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5.9% SOCIAL SECURITY INCREASE FOR 2022 – THANK YOU SLEEPY JOE
SHOCKING! Inflation is running full steam ahead.
2022 Social Security Changes – COLA Fact Sheet
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8 minutes ago — Supplemental Security Income (SSI) beneficiaries will receive a 5.9 percent. COLA for 2022. Other important 2022 Social Security information is as follows:.
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Inflationary data suggests the Fed is now stuck between a rock and a hard place
Hawaii Six O – Gary Wagner
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The government released the inflationary report for September today vis-à-vis the CPI (Consumer Price Index), which showed that inflation continues to increase. In July of this year, the consumer price index reached an apex of 5.4% and then decreased to 5.3% in August. Today’s report shows that inflationary pressure is now back to 5.4% year over year. Estimates by economists polled by Dow Jones were forecasting that this rate would increase only by 0.3% keeping the year-over-year rate at 5.3%.
The current inflationary pressures are once again at a 30-year high. More importantly it is well above the target of the Federal Reserve. The dual mandate of the Federal Reserve is to maintain maximum employment and a 2% inflationary target rate. Recent rates have been more than double of the Fed mandate. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report revealed that consumer prices rose 0.4% in September which took the year-over-year gain back to 5.4%.
However, the Federal Reserve adjusted its dual mandate to focus upon maximum employment and let inflation run hotter than their 2% target. The thought process by the Federal Reserve was that much of the current inflationary pressures are transitory in nature and will subside in a relatively short time.
According to MarketWatch, “Stronger-than-expected U.S. inflation data for September has the bond market now considering the risk that the Federal Reserve may end up being forced to tighten interest rates into a stagnating economy with persistently higher price rises.”
The Federal Reserve is most likely correct in predicting that certain components of our goods and services have seen inflationary pressures that are transitory due to supply and labor shortages. But the real issue is the rising costs of food and energy. Many analysts, including myself believe that the cost of energy and food could continue to rise and create inflation that is systemic and prolonged. Gasoline prices rose 1.2% for the month which resulted in an annual increase of 42.1%. In September, food prices also had a dramatic gain increasing by 1.2% and increased 12.6% year-over-year.
Previous post below from July
Is this music to your ears? Prices rising, tempers flaring, money burning making your day? At last count, by the government front men who quietly burped out ( and you know they are lying) that inflation catapulted over 5%; the highest in a dozen years. But the cognoscenti economists believe inflation has raised its ugly head above the 10% level. Powell says this is transitory, just a tempest in a teapot.
Many of those who suffer from the political amalgam that saturates their brain with cool aide could not recognize their own suicide even if they were soaked in a bloody suit. Shortages of chips have delayed automobile production, copper prices through the roof along with housing prices, gold, yeah gold is spiraling upward toward new highs. But TRANSITORY IS THE WORD as the FED floods the land with trillions upon trillions of fiat currency. Is it time to bring out the fire hoses? Stop the Deal before it is too late. At last count the U.S. is on the hook for $25 trillion, but counting all obligations, like Social Security, Medicare etcetera, the numbers balloon to $125 trillion. Please, please, don’t burst a blood vessel over this minor detail. See previous posts below.
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN FLEECE
First it was salt, then spice, then paper, but in the end it was gold. They tried them all, as they say, “you can fool some of the people, some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time.” And it has come to pass, the “ALMIGHTY DOLLAR” is slowly dissolving like the piece of paper it is printed on. Don’t take our word for it though, check the status of soon to be reserve currencies, like the Chinese renminbi (aka yuan) or perhaps the Russian ruble. Don’t despair, the cryptocurrency world is at your fingertips. If that doesn’t suit you, GO FOR THE GOLD, but SILVER will do just fine. To those of the initiated, they know where the price is headed, and that is north. The everlasting obituary is premature, the body has not been declared mortal. And as the eternal rays provide life to all, the man who has gold in his hand will endure for a lifetime.
Gold has been on a tear of late, rising from the mid 1700’s to the 1840 level. The sign of inflation is in the air. A whiff of the third quarter numbers will reveal what is in the black box. Our guess, and it is only a guess, we are not economists, places the number at 3.5%. You can’t keep a good man down, can you. The second quarter won’t be that horrible though, somewhere in the 2.5% range. Don’t forget that the Biden team has their thumb on the scale. And to make a salient point, economists are always right, it is the timing that is wrong. BTW, they have predicted 8 of the last 4 recessions. Batting 50% is a admirable achievement in most sports.
Billionaire investor Sam Zell is also now buying gold, despite decades of criticizing those who purchase it, reports ETF Trends. Zell says it is because these monetary policies may create inflation like the 1970s and gold could be a hedge.
The latest on inflation, annual inflation rose 4.2% last month, core inflation for the year to date is at 3%. LOOK OUT BELOW!
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THE FED JOINS THE CROWD WITH “FEDCOIN” IT TRULY IS WORTH MORE THAN GOLD
How do you pay off your creditors? With MONEY! But if you have none, TEN possibilities exist to neutralized the threat of “PAY UP”: 1. you go bankrupt, 2. get an extension – a longer time to cough up the dough, 3. creditors hire a hitman or sport’s mechanic to do you physical harm, 4. disappear, 5. tell them that you are two big to jail. 6. hire a team of software engineers, 7. hire your own defense team, 8. make a deal, ala Argentina, 9. issue new fiat to payoff the old, and 10. OR YOU CAN JOIN THE CROWD. All not necessarily in the preceding order.
A look into the crystal ball, confirmed by the Ouija tells us that the FED is soon to rollout with great fanfare their own BITCOIN to be called FEDCOIN. Finally, they have got the hint that invisible values have more value than tangible ones. Who would’ve thought of this 245 years ago. Incentivize individuals to work for invisible pay. What a revelation. Now that is what we call the NEW GREEN DEAL. TAKE THAT AOC.
George Washington didn’t have to skip a Silver Dollar over the Delaware. This is space science at its best. The speed of light no faster than a speeding bullet. No treasury printing, no counting of dirty money, no banks anymore, only your own personnel wallet.
But BACK TO THE FUTURE we have seen this play before, the FED and TREASURY cabal are never ahead of the curve.
Imagine if they turned their gold haul at FORT KNOX and local mints into Bitcoins early on? The 248,000,000 ounces in storage are now worth a mind boggling 12,400,000,000,000, that is trillion dollars. That is what you call GREEN CACHE.
BIDEN’S METORIC RISE HAS GONE DOWN FASTER THAN KAMALA’S GOING DOWN TO THE BORDER
President Biden’s poll numbers are, to use the technical term, not good. And for Democrats there are even more troubling numbers underneath the surface,” host John Berman said to begin the segment. “The numbers here, they tell a clear story.”
He added that independent voters were important for Biden because they essentially were the reason he won the 2020 election, citing his massive support from independents, compared to Hillary Clinton losing the independent vote to former President Donald Trump in 2016. 19-point loss from the latter was the largest drop amongst the three.
LATE BREAKING NEWS – IT IS NOT OVER
Trump Lawyer Jenna Ellis Claims ‘Sufficient Evidence’ to Decertify Election in 5 States
Ellis, one of several lawyers involved in failed legal efforts to reverse former President Donald Trump‘s loss to President Joe Biden last November, made the remarks during an interview on former Trump official Sebastian Gorka‘s Newsmax show The Gorka Reality Check on Monday. Ellis did not specify what evidence exists that could lead to a supposed decertification process, No credible evidence of massive election fraud has been publicly presented in any state.
“We know already that the election results in at least five of the swing states were irredeemably compromised,” Ellis said. “We already have sufficient evidence for these states to decertify their electoral results. So, what this means is that the state legislatures would pass a resolution through both chambers that essentially say that the secretary of state’s certification that was sent to Congress was based on false or faulty information.”
“And that then would trigger kind of a chain reaction,” she added. “Because if at least three states do that and Joe Biden’s Electoral count drops below the requisite 270 count, then Congress is going to have to deal with that. Decertification is incredibly important for the record and to make sure that we are dealing with every legal vote counting and counting accurately.”
Ellis did not indicate how Congress would then “deal with” the scenario. There would be no basis to certify a new set of 2020 election results under the constitution, which clearly lays out the already completed process for electing a president. She suggested that a new election could be ordered before 2024 and cited a seemingly irrelevant section of the constitution concerning the removal of a president in circumstances such as death, disability or resignation.
Two Georgia workers fired after being accused of shredding voting applications
(doesn’t say if they were affiliated with the Democrat party)
The allegations come just three weeks before Fulton County residents are set to vote in municipal elections
Two workers in Fulton County, Georgia have been fired after they were accused of shredding hundreds of voter registration applications, spurring Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to call for a U.S. Department of Justice investigation.
“After 20 years of documented failure in Fulton County elections, Georgians are tired of waiting to see what the next embarrassing revelation will be,” Raffensperger said in a press release Monday. “The Department of Justice needs to take a long look at what Fulton County is doing and how their leadership disenfranchises Fulton voters through incompetence and malfeasance. The voters of Georgia are sick of Fulton County’s failures.”
CIRCUITY COURT NOMINEE GRILLED BY JOHN KENNEDY
‘I’ve Got To Read You This’: John Kennedy Reads Biden Nominee’s Controversial Writings Back To Her
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Oct 6, 2021
LET’S GO BRANDON
The “Let’s Go Brandon” Meme Has Taken Over the Internet — Here’s What It Means
OCT. 7 2021, PUBLISHED 3:27 P.M. ET
Sometimes at work, mistakes happen. Even to the best of us! We may slip up now and again. Typically, these mistakes are small issues that we can laugh off and move on from. But other times, it’s just not that simple. When you work for the public or will be seen in the public eye, small errors can become viral memes.
That’s basically what happened in the case of the “Let’s Go Brandon” meme that has been making its way around the internet thanks to Twitter. But what does it actually mean? A small incident in an interview with a NASCAR driver has intersected with politics and brought new life to a chant about the
president.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQvJyRO_T7k
https://www.newsweek.com/f-joe-biden-chant-breaks-out-new-york-jets-nfl-game-1635185
https://youtu.be/QQvJyRO_T7k
What does “Let’s Go Brandon” mean?
According to Know Your Meme, “Let’s Go Brandon” is from an interview with NASCAR racer Brandon Brown and NBC that took place in Oct. 2021. He had just won the NASCAR Xfinity Series. In the background, the crowd can be heard chanting “F–k Joe Biden!”
But in what might be an effort to remain professional, the interviewer, Kelli Stavast, said that the crowd was saying “Let’s go, Brandon!”
“Brandon, you also told me — as you can hear the chants from the crowd,” Kelli says before the camera pans to the audience. In the video, you can clearly hear the audience say, “F–k Joe Biden!” Although Brandon doesn’t seem to be paying attention to them.
As of now, neither Brandon nor Kelli has responded to the meme. And it’s not clear whether she actually misheard the crowd or if she was trying to cover up what they were chanting.
For a while now, people have been saying “F–k Joe Biden” as a form of protest against the 46th president of the U.S. Know Your Meme says this started to happen around Aug. 2021. Newsweek reports that the chant broke out at an NFL game and Out Kick says the chants are “taking over college football” and are making their way over to baseball games as well.
“Let’s Go Brandon” is now a meme.
Because the internet is … the internet, “Let’s Go Brandon” became a meme. It’s been seen on a bunch of t-shirts and photoshopped onto at least one picture of AOC’s Tax the Rich dress from the 2021 Met Gala.
BLACK PRIVILEGE
Posted on October 9, 2021
Black Privilege: School Shooter Released on Just $75k Bond Thanks to the Color of His Skin
Scott Greer, Revolver, October 8, 2021
A school shooter wounded three people in a rampage at an Arlington, Texas, high school Wednesday. He spent a grand total of one day in jail before he was released on a $75,000 bond Thursday. Media outlets are sympathetically portraying him as a victim of bullying and amplifying his family’s defense. This may shock some readers. Who could be worse than a school shooter? Aren’t we supposed to keep these young monsters locked up so they don’t hurt any more kids?
But there’s something different about this school shooter from the ones you usually hear about on the news. Timothy Simpkins, the 18-year-old shooter is black. In the Globalist American Empire, that awards him privilege. No white school shooter could’ve expected such a generous treatment.
Simpkins’s defense claims he used a gun in self-defense. He allegedly grabbed a gun after the fight and unloaded it in the school. One of his victims is a 25-year-old white teacher who was shot in the back as he tried to break up the fight. He suffered a collapsed lung and broken ribs. Another victim is a 15-year-old male who remains in critical condition.
This sounds pretty indefensible, but Simpkins’s family and lawyer make the case anyway.
“I’m not trying to justify the gun that was brought, but when you’re being bullied, when there’s bullies, throughout this nation you hear of young people … committing suicide,” said family spokeswoman Carol Harrison-Lafayette. “The decision he made, taking the gun, we’re not justifying that. That was not right. But he was trying to protect himself.”
“There are numerous school shootings that have occurred across this country which are tragic. All school shootings are tragic,” Kim T. Cole, a civil rights attorney representing the family, exhorted to the press. “However, in this situation, this was not someone who was just out to go and shoot a school and had made up their mind [and said,] ‘You know hey I’m upset and I’m just going to shoot anyone I see.’”
“That was not the situation here. So I request the media correct their narrative with regard to what happened, and that you all respect the family’s privacy,” she added.
No white family could’ve gotten away with these public statements if their child did a mass shooting. They would’ve received a flood of online harassment and media denunciations. You’re not supposed to claim your kid, who just shot several people, is a lovely boy who did it to protect himself. But that rule apparently doesn’t apply to black school shooters.
It’s noteworthy the family turned to a civil rights attorney to defend Simpkins over a school shooting. Did systemic racism somehow drive him to go on a shooting spree? It’s also noteworthy that she implies this wasn’t a typical school shooting, but it actually resembles the typical mass shooting. Most mass shooters are black, according to a 2016 New York Times report, and the vast majority of them are not the work of some deranged loner murdering people at random. They’re mostly gang-related or the result of brawls—as was the case for Simpkins.
There are cases of whites who resorted to a gun to defend themselves against actual threats. Unlike Mr. Simpkins, they got the book thrown at them. Kyle Rittenhouse was hit with murder charges and a $2 million bail after he gunned down three men who attacked him during the Kenosha riot last year. You can face censorship on major tech platforms for daring to show support for that young man. Meanwhile, several people are openly supporting Simpkins on Twitter, even though there is far less evidence to support his act of violence.
Simpkins’s ridiculous defense may work in George Floyd’s America. Authorities now work hard to ensure black criminals escape justice. If Simpkins had committed this shooting in Chicago, it may have been categorized as “mutual combat” and charges would have been dropped. Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx (you might remember her from her infamous role in the Jussie Smollett hate hoax) dropped charges against gangbangers who engaged in a bloody gun battle last week under this curious legal doctrine. This could set a new legal precedent for progressive prosecutors everywhere. Just let these magical citizens shoot each other in peace.
Simpkins may also have a shot with the claim that being frightened justifies shooting. A black man in South Carolina was able to beat a murder charge in July with this defense. The man, Devon Dunham, admitted to shooting and killing 77-year-old Ernest Stevens, a retired fire chief, as the white victim sat alone in his vehicle one summer morning. The defendant simply claimed the white victim startled him and that was good enough reason for the jury to acquit.
Simpkins may still face punishment for his crimes, but he’s already received far more lenient treatment that could be expected for any other mass shooter. He was spotted partying with family as soon as he left jail. A white kid who opened fire and wounded multiple people at a school would never see the outside of a jail cell for a very long time.
That’s the definition of Black Privilege. And that’s now the norm in George Floyd’s America.
HUNTER’S GALLERY MILKED THE GOVT FOR $500,000 AND MORE
Art gallery repping Hunter Biden received $500K federal COVID loan, records show
A federal COVID loan to the art gallery repping Hunter Biden more than doubled after his father took office, records show.
The Georges Berges Gallery initially received a $150,000 COVID “disaster assistance loan” from the Small Business Administration last year, according to public records.
But the loan was recently “revised,” with the SBA approving a further $350,000 to the SoHo gallery this summer, records show.
The approval came on July 26, in the lead-up to Berges’ exclusive marketing of 15 paintings by the president’s scandal-scarred son, public records show.
In addition to the COVID disaster assistance loans, the SoHo gallery received nearly $80,000 in two payments in April 2020 and February 2021 under the SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program, funds meant to help businesses keep up with paychecks to employees during the pandemic.
All tolled, $580,000 in taxpayer-funded COVID relief aid was doled out to a gallery with only two employees, according to SBA records.
Berges declined to specifically respond to repeated queries from The Post on whether the Bidens interceded in his loans; if any of the government cash went directly to Hunter Biden as a salary or stipend; or if any of it was used to market his artwork.
“I received my PPP loan in April of 2020 when Donald Trump was president, along with countless other galleries which, considering a global pandemic was happening, we had every right to. … Most galleries received this loan,” Berges told The Post in an email. “We were not unique.”
While there is no evidence President Biden helped secure the additional $350,000 loan, a watchdog group found that of the more than 100 galleries in New York City’s 10th congressional district, which includes SoHo, TriBeCa and Chelsea, the Georges Berges Gallery received “by far” the largest SBA disaster loan windfall.
“We’ve reached a new low in American politics where the President’s son gets his midlife crisis art career subsidized by the American people as part of our pandemic response to COVID,” said Tom Anderson, director of the government integrity project at the National Legal and Policy Center.
The Virginia-based organization this week submitted a complaint to the SBA questioning the the taxpayer-funded loans to the gallery, and noting the discrepancy in the size of its loan when compared to other local galleries.
“You can’t make this up,” Anderson said, adding that funds from the federal loans could have been used to promote Biden’s work — a possible ethical breach. “This is a unique situation in which the president’s son is directly benefiting from federal loans made to a third party,” he said.
Another government ethics expert questioned the gallerist’s loan.
“If he [Georges Berges] got any special treatment on the loans from the president, that could be problematic,” said Richard Painter, a law professor at the University of Minnesota and former chief White House counsel to President George W. Bush, from 2005 to 2007.
Berges, 45, told The Post that he met Biden through collectors in Los Angeles two and a half years ago, and has helped the largely self-taught and once drug-addled entrepreneur turn his abstract expressionist painting from a hobby to a full-time job.
Last week Berges held a private viewing for 200 celebrities and collectors at the Milk Studios in Los Angeles. Guests, including Los Angeles Mayor and Biden nominee for ambassador to India Eric Garcetti and former boxer Sugar Ray Leonard, nibbled hors d’oeuvres as they viewed Biden’s canvases and prints, which are priced between $75,000 and $500,000.
An exhibit of the work that was scheduled to open at the SoHo gallery this month has been postponed to the spring, a source told The Post Thursday.
Even before the LA show, Biden sold five prints, valued at $75,000 each, The Post revealed this week. In an interview with The Post on Saturday Berges’ publicist denied that any of Biden’s prints had been sold and would not specify when the exhibit of Biden’s work would open at the gallery, citing security concerns.
In an effort to prevent influence-peddling, the White House promised that the buyers of Biden’s art work would remain anonymous and that the gallery owner, Berges, would not disclose their identities to the president. But critics have already pointed out that the artist’s participation in publicity events to promote his work makes this arrangement difficult to enforce. “I’ve said from the beginning it wasn’t going to work to make it anonymous,” said Painter. “Word is going to get out.”
Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, an upstate Republican who is a member of the House’s Small Business Committee, noted that “Hunter Biden’s recent diversion into the art world is the perfect example of Washington DC grifters profiting from public service.
“Revelations that Hunter Biden’s art broker was granted a massive SBA loan further erodes public trust in the President, just when you thought it could not go any lower,” she told The Post.
A spokesman for the SBA would not discuss individual loans, but said that under the Biden administration, small businesses could apply or “revise” their loan for exponentially higher amounts. “Businesses may apply for an additional increase even if they have already applied for and received previous loans,” said Matthew Coleman, the New York spokesman for the SBA.
The long-term SBA loans, which carry favorable interest rates of 3.75 percent, can be secured by personal property, but public land records show the gallery used none of its property as collateral.
The SBA approved more than $270 billion COVID disaster relief loans to small businesses in fiscal 2021, which ended last month.
In addition to Biden, the West Broadway gallery, which has an outlet in Berlin, represents 18 other artists.
Biden, 51, began painting a few years ago, partly to deal with addictions to alcohol and drugs, struggles he documented in “Beautiful Things,” a memoir released in April.
Biden has been at the center of bombshell scandals, including alleged corruption in his business dealings with China and Ukraine.
BIDEN RUNS OUT OF GASOLINE – JOB NUMBERS PLUNGE – GOING DOWN LIKE THE TITANIC
They tried it in countless countries, Germany, Zimbabwe, Russia, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Cuba and the rest of the banana republics. 
It just doesn’t work. The ending is always the same. Some may take longer than others, but the final result is will come sooner or later. Yes, we are talking about the printing press. Wallpaper became the most economical use in Germany’s Weimar Republic. Biden has ramped up the presses at ‘WARP SPEED‘ which is akin to blowing a lid off the proverbial pressure cooker.
The yearly raise to social security will be known next week as September’s YOY number will be released. We don’t have a crystal ball, but can see through the clouds into the future. Look for a 5% boost in SS next year.
This week’s news was like a kick in the ass to Joe Biden.
In September, 5.0 million persons reported that they had been unable to work because their employer
closed or lost business due to the pandemic—that is, they did not work at all or worked fewer hours at
some point in the last 4 weeks due to the pandemic. This measure is down from 5.6 million in August.
Among those who reported in September that they were unable to work because of pandemic-related
closures or lost business, 15.5 percent received at least some pay from their employer for the hours
not worked, little changed from the prior month.
Biden battered by crises as president’s approval plunges
From the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan to an influx of migrants at the southern border, Biden has suffered major setbacks
Just over eight months into office, President Biden is drowning in crises.
From immigration, to foreign policy, to the economy, to the coronavirus pandemic, the president’s problems appear to be mounting.
Afghanistan
Arguably the biggest crisis Biden is facing right now stems from his troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, during which 13 American service members were killed in Kabul.
Biden was quick to blame others for the botched operation that saw the Taliban swiftly take over the country as Afghan security forces crumbled and U.S. weapons and equipment were seized.
The Taliban flag flew over the former U.S. embassy in Kabul as Americans struggled to leave the country, while the Biden administration insisted it would be able to get every American citizen out.
DISASTER
The August jobs numbers have economists worried. Here’s why
Biden can’t hide behind the report, he has turned his back on AMERICA.
Updated 11:03 AM ET, Fri September 3, 2021
New York (CNN Business)America’s jobs recovery hit a major roadblock in August as the Delta variant threatened the labor market recovery, and the US economy added far fewer jobs than expected.
Only 235,000 jobs were added back to the economy last month, the lowest number since January, vastly missing economists’ expectations.
“Delta is reducing consumer demand and threatening the reopening,” said Glassdoor Senior Economist Daniel Zhao. “Ultimately it’s just a harsh reminder that the pandemic has control of our destiny,” he told CNN Business.
In normal times the August report would have been a reason to celebrate, but nowadays it’s a sharp slowdown from the buoyant jobs reports earlier in the summer. Friday’s report fell far short of economists’ already reduced expectations: Predictions for Friday’s jobs report had been revised down to 728,000 from 750,000 earlier after Wednesday’s ADP Employment Report, which count private payrolls, also disappointed.
Nearly a year and a half into the recovery, the US economy remains 5.3 million jobs short of where it was in February 2020, before Covid-19 threw a wrench into the gears.
McConnell CAVES
McConnell inhaled the Kool-Aid
strait out of Schumer’s mouth, But that is not all, at the same time he became what they call in the dark web, an initiated member of the LBGTQ community. Take our word for this, there is nothing wrong about coming out, but please Mitch, admit it that swallowing the democrat’s offering did turn you on, didn’t it?
With yet another disappointing, yet unsurprising betrayal from our “Republican” “Leaders” in Washington DC, Chuck Schumer delivers a massive win to Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, and the entire regime with a two month lifeline on debt ceiling negotiations. Charlie walks through the battle of political will being waged every day in Washington and begs the question: why does our side continue to lose every single time? He goes through and names names and calls for all 11 GOP Senators who sided with Schumer to be held accountable by We The People. And as all of that unfolds stateside, Charlie turns his attention to the unfolding situation in Taiwan and offers an update on the Regime-Sponsored crisis in Afghanistan before tying it all together with Joe Biden’s incredible weakness in enacting effective, America-First policy at home and abroad. Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/support See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
I was watching Rachel’s taped interview with Chuck Schumer, and she asked him what he would do if McConnell refused to yield on the filibuster. Schumer just smiled and he said was prepared to deal with that, and that his caucus was united in its anger at McConnell, but he wouldn’t say what he had in mind.
Whatever it was, it worked. At the break, Rachel announced that McConnell had yielded and Schumer had won.
Details to follow.
More details coming in.
McConnell: Power-sharing deal can proceed after Manchin, Sinema back filibuster
“Today two Democratic Senators publicly confirmed they will not vote to end the legislative filibuster. They agree with President Biden’s and my view that no Senate majority should destroy the right of future minorities of both parties to help shape legislation,” McConnell said in a statement.
“The legislative filibuster was a key part of the foundation beneath the Senate’s last 50-50 power-sharing agreement in 2001. With these assurances, I look forward to moving ahead with a power-sharing agreement modeled on that precedent,” McConnell added.
This reads like a face-saving move. Schumer’s offer hadn’t changed — we do it the way we did it in 2001. Manchin and Sinema hadn’t changed their positions either. Something else happened.