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07/01/2023

Friday night’s extraordinary House fight doesn’t bode well for the two years to come

This is history unfolding before our eyes. The CSPAN cameras, unencumbered by rules because the House hasn’t been able to adopt rules, have roamed the floor of Congress, catching amazing scenes of politics in action.

On Friday night, we saw Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) in a last ditch effort to persuade Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to vote for Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as Speaker of the House and finally end this farce. He failed. Gaetz voted “present” and McCarthy, on the 14th ballot, fell short again.

Then, something even more extraordinary:

McCarthy marched up the aisle and confronted Gaetz, who was sitting next to a smirking Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), another member of the “Never Kevin” coalition. Fingers were pointed. It was hard to read lips, but the message from McCarthy seemed to be: “We had a deal.” Gaetz was changing the deal. A shout in the back, a little bit of jostling. Was this going to end up in a fistfight?

It was an incredible scene. It was also childish, idiotic, petulant — pick your adjective. For what possible reason did this egomaniac decide to torpedo a late-night vote after he called McCarthy “Speaker-elect” earlier in the evening?

Especially because Gaetz shortly after reportedly agreed to a “deal” and the vote went to Round 15 as the clock struck midnight.

Now Kevin McCarthy, after this epic disaster, has finally become speaker. Yay, we guess.

Unfortunately, the divisions displayed this week make it look pretty unlikely the tiny Republican majority will be able to pull off most of the goals that the holdouts and the regulars agree on. Especially since we know McCarthy already made concessions that made his speakership weaker, and the position of the saboteurs stronger. What exactly did Matt Gaetz get for his theatrics? We’ll find out soon.

08/12/2022

The Trump election nightmare is now complete

The Trump election nightmare is now complete: Herschel Walker lost an eminently winnable Georgia Senate race to far-left Rev. Raphael Warnock Tuesday.

The vote vastly augments Dem power in the Senate via a 51-seat majority — there’s no need to appease Joe Manchin on every big bill any longer; judicial confirmations become far easier.

Walker was a Trump candidate through and through. More or less hand-picked by The Donald, Walker proved unable to make a coherent case for himself.

And so he lost by almost three points to Warnock in a state that saw massive GOP margins elsewhere: eight points in Brian Kemp’s gov victory, nine points in the secretary of state contest, etc. It’s yet more proof that Trump can’t pick winners, and that his endorsement is politically toxic.

But there’s more blame to go around: Ronna Romney McDaniel, the RNC chair who has overseen three bloody cycles for the GOP now, also deserves a truckload.

She’s another Trump pick. Now nominally independent of him, she made no real effort to counteract his malign influence on the GOP’s national political strategy. And Republicans have less hope of a 2024 recovery with her “leading” them.

05/12/2022

Charlamagne Tha God is right: Democrats think they own our black vote

There is a major difference between loyalty and ownership. While many black Americans have a sense of loyalty to the Democratic Party, the party has translated black voters’ constancy into a rightful racial bloc of ownership. But much like any useful possession, it becomes incredibly easy to take it for granted the longer you possess it.

Charlamagne Tha God just expressed something similar in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital. “The Breakfast Club” radio host made headlines in 2020 when candidate Joe Biden irritably told him that “if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or [Donald] Trump, then you ain’t black.”

Charlamagne’s sentiments are very similar to my reasons for no longer blindly supporting the Democratic Party. I’d notice Democrats would show up on radio shows like Charlamagne’s making promises that sound appealing to a black audience — but they’d never deliver.

17/11/2022

Shame on the celeb crypto grifters like Tom, Gisele and Larry David — who promoted FTX without a thought for the money their fans may lose

We should have seen it coming.

Someone called “Bankman-Fried” is probably not the best guy to trust with your money.

Especially given he’s just 30 years old, looks like a Fyre Festival committee member, slobs around in the tax-free Bahamas in his shorts and sandals, and until a few days ago, reigned supreme in a financial world dubbed a delusional “rat poison” by the world’s greatest businessman, Warren Buffett.

Unfathomably, Sam Bankman-Fried managed to build a cryptocurrency exchange empire, FTX, which became the third-biggest in the world with a value of $32 billion before it all came crashing down last week — leaving up to a million people facing a potential wipeout on their investment.

How did he do this?

Well, largely by recruiting all sorts of celebrities to endorse his risky business, led by NFL star Tom Brady and his estranged wife, Gisele Bündchen, basketball stars Shaquille O’Neal and Steph Curry, tennis star Naomi Osaka and comedian Larry David, who even appeared in a lavish Super Bowl ad for investing in FTX.

11/11/2022

Republicans, it’s time to retire 45 and put in a new starter to win the championship

One of the biggest mistakes people make about politics is treating it like fantasy football: They attempt to match up politicians for a dream team presidential run and, even worse, assume their favorite player can repeat an exceptional single-game performance.

On the political right, there is an assumption that President Donald Trump’s previous win automatically projects him ahead of a weak President Joe Biden or any other 2024 Democratic nominee. But voting dynamics have shifted since 2016, and the people who took a chance on him then are not guaranteed to do so again.

While the right was ready for a red tsunami Tuesday, it got a lackluster trickle thanks to Trump’s involvement in so many of the key contentious races. The Republican Party didn’t ride a red wave, but it got something just as valuable: a red warning.

10/11/2022

Here’s how Donald Trump sabotaged the Republican midterms

Hey, Lyin’ Ted and Sleepy Joe: Meet Toxic Trump. You know, if the former president had any self-knowledge or even the slightest ability to be self-deprecating, he might consider giving himself this alliterative nickname.

After three straight national tallies in which either he or his party or both were hammered by the national electorate, it’s time for even his stans to accept the truth: Toxic Trump is the political equivalent of a can of Raid.

What Tuesday night’s results suggest is that Trump is perhaps the most profound vote repellant in modern American history.

The surest way to lose in these midterms was to be a politician endorsed by Trump.

This is not hyperbole.

15/09/2022

Facebook spied on private messages of Americans who questioned 2020 election

Facebook has been spying on the private messages and data of American users and reporting them to the FBI if they express anti-government or anti-authority sentiments — or question the 2020 election — according to sources within the Department of Justice.

Under the FBI collaboration operation, somebody at Facebook red-flagged these supposedly subversive private messages over the past 19 months and transmitted them in redacted form to the domestic terrorism operational unit at FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, without a subpoena.

It was done outside the legal process and without probable cause,” alleged one of the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

“Facebook provides the FBI with private conversations which are protected by the First Amendment without any subpoena.”

These private messages then have been farmed out as “leads” to FBI field offices around the country, which subsequently requested subpoenas from the partner US Attorney’s Office in their district to officially obtain the private conversations that Facebook already had shown them.

But when the targeted Facebook users were investigated by agents in a local FBI field office, sometimes using covert surveillance techniques, nothing criminal or violent turned up.

14/09/2022

With inflation still raging, brace for a ‘hard-landing’ recession as the Fed spikes interest rates further

Consumer prices surged again last month — they’re now up 8.3% over last year. But what do you expect? President Joe Biden and Congress have done zilch to stem the tide and instead have kept fueling it.

That’s left the job to the Federal Reserve, which will now have to risk a painful “hard landing” recession to rein in runaway inflation.

Last month Biden boasted that the economy had “0% inflation” in July, though prices were up 8.5% over a year earlier, near the worst in 40 years. He and his supporters tried to pretend the crisis was over, or at least easing.

Yet figures Tuesday from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show they’re actually still rising and up more than economists expected, despite falling gasoline costs — themselves the result of Americans driving less thanks to (you guessed it) . . . higher gas prices.

Food prices rose 11.4% in the last year; electric bills surged 15.8%; piped gas, 33%. A new car will run you 10.1% more, on average. And on and on — with no end in sight.

06/08/2022

The Inflation Reduction Act would double IRS agents and audits — but the superrich aren’t the real targets

The Manchin-Schumer “Inflation Reduction Act,” which could clear the Senate this weekend, is supposed to raise tens of billions of dollars by adding $80 billion to the IRS budget and hiring as many as 80,000 more auditors and agents.

The plan is estimated to double the number of Americans audited each year. To quote the Church Lady from “Saturday Night Live”: “Well, isn’t that special?”

Most of the money raised from these audits won’t come from the superrich or multibillion-dollar corporations — both well-stocked with accountants and tax attorneys to fight IRS allegations.

Small-business owners and upper-middle-income workers will likely be the targets. The woman who runs an accounting firm or a restaurant won’t have the resources to fight the government in tax court.

18/07/2022

Every one of the Uvalde cop cowards should be fired – they’ve shamed their badges and their country

It’s shocking enough to learn there were nearly 400 armed law enforcement officers at Robb Elementary School by the time one lone deranged shooter had spent 77 minutes obliterating 19 young children and two teachers.

“The only one way to stop a bad guy with a gun IS A GOOD GUY WITH A GUN,” tweeted the NRA last year.

How hollow that always disingenuous claim looks today when we learn 376 “good guys with guns” — including 149 Border Patrol officers, 91 members of the state Department of Public Safety, 14 from the Department of Homeland Security, 25 from the Uvalde Police Department, 16 from the San Antonio Police Department and 16 from the Uvalde County Sheriff’s Office — couldn’t collectively summon the courage, sense of duty or basic humanity to charge into that classroom and kill one pathetic shooter armed with an AR-15.

As Texas Tribune journalist Zach Despart tweeted, there was a bigger force there than the entire garrison that defended the Alamo.

27/06/2022

Airlines got $50 billion in pandemic relief — but are still screwing Americans

If you’ve flown recently, or attempted to, it might have gone something like this: Your 1 p.m. flight became a 5 p.m. flight became a midnight flight before being summarily canceled. No explanation is given. The next flights out are already fully booked, but they have a middle seat with two stopovers leaving next week if that still works for you.

We’ve put up with so much from airlines. Food on airplanes is now limited to crackers and a shot glass of soda. We pay exorbitant amounts to check baggage. Only some people get to bring a carry-on bag on the plane. We pay to choose our seat. A seat, by the way, that is designed for someone who is 4’8” and 95 pounds. They’ve tortured us in a variety of ways.

According to FlightAware, a website that tracks flight cancellations and delays, there were 1,629 delays and 631 cancellations “within, into, or out of the United States” just Sunday. This was only by noon. Cancellations and delays become more likely as the day progresses.

Why are these frequent delays happening? Airlines cite post-pandemic demand being high. That’s probably true, but people are excitedly booking seats on flights that allegedly exist only to have them not exist when it’s time to travel. That’s not the fault of demand.

Airlines have an abundance of other reasons. They blame “understaffing at the Federal Aviation Administration.” They point the finger at “weather” or “unscheduled absences among staff.”

Then there’s the pilot shortage. Why would there be a pilot shortage, the average flyer screams into the void. In one of the dumbest moves possible, pilots were encouraged to retire early to avoid being laid off during the pandemic.

21/06/2022

The Fed’s cure for inflation is a major punch in the gut

If you think runaway inflation is brutal, wait until you get hit by the cure.

Last week the Federal Reserve raised the interest rate on money it lends to other banks by .75%, the biggest hike in three decades. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the hike is necessary to rein in skyrocketing inflation.

He’s planning more hikes in the coming months. They’ll lead to increased interest charges on credit cards and higher rates on home-equity loans, car loans and mortgages. It’s a punch in the gut for people who need to borrow.

Get ready for the interest rates on your credit cards to top a budget-busting 20% two monthly statements from now — up from a current average of 14.6%.

If you’re shopping for a home or a car, adjust your expectations downward. Whatever you thought you could afford, you’ll now be able to afford less because monthly payments will include significantly higher interest costs.

The Federal Reserve has no choice but to act. In fact, it waited too long: The Fed’s mission is to maintain price stability and full employment; inflation hit a new, 40-year high last week.

Inflation is partly global, but in the United States it’s significantly worse than in other developed countries, a San Francisco Federal Reserve report found. Excessive government spending has made the nation awash in cash.

21/06/2022

Who is Xavier Musk, Elon Musk's transgender child who wants to change name to Vivian?

Billionaire Elon Musk’s transgender daughter has petitioned a California court to change her name and gender, according to reports.

Vivian, 18, who was born Xavier, announced her decision to change her gender and famous surname in order to lose any association with the Tesla and SpaceX founder.

15/06/2022

As the Gateway Pundit reported, at least 19 major fires, including this recent incident, have erupted at food industry facilities and plants over the past six months. All of the fires have been officially listed as accidental or inconclusive.

Below is the updated list of U.S. plants that have been destroyed, damaged or impacted by “accidental fires,” disease, or general causes.

15/06/2022

Biden’s denials on the economy assure Americans more pain down the road

In a fresh sign that inflation won’t abate soon, the Producer Price Index, which logs business costs, soared 10.8% over last year — close to the record high set in 1981. Those increases mean yet higher future prices for consumers.

Even President Joe Biden now admits, “We’re gonna live with this inflation for a while.” Yet he won’t acknowledge his own role, and fellow Democrats’, in fueling the crisis. Or that Dem ideology precludes them from taking key steps to tame the beast.

12/06/2022

Donald Trump needs a new tune — it’s time to move from old grievances

The other aim of the hearings is to put a target on Donald Trump’s back. He is Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s white whale and she would like nothing more than to lock him up to humiliate him and make sure he doesn’t run again in 2024.

Coming more than 500 days after the appalling attack on the Capitol, the bid to paint Trump as the mastermind of an attempted coup fell far short of convincing despite the fact that Pelosi devised a one-sided presentation. And with this being the only prime-time hearing scheduled before the committee’s September report, it is unlikely she would hold back any bombshell evidence of Trump’s guilt.

Certainly Trump doesn’t think he’s in danger.

He may not have committed a crime, but there is plenty wrong with what Trump said and did. The long list begins with his too-hot speech that January morning, his public and private demands that then-Vice President Mike Pence overturn the election and his delay in telling his rampaging supporters to leave the Capitol.

10/06/2022

Groceries +11.9% y/y -->Biggest inc. since 1979
Chicken +17.4% ->Largest ever
Restaurants +9% -> Largest ever
Fuel oil +107% ->Largest ever
Electricity +12% ->Largest since '06
Rent +5.2% ->Largest since 1987
Airfare +37.8% ->Largest since 1980
Services +5.7% ->Largest since 1990

US inflation resurged in May, defying hopes price pressures would slow, and posting the largest increase since December 1981 as Americans continue to shell out ever more for food and gas, according to data released Friday

10/06/2022

Biden approval sinks to 22% among young adults, 24% among Hispanics: poll

Approval of President Biden’s job performance slipped to just 33% in a poll released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University — as even key Democratic voting blocs such as young people and racial minorities give the president a big thumbs-down.

The survey, conducted June 3-6, found that 22% of Americans ages 18-34 approve of Biden’s performance — the lowest rating of any age group. Just 24% of Hispanic voters and 49% of black voters said they approve of Biden’s work.

06/06/2022

NY already has powerful laws to prevent gun violence — but the state isn’t implementing them

After the Parkland, Fla., high-school shooting, the Legislature enacted the Extreme Risk Protection Order law that lets a state judge issue an order barring an individual from buying fi****ms. That red-flag order would turn up on a background check if the person attempts to buy a gun.

The 18-year-old Buffalo shooter should never have been allowed to purchase a gun, let alone an AR-15-style weapon, and the court could have been petitioned to take away his guns once he did buy them.

The law was specifically designed for a person like him. It should have prevented the butchery from ever happening. It didn’t.

27/05/2022

Opinion: Our greatest public health crisis? The angry young American male

Of course it’s happened again.

How could it not? After every one of these school massacres, the latest always seeming more horrific and unthinkable than the last, we vow: Never again.

Yet we do nothing.

Gun control is necessary, of course — the idea that someone just old enough to vote can legally purchase assault rifles is insane — but lawmakers, public health officials and Americans ourselves have a greater, more complicated crisis to address.

We are continuing to create, more than 20 years after Columbine, young male mass shooters who target schoolchildren

19/05/2022

Americans care more about Depp vs. Heard trial than war, abortion, inflation

Americans are grappling with soaring inflation, the ongoing pandemic and the likely overturn of Roe v. Wade — but they are interested in one issue above all else.

The blockbuster defamation trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard is currently generating more social media engagement than any other topic, according to data from media monitoring platform NewsWhip.

08/05/2022

Justice Thomas on SCOTUS decisions: People need to "live with outcomes we don’t agree with"

Justice Clarence Thomas said people must “live with outcomes we don’t agree with” or the judiciary would be threatened, citing recent Supreme Court events as “one symptom of that.”

While speaking to judges and lawyers at the 11th Circuit Judicial Conference in Atlanta on Friday, Thomas said he was growing concerned about declining respect for governmental institutions and the rule of law.

03/05/2022

NASA to launch naked pictures of humans to space in hope of ‘attracting aliens’

NASA scientists plan to launch pictures of naked humans into space in the hope of luring aliens to us.

The depictions will also include an invitation to respond should an intelligent alien race find the space nudes.

Fortunately, the hypothetical aliens shouldn’t be too shocked by the unsolicited nudes.

The pictures aren’t graphic photographs of naked humans but a drawing of a naked man and a woman next to a depiction of DNA.

The man and woman are waving in an attempt to look more inviting.

29/04/2022

Air France pilots almost crash Boeing 777 during landing scare

The pilots of an Air France flight from New York to Paris who struggled to control the plane before landing were engaged in a kind of tug-of-war – apparently unaware of each other’s inputs at the time, according to a report.

The Boeing 777 with 177 passengers onboard was cleared to land at Charles de Gaulle Airport on April 5 when an air-traffic controller heard the pilots struggling as an alarm blared in the background.

25/04/2022

Trump says he won't return to Twitter even with Elon Musk in charge

Former President Donald Trump said on Monday that he won’t return to his former favorite social media site if new owner Elon Musk lifts Twitter’s controversial permanent ban against him.

Trump told Fox News that he planned to instead use his own fledging Truth Social app, which launched in February, because his platform is “much better” than Twitter.

23/04/2022

Why French voters could elect a female Trump, far-right Marine LePen

Marine Le Pen, president of France? Just five years ago, that was unimaginable. Now, as France’s presidential elections close on April 24, the impossible has become a distinct possibility.

Le Pen is currently polling at 43-45% behind President Emmanuel Macron. With such a small margin of error, anything could happen.

23/04/2022

Four things I know for sure:
1. Wars haven’t brought peace.
2. Vaccines haven’t brought health.
3. Both continue to make a select group of greedy materialists filthy rich.
4. For our children, we need to stop playing their game.

21/04/2022

Charles Mingus is still the great American rebel, 100 years on

Charles Mingus, born 100 years ago Friday, was jazz’s ultimate firebrand. As an African American artist, he gave no quarter to the establishment in the 1960s. One of this country’s greatest composers, Mingus could also lead a band like a peerless field general.

The artistic and social polemicist is rarely cited as a member of the inner circle of the jazz Hall of Fame, which features the likes of Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane. Now’s the time for a redressing.

21/04/2022

It's been 6 years since the world lost . Today, we remember the icon for the way he transformed the music industry.

21/04/2022

Photos of Johnny Depp 'passed out,' co***ne shown in Amber Heard trial

A photo of Johnny Depp’s co***ne stash and a humiliating image of him “passed out” emerged in court Thursday as attorneys for his ex-wife Amber Heard grilled him on his alcohol and drug use.

The Virginia jury was shown an image taken in March 2013 that showed Depp’s party supplies strewn across a table — complete with whisky, lines of co***ne, wine and even a Keith Richards CD.

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