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I generally dislike posting an entire post from elsewhere unless I’m doing a fisking but I think the Left that reads the ‘Grok should see this – and then try to explain it away.  You see this pretty much every time a country goes full Chavez / Maduro (emphasis mine): From Instapundit.

THE WAGES OF SOCIALISM: Venezuela Is So Broke It Can’t Even Export Oil.

A fleet of rundown Venezuelan oil tankers carrying some 4 million barrels of oil and other fuels is wallowing in the Caribbean Sea. Not because of bad weather, or mechanical problems, but because Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela SA, doesn’t have the cash to get them to their final destinations.

Beyond the obvious environmental risks, it’s doubly bad news for Venezuela, a country in dire economic straits and full-fledged crisis, with a political impasse, looting, dangerous food and health supply shortages, and massive protests. Venezuela is massively reliant on oil exports to bankroll government services. But the cash-strapped country can’t even find the money to service the vessels that carry its exports. And Venezuela needs the exports to get the cash to service the vessels. It’s a vicious circle.
It’s a vicious circle made possible by the Venezuelan government, and nothing free markets and private ownership couldn’t fix practically overnight.

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 “..We are anti-authoritarians working to confront racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-semitism, Islamophobia, transphobia, and all the other various forms of oppression….”

I dryly note that their dictionary is missing the word “Irony”, especially when you read this from them:

We've been warned, everybody! pic.twitter.com/yEVlejHHHp

— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) February 3, 2017

I’m not sure if I really want to start in on this or just leave it here for your comments.  Given that it is from the Left, I invite our loyal Leftist readers to defend it. Seriously – no snark. I just can’t believe, not just the chutzpah but the cluelessness cobbled in at the same time in determining that this is:

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Whites are outright, well, evil (my post before this).  Here is an another outright racist post but it seems that because it is by elected US Congressional Representatives, racial purity is a feature and not a bug. Hey, discrimination comes with the territory – and it is condoned.  What the blacks in the Congressional Black Caucus won’t do is let a black Hispanic caucus with them because “The CBC has a long-standing policy of limiting its caucus to African-American members”.

So there’s a new “Latino of African descent” that wants to be in both the Congressional BLACK Caucus as well as the Congressional HISPANIC Caucus by the name of Adriano Espaillat (Dominican past).  The CBC doesn’t want him – not black enough for them.  Because of his skin color (or depending on your viewpoint, a lack thereof).

Now, I know that I’m about to needle the racist SJWs out there with this, but just like in politics, I think that the phrase “If a Republican did this” works here (or in discussing race -“if a white did this”) instantly comes to mind and applies here. The outrage would be volcanic and last FOREVER.  Ostracizism, shunning, destroying, writing, marching, phoning, social media storms – each and every one of the 

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Heh!

European Council President Donald Tusk called US President Donald Trump an ‘existential threat’ to Europe Tuesday.

Tusk wrote an open letter to the leaders of 27 Council member states, in which he listed the US President as a “threat” to the European Union alongside China, Russia, radical Islam, war, and terrorism.  Tusk cited “worrying declarations by the new American administration” as the basis for his including President Trump with other threats to the EU. He said that the threats “make our future highly unpredictable.”

—IsraelNationalNews.Com

The EU leadership and bureaucrats have one thing in mind – to move the nation-states of Europe into being the United States of Europe but without the democratic elements and separation of powers that we have here in the US.  Instead, they are all about what the US Progressives/Socialists actually desire – an unelected, basically unaccountable, technocratic elite that are destined to rule because, well, they know better than the rest of us.  In this, they are no different, be they European or American, than the feudal society that ruled Europe up until the 1900s.  In fact, most of the European immigrants (legal, dontcha know) left their home countries BECAUSE of the lack of freedom and opportunities due to the weight of those governments.  Yet, even with that fact, Obama near turned us into that and Hillary would have probably finished us off.

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SHOT: McConnell refuses to say whether ‘nuclear option’ in Supreme Court nomination is on table

CHASER: Senate Democrats Vow to Filibuster Trump’s Supreme Court Choice

HANGOVER: President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he wants Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to invoke the nuclear option if Democrats try to block his upcoming Supreme Court nominee through filibuster.

These really are putting McConnell on the REALLY HOT seat.  Trump has announced that his choice will be revealed tomorrow at 8pm.  The Democrats have now announced (first time that I can remember) that without knowing who it is, they are going to try to stop it. So what is McConnell going to do?

Trump is going to pull the trigger, the Dems are going to start shoving that wall towards the Senate Republicans – what is he going to do in the middle?

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And there’s dang little of it around anymore – especially in politics:

“People trust their leaders not only because of their competence but also because of their courage and commitment, and because they believe that their leaders will remain with their own in times of crisis rather than being helicoptered to the emergency exit. Paradoxically, it is the convertible competencies of the present elites, the fact that they are equally fit to run a bank in Bulgaria or in Bangladesh or to teach in Athens or Tokyo, that make people so suspicious of them. People fear that in times of trouble, the meritocrats will opt to leave instead of sharing the cost of staying. Unsurprisingly then, it is loyalty — namely the unconditional loyalty to ethnic, religious or social groups — that is at the heart of the appeal of Europe’s new populism.”

And this isn’t just about Europe.  It is clear that those of us not of the bi-coastal Elites here in the US feel the

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“if you want to be an obnoxious slob, you have a right to be one”

Again, Progressives truly believe that they hold the moral high ground in politics and in having such, can be “bossy” (remember when that was a liberal pejorative?).  Looking down their noses, on their high horse, nose up in the air; pick the meme but be clear – this is all about the bicoastal elites thinking that the Democrat majority was here for a 1,000 years (er, didn’t we already have one of those back last century?) that the rest of us should just shut up, get in line, and learn to love the new Progressive lifestyle, morality and governance that our betters were deigning to give us.

Seems like others similar to me decided to give these snot-nosed asshats their own political requiem:

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U.S. Has Record 11th Straight Year Without 3% Growth in GDP

Obama has boasted about how he “saved” the American economy.  That’s like the mechanic that “fixed” my 0 MPH car so now it will go 10 MPH (when it should be able to goo 100 MPH).

UPDATE:

The latest numbers mean that Obama’s economic forecasters missed their growth targets every year that he was in office. And, once again, economists who had been promising that strong growth was just around the corner — most recently because of a relatively strong third quarter — had to eat crow. It also means that GDP growth has not exceeded 3% for 11 straight years. . . .

In dollar terms, if Obama’s recovery had merely been average, the nation’s GDP would be $2.4 trillion bigger. That translates into $19,000 in lost income per household.

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