Well, CONservatives ™ (r) ? You guys have been all talk for a generation now…
Well, Nevertrumpers? any answers for this:
Jobs and the economy
- Passage of the tax reform bill providing $5.5 billion in cuts and repealing the Obamacare mandate.
- Increase of the GDP above 3 percent.
- Creation of 1.7 million new jobs, cutting unemployment to 4.1 percent.
- Saw the Dow Jones reach record highs.
- A rebound in economic confidence to a 17-year high.
- A new executive order to boost apprenticeships.
- A move to boost computer sciences in Education Department programs.
- Prioritizing women-owned businesses for some $500 million in SBA loans.
Killing job-stifling regulations
- Signed an Executive Order demanding that two regulations be killed for every new one creates. He beat that big and cut 16 rules and regulations for every one created, saving $8.1 billion.
- Signed 15 congressional regulatory cuts.
- Withdrew from the Obama-era Paris Climate Agreement, ending the threat of environmental regulations.
- Signed an Executive Order cutting the time for infrastructure permit approvals.
- Eliminated an Obama rule on streams that Trump felt unfairly targeted the coal industry.
Fair trade
- Made good on his campaign promise to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
- Opened up the North American Free Trade Agreement for talks to better the deal for the U.S.
- Worked to bring companies back to the U.S., and companies like Toyota, Mazda, Broadcom Limited, and Foxconn announced plans to open U.S. plants.
- Worked to promote the sale of U.S products abroad.
- Made enforcement of U.S. trade laws, especially those that involve national security, a priority.
- Ended Obama’s deal with Cuba.
Boosting U.S. energy dominance
- The Department of Interior, which has led the way in cutting regulations, opened plans to lease 77 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling.
- Trump traveled the world to promote the sale and use of U.S. energy.
- Expanded energy infrastructure projects like the Keystone XL Pipeline snubbed by Obama.
- Ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to kill Obama’s Clean Power Plan.
- EPA is reconsidering Obama rules on methane emissions.
Protecting the U.S. homeland
- Laid out new principles for reforming immigration and put hardliners in charge of his program.
- Made progress to build the border wall with Mexico.
- Ended the Obama-era “catch and release” of illegal immigrants.
- Boosted the arrests of illegals inside the U.S.
- Doubled the number of counties participating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement charged with deporting illegals.
- Removed 36 percent more criminal gang members than in fiscal 2016.
- Started the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program.
- Ditto for other amnesty programs like Deferred Action for Parents of Americans.
- Cracking down on some 300 sanctuary cities that defy ICE but still get federal dollars.
- Added some 100 new immigration judges.
Accountability
- Trump has nominated 73 federal judges and won his nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
- Ordered ethical standards including a lobbying ban.
- Called for a comprehensive plan to reorganize the executive branch.
- Ordered an overhaul to modernize the digital government.
- Called for a full audit of the Pentagon and its spending.
Protecting life
- In his first week, Trump reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy that blocks some $9 billion in foreign aid being used for abortions.
- Worked with Congress on a bill overturning an Obama regulation that blocked states from defunding abortion providers.
- Published guidance to block Obamacare money from supporting abortion.
Helping veterans
- Signed the Veterans Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act to allow senior officials in the Department of Veterans Affairs to fire failing employees and establish safeguards to protect whistleblowers.
- Signed the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act.
- Signed the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act, to provide support.
- Signed the VA Choice and Quality Employment Act of 2017 to authorize $2.1 billion in additional funds for the Veterans Choice Program.
- Created a VA hotline.
- Had the VA launch an online “Access and Quality Tool,” providing veterans with a way to access wait time and quality of care data.
- With VA Secretary Dr. David Shulkin, announced three initiatives to expand access to healthcare for veterans using telehealth technology.
Promoting peace through strength
- Directed the rebuilding of the military and ordered a new national strategy and nuclear posture review.
- Worked to increase defense spending.
- Empowered military leaders to “seize the initiative and win,” reducing the need for a White House sign off on every mission.
- Directed the revival of the National Space Council to develop space war strategies.
- Elevated U.S. Cyber Command into a major warfighting command.
- Withdrew from the U.N. Global Compact on Migration, which Trump saw as a threat to borders.
- Imposed a travel ban on nations that lack border and anti-terrorism security.
- Saw ISIS lose virtually all of its territory.
- Pushed for strong action against global outlaw North Korea and its development of nuclear weapons.
- Announced a new Afghanistan strategy that strengthens support for U.S. forces at war with terrorism.
- NATO increased support for the war in Afghanistan.
- Approved a new Iran strategy plan focused on neutralizing the country’s influence in the region.
- Ordered missile strikes against a Syrian airbase used in a chemical weapons attack.
- Prevented subsequent chemical attacks by announcing a plan to detect them better and warned of future strikes if they were used.
- Ordered new sanctions on the dictatorship in Venezuela.
Restoring confidence in and respect for America
- Trump won the release of Americans held abroad, often using his personal relationships with world leaders.
- Made good on a campaign promise to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
- Conducted a historic 12-day trip through Asia, winning new cooperative deals. On the trip, he attended three regional summits to promote American interests.
- He traveled to the Middle East and Europe to build new relationships with leaders.
- Traveled to Poland for the annual. G-20 meeting where he pushed again for funding of women entrepreneurs.
This isn’t even the end of the first year. The accounting that I promised our Nevertrumpers continues.
pretty good for less than a year.
This is all nothing more than corporatist serfdom, breadcrumbs tossed to the ignorant masses populating useless husks of dying industrial bywaters who want to believe they still matter in a world that has no more need of their vulgar brawn and appalling cuisine.
howzat?
@ eaglesoars:
how elitist of you!
😆
did you write that for NRO or Kristol?
coldwarrior wrote:
More than all of the “CONservatives ™ (r)’s” have accomplished in my entire 56 (shortly to be 57) year lifetime.
@ coldwarrior:
OUCH…. I think eaglesoars is about to send you a can of cat food for Christmas for that…
coldwarrior wrote:
That WAS Kristol. Don’t tell him. He’d be crushed to learn how easily he’s parodied.
just in case you missed it, I wasn’t kidding downstairs when I said Hillary is going to jail.
Jeff Sessions has re-opened the Uranium One investigation and the scope includes looking at how the FBI investigated it originally. That means the FBI itself is in the crosshairs.
Sessions did NOT recuse himself from anything having to do with Uranium One.
Also, coinky-dink or not, Trump signed an exec order today. Its primary theme is human trafficking, but if you look at it, it also covers asset forfeiture of domestic and foreign assets gained as a result of corruption, which would also cover Uranium One. That would, I believe, cover that Canadian ‘charity’ scam the buyer used.
Hillary will not have a Happy New Year.
@ eaglesoars:
*grin*
now THAT…was a party
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/12/21/there-so-much-booze-air-frat-party-registered-breathalyzer/972746001/
@ rain of lead:
I’m betting a lot of it was stomach contents deposited on the floor
“but ossiffer, I’m not under the alcofluence of incqahol…”
eaglesoars wrote:
He became a parody of himself the day he pushed a guy for President whose name afforded us mockery for sounding very similar to a Tasty Breakfast Sandwich.
Kristol is essentially no longer the sought after Wunderkind of the right. He can join Rubin and Frum on the funeral pyre of exposed RINOs
@ coldwarrior:
are you due to get a bunch of snow soon
rain of lead wrote:
forecast says some snow showers…nothing of note.
eaglesoars wrote:
this is YUGE
I just saw a piece where new rngland is about to get a foot dumped on them
@ coldwarrior:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRadA7074wk
rain of lead wrote:
DA FUNK!
rain of lead wrote:
we tend to get it from the great lakes, we usually miss nor’easterns…cept in 93…39 inches of snow in 8 hours. it was in fact a hurricane by barometric pressure.
coldwarrior wrote:
I dunno. Wouldn’t be the first time I called it wrong.
What might be yuge – is Sessions waking up. Everybody’s been asking where he’s been. I’ve seen a lot of credible speculation that he and Trump are coordinating and holding their fire until ready. I’ve seen just as much that thinks Sessions is a doddering old fool.
But 2 really big things happened. Passing the tax cuts isn’t just about tax cuts. It’s about Trump’s perceived legitimacy as POTUS. If you listened to the speeches yesterday, Hatch, Ryan, et. al., all praised his leadership. Trump is going to need that political capital when it hits the fan and he may have told Sessions to go ahead and pull the trigger, he’s banked what he needs.
The 2nd item is that they’ve got McCabe on perjury. His testimony the other day said he didn’t know about the funding for the dossier. That directly contradicts his previous testimony. That is the thread to unravel it all. Sessions is going to purge the FBI
THOU SHALT NOT SPEAK AGAINST SJWs
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/12/papa-johns-ceo-backlash-speaking-truth-nfl-anthem-protests/
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4aecf599a326ded8b71c3c20c43d054df46b0b11e6fc353071e716c3c68acb3e.jpg
@ coldwarrior:
It was a bad day to be 18 and living at home with a 1/4 mile driveway and lots of walks…Plow, shovel, broom, repeat.
Oh, and the satellite dish. Big, old one. Dad couldn’t get a picture because the snow was too heavy so I had to go down to the pasture periodically and broom it.
Do you know were all the snow goes when you push it with a broom off a solid satellite dish from the ground?
Never forget the March 93 storm, no sirree…
eaglesoars wrote:
BINGO!!
That’s why you also find NeverTrumpers apoplectic, even though it contains things that they have been clamoring for for years.
This cements it. First major agenda item that he’s needed Congress for that passed. It repealed the Obamacare mandate for cripes sake!
I also think that the “sexual misconduct” strategy has blown up in their faces. There have been SO MANY that people are rightly questioning the difference between legitimate cases of rape and sexual assault and “making one feel uncomfortable.”
I think it was meant to be a controlled demolition with Weinstein and possibly Lauer that turned into an avalanche.
After screeching like the harpy she is for two days on Twitter about the tax bill robbing the middle class so that the RICH and corporations benefit, perennial harpy Bette Midler took to Twitter today to complain yet again….
…. that SHE didn’t get a reduction in her taxes.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
BINGO! yerself.
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
she does know she’s allowed to write a check for more than the IRS says she owes, right? They won’t send it back.
Nikki Haley is The Mother of Dragons
My sly Willow. We’re having dinner in the family room, watching TV. Willow went to the door, asking to be let out. I got up, opened the door – no Willow. She had done a 180 and nailed my plate on the coffee table.
She didn’t bother looking guilty either.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
the nevertrumpers will never forgive us for figuring out that they are frauds and have been flat out lying to us for a generation.
coldwarrior wrote:
What da you say? Get out….. No… Get the FuNk OUt…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqP76XWHQI0
i cant take all of this winning!
@ lobo91:
Wait till THIS goes to court
In fact, due to Article VI of the Constitution, the UN Charter is (because it’s a treaty approved by the Senate) “the supreme Law of the Land” of the United States
https://twitter.com/schwarz/status/944014248853766144
Jon Schwartz is at The Intercept, used to be at michaelmoore.com
eaglesoars wrote:
The guy was just waiting for the mice to become complacent. The DOJ is in his sights also. I’ve been following the Bundy thing since it started and there’s a reasonable case to be made against the gov’t for murder.
Attorney General Sessions Orders Investigation After Bundy Mistrial
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/us/attorney-general-sessions-bundy.html
@ eaglesoars:
Properly ratified treaties are considered legally binding. But that doesn’t mean that we have to obey every half-assed resolution the General Assembly passes.
General Assembly resolutions are, themselves, non-binding
@ lobo91:
you tell him. I’m having more fun watching him expose himself on twitter.
As I do this guy. Who could also be facing legal problems for allowing the CIA to spy on Americans
Trump Admin threat to retaliate against nations that exercise sovereign right in UN to oppose US position on Jerusalem is beyond outrageous. Shows @realDonaldTrump expects blind loyalty and subservience from everyone—qualities usually found in narcissistic, vengeful autocrats.
https://twitter.com/JohnBrennan/status/943950252062707713
@ eaglesoars:
No, it mostly shows that he (like many of us) is tired of paying for an organization that exists to attack us and our allies
lobo91 wrote:
which is exactly why Brennan and his pals are so fond of it
often, at night, i will go out on the back deck and have a cigar. lately i kept seeing quick and transient black flutters against the night sky. great, i thought, i’m gonna have a stroke or i have brain cancer…lovely.
well, tonight was no exception. sure enough i caught a couple glimpses in my peripheral vision. yep, i have a neuro problem obviously.
and then i saw one against a low illuminated cloud…it’s a bat.
here i thought bats hibernated. turns out that i don’t know my bats and i dont have a neuro issue at this time.
coldwarrior wrote:
I’d love to have some winning….!
UPDATE: Two days ago I was officially informed that I have Stage IIIc lymphatic node cancer. The tumor removed via surgery on 11/29/17 grew through most, but not all, of the colon walls, so it wasn’t perforated. However, it did get into the bloodstream and nerves, since the oncologist also found 12 of 22 lymph nodes affected with the cancer.
So that means I’ll be going through SIX MONTHS of chemo. Education class is on 12/26/17, and the port will be implanted on 01/02/18. I’m guessing that the following Friday will be the first of the actual chemo sessions.
It’s a 2-week cycle. Days 1 and 2 involve wearing the pump with the meds in it. I get that removed on Day 3, and then “rest” for 12 days. Then the cycle starts again. Same drill for six months.
And there you have it. Thank God for Gilda’s Club! I’m already a full member and I went to my first cancer support group this evening and I am so glad I went!
Please keep me in your prayers. Thank you!
coldwarrior wrote:
I’m pretty sure Big Browns DO hibernate and they’re usually the most common so that’s probably not the type you saw but the ones that don’t usually migrate. I can’t remember the number of bat types there, 6 or eight, but I can’t think of one active in the winter. You could call a PSU extension, they would know.
Otherwise – aliens
@ Deplorable Macker:
Praying for you, Macker.
@ Deplorable Macker:
did you talk to Mickey?
I missed this. I gather McConnell and Ryan have now acknowledged Trump as Alpha Male.
McConnell just confirmed all his outstanding admin nominees en bloc
https://twitter.com/DaveNYviii/status/944066805827538944
@ eaglesoars:
That’s 27 nominees in 13 minutes. Flat.
Merry Christmas and goodnite.
eaglesoars wrote:
Isn’t he the one who converted to islam?
Remember back when, if you were going to work for the government in a sensitive position, you were asked if you were a member of the communist party or any organization seeking overthrow of the US government by other than peaceful means? Seems that islam falls into the latter and anyone in the government like Brennan should be tossed.
Deplorable Macker wrote:
Definitely in my prayers. May God keep you in his hands throughout this trial.
coldwarrior wrote:
Bah… I could have told ya that… Now psyche problems??? Ya do like to hang out with old washed up former Rock Stars, (Some not as washed up as others) How the birthday boy? Oh, as I was sayin, that’s gotta be a sign of some mental disorder.
morning y’all
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2017/12/21/guess-what-police-have-a-motive-for-man-who-ran-down-shoppers-in-melbourne/
@ Deplorable Macker:
positive mental attitude is key during this treatment. this is a tough road.
eaglesoars wrote:
BOOM!!!!
WINNNING!!!!
now if hellary would have won, the gop would have rolled over and played lap dog for her whilst trying to keeps the hoi poli whipped up into a frenzy.
the gop conned us for a generation.
AZfederalist wrote:
He has never admitted to that. His backstory is that he spent time somewhere in the ME, learned Arabic and became very islamophilic, quite aggressively so. Very early in the admin, he went to the offices of the Washington Times for an interview and walked out in a fury, insisting that the meaning of ‘jihad’ means something like ‘introspection’. They’ve got it on audio, you can find it online. He’s admitted that in his ‘youth’ he was a member of the Communist Party and voted for Gus What’s His Name.
Knowing that, and watching his behavior while in office and afterwards, I’d bet my house that the man is working for the other side. Under his stewardship, he admitted the CIA spied on Senate staffers, totally against the law and something he should have been charged for. He is, in every way possible, a bad actor.
@ eaglesoars:
And now we get this:
@ lobo91:
yeah, I see a significant difference. McMaster DOES recognize the jihadists as the problem in the fabric itself. Brennan saw them as the logical consequence of Western oppression. McMaster has no problem killing the jihadi enemy. Brennan defined the enemy as capitalism and its Western adherents. That McMaster sees a thread in Islam that is not destructive doesn’t bother me. I hope he’s right, because the world needs that kernel and we can’t build it from the outside.
There is an argument that could be made that McMaster is naive, but his time in the ME has been spent in the military and he is a warrior and a loyal American. I took my time looking at him because of the flags sent up by Cernovich, et. al., but I think they’re mistaken and overwrought.
One more thing about Brennan. He fabricated evidence to support the ‘Russian interference’ narrative. Remember when they found that computer code that had Russian ‘fingerprints’ all over it, supposedly? And he insisted that all 17 intelligence agencies agreed with the CIA’s analysis? A count that would have included the Coast Guard and the DEA and the NSA, which was very deliberately non-committal.
That computer code was he presented as evidence was farcial. It could have come from anywhere, written by anyone. It was nothing more than a utilitarian macro that people could plug into whatever they were building in order to not have to reinvent the wheel. It was evidence of exactly nothing
@ Deplorable Macker:
You know you are always in my thoughts and prayers, Mack. As for the fight ahead of you, I know you have the knock-out punch.
XOXO. Especially the “O’s”.
Being the masochist he is, Hubby reads the Amazonian WaPo (an org that apparently is not sharing the tax cut windfall w/its employees). There are at least 5 articles on the legislation, all of them negative explaining why it won’t work/help.
@ eaglesoars:
I have lunch with a couple of the partners today. I’m sure it’s going to come up. The last time I had lunch with them together, a month before the election in 2016, one of them asked “so do you think Trump is going to do all that he promised he will?”
My answer: “I don’t know. But I do think he will TRY.”
It’s crazy. All they do is complain about the structure of partner compensation and they’ll probably spend an hour complaining about a bill that will reduce the firm’s tax liability.
The other thing I find amusing is hearing the Hollywood celebs bemoan the fact that they can only deduct a maximum of $10,000 in SALT and interest on the first $750,000 of NEW mortgages. First off, my guess is these clowns paid cash for their houses and don’t HAVE mortgages. Second, is all we’ve heard from them is the rich not paying their “fair share.” Okay, now you are. You should be chair dancing.
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
Keep in mind what Bummr50 pointed out above. Anything the increases his perceived legitimacy as POTUS is going to drive nevertrumpers nuts.
As predicted, I am seeing that the tax cuts for middle class are so small, they won’t make any difference and/or they are nothing more than a PR stunt. Oh, also, THE DEFICIT, a word many of these people have just learned to spell.
To all of them I say, you may send to me the bonus/tax cut money given to you as a PR stunt and the increases in your stock portfolios can be rolled into my SEP, thank you very much.
In other news, the Executive Order yesterday, providing for sanctions against parties that have engaged in human rights violations, especially trafficking, names names, none of whom I have ever heard of.
People are providing their research results and surprise, surprise! Every last one of them has contributed BIG money to the Clinton Foundation. Recall that the EO provides for asset forfeiture of anything acquired as a result of activities noted.
Could be nothing.
Well, once again proving that there is one set of rules for the “little people” and another set of rules for the dems:
https://www.weaselzippers.us/368536-no-charges-for-lawyer-who-siphoned-donations-to-democrat-judge/#disqus_thread
… and there are charges that could be brought, but the “investigation can’t close before the statute of limitations runs out”? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Over.
Huh?
wanna see some neat pics? There was a Space X Falcon 9 night launch visible over west Los Angeles. And everybody freaked. When you see pics you’ll see why.
https://twitter.com/dannyunited/status/944380216058683392
The value of goods exported overseas from the Pittsburgh metro area increased 24 percent in the third quarter compared with the same period in 2016, according to figures released Thursday by the Census Bureau.
The area exported about $2.2 billion worth of merchandise for the three-month period. Nationally, exports increased 5.2 percent to $381 billion for the same period, so the Pittsburgh metro area accounts for about 0.5 percent of all U.S. exports.
For the first nine months of the year, Pittsburgh exports totaled $6.8 billion, a 19 percent increase. National exports totaled $1.1 trillion, a 6.2 percent increase.
…
Five states had record low unemployment rates in November ranging from Hawaii at 2 percent to California at 4.6 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate also dropped to 4.6 percent, but that is not a record for the state, which saw a 4 percent unemployment rate in May 2000. The November rate, however, is a slight drop from the October rate of 4.7 percent and a decrease from the November 2016 rate of 5.5 percent.
The state’s estimated nonfarm payroll employment increased by about 63,000 jobs or 1.1 percent to 5.98 million jobs between November 2016 and last month.
@ coldwarrior:
pretty neat how that works, huh?
morning y’all
merry christmas eve…eve
or something
new thread….salt mines…