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Who remembers in the 70s when red M&Ms got gone because of the red dye used? Anyone, or am I having a fake memory?
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Republican influencer reveals plans to turn New Jersey red after helping Trump win Pennsylvania
A conservative influencer who helped President-elect Donald Trump claim victory in Pennsylvania is now focusing on New Jersey—a state that he suggests could flip red in upcoming elections.
In November, Vice President Kamala Harris secured victory in New Jersey with 52% of the vote, defeating President-elect Donald Trump by just under six points in a state that was never considered a battleground. The gap between the two candidates was much tighter than in 2020, when President Biden carried the state by almost 16 points.
Some analysts now suggest New Jersey has transitioned from a blue state to a swing state.
Scott Presler, the founder of Early Vote Action, a Political Action Committee (PAC), appeared to agree with the sentiment during a conversation with Fox News Digital.
Is Billionaire Marc Benioff Moving to the Right?
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has a reputation as a progressive, San Francisco billionaire one that he has earned by being pretty reliably left-wing on social issues. So some people are surprised by how positive he has been about the incoming Trump administration. For instance:
There are other signs that, like the rest of the country, Benioff is moving right:
Here's his tweet about Milei:
He's an AF JAG. That explains a lot.
Tim must keep the thermostat turned way down in his studio.
The Trump effect continued delivering wins this week. Newsweek ran a terrific story yesterday headlined, “Chart shows plummeting migrant numbers crossing Darien Gap headed to US.
The Darien Gap is a dense, mountainous jungle region stretching 70 miles across southern Panama. Migrants headed toward the U.S. from South America on foot must cross the ‘Gap,’ which sounds a lot like a really disorganized Boy Scouts national meetup that went sideways one year when I was a kid. There was rain, cold, chaos and even a few injuries, mostly resulting from anarchic attacks made up of flying burning marshmallows that were meant to be eaten but were transformed into deadly weapons that, during the attack, briefly lit up the night like miniature fiery cannonballs. Hot, sticky, miniature cannonballs.
It’s possible I’m remembering that trip worse than it was, but I doubt it. Anyway, the Gap isn’t exactly like that, it features fewer marshmallows and more poisonous serpents and tricky climbs and perilous cliffs and dramatic made-for-daytime-TV rope bridges and stuff like that.
In May, Panama’s president promised to ‘close the Gap,’ mostly due to humanitarian concerns, but nothing happened. The concentrated nature of that region does make it easier to count migrants as they pass through though.
Last month’s statistics —the first since Trump’s election— showed a dramatic collapse in the number of migrants, from 30,000 six months ago down to 11,000 in November, and the trend appears to be heading further south. Let’s keep it going.
☕️ DRONE SALAD ☙ Wednesday, December 11, 2024 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠
Another out-of-the-park Trump nomination; Humptedy McConnell falls; British chest feeding u-turn; we don't hate NYT nearly enough; no free healthcare for illegals; FBI drone report to Congress; more.
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Kellyanne Conway tells Never Trumper to her face that Never Trumpers cost the Democrats the election:
Kellyanne Conway: "Let's be honest, part of the reason that President Biden could not step aside is people didn't have confidence in the competence of Kamala Harris. And then all of a sudden, we're supposed to believe that she she has worked hard. She does speak well. The American people saw it differently.
And I'm glad I'm I'm relieved to hear that. Very few lessons, it sounds like, have been learned by my democratic colleagues.
The fact is this, instead of a year ago, I'll say it again because it was just raise the Democratic Party right now, every day they wake up. It's still January six, 2021, in the calendar. They get an electric vehicle to they get an abortion. You're out of touch with the public.
This election was a rejection of wokeness. Please get us out of these foreign engagements.
And I think the always wrong Never Trumpers who had unlimited money cost the party, cost the Democratic Party, which they say they're not even a member, another presidential election."
Tactics, Techniques and Procedures to Keep Deep State Bureaucrats From Obstructing Donald Trump’s Agenda
Donald Trump must move hard and fast to get his agenda enacted. He’s going to be opposed not only by the bureaucrats of the Deep State but by, to some extent, the courts, congressional Democrats, and soft Republicans. Fortunately, President Trump, as chief executive – the unitary executive – has tremendous authority. He and his appointees, as well as Republicans in Congress, must use it. They will feel considerable pressure to be soft and weak, not only from the regime media but from the spineless establishmentarians. They must reject it, and fully exercise the power the American people have granted them.
There are practical limitations to Donald Trump’s soon-to-be-recovered power. He will have to fight the regime media every step of the way, and it will gleefully lie about him and attempt to intimidate members of his administration to compel obedience. Everything he does will be challenged in the courts, and while we have more favorable judges than we used to, the problem with alleged judicial conservatives is sometimes they tolerate the libs. When it comes to prosecution, there are some venues – like Washington DC – where you can’t convict a Democrat, and that will allow them not to answer for their crimes. There are legal considerations. Some laws are crystal clear and limit what he can do, while other laws are ambiguous, meaning he can push the outside of the envelope. And it’s going to be tough making new laws. The filibuster remains a thing – the Republicans will not do what the Democrats promise to do and get rid of it for him to ram through his agenda. Whether that’s a good idea or not is a moot point. We must fight the battle on the battlefield where we’ve landed.
At the threshold, the Trump administration and its congressional allies must understand what they are up against – a bunch of people who are absolutely determined to maintain the failed status quo. As someone with military command, executive officer, and staff experience – as well as 30 years of being a lawyer – I’ve learned a few tricks of the trade for getting stuff done in the face of institutional opposition.
Meatpackers: Trump Deportations Mean Cheaper Chickens and Higher Wages
But lobbyists for the poultry industry will fight back because higher wages and fewer sales will cut the industry’s already-thin profits and the value of their companies’ stock on Wall Street.
So poultry companies are trying to minimize the economic hit from the loss of cheap foreign labor supplied by Alejandro Mayorkas, President Joe Biden’s pro-migration border chief.
“Broiler and turkey processors are increasingly turning to automated solutions to improve their production output and product quality, as well as combat the growing issue of labor,” WattPoultry.com reported on June 5, 2024.
For example, more meatpackers are adopting technology to raise the productivity of each worker in their slaughterhouses. The Wall Street Journal wrote in April 2024:
The Journal noted the benefit for local employees, saying:
The industry’s willingness to divert profits towards automation and productivity was accelerated in 2017 with the election of Donald Trump. In 2020, for example, Costco built a high-productivity poultry plant in Fremont, Neb., that used technology developed in Iceland.
Newer technology combines electronic eyes, flexible arms, and pick-and-pack tripods to reduce employee injuries and accelerate productivity. Many other countries — such as China and Germany — are investing more in new meatpacking technology
Moreover, the U.S. economy has sidelined millions of working-age men and women, especially outside the main cities. Some can be rehabilitated, and trained for work in the poultry business — especially if they are working with other Americans.
In February, Steve Camarota, a researcher at the Center for Immigration Studies, wrote:
Liberal heads exploded in helpless outrage yesterday when NPR ran a surprising story yesterday headlined, “Tech moguls Altman, Bezos and Zuckerberg donate to Trump's inauguration fund.”
Three tech titans —OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Meta/Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Amazon/WaPo CEO Jeff Bezos— each pledged a million dollars toward Trump’s inauguration. The story also reported that Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai will soon meet with Trump, and Salesforce’s CEO Marc Benioff recently said “we are turning the page” with President Trump.
Benioff also owns Time Magazine, which yesterday declared Trump Man of the Year.
NPR blandly reported these tech leaders are courting the President-Elect, hoping for a favorable regulatory climate under the incoming Administration. “The tech industry wants to get the regulatory threat off their backs,” explained Margaret O'Mara, a ‘Silicon Valley historian’ at the overstaffed University of Washington.
But nobody believes that. At least, not as the entire explanation.
Doesn’t it seem more likely the tech leaders are painfully aware that Trump knows they all helped Biden cheat his way into office in 2020, and then spent four years trashing the President? What’s that old Ralph Waldo Emerson gag? Something like, “if you strike at the King, you must kill him.” Or words to that effect.
NPR admitted that inauguration donations are not uncommon. But NPR observed that it was the publicity —the coverage — that was unusual this time.
NPR completely missed the irony that it controls how much coverage inaugural donations receive.
☕️ DRONING ON ☙ Saturday, December 14, 2024 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠
Pelosi topples downstairs and breaks her hip; tech leaders lining up to help transition; Trump advice on mystery drones; Mexico continues taming the caravans; more.
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The media sure hates the Trump Effect. Yesterday, the far-left Washington Post ran a story headlined, “A migrant caravan just set out from Mexico. Why that’s no longer a crisis.” The sub-headline added, “Another migrant caravan has formed in southern Mexico. It will likely never reach the United States. Here’s how Mexico has been dismantling caravans for years.” For years! Now they tell us.
As if a distant afterthought, WaPo’s story ended by acknowledging Trump’s recent tariff threat toward Mexico. “Trump’s proposed 25-percent tariffs,” the paper explained, “would probably push export-dependent Mexico into a recession.” That’s not good. Thus, photogenic Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum “is eager to avoid an economic downturn,” and it is unlikely “she would allow a major caravan to cross Mexico at this sensitive time.”
The earlier part of the story was a jumbled mess of unavoidable contradictions, as the WaPo tried valiently but unsuccessfully to claim that Mexico already had the border situation well under control, “Mexico has tamed the caravans,” since long before Trump began his campaign —since 2019! But no matter how well tamed, the caravans clearly continue, so WaPo had to admit inconvenient facts like: “Lately, the caravans have grown in size — perhaps because of a sense of urgency in reaching the border before Trump takes office.”
Indeed, the story started by announcing the latest large caravan that, as if it had been a carefully organized witches coven instead of a caravan, formed at the “stroke of midnight Wednesday.” The migrants are, apparently, rushing to seize the advantage of Biden’s loose border before January 20th:
It’s been asked a thousand times, and we still have no good answer: Who organizes these midnight caravans? Could it be the same people plaguing innocent New Jerseyites with mystery drones? I’m not even joking.
Underneath the layers of insincerity and deception, the WaPo’s story was more good news. The migrant caravans are getting desperate; they are running out of time. And Mexico is, at least, pretending to try harder to stop them. Perhaps best of all, WaPo wasn’t pushing its overtired narrative about mean Republicans, humanitarian crises, and tired but well-meaning migrants yearning to be free, as though mass illegal migration were all happening in a Mexican political vacuum instead of across every Western country in the world.
Instead, the story’s tone conceded that change is coming. “When Donald takes office, it’s going to be more complicated,” one of the migrants told the WaPo. That isn’t true. When Donald Trump takes office, it’s going to get a lot simpler.
☕️ DRONING ON ☙ Saturday, December 14, 2024 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠
Pelosi topples downstairs and breaks her hip; tech leaders lining up to help transition; Trump advice on mystery drones; Mexico continues taming the caravans; more.
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