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-Great Cultural Revolution
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Joe Biden's $2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan 'Needs to Be Way Bigger'
[BREITBART] President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan, dubbed the American Jobs Plan, is not sufficient and "needs to be way bigger," Rep. Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez
Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore...
(D-NY) said on Tuesday prior to the proposal’s formal unveiling.

Biden is outlining his $2 trillion plan on Wednesday, which devotes roughly $174 billion to the electric vehicle market, $115 billion to modernize bridges, highways, and roads, $50 billion in semiconductor manufacturing and research, $25 billion in airports, $10 billion investment in enforcement to "ensure employers are providing workers with good jobs," $10 billion investment for Civilian Climate Corps, and more, as Breitbart News highlighted.

Ocasio-Cortez, however, does not believe it is sufficient, as the $2 trillion proposal spreads out over the next decade.

"This is not nearly enough. The important context here is that it’s $2.25T spread out over 10 years," she said. "For context, the COVID package was $1.9T for this year *alone,* with some provisions lasting 2 years."
Posted by: Fred || 04/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Needs to be 'Way Bigger'

Behold the value of a degree from Boston University: a facility with complex, advanced terms from econometrics and public finance such as "way"
Posted by: Lonzo Glomong4687 || 04/01/2021 1:10 Comments || Top||

#2 
I guess you all know AOC used to be a waitress and part-time bartender in her previous life before being elected to Congress. In that life she must have seen it all, serving the public, mixing drinks, giving advise, taking care of people in their times of personal trouble (thats what good bartenders do).
She is trying to 'help' us now, "need to spend more money on infrastructures, way more than a paltry two trillion dollars." ($2,000,000,000,000.00)...Her advise is enough to make you want to drink... AOC in her off time:

Posted by: Omomoter Ulitle5610 || 04/01/2021 3:53 Comments || Top||


#4  I used to respect Boston University immensely and when their president at the time, John Silber, ran for Mass. governor, I did phone banks for his campaign for a few months. Now, this twit effectively ruined that reputation for me. I guess that's a microcosm of how bad higher education has fallen in that span.
Posted by: Raj || 04/01/2021 10:00 Comments || Top||

#5  how bigger

like, way, way bigger
Posted by: Blossom Wittlesbach3196 || 04/01/2021 10:40 Comments || Top||

#6  And the Dims wonder why so many businesses fled tax and spend NY.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 04/01/2021 11:33 Comments || Top||

#7  There you have it, folks. THE official economics statement of the year.
Way to go, AOC! Oh, could I get another 7 and 7?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 04/01/2021 11:44 Comments || Top||

#8  I'm wondering what happend to all the trillions we already spent on Infrastructure over the years.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/01/2021 11:48 Comments || Top||

#9  7 and 7 equals 15.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/01/2021 12:14 Comments || Top||

#10  #8, you know damn well what happened to that money. Same thing is gonna happen again.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/01/2021 12:42 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
AOC slams 'horrifying', 'barbaric' US border conditions under Biden
[NYPOST] Rep. Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez
Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore...
on Wednesday night slammed the overcrowded conditions for immigrants colonists at the US-Mexican border under President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier......
as "inhumane", "horrifying," "unnaceptable" and "barbaric."She also blamed decades of US foreign policy with countries in neighboring Central America as contributing to the perpetual crisis of desperate residents from poor, violence-torn countries flooding the border.

AOC unloaded on the border crisis during a virtual town hall meeting Wednesday night.

"The fact that this keeps happening is a political failure of both parties," Ocasio-Cortez said.

AOC gave a detailed critique on the current border crisis — after being accused of giving Biden a pass after excoriating former President Trump’s border and immigration policies.

During an earlier interview, she criticized people who describe the situation at the border as a "surge" of pushing a "white supremacist" philosophy.



Posted by: Fred || 04/01/2021 00:29 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She said we can't call it a surge at the border because those are "children", not insurgents.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/01/2021 8:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Respeta mi resistencia!
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 04/01/2021 9:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Biden and the Dem Party own this problem--never had to happen.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/01/2021 11:02 Comments || Top||

#4  They succeed by failing.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/01/2021 12:15 Comments || Top||

#5  It's your failure, HorseFace. You and your ilk want to flood the country with illegals. Entirely of your doing - an own goal
Posted by: Blackbeard Forkbeard7698 || 04/01/2021 12:18 Comments || Top||

#6  #2 also a little bit of respeta mi autoridad
Posted by: Lord Garth || 04/01/2021 16:42 Comments || Top||


Democrats Abandon Attempt To Steal Iowa Seat
[LI] Democrat Rita Hart announced she will no longer challenge Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks for Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District seat.

She lost the election by only six votes. The Democrats began to make noise about possibly overturning the election to give Hart the seat.

Hart and the Democrats maintained that officials should have counted 22 ballots, which would have given her the victory.

Hart kept that stance in her announcement:

After many conversations with people I trust about the future of this contest, I have made the decision to withdraw my contest before the House Committee on Administration. Since Election Day, and throughout this entire process, my mission has been about ensuring the voices of Iowans who followed the law are not silenced. I am saddened that some Iowans’ votes will not count through no fault of their own.

Despite our best efforts to have every vote counted, the reality is that the toxic campaign of political disinformation to attack this constitutional review of the closest congressional contest in 100 years has effectively silenced the voices of Iowans. It is a stain on our democracy that the truth has not prevailed and my hope for the future is a return to decency and civility.
Posted by: Frank G || 04/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Well that good news, some civility in politics still exists; You ladies should be praised for your Cosmopolitan attitude and Metropolitan demeanor, go out and celebrate...

Posted by: Clasing Spawn of the Huns4354 || 04/01/2021 3:34 Comments || Top||

#2  ...I suppose we should thank our lucky stars that the Democratic leadership (and it almost certainly was them; from what I've seen of Ms. Hart it's unlikely she would have backed down on her own) realized that they would have been handing the GOP a ready-made issue for 2022, and that their hypocrisy would have been painfully obvious.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 04/01/2021 6:26 Comments || Top||

#3  They have their eyes are taking down other elected officials by the usual means: false evidence, media lies, deep state corruption....
Posted by: Airandee || 04/01/2021 7:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Why bother stealing one seat when it's so easy to steal an entire government?
Posted by: Angstrom || 04/01/2021 18:56 Comments || Top||


Mike Lindell: New Social Media Platform Will Be Able to Handle Upwards of a Billion People
[THEEPOCHTIMES] The forthcoming social media website from MyPillow’s Mike Lindell will be able to handle more than a billion users, Lindell said this week."I believe it will handle upwards of a billion. If it doesn’t, we will get to that capacity. I don’t think that’s exaggerated, by any means," Lindell told The Epoch Times.

"It’s going to be the safest, secure platform. I built it expecting to be attacked."

The platform, dubbed Frank, has a landing page but isn’t operational yet.
I like the name...
Truly. Trailing just doesn’t have the same je ne sais quoi.
Lindell told The Epoch Times’ affiliate NTD on March 11 that the website would be up and running within two weeks.

The current plan is to launch as soon as April 5, but no later than April 12.

"The only reason for the delay is, I actually added six more servers in another location. I really want redundancy, so I’ve got three different U.S. locations and another hidden one. So I’ve got—if anybody went out there to physically damage my stuff, I wanted a fourth location, so that was very important to me," Lindell told The Epoch Times.

Frank is described as a mix of YouTube and Twitter. The core idea is free speech, according to Lindell, who was banned by Twitter in January for violations of the platform’s Civic Integrity Policy and has said he’s been harmed by actions from Google.
Posted by: Fred || 04/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good luck. The leftist trolls will ruin this platform like they have every other social platform.
Posted by: Airandee || 04/01/2021 7:24 Comments || Top||



#4  "The truth will set you free." - No wonder the left hates it so much.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/01/2021 9:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Airandee ,, hopefully they will have mods that ban the leftist like they coservatives at the other sites
Posted by: Chris || 04/01/2021 12:46 Comments || Top||

#6  Rantburg mods can show them how.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/01/2021 15:25 Comments || Top||

#7  They should trademark YUGE
Posted by: Andy Grumble2828 || 04/01/2021 20:20 Comments || Top||

#8  spam bots can generate tens of thousands of phony users and clog websites -

cleaning them from these sorts of attacks is a must job

or a multi level sign in that prevents spam bots but this isn't as easy as it sounds and if the sign in is too complex it defeats the purpose of having a multiuser website
Posted by: Lord Garth || 04/01/2021 20:55 Comments || Top||


Gov. Cuomo signs bill legalizing recreational marijuana in New York
[NYPOST] Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo on Wednesday signed a bill legalizing recreational marijuana in New York.
That should certainly help with their current collection of crises...
The move comes after the state Legislature green-lit the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act after hours of debate late Tuesday.

"This is a historic day in New York — one that rights the wrongs of the past by putting an end to harsh prison sentences, embraces an industry that will grow the Empire State’s economy, and prioritizes marginalized communities so those that have suffered the most will be the first to reap the benefits," Cuomo said in a statement.

Certain parts of the new law go into effect immediately.

Anyone with a previous marijuana conviction that would now be legal under the law will have the rap expunged or be resentenced.

And New Yorkers will now be legally allowed to possess up to 3 ounces of cannabis outside the home and up to 5 pounds at home — and can smoke pot in public where smoking tobacco is permitted. However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
smoking weed is not permitted inside schools, workplaces or cars.
Posted by: Fred || 04/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cuomo can't even pass a urine test.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 04/01/2021 0:12 Comments || Top||

#2 
Some people can't pass a bar, Cuomo can't pass a urine test, well to each his own I guess.

A Big Apple Mom:

Posted by: Clasing Spawn of the Huns4354 || 04/01/2021 3:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Any and all marijuana [and other drug] laws are absurd. This is a small step forward, and kudos to the state of Nueva York. No victim, no crime.

Feds still dragging their feet on this issue. Joey is against it. Hmmm. And I am sure Big Pharma is, too
Posted by: Clem || 04/01/2021 5:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Wait till the related crisis of cancer and other ills hits in 20 years when nature comes calling. You are just going to shift the costs from enforcement to medical care. Oh, like tobacco/beer limit it to only those 21 and over (Ha).

This is more about feeding the unending unquenchable thirst for taxes and spending than anything about morality.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/01/2021 7:30 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ And distracting from all the other scandals. Grandma's still dead and the Guv's still horny
Posted by: Frank G || 04/01/2021 8:41 Comments || Top||

#6  here is your monthly Soma dose. This new world is certainly brave
Posted by: Blossom Wittlesbach3196 || 04/01/2021 10:37 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm in favor of this, but #5 nails it. "Look! Squirrel!"
Posted by: Secret Master || 04/01/2021 11:27 Comments || Top||

#8  Dammit, I'll give 'em whatever they want if they'll just vote for me!
Posted by: The Guv || 04/01/2021 12:48 Comments || Top||



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