Hour 1:BZ spoke to ERIC RIGARD, the Republican candidate running for California Assembly, 9th District, about Super Tuesday, his District 9 race, Proposition 13 and the corruptive nature of Kalifornia.
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Hours 1 & 2:BZ talked with KAISER SHUFF about the implications of the appointment of RICHARD GRENELL as temporary DNI, Director of National Intelligence.
BZ also played, as introductory comedic relief of sorts, this clip from a Georgetown, Texas city council meeting where one of the council members took a bathroom break but forgot his mic was live.
BZ and Kaiser dug into some serious intelligence issues with individuals rarely mentioned — things that, as an educated listener and American, you need to know.
Kaiser Shuff, host of his own podcast, “Kaiser’s Kastle.”
We also spoke, at the end, about prepping for the Coronavirus.
And more! Listen to find out!
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President Trump is unimportant. Trump is completely ignored by the G7. Trump is inconsequential. Just as this photo proves. L to R: Larry Kudlow, Teresa May, Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, Shinzo Abe, John Bolton, Trump.
Trump “refuses”: what?
To sign an agreement — a “communique” the G7 nations insist upon?
For those unfamiliar, the G7 nations consist of the US, UK, Canada, Italy, France, Japan and Germany.
Russia once made it the G8 until Russia annexed Crimea and invaded Ukraine.
The G8/G7 was formed in consideration of global economies, security and energy.
My first question: what was the nature of this so-called “communique”?
Isn’t it odd that you have to look quite deeply to discern the contents of said document?
The president touted great relationships with other G-7 leaders — but then abruptly reversed on signing a joint statement and lashed out at the Canadian prime minister.
President Donald Trump said the United States will not sign a joint agreement with other G-7 countries, an abrupt reversal that will further erode relations with key U.S. allies and underscore the country’s increasing isolation under Trump.
“Based on Justin’s false statements at his news conference, and the fact that Canada is charging massive Tariffs to our U.S. farmers, workers and companies, I have instructed our U.S. Reps not to endorse the Communique as we look at Tariffs on automobiles flooding the U.S. Market!“ Trump wrote, adding that Trudeau was “very dishonest and weak.”
It’s a remarkable change of tune for the United States. U.S. officials worked closely with G-7 negotiators for days on the communique, and other nations took pains to ensure that Trump would sign on, despite deep disagreements on trade.
Wait. Let’s not get silly. Didn’t Trump say for some time that if he isn’t satisfied, he’s not signing on? And this comes as a shock how? Coming from Politico, this next paragraph is revelatory.
For Trump, the decision may be a political winner. The president’s base is deeply skeptical of the system of international cooperation that has for so long been at the core of U.S. foreign and economic policy.
Haven’t seen anything in the article about the contents of the agreement or “communique” yet.
Tensions over trade, meanwhile, dominated the summit. As POLITICO reportedon Friday, Trump, during a private meeting, floated the idea of ending all tariffs and trade barriers between the U.S. and its G-7 allies. Right before leaving for Singapore, Trump upped the ante in his press conference with reporters, warning that he could cut off or severely limit trade access to the United States if G-7 countries don’t cooperate.
Trump states the obvious next.
“We’re the piggybank that everybody is robbing,” Trump said. “And that ends.”
Are we a proverbial “piggy bank”? Oddly enough I have a memory and access to the internet. I seem to recall that the US lost 500,000 soldiers defeating Germany and its allies in World War II. We liberated all of Europe and the rest of the world from Germany not just once, but twice. Let’s go back a tad bit further. German troops fought against America in the Revolutionary War.
Yet Germany is kvetching — as is the rest of Europe — when they’ve been getting a free ride on the backs of American Taxpayers as they continue not paying their requisite 2% of GDP to help finance NATO. BusinessInsider.com reports:
Only five of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s 28 member countries last year met the alliance goal of spending at least 2% of their gross domestic product on defense.
Which countries are not reaching the 2 percent?
France 1.79
Turkey 1.69
Norway 1.55
Lithuania 1.49
Latvia 1.46
Romania 1.41
Portugal 1.38
Bulgaria 1.30
Croatia 1.21
Germany 1.20
Netherlands 1.16
Denmark 1.14
Slovakia 1.12
Italy 1.11
Albania 1.11
Hungary 1.02
Slovenia 1.02
Canada 1.02
Czech Republic 1.01
Belgium 0.91
Spain 0.90
Luxembourg 0.42
It’s as if Europe and the rest of the G7 are saying something similar to “if the US isn’t willing to pay for our lavish lifestyles, then we’re taking our toys — the ones the US funded — and going home.” The US runs a $151 billion dollar trade deficit with Europe. Is that “fundamental fairness?”
Then there are, naturally, the tariffs.
Addressing Canadian tariffs alone, here are a few. Canada has — ahem — 19,500 tariffs.
Dairy: 270%
Sausage: 70%
Barley Seeds: 58%
Durum Wheat: 49%
Bovine Products: 27%
Table Linens: 18%
A side note: when the US exited the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership), Canada acquired protectionist deals under the guise of protecting what it termed “cultural industries.” Translated: “We are protecting Canada and everyone else can go to hell.” Trudeau literally said that “we got a better deal for Canada.” It’s fine to Canada to be protectionist; inherently unfair for the US to consider the same.
Let us not forget that Mexico already has a $3 billion dollar tariff system in place.
As a result of the US finally beginning to stand on its own two legs, the EU has stated it will target the US on:
Cranberries — already at 22%
Orange Juice: 23%
Whiskey: 11%
Motorbikes: 6%
Germany has tariffs four times higher on our vehicles than we on theirs. Where is the “fundamental fairness” of that?
Canada has said that it will retaliate with $13 billion dollars in tariffs on US goods, and the EU says it will lay $3 billion dollars in tariffs on US goods also.
It also becomes evident that countries are targeting very specific constituencies and lawmakers in the US. Countries are looking at our electoral maps in making these determinations, ensuring that President Trump’s decisions are going to hurt voters in Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky and similar states.
Because, you see, up to now the US and its presidents have been afraid to reveal these inequities and concomitant hypocrisy. The EU and Canadian bleat that “you don’t do this to friends” covers up that “friends” of the US have been “doing” the US for years. It is so commonplace that to upset the imbalance is to entreat war.
Look, in terms of fair trade, the numbers are on the side of President Trump. There is a massive trade imbalance yet — let’s look at IMF figures.
US GDP: $20 trillion dollars.
Japan: $5.2 trillion
Germany: $4.2 trillion
France: $2.9 trillion
UK: $2.9 trillion
Italy: $2.2 trillion
Canada: $1.8 trillion
Total of G6: $19.2trillion dollars vs the US at $20 trillion dollars.
And oh yeah: the US is close to being the number one oil producer on the planet.
Back to the “communique.” Not one reference to its contents in the Politico article. CNN didn’t have it. I went through seven other media outlets before I actually found a copy of the actual “agreement” at Reuters.com. It contains the standard Leftist feel-good pablum that any 15-year-old at Parkland could write.
Resultingly, Canadians, Europeans, Leftists, Demorats and the American Media Maggots are outraged that Trump has insisted that the United States stop bending over, holding its ankles and insisting there be no lubricant when other countries hammer through the door of the US economic sphincter.
Let there be no mistake: it’s the continual tapping of the veins of the American Taxpayer that has allowed Europe to become the Socialist, paradisal, Utopian experiment each country has wished to be. Why should they have to pay for their own defense, build their own huge militaries, expend prodigious amounts of service cash when it could be better spent on social programs for their own people? Hell, the US will cover us. They always have and they always will.
Europeans have not had to pay for a substantial portion of their defense and, further, it was the Marshall Plan which, following World War II, rebuilt Western Europe to the tune of $13 billion dollars ($110 billion in 2016 dollars) when it was Germany that tried to enslave the globe. What other nation did that then? Correct. No other.
The Europeans and Canada still insist, these days, that US veins be tapped because, after all, why should anyone upset the proverbial “good thing”?
Steve Hilton nails it.
The United States appeared to have, up to this point, what BZ calls Historical Alzheimers — to the great benefit of Europe. Just keep the cash rolling, Jack, and things will be just fine.
As in: shut up and pay for our socialist, paradisal, Utopian ways. And oh yeah, keep paying for our European defense as well. We live right next to Russia, after all. Tariffs? Don’t mention them.
Then comes President Donald John Trump, the guy with the dead orange cat on his head. Bull, meet China shop.
Expecting Europe and Canada to pay some of its own freight?
Expecting some kind of fundamental fairness in trade?
But wait. Wasn’t the clarion call throughout all of Europe, from Brussels, from Norway, from Sweden, from France, from the UK, from Deutschland that “there is no such thing as a ‘no-go’ zone” in any of these countries?
Why? Because it would fly in the face of what GOWPs have insisted, wrongly, for years. There is no difference between cultures. All are good. Most any culture than a Western Culture was better yet. No difference between Islam and Western Civilization whatsoever — though they’ve been at war with Western Civilization for thousands of years. Damn. That ugly history thingie.
Angela Merkel admits there ARE ‘no-go’ areas in Germany that ‘nobody dares’ to enter
by Sebastian Murphy-Bates
Chancellor said there are parts of her country police and others fear going to
She argued a zero-tolerance approach to crime must not tolerate such areas
Her spokesman Steffen Seibert declined to name the specific locations today
He said Merkel’s words speak for themselves, leaving some officials speechless
Let’s examine the situation a bit more closely. Are these dangerous no-go zones due to Buddhists? Christians? Shinto priests? Catholics? Atheist enclaves? The Illuminati? Uh, no.
Muslims.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has claimed there are ‘no-go areas’ in Germany, leaving ministers speechless.
Officials have previously dismissed the notion there are places in the country that police and other outsiders can’t visit.
But Merkel said she favours a zero-tolerance policy on crime that includes preventing no-go areas, which she called ‘areas where nobody dares to go’ in an interview with n-tv on Monday.
You can imagine the PSH that occurred from the hallowed halls of Brussels right to the Storting in Oslo.
‘There are such areas and one has to call them by their name and do something about them,’ she said.
Asked to name the areas, Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert told reporters today ‘the chancellor’s words speak for themselves.’
Interior Ministry spokesman Johannes Dimroth likewise declined to identify no-go areas, saying security was a matter for local not federal authorities.
Of course they wouldn’t identify specific areas. It’s embarrassing as hell when you’re caught in an abject lie which is harmful to your very own citizens.
Let me also point out that Snopes indicates there is no such thingie as a “no go zone.”
Rumor: Several European and Americans cities have been designated Islamic ‘no-go zones’ where Sharia law prevails.
CLAIM
A number of localities in the United States, France, and Britain are considered Muslim “no-go zones” (operating under Sharia Law) where local laws are not applicable.
RATING
FALSE
This is another in a continuing series of entries indicating Snopes is as honorable and truthful as an 1800s snake oil salesman, Tammany Hall or Boss Tweed.
I cannot for the life of me understand how people still refuse to realize that one can jump onto a thing called “the internet” and find, for example, this bit of buttery political goodness from the BBC which has Angela Merkel saying roughly the same thing in 2010.
Merkel says German multicultural society has failed
Attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany have “utterly failed”, Chancellor Angela Merkel says.
She said the so-called “multikulti” concept – where people would “live side-by-side” happily – did not work, and immigrants needed to do more to integrate – including learning German.
Hold on with that car wash mister. Angela Merkel hinting that immigrants should “learn German” and “assimilate”? Oh hell no. Way too judgmental.
Unless.
Even back then she saw a problem.
Mrs Merkel told a gathering of younger members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party on Saturday that at “the beginning of the 60s our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country.”
She added: “We kidded ourselves a while, we said: ‘They won’t stay, sometime they will be gone’, but this isn’t reality.”
The money shot.
“And of course, the approach [to build] a multicultural [society] and to live side-by-side and to enjoy each other… has failed, utterly failed.”
This, of course, is a massive, massive issue in Germany and all of Europe. Angela Merkel outright lied to Germany and the rest of the EU about the problem though she knew the truth back in 2010 and dared to speak it at that point.
The final question: why would Merkel have done this?
The answer is multi-faceted yet fundamental. Merkel leans Left and, like many Germans, still feels she must somehow “atone” for Germany’s role in WWII. She is the quintessential GOWP — Guilty Overeducated White Person. She feels pain. Therefore Germany and by dint of that, the rest of Europe, must suffer along with her. There must be penance and an accounting.
Let’s not forget that Merkel won Time magazine’s “Person of the Year Award” in 2015 for opening her borders to Syrian “refugee” Muslims.
Further, in a way, it was a popular concept with fellow GOWPs, certainly in the elitist political classes. She also had to “compete” politically with the other German parties. Like the US, Leftists like the votes and others enjoy the cheap labor.
So why admit it now?
Politics, of course. She is teetering on the edge.
As Frank Underwood said.
She must regain power.
She, like politicians, like governments, will lie when those in power benefit.
I’ve said it for over six months and, despite that, some elements of the media are just now beginning to catch up. And that is this.
The Demorats, the DNC, Leftists and the American Media Maggots themselves have not been able to psychologically migrate from November 8th, 2016 to November 9th, 2016.
As in: Hillary Rodham Clinton should be president and we — all of us — cannot possibly believe that the man with the dead orange cat on his head is in charge of anything at all.
The One Sentence That Explains Washington Dysfunction
by Matthew Continetti
The other day Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania explained why Republicans are having such trouble with health care. Speaking at a town hall during the July 4 recess, Toomey said, “I didn’t expect Donald Trump to win. I think most of my colleagues didn’t. So we didn’t expect to be in this situation.”
No kidding. I too can report that, from June 16, 2015, to November 8, 2016, the feeling among the elected officials, party functionaries, consultants, strategists, and journalists in our nation’s capital was that Donald J. Trump stood no chance of becoming president of the United States. And because the political elite held this view with such self-assurance, with all the egotism and snobbery and moral puffery and snarkiness that distinguishes itself as a class, it did not spend more than a second, if that, thinking through the possible consequences of a Trump victory.
I repeat, at the risk of being repetitive, live and direct from the Department of Redundancy Dept., what I’ve said for at least nine months. Absolutely no one was prepared for or anticipated Donald Trump to win.
“I didn’t expect Donald Trump to win. I think most of my colleagues didn’t. So we didn’t expect to be in this situation.”
Please allow me to translate EstabliHack GOP Speak for you: “we didn’t expect Donald Trump to win so we essentially prepared nothing, thinking we’d be riding on more of the standard ‘talk much/do little’ strategy so customary with Establishment Republicans.”
That also accounts, you see, for the GOP having no cogent, conservative, logical alternative to ObamaKare prepared on paper though all of the candidates swore — as did the entire GOP itself — to repeal and replace the ACA.
Just as the Demorats were convinced Hillary Clinton would clap her canky little ankles up the White House steps, so were the Republicans convinced that Meb Bushney or Lindike Grahabee would settle a derriere behind the Resolution desk.
Not so, boys and girls, not so.
Further, all the oinking DC piglets lining up at the trough on both sides of the aisle have had their muzzles occasionally pulled from the DC nipple in a most disconcerting fashion and they are anything but pleased. The man with the dead orange cat on his head has most certainly upset the proverbial apple cart and, frankly, couldn’t care less who is affected, donk or phant.
This accounts for the true underminers on both sides to have wound up and pitched their most hellish opposition to damn near everything Trump has wanted to do. Internal squabbles Inside Power don’t help, either.
Despite all of this ridiculous shite President Trump has managed to do just a bit of politicking and directing which has resulted in any number of corporations deciding to stay stateside, a nice stock market, an uptick in jobs, an accountable VA, an exquisite Supreme Court selection, a reduction in illegal immigration from Mexico, an increase in deportations, the curtains finally having been pulled back on the American Media Maggots, an improvement in military and national confidence and the wholesale elimination of any number of executive orders penned by one Barack Hussein Obama.
All in six months.
Then there’s this: the absolute stark explosion of raving moonbattery from the Demorats and Leftists.
Why stop there? Pelosi so perfectly typifies and embodies the current status of the Demorats today: disjointed, stuttering, rambling, going nowhere and accomplishing nothing yet making a loud noise doing so. The abject moonbattery is quite delicious.
To that I can only add that I’ll gladly do for the Demorats what I’ve offered to do for the American Media Maggots: pleasantly allow them to commit seppuku. I’ll cheerfully be their second as well and suggest lovingly where and how to make that second very important sword cut.
Impeachment for Trump? Hardly. All the Demorats are doing is, thankfully, unraveling and unfocusing. 2018 is starting to look better and better.
Hour 1: BZ spoke to ERIC RIGARD, the Republican candidate running for California Assembly, 9th District, about Super Tuesday, his District 9 race, Proposition 13 and the corruptive nature of Kalifornia.
BZ also provided Coronavirus updates, and indicated that, as a programming note, he and his show will be on hiatus for the bulk of the month of March for personal reasons.
Hours 1 & 2: 
Expecting Europe and Canada to pay some of its own freight?
But wait. Wasn’t the clarion call throughout all of Europe, from Brussels, from Norway, from Sweden, from France, from the UK, from Deutschland that “there is no such thing as a ‘no-go’ zone” in any of these countries?
FALSE
I’ve said it for over six months and, despite that, some elements of the media are just now beginning to catch up. And that is this.
2016.