Trump / FBI / Russians

Interesting. And, yes, you did.

 

sweet suite.

 

exactly.

 

If anyone is interested in a great quick read, this book will bring some perspective of what we have witnessed over the last 25 years: https://www.amazon.com/Grand-Chessboard-American-Geostrategic-Imperatives/dp/0465027261

and I'm reposting this (it's from 1890!) link: http://www.catholicapologetics.info/apologetics/judaism/jewrope.htm <<if you take the time to actually read through it, and you have the educational background to analyze all that is in it, it becomes a great resource for so many historical events past and present. It's timely and continues to be extremely relevant in relation to world events today. It set/s the stage, so to speak, for our present.

here is a good one as well, for the Russian angle: http://www.dutchanarchy.com/stratfor-chief-reveals-zio-anglo-american-plot-for-world-domination/

https://worldview.stratfor.com/<< because Politics ain't local no more.

 

From 30,000 feet, Amazon’s abandonment of its proposed new headquarters in New York City might seem a chance, as Bostonian snobs like to put it, for the light to dawn on Marblehead.

Slathering on tax abatements and infrastructure promises to lure new development may be irresistible for communities but is always a second-best idea. For New York it was especially unnecessary given all the city’s attractions. The city would be better off giving all businesses a tax cut.

But the eagerness of certain progressives to celebrate the loss of Amazon jobs as a triumph of “the people” is a chance to see things in new light.

One newly enlightened resident of Marblehead, since retiring his 2020 presidential hopes, is Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Unlike some of his allies, Mr. Cuomo hasn’t been backpaddling to get on the right side of the left after the Amazon fiasco.

Compare this to Mayor Bill de Blasio, as much an architect of the Amazon deal as Mr. Cuomo was. Now he says: “We gave Amazon the opportunity to be a good neighbor and do business in the greatest city in the world. Instead of working with the community, Amazon threw away that opportunity.”

Here Mr. de Blasio echoes an emergency talking point adopted by many liberals last seen mau-mauing the company for accepting a deal proffered by liberals. Suddenly they’re not so sure they want credit for the forfeited jobs and tax revenues. Solution: Blame the company for letting their over-the-top rhetoric drive it away.

Do they have half a point? Maybe. Amazon obviously holds to a mind-set native to much of America: A deal is a deal. A handshake settles matters. It’s not a signal for a new negotiation, complete with vilification of Amazon for agreeing to the terms you just put before it.

But New York is New York. It would have meant overcoming some bad blood but Jeff Bezos could have done worse than consult a certain Donald Trump, an expert in New York-style bargaining who has been through the rigadoon many times with the city himself.

He might have advised Mr. Bezos: Put on a plastic grin. Let the ninnies have their shriek. Hey, there’s no such thing as bad press in New York. And be open to some adjustment here and there, for which you can expect to receive down-low compensation in the future once the storm has passed.

Mr. Bezos might have been wise to entertain such advice since he’s in danger of dominating the news lately in more ways than are desirable. But then we’d be missing something salutary: an explosion of genuine and vociferous debate among Democrats in one-party New York. It almost sounds like democracy coming alive.

If there’s a downturn between now and 2020, possibly even the U.S. Congress might have to do without the services of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, now bragging about her success in killing Amazon jobs. How she became the representative of a community that needs opportunity and economic development more than it needs campus lefty attitudinizing was always a bit of a mystery. Except for her ethnic background, she doesn’t fit the district that propelled her to overnight stardom. I bet many of the area’s residents, as they assess what her latest coup has cost them, are starting to feel the same way.

Our strange new respect for Mr. Cuomo has its limits, but he has allowed himself lately to notice that New York state’s high taxes are a deterrent to business. They drive high-earning taxpayers away. He finds it convenient to blame Mr. Trump for accentuating the problem by limiting the deductibility of state and local taxes. But being able to shift some of the cost of New York’s punitive tax rates to other states hardly proved a solution to upstate’s long economic decline.

In a pungent statement on the governor’s own website, Mr. Cuomo not only acknowledged New York’s fiscal unattractiveness and the reality of tax competition with other states. He skewered the disingenuous and just plain dumb critics who portrayed his Amazon deal as a net giveaway when Amazon would have brought New York $9 in tax revenues for every $1 in tax relief it enjoyed.

The governor especially unloaded on the New York Times, which has its own sterling history of extorting tax breaks and zoning exceptions from the city and state.

The world would be a better place, and New York would do better by its long-suffering job creators, if it spent less time dishing out favors to a handful of big-name companies. Political capital could be more intelligently employed making the state and city hospitable to businesses of all kinds, especially the smaller businesses that create most jobs.

You could possibly even have that debate once you thin out a political class for which progressive sloganeering is a weightier reality than the jobs and incomes and personal welfare of millions of citizens.
- - Jenkins, WSJ

 

California Dreamin' is the nightmare from libtards...

'The Golden State is a true LOL. The heck with earthquakes and fires. A state whose focus is straws, bags, receipts and banning fossil fuels yet LA and SF are overrun with feces on the streets. The state is imploding. Only 20% can afford to buy a home. They have the highest poverty rate factoring cost of living. There is a prison population crisis. They had to pass proposition 47 because of over crowding. Non violent felons serve no jail time. There is a water crisis. The 5th highest taxes and the 7th worst fiscal condition. They had the lowest graduation rate until they eliminated the graduate exam. The US News & World Report just ranked states in quality of life and CA was dead last. Their pre- k-12th schools are ranked 44th. They have 12% of the population and 36% of citizens on welfare. One in six Californians have not finished high school, the highest rate in the country. CA ranks #2 in the states most people are fleeing. People voting with their feet.'
- - F. Scott

 

"So, I'm not clear on your perspective here xgen70.....do you subscribe to Kalergi's theories in part or in toto?"

On follow up, The word "subscribe" was throwing me off. <<to open-ended. Obviously some of the content on the website I linked to, I certainly don't "subscribe" to. However, if we are speaking about what I see as a planned and directed agenda to get rid of white traditional races/ peoples/families, then yes, I do believe that plan is already in full swing. Especially White Males, that agenda is in full view and is everywhere you look.

 

I was just asking, not judging.

As an aside, but related topic, it's interesting that the FBI describes Minneapolis as the top place for ISIS recruitment of terrorists here in the USA. Brilliant move by Obama bringing in tens of thousands of Somali muslims.



..."more men and boys from a Somali American community in Minneapolis have joined – or attempted to join – a foreign terrorist organization over the last 12 years than any other jurisdiction in the country."

"FBI stats show 45 Somalis left to join the ranks of either the Somalia-based Islamic insurgency al-Shabab, or the Iraq- and Syria-based ISIS combined," Fox News continued. "And as of 2018, a dozen more had been arrested with the intention of leaving to support ISIS. Both numbers are far higher than those of alleged terrorist wannabes who left or attempted to leave the country from other areas in the country where Muslim refugees have been resettled."


As noted, "the insular ethnic community in Minnesota offers a rich recruiting ground" for Islamic terrorism as the Somali population in the Minneapolis community — which is located in Omar's district — is nearly 100,000.

Not being krazy or ranting, the reality is that these folks whose koran rules their world want zero to do with Judaeo Christian culture. They want to destroy America & they have begun that process a lot quicker than I had feared would happen.

As predicted, the payback from Obama's actions has begun for the rest of us sheeple.

 

Oh we have an impression all right.

Are you archy?

 

And they are encouraged to do so, aided and abetted, by a couple of members of this very board.
Hmmmm.....now, who could they be??

 

Nope - he isn't one of them. His faith precludes him, I am sure.

 

Interesting, to say the least.

 

Nobody in Europe has had the guts to make the changes required: 1) cut the influence of the public sector in the economy, including healthcare (HMS in UK), welfare spending (I know a perfectly healthy french lad of 25 years old who gets paid EUR750/month because he's out of work but spends his time traveling), reduce taxation and deregulate labor markets (try firing a person in Spain or France) and businesses (try opening up a new business in Italy or France). Also, Europe needs to figure out how to stop immigration from poor migrants that are overwhelming social services in Germany/France and NL.
- - M Buhler

 

Mr. McCabe was fired last year for lying to FBI investigators, so it’s hard to know how much to believe. He’s also tried to qualify the interview after excerpts were disclosed, with a spokesperson saying that while Mr. McCabe “participated in a discussion that included a comment by Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein regarding the 25th Amendment,” he did not participate in any “extended discussions” about removing Mr. Trump.


Mr. Rosenstein says he wasn’t in a “position to consider invoking the 25th Amendment” but doesn’t deny the discussion.


This is extraordinary, and as far as we know unprecedented. A President exercises his constitutional prerogative to fire the FBI director, and Mr. Comey’s associates immediately talked about deposing him in what would amount to a coup?


The 25th Amendment was passed after JFK’s assassination to allow for a transfer of power when a President is “unable” to discharge his duties. It is intended to be used only after demonstrated evidence of impairment that is witnessed by those closest to the Commander in Chief. It doesn’t exist to settle political differences, or to let scheming bureaucrats imagine they are saving the country from someone they fear is a Manchurian candidate. The constitutional process for that is impeachment.


Yet it’s not far-fetched to think that Messrs. McCabe and Rosenstein considered a 25th Amendment coup because the idea was also widely discussed in elite media circles at the time. The Comey firing so flustered so many that they were willing to consider nullifying an election five months into the Presidency.
WSJ

 

True, I was more pointing that the hallowing from the left meets it's Wall when its one of their own.
And, it would be foolish to think any repubs in the either house would stand up to anything. They can't even muster enough spine to stand with the president let alone confront anything or anyone on the left

 

I'm guessing that these same Democrat pols were negotiating these tax breaks in relative secrecy, and when some of the details started leaking out, some of the more radical ideologues injected their opinions and forced everybody's hand, which in turn caused Bezos to bail.

This is hilarious. Talk about voting against your own best interests.

I also noticed that at least one radical Seattle councilwoman traveled to NY to blast Amazon for the gentrification of Seattle, the massive jump of the median price of housing, the rapid crumbling of Seattle's infrastructure, the huge jump of homelessness, and the disproportionate income inequality for poor people (and especially "people of color).

Wow. Just wow.

I live in an area that is suffering all those dilemmas, as bad as Seattle. Most would say worse.

We have no Amazon. We have no Microsoft. We have no Boeing. We don't even have Weyerhaeuser any longer. Frankly, we ain't got sh1t.

Maybe Amazon isn't the problem. Maybe the politics and the political leadership is the problem?

I find it totally disingenuous to blame a corporation or corporate tax breaks as the reason a city or state is failing. Actually, disingenuous is a bad term. Flat-out LIE is a better description.

funny how Bezos, a Dem Darling and someone who equals Soros in power and financial clout as a progressive sponsor and benefactor, is now being cannibalized by his own tribe.

I hope he moves Amazon HQ to Dallas and becomes a conservative lol