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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[arafura]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-greenpeace-founder-patrick-moore-the-green-new-deal-would-lead-to-the-end-of-civilization

Former Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore: The Green New Deal would lead to the 'end of civilization'

Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore, a vocal critic of the Green New Deal, appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Monday to make the case that the sweeping plan introduced by Rep. Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., would be a disaster for mankind.

Moore warned that the implementation of the agenda being promoted by prominent Democrats, including several 2020 candidates, would lead to the “end of civilization” because of the goal of phasing out essential energy sources like coal and nuclear within 10 years.

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Well there you go.
Very clear, no degree from Harvard needed for this one either.

[arafura]

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/muslim-soldier-says-her-command-sergeant-major-forced-her-to-remove-her-hijab-and-she-plans-to-file-a-lawsuit-after-her-complaint-was-dismissed/ar-BBVs9tJ?li=AAgfYrC&OCID=AVRES000

Muslim soldier says her command sergeant major forced her to remove her hijab and she plans to file a lawsuit after her complaint was dismissed

Cesilia Valdovinos, 26, claims her command sergeant major, pulled her out of rank during a suicide-prevention briefing in Ft. Carson, Colorado, and made her take off her hijab in front of her colleagues, according to Yahoo Lifestyle.

She filed an official complaint with the Military Equal Opportunity Office on March 7 with the help of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), but the Army found it to be 'unsubstantiated' and dismissed her claim.

Col. David Zinn, granted approval for her to wear her hijab with her uniform in June of last year, but Valdovinos says that since then her religious headgear has sparked 'extremely hateful' behavior and harassment.

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Discuss.                [I've always wanted to put that :-)]

[REDSTATEWARD]

Heh.

I'm going to stop posting article excerpts here.  (see previous post)  I was cut/pasting for the benefit of those who hit paywalls, but realize no one reads them.  You should read Nobel prize winners, though, on trumponomics. 

You're not going to understand who a narcissist is, if you only read his own version of things.

Trumponomics?
Nothing he did created such a thing. 

[facilitatorn]

Trumponomics is what you get when you add graft to laziness and incompetence. People die younger after falling further in debt.

[kiidcarter8]

Zinn acted unilaterally when approving the hijab.

[kiidcarter8]

When you talk too damn much.....

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1112146790860668928

[barton]

Barton, I read your excerpts and many of the links you post. I appreciate the info and hope you continue.   

Thanks kindly, Tatorn.  I would say the same of your posts.   And you have the flair for political invective and punchy metaphors.  That phrase, "tell us how you really feel," comes to mind.   Cheers.

[kiidcarter8]

heh

Man without a plan

[LarryBnDC]

Remember how "The Big Short" had these wonderful clear explanations of how financial instruments worked?  And Margot Robbie in a bubble bath (I had to watch that scene twice because the first time through I was too distracted to follow her words)?  Here is a Nobelist in a bubble bath, explaining why the Trump bump isn't....

The Trumpist theory — which was, I’m sorry to say, endorsed by conservative economists who should have known better — was that there was a huge pile of money sitting outside the U.S. that companies would bring back and invest productively if given the incentive of lower tax rates. But that pile of money was an accounting fiction. And the tax cut didn’t give corporations an incentive to build new factories and so on; all it did was induce them to shift their tax-avoidance strategies.

As Brad Setser of the Council on Foreign Relations points out, a casual glance at the data seems to suggest that American companies earn a lot of their profits at their overseas subsidiaries. But a closer look shows that the bulk of these reported profits are in a handful of small countries with low or zero tax rates, like Bermuda, Luxembourg and Ireland. The companies obviously aren’t earning huge profits in these tiny economies; they’re just using accounting gimmicks to assign profits earned elsewhere to subsidiaries that may have a few factories, but sometimes consist of little more than a small office, or even just a post-office box.

These basically phony profits then accumulate on the books of the overseas subsidiaries, rather than the home company. But this doesn’t affect their ability to invest in America: if Apple wants to spend a billion dollars here, it can always borrow the money using the assets of its Irish subsidiary as collateral. In other words, U.S. taxes weren’t having any significant effect in deterring real investment in the U.S. economy.

When Trump cut the tax rate, some companies “brought money home.” But for the most part this had no economic significance. Here’s how it works: Apple Ireland transfers some of its assets to Apple U.S.A. Officially, Apple Ireland has reduced its investment spending, while paying a dividend to U.S. investors. In reality, Apple as an entity has the same total profits and the same total assets it did before; it hasn’t devoted a single additional dollar to purchases of equipment, R&D, or anything else for its U.S. operations.

Not surprisingly, then, the investment boom Trump economists promised has never materialized. Companies didn’t use their tax breaks to invest more; mainly they used them to buy back their own stock. This in turn, put more money in the hands of investors, which gave the economy a temporary boost — although for 2018 as a whole, one of the biggest drivers of faster growth was, believe it or not, higher government spending.

So the theory supposedly behind the Trump tax cut has turned out to be a complete bust. Corporate accountants got to have some fun exploring new frontiers in tax avoidance; the rest of us just ended up saddled with an extra $2 trillion or so in debt.

Now, I’m not deeply worried about that debt. Given low borrowing costs, the costs and risks of federal debt are far less than the usual suspects — again, the same people who cheered on the Trump tax cut — have claimed. But think of all the other things we could have done with $2 trillion — all the infrastructure we could have built and repaired, all the people who could have been given essential health care.

What a colossal, corrupt waste.

  - PK

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/opinion/the-incredible-shrinking-trump-boom.html

Except the GOP doesn’t care.

This Administration is running a mob-style “BUST OUT!”

[josh]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/31/mick-mulvaney-guarantees-no-one-lose-coverage-without-obamacare/3325222002/

Why on Earth would we believe Mick "The deficit is too high!" Mulvaney about anything at this point, let alone something as blatantly false as this?

ETA: Thanks to Kiiid for the "correction" that prompted me to fix my typo.

[josh]

His name is John.

His name is John Michael Mulvaney.

I meant to type Mick, not Mike, as Mick is what he goes by.

[josh]

https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-jr-gives-interview-111856730.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=fb

White supremacists? The Trumps?!

Don't be absurd. It's not like they give active support to such people...

[arafura]

https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-jr-gives-interview-111856730.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=fb

White supremacists? The Trumps?!

Don't be absurd. It's not like they give active support to such people...

Speaking of White supremacists...and anti-White racism;

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-abcs-antiwhite-comedy-a-perilous-race-to-the-bottom/news-story/00d7da966bd41b104aac1c76624dfcce

Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun
March 31, 2019 8:03pm
Subscriber only

The Christchurch massacre by a white supremacist shows what a race war can lead to, so will the ABC stop pouring petrol on to the flames?

The ABC last week screened an episode of its “comedy”, Get Krack!n, that again demonstrated the kind of anti-white racism bound to make some other white loser think they’re in a war on their “race”.

Actors Miranda Tapsell and Nakkiah Lui both have white ancestors, identify as Aboriginal, and enjoy successful careers.
Yet they smashed up the set while ranting against their alleged oppression by white Australia.

“D--- monkeys,” shouted Tapsell at three whites.
Lui yelled at having to “pretend to find white women funny”.

“Burn this place to the ground! … Sovereignty was never ceded.”

“F--- these white cushions,” shouted Tapsell at cushions featuring the faces of the show’s usual hosts, whites Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney.
“F--- ’ whitey … I s--- on your colonisation,” shrieked Lui, who pretended to defecate on one cushion.

This isn’t the first time the ABC has sponsored such racism. Lui also starred in a skit where Aboriginal guests took turns to call white people “c----”.An earlier McLennan and McCartney skit called “White Australia, eat my black s--- for reconciliation” was exactly as it sounds: the women apparently eating a black man’s faeces.

This is the ABC funding not reconciliation but a new racism against whites — and in the lethally naive belief that this will never provoke some whites into reacting as if threatened.

Or is it indeed to provoke a nasty reaction to justify their smug theory that Australia is filled with racists?

This madness is not reserved to Australia, either.

“Black press only” signs on the doors of a church hosting a meeting for a black candidate in Savannah's mayoral race. Picture: Eric Curl/Savannah Morning News

Savannah, Georgia, once the home of anti-black segregation, last week showed it was now the home of anti-white segregation.
“Black press only,” read a sign on the doors to a church meeting to consolidate support for just one black candidate in Savannah’s mayoral election.

Not one of the local officials who attended protested against this new apartheid.

See, for many in today’s tribal Left, it isn’t the principle that counts but the side.
Racism is actually good if the victims are white.

This is playing with fire.
This vitriolic identity politics risks encouraging whites to also identify by “race”, and tells some they’re under attack.

What on Earth do the preachers of this racism think might be the response?

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Not too sure, Andrew...but they don't seem to be getting the message, or caring?

[josh]

[josh]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/31/politics/mick-mulvaney-ethics-mueller-cnntv/index.html

Mick Mulvaney on Trump campaign's contacts with Russians: 'The issue is not whether it's ethical'

He doesn't think that the House committee should be asking whether or not it was ethical, just legal.