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The Morning Report 5/8/23

Good morning, kids. With everything going on, probably the least crucial item on the docket is the fight over the debt ceiling. Let’s face it; unless we are completely wrong about deficits and debts in terms of the consequences to the government as opposed to the ordinary citizen, we are tens of trillions in the hole and we’re probably past the “singularity” insofar as we’ll never escape it. 

In any case, Kevin McCarthy actually forced Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants to cave on his plan to raise it $1.5 trillion in exchange for so-called spending “cuts” of $4.5 trillion. It remains to be seen if these are indeed actual cuts as opposed to the usual cuts to the rate at which we increase our debt. But be that as it may, this exchange between Greek midget George Stephanopoulos and Fed Chair Janet Yellen raised an eyebrow, and curdled my guts.

Anchor George Stephanopoulos said, “Of course, there’s always the chance for this negotiation that you don’t reach a deal, and then it comes back to the president. He said on Friday night that he is not ready. The 14th Amendment that it should not be questioned. And the implications would be the United States would continue to issue debt, saying it is unconstitutional not to. The president says he is not ready to do that, but it does not seem like he took it off the table. Is it still a possibility?

Anchor George Stephanopoulos said, “Of course, there’s always the chance for this negotiation that you don’t reach a deal, and then it comes back to the president. He said on Friday night that he is not ready. The 14th Amendment that it should not be questioned. And the implications would be the United States would continue to issue debt, saying it is unconstitutional not to. The president says he is not ready to do that, but it does not seem like he took it off the table. Is it still a possibility?

Stephanopoulos said, “But is it on the table? Is it something that could be considered? You said there is no way this could be done without Congress. Is that a hard and fast decision?”

Yellen said, “All I want to say is that it is Congress’ job to do this. If we fail to do it, we will have an economic and financial catastrophe, and there is no action that President Biden and the U.S. Treasury can take to prevent that catastrophe.”

Stephanopoulos asked, “I’m still not exactly clear on whether it’s on the table or off the table. Is it a break glass in case of emergency option?”

Yellen said, “Look, I don’t. I don’t want to consider emergency options. What’s important is that members of Congress recognize what their responsibility is and avert what will surely be, regardless of how it’s handled, what option is used to handle it, an economic and financial catastrophe.”

Stephanopoulos asked, “It sounds like you’re saying you don’t want to, but you may have to.”

Yellen replied, “Well, what to do if Congress fails to meet its responsibility, there is simply no good options. And the ones that you’ve listed are among the not good options.”

There is absolutely no love lost between me and Congress, but for this soiled, ancient dishrag, whose ideologically driven ineptitude greased the wheels for the economic collapse we are facing to demand Congress “do its job” is just chutzpocrisy beyond belief. Kabuki-bukkake theatre notwithstanding, Kevin McCarthy has done his job. My preference is for them to put forth a program that abolishes the entire federal bureaucracy as soon as possible, pass a balanced budget amendment and one which puts an absolute limit on spending tied to a very small percentage of GDP. But, that is a pipe dream, wrapped in an LSD trip inside a drunken stupor.

But Zorba the geek is egging her on to urge Joey to declare himself emperor and just raise the debt all by hisself. Of course, it would all be completely kosher and Constitutional! I’ll be the first to admit that I’m no Mark Levin, but of all the amendments to that document, arguably the most bastardized has got to be the 14th. Besides the complete misreading of who and who is not a citizen, in the attempt post Civil War 1 to ensure that former black slaves and their descendants were considered as such, there are these sections pertaining to debt:

Section 4: The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

Section 5: The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

Now, I’ve read those sections and the previous three several times just to make sure that I’m not missing anything but absolutely nowhere in there does it give the Executive branch the authority to unilaterally raise the national debt for any reason whatsoever. So what the actual fuck is George Stephanopoulos talking about?

As a theoretically co-equal branch of government it is Congress, specifically the House, that has the purview of budgetary and taxation matters. Essentially the crux of the biscuit here is Homunculopoulos getting all hot and horny for Joey to just act as a dictator while prancing around in the skin suit of the 14th Amendment and demanding respect. 

Meh. Is this really so important given the fact that whatever red pubic hair of a barrier we have at the southern border is about to vanish on Thursday, despite the fact that among the nearly million-strong horde of third world peasantry are a large number of hardened criminals and terrorists?

Not to mention the complete upending of the concept of the rule of law, when thugs and psychopaths are unleashed on society in a planned campaign of political anarcho-terrorism and any citizen who dares defend himself gets the book thrown at him.

Perhaps this does get lost in the sauce with everything else happening. But it’s just one more indicator that we’re heading for disaster.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

  • “True science, the evidence before ones eyes, exposes the globalist American empire as a kleptocracy that has betrayed the country, outsourced its wealth and defense, and degraded its people.” American Despotism
  • “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.” The Return of the 20th Century Pestilence
  • Victor Davis Hanson: “At peak woke, our reign of terror is beginning to lose momentum because its continuation would destroy all the work of 247 years of American progress and sacrifice.” The Impending Thermidor Reaction in Jacobin America

FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG “RIOT” & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION 

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

THE ECONOMY, STUPID

  • Yellen said, “Look, I don’t. I don’t want to consider emergency options. What’s important is that members of Congress recognize what their responsibility is and avert what will surely be, regardless of how it’s handled, what option is used to handle it, an economic and financial catastrophe.” (how about actually cutting – really CUTTING – spending, eliminating departments and lowering the budget? – jjs) Yellen on Debt Ceiling: Biden Invoking 14th Amendment ‘Not Good’ But Possible Emergency Option
  • “The GOP can still use the debt limit debate to demand cuts to unnecessary programs and left-wing slush funds. But the timing is wrong to escalate this into a shutdown.” The Debt Ceiling Fight Doesn’t Advance America First
  • “Haaland is on a mission to reshape the Department of Interior to the days before Manifest Destiny, with all its good, bad, and ugly, shaped the nation. She is trying to return to what will never be. With a push from the Biden [junta], Haaland is preparing to adopt new regulations that make conservation the No. 1 priority for the Department of Interior, which owns 246,393,048 acres, with 99.99 percent of that land in the West. There go the jobs.”Deb Haaland Says the Quiet Part Out Loud — The Biden Junta Doesn’t Care About Creating Jobs
  • “Defaults on commercial real estate properties have surged to a new high unseen since the global financial crisis of 2008-9. Major companies with hundreds of billions of dollars in assets have chosen to default on billions of dollars of mortgages in recent months.” Keeping up with the Fed’s Debacles
  • “Over-estimating the current month’s growth makes it look larger in comparison to the previous month’s total, especially if the previous month’s count is revised downward.” BLS Revises Job Growth Down for Every Prior Month This Year, Making April Look Better in Comparison
  • “With its Wayfair decision, the Supreme Court has created a chaotic regime of state taxes on business—and Congress needs to fix it.” The Tax Nexus Cometh

AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

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  • Daniel Greenfield: “New York Dems rally for Jordan Neely, who attacked a 67-year-old woman and a 7-year-old girl.” An Ex-Marine Stood Up to a Subway Monster. Now He May Go To Jail
  • Peachy Keenan: “Young American men will be taught the hard way that selflessness, courage, and their masculine instincts will get them 20 to life in prison.” (and suppressing them could get you dead – jjs) The Lesson of Jordan Neely: Your Courage and Sacrifice Will be Punished
  • Clarice Feldman: “Another act to subdue an aggressive mentally ill man leads to another George Floyd media-leftist whitewash of the perpetrator and this time, I think it will not work.” (Don’t) Take the F Train
  • “The protesters are demanding “justice” but not for Neely. They don’t care a rat’s patootie for the mentally ill man. They want to stir the racial pot because it’s exactly what New York politicians fear. And with that fear comes a modicum of control that they can only gain by scaring politicians into doing their bidding.” In a World Gone Mad, the Jordan Neelys Rule
  • “Jordan Neely was a victim, but not in the way progressive activists would have you believe.” Was It for This the Clay Grew Tall?
  • “A culture of lawlessness begets vigilante justice.” (in this case it wasn’t vigilante justice; it was self defense, but if they go after the victims then it will lead to it – jjs) In NYC Subway, Leftist Governance Reaps What It Sows
  • “This new Georgia law, which takes effect July 1, is part of a positive trend nationwide in pumping the brakes on prosecutors who don’t prosecute. Here’s hoping it will help stem the tide of crime that has gripped our nation.” New Georgia Law Targets Left-Wing Prosecutors

AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

ABORTION

THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

  • [Claudia] Tenney’s bill would prohibit federal agencies from using federal funds to “solicit or enter into an agreement with a nongovernmental organization to conduct voter registration or voter mobilization activities.” The measure defines “voter registration or voter mobilization activities” as actions related to “registering voters or providing any person with voter registration materials, absentee or vote-by-mail ballot applications, voting instructions, or candidate-related information.” Republicans Move To Curb Biden’s Federal Interference In Elections
  • “A student ID isn’t in any way evidence that you are a resident of the state,” Hans von Spakovsky, Election Law Reform Initiative Manager at the Heritage Foundation, told the DCNF. “There are plenty of folks who go outside of their home state to college. They’ll get a student ID, they pay out of state tuition and they never become a resident of the state.”State Voting Laws Banning Student IDs Won’t Tank The Youth Vote, Experts Say
  • “Prior to the elections on Thursday May 4th, far-left organizations warned of ‘millions’ of voters being disenfranchised by the move to secure Britain’s elections.” England Introduced Voter ID This Week. There Wasn’t ‘Mass Disenfranchisement’, Despite Leftist Hysteria.

SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

POLITICS 

THE UKRAINIAN “FRONT”

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

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WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM 

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY 

FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

HITHER & YON 

  • Robert Spencer: “His passing is another reminder of how much America has changed since his heyday, and not for the better. . . For that one summer, he was indeed the best, and he brought out something that was good in all of us. May we recover as a nation the promise of those times. We’ll miss you, Vida Blue.” Vida Blue, Who Flourished in a Vanishing America, Has Died
  • “We all need good novels.” Critic or Coroner?

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