Mika

President Trump’s wiretap tweets struck an emotional chord with MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinksi. The morning anchor fought back tears Monday morning as she told viewers that “we are all really nervous” about what the Trump Administration is going to do.
“This is not funny,” Brzezinski told her audience. “This is really bad. Just for the record, we are all really nervous. So if people out there feel nervous, we do too. We don’t think this is funny.”
The host also issued a direct appeal to Trump’s staff, asking them how they can look at themselves in the mirror.
“We are at a low point in American history and I don’t know how anybody can defend this president, even if it’s their job. Like you’ve got to have a job after this. You’ve got to look in the mirror after this. Sarah Huckabee or whoever is speaking out next. You have to look in the mirror and think about this country after this is over. You need to think of the end game here, because there isn’t one at the rate we are going.”

Moments later, Brzezinkski returned with another warning. “They are pushing a very dangerous agenda,” she said of the Trump Administration. “An extremely dangerous one.”

How long do these people think they can get away with this sort of stuff, until the Stick Man pays them a visit and bashes their skulls in?

Have any of you ever seen a former AG, from an administration that just left the White House, incite violence like this because of political differences?

Which civil rights are being trampled on here that is causing Loretta to make low budget videos asking for the lives of America’s youth to satisfy her political ideas?

This is disgusting and shouldn’t be tolerated.

Former AG Loretta Lynch encourages protesters to help get President Trump out of the White House pic.twitter.com/uxj0loFJif

— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) March 6, 2017

The day of the rope fast approaches. Just ask yourselves this question: why are they in a frantic state to remove Trump from office? If he’s so bad, why not let him fail and then capitalize on it by getting more seats in the house and senate? Oh, that’s right, the democrats are merely, fulfilling their patriotic duties, right? Or, is Trump doing something, or about to do something, that’s about to fuck them?

The day of the rope fast approaches.

It’s always darkest before the dawn. During Saturday’s pro-Trump rally in Berkeley, CA, antifags attended and started to rabble rouse — spraying old men in the face with pepper spray, acting like reprobate vagabonds — deserving of the stick.

Then out of nowhere, like the Phoenix rising out from the ash, a superhero appeared — smashing antifags in the heads for sport and pleasure — casting them back into their pits of hell.

BEHOLD, the Stick Man.

And here’s another video of his greatness — this time slowed down for dramatic effect.

Heretofore, let this be a lesson to you leftarded anarchists out there trying to spoil all of the fun: stick man is out there, watching you, waiting to bash your brains in with his glorious stick.

Here is another version.

UPDATE: the antifags are free to destroy and punch people in the face at will, without police interference in Berkeley. Defend yourself and your friends, like the Stick Man, and go straight to jail. He’s now facing multiple felonies.

I’ve been blogging about stocks here since 2007 and never paid any attention to Facebook, until 2014. We’ve never had a lot of traffic coming from Facebook, with the majority of it coming directly from user bookmarks and Twitter. Our organic growth in traffic has been impressive, especially over the past 6 months — at a time when other finance sites have been struggling — because we’ve delved into politics and news events.

According to Google Analytics, Facebook was our #2 social network last year, in terms of traffic referrals, and was, by far, our fastest growing (+455%). I was very excited to see some progress on the platform, especially since it was new to us and distributed our brand of content to brand new audiences. During the election season, several of our posts went viral on the platform and was driving impressive traffic stats for us — a small site headquartered in the liberal bastion of Princeton, NJ.

Today I tried to log into our Facebook page and was met with this rebuttal: ‘Account Disabled’.

We emailed the company and are awaiting their response. Our last post, which might’ve pissed off a Schumer fan at $FB, was this.

Ironically, even though I lean to the right of center in politics, my family is democratic and has been friends with Schumer since the 70’s. We both hail from the same parts of Brooklyn, NY.

Is this a case of censorship because iBankCoin has been discussing politics over the past 6 months and has been very critical of establishment shills in the media and in government? I don’t see how we can assume anything but that. The platform never gave me an issue when I provided fellow money managers, or pundits in the financial media, with EMERGENCY ASSHAT AWARDS — cussing and screaming away at my black heart’s delight. But the second I post a picture with Chucky Schumer and Vlad Putin, I get the fucking banhammer.

Sad! Not nice!

Is it a coincidence that we’ve been driven off the platform at the same time when the company proposed new rules to combat ‘Fake News’?

Facebook started testing related features and promised updates similar to what debuted this week in December. The solution to the spread of misinformation put the onus on Facebook users, not Facebook, to identify false stories. Third-party fact-checkers must agree to a fact-checking code of ethics.

Now it seems the tool’s been made available to more users. Facebook added a section on “disputed” news to its help tools. Users can see why stories were marked as disputed.

Facebook is flagging links to fake sites now, looks like: pic.twitter.com/N7xaWDkdYA

— Anna Merlan (@annamerlan) March 3, 2017

Highly unlikely.

Signing off, Fake News Operator, Former Wall Streeter,

Le Fly

Back in 2013, Fox News journalist, James Rosen, was named a ‘criminal co-conspirator’ and ‘flight risk’ by then AG Holder — which led to a series of events that made Holden later regret doing it. With Holden’s explicit direction, the DOJ secretly accessed all of Rosen’s gmails, contacts, and surveilled of more than 20 phone lines connected to him, including his mother’s phone in Staten Island, NY.

The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank wrote a piece on the ordeal, saying “The Rosen affair is as flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration, and it uses technology to silence critics in a way Richard Nixon could only have dreamed of. To treat a reporter as a criminal for doing his job — seeking out information the government doesn’t want made public — deprives Americans of the First Amendment freedom on which all other constitutional rights are based.”

Here is Rosen recounting his affair and opining on the plausibility of Trump being a target of the Obama administration too — which he affirmed in the positive, ‘in the age of Snowden.’

Suggesting that Obama never ordered surveillance on an American citizen is somewhat ridiculous, when in fact we know of very public instances, like Rosen, when it has been done. Considering Obama’s non-stop panning of Fox New during his terms, some find it hard to believe that he wasn’t directly informed about the Rosen spying.

Does anyone seriously doubt that the Obama administration could’ve been surveilling Trump? This is an administration that has denigrated privacy for its citizens more than any administration in the history of the country. In the era of Snowden, wanton disregard for the rights of privacy by Obama’s NSA, it’s absurd to dismiss Trump’s charges as being baseless, until all of the facts are investigated.

Newt chimes on recent events, saying the media is trying to cover up for Obama’s actions.

The President’s tweets regarding alleged Obama wiretapping of Trump Towers during the campaign is making a lot of waves this afternoon — with the Sunday lineup of shills being interviewed on political discussion talk shows. From what we can gather thus far, the White House is calling for an investigation into the President’s claims that Obama wiretapped his offices.

Rep. Schiff (D) calls the charges baseless and without merit, pointing out that Sean Spicer has said he would not discuss the matter further until it was investigated through the proper channels.

MORE: @RepAdamSchiff responds to WH request for wiretap inquiry: “Not even Spicer wishes to have to speak to such a unsubstantiated charge.” pic.twitter.com/3xVJmRHNeI

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) March 5, 2017

Trump’s spokeswoman said she did not trust the Obama denial, illuminating a few points where the Obama administration had been less than forthcoming about their meddling in the past.

WH spokesperson on Obama’s denial of unsubstantiated wiretap claim: “They don’t have the best track record” https://t.co/sjsbtCrwyq pic.twitter.com/c1ATYUNLkr

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) March 5, 2017

Here’s the former Director of National Security, James Clapper, saying, unequivocally, that there wasn’t a FISA court ordered wiretap on candidate Trump.

George Bush’s former AG, Mukasey, said there was some sort of surveillance taking place on Trump or his cohorts during the campaign.

If we strip it all away and simply look at the facts on the ground, President Obama either illegally wiretapped candidate Trump’s offices or did so legally — that much is certain. If James Clapper is correct that there wasn’t a court order for surveillance, then logic dictates they were done outside the boundaries of the law. The middle ground is a revelation that someone other than Trump was being surveilled at Trump Tower and Obama’s talking heads are merely obfuscating the facts, in order to derail a proper inquiry.

Radio talk show host and former assistant to AG Meese wraps it all up nicely, concluding that Obama’s spying was overt and blatant tactics of a police state.

According to USCIS, the ever important H1b visas for highly skilled foreign labor will be suspended for up to 6 months, starting April 3rd. Approximately 70% of H1b visa recipients come from India, gobbling up highly coveted tech jobs in the United States — at discounted rates.

People are speculating this is a precursor to Trump’s revamped immigration policy, placing restrictions on the 85,000 H1b visas issued by the government on an annual basis. Some believe the President will require a much higher minimum wage for recipients, which currently stands at $60,000 per annum. There is a bill hanging in the balance which would increase that amount to over $100,000 — effectively ending the Silicon Valley gravy train or force them to move facilities overseas.

This is bad news for Indian IT firms like $CTSH and $INFY.

Indian official says H-1B visas bolster jobs 01:31
Premium processing costs an additional $1,225 and ensures a response from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services in 15 days or the fee is refunded. Processing of standard H-1B applications — those that are not premium — takes between three to six months.

The visas are doled out by a lottery, and the number of applicants continues to swell each year. Last year, the demand was three times greater than the quota.

Outsourcing firms flood the system with applicants, obtaining visas for foreign workers and then farming them out to tech companies. They take a sizable cut of the salary.

While the visas are used to fill the US skills gap, Trump has spoken out about abuse of the program.

There it is folks, it’s over. Whatever light that you gleaned from the recent flurry of Trump tweets, accusing the great Obama of wiretapping his offices, is over.

According to Obama’s spokesman, LEWIS, Obama never, ever, ordered a wiretap on any American citizen (extra Snowden).

Just in: Obama spokesman says Obama never ordered surveillance, after Donald Trump claims he was wiretapped https://t.co/tqr6FG8AyV

— CNN (@CNN) March 4, 2017

How will Trump recover from this rebuttal?

UPDATE: ‘We need a serious investigation.’

They DID get #FISA & wire tap Trump Tower. Couldn't find anything so they resort to lies. Obama holdovers must go. #MAGA & lock Obama up. pic.twitter.com/8y1xdhKlYZ

— NanasForTrump?? (@deplorable_k) March 4, 2017

UPDATE: Nevermind. It’s literally nothing. Former Obama administration officials said Obama did nothing wrong, according to CNN.

The more I bear witness to the events transpiring around me, the more I believe the timeline has been altered in the multiverse. We’re now living in truly interesting times. You can feel it in every second of existence, even if said seconds are measurably less than before (Mandela time counting theory!).

In a barrage of morning tweets, President Trump accused Obama of wiretapping his offices at Trump Tower. He didn’t reveal any evidence and I find this allegation to be incredible, especially since he’s going to be pressed like a panini, by the media, to provide some sort of evidence for making these claims

The first meeting Jeff Sessions had with the Russian Amb was set up by the Obama Administration under education program for 100 Ambs……

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017

Is it legal for a sitting President to be "wire tapping" a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017

How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017

We’re rolling a slow burn towards anarchy. It’s coming.