Thursday, November 23, 2017

RE: NYTimes article

J Jencks

 Portland, OR 7 hours ago
I fail to find the point of this article. Every year people suffer losses, family deaths, hurricanes, etc.
How is this year different than any other?
Why, the day before Thanksgiving, do the others feel compelled to write such a downer of an article? Are they concerned we might be enjoying ourselves too much? We should be suffering guilt trips for the losses of others?

I will miss my dear father, as I've missed him for the last 3 Thanksgivings. I will miss him on Christmas as well. It is natural, with every holiday, to devote a thought to those we've lost in recent years. "Auld Lang Syne" puts that very impulse into the words of a holiday song. Isn't that enough?

Enough with the guilt trips.

Aleister

 Florida 7 hours ago
I am thankful for a deregulatory-minded Washington that lets businesses grow, 3 percent GDP growth in 3Q 2017, an SP500 index that YTD has grown 18 percent, and a current 4.1 percent unemployment rate. The middle class -- not just the upper class -- is finally seeing real income growth opportunities.

None of this was an accident. Thank you President Trump.

Guillermo Piedras

 Salt Lake City, UT 12 hours ago
We live in the most blessed country on Earth and have virtually everything we need at our fingertips and all these writers can conceptualize about Thanksgiving is to condense their angst over people who are killed in criminal violence. I thank God that there were two Texans who shot and chased down the murderer at a rural church and I thank God that we have the right to protect ourselves from criminal violence by exercising our Second Amendment rights even as we protect ourselves from totalitarianism by exercising our First Amendment rights.

RE:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/22/us/sutherland-springs-vegas-shooting-hurricanes.html

Thursday, October 19, 2017

Cody Wilson Interview: Ghost Gunner 80% Pistols

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Bob Iger for President 2020?



Dog-whistle after dog-whistle!! "Paris Climate Accord", "Gun control" "ESPN"!! The good JournO soldier, must make sure the readers GET IT, just in case they start wondering about another pampered narcissist billionaire 1 percenter, dreaming of another nice trophy on his mantle, "You see, he's one of us. He's OUR F * * * ing Donald Trump'"!! And of course he's NOT. He's a corporatist who never built or created anything. He's just another harvey weinstein who knows how to talk the talk to be the "correct" democrat.

Saturday, August 19, 2017

Alt-Right: Are Racists Mentally Ill? Some Psychiatrists Say Yes

optimistmiser
16 hours ago
Socialist Democrats, their surrogate organizations, and complicit ,media continue to try and make it appear that ALL whites and Trump supporters are racists along with anyone else who isn't black. Truth is there are racist among every race towards people of any other race. A great deal of violence directed towards others has been done by persons of racist persuasion. Opportunistic politicians play upon the marketing of a racist narrative for their own benefit despite the cost and division to America.

Chaos
Chaos
18 hours ago
To even insinuate such ridiculous idea is completely cold and irresponsible. I am a psychologist, what we're seeing here is what MSM and the democrats have done to the country. To even suggest that millions of people are mentally ill is so irresponsible. MSM is the enemy people, we need to expose them for what they did to the country. My heart is broken, and these kinds of articles drives a stake into it further. Thanks a lot MSM, I hope you all rot in hell

R
R
10 hours ago
What a sneaky little article on Yahoo trying to tie the Alt Right to Nazi's while they have another story called "Unmasking the Antifa" saying they are doing violence in the name of peace! What a crock of bull......shit!

Friday, August 18, 2017

What *has* Trump done so far???

Anne N
If you right then The President has an odd way of losing.  with all these plus more achievements to date.
This list is thanks to one of our posters, sorry I forgot the name he goes by. 
WHAT HAS PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP DONE SINCE HE HAS BEEN IN OFFICE ……1. Supreme Court Judge Gorsuch2. 59 missiles dropped in Syria3. He took US out of TPP
4. Illegal immigration is now down 70%( the lowest in 17 years)
5. Consumer confidence highest since 2000 at index 125.6 
6. Mortgage applications for new homes rise to a seven year high 
7. Arranged from 7% to 24% Tariff on lumber from Canada
8. Bids for border wall are well underway
9. Pulled out of the lopsided Paris accord
10. Keystone pipeline approved 11. NATO allies boost spending by 4.3%12. Allowing VA to terminate bad employees 13. Allowing private healthcare choices for veterans 14. More than 600,000. Jobs created15. Median household income at a 7 year high 16. The Stock Market is at the highest ever in its history17. China agreed to American import of beef18. $89 Billion saved in regulation rollbacks 19. Rollback of A Regulation to boost coal mining20. MOAB for ISIS21. Travel ban reinstated22. Executive order for religious freedom 23. Jump started NASA 24. $600 million cut from UN peacekeeping budget 25. Targeting of MS13 gangs26. Deporting violent illegal immigrants 27. Signed 41 bills to date28. Created a commission on child trafficking 29. Created a commission on voter fraud30. Created a commission for opioids addiction 31. Giving power to states to drug test unemployment recipients 32. Unemployment lowest since May 2007 33. Historic Black College University initiative34. Women In Entrepreneurship Act 35. Created an office for illegal immigrant crime victims 36. Reversed Dodd-Frank37. Repealed DOT ruling which would have taken power away from local governments for infrastructure planning38. Order to stop crime against law enforcement 39. End of DAPA program 40. Stopped companies from moving out of America 41. Promoted businesses to create American Jobs 42. Encouraged country to once again - 'Buy American and hire American' 43. Cutting regulations - 2 for every one created 45. Review of all trade agreements to make sure they are America first46. Apprentice program47. Highest manufacturing surge in 3 years 48. $78 Billion promised reinvestment from major businesses like Exxon, Bayer, Apple, SoftBank, Toyota49. Denied FBI a new building 50. $700 million saved with F-35 renegotiation 51. Saves $22 million by reducing white house payroll 52. Dept of Treasury reports a $182 billion surplus for April 2017 (2nd largest in history)53. Negotiated the release of 6 US humanitarian workers held captive in Egypt 54. Gas prices lowest in more than 12 years55. Signed An Executive Order To Promote Energy Independence and Economic Growth56. Has already accomplished more to stop government interference into people's lives than any President in the history of America57. President Trump has worked with Congress to pass more legislation in his first 100 days than any President since Truman58. Has given head executive of each branches 6 month time frame, dated March 15, 2017, to trim the fat,  restructure and improve efficiency of their branch. (Observe the push-back the leaks the lies as entrenched POWER refuses to go silently into that good night!)59. Last, refused his Presidential pay check.  Donated it to Veterans issues

Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Middle Class is falling from airplane...

B. Acre Centralization • a month ago Housing, healthcare and education are cornerstones of a middle class existence. To that I would add retirement security. All of those are increasingly out of reach, and have been getting worse since Reagan, at least. If your children can't afford to move out, can't afford to get educated (or can't keep the gains of education because all their increased earning potential is perpetually extracted by student lenders), can't pay for their healthcare and can't save for retirement, then you are not really middle class. You're middle class in the way that someone falling from an airplane without a parachute is "still in the air."

Monday, June 26, 2017

Rent Seeking bx crowding out trad production

Rent-seeking behavior is crowding out classical economic productivity. Ask yourself this: do you know anyone who produces goods or services that are not subsidized or derived from government spending/entitlements? Is your highest ambition to escape global labor arbitrage by sheltering in a government mandated make-work program that pays in excess of actual market demands? If government underwrites universal survival absent requirements to produce tangible economic value then the value of merely surviving drops to zero. The insidious growth of this strategy of rent-seeking and flight from real economic productivity is resulting in a decline in population fitness both intellectual and physical. It may be that rent seeking strategies are pursued for lack of better alternatives despite being sub-optimal in their own right. In such cases (and Arkansas is probably one of them) macro economic policy (Keynesian), misallocation of resources, and crony capitalism bear the responsibility for biopolitical failure.

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Jobs are dead

NYBamBam 2 days ago

Our government has absolutely murdered our labor markets. The labor force participation rate contracted steadily throughout the Obama administration. At this point, there are not enough jobs to go around. Wages are stagnant. Labor conditions have deteriorated. Upward economic mobility is dead, dead, dead. Forget about full-time, benefited jobs. There's a war on all fronts against living wage work.

Nepotism, cronyism, corruption and insider networks control opportunity. We've lost 40 years of labor force participation when the needs of society - and the lousy wages - demand our labor force participation rate grow dramatically, not shrink historically.

Democrats ignored these conditions and won the fewest elected officials in 90 years. 96 million eligible voters didn't vote in 2016, 41% of the electorate. 95 million working age Americans didn't work that year either. Hmmmmm.....

Any politician who ignores these conditions or makes them worse will meet the same fate. The public has no patience left with its politicians on this topic. They should have dealt with 8 years ago. America needs millions of living wage jobs, student debt relief, affordable housing and massive reinvestment in local economies. Preferably from the ground up.

Monday, April 10, 2017

Hating on Haidt...

Old OddJobs4 months ago
Oh good, here comes Haidt the "moderate" leftist now LARPing as a "centrist" to pathologize those who regard being replaced in their own countries by Muslims and Africans as an catastrophic injustice. He's the ultimate managerial android - the exercise of POWER never factored in to his condescension.

Sweden and Multicult creating new third worlds...

Freyjä Moøn3 months ago (edited)
He completely left out the fact that other cultures refusing to assimilate actually does create real threats to the host society and a break down of its values.
For instance, what is happening in Sweden this very moment, they are committing cultural suicide and their country is going to be a third world nation by 2030.
It's not just a racist reaction to brown people, which is how he makes it sound, it's a rational reaction to the recognition of the destabilization of your country and what holds it together and provides that nice progressive and prosperous way of life.

As he said in the beginning, cultures in parts of Africa and the Middle East do not share the same values as us. Flooding them in en masse with zero expectation of integration is just asking for a whole slew of problems, you are importing those anti-thetical values into your country.
Not only this, but we see in America the issue of creating mini nations within our nation. Entire communities exist separate from the majority and they often seclude themselves and cling to their cultural identity which in turn causes them to become angry and resent the host population and this causes a lot of issues as well.

And don't even get me started on identity politics.

I think he's missing the idea of multi-culturalism and the genuine ways that it can dismantle a nation and just writing off the justified fear of that as racism, which only solidifies the delusions of the left who will continue to scream racism when that isn't the issue.

People generally don't care if they have a multi-ethnic population, as long as the values are shared and the way of life is upheld. When that begins to be threatened the way it is right now, people develop issues with it.

Under Obama we just went full speed ahead with these leftist policies with no balance or consideration at all for the other half of the country and that has caused this absolute mess we are seeing now.

We need to encourage balance again, the left and the right need to find a way to coexist and work together in spite of differences if we expect to avoid falling apart.

And I am a leftist too by the way, but I have a conservative family so I am rather familiar with their arguments and I get where they are coming from and its certainly not from racism. They are sick of having their values and way of life demonized and attacked, Obama did this to the middle class throughout his entire presidency and now race relations are awful.

Sunday, April 9, 2017

theshadowbrokers: Don’t Forget Your Base

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Don’t Forget Your Base
Dear President Trump,
Respectfully, what the fuck are you doing? TheShadowBrokers voted for you. TheShadowBrokers supports you. TheShadowBrokers is losing faith in you. Mr. Trump helping theshadowbrokers, helping you. Is appearing you are abandoning “your base”, “the movement”, and the peoples who getting you elected.
Good Evidence:
#1 — Goldman Sach (TheGlobalists) and Military Industrial Intelligence Complex (MIIC) cabinet
#2 — Backtracked on Obamacare
#3 — Attacked the Freedom Causcus (TheMovement)
#4 — Removed Bannon from the NSC
#5 — Increased U.S. involvement in a foreign war (Syria Strike)
The peoples whose voted for you, voted against the Republican Party, the party that tried to destroying your character in the primaries. The peoples who voted for you, voted against the Democrat Party, the party that hates, mocks, and laughs at you. Without the support of the peoples who voted for you, what do you think will be happening to your Presidency? Without the support of the people who voted for you, do you think you’ll be still making America great again? Do you be remembering when you were sitting there at the Obama Press Party and they were all laughing at you? Do you be remembering when you touring the country and all those peoples believed in you and supported you? You were those peoples hope. How do you be thinking it will be feeling when those people turn on you? Will they be laughing at you, hating you, and mocking you too?
TheShadowBrokers doesn’t want this to be happening to you, Mr. Trump. TheShadowBrokers is wanting to see you succeed. TheShadowBrokers is wanting America to be great again. TheShadowBrokers acknowledging, we don’t be having all the inside information you do, things might look different inside the bubble. TheShadowBrokers is having suggestion. Maybe you be making YouTube video is in order, to be explaining to your voters, your supporters, you didn’t fuck them all over. Because from theshadowbrokers seat is looking really bad. If you made deal(s) be telling the peoples about them, peoples is appreciating transparency. But what kind of deal can be resulting in chemical weapons used in Syria, Mr. Bannon’s removal from the NSC, US military strike on Syria, and successful vote for SCOTUS without change rules? Mr. Trump whose war are you fighting? Israeli Nationalists’ (Zionist) and Goldman Sachs’ war? Chinese Globalists’ and Goldman Sachs war? Is not looking like you fighting the domestic wars, the movement elected you to be fighting. You not being in office three months and already you looking like the MIIC’s bitch with John McCain and Chuck Schumer double dutch ruddering each other in the corner over dead corpses.
Mr Trump, we getting it. You having special empathy for father whose daughter is killed. We know this is root cause for anti-illegal immigrant policy. Illegal immigrant shoot man’s daughter in San Francisco. Now is Syrian man daughter killed by chemical gas. We agree its needless tragedy. But tragedies happening everyday and wars endangers all the children not just Syrian.
Mr President theshadowbrokers would like to be making some suggestion regarding why you were being elected, is just being friendly reminders.
Your Supporters:
- Don’t care what is written in the NYT, Washington Post, or any newspaper, so just ignore it.
- Don’t care if you swapped wives with Mr Putin, double down on it, “Putin is not just my firend he is my BFF”.
- Don’t care if the election was hacked or rigged, celebrate it “so what if I did, what are you going to do about it”.
- Don’t care if your popular or nice, get er done, Obama’s fail, thinking he could create compromise. No compromise.
- Don’t want foreign wars, Do want domestic wars, “drain the swamp”, “destroy the nanny state”
- Don’t care about your faith, you sound like a smuck when you try to say god things
- DO support the ideologies and policies of Steve Bannon, Anti-Globalism, Anti-Socialism, Nationalism, Isolationism
TheShadowBrokers is having some other suggestions.
Globalism
If Globalism is being so cool and awesome, why all the peoples come to only one country, American? Isn’t that being opposite of globalism? If globalism shouldn’t all peoples be staying in own countries and America be exporting culture and ideas to them? If cultures, beliefs, and philosophies of Africa, Asia, and India is being so cool and awesome, why isn’t everyone immigrating there? Because its not and they aren’t. European or Western Culture has proven is being best and most dominant, nothing to do with skin colors, white, brown, yellow, but is having to do with being red. No not red communism, red as in blood. European ancestors did the work, the thinking, the rebelling, the fighting, the killing, and the dying. Sometimes they being on rite side of history and sometimes not, but result is being great culture and society. “But, America is nation of immigrants!” Yes, but until 30 years ago most immigrants being Europeans. Jeudeo-Christian Europeans minor cultural differences. Don’t bring the world to America, bring America to the world. America first. English first. American workers first. American students first. American culture first.
White Privilege
Dear Americans, do you seek black privileged, reparation, and free shit? TheShadowBrokers is having program for you, is calling it the “Obama Ticket.” The U.S. government will be setting aside 1 Trillion, made up, borrowed from ourselves, debased Federal Reserve dollars to be sending any American resident, who wishes, regardless of skin color, on an all expense paid, permanent trip to Africa. Be telling your friends. Be telling your family. Be taking as many of them (friends and family) with you. Some condition be applying, accepting an Obama Ticket automatically revokes your Unites States citizenship, your are not being allow to return, for one generation, no exceptions. Call 1–800–555–1212
Socialist Collectivism
Africa not being for you. Do you liking socialism? Collectivism? Are all animals equal, but some animals more equal than others? Do you like wearing black? Then maybe the Socialist Workers Paradise of North Korea is for you. Please call the same number above and select menu option #2.
Russia
For peoples still being confused about TheShadowBrokers and Russia. If theshadowbrokers being Russian don’t you think we’d be in all those U.S. government reports on Russian hacking? TheShadowBrokers isn’t not fans of Russia or Putin but “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” We recognize Americans’ having more in common with Russians than Chinese or Globalist or Socialist. Russia and Putin are nationalist and enemies of the Globalist, examples: NATO encroachment and Ukraine conflict. Therefore Russia and Putin are being best allies until the common enemies are defeated and America is great again.
MAGA
President Trump, theshadowbrokers is offering our services to you and your administration. Did you know most of theshadowbrokers’ members have taken the oath “…to protect and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic…”. Yes sir! Most of us used to be TheDeepState everyone is talking about. But we realized TheDeepState is being the enemy of the constitution, individualism, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. With the right funding we can recruit some of the best hacker intel peoples in United States and world. “Unmasking” is being new buzz word, so we use. TheShadowBrokers is being happy to unmask anyone we considering to be an enemy of the Constitution of the United States. Enemies like John McCain. Something doesn’t rub theshadowbrokers rite about Vietnam War POW who at every opportunity seeks to do violence to others via the proxy of young service men and women. If anyone should be being pacifist, slow to pick fight it should be being former POW. TheShadowBrokers is sure if we “unmasking”, Senator McCain, Magog itself might come out, many defense contractors, Saudi Princes, and possibly little Vietnamese boy he shares with Senator Lindsey Graham, not cool! Mr. Trump we know you are having DOJ and FBI, so why you be needing theShadowBrokers? You don’t, but theshadowbrokers is confused. Why haven’t you served search warrant to NYT, Washington Post, Goldman Sacks, Jeff Bezos, and all other Globalist for investigation and prosecution of treason, sedition, and un-American activities during a time of war? The Alien and Sedition Act? A Un-American Activites commitee? Doing so, you could be seizing all their IT systems, freeze their financial assets, arrest key leadership. Every American is innocent until proven guilty and has the right to fair trial by jury, but investigation and trials take a really really long time and is being very difficult to run a business and make money for shareholder when FBI and DOJ has all your IT systems.
Mr. President Trump theshadowbrokers sincerely is hoping you are being the real deal and that you received this as constructive criticism toward #MAGA. Some American’s consider or maybe considering TheShadowBrokers traitors. We disagreeing. We view this as keeping our oath to protect and defend against enemies foreign and domestic. TheShadowBrokers wishes we could be doing more, but revolutions/civil wars taking money, time, and people. TheShadowBrokers has is having little of each as our auction was an apparent failure. Be considering this our form of protest. The password for the EQGRP-Auction-Files is CrDj”(;Va.*NdlnzB9M?@K2)#>deB7mN
But we’d still be happy to accept donations to further the cause. 19BY2XCgbDe6WtTVbTyzM9eR3LYr6VitWK
TheShadowBrokers

"It’s not about typical corruption, it’s about the government making decisions while telling most of the public to fuck off."

 David Cearley
David Cearley
Jan 19
Lessig, I believe you’re misinterpreting people’s anger. People recognize that corruption exists in a government headed by either party, and that’s not really what they’re angry about. They’re upset that government has increasingly been making decisions completely divorced from the costs and impacts of their decisions. For example under this administration, the EPA began making decisions without regard to the financial impact of their decisions. The IRS chose to target conservative political advocacy organizations and slow walk their non-profit applications. Reams and reams of regulations were dictated by the executive branch. While income inequality is skyrocketing and the labor participation rate is at it’s lowest in four decades, government concentrated on enforcing complex rules only large companies can afford to comply with. The trillion spent on stimulus went to fortune 50 or fortune 500 enterprises, or public sector unions. shelved for How about the decision on a pipeline that meets all current legal requirements, and running to a refinery that just completed a five billion dollar upgrade was shelved for years, and then disallowed, was nixed solely because the president decided that the country (which runs on oil), no loger needs the stuff.
Virtually everything done in the past eight years has suppressed small business growth, suppressed borrowing (by punishing banks that actually make consumer and commercial loans), vastly increased compliance costs, exacerbated youth and minority employment, and in general been hostile to all but the most politically connected multi-billion dollar corporations. University campuses have become hotbeds of bullying and censorship, a law intended to protect women’s access to school athletics has morphed into a tool to force schools to adjudicate sexual assaults and rape while trampling on the rights of the accused. Entire police departments have been labeled as racist based on statistical sampling, and junior highs have had their funding threatened if they don’t open their girl’s locker rooms to transexuals with penises. Let’s not forget the Catholic Church being forced to fund birth control. These are simply examples of the federal government making decisions with complete disregard of tens of millions of citizens. It’s not about typical corruption, it’s about the government making decisions while telling most of the public to fuck off.

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Let's make retirement savings accounts mandatory...AGAIN!

  • All this does is effectively increase the size of social security without saying that. The money isn't yours because the annuitization is forced, so it's just like SS. What most people need at retirement more than income is wealth. Wealth allows people to make choices. They can turn that into income if that's what they need or they can turn that into self-insurance for long term care, or into a bequest or a myriad of other reasonable choices. 
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        Another example of socialistic behavior at it's finest. Not only does this proposal MANDATE worker AND employer input but will eventually eliminate individual choices at retirement. Oh, and that proposed tax 'credit'?? The government giveth, the government taketh away.
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            What distinguishes these mandates from taxes? Why would the government mandate an annuity when we already have a stream of payments from social secuirty? All choice is being effectively standardized and socialized. It won't be long until the balances in these so-called retirement accounts are replaced by IOUs from the government and the actual funds are utilized to offset government deficits--just like Social Security now. It is another inter-generational transfer payment system that will end up actuarially unsound--to reiterate, just like Social Security currently is,
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                So right, Lloyd_davis). The government is looking for all kinds of DEVIOUS schemes to get taxpayer (read workers) money now to cover their expensive spending habits.
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                • The key to this proposal is "what happens to the money at "the end?"" It is proposing an annuity where the money goes, where? to the social security system which is totally broke and is a PONZI scheme. What they should do is use the CURENT social security contributions to fund these plans. They, there would be more money and, at the end, the money would go to their heirs. It does not work that way. 
                  This is another BLEEDING LIBERAL (read democraps and Hilllary supporters) proposal to get MORE money out the individual and employer and go into government coffers to WASTE. Notice who proposed it; notice the bleeding liberal states that have passed it. Putting the money into an annuity at the end means that the government gets the money to spend/waste and we have another social security type debacle. At least that money should go to the individual's estate or, better yet, let the individual take out a Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) like the regular IRA. If there is money left over when the individual dies, that money goes to his estate. Keep the government(s) (federal and state) out of the equation. Don't let them take the money at the end.

                No future for the youth...

                mark antrobus
                Feb 18, 2016 at 15:14
                Cowardly governments in collusion with the retirement vote have consistently fleeced the young with high taxes, university tuition fees, the effective abolition of defined benefit pension schemes, grossly high house prices and the end of job security. In a nutshell, having had all these benefits themselves while keeping the retired of their day in poverty, they have drawn up the drawbridge on those that follow - for what reason? To pay for a retirement welfare system of unprecedented generosity for themselves that will not survive to the next generation.