Trump / FBI / Russians

Somehow these tremendous patriots never seem to make it into the LSM libtardian flow...

 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin McAleenan had to correct Democrat Sen. Richard Blumenthal on Wednesday after Blumenthal falsely claimed that border crossings are at a historic low during a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing about human trafficking on the U.S.-Mexico border.

"Well, but illicit narcotics are coming primarily still through the ports of entry, border crossings are still at a historic low compared to other times in our nation's history," Blumenthal claimed.

"No senator, they're not," McAleenan fired back. "We're on pace for over 700,000 crossings this year, that's closer to historic highs than historic lows."

 

North Korea's rapidly advancing nuclear capability is not the fault of President Donald Trump, but rather of successive U.S. administrations who've failed to reign in the rogue state, according to a former White House foreign policy director.

"Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump: this is a 20-year failure of American foreign policy," James Rubin, former assistant secretary of state for public affairs under the Bill Clinton administration, told CNBC.

 

So let me get this correct.... yankkke has everyone blocked that hurts his feelings and only sees posts from those that he agrees with??? Is this not the very definition of a snowflake wanting a safe space?

 

Capitalism vs. Socialism

 

I haven't looked at this thread lately. Sheesh. I am going back to my safe space - the scantily clad women thread! I like boobies

 

Respectfully disagree, Kid. The Dems fear Ocasio-Cortez & her cronies.

Witness today's editorial in the WSJ, if you have a moment.
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This is an intelligent insight:
Democrats can't muster enough votes to condemn anti-Semitism . So, what are they going to do? Condemn "all hate." That's right folks, the same party that mercilessly criticized conservatives for claiming that "All lives matter," instead of just "BLM," are doing the hypocritical reverse play by avoiding to specifically condemn anti-Semitism.

And this is the party that wants to defeat Donald Trump. Pretty sad.
- Schmidt

 

WSJ

• Opinion
• Review & Outlook

Speaker Ocasio-Cortez
House leaders seem to be afraid of their radical backbenchers.
By
The Editorial Board
March 6, 2019 7:19 p.m. ET


Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, and Representative Ilhan Omar (R), Democrat of Minnesota, in Washington, DC, February 7. Photo: saul loeb/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

Don’t be surprised if either Paul Ryan or John Boehner has put in an empathy call to current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi this week. The former Republican House Speakers know all about willful backbenchers, and Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez make the GOP Freedom Caucus look like powder puffs.

This week’s amazing House revolt involves a leadership attempt to discipline Ms. Omar for her latest “vile, anti-Semitic slur,” as Democratic Rep. Eliot Engel described the comments she made at a public forum last week. Referring to the U.S.-Israel relationship, Ms. Omar said, “I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country.”

After New York Democrat Nita Lowey also criticized her remark, Ms. Omar doubled down, writing “I should not be expected to have allegiance/pledge support to a foreign country in order to serve my country in Congress or serve on committee.” Accusing American Jews of putting allegiance to the Jewish state above loyalty to America is an anti-Semitic classic.

This came a mere two weeks after House leaders leaned on Ms. Omar, who is Muslim, to apologize for earlier remarks that indulged in anti-Semitic tropes. So this time House leaders went further and decided to draft a resolution denouncing anti-Semitism that was supposed to get a vote on the House floor on Wednesday. The draft language didn’t mention Ms. Omar by name, but it did at least condemn smears such as “accusing Jews of dual loyalty.”

But then came the backlash from the progressive left. “We need to have equity in our outrage,” said Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley. “Islamaphobia needs to be included in this. We need to denounce all forms of hate.”



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Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said she supported Ms. Omar and alerted her 3.43 million Twitter followers: “One of the things that is hurtful about the extent to which reprimand is sought of Ilhan is that no one seeks this level of reprimand when members make statements about Latinx + other communities (during the shutdown, a GOP member yelled ‘Go back to Puerto Rico!’ on the floor).”

House leaders promptly backed down. They postponed the floor vote on their resolution and on Wednesday were rewriting it to denounce not merely anti-Semitism but “hatred” of all kinds including “Islamaphobia.”

An exercise that began with trying to distance Democrats from an anti-Semitic slur has evolved into a display of political cowardice that equates smears against Jews that have a horrific historical meaning with generalized “hate.” Thus does a specific hatred get consumed, and trivialized, in today’s Democratic identity politics. And Ms. Omar can keep her Foreign Affairs Committee seat.

The most important question after this moral fiasco may be who’s really the Speaker of the House—Ms. Pelosi, or the young radicals led by Ms. Ocasio-Cortez?

Appeared in the March 7, 2019, print edition.

 

Yanko ending his day by posting 2 nice pictures of his crush, her friend.

How sweet!

Don't lie Yank, you wish it was you getting that hug.

 

I would say Bernie being the front runner for the Dems so far is a stronger indicator of the direction of the party. I've got a feeling AOC and Omar are going to face strong DNC backed opponents next cycle and not be around come 2021.

 

Trump wasn't a puppet, but Russians helped him to be president, my opinion

 

Totally off-topic, even though this and nothing else should have been today's topic:

Congressman James Clyburn, D-S.C., defended freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Wednesday by saying her experience was "more personal" than Jews whose parents survived the Holocaust.

Clyburn argued Omar's experience "is much more empirical -- and powerful -- than that of people who are generations removed from the Holocaust, Japanese internment camps during WWII and the other violent episodes that have marked history," according to a report in The Hill.

“I’m serious about that. There are people who tell me, ‘Well, my parents are Holocaust survivors.’ ‘My parents did this.’ It’s more personal with her,” Clyburn said.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/il...arents-survived-the-holocaust-dem-congressman

So how are we supposed to think about African-Americans who are generations removed from slavery?
Oh, sorry .. now that's racist.
- - Shreve

 

TRUMP TRAIN SETS THE TONE FOR AMERICAN BUSINESS SUCCESS



The great American jobs machine is still roaring. Slowing global growth and trade friction may cloud the economic horizon, but U.S. small businesses in February went on an historic hiring binge. That’s according to the latest employment report from the National Federation of Independent Business, due out later today.

NFIB has been conducting this monthly survey for decades. The organization’s chief economist William Dunkelberg reports that they’ve never seen results like these:

Job creation broke the 45-year record in February with a net addition of 0.52 workers per firm (including those making no change in employment), up from 0.25 in December and 0.33 in January. The previous record was 0.51 reached in May 1998.
NFIB also found a historic low in the percentage of business owners reducing employment—just 3% of survey respondents. “Owners are trying to hold on to the employees they have,” says Mr. Dunkelberg.