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Watch out for the Bay Area News channels!
I was watching a national business Channel on Wednesday morning and they showed President Trump answering reporters questions as to where he might send troops to provide safety in cities. At the very tail end of his list he mentioned “maybe even San Francisco”. It was a one second comment. But that night in the Bay Area every news station was claiming that Trump was going to send troops here and they were interviewing local politicians who are all outraged! Then the next day protests start popping up everywhere and someone even tried to crash the gate at the Coast Guard Station. Now tonight they say Trump changed his mind. And the truth of the matter is he never said for sure he was consent troops here anyway. The local media fanned up anxiety among the liberal portion of society could have caused death and damage all because they wanted to make a story of it… .or worse, they wanted to deliberately inflamed the Liberals in unhinged in the Bay Area.
Is there any wonder that average citizens no longer trust the media?
Last Sunday, Trump told Maria Bartiromo on Fox news that “We’re going to go to San Francisco.” He clearly didn’t mean he was planning to go and have lunch with the mayor. He had been talking about sending federal forces to San Francisco for quite some time. More recently, he indicated that he’d changed his mind because some billionaire friends had talked him out of it.
There was nothing fake about the local news coverage. Trump confirmed that the local coverage was accurate at https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115424560133045127
The local news is a joke they’re more interested in hiring weather forecasters with bird legs, woke individuals and crybabies.
POTUS agreed at the last minute to let the SF Mayor have what he asked for: …some time to try to fix the problem internally, without troops. And your second point…true enough. Penicillin doesn’t fix everything.
There Is no crime problem in San Francisco( or in Chicago, Washington DC, Los Angeles..) The democrat politicians endlessly say that, and their supporters believe it.
I actually respect that!
And I have to give it to San Francisco’s new mayor. He is really cleaned up the city. It actually has a very good feel to it now again. All within this year! All the others said that it couldn’t be done or that it was way too complicated of an issue. But, it goes to show that good common sense middle road w/ notch on the conservative side person – can get it done!
The Democrats should look towards SF mayor Laurie as an example..and get away from the crazy rhetoric & actions of their angry communist/ socialist members.
Paul the troll has spoken. Yea sure the protests worked, ICE was elsewhere doing their thing just like a magician makes you look one place while he’s doing something somewhere else.
Protestors think they are really making a difference when all they’re doing is causing confusion in one place while the plan is being carried out somewhere else.
Yes indeed. If you do, they will ‘dislike you’ on Faceboat.
Joke
What did the kite say when the other kite asked her for a date? Yes, as long as there’s no strings attached!!
We do grow some decent beef in-Country … but those ranchers have been sticking it to us for years… and the Biden “fart and belch” machine cut them off from cheap grazing land and they
just stuck it to us a little bit more. Now they want to whine about Argentina and cheap
hamburger meat!
1) Importing lower cost beef DOES help keep meat on the table while prices are still so high
from Socialist-Dem-led inflation!
2) When Brazil Russia India China and South Africa went romancing other nations trying to induce them to join them in the BRICS plan to drive US Dollar and all other Western systems down…. Several Arab and African MUSLIM nations did join as junior partners …. Javier Milei politely told them to go pound sand…he’d stick with the the US and greater West and democracy!
3) Good for US, good for Argentina…! President (mine and 😉 yours too) Trump knows when and how to say Thank You, to a Friend/Nation.
Jensen Huang the CEO of Nvidia recently said in an interview with NBC that President Trump’s tariffs has been a game changer and wake up call to those who have been taking advantage of the U.S. markets OBTW…Nvidia for those of you like Paul stuck to your phones and MSNDC is the largest market cap on a traded platform in the world.
I really don’t care much for all this trolling/meme stuff. However, social media gives it a huge voice all from a keyboard. It’s become a tool of political warfare, and perhaps sadly, it works.
The video of Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero clearly rattled his cage, and it changed him. He’s angrier, and more likely to speak without thinking his message through. This is when mistakes are made.
In a way it reminds me of Muhammad Ali’s ring strategy. His nonstop talking to his opponent during a fight was perhaps almost as powerful as his fists. Combined, he was able to bring down formidable opponents.
I still don’t care for trolling, it’s undignified. However it has become an effective tool of political warfare and likely won’t change any time soon.
And the troll mouths off again. Right…bring up Obama to get reactions out of people. You’re pathetic.
Sorry, Paul, but your colorful description of that person doesn’t mesh with his all consuming jealousy of Trump.
What I find funny in politics today.
I drive a larger vehicle that is very dark … some people have said it looks like a government vehicle. I am routinely identified as a LEO based on appearance and how I present.
I was about this morning and happened to drive by the Home Depot in Concord. I watched as people looked at me, talked on their little FRS radios and when I went around the corner, there were more Karen’s/Ken’s about on their radios watching me. One got good video of me! Wonder if I will be famous? I did circle the block once just to see if it was really me … it was.
I was tempted to go back with my FRS radios, find their channel and just chit chat away with glass reports to watch the scrambling.
Thanks for the FRS radio info I’m gonna go have some fun!
I have already loaded them in my vehicle in case I come across those types again.
And I was required to take a Spanish class in high school and I thought what the hell do I need Spanish for, well this is a perfect opportunity to really have some fun with Spanish.
Learning a second language is always good. Most of the world agree, it is only in the US that some think it is not a good idea.
I agree I already knew German and English growing up since my family was from Switzerland but for the high school to mandate I take Spanish as the only language option I was forced to take a semester of it.
You should learn to use English correctly instead of complaining about the US.
Using abortion as birth control, yet again.
Why not educate people about proper birth control instead?
And why should tax payers have to fund the irresponsible?
Even you must realize that with the Federal subsidies being cut coupled with the California Budget deficient this is not sustainable?
There is going to have to be budgetary cuts AND significant tax increases just to maintain normal spending much less all this extra spending.
You can laugh and cheer but this is a pyrrhic victory.
Whatever…….. as long as the babies die, right Paul?
You just stuck a fork in that one. Well done, so to speak.
As powerful as your statement is, remember you are speaking to a group that when an illegal alien commits a s***** assault they refer to it as “A cultural misunderstanding”.
You will never be able to reason with people like that.
Adoption is never an option if you’re a Liberal.
I guess I will be the adult in the room. There is a finite amount of tax revenue available to the State of California and wishing it were different is not going to change reality.
If you spend more money than you take in, California will be forced to do a combination of drawdown on reserves, cut programs and raise taxes.
There is no other way.
Yes, you so are right.
However, the supporters of the democrat politicians will never understand that, because all they know is getting free stuff, China Joe Biden printing and passing out billions of worthless dollars, free government services, free iPhones, free internet service……
Don’t waste your time trying to reason with Paul, he is obviously financially illiterate.
No, they wouldn’t,
https://tinyurl.com/dpu59jn6
ENJOY….. https://x.com/i/status/1982907656693252439
Eric Swalwell wants to tear down President Trump’s much needed White House Ballroom once it is completed and the Democrats are back in power. The Ballroom will be elegant, on-time and under budget, and it will represent a stark contrast to California’s train to nowhere, Obama’s Presidential Library fiasco, broken windmills, bankrupt solar energy companies, corrupt EV mandates, and so on. The Democrat machine rewards crooked Democrat lobbyists and their cronies. Quality and achievement is irrelevant.
Mr. Fang Fang prefers the old tents and port-o-potties that were used for prior events. Crapping in a Honey Bucket is more to his liking than indoor plumming.
Swalwell reminds me of Jimmy Swaggart.
Remember when Jimmy was caught with the prostitute? He made the “I have sinned” speech and just continued on passing the plate and making more money.
That’s Swallwell.
No dignity, no shame, no self respect.
There’s a category 5 hurricane headed for Jamaica!
How long before the damage is blamed on global warming or climate change? Better yet, how long until they blame Trump?
Favorite saying of democrats, “It’s for our children”
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‘Here’s How the Policies of Newsom, Gascon, and Weiner Led to
‘the Trafficked Girls of LA’s Figueroa St.’ ‘
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“Soon every intersection from Gage to Imperial had girls waving and
waiting to be rented out, some of them imported by traffickers from
Oregon or Texas or Alabama. By the end of 2023, the city attorney
had taken to calling Figueroa the Kiddie Stroll because so many of
the girls weren’t even 13.”
https://tinyurl.com/yj5b25hd
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Hmm, are they politicians or pimps ? ? ? ?
Can’t decide if lack of discretionary income spending, adding automation, and
AI is causing job loss.
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‘UPS stuns Wall Street as it announces it has cut 34,000 jobs this year – far
more than planned’
https://tinyurl.com/36e8vtfe
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“…”Amazon confirmed plans to cut about 14,000 corporate jobs as the online retail
giant ramps up spending on artificial intelligence. It’s the first wave in a mass layoff
that’s expected to slash 30,000 Amazon positions, or 10 percent of the corporate staff.”
https://tinyurl.com/2wcbhd5e
https://tinyurl.com/4swubywv
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Possibly, people’s uncertainty is effecting durable goods purchases. Economy still hasn’t
worked thru detrimental biden/giggles economic blunders.
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Personally, believe federal reserve has once again FUBARed rhe economy.
Gray vertical bars on graph are recessions, pattern is fairly obvious.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS