During a speech filled with obfuscation, nonsense and economic doublespeak, Joe Biden turned to discuss the federal deficit. During his remarks in Chicago Biden called President Donald J Trump “The Great MAGA King,” as if that would be a bad thing… lol. WATCH:
We’ve gone from Deplorable, to MAGA, to Ultra MAGA and now The GREAT MAGA.
We shall celebrate our latest elevation with the dance of The Great MAGA King below:
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Senate Democrats wanted to manufacture a political optic using the hot button issue of abortion. The senate pushed a bill for a massive expansion of abortion, far beyond Roe -v- Wade, to the floor. However, the bill needed 60 votes to pass cloture, end debate.
Embarrassingly, and in a pure political stunt, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer summoned Kamala Harris to the upper chamber in the event she was needed for a “tie-breaking” vote. However, cloture requires 60 votes, not 50, so the optics of Harris only highlighted the insufferable politics.
The cloture vote failed 49-51, far short of the 60 votes needed to end debate and attempt to pass the bill. Democrat Senator Joe Manchin voted with republicans to block the cloture effort. The federal abortion legislation now disappears back into the filing cabinet from which it came.
WASHINGTON – […] In a 49-51 vote, the Senate rejected the Democratic legislation, with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and all Republicans voting against the measure. While the outcome was no surprise and mirrored a similar vote on abortion protections the Senate took in February, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer suggested the court’s draft opinion, published by POLITICO last week, had raised the stakes.
“Today’s vote is one of the most consequential we will take in decades because for the first time in 50 years, a conservative majority, an extreme majority on the Supreme Court, is on the brink of declaring that women do not have freedom over their own bodies,” Schumer said in a floor speech Wednesday morning, adding that the decision “will live in infamy.” (read more)
According to Manchin’s earlier statement, “Democrats are “trying to make people believe that this is the same thing as codifying Roe v. Wade. And I want you to know, it’s not,” he argued, referring to the bill’s ban on some state restrictions on the procedure currently allowed. “This is not the same. It expands abortion.”
Kamala Harris has a sad moment in the Senate, created by Chuck Schumer {Direct Rumble Link} WATCH:
The next Democrat and Lincoln Project presidential candidate for ¹2024, Joe Manchin, questions Defense Intel Agency (DIA) Director Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier and Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines about whether Ukraine can actually win the current war with Russia. It’s an interesting exchange because none of the DeceptiCon senators will usually approach the issue.
Lt General Scott Berrier (DIA) says [00:56], “that is a difficult predication to make. I think where the [DIA assessment] is at is a prolonged stalemate should no factor change on either side. In other words, the Russians continue to do what they’re doing, and we continue to do what we are doing for the Ukranians.” Read that emphasis carefully.
What Berrier is saying is affirming we are in a direct proxy war. So long as the United States remains the essential fighting force behind the Ukrainian military, they can achieve a stalemate. However, if the United States withdraws support, Russia will win. DIA Berrier is saying directly the U.S. can only achieve a stalemate in Ukraine. WATCH:
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Manchin was not being misogynistic in not asking Haines that question. Remember, the ODNI is only supposed to be faced internally into the United States security and intelligence operations. ODNI Avril Haines is a political operative from the Obama administration, specifically implanted into the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, because that specific element of the intelligence apparatus only looks inward into the U.S. citizenry for threats against government.
Please emphasize this point when needed. The ODNI does not evaluate national security issues abroad. The Patriot Act created the ODNI to set up a threat radar that only looks internally. We The People are the threat the office of the ODNI was created to evaluate. Emphasize that as needed.
¹If the mid-term 2022 ends up being a wipe out for the leftist communists in the Biden administration, Joe Manchin will be their 2024 candidate.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the inflation data from April today [DATA HERE] showing 0.3% increased inflation in April and a continued 8.3% ‘sticky’ inflation year-over-year.
CTH is going to say something slightly unusual, this data is actually worse than expected. The hidden canary in the mine is within this BLS sentence which shows in the statistics, “the index for gasoline fell 6.1 percent over the month, offsetting increases in the indexes for natural gas and electricity.” Remember, these are backwards reflections of price captured in early/mid-April.
The actual price of gasoline dropped 1% in April during the timeframe captured. Yes, there was an actual 18 days in April when gasoline prices moderated and slightly ticked down; however, those prices immediately jumped again late April through today.
Because the BLS puts a 5x weight on the importance of gas [Table A], the 1% temporary drop in gasoline led to 6.1% downward “seasonally adjusted” price pressure.
All of that said, and with the heavy weighting of the gasoline prices considered, the net inflation results barely moved from March (8.5%) to April (8.3%). I modified Table-A to take out the noise. You can see the downward pressure from gasoline and simultaneously the upward price pressure from food, specifically food at home.
This outcome is a reflection of what we have been seeing in the supermarkets and grocery stores.
The Joe Biden $1.9 trillion COVID spending package that created $1,400 checks for all Americans, was passed in March 2021. That massive infusion of cash took place in April of 2021. We are just now cycling through the year-over-year comparisons when that artificial economic stimulus took place.
The 2021 demand side inflation took off immediately after that massive spending spree. It was May, June and July of 2021 when the cash infusion and $1,400 checks drove demand side inflation. Starting next month, we cycle through that period in year-over-year comparisons.
As we have noted for a few months and has been quantified in the drop of overall first quarter GDP, the demand inflation is over. Most of the current inflation is being driven by producer price inflation, the cost to make and produce things.
The demand for goods and services is low (stagnant), but the prices to create goods and the costs of services remains high (inflation). Put those two dynamics together and you have “stagflation,” our current economic status.
The production inflation is directly connected to the cost of energy. Energy prices are embedded in every sector of the economy. Higher electricity, heating/cooling and petroleum costs (packaging, materials, transportation, etc) are unavoidable and passed on to consumers. Individuals and companies who provide services raise their prices to compensate for increases in their own costs. It is a cumulative inflation snowball.
I modified Table 1 to take out the noise (see below). You can see how production inflation continues to be the problem, even as the demand for the products and services declines. You can also see the weighting factor for gasoline overall and how it skews the overall inflation data.
Year-over-year inflation will statistically begin to give the appearance of moderation, once the June (’21) to June (’22) comparison cycle arrives. The Fed and White House will use the intentionally timed statistical outcome to claim inflation is diminishing. It’s a political trick we expected.
The key to remember is that western government debt incurred during COVID-19 is the problem. The debt incurred is unsustainable, and that debt burden can only be reduced by devaluing the currency. Inflation is the devaluing of currency that makes the debt manageable. Dollars that are worth less also make the dollar-based debt worth less.
From the position of the government inflation is good, it makes the debt burden less heavy. Unfortunately, that same inflation makes our money worth less, and our wages are chewed up by higher prices. Wages are destroyed by the increased prices the prior spending created.
• Inflation on durable goods is now at/near the apex. The durable goods price flatlines right now as all production costs are embedded in the cost of the product. The prices of finished goods are now set; inflation has caught up to production; the prices of on-shelf and inbound deliveries are higher, but stable. Production inflation is built in, prices will not drop. However, depending on origination, transportation costs may still increase the end price of finished goods as they transfer to the consumer market.
Now, we enter the phase where consumer demand becomes the dominant factor in price. Simultaneously, demand is contracting because the higher rate of inflation in highly consumable goods (energy, utility costs, housing, gasoline, food) is now a spending priority for consumers and eating a larger portion of wages. As a result, the price of durable goods is now dependent on the ability of the consumer to pay for them.
Sellers of durable goods are going to be chasing a smaller customer base who can afford the higher prices. Durable goods prices will remain static, and now durable goods prices will likely become part of the competitive equation. The businesses within the durable goods sector are going to have to find customers in order to stay in business. Incentives will show up this summer as businesses need customers. If you are a wise, careful and smart shopper for durable goods you will find some modest deals.
• Inflation on consumable goods is not yet at the apex. It’s likely close to production parity, but price pressures are still volatile in the upward direction. The price of gasoline and transportation overall will be a big factor in current prices of highly consumable goods. We should see oil, gas and energy prices stabilize first.
Rents will likely increase for another three to six months, then stabilize (and, in my opinion start to fall).
Housing overall is far more challenging as mortgage rates are climbing. Refinancing as a method to bridge the income gap between wages and expenses is a big problem now in this phase. There is going to be a period of massive fluctuations and instability in the housing market depending on region and employment stability as the recession phase of the total economy is going to bite hard.
For most regions with mixed blend underlying economies (products and services) macro housing prices have peaked. For ordinary housing purchases, not institutional investments, we should start to see price decreases again as the customer base for higher prices shrink. Obviously, this is driven by inventory and regional specifics; however, I am talking in the aggregate within the macro housing situation.
Food prices still have some upward pressures through Memorial Day. Then a period of stability will settle, before the third wave of food inflation hits later in the summer/fall of this year; that’s when the increases in farming costs will reach the fork.
Late summer and fall food prices will likely be 15 to 20 percent higher than current prices at the supermarket. The fresh foods will be on the upper side of the future price wave, and the processed foods on the lower end; however, both will increase.
The last factors in the food price are far more challenging to predict…. Supply? Any problems within the food production cycle that impacts supply will drive prices, beyond what we already expect. If there are major shortages, the prices will go even higher.
This food environment is unfortunately the best time for Big Agriculture, the Wall Street multinationals, to make the most profit. The Big Ag multinationals will exploit every possible angle within inventory, supply and harvest controls to maximize their profit equation.
There are a great deal of unknown global variables right now that could impact U.S. food prices later this year. The only certainty is that prices will further increase.
Joe Biden sucks.
With mostly wins and a few losses in the pre-trial evidentiary hearings for Special Counsel John Durham, the case against Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann is scheduled for trial next week. Now the witness lists are coming forth.
WASHINGTON – […] Robby Mook, who managed Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, Clinton campaign attorney Marc Elias and FBI counterintelligence leader Bill Priestap and former top FBI lawyer James Baker are among those called as government witnesses, said prosecutor Andrew DeFilipiis. (link)
Additionally, Laura Seago, a top tech official at research firm Fusion GPS (she has immunity in exchange for testimony); Deborah Fine, a Clinton campaign lawyer; and a CIA official identified as Kevin B are also on the prosecution list.
[…] Defense attorneys unveiled their own high-powered witness list. It includes Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, former acting Assistant Attorney General Mary McCord and Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau. (read more)
Depending on preset Perkins Coie leverage and risk exposure, other officials from deep inside the DOJ/FBI small group operation may also be forced to stand as defense witnesses by Sussmann’s team. The lawfare combat teams look interesting.
The prosecution calling Marc Elias as a witness looks like a great opportunity for: (1) evidence against him for later use; and/or (2) a perjury trap.
The defense planning to call Inspector General Michael Horowitz puts the office of the IG into a suspicious position. Horowitz is a baddie.
Mary McCord is a conniving manipulator for the worst elements of the deep state, so it makes sense she would give testimony to defend Sussmann. McCord was a central figure in how the DOJ National Security Division sought to frame the appearance of the Trump-Russia collusion nonsense, and it was Mary McCord who later coordinated the National Security Council leaks between Alexander Vindman and anonymous CIA whistleblower, Eric Ciaramella.
Before becoming the Intelligence Community Inspector General, Michael Atkinson was Mary McCord’s chief legal advisor at the DOJ-NSD for the fraudulent submission of the Carter Page FISA application.
In his ICIG position, Atkinson changed the rules for McCord to allow an anonymous whistleblower complaint… at the time Mary McCord was working as legal research operative for the impeachment team in the House.
The Sussmann defense group has enough dirt on Mary McCord and Michael Horowitz to pressure both of them into favorable testimony. We will likely see other corrupt DOJ and FBI officials also pushed to defend Clinton’s legal crew.
On the prosecution side, Laura Seago (with immunity) has details of the motives inside Fusion GPS by owner/operators Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch. Her testimony should be interesting and will likely overlap into other prosecutions if there are any.
Bill Priestap was Peter Strzok’s boss and James Baker was FBI legal counsel. If there was anyone who seemed less willing (slightly) to frame Trump you could make an argument that Priestap and Baker were the least corrupt on the scale of internal corruption. From the perspective of criminal conduct they would be the two FBI insiders less willing to take a fall.
Keep in mind the media has a strong vested interest in the Sussmann prosecution. If Sussmann is found guilty it makes the media culpability look even worse. The media was pushing the same false information to the public that Michael Sussmann was pushing into the FBI.
As previously stated, don’t look for Durham to go inside government with his investigation; he appears focused exclusively on the outside players from the Clinton team.
Comrades, the Ministry of Citizen Privacy cares about your on-line freedoms, accesses and privacy.
Dear Leader cares about your ability to connect efficiently to the government monitoring, surveillance and geolocation tracking services.
(Tweet Thread Link) – (White House LINK)
There is nothing nefarious about the U.S. surveillance state wanting to make surveillance more efficient. Nothing nefarious at all {GO DEEP}.
Do not be discouraged by those extremist voices outlining the benefits to government that are provided by a wider, more inclusive, national broadband internet system; that connects to a more efficient 5G internet system; that permits you to experience a new world of telecommunications benefits tailored to your individual needs.
The new network of all things interconnected will make life far more convenient, perhaps allowing you to eliminate the worry of finding gasoline in rural areas when it becomes scarce. Our new national networks will help ease your mind as the internet proximity services work seamlessly with your portable transponder unit (cell phone) to facilitate your needs.
The convenience of finding stuff you need; intersecting with voting and data-connections with your social media network; helping the government track you; all of it. The opportunities are endless my friends. Smiles, everyone, smiles.
All snark aside, I hope by now everyone -yes, even the skeptics- are wide-eyed enough to see the direction of telecommunications travel, and how tracking, monitoring and free market conveniences mesh beautifully with the surveillance state. {GO DEEP} My friends, this is all one very long continuum we have been traveling – and you are the select few who can see the destination.
I must say I admire how the Fourth Branch is closing the gap on the less connected population by using capitalism instead of direct government creation. It’s simply brilliant.
Instead of the government building the surveillance hardware directly, the government will subsidize internet payments to individuals who will then ask the telecommunications operators to build the surveillance hardware.
Instead of Joe Biden giving AT&T several billion dollars to build the national monitoring system, instead he gives several billion dollars to the citizens in underserved communities, via subsidy payments to AT&T. The telecommunications control agents then build out more technological capacity that then flows into the government database.
Instead of the government building the pipes that tunnel into your home, the government gives you the money to pay the contracted pipelayer for the benefit of having the tunnel built into your home. It’s a fantastic use of the public-private partnership and yet few people can see what lays at the end of the interconnected system.
The Abbott Nutrition plant in Sturgis, Michigan, shut down in February due to an FDA inspection and several food sanitation concerns. That plant was one of the biggest suppliers of baby formula nationally including Similac, and a major supplier of specialty formulas that are a lifeline for thousands of infants with medical conditions, including metabolic, allergic and gastrointestinal disorders.
Oddly, after several months the plant remains closed.
Politico has this interesting aspect noted, “Neither FDA nor Abbott will answer specific questions about the status of the investigation or what the plan is to reopen the facility, which has further strained the infant formula supply chain. Among other types of infant formula, the plant is a major producer of Similac, the top brand on the market. Parents across the country have posted on social media about near-empty shelves of formula at the retail level.”
In response to the supply shortages several retailers have now begun rationing infant formula to customers:
(Via The Hill) Several major retailers — including Walgreens, CVS, Target and Costco — are rationing the purchase of baby formula amid an ongoing national shortage.
“Due to increased demand and various supplier challenges, infant and toddler formulas are seeing constraint across the country,” a Walgreens spokesperson told NBC News.
“Similar to other retailers, we put into effect purchase limits of three per transaction on all infant and toddler formula to help improve inventory. We continue to work diligently with our supplier partners to best meet customer demands.” (read more)
As noted within several media reports, some people are calling upon the federal government to intervene and use federal resources to either assist with expanded manufacturing capacity, and/or, assist with equitable distribution, ie ‘rationing’.
The Cloward-Piven strategy for radical and fundamental change consists of overwhelming a system, creating a crisis and then using the crisis as an entry for government solution; the ‘never let a crisis go to waste’ part of the program.
There is no doubt the overall food production supply chain was thrown into chaos when COVID mitigation efforts by the government shut down the food supply chain for 60% of national consumption.
When the food away from home venues were closed (restaurants, schools, hotels, cafeterias’, lunchrooms, food trucks and hospitality venues) they represented more than half of the total food supply chain. Food at home retailers, grocery stores and supermarkets, together with their upstream manufacturing and distribution systems, simply could not keep up with the increased demand.
If you run any system beyond its operational capacity long enough, odd downstream consequences begin to appear. One of those consequences is always in the food safety and sanitation side of the food manufacturing and processing system. However, as the food supply boxcar effect begins to stabilize and get back to normal, now is not the time for another round of government intervention.
Sometimes there is little distinction in outcome between an actual scarcity and the appearance of scarcity when hyped by fear and panic. Be careful of hyped fear and panic because it can be purposeful for the interests of the Cloward-Piven types.
On May 5th, Fox News host Tucker Carlson interviewed Catherine Englebrecht from True the Vote (TTV) and discussed a massive ballot harvesting scheme in the 2020 election. The work done by Englebrecht formed the basis for a documentary by Dinesh D’Souza that outlines the 2020 election fraud and how it was done using ballot mules.
We noted at the time of the interview, it seemed odd that neither Tucker Carlson nor Catherine Englebrecht would mention the documentary movie “2000 Mules” that was premiering during the week of the interview. It all seemed rather curious. Well, now Dinesh D’Souza is stating that Tucker Carlson and his team specifically instructed Catherine Englebrecht not to mention the movie.
I wonder if such a stunning accusation, and all of the political implications within it for both Fox News and Carlson, is going to lead to a response from Tucker Carlson tonight? Or is this coordinated PR truth-bending to stimulate more interest in the movie?
According to a public release, 2000 Mules netted more than $1 million in the first twelve hours:
LONGBOAT KEY, Fla., May 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Dinesh D’Souza’s new movie “2000 Mules,” which launched on Saturday, May 7, 2022, grossed more than one million dollars in less than twelve hours on the video streaming platform Rumble and its subscription-based platform, Locals. The movie’s gross sales on Rumble and Locals, which began on Saturday at noon, are good enough to put “2000 Mules” in the estimated box office top ten for the weekend of May 6th to May 8th.
First, White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain almost certainly has public opinion polling showing that threats and intimidation toward the supreme court are not okay with the majority of the American people. Second, there is a strong argument to be made the highest office of the Executive Branch advocating for targeting of the highest officers in the Judicial Branch is a directly impeachable offense.
Regardless of motivation, and after a weekend of threats, violence and intimidation against the court, White House spokesperson Jen Psaki reverses the administration prior position and now speaks against “violence, threats and vandalism.” Tweet Link:
The people behind the Joe Biden White House generally respond to the politics of any situation, not the legality of it. They know their tools and allies in the FBI, DOJ and congress will excuse and ignore any illegal behavior.
Therefore, the most likely source of any internal anxiety that would cause a reversal in position is public opinion polling. This week should bring a flood of abortion opinion polls to the headlines from administration allies in media.
The fact this lawfare case was even brought before a court exemplifies the desperation in the Democrat party. Georgia State Administrative Law Judge Charles Beaudrot has rejected the challenge to Marjorie Taylor Greene after listening to legal arguments last week.
Washington – “ATLANTA (AP) — A judge in Georgia on Friday found that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Ga.) can run for reelection, rejecting arguments from a group of voters who had challenged her eligibility over allegations that she engaged in insurrection. But the decision will ultimately be up to Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
State Administrative Law Judge Charles Beaudrot announced his decision after a daylong hearing in April that included arguments from lawyers for the voters and for Greene, as well as extensive questioning of Greene herself. (read more)
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