The most entertaining aspect of the 45-year-old Eminem is not his tired “edgy” and arrhythmic rapping, but the response to his increasingly desperate attempts to get President Trump’s attention.
Trump-obsessed Eminem has lashed out yet again at the president, declaring in an interview with Billboard that a “f***ing turd” — and even Hillary Clinton — would be a better president than Trump. If his over-the-top hatred for Trump loses him “half [his] fan base,” Eminem says he doesn’t care because he has “serious contempt” for the president and is “on the right side of this.” As with his other anti-Trump tirades, the backlash to the “failed has-been” rapper’s rant has been swift, brutal, and at times pretty funny.
In the interview, published Thursday, the rapper claimed he predicted that Trump would win because of the response from all those “fanatics” at the rallies that Trump “just f***ing duped”:
EMINEM: I called it just from the rallies he was having when he first started running. Because just watching the impact he has, they were fanatics. There is something to be said about the person who really felt like he might do something for them — and he just f***ing duped everybody. I know that Hillary [Clinton] had her flaws, but you know what? Anything would have been better [than Trump]. A fucking turd would have been better as a president. When I [put out “The Storm”], I felt that everybody who was with him at that point doesn’t like my music anyway. I get the comparison with the non-political-correctness, but other than that, we’re polar opposites. He made these people feel like he was really going to do something for them. It’s just so f***ing disgusting how divisive his language is, the rhetoric, the Charlottesville shit, just watching it going, “I can’t believe he’s saying this.” When he was talking about John McCain, I thought he was done. You’re f***ing with military veterans, you’re talking about a military war hero who was captured and tortured. It just didn’t matter. It doesn’t matter. And that’s some scary shit to me.
Asked if he was surprised by the blowback from his anti-Trump cypher “The Storm,” Eminem said, “Yes and no.”
“I knew it would get a reaction, obviously; that’s what I rap to do,” he said. “But where I was coming from in that cypher was a genuine place in my heart. I [hesitate] to say [I have] hatred in my heart for him, but it’s serious contempt. I do not like the guy.”
Asked if the backlash made him consider “holding back” on all the Trump vitriol in his new album, Eminem said no.
“At the end of the day, if I did lose half my fan base, then so be it, because I feel like I stood up for what was right and I’m on the right side of this,” he said. “I don’t see how somebody could be middle class, busting their ass every single day, paycheck to paycheck, who thinks that that f***ing billionaire is gonna help you.”
Speaking of blowback, here are some of the responses to the interview on Billboard’s comment section:
Eminem: “Please give me attention!!!”
M&M ? Whats that? Something from 1987 ?
And here are some from NME‘s coverage of “f***ing turd” quote:
Insightful stuff from the guy who raps, badly, about his mum’s caravan whilst dressing like a teenager.
And don’t forget that pouty teen angst look stuck on his face.
Is this clown ‘artist’ nominating hisself for Prez?
He is well qualified under his standards.
Enema who ? Never heard of him.
M n Ms agony is my great JOY.
FAILED HAS BEEN little Eminem still trying to get attention like a five year old throwing a tantrum. What a PUNY LOSER…
Apparently, those are the “brainwashed” Trump “fanatics” Eminem doesn’t care about losing.
When it comes to the advocacy of illegal aliens the Democrats are practically tripping over one another in some sort of weird contest to see who can be the biggest panderer to the Dreamers.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo made his case this week when he proposed that taxpayers should foot the bill for free college tuition for illegals. Sneaky Andy was able to insert the provision into his budget plan that will allow the Dreamers to take advantage of the state’s Excelsior Scholarship program.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to give another break to immigrant Dreamers by extending free public college tuition to students who were brought into the United States illegally as kids.
Cuomo tucked a provision in his $168 billion budget plan that would amend state education law to make the undocumented students eligible for the Excelsior Scholarship program, which covers tuition costs for students from families with incomes of up to $125,000.
New York’s Excelsior Scholarship is the first of its kind. It covers the cost of tuition for qualifying students who are enrolled in a two- or four-year degree program at any of the state’s 88 public colleges and university campuses.
Plans for the scholarship were announced by Governor Andrew Cuomo in January. At first, students planning to attend college this fall didn’t know whether it would become reality in time. It was officially approved by the legislature in April.
This must be pretty galling to those taxpayers who were never allowed the same opportunity for either themselves or their own children but when it comes to Democrats, natural-born citizens are of the second-class variety.
via Downtrend.com
Enjoy this article? Read the full version at the authors website: https://downtrend.com
California’s Democrats are on an accelerated path of destruction of the once Golden State. In Parts l and Part ll of my series on how California’s leftist Democrats have turned the Golden State into a sh*thole, I explain how California’s ruling party is doubling down on business-destroying policies, energy destroying policies, education destroying policies, and policies destroying California’s abundant natural resources. The new law claiming sanctuary state status is blatantly unconstitutional, as is “legalizing” marijuana.
The Trump administration unveiled its 2018 Farm Bill Wednesday, and it emphasizes a work requirement for those who receive government assistance with food stamps.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture released a four-page document Wednesday, and among its goals is a work initiative aimed at getting more able-bodied adults to work or enroll in job-training programs.
The hope is, of course, to make people less dependent on government assistance.
The document called for supporting work “as the pathway to self-sufficiency, well-being and economic mobility for individuals and families” who are on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, otherwise known as food stamps.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue told reporters at a farm near Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, that it is necessary to discourage a lifestyle predicated upon government dependence.
“It’s evident that there are able-bodied adults without dependents who are on the food stamp program, who we believe it is in their best interests, and their families’ best interests, to move into an independent lifestyle,” Perdue said, according to Bloomberg News.
“During the last downturn, it became a lifestyle for some people. We don’t want it to become permanent,” he added.
Perdue said that creating a federal law requiring able-bodied adults work to receive assistance would save the government billions of dollars.
Indeed, it would.
Do you think work requirements for individuals receiving food stamps are a good idea?
According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the federal government spent about $73 billion on SNAP benefits in fiscal year 2016.
Several states have already passed legislation that require recipients to work if they want to receive government benefits.
And unsurprisingly, it works.
States that have reformed their welfare systems to include work requirements have seen the number of recipients drop significantly.
Of course, this means that there are plenty of able-bodied people who abuse the system, and will continue to do so until they are kicked off and forced to work for a living.
If they can work, they should work.
The USDA document did not specify how existing laws would change or whether the government would cut funding for the program, but it is good to see that the federal government is looking to put an end to fraud.
This is good news for working Americans who have seen their tax dollars abused by welfare leeches.
Share this story on Facebook and Twitter and let us know what you think about requiring able-bodied food stamp recipients to work.
What do you think about this farm bill?Scroll down to comment below!
A review of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s financial records appears to suggest that the real reason she voted against the the GOP’s tax reform bill last month was not to protect working class Americans, as she claimed, but to protect her own interests
According to The Washington Free Beacon, Pelosi’s records show that she owns three multi-million-dollar homes, two of which are in liberal California. Moreover, the combined 2017 property tax bill for these homes was reportedly $137,000.
This brings us to the tax reform bill that the GOP-led House and Senate passed in mid-December and President Donald Trump signed promptly afterward.
That bill, which as a reminder cuts taxes for 90 percent of all Americans, contains a provision that limits the amount of state, local and property taxes the wealthy may deduct to just $10,000.
Because this provision means that the wealthy residents of high-tax liberal states will undoubtedly pay more on their taxes starting in 2018, some rich people have been trying to game the system by prepaying their property taxes.
“(S)ome states and localities allow people to prepay their state and local taxes, including property taxes. If they did so this year, people could conceivably deduct them from this year’s taxes,” The Washington Post explained late last year in a guide sheet it prepared for its wealthy readers.
Now guess who decided to pull this exact trick. That’s right, Nancy Pelosi, i.e., the woman who claims to be a champion for working class Americans and constantly rails against the wealthy for allegedly not paying their “fair share.”
“Just days after President Trump signed the sweeping tax bill into law late last month, Pelosi and her husband tried to preserve $64,000 in property tax breaks, known as the state and local taxes (SALT) deductions, for her two California homes,” the Beacon reported.
She accomplished this by prepaying the property taxes on a $7.2 million estate she owns in San Francisco and a $4.0 million residence she owns in Napa.
Do you think Pelosi’s only reason for being against the tax bill was its effect on her wallet?
She also reportedly paid the property taxes on her third multi-million-dollar home, a condo that resides in Washington, D.C.
How convenient.
Perhaps I’m wrong, but judging by Pelosi’s hypocritical attempt to avoid paying taxes on her own property, I’m convinced the only reason she voted against the tax reform bill and continues to lambaste it daily is because of its effect on her wallet.
Yet Pelosi continues to gripe about it daily, falsely deriding the benefits being enjoyed by the American people as “mere crumbs.”
And I’ll tell you exactly why: Because this duplicitous woman, who for the record is reportedly worth more than $100 million, knows that because of Trump’s tax bill, poor little her will have to pay more on her property taxes starting in 2019 (thankfully, she can’t prepay that far out ahead).
Well, let me tell you something, Ms. Pelosi: We see right through you — and in doing so, we also see why only a fool would ever vote to keep you in office.
PS: You are NO champion of the working class, lady.
Please share this story on Facebook and Twitter and let us know what you think about House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s disgusting hypocrisy.
What do you think about the tax trick Pelosi pulled?Scroll down to comment below!
REPORT: Peter Strzok Saw ZERO PROOF of ‘Trump-Russia’ Collusion After 10 Months of Mueller Witch Hunt
January 26, 2018 by Joshua Caplan
A sources familiar with the thinking of FBI agent Peter Strzok revealed to the Daily Caller‘s Chuck Ross that after 10 months of investigating alleged collusion between Trump campaign officials and Russia, no proof had been found.
After 10 months of leading the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation, counterintelligence official Peter Strzok had not seen compelling evidence that President Trump or high-level campaign officials colluded with the Russian government, according to a person familiar with his thinking.
That account comports with a May 19, 2017 text exchange between Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page that was released earlier this week.
“You and I both know the odds are nothing. If I thought it was likely, I’d be there no question. I hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern that there’s no big there there,” Strzok wrote to Page, his mistress. […]
It was unclear exactly what Strzok meant by the message, but the source close to Strzok affirmed that interpretation of the exchange to The Daily Caller.
Strzok may not like the President, but that doesn’t mean he believes Trump officials colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election. In what is being described as a “jaw-dropping,” text message, Strzok told Bureau lawyer Lisa Page that he felt special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation was likely a nothingburger.
In an interview with WISN-Milwaukee radio host Jay Weber, Johnson read aloud a May 19, 2017 text that Strzok sent to Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer and his mistress.
Strzok wrote: “You and I both know the odds are nothing. If I thought it was likely, I’d be there no question. I hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern that there’s no big there there.”
Johnson said that the text referred to the Mueller investigation, which had kicked off two days earlier. […]
As the FBI’s deputy counterintelligence chief, Strzok was picked in July 2016 to oversee the investigation into possible Trump campaign collusion with the Russian government. […]
“I think that’s kind of jaw-dropping,” said Johnson, a Republican, said of the Strzok text.
“In other words, Peter Strzok, who was the FBI deputy assistant director of the counterintelligence division, the man who had a plan to do something because he just couldn’t abide Donald Trump being president, is saying that his gut sense is that there’s no big there there when it comes to the Mueller special counsel investigation,” he said.
On Sunday, we learned additional text messages sent and received by disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok had been handed over to Congress. In yet another twist to the Strzok saga, the FBI failed to hand over a block of the agent’s text messages between Dec. 14, 2016, and May 17, 2017 because they went “missing.”
On Thursday, Inspector General Michael Horowitz notified Senate Judiciary chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) that the text messages between Strzok and Page had been retrieved.
In August, ABC Newsreported that Strzok quit Team Mueller for unknown reasons. “It’s unclear why Strzok stepped away from Mueller’s team of nearly two dozen lawyers, investigators and administrative staff. Strzok, who has spent much of his law enforcement career working counterintelligence cases and has been unanimously praised by government officials who spoke with ABC News, is now working for the FBI’s human resources division,” reported Mike Levine.
Comments
As a privately owned web site, we reserve the right to edit or remove comments that contain spam, advertising, vulgarity, threats of violence, racism, anti-Semitism, or personal/abusive attacks on other users. The same applies to trolling, the use of multiple aliases, or just generally being a jerk. Enforcement of this policy is at the sole discretion of the site administrators and repeat offenders may be blocked or permanently banned without warning
President Donald Trump shared his vision for “America first” on Friday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
“America is open for business and we are competitive once again,” Trump said in his speech.
About 3,000 elite global leaders in business, government, and civil society attended the four-day event. “Creating a shared future in a fractured world” was this year’s theme.
Trump speech marks only the second time that a sitting president has attended the event in person, according to the White House. Former President Bill Clinton attended regularly but former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush never appeared at the annual forum.
And organizers rolled out the red carpet for Trump to make sure he felt welcome and honored, The Hill reported.
Trump addressed jobs and the economy, trade, military spending and terrorism, and immigration in his speech.
What did Trump say about jobs and the economy?
Trump touted low unemployment numbers and tax cuts that are creating more jobs and putting more money in Americans’ paychecks.
“Since my election, we’ve created 2.4 million jobs, and that number is going up very, very substantially,” he said.
“We lowered our corporate tax rate from 35 percent all the way down to 21 percent. As a result, millions of workers have received tax cut bonuses from their employers in amounts as large as $3,000,” he said. “The tax cut bill is expected to raise the average American’s household income by more than $4,000.”
Trump said his administration is freeing businesses to thrive and grow: “America is the place to do business, so come to America where you can innovate, create and build.”
“I believe in America,” Trump continued. “As president of the United States, I will always put America first just like the leaders of other countries should put their country first also.”
“But America first does not mean America alone,” he said. “When the United States grows, so does the world.”
What did he say about international trade?
Trump said the U.S. supports open trade, but won’t tolerate countries that exploit the system:
We support free trade, but it needs to be fair and it needs to be reciprocal because, in the end, unfair trade undermines us all. The United States will no longer turn a blind eye to unfair economic practices including massive intellectual property theft, industrial subsidies, and pervasive state-led economic planning.
Trump said he expects all leaders to protect their country’s interest, just as he said he does for the U.S.
“As president of the United States, I will always protect the interests of our country, our companies, and our workers,” he said.
The president said that the U.S. is also willing to negotiate on “mutually beneficial, bilateral trade agreements,” including countries within the Trans-Pacific Partnership either individually or as a group if it benefits all involved.
What did Trump say about the military and the fight against terrorism?
Investments in the American military are a priority for the Trump administration.
And he called on U.S. allies to do the same to help make the world safer from “rogue regimes, terrorism, and revisionist powers” because without security, he said, we cannot have prosperity.
“My administration is proud to have led historic efforts at the United Nations Security Council and all around the world to unite all civilized nations in our campaign of maximum pressure to de-nuke the Korean peninsula,” Trump said.
He went on to call on allies to “confront Iran’s support for terrorists and block Iran’s path to a nuclear weapon.”
What about immigration?
Trump told attendees that the U.S. immigration system is outdated.
“We must replace our current system of extended family chain migration with a merit-based system of admissions that selects new arrivals based on their ability to contribute to our economy, to support themselves financially, and to strengthen our country,” he said.
What else?
He closed his speech by calling those in power to use it to lift up, raise hopes, and empower their people.
“Each of you has the power to change hearts, transform lives, and shape your country’s destinies,” Trump said. “With this power comes an obligation, however, a duty of loyalty to the people, workers, customers, who made you who you are.”
The open-ended amnesty offer by Donald Trump’s top deputies to the Democrats combines political incompetence, malpractice, greed, betrayal, and self-mutilation, say Trump’s friends and supporters.
“It electrifies the Democratic base and dispirits your own Republican base, and that is the recipe for a wipeout” in November, said Dan Horowitz, editor at Conservative Review. “You could call it the Self-Impeachment Act of 2018,” he added.
The incompetence of the aides is shown by the timing, say critics.
The demoralizing amnesty plan was published just after Senate Democrats threw in the towel after losing their amnesty-of-shutdown threat in the face GOP’s Trump-style rhetoric, just after Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin admitted his “Gang of Six” bill was dead amid widening Democratic splits, just after GOP leaders got comfortable using the powerful charge that Democrats will favor illegals over Americans, just after House GOP leaders began to push Rep. Bob Goodlatte’s Trump-approved immigration bill, and just after voters — including minorities — starting moving back towards the GOP, and just after the Supreme Court moved the supposed DACA deadline to June.
“Jeez, Republicans snatch defeat right of the jaws of victory, again,” said Rosemary Jenks, NumbersUSA’s government relations director.
The aides are Chief of Staff John Kelly, who has little experience with amnesty politics, Marc Short, the top-ranking congressional outreach manager, and least, Stephen Miller, Trump’s speechwriter and immigration policy aide.
The malpractice is shown by the terms of the proposal, which contradicts Trump’s claim to be a master negotiator, by offering many concessions without getting anything in return, and by front-loading the amnesty while deferring potential benefits for Americans until after the November election and even the 2028 election.
The proposal says it will help Americans in the workplace by cutting back chain-migration — but it actually allows all 4 million people in the backlogged chain-migration pipeline to become citizens over the next 15 years or so.
The proposal says it cancels the visa lottery, but it just diverts the lottery visas to accelerate the arrival of the siblings, and elderly parents previously picked for citizenship by semi-random visa-lottery winners.
The proposal says it offers amnesty to an estimated 1.8 million younger illegals — but it suggests no rules to limit the likely fraud, undercounting and judicial appeals that could ensure a supercharged repeat of the 1986 amnesty, when the legislature’s promise of 400,000 green cards to agriculture workers quickly became the bureaucracy’s award of 1 million green cards. In effect, the administration is creating a courtroom right for every future wave of young illegals to claim amnesty, and a huge incentive for hundreds of millions of loving parents to smuggle their children into the United States.
The proposal does ask for $25 billion to build a border wall, but it also rejects proposed laws that would allow criminal charges against people who fly over the wall, overstay their tourist visas and claim their children are dreamers too. Instead, overstays are to be merely deterred by a quick departure or “expedited removal,” the proposal says.
“Basically they have negotiated with themselves to the point where think they can get Senate buy-in on this,” said Jenks. She continued:
By starting left-of-center … they are guaranteeing that this bill will move to the left, and they are undercutting the opportunity to pass a good bill in the House. I don’t understand the reasoning on this.
Trump wrote in his bestseller, The Art of the Deal, that “the worst thing you can possibly do in a deal is seem desperate to make it. That makes the other guy smell blood, and then you’re dead.”
“I’ve never read [The] Art of the Deal, but I’m not sure this is how you negotiate,” said Dale Wilcox, executive director of the Immigration Reform Law Institute. “I mean, this is where they’re starting? 1.8 million? Where are they going to go from here?” he said in a Thursday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.
Trump is being slashed by the Democrats as a racist, and “he is very conflicted on this,” said Horowitz. “He has good instincts, but he has a lot of people around him who are best are clueless, and at worst, are working for the other side.”
The greed is shown by the proposal’s refusal to reduce the supply of foreign labor which has repeatedly forced down wages or Americans’ voters, just one month after those voters provided CEOs and investors with a massive tax cut.
Before the proposal, Americans’ wages were set to rise as the tax-cuts encourage companies to hire more Americans — often by poaching them from rival companies with offers of higher pay. This tight labor market is bad for CEOs and investors, but it great for GOP candidates and for Trump who need voter enthusiasm to counter the Democrats’ anger at losing in 2016.
That wage-boosting process has begun in a few places, such as at the Super Bowl in Minneapolis. On February 25, for example, Craigslist showed a company offering $740 for three days of “no experience required” work.
But the proposal will likely abort a nationwide wage spike before November. That can happen because employers now know they can keep most of their workers from switching jobs by offering one-time bonuses until the next amnesty floods the market with at least 1.8 million former illegals.
The business-first, Americans-last perspective was frankly admitted by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, in a January 25 statement in Davos. She said at 18:15:
This isn’t about limiting legal immigration … [it is about] how can we do it so that it helps both sides – those [migrants] who want to unify their families and the communities and the businesses who need workers, who need skilled workers to come in and help our economy.
One of the four White House deputies who wrote the plan is Marc Short, who worked for the pro-amnesty Koch brothers before he joined Trump. “We are most interested in getting border security,” Short declared in September, without talking about the need to reduce the cheap labor supply that has shriveled income for the President’s supporters. But a tax cut “is essential to us, right now,” Short said.
The betrayal is shown by the proposal’s undercutting of House conservatives who have defended Trump from the Democrats’ claims that he colluded with Russians. Those supporters include Rep. Bob Goodlatte and Rep. Raul Labrador, authors of the Trump-endorsed immigration bill, who are now pushing House Speaker Paul Ryan to help pass their pro-American bill through the House.
By releasing the plan before Goodlatte’s bill gets a vote, “the White House preemptively nukes Trump’s loyal footsoldiers among the House conservatives who stood behind him, thick and thin, who are defending him on the Russia scandal,” said Horowitz. They are “backstabbing them.”
The betrayal was noted by some of his off-the-record House supporters:
Conservatives not reacting well to WH immigration proposal. I asked a conservative aide if they could support a pathway to citizenship for 1.8m Dreamers:
“It shouldn’t. It would be the most foolish thing Republicans could do. Legalizing 1.8 million Democrat voters.”
House Rs not happy w/this new WH immigration plan -> “This is the beginning of the end of the GOP majority in the House. In a year when the Democrats impeach Trump, we can point to this moment,” one R on the call tells me.
Senior GOP aide tells me of Trump’s framework: “I think he’s giving away the farm … It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to say we’re going to have a lot of upsets in the primaries now.”https://t.co/4XY62rCMMA
The proposal also betrays the voters, who pulled the lever for Trump when he promised no amnesties, to enforce the laws and promised passage of reforms that would help Americans and their kids prosper after decades of working in a high-immigration, low-wage economy.
Trump’s primary rival, Sen. Ted Cruz, rubbed it in, telling Bloomberg on January 25 that:
“I do not believe we should be granting a path to citizenship to anybody here illegally,” the Texas Republican said in the Capitol. “Doing so is inconsistent with the promises we made to the men and women who elected us” …
“For some reason that to me is utterly inexplicable, we see Republicans falling all over themselves to gallop to the left of Obama in a way that is contrary to the promises made to the voters who elected us,” Cruz said. “We need to honor the promises we made. And that is what I am energetically urging my colleagues to do.”
“The Democrats have a [political] narrative — they are anti-Trump,” said Horowitz. The GOP’s base voted for Trump and immigration reform despite furious opposition from the establishment, he said, and now they will think “I pressed the Republican button ballot and out popped Democratic [amnesty] policies — what’s the point?”
The message of the amnesty plan is “that it is not about doing what is right [for Americans], or about morals or sympathy for foreign nationals,” he said, continuing:
It is simply about [importing] Democratic votes and [subsidizing] Republican business interests. That is it. This is what proves it.
Shocking Harvard poll reveals that the swamp in DC has a very different understanding of bipartisan immigration reform than do the American people.https://t.co/68fePcw4Rp
58% of Americans opposed Dems’ decision to shut down govt over #DACA, says Harvard-Harris poll. Their poll shows Americans want strong, fair #immigration reform & the concepts contained in my bill, the Securing America’s Future Act. Bill Summary here: https://t.co/UqwsX670NF
“There was no reason to do this now,” said Jenks. “What needed to happen was the President to come out strongly in favor of the House bill so that we have one good marker down.”
Conservative allied groups are also splitting from Trump.
Heritage Action: “Amnesty comes in many forms, but it seems they all eventually grow in size and scope. Any proposal that expands the amnesty-eligible population risks opening pandora’s box, and could lead to a Gang of Eight style negotiation. That should be a non-starter.”
The self-mutilation is shown by the group’s willingness to risk a Trump impeachment in 2018.
“The White House has botched the DACA issue, cutting Bob Goodlatte’s House bill off at the knees and making it more likely that either there will be no bill at all or that any final bill the president signs (which is guaranteed to be even weaker than this) will fatally demoralize Republican voters in November,” Krikorian wrote shortly after being briefed on the proposal.
“If the latter happens, the president will be well on the way to joining Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton in the impeached-but-not-removed club,” he added.
A former aide to Majority Leader noted that the proposal means put Trump has “put his neck out.”
If Dems think they’re pulling this thing considerably to the left, they’ve lost their mind. POTUS put his neck out on this rollout. https://t.co/MSPagqaOaN
Few of Trump’s friends believe the Democrats can resist the temptation to take full advantage of Trump’s exposed neck. “This is the kind of stupidity that Trump used to make fun of,” said Horowitz.
Four million Americans turn 18 each year and begin looking for good jobs in the free market.
But the federal government inflates the supply of new labor by annually accepting roughly 1.1 million new legal immigrants (including roughly 750,000 working-age migrants), by providing work-permits to roughly 3 million resident foreigners, and by doing little to block the employment of roughly 8 million illegal immigrants.
The cheap-labor policy has also reduced investment and job creation in many interior states because the coastal cities have a surplus of imported labor. For example, almost 27 percent of zip codes in Missouri had fewer jobs or businesses in 2015 than in 2000, according to a new report by the Economic Innovation Group. In Kansas, almost 29 percent of zip codes had fewer jobs and businesses in 2015 compared to 2000, which was a two-decade period of massive cheap-labor immigration.
Because of the successful cheap-labor strategy, wages for men have remained flat since 1973, and a large percentage of the nation’s annual income has shifted to investors and away from employees.
Domonique Foxworth stated, “This idea they are going to use this political wedge issue and social wedge issue as their main marketing campaign, I think that’s a mistake.”
“It feels divisive,” Qerim tacked on. “It almost, the way many have been turned off by the NFL, I think people will equally be turned off by this model. Because I feel a bit turned off by it, to be honest with you, Will, how they are marketing it.”
“To be free from politics?” Will Cain challenged. “If you’re promising to be free from politics, that’s divisive?”
Qerim replied, “Yeah. That is political.”
“If you’re not political you are political?” Cain asked.
Democratic Majority Leader denounced the White House’s new amnesty offer as inadequate, just one day after he said had endorsed a border wall because it won’t be built.
Schumer’s conditional rejection of the new White House amnesty giveaway is muted and suggests that Schumer and his allies expect to pressure GOP Senators into yet more concessions.
As we have been urging him to do for months, the President has finally put pen to paper to show us where he stands on immigration. Unfortunately, this plan flies in the face of what most Americans believe. 1/2
While @realDonaldTrump finally acknowledged that the Dreamers should be allowed to stay here and become citizens, he uses them as a tool to tear apart our legal immigration system and adopt the wish list that anti-immigration hardliners have advocated for for years. 2/2
Dan Horowitz, editor of Conservative Review, says Democrats will feign opposition to the amnesty to encourage further negotiations and concessions from uninformed and confrontation-averse GOP legislators.
“They will have plenty of messaging about noble ‘dreamers,’ improving ‘border security’ … Schumer is very familiar with the politics of the right, and the important thing is to watch carefully what Schumer does and says because he is very smart about this,” said Horowitz. “They will leave nothing on the table to achieve their goals,” he told Breitbart News.
For example, Schumer told the New York Times on January 25 that he promised Trump on January 18 to fund a border wall in exchange for an amnesty for 1.5 million illegals. “I thought the balance was quite positive” to get gains for “these wonderful kids,” he said.
It was good trade because even a funded wall will not be built, he said in the podcast:
It is frankly my belief that it is going to be next to impossible for them to actually build the wall. And I told this to the president. I said Secretary [Ryan] Zinke, you know his Secretary of the Interior, said ‘I don’t know where you build the wall along the Rio Grande because you can’t build it on the Mexican side.’ They won’t build it. If you build it on the America side it cuts us off from the river. You can’t build it in the middle of the river. So my view was they would have a very difficult time actually getting it built.
When asked by the New York Times about the White House latest offer of amnesty in exchange an end to chain migration, Schumer responded: “That will never pass.”
Under the White House’s latest proposal, chain-migration would be formally ended, but all four million chain-migrants now on the list would be allowed into the country over the next two decades. That proposal leaves Americans with no offsetting gains after amnestying at least 1.8 million illegals, which is even more than the January 18 offer of 1.5 million illegals.
Schumer’s not-good-enough objections to the White House’s improved offer are matched by similar tweets from his caucus.
The immigration plan announced by the White House tonight is a complete nonstarter. Pitting young Dreamers against immigrant families runs counter to the values of our country.
By ending DACA, @realdonaldtrump subjected 800k Dreamers to deportation. Now he wants to hold them hostage to Steven Miller’s anti-immigrant wish list. It’s insulting. We already have a bipartisan solution to the Trump-created crisis: it’s called the Dream Act. #DreamActNow
Comments
As a privately owned web site, we reserve the right to edit or remove comments that contain spam, advertising, vulgarity, threats of violence, racism, anti-Semitism, or personal/abusive attacks on other users. The same applies to trolling, the use of multiple aliases, or just generally being a jerk. Enforcement of this policy is at the sole discretion of the site administrators and repeat offenders may be blocked or permanently banned without warning