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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Guiliana news conference - 19 Nov 2020 video
[Rumble] If President Trump had been declared the winner of the election, you better believe the media would be looking into EVERY single allegation of voter fraud.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/19/2020 14:16 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I seldom watch any of these things, but I did today. This isn't Al Gore, the Sequel. This is on a whole other level. Evidence, you say? They had a pile of it from sworn, eye witness statements, to minor details like over voting to the tune of 350% of the population. The entire Dominion saga which I do not think gets better upon further inspection and a lot more.

The other stand out to me was their demeanor. Anything certainly could be true. But they sure did NOT act like wild eyed, last ditch fanatics getting ready to divvy up the ammo and go full Camerone.
Posted by: Cesare || 11/19/2020 15:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Dominion was Hugo Chavez's secret electoral fraud weapon. Not secret any more
Posted by: Ominelet Guelph8444 || 11/19/2020 15:53 Comments || Top||

#3  They said in the news conference they have over a thousand signed affidavits from pole workers who saw massive fraud.

Guiiiani said those affidavits are considered legitimate evidence because the people who signed them know they do time if they are lying.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 11/19/2020 17:03 Comments || Top||


Mexico DEA Narc Reveals CIA's Greatest Coverup (lengthy video)
[YouTube] Highest decorated DEA agent in history, Hector Berrellez, has a virtual sit down with Patrick Bet-David to talk about The Last Narc. The documentary highlights what happened to kidnapped CIA agent, Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, during the height of the Mexican cartels under Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo. Order it on Amazon https://amzn.to/3lJ0g5g Get the book https://amzn.to/3nBf2LK

About the Guest: Hector Berrellez is a former D.E.A. Supervisor and Special Agent, with thirty years extensive experience in counter terrorism and narcotics enforcement. He is recognized as one of the most highest decorated Drug Enforcement Agent in the history of the bureau.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/19/2020 00:48 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Army Staff officer In Charge Of Vaccine Distribution Sez All Americans Must Be Vaccinated Within 24 Hours Of Emergency Use Authorization…
[Weasel Zippers] So this guy says "All of America must receive the Vaccine within 24 hours... Yeah... No Thanks Major Payne...
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/19/2020 07:21 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That mo-fo can pound sand and anything else one can pound.
Posted by: Clem || 11/19/2020 8:11 Comments || Top||

#2  As if there will be 320 million doses of vaccine available, even in the hellscape he imagines in which he has authority to do that.
Posted by: Vernal Hatrick || 11/19/2020 8:23 Comments || Top||

#3  ... or else what? You gonna have Lt. Col. Flounder Vindman sit on me or something?
Posted by: Raj || 11/19/2020 8:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Whew...and imagine the inevitable "explosion" from Vindman...cruel and unusual. Chilling!
Posted by: Clem || 11/19/2020 8:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Fuck you
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/19/2020 9:41 Comments || Top||

#6  Roaring off to oblivion. Able to make snap decisions without any room for thought.
Go Army !!!
Posted by: crazyhorse || 11/19/2020 10:30 Comments || Top||

#7  Wow, the number of people out there talking me out of things I used to believe in because the only argument is "Or else."

I do have to ask. Does this include New York?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/19/2020 10:43 Comments || Top||

#8  There's not enough capacity for that.

And WHY such a rush?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/19/2020 11:05 Comments || Top||

#9 
Posted by: Jiling Gravitch9209 v || 11/19/2020 11:44 Comments || Top||

#10  Don't even think about messing w Jiling Gravitch
Posted by: Slolunter Glusoth7083 || 11/19/2020 12:00 Comments || Top||

#11  In charge of distribution yet totally clueless on the logistics of what he's talking about.

Even if everyone wanted a vaccine and could take the day off and you got the vaccine distributed to every county in the US you'd still never get the population vaccinated in one day.

Maybe if you mailed a dose to everyone, no doses got lost, and everyone waited until some signal on the tv... but that's just fantasy on so many levels.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/19/2020 12:14 Comments || Top||

#12  In charge of distribution yet totally clueless on the logistics of what he's talking about.

One would expect an actual Army Army guy to be somewhat kinda sort aware of logistics based on that "Amateurs talk tactics, Pros talk logistics" thingie. I'm seeing a warning light here on the console...
Posted by: SteveS || 11/19/2020 12:37 Comments || Top||

#13  Some of the commenters have more rational explanations for this. Naturally, the media will take it out of context and shape it to their narrative.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/19/2020 12:57 Comments || Top||

#14  Good catch, Bobby!
I find I generally don't pay a lot of attention to comments on other blogs due to the signal to noise ratio. Rantburg has spoiled me.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/19/2020 13:14 Comments || Top||

#15  I searched my usual sources, and the below is the only thing I can find about the vaccine:


Pfizer CEO: Once FDA Approves Vaccine, It Will Be Shipped Overnight

[DailyWire] According to the CEO of Pfizer, the company that recently announced that its vaccine proved over 90% effective at protecting humans from COVID-19, once the vaccine is approved by the Food and Drug Administration it will be shipped in the United States to most places overnight.

Speaking at The New York Times DealBook Online Summit on Tuesday, CEO Albert Bourla spoke of the vaccine, which must be stored in vials between -94F and -112F. He started by explaining about the boxes in which the vaccine will be shipped: “Those boxes are isothermic boxes that have a GPS and also a tempo meter so we know at any point where the box is and what is the temperature so if something goes wrong, which we don’t anticipate, we will not use the vaccine. Every box is a small box like that and can take 1,000 to 5,000 doses. And when we ship it, we don’t need to use refrigeration. So we can ship it in cars, trucks, planes, boats, whatever. In the US, we will ship to most of the places overnight.”

“So once we receive an address from the government, the next day the product will be there,” he continued. “And once people receive it they can keep it for weeks in the box or they can keep it for months in their freezers or they can put it in refrigeration and keep it for a week, approximately. I think that the demand will be so big, it’s going to be injected in hours rather than days or weeks. So we feel very confident about it.”
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/19/2020 13:41 Comments || Top||

#16  Correction: Epoch Times has an even better report, with a photo of the general in question.

First Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine to Be Available Within 24 Hours of FDA Green Light: Trump Admin

General Gustave Perna delivers an update on "Operation Warp Speed" in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC on Nov. 13, 2020. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Trump administration health officials on Wednesday told reporters that every state across the country will have access to some doses of a CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus vaccine within 24 hours of proper authorization.

“Every jurisdiction will have access immediately upon the initial push of the vaccine,” Gen. Gustave Perna, chief operating officer of the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed, said during a call with reporters.

He was reiterating what he said at a White House press conference about Operation Warp Speed on Nov. 13.

“Today, we expect to have tens of millions of doses immediately following emergency use authorization (EUA), and we will distribute them as soon as the FDA applies the EUA. We will do that within 24 hours of the EUA,” Perna said.

Perna told reporters, “What is Operation Warp Speed about? It is about saving lives, and it is a herculean task that the President put us on many months ago. And as Dr. Slaoui just laid out, we are making steady progress and we are ready to execute.”

Perna continued, “Six months ago, the capacity did not exist in our nation’s pharmaceutical production base. We went to work building brick and mortar manufacturing facilities, bringing in the right specialized machinery, and prioritizing supply-chain materials through the Defense Production Act.”

Perna said getting the vaccine out this fast could only be done because of collaboration between public and private stakeholders.

“It is the partnerships we have formed with the pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna; distribution companies like McKesson, FedEx, and UPS; and pharmacies like CVS and Walgreens that have agreed to do things differently.”
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/19/2020 14:05 Comments || Top||

#17  ^ compare this professional, serious, military logistics expert with the ghoulish clowns like Zeke Emmanuel that the Democrats have trotted out. What a disgrace
Posted by: Spinelet Schwarzeneggar3240 || 11/19/2020 14:37 Comments || Top||

#18  #11, me, judged by the title which doesn't appear to be what the guy said as far as I can tell.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/19/2020 14:54 Comments || Top||

#19  He does say all Americans must be vaccinated in the video but it sounds to me as if he misspoke.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/19/2020 14:59 Comments || Top||

#20  but it sounds to me as if he misspoke.

I imagine he meant may, i.e. can be, rather than must, since it will keep in the shipping boxes for months if stored in a freezer.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/19/2020 20:12 Comments || Top||

#21  Hee hee, hee hee (Peter Lorre voice):

Posted by: Clem || 11/19/2020 21:24 Comments || Top||

#22  Re #16: Thanks TW. That makes a lot more sense. One line second had tweets do not make policy.
Posted by: One Eyed Snusoper4309 || 11/19/2020 21:37 Comments || Top||

#23  “Those boxes are isothermic boxes that have a GPS and also a tempo meter so we know at any point where the box is and what is the temperature so if something goes wrong, which we don’t anticipate, we will not use the vaccine.

So not more complicated than shipping insulin in a styrofoam box w/ a cooling pack, w/ added GPS tracker.
Posted by: One Eyed Snusoper4309 || 11/19/2020 21:43 Comments || Top||

#24  The general addresses objections:
"According to expert projections,
One day, plus the early
And absentee, surely
Suffices. And folks, these injections
Are as safe and secure as elections!"
Posted by: Large Snore6664 || 11/19/2020 22:38 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
An Unserious Movement for an Unserious People
[AmGreatness] We all should probably acknowledge that we Americans, in many ways, have become an unserious people. No serious civilization and society would allow a fraction of what is taking place here—from the absurdity of our education system to the dominance of big tech monopolies to our current form of elections. A list of our nation’s follies demonstrating our unseriousness would fill pages. But it’s not just about the American people as a whole: conservatism is an unserious movement (if one can even call what exists a movement), and Republicans are deeply, deeply unserious as a political party.

Consider, in the immediate, our election system again. Can we even call such a disjointed mismash a system? Let’s face it: where we are today, with mail-in ballots, questionable voting software systems, no requirement to show photo ID, "dirty date" voting rolls—we have allowed the creation of myriad reasons for distrust to materialize underneath our noses. The Left has not been shy about what they wanted to do and what they were hoping to accomplish with any of this. And what has been our response as a "movement" and a "party"? Pathetic whining and that’s about it.

The powers that be at the RNC were warned well before 2020 that Democrats, led by Marc Elias of Fusion GPS infamy, were on the move to bring us to this point. The response of the RNC? Nothing until it was too late—and even those attempts to respond were half-hearted at best.
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Posted by: 746 || 11/19/2020 10:40 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Trying to say we get what we deserve?
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/19/2020 12:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Try telling someone from any other civilized western nation they should adopt mail-in voting, and they'll laugh at you. "Are you out of your mind? Do you think we're a third world country? Who the hell would do such a thing and still claim to be a democracy?"

Same for allowing illegal immigration.

Same for teaching that the country's greatest historical events are just another racist episode underscoring the nation's illegitimacy.

Why are we allowing this madness to take over our country?
Posted by: Omump Omeretch3328 || 11/19/2020 12:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Unserious? Perhaps we'r allowing the process to unfold and proceed appropriately. If things proceed the way they would appear to be, you'll get all the 'Serious' you want and then some. As a cooler head than mine opined, 'this is our 1775 moment'.
Posted by: Cesare || 11/19/2020 14:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Trump had a guy in charge of preventing election fraud and the guy was fired the other day for doing nothing. That's not unserious, that's trusting a potentially swampy scoundrel which is a different problem.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/19/2020 14:50 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Saudi Arabia's revolutionary modernization journey
[ENGLISHBETA.ALARABIYA.NET] As we look back to the tedious times Saudi citizens have been through in the past starting from the early eighties, it is clear to see that we have come a long way and made great strides all across the board especially in terms of the many social restrictions that have been lifted. At the time, Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
was plagued by an oppressive group whose job was to terrorize, repress and deprive people of their freedoms.

They enforced their arbitrary repression and sought to dominate and strip the power away from the state and its institutions. These repressive practices distorted the image of Saudi Arabia and led cultured societies and media outlets all over this vast world to look down on its people.
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Posted by: Fred || 11/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1  Leopard. Spots.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/19/2020 3:37 Comments || Top||


Europe
Euro Dust-Up Over the Rule of Law : A quarrel in Europe that we might want to notice.
[AmSpectator] The governments of Hungary and Poland vetoed the European Union’s six-year budget on Monday, along with the special additional recovery stimulus proposed by the EU Commission (its executive body). This adds up to quite a bit of cabbage, two thousand billion dollars American, which, as the late, great Sen. Everett Dirksen might have noted, suggests they are talking real money in Brussels and Strasbourg.

But are they really talking about money, or are some getting into others’ business that they ought better leave alone? This is the view of the governing parties of Hungary and Poland. They are not opposed to stimulus packages and multi-year budgets, from which they receive more than they contribute. What Fidesz (Civic Alliance, Hungary) and Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law and Justice, Poland) object to is the EU’s requirement that member states conform to its definition of "rule of law."

The EU Commissioners in Brussels, the confederation’s executive branch, and the deputies to the European Parliament in Strasbourg are eager to distribute the huge epidemic relief package, as well as nail down a budget for the next six years. It will involve taking on a huge pile of debt, but at a time of uncertainty about the severity and duration of the "second wave" of the virus, they figure the social contracts on which contemporary Europe is founded depend on such mortgaging of the future.
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Posted by: 746 || 11/19/2020 11:01 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Brussels is just Moscow with better suits.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/19/2020 13:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Actually, Putin and his circle wear better suits. Brioni, last anyone checked
Posted by: Spavising Grinerong6473 || 11/19/2020 19:21 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Threats and Tensions Rise as Trump and Allies Attack Elections Process
[NYT] President Donald Trump’s false accusations that voter fraud denied him reelection are causing escalating confrontations in swing states across the country, leading to threats of violence against officials in both parties and subverting even the most routine steps in the electoral process.

In Arizona on Wednesday, the Democratic secretary of state, Katie Hobbs, issued a statement lamenting the "consistent and systematic undermining of trust" in the elections and called on Republican officials to stop "perpetuating misinformation." She described threats against her and her family in the aftermath of Joe Biden’s victory over Trump in her state.

In Georgia, where Biden holds a narrow lead that is expected to stand through a recount concluding Wednesday night, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, has said he, too, received menacing messages. He also said he felt pressured by Sen. Lindsey Graham, a close Trump ally and the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to search for ways to disqualify votes.
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Posted by: Besoeker || 11/19/2020 11:18 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No, this actually is the process. Its just when Obama thumped Romney nobody paid attention.

"New York Times advocates for end of due process."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/19/2020 11:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Fucking liars.

In Detroit, Monica Palmer has just signed an affidavit stating she was bullied into supporting this complete joke of an election result. Also that her Democrat colleagues lied to her.

We have heard four YEARS of accusations that the 2016 election was stolen, years of charges that Boxcar was cheated out of the Georgia governor's mansion, that moderate Democrats were cheating Bernie and Warren out of their rightful victories in the Democrat primaries.

In the New York state Democrat primary just a few months , 21% of the absentee ballots were fraudulent and were thrown out. Philadelphia's election judge stuffed ballots for years and is now in prison.

Nothing but lies and more lies. Stop lying.
Posted by: Pearl Forkbeard8941 || 11/19/2020 12:15 Comments || Top||


Flashback - Carter's Acceptance of Defeat in 1980
[Townhall] In 1980, Democratic President Jimmy Carter lost in a landslide to Ronald Reagan, 489-49 in the Electoral College. So naturally, Democrats concluded that Reagan had committed treason in order to steal the election, to wit: His campaign had conspired with Iranian ayatollahs to prevent 52 American hostages from being released until after the election.
Sound familiar?
And who can blame them? Carter's economic policies had produced a 21% interest rate, a 17% mortgage rate and a 15% inflation rate in the coveted "hat trick" of presidential incompetence. His brilliant strategic ploy of abandoning the Shah of Iran had led to a 154% spike in oil prices and Islamic lunatics seizing our embassy and holding Americans hostage in Tehran, where they remained for 444 days, until Carter was safely removed from office.

With all that going for them - plus that old Mondale magic -Democrats were dumbstruck that they lost the 1980 election. What other than a dirty trick could explain it?
I guess I should warn some of you - this is Ann Coulter. So I'll keep it short.
In other words, liberals believed the Islamo-fascist cutthroats who had been toying with Carter like a cat with a ball of yarn wanted Carter replaced by someone stronger, like Reagan. How else to explain the fact that, minutes after Reagan's inauguration, the hostages were released?

A more plausible theory was given in a Jeff MacNelly cartoon showing Khomeini reading a telegram aloud: "It's from Ronald Reagan. It must be about one of the Americans in the Den of Spies, but I don't recognize the name. It says 'Remember Hiroshima.'"

At the conclusion of the House's investigation, Rep. Lee Hamilton, the House Democrat who had chaired the October Surprise Task Force, wrote an op-ed in The New York Times, saying: "The task force report concluded there was virtually no credible evidence to support the accusations."

On the same day, the Times published a rebuttal op-ed by Gary Sick.

And that, kids, is how you concede a presidential election with grace and dignity.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/19/2020 11:07 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Give Jimmy Carter credit for at least this other thing:

He said that voting by mail was highly susceptible to fraud.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/19/2020 11:57 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ so did Liz Warren and Amy Klobuchar. And the US State Department and ...
Posted by: Betty Thrush9410 || 11/19/2020 12:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Both Pubs and Dems didn't like Carter.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/19/2020 14:41 Comments || Top||

#4  The real lesson of the carter acceptance of defeat was that he conceded so early that they believe it convinced a lot of Dems in California to not go out to vote and thus the GOP did really well on ballots and lower level stuff. I think both parties noticed that and came up with don't concede until later policies even if it's obvious.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/19/2020 14:48 Comments || Top||


‘Drop and Roll': The system for stealing votes from Trump (video)
[Gateway via American Thinker] I spoke with a friend today who said it was a shame that Trump hadn’t beaten the margin of fraud in this election. His comment implies that, if Trump had campaigned differently, he might have won. That is the wrong way to look at election fraud in 2020. Thanks to sophisticated computer algorithms that manipulated voting data, the computer would never let Trump win. However, Trump’s margin of victory forced the computer into extreme action that revealed the massive fraud. The Gateway Pundit has put out a straightforward video that shows what happened in the swing states to ensure a Biden "victory."
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/19/2020 07:01 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Democrats went down to Georgia.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/19/2020 7:32 Comments || Top||

#2  ^😢
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/19/2020 7:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Rather get caught with fake ballots then voting machine secret. Then had to do so many faker paper they only had time for filling one circle. And they lie spread that people who had the time to do a mail in ballot, only had enough time to fill one circle. And five cities which performed so far outside the ludicrous whiskers you need Visine after looking at the stats.

This is the normal jostling of a hockey match, this is a clear tripping on an uncontested breakaway.

If hockey isn't your thing:

Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/19/2020 15:42 Comments || Top||


Biden/Harris Would be a Disaster for the Middle East and American Jews
[American Thinker] Exit polls indicate that President Trump received a record-number of Jewish votes this year with 30.5% nationally (up from 24% in 2016) and 43% in Florida helping him win that swing state by a healthy margin.

But as a pro-Israel advocate who has spent many years fighting for policies that help Israel and Jews survive in a world in which they’re surrounded by hate, I am once again dismayed by American Jews who — only 75 years since the Holocaust — fail to heed the lessons of history. Seventy percent insanely (and inanely) obsess over abortion rights, climate change, gun control, social justice, and illegal immigrant rights over their own survival and that of their brethren in Israel who are on the front lines of the war directed against all of us.

Non-Jews are bewildered by the voting patterns and ideology of American Jews who are predominantly tethered to the Democrat party, do not prioritize Israel as a voting concern, and support actual Jew-haters and Israel-bashers. I have written about the Democrat party’s problem with Israel and anti-Semitism and yet liberal Jews continue to ignore reality.

American Jews for instance are apathetic about Biden’s promise, should he end up as president, to rejoin the JCPOA -- the crowning achievement of the Obama/Biden administration, second only to the partisan passage of Obamacare that led to millions losing their doctors and health insurance. They are unconcerned that the revived nuclear deal would lead to Iran, the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism that openly calls for death to Israel and America, obtaining nuclear weapons by 2025. The only question seems to be how many planeloads of cash Biden would ship to Iran and how many of Trump’s crippling sanctions that have destroyed the Iranian economy Biden would lift to bring the mullahs back to negotiations — as Obama did.

Biden would be soft on terrorism, and that does not bode well for the U.S. or Israel. He advised Obama not to assassinate Osama bin Laden, advice Obama thankfully ignored. He criticized Trump green-lighting the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, head of Iran’s Quds Force responsible for the death and maiming of thousands of Americans. And at the U.S. request, Israeli agents just assassinated al Qaeda’s number two in command who had found safe haven in Tehran, belying any lingering notion that Iran and al Qaeda are not in cahoots or that Iran is moderating its behavior.
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#1  A disaster not only for the Jew, but the Gentile as well.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/19/2020 6:55 Comments || Top||

#2  You thought Stockholm syndrome applies just to individuals - not groups?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/19/2020 7:07 Comments || Top||

#3  I guess fabulous Barry has a new book out.
A Promised Land.

The audio version is self-narrated.
And lasts 29 hours.

More than twice as long as the Bengazi Embassy Siege.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/19/2020 15:23 Comments || Top||


Why is the Media Still Trashing the Trump Recovery?
[Townhall] Let's be honest: The Democrats and the media want the economy to crash before Joe Biden enters the White House in January. They have been rooting against the economy for four years now.
I thought maybe the author was going to explain why they hated Trump's recovery from The Corona.
The problem is the economy isn't crashing and burning -- just the opposite. The pandemic lockdowns flattened the economy earlier this year, and there's lots of heavy lifting to do to get all the jobs back. But they are coming back, and Trump will be bequeathing to Biden the swiftest recovery from a deep recession in modern history. The last quarter came in at a record 33 percent growth.
Which the media reported a different way, such that the YTD or something was anemic.
It took six months to get unemployment below seven percent under Trump. It took the Obama-Biden administration almost six years to do that.

There are now 6 million unfilled jobs in America. That's more than at any time during the entire eight years Barack Obama was president. The small-business confidence level is higher today than from 2009 to 2016, the supposedly prosperous years when Biden managed the anemic economic recovery.

But if you were to believe the media, there is no recovery under Trump. If you want to have fun, Google the phrase "economy is slowing."
Nah, you don't need that much fun.
The election is over. Why are the media disparaging the Trump recovery?
Inertia? Forgot how to do anything else? No plan for a Biden win?
One reason is that anti-Trump derangement syndrome is such a truth-altering virus in the newsroom that they can't give Trump credit for anything. Another explanation is that the left craves another $2 trillion to $3 trillion debt bomb stimulus bill, and every new report of the surging economy argues against that. Chemotherapy isn't necessary when you're cancer-free.
A new stimulus bill could have still more voting improvements!
But most of all, Democrats and the media know in their cold, black hearts Biden will perform much worse on the economy than Trump. So, they want to set that starting hurdle so low that no matter how dismally Biden performs, he will still be heralded as the guy who saved the economy, not the one who capsized it.
Even if the hurdle is high, they'll just lie their eyes out and claim Joe did it.
If you want to see an economy that is genuinely "slowing down," wait until you see what the "liberals" do to it.
Back to "2% annual growth is the new normal".
Posted by: Bobby || 11/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Biden's promised national lockdown should set new highs for Amazon, China, Google, Facebook, Twitter and their oligarchs. New lows for the rest of the nation.
Posted by: Fester Omerenter6429 || 11/19/2020 2:01 Comments || Top||

#2  They're just trying to establish the baseline for their narrative about how the economic hell we'll find ourselves in is all Trump's fault. This is the reverse of their narrative about how all the good in the economy over the last 4 years was Obama's doing.

Liars gonna lie.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/19/2020 9:17 Comments || Top||

#3  The mean girls club? What else would they do?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/19/2020 15:07 Comments || Top||


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Delingpole: The Great Reset Is Trending. Here's Why…
[Breitbart] The Great Reset has been trending on Twitter. Once you’re familiar with what it means for the future of our civilisation, you’ll understand why...

Put simply, it is the blueprint for a complete transformation of the world economy. There will be no money, no private property, no democracy. Instead, every key decision — what you do for a living, how much stuff you consume, whether you can take a vacation — will decided for you by a remote, unaccountable elite of ’experts’.

It sounds like a conspiracy theory — and is often dismissed as such by people who imagine they are being savvy and sophisticated. In fact, though, the people pushing for the Great Reset are perfectly open about their plan. Indeed, they can scarcely stop talking about it...

One of these people is Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
...the beautifully coiffed pretty boy with a penchant for dressing up in ethnic costumes and enforcing the latest fashionable thinking on the country stupid enough to elect him when Canada’s voters tired of Conservative discipline. Not that we can talk, after eight years of Barack Obama and his sharp trouser creases, not to mention allowing demented Gropey Joe Biden to try to cheat his way into the White House...
It was a video of Trudeau talking about the Great Reset which prompted the flurry of nervous interest on social media.

Trudeau says:

’Building Back Better means giving support to the most vulnerable while maintaining our momentum on reaching the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the SDGs. Canada is here to listen and to help. This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset. This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to reimagine our economic systems that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality and climate change.’

Hint:

Poor Joe looks confused.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 11/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  >no private property,

The "plan" is worse even than this.

You will become THEIR property, well more akin to pets.

The Greater reset must be to remove the globalists from all sources of income, all their methods of censorship, all sources of control and all sources of speech.

Because that's exactly what they are trying to do to us.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/19/2020 5:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Oh there will be a "Great Reset" but not the one they think.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/19/2020 9:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Socialism under a different name doesn't work any better.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/19/2020 14:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Best reset would be to remove the elites heads from their necks.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 11/19/2020 23:44 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Life without the Brotherhood
[ENGLISHBETA.ALARABIYA.NET] A fatwa was recently issued by the highest religious body in Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
calling on the public to be careful against the Moslem Brüderbund and to stay away from joining it, or showing sympathy to it. Although there is no organization explicitly under this name, it exists under the guise of other religious labels, in the same way that breakfast cereals are all "Corn Flakes" regardless of their brand name.

The Brotherhood is an age-old group that was established in 1928. But despite its long history, it did not achieve any notable popular presence until after the Iranian Revolution. Khomeinism was the first religious movement to come to power in the region. It was that spark that woke up the sleeping beast and let it loose into the streets. Prior to this, the Brotherhood existed within the political spectrum of Arab societies and remained so for decades, much like communism, an elitist group with no popular base.
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Posted by: Fred || 11/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


Science & Technology
Joel Osteen 'Inspiration Cube' product review
[NotTheBee] I don't know about you, but ever since I first heard about it I've been itching to see one of these bad boys in action.

Well Sam Stephens has done us all a great service by documenting his process of ordering an Inspiration Cube and then reviewing its soul-damning functionality.

The adventure started back in October when Stephens made the sizable donation of $1 to Joel Osteen Ministries in order to procure a Cube of his very own.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/19/2020 07:14 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fuckin' con artist - no thanks.
Posted by: Raj || 11/19/2020 8:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Joel is one of the richest pastors in the United States of America, and he without a doubt takes advantage of it. In the words of Osteen himself, “It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty.” And he stays true to his word. Joel Osteen house is situated in Houston in a wealthy suburb known as River Oaks.

The house cost him $10.5 million, and Joel and his wife also own a second $2.9 million mansion in Tanglewood, Houston. The River Oaks stone property boasts loads of unique and luxurious features which span across the large mansion, including 6 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, 5 open wood fireplaces, 3 elevators, a 1 bedroom guest house and outdoor pool and pool house.

It has a huge front door that is accompanied by impressive stone pillars, and it opens into a gorgeous entranceway. The home has a large backyard which is surrounded by tall green trees that make the space a little more private. It also has a large grey concrete driveway which has space to fit probably over 20 cars! What a perfect spot for his Ferrari. Joel Osteen house is 17,000 square feet and occupies a massive 1.86 acres. It is secluded by a large and beautiful ornamental fence. It is certainly more of a mega-mansion than just a house. And to think only 4 people live there.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/19/2020 9:43 Comments || Top||

#3  “It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty.”

This is why God invented Western Civilization, or so I'm told.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/19/2020 9:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Knowing that Bee likes to zing Osteen, I entered with that hand.

Guess we can't live Demolition Man without the phone booth thingies giving us pep talks.

*puts dollar in jar*
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/19/2020 11:07 Comments || Top||



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