February 16, 2024
Diane Kimura
Trends that will have major implications on the growth of government, education, and the labor force:
Economic illiterates continue to mismanage our country by using debt to increase the size of the ruling class governing with more costly regulations and control without growing productivity and profitability.
When the economic outlook is uncertain, fewer children are born so our borders were opened to make up for the depopulation of Americans.
How do we navigate the societal shifts reshaping government, education, and the labor force?
1. Economic policies play a crucial role in shaping our future. Data shows that increasing debt levels, coupled with regulatory expansions, can strain economic growth and productivity, impacting long-term governance and stability.
2. Demographic Realities: Economic uncertainties often influence birth rates. Studies indicate that during uncertain times, birth rates tend to decline, necessitating a review of immigration policies, to address demographic imbalances.
3. Education Challenges: The quality of education is pivotal for workforce readiness. Recent studies reveal a decline in global education rankings, with some regions struggling to produce graduates proficient in essential skills like math and English, potentially leading to a rise in welfare dependency.
Our public schools have fallen from #1 to #23 in the world and not one student in some school districts are functionally literate in math and English. These students will struggle to earn a living and we will have a growing population of lifelong dependency on welfare.
The growing wealth divide will continue to push America towards socialism as the growing majority will see no way to gain an economic footing.
4. Skills Mismatch: Employers face challenges in finding skilled workers. Research highlights a growing gap between the skills demanded by industries and those possessed by the workforce, underscoring the need for targeted education and training initiatives.
5. Cultural Evolution: Our cultural landscape is evolving, impacting our national identity. Studies suggest a shift in shared history, heritage, and culture, raising questions about the cohesion of our society.
America no longer has a common history, common heritage, or common culture.
We don't salute the same flag or look up to people who demonstrate great acts of courage as heroes.
And now we don't even rise for the same national anthem in our stadiums.
Are we even a nation anymore?
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I caught a sizable chunk of Fani Willis' testimony yesterday on NTD News. What a horrible, hateful, angry woman! And she made a spectacle of herself in prime fashion.
Read about it here.
She was combative and aggressive and alternated that with "why are you yelling at me" when nothing of the sort was happening. She understands how a black woman can play on faux sympathy.
I don't think her testimony did her any favors.
BTW her paramour said Fani paid him back for all the trips and gifts and the like "with cash" and so there was no record. Thousands of dollars in cash! And Willis testified to that effect also, claiming she generally walks around with wads of cash coming out of her pockets. Ri-ight!
See, she had to claim these were loans and not gifts, which would be illegal. So they concocted this cock-and-bull story.
She has also fundamentally altered the time-line of her story so as to claim she started dating him AFTER hiring him. That has been contradicted by witnesses. That too is necessary as hiring her lover would put her in legal jeapoardy.
And she added all sorts of unnecessary details, like her affinity for Gray Goose vodka. Now, she's a lawyer and understands the importance of succinctness in answering questions. Those details were thrown in as red herrings. She clearly was trying to diver everyone's attention, like a magician waves his hand around so you don't see what he is doing.
I hope she gets the book thrown at her.
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It just keeps getting worse!
George Soros To Take Control Of America's Second-Largest Chain Of Radio Stations
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This guy should long ago have been stripped of his citizenship and deported back to Hungary.
FTA:
The Soros Fund Management has bought up $400 million of debt in Audacy, which owns over 220 radio stations across the country.
According to a Republican insider that spoke to the New York Post, he believes it was possible Soros was buying the stake to help influence public opinion for the months prior to the 2024 presidential election.
"This is scary,” the source said.
Sources claim that Soros’s stake is equal to close to 40% of the company’s senior debt, a high enough percentage that could yield effective control of the media giant when it emerges from bankruptcy.
Additionally, Audacy confirmed the Soros investment after multiple sources confirmed the deal.
"The decision by our existing and new debtholders to become equity holders in Audacy represents a significant vote of confidence in our company and the future of the radio and audio business,” Audacy said in a statement.
Meanwhile, a hearing to approve the Audacy restructuring plan is slated for February 20th in a Houston bankruptcy court.
This comes after the radio company filed for bankruptcy on January 7th after compiling $1.9 billion of debt. Under the current chapter 11 bankruptcy plan for Audacy, shareholders who have a stake in the company will be taken off.
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February 15, 2024
Michael Barone is a political genius, best known perhaps for his "Almanac of American Politics" which he co-authored for decades, but from the labors of which he retired a few years back. Barone is the author of numerous other books, all excellent, but the one that has stuck with me over the years is the lesser known "Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation's Future (Crown Forum, 2004).
In a nutshell and with apologies to Barone for this way too short summary, "Hard America, Soft America" sets aside all the usual rules of dividing up the U.S. such as Red v. Blue, old v. young or other demographic divisions. Rather, "Hard America" is the America of farm, factory and frontier —the country of clear-eyed realists acquainted with the way the world really works, familiar with its often profoundly unfair twists and turns of life, and deeply familiar with the old adage: Work or don’t eat."Soft America" is, by contrast, the gooey stuff of the New Age nonsense of a few decades ago plus every cliche on every sign in every yard that proclaims "all are welcome here," etc. At bottom," Hard America" is hard-edged and realistic about the world. "Soft America," not so much, if it all.
Rarely have we had two presidential candidates who embody Hard America and Soft America so thoroughly as former President Trump and President Biden. Even before the damning Hur report was made public, the public had concluded that President Biden was too old for the job —too befuddled, too, in a word, "soft.
86 percent thought that much according to an ABC News poll even before Special Counsel Hur explained his decision not to charge the president with crimes related to his unlawful retention of classified materials because the president is a "elderly man with a poor memory."
The decision by Attorney General Garland to release the report explaining that Hur had declined to prosecute Biden because of his infirmity has ignited anger on the left which somehow has persuaded itself we all don’t know this already. Now that it’s in black and white, they can no longer pretend that the absent president can actually do the hard things. He can’t. "Soft" is actually too hard of a word to describe the infirm occupant of 1600, but it will do.
Vice President Harris is also from "Soft America," as any of her word salad declamations on any subject could prove. Her world is the world of the faculty lounge and the "arranged" politics of California where the overwhelmingly blue state seems always to line up the next Democrat to be tagged for the next job provided be or she checks boxes and says "nice" things about hot button issues. Vice President Harris embodies every cliche of "Soft America" and her rise is the triumph of the anti-meritocracy. She’s the perfect running mate for a president already in the deep twilight of his twilight years. And our enemies know it.
By contrast, former President Donald Trump is most definitely from "Hard America." After four decades as a land use lawyer —now retired— I can assure you I never met, much less worked for, a developer who wasn’t from "Hard America," largely because projects either pencil or they don’t. The site grading either balances or it doesn’t. The houses, apartments, commercial buildings or office towers either make money or they go bust. It’s a hard nosed, hard knocks business. The former president is like every other developer I’ve ever known well: A bottom line guy. A "Hard America" guy.
Which is why I hope Trump picks as a running mate another member of the "Hard America" class, people for whom either a job gets done or it’s a failure. There is, for example, no grading on the curve when it comes to protecting Americans (Biden has utterly failed here) and no getting around the bottom line of the value of all the oceans of red ink unleashed by the hapless president in his pursuit of "FDR status," a hilarious conceit of Team Biden.
Joe Biden defines "Soft America," which is why Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton has led every list I’ve been promoting of potential running mates for Trump since day one.
Read the rest of the article at https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/morning-glory-donald-trump-should-select-tom-cotton-running-mate to see why. I think Cotton would be a great choice!
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Rob Reiner is Jewish. So why is he telling Christians what we believe?
Rob Reiner Attacks Politically Active Christians: You Are ‘Antithetical to the Teachings of Jesus’
Jesus did not excuse evil. He called the Pharisees "vipers" and "hypocrites" and he overturned the money changers' tables in the Temple. He wasn't passive at all. Nor was he a-political; those same "vipers" were the ruling class in Israel. Jesus was killed primarily for opposing those in political power.
I guess Reiner doesn't know any of that.
And what is "Christian Nationalism"? He can't define it because it isn't a real thing. But he's an INTERNATIONALIST and a scumbag.
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Leftists pushed and shoved a Republican election chief here in the Show-me state.
https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/14/leftists-shoved-and-pushed-missouris-gop-elections-chief-but-you-wont-hear-it-from-big-media/
This is just the beginning. The violence will accelerate as the election draws near. And the media is wholly silent on this.
Meanwhile, across the country election officials are quitting in the face of threats and intimidation.
Why? In Democratic districts they are bailing before the Big Steal puts their necks in the noose, and in Republican districts no doubt it's Leftists trying to drive them off so they can get their own people in.
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# Donald Trump
# Capitol Police Diverted All CCTV Cameras Away From DNC Pipe Bomb Investigation On Jan 6 — Except One
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""In the morning, a journalist on Al Jazeera, and in the evening, a terrorist in Hamas!” Andraee stated. Al Jazeera was formed in 2006 and is funded and operated out of Qatar.
The senior IDF official revealed that Wishah served as a senior commander in Hamas’ anti-tank missile unit, according to intelligence retrieved from the terrorist’s laptop."
Israel exposes Al Jazeera journalist as senior Hamas terrorist
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Tim adds:
He's not doing much more than any other "journalist" would do these days. I think all of them are terrorists at heart.
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Biden is ratcheting up.
Executive Order on Imposing Certain Sanctions on Persons Undermining Peace, Security, and Stability in the West Bank | The White House
Jules Kunofsky adds:
This executive order is blaming Israel, the victim, for the killing of innocent people. If you oppose Biden's 2 state solution you will be in big trouble. This is basically forcing Israel to stop military actions against terrorists. Unbelievable.
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From David Parker, some wise observations...
"With the U.S. Constitution, the Founding Fathers created a nation of maximum individual freedom, maximum individual responsibility. Limited government, classical liberalism. Having fled anti-democratic European aristocracy, privileged class structure, and limited opportunity, American colonists did not want government in their lives. The Founding Fathers believed Adam Smith was correct when he stated that individuals independently pursuing their self-interest to survive naturally organize society. Without government planning, it was the invisible hand of nature.
In 1933, America flipped that vision. To progressives, freedom now meant freedom with government. President Franklin Roosevelt turned government from a neutral third party, whose sole purpose is to protect life, liberty, and property, to government as an active third party, whose sole purpose is to provide life, liberty, and property. This is the nation we have today, where all citizens (to some degree) are dependent on government."
Tim adds:
And THAT is the definition of Fascism, of which Roosevelt was an adherent. He was a happy fascist as opposed to Hitler or even Mussolini, but he was fascist nonetheless (Mussolini got all his ideas from Woodrow Wilson, btw, by his own admission and Roosevelt's administration was chock-full of Wilson's people.)
Before this government's main role was as a kind of better business bureau for society. It became the dominant power in all aspects of life after Roosevelt. Now all success or failure depends on one's relationship with government.
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McConnell is why we keep losing.
McConnell defends push for Ukraine aid amid attacks from Trump wing of GOP: ‘Every argument against this is wrong’ | CNN Politics
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He's worried about defending Ukraine's borders but not our own. And he doesn't seem the least bit concerned about the American treasure he is squandering on a lost cause in Ukraine, treasure that belongs to the American People and not the government.
The sooner we can get rid of Mitch McConnell the better.
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FISA is up for reauthorization this week or next & we all need to tell our representatives they should NOT reauthorize FISA! It’s been abused since the day it was authorized after 9/11 & our intel agencies have proven to be untrustworthy! No more free rein to spy on citizens without a warrant!
CIA Had Foreign Allies Spy On Trump Team, Triggering Russia Collusion Hoax, Sources Say
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February 14, 2024
No fewer than three prosecutors met with the White House before filing charges against Donald Trump.
Lookie here.
FTA:
The reported meetings suggest a coordinated attack against Biden’s 2024 rival. If coordination occurred, it lends credence to Trump’s belief that the indictments are election interference.
The timing of the indictments are peculiar. After Trump announced a reelection bid against Biden, four indictments hit Trump in four separate jurisdictions, each following revelations about the Biden family business.
In three cases, prosecutors reportedly met with the Biden administration before indicting Trump:
1. Alvin Bragg: New York – "Stormy Daniels” Case (state)
2. Jack Smith: Miami – "Documents” Case (federal)
3. Fani Willis: Fulton County, Georgia (state)
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So why isn't THIS an insurrection? I thought invading a government statehouse was the definition of insurrection these days!
Trans activists Occupy Iowa State House to Protest Legal Definitiion of Man and Woman
Truth is what the Party says it is and nothing more, I guess.
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Election tampering.
CIA and foreign intelligence agencies illegally targeted 26 Trump associates before 2016 Russia collusion claims: report.
I said it before and I'll say it again; 2020 was a "Color Revolution", a black op run by the Intelligence community and the FBI to deny Americans their choice of executive.
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Myorkas Impeached.
Rep. Mark Green had this to say:
"The House Committee on Homeland Security’s investigation and subsequent impeachment proceedings demonstrated beyond any doubt that Secretary Mayorkas has willfully and systemically refused to comply with the laws of the United States, and breached the public trust. As a result, our country has suffered from an unprecedented border crisis that has turned every state into a border state, causing untold suffering in communities across our country,” Mr. Green said in a statement.
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Why is western civilization surrendering to Islam? Very sad.
Tim answers:
The West has sold it's soul and there is now a vacuum which is being filled by Islam. Christianity gave us a bedrock, a surety and confidence in our institutions and our way of life. But the forces of atheism and neopaganism hated it for being "restrictive" (just wait until you guys are under Islam if you don't like restrictive!) and so we threw it all away, through relativism, through "tolerance", through all the values espoused by Leftism to fundamentally transform our civilization. Now we are a civilization without a mooring, rudderless, with only the values that say we cannot judge, we cannot stand for anything, we must accept everyone's "reality". There is nothing to fight FOR any longer.
We are even losing science which is increasingly at the service of political leftism and nihilism.
And as we speak the young radicals are busy eating out the foundation of our society as part of their war to enforce "equity". They hate everything about our civilization because it said there were lines that could not be crossed. Freedom to the modern left is the liberty to run amok. Transgenderism, for instance, is little more than sexual terrorism.
Nature abhors a vacuum. If you lose your soul another spiritwill inhabit your body. That is where the Western World is today. RIP Christendom! I hope all you radical atheists enjoy your enslavement to the Prophet!
BTW Jean Jacques Rousseau was very favorable to Islam because he liked it's monism; in Islam there is nothing outside of the Faith. No separation of Church and State (the Left never forgave Jesus for creating that when he held the coin and said "render unto Caesar that which is Caesars), no clear division between institutions or things. Mussolini, whose Fascism devolved from Rousseau(who was the father of both Fascism and Socialism) put it thusly "everything within the state,nothing outside of the state". It was the concept of monism, one borrowed from Rousseau.
Here is an essay on Rousseau's love affair with Islam. https://www.aramcoworld.com/Articles/January-2017/Rousseau-s-Turban He believed Islam was more just, more "equitable". He, like all modern liberals, hated the upper classes and the Bourgeouis Christianity.
I wrote about the Left's love of Islam here. https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2007/01/paradise_lost_why_the_left_lov.html
Couple that with the racial philosophy that white men are all evil and you have a perfect storm of ennui in the West. Communists and Fascists both loved Muhammed. They give the Muslims succour now more than ever as Fascism is now the core of our society and the new religion is Transhumanism with the State being the new church.
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I am glad republicans are investigating the massive corruption perpetrated by the Biden’s. But I think they just need to make the public aware of it & not do democrats any favors by trying to remove him. The fact the liberal media is actually reporting on the Biden cognitive issues shows that words gone out that Joe is no longer a useful puppet & needs to be replaced. If democrats take him out they’ll lose part of their base & if they bypass Kamala they’ll lose the minority vote. We’re better off leaving Joe in as the candidate & just shining a light on his corruption because he’ll never relinquish that position no matter how bad it gets! As long as he still has 2 functional brain cells he’s not going to drop out. The polls show 86% of the country believe he’s cognitively impaired & unable to serve for 4 more years. Some of them will still vote for him but they’ll probably just stay home & refuse to vote.
If Biden was a republican he’d have been impeached a year ago & all the RINOS would vote to impeach him! Articles with headlines saying "the walls are closing in” would be put out daily. At this point any alternative other than Kamala is just too scary to contemplate!
Newly surfaced e-mail allegedly helps prove Bidens in biz with Beijing-linked firm while Joe was still VP
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Tim adds:
I have advocated impeachment because a.it fires up our troops b.it is the right thing to do c.it shows America the Republicans are not just talking points but actually believe what they are saying d.it is well deserved.
And impeachment also allows us to get the information out. The media won't present it but will have no choice if it is part of a formal impeachment hearing. Oh, they'll try to spike it, but then the public will see that. But without impeachment this stuff remains simply partisan committee talking points to most people.
That said, I would say at this point impeachment is foolish; wait until Biden is either re-elected or tossed out. Keep the pressure on him now but don't take any overt action until after the election. Make the obvious argument that the Democrats have a firewall that cannot be passed and we need more Republicans to get rid of the corruption. But after the election come hell or high water we need to impeach him.
And I think we should even if Biden loses, just as they did to Trump. It is necessary to make it clear to the Democrats they cannot get away with what they did without repercussions. It's Mutual Assured Destruction and they need to know if they go nuclear we will too. That's the only way an adversarial political system CAN work. Now the Democrats know the major institutions - the media, academia, the courts, the tech industry, etc. are backing them and they can get away with weaponizing law and justice. The only way to restore balance is to hit them where it hurts. They have to know that pulling what they pulled has terrible repercussions.
So I am all for impeaching Biden, but we want to run against him this year so we need to wait a bit.
And no doubt there will be more grounds for impeaching the old fool as the election draws near and his people try more dirty tricks to claw their way into power.
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The war on family farming and America's food supply continues:
Report: Farm, food prices rise under net-zero climate rules
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February 13, 2024
Why? Because Netanyahu has put Biden in a very bad political position. Biden needs the Jewish vote. He also needs the crazies in his party, the Squadreneers who support Hamas. He needs Netanyahu to stand down because Israel is splintering the Democratic coalition.
Biden Calls Netanyahu an a-hole
If there was ever a pot insulting a kettle...
Biden cares about nothing but his own power and money.
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