I see @SpeakerPelosi is so "solemn" and "somber" about this show trial that she's ready to sign the articles with multiple pens, meaning she's going to be handing out souvenirs to her fellow Democrats. What a scam.
California has overreached in its effort to address the challenges in today’s tech platform gig-work economy.
The live music sector, the progenitor of the term “gig” work, is being swept up by this law. The irony would be comical if it were not such a serious problem.
There are some worthy arguments to be made for Assembly Bill 5 by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, San Diego Democrat.
It could improve the lot of workers trying to piece together a living in this expensive state. It should help capture unemployment taxes from unscrupulous employers misclassifying workers as independent contractors.
However, the law has created a tangle of red-tape and administrative expense for large portions of California’s cultural sector…
The vast majority of previously contract work roles will now be required to be employees.
For instance, we are required by the City of San Jose to hire off-duty police officers through their Secondary Employment Unit program to insure a safe and well-run festival. Under AB 5 we will be required to classify these moonlighting officers as San Jose Jazz employees with the attendant oversight and administrative requirements.
Typical of such legislation, AB 5 comes with a hefty list of exempted categories that are a Who’s Who of the politically connected and well-funded: lawyers, doctors, accountants, brokers, builders, and others.
Actors, choreographers, dancers, directors, producers, and musicians are among numerous roles in the performing arts that exhibit a multitude of contract work arrangements. None of these are exempt from AB 5’s rules.
The cultural sector is full of various work arrangements, some as employee others as contractor, that have evolved over decades to accommodate artist’s unique crafts and artistic products and services. AB 5 runs roughshod over all of these arrangements….
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA … *breath* … HAHAHAHAHAHA! The oh-so ‘socialist’-adoring entertainment industry has completely ignored that other ugly underbelly of socialism/communism so perfectly played out in “The Lost City”. Yeah, that old “croc” doesn’t always eat the ‘useful idiots’ last, no matter how much the believe/hope-for it…
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced Tuesday that the entire Russian government is resigning following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s State-of-the-Nation address.
Following Putin’s address, Medvedev issued a statement on Russian state TV announcing that the entire government will resign. He said the step-down comes in an effort to allow Putin to make the changes to the constitution.
“In this context, it is obvious that, as the government, we must provide the president with a capability to make all decisions,” Medvedev said following Putin’s proposals, RT reported….
Iran:
How inconsequential are the democrats in the US Congress and the democrat party in general? They’re STILL trying to ‘speak for’ and defend a terrorist in the top of the list of our terror watch list after he’s been eliminated…
“…If you walk out this hallway, and you take a right and a right and another right, you’re going to come to several beautiful walls that have the names of our fallen service members from the War on Terror,” Mast began. “And I would ask, can any of you provide me with one name on that wall that doesn’t justify killing Soleimani?”
The congressman noted that he still had two minutes and thirty seconds of time left and would “be more than happy” to sit there and wait for an answer.
“Somebody provide me with a name on that wall that does not justify his killing,” he said…
“…I’m continuing Mr. Chairman,” Mast replied. “I’ve got two minutes remaining. I will sit here and wait for somebody to provide me with a name on that wall that does not justify the killing of Soleimani.” The Florida Republican sat back again and waited while the panel sat in uncomfortable silence.
After about eight more seconds, Engel said, “thank you Mr. Mast, I think you made your point,” and he tried to move on to the next congressman.
“Mr. Chairman I’ve not yielded back my time and I still have a minute and 45 seconds,” Mast shot back.
When Engel complained that Mast was disrupting the hearing, the congressman insisted, “I have not yielded back my time!”
He continued, “I have a minute and 45 seconds remaining in which I would like somebody to provide me with a name of somebody on our wall who does not…”
Engel interrupted Mast to tell him that he was “out of order.”
“I will not yield back my time,” Mast repeated.
“You are out of order,” Engel said again.
Another Republican then offered to yield a minute of his time to Mast.
“Thank you my colleague,” said Mast. “I appreciate it.”
He then sat back in silence, still waiting for an answer from the panel, which offered none.
After about a minute and a half of silence, Mast noted that there was no response to his question. “Not one name offered that would not justify the killing of Soleimani,” he concluded….
به مردم شجاع و رنج کشیده ایران: من از ابتدای دوره ریاست جمهوریم با شما ایستادهام و دولت من همچنان با شما خواهد ایستاد. ما اعتراضات شما را از نزدیک دنبال می کنیم. شجاعت شما الهام بخش است.
BREAKING: @BernieSanders “free education” policies to “teach you how to not be a f**king nazi.”; 'There is a reason Stalin had Gulags'; 'Expect violent reaction' for speech. If Bernie doesn't get nomination "Milwaukee will burn"
This is why the left is hellbent on confiscating our guns and abolishing our Send Amendment. And step back and realize all their current tactics and moves for power are rife with Soviet characteristics…
Democratic Party platform came from Nazi Germany. Bernie Campaign worker confirms Dems plan. Guardian Article lays it out, “ On paper it looks hard but we worked hard & recognized that the way to win is sometimes to not tell people who you really are. “https://t.co/MiwSIHB3a5
BREAKING: Sanders Staffer "That was the intention of gulags…remove people that were like, insidious to the state from the state…you guys are all causing problems…working against revolution…we're going to remove you…learn the f**king value of being a comrade"#Expose2020pic.twitter.com/2MI5M7OGwd
Have you ever seen this video? Do you remember the left’s ‘plan’ decades ago for the American people…
It’s not about the ‘climate’ or the weather. Which do you think is the more possible thing to do? Control the climate/weather? Or control the people? It’s always been about ‘controlling’ us…
Using the powers of the surveillance state to spy on a political opponent’s campaign is what you’d expect from Russia, Iran, or China — not the US. I’m pleased AG Barr has announced the first safeguard to prevent this from occurring again. https://t.co/Z4FQEJJdoB
Andrew McCabe will speak tomorrow at an NYU forum to "diagnose" the FBI's FISA failures.
McCabe was "very strongly" in support of FISAs on Carter Page, he signed off on the 3rd renewal, and he wanted to use the dossier in the intel community assessment. https://t.co/7spbslvW3j
During her testimony, Trisha Anderson highlighted the unusual nature of the Page FISA application process and the curious roles of McCabe and then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates,https://t.co/sh9P3mfmYBhttps://t.co/La0a9IosIO
That resolution isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. Has no effect on the presidential powers and amounts to nothing more than a liberal talking point. TDS continues to run strong among the left. Quite sad. He is the president and will be for years to come. Buckle up…
WATCH: @JohnKerry *admitted* JCPOA funds would end up in the hands of terrorists in Iran.
Pro tip… don't ever listen to someone like Kerry who defends policies that endangers the lives of American military members and our allies. pic.twitter.com/EUNiSH5gli
Kerry would have us believe that the JCPOA contained rather than enabled Iran. In response to this ludicrous and reckless contention, I must become a whistleblower. I know for a fact that the Obama admin sent letters – plural – directly to Soleimani. https://t.co/yY3NPCZ7Q6
I urge the press and Congress to excavate that correspondence. I challenge former senior Obama officials — Susan Rice, John Brennan, John Kerry, Ash Carter and President Obama himself — to divulge all they know about the Soleimani messages and agree to have them declassified.
And I also challenge those former officials to divulge all they know about — and to declassify — presidential correspondence w/ Khamenei & Rouhani. Now that the public has a better understanding of who Qassem Soleimani was, it has a right to understand the messages in context.
If Trump’s conversation with Zelensky was in need of a public airing, then surely we are justified in seeing the messages to Soleimani. Obama officials, we know, have nothing to hide. They say they’re proud of their Iran “containment” policy, so why would they pose any obstacle?
It’s my patriotic duty to be a whistleblower. Feel free to thank me for my service. But please don’t reveal my identity. I must remain anonymous. I didn’t want to play this role, but history & destiny compelled me to stand & be counted. That, and my desire for a good laugh.
(Note: (VIDEO) Rep. Brian Mast’s pre-vote on War Powers Act speech at the link within the Twitter tweet below)
Soleimani was a terrorist and the head of a designated terrorist organization. He was responsible for the deaths of American men and women. The United States would be justified to kill 100 Soleimanis for just one of our heroes that have been killed by him. pic.twitter.com/caDhBvj2be
You know nobody/most people don’t want a ground war with Iran, but on the other hand seeing those idiots blow an airliner out of the sky like chimps playing with a hand grenade, The thoughts of them possessing a nuke is very sobering.
“Iranian Economy–President Trump again disappoints his haters by not unleashing hydrogen bombs on Iran.
In fact, so far, President Trump is turning out to be the most war-averse President since Carter rolled over and offered our throats to religious zealots. This makes President Trump the second most war-averse President in US history.
This must all be very confusing and disappointing for people who scream, “But he’s only not making nuclear war to spite us! He’s a spite-filled man! He’s just doing this to make Hillary look bad! Hillary would have nuked them by now! Hillary’s a REAL man! Have you seen the hands on that broad!””
-must wait for results of probe – what is certain is that #UkrainianPlaneCrash plane was not hit my a missile -Called on U.S. to publish information it has -Called on U.S. to publish information -all happened in 2mins. -plane was on fire for 1.5mins
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is facing rising pressure to transmit articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate, as members of her own party signal they are losing patience with her delay tactics.
Pelosi, D-Calif., indicated to Democratic colleagues — first on Tuesday in a memo, and again on Thursday during a press conference — that she plans to continue to hold onto articles of impeachment, at least until Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., releases a resolution outlining the terms for a Senate trial.
“We need to see the arena in which we are sending our [impeachment] managers. Is that too much to ask?” Pelosi said Thursday, adding she first wants to know the “terms of engagement” for a Senate trial and voicing concern that senators won’t be impartial.
Still, Pelosi said she won’t hold the articles indefinitely, and suggested she could send them soon.
This comes as Democrats on both sides of Capitol Hill are saying it’s time for the trial — on allegations of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — to proceed in the Senate.
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., was the latest influential figure to deliver that message Thursday morning — before he reversed himself just a few hours later….
Well, Nancy has him on ‘speed-dial’, you know. She has this guy’s number too…
Any office, especially the one Nancy’ appears to be aiming for … the Oval Office.
You see, I am growingly convinced the woman is trying her damnedest to dig a tunnel (much like those drug cartel tunnels we find at the US border) into the White House. She believes all she has to do is get rid of Trump, and then Pence, and she is in. It is very clear the only thing that makes this woman more drunk than her pricy monthly booze bill is power. But she’s a damn sloppy, pantsuit-pissing drunk. And a YUGE fucking coward. She’s not ‘brave’ doing this impeachment crap, not when the MSM is well-tucked in her 18-hour bra. If Nancy Pelosi wants to be POTUS so damn bad and is as much of an awesome political prima-gambler as everyone claims she is, she should have the balls to jump into the DNC race, raise money and run against the rest of the filthy rich white privileged geriatric democrats farting their socialism-to-complete-totalitarian-communism agenda plans on the debate stage, win the nomination and run against Trump in 2020. I mean, how much worse can her gaffes be than Biden’s?
An objective reflection of history – say, 20 years from now – would reflect on the last few months as a period when @realDonaldTrump ordered the killing of the leader of ISIS and the leader of the Iranian IRGC, and nothing happened. It would further reflect the fact that…
…@realDonaldTrump ordered the establishment of the American Embassy in Jerusalem, and nothing happened. A comprehensive historical depiction of the events above would include the years and, in some cases, decades of gazillions of deep thinking, intellectual reportage from…
…thousands of current and former government officials, think-tank denizens, national security commentariat, and narrative-centric journalists guaranteeing that what @realDonaldTrump ordered done could never be done, or would set the world alight in a cataclysmic uprising…
