syntactic role “Democratic” has in “Democratic Socialism.”
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Category: Epic fail
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It VERY much
seems that western Europe is toasted. I may be wrong, but I don’t think they can come back. Heck, they (the leaders, especially) don’t even want to come back!
Economically, Europe is in ghastly shape. In 1980, the nine member states of the European Economic Community (today’s 27-member European Union) accounted for approximately 27% of global GDP, according to the IMF. By the end of 2025, the figure for the same nine countries (plus the former East Germany) had fallen significantly to just 15.5% of global GDP.
… Europe’s population is decreasing, but mass migration, at this stage anyway, might be more of a burden on Europe’s finances than a contribution to its workforce or economic growth.
And lots more at the link. I strongly suspect that it’s too late for western Europe to pull up. They are moribund. Eastern Europe (Poland in particular) is where the civilizational energy is.
and obviously bull-crap case against Trump fizzles and collapses.
President Trump was interviewed by his former attorney, Michael Cohen, the star witness in the hush money case, which verdict is under appeal. Trump said Cohen was weaponized against him by the Justice Department. Cohen agrees, adding that he felt coerced by the Feds. The case stems from the president’s effort to pay adult film star Stormy Daniels $130,000 during the 2016 election. [emphasis added]
It was always very obvious that this was a steaming pile of manure! But now Cohen has explicitly said that he was coerced. And now, even if he recants, he shows that he is a liar and therefore the case has utterly collapsed. There’s just no putting that genie back into the bottle!
That’s a former federal prosecutor — Honig himself spent years in the Southern District of New York, the same office that originally passed on this case — describing his own profession’s handiwork as a corpse jolted upright with jumper cables.
… The case against Trump was demonstrably bogus, the actions of the prosecution at least questionable if not downright illegal, and yet, the leftist news media… I’m pointing at YOU, CNN and MSNBC, New York Times, et al… are to this day playing these cases against their hated enemy. And Trump isn’t supposed to say anything about the bias that the legal teams involved applied against him, and from which those same news outlets profited mightily?
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Newsom will NEVER
be the Democrat nominee. <sigh>
Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe Newsom has learned the lessons Harris never did. Maybe he really is the Democrats’ Great White Hope. But I didn’t see much evidence of that in Michigan.
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Yeah, politics can
be really hard! It’s no place for rank amateurs. And El-Sayed has shown himself to be nothing if not a rank amateur! Democrats have to be asking who’s on deck in MI…
His non-answers to her questions were a de facto confirmation of Welker’s suspicions. What El-Sayed said pretty clearly was to trust the government more than your insurance company, and that yes, your taxes will go up under his plan.
Hmmmm… Running on raising taxes and increasing a faceless bureaucracy. And THAT seems like winner of an idea to him? What an amateur!
Sure it makes no sense. But they think YOU are stupid!
The truth is that the Sunday shows are very kind to Democrats. If he couldn’t hit a figurative home run in his first interview with Welker since winning his primary race, he’s got some weaknesses and vulnerabilities that the Rogers campaign and Republicans can exploit more fully in the coming months.
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Yeah, that’s
pretty much it. Certainly there is no governing policy ideas….
of this chump! It’s time to challenge his “leadership.”
It shouldn’t surprise anyone, but Sen. John Thune (R-SD) is not responding to President Trump’s calls or the pleas from the base, and has dismissed one of the key parts of the Trump agenda because his weak constitution can’t secure votes. It seems with every passing day, his backbone becomes more degraded. It’s why the panic-driven scum cannot lead. It’s why Bush-era Republicans need to be shown the door. The current time isn’t right for their antics.
HE’S a Republican? REALLY? He is at best really weak. Though I strongly suspect that he is actually just a traitor.
halcyon days of hookers and blow are over. How sad is Hunter? VERY sad…
The problem appears to be that, as predicted years ago, his sales dried up with the influence-peddling market once his father left office. Now, his lawyers want him to cough up $17 million that he owes them. Hunter says that not only is he broke, but so is his family.
… The statement about his family is curious, since Joe and Jill Biden recently received numerous book contracts and were thought to be worth millions. However, the Wall Street Journal recently reported that Joe Biden is struggling with $800,000 in debt and, ironically, increased property taxes in his blue state of Delaware on his $2.7 million home. (Moving to Florida like many fleeing blue state taxes is not a viable option for the Bidens).
Worse yet, no one wants Biden to do speeches and appearances, cutting off a lucrative post-presidency income. Not only is Biden obviously diminished in his ability to give a speech, but many Democrats blame him for the reelection of Trump by clinging to power despite his obvious deteriorating mental and physical condition.
As the article asks, how on earth did he burn through the millions and millions he got from shady deals and influence peddling because he was Joe Biden’s son? My, my, my, that’s sure a lot of money for hookers and blow!
And for those of you like the rest of us who are working hard to manage what money we have, this is a cautionary tale that encourages wise money management!
It’s no surprise that most big-money lottery winners are broke and alone within a decade or so…
is really a glutton for punishment!
That’s the big problem with Tarlov’s argument. She thinks Republicans are just tossing the label “socialist” out there as if it were an overused pejorative, but the truth is the socialist insurgency that’s going on right now in the party is happening with candidates who are openly calling themselves socialists and are associated with the Democratic Socialists of America.
But like most on the Left, Tarlov has talking points, not logical arguments! And Gutfeld does to her what we ALL should do with Lefty professions of faith–he asks for actual definitions and data.
Logical argument is kryptonite to the Left.
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Are you even
surprised? Then you are totally ignorant of the way the world works. Mamdani and his henchmen thought that everyone would pay punitive taxes, deal with unsafe settings, and endure the heavy hand of Mamdani just for the “privilege” of living in NYC.
They were wrong.
On Monday, the Citizen Budget Commission released a study documenting the cumulative effects of New York’s aggressive tax policies. One of its most notable findings was that between 2010 and 2022, the state’s share of the nation’s millionaires fell from 12.7% to 8.7% and their exodus cost the state nearly $11 billion in lost tax revenue for the 2022 tax year alone. [emphasis added]
… In New York, the top 1% of earners pay about 45% of all state income taxes in any given year, so New York’s revenue is very reliant on high earners to stay in New York, and that has been a challenge in recent years.…
High taxes are only part of the problem. Far-left state and local leaders have layered on regulations that have made New York an increasingly hostile environment for businesses. Worse still, as we saw in February 2024 when Judge Arthur Engoron ordered then-former President Donald Trump to pay a massive $355 million fine, plus more than $98 million in prejudgment interest, those rules are sometimes applied unevenly.