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I’m 12 years younger than the President, but I can’t possibly keep up with his energy level. So here’s an open thread for comments.
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I think you’ve been on fire lately Steve. Usually this quantity and quality of output is followed by a panhandling drive.
Kellyanne Conway shouldn’t have been sitting on a couch like a 4 year old or Courtney Love.
That said, that the guy who made the remark wouldn’t have dared if it really was Courtney Love.
The media lies, but even some in the liberal media found the flap surrounding this picture to be ridiculous.
the media are filth - any attempt to rationalize their filthy behavior enables their filthinessReplies: @Harry Baldwin
One of my pet theories is that Trump is still genuinely interested in Obama’s birth certificate and ss # and college transcripts, etc.
I further believe that Obama has college essays explaining his biracial and Muslim superiority to hide, which is what drove his whole plan to tap Trump Tower and booby trap the white house and take down Trump before this info gets released.
It’s all about the skeletons in Obama’s closet. And not just the ones from the bathhouse.
The hatred for Trump emanating from Frum, brooks, McMullin, Kristol and others on the “right” could be the subject of a college course.
Steve,
Trump’s staff will have their hands full for a while implementing his immigration policies and economic agenda. But I’d love to hear your thoughts on what policy proposal optimally combines (a) political viability and (b) longterm damage to the Establishment/Cathedral.
Here’s mine: make any student loan over (say) $20k dischargeable in bankruptcy on a going-forward basis, and combine that legislative change with a modest debt-relief package for existing loans.
Making student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy would deal a body blow to the educational indoctrination complex: only economically productive majors would survive in any meaningful numbers. Family formation would also likely accelerate as a consequence, and the legions of debt-burdened baristas who vote left out of resentment would gradually attrit away.
The inhumanity of allowing teenagers to consign themselves to a lifetime of indentured servitude to banks in exchange for degrees they barely understand is self-evident–the moral/emotional case is easy to make and hard to refute. And throwing in the debt-forgiveness element would be a great play for the Bernie crowd.
Anyway, I’m guessing at least a few people with close connections to Trump follow your blog, so crowd-sourcing suggestions could be a good way to get creative ideas into his circle.
Now that everyone's a specialist, we get all kinds of scandal. A philosophy major will understand the reasoning behind ethics; the MBA with a course or two probably will not, nor care much.
Hell, we'll need ethics study in high school, if future startups come from the Jobs/Gates dropout mold.Replies: @Authenticjazzman
I would also add the feature of full recourse to the institutions that received the money for any loan discharged in bankruptcy.
April.
Steve, in that post about your cousin the insatiable hiker, you were the first person to get me thinking about energy as a fundamental, heritable trait on par with intelligence as a determinant of success or failure.
I went on to consider how we have selected the various dog breeds for the same fundamental traits – doggonality/personality (HBD Chick would say ‘dogs are people too’). Border collies versus greyhounds on an item like IQ; Jack Russells versus Newfoundlanders on an item like energy. I came up with a list of a few more man/dog traits. I am convinced that when we find the genes, many will be the same in both species.
And Trump does it all while being physically much larger than Napoleon!
Trump’s High Energy has been impressive, but he needs more than that to pass legislation.
This is lyin Ryan and post turtle McConnell have nothing to present to Trump. Nor do they intend to. You forget the GOP doesn't work for us but for it's owners - Chambers of Commerce, Wall Street and defense contractors.
We're not in the club and this is why they are working against Trump and not doing anything, they are trying to slow walk him into oblivion.
That raycist, homophobic, sexist and anti-environmental monster can’t be stopped…
How about raising the age limit for signing up for non-dischargable loans to 21?
Loans made to people less than 21 should be dischargeable in bankruptcy, even if they are college loans.
Seems fair.
Another thing to get rid of would be "internships". Work for nothing in a big, expensive central business district, just to make elusive contacts in almost impenetrable fields. Those who can afford that are the ones who don't need help.
This would put a big dent in useless degrees, and provide an incentive to collect good data on how graduates actually fare.Replies: @Harry Baldwin
And that would still leave him with the knowledge he has obtained without payment. How does that get repossessed?
Is a poor initial credit rating a sufficient cost to forego an all-expense-paid four years at one of the planet's premier academic institutions, plus a potentially valuable degree?Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Federalist
I get the impression that President Trump likes to run a tight ship.
The teasers page still contains this hilarious (an possibly Freudian) typo:
Emphasis added.
Yeah, I’m fairly large and I’m not that energetic.
Steve, I take this to mean you aren't physically energetic; e.g., several sets of tennis or miles of vigorous hiking wouldn't be something you'd have the energy to do. But the amount of material you read and write is amazing. I know people absorb knowledge more readily when it interests them and you focus on what interests you. Still, I find your output, in both quantity and quality, astonishing.Replies: @The True and Original David
That said, that the guy who made the remark wouldn't have dared if it really was Courtney Love.Replies: @San Fernando Curt, @Desiderius, @The Practical Conservative, @J1234, @anon
Oh, he could have dared with Courtney; she’s a long-gone has-been and has been since her meal ticket mistook a shotgun for a toothbrush. But our crusaders wouldn’t have done so because she’s one of the anointed – a Rebel-Rebel, Rebeldy, Reb, Reb-rebbity, Rebello. That canned awe hasn’t blinked in 60 years.
The Conway Squat is a media fetish; no one else gives a damn. It matters only that it’s another time the public realizes media will hammer everything – everything! – Trump or his minions might do. Our demented press cannot stop cutting its own throat right out in the open. I thought, like everyone else, it was hilarious at first. But now I actually feel sorry for them.
I expect we are in for another episode of “Trump’s Luck” with respect to the wiretapping allegations.
I don’t think Obama fully anticipated the implications of Trump wielding the power of the federal investigative apparatus, even with deep state agents placing landmines along the way.
The question I have been asking myself this weekend: is it too late for Obama to call a truce?
For the good of the nation, I don’t want to see the former President indicted.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/us/politics/trump-russia-associates-investigation.html?_r=0
Speaking of his energy levels, one hour after dropping the Obamagate wiretapping bombshell, Trump was trolling Arnold Schwarzenegger, and by that afternoon, was playing a game of golf.
What on earth is fueling this man?
Cannot be good, or safe, at his age.
He needs to pick his spots a little more, for his own sake.Replies: @Lagertha, @Lagertha
Hatred of Trump; Hatred of Hillary. hatred = a deep and extreme emotional dislike. It can be directed against individuals, groups, entities, objects, behaviors, or ideas. Hatred is often associated with feelings of anger, disgust and a disposition towards hostility.
I would add that hatred is as American as apple pie. America was founded on hatred. From 1610/1620 onward it has been hatred that justifies the ‘city on a hill’ / manifest destiny to take what our leaders want. (Leaders = oligarchs) First, it was the native peoples; then various out siders; then others of color; now the rest of the world that is brave enough to say (or even suggest) no: Venezuela, Ecuador, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina; lately: Russia, China, Iran; maybe India, Indonesia; certainly Duerte’s Philippines … and on and on it goes.
Hatred of everything even to the point of a willingness to have a nuclear holocaust just to keep others (always evil) from having what psychopathic/sociopathic Americans want … especially the elites.
Glad Trump doesn’t drink because his outbursts sound like a guy who drinks.
Trump is sloppy with his choice of words. He should’ve stuck to FISA in his tweets and not tried to morph it into wiretapping. Most msm spent the weekend omitting any mention of FISA from their reports…
This scandal is all about abusing and corrupting the FISA court by Obama administration. That is heinous crime.
What's the difference?Replies: @Lagertha
Why not beat the rush?
What on earth is fueling this man?Replies: @Steve Sailer, @mobi, @Jack Hanson, @wren, @anon, @SteveRogers42, @Lagertha
One golf difference between Trump and Obama is that Trump will often play a few holes then knock off after 90 minutes and get some work done. Obama always played a full 18 or at least a full 9 (presumably so he could submit his score for handicap purposes).
Donald Trump ran his campaign on the premise of making America great again, which in his mind seems to mean vast infrastructure projects, moving factories and jobs back to the heartland, and renegotiating trade deals so that they benefit American citizens. All laudable goals to be sure, and he really wanted to do these things. He’s a builder and a negotiator, and he wanted to make his presidency about building and negotiating on behalf of America.
But no man gets to decide what kind of times he will live in, and Trump’s desires are all very unseasonable, like planting tomatoes in November. What Trump is now learning is that his presidency must concern itself with a business he never intended and which he may find unpleasant. He was elected to crush the globalist Dems and begin work on the American ethno-state.
This really is his mandate; this really is what he was elected for, even though both he and the majority of his voters were only dimly conscious of it, if at all. It is worth mentioning that, with the particular clarity that danger affords, the Democrats and globalists are entirely conscious of it, thus the riots and accusations of racism/sexism/Nazism coming from the Left.
What the American Deep State has been doing these last weeks—i.e. the completely confabulated accusations of Russian hacking of the election—are the proof that the real battle must be fought here. They aren’t going to let up on Trump; they forced the resignation of Flynn and the sidelining of Sessions (who, I might add, didn’t exactly help matters by cucking hard at his press conference, looking like a deer in the headlights and sounding like Mr. Rogers, and recusing himself when he did nothing wrong). If they are allowed to continue this, they will continue chipping away at the Trump administration until they finally fell the man and the movement he unknowingly leads. They have shown that they have the power to continue to frustrate the White Right despite losing the election, even though that means resorting to outright criminal behavior, fake news, lying, illegal wiretaps, suborning government agencies, leaking classified material, and using the news media as a hostile interrogator.
What Trump needs to understand is that the American people elected him not primarily because they wanted better jobs and infrastructure, but because they want all that bullshit to stop. Americans just want to live in a normal, decent country without having to worry about what their government is going to do to them. All the rest of the problems will take care of themselves once the globalists’ tyranny is ended; but what is not yet spoken openly save by a few, is that this means destroying the organized Left.
It means putting people in jail—people like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. It means shutting down FakeNews CNN. It means toppling and deposing the oligarchs in Silicon Valley and Wall Street. It means deporting millions of Mexican illegals. And it means one more thing that Trump will probably find least pleasant of all. It means restoring national solvency by ending entitlements and shutting down the welfare state.
This is going to lose Trump a huge amount of support among Baby Boomers—the largest, wealthiest, and most vocal voting block—because they will be forced into a long-defrayed day of reckoning. In order to make up for this lost support, Trump is going to need our unwavering assistance.
In short, Trump is going to need an army. Will you enlist?
The Flynn and Sessions kerfuffles where huge losses for our side. Hopefully he learned from those.Replies: @Jack Hanson
Yes, this guy can't do it by himself - he's going to need our help and not just votes.
Agree Trump will need help from people here. Agree the Deep State is out to get him. Agree the media plays dirty. But...
Lots of Americans in fact were hoping with his business background he would provide better jobs and infrastructure. Most Americans want him to preserve the welfare state--look at the percentages of people who actually want the ACA repealed. He got points for saying he'd leave Medicare and Social Security alone.
The ex-coal miners in West Virginia and laid-off auto workers in Michigan don't care about New York bankers or San Francisco pervs. They don't like those people, but that's secondary. They want their jobs back, and they want to be safe from crime. And they want the Medicare and SSI they paid into and worked for. Trump didn't need the Republican establishment, so he could avoid the free-marketry that has, IMHO, outlived its usefulness. The market's too free. We have to make it serve America first, rather than the other way around.
Sixty years ago, just about any major would have been economically productive. Large corporations took liberal arts grads and trained them in their business methods. Seemed to work fine.
Now that everyone’s a specialist, we get all kinds of scandal. A philosophy major will understand the reasoning behind ethics; the MBA with a course or two probably will not, nor care much.
Hell, we’ll need ethics study in high school, if future startups come from the Jobs/Gates dropout mold.
Philosophy being a course of study which is almost, without exception, persued by confused neurotics who are trying to "find themselves", or are seeking the non-existant answers for all of the "injustices" of life.
Rational sane people do not not run after elusive " answers" which are never to be found, and were not discovered even by the authors of of the most famous works of philosophy themselves.Authenticjazzman " Mensa" society member since 1973, and pro jazz artist.Replies: @Anon
I would add that hatred is as American as apple pie. America was founded on hatred. From 1610/1620 onward it has been hatred that justifies the 'city on a hill' / manifest destiny to take what our leaders want. (Leaders = oligarchs) First, it was the native peoples; then various out siders; then others of color; now the rest of the world that is brave enough to say (or even suggest) no: Venezuela, Ecuador, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina; lately: Russia, China, Iran; maybe India, Indonesia; certainly Duerte's Philippines ... and on and on it goes.
Hatred of everything even to the point of a willingness to have a nuclear holocaust just to keep others (always evil) from having what psychopathic/sociopathic Americans want ... especially the elites.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Oh, yeah, like the rest of the world had been all cherry tarts and daffodils before that.
That said, that the guy who made the remark wouldn't have dared if it really was Courtney Love.Replies: @San Fernando Curt, @Desiderius, @The Practical Conservative, @J1234, @anon
She was sitting there to get a better angle for a picture. Otherwise Trump would have been obscured.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kellyanne-conway-explains-why-she-was-kneeling-oval-office-couch-n727576
After which you’re permitted to purchase another kind of dischargeable.
Another thing to get rid of would be “internships”. Work for nothing in a big, expensive central business district, just to make elusive contacts in almost impenetrable fields. Those who can afford that are the ones who don’t need help.
Question 1
was trump tapped
Q2
was o involved?
Q3
was anything found?
the answers are almost surely y,n,n
as assumed by the fact this was widely reported as true in nov and jan, but when trump brought it up this weekend it became “unproven” to fit into a different narrative of trump the crazy loose cannon, instead of anti deep state, who were the guys probably pursuing this last fall.
That said, that the guy who made the remark wouldn't have dared if it really was Courtney Love.Replies: @San Fernando Curt, @Desiderius, @The Practical Conservative, @J1234, @anon
She was sitting in a mom-position on the couch. That it was interpreted any other way is especially gross.
Trump is sloppy with his choice of words. He should've stuck to FISA in his tweets and not tried to morph it into wiretapping. Most msm spent the weekend omitting any mention of FISA from their reports...
This scandal is all about abusing and corrupting the FISA court by Obama administration. That is heinous crime.Replies: @Opinionator, @Emblematic
He should’ve stuck to FISA in his tweets and not tried to morph it into wiretapping.
What’s the difference?
Given the volatility of lefty protestors, Trump’s security details must be working even harder to identify and neutralize potential attacks.
If I understand correctly, it is the government that stands behind student debt loans now, not the banks, so that would have to be corrected first.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/444914/student-loans-government-guaranteed-program-wrong-policy-republicans
I like your theory but I doubt it is true. If Trump had real goods on Obama we would see different dynamics. Instead it looks like Trump is in defensive and is losing every skirmish. He lost Flynn, now Sessions and next probably it will be Bannon.
And Obama had eight years to bury it.
Obama may look like he has the upper hand right now, but Trump seems to be quite comfortable with impossible odds.
Trump negotiates from a billion bucks in the hole, etc.
What were the odds he would become president?
The Power of Positive Thinking. Peale. Trump's pastor.
You have been wrong every single friggin time, with a worst track record than AndrewR.Replies: @BenKenobi, @utu, @AndrewR
I think the odds are >0 that Trump’s Obamagate tweets were not the product of inside knowledge, but him thinking out loud after coming across some publicly available reporting. If so, that is embarrassing, especially for aids and advisors that have to cover his ass. But he could equally have something up his sleeve. A stressful act to follow… I’m not even sure there’s that big a scandal at the heart of this. We all saw the McCarthyite hysteria during the campaign and in the run-up to the inauguration; we all saw the leaks. Is anything being alleged now that we didn’t already assume was happening?
Regarding the latest Trump Twitter firestorm, I think it might work out more to his advantage than early predictions are running (it usually does). For one thing, he's forcing the issue of whatever the Deep State might have to come out more quickly, rather than getting dripped, dripped, dripped little by little into the press in the form of leaks of incomplete or partial information. He's basically challenging them to either "put up or shut up."
For another, he's calling their bluff on the surveillance. Either the former Obama administration (which includes not only Obama, but people who are still in the government now) has to admit that it had Trump, or his organization, or people connected to him, under surveillance while he was running for President (and, possibly, that they bent or broke the rules in doing so); or they have to deny it, and very likely take off the table any possibility that a "smoking gun" proving any sort of collusion with the Russians will ever be revealed. Clapper had to admit on the Sunday morning shows that they never had any evidence of any sort of collusion during the campaign. It basically paints the Deep State and Obama in a corner.
My guess: I think that Obama probably did have Trump under some sort of surveillance, most likely through the DOJ and probably under a FISA order, though they probably either stretched the truth to get it and/or extended their surveillance beyond what was authorized by the order. Obama showed a pattern throughout his Presidency of both 1) using governmental power unethically to go after political enemies (e.g., siccing the IRS on the Tea Party, having the DOJ spy on reporters, etc.) and 2) relying on political appointees in the administrative state to do that dirty work without having to be given explicit instructions that could be traced to the White House (Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, the IRS). Obama's spokespeoples' lawyerly dodges over the weekend that he "never ordered" surveillance would seem to conform to this pattern.Replies: @Desiderius
Something seems to have happened to have changed his mind about some of the reportage being "fake news."Replies: @The True and Original David
Why is it so hard for people even on iSteve—including Steve himself—to admit outright that Obama was just a typical, affirmative action Lazy Black Guy made president?
Seriously, Obama was hilariously stereotypical as a black front man, and yet precious few people are willing to call him on it. His handlers did everything for him—and he was too lazy to bother after 5pm.
Maybe a significant portion of Steve's audience doesn't have much experience with this type?Replies: @whorefinder
What on earth is fueling this man?Replies: @Steve Sailer, @mobi, @Jack Hanson, @wren, @anon, @SteveRogers42, @Lagertha
He has looked very tired in almost all photos of late – even shockingly so – around the eyes, particularly.
Cannot be good, or safe, at his age.
He needs to pick his spots a little more, for his own sake.
Trump is sloppy with his choice of words. He should've stuck to FISA in his tweets and not tried to morph it into wiretapping. Most msm spent the weekend omitting any mention of FISA from their reports...
This scandal is all about abusing and corrupting the FISA court by Obama administration. That is heinous crime.Replies: @Opinionator, @Emblematic
And they’re fixating on “Trump Tower”, as if the allegation is they just spied on one physical location.
President Trump gives me the impression that at every opportunity he lights another fire under the Deep Staters, to smoke one or more of them out to expose the Deep State and its cohorts’ extra-constitutional and supra-constitutional machinations and crimes, with the aim of bringing down the entire Deep State house of cards along with its WallStreetGlobali$t-owned Enemedia-Pravda Ministry of Propaganda.
At that noble endeavor I hope he succeeds.
Yeah, I don’t think Trump has had time to go after that stuff yet.
And Obama had eight years to bury it.
Obama may look like he has the upper hand right now, but Trump seems to be quite comfortable with impossible odds.
Trump negotiates from a billion bucks in the hole, etc.
What were the odds he would become president?
The Power of Positive Thinking. Peale. Trump’s pastor.
> I’m 12 years younger than the President, but I can’t possibly keep up with his energy level.
if you would devote your honed analytical/predictive powers to the future price of soybean, you could afford to trade in wives as often as Trump did. And less people would plagiarize from you, too.
His daughter married into Jewish money, which never hurt anyone’s bank balance. iSteve, you have a daughter, correct?
“I’m 12 years younger than the President, but I can’t possibly keep up with his energy level.”
slacker
It took me 33 (painful) years to come to this same conclusion.
What do you mean hard? I’ve been saying that for 11 years.
if you would devote your honed analytical/predictive powers to the future price of soybean, you could afford to trade in wives as often as Trump did. And less people would plagiarize from you, too.
His daughter married into Jewish money, which never hurt anyone's bank balance. iSteve, you have a daughter, correct?Replies: @wren
How did that work out for the Clintons?
Wren, raise your right hand if you think that either or both of them deserve to go to prisonNow raise your left hand if you think that either or both of them will ever spend a night in prisonWren... do YOU live in Chappaequa?
She was sitting like a little girl. in a way that is wholly innocent when a little girl does it. but when a provocatrix does it (Courtney, Miley, Madge, whoever) looks another way entirely. (Exactly why they do it!) Conway (probably) wasn’t trying to provoke, but she shouldn’t have been sitting that way around the President with other people around if at all.
Trump boasted(surely not) that he had good genes, so maybe he can keep going at this pace without popping a valve.
I highly urge people to listen to the Two Kevins podcast: link here on James Burnham’s “The Machiavellians”
One of the things that noted was that the elites are exhausted and corrupt and failing. They note that Burnham has five conditions for revolutions.
Principal among them is the inability to use naked force, and a reliance on trickery and deceit to get their way.
It’s hard to take the Obama administration’s claims (“Wiretapping? Widdle ol’ me?”) seriously in light of the Snowden revelations. Are we expected to believe they were eavesdropping on everyone EXCEPT Trump?
What on earth is fueling this man?Replies: @Steve Sailer, @mobi, @Jack Hanson, @wren, @anon, @SteveRogers42, @Lagertha
Obama making fun of him. And I don’t say that to belittle what President Trump has done, but sometimes the smallest pebble sets off an avalanche yadda yadda.
I try not to follow MSM.
Sounded sort of dumb. But the thing is, how does anyone PROVE Trump wasn’t bugged?
Can’t be proved. A negative, and all. And then, with the Secret Service and all, they must have at least touched something, no? Is that not something to look into?
But really. All the Russia BS. Is baseless. But it can’t be proven that it didn’t happen. It’s unfalsifiable.
An assertion that sounds preposterous to me — is exactly the same sort of crap that is hurled at him 24/7.
You’d think Trump and his staff are pinkos. Or fellow travelers. If not our and out Commies. These godless Russians. They are still commies, no? Or am I confused and they are Nazis?
The left should demand that the House Un-American Activities Committee get back to work. Or maybe I just don’t get it.
NYT, January 19:
"WASHINGTON — American law enforcement and intelligence agencies are examining intercepted communications and financial transactions as part of a broad investigation into possible links between Russian officials and associates of President-elect Donald J. Trump, including his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, current and former senior American officials said."Replies: @Jill
There is a recent speech by Putin available on youtube, either from New Year's or Christmas - sorry, I'm an old fogey and don't really know how to put in a link - in which he applauds the Russian people's return to Christianity and hopes that Christendom will once again link the European-based nations. It is an excellent speech and one which I would have expected our newspaper-of-record, which is still tossed on my driveway every day, to cover. Surprisingly. . .Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
Utu you are the worst defeatist around here, and that’s saying something.
You have been wrong every single friggin time, with a worst track record than AndrewR.
Our side needs passion, and anger, and yes even hatred.
This is war, after all.
"You have been wrong every single friggin time" - No true. In the last week before the election I was suggesting that Trump would win because some faction of the Deep Sate was saying so in almost open text, but not many, particularly in media (except to some extent for NYT and WSJ), wanted to hear it. Apparently media functionaries and their handlers belong to another faction of the Deep State.
No so long ago I was predicting that if Bannon goes it is all over as he is the only person there with some ideological spine who subsequently has a vision. Recently WSJ had an OpEd suggesting that if only Trump get rid off Bannon (and also Miller) and stick to lowering taxes and reducing regulations (the usual Republican shtick) he will be OK. And today:
Video emerges of Trump's 'furious argument' with top adviser Steven Bannon
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4284566/Video-emerges-Trump-s-Oval-Office-row-Bannon.html#ixzz4aZSm9PLJReplies: @Anonymous
I think the media and Obama’s circle pretending Obama would never consider such a thing is hilarious in light of stuff like Fast and Furious, the IRS scandal, Snowden, and one thing after the other.
Obama himself has won the majority of his elections with last minute scandals on his opponent, but don’t wait for anyone in the media to connect those dots.
But no man gets to decide what kind of times he will live in, and Trump's desires are all very unseasonable, like planting tomatoes in November. What Trump is now learning is that his presidency must concern itself with a business he never intended and which he may find unpleasant. He was elected to crush the globalist Dems and begin work on the American ethno-state.
This really is his mandate; this really is what he was elected for, even though both he and the majority of his voters were only dimly conscious of it, if at all. It is worth mentioning that, with the particular clarity that danger affords, the Democrats and globalists are entirely conscious of it, thus the riots and accusations of racism/sexism/Nazism coming from the Left.
What the American Deep State has been doing these last weeks---i.e. the completely confabulated accusations of Russian hacking of the election---are the proof that the real battle must be fought here. They aren't going to let up on Trump; they forced the resignation of Flynn and the sidelining of Sessions (who, I might add, didn't exactly help matters by cucking hard at his press conference, looking like a deer in the headlights and sounding like Mr. Rogers, and recusing himself when he did nothing wrong). If they are allowed to continue this, they will continue chipping away at the Trump administration until they finally fell the man and the movement he unknowingly leads. They have shown that they have the power to continue to frustrate the White Right despite losing the election, even though that means resorting to outright criminal behavior, fake news, lying, illegal wiretaps, suborning government agencies, leaking classified material, and using the news media as a hostile interrogator.
What Trump needs to understand is that the American people elected him not primarily because they wanted better jobs and infrastructure, but because they want all that bullshit to stop. Americans just want to live in a normal, decent country without having to worry about what their government is going to do to them. All the rest of the problems will take care of themselves once the globalists' tyranny is ended; but what is not yet spoken openly save by a few, is that this means destroying the organized Left.
It means putting people in jail---people like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. It means shutting down FakeNews CNN. It means toppling and deposing the oligarchs in Silicon Valley and Wall Street. It means deporting millions of Mexican illegals. And it means one more thing that Trump will probably find least pleasant of all. It means restoring national solvency by ending entitlements and shutting down the welfare state.
This is going to lose Trump a huge amount of support among Baby Boomers---the largest, wealthiest, and most vocal voting block---because they will be forced into a long-defrayed day of reckoning. In order to make up for this lost support, Trump is going to need our unwavering assistance.
In short, Trump is going to need an army. Will you enlist?Replies: @Diversity Heretic, @AndrewR, @Thea, @Old fogey, @Achmed E. Newman, @anon, @SFG, @Kylie, @Lagertha
Your comment is, depressingly, very much on point. I don’t know what the Deep State might do that would provoke Trump into declaring war on it; we are already be on the ragged edge of a civil war. The real division will come when law enforcement agencies and military units decide whose orders they will follow and whose commands they obey.
The thing is the deep state/political establishment has been dead wrong from day one on Trump and his supporters. It is my bet that the deep state will do something that on the surface looks reasonable to them - like putting Trump in prison on charges of spying for the Russians or some such crap in the hopes of intimidating his supporters with their awesome power. Of course to Trump supporters it will be seen as a giant middle-finger aimed at them. Their response could go either way, but I suspect it will end up being violent because the establishment has essentially told them their vote and voice means nothing. And those in the MSM will probably be their first targets since they've made it known they want Trump dead and gone.
I don't think Obama fully anticipated the implications of Trump wielding the power of the federal investigative apparatus, even with deep state agents placing landmines along the way.
The question I have been asking myself this weekend: is it too late for Obama to call a truce?
For the good of the nation, I don't want to see the former President indicted.Replies: @Anonymous, @AndrewR, @Thea, @chris moffatt
If Obama could be fingered in this (thinking they could get away with it because Trump was sure to lose) would they have doubled down on feeding the media wiretap-based leaks after the election?
They honestly believed they could forestall the inauguration, and still believe they can force him from office any day now.
Though he describes himself as a counterpuncher, I think of him more as a practitioner of jiu-jitsu.
Sounded sort of dumb. But the thing is, how does anyone PROVE Trump wasn't bugged?
Can't be proved. A negative, and all. And then, with the Secret Service and all, they must have at least touched something, no? Is that not something to look into?
But really. All the Russia BS. Is baseless. But it can't be proven that it didn't happen. It's unfalsifiable.
An assertion that sounds preposterous to me -- is exactly the same sort of crap that is hurled at him 24/7.
You'd think Trump and his staff are pinkos. Or fellow travelers. If not our and out Commies. These godless Russians. They are still commies, no? Or am I confused and they are Nazis?
The left should demand that the House Un-American Activities Committee get back to work. Or maybe I just don't get it.Replies: @Boomstick, @Old fogey
The amusing thing is that for the last three months the MSM has been reporting that Trump is being investigated and wiretapped by the US government’s intelligence agencies, and then flipped out when Trump said he was being wiretapped by US intelligence agencies.
NYT, January 19:
“WASHINGTON — American law enforcement and intelligence agencies are examining intercepted communications and financial transactions as part of a broad investigation into possible links between Russian officials and associates of President-elect Donald J. Trump, including his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, current and former senior American officials said.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxXfHxceMg4Replies: @Rod1963
The GOP never had any plans to repeal Obamacare or cut taxes. They were betting on Hillary winning. When Trump won it threw them for a loop.
This is lyin Ryan and post turtle McConnell have nothing to present to Trump. Nor do they intend to. You forget the GOP doesn’t work for us but for it’s owners – Chambers of Commerce, Wall Street and defense contractors.
We’re not in the club and this is why they are working against Trump and not doing anything, they are trying to slow walk him into oblivion.
OT. Related studies by the same authors were discussed here some years ago.
“Fraudulent Income Overstatement on Mortgage Applications During the Credit Expansion of 2002 to 2005”
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2561366
I’d allow non-dischargable loans only with an income floor — your repayments capped by law at the same as your federal invome tax, or 20 percent of income above poverty line, or something like that.
This would put a big dent in useless degrees, and provide an incentive to collect good data on how graduates actually fare.
Kelly Anne Conway’s position bothered me less than: (1) why is she taking a photo at all–aren’t there White House photographers for that; and (2) why, oh why, is Donald Trump wasting his time meeting with Negroes? If any of these people voted for him it was because they didn’t understand the ballot. Republicans have been pursuing black outreach since at least the time of Ronald Reagan, if not earlier, and it has yielded zero results. Time to end the charade: the Democratic Party is the party of blacks and other minorities, and the Republican Party is the party of (certain) whites.
Thanks so much for that concise Executive Summary of: Lessons We Can Learn From Ron Unz's Election Victory!
Would the individual’s degree the payment for which he has essentially defaulted on thereby be canceled/repossessed?
And that would still leave him with the knowledge he has obtained without payment. How does that get repossessed?
Is a poor initial credit rating a sufficient cost to forego an all-expense-paid four years at one of the planet’s premier academic institutions, plus a potentially valuable degree?
Never underestimate the Democrats’ ability to underestimate Trump.
They honestly believed they could forestall the inauguration, and still believe they can force him from office any day now.
Though he describes himself as a counterpuncher, I think of him more as a practitioner of jiu-jitsu.
Whatever, dude, I’m a mom, she’s a mom, it’s one of the many ways you sit on a couch when you have little kids around. She had her kids later than many outside the Beltway, which just means she hasn’t had much time to lose those habits.
You are a female, and probably a completely normal and decent one too.
You have never been a horny thirteen year old boy looking at someone else's (semi-milfy) mom in that position.
And more to the point you are not a determined operative looking to cause problems, scandal, and general disruption for Donald Trump and his team.
These people hate Donald Trump and his loyal staff. And for good reason: he's sworn to put a derail on the tracks of the Gravy Express, and he has the intelligence, the determination, the ruthlessness and the persistence to get it done if he at all can. These people would be reduced to a blue collar existence, if that, if that happened and they hate and fear him.
They have no sense of decency, no class, no compunctions. They know that no matter how baseless, if they can make Kellyanne Conway-a formidable thinker who got Trump elected in the first place-to look like a strumpet in the view of the low information dolts that take everything they read at face value, they have not only made her feel bad but have made her a figure of ridicule.
And often otherwise decent and intelligent persons, once they get pegged as a goof, have a way of falling in the trap again and again. Dan Quayle wasn't stupid, but he consistently did things the media could use to make him seem that way once the ball got rolling. (He is, to be sure, no particular genius , but he is not a fulminating idiot either, and low information people tend to believe he is.) He'd continually do little things that the media would incessantly play back again and again.Replies: @Anonymous
The Sessions job seems like a dud with 90% certainty. It was a classic huff-n-puff miscalculation: the mechanics of the actual smear were too intricate to overwhelm the blowback, e.g. with McCaskill.
Don’s climbed out on a ledge again with the bug-sweeping thing. I’d be amazed if he makes hay of it: 1) the cinematic idea of what “wiretap” surveillance vs. mundane NSA typical Tuesday stuff; 2) the bottom fact of the surveillance likely being all legal under FISA warrant. Now, there is something outrageous there, definitely… Which alas, POTUS’s hortatory strengths are not well suited to adumbrating.
I doubt the Kalorama HQ is pulling strings, more likely getting bite-sized updates from their administrative-state agents. Obama is hardly the Nixonian chessmaster strategist many conservatives constructed — remember the ACA rollout? His typical day surely is busy enough with Davoisie gentleman callers on the phone (w/ Jarrett on the extension, for make good buckraking); shaking the Iran money tree; catching up on DNC/OFA gossip, the better to stifle emergence of any rivals to his absurdly inflated preeminence among Democrat thought-leaders; etc.
What on earth is fueling this man?Replies: @Steve Sailer, @mobi, @Jack Hanson, @wren, @anon, @SteveRogers42, @Lagertha
As long as it isn’t administered by Dr. Morell, he should be fine.
Don’t.
You have been wrong every single friggin time, with a worst track record than AndrewR.Replies: @BenKenobi, @utu, @AndrewR
I gotta say, Jack, I really appreciate your irascible personality.
Our side needs passion, and anger, and yes even hatred.
This is war, after all.
Trump won’t have to declare war, he’ll let those SOB’s do it and that overstep will set off a civil war.
The thing is the deep state/political establishment has been dead wrong from day one on Trump and his supporters. It is my bet that the deep state will do something that on the surface looks reasonable to them – like putting Trump in prison on charges of spying for the Russians or some such crap in the hopes of intimidating his supporters with their awesome power. Of course to Trump supporters it will be seen as a giant middle-finger aimed at them. Their response could go either way, but I suspect it will end up being violent because the establishment has essentially told them their vote and voice means nothing. And those in the MSM will probably be their first targets since they’ve made it known they want Trump dead and gone.
At that noble endeavor I hope he succeeds.Replies: @Gapeseed
I hope so, because other explanations for his behavior are much more distressing.
I think a lot of Dems are worried about facing some serious jail time due to general Obama abuse of power/corruption, the Clinton Foundation and Obama’s illegal spying on Trump. This explains some of the hysteria after Trump’s, for them, shock election victory. That and their entire worldview being shattered.
What worries me is more that other forces are involved in the seditious conspiracy. I notice Norman Braman’s Cabana boy Rubio was trotted out to lukewarmly advocate for Trump, something he again failed to do. The Israelis still want rid of Trump and if that is the case then he can’t rely on his own side which is what makes this so dangerous.
Once again the only serious analysis of the situation is provided online and on RT. Only RT has interviews with the likes of Larry Johnson, Michael Sheuer etc. who can give insights into what is going on.
I see your problem.
You are a female, and probably a completely normal and decent one too.
You have never been a horny thirteen year old boy looking at someone else’s (semi-milfy) mom in that position.
And more to the point you are not a determined operative looking to cause problems, scandal, and general disruption for Donald Trump and his team.
These people hate Donald Trump and his loyal staff. And for good reason: he’s sworn to put a derail on the tracks of the Gravy Express, and he has the intelligence, the determination, the ruthlessness and the persistence to get it done if he at all can. These people would be reduced to a blue collar existence, if that, if that happened and they hate and fear him.
They have no sense of decency, no class, no compunctions. They know that no matter how baseless, if they can make Kellyanne Conway-a formidable thinker who got Trump elected in the first place-to look like a strumpet in the view of the low information dolts that take everything they read at face value, they have not only made her feel bad but have made her a figure of ridicule.
And often otherwise decent and intelligent persons, once they get pegged as a goof, have a way of falling in the trap again and again. Dan Quayle wasn’t stupid, but he consistently did things the media could use to make him seem that way once the ball got rolling. (He is, to be sure, no particular genius , but he is not a fulminating idiot either, and low information people tend to believe he is.) He’d continually do little things that the media would incessantly play back again and again.
“The Israelis still want rid of Trump”
Does Netanyahu qualify as an Israeli?
Yahoo will be meeting Putin today, like last time will go home empty handed. US Russia detente implies an unmolested Iran, a unified Syria and well supported Hezbollah. The Syrian Army and Hezbollah are now battle hardened with latest technology Russian weapons. Hezbollah has also trained a resistance movement in the Golan. Add in a big Russian naval and air base in Latakia and it is hard to see how things get worse.
The Japanese call it the seiza position.
Ignore the theatre of Netanyahu’s public grovelling, watch the hysteria of Israeli assets. Trump isn’t remote controlled and was elected on America first and isolationism, neocons switched party over leftist isolationism. A global America is good for Israel.
Yahoo will be meeting Putin today, like last time will go home empty handed. US Russia detente implies an unmolested Iran, a unified Syria and well supported Hezbollah. The Syrian Army and Hezbollah are now battle hardened with latest technology Russian weapons. Hezbollah has also trained a resistance movement in the Golan. Add in a big Russian naval and air base in Latakia and it is hard to see how things get worse.
One of the most maddening things about watching Trump is looking at his behavior and then comparing projected with actual outcomes, it’s still impossible to tell how much is the product of utterly undisciplined and unpredictable behavior that just occasionally gets very lucky, how much is shrewd, natural psychological warfare, or how much, if any, is planned trolling.
Regarding the latest Trump Twitter firestorm, I think it might work out more to his advantage than early predictions are running (it usually does). For one thing, he’s forcing the issue of whatever the Deep State might have to come out more quickly, rather than getting dripped, dripped, dripped little by little into the press in the form of leaks of incomplete or partial information. He’s basically challenging them to either “put up or shut up.”
For another, he’s calling their bluff on the surveillance. Either the former Obama administration (which includes not only Obama, but people who are still in the government now) has to admit that it had Trump, or his organization, or people connected to him, under surveillance while he was running for President (and, possibly, that they bent or broke the rules in doing so); or they have to deny it, and very likely take off the table any possibility that a “smoking gun” proving any sort of collusion with the Russians will ever be revealed. Clapper had to admit on the Sunday morning shows that they never had any evidence of any sort of collusion during the campaign. It basically paints the Deep State and Obama in a corner.
My guess: I think that Obama probably did have Trump under some sort of surveillance, most likely through the DOJ and probably under a FISA order, though they probably either stretched the truth to get it and/or extended their surveillance beyond what was authorized by the order. Obama showed a pattern throughout his Presidency of both 1) using governmental power unethically to go after political enemies (e.g., siccing the IRS on the Tea Party, having the DOJ spy on reporters, etc.) and 2) relying on political appointees in the administrative state to do that dirty work without having to be given explicit instructions that could be traced to the White House (Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, the IRS). Obama’s spokespeoples’ lawyerly dodges over the weekend that he “never ordered” surveillance would seem to conform to this pattern.
We elected him because his natural personality and instincts fit our needs. If I go to the store for a tool, I'm not really that concerned with why it works, just that it does. Luck is the residue of design - our design in electing him and not someone else.
I have been proposing this on iSteve since Trump announced, hoping someone would read it. Given Trump’s history with bankruptcy he is the perfect person to propose it.
That’s why you’re not married to Melania.
Lots of black and middle-eastern lips being licked when that picture appeared.
Now that everyone's a specialist, we get all kinds of scandal. A philosophy major will understand the reasoning behind ethics; the MBA with a course or two probably will not, nor care much.
Hell, we'll need ethics study in high school, if future startups come from the Jobs/Gates dropout mold.Replies: @Authenticjazzman
” A philosophy major will understand the reasoning behind ethics”
No he/she won’t. philosophy majors usually do not understand anything, and without hyperbole, the most profound Dummköpfe I have encountered within my world travels were : philosophy majors, philosophy PhDs , philosophy professors.
Philosophy being a course of study which is almost, without exception, persued by confused neurotics who are trying to “find themselves”, or are seeking the non-existant answers for all of the “injustices” of life.
Rational sane people do not not run after elusive ” answers” which are never to be found, and were not discovered even by the authors of of the most famous works of philosophy themselves.
Authenticjazzman ” Mensa” society member since 1973, and pro jazz artist.
42 Wren > How did that work out for the Clintons?
Wren, raise your right hand if you think that either or both of them deserve to go to prison
Now raise your left hand if you think that either or both of them will ever spend a night in prison
Wren… do YOU live in Chappaequa?
57 Diversity Heretic > Time to end the charade: the Democratic Party is the party of blacks and other minorities, and the Republican Party is the party of (certain) whites.
Thanks so much for that concise Executive Summary of:
Lessons We Can Learn From Ron Unz’s Election Victory!
Can you imagine going strong 18 hours a day and sleeping only 4?? I like to get at least 7 hours and can get exhausted after a few hours of demanding work. And while I think Trump has a high IQ, I think most of his success comes from being able to do more in one day than a half-dozen people combined. If I only had Trump’s energy when I was going to school or at my job.
Sessions walked into a trap set by Al Frankenfraud and set himself on fire. (And I was almost ready to admit they my Southern cousins on my mother’s side are just as smart as my cousins from Northern California on my father’s side.)
Trump’s tweets about wire taps are the response. They are true, but that doesn’t matter. Everybody gets tapped by the Powers That Be. You have to communicate under that assumption.
Congress will continue to do nothing about those things that really matter: limiting immigration (cheap labor) and limiting imports (the products of cheap labor).
Trump is betting on there being enough Citizen support, in large enough numbers, to get him through the blocks in his way. I don’t know if we are big enough in number, nor how many we might lose or gain in this 4D chess game.
The world is crazy; we don’t really have a country of our own, and the White House kitchen upstairs is open late for hamburgers and Lay’s potato chips.
NYT, January 19:
"WASHINGTON — American law enforcement and intelligence agencies are examining intercepted communications and financial transactions as part of a broad investigation into possible links between Russian officials and associates of President-elect Donald J. Trump, including his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, current and former senior American officials said."Replies: @Jill
Excellent point. The best was when Chris Wallace asked why does Trump want to continue this meme on Russia.
Hmmmmm …
https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/838220312374292480
And that would still leave him with the knowledge he has obtained without payment. How does that get repossessed?
Is a poor initial credit rating a sufficient cost to forego an all-expense-paid four years at one of the planet's premier academic institutions, plus a potentially valuable degree?Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Federalist
Don’t worry. College doesn’t teach any actual knowledge anymore.
And in English, we call that “sitting on your heels.”
Even before the Inauguration they were talking impeachment due to these fictitious Russian ties. While it was a clever lie, in that it allowed FISA wiretapping and classified info to give it respectability, it’s petering out. They devised this Russia connection plot and ran with it. And every puppet and stooge of the establishment- left and right- was on board and propagated it. Even that dumbo Congresswoman Maxine Waters was bitching about Trump and Russia and how Russia invaded Korea. Here’s the problem. This really, really good plot and unified propagation could’ve worked with any other politician except Trump. They underestimated Trump.
We’re getting a glimpse into what it’s like to be a billionaire mega titan of industry in NYC. Trump has taken on the D.C. political establishment (Democrat, Republican, even libertarian), major media, Hollywood, Deep State, academia, Silicon Valley, and Davos and won or is winning. He’s lost a few battles in his life, to billionaires Carl Icahn and Andrew Beal (who both supported him for President). Can you imagine how powerful these MOTUs, Icahn and Beal, must be??
Could not agree more. He is a reasonably bright but lazy-and-ok-with-that black affirmative action case. It’s a type, and he is quite representative of it.
Maybe a significant portion of Steve’s audience doesn’t have much experience with this type?
I will bet you absolutely no one here has ever heard someone say the term "typical lazy ni***er* in real life. Perhaps once in a movie about how evil and racist whitey is, but no where said by an actual human being to him. The rare exception might be if you have some sort of old-school father around.
And since they've never heard it, and are verboten from even considering a bad stereotype about blacks, they are effectively cut off from the concept.
Seriously, Obama's life is quite easily summed up in a more genteel phrase I've heard, the Corporate Token Negro.
The Corporate Token Negro is competent enough to be there, and doesn't do things like start fights for "disses" or grab women's asses, but he's not going to help out one bit. At 5:01pm, he's out the door, he doesn't stay late, he doesn't work weekends, and his work product is always in the bottom 20%. He smiles for the brochure photos and is on the "diversity" committee, but he just shows up, signs what people tells him to sign, and leaves. He has no desire to get better or improve his work or anything.
Now, that's a pretty accurate description of most affirmative action hires. But because we've banished such terms and noticing such patterns from our society, people don't call Obama that.
When talking with a potential dissident, I might drop the phrase "Corporate Token Negro" into the conversation to see how they react. If their eyes light up, I know they're one of us----I've just put a name to a phenomenon they've long noticed but had no words to describe it.
I don't think Obama fully anticipated the implications of Trump wielding the power of the federal investigative apparatus, even with deep state agents placing landmines along the way.
The question I have been asking myself this weekend: is it too late for Obama to call a truce?
For the good of the nation, I don't want to see the former President indicted.Replies: @Anonymous, @AndrewR, @Thea, @chris moffatt
I’d rather see Bush indicted for the Iraq fiasco, and Clinton indicted for his war crimes, and Obama indicted for his war crimes, but Obama being indicted for illegal wiretapping would be excellent for the country.
But no man gets to decide what kind of times he will live in, and Trump's desires are all very unseasonable, like planting tomatoes in November. What Trump is now learning is that his presidency must concern itself with a business he never intended and which he may find unpleasant. He was elected to crush the globalist Dems and begin work on the American ethno-state.
This really is his mandate; this really is what he was elected for, even though both he and the majority of his voters were only dimly conscious of it, if at all. It is worth mentioning that, with the particular clarity that danger affords, the Democrats and globalists are entirely conscious of it, thus the riots and accusations of racism/sexism/Nazism coming from the Left.
What the American Deep State has been doing these last weeks---i.e. the completely confabulated accusations of Russian hacking of the election---are the proof that the real battle must be fought here. They aren't going to let up on Trump; they forced the resignation of Flynn and the sidelining of Sessions (who, I might add, didn't exactly help matters by cucking hard at his press conference, looking like a deer in the headlights and sounding like Mr. Rogers, and recusing himself when he did nothing wrong). If they are allowed to continue this, they will continue chipping away at the Trump administration until they finally fell the man and the movement he unknowingly leads. They have shown that they have the power to continue to frustrate the White Right despite losing the election, even though that means resorting to outright criminal behavior, fake news, lying, illegal wiretaps, suborning government agencies, leaking classified material, and using the news media as a hostile interrogator.
What Trump needs to understand is that the American people elected him not primarily because they wanted better jobs and infrastructure, but because they want all that bullshit to stop. Americans just want to live in a normal, decent country without having to worry about what their government is going to do to them. All the rest of the problems will take care of themselves once the globalists' tyranny is ended; but what is not yet spoken openly save by a few, is that this means destroying the organized Left.
It means putting people in jail---people like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. It means shutting down FakeNews CNN. It means toppling and deposing the oligarchs in Silicon Valley and Wall Street. It means deporting millions of Mexican illegals. And it means one more thing that Trump will probably find least pleasant of all. It means restoring national solvency by ending entitlements and shutting down the welfare state.
This is going to lose Trump a huge amount of support among Baby Boomers---the largest, wealthiest, and most vocal voting block---because they will be forced into a long-defrayed day of reckoning. In order to make up for this lost support, Trump is going to need our unwavering assistance.
In short, Trump is going to need an army. Will you enlist?Replies: @Diversity Heretic, @AndrewR, @Thea, @Old fogey, @Achmed E. Newman, @anon, @SFG, @Kylie, @Lagertha
No, I will not. Your diagnosis of the problems we face and the best treatment plan for them is on point, but Donald Trump us simply an abysmal leader and an abysmal person. He is appallingly imulsive, narcissistic, power-hungry and just plain stupid. We need to get him out of the way in order to clear the way for an intelligent, wise, prudent leader. People often speak of Trump Derangement Syndrome, whereby people allow their disdain for Trump to override their rational thinking, but often we see the mirror image whereby people, other out of some mass hypnosis or hatred of the globalists/left, willfully ignore all of Trump’s unbelievably glaring flaws. This syndrome is an epidemic on Sailer’s blog, as shall almost certainly be evidenced to the replies to this comment.
The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend.
I don't think Obama fully anticipated the implications of Trump wielding the power of the federal investigative apparatus, even with deep state agents placing landmines along the way.
The question I have been asking myself this weekend: is it too late for Obama to call a truce?
For the good of the nation, I don't want to see the former President indicted.Replies: @Anonymous, @AndrewR, @Thea, @chris moffatt
I don’t understand what you mean by “good of the nation” here. If he committed treason, he needs to be punished. I’m still fuming that Bush hasn’t been.
But no man gets to decide what kind of times he will live in, and Trump's desires are all very unseasonable, like planting tomatoes in November. What Trump is now learning is that his presidency must concern itself with a business he never intended and which he may find unpleasant. He was elected to crush the globalist Dems and begin work on the American ethno-state.
This really is his mandate; this really is what he was elected for, even though both he and the majority of his voters were only dimly conscious of it, if at all. It is worth mentioning that, with the particular clarity that danger affords, the Democrats and globalists are entirely conscious of it, thus the riots and accusations of racism/sexism/Nazism coming from the Left.
What the American Deep State has been doing these last weeks---i.e. the completely confabulated accusations of Russian hacking of the election---are the proof that the real battle must be fought here. They aren't going to let up on Trump; they forced the resignation of Flynn and the sidelining of Sessions (who, I might add, didn't exactly help matters by cucking hard at his press conference, looking like a deer in the headlights and sounding like Mr. Rogers, and recusing himself when he did nothing wrong). If they are allowed to continue this, they will continue chipping away at the Trump administration until they finally fell the man and the movement he unknowingly leads. They have shown that they have the power to continue to frustrate the White Right despite losing the election, even though that means resorting to outright criminal behavior, fake news, lying, illegal wiretaps, suborning government agencies, leaking classified material, and using the news media as a hostile interrogator.
What Trump needs to understand is that the American people elected him not primarily because they wanted better jobs and infrastructure, but because they want all that bullshit to stop. Americans just want to live in a normal, decent country without having to worry about what their government is going to do to them. All the rest of the problems will take care of themselves once the globalists' tyranny is ended; but what is not yet spoken openly save by a few, is that this means destroying the organized Left.
It means putting people in jail---people like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. It means shutting down FakeNews CNN. It means toppling and deposing the oligarchs in Silicon Valley and Wall Street. It means deporting millions of Mexican illegals. And it means one more thing that Trump will probably find least pleasant of all. It means restoring national solvency by ending entitlements and shutting down the welfare state.
This is going to lose Trump a huge amount of support among Baby Boomers---the largest, wealthiest, and most vocal voting block---because they will be forced into a long-defrayed day of reckoning. In order to make up for this lost support, Trump is going to need our unwavering assistance.
In short, Trump is going to need an army. Will you enlist?Replies: @Diversity Heretic, @AndrewR, @Thea, @Old fogey, @Achmed E. Newman, @anon, @SFG, @Kylie, @Lagertha
Yes. He needs other leaders waiting in the wings to pick up the reins when he is done.
The Flynn and Sessions kerfuffles where huge losses for our side. Hopefully he learned from those.
This would put a big dent in useless degrees, and provide an incentive to collect good data on how graduates actually fare.Replies: @Harry Baldwin
What you’re proposing already exists, for the student loans obtained through the government, which issues 90 percent of student loans. Income-Based Repayment (IBR), available since 2009, uses a sliding scale to determine how much you can afford to pay on your federal loans. If you earn below 150% of the poverty level for your family size, your required loan payment will be $0. If you earn more, your loan payment will be capped at 15% of whatever you earn above that amount. IBR will also forgive remaining debt, if any, after 25 years of qualifying payments. The taxpayer, i.e., the national debt, absorbs the loss.
But my point was that I want private insurers on the hook for those bad loans. Then they will become careful about their investments.
If it's just the fed forgiving things, then if anything it's the reverse effect...
At some point Trump has to take to fight to the enemy. He can’t MAGA while the Left are picking off his cabinet. The Left has to start taking casualties. Trump needs (metaphorical) heads on pikes: both pour décourager les autres and to show the public that this isn’t a battle between two views of potential validity, it is a battle between order and criminals. Candidates for pikes who are both obvious unprosecuted criminals and will have a ripple effect: Hillary, Podesta, Wiener, Holder, Brazile, … all the way down to the guys breaking car windshields at campaign events.
These people are nasty and vicious, but lack genuine courage. Once a few of them end up staring down federal felony charges, they will sing like canaries and produce more convictions.
Also, oligarchic press barons like Carlos Slim and Jeff Bezos didn’t get where they are by punctilious subservience to rules. A little federal investigating could cool their jets pretty fast.
As someone else pointed out, all Trump’s olive-branching of his (and America’s) mortal enemies has yielded exactly zip. Enough. Take ’em down hard.
In general Trump’s cabinet should commit Ann Coulter’s advice to heart: relentlessly pound facts and logic, never apologize, never concede, never assume nor expect goodwill from the Left. Are you listening Jeff Sessions?
Larry Johnson on RT:
In describing what person or what agency can do this or that regarding surveillance, not one talking head I heard yesterday offered this possibility: “A President CAN Authorize A Wiretap…”
http://www.redstate.com/diary/checkmate2012/2017/03/05/ben-rhodes-is-either-ignorant-or-a-liar-or-c-all-of-the-above./
Ah I did not know ir had forgotten, thanks.
But my point was that I want private insurers on the hook for those bad loans. Then they will become careful about their investments.
If it’s just the fed forgiving things, then if anything it’s the reverse effect…
I think Trump’s tweets are a warning countershot to Obama/Dems/Rinos/Deep State.
” I am now in charge of this same apparatus. I know where the bodies are buried.
Back off!”
These people are nasty and vicious, but lack genuine courage. Once a few of them end up staring down federal felony charges, they will sing like canaries and produce more convictions.
Also, oligarchic press barons like Carlos Slim and Jeff Bezos didn't get where they are by punctilious subservience to rules. A little federal investigating could cool their jets pretty fast.
As someone else pointed out, all Trump's olive-branching of his (and America's) mortal enemies has yielded exactly zip. Enough. Take 'em down hard.
In general Trump's cabinet should commit Ann Coulter's advice to heart: relentlessly pound facts and logic, never apologize, never concede, never assume nor expect goodwill from the Left. Are you listening Jeff Sessions?Replies: @utu, @TomSchmidt
Exactly! But to do so he must have FBI on his side and have AG of DOJ who does not recuse him self at the slightest allegations.
You know, I long thought we’ve had rule by Big Media. Trump comes along, and pokes a lot of holes in that idea. But reading all the hysterical comments, I’m being dragged back into the rule by Big Media camp. Big Media puts on a dog and pony show, and everyone buys in (maybe even Trump).
Now the cam in the oval office thing emerges. WTF? Are win in a Big Media banana republic, or what?
But no man gets to decide what kind of times he will live in, and Trump's desires are all very unseasonable, like planting tomatoes in November. What Trump is now learning is that his presidency must concern itself with a business he never intended and which he may find unpleasant. He was elected to crush the globalist Dems and begin work on the American ethno-state.
This really is his mandate; this really is what he was elected for, even though both he and the majority of his voters were only dimly conscious of it, if at all. It is worth mentioning that, with the particular clarity that danger affords, the Democrats and globalists are entirely conscious of it, thus the riots and accusations of racism/sexism/Nazism coming from the Left.
What the American Deep State has been doing these last weeks---i.e. the completely confabulated accusations of Russian hacking of the election---are the proof that the real battle must be fought here. They aren't going to let up on Trump; they forced the resignation of Flynn and the sidelining of Sessions (who, I might add, didn't exactly help matters by cucking hard at his press conference, looking like a deer in the headlights and sounding like Mr. Rogers, and recusing himself when he did nothing wrong). If they are allowed to continue this, they will continue chipping away at the Trump administration until they finally fell the man and the movement he unknowingly leads. They have shown that they have the power to continue to frustrate the White Right despite losing the election, even though that means resorting to outright criminal behavior, fake news, lying, illegal wiretaps, suborning government agencies, leaking classified material, and using the news media as a hostile interrogator.
What Trump needs to understand is that the American people elected him not primarily because they wanted better jobs and infrastructure, but because they want all that bullshit to stop. Americans just want to live in a normal, decent country without having to worry about what their government is going to do to them. All the rest of the problems will take care of themselves once the globalists' tyranny is ended; but what is not yet spoken openly save by a few, is that this means destroying the organized Left.
It means putting people in jail---people like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. It means shutting down FakeNews CNN. It means toppling and deposing the oligarchs in Silicon Valley and Wall Street. It means deporting millions of Mexican illegals. And it means one more thing that Trump will probably find least pleasant of all. It means restoring national solvency by ending entitlements and shutting down the welfare state.
This is going to lose Trump a huge amount of support among Baby Boomers---the largest, wealthiest, and most vocal voting block---because they will be forced into a long-defrayed day of reckoning. In order to make up for this lost support, Trump is going to need our unwavering assistance.
In short, Trump is going to need an army. Will you enlist?Replies: @Diversity Heretic, @AndrewR, @Thea, @Old fogey, @Achmed E. Newman, @anon, @SFG, @Kylie, @Lagertha
Very well said and to the point.
But no man gets to decide what kind of times he will live in, and Trump's desires are all very unseasonable, like planting tomatoes in November. What Trump is now learning is that his presidency must concern itself with a business he never intended and which he may find unpleasant. He was elected to crush the globalist Dems and begin work on the American ethno-state.
This really is his mandate; this really is what he was elected for, even though both he and the majority of his voters were only dimly conscious of it, if at all. It is worth mentioning that, with the particular clarity that danger affords, the Democrats and globalists are entirely conscious of it, thus the riots and accusations of racism/sexism/Nazism coming from the Left.
What the American Deep State has been doing these last weeks---i.e. the completely confabulated accusations of Russian hacking of the election---are the proof that the real battle must be fought here. They aren't going to let up on Trump; they forced the resignation of Flynn and the sidelining of Sessions (who, I might add, didn't exactly help matters by cucking hard at his press conference, looking like a deer in the headlights and sounding like Mr. Rogers, and recusing himself when he did nothing wrong). If they are allowed to continue this, they will continue chipping away at the Trump administration until they finally fell the man and the movement he unknowingly leads. They have shown that they have the power to continue to frustrate the White Right despite losing the election, even though that means resorting to outright criminal behavior, fake news, lying, illegal wiretaps, suborning government agencies, leaking classified material, and using the news media as a hostile interrogator.
What Trump needs to understand is that the American people elected him not primarily because they wanted better jobs and infrastructure, but because they want all that bullshit to stop. Americans just want to live in a normal, decent country without having to worry about what their government is going to do to them. All the rest of the problems will take care of themselves once the globalists' tyranny is ended; but what is not yet spoken openly save by a few, is that this means destroying the organized Left.
It means putting people in jail---people like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. It means shutting down FakeNews CNN. It means toppling and deposing the oligarchs in Silicon Valley and Wall Street. It means deporting millions of Mexican illegals. And it means one more thing that Trump will probably find least pleasant of all. It means restoring national solvency by ending entitlements and shutting down the welfare state.
This is going to lose Trump a huge amount of support among Baby Boomers---the largest, wealthiest, and most vocal voting block---because they will be forced into a long-defrayed day of reckoning. In order to make up for this lost support, Trump is going to need our unwavering assistance.
In short, Trump is going to need an army. Will you enlist?Replies: @Diversity Heretic, @AndrewR, @Thea, @Old fogey, @Achmed E. Newman, @anon, @SFG, @Kylie, @Lagertha
That’s one of the best comments I’ve read in a long while, I.D. I didn’t AGREE with it software-wise, as that seems too much like LIKING something on facebook, which I want nothing to do with.
Yes, this guy can’t do it by himself – he’s going to need our help and not just votes.
You have been wrong every single friggin time, with a worst track record than AndrewR.Replies: @BenKenobi, @utu, @AndrewR
“Utu you are the worst defeatist around here” – Probably you are right. It is a combination of pessimism and realism.
“You have been wrong every single friggin time” – No true. In the last week before the election I was suggesting that Trump would win because some faction of the Deep Sate was saying so in almost open text, but not many, particularly in media (except to some extent for NYT and WSJ), wanted to hear it. Apparently media functionaries and their handlers belong to another faction of the Deep State.
No so long ago I was predicting that if Bannon goes it is all over as he is the only person there with some ideological spine who subsequently has a vision. Recently WSJ had an OpEd suggesting that if only Trump get rid off Bannon (and also Miller) and stick to lowering taxes and reducing regulations (the usual Republican shtick) he will be OK. And today:
Video emerges of Trump’s ‘furious argument’ with top adviser Steven Bannon
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4284566/Video-emerges-Trump-s-Oval-Office-row-Bannon.html#ixzz4aZSm9PLJ
To the stalinist censors :
Okay I give up posting here.
You guys are nothing more than a pack of small-minded leftist fuckhead oppressors.
Authenticjazzman “Mensa” society member of forty-plus years and pro jazz artist.
Just don't call anyone the B-word*, it won't take.
* Do I have to spell it out for you? B E A N E R!
Sounded sort of dumb. But the thing is, how does anyone PROVE Trump wasn't bugged?
Can't be proved. A negative, and all. And then, with the Secret Service and all, they must have at least touched something, no? Is that not something to look into?
But really. All the Russia BS. Is baseless. But it can't be proven that it didn't happen. It's unfalsifiable.
An assertion that sounds preposterous to me -- is exactly the same sort of crap that is hurled at him 24/7.
You'd think Trump and his staff are pinkos. Or fellow travelers. If not our and out Commies. These godless Russians. They are still commies, no? Or am I confused and they are Nazis?
The left should demand that the House Un-American Activities Committee get back to work. Or maybe I just don't get it.Replies: @Boomstick, @Old fogey
“These godless Russians. They are still commies, no? Or am I confused and they are Nazis? ”
There is a recent speech by Putin available on youtube, either from New Year’s or Christmas – sorry, I’m an old fogey and don’t really know how to put in a link – in which he applauds the Russian people’s return to Christianity and hopes that Christendom will once again link the European-based nations. It is an excellent speech and one which I would have expected our newspaper-of-record, which is still tossed on my driveway every day, to cover. Surprisingly. . .
I think the people arguing that Trump’s accusation against Hussein is a mistake first need to explain why Big Media’s accusations against Trump of colluding with Russia are a mistake. Then they might be able to explain to Trump. Until then, I think Trump’s right; apparently, you can accuse anyone you like of anything, no evidence needed.
I hate to talk about this stuff, it is such a non-issue, however I will throw this in: Why did the professional photographers include her in the photo? Aren’t they supposed to concentrate on the real news here (if there indeed was any)?
For the multiple commenters who are calling for forgiveness of loans, or even dischargement in bankruptcy, do you really want to encourage more irresponsibility? This is the problem, all the poor suckers who earned a decent amount of their college money, and didn’t live the high life for 4 years, or even those who did, but have been paying money back on time, may have something to say (not nice at all) about your ideas.
This university bubble will pop at some point, as parents realize it’s not worth a loan the size of a house mortgage to have their kid(s) get a piece of paper that qualifies him of the same barista job he was already working. The total loan amounts are up near $1,500,000,000,000 with a significant chunk in at least partial default.
Solution: Get the US Feral Gov’t TF OUT of Education, along with everyone else. Thank Jimmy Carter for this mess.
Harry Baldwin, are you and I the only zerohedge readers on here? C’mon people!
If banks were lending their own money, and they knew it was dischargeable in bankruptcy, then they would enquire much more closely into the likelihood of ever getting their money back. This would help deflate the bubble.
I think that capping repayments would actually have a similar effect, banks would become reluctant to fund the queer-studies-to-starbucks pipeline. Sponsoring doctors & accountants would be a safer bet.
But for either of these to work the risk has to be on the people making the lending decision. If the government eats the losses then these would just help inflate the bubble further.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
That said, that the guy who made the remark wouldn't have dared if it really was Courtney Love.Replies: @San Fernando Curt, @Desiderius, @The Practical Conservative, @J1234, @anon
Everyone else in the picture was posing for an official group photo, and looking towards the camera. Kellyanne wasn’t looking towards the camera, so she obviously was under the impression that she was far enough to the side to not be in the picture (it looks like she was messing with her phone to get a picture, too. ) Given all of this, it seems plain that she might’ve been tucking her legs under her so they wouldn’t inadvertently end up in the picture.
The media lies, but even some in the liberal media found the flap surrounding this picture to be ridiculous.
About yourself? Or Steve? 😉
I always like the clarity of Judge Andrew Napolitano in explaining the law. Here he is this morning on Fox Business with Maria Bartiromo giving us a clear explanation of the parameters of some warrants v. others and putting forth his opinion that the former POTUS didn’t bother going through FISA because “he didn’t have to.”
It seems it has taken the MSM two days to do their research on all this. The MSM is not going to be able to hide behind Schumer’s “if Trump is right in saying he was bugged, there had to be a judge that thought there was evidence to issue a FISA warrant.
Of course, I would guess ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN (and the NYTimes, the AP, and WaPost) are NOT reporting the fact that a POTUS can issue a warrantless surveillance request to his AG .
http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/5349167867001/?playlist_id=3166411554001#sp=show-clips
That said, that the guy who made the remark wouldn't have dared if it really was Courtney Love.Replies: @San Fernando Curt, @Desiderius, @The Practical Conservative, @J1234, @anon
if michelle obama had sat like that the media would have said how natural she was
the media are filth – any attempt to rationalize their filthy behavior enables their filthiness
Voted for him, of course. But I’m a little concerned.
Immigration: moving forward. Gets a B-plus so far.
Russian relationship: I doubt much that R is wanting to expand their land base. I suspect their military buildup is largely to deter China & Mongolia in the eastern regions. They may indeed take Donbass, but only on the strength of a strong plebiscite. Donbass will be a severe expense if they take it, it would be better for R to rather encourage it to acquire genuine sovereignty. Trump does not show an appreciation of this situation, at least not publically.
Military: He should be squeezing the war lovers hard, instead he is throwing money at them. Ai-yi-yi !
Fission Weapons: He’s going to make a lot more of them. They are not a deterrent as the retrn blow will harm us beyond words, destabilize & destroy our America. Bad for the env., too. So this is disappointing.
The Banksters: He knows debt is a looming existential catastrophe. He needs to supply the Banksters the haircut they so desparately need & deserve. The Banksters are the true Deep State. He’s pandering to them, but the reality is he should be cutting off their legs. Anyone interested in this should read M. Hudson, especially “Killing The Host.” The Banksters are NOT patriotic Americans, they are transnational oligarchs.
What on earth is fueling this man?Replies: @Steve Sailer, @mobi, @Jack Hanson, @wren, @anon, @SteveRogers42, @Lagertha
Neanderthal metabolism
It took guts for Trump to go to that WH Correspondents’ Dinner, knowing there wasn’t a person in the room on his side, knowing Barry would use the occasion to skewer him. Unless he just wanted the publicity he knew it would garner when Barry roasted him and nothing more, there must have been another reason(s) for his decision to attend.
I suspect he was taking measure of his adversary, seeing if Barry would indeed skewer him to his face. He got his answer. And/or perhaps he was sending a message to Barry–“Nothing embarrasses me so much that I shrink from it; no, I face it.”
In short, his business career and his behavior throughout the primariesm, the General Election, the run up to taking office, and now occupancy of the Office, all point to a guy who plays the short game when he deems it effective but who plays the long game for the kill.
He didn’t tweet what he did this weekend in fit of pique. He has a plan.
Trump took credit for forcing Obama to show the birth certificate (it was in the week of WH correspondents dinner, right?). And as Obama was speaking at the dinner Navy Seals were already flying to get Osama. Perhaps Trump could take credit for this as well. In my opinion both events, i.e., the birth certificate and the subsequent Osama disposal were linked.
But no man gets to decide what kind of times he will live in, and Trump's desires are all very unseasonable, like planting tomatoes in November. What Trump is now learning is that his presidency must concern itself with a business he never intended and which he may find unpleasant. He was elected to crush the globalist Dems and begin work on the American ethno-state.
This really is his mandate; this really is what he was elected for, even though both he and the majority of his voters were only dimly conscious of it, if at all. It is worth mentioning that, with the particular clarity that danger affords, the Democrats and globalists are entirely conscious of it, thus the riots and accusations of racism/sexism/Nazism coming from the Left.
What the American Deep State has been doing these last weeks---i.e. the completely confabulated accusations of Russian hacking of the election---are the proof that the real battle must be fought here. They aren't going to let up on Trump; they forced the resignation of Flynn and the sidelining of Sessions (who, I might add, didn't exactly help matters by cucking hard at his press conference, looking like a deer in the headlights and sounding like Mr. Rogers, and recusing himself when he did nothing wrong). If they are allowed to continue this, they will continue chipping away at the Trump administration until they finally fell the man and the movement he unknowingly leads. They have shown that they have the power to continue to frustrate the White Right despite losing the election, even though that means resorting to outright criminal behavior, fake news, lying, illegal wiretaps, suborning government agencies, leaking classified material, and using the news media as a hostile interrogator.
What Trump needs to understand is that the American people elected him not primarily because they wanted better jobs and infrastructure, but because they want all that bullshit to stop. Americans just want to live in a normal, decent country without having to worry about what their government is going to do to them. All the rest of the problems will take care of themselves once the globalists' tyranny is ended; but what is not yet spoken openly save by a few, is that this means destroying the organized Left.
It means putting people in jail---people like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. It means shutting down FakeNews CNN. It means toppling and deposing the oligarchs in Silicon Valley and Wall Street. It means deporting millions of Mexican illegals. And it means one more thing that Trump will probably find least pleasant of all. It means restoring national solvency by ending entitlements and shutting down the welfare state.
This is going to lose Trump a huge amount of support among Baby Boomers---the largest, wealthiest, and most vocal voting block---because they will be forced into a long-defrayed day of reckoning. In order to make up for this lost support, Trump is going to need our unwavering assistance.
In short, Trump is going to need an army. Will you enlist?Replies: @Diversity Heretic, @AndrewR, @Thea, @Old fogey, @Achmed E. Newman, @anon, @SFG, @Kylie, @Lagertha
The irony is he’s a centrist civic nationalist but the other side are forcing him to take them out to get anything done.
An American hero has emerged to fight for justice and honor in Berkeley. They call him Based Stick Man. His love of country is enhanced by having a plywood Viking shield of something around 7/8 of an inch thickness, a baseball helmet with a 2nd Amendment sticker on it, eye goggles, a respirator, shin guards and a lot of courage.
Perhaps inspired by the brave Kiara Robles, the beautiful young lady Trump supporter pepper sprayed at the First Battle of Berkeley, Based Stick Man bravely defended many Trump supporters at the Second Battle of Berkeley.
Based Stick Man In Action:
https://twitter.com/SMABSO/status/838795955524755457
Hard to say, but approx 10 days or so ago, he said, “the news is fake; the leaks are real.” That seems to indicate he believed all the published stories were fake and were released (“leaked”) as factual on purpose.
Something seems to have happened to have changed his mind about some of the reportage being “fake news.”
“Yeah, I’m fairly large and I’m not that energetic.”
Steve, I take this to mean you aren’t physically energetic; e.g., several sets of tennis or miles of vigorous hiking wouldn’t be something you’d have the energy to do. But the amount of material you read and write is amazing. I know people absorb knowledge more readily when it interests them and you focus on what interests you. Still, I find your output, in both quantity and quality, astonishing.
The number of interns Steve was thought to boss around ended in dozens, if I remember correctly.
That number might have ended in hundreds, but these conspiracy theorists predictably ran out of gas.
One still sees comments like, "I can't keep up, Steve."
It is pretty astonishing.
“It took guts for Trump to go to that WH Correspondents’ Dinner”
Trump took credit for forcing Obama to show the birth certificate (it was in the week of WH correspondents dinner, right?). And as Obama was speaking at the dinner Navy Seals were already flying to get Osama. Perhaps Trump could take credit for this as well. In my opinion both events, i.e., the birth certificate and the subsequent Osama disposal were linked.
These people are nasty and vicious, but lack genuine courage. Once a few of them end up staring down federal felony charges, they will sing like canaries and produce more convictions.
Also, oligarchic press barons like Carlos Slim and Jeff Bezos didn't get where they are by punctilious subservience to rules. A little federal investigating could cool their jets pretty fast.
As someone else pointed out, all Trump's olive-branching of his (and America's) mortal enemies has yielded exactly zip. Enough. Take 'em down hard.
In general Trump's cabinet should commit Ann Coulter's advice to heart: relentlessly pound facts and logic, never apologize, never concede, never assume nor expect goodwill from the Left. Are you listening Jeff Sessions?Replies: @utu, @TomSchmidt
Have the FCC require cable companies to allow people to get cable channels a la carte. MSNBC and CNN would dry up and blow away. It’s only subsidies from people who have no choice but to cut the cord that keep those fake news outlets alive.
It’s depressing to see the furious backlash from The Cathedral to Trump questioning the bipartisan imperial/proposition-nation consensus. Here’s an article in the NYT making all the usual points.
It’s interesting to look back at some of the documents from the founding of the republic, and hold them up side by side with whatever “fundamental American values” are in the current year.
(e.g. the declaration of independence)
And as has been pointed out, fewer Muslim troops have been killed in action than the number of American troops killed by their Muslim "brethren."
This university bubble will pop at some point, as parents realize it's not worth a loan the size of a house mortgage to have their kid(s) get a piece of paper that qualifies him of the same barista job he was already working. The total loan amounts are up near $1,500,000,000,000 with a significant chunk in at least partial default.
Solution: Get the US Feral Gov't TF OUT of Education, along with everyone else. Thank Jimmy Carter for this mess.
Harry Baldwin, are you and I the only zerohedge readers on here? C'mon people!Replies: @anon
I’m one of those but I didn’t write very clearly:
If banks were lending their own money, and they knew it was dischargeable in bankruptcy, then they would enquire much more closely into the likelihood of ever getting their money back. This would help deflate the bubble.
I think that capping repayments would actually have a similar effect, banks would become reluctant to fund the queer-studies-to-starbucks pipeline. Sponsoring doctors & accountants would be a safer bet.
But for either of these to work the risk has to be on the people making the lending decision. If the government eats the losses then these would just help inflate the bubble further.
When you wrote "I'm one of those", did you mean a zerohedge reader?Replies: @Steve Sailer
A man named Based Stick Man bravely defended Trump supporters at the Second Battle of Berkeley. Based Stick Man had a plywood Viking shield, baseball helmet, respirator, eye goggles, shin guards and a lot of courage. He was all over the battlefield at Berkeley helping to stop the rabid anti-Trump thugs who were attacking good innocent people. God Bless Based Stick Man.
The question arises: How many plywood Viking shields can you make with a 4′ by 8′ piece of plywood?
Since Ivanka and Chelsea did the same thing, it cancels out. One of them wasn’t going to wind up First Daughter.
But no man gets to decide what kind of times he will live in, and Trump's desires are all very unseasonable, like planting tomatoes in November. What Trump is now learning is that his presidency must concern itself with a business he never intended and which he may find unpleasant. He was elected to crush the globalist Dems and begin work on the American ethno-state.
This really is his mandate; this really is what he was elected for, even though both he and the majority of his voters were only dimly conscious of it, if at all. It is worth mentioning that, with the particular clarity that danger affords, the Democrats and globalists are entirely conscious of it, thus the riots and accusations of racism/sexism/Nazism coming from the Left.
What the American Deep State has been doing these last weeks---i.e. the completely confabulated accusations of Russian hacking of the election---are the proof that the real battle must be fought here. They aren't going to let up on Trump; they forced the resignation of Flynn and the sidelining of Sessions (who, I might add, didn't exactly help matters by cucking hard at his press conference, looking like a deer in the headlights and sounding like Mr. Rogers, and recusing himself when he did nothing wrong). If they are allowed to continue this, they will continue chipping away at the Trump administration until they finally fell the man and the movement he unknowingly leads. They have shown that they have the power to continue to frustrate the White Right despite losing the election, even though that means resorting to outright criminal behavior, fake news, lying, illegal wiretaps, suborning government agencies, leaking classified material, and using the news media as a hostile interrogator.
What Trump needs to understand is that the American people elected him not primarily because they wanted better jobs and infrastructure, but because they want all that bullshit to stop. Americans just want to live in a normal, decent country without having to worry about what their government is going to do to them. All the rest of the problems will take care of themselves once the globalists' tyranny is ended; but what is not yet spoken openly save by a few, is that this means destroying the organized Left.
It means putting people in jail---people like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. It means shutting down FakeNews CNN. It means toppling and deposing the oligarchs in Silicon Valley and Wall Street. It means deporting millions of Mexican illegals. And it means one more thing that Trump will probably find least pleasant of all. It means restoring national solvency by ending entitlements and shutting down the welfare state.
This is going to lose Trump a huge amount of support among Baby Boomers---the largest, wealthiest, and most vocal voting block---because they will be forced into a long-defrayed day of reckoning. In order to make up for this lost support, Trump is going to need our unwavering assistance.
In short, Trump is going to need an army. Will you enlist?Replies: @Diversity Heretic, @AndrewR, @Thea, @Old fogey, @Achmed E. Newman, @anon, @SFG, @Kylie, @Lagertha
Partially agree.
Agree Trump will need help from people here. Agree the Deep State is out to get him. Agree the media plays dirty. But…
Lots of Americans in fact were hoping with his business background he would provide better jobs and infrastructure. Most Americans want him to preserve the welfare state–look at the percentages of people who actually want the ACA repealed. He got points for saying he’d leave Medicare and Social Security alone.
The ex-coal miners in West Virginia and laid-off auto workers in Michigan don’t care about New York bankers or San Francisco pervs. They don’t like those people, but that’s secondary. They want their jobs back, and they want to be safe from crime. And they want the Medicare and SSI they paid into and worked for. Trump didn’t need the Republican establishment, so he could avoid the free-marketry that has, IMHO, outlived its usefulness. The market’s too free. We have to make it serve America first, rather than the other way around.
What on earth is fueling this man?Replies: @Steve Sailer, @mobi, @Jack Hanson, @wren, @anon, @SteveRogers42, @Lagertha
Vitamin M(elania).
Agree on the discharge in bankruptcy.
I would also add the feature of full recourse to the institutions that received the money for any loan discharged in bankruptcy.
Maybe a significant portion of Steve's audience doesn't have much experience with this type?Replies: @whorefinder
As Steve has pointed out, removing the ability to say certain concepts/words has made it difficult for us to notice and think about them. Orwell was very right when it came to Newspeak.
I will bet you absolutely no one here has ever heard someone say the term “typical lazy ni***er* in real life. Perhaps once in a movie about how evil and racist whitey is, but no where said by an actual human being to him. The rare exception might be if you have some sort of old-school father around.
And since they’ve never heard it, and are verboten from even considering a bad stereotype about blacks, they are effectively cut off from the concept.
Seriously, Obama’s life is quite easily summed up in a more genteel phrase I’ve heard, the Corporate Token Negro.
The Corporate Token Negro is competent enough to be there, and doesn’t do things like start fights for “disses” or grab women’s asses, but he’s not going to help out one bit. At 5:01pm, he’s out the door, he doesn’t stay late, he doesn’t work weekends, and his work product is always in the bottom 20%. He smiles for the brochure photos and is on the “diversity” committee, but he just shows up, signs what people tells him to sign, and leaves. He has no desire to get better or improve his work or anything.
Now, that’s a pretty accurate description of most affirmative action hires. But because we’ve banished such terms and noticing such patterns from our society, people don’t call Obama that.
When talking with a potential dissident, I might drop the phrase “Corporate Token Negro” into the conversation to see how they react. If their eyes light up, I know they’re one of us—-I’ve just put a name to a phenomenon they’ve long noticed but had no words to describe it.
And that would still leave him with the knowledge he has obtained without payment. How does that get repossessed?
Is a poor initial credit rating a sufficient cost to forego an all-expense-paid four years at one of the planet's premier academic institutions, plus a potentially valuable degree?Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Federalist
Nothing is repossessed. A student loan is an unsecured loan (like a credit card and not like a mortgage). Bankruptcy law treats student loans differently from most other debts by making student loans nondischargeable. Basically, they don’t go away after the bankruptcy. Congress could change bankruptcy law to make student loans normal, dischargeable debts. The debtor would obtain knowledge without payment but in a bankruptcy, the debtor almost always obtains something without paying.
Hence the justice of non-dischargeability.Replies: @Anonymous
"You have been wrong every single friggin time" - No true. In the last week before the election I was suggesting that Trump would win because some faction of the Deep Sate was saying so in almost open text, but not many, particularly in media (except to some extent for NYT and WSJ), wanted to hear it. Apparently media functionaries and their handlers belong to another faction of the Deep State.
No so long ago I was predicting that if Bannon goes it is all over as he is the only person there with some ideological spine who subsequently has a vision. Recently WSJ had an OpEd suggesting that if only Trump get rid off Bannon (and also Miller) and stick to lowering taxes and reducing regulations (the usual Republican shtick) he will be OK. And today:
Video emerges of Trump's 'furious argument' with top adviser Steven Bannon
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4284566/Video-emerges-Trump-s-Oval-Office-row-Bannon.html#ixzz4aZSm9PLJReplies: @Anonymous
Sessions fizzled out fast so the guns are pointed back on Bannon.
Slate: Bannon, adviser behind travel ban, loves novel about migrants destroying white society (Camp of the Saints)
CNN: Steve Bannon in 2013: Joseph McCarthy was right in crusade against Communist infiltration
I don't think Obama fully anticipated the implications of Trump wielding the power of the federal investigative apparatus, even with deep state agents placing landmines along the way.
The question I have been asking myself this weekend: is it too late for Obama to call a truce?
For the good of the nation, I don't want to see the former President indicted.Replies: @Anonymous, @AndrewR, @Thea, @chris moffatt
I’d love to see the last three presidents, at least, indicted. Re the wire tapping allegations Trump is correct:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/us/politics/trump-russia-associates-investigation.html?_r=0
All these blackpillers in the comments are bringing me down. This is just beginning.
Yes! As with many of the sneaky supports of Pozmerica, the laws to prevent it already exist, but no one ever enforced them. Channel bundling by the cable oligopolies is prima facie restraint of trade, but the executive has never bothered them about it. The de facto subsidy normal America pays to Pozmerica via bundling could end overnight if a Chief Executive starts taking the law seriously.
Getting only 4 hours of sleep makes you bad at math too, it seems. 18 hours going strong still leaves 6 hours, unless you’re writing off 2 hours for shaving, etc. and some quality time with Melania, know what I mean, nudge, nudge, he said knowingly. 😉
There is a recent speech by Putin available on youtube, either from New Year's or Christmas - sorry, I'm an old fogey and don't really know how to put in a link - in which he applauds the Russian people's return to Christianity and hopes that Christendom will once again link the European-based nations. It is an excellent speech and one which I would have expected our newspaper-of-record, which is still tossed on my driveway every day, to cover. Surprisingly. . .Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
Fogey, just copy (by highlighting it and then pressing the Ctrl and the c keys together [to copy]) the text – called the URL that is in the address bar of the browser window or tab in which you see the youtube video in question. For this iSteve post for example the URL is the text that says “www . unz . com/isteve/trump ….. ” etc.
Then, while you are typing stuff into the text box to make your comment, go to the next line and just press Ctrl and v keys together [to paste]. The problem is your video will only appear “embedded”, i.e. a rectangle in your comment with the video ready to play, if you put it early in the thread of comments. Also, sometimes if you edit the comment, your video reverts back to being a link. I don’t know the whys on all this, but I and another commenter wrote about it a few weeks back. We are learning via experiment on that, but it is obviously programmed in to keep page-loading time down, or somthin?
I hope that helps you for next time.
Many thanks for your efforts, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wDW_3FGAQY
Lazy and uppity.
I agree with this. People only argue about the past, obsess over their old hurts…and try to correct the injustices (real or perceived) when their persona formed in their 20’s. And, the appetite for revenge for past insults grows, seethes, percolates, way into their old age – I know this from experience coming from a complicated, intense, highly emotional, large, extended family. Hubris, hatred, vengeance, lasts a lifetime. And, this inherent propulsion knows no humility, nor proper behavior, for seeking revenge at all costs.
An in-depth analysis of the FISA situation. Worth reading.
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/21934
Okay I give up posting here.
You guys are nothing more than a pack of small-minded leftist fuckhead oppressors.
Authenticjazzman "Mensa" society member of forty-plus years and pro jazz artist.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
Steve’s got to get some sleep at some point, Jazz man. I don’t hold it against him when things get held up for hours.
Just don’t call anyone the B-word*, it won’t take.
* Do I have to spell it out for you? B E A N E R!
At their on-line university! No one will sign up. Millennials already know: these guys are the enemy of truth.
But no man gets to decide what kind of times he will live in, and Trump's desires are all very unseasonable, like planting tomatoes in November. What Trump is now learning is that his presidency must concern itself with a business he never intended and which he may find unpleasant. He was elected to crush the globalist Dems and begin work on the American ethno-state.
This really is his mandate; this really is what he was elected for, even though both he and the majority of his voters were only dimly conscious of it, if at all. It is worth mentioning that, with the particular clarity that danger affords, the Democrats and globalists are entirely conscious of it, thus the riots and accusations of racism/sexism/Nazism coming from the Left.
What the American Deep State has been doing these last weeks---i.e. the completely confabulated accusations of Russian hacking of the election---are the proof that the real battle must be fought here. They aren't going to let up on Trump; they forced the resignation of Flynn and the sidelining of Sessions (who, I might add, didn't exactly help matters by cucking hard at his press conference, looking like a deer in the headlights and sounding like Mr. Rogers, and recusing himself when he did nothing wrong). If they are allowed to continue this, they will continue chipping away at the Trump administration until they finally fell the man and the movement he unknowingly leads. They have shown that they have the power to continue to frustrate the White Right despite losing the election, even though that means resorting to outright criminal behavior, fake news, lying, illegal wiretaps, suborning government agencies, leaking classified material, and using the news media as a hostile interrogator.
What Trump needs to understand is that the American people elected him not primarily because they wanted better jobs and infrastructure, but because they want all that bullshit to stop. Americans just want to live in a normal, decent country without having to worry about what their government is going to do to them. All the rest of the problems will take care of themselves once the globalists' tyranny is ended; but what is not yet spoken openly save by a few, is that this means destroying the organized Left.
It means putting people in jail---people like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. It means shutting down FakeNews CNN. It means toppling and deposing the oligarchs in Silicon Valley and Wall Street. It means deporting millions of Mexican illegals. And it means one more thing that Trump will probably find least pleasant of all. It means restoring national solvency by ending entitlements and shutting down the welfare state.
This is going to lose Trump a huge amount of support among Baby Boomers---the largest, wealthiest, and most vocal voting block---because they will be forced into a long-defrayed day of reckoning. In order to make up for this lost support, Trump is going to need our unwavering assistance.
In short, Trump is going to need an army. Will you enlist?Replies: @Diversity Heretic, @AndrewR, @Thea, @Old fogey, @Achmed E. Newman, @anon, @SFG, @Kylie, @Lagertha
Beautiful.
If banks were lending their own money, and they knew it was dischargeable in bankruptcy, then they would enquire much more closely into the likelihood of ever getting their money back. This would help deflate the bubble.
I think that capping repayments would actually have a similar effect, banks would become reluctant to fund the queer-studies-to-starbucks pipeline. Sponsoring doctors & accountants would be a safer bet.
But for either of these to work the risk has to be on the people making the lending decision. If the government eats the losses then these would just help inflate the bubble further.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
Yep, that is a well-written explanation. Any loan officer who lent an art history major full tuition money, etc. back in the day that the bank would be responsible for the loan would get fired for that. Government’s messing in the markets ALWAYS causes irresponsibility.
When you wrote “I’m one of those”, did you mean a zerohedge reader?
Philosophy being a course of study which is almost, without exception, persued by confused neurotics who are trying to "find themselves", or are seeking the non-existant answers for all of the "injustices" of life.
Rational sane people do not not run after elusive " answers" which are never to be found, and were not discovered even by the authors of of the most famous works of philosophy themselves.Authenticjazzman " Mensa" society member since 1973, and pro jazz artist.Replies: @Anon
Were many of these philosophy majors, PHDs, and professors also jazz players?
Once Bannon is gone we won’t hear about anti-semitic calls to Jewish schools and centers and Jewish cemetery desecrations. That FBI found Juan Thompson and made it public that some of the anti-semitic actions are really false flags directed against Trump is a good sign that perhaps Sessions imparted some pressure on FBI.
If stupidity results in a multi-billion dollar personal fortune, a parade of supermodel wives, several beautiful and accomplished children, and winning the Presidency despite never having run for dogcatcher before, then I pray that God will make me as stupid as Donald Trump.
The Flynn and Sessions kerfuffles where huge losses for our side. Hopefully he learned from those.Replies: @Jack Hanson
Are you, utu, and AndrewR all the same person?
I agree, which makes the repeated defeatism and pathetic doom masturbation of utu, AndrewR, and Chrisnonymous even more off base and sad.
Dogs. You guys just made my night! I would put Irish Wolfhounds and Pitbulls at the top of the list for brains…yeah, I know, this is OT to the post!
Steve, I take this to mean you aren't physically energetic; e.g., several sets of tennis or miles of vigorous hiking wouldn't be something you'd have the energy to do. But the amount of material you read and write is amazing. I know people absorb knowledge more readily when it interests them and you focus on what interests you. Still, I find your output, in both quantity and quality, astonishing.Replies: @The True and Original David
In the comments some years ago, there was speculation that iSteve was a small industry like Thomas Kinkade.
The number of interns Steve was thought to boss around ended in dozens, if I remember correctly.
That number might have ended in hundreds, but these conspiracy theorists predictably ran out of gas.
One still sees comments like, “I can’t keep up, Steve.”
It is pretty astonishing.
Something seems to have happened to have changed his mind about some of the reportage being "fake news."Replies: @The True and Original David
Or, he’s calling their bluff.
When the college graduates go on to earn income off the assets they have received from the university (knowledge and credentials), it is fair to ask them to repay the money borrowed to procure those assets
Hence the justice of non-dischargeability.
If the large number of people who go to college for four years for useless degrees stopped employers would be forced to cease this practice. Most business and liberal arts programs at non-elite universities are really remedial high school programs giving the graduates little more than would have been considered a good high school level of competence fifty years ago.
Indexing minimum wage to educational level required or putting a per hour or annual surtax on salary indexed to required educational level would be possible schemes to curb employer mooching of the public educational largesse, as it were.
Limiting federal funds to colleges who don't cap sports coaches' salaries to that of the highest paid full professors would also be good for a little entertainment.Replies: @Desiderius, @Lagertha
But no man gets to decide what kind of times he will live in, and Trump's desires are all very unseasonable, like planting tomatoes in November. What Trump is now learning is that his presidency must concern itself with a business he never intended and which he may find unpleasant. He was elected to crush the globalist Dems and begin work on the American ethno-state.
This really is his mandate; this really is what he was elected for, even though both he and the majority of his voters were only dimly conscious of it, if at all. It is worth mentioning that, with the particular clarity that danger affords, the Democrats and globalists are entirely conscious of it, thus the riots and accusations of racism/sexism/Nazism coming from the Left.
What the American Deep State has been doing these last weeks---i.e. the completely confabulated accusations of Russian hacking of the election---are the proof that the real battle must be fought here. They aren't going to let up on Trump; they forced the resignation of Flynn and the sidelining of Sessions (who, I might add, didn't exactly help matters by cucking hard at his press conference, looking like a deer in the headlights and sounding like Mr. Rogers, and recusing himself when he did nothing wrong). If they are allowed to continue this, they will continue chipping away at the Trump administration until they finally fell the man and the movement he unknowingly leads. They have shown that they have the power to continue to frustrate the White Right despite losing the election, even though that means resorting to outright criminal behavior, fake news, lying, illegal wiretaps, suborning government agencies, leaking classified material, and using the news media as a hostile interrogator.
What Trump needs to understand is that the American people elected him not primarily because they wanted better jobs and infrastructure, but because they want all that bullshit to stop. Americans just want to live in a normal, decent country without having to worry about what their government is going to do to them. All the rest of the problems will take care of themselves once the globalists' tyranny is ended; but what is not yet spoken openly save by a few, is that this means destroying the organized Left.
It means putting people in jail---people like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. It means shutting down FakeNews CNN. It means toppling and deposing the oligarchs in Silicon Valley and Wall Street. It means deporting millions of Mexican illegals. And it means one more thing that Trump will probably find least pleasant of all. It means restoring national solvency by ending entitlements and shutting down the welfare state.
This is going to lose Trump a huge amount of support among Baby Boomers---the largest, wealthiest, and most vocal voting block---because they will be forced into a long-defrayed day of reckoning. In order to make up for this lost support, Trump is going to need our unwavering assistance.
In short, Trump is going to need an army. Will you enlist?Replies: @Diversity Heretic, @AndrewR, @Thea, @Old fogey, @Achmed E. Newman, @anon, @SFG, @Kylie, @Lagertha
I agree with some of this. Deep State is well, duh, deep. So, I don’t see the practical ability to imprison former O administration operatives – basically, too much drama. However, I do feel that warning everyone about the Eye of Sauron is the correct mission; this is a call for hackers united, to protect Trump from take-down, and destroy, destroy the bad people….Tora, tora, tora. Every Trump supporter needs to go out and yell and scream, at town halls or marches; be in the faces of the opposition. Efforts have to be made to shut people down who are trying to take down Trump. Hackers, this is your ultimate video game…your Fight Club.
So, as a mother, what turns me into a warrior against lies? – my allegiance to my children. What takes away from Democrats’ ability to stick to marching orders they are given by the DNC/O & Jarret & co.( from Kalorama ???- not a recording studio)? – their children will suffer...now, or 20 years from now. Reputations still matter…and shit, you have to think about how you affect your child’s reputation. Beware of single, childless people.
Democrats will jump ship…at least the ones with children…’cause trolls or Orcs could become a reality. War times are war times, and people suffer…famous last words of my grandpa. And, sadly, no one remembers or cares what happens 40 years from now, or 40 years ago.
When you wrote "I'm one of those", did you mean a zerohedge reader?Replies: @Steve Sailer
The top 5% or so best paid of art history majors do very well for themselves working for Sotheby’s and the like. I was reading about some art history Ph.D. who is always getting his clients like Leonardo DiCaprio to show up for his Save the Marlin benefit / deep sea fishing tournament.
And put in a few words of text description of what the video is about.
Regarding the latest Trump Twitter firestorm, I think it might work out more to his advantage than early predictions are running (it usually does). For one thing, he's forcing the issue of whatever the Deep State might have to come out more quickly, rather than getting dripped, dripped, dripped little by little into the press in the form of leaks of incomplete or partial information. He's basically challenging them to either "put up or shut up."
For another, he's calling their bluff on the surveillance. Either the former Obama administration (which includes not only Obama, but people who are still in the government now) has to admit that it had Trump, or his organization, or people connected to him, under surveillance while he was running for President (and, possibly, that they bent or broke the rules in doing so); or they have to deny it, and very likely take off the table any possibility that a "smoking gun" proving any sort of collusion with the Russians will ever be revealed. Clapper had to admit on the Sunday morning shows that they never had any evidence of any sort of collusion during the campaign. It basically paints the Deep State and Obama in a corner.
My guess: I think that Obama probably did have Trump under some sort of surveillance, most likely through the DOJ and probably under a FISA order, though they probably either stretched the truth to get it and/or extended their surveillance beyond what was authorized by the order. Obama showed a pattern throughout his Presidency of both 1) using governmental power unethically to go after political enemies (e.g., siccing the IRS on the Tea Party, having the DOJ spy on reporters, etc.) and 2) relying on political appointees in the administrative state to do that dirty work without having to be given explicit instructions that could be traced to the White House (Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, the IRS). Obama's spokespeoples' lawyerly dodges over the weekend that he "never ordered" surveillance would seem to conform to this pattern.Replies: @Desiderius
Why does it matter?
We elected him because his natural personality and instincts fit our needs. If I go to the store for a tool, I’m not really that concerned with why it works, just that it does. Luck is the residue of design – our design in electing him and not someone else.
What on earth is fueling this man?Replies: @Steve Sailer, @mobi, @Jack Hanson, @wren, @anon, @SteveRogers42, @Lagertha
I agree with some of this. Deep state is well, duh, deep. So, I don’t see the practical ability to imprison former O administration – basically, too much drama. However, I do feel that warning everyone about the Eye of Sauron is the correct mission; this is a call for hackers united, to protect Trump from take-down, and destroy, destroy the bad people….Tora, tora, tora. Every Trump supporter needs to go out and yell and scream, at town halls or marches; be int the faces of the opposition. Efforts have to be made to shut people down who are trying to take down Trump. Hackers, this is your ultimate video game…your Fight Club.
So, as a mother, what turns me into a warrior that will defend my children from injustice, imprisonment, and certain death? – my allegiance to my children. What takes away from Democrats’ ability to stick to marching orders they are given by the DNC/O & Jarret & co.( from Kalorama ???- not a recording studio)? – their children will suffer...now, or 20 years form now. Reputations still matter…and shit, you have to think about how you affect your child’s reputation. Beware of single, childless people.
Democrats will jump ship…at least the ones with children…’cause trolls or Orcs could become a reality. War times are war times, and people suffer…famous last words of my grandpa. And, sadly, no one remembers or cares what happened 40 years ago.
BTW, this was a REPLY TO BURTON,not Flinders Petrie. Steve, can u fix it?
You are so damned full of yourself that you’d make Narcissus blush.
Whose friend are you? Because you are no friend of the American people.
exactly…it’s easy money for banks….it is basically, parents paying (some students pay) the same amount if it was taxes (for their child’s education), if they lived in Denmark, or any other social democracy. I dunno, my cousins pay 50% of their income in taxes in Europe forever….so, paying for tuition, especially if it is around $10,000 for those four years, in the USA, is not so bad.
Not worried. Sessions is on a smallish sabbatical. And, everyone (and growing) is behind Trump being successful. Negativity and meanness sucks, and is so unattractive…so I don’t see incredibly rude, disgusting, and vile behavior (Democrats) to be, “yey, winning” with most people who have a short attention span…and bills to pay.
Hmmmm? can there be a policy that whoever wants refugees or “undocumented,” could financially support them…on their own? Could there be a policy (like Habitat for Humanity) that if you really want refugees and low-skilled people, you can pay a certain amount, every year/month, to cover the cost of their health/housing/food/education & children’s education/unemployment costs? – shared between all Progressives? I would be fine with liberals paying for the costs of poor immigrants…let them pay.
Hence the justice of non-dischargeability.Replies: @Anonymous
HR people where I work openly admit that they generally don’t care what the applicant learned in college. They care about the fact the applicant went there and graduated and that positions with a certain responsibility, title or pay are open only to people who have earned a four year bachelor’s degree.
If the large number of people who go to college for four years for useless degrees stopped employers would be forced to cease this practice. Most business and liberal arts programs at non-elite universities are really remedial high school programs giving the graduates little more than would have been considered a good high school level of competence fifty years ago.
Indexing minimum wage to educational level required or putting a per hour or annual surtax on salary indexed to required educational level would be possible schemes to curb employer mooching of the public educational largesse, as it were.
Limiting federal funds to colleges who don’t cap sports coaches’ salaries to that of the highest paid full professors would also be good for a little entertainment.
The question arises: How many plywood Viking shields can you make with a 4' by 8' piece of plywood?
https://twitter.com/noblebarnes87/status/838849163605524480Replies: @Lagertha
I’m sure this person knew how to make a poison dart; smeared on a nail for his ply-wood saber/or lance..whatever it was. To his credit, he did not kill. I would have 🙂 How creepy. I really hate Berkeley students – a bunch of privileged youts who “know nuthin”. What a bunch of Hypocriticals. Hypocriticals against Deplorables…hmmm? I smell a really good Fight Club computer game.
If the large number of people who go to college for four years for useless degrees stopped employers would be forced to cease this practice. Most business and liberal arts programs at non-elite universities are really remedial high school programs giving the graduates little more than would have been considered a good high school level of competence fifty years ago.
Indexing minimum wage to educational level required or putting a per hour or annual surtax on salary indexed to required educational level would be possible schemes to curb employer mooching of the public educational largesse, as it were.
Limiting federal funds to colleges who don't cap sports coaches' salaries to that of the highest paid full professors would also be good for a little entertainment.Replies: @Desiderius, @Lagertha
The problem is that the HR people have to perpetuate it to preserve the value of their own bullshit degrees.
Yikes, Achmed, just reading the first few sentences sent my head into a spin. . . Makes me want to go back to a good old-fashioned fountain pen.
Many thanks for your efforts, though.
I hope this link helps people find the Putin speech:
I wonder how that group correlates with those having substantial student loans. I’m guessing they come from a rather different demographic.
Here’s another good interview of Judge Andrew Napolitano who is the only person I’ve seen on tv who has described how POTUS can surveil without a warrant by going directly to his AG. (I watched Rep. Trey Gowdy today describe the procedures available to the government to surveil and not surprisingly he LEFT OUT what Napolitano describes. Gowdy is a shrewd guy, a former prosecutor. He omitted it for a reason. )
If the large number of people who go to college for four years for useless degrees stopped employers would be forced to cease this practice. Most business and liberal arts programs at non-elite universities are really remedial high school programs giving the graduates little more than would have been considered a good high school level of competence fifty years ago.
Indexing minimum wage to educational level required or putting a per hour or annual surtax on salary indexed to required educational level would be possible schemes to curb employer mooching of the public educational largesse, as it were.
Limiting federal funds to colleges who don't cap sports coaches' salaries to that of the highest paid full professors would also be good for a little entertainment.Replies: @Desiderius, @Lagertha
except: the elite U’s graduate mediocre students TODAY. We don’t want anymore mediocre (former) students making policy in DC…at any level, for shit’s sake. We need intelligent people in govt and law who know geography and history (major duh) , law (ditto with duh, and all) , and philosophy (well, would be nice) . ….ok…I am dreaming! or, as, Twinkie says, “half-drunken” moments!
What's the difference?Replies: @Lagertha
none
Cannot be good, or safe, at his age.
He needs to pick his spots a little more, for his own sake.Replies: @Lagertha, @Lagertha
I look tired as shit (bc I’m old and cranky) – don’t have T’s energy; well, almost; that’s why I fight for him. Upshot: we’ve all got Steve, where there is NO LAST CALL. Steve, you are keeping us from going cabin crazy, info crazy, or whatever crazy. It’s all good; we are informed through so many resources – which is your point. And, I think I never said, Happy New Year….and I hope your family is well and things are good. I thank you and appreciate you for all you do.
my mind is scrambling (love a puzzle) what that plan may be. Always knew about the long games…or long games in general.
Cannot be good, or safe, at his age.
He needs to pick his spots a little more, for his own sake.Replies: @Lagertha, @Lagertha
I look tired as shit (bc I’m old) – don’t have T’s energy; well, almost; that’s why I fight for him. Upshot: we’ve got Steve where there is NO LAST CALL. Steve, you are keeping us from going cabin crazy, info crazy, or whatever crazy, Twinkie saying I am crazy 🙂
Whoops:
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/21934
If that’s seiza, then she’s a trashy whore. Well-reared Japanese girls are careful to keep their knees together. She does have good posture though.
Steve get your ass off the fainting couch and approve my comments.
Lol tell me more about the friends of the American people.
You have been wrong every single friggin time, with a worst track record than AndrewR.Replies: @BenKenobi, @utu, @AndrewR
Aww my not-so-secret admirer is back!
You are a female, and probably a completely normal and decent one too.
You have never been a horny thirteen year old boy looking at someone else's (semi-milfy) mom in that position.
And more to the point you are not a determined operative looking to cause problems, scandal, and general disruption for Donald Trump and his team.
These people hate Donald Trump and his loyal staff. And for good reason: he's sworn to put a derail on the tracks of the Gravy Express, and he has the intelligence, the determination, the ruthlessness and the persistence to get it done if he at all can. These people would be reduced to a blue collar existence, if that, if that happened and they hate and fear him.
They have no sense of decency, no class, no compunctions. They know that no matter how baseless, if they can make Kellyanne Conway-a formidable thinker who got Trump elected in the first place-to look like a strumpet in the view of the low information dolts that take everything they read at face value, they have not only made her feel bad but have made her a figure of ridicule.
And often otherwise decent and intelligent persons, once they get pegged as a goof, have a way of falling in the trap again and again. Dan Quayle wasn't stupid, but he consistently did things the media could use to make him seem that way once the ball got rolling. (He is, to be sure, no particular genius , but he is not a fulminating idiot either, and low information people tend to believe he is.) He'd continually do little things that the media would incessantly play back again and again.Replies: @Anonymous
“Low information dolts that take everything they read at face value” is how Trump got elected in the first place.
Your womanly snark here is quite the contrast to your 14/88 LARP everywhere else on the site.
I never left, unlike you who had to quit the internet for a while after proclaiming for months Trump couldn’t win. Sad! Tell me more about what a positive Sharia is while you’re at it, you shill.
the media are filth - any attempt to rationalize their filthy behavior enables their filthinessReplies: @Harry Baldwin
I’ve seen a photo of Michelle Obama sitting with one shoed-foot up on the couch in the Oval Office.
Thousands of Muslim men and women serve in the armed forces; many have given their lives defending our nation and our ideals.
And as has been pointed out, fewer Muslim troops have been killed in action than the number of American troops killed by their Muslim “brethren.”