GOP tax plan is apparently not evil incarnate

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Though it’s clear CBS News attempted to make it so.

Backfire. Ahem. Watch:

Evil GOP. Such an evil GOP.

Just ask Nancy Pelosi.

Why is it “armageddon”? Because it’s already working and the Demorats cannot afford to have Trump be effective in any capacity whatsoever. But wait. What has already happened because of the passage of the GOP tax plan?

Oh yeah.

Most recently: companies are coming back to the United States from other nations. From the NYPost.com:

Fiat Chrysler to move plant from Mexico to Michigan, pay out bonuses

by Associated Press

DETROIT — Fiat Chrysler is moving production of heavy-duty trucks from Mexico to Michigan and paying bonuses to US workers in response to the passage of US tax reform late last year.

Armageddon!

The automaker will invest $1 billion in its Warren Truck Assembly Plant to make the Ram Heavy Duty Truck starting in 2020. That truck is currently made in Saltillo, Mexico, where workers will continue to make commercial vehicles.

Armageddon!

FCA says the Warren plant will add 2,500 new jobs.

Armageddon!

The company also plans to pay $2,000 bonuses this spring to about 60,000 hourly and salaried US employees. Senior executives won’t get the bonus.

FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne says the company should adjust its manufacturing footprint to reflect “improvement in the US business environment.” He says employees should also share in the tax savings.

Terrible armageddon! Just ask Nancy.

But wait; weren’t we told that Donald Trump was lying when he even began to intimate that jobs will come back from foreign countries? Of course we were. Obama said so. He’s god, so he’d know. Just ask him.

PBS called bullshit:

Trump says he’ll bring jobs back to America. Economists are skeptical

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has promised to shred America’s trade deals and impose fines on imports from Mexico and China. He’s gone so far as to swear off Oreos to protest Nabisco’s transfer of cookie production from Chicago to Mexico.

Blazing Leftist EconoWizard Paul Krugman wrote in 2016:

KRUGMAN: No matter what Trump does, manufacturing jobs are not coming back to the US

Paul Krugman, the Nobel prize winning economist and New York Times columnist, took to Twitter on Friday to address the state of the US labor market and promises by President-elect Donald Trump to being back manufacturing jobs.

“Nothing policy can do will bring back those lost jobs. The service sector is the future of work; but nobody wants to hear it,” said a tweet from the economist.

Uh-huh. The glazingly-accurate CBS News (see above) said in 2017:

Manufacturing jobs in America: They’re not coming back

GE is building things and it’s creating jobs. The problem is, almost none of those jobs are in the U.S. It used to make trains in Erie, PA, a major source of employment in the area, and recently landed a $2.6billion contract to supply trains to India. Unfortunately for those laid off from its transportation plant in Erie, the Indian contract will see GE pour $200 million of investment in India, where they’ll be building the trains. The jobs aren’t coming back.

True for GE. Hell, both major locomotive manufacturers in the US have kicked American workers to the curb. GE and EMD.

Let’s see. Who also announced bonuses because of the tax plan?

  • Walmart
  • Waste Management Corporation
  • Nationwide
  • Bank of America
  • American Airlines
  • Jet Blue
  • Comcast
  • AT&T

Piddly little nothing businesses. They mean nothing. Just like the bonuses mean nothing. Just ask Nancy Pelosi. Secure and confident because her husband Paul Pelosi owns and operates Financial Leasing Services LLC, Collectively they are worth at least $500 million dollars. Yes. Half a billion dollars. She’s set. They’re set. Are you?

And where do the Pelosis live? That’s right, in Pacific Heights, San Francisco. Some of the most expensive real estate in that city and, hence, the state itself. On the northeast corner of Broadway and Normandie Terrace. Look for the black SUVs.

Of course, she’s fighting for the “little people,” the proles, the serfs, the groundlings, the rabble, the unwashed because — after all — she so identifies with them and feels their daily pain. She’s just the fourth richest Californian in Congress. How sad for her. What a struggle. What oppression. The pain she must endure to be a female.

The NationalReview.com says:

Nancy Pelosi’s Life in the 0.1 Percent

by Brooke Rogers

Nancy Pelosi may be one of the most liberal members of the U.S. House, where she runs the Democratic caucus, railing against income inequality and the avarice of the 1 percent. But she also happens to be one of the body’s wealthiest members: In Washington, she lives in a multimillion-dollar Georgetown condo; she owns a 16-acre vineyard in Napa Valley and a 3,700 square-foot house in San Francisco’s tony Pacific Heights, according to her May 2015 financial disclosure statements. Her May 2015 financial-disclosure statements,showing income that places her in the top one-tenth of the 1 percent of Americans, may surprise some in light of the concern she’s expressed about income equality and the distribution of wealth.

From GatewayPundit.com:

TRUMP Records His 23rd New Stock Market High – Market Up 17% Since Election

Guest post by Joe Hoft

Since the election on November 8th the DOW has closed at record highs an amazing 40 times.  Nearly one-fourth or 24% of the 168 days the markets have closed have been record highs since the November 8th election.  The market is up 17% since the election.

Then there was this from the WashingtonExaminer.com:

Year One List: 81 major Trump achievements, 11 Obama legacy items repealed

by Paul Bedard

With the passage of the GOP tax bill this week, the Trump administration has scored 81 major achievements in its first year, making good on campaign promises to provide significant tax cuts, boost U.S. energy production, and restore respect to the United States, according to the White House.

And along the way, President Trump even outdid his own expectations and slashed at least 11 major legacy items of former President Barack Obama, including cracking down on the open border, slowing recognition of communist Cuba and effectively killing Obamacare by ending the mandate that everyone have health insurance or face a tax.

According to the White House, the 81 accomplishments are in 12 major categories and include well over 100 other minor achievements.

Armageddon!

You can thank me later.

BZ

 

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World’s largest turboprop plane, Antonov AN-22, lands in Zurich, Switzerland

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You may not realize that the Antonov AN-22 Antei is the world’s largest turboprop-driven aircraft. Below, you can watch the landing from the cockpit. Is it me or does the pilot seem to be struggling a bit with the yoke? I get the impression that flight control is not the proverbial “piece of cake.”

The aircraft lands in Zurich on September 9th of 2016. To me, the approach appears high and hot, but it could very easily be the camera angle. This is the only flying unit of its kind to this point.

Here is the same landing as shot below the cockpit through the nose perspex.

The interesting point is that the AN-22 sports four engines with contra-rotating propellers. It has been in service since 1965 with the exception of the past eight years–  until now and until that flight above.

Antonov produced a total of 68 of these airframes between 1965 until 1976.

The AN-22 has a maximum speed of 399 knots (460 mph) and weighs 252,325 pounds empty; that is 126.2 tons.

As I’ve said on many an occasion, I’m a sucker for a good cockpit perspective video.

BZ

 

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Conveniently forgotten: Obama’s “shit show”

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President Trump is excoriated by Leftists, Demorats, American Media Maggots and many Republicans for allegedly saying “why do we want all these people from Africa here? They’re shithole countries. We should have more people from Norway.”

A comment, by the way, not in total keeping with those present at the meeting.

Leftists fell all over each other in reaction of course, pining for the days of Josef Stalin, Karl Marx or Fidel Castro. Here is Brian Williams, the Most Trusted Man In News, providing “world reaction” to Trump’s comments.

CNN ensured it said and wrote the word “shithole” 120+ times in one day. Create your own hashtag. Everyone does. Just because. A meager sampling below.

But wait, there’s more. CNN wasn’t done.

Point made, I think. Like your little brother learning a new word.

But it wasn’t a given. Durbin said yes, Senators Cotton and Perdue said “we didn’t hear that.” And they were there. Partisan? Purposely? It depended on whom you asked.

The funny thing is this. the American Media Maggot Historical Alzheimers sets in once again. Part XXVLXXV of a continuing story.

From the UKIndependent.com:

Barack Obama says David Cameron allowed Libya to become a ‘shit show’

by Tim Walker & Nigel Morris

Unprecedented attack by serving US President claims UK was ‘distracted’

Barack Obama has sharply criticised David Cameron for the UK’s role in allowing Libya to become a “shit show” after the fall of the dictator Muammar Gaddafi, in an unprecedented attack on a British leader by a serving US President.  

Mr Obama said that following a successful military intervention to aid rebels during the 2011 Arab Spring revolt, Libya was left to spiral out of control – due largely to the inaction of America’s European allies.

Wait. Aren’t Libyan’s mostly brown? And aren’t Egyptians mostly brown? The two states that Barack Hussein Obama abjectly and purposely destroyed in order to make a political statement? Obama had no problem with utterly destroying dark skinned people.

Good Obama.

Bad Trump.

You see?

BZ

 

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Sara Carter: “dossier” utilized to spy on Trump campaign

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FINALLY. IT’S OUT.

And it’s what I’ve been saying and writing for months.

Sara Carter said it Friday night on the Sean Hannity show. The headline from Hannity.com:

BOMBSHELL: Clinton-Financed Russia Dossier USED TO SPY on Trump Campaign

The unverified dossier alleging connections between President Trump’s campaign and the Russians was used as evidence by the FBI to gain approval from a secret court to monitor members of Trump’s team, this reporter has learned.

A large portion of the evidence presented in the salacious 35-page dossier put together by former British spy Christopher Steele, has either been proven wrong or remains unsubstantiated. However, the FBI gained approval nevertheless to surveil members of Trump’s campaign and “it’s outrageous and clearly should be thoroughly investigated,” said a senior law enforcement source, with knowledge of the process.

Sara Carter wrote at SaraCarter.com:

Was the DNC/Clinton campaign-funded dossier used to obtain warrants on Trump team from the secret court?

Multiple sources told this reporter that the dossier was used along with other evidence to obtain the warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, known as FISC. The sources also stressed that there will be more information in the coming week regarding systemic “FISA abuse.”

“(The dossier) certainly played a role in obtaining the warrant,” added another senior U.S. official, with knowledge of the dossier. “Congress needs to look at the FBI officials who were handling this case and see what, if anything, was verified in the dossier. I think an important question is whether the FBI paid anything to the source for the dossier.”

Representative Matt Gaetz (R, FLA) said it was “outrageous” if the FBI used the “dossier” to justify a FISA court warrant request.

Which, well, yes, apparently they did.

On Wednesday, Sean Hannity said he has also independently confirmed that the dossier was used to obtain the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) warrant from three separate sources.

Imagine that. Not one anonymous source as is the current and common trend in American Media Maggot circles. Three.

The “dossier” is specious, already factually disproven, yet was utilized as the basis for the acquisition of surveillance warrants against those involved in the Trump presidential campaign. See: the “Fruit of the Poisonous Tree” doctrine.

NOW do you see why the FBI has been stonewalling? NOW do you see why the DOJ has been stonewalling?

NOW do you see why Judge Rudolph Contreras recused himself from the Flynn case? Because he was a FISA judge?

Are you beginning to see, as Leftists are wont to say, how we “connect the dots”? Dovetailing? Starting to make sense?

The specifically applicable portion in the video below begins at 4:00 and runs until 20:00. Gird thy loins.

This is what I have said. And now let me emphasize.

This will turn out to be the greatest black mark on the history of DC politics.

This is in fact indicative of a soft coup against a president campaign, a president-elect and a sitting president.

A soft coup. In America. In your country. In my country.

Committed by the Leftists, Demorats, the FBI, the DOJ and other governmental elements hostile to Conservatives.

A coup to overthrow one man, one campaign, because they did not agree with his politics and feared his efficacy.

Oh my, will there ever be more to come.

I truly believe this is the veritable TIP of the ICEBERG. This was far more than a mere RICO, this was an intricately interwoven purposeful and end-goal-designed SOFT COUP on an AMERICAN presidential candidate and now a sitting president. This is pure out-and-out treason.

Think about the implications.

BZ

 

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Cop sings to little girl

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This tears me apart. Brighton, Colorado Police Officer Nick Struck and a toddler.

From CNN.com in 2015:

Police officer soothes toddler with lullaby after deadly car crash

by Ann Colwell

(CNN)  When a paramedic handed police officer Nick Struck a weeping toddler soaked in gasoline at the scene of a deadly car crash in Brighton, Colorado, his fatherly instincts kicked in.

Struck did the same thing he does when his own 2-year-old daughter is upset. He began to softly sing “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.”
Somewhere in one of the lullaby’s verses, a bystander snapped a photograph of Struck and the child. Her family’s white SUV lies upside down in the grassy field behind the two. A paramedic is seen treating another passenger in the background.
Struck, holding the barefoot girl on his hip, points at something outside the frame. The child holds the fingers of one hand in her mouth, and clings to Struck’s shoulder with the other.

The best interview is here.

Humanity. This is what it means to be human.

BZ

 

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