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The transition begins

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Classless Obamas Cancelled Photo-Op of White House Welcome for President-Elect Trump and Wife Melania.

The Obamas refused to be photographed welcoming President-Elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania to the White House Thursday morning, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

Nice touch. A jerk from start to end. And then there’s this: AWKWARD FIRST MEETING: Trump talks of ‘difficulties’ in chat with Obama at White House

Mr Trump claimed it was a “great honour” to meet with Mr Obama, who has he previously branded “the worst President in the history of our country”.

But he appeared solemn as the pair gave a joint press conference at the Oval Office, before reluctantly shaking hands with Mr Obama.

And then along the same lines: Awkward moment sworn enemies Obama and President-elect Trump pose together in the Oval Office during first EVER meeting. And if you go to the link you will not find a photo where the two are seen looking at each other in the eye. It may even be deep, personal and genuine, whatever they might say in public, and not just politics as usual. I understand what Rush means when he says I’m Getting Nervous About All These Calls for Trump to Unify with the Losers, but Trump is different. In any case, we are soon enough going to know.

ANN COULTER ADDITION: PRESIDENT TRUMP’S FIRST 100 DAYS.

Well, that was the easy part. All Trump had to do was vanquish people too stupid to pick up the thousand-dollar bill lying on the sidewalk — smug, smirking, out-of-touch establishment drones.

Now comes the part Americans have desperately hoped for, but almost never seen: A politician keeping his promises to the American people. (See, e.g., Senate candidate Marco Rubio’s 2010 promise to oppose amnesty if elected; Sen. Mitch McConnell’s 2014 promise to block Obama’s executive amnesty if Republicans were handed a Senate majority; Jeb Bush, John Kasich and Ted Cruz’s promise to support the 2016 Republican presidential nominee.)

Hey, anybody else remember “Read My Lips”? That was from the family too pristine to sully themselves by voting for Trump.

With the self-assurance of everything else they’ve said wrong about Trump from Day One, the media are already announcing that he, too, will betray the American people.

I don’t think so! To help Mr. Trump keep his promises, I’ve compiled a detailed schedule for his first 100 days in office. Please note that each day is meticulously planned:

Day 1: Start building the wall.

Day 2 – Day 100: Continue building the wall.

Good luck, President Donald Trump!

AND THEN THERE’S THIS: Trump is already working to erase Obama’s legacy from history. Would that he could. But what he can he will. Why the word “surprisingly” in the story? These people still don’t understand the nature of power and how it is used.

President-elect Donald Trump was surprisingly gracious as he met President Barack Obama in the Oval Office on Thursday but make no mistake: He is already working to erase major parts of Obama’s legacy from the history books.

Trump will be able to change some of Obama’s policies with a quick stroke of the pen. Others will be much more difficult, requiring justification to pass legal hurdles or buy-in from lawmakers on Capitol Hill or foreign leaders. . . .

Later in the day, Trump emerged from meetings with House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and noted that he wants to work on health care, immigration, lower taxes and job creation – all moving in an opposite direction from Obama.

Sounds good to me.

Ending election fraud must be added to the Trump agenda

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Let me say that anyone who says they saw this coming, other than Scott Adams, is kidding themselves. This was utterly unpredictable since it required so much to go right at all the right places. Even the election being in the second Tuesday in November provided that all-important extra week that got Trump over the line. And then there were the Wikileaks, the Weiner-leaks, the actions of the FBI director and the behind-the-scenes manipulations of Obama that allowed it all to come good.

But there is also this. I saw somewhere that the reason Hillary lost was because the polls had her so far ahead and so certain to win that the usual efforts to cast fraudulent ballots was diminished since it seemed so unnecessary. This seems truly plausible. Why bother voting five times when three is enough, you don’t really need that many non-citizens to get to the polls and the dead can be left to rest in peace until the next time their votes are needed.

But then there is this as well: Key battleground states that voted for Donald Trump had turnout suppressed by local laws, experts say. What they mean by “suppressed” is this:

As many as 300,000 Wisconsin voters did not have the required photo ID. With lower than expected turnout, Trump was the first Republican to win the state since Ronald Reagan in 1984.

That is, when those folks who crossed into Wisconsin from out of state went to the polling stations, they were asked to prove who they were and that they had a legitimate right to vote in Wisconsin. With no such ID they could not vote. This may have made all the difference in the world in whether Trump became president rather than Hillary. The voter registration laws and the maintenance of up-to-date electoral lists should be a high priority over the next four years.

Make economics great again

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There has been a thread on the History of Economics discussion forum under the heading “Progress and Death” which revolves around the origins of the aphorism that science advances funeral by funeral. It turns out that this was an observation by Max Planck which more fully reads:

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”

I do find it interesting that even in the natural sciences that a reluctance to embrace new directions among the older generation slows the shift, since I would have thought that in the natural sciences experiment and evidence-based reasoning would overwhelm such resistance. In the social sciences, of course, experiment and evidence seem to count for little. I therefore put up the following post of my own:

I am always somewhat reluctant to buy into these issues, but right from the heading – “Progress and Death” – there is an implicit assumption that the latest is better than the superseded, which I find completely unfounded. As someone who believes that Keynesian economics has been almost the paradigm example of regression in any of the sciences, I can agree with the notion that the mainstream in some body of scientific thought will bend towards the latest fashion that is accelerated by the deaths of its older generation. But the belief that this always entails progress is, in my view, deeply mistaken. You do not have to agree with me about Keynes to recognise that the deaths of the likes of Frank Knight, J.R. Commons and Allyn Young took from the economics profession some very articulate, interesting and established views that are very different from the ones we see before us in our economic texts today. I am more likely to accept this aphorism as relatively accurate for the natural sciences, that science advances funeral by funeral, but for the social sciences I think it is completely false. That is why I argue that economists need to study the history of economic thought to keep themselves in contact with these older ideas. Their authors may have gone from the world, but their ideas – even ones we end up not agreeing with – remain as alive and worthy of study as they were on the day they were first written down.

It’s been a day since this went up and so far no one has decided to enter into these issues, which are much more intense than merely to ask where a quote originated. If anything does show up, I will let you know.

The meaning of Donald

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I have to say that while I am enjoying all of the reactions from those who have opposed Trump heart and soul and are now desolate, and the revelations of all those Sunshine Conservatives who I had not known had wanted him to win, it does still seem to me that in everything I read there is almost no recognition why he won. And the reason he won was because he is against open borders and for the preservation of our nation states. If you don’t mention The Wall, you still don’t get the point. Let me therefore repeat this again:

The one and only issue is open borders. This belief that anyone can migrate anywhere and it won’t make any difference of any kind is such a stupidity that I have to say that when I hear it I can only think I am dealing with political morons who are incapable of learning any lessons from the fantastic array of social instruction to be seen at every turn.

Europe at this very moment is being invaded and only a minority of these invaders are Syrian refugees with nowhere else to go. The news we get is minimal. Every so often the media is forced to cover some part of it, such as “Cologne”, or “Malmo” or “Charlie Hebdo”, but as rapidly as it is possible to go back to other things, it is dropped and nothing more is said. Were it not for Drudge, I would feel I would not know a thing about what is going on. We have in no sense a free press, and the ridicule that Trump pours on the people who are covering him warms me. It is you, who cannot see through the media attack squads that get me down. No writer for any Murdoch paper in the world – and aside from The Daily Mail, his are the best there are – will ever say a positive word about Trump. There is this migrating evil in the world, and you cannot find it in the news you read. Trump is a phenomenon because he, for very particular reasons, does not depend on the media or outside money to get his message across.

There may be an effort from the usual suspects to divert attention from the absolutely central issue – the identical issue that was at the heart of Brexit – but I do not think Trump will be diverted. He will build his wall, immigration will be controlled and The Australian Model will be applied everywhere, even in Australia.

ANN COULTER ADDITION: Trump Victory Boils Down To “Globalism vs. Nationality”.

Political ecstasy

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And He may also be keeping an eye out for the rest of us as well.

There are not many moments like this that come along in a lifetime. We went out tonight to see that brave Canadian climate sceptic, Tim Ball, discussing his costly adventures in climate change. His legal bills are now over a million. It does not come cheap to wrangle with these people, but he seemed pretty content with life as it has unfolded. But he was certainly as thrilled as I am about what a Trump presidency will mean. It also means that the political fights have only just begun.

And this was as improbable a victory as I have ever seen. And the big losers are not just Hillary, the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation. We can also add to the cart the #NeverTrumps, the #OccasionallyTrumps and the Sunshine Conservatives who have revealed themselves. And of course, there is the media. Watching the ABC when I came home was one of those precious experiences that for someone such as myself who almost never watches TV, gave such immense pleasure, as much on the plus side for me as the negatives must have been for them as revealed by the misery on their faces. The same kind of pleasure watching Megyn Kelly as I replayed the afternoon on Fox that I had missed going out.

I might also throw in that perhaps the biggest loser of them all is Obama. He has been a global disaster, but his eight years will be swept, as those of his kind like to say, into the dustbin of history. There will be an ample amount of damage to clean up, some which will never be fixed, but at least come January he will be history and have no successor. I wish I could say we can then all start again, but we can at least start a fairly decent salvaging operation.

So to go back to the quote, either Bismarck was absolutely right or the planets were lined up just exactly right, but who could have predicted any of it. You could see Trump learning on the job and getting the polish together just a bit more each day. He turned his vague aims into a series of specific policy proposals that make profound sense for those of us who pay attention to such things. There were the Wikileaks, Comey’s decision not to prosecute, then the Weiner revelations followed by Comey’s decision to re-open the case, and then finally his reversal. Not to mention Hillary’s disastrous record in politics where her only success was to become possibly the most brazen political liar in history. As for everything else, there was not a single actual success of any kind she could point to that might give anyone the slightest notion that she could handle the office of the Presidency, even if she were healthy, which she clearly is not.

On the negative side, of course, there was some locker-room talk from back in 2005. That was the only issue ever brought up in Hillary’s favour. I never heard another reason to vote for her or against Trump by those who sided with the Democrats, and I did try to find out. How history hinges on such things, in the way that Romney travelling with a dog on the roof of his car might have cost him the presidency in 2012. But that was then; this is now. Hurray for our side, but there now really is a lot to do.

The Australian model

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From Berlin Prepares to Admit Defeat on Refugees?. Apparently, we are now a model of some sort.

Germany is trying to walk back its open door promises on refugees and migrants even further, with the Interior Ministry reportedly looking to Australia as a model. The EU Observer explains that the proposed system would seek to intercept migrants at sea and send them back to North Africa. . . .

If Germany gets tougher on migrants, the usual suspects will repeat the usual platitudes about human rights and values. In just the past two weeks, for example, the Australian model has been repeatedly attacked by the editorial board of The New York Times. Moral preening, coupled with a studied inability to recognize real political and social limits of a controversial policy, has amplified an already-grim situation. Hopefully Berlin is finally beginning to sober up.

Only a Republican could be this stupid

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I first posted this in March but I post it here now again because it seems so relevant and because it was downloaded a few times just yesterday.

What we see is a cartoon that makes sense only if you really are in a dilemma about Trump v Clinton, which means you are a Republican who is too stupid to be allowed to vote. No Democrat would ever be in doubt, and Hillary is a liar, crook and dyed in the wool leftist of the most plundering kind. There is literally no facet of Trump v Clinton that ends up on the Hillary side of the ledger. Such Republicans are Democrats at heart, lacking any genuine desire for the preservation of our Western way of life. Worrying about the effect on international trade or the future viability of the Republican Party are such irrelevancies that it only irritates me to have to listen to it.

So let me spell it out. The one and only issue is open borders. This belief that anyone can migrate anywhere and it won’t make any difference of any kind is such a stupidity that I have to say that when I hear it I can only think I am dealing with political morons who are incapable of learning any lessons from the fantastic array of social instruction to be seen at every turn.

Europe at this very moment is being invaded and only a minority of these invaders are Syrian refugees with nowhere else to go. The news we get is minimal. Every so often the media is forced to cover some part of it, such as “Cologne”, or “Malmo” or “Charlie Hebdo”, but as rapidly as it is possible to go back to other things, it is dropped and nothing more is said. Were it not for Drudge, I would feel I would not know a thing about what is going on. We have in no sense a free press, and the ridicule that Trump pours on the people who are covering him warms me. It is you, who cannot see through the media attack squads that get me down. No writer for any Murdoch paper in the world – and aside from The Daily Mail, his are the best there are – will ever say a positive word about Trump. There is this migrating evil in the world, and you cannot find it in the news you read. Trump is a phenomenon because he, for very particular reasons, does not depend on the media or outside money to get his message across.

The progressive internationalism of our present day is being driven by George Soros, a Nazi collaborator and actually much more. Go to the link. What you will find is this:

Human Events’ readers, in an online poll, recently voted billionaire financier George Soros “the single most destructive leftist demagogue in the country.”

Here is the first on the list of ten reasons given, but go on to read the entire article. If you don’t know any of this already, you should ask yourself why that is:

1. Gives billions to left-wing causes: Soros started the Open Society Institute in 1993 as a way to spread his wealth to progressive causes. Using Open Society as a conduit, Soros has given more than $7 billion to a who’s who of left-wing groups. This partial list of recipients of Soros’ money says it all: ACORN, Apollo Alliance, National Council of La Raza, Tides Foundation, Huffington Post,Southern Poverty Law Center, Soujourners, People for the American Way, Planned Parenthood, and the National Organization for Women.

The American political system is driven by money and Soros is hardly the only one of his class and wealth who are driving this agenda. The graft and outright thievery of Hillary Clinton is no longer even hidden. She is a tool of the progressive internationalist cause. These people really do want to ruin your way of life, and it is not incidental. This is what they want to do. If you think they are well meaning socialists who want only the best for everyone, you are simply deluded. Billionaire socialists is not how to think of a working class movement. Our Western way of life – our “white privilege” – is being put to the torch and there is hardly a one amongst us who is willing to fight this one out.

But at least there is one, and he has support, and the way things are going there will soon be more. Whether there will be enough and whether it is even still possible to save ourselves, is yet to be determined. But if you cannot see what’s going on, if you really cannot see what is going on, then you will just have to keep your heads in the sand.

And it is here that left and right meet. Let me finish with a quote from Murray Rothbard discussing Ludwig von Mises in a little booklet titled, The Clash of Group Interests. The “consideration” referred to is how individuals continue to examine only their short-term interests and fail to see the long-run as clearly as Mises does.

This consideration becomes still more poignant in the noble and surprising essay, “The Freedom to Move as an International Problem,” newly translated from a 1935 newspaper in Vienna. It is surprising because it presents a remarkably sharp attack on the immigration barriers erected by the United States and the British Dominions. For Mises trenchantly identifies these barriers as creating a ruling class elite, albeit a large one, in which workers in a particular geographical area with a high standard of living, use the State to keep immigrants from lower-wage areas out, thereby freezing the latter into a permanently lower wage. Mises correctly adds that, contrary to the Marxian myth of the international solidarity of the proletariat, it is the unions in the high living standard countries who have lobbied for the immigration restrictions. Mises is hard-hitting on the privileges conferred by immigration barriers: “The oft-referred-to ‘miracle’ of the high wages in the United States and Australia may be explained simply by the policy of trying to prevent a new immigration. For decades people have not dared to discuss these things in Europe.” Mises concludes his essay with an implicit justification of overcrowded Europe making war upon the restrictive countries: “This is a problem of the right of immigration into the largest and most productive lands…. Without the reestablishment of freedom of migration throughout the world, there can be no lasting peace.”

World peace through open borders, and cheaper labour as well. If these ideas weren’t so unbelievably dangerous you would want to laugh at how stupid this is. Soros and Mises, left and right united in trying to end the civilisation of the West.

A day in the death of the American Republic

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Plucked from Drudge on election eve.

UPDATE: MS-13 Terrorize Suburb…
Spike in Illegals…
ISIS continues its ‘Get Out the Vote’ jihadi campaign…
Communities struggle with Muslims’ arrival…

Leaked Documents Reveal Expansive Soros Funding to Manipulate Elections…
Hacking a Voting Machine…
Used in 13 States!
Undercover journalist in full burka offered Huma Abedin ballot in NYC…

WIKI: DNC and CNN colluded on questions for Trump…
Dirty Donna Sent EVEN MORE Debate Questions From CNN To Clinton…
CNN EXEC’S HUSBAND TIPPED PODESTA ABOUT POLLING…
WASH POST Writer Asked DNC For Anti-Trump Research…
COLUMN: Media Sees Itself As Part of Govt.. whose actual title is “How the Political Media’s Corruption Destroyed America’s Most Crucial Institutions”

Govt Workers Outnumber Manufacturing by 9,977,000…
Leaked Bill Clinton Speech: Obama Years Left No Hope For White Working Class…

COMEY THE CLOWN…
Top Clinton Donors Gave Big Bucks to FBI Investigator’s Wife…
DOJ Proposal Slow Walks Her Email Release Past 2020!
WIRED: Yes, They Can Vet 650,000 Emails In 691,200 Seconds…

And this is what we know about that’s going on. There is a lot more we will never know but all of it along the same lines as what we see above.

And if you want to see the kind of Sunshine Conservatives I despise, try this below.

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The difference between Trump and Hillary is so immense you have to be a voting-for-a-living type at the bottom of the income pile, or else a complete idiot. With Trump you are getting everything a conservative ought to want. If you are so dumb and ignorant about what is at stake this time round, then you are as big a fool as anyone who has ever lived. Such dummies on the right, who take their opinions from the New York Times and Washington Post!

Some call it treason

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These are the kinds of things you will know only if you put yourself in the way of knowing them. The number of people we associate with who do not even know the existence of Wikileaks never mind their contents is quite astounding. You would not even know it’s possible, never mind that these are the issues they choose to ignore:

John Podesta, Hillary’s campaign chair, who was also a counselor to President Obama at the time, was the recipient of the 2014 email which was released today.

Assange promised his latest batch of leaks would lead to the indictment of Hillary, and it looks like he was not kidding. The email proves Hillary knew and was complicit in the funding and arming of ISIS by our ‘allies’ Saudi Arabia and Qatar!

“the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL…” Clinton wrote

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The media is yet to report on this, even though Wikileaks has a 10-year history of being 100% accurate in their leaks, never once releasing info that proved to be false.

…Can you guess why?

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that The Saudi’s brag about funding 20% of Hillary’s Presidential campaign, and along with Qatar, are among the largest donors to the CLINTON FOUNDATION.

Is it any mystery now why ISIS has flourished under the Obama/Clinton administration? The United States has created armed and funded the terrorists overthrowing Syria via our Terrorist State allies. When you know this it makes you look at the situation in Syria differently. Perhaps Russia and Iran are the ones fighting ISIS, it stands to reason once you know we are fighting Russia, and at the same time arming ISIS.

Clinton’s campaign and her Clinton Foundation are literally funded by the SAME PEOPLE who are funding ISIS and killing hundreds of thousands of innocents in the Middle East, and now, even here at home.

This is nothing short of TREASON. Hillary must be sent to trial and held accountable for crimes against humanity and Treason against the United States of America.

We know the media will do all in their power to bury this story so it is up to us to use social media to make sure every voter in America knows this before they cast their vote for president on Nov 8th. You know what to do …

There are already more than enough reasons not to vote for Hillary and then to convict. All by way of making Tim Kaine president.

The RBA is worried we are saving too much!!!

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The only reason I still get The Oz is because it has two sudokus and as I was turning to these tonight, what should be on the front page of the business section but this: Are we saving too much? Weak spending a risk to our economy. Now just because the world is coming to an end tomorrow is no reason not to comment on such idiocy. These Keynesians are as bad as Democrats, probably because each is the same as the other. But really, what can you do with such stuff?

The weak state of household consumption is a key risk to economic growth with little evidence that people are cutting their savings to raise spending levels, as the Reserve Bank expects. . . .

The Reserve Bank’s essential thesis about the economy is that consumers will support growth during the current period of weak household incomes by running down their savings to support spending. Eventually, this will lift demand to a point where non-mining businesses will start to invest.

You know, this is so ignorant that it quite takes the breath away. Do they really believe such things? Does anyone? Have they not been paying attention for the past eight years? I will just say it again, not that anyone understands it, but no economy grows from the demand side. All momentum comes from value adding production. To depend on retail sales and consumer demand to provide an economy with its drive is to depend on what has never ever happened in history to happen for the first time. It really is amazing to me to find that I remain the only one in step. Say’s Law is the single most important principle in the whole of economics, precisely because it is the one principle that is not intuitively obvious. If they really think our economies are suffering low growth because we are saving too much they will never ever understand a single thing of consequence about how an economy works.