40 days earlier:
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Apparently the spark went out of Spartacus.
And:
Everything under the sun is Trump's fault:
Finally:
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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++More evidence Democrats are hateful, sick and a disgrace. (See 1 below.)
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Ain't over til it's over. (See 2 below.)
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Wreck the economy and markets - elect "Socialist" Bernie. (See 3 below.)
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1)Richard,
I knew that when I signed up to run for Congress as a Black female Republican it wouldn’t be easy. Running for public office requires for one to put it all on the line.
For the past 25 years, I’ve spent my time raising five children and educating the children of my fellow Americans. I have no dirty laundry of which to speak – however, it does take some getting used to seeing your name in the newspaper, your face on a website, or in digital ads.
But the most challenging part of running for Congress as a conservative Republican woman is the names, the insults and the racial slurs the trolls on the internet have lobbed my way, seemingly only for one of two reasons:
- Because I’m a female Republican of color with views of my own – which often diverge with others in the Black community.
- Because racism is alive and well in the United States.
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Notice some of the more eloquent comments I’ve received in feedback from previous emails I’ve sent out to you and others around the country: ALERT: if you have an aversion to foul language – STOP reading now.
Notable Comments:
- “Truth is you’re just a “n****r”
- As far as reparations are concerned, the N*****S owe the white man reparations
- “You are screwed to believe Republicans will ever do any good for anyone but themselves”
- “Turn coat, Uncle Tom”
- “You’re a f******g uncle Thomasina dancing for the GOP”
- “F**k Off Racist “B***H”
- “Sellout”
- “I am for no black that is racist. And you sure are”
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I have thick skin – these comments don’t bother me personally. What does bother me is that there are people out there that don’t seem to believe there is a place for a conservative like me in the Republican Party – or because of the color of my skin I’m expected to be a Democrat.
Some of the comments above are, indeed, from self-identified Democrats. Say what you want about President Trump, but …
- Would a racist president stand for pro-life legislation when the majority of babies impacted by abortion are babies with disabilities and babies of color?
- Would a racist prioritize reducing prison sentences for non-violent crimes which disproportionately affect minority communities?
- Would a racist give the most money to historically black colleges and universities of any recent president?
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Just like EVERY OTHER AMERICAN, I’m entitled to my own opinion and my choice of political party.
Like every other email requesting financial support for my campaign that I’ve sent out, I fully expect to receive negative feedback.
What I won’t tolerate is being the target of racial slurs simply because of what I stand for.
If you’re pro-life, pro-business, a supporter of limited government and want to keep your private health insurance – then I’m asking you to stand with me today so that I can go to Washington to fight for you!
I'm so grateful to you, Richard,
Blessings always,
Dr. Lerah Lee
P.S: I’m on a mission to uplift ALL Americans, Richard, -- and I hope you’ll show your support by making a contribution to my campaign today.
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With the death of Qassem Suleimani, commander of the expeditionary wing of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Efraim Inbar considers what will come next:
Tehran realizes that the disappearance of Suleimani from the stage is a great loss and setback. He was a creative officer who understood the usefulness of proxies and a good organizer able to build a motley of proxy militias ready to fight for promoting Iranian interests. His charismatic leadership instilled motivation and esprit de corps. It will not be easy to replace quickly his skills, experience, and honed instincts.
But Iran’s most significant response [is its] declaration that it is lifting all limitations on uranium enrichment. . . . If Washington maintains economic pressure on Iran and makes additional demonstrations of limited use of force, Iran may change course and come to the negotiating table. This is what President Trump wants.
Renewed U.S.-Iran nuclear talks would be very problematic, because the Iranians are skilled and experienced at using negotiations to shield their nuclear program. Their patient negotiating skills are much better than those of the Europeans and the Americans, as evidenced by the nuclear agreement of 2015. The bitter truth is that the Iranian regime will not give up its quest for the bomb, which is its ultimate insurance policy. Only the physical destruction of Iranian nuclear installations will prevent an Iranian bomb.
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Surge by Sanders Could Destroy Trillions in Equity
By IRA STOLL, Special to the Sun
With Senator Bernie Sanders currently leading Democratic presidential polls in Iowa and New Hampshire — and with caucuses and the primary in those states less than a month away — it’s time to start paying attention to what a Sanders presidency would mean for the stock market.
Several prominent money managers have warned that a victory by Mr. Sanders or his ideological ally, Senator Elizabeth Warren, would bring a decline of between 25% and 40% in the value of American stocks. That would destroy trillions of dollars in wealth of American households.
The resulting negative effect on everything from tax revenues to employment would affect even families without much saved in the stock market, and, ironically, could make Mr. Sanders’ agenda of government expansion much harder to achieve.
“If Bernie Sanders becomes president, I think stock prices should be 30% to 40% lower than they are now,” Stanley Druckenmiller told CNBC last year. Forbes says Druckenmiller has about $4.7 billion accumulated through a lifetime of managing money. It’s worth paying attention to his warning.
“The biggest risk for 2020 is the presidential election,” the New York Times quotes a JPMorgan researcher, Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, as saying.
Another billionaire hedge fund manager, Paul Tudor Jones, said his firm’s employees think the value of the large stocks in the Standard and Poor’s 500 Index would decline by 25% were Senator Warren elected. “Her policies would — assuming they were implemented — probably give you something like that,” he said, according to CNBC. “As an investor, you have to have a view on the election because the outcomes are so extreme.”
Another billionaire hedge fund manager, Marc Lasry, made a similar call, telling CNBC about Senator Warren, “I think if she’s the president, market’s down 20%, 30%.”
At the end of 2018, United States households and nonprofit organizations held about $15.6 trillion in corporate equities, according to the Federal Reserve. A decline of 40% would be a destruction of wealth of about $6.2 trillion. A decline of 20% would be a destruction of wealth of about $3.1 trillion. The entire annual GDP of California in 2018 was about $3 trillion, and of Japan, about $5 trillion.
Doubtless some Warren and Sanders voters would see that sort of wealth destruction as good news. Since much of the stock market wealth is in the hands of rich people, a big stock market decline would reduce the inequality that so upsets left-wing Democrats.
Mr. Sanders and Mrs. Warren won’t even have to wait for Congress to enact their “wealth tax”; they can make trillions of dollars disappear by means of intimidation, not legislation.
The last time the stock market took that big a tumble was in 2008. Businesses and state and local governments laid off workers, tax receipts tumbled, the real estate market tanked, unemployment rose. Instead of focusing on the problem that other people were too rich (“inequality”), people were worried about finding a job or about having their house foreclosed on.
In a roaring economy, it’s easier to find money for spending on health care and education of the sort Mr. Sanders and Mrs. Warren advocate. In a sagging economy, government spending goes up automatically on items such as food stamps and unemployment benefits, while income-tax revenues decline.
In such an environment, vast government expansion becomes less tenable. President Obama managed it with the “stimulus” and ObamaCare during the post-2008 downturn, but he paid a significant political price, losing the House of Representatives. Likewise, President Franklin Roosevelt responded to a stock market crash with a vast expansion of government.
A President Sanders, or Warren, would probably try a similar move, arguing that the same government programs they had proposed during the booming Trump economy would be more essential than ever as a way of cushioning the blow in a bad economy created by the expectation of their policies.
The policy prescription — more big government — would be the same. It’s just the rationale that would shift, depending on whether the economy is soaring or sagging. So there’s probably some basis to the idea that a
Sanders or Warren administration would be bad for the market.
Democrats might claim that stocks do better in Democratic administrations. And it’s certainly possible that the market is driven mainly by forces other than presidents, who are constrained by Congress and who only stick around for four or eight years. One doesn’t have to be a Wall Street genius to understand that the Sanders-Warren agenda — higher taxes, increased regulation, more government control — means the share in future profits represented by a share of stock would be worth less.
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