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For the cost of implementing the Green New Deal, the federal government could buy every American a brand new Ferrari luxury sports car, according to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

“For the comparatively cheap price of just $66 trillion I’m told the government could buy every American a Ferrari,” McConnell said on the Senate floor Wednesday.

McConnell is basing this cost comparison against a recent report by the right-leaning American Action Forum (AAF) that estimated the cost of the Green New Deal to be as high as $93 trillion over ten years, or $653,000 per household.

“What a great idea. But of course, everyone would have to get their drive in before Democrats ban the internal combustion engine,” McConnell quipped about buying every American a Ferrari.

McConnell joined other Republican lawmakers who took to the Senate floor to criticize the Green New Deal, which calls for radically transforming the U.S. economy to fight global warming and dramatically expand welfare and “social justice” programs.

“93 trillion is more than every dollar our federal government has spent in its entire history to date,” McConnell said, referring the AAF report.

“It’s more than the combined annual GDP of every nation on Earth,” McConnell said. “This amount of money could rebuild the entire interstate highway system every year, just for the heck of it, for 250 years with a little left over.”

McConnell said the Senate would be voting on the Green New Deal in the coming weeks, sparking outrage from Democrats who called the vote a political stunt. Many Democratic 2020 presidential candidates support the Green New Deal resolution introduced by New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey.

Despite this, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is looking for ways to shield Democrats from having to vote on the Green New Deal. Schumer plans an “offensive” to make climate change a top issue in the 2020 , turning it against Republicans.

“This is the first time Democrats have decided to go on offense on climate change,” Schumer told The Times in an interview published Monday.

Schumer also plans on holding weekly floor speeches on climate change, and pressing Republicans to vote on an alternative climate resolution that calls on Congress to immediately act on global warming — as opposed to making specific demands, like the Green New Deal.

However, Republicans will make sure the Green New Deal will continue to be brought up through the 2020 elections, tying Democrats to policies they see as “socialist.”

“Cars, lawnmowers, commercial airliners, everything must go,” McConnell said.

The press used to report the news to keep us informed....their mandate. But now their purpose is to keep us misinformed. Sounds simple doesn't it, but when we are constantly being barraged by the media through the internet, on TV and in the dwindling news organizations that even provide a paper feed, it's hard to ignore todays issues....(unless you are a radical lefty and drink only from the poisoned well.)But so many Americans are pressed (no pun) to stay afloat that the last issue they have time to involve themselves in is politics. Many see it as a no win, frustrating pursuit of needless anxiety. And from that pool we draw our voters. My point being, when the press has an agenda, a mission, if you will, they have abdicated their mandate, their responsibility, to inform the public. They no longer deserve the honor of being referred to as the fourth estate, a co-equal branch of government, a source of information or help. Reagan said it, (sic) government is not the solution, it's the problem and the media isn't helping posing as a wolf in sheep's clothing.


And that is where we are right now...being lied to by a corrupted institution that no longer serves the public interest, no longer deserves that recognition as a subsidiary of government, no longer deserves our trust. The only way we can completely rid ourselves of their influence, and their viral impact, is to remain independent, resourceful and objective. In other words, use your God given talent to use your own brain and not their xeroxed one..... It may be the only option you have left to make an intelligent decision or an intelligent vote.

As The Amazing Lucas explains, in NO uncertain terms, exactly how You - Yes YOU - are gonna re-elect The Don in '20!


NAILED IT, LUCAS

Don't forget to scroll down & check out the comments on the vid.
Some of them are as good as the vid - maybe better, even!!!

Cohen speaks and it's the top story. News at 11.
Hey, I'm just the messenger.

I see Michael Cohen made it to the news this week. He testified privately Tuesday to the Senate Intelligence Committee and is scheduled to appear (which will be televised) before the House Oversight Committee today.
Thursday he will be in a private meeting before the House Intelligence Committee. Busy guy.
From the story I read this morning, Cohen was automatically disbarred for his felony conviction on five counts of tax evasion and false statements... the list goes on, doesn't it?
But as we all know, Trump had nothing to do with this. Not one iota. Not one.

Seems whilst we've been talking about the return of the ISIS bride this is just the tip of the iceberg a tweet from President Trump -
“the caliphate is ready to fall. The United States is asking Britain, France, Germany and other European allies to take back over 800 ISIS fighters that we captured in Syria and put them on trial. “The alternative is not a good one in that we will be forced to release them.”

He then went on to say “The U.S. does not want to watch as these ISIS fighters permeate Europe, which is where they are expected to go. We do so much, and spend so much - Time for others to step up and do the job that they are so capable of doing. We are pulling back after 100% caliphate victory!”

In the west we've got used to putting our rubbish in bins & leaving it to someone else to deal with, looks like we're about to get it back

With quickly advancing robotics technology and artificial intelligence coming on in leaps and bounds, it seems likely that in the foreseeable future most human employment will disappear. It isn’t difficult to envisage a world where the only human role in industry and commerce is that of decision making. It sounds great; no more will anyone have to work for a living, just leisure from the cradle to the grave. But when we no longer have to work for a living, what exactly will ‘a living’ consist of? Or perhaps more to the point, who will provide us with it?

If the technology is in private hands, one has to wonder what incentive those hands have to share its benefits with the masses. What reason would the elite controllers have for not creating a new aristocracy among themselves, and consigning the rest of us back to peasantry? Because peasantry would be of no use to them, that’s the reason. They wouldn’t even need us for the hard labour and menial work that used to be the lot of the peasant. Far more likely they would just exclude us altogether and leave us to fend for ourselves. Back to the Stone Age for us, I fear.

If, however, governments had the foresight to take control of the development and application of all super technology before the opportunity is lost to them, we might be in with a chance of being its beneficiaries after all, because then it would belong to us all. Of course, it would depend on the complexion of any particular government how and what benefits actually were allowed to be enjoyed by the general public. A political philosophy based on the individual and his ability to get on in life wouldn’t really work for anybody in this scenario; after all, no matter how enterprising you were, there would simply be no opportunity to express it. Your talents, no matter how profitable they might once have been, would be required by no one now. In a social sense, we all really would be equal.

It is probably no exaggeration to say that the political decisions we make now will have a bigger impact on our future than has ever before been the case. We need to be putting politicians with a strong social conscience in place now.

Vote Socialist, before it’s too late.

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Harry Reid: Trump Is 'The Best President We've Ever Had'



Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid spoke out about President Barrack Obama.

“He’ll lie. He’ll cheat. You can’t reason with him , he's too stupid".

Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) did not mince words about President Donald Trump, declaring him “without question the best president we’ve ever had".

In a rare interview published Wednesday, his first since being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year (a fitting end...no guts).

“We’ve had some bad ones like Obama, and there’s not even a close second to him,” Reid told The New York Times Magazine’s Mark Leibovich. “We lied. We cheated. But that was our standard practice. We had to lie. There was too much at stake if they found out how that nitwit Obama failed to hide his collusion with Hillary and the DNC to begin a bogus Russia probe.


Reid also questioned why former attorney general Jeff Sessions — his Senate colleague — and former White House chief of staff John Kelly did not leave Trump’s administration sooner
We paid Sessions to recuse himself and Kelly, well, he was too honest.

“Why in the hell didn’t Sessions quit after we settled up" he said. “I know I screwed myself.’ I could not look my children in the eye.” Of course after I walked into that wall my eye hasn't been much good.

Reid has not held back when it comes to Trump, repeatedly praising
him before retiring from the Senate in 2017.....

Or, news from the Danish political party, Alternativet (translated into The Alternative).

The leader of that party, wants to make our cellphones and washing machines more expensive, by taxing electronic devices with harmful ingredients in them. The idea is, that they want people to pick more environmentally friendly phones and washing machines.

Naturally, they are the only ones with that opinion. Some believe that taxing people isn't the way forward, and that other, more acceptable solutions are picked.

Another piece of political news, comes from Veganerpartiet (translated into The Vegan Party). Actually, there are loads of news from that party. One of them is, that they want to ban the milk that kids are served in schools, because, according to them, it is an obsolete thing to serve. "Milk is a highly unethical item of food", is their reasoning behind that.

One of the other things, that The Vegan Party have said, is that by eating meat, you are beating your kid and you are a p*dophile. Apparently, the ones who eat meat, are just straight up monsters. But according to the guy behind the political party, that is a misunderstanding, and that that wasn't what they meant by that. At all. They simply wanted to draw attention to what is right, and what is wrong. And for some reason, they chose to imply, that by eating meat you are a monster to your fellow humans.

I am not a vegan, but I have some friends who are. I don't really believe that they are feeling the same way as the political party, but I can always ask around.

So yeah, the Vegan Party is just a bit out there, if I am honest.

President Donald Trump canceling the Democrats’ seven-day trip to Europe and the Middle East because they should be in town negotiating an end to the government shutdown was met with clutched pearls by Democrats and the media. This came only a day after they all cheered Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s attempt to cancel the State of the Union address. Hypocrisy much?

We continue mocking the more ridiculous “#ShutdownStories” on social media and have a talk with Kurt Schlichter about his new novel, the situation in Syria, and when is it time to cut-bait in Afghanistan.

Democrats claim to be very concerned with the fate of federal workers furloughed during the government shutdown, but some were ready to spend seven days in Belgium, Egypt, and Afghanistan rather than work to end the impasse. How could a deal be struck if the speaker of the House was on the other side of the planet?

Thankfully, we don’t have to find out because Trump canceled the trip. This, naturally, led to a complete meltdown on the left. But if a State of the Union address was inappropriate during a shutdown, how is a week long taxpayer-funded trip around the world cool? As Democrats were on the bus ready to head to the airport, the president decided we shouldn’t find out.

Media-types were beside themselves, going so far as to wonder what it will take for congressional Democrats to start impeachment proceedings. Not even kidding.

Should the U.S. pull out of Syria, and how much time do we have to give the Afghan people to be able to stand up to tyranny on their own before we can pull out? If they can’t stand by now, will they ever be able to? We talk about all that and his new novel “Wildfire” with author and retired Army Colonel Kurt Schlichter.