Had enough yet

[Lee Chowaniec]

‘Woke’ laws: New York is but one step away

When reading this media report, or thereafter, if you believe California is the exception, New York is but one step behind. Crime is rampant and to the extent thefts are openly recorded and shop owners are telling their employees not to involved – and even firing them should they act to stop the perpetrator.

The monetary loss will be made up by insurance companies and/or the stores affected, and ultimately passed on to the consumer. What a country!

California's serial 'Snake Burglar' set free under woke laws, prosecutor says

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...058a6f38&ei=63

A California man who crawled on his belly to avoid motion detectors in dozens of break-ins walked free after pleading guilty to 54 felony charges Thursday, the second time he has been freed on dozens of felony charges in under a year, Riverside Police say.

When they arrested him, he had just been sentenced to 16 months for prior 23 felonies, police said. He only served 10 days of that sentence due to jail overcrowding.

"It is unconscionable that a habitual offender like Christopher Jackson can steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from hard-working people, admit to it, and legally serve less time in jail than the time it will take his hundreds of victims to recoup their losses," Riverside County District Attorney Michael Hestrin said in a statement.

"It’s the law that’s broken," Riverside Police Chief Larry Gonzalez said Thursday.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Biden or Trump: No ‘lesser of two evils’ here.

It is clear right now that Hunter Biden broke the law, is not getting his fathers orchestrated. ‘sweet deal’ or promised immunity against future crimes charges and that President Biden is complicit in his business operations – which he consistently denied even knowing about.

The cognitive declining Biden continues to stumble or fall, can’t read off prepared notes, his domestic and his foreign policies are draconian despite the propaganda reported by the mainstream media.

It is obvious that former president is facing near 40 indictments and will be found guilty on some. The Trumpster now indicates that he would be willing to serve as president from jail if elected IN 20024 says much.

Yet here these two guys stand leading their respective parties in support by wide margins. Why, when both candidates are ‘hated’ and not even the voters choice for re-election.

It is painful to watch either at a microphone, equally arrogant, untruthful, fostering further divisiveness.

How can their loyal base not feel embarrassment or shame in their support.

[gorja]

I'm at the point where I feel anyone but Biden or Newsom.
I still have to give Trump credit for steering the country in the right direction when he was president.
Hopefully, another Republican will take the reins but in a more professional manner than Trump.
But if Trump is the Republican nominee, he will get my vote.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Ah, the Democrats and media left are salivating tonight. The Trumpster just got four more indictments charged against him. When added to the list of indictments already charged the Dems have much more than their pound of flesh. That should be the end of the Trumps re-election aspirations and opportunity, right? Nah!

He is gaining in the polls, as 60% of Democrats polled do not want the stumbling / bumbling, cognitive diminishing Biden nominated in 2024. He is an embarrassment nationally and to the world. His Bidenomic plan is being seen as an attack on middle-class Americans – wage increases not keeping up with inflation and his Executive Order mandates on EV’s, clean energy, appliances, housing, interest rates, etc., which are all driving up costs that many households will be unable to manage – like the 66% of Americans who declare living paycheck-to-paycheck.

To hear the Democrats whine that the Republicans are acting vindictively, that there is no ‘there-there’ with the Hunter Biden saga, weaponization of the Justice system, ‘get-Trump’ mania, etc., is ludicrous.

No ‘lesser of two evils’ here folks. We are getting screwed by the ship-of fools on the hill.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Biden labeled ‘possible’ worst president in the last 100 years

While Joe Biden self-professes to be a president who accomplished more than any of his predecessors, that his Bidenomics plan is successful, and his media left lackeys report all is peachy in the world, the following video presents the real Joe Biden.

Biden, during the 2020 debate, and thereafter denied his son had made money in China. In court last week, his son has said he earned hundreds of thousands of dollars from Chinese business deals. This outright lie just earned Joe Biden Four Pinocchios from the Washington Post.

"The Worst President in the Last 100 Years" - Victor Davis Hanson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J6WjzdPBCo

[Lee Chowaniec]

'Try That in A Small Town'

Some music critics declare the ‘Try That in a Small Town’ video was just too much in your face — it was in your face anger, and that just reinforced that anger that is in so much of America today, that big division. What upset people about the song's music video was "the coded language and coded pictures" because the video features someone in a hoodie "in a violent act."

One music professor claimed that while the race of the hooded person was not specified, the song's "implications go far beyond” - arguing that the song is full of "anti-Blackness" rhetoric.

The following report by Washington Post Writers Group Ruben Navarette counters the nonsense exposed by those seeing race in every event.

Jason Aldean's song is not racist. It reminds us of virtues we once had
RUBEN NAVARETTE

SAN DIEGO – Amid a ruckus over a country music song, allow me to put in a good word for small towns. I was raised in a farm town in Central California that
was home to fewer than 10,000 people, and I'm grateful for my upbringing.

Since leaving my hometown – which was more than 60% Mexican American – to go to college nearly 40 years ago, I've lived in several large cities including Los Angeles, Phoenix, Dallas and San Diego.

In a country that worships growth and expansion, we romanticize big cities with their skyscrapers and bright lights.

Yet small towns are the backbone of America. There is not a lot of elitism or arrogance there, but you will find plenty of kindness and authenticity. Folks care
about one another and lend a hand when help is needed. They stay on the straight and narrow because the accountability system is strong when nearly everyone knows who you are, where you live and whom you're related to.

Singer John Mellencamp is a believer. In his song "Small Town," he sings: "Got nothing against a big town/Still hayseed enough to say/Look who's in the big town/ But my bed is in a small town/Oh, and that's good enough for me."

The small towns of America deserve love and respect. Yet they're often unfairly maligned and stereotyped by city folks who want to feel morally superior. The rap against the provinces is that they're close-minded, backward and bigoted.

What brings us here is the reaction to a country song performed by Jason Aldean.

Aldean didn't write the song, "Try That in a Small Town." That distinction goes to a quartet of songwriters: Kelley Lovelace, Neil Thrasher, Tully Kennedy, and Kurt Allison. But Aldean has made the tune his own and does it justice by belting out the lyrics with confidence and conviction.

He sings: "Got a gun that my granddad gave me/They say one day they're gonna round up/Well, that (expletive) might fly in the city, good luck/Try that in a small town/See how far ya make it down the road/ Around here, we take care of our own/You cross that line, it won't take long/For you to find out, I recommend you don't/Try that in a small town."

The song is about folks drawing the line and not putting up with lawlessness and chaos. It's about defending small-town values and holding people accountable when they behave badly.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Every Store is CLOSED in San Francisco Downtown

https://youtu.be/HV7F9YNxmWE

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Pelosi and Newsom - crickets!

Eric Adams - "It's the parenting."

[Lee Chowaniec]

The new normal

How long will it take for Republicans to say the election wasn’t stolen based on "theories that were put out (that) did not prove to be true." That storming the Capitol to overturn an election that wasn't stolen is wrong.

Of course the election was not stolen. Of course the claims of fraud were not true. The fact that we are even playing these games at this time is a bit ridiculous in and of itself.

When offered a choice, 67% of Iowa Republicans said they preferred a candidate who was focused on "restoring law and order in our streets and at the border" than one trained "on defeating radical 'woke' ideology in our schools, media and culture,

The question about election fraud is a question about integrity, and there is only one answer. The answer is integrity. Unfortunately, neither Trump, Biden, their political parties, or the media display integrity, resorting to unsavory tactics to foster division to weaken their opponents and enhance their best interests.

When will the Democrats openly admit Bidenomics is a failure, that the economy is not sound despite their data and metrics.

In the more likely event of a Biden-Trump rematch, the remarkable possibility of a campaign run from prison will dominate everything. The normal side of things won't cease to matter, the condition of the economy will still play its crucial role, but the sense of abnormality will warp every aspect of normal partisan debate.

The economy, inflation, crime, border crisis, national debt, Ukraine war, immigration, etc. will all play second as the Republicans and Democrats focus on destroying each other’s candidates through scurrilous propaganda.

A consummate / pathological liar vs. a consummate / pathological / cognitive diminished liar for president in 2024. Welcome to America’s new normal.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Americans are about to have a much harder time paying their bills.

According to the latest data report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Americans held a record $1.03 trillion in credit card debt in the second quarter of 2023. That's an increase of $45 billion from the last quarter and marks another quarter of rising balances after an initial plunge early in the pandemic.

The rise in credit card debt helped push total household debt to a record-high $17.06 trillion.

All told, Americans are in a lot of everyday debt, and there's no immediate relief in sight. An increasing number are letting balances languish for months without payment — and that's all before student loan payments restart in the fall . It's a worryingly cloudy picture for everyday consumers, who are still feeling hammered by slowly cooling inflation .

Bankrate also found that 60% of those with a credit card balance — 54 million people in total — have been indebted for at least a year. And, with rising interest rates, "that debt has not been this expensive in over two decades.

Despite these record-high credit card balances, there are some silver linings. Even though credit card debt hit its record high $1 trillion in the second quarter, Americans had over $14 trillion in their checking and savings accounts as of the first quarter, suggesting that they have ample liquid financial assets ready to stay on top of their bills. Additionally, debt service payments as a percentage of disposable income are also near historic lows.

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Bidenomics is working touts president Biden, along with his political and left media lackeys. People are spending and fueling the economy. Even though total personal debt is at a record $17 trillion, people have $14 trillion in checking and savings accounts. Which people? Near 70% of polled voters report living paycheck-to-paycheck. The Federal Reserve reports:

One-in-five Americans have no emergency savings.

Nearly one-in-three people in 2023 report having not enough savings to cover three months expenses.

60% of Americans don’t have $1,000 in savings.

Only 14% of Americans have saved $100,000 for retirement. About 78% of Americans have $50,000, or less, saved for retirement.

Only 7% have saved more than $500,000 for retirement.

Another poll showed that of those saving for retirement:

6.7% have saved between $10,000 and $49,999.

12.5% have saved between $50,000 and $99,999.

12% have saved between $100,000 and $199,999.

9.9% have saved between $200,000 and $299,999.

16.5% have saved $300,000 or more.

10% have saved $1 million or more.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Who will say no more to the current madness?
Victor Davis Hanson

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opini...32d78d6f&ei=38

We need a voice like Amery’s. Like Britain from 1939 to 1940, America is in existential danger.

The Biden administration has utterly destroyed the southern border — and immigration law with it.

Biden green lighted 7 million illegal aliens swarming into the U.S. without legal sanction or rudimentary audit.

China spies inside and over the U.S. with impunity. Beijing has never admitted to its responsibility for the gain-of-function COVID virus that killed a million Americans.

President Joe Biden printed $4 trillion at exactly the wrong time of soaring post-COVID consumer demand and supply shortages. No wonder he birthed the worst inflation in 40 years.

In response, interest rates tripled, gas prices doubled.

Our military is thousands of recruits short. It lacks sufficient munitions.

Following Biden’s humiliating pullout from Afghanistan, vast troves of arms were abandoned in Kabul. Billions more in scarce weapons were sent to Ukraine.

The Pentagon’s woke agenda trumps meritocracy in promotions and advancement.

Our enemies — Russia, China, Iran, North Korea — are on the move, while the U.S. seems listless.

The Biden renegade Department of Justice, CIA and FBI have become weaponized. Ideology, politics, and race — not the law — more often guide their investigations, intelligence operations and enforcement.

The downtowns of our once majestic major cities are becoming unlivable.

They are mired in refuse and trash, violent crime, and homelessness. Stores and businesses leave. Millions each year flee the blue urban coasts to the red west and south.

To even say there are still two biological genders, that global warming may not be entirely manmade or necessarily destroying the planet, or that class, not race, is the proper barometer of inequality is to face ostracism and career cancellation.

The public assumes that Biden is severely cognitively challenged, likely corrupt, and a serial fabricator.

Most know what must be done, but few will tell the truth: Balance the budget. Return to legal only immigration. Restore a well-funded, but unwoke Pentagon.

Insist on racial unity. Curb the overweening administrative state. Enforce the rule of law.

Produce more gas and oil. Reestablish civic education. Insist universities protect free speech and due process — and stop proselytizing.

In other words, restore what until recently made America the strongest, most prosperous, and freest nation in the world. And quit undoing all the great good that eight generations of prior Americans bequeathed to us.

Somewhere out there an American Leo Amery is growing infuriated over what is being done to America.

And if he finally stands up like Amery to call out our bankrupt political class, the American people will echo his famous order to this disastrous government: “Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.”

[gorja]

Tucker Carlson's latest interview with former Capitol police chief Steven Sund
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/st...94174976?s=20t
Listening to this, I've the opinion that Pelosi and the Dems purposely withheld security resources so the January 6 episode would get out of hand and the blame could be put on Trump.

[Lee Chowaniec]

The circus is in town, here come the clowns!

The same prosecuting attorney who was going to cut Hunter Biden a sweetheart deal was just named ‘Special Council’ in the Hunter Biden investigation.

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/11/11934...pecial-counsel


MICHELLE OBAMA IN WAITING: Biden ‘Will Pull Out Before the First Primaries’ '24 Race, Sensational New Report Claims — ‘Establishment Stooge’ Former First Lady Will Run

https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0nu4t...SvFwa&hl=en_US


Washington Post quietly updates consequential 2020 fact check.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ce405d35&ei=32


Fox News anchor Jesse Watters roasted for mocking POTUS and claiming the Weather Channel is 'Biden's safe space'

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...7e487a40&ei=26


Massachusetts denies Catholics the right to adopt

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ma...ce405d35&ei=18


Biden Sets All-Time Presidential Record

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...67926f16b&ei=4


Trump Is Disqualified from Holding Office, Conservative Law Professors Argue

https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0nu5S...SvFwa&hl=en_US


What a country!

[Lee Chowaniec]

January 6th: Was it preventable?

Scary sh**!

Mike Flynn Says Tucker Carlson Interview Blocked by FOX Should Hit 400M Views

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/st...3%2F08%2Fmike-

Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund sat down with former Fox News star Tucker Carlson on his new platform — Elon Musk‘s X — and recreated an interview that Carlson said he had already done with Sund.

That earlier interview was scheduled to air on Fox in April, Carlson said, but never did. (Fox, then embroiled in lawsuits alleging that it had spread defamatory misinformation, parted ways with Carlson in April and killed the Sund interview.)

So Carlson, lamenting he did “not own the tape” of the original interview, produced a sequel for Musk’s X and Carlson’s 9+ million followers there. The interview was not immediately a viral sensation, notching just six million views so far, but former National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn thinks it should be, calling the Carlson-Sund interview “among the most powerful I’ve witnessed.”

[Lee Chowaniec]

Manufactured climate details?

The other side of the story. Are we being played?

Manufactured Climate Consensus Deemed False by Climate Scientist - 'The Time for Debate Has Ended'

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/to...720f2ca6&ei=17

"There Is No Significant Man-Made Global Warming”

One of these scientists is renowned 2022 Nobel Prize winner and physicist Dr. John Clauser. Recently, he stated that there is no man-made global warming crisis. John Coleman, a fellow scientist, and Weather Channel founder, agreed with his belief that «there is no significant man-made global warming. »

According to Curry, there’s been an «overwhelming consensus» over this untrue slogan which scientists have pursued «fame and fortune» over. The scientists who research global warming created by humans are more likely to be acknowledged and quoted by popular culture. They are also more likely to be akin to celebrities and given large grants from the federal government.

As a result, «climate hysteria» was born and adopted by the public, but Curry isn’t buying it. She shared: “I was adopted by the environmental advocacy groups and the alarmists, and I was treated like a rock star. Flown all over the place to meet with politicians. Like a good scientist, I investigated.”

Avoiding Freedom of Information Act requests» was one of these ugly things. She also says that there is a «climate change industry» that champions alarmism.

U.N. officials, according to Curry, were motivated by «anti-capitalism. They hated the oil companies and seized on the climate change issue to move their policies along. » She continued: “The IPCC (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was created by the U.N.) wasn’t supposed to focus on any benefits of warming. The IPCC’s mandate was to look for dangerous human-caused climate change.”

Curry’s thoughts don’t stop there. “Then the national funding agencies directed all the funding … assuming there are dangerous impacts,” she said. “The editor of the journal Science wrote this political rant. The time for debate has ended.”

“What kind of message does that give?” Curry further adds. “Promote the alarming papers! Don’t even send the other ones out for review. If you wanted to advance in your career, like be at a prestigious university and get a big salary, have big laboratory space, get lots of grant funding, be director of an institute, there was clearly one path to go.”

[Lee Chowaniec]

'Bidenomics’ is shorthand for ‘We pay more for less’

Packaged as “Bidenomics” by the White House, the effort is the product of three major bills approved in the last Congress that are also the president's hoped-for roadmap for reelection. Biden’s economic policies have reduced inflation, resulted in a 3.5% unemployment rate, increased wages over inflation and touted as ‘good for everyone.’

If the myth about Joe Biden’s presidency is true, then the forty-sixth president should be more popular among likely voters than he presently is. In fact, he should be running unopposed for the Democratic Party’s nomination in the 2024 Democratic Party Primary (which, despite what the media would have you believe, he isn’t running unopposed).

While Trump may be hated, Biden has become unpopular – even to his own party. The 2024 Election won’t be about who has a better economic program or a grand strategy for U.S. foreign policy. It won’t even be about the much-ballyhooed culture wars. The election will be about which candidate’s corruption the voters prefer.

Biden has been increasingly eager to call out the political disconnect. Not so says 70% of the public seeing their economic status in decline. It is the inflationary Washington spending, costly regulations, and regressive taxes touted by Joe Biden and his administration.

Biden, his administration, and media minions boast inflation is down from 9.1% to 3.3%, daring not mentioning that since he took office overall inflation has increased by 16.7%; groceries by 19.7%. Scorching-hot inflation has created severe financial pressures for most U.S. households, which are forced to pay more for everyday necessities like food and rent. The burden is disproportionately borne by low-income Americans, whose already-stretched paychecks are heavily affected by price fluctuations.

Americans are spending $709 more per month on everyday goods and services than they did two years ago, according to Moody's Analytics. "To be sure, the high inflation of the past 2+ years has done lots of economic damage. Due to the high inflation, the typical household spent $202 more in a July than they did a year ago to buy the same goods and services. And they spent $709 more than they did 2 years ago."

As August arrived, President Biden had already used up 40% of his time in office on vacation, albeit working vacations, with a few phone meetings, according to his official calendar. Yes, the president has been phoning it in for much of his first term.

Biden’s physical fragility and cognitive decline are obvious. His shuffling gait and unclear sentences are now widely recognized indications of his deteriorating dementia, not only to the American voters but embarrassingly to the world.

Trump or Biden in 2024 – out with the old, in with the new! Even then it could get very ugly!