TDS is real. I just got kicked off Survivor Corps (plasma donor group) on FB for calling out people on their BS and gullibility. They just kept posting articles from The Washington Compost, CNN, NYT, etc... The lies these people believe is astounding. I should have never given FB a second or third chance.

And then they wonder where the hidden Trump supporters came from. Just because conservatives voices are suppressed doesn't mean they aren't there!

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Just because conservatives voices are suppressed doesn't mean they aren't there!

That's "their" greatest defense, sir.....DENIAL. It ain't only a river in Egypt.

Side note about Fakebook...my brother graduated 5 years ahead of me when we were living in upstate NY. Just due to circumstances, I kinda ran in his crowd and knew a lot of the people in his graduating class. I "friended" one such individual and after a week, I just couldn't take his Leftarded, Demoshit drivel anymore. I just had to unfollow the dude...he is THAT. FAR. OUT. THERE.! As "they" all are with TDS...

Some of you have seen my disgust with my former governor Kasich. I called him a RINO. I think that has been erased as he is a full blown lib. He will be speaking at the Democratic convention. Keep in mind he skipped the Republican convention that nominated Trump and was held in his own state. What a POS.

https://www.cleveland.com/open...n-for-joe-biden.html

^^^^^. It’s amazing how Trump has pulled the veil back on all these RINOs; knowingly or unknowingly. Kasich was reviered in the Republican Party till He went up against Trump in 16.

Now the guy is a loon.

As it was in 1968, so shall it be in 2020. These same fools don’t realize nor understand regular folks.

https://www.commentarymagazine...ot-as-bad-and-worse/

The Actual Pauline Kael Quote—Not As Bad, and Worse
by John Podhoretz

The clearest example of the bizarrely naive quality of hermetic liberal provincialism was attributed to the New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael almost 40 years ago, and has been discussed in right-wing circles ever since. It went something like this: “I can’t believe Nixon won. I don’t know anyone who voted for him.” Several years ago, I went on an admittedly desultory search for the original quote and was unable to locate it.

On Friday, on the New Yorker’s website, the magazine’s film editor Richard Brody offers what may be the first accurate version of the quote I’ve ever seen (I’m assuming it’s accurate because it comes from the New Yorker itself): “Pauline Kael famously commented, after the 1972 Presidential election, ‘I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them.'”

Obviously, the paraphrase is far juicier than the original, but actually, if you think about it, the version quoted by Brody is even worse, as it indicates that Kael was actually acknowledging her provincialism (“I live in a rather special world”) and from its perch expressing her distaste for the unwashed masses with whom she sometimes had to share a movie theater. What this indicates is that, even then, liberal provincialism was as proud of its provincialism as any Babbitt.

Joey D
7/20/20

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^^^^^. It’s amazing how Trump has pulled the veil back on all these RINOs; knowingly or unknowingly. Kasich was reviered in the Republican Party till He went up against Trump in 16.

Now the guy is a loon.

Think about what Trump has done. He's completely tossed out Nafta to make it harder for jobs to move to C & S America.

He's gutting the H1B Visa.

He's forcing companies to move manufacturing out of China.

Trump is doing what is right for Americans, not for American companies.

Go look at how the fortune 100 is spending their political bucks and you'll see everyone one of these kept congressman.

Republicans are not conservatives. And we need to stop pretending otherwise.

Guess I raised my boys right. The younger showed up today to help me with some problems wearing a T-Shirt his lady gave him for Father's Day.

Yeah he's a big Trump supporter as is his older brother.

Let the decoupling continue!:

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Big Winning – REPORT: India and U.S. Close to Final Trade Agreement…
Posted on July 21, 2020 by sundance

Well done Team U.S.A.

This is a very significant trade development as it is the culmination of a lot background work and a trilateral trade alliance based on economic nationalism. The U.S, Japan and India have been working on the Indo-Pacific trade reset for several years.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Trump already sealed their component. Now it appears India and the U.S. have reached terms. Very important. First, the report:

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India and the United States are closing in on a trade deal, India’s Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said on Tuesday, after two years of negotiations.

“In the long term, I believe we have a quick trade deal which has some of the pending matters built up over the last couple of years, which we need to get out of the way quickly. We are almost there,” Goyal said at the U.S.-India Business Council’s India Ideas Summit, being conducted virtually.

Both New Delhi and Washington should also look at a preferential trade pact with 50 to 100 products and move to a free trade pact in the long term, Goyal said. (read more)

As we noted in October 2019: In the bigger picture… Within the trade team, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was positioned with primary responsibility toward the EU and India. Ross clear-cuts through the politics, explains Trump’s objectives amid the trade proposals, and paves a path for U.S. Trade Rep Bob Lighthizer to engage his counterparts.

India has always been a key strategic nation within the global trade-realignment taking place by the Trump administration. Underpinning the geopolitics, the “Indo-Pacific” strategy is structurally the decoupling of the U.S. from China.

As a part of the strategy President Trump positioned the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) as benefactors in manufacturing & trade as an outcome of the U.S. decoupling from China.

However, India had genuine concerns about the global dynamic. Specifically, India is worried about allowing the multinationals to have influence over their economy and social structure. In this regard India was not wrong; their concerns were not unfounded.

We can all see, heck we’ve lived through, massive multinational corporations quickly gaining too much influence; including -eventually- corporate influence over the politics of a nation. That corporatism inherently leads to corruption.

When Americans see it in other nations we call it “bribery and corruption”, but when it happens in Washington, DC, we call it “lobbying”; the process is exactly the same.

As a consequence of the concern, Indian Prime Minister Modi was straddling the fence while President Trump tried to influence him to come over to the side of ‘free markets’.

In an effort to dissuade the corrupt multinational concerns of Modi (and Trump clearly indicated he did see validity within the concern), President Trump used Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as an example of what can be possible with economic nationalism.

President Trump (USA), Prime Minister Abe (Japan) and Prime Minister Modi (India) have held several very unusual trilateral discussions as this dynamic has played out over the past three years. The concerns expressed by India were valid; however, so too is the opportunity… that’s where Secretary Wilbur Ross comes in:

India and the United States have spoken openly about the ups and downs of their current trade negotiations. Their discussion at the 2019 Forum’s India Economic Summit revealed new insights into both sides positions – and a key sticking point.

US secretary of commerce Wilbur Ross and Indian Minister for commerce, industry and railways, Piyush Goyal represented the US and India, respectively. WATCH:

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Prime Minister Modi, as represented by Minister Goyal, was concerned about the influences that comes with allowing massive foreign investment. Secretary Wilbur Ross never diminished the concern because structurally that negative outcome, an outcome of corporate influence, is exactly what President Trump is now trying to untangle in the U.S. economy.

If President Trump is successful a new era of national trade will be based on genuine reciprocity and economic nationalism. Prior decades of allowing corrupt multinational corporate influence have created massive social inequities.

These inequities, both domestic and global in nature; driven almost exclusively by corporate greed to the benefit of multinational interests; allowed China to strategically step-in, open their doors and take advantage.

Fast forward to the past ten years and China is holding their national interests -and grip over prior investment- like a ‘sword of Damocles’ over the heads of the global corporations. As President Trump has said: “I don’t blame China … I blame stupid politicians”. The COVID-19 crisis made the issues even more visible.

In many ways President Trump was asking Prime Minister Modi to join in a network of nations and help the U.S. correct the current issue that personifies what Modi was worried about happening to India in the future.

Lastly, and here’s the important part; this is the part the global financial media seem to miss…. When you look at all of this ancillary geopolitical activity taking place toward the objective; you see it is all connected to a singular goal…. President Trump was never negotiating a “deal” with China, he was strategically decoupling the U.S. from China.

If Trump wasn’t decoupling from China, then all of these conversations with Mexico, Canada, the U.K., Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Australia, Brazil and India would not be taking place in the clear manner and sequencing we have seen.

For some reason the global financial media cannot see the connective tissue between Wilbur Ross’s statements in India and the U.S. policy toward China.

NAFTA was really bad for Mexican farmers, and one of the main reasons so many hispanics were up here working.

The ones I personally know, most would prefer to be back home with their wives and families.

"Let the decoupling continue!"

Thank you very much for posting this article, Shaql !

a biggie

https://www.foxnews.com/politi...nts-voting-districts

Trump signs order to prevent illegal immigrants from being counted in redrawing of voting districts

President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order to prevent illegal immigrants from being counted for the purposes of re-drawing congressional districts after the 2020 census -- reheating a fiery debate from last year on if illegal immigrants should be counted in the census.

"There used to be a time when you could proudly declare, 'I am a citizen of the United States.' But now, the radical left is trying to erase the existence of this concept and conceal the number of illegal aliens in our country," Trump said in a statement accompanying the apportionment memorandum on “Ensuring American Citizens Receive Proper Representation in Congress.”

"This is all part of a broader left-wing effort to erode the rights of Americans citizens, and I will not stand for it," he said.

The order says that for the purposes of reapportionment, "it is the policy of the United States to exclude from the apportionment base aliens who are not in a lawful immigration status...to the maximum extent feasible and consistent with the discretion delegated to the executive branch."

Census counts are used to determine the allocation of seats in the House of Representatives, the number of electors in the Electoral College and hundreds of billion dollars of federal spending. However, it is not clear how the administration would determine who was in the country illegally since the census currently does not either include a citizenship question, or the additional question about legal immigration status.

"Today’s action to exclude illegal aliens from the apportionment base reflects a better understanding of the Constitution and is consistent with the principles of our representative democracy," Trump said. "My Administration will not support giving congressional representation to aliens who enter or remain in the country unlawfully, because doing so would create perverse incentives and undermine our system of government. Just as we do not give political power to people who are here temporarily, we should not give political power to people who should not be here at all."

The order, giving justification, says that the Constitution "does not specifically define which persons must be included in the apportionment base."

"Instead, the term 'persons in each State' has been interpreted to mean that only the 'inhabitants' of each State should be included," it says. "Determining which persons should be considered 'inhabitants' for the purpose of apportionment requires the exercise of judgment."

It then says that that discretion "delegated to the executive branch to determine who qualifies as an 'inhabitant includes authority to exclude from the apportionment base aliens who are not in a lawful immigration status."

The order cites estimates that "one state" (apparently referring to California) has more than 2.2. million illegal immigrants, six percent of its population. It argues that, as a result, including illegal immigrants in the population for apportionment could result in the allocation of two or three more congressional seats than if they were not included.

It comes as part of an ongoing push by the Trump administration to make sure that illegal immigrants are not included in the census. The order will likely be subjected to a legal challenge from immigrant activist groups and others, with Democrats saying on Tuesday that they would oppose the order.

Yes indeed. Roberts maybe didn't realize it, but he gave the Presidency (Trump) all kinds of new powers when he authored that God awful supreme Court decision concerning DACA. Trump has said that he will take full advantage of that, "in regards to immigration and Healthcare (Obamacare)." Fantastic. Shove it in their faces.

Somebody wised up in the Redwood City council; what's good for the goose, is good for the gander.

Naturally, the article had to get the lefty's pseudo-intellectual quote in.
Redwood City Scrubs Black Lives Matter Mural After Trump Supporter Asks to Paint ‘MAGA 2020’ on Same Street

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REDWOOD CITY (KPIX 5) — Many communities across the country are displaying “Black Lives Matter” street murals. Redwood City was one of them until last week when the city quietly removed it.

Redwood City resident Dan Pease got permission from city officials to paint the “Black Lives Matter” sign on Broadway as part of a Fourth of July public art celebration. The city even supplied him with yellow poster board paint to do it.

“Because we were using the poster board paint that would eventually deteriorate over time, my understanding from them was that the mural would last as long as the paint lasted,” Pease explained.

But, last Thursday, the city washed the sign away after being contacted by local real estate attorney Maria Rutenburg, who said that if the street was now a public forum, she wanted a sign of her own reading “MAGA 2020.”

“I saw “Black Lives Matter” sign appearing on Broadway Street on the asphalt and I figured that’s gonna be a new public space, open for discussion, and I wanted to get my message out, too.” Rutenburg said.

“MAGA” is, of course, short for Make America Great Again, a rallying cry for supporters of President Trump. Faced with the possibility of a political and/or legal fight, the city suddenly decided that Dan Pease’s sign was a traffic hazard that might cause accidents and they removed it in the middle of the night. Pease says he doesn’t consider “Black Lives Matter” to be a political statement but he understands the position the city was in.

“I have no hard feelings to the city council,” Pease said. “I am disappointed but, at the same time, I am very grateful that they allowed me to put that message on Broadway.”

With the message removed, area resident Art Elola was also disappointed that, in today’s climate, a city cannot express the idea that Black lives matter without starting a fight.

“They’re afraid, you know? And that’s the whole movement — is we’ve been afraid to do what’s right,” Elola said. “The whole crux of the movement is be bold and let’s do the right thing and here they’re setting an example and it’s unfortunate. It’s unfortunate other people put the pressure on them, too.”

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In today’s climate, a city cannot express the idea Make America Great Again without starting a fight.

This stands out more than anything.

Have you guys noticed that President Trump's Tweets have dropped off significantly in recent days ?

I think it may have to do with the changes he made for his campaign manager...

Personally his tweets make me laugh a lot of the time.

^^^ He will sometimes go in spurts and then sometimes not so much which may make it seem like he's backed off.

He tweeted 7 times yesterday.

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she's definitely an improvement over michele

A tree stump would be an improvement over "Barack's Beard." By the way, has anyone ever identified the father of their children?

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The Lincoln Project PAC was founded by former GOP consultants to defeat President Trump. AntiTrumpers for sure.

One of the co-founders is John Weaver.

Now we find out that in May 2019 John Weaver signed a contract with a Russian company to lobby for them.

Weaver, a former consultant for John McCain and John Kasich’s presidential campaigns, now wants Joe Biden elected to the White House.

These people are nothing but sleazy, self-interested traitors.

NY Post: Lincoln Project Founders Have Ties to Russia, Massive Tax Problems

The founders of the Lincoln Project, a headline-grabbing anti-Trump political action committee formed by GOP operatives who describe the president as a "crook" and "huckster," have their own checkered dealings with Russia and the tax man, documents obtained by The Post reveal.

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Co-founder Weaver, a political consultant known for his work on John McCain's and John Kasich's presidential campaigns, registered as a Russian foreign agent for uranium conglomerate TENEX in a six-figure deal last year, filings with the Department of Justice show.

TENEX's parent company is Rosatom, a Russian state-owned corporation that also owns Uranium One-- the company that paid Bill Clinton $500,000 in speaking fees and millions to the Clinton Foundation after then-President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed off on the controversial merger in 2010.


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According to IRS filings exclusively obtained by The Post, the Republican operative -- who has also repeatedly called Trump a "tax fraud" and a "tax crook" on Twitter -- also has an outstanding $313,655 federal tax lien against his Austin, Texas, home.

This March, an Austin shopping mall also filed a lawsuit against the children's clothing store that Weaver and his wife own, according to court documents obtained by The Post, just months after Weaver mocked the president's own string of failed businesses.

Weaver's fellow Lincoln Project founder Wilson also has an interesting financial past. According to IRS documents, the GOP strategist has an outstanding $389,420 federal tax lien against his Tallahassee, Florida, home, and his bank moved to foreclose on the property in 2016.

https://nypost.com/2020/07/21/...a-tax-troubles-docs/