Saturday, November 2, 2019

It's time to stop trusting the Intelligence Community

The man who headed the CIA in 2004, John McLaughlin, has declared that it's great that the deep state is trying to nullify the 2016 election. Here's what he said:

“There is something unique you have to agree that now the impeachment inquiry is underway, sparked by a complaint from someone within the intelligence community, it feeds the president’s concern, an often used term about a ‘deep state’ being there to take him out,” Margaret Brennan, the moderator for the event, asked McLaughlin.

“Thank God for the ‘deep state,’” replied the former spook, who served as acting director at the CIA in 2004.

This isn't some low level flunky; this is a senior leader like John Brennan.

He's glad that unelected intelligence officials are taking it upon themselves to remove a duly elected president because they don't like him.

It's clear that the faith conservatives have had in the IC is no longer merited.  While the majority of the people in the IC are honest and don't misuse their power a sufficiently large fraction of the IC leadership has proven that they view themselves as our betters and that as a result they have veto power over who can be elected.

The challenge is going to be how to rein in the IC without reducing its effectiveness in collecting intelligence to thwart the plans of our external foes like Islamic radicals and the Chinese.

Leftists censor art they don't like

Street artist Sabo is a bit of an anomaly; he's a conservative.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/11/01/financial-blacklisting-paypal-bans-conservative-street-artist-sabo/
So naturally PayPal has frozen his account and is going to hold on to his money for 6 months while Etsy has blacklisted him.

It would be unthinkable that a left wing artist would be treated that way.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation(EFF) has condemned the practice of financially blacklisting people based on their politics because they recognize that the practice is view based censorship.

Remember the mission statement of the left is the same as that of the Washington Post; "Democracy Dies in Darkness"

The left wants to keep you in the dark and deny you the truth so that they can fool you into voting for them even though their policies hurt you.

Pelosi announces that secret impeachment hearings will continue as long as they are "productive"

The Democrats are using secret hearings and misleading links in an attempt to fool you into thinking that Trump did something wrong.

Having secret hearings run by the House Intelligence Committee as part of an impeachment witch hunt is unprecedented. The Democrats only objective is nullifying the 2016 election by pretending that perfectly honest things are somehow criminal.

You were lied to if you were told that the impeachment resolution would bring transparency to the process since Pelosi admitted that secret hearings would continue so long as they were "productive"; ie allowed the Democrats to misrepresent witnesses testimony.

Pelosi also said she doesn't care about your financial situation.  She doesn't care that her bogus hyper partisan witch hunt is hurting the stock market and your savings.  All that matters to her is getting rid of Trump and getting more power over you into the hands of Democrat politicians like herself.

She's been ignoring the issues that the House should be working on, like lowering drug prices and trade deals that help US workers, because she and all the other House Democrats care about one and only one thing; getting more power by effectively giving the House a veto over your vote.

Democrats in CA demand you buy electric cars and then they cut off your electrcity

https://www.michaelpramirez.com/index.html

Friday, November 1, 2019

Elizabeth Warren wants a massive tax increase on the Middle Class

Elizabeth Warren is either economically illiterate or is lying to we the people when she claims that she won't dramatically increase taxes on the Middle Class.



Her first insane claim is that the government is more efficient than the private sector.



Whats amazing is that the same folk who declare that the Pentagon is insanely wasteful somehow think that the government bureaucracy that Warren would have administer her plan would be highly efficient even though, unlike private companies, it would face no competition and the employees would be paid much more than private sector workers and have job security no matter how badly they mess things up.

If you want to know about efficiency go look at the VA.  It's grossly inefficient and even when workers lie and implement policies that kill veterans they're not punished.

As to the drug companies cutting their expenses will cut their research budgets and lead to fewer life saving medicines.

Warren goes on to either lie or demonstrate her ignorance by acting as though massive tax increases on the wealthy and corporation won't hurt the economy in any way.



We've seen that higher tax rates on the wealthy reduces their investments which in turn hurts economic growth and job creation.

Similarly contrary to leftist beliefs corporations don't mint money.  If their tax rates go up they will pass the added expense on to consumers effectively creating a hidden tax on the middle class.

Then Warren declares that a massive tax increase on the Middle Class isn't a tax increase.



It's unclear how anyone can pretend to be honest and say that the government taking the money your employer spends on you isn't a tax increase.  First this tax will only impact those who have good health care; union workers and hardworking Americans.

Second we know for a fact that Medicare for All will be worse than the coverage people in the Middle Class do today.  How?  Because in addition to the massive management costs due to the grossly inefficient government bureaucracy Warren is adding millions of people who currently don't pay a dime for health insurance. So the same number of dollars that pays for health care for the middle class today will have to pay for coverage for a lot more people.

But leftists like Warren are happy because bums who dropped out of high school will have the same medical coverage as hard working Americans.

Also note that she's not taking the money that workers pay into their health plans. That's creating another shortfall.

Finally in a world where China and Russia are demonstrating imperialist tendencies and Islamic terrorism is still wide spread she's going to cut Defense Spending.



While the #FakeNew media won't expose the insanity in her plans the Democrats running against her will.

The other obvious problem is that Democrats told us the same voodoo about Obamacare and now they're attacking Obamacare, which is still the law of the land, is horrible.

Of course we the people are asking the obvious question; if Democrats were so totally wrong about Obamacare as recently as a year or so ago why should we believe their new pie in the sky claims?

If you see any pigs flying here's why; Joe Biden agrees with me!

The Biden campaign made the following statement:

"For months, Elizabeth Warren has refused to say if her health care plan would raise taxes on the middle class, and now we know why: because it does. Senator Warren would place a new tax of nearly $9 trillion that will fall on American workers."

California declares shoplifting up to $950 is effectively ok

Californian voters passed Prop 47 in 2014 by  59% to 40% in no small part to a massive campaign by the left and endorsements proclaiming that the Prop would reduce prison overcrowding.

It effectively decriminalized theft so long as the value of the stolen property is less than $950. While those thefts are still misdemeanors the police don't spend any effort dealing with misdemeanors so criminals know that they can steal and get away with it.

One of the co-authors claimed that Prop 47 had reduced the prison population by 13,000 in 2015.  The obvious problem is that unless those who were no longer in prison were also no longer committing crimes having fewer people in prison is a bad thing for law abiding citizens.

What we're seeing today in California is a massive increase in shoplifting with gangs of fences being fed by people repeatedly stealing from stores; to small businesses with narrow margins a $950 theft is a big deal but even large stores can suffer significantly from repeated thefts. Given that the thieves know that nothing will happen to them if they're caught repeat offending is actually incentivized by the law.

Children are also falling victim because the criminals know that while DA's are unlikely to prosecute adults they are essentially never going to prosecute a kid for shoplifting in the Prop 47 world.

There are folks that are using and exploiting children," she[Rachel Michelin president of California Retailers Association] said. "But I also think that teenagers know that there are no consequences anymore. It's part of a game. If you get caught, all you have to do is get out of the store."

The fact that the Democrats who run California and the leftist radicals who lied to the people about Prop 47 aren't bothered by all this is just one more bit of proof that they don't care about the hard working people running small businesses in California.

Essentially the Democrats who run California and who lied to the people about this Proposition have declared that they're more concerned about being nice to criminals than they are about protecting hard working Californians.

Even when stores can survive the theft epidemic Democrats have inflicted on the state they pass on the cost via higher prices making Prop 47 essentially a highly regressive tax since sales taxes hurt the poor much more than they hurt the rich.

This is a common theme in Democrat policies; they benefit criminals and the irresponsible members of society not decent hard working Americans.

California Democrats are apparently racist: Blacks not getting a decent education edition

Turns out CA Dems are racists. They say that any racial disparities have to be due to racism and Black kids are twice as likely as white kids to not achieve proficiency in reading and math in CA public schools. So by their reasoning they're racists