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Newsweek Reporter Granted a Seizure by Twitter Troll Following Tucker Carlson Interview

Tucker might’ve caused his first fatality. After a rather arduous interview with Tucker Carlson, Newsweek columnist, Kurt Weichenwald, might’ve died as a result.

In a odd twist of parodoxical irony, Tucker Carlson took on the Newsweek columnist over his baseless assertions that President Trump visited and frequented a mental asylum in 1990, wearing sleeveless dinner jackets and bouncing off walls.

The interview bore out a terribly addled Eichenwald, who displayed advanced symptoms of acute mental illness.

See for yourself.

After the show, Kurt took to Twitter to complain about Tucker and was then granted an invitation to receive a seizure by an internet troll, which Kurt was crazy enough to accept.

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This is by far the funniest internet event of 2016 — just in time for the Christmas festivities. We’ve heard nothing from Kurt since then and can only hope for his speedy recovery, in light of his all important job to disseminate falsehoods for Newsweek, making us all laugh with heartfelt vigor.

Rest up Kurt and try to avoid accepting seizure from strangers.

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Obama Vows to Exact Revenge Against Russia for Unsubstantiated Russian Hacking Claims

Those who deny the assertions put forth by the Washington Post, citing unnamed and nefarious CIA sources, regarding Russian intervention in the US elections, are being labeled as traitors. Conservatives view all of the Russian hysteria business as the final stage of grief being played out in public, by a completely broken and mentally addled globalist movement left in shambles.

The media is attempting to up the rhetoric by moving past the discovery phase of the investigation, without ever having to actually prove that Russia meddled with the elections, in order to attempt to implicate the GOP and of course Donald Trump. Nevermind the fact that Julian Assange plainly stated today that Wikileaks did not receive the data from any state source, and certainly not Russia. Democrats are only capable of believing what they want to believe, which is that Russia helped Trump win. How else could they grasp the reality that America turned on them and their degradative policies that seek to annihilate the middle class?

In an NPR interview today, President Obama promised revenge against Putin for his meddling. Note that this is extremely uncouth and unseemly — especially since he is a lame duck President. To start a conflagration before the next President takes office is nothing less than a slap in the face to Trump.


source: CNN

“I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections that we need to take action and we will at a time and place of our own choosing,” Obama told National Public Radio.

Describing potential countermeasures by the US, the President said “some of it may be explicit and publicized; some of it may not be.”
He said he directly confronted Russian President Vladimir Putin about a potential US response, and said his counterpart acknowledged his stance.
“Mr. Putin is well aware of my feelings about this, because I spoke to him directly about it,” Obama said.

Obama and Putin conferred on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in China in September. Afterwards, Obama told reporters he raised cybersecurity with the Russian leader.

Intelligence agencies in October pinned blame on Russia for election-related hacking. At the time, the White House vowed a “proportional response” to the cyberactivity, though declined to preview what that response might entail.

Officials have said US actions against Russia may not be revealed publicly.

Speaking Thursday at the White House, Press Secretary Josh Earnest declined to say whether the US had already begun its response to Moscow’s actions.
“The President determined once the intelligence community had reached this assessment that a proportional response was appropriate,” Earnest said. “At this point, I don’t have anything to say about whether or not that response has been carried out.”

Enter Keith Olbermann, the liberal elite left personified. They have no interest in democracy.

The Russian Embassy in the UK’s response.

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The Euro is on the Verge of a Total Breakdown

The dichotomy of Europe spending $80b per mo on QE and US policy to tighten rates is having a profound effect on the euro, which is plunging again today to 104.

To put the decline in context, it’s important to note the currency is down about 50% from its peak and is now entering levels unseen since the early 2000s.

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This trend, naturally, will cause many European asset managers to conduct carry trades, like greedy goblins — borrowing in euros to buy US stocks, which at some point in the future will become a tinder box of volatility when the dollar stops rising.

For now, this trade is dominant and no one seems to care how much the dollar goes up, most likely because foreign interests are making an absolute killing buying American stocks and enjoying the dual benefits of a soaring dollar.

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Reminder: Inflation is Still Running Sub 2%; Credit is Tightening in a Big Way

Just in case you forgot to pay attention to actual facts, inflation is a fiction, something made up by Central Bankers to validate their rate hikes, which in turn have helped blow out yield spreads for the direct benefit of your local billionaire bankers.

Back in the real world, there’s no basis for a super tight Fed policy. Based off today’s CPI readings, inflation grew by just 0.2% for the month, 1.7% for all of 2016.

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Over in Exodus, we have a raw commodity index. I view it as a real time gauge on inflation. We definitely saw a bounce this year, higher by 8.5% — but still well off 2014 levels.

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Again, the assumption for higher growth is predicated off the thesis that Trump will deliver on tax cuts, huge fiscal stimulus program, and domestic productivity gains. By factoring in earnings and discounting valuations at much lower tax rates, there’s certainly a bull case to be made, even at 18x earnings. However, the Fed’s mandate of keeping the inflation genie in the box is going to begin looking ridiculous if we don’t start to see some actual inflation. Otherwise, they’ll be hard pressed to hike in 2017.

The 10yr bond yields have risen from a low of 1.55% to 2.6% since late September, nearly a 100bps move while inflation was running cold at just 1.7%.

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Boolish.

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Kremlin Responds to Washpo Russian Hacking Charge: ‘This is Amusing Rubbish’

If, in fact, it bears truth that the diabolical, all powerful, Vlad Putin was responsible for redpilling the American people via Podesta’s email box, then I’ll report on it. But, thus far, zero American intelligence agencies have made that claim. The only proof that Russia was the source that leaked to Wikileaks is some shrill writers at the Washington Post.

The Kremlin responded to the absurd claim leveled by a Washpo blogger, writing for NBC last night, who said Putin was personally involved in the hacking, calling it ‘amusing rubbish.’

Source: Bloomberg

“This is amusing rubbish that has no basis in fact,” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday on a conference call with reporters, while accompanying the Russian president on a trip to Japan. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also told reporters in Japan that he was “stunned” by the NBC News report, which cited two unidentified U.S. officials with direct access to the information.

“I think it’s clear that it’s stupid and absolutely pointless to try to convince anyone of this,” Lavrov said of the allegation, which NBC said came from diplomatic sources and spies working for U.S. allies.

What’s amazing to me are the amount of people who accept being lied to in such an incredulous, sophomoric, manner and never call bullshit on it. The state run media outlets are brazenly making stuff up and then calling out those who tell that truth as ‘fake news.’

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PRESCIOUS METALS ARE CRASHING, DOLLARS ARE SOARING, AMERICA’S BORROWING COSTS SKYROCKETING: LITERALLY NOTHING

None of this stuff means anything to anyone, because Dow 20,000, Santa Claus, and lots and lots of cocaine. I’ve never seen anything like this in all of my years doing this shit. The complacency and disconnect from reality is both an epic achievement of dissonance and also the most retarded shit ever.

Gold and silver walked into this session already hobbled, in a wheeled chair, injured. This morning said wheeled chair has been tossed into a fucking fire. Silver is off by 6%.

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America’s borrowing costs continue to skyrocket. The Yellen Fed is out to fuck Trump and the economy. That is not hyperbole.

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The euro is quickly moving towards parity with the dollar and look at the God damned yen. Japan is raping us.

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All of that above was really bad. Does the market care? Not a fucking chance in red hell. A 12 handle on the VIX. Fuck me.

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If that wasn’t enough, the yuan is down 0.44% v the dollar this morning.

Go buy some stocks. Get ’em boys.

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Here’s a Seldom Discussed Fact: German-American Spreads Are Blowing Out

European QE is a perversion of modern finance, as evidenced by the widening, or blowing out to use Wall Street vernacular, of yields.

Case in point, back in October German bunds were yielding -0.15%, while the US 10yr yielded 1.55% for a spread of 170bps.

Today, however, after the seemingly endless reservoir of optimism over Trumpism and fiscal stimulus, bunds are yielding 0.37% and US 10yr 2.60%, for a spread of 223bps.

Makes sense? Why the fuck should it? It’s not like finance is a logical sandbox anymore. Instead, it’s just a bunch of emotions filled in with random occurrences that people backfit in order to create a narrative.

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By definition, the widening of US-German spreads indicates the US is becoming a riskier place to invest. As such, Germany is afforded cheaper credit and can finance at much lower rates — all thanks and praise to the abomination of grotesque proportions called QE.

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Price This Into Markets: Larry Nichols Says Clinton Will Flip 38 Electors and Take Presidency

How do I introduce someone who claims he was a hitman for Bill Clinton? I can feel the concern trolling from the comments section now. But Larry Nichols says Hillary will flip the electors to her side, thereby snatching Trump’s chain and thrusting America into the dark ages.

At a minimum, this is a very entertaining clip.

For the love of Comet Ping Pong Pizza, can the demoncrats admit defeat already?

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Celebrities Unite to Ask Electors to Vote Against Trump on December 19th

The fuckery is indeed very real.

The fervor and energetic effort into preventing Trump from taking the Presidency, has taken on new levels of lunacy by the left — who are absurdly panicked and beguiled by paranoia to the point of making themselves into carnivale clown jackasses — all but assuring the reelection of Trump in 2020 and the Silver Fox in 2024.

Springboarding off the hysterical media and their Russian fairytales of election tampering and raging Putin vendettas, a new organization has appeared — seemingly out of nowhere. They call themselves United For America and they are cucks.

Here is their mission statement.

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According to their Whois data, the website was launched shortly after Thanksgiving, suggestive that plans to deny Trump the Presidency has been in motion for at least three weeks.

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Here is their sparsely followed Twitter account — again indicative of their irrelevancy and newness to the 2016 elections.

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And here is their video, a plea for help from the electors — practically begging them to ignore the will of the people and to vote against Trump on 12/19, saying they’d make history doing so and would be considered heroes for ‘voting their conscience’, somehow suggesting that the electors don’t really want to vote for Trump — but only do so because he won the god damned elections.

This video shall forever immortalize the emotional collapse of the left — bedraggled snowflakes, crestfallen, deep in a stupor of their own making.

Acceptance is the final stage of grief, something the illiberal left will soon be forced to endure — whether they want to or not.

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Report: House Intelligence Committee Abruptly Cancels Briefing After CIA Declined to Attend

The current hysteria over Russian interference doesn’t infer that they hacked the voting itself, but instead made available true information about the Hillary Clinton campaign, by way of Wikileaks, which then swayed public opinion to vote in favor of Trump. In other words, Podesta, Clinton and their media shills are still corrupt bastards, beholden to Saudi Arabia and China — but had the American people never learned about it via the Wikileaks, well then, they might’ve voted for her instead of Trump.

In a nut shell, that’s the democrat argument for fomenting war against Russia and to overturn the will of the people. Again, no one is questioning the validity of the votes, but the souls of men and how they felt after reading the Wikileaks.

Fox News is reporting the House Committee has abruptly canceled a briefing scheduled for tomorrow — due to the CIA not making anyone available to attend. As of now, the CIA is refusing to comment on the matter, until their full assessment of the situation is made available to President Obama before 1/20/17.

Source: Fox

The House Intelligence Committee abruptly canceled a briefing set for Thursday on alleged Russian interference in the U.S. election, after the CIA declined to provide a briefer for the session, Fox News is told.

Amid concerns about reports that conflict with details previously provided to the committee, Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., had requested a closed, classified briefing Thursday for committee Republican and Democratic members from the FBI, CIA, Office of the Director of National Intelligence and National Security Agency.

But Fox News is told the CIA declined citing its focus on the full review requested by President Obama, and the other agencies did not respond to the committee’s request, which is unusual given the panel is the most-senior committee with jurisdiction.

“It is unacceptable that the Intelligence Community directors would not fulfill the House Intelligence Committee’s request to be briefed tomorrow on the cyber-attacks that occurred during the presidential campaign,” Nunes said in a statement. “The Committee is deeply concerned that intransigence in sharing intelligence with Congress can enable the manipulation of intelligence for political purposes.”

“Last week, the President ordered a full Intelligence Community review of foreign efforts to influence recent Presidential elections – from 2008 to present,” the statement added. “Once the review is complete in the coming weeks, the Intelligence Community stands ready to brief Congress—and will make those findings available to the public consistent with protecting intelligence sources and methods. We will not offer any comment until the review is complete.”

Separately, Fox News has learned additional details about the “full review” President Obama ordered from his intelligence agencies regarding Russian interference.

The review is being led by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and is a multi-agency effort. Investigators plan to take existing intelligence and reconstruct what happened.

Fox News is told one focus is on whether there is new intelligence that substantiates analysis the interference was designed to ensure a Trump victory, or whether a review of the existing intelligence with “fresh eyes” leads to new conclusions.

Some lawmakers, on both sides of the aisle, have backed calls for a separate congressional investigation, voicing concern that Obama’s intelligence agencies might not be able to conduct a thorough review before he leaves office.

Given statements from the White House, Fox News is told there is considerable pressure on the intelligence community to declassify as much of the findings as possible before Jan. 20, when Trump is set to take the oath of office.

As of yesterday, 55 electors are asking for information regarding the Russian scare and if Trump knew anything about it. What the fuck?

The Electors require to know from the intelligence community whether there are ongoing investigations into ties between Donald Trump, his campaign or associates, and Russian government interference in the election, the scope of those investigations, how far those investigations may have reached, and who was involved in those investigations. We further require a briefing on all investigative findings, as these matters directly impact the core factors in our deliberations of whether Mr. Trump is fit to serve as President of the United States.

Judging by libtards comments like the one featured below, there are many on the left who believe the election result isn’t conclusive. Thoughts?

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The electoral college is scheduled to vote on December 19th.

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