Had enough yet

[Lee Chowaniec]

Social Security benefits hike could bring retirees extra $1,800 in 2023

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/reti...117061a3f5fd61

The inflation adjustment for Social Security benefits was high at 5.9% in 2022. The cost-of-living adjustment began with benefits payable to more than 64 million Social Security beneficiaries in January. But you'd have to go back to 1979, 1980 and 1981 for any inflation adjustment that would be 9% or higher. The highest COLA ever was 14.3% in 1980.

While an inflation adjustment for Social Security benefits helped this year based on 2021's data, for example, it did not reflect the continued inflationary pressures in 2022. Over the 12 months that ended in July, the Consumer Price Index rose 8.5%. Year over year in June, the inflation index climbed 9.1%. The actual COLA we received has fallen short of actual inflation - estimates the shortfall is roughly $58 a month on a $1,656 monthly Social Security benefit.

If one assumes that energy prices continue to decline in August and September, which Johnson said seems likely, and other prices continue growing at recent rates, Johnson estimated that next year’s Social Security COLA would be 8.7%. If energy prices hold steady for the next two months, he said, the COLA could be as high as 9.3%.

On average, a retiree could see an extra $150 a month – if there's a 9% cost of living adjustment to Social Security for next year – based on an example for current benefits of $1,656 a month. A cost-of-living adjustment in this example would be an additional $1,800 a year.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Inflation Reduction Act doesn’t reduce inflation – DUH!

Shocking revelation, eh. Joe Manchin wasn’t played, eh? At least Manchin got a gas line.

Parts of the bill are excellent. Selling it as reducing inflation was indeed a marketing tool!

MSNBC, ABC, CNN realize Inflation Reduction Act doesn’t reduce inflation after bill is passed: ‘Marketing’

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...847f7031073a8e

Left-leaning media networks, including MSNBC, ABC, and CNN, finally realized that the Inflation Reduction Act doesn’t actually reduce inflation, but not until the massive spending package had already been signed into law.

One thing the Inflation Reduction Act is not expected to do, according to multiple analyses, is reduced inflation. The Congressional Budget Office said the bill will have "a negligible effect" on inflation in 2022, and in 2023 its impact would range between reducing inflation by 0.1% and increasing it by 0.1%.

These facts were hard to come by on a number of liberal media networks, with reporters and hosts parroting the talking points of congressional Democrats, or at the very least failing to press them on the bill’s perplexing name.

Four days before the Inflation Reduction Act was passed, CNN analyst Ryan Lizza called the legislation a "big deal," and said that its passage would make Joe Biden an "enormously consequential president" whose legislative win would put him in the "modern pantheon" of great leaders.

According to an analysis of Grabien transcripts, only ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, CNBC’s Joe Kernen and CNN’s Poppy Harlow pressed their guests on the bills meager impact on inflation prior to it passing the Senate.

But, once the bill came into law, the liberal media suddenly began asking tough questions, asking guests why the legislation was named the Inflation Reduction Act if it did not in fact reduce inflation.

John Harwood told John Berman and Keilar that the spending bill signed by President Joe Biden was titled the Inflation Reduction Act as a "marketing device" to get moderate Democrats, such as Senator Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., to support it. Harwood echoed the words of the Congressional Budget Office when he said the legislation would have a "negligible" effect on lowering inflation and asserted that the legislation did not live up to its name, and concluded that the bill did not live up to its name.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Building Biden Back Better

All is well in Biden land. Just ask him or his media lapdogs.

In just the past several weeks, Biden has signed into law a climate and prescription-drug package that accomplishes many of his party's long-held objectives; Congress has sent him bills that impose strict limits on guns and set out a plan to boost U.S. high-tech manufacturing. A drone strike killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri, average gasoline prices have fallen back below $4 per gallon and there are signs that inflation — while still white-hot — may finally be cooling.

Biden is taking a victory lap and his media lapdogs are pushing his accomplishments. Still, some Democrats say a few positive headlines won't be enough and are openly encouraging his no running in 2024. If Biden runs, he'll have to level with voters about his age — convincing them he’s really up for a second term that wouldn’t end until he’d be 86.

Outrageous claims by the Democrats are not fooling Americans. Mayorkas’ claim that the border is closed is now surpassed by a Texas Democrat in a tight congressional race claiming there is no chaos at the southern border, that it’s all Republican hype.

Despite this surge of optimism among Democrats lately when it comes to November's midterm elections and that they are not going to get clobbered, their hope may still be in vain. For one reason: President Joe Biden.

Biden is still dragging his party down

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...0a2eda85bda6f6

It's true that so-called generic ballot polling has moved a few points in the Democrats' direction. The generic ballot question is: If the election were held today, would you vote for the Republican or the Democratic candidate for your representative in Congress? In the RealClearPolitics average of polls, the Republican Party has led in the generic ballot question since late last year. At one point, in February, the GOP lead was 4 points. For much of the summer, it's been 2 points. But recently, Democrats have been catching up, and at the moment, the two parties are tied in the RealClearPolitics average, 43.9% to 43.9%.

In the Senate, Democrats do have some reason for optimism about keeping their 50-50 tie, which, with the Democratic vice president, gives them operational control. Former President Donald Trump has pushed weak candidates in a few key races, Georgia, and Pennsylvania foremost among them, who might end up costing Republicans their chance to win control of the Senate. There has been much discussion about Trump's clout in GOP primaries, but of course, the final test is whether his candidates actually get elected.

Biden's job approval rating at the moment is 40.8% in the RealClearPolitics average of polls. The numbers are very similar to a different mix of polls at FiveThirtyEight, where Biden's approval rating is 40.7%. Biden's approval rating on Day 577 of his presidency is lower than any other president since World War II, with the exceptions of Jimmy Carter and Harry Truman. Even Trump, whose ratings were low his entire presidency, had a higher approval at this point in his term than Biden does now.

History says a president with a job approval rating of 41% will not see midterm gains. He just won't. But suppose Biden's approval rating goes up. What would happen then? The answer is — it's not gonna happen.

"Election has moved 4-5 pts toward Ds this week.. "Biden approval up 6 pts — Senate leaning Dem, House competitive now — Ds closing strong. Rs are an extraordinary mess. It's a new, bluer election." Perhaps it would be if Biden could climb above 50%, although Democrats still might lose control of the House even in that scenario. The fact is the president appears unable to regain the strength he had in his first months in office when his approval hit 55%.


On the other hand, Trump is doing a pretty good job of dragging his party down as well. Trump is kicking some ass in the primary, but will his influence help candidates in the midterms? The lying and propaganda spewed by both sides has confused, misled, divided and embarrassed America.

Hope to see neither Biden nor Trump in 2024.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Trump, the most likely GOP candidate to lose in 2024

Republicans understand that they are just two votes away from a one-party state. They understand the Party is sick in many ways. Republicans know that the Democratic Party has been taken over by its radical progressive wing.

What Liz Cheney and the Republicans do not seem to understand is that relentless pursuit of Trump only empowers him. Until recently, support for another Trump presidential run was fading among Republicans. In October 2021, a Quinnipiac poll found that 78 percent of GOP voters wanted to see Trump run again. By July, that share had dropped to just 49 percent, a New York Times-Siena College poll found. But the one-two punch of the Cheney-led Jan. 6 committee hearings and the Merrick Garland-approved FBI search of Mar-a-Lago is causing Republicans to rally around the former president.

GOP voters need to be persuaded to move beyond the toxic Trump, to convince them that he is the candidate most likely to lose in 2024. Republican voters’ top priority is to defeat Joe Biden. Trump is not the answer – IMHO!

How embarrassing would that be to lose again to a feckless old man and a party in disarray. Then again, Biden is not going to run, or at least shouldn’t. Trump or Biden in 2024 – UGH!

Why Republicans Don’t Want to Join Liz Cheney on Her Kamikaze Mission

https://www.aei.org/op-eds/why-repub...ikaze-mission/

Whatever you think of Liz Cheney, give her credit for courage: She knew that relentlessly pursuing Donald Trump meant the end of her congressional career, and she did it anyway. It was an act of bravery, akin to kamikaze pilots who intentionally crashed their planes into the deck of an aircraft carrier. The problem for Cheney is: Most Republicans are not interested in kamikaze missions.

Cheney believes that Trump is the greatest threat facing our country today, greater than the serial disasters President Biden has unleashed since taking office — among them, the worst inflation in 40 years, the highest gas prices in decades, the worst border crisis in U.S. history and the worst crime wave in many cities since the 1990s. She thinks stopping Trump is more important than stopping Democrats from spending trillions of our tax dollars, hiring an army of IRS agents to harass hard-working Americans, raising taxes on businesses struggling in this economy, projecting weakness on the world stage and pursuing a radical climate agenda at the expense of U.S. energy independence.

The vast majority of Republicans disagree. If the Democratic alternative was the benign, centrist party of Bill Clinton — who told us the “era of big government is over” — things might be different. But Republicans know that the Democratic Party has been taken over by its radical progressive wing. Were it not for Sens. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), they would have followed Biden’s $1.9 trillion inflation-inducing “American Rescue Plan” with his $3.5 trillion “Build Back Better” boondoggle. They would have gotten rid of the filibuster, packed the Supreme Court, packed the Senate by giving statehood to the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, and enacted their radical agenda by simple majority vote. Republicans understand that we are just two votes away from a one-party state. And if in November the Democrats somehow hold on to the House, and extend their Senate majority, they will use their expanded powers to irreversibly transform the country. That, Republicans believe, is a far bigger threat than Trump.

Cheney says the Republican Party is “very sick,” and in many ways she is right. But as her father’s mentor, Donald H. Rumsfeld, famously said: You go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you might wish you have. Well, today conservatives have to go to war with the Republican Party they have.

That party needs good leaders inside the fold, not people blowing themselves up on suicide missions. Cheney said this week that winning reelection “would have required that I go along with President Trump’s lie about the 2020 election.” That’s not true. Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, also rejected the “big lie.” Like Cheney, Kemp faced a Trump-backed effort to defeat him in a Republican primary. But unlike Cheney, Kemp won. Why? Because he did not spend the past two years rehashing the 2020 election; he focused on the concerns of Georgia voters. He spent his time fighting his Democratic opponent, not Trump. “Stacey Abrams wants her woke politics to be the law of the land and the lesson plan in our classrooms,” Kemp warned after his primary win. “Well, you know what? Not on my watch.” If your concern is the future of the Republican Party, you know the GOP is better off with leaders such as Kemp still in it.

In Wyoming, Cheney lost because her constituents saw that she cared more about fighting Trump than fighting Biden. She was more concerned with waging a civil war within the Republican Party than the inflation that is forcing her voters to choose between staples such as gas and food.

Now, Cheney is reportedly considering a presidential run. She had a better chance of keeping her House seat than she does of winning the Republican nomination. The GOP is not going to nominate someone from the “Never Trump” wing. If the party is going to move past Trump in 2024, the nominee will almost certainly have to be someone such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who offers to continue Trump’s policies, minus the political baggage. But this is not good enough for Cheney. “Ron DeSantis has lined himself up almost entirely with Donald Trump, and I think that’s very dangerous,” she told the New York Times recently. A Cheney run would divide the not-Trump vote in the GOP primaries and make it more likely that Trump wins.

What Cheney does not seem to understand is that relentless pursuit of Trump only empowers him. Until recently, support for another Trump presidential run was fading among Republicans. In October 2021, a Quinnipiac poll found that 78 percent of GOP voters wanted to see Trump run again. By July, that share had dropped to just 49 percent, a New York Times-Siena College poll found. But the one-two punch of the Cheney-led Jan. 6 committee hearings and the Merrick Garland-approved FBI search of Mar-a-Lago is causing Republicans to rally around the former president.

The way to persuade GOP voters to move beyond Trump is not to attack him but to convince them that he is the candidate most likely to lose in 2024. Republican voters’ top priority is to defeat Joe Biden. That’s not Liz Cheney’s top priority — which is why no one wants to join her on her suicide run.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Media mistrust

Interesting report at a time when media trust is at an all-time low.

A recent poll was conducted by a national polling outfit - "YouGov.” Results to these questions asked of average people on the street.

What percentage of the country is black? Answers 41%... Actual 14%. If you watch commercials, you will think it is much higher.

What percentage of marriages are mixed race? Answer 50%... Actual 1%. If you watch commercials, you will think it is much higher.

What percentage is "Latino"? Answers 39%... Actual numbers 17%.

How many families make over $500,000 a year? Answers 26%... Actual figure 1.3%.

What percent of Americans are vegetarians? Response? 30%… Actual 5%.

What percent of Americans live in NY city? Answers? 30%. Actual 3%.

What percentage of Americans are 'transgender? 22%.
Actual number 1%
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What percentage of your fellow citizens are Gay? Result? 30%. Actual 3%.

So why do people have such inaccurate thoughts on these counts? THE MEDIA! The media run race, gender, and wealth stories constantly.

Result? You are being brainwashed by the national left with the media. Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels would be proud if he had half the success.

Disney just went full-on "gender" They will no longer welcome guests with the traditional "Welcome ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls" Why? Because 1% of the population dictates to the other 99% (that would be the vast majority) and corporate America falls for it.

Regardless of what you think, less than 20% of Americans use "Twitter" yet Twitter controls 80% of public opinion. Why? The media.

Next time you are thinking Americans have changed and not in a good way, remember, it's fake. It's all a lie. Most people think just like you do but the media has brainwashed Americans with constant broadcasting of “LIES".

[Lee Chowaniec]

'Utter hypocrisy': Ted Cruz blasts Democrats criticizing immigrants in their cities

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...7e49388cae3c4e

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) mocked Democratic Mayors Muriel Bowser and Eric Adams for their “utter hypocrisy” over concerns of illegal immigrants being bused to their cities.

“The mayor of [Washington,] D.C., Muriel Bowser, has said that the 6,000 illegal immigrants that Texas has put on buses and sent up to D.C. has created a crisis and it is unacceptable and has to stop. Now, that is just 6,000,” Cruz explained on his Verdict podcast. “We ought to send 600,000 — 600,000 would be roughly one-sixth of the number of illegal immigrants who have come in under Joe Biden.” By the way, if she doesn’t like it, she is a member of the Democrat Party. The person responsible for these 3.5 million [people] lives in her city,” Cruz continued.

When pressed about the concerns of Bowser and Adams, the Biden administration has deflected reporters’ questions, accusing Texas of using the migrants as “political pawns.”

“Well, the question is to Gov. Abbott. Why is he using migrants as a political pawn in doing what he's doing?" White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said earlier this month. "There's a legal process here, and he's not using that legal process."


In New York illegal immigrants are getting phones and free health care.

[Lee Chowaniec]

The faces of socialism in America

Biden, Sanders, and Fetterman, oh my! Career politicians that never worked a real job in their lives.

Not crazy about Oz but Fetterman is bat**** and scary!

https://video.foxnews.com/v/63112784...=hp1ec_1,hp1ec

https://video.foxnews.com/v/63112767...=hp1ec_8,hp1ec

[Lee Chowaniec]

Existential threats to America’s democracy

There hasn’t been a day in the last several years that the liberal media hasn’t referred to Trump and/or the Republicans as the existential threats to democracy, freedom, and national security.

As a lifelong unaffiliated registered voter and of the same generation as the following poster, the individual deserves to be heard. I can relate to the events and narrative credibility more than today’s media propaganda and divisive rhetoric. It was refreshing getting a history lesson and different perspective from a non-professional pundit.

By Frank Hawkins -US Army Retired Intelligence Officer

America has undergone enormous change during the nearly eight decades of my life. Today, America is a bitterly divided, poorly educated, and morally fragile society with so-called mainstream politicians pushing cynical identity politics, socialism, and open borders. The past president of the United States was impeached twice and acquitted twice because the other side doesn't like him. The once reasonably unbiased American media has evolved into a hysterical left-wing mob.

How could the stable and reasonably cohesive America of the 1950s have reached this point in just one lifetime? Who are the main culprits? Here's my list of the 10 most destructive Americans of the last 70 years.

10) Mark Felt– Deputy director of the FBI, aka "Deep Throat" during the Watergate scandal. This was the first public instance of a senior FBI official directly interfering in America's political affairs. He was the forerunner of James Comey, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and Andrew McCabe.

9) Bill Ayers– Represents the deep and ongoing leftist ideological damage to our education system. An unrepentant American terrorist who evaded punishment, he devoted his career to radicalizing American education and pushing leftist causes. Ghost wrote Obama's book, "Dreams from My Father."

8) Teddy Kennedy– Most folks remember Teddy as the guy who left Mary Joe Kopechne to die in his car at Chappaquiddick. The real damage came after he avoided punishment for her death and became a major Democrat force in the US Senate, pushing through transformative liberal policies in health care and education. The real damage was the 1965 Hart-Cellar immigration bill he pushed hard for that changed the quota system to increase the flow of third world people without skills into the US and essentially ended large-scale immigration from Europe.

7) Walter Cronkite– Cronkite was a much-beloved network anchor who began the politicization of America's news media with his infamous broadcast from Vietnam that described the Tet Offensive as a major victory for the Communists and significantly turned the gullible American public against the Vietnam War. In fact, the Tet offensive was a military disaster for the NVA and Viet Cong, later admitted by North Vietnamese military leaders. Decades later Cronkite admitted he got the story wrong. But it was too late. The damage was done.

6) Bill and Hillary Clinton- It's difficult to separate Team Clinton. Bill's presidency was largely benign as he was a relative fiscal conservative who rode the remaining benefits of the Reagan era. But his sexual exploits badly stained the Oval Office and negatively affected America's perception of the presidency. In exchange for financial support, he facilitated the transfer of sensitive military technology to the Chinese. Hillary, a Saul Alinsky acolyte, is one of the most vicious politicians of my lifetime, covering up Bill's sexual assaults by harassing and insulting the exploited women and peddling influence around the globe in exchange for funds for the corrupt Clinton Foundation. She signed off on the sale of 20% of the US uranium reserve to the Russians after Bill received a $500,000 speaking fee in Moscow and the foundation (which supported the Clinton's regal lifestyle) received hundreds of millions of dollars from those who benefited from the deal. Between them, they killed any honor that might have existed in the dark halls of DC.

5) Valerie Jarrett- The Rasputin of the Obama administration. A Red Diaper baby, her father, maternal grandfather, and father-in-law (Vernon Jarrett who was a close friend and ally of Obama mentor Frank Marshall Davis) were hardcore Communists under investigation by the U.S. government. She has been in Obama's ear for his entire political career pushing a strong anti-American, Islamist, anti-Israeli, socialist/communist, cling-to-power agenda.

4) Jimmy Carter- Carter ignited modern-day radical Islam by abandoning the Shah and paving the way for Ayatollah Khomeini to take power in Tehran. Iran subsequently became the main state sponsor and promoter of international Islamic terrorism. When Islamists took over our embassy in Tehran, Carter was too weak to effectively respond thus strengthening the rule of the radical Islamic mullahs.

3) Lyndon Johnson– Johnson turned the Vietnam conflict into a major war for America. It could have ended early if he had listened to the generals instead of automaker Robert McNamara. The ultimate result was:

A) 58,000 American military deaths and collaterally tens of thousands of American lives damaged; and

B) a war that badly divided America and created left-wing groups that evaded the draft and eventually gained control of our education system.

C) Even worse, his so-called War on Poverty led to the destruction of American black families with a significant escalation of welfare and policies designed to keep poor families dependent on the government (and voting Democrat) for their well-being. He deliberately created a racial holocaust that is still burning today. A strong case could be made for putting him at the top of this list.

2) Barack Hussein Obama- Obama set up America for a final defeat and stealth conversion from a free-market society to socialism/communism. As we get deeper into the Trump presidency, we learn more each day about how Obama politicized and compromised key government agencies, most prominently the FBI, the CIA, and the IRS, thus thoroughly shaking the public's confidence in the federal government to be fair and unbiased in its activities. He significantly set back race and other relations between Americans by stoking black grievances and pushing radical identity politics. Obama's open support for the Iranian mullahs and his apologetic "lead from behind" foreign policy seriously weakened America abroad. His blatant attempt to interfere in Israel's election by trying to unseat Netanyahu is one of the most shameful things ever done by an American president.

The Number 1 Worst American is John Kerry– Some readers will likely say Kerry does not deserve to be number one on this list. I have him here because I regard him as the most despicable American who ever lived. After his three faked Purple Hearts during his cowardly service in Vietnam, he was able to leave the US Navy early. As a reserve naval officer and in clear violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, he traveled to Paris and met privately with the NVA and the Viet Cong. He returned to the United States parroting the Soviet party line about the war and testified before Congress comparing American soldiers to the hordes of Genghis Khan. It was a clear case of treason, giving aid and comfort to the enemy in a time of war. We got a second bite of the bitter Kerry apple when as Obama's secretary of state, he fell into bed with the Iranian ("Death to America") mullahs giving them the ultimate green light to develop nuclear weapons along with billions of dollars that further supported their terrorist activities. Only the heroic Swift Vets saved us from a Manchurian Candidate Kerry's presidency. Ultimately, we got Obama.

Dishonorable Mentions! (Just missed the list)

John Brennan– Obama's CIA director who once voted for Communist Gus Hall for president. A key member of the Deep State who severely politicized the CIA. Called President Trump treasonous for meeting with the president of Russia.

Jane Fonda– a movie actress who made the infamous trip to Vietnam during the war in support of the Communists. She represents hard-left Hollywood that has done so much damage to our culture.

Robert Johnson– As head of BET helped popularize ho's, bitches, and pimps while making millions on great hits such as "Jigga my Nigga", "Big Pimpin'", "Niggas in Paris" and, "Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z." Many scholars within the African American community maintain that BET perpetuates and justifies racism by adopting the stereotypes held about African Americans, affecting the psyche of young viewers through the bombardment of negative images of African Americans Who can disagree?

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.– Head of the New York Times. Once the gold standard of American journalism, the paper always had a liberal tilt and occasionally made bad mistakes. As the years have gone along, the paper has slid further and further left and today is virtually the primary propaganda arm of the increasingly radical Democrat Party. Still retains influence in Washington and New York.

Frank Marshall Davis- Anti-white, black Bolshevik, card-carrying Soviet agent. Probable birth father and admitted primary mentor of young Barack Hussein Obama.

A special Reward goes to George Soros– An anti-Semitic Jew and former Nazi collaborator in his native Hungary who as a self-made billionaire. George Soros is an evil man! He has ruined countries with his monetary trading. George Soros is an evil man! He has also poured hundreds of millions of dollars into left-wing groups and causes. The damage he has caused is difficult to measure, but it's certainly large. He has funded much of the effort to kill the Trump presidency.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Dismissing student loan debt: winners, and losers

Who is going to pick up the $300 billion tab for student loan dismissal? Is it fair for past students / parents who took loans and paid them off? For future students? For individuals never attending universities but obligated to participate in a program looked upon by many as ‘buying votes’?

https://video.foxnews.com/v/6311364089112#sp=show-clips

https://video.foxnews.com/v/63113578...ips&spark_wn=1

[Lee Chowaniec]

Cancelling student debt – legal, fair, impact on inflation

Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Plan to Cancel Up to $20,000 in Debt for Millions
Wall Street Journal

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/pers...e97c244c2bc120

President Biden will forgive up to $20,000 in federal student loan debt for tens of millions of Americans, a move that will provide unprecedented relief for borrowers but is certain to draw legal challenges and political pushback.

Mr. Biden has previously raised questions about whether he has the power to take executive action to cancel student debt on a large scale. “I don’t think I have the authority to do it by signing with a pen,” Mr. Biden said during a CNN town hall last year. Some of Mr. Biden’s advisers also have privately raised concerns that broad debt forgiveness could face legal challenges, The Wall Street Journal has reported. Other advisers contend the president is on solid legal ground.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Biden has pulse, approval rating up to 44%

He’s back having the Republicans on the run and the midterms looking good for the Democrats. Despite a high 40-year inflation, failed foreign and domestic policies, surging national crime and an open border policy that is costing Americans billions, he is reveling in the Supreme Court Roe abortion decision and vote-buying spending decisions to castigate and rebuke the Republican Party, Trump and his 74 million voters as fascists and existential threats to American democracy.

Today’s media reports were above the ridiculous propaganda norm. Not a Trump fan, nor affiliated with any political party (ever), how can anyone not understand the Democratic Party is desperate and using any means to discredit Trump and demean his supporters in the process. If the Republicans are successful in the midterms, payback is going to be a bitch for the Democrats; especially for the Bidens!

• President Biden on Thursday night launched a push toward the midterm elections with a fiery speech in Rockville, Md., in which he cast the Republican Party as one that was dangerously consumed with anti-democratic forces that had turned toward “semi-fascism.”

“The MAGA Republicans don’t just threaten our personal rights and economic security,” Biden said, referencing former president Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again slogan. “They’re a threat to our very democracy. They refuse to accept the will of the people. They embrace — embrace — political violence. They don’t believe in democracy.”

“What we’re seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy,” Biden said. “It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the — I’m going to say something — it’s like semi-fascism.”

• The move by the California Air Resources Board to have all new cars, pickup trucks and SUVs be electric or hydrogen by 2035 is likely to reshape the U.S. auto market, which gets 10% of its sales from the nation's most populous state. Other states are in line to follow.

Such a radical transformation in what people drive will also require at least 15 times more vehicle chargers statewide, a more robust energy grid and vehicles that people of all income levels can afford.

• Prices rising sharply for some major categories of health services and payer types, with further increases expected in the coming year.

• Grocery prices continue to rise and there is no timeline until their decline. The war in Ukraine and climate change are affecting the world’s food supply, and we are going to continue seeing the effects of the shortage, according to one United Nations official.

• In a new report titled, “2022: A Year of Unprecedented Hunger,” the WFP noted that “as many as 828 million people go to bed hungry every night,” and there are 50 million people in 45 countries across the globe that are nearing famine levels. The number of people facing food insecurity has risen at alarming rates over the past three years, increasing from 135 million people in 2019 to 345 million in 2022.

• Democrats trying to shift blame of Covid -19 side effects on Trump

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tuck...-vaccine-trump

Vaccines were rushed to market untested. Yet it was Biden, Fauci and media who attested to their efficacy and safety and mandated their use.


We are being played. Are you buying it?

[Lee Chowaniec]

Are Democrats and their radical supporters more corrupt than Trump

Trump has to be guilty of doing something wrong. He has been hunted for years and it looks like they finally have nailed him for refusing to return classified documents and keeping them stored without required security guidelines. He has been labeled a racist, a sexist, a xenophobe, a fascist, an existential threat to America’s democracy. He must be stopped from once again seeking the presidency, at all costs, and the Democrats are doing their best to make sure that happens.

Biden and his lackeys are now attacking the Trump MAGA supporters as being semi-fascists and equal threats to America’s democracy, The non-corrupt, tolerant, inclusive, Democratic Socialists, led by a president promising to unify the country, have been anything but divisive and deceitful in the process.

Are federal agents being used to do political bidding?

Republicans claim liberals are weaponizing gov't against conservatives," declares former U.N Ambassador Niki Haley. “They have been too nice for too long.”

Citing Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony that Facebook suppressed posts about Hunter Biden when influenced by the FBI, Mar-a-Lago, and various ‘witch-hunts,’ Kevin McCarthy and other Republicans are committed to holding the Democrats in Congress and all ignoring the facts accountable. If the Republicans take over Congress payback will be a bitch, especially for the Bidens.

Student debt forgiveness vs. Paycheck Protection Program

A snarky tweet campaign spearheaded by the White House on Friday compares the forgiveness of student debt to the forgiveness of the Paycheck Protection Program. There were a thousand tweets like that earlier in the week from liberal tweeters, who may have believed that the comparison between a forgiven student debt and a forgiven PPP loan was apt.

These two loans, and the forgiveness of them, are not comparable for myriad reasons. Most importantly, PPP loans were designed to be forgiven — literally. They were really a grant program that the federal government structured as loans that would be forgiven if the employer used the money to pay salaries. Also, this money was basically restitution for the fact that the government was forcing employers to shut down. Thirdly, PPP was actually authorized by Congress.

Supreme Court overturning Roe

A bad move on the part of conservative Supreme Court members (IMHO) which gave a badly needed uplift for a party in disarray and floundering in so many ways.

The Democrats and the liberal media are fronting this as an issue that may well bring midterm election victory. Inflation, reckless spending, and a burgeoning debt, surging crime, Biden’s disastrous foreign policy, and a suffering middleclass / seniors / poor will still be the voter big priorities.

Covid-19 vaccines

Democrats trying to shift blame of Covid -19 side effects on Trump

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tuck...-vaccine-trump

Vaccines were rushed to market untested. Yet it was Biden, Fauci and media who attested to their efficacy and safety and mandated their use.

Education

Parents considered ‘domestic terrorists? Seriously?

Parents are the ones who should be teaching their children about gender identification, transition, and sexuality. Taxation without representation?

Biden again embarrasses himself

The inept Biden met with local officials and activists on Women’s Equality Day to discuss guaranteeing abortion access throughout the country in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe V. Wade. Though the most attention-grabbing moment of the entire sit down came when a confused Biden tried to take one too many questions from the press and awkwardly apologized to his staff for taking "control" of the situation.

After finishing one question, Biden pointed to another reporter, ready to field more inquires. Though as seen in video recorded at the meeting, an administration staff member interrupted Biden, trying to force an end to the questions.

The offscreen staffer stated, "Thank you so much, Mr. President for –" Caught off guard, Biden abruptly interjected with an apology. "Oh I’m sorry, I …" he trailed off, stammering.

Leaning back with his arms up as if trying to defuse the situation, Biden added, "I took control. I shouldn’t do that." The staffer assured him it was "no problem," though Biden once again acknowledged, "I’m not allowed to do that."


If Trump suffers criminal charges and winds up in jail, prepare a cell for the Bidens and Fauci!

[Lee Chowaniec]

Trust in government and media at all-time lows: Here’s why!

There is a whistleblower now claiming FBI leadership told bureau employees not to look at Hunter Biden’s Laptop from Hell. The FBI whistleblower also said the FBI purposely slow-walked the Hunter Biden investigation.

The FBI took possession of Hunter Biden’s laptop nearly 3 years ago and the Justice Department still has not charged Hunter with any crimes despite countless emails revealing an intricate web involving the Biden Crime family’s ties to Ukraine, Russia and the Chinese Communist Party.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week told popular podcaster Joe Rogan that Facebook did limit stories on the news feed related to the New York Post story about President Biden’s son Hunter Biden and his laptop after warnings from the FBI. Zuckerberg said he took the warning seriously. He said the social media platform did not ban people from sharing the Post’s story, but it took action to limit how often the story appeared on feeds.

The FBI finally weighed in on Mark Zuckerberg’s claim that Facebook suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story after being warned about “Russian propaganda” by the bureau ahead of the 2020 presidential election. “The FBI shared general warnings about foreign interference — nothing specific about Hunter Biden,” the statement said.

The computer, which Hunter Biden abandoned at a Wilmington, Delaware, computer repair shop, is believed to have been in the possession of the FBI since late 2019, more than a year before the election. It contains photos of Hunter Biden naked and smoking crack, unseemly discussions about his family, and sexual activities, and references to the role of the “Big Guy” in corrupt dealings with foreign entities. The “Big Guy” has been named by former Hunter Biden associate Tony Bobulinski as Joe

Photos, videos, emails, and text messages on the abandoned laptop, which were also ignored by legacy news outlets, paint the president’s son as a drug-addled, venal degenerate and raise troubling questions about President Joe Biden’s own role in his son’s corrupt dealings.

A recent poll by TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and Politics suggested that 79% of Americans believe President Trump likely would have won re-election if voters had known about the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop and that it was authentic.

FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers earlier this month that he could not comment on what, if anything, the bureau is doing regarding the laptop. But he said he found reports that the bureau refused to pursue a laptop investigation ahead of the election “deeply troubling.”

The same FBI who lied about Russian “collusion”, raided President Trump’s home, and asked Facebook to manipulate its feed to bury the Hunter Biden story is now being asked to investigate the Bidens. How ironic is that!

[Lee Chowaniec]

The National Debt: Does anyone care?

Democratic U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren said on Sunday that she was very worried that the Federal Reserve was going to tip the nation's economy into recession and that interest rate hikes would put people out of work. "Do you know what's worse than high prices and a strong economy? It's high prices and millions of people out of work. I am very worried that the Fed is going to tip this economy into recession," Warren told CNN on Sunday.

Like Warren, Biden and the socialist progressives don’t seem too interested in inflation and the havoc it is creating with most Americans, nor an increasing national debt impacted by this administration’s reckless spending.

While my generation still bear some sense of the escalating national debt and apprehension on its impact on future generations, today’s generation pays it little attention and thinks there is a money tree somewhere that provides all this free stuff and ‘forgiveness.’

However, Republicans blaming Democrats as being solely responsible for fiscal irresponsibility is not bore out by simply looking at administrative periods, but events that caused some of the spending during that period. Regardless, some data on how we got to our current $30.8 trillion debt since the end of the Carter administration and to whom we owe the money.

Jimmy Carter

President Carter added $299 billion to the debt, a 42.7% increase from the $698.8 billion debt at the end of Ford's last budget.

Ronald Reagan

President Regan added $1.86 trillion to the national debt, a 186% increase from the $997.8 billion debt at the end of Carter's last budget.

George H.W. Bush

President H.W. Bush added $1.55 trillion to the debt, a 54% increase from the $2.857 trillion debt at the end of Reagan's last budget.

Bill Clinton

President Clinton increased the national debt by almost $1.4 trillion, almost a 32% increase from the $4.4 trillion debt at the end of President H.W. Bush's last budget.

George W. Bush

President Bush added $5.85 trillion to the national debt, a 101% increase from the $5.8 trillion debt at the end of Clinton's last budget for fiscal year 2001.

Barack Obama

President Obama added about $8.6 trillion, about a 74% increase, to the national debt at the end of President Bush’s last budget in 2009.

Donald Trump

At the end of fiscal year 2020, the debt was $26.9 trillion. Trump added $6.7 trillion to the debt between fiscal year 2017 and fiscal year 2020, a 33.1% increase, largely due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and 2020 recession.

Joe Biden

On Oct. 1, 2021, at the end of fiscal year 2021, the national debt was $28.4 trillion. Between the end of fiscal year 2020 and the end of fiscal year 2021, the national debt grew $1.5 trillion, a 5.6% increase year over year. For fiscal year 2022, President Joe Biden's budget included a deficit of $1.84 trillion, and by August 2022, the national debt had grown to $30.8 trillion. President Joe Biden is on track to add the most to the budget deficit, largely due to the costs associated with continuing to battle the coronavirus pandemic. In late 2021, Congress voted to raise the debt ceiling.

The national debt and the amount of money the federal government owes its creditors

The national debt is broken down into debt owed to intragovernmental holdings and debt owed to the public. Intragovernmental holdings include federal agencies such as the Social Security Trust Fund and Medicare. Public debt includes U.S. banks and investors, as well as foreign investors.

The public debt is reportedly 78 percent of the national debt, while intragovernmental debt (the Treasury owes this part of the debt to other federal agencies) is the other 22 percent.

Foreign investors make up only a third of the public debt, as they are owed over $7 trillion. Japan is the leading foreign investor, with over $1.3 trillion owed, and China is second, with $1.2 trillion owed.

In 2021, the U.S. paid a historic low of 1.5% interest on the debt. Interest rates have recently increased, and more are coming. It is estimated every U.S. citizen owes $86,000 toward debt responsibility.

Did the U.S. ever go bankrupt? Yes, in 1933. But who cares, right. We have become more focused on gender identity, what pronoun to us, transforming America, free ****, and choosing what political party to blame for today’s dire situation.

With rare exception all politicos suck!

[Lee Chowaniec]

Midterm elections: ”It ain’t over til it’s over”

This week’s liberal media playbook features exactly what it takes for legacy news outlets to gush about President Joe Biden. Just hate former President Donald Trump — it’s as simple as that.

President Biden did not set a precedent when he declared more than 70 million Americans subscribers to "semi-fascism" because many Democrats before him have made similar pronouncements, though not to such an extreme.

declares he does not want Ron DeSantis voters' support as he faces off with the governor for the executive position, because they purportedly "have hate in [their] hearts."

While the country is mired in inflation where the great majority of Americans report struggling day-to-day to make ends meet, while faced with the costs of an open border and fighting a proxy war, irresponsible government spending and escalating national debt, surging crime, the Biden administration and its media lackeys are selling the narrative that Bidens accomplishments speak for themselves and the Big Guy is back and the party is no longer vulnerable in the midterm elections. The country is in good shape.

Yet, it is imperative to destroy Trump in every way possible. To label him the existential threat to our democracy, to charge him as being racist, sexist, xenophobe, to ensure he is incapable of seeking office gin. But that is no longer enough, it is time to charge the 74 million Trump voters ‘semi-fascists’, hate mongers, racists, domestic terrorists, etc.

President Biden on Friday announced his intent to appoint MSNBC analyst Jeremy Bash, who insisted Hunter Biden’s scandalous laptop was Russian disinformation, to the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. The authenticity of Biden's laptop has since been verified by numerous news organizations, but Bash was among more than 50 former intelligence officials who previously signed a letter dismissing it as Russian disinformation ahead of the 2020 presidential election. The letter was widely spread in the media despite there being no evidence to substantiate their claims.

The liberal media will take very opportunity to destroy Trump and the Republicans and support the new normal.

Conservative staple Ben Shapiro thinks Republicans need to start detaching from Donald Trump if they want to have a shot in the 2022 midterm elections. According to Shapiro, the party is "cruising for a bruising" by continuing to make the twice-impeached former president the "centerpiece" of conversations.

Shapiro wrote a lengthy Twitter thread explaining his thoughts on Monday morning, noting that "Republicans are losing steam" ahead of the midterms. Shapiro noted that a large part of the "Democratic upswing" has come as backlash to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade earlier this year, but he added that "there's something else going on here that represents a deeper problem for the Republican Party."

That "something else," in Shapiro's view, is the continued discussion of and around Donald Trump. He cited the idea of "the Mythology of the Emerging Democratic Minority Majority (MEDMM)," saying that Republicans seem to believe that only Trump could "defeat it."

"This means that when Trump is attacked, Republicans immediately return to making him the centerpiece of the conversation — and this harms them electorally, as every poll is now showing," Shapiro wrote. In a follow-up tweet, he noted that "the more Republicans talk about Trump, the worse they do electorally."

"There is a reason Democrats are eager to keep Trump at the center of the conversation: half of independents say Trump is a major factor in their vote, and they're breaking 4-1 for the Democrats," he continued. "Republicans shouldn't play that game. If they do, they're cruising for a bruising."

Spot on, Mr. Shapiro – IMHO!