Another Trump Victory
One hour after offering Articles of Impeachment, Nancy Pelosi finally (after a year of stalling) announced agreement on the USMCA trade agreement. The historic trade agreement will replace the flawed NAFTA agreement. I think Pelosi had to give her 31 moderate members something for cooperating on the impeachment farce and this was obviously it. The timing of her signing off on USMCA is most likely prompted by the public's diminishing support for impeachment.The announcement dominated the announcement of the two Articles of Impeachment under consideration.
USMCA
The President, through a very unexpected set of events, got his major trade deal done and will be able to say it’s another “promise kept” to his voters right before the midterm elections. Getting Canada and Mexico to sign on was a bit of diplomacy and credit goes to Trump's trade adviser Robert Lighthizer. Trump also gets a good deal of credit. He did use a bit of the "art of the deal" to get the outgoing Mexican leader to sign the deal which put pressure on the Canadian leader to add his name.
USMCA makes substantial changes to modernize trade rules in effect from 1994 to 2020. It mainly benefits U.S. farmers and blue-collar auto workers. Next on the agenda will be China. They should fold fast once Trump is reelected. China has been hoping that Trump is defeated in 2020.Passage of USMCA puts a little more pressure on China.
It will be a major boon for labor unions in all three countries:
"This agreement stipulates that at least 30 percent of cars (rising to 40 percent by 2023) must be made by workers earning $16 an hour, about three times the typical manufacturing wage in Mexico now. USMCA also stipulates that Mexico must make it easier for workers to form unions."
The updated USMCA will establish a committee to monitor Mexico’s progress and benchmarks for Mexico to meet. If it does not, it could lead to penalties.
That means the US won't be competing against cheap labor & cheap prices.
US Dairy farmers will regain some of the Canadian market.
A win for America.
Another promise kept.
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That's one of the reasons why we elected him.
What are the others?
To restore the Judiciary with Judges who respect the original intent of the US Constitution.
To restore American Sovereignty
To restore the American manufacturing sector
To bring American corporations back home
To improve household income and create jobs for everyone
To rebuild the American military
How's that?
Then you haven't been paying attention.
And that would surprise no one I suppose.
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Well, Tessy, you need to start reading and researching so you can keep up with the rest of us.
By appointing unqualified judges???
Trump Keeps Picking Unqualified People To Be Lifetime Judges. Republicans Don’t Care.
Fact: America Is Slowly Losing Its Military Edge Over the World
The Choice Facing a Declining United States
We just got the latest sign the US is losing manufacturing jobs — the opposite of what Trump's trade wars were supposed to accomplish
Trump said he’d rebuild manufacturing. Now it’s in decline. What happened?
Trump’s claim that job growth is due to companies ‘moving back’
Trump: Jobs Returning ‘Because of Me’
Trump’s shiny new talking point about income growth
UPDATE 1-U.S. median household income barely budged in 2018 -Census
Promises about Military on Trump-O-Meter
Every time Trump has attacked American veterans or military families
Trump ignores Pentagon advice and intervenes in military war crimes cases
Trump raids military families, national security to pay for border wall: Vets in Congress
You're 0 for 6, and you're proud of that??
In what sense are they "unqualified"? Because they adhere to the original meaning of the US Constitution?
I note that you don't know what American Sovereignty means.
I shall use CNBC to describe the economy under Trump:
"President Donald Trump is more than 19 months into an administration engulfed in so much controversy that it may overshadow a tremendous achievement, namely an economic boom uniquely his.
During his time in office, the economy has achieved feats most experts thought impossible. GDP is growing at a 3 percent-plus rate. The unemployment rate is near a 50-year low. Meanwhile, the stock market has jumped 27 percent amid a surge in corporate profits.
Beyond that there is this:
"He reinstated an expanded Mexico City Policy blocking foreign aid from being used for abortions.
• Cracked down on illegal immigration and “sanctuary cities.” As Attorney General Jeff Sessions put it: “The lawlessness, the abdication of the duty to enforce our laws, and the catch and release policies of the past are over.”
• Issued an order killing two federal regulations for every new one. In actuality, 16 were cut for every new one in his first year, saving billions.
• Engineered a historic tax cut that will save money for more than 80 percent of American households.
• Withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement, ending the threat of U.S. governance by international bureaucrats.
• Reversed onerous Obama environmental rules that gave the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ham-handed authority to destroy the coal industry and abrogate landowners’ rights.
• Kick-started America’s energy sector by curtailing regulations, facilitating the Keystone XL Pipeline and opening up vast federal areas to oil and gas exploration.
• Presided over an economic and stock market boom, lowered unemployment and brought manufacturing jobs back to America from overseas.
• Rebuilt the nation’s military, destroyed ISIS and faced down North Korea’s “Rocket Man.”
• Issued an order enforcing First Amendment protections for religious liberty.
• Restored the freedom of military chaplains to espouse biblical morality, and essentially reversing Mr. Obama’s transgender military policy.
• Revoked the Education Department’s order that public schools allow gender-confused males access to girls’ restrooms and locker rooms.
• Cracked down on sex trafficking. President Trump signed a law allowing states to move against sex-ad Internet sites, and the Justice Department on April 6 seized and shut down Backpage.com, which carried ads for prostitution, including trafficked children.
• Overhauled the mismanaged Veterans Administration and giving veterans more health care choices.
• Replaced Obamacare incrementally, beginning with a repeal of the individual mandate.
• Imposed sanctions on Venezuela’s socialist dictatorship and revising Mr. Obama’s deals with communist Cuba.
• Recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and repairing damage that Mr. Obama did to the U.S.-Israel relationship.
• Worked with Central American nations to crack down on MS-13 gangs.
OK, let’s stop here, though it only scratches the surface.
A question for Mr. Trump ’s conservative critics, including some well-meaning evangelicals who rightly express concern over character: Would you really prefer to have a “more presidential” chief executive who promotes socialism, open bordeers, abortion, sexual anarchy and the criminalization of Christianity?
Here are just a few likely outcomes had Mrs. Clinton won:
• An explosion in government funding for abortion.
• The LGBT political agenda on steroids, with the Justice Department attacking Christian business people who won’t bow to Baal.
• Tax increases — not a tax cut — to fund a vast expansion of nanny government.
• Obamacare morphing into a single-payer, socialist government monopoly.
• Federal agencies like the EPA and the IRS re-weaponized against political opponents.
• More radical judges like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor. Maybe even Chai Feldblum on the Supreme Court.
• Hordes of new federal bureaucrats drawn from the ranks of MoveOn.org, NARAL, the ACLU, the Human Rights Campaign and the Women’s March.
• “Pink hat day” throughout the federal government on Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger’s birthday. (No reported plan; it just makes sense.)
• Massive illegal immigration, along with the Justice Department attacking states that have strong voter ID laws.
• A shutdown of all inquiries into Clinton corruption, such as missing emails, Russian money flowing into the Clinton Foundation or the Clinton-Russian connection in the 2016 election.
• A naive foreign policy that would have emboldened Russia, China, North Korea and Iran to test American resolve.
I understand why that is funny to you. You have already told everyone you don't read. Can't blame him for trying.
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Careful - she'll get you deleted.
"One hour after offering Articles of Impeachment, Nancy Pelosi finally (after a year of stalling) announced agreement on the USMCA trade agreement."
Trumps version sucked, but Pelosi's version was much better !
I really couldn't stop laughing when I listened to Nancy "Borg" Pelosi say that shit !
I still can't stop laughing when I hear that Bullshit from the Democrat "Leader?" !
Democrats just handed their most hated person....a uuuuuuuuge WIN !
There wasn't much joy in her face
The bestest thing of all with this "Democrats save Workers" crap was ….. Nancy and her cohorts.... for 25 years.... loved NAFTA …... but now they don't.
Another Liberal ..... "Liked it …..before they didn't" thingy !
She has to put some face saving spin on it. It was a major victory for the President.
Many more to come once the Republicans retake the House.
Yes, that's another positive coming in the 2020 election. I also have a hunch that many of our brothers & sisters will come back to the GOP. It's been a long time. It's time to come home.
I'm not 100% sure I want the Republicans retake the House. The stock market always does better when we have a divided government and I'm only a few years away from retirement so would love to see Wall Street hold steady rather than go down. We're so overdue for a correction and I've done some protection but would still prefer that things don't change for the next couple of years.
yeah, yeah, I know. Totally off topic... sue me.
Welcome aboard!
I've heard that's what happens to people with ill-fitting dentures. They swoosh their tongues around in their mouths and look like they're sucking on lemons.
That may be part of it.
Lindsey Graham ....right now...is tearing the FBI folks, and the "Impeachment Democrats"....a NEW ASSHOLE right now.
Lindsey's GREAT !
Even better....Lindsey Brings up the "Infiltration by the Chinese" into Feinstein's Realm of Politics (Driver)", and Lindsey says.... "It was great someone told Feinstein about it, They didn't do that FOR Trump" !
Horowitz will have to explain how such a damning report ends with the conclusion that these were "mistakes"
Lindsey is showing him....they WEREN'T …..... MISTAKES ! They were "BLATANT" !
Like the lawyer who deleted the fact that Carter Page had worked for the CIA from the FISA request? Ya, that would seem to be a politically motivated criminal act.
Or
The FBI using the "Steele Dossier" to get FISA Warrants, even when they knew the "Dossier" was Bull Shit? Ya, that too!
As usual...a Democrat like Feinstein…..conveniently Ignores anything that is outside "HER DEMOCRAT" box when she did her "Reading" of a Speech" !
What I like about Lindsey is....he actually Speaks....he doesn't "Speechify"....like Feinstein types !
Lindsey types ….. know things !
Feinstein types ….. just know what they read !
Believe it or not, most of Graham's opening statements are off-the-cuff with little written down for him. Feinstein needs her staff's help to deliver an opening statement.
That's where that "Lindsey actually Knows things" …. while Feinstein "can only Read" thingy comes in !
True. Graham uses logic. Feinstein is driven by ideology.
I find Lindsey speaks with actual "Knowledge" on the subject !
He's already pulled out the key findings from the report. Feinstein will now extract Horowitz opinion that the malfeasance wasn't politically driven. She'll ask the same question 20 different ways.
If you listen to her questions, there is no other way for Horowitz to answer a different way than the way her staff structured them, without being a "Liar" !
It plays to the leftist base of the democratic party and virtually nobody else. The more people are exposed to this, the better.
"Politics" ALWAYS rules in Liberal Land !
Buck the "Dinosaurs" entrenched system.....you'll be "Impeached" !
Speaking of dinosaurs, here is old liberal Patrick Leahy.
95% of the time....I can't understand what he says...and I'm not hard of hearing !
It's never good. Thank God he only got a minute. Now Grassley is exploring how the verification for the Steele Dossier was actually Steele himself. The FBI used a Yahoo article to add support for the Steele Dossier in their FISA application. Author of the Yahoo article was none other than Christopher Steele. How would you like to be a FISA judge listening to this?
And we are to believe these were "mistakes"!
When "Intelligence" relies on a "news? Report"....you know there is a "State" problem.
CNN and MSNBC have refused to air DOJ Inspector General Hearing live.
To do so might be journalism
Final Thoughts:
Time to review the days events.
First and foremost the President has achieved a major victory for the Unites States in securing a fair trade agreement with Canada and Mexico.
In today's Senate Hearings on the Horowitz Report we learned the following:
1) A law enforcement agency spied on President Trump's campaign.
2) They misled a secret court to get a secret warrant to do it.
3) This was all based on lies in a dossier funded by the Democrat Party.