Wednesday Morning Breakfast For The Brain

Good morning and happy hump day Deplorables, we are getting there although not fast enough.

De Blasio Goes Full Commie – Introduces Plan to Allow Government to Seize Private Property

Via The Gateway Pundit

New York City Mayor De Blasio introduced a plan this week that would allow the government to seize private property from “bad landlords.”

“When a landlord tries to push out a tenant by making their home unlivable, a team of inspectors and law enforcement agents will be on the ground to stop it in time. If the fines and the penalties don’t cut it, we will seize their buildings and we will put them in the hands of a community nonprofit that will treat tenants with the respect they deserve,” Bill de Blasio said according to the NY Daily News.

Bill de Blasio made these shocking remarks during his yearly State of the City address which left one Assembly member saying, “My first reaction was, ‘Is this communist Cuba?’”

State Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis, who ran against De Blasio in the 2017 mayoral race, told Fox News, “I can say that as a daughter of Cuban refugees who fled Castro’s Cuba in 1959, this is what happened to her family, she had her home taken, my grandfather had his gas station taken.”

“This is extreme even for Mayor de Blasio, because we know that he has socialist leanings, but this is straight communism and I think it’s very scary to America-loving, democracy-loving people.”

Read the entire article HERE.

Pushing For Change

Via GrrrGraphics

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or as she likes to call herself “AOC”, has been featured on many mainstream news outlets eager to give the self-proclaimed “Democrat Socialist” a platform.

She has expressed support for 70% take rates, an Obama-inspired “Green New Deal”, and even managed to insult Joe Lieberman with a tweet asking “New party. Who dis?”

For an ex-bartender, she struts around acting like she is the future, the new face of the Democrat party when actually she knows well, nothing.

Nanna Nancy Pelosi has her hands full with the new batch of incoming House Representatives. Trying to keep them in line is like herding cats, you get one back in line and six others take off in all directions.

It hasn’t even been 30 days of the new Democrat House, and we have watched them make blunder after blunder like kids in the house unsupervised while Mom and Dad are out.

Freshman congressman Rep. Joe Cunningham tried to bring a six pack of beer onto the house floor.

Michigan Freshman Rep. Rashida Tlaib went on a profanity filed tirade and shouted to her audience, “We’re going impeach the MFer.”

(Sorry dearie, don’t you know you need 2/3s of the Senate to impeach a president? The GOP hold a strong majority. Oh, but it makes good sound bites and gets your name out there.)

A bunch of House Democrats went on a vacation to Puerto Rico, enjoying the beach during the Government shutdown. Bad optics? Wut dat?

And AOC recently floated a 70% tax hike on the wealthy in her 60 minutes interview. Let’s see, if you’re wealthy in New York, would you pay the 70% Federal tax rate, the New York state income tax of 10%, and if you live in New York City, the additional 6%? That would be a tax rate of 86% for some. Yeah, that sounds fair.

Her Green New Deal includes generating ALL the nation’s power from renewable sources and totally eliminating green house gas emissions. She stated this would entitle ALL people to pay their “fair share” of new taxes.

This is what socialists do folks, they take your money and spend it (pocket it) as THEY see fit. You are too stupid and smelly with your ten teeth to even comprehend what a Big Brain like AOC’s is thinking.

And she knows what is best for you… you don’t!

Ocasio-Cortez also stated in the 60 minutes interview, “Call me a Radical.”

Okay.

You’re a Radical.

Check out all of Ben and Tina’s great cartoons and commentary HERE.

I’m A Senior Trump Official, And I Hope A Long Shutdown Smokes Out The Resistance

Via The Daily Caller

As one of the senior officials working without a paycheck, a few words of advice for the president’s next move at shuttered government agencies: lock the doors, sell the furniture, and cut them down.

Federal employees are starting to feel the strain of the shutdown. I am one of them. But for the sake of our nation, I hope it lasts a very long time, till the government is changed and can never return to its previous form.

The lapse in appropriations is more than a battle over a wall. It is an opportunity to strip wasteful government agencies for good.

On an average day, roughly 15 percent of the employees around me are exceptional patriots serving their country. I wish I could give competitive salaries to them and no one else. But 80 percent feel no pressure to produce results. If they don’t feel like doing what they are told, they don’t.

Why would they? We can’t fire them. They avoid attention, plan their weekend, schedule vacation, their second job, their next position — some do this in the same position for more than a decade.

They do nothing that warrants punishment and nothing of external value. That is their workday: errands for the sake of errands — administering, refining, following and collaborating on process. “Process is your friend” is what delusional civil servants tell themselves. Even senior officials must gain approval from every rank across their department, other agencies and work units for basic administrative chores.

Process is what we serve, process keeps us safe, process is our core value. It takes a lot of people to maintain the process. Process provides jobs. In fact, there are process experts and certified process managers who protect the process. Then there are the 5 percent with moxie (career managers). At any given time they can change, clarify or add to the process — even to distort or block policy counsel for the president.

Saboteurs peddling opinion as research, tasking their staff on pet projects or pitching wasteful grants to their friends. Most of my career colleagues actively work against the president’s agenda. This means I typically spend about 15 percent of my time on the president’s agenda and 85 percent of my time trying to stop sabotage, and we have no power to get rid of them. Until the shutdown.

Read the entire article HERE.

Shocking video shows fireman Yellow Vest protestor shot in the back of the head by French police, leaving him with serious brain injuries, as protests against Macron continue

Via The Daily Mail

A fireman who joined France’s Yellow Vest protest movement is in a coma after being shot in the head ‘like a rabbit’ by a police officer using a controversial flash ball gun.

Horrific images show Olivier Beziade, a father-of-three in his 30s, lying on the floor in Bordeaux on Saturday after being hit from behind.

He is wearing one of the high-visibility motoring jackets from which the Yellow Vests get their name.

Videos posted on social media also show Mr Beziade being treated by medics, with his head covered in blood.

Mr Beziade suffered a ‘very serious brain injury’ and is currently in an induced coma in hospital, said family members.

It comes as the Yellow Vest law and order crisis enveloping Emmanuel Macron’s administration intensifies, and the president floods French streets with an increasing number of armed police.

Read the entire article HERE.

Is Bolton Steering Trump into War with Iran?

By Patrick J. Buchanan

But the real questions here are not about Bolton or Pompeo.

They are about Trump. Was he aware of Bolton’s request for a menu of targets in Iran for potential U.S. strikes? Did he authorize it? Has he authorized his national security adviser and secretary of state to engage in these hostile actions and bellicose rhetoric aimed at Iran? And if so, why?

While Trump has urged that the U.S. pull out of these Mideast wars, Pompeo has corrected him, “When America retreats, chaos often follows.”

Is Trump looking for a showdown with Iran, which could result in a war that might vault his approval rating, but be a disaster for the Middle East and world economy and do for him what Operation Iraqi Freedom did for George W. Bush?

One thing may confidently be said of the rhetoric and actions of Bolton and Pompeo: This is not what brought out the new populists who made Donald Trump president, the people who still share his desire to “stop the endless wars.”

Read the entire article HERE.

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