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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Judge signals he may unseal Fulton County absentee ballots for fraud investigation
[Washington Examiner] A Georgia judge indicated he could move to unseal Fulton County's absentee ballots for an investigation over alleged fraud during the November general election.

Voting integrity advocate Garland Favorito filed a lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court alleging fraudulent ballots were cast and other irregularities happened while ballots were counted at State Farm Arena on Nov. 3, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Although state officials have dismissed those claims, Henry County Superior Court Judge Brian Amero, who is overseeing the case, signaled on Monday that he might order the absentee ballots to be unsealed and reviewed by a team hired by Favorito, the co-founder of the conservative Voter GA group that filed suit in December.

Amero said at the hearing he is seeking a concise plan for maintaining the security of the ballots if a decision is made permitting an audit to commence.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/16/2021 00:51 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

Note: The Ga. Absentee Ballot database was mistakenly placed it on the GA Sec. of State Website. Where it "accidentally" was made public.

The Data it contains:
County Voter Registration #
Last Name,First Name, Middle Name,Suffix
Street #, Street Name, Apt/Unit, City, State, Zip Code, Mailing Street #, Mailing Street Name, Mailing Apt/Unit,
Mailing City, Mailing State, Mailing Zip Code, Application Status, Ballot Status, Status Reason, Application Datem
Ballot Issued Date, Ballot Return Date, Ballot Style,
Ballot Assisted, Challenged/Provisional, ID Required,
Municipal Precinct, County Precinct, CNG, SEN, HOUSE,
JUD, Combo #, Vote Center ID, Ballot ID, Post #, and Party.


Richmond Co. GA County had 36,947 Absentee voters out of ?#####?
Votes cast.

The ?#####? is because the Official Board of Election Website returns "SERVICE CALL FAILED ... now when clicking on any past election data. (as of 8:46am)
http://appweb2.augustaga.gov/election/results/electab_gen_2020


However the Local Liberal owned and run Newspaper reported 87,100+ votes, up 11,000+ votes since and 2016.

BTW: Hummmm!! This is a county well documented to be DECLINING in population.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/16/2021 7:50 Comments || Top||

#2  If he does, I'll be the first to say Amero did not kill himself.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/16/2021 9:21 Comments || Top||

#3 

Took just a little digging.
GA. ABSENTEE BALLOTS

Fulton Co. had 529,795 absentee votes cast Nov. 3rd, 2020. The Unzip file for #60 (Fulton co.) is 118,408KB Created Nov. 16th, 2020 at 3:56am

Should we provide the pointer to the Judge?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/16/2021 11:58 Comments || Top||

#4  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/03/the_sovereign_crime_of_industrial_scale_vote_fraud.html

Great article abut the massive scale of the 2020 voter fraud. I cannot help but think the Marxist community organizer and his machine is t the genesis of this. The most troubling question is does it confirm the Republic is in an unrecoverable stall?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/16/2021 13:24 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Ted Cruz demands meeting with Marine Corps commandant in response to intimidation campaign against Tucker Carlson
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 03/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Whomever responded to Tucker should be chased out of the corps. Not only did he embarrass the corps by arguing publicly with a civilian, he argued against something Tucker never actually said.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/16/2021 10:25 Comments || Top||

#3  I can mentally image a Gen. George C. Marshall frostily stating "Any American can state their opinion" and then declining further comment -- that was how they should have handled it if they felt the need to respond.
Posted by: magpie || 03/16/2021 19:48 Comments || Top||


Journalist makes death threats against a US Congressman, threatening to sexually assault his wife, and 'violate his family' for leaving the Democrat Party

Posted by: Fred || 03/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah, but the "journolist" is from South Jersey. That constitutes Sunday dinner table conversation there.
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/16/2021 9:39 Comments || Top||

#2  We NEED names.
Posted by: Clusock Stalin8114 || 03/16/2021 9:54 Comments || Top||

#3  We NEED names.

Clicking through to the article, Clusock Stalin8114, which takes several steps, yields this:

Van Drew disclosed the threat at a news conference outside the courthouse on Main Street, flanked by Cape May County Sheriff Bob Nolan, and identified the columnist as John McCall of the Ocean City Sentinel.

McCall is not and never has been either a staff member or paid contributor, the newspaper's editor and publisher stated in an email later Monday.

According to a transcript of the voicemail provided to reporters at the news conference, McCall reportedly called the congressman a traitor and vowed to see Van Drew out of office.

“I would swear to your demise as a politician and I believe that you personally are a degenerate," the transcript read. "As a member of the New Jersey Press Association, I will do everything in my power to ensure that you are deposed if not dead. Anything I can do to basically get you out of office, I will do. You are a traitor Jeff Van Drew and you deserve the fate of all traitors.”

On Monday afternoon, David Nahan, editor and publisher of the Sentinel, issued a statement by email clarifying that McCall is "a local resident and freelance journalist who periodically submits guest columns and letters to the editor."

McCall is not a staff reporter or paid contributor but wrote a guest column for the publication, he said.

The New Jersey Press Association denies McCall is or ever was a member.

President Paul D'Ambrosio said the association is a nonprofit incorporated in 1857 under New Jersey law. Its membership comprises daily newspapers, weekly newspapers, affiliate newspapers, digital news websites, as well as corporate and non-profit associate members, he said.

"NJPA understands that John McCall asserted he is a member of NJPA," D'Ambrosio said. "John McCall is not and has never been a member of NJPA, as the association does not have individual journalist members.."

"Because you felt threatened and felt your wife was threatened, I am sorry," Nahan said. "There are no two ways about that. I blame that on my judgment. I knew in advance that the guest column was vitriolic and highly critical of you and your support for the former president. The way it was written, I do not believe it contains any threats of harm because if I did, I would not have allowed it to appear in my newspaper."

At the news conference, the congressman read from recent published columns by McCall.

In one March 10 column, McCall states about Van Drew, “And as a traitor, he has forfeit this right to protection under the law. Know this V.D.: It doesn’t stop here. ... God save you.”

McCall also recently wrote speculatively about sexually assaulting the congressman’s wife and storming his house to “violate his family.”

More:North Jersey native tapped by Phil Murphy to state Supreme Court. Who he picked

Van Drew said legal action against the newspaper, which sent a reporter to the conference, is possible.

“I’m not looking at any legal options for Mr. McCall,” he said. “I mean, he obviously has a problem. He’s obviously somebody that’s going to have to be monitored."

McCall, an Ocean City resident, could not be reached for comment.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/16/2021 10:18 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
What Trump said privately about Meghan after her Oprah interview
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Trump's former senior adviser Jason Miller revealed his reaction to Meghan and Harry's interview during an appearance on Steve Bannon's podcast

  • Miller said Trump told him he could 'make a little news' by speaking publicly about the interview - but he ultimately decided it wasn't a good idea

  • Miller quoted Trump as saying: 'Yeah, [Meghan's] no good. I said that and now everybody's seeing it'

  • 'But you realize if you say anything negative about Meghan Markle you get canceled. Look at Piers [Morgan],' Trump added, according to Miller

  • Morgan left his anchor post at Good Morning Britain last week amid criticism over his controversial comments about the interview

  • The host said he 'didn't believe a word' of what Meghan said about experiencing racism within the Royal Family and feeling suicidal when she was pregnant

  • Miller said Trump told him: 'I'm on Team Piers. Piers is the best, he's the greatest'
Posted by: Fred || 03/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She is an attention seeker. Nothing more.
Posted by: Ulomomp Hupimble9527 || 03/16/2021 6:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Morgan left his anchor post at Good Morning Britain last week amid criticism over his controversial comments about the interview

Hold up, I thought he was cancelled by the censors?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/16/2021 11:20 Comments || Top||

#3  He was strongly encouraged to leave voluntarily, swksvolFF.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/16/2021 12:26 Comments || Top||

#4  They probably made him an offer he (or people with less spine) couldn't refuse: recant, confess your sins, do penance and cut a check to Black Lies Murder. He refused.

Good for him and for us. One man with courage and morality makes a majority.
Posted by: Crineper Gonque2196 || 03/16/2021 12:32 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Nancy Pelosi Makes Stealing Elections Great Again Because She's a Shameless Hack
[REDSTATE] As I wrote last week, House Democrats are currently in the throes of attempting to steal an election in Iowa’s 2nd District (see Democrats Try to Steal a House Seat and I’m Assured It’s an Insurrection) Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks defeated Rita Hart by six votes, a total that was recounted and certified months ago.

Despite that, Democrats have decided that elections just don’t count if the margin is tight enough and are exploring ways to overturn the results, not at the state level, but by choosing to seat Hart instead. Hart is apparently claiming to have "found" 22 uncounted ballots that would hand her the election. House Democrats, along party lines, are choosing to "investigate" the matter and whether to allow Miller-Meeks to keep serving.

Now, Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
is endorsing this nonsense because she’s a shameless hack..

Jordan Rips Pelosi For Suggesting She May UNSEAT GOP Rep Who Won Election

[TRENDINGPOLITICS] House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi, who has talked incessantly about respecting the will of the voters, says she would consider casting aside the will of the voters in Iowa to get another Democrat in the House of Representatives.

In the race for Iowa’s Second Congressional District, Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks defeated her Democratic rival Rita Hart by only six votes to win the spot.

But now Pelosi says she could see a scenario in which Hart would be given that spot.

Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan slammed Pelosi for her comments.

"Speaker Pelosi says she’s open to unseating Republican Congresswoman Miller-Meeks. Translation: You’re only allowed to object to an election if you’re a Democrat," he said.

The Western Journal reported:

Hart has appealed to the House through the Federal Contested Election Act to overturn the results. The act allows elections to be decided by the House and not the courts. Hart claims there were 22 ballots not counted that could have swung the race, and has said that the methods of performing a recount varied from county to county, meaning the results should not be trusted.

On Wednesday, the House Administration Committee set aside a request from Miller-Meeks to reject Hart’s claim, Fox News reported.

That prompted a question about the process during Pelosi’s weekly media briefing.

"Could you see a scenario depending on what they found in their probe of unseating the current number and seating Rita Hard if it came to that?" a news hound asked Pelosi.
Posted by: Fred || 03/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1 


And you have just been reintroduced to the leadership.

The one in the article above is an octogenarian, a person with very little time left on the planet, therefore very little "skin in the game". So with this perspective, do you really want this person making far reaching decisions about your future ?

March 25, 1940 = 81 years old, Eight Decades..
Posted by: Ebbusorong Trotsky1199 || 03/16/2021 5:08 Comments || Top||

#2  A case of "strike while the iron is hot". They'll keep going to see how far they can get.
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/16/2021 9:35 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
The Post Gets Caught Faking the News (videos)
[Patriot Post] Fake news, anyone?

If you thought the mainstream media’s malpractice toward Donald Trump couldn’t have been any worse, the elitist hacks at The Washington Post would like you to hold their chardonnays. Decency, it seems, also Dies in Darkness.

As Fox News reports, "The Washington Post made a massive correction Monday to a January report about a phone call between then-President Donald Trump and Georgia elections investigator Frances Watson, admitting it wrongly attributed multiple quotes to Trump based on an anonymous source."

Here’s the Post’s "correction," which has been tacked atop the original story.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/16/2021 12:40 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not the first time, probably not the last.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/16/2021 13:45 Comments || Top||

#2  An honest media would out an "anonymous source" that lied to them
Posted by: Frank G || 03/16/2021 14:01 Comments || Top||

#3  anonymous source == "We pulled this out of our ass!"
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/16/2021 14:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Like the anonymous source who told them Sicknick was killed.
Posted by: Whick Jones3971 || 03/16/2021 14:13 Comments || Top||

#5  The Washington Post correction:

Correction: Two months after publication of this story, the Georgia secretary of state released an audio recording of President Donald Trump’s December phone call with the state’s top elections investigator. The recording revealed that The Post misquoted Trump’s comments on the call, based on information provided by a source. Trump did not tell the investigator to “find the fraud” or say she would be “a national hero” if she did so. Instead, Trump urged the investigator to scrutinize ballots in Fulton County, Ga., asserting she would find “dishonesty” there. He also told her that she had “the most important job in the country right now.” A story about the recording can be found here. The headline and text of this story have been corrected to remove quotes misattributed to Trump.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/16/2021 14:19 Comments || Top||

#6  "quotes misattributed"

So you guys mean to say they were accurate quotes; it's just that someone other than Trump said them?

Really? Who uttered these "quotes"?

Tell the truth for once: you just pulled those "quotes" out of your ass. Total fabrication. F---ing liars.
Posted by: Woozle Untervehr9243 || 03/16/2021 14:35 Comments || Top||

#7  And other news sources confirmed with their own anonymous sources.

Basically anonymous means to good to double-check.
Posted by: ruprecht || 03/16/2021 23:08 Comments || Top||


Fmr Fox News Host May Run for Congress Against RINO Senator Who Smeared Trump
[TRENDINGPOLITICS] Former Fox News host and current conservative TV talk show speaker Eric Bolling is in preliminary discussions about running for the U.S. House of Representatives.

Bolling is reportedly considering waging a primary against GOP Rep. Tom Rice, who voted for then-President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s impeachment, or another Republican representative, Nancy Mace.

Bolling now lives in South Carolina, so he is considering running against either Rice or Mace because of their voting records.
Posted by: Fred || 03/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Any measures against another national election theft won't amount to jack fucking shit until there are 300+ Trumps in Congress.
Posted by: Raj || 03/16/2021 0:33 Comments || Top||


Senate Dems Introduce Bill That Would Ban 205 'Assault Weapons'
[TRENDINGPOLITICS] Senate Democrats are set to introduce legislation that would instantly make 205 now-legally-owned firearms illegal overnight.

Here are the key provisions:
  • Bans the sale, manufacture, transfer and importation of 205 military-style assault weapons by name. Owners may keep existing weapons.Bans any assault weapon with the capacity to utilize a magazine that is not a fixed ammunition magazine and has one or more military characteristics including a pistol grip, a forward grip, a barrel shroud, a threaded barrel or a folding or telescoping stock. Owners may keep existing weapons.

  • Bans magazines and other ammunition feeding devices that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition, which allow shooters to quickly fire many rounds without needing to reload. Owners may keep existing magazines.

  • Requires a background check on any future sale, trade or gifting of an assault weapon covered by the bill.

  • Requires that grandfathered assault weapons are stored using a secure gun storage or safety device like a trigger lock.

  • Prohibits the transfer of high-capacity ammunition magazines.

  • Bans bump-fire stocks and other devices that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire at fully automatic rates.

Posted by: Fred || 03/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
He doesn't like what he hears on this topic, nor do you. Such a distructive congress, overstepping its boundaries by ignoring the constitution of the usa.

Posted by: Skunky Speaks7527 || 03/16/2021 5:25 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm not optimistic the courts would declare this unconstitutional.

Either way, I will not comply.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/16/2021 9:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Owners may keep

Oh, thank you, master (tuggng forelock).
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/16/2021 9:33 Comments || Top||

#4  The Dems have pulled gun control, registration and confiscation off the shelf once again with a few additions. The Dems are ratcheting up the piss-off factor among legal gun-owning citizens. All these things have little to do with controlling crime and criminals. Criminals will still have guns and crime will still occur--most likely at even higher levels.

Gun bills with many other Dem policies may swing the House to the Pubs in 2022. The Dems are pushing HR1 hard to insure they don't lose the House in 2022.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/16/2021 11:10 Comments || Top||

#5  What kind of a government is afraid of its people?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/16/2021 12:47 Comments || Top||

#6  They're not afraid of the good people. Only the racists and evil insurrectionists.

/sarc
Posted by: Gleanter Black7348 || 03/16/2021 12:51 Comments || Top||

#7  The surest way to delegitimize the mandate of government is to pass a law with mass non-compliance.

And its already on some thin ice.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/16/2021 16:27 Comments || Top||

#8  #5 Lawbreakers.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/16/2021 22:43 Comments || Top||


US Marine Twitter account to 'take a knee,' regrets targeting Tucker Carlson: 'We can do better'
[BIZPACREVIEW] A Twitter account for the II Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group did an about-face over the weekend, offering an apology for what it previously described as "aggressiveness" in slamming Fox News host Tucker Carlson online.

The hoopla began last week when Carlson responded to a speech from President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences...
announcing that the U.S. military is designing body armor for women, creating "maternity flight suits" and updating hairstyle requirements.

Carlson criticized what he saw as misguided priorities and the left spun that concern into an attack on U.S. servicewomen. Democrats like Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth hit back, as did the Pentagon.

Defense Department press secretary John Kirby virtue-signaled about how "diversity of our military is one of our greatest strengths," while the II MEF IG Twitter account said, "Get right before you get left, boomer."

"We are human and what was intended as a tweet in support of our female Marines and sisters serving in uniform was clearly not aligned with our standard practices or an appropriate representation of the Marine Corps," the account tweeted Saturday.


The tweet was in response to Newsmax TV host John Cardillo tweeting: "An official
@DeptofDefense @USMC account singling out and threatening an American citizen."

Carlson was not criticizing women in the military, but the social engineering.

"So we’ve got new hairstyles and maternity flight suits. Pregnant women are going to fight our wars. It’s a mockery of the U.S. military," he said, in response to Biden.

"While China’s military become more masculine as it’s assembled the world’s largest navy, our military needs to become — as Joe Biden says, more feminine, whatever feminine means anymore, since men and women no longer exist. The bottom line is, it’s out of control, and the Pentagon is going along with this. Again, this is a mockery of the U.S. military and its core mission, which is winning wars," Carlson added.
Posted by: Fred || 03/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'd rather see them take a stripe, forfeit one month's pay, and be confined to quarters for a month. Article 15 for Conduct Unbecoming...
Posted by: These Forkbeard7574 || 03/16/2021 5:18 Comments || Top||

#2  This article highlights politicalization and destruction of the traditional stance of the military's chain of command with the SecDef representing the forces to the President for his guidance on military readiness and force activity against declared and potential adversaries of the usa.
The present political administration will likely not "defund the military" like the police, it will likely advocate for less funding proportionally, and encourage further "social realignment", which will result in a less effective force.
Posted by: Skyblue Speaks7527 || 03/16/2021 5:43 Comments || Top||


#4  Take a knee?

Seriously?

He so woke, he can't counter someone who called him woke. The ranks deserve so much more than General Jenners. Boomer. What are we, 13 years old? Got left before you got left?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/16/2021 11:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Note the stupid and pseudo-hip, Kaepernickian slang: "take a knee," "do better," "get right," "boomer."

Is this how the Marines' mktg / communications leaders really talk these days?

Whatever happened to "the few.. the proud"?
Posted by: Zebulon Panda8988 || 03/16/2021 11:05 Comments || Top||

#6  Who are these people?

What is happening to our military?

What TF is happening to our country?
Posted by: Voldemort Sforza7068 || 03/16/2021 11:18 Comments || Top||

#7  If a millennial in the Marine corp had done this to a democrat, IE CNN host, they would be out on their ass for public execution.. Fuck the Marine Corp Information Group as they crossed the line of their profession and dragged the great Marine Corp into generational political condescending bull. They clearly have a lack of competent leadership there, making the entire Marine Corp of great warriors look bad.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 03/16/2021 11:51 Comments || Top||

#8  My fear is that Biden and/or his handlers want to import illegal aliens so they can serve in the military because natural born US citizens will no longer volunteer when they realize they'll have to take orders from people like John Kirby. Then we'll have an army of foreigners who don't know any better.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/16/2021 12:58 Comments || Top||


Biden Eyes First Major Tax Hike Since 1993 in Next Economic Plan
[BLOOMBERG] President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
is planning the first major federal tax hike since 1993 to help pay for the long-term economic program designed as a follow-up to his pandemic-relief bill, according to people familiar with the matter.

Unlike the $1.9 trillion Covid-19 stimulus act, the next initiative, which is expected to be even bigger, won’t rely just on government debt as a funding source. While it’s been increasingly clear that tax hikes will be a component -- Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said at least part of the next bill will have to be paid for, and pointed to higher rates -- key advisers are now making preparations for a package of measures that could include an increase in both the corporate tax rate and the individual rate for high earners.

With each tax break and credit having its own lobbying constituency to back it, tinkering with rates is fraught with political risk. That helps explain why the tax hikes in Bill Clinton
...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of the word is...
’s signature 1993 overhaul stand out from the modest modifications done since.

For the Biden administration, the planned changes are an opportunity not just to fund key initiatives like infrastructure, climate and expanded help for poorer Americans, but also to address what Democrats argue are inequities in the tax system itself. The plan will test both Biden’s capacity to woo Republicans and Democrats’ ability to remain unified.
Posted by: Fred || 03/16/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Dem major tax hike didn't take long to appear. The Dems are so anti-capitalism/anti-business. The country was on a great roll before the pandemic. Now, hordes are at the border, jobs have been destroyed, parity in international trade gone and much of the country's businesses still crippled or out of business.

California's and Florida's response to Covid pandemic were compared in the last day or two. Covid case levels and deaths were compared and found to be about equal in the two states. Florida did not push mask-wearing, social distancing and draconian business closing whereas California did. The biggest difference was California's unemployment rate was double that of Florida.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/16/2021 10:55 Comments || Top||

#2  The Dems are so anti-capitalism/anti-business.

Not really - they, as every other self-appointed elite in history, are anti social mobility.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/16/2021 10:57 Comments || Top||

#3  If you know you did not get the winning vote of the majority of the people and had to commit fraud to get the Presidency, what makes you think such a person is going to care about the people after that? He is going to get take all he can from them to reinvest in strengthening his hold on power.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 03/16/2021 11:56 Comments || Top||

#4  This economic policy is so moronic it can only be explained as a plot -- to destroy the working & middle classes.

Look at the stock market. It's soaring because of liquidity, in no small measure due to millions of unemployed young people hurling all their scare cash at garbage stocks. And sneakers. And "digital art." And tweets. How on earth do you "invest" in a tweet? Can you say, bubble?

So what does Team Biden do? Send thousands of dollars in "stimulus" money to each of these pathetic, desperate characters.

Ok, stimulus, got it: classic Keynesian stimulation of aggregate demand. Right: buy food and clothes and such, stimulate the economy, right?

Nope: the muppets will plow their checks into the bubble market. Which will crash. Which means these trillions in funny money will vanish with no impact whatsoever on the economy.

I refuse to believe that Biden's people are so stupid. They must be pushing this obviously useless, economically disastrous policy for a political reason -- to destroy the old traditional America. What other conclusion is there?

Posted by: Ebbolutch Hatfield8868 || 03/16/2021 12:09 Comments || Top||

#5  No one will ask the obvious question to them. If you just printed a couple trillion dollars, why bother with taxes when you can get away with printing more to pay for it all? Just like they skip answering the question posed by raising minimum wage to $15, why not $100? Magic Money Tree theory of economics.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/16/2021 12:15 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Everyone must participate!
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/16/2021 12:20 Comments || Top||

#7  F-ing idiots. If you wanted to provide $1,000 of additional disposable income to each US household, the easiest and most efficient way to do it would be with low oil and gas prices. Exactly what Trump did.

So Biden axes Keystone, energy prices soar, and 000s of $ in savings per household turn into 000s of $ sent out of each household. To be replaced with more helicopter greenbacks from Uncle Sugar. Insane.
Posted by: Don Vito Barnsmell8140 || 03/16/2021 12:20 Comments || Top||

#8  My non-ethanol gas just went up another .19 cents this morning. $3.19

The "helicopter greenbacks" will continue until transitioned into a monthly, needs based guaranteed income.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/16/2021 12:27 Comments || Top||

#9  They must be pushing this obviously useless, economically disastrous policy for a political reason -- to destroy the old traditional America.

That'd be my guess.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/16/2021 13:02 Comments || Top||

#10  Yellen has said at least part of the next bill will have to be paid for

Somebody thinks there is some sort of limit on borrowing? Wasn't there some concern 10 days ago about the bond market freaking out?
Posted by: Bobby || 03/16/2021 13:49 Comments || Top||

#11  Ref. #10: Posted March 4 by yours truly - Record new Treasury debt issuance shocks bond buyers
Posted by: Bobby || 03/16/2021 13:52 Comments || Top||

#12  The $1.9 trillion Covid-19 stimulus increases the debt. More money will be printed and whatever money we might earn or have in savings or IRAs will be worth less as the result of printing more money.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/16/2021 15:04 Comments || Top||



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