Category: Politics

From Breitbart

The heads of seven of the largest U.S. banks came before the House Financial Services Committee Wednesday after weeks of preparations for a battle with House Democrats. But much of the questioning fell flat, with Democrats’ barbs largely missing the mark or revealing a surprising lack of knowledge of the business of the big banks.

As a case in point, Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters pressed the executives on the burgeoning crisis of student loans. Total student-loan debt now exceeds $1.5 trillion, making it the second largest category of consumer debt after home loans. Over a million borrowers default on student loans each year. If current default trends continue, close to 40 percent of borrowers are expected to default on their student loans by 2023, according to a Brookings Institute study.

“What are you guys doing to help us with this student loan debt? Who would like to answer first? Mr. Moynihan, big bank,” Waters asked, directing her question first to Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan.

“We stopped making student loans in 2007 or so,” Moynihan said.

“Oh, so you don’t do it anymore. Mr. Corbat?” Waters said, turning her attention to Citigroup CEO Michael Corbat.

“We exited student lending in 2009,” Corbat said.

It fell to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon to break the news to Waters that the big banks are no longer in the business of making student loans. The federal government forced commercial banks out of the student loan business back in 2010. The Department of Education now makes almost all student loans directly.

More along the same lines

Seen over at The National Post

There’s a debate among America’s left-leaning voters right now about who is qualified to be the Democratic presidential nominee. It has nothing to do with foreign policy, health care or the Green New Deal. It’s not about who has the best CV or who can knock out Trump. No. The most pressing issue for a large subset of Democrats is whether the gay South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg — who announced his exploratory committee in January and says he’ll have a major announcement to make in coming days — is oppressed enough or “just another white man.”

The potential problem, according to Slate essayist Christina Cauterucci, is that despite being gay, Buttigieg “is also white, male, upper-class, Midwestern, married, Ivy League–educated, and a man of faith.” In other words, his supposed privileges cancel out his oppression, and for many Democrats, experience with oppression is a job requirement. “Has Buttigieg faced setbacks or barriers to success because he’s gay?” asks Cauterucci. “Does he have an identity-specific worldview that would inform his work as much as, say, Harris’s experience as a black woman would inform hers?”

Whatever could have influenced these bastards?

From what we now know, a small cabal of high-level officials in the Department of Justice, the FBI and the national intelligence services were so moved by their personal loathing for Donald Trump that they worked together and with the Hillary Clinton campaign to create a story about Russian influence. They painted a patina of truth on a pack of lies and sold it to a secret court to obtain secret warrants to spy on the presidential candidate of one of this country’s largest political parties, and then leveraged half-truths, braggadocio, humor and entirely justified personnel actions into a two-year carnival of official thuggery and wild accusation unseen since 1692 Salem, Massachusetts.

Read the above again. Let it sink in.

Snatched from the pages of the News Virginian. Full story here.

Those that would desire a socialist ‘paradise’ (bless their little pointed heads) would do well to closely examine Venezuela. The photo’s and news reports that are now beginning to flow out of that wet-dream are both telling and pitiful. If you look closely at the photo below you’ll see that the ‘trash’ that is lying in the gutters is actually currency. They are in that place where there is no food, water, electricity, fuel, medicine means of exchange, or hope. Let’s not let similarly inclined idiot work this magic on America.

Clapper: “One point I’d like to make, Anderson, that I don’t think has come up very much before, and I’m alluding now to the President’s criticism of President Obama for all that he did or didn’t do before he left office with respect to the Russian meddling. If it weren’t for President Obama, we might not have done the intelligence community assessment that we did that set off a whole sequence of events which are still unfolding today, notably, special counsel Mueller’s investigation,”

It’s a sad state we find ourselves in. Our ‘advanced’ society will either continue on in sweet ignorance or face the realization that powerful forces are manipulating us at will (and do something about it).

Now long time readers of this blog will remember that I have real problems with some of the personal attributes of our President. That disdain in no way diminishes my profound gratefulness for what he has done for the nation. The fact is I would reelect him in a heartbeat, if for no other reason (and there are many more reasons) that his laser focus is on the traitors that have weaseled their way into high office. I’m pretty sure shining his bright light and sword like tongue on that crowd will cascade into the media’s domain. There will be anguish and much gnashing of teeth and it couldn’t be happening to a more deserving crowd.

This idiot destroys everything she touches. Between the killing of jobs in her home district and the extreme socialist policies, she is entirely capable of doing serious damage to demowits. She will be ‘recycled’ by the party in the next 3 months. They cannot head into the next election cycle with her placed in front of the media as an exemplar.

There is no difference between the two. It’s all about them and never about us

You reap what you sow !

Fox News is carrying a story on the House vote on a resolution condemning anti-Semitism, following recent comments by U.S. Rep Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. The measure has been delayed, as Democrats scramble to rewrite the motion to include all forms of prejudice and progressives like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez come to the defense of their embattled colleague.

The declaration – which doesn’t mention Omar by name – was initially set to be introduced Wednesday. It was to set out the history of anti-Semitism and other bigotry in America and provide examples of anti-Jewish tropes about divided loyalties.

It was also supposed to say the House “rejects anti-Semitism as hateful expressions of intolerance that are contradictory to the values that define the people of the United States.” Full article here