The Official Thread Dedicated to "Trump Winning"

[IndySteel]

Economic update:

The economic expansion is projected to continue in 2018 and 2019. Buoyant asset prices and strong business and consumer confidence will support consumption and investment growth. The impact of slowing employment growth on consumption will be partly offset by wage growth acceleration as the labor market tightens further.

Fiscal policy is projected to become more supportive in 2018 as measures are assumed to be introduced lowering tax rates on corporate and personal income and stimulating investment and consumption. At a time when unemployment is at its lowest level since 2000, the assumed fiscal boost will also contribute to further wage growth, thereby providing the conditions for monetary policy to continue normalizing gradually. Policies to help people return to employment would underpin stronger growth of activity while reducing inequalities. Deregulation and tax reform would support stronger investment and help lift productivity.

Financial stability has strengthened since the crisis and regulatory oversight has improved considerably, but vulnerabilities have emerged during the extended period of exceptional monetary easing. In particular, asset prices are elevated and high leverage exposes the corporate sector to shocks. House prices exceed pre-crisis levels in several big cities. Although regulatory oversight imposes a burden on some financial firms, reforms to minimize these burdens need to ensure that vulnerabilities are not allowed to build up further.

http://www.oecd.org/unitedstates/united-states-economic-forecast-summary.htm

And notice how often we see this very, very promising economic information being touted by NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, and on and on, right?

RIGHT?

Yeah, but Trump said *****.

 

[Irondiesel58]

Let the people who hate him list everything he has done which is wrong. Whay has he done that the media says he did which he actually did. Then list everything in which he said he'd do that he is either doing or did.
1) he's got the wall going
2) he's still working on healthcare which most people who say it's a mess also have asked Trump for things for their states "blackmail" yes I know it's how they get bills and laws get passed bit that's part of the problem. I live in N.Y. in New York we have free healthcare. It's been here for over 15 years. It's what Trumps healthcare is modeled after. Anyone who makes under $100,000 a year only needs apply for health care to get free healthcare.
3) He's got most states kicking these criminal illegal immigrants out of our country even though some states are still harboring these people. When I say criminal I'm talking about committing crimes other then being here.
4) Fixing this countries infrastructure. Bridges, roads, tunnels. Work is being done in every state.
5) the economy is booming
6) our debit has been reduced by 2 trillion dollars and it's only been 10 months.
7) Everyone said with Trump in the white house he'll start WW3 in no time. N. Korea is giving him every reason to bomb them back into the dust they came from but he turned to the U.N. and China to talk sense into that idiot.
There are many more but I made my point.
The things the media has reported he said.
Let's just take this Pocahontas nonsense. I was watching this pass conference and what he said was, they "congress" call her Pocahontas. Congress called her that not Trump.
The media has this country divided not Donald Trump winning the election.
Why won't the democrats work with the republicans on the health care bill rather glance at it and then rip it apart. For six months they been asked to help.
False new, stories from lying media and criminal Congress & Senators. When did we ever trust anyone in Washington but now half the country is listening to them like they were Jesus Christ!
Wake the hall up and start looking into the facts.

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[Irondiesel58]

Pat yourself on the back. Only Trumpsters are dumb enough to fall for this ****. You guys litter the board with fake news then sit around circle jerking to it. This board has become a cesspool of fake news, just as Trump likes it. The stench is getting strong in here.

Your so lost. Your actually brainwashed by the media. Stop listening to anyone. Then start looking for the truth. I'm not telling you to trust anyone just look for the facts. Half this country is brainwashed. Honestly as a fellow Steelers Fan. It wouldn't be brainwashed if the people who were brainwashed knew they were.

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[Spike]

Dow surges 115 points, breaks above 24,000 ahead of Senate tax vote
The Dow and S&P 500 both hit all-time highs on Thursday.

Yeah baby! Tax cuts!!!!!!!

Suck it libtard socialists.

The snowflakes are too busy hiding in the corner sucking their thumbs and screaming something about bird songs or something....tweet tweet


Have the socialist news networks ever got around to reporting the real news yet?



WINNING!



Trump Economy

November
Mining up 28.6% - Leads the Nation in Growth

Trump Protects U.S. Intellectual Property in China

Broadcom will move back to U.S. — and bring tax money with it

US private sector added 235,000 jobs in Oct - Beats Expectations

October
Consumer confidence highest level since December 2000

Q3 GDP at 3 Percent – Beats Expectations

Ivanka Trump creates new World Bank initiative to foster Entrepreneurship among Women

Consumer Sentiment in U.S. Surges to 13-Year High

Unemployment down to 4.2, wages rise .5%

U.S. Factories Expanding at 13 Year high

Dow posting first eight-quarter winning streak in 20 years

Home builder confidence at 12-year high

Manufacturer confidence at a 20-year high

September
Tech giants pledge millions to Trump initiative

Q2 GDP up 3.1%

Sales of new U.S. homes rebounded in August

Federal Reserve: Household Wealth in America at record high of $1.7 trillion - Rising property values and Financial gain

Surging stock market powers U.S. wealth to $96.2 trillion

Food Stamp Usage Has Fallen Every Month Under Trump

Wages rising faster than prices

Median Incomes Climbing for First Time Since 2007

US Census Bureau: American median income is increasing for the first time since 2007

Trump has signed a $15 billion relief package for Texas in the wake of Hurricane Harvey

Jobless claims drop to 240,000 - hottest streak in 43 years

U.S. Consumer Sentiment Rose in August

Recovery Is Finally Trickling Down to Least-Educated Workers

U.S. Job Satisfaction Highest Level Since 2005

American manufacturing expanded in August at fastest pace in six years

August
Donald Trump Ends Obama Effort to Waive Work Requirements for Welfare

Consumer confidence strengthens in August, second-highest level since late 2000

President Trump Cuts More US Debt for a Longer Period of Time Than Any President

Pennsylvania coal company to open a SECOND coal mine

Summer Youth Unemployment Falls, Level Since 1969

Shortage of illegal labor has caused construction worker wages to increase by 30% in Texas

In Trump era, American corporations are seeing their best earnings in 13 years

US trade deficit narrows as exports hit 2-1/2-year high

Milestone for Trump: 1 million new jobs in six months

National unemployment rate at 4.3% (lowest it's been in 16 years)

July
13,000 jobs being created in WI - largest job announcement in WI history (Foxconn)

June
Black Unemployment, Lowest Level in 17 Years

Gas prices at a 12-year low

Some states are experiencing their lowest unemployment rates in their histories

Trump Announces $200 Million in Apprenticeship Funding

U.S. has record 6 million job openings, 6.8 million Americans are looking for jobs

CEO confidence highest since 2014

U.S. jobless rate falls to lowest level in 16 years

Trump signs bills that helps Veterans and Police officers by giving them Priority and Training

May
Government spending as percentage of GDP down

1000s of jobs being created through pact with Saudi Arabia

Executive Order on the Establishment of the American Technology Council

April
USA's small business confidence is spurring a hiring and spending spree

Alibaba Takes First Step To Fulfilling Jack Ma And President Trump's 'One Million U.S. Jobs' Promise

March
Slashing job-killing regulations left and right

Creating thousands of more jobs for immigration officers and border patrol

February
Signed a resolution encouraging women in entrepreneurship and STEM

Executive ordered all federal agencies to create task forces to cut regulations that hurt the economy

US Manufacturing Index at a 33-year high

Coal Miners are WINNING. Cut Regulations/Create Jobs/New Plant

US Economic Confidence Surges To Highest Level Ever Recorded By Gallup


Trump Trade Agreements

November
Japan Freezes North Korea’s Assets after Trump’s Visit

October
U.S. Trade Deficit is Shrinking – Exports Rising

Trump Fights for ‘America First’ as 4th Round of NAFTA Negotiations End

Crude Oil Shipment to India Highlights Expanding Energy Partnership

August
Crude oil shipment from Texas opens new vistas in India-U.S. ties

Argentina agrees to allow first U.S. pork imports in 25 years

Trump orders probe of China's intellectual property practices

New memorandum to protect American IPs from China - Potentially save Billions of dollars and millions in jobs

July
Coal exports up 60%

China opens rice market for US exports for first time ever

U.S. makes final finding rebar exports from Taiwan

Renegotiating NAFTA with Canada and Mexico in order to make better trade deals - May terminate

June
United States and Mexico finalize sugar trade deal

First U.S. Natural Gas Shipped to Poland

May
Trade agreement clears way for Moody’s, Fitch and S&P to rate onshore bonds

Signed an Arms Deal worth more than $350 billion and various other investment agreements with Saudi Arabia

China, U.S. reach trade agreement on beef, poultry and natural gas

April
Trump orders a study on abuses of U.S. trade agreements – WTO

Trump slaps tariffs on Canadian lumber imports

Increased tariffs on Canadian lumber by 20% (worth $1 billion)

China buys more U.S. coal

Trade deficit falling faster than expected

March
Trump Administration Issues Trade Policy Agenda Focusing on U.S. Sovereignty and Jobs

January
Trans Pacific Partnership TERMINATED


Trump Government

November
Trump Shuts Down CIA funding of Syrian Rebels

House Passes Tax Bill in Major Step Toward Overhaul

October
Senate Passes Budget Resolution Clearing the Way to pass Tax Reform with a Simple Majority

Trump's HHS defines life as beginning at conception

Iran Deal: DECERTIFIED

Trump: 'We are stopping cold the attacks on Judeo-Christian values'

Trump administration abandons the Obama-era clean power plan aimed at reducing global warming

School Choice tops the list of Priorities U.S. Education Department Grants

Trump Signs Healthcare Order, Expands Choice and Access through associations

US and Israel withdraw from UNESCO citing "anti-Israel bias"

Trump has written 46 Executive Orders

September
Executive order enabling Treasury Deparment to target companies doing business with North Korea

August
Trump has signed 53 bills into law

Ending many of Obama's useless Executive Orders

Trump Signs Order Rolling Back Environmental Rules on Infrastructure

11,000 government jobs slashed under Trump - downsizing government

UN Security Council unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea

Senate confirms 65 Trump nominees for various positions

U.S. Small Business Administration opens assistance center

July
800 Obama regulations cut - Saved over $200 billion

EPA's Pruitt moves to roll back over 30 environmental regulations in record time

Cut the White House budget - Saved taxpayers $22 million

June
Haley Tells Congress US Assuming More Assertive Role at UN

Trump’s EPA To Repeal Obama’s ‘Waters Of The US’ Rule

Eliminated 1200 man hours of wasteful paperwork requirements including Y2K preparedness

President Trump Announces “Massive Permit Reform" Push

Trump Lays Out Plan to Privatize Air Traffic Control System

Statement by President Trump on the Paris Climate Accord

May
Treasury to call for rolling back banking regulations

Trump orders a Voter Fraud Commission to investigate 2016 election

Fired corrupt and incompetent FBI Director James Comey

HHS to Rescind Birth Control Mandate in Obamacare

April
Appointed conservative Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court

Ben Carson Finds $500 Billion (Billion!) In Errors during Audit of Obama HUD

March
President Trump's executive order will undo Obama's Clean Power Plan rule

U.S. Will have Free but Fair and Balanced Trade: Mnuchin

Executive order to reduce operating costs of the Federal Government

Fired all 46 attorney generals hired by Obama

February
Purging the State Department of Obama loyalists

January
Fixing lobbying laws - 5 year lobbying ban on White House officials

Put a regulatory freeze on all federal agencies

Cutting regulations in government agencies (add 1, take out 2)

http://www.magapill.com/

 

[Spike]

The Big Changes the Trumps Are Making at the White House to Celebrate Christmas

There’ve been a lot of wise men in the White House. But this Christmas, there are three more in the East Room, where the Trumps are highlighting a Nativity scene.

That’s just one of the ways the first family is separating itself from the Obamas, who came dangerously close to ditching the 50-year-old display in 2009. There wasn’t room for Jesus at the inn—and for eight years, there wasn’t much room for him at 1600 Pennsylvania either.

The Obamas famously wanted a “nonreligious Christmas” (which makes about as much sense as a vegetarian barbecue). But they were outed by their social secretary, Desiree Rogers, in an eye-opening profile piece for The New York Times.

Ultimately, the Obamas caved to pressure and included a Nativity scene in their décor. For two terms, that was the extent of Christmas in the White House. There were no mentions of Christmas on official cards—and only a smattering of references in eight years of greetings and special events. After eight years of making political correctness a state religion, it’s really no wonder Americans flocked to a man who isn’t afraid to call the season what it is.

“You go to stores, you don’t see the word Christmas,” then-candidate Donald Trump argued on the campaign trail. “It says ‘Happy Holidays’ all over. I say, ‘Where’s Christmas? I tell my wife, ‘Don’t go to those stores’ … I want to see Christmas.”

Thanks to the president and first lady, Americans are seeing Christmas. The White House is alive with tradition, from the “Merry Christmas” on the White House card to its official hashtag #WHChristmas. To the Trumps, it’s just another way of keeping their promise.

“Something I said so much during the last two years, but I’ll say it again, as we approach the end of the year, you know we’re getting near that beautiful Christmas season that people don’t talk about anymore,” the president said at last month’s Values Voter Summit. “They don’t use the word Christmas because it’s not politically correct. You go to department stores, and they’ll say, ‘Happy New Year,’ and they’ll say other things. It’ll be red. They’ll have it painted. Well, guess what? We’re saying Merry Christmas again.”

http://dailysignal.com/2017/11/29/trumps-give-visitors-a-creche-course-in-christmas/

 

[Tibs]

As the son of an ordained minister who was brought up in the church from an early age, I have to say this whole Trump-Christmas thing is about a big a load of horseshit as I've ever seen. You have to be so insecure in yourself and your faith if superficial things like this mean something to you. It's all bells and whistles, shiny objects! that help distort and distract from the real issues. But keep on ringing that X-mas bell and shaking that shiny tinsel, maybe people will believe Trump represents Christian conservative values. Nothing could be further from the truth. I'm starting to understand how masochistic Trump supporters are, they simply love being lied to and deceived by the very man they hold in such high regard.

 

[Spike]

WINNING!!!


Pelosi calls on Conyers to resign

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called on Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) to resign in the face of multiple sexual harassment allegations against the 88-year-old lawmaker.

"I pray for Congressman Conyers and his family and wish them well," Pelosi told reporters. "However, Congressman Conyers should resign."

Conyers left Washington on Tuesday following a meeting with Congressional Black Caucus members about his future

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/30/pelosi-calls-on-conyers-to-resign-270513

 

[IndySteel]

Dow rips 331 points higher, closes above 24,000 as chances of Senate tax bill passing rise
The Dow and S&P 500 both hit all-time highs on Thursday.


Winning!!!

 

[IndySteel]

As the son of an ordained minister who was brought up in the church from an early age, I have to say this whole Trump-Christmas thing is about a big a load of horseshit as I've ever seen. You have to be so insecure in yourself and your faith if superficial things like this mean something to you. It's all bells and whistles, shiny objects! that help distort and distract from the real issues. But keep on ringing that X-mas bell and shaking that shiny tinsel, maybe people will believe Trump represents Christian conservative values. Nothing could be further from the truth. I'm starting to understand how masochistic Trump supporters are, they simply love being lied to and deceived by the very man they hold in such high regard.

Bullshit. You're a Muslim.

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

As the son of an ordained minister who was brought up in the church from an early age, I have to say this whole Trump-Christmas thing is about a big a load of horseshit as I've ever seen. You have to be so insecure in yourself and your faith if superficial things like this mean something to you. It's all bells and whistles, shiny objects! that help distort and distract from the real issues. But keep on ringing that X-mas bell and shaking that shiny tinsel, maybe people will believe Trump represents Christian conservative values. Nothing could be further from the truth. I'm starting to understand how masochistic Trump supporters are, they simply love being lied to and deceived by the very man they hold in such high regard.

Yes because everyone knows the Head Muslim in Chief was such a Christian. Your selective outrage is on display yet again. You had no issue with the Muslim pretending to be Christian. But now, Trump?? Your rage is getting a bit scary boss. You've become irrational.

https://mariomurilloministries.word...sted-with-20-obama-quotes-about-christianity/

You are about to read some of the most shocking quotes that Barack Obama has ever uttered in public. A few of these have been widely circulated, but most of them are very obscure. Even though he claims to be a Christian, throughout his political career Obama has repeatedly attacked traditional Biblical Christianity and he has a very long history of anti-Christian actions. In public speeches he has repeatedly cast doubt on the Bible, he has repeatedly stated that he does not believe that Jesus is necessary for salvation, and he has consistently said that he believes that all “people of faith” believe in the same God. At the same time, Obama has always referred to Muhammed as “the Prophet”, he has always expressed great love and respect for Islam, and he has even removed all references to Islam from terror training materials used by federal government agencies. So what in the world does “the leader of the free world” actually believe? Read the quotes below and decide for yourself…

20 Quotes By Barack Obama About Islam

#1 “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam”

#2 “The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer”

#3 “We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world — including in my own country.”

#4 “As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam.”

#5 “Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.”

#6 “Islam has always been part of America”

#7 “we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities”

#8 “These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings.”

#9 “America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.”

#10 “I made clear that America is not – and never will be – at war with Islam.”

#11 “Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting peace.”

#12 “So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed”

#13 “In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.”

#14 “throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.”

#15 “Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality”

#16 “The Holy Koran tells us, ‘O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.’”

#17 “I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.”

#18 “We’ve seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants – farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe.”

#19 “That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t. And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”

#20 “I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story.”

20 Quotes By Barack Obama About Christianity

#1 “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation”

#2 “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.”

#3 “Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?”

#4 “Even those who claim the Bible’s inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages – the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ’s divinity – are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.”

#5 “The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage nevertheless are opposed to a Constitutional amendment to ban it. Religious leadership need not accept such wisdom in counseling their flocks, but they should recognize this wisdom in their politics.”

#6 From Obama’s book, The Audacity of Hope: “I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sex—nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount.”

#7 Obama’s response when asked what his definition of sin is: “Being out of alignment with my values.”

#8 “If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was to it, people wouldn’t have to keep coming to church, would they.”

#9 “This is something that I’m sure I’d have serious debates with my fellow Christians about. I think that the difficult thing about any religion, including Christianity, is that at some level there is a call to evangelize and prostelytize. There’s the belief, certainly in some quarters, that people haven’t embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior that they’re going to hell.”

#10 “I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can’t imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That’s just not part of my religious makeup.”no longer

#11 “I don’t presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing.”

#12 “I’ve said this before, and I know this raises questions in the minds of some evangelicals. I do not believe that my mother, who never formally embraced Christianity as far as I know … I do not believe she went to hell.”

#13 “Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God’s will–they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.”

#14 On his support for civil unions for gay couples: “If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.”

#15 “You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

#16 “In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology”

#17 “On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.”

#18 “we have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own”

#19 “All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of the three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra — (applause) — as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed, peace be upon them, joined in prayer. (Applause.)”

#20 “I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.”

 

[Spike]

Those racist Dems at it again!


hahahahahahahaha



The growing push for John Conyers to resign, but not Al Franken, has some claiming racial bias

The racial dynamics of the sexual harassment allegations against Congress' longest-serving member are causing division within the Democratic Party.

The congressman's attorney told CNN that Pelosi has to "explain what the discernible difference between Congressman Conyers and Sen. Al Franken is."

Conyers's district is predominantly black and includes large portions of Detroit. Franken, who has been accused of sexual misconduct by at least five women, represents constituents in Minnesota who are overwhelmingly white.

On Tuesday, Rep. Cedric L. Richmond (D-La.), the CBC chair, called for the need for equal treatment across the board

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...ial-bias/ar-BBFYFhC?li=AA5a8k&ocid=spartanntp

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Why those black Democrat perverts get treated different from white Democrat perverts?

There should be RIOTS in the streets!

 

[Spike]

Democrats are racist America haters!

BOO-YA!



Trump campaign email calls Democrats 'America haters'

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again Committee" has released a new fundraising email entitled "America haters" that slams Democrats and liberals.

"You know as well as I that the Democrats are more desperate than ever to stop the America First agenda," reads the email, which says it was authored by the President's son Eric Trump. "And as my father continues to deliver on the promises he made, they're becoming increasingly panicked -- even attacking our fundraising numbers."

The fundraising email also says, "They want to wake up tomorrow and say we are slipping, and that America no longer stands behind President Trump. They are dead wrong."

https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/30/politics/democrats-america-haters-trump-email/index.html

 

[hamster]

I think Kevin says it best.............. Kevin's Corner. Making Sense of Nonsense.

 

[Spike]

The left doesn't like "Pocahontas" because it hit too close to the mark with Elizabeth Warren.

The Left is crumbling into their own cesspit - nobody believes their deranged hysterical screaming at the sky **** anymore - thanks to TRUMP!


THINK PROGRESS!


I am a Cherokee woman. Elizabeth Warren is not.

"As Native people, we are relegated to being invisible, while Warren is not."

For 72 hours this week, news headlines focused on President Donald Trump’s offensive usage of the name “Pocahontas” when he referred to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) at an event to honor Navajo Code Talkers on Monday.

As a young Cherokee woman, one would assume that I would take Warren’s side in standing up against Trump’s racist remark. Following the incident, Warren lambasted the president, telling MSNBC that Trump has done “this over and over thinking somehow he’s going to shut me up with it. It hadn’t worked in the past, it is not going to work in the future.”

A real Native American hero, right?

Wrong.

She was not a hero to me when she failed to foster a haven of support for Native students within Harvard University’s alienating Ivy League culture. She is not a hero for spending years awkwardly avoiding Native leaders. She is not a hero because, despite claiming to be the only Native woman in the U.S. Senate, she has done nothing to advance our rights.

She is not from us. She does not represent us. She is not Cherokee.

The controversy over Warren’s identity stems from the 1990s, when Warren was a professor at Harvard Law School. The university promoted her and celebrated her as the first minority woman to receive tenure. When the Boston press dug up these reports during Warren’s campaign for Senate in 2012, she stated she didn’t know why Harvard had promoted her as Native American. It appears that Warren categorized herself as “Native American” during a time when the minority status served her career and later dropped the marker after gaining tenure.

In defending her supposed Native identity, Warren has drawn from both racist stereotypes and easily refutable stories about her family. At a 2012 press conference Warren stated that her family knew her grandfather was “part” Cherokee because “he had high cheekbones like all of the Indians.” Cherokee genealogists have pored through her family history to find that “None of her direct line ancestors are ever shown to be anything other than white, dating back to long before the Trail of Tears.”

To add insult to injury, despite Warren’s public claims of Native American heritage, she has decidedly avoided talking with Native leaders and, in 2012, refused to meet with a group of Cherokee women at the Democratic National Convention.

As Cherokee Nation citizen and community activist David Cornsilk told me, “We don’t get to celebrate her, because we don’t know her. She is not related to us, she does not live in our community. She is not our conduit to the Senate. We are not celebrating her in the Tribal newspaper. Elizabeth Warren is nothing to us, so we have no inroad to that powerful operation that affects our daily lives.”

As a mixed Native woman, I have to relive the racist stereotypes Warren spits out to defend her alleged Native identity everyday. People constantly ask me, what part Cherokee are you? Who in your family was Cherokee? That’s so nice that you embrace your Native heritage.

I am not part Cherokee. There is not one member of my family who was Cherokee. I am Cherokee. I am an enrolled citizen of Cherokee Nation and a member of my home and urban Indian communities. We are living, real, and whole people; not fractions of Indians who used to be real.

As one of the statistics — a Cherokee woman and a survivor — Elizabeth Warren does not speak for me.

Sen. Warren needs to accept responsibility for misappropriating Native identity for her own economic and political gain.

https://thinkprogress.org/elizabeth-warren-is-not-cherokee-c1ec6c91b696/


THINK PROGRESS!

 

[Ron Burgundy]

THINK PROGRESS!

Think Progress is about as far Lefty as you can get.

 

[BLITZ]

As the son of an ordained minister who was brought up in the church from an early age, I have to say this whole Trump-Christmas thing is about a big a load of horseshit as I've ever seen. You have to be so insecure in yourself and your faith if superficial things like this mean something to you. It's all bells and whistles, shiny objects! that help distort and distract from the real issues. But keep on ringing that X-mas bell and shaking that shiny tinsel, maybe people will believe Trump represents Christian conservative values. Nothing could be further from the truth. I'm starting to understand how masochistic Trump supporters are, they simply love being lied to and deceived by the very man they hold in such high regard.

Merry Christmas!!!

 

[Spike]

President Trump coming to Pensacola!


President Trump to campaign near Alabama border days before election

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump will appear at a campaign-style rally in Pensacola, Florida, next week, an event set less than 20 miles from the Alabama border four days before the state’s special Senate election.

http://whnt.com/2017/11/30/president-trump-to-campaign-near-alabama-border-days-before-election/


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4 more years!

4 more years!

4 more years!

 

[SteelChip]

Speaking of Ms Warren. I know there was a conversation about that Consumer Protection business in this site, but I don't know where it is so I'll fit this info in here. In this Q&A it come to my attention that Ms Warren and Bawny Fwrank constructed a mega media Democratic slush fund organization that fueled the Clinton Foundation.....WTF

Q&A: Former CFPB Employee on Why There Aren’t More Republicans in the Agency
http://dailysignal.com/2017/11/30/q...5YzJFa3JGRGY1ZzQ0TzlFenJ1YzF0eTN3blVCVmlIIn0=

Wood: There’s been a lot of controversy around this Consumer Protection Financial Bureau. The head of this agency, the director, Mr. [Richard] Cordray, stepped down right before Thanksgiving. He appointed someone on his team to come in and take his place, but the president had other ideas and made OMB Director Mick Mulvaney,

Seems he had a darn good reason to do that.

Wood: But you outline in here how many millions of dollars were paid to PR firms, media advocacy firms, which primarily did advocacy for Democratic causes and campaigns. But the CFPB paid them to do advocacy for them and was kind of guiding them in terms of, as you said, what they did and didn’t do in terms of rulemaking.

Rubin: Well, that was the money they gave to outside media companies. They also have internally a huge external affairs media division. So both internally and externally, there are hundreds of advertising companies and firms in the country who they could have gone to. They didn’t go to one other firm for the last three years. Every dollar of $60 million that they’ve spent advertising themselves went to this one firm. Which, at the moment, basically the only other client that this firm has is the Clinton Foundation and Clinton-related entities.

In this agency the typical Democrat sleaze was evidently evident from the get go.

Wood: Let’s talk about why this was founded. We had the financial crisis of 2008. Coming out of that, you had the Dodd-Frank legislation that came forth, and within Dodd-Frank was basically the creation of what is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: CFPB. That was intended to supposedly protect people from greedy banks and Wall Street and all these terrible things. A lot of folks don’t think it should have ever been created. But where did it go off the rails in terms of doing any kind of good?

Rubin: I have to admit that I didn’t see what a lot of the Republican critics saw right from the beginning. Which was creating an agency where only the president can fire the director once he’s been confirmed by the Senate. And the funding goes through the Federal Reserve Bank, so Congress can’t change the funding, which means Congress basically has no way of meaningfully dictating anything to this agency.

We have seen this same scam before. Youdathunk someone would of wised up by now.

Wood: You talked about how they have put fines on many a bank and financial institution. What happens to those dollars when they come back into CFPB? Do those dollars go to all the consumers who have been harmed by financial institutions? Where does that money go?

Rubin: That’s kind of the interesting thing. Technically, you can say they gave that money, the $12 billion, they keep saying that they gave it back to consumers who are harmed. But really what happens, for example, in the case of Wells Fargo, the restitution portion was $3 million and then there was $100 million in civil penalties. Wells Fargo victims probably didn’t get that money.

What happens is at the end of the year it all goes into a fund. They’re allowed to give it to a trustee. I’m sure it’s a Democratic trustee, and trustees make a lot of money from the money they distribute. And then they can look and find any other victims in other CFPB matters who they feel were not adequately compensated and give the money to them. So they’re allowed to say that they gave the money back to consumers. But, for example, probably very little of that $100 million made its way back to actual Wells Fargo victims.

NOW....why did Trump step in ?

Wood: You know Mick Mulvaney made the comment when he first got into the building, “I’ve been going through the files here and looking at my responsibilities in my job description, and it would scare most people out there to know how much power I have.” They have the ability to not only fine these institutions but then decide who they want to give the money to.

Rubin: Right. You know the cliché is judge, jury, and executioner, and also distributor of the fines that they collect. There’s never been anything like that in the entire U.S. federal government.

WINNING

 

[IndySteel]

President Donald Trump is giving his salary for this quarter to the Department of Health and Human Services in order to help fight America’s opioid crisis, the acting Health and Human Services secretary announced Thursday.

The opioid crisis in America has been a scourge on communities across the country, particularly in the Northeast and Midwest. Many states that voted for Trump suffer greatly from the ravaging opioid epidemic.

Acting Secretary Eric Hargan said in a statement at the White House press briefing that Trump wrote HHS a personal check and that the money will be used to “attack the opioid epidemic” through research, management, prevention and treatment. The acting secretary said that the decision for Trump was personal, since the president had lost one of his own family members to addiction.

 

[Spike]

Sen. Mitch McConnell: 'We have the votes' to pass tax bill

Senate Republicans were confident they had the support needed to pass their tax overhaul Friday as last-minute changes brought more GOP lawmakers on board.

"We have the votes," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters after GOP senators emerged from a meeting.

By passing the bill, the Republican Party would step closer to its goal of overhauling the American tax code under a unified government. As McConnell spoke, the GOP still had not released the final text of the bill it wants to push through later Friday.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/us/politics/senate-tax-bill-debate-vote.html

 

[SteelChip]

Done deal ?

Senate OKs tax bill as Trump, GOP near big legislative win
https://apnews.com/6a409d3266be46dc...x-bill-as-Trump,-GOP-near-big-legislative-win

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans pushed a nearly $1.5 trillion tax bill through the Senate early Saturday after a burst of eleventh-hour horse trading, as a party starved all year for a major legislative triumph took a giant step toward giving President Donald Trump one of his top priorities by Christmas.

 

[Spike]

DONE DEAL!


Senate Passes Sweeping Tax Bill

WASHINGTON — The Senate passed the most sweeping tax rewrite in decades early Saturday, with Republicans lining up to approve an overhaul that will touch almost every corner of the United States economy, affecting families, small business owners and multinational corporations, with the biggest benefits flowing to the highest-earning Americans.

Senators voted 51-49, as Republicans approved the nearly 500-page bill in the early morning hours after lawmakers received a rewritten version, which contained significant changes from the original bill that passed two Senate panels last month along party lines.

Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader and Kentucky Republican, called it “a great day for the country.”

The president praised Republican lawmakers on Saturday morning on Twitter, saying, “Biggest Tax Bill and Tax Cuts in history just passed in the Senate. Now these great Republicans will be going for final passage. Thank you to House and Senate Republicans for your hard work and commitment!”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/us/politics/senate-tax-bill.html

 

[Spike]

MAGA


Sen. Orrin Hatch calls Donald Trump ‘one of the best’ presidents he’s seen in office

During his nearly 41 years in office, Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch has seen seven presidents in the White House. Donald Trump, he said Wednesday, is “one of the best I’ve served under.”

“He’s not afraid to make decisions,” Hatch said during an interview broadcast by MSNBC. “He’s not afraid to take on the big mouths around here.”

http://www.sltrib.com/news/politics...ne-of-the-best-presidents-hes-seen-in-office/

 

[Ron Burgundy]

DONE DEAL!


Senate Passes Sweeping Tax Bill

WASHINGTON — The Senate passed the most sweeping tax rewrite in decades early Saturday, with Republicans lining up to approve an overhaul that will touch almost every corner of the United States economy, affecting families, small business owners and multinational corporations, with the biggest benefits flowing to the highest-earning Americans.

Senators voted 51-49, as Republicans approved the nearly 500-page bill in the early morning hours after lawmakers received a rewritten version, which contained significant changes from the original bill that passed two Senate panels last month along party lines.

Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader and Kentucky Republican, called it “a great day for the country.”

The president praised Republican lawmakers on Saturday morning on Twitter, saying, “Biggest Tax Bill and Tax Cuts in history just passed in the Senate. Now these great Republicans will be going for final passage. Thank you to House and Senate Republicans for your hard work and commitment!”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/us/politics/senate-tax-bill.html

I still prefer the Fair Tax but I'll take what I can get.

 

[RollRed]

I still prefer the Fair Tax but I'll take what I can get.

By fair tax, I’m assuming you mean everyone pay the same percentage regardless of income. So let’s say it’s 10%.... the roofer making $20K pays 2 grand.... which might mean the difference between his kid having or not having a Christmas ...or fixing or not fixing his busted furnace. On the other side of it, the guy making $600K pays $60 grand.... significantly more than the roofer but with drastically less of an impact on his life when you realize he still has $540,000 left to “make ends meet”. Does that help you understand why we have a progressive tax system? Yes the wealthy pay a much higher percentage of their income in taxes, but in the end it has almost zero impact on the quality of life they’re able to lead.... whereas the low wage earner feels the effect of every dollar he earns that doesn’t come into the household.