HEALTH: FDA approves a drug to treat severe food allergies, including milk, eggs and nuts. “‘While it will not eliminate food allergies or allow patients to consume food allergens freely, its repeated use will help reduce the health impact if accidental exposure occurs,’ said Kelly Stone with the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.”
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February 19, 2024
OFFICIAL LAWLESSNESS: Biden’s Next Unconstitutional Plan to Forgive Student Loan Debt.
THE BUDGET IS GOING THELMA & LOUISE IN FULL SELF DRIVING MORE: In next decade, 84% of federal spending growth comes from health, Social Security, interest.
“Spending on Social Security will grow from $1.5 trillion this year to $2.5 trillion by 2034, while spending on health care will grow from $1.6 trillion to $2.8 trillion,” a Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget analysis found. “Net interest costs will more than double from $870 billion this year to $1.6 trillion by 2034, after costs nearly doubled between 2020 and 2023. Interest on the debt is the fastest growing part of the budget and will be the second largest government expenditure this year, surpassing both defense and Medicare.”
The CRFB noted that “budget deficits are projected to grow from $1.7 trillion in Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 to $2.6 trillion by 2034, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) latest projections.”
The organization issued a strong warning about the growth of the national debt over the next 10 years.
“As a result of this rapid spending growth alongside revenue that fails to keep up, the national debt will exceed its record as a share of the economy in just four years,” the group wrote in the analysis.
We will go bankrupt in two ways.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: A Little Dutch Wisdom for Trump-Weary Republican Voters. “I’ve been saying something for years that is especially true for the 2024 election: you’re voting for a president, not a prom date. This isn’t a long-running episode of ‘The Bachelor’ that’s supposed to end with a love story.”
“This is great news because you’re supposed to make investment decisions based on just good common business sense, your fiduciary responsibility to your investors, not based on left-wing woke politics,” Jordan told Fox News Digital in an interview. “So, yeah, this is a win for America, a win for the economy, a win for Americans and investors and, more importantly, it’s a win for freedom.”
“The folks who are involved in these banks are smart people, successful people. They’ve done well. I think deep down they know decisions should be based on the market, on principles of capitalism, not on politics,” he added.
Under Jordan’s leadership, the House Judiciary Committee launched a sprawling investigation into what he dubbed the “climate-obsessed corporate ‘cartel’” in December 2022 as Republicans prepared to take majority control of the chamber. The panel’s main objective has been to probe whether the financial sector, aided by nonprofit activist climate groups, are violating U.S. antitrust laws.
The “De-Gleichschaltung” has begun.
IN SAN FRANCISCO THIS IS NO BIG DEAL: Protestors Deliver 300 Pounds of Poop to Nancy Pelosi’s House.
#RESIST: Truckers Vow to Cut Off Deliveries to NYC in Protest of Trump’s $355 Million Civil-Fraud Ruling.
A trucker and conservative social-media influencer, known as Chicago Ray on X, announced the move Friday night in a video that has garnered 6 million views and 56,000 likes at the time of this writing. In the viral clip, Ray claimed he and some of his colleagues who support Trump will stop delivering loads to New York City once the coming work week begins.
“I’ve been on the radio talking to drivers for about the past hour and I’ve talked to about ten drivers . . . and they’re going to start refusing loads to New York City starting on Monday,” he said in the video while driving his truck.
Ray said he wasn’t sure “how far across the country this is” or how many truckers will join in protesting the decision against Trump, “but I’ll tell you what — you f*** around and find out,” he said.
“Our bosses ain’t gonna care if we deny the loads — we’ll just go somewhere else. Do you know how f***ing hard it is to get into New York City with one of these motherf***ers?” the trucker said, referring to his truck. “Man, f*** that.”
Developing…
WHEN YOU’VE LOST MSNBC: Legitimacy of Trump’s New York Business Ban Questioned by MSNBC Host.
February 18, 2024
COME SEE THE ANTISEMITISM INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Democrats add ‘Hamas amendment’ to Holocaust education bill. “Local antisemites staged an online campaign to flood the state legislature with demands that the Holocaust education bill be watered down to focus on other genocides. Additionally, some wanted students to be taught that Israel commits genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, even though that’s an antisemitic smear.”
February 16, 2024
DEVASTATING: Key Excerpts From Tony Bobulinski’s Testimony.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Uruguay signs Artemis Accords. “Uruguay is the 36th country to sign the Accords, established in 2020, and the second in as many weeks after Greece signed the documents Feb. 9. The signatories range from countries with advanced space programs to those like Uruguay that are only starting to develop space capabilities.”
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: The Naked Truth About Super Bowl Betting. “This week we have the Super Bowl crime that almost paid for itself, why the YouTube upload button is not your friend, and the Colorado Man who really shouldn’t have called the police.”
NO ONE CAN AFFORD TO BUY, NO ONE CAN AFFORD TO SELL: First-time buyers ‘rate-locked’ out of housing market.
This won’t help: US homebuilding sees biggest drop since April 2020.
A VERY PUBLIC EDUCATION: SF brings back 8th-grade algebra, admits ‘equity math’ failed.
For years, San Francisco Unified claimed “equity math” was improving minority students’ success rates. The first draft of California’s new math framework cited San Francisco’s successful math reforms as its model. The final version eliminated the call to delay algebra till ninth grade.
Now, the district admits that algebra for none was a flop.
As critics had predicted, forcing students to wait till ninth grade to take algebra has reduced the number of students taking higher-level math courses in high school. Not everyone can go to summer school or take private courses to get on the algebra-to-calculus STEM track.
“For years.”
TO BE FAIR, THAT’S WHAT THEY SEE AS THEIR JOB: The Media Is Covering Up Key Facts About the Lakewood Church Shooter’s Motivations.
UNEXPECTEDLY: Alexei Navalny Dies in Jail – Prison Service.
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has died in jail, Russian prison authorities announced Friday.
“The inmate A.A. Navalny started to feel unwell after a walk and almost immediately lost consciousness at correctional facility No. 3 on Feb. 16,” the Yamal-Nenets autonomous district prison service said.
“Medical staff arrived immediately, an ambulance was called. None of the resuscitation efforts yielded positive results,” it added.
I’m sure.
Related:
Here is a partial list of Putin critics or opponents who have magically died or been targeted over the last few decades:
Feb 2024- Navalny (was also poisoned in 2020, but survived)
August 2023- Prigozhin (bomb)
Sept 2022- Maganov
Aug 2019- Khangoshvili (shot in Berlin by FSB… https://t.co/fLEufuQ66R
— AG (@AGHamilton29) February 16, 2024
Exit quote: “This is only a partial list. It doesn’t include many other rich or influential people that have magically fallen out windows or drowned.”
AS IT EVER WAS AND EVER SHALL BE: Slow Growth Is Ahead Unless Government Gets Out of the Way.
The U.S. growth rate held up in 2023, growing an annualized 3.3% during the fourth quarter despite dangerous crises in international affairs and weak foreign growth. But that news isn’t as good as it sounds. Government spending and the surge in national debt boosted the consumption side of U.S. gross domestic product, but business investment was muted. This portends weak growth: The Federal Reserve’s GDP projections in December called for only 1.4% growth in 2024 and 1.8% in 2025.
Whoever is inaugurated next January will face a perfect storm. The suspension of the debt limit expires Jan. 1, threatening another bad deal to avoid default and government shutdown. This year’s spending bills will likely be extended just long enough to kick the can into 2025, forcing a budget battle that only the swamp could enjoy. Tax rates will rise at the end of 2025 unless Congress and the president can agree to extend some of the expiring provisions in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
Equally daunting, progressive regulatory activism will also peak in 2025. Regulation without representation is now the rule, not the exception. President Biden’s export shutdown of liquefied natural gas will cost countless jobs, hurt global energy supplies, increase carbon emissions, and strengthen Vladimir Putin. Even if the Supreme Court reins in deference to regulatory agencies by limiting or overturning Chevron v. NRDC (1984), it will take years to untangle all the red tape.
Plus, so much of the growth we’ve had is the result of government incentives to invest in green energy boondoggles that will likely prove to be long-term drains on the productive parts of the economy.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Get the Beef-Rice Away From My Plate. “‘How is beef rice manufactured?’ I can almost hear you ask with no small amount of trepidation in your voice. Well, when a bull and a rice paddy love each other very much, and are acting within the confines of a non-traditional marriage…”
WOEING: Airbus Pulls Further Ahead of Boeing in Global Plane Rivalry.
Airbus, the European aerospace giant, plans to deliver around 800 jets to customers this year, including the popular single-aisle A320neo, its main competitor to the 737 Max. It delivered 735 planes last year, more than it had originally targeted. This year’s push is intended to meet what Guillaume Faury, the plane maker’s chief executive, said was a sharp recovery in demand for air travel after pandemic lockdowns.
Airbus pulled in a record 2,094 commercial aircraft orders last year, partly on a surge in demand for narrow-body and midsize jets from India and other rapidly growing countries. That added to the company’s extensive backlog of 8,598 commercial aircraft at the end of 2023.
By contrast, Boeing delivered 528 commercial airplanes and recorded 1,576 net orders.
Ouch.
ALL THAT THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH AND THEN SOME: Colorado Dems Want to Ban HOW MANY Guns? “When the headline asked ‘How many guns?’ the answer is, ‘Nobody quite knows.'”
I’M NOT EXACTLY SHOCKED BY ANY OF THIS: Hardly any plastics can be truly recycled, and producers have known for decades. “Moreover, while some local and city recycling programs collect other categories of plastics, they do not fully recycle them. Those other plastics are burned or deposited in landfills, instead. In many cases, chemical additives or coloring make it impossible to recycle the same types of plastic together, while even plastic products that can be legitimately repurposed degrade in quality over time, and the cost of the process is more than that of producing entirely new plastic.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Election Year Surprise — Radio Soros Is Going to Commie Up the Airwaves “A lesson we all learned back in Satan’s Year 2020 was to never, ever ask, ‘What else could possibly go wrong?’ The universe just sits around waiting for some idiot to say that out loud so that it can reach into its bottomless bag of answers for the question.”
I DID NOT SEE THIS ONE COMING: Iran declares Antarctica their ‘property rights’ in direct challenge to Biden, global treaty.
BAD FREQUENCY: Is America Ready for George Soros Radio Station Domination?