It's over, Obama
Posted By: 4250Luis, 12/11/2024 5:46:41 AM
During the last campaign, former President Obama called on African American men to vote for the African American female candidate. It didn't work, and you know the rest of the story. The thrill is gone for the 44th president. He will be remembered, and that's good, for being the first African American president. He won't be remembered for much more because he was always an empty suit, a media creation, and don't get me started on ObamaCare. What happened? Well, Roger Kimball has a point: Yes, glad to see that it's starting to fade.
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President-elect Donald Trump said he wants the US to own and control Greenland — a desire he made known during his first presidential term — as he announced his pick for US ambassador to Denmark on Sunday.
“For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” Trump said in a statement on Truth Social.
His comments on Greenland came in the same statement Trump used to announce he has selected PayPal co-founder Ken Howery for the ambassadorship to Denmark.
Cultural trauma is a very real thing.
If you’re a Boomer (or older), your cultural trauma was the JFK assassination: you remember exactly where you were when it happened. (I asked my Uncle Larry where he was, and he told me he was sprinting away from the grassy knoll. Then he slow-touched his nose. We don’t talk to Uncle Larry anymore.) For Gen-Xers and millennials, the cultural trauma was 9/11. We can all recall where we were when we heard the news. And nearly a quarter-century later, it still colors our thoughts, fears, and expectations. We still think about it every single time we go to the airport.
H.R. 82, the "Social Security Fairness Act" was one of the last gasp endeavors of 118th Congress to get bills passed and off to President Joe Biden for signature before leaving for Christmas vacation. Because, priorities. With the passage of this bill, Congress succeeded in repealing established laws from 1977 (the Government Pension Offset or GPO) and 1983 (the Windfall Elimination Provision or WEP), which prevented certain public pension earners from double-dipping into the Social Security coffers.
As I previously reported, among the stories about the mysterious drones in New Jersey, there was a concerning story about a bunch of drones following a Coast Guard vessel off of the Garden State. But now the word is that Coast Guard members aren't too happy with what the White House said in dismissing their experience. One of the members of the crew is speaking out and refuting what the White House is saying about the drones.
The Coast Guard member spoke exclusively to the NY Post and described what they saw. He said they were looking for drones, but the drones "found us."
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has faced the wrath of the professionally republican. The Bush clan together with Democrats in the Lone Star state tried to take Paxton out of Texas politics with a ridiculous impeachment effort; supported by many Texas politicians including Chip Roy. However, Paxton defeated the impeachment effort and is stronger than ever with the support of the base of the new republican party.
During a Q&A segment, Paxton was asked if he would present a primary challenge to Texas Senator John Cornyn. From his response in the segment below, it would appear that AG Paxton is favorable to doing it. WATCH:
In a post on Truth Social, Trump spoke about the Panama Canal and how it was viewed as a “vital national asset” to the U.S., and how the U.S. was the “number one user” of the Panama Canal. Trump added when former President Jimmy Carter “foolishly” gave the Panama Canal away, it wasn’t for “Panama to charge” the U.S., “its Navy, and corporations” doing business in the U.S. high prices. “The Panama Canal is considered a VITAL National Asset for the United States, due to its critical role to America’s Economy and National,” Trump wrote.
Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of President-elect Donald Trump, said she has withdrawn her name from consideration to replace outgoing Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, as she teased a “big announcement” next month.
The announcement comes more than a month after the incoming president tapped Rubio as his secretary of state designee, prompting speculation that Lara Trump could fill the vacant seat in the US Senate.
“After an incredible amount of thought, contemplation, and encouragement from so many, I have decided to remove my name from consideration for the United States Senate,” Lara Trump posted to X
Dems Refused To Pass Kids Cancer Research
Bill Until They Could Use It To Push 1,500
Pages Of Pork 12 replies
Bill Until They Could Use It To Push 1,500
Pages Of Pork 12 replies
In March the Republican-led House passed H.R. 3391, which would continue funding research of pediatric diseases like childhood cancer. The legislation never went anywhere in the Senate under the leadership of Democrat Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. But now Democrats are trying to use sick kids with cancer as leverage to pass 1,500-plus pages of pork.
On Wednesday Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled a 1,500-page so-called “continuing resolution” that was really nothing more than a stuffed omnibus bill that included money for censorship, sweetheart deals for Congress, and other unnecessary expenditures. Almost immediately the pork-stuffed “continuing resolution” was rebuked by millions of Americans,
As we reported, the 1,500-page continuing resolution to fund the government that had been negotiated in the House saw a fiery demise Wednesday afternoon/evening after numerous Republicans and Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Vivek Ramaswamy savaged the measure for attempting to soak the people with bloated spending and J6 Committee-friendly provisions. It didn’t take long for Democrats to start whining, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) was at the forefront: Trump ally and X owner Elon Musk—co-chair along with Ramaswamy of the newly-established Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—has become increasingly known for his pithy, devastating tweets that sum up situations in just a few words. He did not disappoint:
Rag Tag Bunch of Conservative Misfits
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The 1,547 page “continuing resolution bill” is available for review HERE. They are calling this a “CR” (continuing resolution) bill to fund government. However, only approximately 10 pages (15 to 25) are the funding mechanism; the rest is a regulatory construct, an attempt to circumvent the Trump administration, and position the federal government to defend against structural changes President Trump is intending to initiate.
Within THE BILL, in an effort to force Republicans to support it, there is a section approximately 500 pages, that spends and directs $100 billion for disaster relief in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina following the devasting late season hurricanes.
Ingrid Lewis-Martin, the formidable consigliere of Mayor Eric Adams, will surrender Thursday to face accusations she helped two businessmen who gave her DJ son a $100,000 loan to buy a Porsche, The Post has learned.
The accusations form the backbone of bribery charges expected to be leveled against Lewis-Martin, her son Glenn Martin II and at least one of the businessmen, hotelier Mayank Dwivedi, sources confirmed.
Lewis-Martin has been ordered to surrender to authorities Thursday afternoon, sources familiar with the case said.
On one hand, it doesn’t make any sense: Of all the social media platforms, TikTok skews younger and to the left. (Much younger and more left-leaning than Facebook or X. According to one poll, just 6% of its audience identifies as “mostly conservative.”) It’s emerged as one of the key communicative tools and networking devices for liberal activists, including Antifa. Additionally, it’s a China company. And on January 10, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether or not there should be a federal ban.
So why is Trump defending TikTok?
He didn’t always feel this way. In 2020, he threatened a federal ban of TikTok, but never acted on it.
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President-elect Donald Trump said he would rename North America's tallest mountain reversing a change made by former President Obama while he was in office.
Speaking at a conservative TurningPoints USA conference in Phoenix, the 78-year-old said he would rename Alaska's Mount Denali to Mount McKinley after the 25th president.
'They took his name off Mount McKinley,' Trump told supporters on Sunday. He praised McKinley as a 'great president' and said his administration would bring back the name Mount McKinley 'because I think he deserves it.'
It comes after Obama sided with the state of Alaska in the long-running dispute over the highest mountain peak's name in 2015 and had it changed
New Yorkers were up in arms Monday one day after an illegal Guatemalan immigrant allegedly burned a sleeping straphanger to death aboard a Brooklyn subway train — while bystanders did nothing.
Horrifying video footage of the incident shows at least three gawkers — one of them seen filming the shocking fatal blaze on his phone — and an NYPD cop standing outside the subway car as flames engulfed the unidentified victim after the Sunday morning attack.“Nobody came to her aid,” said Guardian Angels founder and community activist Curtis Sliwa. “There’s no doubt that people don’t want to get involved. It’s the Daniel Penny factor. It’s frozen people.
Former President Clinton Hospitalized
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Those of us gray-haired folks who were around and watching politics in the '90s remember Bill Clinton, the first Baby Boomer president, as a young chief executive. Clinton was the third-youngest president to assume office at 46 years old, beaten in that record only by John F. Kennedy and Theodore Roosevelt. But time marches on for us all; now former President Clinton is 78 years old and has had some health issues. On Monday, he was admitted to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital for testing after developing a fever.. Clinton, 78, "has been admitted to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital for testing and observation after developing a fever," said Angel Ureña,
Biden commutes death sentences of child
killers and mass murderers 2 days before Christmas 24 replies
killers and mass murderers 2 days before Christmas 24 replies
They weren’t run over by a reindeer.
President Biden on Monday commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 men on federal death row — a list that includes at least five child killers and several mass murderers — in a stunning act of clemency just two days before Christmas.
Biden, 82, gave the reprieve to the nation’s most violent murderers — nine of whom were found too dangerous to live after butchering fellow inmates — as part of his effort at “ensuring a fair and effective justice system,” the White House said.
Someone acting for the president just made a decision that only a president can make and commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 murderers on federal death row out of a sense of someone's moral imperative.
The Office of the President of the United States of America announced the commutations early Monday morning of Christmas week. A statement issued by the White House said the president was "guided by my conscience" to commute the death penalties for some of the worst of the worst offenders in America.
It begs the question of how consciously Joe Biden does anything these days
Ethics Committee Final Report: 'Substantial
Evidence' Gaetz Committed Statutory Rape (Update) 22 replies
Evidence' Gaetz Committed Statutory Rape (Update) 22 replies
This is what's known as the "other shoe dropping."
Matt Gaetz had hoped to avoid public disclosure of the results of the House Ethics Committee investigation into numerous allegations of corruption and wrongdoing. His successful attack on Kevin McCarthy's Speakership came in part because McCarthy refused to quash the probe. Gaetz clearly intended to use the strange sequence this past month where Gaetz resigned his office just after winning another House term in order to force the committee to seal the results. Instead, the Ethics Committee voted to publish its final report on Gaetz. Before they could do that, though, it leaked to a number of news outlets this morning
‘Squad’ Rep. Ayanna Pressley praises
Biden for controversial commutations:
‘Death penalty is racist’ 19 replies
Biden for controversial commutations:
‘Death penalty is racist’ 19 replies
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) commended President Biden Monday for commuting the sentences of 37 federal inmates on death row, arguing that capital punishment is “racist.”
“There is no action more powerful or righteous than sparing someone’s life, and today President Biden is doing just that,” the member of the far-left “Squad” of liberal lawmakers said in a statement.
Pressley, 50, described the 82-year-old commander in chief’s decision to spare dozens of convicted murderers and rapists from death as a “historic and groundbreaking act of compassion that will save lives, address the deep racial disparities in our criminal legal system, and send a powerful message about redemption, decency, and humanity.”
Johnson allies urge Trump to intervene
as messy speaker battle threatens to delay
2024 certification 19 replies
as messy speaker battle threatens to delay
2024 certification 19 replies
Allies of Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., are urging President-elect Trump to publicly reaffirm support for the House GOP leader to avoid a messy, protracted battle that could delay the certification of his own victory. "If we have some kind of protracted fight where we can’t elect a speaker — the speaker’s not elected; we’re not sworn in. And if we’re not sworn in, we can’t certify the election," Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital.
"I would hope that President Trump would chime in and talk to those who are maybe a little hesitant, and say, ‘We’ve got to get going. We don’t have time.’"
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has slammed Donald Trump’s proposal to retake the Panama Canal.
Petro, a former Marxist guerilla and vocal supporter of Joe Biden, wrote in a post on the X platform that the number of illegal migrants crossing heading to the southern border would increase by “millions” unless Trump recognized the canal belongs to Panama.
He wrote:
Until the last consequences I will be on the side of Panama and the defense of its sovereignty.
If the new US government wants to talk business, we will talk business, face to face, and for the benefit of our people, but dignity will never be negotiated.
Soon-to-be President Donald Trump has talked about getting rid of the U.S. income tax and replacing it with a system of tariffs. He has come under heavy criticism from Democrats and many economists. But average Americans appear to like the idea, with a plurality favoring Trump’s idea, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll shows.
The December online I&I/TIPP Poll asked 1,441 adults across the country the following question: “President Trump has talked about replacing the income tax with tariffs (taxes on selected imports). Would you support or oppose such a move?” The poll has a margin error of +/-2.6 percentage points.
Kamala Harris Campaign Advisor Lindy Li
Quits Democrat Party: ‘It’s Like Leaving
a Cult’ (Video) 18 replies
Quits Democrat Party: ‘It’s Like Leaving
a Cult’ (Video) 18 replies
Democrat mega-donor Lindy Li, who served as the Women’s Co-Chair and Mid-Atlantic Regional Chair at the Democratic National Committee, announced she is leaving the Democrat party.
Li has come under fire from leftists after recent appearances criticizing Democrats.
She appeared on Fox News to discuss how Barack and Michelle Obama’s delay in endorsing Harris was “the silence heard around the world.”
She also expressed support for Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, telling Fox, “I actually think he’s been a pretty good guy.”
Border czar-designate Tom Homan on Monday criticized Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York after a woman died Sunday after a migrant allegedly lit her on fire while on the New York City subway.
Sebastin Zapeta, a 33-year-old Guatemalan illegal immigrant previously deported by the Trump administration, was arrested Sunday by the New York Police Department in connection with the incident, Fox News reported. Homan ripped Hochul, who touted the subway’s safety after the killing, about the incident.