rough shape because the economy is in rough shape.”
CNBC Inflation Surged to 6.8% Last Month December 10, 2021 at 8:32 am EST By Taegan Goddard 81 Comments
Inflation surged 6.8% in November — even more than expected — to the fastest rate since 1982.
NEW YORK TIMES: “The rising costs spell trouble for officials at the Federal Reserve and the White House, who are trying to calibrate policy at a moment when the labor market has yet to completely heal from the pandemic, but the risk that price increases could become more lasting is increasing.”
Voters Who Think Trump Won Are Most Enthusiastic December 10, 2021 at 8:31 am EST By Taegan Goddard 24 Comments
Harry Enten notes that while voters believing Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election because of fraud may have stopped people from turning out for the Georgia Senate runoffs in early 2021, this belief appears to be correlated with a greater likelihood of voting in the 2022 midterms.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Prices for U.S. consumers jumped 6.8% in November compared with a year earlier as surging costs for food, energy, housing and other items left Americans enduring their highest annual inflation rate in 39 years.
The Labor Department also reported Friday that prices rose 0.8% from October to November — a substantial increase, though slightly less than 0.9% increase from September to October.
Inflation has been inflicting a heavy burden on consumers, especially lower-income households and particularly for everyday necessities. It has also negated the higher wages many workers have received, complicated the Federal Reserve’s plans to reduce its aid for the economy and coincided with flagging public support for President Joe Biden, who has been taking steps to try to ease inflation pressures.
Fueling the inflation has been a mix of factors resulting from the swift rebound from the pandemic recession: A flood of government stimulus, ultra-low rates engineered by the Fed and supply shortages at factories in the U.S and abroad. Manufacturers have been slowed by heavier-than-expected customer demand, COVID-related shutdowns and overwhelmed ports and freight yards.
Employers, struggling with worker shortages, have also been raising pay, and many of them have boosted prices to offset their higher labor costs, thereby adding to inflation.
It's the ease with which he lies that I find most galling. And not because of the lying in and of itself, but lying while pretending to be a pastor, a supposed man of God.
Supply and demand. Supply are caused by the pandemic. But
The result has been price spikes for goods ranging from food and used vehicles to electronics, household furnishings and rental cars. The acceleration of prices, which began after the pandemic hit as Americans stuck at homes flooded factories with orders for goods, has spread to services, from apartment rents and restaurant meals to medical services and entertainment.
The 6.8% jump in prices for the 12 months that ended in November was the largest year-over-year increase since a 7.1% surge for the year ending in June 1982. That spike occurred at a time when the Federal Reserve had driven up interest rates to double digits in its effort to stem runaway inflation triggered by the oil price shocks of the 1970s.
The persistence of high inflation has surprised the Fed, whose chair, Jerome Powell, had for months characterized inflation as only “transitory,” a short-term consequence of bottlenecked supply chains. Two weeks ago, though, Powell signaled a shift, implicitly acknowledging that high inflation has endured longer than he expected. He suggested that the Fed will likely act more quickly to phase out its ultra-low- rate policies than it had previously planned.
Driving much of the inflation last month were energy prices, particularly gasoline pump prices, which are up a dizzying 58.1% from a year ago. The costs of housing, food, new and used cars, airline tickets, clothing and household furnishings were also big contributors to the November price surge.
Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, rose 0.5% in November. Over the past 12 months, core prices are up 4.9%, the biggest such increase since 1991.
Some economists are holding out hope that inflation will peak in the coming months and then gradually ease and provide some relief for consumers. They note that supply shortages in some industries have begun to gradually ease. And while higher energy costs will continue to burden consumers in the coming months, Americans will likely be spared from earlier forecasts that energy prices would reach record highs over the winter.
Oil prices have been declining modestly and leading, in turn, to slightly lower gasoline prices. Even more dramatically, natural gas prices have plummeted nearly 40% from a seven-year high reached in October. The result is that while average home heating costs will well exceed last year’s levels, they won’t rise as much as had been feared. Food prices, too, could potentially ease as a result of sharp declines in corn and wheat prices from their highs earlier in the year.
What’s more, the emergence of the omicron variant of the coronavirus has renewed the prospect of more canceled or postponed travel and fewer restaurant meals and shopping trips. All of that, if it happened, would slow consumer and business spending and potentially restrain inflation.
Still, analysts caution that unexpected developments, including heavy winter storms, with potentially increased demand for energy, could send energy prices surging again.
And analysts cautioned that easing overall inflation pressures will depend on further progress in normalizing global supply chains. Senior White House officials have said they believe that a series of actions that the administration has taken, from boosting the processing of cargo from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to the release of crude oil from the petroleum reserve, would help defuse inflation pressures.
Some outside economists have begun to echo that view.
“I think November will be the worst of it, and going forward we will see steady improvement,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics. “As the delta wave of COVID has receded and supply chains start to repair themselves, we will start to see production and shipments improve.”
Zandi said he believes that inflation will begin improving with the December price report and that by this time next year, annual inflation will be back down to around 3%, closer to the Fed’s 2% target.
For now, though, against the backdrop of persistent high inflation, the Fed is expected to announce after it meets next week an acceleration reduction in its monthly bond purchases. Those purchases have been intended to lower long-term borrowing costs.
Doing so would put the Fed on a path to begin raising its key short-term interest rate as early as the first half of next year. That rate has been pegged at nearly zero since March 2020, when the coronavirus sent the economy into a deep recession.
And analysts cautioned that easing overall inflation pressures will depend on further progress in normalizing global supply chains. Senior White House officials have said they believe that a series of actions that the administration has taken, from boosting the processing of cargo from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to the release of crude oil from the petroleum reserve, would help defuse inflation pressures.
Some outside economists have begun to echo that view. Kputz
The man actually suggested Americans demand that their guests show them proof of vaccination before allowing them in their homes. If such a comment doesn’t set off a public campaign demanding he be fired, then this country is in deeper trouble than we thought.
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Appearing Wednesday on a Washington Post Live interview, Fauci said Americans who invite others into their homes should “essentially ask and maybe require that people show evidence that they are vaccinated, or give their honest and good faith word that they have been vaccinated.”
Does the good doctor, whose name and authoritarian urges have inspired critics to coin the terms “Faucist” and “Faucism,” understand that he said, in effect, Americans should be demanding “your papers, please” of their friends and family? Was he unaware that signs saying ”Unvaccinated Not Welcome” now have been seen in Germany? Or was he inspired by them?
(To be fair, it appears the “signs” might be the work of someone making a political statement rather than a warning from the shopkeeper. But the fact is, Germany is locking the “unvaccinated out of public life.” If someone is making a point, it’s not an exaggeration.)
As dangerous as novel coronavirus has been, the response to the pandemic by elected and unelected officials has been worse. Lockdowns cost livelihoods – and lives. Delayed health screenings and surgeries have caused premature deaths, while the unemployment shock caused by shuttering the economy will eventually have a similar effect on mortality.
At the forefront of this rancid stew of public health policy has been Fauci. And not only has his performance as physician been miserable, he’s obfuscated, evaded and outright lied before Congress in his position as a U.S. government employee. He deserves to be fired for dishonesty as well as his incompetence. Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky believes that Fauci should even be prosecuted and imprisoned for lying to Congress, which has “prosecuted other people” and “selectively gone after Republicans.”
Though he has a medical degree and a residency, Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, he should not be honored with title of “Dr.” He’s a career bureaucrat with too much power, and too much influence, both of which have been imparted to him by Democrats and the media, not for his achievements but because he was willing contradict Donald Trump.
That he has positioned himself as the unchallengeable god of science is as chilling as his suggestion that Americans need to show their papers to freely move around the country. He’s a fearmonger without conscience, a petty tyrant who feels no guilt.
We don’t expect Fauci to ever get what he should have coming to him, though, so the best we can do is follow Paul’s advice.
“Let’s not live in fear because Dr. Fauci is promulgating things that are unscientific just to scare you,” Paul said last week. “If you’ve been vaccinated or if you’ve had the disease, live your life and ignore this man.”
That’s a doctor’s recommendation we’ll be glad to take.
Millions of poorly educated people have already voted for Trump and his supporters.
But if the Democrats are able to keep the economy improving at a record pace and again if inflation rates drop to 2% or 3% the voters will fire the Republican party of Trump..
Millions of poorly educated people have already voted for Trump and his supporters like you, the troll squad asshole.
But if the Democrats are able to keep the economy improving at a record pace and again if inflation rates drop to 2% or 3% the voters will fire the Republican party of Trump..
The vigilantes may not survive the voters in Texas.
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court ruled Friday that abortion clinics can move forward with a challenge to Texas’ ban on most abortions, a decision that puts the state law in jeopardy even though the justices allowed it to remain in effect for now.
Mollie https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1469146299350065161 If you ever believed or claimed to believe Jesse Smollett”s patently absurd lies, you should never comment on anything that matters ever again because you are either too stupid or too dishonest to have any role in public discourse.
The slow motion coup was started long before the January 6th attacks on the Capitol building...
The House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the Capitol on Thursday released slides from a PowerPoint calling for former President Trump to declare a national security emergency in order to delay the certification of the results of the 2020 election. The presentation was referred to in an email provided to the committee by Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff who’s had a rough couple of weeks, to say the least.
The revelation is the latest piece of evidence that Trump and his inner circle, including his allies in Congress, were very actively and very aggressively trying to overturn the results of the election, which Trump lost handily.
The PowerPoint presentation, which spanned 38 pages and was titled “Election fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 JAN,” was part of an email sent on Jan. 5, the day before the attack on the Capitol. The email pertained to a briefing that was to be provided “on the hill.” Hugo Lowell of The Guardian tweeted slides from the presentation on Thursday detailing a conspiracy theory-laden plan for Vice President Pence to install Republican electors in states “where fraud occurred,” and for Trump to declare a national emergency and for all electronic voting to be rendered invalid, citing foreign “control” of electronic voting systems.
Boy, did the inflation news trigger Juicy Alky Smoley-Aye or what?
LMAO.
But if the Democrats are able to keep the economy improving at a record pace and again if inflation rates drop to 2% or 3%...
And if the democrats and the MSM can keep LYING to the American people...
That's what you should be saying Juicy Alky.
Spin all you want, the prices at the gas pump and the grocery store don not lie. But democrats do, and must, as they watch the collapse of this presidency.
How many House dems are we up to that are retiring?
19? 20?
LOL.
The only thing happening at a record pace are the LIES coming from Psucky, Klain, and the MSM.
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Wow Lil Schitty thinks this is a win.....I call it FUCKING stupid!!!!!!! Nothing like wasting resources and time to pass idiocy in which all Americans should participate for the common good!!!
THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTS:
Omicron Wave Heads for the U.K.
December 9, 2021 at 6:32 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 20 Comments
“With cases of the Omicron variant doubling every three days and the government doing an about-face on restrictions it had long resisted, Britain is bracing for a new coronavirus surge, unsure if it will be a relatively minor event or a return to the dark days of earlier pandemic waves,” the New York Times reports.
“Early evidence in Britain backs up tentative findings elsewhere, notably in South Africa, where the heavily mutated new variant is already widespread: It appears to be the most contagious form of the virus yet, a previous case of Covid-19 provides little immunity to it, and vaccines seem less effective against it. But it also seems to cause less severe illness than earlier variants.”
CAN'T BLAME THAT ON BIDEN, CAN YOU?
I AM SO GLAD IT'S NOT SEVERE,
BUT RATHER THAN ENCOURAGE VACCINATIONS AND SENSIBLE AVOIDANCE OF CROWDS, AND WEARING MASKS,
THE LOONEY TRUMPSTERS RESIST PRECAUTIONS, BITING OFF THEIR NOSES TO SPITE THEIR FACES.
HISTORIANS WILL BE SCRATCHING THEIR HEADS FOR A LONG TIME OVER THIS.
Classic TLS.
Trump Goes Trump on Ridiculous Claim That Media Is Harder on Joe Biden.
Donald Trump might have a fondness for baseless claims — he has for decades, and he always will — but his response to a recent ridiculous claim that the “mainstream” media is harder on Joe Biden than it was on him could not be more spot on. I mean, you don’t even have to be Donald Trump to figure that one out.
We’ll get to Donald’s comments in a minute.
His comments were in response to a moronic Washington Post opinion piece by columnist Dana Milbank last week, titled: The media treats Biden as badly as — or worse than — Trump. Here’s proof. Needless to say, the op-ed is nonsensical from the outset, beginning with the ROTFL headline.
Even better, Biden organ-grinder monkey (chief of staff) Ron Klein tweeted a link to Milbank’s goofy op-ed, along with “For your consideration.”
Milbank’s op-ed was hilarious in its purposeful delusion.
We need a skeptical, independent press. But how about being partisans for democracy? The country is in an existential struggle between self-governance and an authoritarian alternative.
“Skeptical”? Please. And, “democracy”? What, you want even more Democrat control? And the silly “existential” thing? You lefties have beat that to death, have you not? (See: “Climate change, the existential threat of our time,” et al.) Please sit down.
Here’s a bit more silliness from Milbank before we move on to reality:
After a honeymoon of slightly positive coverage in the first three months of the year, Biden’s press for the past four months has been as bad as — and for a time worse than — the coverage Trump received for the same four months of 2020.
Think about that. In 2020, Trump presided over a worst-in-world pandemic response that caused hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths; held a superspreader event at the White House and got covid-19 himself …
[He] praised QAnon adherents; embraced violent white supremacists; waged a racist campaign against Black Lives Matter demonstrators; attempted to discredit mail-in voting; and refused to accept his defeat in a free and fair election, leading eventually to the violence of Jan. 6 …
And yet Trump got press coverage as favorable as, or better than, Biden is getting today.
Sure, Biden has had his troubles, with the delta variant, Afghanistan and inflation. But the economy is rebounding impressively, he has signed major legislation, and he has restored some measure of decency, calm and respect for democratic institutions.
Can’t make it up, don’t have to. Except Dana Milbank did — but he doesn’t matter.
In an exclusive, new interview with Breitbart, Trump responded, calling Milbank’s op-ed “laughable.”
Excerpts, as transcribed by Breitbart:lollipop
We’ve done things that nobody has ever done. Peace in the Middle East — we would have had that also, but we had four countries sign. We would have had peace—the Abraham Accords, it’s called.
So many different things. I will say, in the end, people are starting to see we did a massive amount of work, whether it was military or taxes or all the different things we did.
We had a great economy with no inflation. I did it twice because I had to rebuild it after COVID hit the world. The world was hit actually relatively harder than us.
I think it’s not even a contest. I think they’re treating him with kid gloves. You know why? There’s so much damage that has been done to our country, and this new bill, this Build Back Worse bill, is just a disaster — a disaster for the country.
Listen, as anyone who has followed me for a while knows, I have had my share of issues with Donald Trump. I still do. I always will. I’m sure he’d have his issues with me, but I digress. But Trump is right as rain here and Milbank and leftist loons like him couldn’t be more TDS-riddled wrong. It really is that simple.
Trump continued, blistering one of his favorite targets, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Excerpts:
I got him elected because when I endorsed him and helped him with his commercials and other stuff, I got him elected. I regret I didn’t run somebody in the primary against him because he’s been terrible.
He’s now giving it away with the debt ceiling. He could have used the debt ceiling to get rid of ‘Build Back Worse.’ He could have used it, and he would have won. It’s a powerful thing. He gave it away today for nothing. He got nothing from it.
Also, breaking up the bill was a disaster because it made it much easier to get this catastrophe that’s getting ready to come—they’re not going to be able to be stopping it. If you kept it together, it was tougher to get the votes. Then, of course, he gave them a two-month extension. What was that all about? That gave them time to get their act together, and they did.
With the ‘Unfrastructure’ bill — that’s the infrastructure bill, but because there’s very little infrastructure, I call it the ‘Unfrastructure’ bill. There’s only 11 percent infrastructure — but they could have said just for the asking, ‘We’re not going to give you those 19 votes.’
They gave them 19 votes. What a shame, including McConnell. He should have said, ‘You got to finish the wall or we’re not going to do it, and they would have done it.’
Again, amen. Praise Trump
Dear Scott.
The world is laughing at us.
Vladimir Putin looks at our pathetic surrender in Afghanistan - leaving behind dead Soldiers, American citizens, and $85 billion worth of military equipment - and then he looks at Biden.
PUTIN IS NOT WORRIED BECAUSE BIDEN IS WEAK. Sleepy Joe is unfit to be President and I am calling on him to RESIGN in DISGRACE.
Love, President Donald J. Trump.
CAN'T BLAME THAT ON BIDEN, CAN YOU?
I can certainly blame Biden for not having any response.
We now know that the variant is very resistant to the current vaccine... so we demand everyone get vaccinated anyways? That is our plan?
I am a troubleshooter by trade. I see this all the time. The same person will continue to submit the same report or follow the same steps but they get the same error. They insist that they understand the problem, know how to fix it, but what they are doing simply doesn't work. They refuse to try anything else and eventually come to me to fix it. But funny how they demand that what they are doing should work, even as it doesn't.
Biden is one of those people. They start off honestly confused as to why their solution doesn't work. Then they get a little bit frustrated. Then they get defensive when someone else tells them to try another solution. Eventually they can become downright hostile and start to point fingers at everything and everyone else.
You see... it's not their solution that is wrong. It's just everyone else and everything else that is the problem. Never their fault!
Sound familiar? Certainly does for me.
Then again... you write books that nobody buys for a living. Not sure how relevant those qualifications make you to solve problems.
Personally it should have been obvious that the American public would not fully submit to vaccinations. Heck there are only a handful of countries right now with a fully vaccination rate over 80% and we do not have a single State right now at even 75% fully vaccinated.
It should have been obvious to the Biden Administration that we were not going to get to 85-90% no matter how hard they pushed. It should have been equally obvious that mandates would not be popular.
But apparently what is totally and completely obvious to people like ME escapes the attention of Biden and his cronies.
I wouldn't want to work with this Administration and try to talk any sense into them. They are just tooo far gone and tied to their one and only solution... which they will try again tomorrow for the upteenth time in a row, expecting somehow it will be different.
HEADLINE AT AOL.COM:
TRUMP GETS BAD LEGAL NEWS ABOUT HIS JAN 6 RECORDS
see what follows
You have more blood on your hands.
William Hartmann, one of two Republican election officials from Michigan who initially refused to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election in Wayne County, where Joe Biden had trounced Donald Trump, died on Nov. 30 at a hospital near Detroit,” the New York Times reports.
“About two weeks before Mr. Hartmann’s death, which was confirmed by the Michigan Republican Party, his sister, Elizabeth Hartmann, wrote on Facebook that he was ‘in ICU with Covid pneumonia and currently on a ventilator.’”
“Mr. Hartmann had been outspoken in his opposition to Covid vaccines.”
Question for you Roger...
So just last week I just got a recognition award at work for exceptional performance.
I was asked by four different co-workers for help today in resolving their issues. I took over two different Zoom calls with clients and was personally requested on another issue.
You know why I am so strong at my job?
Must be my cognitive decline you so often speak of.
So my question, Roger...
What did you accomplish today?
WSJ RINO Wall follows
WASHINGTON—A federal appeals court rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to deny the special House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol access to records from his presidency.
In a decision released Thursday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to block the National Archives from turning over some of Mr. Trump’s papers sought by the House special committee. Mr. Trump had claimed the papers were privileged and asked a court to block their release.
“On the record before us, former President Trump has provided no basis for this court to override President Biden’s judgment and the agreement and accommodations worked out between the Political Branches over these documents,” concluded the three-judge panel that heard the case, referring to the executive and legislative branches of the government.
“Both Branches agree that there is a unique legislative need for these documents and that they are directly relevant to the Committee’s inquiry into an attack on the Legislative Branch and its constitutional role in the peaceful transfer of power,” the judges wrote.
Lawyers for Mr. Trump didn’t respond to a request for comment. They earlier indicated they would likely appeal a judgment against the former president to the Supreme Court.
A congressional exercise in the peaceful transfer of power devolved into deadly chaos when a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol. Hours after the riots, Congress reconvened and certified President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. Photo: Carol Guzy/ZUMA Wire (Video from Jan. 7, 2021)THE WALL STREET JOURNAL INTERACTIVE EDITION
Select committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D., Miss.) and Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) said in a statement: “We applaud the court’s decisive ruling, which respects the select committee’s interest in obtaining White House records and the president’s judgment in allowing those records to be produced. Our work moves ahead swiftly. We will get to the truth.”
The case began earlier this year when Mr. Trump brought suit to stop an array of records from his time in office from being turned over to the House select committee. The panel was established by House lawmakers in a June vote almost entirely along party lines after Senate Republicans blocked an earlier effort to set up a bipartisan independent commission to probe the attack on the Capitol. The panel is composed of Democrats and two Republicans who have been critics of Mr. Trump, a Republican.
The House select committee has sought records related to communications about Mr. Trump’s speech to his supporters before they converged on the Capitol to try to prevent the certification of Mr. Biden’s election victory, as well as the response within the White House once violence began to unfold, among other things.
A district court in Washington ruled against Mr. Trump last month, with U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan writing: “The public interest lies in permitting—not enjoining—the combined will of the legislative and executive branches to study the events that led to and occurred on January 6, and to consider legislation to prevent such events from ever occurring again.”
The records in question belong to the U.S., not Mr. Trump personally. Lawyers representing Mr. Biden have determined that Congress should get the records and declined to assert executive privilege, a doctrine allowing the White House to shield some of its records from scrutiny to preserve the candor of advice.
Appeals court rules against Trump’s bid to block records from Jan. 6 probe
Yahoo News
CAITLIN DICKSON
December 9, 2021, 6:00 PM
A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected an effort by former President Donald Trump to shield White House records from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that “there is a unique legislative need for these documents and that they are directly relevant to the Committee’s inquiry into an attack on the Legislative Branch and its constitutional role in the peaceful transfer of power.”
Trump sued the select committee and the National Archives to prevent the White House from turning over records related to the Jan. 6 attack, claiming executive privilege, but President Biden, as the current office holder, has so far waived those executive privilege claims for documents relevant to the select committee’s investigation. Last month, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled that Biden’s authority in this matter supersedes Trump’s.
“Former President Trump has provided no basis for this court to override President Biden’s judgment and the agreement and accommodations worked out between the Political Branches over these documents,” the appeals court concluded in its ruling Thursday.
The federal appeals court had previously granted a request from Trump’s attorneys for a temporary injunction to delay the release of the first batch of requested documents by the National Archives. According to the Associated Press, the appeals court decided Thursday that the temporary injunction “will expire in two weeks, or when the Supreme Court rules on an expected appeal from Trump — whichever is later.”
All three of the appeals court judges who heard the arguments in this case were nominated by Democrats: Judge Patricia Millett and Judge Robert Wilkins were both appointed by former President Barack Obama, while Ketanji Brown Jackson, the third judge on the panel, was appointed by Biden.
According to court documents, the National Archives has said that the documents Trump has tried to keep secret include daily presidential diaries, schedules, visitor logs, activity logs, call logs, drafts of speeches, “handwritten notes concerning the events of January 6” from the files of former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, and “a draft Executive Order on the topic of election integrity.”
Meadows is also attempting to challenge the select committee’s subpoenas in court. The former Trump aide filed his own lawsuit against the panel on Wednesday, hours after he failed to appear for a scheduled deposition with the Jan. 6 committee. The committee has said it will now move ahead with the process of holding Meadows in contempt of Congress, making him the third Trump ally to face a referral for possible criminal penalties for refusing to cooperate with the Jan. 6 probe.
DOSE CHICKENS ER SHO' COMIN HOME TO ROOST!
You told three totally wrong story. You accomplished that you showed me that you are getting demented Syndromes. They were false.
You have been indoctrinated...
Every single words are false allegations.
1 We know as a matter of fact, that the last rally (supposedly in support of the Jan 6th prisoners) was made up of mostly undercover law enforcement, who we know as a matter of fact again... ended up arresting each other for carrying weapons.
2;We know as a matter of fact, that the FBI coordinated the planning and failed execution of the kidnapping of Governor Whitmer. That is a matter of public information.
3:We can be certain to at least a 95 percent degree that multiple FBI agents have been identified as being "part" of the Jan 6th riots, some in prominent position during the riot. Men were seen on video, never charged, and identified by people as related to or part of the FBI.
Unfortunately, there is no treatment for dementia.
Because you don't believe anything but what your mind says.
Cognitive dissonance.
I'm praying that your wife can get you help.
On October 8, 2020, Michigan’s Attorney General revealed that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies had thwarted a plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor, Gretchen Whitmer. In the midst of the pandemic, in which Michigan had some of the highest infection rates in the United States, Whitmer, who had declared a state of emergency and instituted a “stay-at-home” order, became the focus of considerable ire from those opposed to her response to the unprecedented public health crisis. Former President Donald Trump publicly disparaged “the woman in Michigan” because her efforts to combat coronavirus contradicted his own desire to “open up” the United States, which helped fuel a wave of protest. This culminated in a group of armed men storming the Capitol building in Lansing, Michigan, on April 30, 2020, an event with clear parallels to the storming of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021. The alleged plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer—14 defendants are currently awaiting trial, though one has already pleaded guilty—which began in early 2020 and coalesced over that summer, took place within this wider polarized political context. The case itself highlights the continuing evolution and complexity of the domestic violent extremism (DVE) threat landscape as well as its decentralized and amorphous nature. It also underscores the importance of encrypted digital technology and operational security measures as an increasingly integrated part of DVE activity.
On October 8, 2020, Michigan’s Attorney General Dana Nessel held a press conference with colleagues from the state’s Eastern and Western Districts as well as state police and the FBI to announce that a “serious, credible threat to public safety” had been averted.1 The previous evening, the FBI and Michigan State Police had arrested six men, five in Michigan and one in Delaware, who they had charged, in a federal complaint, with conspiring to kidnap Michigan’s governor, Gretchen Whitmer.a Simultaneously, the State of Michigan had filed additional charges, pursuant with its Anti-Terrorism Act, against another seven men connected to a little known militia group called the Wolverine Watchmen.b In addition to being involved in the conspiracy to kidnap Whitmer, this group was also alleged to have targeted local law enforcement officials, made threats of violence intended to instigate a civil war, and planned and trained for an operation to attack the Capitol building in Lansing, Michigan. An eighth alleged member of the Wolverine Watchmen was charged the following week, bringing the total number of individuals charged to 14.2 c
You probably won't actually read it
Bidenomics under delivery.
"Seventy-six percent of American adults said President Joe Biden’s coronavirus child tax credit program “did not help at all,” a Thursday NPR/Marist poll revealed."
Will we see and expected deep.drop in inflation in the reports tomorrow?
The Biden Boom
Robert Shapiro:
“While many people are uncomfortable communicating bad news, Democrats have a problem these days talking about good news, especially on the economy.
“Based on the data, President Biden and the Democratic Congress are set to preside over the strongest two-year performance on growth, jobs, and income in decades—so long as the current cycle of inflation eases, and the Omicron variant does not trigger another round of shutdowns. The future paths of inflation and the pandemic are large and important unknowns—-but if they break right, everything else points to a Biden boom through 2022.”
THAT POSSIBILITY SCARES REPUBLICANS S-LESS.
House Approves Curbs on Presidential Power
December 9, 2021 at 9:59 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 55 Comments
“The House on Thursday passed a sweeping package of constraints on presidential power, which Democrats framed as a response to Donald Trump’s norm-busting presidency and Republicans unanimously opposed for the same reason,” the New York Times reports.
“By a nearly party-line vote of 220 to 208, the House approved the Protecting Our Democracy Act, which would impose new curbs on executive power. Proponents of tighter government ethics have long sought many of the measures, and Republicans have supported them, but they have been recast as partisan issues because of their association with Mr. Trump.”
IN OTHER WORDS, THERE WAS A TIME WHEN NO REPUBLICAN WOULD HAVE QUESTIONED THESE MEASURES. BUT BECAUSE OF TRUMP... WELL, WE MUSN'T UPSET DER FUEHRER.
Reuters:
“The bill will now head to the Senate, where it is not expected to surpass the chamber’s 60-vote threshold to move forward.”
Seig Heil Mr Trump
Democrats are faced with a sticky problem: The economy is nearing full employment after businesses added 210,000 jobs in November, labor force participation climbed to its highest level since the pandemic and wages are rising across many industries kputz. Yet most voters are increasingly pessimistic about President Biden’s economic stewardship.
“I’m not exactly sure why what’s happening isn’t being characterized as a booming recovery from a worldwide shutdown,” Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz (D) mused in a tweet last month. The answer involves a bit of Democratic over-optimism and a whole lot of Republican messaging the Biden administration has been slow to counter.
Schatz is largely right: Under Biden, the American economy has recovered from its Trump-era lows with remarkable speed. Just a year ago, the unemployment rate sat stubbornly at 6.7 percent. Today, only 4.2 percent of Americans are out of work. Similar economic recoveries have normally taken three times as long. The Biden administration is delivering on the fastest sustained economic recovery in American history, yet its messaging struggles to tell that story.
More important for Democrats is that this isn’t a “paper recovery,” where unemployment rates fall because more Americans simply give up looking for work. Much to Democrats’ relief, the opposite is true for the Biden recovery. The labor force participation rate, the percentage of Americans 16 and older who are working or actively looking for work, just hit pre-pandemic levels. That’s a hugely reassuring development for analysts who initially feared the global pandemic would be a drag on the labor force rate for years to come.
But a surging economic recovery doesn’t mean that all is well for regular Americans, and if Democrats want to make jobs and the economy a 2022 campaign issue, they’ll need answers for some of the recovery’s potholes. Chief among them? Inflation.
A CNBC All-America Economic Survey released this week found that while Americans plan to spend 13 percent more this holiday season — great news Biden’s media surrogates should be shouting from — it also found that more Americans are concerned about rising inflation than about the pandemic. While that’s a promising sign that we’re moving forward from the coronavirus, Democrats are now faced with rising prices and unhappy consumers.
CNBC’s survey found 4 in 10 Americans are pessimistic about where the economy is headed, but it should concern the White House that 7 percent more Americans think the economy is getting worse today than did a year ago at the peak of the third coronavirus wave. Not only is that incorrect, it points to Democrats' biggest problem: a conservative media machine pumping out economic disinformation on a 24/7 production schedule.
Republicans want voters to think of their economic gains as temporary and the inflation pinch as permanent. They get the story exactly backwards. That hasn’t stopped some conservative outlets from crafting the bogus narrative that inflation is a result of Democratic spending priorities — not a side effect of an economy rapidly expanding after a year with its head held underwater. They also fail to mention that wages recently rose by the largest amount in two decades, and American workers will still be pocketing those gains when our post-coronavirus economic supercharge wears off and inflation drops back to regular levels.
If the conservative media’s framing is wrong, it’s also ruthlessly effective in scaring Democrats away from discussing all of the good happening in our economy since January. And like clockwork, skittish moderate Democrats and independents are taking the GOP bait.
“We urge additional action by the House of Representatives to further address the disruptions and higher costs our constituents are experiencing,” a group of centrist House Democrats, including over a dozen in vulnerable 2022 races, wrote in a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) last week. If Democrats can’t get their economic messaging together to convince their own moderates, how do they intend to persuade voters?
Witch hunt!
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A D.C. federal appeals court denied Trump’s attempt to block the Jan. 6 investigation, allowing a subpoena for White House records about the Jan. 6 insurrection to proceed.
Trump is expected to appeal the ruling, issued Thursday afternoon after the court held oral arguments on Nov. 30.
The decision allows three tranches of documents identified by the National Archives to be released to the committee.
It was a unanimous decision from the three-judge panel. Judges Patricia Millett, Robert Wilkins, and Ketanji Brown Jackson gave Trump a 14-day stay in order for the former President to appeal the issue to the Supreme Court.
Millett wrote the opinion, offering a blistering description of the stakes of the investigation — and of Trump’s claim that he could contest a sitting president’s assertion of executive privilege.
In her conclusion, she cited Benjamin Franklin’s quote that the founding generation had bequeathed a republic — “if [we] can keep it.”
“The events of January 6th exposed the fragility of those democratic institutions and traditions that we have perhaps come to take for granted,” the 68-page opinion reads.
“Former President Trump has given this court no legal reason to case aside President Biden’s assessment of the Executive Branch interests at stake, or to create a separation of powers conflict that the Political Branches have avoided.”
Trump’s case rested on the claim that, as a former president, he could contest — and possibly override — Biden’s decision as a sitting president to say that records sought by the Jan. 6 committee were not subject to executive privilege, a brand of secrecy meant to allow the president to receive candid advice.
Legal experts saw his claim as quintessentially Trumpian: a ludicrous and likely-to-fail attempt to delay the investigation, but also a potentially grave threat to presidential accountability, should a court expand the privilege to former presidents.
The appeals court recognized that Trump had a right to press the claim of executive privilege, but kept with earlier precedent in saying that it’s the interests of the republic, and not any one president, that are at stake.
Trump, Millett wrote, wants a court to “intervene and nullify” Congress and Biden’s agreement to give the records to the investigation. “But essential to the rule of law is the principle that a former President must meet the same legal standards for obtaining preliminary injunctive relief as everyone else. And former President Trump has failed that task.”
The ruling offers one of the earliest higher court opinions dealing with both the insurrection and Trump’s role in it.
Millett wrote that “there is a direct linkage between the former President and the events of the day.”
That view colors the entire opinion. Millett described some of the records sought, including “a draft Executive Order on the topic of election integrity” and “presidential activity calendars and a related handwritten note for January 6, 2021.”
Biden’s decision to waive privilege on the records comes “at a time of pressing national need,” the opinion reads.
“Lives were lost; blood was shed; portions of the Capitol building were badly damaged; and the lives of members of the House and Senate, as well as aides, staffers, and others who were working in the building, were endangered,” Millett wrote. “They were forced to flee, preventing legislators from completing their constitutional duties until the next day.”
Millett also described the White House as “the hub for intelligence about threats of violent action against the government.”
Apart from understanding “intelligence failures,” Millett wrote, the panel has “sound reasons for seeking presidential documents in particular” as part of the probe.
The appeals court managed to rule on the issue largely without weighing in on Trump’s claim that his rights as a former President should equal those of Biden’s, as a sitting president. Rather, the court found that Trump failed to state any real concern that they could rule on.
“But we need not conclusively resolve whether and to what extent a court could second guess the sitting President’s judgment that it is not in the interesting of the United States to invoke privilege,” the opinion, issued lightning-fast in appeals court time, reads.
Millett added that per the tests “advocated by former President Trump, the profound interests in disclosure advanced by President Biden and the January 6th Committee far exceed his generalized concerns for Executive Branch confidentiality.”
Have a good conspiracy theory addiction evening
In February, Sky News Australia host Cory Bernardi told viewers, “Never before has the leader of the free world been so cognitively compromised. It’s clear to me at the least that U.S. President Joe Biden is struggling with dementia and is clearly not up to the task he’s been sworn in to do.”
Biden’s mental decline has become too obvious for Democrats to hide.
When will his party finally admit that the emperor has no clothes?
Biden reads a script and says “end of message” out loud at the end.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1469044685909991431
This man is an imbecile.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
You told three totally wrong story. You accomplished that you showed me that you are getting demented Syndromes. They were false.
You have been indoctrinated...
Every single words are false allegations.
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Trump Blasts Netanyahu for Disloyalty
December 10, 2021 at 6:53 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu were the closest of political allies during the four years they overlapped in office, at least in public. Not anymore,” Axios reports.
“The final straw for Trump was when Netanyahu congratulated President-elect Biden for his election victory while Trump was still disputing the result.”
Said Trump: “I haven’t spoken to him since. Fuck him.”
________
Says POS Trump.
“Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu were the closest of political allies during the four years they overlapped in office, at least in public. Not anymore,” Axios reports.
“The final straw for Trump was when Netanyahu congratulated President-elect Biden for his election victory while Trump was still disputing the result.”
Said Trump: “I haven’t spoken to him since. Fuck him.”
The fakest fake news we'll read here today.
Roger, PLEASE stop writing
Seig Heil.
It's
Sieg Heil.
In German, the ei in
Heil is pronounced like the ei in Einstein and Eisenhower.
Sieg is pronouned
Seeg.
I know how it's pronounced in English.
Trump might be nervous
LONDON — A British High Court ruled Friday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to the United States to face charges of violating the Espionage Act.
The 50-year-old Australian will remain in London’s Belmarsh prison, where he has been held since April 2019 after the Ecuadoran Embassy revoked his political asylum.
Assange’s lawyers probably will file a final appeal to the British Supreme Court, which could either reject hearing the case or take it — if the highest court sees in the appeal a point of law “of general public importance.” That process could take weeks or months.
If the court declines to hear Assange’s final appeal, he could seek a stay of extradition from the European Court of Human Rights.
[The story behind Julian Assange’s extradition case and legal saga]
The High Court ruling on Friday brings Assange one step closing to being turned over to U.S. marshals for a flight to Washington, where he would stand trial in federal court in Northern Virginia.
December 10 at 2:34 AM PST
By William Booth and Rachel Weiner
In January, a British judge ruled that Assange should not be extradited to the United States because he would be at high risk of suicide. The U.S. government appealed that decision.
Assange was charged under the Trump administration with violating the Espionage Act, the first time U.S. federal prosecutors have targeted not just the source but the publisher of classified information.
He will get on Scott's enemy list...
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu were the closest of political allies during the four years they overlapped in office, at least in public. Not anymore. "I haven’t spoken to him since," Trump said of the former Israeli prime minister. "F**k him."
What he's saying: Trump repeatedly criticized Netanyahu during two interviews for my book, “Trump’s Peace: The Abraham Accords and the Reshaping of the Middle East." The final straw for Trump was when Netanyahu congratulated President-elect Biden for his election victory while Trump was still disputing the result.
"The first person that congratulated [Biden] was Bibi Netanyahu, the man that I did more for than any other person I dealt with. ... Bibi could have stayed quiet. He has made a terrible mistake."
— Donald Trump
Why it matters: Now opposition leader, Netanyahu is waging a continuous campaign to win back the Prime Minister's Office while on trial for corruption.
One of his primary political calling cards is his close relationship with key players in U.S. politics, and with one man in particular who remains hugely popular in Israel: Trump.My interview with Trump will feature in a new season of Axios' "How It Happened" podcast, to be released on Monday. Subscribe.
The big picture: For domestic political reasons, both Trump and Netanyahu cultivated the public perception that there was no daylight between them as they worked closely together on key issues. But by the end of his presidency, Trump had concluded that Netanyahu didn’t really want peace with the Palestinians and was using him on Iran.
Trump also felt he'd helped ensure Netanyahu's political survival, but didn't get the same in return. He positively fumed about the video in which Netanyahu congratulated Biden.“I liked Bibi. I still like Bibi. But I also like loyalty. The first person to congratulate Biden was Bibi. And not only did he congratulate him, he did it on tape," Trump told me, referring to Netanyahu by his nickname.
Reality check: Netanyahu was far from the first world leader to congratulate Biden. In fact, he waited more than 12 hours after the U.S. networks called the election.
But Trump claimed he was shocked when his wife Melania shared Netanyahu's video with him: "He was very early — like, earlier than most. I haven’t spoken to him since. F**k him."
The former president was fixated on the fact that while the likes of Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Russia's Vladimir Putin held off — “they felt the election was rigged," Trump claimed — Netanyahu acknowledged Biden's win.
Seeg Hial In English
Well now, I'm sure rrb will not object if we look a little more deeply into what rrb calls "the fakest fake news we'll read here today."
AXIOS:
Trump blasts Netanyahu for disloyalty: "F**k him"
Barak Ravid
author of from Tel Aviv
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu were the closest of political allies during the four years they overlapped in office, at least in public. Not anymore. "I haven’t spoken to him since," Trump said of the former Israeli prime minister. "F**k him."
What he's saying:
Trump repeatedly criticized Netanyahu during two interviews for my book, “Trump’s Peace: The Abraham Accords and the Reshaping of the Middle East." The final straw for Trump was when Netanyahu congratulated President-elect Biden for his election victory while Trump was still disputing the result.
"The first person that congratulated [Biden] was Bibi Netanyahu, the man that I did more for than any other person I dealt with. ... Bibi could have stayed quiet. He has made a terrible mistake."
— Donald Trump
Why it matters:
Now opposition leader, Netanyahu is waging a continuous campaign to win back the Prime Minister's Office while on trial for corruption.
One of his primary political calling cards is his close relationship with key players in U.S. politics, and with one man in particular who remains hugely popular in Israel: Trump.
My interview with Trump will feature in a new season of Axios' "How It Happened" podcast, to be released on Monday.
The big picture:
For domestic political reasons, both Trump and Netanyahu cultivated the public perception that there was no daylight between them as they worked closely together on key issues. But by the end of his presidency, Trump had concluded that Netanyahu didn’t really want peace with the Palestinians and was using him on Iran.
Trump also felt he'd helped ensure Netanyahu's political survival, but didn't get the same in return. He positively fumed about the video in which Netanyahu congratulated Biden.
“I liked Bibi. I still like Bibi. But I also like loyalty. The first person to congratulate Biden was Bibi. And not only did he congratulate him, he did it on tape," Trump told me, referring to Netanyahu by his nickname.
Reality check:
Netanyahu was far from the first world leader to congratulate Biden. In fact, he waited more than 12 hours after the U.S. networks called the election.
But Trump claimed he was shocked when his wife Melania shared Netanyahu's video with him: "He was very early — like, earlier than most. I haven’t spoken to him since. F**k him."
The former president was fixated on the fact that while the likes of Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Russia's Vladimir Putin held off — “they felt the election was rigged," Trump claimed — Netanyahu acknowledged Biden's win.
“For Bibi Netanyahu, before the ink was even dry, to do a message, and not only a message, to do a tape to Joe Biden talking about their great, great friendship — they didn't have a friendship, because if they did, [the Obama administration] wouldn't have done the Iran deal," Trump said. "And guess what, now they're going to do it again."
Setting the scene:
Those remarks came during a 90-minute, face-to-face interview at Mar-a-Lago in April, during which Trump repeatedly contended that he'd done more for Israel and for Netanyahu than any other president.
He cited his decisions to withdraw from the Iran deal, move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, keep troops in the region and recognize the occupied Golan Heights as part of Israel.
He noted that he announced the Golan Heights move "right before the election" in April 2019, when Netanyahu had been trailing in the polls. "He would have lost the election if it wasn't for me."
Reality check:
It's unclear whether the move actually swung the result of the election, which ended in a deadlock, but a poll conducted ahead of the vote by the Israeli Institute for Democracy found that 66% of Israelis thought Trump's decision strengthened Netanyahu’s stature.
Netanyahu featured Trump on his election billboards.
18 months later, when Trump held an on-camera call with Netanyahu 10 days before the U.S. election to mark the normalization agreement between Israel and Sudan, Trump asked Netanyahu whether "Sleepy Joe" could have cut such a deal.
"Mr. President, one thing I can tell you is we appreciate the help for peace from anyone in America," Netanyahu replied cautiously.
Trump bristled.
There were also more substantial disagreements between Trump and Netanyahu over Iran, Netanyahu's plan to annex parts of the West Bank, and Trump's desire for a peace deal with the Palestinians.
Even as he criticized Netanyahu, Trump expressed some admiration for him as a politician. He also showed great interest in Netanyahu's legal troubles, though he said he'd never discussed them with Netanyahu himself.
I spoke to Trump again in July, this time on the phone, after Netanyahu had been ousted from power after 12 years.
"Well, I like him, but he has been there a long time," Trump said when asked about Netanyahu's exit.
Trump repeated his grievances with Netanyahu, albeit in a milder tone. “I can tell you that people were very angry with him when he was the first one to congratulate Biden," he said.
"The video was almost like he's begging for love. And I said, 'My, my how things change.' So, you know, I was disappointed. That hurt him badly with the people of Israel. As you know, I'm very popular in Israel. I think it hurt him very badly."
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This reporting comes from “Trump’s Peace: The Abraham Accords and the Reshaping of the Middle East," available Friday morning in Hebrew.
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Yeah, there sure is a lot of fakery there, coming from the oral cavity of
Trump.
Bidennomics has set an all time high economic recovery in history.
Under Biden, the American economy has recovered from its Trump-era lows with remarkable speed. Just a year ago, the unemployment rate sat stubbornly at 6.7 percent. Today, only 4.2 percent of Americans are out of work. Similar economic recoveries have normally taken three times as long. The Biden administration is delivering on the fastest sustained economic recovery in American history.
The link came from
https://drudgereport.com/
The alky repeatedly has told us that the super smart set among us always vote democrat because they're so super smart. Like really, really smart.
The Gallup annual mental-health self-assessment released Friday indicated that Americans are struggling with the aftermath of COVID-19, with just 34% rating their mental well-being as “excellent,” the same as last year and a 21-year low for the survey.
Those reporting the best mental state were the faithful: 44% of weekly churchgoers said their mental health was “excellent,” more than any subgroup tracked by Gallup and the only one to register higher levels of emotional health in 2021 than in 2019, before the pandemic.
Bringing up the rear were low-income earners and Democrats. Only 28% of Democrats said they had “excellent” emotional well-being, even though the survey was conducted Nov. 1-16, a year after Joseph R. Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential race.
By contrast, 42% of Republicans and 33% of independents reported “excellent” mental health. Both were well below the pre-pandemic 2019 ratings of 56% for Republicans and 44% for independents.
“The wellbeing of most groups mirrors the national trend, with their mental health scores worsening last year followed by little to no improvement this year,” said the Gallup analysis. “However, Democrats’ mental health rating has been steady at a relatively low level since 2019 while frequent churchgoers’ has been steadily high.”
Indeed, just 29% of Democrats reported “excellent” emotional well-being in 2020, almost the same as their pre-pandemic rating of 30% in 2019.
“Democrats’ ‘excellent’ rating of their emotional wellbeing has consistently been the lowest among the three major party groups, ranging from 28% to 30% over the past three years,” Gallup said.“Meanwhile, 44% of U.S. adults who attend religious services weekly rate their mental health more positively than do those who attend about monthly (38%) or seldom or never (29%).”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/dec/6/regular-churchgoers-top-gallups-mental-health-poll/
Bottom Line
As the pandemic wears on, Americans' rating of their mental health, which fell to a new low last year, remains below the 21-year average for the trend. Mental health ratings among women, lower-income earners and Democrats are particularly low. Americans who attend religious services weekly are notably more emotionally resilient than those who are less religious.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/357749/mental-health-rating-remains-below-pre-pandemic-level.aspx
He used to be Scott's favorite Cumswalloer Matt Drudge
The Washington Times is Pravda American style...
rrb's latest rant only shows that Democrats are more worried than Republicans about where our nation is headed due to the fact that one of our major political parties is too chicken to stand up to Trump and stop lying for him.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
The Washington Times is Pravda American style...
Only the smallest of small thinkers immediately leap to indict a source alky.
Especially when the source is accompanied with the background produced by Gallup itself.
You are Juicy Alky Smo-lee-aye.
LMAO.
PRAVDA!
SQUAWK!
Btw, Juicy Alky... nothing says PRAVDA! like a media that feels compelled to coordinate it's reporting "messaging" with the white house.
Straight from Tater's "newsletter:
White House quietly tries to reshape economic coverage
The White House, not happy with the news media's coverage of the supply chain and economy, has been working behind the scenes trying to reshape coverage in its favor. Senior White House and admin officials — including NEC Deputy Directors David Kamin and Bharat Ramamurti, along with Ports Envoy John Porcari — have been briefing major newsrooms over the past week, a source tells me.
The officials have been discussing with newsrooms trends pertaining to job creation, economic growth, supply chains, and more. The basic argument that has been made: That the country's economy is in much better shape than it was last year. I'm told the conversations have been productive, with anchors and reporters and producers getting to talk with the officials...
>> Related: Dana Milbank was on CNN Monday to talk about his column. He told Brianna Keilar that the news media needs to "do soul searching and see what we are delivering to people..."
https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/16388473618894d60cc03816c/raw?utm_term=16388473618894d60cc03816c&utm_source=cnn_Reliable+Sources+-+December+6,+2021&utm_medium=email&bt_ee=O54bZGFbM3aVNTxtxWGCPc25bBuY3hp3EjrEmc%2BpMH22EOPnwXiCqFkTEvS3cR4mWrajVqSEd
The only thing that's missing is Kevin Bacon re-living his 'Animal house' bit:
"Remain calm! All is well."
White House to MSM:
"You're not lying HARD ENOUGH for us."
"Your usual level of lying is proving ineffective. Crank up the lies to eleventy NOW!"
Among politics’ strangest alliances are those between the elite and the mob. They don’t happen often. The few times they have occurred produced devastating effects. The most notable of them was the rise of the Nazi party, which recruited its original and most loyal adherents from the outcasts of society.
When the Nazis became mainstream, Hitler himself remarked how he missed the passionate street fighters of old who had been replaced by political opportunists and office seekers.
There is a method to this odd partnership. It is built on mobilizing the periphery, creating chaos, and enhancing chaos where it already exists.
The Nazi example finds its parallel much earlier in the coup of Louis Bonaparte, the nephew and pretender, who overthrew the French Republic in 1852 and became the last emperor of France. Bonaparte created, from the dregs of the socio-economic system, the foundation of a mass movement. He called it the Society of December the 10th. He just as well could have called it the Brownshirts. Hitler would have easily recognized it.
Revolutionary mobilization of the periphery does not occur in a day. And, in a legitimate democratic society, it will most likely bring chaos, dislocation, and division, but it will not bring about major political change. Nonetheless, for those committed to an ideological view of the world where chaos is the paving stone to revolution, means are significant.
That brings us to the January 6th Insurrection act and of course the big lie.
The former President is following the same path towards facism American style.
Unless we the people stop him, we will follow him down the escalator.
FROM YESTERDAY
The Biden Boom
December 9, 2021 at 5:32 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 117 Comments
Robert Shapiro:
“While many people are uncomfortable communicating bad news, Democrats have a problem these days talking about good news, especially on the economy.
“Based on the data, President Biden and the Democratic Congress are set to preside over the strongest two-year performance on growth, jobs, and income in decades
—so long as the current cycle of inflation eases,
and the Omicron variant does not trigger another round of shutdowns.
The future paths of inflation and the pandemic are large and important unknowns—-but if they break right, everything else points to a Biden boom through 2022.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/12/chaos_and_the_threat_to_democracy_.html
With a couple clarifications...
Aka Thecoldheartedtruth
ANOTHER BIDEN SUCCESS REVERSING TRUMP
THE GUARDIAN REPORTS:
Iran Nuclear Talks Rescued at Last Minute
December 10, 2021 at 7:50 am EST By Taegan Goddard 1 Comment
“Efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal have been hauled back from the brink of collapse as Tehran revised its stance after pressure from Russia and China and clear warnings that the EU and the US were preparing to walk away,” The Guardian reports.
Meanwhile, the US military commander for the Middle East told the Financial Times he has a “very robust range of military options” to deter Iran.
The likes of James and Roger are pure enjoyment.
Their views on Bidenomics, pure fantasy.
As Americans are poorer today then at the beginning of the year.
You can't transfer enough wealth.
The unemployed useless goat fucker again posts his own style of gibberish!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! His only wealth came from what his mommy left behind.....LOLOLOO
Oh the billionaires and millionaires are doing quite well thank you. They have profited from the pandemic.
Time to share.
CPI (year-over-year change)Nov.6.8%
Only a true Socialist write
"Time to share."
Time to earn it. Capitalist
FANTASTIC MORNING !!!
I see roger's underwear is on display and it really has him rattled !!!
And the lying POS "pastor" who now dishonestly calls himself "Decent, honest teller of truth" said...
Oh the billionaires and millionaires are doing quite well thank you. They have profited from the pandemic.
Time to share.
Guess he's now fundraising for the democrat party
the ones who have widened the income gap substantially
and have benefited from Chinese slave labor
apparently Chinese Lives don't Matter to dems
nor whites
nor American citizens for that matter
WHAT A HUGE JUMP IN THE INFLATION RATE ANNOUNCED THIS MORNING
(I see yelling is in style now)
WOW !!!
thanks Biden
will be interesting to see how the lapdog press he summoned to the White House and told to write positive economic news on him will handle it.
Sure has been easy to spot the lapdogs recently
and their minions and water boys
ROFLMFAO !!!
Blogger Decent, honest teller of truth said...
Oh the billionaires and millionaires are doing quite well thank you. They have profited from the pandemic.
Time to share.
And nothing says "time to share" like restoring the SALT deduction (average $38,500.00) for those billionaires and millionaires who are doing quite well, thank you.
MILLIONAIRE Bernie Sanders needs that SALT deduction.
MILLIONAIRE Nancy Peloshee *hic* needs that SALT deduction.
MILLIONAIRE John François Kerry needs that SALT deduction.
No wonder the white house needs the MSM to spin the news faster and harder as Brandon is sticking it to the middle class faster and harder -
US inflation hits 6.8%: reaction
American inflation is now its highest since Ronald Reagan’s first term in the White House.
And that puts more pressure on the Federal Reserve to wrap up its asset-purchase scheme more quickly, experts says.
Dan Boardman-Weston, CIO at BRI Wealth Management, says strong demand and supply chain disruption pushed up inflation (plus, there’s a ‘base effect’ as some prices were dampened by the pandemic last year):
“US inflation came in at 6.8%, up from 6.2% in October and in line with forecasts. The reading which is the highest level in nearly 40 years comes as little surprise to the market due to the ongoing supply chain issues, robust consumer demand and base effects from last year kicking in.
This is likely to add further pressure to the Fed to quicken the withdrawal of quantitative easing and raise interest rates sooner than expected. There could be hesitancy from the Fed due to the potential impact that Omicron may have on the economy in the coming months but it’s unlikely this will significantly alter the growth trajectory of the economy.
The US economy is in rude health and doesn’t require crisis levels of quantitative easing or interest rates and so it remains our view that policy will become tighter.
It is important to note that whilst inflation is high and getting higher, the supply chain issues, the high levels of demand and base effects are likely to prove transitory and we continue to believe inflation will move lower over the coming year.”
Greg Daco of Oxford Economics warns that inflation will get worse early next year, before cooling.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2021/dec/10/uk-economy-slows-gdp-october-us-inflation-lv-bain-takeover-business-live
"Hurry!!! Let's start fleecing those millionaires and billionaires!!!"
"No! Not the DEMOCRAT millionaires and billionaires, you idiot!!!"
LOL.
We're already getting the media news stories about Biden's "great economy" right on cue as instructed by the Whitehouse. Drudge now has several at the top of the page.
So much for them being harder on Biden than Trump.
Blogger rrb said...
Blogger Decent, honest teller of truth said...
Oh the billionaires and millionaires are doing quite well thank you. They have profited from the pandemic.
Time to share.
And nothing says "time to share" like restoring the SALT deduction (average $38,500.00) for those billionaires and millionaires who are doing quite well, thank you.
MILLIONAIRE Bernie Sanders needs that SALT deduction.
MILLIONAIRE Nancy Peloshee *hic* needs that SALT deduction.
MILLIONAIRE John François Kerry needs that SALT deduction.
He’s so fucking stupid, it has to be intentional
PLENTY OF BAD NEWS FOR DEMS
More Nevada Democrats Switching Parties Than GOP
December 10, 2021 at 9:23 am EST By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments
Nevada Independent:
“More than two and a half times as many Democrats have switched their voter registrations to Republicans as vice-versa during the last three months, a statistic with ominous portents for Democratic candidates.
“The numbers since September also show that one and a half times as many Democrats switched to nonpartisan as did Republicans – numbers also reflected in how many major party voters would rather be members of ‘The Jedi Party’ or some other minor or essentially nonexistent party.”
Jon Ralston:
“Yes, it’s early and only three months of data. But if this pattern continues well into 2022, it could presage a red wave here.“
ONCE THERE WAS A TIME, BUT NO MORE:
Flashback Quote of the Day
December 10, 2021 at 9:21 am EST By Taegan Goddard 4 Comments
“Well, there’s some Republicans now in the party who don’t, you know, don’t want to cross the aisle work with the Democrats. They don’t really want to do much of anything. I mean, they’re got some in the House that their primary goal is to get rid of John Boehner as speaker. I don’t know, I thought I was a conservative. But what I believed in was getting things done working with Democrats.”
— Former Sen. Bob Dole (R-KS), in an interview with MSNBC.
Biden’s Handling of Economy, Covid Takes Another Hit
December 10, 2021 at 8:58 am EST By Taegan Goddard 30 Comments
A new CNBC poll finds President Biden’s overall approval rating stabilized at a low level of 41%, about the same level as former President Donald Trump’s, compared to 50% who disapprove.
But Biden’s approval rating on handling the economy and dealing with the coronavirus both declined.
The Economy Is In Rougher Shape Than Many Admit
December 10, 2021 at 8:56 am EST By Taegan Goddard 59 Comments
David Leonhardt:
“Offices remain eerily empty. Airlines have canceled thousands of flights. Subways and buses are running less often. Schools sometimes call off entire days of class. Consumers waste time waiting in store lines. Annual inflation has reached its highest level in three decades.
“Does this sound like a healthy economy to you?
“In recent weeks, economists and pundits have been asking why Americans feel grouchy about the economy when many indicators — like G.D.P. growth, stock prices and the unemployment rate — look strong.
“But I think the answer to this supposed paradox is that it’s not really a paradox: Americans think the economy is in rough shape because the economy is in rough shape.”
CNBC
Inflation Surged to 6.8% Last Month
December 10, 2021 at 8:32 am EST By Taegan Goddard 81 Comments
Inflation surged 6.8% in November — even more than expected — to the fastest rate since 1982.
NEW YORK TIMES:
“The rising costs spell trouble for officials at the Federal Reserve and the White House, who are trying to calibrate policy at a moment when the labor market has yet to completely heal from the pandemic, but the risk that price increases could become more lasting is increasing.”
Voters Who Think Trump Won Are Most Enthusiastic
December 10, 2021 at 8:31 am EST By Taegan Goddard 24 Comments
Harry Enten
notes that while voters believing Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election because of fraud may have stopped people from turning out for the Georgia Senate runoffs in early 2021, this belief appears to be correlated with a greater likelihood of voting in the 2022 midterms.
I was afraid that this might happen.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Prices for U.S. consumers jumped 6.8% in November compared with a year earlier as surging costs for food, energy, housing and other items left Americans enduring their highest annual inflation rate in 39 years.
The Labor Department also reported Friday that prices rose 0.8% from October to November — a substantial increase, though slightly less than 0.9% increase from September to October.
Inflation has been inflicting a heavy burden on consumers, especially lower-income households and particularly for everyday necessities. It has also negated the higher wages many workers have received, complicated the Federal Reserve’s plans to reduce its aid for the economy and coincided with flagging public support for President Joe Biden, who has been taking steps to try to ease inflation pressures.
Fueling the inflation has been a mix of factors resulting from the swift rebound from the pandemic recession: A flood of government stimulus, ultra-low rates engineered by the Fed and supply shortages at factories in the U.S and abroad. Manufacturers have been slowed by heavier-than-expected customer demand, COVID-related shutdowns and overwhelmed ports and freight yards.
Employers, struggling with worker shortages, have also been raising pay, and many of them have boosted prices to offset their higher labor costs, thereby adding to inflation.
He’s so fucking stupid, it has to be intentional
The pederast is an idiot. Most leftists are.
It's the ease with which he lies that I find most galling. And not because of the lying in and of itself, but lying while pretending to be a pastor, a supposed man of God.
He's a fraud.
VIDEO:
Holy shit!
They’re waking up. Unfortunately they’re finding out the hard way.
https://gab.com/RealRedElephants/posts/107421456659922030
Joe Biden's America
1984
America on the brink of the abyss
Supply and demand. Supply are caused by the pandemic. But
The result has been price spikes for goods ranging from food and used vehicles to electronics, household furnishings and rental cars. The acceleration of prices, which began after the pandemic hit as Americans stuck at homes flooded factories with orders for goods, has spread to services, from apartment rents and restaurant meals to medical services and entertainment.
The 6.8% jump in prices for the 12 months that ended in November was the largest year-over-year increase since a 7.1% surge for the year ending in June 1982. That spike occurred at a time when the Federal Reserve had driven up interest rates to double digits in its effort to stem runaway inflation triggered by the oil price shocks of the 1970s.
The persistence of high inflation has surprised the Fed, whose chair, Jerome Powell, had for months characterized inflation as only “transitory,” a short-term consequence of bottlenecked supply chains. Two weeks ago, though, Powell signaled a shift, implicitly acknowledging that high inflation has endured longer than he expected. He suggested that the Fed will likely act more quickly to phase out its ultra-low- rate policies than it had previously planned.
Driving much of the inflation last month were energy prices, particularly gasoline pump prices, which are up a dizzying 58.1% from a year ago. The costs of housing, food, new and used cars, airline tickets, clothing and household furnishings were also big contributors to the November price surge.
Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, rose 0.5% in November. Over the past 12 months, core prices are up 4.9%, the biggest such increase since 1991.
Some economists are holding out hope that inflation will peak in the coming months and then gradually ease and provide some relief for consumers. They note that supply shortages in some industries have begun to gradually ease. And while higher energy costs will continue to burden consumers in the coming months, Americans will likely be spared from earlier forecasts that energy prices would reach record highs over the winter.
Oil prices have been declining modestly and leading, in turn, to slightly lower gasoline prices. Even more dramatically, natural gas prices have plummeted nearly 40% from a seven-year high reached in October. The result is that while average home heating costs will well exceed last year’s levels, they won’t rise as much as had been feared. Food prices, too, could potentially ease as a result of sharp declines in corn and wheat prices from their highs earlier in the year.
What’s more, the emergence of the omicron variant of the coronavirus has renewed the prospect of more canceled or postponed travel and fewer restaurant meals and shopping trips. All of that, if it happened, would slow consumer and business spending and potentially restrain inflation.
Still, analysts caution that unexpected developments, including heavy winter storms, with potentially increased demand for energy, could send energy prices surging again.
And analysts cautioned that easing overall inflation pressures will depend on further progress in normalizing global supply chains. Senior White House officials have said they believe that a series of actions that the administration has taken, from boosting the processing of cargo from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to the release of crude oil from the petroleum reserve, would help defuse inflation pressures.
Some outside economists have begun to echo that view.
“I think November will be the worst of it, and going forward we will see steady improvement,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics. “As the delta wave of COVID has receded and supply chains start to repair themselves, we will start to see production and shipments improve.”
Zandi said he believes that inflation will begin improving with the December price report and that by this time next year, annual inflation will be back down to around 3%, closer to the Fed’s 2% target.
For now, though, against the backdrop of persistent high inflation, the Fed is expected to announce after it meets next week an acceleration reduction in its monthly bond purchases. Those purchases have been intended to lower long-term borrowing costs.
Doing so would put the Fed on a path to begin raising its key short-term interest rate as early as the first half of next year. That rate has been pegged at nearly zero since March 2020, when the coronavirus sent the economy into a deep recession.
Yes I actually said this path was going to happen.
https://news.yahoo.com/us-consumer-prices-soared-6-133737840.html
And analysts cautioned that easing overall inflation pressures will depend on further progress in normalizing global supply chains. Senior White House officials have said they believe that a series of actions that the administration has taken, from boosting the processing of cargo from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to the release of crude oil from the petroleum reserve, would help defuse inflation pressures.
Some outside economists have begun to echo that view. Kputz
Roger Amick said...
Yes I actually said this path was going to happen.
I guess roger is referring to the picture posted at the top of the thread.
Must be coming from his clean drawer
poor assistants
and hey roger why don't you post what those "economists" and "reporters" you are now using said previously to predict our current situation ?
Or are they just propagandists such as the lapdogs Biden summoned and instructed how to report at his last White House meeting ?
And again a classic example of propaganda..
The man actually suggested Americans demand that their guests show them proof of vaccination before allowing them in their homes. If such a comment doesn’t set off a public campaign demanding he be fired, then this country is in deeper trouble than we thought.
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Appearing Wednesday on a Washington Post Live interview, Fauci said Americans who invite others into their homes should “essentially ask and maybe require that people show evidence that they are vaccinated, or give their honest and good faith word that they have been vaccinated.”
Does the good doctor, whose name and authoritarian urges have inspired critics to coin the terms “Faucist” and “Faucism,” understand that he said, in effect, Americans should be demanding “your papers, please” of their friends and family? Was he unaware that signs saying ”Unvaccinated Not Welcome” now have been seen in Germany? Or was he inspired by them?
(To be fair, it appears the “signs” might be the work of someone making a political statement rather than a warning from the shopkeeper. But the fact is, Germany is locking the “unvaccinated out of public life.” If someone is making a point, it’s not an exaggeration.)
As dangerous as novel coronavirus has been, the response to the pandemic by elected and unelected officials has been worse. Lockdowns cost livelihoods – and lives. Delayed health screenings and surgeries have caused premature deaths, while the unemployment shock caused by shuttering the economy will eventually have a similar effect on mortality.
At the forefront of this rancid stew of public health policy has been Fauci. And not only has his performance as physician been miserable, he’s obfuscated, evaded and outright lied before Congress in his position as a U.S. government employee. He deserves to be fired for dishonesty as well as his incompetence. Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky believes that Fauci should even be prosecuted and imprisoned for lying to Congress, which has “prosecuted other people” and “selectively gone after Republicans.”
Though he has a medical degree and a residency, Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, he should not be honored with title of “Dr.” He’s a career bureaucrat with too much power, and too much influence, both of which have been imparted to him by Democrats and the media, not for his achievements but because he was willing contradict Donald Trump.
That he has positioned himself as the unchallengeable god of science is as chilling as his suggestion that Americans need to show their papers to freely move around the country. He’s a fearmonger without conscience, a petty tyrant who feels no guilt.
We don’t expect Fauci to ever get what he should have coming to him, though, so the best we can do is follow Paul’s advice.
“Let’s not live in fear because Dr. Fauci is promulgating things that are unscientific just to scare you,” Paul said last week. “If you’ve been vaccinated or if you’ve had the disease, live your life and ignore this man.”
That’s a doctor’s recommendation we’ll be glad to take.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
* all I remember roger reporting was how this was all going to be transitory and not a big deal
but I skip most of his lengthy copied posts.
Guess he is not capable of being succinct
or comprehending
anymore
but boy was he great back in the day
if you listen to him
and ignore his constant word salad
and attacks on CHT
now he's just a bitter old man
with issues
Millions of poorly educated people have already voted for Trump and his supporters.
But if the Democrats are able to keep the economy improving at a record pace and again if inflation rates drop to 2% or 3% the voters will fire the Republican party of Trump..
Millions of poorly educated people have already voted for Trump and his supporters like you, the troll squad asshole.
But if the Democrats are able to keep the economy improving at a record pace and again if inflation rates drop to 2% or 3% the voters will fire the Republican party of Trump..
I knew you were the Texas asshole like kputz in history of Thecoldheartedtruth
The vigilantes may not survive the voters in Texas.
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court ruled Friday that abortion clinics can move forward with a challenge to Texas’ ban on most abortions, a decision that puts the state law in jeopardy even though the justices allowed it to remain in effect for now.
Mollie
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1469146299350065161
If you ever believed or claimed to believe Jesse Smollett”s patently absurd lies, you should never comment on anything that matters ever again because you are either too stupid or too dishonest to have any role in public discourse.
paging roger amick
The slow motion coup was started long before the January 6th attacks on the Capitol building...
The House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the Capitol on Thursday released slides from a PowerPoint calling for former President Trump to declare a national security emergency in order to delay the certification of the results of the 2020 election. The presentation was referred to in an email provided to the committee by Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff who’s had a rough couple of weeks, to say the least.
The revelation is the latest piece of evidence that Trump and his inner circle, including his allies in Congress, were very actively and very aggressively trying to overturn the results of the election, which Trump lost handily.
The PowerPoint presentation, which spanned 38 pages and was titled “Election fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 JAN,” was part of an email sent on Jan. 5, the day before the attack on the Capitol. The email pertained to a briefing that was to be provided “on the hill.” Hugo Lowell of The Guardian tweeted slides from the presentation on Thursday detailing a conspiracy theory-laden plan for Vice President Pence to install Republican electors in states “where fraud occurred,” and for Trump to declare a national emergency and for all electronic voting to be rendered invalid, citing foreign “control” of electronic voting systems.
Boy, did the inflation news trigger Juicy Alky Smoley-Aye or what?
LMAO.
But if the Democrats are able to keep the economy improving at a record pace and again if inflation rates drop to 2% or 3%...
And if the democrats and the MSM can keep LYING to the American people...
That's what you should be saying Juicy Alky.
Spin all you want, the prices at the gas pump and the grocery store don not lie. But democrats do, and must, as they watch the collapse of this presidency.
How many House dems are we up to that are retiring?
19? 20?
LOL.
The only thing happening at a record pace are the LIES coming from Psucky, Klain, and the MSM.
Nathan Brand
https://mobile.twitter.com/NathanBrandWA/status/1469288117085605892
NEW CNBC polling
Which party would you prefer to control Congress:
44% - Republicans
34% - Democrats
“In the past 20 years, CNBC and NBC surveys have never registered a double-digit Republican advantage on congressional preference...”
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/10/public-view-on-bidens-handling-of-covid-and-the-economy-takes-another-hit-cnbc-survey-shows.html
I think roger predicted this
When will someone be charged with insurrection, sedition or treason for Jan. 6?
Anyone?
If I was a leftist I'd be storming the doors of the DOJ asking exactly that in a spittle-flecked rage.
So far we have charges of misdemeanor trespass, "parading" (whatever the fuck THAT is) and basically unauthorized tourism.
LOL.
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