Even Crazy Jim Acosta of Fake News CNN agrees: “Trump World and WH sources dancing in end zone: Trump wins again...Schumer and Dems caved...gambled and lost.” Thank you for your honesty Jim!
I've gotten where I watch Scott Adams' "Periscope" broadcast every day. You may not agree with everything he says, but he's been right about Trump more than anyone else.
Every cause championed by these folk isn't a bad cause. Some are, or may seem to be. That's not the problem.
The problem is the Solutions that these people want to see imposed upon you by armed men under their exclusive control, is, Demanded. In the 5th century, this would have been phrased, "God Wills It". Usually with a mighty group shout, and backed by swords and axes.
Of course, according to Marxist Leninist Theory, aka the drunken rantings of a guy who admired Satan, There Is No God. And they will enforce that decree with the threat of death. So it was in the Soviet Union, so it is today in China, and at CNN. So, instead, you are An Enemy Of The People.
Personally, I've wanted to be an Arch Heretic ever since I saw the movie Lexx. But I'll settle for Enemy Of The State.
There can be no higher praise. ( because there is no higher power in their lexicon )
Yeah, but us old white men go to the polls and vote on election day.That's why we have an egomaniac who loves America and is doing what he can to make American lives better living in the White House and not an excessively corrupt sow who only cares how much she can milk from the system for her own personal gain.
That is an important distinction. Hillary got rich being a politician. Donald got rich being a businessman. Who is more trustworthy? Hint: The only way to get rich as a politician is to be crooked.
If you don't realize that you're all being brainwashed then there's really no hope for you old white men.
One of my favorite things about dealing with "progressives" online is their not considering the audience. Once the realization of dealing with a 1st generation Latin American legal alien sets in they often change their tune to desperate patronization. Sick and pathetic. The pre-fabbed constructs, assumptions, and ideologies don't always fit.
It's always amusing to hear the brainwashed masses tell everyone else that they're brain washed.
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Social justice is an aspiration for our great nation to wrestle with over the centuries.
"Social justice" is nonsense based on a tenuously contrived alternate reality.
Such cosmic justice is the pseudo science and pseudo intellectual musings of German sociologists and French postmodernist philosophers. That so many accept such nonsense as fact and science is troubling, but where would the world be without its fools and idiots?
I have no patience for the cult like ideologies of our legions of smug, self centered, self righteous, neo-Marxist ideologogues.
Lying scum who call Donald racist & sexist should be ashamed with this Lady as the President's choice to be our voice to the World.
They're not ashamed. They should be.
Patience? None. I not only agree with you Rick, I am done with pandering to the mob.
Trump sexist? Sure..... he's rude, crude, and willing to be one of the boys at the Club as shown by his private locker room ( literally! ) talk with another man about how fame makes some people willing not only to abandon any principles they have, but literally prostitute themselves for a taste of it. The language was crude. The words were truth. He never said he abused this fact. We now know that others did.
Close friends have a daughter who competes in beauty pageants. This has won her scholarships and put her on a career path to be an executive in public relations/advertising/anything. She's a cheerleader today. She'll be a CEO some not too distant tomorrow.
And , yeah, you'd think this was a mom pushing a kid to relive past glories or bask in them second hand. Nope. She likes it. She enjoys the competition. Her little "I want peace & harmony" speeches have quoted Nietzsche and Ghandi and tackled prejudice and racism, not from a SJW slant but with historical precision.
The recent sex abuse scandal in the pageant business has been confirmed to me by her father, who often escorts her to the Capitol or Atlantic City, etc.
Afaik Donald isn't an abuser. And he's made it clear he understands the roots of that abuse. It was a crude remark, about a real problem. Problems like that deserve rude uncovering.
Likewise while I have been entertained by the ongoing Hollywood sex disaster, my sympathy for most of the folk in the industry is limited. When you cheer Roman Polanski ( a talented man ) & call for his crimes to be forgotten so he can return from his flight to avoid punishment for drugging and raping a child, your complaints about the casting couch seem hypocritical.
No one. No man, no woman, should be abused in these ways. But the furor seems self serving if you complain about this crud and excuse Polanski.
I thank every deity I can name, often, that I was never the boyfriend of one of these actresses. I'd have been in prison.
The Democrats tried to punish the country, & Trump, because he has not signed a bill that has never passed his desk. A bill that does not exist. A bill they refuse to write.
Why they refuse to write one is simple. They want all the credit and none of the blame. This is also why they have refused to pass a budget. Not one that they did not know was going to be vetoed by Obama. You remember. ..... to shut down the government.
Chuck you Schumer just showed that you shouldn't win a government shutdown fight if you shutdown the government. Playing the martyr shouldn't work if you're the one bringing the nails for the cross.
Another major announcement due to #TaxCuts. #JPMorgan Chase just committed to raise wages for 22K workers, increase lending to small businesses, open 400 new branches and invest $20 billion in the US over the next 5 years!
-- Ivanka Trump, 1:21 PM - Jan 23, 2018 · Washington, DC
JPMorgan promises $20bn investment after US tax cuts
JPMorgan Chase will increase wages for its lowest-paid workers and reverse its recent trend of branch closures, it announced on Tuesday, after promising to share the proceeds of the Trump administration’s recent tax cuts.
The moves are part of an investment plan which the bank says will be worth $20bn over the next five years, including further commitments to increase its lending to small businesses and create thousands of new jobs.
Wages for 22,000 of JPMorgan’s hourly workers will increase from between $12/hour and $16.50/hour to between $15/hour and $18/hour, depending on the local cost of living. The rises will come into force from February 25, with staff gaining an average wage rise of 10 per cent.
The company said it will open up to 400 new branches over the next five years, which will directly employ around 3,000 people. That marks a near 8 per cent increase compared to the current size of its branch network, which has shrunk by around 470 in the last three years.
BREAKING: Verizon says employees, other than top management, will receive 50 shares of restricted stock, the price of which will be set on February 1.
About 155,000 employees will be affected, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam told CNBC’s “Fast Money: Halftime Report” on Tuesday.
The award could total over $400 million, based on Verizon’s current share price. Shares traded around $53 a share on Tuesday, down from a fresh 52-week intraday high of $54.60 after quarterly earnings were released.
The announcement comes after Verizon hinted in its morning earnings report that “employees will further share in the company’s success” around tax reform.
BREAKING: The Walt Disney Co. to give more than 125K employees a one-time $1,000 cash bonus and "make an initial investment of $50 million in a new and ongoing education program...for hourly employees"
Chuck you Schumer just showed that you shouldn't win a government shutdown fight if you shutdown the government. Playing the martyr shouldn't work if you're the one bringing the nails for the cross.
Up your's Chuck.
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'We Won't Let Him Sleep': DACA Supporters Protest Outside Schumer's Brooklyn Home
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) was on the receiving end of a pro-amnesty protest Tuesday night, according to video and other reports.
A Facebook page advertising an "Our Lives Are On The Line, Chuck" demonstration invited protesters to congregate at Schumer's apartment building along New York City's Prospect Park.
The protesters reportedly met at nearby Grand Army Plaza and marched southward to his home.
"If Chuck won't let us dream, we won't let him sleep," they chanted, according to video captured by a man at the scene.
""Ditto, I beat up a guy on the street, some very poor guy beat up a guy, we should be treated the same."
Are you the same? Of course not but you are both individuals and in that respect our simplistic and clunky justice system more or less attempts a goal of blind judgment and an attempt at a fair outcome with a tiny bit of consideration of your individualism. "
What about the victim? Does he hurt any less because the attacker was poor? Is his family any better fed while he recovers enough to go back to work because the attacker was poor? What is their tiny bit of consideration?
The Problem Isn’t Just Corruption at the FBI and Main Justice, It’s Also The Media CTH, Jan. 24, 2018
Over the past year we have learned that a significant number of people within the DOJ and FBI have been the source of leaks to the media. Almost all of those leaks built on lies.
Reports have confirmed that FBI Director James Comey, his chief legal counsel, James Baker as well as his chief-of-staff James Rybicki have all been leaking to media outlets.
In addition, FBI Agent Peter Strzok and DOJ/FBI Attorney Lisa Page have been identified as leaking stories to Politico, the Washington Post and New York Times. Adding to that mix, Asst. AG Sally Yates, Asst. AG John Carlin and a host of Main Justice officials were also participating in leaks; all leaks based on self-interest.
DOJ Deputy Bruce Ohr and his wife Nellie Ohr were both in close contact with Glenn Simpson and Fusion-GPS, and that entity has admitted openly to shopping -and selling- stories to the media, under the auspices of ‘anonymous sources’. Those financially distributed Fusion-GPS stories went to a host of friendly and ideological media outlets.
In total, hundreds of leaks from the 0bama White House via, Ben Rhodes, Susan Rice and the larger intelligence community staff, add up to thousands of media reports which were then re-reported by dozens more media outlets filing their reports under citations of “according to a report in (fill-in-blank)“.
Think about the scale of the reporting, and reporting on reporting, of anonymous leaks, false leaks, lies from “people with knowledge of the matter”, “government officials involved in the matter”, “people familiar with the matter”, “government sources” etc. all going in one unified and semi-coordinated direction – against the aggregate Trump administration.
We’re talking about thousands of hours of media TV pundits, thousands more columns written, and almost every scintilla of it based on originating intelligence sources -from the larger intelligence system- that are now being exposed as duplicitous and conspiratorial in the scale of their malicious intent.
This larger story-line has traveled in one direction. The narrative has only traveled in one direction. Each thread converging on codependent trails for collective stories all going in one direction. One big engineered narrative endlessly pushed. Think about how far the collective media have traveled with this story over the past eighteen months.
Now, in a period of a few weeks, it has become increasingly obvious the collective journey, using all that expended effort, was going in the wrong direction.
Think about this carefully.
Do we really think, with that much exhaustive energy spent in one unified direction, that this massive monolith of media are capable of questioning their destination?
Think about it.
For context, think about how the U.S. Media writ large responded to their absolute guaranteed election outcome of November 8th 2016?
After almost two years of one-way traveling and convincing themselves of one predetermined outcome/desination, what was their response to Clinton’s loss and their getting the entire arc of the election wrong?
Did a single media outlet reset their baseline? Did any corporate media executive demand a comprehensive reassessment of their coverage to see how they could have possibly been so comprehensively wrong?
Was there any autopsy of their own inherent institutional echo-chamber to reevaluate anything? Anything?
Were any personnel changed? Were any executive adjustments made in the wake of their seismically wrong assumptions? Was there a single comprehensive editorial review?
No.
Nothing.
They. Did. Nothing.
After a brief period of grief counseling amid their peer group they went right back to the exact same flawed system; used the exact same ideological perspectives; controlled by the exact same disconnected executives; and began engineering/reporting the exact same flawed and ideological broadcasts and narrative scripts from the past two years.
Not a single thing changed.
So….
What exactly do you think the American institutional media will do with a Justice department reality, within the real DOJ and FBI story, that factually ends up in a direction 180° divergent from their current year-long travel?
The media have fully invested themselves in eighteen months of narrative distribution in only one direction. Not a single MSM entity has questioned their travel as a result of false leaks and false sources in the totality of time they have covered the DOJ and FBI story.
Nothing within their collective need to will-an-outcome, will change the media’s proximity to facts when the truthful story behind the DOJ and FBI corruption is finally exposed. The media are so far away from the place where this story ends, they have no inherent capability to even begin to travel in the opposite direction, toward the truth.
The only way they could align with the truth is to admit that virtually every scintilla of their reportage over the past 18 months was inherently false. There’s not a single media outlet capable of doing that.
If the media had only gone half as far in their flawed journey, perhaps an argument could be made that their return was possible. However, they have gone so far beyond the horizon they are no longer even capable of seeing the origination point; and even if they did turn around now, it would take so long to return they would be strangers upon arrival.
Think about a New York Times, CNN or Washington Post journalist now having to accept that every column inch they have written in the past eighteen months was built upon a foundation of lies. Do we really think such a catastrophic level of flawed ideology could ever reconstitute into genuine reporting of fact-based information?
Unlikely. Heck, impossible.
Think about this as we read media reporting over the next few weeks. Keep all of this in mind. I would anticipate the media’s only reasonable option is to double down on trying to convince themselves there’s another reason, some other reason, for their disconnect.
Introspection of the level needed to admit their prior gullibility and attempt recovery would be akin to Al Gore admitting to the foundational lies of man-made global warming.
NEW: Sen. Feinstein, Rep. Schiff urge Facebook and Twitter to investigate involvement of Russian bots in pushing "Release the Memo" campaign: "If these reports are accurate, we are witnessing an ongoing attack by the Russian government through Kremlin-linked social media actors."
LATEST: "Twitter is committed to addressing malicious activity on our platform, and we take any assertions of such activity very seriously," spokesperson says. "We look forward to working closely with Senator Feinstein and Congressman Schiff to address their questions."
Keep in mind these Democrats are the ranking members of the House Intelligence Committee (Schiff), and Senate Judiciary Committee (Feinstein). Think about that.
It's funny... Julie complaining about BW being an "echo chamber". The dairy farmer in Wisconsin who likes to call it the "BadWeb Brain Trust". I'm sure there's others. I have to say though, the information presented in the political threads around here are proving themselves to be incredibly accurate. Far more accurate than the MSM who's job it is to report this stuff to us accurately. This is the power of free information. This is why companies like FaceBook and Twitter are looking at ways to control free information exchange. Despite being in the business of free information exchange, they have a liberal bent to them that is making them desire control that is abhorrent to their original business model.
Let me just thank all of those who take the time to contribute to what BadWeb is. We somehow manage to do this without the feces flinging that goes on so many other places. We really have some top notch folks who contribute around here. Many have been equally impressive when I've met them in person too.
I find it interesting that our local NBC affiliate is getting to where they can't keep ignoring the story of wrong doings withing our government. Even acknowledging that electronic communications don't simply disappear as we have seen happen so often in recent years.
Remember when Nixon was brought down because of a few minutes of erased audio tape? That was corruption at Girl Scout level compared to what we are seeing today!
Feinstein and Schiff say the #ReleaseTheMemo movement is led by Russians – our footage of a @Twitter employee says otherwise. According to Singh, ANYONE who says anything about "Guns, God, 'Merica...the American flag and...the cross" are bots. So half the US population are bots?
Lots of law degrees. More and more it's victim studies degrees.
Back in the before time when I started in college, the term was "guts courses" & were for jocks who's purpose at school was The Team & were hoping to go pro. Also balance picks for hard core students who generally need a liberal arts box checked to get their degree, and carry high end course loads like aerospace engineering and pre-med. ( example from experience, Statics, Dynamics, Chem 305, ( 2 labs) Nuclear structures, Calculus -e, Anthropology 202. ) ( for the last course listed one student's final project was a model of the palace at Knossos in popsicle sticks. It was impressive )
Now you get entire degrees in victim studies. $50,000 a year for a degree that really only qualifies you for complaining or remedial fry vat training.
