bonginoreport--2020-11-27--China State-Linked Firms Brace for More Defaults

SINGAPORE — Bond defaults by Chinese state-linked companies are set to continue into the new year , but analysts say that may be a good thing in the long run as `` zombie '' entities are weeded out .
Investors usually consider government-backed companies a safe bet given the `` implicit guarantee '' that Chinese authorities would save those that run into trouble .
However , a string of defaults in recent weeks — including by highly rated entities — have challenged that assumption .
Some high-profile state-linked businesses that have recently defaulted on their debt repayments include miner Yongcheng @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Huachen Automotive Group .
`` Market participants have once again been reminded that not all state-owned enterprises ( SOEs ) are created the same ; some are less equal than others , '' analysts from CreditSights , a research firm , wrote in a Monday report .
`` As the spate of defaults has shown , support conferred by state ownership is more nuanced and the Chinese government on balance is more tolerant of defaults , '' they added .
`` SOEs which are not in strategically important industries or have strayed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rescued by the state . ''
The default by Yongcheng Coal and Electricity surprised many investors given its AAA-rating by a domestic agency .
But the company is `` a typical example of a large risky company '' that China 's central bank flagged earlier this month , said analysts from investment bank Jefferies .
The People 's Bank of China warned in its financial stability report — according to CNBC 's translation of the Mandarin-language text — that the following problems in some large companies could become a risk to the entire @ @ @ @ @ @ @ industries and regions which accumulate debt exceeding the companies ' repayment abilities .
• Corporate governance issues such as complex chains of borrowing within a group of companies , hidden inter-group transactions and inaccurate disclosures .
`` Arguably , these problems are relevant '' to Yongcheng Coal and Electricity , Jefferies analysts said in a Thursday report .
Although defaults by large state-linked companies hurt sentiment in the short term , allowing some of these `` zombie '' firms to fail will benefit banks and investors in the long run , the analysts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ problematic companies allows them to identify risks early and choose `` quality '' collaterals for those risks , they said .
Overall , some insolvencies and defaults are `` part of a healthy , functioning market as long as wider contagion is avoided and the process has a relatively controlled trajectory , '' said CreditSights .
The research firm explained that allowing `` unviable entities '' to go under will free up resources , promote renewal , nurture `` greater economic dynamism '' in China , and reduce the specter of `` zombie @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Following the recent string of defaults , Chinese authorities have reportedly vowed `` zero tolerance '' for misconduct among bond issuers .
Regulators have launched probes into Yongcheng Coal and Electricity and Huachen Automotive Group , as well as their bond underwriters , reported Reuters .
That wo n't stop more defaults among state firms .
`` This is not the first time that onshore defaults have sparked worries and it will not be the last — ultimately we have confidence that China has the political will and policymaking capacity to steer the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said CreditSights .
Ratings agency Fitch said in a report last week that the number of SOE defaults could `` rise marginally '' in 2021 on the back of a likely tightening in funding conditions in China .
`` China 's central bank has shifted towards a more neutral policy stance , with economic growth recovering from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic , and we expect tighter funding conditions in 2021 than in early 2020 , '' the agency said .

A Chinese national flag seen in front of Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai on September 8, 2019. Alex Tai | SOPA Images | LightRocket via Getty Images
SINGAPORE — Bond defaults by Chinese state-linked companies are set to continue into the new year, but analysts say that may be a good thing in the long run as "zombie" entities are weeded out. Investors usually consider government-backed companies a safe bet given the "implicit guarantee" that Chinese authorities would save those that run into trouble. However, a string of defaults in recent weeks — including by highly rated entities — have challenged that assumption. Some high-profile state-linked businesses that have recently defaulted on their debt repayments include miner Yongcheng Coal and Electricity, chipmaker Tsinghua Unigroup and Huachen Automotive Group.
Market participants have once again been reminded that not all state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are created the same; some are less equal than others. CreditSights
"Market participants have once again been reminded that not all state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are created the same; some are less equal than others," analysts from CreditSights, a research firm, wrote in a Monday report. "As the spate of defaults has shown, support conferred by state ownership is more nuanced and the Chinese government on balance is more tolerant of defaults," they added. "SOEs which are not in strategically important industries or have strayed from their core businesses may not be rescued by the state."
'Zombie' companies
The default by Yongcheng Coal and Electricity surprised many investors given its AAA-rating by a domestic agency. But the company is "a typical example of a large risky company" that China's central bank flagged earlier this month, said analysts from investment bank Jefferies. The People's Bank of China warned in its financial stability report — according to CNBC's translation of the Mandarin-language text — that the following problems in some large companies could become a risk to the entire economy: Aggressive expansion into various industries and regions which accumulate debt exceeding the companies' repayment abilities.
Corporate governance issues such as complex chains of borrowing within a group of companies, hidden inter-group transactions and inaccurate disclosures.
Reliance on borrowing to make debt repayments. "Arguably, these problems are relevant" to Yongcheng Coal and Electricity, Jefferies analysts said in a Thursday report.
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Although defaults by large state-linked companies hurt sentiment in the short term, allowing some of these "zombie" firms to fail will benefit banks and investors in the long run, the analysts said. For banks, weeding out problematic companies allows them to identify risks early and choose "quality" collaterals for those risks, they said. Overall, some insolvencies and defaults are "part of a healthy, functioning market as long as wider contagion is avoided and the process has a relatively controlled trajectory," said CreditSights. The research firm explained that allowing "unviable entities" to go under will free up resources, promote renewal, nurture "greater economic dynamism" in China, and reduce the specter of "zombie" SOEs.
More defaults to come
Following the recent string of defaults, Chinese authorities have reportedly vowed "zero tolerance" for misconduct among bond issuers. Regulators have launched probes into Yongcheng Coal and Electricity and Huachen Automotive Group, as well as their bond underwriters, reported Reuters. That won't stop more defaults among state firms.
... ultimately we have confidence that China has the political will and policymaking capacity to steer the market back into calmer waters. CreditSights
"This is not the first time that onshore defaults have sparked worries and it will not be the last — ultimately we have confidence that China has the political will and policymaking capacity to steer the market back into calmer waters," said CreditSights. Ratings agency Fitch said in a report last week that the number of SOE defaults could "rise marginally" in 2021 on the back of a likely tightening in funding conditions in China. "China's central bank has shifted towards a more neutral policy stance, with economic growth recovering from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, and we expect tighter funding conditions in 2021 than in early 2020," the agency said.
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bonginoreport--2020-11-27--David Limbaugh: Democrats Want Unity Only on Their Terms

Many Trump haters have been lying all along about President Donald Trump , what he stands for , what his record has been and who his supporters are .
Now they tell us they want unity .
What Trump wants — and want his supporters want — is for America to reclaim its greatness , its robust liberty tradition , its prosperity , the integrity of its borders , fair trade deals with foreign nations and its military strength .
He has made great strides in achieving these goals .
Trump 's opponents — the media , Democrats , never-Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ moment 's rest , never a benefit of the doubt , never an atom of cooperation or bipartisanship .
They have n't just served as the loyal opposition , resisting his agenda like the minority party is expected to do .
They have never let him govern .
From the time he stepped on the political stage , they 've harassed , investigated , bullied , impeached and censored him .
The media has tormented Trump , ignored and distorted his accomplishments , and shown him in a 100 % negative light for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lifetime have I seen such one-sided coverage .
They have deliberately misrepresented his words to paint him as a bigot .
They have claimed his immigration policies are driven by racism , rather than a desire to protect our borders and ensure the orderly process of legal immigration .
They have relentlessly hammered this into the national psyche to where millions upon millions of Americans not only believe it but also believe racism animates all Trump supporters .
Just remember there was a time in the recent past when both parties agreed that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ illegal immigration .
Most of the charges against Trump are over-the-top outrageous .
Joe Biden , whom the media characterize as a nice , harmless fellow , has portrayed Trump as a racist and has said Trump is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans from COVID-19 .
Anyone with a smidgeon of intellectual integrity knows this is patently absurd .
Trump put his all into fighting this virus , and for partisan opportunists to blame him for its death and destruction is indescribably vicious .
But in our society @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a popular blood sport , no libel is too low .
I 've never believed that this incessant hatred toward Trump was just about Trump .
The left has villainized every Republican president in recent memory and , for several generations , has defamed all Republicans as heartless bigots .
But Trump , because of his manner and personality , is a convenient target , allowing those who hate conservatives to pretend it 's all about him .
Trump 's refusal to take this abuse sitting down has just further enraged his haters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who does n't talk back ; who does n't respond to his accusers ; who lets charges of racism , sexism and heartlessness stand .
Trump supporters have appreciated his refusal to roll over , especially since they realize that the hatred directed against him is also meant for them .
They know Trump has been treated unfairly and rarely starts these conflicts .
Reporters are uniformly disrespectful toward him .
For all his reputed combativeness , I 've been amazed that he has shown the restraint he has in many cases , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Even if you find Trump 's manner objectionable , let 's not confuse his style with his policies , his combativeness with his agenda .
His agenda is not divisive .
His economy has lifted up all groups of people .
He has reached out to minorities and tried to address their concerns .
It is the Democrats ( and their policies ) who are divisive .
Through rank identity politics , they stir people against one another on the basis of their skin color , gender and economic circumstances .
Republicans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the manufactured tension over gender politics .
But now that they believe the election is over and that Joe Biden will be the next president , many Trump haters are calling for unity — while another sizable batch is making lists of his supporters and promising retribution .
The Trump era is over , they say .
No longer do we have to be divided .
Let 's bring the nation together and accomplish great things .
Actress Alyssa Milano tweeted : `` I 'd like to extend an olive branch to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ move # ForwardTogether .
There 's so much work to do to heal the nation .
Let 's be a part of the solution and not add to the problems we face . ''
This same Alyssa Milano said about the Covington Catholic High School students , `` The red MAGA hat is the new white hood , '' and `` I wo n't apologize to these boys .
Or anyone who wears that hat .
But I will thank them .
I will thank them for lighting a fire underneath the conversation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ country and the role President Donald Trump has had in cultivating it and making it acceptable . ''
As a Christian , I firmly believe in reconciliation and healing .
I believe it 's wrong for us to hold grudges for past wrongs .
But there 's a difference between harboring a grudge and responding to ongoing smears .
If you want healing , stop calling us haters and bigots simply because we strongly disagree with you on policies .
Quit suppressing our speech , and quit canceling us from culture .
Most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for unity are anything other than a demand that we surrender to your radical agenda .
That 's not going to happen , because we believe your policies would devastate this nation and transform its fundamental character .
We do n't intend to resist you as a matter of revenge but because we believe your ideas are destructive .
We must be personally cordial and civil , but let 's quit indulging the fantasy that we can unify on policy , as our visions could n't be more opposite .
David Limbaugh is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ His latest book is `` Guilty by Reason of Insanity : Why the Democrats Must Not Win . ''
Follow him on Twitter @ davidlimbaugh and his website at www.davidlimbaugh.com .
To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists , visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com .

Many Trump haters have been lying all along about President Donald Trump, what he stands for, what his record has been and who his supporters are. Now they tell us they want unity.
What Trump wants — and want his supporters want — is for America to reclaim its greatness, its robust liberty tradition, its prosperity, the integrity of its borders, fair trade deals with foreign nations and its military strength. He has made great strides in achieving these goals.
Trump's opponents — the media, Democrats, never-Trump Republicans — have never given him a moment's rest, never a benefit of the doubt, never an atom of cooperation or bipartisanship. They haven't just served as the loyal opposition, resisting his agenda like the minority party is expected to do. They have never let him govern. From the time he stepped on the political stage, they've harassed, investigated, bullied, impeached and censored him.
The media has tormented Trump, ignored and distorted his accomplishments, and shown him in a 100% negative light for his entire term. Never in my lifetime have I seen such one-sided coverage.
They have deliberately misrepresented his words to paint him as a bigot. They have claimed his immigration policies are driven by racism, rather than a desire to protect our borders and ensure the orderly process of legal immigration. They have relentlessly hammered this into the national psyche to where millions upon millions of Americans not only believe it but also believe racism animates all Trump supporters. Just remember there was a time in the recent past when both parties agreed that we must control our borders and prosecute illegal immigration.
Most of the charges against Trump are over-the-top outrageous. Joe Biden, whom the media characterize as a nice, harmless fellow, has portrayed Trump as a racist and has said Trump is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans from COVID-19. Anyone with a smidgeon of intellectual integrity knows this is patently absurd. Trump put his all into fighting this virus, and for partisan opportunists to blame him for its death and destruction is indescribably vicious. But in our society, in which hating Trump has become a popular blood sport, no libel is too low.
I've never believed that this incessant hatred toward Trump was just about Trump. The left has villainized every Republican president in recent memory and, for several generations, has defamed all Republicans as heartless bigots.
But Trump, because of his manner and personality, is a convenient target, allowing those who hate conservatives to pretend it's all about him. Trump's refusal to take this abuse sitting down has just further enraged his haters. The only good Republican is one who doesn't talk back; who doesn't respond to his accusers; who lets charges of racism, sexism and heartlessness stand.
Trump supporters have appreciated his refusal to roll over, especially since they realize that the hatred directed against him is also meant for them. They know Trump has been treated unfairly and rarely starts these conflicts. Reporters are uniformly disrespectful toward him. For all his reputed combativeness, I've been amazed that he has shown the restraint he has in many cases, especially during the daily COVID-19 press briefings.
Even if you find Trump's manner objectionable, let's not confuse his style with his policies, his combativeness with his agenda. His agenda is not divisive. His economy has lifted up all groups of people. He has reached out to minorities and tried to address their concerns.
It is the Democrats (and their policies) who are divisive. Through rank identity politics, they stir people against one another on the basis of their skin color, gender and economic circumstances. Republicans aspire to racial colorblindness and an end to the manufactured tension over gender politics.
But now that they believe the election is over and that Joe Biden will be the next president, many Trump haters are calling for unity — while another sizable batch is making lists of his supporters and promising retribution.
The Trump era is over, they say. No longer do we have to be divided. Let's bring the nation together and accomplish great things. Actress Alyssa Milano tweeted: "I'd like to extend an olive branch to Trump supporters. I am ready to move #ForwardTogether. There's so much work to do to heal the nation. Let's be a part of the solution and not add to the problems we face."
This same Alyssa Milano said about the Covington Catholic High School students, "The red MAGA hat is the new white hood," and "I won't apologize to these boys. Or anyone who wears that hat. But I will thank them. I will thank them for lighting a fire underneath the conversation about systemic racism and misogyny in this country and the role President Donald Trump has had in cultivating it and making it acceptable."
As a Christian, I firmly believe in reconciliation and healing. I believe it's wrong for us to hold grudges for past wrongs. But there's a difference between harboring a grudge and responding to ongoing smears. If you want healing, stop calling us haters and bigots simply because we strongly disagree with you on policies. Quit suppressing our speech, and quit canceling us from culture. Most of all, quit pretending your calls for unity are anything other than a demand that we surrender to your radical agenda.
That's not going to happen, because we believe your policies would devastate this nation and transform its fundamental character. We don't intend to resist you as a matter of revenge but because we believe your ideas are destructive. We must be personally cordial and civil, but let's quit indulging the fantasy that we can unify on policy, as our visions couldn't be more opposite.
David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney. His latest book is "Guilty by Reason of Insanity: Why the Democrats Must Not Win." Follow him on Twitter @davidlimbaugh and his website at www.davidlimbaugh.com. To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.


bonginoreport--2020-11-27--Susan Stamper Brown: Remember the Long Game This Thanksgiving

As millions of us gather this year to share a quintessentially American holiday , a Thanksgiving Day meal , it ’ s good to think about the long game .
As you stare across the table at the person with whom the only thing you share in common is your bloodline , keep in mind Americans figured out how to get along after the Civil War , so you ’ ll get through this too , no matter how the 2020 election results pan out and what happens following .
Please do your best to overlook your loudmouth relative standing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ knife who won ’ t shut up about the radical leftist Democrat Party and their empty-headed presidential candidate .
Make eye contact with him and smile .
Yes , smile big while you imagine all the places someone misguided enough to be a Democrat might shove that turkey leg .
Smile and remember the long game .
Depending on what the courts may or may not do , the 2020 election battle might be over -- but the war is far from won .
If they win this round , it ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ while a dirty referee looked the other way .
Now we need to wear them down and keep them on defense , infiltrating every area they influence—documenting , recording , making them paranoid .
Take up all the empty space in their heads and stay there , rent-free .
As vile and dirty and dishonest as they play , remember we still have the advantage .
The U.S. Constitution is our playbook , and truth is on our side , just like it was when Democrats were on the wrong side of history @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Civil War .
Where we are today has little to do with politics .
If he is certified , Biden ’ s proposed policies and potential administration and cabinet picks are the polar opposite of most American people ’ s values and wishes ; they are illogical , extreme and radical , and anti-American , anti-Christian , anti-Israel and anti-U.S. Constitution .
Biden would rule by dictate , not by mandate .
Therefore , he and fellow Democrats no longer share any common ground with us .
Conservatives have the same values @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s Democrats who ’ ve changed .
The policies they brazenly promote are like hurling mashed potatoes in the face of God .
They loathe conservative Americans because we refuse to sit down , shut up , give an inch or give in .
They hate us because we refuse to cower , live in fear or submit .
They ’ ve declared a war against the freedoms guaranteed to us by the Almighty God and reinforced by the U.S. Constitution and expect us to take it lying down .
They want @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , join them as comrades -- in the destruction of everything our conscience tells us is good and right .
President Abraham Lincoln faced a similar mess in 1863 , with a divided nation bloodied by war—and with great wisdom decided the only way forward was true repentance followed by thanksgiving .
So he officially set aside the last Thursday of November “ as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.
” He requested everyone offer up “ the ascriptions justly due ” to God @ @ @ @ @ @ @ humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience…and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace , harmony , tranquility and union.
” Lincoln well understood the fine line we walk in our quest to balance truth and grace .
Ecclesiastes 3 reminds us there is a time for peace as well as a time for war .
And when God ’ s son overturned the temple @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is okay .
Lincoln thought about the long game when he told Americans to seek repentance because forgiveness takes time and only comes after genuine remorse .
Democrats aren ’ t interested in that right now , so it ’ s up to us to get our affairs in order while we wait for Democrats to make the next move .
But , hey , it ’ s Thanksgiving , and you need to find the grace to get you through the day .
Obviously , your left-leaning , knife-wielding relative has no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , so it ’ s up to you .
So smile big , remembering the turkey leg .
Then bow your head , thank God for all your blessings , and ask him for the grace to keep you right with him and to remain on the right side of history .
©2021 Susan Stamper Brown .
Susan is an award-winning columnist who lives in Alaska .
She feels safer around the grizzlies which roam her property than the leftists roaming worldwide .
She has written for scores of newspapers and media publications @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Townhall , The Christian Post , GOPUSA , and Jewish World Review .
Contact Susan at writestamper @ protonmail.com .

As millions of us gather this year to share a quintessentially American holiday, a Thanksgiving Day meal, it’s good to think about the long game.
As you stare across the table at the person with whom the only thing you share in common is your bloodline, keep in mind Americans figured out how to get along after the Civil War, so you’ll get through this too, no matter how the 2020 election results pan out and what happens following.
Please do your best to overlook your loudmouth relative standing over the turkey while wielding a carving knife who won’t shut up about the radical leftist Democrat Party and their empty-headed presidential candidate. Make eye contact with him and smile. Yes, smile big while you imagine all the places someone misguided enough to be a Democrat might shove that turkey leg.
Smile and remember the long game. Depending on what the courts may or may not do, the 2020 election battle might be over--but the war is far from won. If they win this round, it’s because they rigged the system and cheated while a dirty referee looked the other way.
Now we need to wear them down and keep them on defense, infiltrating every area they influence—documenting, recording, making them paranoid. Take up all the empty space in their heads and stay there, rent-free.
As vile and dirty and dishonest as they play, remember we still have the advantage. The U.S. Constitution is our playbook, and truth is on our side, just like it was when Democrats were on the wrong side of history the first time and got defeated during the Civil War.
Where we are today has little to do with politics.
If he is certified, Biden’s proposed policies and potential administration and cabinet picks are the polar opposite of most American people’s values and wishes; they are illogical, extreme and radical, and anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Israel and anti-U.S. Constitution.
Biden would rule by dictate, not by mandate.
Therefore, he and fellow Democrats no longer share any common ground with us. Conservatives have the same values we’ve always had; it’s Democrats who’ve changed. The policies they brazenly promote are like hurling mashed potatoes in the face of God.
They loathe conservative Americans because we refuse to sit down, shut up, give an inch or give in. They hate us because we refuse to cower, live in fear or submit.
They’ve declared a war against the freedoms guaranteed to us by the Almighty God and reinforced by the U.S. Constitution and expect us to take it lying down. They want us to “unify” with them, join them as comrades-- in the destruction of everything our conscience tells us is good and right.
Not happening.
President Abraham Lincoln faced a similar mess in 1863, with a divided nation bloodied by war—and with great wisdom decided the only way forward was true repentance followed by thanksgiving.
So he officially set aside the last Thursday of November “as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.” He requested everyone offer up “the ascriptions justly due” to God “for such singular deliverances and blessings…with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience…and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and union.”
Lincoln well understood the fine line we walk in our quest to balance truth and grace. Ecclesiastes 3 reminds us there is a time for peace as well as a time for war. And when God’s son overturned the temple tables, Jesus taught us righteous anger is okay.
Lincoln thought about the long game when he told Americans to seek repentance because forgiveness takes time and only comes after genuine remorse. Democrats aren’t interested in that right now, so it’s up to us to get our affairs in order while we wait for Democrats to make the next move.
But, hey, it’s Thanksgiving, and you need to find the grace to get you through the day. Obviously, your left-leaning, knife-wielding relative has no interest in repentance or thanksgiving right now, so it’s up to you.
So smile big, remembering the turkey leg. Then bow your head, thank God for all your blessings, and ask him for the grace to keep you right with him and to remain on the right side of history.
And don’t forget the long game.
©2021 Susan Stamper Brown. Susan is an award-winning columnist who lives in Alaska. She feels safer around the grizzlies which roam her property than the leftists roaming worldwide. She has written for scores of newspapers and media publications across the U.S., including USA Today, Townhall, The Christian Post, GOPUSA, and Jewish World Review. Contact Susan at writestamper@protonmail.com.


bonginoreport--2020-11-27--Patrick Buchanan: A Historic Presidency

Patrick Buchanan: A Historic Presidency

In the first two decades of the century , President-elect Joe Biden 's choice for secretary of state supported U.S. wars in Afghanistan , Iraq , Libya , Syria and Yemen .
He was an ever-reliable liberal interventionist .
This same Antony Blinken could spend the first years of a Biden presidency helping extricate our country from the misbegotten wars he championed .
What establishment Democrats like Biden and Blinken helped to do in previous administrations , they will likely now have to undo .
Who effected this sea change in national thinking ?
Donald Trump .
Much that was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the escalator in 2015 is no longer said or believed by the majority of Americans .
And no institution has been more altered than the Republican Party .
George H. W. Bush 's vision of a `` New World Order , '' launched at the after-party of his Gulf War victory , died with his presidency .
George W. Bush 's crusade for global democracy to `` end tyranny in our world '' has been forgotten .
Bush Republicans no longer speak for the party on foreign policy , trade or immigration .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ after Trump rudely demanded that freeloading nations pay their fair share of the collective defense or the Americans would pack up and come home from Europe .
Former Defense Secretary Gen. James Mattis may call for the ash-canning of the phrase `` America First . ''
He will fail .
For , as both national motto and national policy , the slogan has put down roots in American soil because it comports with the will of the silent majority .
Whatever the establishment believes , in the clash between nationalism and globalism , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the world is going this way .
Does not Xi Jinping put his own country first as he claims for China all the waters and islands for hundreds of miles into the East and South China seas ?
Does not Vladimir Putin put his own country first as he seeks to bring back under Moscow 's wing the former republics of the Russian federation ?
Does not President Erdogan put Turkey first as he sends arms and troops to pursue his country 's interests in Libya , Syria , Cyprus , the South @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with Greece ?
What does Bibi Netanyahu put first , if not his own country , Israel ?
If country and nation are not first in the hearts and minds of Americans , what should replace them ?
Some nonexistent New World Order ?
The U.N. ?
NATO ?
A multilateral caucus of global institutions ?
Under Trump , economic nationalism has displaced free trade globalism as the trade policy of the party and government .
The GOP elite that backed Bill Clinton on NAFTA , supported a new transnational World Trade Organization @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and accorded Beijing most-favored-nation trade status is now silent .
Tariffs to force open foreign markets and punish predator-traders who take advantage of American workers have replaced the free trade fundamentalism that had been dogma since Dwight Eisenhower 's days .
Nor is the Republican Party likely to return to free trade , as long as `` China First '' is the undeclared policy pursued by the nation that has now displaced us as the world 's leading manufacturing power .
The George Bush-John McCain Republican Party was for amnesty for illegals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Today 's GOP supports the deportation of illegals and the 30-foot Trump Wall on the Mexican border .
Not only is Trumpism triumphant in the GOP 's ideological battles , but its victory was validated in 2020 .
While Trump may have narrowly lost states that gave him an electoral majority in 2016 , he grew the GOP presidential vote by 10 million , held the Senate and added GOP votes in the House , an almost unprecedented feat for a defeated President .
Trump did not establish the new relationship with Russia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ end the forever wars of the Middle East .
Yet , the U.S. is closer today to the exit ramps from Afghanistan , Iraq , Syria and Yemen .
Can anyone believe that Bush Republicans or the `` Never-Trumpers '' are the future of the party when one considers the massive and visceral reaction of millions of Trump voters even to the idea of conceding his defeat in this election ?
After the dust has settled from this election , Trump 's achievements will begin to be recognized .
He cut tax rates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fourth year the lowest unemployment rate ever among Black Americans , women and racial and ethnic minorities .
He remade the Supreme Court , producing a 6-3 constitutionalist majority no predecessor was able to achieve .
He crushed ISIS in Syria and eliminated the caliphate there .
He pulled us out of the Paris climate accord , the Iranian nuclear deal and the World Health Organization .
His Operation Warp Speed initiative helped produce two vaccines for the worst pandemic in a century within less than a year .
And he brought the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not unimpressive record , though our media elite will never concede it .
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of `` Nixon 's White House Wars : The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever . ''
To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists , visit the Creators website at www.creators.com .

In the first two decades of the century, President-elect Joe Biden's choice for secretary of state supported U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen. He was an ever-reliable liberal interventionist.
This same Antony Blinken could spend the first years of a Biden presidency helping extricate our country from the misbegotten wars he championed. What establishment Democrats like Biden and Blinken helped to do in previous administrations, they will likely now have to undo.
Who effected this sea change in national thinking?
Donald Trump. Much that was said and believed before he came down the escalator in 2015 is no longer said or believed by the majority of Americans.
And no institution has been more altered than the Republican Party.
George H. W. Bush's vision of a "New World Order," launched at the after-party of his Gulf War victory, died with his presidency.
George W. Bush's crusade for global democracy to "end tyranny in our world" has been forgotten. Bush Republicans no longer speak for the party on foreign policy, trade or immigration.
NATO will never be the same again after Trump rudely demanded that freeloading nations pay their fair share of the collective defense or the Americans would pack up and come home from Europe.
Former Defense Secretary Gen. James Mattis may call for the ash-canning of the phrase "America First." He will fail. For, as both national motto and national policy, the slogan has put down roots in American soil because it comports with the will of the silent majority.
Whatever the establishment believes, in the clash between nationalism and globalism, globalism has lost America.
Moreover, the world is going this way.
Does not Xi Jinping put his own country first as he claims for China all the waters and islands for hundreds of miles into the East and South China seas? Does not Vladimir Putin put his own country first as he seeks to bring back under Moscow's wing the former republics of the Russian federation?
Does not President Erdogan put Turkey first as he sends arms and troops to pursue his country's interests in Libya, Syria, Cyprus, the South Caucasus and the Eastern Mediterranean in clashes with Greece?
What does Bibi Netanyahu put first, if not his own country, Israel?
If country and nation are not first in the hearts and minds of Americans, what should replace them? Some nonexistent New World Order? The U.N.? NATO? A multilateral caucus of global institutions?
Under Trump, economic nationalism has displaced free trade globalism as the trade policy of the party and government.
The GOP elite that backed Bill Clinton on NAFTA, supported a new transnational World Trade Organization, invited China to join the club, and accorded Beijing most-favored-nation trade status is now silent.
Tariffs to force open foreign markets and punish predator-traders who take advantage of American workers have replaced the free trade fundamentalism that had been dogma since Dwight Eisenhower's days.
Nor is the Republican Party likely to return to free trade, as long as "China First" is the undeclared policy pursued by the nation that has now displaced us as the world's leading manufacturing power.
The George Bush-John McCain Republican Party was for amnesty for illegals and open borders for new migrants. Today's GOP supports the deportation of illegals and the 30-foot Trump Wall on the Mexican border.
Not only is Trumpism triumphant in the GOP's ideological battles, but its victory was validated in 2020. While Trump may have narrowly lost states that gave him an electoral majority in 2016, he grew the GOP presidential vote by 10 million, held the Senate and added GOP votes in the House, an almost unprecedented feat for a defeated President.
Trump did not establish the new relationship with Russia he had promised, nor did he end the forever wars of the Middle East. Yet, the U.S. is closer today to the exit ramps from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
Can anyone believe that Bush Republicans or the "Never-Trumpers" are the future of the party when one considers the massive and visceral reaction of millions of Trump voters even to the idea of conceding his defeat in this election? After the dust has settled from this election, Trump's achievements will begin to be recognized.
He cut tax rates and federal regulations and produced in his fourth year the lowest unemployment rate ever among Black Americans, women and racial and ethnic minorities. He remade the Supreme Court, producing a 6-3 constitutionalist majority no predecessor was able to achieve.
He crushed ISIS in Syria and eliminated the caliphate there. He pulled us out of the Paris climate accord, the Iranian nuclear deal and the World Health Organization. His Operation Warp Speed initiative helped produce two vaccines for the worst pandemic in a century within less than a year. And he brought the Dow back up to 30,000.
A not unimpressive record, though our media elite will never concede it. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of "Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever." To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators website at www.creators.com.


bonginoreport--2020-11-27--John Podhoretz: Trump’s Leaving Biden a Christmas Gift of Middle East Peace — Will Joe Throw It in t

John Podhoretz: Trump’s Leaving Biden a Christmas Gift of Middle East Peace — Will Joe Throw It in the Trash?

Not even a year ago , impregnable crowds and stained-costumed Elmos ...

Will Joe Biden and his foreign-policy team accept the extraordinary gift Team Trump is leaving for them under the Christmas tree — or is their hatred for the president so all-consuming that they will toss it in the garbage?
I’m talking about the Abraham Accords, peace deals between Israel and various Arab states — the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan — that have sought the Jewish state’s destruction since its founding in 1948. Normalization has proceeded so quickly, Dubai already has a kosher restaurant, and its supermarkets are stocking Israeli agricultural products festooned with Stars of David — a science-fictional sight only a year ago.
Over the weekend, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman — the first face-to-face contact we know about between leaders of Israel and Saudi Arabia. There is no way the UAE and Bahrain made peace without Riyadh’s nod, and so Sunday’s meeting gave rise to the idea that Saudi Arabia might be the next nation to follow suit.
The establishment of diplomatic ties between the two would represent the fulfillment of a key US diplomatic goal dating back seven decades — and the end of the hopeless but destructive Sunni war against Israel’s existence.
It’s unlikely the Saudi-Israeli deal will happen in the 55 days before President Trump leaves office, especially since the Saudis have officially denied the meeting took place. But who knows? Bin Salman is impulsive and incautious, his behavior unpredictable.
Riyadh realized more than a decade ago that its greatest enemy isn’t Israel, but Iran — and that, in fact, the Jewish state and the House of Saud found themselves under the same existential threat once it became clear the Iranians were hell-bent on nukes.
Plus, the two countries found themselves in the same boat when President Barack Obama struck his 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, which not only supplied Tehran with hundreds of billions of dollars, but also acknowledged the regime’s ultimate right to nukes.
This is where the Biden team and its attitude toward these extraordinary developments may play a decisive role.
Incoming Secretary of State Antony Blinken and incoming National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan were senior officials during the Obama administration, both deeply involved in negotiating the Iran deal. Both have spoken of their interest in renewing the deal despite Trump’s formal exit from it in 2018. The hunger to do so may reveal a mindset that views the Abraham Accords not as a US triumph, but a sideshow.
First, there is a general sense among all Democrats that anything and everything Trump has touched is corrupted and diseased and must be discarded.
The Abraham Accords are in part an outgrowth of the Trump administration’s clear tilt toward Israel from the moment it took office and the move of the American embassy to Jerusalem. That may alone may render the accords suspect in Obamian eyes.
At the same time, Biden now presides over a Democratic Party whose antipathy toward Israel is growing, as represented by the left-wing activists in the House who have made their loathing of the Jewish state a key element of their Squad’s cheerleading. Ironically, the Squad is committed to a Palestinian cause that its Arab sponsors have now largely abandoned.
The Arab signatories have grown tired of, and uninterested in, the Palestinian cause, and they seem eager to move on and deal with the world as it is. As they change course, the Democratic Party writ large may be eager to take up the cudgels of Palestinian nationalism more openly than ever before.
Perhaps even more painful for the Biden team, the ultimate success of the accords would be a history-making achievement for two leaders detested by the administration in which they served — Netanyahu, the subject of some of the ugliest score-settling jabs in Obama’s new memoir, and MBS, who has more than earned the opprobrium of all civilized people due to his apparent role in the literal dismemberment of his critic Jamal Khashoggi.
A Middle East in which Israel and Arab states find they can live together, trade together and move into the 21st century in a normal way is an international blessing. The Biden team doesn’t have to do anything but reap the fruits of this new reality. It’s the easiest thing in the world. Let’s see if they screw it up.


bonginoreport--2020-11-27--Tim Graham: Biden: Not Quite as Adored as Obama

President-elect Joe Biden came out with his first Cabinet picks before Thanksgiving , and the media were falling all over themselves with compliments .
Oh , they are all so thoroughly professional , deeply experienced and manifestly competent .
The media even tried to suggest with a straight face that this warmed-over pile of Obama administration appointees is `` not going to be political . ''
How ridiculous .
Elected people — and their appointees — have to be political .
At least they 're not demanding Joe Biden be inaugurated early .
In 2008 , they were so deeply @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wanted to slash the transition period in half and get those wonderful Democrats back in power .
Al Neuharth , founder of USA Today , wrote in his Nov. 14 , 2008 column : `` We should move the President 's inauguration up to the first Tuesday in December , one month after the election .
... People who elect a new president are eager for the change to take place .
The sooner the better . ''
New York Times columnist Gail Collins wanted then-President George W. Bush to do the patriotic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is this week , and President Bush could make it a really special holiday by resigning , '' she wrote .
`` Seriously .
... just to be on the safe side , the Vice President ought to turn in his resignation first .
( We 're desperate , but not crazy . )
Then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would become president until Jan. 20 .
Obviously , she 'd defer to her party 's incoming chief executive , and Obama could begin governing . ''
Her Times colleague Thomas Friedman had to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : `` If I had my druthers right now we would convene a special session of Congress , amend the Constitution and move up the inauguration from Jan. 20 to Thanksgiving Day .
... Just get me a Supreme Court justice and a Bible , and let 's swear in Barack Obama right now — by choice — with the same haste we did — by necessity — with L.B.J .
in the back of Air Force One . ''
To be blunt , he was implying Bush had suddenly become as useless @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this brouhaha , PBS `` Washington Week '' host and Obama superfan Gwen Ifill declared on Dec. 5 , 2008 , that a generic group of `` people '' wanted Obama sworn in pronto : `` Maybe what people are beginning to say is that this president-elect should be president now ? ''
New York Times reporter Peter Baker repeated after her , responding : `` That 's right .
Exactly .
People voted for change , and this strange , odd 77-day waiting period that we impose , in effect , between @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's such a long period ... '' Disgraced former CBS anchorman Dan Rather refused to be outdone in throwing dirt on George W. Bush .
On `` Morning Joe '' that same day , Rather argued : `` We ca n't afford to waste an hour , much less a day or a week or a month .
And this business of being a lame-duck president and saying , you know , 'Adios .
I 'm going to the ranch .
I 'm just not going to do very much during this period @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
... ( W ) e 're in possibly , possibly the biggest crisis we 've been in since Dec. 7 , 1941 , and maybe since the time of the Civil War .
So we ca n't afford to have this interregnum . ''
Remember , these are some of the same badly disguised Democrats who would later lecture us for four years about the importance of `` democratic norms . ''
The only norm they seem to revere is having Democrats in power .
Tim Graham is director of media analysis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ editor of the blog NewsBusters.org .
To find out more about Tim Graham , and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists , visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com .

President-elect Joe Biden came out with his first Cabinet picks before Thanksgiving, and the media were falling all over themselves with compliments. Oh, they are all so thoroughly professional, deeply experienced and manifestly competent. The media even tried to suggest with a straight face that this warmed-over pile of Obama administration appointees is "not going to be political."
How ridiculous. Elected people — and their appointees — have to be political.
At least they're not demanding Joe Biden be inaugurated early. In 2008, they were so deeply enchanted with then-President-elect Barack Obama that they wanted to slash the transition period in half and get those wonderful Democrats back in power. Al Neuharth, founder of USA Today, wrote in his Nov. 14, 2008 column: "We should move the President's inauguration up to the first Tuesday in December, one month after the election. ... People who elect a new president are eager for the change to take place. The sooner the better."
New York Times columnist Gail Collins wanted then-President George W. Bush to do the patriotic thing ... and quit. "Thanksgiving is this week, and President Bush could make it a really special holiday by resigning," she wrote. "Seriously. ... just to be on the safe side, the Vice President ought to turn in his resignation first. (We're desperate, but not crazy.) Then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would become president until Jan. 20. Obviously, she'd defer to her party's incoming chief executive, and Obama could begin governing."
Her Times colleague Thomas Friedman had to get in on the fun, writing: "If I had my druthers right now we would convene a special session of Congress, amend the Constitution and move up the inauguration from Jan. 20 to Thanksgiving Day. ... Just get me a Supreme Court justice and a Bible, and let's swear in Barack Obama right now — by choice — with the same haste we did — by necessity — with L.B.J. in the back of Air Force One."
To be blunt, he was implying Bush had suddenly become as useless as an assassinated president.
After all this brouhaha, PBS "Washington Week" host and Obama superfan Gwen Ifill declared on Dec. 5, 2008, that a generic group of "people" wanted Obama sworn in pronto: "Maybe what people are beginning to say is that this president-elect should be president now?" New York Times reporter Peter Baker repeated after her, responding: "That's right. Exactly. People voted for change, and this strange, odd 77-day waiting period that we impose, in effect, between our election and our inauguration ... it's such a long period ..."
Disgraced former CBS anchorman Dan Rather refused to be outdone in throwing dirt on George W. Bush. On "Morning Joe" that same day, Rather argued: "We can't afford to waste an hour, much less a day or a week or a month. And this business of being a lame-duck president and saying, you know, 'Adios. I'm going to the ranch. I'm just not going to do very much during this period.' We can't afford it. ... (W)e're in possibly, possibly the biggest crisis we've been in since Dec. 7, 1941, and maybe since the time of the Civil War. So we can't afford to have this interregnum."
Remember, these are some of the same badly disguised Democrats who would later lecture us for four years about the importance of "democratic norms." The only norm they seem to revere is having Democrats in power.
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.


bonginoreport--2020-11-27--Stephen Colbert Reminds Us That He’s No Longer a Comedian

In a series of bootlicking exchanges during a sit-down interview , former President Barack Obama and Democratic sycophant Stephen Colbert engaged in eye-rolling flirtatious banter .
`` President Obama , thank you so much for joining me today , '' Colbert prefaced the ensuing bromance .
`` It is wonderful to be here .
Thank you having me , '' the 44th president responded .
Colbert continued : `` It 's good to see you . ''
To which , Obama answered , `` It 's good to be seen .
I 've been seeing you on television , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ person . ''
`` That 's got ta help the [ demographic ] in some way , '' Colbert jested in an aside .
`` How old are you ? ''
he poked .
Obama chuckled .
`` Are you aged 18 to 54 ? ''
Colbert carried on .
The president laughed and replied , `` I 'm not the demographic you 're looking for .
It 's too late . ''
Colbert quipped : `` Sorry it does n't count .
I apologize .
`` Michelle says , 'Hey . '
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Obama pushed the cringe-filled conversation forward , signaling to the viewers that the pair has history in addition to rapport .
Buttered-up and flattered , Colbert nodded with star-struck eyes .
`` Good , good .
Well , I love really spending some time with her over the last four years , '' he fawned .
`` She adores you .
She thinks the world of you .
I think you 're okay , '' Obama praised Colbert , granting the host his much-needed attention .
Stuttering , Colbert stated : `` Can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ na talk—I just want to take a moment to drink you in . ''
Obama erupted into giggles over Colbert 's giddiness .
`` Because I 'm having to get used to looking at a president again .
You know , I 've gotten out of the habit .
I 've got ta warm up for Joe Biden .
I do n't want to pull anything when I see him take the oath of office .
They got ta ease me into this a little bit , '' Colbert cracked .
Obama agreed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of returning to a presidency that is actually paying attention and trying to do right by all people and not just some . ''
Obama made the late-night appearance to promote his new memoir , A Promised Land .
However , the two spent much of the wide-ranging interview taking shots at the Trump administration ’ s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and expressing hope for the nation 's future under presumptive president-elect Joe Biden .
`` They are going to have big challenges ahead , '' Obama said of the Biden-Harris ticket @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is indicative of the message he sent of wanting to unify the country .
I do think people are exhausted of just this constant cage match .
People want to feel like a day passes without it being dominated by something crazy coming out of the White House . ''
President Donald Trump 's predecessor acknowledged that COVID-19 mitigation efforts would be `` hard for anyone '' on a national scale , but Trump failed by `` undermining the leading epidemiologist in the country and saying he ’ s an idiot , [ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ masks and social distancing…suggesting that this is some act of oppression , [ instead of ] a common sense thing to prevent people from getting sick . ''
`` Had we just taken those steps , there is no doubt that we would have saved some lives , and , ironically , the economy would be better because we would not be swinging back and forth the way we have , and people would have more confidence about making day-to-day decisions about shopping , '' Obama alleged .
According to Nielsen data , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Late Show ’ s largest audience in over a year with 3.49 million viewers watching on CBS .

In a series of bootlicking exchanges during a sit-down interview, former President Barack Obama and Democratic sycophant Stephen Colbert engaged in eye-rolling flirtatious banter.
“I just want to take a moment to drink you in for just a moment because I’m having to get used to looking at a President again” – @StephenAtHome lovefest with Barack Obama on Tuesday’s @ColbertLateShow #LSSC pic.twitter.com/pSYYjRX3uH — Brent Baker (@BrentHBaker) November 25, 2020
"President Obama, thank you so much for joining me today," Colbert prefaced the ensuing bromance. "It is wonderful to be here. Thank you having me," the 44th president responded.
Colbert continued: "It's good to see you." To which, Obama answered, "It's good to be seen. I've been seeing you on television, but it's good to see you in person."
"That's gotta help the [demographic] in some way," Colbert jested in an aside. "How old are you?" he poked. Obama chuckled. "Are you aged 18 to 54?" Colbert carried on.
The president laughed and replied, "I'm not the demographic you're looking for. It's too late." Colbert quipped: "Sorry it doesn't count. I apologize.
"Michelle says, 'Hey.' You know she loves you." Obama pushed the cringe-filled conversation forward, signaling to the viewers that the pair has history in addition to rapport.
Buttered-up and flattered, Colbert nodded with star-struck eyes. "Good, good. Well, I love really spending some time with her over the last four years," he fawned.
"She adores you. She thinks the world of you. I think you're okay," Obama praised Colbert, granting the host his much-needed attention.
Stuttering, Colbert stated: "Can we just take a moment—and I wanna talk—I just want to take a moment to drink you in." Obama erupted into giggles over Colbert's giddiness.
"Because I'm having to get used to looking at a president again. You know, I've gotten out of the habit. I've gotta warm up for Joe Biden. I don't want to pull anything when I see him take the oath of office. They gotta ease me into this a little bit," Colbert cracked.
Obama agreed: "We've got the potential of returning to a presidency that is actually paying attention and trying to do right by all people and not just some."
Obama made the late-night appearance to promote his new memoir, A Promised Land. However, the two spent much of the wide-ranging interview taking shots at the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and expressing hope for the nation's future under presumptive president-elect Joe Biden.
"They are going to have big challenges ahead," Obama said of the Biden-Harris ticket. "The fact that he won is indicative of the message he sent of wanting to unify the country. I do think people are exhausted of just this constant cage match. People want to feel like a day passes without it being dominated by something crazy coming out of the White House."
President Donald Trump's predecessor acknowledged that COVID-19 mitigation efforts would be "hard for anyone" on a national scale, but Trump failed by "undermining the leading epidemiologist in the country and saying he’s an idiot, [not] being consistent in terms of masks and social distancing…suggesting that this is some act of oppression, [instead of] a common sense thing to prevent people from getting sick."
"Had we just taken those steps, there is no doubt that we would have saved some lives, and, ironically, the economy would be better because we would not be swinging back and forth the way we have, and people would have more confidence about making day-to-day decisions about shopping," Obama alleged.
According to Nielsen data, the episode featuring Obama resulted in The Late Show’s largest audience in over a year with 3.49 million viewers watching on CBS.


bonginoreport--2020-11-27--Data Scientist Highlights “Weird” Spike in Nevada Voter Registrations, People Using Casinos as Home

Data Scientist Highlights “Weird” Spike in Nevada Voter Registrations, People Using Casinos as Home Address

Data Scientist : ‘ Weird ’ Spike in Incomplete Nevada Voter Registrations , Use of ‘ Casinos ’ as Home Addresses An affidavit filed by Republicans in Nevada , citing a data scientist , shows an allegedly inexplicable jump in voter registrations in the state .
The scientist , Dorothy Morgan , referenced in their affidavit , said she spotted a “ historically strange ” increase in voter registrations missing the sex and age of the voter , as well as registrations where casinos and RV parks are provided as “ their home or mailing addresses ” in the Third @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Clark County and Las Vegas .
Citing the other presidential elections as a reference point , Morgan said there were 68 voter registrations missing the critical data in 2016 .
But in 2020 , there were 13,372 voters missing that data , she said .
About 74 percent of the allegedly incomplete registrations occurred between July 2020 and September 2020 , Morgan found , according to the affidavit .
“ This investigation found over 13,000 voters whose voter registration information revealed no sex or date of birth .
Not only does this mean @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are old enough to vote , it is also historically strange : While one does not expect voter registration information to be perfect , it is very strange that there were very , very few of these kinds of imperfect records with missing or invalid information until this year—when there are 13,372 of them , ” the data scientist said , according to an affidavit obtained by the Washington Examiner .
Morgan noted the unusual address , saying that casinos and RV parks were listed .
“ I have also identified dozens of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mailing addresses a temporary RV park and casino , ” she wrote .
In an interview with the newspaper , Morgan said on Thanksgiving Day that she found the data “ weird.
” There were “ just a lot of people who have zero birthdays , zero birth month , and then , unknown sex , ” she continued .
“ I saw is that you have a handful of people and then all of a sudden you have 13,000 people making that error in 2020 , and that ’ s just , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Morgan added .
The scientist said that her findings are merely scratching the surface .
“ Based on the results I have found in the limited time I have had to analyze this dataset , I expect to find additional oddities in the election data as I conduct further analysis , ” she wrote .
Nevada ’ s Secretary of State ’ s office has not responded to a request for comment on Friday .
Nevada ’ s election data shows Democrat Joe Biden with a more than 30,000-vote lead over President Donald @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state ’ s Supreme Court certified Biden ’ s win .
Jesse Binnall , an attorney for the Trump campaign in Nevada , said on Nov. 24 that he will prove that many fraudulent votes were cast in the Silver State , asserting that Trump is the rightful winner of Nevada ’ s six Electoral College votes .

An affidavit filed by Republicans in Nevada, citing a data scientist, shows an allegedly inexplicable jump in voter registrations in the state.
The scientist, Dorothy Morgan, referenced in their affidavit, said she spotted a "historically strange" increase in voter registrations missing the sex and age of the voter, as well as registrations where casinos and RV parks are provided as “their home or mailing addresses" in the Third Congressional District, which covers much of Clark County and Las Vegas.
Citing the other presidential elections as a reference point, Morgan said there were 68 voter registrations missing the critical data in 2016. But in 2020, there were 13,372 voters missing that data, she said.
About 74 percent of the allegedly incomplete registrations occurred between July 2020 and September 2020, Morgan found, according to the affidavit.
“This investigation found over 13,000 voters whose voter registration information revealed no sex or date of birth. Not only does this mean we cannot verify whether these voters are old enough to vote, it is also historically strange: While one does not expect voter registration information to be perfect, it is very strange that there were very, very few of these kinds of imperfect records with missing or invalid information until this year—when there are 13,372 of them," the data scientist said, according to an affidavit obtained by the Washington Examiner.
Morgan noted the unusual address, saying that casinos and RV parks were listed.
“I have also identified dozens of voters who listed as their home or mailing addresses a temporary RV park and casino,” she wrote.
In an interview with the newspaper, Morgan said on Thanksgiving Day that she found the data "weird." There were "just a lot of people who have zero birthdays, zero birth month, and then, unknown sex," she continued.
“I saw is that you have a handful of people and then all of a sudden you have 13,000 people making that error in 2020, and that's just, that's not right," Morgan added.
The scientist said that her findings are merely scratching the surface.
“Based on the results I have found in the limited time I have had to analyze this dataset, I expect to find additional oddities in the election data as I conduct further analysis,” she wrote.
Nevada's Secretary of State's office has not responded to a request for comment on Friday.
Nevada's election data shows Democrat Joe Biden with a more than 30,000-vote lead over President Donald Trump. Earlier this week, the state's Supreme Court certified Biden's win.
Jesse Binnall, an attorney for the Trump campaign in Nevada, said on Nov. 24 that he will prove that many fraudulent votes were cast in the Silver State, asserting that Trump is the rightful winner of Nevada's six Electoral College votes.


bonginoreport--2020-11-27--GoFundMe Is More Efficient Than Big Government

The debate over government efforts to alleviate poverty is often framed as a binary : Should we do something to help the poor , or not ?
In reality , the question is actually whether we should empower Washington bureaucrats to address the problem or instead funnel resources to decentralized private charitable efforts .
The COVID-19 crisis and ensuing response , in both the private and public sector , has given us a clear case study in the relative merits and shortcomings of both approaches .
The federal government has stepped in and spent trillions of taxpayer dollars seeking to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the coronavirus crisis and ensuing government lockdowns .
It did this primarily through the $ 2+ trillion CARES Act .
The crude , rushed behemoth legislative package essentially threw money at the problem , and , while some of that money no doubt ended up in the hands of those who needed it , much of it was lost to waste , fraud , and dysfunction along the way .
For example , the CARES Act created a “ supercharged ” unemployment system that used federal money to supplement state-level unemployment benefits @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the usual payout .
This resulted in a broken system where 70 percent of the unemployed could earn more by staying home than by working .
With little in the way of serious verification requirements , the program lost an astounding $ 26 billion to fraud—equal to the amount the entire unemployment system paid out in 2019 .
In another key aspect of the federal government ’ s stimulus efforts , $ 1,200 checks were sent to many Americans .
But they were sent based on out-dated pre-pandemic income data that didn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ situation under COVID-19 .
To top off the dysfunction , billions in taxpayer dollars were sent to dead people .
( Yes , you read that right ) .
The saving grace of the CARES Act was , supposedly , the Paycheck Protection Program .
The massive program doled out taxpayer money to struggling businesses to try and keep them afloat amid the crisis .
However , it was flawed by design from its very inception , illogically mandating that businesses use the money on payroll rather than other expenses such as rent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , so it too was consumed by—you guessed it—fraud and abuse .
“ The federal government is swamped with reports of potential fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program , ” the Wall Street Journal reported .
“ Evidence is growing that many others took advantage of the program ’ s open-door design .
Banks and the government allowed companies to self-certify that they needed the funds , with little vetting.
” Moreover , the efficacy of the PPP program is seriously in doubt .
“ It seems that a lot of that cash @ @ @ @ @ @ @ maintained relatively similar employment levels , ” MIT economist David Autor concluded .
A study Autor conducted found that the Paycheck Protection Program only preserved roughly 2.3 million jobs—which comes out to $ 224,000 in taxpayer expenditure per job .
And the Journal also reports that from just a small sample they reviewed , at least 300 major companies that received PPP money went out of business anyway .
In any honest reflection , the federal government 's efforts to respond to the current recession can only be deemed an extremely blunt tool @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to cauterize a wound using a flamethrower .
Any good they may have accomplished clearly came at the cost of widespread fraud , dysfunction , abuse , and bureaucratic mismanagement .
This stands in stark contrast to the relatively more limited but much more visibly successful efforts of the private sector during the same time .
The most prominent example of successful private charity in action during the COVID-19 crisis is the crowd-sourcing website GoFundMe .
The already-popular service has for years allowed individuals to post public pleas for charitable cases , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ beyond their wildest expectations have poured in .
The pandemic only accelerated their success .
“ Between March 1 and August 31 , 2020 , the GoFundMe community responded to the widespread impact of the pandemic by raising over $ 625 million through over 9 million donations for frontline workers , small businesses , causes , organizations , and more , ” GoFundMe reports .
More than 150,000 different fundraisers were started for COVID-19 relief , with causes as varied as fundraising for small businesses ruined by lockdowns , medical fundraising , protective @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and more .
And these data are just through August , so the numbers have no doubt grown larger since .
With no bureaucracy , middle-men , or political cronyism involved , GoFundMe charitable fundraisers delivered vast financial resources directly to those who needed them most .
In an example from just this week , the family of a man stricken by COVID-19 in critical condition has raised nearly $ 50,000 for medical bills .
His wife doesn ’ t qualify for her state ’ s COVID relief program .
Yes , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sheer dollar-size to the federal government ’ s .
But keep in mind that GoFundMe is just one of untold thousands of private charities , organizations , nonprofits and services doing this kind of work .
And we must consider the fact that were the government not consuming so much of our resources on poverty alleviation efforts , GoFundMe and its ilk would be doing far more to help people that is currently “ crowded out.
” It ’ s difficult to quantify the exact relationship , but there ’ s no doubt @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of private charity in a society .
The more individuals are paying in taxes , the less money they have for donations .
So , too , the less appetite they have for funding anti-poverty efforts , seeing as that ’ s what they ’ re told , in part , their taxes are supposed to do .
This trend has played out over the course of American history .
“ The heyday of laissez-faire , the middle and late nineteenth century in Britain and the United States , saw an extraordinary proliferation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Nobel-prize-winning economist Milton Friedman wrote in Capitalism and Freedom .
“ One of the major costs of the extension of governmental welfare activities has been the corresponding decline in private charitable activities , ” he concluded .
For example , one study found that “ church [ charitable ] spending fell by 30 % in response to the New Deal , and that government relief spending can explain virtually all of the decline in charitable church activity observed between 1933 and 1939.
” The exact magnitude of the relationship is hard to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it ’ s demonstrably true that the more the government spends to address poverty , the less resources and desire there will be available to support private anti-poverty efforts .
In real life , resources are scarce .
The most basic lesson of economics is that we must make trade-offs : The more we use in one area , the less we can use elsewhere .
When it comes to government management of COVID relief , that 's bad news for the most vulnerable .

The debate over government efforts to alleviate poverty is often framed as a binary: Should we do something to help the poor, or not?
In reality, the question is actually whether we should empower Washington bureaucrats to address the problem or instead funnel resources to decentralized private charitable efforts. The COVID-19 crisis and ensuing response, in both the private and public sector, has given us a clear case study in the relative merits and shortcomings of both approaches.
Big Government Efforts Riddled With Fraud and Dysfunction
The federal government has stepped in and spent trillions of taxpayer dollars seeking to address the widespread poverty and unemployment created by the coronavirus crisis and ensuing government lockdowns. It did this primarily through the $2+ trillion CARES Act.
The crude, rushed behemoth legislative package essentially threw money at the problem, and, while some of that money no doubt ended up in the hands of those who needed it, much of it was lost to waste, fraud, and dysfunction along the way.
For example, the CARES Act created a “supercharged” unemployment system that used federal money to supplement state-level unemployment benefits with an extra $600 on top of the usual payout. This resulted in a broken system where 70 percent of the unemployed could earn more by staying home than by working. With little in the way of serious verification requirements, the program lost an astounding $26 billion to fraud—equal to the amount the entire unemployment system paid out in 2019.
In another key aspect of the federal government’s stimulus efforts, $1,200 checks were sent to many Americans. But they were sent based on out-dated pre-pandemic income data that didn’t reflect peoples’ actual financial situation under COVID-19. To top off the dysfunction, billions in taxpayer dollars were sent to dead people. (Yes, you read that right).
“The checks sent to dead people as of April 30 totaled nearly $1.4 billion, according to the Government Accountability Office”
This is the top of the iceberg of waste in this bill.https://t.co/RBhqoM4lNz#SassyWithMassie pic.twitter.com/HYlBgNaSnF — Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) June 25, 2020
The saving grace of the CARES Act was, supposedly, the Paycheck Protection Program.
The massive program doled out taxpayer money to struggling businesses to try and keep them afloat amid the crisis. However, it was flawed by design from its very inception, illogically mandating that businesses use the money on payroll rather than other expenses such as rent. It also contained few verification requirements, so it too was consumed by—you guessed it—fraud and abuse.
Reports of waste and abuse in Paycheck Protection Program are inundating government watchdogs and prosecutors as Congress considers a new round of aid https://t.co/he98TJAn4v — Real Time Economics (@WSJecon) November 8, 2020
“The federal government is swamped with reports of potential fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program,” the Wall Street Journal reported. “Evidence is growing that many others took advantage of the program’s open-door design. Banks and the government allowed companies to self-certify that they needed the funds, with little vetting.”
Moreover, the efficacy of the PPP program is seriously in doubt.
“It seems that a lot of that cash went to businesses that would have otherwise maintained relatively similar employment levels,” MIT economist David Autor concluded.
A study Autor conducted found that the Paycheck Protection Program only preserved roughly 2.3 million jobs—which comes out to $224,000 in taxpayer expenditure per job.
And the Journal also reports that from just a small sample they reviewed, at least 300 major companies that received PPP money went out of business anyway.
In any honest reflection, the federal government's efforts to respond to the current recession can only be deemed an extremely blunt tool. It’s like they attempted to cauterize a wound using a flamethrower. Any good they may have accomplished clearly came at the cost of widespread fraud, dysfunction, abuse, and bureaucratic mismanagement.
This stands in stark contrast to the relatively more limited but much more visibly successful efforts of the private sector during the same time.
The GoFundMe Miracle
The most prominent example of successful private charity in action during the COVID-19 crisis is the crowd-sourcing website GoFundMe. The already-popular service has for years allowed individuals to post public pleas for charitable cases, and, in many cases, generous donations beyond their wildest expectations have poured in.
The pandemic only accelerated their success.
“Between March 1 and August 31, 2020, the GoFundMe community responded to the widespread impact of the pandemic by raising over $625 million through over 9 million donations for frontline workers, small businesses, causes, organizations, and more,” GoFundMe reports.
More than 150,000 different fundraisers were started for COVID-19 relief, with causes as varied as fundraising for small businesses ruined by lockdowns, medical fundraising, protective gear for frontline workers, memorial services, and more.
And these data are just through August, so the numbers have no doubt grown larger since. With no bureaucracy, middle-men, or political cronyism involved, GoFundMe charitable fundraisers delivered vast financial resources directly to those who needed them most.
In an example from just this week, the family of a man stricken by COVID-19 in critical condition has raised nearly $50,000 for medical bills. His wife doesn’t qualify for her state’s COVID relief program.
Yes, GoFundMe’s efforts might pale in sheer dollar-size to the federal government’s.
But keep in mind that GoFundMe is just one of untold thousands of private charities, organizations, nonprofits and services doing this kind of work. And we must consider the fact that were the government not consuming so much of our resources on poverty alleviation efforts, GoFundMe and its ilk would be doing far more to help people that is currently “crowded out.”
Big Government Replaces Private Charity
It’s difficult to quantify the exact relationship, but there’s no doubt that big government programs reduce the amount of private charity in a society.
The more individuals are paying in taxes, the less money they have for donations. So, too, the less appetite they have for funding anti-poverty efforts, seeing as that’s what they’re told, in part, their taxes are supposed to do.
This trend has played out over the course of American history.
“The heyday of laissez-faire, the middle and late nineteenth century in Britain and the United States, saw an extraordinary proliferation of private eleemosynary organizations and institutions,” Nobel-prize-winning economist Milton Friedman wrote in Capitalism and Freedom.
“One of the major costs of the extension of governmental welfare activities has been the corresponding decline in private charitable activities,” he concluded.
For example, one study found that “church [charitable] spending fell by 30% in response to the New Deal, and that government relief spending can explain virtually all of the decline in charitable church activity observed between 1933 and 1939.”
The exact magnitude of the relationship is hard to pin down, but broadly speaking, it’s demonstrably true that the more the government spends to address poverty, the less resources and desire there will be available to support private anti-poverty efforts.
In real life, resources are scarce. The most basic lesson of economics is that we must make trade-offs: The more we use in one area, the less we can use elsewhere.
When it comes to government management of COVID relief, that's bad news for the most vulnerable.


bonginoreport--2020-11-27--House Democrats Have Begun Drafting an Amnesty Plan to Send to Joe Biden

House Democrats have already started working on a plan to provide amnesty to the 11-22 million (depending on which estimates you believe) illegals living in the United States. Unsurprisingly, bringing in millions of potential new voters is a high priority for Democrats in the House and Joe Biden has previously indicated that he would bring up his own amnesty bill in the first 100 days of his administration. Given that Biden has publicly embraced open borders like no President before him, you can expect he will do everything in his power to get an amnesty bill through if Donald Trump’s court challenges fail and he becomes the President.
Although Republicans in DC are surprisingly soft on amnesty because of all the donations they get from pro-amnesty business groups, most of them can be expected to oppose an amnesty bill out of fear of the voters. That makes it unlikely, but not impossible, that an amnesty bill could get past a filibuster in the Senate. If it comes to that, keep the pressure on the GOP.
However, if Donald Trump loses his court challenges, Biden becomes President AND Democrats win both run-off elections in Georgia, then it’s possible that the Democrats could end the legislative filibuster in the Senate and push through an amnesty on a party-line vote. That is also unlikely, but not impossible.
What all of this comes down to is that Democrats love the idea of amnesty because they see it as a way to add millions of new voters. The Republicans that support it mostly do so either because they’re in a business that makes money off of illegal immigration or they’re getting campaign contributions from those people. On the other hand, people whose first concern is looking out for America oppose illegal immigration because it’s bad for the country. Long-term, it’s hard to say which side will win that fight, but it is a hill worth dying on if you want America to continue to be a great nation.
John Hawkins is the author of 101 Things All Young Adults Should Know. You can find him on Parler here, Twitter here, and his Facebook page is here.


bonginoreport--2020-11-27--Appeals Court Dismisses Trump Campaign’s Pennsylvania Lawsuit, Paving Path to SCOTUS

A federal appeals court dismissed a lawsuit by the Trump campaign over Pennsylvania 's voting procedures on Friday , paving the way for the issue to escalate all the way up to the Supreme Court .
Despite Trump 's lawyer Rudy Giuliani arguing to a lower court that widespread voter fraud occurred in a state where President-elect Joe Biden won by over 80,000 votes , the 3rd U.S .
Circuit Court of Appeals said “ the campaign ’ s claims have no merit.
” The Trump campaign has the option of asking the U.S. Supreme Court for emergency injunctive relief @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Alito , who would then likely ask his eight colleagues to weigh in .
`` The activist judicial machinery in Pennsylvania continues to cover up the allegations of massive fraud .
We are very thankful to have had the opportunity to present proof and the facts to the PA state legislature .
On to SCOTUS !
, '' Jenna Ellis , Trump 's attorney and campaign adviser , said in a statement on Twitter after the court ruling .
Friday 's ruling upheld U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann 's take on the Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Brann said , “ like Frankenstein ’ s Monster , has been haphazardly stitched together . ''
The three judges on the panel were all appointed by Republican presidents .
“ Free , fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy .
Charges of unfairness are serious .
But calling an election unfair does not make it so .
Charges require specific allegations and then proof .
We have neither here , ” Judge Stephanos Bibas , a former law school professor , wrote in his ruling .
The decision is the latest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the election outcome in several battleground states where he lost were `` rigged . ''
Giuliani held a public hearing alongside Trump on Wednesday and alleged that Republicans were denied the opportunity to observe the canvassing process , with Trump claiming they have `` hundreds and hundreds of affidavits '' of witnesses ' personal stories to back their argument up .
However , the so-called proof has not been presented during numerous court hearings , with judges repeatedly ruling against the Trump campaign .
In addition to Pennsylvania , Giuliani claimed that similar @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Wisconsin , Nevada , Arizona and Georgia .
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The Trump 2020 Campaign looked ahead to a potential Supreme Court fight after a panel of federal appeals judges in Pennsylvania dismissed the campaign's lawsuit over alleged voter fraud in the presidential election.
TRUMP CALLS INTO PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION MEETING, REPEATING CLAIMS OF VOTING IRREGULARITIES
“The campaign’s claims have no merit,” the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia ruled Friday, despite Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani arguing to a lower court that widespread voter fraud occurred in a state where President-elect Joe Biden won by just over 80,000 votes.
The Trump campaign has the option of asking the U.S. Supreme Court for emergency injunctive relief, which would go to Justice Samuel Alito, who would then likely ask his eight colleagues to weigh in.
"The activist judicial machinery in Pennsylvania continues to cover up the allegations of massive fraud. We are very thankful to have had the opportunity to present proof and the facts to the PA state legislature. On to SCOTUS!," Jenna Ellis, Trump's attorney and campaign adviser, said in a statement on Twitter after the court ruling.
Friday's ruling upheld U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann's take on the Trump campaign’s error-filled complaint, which Brann said, “like Frankenstein’s Monster, has been haphazardly stitched together."
The three judges on the panel were all appointed by Republican presidents.
“Free, fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy. Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here,” Judge Stephanos Bibas, a former law school professor, wrote in his ruling.
PA POLL WATCHER, A NAVY VET, ALLEGES MISSING USB CARDS, UP TO 120,000 QUESTIONABLE VOTES
The decision is the latest blow to Trump's efforts to prove the election outcome in several battleground states where he lost were "rigged."
Giuliani held a public hearing alongside Trump on Wednesday and alleged that Republicans were denied the opportunity to observe the canvassing process, with Trump claiming they have "hundreds and hundreds of affidavits" of witnesses' personal stories to back their argument up.
However, the so-called proof has not been presented during numerous court hearings, with judges repeatedly ruling against the Trump campaign.
In addition to Pennsylvania, Giuliani claimed that similar schemes also took place in Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona and Georgia.
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Fox News' William Mears contributed to this report.


bonginoreport--2020-11-27--President Trump Snaps at “Lightweight” Reporter

Taking press questions for the first time since Election Day , President Donald Trump snapped at an interrupting Reuters reporter who demanded that he answers whether he would concede the election to the mainstream media 's presumptive president-elect Joe Biden or not .
`` Do n't talk to me that way .
You 're just a lightweight .
I 'm the president of the United States .
Do n't ever talk to the president that way , '' Trump rebuked Reuters White House correspondent Jeff Mason over his tone on Thursday .
At the outset of the fiery dialogue , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ `` very hard thing to concede '' to Biden `` because we know there was massive fraud , '' but he noted he would leave the Oval Office in January if the Electoral College voted for the Democratic challenger on Dec. 14 and formalized the victory .
After Trump talked to troops around the world—one of his Thanksgiving traditions—the heated exchange at the White House briefing ignited when Mason pressed : `` Sir , just to be clear , if the Electoral College votes for Joe Biden , will you concede ? ''
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ they made a mistake , because this election was a fraud , just so you understand , '' the president fired back , citing Biden ’ s numbers reportedly beating former President Barack Obama 's turnout in swing states .
`` And yet he ’ s losing to Obama all over the place , '' Trump added .
Mason continued to interject , but Trump talked over the correspondent .
`` So no , I ca n't say that at all .
I think it 's a possibility .
They tried to—Look , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ before Mason 's question grew louder .
Then Trump called on another reporter to diffuse the tension .
`` So if the Electoral College does elect President-Elect Joe Biden , are you not going to leave this building ? ''
the responding reporter volleyed .
`` Certainly I will .
Certainly I will , and you know that , '' Trump calmly stated at the interaction ’ s conclusion .
`` But I think that there will be a lot of things happening between now and the 20th of January , a lot @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Washington correspondent Jake Tapper called Mason an `` excellent journalist '' who is `` on the other end of this spectacle '' and emphasized that he will still be working at the White House after Inauguration Day .

Taking press questions for the first time since Election Day, President Donald Trump snapped at an interrupting Reuters reporter who demanded that he answers whether he would concede the election to the mainstream media's presumptive president-elect Joe Biden or not.
"Don't talk to me that way. You're just a lightweight. I'm the president of the United States. Don't ever talk to the president that way," Trump rebuked Reuters White House correspondent Jeff Mason over his tone on Thursday.
At the outset of the fiery dialogue, Trump acknowledged that it would be a "very hard thing to concede" to Biden "because we know there was massive fraud," but he noted he would leave the Oval Office in January if the Electoral College voted for the Democratic challenger on Dec. 14 and formalized the victory.
After Trump talked to troops around the world—one of his Thanksgiving traditions—the heated exchange at the White House briefing ignited when Mason pressed: "Sir, just to be clear, if the Electoral College votes for Joe Biden, will you concede?"
Donald Trump admitted it was a "very hard thing to concede" electoral defeat but committed to leaving the White House if the Electoral College votes for Joe Biden.
Read more: https://t.co/mJFjs8LoLt pic.twitter.com/wmi9NdSURV — The Telegraph (@Telegraph) November 27, 2020
"Well, if they do, they made a mistake, because this election was a fraud, just so you understand," the president fired back, citing Biden’s numbers reportedly beating former President Barack Obama's turnout in swing states.
"And yet he’s losing to Obama all over the place," Trump added.
Mason continued to interject, but Trump talked over the correspondent. "So no, I can't say that at all. I think it's a possibility. They tried to—Look, between you people," Trump continued before Mason's question grew louder.
Trump says if the Electoral College votes for Biden it would be a mistake, but says he will leave the White House if it does — Jeff Mason (@jeffmason1) November 26, 2020
Then Trump called on another reporter to diffuse the tension. "So if the Electoral College does elect President-Elect Joe Biden, are you not going to leave this building?" the responding reporter volleyed.
"Certainly I will. Certainly I will, and you know that," Trump calmly stated at the interaction’s conclusion. "But I think that there will be a lot of things happening between now and the 20th of January, a lot of things."
CNN's chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper called Mason an "excellent journalist" who is "on the other end of this spectacle" and emphasized that he will still be working at the White House after Inauguration Day.


bonginoreport--2020-11-27--Mexico’s President Still Refuses to Recognize Biden as Election Winner

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of Mexico has declined to recognize Joe Biden as president-elect of the United States .
“ We do not agree with offering congratulations in advance , ” Lopez Obrador as President Trump continues his legal challenges of the presidential election results .
“ What ’ s the best thing ?
For us to wait.
” The Mexican president was doubling down on a comment made several days after the election earlier this month .
“ With regard to the U.S. election , we are going to wait until all the legal matters have been resolved @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can ’ t congratulate one candidate or the other .
I want to wait until the electoral process is over.
” Lopez Obrador , who has with Trump in the past , has mounted his own challenges to election results in the past , including in 2006 when he refused to accept the results of a presidential election .
Several prominent Democrats in the U.S. have slammed Lopez Obrador for his refusal to name Biden the winner as all the major news networks have done .
`` Joe Biden lawfully and clearly won @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Beto O ’ Rourke .
“ Every world leader should acknowledge this fact , including the president of our most important neighbor and ally , Mexico . ''
Democrat Rep. Jesus Garcia told Lopez Obrador in a letter : “ American voters have spoken and Joe Biden is our President Elect .
He won fair and square .
Don ’ t miss the boat.
” Trump on Thanksgiving night regarding his legal challenges to the election and reiterated that he plans to continue the fight .
“ This has a long way to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ acknowledging he will leave the White House if the Electoral College formalizes a Biden victory .
“ Certainly I will , ” Trump said .
“ But you know that .
”

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of Mexico has declined to recognize Joe Biden as president-elect of the United States.
“We do not agree with offering congratulations in advance,” Lopez Obrador told reporters on Wednesday as President Trump continues his legal challenges of the presidential election results. “What’s the best thing? For us to wait.”
The Mexican president was doubling down on a comment made several days after the election earlier this month.
“With regard to the U.S. election, we are going to wait until all the legal matters have been resolved," Lopez Obrador said on Nov 7 . “I can’t congratulate one candidate or the other. I want to wait until the electoral process is over.”
Lopez Obrador, who has enjoyed a friendly relationship with Trump in the past, has mounted his own challenges to election results in the past, including in 2006 when he refused to accept the results of a presidential election .
Several prominent Democrats in the U.S. have slammed Lopez Obrador for his refusal to name Biden the winner as all the major news networks have done.
"Joe Biden lawfully and clearly won this election,” Former presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke said earlier this month . “Every world leader should acknowledge this fact, including the president of our most important neighbor and ally, Mexico."
Democrat Rep. Jesus Garcia told Lopez Obrador in a letter: “American voters have spoken and Joe Biden is our President Elect. He won fair and square. Don’t miss the boat.”
Trump gave reporters an update on Thanksgiving night regarding his legal challenges to the election and reiterated that he plans to continue the fight.
“This has a long way to go,” Trump said while also acknowledging he will leave the White House if the Electoral College formalizes a Biden victory.
“Certainly I will,” Trump said. “But you know that.”


bonginoreport--2020-11-27--President Trump the First Since Carter Not to Get U.S. Involved in New Wars

A month after he was elected President in November of 2016, Donald Trump laid out his opposition to the Washington foreign policy establishment consensus. “We will stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn’t be involved with” he said at a speech near Fort Bragg military base in North Carolina. “Instead our focus must be on defeating terrorism and destroying Isis, and we will.”
Less than two and a half years later ISIS lost 100% of their territory, and the Caliphate was declared defeated.
And now four years later, President Trump has proven to have made good on his promise not to bring American into new foreign wars. He’s now the first President since Jimmy Carter to have not gotten the U.S. into a new war. All five presidents preceding President Trump got the U.S. involved in the following new conflicts:
Barack Obama
• 2015 Syria
• 2011 Libya
• 2015 Syria • 2011 Libya George W. Bush
• 2003 Iraq
• 2001 Afghanistan
• 2003 Iraq • 2001 Afghanistan Bill Clinton
• 1995 Bosnia
• 1993 Somalia
• 1995 Bosnia • 1993 Somalia George H.W. Bush
• 1991 Gulf War
• 1991 Gulf War Ronald Reagan
• 1983 Lebanon
Trump had previously moved to reduce the troop presence in Syria, but was lied to about the progress. We learned from outgoing Syria Envoy Jim Jeffrey that “We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there.” He explained that while Trump agreed to leave about 200 troops there in 2019, there were still “a lot more” than that.
Earlier this month the Pentagon announced troop drawdowns in Iraq and Afghanistan. Troops in Iraq will be reduced from 3,000 to 2,500, while troops in Afghanistan will be reduced from 4,500 to 2,500. Trump is also reportedly planning on removing troops from Somalia.