Politics And The Markets 10/13/21

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[mrbill757]

Regarding old guard news coverage, occasionally we’ll watch one of the network’s evening news just to see if they’re still suppressing the real news. We did just that the other evening and nothing’s changed. SOME of the FOX news programs are quite informative, but we no longer watch Brett Baer. Tucker Carlson in our view is the guy to watch. Carlson is brilliant along with most of his guests. For those who badmouth FOX coverage of the news, they have no substance but talking points, vague criticism and name calling.

[Hexbreaker]

@mrbill757
Tucker Carlson brilliant? Like a televangelist is brilliant!

www.thedailybeast.com/...

[GreenEggs&Ham]

The spread of falsehoods, misinformation and blatant lies on the internet by anti-vaxxers shows they do the work of satan.

[AbolishtheFed]

@GreenEggs&Ham Joe Biden LIAR!

“President Joe Biden said if you are fully vaccinated you no longer need to wear a mask, after the CDC updated guidance. Biden urged Americans to get vaccinated and be respectful of those wearing masks.
May 13, 2021”

www.msnbc.com/...

[Namron Damron]

@GreenEggs&Ham it's how they spend their time. Inf--kingcredible.

[DigDeep]

80%+ of ER patients are double vaccinated.
Embedded links to follow the science throughout the article.

humansarefree.com/...

Why are Joe and St. Anthony pushing the clot shot jabs? Eugenics.

[John Wilson]

@DigDeep Yes, and this data is being suppressed in the US by the CDC.
First of all you are not vaccinated unless it has been 14 days since your 2nd dose:

CDC"
Defining a vaccine breakthrough infection
For the purpose of this surveillance, a vaccine breakthrough infection is defined as the detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA or antigen in a respiratory specimen collected from a person ≥14 days after they have completed all recommended doses of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-authorized COVID-19 vaccine
www.cdc.gov/...

So if you have gotten both doses of the vaccine and then get COVID but it has not been 14 days since your 2nd shot you are UNVACCINATED.
Not counted as a breakthrough case.

Second - the lying CDC STOPPED COUNTING BREAKTHROUGH CASES IN MAY.

What Is the True Vaccine Breakthrough Rate? The CDC Doesn't Want You to Know
fee.org/...

What does the CDC do? They see that there are high rates of breakthrough cases so THEY STOP COUNTING THEM and the MSM keeps lying that 99% of hospitalizations are the "unvaccinated"

from search "CDC stops tracking breakthrough cases"

duckduckgo.com/...

[DigDeep]

@John Wilson surprised the cult cancel culture battalion has questioned your comments and links.

Guess they're getting the real picture, thanks to your research...

[AbolishtheFed]

Joe Biden Worst President Ever…

“Inflation rises at 5.4% yearly pace in September, CPI shows, and stays at 30-year high”

www.msn.com/...

[born_to_run]

Joe Munchin number of $1.5T is the starting number for the Infrastructure deal but it seems that number is taken off the back of an envelope because the progressive members of the Democratic members are not liking it.

[User 54044972]

WIFE INVOLVED IN SUBMARINE SPY CASE IS ANTI-TRUMP, PROGRESSIVE, AND ‘VERY LIBERAL.’

If the couple was MAGA you know the media would have this story plastered on the front pages and make it the lede.

No wonder the media has buried the story about an Annapolis couple trying to sell top-secret submarine secrets to a foreign country.

Any story that is one-and-done in the fake media has at its core, a Dem,
vs week-long breathless coverage, which involves a Trump supporter.

I suspected Leftists straight away - no Trump supporting pro American would do it.

[daustin97222]

@PIRockford 413,000 hits on Google for the guy. Not very well buried, if you ask me. Even made it to the failing NYT, which should have been first with the shovel.

Gambling or drugs, that's my bet.

[crichardt13]

@PIRockford Nope,drumpf supporting traitors on the right like to slaughter innocent people with automatic weapons at music festivals,markets,Post Offices, and schools....ooooops,and spread lies and BS re how non-effective vaccines are....involuntary manslaughter murder by law.

[born_to_run]

Democracy is on fire these days and Democrats must take actions and enforce the subpoenas issued to former Trump aides that were not even in the White House and have no executive privilege.

[born_to_run]

Jeffrey Clark was a nobody but his action of trying to over turn the 2020 presidential election is making him a target of DJTrump favourite minion that was willing to do the dirty work for DJTrump, like so many people before him that went on to regret their action but hold and behold Jeffrey Clark stepped up to do Trump’s dirty work even though he saw the news every night of the people that went to jail for doing the dirty work for DJTrump.

Lock him up! Lock him up!

[born_to_run]

It seems that Steve Bannon in on track to be criminally referred to the DOJ as he’s still refusing to cooperate with Congressional Committee. Make sure that this committee doesn’t blink and do your jobs. Lock DJTrump up!!

[born_to_run]

Day 267 day of Joe Biden election. Jeffrey Clark pushed Trump’s BIG LIE inside DOJ but the higher ups refused to cave in because there were no facts supporting election fraud in the 2020 election.

[born_to_run]

DJTrump Organization should not be allowed to contract with the US government because it has being found to be not in compliance with contractual agreements. The US government is fearful that booting DJTrump will be seen as retribution for his January 6, 2021 attempted insurrection and attempt to over turn the 2020 election results.

[DoubleD44]

U.S. stocks bounce on economic optimism..

www.reuters.com/...

[born_to_run]

DJTrump is in talks to sell his hotel in Washington for 370$M, another bad investment going to the dogs and this is the guy that is advising Republicans not to vote to raise the debt ceiling and make the financial markets collapse, this is the guy that used to make the markets jump because he was so smart. Yeah right. Such a dumb ass ex-president.

[DoubleD44]

Steve Bannon is openly defying the House Select Jan 6th Committee, per ABC News, and his lawyer says he won't sit for a deposition or produce records.

[crichardt13]

@DoubleD44 So LOCK HIS UNLAWFUL ASS UP!!!

[born_to_run]

DJTrump lost the 2020 election and he can spread the BIG LIE until he’s blue in the face. DJTrump tells supporters in his rallies that the Arizona audits are finding more votes for him than Joe Biden when in fact it’s the opposite, more votes are being counted for Joe Biden. How can he get away with such BIG LIES. Republicans minions in Congress are spreading the falsehoods and aggravating the anger levels that these Trump supporters seem to spew at people serving their country to make it safe by wearing masks or getting vaccinated. The political dumb culture created by DJTrump has trampled truth to the point that taking decisions for what is best for the country is a cultural divide when it should not be.

[User 54044972]

It has only been a week and a half since far left activists faced a backlash over following Sen. Kyrsten Sinema into a women’s bathroom with a camera. Apparently they didn’t learn anything. Now a group connected with Sen. Bernie Sanders is vowing to hound Sinema everywhere she goes and make her life “unpleasant” until she signs on to the Build Back Better bill.

Grassroots activists and union groups are preparing to launch a flurry of protests later on Wednesday against Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz) — who they worry could single-handedly sink President Biden’s agenda.

“We’re committed to birddogging Kyrsten Sinema with her constituents until the very end,” Our Revolution Executive Director Joseph Geevarghese said in an interview. “What we want to show is that her constituents are very serious about wanting policies and activism and we’re going to make her life unpleasant or uncomfortable until that happens.”

Our Revolution, the Bernie Sanders-inspired grassroots group, is joining Arizona union leaders, educators and other grassroots activists for a series of demonstrations outside of her Phoenix and Tucson offices over the next several days, according ryto a strategy outline first shared with POLITICO.

[John Wilson]

@PIRockford She should retaliate by leaving the Dem party and joining the Green party or become an Independent.

[DoubleD44]

Trump loses Georgia - again!

www.forbes.com/...

[born_to_run]

Jeffrey Clark and Steve Bannon are going to be criminally charged if they don’t respond to the subpoenas from Congressional Committees. But Jeffrey Clark was a special guy by doing things that he was not supposed to do trying to dictate to Georgia that they should over turn the election results. He should be barred from his professional association as a lawyer. A bad guy in the final desperate dying days of the DJTrump presidency.

[User 54044972]

The far-left Gaia worshippers say that the “Climate Crisis” is responsible for floods, droughts, forest fires, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions. Their latest crazy belief is that their unproven hypothesis caused the slowing of global wind speeds.

Is there nothing that “climate change” doesn’t affect?

Industry experts are warning that climate change may have caused wind speeds in Europe to plummet this year in news that threatens to drive energy prices even higher. Long labelled as a savior of the energy industry, wind farms have cropped up across the continent in recent years and have been billed a low-cost, renewable and dependable source of power……Experts are blaming a growing phenomenon known as ‘global stilling’ – whereby measurable wind speeds across the world’s continental surfaces have decreased by as much as 15 per cent since 1980.

Global stilling—a “growing phenomenon”… sure it is.

I’m old enough to remember when climate grifter and former Vice President Al Gore insisted that lower Manhattan, San Francisco, and half of Florida would be underwater by now because of the terrifying melting of ice in Greenland and Antarctica.

That didn’t happen. Frankly, the climate hysterics have been 0 for 50 in half a century of their Chicken Little-like predictions of an “eco-pocalypse.”

This is the second time the Brits claimed the winds have died down, and in between they claimed disastrous high wind speeds.

For years climate change was causing an increase in hurricanes and tornadoes. Now it's quieting the winds. It's laughable.

[Rennis]

@PIRockford I'm old enough to remember Al Gore too and thought he was BatS&*t crazy as he jetted off to spread his apocalyptic message. Now I'm not so sure.

I live near the shores of the Chesapeake Bay and was looking at a photo of a beach I frequent that was taken about five years ago. That stretch of beach is underwater now even at low tide. I'm sure some of it is erosion which is common in our area but not all of it. I lived on my boat only a couple of blocks away from 2014 until a year ago. The whole peninsula is a low area with one access road. The road and some nearby lots are flooding more often now or maybe I'm just more sensitive to it. I refer to tidal flooding that's not storm driven.

Can't speak to changes in weather other than to note that I started sailing and gardening in the late '70's and I could count on rain whenever we had a northeaster. Now most of them are dry but we still get the wind.

This is just a data point not an analysis but it's real. I wouldn't invest in property near the water without knowing it's elevation, of the property and the access road.

[relospecialist]

Democrats rejoice as Republicans bend the knee to Trump.

Trump said Wednesday that Republicans will not vote in the midterm and general elections until supposed voter fraud in the 2020 election is “solved.”

Trump, “If we don’t solve the Election Fraud of 2020 (which we have thoroughly and conclusively documented), Republicans will not be voting in ‘22 or ‘24. It is the single most important thing for Republicans to do,”

So Trump is telling his base 'Not to Vote' to show how powerful his base is.

Am I missing something here?

[Namron Damron]

@relospecialist most don't really get this but Trump is playing a power game for his own self-aggrandizement. Until his followers see this, it will be more of the same.

[AbolishtheFed]

@relospecialist Trump is telling his base to advocate for more robust Voter Laws or else republicans will feel their votes don’t count and won’t be motivated to vote.

[crichardt13]

@AbolishtheFed NOPE!!! The DISGRACED TRAITOR said DON'T VOTE or Malania will come and get you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...LOL...really.