Tag Archives: Political Correctness

Aug 5 2018

Beware of Social Justice


Dear Friends:

An interesting matter has arisen in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, but be assured that this idea could well surface in your hometown. (ADDED by Centinel2012: This could happen any where in this country and is totally against the US Constitution so you are now warned.)

Armond Budish, Cuyahoga County Executive, has suggested that there be a Human Rights Council in Cuyahoga County for a specialty group, specifically, and at this time, for the LGBTQ community (as though the Human Rights Council of the United Nations is so ethical and trustworthy).  Budish seeks a form of justice, but not the justice referenced in the Pledge of Allegiance to our flag, but a form of “social justice.”  However, the moment we divide Americans into groups and treat one group differently from the others, it is no longer true justice.  Rather, it is meant as boost or benefit for one select group at the expense of another.    

The commission would conduct investigations on gender issues and enforce and issue subpoenas as a quasi-judicial appointed attorney.  No one so titled should be able to levy monetary penalties, especially for undecided social, moral issues. 

Under the proposed law, the plaintiff (one who sues) would be financially supported by the commission, which opens up the proverbial can of worms because he/she has no “skin in the game.”  Unless the plaintiff bears the risk or consequences for his/her actions, the suit could be frivolous or malicious, and the victim harmed, whether reputationally or financially.    

Above all, this type of lawsuit is a kind of censorship system.  In our country, under our laws, the Bill of Rights guarantees the Freedom of Speech, but a legal threat creates an atmosphere of fear of consequence. This is not unlike the accusations of Islamophobia, when one might want to say something that is perfectly within his/her right but fears a penalty that could do him great harm.  This is unjust.

I ask the members of the Cuyahoga County Council to not vote to oblige your fellow council members, and not to vote because of the request made by the county executive, but to vote your conscience.  Put yourselves in the position of saying something, perhaps a little untoward or not meeting the “standards” of self-appointed morality police, but perfectly within your rights, and imagine someone deciding to sue you and being reimbursed so that the only one to bear the brunt of consequences is you, the unwitting defendant.   

 

Tabitha Korol

https://tinyurl.com/y7e6z63d

 

 

Aug 4 2018

President Trump Meets and Surprises Jim Jordan in Ohio…


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on August 4, 2018 by

Representative Jim Jordan is the no-nonsense personification of the ‘git-r-done’ spirit that runs through the scruffy and beloved heart of MAGA.  An authentic guiding spirit that cannot be faked, scripted or duplicated.  Ya’ either have it…. or ya’ don’t; it’s that simple.

In another example for the keen political instincts of President Trump; he can tell from the automatic vibe that jumped in the air when he said the name “Jim Jordan”; the President calls Jordan to the stage…. and another authentic MAGA moment happens spontaneously.

Remember, Jim Jordan said in an interview just a few weeks ago that he had never met President Trump, and had never personally talked to him.  However, when POTUS Trump senses the crowds response to the words “Jim Jordan” he immediately identifies the importance and value.  WATCH the instinctual evolution:

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This is why POTUS travel and MAGA events are so valuable. Prior to today…. prior to this exact moment…. by custom and political tradition -as well as input from the circle around the office- President Trump was likely to support Kevin McCarthy as a natural SoH predecessor.

Not any more.

McCarthy doesn’t inspire that response.

POTUS Trump was just introduced to the MAGA inspirational and aspirational value of Speaker Jordan. Remember this moment; it matters.

See that look right there in that last picture? Watch it again if needed. Look at that moment closely.

What that is… is POTUS Trump seeing a Diamond in a coal mine.

There’s a spirit, a sense, a guiding force, that put that moment in Ohio together…. And it will have long, bigly, ramifications within MAGA and our nation… watch, you’ll see.

Republican state senator Troy Balderson winning Ohio’s 12th district is important; but Speaker of The House Jim Jordan is far more valuable to the historic needs of President Trump.

Guess what?….

He just noticed.

And he doesn’t miss this stuff…

It’s right there:

Providence!

We have angels on our shoulders.

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Aug 4 2018

Venezuela – President Maduro Speech Cut Short – Reports of Possible Drone Attack (Video)…


RE-Posted from The Conservative Tree house on August 4, 2018 by

Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro was delivering a speech today with a national military parade and all the structured festivities.  During the remarks, an explosion was heard, and several seconds later the crowd responded to state police rushing toward them. The broadcast on state television quickly cuts to a commercial. WATCH:

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According to initial reporting there was a possible drone attack against the Maduro regime.  However, given the nature of the Maduro government, there is also strong opinion the attack was staged by the government to elicit sympathy.

Aug 4 2018

President Trump Holds MAGA Rally in Lewis Center, Ohio – 6:30pm Livestream….


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on August 4, 2018 by

President Donald J. Trump holds a MAGA campaign rally at Olentangy Orange High School in Lewis Center, OH.  President Trump is speaking at the campaign rally days before the August 7th special election for Ohio’s 12th district. The congressional election is a tense race between Republican state senator Troy Balderson and Democrat Danny O’Connor.  Media are framing the contest as a referendum on President Trump.

Anticipated start time for President Trump is 6:30pm EST with pre-rally festivities ongoing.  There are also jumbo TV screens set-up outside the venue:

RSBN Livestream Link – Fox News Livestream Link – NBC Livestream Link

Aug 4 2018

Lady Liberty Protester, Patricia Okoumou, Holds a Courthouse Press Conference To Scream Against America…


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on August 4, 2018 by

The activist who climbed the base of the Statue of Liberty on Independence Day, Therese Patricia Okoumou, held a press conference yesterday outside a New York Courthouse in front of an adoring crowd of Democrat supporters.

Ms. Okoumou is a 44-year-old immigrant from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She lives in the St. George neighborhood of Staten Island, and took the opportunity yesterday to spew an anti-America chant during a news conference.  WATCH:

Therese “Patricia” Okoumou, the woman from the Congo who climbed the Statue of Liberty, was in front of the federal court begging for leniency. Then she went in front of the Courthouse and began screaming a vulgar anti-American chant while her Democrat activist supporters cheered her on.

Aug 4 2018

President Trump Discusses U.S. -v- China Confrontation: “We Must Be Strong”…


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PHASE II – President Trump tweeted earlier today about the ongoing geopolitical contest that is priority #1 in defending U.S. interests and retaining our economic strength.

Do not be surprised if North Korea launches another provocative missile test soon. Watch China, not N.Korea. It’s Chairman Xi’s people in the DPRK who are taking action. Kim Jong-Un is an expendable proxy regime. The war is the U.S. -vs- China trade and economic confrontation. North Korea is the Potemkin backdrop for the Beijing puppeteer.

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As POTUS Trump and the U.S. trade team target ever increasing tariff pressure upon Beijing to change their behavior, keep a close eye on North Korea. Given the zero-sum approach of the Chinese; and their history of weaponizing the DPRK; we could expect to see Beijing roll out nuclear antagonism again in an overt effort to gain concessions.

 

Aug 4 2018

Kudlow Part 2 – The Trade Confrontation and MAGAnomic Growth…


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on August 3, 2018 by

Larry Kudlow has fully immersed himself in MAGA.  The evolution from supporter to believer likely comes from the increase in proximity to President Trump and the resolve therein.   Good stuff.

In this segment the Chairman of the National Economic Council discusses the background of the U.S. -v- China trade reset and the long-term goal of open global markets with Zero tariffs, Zero non-trade barriers and Zero subsidies.

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Everyone has a role to play…

Aug 4 2018

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says We Live in Hyper-Capitalism & Socialism Will Conquer the World?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics

Re-Posted Aug 4, 2018 by Martin Armstrong

The Democrats are counting on a new generation of Socialists who know even less about how things work than just about anyone else perhaps in history. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has had a viral campaign video that has pushed her into stardom. Clearly, she won because of the Trump Revolution which is all about just throw the career politicians out the door. But there is a lot more to representing people. It would be nice to at least have someone who understands the subject matter.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez created a huge backlash over her description of Israel as an occupier of Palestinian land. She describes herself as a socialist, which enthralled the Democrats who love the idea of living off of other people’s money. She calls our economic system “hyper-capitalism” and says that capitalism has not always existed and will collapse. Equality to Democrats ends with race and gender. If you make more than them, that is “unfair” and you have no right to the fruits of your own labor. And for working hard your whole life and you want to retire, well you still have to pay property and income taxes. And of course, you saved to help your children, that’s not fair that they should inherit anything they do not have so they put in inheritance taxes.

So if Ocasio-Cortez has not lost the Jewish vote by saying that the Jews occupy Jerusalem, then in an attempt to explain why unemployment levels have dropped to lows of 3.9% and below under the Trump administration, Alexandria, who was an economics and international relations major, explained, “Unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs.” Obviously, she may have majored in economics and international relations, but there is clearly a reason she could not find a job and was still a waitress/bartender. It looks like she failed in both subjects.

The “Firing Line” host Margaret Hoover asked Ocasio-Cortez directly if she still thinks that capitalism is not the best system for promoting the middle class. Her response was astonishing:

“I think the [unemployment] numbers that you just talked about is part of the problem,” said Ocasio-Cortez. “Because we look at these figures and we say that unemployment is low and everything is fine, right? Well, unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs. Unemployment is low because people are working 60, 70, 80 hours a week and can barely feed their kids.”

If everyone is working 60 to 80 hours and that is why unemployment is low, I do not see where she is capable of basic logic. That would mean there is a shortage of labor and room for a lot more jobs so people can work just 40 hours.

Her comment that America’s economic system is “hyper-capitalism” is really strange. She defined her term: “So I do think right now we have this no holds barred, wild west hyper-capitalism. What that means is profit at any cost. Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.” Those are words right out of Marx and Lenin. They said socialism/communism would be the new world order and capitalism would collapse. In her world, what is yours is hers, and what is hers, is hers. Former workers speak out about how she was anything but fair in splitting tips. Preach what people should do, but never do it yourself.

Aug 3 2018

NEC Chairman Larry Kudlow Discusses July Jobs Report…


RE-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on August 3, 2018 by

National Economic Council Chairman Larry Kudlow discusses the July jobs report with Fox News host Stuart “Grumbles” Varney.

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Stuart “Grumbles” Varney and Neil “Eeyore” Cavuto are cut from the same GOPe Wall Street cloth:

Neil Cavuto and Stuart Varney

Aug 3 2018

MAGAnomics: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs July Report – Private Employment +170,000, Government Employment -13,000, Net: +157,000


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on August 3, 2018 by

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the July 2018 employment report today (full pdf with tables below) highlighting continued growth in jobs.  Overall private employment gained 170,000 jobs, while government employment decreased 13,000 jobs for a net gain of 156,000 new jobs.   The BLS unemployment rate dropped to 3.9%.

[*Note this footnote:  “The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for May was revised up to +268,000, and the change for June was revised up to +248,000. With these revisions, employment gains in May and June combined were 59,000 more than previously reported.”]  Huh, funny that…. some revision eh?

July’s labor participation is holding steady at 62.9%, with 155,965,000 employed within the U.S. workforce. (Table A-1)

Blue and White-collar Main Street jobs continue to lead the MAGAnomic resurgence. (table B-1) Construction jobs increased 19,000 jobs; manufacturing gained 37,000 jobs; and trade/transportation and utilities gaining 15,000.

With extra cash in their pockets, the U.S. worker/consumer continued to spend and retail employment added 7,100 new workers in July.   (Table B1) Interestingly, and reinforcing a long-ago CTH prediction, the consumer spending growth (leading to increases in employment) is specifically in the consumable goods sector (food, clothing, etc.).   This is connected to the increase in work-time (table B2); an oft overlooked aspect to the economy.

Truck transportation gained 4,400 jobs in July (everyone needs truckers), which is in line with the high wage growth (3.4%) within this sub-set of the transportation industry.

Here’s the full BLS employment report:

https://www.scribd.com/embeds/385392156/content?start_page=1&view_mode=&access_key=key-vvvafpKUeIsQCk7uclkA

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The July Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs reports comes just after they released their second quarter analysis of wage and benefit rates for American workers. –SEE HERE–  This is only the beginning of what is to come:

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Overall wage rate growth in Q2 (April, May, June) now at 2.8% year-over-year.  That is great news. However, the better news is the red emphasis, White and Blue Collar middle-class wage rate growth is well over 3%.  The wage growth is broad-based amid almost all sectors.  [Trucking and transportation at 3.4% (Table 8)]

As the wage rate increases, and as the economy expands, the governmental dependency model is reshaped and simultaneously receipts to the U.S. treasury improve.

More money into the U.S Treasury and less dependence on welfare/social service programs have a combined exponential impact. You gain a dollar, and have no need to spend a dollar – the saved sum is doubled. That is how the SSI and safety net programs are saved under President Trump.

When you elevate your economic thinking you begin to see that all of the “entitlements” or expenditures become more affordable with an economy that is fully functional.

Hold on to your MAGA caps… It’s a hurricane of winningness: 

…“and we will win, and you will win, and we will keep on winning, and eventually you will say we can’t take all of this winning, …please Mr. Trump …and I will say, NO, we will win, and we will keep on winning”.

~ Donald Trump