Four more years... pause...

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Somebody ought to be arrested for putting this senile old man on stage...

President Joe Biden received an endorsement the North America’s Building Trades Unions on Wednesday, and a major flub made in remarks at the organization’s legislative conference in Washington was actually met with applause.

At the end of a 30-plus minute speech, Biden read a little too much on his teleprompter, saying, “Four more years. Pause.”

 

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And while I'm at it... here's another democrap agency weaponization .... thanks Gator!

The Securities and Exchange Commission Is Watching You​

To prevent crime, the SEC plans to track the personal information of every investor in real time.​

The Securities and Exchange Commission is deploying a massive government database—the Consolidated Audit Trail, or CAT—that monitors in real time the identity, transactions and investment portfolio of everyone who invests in the stock market. As SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce describes it, by allowing the commission to “watch investors’ every move in real time,” CAT will make it easier to investigate insider trading or market manipulation.

But as a lawsuit being filed Tuesday in Texas federal court makes clear, CAT crosses a constitutional red line. Accepting this sweeping surveillance would eviscerate fundamental privacy protections. That a few bad apples might engage in misconduct doesn’t justify mass surveillance of everyone’s private affairs.

The SEC conceived of CAT during the Obama administration. Now, without congressional authorization and under the radar of most Americans, the commission is trying to impose it by executive fiat. CAT will reportedly be the single largest government database targeting the private activities of American citizens.

 

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Poor stupid gator

 

[derek_tiger]

Sorry... call me 'butta' 'cause I'm on a roll....

If You Give a College Student a Cookie . . .​

The children’s book series helps explain the dangers of indulging unreasonable requests around the world.​

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By
Allysia Finley
April 21, 2024 5:03 pm ET

How did our world, culture and politics become such a mess? A simple explanation can be found in the best-selling children’s picture-book series “If You Give . . .” by Laura Joffe Numeroff. In each story, indulging a creature’s unreasonable requests—be it for a cookie, muffin or pancake—stimulates an appetite for more. So it goes in real life:

• If college students ask for safe spaces, you might give affinity groups their own centers. Then they’ll want to feel safe in classrooms and will ask for trigger warnings to protect them from ideas they don’t like. When you agree that certain ideas can be dangerous, students will occupy buildings and demand that speakers be canceled.
When you apologize and disinvite speakers, students ask you to excuse tardy and incomplete assignments because they were busy protesting. When you give them an A for no effort, they will graduate with honors and think they don’t have to work hard to succeed.
Then, when you give them a job, they’ll ask to work only 30 hours a week. If you say yes, they’ll use their extra time to organize a union. If you recognize their union, they’ll ask for extra paid days off and eight weeks’ vacation.
When they max out their credit cards, they’ll ask for their student loans to be forgiven. When you cancel their debt, they’ll quit their jobs to get graduate degrees in community organizing. When they can’t repay their graduate loans, they’ll ask for more debt forgiveness.

• If a hungry migrant shows up at your border, he will ask for asylum. When you let him into the country, he will ask for a place to stay. When you give him free room and board at a Manhattan hotel, he will invite his family and friends, too. When you let them in, they’ll ask for a bus to New York.

• If an electric-vehicle startup asks for government support, you might agree to fund the construction of its first factory. Then it will want tax credits for people to buy its cars. Since drivers need to charge their EVs, the company will ask you to finance charging stations. When it keeps losing money, it’ll ask you to subsidize its battery manufacturing. When it produces more EVs than people want to buy, it’ll ask you to ban gasoline-powered cars so consumers have no other choice. Then it’ll ask for more money to build factories to make more EVs that people are forced to buy.

• If you create a child-tax credit, liberals will demand that it be made more generous. When you increase the credit, they’ll ask to make it refundable so people who don’t owe taxes can claim it. When some stop working, they’ll ask to increase the earned-income tax credit as an incentive to work. Then they’ll ask for paid family leave to make it easier for parents to take time off work. When inflation increases because of government spending, liberals will ask for a bigger child-tax credit.

• If Iranian mullahs ask for relief from economic sanctions, you may go along because you want them to agree to a new deal to limit their nuclear-weapons program. When you give them sanctions relief, they’ll spend their bounty on manufacturing weapons, which they will give to terrorist proxies to attack Israel.
Then the mullahs will ask for more sanctions relief, which you’ll grant because you believe it will encourage them to be less belligerent. Then they’ll manufacture more weapons, which their proxies will use to launch more attacks. When you ask Israel to stand down, the mullahs will continue manufacturing weapons and enriching uranium. Then they’ll ask for the abolition of Israel in return for not launching a nuclear weapon.

• If Israel removes its citizens from Gaza, Hamas will take over and ask for humanitarian assistance. When you send aid, Hamas will use it for military purposes while impoverishing its people. Then it’ll use Gazans as human shields after launching attacks on Israel. When Israel tries to defend itself, innocent Gazans will accidentally get killed.

The United Nations will lambaste Israel as the aggressor. Hamas will smile and ask for more humanitarian relief. When you give Hamas more aid, it will launch yet more attacks on Israel and take civilians hostage. When you seek to negotiate their release, Hamas will ask for more aid and a temporary cease-fire.
When you agree, it will regroup. Then when Israel accidentally kills Gazans while trying to eradicate Hamas terrorists, radical leftists will block traffic on U.S. bridges and demand a permanent cease-fire. When you agree, Hamas will escalate its attacks. When Israel fights back, college protesters will ask for safe spaces for Hamas.

The list goes on . . .

WSJ