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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 9, 2020 9:38:39 GMT -6
www.zerohedge.com/markets/furious-democrats-faced-daunting-question-will-they-dare-challenge-trumps-stimulus-ordersFurious Democrats Faced With A Daunting Question: Will They Dare To Challenge Trump's Stimulus Orders Three weeks ago, when looking at the staggering amount of cash piled up at the US Treasury thanks to a historic T-Bill issuance spree over the past three months, we said that it's just a matter of if not when Trump gives the green light to unleash a historic spending spree to put as much of this record $1.8 trillion in the hands of American people and, more importantly, voters ahead of the November 3 election: Democrats are pushing for a USD3 trillion package while the White House only wants USD1 trillion, and focused on a payroll tax cut rather than an extension to the USD600 weekly extension to unemployment benefits. The clock is ticking given we are days away from income supplements drying up at a time when millions are jobless and one in three Americans is not making a full rent or mortgage payment. Political speed is of the essence.
The US Treasury is of course sitting on a cash balance of USD1.8 trillion at this point. I don’t recall any taxes being paid to raise that sum – almost as if MMT were already a thing. (On which note, please see this report.) One wonders when this massive fiscal firepower is going to be unleashed; because surely no president wants to leave USD1.8 trillion to a successor?Surely not indeed, and sure enough with some $1.7 trillion in cash still held by the Treasury at the Fed, Trump did just as we expected and with Congress squabbling over the details and unable to bridge a $2 trillion gap between the HEALs and HEROs act... ... gave himself permission to trigger the next fiscal stimulus in what now appears to be a never-ending series of helicopter money. But now comes the hard part because with Trump having effectively trampled over any leverage the Democrats had to collapse the economy ahead of the elections by withholding money from tens of millions of unemployed workers, the president now faces a barrage of lawsuits from furious Democrats and liberal advocacy groups challenging the executive actions he issued on Saturday providing economic relief measures that many of his fiercest critics actually support, including weekly federal unemployment payments, student loan relief and efforts to protect tenants from eviction during the pandemic. As we reported last night, late on Saturday Trump unveiled an executive order and series of proposals which plan an extension of the weekly federal unemployment payments that lapsed in July; Trump has proposed financing $400 weekly payments, down from $600 under the original legislation, by redirecting funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and calling on the states to cover some of the costs with money left over from the first relief package. As a result, with the stroke of a pen - literally - Trump wrested core powers away from Congress, after weeks of discussions over a second pandemic rescue package stalled on Friday, putting democrats in the highly unpopular position of being the party that withheld funding from the people. Democratic in turn, claim they were pushing for a much more expansive relief plan - even if they refused to release a small package of much needed fund, and have called the orders an insufficient stopgap that will be difficult to implement. As a result, unwilling to give up the fight and more than willing to put American financial stability in jeopardy, the president’s directives are likely to get tied up in litigation over whether they violate core constitutional principles like the separation of powers. “If he could actually help people, that would be great,” said Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law professor at Harvard University. "But the Constitution isn’t a magic wand for the president. Anything as sweeping as what he’s promising is just pie in the sky." To critics, Trump's success in nullifying the influence of the two bickering parties looks illegal end run around Congress, which has spending power under the Constitution. House Democrats sued to prevent a similar effort by the White House to finance the construction of a wall on the Mexican border using funds redirected from the Defense Department, although the Supreme Court last week declined to halt the construction of the wall. “He’s basically saying he doesn’t need to rely on Congress’s power of the purse -- he can simply spend money, and he can spend it on whatever he wants,” Tribe said. “And that’s simply not the law" even though millions of Americans - and countless Democrats - will surely side with the man who just greenlighted $400/weekly into their bank accounts. But, as Bloomberg puts it, a key question is, who will sue? While they have criticized the orders as insufficient and impractical, congressional Democrats may view it as politically risky to block payments to Americans in distress. "It puts the administration in a different position than what they’ve been used to,” said Keith Whittington, an expert on politics and law at Princeton. "It’s smart politics." But states that planned to use pandemic relief funds for purposes other than unemployment payments might refuse to comply with Trump’s directive, potentially setting up a legal battle. The president seemed to acknowledge that possibility when he announced the orders on Saturday. "I guess maybe they’ll bring legal actions. But they won’t win,” he told reporters. “I think this will go very rapidly through the courts." One group that will surely sue the administration are landlords as one of the orders Trump issued appears to give federal housing officials broad discretion to prevent evictions. "Every legal aid lawyer in the country faced with a destitute client being evicted will slap this executive order on the judge’s table and say there should not be any eviction,” said Charles Tiefer, a law professor at the University of Baltimore. “And their landlords who have federally insured mortgages will argue back that it would be illegal for evictions to be halted.” In a third order, the president said he would defer payroll tax payments from September through December for people making less than $100,000 a year, a proposal that has met bipartisan opposition in Congress because it could endanger funding for Social Security and Medicare. The order also said the Treasury Department would “explore avenues” to eliminate the obligation to pay the tax altogether. That directive may well draw legal challenges. “The argument behind the payroll tax seems very aggressive,” said Whittington. “The breadth of the order clearly exceeds what Congress anticipated in giving the Treasury some discretion to delay tax deadlines in disaster areas.” Trump may have better luck defending the fourth of his executive actions, namely student loan relief. Existing federal statutes allow the secretary of education to temporarily delay loan repayments during periods of economic hardship. It’s unlikely that perennial opponents of Trump like liberal advocacy groups, congressional Democrats and Democratic state attorneys general would want to block that measure, and they might not even have legal standing to sue. “It is not clear who would be well situated to challenge the administration’s action,” Whittington said.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 9, 2020 9:42:28 GMT -6
Cue Democrat meltdown by President Trump's brilliant move, (which screwed the Democrats lol) : www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/08/09/schumer-trumps-executive-orders-a-big-show-but-it-doesnt-do-anything/Schumer: Trump’s Executive Orders a ‘Big Show but It Doesn’t Do Anything Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said President Donald Trump’s executive orders addressing the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic were “a big show,” but added that “it doesn’t do anything.” Schumer said, “We have this huge crisis, the largest economic crisis since the depression, the greatest health crisis since the pandemic. Unfortunately, the president’s executive orders described in one word could describe paltry. The event at the country club is what Trump does, a big show but it doesn’t do anything, as the American people look at these executive orders they don’t come close to doing the job. One, what they proposed and second what’s left out. What’s proposed. On the unemployment benefit, first, the $600 a week has been very successful, it’s kept millions of people out of poverty, pumped more money into the economy, consumer spending is probably the best thing in the economy.” He added, “Americans want to work. With 10%, 11% unemployment, you can’t find a job and people shouldn’t be given a pay cut. Second, this is an unworkable plan. Most states will take months to implement it because it’s brand new, sort of put together with cut and paste. To boot, it depletes the hurricane trust fund to defer this money to pay for this money at a time when we’re at the height of hurricane season.” ........................................................................ www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/08/09/pelosi-trumps-executive-orders-are-absurdly-unconstitutional/Pelosi: Trump’s Executive Orders Are ‘Absurdly Unconstitutional’ Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called President Donald Trump’s executive orders addressing issued Saturday the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic “absurdly unconstitutional.” Pelosi said, “First of all, he is saying states have the money. No, they don’t. They have expenses from the coronavirus. They have lost revenue. Because of that, they are firing health care workers, first responders, teachers, and the rest, sanitation, transportation because they don’t have the money. Second of all, everything is left out — our assistance to the schools, feeding the hungry, helping people who are going to be evicted. The president’s moratorium, he just did a study to look at a moratorium. Something’s wrong. Either the president doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Clearly, his aides don’t know what he is talking about, or something’s very wrong here about meeting the needs of the American people at this time.” She added, “The fact is, is that whether they’re legal or not takes time to figure out. I associate my remarks with what the senator who says, they’re unconstitutional slop. Right now, we want to address the needs of the American people. As my constitutional advisers tell me, they’re absurdly unconstitutional. Gut right now our focus —and that’s a parallel thing—right now the focus, the priority, has to be on, again, meeting the needs of the American people sufficiently allocating resources to send children to school, not threatening schools that if they don’t have actual attendance, they won’t get the federal dollars.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 9, 2020 9:44:33 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/asia/2020/08/09/azar-lands-in-taiwan-with-highest-level-u-s-delegation-for-decades/Azar Lands in Taiwan with Highest-Level U.S. Delegation for Decades U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar defied noisy protests from Beijing and touched down in Taiwan on Sunday to begin the highest-level visit by an American Cabinet official since formal diplomatic relations between Washington and Taipei ended in 1979. As Breitbart News reported, Secretary Azar will meet with senior Taiwan counterparts, coronavirus responders and experts on behalf of U.S. President Donald Trump. He will also meet President Tsai Ing-wen, an advocate for Taiwan being recognized as a sovereign nation who is loathed by China’s leaders for daring to speak with an independent voice on the world stage. Taiwan’s strong performance in handling its coronavirus outbreak has drawn global plaudits while highlighting its exclusion from the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) and other U.N. bodies at the behest of the Chinese Communist Party. Azar acknowledged that achievement before his departure, citing it as an example of good governance. “Taiwan has been a model of transparency, cooperation and collaboration in the international community,” he said. “Their response to COVID has been incredible.” The island state also worked to ensure it was available to help the U.S. as it readied for the challenge presented by the viral outbreak: Despite its close proximity to mainland Communist China, where the deadly global pandemic first originated last December in the regional city of Wuhan, the island of 23 million has recorded just 476 cases and seven deaths from COVID-19, largely as a result of rigorous testing and case tracing. It also tried to warn the world about the dangers posed by the coronavirus, something the W.H.O. chose to ignore due to its commitment to Communist China. Taiwan’s success was noted on Friday’s broadcast of “The McLaughlin Group,” when Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page praised Azar’s visit, citing the differences between how Taiwan and China handled the coronavirus outbreak, and the latter’s lack of transparency and deceit as to the extent of the crisis. Page stated it is “always rather satisfying to reassure Taiwan that we’re still here, we’re still with you.” Washington has billed the Azar trip as an opportunity to learn from Taiwan’s fight against the virus and to celebrate its progressive values. “This trip is a recognition of Taiwan’s success in combating COVID-19 and a testament to the shared beliefs that open and democratic societies are best equipped to combating disease threats like COVID-19,” a health and human services department official told reporters ahead of the visit. Beijing balks at any recognition of self-ruled Taiwan, which it claims as its own territory and vows to one day seize, by force if necessary. Last week it described Azar’s visit as a threat to “peace and stability” while China’s defense minister warned against Washington making any “dangerous moves,” as Breitbart News reported. Azar is the first health secretary to visit Taiwan and the first Cabinet member to visit in six years. In 2014, then-Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy visited Taiwan, sparking protests from Beijing.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 9, 2020 9:47:53 GMT -6
thefederalist.com/2020/08/07/chinese-owned-tiktok-wechat-have-45-days-to-sell-or-leave-united-states/Chinese-Owned TikTok, WeChat Have 45 Days To Sell Or Leave United States AUGUST 7, 2020 By Paulina Enck TikTok has 45 days from Thursday to find a buyer for its U.S. operations or the popular social media site will be banned, according to an executive order signed by President Trump on Thursday evening. He signed another order later that evening enacting a similar ban on WeChat, a social network, messaging platform, and forum for online payments. National security concerns have circled these platforms for months, due to both companies being owned by Chinese entities. TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese tech company, which has joint ventures with state-run entities. WeChat is owned by Chinese tech company Tencent, which faces accusations of censoring private conversations. Both face accusations of censoring content that is politically undesirable for the Chinese Communist Party and sharing user data with the Chinese government. In regards to the accusations of censorship, and its associated risks, the executive order against TikTok states: TikTok also reportedly censors content that the Chinese Communist Party deems politically sensitive, such as content concerning protests in Hong Kong and China’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities. This mobile application may also be used for disinformation campaigns that benefit the Chinese Communist Party, such as when TikTok videos spread debunked conspiracy theories about the origins of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus. As the executive order notes, the risks embedded in TikTok are well established, and government agencies both domestically and abroad have already taken steps to limit its potential influence: The Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration, and the United States Armed Forces have already banned the use of TikTok on Federal Government phones. The Government of India recently banned the use of TikTok and other Chinese mobile applications throughout the country; in a statement, India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology asserted that they were ‘stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users’ data in an unauthorized manner to servers which have locations outside India.’ American companies and organizations have begun banning TikTok on their devices. WeChat is likewise already limited due to security and privacy fears. The WeChat executive order notes: WeChat, like TikTok, also reportedly censors content that the Chinese Communist Party deems politically sensitive and may also be used for disinformation campaigns that benefit the Chinese Communist Party. These risks have led other countries, including Australia and India, to begin restricting or banning the use of WeChat. The United States must take aggressive action against the owner of WeChat to protect our national security. There is, however, hope in the form of Microsoft for the millions of teens who could not imagine a world without the bizarrely popular TikTok. The American tech giant has expressed interest in purchasing TikTok’s operations in the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. ByteDance and Microsoft have until September 15 to finalize their deal, or TikTok will be banned in the United States. As of now, there is no such deal to purchase WeChat’s business interests outside of China.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 9, 2020 15:05:04 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/08/09/steve-mnuchin-democrats-donald-trump-executive-orders-coronavirus-relief/Steve Mnuchin: Democrats Will Have ‘A Lot Of Explaining To Do’ If They Sue To Stop Trump Executive Orders Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told “Fox News Sunday” that Democrats will have “a lot of explaining to do” if they bring a lawsuit to stop President Donald Trump’s executive orders on coronavirus relief. After lawmakers on both sides of the aisle failed to reach a deal on a fourth coronavirus stimulus package, Trump responded by signing four executive orders Saturday. These included a payroll tax cut holiday through the end of the year, a prohibition on evictions, student loan relief, and $400 per week for unemployed workers. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi echoed Republican Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse in calling Trump’s orders “unconstitutional slop” and has suggested Democrats could sue to stop them. (RELATED: ‘Unconstitutional Slop’: Pelosi Blasts Trump Executive Orders On Coronavirus Relief) “What makes you think that spending over $100 billion that Congress has not appropriated for these specific purposes is legal, and what happens if there’s a court suit and all of the actions that the president took yesterday are blocked by a federal court?” asked Fox News anchor Chris Wallace. WATCH: “Let me just say we’ve cleared with the office of legal counsel all these actions before they went to the president,” Mnuchin said. “The president knew unemployment insurance was ending. He said, ‘let’s continue with $400.’ By the way, the 25% from the states, they can either take that out of the money we’ve already given them for the president can waive that. We’ve been told by the states they can get this up and running immediately.” The Treasury secretary then seemed to dare Democrats to challenge the administration in court, suggesting that such a move would invite a PR disaster. “And I would say if the Democrats want to challenge us in court and hold up unemployment benefits to those hard-working Americans that are out of a job because of COVID, they’re going to have a lot of explaining to do,” he said. (RELATED: Chris Wallace: Trump, GOP Could Be Putting Democrats In ‘Difficult Political Position’ On Coronavirus Relief Funds) Mnuchin defended the $400 as significantly higher than the “$25 top-up” provided during the Great Recession under President Obama.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 9, 2020 15:17:49 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/health/2020/08/09/watch-hundreds-march-through-west-hollywood-during-rescue-america-rally/WATCH: Hundreds March Through West Hollywood During ‘Rescue America’ Rally Hundreds of Americans marched from West Hollywood to Beverly Hills on Saturday to show their love for the country. The group gathered around 1 p.m. and quickly grew from about 200 to 400 people by 2 p.m., according to CBS Los Angeles. The Walk Away Campaign organized the event to “show the radical left that they do not own America’s streets and that our country is filled with kind, loving, big-hearted Americans of every race, religion, background, and creed,” its website read. The site continued: #WalkAway Foundation is dedicated to pushing back on the radical Left. We will no longer tolerate the destruction of property and lives, the villainization of law enforcement, and the weaponization of tragedies. Our silence has been our consent! It is time for the Silent Majority to become UNSILENT! The campaign tweeted video footage Saturday evening of the marchers holding “#WalkAway Walk Toward Civility” signs and others that read things such as “Former Democrat, Red Forever”: “What we did in Los Angeles earlier today was astounding. Historical. Epic. I have much to say about it,” campaign founder Brandon Straka wrote on Facebook. “I am so proud. It was absolutely revolutionary.” The campaign also tweeted video of the marchers, carrying American flags and Trump flags, walking down a sidewalk as drivers honked in support: Actor Scott Baio also addressed the crowd and said he loved America and wanted to save it because “I love that we’re a God-fearing nation. I love that we’re a law-abiding nation. I love our traditional values.” When Fox 11 reporter Bill Melugin called the march a “right wing event” on Twitter, Straka replied and said the campaign was “proud to accept Trump supporters & right wingers into our family, but we are not a right wing or a Trump movement”: “So Los Angeles came out today to rescue America,” Straka commented during a video he took of the crowd: “This is absolutely incredible… Because as we have watched for months, our cities, our states, our country being demolished and destroyed. Feeling outnumbered, feeling demoralized, feeling like we were completely outnumbered… look at this,” he noted. “These people are energized. These people are ready,” Straka said of the marchers.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 9, 2020 15:19:27 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/local/2020/08/09/south-dakota-back-blue-rally-sees-generous-turnout/South Dakota ‘Back the Blue’ Rally Sees Generous Turnout A Sioux Falls, South Dakota, group came together to organize a “Back the Blue” rally to show support for law enforcement on Saturday. There was a generous turnout at the rally, where people lined the streets near the Law Enforcement Center in Sioux Falls and waved American flags and other flags showing support for law enforcement. People holding signs that read “Defend the Police” and “We Back the Blue” could also be seen along the streets. Organizers of the rally also began raising money to purchase supplies for Sioux Falls law enforcement. “My dad’s a former police officer and I have some other friends that are law enforcement in that area. So, this is the least that I can do to, or most I can do, to say ‘hey, thank you for protecting everybody,’” Ashley Dickerson, a rally participant, told KELO. There was also a group of 20 counterprotesters who gathered across the street. This city and others across the country have joined together to demonstrate their gratitude for law enforcement amid an ongoing national debate about police brutality and accountability. On Thursday, a “Back the Blue” rally in Massachusetts saw record turnout.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 9, 2020 15:20:07 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/08/09/maxine-waters-trumps-executive-orders-extraordinarily-misleading-constitutionality-questionable/Maxine Waters: Trump’s Executive Orders ‘Extraordinarily Misleading,’ Constitutionality Questionable Sunday on MSNBC, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said President Donald Trump’s executive orders addressing the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic were “extraordinarily misleading.” Waters said, “The president’s executive orders are questionable. First of all, it’s questionable whether or not he could do what he’s attempting to go constitutionality. But in addition to that, they’re extraordinarily misleading. I am so focused on rental assistance.” Water added, “The eviction moratorium is over. This president is playing politics with this issue.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 10, 2020 7:18:43 GMT -6
Attorney General Bill Barr was Mark Levin’s guest on Life, Liberty and Levin on Sunday night.
Barr trashed the Democrats, Antifa terrorists and the media during this outstanding interview.
Barr said the Democrats are now the “Rousseauian Revolutionary Party that believes in tearing down the system. They’re interested in complete political victory. They’re not interested in compromise. They’re not interested in dialectic exchange of views… It’s a secular religion. They view their political opponents as evil because we stand in the way of their utopia that they’re trying to reach. That’s what gives the intensity to the partisan feelings people feel today.”
AG Barr added, “I said during my hearing, can any of you just come out and say it’s not OK to burn down federal courthouses?… Not one of them was able to come out and say it’s not right to burn down federal courthouses…
On the Democrat Party Resistance, Attorney General Bill Barr had this to say, “They were trying to impeach him from day one. They have done everything they can. They’ve shredded the norms from our system to do what they can to drive him from office and to dabilitate his administration. And I think its because of the desire for power.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 10, 2020 9:21:46 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 10, 2020 10:13:49 GMT -6
She's just ticked off because President Trump outplayed her and put her & the Democrats into a no win situation. thefederalist.com/2020/08/10/nancy-pelosi-snaps-at-media-as-she-loses-covid-aid-showdown-with-trump/Nancy Pelosi Snaps At Media As She Loses COVID Aid Showdown With Trump AUGUST 10, 2020 By Jordan Davidson Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi showed her outrage at President Trump’s recent executive actions concerning COVID-19 aid on “Fox News Sunday” with Chris Wallace after Congress failed to negotiate and pass their own bill. While Trump’s action boosted unemployment benefits, created a 120-day eviction moratorium, a payroll tax holiday until the end of the year, and extended student loan relief, Pelosi accused him of failing to “comprehend the seriousness or the urgency of the health and economic crises facing working families.” “We’re disappointed that instead of putting in the work to solve Americans’ problems, the President instead chose to stay on his luxury golf course to announce unworkable, weak and narrow policy announcements to slash the unemployment benefits that millions desperately need and endanger seniors’ Social Security and Medicare,” Pelosi said along side Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Despite Pelosi’s disdain with Trump’s actions, calling them an “illusion,” Wallace noted that it was better than “having no bill at all,” and that “not coming to any agreement wasn’t going to provide any of the things that you want either.” “You’re known as a master negotiator, but didn’t you mess this one up?” Wallace asked. “You knew that the president was threatening to take this executive action. I understand that you weren’t going to get everything you wanted and didn’t get everything you wanted, but should you have cut a deal?” Pelosi, visibly upset by Wallace’s question, told Wallace he “clearly” did not “have an understanding of what is happening.” While Pelosi claims to be a leader who wanted to pass more aid to Americans, she and other Democrats refused to negotiate their requested $3.4 trillion in aid down closer to the Republican proposed $1 trillion, leaving Congress in a gridlock as they adjourned until September. “[The Democrats] can’t come up with any significant cuts in their bill,” White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said. “What they want is a $2.5 trillion blank check.” Pelosi also reacted to questions about the negotiations in an interview with PBS on Friday by accosting anchor Judy Woodruff for “playing devil’s advocate” when challenging Pelosi about the Democrats’ stance. In the interview, Pelosi accused Woodruff being an “advocate” of congressional Republicans after Woodruff suggested that the GOP demonstrated flexibility in the allocations of the bill and pointed out that money designated by Congress in the spring is still waiting to be spent. “Democrats want more money, Republicans want a lot less,” Woodruff began. “They are saying they’re willing to show flexibility, and they’re also saying a lot of the money that was passed in the spring, Madam Speaker, has not even been spent yet.” “Well, if you want to be an advocate for them, Judy, if you want to be an advocate for them, listen to what the facts are,” Pelosi snapped back. “The point is, we have a bill that meets the needs of the American people. It’s called the HEROES Act. They [Republicans] don’t even want to do state and local, and when they do, it’s very meager and they want to revert money from before,” she added. Despite the lack of cooperation and negotiation from Pelosi, Schumer, and other congressional Democrats, Pelosi told MSNBC on Friday that she believes her party’s demands for aid are not unreasonable. “No, we haven’t overplayed our hand,” Pelosi stated. “We are not overplaying our hand when we’re factually presenting what our needs are for our families, for our teachers, for our schools, for ending the virus.” Trump pointed out on Monday morning that it wasn’t until he stepped in that Pelosi and Schumer showed interest in coming to the negotiation table again. “So now Schumer and Pelosi want to meet to make a deal. Amazing how it all works, isn’t it. Where have they been for the last 4 weeks when they were ‘hardliners,’ and only wanted BAILOUT MONEY for Democrat run states and cities that are failing badly? They know my phone number!” he tweeted.
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Post by kcrufnek on Aug 10, 2020 11:45:50 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/health/2020/08/09/watch-hundreds-march-through-west-hollywood-during-rescue-america-rally/WATCH: Hundreds March Through West Hollywood During ‘Rescue America’ Rally Hundreds of Americans marched from West Hollywood to Beverly Hills on Saturday to show their love for the country. The group gathered around 1 p.m. and quickly grew from about 200 to 400 people by 2 p.m., according to CBS Los Angeles. The Walk Away Campaign organized the event to “show the radical left that they do not own America’s streets and that our country is filled with kind, loving, big-hearted Americans of every race, religion, background, and creed,” its website read. The site continued: #WalkAway Foundation is dedicated to pushing back on the radical Left. We will no longer tolerate the destruction of property and lives, the villainization of law enforcement, and the weaponization of tragedies. Our silence has been our consent! It is time for the Silent Majority to become UNSILENT! The campaign tweeted video footage Saturday evening of the marchers holding “#WalkAway Walk Toward Civility” signs and others that read things such as “Former Democrat, Red Forever”: “What we did in Los Angeles earlier today was astounding. Historical. Epic. I have much to say about it,” campaign founder Brandon Straka wrote on Facebook. “I am so proud. It was absolutely revolutionary.” The campaign also tweeted video of the marchers, carrying American flags and Trump flags, walking down a sidewalk as drivers honked in support: Actor Scott Baio also addressed the crowd and said he loved America and wanted to save it because “I love that we’re a God-fearing nation. I love that we’re a law-abiding nation. I love our traditional values.” When Fox 11 reporter Bill Melugin called the march a “right wing event” on Twitter, Straka replied and said the campaign was “proud to accept Trump supporters & right wingers into our family, but we are not a right wing or a Trump movement”: “So Los Angeles came out today to rescue America,” Straka commented during a video he took of the crowd: “This is absolutely incredible… Because as we have watched for months, our cities, our states, our country being demolished and destroyed. Feeling outnumbered, feeling demoralized, feeling like we were completely outnumbered… look at this,” he noted. “These people are energized. These people are ready,” Straka said of the marchers.
Little tough when the biggest name is Chachi.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 10, 2020 14:39:54 GMT -6
Black Americans who support President Trump speak out after a meeting with him and share their experiences of what brought them to the conservative movement.
One of his supporters stated,”That was one of the greatest experiences of my life. I would never forget that.”
Conservative talk show host Candace Owens was there and shared, “It was wonderful and it was beautiful.” Sarcastically added, “Look at all these Uncle Toms right? Freethinking blacks.”
A man shared, “I just met the president. Man, he told me I was the flyest guy in the room. It was an honor. Thank you. You know, I didn’t think I would be here, guy from the streets in the White House.”
Another supporter also said, “I never would think I’d be one of the first in my family to be invited to the White House as a Black man. You know, not too many people could say in black families. So it’s good that that actually happened. You know, I made history in my family.”
After listening to Trump, one Black Trump supporter stated, “Got a chance to listen to all the things that he’s done for the Black community. And I’m just grateful for this president. I didn’t support him at the last election. But after seeing what he’s done and that speech he gave in there, he’s convinced me I’m voting for him in 2020.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 10, 2020 14:55:23 GMT -6
www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-win-executive-orders-pelosi-schumer-liz-peekLiz Peek: Trump's big win on relief orders – here's why Pelosi, Schumer are so unhappy The president understands the urgency – and he understands political hardball What a smackdown! Furious that Democrat leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer were blocking a bill to help Americans through the COVID-19 crisis, President Trump stepped up and got the job done, all by himself. Over the weekend, he issued four executive orders that would extend modified unemployment relief to millions who are out of work, protect many from eviction from their homes, provide continued relief from student loan debt and suspend payroll taxes for employers and those earning less than $100,000. It may not be enough, but it was more than Democrats were offering. ANDY PUZDER: TRUMP CORONAVIRUS EXECUTIVE ORDERS AID STRUGGLING FAMILIES, AFTER DEMS BLOCK ACTION IN CONGRESS This made House Speaker Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Schumer, D-N.Y., very, very unhappy. Pelosi called Trump’s measures “illusions”; sorry, Madam Speaker, for families in need, an extra $400 per week unemployment pay is absolutely real, and extremely welcome. The president boxed the Democrats in – how can they possibly challenge his orders or take his mandated benefits away from people? The chagrined duo whined that Trump “still does not comprehend the seriousness or the urgency of the health and economic crises facing working families.” CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR OPINION NEWSLETTER On the contrary, the president understands the urgency very well, and also understands political hardball. Instead of compromising on legislation that would immediately help Americans pummeled by the coronavirus, Pelosi and Schumer prioritized issues that had nothing to do with the well-being of the nation. They pressed instead to ban ID requirements and signature verification for voters – measures that, as the president noted, would encourage increased fraud in our elections, and that Republicans would never accept. More from Opinion Cabot Phillips: ‘Cancel culture’ distorts history to portray US as evil nation that must be transformed Paul Packer & Herschel Walker: Jews and Black Americans should fight racism and anti-Semitism together Newt Gingrich: New York City crime skyrockets as Mayor de Blasio sides with criminals against cops Mainly, Pelosi and Schumer stonewalled because they want to torpedo the U.S. economy. Democrats know that creating jobs is Trump’s signature achievement, and also the most important issue to voters. By blocking the next round of stimulus, they intentionally undermined the financial security of tens of millions of Americans. They don’t care; their priority is beating President Trump. The American people be damned. But aren’t Democrat leaders confident they will oust Trump in November? Hasn’t that been their message of late? That we will see not just a blue wave, but a blue tsunami, taking over the Senate as well as the Oval Office? That faux optimism is entirely manufactured, aimed at driving down turnout and fundraising from disheartened Republicans. Democrats know their candidate’s brief surge is already fading. Polling shows Joe Biden’s lead slipping both nationally and in crucial swing states. Polling shows Joe Biden’s lead slipping both nationally and in crucial swing states. In late July, the Real Clear Politics average of national polls gave him a nine-point lead; that gap is now six points. Two of the newest polls show Biden ahead by only three points. Biden is also losing ground in swing states like Wisconsin, Florida and Michigan. Democrats read these polls. They know this race will be close, which is why they must keep the economy battened down. The last thing they want is another stimulus measure that would pump more money into voters’ pockets. Democrats are terrified that in spite of the dreadful disease, the continued lockdowns from blue-state governors and blue-city mayors, the teachers unions’ refusal to go back to work – and despite the riots that have convulsed many of our cities – the economy is coming back to life. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slams Trump’s executive order as an ‘illusion’Video Economists and investors are dumbfounded at the resilience of the American consumer. Nearly every economic report in recent weeks has beaten forecasts, including the most recent jobs number. There were 1.8 million jobs created in July; the experts were looking for 1.6 million. The over-achievement reflects the unprecedented nature of the recession. This country has never voluntarily closed up shop, but that’s what our politicians did to fight the virus. We may never know if that was the correct response; Sweden’s experience suggests that such draconian measures might not have been necessary. Who knows? What we do know is that Democrats were giddy to see Trump’s accomplishments – unemployment at a 50-year low, rising incomes and growth, a surge in manufacturing -- buried in the coronavirus rubble. They are terrified he might do it again, just in time for the election. They are right to be worried. Surveys show that inventories are at six-year lows, which is propelling manufacturing higher. The ISM Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index for July posted the best reading since March 2019 by climbing to 54.2 from 52.6 in June and topping the consensus estimate of 53.6. New orders accelerated, too. Housing is booming and auto sales are strong. Corporate earnings, though clobbered by the shutdowns, have come in better than expected and estimates for the balance of the year have moved substantially higher. Andy Puzder reacts to Trump executive orderVideo COVID cases appear to have peaked, suggesting the dampening impact from a resurgence in some states may dissipate. Also, the U.S. is not the only country seeing a reacceleration in activity. China and Europe are also trending higher. According to ISI Evercore’s Ed Hyman, “In just three months, the Global Composite PMI plunged 26 points. And in just three months it has rebounded 25 points, to 50.8. Virtually no one expected this much of a rebound, which helps explain why the stock market has surged.” Note that any reading over 50 signals expansion. The last time we had a synchronized global pickup, U.S. growth soared. That could happen again. Meanwhile, millions of Americans are horrified by the destruction in Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis and other cities mismanaged by liberal Democrats. The push to defund the police and to let criminals out of jail has let loose a plague of violent crime in cities like New York that had managed for years to keep the streets safe. None of this helps Biden. Democrats understand that the chaos will drive away voters. Ted Wheeler, the liberal mayor of Portland, recently warned rioters that they were no longer protesting, but instead were trying to “commit murder”; he also warned them of serving as “a prop for the reelection campaign of Donald Trump.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 11, 2020 5:03:23 GMT -6
President Trump was asked if he was worried about Russia meddling in the 2020 election. The left is still obsessed with Russia and does not have the slightest interest in Obama’s historic meddling in the 2016 election.
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Trump responded by slamming Democrats.
President Trump answered, “I’ll tell you who’s meddling in our elections. The Democrats are meddling for wanting and insisting on sending mail-in ballots where there’s corruption all over the place. If you check what happened in New York, a relatively small race with Carolyn Maloney. And they called her the winner the other day because I was mentioning it at conferences and getting a lot of action on that statement. So they declared her the winner. And they have no idea who won. And the person, her opponent, is very angry. But they had mail-in voting. And they had hundreds and I think even thousands of ballots that are missing, that were fraudulent. Take a look at the Carolyn Maloney race. Take a look at Patterson, New Jersey. Take a look at the one here in Virginia where they mailed out 500,000 applications and they’re going to people who aren’t supposed to be getting an application.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 11, 2020 9:48:26 GMT -6
thefederalist.com/2020/08/11/why-democrats-have-started-to-cave-on-reopening-schools/Why Democrats Have Started To Cave On Reopening Schools The pressure to reopen schools is on everywhere now that New York is doing it. This means something else big: Their hard opposition to school reopenings is politically devastating for Democrats. By Joy Pullmann AUGUST 11, 2020 Prominent Democrat politicians have started making huge concessions on reopening schools. Back in May, Democrats pounced after President Trump supported reopening. Despite the data finding precisely the opposite, it quickly became the Democrat-media complex line that opening schools this fall would be preposterously dangerous to children and teachers. In July, when New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a plan to put the city’s 1.1 million school kids back in schools half the week and “online learning” the rest of the week, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo picked a public fight with him, saying, “If anybody sat here today and told you that they could reopen the school in September, that would be reckless and negligent of that person.” Then on Friday, Cuomo cleared schools to open this fall, just a few weeks after making uncertain noises about the prospect as teachers unions breathed down his neck. That same day, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s minority leader, joined the Democrat messaging reversal: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tucked the posture shift into a Saturday response to Trump’s latest executive orders, saying “these announcements do…nothing to reopen schools,” as if Democrats have been all along supporting school reopenings instead of the opposite. Just a few weeks ago, Pelosi was on TV bashing Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for encouraging school reopenings, saying, falsely, “Going back to school presents the biggest risk for the spread of the coronavirus. They ignore science and they ignore governance in order to make this happen.” What gives? For one thing, New York’s richest people have fled during the lockdowns. If their kids’ tony public schools don’t offer personal instruction or look likely to maintain the chaos of rolling lockdown brownouts, those wealthy people have better choices. They can stay in their vacation houses or newly bought mansions in states that aren’t locked down. They can hire pod teachers or private schools. And the longer they stay outside New York City and start to make friends and get used to a new place, the less likely they are to ever return. Cuomo is well aware of this. “I literally talk to people all day long who are now in their Hamptons house who also lived here, or in their Hudson Valley house, or in their Connecticut weekend house, and I say, ‘You got to come back! We’ll go to dinner! I’ll buy you a drink! Come over, I’ll cook!’” Cuomo revealed in a recent news conference. “They’re not coming back right now. And you know what else they’re thinking? ‘If I stay there, I’ll pay a lower income tax,’ because they don’t pay the New York City surcharge.” Reopening means swimming against their anti-Trump base and teachers union donors’ full-court press to amp school funding and slash teacher duties. That means the below-surface financial and political pressure Cuomo, Pelosi, and Schumer are under to make this kind of a reversal must be huge. It’s likely coming from not only internal polling but also early information about just how many people have left New York and New York City, as well as interpersonal intelligence from their influential social circles. This means three things. First, the pressure to reopen schools is on everywhere now that New York is doing it. Second, Democrats’ hard opposition to school reopenings has been politically devastating. Third, all the push polls and media scaremongering promoting the idea that most parents shouldn’t and wouldn’t send their kids back to school have failed. One of the most significant reasons it failed is that parents’ experience with online pandemic schooling was a horror show. Another is that private schools have clearly outpaced public schools’ response to coronavirus. That’s both in offering quality online instruction when forced to close, and in seeking to remain open as much and as safely as possible, all while teachers unions have been staging embarrassing tantrums over people on public payroll actually having to do their jobs to get paid, even though epidemiologists have noted “there is no recorded case worldwide of a teacher catching the coronavirus from a pupil.” Public schools have been so clearly shown up by private schools during the coronavirus panic that state and local officials have begun to target them specifically, and have carefully included them in all onerous government burdens on school reopenings, to reduce their embarrassment and bring private schools down to the public school level as much as possible. The most prominent recent example is in Maryland, where a local bureaucrat in one of the nation’s richest counties specifically banned private schools from safely teaching children in person, and is now battling with the state’s Republican governor over the edict. In North Carolina, many private schools are offering safe, face-to-face, five-day instruction, while most public schools are not. Part of this is just that government bureaucrats hate individuals making their own decisions based on their own circumstances (a major reason for mask mandates, by the way). But also they’re scared because the coronavirus panic is expanding the massive fault lines inside public schooling. And public schools are a feeder system for Democrat support. Before coronavirus hit, a near-majority of parents already thought a private school would be better for their kids than public school. People really are not happy with public education. Mostly they do it because they think it’s cheap. But politicians’ handling of coronavirus has shown that public education is actually very expensive. The instability, the mismanagement, the lying, the public manipulation, all of it has tipped many people’s latent dissatisfaction with public schooling into open dissatisfaction. It’s a catalyst. Now many more people have decided to get their kids out of there, either by homeschooling, moving school districts, forming “pandemic pods,” or finally trying a private school. Like all the rich people leaving locked-down locales, parents removing kids from locked-down public schools have scared public officials. If just 10 percent of public-school kids homeschool or join a private school for two years, that is a watershed moment for the social undercurrent of animosity towards public schools. That is especially true in the government funding era we’re entering, in which government debt and health and pension promises are set to gobble up education dollars faster than ever, a dynamic that was already ruinous before it was accelerated further by the coronavirus. This is dangerous to Democrats’ political dominance because the education system tilts voters their way through cultural Marxism, and because public education is a huge source of Democrat campaign volunteers and funds. Now Democrats have detached people from their conveyor belt. The consequences will be huge. Reopening public schools the way Democrats are doing is not going to stave off this tsunami, either. New York City’s “reopening,” for example, includes several days per week of distasteful online instruction, as well as a rule that a school will close for two weeks any time two inmates test positive for COVID. That’s a recipe for endless school brownouts that will drive parents and kids nuts. Humans simply can’t live under this manufactured instability, by the pen and phone of whatever self-appointed petty little dictators feel like changing today. Democrats are trying to have it both ways. They’ve learned that parents are not going to put up with putting school indefinitely on hold when everything from swimming to climbing stairs is more dangerous to children. But they also want to maintain the fiction that coronavirus is an emergency situation that requires tossing trillions of dollars in deficit funding out of helicopters, keeping people cooped up and restive as an election nears, and purposefully choking the nation’s best economy since before Barack Obama got his hands on it. Democrats are their own worst enemy. The problem is, the rest of us are so often their collateral damage.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 11, 2020 9:52:54 GMT -6
www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/08/10/good-news-dr-scott-atlas-added-to-coronavirus-task-force/RUSH: It looks like Sweden is over the COVID-19 circumstance. And if that’s the case, then it portends good news for the rest of the world. Scott Atlas is now part of the coronavirus task force meeting with the president. And he is countering Fauci. I have to tell you something, folks, just to show you how pervasive this is.
…Scott Atlas is a brilliant guy and he thinks by early October that we could well be burned out of COVID. In his opinion, we could see it turn inert. And his reason for this, some underappreciated T-cell, along with prior immunities. I’m not versed enough to understand it, but I’m just repeating to you what he says. We could see by early October COVID-19 turn inert or dormant largely due to some underappreciated T-cell, prior immunities from exposure to coronavirus, meaning colds and so forth, that’s one of the things we’re learning. Some people who have come down with a cold over the course of the summer miraculously end up less likely to get COVID-19, according to Scott Atlas. And people that get colds, that’s a large portion of the population.Dr. Atlas stated a long time ago what we all knew then and now, that young people are at an extremely low risk of contracting the coronavirus and dying from the coronavirus. Dr. Atlas was on FOX News and shared his thoughts:
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Post by kcrufnek on Aug 11, 2020 11:04:53 GMT -6
www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/08/10/good-news-dr-scott-atlas-added-to-coronavirus-task-force/RUSH: It looks like Sweden is over the COVID-19 circumstance. And if that’s the case, then it portends good news for the rest of the world. Scott Atlas is now part of the coronavirus task force meeting with the president. And he is countering Fauci. I have to tell you something, folks, just to show you how pervasive this is.
…Scott Atlas is a brilliant guy and he thinks by early October that we could well be burned out of COVID. In his opinion, we could see it turn inert. And his reason for this, some underappreciated T-cell, along with prior immunities. I’m not versed enough to understand it, but I’m just repeating to you what he says. We could see by early October COVID-19 turn inert or dormant largely due to some underappreciated T-cell, prior immunities from exposure to coronavirus, meaning colds and so forth, that’s one of the things we’re learning. Some people who have come down with a cold over the course of the summer miraculously end up less likely to get COVID-19, according to Scott Atlas. And people that get colds, that’s a large portion of the population.Dr. Atlas stated a long time ago what we all knew then and now, that young people are at an extremely low risk of contracting the coronavirus and dying from the coronavirus. Dr. Atlas was on FOX News and shared his thoughts:
Hopefully this guys isn't in love with his press clippings.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 12, 2020 5:56:33 GMT -6
www.nationalreview.com/news/coronavirus-trump-announces-deal-with-moderna-for-100-million-doses-covid-19-vaccine/Trump Announces Deal With Moderna for 100 Million Doses of Coronavirus Vaccine By BRITTANY BERNSTEIN August 11, 2020 6:54 PM President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that the U.S. government has signed a $1.5 billion deal to purchase 100 million doses of Moderna’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine. “We are investing in the development and manufacture of the top six vaccine candidates to ensure rapid delivery. The military is ready to go, they’re ready to deliver a vaccine to Americans as soon as one is fully approved by the FDA and we’re very close to that approval,” Trump said during a press conference at the White House. Moderna said the deal for its vaccine, which is currently in late-stage human trials, will give the federal government the option to purchase up to an additional 400 million doses. The U.S. has already invested $955 million to develop Moderna’s vaccine, bringing its total investment up to $2.48 billion, the company said in a press release Tuesday. Through Operation Warp Speed — the Trump administration’s effort to accelerate the development, manufacturing and distribution of coronavirus vaccines and treatments — the government has now purchased initial batches of vaccines from Moderna, GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi, Pfizer, Novavax, Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca. “In creating a vaccine portfolio for Operation Warp Speed, the Trump Administration is increasing the likelihood that the United States will have at least one safe, effective vaccine by 2021,” said HHS Secretary Alex Azar in a press release. “Today’s investment represents the next step in supporting this vaccine candidate all the way from early development by Moderna and the National Institutes of Health, through clinical trials, and now large-scale manufacturing, with the potential to bring hundreds of millions of safe and effective doses to the American people.” The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services previously pledged $1.95 billion to Pfizer and biotech firm BioNTech to produce and deliver 100 million doses of their coronavirus vaccine, with the option to purchase an additional 500 million doses. HHS then announced a $1 billion deal with Johnson & Johnson for 100 million doses of its vaccine, with the option for an additional 200 million, CNBC reported.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 13, 2020 2:57:31 GMT -6
finance.yahoo.com/news/stock-market-news-live-august-12-2020-221622790.html?soc_src=community&soc_trk=maStocks jumped Wednesday, and the S&P 500 briefly rallied above 3,386.15 Wednesday afternoon to eclipse its record closing high from February 19. The blue-chip index has now climbed about 50% from its March low. Leadership in the S&P 500 flipped back to the technology and health-care sectors, unwinding a rotation into cyclicals that had begun last week. Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT) led gains in the Dow, and the Nasdaq outperformed.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 14, 2020 7:49:06 GMT -6
President Trump on Thursday announced a new peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
This is a major step toward peace in the Middle East.
Shots fired lol:
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 14, 2020 7:53:44 GMT -6
During this morning’s announcement Trump son-in-law and negotiator Jared Kushner told reporters there may be another peace deal in the works. Via HotAir: hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2020/08/13/kushner-theres-good-chance-another-country-will-make-deal-israel-coming-days/Kushner: There’s a good chance another country will make a deal with Israel in the coming days ALLAHPUNDIT Posted at 6:01 pm on August 13, 2020 2020 saved its weirdest twist for August: Jared Kushner’s going to win a Nobel prize. They’ll never give it to Trump, not even if he negotiates world peace. But Jared, the White House’s foremost Democrat, might be acceptable to the committee. His most intriguing comments this morning after normalized relations between Israel and the UAE were announced haven’t been noticed much elsewhere, to my surprise: “There is a good chance that another country could make a deal with Israel in the coming days,” Kushner said at the White House. Speaking to reporters after he unveiled the historic agreement, Trump suggested more diplomatic breakthroughs between Israel and its Muslim neighbors in the region were expected. “Things are happening that I can’t talk talk about,” he said. The Israel/UAE deal is the biggest foreign policy achievement of Trump’s presidency. Could there be a bigger one within the week? It’s well known that Kushner is buddies with Saudi Arabia’s murderous “reformer,” Mohammed bin Salman. Normalized relations between Israel and the Kingdom would be the foreign policy coup of the decade, a tectonic shift in the Middle East — and yet a predictable one in a way, in that both Israel and the KSA long ago concluded that they each have more to fear from Iran than from each other. I agree with Ed, though, that a deal between them is all but unimaginable. The Kingdom may be a U.S. client state but it’s not a backbencher like the UAE is. It’s the seat of Islam and the global hub of Wahhabism. Were they to normalize relations with Israel, it would feel as if all of Sunni Islam were doing so, which would set off every jihadist nut on the planet. If the Saudis ever make nice with Tel Aviv, it’ll be because many other dominoes in the region have already fallen and made it safe(r) to do so. The smart money on whom Kushner has in mind is Qatar, where the U.S. has military bases and which has played diplomatic roles for the White House before, such as by hosting U.S./Taliban talks. But an interesting alternative possibility is Bahrain, the headquarters for the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet and a country with an unusual sectarian arrangement. A majority of the population is Shiite but the king is Sunni, and a Sunni king who’s worried about Iran stirring unrest among his Shiite natives might have extra incentive to join a U.S-Israel-Sunni anti-Iran coalition. Either way, I think Trump and Kushner want a second country to follow the UAE in order to create some momentum towards peace, in the belief that the more Sunni nations normalize relations with Israel, the easier it is for holdouts to break their own embargoes and normalize as well. There’s hope for a “domino effect” here. ADVERTISEMENT Reaction in ObamaWorld to the news was split. Ben Rhodes was, well, Ben Rhodes-ish… …but Joe Biden had to be more careful, not wanting to praise Trump for an achievement but also not wanting to scare off pro-Israel voters by criticizing the deal. In the end he settled on applause — for Israel and the UAE, not the White House. He also took some credit for the breakthrough: Obama and Biden do deserve “credit,” just not in the way Biden claims. I think their years-long effort to court Iran spooked the Sunni states so badly that the looming prospect of a Biden presidency has the leaders of those states considering bold gambits right now like the one we saw this morning. If you’re expecting your patrons in Washington to shift from trying to isolate Iran to trying to build relations with Iran come January, you might want to seize the opportunity immediately to build an anti-Iran alliance with other regional powers. And of course, by doing this on Trump’s watch, you hand him a major diplomatic victory which he can tout to voters, and maybe even parlay into being reelected. Rhodes is wrong about a lot of stuff he’s not wrong about Israel and the UAE favoring Trump over Biden. ADVERTISEMENT In fact, that may be the strongest argument for believing that an Israel/Saudi deal might be in the works. Bin Salman surely understands that he’s better off with Trump than with any Democratic administration. Not only is a Trump-led U.S. a staunch ally against Iran, Trump won’t even complain when the Saudis decide to murder journalists while they’re visiting the local consulate. I think Noam Blum’s right too about Israel’s extra incentive to do the deal:
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 14, 2020 7:54:13 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 14, 2020 11:10:51 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/08/14/hungary-agrees-1-billion-purchase-contract-us/Hungary Agrees $1 Billion Missile Contract with the U.S. Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s government will buy $1 billion worth of missiles from the U.S. — the largest arms deal ever between the two countries. U.S. Ambassador to Hungary David Cornstein signed a memorandum alongside Hungarian Defence Minister Tibor Benko this week to purchase medium-range AMRAAM missiles. The armaments are manufactured by the U.S. arms giant Raytheon, which states the advanced weapons can be deployed in air-to-air or surface-to-air roles. According to the U.S. ambassador, the missiles will replace existing systems that have seen service since Hungary was still under the yoke of the former communist regime, Kronen Zeitung reports. In recent years, Prime Minister Orbán has enjoyed a good relationship with President Donald J. Trump, who has praised Orbán for the Hungarian leader’s stance against mass migration. President Trump had stated: “Viktor Orbán has done a tremendous job in so many different ways. He’s highly respected, respected all over Europe.” “Probably like me a little bit controversial, but that’s OK. That’s OK. You’ve done a good job. And you’ve kept your country safe,” Trump said after the two leaders met in Washington DC. Orbán also praised the U.S. President, saying: “Today, there is a different, more ambitious leadership.” Prime Minister Orbán added that President Trump “knew everything about Hungary that he had to, and his goal was to establish good co-operation between Hungary and the United States”. Relations between the two countries have not always been smooth, however, with the Hungarian government complaining in 2017 that “the Obama-era State Department elite” had damaged U.S.-Hungary relations by seeking to undermine Budapest’s pursuit of anti-mass migration, pro-family policies. Even after President Trump’s inauguration the State Department was allocating hundreds of thousands of U.S. taxpayer dollars to support what it described as “objective media” in Hungary — foreign interference on behalf of the opposition, in the Hungarian government’s eyes — with former U.S. ambassador Faith Whittlesey denouncing the scheme as an attack on “a good NATO ally and a robust democracy” by globalist bureaucrats who disliked Orbán’s politics in an article for Breitbart.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 14, 2020 11:12:27 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/economy/2020/08/14/retail-sales-rise-on-strong-electronics-and-appliance-stores-sales/Retail Sales Rise on Strong Electronics and Appliance Stores Sales Sales at electronics and appliance stores jumped much higher in July, pushing up overall sales despite a reported decline in sales of autos. Retail sales at electronics and appliance stores jumped 22.9 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis, following a 37.6 percent gain in the prior month, data published by the Commerce Department on Friday showed. Compared with a year ago, July’s appliance and electronics sales were down 2.8 percent. For the first seven months of the year, sales at electronic and appliance stores are down 18.6 percent. Overall retail sales rose at a seasonally adjusted 1.2 percent, below the consensus forecast for a 2 percent growth. Excluding autos, however, sales were up 1.9 percent, beating expectations for a 1.5 percent gain. Overall retail sales grew 8.4 percent in June after a double-digit percentage rise in May. Three months of gains has pushed sales above the pre-pandemic level seen in February, a remarkable recovery following unprecedented declines as much of the economy shut down in March and April to combat the coronavirus. Auto sales have reportedly been strong since the economy reopened but the Commerce Department’s data showed sales falling 1.2 percent in July. In June, auto sales were up 9.1 percent. Compared with a year ago, auto sales were up 6.1 percent. Sales at gas stations were up for a second consecutive month, rising 6.2 percent as gas prices moved up. Compared with a year ago, gas station sales were down 15.6 percent. Grocery store sales rose 0.4 percent and they are 10.6 percent higher than a year ago. Over the first seven months of the year, grocery store sales are up 12.8 percent. Sales in restaurants and bars rose 5 percent following the June reopening surge of 26.7 percent. Compared with a year ago, sales were down 18.9 percent. Year to date, sales are down 21.4 percent. Clothing store sales were up 5.7 percent but are still down 21.9 percent compared with a year ago. Year to date, sales at these stores have plunged 36.5 percent. Sales at home improvement stores slipped 2.9 percent for the month but were 14.8 percent higher than a year ago. Year to date, sales are up 11.3 percent.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 14, 2020 12:33:06 GMT -6
Alicia Powe: Alicia Powe The Gateway Pundit, Yesterday you announced a historic peace treaty between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. Later in the day Joe Biden tried to take credit for the deal. What’s your response?
President Trump: I heard that. That was a beauty. We announced the deal. And I appreciate it. Even The New York Times gave it great coverage and editorials today. Wall Street Journal, Washington Post everybody was saying great. And I saw where Sleepy Joe tried to take credit for it. I’ve been trying to figure out how that one works. No – what he did is they made a terrible deal with Iran and the deal was a horror show and I ended it. They gave them $150 billion for nothing. They gave them $1.8 billion in cash for nothing. They got nothing from that deal except trouble. They did nothing – just like they’ve been weak on China, they’ve been weak on Russia. They’ve been weak on everyone, and they were the weakest of all on Iran. That was a great deal made by very talented people that work with me, and it’s been praised all over the world. And what you’ll see now is that other countries will come into that deal and you’ll have peace in the Middle East. And Biden doesn’t even know the names of the countries I’m talking about.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 15, 2020 12:40:47 GMT -6
thehill.com/policy/national-security/511878-national-security-adviser-says-trump-should-be-a-front-runner-forNational security adviser says Trump ‘should be a front-runner for the Nobel Peace Prize’ White House national security adviser Robert O’Brien on Thursday called for President Trump to be considered for the Nobel Peace Prize, citing his role in a diplomatic breakthrough between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Advertisement - story continues below O’Brien made the case for his boss to get the prestigious honor, which the president himself has previously suggested he deserves, during a White House press briefing. “It’s really remarkable I think when you step back and take a look at what this president has done on the peace front,” O’Brien said. “And it wouldn’t surprise me — it’ll take some time in this environment — but it wouldn’t surprise me if the president is eventually nominated for a Nobel Prize for this. Today’s work is an example of why he would be rightly considered and should be a front-runner for the Nobel Peace Prize.” O’Brien showered praise on Trump for his role in brokering the normalization of relations between the UAE and Israel. He noted that one of Trump’s books was titled “The Art of the Deal” but that he will be remembered “for being a great peacemaker.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 15, 2020 12:41:47 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 15, 2020 12:43:58 GMT -6
New York City Pat Lynch Police Benevolent Association (NYCPBA) is the largest police union representing 24,000 of the department’s 36,000 police officers.
On Friday leaders and representatives of the NYCPBA visited President Trump’s Bedminster Golf Club in New Jersey to give their endorsement to President Donald Trump.
According to President Pat Lynch this is the first time the NYCPBA has endorsed a presidential candidate.
Pat Lynch gave an amazing speech! It was high energy!
Pat Lynch: Mr. President we are fighting for our lives out there. We don’t want this to spread to the rest of the country. We need your strong voice to say across the country, “We have the support of law enforcement across this country… In the New York PBA you earn the endorsement. I’m proud to give it.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 15, 2020 12:47:26 GMT -6
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