he probably thought about it for months...but kept getting the wrong answer...

Wanna bet the next democrat potus will fire every Republican staff the first day?

You say this as of it's unusual. Such turnovers occur when the outgoing POTUS and the incoming POTUS are of different political parties. The only surprise would be if it didn't happen.

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Originally posted by Hamden106:
Wanna bet the next democrat potus will fire every Republican staff the first day?

That’s business as normal. President trump has been the exception.

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Originally posted by sdy:
hope this doesn't crush anybody

Justin Amash:

Is that about like Brian Stelter announcing he is withdrawing from the World's Strongest Man contest?



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pls watch (from Aug 2019)

Dr Robert Epstein said big tech manipulation in 2016 pushed between 2.6 million and 10.4 million votes to Clinton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaLeahyu1hI

President Trump Warns Mitch McConnell: “Time is Running Out”...

Earlier today President Trump was again ‘subtle as a brick through a window’ in a tweet requesting the senate get serious in exposing Obamagate and the soft coup effort:



Unfortunately, due to the dynamics of the UniParty, Mitch McConnell is very unlikely to take any action to expose prior misconduct; it would be against McConnell’s interests.

The Senate was not a passive entity in the various hoaxes against President Trump. Factually, the Senate Intelligence Committee, and individual senators themselves, were active participants. As a result just like AG Barr knows any discussion of SSCI security director James Wolfe’s non prosecution would expose DOJ corruption, so too does Mitch McConnell know senate investigations would expose senate corruption in both parties.

Republican members like John McCain actively participated; and republican members like Richard Burr willfully allowed the framework to continue. Don’t forget it was Republican Senator Marco Rubio who first came to the defense of Democrat SSCI Vice-Chair Mark Warner when the covert communication with Chris Steele became evident.

In the big picture, the big ugly picture, republicans are just as complicit as democrats within all of the efforts to remove President Trump. To this day the GOP controlled Senate Intelligence Committee is still spitting out reports defending the previous administration and proclaiming the vast Russian election conspiracy is genuine and real (it isn’t).

CTH readers are not blind to the DC structure where republicans and democrats are two wings of the same bird. Co-dependent no more! This is the Last Refuge because we no longer allow ourselves to suffer from ‘battered conservative syndrome‘. On these pages we identify our republican abusers openly.

If ever President Trump was to go full wolverine on the corrupt GOP it would be the Big Ugly. Alas, we are familiar with the political dynamic and fully accept that Mitch McConnell would rather give leadership to Chuck Schumer than lose his power, influence and affluence.

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Anxious Trump voters have been understandably frustrated by the lack of speed with which President Trump is able to force the MAGA agenda onto an unwilling DC political apparatus. However, once you understand the Uniparty agenda the scope of the challenge is much easier to see.

How did the House write a $3 trillion legislative spending package when the legislators were not even in Washington DC? Short version: they didn’t, the lobbyists did.

President Trump’s administration is adverse to the interests of the entire DC political system. It’s a big club, and he’s confronting it. Mitch McConnell has no incentive to help President Trump.

Remember…. Congress does not write laws or legislation, special interest groups do. Lobbyists are paid, some very well paid, to get politicians to go along with the need of the legislative group.

When you are voting for a Congressional Rep or a U.S. Senator you are not voting for a person who will write laws. Your rep only votes on legislation to approve or disapprove of constructs that are written by outside groups and sold to them through lobbyists who work for those outside groups.

While all of this is happening the same outside groups who write the laws are providing money for the campaigns of the politicians they need to pass them. This construct sets up the quid-pro-quo of influence, although much of it is fraught with plausible deniability.

This is the way legislation is created.

If our frame of reference is not established in this basic understanding we can often fall into the trap of viewing a politician, or political vote, through a false prism.

The modern origin of all legislative constructs is not within congress.

“we’ll have to pass the bill to, well, find out what is in the bill” etc. ~ Nancy Pelosi 2009

“We rely upon the stupidity of the American voter” ~ Johnathan Gruber 2011, 2012.

Once you understand this process you can understand how politicians get rich. Mitch McConnell is not going to disrupt this system.

When a House or Senate member becomes educated on the intent of the legislation, they have attended the sales pitch; and when they find out the likelihood of support for that legislation; they can then position their own (or their families) financial interests to benefit from the consequence of passage. It is a process similar to insider trading on Wall Street, except the trading is based on knowing who will benefit from a legislative passage.

The legislative construct passes from K-Street into the halls of congress through congressional committees. The law originates from the committee to the full House or Senate. Committee seats which vote on these bills are therefore more valuable to the lobbyists. Chairs of these committees are exponentially more valuable.

Now, think about this reality against the backdrop of the 2016 Presidential Election. Legislation is passed based on ideology. In the aftermath of the 2016 election the system within DC was not structurally set-up to receive a Donald Trump presidency.

If Hillary Clinton had won the election, her Oval Office desk would be filled with legislation passed by congress which she would have been signing. Heck, she’d have writer’s cramp from all of the special interest legislation, driven by special interest groups that supported her campaign, that would be flowing to her desk.

Why?

Simply because the authors of the legislation, the originating special interest and lobbying groups, were spending millions to fund her campaign. Hillary Clinton would be signing K-Street constructed special interest legislation to repay all of those donors/investors.

Congress would be fast-tracking the passage because the same interest groups also fund the members of congress.

President Donald Trump winning the election threw a monkey wrench into the entire DC system…. In early 2017 the modern legislative machine was frozen in place.

The “America First” policies represented by candidate Donald Trump were not within the legislative constructs coming from the K-Street authors of the legislation. There were no MAGA lobbyists waiting on Trump ideology to advance legislation based on America First objectives.

As a result of an empty feeder system, in early 2017 congress had no bills to advance because all of the myriad of bills and briefs written were not in line with President Trump policy. There was simply no entity within DC writing legislation that was in-line with President Trump’s America-First’ economic and foreign policy agenda.

Exactly the opposite was true. All of the DC legislative briefs and constructs were/are antithetical to Trump policy. There were hundreds of file boxes filled with thousands of legislative constructs that became worthless when Donald Trump won the election.

Those legislative constructs (briefs) representing tens of millions of dollars worth of time and influence were just sitting there piled up in boxes under desks and in closets amid K-Street and the congressional offices. Legislation needed to be in-line with an entire new political perspective, and there was no-one, no special interest or lobbying group, currently occupying DC office space with any interest in synergy with Trump policy.

Think about the larger ramifications within that truism. That is also why there was/is so much opposition.

No legislation provided by outside interests means no work for lobbyists who sell it. No work means no money. No money means no expense accounts. No expenses means politicians paying for their own indulgences etc.

Politicians were not happy without their indulgences, but the issue was actually bigger. No K-Street expenditures also means no personal benefit; and no opportunity to advance financial benefit from the insider trading system.

Without the ability to position personal wealth for benefit, why would a politician stay in office? The income of many long-term politicians on both Republican and Democrat sides of the aisle was completely disrupted by President Trump winning the election. That is one of the key reason why so many politicians retired immediately thereafter.

When we understand the business of DC, we understand the difference between legislation with a traditional purpose and modern legislation with a financial and political agenda.

Mitch McConnell has the system. President Trump has the people.

The battle continues...



https://theconservativetreehou...ing-out/#more-191915

Please watch the above. Amazing I've never seen this before.

It's no wonder they were confident of a victory.

Congress prepares investigation number x (I've forgotten what number we are on now) into Trump firing IG.

Trump Ousted State Dept. Watchdog at Pompeo’s Urging; Democrats Open Inquiry

New York Times

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged President Trump to fire the official responsible for fighting waste and fraud in his department, a White House official said Saturday, a recommendation certain to come under scrutiny after congressional Democrats opened an investigation into what they said “may be an act of illegal retaliation.”

Mr. Trump told Speaker Nancy Pelosi late Friday night that he was ousting Steve A. Linick, who led the office of the inspector general at the State Department, and replacing him with an ambassador with close ties to Vice President Mike Pence.

Representative Eliot L. Engel, Democrat of New York and the chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, immediately called the decision to remove Mr. Linick an “outrageous act” meant to protect Mr. Pompeo from accountability.

By Saturday, Mr. Engel and Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had opened an investigation into Mr. Linick’s removal, citing a pattern of “politically motivated firing of inspectors general.”

In letters to the White House, the State Department and Mr. Linick, the two Democrats wrote that they believed Mr. Linick had opened an investigation into wrongdoing by Mr. Pompeo and that Mr. Pompeo had responded by recommending that Mr. Linick be fired. The lawmakers did not provide any more details, but a Democratic aide said that Mr. Linick had been looking into whether Mr. Pompeo improperly used a political appointee at the State Department to perform personal tasks for him and his wife.

A White House official, speaking on the condition on anonymity, confirmed on Saturday that Mr. Pompeo had recommended Mr. Linick’s removal and said that Mr. Trump had agreed. A spokeswoman for Mr. Pompeo did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.

“Such an action, transparently designed to protect Secretary Pompeo from personal accountability, would undermine the foundation of our democratic institutions and may be an illegal act of retaliation,” the lawmakers wrote.

Since starting his current job in April 2018, Mr. Pompeo has come under growing public scrutiny for what critics say is his use of the State Department’s resources for personal endeavors. Mr. Menendez has called for Mr. Pompeo to explain how he can justify frequent trips to Kansas, his adopted home state, using State Department funds and aircraft. He has brought his wife, Susan Pompeo, on many trips abroad, telling others she is a “force multiplier” for him. And CNN reported last year that congressional officials were looking at potential misuse of diplomatic security personnel for personal errands. That did not result in the opening of a formal inquiry.

In their letters, Mr. Engel and Mr. Menendez requested that the administration turn over records and information related to the firing of Mr. Linick as well as “records of all I.G. investigations involving the Office of the Secretary that were open, pending, or incomplete at the time of Mr. Linick’s firing.”

Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, one of the few congressional Republicans who have been publicly critical of the president, denounced Mr. Linick’s dismissal Saturday evening.

“The firings of multiple Inspectors General is unprecedented; doing so without good cause chills the independence essential to their purpose,” Mr. Romney said on Twitter. “It is a threat to accountable democracy and a fissure in the constitutional balance of power.”

Few Republicans have commented on the move. Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, who in the past has made a point of defending inspectors general, said in a statement that “a general lack of confidence simply is not sufficient detail to satisfy Congress.”

Mr. Trump’s decision to remove Mr. Linick is the latest in a series of ousters aimed at inspectors general who the president and his allies believe are opposed to his agenda, upending the traditional independence of the internal watchdog agencies.

On May 1, even as the coronavirus pandemic continued to ravage the country, Mr. Trump moved to oust Christi A. Grimm, the principal deputy inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services, whose office had issued a report revealing the dire state of the nation’s response to the pathogen. He has also taken steps to remove two other inspectors general.

A month earlier, the president ousted Michael K. Atkinson, the inspector general for the intelligence community, who had infuriated the president by insisting on telling lawmakers about a whistle-blower complaint that ultimately prompted impeachment proceedings.

The president also took steps to remove Glenn A. Fine, who has been the acting inspector general for the Defense Department since before Mr. Trump took office, so that he could not be installed as the leader of an oversight panel intended to keep tabs on how the Trump administration spends trillions of dollars in pandemic relief approved by Congress.

In his letter informing Ms. Pelosi about Mr. Linick’s removal, which was obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Trump wrote that “it is vital that I have the fullest confidence in the appointees serving as Inspectors General.”

“That is no longer the case with regard to this Inspector General,” the president added.

Under law, the administration must notify Congress 30 days before formally terminating an inspector general. Mr. Linick is expected to leave his post after that period.

Mr. Linick was spotlighted during the impeachment inquiry when he requested an urgent meeting with congressional staff members to give them copies of documents related to the State Department and Ukraine, signaling that the documents could be relevant to the House inquiry into whether President Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his son Hunter Biden. The documents — a record of contacts between Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, and Ukrainian prosecutors, as well as accounts of Ukrainian law enforcement proceedings — turned out to be largely inconsequential.

Two other investigations spearheaded by Mr. Linick’s office created friction among senior political appointees at the State Department. The office said in November that it had found that appointees at the agency, when it was led by Rex W. Tillerson, had retaliated against a career civil servant, Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, because of her Iranian-American ethnicity and a perception that she held political views different from those of top Trump officials. Brian H. Hook, then the head of the office of policy planning, where Ms. Nowrouzzadeh worked, was scrutinized in that inquiry. Mr. Hook is now the special representative for Iran and works closely with Mr. Pompeo.

Mr. Linick’s office also found in August that two political appointees in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs had harassed career employees based on claims that the employees were “disloyal” based on their perceived political views.

His ouster came hours after the Democratic-led House had passed a $3 trillion coronavirus relief measure that included a provision designed to provide additional legal protections for inspectors general. The overall proposal has no chance of becoming law, with near-unanimous Republican opposition.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
Congress prepares investigation number x (I've forgotten what number we are on now) into Trump firing IG.

Trump Ousted State Dept. Watchdog at Pompeo’s Urging; Democrats Open Inquiry

New York Times

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged President Trump to fire the official responsible for fighting waste and fraud in his department, a White House official said Saturday, a recommendation certain to come under scrutiny after congressional Democrats opened an investigation into what they said “may be an act of illegal retaliation.”
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How shocking: An anti-Trump article. The main stream media (led by the NY Times) will find fault with EVERYTHING Trump does, they lost credibility years ago.

I'll admit I read the e-WashPost daily and occasionally skim thru the e-NY Times, but it's painful. I sometimes read the comments, it's discouraging to read how supposedly intelligent people "think."

Once in a while there's a useful, objective news story, but that's very rare.

Well to be fair they have nothing else to do. None of them are leaders. They’re destroyers.

President Trump could solve world hunger and eliminate disease and the only thing the dems can do is open an investigation.

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Negative interest rates? Why does that sound like a horribly bad idea?

Because it IS a horribly bad idea.

Zero-interest rates, or even negative interest rates may be the only way you can continue to float the debt. At some point it's going to collapse anyway.



Assuming the US runs a $7T 2020 deficit to finance the CARES and HEROES acts plus any and every other bailout they can think of, US debt to GDP will blast to an inconceivable record while annual population growth among the under 65 year-old population hugs the zero line.

Ever more debt to be repaid/serviced/monetized by ever fewer... what could go wrong?

https://www.zerohedge.com/pers.../what-could-go-wrong

https://www.washingtonexaminer...tter-than-obama-bush

Trump approval at Gallup ‘highest,’ better than Obama, Bush


Despite a wave of critical news coverage and Democratic catcalls, President Trump sits at his “highest” approval in the latest Gallup survey, and above where four of the last six presidents, including Barack Obama and George W. Bush, were at this point of the first term.

After two weeks of bad news on the coronavirus and economic front, Trump maintained his 49% approval rating, and his disapproval crept up just 1 point, to 48% in the Gallup survey of adults, a broad test.

Gallup said that Trump’s approval is “tied for the best of his presidency.”


At 49%, Trump is a hair away from the generally accepted 50%-51% approval political experts consider a lock to win reelection. Both Obama and Bush were at 50% approval on their reelection days.

At this stage of their presidencies, Obama was at 47% approval, and Bush was at 46% approval. Also, at this stage of their presidencies and heading into the reelection, Bill Clinton was at 55% approval, George H.W. Bush at 40%, Ronald Reagan at 52%, and Jimmy Carter at 38%.

Obama, George W. Bush, Clinton, and Reagan won reelection.

Some pollsters explain that there has been a backlash against the media’s coverage of Trump and the coronavirus and the economy. In the latest McLaughlin & Associates survey, for example, 48% said the media has been unfair to 42% who said it has been fair.

John McLaughlin told Secrets, "They play to a small active, deranged, anti-Trump base for clicks on the internet. That’s not journalism. In the process, they disregard facts and destroy their own credibility. The establishment media is no longer an independent, nonpartisan check and balance on both major parties. Instead, they are an extension of the liberal Democratic Party."

And the latest Economist/YouGov survey showed that just one-third of voters blame Trump for the virus-crushed economy.


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https://www.washingtonexaminer...tter-than-obama-bush

Trump approval at Gallup ‘highest,’ better than Obama, Bush

Yeah, but none of that matters at all because the media has continually told us Biden is way out in front, leading, and pulling away from Trump by double digits in many places. Hmmmm, appears someone is not telling the truth.

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Originally posted by bigdeal:

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Originally posted by TigerDore:
https://www.washingtonexaminer...tter-than-obama-bush

Trump approval at Gallup ‘highest,’ better than Obama, Bush

Yeah, but none of that matters at all because the media has continually told us Biden is way out in front, leading, and pulling away from Trump by double digits in many places. Hmmmm, appears someone is not telling the truth.

We don't need to worry about national polls. In swing states Trump is doing well. Electoral college is important, CNN et al try to obfuscate to paint a different picture. National numbers are meaningless, additional to the normal meaningless results of polls.

Don't let them try to fool you.

Haha.



https://twitter.com/realDonald...396333064892416?s=20

From Don Surber, I read his posts every day:

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Bring on the next hoax, Democrats

Covid-19 failed. Americans ended their lockdown. Glenn Reynolds reported, "I looked on Booking.com and it showed 92% of Hilton Head hotels were booked for Memorial Day weekend. Even for mid-June it was 76%. This suggests a swift recovery, post-lockdown. Or am I missing something?"

The professor misses nothing. People went outside, didn't die, and others saw this and went outside, and they didn't die.

This was why fascist governors were so shrill in jailing people who defied their unconstitutional orders to remain in solitary confinement.

Killing the economy -- 36 million Americans lost their jobs in 2 months -- failed. President Donald John Trump's approval has never been higher, and tops that of Bush and Obama at this point in their presidencies.

That which did not kill him made him stronger.

In one of his last mass rallies before this 2 month lockdown, President Trump said, "Now the Democrats are politicizing the corona virus, you know that right? Corona virus, they’re politicizing it. We did one of the great jobs. You say, 'How’s President Trump doing?' They go, 'Oh, not good, not good'” They have no clue. They don’t have any clue. They can’t even count their votes in Iowa. They can’t even count. No, they can’t. They can’t count their votes.

"One of my people came up to me and said, 'Mr. President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia.' That didn’t work out too well. They couldn’t do it. They tried the impeachment hoax. That was on a perfect conversation. They tried anything. They tried it over and over. They’d been doing it since you got in. It’s all turning. They lost. It’s all turning. Think of it. Think of it. And this is their new hoax."

Covid-19's failure to bring the president down makes him stronger because no matter what the economy does, it is not his fault. How could it be? We shut the economy down for 2 months. Governors did that.

But if the economy rebounds quickly, he will get all the credit because he strengthened the economy beforehand. 3.5% unemployment gave the economy a solid foundation. He could be easily re-elected even with 25% unemployment because his policies worked before covid-19 came around.

Democrats politicized a disease and that disease will kill their presidential ambitions.

Everything they do backfires.

I used to think they deliberately aided and abetting Iran and Red China, but I am beginning to think that instead of being sellouts, Democrats are just plain stupid. Compared to the rest of them, Biden may be a genius. I mean, he got Red China to give his idiot son $1.5 billion. What did Hillary get out of Red China? Chelsea still is shilling children's books while Hunter still has plenty of money for hookers and blow.

Democrats are slow learners, glacially so. Despite the failure of the Russian hoax and the Ukraine impeachment (and all the stuff in between that I have forgotten) Democrats will create a new scandal out of thin air.

The laboratories at Acme Political Science are working overtime to find a vaccine for President Trump's re-election.

But 62 million people had his back in 2016.

Their numbers have grown.

https://donsurber.blogspot.com...-democrats.html#more

^^^ Excellent!

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I used to think they deliberately aided and abetting Iran and Red China, but I am beginning to think that instead of being sellouts, Democrats are just plain stupid.

Once again:
“Do not attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity.”
— H. L. Mencken (attributed)

So DJT announced today he's taking hydroxychloroquine, wait patiently for the over the top twatter and media responses...