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(12) Thomas Hawk on X: “Look at all of these beautiful Christmas decorations at the Crocker Galleria mall in San Francisco. It’s 4:47 PM and everybody should be shopping and buying Christmas presents for their family, but nobody is in this mall. There are only three stores left that are open here. https://t.co/SvkAK2ImYK” / X
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Nate Silver wonders aloud whether the media and the White House conspired to hide or deflect Biden’s mental decline from voters. His conclusion? It failed to meet the definition of conspiracy. Was it synchronized? Yes. Was there intent to deceiver voters? Absolutely. Was it predictable? Of course. Was the behavior of both the White House and the media deceptive? Not even a question, it was.
But was it a “conspiracy?” No. Long story short, they’re two very different groups with identical goals, but remain at arm’s length. Nothing to see here, move along.
How the Indigo Blob runs a bluff – by Nate Silver
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Poison Pill? The pork packed into the latest continuing resolution is ridiculous. 1) $200B in Social Security benefits for government workers who have not paid into social security. 2) Congressional pay raise. 3) Opt out of Obama Care for Federal Employee Health Care. 4) $50B for Big Pharma 5) Transfer Federally controlled land for RFK Stadium. 6) $10B in aid to Farmers. Basically, Dems are introducing an Omnibus spending bill disguised as a continuing resolution, which will expire in Trump’s first 100 days in office. I would like to see Congress pass a bill that prevents adding provisions to CRs. Congress should not be able to authorize new spending without passing a budget.
Vivek’s thoughts:
I like Vivek’s approach, reducing the 1,574 page bill to just 75 words:
Vivek Ramaswamy on X: “Yes, it *is* possible to enact a simple 1-page Continuing Resolution, instead of 1,500+ page omnibus pork-fest. Here it is. https://t.co/2NBcDXtL03” / X
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I think we’re going to have structurally high inflation and interest rates for quite a while. We’re reshoring much of our manufacturing, and that’s going to require a lot of capital. The returns will have to be high, particularly in an era in which Federal deficits are sky-high and Social Security outlays will skyrocket.
Really, we only have one chance to get out of this alive, and that’s to follow the following formula:
- DOGE needs to be effective. We need to reduce the size of the government and its outlays.
- Reshoring manufacturing needs to be effective. Which means we need to transform white collar workers into blue collar workers. This should work at the young level, could work at the middle age level, unlikely to work at the older level.
- Need to give amnesty to immigrants, expand H1-Bs, close the border and blow the doors off of exports.
- Need to reface the military.
- Need to increase the Social Security age.
- Need to raise taxes at the higher levels; meaning, enact a wealth tax and an estate tax with teeth and reduce income taxes for the lower four quintiles of the population.
- Need to remake Education. I’d keep the DoE and mandate Federal standards. I’d add a lot of classes that either aren’t in school or are no longer in school. Fundamentally, we have the same class lineup our great-great-great grandparents did. We need classes in personal finance, metal and woodworking and other skills immediately applicable, home economics, cooking and nutrition, basic morality, etc.
- BTW, Trump wants to abolish the debt ceiling. Right now, interest on our debt doubled from $345 bils. in 2020 to $870 bils. by the end of this year. This increases the percentage of our debt from 2.4% of GDP to 3.1% of GDP that solely goes to service the debt.
I could go on and on. Otherwise, we’re facing a slow, rolling crumbling of our country.
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AOC lost her bid for the senior position on the House Ways & Means Committee to 74 year old Gerry Connolly, by a 34-27 vote. Frankly, the fact that she received 27 votes frightens the heck out of me.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Suffers Painful Career Blow at the Hands of Her Fellow House Democrats
How did this happen? Pelosi and other old Democrats don’t care for the young’uns, who haven’t paid their dues and — oh yeah — the oldsters like hanging onto power. Just ask Uncle Joe:
Pelosi feud with AOC shows cracks in support for young Democrats challenging leadership
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MSNBC columnist Zeeshan Aleem says Harris is “particularly ill-suited” for a California Governor run in 2026. Says it is a populist era and the party would be making a mistake. Says she’s “exactly the wrong kind of person to resurface as the Democratic Party faces an identity crisis.”
‘Ill-suited’: Columnist warns Kamala Harris against making ‘mistake’ in 2026
Says the Dems need to authentically brandish economic populism and win back working class voters.
I have news for Zeeshan. She’s right about Harris, and let’s say not wrong about the stated need. But it isn’t going to be easy. The Dems have turned and run from the working class and towards the elites since Bill Clinton. It’s generational. They figured they cornered the market on rich people; e.g., Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and the pseudo-elite including lawyers, academics and the media.
They abandoned and took for granted working class people, the poor and minorities; all of whom have figured out that the Dems haven’t cared about them since Lyndon Johnson.
Sunny Hostin: “Maybe it’s time for Democrats to do a little bit of this post-mortem.” This from the woman who repeatedly called white women who didn’t go to college “uneducated.” And she finally tumbles to the threat that unchecked immigration represents.
Back to Harris, the ultimate DEI hire. I wonder how Biden felt about being cornered into naming her as his VP?
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Harris would have a lead in the California governor’s race, poll finds – Los Angeles Times
72% of Dems would support Harris, 38% of independents would support Harris, and 8% of highly misguided Republicans would support Harris.
Minor dichotomy…she received 59% of California’s votes in the recent presidential run, but only 46% of all voters say they somewhat or very likely support her in a run for Governor in 2026.
This was the article that started it all, a Letter to the Edito:
Kamala Harris for governor of California? We need her back home – Los Angeles Times
The letter had two claims: (1) We need someone with her strength and experience and (2) it would really irritate President Trump.
Which tells you all you need to know about California Democrats.
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Doesn’t surprise me much. The Left regularly coordinates talking points, terminology and specific questions.
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That number includes unauthorized, undocumented aliens of which there are 11 million in the country, per DHS.
BTW, the second-most entertaining number from the Department of Homeland Security is that they substantially encounter and therefore count the vast majority of illegal aliens entering the country, and that they only miss approximately 10% of all aliens crossing into this country. Seriously?
Don’t forget the 2018 study from the three MIT and Yale professors who concluded that the most likely number (six years ag0) was 22.1 million undocumented and even their most conservative estimate was 16.7 million. Their survey results indicated that there could be up to 34 million undocumented aliens in the country:
It was updated several years later at 19.6 million:
Yale Study Finds Twice as Many Undocumented Immigrants as Previous Estimates | Yale Insights
Please note, there have been over 8 million ADDITIONAL undocumented aliens since the timing of those studies.
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Man, that takes some stones. It angered “King” (apparently his chosen nickname, his real name is Vivek) that these peasants dared to contact Stanford to try to get him kicked out of SU based upon SU’s good conduct clause. This after Varga killed the couple, married 38 years with 15 grandkids.
Here’s the opinion. Pretty interesting: Vanga v. Juarez, No. A169427 | Casetext Search + Citator. Basically, the Juarezes made 4 assertions:
- Plaintiff murdered the Juarezes
- Plaintiff was driving while under influence
- Plaintiff attempted to flee the scene
- Plaintiff violated Stanford’s Code of Conduct.
The court found that the first and fourth assertions were merely opinions, within bounds, and essentially so found for the second statement. They also held that defamation occurs if they are stating or implying actual facts capable of being proved true or false. The court basically agreed the third statement was incorrect, but no damages were proved. And they awarded the Juarezes court costs, which was pretty cool.
BTW, King has sued additional members of the family. I suspect those lawsuits will be overturned as well. And what was really reprehensible is that he demanded in the lawsuit that they cease encouraging his criminal prosecution for his criminal behavior.
It gets better.
The facts of the case is that he was speeding, rams into the back of them, his car flips and turns into a fireball. Apparently not intoxicated (though he was arrested for that at first), also resisting arrest and grabbing for the cop’s gun. He’s suing the CHP and the Atwater police for those things, engaging John Burris who represented such luminaries as Barry Bonds, Tupac, Rodney King, etc.
I didn’t see a resolution of his criminal case, filed in Merced County courthouse.
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This article underscores even more the perfidity of the Democrats. Pre-emptive, blanket pardons for people who may have done something wrong at a Federal level. So…basically anyone involved in the anti-Trump conspiracy. Why would they need pardons if they did anything wrong?
Biden White House Weighs Preemptive Pardons for Potential Trump Targets – POLITICO
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Americans do not like Joe Biden’s pardon of Hunter Biden. At all.
Nation strongly rejects Biden’s pardon of son Hunter
To be clear, I never thought the Democrats, at any point and for any reason, held the moral high ground. But this basically ends that stupid fantasy.
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I’m fine with it. If you haven’t done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear. If you’ve misused your position, then you deserve to be the focus of an investigation.
The FBI has been weaponized by the Left for years. Too bad that the tables have turned.
Conspiracy theorist Kash Patel, Trump’s pick to lead FBI, faces Senate blowback | FBI | The Guardian
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I swear, I was thinking the same thing.
W/respect to the Dems losing men, Fetterman says that Democrats were condescending and insulting. And that didn’t work? How utterly counterintuitive…
Fetterman says Democrats lost male voters by being insulting, condescending | Fox News
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Right. Would you rather believe Biden/Harris or your own lying eyes?
Mrs. Mick and I shop regularly. Prices are astronomical. Salaries haven’t budged much. It’s the logical outcome of printing an inordinate amount of money during COVID, which we stockpiled when we couldn’t spend it anyway.
Presto. Ridiculous inflation. And every time I see the official “9% inflation peak” statistic, I just lauuuugh and laaaaaaaaaugh. Because that’s a fiction. I have the same experience that Beeg Dawg has.
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