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The Evening Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) It was just another crazy week, but then, that could be said about every week over the last two and a half years, since Donald J. Trump and his lovely wife Melania rode the gold-plated escalator to the first floor of Trump Tower to announce his run for the presidency. Here’s a brief review of the highlights of what the country has experienced over the last seven days. The week began with release of the FISA Abuse Memo and the fake media/Democrat campaign to try to diminish the importance of that...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Tired of all this Winning yet? Part I – Food stamp enrollments dropped by more than 4 million from October to November of last year, the Labor Department announced yesterday. That is the largest single-month decrease in such filings ever recorded. Tired of all this Winning yet? Part II – The Labor Department also reported that new claims for unemployment benefits last week dropped to 221,000, the lowest number of such claims recorded in 45 years. So despite the ongoing correction in the stock markets, the economy just keeps winning. I’ve always...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Tired of all this Winning yet? – Hey, remember when the fake news media spent the last 13 months telling you President Donald Trump (I never tire of typing those words) was a “historically unpopular” president. Yeah, that’s a lie. In the current Rasmussen survey, the President’s approval rating of 48% is 4 points higher than Barack Obama’s approval at the same point in his first term in office. Good times…good times… Speaking of lies and lying liars, Barack Hussein Obama was back in the news in a big way on Wednesday....

The Evening Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) The all-knowing, all-seeing, omnipotent “global warming” can now change your personality. No kidding. So claim researchers at the Columbia Business School (why are researchers at a “business” school studying global warming?). “As climate change continues across the world, we may also observe concomitant changes in human personality,” reads the study, published in the journal Nature on Tuesday. Hey, it’s already working on me – every time I read an article about some fake study making some increasingly bizarre claim about the effects of “global warming”, it pisses me off that much...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Tired of all this Winning yet? Part I – The stock market bounced back on Tuesday after a week of big losses, with the Dow gaining 567 points on the day. So, after spending a week breathlessly blaming President Donald Trump for the market’s losses, the fake hosts at CNN and MSNBC can now go back to giving credit for the market’s gains to Barack Hussein Obama. ‘Cuz that’s what the fake news media does. Tired of all this Winning yet? Part II – New texts released Wednesday morning between disgraced FBI...

The Evening Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Hey, remember when bug-eyed California Rep. Adam Schiff accused President Trump of “colluding” with Russian agents? Yeah, it turns out that’s actually what Adam Schiff has been doing – or at least, he hoped he was. The UK Daily Mail reported earlier today that Schiff, in an effort to dig up dirt on the President, took a call from a man he thought was Andriy Parubiy, the chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament, but who was actually a Russian comedian that is part of a comedy act called Voyan and Lexus, who...

Full Title: Billions of Crumbs: Over $3 Billion in Bonuses Given to American Workers So Far Because of Tax Cuts and Jobs ActWASHINGTON, D.C. - Over $3 billion in bonuses have already gone out to American workers all over the country thanks to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act's enactment less than two months ago, with over 300 companies passing on the savings they see under this bill to their employees with bonuses, pay raises, better benefits, and more job opportunities.These billions in bonuses come as 90% of workers across the country will begin to see higher paychecks as their...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Tired of all this Losing yet? – The stock markets continued their week-long fall on Monday, with the Dow tanking a record 1175 points on the day. Remember all that money you made in your 401(k) in January? Yeah, that’s gone. Nervous analysts and traders stood around after the market closed telling fake reporters that this is just your normal correction, which in truth is long overdue. They don’t really know whether that’s true or not, but let’s all hope they are. The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously to release the Democrats’...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) NBC joined the Alinskyite demonization of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes in earnest on Saturday with a stunningly illogical piece from a University of Texas law professor named Steve Vladeck. NBC’s web minions label the opinion piece a “Hot Take,” but what it really is is an unintentionally hilarious hot mess. Vladeck’s thesis is that FBI Director Christopher Wray simply must – must, I say – resign over the release of what Vladeck calls the “Nunes Memo” because, well, I’ll let him tell you in this wonderfully illogical passage: “Wray shouldn’t...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Tired of all this Losing yet? – The Dow dumped 665 points on Friday, as fears that the rapidly growing economy will create a new round of inflation. For the week, the Dow was off almost 1,000 points, giving up the majority of the gains made during January. If you’re going to have economic problems, issues like this one related to a rapidly growing economy beat the heck out of issues related to a stagnant one, like we experienced from 2008 through 2016, but still, it’s a problem. Tired of all this...

Now that we’ve finally been able to read and analyze it, here’s what the FISA Abuse Memo reveals beyond any doubt: Top officials DOJ and FBI in the Obama Administration clearly and intentionally conspired to deprive a major party’s presidential nominee and his campaign personnel of their Constitutional rights during the 2016 presidential campaign and in the months afterwards. Those same officials knowingly and intentionally misled the FISA Court in an effort to abuse the FISA process to fix a Presidential election, and then to attempt to nullify the results of that election once their original objective failed. We know...

Our strong economy continues to grow, as 200,000 new jobs were added in January 2018. Since Election Day 2016, American job creators have added 2,553,000 new jobs. The unemployment rate remains at a 17-year low of 4.1%. Job growth in construction was strong in January, with 36,000 new jobs created. January saw the third consecutive monthly rise in the wage growth rate, with a 2.9% 12-month increase in average hourly earnings. December 2017 wage growth rate was revised up to 2.7%; November 2017 was 2.5%. This may be the start of a welcome trend in wage gains, and marks the...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) It’s Groundhog Day, and Fox News is reporting that Punxsatawney Phil has a record of being right 39% of the time. Which, given the track record I’ve seen from the TV weather people in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, must mean the groundhog is twice as accurate at predicting the weather as certified professional meteorologists. Tired of all this Winning yet? Part I – Former Deep State FBI Director James Comey continues to make a damn fool of himself on Twitter, which is always a #Winning situation. On Thursday, in apparent reaction to...

Evening Campaign Update: CNN Goes All #FakeNews On Christopher Wray, Again February 1, 2018 by David Blackmon So, I gave a lunchtime speech to a group about the Trump tax plan, and when I come out of the building and get in my car, the first thing I hear on my trusty AM radio is that FBI Director Christopher Wray. Wait, what???? Three days after he “removes” Andrew McCabe from the Hoover Building less than 24 hours after he read the FISA Abuse Memo, Wray is supposed to suddenly be so overwrought about the possible release of that very same...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Tired of all this Winning yet? Part I – A CBS flash poll shows that 75% of viewers were happy with President Trump’s State of the Union Address. This included 97% of Republicans, 72% of Independents and – wait for it – 43% of Democrats. 43%! That hamster that was running around inside Nancy Pelosi’s mouth during the speech had babies when it saw that number. Tired of all this Winning yet? Part II – The Moody’s measure of private sector job growth showed that private sector payrolls added 234,000 jobs in...

Evening Campaign Update: Devin Nunes Drops A Bomb In case you missed it, House Intel Committee Chair Devin Nunes all but revealed the fact today that the FISA Abuse Memo states that the FBI did indeed use the fake Trump Dossier – a Dossier the FBI Director at the time, James Comey, testified to congress that he KNEW was fake – to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump Campaign (see the text below). It continues to be rumored that memo details the fact that Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein also used that fake Dossier – that was paid...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Tired of all this Winning yet? – President Donald Trump (I never tire of typing those words) gave a wonderful State of the Union Address Tuesday night. The speech was filled with soaring rhetoric about American unity, American greatness and America’s renewed place of leadership in the world. So naturally the Democrats hated it. The speech talked about the creation of 2.4 million new jobs since Trump took office, record low unemployment and the booming stock market. So naturally the Democrats hated it. The speech talked about our flag and what it...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Tired of all this Winning yet? Part I – Ratings for the disgusting Grammy Awards program Sunday were down 24%, and scored an all-time record low in the Nielson audience measure. The Grammy’s fall from grace simply continues a tide among all of the Hollywood awards programs, which have turned into 3-hour-long hate fests over the last few years. The plunging ratings for the awards programs also reflect the public’s fading appetite for Hollywood’s depraved products in general. Cool. Tired of all this Winning yet? Part II – The Chicago Sun-Times announced...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Tired of all this Winning yet? – The NFL reports that its ad revenues for the 2017 season were down by $30 million due to flagging TV ratings. And yes, I used the word “flagging” intentionally. Couldn’t happen to a dumber bunch of people. Hey, aren’t all the pussy hatters supposed to be protesting stuff like this? – Fresh on the heels of a Saturday report that more than 90% of Grammy Award nominees since 2012 have been men, last night’s Grammy ceremony saw just one trophy or whatever they give away...

The GOP disarms three more financial time bombs about to blow up your personal budget. . . snip Part of the price paid by the Democrats to get out of the hole they dug for themselves when they forced the shutdown was the suspension of three onerous Obamacare taxes — the medical device tax, the tax on premium (Cadillac) health plans, and the health insurance (HIT) tax. All three were wildly unpopular with the voters, due to go into effect imminently, and would have made medical care even more expensive.