Advocacy Group: Trump Can Slash $1.4 Trillion from the Federal Budget (Over Ten Years) Just By Cancelling Biden's Executive Action

That's a start.

President-elect Donald Trump can cut the federal deficit by $1.4 trillion over the next decade by rescinding President Biden's executive actions, according to a report.

The potential cost-cutting was identified by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a non-profit that advocates for fiscal restraint, as Trump's informal Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, looks for areas to slash spending.

The Tesla billionaire and close confidant of Trump, 78, has already vowed to cut the bloated federal budget by "at least $2 trillion."

"Unlike most deficit reduction measures, reversing costly executive actions from the Biden [administration] would not require Congressional action, and could be done through the rulemaking process," the nonprofit's report notes.

CRFB said that up to $550 billion could be saved by eliminating Biden's pending plans to forgive student loan debt -- including the SAVE Income-Driven Repayment Program, which alone could pare down spending by up to $275 billion, according to the report.

The SAVE initiative, in which 8 million borrowers are enrolled, already is in limbo pending the outcome of a federal court case -- with Missouri Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey in August notching a win after the US Supreme Court upheld a decision by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals to halt the debt cancellation.

The program caps student loan payments and allows debt to be forgiven in as little as 10 years and is facing legal scrutiny after Biden's earlier $430 billion plan to forgive between $10,000 and $20,000 in student debt per borrower was struck down by the Supreme Court in 2023.

The CRFB says another up to $150 billion can be saved by ending pending policies involving the forgiveness of student loan interest -- and that up to $110 billion can be wiped for borrowers reporting hardship in making repayments.

Trump really needs to slash the budget. It's not just a Republican imperative, it's necessary if he wants to bring inflation down, quickly. And if he doesn't bring it down quickly, he'll lose his momentum and political capitol and be an early lame-duck president.

It's necessary to get rid of these fake dollars Biden filled the economy with. They drive inflation. Trump can get rid of some of these fake dollars just by turning off the taps of government deficit spending, spending tomorrow's (hypothetical) dollars today.

If Trump can't cut spending, his only options for reducing inflation are relying on the Fed to keep interest rates high. But this strangles economic growth.

Or, he could raises taxes. But this strangles economic growth.

No, his only choice is to cut spending. And there's a lot of bad spending to cut.

But Trump will have to fight his own instincts. He's a free-spending guy who believes in FDR-style prime pumping and Keynesian stimulus. Someone will have to sit him down and make sure he understands that unless he rejects more monetary stimulus and more fake dollars in the economy, inflation will remain high, and it will cripple this critical presidency.

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Left Targets Trump Appointees With Bomb Threats, SWATting Hoax Calls Designed to Get Them Murdered by Cops

The party of love, joy, and reason.

Deb Heine reports:

Several of President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet and other administration appointees were targeted Tuesday night and this morning with "violent, unAmerican threats to their lives and those who live with them," Trump-Vance transition spokeswoman and incoming White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced in a press release Wednesday. According to Fox News, "nearly a dozen" Trump appointees were targeted.


"These attacks ranged from bomb threats to 'swatting,' Leavitt said in the statement.

In case you don't know, "SWATting" is the practice of calling in a hoax call claiming that an armed and dangerous person is killing people at the target's address, hoping to get heavily-armed and amped-up SWAT officers to shoot and kill the target.

It's attempted murder.

"In response, law enforcement acted quickly to ensure the safety of those who were targeted. President Trump and the entire Transition team are grateful for their swift action," she added. "With President Trump as our example, dangerous acts of intimidation and violence will not deter us."

"The violent left has been calling in bomb threats and swatting incoming members of the Trump Administration," Donald Trump Jr. wrote on X. "Enough is enough with this type of deranged crap!"

The FBI said in a statement Wednesday morning that it is "aware of numerous bomb threats and swatting incidents targeting incoming Trump administration nominees and appointees," and that they are working with their law enforcement partners.

"We take all potential threats seriously and, as always, encourage members of the public to immediately report anything they consider suspicious to law enforcement," the Bureau stated.

Yeah sure.

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Kamala Harrishh Addreshes Her Shupportersh Looking, According to Commentatorsh, Both "Drunk" and "Dissshhevled"

Kamala Harris has been enjoying an undeserved vacation in Hawaii. She jumped on to a Zoom call to explain to her donors, "Go fuck yourselves, I ran a flawless campaign."

She looks like she's been living in the woods for a while.

That video below, and some commentary. Before that: David Pflouffle admitted that Harris's own internal polls always showed her behind.

So they lied to the public and their donors, then.

Kamala's campaign was doomed, and everybody within the campaign pretty much knew it from the start.

For all the JOY!, the WEIRD fact that the campaign insiders never acknowledged publicly and even hid from donors was that their internal polls never showed Kamala ahead. In fact, their hopes lay in public-facing polls that showed the race tight or Harris even ahead.

Campaigns are expected to spin, but from the sounds of things the Harris campaign was more a con job than a serious attempt to win the presidency.

Having raised $1.4 billion and spending even more than that, all the happy talk given to donors was pure BS. The consultants got paid astronomical sums, media companies raked in the dough, and Democrats who contributed their money were fleeced.

Lindy Li, a Chinese-American woman on the DNC fundraising committee, has been complaining loudly about this. She feels that the Harris campaign lied to her about their chances for winning, which then caused her to inadvertently lie when she cadged donations out of people.

I kinda thought her complaint was a bit silly. Of course they're not going to admit they're going to lose. That kind of information would be very closely held in a small circle of people, maybe five or six in total. This just wouldn't be shared with a mid-level fundraiser like Li.

That said, the Kamala campaign's new spin -- you can't blame us for failure, because we were always doomed and the polls were clear on that -- does make Li's complaints more valid.

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Catherine Herridge: I Had a Locked-Down Story About Hunter Biden's Laptop Ready to Go Before the 2022 Election. But CBS "News" Killed the Story.

Of course. Of course.

And what a story it was -- all about Hunter's grifting operations, of which Joe Biden was a part, and his.... frequent use of the world "n*gg*r," which of course is a death penalty for anyone else but not for this highly-protected princeling.

That was never reported -- CBS "News" said that such a story was of no interest.

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Wednesday Morning Rant

Thanksgiving Eve

It's the most wonderful time of the year. I don't mean that with an ounce of cynicism or sarcasm. I love Thanksgiving and think it is probably our greatest holiday. Not that it is without its stresses and, of course, its expenses - regardless of what the propagandists at CNBC have to say. I am eyebrow-deep in those stresses and expenses, but c'est la vie. It's part of the package, and more than worth it.

Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday. Not that end-of-season harvest festivals are uniquely American, or that thanksgiving celebrations are uniquely American. They are not. But Thanksgiving as tremendous multi-day civic holiday is. We have one Thanksgiving Day, but it goes beyond that for most. It's always among the busiest - if not the busiest travel period of the year for a reason. It's a time when Americans come together and celebrate.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Thanksgiving
Alice Neel

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The Morning Report — 11/27/24

Good morning kids. On the latest edition of our podcast, we discussed the notion of a sea change in the American psyche vis a vis how we as a people, especially those on the opposite end of the political spectrum than us on the right, view government and what the relatively-speaking landslide victory for Donald Trump means in that light. To paraphrase myself, I asked was this election more for Trump and his policies or more about a rejection for sure of the past four years of abject catastrophe unleashed on the American populace by the current tip of the spear of Democrat/Leftism, the Obama/Biden/Harris junta. Given the shift away from Democrats at the voting booth of some of their core constituency groups that have reflexively and generationally voted Democrat election after election, perhaps it's a bit of both. My fear is that given this generational dynamic (and for sure it's powerful) as well as human nature itself to come to terms with seeing things as they are and the difficulty in changing one's worldview to bring it in line with reality. Of course, the existential threat posed by the cerberus that is American academia and the media has done its damage over the course of many decades in keeping so many of our fellow citizens deaf dumb and blind to what's been done to them

The job for Trump, and all of us now, is to connect the dots, as please-GOD, Trump's policy successes expose the cancerous fraud that has been Democrat-Leftism and globalism, which can put this nation and people back on the road to peace, prosperity and sanity. Of course, the forces of darkness and evil will not cede their power nor take the rejection this past Election Day with anything approaching humility and acceptance, from an electorate they view with disdain at best, and as a herd of sheep at best.

It is bitterly ironic that those who reject the judeo-Christian principles that are or were the bedrock foundations of our government and the civil society, are the ones that are convinced that they have a mandate from heaven to preserve, protect and defend the bastardization of the latter that they and their ilk have wrought, by declaring we the people of We The People as an evil and existential threat. Perhaps the major crime against the people that the Left and their enablers are guilty of is the erased border, and complete degradation of our society and security on every level it has created. And look at the reaction to Trump's plans to both seal the border, restore sane immigration policy, and deport the millions of alien invaders who wreak havoc by their mere presence.

Democratic Denver Mayor Mike Johnston vowed Thursday that he would refuse to support Trump’s mass deportation operation, asserting that he would have the backing of the city’s police and residents. On “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” the host called out Johnston and suggested that Trump should withhold federal funds from the city if it refused to comply. “That’s insurrection. That is exactly what South Carolina did in 1832,” Hanson said. “Think about that — ‘Donald Trump is a mass murdering Mao Zedong type of government, and all of these people are dissidents.’ The irony is that the only way that the city of Denver can feed and house these immigrants is to get federal funds. All he should do is, any jurisdiction, there’s 600,000 of them, who says we’re going to nullify, just like our Confederate ancestors, we’re going to nullify federal law because we are morally superior to the federal government. So we’re going to not enforce federal immigration law.”

. . . “He should say, ‘Everybody has a choice. If that’s your choice, Mr. Mayor, Mr. Johnson, I admire your integrity and your courage. Here’s what’s going to happen. You’re not going to get one penny of federal funds to house your immigrants, and if you continue to do it each week, we’re going to have another federal program you’re not going to get. Because you don’t like the federal government! You don’t expect it,'” Hanson added. “So you’re not going to get federal highway funds the next week, federal education. Just keep going and tell me when you want to stop.”

Frankly, I prefer Tom Homan's plan to deal with this garbage:

President-elect Donald Trump incoming border czar said during an interview this week that he is absolutely willing to have far-Left Denver Mayor Mike Johnston thrown in jail after Johnston said that he would obstruct federal immigration officials from carrying out deportations in the city. Johnston said in an interview with a local publication that he would deploy the Denver Police Department “at the county line to keep them out.”

Briliantine stick insect California governor Gavin Newsolini turned Victor Davis Hanson's thoughts on its ear:

Bill Wells, the mayor of El Cajon, California, claimed in a Monday post on X that the State of California “is threatening to take pensions and charge police officers with felonies if they comply with federal deportation laws. While the Trump administration is working to enforce immigration laws, California seems intent on blocking these efforts.” Wells makes it clear that El Cajon, a city of approximately 100,000 people located 17 miles east of San Diego, is not a sanctuary city and that his police officers “are being put in an impossible position.” He wrote: If they comply with federal immigration authorities, they risk felony charges and losing their hard-earned pensions.

Well, perhaps California and other jurisdictions should lose their statehood and sovereignty, and returned to being Federal territories. Unfortunately, the idiosyncrasies of electoral politics and a Judiciary that vacillates between protecting the Constitution and its purview over the encroachments of the other two branches (especially when Democrats control the latter two) means that this idea might not work to our advantage in the long run. Nothing short of the complete evisceration and dismantling of the anti-American Left and Democrat party is going to work. Ripping them out root and branch from every aspect of our society, which is what should have been done in 1865 is the only way forward.

But can we destroy the Constitution to preserve it! Must we defer to a corrupt judiciary when they abuse and bastardize that sacred document and grovel at the knee of hacks in black merely because they wear those robes?

Something that Trump and we must ponder as the forces arrayed against him and us plan the next four years of resistance, insubordination, insurrection and perhaps even terrorism, to the will of the people who voted for him to curb and end the long train of abuses against us.

Have a great day, and may your holiday preparations and travels go smoothly and safely. I will be posting tomorrow.

Until then, my friends.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Killed during the the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi 23 years ago today: “So in these days in which we remember those who died on 9/11, let’s also remember Johnny “Mike” Spann, who died in the weeks immediately after 9/11 on a battlefield far from home….”
  Remembering Johnny “Mike” Spann – CIA Officer And First American Killed In Afghanistan Post-9/11

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Daily Tech News 27 November 2024

Top Story

• Intel has received a $7.9 billion grant from the US government under the CHIPS Act. (Notebook Check)
  
  This is not a different grant to the previous $8.5 billion grant though. That one had not been completed, and has been reduced by $600 million due to the $3 billion contract Intel has received to produce secure chips for the Pentagon.
  
  Which when compared to the nonsense the government so often gets up to - this grant goes to pay Americans working at American companies in America - seems almost quaint.
  
  
  
• I am reminded as I am every couple of years that Perth exists.
  
  That USB storage device I bought was in stock and shipped just hours after I placed my order with Amazon... From the far edge of the asteroid belt.
  
  
  

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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (11/26/24) - J. Edgar Phalenberger IV

Intelligence? Yes, John Bolton is on the cutting edge, isn't he.

Former National Security Advisor John Bolton claimed Tuesday on CNN’s “Newsroom” that President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the intelligence community former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s (D-HI) views were “on a different planet.”

Host Jim Acosta said, “We’ve seen Matt Gaetz withdraw his nomination for attorney general. Should Tulsi Gabbard do the same for Director of National Intelligence?”

At the Thanksgiving dinner table things not to discuss: 1) Politics; 2) Religion. Sure... The new item not to discuss, "Fart walks".

Going on a "fart walk" after eating can be good for your health — something you may want to keep in mind if you plan to attend a Thanksgiving feast this week.

Why it matters: Walking after a meal gets your bowels moving, which can reduce bloating and acid reflux, and ....

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Games Animals Play Cafe

Owl enjoys a pet.

Playing Gorilla Tag.

"Come out to the coast," she says, "we'll get married on a farm, we'll have a few laughs..."

Put the phone down, it's family time.

Cross-species Siamese twins. (Not really.)

Fawn cleans a dog.

Kitten does her sexy walk.

Puppies and kittens cuddle together in the ruins of a building.

Ruins in the middle of a river (IG).

Peruvian dragon mantis.

The joy of a young nerd.

Apes play the universal game of Stop Touching Me/You're the One Who's Touching Me.

Bunny and dog play the Stop Imitating Me game.

"Gandalf the Golden." Much better than the Amazon woke bus crash.

He's got the swagger of a panther.

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Quick Hits

Hillary Clinton's fixer and the shepherd of the fake Steele Dossier has a grift he wants to advertise, and he does so by vowing that Elon Musk won't be allowed to buy this worthless nothing of yet-another-grifter operation:

Marc E. Elias
@marceelias

Elon Musk might try to buying MSNBC. But I can promise you that he'll never buy @DemocracyDocket. It will always be fearlessly independent and unapologetic pro-democracy. It will never obey.

Consider supporting it by becoming a premium member. https://democracydocket.com/member-me/

Take that, Elon. You'll never be allowed to buy "Democracy Docket," which you never heard of until just now, unless you're willing to pay 10% over asking value, which is three fiddy.

Angry Staffer
@Angry_Staffer

Trump is reportedly preparing an executive order to ban transgender Americans from serving in the military.

This would medically discharge 15,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines.

This is un-American and will make us less safe. But hey, a bunch of civilians on X love it.

Oh no what will the military do without the non-deployable transgenders who "signed up" to have the costs of their surgeries paid for by the taxpayers.

Sharon Stone, who looks like Michael Douglas at this point: Americans voted for Trump because they are "uneducated" and "don't travel" -- in fact, they don't even have passports.

Also, men are dangerous rapists and all other men are shielding them and defending them.

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Democrat Megadonor: The Kamala Harris Campaign "Legally Stole" the $1.5 Billion They Raised from Donors

He means they were so profligate with their spending that they effectively stole it, but they can't be prosecuted for it, because it was a "legal" theft.

This makes Kamala Harris a non-viable candidate going forward -- if she can't run a campaign, she can't be president, he says.

That's obvious.

But he also says that megadonors will be reluctant to donate to the Democrat Party until there is an accounting, and reassurances that their billions will not be pissed away on private air charters and building $100,000+ fake sets for Call Her Daddy and millions to pay rank rap performers to twerk their WAPs at rallies. (Kamala was running for all of our daughters, you know.)

"She had all this money coming in. She had all these consultants, and if you don't run the ads, you don't get paid for the buy. They were running ads in Florida, where I live, nonstop. And I'm like, why? I mean, are they running in Alabama and Idaho, too? And I'll tell you why. If you don't run the ads, the buyer doesn't get paid," Morgan explained.

"I told everybody, she should not have been the nominee. She was not going to win, and she didn't win, and she lost badly.... So she's having a call with donors this week, and they tell me about her political future. I don't think she has a political future. So that's my thought on her."

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Trump Announces 25% Tariffs on Mexico and Canada If They Don't Stop the Flow of Illegals and Drugs Across the Border

I hope this works.

Why 25%? Why not 100%? Or 200%?

I think I know the answer. If Trump announces such a high tariff penalty that Canada and Mexico don't think he'll actually go through with it -- because it would cause financial and economic disruption inside the US -- then they might call his bluff.

But 25% is a level of tariff Trump would actually impose. It will cause stress, but it wouldn't cause factories to shut down.

So he really could impose it. And Mexico and Canada can't afford to call Trump's bluff, because it's not a bluff.

200% would be a bluff. 25% is a reasonable-but-painful penalty.

Sexually fluid blackface enthusiast and literal Communist bastard Justin Castreaux called Trump to whine that the problem is mostly on the US southern border, so why pick on his highly-frequented ass?

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

#BREAKING: Trump called by Canadian PM Justin Trudeau after his 25% tariff threat over border "invasion" and drug flow - Bloomberg

The topic of the call was border security, and Trudeau reportedly emphasized that issues are much worse at the Mexico border.

The threat is having the intended effect:

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

NEW: 12 hour aftermath of Trump threatening 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico

- Canada PM Justin Trudeau calls Trump to discuss border security
- Mexican president announces migrant caravans will be halted

Biden, meanwhile, is making it easier for illegals to swarm across the border.

Tom Homan, meanwhile, showed why he is indispensable.

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Pathologist: It Wasn't the Chokehold That Killed Jordan Neely. It Was All of the Drugs He Was On.

Maybe Daniel "The White Man" Penny will get off.

It wasn't a chokehold that killed Jordan Neely.

That was the testimony of forensic pathologist Dr. Satish Chundru for the defense -- and he was pretty damn convincing.

Or at least effective at sowing reasonable doubt that Daniel Penny's maneuver caused Neely's death on an uptown F train on May 1, 2023.

On the stand, Chundru calmly and confidently explained why city medical examiner Dr. Cynthia Harris was wrong in declaring that Neely died of the chokehold.

Chundru, who had previously worked as a medical examiner in both Austin and Miami, called her findings, "speculative." He added that it was "shocking" they rendered their ruling in only two days.

Harris came to her conclusion before the toxicology report came back, saying even if it turned out that Neely had enough fentanyl in him "to put down an elephant" she still would have stuck with her original decision.

Chundru was simple and straightforward in his explanation: A chokehold death is basically a two part process.

"Phase one is unconsciousness; you have to put enough consistent pressure to render the person unconscious," Chundru said. "Phase two is you have to sustain that pressure for an extended period of time that leads to death."

Chundru said Neely had already expired or was going through the dying process when he went limp. Prosecutors say Penny held Neely in a chokehold for 51 seconds after he passed out.

But Chundru said, "Neely never went unconscious before that, which is what you need if it's a chokehold death."

So what did kill him? Chundru said it was the "combined effects" of synthetic marijuana otherwise known as K2, schizophrenia, his struggle and restraint, and sickle cell crisis, an often painful and distressing event, where cells change shape and block blood vessels.

Jordan Neely, was a homeless man with a history of drug use and mental illness.

...

But after a morning of discussing of blood chokes, air chokes and arteries, the prosecution went straight for Chundru's jugular during a combative cross examination.

Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Dafna Yoran tried to paint him as a less than discerning hired gun who performed far too many autopsies and earned loads of money for his services. She pointed out that he is regularly hired by defense attorneys to refute the prosecution. (He said it was about 60 percent of the cases he took on).

Chundru was unapologetic saying he worked hard and added that his "business is doing well."

I don't know. It's a principle of law that "you take your victim as you find him." If the man you punch just happens to have a very soft skull that cracks when he falls to the ground, you can't get off by pleading that he was especially vulnerable.

Don't get me wrong, this entire trial is another of vicious racialist Alvin Bragg's political persecutions, but I imagine the jury will be instructed that it doesn't matter what prior conditions Neely had.

Daniel Penny lacked the intent to kill, or even the willful disregard of the risks. He was protecting people who said they were "terrified" by this deranged drugged-up lifelong criminal thug.

But will the jury see that? Or will they just convict "The White Man"?

Meanwhile, another perp effed around and found out on the subway that Alvin Bragg has turned into a hunting ground for sociopaths and psychotics.

A straphanger was slugged in the face by an irate seatmate on a Manhattan-bound subway, but he managed to wrestle the "little b--ch" to the floor -- but that's when fellow passengers jumped in to help his attacker.

Alexander Rakitin, 42, was riding the N train to his Manhattan finance job Monday morning when he sat down next to 34-year-old Timothy Barbee.

As the train took off, the car jolted, causing Rakitin's knee to jostle Barbee's -- which set the alleged assailant off.

"Apparently my knee touched his knee. That triggered him," Rakitin told The Post.

"He was just very aggressive. I'm like, saying, 'Dude, just chill, it's like 8:30 in the morning. Like, who needs this s--t? Just chill.'"

Footage taken by another straphanger captured the two staring each other down, before Barbee yelled "It's f--king done, stop staring at me" -- and proceeded to tell the protesting Rakitin to "Make me chill" and "Shut the f--k up."

Their verbal exchange quieted for a moment while they continued to stare each other down, before Barbee said, "I ain't got time to go to jail today."

Then he smacked Rakitin across the face -- sending his glasses flying -- before the camera cut out.

"I was able to wrestle him to the ground after that, and just kind of hold him," Rakitin said. "And the craziest part was that -- and this is literally upsetting, like I'm actually emotional about it -- people on the train were trying to help him. Like, that was the most insane thing.

"It was also remarkable -- he went from acting like such a thug. And then he turned into a little b--h right away. He's like, 'I can't breathe. Please, let me go. Please, let me go. I can't breathe. Somebody give me some water. I can't breathe.' And people started giving him water. That was so insane."

Of course, the "I can't breathe" line that all of the criminals and thugs have memorized.

"People started helping [Barbee]," Rakitin added. "And they were like, 'Dude, just let him go. Let him go.' I'm like, 'Are you crazy?' Like, if I let him go, he's just gonna get up and hit me again. Like, I don't want that."

Rakitin continued to pin Barbee down until the train pulled into the next station. Once police arrived, they hauled the aggressor away.

"They asked me if I want to press charges. I said, 'Yeah, why not?' Like, this person, he can't just walk around punching people," Rakitin said.

I betcha he can just walk around punching people, if George Soros' prosecutor has anything to say about it.

Barbee, a Brooklyn resident with no prior arrests, was charged with third-degree assault.

Rakitin was left with lacerations and scratches to his face, but declined medical attention.

He said the attack should come as no surprise to anyone.

"To be honest, like everybody sees the way the city is -- it's not like it's changing. I already saw that the city is like this, that you're in a constant danger of aggression or violent crime," he said.

"It's not like it's changing. It's just kind of reaffirming that that's the way the city is."

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Robby Starbuck: Walmart Will End or Modify Some DEI/Woke/Transinsanity Policies (While Doubling Down on Others)

This isn't the win that Starbuck suggests it is, but it is moving things in the right direction.

It could be that corporations are going to suddenly revert back to (partial) sanity. Not only is the public extremely hostile to these policies -- and that can no longer be denied, as America elected a president who vows an end to DEI/CRT/trannies in the military -- but also, these policies require the government to provide cover for them.

These policies are illegal and discriminatory on their face. The only way a corporation can implement them and not be bankrupted is by having the political establishment running cover for them.

That cover is now gone.

But I don't want to take away anything from Robby Starbuck, either. He keeps telling these woke corporations that he's preparing to make them infamous, and they keep backing down.

Somewhat. As you'll see, this is mixed bag, and the "commitments" Walmart makes are mostly of the "review" or "evaluate" or Endeavor to Persevere kind.

Robby Starbuck
@robbystarbuck

MASSIVE news: Walmart is ending their woke policies. I can now exclusively tell you what's changing and how it happened.

Last week I told execs at @Walmart that I was doing a story on wokeness there. Instead we had productive conversations to find solutions.

Below are the changes Walmart committed to. I have to give their executives major credit because this will send shockwaves throughout corporate America. This is the biggest win yet for our movement to end wokeness in corporate America.

Here are the changes Walmart committed to:

* Surveys: Walmart will no longer participate in the HRC's woke Corporate Equality Index.

This is a bigger move than it seems. The HRC is the main enforcer of gay/trans insanity in corporations. By refusing to participate in their "index" -- which is a checklist of woke policies corporations must implement to get their approval -- Walmart is taking away power and credibility from the HRC, and also working to normalize non-compliance with their lunatic demands.

* Products: Monitor the Walmart marketplace to identify and remove inappropriate sexual and / or transgender products marketed to children.

* Funding of Grants: Review all funding of Pride, and other events, to avoid funding inappropriate sexualized content targeting kids.

"Review" is a weasel word. Both of these "commitments" are very weaselly.

* Equity: We will not extend the Racial Equity Center which was established in 2020 as a special five-year initiative.

* Supplier Diversity: We will evaluate supplier diversity programs and ensure they do not provide preferential treatment and benefits to suppliers based on diversity. We don't have quotas and won't going forward. Financing eligibility will no longer be predicated on providing certain demographic data.

"Evaluate" is another weasel word, but at least they say they won't have quotas going forward.

* LatinX: Walmart will no longer use the term in official communications.

This is nothing. This is the one thing the Woke Left has agreed they will stop doing. It's the one concession they're willing to make. And actually, they agreed that "LatinX" was a big problem for them back in 2021.

* Trainings: Walmart will discontinue racial equity training through the Racial Equity Institute.

Good. Starve the Woke Grifter Racists of corporate money.

* DEI: Walmart will discontinue the use of DEI as a term while ensuring a respectful and supportive environment. Our focus is on Belonging for ALL associates and customers.

This is less than nothing. They're only agreeing to stop using DEI as a term. They will not stop DEI. They'll just call it Heightened Inclusiveness and Aggressive Belongingness or whatever.

Remember, Walmart is the #1 employer in America with over 1.6 Million Employees and they have a market cap of nearly $800B. This won't just have a massive effect for their employees who will have a neutral workplace without feeling that divisive issues are being injected but it will also extend to their many suppliers.

We've now changed policy at companies worth over $2 Trillion dollars, with many millions of employees who have better workplace environments as a result. I'm happy to have secured these changes before Christmas when shoppers have very few large retail brands they can spend money with who aren't pushing woke policies. Companies like Amazon and Target should be very nervous that their top competitor dropped woke policies first. I think Target specifically will suffer serious sales problems as a result and Walmart will benefit.

Our campaigns are now so effective that we're getting the biggest companies on earth to change their policies without me even posting a story outlining their woke policies. Companies can clearly see that America wants normalcy back. The era of wokeness is dying right in front of our eyes. The landscape of corporate America is quickly shifting to sanity and neutrality. We are now the trend, not the anomaly.

We are winning and one by one we WILL bring sanity back to corporate America.

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They won't learn until we boycott them and begin signing up racially-disfavored employees into class action lawsuits. The corporate class is captured by the far left, and are enemies of liberty, justice, and prosperity.

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CBS Poll: Trump Now At Highest Approval of His Political Career; 73% Say That Deporting Illegals Is Either a Medium or High Priority

Polls are for strippers, but good polls are for nice ladies who want to exercise in Lycra.

President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration starts off with mostly good will from the public: a majority of Americans overall are either happy or at least satisfied that he won and are either excited or optimistic about what he'll do as president.

Many have said that what America is feeling right now is deep relief that the criminal disaster of the Biden Administration is almost over, and genuine excitement that America is about to get good again.

Trump's handling of his presidential transition gets approval from most Americans overall and brings near-universal approval from his voters, along with a net-positive response about his selections for Cabinet posts, in particular, Sen. Marco Rubio, who is Trump's pick to be secretary of state.

After inflation and the economy so dominated the election, Americans are more inclined to think his administration will bring down prices for food and groceries rather than raise them, and his voters overwhelmingly say that. Going into the election, his backers expected that, too.

In a similar vein, Trump's election already has some Republicans' views of the economy improving.

Overall, Republicans today are more excited about what Trump will do as president now than they were in 2016 when he was first elected.

But it's not all good Vibes:

Democrats say they feel more scared about what Trump might do than they did in 2016, and a large majority of Democrats think as president he will threaten their rights and freedoms. But at the same time, there seems to be a sense of exhaustion, as fewer than half of Democrats feel motivated to oppose Trump right now.

CBS "News" begins pre-establishing the next media attack: Why doesn't inflation fall immediately to zero the moment Trump takes the oath of office?

After winning comes expectations. There's a net optimism about the incoming administration's effect on food and grocery prices, especially among Trump's voters. That comes as most Americans continue to say prices are currently rising. And inflation was a big factor in Trump winning in the first place.

It may be no surprise then that among many potential items for the incoming administration, Americans say plans to lower prices ought to be the top priority.

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Trump's current selections for agency heads and Cabinet picks get rated overwhelmingly as good choices from Trump's voters, and are net-positive as selections among Americans who have heard enough about them to say. (Many have not heard enough yet.)

As a general rule, Americans want Trump to appoint people who'll speak their minds and who have experience in the field or agency they'll run. But in addition to those qualities, Republicans also want people who'll be loyal to Trump.

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As a general matter, though, most of Trump's voters and most Republicans do want Trump to have more presidential power this term than he did in his last. That sentiment is higher among Republican voters now than during the campaign.

CBS "News" attempts to spin Americans' views on deportation:

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As was the case with voters throughout the campaign, most Americans would, in principle, approve of a new mass deportation program.

57% approve it, in fact. That's a big majority in a divided country.

If the Trump administration does start a mass deportation program, most of the public would have it carried out by law enforcement or current immigration agencies -- most would not have the U.S. military do it.

That CBS article doesn't mention their poll's finding that the public rates deportation as either a high or medium priority. MXMNews does:

A CBS News poll reveals that 73% of Americans, including a majority across racial lines, believe President-elect Donald Trump should focus on repatriating illegal migrants. More than half also support a nationwide program to deport all illegal immigrants.

Key Details:

CBS News/YouGov poll shows 45% of Americans view deportations as a "high priority," with 28% considering it a "medium priority." Only 27% say it's "not a priority."
57% back a national program to locate and deport all illegal immigrants.

74% of whites, 70% of blacks, and 69% of Hispanics support making deportations a priority.

Diving Deeper:

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, a CBS News poll conducted by YouGov shows that deportation policy is a top concern for many Americans. The survey of 2,232 adults indicates a near-consensus, with 73% calling for prioritizing the removal of illegal migrants.

Happy Thanksgiving week, everybody. Have you finished your shopping?

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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

Tariffs as an instrument of economic policy are problematic. They will shift costs to imports, but they may dampen total economic activity, or at the very least shift capital to possibly less cost-efficient manufacturing. But that is an economist's discussion, and we will need several hands to do it correctly.

As an instrument of foreign policy, tariffs are wonderful.

Trump Vows 25 Percent Tariff for Canada, Mexico, Ramps Up Promised Levies on China

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to impose an additional 10 percent tariff on any goods coming into the United States from China--over and above any tariffs he has already pledged to impose on Chinese products--as well as a 25 percent tariff on all incoming goods from Canada and Mexico. He cited Beijing's broken promises to stem the flow of fentanyl, while saying that Canada and Mexico have failed to address the problem of illegal immigration through their borders into the United States.

Donald Trump could have endless rounds of meaningless "high level" meetings with those three offending countries. They would go nowhere, and any agreement reached would be violated before the ink is dry.

A tariff on the other hand? It is an immediate penalty, and one that is instantly felt by the entire country. Yes, those proposed tariffs will hurt the American consumer too, especially in the short term, as domestic products go up in price. But there is an argument to be made that driving domestic production is a very good thing, and is worth the extra costs associated with that shift.

But the geopolitical message sent will be clear and powerful. Stop making illegal immigration into America easy, or you will be considered an enemy. Stop flooding America with fentanyl, or you will be considered an enemy.

There are costs associated with every government decision, and an increase in the price of some goods is one of those costs of tariffs. Compared to the incredible mess that is our current chaotic and ineffectual policy in Ukraine, those proposed tariffs will be a paragon of efficiency.

They will hurt Canada, because Canada is hurting America. They will hurt Mexico, because Mexico is hurting America. They will hurt China, because China is hurting America. That is their purpose.

The Democrat-compliant media will focus on the economic side effects of those tariffs, and downplay their real purpose. They will decry the pain caused in the American heartland...you know, the people whose lives are an afterthought until they can be used as a cudgel with which to beat Donald Trump and the new paradigm.

That paradigm is that the people of the United States of America are more important than millions of lawbreakers crashing our border and destroying our traditional way of life. I think that the good people of the heartland will understand and approve of some temporary pain when they can see the obvious and immediate benefits of those tariffs.

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]

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The Morning Report — 11/26/24

Good morning kids. So, among some pretty big stories in the links is that the execrable hack Stalinist show trial prosecutor Jack Smith has folded up his tent and ended the groundless, baseless case against Donald Trump. The estimable Daniel Greenfield describes it perfectly:

The abandonment of the Trump cases simply signals that the ‘resistance’ is moving from the former to the latter.

Jack Smith, like Mueller, was only the latest in a succession of propped up figures who played the inquisitioner role for an audience of MSNBC viewers and Washington Post readers. Everyone else with common sense knew how this would play out. And that’s why they cared very little.

Smith dropped the nonsensical election subversion case now that the election has been won. There will be other cases and other front men, but they will be aimed at the incoming administration and figures around it. The investigations of Trump’s conduct in Term 2 will be generated on schedule, but their aim will be to create chaos and inhibit the administration. What was election interference will move on to interference with a duly elected administration by special prosecutors, state prosecutors and a crew of activist lawyers employed by major organizations.

One wave of lawfare is dead. The next is being developed now.

Hence the trumped up accusations against such individuals as Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth, in the wings Tulsi Gabbard (who will be viciously raked over the coals for her apostasy of abandoning the caliphate of Leftism.) And get set for the fireworks over Kash Patel to a major post at the FBI if not the DOJ!!!!

If you thought that President-elect Trump had used up all of his "controversial" nominations, buckle up, because he is reportedly planning to appoint Kash Patel, the former chief investigator of the Trump-Russia investigation for the House Intelligence Committee under former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), to a prominent position within either the FBI or the Justice Department, according to top transition sources cited by Axios.. . Patel published a book in 2023 that Trump hailed as a “blueprint” for rooting out corrupt figures in government, and has been vocal about ending the weaponization of government. In his book, he wrote, “The FBI has become so thoroughly compromised that it will remain a threat to the people unless drastic measures are taken,” though Axios called that "retaliation against Trump's political enemies," because, of course they would.

This is the moral equivalent of putting Tail Gunner Joe McCarthy (PBUH) to head up the KGB! Meh, John Brennan somehow got the top slot at the CIA? That one still gives me nightmares as to how it was even possible he was hired to work there in the first place. But I digress.

There will also be massive acts of abject insubordination if not treasonous sabotage within the upper echelons if not rank and file of the DC bureaucracies, from the lowliest toilet attendant at the Dept. of the Redundancy Department all the way up to the director. It certainly will be interesting if Trump's efforts with this newfangled DOGE will yield actual results in dismantling at least some bits and pieces of the Deep State that have disfigured the Republic as founded into a Rachel Levine Frankenstein's monster of a catamite sex slave.

Frankly, given the nature of power and those who wield it, who have worked tirelessly for decades upon decades in stealing it from successive generations of unaware and/or duped Americans, I pray we can at least take a few steps back from the long march through the institutions, away from the mass grave the Theodor Adornos and Rudy Dutschkes of this world have brought us to the brink of. Certainly the election of Ronald Reagan and of course 40 years on the election, re-election and RE-re-election of Donald Trump must indicate something positive in the psyche of the citizenry?

WEll, Ace-cruelty Fanboi, the brilliant author and historian Victor Davis Hanson thinks we might be on the cusp of a sea-change in the political/cultural landscape:

We are witnessing a historic counterrevolution after Trump’s victory, far different from his first election in 2016. The orthodox and the supposed scripted future are now suspect. And they are likely to be dethroned—from the trivial to the existential. Critics claim Trump has no mandate to stage such a counterrevolution. They argue that he did not win 51 percent of the popular vote or achieve a Reaganesque landslide in the Electoral College. Yet all the initiatives he advanced and won on polled landslide public approval.

Well, it remains to be seen. As an ex New Yorker and someone who sees his hometown through somewhat rose-colored spectacles, even as Daniel Penny's trial winds down, and some positive signs and revelations in a sane world should please-GOD lead to his freedom, This happened on the NYC subway just yesterday:

A straphanger was slugged in the face by an irate seatmate on a Manhattan-bound subway — but he managed to wrestle the “little b–ch” to the ground until cops could intervene.
Alexander Rakitin, 42, was riding the N Train to his Manhattan finance job Monday morning when he sat down next to 34-year-old Timothy Barbee.
As the train took off, the car jolted causing Rakitin’s knee to jostle Barbee’s — which set the alleged assailant off.
“Apparently my knee touched his knee. That triggered him,” Rakitin told The Post. “He was just very aggressive. I’m like, saying, ‘Dude, just chill, it’s like 8:30 in the morning. Like, who needs this s–t. Just chill.'” Then he smacked Rakitin across the face — sending his glasses flying — before the camera cut out.
“I was able to wrestle him to the ground after that, and just kind of hold him,” Rakitin said. “And the craziest part was that — and this is literally upsetting, like I’m actually emotional about it — people on the train were trying to help him. Like, that was the most insane thing.
“It was also remarkable — he went from acting like such a thug. And then he turned into a little b–ch right away. He’s like, ‘I can’t breathe. Please, let me go. Please, let me go. I can’t breathe. Somebody give me some water. I can’t breathe.’ And people started giving him water. That was so insane.”

. . . “To be honest, like everybody sees the way the city is — it’s not like it’s changing. I already saw that the city is like this, that you’re in a constant danger of aggression or violent crime,” he said. “It’s not like it’s changing. It’s just kind of reaffirming that that’s the way the city is.”

Again, it wasn't always like that. Yes it was bad. But there were eras of sanity even during Ed Koch's time and certainly Rudy Giuliani's when it was about as amazing a place to live and work as you could imagine, the nightmare of 9/11/01 and its aftermath notwithstanding.

I have to wonder if the individuals in this incident even understood the implications of what was happening to their fellow citizen Daniel Penny and how there but for the grace of GOd what happened to him and what they were enduring on that N Train was almost exactly the same damned thing. And that their lamentations about the Big Apple, assuming they are and vote Democrat election after election put them in that position.

Are scales falling from eyes? Well, say what you will about this incident, here's an item that indicates perhaps more than a bit of positive news in this regard:

A majority of Americans support President-elect Donald J. Trump’s plan for mass deportations to address the illegal immigration crisis in the United States, according to a new survey. Trump’s stance on deportations has enjoyed significant support among the populace since late Spring, and data suggests the issue played a significant role in his landslide 2024 election victory.The poll, conducted by YouGov on behalf of CBS, shows 57 percent of respondents supporting Trump’s deportation plan. However, Americans also appear wary of using U.S. military assets to remove illegal immigrants. According to the data, 82 percent of respondents said they want federal immigration and border patrol agencies to carry out the deportations. Meanwhile, 64 percent said they’d like to see federal law enforcement agencies involved. Forty percent said they would want the U.S. military involved in deportations.

Well there's insurrection and insubordination, and then we have mayors and governors across the nation set to defy the establishment of any rebirth of an "Operation Wetback" from President Trump. And how would that fly with the citizenry given the aforementioned poll, which is not an outlier but indicative of one of the many major issues that propelled Trump to a massive victory this time around. Or alternatively, sent the Democrats down to a massive defeat. In that perspective, Maybe Prof Hanson is on to something? Or is he?

Have a great day one and all.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• John Dale Dunn, M.D.: Jordan Neely [Neely was the black psycho! Daniel Penny - is far from the first white man whom a medical examiner has claimed committed murder when subduing an aggressive black man hopped up on drugs. (Hello, is anyone proofreading these things?! - jjs)
  Medical Examiners Aren’t Always Trustworthy
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: A lethal challenge to entrenched elites, bureaucracies, and progressive ideologies.
  The Trump Counterrevolution: A Return to Sanity (Is it a temporary respite or is it a real harbinger? - jjs)

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