Morning AB, All. As always, thank you AB for doing this thread so reliably and keeping the peace with gentle thread policing. Thank you Bray for weekly written wisdom, Thank you Rodguy for fishing tales and political perspectives from all angles, Thank all yon contributors for excellent commentary to flesh it all out.
Below are the words from my daily political diary. It is quite long so scroll on by if not interested. But do stay around and add your commentary and point of view to the thread.
Tuesday-8/6/19
TWO MAJOR MASS SHOOTINGS IN 24 HOUR PERIOD
Yes the country came into a bit of a mess when on Saturday night a shooter ran into a busy section of Dayton, Ohio, a Conner Betts shot and killed nine people, one of them his own sister. He injured dozens of others.
His background is quite interesting.
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The Ohio gunman described himself on social media as a pro-Satan “leftist” who wanted Joe Biden’s generation to die off, hated President Trump and law enforcement, and hoped to vote for Sen. Elizabeth Warren for president.
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Earlier that day a Patrick Crusius drove ten miles to El Paso Texas, walked into a Walmart, and shot and killed now up to 14 people, injuring many others.
The descriptions of the perps are all over the place BUT they are both creeps and loser-burgers.
The bigger story of these shootings than giving a bullshit about these losers is the chatter going on with the political class.
The Democrats went total batshit nuts. “TAKE AWAY THEIR GUNS” some shouted. That Beto O’Rourke, who once represented El Paso, had a whole bunch of silly stuff to say.
President Trump appeared on TV earlier on the day of this writing. He mentioned the new catch phrase of the day…’WHITE SUPREMECISTS” . Now here’s a new term to mock and degrade an entire race based on absolutely nothing.
Trump advocated a quick death penalty for these mass shooters. The thing is the Crusius fellow is still alive. Mass shooters generally do not have a long shelf life, often shot dead during their horrific act.
Lots of funerals and heartbreaks for those killed during a shooting spree by nothing-nothings who will go straight to hell, do not pass go, as soon as they take their last breath.
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POLITICAL MISCELLANY
SMOLLETT GETS SOME PUNISHMENT.
Seems that faker Jussie Smolliett lost a few thousand bucks by selling his home in California.
At least he got some punishment.
Jussie Smollett has sold his San Fernando Valley view home in the foothills above Studio City, Calif., to a non-famous couple in a clandestine off-market deal valued at $1.655 million. Unfortunately for the legally beleaguered former “Empire” star, fired in the wake of a controversially dismissed, 16-count felony indictment brought for allegedly staging a fake hate crime with him as the victim, didn’t have much luck on the real estate merry-go-round. Not counting carrying costs, improvement expenses and real estate fees, Smollett took a $30,000 loss on the hillside contemporary bungalow that, as was sussed out by the Blast, he scooped up during better professional days, a bit more than two years ago, for $1.687 million.
MOST HATED FOX PUNDIT
I don’t know if this item belongs under political miscellany but I got to get this off my chest.
Her name is JESSICA TARLOV and I hate, hate , hate her. Now there’s plenty of other Fox pundits I disliked but this piece of crap with her awful, awful, awful voice….and not to mention her political views, liberal, stupid…..PLEASE….FOX FIRE THIS WOMAN!!!
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Weds-8/7/19
U.S. TREASURY DECLARES CHINA TO BE A CURRENCY MANIPULATOR
I admit I don’t understand much about tariffs and I know even less about currency manipulation.
So much as I know, a country’s currency can be manipulated in comparison to another just by them saying so?
Example, China’s dollar, whatever it’s called now, is worth 75 cents to a U.S. dollar. So when America buys a shipment of steel from China valued at $100,000, America would only have to pay $75,000.?
The next day the Chinese money is blessed by the current dictator to be a Chinese dollar worth 1.25% of an American dollar. So that same Chinese steel shipment, valued still at $100,000, would cost America $125,000?
I probably got the above all wrong but as I see it, China has a multitude of ways to get money out of America and has never been honest about it.
So President Trump, a man quite experienced with the international market place, is on to China. And unlike many presidents before him he dared to take on China.
Yesterday before this writing, the stock market dropped almost 800 points. I was a bit distraught in that ALL of my 401K is in the stock market.
Today, after Trump stood his ground, China buckled. The stock market is back up over 26,000…..and continues to rise.
The Chinese don’t like when THEY get cheated. Or demanded to be fair, which they also don’t like.
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THE DEMOCRATS CONTINUE TO BLAME PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR THE SHOOTIINGS AT EL PASO AND DAYTON
First, Neil Cavuto took on Ohio Senator’s Tim Ryan on his show 8/5/19 and I was stunned.
As I watched Cavuto asked Ryan if ole Bernie was responsible for the baseball game shootings, done by a supporter. The argument between the two went on and I was pleased as all get out. If more pundits/journalists went after politicos and their lies like Cavuto did, maybe we’d get a little truth once in a while.
Below, a video of that interview for those readers who too want a smile.
“What was the environment under Barack Obama when we had shootings?” Cavuto asked. “You pick and choose, but you don’t like Donald Trump, right?”
Ryan said he’s not picking and choosing because the last few presidents were not “creating an environment around the color of people’s skin.”
Cavuto told him linking Trump’s rhetoric to a shooting is a leap.
“I’m not taking a leap. I’m telling it like it is,” Ryan said. “I’m telling you exactly how I see it. I’m sorry it’s the case and I’m sorry it may cut against somebody’s political beliefs and they may agree with Trump’s political philosophy, which is fine. If there is one, it’s fine. I’m talking about him creating an environment of intolerance in the United States. Instead of ‘out of many one,’ He divides us. You know it and everybody else that pays a little bit of attention understands that this is his M.O. This is what he does.”
As they argued Cavuto again told him he’s going too far and while Ryan continued making his point Cavuto abruptly ended the interview.
When he returned from break, Cavuto apologized to viewers “if I appeared rude” in his interview with Ryan, reiterating he doesn’t like the finger-pointing.
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But of course the genius of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) comes into play as she too blames President Trump for the shootings.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) late Monday said that President Trump's divisive rhetoric on immigration was "directly responsible" for the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas that left at least 22 people dead. The freshman New York congresswoman made the comments while speaking at a vigil in Brooklyn for the victims of the shooting in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, according to the New York Daily News. “I’m tired of the questioning if the president is racist. He is,” Ocasio-Cortez told a crowd of about 500 people, the newspaper noted.
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POLITICAL CARTOON OF THE WEEK
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Thurs -8/8/19
But goodness we all now know that President Trump caused those two nutty men kill over 30 people.
Democrat Congressman Joaquin Castro, represents a district that encompasses San Antonio, Texas. Using his twitter account today, Representative Castro posted a list of local donors to the Donald Trump campaign directing his followers to target those ordinary citizens.
He put the names of Trump donors on a twitter account? Why?
Hoping somebody might kill a few of these people lest we be stupid enough to give more money to Trump.
All the Dems are saying is that Trump is fanning the flames.
Because they’re all awful, unfair people.
A guy shoots up a congressional baseball game, a Bernie Sanders fan, but Democrats aren’t mentioning this. The Dayton guy loved Elizabeth Warren but nobody mentions that.
Word came out via Ted Cruz that a plan will soon be in place to introduce suggested legislation regarding so-called “red flags” FOR THE STATES.
Also it is said that additional congressional action will be taken to budget federal grants to be awarded to states who enact an attempt to predict those who will kill BEFORE they do it.
Folks, the Dayton guy, for example, drew up a list of females he wanted to rape and others he wanted to kill. Story is that he was known as an oddball and some of his acquaintances turned him in.
RED FLAGs…..not going to happen.
At some point we will all be on that list, investigated and harassed by …well that wonderful FBI is a good choice. The FBI only investigates and arrests INNOCENT people.
It’s not that it couldn’t be remotely possible that these nutjobs could be discovered before innocents die. How about word gets out, loud and with volume….IF YOU THREATEN TO KILL PEOPLE IN ANY KIND OF PUBLIC SETTING YOU WILL BE PUT ON A LIST OF PEOPLE TO BE INVESTIGATED AS A DANGER.
Give a bunch of other things we might do to cause those around us to point fingers.
Don’t just leave it up to the FBI….goodness you might get Comey and he’ll take notes, turn you over to the NY Times and have you arrested.
If we all know what we shouldn’t do to cast us under suspicion, maybe something could be built fair and square and let’s leave the worst federal police force in the world, the FBI, out of it.
But if ole Joe Blow from Ohio knew that he shouldn’t be publishing rape and murder lists lest he be suspected….THAT DOES NOT MEAN HE WON’T TAKE A GUN AND KILL SOMEONE.
I have serious doubts about the gubmint getting involved in this and oh, did I mention, keep that wonderful well-respected FBI far away from any of this.
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SHE SAYS TRUMP WANTS TO EXTERMINATE LATINOS
See? President Trump never said such a thing but if they can accuse him of being a danger to innocent people, the president for God’s sake, you think they wouldn’t say the same about you?
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From The Hill
MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace issued an apology on Tuesday for saying President Trump is “talking about exterminating Latinos” during a recent television program.
"I misspoke about Trump calling for an extermination of Latinos," she tweeted Tuesday night. "My mistake was unintentional and I’m sorry. Trump’s constant assault on people of color and his use of the word 'invasion' to describe the flow of immigrants is intentional and constant."
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NOT Politics by Pat
BEING MY OWN CASHIER
I do not want to ring up my own groceries dammit.
Now I learn that one self-service cashier died at the hands of the El Paso shooter.
I don’t want to look stupid to all around me, be self-conscious, make mistakes.
I simply will not. I will change stores if need be. Walmart….GOODBYE!!!
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DR. POL
I love TV shows about animals and here’s one about a Veterinarian who services pets and farm animals. It’s a good show but folks, I just cannot watch Dr. Pol put his entire arm up either a sheep’s behind or a cow’s uterus. His stories of the dogs and cats are good and it’s a fairly well-produced show.
But no, no more hineys and private parts. And a lot of times I am eating my dinner when I watch this show.
No….no more.
Fri - 8/9/19
Oh my goodness.
Here we have a former FBI agent coming out with a theory, with crazy reasoning, that President Trump is really a….NAZI!
Peddled by non other than a disgraced Brian Williams, for some reason never pushed back on the whacko, leading and aided Figliuzzi for him to say Trump either knowingly read out the hidden Nazi message or rejecting the advise from others that 8/8 had a hidden message.
This is not just some rando that MSNBC picked up from the streets, this is a Fmr. FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence, going overboard to 'link' this nonsense.
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MSNBC contributor Frank Figliuzzi, a former FBI counterintelligence official, floated a conspiracy theory - FRANK FIGLIUZZI: "... We have to understand the adversary and the threat we’re dealing with. And if we don't understand how they think, we’ll never understand how to counter them. So, it’s little things and language and messaging that matters. The President said that we will fly our flags at half-mast until August 8th. That's 8/8.
Now, I'm not going to imply that he did this deliberately but I am using it as an example of the ignorance of the adversary that’s being demonstrated by the White House. The numbers “88” are very significant in neo-Nazi and white supremacy movement. Why? Because the letter “H” is the eighth letter of the alphabet and, to them, the numbers “88” together stand for “Heil Hitler.” So, we’re going to be raising the flag back up at dusk on 8/8. No one is thinking about this. No one is giving him the advice or he's rejecting the advice. So understand your adversary to counter the adversary."
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No wonder the American people don’t trust the FBI any more.
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MCCONNELL’S TWITTER ACCOUNT SUSPENDED
Twitter suspended his account because he put a link to the drama of the nut jobs protesting outside of his house.
Facebook, Twitter, Google….control the world.
Sat-8/10/19
HOW ABOUT THAT WONDERFUL NEW MOVIE-“THE HUNT”?
Indeed a bunch of elite types go to a place where they hunt to kill, I am not making this up, a group of humans called “the deplorables”.
Once upon a time I believed I lived in a very safe country. My army was strong, the police force, both federal and local was strong and honest. I had certain rights that I have no more. My elected folk get out in public and lie about the duly elected President and they talk bad about my country.
Now there are movies that show us killed for who we are.
It is no longer a safe country.
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LOTS OF CHANGES TO OUR CRAPPPY INTELLIGENCE SERVICES
Our intelligence services are perfectly awful. And after 9-11 the country formed yet another agency, one that would be in charge of the other 5,000.
They are now, and have been for quite a while, run by Communists and Deep State enthusiasts.
But things are changing. I don’t know Sue Gordon from anybody but she’s out the door. And, I point out, she’s NOT going to be the acting Director of the National Intelligence Agency.
Deputy Director of National Intelligence Sue Gordon is resigning from her post amid turnover at the top of the agency, The Office of Director of National Intelligence (DNI) did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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From Trump’s Tweet:
I am pleased to inform you that the Honorable Joseph Maguire, current Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, will be named Acting Director of National Intelligence, effective August 15th. Admiral Maguire has a long and distinguished....
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TURNS OUT HILLARY’S CAMPAIGN HIRED ALL THE PLAYERS THAT TRIED TO REMOVE PRESIDENT TRUMP
The FBI released 34 pages of notes, known as “302s,” of its 2016 and 2017 interviews with Bruce Ohr, the DOJ official who met with the British dossier author Christopher Steele and opposition research firm Fusion GPS’s Glen Simpson.
Ohr’s wife, Nellie Ohr, worked for Fusion GPS throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, when they were hired by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Convention.
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ANOTHER BIDEN GAFFE
Heh…..
Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed that “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids,” while addressing the Asian and Latino Coalition in Des Moines, Iowa on Thursday.
We must deduce from Biden’s wisdom, that poor kids are NOT white.
Heh.
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WEEK ENDING GIGGLE OF THE WEEK
