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Sunday, May 5, 2019

Didn't we see this movie?





Nancy Pelosi fears Trump won't 'respect the election' if he loses


This is rich coming from her. This bitch and the rest of her party haven't 'respected/accepted the result of the last election' and they're worried about 2020???

Right now, with just 18 months until the 2020 election, Trump is on an undeniable economic roll that supports his election promise to ‘Make America Great Again.’

If he continues to financially fire up the US economy he may win by a landslide. Maybe I'm too optimistic... he'll never win NY and CA no matter what he does. So the $64,000 question is why would you throw a monkey wrench into a thriving economy by ousting Trump for Biden, Bernie, Beto, Booker, Buttigieg, and the rest of the Class B actors? It makes no sense. You can take this to the bank. If a Dem takes the WH they'll destroy everything Trump created.



Nancy Pelosi is already anticipating that Trump will not be gracious in defeat if he loses the 2020 presidential election by a slim margin. 

Speaking to the New York Times, the Speaker of the House says that the Democrats need to win by a landslide so Trump will step down from the presidency without challenging the results. 

'If we win by four seats, by a thousand votes each, he's not going to respect the election,' Pelosi says. 'We have to inoculate against that, we have to be prepared for that.' 

(She may be talking code for the Deep State rigging the election. It wouldn't  be a far stretch)

It would not be unlike Trump, who - even in victory - claimed during the 2016 presidential election that 'millions of people' illegally voted for opponent Hillary Clinton. 



Nancy Pelosi says that Trump won't 'respect the election' if he loses by a small margin in 2020


Fear, not Nancy. Trump will not lose by a small margin. Quite the contrary. 

Actually...thanks to you and the rest of the Democratic dogs Trump owes you a debt of gratitude.





'He would poison the public mind. He would challenge each of the races; he would say ''you can't seat these people,''' she added.

Ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, Trump preemptively warned against 'illegal voting.' 

Democrats picked up a sweeping 40 seats in the 2018 midterms - the largest Democratic House gain since 1974 - to which Pelosi said, 'We had to win.' 

'Imagine if we hadn't won - oh, don't even imagine. So, as we go forward, we have to have the same approach.'

The House Speaker offered suggestions on how the Democrats can secure the presidency: 'Own the center-left, own the mainstream.

'Our passions were for health care, bigger paychecks, cleaner government - a simple message.

'We did not engage in some of the other exuberances that exist in our party,' she said, referring to some of the 22 Democratic candidates with leftist ideology of Medicare for all, the Green New Deal and impeaching Trump. 

Pelosi has suggested that that the best way to get rid of Trump is through 2020 - not necessarily impeachment. 

However just this week, Pelosi declared that Trump 'demonstrated on a daily basis his obstruction of justice.'

The Speaker has insisted the door is neither open nor closed to impeachment, which would be unlikely to remove Trump from office. 

Presidential contenders Elizabeth Warren and Beto O'Rourke are among those calling for impeachment proceedings to begin. 


And just Friday, Senator Kamala Harris called on the Department of Justice's inspector general to probe whether President Trump urged Attorney General William Barr to investigate his opponents.









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Saturday, May 4, 2019

CNN doesn't have a lock on fake news




The proof is in the pudding.


As you can see he has a special talent for getting things ass backwards...


It's hard to believe Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman who predicted a 'Trump Market Crash' still writes for the NYT's. His statement blinded by his loathing of Trump (facts are facts bullshit is bullshit) could not be more removed from the truth. The job reports, growing GDP, lowest unemployment (3.6%) since 1969, stock market through the roof, is a 180 from his divine prophecy. In fact, he's so far off the mark his credentials as a Nobel Prize-winning economist HAVE TO COME INTO QUESTION!

This is a recent article he wrote for the NYT's on 4-4-2019. Not only is he bias... I truly believe he's insane!



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Economic experts don’t get much more expert than Paul Krugman.

The current ‘Distinguished Professor of Economics at City University of New York’ is so eminent in his field that he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2008.

He’s written 27 books on economic matters, published over 200 scholarly articles, and penned several hundred more columns for the New York Times, Fortune and Slate.

So it’s probably fair to surmise, as many do, that Mr. Krugman might be the smartest economist in the world.

That’s why people were so desperate to know his immediate reaction to Donald Trump winning the 2016 election.

He was unequivocal: this was a catastrophe of almost Biblical proportions.

‘It really does now look like President Donald J. Trump,’ Krugman wrote in a blog for the NYT posted at 12.42am, ‘and markets are plunging. When might we expect them to recover? Frankly, I find it hard to care much, even though this is my specialty. The disaster for America and the world has so many aspects that the economic ramifications are way down my list of things to fear. Still, I guess people want an answer: If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.’



After two-and-a-half years of President Trump, the US economy is powering away and smashing records as it surges 





Today, it was revealed that 263,000 new jobs were added in April, massively higher than what was forecast. Unemployment fell to 3.6%, the lowest number since 1969

Poor Krugman, whose sneering loathing for Trump knows no bounds, was almost inconsolable as he predicted financial Armageddon:

‘Under any circumstances, putting an irresponsible, ignorant man who takes his advice from all the wrong people in charge of the nation with the world’s most important economy would be very bad news. What makes it especially bad right now, however, is the fundamentally fragile state much of the world is still in, eight years after the financial crisis. Now comes the mother of all adverse effects and what it brings with it is a regime that will be ignorant of economic policy and hostile to any effort to make it work. So we are probably looking at a global recession, with no end in sight.’

Other economic experts agreed with Krugman.


‘Under Trump, I would expect a protracted recession to begin within 18 months,’ declared former Clinton and Obama chief economist Larry Summers.


‘Trump would likely cause the stock market to crash and plunge the world into recession,’ asserted Simon Johnson, MIT economics professor.

The Washington Post entitled an editorial: ‘A President Trump could destroy the world economy.’

As predictions go, these are now all right up there with the ones confidently insisting Special Counsel Robert Mueller would find Trump guilty of Russian collusion.

Because none of them actually transpired.

Indeed, the complete opposite has happened.

After two-and-a-half years of President Trump, the US economy is, in fact, powering away and smashing records as it surges.

Today, it was revealed that 263,000 new jobs were added in April, massively higher than what was forecast.

Unemployment fell to 3.6%, the lowest number since 1969.

America now has record low African America, Hispanic and Asian unemployment, the lowest unemployment rate for women since 1953, and the quickest wage growth for workers in 10 years.



Economic experts don’t get much more expert than Paul Krugman (pictured). The current ‘Distinguished Professor of Economics at City University of New York’ is so eminent in his field that he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2008 – but his prediction about Trump couldn’t have been more wrong

This comes after a whole week of other stunningly good economic news for Trump.

Last Friday, it was announced that first-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 3.2%, after widespread predictions of just 2.3%.

On Wednesday, the US stock markets that Paul Krugman said would never recover hit record highs.

And yesterday, CNN published a new poll revealing Trump’s economic approval rating had hit a new high of 56% including double-digit increases amongst those under 35 (up 16 points) non-whites (up 13pts), independents (up 11pts) women (up 10pts) and even Democrats (up 10pts).

With today’s jobs results, it’s reasonable to expect all Trump’s economic approval ratings to soar even higher.

And all this spells very BAD news for the Democrats because good economies win elections as reliably as bad economies lose them.

It was Bill Clinton’s former strategist James Carville who famously planned his boss’s 1992 win over sitting president George H. Bush with the words: ‘It's the economy, stupid.’

America was in recession in 1992, and Clinton unseated Bush by promising to bring the country back out of it.

Like Ronald Reagan before him, Clinton then won re-election on the back of a strong economy – despite both presidencies being engulfed by scandal in their first terms.

The message is clear: get the economy right and Americans will forgive you almost anything. Get it wrong, and they’ll kick you out.

Right now, with just 18 months until the 2020 election, President Trump is on an undeniable economic roll that supports his election promise to ‘Make America Great Again.’

And that should put the fear of God into Democrats, who are still reeling from Trump being cleared of collusion.

While they continue to pathetically and pointlessly stamp their feet and scream bloody murder at not getting what they want, like toddlers who’ve had their rattles taken away, Trump’s laughing all the way to the electoral bank.

Even worse, the Democrat party is being dragged ever further into the socialist electoral abyss by media-hogging young firebrands such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez whose economic policies like the Green New Deal would bankrupt America faster than Trump can tweet ‘SAD!’

You only have to look at the wreckage of Venezuela to see how Trump would exploit any whiff of the ‘socialist dream’ in a 2020 opponent.

If enough dumb, deluded Democrats decide to commit further political suicide by pushing for Trump to now be impeached, it would almost certainly backfire horrendously just as the Republican attempt to impeach Clinton over Monica Lewinsky made him massively more popular.

Nothing will annoy voters more than a bogus, nakedly partisan attempt to unseat a President who for all his inflammatory rhetoric and tweeting is boosting their wallets and getting them back to work.

And the big picture statistics are all on Trump’s side.

Since 1900, there have been 19 presidents who ran for re-election and only four lost.

In almost every case, the economy was a large factor.

If Trump continues to financially fire up the US in the way he’s doing, then we will see him winning again, perhaps even by a landslide, and chortling ‘The economy, stupid’ as Paul Krugman writes another tear-stained blog telling us the world has just ended – again. 

The economists must truly know cutting taxes, regulations, and low-interest rates benefit the economy. But by God don't let that get in the way of their liberal hatred of Trump!









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Thursday, April 25, 2019

Joe Biden Launches 2020 Presidential Campaign




His campaign slogan:




Former Vice President Joe Biden formally declared his candidacy for president Thursday, launching his third bid for the Democratic nomination.

“We are in the battle for the soul of this nation,” he said in the video announcement. “If we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation. And I cannot stand by and watch that happen.”

Biden attempted a presidential run twice before. He ran for the Democratic nomination in 1988, vying to become the youngest president since John F. Kennedy. Although a strong candidate, Biden dropped out of the race after instances of plagiarism and mistruths regarding his academic credentials came to light.

The Delaware politician also pursued a bid for the presidency in 2008, 20 years after his first attempt. Unlike his first go, Biden was overshadowed by his high-profile challengers such as former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. 

He withdrew from the 2008 race after a poor performance at the Iowa caucuses, however, months later he confirmed he would be Obama’s running mate. Biden was sworn in as the 47th vice president to the United States after Obama won the presidency.

(How could Barry resist after Biden paid him this compliment!)

“Obama is the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”

Biden was eyeing another run at the presidency and was largely seen as a frontrunner in the 2016 Democratic playing field following Obama’s final term as president. He ultimately decided against running after the untimely death of his eldest son.

After leaving the office of the vice president, Biden refused to comment on whether he would be ruling out a run for the presidency in 2020, igniting further speculation of his presidential ambitions.

He referred to himself as the most “qualified person” to take on President Donald Trump during the next election in December 2018.

“I’ll be as straight with you as I can. I think I’m the most qualified person in the country to be president,” Biden said at the time. “The issues that we face as a country today are the issues that have been in my wheelhouse, that I’ve worked on my whole life.”






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Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Social Security won’t be able to pay full benefits by 2035



A rather disturbing article to say the least. Especially in view of the swelling population of illegals and their kids which is costing American taxpayers $135 billion a year and that was in 2017. God knows what it is now the totals are all over the map. I used a middle of the road figure from the Washington Examiner. So Trump's wall at $5.7 billion could potentially shift $129.3 billion to help fund SS. But Democrats would rather see SS go belly up than bring any pain to their precious 'undocumented Americans'. Even Stevie Wonder could see the benefit of ridding ourselves of illegals!

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If Congress doesn’t act soon, tens of millions of Americans will only receive about three-quarters of their Social Security benefits when they retire.

Social Security’s trust funds will be tapped out by 2035, according to an annual report released Monday by trustees of the government’s two largest entitlement programs, the other being Medicare. That’s one year later than last year’s report projected.

The new projection doesn’t mean retirees will no longer get checks in 16 years. But the program will at that point only have enough revenue coming in to pay three-quarters of promised benefits through the end of 2093.

The trustees urged lawmakers to act quickly to assure Americans they’ll be able to get their full retirement benefits.

“Lawmakers have a broad continuum of policy options that would close or reduce the long-term financing shortfall of both programs,” wrote Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin along with three other trustees, including Alex Azar, secretary of Health and Human Services, in their report to Congress.

But lawmakers have long punted on addressing Social Security problems, which would likely entail raising payroll taxes, curtailing benefits or some combination of both.

During the 2016 campaign, President Donald Trump said he wouldn’t touch Social Security. He didn’t believe he’d need to since his plan to boost economic growth to at least 4% would take care of Social Security’s long-term solvency.

The strong economy has not mitigated the entitlement’s fiscal issues. And the federal government’s deficit has grown, in part because of the 2017 Republican tax cuts.

Also, for the first time since 1982, Social Security’s total cost is expected to exceed its total income in 2020 and continue that way through 2093. This is two years later than projected in last year’s report.

The program would be financed with a combination of interest income and drawing down on the trust funds’ assets until 2035 when the reserves are depleted. Social Security’s costs are expected to rise for the next 20 years as the large Baby Boom generation retires and then remain fairly constant.

At the end of 2018, the Social Security program provided benefits to about 63 million people, mainly retired workers, but also their dependents and their survivors, as well as disabled workers and their dependents.

In terms of Medicare, which covers nearly 60 million Americans, the trustees project that the trust fund for Part A, which covers hospital and nursing home costs for seniors, will be depleted in 2026, the same as last year’s projections. It will then only be able to cover a large share — but not all — of the benefits.

The trust funds for Medicare Part B, which covers doctors’ visits and outpatient services, and Part D, which offers prescription drugs coverage, will remain adequately financed into the “indefinite future.” They are paid for by a combination of enrollees’ premiums, which covers about a quarter of the cost, and money from general federal revenue. The law requires automatic financing of these benefits.

Medicare’s future has become a central focus of the 2020 presidential campaign, with several Democratic candidates looking to expand it to younger Americans or to create a universal health care system called Medicare for All.

Trump administration officials and Republican lawmakers took the opportunity to blast the idea of broadening Medicare in their comments on the report.

“Instead of trying to expand Medicare into a universal entitlement that even covers wealthy Americans of working age, as some have proposed, we need to fulfill Medicare’s promise to our seniors,” Azar said, noting that the President wants to extend Medicare’s solvency by lowering prescription drug costs and basing provider payments on value rather than on services rendered.

Government watchdogs urged Congress policymakers to set aside their partisan differences and protect benefits for current and future retirees.

“Efforts should be taken now and phased in over time to slow the growth of health costs in Medicare and restore sustainable solvency to Social Security,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. “But every day that passes, the problem gets bigger and the solutions become more difficult to implement.”




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Monday, April 22, 2019

290 vs 49



Sri Lanka blames Islamists for Easter attacks as death toll hits 290

Update:
Death toll rises to 321 and still climbing. ISIS claims responsibility in retaliation for New Zealand.

The attacks were the worst ever carried out against Sri Lanka's small Christian minority, who make up just seven percent of the 21 million population.

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New Zealand after the attack on Muslims.





Is it me or did you notice the Sri Lanka massacre (killing almost 6 times more people) did not receive near the notoriety, the worldwide outrage, or the moral support, like that of the 49 Muslims who were killed in New Zealand? Even Barry and Killary who were outspoken about the New Zealand killings didn't say boo about the Christian massacre in  Sri Lanka... or as the left now calls them 'Easter worshippers'.

WaPo and the rest of the MSM reporting on Sri Lanka ...


Amidst the magnitude of this massacre, all they could come up with... is hammering Trump for a miswritten tweet? This is what they stoop too?


Are you kidding me!!!

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Security personnel inspect St Sebastian's Church in Negombo a day after it was hit in a series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka


Sri Lanka said Monday it believed a local Islamist extremist group was behind deadly suicide bomb blasts that killed nearly 300 people as it announced a national state of emergency beginning midnight.

Government spokesman Rajitha Senaratne said investigators were looking at whether the National Thowheeth Jama'ath (NTJ) group had "international support" for the deadly Easter Sunday attacks on churches and luxury hotels.

Wary of stirring ethnic and religious tensions, officials have provided few details about 24 people arrested since the attacks.

Not much is known about the NTJ, but documents seen by AFP show Sri Lanka's police chief issued a warning on April 11, saying a "foreign intelligence agency" had reported the group was planning attacks on churches and the Indian high commission.

The group has previously been linked to the vandalizing of Buddhist statues.

The death toll from Sunday's attacks rose dramatically Monday to 290 -- including dozens of foreigners -- in the country's worst attacks for over a decade.

More than 500 people were injured in the assault that saw suicide bombers hit three high-end hotels popular with foreign tourists, and three churches, unleashing carnage in Colombo and beyond.

Two additional blasts were triggered as security forces carried out raids searching for suspects.

As tension remained high, police on Monday said they had found 87 bomb detonators -- 12 of them scattered on the ground at a bus station and another 75 in a nearby garbage dump.

- State of emergency -

The president's office said a state of emergency "limited to counterterrorism regulations only" would be introduced from midnight Monday (1830 GMT).

"This is being done to allow the police and the three forces to ensure public security," the statement said, referring to the army, navy and air force.

The government information department said a new curfew would run from 8:00 pm (1430 GMT) on Monday until 4:00 am on Tuesday.

The US State Department, meanwhile, warned of further attacks in a revised travel advisory, urging increased caution and adding: "Terrorist groups continue plotting possible attacks in Sri Lanka."

The attacks were the worst ever carried out against Sri Lanka's small Christian minority, who make up just seven percent of the 21 million population.

At least 37 foreigners were among the dead, citizens of India, Britain, Turkey, Australia, Japan and Portugal, as well as a dual US-British passport holder.

The churches targeted included St Sebastian's in Negombo, north of the capital, which was surrounded by security forces on Monday.

Dozens of people were killed at the church, including friends of 16-year-old Primasha Fernando, who was at her home nearby when the suicide bomber struck.

"When I got to the church there were people crying and screaming," she told AFP.

"I saw bodies everywhere," she added in tears. "I saw parents carrying their dead babies. I saw dead people who had hair but didn't have faces anymore."

"Hands and legs were separate from bodies. There was blood everywhere too. The smell was so strong it made me feel sick."

The church's roof was largely blown out and pews splintered. The floor was strewn with roof tiles and shards of glass.

- Memories of civil war -

Ethnic and religious violence has plagued Sri Lanka for decades, with a 37-year conflict with Tamil rebels followed by an upswing in recent years in clashes between the Buddhist majority and Muslims.

Dilip Fernando, who could not get into St Sebastian's because the church was already packed when he arrived, said the Christian community would not be intimidated.

"We are not afraid. We won't let the terrorists win, no way," the 66-year-old told AFP outside the devastated building.

Two leading Muslim groups issued statements condemning the attacks, with the All Ceylon Jamiyaathuul Ulama, a council of Muslim theologians, urging the "maximum punishment for everyone involved in these dastardly acts."

For many, the blasts stirred painful memories of Sri Lanka's civil war, when bomb attacks were a frequent occurrence.

"The string of blasts brings back memories of the time when we were afraid to go in buses or trains because of parcel bombs," said Malathi Wickrama, a street sweeper in Colombo.

The attacks drew global condemnation, including from US President Donald Trump and the pope.

Premier Wickremesinghe urged people to "hold our unity as Sri Lankans" and pledged to "wipe out this menace once and for all".

The archbishop of Colombo, Malcolm Ranjith, described the attackers as "animals" and called on authorities to "punish them mercilessly".







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