U.S. Politics

[Doodoo]

Isn't it the Mauler from Queens rather than the Brawler from Queens??

[jackspratt]

Alien = not native.

A legal alien has a green card or is a tourist. Permanent resident status is only offered to legal aliens.

An illegal alien is someone in the country illegally -- either entered illegally or overstayed a lawful entry.

I am a legal alien in Thailand. I am also a resident.

Right on the money, Giggly.

But you wouldn't have got that by reading https://www.usa.gov/green-cards

[GT93]

The weak Republican establishment and Bayrack's overreach in office is what gave us Trump.

It's my opinion that Trump didn't win so much as Hillary lost. People hated her and didn't trust her.

Trump, before he was elected, was a kind of anti-politician and that seemed to appeal to many. Particularly against such an establishment candidate as Hillary. He can't play such a strong anti-politican hand next year.

[Lone Star]

The weak Republican establishment and Bayrack's overreach in office is what gave us Trump.

It's my opinion that Trump didn't win so much as Hillary lost. People hated her and didn't trust her.

Hillary ran a horrible campaign and was a horrible candidate in 2016. As so many said, she ran as if she was just going to be given the job -- a coronation -- without providing a path for Americans to improve their lives. Just like today's Democrats with their GET TRUMP drumbeat, all Hillary had was "I'm A Woman."

However, as bad as she was/is, Hillary is a better candidate than ALL of the Democrats running in 2020. There would be more enthusiasm for her than the others running.

If she ran again from the political middle (almost impossible to do with the socialist takeover of the Democrat party), she would have a better shot of winning now than before -- especially if she learned her lesson not to take any voter for granted. But her poor health and arrogant/blaming attitude wouldn't allow her to pull it off.

[Lone Star]

I would suggest that you do a little research. The latest figures say that the break even point for shale oil is just over $40 a barrel. Only fools would laugh at Trump's success with the US economy.

Research? By a CBoS?

And yes, fools abound in their attacks on Trump -- the same old tired propaganda from 2015 and beyond.

[Lone Star]

It looks like even the LIB media NY Times is realizing what many Americans have already deduced. The Dem debates have shown that the party has moved so far left that it will be impossible to get back to the middle in a general election and be able to defeat Trump.

The NY Times is almost pleading with Dems to shift quickly -- even if it means lying about it -- to have any chance of winning in 2020. Believe it or not, the current crop of commies is further left than Bayrack.

None of it seemed to be a big problem until Sleepy Creepy Biden started losing traction for the reasons that his critics said he would. Uncle Joe has lost more than a step. Despite the fact that he was seen as moderate, Uncle Joe has had to lurch to the left to have any chance of getting out of the Dem primaries. BIden even raised his hand with all the other moonbat loons to provide health care for illegal aliens. Biden has also flip-flopped on calling for tax revenue to fund abortions. If Joe falls, all that's left are candidates who are commie clones of one another.

Just nine years ago, the Democrat ObamaCare penalized Americans who didn't buy it. Taxed them with a tax that increasingly went up each year. Today, Democrats are touting free health care for people who aren't even citizens of the country.

So now moderate Biden is gone. He's another old white dude socialist -- working hard to be a clone of Bernie.

HATE TRUMP and HATE AMERICANS seems to be the new rallying cry for Democrats.

[Lone Star]

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“The Economic Effects of Federal Deregulation Since January 2017: An Interim Report.”

Read it for yourselves, CBoS:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u ... Report.pdf

Unlike Bayrack's administration, there are specific programs and policies in the Trump administration that prove that the economy has been strengthened under Trump.

Trump's slashing of regulations has impacted the US economy in a great way. The deregulation will raise incomes in every household and sharply reduce prices for consumers.

Casey Mulligan, Council of Economic Advisors:

The deregulatory efforts of the Trump administration have also removed mandates from employers, especially smaller businesses, and have removed burdens that would have eliminated many small bank lenders from the marketplace. These deregulatory actions are raising real incomes by increasing competition, productivity, and wages.

The report forecasts a consumer savings of about $220 billion annually. The report also projects an increase in after-inflation incomes 1.3%.

The deregulation also cuts prices for:
- prescription drugs
- health insurance
- telecommunications

The deregulation has also had an impact on removing employer mandates and eliminated rules that hurt small lenders.

The hidden costs of regulation was also addressed in the report.

The ongoing introduction of costly regulations had previously been subtracting an additional 0.2 percent per year from real incomes, thereby giving the false impression that the American economy was fundamentally incapable of anything better than slow growth. Now, new regulations are budgeted and kept to a minimum.

Deregulation has caused prescription drug prices to decline in 2018 "over the calendar year for the first time since 1972.”

We estimate that the results of these actions will save consumers almost 10 percent on retail prescription drugs, which results in an increase of $32 billion per year in the purchasing power of the incomes of Americans (including both consumers and producers).

James Gattuso, senior fellow in regulatory policy at The Heritage Foundation:

The administration should not lose momentum. They are nowhere near finished. This is not mission accomplished. There are still a lot of regulations out there.

Trump signed sixteen bills into law that deregulated education, mining, and retirement accounts. That deregulation alone is projected to increase real incomes of $40 billion for the country.

Mulligan:

Consumers are also saving money on internet access: about $40 per subscriber thanks to the deregulatory actions of Congress and President Trump. Considering that most households have multiple internet subscriptions, when applied to both wired and wireless, $40 per subscription becomes $15 billion per year in the aggregate.

STEADY WINNING for Main Street and Wall Street.

[TJ]

The recent posts regarding illegal aliens reminds me of an article I read today: Does The Constitution Grant Citizenship To Anyone Born Inside The United States? This article is interesting for many reasons.

Many of the candidates, past and present, for the U.S. presidency were not born inside the U.S. The parents of some who were born outside the U.S. were legally U.S. citizens at the time. This has led to some controversy about the legality of their condition to be candidates for the presidency.

Others question the policy or custom of granting citizenship to the children of aliens who travel as tourists to the U.S. specifically to give birth to children who are then recognized as U.S. citizens. The parents and the child then return home.

There is also the question about the custom of granting citizenship to anchor babies of parents illegally residing in the U.S.

The U.S. Constitution is vague on this matter. Congress is empowered by the Constitution to set the rules on immigration. It may end this controversy by instituting laws that clearly define how and when an alien is granted citizenship and how a person's birth may affect his status as a candidate for the presidency.

Those interested in this controversy may be educated by reading this article at: https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/01/co ... ed-states/

[Lone Star]

Best Economy for Small Business in 50 Years

[vlad]

More cut n paste praganda.

[glalt]

The problem with th libtards is that, IF, they are able to read, they refuse to do so. Simple hate is their agenda.

[Lone Star]

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Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Issues Report

https://www.instituteforsupplymanagemen ... 2942&SSO=1

US manufacturing and manufacturer hiring shown to be very strong along with material costs going lower with NO TARIFF IMPACT.

The manufacturing index is gauged as anything above 50 as strong. The overall index is 51.7, and is stronger than predicted by the financial experts. The manufacturing production index came in at 54.1. This shows that outputs are increasing, order backlogs have been reduced and orders are being filled more quickly.

The manufacturing employment index is very strong at 54.5 and up from the previous month. Manufacturers are still hiring.

The manufacturing price index shows a significant drop in materials prices from 53.2 to 47.9. It reflects the OPPOSITE of what experts and CBoS claim would happen with tariffs. The predictions have not come to pass. With lower materials prices, it will translate to lower consumer prices.

US material demand leads the world, but global demand is weak. Inbound manufacturing supply costs reflect lower prices because the US is the biggest customer with the strongest need.

In order for China to retain their manufacturing position, the government is having to subsidize export costs. China is offsetting the tariffs by lowering prices, which means China is paying the tariffs, not US consumers.


STEADY WINNING for Main Street and Wall Street.

[Udon Map]

However, as bad as she was/is, Hillary is a better candidate than ALL of the Democrats running in 2020. There would be more enthusiasm for her than the others running.

I don't agree. Hillary's biggest problem was her arrogance, -- people just didn't like her. Despite the numerous problems with his candidacy, most people like Biden as a person.

I know that I'm in the minority, but I think that Biden has a better chance of beating Trump that any other current candidate. The other candidates, as they fight to see who can go farthest to the left, don't seem to understand that while that may get them the nomination, it also guarantees a loss in the general election. The country as a whole isn't anywhere close to being as far left as the other Democratic candidates. If anything, the electorate may well have moved a bit right on many issues.

[Lone Star]

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I know that I'm in the minority, but I think that Biden has a better chance of beating Trump that any other current candidate. The other candidates, as they fight to see who can go farthest to the left, don't seem to understand that while that may get them the nomination, it also guarantees a loss in the general election. The country as a whole isn't anywhere close to being as far left as the other Democratic candidates. If anything, the electorate may well have moved a bit right on many issues.

Joe Biden of 2009-2016 was the best choice to beat Trump in 2020, but Uncle Joe is stumbling hard in debates and public appearances. My reference is not to just the attacks on him by the Left and the biased socialist-promoting media. I'm talking about his stumbling/mumbling of words, stuttering, losing his train of thought, etc. Between those occurrences and the media/Leftist attacks, I think he's polling as high as he's going to get. If Joe's at 30%, I look at it as 70% being against Joe.

I agree with you regarding the electorate and the out-of-touch Leftist candidates.

[Lone Star]

The problem with th libtards is that, IF, they are able to read, they refuse to do so. Simple hate is their agenda.

Correct.

There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.

[Giggle]

Excerpt from a paper I wrote recently:

In 2001, Yaser Esam Hamdi was a 21-year-old Saudi Arabian citizen captured in Afghanistan fighting against American and Northern Alliance forces. Considered an illegal enemy combatant, he was transferred to the Guantanamo Detention Facility in Cuba, where officials discovered something quite surprising. Hamdi was American. Born in Baton Rouge, La., to Saudi parents on short work permits, he was granted American citizenship through the birthright clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. As an infant, Hamdi moved back to Saudi Arabia never to return to U.S. shores -- but he remained American, even as he fought U.S. troops in Afghanistan. The intended purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment was to grant U.S. citizenship to former slaves in America. In 1868, the author of the amendment, Michigan Senator John Howard, wrote that citizenship would be conferred to those born in, and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Howard clarified the intent of the clause claiming it would not include foreigners, aliens, or families of ambassadors. How did Yaser Hamdi, born to foreign parents temporarily in the U.S. in 1980, become a citizen? The interpretive twists and turns of the birthright clause, through legal cases and policy application, have distorted the original intent from current protocol. The birthright citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment should be replaced.

How that interpretation got twisted into its current form is a travesty.

[Lone Star]

Excerpt from a paper I wrote recently:

. . .
he was granted American citizenship through the birthright clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. . . . The intended purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment was to grant U.S. citizenship to former slaves in America. In 1868, the author of the amendment, Michigan Senator John Howard, wrote that citizenship would be conferred to those born in, and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Howard clarified the intent of the clause claiming it would not include foreigners, aliens, or families of ambassadors. How did Yaser Hamdi, born to foreign parents temporarily in the U.S. in 1980, become a citizen? The interpretive twists and turns of the birthright clause, through legal cases and policy application, have distorted the original intent from current protocol. The birthright citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment should be replaced.

How that interpretation got twisted into its current form is a travesty.

I predict that in Trump's second term, this will be challenged and stopped. I'm sure those who got in under the wire will be 'grandfathered' in ...

It has been allowed to stand because it has never been challenged in a specific way.

[Lone Star]

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Big Money Rolling in for Trump

Together, Trump and the RNC has raised over $100 million just in the second quarter of this year.

Brad Parscale:

Our massive fundraising success is a testament to the overwhelming support for President Trump. No Democrat candidate can match this level of enthusiasm or President Trump’s outstanding record of results.

Hillary would be generating more enthusiasm for Democrats than any other candidate running in 2020. That tells you where Democrats are these days.

There are Americans donating to Trump's campaign who have never donated a dime to any candidate for any office. It's a testament to his following. Despite the huge crowds at his rallies, Trump also commands a large base of stealth patriots who support his programs and policies.

STEADY WINNING.

[Lone Star]

DJIA moving toward 27,000.

S&P 500 getting ready to burst through the 3,000 ceiling.

NASDAQ has already crossed the 8,000 threshold.

STEADY WINNING for America.

[Lone Star]

The idiot Oc-Co Loco, Democrat from the 14th District of NY, has reared her idiotic head once again. Yes, the same one who is famous for helping to destroy Amazon jobs in NY. She claimed that detainees at the immigration holding centers on the southern border were made to drink out of toilets.

Oc-Co Loco takes ignorance to new heights. She could be a leader of CBoS.

If stupid could fly, Oc-Co Loco would be a jet.