Trump's new nickname for Pete Buttigieg? 'Alfred E. Neuman'

President Trump mocked Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Friday afternoon, comparing the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Ind., to the longtime mascot for Mad magazine.

“Alfred E. Neuman cannot become president of the United States,” the president said, referring to the decades-old Mad character in an interview with Politico.

Think I would have more confidence in Alfred.

"We have a young man, Buttigieg. Boot-edge-edge,” Trump told Politico sarcastically. “He’ll be great representing us against President Xi of China. That’ll be great. I want to be in that room, I wanna watch that one."

BARNEY FWAANK  RAISES BUTTIGIEG, SAYS O'ROURKE MAY BE 'REGRETTING THAT HE'S STRAIGHT

He outta know...

Buttigieg, a relative political newcomer, has surprised many political observers by consistently polling ahead of higher-profile Democrats such as Elizabeth Warren, Beto O'Rourke and Kamala Harris.

Seriously, could you see Buttigieg dealing with the likes of Putin, Kim Jong-un, ISIS...

Buttigieg, who has been mayor of South Bend since 2012, is a former Navy Reserve intelligence officer who served in Afghanistan. He's also a Rhodes scholar and the first openly gay major-party presidential candidate.

Although he has been criticized for his lack of executive experience in running for president, Buttigieg still has more experience than Trump had when he won. The mayor has also been criticized for his youthfulness, which may have been part of the president’s dig in reference to the adolescent-looking Neuman. Buttigieg is just two years older than the 35-year-old age requirement to run for president.

When asked about Trump's insult, Buttigieg claimed he'd never heard of the Neuman character.

"I’ll be honest. I had to Google that," Buttigieg said. "I guess it’s just a generational thing. I didn’t get the reference. It's kind of funny, I guess.

"But he’s also the president of the United States and I’m surprised he’s not spending more time trying to salvage this China deal,” Buttigieg said in reference to Friday’s trade talks with China.

Trump's new nickname for Pete Buttigieg? 'Alfred E. Neuman'

Biden's 4th at bat is gonna be another strike out

Joe Biden Claims U.S. ‘Obligation’ to Give Illegal Aliens Free Health Care

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This is the death knell for Biden. Instead of separating himself from the rest of the idiot Dems running for the WH... he leads the pack! Certainly, no Republican or sane American, by that I mean Independents and moderate Democrats, are going to swallow giving illegals free health care.

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The leading Democrat candidate made his pronouncement at a campaign stop in Los Angeles, California, on Wednesday.

Replying to a reporter who asked if illegals who are “law abiding” deserve federal benefits, Biden eagerly agreed.

“I think that anyone who is in a situation where they’re in need of health care, regardless of whether they are documented or undocumented, we have an obligation to see that they are cared for,” Biden said. “That’s why I think we need more clinics around the country.”

The former vice president added that we need to “tone down the rhetoric” against illegals and that worries over illegal immigration are meant to “create fear and concern” about “that other, the immigrant.”

Biden has thus far been rather closed-mouth about health care. While he certainly supports Obamacare and an expansion of his former boss’s signature achievement, Biden has not spoken to what sort of plan he prefers as he gears up his campaign for the Democrat nomination for 2020.

Unlike other Democrat candidates, Biden has not endorsed Medicare-for-all but neither has he denounced the idea.

As to illegal aliens, Biden has previously exclaimed that they are “already Americans.”

In a 2014 speech to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C. the then-vice president declared that the millions of illegals in the U.S. are already American citizens.

You know, the 11 million people living in the shadows, I believe they’re already American citizens. Teddy Roosevelt said it better, he said Americanism is not a question of birthplace or creed or a line of dissent. It’s a question of principles, idealism, and character. 

The true context of what he said:

These people are just waiting, waiting for a chance to be able to contribute fully. And by that standard, 11 million are already American.

Biden's 4th at bat is gonna be another strike out

How to pay for college without going broke?

Problem solved without reading the article...

Jeffry and Catherine Vecore didn't make a ton of money, but they used it wisely. Here's how they put all six of their kids through school. 

When her two sons were younger, Sarah McCord says she was a stay-at-home mom. But as soon as her oldest hit high school, she went back to work with one goal in mind: using her pay to cover the kids' college tuition. 

"The cost of school, I think, is exorbitant, and I can’t imagine how (a student) would recoup that if a kid were to finance that on their own,'' says McCord, whose salary from her job at a pharmaceutical company covers her younger son's roughly $17,000 a semester in tuition, room and board. "Entry level salaries just aren't going to make a dent in those payments.''

With Americans carrying $1.57 trillion in outstanding student loan debt, many families and students continue to borrow to cover the ever-escalating costs of college tuition. But some are also figuring out more creative ways to pay for higher education, from crowdfunding to corporate reimbursement programs to stashing cash back from purchases they make every day. 

"As college costs continue to rise and there seems to be no end in sight, the gap is going to get narrower and narrower at the top of who can really even afford this anymore,'' says Susan Dabbar, founder and CEO of Admission Smarts, which helps families navigate the college admissions process, from applications to affordability. "More and more people are going to be looking for all of these different ways...to figure out how are we really going to pay for this.''

So how are you going to pay for college?

Last year, 57% of financial aid funding for undergraduate students came from grants, 34% from loans, 7.9% from education tax benefits and less than 1% from student jobs, says Mark Kantrowitz, publisher and vice president of research for Savingforcollege.com. 

Scholarships, offered by everyone from states to fraternal organizations, can also help cut the cost of tuition. And Jeff Levy, an independent educational consultant says "the most creative way to finance a college education is to find the colleges that are the most generous with financial aid, both need-based and non-need-based.''

The average discount from the published cost of attendance is 44% he says. "So for families who are smart about how to shop for college, they can easily cut the cost ... in half by putting sensible colleges on their child's list.''

But Americans are also saving, utilizing tools like 529 plans, which offer tax advantages to families that invest in stocks and bonds.

"Eighteen percent of children under the age of 18 have 529 plans,'' Kantrowitz says, "a relatively low number but it’s been growing. Every dollar you save is a dollar less you're going to have to borrow.''

How to pay for college without going broke?

Stupidity at it's highest form

Kamala Harris calls for scrapping Trump tax law: 'Get rid of the whole thing'

You would have to be living on Mars to be oblivious to the BOOMING

economy!!! And one of the principal reasons is the Trump tax cuts.

© Getty Kamala Harris calls for scrapping Trump tax law: 'Get rid of the whole thing'

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), a 2020 Democratic presidential contender, called for the total repeal of the 2017 tax reform law Monday, saying the U.S. should "get rid of the whole thing," according to Bloomberg.

Harris made the remarks after an American Federation of Teachers (AFT) event in Detroit, setting her apart from several competitors for the Democratic presidential nomination who have called for only a partial repeal of the GOP-backed law. A total repeal would eliminate some of the law's more popular provisions, such as doubling the standard deduction and increasing the child tax credit, according to the report.

During her speech to the AFT, Harris imagined a critic of her education plan demanding answers on how she would pay for it.

"On Day One, we're going to repeal that tax bill that benefited the top 1 percent and corporations," she said.

Ian Sams, Harris's campaign spokesman, told Bloomberg that the California Democrat would look to replace the 2017 law with the LIFT Act, legislation she has proposed that would involve nearly $3 trillion in refundable tax cuts primarily affecting the middle class.

Before launching her White House run, Harris announced a plan to give working families up to $6,000 annually, echoing a similar proposal by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), which would be paid for by repealing the tax cuts.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) has called for making the law's middle-class tax cuts permanent but repealing its corporate tax cuts, putting the savings toward expanding the earned income tax credit and the child and dependent care tax credit. Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), meanwhile, have proposed rolling back the cuts in support of an expansion of the earned income tax credit.

Stupidity at it's highest form

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.

Didn't we see this movie?