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NEW EMERSON POLL — Trump is leading all the Democrats, they’re stuck with Biden. Bwaahaha, they even polled Trump vs Al Gore. InteractivePolls @IAPolls2022 🇺🇲 2024 GE: @EmersonPolling 🟥 Donald Trump: 46% 🟦 Joe Biden: 43% — 🟥 Donald Trump: 49% 🟦 Kamala Harris: 43% — 🟥 Donald Trump: 48% 🟦 Bernie Sanders: 42% — 🟥 Donald Trump: 47% 🟦 Al Gore: 42% — 🟥 Donald Trump: 48% 🟦 Hillary Clinton: 41% — 🟥 Donald Trump: 48% 🟦 Gavin Newsom: 40% — 🟥 Donald Trump: 49% 🟦 Pete Buttigieg: 39% 🟥 Donald Trump: 49% 🟦 Elizabeth Warren: 39% — 🟥...

The Gateway Pundit reported last month that the Arizona Republican Party filed a lawsuit against the corrupt Secretary of State Adrian Fontes after discovering from 500,000 to 1.3 MILLION ILLEGAL VOTERS and illegal aliens on the state’s dirty, inaccurate voter rolls. This is likely one of the reasons why Biden refuses to drop out of the race. He knows he has secured this election by welcoming millions of illegal aliens into this country and that the fix is in. The Democrats understand that if he does step down, it will be slightly easier to sell another rigged election to the...

Hot ‘Lanta! Or perhaps COLD ‘Lanta! And despite what Biden says, thiere isn’t an economic revival. Yes. everyone can see the mental decline in President Biden and he should be in a nursing home. While he vows to run for President against Donald Trump, can you imagine what he will be like in 2 years? Let alone another 4 years?? Speaking of decline, GDP growth estimates are plummeting: The most recent Atlanta Fed estimate for real US GDP quarterly growth in Q2 2024 is down to 1.7%. This estimate is down from 4.2% seen in mid-May and from 2.2% seen...

I frequently receive comments about the strength of the United States economy and the unfairness of perceiving things as less than stellar. Is it really the “strongest economy ever”? It’s evident that it’s far from being the “strongest economy ever.”The United States unemployment rate has risen to 4.1%, the highest in three years, which is also significantly higher than the level seen in 2019. In June, a 70,000 increase in government jobs boosted payroll employment by 206,000. One-third of job creation is public sector jobs paid with more debt. Both the employment-to-population ratio and the labour force participation ratio are...

MMT is mostly magic! The Federal Reserve relies on “The Power of Magic” to fool people. For example, the massive increase in money printing following Covid and Biden’s disastrous economic policies (or FOLLICIES). Modern monetary theory (MMT) is not convincing to most trained economists of various schools of thought. This causes many to balk at MMT and mock it, some of which is warranted as a reductio ad absurdum, especially given some of MMT’s more outlandish claims. In fact, my own thesis was an Austrian critique of MMT. But there is also a fair amount of hypocrisy in the non-Austrian...

The leaks are flying out the White House as staffers who want Old Joe to step aside seek to spread the word about his declining health. According to a report from Axios, Biden staffers are preparing large documents with instructions for his every move, including something as simple and obvious as walking up to the podium. The report explains: Before a presidential event, the White House sends event staffers a document to emulate when preparing their own materials for the president. One template — a copy of which was obtained by Axios — is short and simple, with one large...

We are data guys and we see almost no way Trump wins without Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin - which he is on track to lose - handily - again. He doesn’t need to win them all, but losing them all is fatal. Each of these states has industrial scale ballot manufacturing operations creating enough ballots to overcome any “too big to rig” strategy. Just how big is “too big to rig?” Try 4% to 5% of the voter roll - in each of these 4 swing states - contain enough anomalous identity/address combinations that can be voted, via mail-in...

The committee is investigating if Dr. Kevin O’Connor’s involvement in the Biden family’s financial activities influenced his medical assessments of Joe Biden. In light of recent concerns surrounding Joe Biden’s health, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is calling on President Biden’s physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, to testify about his medical assessments of Joe Biden and his private business dealings with the Biden family. Dr. O’Connor has been Biden’s official physician since he took office in January 2021 and is in daily contact with Biden. Biden’s poor health has been particularly scrutinized ever since Special Counsel...

A fierce week of campaigning ahead of tomorrow's second round in the election for 577 seats in France's National Assembly. The National Rally message focused on Emmanuel Macron his policies and what Marine Le Pen described as Macron's "coup" to make government appointments ahead of the final round of voting. The RN also focused its attack on the "chaos" of the Left. Meanwhile the New Popular Front focused on demonization of the "Far-Right" and what rule by the RN would mean for France. President Emmanuel Macron's moderate ENSEMBLE faction pulling many candidates out of three-way races to prevent RN victories....

The Federal Reserve is Running on Empty. ‘What passes for central banking today is really a perverse form of Wall Street-pleasing monetary manipulation. It employs the vocabulary of central banking, but in practice it fundamentally undermines main street prosperity, even as it showers the 1% (the top wealthiest people) with unspeakable financial windfalls. Stated differently, virtually everything the Fed does for the alleged benefit of the American economy is both unnecessary and a ruse. The Fed has actually become a captive of the Wall Street traders, gamblers and high rollers, and functions mainly at their behest. The proof of this...

Cost projections for new US Air Force Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles skyrocketing... A Ukrainian drone attack late tonight setting fuel tanks on fire in Russia's Krasnodar Region... Lawyers for President Trump asking a federal judge in the 'classified documents' case to partially... A Hurricane Watch in effect for Texas from the Rio Grande to Sargent just southwest of Houston... "a bad episode" Joe Biden speaking of being... "I'm going to stay in the race and win again against Donald Trump" Joe Biden speaking at a campaign... Two Israeli soldiers suffering slight wounds when Hezbollah launched a rocket attack... A Chinese vessel...

Despite being the top pick among potential Democrat presidential candidates, Michelle Obama has once again confirmed she will not be running for president. The recent Reuters/Ipsos survey showed that if Joe Biden were to step aside, Michelle Obama would be the most likely candidate to defeat former President Donald Trump. The poll indicated that she would win over Trump with a 50 to 39 percent victory. However, the same could not be said for other potential Democrat contenders, all of whom Trump would best in a hypothetical race. Trump would outperform Vice President Kamala Harris (43 to 42 percent), California...

Like a bad “good news, bad news” joke,. June employment numbers are out from the Feral governement. The good news? Jobs added increased by 206k, more than expected. The bad news? The unemployment rate hit 4.1%, the highest in 3 years. While nominal wage growth grew, REAL wage growth rose a measly 0.8% YoY. The share of total new worth held by the top 1% is 30.4% while the total net worth held by the bottom 50% is a measly 2.5%. So much for politicians’ promises to make everyone equal in wealth! Oddly, they keep getting wealthier and the bottom...

Even though most Americans have been struggling financially over the past few years, not everyone has been doing badly during the current economic turmoil. In fact, there are some households that are doing exceptionally well. Some articles point out that companies that cater to average Americans are doing quite poorly right now while companies that market luxury goods and services are reporting massive profits. However, overall consumer spending has been slowing down. It looks like the majority of U.S. workers either can’t spend a lot of money right now or are very hesitant to. At the same time, there is...

Dementia Joe Biden is facing a revolt from some of his own party’s prominent donors, including the heiress to the Disney family fortune. These donors have declared they will cease funding the Democrat Party until Biden withdraws his candidacy for the presidential race. Abigail Disney, the granddaughter of The Walt Disney Company co-founder Roy O. Disney, announced her intentions on CNBC last Thursday. Despite years of financial support for the party, she plans to withhold future donations until Biden steps down. “I intend to stop any contributions to the party unless and until they replace Biden at the top of...

In a video posted on X, Mike Howell, Executive Director of the Heritage Oversight Project, has urged Americans to “declare independence from foreigners deciding our elections.” The video, which was produced in collaboration with Muckraker.com, presents evidence suggesting that illegal aliens are being registered to vote in the United States. “The evidence you are about to see relates to illegal aliens being registered to vote. This is a problem national in scale. The United States of America is for Americans, and our elections only should be decided by them,” Howell added.

According to permit applications ahead of the Democratic Nation Convention set to take place in late August in Chicago, at least eight different groups have applied to demonstrate during the event according to an NBC 5 Investigates Freedom of Information Act request. According to NBC 5, among those who sought permits through CDOT include: Bodies Outside of Unjust Laws U.S. Palestinian Community Network Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign Students for a Democratic Society at UIC Israeli American Council Reparations for Descendants of Enslaved Africa March for People’s Agenda Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression Liz Rathburn with the...

Let’s discuss the latest BLS report on employer costs with a special focus on teachers.Employer costs from the BLS, chart by MishEmployer Cost SynopsisGovernment Wages Plus Benefits: $61.27Private Wages and Benefits: $43.78Government Wages: $37.90Private Wages: $30.76Government hourly wages are 23.2 percent more than private workers on average.Benefits are the real killer.Government total compensation is 39.9 percent more than private workers.What About Teachers?Employer costs from the BLS, chart by MishTeachers make $37.90 per hour in direct wages. But they make a whopping $79.38 per hour in total benefits.Benefits for teachers are a mere 109 percent of wages.Economic FairnessEducation Week reports Biden...

U.S. elections are no longer about “votes,” modern elections in America are about “ballots”. As we have seen in several election cycles, the election winner is not the person who gets the most votes – the election winner is the person who collects, submits and ultimately counts the most ballots. The same is true for the presidential electoral victory; it’s the person who gets the most ballots, not votes. So, let us start by asking the right question: What is a representative from South Carolina doing in Wisconsin visiting ten key ballot counting precincts in three key cities, Madison, Milwaukee...

At the GOP’s Missouri state convention in Springfield, Trump-supporting members of the GOP took over and prevented RINOs in the state from setting the agenda and the delegates for the RNC. This was reported on May 4. However, it appears that the RINOs were not done. Power at all costs is the motto of the RINOs and the Democrats – it’s the Uniparty mantra. The Missouri Independent reports: