September 14, 2016 7:16 AM
Morning Reads for 9/14/16
These Morning Reads are sure to be the greatest ever of all time!
“Skeleton Tree” by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. The whole album is rough and utterly fantastic.
- 2016’s nights were hotter than any other year since records started being kept.
- Yet more data showing global warming is a theory! There’s literally no science proving it!
- CL details Hillary and Trump’s plans to win Georgia.
- Want Newt’s take on the state of the POTUS race and a fresh serving of disingenuousness? No? Oh.
- 1.3 million folks will call themselves ATLiens by 2050.
- Atlanta Fed prez will retire in February.
- No other Fed President will be able to hold the shoelaces of Dennis Lockhart–fact.
- Why there won’t be MLK monuments at the African-American museum.
- Atlanta man attempts to climb Kanye’s flying stage, fails.
- Does the world need a documentary on the demise of Dante’s Down the Hatch? Possibly.
- An oral history of flying on Air Force One on 9/11. It’ll throw you for a loop reading that.
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Trumpet revealed his maternity leave/child care plan yesterday. Several problems here.
1. He waited until eight weeks before the election to introduce the plan.
2. The plan is expensive and it funds/subsidizes duties that should not be funded by the federal government.
3. He takes policy advice from his kids who have little or no policy knowledge.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/13/politics/ivanka-trump-childcare-policy-2016/
Between Mexico paying for some stuff, making “a better deal” with China, taking some Middle east oil, and having everybody else fend for their own defense maybe he can cover it.
Tons of additional government revenue? Piece of cake. Trump’s plan is 400% tariffs on Chinese imports for eight years to erase the national debt. Tariffs on everyone else are gravy.
Donald Trump: “We’ve got to get rid of the $19 trillion in debt.”
Bob Woodward: “How long would that take?”
Trump: “I think I could do it fairly quickly, because of the fact the numbers…”
Woodward: “What’s fairly quickly?”
Trump: “Well, I would say over a period of eight years. And I’ll tell you why.”
Woodward: “Would you ever be open to tax increases as part of that, to solve the problem?”
Trump: “I don’t think I’ll need to. The power is trade. Our deals are so bad.”
Woodward: “That would be $2 trillion a year.”
Trump: “No, but I’m renegotiating all of our deals, Bob. The big trade deals that we’re doing so badly on. With China, $505 billion this year in trade. We’re losing with everybody.”
He even asked her and her staff not to cite him. I hope he wasn’t metaphorically injured by the bus’s tire tracks!
https://theintercept.com/2016/09/13/colin-powell-emails/
Anything, anything to get elected! Say it ain’t so!
More from Powell…
In one blunt 2014 email with Democratic donor Jeffrey Leeds, Powell had this to say of Clinton:
“I would rather not have to vote for her, although she is a friend I respect. A 70-year person with a long track record, unbridled ambition, greedy,not [sic] transformational, with a husband still d**king bimbos at home (according to the NYP).”
Ah, the thought of the Clampetts back in the White House! LMAO! You know, just following Bubba would be better than any sitcom ever produced! He won’t live there full-time, of course, but this gives new imagination to the idea of that 3am phone call!!
GCP, I agree with you. I wonder if Trump has become part of the elite who views the Constitution as a document with no fixed meaning, something that “evolves” with the times as a “living, breathing document.” You know, interpretations that give us abortion on demand, the entitlement state, federal involvement in education, Obamacare (or should I say RobertsCare?)
Don’t blame him. Politicians gotta pander these days to the 47% plus who receive gov’t benefits of some kind if they have any hope of getting elected. If they did the correct thing and proposed massive budget cuts and a return to self reliance and individualism, they literally couldn’t get elected Dog Catcher. And that applies to both Dems and Repubs.
MLK Jr would be turning in his grave if he knew how horrible his children have behaved with his legacy. Its all about the money…nothing else.
Yep, neither major candidate has any specific plan to balance the budget. Trump promises to increase military spending, not cut entitlements but stamp out “waste, fraud and abuse.” Clinton can’t mention a single program she would cut but vows to make the rich “pay their fair share” (as if they are not already). Maybe I need to see what Libertarian Gary Johnson has to say on the subject…
Hell, Perot was parroting that “waste, fraud and abuse” line back in his day, too. Funny thing, nobody elected to office ever does anything about it.
Turns out Hill had a bacterial, non-contagious pneumonia. How then, praytell, did her “entire staff” come down with it?!?! LMAO!