Elizabeth Warren’s Sessions Filibuster Was Going Great Until She Was Ordered to Shut Up and Sit Down

She violated RULE 19. As such, she must shut up and remove herself from the filibuster. The Gods have graced the republitards this evening — proffering blessings of an unimaginable consequence. Thanks to the rule that were violated by Sen. Warren, none of them have to sit through her refuse and might instead go out for a late night cocktail or maybe a slice of pizza over at Comet ping pong.

What’s with democrats and rules?

Under the Senate’s “Rule 19,” senators are not allowed to “directly or indirectly, by any form of words impute to another Senator or to other Senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a Senator.”

Not tired of winning yet.

Two days in a row Cramer is panicking over the dead shopping malls — citing the wretched earnings from $KORS as a prime example as to why you can’t buy any mall based retailer. Even when the news is good, like $GPS, the stock still trades lower.

Lastly, he discussed the potential and imminent bankruptcy of $SHLD and who might get hurt as a result.

Due to the secular decline in retail brick and mortar, Cramer deemed the sector entirely ‘uninvestable.’

$BWLD missed and guided lower this evening, citing a ‘challenging’ restaurant environment. What!? I thought fat faced Americans loved to eat until their stomachs exploded?

Apparently not.

“The challenging restaurant environment continued in the fourth quarter and culminated with a difficult December,” Sally Smith, CEO of Buffalo Wild Wings, said in a statement Tuesday.

Using Exodus, I am able to confirm that the industry isn’t growing anymore, but instead shifting focus on financial engineering to boost earnings. It’s a sad day in America when finding out that eateries are banking coin anymore — at least not with the vigor it once had.

Here’s a list of restaurant stocks with market caps above $1b, representing market capitalization of $290b. While earnings are appreciable higher, sales are, essentially, flat.

I run this screen for all of our industries, over 200 in total. It’s fair to say that the overall state of the economy isn’t exactly booming when the median revenue growth of our biggest restaurant companies is less than GDP — barely more than +1%.

Food for thought (pun intended).

On his radio show this afternoon, Sean Hannity chimped out and called out republican shills who’ve been obstructing President Trump’s agenda by twiddling their thumbs and not writing bills to fund infrastructure projects, tax cuts and healthcare reform.

Essentially, Trump is at the mercy of a very corrupt and globalist shilling GOP — led by a man (Paul Ryan) who is as vacuous as his democratic counterparts.

Hannity promised to call them out, one by one, and to make their phones ring non-stop if they didn’t get off their asses and start working for the American people.

Epic takedown.

In response to Speaker Bercow’s absurd comments and subsequent ban from addressing the British parliament, essentially calling the President of the United States a racist and a sexist, Nigel Farage laid into him — pointing out his hypocrisy for having the N. Koreans to his apartment for a spot of afternoon tea and crumpets.

Amusingly, Bercow would rather entertain a brutal authoritarian regime, one who threatens its neighbors with war on a weekly basis, instead of the leader of his countries most important ally. It’s important to note that Bercow was an ardent opponent to BREXIT, so fomenting strife with the United States and hurting his own country, ahead of crafting trade deals, might be something this twisted little hobgoblin cuckold wants. Nevertheless, there has been significant pushback against his ignoble behavior, with Nigel Farage’s comments being the most noteworthy.

We all know $BBRY to be a stupid company who lost the phone wars to $AAPL, ceding the dominant position in mobile by stubbornly sticking to its retarded keyboard phone. But in recent years the company has been switching its core focus away from hardware and to its very good secure software technology.

Today they announced their messaging technology will open up to 3rd party developers — competing with the likes of $TWLO.

Software sales are expected to increase by nearly 30% this year — not including the business they intend to steal from TWLO.

Source: Bloomberg

BlackBerry Ltd. is opening up some of its secure messaging and file sharing technology for developers to use in building apps, creating a new revenue stream for the company as it works to boost sales.

The Waterloo, Ontario-based company said the software development kit it’s releasing this month will include tools for building chat apps, video and voice calling, secure file sharing and sending out push notifications to mobile phones. BlackBerry joins a crew of companies already offering similar services including Twilio Inc., Bandwidth.com Inc., Nexmo Inc. and Plivo.

The key differentiator for BlackBerry though, will be its reputation for security, Chief Operating Officer Marty Beard said on a call. “We don’t think current providers are meeting the needs of the enterprise,” he said. “The market needs this.”

The move is a textbook example of Chief Executive Officer John Chen’s strategy of taking the company’s existing technology and finding new ways to monetize it. Instead of the closed, device-focused BlackBerry that Chen inherited three years ago, the company now licenses its software and gives permission to other companies to make phones with the BlackBerry brand.

Beard declined to comment on how much revenue the company was expecting to generate from this initiative, but said it would “add to growth.” It will be sold on a subscription basis to app developers and internet service providers.

Device revenue now accounts for less than half of BlackBerry’s profits and is falling, but sales of software that Chen acquired and built out in recent years is picking up the slack. The company expects software revenue to be $640 million in the fiscal year ending March, compared with $494 million in the previous year, Chen said in December.

Ultimately, TWLO is a Fred Wilson company and destined to fail. Although BBRY is a Canadian based company run by leaves, I believe they will make some headway into the messaging business — due to brand recognition. People are into retro now and love sentimentality. It’s very likely that TWLO is about to suffer a significant drawdown due to this new, formidable, competitor.

Shares of TWLO are down a smidge, hardly the type of trading action of a worried shareholder base. BBRY’s stock is exactly flat over the past year — marking time as the business transitions.

Get ready to receive your vouchers, so that you could remove your children from their horrible public schools and send them to a well run private institution.

Mike Pence just broke a 50-50 tie in the Senate, casting his own vote as the tiebreaker.

The left can’t help but lose, continuously.

#BREAKING: Vice President Mike Pence casts the tie-breaking vote to confirm Betsy DeVos as education secretary https://t.co/GP7LcDWEyq pic.twitter.com/wx8yOs4jO3

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) February 7, 2017

In short, this is why the left didn’t want Devos in and desperately fought her confirmation.

Devos:

“If confirmed, I will be a strong advocate for great public schools,” she says. “But, if a school is troubled, or unsafe, or not a good fit for a child – perhaps they have a special need that is going unmet — we should support a parent’s right to enroll their child in a high quality alternative.”

“It’s really pretty simple,” she says in the opening remarks, which the Trump transition team provided to news organizations.

In other words, she’s going to permit you to remove your children from failing schools, who place indoctrination ahead of education, and instead send them to private schools. The Department of Education is where the left plots their future, brainwashing the children with identity politics. Giving parents the option to remove their children from the matrix is a grave and unimaginable threat to their future.

What did he tell you during the campaign?

He said he’d ‘make America great again’ by focusing on infrastructure, reducing taxes, regulations and illegal immigration. He discussed whimsical projects, such as new airports and a southern border wall — to be paid for by Mexico. He promised lower drug prices and better healthcare insurance, a stronger military and making our educators accountable by permitting parents to use vouchers for private schools.

The results in the market have been exactly what one would expect.

Year to date, the top performing industries are aluminum (+35%), nuclear (+31%), gold (+27%) and copper (+18%). Clearly, the market is pricing in an infrastructure boom.

Over the past three months, the financials were one of the leading sectors, higher by 30%, accompanying oil and gas drillers, insurance and steel.

On the downside, department stores (-19%), home furnishing (-11%) and textiles (-10%) are key standouts — obviously hurt by the specter of a harsh border tax on goods entering the country.

All in all, I’d expect more of the same, with a possible respite in healthcare names — since they’ve already bee beaten to a pulp. As long as the Trump agenda continues, unabated, investors should anticipate highest returns in areas that encapsulate heavy construction, reduction of regulations, and purveyors of materials.

Sadly, Twitter isn’t a safe place for leftist morons to RT and like one another’s drivel with impunity anymore. The tech community of catamites and autistic screechers have been having fits over the overwhelming flood of pro-Trump ‘right wingers’ — which has led to a lot of acrimonious debate on the beleaguered social media platform. As such, Jack Dorsey has been unable to sell the piece of shit — because of the stigma associated with the platform as being a denizen of haters and haranguers.

Yo @jack I support banning @realDonaldTrump take the brand back now and save your shareholders

— howardlindzon (@howardlindzon) February 4, 2017

But Jack has a plan.

The company is launching technology to fight abusive accounts and suppress the ‘low-quality’ ones. No word on what qualifies an account to be deemed ‘low quality.’ However, my best guess, it will not entail Leslie Jones — who has been nothing but gracious since utilizing the platform.

Source: CNBC

The social media platform said Tuesday it will stop so-called trolls from creating new abusive accounts and will collapse “low-quality” and potentially abusive tweets from feeds and searches.

That means Twitter will try to identify people who have been permanently suspended and block them from creating new accounts. The “safe search” will remove sensitive content and blocked and muted accounts from search results. Tweets that Twitter deems “potentially abusive” would need to be specifically sought out.

The changes come amid widespread criticism of Twitter, which BuzzFeed News called “honeypot” for harassment. BuzzFeed’s reporting revealed that Twitter staff struggled to balance the promotion of free speech while curbing bullying.

How ironic that Buzzfeed should be leading the fight to defeat trolls, isn’t it?  Away with bullying!

@Jack is gonna make Twitter safe again…for snowflakes.

Shares of $TWTR are spiking this morning. The reason is unclear, other than the obvious technical reasons. But there is extreme value in the platform, as a disseminator of news and information.

If an authoritarian regime could seize the company, or maybe even a globalist shill organization like the UN or OECD, that would be ideal.

The platform could then be used as a honeypot to trap right wingers into revealing their desire for freedom. Proper enforcement agencies would then apprehend said people and ship them off to a gulag for reeducation and/or extermination.

Once $FB, $GOOGL, $MSFT and $TWTR corral the majority of human beings into their social ghettos, then the next phase of social engineering could take place.

In short, $TWTR is a buy.