December 26, 2018

Joe: Days Of Hoping President Donald Trump Will Achieve More Are Over

Scarborough starts show with 10-minute editorial

Trump is...
a Wimp
a Coward
a Weakling

Unable to confront people one-on-one
Unable to fire anybody one-on-one
Unable to stand up to Putin/Erdogan/Kim/Duterte/MBS one-on-one

Incapable of Leadership
Incapable of Honesty
Incapable of Being a Man

December 25, 2018

Foreign Comedians on America

Happy Holidays!

December 24, 2018

Carols at Tornillo: protesters sing for children held in Trump's tent city

Source: Guardian

Edwin Delgado in Tornillo, Texas
Mon 24 Dec 2018 12.10 GMT

Singing and chanting as loud as they could, a few hundred feet from where thousands of children remain detained in a tent-like facility, activists and members of the public hoped their voices would find their way across fences and barbed wire. They wanted to let the children know people were thinking of them during this holiday season.

El Paso organizations put together the Christmas Caroling event in Tornillo, which began on Sunday and will continue daily until 1 January. The idea came from Joshua Rubin, an activist from Brooklyn who has spent the past two months at the border, monitoring the treatment of migrants held by the federal government.

Rubin first visited McAllen, Texas in the summer, when the Trump administration’s controversial family separation policy was in place. He came back in October, after learning about the expansion of the Tornillo facility.

“I decided to come down, sit here at the gates and watch what goes in and what goes out,” he said. “I gather what I see and report to people, and maybe if I’m here watching, the rest of the country might start watching and these kids won’t be forgotten.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/24/carols-tornillo-protesters-sing-migrant-children-trump-tent-city

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Beto O'Rourke was also there.

December 23, 2018

Weirdest Song Lyric You've Ever Heard

My nominee comes not from rock, or heavy metal, or punk, but rather from the late country boy John Denver:

And they say that he got crazy once, and he tried to touch the sun/
And he lost a friend, but kept the memory - Rocky Mountain High

What the hell does that mean???

December 23, 2018

Trump economic adviser slams Fed chairman

Source: The Hill

BY BRETT SAMUELS - 12/23/18 07:00 AM EST

Stephen Moore, an informal economic adviser to President Trump, blamed Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell for the recent drop in the stock market in an interview that aired Sunday.

In an interview with John Catsimatidis on New York's AM 970, Moore echoed a number of the criticisms that Trump has shared publicly about the bank chief, who announced earlier in the week that the Fed would raise interest rates despite protests from the president.

"We need to be putting more dollar-liquidity into the economy because there’s such a demand for dollars now all over the world," Moore said. "Everybody wants to invest in the United States and at the same time the world wants more dollars. The Fed is sucking them out of the economy. And it has really hurt the stock market."

Moore, who recently co-wrote a book titled "Trumponomics" with Art Laffer, said the two visited the White House recently, where the president asked them whether he should've kept former Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen instead of appointing Powell.

"We looked at each other and said, 'Janet Yellen couldn’t have been any worse than the guy he’s got in there now,'" Moore said.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/finance/422614-trump-economic-adviser-slams-fed-chairman

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An "informal" economic adviser and Arthur Laffer make me wanna laugh myself.