January 29, 2018 6:30 AM
Monday Morning Reads — January 29, 2018
Happy Monday, everyone! Today is the 11th legislative session. It’ll be lit.
News by the Numbers
- 16-year-old voting machines – The race to succeed Governor Deal involves taxes, monuments, and now voting machines! According to Cagle, they’re outdated and unsafe. According to Kemp, any opposition to his outdated and unsafe voting machines is a left-wing conspiracy. Cheers!
- 27-year-old bridge – Imagine if the Eugene Talmadge bridge wasn’t named after him. If one Republican has his way, the bridge will be named after the founder of the Girl Scouts. The difference between “name” and “rename” is important.
- 13 counties – Representative Tanner and Senator Beach are advocating for a regional transit board that would work to expand light rail into its 13 county region. It would be called “The ATL”
- 27 million users – A heat map released by Strava shows tracks used by people with common GPS tracking devices such as FitBit. It was neat until America’s secret military bases were exposed.
- $400 million – The Koch brothers hosted 550 politicians, donors, and activist leaders to their annual retreat to discuss the 2018 midterms. Among their big plans: Spend $400 million to protect Republicans in Congress.
- 10 million barrels a day – This year, the United States is expected to surpass Saudi Arabia and rival Russia in world oil production. While this has little to do with Washington and more to do with private companies, President Trump’s plan to loosen regulations on oil companies and expand off shore drilling will help.
- NUMBERS! – There’s a tons of analysis in this FiveThirtyEight post. Check it out.
About Author
Will Kremer
Will is an active member of the Georgia Republican grassroots. He previously served as Chairman of the Georgia Association of College Republicans, 2nd Vice Chairman of the 7th District Republican Party, and Treasurer of the Forsyth County Republican Party. Promise Land = Forsyth County.
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“President Trump’s plan to loosen regulations on oil companies and expand off shore drilling will help….” is naive to E&P and generally produces a false narrative. You were correct in your first assessment that Washington has little to do with production increase….because the magnitude is actually non-existent. Technology and price are the key drivers associated with these latest increases.
FERC is pretty much the only “Washington” outfit involved here. They’ve been doing a good job the past decade and will continue to do so.
America is already great.
Did anyone watch the Grammy’s last night? I haven’t watch any of these so called “award” shows for a few years now and I don’t feel like I’ve missed much.
Grammy’s lowest rated? Thank a Deplorable! 2017 box office sinking? Thank a Deplorable! NFL ratings and attendance sucking hind teat? Thank a Deplorable!
Real Americans aren’t taking the liberal crap any longer! Thank you, Donald Trump, for awakening that Sleeping Giant! MAGA!
Surely, Ted Nugent was snubbed- yet again- for political reasons.
Also, football is much more American than Trump will ever be, as evidenced that the NFL will always get higher ratings. I am curious, though, if Trump will (either during or after his presidency) invest resources into Vince McMahon’s new attempt to reincarnate the XFL, the wanna-be G League to the NFL.
Yep, the deal-breaker in chief has a grudge because he’s been a big loser to the NFL already. Interesting read bc the name of the game and many of the players have remained the same:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/and-then-there-was-the-time-donald-trump-bought-a-football-team-/2015/10/19/35ae71ca-6dd6-11e5-aa5b-f78a98956699_story.html?utm_term=.2ac6771fc503
Get Woke – Go Broke
Don’t blame OUR PRESIDENT for the NFL’s troubles. It’s all of their own making. When Arthur Blank and his team protested during the flag presentation, they showed us all how much they hate America, Americans, and our nation values.
To Heck With The NFL ….
The President can’t take blame or credit. And Arthur Blank’s business acumen and knowledge of the 1st Amendment dwarves that of the Drumpf.
Well if it goes as well as y’alls Keurig boycott, I guess the NFL will be OK.
“Keurig Green Mountain Plans to Buy Dr Pepper Snapple”
P.S. I think a lot of the NFL’s current problems are due to our new-found awareness of the seriousness of the injuries being inflicted every week on the players. Moms (and Dads too) don’t want their kids getting too excited about that. Go play soccer instead, son.
Dang, Drew, you’re really slipping. You usually bring race up in the first sentence. Hey, are you and your buddies defacing or knocking down any monuments today!?
Rascist rascist rascist. The calling card of one without the skills to present real arguments.
You are like so much of the nfl. You have no game homie.
And those same Deplorables you so haughtily turn your nose up at came out last November and kicked y’all’s collective butt! Badly. Can you say “306 blowout?!” LMAO! Go ahead, Drew…join your kin. Have a good scream!
As far as getting more popular votes, please tell me, Drew, just where is Al Gorged’s Presidential Library? As far as 2008 & 2012 vote totals are concerned, the only one who’s feeling inadequate, well, that would be The Hag! LOL!
Meds, Drew…you gotta take your meds!
Drew, I’ll go in halvers with you and and help buy both Hillary and Al a really good ‘participation” trophy! LOLOLOLOL!
https://chamblee54.wordpress.com/2018/01/28/killed-by-police-january-28/ 28 people were killed by police in the United States last week.
Hey Chamblee, I just wanted to say I appreciate your work. I do go to your site and read a lot of that stuff. It is quite enlightening. I hope they let you keep linking to it here. This is valuable information.
Grammies: 5 minutes was too much. Kendrick Lamar a major puke factor. If you couldn’t rap along, google the lyrics to Humble and Loyalty and see if that works for you.
Bono didn’t do so good either. Missed Hillary, thankfully.
I worked for a subcontractor on what is now called the Talmadge Bridge and prior to its erection all of the DOT plans called it the Savannah River Bridge. It actually surprised me later to find it had regained the name of its predecessor sometime later while I was working abroad. Even Hummon had been ousted in disgrace by that point so it couldn’t have been his influence and Daddy Gene’s legacy doesn’t deserve such a majestic memorial. I was fine with the original DOT designation though have no issues with naming it after the Girl Scout founder either other than the oxymoron that will be created by calling it the Low Bridge, granted that is a minor quibble.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/fbi-deputy-director-andrew-mccabe-stepping-down-n842176
Another Swamp T*rd to hit the sandbox. Don’t let the cat start covering it up yet! So many, many more to plop!!
Hillary shields sexual harasser! Wow! Very, very sad!
And her own husband is a rapist! You and your buddies ain’t gonna win this one, Snowflake!
Impeach Hillary!
I pointed that out to you on FRIDAY along with a few republicans in a Wynn thread. I see how well you pay attention.
More Liberal Filth!
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2018/01/28/california-councilman-and-high-school-teacher-degrades-military-n2440817
Why do you have to use such nasty language? Would you speak to people that way if they were standing in front of you? I know what your point of view is, and thats all fine by me…but why do you feel the need to deliver it in such a hateful way. I dont know about anyone else, but I just get tired of reading it
That’s right, Scott…I’m the hateful one. Listen to the POS talk about our military! I’M getting really tired of that! As are the vast majority of our fellow countrymen!
Do not expect self-reflection in a dull mirror.
Adam Schiff = Crocodile Tears! Memo gonna be released!!