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| New York Magazine’s Vulture ‘Jokes’ That Jesus Was a Palestinian | |
| As we approach Christmas, it’s once again that time of year when Jesus’s identity becomes politicized in an attempt by some Palestinian activists and antisemites to claim him for themselves. | |
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Starting Thursday of next week we have 3 sets of family coming in for the holidays. The last leaves a week before we begin a "last hurrah" 15 day cruise. So, for the next month memos will be sparse. I have said this many times before but a lot of grandchildren and great grandchildren are coming and they demand and deserve attention as do their parents.
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Porter Stansberry is not an alarmist. He says much of what I fear and have warned you about. I do not necessarily embrace his dire conclusions but I believe much of what he says is smack on and some of what he states is/could occur.
What I totally agree with is Porter's bullish stance on natural gas and it's conversion into LNG and this is why I own DVN, FLNG and have energy holdings in KMI, PBR, NRP, EPD, XLE and PAA.
Two dangerous men are purposely wrecking our nation and seek a total end to capitalism. Are ESG and the actions by Larry Fink (appropriate last name) and Michael Bloomberg to blame for most all that is destroying America? I, personally, would add Sorros' name because he will rule from the grave through his many 501C's, PAC's and two sons.
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Dear Reader,
I don’t know about you… But I barely recognize our country anymore.
Transgenderism, socialism, “woke” capitalism, defunding the police… not long ago you would’ve been laughed out of the room for these ideas.
Today? Refusal to accept them will bring the lynch mob to your door.
Dare to speak out against them? You will be canceled.
If you’re like me, you have probably watched this shift in America and asked yourself: what on earth is going on?
That’s the question I’ll answer today.
My name, by the way, is Porter Stansberry.
I’m the founder of one of the world’s largest financial research firms and was among the first to alert the public to many of the alarming trends we see unfolding in America today.
Rampant inflation, lockdowns, riots, protests, debt forgiveness… I warned of it all, years ago.
And, while it brings me no joy to say this, despite everything we’ve suffered through over the last several years… the worst is yet to come. You see, our country, economy, and culture are not being turned upside down by accident.
The politicization of everything is part of a plot to “reset” not just your personal wealth, but the entire U.S economic system. It’s a plan meticulously engineered by two of the world’s most powerful men over the last 20 years. Two unelected billionaires who exist outside the checks and balances of Washington D.C, yet wield far more power than any political party. And what they have planned next will terrify you…
It could result in tens of millions of Americans being wiped out financially. Your 401(k), stock portfolio, crypto, cash, bonds… it’s all on the brink of being wiped out by these two men.
I’ve spent months investigating their plans and have put all my findings into a new documentary that exposes exactly what they’re plotting… And gives you a blueprint on how to protect yourself, your family, and your wealth from this imminent financial and economic reset.
I don’t know about you… But I barely recognize our country anymore.
Transgenderism, socialism, “woke” capitalism, defunding the police… not long ago you would’ve been laughed out of the room for these ideas.
Today? Refusal to accept them will bring the lynch mob to your door.
Dare to speak out against them? You will be canceled.
If you’re like me, you have probably watched this shift in America and asked yourself: what on earth is going on?
That’s the question I’ll answer today.
My name, by the way, is Porter Stansberry.
I’m the founder of one of the world’s largest financial research firms and was among the first to alert the public to many of the alarming trends we see unfolding in America today.
Rampant inflation, lockdowns, riots, protests, debt forgiveness… I warned of it all, years ago.
And, while it brings me no joy to say this, despite everything we’ve suffered through over the last several years… the worst is yet to come. You see, our country, economy, and culture are not being turned upside down by accident.
The politicization of everything is part of a plot to “reset” not just your personal wealth, but the entire U.S economic system. It’s a plan meticulously engineered by two of the world’s most powerful men over the last 20 years. Two unelected billionaires who exist outside the checks and balances of Washington D.C, yet wield far more power than any political party. And what they have planned next will terrify you…
It could result in tens of millions of Americans being wiped out financially. Your 401(k), stock portfolio, crypto, cash, bonds… it’s all on the brink of being wiped out by these two men.
I’ve spent months investigating their plans and have put all my findings into a new documentary that exposes exactly what they’re plotting… And gives you a blueprint on how to protect yourself, your family, and your wealth from this imminent financial and economic reset.
Unfortunately, most people won’t pay attention. Even fewer will take the steps I recommend. And when the hammer falls, it will be too late.
I urge YOU not to make that mistake.
Because when you see what’s happening behind the scenes in the government, the media, and the financial sector… you will realize you’re on the verge of potentially losing everything.
Click here to stream my documentary while you still can.
Sincerely,
Porter Stansberry
I urge YOU not to make that mistake.
Because when you see what’s happening behind the scenes in the government, the media, and the financial sector… you will realize you’re on the verge of potentially losing everything.
Click here to stream my documentary while you still can.
Sincerely,
Porter Stansberry
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Immigration and Biden’s Title 42 Catastrophe
By Daniel Henninger
If family conversation flags by Christmas afternoon, here’s a pick-me-up question to pour onto the table: Who in American public life is the biggest Trump obsessive? Adam Schiff? Liz Cheney? Don Lemon? No contest. The nation’s top Trump obsessive is our man in the Oval Office—Joe Biden.
Which naturally brings us to the thousands of migrants wading daily across the Rio Grande into the U.S.
The Biden Democrats arrived in January 2021 with one fixed idea: Whatever Mr. Trump did, reverse it. Mr. Biden nearly broke his wrist signing Trump-reversal executive orders.
By now the catalog of alleged Trump crimes and offenses is thick, but roll back to 2016 when one Trump idea dominated discussion—building a “wall” along the U.S.-Mexico border. Whatever else, Mr. Trump has a knack for creating controversies that he can expand forever like your kid’s Lego sets. Such as “Mexico will pay for it.”
Let us agree: Donald Trump can drive people crazy. Which is OK, if your role in life is not much more than hurling anti-Trump epithets into an FBI-monitored Twitter account. But Mr. Biden is the president. By law, he and the federal government have responsibility for immigration and border control.
Among his first acts was to crack open the southern border. And then he abandoned it. Though asked hundreds of times, no one in the Biden administration—not Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas or White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre—has ever given a clear explanation of what their border policy is. That’s because it wasn’t a policy decision. It was a psychological decision. Reverse Trump.
We knew in March 2021 when Mr. Biden named Vice President Kamala Harris border czar that his policy was next to nothing. The following month Mr. Biden said he would end the Trump health-emergency tool of enforcing Title 42, which allows illegal migrants to be sent back across the border immediately. Since then, according to the U.S. Border Patrol, some four million have arrived on Mr. Biden’s non-watch.
Thus it was no surprise when Chief Justice John Roberts declared that Title 42, set to expire this week, would be extended temporarily. With the border manifestly a crisis and national embarrassment, Chief Justice Roberts recognized he was the little Dutch boy, forced to stick his finger in the border dike until help came.
The Biden White House said it is asking Congress to allocate $3.5 billion to send more “resources” to the border. By resources they don’t mean repairing the border dike. All they want is more receiving personnel on the U.S. side to process inland the thousands more migrants likely in a post-Title 42 supersurge into Texas and Arizona. It’s not unlike the Inflation Reduction Act: Throw money, problem solved.
Explanations abound for the administration’s determined border nonfeasance: Democrats think grateful migrants will fill the party’s voter base someday; the White House crashed the border to force Republicans to negotiate an immigration compromise; most voters don’t care (proven by the midterm results), so why take it on? Or, most plausibly, the Democratic left intimidated Mr. Biden during the 2020 campaign over the Obama presidency’s more than five million deportations of illegal immigrants.
All those issues exist inside the realm of political calculation and deserve attention. Republicans, some anyway, are complicit in the travesty of a great country having no immigration policy. Still, a simple question: How could an administration allow a problem like this to escalate over two years into uncontrollable chaos?
Simple answer: Look at what has happened to civil order in big Democrat-controlled cities.
Simple explanation: They are incompetent.
The new generation of progressive Democrats, for all their public-goodness theories, don’t know how to govern. This galaxy of incompetents includes mayors, prosecutors, city councils and the mostly upper-middle-class voters who make them possible.
Progressives have the realities of governing turned inside out. Their idea of governance is based on achieving abstractions like “justice” or “equity.” Justice is worthy, but since the beginnings of organized society the practical requisite for progress has been maintaining civil order. They have demoted order to a secondary concern, if that.
One could run through a list of former Democratic officials—Ed Koch, Richard M. Daley, Bill Clinton—who never would have let problems like the border collapse or the epidemic of shootings and shoplifting disintegrate so completely.
Oh, one more detail: The concurrent flow of fentanyl and methamphetamine across the southern border (enough for 379 million fentanyl doses this year, according to the U.S.) has created yet another national open wound of opioid addiction.
To be blunt: It is hard to believe this degree of anarchy is actually happening in the United States. Someone said ideas have consequences. So does incompetence. Thank heavens Santa still works. Merry Christmas.
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Even I have come to the conclusion Mc Connell must go. If top Republicans have no regard for who vote them in office, it is time to fire their asses. The omnibus bill he and 17 other prostitute Senators voted for, under the guise they wanted money for the Defense Department, convince me they are lying and we are fools to believe them and keep ignoring their nonsense.
Our government is broke. Interest rates are causing more money to be allocated toward funding our debt. We are not paying debt down. We have allowed spenders to escalate the amount owed and it will soon break us. Tax payers are working harder to mount this increasing cost of government funding. They should be taking to the streets in protest but they are to meek and intimidated.
Congress is irresponsible and we, the tax payers, are fools and have lost any semblance over control of a government that should serve us. Our government, Biden's administration, is flooding us with illegals, killing us with Fentanyl and now burying us with debt.
If we do not stop it will stop by itself.
Because of hatred towards Trump we forgot we elected him to stop the rebels and elitists. Based on history we did not know he would live by his campaign pledges but he did. He was fought, he was spied on and everything he tried to do was thwarted/resisted by his corrupt opponent but the elites and intelligence heads finally got to him and now want to jail him when they should be incarcerated. This is elitism's way of retaining power and which we are about to allow . No wonder our nation is in deep trouble.
And:
The Back End of an Omnibus
GOP complicity with the spending blowout is one reason it is still in the Senate minority.
By Kimberley A. Strassel
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said this week he was "pretty proud" of the $1.8 trillion-plus omnibus the Senate passed Thursday, since the GOP was able to "achieve . . . essentially all of our priorities." That, America, is why Republicans are in the Senate minority. And why they arguably deserve to stay there.
Never has Washington contemplated such a monstrosity. If a satirist set out to describe a once-admirable institution in decline, its members cheerfully passing off their laziness, secrecy, cowardliness and graft as "success," it'd be hard to compete with this week's Senate show. The omnibus is everything that is broken in D.C., dumped in one steaming pile.
Congress has this omnibus only because Democrats wasted the year chasing Joe Biden's Build Back Better agenda, while Republicans helped waste more with semiconductor payouts and other unnecessary legislation. The Senate couldn't rouse itself to pass a single one of its 12 annual spending bills. Pretty much the only deadline Congress hit this year was the cutoff for submitting thousands of earmark requests for home-state pork. Priorities, priorities.
A handful of powerful leaders took advantage of this dilatory behavior by using it as an excuse to disappear at the last minute into a smoke-filled room and conjure up a "top line" number for funding—with no votes, no debate. Other leaders then disappeared to write the bill in secret—4,155 pages of it. It was unveiled in the dead of Monday night, with initial plans for Wednesday passage, the better to ensure nobody would know what's in it.
Or what's attached to it. Past omnibuses at least confined themselves to funding everything under the sun (especially monuments to super-appropriators like Alabama Republican Sen. Richard Shelby). This omnibus has also become a vehicle for legislation Congress wanted to pass this year but didn't. These aren't small changes: An overhaul of retirement savings rules. Cosmetics regulation. Electoral Count Act reform. Major changes to healthcare. For all we know, there's a provision creating 12 new cabinet positions. We'll find out next year, when someone has time to read it
Want to know if your senator approves of authorizing the Food and Drug Administration to micromanage your mascara? Or killing off drift-net fishing operations? Or letting athletes at service academies get a waiver to play professional sports? Good luck. Members of both parties will say they voted for this turkey solely to avoid a government shutdown, and they'll duck questions on the other major changes. Lucky them. Zero accountability. Only this isn't luck—it's by design.
The GOP Spending Poseurs
Senate Republicans spent this week telling the public there were only two options: Sign off on earmarks, bad policy and Democratic demands for huge increases in domestic spending (on top of $4.5 trillion in the past two years), or lose a 10% increase in defense dollars. We can add dishonesty to the list of transgressions. The GOP could have insisted on zero domestic increases and dared Democrats to own a shutdown and the loss of military readiness. But who wants a spending fight when we can simply spend?
That's a central problem for Republicans—even if they don't want to admit it. They haven't shown a whiff of interest in fiscal restraint since the early days of Paul Ryan's tenure as House speaker. Their majorities broke the bank during the Trump administration, enabling Democrats to point to deficits as reason to resist further tax reform. They held hands with the left to partake in five Covid bailouts in 2020 alone. They joined again to pass Mr. Biden's infrastructure bill and the semiconductor slush fund. Members of the new, supposedly responsible Republican House majority weeks ago voted to keep the earmark gravy flowing.
Voters in 2010 put Republicans in charge of the House to serve as a brake on the Obama administration. Next year's House majority is no guarantee of a repeat. Democrats have figured out that the bait for "bipartisanship" is the promise of dollars, and today's Republican Party bites every time. Eighteen Senate Republicans voted Thursday for the ugliest, least transparent spending bill on record. As Republicans scratch their heads over their disappointing midterm, they might consider that voters don't see much of a defining difference with Democrats.
The real scandal of the holdouts to House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy's bid for speaker is that they are stomping on an important message. A far bigger and more serious group of House conservatives are appalled by the practices that lead to omnibuses, and want changes to require the House to return to "regular order." Committees. Votes. Amendments. Debates. This would return a focus on fiscal discipline, with members again subject to transparency and accountability.
But Reps. Andy Biggs and Matt Gaetz are more interested in grandstanding than actual victory. The battle helps Republican House porksters ignore substantive demands by casting the race for speaker as a fight over personalities. It enabled Senate Republicans to justify their mess of an omnibus on the grounds that House Republicans can't be trusted to do better.
Right now, neither chamber can. Your government at work.
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I alerted you to this about 1 week or so ago:
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‘These are not normal times’
By Bob Unruh, WND
A lawsuit that actually could challenge American election results, and possibly overturn them, is heading for a conference in the U.S. Supreme Court in just weeks.
The case does not allege the 2020 election was stolen.
Instead, it alleges “that a large majority of Congress, by failing to investigate such serious allegations of election rigging and breaches of national security, violated their oaths to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” according to a report in the Gateway Pundit.
A guest report at the website by Tim Canova explains the little-known case, Brunson v. Adams, was filed by four brothers from Utah, acting as their own counsel, and it actually seeks the “removal of President Biden and Vice President Harris, along with 291 U.S. Representatives and 94 U.S. Senators who voted to certify the Electors to the Electoral College on January 6, 2021 without first investigating serious allegations of election fraud in half a dozen states and foreign election interference and breach of national security in the 2020 presidential election.”
The report speculated, “The outcome of such relief would presumably be to restore Donald Trump to the presidency.”
The report explained the “national security interests” implicated by the allegations allowed it to bypass the appeals court and move up to the Supreme Court, “which has now scheduled a hearing for January 6, 2023.
It would require the votes of only four justices to move the Petition for a Writ of Certiorari forward, the report said.
Canova reported, “It seems astounding that the court would wade into such waters two years to the day after the congressional vote to install Joe Biden as President. But these are not normal times. Democrats may well push legislation in this month’s lame duck session of Congress to impose term limits and a mandatory retirement age for justices, and thereby open the door to packing the court. Such a course would seem to be clear violations of Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution which provides that Justices ‘shall hold their Offices during good Behavior.'”
The report noted the threats may be providing an incentive for the justices to review the case, “as a shield to deter any efforts by the lame duck Congress to infringe on the court’s independence.”
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Have a great day.
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