[MAIL] Nearly a quarter of the world's countries saw a dramatic surge in civil unrest last year, a trend that is likely to continue into 2020, a new study has warned.
Analysts predict that as many as 75 nations will see violence and demonstrations break-out this year, according to the report published today.
Hong Kong, Chile, Nigeria, Sudan, Haiti and Lebanon were among the 47 states that saw significant rise in protests in 2019.
But data published by socio-economic and political analysis firm Verisk Maplecroft, predicted that this year will see that number increase to 75 countries.
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Politics aside, the numerics coupled with donor fatigue make further involvement unwise. Perhaps we can simply concentrate on our southern border and assisting with the occasional natural disaster.
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Good intentions and donations have prolonged the third worlds problems. Time to cobble back a few European empires under the guise of the UN as the locals seem incapable of governing themselves.
#4
D'Oh! Someone has rediscovered a long term trend.
In the 80's the US Marines started increasingly studying MOUT or Warfare in Urban Terrain because: (1) Most of the world's population is on or near the sea coast, and (2) Surge in the populations across the Third World of young adult males faster than their local economies can generate new jobs. Europe "solved" their version of this problem during the years 1914 to 1918...
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The sky is falling, the oceans are going to swallow up over 30% of America, and we will be eating humans-soyalent green, by 2020. I guess Burger King got one almost right...
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Geez Skid, I've been able to hear color at the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) Skill Level of 3/3 (native fluency) for many years. Hearing porn however, that really is remarkable.
[RS] A North Carolina sheriff deputy got crazy applause earlier this week at a Davidson County Board of Commissioners meeting where they were seeking to make Davidson County a Second Amendment protection county. The applause came when Tripp Kester, the sheriff deputy in uniform, made clear that he would not enforce any unconstitutional law in his jurisdiction:
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This is all well and good, however it is going to take more than 2nd Amendment Sanctuaries. There is nothing stopping the Left from flooding a county and then electing a Democrat Sheriff.
What really needs to happen, especially in Virginia is the State Guard or the combined county sheriffs need to arrest the governor and all members of the legislature voting for these laws.
Arrest them for violation of the State and National Constitutions and Bill of Rights. Have a quick trial and a speedy sentencing. Message sent.
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Unfortunately the system is designed so that they can put in unconstitutional laws and then the laws get challenged and eventually reversed.
What we need is a way to hold someone accountable for constantly setting up bogus laws. Fines or even prison would be fine with me. Force them to hire a constitutional attorney to double-check before they submit a law.
[The Federalist] During a Fox News panel on how Democrats ignore the booming success of the economy and President Trump’s trade policy, Federalist Senior Editor Mollie Hemingway pointed out many Democrats and NeverTrumpers focus on impeachment instead.
"Impeachment is sort of like pornography for the Trump-deranged," Hemingway said. "It really does point out this week how certain people are handling their power in Washington versus others."
Little Saint James Island were to re-open for business; if Senator Menendez eye doctor, Salomon Melgen could get his Latina air-route going again; if Monica would return to Bill ?
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/\ Fred's automated word banning script is dated and sort of hit-and-miss. Yes, it's a systems thing. If we could just find someone who could write code.
[American Thinker] - en President Donald J. Trump and those Lilliputian Democrats who would remove him from power. Trump offers continued growth and prosperity freed from the power of government and the shackles of a command economy. The comedy team of Pelosi, Nadler, and Schiff offer a palace coup to undo the hopes and free choice of the American people and lead to economic collapse and a Third World justice system where there is no due process, no right to confront your accuser, or to call witnesses in your defense, and an Alice-In Wonderland world where hearsay and presumption trumps, no pun intended, actual facts, actual crimes and real evidence..
Ironically, the China trade deal is the ultimate quid pro quo, doing more to boost Trump’s reelection chances than any Ukrainian phone call, real as in a transcript Democrats ignore, or imagined as in Adam Schiff’s feeble screenwriter wannabe imagination. America gets more winning, more economic growth and prosperity. China gets a deal its staggering economy badly needs after being confronted by an Uncle Sam with sleeves rolled up, not hat in hand.
The Democrats want to cook the goose laying the golden eggs and redistribute them. Trump is more worried about the health of the goose. It is they who are interfering with our elections, not the Russians or the Ukrainians. Maybe colluding with the Chinese to increase the economic well-being of both countries is an impeachable offense. "Can we please have a transcript of all the phone calls between the White House and China?"
...On the day of the China trade deal, the Democrats asked for the removal of the duly elected President who unleashed America’s entrepreneurial spirit, unchained American energy development, slashed oppressive regulations, cut taxes and fostered real wage growth, pulling people off the couch and out of mommy’s basement and into the workforce. By impeaching the President, Democrats hope to repeal the tax cuts, restore the regulations, ban cars and cows, offer free education and free health care. They offer economic collapse with programs that can’t be paid for while punishing success and rewarding failure. Soak the rich? They want to waterboard the rich.
...On Wednesday, we saw a tale of two cities -- one a shining city on a hill being rebuilt by President Trump -- or one giant homeless shelter offered by the Democrats should they oust him. Your choice, America.
[Babylon Bee] It was a somber day for the U.S., as House Democrats formalized the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi took seven solemn hours to sign the articles of impeachment with 582 custom pens on silver trays before she sent them over to the Senate. As the articles were handed over, the Impeachment Dancers entered the room, marking the dark day with a well-choreographed dance number accented by a tasteful amount of pyrotechnics.
"It is gravely serious to accuse the president of high crimes and misdemeanors," Pelosi said as dancers gyrated behind her. "And we do this reluctantly and with a heavy heart."
After the ceremony and the dance number concluded, Democratic leaders all had a moment of silence to reflect on the gravity of their undertaking, the only sound now being the making of impeachment balloons by the Impeachment Clowns there to entertain the children.
With President Trump officially impeached and the trial now in the hands of the Senate, the House Democrats left feeling their important work was done -- except for all the fundraising emails they had to write.
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[National Review] - The Left sees Donald Trump’s comportment, rallies, and tweets as a new low in presidential behavior that justifies extraordinary countermeasures. But Trump’s personal characteristics are idiosyncratic and may or may not become institutionalized by subsequent presidents. And it is not as if liberal icons such as FDR, LBJ, JFK, and Bill Clinton suddenly became saintly in office.
What is far scarier is the reaction to Trump, in both the constitutional and political sense. What follows are likely the new norms for the next generation of presidents, and they will probably be equally applied to Democrats who implemented them in the Trump era.
1) Private presidential phone calls with foreign leaders will be leaked and printed in the major media. The point will be not so much to air breaking news as to embarrass the president or to use such disclosures to stymie his foreign policy. Those who leak such information will be canonized as part of a "resistance." Prominent officials in government will publish anonymous op-eds in the New York Times bragging about how they are daily undermining a new president’s administration.
2) Impeachment is now a casual affair. It requires no report of illegal or unethical behavior by a special counsel or special prosecutor. It will not be bipartisan but solely the action of the opposition party in the House when it is in the majority.
Public support will not matter. Much less will it be needed. Impeachment will be applied equally to a first- or second-term presidency. And it will become useful in a reelection year to help drive down an incumbent’s popularity.
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IOW, like Hamilton or Cats, The Shitshow is here to stay and will likely have a multi-decade run.
Several other implications not mentioned by VDH:
1. Americans will lose whatever faith they still have in the superiority of US political institutions. The Shitshow is not compatible with - stands in direct opposition to - the rule of law, due process, and other constitutional rights.
2. Because of #1, popular support for spreading democracy abroad will collapse. Both varieties of globalism - neoconservatism and Islam-appeasing apologetic Zero/Thunberg-ism - will disappear from our main parties' platforms, to be replaced by either Jacksonianism or a left-wing, pro-Castro and -Madura, Bernie Bro variant of isolationism.
3. Also related to #1 but specific to its devastating effects on free speech, American political discourse will go underground, . The media will largely be ignored, as it was in the communist regimes of postwar Eastern Europe ("there's no news in Pravda; no truth in Izvestia"). Americans will be forced to develop two personas similar to what East German or Soviet citizens developed: the 'official,' safe PC face shown to colleagues, neighbors and Party officials, and the real face shown only behind closed doors or under the online cloak of anonymity.
4. Related to #3, American culture and society will solidify around tribes defined mainly by residential living - dense urban vs exurban / rural - and family structure. The white male-hating culture of Hollywood, the media, and the academic and public school complex will be offset by a strengthened, vigorous Jacksonian-leaning "Resistance" culture with its own information sources, school curriculum and cultural influences.
What's not clear is where these groups will go, politically and culturally speaking:
- Asians and other immigrants (from Cuba, Venezuela, the USSR etc) and their descendants who remember communism's horrors but who are outside of and not fully appreciative of the Jacksonian culture
- white suburban families with school-aged boys whose politics are liberal but who know the schools are a joke and the Woke culture are BS
Whoever captures the sympathies and votes of those groups will dominate IS politics for a generation at least.
[Breitbart] Democrats and journalists were excited Thursday when the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a legal opinion that the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) had violated the Impoundment Control Act by withholding congressionally appropriated aid to Ukraine last summer.
The non-binding opinion was disputed by the OMB, which released a memo last month arguing that the "programmatic" delay sought to fulfill, not oppose, congressional intent.
The GAO decision, which had been requested by Democrat Senator Chris van Hollen of Maryland, disagreed, concluding that the delay had been for "policy reasons," not "programmatic delay." Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) cited the decision in her morning press conference ‐ though she had trouble pronouncing the word "impoundment" ‐ and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) likewise trumpeted the GAO decision as a vindication of the House impeachment.
Though the GAO works for Congress, it is not the finder of fact in impeachment cases. Moreover, it is not even clear that the Impoundment Control Act is constitutional.
Nevertheless, if a mere GAO finding is sufficient to justify impeachment, then President Barack Obama ought to have been impeached at least seven times over for each of the following cases in which the GAO found that the Obama administration had violated federal law.
[Right Scoop] The GAO made a splash today when it concluded that Trump ’broke the law’ in withholding aid to Ukraine last year. Of course Democrats are running with this, calling it a BOMBSHELL and suggesting it’s more reason why Trump should be impeached. Here’s the gist of the GAO report:
[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.‐After yesterday's solemn impeachment procession across the Capitol Rotunda, a procession that was accompanied by 37 elephants, 42 jugglers, three fire sword-swallowers, and one tiny clown car, Mitch McConnell took possession of the articles of impeachment.
McConnell promised to take good care of the impeachment articles, solemnly vowing to place them in a very special rectangular filing bin reserved for impeachment proceedings.
"Madam Speaker, I assure you, we will treat these with all the respect and care they deserve," McConnell said. "We will put them right here along with all the bills the House sends over. We always carefully consider the wacky legislation you send, putting it in this holy, revered shrine as we think about what to do with such fine legislative proposals."
[Washington Examiner] - America’s elite ‐ that is, the 30% of adults with at least a college degree ‐ enjoy one very particular privilege that enhances their life and nearly guarantees their success. And too many of them refuse to share it.
The privilege isn’t a college education. That merely correlates with what really matters.
And the greatest privilege isn’t material wealth. That sure makes life easier, but wealth mostly correlates with the real privilege I'm referring to.
America’s elite have a secret weapon that steers them and their children away from drugs, early death, violence, dropping out of high school, dropping out of the labor force, and so many other modern social ills. It’s called the traditional family: A married couple raising their children at home.
As the wealthiest and best-educated Americans steadily tack toward the Democratic Party, this truth butts against some stubborn assumptions made by both sides.
Liberals in the media are handling the political realignment of the elites by pointing out that the blue states have better sociological outcomes than the red states. They assign these good outcomes to the open-mindedness that transcends tradition and old forms of living.
Conservatives, meanwhile, are apt to assume the liberal elites are a bunch of decadent swingers, eschewing marriage, embracing free love, and getting abortions for fun. We see Miley Cyrus, Charlie Sheen, and Cardi B celebrating their vice and debauchery, or we watch the oversexualized and amoral films produced by Hollywood, and we imagine that this is how wealthy liberals live in Los Angeles.
This is far from the truth. A new study by Brad Wilcox and Wendy Wang at the Institute for Family Studies lays out the real picture.
"When it comes to their own families," the authors discovered, "California elites with kids overwhelmingly ’live right’ in private, giving their children the benefit of growing up in a two-parent family."
Wilcox and Wang reveal granular data showing "that some of the most elite neighborhoods in the state ‐ including several in Hollywood and San Francisco ‐ have virtually no single parents."
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A married couple raising their children at home.
Notice who and who's policies destroyed that among the black community. "We meant well" should go down in history right next to "I was only obeying orders".
[NYPost] Maybe somebody should really call their daddies. And their mommies who can teach them some manners.
Today, the girls behind the smutty Barstool Sports “Call her Daddy” podcast, which caters to aspiring Instagram strumpets and fumbling virgins trying to navigate their first erection, came after The Post.
Let’s go to the tape.
In December 2018, the paper arranged to give the two fembot facsimiles of Canal Street Kardashians a platform. We accompanied a straightforward profile of the non-dynamic duo (Alexandra Cooper and Sophia Franklyn) with a photo shoot that was suggestive but not tasteless— a major, major upgrade for them.
A year later, they must have run out of orifice violations to talk about. Because the gutter Doctor Ruths brought up the Post shoot to blast it as “embarrassing” while padding their grievances with bits of revisionist feminist fan fiction.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[MAIL] Nearly a quarter of the world's countries saw a dramatic surge in civil unrest last year, a trend that is likely to continue into 2020, a new study has warned.
[RS] A North Carolina sheriff deputy got crazy applause earlier this week at a Davidson County Board of Commissioners meeting where they were seeking to make Davidson County a Second Amendment protection county. The applause came when Tripp Kester, the sheriff deputy in uniform, made clear that he would not enforce any unconstitutional law in his jurisdiction:
[Babylon Bee] It was a somber day for the U.S., as House Democrats formalized the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi took seven solemn hours to sign the articles of impeachment with 582 custom pens on silver trays before she sent them over to the Senate. As the articles were handed over, the Impeachment Dancers entered the room, marking the dark day with a well-choreographed dance number accented by a tasteful amount of pyrotechnics.
