So we have with the estimable Veronique de Rugy writing at Townhall today.

It is a fine statement of free trade mantra that tariffs are taxes. We believe in low taxes don’t you? She castigates Trump for “raising tariffs” (taxes) and preventing other countries from subsidizing American consumers. As if they are incapable of playing more than one game at a time or using subsidies of their industries as an economic weapon.

If you corporally discipline a child is the only result that you hurt your hand? If you withhold a treat as punishment is the result more Twinkies for you (OK maybe on that) But does either also have the effect of changing behavior for the betterment of the household and the child in later life?

Read Ms de Rugy’s column and tell us what you think as big-picture conservatives. Our response to the article is set forth below the link to hers but definitely read hers. Critique ours.

Will the Real Tariff Man Please Stand Down? 

On what planet is /was this true? (de Rugy statement in italics)

“Leaving aside for now the fact that this has failed repeatedly as a 
strategy to force countries into making concessions they weren’t willing
to make in the first place,”

Robbery of intellectual property is a tax on American innovation. Destroying American industries is a tax on American independence and job creation. Zero tariffs may be ideal and Trump has stood up for that, but that is a process and China and Mexico and others are not actually believers, yet.

The article tries to assume a mantel of economic sophistication but economics is supposed to be about the real world and the glib pronouncement of theory is not the complete real world. Agricultural commodities are to a great extent fungible today. As China puts a tariff on US farm goods, what countries are going to make it up at a consistent lower price? And where are the countries that were buying from those countries now selling to China going to get their goods and at what price now bid up by China? If China can be shipped to profitably then so can virtually any other country. And the market stabilizes or grows with population requirements.

It is fine for America to preach “the way” and enter into agreements with fellow believers. It is another to be a patsy, particularly for China which has a whole different world view.

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BREAKING NEWS

Joe Biden told an audience in Ottumwa, Iowa on June 11 that his White House would “cure” cancer should he beat President Trump in 2020.

“I’ve worked so hard in my career, that I promise you, if I’m elected president you’re gonna see the single most important thing that changes America, we’re gonna cure cancer…”

Wow! Think of the pressure that puts on Spartacus!:

Booker Announces his administration Will Cure Erectile Dysfunction
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And how about Kirsten Gillibrand? She’ll have to purge the nation of all ‘pro-life racists’ (“It’s not acceptable to oppose abortion…it’s “racist”!); who knows how far she’ll have to go with that? Are there enough pro-infanticide-dists to pull that off ?
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And Kamala?

Well, she’s already promised to ‘order’ her DOJ to prosecute Trump for “obstruction” (I believe they would have no choice…”); BUT NOW, in light of Biden’s announcement, Harris has announced that her administration will also cure Peyronie’s Disease (bent penis); She immediately received a tweet of gratitude from Willie Brown AND an offer of a supportive testimonial from victim Bill Clinton.  Monica Lewinski could not be reached for comment but is expected to give succor to the cause.

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OOH NOO! SAY IT AIN’T SO!    From Breitbart:

Top Execs of 180 Companies: Abortion Necessary to Be Successful in Business 

EVEN THE TIPPY TOP EXECUTIVE AT “LESBIANS WHO TECH”, “DAZEY L A”, AND “GOTHAM GAL” ????!! Even ‘Tiffany Dufu’ of “The Cru”??

And another 177 companies of equal or greater (?) stature…it could destroy the economy…ABORTION FOREVER!

Reading further:

The top executives of more than 180 companies have signed a letter that says abortion is essential in order for people to be successful in their businesses.

“When everyone is empowered to succeed, our companies, our communities and our economy are better for it,” the executives say in the letter posted on a newly launched website titled “Don’t Ban Equality.”

A few of the major companies attesting to the importance of abortion to corporate America:

Fur — Laura Schubert

LaRue PR LLC  — Jessy Klein Fofana

Lesbians Who Tech — Leanne Pittsford

Nia Impact Capital  — Kristin Hull

We Dream in Color —  Jade Gedeon

The Cru — Tiffany Dufu

Harrington Investments, Inc.  John Harrington

Dazey LA — Dani Nagel

Gotham Gal  — Joanne Wilson

Union Station  — Corie Hardee

New York Media  — Pam Wasserstein

Le Tote  —  Rakesh Tondon

Aspiration —  Andrei Cherny

Sunshine Sachs  —  Shawn Sachs

BerlinRosen  —  Jonathan Rosen & Valerie Berlin

Swift  —  Liz Valentine

Tammy Gordon  — Verified Strategy

Help Scout  —  Nick Francis

Sawyer  —  Marissa Alden

General Assembly  –  Jake Schwartz

Kona Natural Soap Co LLC  — Marty Corrigan

LOOM — Erica Chidi Cohen

And some outfit called Heartbeat — ironic name  to hold out in support of abortion, the goal of which is to end heartbeats

Of the full list we have heard of about  four of them, and they are the usual suspects that sign onto everything leftist –  Ben & Jerries — what leftist cause are they not on board with??   Talk about shooting yourself in the foot– offend current customers for a cause intent on limiting your future customers. Brilliant bunch of MBA’s no doubt — Boston U alums??

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AOC WANTS MYSTERIOUS RUSSIAN SUBPOENAED IN TRUMP ‘OBSTRUCTION’ CASE

Now you understand, it’s just a rumor. But because it’s the Democrats and especially Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, you gotta give it some credence, right?

In the aftermath of Chairman Nadler’s many and various subpoenas, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is calling for her party’s leadership to require testimony from whom she believes is the “most mysterious Russian” involved in the entire collusion/obstruction investigation and “has been repeatedly mentioned in press accounts”.

AOC, the Boston University trained economics expert, has been joined in her demand by another highly influential Democrat, Maxine Waters.

In a joint statement, Ocasio-Cortez and Waters are demanding that Congress require testimony from “Mr. Ollie Gark”!

At the press conference announcing their demand, several reporters asked if they were referring to the “oligarchs” on whom Putin supposedly relies on to maintain his hold on power?

Both Ocasio-Cortez and Waters simultaneously responded, “YES! That’s him !” (Remember where you heard it first)        DLH

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Thanks to RD for forwarding the parable below. Graphic not in original

TRUMP AND TARIFFS ON MEXICO

Two farmers were neighbors. One ask the other if he knew where he could buy a mule to pull his plow as his had died. The neighbor said that he had an extra mule and was willing to sell it to him. The seller told the buyer that he need to treat the animal with the utmost kindness just as he had always done. “Don’t speak harshly or curse at him, just be gentle and he will work very hard for you.” “Alright,” says the buyer, and they struck a deal.

The new owner took the mule home and hitched him up to his plow and began working the field. The mule pulled the plow for a couple of hours but suddenly stopped. The farmer left the plow handles and walked around to the front of the mule to have some gentle words. He then returned to the handles of the plow and request that the mule once again begin pulling the plow but the mule wouldn’t move. More gentle requesting and urging got no response and the mule just stood there. Into the farmhouse he goes and calls up the neighbor, who he purchased the mule from, and told him of his dilemma and that nothing seemed to get the mule moving again. The neighbor said, “I’ll be right over.”

The neighbor shows up carrying a four foot long 2X4. “What are you going to do with that?” inquired the new owner. “Watch,” said the neighbor. He walked in front of the mule and smacked it between the eyes with the 2X4. In shock the new owner shouted, “I thought you said to be gentle and speak kindly!” “I did, but there are times when you have to first get his attention.”

That is how President Trump got the Mexican government to cooperate with halting the invasion at our Southern border.

Related reading – Daily Caller article

Trump Touts Surprise In Mexico Agreement That ‘Will Be Announced At The Appropriate Time’ 

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• Righteous America needs to know
• Liberals have a real dilemma
• Which is more heinous . . . sexism, racism or homophobia?
• We bet MLK is credibly accused of two of the three
• It’s so hard to have edifices keep up with politically correct

Shrimp Pink Granite Insult to Women? And on Federal land! Tear it down?

This article – the subject largely ignored in the “main stream’ and liberal press – reports on new substantiated revelations from FBI archives about Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s profligate, outrageous, abusive and exploitative sexual behavior.

It is entirely scandalous. Likely true. What will the left’s reaction be? Will it cool their jets about tearing down memorials to whoever they disfavor? Will they show some consistency.  Will they end their hypocrisy?

LifeSiteNews article:  (excerpt here – but read full article )  Statue theme not part of article.

Martin Luther King was a sexual predator, newly-released FBI evidence suggests

June 7, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Recently declassified FBI documents suggest civil rights religious hero Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a sexual predator who preyed on dozens of women. FBI transcripts of secret audio recordings of King’s private life allegedly reveal a man who exploited his fame and status to commit heinous sexual acts with countless women across the country, including allegedly witnessing another minister forcibly rape a “parishioner” while King “looked on, laughed and offered advice.” The FBI documented King’s sexual exploits in the 1960’s up until his assassination in 1968. 

David J. Garrow, a left-wing scholar and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of King, uncovered evidence of King as a “sexual libertine” while combing through a trove of newly-released FBI documents that were included in the “John F. Kennedy” files maintained by the National Archives. The files were released online in 2017 and 2018. 

The FBI had been wiretapping King’s hotel rooms looking for evidence that he was connected to the “Communist Party.” What they found instead was evidence of King’s sexual “degeneracy and depravity” that included hiring prostitutes, partaking in violent sex orgies, engaging in “unnatural sex” practices, and offering advice to a friend as he raped a woman. It is suspected that King’s sex abuse involves 40 to 50 women, almost all of them black. It is the written records of the wire-tapping that have been released. The audio tapes themselves, which are the basis for the transcripts and would verify their veracity, are sealed until 2027. 

Garrow presents all of this information in his May 30 article, “The troubling legacy of Martin Luther King,” linking to numerous FBI source documents. He relates how in one instance that took place in January 1964, King and friends went to visit in a wire-tapped hotel room in Washington with a fellow minister, Logan Kearse, who a brought “several women ‘parishioners’ of his church.”

“‘The group met in his [Kearse’] room and discussed which women among the parishioners would be suitable for natural or unnatural sex acts. When one of the women protested that she did not approve of this, the Baptist minister immediately and forcibly raped her,’ the typed summary states, parenthetically citing a specific FBI document (100-3-116-762) as its source. ‘King looked on, laughed and offered advice,’ Sullivan or one of his deputies then added in handwriting,” writes Garrow, quoting from the FBI transcripts.

Garrow relates another instance when King and company participated in a “sex orgy” with 12 people at another wire-tapped hotel. 

“At the Willard Hotel, King and his friends’ activities resumed the following evening as approximately 12 individuals ‘participated in a sex orgy,’” he writes, quoting the FBI material. FBI agents described what they witnessed as “acts of degeneracy and depravity.”

“When one of the women shied away from engaging in an unnatural act, King and several of the men discussed how she was to be taught and initiated in this respect. King told her that to perform such an act would ‘help your soul,’” states the FBI document.   . . .

Tumbling down in a park near you?

Of course his saving grace with the left would include if he was Margaret Sangar’s House Negro (see article below) even though greedy Planned Parenthood is the ultimate exploiter of women perpetrating harm against women psychologically, sociologically and “medically” not to mention willingly targeting them for sex-selection abortion.  But we suspect he is untouchable as an icon

https://www.theamericanview.com/mlk-jr-margaret-sanger-the-cure-for-violence/ 

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Here we defend the Church (or at least one Bishop) on a core matter

• Such politicians are both pro-abortion and anti-Catholic
• There are sinners – that would be every person in the pews and elsewhere – and there are obstinate corrupting  unrepentant fosterers of the evil of child killing and great harm to vulnerable women
  
• It is understandable that their false piety should not be allowed to confuse politics and the perpetration of evil nor flaunt their anti-Catholicism with an aura of Catholic in good standing
  

Notorious pro-abortion politicians are indeed anti-Catholic because in their support for legal abortion on demand for any reason at any time, an automatic ex-communicable offense for cooperating in the evil of child killing, but they also have voted to force all Catholics to pay for it and to now deny Catholic parents information to even council their minor daughter.  There is no confusion as to what the Church’s teaching is – which is not that the matter is a mere denominational discipline but a crime against humanity.

God bless this Bishop and his loyal priests and congregation and may he inspire other bishops. From LifeSiteNews;

BREAKING: Illinois bishop bars pro-abortion legislators from communion

abortion, canon 915, catholic, dick durbin, j.b. pritzker, john cullerton, late-term abortion, michael j. madigan, reproductive health act, thomas paprocki

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• Last time around they just had the short-bus with Hillary and Bernie

Des Moines Register article below by Brianne Pfannenstiel,

19 presidential candidates will go toe-to-toe in Iowa on Sunday; who can break from the pack?

Nineteen presidential candidates, 1,500 Democratic activists and about 100 members of the media will descend on a Cedar Rapids ballroom Sunday in what will be the largest event of the 2020 Iowa caucus cycle so far.

Although candidates have already held more than 400 events in Iowa this year, the Iowa Democratic Party Hall of Fame event marks the start of the summer caucus season, when candidates swarm the state at an even faster pace to make their cases to potential supporters. The multi-candidate gathering is an early test of their organizational prowess and an opportunity to break out from the massive pack.

“This is the first time to see a majority of them toe-to-toe,” said Linn County Democratic Party Chairman Bret Nilles. “Four years ago, that was Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, Lincoln Chaffee and Jim Webb. Right away, you could start to see who those top-tier candidates are and who’s going to start surfacing to the top — you can always feel that in the room when someone’s speaking. Who’s the one that really has turned it up a little and appeals to the audience?”

Here’s a look at what to watch during Sunday’s Hall of Fame event:
Who’s in the room

The Grand Ballroom at the DoubleTree Hilton in Cedar Rapids will be filled to capacity. But it isn’t a free and open-to-the-public event.

Tickets to get in were offered equally to each of the active campaigns. The campaigns could decide whether and how many tickets to purchase, said Mandy McClure, communications director for the Iowa Democratic Party. After the campaigns claimed their tickets, the rest went on sale to the general public. Those tickets cost from $75 for general admission to $10,000 for a VIP table.

Look for those candidates who are well-funded and well-organized to fill their tables.

The candidates currently scheduled to speak are Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, former Maryland U.S. Rep. John Delaney, Hawaii U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, California Sen. Kamala Harris, former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, former Texas U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, Ohio U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, California U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, author and entrepreneur Marianne Williamson and businessman Andrew Yang.

You can get the 411 (latest Demo candidate count) at the Des Moines Register where they will make sure they all look good

Joe Biden makes leadership hires for 2020 Iowa caucus campaign

More on today’s theme:

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• Certain Republicans need to get with the program

Daily Caller has two articles today focusing on matters important to resolving the illegal immigration problem.  Some Republicans need a kick in the butt in the House and the second article tells of some in the Senate, like Romney,who are just pathetic as they are compared to some of their betters who have come around.

Here Are The Seven House Republicans Who Voted For Amnesty Bill

Seven Republicans in the House broke with their colleagues by voting for an amnesty bill Tuesday that would grant protection from deportation to illegal immigrants and give millions a path to permanent citizenship status.

The seven Republicans were:

Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon

Florida Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart

Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick

Texas Rep. Will Hurd

Washington Rep. Dan Newhouse

New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith

Michigan Rep. Fred Upton

The American Dream and Promise Act passed the House with a vote of 236-187. The legislation was brought forward by Democratic California Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard and will provide permanent status to illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as minors, as well as to those living in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status.

Apprehensions of immigrants have increased every month since January. There have also been more than 100,000 encounters at the southern border in both March and April.

Migrants are pictured occupying the Paso Del Norte Bridge on November 4, 2018 in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (Photo credit: PAUL RATJE/AFP/Getty Images)

The legislation would make it so 2.1 million immigrants “would be eligible under the measures for Dreamers, undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children.”

House Judiciary Committee Republicans criticized Democrats for pushing the bill forward, listing reasons why amnesty should not be granted to illegal immigrants. (RELATED: House Passes Mass Amnesty Bill Which Would Give Millions Of Illegal Immigrants A Path To Citizenship)

President Donald Trump’s administration has already threatened to veto the legislation, saying it would be “undermining key administration immigration objectives and policy priorities, such as protecting our communities and defending our borders.”

The bill is likely to be shut down in the Republican-controlled Senate.

Here Are The Republicans In Congress Standing With Trump Over Mexico Tariff Threat 

A number of Republicans in the Senate are standing with President Donald Trump over his threat to apply tariffs to Mexico on Tuesday after several party members spoke out against it.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that “there is not much support in my conference for tariffs” and he is hoping that the tariffs are not implemented. Other Senators also decided to speak out against Trump’s threat.

Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney said he will not support applying a tariff to Mexico, saying he “would not be inclined to vote [for] a tariff against a friend,” Politico reported Tuesday.

Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford reportedly also criticized Trump’s threat, saying the White House “is trying to use tariffs to solve every problem but HIV and climate change.” (RELATED: GOP Divided On Trump’s Mexico Tariff Threat)

However, a number of Republicans are in favor of applying tariffs to Mexico, such as Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who said in a Wednesday:

I don’t generally like tariffs either. But what alternative do my GOP colleagues have to get #Mexico to secure its southern border, use the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to screen northbound rail cars & vehicles & act on intel we proved on human traffickers?

Senator Thom Tillis before the hearing. Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh testified in front of the Senate Judiciary committee regarding sexual assault allegations at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill Thursday, September 27, 2018. (Photo by Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images)

Republican North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis also defended Trump’s move, saying “I think it’s more likely the tariffs go on,” and that it would be “foolish” for Republicans to try to block the presidents move, in an appearance Tuesday on Fox News.

“I don’t think they’ll do that. If they do, it’s foolish. There is nothing more important than borders,” he continued.

Another senator who has supported Trump’s proposal to apply tariffs to Mexico, is Alabama Republican Sen. Richard Shelby. He told reporters on Capitol Hill Monday he is “not a tariff man,” but that he thinks “if it leads to a better trade agreement, I can understand his strategy.” Shelby also said, “well, if it doesn’t work you are right where you are. Probably have nothing to lose.”

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy defended Trump, according to the president, who tweeted a quote attributed to McCarthy.

“House Republicans support the President on Tariffs with Mexico all the way, & that makes any measure the President takes on the Border totally Veto proof. Why wouldn’t you as Republicans support him when that will allow our President to make a better deal.” Thank you @GOPLeader

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5, 2019

This all comes after the House passed a vote Tuesday that would grant protection of deportation to illegal immigrants and give millions a path to permanent citizenship status.
Tags : donald trump mexico tariffs u s house of representatives

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• We wish they all would
• Whatever it takes and by all deliberate speed
• Based on AOC’s predilections maybe she should tell Pete Buttguy, or what ever his name is, that he should mince away, or would that be homophobic?
• Just say’n

AOC seems to be picking at lamé when she tells John Delooney, or whatever his name is,  that he is unworthy, given that, well “Pistol Pete” Buttguy is not for outright single payer Medicare for all either.  But first about Occasional Cortex and this John Delooney guy*

Article from Courtney Obrien at Townhall:

It’s becoming clearer and clearer that there is no room or patience for moderate Democrats in the 2020 presidential race. Take, for instance, the response former Maryland Rep. John Delaney received after telling an audience that Medicare for All is not good policy. He’s for universal health care but emphasized that Medicare for All is not the way to get there.

“Medicare for all may sound good but it’s actually not good policy nor is it good politics,” Delaney said at the California Democratic Convention.

He got extensively booed, but stood his ground at the podium, saying, “This is called the battle of ideas, my friends.”

Delaney was then publicly shamed on Twitter by the most prominent progressive in Washington.

Since there’s so many people running for President (& not enough for Senate), instead of obsessing over who‘s a “frontrunner,” maybe we can start w some general eliminations.

This awful, untrue line got boo’ed for a full minute.

John Delaney, thank you but please sashay away ???? https://t.co/0RDOwbfcgv
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 2, 2019

Delaney’s office rejects the notion he should be disqualified for not joining some of the other 2020 Democrats in embracing the extreme health care plan. He responded by accusing AOC of hurting rather than helping her party.

“If Democrats are serious about beating the president at the ballot box, we need less political grandstanding and more truth-telling from the Bernie wing of the party,” Delaney spokesman Michael Starr Hopkins said. “2016 should have taught us that if we allow this primary to become a popularity contest on Twitter rather than a debate of ideas in the public square, the country will lose.”

About Butt Petegag or whatever, via The Hill

Buttigieg has said he believes the country should move “in the direction” of a Medicare for All system, but that private health insurance companies shouldn’t be eliminated.

In a CNN town hall earlier this month, Buttigieg endorsed what he called “Medicare for all who want it,” in which a Medicare-type public option would be made available “and you invite people to buy into it.”

Seems like a distinction without a difference between Duhlaney and Buttguy

So now will AOC dare tell “Pistol Pete” that he should just “mince away” or would she prefer he ”prance”

* I am tired of the media treating these people like responsible citizens, these clowns need to be made fun of.

And finally this delightful sardonic meme via HP – of a nature that lost us a few readers back when Obama was in power. C’est la vie

note: we would be banned by Twitter , Instagram etc, if we were on Twitter , Instagram, etc,

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