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Bernie Sanders Eyes Top Income Tax Rate of 90%!

The Democrats are seriously out of touch.

How seriously? The Onion, which definitely skews liberal, did a spoof story this month headlined: “Americans Are Tired Of The Same Old Pandering And Stale Ideas We’re Going To Keep Offering Them.” The author: “Nancy Pelosi.”

“The frustration is palpable. People are fed up with the status quo. Citizens from all walks of life are sitting around their dinner tables, talking about how they’ve had it with all the usual proposals that, once more, we will be repackaging and spoon-feeding to them in a way that’s entirely transparent and frankly condescending,” the fake Pelosi wrote.

The reason that’s so funny is because it’s so true. Hillary Clinton was horribly out of touch throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, never understanding the anger and frustration among the electorate, which felt that things were most definitely not better than they had been eight years before.

But now, Hillary has vowed that she won’t run again (she’s making even more money doing one-woman shows selling her book of sad excuses, What Happened). And the Democratic Party doesn’t have many rising stars, so that’s left a vacuum that’s been filled by none other than Sen. Bernie Sanders.

At 76 years old, Bernie’s finally on the gravy train. The Socialist now owns three house and he travels the country giving speeches (you know he’s not spending any of his own money to do that). Sure. he’s the guy who lost to the 2016 loser, which makes him a double loser, but right now, he’s all the Democrats have.

If Bernie gets the chance, he’ll make everything free: Health care, colleges, birth control. Forget that Bernie’s plans would add $19 trillion to the debt, as The Hill reported. To the Socialist, it’s far better to be poor in America — and Sanders wants to make sure everyone can achieve that lofty goal.

That’s why the Vermont Democrat backs a top tax rate of 90%. You read that right — 90%.

In an interview with actor Alec Baldwin (who’s not a politician but he plays one on TV), Baldwin asks: “What would be a tax policy you would have sought? You want to raise the highest rate to what?”

Says Bernie: “During [President Dwight] Eisenhower’s period, I think the highest income tax was what, 90% or something like that for the very, very, very wealthy. And these are marginal rates. I mean, that means at the very top, that’s what you’re going to be paying.”

It’s worth noting that while Trump wants to trim the number of tax brackets from seven to just three — 12%, 25% and 33% — during Eisenhower’s time in office there were at least 24 brackets, according to TaxFoundation.org.

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To the Democrats, it’s still tax, tax, tax. That oughta’ go over great in 2020.

As The Onion article said: “We now stand at a crossroads. People are angry, disgusted, and hungry for change. The Democratic Party understands these challenges and sees an opportunity to present the American people with a series of rehashed ideas that do nothing to address their concerns. We’re taking stock of our views on trade, criminal justice, economic inequality, and more. Because the time has come to double down on whatever sounds good to those of us in Washington, even though voter research, election results, and the actual words coming from the mouths of our own base tell us it’s not what anyone else wants.”

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Knowingly exposing others to HIV won’t be a felony in California anymore: ‘Absolutely crazy’

Knowingly exposing others to HIV no longer will be a felony in California starting in 2018, according to a bill California Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown signed Friday.

What else does the bill say?

  • The penalty is lowered to a misdemeanor for knowingly exposing a sexual partner to HIV or giving blood without telling the blood bank about the infection, the Los Angeles Times reported.
  • The state previously punished offenders with up to eight years in prison, CNN said; maximum jail time now is lowered to six months.

What do supporters of the bill say?

  • State Sen. Scott Wiener (D) and Assemblyman Todd Gloria (D), authors of the bill, said medicine today lets those with HIV live longer and nearly eliminates the possibility of transmission, the Times reported.
  • “Today California took a major step toward treating HIV as a public health issue, instead of treating people living with HIV as criminals,” Wiener said in a statement, the paper said. “HIV should be treated like all other serious infectious diseases, and that’s what SB 239 does.”
  • Wiener added that in the past, those possibly infected by HIV may have avoided getting tested so as not to be charged with a felony. Now, with the penalty lowered, he said more people may decide to get tested, the paper reported.
  • “We are going to end new HIV infections, and we will do so not by threatening people with state prison time, but rather by getting people to test and providing them access to care,” Wiener added, the Times said.
  • Bill supporters also said intent to transmit HIV had been required for a felony, but others noted prosecuted cases that involved no physical contact, so it was argued intent was lacking, the paper said.
  • Backers of the legislation also said female prostitutes are disproportionately targeted with criminal charges, the Times added, even when HIV isn’t transmitted.

What do opponents of the bill say?

  • Opponents said the bill puts the public at risk.
  • “I’m of the mind that if you purposefully inflict another with a disease that alters their lifestyle the rest of their life, puts them on a regimen of medications to maintain any kind of normalcy, it should be a felony,” Sen. Joel Anderson (R) argued during a floor debate, the Times said. “It’s absolutely crazy to me that we should go light on this.”
  • Anderson noted that the answer could be extending tougher penalties to those who expose others to other infectious diseases, the paper added.
  • Sen. Jeff Stone (R) voted against the bill and took exception to the claim that today’s medicine can nearly eliminate HIV from spreading, CNN said. Stone — who’s also a pharmacist — said three of four Americans on prescription medication don’t comply with doctor’s orders on how to take it.
  • “If you don’t take your AIDS medications and you allow for some virus to duplicate and show a presence, then you are able to transmit that disease to an unknowing partner,” Stone said on the Senate floor, the network noted.

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Dems Losing Control of their Own Mobs as ACLU Shouted Down for Enabling Hitler

In a delightful bit of schadenfreude, the identity politics monsters that the Democrats have created and nurtured are now turning on them as well as their front groups like the ACLU.

It was always inevitable that this would happen as the combination of poorly educated, abysmally misinformed and indoctrinated young people and anti-Trump political activism was just too volatile and unstable a mixture to be used.

Now it has blown up on Democrats as the ANTIFA youth are no longer satisfied with shutting down free speech and punching “Nazis” as they have come to be defined by the media, but have now turned on their masters who in a hilarious twist of fate, now blame the ACLU for enabling Nazis.

That is what this wretched pack of losers who invaded an ACLU sponsored event at William & Mary College claimed when they marched into the auditorium with their signs and proceeded to chant that the radical leftist action arm of the Democrats was as much a part of the problem as the actual small percentage of white supremacists that have been blown out of proportion for the sake of political expediency.

Liberalism has become the new hate speech, you have to shake your head or laugh your ass off at how badly that this plot has backfired on the Democrats.

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The Washington Examiner provides additional detail “Backlash spreads against Black Lives Matter shutting down ACLU free speech event”:

A campus Black Lives Matter protest against an American Civil Liberties Union speaker has provoked an internal debate over free speech on the Left.

Students shouted down an ACLU leader visiting the College of William and Mary in Virginia last week, preventing a discussion about free speech by chanting “liberalism is white supremacy” and “ACLU, you protect Hitler too!” for a full hour.

Outrage spread as video of the college Black Lives Matter chapter’s disruption circulated among shocked scholars, progressive leaders, and alumni.

The demonstration — motivated by the ACLU’s litigation allowing for an August rally including white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va. — reignited progressive concern about students attacking freedoms that past generations of the Left struggled to establish and expand.

Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, wrote that suspensions would be appropriate. New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg called it “embarrassing.”

AND.

The disruption of the ACLU event in Virginia follows the February cancellation of a speech by then-Breitbart columnist Milo Yiannopoulos at the University of California at Berkeley after violence and property damage by his opponents and the shouting down in March of political scientist Charles Murray at Middlebury College — each incident attracting significant national debate, with older left-wing scholars such as Noam Chomsky and some members of Berkeley’s pioneering 1960s Free Speech Movement arguing it’s wrong to censor others.

The William and Mary Black Lives Matter chapter did not respond to a request for comment, but remained defiant in the face of growing condemnation Friday, posting a message to Facebook: “The right to free speech is a fundamental human right. However, speech that condones, supports or otherwise fails to explicitly condemn injustice must be directly confronted.”

The inimitable Tucker Carlson offers up his two cents on the revenge of the dipshits in a conversation with one of the more articulate spokesmen of Black Lives Matter.

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The left is going to have to do something to rid themselves of these fanatics before they themselves and up being the ones getting marched to the guillotines of the so-called revolution.

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The Humanitarian Hoax of Gun Control

The Humanitarian Hoax is a deliberate and deceitful tactic of presenting a destructive policy as altruistic. The humanitarian huckster presents himself as a compassionate advocate when in fact he is the disguised enemy.

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Red Alert: Security Analyst Notices Date, Gives Eerie Deadline for NK H-Bomb

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Red Alert: Security Analyst Notices Date, Gives Eerie Deadline for NK H-Bomb

By Davis
on October 9, 2017 at 7:17am

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Tensions between the United States and North Korea have been increasing dramatically over the past month, and now we could be more step toward the edge of the cliff.

Tuesday, Oct. 10 represents the founding of the “Worker’s Party of Korea,” the party of Kim Jong-Un. There are fears that to celebrate this anniversary, North Korea may detonate a nuclear weapon or fire a missile, The Daily Star reported.

Of top concern to U.S. officials is the possibility that North Korea could test a nuclear warhead on top of a missile by firing it out into the Pacific Ocean — something North Korean officials have threatened to do.

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The “Juche Bird,” a missile with a nuclear warhead, would represent a major milestone for North Korea, and could be the last straw for the Trump administration.

Robert A. Manning, a security expert from the Atlantic Council think tank, warned that he believes there is a “50/50” chance Kim could detonate, or fire off, something on Tuesday.

“They like fireworks on holidays, and he is in a mad rush to acquire a reliable ICBM and a city-busting H-bomb,” he explained.

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If this is true, this could mean there are only hours left. North Korea is 12.5 hours ahead of the East Coast, so by noon EST, it will already be Oct. 10 in the rogue nation.

Maybe this is the “calm before the storm” Trump ominously referred to Thursday.

Reuters noted that a Russian lawmaker claimed Friday that North Korea was getting ready to test a long-range missile that might be able to hit the West Coast of the United States.

The U.K. Daily Mail noted that North Korea has a habit of conducting tests of its weapons to correspond with American or North Korean holidays, so the chance of a test happening is quite high.

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Trump has vowed to do whatever is necessary to stop North Korea from acquiring the ability to hit the United States with a nuclear weapon. If this test happens, we may be looking at a serious conflict with North Korea.

The time for talk is over. The time for action is upon us.

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Nanny Deep State: Bob Corker Reveals Establishment Effort to Tame Donald Trump’s Agenda

Nanny Deep State: Bob Corker Reveals Establishment Effort to Tame Donald Trump’s Agenda

by Charlie Spiering9 Oct 20170

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Veteran Republican establishment figure Senator Bob Corker confirmed to the New York Times that the Republican establishment is focused on corralling President Donald Trump and his agenda.

In an interview with reporter Jonathan Martin, Corker said that most Republican senators realized that Trump was a threat to the general world order.

“[They] understand the volatility that we’re dealing with and the tremendous amount of work that it takes by people around him to keep him in the middle of the road,” he said.

After the mild-mannered Senator came unglued on Twitter on Monday, he told the New York Times he was trying to send a message to “the good guys” — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and the White House chief of staff, John F. Kelly.

“As long as there are people like that around him who are able to talk him down when he gets spun up, you know, calm him down and continue to work with him before a decision gets made, I think we’ll be fine,” he said.

On Sunday, Corker publicly shared the widespread view among Senate Republicans that the people around Trump were expected to keep him under control.

“It’s a shame the White House has become an adult day care center,” Corker said. “Someone obviously missed their shift this morning.”

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ENABLERS: Matt Damon, Russell Crowe Helped Kill 2004 NYT Weinstein Expose

According to former New York Times reporter Sharon Waxman, an exposé on Democratic mega-donor and top Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual harassment was squelched in 2004 after the Times was pressured by powerful people, including actors Matt Damon and Russel Crowe. The alleged serial sexual harasser also just happened to be a huge advertiser with the Times at the time the story was extinguished.

“In 2004, I was still a fairly new reporter at The New York Times when I got the green light to look into oft-repeated allegations of sexual misconduct by Weinstein. It was believed that many occurred in Europe during festivals and other business trips there,” explained Waxman at The Wrap.

Traveling to Rome, Italy, to investigate the allegations, the reporter tracked down Fabrizio Lombardo, the head of Miramax Italy, a man with reportedly “no film experience … his real job was to take care of Weinstein’s women needs, among other things.”

“As head of Miramax Italy in 2003 and 2004, Fabrizio Lombardo was paid $400,000 for less than a year of employment,” said Waxman. Other sources told her Lombardo organized evenings with “Russian escorts.”

Lombardo, of course, denied all allegations concerning Weinstein and his job to handle such matters at the time.

“I also tracked down a woman in London who had been paid off after an unwanted sexual encounter with Weinstein. She was terrified to speak because of her non-disclosure agreement, but at least we had evidence of a pay-off,” she continued.

Despite all this, she says: “The story I reported never ran.”

Who helped to suppress the story? According to Waxman, Weinstein himself, a heavy Times advertiser at the time, and actors Matt Damon and Russell Crowe:

After intense pressure from Weinstein, which included having Matt Damon and Russell Crowe call me directly to vouch for Lombardo and unknown discussions well above my head at the Times, the story was gutted.

I was told at the time that Weinstein had visited the newsroom in person to make his displeasure known. I knew he was a major advertiser in the Times, and that he was a powerful person overall.

“The story was stripped of any reference to sexual favors or coercion and buried on the inside of the Culture section, an obscure story about Miramax firing an Italian executive,” claims Waxman.

Jon Landman, the Times‘ culture editor back in 2004, “thought the story was unimportant” and asked Waxman “why it mattered.”

“He’s not a publicly elected official,” he told me. I explained, to no avail, that a public company would certainly have a problem with a procurer on the payroll for hundreds of thousands of dollars. At the time, Disney told me they had no idea Lombardo existed.

“I was devastated after traveling to two countries and overcoming immense challenges to confirm at least part of the story that wound up running last week, more than a decade later,” concludes Waxman. “I had met in person with a woman who said she’d been paid off for an unwanted sexual encounter and thus proved she existed.”

As reported by Daily Wire’s Emily Zanotti, a Times report on Weinstein finally came to light on Thursday, some 13 years later.

Weinstein allegedly asked for bizarre sexual favors, such as having actresses watch him shower, in exchange for career advancement. Zanotti reports:

In at least one case, a female employee claimed Weinstein “badgered” her into allowing him to give her a naked massage, leaving her “crying” and “distraught.” In another, Weinstein reportedly told a female colleague to meet him for breakfast at a hotel, but then redirected her to his room, where he appeared in a bathrobe and asked her to watch him shower.

Such encounters led to several lawsuits, eight of which were settled out of court for millions of dollars.

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California Sheriffs are openly protesting their new “sanctuary state”

Back when California Governor Jerry Brown was still pondering the new sanctuary state legislation which was heading for his desk, we talked about the fact that the police unions had backed a version of the bill, but the state’s sheriffs were not onboard. Now that the measure has been signed into law, those same sheriffs are basically in open revolt, publicly protesting the changes and asking the United States Congress to step in. They justify this decision by declaring that the state’s citizens will be less safe because of these changes. (Free Beacon)

California’s sheriffs are calling on the GOP-controlled Congress to intervene and pass a federal law to change the state’s sanctuary state status, warning the law that ties their hands too tightly will only increase the chances of another high-profile tragedy.

The sanctuary state law, which Gov. Jerry Brown (D.) signed Thursday but doesn’t go into effect until January, is the most far-reaching of its kind in the country and places sharp limits on how local law enforcement agencies can communicate with federal immigration authorities.

It would also make it a crime to enforce federal immigration laws on the premises of all schools, hospitals, libraries, and courthouses in state, which is home to an estimated two million immigrants.

The complaints from the sheriffs are nothing we haven’t heard before and their concerns are well founded. What’s not made clear here is precisely what they would like the GOP led Congress and the President to do about it. What sort of federal law would overrule the state’s ability to dictate the policies of its own law enforcement agencies and not run into constitutional trouble when it was inevitably challenged?

I’m sure I might be missing some more recent examples, but the last time I recall Washington overruling the governor of a state and the actions of their police was when Kennedy backed down George Wallace in Alabama in 1963, but that was a case of the state failing to enforce federal law. In this situation, it’s ICE which does the enforcement, and while a lack of cooperation certainly hinders their efforts, rendering them less effective, they aren’t exactly stopping them either. We’ll definitely need some more experienced legal eagles to tackle that question, though one provision which I’ll get to in a moment might be able to be struck down.

As to the actual policies which the sheriffs are protesting, two of them really stand out. One is the inability of law enforcement to notify ICE when they pick up known gang members, including MS-13, if they are snagged on non-violent charges. If they are on the registry of known gang members, ICE should be able to take that opportunity to get them out of the country even if they were only pulled over for an illegal right on red.

The other is the order forbidding ICE from conducting enforcement operations in the vicinity of schools, churches and courthouses. This is the one I mentioned above which might be shot down by Congress because it’s directly blocking federal enforcement of the law. If you refuse to honor detainers from immigration enforcement so illegal aliens can’t be safely picked up at the jailhouse, they are forced to move into such public operations. This is how you wind up with efforts like Operation Safe City being conducted by ICE. They wouldn’t need to do that if they were getting some cooperation.

But closing off the ability to conduct operations near courthouses could very well be grounds for direct obstruction of justice charges. I’m not sure if a new law coming out of Congress is the answer or if a lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice or Homeland Security might be better. Any time you have Washington overruling state laws I get nervous and that’s ground we need to tread on only very cautiously.

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Sighting Down On The Second Amendment

Before a people are enslaved, before any nation is taken over, they are first disarmed. That’s just history and common sense. From the inside or out, a nation is always first compromised by the removal of its ability to defend itself. Stalin, Hitler, Mao, et al., they all declawed whatever organism that stood in their way – most especially the people they intended to govern.

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